"-.. .V -^ ,V o N o ' ,0' V. .^^ V "V.^ ^ -r^i^ij'^^^ ^"^^-^ <' V o ^ T , 1 • .O"^ sW'. V ^, V ^. .'W - .^0^ .^'''. ^ ^^^ ^^o^'^* v^ •n-o^ bV ^^0^ ,0'^' ,-•'.-> ANNALS OF HENRICO PARISH BY Rt. Rev. L. W. BURTON, Bishop of the Diocese of Lexington, Ky., ind for nine years Rector of St. John's Church. HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S P. E. CHURCH, TOGETHER WITH e Names, Portraits, Time of Service, and Sketches of the Bishops of Virginia. As also of the Ministers and Assistant Ministers. L Complete Roster of the Vestries, from 1741 to 1904. List of Communicants, Marriages, Baptisms, ! Deaths and Burials, together with the I Inscriptions upon the Tombstones. ecords of the Parish of Henrico in their Entirety, with their Quaint and Antique Language and Entries, from the Original Vestry Book, from 1730 to 1773, with Notes by Dr. R. A. Brock. The Famous Liberty Speech of Patrick Henry, Delivered in the Old Church. ► ration of Rt. Rev. A. M. Randolph, and the Address of Hon. Wm. Wirt Henry, Delivered in the Church on its 150th Anniversary, in 1891. Edited and Compiled by J. STAUNTON MOORE, Richmond, Va. Authorized by the Vestry. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Two Copies fieoeiveri APR 21 1905 I JDcpyr^ffht Entry *' iii-v- 1 ii hm i H i iM O Wii f r^ COPYRIGHTED 1904. Cyrus Bossieux, J. F. Mayer, R. R Shine, Trustees St. John's P. E. Church. All rights reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE. Preface, by Rev. L. W. Burton 3 Authorities and references cited by Dr. Burton 3, 4 Annals of Henrico Parish by Rev. L. W. Burton 4 Introduction to History of St. John's Church, by J. S. Moore. . . 57 History of St. John's church from 1884 to 1904, by J. Staunton Moore • ^^ Succession of Bishops of Virginia 1^3 Succession of Ministers of Henrico Parish as far as known 105 Succession of Vestrymen of St. John's Church 107 The Famous Liberty Speech of Patrick Henry in St. John's, 1775 113 Address of Bishop A. M. Randolph at the 150th annivrrsary. . . 117 Address of Hon. William Wirt Henry (grandson of Patrick Henry) at the 150th anniversary of St. John's Church 133 Sketches of Bishops and Assistant Bishops of Virginia 163 Pewholders, 1845, St. John's Church 189 Heads of families 190 List of communicants to 1904 197 List of marriages from 1682 to 1904 215 Baptisms from 1815 to 1904 263 Burials, 1826 to 1904 349 Inscriptions on the tombstones of St. John's churchyard 413 Addenda— Vestry Book of Henrico Parish 1730-1773 530 ERRATA. Page 64, line 3, instead of induced was, read was induced. Page 105, third line, read Thomas Bargrave for Thomas Hargrave, Page 176, first line of sketch of Rt. Rev. John Johns, read fourth instead of third Bishop, error of biographer. OMISSION The Editor and Compiler of this volume desires to express under this heading his regrets at not having mentioned the fact that reso- lutions in memory of Mr. James W. Shields, for many years Senior Warden, and one of the most faithful and active members of St. John's Church, were adopted, and a blank page in the vestry minute book dedicated to his memory at a meeting of the vestry February 2, 1897. His death is recorded on page 400, and mention of his death on page 90 also. The error was not discovered until after the printing had been completed and the sheets were in the hands of the binder. ANNALS= OP HENRICO PARISH, DIOCESE OF VIRGINIA, AND ESPECIALLY OF ST. JOHN'S Church, THE PRESENT MOTHER CHURCH OF THE PARISH, From 1611 to id&A-/ BY LEWIS W. BURTON, Rector of St. John's Church. ''TENETE DONEC VENIAM." M./. WILUAMJ" PRINTING COMPANY, RICHMOND, VA. 1904, m Yt 3'Z /■» o o PREFACE. The Annals of Henrico Parish down to Easter, 1884, were originally prepared by me at the request of Bishop Randolph, to furnish him with the facts of the history of St. John's for the preparation of his discourse for the Sesqni-Centennial, celebrated June 10, 1891. Shortly after that anniversary, I made up the Annals into an address and delivered it in St. John's, as Bishop Randolph had quoted only slightly from my gathered facts, his treatment of his theme having been rather philosophical. The annals of my own rectorship, as I say more particu- larly in the introduction thereto, are not meant for publica- tion or exDected to be s:enerally read. I do not pretend to be a historian of my own time ; much less do I wish to appear as magnifving my own ministry. Some of the minute de- tails are of no importance in themselves, and probably will have no interest to the future historian of the parish, who may seek material in these pages ; but they are put on record for the sake of those concerned, to whom the smallest things and simplest facts in and about the Church of their love are sacred and precious. On the other hand, I have told of things which everybody, now a member of St. John's, sees or knows ; but I have been mindful of a time when these things may have disappeared or those who know of their history may have departed. The difficulties I found in preparing the facts concerning St. John's Church, through the one hundred and fifty years of its existence as a building, influenced me not a little in this matter. Authorities and references to which grateful acknowledg- ment is now, once for all, given : The Vestrv Books of the I^arish and of St. John's Church. Notes and introduction to the first Vestry Book, by Mr. R. 4 History Henrico Parish. A. Brock, Secretary of the Virginia Historical Societv. etc., 1874. Journals of the Diocesan Councils, includinfr introductory matter by Eev. T. G. Dashiell, D. D., Secretary of the Council. These date from the reorganization of the Diocese, in 1785. Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, in two volumes, by Bishop Meade. Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States, by Rev. Dr. E. L. Hawks ; Vol. 1, Virginia. Appendix to Perry's History of the Church of England, containing a Sketch of the History of the Protestant Episco- pal Church in the United States of America. A History of the Monumental Church, by Geo. D. Fisher. Virginia : A History of the People, by John Esten Cooke. Manuscript Reminiscences of Old St. John's Church, by Rev. Prof. Cornelius Walker, D. D. Manuscript Notes and data concerning St. John's, gathered and compiled by Mr. Peyton R. Carrington, of Riclimond, Va. ANNAL/ OF HENRICO PARI/H BY ET. REV. LEWIS W. BURTON^ D. D. The picturesque ruins of Jamestown mark tlie beginning of the Church in Virginia, in 1607. The history of Hen- rico Parish begins with the second established settlement in the colony. During the interregnum between the governor- ships of Lord De la War and Sir Thomas Gates, Sir Thomas Dale had acted as regent under the title of High Marshall of Virginia. On the arrival of Gates, Dale, by agreement, took advantage of the opportunity to carry out the cherished pro- ject of founding for himself a settlement. In the early part of September, 1611, at the head of 350 men, chieflv German laborers, he pushed up the river. He founded Henricopolis on the peninsula now insulated by Dutch Gap canal. Dale was almost a religious fanatic. He had named his new city in honor of Prince Henry, the eldest son of James I. After this prince's sudden death. Dale writes: "My glorious mas- ter is gone, that would have enamelled with his favors the labors I undertake for God's cause and his immortal honor. He was the great captain of our Israel; the hope to have builded up this heavenly new Jerusalem be interred, I think ; the whole frame of this business fell into his grave." The Kev. Alexander Whitaker accompanied Dale. He calls the latter *'Our religious and valiant Governor." He describes him as "a man of great knowledge in divinity, and of a good conscience in all things, both which," he adds, "be rare in a martial man." The settlement of Henrico, therefore, had from the first a decidedly religious character. Prominent and earliest among the buildings erected by Dale was a church. He built it even before he had laid the foundation of his own residence. Its site was near the line of the present Dutch Gap canal. A more handsome structure of brick was speedily undertaken. 6 History Henkico Parish, For defensive purposes, Dale located another settlement at the western angle of the junction of the Appomattox with the James. This received the name of Bermuda Hundred, by which it is still known. It quickly began to outshine its sister village of Henricopolis. The governor of the colony sometimes took up his residence at Bermuda Hundred. But the earlier settlement gave the name of Henrico to the county and parish with which we are concerned. When, in 1634, the colony was divided into eight shires, after the English fashion, the bounds of Henrico were made to include present Chesterfield and Powhatan counties, on the south of the river, and Goochland on the north. The parish lines were coincident with those of the shire. Mr. Whitaker was, of course, first rector of the parish. Dale enclosed a glebe of 100 acres and built a parsonage on the south side of the river, at a point convenient to both settlements. It was called, and the site is still known by the name of Rock Hall, Mr. Whitaker's father was Dr. William Whitaker, Master of St. John's College, an eminent theologian and controver- sialist of Cambridge, and a friend of the ''judicious Hooker.'' Alexander Whitaker himself was a graduate of Cambridge. For some years he had been a minister in the north of Eng- land, beloved and well supported by his people. He enjoyed besides a handsome heritage from his parents. He seems to have come to this country purely under the influence of the highest missionary spirit, believino- himself to have been called by God to do so. He experienced all the struggles with himself and all the opposition of friends that try the foreign missionary's soul. A contemporary thus writes of him*: "He did voluntarily leave his warme nest ; and to the wonder of his kindred and amazement of them that knew him, under- tooke this hard, but, in my judgement, heroicall resolution to go to Virginia, and helpe to beare the name of God unto the gentiles." The unanimous opinion of him seems to be that he was ''purest of men," "truly pious," and most zealous in that missionary work, especially among the Indians, to which he had devoted himself. "Every Sabbath day," he writes to a friend in London, "we preach in the forenoon and catechize ♦The effort is made here and throughout this history to reproduce as nearly as possible all quotations and records. St. John's Chukch. 7 in the afternoon. Every Saturday, at night, I exercise (ex- hort) in Sir Thomas Dale's house." Meanwhile, in 1612, Pocahontas had been taken prisoner by the English, and Dale had succeeded Gates as Governor. Dale labored long to ground the faith of Jesus Christ in the heart of this Indian princess. Of her he wrote: ^'Were it but for the gaining of this one soul, I will think my time, toils, and present stay well spent." Mr. Whitaker was un- doubtedly his glad agent in the effort to evangelize this child of the forest. At any rate, this excellent clergyman had the delight of baptizing her under the name of Eebecca. In April of 1613 or 1614 he also married her to John Kolfe. Shortly she and her husband removed into the neighborhood of Henricopolis, where Rolfe had a plantation. They continued to be members of this parish until Pocahontas left Virginia. Whitaker sent a sermon of his to England, in which he had written ; "Though my promise of three yeeres' seruice to my countrey be expired, will abide in my vocation here untill I be lawfully called from hence." He added an earnest and loving exhortation to others to come over and help. He re- sisted the temptation to return to England in 1616 with his attached friend. Dale. But within a brief time he was in- deed "lawfully called" by Him whose providence is supreme. In the spring of 1617, this our first rector, the gentle, ear- nest Whitaker, known to history as the "Apostle of Virginia," was accidentally drowned in the James. A Mr. Wickham had served as an assistant to Mr. Whit- aker, apparently laboring at Henricopolis while Mr. Whit- aker gave most of his time to the larger and more prominent settlement of Bermuda. John Rolfe, when in England with his wife, Pocahontas, wrote to King James concerning the Virginia colony. He speaks of "Mr. William Wickham" as the "minister" at Hen- rico, and as one "who, in his life and doctrine, gave good ex- amples and godly instructions to the people." Some authorities describe him as "a pious man without Episcopal ordination." Certainly he could only have been in deacon's orders, for Governor Argall, successor to Dale, begs that a minister be sent to Henrico, as Mr. Whitaker was drowned, and Mr. Wickham was unable to administer the 8 History Henrico Parish, sacraments. A Rev. Mr. Stockham is by some spoken of as a successor to Messrs. Whitaker and Wickham. The Rev. Jonah Stockton did come to the colony in January, 1621. The clergyman whom these historians have in mind must have been he. If so, he must have followed Mr. Bargrave. By 1619 a successor to Mr. Whitaker had been found in the person of Rev. Thomas Bargrave. If any modern mission- ary finds it hard to make ends meet with a small salary poorly paid, he may find some cool philosophizing on the subject in the legislation of this early day. ^^It was enacted that each clergyman should receive from his parishioners 1,500 pounds of tobacco and 16 barrels of corn." But if the ^'levy should prove unequal in value to 200 pounds, the law proceeded to declare that ^the minister was to be content with less.' " It was under Mr. Bargrave's administration that the parish of Henrico was chosen to be the site of a great university. It was founded to supr>ly both the English and the natives with that education which is the handmaid of religion. Fif- teen thousand acres on the side of the settlement towards the falls were set apart as college lands by the Virginia Com- pany. Large subscriptions had been secured in England in response to an appeal of King James, through the Archbishop of Canterbury. Laborers were sent over to till the lands appropriated to the college. Young women of good charac- ter were persuaded to cross over to be their wives. The colonists themselves were enthusiastically interested. The rector, Mr. Bargrave, donated his library. George Thorpe, a devoted philanthropist and pious scholar, was superinten- dent of operations. Happy progress was being made in the establishment of the institution. The Rev. Mr. Copland, who had been appointed its president, and who was still in England, was requested to deliver a thanksgiving sermon in London, for all the late mercies of God to the colony and for the bright prospects before them. Suddenly, without the slightest warning, there burst upon the fair scene a storm cloud. Its thunderbolt shattered for- ever this pious project. The city of Henrico never recovered from the blow. For four years a conspiracy among the thirty Indian nations had been forming. On the 22d of March, c St. John's Church. 9 1622, it was ripe. That day Ilenricopolis shared the fate of thirty other settlements. The inhabitants that escaped fled to Jamestown. There the governor concentrated the relics of his colony. The fatal day was by the next Assembly solemn- ized as a holy day. The result of this terrible catastrophe was a great revul- sion of feeling on both sides of the water. Missionary effort with the Indians was considered a failure. Their conversion was deemed hopeless. A further severe blow was given to the cause of religion in these parts in the dissolution of the Virginia Company by the King in 1624. From this time on down to 1730 the annals of Henrico Parish are fragmentary and uncertain. The Rev. James Blair was the rector from 1685 to 1694. He was a determined and courageous Scotch- man, who had been educated at Edinburg University. While still rector of this parish, in 1689, he was appointed commis- sary of the Bishop of London, Dr. Compton, who ex-offlcio had ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the colonies. Mr. Blair efficiently occupied this position of great responsibility and trust till his death, fifty-four years afterward. He resigned the parish to become founder and first president of William and Mary College. He was also a member of the Colonial Council. He resided first at Jamestown, preaching there and at a church eight miles off in an adjacent parish. In 1710 he removed to Williamsburg and took charge of Bruton parish. After filling with honorable and distinguished suc- cess a most prominent and trying part in the ecclesiastical history of the colon v. he was laid to rest in the old graveyard at Jamestown August 8, 1743, at the ripe age of 88. The Rev. George Robinson is understood to have been in charge of Henrico parish in 1695. Nothing seems to be known of him besides that fact. In 1724 the clergy of the colony were called upon for a report by the Bishop of London. The name of the incumbent of Henrico Parish has been torn from the manuscript of his report.^ He mentions that he had been in the parish four- teen years. Its bounds were 18 bv 25 miles. It contained two churches and one chapel. There were 400 families and 1,100 tithable persons resi dent. The attendance at church *This was undoubtedly Rev. Jacob Ware. — J. S. M. 10 History Henrico Parish, sometimes numbered from one to two hundred. The number accustomed to commune at anj one time was about twenty. To the parents and teachers was left the catechizing of the children. The families were so distant that it was difficult to gather the children too-ether, and, like those of our day, when they grew to any bigness, they did not like to be pub- licly catechized. As for the servants, the masters did nothing for them except to let some of them, now and then, go to church. There was no public school for the youth. In 1730 we come to terra firma in our history. With October 28th of that year begins the record book of the Ves- try of Henrico Parish. It is a folio 7^ by 12^ inches, bound in vellum. It contains 191 manuscript pages, and covers the period extending to September 24, 1774. It was accidentally discovered by Mr. Peyton P. Carrington in August, 1867, among the old records of Henrico County Court. With the permission of the Presiding Justice, he delivered it to the then rector, Pev. Dr. Wm. JSTorwood. He placed it in the possession of the Vestry of St. John's Church. It was printed in 1874, with an interesting introduction and valu- able notes by Mr. P. A. Brock, Secretary of the Virginia His- torical Society. The minutes of ten meetings of the Vestry, from April 8, 1807, to December 16, 1817, both inclusive, were written on sixteen pages of foolscap "pnner. The manuscript was found in the third story of the house of Mrs. George M. Carrington, at the corner of Twenty-eighth and Pranklin streets, in 1867, by Mr. Peyton P. Carrington. Virginia vestries a century and a half ago were elected by the freeholders and housekeepers. Among the earliest mem- bers of the vestry in Henrico Parish were men whose names are intertwined with the whole of the social and political history of our Commonwealth. The income of the Parish was derived from tithes. For example, by the earliest resolution of our Vestry which has been preserved to us, it was "Ordered That Capte Joseph Poyal do receive according to Law of Every Tithable St. John's Church. 11 ^'P'son witliin this Parish thirty pounds of tobacco, being the parish Levy for this year, "and that he pay the Several Allowances before mentioned to the respective persons to whom '*'the Same are due." At that date tobacco was the medium of exchange. Its value may be estimated from the fact, that in 1739 the wardens were forbidden to sell at private sale the levied tobacco for less than 12s. 6d. per hundred. At that rate the rector's salary was 100 pounds sterling-, or about 500 dollars. In this connection it is interesting to recall the fact that Patrick Henry's genius as an orator first shone publicly in what was known as the "Parson's Cause," a case in which a minister of the Church of England brought suit for arrear- ages in salary: The Virginia Burgesses having decreed that, because of a failure of the crop, all debts payable in that com- modity might be met in money at the rate of two pence per pound; the King having decided against this act, because tobacco was rated at six pence a pound when the salary of 16,000 pounds of tobacco was made the legal compensation of the clergy. This first Vestry book is principally filled with the trans- actions belonging to that body, as a factor in the civil govern- ment, under the establishment of the Church of England. These were chiefly what was known as processioning the land — that is, going around the bounds of each person's land and renewing the landmarks by chopping the trees. There was also committed to the vestries of that day, and especially to the church wardens, the care of the poor. We have among the accounts entered in this vestry book such as these : — "To John Jones for keeping his Daughter, being a Pool — 300 (lbs. of tobacco). "To Doctor Hopper for Cuting off Cowsells arm — 500 (lbs. of tobacco). "Ord:- -X- * -X- -vf * 45- * "It is Ordered that the Church Wardens do give ISTotice and Set up Advertisements at all publick "places in this parish, that on the Second thursday in Octo- ber next, at Curls Church, will be "lield a vestry in order to let out the Building of the l^ew Church, at which Time the parish Levy will be Laid." I^ext appears the following record : "At a Vestry held for Henrico parish on the Twentieth day of Deer Anno 1789 "It is agreed that a Church be Built on the most Convenient Spot of Ground near ye "Spring on Eichardsons Koad, on the South Side of Bacons Branch, on the Land of "The Honourable William Byrd Esq. to be Sixty feet Long and Twenty-five broad "And fourteen feet pitched, to be finished in a plain manner after the "Moddle of Curls-Church. Richard Randolph Gen^ under- takes the Said Building and engages to finish the Same by the Tenth day of June, which Shall be in the year of our Lord "Seventeen hundred and forty-one; for which the Vestry agrees to pay him the "'Sum of three hundred and Seventeen pounds Ten Shillings Current Money to be "paid by the Ammount of the Sales of Twenty thousand pounds of Tob'o annually "to be Levyd on the parish and Sold here for Money till the whole payment be compleat." The contract price in United States figures was $1,536.70. An appropriation of 5,250 pounds gross tobacco had been made for this new enterprise out of the levy laid October 8, 1737. A levy of 20,000 pounds net tobacco had been laid October 11, 1739, for the new church. May 5, 1740, the vestry sold this last mentioned tobacco to Col. Richard Ran- <£ C St. John''s Church. 