The 1776 dissenters’ bill included a proposal for a general assessment supporting all denominations to replace the establishment of the Episcopal Church. In the following years, several attempts were made to introduce such a bill. However, it was not until 1779 that a general assessment bill was presented to the House of Delegates, only to fail in its final reading. Earlier that year, Jefferson proposed a bill which would have completely disestablished religion; unfortunately, the bill for Establishing Religious Freedom also failed. Some scholars have attributed the bill’s failure to a lack of support from the dissenters who, they claim, rejected it for its strict separation of church and state. This claim is challenged in this chapter. The dissenters, in fact, wholeheartedly supported it. The failure of the bill had more to do with the internal politics of the House of Delegates and the distractions of the Revolutionary War. Thus, the tumultuous year of 1779 concluded with the issue of religious establishment unresolved.