Petition #11677806

Abstract

Twelve members of the Anglican Church seek to control “some of the Dissenters from the Church by Law established” who minister to slave gatherings at night. The petitioners contend that these "meetings in the night of our slaves to receive the instructions of teachers without our Consent we apprehend could produce nothing but Deeds of darkness & which have already produced their proper fruits of disobedience & insolence to Masters." They therefore pray "that the Church may be maintained in all its legal rights" and that "some regulation may be adopted to make the Clergy of the established Church accountable for their conduct & be removed upon their misbehaviour."

Result: Rejected.

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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia

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