In colonial Jamestown and Williamsburg, it was the Anglican Church (Church of England).   American independence resulted in the disestablishment of the Anglican Church.  "After the Revolution the first objective of American Anglicans was to organize a native episcopacy and a national church. The new ecclesiastical body was called the Protestant Episcopal Church, a name approved in 1789 by the first General Convention of the denomination, which also adopted a constitution and a revised version of the Book of Common Prayer."
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Melinda C. P. Skinner
Writer and Wonderer

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From: Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]>
> I recently read a fairly new children's book entitled "D'Arcy" by Donna Doe
> Southall. It is the story of a later son of an English nobleman who came to
> Jamestown in about 1617. In the story, it tells that the Church of England
> became the Episcopal Church in America at the time of the founding of
> Jamestown.
>
> I wonder if this is correct? When was the name Church of England changed to
> the Episcopal Church?
>
> Anne
>
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