Don't forget the Cassock
The subject was not Presidents, but Washington's contemporaries.
Of the 1787 delegates 28 were PRACTICING Anglicans, eight were Presbyterians, seven were Congregationalists, two were Lutherans, two were Dutch Reformed, and two were Methodists. Others professed Unitarianism (e.g. John Adams) which was fashionable at the time. Or professed no religion ( Jefferson--although he was born, married and buried an Anglican).
Congregationalist, Baptists and Methodist were offshoots of Anglicanism in any case.
If one however looks at Washington's CONTEMPORARIES (men of his class and upbringing such as the gentlemen of Virginia) Anglicans were in the majority despite the fact that only 5% of Virginians were paying tithes in 1700 --
Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and John Tyler all studied at William & Mary college, an Anglican institution, while Madison's first cousin was the first post-revolutionary Anglican (Now episcopalian) Bishop!
Originally posted by Johnny W
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Of the 1787 delegates 28 were PRACTICING Anglicans, eight were Presbyterians, seven were Congregationalists, two were Lutherans, two were Dutch Reformed, and two were Methodists. Others professed Unitarianism (e.g. John Adams) which was fashionable at the time. Or professed no religion ( Jefferson--although he was born, married and buried an Anglican).
Congregationalist, Baptists and Methodist were offshoots of Anglicanism in any case.
If one however looks at Washington's CONTEMPORARIES (men of his class and upbringing such as the gentlemen of Virginia) Anglicans were in the majority despite the fact that only 5% of Virginians were paying tithes in 1700 --
Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and John Tyler all studied at William & Mary college, an Anglican institution, while Madison's first cousin was the first post-revolutionary Anglican (Now episcopalian) Bishop!
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