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Ibistotical 
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Dedication 
 
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 Vhe Congregation of Old Bniton 
 Church, and to Chose who vpitt 
 share with them in the privilege 
 of Restoring and preserving this 
 ancient Cemple of our fore-fathers, 
 this word is affectionately dedi- 
 cated. 
 
preface 
 
 HIS historical sketch has been compiled in 
 order to supply the constant demand for in- 
 formation as to the early history of Old Bru- 
 ton Church. The information given is 
 largely derived from an article on the his- 
 tory of Bruton Church written by Rev. 
 Jno. C. McCabe.and published in the Church 
 Review, January, 1856. Dr. McCabe had 
 the use of the old vestry book of the Parish 
 containing the records of the Church from 
 1674 to 1769. Extensive and interesting 
 extracts from this book were copied by him, 
 and an endeavor has been made to embody 
 every one of those in this sketch for reference and preser- 
 vation, as the book from which they were copied never 
 came again into the possession of the Vestry. They are 
 printed in Old English type. Use has also been made of 
 Bishop Meade's "Old Churches and Families in Virginia," 
 and of a sketch of Bruton Church written by President 
 Lyon G. Tyler, of the College of William and Mary. We 
 have also referred to Hening's Early Statutes of Va., and 
 to Vol 1 of Calendar of State Papers 1652-1781, and 
 made use of the subsequent records of the Parish. The 
 tablets on the walls of the Church have been copied and 
 inserted, and also some of the most interesting inscrip- 
 tions on the tombstones in the Church and Church-yard, 
 and the names contained in the Birth and Death record of 
 the Old Parish Register of 1662 have been inserted. 
 
 With grateful appreciation I acknowledge the kindness 
 of the Rev. F. G. Scott, of the Bishop Payne Divinity 
 School, Petersburg, Va., through whose hands the proof- 
 sheets of this work have passed. 
 
 W. A. R. G. 
 Bruton Rectory, 
 
 Williamsburg, Va., 
 
 Feast of the Transfiguration, 1903. 
 
(Tontents 
 
 Page 
 Historical Associations, 7 
 History of the Formation of the Parish, 11 
 Old Records Relating to the Building of 1683, 1 2 
 Death of Rev. Rowland Jones, and Election of Rev. James Sclater, 17 
 Election of Rev. Samuel Bbume, - 17 
 A Silver Service Given, ; 18 
 Rev. Cope Doyley Elected, 20 
 Removal of the Seat of Government from Jamestown to Williams- 
 burg, - 30 
 Election of Rev. Solomon Wheatley, 22 
 Conflict as to Right of Induction, . 23 
 Position and Authority of Colonial Vestrymen, 24 
 Election of Commissary Blair, Minister, 27 
 The Church of 1715, . 31 
 Election of Rev. Thomas Dawson, - 37 
 The Church Enlarged and Organ Secured, 37 
 The Church-yard Wall, 39 
 The Belfry Built, - 39 
 Some Old Vestry Orders, 41 
 The Passing of the Old Regime, 45 
 The Church after the Revolution, Legislative Despoliation, 49 
 Early Episcopal Visitations, 51 
 Dr. Bracken, Dr. Keith, Dr. Wilmer, Dr. Empie, Rectors, 51-54 
 Modern Innovations, 55 
 The Colonial Governor's Pew, The Mayor's Pew, 57 
 The List of Pew Holders in 1840, 69 
 The Clock in the Steeple, 60 
 The Restoration Movement, 63 
 The Old Communion Silver, Font, Old Bell, Old Parish Register, 68-72 
 Extracts from Sermons of Commissary Blair, - 72 
 Induction Controversy, Appendix A 
 Mural Tablets and Tombstone Inscriptions, Appendix B 
 The Ministers and Vestrymen of Bruton Parish, Appendix C 
 Birth Record, Appendix D 
 Death Record, Appendix E 
 
VUuetrations 
 
 1. The Church seen from the Palace Green and 
 
 the East, Frontispiece 
 
 2. Colonial view of the Church, 14 
 
 3. The Old Tower at Jamestown, - 21 
 
 4. Portrait of Commissary Blair, . 27 
 
 5. The Jamestown Font, - - - 30 
 
 6. The Silver-Gold Service, called the "Queen Anne 
 
 Set," . - - - 30 
 
 7. The Church seen from the Church-yard, - 41 
 
 8. The Church viewed from the Duke of Gloucester 
 
 Street, - - - 48 
 
 9. Interior view of the Church, 1840-1886, - 57 
 
 10. The Duke of Gloucester Street, - - 57 
 
 11. Diagram show^ing the Original and Present 
 
 Arrangement of the Church, - - - - 58 
 
 12. Interior view of the Church, 1886-1903, 62 
 
 13. The Jamestown Communion Service, - - 68 
 
 14. The King George Communion Service, 70 
 
 15. The Church Yard - - . . .87 
 
 16. Two Pages of the Old Parish Register, Appendix D 
 
Hssociations 
 
 LD Bruton Church has well withstood the 
 /^ devastating touch of time. The storms of 
 
 ^^-^ many winters have gone over it, the fierce 
 
 battles of two great wars have raged near 
 it, and in it have lain the sick and wounded 
 of two armies, and yet it stands to-day 
 just as it stood well nigh tw^o hundred 
 years ago. The Building is consecrated by 
 hallow^ed associations. It is intimately 
 connected with Virginia's early history. 
 Through its ancient tow^er entrance passed 
 the Court processions of Colonial days, — 
 the governors with emblazoned emblems, betokening the 
 authority and majesty of old England's Kings and 
 Queens; the Council of State, composed of men whose 
 names will ever live in our nation's history; and the 
 members of the House of Burgesses, the defenders of 
 ihe liberties of the people. 
 
 Here, in pew^ ofiicially assigned, elevated from the 
 main floor and richly canopied, sat the proud and im- 
 perious Francis Nicholson, the devoted Edmund Jennings, 
 the dauntless Spottswood, Drysdale, Gooch, Dinvriddie, 
 Fauquier, Norborne Berkeley Lord de Botetourt, and 
 Dunmore. 
 
 Here, as Vestrymen, worshipped the Hon. Daniel 
 Parke; the Hon. John Page, "the immigrant;" Thomas 
 Ludwell, Secretary of State ; Sir John Randolph ; Peyton 
 Randolph, the King's Attorney and Speaker of the House 
 of Burgesses ; Robert Carter Nicholas, Treasurer of Vir- 
 ginia ; Major Robert Beverly, Attorney, and Clerk of the 
 House of Burgesses, and many others whose names ap- 
 pear in the long list of Vestrymen and upon the pages 
 of the nation's history. 
 
8 HBeociations 
 
 Here once sat the men who first saw the vision of a 
 great free republic of this Western World, and who, at the 
 altar of sacrifice, consecrated their lives to the cause of 
 liberty which they loved— George Wythe, patriot, teach- 
 er, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a 
 vestryman ; Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, John Tyler, 
 and Chief Justice John Marshall, and Edmund Randolph, 
 worshipped here while students in the College of William 
 and Mary ; and most of them in after years while serving 
 the Colony and State. George Mason, Edmund Pendle- 
 ton, Edmund Randolph, Benjamin Harrison, Bland and 
 Lee, while members of the House of Burgesses ; Patrick 
 Henry while a member of the House and Governor of 
 Virginia (1776), and George Washington, while seeking 
 to win the heart and hand of the beautiful Martha 
 Custis. 
 
 These, and many others, whose names are deathless, 
 have passed within these sacred courts and meekly bowed 
 the knee in supplication to the King of Kings. As we 
 linger in the silence of the Church, they pass before the 
 awakened vision of the mind. They sit, as they did of old, 
 listening to the law of the God of Nations, and to the mes- 
 sage of liberty in the great Gospel of redemption. The 
 walls of the cruciform old building seem to echo again 
 with their voice of prayer and thanksgiving. 
 
 Here the youth of the nation that was to be, dreamed 
 dreams and saw visions which awakened the high and 
 noble aspirations of their lives ; for here they heard the 
 Gospel of Liberty, and engaged in the service of devotion 
 and adoration which rouses the best that is in a man, 
 and inspires him to live and serve for the Glory of his God 
 and the good of his fellowman. 
 
 Here have ministered faithful servants of the most 
 high God. The services have been almost continuous. 
 The College Faculty could always be relied upon to sup- 
 ply ministerial service, and the City of Williamsburg, 
 being the seat of the Colonial Government, created a con- 
 
Hssoctattons 
 
 slant demand for the ser^-ices and ministrations of the 
 Church. 
 
 The Church was preserved because it was needed. 
 Thus the present btiilding has been longer in continuous 
 tise than any other Episcopal Church in America. 
 
 Around the Church, side by side with the peers, war- 
 riors, scholars, and statesmen of the past in their sculji- 
 tured tombs, beneath many mouldering heaps, "the nide 
 forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Some to earthly fame 
 are now unknown, the names of others live, not because 
 they are engraved in marble, but because they helped to 
 make the nation's history great. 
 
 The Old Church, with its historic associations and 
 hallowed memories, is to us an inheritance from the past 
 and a trust for the future. It must be preserved. It must 
 remain to tell its story of the days that are gone to days 
 that may yet be. It belongs, in a sense, to the nation 
 v(rith whose early histoiy it is so intimately associated. 
 It is doubly dear to us to whom it witnesses of the in- 
 fluence of our Church over the lives of the Nation-build- 
 ers, and to whom it speaks of the continuity of our 
 Church's life and Mtiwgy. 
 
 The work of restoration, which has been determined 
 upon, will be done with reverence and with devotion. 
 The exterior will be left unchanged, for change here would 
 mean innovation. The interior, which was changed and 
 distorted, in view of conditions which no longer exists, 
 will be restored to its ancient form, and the whole will be 
 transmitted, under the good providence of God, to pos- 
 terity as it was planned and builded and used by our 
 forefathers. 
 
::^1Di8torical IKloteg:^ 
 
 ©riainal Iparisbes 
 
 |N 1632 Middle Plantation (subsequent, 
 ly Williamsburg) was "laid out and 
 paled in.'" A Parish bearing this 
 name was created shortly there- 
 after^ In 1644- a parish in James 
 City w^as created called "Harrop 
 Parish," which on April 1st, 1648, 
 was united with Middle Plantation, 
 forming Middletown Parish. 
 
 In 1674 the parish of Marston 
 (established in York county in 
 1654) and Middletown Parish were 
 united and became known as Bbu- 
 TON Parish. 
 
 Of the early history of Middle 
 Plantation, or Williamsburg, little is 
 known. The early court records 
 have been destroyed, and there was 
 no vestry-book preserved prior to the 
 one of 1674. There was, however, a Church at Williams- 
 burg in 1665. This fact is established by an entry in the 
 vestry-book of Middlesex Parish, made in 1665, which 
 directs that a Church be built in that parish after the 
 
 1 Heninj? I, 139, 199, 208. 
 
 2 York Records. 
 
12 Bistorieal Notes 
 
 model of the one in Williamsburg/ This was doubtless 
 a wooden structure. How long it had then been in use is 
 not known. 
 
 ttbc IRame of tbe parisb 
 
 The name Bruton was doubtless given to the Parish 
 in honor of Thomas Ludwell, Esq., who, according to the 
 record inscribed on his tombstone at the door of Bruton 
 Church, was born in Bruton, in the County of Summer- 
 set, England, and departed this life in the year 1678.=' 
 
 ®lb IDestn? IRccorbs IRelatins to 
 Cburcb BuilMno, J£tc. 
 
 The first entry in the Vestry -book bears date " HpHl 
 y,c i8tb, 1674," and on that day we find present at the 
 Vestry meeting: 
 
 "XZhe Ronouvabk Coll: Danl. fhrkc, Mr. Rowland 
 ■Jones, Mttiieter, Mv. 'jfohn Page, Mi*. "James Besoutb, Mf • 
 Robt. Cobb and Mr. Bray.,— Capt. Cbesley, and Mi*. Hylctt, 
 Church hardens. Mr. Ifobn Owens, Sidesman. 'Cbci'c 
 being in tbe last levie Gigbt Thousand five hundred pounds 
 of tobacco in Cashe, Levyed to the honourable 'Chomas 
 Ludwell, Secretary, and Daniel Parhe, Gsq., 25 pound ster- 
 ling, due to them upon ye purchase of ye 6lcabc," Ac. 
 
 In Nov. 1677, the vestry concluded that : **5llhercas, 
 upon ye Tisiting of tbe parishes, It was fully agreed that 
 neither tbe tipper Church, nor the lower Church should be 
 repaired, but a New Church should be built with brick, att 
 the Middle Plantation,— Now in respect of tbe late troubles 
 and Leavies this teare. It is by this Testry Ordered that 
 tbe next laying of the Lcavie for this parish, the Demen- 
 
 ' Bishop Meade's Old Churches and Families in Virginia. 
 ^ Sir William Berkeley, Governor, whose widow, Lady Frances 
 Berkeley, Col. Phierp Ludwell married, was also from Bruton| England, 
 
Btstorica! Notes 13 
 
 sions atid order of buUding a J^cw Church, and by whom 
 to be Clndertaheti, be there fully detertntned ; and that the 
 present Church Cdardens be desired to take Subscriptions 
 ifrom yc Honorable 'Chowias Ludwell, Daniel Parke, 6sq., 
 Major ■50: page, of their former promises: and also of all 
 other Gentlemen who will freely subscribe their benevolence 
 to so Christian a work." 
 
 " There were then, probably, three wooden structures 
 for w^orship in the Parish, corresponding to Middle Plan- 
 tation, Harrop, and Marston parishes, all three of which 
 now composed Bruton, which stretched in an irregular 
 manner from York River to James River, and was about 
 ten miles square. We have evidence certainly of the ex- 
 istence of two such churches: Marston Church is con- 
 stantly referred to in the York county records as being in 
 the direction of the present Biglow's "in the Indian fields 
 near Queen's Creek ; " and in December, 1674, Thomas 
 Claiborne and Sarah, his wife (who was Sarah Fenn), 
 joined in a deed to convey the wife's inheritance in the 
 old plantation of Ralph Simkins at Middle Plantation, 
 "except the two acres on w'^*' the Parish Church of Bruton 
 now standeth, formerly given by Ralph Simkins unto the 
 parishioners of Bruton." 
 
 On Nov. 14th, 1678 
 
 "It is ordered that ye Subscriptions of free dona- 
 tions for building a brick Church be entered in the Register, 
 and that Copies be given to the Church ^Hardens to procure 
 all other persons' free donations that arc dwellers in ye 
 parish and when they have promised what they can, that a 
 Vestrie be called for further consideration concerning the 
 said Church." 
 
 Under the same date appears the following : 
 
 % Ofobn page, doc oblige Myself, My heires, execu- 
 tors, to pay or cause to be paid, twenty pounds sterling 
 to the Testry of Bruton parish, ffor and towards Build- 
 
 I Pres't Lyon G. Tyler. 
 
14 nistortcjil )Vot«8 
 
 tug of a BHch Cburcb att Middle plantation, for yc ad 
 parish, upon demand. Witness my hand this 14th of 
 November, 1678. 
 
 Hlso X do promise to give land sufficient for the 
 Cburcb and Church "^ard. 'John Page 
 
 CQitness 
 
 Hbrabam Ttnchler, | 
 
 Richard Curtccn, / 
 
 I, Rovpbnd lones, Clerhe, do oblige Myself, My beires, 
 executors, to pay or cause to be paid, five pounds sterling, 
 to the Testry of Bruton parish, for and towards the 
 building a brich Church, at the Middle plantation, for ye 
 said parish, upon demand, as witness My band, November 
 ye 14,1678. 
 
 Slitness 
 
 Richard Curteen, ) 
 Hbrabam Vincklcr. J 
 
 Hlce, the subscribers, do hereby oblige ourselves, our 
 beires, and executors, and Hdministrators, to pay each of 
 us five pounds Sterling to the Vestry, upon demand, 
 towards ye building of H Brich Cburcb, on ye Middle 
 Plantation, for ye said parish, as witness our hands this 
 Htbof November, 1678. 
 
 QQitness 
 
 Hbrabam Tinchlcr, ) 
 
 Richard Curteen. > 
 
 Karnes Besouth, Martin Gardner, 
 aim. Hylett, 6ideon Macon, 
 
 Robert Cobb, Cbo. Caylor, 
 
 Robert Spring, Christo Pearson." 
 
 On the 5th June, 1679, a full description of the Church 
 to be built is given, together with articles of agreement be- 
 tween the Testry and George Marablc, the contractor of the 
 worh, which was to cost £350 sterling. 
 
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Bistoiical INfotcs 
 
 Owing to some disagreement -we find tlie following 
 entry : 
 
 "QIh«rca9 Ml*. 6«o. Marablc bath awcatcd Mr. George 
 poyndcxtcr and Mv. ©eorgc Martin, (members of tbta 
 Testry,) in an action of the case to ye 4tb day of ye next 
 ©cnerall Court : this Testry do ordain and appoint Major 
 Robert Beverly their lawful! Httomcy on the behalf of ye 
 said parish, to answer ye suit of ye said 6eorgc Marablc, 
 and also to procure judgment for performance of ye arts of 
 agreement made by ye said Mv. 6eorge Marablc," etc. 
 
 On the same occasion there is the record of a state- 
 ment from Philip Ludwell, Esq., of a legacy by his 
 brother Thomas Ludwell of £20 sterling and a promise 
 for himself of £10 sterling towards the New Church to be 
 built at Middle Plantation.' 
 
 On the Z3d Ifunc, 1681, an agreement was made be- 
 tween the Testry and Capt. francis page to build the 
 Church at the same place, but with several variations from 
 Marable's plan, for £150 sterling; "and sixty pounds of 
 good, sound, merchantable sweet scented "Cobacco and 
 Cashe, to be levied of each Cytheable in the parish for three 
 years together— the first payment to commence this next 
 ensuing crop.'' 
 
 Cburcb CompIcte& anb Bebicateb 
 
 ** November ye 29tb 1 683." 
 
 Che parish Church is at length completed, and the Tes- 
 try notice the fact by the following: "dhcreas ye Brich 
 Church at Middle plantation is now finished. It is ordered 
 yt all ye Inhabitants of ye said parish, do for the future 
 repair thither to hear Divine Service, and ye Olord of 6od 
 preached; Hnd that Mi*. Rowland loncs, Minister, do dedi- 
 cate ye said Church ye Sixth of January next, being ye 
 epiphany. Hnd that Hlexander Bonyman, Clerhe, sett up 
 
 I McCabe. 
 
16 r)t8torical Notes 
 
 notice at ye Mill* to gtw notice thereof; Hnd that ye Orna- 
 ments, etc, be removed pr ye Church ^CQardens, and also yt 
 ye old Communion ^able be removed to ye minister's house 
 and there remain." 
 
 Dr. McCabe remarks that this service of dedication 
 Avas doubtless celebrated by more than the demonstra- 
 tions contemplated by canons and rubrics, for immedi- 
 ately following this order is another that; ^JMr. Roger 
 lones having promised to furnish ye Parish with two 
 barrels of Car, each containing twenty-eight gallons, to be 
 delivered at Middle plantation, which being performed ye 
 parish is to pay ye said Mr. "jfoncs after ye rate of £12 pr 
 barren." 
 
 It is to be remembered that these old Colonial 
 Churches were never consecrated according to rubrical 
 direction, as there w^as in those days no resident and no 
 visiting Bishop to perform the service as ordered in the 
 Book of Common Prayer. 
 
 On Oct. 31, 1684, a Committee is appointed to examine 
 the worh done on the New Church, and report Nov. 10th. 
 Capt. francis Page thereupon gives bond and security to 
 hcep the Church in good order and repair for four years.' 
 
 On Mav 1 o, 1 686, there appears the following : "Olhcrcas 
 there is a proposition to the Testry, concerning a Steeple 
 and a Ring of Bells, the Testry do request Mr. Rowland 
 Ifones, Ml*. Martin Gardner, and ffra page, that they make 
 a computation of the charge of building the Steeple and cost 
 of the bells, and retume the same to ye next Testry; and 
 that in ye mean time they endeavour to procure what dona- 
 tions they can from such persons as may be thereto willing." 
 
 fees Of Clei*?? anb Sexton 
 
 The fees of the Clerk at this time were ordered to be 
 "three pounds of Tobacco for registering every Christening 
 
 I McCabe. 
 
IHstoiKeal Notes 17 
 
 and buHal in yt fhrieh, and yc Sexton to have ten of 
 'Cobacco for every grave that be diggs." 
 
 "The last meeting of the Vestry, which the Revd. 
 Rowland Jones attended, w^as held on the 26th day of 
 November, 1687. This gentleman attended for the first 
 time a meeting of the Vestry May 4th, 1675. On that 
 day, **by a General Consent," they "subscribed a request to 
 the Right Bonorable 6ovemour for an Induction into this 
 parish of ]Mr. Rowland ^ones, minister." 'Cbere is no 
 evidence on the record that be ever was inducted, and yet be 
 served tbcm for twelve years, and then **f ell asleep,"— for at 
 the next Testry Meeting, "'June ye 5tb, 1 688," it was entered 
 on tbe booh as follows :' 
 
 "Cnbereas tbis parish, by ye death of ye Rev. Mr. 
 Rowland lones, is destitute of a Minister, and Mr. James 
 Sclater having offered to serve ye parish in that quality. It 
 is therefore agreed upon and ordered, that Mr. James 
 Sclater be paid after ye rate of 6,ooo pounds of tobacco per 
 annum for six months, te time to commence from ye 
 1 3tb day of May, 1 688, and for such further time as be 
 shall officiate in tbis parish, to be allowed after tbe same 
 rate proportionable. Vhc said Mr. Sclater agreeing to 
 preach a Sermon every other Sunday in the afternoon, if 
 weather permit, and bath promised to administer ye Sacra- 
 ment twice in ye six months; and each Sunday that he 
 preach here to perform other rites and ceremonies of tbe 
 Church." 
 
 Dr. McCabe, upon the authority of the Vestry book, 
 states that this arrangement continued for a very short 
 period, and that on the following July the same order 
 was made in favor of Rev. Mr. Samuel Eburne, and the same 
 requirements expressed. On November 9, 1688, the order 
 was reiterated to continue in force until next Christmas, 
 After this time it was determined that if Mr. Eburne 
 agreed to ofiiciate for seven years, he was to receive 
 
 I McCabe. 
 
18 Biatortcal Notes 
 
 annually 16,666 pounds of tobacco and caske, with the 
 use of the Glebe, and all the houses thereon. 
 
 On November 28, 1688, the following letter from Lord 
 Howard Effingham, Governor of the colony, was received 
 and recorded on the Vestry book : 
 
 **eciitlcTncii,— I understand that upon my former reeom- 
 mendation to you of )Mr. Samuel Bbume, you have received 
 htm, and be hath continued to exercise his functions in 
 preaching to vou and performing Divine Service. I have now 
 to recommend him ye second time to you, with ye addition 
 of my own experience of his ability and true qualification in 
 all points; together with his exemplary life and conversa- 
 tion. Hnd, therefore, holding of him in the esteem of a per- 
 son who, to 6od's honor and your good instruction, is fitt 
 to be received, I do desire he may be by you entertained and 
 continued; and that you will give him such encouragement as 
 you have formerly done to persons so qualified. 
 
 ''effingham. 
 
 H Silver Server (5iven 
 
 *Xhe seaventh day of Hpril, 1694. 
 Bis excellency Sir Gdmund Hndros, Knight, was pleased 
 to give to Bruton parish H Large Silver Server." 
 
 "Ht a Testry held for Bruton Parish ye loth day of 
 May, 1694, 
 
 Mr. Samuel ebume. Minister, Mr. Bugh Norwell, 
 
 edmd. Jennings, Gsq. Mr. Benry Cyler, 
 
 Mr. Phil. Ludwell, Mr. 'John Kendall, 
 
 Mr. Daniel parhe, Mr. Ro. Crawley, 
 
 Mr. lohn Dorman, Mr. Baldwin Matthews, 
 Mr. dm. pinkethman, 
 
 Bis excellency having been pleased to bestow on ye Church a 
 large silver server,— Che Testry therefore do desire Mr. 
 ebume, with Mr. Phil. Ludwell and Mr. Baldwin Matthews^ 
 
IMstoricat Notes 19 
 
 );c Cburcbwavdcns, to watt upon Ma 6xceUenc7 to render 
 htm tbanhs for bis noble and pious gift.'' 
 
 The Church had begun to show signs of decay, and on 
 May 6, 1693, there is the following: ^'Qlbcreas ye inside 
 worh on ye Cburcb ougbt to be rectified and repaired, it is 
 
 therefore ordered tbat tbe Cburcbwardens provide an 
 
 able wortttnan to effect tbe same, and tbat it be done as soon 
 as tbey can." 
 
 In 1694 tbe following is recorded in tbe Testry-booh; 
 "OTbercas scvcrall Quakers tbcrc arc in tbia parish tbat are 
 in arrears for their parish dues,— It is therefore ordered tbat 
 ye Church (Slardens do demand and receive ye same this pres- 
 ent year." Hnd on the first November, same year, ''tlpon 
 Mr. Gbumc's proposition to yc Testry, to be resolved whether 
 they would sustain him for a longer time after his present 
 time by agreement is expired, It is the opinion of this Testry, 
 and accordingly ordered tbat it shall be referred to tbe Testry 
 that shall meet for this parish upon 6aster Tuesday next." 
 Hnd on "Te third day of Hprill, 1695, in answer to Mr. 
 ebumc's proposition, this Testry ordered tbat no Minister 
 be hereafter entertained but from year to year, and tbat tbey 
 allow and pay him only according to law. dpon which Mr. 
 ebume doth refuse to stay any longer than till next Christ- 
 mas." On the i5tb "January, 1696, '^t is ordered tbat Mr. 
 Saml. ebume. Minister, be allowed two hundred pounds of 
 tobacco and casbe, it being for preaching four Sermons after 
 tbe time by agreement having expired." "Che said Mr. SamU 
 ebume declaring his Intentions of leaving this Country, ye 
 Church ^Hardens, therefore, are requested (as often as they 
 can) to procure a Minister. Hnd when there shall be no Minis- 
 ter, tbe Clerhe is ordered to Read Bomilies and prayers. Hnd 
 likewise ye said Church ^Oardens are requested to wait upon 
 his excellency ye Governor, and pray him that be would be 
 pleased to have this Parish in hie thoughts when any Minis- 
 ters shall arrive here out of england." 
 
 Mr. Ebume was not permitted to leave without a 
 
20 THatoviaA Notes 
 
 resolution expressing the esteem and high regard of the 
 Vestry for him as a man and as a Minister. He had served 
 among them for seven years, and had, in those days \(rhen 
 Ministers were not always what they should have been, 
 won for himself a good testimonial which is cordially ex- 
 pressed by the Vestry in the following resolution : 
 
 "dc, the Tcstry of Bvutoti painsh, in Ttrginta, whose 
 names arc underwritten, do certifie all whom it may con- 
 cerned that M*** Samuel ebume, Minister of the said parish, 
 bath 80 well behaved himself in all bis Mintstcriall ffunctions 
 amongst us for tbc space of seven years and uptvards, that 
 we do all unanimously desire bis further continuance with 
 us; but, by reason of bis growing into years, be bath chosen 
 to go into a warmer climate. 
 
 Daniel parhe, ^obn Kendall, 
 
 6dmd. Jennings, Bugb Norwell, 
 lobn Owens, Philip Ludwell, Jr. 
 
 Robert Crawley, ^obn Dormar, 
 Benry Cyler, Cimo. pinchetbman." 
 
 Sim. pinhetbman. 
 
 In Hpril, 1697, Mr. Cope Doyle/s name appears as Min- 
 ister, and ''it is ordered that Mr. Doyley be entertained as 
 Minister of this parish, with ye yearly allowance according 
 to law." On the i4tb October, 1698, "Olbereas there are 
 severall Quakers in arrears for parish Levies, it is ordered 
 that the Church Slardens do prosecute them to ye County 
 Court where the debt is actionable." 
 
 Jamestown Hbanboneb 
 
 In 1699, during the second term of the administration 
 of Governor Francis Nicholson, the seat of government 
 was moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg "on account 
 of the prevalence of malaria and mosquitos" at James- 
 town,' and because "the air was serene and temperate 
 
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Distoncal Notes 21 
 
 and crystal springs burst from dry and champaign soil"' 
 around Williamsburg. 
 
 Old Jamestown is now lonely and deserted. The tower 
 of the Old Church stands, 
 
 "Lone relic of the past ! old mouldering pile, 
 Where twines the ivy round its ruins gray." 
 
 The foundation walls of the Old Church have been 
 unearthed and sheltered in by the "Association for the 
 Preservation of Virginia Antiquities." The pilgrim stand- 
 ing amid the sacred ruins of these old Churches has sug- 
 gested to him the beautiful lines inscribed by some 
 unknown one upon the walls of Old Blandford Church, in 
 Petersburg, Virginia : ' 
 
 "Thou art crumbling to the dust, old pile, 
 
 Thou art hastening to thy fall, 
 And around thee in thy loneliness 
 
 Clings the ivy to thy wall. 
 The worshippers are scatter' d now 
 
 Who met before thy shrine, 
 And silence reigns where anthems rose 
 
 In days of auld lang syne. 
 
 "And rudely sighs the wandering wind 
 
 Where oft, in years gone by, 
 Prayer rose from many hearts to Him, 
 
 The highest of the high. 
 The tramp of many a busy foot 
 
 Which sought thy aisles is o'er. 
 And many a weary heart around 
 
 Is stUl'd for evermore. 
 
 "How oft ambition's hope takes wing: 
 
 How droop the spirits now : 
 We bear the distant city's din: 
 
 The dead are mute below. 
 The sun which shone upon their paths 
 
 Now gilds their lonely graves ; 
 The zephyrs which once fann'd their brows 
 
 The grass above them waves. 
 
 I Hening. . 
 
 » Old Blandford Church, built in 1737, is now bemg restored. 
 
22 nistoMcal JVotcs 
 
 "Oh, could we call the many back 
 
 Who've gather'd here in vain, 
 Who careless roved where we do now. 
 
 Who'll never meet again,— 
 How would our souls be stirr'd 
 
 To meet the earnest gaze 
 Of the lovely and the beautiful. 
 
 The light of other days." 
 
 We hear now no "distant city's din." James City 
 is no more. "The air a solemn stillness holds,'* broken 
 only by the murmur of the waves, beating ceaselessly upon 
 the shore, which is gradually receding at their touch. 
 
 When the Church at Jamestown was abandoned the 
 Font and the Communion Service were brought to Bruton 
 Church. (See illustrations.) Parish tradition claims this 
 Font to be the one still in use in the Bruton Parish 
 Church. The inscription on the Communion silver estab- 
 lishes its identity beyond question. 
 
 In 1699, the Church again stands in need of repairs^ 
 which arc ordered. In 1700, ©ov. Nicholson requires a cer- 
 tificate that )Mr. Doyley reads prayers every Sunday at the 
 parish Church, which question is answered by the Testry 
 in the affirmatiw. This would indicate that the Governor 
 had not yet removed his residence to Williamsburg, as he 
 would otherwise have been acquainted with the regularity 
 of Service in the Parish Church. 
 
 Che last Testry meeting attended by Mr. Doyley was 
 )Vov. 5, 1691. Bis death is announced Oct. 7, i/oz. Mr. 
 Solomon ^heatley is invited to preach for them preparatory 
 to a "call," which tahes place very soon thereafter, (Dec 1 3 
 1702;) and again in Dec 1702, are repairs in brich and wood 
 ordered upon the Church. In 1703 a new pulpit is required 
 the pews ordered to be repaired, the floor raised, &c On 
 the nth of IVovember, of that year, Mr. Cdhateley (spelt 
 <Slheatley in preceding records) desires to know whether he 
 is to be retained, and on the 10th of the following february 
 he is informed that bis ''time by agreement being expired 
 last Christmas, the Testry not thinking it proper to enter- 
 
nfetorkal Not«9 23 
 
 tain htm another year, to ye end that be should not be put to 
 an inconvenience, have granted his 8ta3^ng to officiate in yc 
 parish till ye asth of March next, to ye end he may provide 
 himself elsewhere." "Colt Ludwell is requested by ye Tes- 
 try to write to ]Mr. Isaac 6race,that arrived lately in ye ship 
 Bartwell, to request him to give the parish a Sermon as 
 soon as conveniently," the result of which application to the 
 Rev. Gentleman is given below: 
 
 "Ht a Testry held ye 3d day of )May> 1704, 
 Coll. Ludwell acquainted this Testry that pursuant to an 
 order of Testry, ye 1 oth day of f f ebniary last, he had desired 
 Mr. Isaac 6race to give ye parish a Sermon, to ye end that 
 if ye Testry did lihc him, he might be entertained as Minister 
 of this parish. Co which Mr. 6race answered that his ex- 
 cellency had hnowledge of the matter, and had forbid him to 
 be concerned with ye parish. Hnd added that he should be 
 glad of 80 good a parish, if he might have it of ye Gover- 
 nour's liheing; but as the Governor had forbid him, he dare 
 not meddle with it." 
 
 Conflict as to IRigbt of llnbuction 
 
 The independent action of the Vestry in dismissing 
 Rev. Solomon Whateley roused the Governor to opposi- 
 tion. A stubborn conflict ensued. The Vestry resolutely 
 refused to have a Minister inducted into the Parish. They 
 claimed the independent right to call whom they pleased, 
 and to make terms suitable to themselves as to the length 
 of service. The Governor claimed that under English law 
 he had the right, as a representative of the Sovereign 
 power of England, to induct the clergy. Both parties in 
 the controversy seem to have been in a somewhat tem- 
 pestuous frame of mind. Rev. Mr. Grace very strongly 
 insinuated that the Vestry, or some one in it, had not told 
 the truth. The records would indicate that he himself 
 had a very treacherous memory or a very erring tongue. 
 The correspondence in this case is given in Appendix A. 
 
24 Ristorical fioUa 
 
 It resulted in the election of Mr. Whateley, the Governor's 
 candidate, as Minister, but with the rights of the Vestry 
 distinctly asserted in the call extended, 
 
 Dcstri^men 
 
 Of these early Vestrymen Thomas Jefferson said : "The 
 Vestrymen are usually the most discreet farmers, so dis- 
 tributed through the parish that every part of it may be 
 under the immediate eye of some one of them. They are 
 well acquainted with the details and economy of private 
 life, and they find sufficient inducements to execute their 
 charge well, in their philantrophy, in the approbation of 
 their neighbors, and the distinction which it gives them."' 
 
 John Fisk quotes the above statement as showing 
 the difference between the concentrated town government 
 of New England, with the congregational Church as its 
 formative center, and the county system of government 
 in Virginia, with the Vestrymen of the parish representing 
 the widely scattered population of the country in the 
 management of ecclesiastical affairs. Williamsburg, being 
 the seat of the Colonial government, constituted a more 
 concentrated population, and furnished the Church with 
 a more representative body of Vestrymen. The country 
 constituency was, however, constantly represented by 
 gentlemen still living upon their ancestral estates. 
 
 The business of these Colonial Vestrymen was such as 
 to train them for service in a representative government. 
 They were elected to represent the congregation. It was 
 their duty to see that judicious measures were enacted by 
 the House of Burgesses for the support of the Church, and 
 for safe-guarding religion, and when these laws were 
 passed it became their duty to see that they were enforced. 
 The parish poor were committed to their oversight and 
 care. They were empowered to make levies for this pur- 
 
 I Quoted by John Fisk in Ciril Government in the United States, 
 p. 60. ' 
 
IMstoHcal Notce 25 
 
 pose. It was their duty to apportion levies for the main- 
 tenance of the Church, and they were given authority, 
 under law, to collect these taxes, if necessary, by civil pro- 
 cess. They thus acted as representatives of the people in 
 the conduct of this large and important part of their 
 affairs. The position was one of responsibility and honor. 
 The Vestry Meetings were of vital importance to the com- 
 munity, and were not anticipated with any degree of 
 pleasure by those who had absented themselves from ser- 
 vice without excuse, or who had gone there and behaved 
 in an unseemly way. Bishop Meade has shown that the 
 men who served the colony and commonwealth in these 
 early days were almost without exception men who had 
 gained experience as representatives of the people through 
 service as parish vestrymen. They were the men to whom 
 the Church, and the state, naturally looked for leadership, 
 and neither looked to them in vain. 
 
 "Ht a Tcatry held for Bniton painab, yt 7th 'JvXy, 1705, 
 Mr. Bcnry "CyXtv is desired to procure Carpenters to Tisit 
 the Church, and to report their opinion to ye next Yestry 
 whether it can be repaired or not. If it Can be repaired, 
 what stuff will be necessary for the same, and what tbey 
 will undertake to do it for." 
 
 From the following entry it would seem that Gover- 
 nor Nicholson desired to conciliate the Vestry after the 
 arrogant display of his authority as manifested in the in- 
 duction controversy, but it would also appear that the 
 Vestry still maintained their spirit of courage and inde- 
 pendence : 
 
 "Ht a Testry held for Bruton parish ye Ttb Hugust, 1 705,** 
 "Bis Excellency the 6ovemour sending to this Tes- 
 try (by ye band of Mr. CHin. Robertson) Hn Hltar Cloth and 
 Cushion as a present for ye use of ye parish, together with 
 fifty shillings for ye use of ye poor, and desiring ye said gift 
 of fifty shillings might be recorded in the Testry booh as 
 being bis excellenc/s usual quarterly gifti and also what bis 
 
26 IMstoncal Notes 
 
 €xccUcticy bath foiwcrly gtvcn, together with an account 
 bow ye same bath been disposed of — t:be Testry retuim tbis 
 answer by Mi*. Robertson, (viz.) Ide return bis excellency 
 many tbanfts for ye Hltar Clotb, and also for ye fifty shill- 
 ings now sent— which we assure bis excellency's shall be 
 registered; but not knowing it to be his excellency's Con- 
 stant Custom, we cannot register it as such without 
 we hnow att present what his excellency hath given to 
 the poor; but we do promise to examine that matter 
 against ye next Testry, and what appears to us, then shall 
 be registered." 
 
 As to the thoroughness of this investigation, and its 
 result, we are not told. His Excellency gets no further 
 credit for his accustomed benevolence. He sends no more 
 quarterly offerings. 
 
 On November 20th, 1710, the decease of Rev. Solomon 
 Whateley is thus announced : ''Raving bad the Misfortune 
 at this present to be without a Minister, Bv ye death of ye 
 Revd. Solomon dbateley,— It is ordered that the Church 
 hardens (for suppljKng the parish with Ministers to preach 
 weehly, while the Parish continues vacant) do desire the 
 severall Ministers hereafter named, to preach in this parish 
 Church on the severall Sunday Mornings they shall appoint,— 
 for which services they shall be paid four hundred pounds of 
 Cobacco in tbis parish for each Sermon. Che Church 
 ^Hardens are ordered to wait on ye honorable the 6ovemor,' 
 with yc proceedings of ye Testry herein. 
 
 "Che Ministers desired to preach weehly are, upon ad of 
 December, the Revd. Mi*. Cillyard: 
 
 December lo, the Revd. Mi*. Slaughter, (Sclater,) 
 
 " i7, " 
 
 " Mr. Paxton, 
 
 " H, " 
 
 " Ml*. Commissary, (Blair;) 
 
 31, ** 
 
 " Mv. 6oodwin; 
 
 January 7, " 
 
 " Mr. aiallace; 
 
 " H, " 
 
 " Ml*. Caylor." 
 
 I Edmund Jennings, who succeeded Gov. Nott, who died in 1706, 
 and is buried in Bruton Church Yard. 
 
historical Notes 
 
 27 
 
 On Dec. loth, 1710, "Ordcwd— IH^at whereas there was 
 an Order made the last Testry for 7 Ministers to preach on 
 certain Sundays, wherein the Revd. Ifames 8clater was onej— 
 It is ordered by this Meeting that the said Sclater be left 
 out of the number, and that the Church CDardens give notice 
 to the Rev. Hrthur Cillj^ard to preach December lotb, and 
 the rest in their order." 
 
 Commisgan? »lair, flMnister 
 
 The Bishop of London, who had 
 jurisdiction overtheColonyof Vir- 
 ginia, induced Rev. Dr. James Blair 
 to come to Virginia as a mission- 
 ary in 1685. In 1689 he was ap- 
 pointed Commissary of the Bishop, 
 and commissioned, as his repre- 
 sentative, to make visitations in 
 territory assigned, deliver charges, 
 inspect the churches, and, when 
 necessary, administer discipline. 
 Not being a Bishop, he, of course, 
 could not Confirm, or administer 
 Ordination, or consecrate churches. 
 He held this office, and discharged 
 its functions, together with his other ministerial and edu- 
 cational duties, for fifty-three years. On December 10th, 
 1710, he was elected Minister of Bruton Church, which 
 position he held until his death in 1742. The Vestry Book 
 <:ontained the following records relating to his election 
 and ministry : December 10th, 1710, "Upon the reading of 
 the Revd. Benjamin 6oodwin and the Revd. 'James Blair's 
 letters, wherein they set forth their desire to be admitted 
 Ministers of Bruton parish, now vacant by the Death 
 of the Revd. Solomon CQhateley;— "Che Matter being debated, 
 the Question was putt whether it should be decided by 
 Tote. 
 
 From portrait in the library of 
 William and Mary College. 
 
28 fHstorical J^ott» 
 
 ^Resolved in the affii'mattvc— present the Donble. Gdwd* 
 pfennings, thereupon the Meeting proceeded to the choice 
 of a Minister for Bruton parish, and by the Majority of 
 Totes the Revd. lames Blair was elected Minister thereof. 
 
 "Ordered, Che Church Cdardens acquaint ye Reverend 
 ^fames Blair, that upon reading bis letter, wherein was Sett 
 forth his desire to be their Minister, Che Testry proceeded 
 to the consideration thereof, and accordingly made choice of 
 him to be their Minister for the next ensuing year.— Ordercd,^ 
 that the Church CQardens appoint a Testry as soon as pos- 
 sible to entertain him accordingly.** 
 
 Dr. Blair's letter to the Vestry is as follows : 
 
 December 4tb, 1710. 
 "Gentlemen: 
 
 "€he great importance of yt deliberation ye arc 
 now upon, how to supply this parish with a Minister who 
 shall discharge his duty in so 6minent a Station as becomes 
 him both for Life and Doctrine, together with the happiness 
 I enjoy in your Neyborbood and acquaintance; and the great 
 conveniency of my habitation in the heart of your parish, 
 with several assurances from persons of eminent note that 
 such a proffer may be acceptable. Induce me to tahc this 
 Opportunity of acquainting tou that if My Service may be 
 approved in that Station, ye shall need to looh noe farther 
 for a Minister. 
 
 "It is true, I have soe many obligations to ye Parish of 
 3famcs City, that nothing but the urgent Necessity of health, 
 often impaired by such long Winter journeys, and a fear that 
 as age and Infirmities increase, I shall not be able to attend 
 that Service (being at such a distance) so punctually as I 
 have hitherto done, could have induced me to entertain any- 
 thing as of leaving them. If ye Shall thinh fitt to approve 
 of this My proposal, I hope ye shall have noe occasion to re- 
 pent your choice, and that I may have further opportunities 
 by my diligence in My Ministeriall functions among you to 
 shew how ready I am to approve Myself. 
 
Btstorical Notes 29 
 
 6ciitkmcii, yiow most faitbfuU bumble aervt. to my 
 parisbtotieve, 
 
 tjfamee Blair. 
 Tera Copta "Ceste 
 
 C lachaon, Clerh Tcatry." 
 
 On tbc 28tb of December, 1710, "Mi*. Rugb Norwell re- 
 ported, tbat pursuant to an order made under last Tcstry, 
 be bad acquainted tbe RevcL lames Blair, tbat tbe Gentlemen 
 of tbe Testry bad considered bis Letter, and, according to 
 tbc Desire thereof, bad made cboice of bim to be tbeir Minis- 
 ter, and tbat tbis Tcstry was called to treat witb bim. 
 
 ""Cbe Revd. lames Blair being present, it was mutually 
 agreed tbat tbe said lames Blair be entertained as Minister 
 of Bruton parisb, for tbe "^lear next ensuing tbe date." 
 
 The following notes, relative to the ministry and work 
 of Commissary Blair, -were recorded in the old Vestry 
 book under the dates indicated : 
 
 On tbc 6tb 3fuly, 1721, Mi*. Commissary Blair notifies 
 tbe Yestry tbat ''be is obliged to repair for Gngland upon an 
 urgent occasion; and tbat be intends to return bitber again 
 as soon as bis affairs will permit, and proposing tbat during 
 bis absence tbe best care shall be tahen for a supply of Minis- 
 ters to execute office in tbis parisb, and also agreeing to de- 
 mand no salary in that time; and thereupon desiring tbat 
 the Testry will not matte application for any other Incum- 
 bent to the cure of tbis parisb, for tbe space of twelve 
 months," Ac. &,c. 
 
 On tbe 23d Nov., 1722, "'Che Rev. Mv. Commissary 
 Blair" is again at his post at tbe Testry Meeting. 
 
 On tbe i2tb December, 1725, "Lewis Burwell, Gent., 
 being elected Vestryman for this parish, tbis day tooh tbe 
 Oath appointed by act of parliament to be tatten instead of 
 the Oaths of Hllegiance and Supremacy, tbe Hbjuration 
 Oath, Subscribed the test, and also subscribed to be Con- 
 formable to tbe Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of 
 england." 
 
