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We do know from his diary that on his return trip he stopped at Captain Tom McCIanahan’s and was encouraged to preach the next day on Menefee land in or near the Gid Brown Hollow, just three miles south of here, although he was warned by Captains Strother and Slaughter that if he did preach, he would be arrested. “Having ventured all upon Christ, I determined to suffer all for him,” he wrote in his diary.
Jamie Ireland did preach the next day and he was arrested and taken to the Culpeper jail where he was imprisoned during the winter of 1768-69 and there suffered bitter and intense persecution. As a result of Ireland’s imprisonment and that of dozens of other Baptist ministers in adjoining counties both Madison and Jefferson worked with other advocates to establish religious freedom in Virginia.
On January 16, 1786, The Virginia Act for Religious Freedom was passed by the General Assembly of Virginia and is provided in part, “That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support i>ny religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.”
Jefferson considered his part in
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