It's my understanding, by what I've read, that the Anglican Church 
allowed people of most any religion to exist in Virginia... as long as 
they didn't practice it or try to spread it, and they paid the tithe to 
the Anglican Church. Maryland was settled as a Catholic colony, but were 
possibly more tolerant of other religions because they had been so 
persecuted "back home". That's the brief basics of the situation.

The Puritans were as intolerant of other religions as any religious 
group, as were the Quakers, who expelled members for merely having 
attended services of another denomination.

The Episcopalians became Episcopalians by withdrawing from the Anglican 
Church after the Revolutionary War, when nobody wanted to belong to the 
Church of England anymore. The All Hallows Church of the latter 1600s 
was probably an Anglican Church in their time, or so I would think, and 
may have been more tolerant than the Anglican Church in Virginia.

Hope this helps. At least, I hope it doesn't hurt!

Carolyn Bruce

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Carolyn HALE BRUCE
Virginia Beach, VA

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