ABSTRACT
The Church of England arrived in America with the Jamestown settlers of 1607 and was the first Protestant religious group to establish a permanent presence in North America. It was eventually established in all of the Southern colonies—Virginia (1619), North Carolina (1701), Maryland (1702), South Carolina (1706), and Georgia (1758)—and the four lower counties of New York (1693). But challenges of geography and the revolutionary rupture with England transformed it and limited its success in the colonial environment.