30 IMstoHcal Notes 
 
 "Ht a Tcatry bcM for Bnrton pariah, the n, day of 
 5unc, 1726, Che Revd. lames Blair, Minister of this par- 
 ish, acquainting the Testry that at the request of the Gover- 
 nors of this College he has undertahen a Toyage for 6ngland, 
 in Order to Obtain a "Cransf er, and to Negotiate other im- 
 portant Hf fairs of the College; to the end the good and pious 
 design of that building, so usefutl and beneficial to this 
 Country, may be speedily accomplished, and presenting the 
 Testry a list of Ministers which he proposes shall officiate 
 in his absence,— Che same was accordingly agreed to and ac- 
 cepted. Che said Mr. Blair la>Kng before the Vestry an 
 account of the poor's Money, whereby it appears that the 
 Sum of £26 1 1 s. 1 d. is due to the poor's bag;— Ordered that 
 the same be paid into the hands of Mr. ?ohn Blair, to be 
 disposed of as the Church hardens and Testr3mien shall 
 appoint." 
 
 On the 16th day of November, 1727, Mr. Commissary 
 Blair is in his place again in Testry meeting. 
 
The Jamestown Baptismal Font. 
 
 The Silver-Gold Communion Service, 
 
 KNOWN AS THE " QuEEN ANNE SET." 
 
^be Cbutcb ot 1715 
 
 ETURNING to the historical continuity of the 
 old Vestry book, we find the following notes 
 relative to the Church of 1715, which was 
 built during the ministry of Revd. Mr. Blair, 
 upon the foundation of the Church of 1683. 
 This is the building still in use. 
 
 '^Htt a Testry h«ld the ffirst day of Octo- 
 ber, 1706, Che Tcstry constdering yc gvcat 
 charge ye partab batb been at for ye repairing 
 of ye Church, and how bad a condition it 
 is 9tiU in,— Ordered, that twenty thousand 
 pounds of Cobacco be levied this year for and 
 towards building of a new Church." 
 
 "JVovember ye 14, 1706. Whereas there is levyed thirty- 
 one pound of Cobacco per pole for and towards 3^ building 
 H New Church, Hny of ye parishioners have hereby yt liberty 
 to pay ye same in money after ye rate of ten shillings pr cwt: 
 when other parish dues arc collected." 
 
 "Htt a Vestry held for Bruton parish, December 1 o, 1 71 o, 
 present, Bon 6dmd> Jennings, Ssq." 
 (Rere follow the names of the Testry.) 
 ''Clpon the representation of the Bon. 6dmd. pfennings 
 that Mr. lohn Bolloway and himself had discoursed upon 
 the business concerning the appropriating a sum of money 
 towards the building a Church in Bruton parish, and that 
 Mr. Ofobn Bolloway was pleased to say Be did believe he 
 could prevail with the Bouse (of Burgesses) to appropriate 
 £200 for that use, and that the Bouse was desirous the gen- 
 tlemen of the Testry should give them a meeting on this day, 
 which was the occasion of catling this Testry to consider 
 what might be necessary concerning the same,— 
 
32 Bistortcal Notes 
 
 "Ordered, Chat the Church Olardctia goc and acquaint 
 the I^ouse of Burgcsecs, that the Gentlemen of the Tcstry 
 were ready to watt upon them when they should appoint." 
 
 "Raving Delivered their Message, they returned and ac- 
 quainted this Meeting that the Bouse had appointed Mr. John 
 BoUoway, Mr. IVicholas Merriwether, and Mr. Robert Boil- 
 ing, to wait upon the Testry and hear their proposals." 
 
 "Chen this Meeting proceeded to consider what sume of 
 Money and what Dimentions might be necessary for the 
 building a Church to serve their own paritioners, provided 
 the Bouse of Burgesses would not contribute towards the 
 Building thereof. Che matter being debated it was Resolved, 
 that a Church of ye same dimentions of ye old church will 
 be large enough, and that £500 would be sufficient for the 
 building thereof." 
 
 "Mr. Ino. BoUoway, Mr. Robert Boiling and Mi*. Nicho- 
 las Merriwether, delivered a Message (from the Bouse of 
 Burgesses) to this effect, that the Bouse was willing to ap- 
 propriate a Sufficient sume of Money for the building pews 
 for the 6ovcmr., Council and Bouse of Burgesses; "Chey 
 further added they were to enquire what Dimentions were 
 necessary for a Church for the parish, and what sume of 
 money would be sufficient for the Building the samer- 
 ^hereupon the Bonble. Gdwd. 'Jennings informed them the 
 Gentlemen of the Testry were of opinion a Church of the 
 same Dimentions of the Old Church would be large enough, 
 and that £500 would be sufficient for the building the same." 
 
 "■Che Gentlemen of the Testry further added, Chey did 
 not in the least doubt but the Bouse of Burgesses would 
 shew their pious and Generous spirits by their Liberall Do- 
 nations towards Soe necessary and good a wortte; and that 
 they could assure them to the best of their judgments they 
 would appropriate the same according to the true Xntent 
 thereof." 
 
 At the same meeting it was "Ordered, Chat whoever 
 shall be admitted to serve as Minister in this Parish, shall 
 have no Induction." 
 
rHetoHcal Noteo 33 
 
 plan Submitted hy Ronbte. Hlexi*. SpottswoocL 
 
 *^t a Meeting of the Teatry, held for ye paHsb of Bni- 
 ton, fixvth i8t, 171 1, present, ITames Blair, Clerit, 
 (Rcrc follow the names of the Vestrymen.) 
 
 "Upon ye Information of 'James Blair, Clerh, that be 
 bad received from the Ronble. Hlexr. Spottsveood, a platt or 
 draught of a Church, (whose length 75 foot, and bredth 28 
 foot in the clear, with two wings on each side, whose width 
 is 2* foot,) which he Laid before the Vestry for approba- 
 tion— Hdding further, that yt Ronble. )« ©ovcmor proposed 
 to the Vestry to build only 53 of the 75 foot, and that be 
 would take care for the remaining part. 
 
 "Che Vestry proceeded to the immediate consideration 
 of the commodiousness and conveniency of the said platt 
 or Draught: which is approved of. 
 
 "It being moved that the charge of such part be com- 
 puted, the Vestry not knowing what scantlings were suitable 
 for such a building, nor the number of brichs the said worke 
 would tahe— is referred. 
 
 "Ordered, Chat Cbristo. OTacftson, Clarke, be impowered 
 to agree with some skillful workman, to lay down the said 
 scantlings: also to calculate the number of bricks sufficient 
 for a wall of 56 foot long, 28 foot wide, and 23 foot high 
 above ground, and report the same to the next Vestry, in or- 
 der to a full consideration thereof. 
 
 "Ordered, therefore, that Capt. frederick Jones acquaint 
 the Ronble. Hlexr. Spottswood with the proceedings of the 
 Vestry concerning his draught. 
 
 "Che Revd. lames Blair moving that new prayer-books 
 for the Minister and Clerke be sent for,— -Ordered, that new 
 ones be sent for, and that ye Church hardens request the 
 assistance of ye Ronble. 6dmd. Jennings in buying ye 
 same." 
 
 On the 15th March, 1711, the proposals of Mr. John 
 Cillet and M*. Renry Cary, were submitted to the Vestry, 
 
34 RtBtoncal Notes 
 
 for f UMitsMng the materials with which to build the Church, 
 but both being considered entirely too exorbitant, ''Slbcre- 
 upon ye Bonorable Hlex'r Spottstvood proposed together 
 with ye Ron. 6dniund Jennings, to deliver in place as many 
 brictts as shall be thought necessary in building ye Church, 
 at ye rate of 15s. per thousand, in order to beat down ye ex- 
 travagant prices of workmen, provided some of ye Testry 
 would undertake other parts.** On the 17th )Vov. 171 1, the 
 contractor for the building the Church, all preliminaries be- 
 ing settled, is allowed till ''the 15 October, 1714, for building 
 the same." Che contractor was James Morris, and the 
 deeds were at the same Testry, ordered to be drawn up by 
 Stephen 'Chompson. 
 
 On the 28th March, 1712, a new draught of the Church 
 is ordered. 
 
 In the Calendar of State Papers, Volume 1, Page 
 174, under date December, 1713. "The Dimensions of ye 
 two Wings of Bruton Parish Church, together with ye 
 Rates of ye Materials and Workmanship therein required 
 is given," which has been copied to show the Dimen- 
 sions and the cost of Materials and Workmanship at this 
 date. 
 
 DIMENSIONS 
 
 The inside Breadth of each Wing, or the distance 
 
 from ye East wall to ye West wall, must be.. ..22 Foot 
 The inside Length of each Wing, or ye Distance 
 from ye North wall to ye Body of ye Church 
 
 must be I9 p 
 
 The Breadth-of ye East & West Windows 6 F 
 
 The Breadth of ye North & South Windows 7 F 
 
 The Breadth of ye North & South Doors 5 F 
 
 The Thickness of ye Walls below ye Water Table 3 Bricks, 
 
 & above ye same 2 Bricks length. 
 The Height of ye Walls & of ye Ceiling to be ye same with 
 
 those of ye Body of ye Church. 
 The Rooff to rise in proportion to ye Breadth that it 
 spans. 
 
fitstorfcal r^otcs 35 
 
 MATERIALS 
 
 The Bricks are to be rated at Seventeen Shills pr: 
 Thousand. 
 
 The Lime at Six pence pr: Bushd. 
 
 The Sand at Eighteen pence pr: Load. 
 
 The Scantlines at £4 10 p : Thousand. 
 
 The Shingles at 12' 6^ pr: Thous. 
 
 The whole Scaffolding Stuff, Chords & Plank at 3 
 Pounds. 
 
 WORKMANSHIP 
 
 The Laying of ye Bricks, including ye Labourers work, 
 shall be rated at 7' 6"* pr: Thousand. 
 
 The framing, raising and covering ye Roof at 18'"^ 6^ 
 p: Square. 
 
 The framing and Raising ye Floor at 10*'' pr : Square. 
 
 The Working and Setting ye Eves at 20^'' pr : foot. 
 
 The Rubbing, Cutting, & Setting ye Window Arches 
 at 5"^ pr: Arch. 
 
 The Rubbing and Cutting ye Foot lesses at one penny 
 pr : foot. 
 
 The Rubbing ye Returns at 2^^ pr : hundred. 
 
 The framing & Setting ye Window & Door Cases at 
 10^'' each. 
 
 On the 1 ttb IkccTnbcr, i/iz, a sum of money, £io ster- 
 Ung, in tb* bands of Mi*- Richard Kendall, being a legacy 
 from ]Mr8. Catharine Besoutb, is ordered to be paid over to 
 the Revd. 'Jumta Blair, for a "Suitable piece of plate of ye 
 same value, for the use of Bruton parish, with this inscrip- 
 tion upon it— CYc 6ift of Mi*9. Catharine Besoutb.") 
 
 December 2d, 1715. Ht length the new Church is fin- 
 ished, or nearly so. 
 
 Following this there are brief notes of interest, f^ov. 
 i6tb, 1716. "Ordered that the Church hardens dispose of 
 all the materials belonging to the Old Church, except the 
 brichs." Cbe new Church is shingled in 1717. 
 
36 IHstovtcal fioU» 
 
 Decembci', 17, 1720, fir, ■John Rolloway is "recom- 
 mended to send for a Cbureb Bible and two Common 
 f)vAytr Boohs, for the use of the Church.'' 
 
 In 1724 Rev. James Blair, reported to the Bishop of 
 London, that the Church was provided with "A great 
 Bible, 2 common prayer books, the HomiKes, canons, pul- 
 pit Cloths, altar and altar piece, Font, Cushions, surplice, 
 bell, etc.," and that "There were one hundred and ten 
 families, and fifty communicants in the Parish." He also 
 stated that at that time there were three hundred acres 
 of Glebe land belonging to the Parish, and that the Parish 
 was about ten miles square.' 
 
 On the 15th day of lunc, 1728, order is given for tear- 
 ing down the ceiling of the Church and putting up a new one. 
 
 "Ht a Testry held for Bruton parish the 12 day of JVov- 
 ember, 1729, ^ohn Randolph, esq., (hnigbtcd shortly after,) 
 haying been elected a Testryman, this day toolt and Sub- 
 scribed the Oaths appointed by Law to IMs Majesty's person 
 and ©ovemmcnt, &c."^ 
 
 Nov. 6, 1740, the Testry ordered Church and Church- 
 yard to be repaired. Nov. 1 4, 1 742, "Che Church Bible given 
 to the parish by Capt. Matthews, being in danger of spoiling 
 by lying in the chest, Mi*. Chomas Cobbs agrees to tahc it, 
 and to send for another when the same shall be required.'^ 
 
 On the 3d Day of Decem., 1742, "Che Testry Resolved 
 on the following articles" in relation to the repairs of the 
 Church: 
 
 "Che brich Ornaments of the Gavel ends to be tahcn 
 down, and finished with wood, answering the rest. Che 
 whole roof to be Covered. Cbc whole to be new pewed, and 
 the pulpit placed in the South Bast Comer. Cbc Church 
 Tard to be repaired for the present in the Cheapest Manner." 
 
 > Perry, page 300. 
 
 ^v " ^," J?!'^'r.-^?,°^' *r Sf.?^*'*^"' marble tablet was unveiled in the 
 Chapel of the College of William and Mary to replace a similar tablet 
 which had been erected to the memory of Sir John Randolph, which 
 was destroyed when the College was burned. 
 
DistoHcal Notes 37 
 
 Deatb of Commisgari? Blair anb JElection of 
 IRevb. ^bo5. Dawson 
 
 "Ht a Vcatry held" the 6th day of May, 1743, the sad 
 news is officially announced, that the Rev. Mn Commissary 
 Blair is no more. And there was entered the following 
 note : Hnd ''Whereas by the Decease of the Revd. Mr. Com- 
 missary Blair," (who had served the Church of Bruton 
 parish for the space of thirty-two "^cars as its Mitiisterj 
 William and Mary College as its president for nearly fifty 
 years, and as Commissary for fifty-three years,) late Minis- 
 ter of this parish, the Cure is now Tacant. Hnd Whereas 
 the Rev. Mr. Chomas Dawson has for some time officiated 
 for Mr. Commissary, in which he hath acquitted himself to 
 the Clniversal good liking of this parish, and also producing 
 a letter from the Ronble. the Governor, strongly recommend- 
 ing him to the Choice of the Testry, they do therefore unani- 
 mously elect the said Mr. Chomas Dawson Minister of this 
 Parish." 
 
 On the 9th May, 1744, it is Ordered that a foundation 
 of brichworh be laid round the Isle to receive the floor; and 
 the Isle be new layd with the same stone, the Church to be 
 New Whitewashed, and plaistering to be repaired where 
 wanting. Ordered lihewise, that the pews be painted three 
 times in Oile, and the South Gallery to be extended as far as 
 the Comer." 
 
 Cburcb lenlaracb anb ©rgan Secureb 
 
 "Ht a Testry held for Bruton parish, Hugust Z2, 1744,. 
 "Resolved, that a petition be drawn to be preferred to the 
 next General Hssembly to request them to contribute to- 
 wards the repairs of the two wings of the Church, which 
 were formerly built at the expense of the public Hnd that 
 they will be pleased to take into their Consideration, whether 
 an organ, to be bought by the public and Hppropriated for 
 
38 Bistorical JNTotce 
 
 the U9C of the Church of the paHah where the 6ovemor re- 
 sides and the 6eneral Hssemblj' and the Courts are held. 
 May not be Ornamental and useful in the Divine Service; 
 and that Mr. Dawson, Mr. «lray, Mr. (lohn) Blair, Mr. 
 Barmer and Mr. Waller prepare the same." After eight 
 years delay, (according to Hening,) John Blair, Philip 
 Ludwell, Armisted Burwell, James Power, and Benjamin 
 Powell were appointed by the Assembly a committee 
 to provide material for enlarging the Church and for 
 purchasing and setting up an organ in the loft to cost 
 £200. 
 
 On the isth da]^of March, 1750-1, '''Che Donble. 'John 
 Blair, Coll: Lewis Burwell, and Mr. ^obn Rolt, or any two 
 of them, are impowcred to treat with worhmen for an addi- 
 tion to the Church, and to lay their proposals before the 
 "Vestry in order for their agreement thereto." 
 
 Pursuant to these orders, and the action of the House 
 of Burgesses, the Church doubtless assumed its present 
 proportions of 100 feet long, 28 feet wide, the wings being 
 reduced from 19 feet to 14% feet in length.' If the Church 
 was originally built according to the first draft of Alex. 
 Spottswood, the length of the West body, or nave, was 
 
 39 feet, the width of the transepts was 22 feet, and the 
 length of the chancel end was 14 feet, making the total 
 length 75 feet. An addition of 25 feet to the East, or 
 chancel end of the building, would have made it 39 feet, 
 which is its present length, corresponding to the length 
 of the nave, and making the entire length of the building 
 100 feet. This 25 feet was either added by the order of 
 1750 or by the altered draft of 1712. No addition has 
 has been made to the West end of the Church. The men- 
 tion of the galleries located there proves this. 
 
 On Hugust 1 1, 1747, ''Peyton Randolph, esq., is chosen 
 a Testrjrnian." 
 
 ' Tyler. 
 
Bfetortcal Notes 39 
 
 Cburcb ]^ar^ Mall »uilt 
 
 December 14, 1749, the Tcstry agwe with Mi*. Gmtry 
 Dughes to buUd a brtch tvall around the Cburcbj^rd for 
 £290. 3f«lv Ttb, 1752, "emery Rugbes having failed to 
 perform bis agreement^ — in building the brielt wall around 
 the Church, Samuel Spurr agrees to do the same for £320, 
 and gives bond and security to finish the worit by Octo- 
 ber, 1754. 
 
 lune 18, 1754, Mr. Robt. Carter Nicholas is chosen a 
 Testrjmian. 
 
 "Cht name of George Hlythe, the distinguished jurist and 
 statesman, (the early patron of Renry Clay,) appears for the 
 first time on the record as Vestryman and Churchwarden, 
 *oth November, 1760; and on the 9th day of February, 1761, 
 *Xbe Reverend Sim. Y^tes is Unanimously Chosen Minister 
 of this Parish in the Room of the Rcvd. Commissary 
 "Chomas Dawson, Dec'd." 
 
 On the 29th day of November, 1763, Rev. Mr. tates at- 
 tended the last Vestry meeting, and on the 5th day of Oc- 
 tober, 1764, his decease is recorded In the accounts of the 
 parish, where there stands an amount to his credit of to- 
 bacco, 1 7,280 lbs. Nov. 7th, 1 764, Rev. Mr. lames Rorroehs, 
 Commissary, is chosen as the Minister of the Parish. 
 
 Kelfrip Built 
 
 On October 6, 1768, The Revd. Mr. lames Rorrochs, 
 Peyton Randolph, esq., O^omas evcrard, esq., Robert 
 Carter Nicholas, esq., and the Church ^iQardens, Mi*, lohn 
 Pierce and Mi*. Him. eaton, or any four of them, arc ap- 
 pointed a Committee to receive proposals for building a 
 belfry to the Church." 
 
 On the 14th September, 1769, the Testry, consisting of 
 the names of men whose memory the Church in Virginia, and 
 the State at large will not forget,— such as lohn Blair, Ben- 
 
40 IMstovteal INTotea 
 
 jamin iOsMtr, Lcvpie BwnvM, Olm. 6vave8, Robert Carter 
 Nicholas, Zhomaa 6verard, George ^ytht, frecL Brj^an, and 
 ColL lohn prentis, "agreed with Benjamin Powell to build 
 a Steeple and repair the Church for £410.— £150 to be paid 
 this present \«ar, £1 30 the Next tear, and £1 so in the "^lear 
 1771. Tic is to have the Old Bell, and the Materials of the 
 old Steeple. 
 
 This order relating to the building of a new Steeple 
 does not fix the date of the Old Tower upon which the old 
 Steeple referred to stood. The Church Towrer is not 
 structually the same as the Church, and has the appear- 
 ance of being older. 
 

 » 
 
Some ®lb IDestt^ ©rbets 
 
 ICATTERED through the old Vestty Book were 
 a number of orders of special purport which 
 were given under different dates, and with 
 reference to the subject indicated by the 
 headings under which thqr have been ar- 
 ranged here for convenient reference. 
 
 flDinieter's Salary 
 
 Ninth of lum, 1682, "Ordered that Mr. 
 RotvUnd 3fotK9, Aliiriater, for the future shall 
 be paid annually yt Sum of Sixteen thousiaml 
 six hundred and sixty-six pounds of Cobacco 
 and Cashe. Hny former order of Testry to the contrary not- 
 withstanding." Here follow the names and the sentence, 
 Cestcr, Hlex. Bonnjmian. **Verita9 non est duhitanda." 
 
 Cburcb atten&ance 
 
 lune^th, 1682. "Che Testry of this parish taheing 
 into consideration that many and divers of the inhabitants 
 have been negligent in comeing to Church, tending to ye dis- 
 honor of 6od and the contempt of Government, 'Cheref ore 
 the said Testry have now ordered, Chat such person or per- 
 sons inhabiting in this parish, as shall be negligent herein, 
 shall be presented by ye Church hardens to ye Court, and 
 then be proceeded with according to Law, and that publica- 
 tion hereof be made pr ]« Clerhe at both Churches." These 
 Churches were, no doubt, one in the upper, and one in the 
 lower portions of the Parish. 
 
 Iprivate pews 
 
 Tfune 9th, 1682, •'thought fit and lihcwise ordered, that 
 Colls 3fno. page may (might) have the privilege to sett a pew 
 for himself and his f family in the Chancell of the new Church 
 at Middle plantation"— although the Church was not ytt 
 
42 TH&toviatl J^oUb 
 
 butlt. Cbe privilege of setting up a pew in the Chancel, was 
 subsequently accorded to the ^on. Philip Ludwetl. 
 Ht a Tcstry on ffov. 2, 1704, 
 ''Hn order of Council is given by f/Ir. Slilliam Robertson,. 
 Clerk of ye Council, wherein is proposed that ye South side 
 of ye Chancel of ye Church, (including ye pew where his ex- 
 cellency now sits,) be fitted up as a pew for ye 6o\>emour £t 
 Couneil for ye time being, to be done by ye direction of Mr. 
 Huditor Byrd, which is agreed to by this Tcstry.** 
 
 (tburcb 19arb %mt> 
 
 On November 14th, 1 678, the land on which the Church 
 was built, together with ''sixty feet of the same, every way 
 for a Church-yard," was the gift, forever, of the ''I>onourable 
 Coll : 'Ifohn page.** every receipt given by francis Page, for 
 moneys received for the new Church, is thus signed: "X say. 
 Received pr Mc ffrai Page." 
 
 "An act providing for laying out "Williamsburg pro- 
 vided also for condemning land for the church, and the 
 map of the town in the college library shows that the 
 churchyard was so enlarged as to take in two acres on 
 Duke of Gloucester street. Around three-fourths of this 
 the brick wall was built, and its front is, on measurement, 
 330 feet. The other portion unenclosed was sold not 
 many years ago to private land owners."' 
 
 ©rber IRefiuIatlng Burial in tbc dburcb 
 anb Cbancel 
 
 Ht a Testry held the 3 1st October, 1684, present: "Che 
 Minister, Mi*. Rowland ?ones, the I>on. Philip Ludwell, 
 esq., the Ron. Ino. Page, esq., the Ron. 'flames Bray, esq., 
 ye Bon. Chos. Ball and Capt. ffrancis Page,"<tc,it was re- 
 solved that "f f or the privilege of Burials either in yt Cban- 
 cell, or in ye new Church, it is ordered by this Testry, that 
 for breaking up ye ground in ye Chancell, ye f f ees payable to 
 
 I Tyler. 
 
IMstortcat Notes 43 
 
 yc Minister shatl be one thousand pounds of 'Cobacco, or five 
 pounds sterling; and in ^e Church )^ ffee payable to the 
 f)arish shall be five hundred pounds of tobacco, or fifty 
 'Shillings in money; and that yt Minister be at ye charge to 
 relay ye Chancetl, and ye parish for the same.'^ 
 
 ®rl>er as to wbcrc Certain people sftouK) Sit 
 in (tburcb 
 
 January 9, 1716, it is **Ordercd that the Men sitt on the 
 ]^orth side of the Church, and the ^omen on the left. 
 
 ''Ordered that Mr. Commissary Blair sitt in the bead 
 pew in the Chunch, and that he may Carry any Minister into 
 the same. 
 
 "Ordered that the Parishioners be seated in the Church, 
 and none others. 
 
 "Ordered that the Tacant room in the west end of the 
 Church be made into three convenient pevps, and that the 
 Church tOardens agree with some worhman to do the same. 
 
 "Ordered that Mr. Ofohn Custis be removed into the Pew 
 appropriated to the Surveyor ©cneral." 
 
 Qlt> ®rOer0 as to location an& Tllse of tbe 
 Galleries 
 
 provision Made for College Students. 
 
 On tbe 10th 3fuly, 1718, "whereas complaint had been 
 made to this Testry, that there was not room in the gallery 
 for the touth that came from the CoUedge, and that they 
 were crowded by others, also that several of the Parishion- 
 ers were crowded, for remedy of which, it is 
 
 "Ordered, that liberty shall be given the CoUedge to tahe 
 that part of ye Gallery for the use of the CoUedge "^outh, as 
 far from the pillar on tbe south side of the Isle of the 
 Church, to the north side of the Church,*'' also that farther 
 leave be given them to put a door, with a loch and hey to it, 
 to the stairs of tbe said Gallery, and the Sexton to heep the 
 
 I This west gallerf subsequently became known as Lord Dunmore's 
 gallery. 
 
44 fHstoHcal Note© 
 
 hey." In this west end gallery sat Peyton Randolph, 
 (1730,) and George Wythe, (1740,) while students at the 
 College of William and Mary. 
 
 December, ij, iyzc. Mi*, lobn BoUoway, having ob- 
 tained leave of the eovemor, ia permitted to erect a gallery in 
 the end of the south tping of the Church, at his own charges. 
 
 On the 6th '^uly, 17*1, "Ordered that a 6aUery be built 
 in the south side of the body of the Church, from the Gallery 
 already erected in the west end, unto the edge of the third 
 window, to project six feet, and to be adorned with banisters. 
 Hnd, that the same be appropriated for the beys of this 
 parish." 
 
 On the 9th May, i744, it is ordered that "the South 
 6allery to be extended as far as the Comer." 
 
 On Sept. 1 1, 1753, it is "Ordered that half of the Soutfc 
 6allery, near the pulpit, in the Church in Williamsburg, be 
 appropriated to the use of the College of CQilliam and Mary." 
 Here sat Thomas Jefferson, (student 1760-62,) President 
 JamesMonroe, (student 1775,) Chief Justice John Marshal, 
 (student 1780,) Edmund Randolph, (student 1776,) Pres- 
 ident John Tyler, (student 1802-07,) and Winfield Scott, 
 (student 1804.) 
 
 IVovem. 18, 1755, "Ordered that the Revd. and Bonor- 
 able Commissary 'Chomas Dawson, the Honorable "3x10. 
 Blair, Gsqr., Peyton Randolph, 6sqr., Benjamin Waller, 
 6sqr., or any three of them, do agree with a person to build 
 a Loft for an Organ in the Church in the City of Williams- 
 burg, and to set up the same. Mr. Peter Pelham is unani- 
 mously appointed and Chosen Organist of the Church in the 
 City of Williamsburg." 
 
 On the 7th October, 176^, Mr. Benjamin Waller, on be- 
 half of himself and others, was permitted to build a gallery 
 on the north side of the Church. 
 
 The gallery in the north wing was used for the ser- 
 vants of the Parish, and was entered by a stairway from 
 the outside. 
 
XLhc Ipasslno of tl5e ©lb IReotme 
 
 HE Old Vestry Book closes with the Order dif 
 ' I " 1769, •*hich has been quoted, relating to thie 
 * removal of the Old Steeple and the bid Belli 
 
 The closing of the book was doiibtless due to 
 the agitation springing from the dirturbances 
 which marked the closing years of Virginia's 
 Colonial history. The passing of the Old Bell 
 seemed to toll the death knell of the old Regime. 
 No other Church in Virginia had been so inti- 
 mately bonnected with her Colonial history as 
 this. Bruton Church-yard adjoined the JPalace Green. 
 Here ministers were the Court preachers of their day. 
 The record, so far as it gives us glimpses into their life and 
 ministry, indicates that they were w^orthy imen and de- 
 voted ministers of the Gospel of Christ. They held their 
 commissions from the Lord Bishop of London, and served 
 as ministers of the established Church of England. The 
 time had come when this fact seriously hindered their in- 
 fluence with many ainong whoni thfey lived. The passions 
 and prejudices of men are generally undiscriminating. 
 They proved so, to a marked degree, in thdr relation to 
 the Church. Becaiise her ininistry^ and service were con- 
 sidered as of English appointment, rather than as of Di- 
 vine authority, they came to be despised by those who had 
 come to hate the authority of the Eiiglish government. 
 Btuton Church was in the very center of this jpoUtical and 
 social agitation which culminated in the War of Revolu- 
 tion. Sluppiorted' warmly by many Loyalists, and by some 
 w^ho were not; she; became the object of scorn to many who 
 indulged in wholesale denunciation of all things English. 
 
 Z\)c Cburcb icirvice in Colonial 2)a^0 
 
 Before passing from this long ago period of the history 
 of the Church, let us endeavor to bring back an accustomed 
 scene in Bruton Church in Colonial days : 
 
46 I)t8toincat Notes 
 
 The old bell breaks the stillness of the Sabbath morn. 
 It calls the whole community to the house of prayer. No 
 other bell is heard. There is no other place for worship- 
 pers to go, unless they choose to attend some gathering 
 in an humble meeting house where some who do not like 
 the Prayer-book, vestments, or organ music, are wont 
 to meet to worship according to the dictates of their con- 
 science. The community, as a whole, adheres to the es- 
 tablished Church. Old fashioned coaches drive up to the 
 gate and, as the door is opened by a liveried footman, the 
 occupants come forth clothed after the last year's fashion 
 of the Court of George the Third. Around the door the 
 colonial Gentry are assembled, clothed in colonial garb. 
 In voices somew^hat animated, and with language not 
 always according to the catechism, they are discussing the 
 stamp act, and other usurpations and injustices of the 
 Government. It is a genuine debate, for here forces are 
 very largely divided, and in the crowd are many stout 
 Tories, who are warm in support of the king, and of his 
 representative, his Excellency the Governor. From Ra- 
 leigh Tavern there comes a group of men who are repre- 
 sentatives of the people in the House of Burgesses. Some 
 of them give indication of having been up late the night 
 before. Their faces show very red beneath their flowing 
 wigs of white. They are talking with loud voice and 
 animated gesture. The king finds few advocates among 
 them, and is being roundly abused in a most disloyal way. 
 They calm down as they approach the Church. The Gov- 
 ernor's carriage sweeps down the Palace Green and draws 
 up before the door. The service will soon begin. We pass 
 into the Church. In spite of all the care we take, our 
 footsteps resound through the building as we walk down 
 the flag-stone aisle. Passing into a large square pew we 
 close the door and wait. It is difficult to see those in front 
 of us. The pews, we note, were built to encourage rever- 
 ence rather than observation. There are some things, 
 however, which we can see in spite of the high back pews. 
 
Btstorkal Notes 4-7 
 
 We notice that the men sit on the north side of the Church, 
 and the women on the south, and are informed that it is 
 because the Vestry has so ordered it. Mr. Peter Pelham 
 enters and, ascending the "organ loft," begins to play the 
 new organ recently purchased in England for the Church 
 by order of the House of Burgesses. The students from 
 the College of William and Mary enter, attended by one of 
 the Masters, and file into the gallery assigned to them in 
 the south wing of the Church. Among them are a number 
 of 3«)ung Indians who are being educated and christian- 
 ized at the college. When the students have all entered, 
 the gallery door is locked, and the key given to the sexton. 
 There is no chance now for them to escape, no matter how 
 long the parson may preach. 
 
 By an outside stairway, leading up to the gallery in 
 the north wing, we see the servants of the parishioners 
 enter, and reverently await the commencement of the ser- 
 vice. We are told that many of them are consistent com- 
 municants, and that all have been baptized. 
 
 The door at the west, leading from the tower, opens, 
 and the minister, who has vested there, enters and, passing 
 down the aisle, enters the chancel at the east end of the 
 Church. The clerk takes his place at the desk below the 
 pulpit, which stands down in the body of the building at 
 the south-east comer of the Church. 
 
 And now, even over the high back pews, we can see 
 that something is attracting general attention. The 
 tower door opens, and the Court procession enters, His 
 Excellency, the Governor, passes down the aisle to his pew. 
 It is in the chancel end of the Church, on the north side of 
 the aisle ; it is elevated from the floor. A silk canopy hangs 
 over it, and around it in large letters of gold is the Gover- 
 nor's name. The Council of State, and the members of the 
 House of Burgesses, and the Surveyor-General take pews 
 officially assigned. The service begins. The minister 
 reads, and the clerk, and the people who have Prayer 
 Books, respond. The Beadle keeps his eye upon the Col- 
 
48 I^tstorical ]Votes 
 
 lege youth in particular, and upon the whole congregation 
 in general. There is no disturbance. We hear Avliat sounds 
 like an imprecation from a near-by pew when the prayer 
 is said for George the Third and the Royal Family, but it 
 is discreetly suppressed, and no note is taken of it. 
 
 The service ended, the minister leaves the chancel and, 
 passihg down the aisle with the Governor's pew^ on his 
 right', ascends the high 'steps leading up into the south-east 
 comer pulpit, takes his text, and l^egins his sermon. Those 
 who have brought braziers with which to warm their 
 pews, listen with cornfort, if not always w^ith patience. 
 Others grow cold and riestless, and determine that they 
 would not come to ChurCh if the law'had not made it ah 
 ofiFence for fine and imprisohiiient to stay away. 
 
 The benediction said, groups gather in the Church (in a 
 very unchurchly way) and exchange greetings, collect the 
 news, discuss the sermon, and exchange opinions, and go 
 to their homes, — homes noted for hospitallity apd good- 
 cheer, but pervaded nevertheless by a respect for religion 
 and, in many instanced, by a beautiful spirit of earnest 
 Christian devotion." 
 
 We can find no statement as to the status of the Church 
 during the Revolution. The Revd. John Bracken's rector- 
 ship covered this period, as it extended from 1773 to 1818. 
 The house occupied by General Washington while his head- 
 quarters were in Williamsburg during the war, was the 
 residence of Chancellor Wythe, which immediately adjoins 
 the Church yard. During this time, he and his staff officers 
 doubtless regularly attended the services of the Church. 
 
 The war of the Revolution, which so completely changed 
 political, social, and ecclesiastical conditions, left the old 
 Church unharmed. 
 
 "One generation passeth away, another generation 
 Cometh," but time, and the vicissitudes of war, have 
 spared the old Church to stand, 
 
 "A Knk among the days, to knit 
 The generations each to each." 
 
Zhc Cburcb after tbe IRevolution 
 
 RUTON Church suffered, temporarily, as did 
 
 Bthe whole Episcopal Church in this country, 
 by the disestablishment. Some of the 
 clergy had espoused the cause of the mother 
 country to which they felt bound by their 
 oath of allegiance. Mr. R. S. Thomas, of 
 Smithfield, Va., formerly historiographer of 
 the Diocese of Southern Virginia, has, how^- 
 ever, established the fact, from the old 
 records, that the large majority of the Vir- 
 ginia clergy espoused the cause of the colo- 
 nies in the struggle for independence. Revd. 
 Dr. Madison, President of William and Mary 
 College, and Revd. Mr. Bracken, then rector of Bruton 
 Church, "were avowed and decided partisans of the Colo- 
 nies."' "The Mercers, Harrisons, and Randolphs, and 
 a number of other prominent families,"' connected with 
 Bruton Church, had also espoused the cause of indepen- 
 dence. But the majority of the people were antagonistic 
 to tbe Church. The Church was now separated from taq 
 state upon which it had leaned for support. It had to ad- 
 just itself to new conditions under peculiar difficulties. 
 War had impoverished those who were disposed to sup- 
 port it. On every side the Church was opposed. Her in- 
 dependence of State aid and State control, and her des- 
 perate struggle for life in the face of violent opposition, 
 ultimately proved a great blessing to her life. But for a 
 while her faith was tested, and her strength sorely tried. 
 A brief outline of the history of the attack made upon the 
 Episcopal Church is given here as it explains the loss of 
 the glebe lands of Bruton Church. 
 
 On the first of January, 1777, the Episcopal Church in 
 Virginia was incorporated, and by the act of incorpora- 
 tion her property was secured. This security was short- 
 
 • Hawks. Ecclesiastical History, Virginia, p. 137. 
 
60 FHstoiHcal Notes 
 
 lived. By reason of bitter and persistent opposition, 
 which need not be described here, this act was repealed 
 January 9, 1787;' and on the 24th day of January, 1799, 
 an act was passed, "whereby every act which had been 
 passed since the Revolution, touching the Church and its 
 property, was repealed.^ During this controversy, the 
 Church, fore-seeing the ultimate purpose of this influence 
 which was being brought upon the Legislature, secured 
 learned counsel to examine and report on the legality of 
 the claim of the Protestant Episcopal Church to the tenure 
 of the glebes, Churches, etc. These lawyers reported to 
 the Convention held in Richmond in 1797 that it was 
 their opinion : "That the Protestant Episcopal Church is 
 the exclusive owner of these glebes, Churches, etc." This 
 report was signed by Bushrod Washington, Edmund 
 Randolph, and John Wickham.3 
 
 The enemies of the Church, having influenced the Legis- 
 lature to pass the law of 1799, now found it easy to strike 
 the final blow. This w^as done through an act passed on 
 Jan. 12th, 1802, "by virtue of which the glebe lands were 
 ordered to be sold for the benefit of the public. "'^ 
 
 The Convention of Virginia authorized Bishop 
 Madison to take the case into the Court of Appeals. This 
 was done in 1804. This case was decided by a vote of 
 three against one in favor of the Episcopal Church. But 
 on the night preceding the day when the opinion w^as to 
 have been pronounced, Judge Pendleton died. 
 
 Judge Tucker was appointed to succeed him, and the 
 case was again argued. Upon the second hearing the court 
 was equally divided. Judge Fleming, who favored the 
 Church, having in each instance refused to sit on the case 
 because he considered himself interested in the decision. 
 The decree of Chancellor "Wythe, from which the appeal 
 
 • Journal of House of Delegates, p. 87, and Journal of Senate, p. 91. 
 Hawks 194. 
 
 2 Laws of Virginia, edition 1803, p. 338. Hawks, p. 233. 3 Virginia 
 Convention Journal VJQl . 4 Hawks, p. 233. 
 
TKstoHcal Notes 51 
 
 had been taken, was thus affirmed,' and the glebe lands of 
 Brut on Church, with those of many other Virginia 
 Churches, were sold. 
 
 £arli^ Episcopal \Di0itation0 
 
 The first Episcopal visitation ever made to Bruton 
 Church was that of Rt. Revd. Dr. Madison, reported by 
 him to the Convention of 1793. Bishop Moore reports 
 visitations to Bruton Church to the Conventions of 
 1816, 1819, 1820, 1825 and 1828; and Bishop Meade re- 
 ports visitations to this Church to the Conventions of 
 1832 and 1834; but in all these reports there is no men- 
 tion made of the consecration of Bruton Church. Frequent 
 mention is made in the Convention journals of Churches 
 consecrated, but they seem to have been either new 
 churches, or old ones which had been in disuse, or which 
 had been restored, or extensively repaired. This fact is 
 frequently distinctly stated. The other Churches were 
 doubtless considered as having been consecrated by unin- 
 terrupted use in the service of God, or as having remained 
 unharmed and hallowed during the period of their silence. 
 Bruton Church has always been officially called by the 
 Parish name. 
 
 Bruton Church made valuable contribution to 
 the work of reconstructing the Church in Virginia, 
 subsequent to the revolution. The Rev. John Bracken 
 was elected rector of the Church in 1773. An ex- 
 amination of the journals of the conventions of the 
 Episcopal Church in Virginiafrom 1785 to 1818 shows that 
 he was prominent and influential in the councils of the 
 church. In 1785 it is "Ordered, That the thanks of the 
 convention be given to the Rev. John Bracken, for the ex- 
 cellent sermon preached by him this morning."* Mr. John, 
 Blair was the Lay Deputy to this convention. In 1786 
 
 ' Hatrks. Ecclesiastical History, Virginia, pp. 237-239. 
 ^Journals of the Convention of Virginia, 1785. 
 
52 mstoHcal Notes 
 
 Rev. Mr. Bracken appears as a member of the committee 
 on the Articles of Religion ; and at this convention he re- 
 ceived nine votes for delegate to the General Convention, 
 "To be holden in Philadelphia." In 1787 he appears as a 
 memlier of the committee to revise the Canons of the 
 Church. He was elected president of the convention in 
 1789, to which Mr. Robert Andrews was Lay Deputy 
 from Bruton Church. Mr. Andrews appears as secretary 
 of the convention from 1791-97, when he was succeeded 
 in this oiEce by Rev. John Bracken, D. D. At this conven- 
 tion of 1789, Edmund Randolph, of Bruton Parish, was 
 €lected a member of the Standing Committee of the 
 Church, on which Rev Dr. Bracken was placed in 1790. 
 In 1791, and again in 1812, he was appointed delegate to 
 the General Convention of the Church. In 1812, after 
 having been thanked by the convention for his excellent 
 sermon preached at the opening session, he was 
 elected Bishop of the Diocese, receiving twenty-two of the 
 twenty-five votes cast. He resigned the election in 1813.' 
 
 In 1821 the Rev. Reuel Keith, D. D., of Georgetown, 
 D. C, became Rector of the Church. He reported to the 
 convention, held in Norfolk on the 17th of May, 1821, that 
 there were twenty-five communicants, at that time, in 
 Bruton Church.^ Dr. Keith remained as rector until 1824, 
 when he was elected Professor in The Theological Semi- 
 nary, Alexandria.^ 
 
 In 1826 the Rev. WiUiam H. Wilmer, D. D., of St. 
 Paul's Church, Alexandria, was elected rector of Bruton 
 Church, and President of William and Mary College.3 
 To the convention of 1827, held in Fredericksburg, 
 Virginia, he made the following report : 
 
 "The rector of Bruton Parish, Williamsburg, reports 
 that the condition of the church under his charge is some- 
 what improving. The building has been repaired— the 
 
 ^Journals of the Convention of Virginia, 1785-1813. 
 » Journals of Convention of Virginia, 1821, 1821. 
 3 Journals of Convention of Virginia, 1826. 
 
RistoHcat Notes 53 
 
 congregation attend regularly upon public worship. An 
 increasing attention to the order and services of the church 
 is manifested, and the hope is entertained that the pure 
 religion of Jesus Christ is gaining ground. A kind feeling 
 towards the church prevails among the various denomi- 
 nations of Christians, and the rector deems it a matter of 
 advantage to the church, as well as of duty and inclina- 
 tion, to cherish and reciprocate this catholic spirit. There 
 is a flourishing Sunday School attached to the congrega- 
 tion, consisting of one hundred and fifteen scholars, which 
 does honour to the zeal and piety of its teachers. 
 
 The number of communicants belonging to the church 
 is about thirty, ten of whom have been added lately. 
 Baptisms twelve ; marriages ten ; funerals three.'" 
 
 Revd. Dr. Wilmer was a man of beautiful Christian 
 character. The high esteem in which he was held is shown 
 in the tribute paid to his memory by Bishop Moore, who 
 spoke of him to his convention in 1828 as follows : "In 
 touching on the subject of the bereavement we have ex- 
 perienced in the death of our beloved "Wilmer, it is impos- 
 sible for me to find language sufficiently strong to express 
 that sense of his loss which fills my mind. He was one of 
 those who first called my attention to this Diocese, and of 
 the three clergymen who corresponded with me on that 
 subject, one only now remains. 
 
 To the usefulness of Dr. Wilmer we must all subscribe. 
 He was a man of business and of piety. He loved his God, 
 and the interest of the Church was near his heart. As a 
 preacher he was faithful, energetic, eloquent. He was the 
 friend of evangelical religion, and considered that the 
 strictest regard to the public order of the Church was per- 
 fectly compatible with the most animated social worship, 
 in the houses of his parishioners and friends. His private 
 meetings formed, in his opinion, the nursery of the Church, 
 and were blessed to the edification and comfort of his con- 
 gregation. He was always ready to discharge his duty. 
 
 I Journals of Convention of Virginia, 1827. 
 
54 IHstoHcal Notes 
 
 Like the Apostle Paul, he not only taught his people pub- 
 licly, but went from house to house, exhorting them to 
 prepare to meet their God. His fidelity in the discharge of 
 his duty met my warmest approbation ; and if it is your 
 wish, my brethren of the clergy, to give an account of your 
 stewardship with joy, oh, let me entreat you all to "go 
 and do likewise." 
 
 That he was loved and revered by his people, and by 
 the whole community, is evidenced by the inscription upon 
 the mural tablet placed in the Church to his memory. 
 This inscription is given further on in the book. 
 
 In 1828' the Rev. Adam Empie was elected rector of 
 the church. He reported to the convention, held in Pet- 
 ersburg that year, that "The whole number of communi- 
 cants in Bruton Parish, Williamsburg, is 38; that the 
 adult members of the church are about 140 ; children 100 ; 
 catechumens 50. The Sunday School consists, at present, 
 of 93 ; the rector delivers one weekly lecture in the church, 
 which is well attended. 
 
 Signed, A. Empie." 
 
 In 1829' Dr. Empie reports continuous improvement 
 in the church; and to the convention of 1831 he states 
 that the present number of communicants is sixty,' and 
 that the number of adults was 109, a mistake, he asserts, 
 having been made in the number reported in 1828. 
 
 I Virginia Convention/onma/s. 
 
