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To: average joe who wrote (81289)	10/12/2011 9:00:22 AM
From: Ilaine	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217906

I wanted to send you this via PM but apparently you have me on Ignore, which is strange because we seem to be speaking to each other. Virginia had an official religion, what was called then Anglicanism, and everybody had to pay a tithe to the parish church, no matter what religion they actually believed in. Caused a lot of problems. People who refused to pay tax to support someone else's religion could be put in jail, some preachers were persecuted for preaching the "wrong" religion (mostly Baptists). Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and Madison promoted it when Jefferson was in France. I don't know whether the sale of Monticello covered Jefferson's debts. My sense is that it did, because not all of his property was sold, just most of it. monticello.org