What religious groups lived in the Virginia Colony?

Beginning in
1624, the law in the Virginia Colony stipulated that white Virginians worship in the Anglican
church, also known as the Church of England.However, there were plenty of religious dissenters
who lived in the colony from its earliest days, and they represented various Protestant sects.
Over time, the religious diversity of the colony grew.

By the mid-18th
century the influence of evangelicals, especially Baptists, drew in many converts, among them
African American slaves.Presbyterians and Methodists were two other Christian denominations that
grew in popularity in the colony.

Anglican leaders chose not to challenge the
existence of Protestant sects, but they were intolerant of the belief systems of Native
Americans.Moreover, they were intolerant of the belief systems that some African Americans had
brought with them to the colonies from Africa.