Zbe ILater IDestrie Book 
 
 HE next Vestry Book of Bruton Parish opens 
 in 1827, with the following members of the 
 Vestry : 
 
 Henry Edloe, Jesse Cole, John Page, Dr. 
 Peachy, Dr. Griffin, W. W. Webb, James 
 Semple, Sr., Robt. McOandlish, Burwell 
 Bassett, William Waller, Leonard Henley 
 and Ferdinand S. Campbell. 
 
 flDobern llnnovations 
 
 On April 18, 1829, it was resolved : That 
 a Committee be appointed to ascertain the 
 probable cost of cutting down and painting the pews ; 
 and on June 12, 1829 it was "found it would cost about 
 $120," and it was resolved : "That the pews shall be cut 
 down and painted and the Church whitewashed." On 
 Oct. 20, 1829, the Committee appointed to have the pews 
 cut down and painted, and the Church whitewashed, re- 
 ported that they had done so, and that the expenses 
 thereof amounted to upwards of $200, and that they 
 had only been able to obtain from subscriptions about 
 $120, to defray the expense. 
 
 On April 2, 1834, on motion it was "Resolved : That 
 the standing Committee be directed to have the steps and 
 entry at East end of the Church on the outside taken 
 down, and in lieu thereof new steps inside of the Church 
 be made to ascend the Gallery in the East of it." 
 
 On the 28th of Feb., 1834, it is "Resolved: That the 
 Rt. Rev. Bishop Moore be respectfully solicited to lay be- 
 fore the Vestry of Trinity Church, New York, the decayed 
 condition of the Church and the poverty of the 
 Parishioners of Bruton Parish, and to use his good 
 offices to procure such aid as their benevolence may 
 prompt " 
 
56 Btstoncal )Vot«« 
 
 a 'UlntvcraaUat flDinistcr Hppliea to jpreacb 
 
 On July 7th, 1834, the Vestry took into consideration 
 the application for the Rev. Mr. Skinner, a Universalist 
 Minister, to preach in this Church, and after thorough 
 examination of the said application rejected it. 
 
 ®l& ©rgan SoI& 
 
 On April 23rd, 1835, it was Resolved, That the remains 
 of the old organ be given to Mrs. Gait to be disposed of 
 by her in such manner as she may deem proper, the pro- 
 ceeds to be applied to the ornament or improvement of 
 the organ gallery, or such other uses in the Church as she 
 may think expedient. 
 
 The items above mentioned all appear during the rec- 
 torship of Revd. Dr. Empie. 
 
 On Tuesday, May 8th, 1838, during the rectorship 
 of the Rev. William Hodges, a communication was 
 received by the Vestry from the Ladies' Working Society 
 stating that "the Directors and Managers of the same, 
 tender to the Vestry $700, being the proceeds of the late 
 Fair for the repairs of the Church." 
 
 On the 19th, of July, 1839, it was "Resolved: That 
 all the interior of the Church not necessary for further use 
 be sold (by the Committee appointed to have the Church 
 repaired) at such time and in such manner as they may 
 deem best. 
 
 ■Rntertor IRemobcleb 
 
 Acting under these orders, and others of like purport, 
 the Church was remodeled in the interior. The exterior 
 remained unchanged. A partition wall was built across 
 the Church, changing the shape from a cross to a T". The 
 chancel was removed from the East end of the Church, 
 where it had been for one hundred and tw^enty-five years 
 
Interior View, 1840-1886. 
 
 The Duke of Gloucester Street. 
 
IMstoHcal Notes 57 
 
 and built out from the newly erected partition wall in the 
 West. The old nave of the Church was not sold, but was 
 afterward used for the Sunday School. The Church, thus 
 turned around, was fancifully decorated on the interior. 
 The old pulpit and the flag stone aisle were removed, and 
 the tow^er was converted into a place for holding coal. 
 
 The diagram on page 58 will show the nature and effect 
 of these alterations of 1840. 
 
 The pew set apart for the Colonial Governor was as- 
 signed after the revolution to the Mayor of the City of 
 Williamsburg, out of respect for his position and au- 
 thority. In 1825 it was occupied by Mr. Wm. T. Gait, 
 who, while Mayor of the city, officially received and wel- 
 comed La Fayette when he visited the place.' 
 
 The pew occupied by the Colonial Governors has been 
 designated in diagram on page 58 as located at the north- 
 east comer of the Church Governor John Page is known 
 to have occupied the pew located at this comer facing 
 south. Mr. Wm. T. Gait and Mr. Robt. Saunders," both 
 mayors of Williamsburg, are known to have occupied the 
 pew intersecting Governor Page's pew just at the corner 
 and facing East, before the change ot 1840, and subse- 
 quently facing West. The Colonial Governor doubtless 
 occupied a large square pew, which would have embraced 
 them both, and enabled him to sit just opposite the 
 corner pulpit located at the south-east comer, or, by sit- 
 ting on the other side of the pew, to face the Chancel in the 
 East. There are letters extant which locate these as the 
 pews of the above named persons; and there is one 
 persons still living who remembers the red canopy hang- 
 ing there which originally marked the pew of the Colonial 
 Governor. In 1704 the Governor occupied a pew on the 
 south side of the Chancel. (See p. 42). 
 
 z From an old letter. ' Mrs. Robt. Saunders was the daughter of 
 Governor John Page. 3 Mrs. Randolph Harrison. 
 
Sg§oBa'555 
 
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IMstortcal JVotce 59 
 
 ^be lPew0 IRenteb ®ut 
 
 On the 22d day of May 1840, in order to obtain 
 revenue, it was resolved, that the pews of the Church be 
 rented out ; and on the 22d day of May, 1840, there ap- 
 pears the followinp' record : 
 
 No. 5, to Miss B. Page, twenty dollars; No. 6, to Mrs. 
 Coleman, twenty-five dollars; No. 7, to Richard Randolph, 
 twenty-five dollars ; No. 8, to Dickie Gait, thirty dollars ; 
 No. 9, to H A. Burwell, thirty dollars; No. 11, to John 
 Coke, thirty dollars; No. 12, to A. G. Southall, thirty-two 
 dollars and fifty cents ; No. 13, to William Martin, thirty 
 dollars; No. 14, to R. P. Waller, forty-two dollars ; No. 15, 
 toA. D. Gait, twenty dollars; No. 16, to Ro. P. Waller, 
 thirty-three dollars. No. 17, to G. Durfey, twenty-five dol- 
 lars ; No. 18, to W. W. Vest, twenty -five dollars ; No. 19, to 
 W. W. Tyler, fifteen dollars. No. 20, to S. S. Griflin, fifteen 
 dollars; No. 21, to Robert Anderson, forty dollars; No. 22, 
 to Robert Anderson, forty dollars; No. 23, to Tho. R. 
 Dew, fifty dollars ; No. 24, to Robert Anderson, fifty dol- 
 lars; No. 25, to B. Tucker, fifty dollars; No. 26, to Ro. 
 Saunders, fifty dollars; No. 27, to John B. Christian, forty 
 dollars; No. 28, to Jesse Cole, forty dollars; No. 29, to 
 Sam. F. Bright, forty dollars ; No. 30, to R. M. Garrett, 
 forty-five dollars ; No. 31, to Thos. G. Peachy, forty dol- 
 lars; No. 32, to J. C. Sheldon, fifty dollars; No. 33, to 
 Dabney Browne, forty dollars; No. 34, to Robert 
 McCandlish, sixty dollars ; No. 35, to Moreau Bowers, 
 thirty-seven dollars ; No. 36, to WiUiam H. Pierce, forty 
 dollars ; No. 37, to Benjamin Hansford, thirty dollars ; 
 No. 38, to Lucius F. Gary, forty dollars ; No. 39, to John 
 Millington, thirty-four dollars ; No. 40, to William Edloe, 
 thirty-six dollars; No. 41, to John M. Gak, twenty-two 
 dollars ; No. 42, to Mrs. Mary Shield, twenty-four dollars; 
 No. 43, to Henley Taylor, fifteen dollars ; No. 44, to Mrs. 
 Henry Edloe, twenty dollars; No. 45, to John Tyler, fifteen 
 dollars; No. 46, to Mrs. Mary Carter, ten dollars; No. 48, 
 to Mrs. Miller, ten dollars. 
 
60 mstoHcal Notes 
 
 At a meeting of the vestry held Jan. 23rd, 1878, it was 
 "Resolved, That the pews in this Church are free and all 
 persons are invited to attend our services." 
 
 ^own Clocft llMacc^ in Cburcb Steeple 
 
 On the 14th day of July, 1840, on motion, it was 
 Resolved, That the Town authorities have permission to 
 have the town clock removed to the Church and fixed up 
 therein. 
 
 "At a meeting of the vestry held on the 8th of May, 
 1841, it was "Resolved, That the Church be fitted up in the 
 usual emblems of mourning on Friday the 14th day of 
 May, in compliance with the recommendation of the 
 President of the United States, because of our national 
 bereavement in the recent death of Wm. Henry Harrison, 
 our late President." 
 
 The Revd. William Hodges, D.D., resigned in 1848, and 
 was succeeded by the Revd. Henry M. Denison, who con- 
 tinued rector until March, 1850. He was again elected 
 rector in 1852. He was succeeded in 1856 by the Revd. 
 Geo. Wilmer, D. D., who was rector for one year. Dr. 
 Wilmer was followed in the rectorship by Revd. Thomas 
 Ambler, who served as rector for twelve years, from 1860 
 to 1872. 
 
 On the 1st day of May, 1852, "On motion it was re- 
 solved. That a Gallery be erected, and that Dr. Jno. M. 
 Gait and Mr. G. Durfey be appointed a Committee to 
 draft a plan and to let the same to the lowest bidder." 
 
 The last entry in the Vestry book, preceding the Civil 
 War, was made on April 13, 1853, at which time the fol- 
 lowing gentlemen were enrolled as Vestrymen: 
 
 Robert Saunders, Goodrich Durfey, Robert T. Cole, 
 M. Galt,R. M. Garrett, C.Jos. Coleman, Turner Christian, 
 W. W. Vest, John A. Henley, Joshua Walker, Jr., William 
 Waller, Robert McCandlish. 
 
IMstoncal JVotca 61 
 
 The Revd. Thos. M. Ambler, who was Rector of the 
 Church during the time of the Civil War, states that one 
 year after the battle of Williamsburg, some if not all of 
 the Communion silver of the Church was removed from 
 the city, and taken by him to South Carolina and else- 
 where, and brought back by him at the conclusion of the 
 war. 
 
 He farther states that no service w^as held in the 
 Church during the war because the authorities would not 
 allow the service unless the prayer for the President of the 
 United States was said. During a part of this time the 
 Church w^as used as a hospital for the Confederate sol- 
 diers. The services, however, were not abandoned, for 
 Revd. Mr. Ambler held regular services on Sunday at his 
 home, which continued until he left the city to enter the 
 army as a commissioned Chaplain. After the war he re- 
 turned as rector, and visited the north, securing $250 for 
 repairing the roof of the Church. 
 
 The first entry in the Vestry book after the Civil War 
 was made on October, 1865, at which time the following 
 gentlemen were enrolled : 
 
 Revd Thos. M. Ambler, Rector; Mr. Robert Saunders, 
 Mr. P. Montague Thompson, Mr. W. W. Vest, Mr. R. F. 
 Cole, Mr. J. C. Munford, Mr. E. Taliaferro, Mr. Richard 
 Hansford, Mr. G. Durfey, Mr. Wm. S. Peachy, Mr. John 
 A. Henley, Dr. Robert Garrett. 
 
 After the rectorship of Revd. Thos. M. Ambler, the 
 Revd. Geo. Wilmer, D. D., was for the second time elected 
 rector in 1872, and served four years. The Revd. Jaquelin 
 Meredith served as rector from 1876 to 1877; Revd. 
 Henry Wall, S. D. T., from 1877 to 1880 ; Revd. Alexander 
 Overby from 1880 to 1885; the Revd. F. G. Burch from 
 1885 to 1887 ; The Revd. Lyman B. Wharton, D. D , now 
 Professor of Latin in the College of William and Mary, 
 was rector in 1888 ; The Revd. T. C. Page served as rector 
 from 1889 to 1893 ; and the Revd. WiUiam T. Roberts 
 from 1894 to 1902. 
 
62 IMstovical Notes 
 
 At a meeting of the vestry of the Bruton Parish held 
 in the lecture room on Monday, the 5th of April, 1873, on 
 motion it was "Resolved, That the rector, Revd. George 
 T. Wilmer, is hereby requested to furnish any information 
 in his possession relative to any of the missing records of 
 this Parish, or their contents, and report at his con-, 
 venience to the Vestry. 
 
 At a vestry meeting held on October 27, 1885, it was 
 "Resolved, That a committee appointed be authorized 
 and empowered to contract to have a tin roof put upon 
 the Church." 
 
 "At a meeting of the vestry of Chnst Church,* Bruton 
 Parish, held on March 2nd, 1886, the Revd. Francis M. 
 Burch, Rector, being present, it was determined : First, 
 to repair the floor and make it perfectly secure ; second, 
 that the walls should be plastered and kalsomined; third, 
 that the side lamps should be removed, and the Church 
 lighted by chandeliers; fourth, that the present Pulpit 
 (see illustration showing interior view 1840-1886,) 
 be taken down, and reading desk and Pulpit and Com- 
 munion table supplied ; fifth, that the Gallery in the north 
 end of the Church be removed." 
 
 For these, and other repairs, the "Catharine Memorial 
 Society" placed $300 in the treasury of the Church. The 
 changes determined upon were made, and the furniture for 
 the chancel purchased. The pulpit purchased by this 
 Society was subsequently presented to St. John's Church, 
 Petersburg, Va. 
 
 On March 24, 1887, the vestry granted the request of 
 "The Catharine Memorial Society to repair the old monu- 
 ments in the church yard, and otherwise to put in order 
 as their means would justify." 
 
 On February 12th, 1902, "the rector, Revd. W. T. 
 Roberts, reported that the deed to the Parish house had 
 been made in the name of the trustees of the Church, and 
 
 * We occasionally, at this time, find Bruton Church thus designated, 
 without authority. 
 

BfetoHcal Notes 63 
 
 had been recorded." This Parish house was secured in 
 order to make room for the Sunday School and Parish 
 meetings, in view of the restoration of the Church which 
 was then contemplated. 
 
 ^be •Rcstoratton of the Cburcb 
 
 It has long been thought that the comparatively 
 modern changes which were made in the Church in 1840, 
 destroying its ancient cruciform shape, were out of keeping 
 with the rest of the building; and that the interior of the 
 Church should be restored to its ancient form. 
 
 The following account of the action of the congrega- 
 tion and Vestry, which appeared in the Southern Church- 
 man of May 30, 1903, will show what has been deter- 
 mined upon in this matter : 
 
 "At a meeting of the vestry of Bruton Church, held 
 Saturday evening, May 23rd, the rector, the Revd. W. A. R. 
 Goodwin, stated that he had, at the request of the vestry, 
 presented the question of the restoration of the Church to 
 the congregation on Sunday morning, May 19th, and 
 asked that those opposed to such restoration, if any, should 
 so inform the rector, and that at the service held May 17, 
 S P. M., at the visitation of the Bishop, the rector had stated 
 that final action on this matter would be taken by the vestry 
 on May 23d ; that no member of the congregation had 
 offered any opposition to the plan, but that a great many 
 had expressed their hearty approval of the undertaking. 
 
 Mr. Mercer moved, that whereas no objection had 
 -come to the knowledge of the vestry on the part of any 
 member of the congregation to the proposed restoration 
 of the Church edifice, therefore, be it 
 
 Resolved, That the vestry proceed with the considera- 
 tion of the restoration proposed by Dr. Garrett at the 
 meeting of the vestry, held May 8, 1903, which is in the 
 following words, to-wit: 
 
 "Resolved, Tha t it is the sense of the vestry to restore Bru- 
 ton Church to its original form, provided the move on their 
 
64 ntstoHcal Notes 
 
 part meets with the approval of a maj ority of the members of 
 the Church, and that the rector be requested to present this 
 matter to the congregation and ascertain their views on 
 the subject, and to report to the vestry at some future 
 meeting." 
 
 It is further provided that no steps in this matter 
 shall be taken until the necessary funds have been received. 
 This was unanimously carried. 
 
 Dr. Garrett thereupon moved that the vestry proceed 
 to take such steps as shall be necessary to restore Bruton 
 Church to its original form ; provided, however, that no 
 work shall be undertaken until the necessary funds shall 
 have been secured, and the rector is hereby authorized to 
 solicit contributions for this purpose, and that all funds 
 collected for this object be turned over to the treasurer of 
 the Church and be deposited in bank on interest-bearing 
 account. Unanimously adopted. 
 
 The rector suggested that the vestry associate with 
 themselves, in the restoration of the Church, an advisory 
 committee, consisting of the Rt. Revd. A. M. Randolph, 
 Revd. Dr. B. D. Tucker, Diocese of Southern Virginia ; Revd. 
 J. J. Gravatt, Diocese of Virginia ; Revd. Dr. Randolph 
 H. McKim, Washington, D. C; Revd. Dr. William B. 
 Huntington, Diocese of New York; Mr. J. Frederick 
 Kernachan, New York, and such others as they 
 may deem proper. This suggestion was unanimously 
 agreed to. 
 
 It is gratifying to the vestry to be able to say that 
 after a full and free discussion of the proposed restoration 
 of the dear old Church, not only in the sessions of the 
 vestry, and among the congregation, but with many dis- 
 tinguished visitors, we are yet to hear of any serious 
 opposition on the part of any one, and we are assured 
 that the funds necessary to make the changes contem- 
 plated will soon be available. We have already some sub- 
 stantial promises of aid." H. D. Cole, 
 
 Registrar of the Vestry. 
 
IKstoHcal Notes 
 
 65 
 
 The experience and kno-wledge of the gentlemen as- 
 sociated with ns on the advisory committee will be of 
 great service to the vestry in the undertaking, and will 
 give to the Church at large the assurance that the work 
 will be wisely planned and execnted. 
 
IFn ^emodam 
 
 OD, through nature, has done much to make 
 
 G beautiful the spacious grounds where the 
 
 old Church stands. Each season gives to 
 the place a special charm, and a varied love- 
 liness. The spring calls forth the wild 
 butter-cups which spread themselves over 
 the entire grounds like a rich cloth of gold. 
 The summer breathes upon the roses which 
 blossom forth and bloom here among the 
 tombs and above the green graves of the 
 dead of other days. The ancient trees, fuU- 
 leaved, cast upon the dark walls of the old 
 Church deep shadows which lengthen and 
 deepen with the dying day. Then the touch of autumn 
 tells that another year is beginning to die. The berries 
 redden on the English hawthorn tree which stands near 
 by the ancient tower door; the vine, clinging to the north 
 wall of the Church, turns crimson ; and the leaves flush 
 with varied color, then fall and die. In the bleak winter 
 the wind, as if at requiem, sighs through the bare trees, 
 and moans about the walls and tower of the old Church. 
 Only the ivy which mantles the eastern end of the build- 
 ing, and clings to the old trees in the Church yard, re- 
 mains green. But the scene is one of matchless beauty, 
 when, from heaven, the mantle of spotless white softly 
 falls o'er Church, and tombs, and bending trees. And 
 then, again, there come the glad days that speak of life, 
 and suggest thoughts of immortality. Dormant vital 
 forces stir and breathe and move. The air is filled with 
 the music of birds singing as they nest in the trees in the 
 Temple court, and is ladened with the perfume of the 
 hawthorn bloom, and violets come forth and weave a 
 border of purple and green about the bases of the tombs. 
 
 Through the many changing seasons, unchanged the 
 Church has stood. The touch of time has been gentle and 
 
IHstoHcal Notce 67 
 
 forbearing. Through widening cracks the old Church, at 
 times, has made mute appeals for protecting care, to 
 which those who loved her have responded. The ancient 
 tower, through which so many of the living and the dead 
 have passed, is even now^ appealing for repairs to protect 
 its strength. What time has spared so long and hallowed, 
 must not suffer harm from man's neglect. To secure its 
 protection and preservation the Church should be 
 ENDOWED. This endowment should be given, not to main- 
 tain the living service, which it is the privilege of those 
 who w^orship here to do, but to provide a perpetual 
 fund for the preservation of the old Church building, and 
 for the rightful care of the grounds where sleep the dead 
 who worshipped here, and loved, as we do now, this 
 sacred soil w^hich now^ enshrines their dust. This endow- 
 ment would be a fitting tribute from the living to the 
 memory of the dead, and would be to the glory of God 
 Who has watched over and protected this ancient and 
 hallowed Temple which bears witness to the faith and 
 devotion of our fore-fathers. 
 
Communion Silver 
 
 HE Church has at present three sets of Com- 
 munion Silver, which on account of their 
 sacred associations and antiquity are highly- 
 prized and carefully preserved. The follow- 
 ing description of this plate is taken from 
 a book entitled "Old Plate," by John H. 
 Buck, published by the Gorham Manufac- 
 turing Co., New York, 1888, pp. 210-212: 
 
 Zbc Jamestown Cburcb Service 
 
 "CHALICE, H 10% in. PATEN, Dia 7 in. 
 
 One mark, | y^, oval object below, plain 
 
 shield. 
 
 Inscription on each : JMlxc not boly tbtnges with pro- 
 fane. 6x dono frandsd Morrison, Hrmigeri* Hnno Domi 
 i66i. This maker's mark is on the celebrated cup form- 
 erly belonging to the Blacksmith's Company, London, 
 1655, and purchased at the Dexter sale for no less a sum 
 than £378, and it is also found in a shaped shield on the 
 copper plate preserved at Goldsmith's Hall 1675-1697. 
 
 ALMS BASIN, Dia 9% in. Four marks : 1, Lion pas- 
 sant; 2, Leopard's Head, crowned; 3, Small Roman a,' 
 London 1739: 4, maker's mark, .T F. (Thomas Farren). 
 Inscription: for the uee of lames City Parish Church. 
 This service has been in use in Bruton Church since the 
 Church at Jamestown was abandoned. (See illustration.) 
 
 »ruton iparifib Cburcb 
 
 Two-handled CUP AND COVER, gilt H 3% in. ; Dia. 
 414 in. Four marks: Lion passant; 2, Leopard's Head, 
 crowned ; 3, black letter small i London 1686; 4, maker's 
 mark P • Hf crown and two ermine spots above, crescent 
 below, shaped escutcheon, Peeter Harache. This maker's 
 
 •Francis Morrison was at this time acting Governor of the Colony, 
 ' This should be small Roman d, London, 1739. 
 
^ 
 
 » 
 
 0) 
 
IMstoHcal JNTotca 69 
 
 mark is also to be found on the copper plate preserved at 
 Goldsmith's Hall. 
 
 PATEN, Dia 5% in. Four marks: 1, Lion passant; 
 2, Leopard's Head, crowned ; 3, small Roman b,' London 
 
 C 
 
 1737; 4, maker's mark R» 6. (Richard Gurney and Co.) 
 
 C 
 The cup is beautifully chased and embellished with 
 applique leaves and bears private arms, the Paten is of 
 less delicate w^orkmanship. (See illustration.) 
 
 [The following letter in reference to the two-handled 
 cup and cover written recently is inserted here, as it con- 
 tains additional information in regard to thisMlver which 
 has been commonly known as the Queen Anne Service.] 
 
 49 North 8th Ave., Mount Vernon, N. Y., 
 October 21, 1903. 
 Revd. Sir:— 
 
 The Gorham Co. have handed me your favor of the 
 17th inst., to reply to. You are welcome to use the re-' 
 quired matter from "Old Plate," as you suggest. In 1897 
 I received a letter from the President of William and Mary 
 College" with regard to the cup and cover now in use in 
 your church. "I have a letter of Samuel Athaires from 
 London to the President and Masters of the college, under 
 date 29th July, 1775, in which it is stated that he has in 
 his custody 'the gilt sacramental cup and patten, together 
 with the bible which was left by Lady Gooch to the col- 
 lege of William and Mary, and which, when the times 
 would permit he would send addressed to the Bursar of 
 that seminary.' Now Lady Gooch was Rebecca, daugh- 
 ter of William Stanton, Esq." (the arms on the dexter 
 side of shield engraved on cup are those of Stanton). "I 
 suppose the cup and bible fell into the custody of the 
 church through Revd. John Bracken, who was president 
 
 1 The letter on the paten is a small Roman q, London, 1751. 
 
 2 Lyon G. Tyler, M. A., LL. D. 
 
70 IMatortcal Notes 
 
 of the college in 1812, and also minister of Bruton 
 Church. Yours very truly, 
 
 John H. Buck. 
 
 ^be Iking <5eorgc Service 
 
 FLAGON, H IOV2 in. CHALICE, H 10 in. ALMS 
 BASIN, Dia 10 in. Four marks on Flagon : 1, Lion pas- 
 sant; 2, Leopard's Head, crowned; 3, Old English capi- 
 tal JS' London 1766; 4, maker's mark S-!^ crowned 
 (Thos. Heming). 
 
 On Chalice the maker's mark is wanting, and the 
 date letter is an old Old English 31, London 1764, there 
 are no marks on the Alms Basin. All engraved wth the 
 Royal Arms between the initials Gl | | | R with motto 
 Tiotit 9oit qui mal y pcnec" 
 
 Plate of the same date and by the same maker is at 
 Trinity Church, New York. ' ' (See illustration. ) 
 
 These services of communion silver, when not in use, 
 are kept in a fire-proof vault in a building of the Eastern 
 State Hospital. 
 
 tTbe font 
 
 According to tradition the Font in Bruton Church 
 was used in the Church at Jamestown, and was brought 
 from that place when the House of Burgesses was moved 
 to Williamsburg, in 1699. 
 
 Font Stones 
 
 In the Calendar of State Papers Vol. I, page 35, there 
 is the following record relating to the importation of 
 Font Stones : 
 
 "OiK order more, fame date (Hpril 19, 169*), concern- 
 ing font stones at Cindall's Point, Mr. Robt. Read one, 
 
 I This old English L is not exactly the same form as the style of L 
 on the silver. 
 
►5 
 
IMstovical ]Sotc8 71 
 
 Capt. Zhorp one, & by Capt. Cborp*8 Inf ormation to my 
 Under 8hcHf, Capt. ffra. Page one, Capt. lames Hrcber, 
 otK & y* 3W Stone in Brougbton, p'ifh Church is ye fame, & 
 y^ Capt. page gave his Receipt for them, but to wbome he 
 Knows not.** 
 
 The tradition in the Parish is that when the James- 
 town font was brought to Williamsbarg, the one im- 
 ported in 1692 was given to one of the neighboring 
 Churches. 
 
 Z\yc -BeW 
 
 The bell which has rung out the years for more than 
 . a century and a quarter, has engraved upon it; "The gift 
 of James Tarpley to Bruton Parish, 1761." There was 
 a still older bell, which has been referred to, for the vestry, 
 in 1769, entered an order for their contractor, Benjamin 
 Powell, to have the "Old Bell and the materials of the old 
 steeple." The ancient clock still looks down from the 
 steeple, but for many years it has been unmindful of the 
 flight of time. 
 
 Qlb IRecor^ Boohs 
 
 The old Parish Register of the Church is still in the 
 possession of the Vestry. It was found some years ago 
 in a box of papers where it had doubtless been hid for 
 safe keeping during the war. During this time it was 
 badly mutilated by some person, ignorant of its value. 
 A large number of pages were torn from the front and 
 back of the book. It now contains the records of Bap- 
 tisms from 1739 to May 21st, 1797, and the record of 
 Deaths from April 13th, 1662, to December 18th, 1761. 
 Thus it would appear that pages containing the record of 
 seventy-seven years were torn from the front, and pages 
 containing the record of deaths for thirty-six years were 
 torn from the back. The book that remains has been 
 rebound, and is kept in an iron safe. 
 
72 THstovkul Notes 
 
 The entries in this Old Parish register prior to 1674, 
 seem to belong to one of the adjacent churches, probably 
 to the one located in Marston Parish, which was united 
 with Middletown Parish in 1674. The Baptismal record 
 in this book shows with what care the members of the 
 Church provided spiritual ministration for the children 
 of their servants. The illustration given shows two pages 
 of this ancient record. 
 
 As stated in the introduction, the old vestry book of 
 the Parish was either lost or destroyed during the wars, 
 or was burned with the house of Revd. John McCabe in 
 Hampton. 
 
 Extracts from Sermons preacbc^ tn Bruton 
 (tburcb h^ Commissari? Blair, 1710*1743 
 
 On Lying and Swearing 
 
 "Thus now I have done with my text ; but I am afraid 
 I have done no good all this while, and that the evil one, 
 from whom the spirit of lying and swearing comes, will 
 be abundantly too hard for all that I can say or do to 
 fortify you against his devices. Learn, I beseech you, this 
 easy part of Christianity, to be men of your word, and to 
 refrain from the evil custom of swearing ; and to refrain 
 from it from a right principle — the fear of God. I know 
 no vice that brings more scandal to our Church of Eng- 
 land. The Church may be in danger from many enemies; 
 but perhaps she is not so much in danger from any as from 
 the great number of profane persons that pretend to be of 
 her; enough to make all serious people afraid of our 
 society, and to bring down the judgments of God upon us, 
 for 'by reason of swearing the land mourneth.' But be 
 not deceived: our Church has no principles that lead to 
 swearing more than the dissenters ; but, whatever, Church 
 is uppermost, there are always a great many who, having 
 no religion at all, crowd into it and bring it into disgrace 
 and disreputation ; but the time is coming that the tares 
 
IMstorfeal Notes 73 
 
 must be separated from the wheat ; and they shall be cast 
 with the evil one— the devil that loved them— into hell; 
 bnt the angels shall carefully gather the "wheat into God's 
 bam. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do 
 them." 
 
 On the Vanity of Apparei, 
 
 "I doubt not but it was designed to cast a slur upon 
 the vanity of apparel, since it is a thing of so little estima- 
 tion in the sight of God that He bestows it in the highest 
 degree on the meanest of his creatures. For it is to be 
 presutned, had it been a thing of any great worth in itself, 
 instead of bestowing these admirable varieties of colors, 
 gildings, and embroideries upon tulips. He would have be- 
 stowed them upon creatures of higher dignity. Whereas, 
 on mankind He has bestowed but very sparingly of these 
 gaudy colors and features ; a great part of them being 
 black, a great part of them being tauny, and a great part 
 being of other wan and dusky complexions, show^ that it 
 is not the outward gaudy beauty that He values, but the 
 ornaments of the mind — Christian graces and virtues — 
 which, in His sight, are of great price." 
 
Hppenbiji: 
 
Hppenbtr E 
 
 HE following notes give an account of the In- 
 duction controversy mentioned on page 23. 
 **Ch« foUowtng from Sir edward JVoithy, 
 Knigbtt her JMajesty'B (Queen Hnm's) Httor- 
 ney-6eiKral for the Colony, given in the pre- 
 ceding j»car, opens the case between the Teatry 
 and Mr. dbateley. It te hie opinion— 
 
 "On consideration of ye Laws of Virginia 
 provision being made by an act Intituled 
 Church to be built or Chapel of Sase, for the 
 building a Church in each parish, and by the 
 act intituled Ministers to be Inducted: that 
 Ministers of each parish shall be inducted On 3;e presentation 
 of ye parishioners. Hnd ye Church Cdardens being by ye 
 Hct, Instituted Church hardens to heep ye Church in re- 
 pair, and provide Ornaments, to Collect ye Minister's dues, 
 and by ye act for the better support & maintenance of ye 
 Clergy, provision being made for ye Ministers of ye parishes, 
 and by ye said act for inducting Ministers, ye ©ovemour be- 
 ing to Induct >>e Ministers to be presented, and thereby, he 
 being constituted Ordinary and as Bishop of ye planticon, 
 and with a power to punish Ministers preaching Contrary 
 to ye Law— I am Of Opinion ye Hdvowson and right of 
 presentation to ye Churches is subject to the Law of 6ng- 
 iand, (there being no express Law of that plantation made 
 further concerning the same.) Chcrefore when the parish- 
 ioners present thier Clerhe, and he is Inducted by ye ©over- 
 nour, (who is to, and must Induct On ye presentation of yt 
 parishioners,) the Incumbent is in for his life, and Cannot 
 be displaced by ye parishioners.- If ye parishioners do not 
 present a Minister to the ©ovemour within six months after 
 any Church shall become Toyd, Che ©ovemour as Ordinary 
 shall ii may Collate a Clerhe to said Church by Law; and 
 his Collatee shall hold ye Church for his life. If ye parish- 
 ioners have never presented, they have a reasonable time to 
 
Induction Controversy 77 
 
 present a Minister, but if they will not present, being required 
 so to do, the Govemour mxy also, in their default. Collate a 
 Minister. In inducting Ministers by ye 6o\>emour On ye 
 presentation of ye parish, or on his own Collation, he is to 
 see the Ministers be qualified according as that act for In- 
 ducting Ministers requires. In Case of ye Hvoydance of any 
 Church, ye 6ovemour, (as Ordinary of 3^ Plantation) is, ac- 
 cording to the statute 28: I> 8th, Cap. 1 1, Sect. 5, to appoint 
 a Minister to Officiate till the Parish shall present one, Or 
 ye six months being lapsed, and such person appointed to 
 officiate in ye Tacancy, is to be paid for his services out of 
 ye profitts thereof from ye time ye Church became Voyd. 
 By the Law above stated in this case, )So Minister is to 
 officiate as such till he hath shewed to ye 6ovemour be is 
 qualified according as ye said act directs. If the Testry do 
 not levie ye tobacco for ye Minister, ye Courts then must 
 decree the same to be levied. 
 
 "edward JVorthy, 
 ■July ye Z9th, 1703." 
 "Mt a Council held at CQilliamsburg ye 3 d day of March, [ 1 704,] 
 
 present, Ris 6xcellency in Council. 
 Upon reading at this Board Sir 6dward Worthy, Knight, 
 her Majesty's Httomey General, his Opinion upon ye act of 
 Hssembly of this Colony, relating to ye Church, and par- 
 ticularly Concerning Induction of Ministers,— Ris 6xcellency 
 in Council is pleased to order that a Copy of ye said Sir 
 6dward Worthy his opinion be sent to ye Churchwardens of 
 each parish within this Colony, Requiring them dpon ye re- 
 ceipt thereof forthwith to call a Testry, &, there to cause the 
 same to be read and entered into ye Testry books, to ye end 
 ye said Testrys may offer to bis 6xcellency what they thinh 
 proper thereupon. 
 
 "Ulm. Robertson, Clerh Council 
 
 ''ff. IVicholson." 
 
 "Sir 6dward North)?'s Opinion being read to yt Testry, 
 Mr. 7ohn page is requested by them to draw an answer on 
 ye foil: heads.— Being without a Minister, have &, shall do 
 our utmost 6ndeavour to gett one. 
 
78 Induction Controvcvsy 
 
 ''He to j^e Right of presentation and Induction, tbinh it 
 too Weighty a matter for us to handle, but hope ye ^Slorship- 
 full Heeembly Convened will tatte care for yc Clearing of yt 
 point." 
 
 "Mr. Solomon CKhately, it eeeme, was not disposed to 
 submit tamely to be thrust out, and accordingly, 
 
 **Ht a Testry held ye zzd day of May, 1704, present 
 Ris 6xcellency, 
 Ml*. Solomon Slhatelev, Minister, 
 Col. Phil Ludwell, Mi*, ^m. pinhethman, 
 Mr. ■?ohn Dormer, Mi*. Olm. Ransford, 
 Capt. Rugh Norwell, Mr. Joseph ^bite, 
 "Che petition of Solomon ^bateley, Clerhe, humbly sbeweth 
 to Bis excellency ffrancia Nicholson, her Majesty's Lieutenant 
 & Governor General of Virginia.— Mav it please your excel- 
 lency, that upon yt death of Mr. Cope Doyley, late Minister 
 of Bruton pai'ish, (lying part in ye County of "York, and part 
 in ye Countv of Jamestown,) the Testry of ye said Parish 
 holding a meeting were pleased (without "Your petitioner's 
 seeking to any of them, or so much as knowing of ye 
 Tacancy,) by Common Consent to make ye following Order." 
 Bere follows the order made in Testry 17th Oct., 1702, in- 
 viting Ml*, ^nhateley to officiate, &, desiring the ©ovcmour 
 to give "the same Mv. dbateley leave to remow from ye 
 parish where he is now entertained, and also to invite ye 
 said Mf. OTbateley to take upon him the Cure of this Parish. 
 Hccording to which ye petitioner, with your excellency's 
 Consent, and also probation given in form and manner as in 
 ye said Order specified, presented himself at CQilliamsburg, 
 where, to bis great surprise, he found 3;e said Testry by an 
 unaccountable change of mind in some of them, divided 
 among themselves upon some causeless debate relating to ye 
 said Order; which, however, at last upon your petitioner 
 having been putt to many unnecessary troubles and expenses, 
 at another Testry holden December ye 1 3th, 1702, terminated 
 in ye order following:— Sunday, December ye i3th, 1702. 
 Ordered that ye Reverend Mr. Solomon Qlhateley be enter- 
 
Induction Controversy 79 
 
 tained Minister of this parish for One "^ear, to begin at 
 Christmas next, alloiving 3^ Salary according to Law; in 
 Conformity to which two Orders of Vestry, (though the 
 btter seeming very materially to derogate from ye former,) 
 Xour petitioner at ye time prefixed entered upon ye said 
 Cure, & continued without any lett or impediment to 
 officiate in ye same, faithfully discharging all ye duties and 
 affairs of his place in ye said Parish tilt the tenth day of 
 ffeb: last past,— when, notwithstanding tour 6xcellency 
 being then known to be at your own home so neare adjoining 
 to ye Church where the Testry was held, and being at least 
 one of the Most Considerable Inhabitants of the said parish, 
 &, whose Consent one would have thought might have been 
 as necessarily required to the turning out of the Minister as 
 it was to the taMng him in, "Yet they were pleased to mahe 
 ve two Orders following^— 
 
 CBcre follow the two orders, dismissing Mr. Ctlhateley, 
 after zsth day of March, and authorizing CoU Ludwell to 
 invite the Rev. Mr. 6race to officiate in the Parish.] 
 
 ^Che said Rev. Mr. 6race having indeed received the in- 
 vitation Mentioned in ye said Order, but (as being a Gentle- 
 man newly arrived in this province, &■ unacquainted with 
 such hind of proceedings,) reasonably judging it not proper 
 for him to intermeddle in an affair which boare ye aspect of 
 so unlucky a precedent against himself,— May it please yr 
 6xcellency, the case standing thus with your petitioner, he 
 could not think it proper for him to seek to proxKde for him- 
 self elsewhere, until he should have first laid ye whole Matter 
 before your 6xcellency, to whose Inspection (both as 6over- 
 nour and Ordinary within this province) he conceives things 
 of this nature properly to Hppertain ; without whose Knowl- 
 edge, therefore, he could not thinh it in his own power to dis- 
 pose of himself elsewhere,— to whose disposall, therefore, he 
 entirely submits himself, humbly supplicating your 6xcel- 
 lency's favorable regard ; and not doubting but that from so 
 Known a Patron of those that serve at 3^ Hltar, he shall 
 obtain what relief You shall in "^f^our Slisdom judge proper 
 
80 Induction Controversy 
 
 and reasonable to be afforded to a person of his profession 
 l3;ing under so sad and disheartening circumstances. Shall 
 \our petitioner (as in duty bound) allways pray for 'Your 
 excellency's long life and prosperity. 
 '\[our excellency's 
 
 Most tumble Petitioner 
 
 and 
 Most obedient Servant, 
 
 Solomon ^hatelcy." 
 
 **Che Testry were in a hard place. Mr. CQhateley's letter, 
 which is weli conceived, and flatteringly commended to his 
 "excellency's" consideration, is followed by the one written 
 by CoL Ludwell to the Rev. Mr. 6race, which gentleman, 
 feeling it bis duty to conciliate the Governor, had handed 
 Ludwell's epistle to Nicholson. Ludwell to Rev. Mr. 
 Grace:" 
 
 **Yorh, f f eby : 3^ 24, 1 704. 
 Rev. Sir,— I wrote to tou about a fortnight past, but 
 having heard nothing from tou> X suppose it miscarried. 
 Cherefore I send this to acquaint tou that the Church of 
 Bruton parish being Tacant, and the Testry having heard a 
 good character of you, have desire 1 me to invite You to come 
 and give them a Sermon, in order to your being chosen 
 Minister of that parish, if they lihe: I doubt not you will 
 maintain ye character Capt. Humphreys hath given me of 
 you, and should be gbd of so good a Guide. I suppose I 
 need not Commend ye parish to Tou, since every body can 
 tell Xou it is one of the best in Virginia. I suppose you also 
 know it is ye Parish wherein CQilliamsburg stands. I desire 
 to hear from Tou ^ soon as maybe. If you please to Cover 
 tour letter to Mf ♦ Charles Chiswell, at ye Secretar/s Office, 
 or QOalter Cromley, at Dr. Blair's store, in CQilliamsburg, it 
 will come safe to me. 
 
 tour Most Rumble Servant, 
 
 Phill. LudwelL" 
 
 "Chis letter I received from Coll. Ludwell at Capt. 
 
Induction Contvovtrey 81 
 
 KoyAlVa house, Bv what band it came I Imow not. Some 
 dxyo after I -went to ^iUiameburgb, and delivered it to yt 
 Govemour with my own bands. 
 
 Isaac Grace. 
 May ye Htb, 1704." 
 
 "Olhereas Coll. Ludvpell acquainted the above said Testry 
 that X sayd, Upon bis Invitation to that parish, I should 
 be glad of so good a one, if X might have it tvith ye 6over- 
 nour's liking,— X utterly deny X ever said any such thing, 
 ^e substance of My Hnswer, to 3^ best of my remembrance, 
 being, that yt 6ovemour bad a fmowledge of the matter, and 
 X would not intermeddle in it without his Conscnt.-HGQithall 
 returning Coll. Ludwell thanks for his Offer, 
 
 Xsaac Grace. 
 
 May ye 14th, «704,'' 
 
 "Immediately following, ]Vicholson orders the record of 
 the instructions sent from England: 
 
 ''Hnd to 3i>e end ye 6cclesiastical jurisdiction of yt said 
 Lord Bishop of London mav tahe place in that our Collony, 
 so far as Conveniently may, we do tbinh fit that to« do 
 give all Countenance and 6ncouragement of 3^ 6xercise of ve 
 Same, excepting only ye Collating to Benefices, Granting 
 Lycenses for Marriages and probate of wills, which we have 
 reserved to tou our Govemour as the Commander in Chief 
 of our said Collony for ye time being. 
 
 "XHic above-written is one of her Majesty's Royal In- 
 structions, bearing date ye iz day of December, 170*, and 
 sent to 
 
 ffr. Nicholson. 
 
 •'tou are not to prefer any Minister to any ... . benefit in 
 that our Colony without a Certificate from ye Right 
 Reverend father in God, ye Lord Bishop of London, of his 
 being Conformable to the Doctrine and discipline of ye 
 Church of 6ngland,and of a good life and Conversation: and 
 if any person already preferred to a Benefice, shall appear to 
 you to give scandal, either by his Doctrine or Manner, ^ou 
 
82 Induction Controversy 
 
 arc to U9C "^our best means for removal of Mm, and to 
 supply ye Tacancy in such manner as we have directed. 
 
 ""You arc to give Order further (if ye same be not already 
 done) that every orthodox Minister within "^our Govern- 
 ment be one of ye Testrv in his respective parish, and that no 
 Testry be held without him, except in Case of Sickness, or 
 that after Notice of a Testry Summoned, he omit to 
 come. 
 
 "tlou are to enquire whether there be any Minister within 
 your Government who preaches and administers the Sacra- 
 ments in any Orthodox Church or Chapell without being in 
 due Orders, and to give an account thereof to ye Lord Bishop 
 of London. 
 
 "Chese arc three of her Most Sacred Majesties Royal 
 Instructions, bearing date ye 12th day of December, 170*, 
 and sent to 
 
 ffra. Nicholson." 
 
 "Ht a Testry held ye third day of June, 1704, 
 Mv. dm. Omson, Capt. Bugb JVorwell, 
 Mr. «Jm. Ransford, Mi*. Joseph Cabite, 
 Coll. phiL LudwelC Mr. 'John page. 
 Mv. 'Ifohn Dorman, 
 
 ^Slbcreas the foregoing entry, bearing date ye22d day of 
 May, 1704, appears on Record as though they were entered 
 by order of Testry, the Testrjmien therein Mentioned, do 
 declare that the said entrys were not made by Order of 
 the Testry, but by Bis excellency's immediate Command to 
 the Clarh. Mi*. Solomon ^hateley came into the Testry 
 and made the following Terball proposition to this Testry, 
 (to wit)— dhat I have done Is in obedience to his excel- 
 lency's Command, &, I have never said to any person that I 
 have a right to this parish, nor do I insist on a right to it.— 
 Mr. dhateley likewise declared he preached by ycGovernour's 
 Command. 
 
 It being so late in ye day that ye Testry have not time 
 to consider of what was entere 1 in this Booh by bis excel- 
 lency's Command On ye zzd day of May last, &■ that of 
 
Induction Controversy 83 
 
 what Mr. mbatcUy hath now said. It is ordered that ye con- 
 sideracon thereof be referred to ye Next Testry." 
 
 "Che following address from the Testry to ©ovemor 
 Nicholson was spread upon record at the same meeting; 
 
 "May it please "^our 6xceUenc)i>— 
 me haw Sir 6dward )N[ortb)i>'s Opinion before us Con- 
 cerning ye Right of presentation and Induction of Minis- 
 ters, with an order of Council thereupon, by which find some 
 rcplyes expected,— but it being a Matter of too great height 
 & Consequence for us to determine. Cannot but hope ye 
 RexKsall of ye Laws, and ye Worshipful Hssembly, have and 
 will tahe such care as may effectually conduce to ye ctoosing 
 those beads and all others in relation to them, to ye future 
 ease and satisfaction of all. Hnd to the end our present 
 want of a Minister may be no way imputed to our Negli- 
 gence, thinh it not amiss to acquaint "^r 6xcellency our 
 utmost Sedulity hath not been wanting to procure one, and 
 hope the little chance in this country will, in some sort, 
 excuse our delay, together with ye refusal of one whom we 
 desired to entertain. iHc shall also use our Sincere en- 
 deavours to supply ye Tacancy, and give due obedience to 
 Law. mU are, with all submission, y,v excellences most 
 humble and obedient servants. 
 
