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Religious Petitions, in American Memory.
Early Virginia Religious Petitions
presents images of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between
1774 and 1802 from more than eighty counties and cities. The petitions concern
such topics as the historic debate over the separation of church and state championed
by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, the rights of dissenters such as Quakers
and Baptists, the sale and division of property in the established church, and
the dissolution of unpopular vestries. The collection provides searchable access
to the petitions' places of origin and a brief summary of each petition's contents,
as well as summaries of an additional seventy-four petitions that are no longer
extant.
These online exhibits
provide context and additional information about this collection.
Chronology
of Religious Development in America
Early Virginia Maps
Petitioning in Eighteenth-Century
Virginia
Religion and the Founding of
the American Republic
These historical
era(s) are best represented
in the collection, although they may not be all-encompassing.
The American Revolution, 1763-1783
The New Nation, 1780-1815
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Thomas Jefferson Papers,
1606-1827
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