Selina, the Dowager Countess of Huntingdon, was a descendant of the Washington family in England; daughter of one earl (Washington Shirley, Earl Ferrers), widow of another, and mother of a third; a patroness of early Methodism; a Calvinistic opponent of Wesley’s; and, in the end, being forced out of the C of E to become a Dissenter, a woman who established (and very much ran) her own Nonconformist denomination of Calvinistic Methodists: The Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion.

In the 1780s, culminating in 1785, she corresponded with her distant cousin in America, George Washington, regarding her proposal to ship over whole communities and parishes of her followers – who were mostly artisans, small tradesmen, and leading farmers – to be established on land grants on the frontier, so as to evangelize the Native Americans and act as a buffer and bulwark for the American settlements.

Washington was sympathetic, but the Congress was too broke to be sympathetic.

The plan did not come to fruition, and instead, America became, on its first frontier and for a good part of the early Westward expansion, essentially Ulster West.

What if the Huntingdon Plan had worked: that is, had at least been given a try?
 
Well, that's a splendid butterfly ! Well netted !!
Not a clue, given not my favourite time-period, but wondrous possibilities...

FWIW, it's hard to think of Methodists as 'Dangerous Radicals' but, at that time, they certainly were, and fearsomely evangelistic, at that...
Nonconformist Calvanistic Methodists ? The mind boggles !!
I can envisage them getting uppity after a while, and doing a 'Mormon', striking out West...
 
... Nonconformist Calvanistic Methodists ? The mind boggles !!
I can envisage them getting uppity after a while, and doing a 'Mormon', striking out West...

Have you been to Llanddewi Brefi, Talgarth, or Llandovery recently? You'll find Calvinist Methodism's legacy there, and all through the
Presbyterian Church of Wales AKA the Calvinistic Methodist Church, I understand.

One can – just – imagine an American frontier, Appalachian at first and then moving west, with a mindset less Ulster and more The Valleys and the North Walian Gogs.... Come to think of it, a lot of that frontier is coal country, too....
 
Could you get an earlier Second Great Awakening out of this, or otherwise one which fuses the end of the First seemlessly into the start of the Second?
 
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