 Signed by all ye Vestry." 
 
 ''On the 12th lune, 1704, the Churchwardens were cm- 
 powered to procure a Minister, and the subjoined declaration 
 was also put upon record: 
 
 "Hlhereas Mr. Solomon Whateley hath of late preached in 
 this parish (which for some time before he had f orebore to 
 do,) this Testry do declare that he doth it not any way with 
 their consent or approbation, and that they think themselves 
 no way obliged to pay him for ye same." Mr. CClbateley de- 
 livered, on the same day, into the bands of Philip Ludwell, 
 Churchwarden, the sum of ten pound, charity money, which 
 was in his bands; and before adjournment the following was 
 recorded: 
 
84 Induction Controversy 
 
 "June yc twelfth, 1704, 
 6ntered by Command of IHs 6xcellency, 
 Coll: phiL Ludwell, > ^g. Mr. lohn page, 
 
 Mr. ^ttltam ptnhetbman, i Mr. «lm. Cimson, 
 
 Mr. Benry Cylcr, Mr. OTm. I)ansf ord. 
 
 Capt. Rugb Norwell, 
 *^8 to ye Number of Vestrymen that Mett ye zz day of 
 May last, there -were six beside Yr Minister, tvhich bis 
 6xcellency 'Yc 6ovemour declares to be a Testry, being six, 
 the Major part of eleaven ; &. ColL Ludwell affirmed that six 
 was not ye Major part,— but to mahe no dispute ye Minister 
 being present. 
 
 "Cbe Testry's ansrper to Sir 6dward Worthy's Opinion, 
 and ye order of Council being read out of ye Boott, his ex- 
 cellency was pleased to Command all ye Gentlemen of ye 
 Testry to attend him att the Royal College of Cdilliam and 
 Mary on Monday, ye nineteenth of this Instant, about ten 
 o'clock. Ber Majesty's Httomey General, Mr. CDbarton, and 
 Mr. RoUoway being gone to ye County Court." 
 On the 19th day of february, 1705, 
 "dhcreas there was an Information Exhibited by ye last 
 General Court by the Httomey General in behalf of her 
 Majesty against yt Testry of this parish, and writs there- 
 upon being issued. Commanding ye appearance of 3;e Testry- 
 men therein named to Hnswer ye said information ye Next 
 General Court, the Testry doe thinh fitt to desire &, Im- 
 power Coll. Philip Ludwell and Mr. JOm. pinhethman, ye 
 present Churchwardens, — to defend and manage ye said 
 suit." 
 
 **Che following will show that while there was a disposi- 
 tion on the part of Governor Nicholson to conciliate the 
 Testry, yet the course pursued bv that worthv functionary, 
 in regard to the forcing upon them the Rev. Mr. ^hateley, 
 had not been forgotten on their parts; and though they accept 
 the gift of ''his excellency," it is done with such a sly in- 
 sinuation that one cannot help thinking they understood him 
 and his motives better than he suspected. 
 
Induction Controversy 85 
 
 "HtaTcstry heldfor Bruton Parish ycTthHuguet, 1705,*^ 
 
 "Bis 6xceUency the ©ovcmour sending to this Testry 
 
 (by ye band of fir. ^nu Robertson) Hn Hltar Cloth and 
 Cushion as a present for ye use of ye Parish, together with 
 fiftv shillings for ye use of ye poor, and desiring ye said gift 
 of fifty shillings might be recorded in the Testry booh as 
 being his excellency's usuall quarterly gift; and also what 
 bis excellency hath formerly given, together with an account 
 how ye same bath been disposed of ,— Oic Testry return this 
 answer by Mr. Robertson, (viz.) Qle return bis excellency 
 many thanks for ye Hltar Cloth, and also for ye fifty shill- 
 ings now sent— which we assure his 6xcellenc>^s shall be 
 registered; but not knowing it to be bis excellency's Con- 
 stant Custom, we cannot register it as such without we 
 know att present what his excellency bath given to the poor; 
 but we do promise to examine that matter against ye next 
 Testry, and what appears to us, then shall be registered." 
 
 patience, perseverance, and, doubtless, prudence on the 
 part of Mr. Cdbatelev, together with a show of right in bis 
 favor, and gubernatorial countenance, at last wrought a 
 change in the minds of the Testry, and accordingly like those 
 who felt it was "good and pleasant for brethren to dwelt 
 together in unity," on the zstb October, 1705, the Testry 
 made the following order, reserving however those "inalien- 
 able rights" which subsequent years incorporated in the great 
 Declaration of Hmerican Independence. 
 
 "Ht a Testry held for Bruton parish ye zsth Octobcr,^ 
 »705» present— 
 phiL Ludwell, esq. ) Mr. lohn page, 
 
 Mr.aim.pinketbman, f ^^^ Capt. Olm. Cimson, 
 edmunds Jennings, esq. Mr. «lm. Bansf ord, 
 
 Optain Bugh Norwcll, Mr. ffred; lones, 
 
 "Zht Testry taking into consideration that Mr. Solomon 
 Olhatelev hath been serviceable to yc parish in reading Divine 
 Service, and also in Preaching severall Sermons, from ye 
 first of May, 1704, to this time, and though be did not 
 officiate by ye direction or approbation of ye Testry, tet it 
 
86 Induction Controversy 
 
 being thought fitt 3^ he should have some satisfaction for Ms 
 trouble,— the Tcstry hath agreed to give yt said Mr. 
 dhateley Sixteen thousand pounds of Cobacco and Cashe, 
 as a gratuity for alt past service to this time,— and the 
 Testry have thought fttt to propose to ye said Mr. dhateley 
 to Officiate as Minister of this parish from this time to ye 
 first of May Next, provided Nevertheless that any thing 
 herein contained shall not be construed as the Testrys 
 owning Mv. Qlhateley to be Minister of this parish for ye 
 time past. Mr. ^bateley agreed." 
 
 '^tt a Testry held ye fifth day of December, 1706, Mk 
 Solomon CQhatetey, Mr. ^m. Hansford, and Mr. Joseph 
 CDhite, having desired to take ye oath appointed to be tattien 
 instead of ye oaths of Htlegiance and Supremacy, Che presi- 
 dent of Ber Majesty's Council did this day administer the 
 same, and they subscribed the Z^st." 
 
 "Che period had arrived when Mr. ^bateley was called 
 to "go the way of all flesh,'' and it must have gladdened the 
 heart of the old grey-haired Minister, that although at bis 
 election in 1705, it was specified he should be employed only 
 until the next May, be was permitted to remain in uninter- 
 rupted occupancy until "death did them part."* Che bst 
 Testry he attended was held the 14th September, 1710, anl 
 at a Testry held 20th November, 1710, his decease is 
 announced. 
 
 ''Mr. Ifohn page having acquainted the Testry that he 
 hath removed out of this Parish, & desiring ye Testry to 
 appoint Hnother in his room, they have thought fitt to make 
 choice of Mr. David Bray, Ac"! 
 
 ' For more of Mr. Whateley and "other clergy" who figured in the 
 Colony at and about this time, see Dr. Hawks' "Colonial Church 
 Papers," in Church Review for 1851. 
 
 t Both of these gentlemen were disting^nished in their day and gen- 
 eration. The first named held prominent office, (was subsequently Got- 
 emor,) and retiring from active public life, married Mary Mann, an 
 heiress of Gloucester, and built "Rosewell," the famed seat of elegance 
 and hosp;tality for more than a century. Mr. Bray filled several office* 
 of trnst and honor. 
 
EppetiMx IB 
 
 lepitapbs anb Unscdpttons on 
 
 fll>utal XCablets anb XTomb* 
 
 stones in IBruton Ipartsb 
 
 Cbutcb anb Cbutcb Karb 
 
 ftom 1678 to 1800 
 
 HE following inscriptions from the moral 
 tablets in Bruton Church, and from the 
 tomb-stones in Bruton Church yard, from 
 1678 to 1800, were published in VoL XI, of 
 Virginia Historical Society collections in 
 1891, by Professor J. L. Hall, Ph. D., of 
 William and Mary College. The foot notes 
 appended were inserted by Mr. R. A. Brock, 
 the Corresponding Secretary and Librarian 
 of the Society. We are glad, by the kind per- 
 mission of these gentlemen, to make use of 
 this material, for, as Dr. Hall remarks, "the 
 hand of time, and of the vandal, more re- 
 morseless than time, is fast chipping away our sepulchral 
 marbles." Some of the inscription copied then could not 
 now be taken from the tombs with the same degree of ac- 
 "curacy. Totheseinscriptionspublishedinl891 afewothers 
 of special interest, though of later date, have been added. 
 It is unfortunate that an "Association for the Pre- 
 servation of Virginia Antiquities" was not formed long 
 years ago. By the thoughtfiil and loving care of the 
 Society now in existence, what remains of the ancient 
 past is being carefully guarded and preserved ; but many 
 monuments of the olden days were destroyed before in- 
 terest in their preservation -was aroused. There are per- 
 sons, now living in Williamsburg, who remember when 
 ..there were many monuments in Bruton Church-yard 
 which now no longer remain. 
 
88 Cablets tn Bniton Cbuvcb 
 
 XTablets in Bruton Cbutcb 
 
 ^be Iparhe flDural tiablct 
 
 |H«ar tbis Marble Lyes 
 yc rkmblc Daniel parhe 
 of y« County of eeaex Geq wbo 
 was one of bis Ma:*"^ Counsellers 
 and some time Secretary of tbe 
 Collony of Tirg:a be Died y« 6th of 
 MarcbHnno 1679 
 fMs otber felicityes ware Crovmed by 
 bis bappy Marridg witb Rebbecba 
 tbe daugbter of 6eorge eveljwi 
 of tbe County of Surry esq sbe dyed 
 tbe i<* of lanuary Hnno 167* at Long 
 Ditton in y« County of Surry and 
 left bebind ber a most 
 bopefull progeny' 
 
 ^be ©rianbo 3ones tablet, in Hisle 
 
 I)ere lies in bope of a Blessed Resurrection 
 
 tbe Body of W" Orlando lones Son of M 
 
 Rowland lones, some time Minister of 
 
 tbis parisb. be was bom December y< 3 1 9t j 68 1 
 
 and Died lunc y« ti*^^ 1719 in y« 38th year of bis 
 
 Hge. be was twice Married bis first Cttifc wa[s] 
 
 I Colonel Daniel Parke had issue : two daagbters — Francis, who- 
 married John Custis ; and Lucy, the first wife of Colonel William Byrd 
 of "Westover," the second of the name. Colonel Parke went to Eng- 
 land, where he was appointed an aid-de-camp to the Duke of Marl- 
 borough ; was with him at the battle of Blenheim, and was selected to 
 convey the news of that memorable victory to Queen Anne. He was 
 subsequently appointed Governor of the Leward Islands, and was slain 
 in an insurrection there. — R. A, Brock. 
 
Cablets fn Bruton Chimh 89 
 
 W^ Martha Macon' Daughter of M** 0tdeoii 
 
 Macon of New-Kent by whom he left one 
 
 Son Named Lane &, one Daughter Named 
 
 frances, bis Second CCKfe was M^ Mary 
 
 QlUliams, Daughter of lames Williams 
 
 of King &, Queen County, who Greeted this 
 
 Monument to his Memory. 
 
 Zbe Cocfte riDural tEablet 
 
 MDLCCm 
 
 Inscribed to the Memory of 
 
 Dr. OliUiam Cocke, 
 
 Hn English physician. Bom of reputable parents 
 
 MDCLXXII 
 
 at Sudbury in Suffolk, 
 
 and 6ducated at Queen's College, Cambridge, 
 
 Re was learned and polite, 
 
 of indisputed Skill in bis profession, 
 
 of imbounded Generosity in his practice: 
 
 which multitudes, 3^t alive, can testify. 
 
 f)e was, many years, of the Council 
 
 and Secretary of State, for this Colony 
 
 In the Reign of Queen Hnne &■ of King George 
 
 fie died Suddenly, sitting a ludge upon the Bench 
 
 of the General Court in the Capitol: 
 
 MDCCXX 
 
 Bis Bon: friend Hlex^ Spotswood, Bsqr then Govr 
 
 2* She was married January 3 1, 1703 ; died May 11, 1716, and is 
 buried at the Macon homestead in New Kent connty. Her daughter 
 Frances is said to have been the wife of Colonel John Dandridge and the 
 mother of Martha (Dandridge-Custis) Washington. Gideon Macon, by- 
 tradition, was at one time the Secretary of Sir William Berkeley. He 
 was for a time an Indian interpreter. The Christian name of his wife 
 was Martha. Colonel John Dandridge died in 1756, aged fifty-six years. 
 His tomb is in St. George's church-yard, Fredericksburg, Virginia. — 
 R. A. Brock. 
 
90 -CMtte in Bniton Churcfc 
 
 wftb the principal 6entlemen of tlx Country, 
 
 attended bis fHmet^t, 
 
 andt weeping, saw the Corps Interred 
 
 at the COcet side of the Hlter, 
 
 in this Church.^ 
 
 Zbc Z^icv flDural Cablet 
 
 Xn Memoriam. 
 
 Testrymen ^ CQardens of Bniton 
 
 Church &■ Parish. 
 
 7obn tTyler &, 61izabeth Low, parents of 
 
 Joanna Cyler-JMcKenzie A ^ohn Cyler 
 
 the Marshall of the Colony of Ta^ 
 
 &■ Hnne Contesse, parents of 
 
 John 'Cvler, 
 
 patriot, Gov'r, ludge of the Hdmiralty, 
 
 Supreme A CL S. Courts of Ta^ 
 
 &■ Mary Hrmistead, 
 
 of Buch-Rowe, parents of 
 
 lohn Zyicr, 
 
 Student, Tisitor, Rector & Chancellor 
 
 of mm. & Mary College; 
 
 6ov'r, Member of Congress, Senator, 
 
 Vice president and president of the dnited 
 
 States, Member of Confederate Congress: 
 
 & Laetitia Christian, parents of 
 Robert Cyler, poet, philosopher. States- 
 man, Gentleman, Samuel X^yler, H. B., LIU D. 
 Chancellor of the State of Tx, 
 
 3 Dr. Cocke married Elizabeth, sister of Mark Catesby, tfaenaturat- 
 ist, and had issne, whose descendants include the names of Archer, Bat- 
 taile, Buckner, Dudley, Gregory, Hansford, HoIIiday, Jones, Langhlifl, 
 Montgomery, Taliaferro, Taylor, Washington and others. His widow 
 married secondly Colonel John Hollo way , an eminent lawyer of Williams- 
 burg, Virginia. She died March 4, 1755, aged 74 years. — R. A. Brock. 
 
tlablete fn Bniton Church 91 
 
 Grandson of the MarshalL 
 
 CMs tablet is erected by some 
 
 of their Descendants: 
 
 Tune 1888, H.D. 
 
 6opernor jfrancis Jfauquier 
 
 cinder the church, doubtless, were buried many to whom 
 no stone was erected. Governor fauquier was buried under 
 the north wing of the church, but no monument to him re- 
 mains. THa death and obsequies are described in the Tirginia 
 Gazette of March 3, 1768, as follows: 
 
 "Garly this morning, died at the palace, after a tedious 
 illness, which he bore with the greatest patience and forti- 
 tude, the Ron. francis f auquier, Geq^ Lieutenant-Governor 
 and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony, over which he has 
 presided near ten years, much to his own honor, and the 
 ease and satisfaction of the inhabitants. Tk was a gentleman 
 of the most amiable disposition, generous, just and mild, 
 and possessed, in an eminent degree, of all the social virtues. 
 Re was a fellow of the Royal Society, and died in his 65th 
 year." 
 
 tTbe Milmer riDural ^Tablet 
 
 In 
 
 Memory 
 
 of 
 
 the Rev'd. Olilliam R. Olilmer, D. f>^ 
 
 whose eminent talents and exemplary fMety 
 
 enabled him to fill with digni^ 
 
 the important stations of 
 
 Rector of this Church 
 
 president of ^m. &, Mavy College 
 
 president of the Rouse of Clerical 
 
92 Cablets in Bnitoti Church 
 
 and 1Jt.y Deputies of the Protestant 
 
 6pi8copal Church. 
 
 Ik fvas beloved in private 
 
 Respected and honored in Public Life 
 
 9 Sound Devine 
 
 H faithful Pastor 
 
 H sincere and practical Christian 
 
 Bom in Chester-Cown, Marj^land, 
 
 March 9th, 1784 
 
 Died ^uly 44th, 1827 
 
 Chis Monument is erected b)7 the Congregation 
 
 and Christians of other denominations 
 
 in testimony of their profound respect 
 
 and ardent affection 
 
 for the deceased. 
 
 (tonfcberate Solbiera nDemorial flDural C^ablet 
 
 On the wall of the Church, near the south-east comer 
 where the old pulpit stood, is a marble tablet to the 
 memory of the Confederate soldiers who fell in the battle 
 of Williamsburg. It is inscribed : 
 
 In memory of 
 
 the 
 Confederate 
 
 Soldiers 
 
 who fell in the 
 
 Battle of CQilliamsburg 
 
 May tbcstb, 186a 
 
 Hnd of those who died of 
 
 the wounds received in 
 
 the same. 
 
 Chey died for us. 
 
Xtomb*6tone Unsctipttons 
 
 3obn l^uillc 
 
 new Lyc9 the Corps of lohn 
 
 tuille Merchant Son to Chomas 
 
 tuile of Darlettb in the County of 
 
 D on Scotland who died at 
 
 d burgh in Virginia upon 
 
 the 2 ... . day of October 1746 years 
 in the zj^^ year of his Hge. 
 
 f>f umine et Tirtutc 
 
 CHrms]* 
 
 3obn CoUett 
 
 Rcrc lyes the Body of 
 M^ lohn CoUett 
 who departed this Life 
 february 24th 1749, Hged 52 tears 
 
 Muflb ®rr 
 
 f)ere lyes the corps 
 of Rugh Orr hammer 
 man in Williamsburg 
 who died lan'ry 6th 17^4 
 aged 54 years. 
 
 4 Burke, "General Armory," gives as arms of Yuille, (London), and 
 Yule, (Darleith, Scotland): Ar. on a fesse betw. three crescents sa. agarb 
 or, branded gu. 
 
 Crest, — An ear of wheat ppr. leaved vert. 
 
 Motto. Numine et vlrtute. 
 
 No criticism is intended in the remark that Professor Hall does not 
 describe verbally or pictorially arms appearing with the inscriptions. 
 As he does not, however, the editor can be guided in annotation only by 
 such information as he possesses and by apprehension. In the daily in- 
 creasing regard for family history, coat-armor is an important guide in 
 linking families with remote ancestry. 
 
Q4> t^mb-stom InaeHfXlotis 
 
 Bnn Cbarlton 
 
 B«K lies y< 
 BodyofHMN 
 CBHRLCON 
 wife of 6eovge 
 Charlton who 
 Died Sep 
 
 inth< 
 ■^car of her 
 Hge. 
 
 IRobert IRae 
 
 R [Hrms] R 
 
 fkre Lies the Body 
 
 of Robert Rae Merc 
 
 hant in f almouth 
 
 son of Robert Rae 
 
 Csq** of Little €k>van 
 
 near Glasgow in 
 
 North Britain, he 
 
 departed this Life 
 
 May 30 1753 
 
 in the 30 year of his 
 
 Hge. 
 
 flDarip IRicoleon 
 
 Here lies 
 
 the body of 
 
 Mary Nicolson 
 
 the wife of Robert Nieoleon, 
 
Contb-8tom Inscriptions 95 
 
 ivho (Upavtcd this life 
 
 Oct. loth 1793,5 
 
 In the 73<1 j^car of h«r age. 
 
 flDrg. ann Buracs 
 
 f>ere sleeps in ^fesus united to Rim 
 
 by faith and the 6races of a Christian 
 
 life, all that tvas Mortal of Mrs. Hnn Buries 
 
 once the tender and affectionate Wife 
 
 of the Rtvd Henry lohn Burges, 
 
 of the Isle of Qlight: She died zs^h 
 
 December 1771 in giving Birth to an 
 
 Infant Daughter, who rests in her Hrms. 
 
 She here waits the transporting Moment 
 
 when the XTnimp of 6od shall call her 
 
 forth to 6lory. fkinour &, Immortality, 
 
 Ob DGHCR where is thy Sting? 
 
 Ob 6RHT6 where is thy Tictory? 
 
 Hnn jfranf? 
 
 Bere Lycth the Body of Hnn 
 the ^ife of 6raham fVanh* 
 
 and Daughter of the Revd M'* 
 Cheod^ Staige who died on 
 
 the feast of 8* Hndrcw 1759 
 Hged 28 years'^ 
 
 s These were, it is believed, the parents of two worthy sons: Robert, 
 a surgeon in the army of the Revolntion, and George Nicolson, who was 
 Mayor of Richmond in 1790, and subsequently. One of the daughters 
 of the latter was the wife of the late Rev. George Woodbridgc, D. D. , so long 
 the beloved rector of the Monumental (Episcopal) church.— R. A. Brock. 
 
 6 Bishop Meade ("Old Churches and Families of Virginia," Vol. I, 
 p. 203) mentions Graham Frank as a merchant of London, and a cor- 
 respondent of Rev. Samuel Shield and of the Nelsons. 
 
 7 Rev. Theodosins Staige came, with an nomarried sister, to Vir- 
 ginia, and was the rector of St. George's parish, Spotsylvania county, 
 some time prior to November, 1728. He served also for a time York- 
 Hampton parish. Another sister (Letitia Maria Ann) had married in 
 
96 Comb-stone Inscriptions 
 
 fl>ari? ipurMc 
 
 JHve Lyes Interred the 
 
 Remains of Mary purdte <XItfe of 
 
 Hlex** purdie printer who departed 
 
 Cbis Life On Saturday y^ ^8, of March 
 
 1772 in the 27 year of bcr age. She left 
 
 Behind her four sons Jifi r>ugb Hkx'' 
 
 and William, and by her side lie 'Jane 
 
 a dear little Daughter who did not 
 
 quite attain her second year. She 
 
 was a virtuous loving, frugal and 
 
 discreet wife, an affectionate, though 
 
 discerning Mother, one of the best 
 
 of Mistresses. Hs friend and He 
 
 quaintance, she possessed the Qua 
 
 lifications which render that Con 
 
 nection valuable for she was Sen 
 
 sible prudent Generous and 
 
 honest hearted no deceit lay un 
 
 der her Congue. Rcr husband 
 
 in Gratitude for the ardent affection 
 
 she bore him the genuine esteem he 
 
 bad for her and in 'Justice to her 
 
 Tirtues caused this stone to be 
 
 placed over her It will on 
 
 day serve to con^ 
 
 London Rev. James Marye, a native of Rouen, Normandy, France, the 
 ancestor of the well-known Virginia family of the name. (See Descen- 
 dants of, in "Huguenot Emigration to Virginia," Virginia Bistorical 
 Collections, Vol. V.) Another daughter of Mr. Staige married Samuel 
 Thompson, Orange county, Virginia, and they had issue, among others 
 possibly, a son, William Staige. The name Staige is afavored Christian 
 name in the Davis and other families of Virginia. A distinguished in- 
 stance was the late Prof. John Staige Davis, M D., of the University of 
 Virginia. — R. A. Brock. 
 
 8 Alexander Purdie was for years public printer of the colony, and 
 the publisher in his own name and as a member of the firm of Purdie 
 & [John] Dixon, of The Virginia Gazette.— R. A Brock, 
 
'Comb-stom XnscripHone 97 
 
 BucRncr Stitb 
 
 Tkvt lyes the Bodies of [BOCK] 
 
 NCR sd;x:B9 and cHCBeRijve 8tn:tn> 
 
 Son and 61de8t Daughter of 
 
 Stith of Northampton County. 
 
 Buchner a hopeful "^outh 
 
 Lbom] the 3^ Day of January 1747 [departed] 
 
 the Life in this City the 
 
 of December 1766. 
 
 » * * » * 
 
 died an Infant 6ighteen days old 
 
 Hlso the Body of 
 MI'S Catherine Blachley late of this City 
 
 Grandmother of the above Named Children 
 She departed this Life the 25*^ Day of 
 
 October 1771 Hged 73 tears and upwards. 
 
 3ame0 (Brinlei? 
 
 Memento Mori 
 Berc lycth the Corps 
 
 of ^atnes Grinley 
 son of Hlex'* 6rinley 
 in Dunbar Scotland 
 
 <nho Departed 
 this life the 10 Day 
 
 of lully 1763 
 in the "Cwcntyeth 
 
 year of his Hgc. 
 
 9 The children of Griffin and Mary (Blackley) Stith. Griffin Stith 
 was a son of Drury and Susannah (Bathtirst) Stith, nephew of Rev. Mr. 
 Stith, the historian, and grandson of Colonel John Stith, who patented 
 land in Charles City county in 1663, and was High Sheriff in 1691. — 
 R. A. Brock. 
 
98 'Comb-stom Inscriptions 
 
 3o0cpb Scrivener 
 
 THvc Hcth the Body of M^* Joseph 
 
 Scrivener who was bom at Oldmy 
 
 in Bucftingbamsbirc in 6ngland 
 
 and died bere tbe 14th ©f October 
 
 1772 in tbe fnftietb tear of Bis Hge. 
 
 fIDicbael Hrcber 
 
 Bere Lies y^ Body 
 
 of Micbaet Hrcber 6ent 
 
 wbo was Bom ye ^9 ©f Sept^. 
 
 1681 Near Rippon in Xorhsbirc 
 
 Hnd died j>e 10 of february 1726 
 
 in ye 46 year of bis Hge, 
 
 Hlso "jfoanna Hrcber 
 
 ^ife of Michael Hrcber wbo 
 
 Departed tbis life 
 
 Octof* 1, 1732'° 
 
 Jubitb (Breenbow 
 
 In memory of luditb 6recnbow 
 
 a sincere Christian 
 
 Sbe died tbe Seventh day 
 
 of January 1765 
 
 and in tbe 29 year of her age 
 
 lo Michael Archer was clerk of James City county from 1719, and 
 perhaps earlier, until his death. George Archer, believed to be the 
 ancestor of the Archers of Henrico, Amelia, Powhatan and other 
 •counties, patented 550 acres of land in Henrico county, June 2, 1665 
 <Book V, p. 69, Land Registry.) 
 
t:«nib-8tom InscHpttons 99 
 
 Row loved how valued once avails thee not" 
 
 Co whom Related or b^ whom begot! 
 
 H heap of Dust alone remains of thee, 
 
 So all thou art, and all the proud shall be 
 
 ^bomas Ibornsb? 
 
 fkre lies in hopes of a Blessed 
 
 Resurrection, the Remains 
 
 of W T^homas Bomsby 
 
 who was for man^; "^ears 
 
 a Merchant in this City. 
 
 Be was Bom in Lincolnshire 
 
 in England, 
 
 ■January 17th 1702 
 
 and died May 27^^ 1772 
 
 the Remains 
 
 of M*"^ Margaret Bomsby 
 
 «life of M** Chomas Bomsby 
 
 who died february 2 1770 
 
 Hgcd 66 years." 
 
 From a book-plate of William Archer, a descendant, which has been 
 preserved, the family appears to have been from Cornwall, England. 
 
 Frederick Johnston, in his meritorious "Memorials of Virginia 
 Clerks," laments the destruction of the records of James City county, 
 in the burning of the court-house in Richmond, April 3, 1865, and com- 
 mences his list of clerks of the county with Leonard A. Henley, 1831, — 
 R. A. Brock. 
 
 " Somewhat mutilated ; but 1 have completed the lines by reference 
 to Pope. 
 
 12 Thomas Hornsby was highly esteemed and very successful as a 
 merchant. Joseph Hornsby, probably his son, was a vestryman of 
 Bruton parish in 1774. — R. A. Brock. 
 
100 Comb-stoiK Inscriptions 
 
 £bwarb 1Rott 
 
 [Hrms] 
 Under this MarbU Rests y< Hsbes 
 
 of Bis excellency edward Nott 
 
 Late 6owmor of this Collony who 
 
 In bis private character tvas a good 
 
 Christian and in his public a good 
 
 Governor be was H lover of Manhind 
 
 Hnd Bountiful to his friends By j* 
 
 Sanctity of his Moralls and y* Mildness 
 
 prudence and justice of his Hdministra- 
 
 tion he was Deservedly esteemed H 
 
 public Blessing while he Lived &, when 
 
 Be Dyed H Public Callamity. he Departed 
 
 X:his Life the 23d Day of Hugust 1706 
 
 Hged 49 "tears. 
 
 In ©ratefull Remembrance of who 
 
 se many Dutj'es the Generatl Hssembly 
 
 of this Collony have erected this 
 
 Monument.'^ 
 
 3ames IWicolson 
 
 Sacred 
 
 to the memory of 
 
 'flames JVicolson 
 
 late steward of 
 
 William and Marys College 
 
 he was bom in the town of Invemers 
 
 13 Edward Nott entered upon his duties as Lieutenant-Governor 
 August 15, 1705. He procured the passage by the Assembly of an act 
 for the building of a "palace" for the Governor, with an appropriation 
 of £3,000, also an act establishing the general court ; but the last was 
 disallowed by the British Board of Trade. During Governor Nott's 
 administration the College of William and Mary was destroyed by fire. — 
 R. A. Brock. 
 
'Comb-Stone Inscrtptions 101 
 
 noro>-brichi:n 
 
 HJNTNO 171 1 
 and died the zzd of 'JamiAvy 
 
 1773 
 
 industry, frugality, integrity. 
 
 simplicity, of manners and 
 
 independence of SOQL 
 
 Hdomed his Character and 
 
 procured him CIniversal Gsteem 
 
 RGHOeR 
 
 Learn from this 6xample that 
 
 Hs the most 6xalted station may 
 
 be debased by TIC6 so there 
 
 is no situation in life on 
 
 which TIRCae will not confer 
 
 t>xemcy.i 
 
 dbarles Hunt 
 
 Co the Memory of 
 M'' Charles Bunt 
 late of this parish. 
 Be died the 1 1'^^ day 
 of Ocf 1794 
 Hged4i tears. 
 Regretted by all who knew him. 
 
 Ikatberine Eborp 
 
 Katherine Chorp 
 
 Relicft of Capt Chomas 
 
 Chorp rfephew to JMajor 
 
 Otho Chorp formerly 
 
 Inhabitant of this parish 
 
 after a Pilgrimage of forty 
 
102 Comb-stom Inscriptions 
 
 three )>car«8 in a 'CroubUsonK 
 
 world Lay Downc here to 
 
 Rest in hope of a 70)^1111 
 
 Resurection obii* lime 6tb 
 
 1695 
 
 tEbomas ^borp 
 
 Bere lyeth in Bope of a joyfuH 
 
 Resurrection the Body of Cap* 
 
 'Cbomas 'Cborp of Bruton 
 
 parish in the Dominion of Virginia 
 
 Nephew of Maj. Otho r^horp 
 
 of the same parish who Departed 
 
 Cbis Life the 7 day of October 
 
 Hno 1693 Hged48 
 
 lebwarbue Barra^all 
 
 [Hrms] '* 
 
 B 8 e 
 
 6D(ZlHRDaS BHRRHDHLL Hrmiger 
 
 Qui 
 
 In legum studiis feliciter versatus 
 
 Httomati 6eneralis et Hdmiralitatis ludicis 
 
 Hmplicissimus partes merito obtinuit 
 
 fndeliter obivit 
 
 H From a rough drawing in the possession of the editor, the arms of 
 Barradall (tinctures not given), a bend, three pheons, an annulet for 
 difference, are impaled with Pitzhugh— Az. : three chevrons bracedin 
 base of escutcheon, or, a chief of the last. William Fitzhugh, lawyer, 
 planter, merchant and shipper, the ancestor of the well-known family 
 of the name, was born in Bedford, England, January 9, 1651 ; settled in 
 that portion of Stafford, now comprising Prince George county ; died 
 at his seat, Bedford, Virginia, in October, 1701.— E. A. Brock, 
 
Comb-stom Inscriptions 103 
 
 Collegium 6ultelnii et Manx 
 
 Cum Gubemator 
 
 Cum in Conventu Gcnerali Senator 
 
 propugnavit 
 
 SHRHM 
 
 Tiri Honorabilis 
 
 ©uil fitzbugb Hrmigeri 
 
 Serenissimae Reginae Hnnae in Tirginia a Consitios 
 
 filiam JVatu minimam 
 
 Cam Mortis quam Titae 8ociam 
 
 Clxorem babuit. 
 
 Obierunt 
 
 ilU XllX Cal lulii „ _ Mnrr Yt ttt jp i XXXIX 
 ilia JVon Oct ^ "• IMDCCXWH JE ^ ^^^ 
 
 IMc iuxta situs est 
 
 fknricus Barradall 
 
 6. B. supra dicti fratcr 
 
 Qui 
 
 Obiit XTIII Cal Octcb H. D. MDCCXXXVII 
 
 iEtat XXTII 
 
 Blumfield Barradall tantum frater's 
 
 The epitaph of jRev. Roland Jones, first rector of Bruton 
 Parish. Bishop Meade is not accurate. Owing to the 
 ignorance of workmen recently employed in the church- 
 yard, the epitaph is permanently distorted. The follow- 
 ing is approximately correct : 
 
 1RCV&. 1RolanbU0 flonce 
 
 THc jacet Rotandus lones 
 
 clericus filius Rolandi OfoiKS 
 clerici )Vatus Swimbrooh juxta 
 Burford in Comii Oxoii Coilegii 
 
 Merton dniversitate Oxoii 
 
 ■5 Last few lines so badly worn as to be illegible. 
 
104 t^omb-stone InscHptions 
 
 Hlunmus parocblae Bniton Tirginia 
 
 pastor primus &. ddecttsstmus 
 
 funcnom pastoraU atints 14 
 
 fidetiter d parocbtae quatn 
 
 maximo de ObHt Hp 23 
 
 die i^tatis suae 48 Himo 1688 
 
 flDaraaret »rown 
 
 Bere Lyes the Body of 
 
 Margaret Brown wife to 
 
 Doctor lobti Brown of CQilliamsburg 
 
 late of Cold Stream Nortb Britain 
 
 who died tbe aid dny of Hugust 1720 
 
 in tbe 36 year of Ber Hge 
 
 Prob! Dolor quao fuit Clarissime. 
 
 Bere I^yta tbe Body of lane Brown 
 
 Daugbter to tbe foresaid Jobn Brown 
 
 wbo died tbe 30 Hugust 1720 tbe 
 
 i4day of BerHge. 
 
 ^bomas Xubwell 
 
 CHrms] '« 
 
 Cinder tbis Marble lietb tbe Body 
 
 of XHiomas Ludwell Bsq^* 
 
 Secretary of Virginia, wbo was bom 
 
 at Bruton in tbe County of Somerset 
 
 in tbe Kingdom of eN6L3ND, and 
 
 departed tbis Life in tbe "^lear 1678 Hnd 
 
 near tbis place lye tbe Bodies of Ricbard 
 
 I* The arms upon the book-plate of PhUip Ludwell of "Green Spring" 
 are : Gu, a bend ar., three eagles displayed sa. between three to wers. 
 ATotto— Pensierl stretti edil viso sciolto.— R. A. Brock. 
 
Comb-Stone InecHptione 105 
 
 Kemp, 68q^ bts predecessor tn y^ Secretarys 
 
 Office'' and S** Cbomas Lunsford Kt 
 
 in Memory of whom this Marble is placed 
 
 by Order of Philip Ludtvell Csq^ 
 
 Nephew of the said Thomas Ludvcell 
 
 in the "tear 1727 
 
 llobn (Brcenbow 
 
 I)ere lies 
 
 in hopes of a joyful 
 
 Resurrection all that "was 
 
 mortal of lohn ©recnhow, 
 
 late of this City, Merchant, 
 
 Be was bom in Staunton, 
 
 near Kendal in Westmoreland, 
 
 6reat Britain, November the tz^ 
 
 1724 &, died the 29^ Hugust 1787, 
 
 after a very short Illness. 
 
 On bis left side lies 61izabeth 
 
 17 Richard Kemp was a member of the Council of Virginia, 164-2, 
 and as its President in June, 1644, upon the departure of Sir William 
 Berkeley for England, became the acting; Governor of the Colony. It is 
 notable that during his incumbency the first fast and thanksgiving days 
 in the Colony, of vyhich any record is preserved, were ordered. "Att 
 James Cittye the 17th of February, 1644-5," it was "enacted by the 
 Governotir, Counsell and Burgesses of this present Grand Assembly, for 
 God's glory and the publick benefit of the CoUony to the end that Godi 
 might avert his heavie judgments that are now upon vs, That the last. 
 Wednesday in every month be sett apart for a day of IFast and humilia- 
 tion. And that it be wholly dedicated to prayers and preaching." Also^ 
 "That the eighteenth day of April be yearly celebrated by thanksgivings 
 for our deliverance from the hands of Salvages." Referring to the recent 
 massacre by the Indians {Hening's Statutes, I, pp. 289, 290.) Sir William 
 Berkeley returning in June, 1645, resumed the government of Virginia, 
 but Richard Kemp continued to serve the Colony as a member of the 
 Council until 1648, and perhaps later, latterly as the Secretary of the- 
 body. He died some time before 1678— R. A. Brock. 
 
106 Comb-stom XnacripHona 
 
 the Daughter of lohn Cyler'^ 
 
 his second CQtfe, 
 
 who was bom tn Barnes City 
 
 the 3oth 7any 1744, and died 
 
 of the Small pox on tJuly the 23''<' 1 78 1 
 
 which she endured with the greatest 
 
 Christian fortitude & Resignation. 
 
 BSbwarb Bki* 
 
 Bere Lycth 
 
 6dward Dye'* 
 
 ^bo died OcCr 
 
 ye 6 i72zagd 
 
 1 Tear &, 7 Mo 
 
 y« Only Son of 
 
 Rob Dyer £t 
 
 Martha his 
 
 Olife 
 
 3ean Blaiv 
 
 In the adjoining grave lies deposited 
 
 with her husband whatever was mortal of 
 
 lean Blair, 
 
 who was bom 26*'' Ocf 1736, 0. S. 
 
 and died 22nd jVov*" 1792 
 
 Tkr conduct through life was truly exemplary and 
 
 amiable in discharging all the relative duties of her 
 
 station as a wife, a mother and a friend; and her piety 
 
 shone forth with peculiar lustre during a protracted, 
 
 painful, and distressing illness, which she sustained 
 
 '8 Marshal of the Colony and grandfather of President John Tyler. 
 
 — R. A. Bkock. 
 
'Comb-Stone InscHpttons 107 
 
 without A murtnui', tvitb entire resignation and 
 
 actmowledgmente of the divine mercy and goodness; 
 
 and f er\>ent prayers to be released, and, resign her 
 
 spirit to 6od ^bo gave it. 
 
 Bere lies interred 
 
 the body of lames Blair 
 
 9on of tbe Bonble ^obn Blair '» 
 
 a youtb distinguished for tbe uniform purity 
 
 of bis morals, accompanied tvitb ingenuous modesty 
 
 and tbe most tvinning mildness of temper and manners. 
 
 Be was bom tbe 9*^ of '^une 1770 
 
 and died tbe zs^ of Oct** 1791 . 
 
 3ane Blair 
 
 SHCReO to tbe memory of 
 
 1HN6, tbe youngest daughter of 
 
 tbe Bonble -John Blair, 
 
 and beloved wife of lames Benderson'" 
 
 Mournful and with tears, he hath erected 
 
 this last gift of love and conjugal affection. 
 
 She died 19th Occv ,800 
 
 Hged 40 years. 
 
 Baving been distinguished for her piety 
 
 affection, prudence, and suavity of manners. 
 
 Ht her feet are deposited the bodies 
 
 '9 Joiin Blair, son of Dr. Archibald Blair, and nephew of Rev. James 
 Blair, D. D., President of William and Mary College; member of the 
 House of Burgesses in 1736 ; long a member of the Council, of which as 
 President, he was acting Governor of Virginia for a time in 1758. His 
 son, Archibald Blair, was Secretary of the Virginia Convention of 1776; 
 and another son, John Blair, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
 United States. A daughter, Jane, was the first wife of James Hender- 
 son. — R. A. Brock. 
 
 20 James Henderson married secondly , and had issue; 1. James; 
 
 2. Walter; 3. Elizabeth. He died in 1818, and William Brown and 
 Alexander Brown were his executors. — R. A. Brock. 
 
108 Comb-stone ItiacripHons 
 
 of her three infant children, 
 Sanies Biair, bom zg^ Oct 1795, 
 
 and lived ont)? 21 days. 
 
 lobn Blair, bom 25th fcbyy 1797 
 
 and died 17th Hpril follotving, and 
 
 Blair Monroe, bom so^h 5uly, 1800 
 
 and died 4*^ May 1 801 . 
 
 2>avit) aSrai? 
 
 [Hrms]" 
 Berc Lyeth the Body of 
 COLOJVeL Da\»id Bray 
 of this parish 
 who died on yc zi of Ocf 1717 
 in the s^d Xcar of Bis Hgc 
 and lUft 
 his Wife ludith & Son DaiKd Bray 
 by whom this Monument was 6rected 
 in Memory of Bim 
 Under this tomb with her husband 
 Lieth W^ ludith Bray who 
 Departed this Life the 26 Day 
 of October MDCCXX in the 
 45*'> tear of her Hge." 
 
 21 Az. a chevron between three eagles' legs erased a la cuisse sa. 
 armed gti. Crest —An ounce ppr. — R. A. Brock. 
 
 22 James ' Bray was the first of the name in Virginia of whom record 
 is preserved. He was living in James City county in 1666 , was sworn 
 
 a member of the Council March 4, 1674-'5 ; married Angelica ,and 
 
 had issue: 1. Thomas ;2 3. James, ^ J. P. of James City county, 1710, 
 and later; vestryman of Bruton parish; sheriflF, 1717-'18; married in 
 or before 1698 Mourning, widow of Colonel Thomas Pettus. He had 
 (with, perhaps other issue) a son, Thomas,3 J. P. of James City county, 
 1738, who had an only child, Elizabeth,4 who married Colonel Philip 
 Johnson, of King & Queen county, and died in 1675. 3. Colone 
 David,a supra vestryman of Bruton Parish, and J. P. of James City 
 
Comb-Stone Inscriptions 109 
 
 3ame6 Braip 
 
 [Hrms] 
 Rcrc Lyctb in . . 
 of lames Br . . 
 
 as Bray by whom 
 this Monument was Greeted 
 
 lames Bray 
 
 1690 
 
 Another Bray monument — marble pyramidal shaft on 
 a marble die, the latter having handsome armorial bearings 
 on two sides and Latin inscriptions on the other two. ^3 
 
 2)avit) Brai? 
 R. 8. e. 
 
 David Bray Hrmiger 
 
 Tir 
 
 forma Ingenio Morum Suavitate et Comitate praetor 
 
 Serenissimo Regi 6eorgto 8ecundo 
 
 Conciliis in Virginia constitubus 
 
 t:amen ante Munus Susceptum florente iEtate 
 
 Morte abreptus. 
 
 eiisabetbam 
 
 lobannis Page, Hrminger"* fnliam Natu primam 
 
 county, 17tO. He had issue: 1. David, 3 in/ra, born 1699; member of 
 the council; died 1731 ; married Elizabeth, daughter of John Page of 
 Gloucester county. 4. Angelica, married Mungo Inglis of Williamsburg 
 the first Master of the Grammar School, William and Mary CoUege 
 (1693-1719.) His descendants intermarried with the Armisteads, Pages 
 and Sheildses. . . 
 
 The widow of Thomas Bray established a scholarship at William 
 and Mary College.— R. A. Brock. 
 
 23 The arms of Bray with an inescutcheon bearing the Page arms. 
 
 — R. A. Brock. 
 
 U Errors in cutting. 
 
110 Comb-atom Inseriirtfone 
 
 Sibt Matrtmonio conjunctam babuit 
 
 Mutuo Hffcctus conjunctissimam. 
 
 et sine prote tnaevcntetn relfquit 
 
 Octob 5° 1731 ^tat 32 
 
 Ilia Hmotns Conjugalu extfemutn pt^us 
 
 Roc Monumentum posuit 
 
 leiisabctba Bra? 
 
 r)tc Deposttum 
 Qukquid babuit MortaU 61izabetba Bray 
 
 dlna cum Martto destderattasimo. 
 
 Quae languenti movbo conaumpta Htitmam 
 
 Reatgnavtt iz° Die HpHKa Himo 1734 
 
 iEtatta 32° 
 
 iCquanimtter, f ortitci', pic. 
 
 lames Mbale? 
 
 RcK lictb tbc Body of lamea ^halcy 
 
 of torhc County in Tivginia who 
 departed tbia life the 1 6 day of May 
 Hnno Domini 1701 and in tbc fiftieth 
 
 )«arc of bia Hgc 
 
 Bia Body lyca to be Conaumed to Duat 
 
 Cill tbc Reaurrcction of tbc luat 
 
 Hmongat Cdbicb Number Tieil in bopea Hppcarc 
 
 Ria blcaaed Sentence at doomaday to bcare 
 
 riDatbew Mbale? 
 
 '= Matbew Olbaley lyca Interred bcre 
 
 ditbin tbia Comb upon bia f^tber dear. 
 
 dbo Departed 
 
 '5 Square piece of marble on the front face of the monument. 
 
