Reverend John Agnew

Agnew had been born and educated inn Scotland. He lived in Colonial Va for 25 years prior to the outbreak of the Revolution. (see p. 58 of.. >
~• Agnew was foremost a planter rather than a Church leader and evidently placed his means of accumulation of wealth foremost in any decision making vis-a-vis the Revolution. (MMvB curator)

Anglican and Episcopal History
Vol. 76, No. 1, March 2007
Impassioned Virginia Loyalist and New Br...

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Impassioned Virginia Loyalist and New Brunswick Pioneer: The Reverend John Agnew
Otto Lohrenz
Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. 76, No. 1, ESSAYS IN AMERICAN EPISCOPAL HISTORY: COLONIAL, REVOLUTIONARY, AND NATIONAL PERIODS (March 2007), pp. 29-60 (32 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42613039

Lorenzo Sabine reports him as among those who applied for compensation in London in the 1780s (as Loyalist Refugee)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glebe_Church (his parish in the mid 18th century) : modern town: Driver, Suffolk, VA 23435
• plantation gentleman farmer (51 slaves)
• one of Rev. Agnew's chief antagonist was William Cowper