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The Episcopal Church in Virginia, 1607–2007 (2007) Bond, Edward L. "Anglican theology and devotion in James Blair's Virginia, 1685–1743," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (1996) 104#3 pp. 313–40; Bond, Edward L. Damned Souls in the Tobacco Colony: Religion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia (2000), Bruce, Philip Alexander.
The Baptists and Presbyterians were subject to many legal constraints and faced growing persecution; between 1768 and 1774, about half of the Baptists ministers in Virginia were jailed for preaching, in defiance of England's Act of Toleration of 1689 that guaranteed freedom of worship for Protestants. At the start of the Revolution, the ...
Baptists were active after emancipation in promoting the education of former slaves; for example, Jamaica's Calabar High School, named after the port of Calabar in Nigeria, was founded by Baptist missionaries.
Elijah Baker (1742 - November 06, 1798) was an American Baptist minister who preached in Virginia and Maryland.He is known to have preached in Henrico, James City, Charles City, and York Counties [2] before traveling Gloucester County and ultimately founding numerous churches on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland.
The Making of the Primitive Baptists: A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Antimission Movement, 1800–1840 (Psychology Press, 2004). Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. "The Antimission Movement in the Jacksonian South: A Study in Regional Folk Culture". Journal of Southern History Vol. 36, No. 4 (Nov., 1970), pp. 501–529. JSTOR 2206302.
Baptists, being a minority in Connecticut, were still required to pay fees to support the Congregationalist majority. The Baptists found this intolerable. The Baptists, well aware of Jefferson's own unorthodox beliefs, sought him as an ally in making all religious expression a fundamental human right and not a matter of government largesse.
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With growth through the end of the American Revolutionary War, in 1781 the association of churches split into two parts: along state lines for Virginia and North Carolina. The twenty-one congregations in Virginia formed the Portsmouth Baptist Association, named after their first meeting place. Representatives worked together to form church policy.