A Blessed Company: Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776
In this impressively researched study, John Nelson explains more thoroughly than any previous work has done the process by which the established church in early Virginia adapted to circumstances in the colony and thereby developed an institutional structure for the Anglican Church that differed in important respects from that in England. (Thad W. Tate, coauthor of "Colonial Virginia: A History")