Comb-Stone InscHptfons 111 
 
 this Life the z6th of 
 
 September 1705 Hged 
 
 Nine years only child 
 
 of lames Cdhaley 
 
 and Mary bis wife 
 
 Fragment of Colonel John Page's tombstone, lying near 
 the west door of Bruton Parish church, within the bailding. 
 
 lobn ipage 
 
 [Hrms]=^ 
 
 Bere lietb in hope of a 'JoyUtW Resurrection 
 
 the Body of Colonel lohn Page of 
 
 Bruton parish 6squire one of their 
 
 Majesties Council in the Dominion 
 
 [of] Virginia w o Departed this 
 
 [life t]he 23 of ['7a]nuary in the j'car 
 
 [of our] Lord 69^^ Hged 65 
 
 HUce ipaae 
 
 CQife of Colonel John page 
 
 [Hrms]'^ 
 
 r>ere lyeth the Body of Hlice Page 
 
 wife to iobn Page of y« county of \oy\i 
 
 in Virginia aged 73 37eare8 who 
 
 departed this life the 22 day of June 
 
 Hnno Domini 1698 
 
 »* Arms : Ar., a fesse dancette between three martlets ; azure, a bor- 
 dure of thelast. Crest: A demi-horse forcene (rearing). — R. A. Brock.. 
 
 27 Colonel John Page married, about 1656, Alice Luckin, of county 
 Essex, England. In the "Page Family of Virginia," by Dr. R, C. It. 
 Page, New York, 1883, it is stated (p. 41) that the arms on this tomb 
 were those of Luckin: Sable, a fesse indented between two leopard's 
 faces or. Crest — A demi-grifEn or., issuing out of a tower paly of six 
 of the last and sable.— R. A. Brock. 
 
112 X^omb-stonc Xnscviptions 
 
 francie page 
 
 [Mrmo] 
 Utrt Itetb in hope of a 'lovfuU Reaurrectton 
 
 the Body of Captain francis Page of 
 
 Bniton paHsb in the Dominion of Tivginia 
 
 61de8t Son of Colonel lohn page of the 
 
 Same parish, esquire, CQho Departed 
 
 this life the tenth Day of May 
 
 in the "Year of our Lord 
 
 1694: Hged35 
 
 I^hou wast while living of dnspotted f^me 
 
 Now being Dead, no man Dares Soil thy name 
 
 for thou wast One whom Nothing here Could Stain 
 
 ither force of honour nor Love of 6ain 
 
 spheres thou hast well Discharged thy trust 
 
 most truly pious. Loyal lust 
 
 stant Goodness my penn Cannt 6xpress 
 Tertucs my tongue Cannt Rehearse 
 steem'd by all the wise and Sage 
 thy country in thy age 
 
 we Cannt Now Speak of the 
 eet to all posterity 
 Did to toursef Create 
 erbsting Date 
 your most happy wife 
 other Life 
 
 flDar^ page 
 
 CHrms]'^ 
 
 Berc lieth in the hope of a 3foyfull Resurrection 
 
 the body of Mary, the wife of Captain 
 
 francis Page of Bruton parish in 
 the Dominion of Virginia, Daughter of 
 
 ^ The editor has no information as to these arms, whether of Page 
 alone or impaled with those of Digges. The latter are : Go. on a cross 
 ar., five eagles displayed sa. armed of the field.— R. A. Brock. 
 
'Comb-Stone Inscriptions 113 
 
 GdwAvd Diggs of I^ampton parish in 
 
 the Same Dominion, 68quire who Departed 
 
 this life the eighteenth Day of March in 
 
 the year of Our Lord 169°, Hged 3[2?] 
 
 Chy Modest, meek and Pious Soule did Shine 
 
 ^ith -welt-Cempered Nature and ©race Divine 
 
 One to 6xceU in beauty few Could fHnde 
 
 yet thy Rarest features were of the minde 
 
 thou wast a faithful and Vertuous wife 
 
 thou Greatly Loved peace and hated strife 
 
 thou wast a prudent and tender Mother 
 
 a true-loving sister to Gach Brother 
 
 a Choice friend a Kind Nigbbour 
 
 a good Christian ready at 6od's call 
 
 thou lived and dy'd upon Christ Relying 
 
 thou t>yd to Sin and now Livcst by Dying 
 
 thy faith Doth yield thy piety Doth ©ive 
 
 Restoratives to mahe thee ever live 
 
 thrice blest friend this epitaph is thy due 
 
 when Saints arise thy Lord will say 'tis true. 
 
 jeiisabetb page 
 
 [Hrms] 
 
 Bere lyetb the body of eiizabeth Page, dec** 
 
 late wife to lohn page of Yovke rco]unty ©ent. 
 
 and Daughter of CC]apt francis page late of the 
 
 same County deceased she blest her sa[id] 
 
 Rusband w[ith] H Sonn and Daughter &. departed 
 
 this life the la day of November Hnno Dom 170* 
 
 Hnd in the 20 ycare of her age. 
 
 HDrs. ann ^imson 3one6 
 
 Rere lies all that the grave can claim of 
 Mrs. Hnn Cimson 'Jones 
 Consort of the 
 
114 Comb-stone Inscrtpttons 
 
 Rev. Servant ^ones 
 Bom i9t Sept. 1787 
 Married 46 Dec. 1805 
 Baptised 3 IMar. 1822 
 Died Ofune 6, 1849. 
 
 If woman ever yet did well 
 If woman ever did excell 
 If woman husband ere adored 
 If woman ever loved the Lord 
 If ever faith and Bope and Love 
 In Buman flesh did live and move 
 If all the graces ere did meet 
 In her in her they were complete 
 
 My Hnn, my all my Hngel difc 
 My dearest one my love my life 
 I cannot sigh or say fare well 
 But where thou dwellest I will dwell. 
 
 fln riDemori? of tbe (tonfeberatc SoIDicrs 
 
 In the church-yard is a monument to their memory 
 which bears the following inscription : 
 
 Lord hcep their memory green. 
 
 erected to the memory of the Confederate Soldiers who 
 fell in tbe Battle of Williamsburg, May 5tb, 1862, and lie 
 buried under and around this monument. 
 
 R. Crawford, 1 4th Louisiana Inf. 
 
 XM. Cary, " « " 
 
 Cdm. Baldridge, 18th Mississippi " 
 John Daisy, 8th Reg., Hlabama " 
 p. Dargan, *' " « 
 
 C P. parr, 10th Reg. 
 CR.More, " " 
 D. n. «looUey " " 
 
Comb-Stone InecHptions 115 
 
 i4 
 
 C M> Ulickhuvn, i oth Reg^Htabanm Inf. 
 p. R. alright, 1 3tb Reg., Nth. Car. 
 «l. D. Moomy, « « « « 
 lames Bamett, i9tb Reg., Tirginta " 
 Ifames Keating, iTtb " « « 
 
 «l.L. Rector, nth " 
 R.K. Casper, « " *. « 
 
 D. S. C. Tones, " " « « 
 
 XC. Grady, '' " 
 XB.Cwyner, 3rd " « w 
 
 ]Vear this monument are six small stones each inscribed 
 C. S. H. May 5th, 1 662; and three stones inscribed as follows : 
 C. S. H., St. lohn Hddison, Co. 6., 17th Ta. Regt., 
 )May 5th, 1662. 
 
 C. S. H., Capt. H. X Humphreys, Co. H., i/tb Va. Regt., 
 Killed at the Battle of Olilliamsburg, May 5th, 1662. 
 
 c. s. H. c. c m. 
 
 IRamee fingrav>c& on ^omb^Stones in Bruton 
 
 Cburcb anb Cburcb l^arb, witb 
 
 Date of Deatb 
 
 Michael Archer, 1726 ; Joana Archer, 1732 ; Thomas 
 Hugh Nelson Burwell, 1841; Rolandus Jones, clericus, 1688; 
 David Meade Randolph, 1830 ; Hon . John Blair, 1800; John 
 Millington, 1868 ; his mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Lett, 
 1847; Sidney Smith, 1881; Virginia C. Smith, 1878; 
 Delia Adalaide Bucktrout, 1857; Josiah Nelson Bucktrout, 
 1836; Eichard Manning Bucktrout, 1847; Horatio 
 Nelson Bucktrout, 1854; Lulie E. Dugger, 1870 ; Benjamin 
 Earushaw Bucktrout, 1846 ; Benjamin Bucktrout, 1849 ; 
 Mrs. Catherine Stephenson, 18(32?); H. S. E. Edwardus 
 Barradall Armiger, 1743; Henricus Barradall, 1737; 
 children of Henry Washington and his wife, Cynthia 
 Beverly Tucker, Lucy 1854; Sarah Augustine, 1862; 
 
116 "CoTnb-etone Inscriptions 
 
 Catherine Brooks Coleman, 1883 ; Annie B. Gilliam, 1900 ; 
 Mary Westwood, 1869; Mrs. Ann Burgess, 1771; 
 Catharine Stith, 1776; Mrs. Catharine Blackley, 1771; 
 James Grinsley, 1763 ; Robt. H. Hord, 1845; James Dix, 
 1861; John Blair, 1792; James Blair, 1791; Edward B. 
 Lindsay, 1855 ; Jane Blair Henderson, 1800; James Blair 
 Henderson, 1795; John Blair Henderson, 1797; Blair 
 Monroe Henderson, 1801 ; George Bascom Lindsay, 1860 ; 
 Mr. Charles Hunt, 1794; Sarah Lindsay, 1850; John 
 Greenhow, 1787; Elizabeth Greenhow, 1781; Judith 
 Greenhow, 1765 ; Mrs. Francis Custis, 17i^ ; Daniel Parke 
 Custis, 1754; Francis Parke Custis, 1757; EHzabeth 
 Henderson, 1813 ; Revd. James Henderson, 1818 ; Thomas 
 Hamilton Henderson, 1814; EUzabeth Bingham, 1851; 
 Ann B. Wilmer, 1854; Captain Francis Page, 1692; Alice 
 Page, 1698 ; John Collett, 1749 ; Mrs. Mary Francis Page, 
 169- ; Col. John Page, 169i; Thomas Hornsby, 
 
 1772; Mrs. Margaret Hornsby, ; Margaret Brown, 
 
 1720; Jane Brown, 1720; Thomas Lyttleton Savage, 
 1855; Lauretta Ann Winder, 1879; Mary Nicolson, 
 1793 ; Thomas Ludwell, Esq., 1678 ; Mary E. Dixon, 1836; 
 Elizabeth Page, 1702 ; Col. David Bray, 1717; Mrs. Judith 
 Bray, 1720 ; David Bray, Armiger, 1731 ; Elizabeth Bray, 
 1734; James Bray, 1690; Joseph Scrivener, 1772; James 
 Whaley, 1701; Mathew Whaley, 1705; Capt. Thomas 
 Thorp, 1693; Katherine Thorp, 1695; Edward Dyer, 
 1722; Ann Charlton, 17(44?) ; Mrs. Eliza Williams, 1829; 
 Hugh Orr, 1764; John yuille, 1746; Seth Sewell 
 Briggs, 1812; Susand L. W. Briggs, 1811; Mary M. 
 Dehart, 1839 ; John W. Wyatt, 1849 ; Margaret F. Clows, 
 1853 ; Ann Snow, 1855 ; John L. Tilford, 1862 ; Mary L. 
 McCann, 1846; Eev. Scervant Jones, 1854; Mrs. Ann 
 Timson Jones, 1849 ; Millicent Jones, 1751 ; Mrs. Anne 
 Frank, 1759; Robert Major Garrett, 1885, and Susan C. 
 Winder, his wife, 1854; Henry Winder Garrett, 1879; 
 Robert Winder Garrett, 1838; Comfort Anna Garrett, 
 1854; S. C. Garrett, 1878 ; Thomas O. Cogbill, 1858 ; Mrs. 
 
'Comb-stoiK Inscriptions 117 
 
 Virginia Abbott, 1830 ; James Cabaniss, 1837 ; Robt. Rae, 
 1753; His Excellency Edward Nott, 1706; Mrs. Mary 
 Purdie, 1772 ; Mrs. Sarah Griffin, 1846 ; Lady Christina 
 Stuart, 1807; James Nicolson, 1773; Jndge Nathl. 
 Beverly Tucker, 1851; Mrs. Lucy Ann Tucker, 1867; 
 Reuben Smith, 1843; Margaret W. Dnrfey, 1865; Altazera 
 E. Durfey, 1835; Thomas G. Durfey, 1847; Mr. Orlando 
 Jones, 1681 ; the Confederate dead (see Memorial page.) 
 
 The tomb-stones give no indication as to the number 
 of persons buried in the church-yard. Many of the old 
 stones have been broken, and the fragments scattered. As 
 far as possible these will be collected and placed in the 
 tower floor for preservation. Over the larger portion of 
 the church yard the graves are unmarked by either monu> 
 ment or mound. In the spring fresh flowers grow over 
 them, and in the winter they lie covered with leaves of 
 autumn, or beneath an unsullied mantle of snow. 
 
 tromb*stonc IFnscrlptions — Et)ben&a 
 
 Richard Southgate, 1828; Mrs. Mary Amet Gait, 
 1854; Emily Morrison, 1887; Richard Kemp, Esqr., and 
 Sr. Thomas Lunsford, Kt.; these two names are inscribed 
 on the tomb of Thomas Ludwell, (See p. 104.) 
 
 For names inscribed on Mural Tablets, See Tablet In- 
 scriptions, pp. 88-92. 
 
Eppenbii: (T 
 
 IList of the Ministers of Btuton 
 Ipadsb 
 
 Rowland Jones, 1674-1688 Samuel Eburne, 1688- 
 
 1697 Cope Doyley, 1697-1702 Solomon Wheatley, 
 
 1702 - 1710 James Blair, 1710 - 1743 Thomas 
 
 Dawson, 1743-1759 William Yates, 1759-1764 
 
 James Horrocks, 1764-1771 John Camm, 1771-1773 
 
 John Bracken, 1773-1818 R. Keith, D. D., 1821-1824 
 
 William H. Wilmer, 1826-1827 Adam Empie, 1828- 
 
 1836 William Hodges, D. D., 1837-1848 Henry M. 
 
 Denison, 1848-1852 George Wilmer, D. D., 1856 
 
 Thomas M. Ambler, 1860-1873 George Wilmer, D. D. 
 
 (2d pastorate), 1872-1876 Jacquelin Meredith, 1876- 
 
 1877 Henry Wall, S. T. D., 1877-1880 Alexander 
 
 Overby, 1880-1885 F. G. Burch, 1885-1887 Lyman 
 
 B. Wharton, D. D., 1888 T. C. Page, 1889-1893 
 
 W. T. Roberts, 1894-1902 W. A. R. Goodwin, 1903 
 
partial Xtst ot tbe IDestti^ of 
 Btuton Ipadsb 
 
 [The dates represent their first appearance in the records]. 
 
 1674. — Hon. Daniel Parke, Hon. John Page, James 
 Besouth, Robert Cobbs, James Bray, Capt. Philip Chesley, 
 William Aylett. 1679— George Poindexter, George 
 Martin. 1682— Major Otho Thorpe, Capt. Francis 
 Page. 1684— Hon. Philip Ludwell, Hon. Thomas Beale. 
 1686 — Martin Gardner. 1694 — Hon. Edmund Jenings, 
 John Dormar, William Pinkethman, Hugh Norvell, Henry 
 Tyler, John Kendall, Robert Crawley, Baldwin Mathews. 
 1697— John Owens, Philip Ludwell, Jr., Timothy 
 Pinkethman. 1704 — William Hansford, Joseph White, 
 William Timson. 1705 — Frederick Jones, John Page. 
 1710 — Richard Kendall, Ambrose Cobbs, Richard Bland, 
 David Bray. 1721 — Mathew Pierce, John Hollo way, 
 John Custis, Michael Archer, Robert Cobbs, Jr., Henry 
 Cary, Dr. Archibald Blair. 1725— Lewis Burwell. 1727 
 Sir John Randolph 1744— James Wray, Hon. John Blair, 
 Sr., John Harmer, Benjamin Waller. 1747 — Hon. Peyton 
 Randolph. 1750— John Holt. 1754— Robert Carter 
 Nicholas. 1761— Frederick Bryan. 1769— Thomas 
 Everard, John Pierce, William Eaton, George Wythe, John 
 Prentis, William Graves. 
 
 The following names are taken from Meade's Old 
 Churches, as occurring in the old vestry book which ended 
 in 1769: Hon. Thomas Ludwell, Hon. Thomas Ballard, 
 James Vaulx, William Corker, Thomas Whaley, Capt. 
 Thomas Williams, Daniel Wyld, Thomas Taylor, 
 Christopher Pearson, Gideon Macon, Robert Spring, 
 Abraham Yincler, Samuel Timson, Thomas Pettus, Col. 
 Thomas Ballard, Ralph Graves, Capt. James Archer, 
 George Norvell, Edward Jones, Capt. Thomas Thorpe, 
 Daniel Park, Jr., James Whaley, James Bray, James 
 Hubard, Nathaniel Crawley, John Clayton, David Bray, 
 Jr., Thomas Jones, Samuel Turner, Ge«rge Nicholas, 
 William Robertson, Thomas Cobbs, Ralph Graves, Edward 
 Barradall, Jr., lames Barber, Daniel Needier, lames Bray, 
 
120 Tcstryimn of Bruton parieb 
 
 >^ edyfMfd Ban^dall, Jr^ Henry Tyler, Jr., Mathe w Pierce, 
 William Parks, William Prentis, William Timson, Jr., 
 Armistead Burwell, John Palmer, Pinkethman Eaton, 
 Nathaniel Shields, John Power. 
 
 IDcstri^men from 1827*1853 
 
 Henry Edloe, Jesse Cole, John Page, Dr. Thomas G. 
 
 Peachy, Dr. Griffin, W. W. Webb, James Semplc, Sr., 
 
 Robert McCandlish, Burwell Bassett, William Waller, 
 Leonard Henley, Ferdinand S. Campbell, Judge James 
 Semple, Thomas Coleman, Chas. L. Wingfield, James 
 Cabaniss, J. 0. Sheldon, Richard M. Bucktrout, Henley 
 Taylor, Robert P. Waller, William B. Rodgers, Roscow 
 Cole, William Edloe, Robert Saunders, Judge B. Tucker, 
 
 John Millington, A. G. Southall, Dickie Gait, R. 
 
 Randolph, John B. Christian, John Coke, Thomas E. Evans, 
 
 G. Durfey, Doctor R. M. Garrett, J. M. Maupin, 
 
 William W. Vest, Joseph Walker, William Waller, John M. 
 Gait, J. T. Christian, John A. Henley, Joshua Walker, Jr. 
 
 IDestnjmcn from 1865*1903 
 
 From 1853 to 1865 there is no record. 
 
 1865-1903. Robert Saunders, P. Montague Thompson, 
 W. W. Vest, R. F. Cole, J. O. Mumford, Dr. Robert Garrett, 
 Mr. E. Taliaferro, Richard Hansford, G. Durfey, William S. 
 Peachey, John A. Henley, Benjamin S. Ewell, R. T. 
 Armistead, H. T. Jones, Jr., Robert A. Bright, Dr. D. R. 
 Brower, John L. Mercer, C. W. Coleman, W. L. Wall, W. 
 H. E. Morecock, Sydney Smith, Van F. Garrett, John L. 
 Mercer, H. L. Hundley, C. C. Dixon, J. R. Copeland, B. D. 
 Peachy, L. W. Lane, Jr., Leonard Henley, Jr., Dr. J. D. 
 Moncure, Dr. John Clopton. John Spencer, J. B. C. Spencer, 
 Dr. p. G. Booth, J. L. Hall, H. D. Cole, Dr. H. A. Wise, Dr. 
 A. V. I. Deekens, J. T. Christian, J. C. Pilkinton, Dr. P. T. 
 Southall, E. W. Warburton, Dr. L. S. Foster, Dr. W. P. 
 Hoy, W. C. Johnson, T. G. Peachy, W. H. Macon. 
 
Bppenbti 2) 
 Blrtb TRecorb 
 
 The birth record in the old Parish register extends 
 from 1739 to 1797. The cost of printing the details of 
 this record would have been very great. We have there- 
 fore copied, and now print tor the first time, this record 
 giving simply a complete list of the names contained 
 therein, with the dates under which they appear. The 
 Christian name is given first, separated by a comma from 
 the names of the parents. Where the date does not im- 
 mediately precede the name, the date last given is the one 
 under which it appears in the record book. 
 
 The names of slaves, or servants, baptized, with the 
 names of their owners, have not been printed. Thirty- 
 three consecutive pages in the register are filled with the 
 record of the baptism of slaves, or negro servants, as they 
 are generally called. This record shows that from 1747 
 to 1790 one thousand and forty-nine of these servants 
 were baptized into the Church. Besides these there are 
 many entries of such baptisms on the pages of the book 
 not specifically set apart for this special record. One of 
 the pages photographed from this old Parish register con- 
 tains the record of some of these baptisms. An examina- 
 tion of this portion of the register shows that the promi- 
 nent men of that day, such as George Washington, Sir 
 John Randolph, Peyton Randolph, Governor Francis 
 Fauquier, and others, took pains to see that their servants 
 were brought under the influence and care of the Church. 
 
 '1739— John, George and Elizabeth Holden Susanna, 
 
 Dudley and MaryDiggs James, James and Ann Shields 
 
 -^ — John, John and Rebecca Coulthard John, Wm. and 
 
 Elizabeth Highland John, Joseph and Ann Maples 
 
 Ann, Kenneth and Joannah McKenzie Richard, Thomas 
 
 and Jane Wade ^William, Mary Haython Richard,. 
 
 'The spelling used in the Old Register is adhered to, though often in- 
 correct and inconsistent. The abbreviation bap. signifies baptized. 
 
122 Birth Record 
 
 John and Sarah Coke Elizabeth, Richard and Christian 
 
 Giles Lttcy, Wm. and Ann Keith Mary, Robert and 
 
 Adling Fry. 
 
 1740 — Mathew, Thomas and Ann Holt Francis, 
 
 Francis and Frances Durphey Margaret Mekinin Wells. 
 
 1741 — Easter, John and Mary Page Elizabeth, 
 
 James and Eliz. Byrd Richard Wells and 1744, George 
 
 Wells, George and Elizabeth Wills Susanna Peachy, 
 
 George Gilmer John, John and Hannah Taylor 
 
 Sukey, David and Eliz. Force James, John and Betty 
 
 Foy 1741, Mary, Mark and Mary Cosby. 
 
 1742— Elizabeth, George and Ann Jude Judith, 
 
 Thomas and Eliz. Dickinson Ann, James and Ann 
 
 Shields. 
 
 1743— Jane, James and Eliz. Byrd John, Thomas 
 
 and Ann Holt 1742, Judith, Thomas and Eliz. 
 
 Dickinson 1741, John, John and Mary Carter 1743, 
 
 Elizabeth, John and Mary Carter Catharine, Wm. and 
 
 Eliz. Wyatt 1733, Francis, Cliffen and Sarah Rhodes 
 
 1735, Ann, Cliffen and Sarah Rhodes 1737, Sarah, 
 
 Cliffen and Sarah Rhodes 1740, Rebecca, Cliffen and 
 
 Sarah Rhodes 1743, Cliffen, Cliffen and Sarah Rhodes 
 
 Barbary, Thomas and Sarah Atkins 1743, Robert, 
 
 Andrew and Mary Anderson. 
 
 1744— Lucretia, Robert and Adling Fry Sarah, 
 
 James and Tabytha Barden Archibald, Hon. John and 
 
 Mary Blair Anne, Alexander and Susanna Reed 
 
 1745, Elizabeth, Dennis and Mary Mourning William, 
 
 Edward and Mary Maynard 1744, William, Benjamin 
 
 and Eliz. Hansel Elizabeth, John and Mary Green 
 
 John, George and Ann Jude Sarah, James and Ann 
 
 Gcady Elizabeth, Daniel and Rachel Mcintosh 
 
 James, John and Mary Glass Archibald, Hon. John and 
 
 Mary Blair Mildred, Godfrey and Mary John, David 
 
 and Joannah Esco. 
 
 1745— Thomas, Thomas and Eliz. Dickinson Fyss, 
 
 Fyss and Frances Jackson William, John and Eliz. 
 
Birth Record 123 
 
 Rawley John, Joseph and Ann Cock ^Ann, James and 
 
 Elk. Davis Rebecka, Wm. and Eliz. Wellings Hannah 
 
 Harrison, James and Mary Wray Mary, Richard and 
 
 Ann Normand Robey, John and Sarah Coke Sarah, 
 
 Thomas and Mary Cobbs Bethiah, James and Eli*. 
 
 Byrd Susanna, John and Mary Page Waller, Thomas 
 
 and Eliz. Jones. 
 
 1746 — William, Kenneth and Joannah McKenzie 
 
 Robert, Robt. and Eliz. Stevenson Elizabeth, Thos. 
 
 and Eliz. Holt Frances, Geo. and Mary Gamp 
 
 William, Wm. and Mary Nichols Susannah, John and 
 
 Susannah Lane Susannah, Dudley and Mary Diggs 
 
 Christianna, James and Ann Shields ^Weary, or Mary, 
 
 Geo. and Sarah Russel David, Abraham and Eliz. 
 
 Roberts Tabytha, Jas. and Tabytha Barden 
 
 Elizabeth, David and Lucy Musgroves ^Elizabeth, James 
 
 and Eliz. Davis 1746, lohn, Rev(t Zhoe. and 6dttlu 
 
 Robinson John, Thomas and Sarah Atkins Archibald, 
 
 Hon. John and Mary Blair 1745, Lewis, Armistead 
 
 and Christian Burwell 174-, Judith, John and Judith 
 
 Brown 1746, John, Armistead and Christian Burwell 
 
 Ann, Hon. John and Mary Blair Pamelia, Thos. 
 
 and Ann Holt David and Davis, twins, James and Eliz. 
 
 Renolds William Waters, Wm. and Mary Bradford- 
 
 Martha, Man and Martha Bryan Robert, Benj. and 
 
 Eliz. Hansel Mary, Thos. and Eliz. Dickinson 
 
 Mathew, Daniel and Eliz Harmpeld, orHarmfield Mary 
 
 Robinson, John and Elizabeth Rawlison William, Thos. 
 
 and Anne Wilkins 1747, James, James and Mary Wray 
 
 Jacob, Severinus and Mary Durfey, of James City at 
 
 that time 1732, Elizabeth, Serverinus and Mary Durfey, 
 
 1736, Samuel, ditto 1738, Francis, ditto 1741, 
 
 Serverinus, ditto 1741, John, John James and Mary 
 
 Hulett 1744, Elizabeth, ditto 1745, Martha, ditto 
 
 1749, Mary, ditto. 
 
 1747— Martha, Benjamin and Martha Waller 
 
 Thomas, Thos. and Rachel Robinson 1748, Mary, Dr. 
 
124 Birth Record 
 
 Kennith and Joana McKenzie 1747, Anne, James and 
 
 EHz. Oats. 
 
 1748— John, Dennis and Mary Moring 1748, 
 
 Elizabeth, Fips Jackson 1748, bap. James, David 
 
 Musgrove bap. Frances, James and Frances Davis 
 
 John, Wm. and Anne Davenport Elizabeth, Planey 
 
 Ward bap. John, George and Sarah Rnssel bap. 
 
 Mary, Revd. 'CboiTias and 6ditba Robinson Henry, 
 
 Joseph James 1748, John and Elizabeth, twins, Daniel 
 
 and Frances Hughs bap. Dudley, Dudley and Mary 
 
 Digges Hannah, Thos. Atkins Anne, John and 
 
 Back bap. Johny Peters, Anthony Jaspar 
 
 Pinkethman, Pinkethman and Mary Eaton Edward 
 
 Cross, Edw. and Mary Maynard— — Sarah, John and 
 Anne BelL 
 
 1749— Elizabeth, Peter and Morrow, a French 
 
 Man Robert, Benjamin and Martha Waller William, 
 
 Robt. and Mary Nicolson ^Alexander, George Jones and 
 
 Margaret MaepHn John, James and Eliz Wilson, (late 
 
 Ehz. Alexander) Thomas, Thos. and Anne Wilkins. 
 
 1750 — Benjamin, Benjamin and Martha Waller 
 
 Elizabeth, James and Elizabeth Wilson Agnes Rutton,^ 
 
 Thos. and Eliz. Dickinson Joseph, P. Nehemiah and 
 
 Caroline Hunley ^John, Jno. and Judith Brown 
 
 Eebecca, Wm. and Rebecca Rice Abigail, James and 
 
 Anne Oats Alexander, Geo. Jones and Margaret McKlin.. 
 
 1751 — Nancy, Johnand Anne Wright Dixon Brown, 
 
 John and Mary Peal John, Robt. and Mary Nicolson 
 
 John Hubard, Seth and Eliz. Watkins Elizabeth, 
 
 Edw. and Mary Maynard Samuel, Thos. and Anne 
 
 Wilkins Daniel, Daniel and Frances Hughes Frances, 
 
 Ashwell and Mary Stone, of New Kent Co. Robert, 
 
 Thos. and Lucy Stevens. 
 
 1752— Anne, Wm. and Eliz. Timson Barbara", 
 
 Anthony and Elizabeth Hay, (late Eliz. Penman) 
 
 William, Wm. and Mary Davenport Martha, James and 
 
 Eliz. Wilson Molly, William and Molly Dunn 
 
Birth Record 125 
 
 Elizabeth, Thos. and Mary Withers Martha, Benjamin 
 
 and Martha Waller Manettrel, Thos. and Bette Jones 
 
 Thomas, Thomas and Hannah Jones. 
 
 1753— Sarah, Richard and Mary Singleton 1752, 
 
 Joseph, John and Eliz. Curtis 1753, William, Wm. and 
 
 Lydia Richeson Robert, Edw. and Mary Maynard 
 
 Hannah, Benj. and Anabella Powell Jane, Robt. and 
 
 Anne Crawley Henry, Wm. and Judy Bray, Armistead 
 
 Elizabeth, Thomas and Eliz. Dickinson Jane, John 
 
 and Catherine Didip, wife of late Cathanne Marshall 
 
 WilUam, Nehemiah and Caroline Hunley Ambrose, 
 
 Ambrose and Sarah Jackson Robert, Robt. and Mary 
 
 Nicolson. 
 
 1754— Elizabeth, James and Mary Gates Joseph 
 
 Seagrove, Nathaniel, Sr., and Sarah Crawley Thomas, 
 
 Anthony and Eliz. Hayes Naomi, Thos. and Mette 
 
 Jones. 
 
 1757 — William, John and Hannah Rhodes Anne, 
 
 Wm. and Mary Davenport Thomas and Samuel, sons, 
 
 John and Mary Bartle. 
 
 1758— Molly, Peter and Eliz. Powell Susannah, 
 
 Wm. and Susannah Green William Bosaw^an, Wm. and 
 
 Mary Rose Thomas Thorp, Graham and Anne Frank 
 
 1757, George, Robt. and Mary Nicolson 1758, 
 
 Thomas, Rebecca Bird, wd. 
 
 1759— John, James Matt, and Anne Ince James, 
 
 James and Lucy Atherton Thomas, Thomas and Anne 
 
 Craig Mary, John and Mary Bendall John Bond, 
 
 Daniel and Ann Hoge 1761, Repceme, ditto 1764, 
 
 Nancy, ditto 1758, John, Wm. and Eliz. Pearson 
 
 1759, Mary Barden, Simpin and Jane Bryan Mary, 
 
 George and Mary Powell 1758, Sally Armistead, John 
 
 and Judith Brown Sarah, John and Anne Bell John, 
 
 Frederick and Barbary Bryan 1758, Joseph, Anthony 
 
 and Eliz. Hay, late Elizabeth Davenport 1759, Adam, 
 
 James and Anne Craig, late Anne Stephenson William, 
 
 John Nathan and Anne Carter 1761, Elizabeth, James 
 
126 Birth Reconl 
 
 and Anne Taylor, (Shoemaker) 1759, Mary, Wm. and 
 
 Mary Davenport Hellen, John, Jr. and Jane Blair 
 
 1760, Anne, John and Rachael Warrington James, 
 
 John Carter Lucy, Abraham and Ann Cole 1759, 
 
 John, John and Rachael Warrington George, John and 
 
 Mary Chowning Thomas, John and Jane Carter, late 
 
 Jane Mitchell Frederick, Frederick and Barbara 
 
 Bryan 1758, David Bringley, Joseph and Eliz. Wade 
 
 1761, Thomas, George and Powell Robt., John and 
 
 Judith Greenhow 1759, Catharine, Christopher and 
 
 Ann Ayscough. 
 
 1760— Frances, ditto 1762, Ann, ditto 1763, 
 
 Margaret, ditto 1765, Edward, ditto 1767, Clary, 
 
 ditto 1762, Elizabeth, Wm. and Mary Holt 1764, 
 
 Daniel, ditto 1762, William Stith, William and 
 
 Elizabeth Pasteur Sarah, John and Elizabeth Barnes 
 
 1763, John, James and Francis Southall Judith, 
 
 Samuel and Judith Coke 1763, Ann J(?)asker, Robert 
 
 and Francis Carter 1764, Francis, Hon. Robert and 
 
 Frances Carter ^Ann, Henry and Martha Bolton 
 
 John, James and Elizabeth Bell, 1763 1762, Angelyca, 
 
 George and Margret Lafong 1763, John, John and 
 
 Francis Ormiston 1762, Thomas, Francis and Elizabeth 
 
 Durfey 1764, Francis, Francis and Elizabeth Durfey 
 
 1764, Ann, James and Ann Craig, (Jeweler) 1766, 
 
 James, ditto. 
 
 1765— Nancy, William and Mary Stone Francis, 
 
 Frederick and Barbary Bryan Mary, Alexander and 
 
 Barbara Hoye Peter, Peter and Elizabeth Powell 
 
 1765, Frances, William and Ann Graves Elizabeth, 
 
 Edward and Mary Haynes ^Ann, William and Ann 
 
 Jackson Sarah, Samuel and Judith Coke Robert, 
 
 John and Frances Ormeston Dixson, Robert and Ann 
 
 Bond William, William and Mary Holt William, 
 
 Mathew, Jr., and Katherine Moody Elizabeth, 
 
 Humphrey and Sarah Harwood- Samuel, James and 
 
 Mary Gait ^Betty Landon, Hon. Robert and Prances 
 
Birth Record 127 
 
 Carter Elizabeth, Benjamin and Sally Eggleston 
 
 Henry, Richard and Dinnah Street Chritian,John,Jun., 
 
 and Jane Blair Jennet, Alixander and Mary Purdy 
 
 Oeorge, Anthany and EHz. Hay Sally, Benjamin and 
 
 Martha Waller 1766, Mary, Gabriel and Easter Manpin 
 
 1765, Hunter, Joseph and Roseama Royle Arenna, 
 
 Wm. and Ann Saunders. 
 
 1766— Jonny Wyate, Edward and Martha Westmore 
 
 Elizabeth, James and EHz. Holdcraft Phillip, James 
 
 and Frances Southall Mary, Samuel and Lucy Trower 
 
 Maty, James and Eliz. Geddy Mary, William and 
 
 Mary Pearson ^ohn, John and Eliz. Sheppard 
 
 Elizabeth, William and Eliz. Phillips Mary Symmer 
 
 Degliesh, Wm. and Susanna Roberts. 
 
 (Page out of place in Record Book) 1762— Sarah, 
 
 William and Mary Davenport William, Benj. and 
 
 Martha Waller John, Samuel and Judith Coke ^Ann, 
 
 Thomas and Ann Blasingham George, Peter and 
 
 Rebecca Mires John, Robeit and Ann Bond Fanny, 
 
 William and Ann Jackson Edward, John and Anne 
 
 Bell bap. Susanna, Benj. and Charity Ricket 1763, 
 
 bap. Katherine, Thomas and Katherine Dunn bap. 
 
 Elizabeth and Rebecca, Mathew and Eliz. Doran ^Mary, 
 
 John and Rachel Warrington James, Wm. and Rebecca 
 
 Carter John, Walter and Eliz. Lenox Ann, John and 
 
 Jane Carter 1758, Joseph Mathews, George and 
 
 Katherine Davenport 1760, Anne, ditto 1763, John, 
 
 Peter and Ann Pelham James, Wm. and Eliz. Reynolds 
 
 1764, Robert Hall, Benj. and Martha Waller 1763, 
 
 Andrew, Robert and Mary Nicolson 1764, Rebecca, 
 
 John and Rachael Warrington Elizabeth, John and Jane 
 
 Carter Elizabeth Craton George William, Wm. and 
 
 Anna Bradley Elizabeth, John and Mary Bendall 
 
 Mary Elizabeth, Peter and Rebecca Moyer William 
 
 Allen, Walther and Eliz. Lenox ^Newton, John and 
 
 Mouning Connilly James, James and Frances Southall 
 
 176-, Patrick, Robert and Mary Highland 176-, 
 
128 Birth Record 
 
 William, ditto 1765, Elizabeth Meakings, John and 
 
 Mary White Nancy, Wm. and Eliz. Finnie Ann, Wm. 
 
 and Mary Magdalene Pearson ^Elizabeth, Wm. and 
 
 Jenny Dennis William, Wm. and Rebecca Carter 
 
 William, Simon and Rachel Whittaker 1764, William, 
 
 Mungo and Sarah Campbell 1765, Sarah, Eliz. and 
 
 Bichard Basset John, James and Mary Black ^Ann, 
 
 James and Susana Shields Edward, John and Martha 
 
 Hennese Joseph, Wm. and Mary Davenport William, 
 
 John and Eliz. Barns James, James and Frances 
 
 Hubard ^Ann, Bichard and Sarah Brown ^Archibald, 
 
 Wm. and Mary Bose Mary, Ghas. and Sarah Porter 
 
 Mary, John and Eleanor Seagrove Camp William Sealy 
 
 Lano, William Sealy and Courtney Lano Judith^ 
 
 Bobert Carter and Ann Nicholas William, William and 
 
 Eliz. Bland. 
 
 1766— Polly, Wm. and Mary Bose Elizabeth, 
 
 George and Mary Amest John, James Eliz. Bryan 
 
 James, Wm. and Bebecca Carter Eebecca, Bobert and 
 
 Mary Nicolson Jane, Bich. and Sarah Charlton Cary 
 
 Mitchell, John and Jane Carter ^Mathew Mallory, 
 
 Mathew and Kathern Moody George, George and 
 
 Margret Lafong Lewis, Robert Carter and Ann 
 
 Nicholas George, John and Eleanor Seagrove Camp 
 
 John, John and Mouning Connilly Sarah, Alixander 
 
 and Mary Craig Robert Timson, Bobert and Mary 
 
 Highland William, Bowland and Sarah Crone 
 
 Thomas, Walter and Eliz. Lenox Mathew, James and 
 
 Frances Hubard. 
 
 1767— William, James and Hannah Anderson 
 
 Elizabeth, James and Eliz. Bell William, Bobert and 
 
 Ann Bond John Grierson, William and Clementine Bind 
 
 John McCarty, Wm. Sealy and Courtney Lane 
 
 , Alexander and Mary Purdy Sarah, Bichard and 
 
 Dianna Street Bobert, Tomkins and Martha Martyr 
 
 Bichard, Abraham and Ann Cole A son of James 
 
 and Frances Southall Elizabeth, Georpe and Eliz. 
 
Birth Record 129 
 
 Wilson Ann, John and Mary Dewbre Mary, Hon. 
 
 Robert and Frances Carter Fanny, Benj. and Martha 
 
 Waller Sally, Richard and Sarah Brown Mary, 
 
 Jonathan and Mary Prosser Francis, Francis and 
 
 Eliz. Durfey John, Edmond and Ann Sanders 
 
 Elizabeth Jackson, John and Sarah Timson John, John 
 
 and Mary White Lucretia, Edward and Mary Haynes 
 
 Mary, John and Rachael Warrington James 
 
 Reynolds, Wm. and Mary Davenport. 
 
 1768 — Benjamin, William and Martha Taylor John, 
 
 John and Eleener SegroveCamp Ann Shields, Frederick, 
 
 Jun. and Ann Bryan Elizabeth, William and Mary 
 
 Godfrey William, Humphrey and Sarah Harwood 
 
 1767 — Elizabeth, William and Mary Magdlen Pearson 
 
 Anthony, Anthony and Eliz. Hay 1768, Benjamin, 
 
 William and Eliz. Fear Alixander, Alix. and Hannah 
 
 Martin Robert, Robert Carter and Ann Nicholas 
 
 William Dawson, James and Ann Clayton Charles, 
 
 William and Clementine Rind George, George and 
 
 Cathem Aubrey Haynes James, James and Eliz. Cocke 
 
 Samuel, James and Eliz. Holdcraft William, Blovet 
 
 and Mary Pasteur Harrison, Mathew and Kathrine 
 
 Moody Hariet Lucy, Hon. Robert and Frances Carter, 
 
 Esq. Mary, George and Mary Amest ^Rachel, WilUam 
 
 and Rachael Phillips Robert, John and Mary Rattlif 
 
 Jane How, William and Rebecca Carter John Tyler, 
 
 James and Hannah Anderson Mary, John and Anne 
 
 Eamshaw Charlott, Robert and Ann Bond Moses 
 
 Russel, William Pearman Mary, Steven and Martha 
 
 May Sarah, James and Betty Valantine Randolph, 
 
 Walther and Eliz. Lenox Nathniel, William and Ann 
 
 Saunders Jane, Richard and Sarah Brown A son of 
 
 John and Roseanna Dixson Meriwether, James and 
 
 Frances Hubard Nelley, John and Mouning Connilly 
 
 1770, Humphrey, Humphrey and Sarah Harwood 
 
 177 , Robert, David and Mary Morton Thomas, ditto 
 
 Mary, ditto David, ditto 1776, Anne Garland 
 
130 Btrtb Record 
 
 Carr, William and Mary Goodson 1778, William Green- 
 wood, ditto 1780, Samuel Spurr, ditto — 177 .William, 
 
 William and Eliz. Hunter 1777, Mary (?) Hewes, 
 
 Henry Field 1779, ^(ohii, Revd. tJohn and Savab Bracken 
 
 Frances, Hunphey and Sarah Harwood 1780, John 
 
 Meed, Wm. and Eliz. Lark Christian, Druits, a Dane 
 
 Ann, Charles and Eliz. Lisle 1781, Mary, Holeman and 
 
 Sarah Minnis John, Beverly and Mary Dickson 
 
 Edward Smith, William and Ann Jiggits John 
 
 Rochanbeau, Philip and Judith Moody John, John and 
 
 Sarah Wright Matilda Aylett, Saml. and Anne Beall 
 
 Sarah, Philip and Rebecca Bullifant Richard, 
 
 Richard and Booker Sally, Thomas and Sarah 
 
 Bristow Fanny, John and Anne Carter Sylla and 
 
 Sally, twins, Joseph and Frances Crawley Molly, 
 
 Ambrose and Sarah Jackson ^Jane, William and Eliz. 
 
 Russell Nancy, Andrew and Mary Flax Julia Carter, 
 
 John and Sarah Bracken Elizabeth Garland, William 
 
 and Eleanor Pitt Elizabeth, Hulitt and Jane Rollison 
 
 Sarah Irebell, John M. and Judith Gait 1782, 
 
 John, Saml. and Eliz. Dubree John, William and 
 
 Eebecca Bacon 1783, 6tfzabcth and Robert, Rev. Robert 
 
 and eiiz. Hndrews John Craig, J. W. and Jane Shileds 
 
 James, James and Mary Gait Elizabeth, Henry and 
 
 Eliz. Nicolson Joseph, Joseph and Margret Prentis 
 
 James, John and Mary Ratcliff Catherine, John and 
 
 Lucretia Blasingham Betsey, Charles and Searbourough 
 
 Orrel William Swiney, William L. and Ann Bolton 
 
 James, Joseph and Jane Wallace Elizabeth, Daniel and 
 
 Martha Dean Polly, Chas. and Polly Graves 1784, 
 
 Mary, Humphrey and Sarah Harwood Mary Cosby, 
 
 James and Eliz. Johnson Thomas, John and Mary 
 
 Jones Thomas, Thomas and Esther Scot Elizabeth 
 
 Randolph, Robert and Lucy Sandford Ann McKenzie, 
 
 William and Eliz. Lark. 
 
 1785— Gideon, John and MaryRatcli£F Betsy, Saml. 
 
 and Sarah Wright Judith Bray Inglis, James and 
 
l^rth Record 131 
 
 Susanna Shield Charlott, Saml. and Frances Able 
 
 William Chesley, John and Eliz. Roadman Mary 
 
 Wilkinson, Thomas and Eliz. Cowles William, Wm. and 
 
 Eliz. Dick Christianna, John and Marg. Stokes 
 
 William Farrow, Wm. and Eliz. Russell William, Joseph 
 
 and Margaret Prentis Warren Ware, Eliz. Lyon 
 
 William Beverly, Thomas and Sarah Bristow Martha, 
 
 Wm. and Rebecca Baker Ann Brown, James and Eliz. 
 
 Innis Jane Wright, Duncan and Margaret McPherson 
 
 Elizabeth, John S. Alix. and Eliz. Besserer John 
 
 Minson, James and Mary Gait Jane, David and Mor- 
 ton Lucy Ann, John M. and Judith Gait Humphrey 
 
 Chase, John and Catherine Wright Penelope Johnston, 
 
 Walker and Mary Maury Mary, John and Mary 
 
 Reynolds Eliza Trebell, William and Eliz. Finnic 
 
 Samuel, Samuel and Eliz. Dubree William Taliaferro, 
 
 William and Mary Nelson Thomas, William and Mary 
 
 Qibbs Sarah, John and Sarah Bracken Elizabeth, 
 
 George and Ann Jackson 1786, James Solomon, James 
 
 Solomon Cumbo and wife Esther, Son, John and Susan 
 
 Cole 1787, Elizabeth Cumbo, Solomon Cumbo and 
 
 Wife 1790, Sarah Cumbo, ditto 1787, Richard, John 
 
 and Mary RadclifiF Susanna, John and Susanna Cole 
 
 Richard, James and Mary Gait 1789, Gabriel, 
 
 ditto 1792, George, John and Mary Bray. 
 
Eppenbix E 
 Death IRecotb, 1662*1751 
 
 The following is a complete list of the names of those 
 who are recorded as having died from 1662 to 1751, the 
 names of slaves being omitted : 
 
 *1662— Bridgett, w. John Russell Fielding, s. Capt. 
 