17 dolph at the rate of 10s. per hundred, current money. The onlj additional appropriation toward this object found on record was a levy of 20,000 pounds net tobacco, laid October 13, 1740. But still another change in situation was necessitated. "At a Vestry held for Henrico parish the 13 Day of October Anno Bom 1740. "Richard Randolph Gentleman, produses a Letter Directed to him from the Honbr^ 'William Byrd, Esquie, which is read as followeth — ^viz: ^Sir— October 12th, 1740. I should with great pleasure, oblige the Vestry, and partic- ularly your Self, in granting "them an Acre, to build their Church upon ; but there are so many roads already thro that "Land, that the Damage to me w^ould be too great to have another of a mile long cut "thro it. I should be very glad if you wou'd please to think Richmond a proper place, "and considering the gTeat number of people that live below it, and would pay their "Devotions there, that wou'd not care to go so much higher I can't but think it wou'd be "Agreeable to most of the people, and if they will agree to have it there, I will give them "two of the best Lots, that are not taken up, and besides give them any pine Timber they "can find on that side Shockhoe Creek, and Wood for burning of Bricks into the Bargain. "I hope the Gen'^ of the Vestrey will believe me a Friend to the Church, when I make "them this offer, and that I am both theirs — . Sir — and vour most Hum'l ser' : W. Byrd.' "Whereupon the Questian is put whither the said Church should be Built on the Hill caled Indian Town at Richmond, or at Thomas Williamsons plantation on the Brook Road, and is caryed by a Majority of Voices for the former. "It is thereupon Ordered that the Church formerly Agreed on to be Built by "Richard Randolph Gen : on the South side of Bacons Branch, 2 18 History Henrico Parish, be Built on Indian Town at Kicliniond, after the Same Man- ner as in the said Former Agreement was mentioned." The allotment had been made in April, 1737. The two lots which Mr. Byrd gave for the church constitute the Grace street half of the present church yard. The Record Book was destroyed by the British under Tarleton. The record of the deed to these two lots is said to have been of the date of March 5, 1743. There is no record of the completion^ or first use of this church. But by December 7, 1741, the Falls Chapel seems to have been abandoned; John Eals, its reader, and Eleanor Williams, its sexton, had been transferred to this church; and everything here was in full blast. The only thing left for us to suppose is that this church was completed at the date called for by the contract, June 10, 1741. Probably the erection of this church had rendered the Falls Chapel un- necessary. The lines of the church then erected are easily distinguish- able. The present transepts lie exactly with the points of the compass. They formed the eastern and western ends, respec- tively, of the orijyinal church. Imagine the northern sides of the two transepts connected. The old church would thus be enclosed. All the portion of the present church lying north of that imagined line, or, in other words, the present nave of the church, was a later addition. The ceiling in the old church was a foot and two-thirds below the present cornice. The chancel, according to the then prevailing ecclesiastical custom, was in the eastern end. The present pulpit, with its sounding board and the latter's panel, stood there. The pews, of course, all faced in that direction. In the western end was a gallery. It projected as far as the present angle of the transept and the nave. Beneath it, on the south side, was the robing room. On the opposite side of the aisle were the stairs to the gallery and a lumber closet. The gallery was lighted by two small windows. The present are the origi- nal pews, but they have been lowered. Formerly their backs reached to the windows. The hinges are handwrought, and fastened on by nails made in the same way. The wains- coting and the window sash are those first put in. Any one examining the exterior will easily recognize the original St. John's Chukch. 19 weather-boarding. It is thicker and wider than on the newer' part of the church, and fastened by nails wi'ought on the an- vil with heads half an inch broad. The officers of the church at this time were as follows : The Kev. William Stith, Minister. James Powell Cocke, Church Warden. James Cocke^ Church Warden. Richard Randolph, Vestryman. John Redford, Vestryman. Bowler Cocke, Vestryman. John Boiling, Vestr^'-man. Edward Curd, Vestryman. John Williamson, Vestryman. John Povall, Vestryman. Robert Mosby, Vestryman. William Fuller, Parish Collector and Vestryman. Peter Randolph, Vestryman. Sackville Brewer, Reader at Curies Church and Clerk of the Vestry.* John Eales, Reader at Richmond Church. John Ilobson, Sexton at Curies Church. Eleanor Williams, Sexton at Richmond Church. While in charge of Henrico Parish and living in its glebe house Mr. Stith wrote his History of Virginia. He pub- lished it in 1747. It went through the printing and book- binding establishment at Williamsburg, then the only one in the colony. Its exceptional exactness gave its author the reputation of being "the accurate Stith." In his introduction he suggests a picture, which is a rest- ful contrast to the busy life of the present clergy of this parish. He says that he wrote his history as "a noble and elegant entertainment for my vacant hours." December 3, 1751, the Rev. Mr. Stith resigned the parish to take effect the first day of the following October. The reason given is that he had been "Chosen Minister of S. Ann's." But in Au2:ust of 1752 he was elected President of Wil- *Richard Rockett was clerk of the Vestry from Nov. 13, 1749, to Dec. 8, 1752. "Rocketts" is said to have been so known from Sept. 27, 1731. 20 History Hei^rico Parish, liam and Mary College. He accepted that position, and died in it, three years later. The Kev. Rascow Cole declined the offer of the Parish. The Rev. Joseph Bewsher at first accepted the Vestry's unanimous election, but resigned be- fore the date set for his taking charge. This could not have been the well-known Jonathan Boucher, who was tutor to Washington's stepson (voung Custis) ; for Jonathan Boucher was only born in 1738, and ordained in .1762. Finally, August 25, 1752, the Rev. Miles Selden was unanimously elected minister. He accepted, to enter on his office the first day of the next October. He was the grandson of John Selden, the first settler of the name, who came to the ISTorthern Neck of Virginia about 1690.* He was the first cousin of the Rev. Wm. Selden, Rector of Elizabeth City Parish, m 1771. The arrangement with him was that he should per- form divine service at the Richmond Church once every five weeks. This Church had been called the "New Church," the "Upper Church," the "Richmond Church. Within a few years after its erection it was also spoken of as the "Town Church." How completely the tide had begun to ebb from the neighborhood of Curies is shown by the fact that in 1768 the Vestry recorded the opinion that Curies Church should be removed; and that a committee was appointed to choose a new location. But by 1770 ^t had been 'determined simply to repair the old buildmg The Wor- shipful Gentlemen of the Vestry" began to hold their sessions at "Richmond Town." The first meeting of the Vestry m Richmond of which we know occurred November 13 1749, when the Rev. Wm. Stith was present. That care for ap- pearances had been attended to which such a situation de- mands. Eleanor Williams, the sexton, was put to work making curtains. There must needs be imported from Eng- land as quickly as possible — "One Parsons Surplera Pulpit Cushen and Cloth, twoCloths for Beading Pesk? a Communion Table Cloth and a Dozen of Cushens- •His grandmother was Rebecca, daughter of Sir Jas Roe. tatter was Jos, SeMen. proprietor ol the -tat of B„cK Ro. L'COiVO, CI- -wwii^...^^" — . ^ . His L1?h^Ta\rthTS.y^Tmson"car;, ^m^^C.^ Co.Z: Va. He was ordained in London. St. John's Church. 21 ''to be of good Purple Cloth, and the Surples good Hollond, also a "large Bible and four large Prayer Books." The Church lot in 1746 had been fenced in with wood. In 1770 it was walled in with bricks four and one-half feet high above ground. The remains of this improvement may undoubtedly be seen in the present Grace street wall and in the lower portion of the Twenty-fifth street wall of the church yard. By December 8, 1772, it had become necessary to enlarge the church. It is of record under that date that, "It is the Opinion of the Vestry that "An Addition of Forty feet in "Length and of the same wedth as the "pres't Church at Bichmond is be "Built to it, at the North Side with "a Gallery on both Sides & one End "with proper windows above and below, "& Order'd that the Chwdns Lett to the "Lowest Bidder the Building the said "Addition." That improvement was the beginning of what constitutes the present nave. Probably the most valuable testimony as to what constituted the changes now made is that given by the Kev. Prof. Cornelius Walker, B'. D., of the Virginia Theo- logical Seminary. He became a Sunday school scholar and an attendant upon the services of St. John's in 1826, and con- tinued so until the time of the changes, in 1830. He de- scribes the building consistently with the action of the Vestry just quoted. The galleries were supported by light columns. He thinks there were two narrow aisles in this new nave, along the outer side of each of which ran the line of gallery columns. But I think the two aisles were introduced in 1830. The original gallery at the west end of the old church remained. Over it also continued the belfry, sustaining a bell. The chancel and pulpit were, of course, removed to the centre of the south side of the old church, so as to face the new nave. The panel of the sounding board stood up against the wall 22 History Henrico Parish between two windows. There was as yet no door at the east end of the old church. But on its south side and east of the new position of the chancel was a door with an aisle running across the old church from south to north, where naturally there would have been a space before the original chancel. There was, I understand from another source, one pew between this aisle and the eastern wall of the transept. This south door opened upon the walk leading up from near the corner of Grace and Twenty-fifth streets. According to Mr. P. R. Carrington, this door was not closed until 1857 or 1859. All the interior woodwork was unpainted, but so smoothly finished as to have the appearance of having been varnished. Mr. P. R. Carrington is of the opinion that the original communion rail, which extended across the whole eastern end of the old church, remained even after the pulpit had been removed, and that behind this rail the President of the Vir- ginia Convention of 1775 sat, when that body was in session within the building. Meanwhile the Vestry-book is witness to the fact that the glebe was also kept in good repair and enjoyed im- provements from time to time, l^or by any means was the whole of the spiritual energies of the parish concen- trated in the Richmond Church. Two other chapels had been erected, one at Deep Run, between 1742 and 1745,^^' and the other, somewhere before 1773, near Boar Swamp, on what is now the site of Antioch Baptist Church, about twelve miles from Richmond, in the direction of the ISTine Mile Road. Among the last entries in the oldest Vestry book is the fol- low^ing account of the obligations of the Parish : "At a vestry held at Richmond on Friday the l7th. Day of Decembr 1773 for laying the Parish Levy. "Henrico Parish. Dr. Lbs. Toh'o "To the RevcZ Mr. Selden his annual Sal- ary 17,150 £125. 1. "To Wm Street CU^. Deep Run Church. 1,789 13. 0.10 *By deed dated October 1, 1753, and recorded in Henrico County Deed Book 1750-1767, Bowler Cocl^e, Jr., and Samuel Duval, Church wardens, bought the acre of land on which this chapel was stand- ing from John Shoemaker. St. John's Church. 23 "To Ja's Sharp D'o at Curls 1,789 13'. 0.10 "To a Salary to ^'d to Clk. Eichm'^ Church "hereafter to be app'(i and to remain in "the Church Wardens hands *til such "appointment 1,789 13. 0.10 "To E'^ Trueman Clk Boar Swamp "Church 500 3.12.11 "To the Sexton of Curls Church 536 3.10. Y "To E^cZ Williams Sexton of the town "Church, and a power granted the Ch. 'Wardens to displace him if they think "fit * 536 3.10. 7 "To Jos. E. Freeman who is app^c? Sexton "of Deeprun Ch. in the room of Jos. Ellis 536 3.10. 7 "To Fort's Sjdnor Clk. Yestry. 500 3.12.16 "To Ch. Wardens for Ch. Elements 300 2. 3.9" It was while the hand of the Eev, Miles Selden was upon the helm that the fair ship whose course we are tracing en- tered the storm cloud of the Eevolutionary War. Thence forward it is lost to view, except for infrequent momentary glimpses, till 1785. All that we know of it are the following facts: Its rector, Mr. Selden, was the chaplain of the Vir- ginia Convention of 1775. That Convention met in this church March 20th of that year, under the presidency of Edmund Pendleton. This meeting of a political convention in a church was no unusual thing in those days. The first General Assembly, the earliest legislative body in America, had sat with their hats on, after the manner of the English Commons, in the church at Jamestown, July 30, 1619. A member left on record the reason. "The most convenient place we could find to sit in was the quire (sic) of the Church." At the session of the Virginia Convention referred to as having been held in St. John's Church, Patrick Henry flashed the electric spark, which exploded the colony in revolution. He stood, according to tradition, near the present corner of the east transept and the nave, or more exactly, as it is commonly stated, in pew 47, in the east 24 History Henkico Parish, aisle of the nave, the third one from the transept aisle. He, as we have already seen, faced the eastern wall of the transept, where were then two windows. In the more northern of these stood Col. Edward Carrington. He broke the silence that followed the orator's burning words with the exclamation : ^^Right here I wish to be buried.'' The situa- tion of his tomb bears Avitness to the fulfillment, bv his wife, of his request at his death, in 1810. At last, in 1781, when Richmond had fallen into the hands of Arnold, this sacred edifice was made a barracks for his British soldiery. It must have seemed then to pastor and people that the final word in their parochial history had been written. But Easter Monday, March 28, 1785, brings us to the beginning of a second Vestry book. It is a volume 6^x8 inches, bound in leather. It contains on 696 pages the min- utes to April 5, 1887. From 1785 the history of Henrico Parish will be almost en- tirely localized in Richmond. We must, therefore, take a brief glance at the situation. The town when captured by Arnold is said to have had some three hundred houses. At about this time, when the seat of government was removed hither, the inhabitants, with the exception of two or three families, were Scotch. Their small tenements were scattered here and there between the river and the Hill. Colonel, afterward Judge Marshall, observed that the little cottages looked ^'as if the poor Caledonians had brought them over on their backs, the weaker of whom were glad to stop at the bottom of the hill ; others a little stronger proceeded higher; while a few of the stoutest and boldest reached the summit, which, once accom- plished, affords a situation beautiful and picturesque." The first record in the second Vestry-book is of an election of twelve Vestrymen, holden on March 28, 1785, at the court- house, in the city of Richmond. Their names were : Edmund Randolph, John Ellis, Jaquelin Ambler, Turner Southall, Bowler Cocke, ISTathaniel Wilkinson, Miles Selden, Jr., Daniel L. Ilylton, William Eoushee, Thos. Pressor, Hobson Owen, " Wm. Burton. St. John''s Chukch. 25 On the following Thursday^ in this church, the majority suhscrihed the required promise of conformity and organized for duty. Edmund Randolph and Bowler Cocke were ap- pointed church wardens. They were instructed to recover the church plate and other property, and to open subscriptions for the repairs of the churches and the salaries of sextons. One of these, appointed at this meeting for Richmond, was a woman. It is evident that, besides the Richmond church, those at Curies and at Deep Run were still in existence. But there was no minister. On the 10th of the following May the Rev. John Buchanan was unanimously chosen by ballot incumbent for the Parish. I am unable to reconcile with this action the statement which is said to have been copied from the Virginia Gazette of 1785, that the Rev. Miles Selden died May 23, 1785, being min- ister of St. John's at the time of his death.* Some question afterward arose whether the election of a minister was war- ranted by the powers then vested in the vestry. So the ves- try, on June 7th, repeated the formality. His duties, with reference to services, were defined to be that he should preach every other Sunday in ^'Richmond Church," and on the in- tervening Sunday at Curies and Deep Run alternately. Dis- cretion was given him as to the place for celebrating the fes- tival days. On the loth of June, 1785, the first convention of the re- organized Diocese of Virginia was held in Richmond. Prob- ably the sessions for business were held in the capitol ; but by resolution the Convention attended divine service on Thurs- day, at 9 A. M., in this, at that time, ^'the Church in this city,'' and listened to an "excellent sermon" preached in this pulpit by the Rev. John Bracken. It was a correspondence between the Rev. David Griffith and the rector of Henrico parish that led to the resuscitation of the Church in Vir- ginia. Both Mr. Buchanan and the lay delegate of this par- ish, Edmund Randolph, took prominent parts in this Conven- tion. Mr. Randolph was afterward Governor of Virginia and Attorney-General and Secretary of State in Washington's Cabinet. *The Rev. John Buchanan may have been made Assistant Min- ister. 26 History Heneico Parish, Mr. Buchanan was elected treasurer of the Diocese. He faithfully and efficiently occupied that position for nearly thirty years, until increased age and consequent infirmities compelled him to decline reappointment. Mr. Eandolph was on a committee to prepare an address ^^to the members of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia, representing the condition of that Church, and exhorting them to unite in its support. '^ Its words have become famous in American Church his- tory : "Of what is the Church now possessed ? ISTothing but the glebes and your aifections." Mr. Eandolph also reported, in behalf of a committee, the resolution that declared the willingness of the Virginia Convention "to unite in a general ecclesiastical convention with the members of the Protestant Episcopal Church." June 28, 1785, the Vestry acted on the recommendation of the late Convention and appointed a com- mittee to prepare subscription papers for the expenses of con- secrating and maintaining a Bishop, one subscription paper to be circulated by each member of the Vestry. A sad picture is drawn for us in a statement prefixed, April 2, 1789, by the Vestry, to other subscription papers, which they subsequently circulated. The minister and other officers had been serving for several years with little or no compensation ; also they deeply deplore "the almost total de- cline of divine worship for some vears past, and the conse- quent depravation of the morals of every denomination amongst us." A letter of Mrs. Edward Carrington, to an English friend, dated 1792, and quoted by Bishop Meade, reveals still more of the spiritual darkness then prevailing : "This evil (the want of public worship) increases daily; nor have we left in our extensive State three churches that are decently supported. Our metropolis even would be left des- titute of this blessing but for the kind offices of our friend, Buchanan, whom you remember well, an inmate of our fam- ily. He, from sheer benevolence, continues to preach in our capitol to what we now call the 'New School — that is to say, to a set of modern philosophers who merely attend because they know not what else to do with themselves. But, blessed be God, in spite of the enlightened, as they call themselves; and in spite of Godwin, Paine, etc., we still, at times, par- St. John^s Chtjech. 27 ticularly on our great Church days, repair with a choice few to our oJd church on the hill (St. John's) and by contributing our mite endeavor to preserve the religion of our fathers. Delightful hours we sometimes pass there/' etc. Mr. Buchanan had come to Richmond from Lexington Parish, Amherst county, Va. He left there a salary of 10,000 pounds of tobacco. In all his ministry in this parish he received little beside the rent of the glebe and the per- quisites of the office. That little was mostly bestowed in charity upon others. He was a frugal bachelor, and for ten years eked out his scanty pittance here by tutoring in the family of one of his kindest vestrymen, Mr. Jaquelin Am- bler, for many years Treasurer of the Commonwealth. After- ward he was made comfortable by the inheritance of the property of his brother James, who had been a well-to-do merchant in this city. The Vestry, however, tried to fulfill its obligations to the rector. At its April meeting in 1789, it adopted a plan for securing a revenue, which it continued to follow for years. The city was divided into four wardships. Canvassers were appointed for each. As a result, on the 23d of May following they Avere able to pay Mr. Buchanan 20 pounds, the clerk and the sexton each two pounds eight shillings, and to appropriate a surplus of 3 pounds 14 shil- lings to repairs and other contingencies. The following De- cember Mr. Buchanan was paid sixty pounds for the preced- ing half year's services. But the other evil mentioned by the Vestry — viz: the de- cline in church attendance — was not so easily overcome. In 1790 this church had been practically abandoned. Even the triennial elections of the Vestry were appointed to be held at the Capitol, the day to be subject to the weather. It was opened for service only at the great festivals, Christmas, Easter and Whit Sunday, when the Lord's Supper was administered. Thenceforth for years the services of our Church were held in the Capitol on alternate Sundays with the Presbyterians. Mr. P. R. Carrington says that Mr. Thos. H. Drew, who removed to Richmond in 1800, told him that, from that date until about 1815, Dr. Buchanan held service at St. John's only three times each year, Easter, Whit Sunday and Christ- mas, when the Holy Communion was administered and con- 28 History Heisteico Parish, firmations were held. The congregation in its personnel was much the same every Sunday. Between the pastor of the Presbyterians, Kev. John D. Blair, and Mr. Buchanan, the most delightful fraternity existed. The spirit of Church unity engendered by this joint worship prompted the Vestry, in this same year, 1790, to extend permission to any regular minister of any denomination whatever, professing Chris- tianity, to use the country churches of the parish, when not used by the Kev. Mr. Buchanan or any other minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church. And in 1812 the custom of alternating services with the Presbyterians was transferred to this, the parish Church. A little glimpse into the musical features of the parochial history is now afforded us. July 24, 1790, the rector was requested "to contract with Mr. Purrington to conduct Psal- mody every Sunday for three months in the time of divine service, for which he was authorized to promise Mr. Pur- rington six shillings for each day's attendance, or being ready to attend." It appears that the rector had to advance and wait some time for a repayment of the chorister's salary. Already the question of a new organ had been prominent. February 15, 1791, the Vestry had in hand £34, the proceeds of a concert and the sale of an old organ. This amount they determined to appropriate for a new instrument. But prob- ably because the fund did not increase sufficiently for this purpose, the money was in 1794 loaned out to the minister. April 25, 1791, an inventory of property was taken. The glebe was reported to be worth about £1,000, and at the time was renting for £40 per annum. Its houses were out of re- pair. The personal property consisted of "one silver cup and salver." The older of the present patens and chalices bear the London Goldsmiths Co.'s mark of 1718. They are quite likely the communion vessels referred to in this inventory. In 1792 begins the lamentation which wails forth from many a modern Vestry book. Great difficulty was experienced in collecting money which had been subscribed or pledged for the support of the parish. But the Vestry of that day applied heroic measures. The balances due on subscriptions for 1791 were delivered to the town sergeant for collection. Where immediate payment could not be obtained, notes payable in St. John^s Chuech. 