The Baptist movement was not outlawed by the church in Virginia. If
Baptist ministers had been willing to come to Williamsburg to get a
license to preach and a license for their meeting houses from the
General Court as required by law, they would not have been jailed.
Baptists usually refused to apply for these licenses from the General
Court because they felt that the call from God to preach was the only
permission they needed. Loyal Anglicans certainly made it their business
to break up Baptist meetings from time to time, but it was county
officials who arrested Baptists on charges such as disturbing the peace.


Linda H. Rowe
Historical Research
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
757-220-7443
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My ancestor, Rawley Pinn, started a Baptist Church in the 1700's, which
still exists today. The name of the Church is Fairmount Baptist, and it
is
in Stapleton Virginia (Nelson County).  Church records have been kept
from
the 1700's, when members had to hide from the Anglicans & Episcopalians
to
have service. Rawley Pinn, was listed as Mulatto in the 1783 census, and
was
also a farmer in Amherst County. He was the first pastor and founder of
Fairmount Baptist Church. The Baptist Movement was called the Great
Awakening, and it was actually outlawed by the Anglican Church. In 1768,
the
Anglicans enforced the law against preaching by unlicensed dissenters,
and
about thirty-four Ministers were thrown in jail. I wonder how this
happened
since the point has been made that the Anglicans were not the law.


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