Keep in mind the British used "TRANSPORTATION" to their colonies,of those no longer desirable. And that the 1st fleet to the prison colony of Australia was 1786,or 10 years after our July 4,1776. And remember that New Sweden,on the Delaware,1638-56 was also a penal colony. I have Puritans and Quakers,who were jailed and fined in Britian for their belief's. I have,twice,a Scotchman from n Loch Ness,Scotch Highlands,taken P.O.W. at Preston,nw England in 1715,when his Jacobite army was defeated trying to put the Catholic,James,on the English throne. Dugal McQueen was sold at Baltimore in 1716 to one of those Annapolis area ex-Puritan Quakers you mention. My own Dr Thomas Wynne,of Penn's 1682 "Welcome" had a daughter,Sidney Wynne,marry a West River Quaker,Md. Dugal McQueen's daughter-in-law,Elizabeth Berre' or Berry,was a French speaking convict shipped from London to Baltimore. There is a book about the 40,000-50,000 convicts sold on the Chesapeake. Never read it. Maryland was settled 1634,and became an OFFICIAL EPISCOPALIAN colony in the 1690's. Puritans,Quakers,Catholic's and Presbyterian fit into that 1634-90's gap.