What was the main religion of colonial Connecticut?
Somtime after Roger Williams founded the colony of Rhode Island,
Thomas Hooker, another Puritan Minister, founded the colony of
Connecticut. The followers who came from Massachusetts with Hooker
were originally Puritans, practicing a modified form of Puritanism
from that of the Plymouth Colony, one more tolerant and freer than
the Plymouth version of the theology. After many years, several
modifications, and the help of Ralph Walldo Emerson, the theology
morphed into what is very much like the values of the present day
Unitarian Universalist Church in the United States.