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Old Fri Mar 20, 2009, 10:16pm
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Originally Posted by WreckRef View Post
No, it was built (not founded, see Native Americans) by Puritans. They were quite intolerable to other religions in case you forgot. So I would say, "Founded by religious freedom," would be incorrect.
Oh good grief...the Puritans founded one small settlement that grew into one of the original 13 colonies. By that time, the majority of the people living in the colony were not Puritans.