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To early Virginians, material wealth was more interesting than freedom or salvation or politics, period. The first permanent settlers to come to Tidewater Virginia were motivated by wordly desires, more than the chance to proselytize the "heathen" or establish a religious refuge.

The initial Virginia colonists were not anti-religious; they considered religion to be a fundamental part of both life and government. They assumed the Anglican church would be the "established" church, supported by taxes that were imposed by governmental authority. From 1607 until the American Revolution, the Anglican church determined an official form of worship in Virginia, and Anglican leaders resolved theological disputes. Government and religious leadership were combined at the top. The King of England was the head of the Anglican Church, and King James (for whom Jamestown was named) had imposed a new translation of the Bible.

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