29 three months were requested. In 1793 it was declared that promissory notes were preferable to subscriptions. And in 1T94 it was determined that all arrearages up to the end of 1793 should be put into the hands of a collector, with instruc- tions to commence suit on every delinquent that would not make immediate payment. All previous troubles and perplexities, however, were only as the penumbra of the eclipse now at hand. There is no re- cord of a Vestry meeting between April 29, 1794, and May 12, 1812, except one held April 8, 1807. Indeed, the de- pressed condition of the whole Church in Virginia was so great between 1799 and 1812 that even the annual conventions were discontinued for several years. When the Vestry did meet in 1807 it was only to confess failure. For then was begun a movement looking to the purchase of ground and the erection of a church to accommodate the many members of the Protestant Episcopal Church who felt that it was no longer convenient to attend the services on Church Hill. Bishop Meade paints a distressing picture of the condition of the parish at this time. ^'My next Sabbath (that is, after his ordination at Williamsburg, February 24, 1811,) was spent in Richmond, where the condition of things was little better. Although there was a church in the older part of the town, it was never used but on Communion days. The place of wor- ship was an apartment in the Capitol, which held a few hun- dred persons at most ; and as the Presbyterians had no church at all in Richmond at that time, the use of the room was divided between them and the Episcopalians, each having service every other Sabbath morning, and no oftener. Even two years after this, being: in Richmond, on a Communion Sunday, I assisted the rector. Dr. Buchanan, in the old church, when only two gentlemen and a few ladies communed. One of these gentlemen, the elder son of Judge Marshall, was a resident in the upper county." In the fall of 1812 correspondence began with a view to securing an assistant minister for the parish. Meanwhile the rector was requested to obtain help when necessary for any of the churches in the parish. But in the providence of God an event occurred which solved many perplexing prob- lems, though apparently not at all for the advantage of this 30 History Henrico Parish, particular church. The terrible calamity of the destruction of the Richmond Theatre by fire, and the consequent holo- caust of prominent citizens and precious lives had led to the erection on the fatal spot of a memorial church. This, in 1814, was opened for worship under the name of the Monu- mental Church. The Vestry of Henrico Parish welcomed the new addition so soon as they learned it was to be Protestant Episcopal in character. Thus at once was met the desire for a new and more convenient church on the part of those who had located around the Capitol on Shockoe Hill. And shortly an assist- ant, whose need had been felt as early as 1812, was also thus secured. Bishop Madison had died in 1812. In 1814 Bishop Moore was elected Bishop of the Diocese. Dr. Bu- chanan himself received one vote for the office. Bishop Moore also accepted the rectorship of Monumental Church. Thereupon Monumental Vestry proposed to pay $200 per an- num to the Vestry of Henrico Parish towards an assistant minister for "the Richmond Hill Church," provided that, in the absence of the Bishop on Diocesan duties, that assistant should officiate once every Sabbath, alternately morning and evening, in the Monumental Church. The Vestry of Henrico Parish readily acquiesced and appropriated one thousand dol- lars per annum for three years as its share toward the assist- ant's salary. A unanimous ballot was cast for the Rev, David Moore, of ISTew York, the eldest son of the Bishop by his first marriage. And in the following November the right of suc- cession to the rectorship was given to Mr. Moore. Mr. Moore did not accept. The Rev. Wm. H. Hart, who had married a niece of Bishop Moore, laid before the Vestry testimonials as to "his good conduct for three years past,'' "as required by the 31st Canon of the Church of the IJnited States." May 1, 1815, he was elected assistant minister, with the right of succession to the rectorship. He is described as stout, weighing about ITO pounds, and being 5 feet 10 or 11 inches in height. And yet the erection of Monumental sealed for many long years the fate of that congregation, whose history we are espe- cially pursuing, to be weak and struggling. Monumental was spacious and handsome. In it was centered the melancholy and St. John^s Church. 31 curious interest attaching to the awful calamity, from whose ashes it had sprung. It had the prestige of having for its rector the learned, godly, courtly and eloquent Bishop of the Diocese. It was situated near the brow of that hill on which the Capitol was the nucleus for the gathering of wealth and fashion. The statistics of the parochial reports in the Con- vention Journals tell the inevitable result. In 1816 Monu- mental had 120 communicants; ^^the Church on Richmond Hill" about 30. Before Bishop Moore arrived. Dr. Bu- chanan had generally preached at Monumental on Sundays. After the Bishop took charge, the Doctor frequently read the service. One of his auditors has left on record the judg- ment: ^^He was, I think, the best reader I have ever heard." And even after an assistant of Henrico Parish had been se- cured, according to the proposition of Monumental Vestry, it would seem that Dr. Buchanan himself assumed the duty of ofRciating at Monumental when the Bishop was absent. Br. Buchanan had also been appointed, according to a plan then followed in the Diocese of Virginia, a sort of rural dean or presiding elder over the neighboring counties of Goochland and Louisa, as well as over Henrico itself. Even after the burden of years had weighed down Dr. Buchanan, Bishop Moore reports him as engaging every Sunday in ministerial duties without pay. ; The Bishop gratefully acknowledged his assistance at Mon- umental. While Dr. Buchanan thus devoted himself to Monumental and general church duties, his assistant, the Eev. Mr. Hart, was producing a revival of material pros- perity in the congregation worshipping on the other hill. In 1815 and 1816 $988.32 had been spent on repairs to the church, which even then was beginning to be called "old." In 1816 Mr. Hart had been authorized to treat for and pur- chase an organ from a 'New York builder at a cost of $1,100. In 1818 the size of the church was deemed inadequate to the accommodation of all its members. It was determined to build a new, spacious and handsome brick edifice. The site chosen, according to the testimonv of living citizens, was the northeast corner of Broad and Twenty-third streets. It is a matter of record, according to Mr. Chas. P. Bady, historian of "Richmond Randolph" Lodge of the Masonic Fraternity, 32 History Heintrico Parish, that on June 24, 1818, a procession marclied from its hall to ^Hhe old church on Richmond HilF' ; that there an appro- priate address was delivered by the Rev. Wm. Henry Hart; and that after the discourse the lodges present proceeded to the site chosen and laid the corner-stone of the new church amidst a large concourse of citizens. In 1819 the annual parochial report to the Bishop at the Convention noted that the new church had been begun, and was nearing completion. The Sunday school was reported to be flourishing. And the number of communicants had at- tained what proved to be high-water mark for years. The truth of the matter is the times were inflated; there was a '^boom." Dr. AValker says that speculators insisted thiat Richmond would rival ISTew York. Various additions to the manufacturing establishments of the city were located on and near Church Hill. And according to Dr. Walker, the bald scars on its sides tell the tale of uncompleted improvements. But before the year 1820 had reached its noon a terrible financial reaction had thrown the congregation back into weakness and despair. Already in 1817 there was evidence that the organ and other purchases had overstrained the con- gregation. The organ had cost $1,420.86. Only $978 had been paid. The balance was still due, even in June, 1825. Special means were taken to raise money. In 1819 there was in financial circles what we call to-day a "panic." So that to the Convention of 1820 the minister in charge reported that the congregation had almost been crushed by the pressure of the times. We hear no more of the proposed new and elegant church at the corner of Broad and Twenty-third streets. But D'r. Walker says its skeleton was not taken down until 1828 or 1829. As he remembers it, it had the appearance of a large, square building of fine red brick, with projections, making it almost hexagonal, a shape probably suggested by the Monu- mental Church, of which, I dare say, it was to be a rival. Its four sided roof rose to a point. There were to be three galleries. The structure was more than half finished when the work was abandoned. But the depression did not last long. The improvement that set in showed that the chastening had had its divinely St. John^s Chukch. 33 intended effect. Thenceforth the growth of the church was rather spiritual than material. At this period the church yard began to receive attention. In 1799 the municipal authorities had purchased from John Adams and from Kichard Adams, Jr., the latter being the executor of Thos. B. Adams, the two lots lying between the church's property and Broad street, and had enclosed the whole square with a brick wall at the city's expense. At the same time the church yard was open as a burying ground for the city at large. An arrangement was subsequently entered into by the Vestry and the city fathers by which the church resigned the management of the burying ground in return for the city's bearing the expenses of the church yard. We are indebted to Mr. P. R. Carrington for a resume of the city's action at this time with reference to the burying ground. July 18, 1814, an abortive effort was made at a meeting of the "City Hall" to provide an ordinance for "regulating the mode of interment in the burying ground belonging to the Corporation adjoining the Episcopal Church on Richmond. Hill." But on the 19th of June, 1815, in "an ordinance for regulating the public burying grounds of this city," it was stated that "an arrangement had been entered into by the City Hall and the Vestry of the Parish of Henrico, by which all the grounds appropriated to the interment of the dead, which belonged to said Parish and situated on Richmond Hill, had been enclosed by one common wall with the lands which be- longed to the corporation adjoining thereto, and that it w^as well understood that the Common Hall should at all times have power to establish such reanlations as they might think most proper for the government of the same, and should moreover incur and defray all necessary expenses attending the erection of gates and steps and keeping the brick wall in good repair." It was ordained that the Church Wardens should have authority to appoint the sexton or keeper, and to remove him as well as to have authority over him during his term of office. 'No respect of religious denomination was to be allowed in interments ; and the fee was fixed. The Wardens were to draw on the Chamberlain of the City for an amount not exceeding $50 per annum for repairing the wall, gates 3 34 History Henrico Parish, and steps to grounds. 'No subsequent changes were made for some time, save as to fees. But the whole arrangement was evidently merely a formal one for years; for in 1828 the Vestry gave the rector charge of the graveyard and author- ized him. to pay the sexton for care of the church out of the receipts from grave digging. And we are told by Mr. P. R, Carrington that the first "keeper'' was appointed May 18, 1863, by City Council. Twenty years had now elapsed since the city's addition to the church yard in 1799. It must be remembered that this was the only public cemetery in the city until the opening of that known as Shockoe Cemetery, in 1826. The whole square had now been filled with graves. The Vestry protested against further interments therein. In ITovember, 1820, they appointed a committee to obtain a burying ground else- where, and to secure subscriptions from the citizens generally to that object. The committee reported in May of the follow- ing year that it had been unable to secure a convenient site for the location of the proposed new burying ground on ac- count of the high price charged for land. October 9, 1821, the Vestry requested the Wardens, "hereafter to prohibit the sexton from digging any graves in the old part of the burying ground without written permission from one of them." One who has carefully examined the records, reports that at this Vestry meeting, October 9, 1821, the first mention of the parsonage is made in the minutes. The plan of renting pews had been agreed upon in 1812. Only one-half of the whole number were at first offered for rent, and that only for one year. They were disposed of at public auction. Later the period was increased to three years, and the number of pews offered for rent was made two- thirds instead of one-half. The wardens reported that "the measure of renting the pews appeared very pleasing to a great portion of our parishioners." By 1816 the pew renting system had been so thoroughly engrafted on the congregation that in that year the Vestry was elected by the pew renters. In 1820, however, through the inadequacy of receipts to meet current expenses, the custom of weekly collections for volun- tary contributions was added. This feature does not seem to have met with favor. For after seven months of trial the collections were confined to the first Sunday in the month. St. Johns's Church. 35- And now once more tlie question of a new church was agi- tated. A Mr. Day, of Maryland, had made certain propo- sitions respecting the bnilding of a new church on the site of the old one. July 1, 1822, a committee of two was appointed to act thereupon and report to the next meeting of the Vestry. But the project seems to have been "pigeon-holed" by the committee. December 19, 1822, the Parish was afflicted in the death of its rector, the Kev. John Buchanan, D. D. (William and Mary, 1794). The whole community mourned his departure. He was buried beneath the chancel, to the right of the com- munion table. Among the obituaries which appeared at the time in the secular press of Kichmond, were such tributes as these: "He was faithful to the duties of a minister and a man." "One who left few equals and no superior ; one whose loss is literally irreparable." "So good, so humane, and so benevolent a man. Always haprsv, always cheerful, always loving and beloved. He was the very soul of his com- panions." Mrs. Lydia H. Hart (wife of the Eev. Wm. H. Hart, his^ assistant and successor), on December 28, 1822, wrote: "Along the church-way path I saw him borne ; * * 4^ * * * * Beneath the altar had the grave been made ; And there with solemn awe and reverence due. His dear remains were laid." Eight days after Dr. Buchanan's death Mr. Hart, in ful- filment of the arrangement made at his appointment to the assistantship, was requested to assume the rectorship. One of the first achievements of his rectorate was to save the glebe to the parish. It will be remembered that this property was situated on the north side of the James river, next to the Varina estate. There is no evidence that it had been pur- chased by a levy of the Vestry on the people. On the con- trary, there is every probability that it was a gift to the parish by the London Company, and that it was secured to the parish by an old patent. Mr. P. K. Carrington states that the patent was from Sir William Berkeley, Governor, and was dated April 16, 1666. 36 HiSTOKY Henrico Parish, The boundaries given are 198 acres, three roods, 16 poles. The entry in the patent book in the Virginia Land Office is under date October 9, 1672. In 1817 the Vestry had protested against its confiscation, on the ground partly that it had been in all probability a private donation to the parish, and partly that the incumbent was still living. As soon as Dr. Buchanan was dead, the overseers of the poor pounced upon the glebe again and of- fered it for sale. But Mr. Hart obtained, in 1826, a decree in chancery in favor of this Church against all claims of the overseers of the poor. A purchaser for the glebe was found by the Vestry. But meanwhile the overseers had taken an appeal. The intending purchaser naturally declined closing the bargain until a final decision was obtained. The Vestry asked the overseers to unite with them in a petition for an immediate decision of the case. Under the succeeding rector an effort was made by the Vestry through him to lease the lands. But the record of this action, taken March 26, 1829, is the last entry on the Vestry book in reference to this matter. Bishop Meade says : "I am privately informed that the Vestry withdrew their claim or did not prosecute it, rather than involve the Church in what might prove a long and bitter controversy with the overseers of the poor, representing the citizens of Henrico, although well persuaded that the Chancellor was right in his decision." "In ceasing to contend for their rights, the Vestrymen of Henrico only did what other Vestrymen have done, prefer- ring rather to suffer loss than promote strife, and thereby injure the cause of religion." rortunately the Church was not left without a rectory. The rectors ever since the last decade of the previous century had been living in a parsonage situated on the east side of Twenty-fourth street, between Broad and Marshall. The south line of the lot began at a point 110 feet north of Broad street. The lot was 55 feet wide and 120 feet deep. It had been given for the use of the minister by Col. Eichard Adams. October 9, 1821, trustees had been appointed to receive from his executor and legatees a deed of conveyance of this par- sonage house. But a deed to it was not secured until March St. Johns's Church. S7 3, 18 Yl. Then Mr. P. E. Carrington (administrator of the estate of Kichard Adams, Sr.) made one to the trustees of St. John's Church. It was duly recorded. Mr. Hart also was successful in developing the Sunday- school to a high degree of prosperity. Among the 19 in his confirmation class of 1827 were 5 of his 22 Sunday school teachers and 6 of the 190 scholars. The rector enthu- siastically testifies to the ha"nr>v influence of the Sunday school upon the whole Church. The fact that he kept a day school for boys during part of his ministry may account for his success in Sunday school work, notwithstanding his reputa- tion for using the rod freely. That year, through the exer- tions of the Sunday school teachers, aided by the congrega- tion, the interior of the Church was painted and otherwise much improved. Some of the teachers and young men of the congregation personally engaged in the manual labor. Bishop Moore, in his Convention address, declared it to be ^'second in its internal appearance to very few of the churches in this Diocese." The Bishop said he had preached there to a very large congregation, and mentions the present pros- perous state of the Church. July 13, 1828, Mr. Hart intimated his determination to resign his charge in consequence of an intended removal to New York. To Mr. Hart we owe the keeping of a parish register, from September 17, 1815, when he administered a baptism. The original was sent anonymously to the Rev. L. W. Burton, when rector. Back of that there are no official records. But Mr. P. R. Carrington has copied into the Parish Register, that in use in 1891, the original returns in the Henrico county records, from July 2, 1785, to May 28, 1791, both inclusive, and the notices which appeared in the Richmond Enquirer from April 4, 1808, to March 11, 1817, the latter date being that of the marriage of General Win- field Scott. The Rev. Wm. F. Lee was unanimously elected Mr. Hart's successor. He was to receive for his salary the entire income from the rent of pews. According to Bishop Meade's descrip- tion, he was light as a feather, but possessed of a strong mind and will, and lived under the pressure of a heart and soul devoted to the love of God and man. Although physically 38 History Henrico Parish, unequal to the itinerancy, tie had revived the foundations of the Church in Goochland, Powhatan, Amelia and Chester- field, and had seen them supplied by ministers. His minis- try in Kichmond began in September, 1828. To Mr. Lee we probably owe the name ^^St. John's Church." This build- ing had had, as we have seen, many names: ^'The 'New Church," "The Upper Church," "The Kichmond Church," "The Town Church," "The Church on Kichmond Hill," "The Kichmond Hill Church," "Henrico Church on Kichmond Hill," "The Church," "The Old Church," etc. There is no record of action agreeing upon the^name "St. John's." But in the Vestry book shortly after Mr. Lee's advent it was written for the first time without comment : "At a meeting of the Vestry of Henrico Parish, at the lecture room of St. John's Church, Kichmond, Saturday evening, April 25, 1829," etc. And in the Convention Journal for that same year this Church is entered in the parochial reports as "St. John's Church, Kichmond, Henrico Parish." A little later we come to another change in titles. The Vestry continued until 1850 to record its minutes as those of Henrico Parish. But May 7, 1833, the wardens make a re- port, in which they style themselves "The Wr.rdens of St. John's Church, Henrico Parish." It was, however, in 1840 that the rector of this Church was spoken of, no longer as rector of Henrico Parish, but as rector of St. John's Church. Mr. Lee's ministry was full of promise from the start. He reported to the Convention of 1829 that his weekly lectures were generally crowded. The Sunday school flourished. A library of nearly 200 volumes had been added to it. No longer was the gallery at the west end of the old church suffi- cient for the sessions of the school in winter, nor the other galleries in summer. A portion of the school overflowed into the pews below. And Dr. Walker also says that the Lenten services, especially those of Passion Week, were more largely attended. A missionary society, auxiliary to the Domestic and Foreign Society of the General Church, had been organ- ized. The members of it had engaged with zeal and spirit in the cause of missions. It was during his ministry that night services were begun, apparently for the first time in the history of the parish ; for, according to Dl\ Walker, there had St. John''s Chuech. 