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The colonists practiced the same religions found in the modern United States, but typically more conservatively than currently. Puritanism, Methodism, Presbyterianism, Catholicism, and Anglicanism/Episcopalianism were the dominant faiths. Minority faiths included Deism and Judaism.

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