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The Mabe genealogy line, from England (1600’s) to the United States (1700’s), Virginia and North Carolina.

Intolerance in Virginia

In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson reflected on the
religious intolerance in seventeenth-century Virginia, specifically on the
anti-Quaker laws passed by the Virginia Assembly from 1659 onward.
Jefferson apparently believed that it was no more than an historical accident
that Quakers had not been physically punished or even executed in Virginia
as they had been in Massachusetts.

Notes on the State of Virginia [left page] [right page] Thomas Jefferson, New York: M. L. and
W. A. Davis, 1801 Rare Book and Special Collections, Library of Congress
Source: Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html

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