39 been previously no lamps. He says that evening lectures had been introduced at the Rectory soon after 1826. But now, according to the same eye witness, a few lamps were placed at the pulpit and at one or two other important points ; and sperm candles, in little tin sticks, were attached by nails to the gallery columns and elsewhere. ^Neither before this time had there been a vestry-room, for Parson Hart, so Dr. Walker reports to us, wore only the black govm and robed and unrobed in the parsonage. But as the use of the surplice, in Dr. Walker's opinion, was introduced by Mr. Lee, so also in his judgment was the robing room placed under the gallery in the west end of the original church during the same min- istry. It was at best only ten feet square, and made by a slight partition. But the question of a new church in another location, which had been agitated ever since 1807, now loomed up again. This time determined and energetic spirits backed up the enterprise, and they were led by the rector. Their pro- ject was to go doAvn into the Valley below the hill and either build a new edifice or buy the Presbyterian church, that in 1825 had been erected on the south side of Grace street be- tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth, and that was known, from the peculiar shape of the ornament on the apex of its spire, as ^'The Pine Apple Church." A church quarrel was the result. Bishop Moore mediated as arbitrator. He says in a letter, entered on the minutes December 31, 1829, that to his knowledge the expediency of building a church below Richmond Hill had been the subject of consideration for several years past, and before the Rev. Mr. Lee was appointed rector. The Bishop furthermore de- clares that the course of conduct pursued by the rector, war- dens and a part of the Vestry, as proved before him, did not show that they, or any of them, used unfair means to effect that object, or that they knew, if such be the fact, that such a measure was against the wishes of a majority of the con- gregation. "But," said the Bishop also, "I am equally well satisfied that the building of a new church at this time is highly inexpedient and unadvisable, owing to the present divided state of the congregation." The issue of the controversy was that December 31st of 40 History Henrico Parish, 1829 the rector resigned ; his followers purchased the "Pine Apple Church" ; and they and he established there the congre- gation now known as Christ Church. A strenuous effort was systematically made to prevent the admission of Christ Church into union with the Convention, But its application was granted by a vote of 56 to 2. It is a happy thing that the Mother Church and this one of her oldest daughters, though they parted on hard terms, are now the warmest and most helpful of neighbors. After Mr. Lee's failing health had compelled him to resign Christ's Church, he founded the Southern Churchman, and continued to edit it even on his death bed. He was a great helper to Bishop Moore, and won many friends besides the Bishop by his amiable qualities and zealous piety. It is to be noted in passing that there were at the time of this dissension 46 pews in St. John's Church. This would not have been possible, unless there had been some previous addition to the Church where the present nave now stands. A band of devoted adherents was left at St. John's. Though few in number, they were indomitable in pluck and strong in influence. They requested the Bishop to officiate or to secure a supply of the pulpit during the vacancy. They deter- mined at once to alter and repair the church. It was in all probability at this time that the nave was increased to its present size of 45 feet width and 39 feet depth. Two aisles were also introduced instead of the former central one. The galleries on each side of the nave were removed, and only the one in the rear of the nave, for the organ and choir, and that at the west of the original church, for the colored people, were retained. Instead of the single entrance in the centre, two front doors were introduced. The belfry over the west end of the original building came down, to be replaced, in the first half of the decade of 1830, by a tower and bell. Mr. P. K. Carrington finds in the proceedings of the "Fe- male Charitable Association of St. John's," pp. 37 and 38, at a meeting held July 8, 1830, the following minute: "Re- solved, That the sum of $100 of the funds of the Society be appropriated to the purchase of a bell for St. John's Church, Henrico Parish, and that the treasurer be authorized to pay the same so soon as the bell is purchased." St. John^s Ciiukch. 41 It is possible that the former bell is now over the public school building in Martinsville, Henry county, Va. It was purchased of a Eichmond firm in 1831, by a citizen of that town, and presented by him to the authorities for the present purpose. The tradition is that, when sold, it was represented as having hung in St. John's tower, in Kichmond, and as hav- ing been discarded because of a crack. It is described as a small cracked bell, its tone thereby affected, evidently of last century work, of sunerior metal, and bearing some evidence of artistic embellishment. The grounds also at this time received attention. Dr. Walker describes their previous condition as one indicating utter neglect. The old-fashioned flowers were well-nigh hid- den beneath underbrush. Young trees, chiefly peaches and cherries of the large Blackheart variety, flourished in a sort of wild abandon. Except in the walks from the main gates, tall grass and periwinkles abounded. The grave stones of whole families had disappeared, and the removal of remains to other cemeteries had begun. Apropos of interments. Dr. Walker notes that the funeral processions seldom entered Broad street gate, as is now the case, because the street itself was short and the gate smaller than at present ; and there was no broad path to it. This was also the case with the gate near the Brick School-House. Hence these two gates were not always open. But the gates at the corner of Grace and Twenty-fifth streets, and on Twen- ty-fourth street, were the chief ones, and always open on pub- lic occasions. Broad paths led from them ; and by the former the funeral processions were accustomed to enter. The Twenty-fourth street gate had been opened by friends of the Church for the sake of greater convenience, at their own ex- pense, according to permission of the Vestry granted July 3, 1820. It seems to have been as late as 1882 when the Cemetery Committee of the City Council, at the instance of the Vestry, opened the present brick walk from the Twenty-fourth street gate to the Church, thence entirely around the Church, and also down to the Brick School-House. The Rev. Edward W. Peet, of Hampstead, King George county, was called to the rectorate of St. John's February 24, 42 History Henrico Parish, 1830. His salary was to be $750 a year, if the pew rents would yield that amount; and he was also to have the par- sonage. In February Bishop Moore instituted him into the rectorship of St. John's. This is one of the three institu- tions which have occurred in this Diocese up to 1891. It may be accepted as a sign of Quick reconciliation, such as be- comes estranged Christians, that the sermon, at this institu- tion of his successor, was preached by the Eev. Mr. Lee, rector of Christ's Church. In 1830 Mr. Peet reported 24 communicants at the Easter Communion. In 1831 he re- ported five accessions to the communion. JBut Christ Church by that time had 43 communicants. Mr. Peet was hindered in his work. He was compelled to be absent twenty-one Sun- days through sickness and other causes. That the people of St. John's in their opposition to the formation of Christ Church had no idea of blocking all progress in the parish is evident. The Vestry instructed the representatives of the parish to use their exertions and influence to secure for Monumental that independent union with the Convention which that congregation desired. The lay deputy from Henrico became himself the patron of the memorial sent by Monumental congregation to the Convention. August 2, 1831, a petition was received ask- ing the sanction of the Vestry to the establishment of a new Episcopal Church within the Parish of Henrico, to be located in a convenient situation on Shockoe Hill. Unan- imous consent was given by the rector and vestry. In ex- pressing it they said that they regarded with pleasure the prospect of promoting the welfare of the Episcopal Church within the parish, and did cheerfully assent, provided the church be located west of the Capitol. To the Council of 1832 St. John's reported 30 communi- cants. Christ Church reported 60, and Monumental 172. July 25, 1833, the Eev. E. W. Peet resigned. Kev. Kobt. B. Croes, on the 31st of August, accepted the election of the Vestry. They offered him a salary of $750 per annum, pay- able semi-annually, and a house. In the spring of 1833 the ladies had held a fair. By it they accomplished what would be considered a remarkably fine result now-a-days : they raised more than $900. Eight hundred dollars were applied toward St. John^s Church. 43 the erection of a tower ; $100 toward the purchase of a bell. This tower was in the shape of a cupola or belfry, open so that the bell was exposed. It was also under Mr. Croes' minis- try, in 1835, that the brick building in the southwest part of the church yard, now commonly known as the Brick School- house or the Brick Chapel, was erected for the Sunday school and for a week-day school. Its size was 37 feet by 25 feet. Its cost was $750. "As to spiritual things,'' says Mr. Croes, however, "the officiating minister has thus far met with very little to encourage his heart." Mr. Croes had previously been assistant to Bishop Moore at the Monumental, from 1825 to 1830. In this connection he was highly spoken of by the Bt. Bev. Bector. His min- istry at St. John's was terminated January 21, 1836. On the next day the Bev. Wm. H. Hart was recalled from 'New York to his former position as rector of St. John's on a salary of $800 and the parsonage. Mr. Hart seems to have taught school in Bichmond during this as also during his previous rectorship. The next year "the Yestry of Henrico Barish," as it still styled itself, joined that of Bruton Barish, and probably others throughout the Diocese, in a rebellion against the Con- vention. They refused to send a delegate, because the dele- gates were required by the amended constitution to be com- municants. It was asserted by Bruton Yestry that nine- tenths of the church members were not communicants. In the fall of 1837 St. James' Church was organized. In 1839 it was admitted into union with the Convention, and the building consecrated. In the latter year there were more than 100 adults belonging to St. James' congregation, and between 30 and 40 communicants. The membership was composed largely of those who had been attending the Monu- mental. But the movement indicates the increase in the number of Episcopalians in Bichmond, and the fact that they were settling westward of the centre of the city. In 1842 the communicants of St. John's numbered 31. The Sunday school had 72 scholars and 12 teachers. There is a still more certain manifestation of the low ebb to which affairs had run. At the meeting of the Yestry at which Mr. Hart's resignation was accepted, an organist was elected to 44 History Henrico Parish, serve till E'ovember 1, 18-12, when Mr. Hart was to leave, "and (to serve) afterwards, if the church is kept up." Par- son Hart died July 28, 1852. But the great lesson taught by St. John's history is that workers for Christ must have such faith in their Master that they will never be discour- aged. Knowing that their labor is never in vain in the Lord, they must be "steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord." We must leave Him to decide when the "due season" for reaping shall have arrived. Meanwhile we must faint not, neither be weary in well doing. "Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them." In its 150 years of history there is record of frequent occasions when its candle almost sputtered out and of times when even its own rector advised that the candlestick be re- moved from its place. But now St. John's is one of the strongest and most fruitful congregations in Virginia. To every sister church now struggling against many odds, and especially to those country churches whose most able and faithful supporters are moving away, St. John's message is : Be true to the loving command of Christ, written in Revela- tion 2 : 25 : "Tenete donee veniam" ("Hold fast till I come"). The middle of our century marks a favorable turning point in our history. After consultation with the clergy of the city, a committee of the Vestry exercised the powers given it and appointed the Rev. J. H. Morrison, of Buckingham, the rector. His rectorship lasted from January 26, 1843, till May 15, 1848. His ministry seems to have been blessed with a substantial increase to the vineyard, both as to spiritual and as to material interests. In 1845 he reported to the Conven- tion, as the fruits of his two and one-third years' ministry, a growth from 31 to 51 communicants, and an addition of some eight families. The whole number of families was now about 31. Pive himdred and forty dollars had been spent in re- pairing and improving the church edifice. The school-house had been leased, and the proceeds applied to the support of the Sunday school. The object of the lessee was probably to use the building for a day school. In 1848, when Mr. Mor- rison resigned, the communicants numbered 64, of whom one was colored. This was a number more than double that re- i St. JoHN^s Chuech. 45 ported at the time of his call to the parish. The correspon- dence between him and the Vestry in connection with his re- signation indicates perfect harmony, and evinces mutual re- gret at severing pastoral relations. The Vestry willingly bore testimony to the ability, zeal and faithfulness with which he had discharged his duties. Meanwhile important changes had taken place in the parish at large. St. Paul's Church had come into being. Its cor- ner-stone was laid October 10, 1844, and it was consecrated November 11, 1846. The bulk of the congregation of Monu- mental, with its rector, Rev. Dr. Wm. ISTorwood, migrated to it in December of 1845. Their motive was to secure a larger edifice. But the portion of the former congregation remain- ing at Monumental invited the congregation of Christ Church to unite with it in Monumental, under the rector of Christ Church, the Rev. Geo. Woodbridge. A few of the former Christ Church people joined St. John's. This was a practical abandonment of Christ Church. April 16, 1846, St. Luke's Church had also been consecrated on the site of the present Clay Street M. E. Church. It was a building of small dimensions. With lot and fence its cost was about $2,850. It was intended to be a missionary sta- tion of the Rev. Dr. Bolton. St. Mark's now occupies the field first opened by St. Luke's. The Rev. Henry, S. Kepler followed Mr. Morrison, and entered upon his duties about October 10, 1848. In 1850 he reported communicants — ^white, 52 ; colored, 1. ]^umber of families, 50, embracing 185 individuals. One hundred and fifteen of these were adults. In the Sunday school were 12 teachers^ 4 of whom were male, and 76 scholars, the average attendance of whom was 65. In 1851, Mr. Kepler reported contributions to different institutions amounting to $750. A new bell, 3 feet 2|- inches in diameter, cast by Francis Me- neely, in West Troy, in 1850, had been put in, the old one having been broken in the course of long usage. Extensive repairs were in progress, which, by the next Convention, he was able to report completed and paid for. In 1854 he re- ported a new furnace put in and paid for. May 2, 1855, a committee of the vestry was appointed "to apply to the Com- mon Council of the city of Richmond" "for the protection and 46 History Heneico Parish, preservation of the burying ground attached to our Church." Their letter of May 5th calls "attention to the neglected con- dition of the old churchyard on Church Hill/' and asks them to "adopt such prompt measures as to (them) may seem ad- visable to cause its ruins to be repaired." It refers to an ordinance passed some three years before, directing "that the grounds should be laid out in walks, beautified with trees and other shrubbery, and that a new wall, which the grading of the street rendered necessary, should be erected on Twenty- fourth street." Twenty-fifth street it must be, but the re- cords say "Twenty-fourth." But the whole of the appropria- tion then made had been absorbed in the wall. The result is thus described in the committee's letter : "The lapse of three more years of neglect has but increased the desolations which overspread this ancient city of the dead. There is, perhaps, no spot within our Commonwealth around which there linger prouder and holier memories than this. Here the infancjr of our great and prosperous country was rocked by our noble sires ; and here, too, sleep the remains of some of our earliest and most worthy citizens." "To neglect such a spot is to forfeit our claim as the wor- thy descendants of such sires, and to proclaim our shame to the hundreds of our citizens from other States who annually visit it as a spot made sacred to them in the story of our struggles for national independence." ******** "From this scene of ruin, what impression of us must they carry with them to their distant homes ? Will you not adopt some prompt and effectual measures to remove this reproach from the honor of our city ?" It was probably owing to this stirring statement and urgent appeal that^ February 21, 1858, the City Council gave to one of its committees exclusive authority to give consent to inter- ments in "this square," and that, on October 24, 1859, it was- fixed that the appointment of the committee should be an- nually in December. By an ordinance approved on the 23d of March, 1886, a result was produced that went far beyond the best that the petitioners of 1855 could have dreamed of. Two hundred dollars were appropriated for expenses and $400 for the pay-roll. It was provided that the committee St. John''s Church. 47 should consist of three members of the Common Council and two of the Board of Aldermen, appointed by the presidents, respectively. ^'The committee shall cause to be kept in order the whole of said enclosure, with gates and steps for passing through it, and everything within the enclosure and outside of the church.'' ^^I^othing in this section shall be construed to authorize the committee to prevent or interfere with the use of the church by the congi-egation thereof." JSTo interments were to be made without the consent of the committee. It may be noted here that there was only one interment in 1891, and only twenty up to and including that year since ISTovember 1, 1869. The present appearance of the grounds is such as to make the square the most beautiful in Eichmond, and to rival any churchyard the country over. For this condition, so delight- ful to members of the congregation and to our citizens gen- erally, and so highly approved by visitors, the chief praise is due to the faithful, efficient and courteous sexton and keeper, Mr. Antoni Graffigna. In 1856 the tide of spiritual prosperity was high. That year the rector reported 77 communicants. Two new Sun- day schools had been established ; one an infant school of 20 scholars, the other a colored school, in which from 60 to 65 were taught orally by the rector. The old school had been much increased, and now numbered 17 officers and 102 scholars. But in 1858 had set in again that fatal reaction which is so often painfully noticeable in church work, as in all other enterprises. The communicants had dropped to 69 ; the two new schools had been abandoned or merged into the old one; that old one had decreased to 70 scholars and 14 teachers. The only residuum of the fine Sunday school en- thusiasm of two years before was $600 on hand for a new Sunday school building. And now this project was aban- doned. In lieu of it, on motion of the rector, it was unani- mously determined to build a new church, if subscriptions sufficient for that purpose could be obtained. By May 5, 1859, probably owing to a depression in the church's financial affairs, it had been determined only to make an extension of the church. Even that proposition fell short of execution, in 48 History Henrico Parish, all likelihood through the resignation, on the 16th of the fol- lowing June, 1859, of Mr. Kepler, to become Evangelist of the Diocese. He and his people parted on excellent terms, with reciprocal regards and good wishes. It may have been at this time, or at least at some time be- tween 1857 and 1860, that the east transept door was cut through, the two east windows closed, the door at the south- east corner of the old part of the church closed, and the former aisle to it filled with a pew or pews. The Vestry still felt sufficiently strong to o'ffer a salary of $1,200 per annum. October 2, 1859, the Kev. John T. Points accepted their call, his ministry to begin from ITovem- ber 1st following. He had been a missionary to China. Then he had labored in 'New Kent, building in the northern part of the county what used to be St. James' Church. St. John's enjoyed during his brief pastorate a delightful revival of all its best interests. Everything was again fanned up to splendid zeal. Twenty were confirmed in 1859 and 1860. There was an additional net gain of ten ; the total number of communicants v^as 110. The Sunday school numbered 18 teachers, 138 scholars. He died June 10, 1860, in his thir- tieth year, in King William county. A committee of the Ves- try went there to escort his remains home. The Vestry bore glad witness to his lofty Christian virtues and noble ministe- rial labors. The church, by their order, was draped in mourn- ing for sixty days. A monument ^^erected by the ladies of St. John's Church and his Masonic brethren, in grateful remem- brance of his labor of love amongst them," now marks his resting place in the church yard. After the death of Mr. Points the Rev. Wm. C. Butler, of Halifax C. H., was called. He accepted the rectorship, with a salary of $1,500 and a parsonage, September 17, 1860. The number of communicants and the size of the Sunday school were a little increased. But the country was begin- ning to suffer the terrible throes of war. In consequence, the congregation was drained of men and money. Especially in view of this, the Vestry found that, in their zeal to get a rector, they had made offers they could not meet. And for the same reason the rector found he could not support him- self. St. John's Chukch. 