Each of the 13 original English colonies acknowledged the role of the Christian religion in their colonial charter or early legislature

The First Charter of Virginia, April 10, 1606 , granted to the Jamestown Colonists by King James I said:
We, greatly commending and graciously accepting of their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of His Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those Parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government.... On April 27, 1607, the English Colonists' first act after landing at Cape Henry was to erect a large wooden cross and hold a prayer meeting. Subsequently, on May 14, 1607, Jamestown, Virginia became the first permanent settlement in North America. On November 3, 1620, King James I granted the Charter of the Plymouth Council. The declared purpose of the Plymouth Colony was: In the hope thereby to advance the enlargement of the Christian religion, to the glory of God Almighty. On November 11, 1620, the Mayflower Compact became America’s first great governmental document. The Pilgrims signed it before they disembarked their ship, the Mayflower: In ye name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign Lord, King James, by ye grace of God, Great Britain, France, & Ireland king, defender of ye faith, etc., having undertaken for ye glory of God, and advancements of ye Christian faith, and honor of our king & countries, a voyage to plant ye first colonies in ye Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly & mutually in ye presence of God, and one of another, covenant & combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of ye ends aforesaid.... March 4, 1629, the First Charter of Massachusetts: For the directing...of all other Matters...may be so religiously, peaceable, and civilly governed, as their good life and orderly Conversation, may win and incite the Natives of the Country to the Knowledge and Obedience of the only true God and Savior of Mankind and the Christian Faith, which...is the principal End of this Plantation.... April 3, 1644, New Haven Colony Charter: The judicial laws of God, as they were delivered by Moses...[are to] be a rule to all the courts in this jurisdiction. 1663, Fundamental Constitutions of the Carolinas: No man shall be permitted to be a freeman of Carolina, or to have any estate of habitation within it that doth not acknowledge a God, and that God is publicly and solemnly to be worshipped. July 8, 1663, Royal Charter of Rhode Island: That they, pursuing, with peaceable and loyal minds, sober, serious and religious intentions, of godly edifying themselves, and one another, in the holy Christian faith and worship...together with the gaining over and conversion of the poor ignorant Indian natives...to sincere professions and obedience of the same faith and worship...a most flourishing civil state may stand and best bee maintained...grounded upon gospel principles. 1665, Colonial Legislature of New York Colony: It is ordered that a church shall be built in each parish, capable of holding two hundred persons; that ministers of every church shall preach every Sunday, and pray for the king, queen, the Duke of York, and the royal family; and to marry persons after legal publication of license.... Sunday is not to be profaned by traveling, by laborers, or vicious persons.... Church wardens to report twice a year all misdemeanors, such as swearing, profaneness, Sabbath-breaking, drunkenness, fornication, adultery, and all such abominable sins. 1681, Charter of Pennsylvania: To reduce the savage natives by gentle and just manners to the Love of Civil Society and Christian religion. 1697, New Jersey Colony, Governor Bases pro-claimed in part: Take due care that all laws made and provided for the suppression of vice and encouraging of religion and virtue, particularly the observance of the Lord's day, be duly put into execution. We have just sampled colonial charters and some of our other earliest laws.