Creating the United States

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Washington Cites Importance of Religious Freedom

Washington Cites Importance of Religious Freedom (45)

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George Washington, one of the most religious of the founders of the United States, assured the Dutch Reformed ministers of Kingston, New York, that “Convinced that our Religious Liberties were as essential as our Civil, my endeavours have never been wanting to encourage and promote the one, while I have been contending for the other.”