49 The vestry insisted upon services on Sunday night and once on a week day. The rector resented this action as an encroachment upon his prerogatives. iEIaving also premo- nitions of pulmonary trouble, he resigned ^tsTovemher 27, 1861. A committee was appointed to secure temporary services. The Yestry resolved itself into a committee of the whole to consult the pew holders as to the choice of a successor. It fell upon the Kev. Wm. ISTorwood, D. D. Eor years, first at Monumental and then at St. Paul's, he had gone in and out among the citizens of Eichmond and won their unanimous esteem and affection. He was called March 18, 1862, on $1,000 a year and the parsonage. He accepted April 5th, and began his ministrations on Easter day, the third Sunday in April. It fell to his lot to share with his beloved people the brunt of the war. Spiritual interests not only held their own, but increased somewhat. And there was a consequent material liveliness. A committee was appointed April 6, 1863, to confer with the administrator of the estate of the donor of the parsonage, Col. Eichard Adams, with a view to selling it and investing the proceeds in bonds or otherwise till the Yestry could purchase another house or lot. If the pro- ject had been consummated, undoubtedly the proceeds would have been swept away amid the reverses of the war. This same year, 1863, the rector stepped out of his vestry room one Sunday morning to perform divine service, when the calamitous result of a wind storm met his eye at the northern or front end of the church. The steeple was pros- trate. Two lower edges of the bell were somewhat scaled off ; but otherwise it was uninjured. The spire was not re- stored until about ISTovember, in 1866. The plan was drawn and contributed by Col. Alfred L. Eives, C. E. The cost, including necessary and incidental repairs, was $1,213, the funds for which were mostly raised from a fair held in the basement of Trinity M. E. Church. December 10, 1866, weekly collections were again resorted to to meet incidental expenses. The crippled state of the congregation at the close of the war can be judged from the report of the treas- urer, December 4, 1866. The arrearages in pew rents were $1,385, of which $365 were available. Though the treasurer had personally advanced $417.86, there was still due the 50 History Henrico Parish, rector, on tlie preceding six montlis, $348.37 out of the annnal salary of $1,000. August 17, 1868, Dr. E'orwood handed in his resignation, to take effect October 1st. He had accepted a call to Em- manuel Church, Henrico county. This was his last charge. He departed this life July 29, 1887, in the eighty-first year of his age, venerated by all who knew him. The Eev. Henry Wall, of Christ Church, West Kiver, Md., was elected to fill his place. He accepted and began his labors October 25th. The parsonage was enlarged and put into repair. Chiefly by means of a fair held in the Sunday school room of Trinity M. E. Church, at the corner of Twen- tieth and Broad streets, in May, 1869, $647.64 were raised for its furnishing. The rector's salary was made $1,250. He reported to the Bishop at the next Council a net increase of 14 communicants and a total number of 127. The Sun- day school had fallen off' from 120 scholars to 109. The treasurer of the church was authorized by the Vestry to pay the expenses of the Sunday school. In 1869 and 1870 the congregation was consulted^ and there was a thorough dis- cussion of the pew system, the free church plan and the envelope method of raising a revenue. The result was that a modified form of the pew rent system with the envelope fea- ture was adopted. The rector's salary was increased to $1,400 from E"ovember 1, 1870. In January of 1871 a joint committee of the Vestry and the Sunday school was appointed to devise a plan for raising means to build a new Sunday school house or enlarge the old one. On the 18th of the following March a committee was appointed to secure from the City Council permission to widen and extend the Old School-House. It may be noted that this building was at this time spoken of as "the lecture" — or "school-room." Meanwhile another misfortune had overtaken the congre- gation. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, in tunnelling through Church Hill, had undermined the parsonage. The rector and his family were obliged to move out in the night. The railroad company behaved handsomely and enabled the trustees to secure what was at the time a fine property, at the southwest corner of Twentieth and Broad streets, valued at St. John's Church. 51 $6,500. In the first half of 1874, the entrance door on either side of the tower was closed up, and the base of the tower was opened, as it appears at present Thus a vestibule was se- cured at a cost of $159.88. May 29, 1874, the Kev. Jas. W. Shields, son of the late venerable and esteemed Senior Warden, became the assistant of St. John's. By his using here the office of a deacon well, he purchased to himself a good degree. To this estimable and promising young clergyman, on August 3, 1890, the last sad rites of mortalitv were rendered in this church, in which his ministry had auspiciously begun. Rev. Dr. Wall resigned July 15, 1875. He was a clergy- man of vigorous mind and ripe scholarship. His sermons will be remembered by all his hearers as full of grace and power. He was a native of Ireland and a graduate of Trin- ity College, Dublin. His theological education was received at the Seminary of Virginia. The first year ^-^ his ministry was spent in South Carolina. His last char-^ was in Kent county^ Md. The interval was chiefly devoted to the Diocese of Virginia. On account of ill health he retired from the active ministry about a year before he died. And August 19, 1889, in his 72d year, he passed away among the people to whom he had last ministered. During the twenty years preceding 1875, there had been great advances in the parish at large. Grace Church, under the rectorship of the Rev. Mr. Baker, had been consecrated January 14, 1859. July 6, 1860, Emmanuel, Henrico, under the rectorship of the late Bishop Wilmer, of Ala- bama, was consecrated. In 1862 and 1863 St. Philip's had been erected under the rectorship of Rev. D. F. Sprigg. In 1866 St. Mark's was reported as organized and as being built under the rectorship of the Rev. T. G. Dashiell. The present St. Mark's was erected in 1872 and 1873, and conse- crated June 26, 1880. The former building of St. Mark's was bought for the colored people, and is now St. Philip's. In 1868 and 1869 a church was organized by Rev. J. E. Hammond in an "upper room" in Manchester. The present Meade Memorial Church was built in 1869 and 1870. Christ Church congregation had been reorganized by Mr. Dallas Tucker in 1870 and 1871. By July 12, 1871,' a church had 52 History Henrico Parish, been erected and consecrated. In 18 Y5 Moore Memorial Chapel of St. James' was reported as bnilt. In 1880 it bad become an independent church with Eev. Dr. Sprigs as rec- tor. And finally, in 1876, St. Paul's reports the erection of St. Andrew's, with Eev. Pike Powers in charge. St. An- drew's was consecrated December 30th following. In 1875 Dr. Wall was succeeded by the Eev. Alexander Watson Weddell. He was called from Harrisonburg, Va., on $1,400, and the use of the rectory, and accepted to begin work the second Sunday in September. In 1876, the follow- ing year, he reported to the Bishop at fhe Council 196 com- municants, 28 Sunday school teachers, and 169 scholars. In the fall of 1875 the sum of $200 was in hand for a new Sun- day school building. The question arose, as it had during Dr. Wall's ministry, whether to enlarge the old or build a new school-house. ISTow also it was debated whether, if a new school-house was built, it should be within the grounds or outside the churchyard. Finally it was decided to build a new school-house within the grounds. The present frame Sunday school building was the result, September 11, 1876. February 12, 1877, action was begun looking to the altera- tion of the church. This was accomplished. The church was opened October 21, 1880, after being a month in the hands of the workmen. Then the gallery at the western end of the original church and the rooms below it had been re- moved. The chancel had been enlarged by a curved recess. A vestry room, ten by twelve, had been added in the rear of the chancel. The pulpit had been lowered some 12 or 18 inches, the steps and railing to it from the westerly side and the soundinsr board removed. ISTew chancel furniture had been introduced. More specifically, a square holy table, with scroll work between its legs, was substituted for the oval fronted table, which, in turn, was placed in the frame school- house ; and oaken chairs took the place of the two of mahogany which had been given in the rectorship of Mr. Kepler. The gallery in the northern end of the nave, which had extended to the second window from the north, was reduced to its pres- ent dimensions. The organ was cleaned and repaired. The ceiling of the original church had remained flat all these years. ISTow the whole of the church was made to have one I St. John's Church. 63 concave ceiling, and a large gas reflector was suspended from it Old girders in the roof, which were discovered to have be- come weakened by dry-rot, were removed, and new, strong timbers were substituted. The entire church was renovated and repainted. By the change 11 new pews were added, while there was no lessening the number in the present gal- lery. The total cost of the improvements was $1,003.65. May 14, 1877, B'r. Weddell's salary was increased to $1,500 a year. In 1880 two new Sunday schools were started ; the one now known as Calvary Mission, situated then and for years afterward at the southeast corner of Main and Nine- teenth streets, under the superintendence of Sergeant B. F. Howard; the other a colored school, (There had been for a brief period a colored Sunday school during the rectorship of Rev. H. S. Kepler, in 18 55-' 5 6, started by a devoted church worker, Mrs. James M. Estes, in her kitchen.) A Sunday school organ and library had been purchased at a total cost of $332. It appears in the Council reports of 1881 that St. John's had 300 communicants and an aggregate Sunday school en- rollment of 423. This indicates the prime of Dr. Weddell's indefatigable labors and noble gifts. From that time the strong, brave man, so true and forceful in speech, so boldly aggressive and perseveringly energetic in action, began to fail in health. And the machinery of the church began to falter with the slackened pulsations of that heart which had been for years the tireless motive power in it all. Arrange- ments were made for an assistant in the fall of 1882. The Eev. Lyman B. Wharton, D. D., first occupied that position for some three months, from February 26, 1883. Then the Eev. Francis M. Burch followed, from June 15, 1883. Most tenderly and generously did the appreciative and affectionate congregation minister to their pastor's every possible need. They took advantage of every opportunity to save the life of their beloved and devoted rector. They sent him to the balmy, soothing regions of the South ; to the bracing air and the healing waters of our own Virginia mountains. But he bore in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus. December 6, 1883, after one and a half years of sickness, he commended his spirit to the Father who gave it. 54 History Henrico Parish, He rests within the morning shadows of this dear old shrine, whose truest interests he loved better than life. A tablet to his memory rests upon the wall to the east of the chancel, where the loving eyes of his former people may rest upon it. His monument, erected by this congregation, at a cost of $456, records his life story in^ the graphic, telling words of one of his most intimate lay friends : " Large hearted. Large minded : Devoted to God. A lover of the truth and of manhood: Bold, untiring, faithful, in the service of the Master : Tender, watchful and unceasing in the care of his flock; His people loved and revered him." The Kev. F. M. Burch resigned the assistantship, to take effect February 1, 1884. But at the request of the Vestry he continued his services as minister in charge until April 1, 1884. The vestry, in parting with him, commended him as a faithful, earnest and loving worker, who, under the most difficult circumstances of having to take charge of a congrega- tion without being its rector, labored in and out of season. HISTORY OF St. JOHN'S Church, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, From 1864 to 1904. By J. STAUNTON MOORE. AUTHORIZED BY THE VESTRY. INTRODUCTION. A history of Henrico Parish, and particularly of old St. John's Church, has been a long-felt want, embracing as it does statistical information, historic facts and Church data that are obtainable from no other source than its old records. Convinced of the importance of such an undertaking and im- pressed with this public need, the Vestry of St. John's Church, on the 4th day of February, 1902, on motion of Mr. G. G. Minor, adopted the following resolution unani- mously. That a committee be appointed, to be known as the Committee on St. John's History, whose duty it shall be to gather from time to time material looking to the pub- lication of a history of St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church. Members are as follows: J. S. Moore, Chairman; Cyrus Bossieux, Senior Warden; John E. Mayer, Junior Warden; P. K. Carrington, W. W. Davies. The commit- tee met and delegated the compilation of the work and the writing of the history to its Chairman, Mr. J. S. Moore. Many of the records of St. John's have been lost or de- stroyed, and some of those in possession of the Church are fragmentary and imperfectly kept; hence this compendium is necessarily incomplete and contains errors and important omissions. The records since 1860 are fairly well kept, and are in good condition. During the period of the administration of Rev. William H. Hart (the exact date does not appear), the congregation was composed chiefly of ^'Heads of Families/' and the mem- bers of the same, very few of whom were communicants. A list is given showing ^ 'Heads of Families" 63, members 204, of whom only 42 were communicants. In 1840 Mr. Hart gives the list of communicants as only 41 in number. At another period he gives the list of com- municants as only 21, including the minister and his wife, 58 History Henrico Parish, and six of these belonged to the Adams family. The Church at this time was at a very low ebb. During the Rev. J. H. Morrison's incumbency, it appears that the congregation was composed of "pew holders." A list given by him in 1845 shows 45 by name, but it does not state how many of these were communicants. Et. Eev. Lewis William Burton, when rector of St. John's, commenced the annals of the Parish and Church, and at the earnest solicitation of the Vestry, he kindly completed his labor of love after he became Bishop of the Diocese of Lex- ington, Ky. His annals of Henrico Parish are embraced in this volume. It was also deemed proper to include in this volume the portraits of all the Bishops of Virginia, the min- isters and assistant ministers of St. John's Church, the por- traits of Col. Wm. Byrd, Jr., who donated the grounds upon which the old Church stands; the site was then known as "Indian Town Hill" ; of the Rev. Alexander Whitaker (the "apostle"), the first Episcopal minister of Virginia; of Patrick Henry, whose eloquence served to render the old Church famous ; of the Church itself, with its furniture, etc. A copy of the Old Vestry Book of Henrico Parish, with notes by Dl-. R. A. Brock, from 1730 to 1773, with its quaint entries, is also embraced in this volume. As the compiler of this work and as chairman of the Com- mittee on the History of St. John's, I desire to testify to the faithfulness of the individuals of the committee, and to ten- der publicly my thanks for their helpful aid and cordial co-operation. Each has rendered efficient assistance, and without their help in getting together the portraits and other work my task would have been prolonged and difficult. I am under special obligation to Mr. W. W. Davies and Mr. P. R. Carrington for pictures of the Bishops and ministers that were unobtainable through any other source ; and to Mr. Carrington for data, the result of tireless energy and deep research. Captain John E. Mayer has, during the progress of the work, shown that courtesy of manner and obliging disposition that have always characterized his individuality. Captain Cyrus Bossieux has by his prompt attendance at the meetings of the committee lent the encouragement of his presence and counsel. In fact, no chairman could have had St. John^s Church. 59 more entliiisiastic and interested associates tlian I have been blessed with. It was our sad misfortune to lose by death one of our companions, who was always the first to be present whenever a meeting of the committee was called, and who was deeply interested in the department he was so well quali- iid to fill — the collection of portraits. In the midst of our labors, in December, 1903, our asso- ciate, Mr. William Williams Davies, was called to his eternal rest. The deaths in this family within a period of two months have been peculiarly touching and distressing. About the middle of jN'ovember last his eldest daughter was stricken and died ; she was the light of his life, the apple of his eye, the pride of his soul. Mr. Davies, though a man of strong will power, was physically weak and never recovered from this blow. He was completely crushed. Soon after her death he gave up, and had a premonition of his own approaching end ; but he never lost interest in the work of the committee as long as he drew breath, and his love for the Church never waned. One of the last acts of his life was to donate by will a "Davies Memorial,'' to cost $1,500. To this munificent be- quest Mrs. Davies has added the further sum of $500, making the total "Davies Memorial'' $2,000. Mrs. Davies has also presented St. John's Sunday school with a splendid organ. Two days before his death the writer sat at his bedside and held in his grasp his feeble hand as he talked about the work upon which we were engaged, evincing to the last the keenest interest. A few days after Mr. Davies' death his other daughter and the last of his children succumbed also to the grim tyrant, leaving his widow entirely alone. Mr. Davies was entirely conscious of his condition. I^o fear of the future seemed to disturb his mind ; having lived a godly life, he died the death of the righteous. He exhibited in his last moments that courtesy and consideration for others that characterized him in his daily life, and a chivalric feeling, a sympathetic thought, worthy of a Chevalier Bay- ard or a Sir Philip Sidney. A few moments before he drew his last breath he turned to his wife at his bedside and said, quietly and calmly, at the same time lovingly patting her hand: "Little Marie, go out for a little while, I don't wish you to see the last struggle" ; but his wife, with true devotion 60 History Henrico Parish, and nobility of womanhood, replied: ^^Willie, for seventeen years I have been to you a faithful wife, and I will not de- sert yon now!" Thus passed away one of the most kindly and courteous of gentlemen. Let us trust '^ His day is come, not gone ; His sun is risen, not set ; His life is now beyond The reach of death or change — I^ot ended, but begun." I think it but proper I should pay this tribute to one asso- ciated with us in this work, and who was so deeply interested in its success. The committee is greatly indebted to Dr. K. A. Brock, the distinguished historian and antiquarian, for placing at its disposal inscriptions from tombstones and monuments of St. John's Church-yard, taken soon after the late civil war. Many of these tombstones have since been destroyed by the elements and the disintegration of time; and but for Dr. Brock it would have been impossible to have secured them. Dr. Brock not only placed his copies of these inscriptions at our disposal, but has kindly added brief annotations to many of them that make them interesting and instructive. Our beloved Bishop, K. A. Gibson, has also added to the in- terest of this volume by his entertaining sketches ; as has our beloved rector, K. A. Goodwin, in contributing sketches of some of the Bishops of Virginia. We are also under many obligations to Mr. W. G. Stanard, of the Virginia Historical Society, for brief biographical sketches of the same character. We are also greatly indebted to Mr. D. C. Eichardson for per- mitting us to take from his notes of Henrico County Court Records, the list of marriages of Henrico Parish from 1682 to 1765. This list of marriages was copied by Mr. P. R. Carrington. I should also be remiss in my duty if I did not acknowledge the helpful services of my wife and my daughter, Mrs. Alice Moore Franklin, who have rendered material aid in the verification of this work — the only aid in this line that I have had during the tedious task. We are also indebted to Miss Stella Williams, Miss F. P. Gretter and Miss Pearl Bodeker, for pictures and portraits. St. John's Church. 