Adam Empie
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Adam Empie was an Episcopal priest in North Carolina and Virginia, who also taught and served as President of the College of William and Mary.
Rev. Adam Empie
William Meade
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William Meade was an American Episcopal bishop, the third Bishop of Virginia.
Adam Empie
…Mary. When Empie baptised, married and buried "Africans" and invited them to worship services, other parishioners resisted. Empie appealed to Bishop William Meade (a fellow member of the American Colonization Society) as well as the Virginia State Legislature. His actions were upheld, but life became so unpleasant…
Bishop William Meade
Meade Memorial Church in White Post
Bishop Meade in 1851