Well I believe that Baptists have always been since the time of Christ. Have to be from the Roman Catholic Church to be a protestant.
Believing a thing does not make it so. DUmmies believe Obama will deliver each of them a Skittle-shitting unicorn.
The term "Protestant" refers to Christian denominations which reject the idea of the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, to those which separated from Catholicism after the Orthodox/Catholic schism, and to those newer denominations which descend from the separatist groups.
Here's the line from Catholic to Baptist: The Anglican Church separated from the Roman Catholic Church. The Separatists separated from the Anglicans. The Baptists descended from the Separatists. The first Baptist church in the New World was in Providence, Rhode Island Colony in 1638, and it was solidly Baptist Separatist, and "protestant", as it rejected the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church
and the Anglican Church.