Several religious settlers including the Augustinians, were driven out of the area during the penal law period of the 17th century.

It worked for Samuel Brannan, a Mormon elder who had traveled to California with a group of religious settlers.

Sometime after Ryan's departure, an oxen train of religious settlers passed by the Lauren farm, asking for permission to camp nearby for the night.

Shortly after the Civil War, the town disincorporated, as many of the initial religious settlers moved away.

Now he is quite willing to disappoint some of these religious settlers to hold onto the land he really cares about.

The urban centres brought a mix of ethnic and religious settlers, and those who weren't agricultural homesteaders but who brought with themselves a trade or professional calling.

The document contained some criticism of the tendency of religious settlers and their supporters from among the Evangelical Christians, as it stated:

The police questioned the farmer's description of religious settlers wearing skullcaps driving a car on Sabbath as most Orthodox Jews do not drive on this day.

It was later discovered that the explosive was sent by a religious settler named Ya'akov (Jack) Teitel.

In 2007 he published a book about religious settlers, which later saw an English version at Yale University Press.