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title: 'Memorial Petition to the Virginia General Assembly in May 1784'
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authors:
- 'John Blair Smith'
date: 1850-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Church-State Relations'
- 'Colonial Presbyterian History'
scriptures:
- 'Galatians 3'
- 'Romans 13'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/smith-1850-memorial-petition-to-the-virginia-general-assembly-in-may-1784
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# Memorial Petition to the Virginia General Assembly in May 1784

1850 excerpt: the Presbytery of Hanover's 1784 memorial to Virginia's House of Delegates protests Episcopal favoritism and urges equal religious liberty and separation of church and state.

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