Which colony was the first to promote religious tolerance?

Some areas in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island were the first towns that acted and indorsed such religious leniency. William Penn during the year of 1681, when he officially chartered the state of Pennsylvania in the act. During 1632, Maryland was first to act in this tolerance of religious faiths, especially Christianity in the area and it was established in 1634. The earliest settlements in Rhode Island was in the early 1636 of what formed it and, several years after there has been an increase of settlements and not until 1662, it was officially chartered in this act of leniency towards religion.