William Penn got the land from the king for a Quaker colony. The king owed money to Penn's father and when he died Penn asked for the land instead. The king was happy to get rid of Penn because he was arrested a lot for being a Quaker.
He established a new colony in Rhode Island.
The question seems to be incomplete, but if you're referring to someone who established their own colony due to specific reasons, one notable example is Roger Williams. He founded Rhode Island in the 1630s after being expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his beliefs in religious freedom and separation of church and state. Williams sought to create a place where individuals could worship according to their conscience without persecution.
Rhode Island became the first colony with no established church and the first to grant religious freedom to everyone, including Quakers and Jews.
It was established as a buffer colony.
was there an established religonin this colony? What is it? If there was not an established religon, what were the popular religonsof the colony
Roger Williams
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He established a new colony in Rhode Island.
He established a new colony in Rhode Island.
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He established a new colony in Rhode Island.
He established a new colony in Rhode Island.
The colony of Jamestown was established by the English crown. Thus everyone in the colony belonged to the Church of England - a protestant church which was concocted by the English crown to cater to its whims. They were in no way Catholic.
Connecticut Colony was founded in 1636 by Thomas Hooker. The main religion of the colony was Puritan. The Congregational Church was also established here.
In 1620 the Purtians established Plymouth colony and within that colony it was very important, but there were no other colonies in Massachusetts in 1620.
The first colony established in America was Virginia.
The Mayflower Compact.