 Daniel Parke Frances, w. Alexander Walker 
 
 Vi(?)sley, w. Asael Batten. 
 
 1663 — Mary, d. Garret Hawthorne Robert, s. Mrs. 
 
 Mary Walters Elizabeth, w. William Gilbey Mr. 
 
 Tuley ^Anne, w. Major Crenshaw Robert Boyden 
 
 Anne, d. Wm. and Jane Davis Mary, d. Mr. Edwd. 
 
 Foliott John, s. John Davis Daniel, s. Mr. Daniel 
 
 Wylde Daniel, s. Capt. Daniel Parke Henry Phrodno 
 
 Robert Thomas, s. John and Katherine Thomas 
 
 Bachel, d, John and Maty Davis. 
 
 1664 — Margaret, d. Henry White Bebecca, d. Mr. 
 
 Edward Foliot John, s. John and Katherine Wells- 
 
 Mr Henry Banister Richard and Robt., s. Valent 
 
 Harvy ^Margaret, w. Major Crenshaw John Davis 
 
 Elizabeth, d. John Johnson Thomas Philip 
 
 Nicholas Dunford Katherine, w. John Wells ^Thomas 
 
 Austin, s. Mrs. Mary Bromfield ^William Stone. 
 
 1665 — John Evans Captain Jeremiah Fisher 
 
 Elizabeth, d. Daniel Wylde ^Thomas Bromfield 
 
 Thomas White John Thomas Adam, s. Elizabeth 
 
 Strawhawne Frances, d. Garret and Mary Hawthorne. 
 
 1666 — James, s. James Wilkins Robert Kempe 
 
 Jane Berkley Ann Luckey Thomas Wilson Asaell 
 
 Batten Elizabeth Vaulx William Jeph Henry 
 
 Dennis Elizabeth Davis Martha Graves Frances, 
 
 d. Henry Binkfield Thomas Predy John Martin 
 
 James Todeink (?) 
 
 1667— Major Joseph Creshaw Adam Strawhun (?). 
 
 Henry, s. Henry White William Jackson Ralph 
 
 'Abbreviations: S., son of. D., daughter of. W., Wife of. 
 
Death Record 133 
 
 Graves Edward Gwyn John Morgan John King 
 
 Villerel (?) Hughs Richard Todd John Russell 
 
 William Walthome (?) Robert Partridge ^Katherine, 
 
 d. Robert Partridge Susan, w. Robert Hossington. 
 
 1668— Thomas, s. Thomas Penbethman ^Thomas 
 
 Wilkinson George Woods Hugh Cooper Peter 
 
 Sharpe Mary, d. Mr. Graves Sara, w. John Davis 
 
 Benjamin, s. in law Thomas Holder Mary, w. Thomas 
 
 Holder John, s. John Stephens William, s. Daniel and 
 
 Margaret Stephens Elizabeth, w. James Trice, Samuel 
 
 Crabtree Ann, d. Rachell Graves Katherine, w. 
 
 Michaell Batos. 
 
 1669— Margaret, d . Capt. and Eliz. Crenshaw Capt. 
 
 Crenshaw Rachell, w. Richard Barnes John Comon 
 
 Martin Ireland Charles Hurst Rebecca, w. 
 
 Francis Durphey John, s. John and Mary Daniell 
 
 Susanna, d. Daniel Somorton Ann, d. Henry and Mary 
 
 White Thomas Gregory Richard Whitehair 
 
 James Wells Daniell, s. Richard and Sarah Kempe. 
 
 1670— John Smith, William Phillips Elizabeth, d. 
 
 John and Eliz. Equo Charles Wheeler — ^Ann, d. Anthony 
 
 and Margaret Sands John Woods John Peters 
 
 Jarret Hawthorne Frances, d. Capt Francis 
 
 Mathews. 
 
 1671— Thomas, s. in law Thomas Milton Elizabeth, 
 
 w. Thomas Whaley ^William Hazell Hannah, w. 
 
 Cook Marth, w. Jas. Bullock Thomas, s. John and 
 
 Jane Cole Anthony, s. Anthony and Margaret Sands 
 
 Richard, s. Ricd. and Eliz. Shurley Elizabeth, d. Capt. 
 
 Frances Mathews Sarah, d. Wm. and Eliz. Tucker 
 
 Lettie, d. Rite and Eliz. Jones Edward, s. Edwd. and 
 
 Bridget Ivory William Lancaster ^Joan, w. Thomas 
 
 Penkethman Paul Johnson Clark Henry White 
 
 Robert Horsington Jrauna, d. Frances Gutteridge 
 
 Anne Lee, w. Henry Bingfield Dorothy, d. Anthony 
 
 Sands John Horsington. 
 
 1672— William, s. Cornelius Jonathan Robert, s. 
 
134 Death Record 
 
 Clement Mash Martha, w. Robert Robinson Mr. 
 
 Clement Marsh Mr. Thomas Penckethman. 
 
 1673 — Susanna, w. Francis Durfey Margaret, w. 
 
 Anthony Sands Mary, d. Capt. Francis Mathews 
 
 William Haskett. 
 
 1674— William Bell Robert Wharton Mary 
 
 Simpkins James Bisit Valentine Harvey John, s. 
 
 James Bisit Sebella Aylett Capt. Philip Chesley 
 
 Thomas Simpkins— — Henry Townsend Richard Turner 
 
 Richard Barnes Henry Taylor Thomas, s. James 
 
 Vaulx Julian Davis, widow Edward Bray 
 
 Francis Mathews. 
 
 1675— James Field Dorothy, w. Capt. Otho Thorp 
 
 ^John Wattles Mary, w. John Wattles George 
 
 Jude, Sexton Elizabeth, w. Robert Bee Hunphrey 
 
 Veale Robert, s. Capt. Anthony Archer Margaret 
 
 Wylde Elizabeth, w. Capt. Thorp Elizabeth, w. 
 
 Samuel Bichardson Anne Jackson Capt. William 
 
 Corker Mr. Lewis Griffin John Dickinson William 
 
 Gilbey. 
 
 1676 — John Rogers, 8r. John Frederick Gyles 
 
 Rogers William Thomas Thomas Sturgis George 
 
 Bates John Scot Thomas Rentmore. 
 
 1677 — James Vaulx William Tantey John 
 
 Russell Elizabeth Hutchins Capt. Thomas Williams 
 
 Thomas Sampson. 
 
 1678 — Thomas Wilkinson Anna, w. Thomas 
 
 Ballard, Esq. William Aylett John Wisdem (?) 
 
 Adam Hudson 61izabetb, w. Rowland lones, Clavlt 
 
 Thomas Wilkinson Warrick Haile The Honourable 
 
 Thomas Ludwell Adam Hudson The Hon. Daniel 
 
 Parke Mary, w. Christopher Peirson Nicholas Toop. 
 
 1679— Mary, w. Nicholas Toop Anne, w. Martin 
 
 Gardner Edward Bessy. 
 
 1680— John, s. Richard Saint Robert Simpson 
 
 Alice, w. John Dormar James Cooper Mathew 
 
 Edwards. 
 
Death Record 135 
 
 1681— James Besoutb Samuel, s. Samuel Timson 
 
 John Bell William Fellows Anne, w. Richard 
 
 Haley. 
 
 1682 — Mr. Gwinn Joseph Crenshaw Mrs. 
 
 LydiaAylett, widow Joan, w. Thomas Mille William 
 
 Gravenor Edward, s. Nicholas Sebrill Robert Cobbe 
 
 Robert Spring. 
 
 1683— Robert Prichard- — Elizabeth, d. Capt. James 
 
 Archur Ambrose Cobbe Margaret Porter ^Morris 
 
 Herd James, s. John Taylor James Wilkinson. 
 
 1684— Abraham, s. John Vadin John, s. John 
 
 Vadin Anne Winchcom Robert Handy Thomas, 
 
 s. Nicholas Sebrill Henry, s. Henry Tyler ^Mrs. Robt. 
 
 Cobbs Humphrey, s. Robert Lounsdale , s. 
 
 Edward Jones, Merchant Thomas Owen. 
 
 1685— Anne, w. Charles Digby Richard Aynsley, 
 
 Arthur Juxton Margaret, w. Andrew Cole Susanna, 
 
 w Job Corking William Oxley. 
 
 1686— George Hewbank ^Jane, w. Edward Jones 
 
 Katherine, w. Henry Brower Joseph Bascom 
 
 Margaret Bell Rebecca White Thomas Broad 
 
 Dorcas, w. William Atwood Thomas Summers 
 
 George Norvell Edward Davis Anne, w. Edward 
 
 Davis Evan Owen Christopher Walter William 
 
 Martin Elizabeth, w. Thomas Jeffreys Sarah Hale 
 
 Margaret Owen Constant, w. William Davis 
 
 Edward Wadsworth Edward Evans Anne, d. John 
 
 Teddar John Garland George Bridges Leonard 
 
 Dickeson James Brand Thomas Rogers Vinty, 
 
 w. George Robison John, s. John Bates. 
 
 1687— Mr. Valentine Evans John Stevens 
 
 Richard Peirse Robert Miller George Burkey, a 
 
 Dutchman Sarah Gilbert Sarah, w. Edward Gyles 
 
 Joan, W.John Meeke John Whiting Richard Crooke 
 
 Joan, w. Wm. Jackson Margaret, w. William 
 
 Kerle Mary, w. Thomas Taylor Joan, d. William 
 
 Jackson Elizabeth, d. Thomas Fear Thomas Limb 
 
136 Death Record 
 
 William Irish William Preston Esther Gold 
 
 William Davis, Sen. — Robert Partridge — John Philips — 
 William Johnson. 
 
 1688— Mr. Rowland ^ones, Clarhe George Hewbank, 
 
 s. Geo. Hewbank Mary, d. Geo. Hewbank Abott, s. 
 
 Wm. Atwood Mr. John Daniel Isaac Goding 
 
 William Rice John Evans. 
 
 1689— William Watson Mary, w. Robert West 
 
 John Harrison Thomas Gorham Thomas Ballard, 
 
 Esq. George Glascock Samuel Bainton. 
 
 1690— Henry, s. Joseph White Benett Casement, 
 
 widow Alice, Edw. Giles John, s. Mr. George Martin 
 
 Edward Jones, Merchant James Drake ^William 
 
 Robison Mary, w. Capt. Francis Page John 
 
 Horsoon or Horvoor (?) Jane, w. Robert Stanyard. 
 
 1691— Mary Whiting Anne, w. Wm. Coman 
 
 Edmund Ivory Elizabeth, d. Thos. Mills John 
 
 Cooper James Bray, Esq.^— John Williams, a School 
 
 M. Anne, d. Edmund Jenings, Esq., Susanna 
 
 Ludbrook John Page, Esq. Robert Huellin. 
 
 1692— Joan Hammer Capt. Francis Page Mary 
 
 Mills Jane Hortshorn Nicholas Sebrill, Sen. 
 
 Geverge, s. Capt. Geo. Ravenscroft Capt. Thomas 
 
 Thorp Thomas Steward William Iserell Thomas 
 
 Bray John Taylor John Hopkins John Clarke 
 
 Mr. Nichols ^Anne, w. James Harrison Henry 
 
 Binkfield Thomas Tibbs Mr. Robert Jones - 
 
 Thomas Yates Richard Page Mrs. Katherine 
 
 Besouth Elizabeth, d. Richard Page John, s. 
 
 Christopher Peirson Thomas Batts Mr. Robert 
 
 Higgison Evan Roberts Joice, w. John Bates 
 
 Elizabeth, d. John Bates William Green Mr. Edmund 
 
 Cobbs John Keen Mary Sutor. 
 
 1693— Mary Keen, widow Thomas, s. Christopher 
 
 Peirson Mr. Martin Gardner Sarah, w. Daniel 
 
 Hornby Roan Graves Corville , wife of 
 
 L. Philip Wells. 
 
Death Record 137 
 
 1695 — ^Vinity, w. Tho. Grips John Spelman 
 
 Watson, widow Robert Clarke Jervas Newton. 
 
 1696 — Mr* Budeon, a mintstei* Evelyn, d. Dan. 
 
 Parke, Esq. ^White, d. Joseph White John Batten 
 
 George Jude James, s. Wm. Kerle John Brookman 
 
 John Turner Thomas Mills Mary, w. Timo. 
 
 Pinketham Rice Jones. 
 
 1694r— Daniel Mecarte Mr. Philip Wells James 
 
 Knell Cordwainer Elenor Anderson ^James Gibson 
 
 Elizabeth Crocus William Graves ^John Pollard 
 
 Alice Whitby John Teddar John Manly Mr. 
 
 Samuel Timson Henry Goodwin Mr. Peter Temple 
 
 of Hampton Parish. 
 
 1695— Alexander Bonyman, Jr. Mrs. Katherine 
 
 Thorp Elizabeth, d. Mr. Henry Tyler. 
 
 1701— Mai7, w. Rev. Mr. Cope Doyley^ Clarhe Mr. 
 
 James Whaley, late Church-warden Mr. Wickham 
 
 Joan, w. Thomas Tandy Thomas Thorpe Mr. 
 
 Hllardis, minister Francis Durfy Mrs. Lydia Vinkler, 
 
 ^dow Mr. John Kendall Mr. Martin, merchant 
 
 Mr. Dowson Susanna, w. Wm. White Matthew, s. 
 
 Nicho. Sebrill Mr. John Owens. 
 
 1699_Elenor, w. Alexander Bonyman, Clerc. of this 
 
 parish Robert Brooks John Stafford John 
 
 Bonyman ^Peter Johnson Magdalen, w. Jos. White — 
 
 Edward Davis Edmund Pines Susanna Evans 
 
 Thomas Teer Robert Haley. 
 
 1700-1— William Jackson John Bates 6tizabetb^ 
 
 d. Cope Doyley. 
 
 1701-2— Thomas Clayton William Sanders 
 
 Susanna, w. Hon. Brewer Mr. Adrian Preston, writing- 
 master Mrs. Mary Pinkethhman Mary Clayton, 
 
 widow Mr. Harvy, a merchant Elizabeth Shelbum 
 
 Zhc Reverend Mr. Cope DoyUy Mrs. Mary Timson, 
 
 widow Elenor, d. Mary Bonyman AnnPynes, widow 
 
 Elizabeth, w. Mr. John Page , wife of Mr. 
 
 Lawrence Green Mary Teer, widow. 
 
138 Death Record 
 
 1702-3— Thomas Cobbs Elizabeth, w. Mr. Henry 
 
 Tyler Emanuel Desveer, a Portnguese Mary Dyer. 
 
 1703— Francis, w. John Steward William White, a 
 
 Planter Alberter Warren Margaret Bentley 
 
 James, s. Wm. Harrison Mr. George Martin John 
 
 Web Francis, d. Brathwait Massey Henry Brower 
 
 Nicholas Mitchell , wite of Goodwin. 
 
 1703-4— Thomas Ward William Stevens, Sr. 
 
 John Casey ^^Job Corking Nicholas Hammer Lidia, 
 
 w. Henry Dyer Joseph Man John Bartlett Mary, 
 
 w. Ralph Hubard Thos. Farmer, Jas. City Parish 
 
 Mary, w. Joseph White John Sjmcock Edward, s. 
 
 Wm. Davis John Wetherford Mr. John Archer 
 
 Robert West Mr. Timothy Pinbethman. 
 
 1705— Frederick, s. Mr. Fred Jones Sara, w. Capt. 
 
 Hugh Howell William Cobbs Mathew, s. Mr. James 
 
 and Mary Whaley Denis, s. Flor. and Maiy Mechart 
 
 William Hopkins ^Elizabeth, w. Edward Wigg 
 
 Sidney Row 1706, Mary, w. John Boss Robert 
 
 Filpott 1706, eOOIHRD NOCC, eSQ^GOV^etc. 
 
 Elizabeth Filpott, widow John McCloud John Hall. 
 
 1707— Mary, second w. Alexander Bonyman, clerk 
 
 Thomas Pinchback Richard Strickland Wells, a very 
 
 ancient woman Anne Day Mr. Isaac Jemart, 
 
 Mercht. Mrs. Minitrey, w. David Minitree William 
 
 Gibbs, a very ancient man. 
 
 1708— Rebecca Pinkethman, widow James Lord 
 
 Nicholas Sebrill Francis, w. Nicholas Sebrill 
 
 Lucy, w. Jonathan Drewitt Jane. w. Daniel Parke, 
 
 Esq. Sara, w. John Nicolson Cornelius Shehorne 
 
 Catherine Masterson Mrs. Lord, widow, James Lord. 
 
 1709— Mr. William Hansford Mr. John Juce, 
 
 Keeper of prison Mr. Thomas Wiggs. 
 
 1710— Godwin, w. William Thomas Denis Shehom 
 
 Mary, d. Mr. Mengo Ingles Elizabeth, d. Robert 
 
 Cobbs Sarah, w. Henry Tyler Hunphrey Hames 
 
 and wife Mrs. Saml. Timson Thomas Love 
 
Death Recoil 139 
 
 Joseph Bengerfield Remold Jackson, a very ancient 
 
 man Mr. Ed-ward Powers Mary, w. John Drewitt 
 
 John Leaver Thomas Stanley Jonathan Ratcliff 
 
 -Joan, d. Widow Johnson ^Thomas Hix ^Che 
 
 Kevtrcnd Mi*. Solomon ^batekp, Minister ^Rebecca, 
 
 w Hen. Dyer Mrs. Smith Henry Dyer Anne, d. 
 
 Mungo Ingles Mrs. Mouring, w. Oapt. James Bray 
 
 Mrs. Francis Sharp. 
 
 1710-11 — Anne, w. Mungo Ingles Mary, w. 
 
 Abraham Martin Joseph White William Pulley 
 
 Abraham Martin Henry Gilbert Edward Whittock 
 
 Mary, w. John Hall Joseph, s. Francis Cook 
 
 1712, Mathew Lyndrick Benjamin, s. Julius Cook 
 
 Sarah, d. Abraham Martin Elizabeth, w. Wm. Alintof 
 
 Daughter of Fredk. Jones Jane, d. Thomas Allen 
 
 Thomas Allen David Minitree Bentley. 
 
 1712— Mr. Coleman Mr. William Pinkethman, High 
 
 Sherr. Mrs. Anne, d. Mr. Henry Tyler Mr. Richard 
 
 Wharton, Barister att Law John Green Anne, w. Mr. 
 
 Thomas Read Lydia, d. Robert Cobbe John, Jr., s. 
 
 Jno. Layton. 
 
 1713 Martin Denis Frances, w. William Jones 
 
 Dorothy, w. Stephen Tomson Elizabeth, d. Stephen 
 
 Tomson, Esq. Cobbs, d. Robert Cobbs. 
 
 1714r-William Taylor Anne, d. William and Mary 
 
 gyms John Timberleck Issabella Broadbanck 
 
 John, s. John and Eliz. Tyler William, s. Wm. and Mary 
 
 Sherman Elizabeth, w. Claud Rovear Catherine, w. 
 
 Harry Dyer Daughter of Eliz. Anderson David, 
 
 «. John and Rachel Morris WiUiam Lucas Francis, 
 
 w. John Custis David, s Mungo Ingles Elener, d. 
 
 Thomas Wade. 
 
 1715— Mary, d. Alexander and Mary Gary Son of 
 
 John and Mary Hubbard Christopher, s. Christopher 
 
 and Mary Jackson Sarah Dunston Charles Barrett 
 
 John, s. David Stover (?) Thomas, s. David and 
 
 Eliz. Prior Mary, d. William Davis. 
 
140 Death Record 
 
 1716 — Mary, d. John and June Goodwin Son of John 
 
 and Mary Harris, (diedunbaptized) Sarah Dunston 
 
 Johanna, d. Christ, and Mary Jackson Dorcas, w. 
 
 Samuel Timson 1717, Richard Davis George 
 
 Glasscock 1718, William, s. James and Sarah Lewis 
 
 John, S.John and Eliz. Bolton John, s. Robert West 
 
 Florence McCarty Edward Dyer 1719, Danl., s. 
 
 Danl. and Frances Burton Hugh Nor well. 
 
 1719 — Alexander Boniman Florence, s. Florence 
 
 McCarty Daniel Blouette Mary, w. Jno. Harris 
 
 Mary Davis, widow Rich. Huldston Ambrose Cobbs 
 
 Abigail Obrian ^Matt Cole Mary Baker David 
 
 Cunningham Sarah, w. James Lewis Mary Taylor 
 
 Eliza, w. Francis Duffin. 
 
 1720--John Smith Eliza, d. Georgee Riddal 
 
 Child of Henry Cary Bridgett Menetree, widow 
 
 Barbary, d. Robert Laughton William Cocke, Esq. 
 
 Mrs. Judith Bray Joseph, s. Joseph and Eliza 
 
 Davenport Peter Morgan Mr. Thos. Bray 
 
 William, s. Sarah Taylor Anne Moor John Gooding 
 
 Richard Williams Alexander McGrigor John 
 
 Steward Margett Bridson Peter Owman William 
 
 Johnson. 
 
 1723— John Buffin Taylor, s. Richard Tobin 
 
 William, s. Frances Sharpe Phileman Jackson 
 
 Richard, s. Rich, and Mary Alcorn John, s. Samuel and 
 
 Eliz. Weldon Thomas Tarrent Hannah, d. William 
 
 and Eliz. Rudder Daniel Dean George Gilbert Ann 
 
 Vaulx Lydia, w. Wm. Dyer Mary, d. Henry and 
 
 Anne Cary. 
 
 1724— Daphne Lightfoot Adam George Ben- 
 jamin Sadler Alexander Kennedy John West 
 
 Jane, w. George Straghan Joseph Davenport. 
 
 1725— Robert Fennock Mr. Christian Munroe 
 
 Thomas Paget Charles Windsor Lidia Dyer John 
 
 Pegram Rachel Bakercet Capt. James Bray 
 
 Joanna Delony Mr. Robert Cobb James Cosby — ^ 
 
Death Record 141 
 
 Margaret, w. Wm. Alwood William, s. John and 
 
 Frances Ince John Gill Mr. lobn Bag, Minister 
 
 1726, Stephen Besouth Thomas Wager Thomas 
 
 Harris Jane Newman Sarah, w. George Straugham 
 
 1727, Mary Pasteur James Backhurst Thomas 
 
 Barber Jane Ogleby John Davis, Sen. Jno. 
 
 Pasteur, Sen. s. Jno. Pasteur James Shields 
 
 6dmund Jetmings, esq. ^Eliza Pack Mrs. Mary 
 
 Luke William Harrison Elizabeth, w. Joseph 
 
 Davenport Wilham Johnsoune WiUiam, s. Wm. 
 
 Bulger Sanders, w. Robert Sanders. 
 
 1726— Eliza Wilkinson Ann, w. John Davenport 
 
 Ann Everitt Wm. Allexander Andrew, s. Andrew 
 
 Laprade Ann, w. Andrew Laprade Peter Serjeanten 
 
 Michale Archer Mary Lark Mary Green 
 
 Elizabeth Archer William Forbar Jno., son John 
 
 Pasteur Eliza Willis Mary Kains Hannah Bryan 
 
 Jean Pollard Eliza Wilkinson Daniel Taylor 
 
 Daniel Murpha John Davis, Jr. Samuel Millington 
 
 Frances Millington Wm. Humphreys William 
 
 Barber Benjamin Stone William, s. John and 
 
 Hannah Whitehead Mary Nicholas John Harris. 
 
 1728 — William Dyer Mrs. Sarah Jennings, widow 
 
 of Col. Edward Jennings, Pres. John Davis ^Anne, d. 
 
 John and Eliza Tyler Martha, d. Robert Dyer 
 
 Edward, Child Edward Burrieh Margaret Thompson 
 
 Frances Young Elizabeth, d. Wm. and Francis 
 
 Aleraft. 
 
 1729 — Mr. Giles Moodey Bettey Jacquelin, d. 
 
 Richard Pack William, s. Capt. James Hopkins 
 
 Amy, w. Charles Cosby Elizabeth, d. Henry Bryan 
 
 William Thompson Daniel LeMerchant Elizabeth, 
 
 d. Susane Cooper Sara, w. Isaac Bee Itilla, d. 
 
 James and MaryHubard Lewis Contesse Margaret, 
 
 w. John White Patrick Green John Brook George 
 
 Wynn Mr. Henry Tyler, Sen. ^Ann, widow John Davis 
 
 William Stone Sarah, d. John Pa 
 
142 Death Record 
 
 1734 — Garret Henrikiss John, s. John Lang- 
 
 Rachael Wood John Cook Thomas Rogerman- 
 
 Elizabeth Newton : Thorn as Couser William Harper. 
 
 1735 — Jane, w. Dennis Barden Catherine Moreland 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth, w. John Timson Helena, w. William 
 
 Maples Robert Johnson Daniel Cain William, 
 
 s. William Trewly Anthony Hammond Sarah, d. 
 
 Jno. Blair ^James, s. John Mundell Ann, d. Henry 
 
 Tyler. 
 
 1736— Elizabeth Johnson, widow Mr. William 
 
 Blaikley Mary, d. Mrs. Charles Bridges, Sr. 
 
 Elizabeth, w. Saml. Pennele Hugh Edmunds John 
 
 Douglass Mr. Henry Skipwith )\Ii*8. Shaif, w. Rev. 
 
 'John Sitaif, Rector of Stratton (?) 
 
 1737— William Hunt Jeky C. Jones Anne, d. 
 
 Anne Jorgles Mary, w. William Taylor Daughter of 
 
 Gabriel Maupin Catherine Ocormor John Clayton, 
 
 Esq. Sarah Bryum — —Elizabeth, w. James Shields 
 
 Rebecca, d. Thomas and Eliza Penman William Burnm 
 
 Mary, d. James Spence Bon. ^tUtam 6oocb, Gaq. 
 
 Major Abraham Nicholas Mr. Alexander Kerr 
 
 Rachael Rhodewell Sary, d. Sarah Roadwell Dennis 
 
 Folio Eliza, d. Wm. and Eliza Wyatt Judith, d. 
 
 Gabriel Maupin John, s. in law Philip Hankins John 
 
 Macgrigor Patrick Fergusson. 
 
 1748— Elizabeth, d. John Holt, Merchant Mary, d. 
 
 Doctor Kenneth McKensie Thomas Prat Elizabeth 
 
 Fleming John, s. John Holt, Merchant Mrs. Crease, 
 
 w. Thos. Crease Thos , s. George Camp Elizabeth, 
 
 w. James Levie Richard Stannup William Ninimoor 
 
 Nimmo, Esq. Hannah, d. James Wray, d. Jas. Wray, 
 
 Esq. Anne Stevens Elizabeth, d. Philip Jackson 
 
 Charles Lewis Elizabeth, d. William Timson James 
 
 Reynolds William Buck Hon. John Groymes Mrs. 
 
 Sarah, w. Mr Henry Tyler Mr. John Stott, 
 
 Watchmaker William Parris Sarah Pegram John 
 
 Leppers James Colvil Ralph Graves Mrs. John 
 
Death Record 
 
 143 
 
 Rawley Sarah Lynne 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Timson George 
 
 Mr. Davidson Mrs. Davidson — — 
 
 Charlton Taylor 
 John Custis, Esq. 
 
 1751 — Abraham, s. Abrm. Nicholas and Anne- 
 Mr. Hbraham Nicbolae, Scti„ Clerk of the Church. 
 
 -1761, 
 
Ibistorical Hbbenba 
 
 |UBSEQUENT to printing the preceding part 
 of this book, the following historical notes 
 have come to light, and are inserted here for 
 preservation, and because of their historic 
 interest. 
 
 In an article on the "Church at Jamestown" 
 in the Church Review of April, 1855, we have 
 found four verbal extracts from the Bruton 
 Parish Vestry Book of 1674 which are not 
 included in the extracts from this old Vestry 
 Book hitherto given. Twoof these are in con- 
 nection with a dispute as to 
 
 tLhc Bounban? Xine Between 3ame0 Cit^ 
 IPariab anb Bruton ii>arl0b. 
 
 Under date the 8th of May, 1691, there was the fol- 
 lowing record : 
 
 "Slhcrcas we arc informed that eomc persons of 3(HM6S 
 CXCZy, PHRI8B have a design to deprive CfilS parish 
 of their undoubted right, endeavoring by the present General 
 Hssembly to augment r^BeiR parish, by lessening OCIRS, 
 it is therefore the order and request of this present Tcstry, 
 that )VIr. Samuel ebume [Minister,] Cap't. francis Page, 
 Mr. edmund ^enings, Mf. Martin Gardner, Mi*. Saml. 
 Simson, and Mr* Ofohn Owne8,doe appear before ye Governor 
 and Councill and Burgesses of this present Generall Hssem- 
 bly, to malte out how this parish bath been established by 
 as good authority as Virginia can give,— Chat our parish re- 
 main entire as settled by former Hsscmblys, ffor wc cannot 
 tbinft that this assembly will take away any man's property 
 without his consent, and to do that from a Corporation or 
 parish, which may not be done to a single person, is a greater 
 injury:— Hnd therefore we have good reason to thinh that the 
 General Hssembly will rather rattif^ our just right and 
 property which we have quietly enjoyed time out of mind, 
 than any wa)» infringe the same." 
 
146 mstoncal Hddenda 
 
 IParisb lproce0sione^ 
 
 At this same meeting of the Vestry of the 8th of May, 
 1691, it was also determined that, 
 
 "Cnbcrcas it is thought cotivenient by this Vestry fot* 
 preventing OCBGR PHRISneS making encroachments 
 upon the bounds of ours, that the bounds of our parish be 
 surrounded by ye inhabitants, and processioned. It is there- 
 fore ordered that the Testry do meet ye first Cbursday in 
 December next, to consult of such method as may be thought 
 most convenient ffor effecting ye same; and that in 3^ mean- 
 time ye present Church hardens mahe what inquiry they can 
 of yt bounds of that part of the parish which bounds on 
 lames Cittie parish." 
 
 Sise of Doors in (Tburcb at James (tit^ anb 
 Bruton 
 
 In the record of the proceedings of the Vestry of 
 Bruton Parish, held on June 5th, 1679, among other items 
 relating to building the new Church at Middle Plantation 
 (Williamsburg), it is required that, 
 
 "y[c ^est door and Chancell door be according to the 
 dimensions of lames City Church door, only to be one foot 
 higher and V2 a foot wider than they are." 
 
 flDr. jfrancis ©urfei? ©rbcreb to Ibis "toome 
 IParisb 
 
 In 1725 it is recorded in the Vestry Book of Bruton 
 Parish that,— 
 
 "Whereas francis Durfey hath this day (December iTtb,) 
 made application for relief from this Testry, but it appear- 
 ing that be is a lawful resident of lames City Parish, 
 Ordered, that he forthwith remove out of this Parish." 
 
IHstovical Hddcnda 147 
 
 XTbe IRemoval anb IRestoration of 
 
 the Jamestown Communion 
 
 Silver 
 
 At the Convention of the Diocese of Virginia, held in 
 Lynchburg in May, 1854, the Revd. John Grammar pre- 
 sented the Jamestown Communion Silver to the Conven- 
 tion with the following statement : 
 
 "I beg leave to state to this Convention, that I have 
 set upon the table three pieces of communion plate which 
 originally belonged to the Church of Jamestown, the 
 first Protestant Episcopal Church that was planted on 
 the American continent. This plate was under the care of 
 the Vestry of Bruton Parish, Williamsburg, when the 
 Jamestown Church fell into disuse, and became extinct. 
 In the summer of 1827, when I was about to be ordained 
 a Presbyter, the Vestry of that Parish learning through 
 the Revd. Dr. Wilmer, who was then Rector, that the 
 Parishes in which I was ministering, and endeavoring to 
 revive and re-organize, were destitute of communion 
 plate, very kindly and most unexi)ectedly sent me these 
 three pieces, accompanied by a resolution requiring me to 
 preserve the same, and to return to said Vestry an ac- 
 knowledgment of its receipt, and an obligation binding 
 myself in the contingency of the future resuscitation of the 
 Church in the old Jamestown Island, and the Canonical 
 Organization of a Parish therein in connection with the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Virginia, to 
 restore the said plate to such Church. Such acknowledg- 
 ment and obligation I accordingly forthwith forwarded 
 to the said Vestry, and from that time have kept the said 
 plate under my own custody, having used it only on the 
 first occasion of my administration of the Sacrament of 
 the Lord's Supper, when finding the size of the Chalice 
 rendered its use inconvenient, and being otherwise provided 
 
148 I>{8torteal HddcmU 
 
 with more convenient plate, this has since remained in 
 disuse. These three pieces comprise a large Silver Chalice, 
 inscribed on the side, 
 
 "Mtxc not Holy Cbtnges with profane;" 
 and under the foot the words 
 
 "^Gx dono frandsd MonHson Brmigfri, Ji.f>. 1661." 
 A Silver Patten w^ith the same words inscribed on its 
 bottom and underneath its foot, and a Silver Alms basin 
 or plate, having inscribed on its rim the words, 
 
 "for the U8C of 7anK8 City pariah Church." 
 
 Having occasion some few years since to make inquiry, 
 I learned from the Rev. H. M. Dennison, then Rector of 
 Bruton Parish, that my obligation to the Vestry above 
 mentioned could not be found, and that no record of the 
 proceedings of the Vestry of Bruton Parish for 1827, and 
 several succeeding years, had been preserved;' and the 
 knowledge of this fact suggesting to me the impropriety 
 of having property over which the Convention only can be 
 regarded as having any rightful ownership, in irresponsi- 
 ble and consequently insecure hands, I have brought the 
 said plate with me to this place, and now present it to the 
 Convention with the suggestion and request that it be 
 
 committed to , to be deposited by them in the 
 
 Library of the Theological Seminary of Virginia, there to 
 be carefully preserved as a valuable historical memorial 
 of our fathers, by whose pious zeal the Church of our affec- 
 tions was first planted in our land." 
 
 On motion it was 
 
 "Resolved, That the Communion plate surrendered to 
 this Convention by the Rev. John Grammar, be now com- 
 mitted to the charge of the Rev. Drs. Sparrow and Packard , 
 to be by them carried to the Theological Seminary, and 
 deposited in the Library thereof, to be there carefully pre- 
 served."^ 
 
 I The Vestry Book opens with record of meeting held May, 1827. 
 ' Virginia Convention Journal, 185*, pp. 35, 36. 
 
IKstovkal Hddenda 149 
 
 'Returne^ to Sruton parieb 
 
 In the minutes of the Convention of the Diocese of 
 Virginia, held in 1858 ,we find the following record : 
 
 "Mr. Barton presented a memorial from the Vestry of 
 Bruton Parish, praying the restoration to their possession 
 and care of certain plate \irhich once belonged to the 
 Church at Jamestown, but which by an order of the Con- 
 vention of 1854, was deposited for safe keeping in the 
 Library of the Theological Seminary, near Alexandria. 
 The said memorial, on motion, was referred to a commit- 
 tee, consisting of Mr. D. W. Barton (Winchester), Rev. 
 William N. Pendleton, and Mr. David H. Conrad 
 (Norborne Parish, Berkley Co.)' 
 
 On page 41 of this Journal of 1858 we find the fol- 
 lowing: 
 
 "The Committee to whom was referred the memorial of 
 Bruton Parish, with regard to the plate formerly belong- 
 ing to the Church at Jamestowm, now in the Library of 
 the Theological Seminary, presented their report, and on 
 motion it was recommitted to the Committee, to lie over 
 until the next meeting of the Convention." 
 
 This Committee reported to the Convention of 1859, 
 which was attended by Rev. G. T. Wilmer and Dr. Robert 
 M. Garrett from Bruton Parish. The record is in the fol- 
 lowing words : 
 
 "The Committee of the last Convention on the memo- 
 rial of Bruton Parish, praying that the plate formerly be- 
 longing to the Church at Jamestown, and now in the 
 Library of the Virginia Theological Seminary, may be re- 
 stored to the vestry of the said (Bruton) Parish, reported 
 that they had no further information to communicate, 
 and renewed the recommendation that the prayer of the 
 memorialists be granted." 
 
 "The report was adopted."^ 
 
 ' Virginia CouTention Journal, 1858, p. 37. 
 2 Virginia Conyention Journal, 1859, p. 42. 
 
150 Ristomal Hddenda 
 
 These Convention records have been copied to give 
 answer to the question, which is often asked, as to the 
 right and authority by which Bruton Church holds this 
 silver, which this Parish Ohurch, as the successor of the 
 Church at Jamestown, inherited in 1699, or after the James- 
 town Church was burned in 1676, during Bacon's rebellion . 
 
 Inscription on tbe Custis* XTombs 
 
 On the outside of Bruton Ohurch, in the comer where 
 the north wall intersects the north -wmg at the west, next 
 to the tomb of Col. Daniel Parke, are two tombs removed, 
 w^ith the remains of the persons they commemorate, from 
 New Kent Co., Virginia. They are inscribed, — 
 
 Rcrc Kc9 the body of 
 
 Mrs. franccs Custie 
 
 cUugbtei* of Daniel Pavh 69q^ 
 
 who departed this life 
 
 March the Htb, 17M in tbe 29tb 
 
 year of Ber Hge. 
 
 Tkrt ties tbe body of 
 
 Daniel park Custis 
 
 son of CoU Daniel Park Custis 
 
 of New Kent County 
 
 who Departed this Life 
 
 on tbe i9tb of fcbruary, 1754 
 
 Hged two 3^ear8 and three months. 
 
 Under this stone lies interred 
 
 tbe body of frances parb 
 
 Custis daughter of Daniel 
 
 park Custis, 68qr., and Martha* 
 
 bis wife bom Hpril i2tb 1753, 
 
 Dyed Hpril ist 1757 
 
 4y<aTO« 
 
 •Subsequently Mrs. Martha Washington. 
 
IMstoHcal Hddenda 161 
 
 Scattered XLomb^stonce 
 
 Scattered through James City, and the counties adja- 
 cent, are a large number of old tomb-stones,many of which 
 mark the graves of persons whose names are well known 
 in the history of Virginia. Many of these grave yards are 
 being sold to immigrants as parts of purchased farms. 
 In some instances, at least, the tomb-stones will be re- 
 garded as being in the way. The stones will be removed 
 and used in building, the ground will be left unmarked, 
 and pass into cultivation. The Drummond tomb-stone 
 at Green Spring, the former residence of Sir William 
 Berkley, three miles from Jamestow^n, was for years used 
 as a floor in a spring house, and then placed in a cart to 
 be carried to the house for a door step, and, on being 
 dumped from the cart, was broken in two, and now lies 
 out in the yard. These stones could be preserved, and the 
 dust of the departed dead would be protected from desecra- 
 tion if the tomb-stones and the remains of the dead could 
 be removed from these neglected and abandoned farms 
 and placed for preservation and protection in the yard of 
 Bruton Parish Church, or in the Church itself This was 
 done in the case of the Custis tombs, from which the in- 
 scriptions given above were taken. Since this idea has 
 been suggested others have taken steps looking to the re- 
 moval of the tombs of their ancestors from neglected 
 farms to these hallowed grounds. 
 
 A diagram will be prepared and preserved, showing the 
 exact location of the tombs now in the Church and 
 Church yard, and of others placed there. This, with the 
 record of inscriptions given in this book, will insure the 
 permanent location of these tombs even after the effacing 
 touch of time shall have made the inscriptions in the 
 marble illegible. The location and the inscriptions of the 
 tombs will thus be preserved as a part of the historical 
 record of this historic Church and place. 
 
1 nttobuctor^e flote 
 IRelatino to tbe Baptism of Slaves 
 
 In the old Parish Register of 1662 we find thirty-three 
 consecutive pages devoted entirely to the record of the 
 baptism of slaves, or colored servants. This record ex- 
 tends from 1746 to 1797. The record of the baptisms has, 
 however, been preserved for only twenty-five years during 
 this period. A number of pages were torn fi-om the book 
 and used, it is said, for wrapping preserve jars. The 
 book was found at the home of Mrs. McCandlish, and 
 given into the custody of the late Dr. Coleman. There 
 appears no record for the following years, inclusive — i. e., 
 firom 1755 to 1758, from 1769 to 1781, from 1784 to 
 1787, and from 1792 to 1796, making twenty-six years 
 of which there are no records under the heading of the 
 Baptism of Slaves. 
 
 The following summary shows the number of slaves 
 baptized each year of which there is record, and the total 
 number baptized for each i)erson whose name is given 
 during the years designated, inclusive. 
 
 While we have no desire to defend slavery as an insti- 
 tution, and with no intention of doing so, we point 
 with a feeling of commendable gratification to the fact 
 that our representative southern people were earnestly 
 solicitous as to the spiritual care of these colored people. 
 To this fact this record is a witness. And as an abiding 
 witness to this truth it has been compiled and inserted. 
 The number of colored people baptized in Bruton Parish 
 in the year 1750 was larger by one than the total number 
 of infant and adult baptisms of colored people by our 
 Church in the whole Diocese of Southern Virginia as re- 
 ported to the Council in 1903. 
 
 A successful work was conducted among the colored 
 people by the Revd. Wm. Hodges, D.D., 1837-1848. There 
 
Introductory Note Relating to Baptism of Slaves 
 
 153 
 
 are no records extant showing the results of this under- 
 taking. A mission for colored people has recently been 
 organized in the Parish, and is now being conducted under 
 the direction of the rector. 
 
 W. A. R. G. 
 Bkuton Pakish House, 
 
 February 1, 1904. 
 
