Title: In the hands of a good providence
Description: Mount Vernon researcher Mary Thompson endeavors to get beyond the current preoccupation with whether Washington and other founders were or were not evangelical Christians to ask what place religion had in their lives. Thompson follows Washington and his family over several generations, situating her inquiry in the context of new work on the place of religion in colonial and postrevolutionary Virginia and the Chesapeake. --from publisher description.
Subjects: Religious life and customs, Anglicans, Family, Christianity and politics, Political and social views, Religion, Church of England, Biography, History, Washington, george, 1732-1799, Washington family, Virginia, social life and customs, Maryland, social life and customs, Church of england, united states
Places: Virginia, United States, Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
People: George Washington (1732-1799), Washington family
Time periods: 18th century