"17 Answ. (1) Great care is taken for the instruction of ye people in ye X'tian religion, by ministers catechising of them and preaching to them twice every Sabbath daye and sometimes on lecture dayes; and so by masters of famalayes instructing and catechising the children and servants being so required by law. In our corporation there are twenty-six towns and twenty-one churches. There is in every town in the colony a settled minister except in two towns newly begun."--This was equivalent to one minister to 460 persons, or to about 90 families.--_Conn. Col. Rec._ iii, 300. Trumbull's _Hist. of Conn._ i, 397. [d] Humphrey Norton in the New Haven colony was whipped severely, burnt in the hand with the letter "H" for heretic, and banished for being a Quaker. The next year, for testifying against the treatment of Norton, William Bond, Mary Dyer, and Mary Whetherstead were apprehended by the same authorities, and forcibly carried back to Rhode Island.--H. Rogers, _Mary Dyer_, p. 36. For the Quaker Laws of both colonies see Note 69. [e] The notorious William Ledra of later Massachusetts fame was one of these. [f] This year a law was passed requiring every person to carefully apply himself on the Lord's day to the duties of religion. See _New Haven Hist. Soc. Papers_, ii, 399. [g] "Articles of Misdemeanor vs. Connecticut, July, 1665. "They deny to the inhabitants the exercise of the religion of the church of England; arbitrarily fining those who refuse to come to their congregational assemblies." Law Book of Conn, printed 1670. "It is ordered that when the ministry of the word is established according to the Gospel, throughout this Colony, every person shall duly resort and attend thereunto respectively upon the Lord's day, upon public fast days and days of thanksgiving as are generally kept by appointment of authority; and any person ... without necessary cause, withdrawing himself from the public ministry of the word, he shall forfeit for his absence from every such meeting five shillings."--_Conn. Col. Rec_. iii, 294. [h] They reported that the colony would "not hinder any from enjoying the sacraments and using the common prayer book, provided that they hinder not the maintenance of the public minister."--Hutchinson, _Hist, of Mass._, p. 412. Dr. Beardsley suggests that influential citizens may have assured them that the laws would be modified to accommodate Episcopalians.--E. E. Beardsley, _Hist. of the Episcopal Church_, i, p. 116. [i] Population in 1656, 800; 1665, 9000; 1670-80, 10,000-14,000; 1689, 17,000-20,000; 1730, approximately, 50,000; 1756, 130,000; 1761, 145,000; 1776, 200,000; 1780, 237,946--F. B. Dexter, Estimates of the Population of the American Colonies, in _American Antiquarian Society Proceedings_, 2d series, vol. 5.