 Zbc Bumbetof Slaves Baptised in 
 
 Bruton IParisb JBacb l^ear tor 
 
 XTwent^sfive locate 
 
 1746 
 
 8 
 
 40 
 
 29 
 
 54 
 
 116 
 
 73 
 
 33 
 
 28 
 
 69 
 
 2 
 
 2 
 
 1764 65 
 
 1747 
 
 1765 75 
 
 1748 
 
 1766 94 
 
 1749 
 
 1767 78 
 
 1750 
 
 1768 87 
 
 1751 
 
 1782 32 
 
 1752 
 
 1783 69 
 
 1753 
 
 1754 
 
 1788 1 
 
 1790 1 
 
 1759 
 
 1791 1 
 
 1760 
 
 1797 1 
 
 1761 
 
 1762 
 
 1763 
 
 25 
 
 66 
 
 36 
 
 Total number baptized, 
 
 Free Slayes baptized from 1746 
 to 1797 37 
 
 1122 
 
Hlpbabettcal !lLt6t of 
 persons who bab Slaves Baptiseb 
 
 with the number baptized for each person named, 
 
 during the 3^ars, inclusive, designated— 
 
 See Introductory Note, page 152 
 
 No. Slaves 
 Baptized 
 
 Name of Owner 
 Ambler, Richard, 1751, 
 Amy, Mrs., 1761, 
 Anderson, Andrew, 1750, 
 Anderson, Robert, 1782-'83, 
 Anson, Doctor, 1750-'04, 
 Armistead, Booth, 1752, 
 Armistead, Elyson, 1750-02, 
 Armistead, Robert, 1762, 
 Attorney, the, 1747, 
 Ayescougfa, Christopher, 1768, 
 Baker, Jonathan, 1765-'67, 
 Barber, the Widow, 1749-'50, 
 Bardett, 1754. 
 Barradall, Mrs., 1754, 
 Baskerfield, 1750, 
 Basset, Mrs. and widow, 
 
 1749-'68, 
 Bates, James, 1748, 
 Beall, Saml., 1782-'83, 
 Bellini, Chas., 1783, 
 Besser,Jno. S., 1743, 
 Blaikley, Mrs., 1748, 
 Blaikley, Katharine, 1765-'67, 
 Blair, Hon. Col. Jno. , Esq., 
 
 1747-'82. 
 Bocock, Mrs., 1754, 
 Bowcock, Bdw., 1750-'51, 
 Booker, Richard, 1783, 
 Bray, Coll. Thos., 1747-51, 
 Bray, Maj., 1750-'54, 
 Bray, widow, 1750, 
 Brown, John, 1753-'66, 
 Brown, Wra., 1752-'64, 
 Bruton Parish, 
 Bryan, Benj., 1749-'51, 
 
 4 
 
 1 
 3 
 1 
 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 
 24 
 1 
 2 
 2 
 
 14 
 6 
 6 
 3 
 2 
 1 
 4 
 
 No. SlaTcs 
 Name of Owner Baptized 
 
 Bryan, Fredk., 1762-' 68, 16 
 
 Bryan, Estate Fredk., 1782, 2 
 
 Bryan, John, 1747- '83, 4 
 
 Bryan, Mary, 1762, 1 
 
 Bryan, Widow, 1751, 1 
 
 Bryan, William, 1754, 1 
 
 Buford, Mr., 1754, 2 
 
 BuUifant, Phillip, 1767- '82, 2 
 
 Burdett, Mrs. Kitty, 1748, 1 
 
 Burfoot, Lawson, 1752-65, 4 
 
 Burwell, Armistead, 1747, 1 
 
 Burwell, Bacon, Est., 1749, 1 
 
 Burwell, Col. Carter, 1749-'54, 23 
 Burwell, Col. Carter, Est., 
 
 1762-'68, 18 
 
 Burwell, James, 1766, 1 
 
 Burwell, Col. Lewis, 1747-'68, 70 
 
 Burwell, Widow, 1761, 1 
 
 Camp, Geo., 1752, 1 
 
 Camp, Jno. 1763-'68, 5 
 
 Camp, Maiy, 1763, 1 
 
 Camp, Mrs.. 1754, 1 
 
 Campbell, Mary, 1765, 2 
 
 Campbell, Jno. , 1761, 1 
 
 Campbell, Katharine, 1762-'67, 5 
 
 Campbell, Widow, 1753, 1 
 
 Carter, Jas., 1765, 1 
 
 Carter, John, 1759-1788, 3 
 Carter, Coll. Landon, 
 
 1747-1767, 14 
 Carter, Coll. Landon, Est., 
 
 1761, I 
 
 Carter, Hon. Robt., 1761-'68, 12 
 
 Carter, William, 1768, 1 
 
 Carter, Mrs., 1754, 1 
 
HIphabetteal List of persons who bad Slaves Baptized 155 
 
 No. Stares 
 Name of Owner Baptized 
 
 Chapman, John, 1768, 1 
 
 Charlton, Edwd., 1752-'68, 4 
 
 Charlton, Mrs., 1751, 1 
 
 Chiswell, Coll.Jno.,1752-'66, 5 
 
 Chiswell, Mrs., 2 
 
 Chowning, Josiah, 1666'-67, 2 
 
 Coales, Thos., 1783, I 
 
 Cobbs, Mrs. Mary, 1751-'67, 5 
 
 Cobbs, Thomas, 1750- '67, 2 
 
 Cocke, James, 1764-'68 3 
 
 Coke, James, 1762, 1 
 
 Coke, John, 1748-'82, 2 
 
 Coke, Saml, 1762, 1 
 
 Coke, Thomas, 1750, 1 
 
 College, See Wm. and Mary, 
 
 Cosby, Mark, 1747-'49, 2 
 
 Cotton, Mrs. Lucy, 174-9-'64, 2 
 
 Conlthard, Wm., 1754, 1 
 
 Craige, James, 1764, 1 
 
 Craige, Alex., 1765-'68, 6 
 
 Crawley, John, 1783, 3 
 
 Crawley, Natthaniel, 1750-'67, 12 
 
 Crawley, Robert, 1753, 1 
 
 Crawley, Robert, Est., 1768, 2 
 
 Crawley, Samuel, 1782. 2 
 
 Crawley, Widow, 1752, 1 
 
 Crease, Mrs. 1754, 2 
 
 Custis, Coll. Daniel, 1750-'64, 6 
 
 Custis, Coll. John, 1747-'65, 7 
 
 Custis, Col. 1747-'66, 16 
 
 Custis, Col, Estate, 1765-'68, 9 
 
 Dale, Lidder, 1750, 1 
 
 Davenport, George, 1750-'66, 5 
 
 Davenport, Joseph, 1750- '51, 2 
 
 Davenport, Martha, 1764-'67, 2 
 
 Dawson, Revd. Commissary, 
 
 1747-'50, ' 3 
 
 Dawson, Elizabeth, 1762-'68, 3 
 
 Dawson, Priscilla, 1762-'67, 4 
 
 Dawson, Widow, 1752-'65, 2 
 
 Day, Benj., 1783, 1 
 
 Dickenson, Thos., 1750, 1 
 
 Dickenson, John, 1766, 1 
 
 No. Slares 
 NameofOwnei- Baptized 
 
 Dickinson, Arthur, 1765, 1 
 
 Digges, Dudley, 1783, 1 
 
 Dixon, Doctor, 1748-'51, 4 
 
 Dixon, John, 1768- '83, 2 
 
 Dixon, Widow, 1747, 1 
 
 Druitz, J. C, 1783, 1 
 
 Drumond, Mrs. Amey, 
 
 1766-'68, 3 
 
 Drumond, Mrs. Amey, Est. , 
 
 1783, 
 Eaton, Mary, 1762-64, 
 Eaton, Penkethman, 1751, 
 Eaton, William, 1766-'83, 
 English, Mary, 1764, 
 
 1 
 5 
 3 
 3 
 1 
 15 
 
 Everard, Thomas, 1749-'68, 
 Fauquier, Hon. Francis, Gov., 
 
 1762-'67, 4 
 
 Fergusson, Colins, 1762-'65, 2 
 
 Fergusson, John, 1762-'68, 5 
 
 Finnic, Alex,, 1749, '67, 4 
 
 Finnic, Leander, 1764, 1 
 
 Finnic, William, 1764-'82, 4 
 
 Free Slaves, 1746- '97, 37 
 
 Gait, James, 1766-'83, 7 
 
 Garland, John, 1767, 1 
 
 Garland, Widow, 1767, 2 
 
 Geddy, 1766, 1 
 
 Gilbert, Peter, 1751-'83, 2 
 Gilmer (or more,} Dr. Geo,, 
 
 1749-'65, 11 
 
 Glass, 1762, 1 
 Gooch, Hon. Wm., Gov., 
 
 1750-'54, 5 
 
 Goodson, Mr., Estate, 1783, 1 
 
 Gough, Mrs., 1749, 1 
 
 Graves, Chas., 1783, 1 
 
 Graves, Ralph, 1747, 1 
 
 Graves, William, 1762-'68, 7 
 
 Green, Mr., 1783, 1 
 
 GreenUow, John, 1762-'64, 2 
 
 Griffin, Dr. Cyrus, 1783, 1 
 
 Grymes, Mary, 1764-'66, 4 
 
 Gun, Mr., 1783, 1 
 
156 Hlpbabetical List of peraons who bad Slaves Baptized 
 
 No. SlaTes 
 Baptized 
 
 2 
 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 
 Name of Owner 
 Hansford, Edward, 1763, 
 Hansford, Thomas, 1763, 
 Hansford, Mrs., 1750, 
 Harmer, Mrs., 1750, 
 Harwood, Humphrey, 1768-'82, 2 
 
 Hay, Anthony, 1759-'68, 5 
 
 Hay, Dr. Peter, 1766, 2 
 
 HoUoway, Mrs., 1747-'54, 2 
 
 Holt, John, 1748-'50, 2 
 
 Holt, Thomas, 1762, 1 
 
 Holt, William, 1764-'67, 8 
 
 Homsby, Thomas, 1748-'68, 8 
 
 Hornsby, William, 1783, 1 
 Horrocks.Rev'd James, 17e7-'68, 2 
 
 Hubard, Morton, 1782, 1 
 
 Hubard, William, 1748-'68, 3 
 
 Hubard, Mrs., 1748-'83, 4 
 
 Hubbard, Mrs., 1754, 3 
 
 Hughs, Emery, 1763-'82, 2 
 
 Hughes, Jas., 1782-'83, 2 
 
 Hulett, Hannah, 1768-'88, 2 
 
 Jackson, Geo., 1783, 5 
 
 Jackson, Phips., 1751-'52, 2 
 
 Jackson, Sarah, 1761, 2 
 
 Jameson, David, 1767, 1 
 Johnson, Coll. PhiUip, 1751-'68, 29 
 
 Jones, Coll. Thos., 1747-'54, 3 
 
 Keele, Mrs., 1754, 1 
 
 Keith, Mrs., 1750, 1 
 
 Kemp, Rebecca, 1783, 1 
 
 Kendall, Jno., 1747, 1 
 
 Kene, Mrs., 1750, 2 
 
 Kennedy, William, 1754, 2 
 
 Larke, Robt., 1761, 1 
 
 Lane, John, 1752, 1 
 
 Lawson, Saml., 1765, 1 
 
 Lewis, John, 1782, 1 
 
 Long, David, 1751, 1 
 
 Lyne, Betty, 1751, 1 
 
 Major, Saml., 1782- '83, 2 
 
 Maupin, Gabriel, 1764-'83, 3 
 
 Maupin, Mrs., 1750-'54, 2 
 
 May, Peter, 1763, 1 
 
 No. Slaves 
 Name of Owner Baptized 
 
 Maynard, Edward, 1751-'53, 2 
 
 McCarty, Elizabeth, 1747, 1 
 
 McCarty, James, 1767, 2 
 
 McCarty, John, 1747, 2 
 
 McCarty, Michael, 1762, 1 
 
 McClurg, Dr., 1783, 1 
 McKenzie, Dr. Kenneth, 
 
 1749-'54, 7 
 
 Metcalf, Matthew, 1751, 1 
 
 Moody, Matthew, 1748-'64, 4 
 
 Moody, Martha, 1766, 1 
 
 Moody, Phillip, 1768, 1 
 
 Moody, William, 1764- '83, 4 
 
 Morton, David, 1782, 1 
 
 Moss, William, 1762-'68, 3 
 
 Meyer, Peter, 1765, '82, 2 
 
 Mundell, Mr., 1754, 1 
 
 Nelson, General, 1783, 3 
 Nicholas, Robert Carter, 
 
 1753-'64, 8 
 
 Nicholson, Edw., Est., 1768. 1 
 
 Nicholson, Rob't, 1766-'97, 8 
 
 Nicholson, William, 1782, 1 
 
 Newitt, Richard, 1762, 1 
 
 Newitt, William, 1762, 1 
 
 Orr, Mr., 1782, 1 
 
 Page, John, 1752, 1 
 
 Page, Mary, 1762-'67, 2 
 
 Palmer, John, 1749, 1 
 
 Paradice, Estate, 1782, 1 
 
 Parker, Mr., 1754, 1 
 
 Parks, William, 1750, 1 
 
 Parrott, Jos., Estate, 1766, 1 
 
 Pastuer, William, 1763-'66, 2 
 
 Patterson, Mrs., 1747-'54, 2 
 
 Peale, John, 1751, 1 
 
 Pearson, Matthew, 1783, 1 
 
 Penny, Penl. 1782, 1 
 
 Peteis, Anthony, 1751, 1 
 
 Pierce, Matthew, 1747-'68, 7 
 
 Pitt, George, 1762-'67, » 
 
 Potter, Dr., 1754, 1 
 
 Powell, Benj., 1762-'83, S 
 
Hlphabetf cal List of persons v^bo bad Slaves Baptized 157 
 
 No. Slaves 
 Name of Owner Baptized 
 
 Prentis, Eliz., 1768, 1 
 
 Prentis, Joseph, 1782-'83, 2 
 
 Prentis, Mary, 1768, 1 
 
 Prentis, William, 1748-'67, 13 
 
 Priar, Fredk., 1762, 1 
 
 Purdy, Alex., 1765-'67. 3 
 
 Randal, Attorney, 1749, 1 
 
 Randal, Lady, 1754, 2 
 
 Randolph, John, 1763-'68, 5 
 
 Randolph, Peyton, 1748-'68, 17 
 
 Randolph, Lady, 1750, 2 
 
 Ratcliff, William, 1751, 1 
 
 Reid, George, 1782, 1 
 
 Riddel, Mrs , 1783, 1 
 
 Roadman, Mr., 1783, 1 
 
 Roberts, Abe, 1747, 1 
 
 Roberts, William, 1768, 1 
 Robinson, Revd. Thos., 
 
 1749-'53, 2 
 
 Royle, Joseph, 1762-'64, 2 
 
 Royle, Joseph Est, 1766, 1 
 
 Rojle, Mrs., 1766, 1 
 
 Russel,John, 1749, 1 
 
 Russel, William, 1783, 1 
 
 Saunders, John, 1761-'83, 5 
 
 Saunders, William, 1764, 1 
 
 Scarborough, Col., 1747-'50, 2 
 
 Scarborough, Mrs., 1749-'54, 5 
 
 Shields, James, 1747-'83, 31 
 
 Shields, Matthew, 1747-'56, 3 
 Shoemaker, Jas Taylor, 1766-68, 2 
 
 Short, Widow, 1752, 1 
 
 Sidderdel, Mrs., 1750, 3 
 
 Singleton, Ann, 1762, 1 
 Singleton, Ann, Est., 1765-'66, 2 
 
 Smith, Capt., 1754, 1 
 
 Sonthall, Francis, 1763, 1 
 
 Southall, James, 1765-'83, 5 
 
 Spratley, William, 1751-'53, 2 
 
 Spurr, Saml. , 1762-' 68 , 6 
 
 Stark, Richard, 1767-'68, 2 
 
 Stay, Anthony, 1762, 1 
 
 No. Slaves 
 Baptized 
 
 6 
 
 1 
 2 
 4 
 
 Name of Owner 
 Steel, Mary, 1747-'64, 
 Stevinson, Mr., 1749, 
 Stith, Judith, 1766-'68, 
 Stith, Mary, 1751-'68, 
 
 Stith, President Wm., 1753, 2 
 
 Stott, Mr. 1754, 2 
 
 Street, Richard, 1767, 2 
 
 Swiney, Major, 1748, 1 
 
 Taliaferro, Charles, 1783, 1 
 
 Tarpley, Edward, 1749-'50, 3 
 
 Tarpley, Mrs. Eliz., 1748-'66, 6 
 
 Taylor, James, 1763, 1 
 
 Taylor, John, 1748-'54, 3 
 
 Thornton, William, 1763, 1 
 
 Timson, William, 1749-'50, 5 
 
 Timson, S., Estate, 1782, 1 
 
 Timson, Widow, 2 
 
 Trebell, William, 1760-'68, 1 
 
 Turner, Joseph, 1750, 1 
 
 Tvler, Henry, 1750, 1 
 
 Valentine, Joseph, 1765-'82, 2 
 
 Vobe, Jane, 1762*68, 4 
 
 Waller, Benjamin, 1746-'82, 39 
 
 Walters, Wm., 1764-'66, 2 
 Washington, Coll. George, 
 
 1762-68, 11 
 
 Warters, Wm., 1762-'65, 2 
 
 Weatherburn, Ann, 1764, 1 
 Weatherburn, Henry, 1749-'62, 1 
 
 Weatherburn Estate, 1 
 
 Wheatly, John, 1751, 1 
 
 Whitaker, Simon, 1764-'65, 2 
 Wm. and Mary College 
 
 1749-'83, 21 
 
 Willis, Coll. Francis, 1782-'68, 20 
 
 Woody, Matthew, 1752, 1 
 
 Wray, James, 1747-'83, 12 
 
 Wray, Mary, 1751-'67, 3 
 
 Wythe, George, 1781-'83, 2 
 
 Wythe, Nathaniel, Deed., 1760, 1 
 
 Yates, Revd. Wm., 1762-'64, 4 
 
 Total, 
 
 1122 
 
Hlpbabetlcal %iQt of eommunt«= 
 
 cants of Btuton (Tbutcb 
 
 from 1668 to 1904 
 
 Note— This list is as complete as it has been possible to make it. All the names 
 inscribed in the Parish register from 1868 to 1904 are given. Where no records were 
 made, as Itequcntly was the case, an effort has been made to procure supplementary 
 data. The names are given as they were entered, and there are many who are there- 
 fore recorded under their maiden name. The date indicates the time -when the name 
 was entered, or should have been entered. 
 
 * Present Coinmunicants. t Name after marriage, ft Maiden name. 
 
 •Alexander, Mrs. AnnLetitial903 
 Ambler, Mrs. Thos. M., 1868, 
 Anderson, Mrs., 1868, 
 *Armistead, Miss Julia Cfaampion, 
 
 1891, 
 Armistead, Miss Mary, (M. Holtt) 
 
 1879, 
 Armistead, Mrs. Rebecca H., 1894 
 •Armistead, Mr. Robt., 1870, 
 •Armistead, Mrs. Robt., 1870, 
 Armistead, Miss Virginia Travis 
 
 (M. HardytJ, 1891, 
 Armistead, Mrs. VirginiaEdwards, 
 
 1891, 
 Barrett, Mr. Chas., 1889, 
 •Becker, Mr. H. S., 1901, 
 Bibb, Wm. L., (Student) 1891, 
 •Bird, Prof. Hugh S., 1903, 
 •Bird, Mrs. Hugh (Smitht), 1903, 
 Bishop, Mrs. Chas. Edw., 1892, 
 •Bloxton, Miss Lucy, 1895, 
 •Bloxton, Miss Letitia W., 1903. 
 Bloxton, Miss Mary Coleman, 
 
 1895, 
 •Booth, Miss Clara T., 1900, 
 •Booth, Dr. E. G., 1887, 
 tBooth, Mrs. E. G., 1887, 
 Booth, Miss Frances R., (M. 
 
 Ballentinet), 1892, 
 
 Booth, Miss Henrietta E. (M. 
 
 Wiset), 1894, 
 Booth, Miss Luey (M. Cummingt), 
 
 1887, 
 •Booth, Thompson, 1903, 
 Bowery, Chas. Bushrod, 1891, 
 •Bowery, Miss Imogene, 1900, 
 Bowman, Mr. Sherrard, 1871, 
 Bowman, Mrs. Sherrard, 1871, 
 Boyden, Mr. P. M., 1870, 
 •Braithwaite, Mrs. Delia A. , 1869, 
 Braithwaite, Miss Louise (M. 
 
 Longt), 1900, 
 •Braithwaite, Miss Minnie G. , 1890 
 •Braithwaite, Miss Ruth, 1900, 
 •Braithwaite, Miss Virginia, 1901, 
 Braithwaite, Wm., 1885, 
 •Braithwaite, W. H., 1887, 
 Branch, Mrs. Cyrus A., 186«*, 
 Branch, Matilda, 1885, 
 Bright, Mrs. Elizabeth, 1868, 
 •Bright, Miss Jean (M. Mercert), 
 
 1868, 
 Bright, Miss Nannie (M. Cookf) 
 •Bright, Capt. Robt. A., 1871, 
 Bright, Mrs. Robt. A., 1871, 
 Bright, Robt. A., Jr., 1884, 
 •Brooks, Miss Cora ( M . Johnsont) , 
 
 1887, 
 
List of Communicants from 1868 to 1904 
 
 159 
 
 *Brooks, Mrs. Margaret, 1887, 
 *Brooks, Wm. Montague, 1893, 
 Brower, Dr. D R., 1871, 
 Brower, Mrs., 1871, 
 Brown, Anne Chiswell, 1869, 
 Brown, Miss Sue, 1884, 
 Brownell, Mrs., 1868, 
 *Bucktrout, Mrs. Horatio, 1893, 
 Burke, Chas. W., 1893, 
 Burke, Francis M., 1891, 
 Burke, Mrs. Maria (Charlestt) 
 
 1891, 
 Burke, Thomas Michael, 1891, 
 *Burns, Miss Clara (M. Brooks) 
 
 1899, 
 Burrows, Harry L. (StudentJ, 
 
 1904, 
 Buskey, Jas. G. (Student), 1892, 
 Camm, Miss Annie, 1871, 
 Camm, Charlie, 1884, 
 Camm, Dr. Edward, 1869, 
 Camm, Mrs. Edward, 1869, 
 Camm, Edward, Jr., 1869, 
 Camm, Miss Florence, 1870, 
 Camm, Frank, 1869, 
 Camm, John, 1871, 
 Cary, Miss Harriett (M, Chris- 
 
 tiant), 1868, 
 Cary, Mrs. Lucy N., 1868, 
 Chichester, Jno. C. (Student), 1892 
 •Christian, Miss Emily, 1887, 
 Christian, Hodges M., 1893, 
 •Christian, Mr, James T., 1887, 
 Christian, Marston, 1895, 
 Christian, Wm. T., 1891, 
 •Christian, Mrs. Wm. T., 1884, 
 Claiborne, Mrs. Mary B., 1868, 
 Claiborne, Randolph, R. (Student), 
 
 1892, 
 Clopton, Miss Charlotte, 1887, 
 Clopton, Dr. John, 1868, 
 Clopton, Miss Kate, 1887, 
 Clowes, E. H., 1887, 
 •Cocke, Miss Julia, 1884, 
 
 •Cole, Henry Dennison, 1903, 
 Cole, Mr. R. F., 1870, 
 Cole, Mrs. Robt. F., 1868, 
 Cole, Robt, R., 1871, 
 Cole, Edward, 1871, 
 Coleman, Dr, Chas. W., 1868, 
 •Coleman, Mrs. Chas. W., 1868, 
 Coleman, C. W, J., 1884, 
 •Coleman, Miss Elizabeth, 1884, 
 •Coleman, MissHelen(M. Leighf), 
 
 1868, 
 Coleman, George Preston, 1887, 
 Coleman, Tucker, 1884, 
 •Colonna, Wm. E. (Student), 1903 
 Cosnahan, Hugh Mercer, 1872, 
 •Cosnahan, Miss Mary M, 
 
 (M. Stubbst), 1868, 
 Cosnahan, Miss Roberta O. 
 
 (M. Cammt), 1868, 
 Coupland, Mr. John, 1871, 
 Coupland, Mrs. John, 1868, 
 •Coupland, Miss Julia (M, Hund- 
 
 leyt), 1868, 
 •Coupland, Miss Nora (M. Spen- 
 
 cert), 1871, 
 Coupland, Robert, 1887, 
 Custis, Mrs. Clara, 1868, 
 •Custis, Miss Elizabeth F, (M. 
 
 Amblert), 1871, 
 Custis, Miss Kate, 1869, 
 Custis, Miss Florence (M, Colef), 
 
 1869, 
 •Custis, Miss Margaret (M. Hans- 
 
 fordt), 1869, 
 Cntherell, Mr., 1871, 
 Cutherell, Mrs., 1871, 
 Darlington, Mrs., 1868, 
 •Darlington, Miss Mary(M. Jonest), 
 
 1871, 
 Darlington, Miss Kate (M, John- 
 
 sont), 1868, 
 Davis, Mrs., 1868, 
 Davis, Miss Lucy Lee, (?) 1897, 
 •Davis, Miss Nannie, 1903, 
 
160 
 
 List of Comnnmicants from 1868 to 1904 
 
 Day, Chas. Fenton, 1890, 
 
 Dix, Mrs. Sarah, 1868, 
 
 Dixon, Miss Betty (M. Morrisont), 
 
 1868, 
 Dixon, C. C, 1884, 
 Dod, Mr. Chas. S., 1871, 
 Dod, Mrs. Chas. S,, 1871, 
 Dodgson, Miss, 1870, 
 Durfey, CoU. G., 1868, 
 •Durfey, Mr. 2. G., 1902, 
 Edloe, Miss Sally B., 1868, 
 Edwards, Mr. Thomas G., 1S71, 
 Eldred, Mrs. Harriett A., 1893, 
 •Elwood, Mr. Michael, 1903, 
 Evans, Mrs. Julia U., 1868, 
 Ewell, CoU. Benj, S., 1868, 
 •Falkiner, Miss Charlotte(M. Hub- 
 
 bardtj, 1883, 
 *Falkiner, Miss Ida, 1887, 
 •Foster, Dr. Littleberry S., 1903, 
 *Foster, Mrs. L S., 1899, 
 •Foster, Miss Lncile, 1903, 
 ♦Foster, Miss Mary, 1899, 
 •Foster, W. Dixon, 1903, 
 •Gait, Miss Annie A., 1893, 
 Gait, Miss Elizabeth A., 1899, 
 Gait, Miss Mary J., 1894, 
 Gait, Miss Mary M., 1897, 
 Gait, Mrs. Mary W., 1893, 
 Gait, Miss Sally M., 1868, 
 •Garrett, Miss Lottie, 1868, 
 •Garrett, Miss Mary, 1871, 
 Garrett, Dr. Robt. M., 1868, 
 Garrett, Mrs. Robt. M., 1868, 
 Garrett, Miss Susan C. (M. Nel 
 
 sont), 1871, 
 •Garrett, Dr. Van F., 1869, 
 •Garrett, Mrs. Van F., 1896, 
 Garrett, W. R., 1868, 
 Gay, Miss Bettie, 1871, 
 Glover, Perkins (Student), 1891, 
 •Goodwin, Mrs. W. A. R., 1903, 
 •Gore, Mr. Wm., 1887, 
 Gore, Mrs. Wm., 1887, 
 
 Graves, Walter R. rstudent), 1891 
 Gregory, Judge Jno. M., 1884, 
 Gregory, Mrs. Jno. M., 1884, 
 Gregory, Miss Letty, 1884, 
 Hall, Dr. J. Lesslie, 1889, 
 •Hall, Mrs. J. Lesslie, 1890, 
 Halstead, Miss Q. N., 1871, 
 Hancock, Mrs. Clarissa, 1868, 
 Hancock, Miss Sophia, 1868, 
 Hankins, Miss Alice, 1868, 
 Hankins, Mr. Geo., 1868, 
 •Hankins, Mrs. Geo., 1868, 
 •Hankins, Miss Harriet (M. Rich- 
 
 ardsont), 1868, 
 •Hankins, Miss Harriet Parker, 
 
 1903, 
 Hankins, Reynolds, 1899, 
 Hansford, Mr. Chas., 1887, 
 •Harrison, Miss Louise, 1903, 
 Harrison, Coll. Randolph, 1870, 
 •Harrison, Mrs. Randolph, 1870, 
 •Harrison, Randolph, 1902, 
 Hauley, Mrs., 1868, 
 Hazlegrove, Mr., 1868, 
 Hazlegrove, Mrs., 1868, 
 •Henley, Miss Bettie, 1885, 
 •Henley, Miss Catharine N., 1898, 
 Henley, Mrs. Harriet, 1868, 
 •Henley, Miss Ida G., 1898, 
 Henley, Missjaiiie W , 1892, 
 •Henley, Leonard, 1887, 
 •Henley, Mrs. Norvelle L., 1898, 
 •Hensley, Miss Emily Marianne, 
 
 1900, 
 Hensley, Miss Florence G. (M. 
 
 Baron de Launayt), 1900, 
 Herbert, Thomas S. (Student), 
 
 1893, 
 Hinton, Coll. Peter, 1884, 
 Hobson, A. G. W., 1871, 
 Hobson, Mr, Canon (Student), 
 
 1871, 
 Holston, A. W. (Student), 1894, 
 •Hoy, Dr. W. P., 1899, 
 
List of Cominunkants from 1868 to 1904 
 
 161 
 
 •Hughes, Sidney S. (Student), 
 
 1903, 
 Humphreys, Harry G. (Student), 
 
 1904, 
 •Hundley, A. E., 1887, 
 Hundley. H. L., 1887, 
 •Hundley, Mrs. M. Brooks, 1891, 
 •Hundley, Miss Sue D. , 1902, 
 Hunnicutt, Miss Lizzie, 1868, 
 Hurt, Mrs. Mary, 1868, 
 •Jackson, Miss Lelia, (M. Dn'rfeyt) 
 
 1871, 
 •Johnston, Mr, W. C, 1894, 
 Jones, Mr. Henley T., 1868, 
 Jones, Mrs. H, T., 1868, 
 Jones, Hugh W., 1893, 
 •Jones, Miss Marian A. ( M. Stonet), 
 
 1891, 
 Jones, Mr. Wm., 1883, 
 Kincheloe, Edw. R. (Stu.), 1892, 
 *Knight, Jno. W., 1904. 
 •Knight, Mrs. Jno. W., 1904, 
 Lacy, Mr. T. S., 1871, 
 •Lamb, Miss Bessie, 1903, 
 Lamb, Mrs. Harriet, 1868, 
 •Lamb, Junius B , 1903, 
 •Lamb. Mrs. Kate(Branchtt),1903 
 •Lane, Miss Carrie D. (M. Colet), 
 
 1885, 
 Lane, Miss Cora (M. Denmeadet), 
 
 1891, 
 •Lane, Capt. L. W., Sr., 1904, 
 Lane, L. W., Jr., 1887, 
 •Lane, Mrs. L. W., Sr., 1888, 
 •Lane, Spencer, 1894, 
 Langhorne, Mr., 1869, 
 Langhome, Mrs., 1869, 
 Lawrence, N. T., 1904, 
 Lea, Coll. John, 1868, 
 Lea, Mrs. Margaret D., 1868, 
 Lee, Miss Petticolas(M. Powellt), 
 
 1891, 
 •Lightfoot, Herbert C, 1904, 
 Lively, Mrs. E. H., 1871, 
 
 Lively, Miss I. (M. Boweryt), 1869 
 •Macon, Mr. W. H., 1894, 
 •Macon, Mrs. Maty G , 1894, 
 Maupin, Catherine G., 1891, 
 Maupin, Miss Virginia E., 1891, 
 Maupin, Miss Sarah (M. Bid- 
 
 goodt), 1868, 
 McCandlish, Mrs. M., 1868, 
 McOandlish, Miss Mary, 1871, 
 McCandlish, Robt. N., 1887, 
 McCaw, Jas. B., 1891, 
 •Meade, Jos. W. (Student), 1903, 
 Mercer, Corbin, 1878, 
 Mercer, Miss I. S. W. , 1871, 
 •Mercer, Miss Jean, 1891, 
 •Mercer, Mr. Jno. L., 1871, 
 Mercer, Miss Kate, 1868, 
 Mercer, Mrs. Mary 0., 1868, 
 •Mercer, Miss Mary W., J 894, 
 Mercer, Mr. Robt., 1871. 
 Miller, Ohas. D. (Student), 1903, 
 •Moncure, Mrs. Blanch T.,1891, 
 Moncure, Gabriella B., 1891, 
 Moncure, Dr. J. D., 1887, 
 •Morecock, Miss Elizabeth A., 
 
 1891, 
 •Morecock, Miss Kathryne, 1894, 
 •Morecock, Miss Mary A., 1891, 
 •Morecock, Mrs. Virginia M., 1870 
 Morecock, Miss Virginia, 1898, 
 Mortis, Mr. Chas., 1871, 
 Morris, Miss Louisa G., 1871, 
 Morris, Miss Mary, 1868, 
 Morris, Mrs. W. L., 1868, 
 Morrison, Miss Emily, 1868, 
 Motley, Mr. John, 1870, 
 Motley, Mrs. John, 1868, 
 Munford, Ool. John, 1868, 
 Munford, Mrs. John D., 1868, 
 Munford, Miss Maria, 1868, 
 Munford, Miss Nanny (M. 
 
 Brightt), 1868, 
 Munford, Miss Sally (M. Colesf), 
 
 1868, 
 
162 
 
 List of CoTntnunicants from 1868 to 1904 
 
 Munier, Mr., 1870, 
 •Neale, Mrs. Mary E., 1871, 
 Nelson, Miss Sally B., 1868, 
 ♦NimiDO, Miss Otelia, 1868, 
 ♦O'Keefie, Francis 0., 1903, 
 •O'Keeffe, Miss Georgia T.,1903, 
 ♦O'Keeflfe, Mrs. IdaT. E., 1903, 
 Peactiy, B. D., Sr., 1887, 
 ♦Peachy, Mrs Bathurst D., 1903, 
 Peachy, Miss Betty, 1868, 
 Peachy, Miss Mittie (M. Wiset), 
 
 1870, 
 •Peachy, Miss Sallie (M. Spencert) , 
 
 1868, 
 Petticolas, Dr. A. E., 1868, 
 Petticolas, Mrs. A. E., 1868, 
 •Phillips, Mrs. H. N., 1897, 
 Pettitt, Mrs., 1868, 
 Pettitt, Miss Louisa, 1868, 
 Pierce, Mrs. Rebecca, 1868, 
 Richardson, Dabney, 1891, 
 Riddick, Sam'l A. (Student), 1893, 
 ♦Roberts, Mr. Lloyd Wynn, 1901, 
 •Roberts, Mrs. Lloyd Wynn, 1901, 
 Roberts, Mrs. Wm. T., 1894, 
 •Rose, Mrs. Elizabeth T., 1889, 
 •Ruffin, Mrs, Edmund, 1908, 
 Saunders, Miss Page, 1868, 
 Saunders, Mrs. Robt., 1868, 
 •Savage, P. R., 1903, 
 Savage, Mrs. T. L., 1868, 
 Scott, Mr., 1870, 
 •Scott, Miss Bessie, 1884, 
 Scott, Mrs. Elizabeth, 1869, 
 Shepherd, Mrs. John H., 1893, 
 •Sherwell, Mrs. Anna H., 1868, 
 Sherwell, Miss Ann, 1868, 
 •Sherwell, Miss Eliz. Parks, 1868, 
 •Sherwell, Miss Mary K., 1868, 
 Slater, Mrs. Virginia, 1868, 
 •Smith, A. E., 1887, 
 •Smith, Miss Alice C, 1871, 
 •Smith, Miss Cora, 1884, 
 Smith, Miss L. B., 1871, 
 
 •Smith, Miss Edith, 1884, 
 •Smith, Miss Estelle, 1884, 
 Smith, Miss Helen, 1871, 
 Smith, Henry, 1884, 
 Smith, Julia (colored), 1868, 
 Smith, Miss MattierM. Hughesf), 
 
 1870, 
 Smith, Sidney, 1884, 
 Smith, Miss Virginia (M. New- 
 
 billt), 1871, 
 Smith, Mrs. Virginia, 1868, 
 Smith, Mrs. Willard, 1870, 
 Southall, Evelyn McL, 1891, 
 Southall, Mr. Francis, 1884, 
 Southall, Miss H. M., 1868, 
 Southall, Miss Kate, 1868, 
 Southall, Miss Lillie, 1885, 
 Southall, Miss Lizzie (M. Turnert), 
 
 1868, 
 •Southall, Dr. P. T., 1899, 
 •Southall, Mrs. P. T., 1899, 
 Southall, Mrs. Virginia, 1884, 
 Southall, Miss Virginia, 1868, 
 •Spencer, J. B. C, 1899, 
 •Spencer, J. Blair, 1899, 
 •Spencer, Miss Martha, 1898, 
 •Spencer, Miss Mary B., 1903, 
 •Spencer, Mrs. Mary, 1887, 
 •Spencer, Peachy, 1901, 
 Stephenson, Miss J., 1869, 
 •Stubbs, Miss Lucy 0., 1897, 
 •Stubbs, Miss Mary M., 1903, 
 •Stubbs, Thos. J., Jr., 1894, 
 •Sweeney, Miss Annie(M. Leaverf), 
 
 1885, 
 •Sweeney, Miss Florence, 189S, 
 •Sweeney, Miss Garnett, 1898, 
 •Sweeney, Henley, 1895, 
 •Sweeney, Mr. H. M., 1887, 
 •Sweeney, Mrs. Ida, 1887, 
 •Sweeney, Miss Nellie, 1886, 
 Sweeney, Wilmer, 1894, 
 •Tabor, Mrs. E. J., 1902, 
 Taliaferro, Mrs. Bland, 1884, 
 
List of Coimtiunicaiits from 1868 to 1904 
 
 163 
 
 Taylor, Mrs. N., Sr,, 1868, 
 Taylor, Mrs., 1868, 
 Taylor, Mrs. Nathaniel, Jr., 1868, 
 Taylor, F, Suthgate (Student), 
 
 1894, 
 Taylor, Tazwell fStudent), 1891, 
 Thomas, Upton B. (Student), 1892 
 Thompson, Miss Julia, 1868, 
 Thompson, P. Montague, 1891, 
 Tiernon, Jno. L. (Student), 1893, 
 Tucker, Mr. Eobt. H. (Student), 
 
 1892, 
 Tucker, St. Geo. (Student), 1893, 
 Tucker, Thomas, 1870, 
 Tucker, Mrs. Thomas, 1870, 
 Turner, Mr. J. W., 1870, 
 Turner, Mr. Thurston, 1871, 
 •Tyler, Mrs. Annie (Tuckertt), 1889 
 *Tyler, Miss Elizabeth G., 1902, 
 •Tyler, Miss Julia G., 1897, 
 Tyler, Harry T. (Student), 1891, 
 Vanneison, Mr., 1871, 
 Vaughan, Mrs. Bessie, 1869, 
 Vest, Mrs. Mary, 1868, 
 Vest, Miss Willie, 1868, 
 Waller, Maj. H. M., 1885, 
 Waller, John, 1869, 
 Waller, Mrs. Julia, 1868, 
 Waller, Miss Kate Page(M. Lang- 
 hornet), 1868, 
 Waller, Mrs. Nanny, 1868, 
 
 Waller, Mr. Robt. Page, 1868, 
 •Warburton, Miss Letty, 1887, 
 Ware, Mrs., 1871, 
 Warren, Mrs., 1868, 
 •Webb, Miss Susan G., 1894, 
 Weinberger, Mrs., 1868, 
 Weymouth, John (Student \ 1891, 
 *Wharton, Miss Alice, 1903, 
 Wilburn, Miss G., 1871, 
 Wilburn, Mr. E. D., 1870, 
 Wilburn, Mrs. Sarah, 1871, 
 •Wilkins, Miss Hattie A., 1891, 
 Wilkinson, Miss, 1868. 
 Wilkinson, Mr. Gary, 1868, 
 Wilkinson, Mrs. Gary, 1870, 
 Wilkinson, Miss Willie, 1868, 
 Wilkinson, Miss Virginia, 1871, 
 Williams, Mrs. L. W., 1887, 
 Williams, Miss Eleanor, 1B92, 
 Williams, Miss Elizabeth, 1892, 
 Williams, Miss Mary H., 1892, 
 Williamson, Mrs. Mary, 1868, 
 Wilmer, Mrs. Geo. T., 1870, 
 Wilmer, Miss Annie, 1870, 
 Wilmer, Geo. T., D.D., 1870, 
 Wilmer, Miss Mary, 1870, 
 Wills, Jas. Henry (Student), 1892, 
 •Wise, Miss Jennie, 1894, 
 Wooten, Miss Delia A. C., 1885, 
 •Wright, Arthur D. (Student), 
 1903. 
 
flDeettng of tbe Hbvisotie Commit* 
 
 tee on tbe IRestotatlon of 
 
 Btuton Cburcb 
 
 On Thursday morning, February 25th, 1904, a meet- 
 ing of the Advisory Committee on the Restoration of 
 Bruton Church was held in the Church at 11 o'clock, Rt. 
 Rev. A. M. Randolph, D. D. , LL. D., Rev. B. D. Tucker, D. D., 
 and Rev. J. J. Gravatt, of the Advisory Committee, were 
 present. Divine service was said in the Church at eleven 
 o'clock by the Bishop of the Diocese, assisted by the Rector 
 of the Church. Immediately after the service the members 
 of the Advisory Committee above mentioned, with Dr. Van 
 F. Garrett, S. W., Mr. H, D. Cole, Register, Mr. John L. 
 Mercer and Dr. L. S. Foster, members of the Vestry, met 
 in the North Transcept of the Church. The Rector, Rev. 
 W. A. R. Goodwin, introduced Mr. J. Stewart Barney, 
 Architect, of New York City, and stated that Mr. Barney, 
 who w^as a Virginian by birth, and devoted to the cause 
 of preserving Virginia antiquities, had very kindly and 
 generously offered to prepare plans and specifications for 
 the restoration of Bruton Church to its original form 
 without charge to the Church. Bishop Randolph was 
 called to the chair, and Mr. H. D. Cole, of the Vestry, was 
 appointed secretary of the meeting. The following reso- 
 lution was then offered by the Bishop, and was unani- 
 mously adopted by the Advisory Committee, Rector, and 
 Vestry: 
 
 Resolved: First, That the generous offer of Mr. J. 
 Stewart Barney to submit plans and specifications for the 
 restoration of Bruton Church be accepted with the thanks 
 of the vestry, congregation, and the diocese. 
 
 The work proposed was then carefully considered and 
 fully discussed. The following resolutions were unani- 
 mously adopted by the Advisory Committee, subject to 
 the approval of the Parish Vestry and the Architect : 
 
Meeting of the Mdviaory Commtttee 165 
 
 Resolved: Second, That the Architect be requested to 
 restore, as far as possible, the Colonial Governors' pew 
 and the old comer pulpit, with canopy and sounding- 
 board. (Adopted.) 
 
 Resolved: Third, That it is the sense of the Advisory 
 Committee that the present partition obstructing the 
 west end of the Church be removed, and the nave restored 
 to its original form. (Adopted.) 
 
 Resolved: Fourth , That it is the sense of the Advisory 
 Committee that the gallery in the east end of the Church 
 be removed unless it be found that it belonged to the 
 original form of the Church. (Adopted.) 
 
 Resolved: Fifth, That the Architect be advised to 
 restore the aisles to their former condition in so far as in 
 his judgment it may be necessary for the restoration. 
 (Adopted.) 
 
 Resolved: Sixth, That it is the sense of the Advisory 
 Committee that the chancel be placed in the east end of 
 the Church. (Adopted.) 
 
 There was a decided conviction on the part of all who 
 were present at this meeting that in view of the fact that 
 this Church is more intimately associated than any other 
 in America with the life and history of the Colonial 
 period, it should be faithfully and completely restored to 
 its original form and appearance, in so far as such resto- 
 ration will not materially unfit the Church for its present 
 and fiiture use in the service of God, for which purpose it 
 was built, and must, primarily, be perpetually devoted. 
 
 IRatification bi? tbe ipari0b IDestri? 
 
 At a meeting of the Parish Vestry held on March 12th, 
 1904, the resolutions above mentioned were unanimously 
 adopted and ratified. A resolution of the Advisory Com- 
 mittee relative to the restoration of the galleries added to 
 the Church, (see pages 43 and 44) was held in abeyance 
 for further consideration by the Vestry and Architect. 
 
Conclubino Bote 
 
 Preserve the Antiquities That Remain! 
 
 The assurance that this book will necessarily aid in 
 preserving the contents of the historical records and 
 memorials of a by-gone age guarantees the fulfilment of 
 the prime purpose with which the work was undertaken. 
 What time has forever obliterated, what careless scribes 
 never recorded, what more careless custodians possessed 
 and lost or mutilated of the records of the past, we vainly 
 begrudge. 
 
 We trust that this desire for what is lost, and a deeper 
 appreciation of what has been preserved, will stimulate 
 this and succeeding generations to guard and protect and 
 carefully preserve the old Church, and the original records 
 upon paper, and in marble which tell, in the language of 
 our fore-fathers, somewhat of its history. 
 
 These memorials of the past are of priceless value, and 
 no cost should be spared to preserve them. Here, and 
 elsewhere in Virginia, are records and memorials w^hich at 
 present are in danger of being destroyed by fire, and which 
 are being injured by handling, and by exposure. Provision 
 should be made for their preservation. Vaults absolutely 
 fire-proof should be built for receiving them. The pages 
 of old record books and parish registers should be covered 
 with silk. Bach year adds to their value, but as now 
 preserved and protected each day imperils their very 
 existence. 
 
 Even now there are times when restorers and anti- 
 quarians would gladly give thousands of dollars for one 
 page of an old vestry book that would bring back an 
 original description of a chancel plan, or tell the exact 
 location of some historic spot. But the page is gone. It 
 was consigned to the care of the mice, or torn out by the 
 parson's boy, or burned, after having been preserved 
 hundreds of years, with the rector's house or the home of 
 a vestryman. We are coming to realize the folly and mis- 
 fortune of all this. A.nd yet much that remains of the 
 
Concluding Note 167 
 
 historic past is still left without safeguard and protection. 
 The custodian of these time-honored memorials holds a 
 «acred trust, and should guard that trust with fidelity. 
 It is possible to arouse a sentiment that will work good 
 results in this direction. There is much that is insecurely 
 preserved in the Episcopal church in Virginia, which will 
 be lamented as forever lost unless this matter receives the 
 attention it deserves. 
 
flame IFnbei 
 
 The numbers in parenthesis denote the number of times the name occurs on the page 
 
 indicated. 
 
 Abbott, 117. 
 
 Able, 131. 
 
 Alcorn, 140. 
 
 Aleraft, 141. 
 
 Alexander, 124, 141, 158. 
 
 Alintof, 139. 
 
 Allardis, 137. 
 
 AUen, 139(2). 
 
 Ambler, 60, 61, 118, 154, 158. 
 
 Amy, 154. 
 
 Anderson, 59 (3), 122, 128, 129, 
 
 137, 139, 154 (2), 158. 
 Andrews, 52, 130. 
 Andres, 18. 
 
 Anne, Queen, 69, 76, 88. 
 Anson, 154. 
 Archer, 71, 90, 98, 115 (2 J, 119 (2), 
 
 125, 134, 135, 138, 141 (2), etc. 
 Armistead, 90, 120, 125, 154 (3), 
 
 158 (7). 
 Amest, 128, 129. 
 Atherton, 125. 
 Atkins, 122, 123, 124. 
 Atwood, 135, 136, 141. 
 Aylett, 12, 14, 119, 134, 135. 
 Aynscough, 126 (5), 154. 
 
 Bag, 141. 
 
 Backercet, 140. 
 
 Backhurst, 141. 
 
 Bacon, 130, 150. 
 
 Sainton, 136. 
 
 Baker, 131, 140, 154. 
 
 Baldridge, 114. 
 
 Ball, 42. 
 
 Ballard, 119 (2), 134, 136. 
 
 Banister, 132. 
 
 Barber, 119, 141 (2), 154. 
 
 Barden, 122, 123, 142. 
 
 Bardett, 154. 
 
 Barnes, 126, 128, 133, 134. 
 
 Bamet, 115. 
 
 Barney, 164. 
 
 Barradall, 102,115,119, 120,154. 
 
 Barrett, 139, 158. 
 
 Bartle, 125. 
 
 Bartlett, 138. 
 
 Barton, 149 (2). 
 
 Bascom, 135. 
 
 Baskerfield, 154. 
 
 Bassett, 55, 120, 128, 154. 
 
 Bates, 134, 135, 136(3), 137,154. 
 
 Batos, 133. 
 
 Battaile, 90. 
 
 Batten, 132 (2), 137. 
 
 Beale, 119, 130. 
 
 Beall, 154. 
 
 Becker, 158. 
 
 Bee, 134, 141, 
 
 Bell, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 134, 
 135 (2). 
 
 Bellini, 154. 
 Bendall, 125, 127. 
 
 Bengerfield, 139. 
 Bentley, 138, 139. 
 Berkley, 7, 12, 89, 132, 151. 
 Besouth, 12, 14,35, 119,135,136, 
 
 141. 
 Besser, 154. 
 Besserer, 131. 
 Bessy, 134. 
 Beverly, 7, 15. 
 Bibb, 158. 
 Bingham, 116. 
 Binkfield, 132, 133, 136. 
 Bird, 125, 158 (2) 
 Bishop, 158. 
 Bisit, 134 (2). 
 Black, 128. 
 Blackburn, 115. 
 Blackley, 97, 116. 
 Blaikley, 142, 154(2) 
 
Name Index 
 
 169 
 
 Blair, 26, 27, 28, 29,30,31, 33(2), 
 36, 37, 38(3), 39, 43, 51, 80, 106, 
 107, 108, 115, 116, 118, 119(2), 
 122 (2), 123 (2), 126, 127, 142, 
 154. 
 
 Bland, 8, 119, 128. 
 
 Blassingham, 127, 130. 
 
 Bloxton, 158 (3). 
 
 Blouette, 140. 
 
 Bocock, 154. 
 
 Boiling, 32 (2). 
 
 Bolton, 126, 130, 140. 
 
 Bond, 126, 127, 128, 129. 
 
