The dissenting academies were schools, colleges and seminaries (often institutions with aspects of all three) run by English Dissenters, that is, Protestants
the original colony in 1749 as a home for the various groups of dissentingProtestants who were from New England and who did not follow the Church of England
Dissenters around to support for Home Rule for Ireland, putting the dissentingProtestants in league with the Irish Catholics in an otherwise unlikely alliance
marriages between Catholics and Protestants had to be brought up as Catholics. From 1945, the emigration rate of Protestants fell and they became less likely