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the justices of the peace that administered justice and saw to it that the civil and church laws were executed.
In 1768 there were several prominent men living near the village of Washington who played vital roles in establishing our precious freedoms of press, religion and speech. Captain Tom McClanahan and his brother William were Baprtist sympathizers and resided on The Chester Gap Thoroughfare now known as the Fodderstack Road. Captain Tom lived on the land now owned by Tom Lee. During the Revolutionary War period he recruited a company of mostly Baptists to fight with the Culpeper Minutemen. ,
On the south side of the village of Washington in the part of the county now known as Tiger Valley lived a staunch Anglican member of the landed gentry, John Dabney Strother, who was also a magistrate along with.his near neighbor John Slaughter, likewise a magistrate. Captain Strother had built near his home a chapel of ease for worshipers who could' not because of distance go to another church in Bromlleld Parish.
One November day in that year of 1768, Jamie Ireland, a new convert to Christ and the Baptist faith, was on his way from the Shenandoah Valley to assist in constituting a new Baptist Church at Carter’ Run in Fauquier County. We can surmise that he may have stayed overnight at Coxe’s Tavern in our village of Washington.
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