One little oddity I learned from Phillips, is that Virginia imposed a head tax per Catholic imposed on ship captains who brought over Catholics. Maryland had a little putsch to do away with the Catholic Calvert family regime in that state. The New England colonies lost their charters for awhile, and were appended to New York, and when they got them back after the Glorious Revolution in Britain, the charters had a mandate that all "Protestants" must be treated equally, doing away with the paticularist Congregationalist mandate.
For a long time, America was not really plugged into the ideals of the Declaration of Independence at all, slavery aside.
And weren't the Baptists relegated to Rhode Island during those years?
What are the dates of the head tax per Catholic, and the NE colonies losing their charters?