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It was more limited and restricted to clergy and nobility.
In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, religion and government were profoundly tangled and only proven devoted Puritans were allowed to partake in governmental affairs, actually creating a theocracy (government administered by religious officials who impose religious beliefs). The Puritans were extremely intolerant of other religions and constantly persecuted other religious views, principally Quakers.
According to Cornwallis he would have: (1) either endeavored to escape to New-York or (2) would
notwithstanding the disparity of numbers have attacked them in the open
field. This was what he said in a letter he reported to Sir Henry Clinton when he failed to defend the York and Gloucester posts.
The fur trade was both very good and very bad for American Indians who participated in the trade. The fur trade gave Indians steady and reliable access to manufactured goods, but the trade also forced them into dependency on European Americans and created an epidemic of alcoholism.
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