61 Every effort has been made, but without success, to obtain the picture of Eev. David Griffith, the first Bishop-elect of Virginia. We have also been unable to obtain a picture of the Rev. Wm. Stith, the distinguished Virginia historian and the first rector of St. John's Church. The only thing we have been enabled to secure is the coat of arms and the auto- graph of Mr. Stith. This volume contains the names of two thousand communi- cants, all of whom were connected with St. John's since 1860. This does not include the special lists of "pew holders," "heads of families/' etc., prior to 1860. Of these two thou- sand souls, 559 are males and 1,441 females, showing that the women still maintain their reputation for zeal, piety and de- votion; they were in the days of old first at the sepulchre and the last at Calvary, and to their fidelity and faithfulness are due, in a great measure, the growth and usefulness of old St. John's. The number of marriages given is 7T9, of which 340 are since 1860. In this number are not included the marriages from the records of Henrico county. The number of baptisms, 1,922, of which 1,308 are since 1860. The number of burials, 1,335, of which 1,103 are since 1860. The number of confirmations during the administrations of Dr. Weddell, Rev. L. W. Burton, and Rev. R. A. Goodwin is 925 ; the records previous to this date are fragmentary and incomplete. This entire work has been a labor of love without any re- muneration or reward — other than the pleasure derived from duty performed by all engaged and enlisted in the enterprise. If what we have collected and put in shape for the present and future generations shall prove of interest and use, we shall have accomplished our object and gained our reward. J. S. Moore. Richmond, Va., January 1, 1904. HISTORY OF ST. JOHN'S CHURCH From 1884 to 1904. BY J. STAUNTON MOOEE. As cliairinan of the Committee on the History of St. John's Church, it falls upon the writer not only to compile and gather together the fragments of its history, hut to give a brief epitome or outline of the Old Church since 1884, at which period the interesting Annals of Henrico Parish, by the Rt. Eev. Lewis William Burton, end. Mr. Burton, in ad- dition to his history of Henrico Parish, which he undertook while rector of St. Johns's Church, and completed after he became Bishop of the Diocese of Lexington, Ky., embracing as it does statistical information, historic research, and eccle- siastical data, the preservation of which for future use and reference becomes more valuable and precious as time goes apace, wrote also the Annals of St. John's Church during his incumbency. These annals show the growth of the Old Church in spiritual grace, and its material prosperity. These details are of inestimable interest and value to the communi- cants of the Church, during his administration. They con- tain accuracy of detail and incidents, and are written with that facility of pen and fecundity of thought characteristic of the man, and are striking evidences of his affection and a beautiful testimonial of his love for his old parishioners. But the committee, whilst not only appreciating the narra- tive but also reciprocating the generous sentiment and devo- tion that inspired it, does not deem the Annals of St. John's Church of sufficient importance or interest to the public at large to justify its publication in this volume. The com- mittee, however, does recommend its publication in full in a separate volume in the future for distribution to the com- St. John^s Chuech. 63 municants of St. John's Church, each one of whom should cherish it as a souvenir and a testimonial of love; and would value it as a tie of communion between them and their late beloved rector. Mr. Burton states in his St. John's Annals : ^^They are not intended for publication, but only as a supply of material from which the future historian is to extract his facts.'' And whilst the writer has his doubts as to whether this sketch is entitled to the dignity of history, and questions his ability to appear in the role of historian, he will avail himself of the "supply of material" thus placed at his disposal by his beloved rector, gleaning and garnering sucti facts as time and space will permit, and as he thinks may best interest the public at large. In some instances the facts will be stated in the writer's own way ; in other instances he will use not only the ideas, but the langniage of Mr. Burton, conceding that if there be any merit in his performance Mr. Burton is justly entitled to the credit. The difference be- tween the Annals of Henrico Parish and the Annals of St. John's Church is this — one is the tender outpouring and evi- dence of the kindly love and interest of our beloved rector, showing his personal relations, his affection, his person- ality, his untiring zeal and his work among us, evi- denced in facts, figures and personal incidents that make them peculiarly charming and dear to those under his charge during the period in the recital, with which the public has but slight interest ; the other is a matter of more general import- ance, covering, as it does, the most romantic and interesting period in the history of Virginia. The writer was a fre- quent attendant at the services of St. John's under the rec- torship of the late lamented Alexander W. Weddell, but in those days his religious opinions and convictions had not crystallized into faith sufficiently strong to justify his be- coming a communicant. He had the pleasure of Dr. Wed- dell's acquaintance and enjoyed his friendship as a man and brother Mason for several years before his death, and dis- cussed with him freely in a friendly and social way many doubts that beset and perplexed him on religious matters. Dr. Weddell preached at him many sermons that came from the heart of this good and faithful minister, but it was not until Mr. Moody's first visit to Richmond, and under his 64 History Heneico Parish, benign influence, plain and practical teachings, that the writer, coupled with Dr. WeddelFs kindly ministration, induced was to cast all his burdens on our Saviour's shoul- ders, and to bury his doubts in the bosom of His love. Dr. Weddell impressed the writer as being liberal, broad- minded, free from cant and hypocrisy. Plain, simple and unaffected, devoid of slang and free from technical terms. He formed his opinions not in the academic schools, but from practical experience — from actual contact with men. His horizon of thought was bounded by no narrow limits ; he thoroughly understood human nature. He did not look down upon humanity from an exalted pedestal. He took man- kind as he found it, not as he thought it should be. He had familiarized himself with man's nature "in the tented field" as a Confederate soldier; he knew its capacities, its aspira- tions, its fallibilities. He exercised patience, temperance and moderation in treating its limitations. He was never pessimistic in his religious views or dogmatic in his dis- courses or self -conceited in his opinions. A beautiful opti- mism pervaded his thoughts and breathed in his utterances. A wonderful patience and submission during his lingering illness pervaded his conversation, and governed his actions. Many a time has the writer on his way to his home taken him "up the hill" in his buggy, when scarcely able to walk, yet still trying to perform his appointed duties. ITature cast him in an heroic mould, not only physically, but en- dowed him mentally with those graceful virtues calculated to win human hearts, and enshrined his soul in those lovely traits of character that endeared him to all who knew him. He was indeed a — " Happy, cheerful, loyal man. Built upon the God-like plan ; Always doing something good I For his humble brotherhood. Memory, with her magic spell, O'er the years shall fondly tell How his fi:lorious, active mind Loved and wrought for all mankind." When he died a pall was cast not only over the Church he J. Sta^unton Moore. Editor and Compiler. St. John^s Chuech. 65 had so faithfully served and loved so well, but over the entire communitv : vet we are consoled with the reflection that — " They never quite leave us, the friends who have passed, Through the shadows of death to the sunlight above ; A thousand sweet memories are holding them fast, To the places they blessed with their presence and love." The restoration — aye, it may be truthfully said the resur- rection — of St. John's Church is due to the strenuous efforts and consecrated labors of Dr. Weddell. When he took charge in 1876 there were but 118 communicants. By his earnest zeal, his affability, his sincere piety, he increased the number the first year to 221, the membership continuing to increase yearly until he rested from his labors, adding during the eight years of his ministerial work 506 communicants, and presenting for confirmation 243 — the largest increase, up to that time, in the annals of the Church since its foundation. But St. John's Church for the past forty years has been pecu- liarly a Church of transition. The constant change of the per- sonnel of the congregation has been remarkable, and probably unparalleled in Church history. The tendency to "move up town'' by the residents of the Old Hill as the city grows west- ward has been going on from year to year, thus causing a shifting membership — ^liere to-day, gone to-morrow! The tale is told "in mournful numbers" as the words "removed" or "transferred" appear opposite the names on the communi- cant list. When the Rev. Lewis William Burton (under whose rec- torship the writer became a communicant of St. John's} succeeded to the rectorship in 1884, there only remained 276 communicants as the result of the indefatigable work of the lamented Weddell. Mr. Burton was called from St. Mark's, Cleveland, Ohio. He took up the work with that energy and devotion characteristic of the man. In addition to a fine presence and intellectual physique, he possessed in a remark- able degree those personal qualities of mind and manner that at once favorably impressed all who met him. In the primd of life, active, zealous, full of divine fire, he at once set to work to build up Old St. John's. Tasteful and possessing a tact that at once gave him intuitive perception and apprehen- 5 66 History Henrico Parish, sion of what was best to say and do under all circumstances ; courteous, kindlj, sympathetic, but not familiar, he at once won the hearts of his congregation. His enunciation clear, his language chaste, his utterances distinct — a master of elo- cution — he was happy in communicating his ideas. His preaching, non-Calvinistic, yet thoroughly orthodox, was of an inspiring, hopeful, trustful, helpful nature, that soon filled every seat in Old St. John's, and held his audience with breathless attention. Under his teaching he inspired all who heard him with faith, hope and trust ; those who doubted had their doubts removed, those who believed were strengthened in their faith. Mr. Burton, during his pastorate of nine years, added to the communicants of St. John's 563, present- ing for confirmation 337, but the same change of domicile, the same tendency to move westward, was going on, and when the Rev. R. A. Goodwin, our present rector, succeeded the beloved Burton, the number of communicants was only 442. Mr. Goodwin during the ten years he has been rector, by his faith- ful ministration and devotion to duty, has added 521 com- municants, presenting for confirmation 345 persons. By comparing the work of these efficient ministers, it will be seen that (in round numbers) Dr. Weddell added 48 com- municants and presenting for confirmation on an average 30 persons annually. Mr. Burton averages 63 communi- cants and 37 confirmations during the nine years of his rectorship. Mr. Goodwin has in the ten years he has been with us averaged 52 communicants and 34 confirmations. During Dr. Weddell's administration, including the num- ber of communicants then on the Church roll, there were 506; Mr. Burton added 563 and Mr. Goodwin 521, mak- ing 1,590 persons, and yet to-day, owing to reasons already assigned, we have but 565 on the roll. It will thus be seen that Dr. Weddell planted, like Paul of old, and that Mr. Burton and Mr. Goodwin watered and God gave the increase, and we rejoice in the fact that Old St. John's, that has experienced so many mutations and has known so many vicissitudes of fortune, fire and war, time and change, storm and tempest, has Phoenix-like survived them all and stands to-day clothed in her chaste and comely garment of spotless wbite, amidst her green setting, old in years and yet young St. John's Chuech. 67 and vigorous in good works ! St. John's, the Mother Church of the Parish, and the Mother of Missions, has again and again been bereft of her children. At periods of her his- tory it is true her doors have been closed, no voice was heard from her pulpit, no songs or chants echoed within her silent and hallowed precincts. Her walls have reverberated to the mad shouts of a brutal foe, who laid his sacrilegious hand upon her sacred altar. Twice has her tower been dismantled by storm and tempest, but she has not been left desolate nor comfortless nor forsaken. The places of those who have passed away or 'moved to other sections of our city have been supplied by others, and we rejoice in the fact that to-day she is stronger spiritually and materially than at any period in her history. She is still the shrine at which worshippers as- semble to pay that homage to Deity that is essential to civili- zation, good morals and just government. She is still the Mecca to which pilgrims travelling from afar turn to draw fresh inspiration, and the spot where patriotism delights to point as the place where the fires of liberty were lighted. The fact that this old Church has survived so many disasters and mutations is the best evidence that she has been under God's special care. The fire upon the altar at times burned low, and the glory above the mercy seat had almost departed, but His Shechinah still dwelt among His people. In her old age she has been thrice blessed ; the three ministers who have for the last quarter of a century presided over her des- tinies have so endeared themselves to the people of old St. John's that in their hearts they are known as Weddell, the lamented; Burton, the beloved; and Goodwin, the faithful. The individuality of these three faithful ministers has been such as to warrant at least in the heart of the writer the above appellations — not that either would be the less lamented had he been taken from us as Dr. Weddell was, nor that they were not all beloved and all equally faithful in the perform- ance of their duties, but each possessed sui generis, certain qualities of mind and manner, that can only be distinguished by some affectionate cognomen; for we are told: "There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and an- other glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.*' 68 History Henkico Pakish, The Rev. Lewis William Burton was called to the rector- ship of St. John's January 28, 1884, and preached his first sermon on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1884. On assuming charge of St. John's, Mr. Burton, like the general of an army, took his survey of the field of his future operations and laid off his plan of campaign. The problems confronting him were not only those already adverted to, the tendency of the population westward, but he found his territorial responsi- bility embraced (1) Church Hill; (2) the southernmost por- tion of Shockoe Valley (say from the river to Broad street, and from Fifteenth street eastward to the foot of Church Hill, and along Main street to Twenty-eighth street) ; and (3) the parts known as Kocketts and Fulton. These three neighborhoods were so geographically separated that one church building would not suffice them. Those living in the valley were unwilling to climb the hill to attend the old Church. The three neighborhoods were also socially divided. He found a mission established by Dr. Weddell in Shockoe Valley doing good work amongst a class that had no church near them ; but recognizing the need of a mission in the sec- tion known as Rocketts and Fulton, six months after his arrival he established the enterprise known as the Weddell Mission Sunday School. In 1886 this school had grown to 141 officers, teachers and scholars. He also gave the name of "Calvary" to the mission established by Dr. Weddell in Shockoe Valley at Nineteenth and Main streets, and which was afterwards transferred and maintained for many years, under the charge of Sergeant B. F. Howard, at the old Mason's Hall on Franklin street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth. To assist in these missions the Rev. AV. B. Everett, M. D., was made missionary assistant of St. John's in 1885. With Easter, 1885, Mr. Burton instituted a custom which still continues. The four Sunday schools (St. John's, Calvary, Weddell and Good Shepherd) were assembled in the Church; the Good Shepherd (colored school) sitting in the gallery. A printed programme would guide the exercises, some special device would characterize the same; a wooden light-house was built with large blocks; flowers were combined with St. John's Chuech. 69 names or designs, etc., texts or catechism were recited, carols sung, addresses delivered; reports were read by the superin- tendents of the different schools. These festivals are much enjoyed by the children and the Church is generally packed on these occasions. In 1885 Mr. Burton organized a junior branch of the Parish Brotherhood. When Mr. Burton took charge of St. John's in 1884, he found the church nearly $500 in debt, and at the end of his first year there was also a deficit in current expenses. This unbusiness-like condition confronted him — how to live within the income or how to make the income adequate to the ex- penses. He determined to attempt the latter solution of the problem by adopting the weekly pledge and envelop system. This plan worked so well that beginning with 1887 the Church not only paid its current expenses, but its contingent fund up to and including the year 1803, the last year of his pastorate. Mr. Burton is an admirable financier, and would make a good banker or a successful business man in any line. In 1886 the alms basin now in use and formerly belonging to Old Westover Church was bought and presented to St. John's by Edmund A. Saunders and Eichard L. Brown in behalf of their little daughters, Mamie and Bessie, and is so inscribed in large letters punctuated by a cross pattee around the rim. On the base of the plate is the following original inscription, "Ex dono D'nae — Sarah Braine," and a hall mark, indicating its origin — 1094-1605. In the centre of the basin is an ingenious monogram in script letters two and a half inches long, which spells out the name of Sarah Braine. The rim of the basin is in simple repousse work, of what might be called pie crust shape. In June, 1886, the Vestry determined to restore the sound board to its place. It had been taken down years before, and had been lying in the Brick School-House. It was placed in its present position and the pulpit steps were placed on either side of the panel and pulpit. In order to restore the sound board it was sent to a furniture establishment. In grinding through the suc- cessive layers of graining and through a coat of white paint and gold to the original wood, was found the design of a cir- cle with inlaid nose, eyes and mouth, and with rays (also inlaid) diverging from it, alternately waving and straight. 70 HisTOEY Henrico Parish, This old sound board that drank in the eloquence of Henry, and has heard the voices of so many who have ministered to the congregation assembled in Old St. John's now stands as it did originally. In 1886 Mr. Burton tried the experiment of a cornetist in the choir, with such gratifying results that it was continued during his entire incumbency. Under the in- spiration of Mr. Burton's ministrations, the spirit of im- provement took possession of the congregation, and extensive repairs were made both to the exterior and the interior of the old Church. The ceiling and walls were calcimined in colors, with simple ornamentations, the chancel richly deco- rated, the wood and pews revarnished, the chancel platform raised; the position of the gates in the rail were changed to their present position. The Vestry room was renovated and made comfortable and convenient. New carpets were laid on the floor, and, in fact, so many changes were made that one of the most venerable and respected parishioners said when the changes were contemplated, that ^'tliis Colonial Church in colors would look like a highly ornamented bonnet on an old lady's head," but the result was so satisfactory that all agreed, including the person who made the remark, that the change was for the better. At this time Captain John A. Curtis and wife presented a new communion table, and Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Saunders a prayer desk. These improvements cost about $1,000. At a m'^eeting of the Vestry in March, 1887, it was decided that so much of the gallery as lay east of the organ (which was then in the gallery) be set apart for colored people. On the 4th of June, 1887, a great sorrow came upon our beloved rector and his wife ; their only child, a beautiful and promising boy, who had been born to them in the rectory June 10, 1885, Lewis James Hendree Burton, was folded in the arms of the Good Shepherd. In their deep distress the rector and his wife had the heartfelt sympathy, not only of the congregation, but of the entire community. On January 6, 1888, the Kev. Pike Powers, D. D., was called to become the assistant minister of St. elohn's, in charge of Weddell Memorial Chapel. One characteristic of St. John's since its revival under the lamented Weddell has been its deep in- terest in missionary work. It is not only the Mother Church of the Parish, but the mother and founder of missions. St. John's Church. 