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Sender: American Memory Fellows <AMFELLOWS@RS8.LOC.GOV>
Poster: "Elizabeth L. Brown" <ebro@LOC.GOV>
Subject: New A.M. Collection: Early Va. Religious Petitions
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Early Virginia Religious Petitions
Latest Addition to American Memory
More than four hundred petitions submitted to the Virginia
Legislature between 1774 and 1802 comprise the latest addition
to the American Memory collections currently online. Early
Virginia Religious Petitions presents material held by the Library
of Virginia in Richmond. The online collection makes available
423 petitions from more than eighty counties and cities in Virginia.
Early Virginia Religious Petitions reveals the breadth and fervor
of public opinion on a wide range of religious issues in the young
Commonwealth of Virginia, including the rights of dissenters such
as Baptists and Presbyterians, and those of pacifist Quakers who
sought military exemption. Other topics covered include the historic
debate over the separation of church and state championed by
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, the sale and division of
property within the established church, and the dissolution of
unpopular vestries. In addition to images of these petitions, the
collection also 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 whose full
text has been lost.
A supplement to the Library of Congress exhibition Religion
and the Founding of the American Republic, which can be found at
the following URL: <http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/>, this
collection is a collaborative venture between the Library of Congress
and the Library Of Virginia (URL: <http://lva.lib.va.us/>). Founded
in 1823, the Library of Virginia holds Virginia's official records from
1607 through the present. Its archival holdings exceed 86.7 million
items including court records, tax lists, executive and legislative
manuscripts, personal papers and maps. The Library, located in
historic downtown Richmond, houses more than 726,000 printed
volumes and serials, 1,091 current periodicals and newspapers plus
more than 238,000 photographs, broadsides, pictures and paintings.
The collection can be found at the following URL:
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/repehtml/>
Please forward any questions to Please forward any questions to ndlpcoll@loc.gov.
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