Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: The Faith of Our Fathers — John Shaqi
Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: The Faith of Our FathersBrydon, G. MacLaren (George MacLaren)
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Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: The Faith of Our Fathers
Brydon, G. MacLaren (George MacLaren)
Church of England in Virginia; Virginia -- Church history; Virginia -- Religion
In addition to the titles in the following brief list the reader will
find many references to official papers, and other important and useful
works, in the author's _Virginia's Mother Church_, volumes one and two.
A great many of the statements herein made are based upon these two
volumes.
Anderson, James S. M. _A History of the Colonial Church_.
London: 1843. 3 vols.
Andrews, Matthew Page. _The Soul of a Nation, The Founding
of Virginia and the Projection of New England_. New York:
Doubleday, 1943.
Brydon, George MacLaren. _Virginia's Mother Church and the
Political Conditions Under Which It Grew_. Richmond,
Virginia: Virginia Historical Society, 1947. Vol. I,
1607-1727; Vol. II, 1725-1814.
Fiske, John. _Old Virginia and Her Neighbors_. Boston and
New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899. 2 vols.
Goodwin, Edward L. _The Colonial Church in Virginia_.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Morehouse Publishing Company, 1927.
With appendix giving list of Anglican clergymen who served
in Virginia in the Colonial period.
Hening, W. W. _Statutes of Virginia_, 1619-1792. 13 vols.
Mason, George C. _Colonial Churches of Tidewater, Virginia_.
Richmond, Virginia: Whittet and Shepperson, 1945.
Meade, William. _Old Churches, Ministers, and Families in
Virginia_. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1857. 2 vols.
This is the old standard work upon this subject, and is
still of great value, but must be used with the
understanding that records and other original sources made
available since his day disprove many of his statements
about local conditions. This is especially true regarding
his statements concerning the unworthiness of the colonial
clergy. His expressed conviction that most of them were
unworthy morally has been entirely disproved by the evidence
of records now available.
Perry, W. S. _History of the American Episcopal Church_.
Boston and New York: Osgood, 1899. 2 vols.
--_Historical Collections Relating to America's Colonial
Church. Virginia_: Privately printed, 1870.
Swem, E. G. _Virginia Historical Index_. Roanoke, Virginia:
Stone Printing Co., 1934-36. 2 vols.
APPENDIX A
The following extracts from the Journal of the Life of Thomas Story,
during his visit to Virginia in 1698 are indicative of the attitude of
the people of Virginia toward religious toleration:
8th Day of the 12th Month, we landed in Mockjack Bay----
Next Fourth Day being the 1st day of the 1st month (i.e.
January, 1698/99) we went again by water to a monthly meeting
at Chuckatuck, where came our friend Elizabeth Webb from
Gloucestershire in England, who had been through all the
English colonies on the Continent of America and was now
about to depart for England. The meeting was large and the
Sheriff of the County, a Colonel, and some of others of note
in that county were there, and very sober and attentive.
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