But the Presbyterian churches of eastern Pennsylvania, even as reinforced from England and New England, were neither many nor strong; the Baptists were feebler yet, although both these bodies were giving signs of the strength they were both about to develop.[147:1] The Episcopalians had one strong and rapidly growing church in Philadelphia, and a few languishing missions in country towns sustained by gifts from England.

There were as yet no Methodists.
* * * * * Crossing the boundary line from Pennsylvania into Maryland--the line destined to become famous in political history as Mason and Dixon's--we come to the four Southern colonies, Maryland, Virginia, and the two Carolinas.

Georgia in 1730 has not yet begun to be.

All these have strongly marked characteristics in common, which determine in advance the character of their religious history.

They are not peculiar in being slave colonies; there is no colony North or South in which slaves are not held under sanction of law.