A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . he doctrine ofchurch and state unity. Their statutes were based upon the Levitical code; but the char-acter of that system, and of the sentiments, feelings, and practices of those who administeredit, has become materially changed. The people of Connecticut still maintain a liigh positionin the religious world. Religious denominations, of almost every variety, flourish in all quar-ters. Congregationalists, Baptists, Methodists, and Episcopalians, are the most numerous;Universalists, Romanists, and Unitarians follow in order; and there are a few S
A gazetteer of the United States of America .. . he doctrine ofchurch and state unity. Their statutes were based upon the Levitical code; but the char-acter of that system, and of the sentiments, feelings, and practices of those who administeredit, has become materially changed. The people of Connecticut still maintain a liigh positionin the religious world. Religious denominations, of almost every variety, flourish in all quar-ters. Congregationalists, Baptists, Methodists, and Episcopalians, are the most numerous;Universalists, Romanists, and Unitarians follow in order; and there are a few Shakers. Curiosities.—Connecticut abounds less in natural curiosities than in interesting superstitions and traditions, romantic and supernatural events in the early colonial reports of revolutionary marvels, are illustrated, in numerous localities, by alleged relics,and sometimes by actual documentary and topographical demonstrations. But these are mat-ters belonging rather to speculation than to facts and DELAWARE. This small state was the first of the diirteen united American colonies toratify and adopt the federal constitution, in ]789. It had been successively a Swedish settle-ment from 1627 to , a province of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam (or New York)for the next nine or ten years, then a dependency of New York, under the English, until1682, and an adjunct of Pennsylvania for nearly a century tliereafler, — during which periodit was known as the three lower counties of the Delaware. In 1775, the nominal jurisdic-tion of the then proprietor of Pennsylvania was relinquished ; and iu the iallo« ing year, tlie STATES AND TERRITORIES. —DELAWARE. 39 people having framed and established a constitution, Delaware became a distinct independentstate, taking for its name tliat of its bay and river, whicli had been derived at an early datefrom Lord De La War, one of the first settlers of Virginia. Boundaries and Extent. —The stat
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