Beginning with the Elizabethan vision that produced Roanoke and then Jamestown, Brydon describes how the Church of England took root in early Virginia. He covers the colonists at worship, the struggle to build parishes with little money or clergy, the churchyard as the community’s Sunday meeting place, the arrival of enslaved Africans and the hard final decades of the century.
A short, informative history of faith and community in England’s first permanent American colony. Download the free EPUB.