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Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia

The Foreign Protestants were a group of non-British Protestant immigrants to Nova Scotia, primarily originating from France and Germany. They largely settled in Halifax at Gottingen Street (named after the German town of Göttingen) and Dutch Village Road as well as Lunenburg.

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Foreign Protestants

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The Foreign Protestants were a group of non-British Protestant immigrants to Nova Scotia, primarily originating from France and Germany. They largely settled...

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Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act 1708

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The Foreign Protestants Naturalization Act 1708 (7 Ann. c. 9), sometimes referred to as the Foreign and Protestants Naturalization Act 1708, was an Act...

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Lunenburg Rebellion

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a new source of settlers, to turn to settling Nova Scotia with "Foreign Protestants" made up of Swiss, French Huguenots, and Germans. The British Board...

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Naturalization Act of 1790

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2 c.7) that was officially titled An Act for Naturalizing such foreign Protestants and others therein mentioned, as are settled or shall settle in any...

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Mainline Protestant

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The mainline Protestant churches (sometimes also known as oldline Protestants) are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States and in some...

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Nova Scotia

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Spanish Succession. In subsequent years, the British began settling "foreign Protestants" in the region and deported the French-speaking Acadians en masse...

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Protestantism in Ireland

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disloyalty having their estates confiscated and granted to loyal Protestants. Whilst Protestants also guilty of disloyalty were to lose some of their estates...

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Elizabeth I

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cautious in her foreign policies. She offered very limited aid to foreign Protestants and failed to provide her commanders with the funds to make a difference...

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Winthrop Pickard Bell

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immigrants to Nova Scotia known as the "Foreign Protestants". His most notable publication was The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia...

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Aspotogan Peninsula

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1767, the Protestants who settled the Aspotogan Peninsula were the New England Planters, primarily from Massachusetts. For these Protestants from New England...

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Military history of Nova Scotia

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Pre. 1931. p. 192 Bell, p. 509 Bell. Foreign Protestants. p. 510, p. 513 Bell, p. 510 Bell, Foreign Protestants, p. 511 Bell, p. 511 Bell, p. 512 Bell...

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Protestantism in the United States

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Protestants. The Southern Baptist Convention is the largest single Protestant denomination in the U.S., comprising one-tenth of American Protestants....

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Protestantism in Spain

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Protestants across the world to pray for the Spanish Protestants. Both the doctrinal changes introduced in the Second Vatican Council and the foreign...

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Protestant Bible

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especially to non-Protestant Christians as the protocanonical books) and 27 books of the New Testament, for a total of 66 books. Some Protestants use Bibles...

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House of Tudor

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throne from Protestant threats, she had over 280 Protestants burnt at the stake in the Marian persecutions, between 1554 and 1558. Protestants came to hate...

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Plantation Act 1740

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2. c. 7) that was officially titled An Act for Naturalizing such foreign Protestants and others therein mentioned, as are settled or shall settle in any...

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List of foreign volunteers

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service. 60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot. Composed of 'foreign Protestants'. Boer foreign volunteers Hohenlohe Regiment of France during the Bourbon...

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French and Indian War

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legislative measures were the Recruiting Act 1756, the Commissions to Foreign Protestants Act 1756 for the Royal American Regiment, the Navigation Act 1756...

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Dutch Fork

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and 1766 when the South Carolina government offered incentives for foreign Protestants to settle what was then the backcountry. Unlike the Pennsylvania...

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Expulsion of the Acadians

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English Protestants and statutes were passed which required the offspring of such unions to be sent to English schools and raised as "English Protestants" (quote...

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Huguenots

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[yɡ(ə)no]) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from...

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Bibliography of New Brunswick

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ISBN 978-0-8020-8538-2. JSTOR 10.3138/9781442680883. Bell, Winthrop P. The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia: The History of a Piece of Arrested...

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Protestantism in Canada

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incentivizing French and German Protestants to move to the territory. Thousands moved to Nova Scotia and were known as the Foreign Protestants. The British sought...

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