Four hundred twenty-six inhabitants of Halifax County complain "that under an Act of Assembly passed in the Year 1784 a Sale was made of Glebe Lands of the Episcopal Church ... and the money arising therefrom most improperly and unjustly as we conceive was applied to the Purchase of another Glebe, sundry slaves &c." Charging that the Revolution should have ended the involuntary contributions by Christian sects to a single church, the petitioners ask that the money be used “for the general Benefit” of the county's inhabitants.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia