Vestries [ Religious Belief ]
… much critical scrutiny. From the seventeenth century, English and French authorities exported the system to their American colonies. Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Churches Corruption Finance North America Officials Religion Historical evolution From the late Middle Ages, local ecclesiastical communities in Latin … Parish, St-Joseph-de-Beauce, 1736-1901 (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), p. 37. Further south along the American coast, small pools of chief inhabitants ran the vestries in Maryland and Virginia. Here again, the Anglican …
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