Early Virginia religious petitions
Subtitle: a collaborative project
By: the Library of Congress and the Library of Virginia
Contributors: Library of Virginia; Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1999
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Church history; Ecclesiastical law
Description: Presents images of over 400 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802. Covers topics such as the separation of church and state, rights of dissenters, sale and division of property in the established church, and the dissolution of unpopular vestries. Features an online version of a Library of Congress exhibition entitled Religion and the Founding of the American Republic. Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
Notes: Title from home page as viewed on Mar. 22, 2001.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Petitioning in eighteenth-century Virginia; title: Chronology of religious development in America; title: Early Virginia maps.