The situation of the Catholic Church in the Thirteen Colonies was characterized by an extensive religious persecution originating from Protestant sects...

The Thirteen Colonies were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. Grievances against the...

Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably. Public school systems existed only in New England. In the 18th Century...

substantially with the founding of the Thirteen Colonies along the Atlantic coast of North America. The British Empire's colonial territories in North America...

The Catholic Church in the United States began in the colonial era, but by the mid-1800s, most of the Spanish, French, and Mexican influences had demographically...

of the Thirteen Colonies of British America, the Province of Maryland, "a Catholic Proprietary," was founded with an explicitly English Catholic identity...

in the late 16th century with failed attempts by England to establish permanent colonies in the North. The first of the permanent English colonies in...

convictions. At the time of the Revolution, Catholics formed less than 1% of the population of the thirteen colonies, in 2007, Catholics comprised 24% of...

controlling, despite the English penal laws. Nowhere else in the Thirteen Colonies could Catholics enjoy public worship to the extent possible in 18th-century...

and criticised in the Petition to George III submitted in October 1774 by the First Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies. In Great Britain and...

of the war, fifty thousand Englishmen inhabited some twenty colonies in the Americas. Most of the colonies were founded in the decade prior to the start...

chattel property, and the condition of slavery as hereditary. The Thirteen Colonies of northern British America, were for much or all of the period less dependent...

colloquial name for Americans who are descended from the original settlers of the Thirteen Colonies. Historically, Old Stock Americans have been mainly...

become the United States were Roman Catholics. However, the territory that would become the Thirteen Colonies in 1776 was largely populated by Protestants...

13 (thirteen) is the natural number following 12 and preceding 14. Folklore surrounding the number 13 appears in many cultures around the world: one theory...

court procedure, and criminal prosecution. In Quebec, English-speaking immigrants from the Thirteen Colonies fiercely objected to a variety of its provisions...

incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch...

and her colonies. The Act allowed freedom of worship for all Trinitarian Christians in Maryland, but sentenced to death anyone who denied the divinity...

The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of America, bordering the...

original Thirteen Colonies when the United States of America was founded in 1776. List of the oldest buildings in Alabama List of the oldest buildings in Alaska...

The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, also known as the Malankara Syrian Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion...

Anti-Catholicism in the United States dates back to the colonial history of the U.S. Anti-Catholic attitudes were first brought to the Thirteen Colonies of British...

migration in the period of English Puritans to the New England Colonies, starting with Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony. They came in family...

Revolutionary War, the Catholics in the Thirteen Colonies (not including French Canada) were under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the bishop of the Apostolic...

or Whigs, were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who opposed the Kingdom of Great Britain's control and governance during the colonial era, and supported...

president to sign the Declaration David Zeisberger, a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native Americans in the Thirteen Colonies Rev. Joseph Thaxter...

the Thirteen Colonies, where they settled, especially in New York, the Delaware River Valley in Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Virginia. The English...

The relations between the Catholic Church and the state have been constantly evolving with various forms of government, some of them controversial in...

oldest surviving building remnants built by Europeans in the original Thirteen Colonies and in the United States overall. It is now part of Historic Jamestown...

and the fourth oldest Catholic structure in the thirteen original colonies. In 1743, Father Schneider started a Catholic school at the mission church. The...