A genealogical researcher has posted a lot of information about one of
my family lines.  She says she has baptism records on this family of
children from a Catholic Church in Bedford County, Virginia from 1756 to
1776.  I had the impression there were no Roman Catholics in Virginia
that early; at least, the only Dissenters I am aware of were Quakers,
Baptists and Presbyterians.  Can anyone tell me when the first Catholic
Churches appeared in Virginia?  When they did arrive, were they also
considered Dissenters?  I know some of this family signed the 10,000
name petition, which would seem to indicate they were not even
Anglican.  Thank you.  Mary Miller

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