text: Most settlers in the American Mid-Atlantic and New England were Calvinists , including the English Puritans , the French Huguenot and Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam ( New York ) , and the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of the Appalachian back country .
simplified: Most settlers in the American Mid-Atlantic and New England were Calvinists , including the Puritans and Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam ( New York ) .