Though Alline made many converts to his religious, ideas the Allinites splintered into many competing Newlight sects after his death, such as Pansonites, Chipmanites, Kinsmanites, Blackites, Welshites, Hammonites, Palmerites, Brookites, Pearlyites, and Burpeites, and a few even turned to the Anabaptism. Most of the sects disappeared as quickly as they appeared, with the followers eventually merging with Wesleyan or Congregationalist churches or helping to establish two major Baptist denominations in the Maritime region. That legacy has made the region the Baptist bastion of Canada.