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Title: Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
The Faith of Our Fathers

Author: George MacLaren Brydon

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RELIGIOUS LIFE OF VIRGINIA IN
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

The Faith of Our Fathers

By
GEORGE MACLAREN BRYDON
Historiographer of Diocese of Virginia

VIRGINIA 350TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CORPORATION
WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA
1957

COPYRIGHT(C), 1957 BY
VIRGINIA 350TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
CORPORATION, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA

Jamestown 350th Anniversary
Historical Booklet, Number 10

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter Page

One Beginnings 1

Two The Colonists at Worship 6

Three Making Bricks Without Straw 12

Four Building a Christian Community 22

Five The Coming of the Negro 26

Six Fighting Adverse Conditions 34

Seven The Last Decade 42

Bibliography 46

Appendix A 47

Appendix B 48

INTRODUCTION

The settlement of Englishmen at Jamestown in 1607 was the outgrowth of
a vision of transatlantic expansion which had been growing stronger
steadily during the preceding generation. It was in the following of
that vision that Queen Elizabeth granted to a group of men headed by
Sir Walter Raleigh the authority to establish a colony upon the remote
shores of the Atlantic ocean, and out of the plans of this group came
the ill-fated colony which was started at Roanoke Island, in what is
now the State of North Carolina, in the year 1585. This colony after a
life of a few years disappeared: whether destroyed by Indian attack, or