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Christ Church, Middlesex, Virginia, USA

Established by law and supported by taxation, the Church of England was the official religion of colonial Virginia. Church life revolved around the parish, a geographical area that supported a minister and functioned as a unit of local government. All Virginians were members of a parish and were taxed to support it. Like the county courthouse, the parish church served as an important center of the community.
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The history of Christ Church in Middlesex County dates back to at least the 1660s and is connected to many prominent families of the colonial Virginia gentry.
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By 1665, Christ Church Parish had formed as one of several parishes in Lancaster County.
Residents were dispersed and diverse and included young and old, male and female, black and white, rich and poor, slave and free, planter and tradesman, landowner and tenant. The parish was central to daily life, and many never traveled beyond its boundaries...
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The first church erected at the site was a wooden building, the construction of which was funded by powerful landowner John Carter in 1670.
Carter died before the construction was completed, but was buried on the church grounds alongside four of his five wives.
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1786 - Christ Church thrived until the disestablishment of the Anglican church in Virginia in 1786.
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1802 - The Glebe Act of 1802 authorized the state to seize church property, crippled the Anglican (now Episcopal) church in the state, and Christ Church lost both money and parishioners.
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