The Penn family were Quakers, and the colony became a favorite destination for that group as well as German Lutherans, German Reformed and numerous small sects such as Mennonites, Amish and Moravian, not to mention Scotch Irish Presbyterians. The Dutch Reformed were strong in upstate New York and New Jersey, and Congregationalists were important in Long Island. The First Great Awakening invigorated religiosity and helped stimulate the growth of Congregational, Methodist and Baptist churches. Non-British colonists included Dutch Calvinist, Swedish Lutherans, Palatine Mennonites, and the Amis]. There was a Jewish community already established in New York from 1654 (when it was still New Amsterdam), and Jews settled in what became Pennsylvania from 1655. See also Mid-Atlantic New England Colonies Southern Colonies Chesapeake Colonies Colonial United States Notes References Bod, Wayne. "The Middle Colonies." in Louise A. Breen, ed., Converging Worlds: Communities and Cultures in Colonial America (2013): 219+. Bodle, Wayne, "The Mid-Atlantic and the American Revolution," Pennsylvania History 82#2 (Summer 2015), 282–99. Doyle, John Andrew. English Colonies in America: Volume IV The Middle Colonies (1907) online Faragher, John Mack, ed. (1990) The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America. New York: Sachem Publishing Associates, Inc. Illick, Joseph E. Colonial Pennsylvania: A History (1976) Landsman, Ned. Crossroads of Empire: The Middle Colonies in British North America (Johns Hopkins University Press; 2010) 248 pages Munroe, John A. Colonial Delaware: A History (2003) State of Delaware (A Brief History). State of Delaware. 2007-01-21. Tiedemann, Joseph S. "A Tumultuous People: The Rage for Liberty and the Ambiance of Violence in the Middle Colonies in the Years Preceding the American Revolution," Pennsylvania History Volume 77, Number 4, Autumn 2010, pp. 387–431 in Project MUSE Tiedemann, Joseph S. "Interconnected Communities: The Middle Colonies on the Eve of the American Revolution," Pennsylvania History, 76 (Winter 2009), 1–41. Primary sources Historiography Bodle, Wayne. "Themes and Directions in Middles Colonies Historiography, 1980–1994", William and Mary Quarterly, July 1994, Vol. 51 Issue 3, pp. 355–88. . Bodle, Wayne. "The "Myth of the Middle Colonies" Reconsidered: The Process of Regionalization in Early America", Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 113, No. 4 (Oct. 1989), pp. 527–548. . Greenberg, Douglas. "The Middle Colonies in Recent American Historiography", William and Mary Quarterly, July 1979, Vol. 36 Issue 3, pp. 396–427. . -02 B02 Former British colonies and protectorates in the Americas