OLD BRUTON CHURCH, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA

OLD BRUTON CHURCH, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, IN THE TIME OF LORD DUNMORE, 1893, by Alfred Wordsworth Thompson, oil on canvas. Dunmore was the last Royal Governor of Virginia, from 1771 to 1775, when he fled to New York, then to Britain at the beginning of the American Revolution. Colonial Virginias Anglican Church (Church of England) enjoyed government support and a strong following, especially among the gentry and middle class

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1770s 30-40 Anglican Gentry Lcgr2001 Lcgr2020 Lcgrart Planters Prosperous Williamsburg Wordsworth

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