sentences:  New Englanders and New England transplants from upstate New York were the vast majority of La Salle County's inhabitants during the first several decades of its history.These settlers were primarily members of the Congregational Church, though due to the Second Great Awakening, many of them had converted to Methodism, and some had become Baptists before coming to what is now La Salle County.The Congregational Church has subsequently gone through many divisions, and some factions, including those in La Salle County, are now known as the Church of Christ and the United Church of Christ.