What was Colonial Connecticuts religion?
The official church of Connecticut was called “Congregational”, based on its original form of government (where matters were decided by the local congregation), but that doesn’t quite describe its actual form, much less what the church believed. In 1708 the legislature asked church leaders to draft a new form of church government, which the state then ratified. The document they produced was the “Saybrook Platform”, which set up a system much more like that of the Presbyterians, with “associations” of pastors and elders and “consociations” of churches given the authority to correct errors within churches, to settle disputes between churches, and “license” pastors. Also note that the New England Congregationalists of the colonial period were Puritan, that is, “Reformed” (or “Calvinistic”) in their teachings, accepted a form of the (Presbyterian) Westminster Confession as a summary of their faith. http://ww
