Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic IdentityThe persons in America who were the most opposed to Great Britain had also, in general, distinguished themselves by being particularly hostile to Catholics. So wrote the minister, teacher, and sometime historian Jonathan Boucher from his home in Surrey, England, in 1797. He blamed old prejudices against papists for the Revolution's popularity especially in Maryland, where most of the non Canadian Catholics in British North America lived. Many