Puritan intolerance........Question about History, please help...?

Question: Hi, please answer this question only if you are 100% sure, I am debating the answer: Puritan intolerance of dissent led to the founding of a number of new colonies, Which of the following colonies was NOT one of those? Was it Harford, New Hampshire, or New Haven?

Answer: New Hampshire. It was one of the last of the thirteen to be founded by the British, and was comprised almost entirely of Anglicans, completely unrelated to the Puritan colonies that were scattered around Connecticut and Massachusetts. Hartford and New Haven were actually both founded by the Puritans, but in a kind of loop hole they were founded because of Puritan intolerance since they were founded to keep everyone else out. The colony that WAS founded directly from Puritan intolerance was Rhode Island, founded by an exiled Puritan who didn't believe in religious intolerance and a few hundred baptists who couldn't find their way to Pennsylvania and freedom and had no-where else to go.

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