St John's Episcopal Church

St John's Episcopal Church can be found at E Broad St 2401. The following is offered: Churches. The entry is present with us since Sep 7, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 12, 2013. In Richmond there are 86 other Churches. An overview can be found here.

Patrick Henry's speech is reenacted Sundays at 2pm throughout the summer.

The church is surrounded by the city's oldest graveyard where you can visit the gravesites of George Wythe, the first Virginia signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Elizabeth Arnold Poe, mother of Edgar Allan Poe.

For security reasons, the rebellious Second Virginia Convention met in Richmond instead of Williamsburg; it was in this 1741 church on March 23, 1775, that Patrick Henry delivered the speech in which he declared, "Give me liberty or give me death!" His argument persuaded the Second Virginia Convention to arm a Virginia militia. The speech is reenacted Memorial Day to Labor Day on Sunday at 2...

Although St. John's dates to 1741, its congregation was established in 1611. Alexander Whitaker, the first rector, instructed Pocahontas in Christianity, baptized her, and married her to John Rolfe. The building is best known as the 1775 meeting place of the second Virginia Convention. In attendance were Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, and many other...

The Scene
This quiet neighborhood church attracts history buffs, sentimentalists and curious onlookers. As the site where Patrick Henry recited his ""Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death""...

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