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Baptist Snippets:
In 1708, Connecticut passes
first dissenter statute and allows "full liberty of worship" to
Anglicans and Baptists.
In 1771, The State of Virginia jails 50
Baptist worshipers for preaching the Gospel contrary to the Anglican Book
of Common Prayer.
In 1773, Baptists were frequently imprisoned for preaching without authority of the state church of Virginia.
Nathaniel Saunders, Baptist preacher, was imprisoned in the Culpepper County
jail. A Baptist Church was later built upon the same ground that housed
the jail.
In 1774, Eighteen Baptists are jailed in
Massachusetts for refusing to pay taxes that support the Congregational
church.
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