 Bonyman, 15, 41, 137 (4), 138, 
 140. 
 
 Booker, 130, 154. 
 
 Booth, 120, 158 (7). 
 
 Bowcock, 154. 
 
 Bowers, 59. 
 
 Bowery, 158, (2). 
 
 Bowman, 158 (2), 
 
 Boyden, 132, 158. 
 
 Bracken, 48, 49, 51, 52, 69, 118, 
 130(2), 131. 
 
 Bradford, 123. 
 
 Bradley, 127. 
 
 Braithwaite, 158(7). 
 
 Brand, 135. 
 
 Branch, 158 (2). 
 
 Bray, 12, 42, 86, 108, 109, 110, 
 116 (5), 119 (5), 131, 134, 
 136 (2), 139, 140 (3), 154 (3). 
 
 Brewer, 137. 
 
 Bridgers, 135, 142, 
 
 Bridson, 140. 
 
 Briggs, 116 (2). 
 
 Bright, 59, 120, 158 (6). 
 
 Bristow, 130, 131. 
 
 Broad, 135. 
 
 Broadbank, 139. 
 
 Brock, quoted, 87. 
 
 Bromfield, 132 (2). 
 
 Brook, 141. 
 
 Brookman, 137. 
 
 Brooks, 137, 158, 159 (2). 
 Brower, 120, 135, 138, 159 (2). 
 Brown, 104, 107, 116, 123, 124, 
 125, 128, 129 (2), 154 (3), 1 59 (2) 
 Browne, 59. 
 Brownell, 159. 
 Bryan, 40, 119, 123, 125 (2), 
 
 126 (2), 128, 129, 141 (2), 
 154 (7). 
 
 Bryum, 142. 
 
 Buck, quoted, 68, 142. 
 
 Bucktrout, 115(6), 120, 159. 
 
 Buffin, 140. 
 
 Buford, 154. 
 
 Bulger, 141. 
 
 Bullifant, 130, 154. 
 
 Bullock, 133, 
 
 Burch, 61, 62, 118. 
 
 Burdett, 154. 
 
 Burfoot, 154. 
 
 Burgess, 95, 116. 
 
 Burke, 159 (4). 
 
 Burkey, 135. 
 
 Bums, 159, 
 
 Burrish, 141. 
 
 Burrows, 159. 
 
 Burton, 140. 
 
 Burum, 142. 
 
 Burwell, 29, 38 (2), 40, 59, 115, 
 
 119, 120, 123 (2), 154 (7). 
 Buskey, 159. 
 Byrd, 42, 88, 122 (2), 123. 
 
 Cabaniss, 117, 120. 
 
 Gain, 142. 
 
 Camm, 118, 159(8). 
 
 Camp, 123, 128 (2), 129, 142, 
 
 154 (4). 
 Campbell, 55, 120, 128, 154 (4). 
 Carter, 59, 122 (2), 125, 126 (4), 
 
 127 (4), 128 (3), 129 (3), 130, (2), 
 154 (7). 
 
 Gary, 33, 59, 114, 119, 140 (2), 
 159 (2). 
 
170 
 
 Nawc Index 
 
 Casement, 136. 
 
 Casey, 138. 
 
 Casper, 115. 
 
 Chapman, 155. 
 
 Chariton, 94, 116, 128, 155 (2). 
 
 Chesley, 12, 119, 134. 
 
 Chichester, 159. 
 
 Chiswell, 80, 155 (2). 
 
 Chowning, 126, 155. 
 
 Christian, 59, 60, 120 (3), 159 (6). 
 
 Claiborne, 13, 159 (2). 
 
 Clark, 133. 
 
 Clarke, 136, 137. 
 
 Clay, 39. 
 
 Clayton, 119, 129, 137 (2), 142, 
 
 Clopton, 120, 159 (3). 
 
 Clows, 116. 
 
 Clowes, 159, 
 
 Coales, 155. 
 
 Cobb, 12, 14, 135, (2), 139, 140. 
 
 Cobbs, 36, 119 (4), 123, 135, 136, 
 
 138 (3), 139, 140, 155 (2). 
 Cock, 123. 
 Cocke, 89, 90, 129, 140, 155, 
 
 159. 
 Cogbill, 116. 
 Coke, 59, 120, 122, 123, 126 (2), 
 
 127,155(4). 
 Cole, 55, 59, 60, 61, 64, 120 (4), 
 
 126, 128, 131, (2). 133, 135, 
 
 140, 159 (5), 164. 
 Coleman, 59,60,115,116,120(2), 
 
 139, 152, 159 (7). 
 Collett, 93, 116. 
 Colonna, (159). 
 Colvil, 142, 
 Coman, 136. 
 OonniUy, 127, 128, 129. 
 Conrad, 149. 
 Coiitesse, 90, 141. 
 Cook, 133, 139 (2), 142. 
 Cooper, 133, 134, 136, 141. 
 Copeland, 120. 
 Cordwainer, 137. 
 
 Corker, 119, 134. 
 
 Corking, 135, 138. 
 
 Cornon, 133. 
 
 Corville, 136. 
 
 Cosby, 122, 140, 141, 155. 
 
 Cosnahan, 159 (3). 
 
 Cotton, 155. 
 
 Coupland, 159 (5). 
 
 Conser, 142. 
 
 Coulthard, 121, 155. 
 
 Cowles, 131. 
 
 Crabtree, 133. 
 
 Craig, 125, 126, 128. 
 
 Craige, 155 (2). 
 
 Craton, 127. 
 
 Crawford, 114. 
 
 Crawley, 18, 20, 119 (2), 123 (2), 
 
 130, 155 (6). 
 Crease, 142, 155. 
 Crenshaw, 132 (3), 133 (2), 135. 
 Crisps, 137. 
 Crocus, 137. 
 Cromley, 80. 
 Crone, 128. 
 Crooke, 135. 
 Cumbo, 131 rs) 
 Cunningham, 140. 
 Curteen, 14 (3). 
 Curtis, 125. 
 Cnstis, 8, 43, 88, 89, 116 (3), 119, 
 
 139, 143, 150 (5), 151, 155, (4), 
 
 159 (5). 
 Cutherell, 159 (2). 
 
 Daisy, 114. 
 
 Dale, 155. 
 
 Dandridge, 89. 
 
 Daniel, 136. 
 
 Daniell, 133. 
 
 Dargan, 114. 
 
 Darlington, 159 f 3). 
 
 Davenport, 124(2), 125 {2\ 126, 
 
 127 (3\ 128, 129, 140 (2), 
 
 141 (2), 155 (3). 
 
]Vame Index 
 
 171 
 
 Davis, 96, 123 (2), 124, 132 (6J, 
 133, 135 C2), 136, 137, 138, 139, 
 140 (2), 141 (4), 159 (3). 
 Davidson, 143 (2). 
 
 Dawson, 37, 38, 39, 44, 118, 
 155 (4). 
 
 Day, 138, 155, 160. 
 
 Dean, 130, 140. 
 
 Deekens, 120. 
 
 Dehart, 116, 
 
 Delony, 140. 
 
 Dennis, 128. 132, 139. 
 
 Dennison, 60, 118, 148. 
 
 Desveer, 138. 
 
 Dew, 59. 
 
 Dewbre, 129. 
 
 Dick, 131. 
 
 Dickenson, 155 (2). 
 
 Dickeson, 135. 
 
 Dickinson, 122 (3;, 123, 124, 125, 
 134, 155. 
 
 Dickson, 130. 
 
 Didip, 125. 
 
 Digby, 135. 
 
 Digges, 112, 124, 155. 
 
 Diggs, 113, 121, 123. 
 
 Dinwiddie, 7. 
 
 Dix, 116, 160. 
 
 Dixon, 116, 120, 129, 155 (3), 
 160 (2). 
 
 Dod, 160 (2). 
 
 Dodgson, 160. 
 
 Doran, 127. 
 
 Donnan, 18, 82. 
 
 Dormar, 20, 119, 134. 
 
 Dormer, 78. 
 
 Douglas, 142. 
 
 Dowson, 137. 
 
 Doyley, 20, 22(2), 78, 118,137 (3), 
 
 Drake, 136. 
 
 Drewitt, 138, 139. 
 Druitz, 130, 155. 
 Drumond, 155 (2). 
 Drummond, 151. 
 
 Drysdale, 7. 
 
 Dubree, 130, 131. 
 
 Dudley, 90. 
 
 Duffin, 140. 
 
 Dugger, 115, 
 
 Dunford, 132. 
 
 Dunmore, 7, 43. 
 
 Dunn, 124, 127, 
 
 Dunston, 139, 140. 
 
 Durfey, 59, 60 (2), 61, 117 (3), 
 120' (2), 122, 123 (5), 126 (2), 
 129, 133, 134, 146, 160 (2). 
 
 Dyer, 106, 116, 138 (2), 139 (3), 
 140 (3), 141 (2). 
 
 Barnshaw, 129. 
 
 Eaton, 39, 119, 120, 124, 155 (3). 
 
 Eburne, 17, 18, 19, 20, 118, 145, 
 
 Edloe, 55, 59, 120 (2), 160. 
 
 Edmunds, 142. 
 
 Edwards, 134, 160. 
 
 Effingham, 18, 
 
 Eggleston, 127. 
 
 Eldred, 160. 
 
 Elwood, 160. 
 
 Empie, 54, 56, 118. 
 
 English, 155. 
 
 Equo, 133. 
 
 Esco, 122. 
 
 Evans, 120, 132, 135(2), 136, 137, 
 
 160, 
 Evelyn, 88. 
 
 Everard, 39, 40, 119, 155. 
 Everitt, 141. 
 Ewell, 120, 160. 
 
 Falkiner, 160 (2). 
 Parmer, 138. 
 Fauquier, 7, 91, 121. 155. 
 Fear, 129, 135. 
 Fellows, 135. 
 Fenn, 13. 
 Fennock, 140. 
 Fergusson, 142, 155 (2). 
 
172 
 
 IVame Xndex 
 
 Field, 134. 
 
 Filpott, 138 (2). 
 
 Finnic, 131, 155(3). 
 
 Fisher, 132. 
 
 Fitzhugh, 102. 
 
 Flax, 130. 
 
 Flemming, 50, 142. 
 
 Folio, (and 'ot) 132 (2), 142. 
 
 Forbar, 141, 
 
 Force, 132. 
 
 Foster. 120, 160 (5), 164. 
 
 Foy, 122. 
 
 Frank, 95, 116, 125. 
 
 Frederick, 134. 
 
 Fry, 122 (2). 
 
 Gait, 56, 57, 59 (2), 60 (2), 117, 
 120 (2), 126, 130 (2), 131 (4), 
 155, 160 (6), 
 
 Gardner, 14, 16,119,134,136,145. 
 
 Garland, 135, 155 (2). 
 
 Garrett, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 116(6), 
 120 (3), 149, 160 (8), 164. 
 
 Gary, 139, 
 
 Gay, 160. 
 
 Geady, 122. 
 
 Geddy, 127, 155. 
 
 George, III, King, 46, 48, 70. 
 
 George, 140. 
 
 Gibbs, 131, 138. 
 
 Gibson, 137. 
 
 Gilbert, 135, 139, 140, 155. 
 
 Gilbey, 132, 134. 
 
 Giles, 122, 136. 
 
 Gill, 141. 
 
 Gillman, 116. 
 
 Gilmer, 122, 155. 
 
 Glass, 122, 155. 
 
 Glasscock, 136, 140. 
 
 Glover, 160. 
 
 Godfrey, 129. 
 
 Goding, 136. 
 
 Gold, 136. 
 
 Gooch, 7, 69, 142, 155. 
 
 Gooding, 140. 
 
 Goodson, 130, 155. 
 
 Goodwin, 26, 27, 63, 118, 137, 138, 
 
 140, 160, 164. 
 Gore, 160 (2). 
 Gorham, 136, 
 Gough, 155. 
 Grace, 23, 79, 80, 81. 
 Grady, 115. 
 Grammar, 147, 148. 
 Gravatt, 64, 164. 
 Gravenor, 135. 
 Graves, 40, 119 (3), 126, 130-132, 
 
 133 (3), 136, 137, 142, 155 (3), 
 
 160. 
 Green, 122, 125, 136,137, 139,141, 
 
 155. 
 Greenhow, 98, 105, 116 (3),126,155 
 Green Spring, 151. 
 Greenwood, 130 (3). 
 Gregory, 90, 133, 160 (3). 
 Griffin, 55, 59, 117, 120, 134, 155. 
 Grinley, 97, 116. 
 Groymes, 142. 
 Grymes, 155. 
 Gun, 155, 
 Gutteridge, 133. 
 Gwinn, 135. 
 Gyles, 135. 
 
 HaUe, 134. 
 Hale, 135. 
 Haley, 135, 137. 
 
 Hall, 87, 120, 138, 139, 160 (2). 
 Halstead, 160. 
 Hames, 138. 
 Hammer, 136, 138. 
 Hammond, 142. 
 Hancock, 160 (2) 
 Handy, 135. 
 Hankins, 142, 160 (6). 
 Hansel, 122, 123. 
 Hansford, 59, 61, 78, 82, 84, 85, 
 86, 90, 119, 120, 138, 156 (3), 160. 
 
ffaim Index 
 
 173 
 
 Harmer, 38, 119, 156. 
 Harmpield or Harmfield, 123, 
 Harper, 142. 
 Harris, 140 (2), 141 (2). 
 Harrison, 8, 49, 57, 60, 136 (2\ 
 
 138, 141, 160 (4). 
 Harrop Parish, 11, 12. 
 Harwood, 126, 129 (2), 130 (2), 
 
 156 (4). 
 Harvey, 134. 
 Harvy, 132, 137. 
 Haskett, 134. 
 Haiiley, 160. 
 
 Hawthorne, 132 (2), 133. 
 Hay, 124, 127, 129, 156 (2). 
 Hayes, 125. 
 Haynes, 126, 129 (2). 
 Haython, 121. 
 Hazell, 133. 
 Hazlegrove, 160 (2). 
 Henderson 107, 116 (7). 
 Henley, 55, 60, 61, 99, 120 (4), 
 
 160(8). 
 Hennesse, 128. 
 Henrikiss, 142. 
 Henry, 8. 
 Hensley, 160 (2). 
 Herbert, 160. 
 Herd, 135. 
 
 Hewbank, 135, 136 (3). 
 Higgison, 136. 
 Highland, 121, 127, 128 (2). 
 Hinton, 160. 
 Hix, 139. 
 Hobson, 160(2). 
 Hodges, 56, 60, 118, 152. 
 Hoge, 125 (3). 
 Holdcraft, 127, 129. 
 Holden, 121. 
 Holder, 133 (2). 
 Holliday, 90. 
 Holloway, 31, 32 (2), 36, 44, 90, 
 
 119, 156. 
 Holston, 160. 
 
 Holt, 38, 119, 122 (2), 123 (2), 
 126 (3;, 142 (2), 156 (3). 
 
 Hopkins, 136, 138, 141. 
 
 Hord, 116. 
 
 Hornsby, 99, 116 (2), 136, 156(2). 
 
 Horrocks, 39 (2), 118, 156. 
 
 Horsington, 133 (3). 
 
 Horsoon, or Horvoor, 136. 
 
 Hortshorne, 136. 
 
 Howell, 138. 
 
 Hoy, 120, 160. 
 
 Hoye, 126. 
 
 Hubard, 119, 128 (2), 129, 138, 
 141, 156 (3), 
 
 Hubbard, 139, 156. 
 
 Hudson, 134 (2), 137. 
 
 Huellin, 136. 
 
 Hughes, 124 (2), 39, 156, 161, 
 
 Hughs, 133, 156. 
 
 Huldston, 140. 
 
 Hulett, 123 (4), 156. 
 
 Humphreys, 80, 141, 161. 
 
 Hundley, 120, 161 (4). 
 
 Hunley, 124, 125. 
 
 Hunnicutt, 161. 
 
 Hunt, 101, 116, 142. 
 
 Hunter, 130. 
 
 Huntington, 64. 
 
 Hurst, 133. 
 
 Hurt, 161. 
 
 Hutchins, 134. 
 
 Ince, 125, 141. 
 
 Ingles, 109, 138, 139 (3). 
 
 Innis, 131. 
 
 Ireland, 133. 
 
 Irish, 136. 
 
 Iserell, 136. 
 
 Ivoiy, 133, 136. 
 
 Jackson, 29, 33, 122, 124, 125, 
 126, 127, 130, 131, 132, 134, 
 135 (2), 137, 139, 140 (2), 142, 
 156 (3), 161. 
 
174 
 
 Name Index 
 
 James, 124. 
 
 Jameson, 156. 
 
 Jamestown, 20, 21, 32,30, 68,70, 
 145, 146, 147, 149, 150, 151. 
 
 Jaspar, 124. 
 
 Jefferson, 8, 24, 44. 
 
 Jeffreys, 135. 
 
 Jemart, 138. 
 
 Jennings, 7, 18, 20, 26, 28, 31. 32, 
 33, 34, 85, 119, 136, 141 (2), 
 145. 
 
 Jepb, 132. 
 
 Jiggets, 130. 
 
 Johnson, 1 20, 130, 132, 136, 137, 
 139, 140, 142 (2), 156, 161. 
 
 Johnsoune, 141, 
 
 Johnston, 131, 120, 161. 
 
 Jonathan, 133. 
 
 Jones, 12, 14, 15, 16(2), 17(2), 33, 
 41, 42, 85, 88, 90, 103, 113, 
 115(2), 116, 117,118,119(3), 
 120, 123, 125 (3), 130,133,134, 
 135, 136 (2), 137, 138, 139 (2), 
 142, 156, 161 (5). 
 
 Jorgles, 142. 
 Juce, 138. 
 
 Jude, 122 (2), 137. 
 
 Juxton, 135. 
 
 Kains, 141. 
 
 Keating, 115. 
 
 Keele, 156. 
 
 Keen, 136 (2). 
 
 Keith, 52, 118, 122, 156. 
 
 Kemp, 156. 
 
 Kempe, 105 (2), 117, 132, 133. 
 
 Kendall, 18, 20, 35, 119 (2), 137, 
 
 156, 
 Kene, 156. 
 Kennedy, 140, 156. 
 Kerle, 135, 137. 
 Kernochan, 64. 
 Kerr, 142. 
 Kincheloe, 161. 
 
 King, 133. 
 Knight, 161 (2). 
 
 Lacy, 161. 
 
 LaFayette, 57. 
 
 Lafong, 126, 128. 
 
 Lamb, 161 (4). 
 
 Lancaster, 133. 
 
 Lane, 120, 123, 128, 156, 
 
 161 (6). 
 Lang, 142. 
 Langhome, 161 (2). 
 Lano, 128. 
 Laprade, 141 (2). 
 Lark, 130 (2). 
 Larke, 156. 
 Laughlin, 90. 
 Laughton, 140. 
 Lawrence, 161. 
 Lawson, 156. 
 Layton, 139. 
 Lea, 161 (2). 
 Leaver, 139. 
 Lee, 8, 161. 
 Le Merchant, 141. 
 Lenox, 127 (2), 128, 129. 
 Leppers, 142. 
 Lett, 115. 
 Levie, 142. 
 
 Lewis, 140 (2), 142, 156. 
 Lightfoot, 140, 161. 
 Limb, 135. 
 Lindsay 116 (3). 
 Lisle, 130. 
 Lively, 161(2). 
 Long, 156. 
 Lord, 138 (2). 
 Low, 90. 
 Loansdale, 135. 
 Love, 138. 
 Lucas, 139. 
 Lackey, 132. 
 Luckin, 111. 
 Ludbrook, 136. 
 
Name Index 
 
 175 
 
 Ludwell, 7, 12 (3), 13, 15 (,2), 
 18 (2), 20, 23, 38, 42 (2), 78, 80, 
 81, 82, 83, 84 (3), 85, 104, 105, 
 116, 119 (3), 134. 
 
 Luke, 141. 
 
 Lunsford, 105, 117. 
 
 Lyndrick, 139. 
 
 Ljnne, 143, 156. 
 
 Lyon, 131. 
 
 Macon, 14, 89, 119, 120, 161 (2). 
 
 Macgrigor, 142. 
 
 Madison, 49, 50, 51. 
 
 Maeplin, 124. 
 
 Major, 156. 
 
 Man, 138. 
 
 Mann, 86. 
 
 Manlv, 137. 
 
 Maples, 121, 142. 
 
 Marable, 14, 15 (2). 
 
 Marsh, 134 (2). 
 
 Marshal, 8, 44, 125. 
 
 Marston Parish, 11, 12. 
 
 Martin, lj5, 59, 119, 129, 132. 135, 
 
 136, 137, 138, 139 (3). 
 Martyr, 128. 
 Marye, 96. 
 Mason, 8. 
 Massey, 138. 
 Masterson, 138. 
 Mathews, 119, 133 (2), 134 (2). 
 Matthews, 18 (2), 36. 
 Maupin, 120, 127, 142(2), 156(2), 
 
 161 (3). 
 Maury, 131. 
 May, 129, 156. 
 
 Maynard, 122, 124 (2), 125, 156. 
 McCandlish, 55, 59, 60, 120, 152, 
 
 161 (3). 
 McCann, 116. 
 McCarty, 140 (2), 156 (4). 
 McCaw, 161. 
 McCloud, 138. 
 McClurg, 156. 
 
 McGrigor, 140. 
 
 Mcintosh, 122. 
 
 McKenzie, 121, 123, 124, 142, 156. 
 
 McKim, 64. 
 
 McKlim, 124. 
 
 McPherson, 131. 
 
 Meade, 51, 161. 
 
 Mecarte, 137. 
 
 Mecharte, 138. 
 
 Meeke, 135. 
 
 Menetree, 140. 
 
 Mercer, 49, 63, 120 (2), 161 (8), 
 
 164. 
 Meredith, 61, 118. 
 Merriwether, 32 (2). 
 Metcalf, 156. 
 Middlesex Parish, 11. 
 Mille, 135. 
 Miller, 59, 135, 161. 
 MilHngton, 59, 115, 120, 141 (2). 
 Mills, 136(2), 137. 
 Milton, 133. 
 Minitree, 138, 139. 
 Minnis, 130. 
 Mires, 127. 
 Mitchell, 126, 138. 
 Moodley, 141. 
 
 Moody, 126, 128,129,130,156(4). 
 Mooney, 115. 
 Moore, 51, 55. 
 Moncure, 120, 161 (3). 
 Monroe, 8, 44. 
 Montgomery, 90. 
 Moor, 140. 
 More, 114. 
 
 Morecock, 120, 161 (5). 
 Moreland, 142. 
 Morgan, 133, 140. 
 Moring, 124. 
 Morris, 34, 139, 161 (4). 
 Morrison, 68, 117, 148, 161. 
 Morrow, 124. 
 Morton, 129 (4), 131, 166. 
 Moss, 156. 
 
176 
 
 P^amc Xndcx 
 
 Mottley, 161 (2). 
 Moyer, 127, 156, 
 Monring, 139. 
 Mourning, 122. 
 Munford, 61, 120, 161 (5). 
 Mnndell, 142, 156. 
 Munier, 161. 
 Mnnroe, 140, 
 Murpha, 141, 
 Musgrove, 123, 124. 
 
 Neale, 162. 
 Needier, 119, 
 Nelson, 131, 156. 
 Newitt, 156 (2), 162. 
 Newman. 141, 
 Newton, 137, 142. 
 Nicholas, 7, 39 (2), 40, 119 (2), 
 128 (2), 129, 141, 142, 143, 
 156. 
 Nichols, 123, 136. 
 Nicholson, 7, 20, 22, 25, 77, 78, 
 
 80, 81, 84, 156 (3), 
 Nicolson, 94, 100,116,117,124(2), 
 
 125 (2), 127, 128, 130, 138. 
 Ninino, or Nimno, 142, 162, 
 Normand. 123. 
 Northy, 76, 77, 83, 84, 
 Norwell, 18, 20, 29, 78, 82, 84, 
 85, 140, spelled NorveU, 119, 135. 
 Nott, Gov., 26, 100, 117, 138. 
 
 Gates, 124 (2), 125. 
 
 Obrian, 140. 
 
 O'Connor, 142. 
 
 Ogleby, 141. 
 
 O'Keeffe, 162 (3). 
 
 Ormi(or e)ston, 126 (2), 
 
 Orr, 93, 116. 156. 
 
 Orrell, 130. 
 
 Overby, 61, 118, 
 
 Owen, 135 (3), 
 
 Owens, 12, 20, 119, 137, 145. 
 
 Owman, 140. 
 Oxley, 135. 
 
 Pack, 141 (2). 
 Packard, 148. 
 
 Page, 7, 12, 13 (2), 14, 15, 16 (2), 
 41, 42 (3), 55, 57, 59, 61, 71, 77, 
 82, 84, 85, 86, 111 (4), 112(2), 
 113 (2), 116(5), 118, 119 (3), 120, 
 122, 123, 136 (5), 137, 145, 
 156 (2). 
 Paget, 140, 
 Palmer, 120, 156. 
 Paradice, 156. 
 
 Parke, 7, 12 (2), 13, 18, 20, 88, 
 119 (2), 132 (2), 134, 137, 138, 
 150 (2). 
 Parker, 156. 
 Parks, 120, 156. 
 Parr, 114. 
 Parris, 142, 
 Parrott, 156. 
 Partridge, 133, 136, 
 Pasteur, 126, 129, 141 (4), 156. 
 Patterson, 156. 
 Paxton, 26. 
 Peachy, 55, 59, 61, 120 (4), 122, 
 
 162 (5). 
 Peal, 124. 
 Peale, 156. 
 Pearman, 129. 
 Pearson, 14, 119, 125, 127, 128. 
 
 129, 156. 
 Pegram, 140, 142. 
 Peirson, 134, 136 (2). 
 Pelham, 44, 47, 127. 
 Penbethman, 133, 138. 
 Pendleton, 8, 50, 149. 
 Pennele, 142. 
 Pennman, 124, 142. 
 Penny, 156. 
 Peters, 124, 133, 156. 
 Petticolas 162 (2). 
 Pettitt, 162 (2). 
 
ffaim Index 
 
 177 
 
 Petttis, 108, 119. 
 
 Philip, 132. 
 
 Phillips, 127, 129, 133, 136, 162. 
 
 Phrodono, 132. 
 
 Pierce, 39, 59, 119 (2), 120, 135, 
 
 156, 162. 
 Pilkinton, 120. 
 Pinchback, 138. 
 Pi(y)nes, 137 (2), 
 Pinkethman, 18, 20 (2), 78,84(2), 
 
 85, 119 (2), 133, 134, 137 (2), 
 
 138, 139. 
 Pitt, 130, 156. 
 Poindexter, 15, 119. 
 Pollard, 137, 141. 
 Porter, 128, 135. 
 Potter, 156. 
 Powell, 38, 40, 125 (4), 126 (2), 
 
 156. 
 Power, 38, 120, 
 Powers, 139. 
 Pratt, 142. 
 Predy, 132, 
 Prentis, 40, 119, 120, 130, 131, 
 
 157 (4). 
 Preston, 136, 137. 
 Priar, 157, 
 Prichard, 135. 
 Prior, 139. 
 Prosser, 129. 
 Pulley, 139. 
 
 Purdie, 96, 117, 127, 128. 
 Purdy, 157. 
 
 Rae, 94, 117. 
 
 Radcliff, 131. 
 
 Randal, 157 (2). 
 
 Randolph, 7, 8, 36, 38, 39, 44 (3), 
 
 49, 50, 52, 59, 64, 115, 119 (2), 
 
 120, 121, 157 C3,\ 164. 
 Ratcliff, 130 (2), 139, 157. 
 Ratlift, 129. 
 RaTcnscroft, 136. 
 Rawley, 123, 143. 
 
 Rawliuson, 123, 
 
 Reade, 70, 139, 
 
 Rector, 115. 
 
 Reed, 122. 
 
 Reid, 157. 
 
 Renolds, 123. 
 
 Rentmore, 134. 
 
 Reynolds, 127, 131, 142, 
 
 Rhodes, 125, 122 (5), 
 
 Rhodewell, 142 (2). 
 
 Rice, 124, 136. 
 
 Richardson, 134, 162. 
 
 Richerson, 125. 
 
 Ricket, 127. 
 
 Riddal, 140. 
 
 Riddel, 157. 
 
 Riddick. 162. 
 
 Rind, 128, 129. 
 
 Roadman, 131, 157. 
 
 Roan, 136. 
 
 Roberts, 62, 118, 123, 127, 136, 
 
 157 (2), 162 (3). 
 Robertson, 25, 26,42, 77,85,119. 
 Robinson, 123(2), 124, 134, 135, 
 
 136, 157. 
 Rogers, 120, 134 (2), 135. 
 Rogertnan, 142, 
 RoUison, 130. 
 Rose, 125, 128 (2), 162. 
 Ross, 138. 
 Rovear, 139. 
 Row, 138. 
 Royall, 81. 
 Royle, 127, 157 (3), 
 Rudder, 140. 
 Ruffin, 162. 
 Russell, 123, 124, 130, 131, 132, 
 
 133, 134, 157 (2), 
 
 Sadler, 140. 
 Saint, 134. 
 Sampson, 134. 
 Sanders, 129, 137. 141. 
 Sandford, 130. 
 
178 
 
 Name Index 
 
 Sands, 133 (3), 134. 
 
 Saunders, 57, 59, 60, 61, 120 (2), 
 
 127, 129, 157 (2;, 162 (2). 
 Savage, 116, 162 (2). 
 Scarborough, 157 (2). 
 Sclater, 17, 26, 27. 
 Scot, 130, 134. 
 Scott, 4, 44, 162(3). 
 Scrivener, 98, 116. 
 Sebrill, 135 (2), 136, 137, 138. 
 Semple, 55, 120 (2). 
 Serjeanten, 141. 
 Sexton, 134. 
 Sharpe, 133, 139, 140. 
 Shehorne, 138 (2). 
 Shelbum, 137. 
 Sheldon, 59, 120. 
 Sheppard, 127. 
 Shepherd, 162. 
 Sherman, 139. 
 Sherwell, 162 (4). 
 Shields, 59, 120,121, 122,123,128, 
 
 130, 131, 141, 142, 157 (2). 
 Shoemaker, 157. 
 Short, 157. 
 Shurley, 133. 
 Sidderdell, 157. 
 Bimpkins, 13, 134 (2). 
 Simpson, 134. 
 Simson, 145. 
 Singleton, 125, 157 (2). 
 Skaif, 142. 
 Skinner, 56. 
 Skipwith, 142. 
 Slater, 162. 
 Smith, 115 (2), 117, 120, 139, 140, 
 
 157, 162 (14). 
 Snow, 116. 
 Somorton, 133. 
 Southall, 59, 120 (2), 126, 127(2), 
 
 128, 157 (2), 162 (10). 
 Southgate, 117. 
 Sparrow, 148. 
 Spelman, 137. 
 
 Spence, 142. 
 
 Spencer, 120 (2), 162 (6). 
 
 Spottswood, Gov., 7, 33(3), 34, 89 
 
 Spratley, 157. 
 
 Spring, 14, 119, 135. 
 
 Spurr, 39, 157. 
 
 Stafiford, 137. 
 
 Staige, 95, 96. 
 
 Stanley, 139. 
 
 Stannup, 142. 
 
 Stanton, 69. 
 
 Stanyard, 136. 
 
 Stark, 157. 
 
 Stay, 157. 
 
 Steel, 157. 
 
 Stephens, 133 (2). 
 
 Stephenson, 115, 125, 162. 
 
 Stevens, 124, 135, 138, 142. 
 
 Stevenson, 123. 
 
 Stevinson, 157. 
 
 Steward, 136, 138, 140. 
 
 Stith, 97, 116, 157 (3). 
 
 Stokes, 131. 
 
 Stone, 124, 126, 132, 141 (2). 
 
 Stott. 142, 157. 
 
 Stover, 139. 
 
 Straughan, 140, 141. 
 
 Strawhun, and hawne, 132 (2). 
 
 Street, 127, 128, 157. 
 
 Strickland, 138. 
 
 Stuart, 117. 
 
 Stubbs, 162 (3). 
 
 Sturgis, 134. 
 
 Summers, 135. 
 
 Sutor, 136. 
 
 Swiney, 157. 
 
 Sweeney, 162 (8). 
 
 Syms, 139. 
 
 Syncock, 138. 
 
 Tabor, 162. 
 
 Taliaferro, 61, 90, 120, 157, 162. 
 
 Tandy, 137. 
 
 Tantey, 134. 
 
Name Index 
 
 179 
 
 Tarpley, 71, 157 (2). 
 Tarrent, 140. 
 
 Taylor, 14, 26, 59, 90, 119, 120, 
 122, 126, 129, 134, 135 (2), 136, 
 
 139, 140 {2), 141, 142, 143, 
 157 (2), 163 (5). 
 
 Teddar, 135, 137. 
 
 Teer, 137 (2) 
 
 Temple, 137. 
 
 Theological Seminary, Alexandria, 
 
 52, 148, 149. 
 Thomas, 132 (2), 138, 163. 
 Thompson, 34, 61, 96, 120, 
 
 141 (2), 163 (2). 
 Thornton, 157. 
 Thorp, 71, 101, 102, 116 (2), 
 
 119 (2), 134 (2), 136, 137 (2). 
 Tibbs, 136. 
 Tiemon, 163. 
 Tilford, 116. 
 TiUet, 33. 
 Tillyard, 26, 27. 
 Timberleck, 139. 
 Timson, 82, 84, 85, 119 (2), 120, 
 
 124, 129, 135, 137 (2), 138, 
 
 140, 142 (2), 143, 157 (3). 
 Tobin, 140. 
 
 Todd, 133. 
 
 Todeink, 132. 
 
 Tomson, 139 (2). 
 
 Toop, 134 (2). 
 
 Townsend, 134. 
 
 Trebell, 157. 
 
 Trewly, 142. 
 
 Trower, 127. 
 
 Tucker, 50, 59, 64, 115, 117 (2), 
 
 120, 133, 163 (4), 164. 
 Tuley, 132. 
 
 Turner, 119, 134, 137, 157, 163 (2). 
 Twyner, 115. 
 Tyler, 8, 18, 20, 25, 44, 59, 69, 
 
 84, 90, 106, 119, 120, 135, 137, 
 
 138 (2), 139(2), 141(2), 142(2), 
 
 157, 163 (4). 
 
 Vadin, 135 (2). 
 
 Valentine, 129, 157. 
 
 Vanneison, 163. 
 
 Yaulx, 119, 132, 134 (2), 140. 
 
 Vaughan, 163. 
 
 Veale, 134. 
 
 Vest, 59, 60, 61, 120 (2), 163 (2). 
 
 Vinkler, 14 (3), 119, 137. 
 
 Vobe, 157. 
 
 Wade, 121, 126, 139. 
 
 Wadsworth, 135. 
 
 Wager, 141. 
 
 Walker, 60, 120 (2), 132. 
 
 Wall, 61, 118, 120. 
 
 Wallace, 26, 120. 
 
 Waller, 38, 40, 44 (2), 55, 59 (2), 
 
 60, 119, 120 (3), 123, 124 (2), 
 
 125, 127 (3), 129, 157, 163 (G). 
 Walters, 133, 135, 157. 
 Walthorne, 133. 
 Warburton, 120, 163. 
 Ward, 124. 
 Ware, 163. 
 Warren, 138, 163. 
 Warrington, 126 (2), 127 (2), 129. 
 Warters, 157. 
 Washington, Gen. Geo., 8, 48, 89, 
 
 121, 150, 157. 
 Washington, 50, 90, 115, 150. 
 Watkins, 124. 
 Watson, 136, 137. 
 Wattles, 134(2). 
 Weatherburn, 157 (3). 
 Webb, 55, 120, 138, 163. 
 Weinberger, 163. 
 Weldon, 140. 
 Wellings, 123, 
 Wells, 122 (2), 132 (2), 133, 136, 
 
 137, 138. 
 West, 136, 138, 140 (2). 
 Westmore, 127. 
 Westwood, 116. 
 Wetherford, 138. 
 
180 
 
 ISame Index 
 
 Weymouth, 163. 
 
 Whaley, 110, 116(2), 119(2), 133, 
 
 138. 
 Wharton, 61, 84, 118, 134, 139, 
 
 163. 
 Whea1;ley, or Whateley, 22 (2), 23, 
 
 26, 27, 76,78(4), 80, 82(2), 83, 
 
 84, 85 (2), 86(4), 118,139,157. 
 Wheeler, 133, 
 Whitaker, 157. 
 Whitby, 137. 
 White, 78, 82, 86, 119, 128, 129, 
 
 132 (3), 133 (2), 135, 136, 
 
 137 (3), 138 (2), 139, 141. 
 Whitehair, 133. 
 Whitehead, 141. 
 Whiting, 135, 136. 
 Whitlock, 139. 
 Whittaker, 128. 
 Wickham, 50, 137. 
 Wiggs, 138 (2). 
 WUbnm, 163 (3). 
 Wilkins, 123, 124 (2), 132, 163. 
 Wilkinson, 133, 134 (2), 135, 
 
 141 (2), 163 (5). 
 William and Mary College, 30, 37, 
 
 43, 44, 47, 52, 84, 90, 100, 157. 
 Williams, 89, 116, 119, 134, 136, 
 
 140, 163 (4). 
 Williamson, 163. 
 
 Willis, 141, 157. 
 
 Wills, 163. 
 
 Wilmer, 52, 53 (2), 60, 61, 62, 91, 
 
 116, 118 (2), 147, 149, 163 (4.) 
 Wilson, 124 (3), 129, 132. 
 Winchcom, 135. 
 Winder, 116. 
 Windsor, 140. 
 Wingfield, 120. 
 Wisdem, 134. 
 Wise, 120, 163. 
 Withers, 125. 
 WoUey, 114. 
 Wood, 142. 
 Woods, 133 (2). 
 Woodbridge, 95. 
 Woody, 157. 
 Wooten, 163. 
 Wray, 38, 119, 123 (2), 142, 
 
 157 (2). 
 Wright, 115, 124, 130(2), 131, 163 
 Wyatt, 116, 122, 142. 
 Wylde, 119, 132 (2), 134. 
 Wynn, 141. 
 Wythe, 8, 39, 40, 44, 48, 50, 119, 
 
 157 (2). 
 
 Yates, 39, 118, 136, 157. 
 Young, 141. 
 Yuille, 93, 116. 
 
Subject Unbcx 
 
 Addenda, Historical, including: — 
 (1) Additional notes from Vestry 
 book of 1674, pp. 145-146. (2) 
 Notes relative to the remoTal and 
 return of the Jamestown Com- 
 munion Silver, pp. 147-150. (3) 
 Inscriptions on Custis' tomb- 
 stones, p. 150. (4) Note relative 
 to scattered and neglected tomb- 
 stones, p. 151. (5) Note relative 
 to slave baptisms, p. 152. (6) 
 List of persons who had slaves 
 baptized, pp. 154-157. (7) Com- 
 municant List from 1868 to 1904, 
 pp. 158-163. (8) Meeting, and 
 action of Restoration Advisory 
 Committee, p. 164. (9) Note 
 relative to the preservation of 
 Historical records and memo- 
 rials, p. 166. 
 
 Associations connected with 
 Church, 7, .66. 
 
 Attendance, compulsory, 41. 
 
 Baptism oi Slaves, 121, 152-157. 
 
 BeU, the Church, 16, 40, 71. Belfry, 
 16, 39, 40. 
 
 Birth Record, from 1739 to 1789, 
 121-131. 
 
 Bishop of London, 27, 36, 45, 81, 82 
 
 Blair, Commissary, 27, extracts 
 from his sermons, 72, death of, 37 
 
 Blandford Church, Petersburg, Va., 
 inscription on wall of, 21, date 
 of, 21. 
 
 Boundary line between Bruton 
 Parish and James City, 145. 
 
 Buck, John H., quoted, 68. 
 
 Burgesses, House of, donations to 
 Church, 31, 32, 37, 38, 42, ap- 
 pealed to, 145. 
 
 Burial in Chancel and in Church, 
 fees for, 42. 
 
 Catharine Memorial Society, 62. 
 
 Church, Building of 1683, 12, of 
 1715, 31, 
 
 Clock, in Church steeple (thought 
 by President L. G. Tyler to have 
 been formerly in House of 
 Burgesses), 60. 
 
 Colonial, Church service described, 
 45. Governors mentioned, 7. 
 Governor's pew, 42, 57. 
 
 Communicants, list of from 1868 
 to 1904, 158-163. 
 
 Communion Silver, Queen Anne, 
 30, 68, 69. Jamestown and 
 King George III silver described 
 andillustrated, 68-70. Protected 
 during the war, 61. Jamestown 
 set removed and restored, 
 147-150. 
 
 Confederate memorial, 92, 114. 
 
 Consecration of Church, question 
 of, 16, 51. 
 
 Cost of material and labor in 1713, 
 35. 
 
 Death record from 1662 to 1751, 
 132-143. 
 
 Dedication of Church of 1683, 15. 
 
 Despoliation, legislative, 49-51. 
 
 Dimensions of Church, 32, 33, 34, 
 37, 38. 
 
 Donations to Church, of money, 
 13, 14, 15, 25, 55, 56. Silver 
 server, 18. Altar Cloth, 25. By 
 House of Burgesses, 32, 33, 38. 
 Legacy from Mrs. Besouth, 35. 
 Bible given, 36. Gift of Church 
 yard land, 42. Furniture by 
 Catharine Memorial Society, 62. 
 Communion Silver, 68-70. Bell, 
 71. Plans, 33, 164. 
 
 Endowment for preservation of 
 Church, should be provided, 67. 
 
 Enlargement of Church, 37, 38—. 
 
 Episcopal Visitations, 51, 
 
182 
 
 Subject Index 
 
 Bpitapbs and Inscriptions, 87-115, 
 150. 
 
 Pees of Clerk and Sexton, 16. 
 
 Fiske, John, quoted, 24. 
 
 Pont, Jamestown, 22, 70. Illus- 
 tration of, 30. 
 
 Galleries mentioned, 43, 44, 47, 
 55, 56, 59 (diagram), 60, 62—. 
 
 Glebe lands, 36, 49-51. 
 
 Governors, Colonial, mentioned, 7. 
 Pew of, 7, 42, 47, 57. 
 
 Hall, Dr. J, L., quoted, 87. 
 
 Hospital, Cburch used as, 61. 
 
 Induction Controversy, 17, 19, 23, 
 32, 76-86. 
 
 In Memoriam, 67. 
 
 Innovations, 55, 56, 62. 
 
 Jamestown, abandoned, 20-22, 
 Font, 32,70. Communion silver, 
 22, 68, 70, 147-150. Church 
 tower, picture of, 21. Church 
 door, 146. Dispute as to 
 boundary of Parish, 145. 
 
 King George, silver, 70. 
 
 Mayor's pew, 57. 
 
 Middle Plantation, 11, 12, 146. 
 
 Ministers, character of, 20, 45. 
 List of, 118. Others mentioned, 
 26, 49, 64, 123, 130, 137 (2), 
 141, 142. Salary of, 41, 
 
 Name Index, 168-180. 
 
 Names of those who had slaves 
 baptized, 154-157. 
 
 Names of Pew-renters in 1840, 59. 
 
 Names on Tomb-stones, list of, 
 115. 
 
 Names of Vestrymen, 119-120. 
 
 Old Regime, passing of, 45. 
 
 Organ, secured, 37, loft, 44, sold, 
 56. 
 
 Parish, Formation of, 11, 12. 
 Name of, 12. Limits of, 36. 
 Bounds, dispute as to, 145. 
 Processioned, 146, 
 
 Parish House, deeded, 62. 
 
 Pews, new ones secured, 36. Oiled, 
 37. Assigned to Governor, 
 42, 57. In Chancel, 41, 42. 
 Other pews assigned, 43. As- 
 signed to College students, 43, 44. 
 Cut down, 55. Rented, names 
 of renters, 59. Made free, 60. 
 
 Plan of Church of 1715 furnished 
 by Gov. Alex. Spottswood, 
 33—. 
 
 Preservation of tomb-stones, 151. 
 Of old records and memorials, 
 166. 
 
 Presidents who worshipped in 
 Church, 8. 
 
 Processioning of Parish bounds, 
 146. 
 
 Pulpit, 36, 62. 
 
 Quakers, in arrears, 19, 20. 
 
 Record books of Parish, 4, 62, 71. 
 Photograph of, 121. Preserva- 
 tion of, 166. 
 
 Repairs to Church mentioned, 19, 
 22, 25, 35, 36, 37, 52, 62, 67, 
 To tomb-stones, 62. 
 
 Restoration movement, 9, 63. 
 Advisory Committee Meeting, 
 164. 
 
 Revolution, effect upon Ohurch, 
 45, 48. The Church after, 49. 
 
 Silver given, 18, 35, 68, 
 
 Slaves baptized, the record of, 121. 
 Note as to, 152. Total number 
 each year, 153. Alphabetical 
 list of persons who had slaves 
 baptized from 1746 to 1797, 
 155-157. 
 
 Statistics of Congregation in 1724, 
 36. In 1821 and 1826, 52. In 
 1828, 54. 
 
 Subscribers to Church Building of 
 1683, 13-14. 
 
 Thomas, R. S., quoted, 49. 
 
Subject Index 
 
 183 
 
 Tomb-stone Inscriptions, 87-115. 
 
 Repaired, 62. Preservation of, 151 
 Tyler, President Lyon G., quoted, 
 
 13, 38, 42, 69. 
 Universalist minister not allowed 
 
 to preach in Church, 56. 
 Vestry, old orders, 41. Book of 
 
 1827, 55. 
 
 Vestrymen, position and authority 
 of Colonial, 24. Last before 
 Civil War, 60. First after, 61. 
 List of, 119120. 
 
 William and Mary College, 30, 37, 
 43, 44, 47, 52, 84, 90, 100, 157. 
 
 Yard to Church, given, 14, 42. 
 Wall of, 39. 
 

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