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By RAYNER V. SNEAD
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
As we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the Town of Washington and also celebrate our independence and freedom, I want to mention three freedoms we have now that we did not have before the Revolutionary War and tell you of the sacrifices made by several citizens living in this area to help achieve freedom of the press, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
I am proud to be a freeholder of the town and to live almost within its boundary. Every day 1 am thankful for our many blessings, including a good town and county government and the beauty of living almost within the afternoon shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
1 am happy that 1 can by choice belong to the Washington Baptist Church and by choice and not compulsion of law attend the Trinity Episcopal Church and also by choice belong to the Brotherhood of St. Andrews of the Episcopal Church. It was not always so. Shortly before the Revolutionary War one would have been required to attend the Anglican Church and support it by tithes and offerings and could have been enjoined from speaking or writing contrary to its doctrines.
Prior to the Revolution the Anglican Church was part of the government of the Colony, the vestrymen of the church were more often than not
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