71 Weddell Memorial Chapel was completed and open for ser- vices the first time November 20, 1887. Previous to the building of the chapel the mission had been conducted in other buildings. The first communion occurred December 18, 1887. The entire cost, not including the land and other things donated, was a little over $4,000, and in January, 1889, the chapel was out of debt; and in the following month of March it was consecrated by the Kt. Rev. F. M. Whittle. One of the lots upon which Weddell was built was donated by the open-handed and liberal hearted P. H. Mayo, Esq. In May, 1882, that saintly soul, Mrs. James M. Estes, noT? gone to her reward, bejoan a mission Sunday school for colored children in a basement room of her residence. The first attendants were four small boys, but the room soon filled, and the school was removed to the Brick School-House in the Church yard. One hundred scholars were soon enrolled. Owing to the sickness of Dr. Weddell the school waned, and after his death it was disbanded. In the fall of 1884, under the rectorship of the Rev. L. W. Burton, the school was reorganized under the name of the Good Shepherd, and met in the Brick School-House. In 1885 the enrollment was, officers, teachers and scholars, 133. In January, 1887, it had increased to 148. This good work had so grown under Mr. Burton's indefatigable efforts that in January, 1889, fifty applicants had been turned away for lack of teachers and room. Realizing the necessity for larger accommodations for mis- sion work among the colored people, upon the suggestion of Mr. Burton to Mr. E. A. Saunders, who was always readj and willing to respond to appeals of this character, a lot on Twenty-eighth street between L and M was cheerfully do- nated by him and his wife, and the chapel on this lot was given the name of ^^Good Shepherd." The building on this lot was formerly St. James', in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent county, Virginia, which stood on the land of Mrs. Sally D. Duval. This lady and Mrs. E. T. Drew were the sole surviving members of St. James', and they Avere about to leave the county. The church was rapidly falling to decay and would go with the land when sold, and Mrs. Duval desired to see the building utilized bj 72 History Hjenrico Parish, the Church which had erected it. Moreover, it had been built under the rectorship of Mrs. Drew's first husband, the Rev. John T. Points, who had died as the rector of St. John's. Thus his first and last labors would be brought together. It was thus presented to St. John's Church, and was transferred to the lot upon which it now stands. The removal and trans- fer of the building cost, not including the furniture, about $900. This building was open for service October 7, 1888. While the building stood in the county of ISTew Kent, some of the pew ends had been appropriated for head boards for the graves of soldiers. When restored ta their place in the church at Richmond, the epitaphs rudely carved upon them were allowed to remain. It was especially through the interest of Miss Julia C. Emery, General Secretary of the Woman's Auxiliary, who secured in April, 1889, $300 from the "Society of the Double Temple" of I^ew York, that the indebtedness involved in erecting this chapel was paid. The Chapel of the Good Shepherd was consecrated by the Rt. Rev. F. M. Whittle, the Rev. James B. Funsten preach- ing the sermon ; the rector, the assistant minister. Rev. Pike Powers, and the rector's brother-in-law, the Rev. Arthur M. Backus, of the Diocese of Massachusetts, were present. Bishop Whittle, in his Council address, 1889, in speaking of churches consecrated, made the following remarks: "In 1889, March 31st, Weddell Memorial Chapel, a very pretty and comfortable building in Fulton, a neglected suburb of the city of Richmond. * * * "May 5th, Chapel of the Good Shepherd, a very nice and comfortable church for colored people, also belonging to St. John's, Richmond. This chapel is the outgroAvth of a Sun- day school commenced by a devoted lady in her kitchen, who lias now the happiness of seeing a flourishing school and the church services regularly conducted in a suitable and sacred building." Mr. Burton was never satisfied unless he was continually progressing. The establishment of two missions in a field where none before had existed would have satisfied an ordi- nary mind, but his active brain and zealous heart and conse- crated life, whose motto was "Onward, Christian Soldier," were not content unless he was continually advancing the banner of the Cross. St. John^s Chubch. Y3 Under a strong appeal preached December 18, 1887, from the text (Mark 13: 34), ''To every man his work," the various voluntary organizations of the Church were banded and imited together in a St. John's Union. Its motto was, ''Laborers together with God'' ; its principle, "To every man hip work." At the annual meetings the various organizations composing the Union submitted their repqrts for the year. Included within the Union were the choir and the Sunday schools as institutions belonging to the spiritual administra- tion of the rector. There was a pleasant emulation and an individuality about these organizations that made them vie with each other in showing good results, that added a zest to their labors, and made them work more effectively and efficiently. With all his other work our beloved rector also found time one night in each week to teach a Bible class to aid the teachers in prepa- rations for their instruction. With his own hand he prepared and had printed service leaflets containing selections from the Book of Common Prayer and from the Hymnal for the use of the Sunday schools. Under his administration not only were the home schools self-supporting, but, in addition, missionary scholar- ships were sustained as follows : The Eliza Carrington Schol- arship, the Solomon Memorial Scholarship, and St. John's Sunday school also united with those of the Diocese in the support of diocesan missions during Lent. The organizations combined in the Church Union at the latter's organization were : The Brotherhood, devoted to parochial, benevolent and mis- sionary work. The Sisterhood, devoted to parochial, benevolent and gen- eral missionary work. The Guild, devoted to parochial, charitable work, particu- larly the clothing of destitute Sunday school children. The Little Gleaners, devoted especially to missionary work in all departments, and incidentally to ministering to the needy in the parish. The Knights of Temperance, devoted to sobriety among young men and boys. Of the five organizations above men- tioned, all except the Knights of Temperance had been started 74 History Henrico Parish,, under Dr. Weddell's ministry. Wlien it is remembered that most of these organizations met weekly, and that the rector was frequently present at their meetings, some idea may be formed of his busy life and the great tax upon his time and energy. ]SIot satisfied with these various societies, another organiza- tion, called the Junior Aid Society, was instituted in 1890, under the auspices of the rector's charming and devoted wife. This society was composed of young ladies who stood between the Little Gleaners and the Guild, and, in addition to the pa- rochial work, supported by their industry a scholarship at Cape Mount, Africa, and also assumed the rent of an aged and faithful, but indigent member of the congregation. Again, in 1901, did our rector show his zeal in good works by establishing the St. John's Chapter of St. Andrew's Brotherhood. Still another organization came into existence in 1893, entitled St. John's Missionary Association. In addition to these various organizations of the Mother Church, the missions also had their appropriate societies, at which the rector was sometimes present, he being ex-officio chairman of all of these organizations. In addition to the above societies, there were Committees on the Sick, a Committee on Burials, a Committee on Church Decency and Order, and a Committee on Strangers and Ab- sentees, and a Charitable Committee, which was the first formed, and one of the most important ; the objects and aims of these various committees are indicated by their respective names. It would not do to fail to mention in connection with these Church committees the "Committee on Entertainments," of which Mrs. R. L. Brown was chairman, a position for which she v/as exceptionally fit; by these entertainments consider- able sums of money were raised for paying church debts and making improvements and for charitable and pious work. The character of the entertainments was always simple, refined, elevating and instructive, and promoted good fellowship and friendly intercourse amongst the congregation, and enabled many persons who were not pecuniarily able to contribute to the support of the Church to utilize their time and services in her behalf. St. John's Chubch. 75 Besides the entertainments, where cream and cake and oysters and coffee in season were sold at moderate prices, there were birthday offerings, excursions, lectures, etc. Through these instrumentalities the hungry were fed, the naked clothed, and the poor had the Gospel preached to them. As an evidence of the appreciation the Vestry had for these entertainments, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted on the 4th day of October, 1890: Whereas the Committee on Sociability and Entertainments of St. John's Church Union, together with the other members of the Church and friends outside, have within the last two years, by two large entertainments, requiring most skilful management and indefatigable labor, contributed upwards of $2,000 for the payment of debts and improvement of build- ings ; therefore be it 1. Kesolved, That we, the Vestry of St. John's, do cor- dially acknowledge the peculiar ability of the committee in making a success of church entertainments, and do most heartily thank them and all their co-laborers for their great and kindly help. 2. Resolved, That the rector be requested to read this, our action, to the Church Union at its next meeting ; and that the Register of the Vestry be also requested to spread the same on the minutes of the Vestry. In these entertainments objectionable features were es- chewed and they were not only exceedingly popular with our congregation, but deservedly so with the community at large. In these amusements the wife of the rector was the soul and the spirit. By her charming manner and pleasant address she was indeed a help-meet and an inspiration not only to her husband, but to the congregation. It would seem almost im- possible for one man to attend to all the above enumerated functions, preach three times a week, visit the sick, and at- tend to all parochial duties, and yet Mr. Burton did all this, and in addition served on the Executive Committee of the American Church Missionary Society, and was a representa- tive of the Church Temperance Society of the Diocese of Vir- ginia, and was Vice-President of the Richmond Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society, as well as a member of the Executive Committee of the Diocesan Missionary Society; 76 HiSTOEY Heneico Paeish, a member of the Standing Committee of the Council on Church Property, and examining chaplain of the Diocese. With all these multifarious duties and responsibilities, is it any wonder our beloved rector's hair became prematurely gray? " But not with years, Nor grew it white, In a single night," but gradually as his cares and labors increased, until it is as white as the driven snow, but his face is" still young, his step elastic, and his eye as bright as of yore. The Vestry purchased the present rectory, then in the oc- cupancy of Mr. Burton, in April, 1888, at a cost of $3,100; it was fitted up in a convenient and attractive manner for the use of the rector and his wife, at an additional cost of about $1,600. The old parsonage on Twentieth street was sold the same year for $3,250, therefore there was nearly an exchange in money value. In May, 1887, the Vestry gave to Mr. K. L. Brown and the rector permission to occupy, each of them, one of the window frames on either side of the chancel and within it with a stained glass memorial window. The one on the right was erected to the little boy of the rector, Lewis James Hendree ; the one on the left was erected to the two little children of Mr. R. L. Brown. In November of the same year (1888) the memorial window to the late Allen Y. Stokes was placed. Mr. Stokes was for many years a communicant and Vestryman of St. John's. Owing to the weakness of the tower and the supposed effect upon the tunefulness of the organ, which was at that time situated in the gallery, the bell was tolled and not rung with but one exception during the entire rectorship of Mr. Burton. The organ was moved to the main floor of the church under Mr. Goodwin's admiiiistration, and since that time its joyous peals and clear notes ring forth to gladden the hearts of the community. The old bell that formerly hung upon St. John's and known as the "Henry Bell," was for many years in use in the town St. John^s Church. 77 of Martinsville, Va., and called the children to the public schools. It was donated by the town to the Virginia His- torical Society, of this city, and is now in their possession. This famous bell called together the Virginia Convention of March, 1775, and beneath it Patrick Henry made his liberty speech. On June 5, 1888, it was ordered by the Vestry that the approach to the communion rail and kneeling at it by the communicants should be made easier and more dignified by removing one of the front pews of the transept rows that flank the chancel on either side, and by replacing it by an upright panel. At this time the arrangement, which still continues, was made as to the manner in which the communicants should come to the Lord's Table and retire from it. Those first to commune were to come from the western aisle and remain till all then kneeling had communicated; and while they were retiring those from the eastern aisle could come without collision. During the year of 1891 a valuable addition was made to the communion vessels by the bequest of $100 by Miss Xan- nie M. Sheilds, a faithful and lamented parishioner. Through her sister, Miss Cornelia K. Sheilds, was purchased a solid silver chalice and paten, which formerly belonged to an old James River Parish. The chalice is of unusual size, ten and three-eighths inches high, its cup four and a half inches deep. The old chalice to which it became a companion is seven and six-eighths inches in height, with a cup three and six-eighths inches in depth. The paten is seven inches in depth. Both are engraved with a desi.,^\o^^^^i^^.^,,^°^.;^7l5e ample housing. Indeed, had Washington with his staff been m the vicinity, the owners of spacious mansions in the neighboring coun- try would have felt themselves privileged in entertaining him. 440 History Henrico Parish, Erected to the memory of Thomas Haedii^g Ellis^ son of Major Josiah Ellis, of Amherst County, who was born the 14th of May, 1781, and died the 12th of September, 1804. In memory of Mrs. Mary Evertz^ departed this life the 27th day of March, 1813, aged 43 years. (Marble headstone.) In memory of Elizabeth^ infant child of John & Sarah E. Enders. Born Dec. 8th, died Dec. 13th, 1814. (Small white marble slab shaft.) Our father, JoiiK" Enders.* Born in York county, Pennsylvania, July 16th, 1YY6, died Oct. 20th, 1851. "He being dead yet speaketh." (White marble monument enclosed with iron railing.) Our mother, Sarah Lambert Enders^ born August lOth^ 1785, died February 27th, 1853. "My meditation of her shall be sweet." *A successful merchant and tobacconist of Richmond. St. John's Church. 441 Sacred to the memory of John Exall^ June.^ a native of England. He died Sept. 9th, 1822, aged 32 years. Respected most by those who knew him best. To the memory of Maetha J. Eustace^ the fond, affectionate mother, the pious Christian, the sincere and steady friend, this stone is raised by her bereaved and forlorn hnsband* who grateful for the happy day •he has passed in a blessed union with her deeply deplores, while with humble submission he would kiss the rod. The mysterious Providence which in the prime of life has consigned her to the tomb. She died May 18th, 1828, in the 29th year of her age. (Marble slab on pedestal.) In memory of Mrs. Lettia Edgae^ who was born 17 June, Anno Domini 1Y75, and departed this life 16 Sept. Anno Domini 1837. (Buried between office and church.) ♦John H. Eustace. 442 HisTOBY Hen^kico Paeish, In memory of Capt. Elnathatst Fellows^ a native of Stonington in Connecticut^ who departed this life August 11th, 1805, in the 28th year of his age. He's gone in peace to those blest joys above Where angels rest in everlasting love. Sacred to the memory of Jane Foster^ wife of John Foster of this city, who departed this life October 21st, 1806, aged 43 years. Also of Eliza Foster^ daughter of John and Jane, who died in the Borough of J^orfolk, February 7th, 1794, aged 3 years. Also of Sarah Ann Foster^ daughter of John and Jane, who died in ;^[assau, in the Island of I^ew Providence, July 5th, 1810, aged 22 years. (Marble slab on legs.) Sacred to the memory of Rebecca Foster^ born Oct. 27, 1776, died June 29, 1833, in the 57th year of her age. St. John's Chuech. 443 Here lies the body of Miss D. Faulkner^ who departed this life March 17th, 1811, aged 23 years. In memory of Caspar Fleisher^* who departed this life December 6th, 1811, aged 61 years. Also in memory of William Fleisher^ son of Charles & Hannah Fleisher, who departed this life March 30, 1815, aged 32 years, 2 months, & 11 days. (Marble slab on pedestals.) In memory of Hannah Fleisher^ who departed this life May 11, 1830, in the 68th year of her age. (Marble slab on pedestals.) In memory of Lucy L. Foushee^ wife of Wm. Foushee, who departed this life 'Nov, 2nd, 1814, aged 26 years. So "unaffected, so composed a mind So firm, yet soft, so strong, yet so resigned. Heaves as its purest gold by tortures tried The Saint sustained it but the human died. ♦Caspar Fleisher, a German, was the keeper of an esteemed eating house. 444 History Henrico Parish, In memory of Hylton Foushee^ son of Wm. and Lucy Fonshee. Mary Ann Foushee. Sacred to the memory of Mary Ann^ wife of Theodrick Fergiisson, daughter of Campbell & Margaret Hades, who died July 28th, age 28 years old. (Buried by a large sugarberry tree near the old brick school house.) (Fragment.) Nantz France. Mary Jane^ wife of Jno. W. Fergusson. Also her daughter, Mary Arabella. Oct., 1846. (Thirty-five feet from the comer of Twenty-fifth and Broad streets.) Archd. Freeland^ born in Glasgow, Scotland, Oct. 18th, 1Y57, died in Richmond, Virginia, July 21st, 1849.* Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age like as a shock of corn cometh in his season. Job. Y. 26 *A successful tobacco manufacturer of Richmond, and exporter. St. John^s Chuech. 445 Grace Feeeland^ born in Bedford county, Virginia, Oct. 14th, 1772, died in Manchester, Virginia, June 19th, 1813. To our parents revered and loved in life in death they are not forgotten. (White marble shaft enclosed by iron railing.) In loving memory of Elizabeth A. Fitzwilson^ born Aug. 19, 1833, died May 23, 1901. For 27 years though blind, the beloved, and faithful organist of St. John's Church. She walked by faith, not by sight. George H. Fitzwilsoi^-^ June 5, 1836-Jan. 13, 1893. This monument is erected pursuant to the provisions of the will of his wife, Mary M. Fitzwilson, who died Sept. 11, 1902, and who also lies buried here. In memory of Mary Ani^, who died Oct. 28th, 1818, aged 11 years, 5 months & 17 days. Also Catharine died Dec. 11th, 1820, aged 5 years, 9 months & 19 days, daughters of George & Catharine Fletcher. 446 HisTOEY Henrico Parish, In memory of Abner Goode^ who was born Sept. 10th, 1799. Died Oct. 20th, 1843, aged 14 years, one month and two days. Also Miss Mary Ann Widewii^th, aged about 18 years. (Marble slab on pedestals.) In memory of Elizabeth Goode^ died May 21, 1828. (Buried at the south corner of the church, about twenty feet from the building.) In memory of Eleanor K. Goode^ wife of Joseph Goode. Born October 2nd, 1803, died December 14th, 1843, aged 40 years, 2 months and 13 days. I would not live always thus fettered by sin Temptation without and corruption within E'en the rapture of pardon is mingled with tears ; I would not live always : IsTo ! welcome to the tomb Since Jesus hath lain there I dread not its gloom ; Then sweet be my rest 'till he bid me arise To hail him in triumph descending the skies. Also John Goode^ Jr.^ son of Joseph & Eleanor K. Goode, born July 19th, 1830, and died l^ov. 18th, 1833, aged three years, three months and twenty-nine days. (White marble slab on pedestal.) St. John^s Chukch. 447 In memory of Eleanor K. Goode^ daughter of Joseph and Eleanor K. Goode, was bom April 11th, 1826, and died June 11, 1828, aged 2 years and 2 months. In memory of Elizabeth R., wife of John Gentry, died June 29th, 1833, aged 35 years. M. S. of Eras. Gaynon^ a native of Ireland, 0. B. Eeby. 13th, 1821, Aged 29. Memory of Agnes F. Gilchrist^ who died in infancy Ano Domini 1798. Here lies the remains of Charles Greehow, who departed this life on the 28th March, 1800, after a linger- ing illness, aged 22 years. (Coarse white marble headstone.) 448 History Henrico Parish, Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Wm. Graham^ foimder and twenty years rector of Washington Academy in Rockbridge County, Virginia, who was born in the State of Pennsylvania, December 19th, 1746, and died in the City of Richmond, June 17th, 1799. He was distinguished for the strength and originality of his genius and the successful tenor of his exertions in behalf of solid literature and evangelical piety. (Marble slab on brick vault.) In memory of James Gray^ a native of Symington Lanarkshire, North Britain, who died 26th June, 1803. Sacred to the memory of Eliza Gray^ born 1799, died Apl. 14th, 1834. Her surviving sister has caused this stone to be placed here as a small tribute to her memory. Rev. Alexandee W. Weddell, 1875-1883. St. John's Chukch. 449 In memory of Tereza Gkay^ died 1834. (Four feet from the wall, facing the Catholic chTirch.) Here slumbers in the hope of a glorious resurrection William Richard Gray^ born 11th Oct., 1819, died 3rd Oct., 1831. (White marble headstone.) Here lies the body of Mrs. Mary Gilliatt^"^ who departed this life the 5th Sept., 1805, aged 28 years. (White marble slab on brick vault.) Here lies the body of Col. Robert Gamble^ t born on the 3rd day of September, 1754, in the County of Augusta and State of Virginia. Died on the 12th day of April, 1810, in the City of Richmond, the place of his residence since 1790. After having done his duty faithfully as an officer through- out the Revolutionary War with Great Britain and passed unhurt through all its peril, he was, suddenly, when in full *The Gilliatt family is to-day prominent in England. Thos. Gil- liatt, for decades, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, was a prominent exporter of tobacco from Richmond. tHis name is perpetuated in Richmond in that of the eminence, "Gamble's Hill," upon which was his residence, a large square brick building, which was designed by Col. John Harvie (member of Con- gress and Register of the Land Office of Virginia), who being acci- dentally killed by a fall from a ladder whilst superintending its con- struction. It was completed by Col. Gamble. The descendants of the last are still prominent in Florida. 29 450 HiSTOEY Henrico Parish, health killed by a fall from his horse in the streets of Rich- mond. But death, however sudden, never finds the sincere and fervent Christian unprepared, and such was he. — Ex- tract from his funeral sermon. The affection of his widow and children hath placed this stone to his memory. (White marble slab on pedestal.) Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Cati-ierine Gamble^* widow of Col. Robert Gamble, late of the City of Richmond. She died the 24th December, 1830, in the 79th year of her age. There was no wife more devoted, ISTo mother more affectionate, "No friend more true, "No neighbor more kind, 'No Christian more pious. (White marble slab on pedestals.) Sacred to the memory of Joseph Gallego^I a native of Malago in Andalusia, Spain. Born in the year 1768, died 2nd July, 1818. (White marble slab on pedestals.) ♦Nee Grattan. t Joseph Gallego, of a noble family, of which the distinguished Ferdinand De Lipps was a representative, came to Richmond in the latter part of the eighteen century and engaged as a shop keeper of general merchandise and ship chandlery. He was highly success- ful and became a prominent miller, who gave his name to the famous manufactory known as the "Gallego Mills." His will is of record in the present chancery court of Richmond, and in its specifications of family titles and of intrinsic possessions claims attention as a revelation almost as a page from the "Arabian Nights." St. John's Church. 451 Jane Ann Gathright^ died Octr. 28th, 1813. Sacred to the memory of Temple Gwathmey/^ who died Bee. 26th, 1848, in the 66th year of his age. He was affectionate and devoted in all the relations of son, brother, husband and father, an indulgent master, a kind neighbor and an honest man, and an humble and sincere Christian. He died full of hope that his sins were forgiven him through the merits of his Redeemer. Blessed are the poor in spirit for their's is the Kingdom of Heaven. His wife and daughter, also Henry, son of John J. Werth, lie buried here. Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Ann Maria Gwathmey^ died Sept. 30, 1819, age 35 years. (Buried seventy feet from the main entrance of the cem- etery, and near a large sycamore tree, on the left hand side as you enter the grounds.) Sacred to the memory of Mary Eliza^ daughter of Temple and Anna Maria Gwathmey, born 17th August, 1815. and departed this life 3d Feby., 1819, in the 4th year of her age. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. ♦"Merchant d. u. s. of I., above 17th St.," Richmond Directory of 1819. 452 History Henrico Parish, In memory of Sarah Granger^ wife of William Granger, wlio departed tliis life on the 10th day of August, 1824, aged 25 years. (Marble headstone.) Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Granger^ who died on the 4th day of IsTovember, 1825, aged 24 years. Farewell my husband, wipe off your tears. Here I must lie until Christ appears. And when he comes I hope to rise Unto a life that never dies. In memory of Jane Granger^ daughter of William & Elizabeth Granger, who departed this life July 12, 1834. (Buried near the main entrance of the new Sunday school room. ) Sacred to the memory of James Alexander Granger^ who was born on the 26th day of Eeby., 1823, and died on the 26th day of January, 1824, aged 11 months. JORDICA GOUDROP. (Fragment.) St. John's Church. 453 W. D. G. (Small sandstone headstone.) In memory of Mr. John Hague^ who departed this life June 21st, 1795, aged 37 years. This monument was placed by his wife, Hannah Hague, To mark in future years the spot where he was laid. (Large gray marble slab in footway near the church.) Sacred to the memory of Benj. Hemit^gway^ a native of Hipperholm, near Halifax, Yorkshire, England, who died July 11th, 1800, aged 42 years. This stone was erected to his memory by his consort, Elizabeth, in testimony of that affection which his virtues so justly merited. Here will thy sacred ashes rest Freed from all earthly pain. Thy soul with its Creator blest When we shall next meet again. A. M. Lyon, Richmond. (White marble headstone.) In memory of Mary Hoye^ who died January 27, 1801, age 25 years. (Seventy-seven feet from the Sunday school room, on the south side and about 25 feet from the fence.) 454 History Henrico Parish. James Heroist^ aged 52 years, Sept. 29tli, 1801. In memory of Mr. Samuel Henry, of lira County, Antrim, Ireland, who died the 6th April, 1819, aged 48 years. In memory of Mary Ann Henry^ daughter of John C. & Ann Henry, born 26th June, 1803, and died 19th July, aged 19 days. Here lies the body of Mary Hoge, who departed this life the 27th February, 1804, aged 25 years. (Marble headstone.) Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Patsey Harrison, wife of Jacob Harrison, who departed this life 3rd E'ovember, 1805, in the 31st year of her age. St. John's Church. 455 Here lies the body of William Hodgson^ who departed this life July 28th, 1806, aged 58 years. Blessed are the dead which died in the Lord. (On the side of the brick school-house near a large maple tree.) Sacred to the memory of Robert Harris^ a native of Prince George County, Ya., aged 32 years, died March 3rd, 1825. This tribute of affection is placed here to his remembrance by his wife, Margaret Harris. Sacred to the memory of Julia Ann Harris^ born July 10th, 1806, and deceased the 25th August, 1807, and her brother, born 10th ITov., 1805, and deceased the 16th of the same month. In memory of Sylvester Havey^ a native of Ireland, who died in the year 1810, aged 40 years. (White marble headstone.) 456 History Heneico Pabish, Memory of Elizabetk Ann, wife of Daniel C. Hutchison, who departed this life 23rd J^ovember^ 1813, aged 25 years. (White marble headstone.) In memory of John Hent/ersoi^^ who was born near Money More County, Derry, Ireland. Aged 36 years. Departed this life 5th April, 18 lY. Here lies th© body of Margaret Hendersoit^ consort of John Henderson, born near Inverness, Scotland, May 1st, 1Y96, who departed this life 28th Dec, 1814. Here lies the remains of Margaret^ consort of John Henderson, born in Scotland, died April 5, 1817. In memory of ISTancy^ daughter of John & Margaret Henderson, bom Mch. 22nd, died Sept. Yth, 1814. Here while the silent marble weeps The Husband, Wife and daughter sleeps. Until the last trumpet sounds so to remains Then their spirits shall return again To meet their Redeemer in the sky. St. John's Chukch. 457 In memory of Simon Horan^ born in Harristown, County of Kildare, Ireland. He died Feb. 5tb, 1817, aged 38 years & 10 months. (Gray sandstone headstone.) In memory of Thomas Humes^ who departed this life June 22nd, 1817, in the 17th year of his age. Sacred to the memory of Benjamin Hatch^ of Portland, Maine, who died May 13th, 1826, aged 27. In memory of David Hardy^ a native of Scotland, who departed this life July 20th, 1819, aged 52 years. In memory of David Haedy^ only son of Robert & Sophia Hardy, who departed this life on the 7th September, 1829, aged 2 years. (Marble headstone.) 458 History Heneico Paeish, Jemima Hill^ daughter of J. & A. Hill, born 1789, died 1817. Sacred to the memory of John Hardy^ who departed this life Oct' 28th, 1823, in the 24th year of his age. (Gray sandstone headstone.) Sacred to the memory of Henry Hetii^ Junr.,* who departed this life on the 27th January, 1825, aged 31 years and 22 days. Blessed in all the social ties of life, possessed of every Christian and manly virtue, he resigned his fleeting breath in the true hope and firm belief of the mercies of his redeem- ing Savior. Death's terror is the mountain faith removes. 'Tis faith disarms destruction. Believe and look with triumph on the tomb. Clinton G. Harper. (Fragment.) To the memory of Eliza Ann Harper^ who departed this life August 13th, 1818, aged 2 years and 7 months. Weep not for me my parents dear I am not dead but sleeping here My life Avas short you now may see Prepare for death and follow me. ♦Grand nephew of Col, Wm. Heth, of the Revolution, and collector under Washington of Richmond and Petersburg. St. John's Chuech. 459 To the memory of RicnARD H. Harpek^ who departed this life the 15th day of August, 1805, aged 11 months and 15 days. Here lies the body of an infant son of Wm. Harper^ born and died April 28th, 1806. Here lies the body of Wm. C. Harper^ who died 30th Jan., 1813, aged 2 years, 9 months and 4 days. He is gone to rest where three such as he has gone before and there to praise his God, where pain and sick- ness and death are no more. Here lies the body of Rebeckah a. Harper^ who died the 5th July, 1810, aged 3 months. Peace to thy dusty bed Thou lovely sleeping clay Here rest thy infant head Till the great rising day. Here also rests the body of their adopted son and brother, George W. Huie^ who died in the Faith Deer. 4th, 1826, aged — This soul now rests in — (Fragment.) 460 HisTOEY Heneico Paeish, Sacred to the memory of Rebeccah, consort of Wm. H. Hubbard, who deprvrted this life 9th March, 1831, aged 24 years. Also of Edwaed Augustus^ son of William H. and Rebeccah Hubbard, who died 7th May, 1811. Released from all their earthly cares They reign with him on high. Sacred to the memory of Capt. Geo. P. Hazard^* a native of ^N'ew Port, Rhode Island. Born Dec. 13th, 1796, died March 7th, 1833. (Buried on the west side of the church, near the walk by a lar.o-e sycamore tree. Marble headstone.) Anno Domini 1810. This small tribute of affec- tion was erected in memory of Elizabeth Southerland, and Paul William, two infant children of Paul Jones and Jane, his wife. Tho' 'tis an awful thing to die 'Twas not to thee, Thy spotless souls Triumphant winged their way And now exults in realms Of endless day. (Gray sandstone headstone.) ♦Doubtless of the family of the manufacturers of gunpowder. St. John's Chubch. 461 Here lies the body of Philander Judson^ son of David and Sarah Judson, of New York, who departed this life on the 9th day of June, 1816, aged 23 years. Here lies the body of Mary Jennings^ wife of Timson Jennings, who departed this life April 3, 1817, age 31 years. (Buried ten feet from the southeast corner of the new Sun- day school.) In memory of Reuben Johnson^ who died Oct. 12, 1820, aged 38 years. (Buried near the entrance of the church, in the same plot with Alex. Weddell.) Sacred to the memory of James Jackson^ a native of Scotland, who died the 9th of March, 1826, aged 34 years. Also to the memory of Susanna E. L. infant daughter of J. & B. Jackson, who died the 18th Sept., 1826, aged 19 months. This tribute of respect is sincerely offered by his wife. (Gray sandstone headstone.) 462 History Henrico Parish, Here reposes tlie body of Chaeles Greenhow Jones^ died 12 Aug., 1818. (Opposite the west door of the original church, and about eight feet from it.) Mrs. Jack^ died June 28, 1878. (Buried in Mrs. Ege's section with an iron rail around it, facing the Catholic church, about 20 feet from the wall.) To the memory of RiCHD. Jordan^ son of R. Jordan, who departed this life Sept. 11th, 1817, AE 3 years.' To the memory of Julia Ann Jordan^ infant child of Jordan Departed this life May 10th, 1816, AE 22 days. In memory of Jas. Kinnamond, who died Oct. 6, 1806. (Between the office and Twenty-fifth street wall facing the Catholic church.) Elisabeth Kirby^ died 23rd April, 1818, aged 31 years. (White marble headstone.) St. John's Chuech. 463 In memory of James Kennedy^ a native of the county of Downs, Ireland, who departed this life August 11th, 1823, aged 3Y years. (Gray sandstone headstone.) Sarah King. Peter Knowles^"^ died Dec. 17, 1825, Also his wife, died Jan. 19, 1837. (Buried between the office and the Twenty-fifth street wall.) Miss Ellen King^ also Mrs. Kendrick. (Buried about 6 feet from the keeper's office facing the church. In memory of Sophia Westwood King^ daughter of John and Helen S. King, who was born — ust 23rd, 181—. (Fragment.) In memory of Philicia Sarah Lee^ daughter of Phillip and Mary E., of the county of Westmoreland, born 26th of June, 1811. (Thirty-five feet from the main entrance of the cemetery, and four feet from the Broad street- fence- on the left side of the walk as you enter the grounds.) ♦Parents probably of the late John H. Knowles, for years Superin- tendent of the City Gas Works. 464 History Henrico Parish, Sacred to the memory of Jane^ consort of Francis Le Cler, a native of Glassford Parish, Scotland. Died 18th Is^ov., 1851,. in the 58th year of his age. 'Note. — ^^A sycamore tree two feet in diameter has grown up over his grave just inside of the headstone. I. H. S. Sacred to the memory of Franics Le Cler^ a native of Loraine, France, aged 38 years, died Oct 22nd, 1824. This tribute of -affection is placed here to his memory by his wife — Jane Le Cler. (Eemainder indistinct.) E. L. (White marble headstone.) In memory of James B. Lester^ who died Sept. 24th, 1802, aged 15 years. (White marble headstone.) Rev. Lewis W. Burton, 1884-1893. St. John's Chukcii. 405 In memory of John Lester^ merchant of the city of Richmond, who departed this life the 19th day of December, 1804, aged 56 years. And two of his children, William and Edmund. This stone is erected by his wife, Sarah. He was born at Saul, Suffolk county. Great Britain. ^o pampered verse or sculptured stone Shall vaunt how lineage ran ; Write this upon the heart alone Here lies an Honest Man. (White marble slab on pedestals.) In memory of George Lester^ who died May 18th, 1815, aged 23 years. (White marble headstone.) Capt. John Lester^ who died Aug. 26th, 1870. Also his wife who died Dec. 14, 1830, age 31 years. (Buried near the southern corner of the church.) LuNFORD Taylor Lomax^ born at Fortress Monroe, Sept. 15, 1823. Died at Bellona Arsenal, July 24th, 1827. Suffer little children and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. 30 466 HisTOEY Henrico Parish, Wm. Lumsden^ born in Dysancl, Scot., 1783, died 1831. Agnes Yulle^ relict of the above, born in Dlmfarmline, Scot., 1788, died 1870. Wm. Lumsden^ died 1st Oct., 1820, aged 19 months. Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Agnes Leamoth^ a native of Scotland, who died on the 7th of May, 1828, in the 62nd year of her age. Also sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Lumsdei^^ spouse of Alexander Gallic, a native of Scrathmiglo, Fife Shire, Scotland, born June 30th, 1815, died July 12th, 1838, aged 23 years and 12 days. Also is deposited the remains of John, son of Alexander and Elizabeth Gallic, born on the 20th April, 1837, died September 7th, 1838, aged 16 months and 17 days. Tha na clockin so air choir snas le fiet Porda agus athar namae cribt Alaster Gallic, tho Shire Rapalba. St. Joiin^s Church. 467 In memory of Joseph Lovell_, of Boston, Mass., who died Oct. 9, 1784, aged 19 years. (Bnried between the church and the wall facing the Cath- olic church.) In memory of Lucy Angeleu Leiper^* died March 1st, 1797, aged 23 months, . 10 days. \ In memory of the domestic worth and professional merit of Dr. Andrew Leiper/' who died Oct. I7th, 1798, aged 81 years. (Buried near the corner of Twenty-fifth and Grace streets, close to the wall. ) Here lies the body of Elizabeth Logak_, the spouse of David Logan, who departed this life December 4th, 1804, aged 33 years and 9 months. *Presumed to be the daughter of Dr. Adam Leiper, a distinguished physician of the early decades of the nineteen century, who was a pupil under Dr. Benj. Reesh (the signer of the Declaration of Inde- pendence. Wm. Henry Harrison, President of the United States, was a student of medicine in the office of Dr. Adam Leiper. fHe was a student of medicine in the office of Dr. Benjamin Reesh (signer of the Declaration of Independence), in Philadelphia, Pa., and, in turn, Wm. Henry Harrison, President of the United States, studied medicine under Dr. Andrew Leiper in Richmond. The name Leiper has been perpetuated in the worthy families of Crouch and Robinson, with whom his descendants intermarried 468 History Heneico Parish, Here lies the body of Mary Loga^^^ wife of David Logan, wlio departed this life the 8th of March, 1809, aged 25 years. Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Elizabeth Aubin Laforest^* who departed this life the ITth May, 1808, aged 29 years. Peter Aubin Laforest^ who departed this life the 27th January, 1807, aged 12 months. John B. Aubin Laforest^ who departed this life the 4th October, 1806, aged 8 days. (Large white marble slab 4 feet by 7 feet 6 inches on brick vault. "Jas. Traquin Shi,. Fecit.") In memory of John Lockheart^ who was born — of September, 1808, and died 8th July, 1810. In memory of Sutherland Jackson^ son of Jas. and Ann Lurvey, who died 7th July, 1844, aged 20 years. *Nee Lipscomb, a daughter, perished in the lamentable burning of the Richmond Theatre, December 26, 1811. St. John's Church. 469 In memory of Elizabeth Lyle^* who died June IStli, 1819, age 65 years. (Buried near the main entrance of the church, in the same plot with Eev. Alex. W. Weddell, D. D., deceased, and be- loved rector of this church.) Scared to the memory of Mrs. Mary C. Lackland^ (with her infant here entombed) daughter of Samuel and Sarah White, and wife of Matthew C. Lackland. This humble monument of her worth and virtue has been erected by the survivor of their happiness. Farewell my best beloved, whose heavenly mind Genius with virtue, strength with softness joined, ITnblamed, imequal in each sphere of life The tenderest daughter, sister, friend and wife. Obeit 1st October, Anno Domini 1820, Etatis Suae 24. (Marble slab.) In memory of Capt. John Lawrence^ a delegate from the County of Isle of Wight, who during the session of the Assembly was called hence on the 4th day of February, 1821. *James Lyle, a worthy and enterprising citizen of Richmond, built "Lyle's Row," a block of business houses which formerly stood on the south side of Main street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. 470 History Henrico Parish, Samuel McCkaw^* born Saturday, April 15tli, 1797, and died Jnne lOth, 1797, Sleep on dear babe and take your rest,, God called yon and tlionglit it best. (Buried in front of the Avest door, about 6 feet.) Lucy B. McCraw^ born Tuesday, 23rd August, 1795, died Tuesday, 18tb September, "l795. (Gray sandstone beadstone.) Here lies the body of Mrs. Mary Magee^ who departed this life the 1st May, 1789, aged 66 years. (White marble slab on brick vault.) In memory of Huair Moore^ stone cutter, a native of Boston, Mass., died Sept. 27th, 1814, in his 30 year of his age. (Thirty feet from the main entrance of the cemetery on the left hand side, one foot from the walk.) In memory of Charles Moore^ who departed this life February 5th, 1790. ♦Son of Samuel McCraw, attorney-at-law. ■X- St. John's Chuech. 471 Here lies interred the body of James McClurg^ M. D. In life arraired and honoured for learning, taste and gen- ins, and venerated for virtue; of studious and retired habits, yet of the most easy and polished manners; of the readiest and happiest wit, tempered with modesty and benignity, with a native dignity of character and deportment always sus- tained without effort, united with unaffected simplicity, and softened with the utmost suavity of temper formed to delight, instruct and adorn society. His conversation and acquaint- ance were courted by the most distinguished persons. of his country and his age. Having studied his profession in the most celebrated schools of Europe, and distinguished him- self, even in youth, by the elegance and ability of his writ- ings, he was early placed without pretension on his part by common consent abroad and at home in the highest rank among its professors, which he occupied for half a century. In old age, cheerful and tranquil, his mental faculties unim- paired, the serenity of his temper undisturbed, even his social gayety to the last by the decay and infirmities of the body ; honored, loved, revered ; content to live, content to die with equal mind he sunk to rest on the 9th day of July, A. D. 1823. In the Y8th year of his age. In memory of John Maxwell^ born 2nd, Bee, 1796. Died — Balance illegible. *Son of Dr. Walter McClimg, of the British Navy; member of the Council of State of Virginia, and of the Federal Constitutional Con- vention of 1788; a highly accomplished man; author of Medical Es- says and of some pleasing Verrs de societe, entitled the "Belles of Williamsburg," written in 1777. His death was the result of injuries received in the running away of the horses of his carriage. His resi- dence was a large square brick structure at the northeast corner of Sixth and Grace streets, long the residence of his grandson, the ven- erable and widely beloved James Brown McCaw, M. D. (son of Dr. James Drew McCaw), still happily among us. The structure was a few years ago demolished and the site is occupied by tenements erected by Virginius Newton, Esq. 472 History Henrico Parish, Here also lies the body of his affectionate and beloved wife, Elizabeth McClurg^ danghter of Gary Selden, Esq., who died the 28th day of July, 1815, aged 54 years. To the memory of her venerated parents Elizabeth Sehljn Wickham and her husband, John Wickham,* erect this monument. (Square marble chancel surmounted by an urn.) Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Mary Turner Meriam_, consort of George Meriam, who departed this life March 16th, 1839, aged 38 years and 28 days. Also her infant daughter Mary Ann, died June 3rd, 1839, aged 2 months and 24 days. All you who know her worth Will offer for her and the infant dear The tribute of affection's tear. (Marble headstone.) In memory of Aaron Eames Meriam, a native of Mass., who died Oct. 5, 1823, aged 20 years. (Slate headstone.) *John Wickham, a distinguished lawyer, was one of the counsel of Aaron Burr in his celebrated trial for treason in Richmond in 1807. St. John^s Church. 473 Sacred to the memory of George Meria.m,* a native of Massachusetts, and a resident of this city- forty years prior to his death. Born Dec. 6th, 1794. Died April 5th, 1857. For as in Adam all die. Even in Christ all shall he made alive. — 1st Corr. xv. 22. (White marble headstone.) Sacred to the memory of JoHis^ Adams^ son of Mary T. and George Meriam, departed this life September 30th, 1838. Sacred to the memory of George Hudsot^^^ only son of George and Mary T. Meriam, who departed this life August 27, 1826. ♦George Meriam, a successful ship broker of Richmond, died a few years ago. His daughter, Miss Virginia, hold interment in the appealing St. John's Church. 474 History Henrico Parish, Sacred to the memory of Cynthia Victoria^ daughter of Mary T. and George Meriam, departed this life April 6th, 1839, aged 1 year, 8 months and 8 days. Sacred to the memory of John Meriam, Jr., of Massachnsetts, born Oct. 2nd, 1790, and departed this life November 27th, 1827. Sacred to the memory of John Adams^ son of Mary T. and George Meriam, departed this life February 13th, 1836. To the memory of Aderlaide^. danghter of George and Mary T. Meriam, who died Feby. 2nd, 1832, aged 1 year and 1 month. St. John's Chuech. 475 E. P. M. (White marble headstone lying down near the church door.*) J. S. M. (Gray sandstone headstone.) In memory of Thos. Minor^ who died January 26th, 1846, age 49 years. (Buried between the church and the main entrance, 30 feet from the gate, near a large sycamore tree.) In memory of Sarah Minor^ died Feb. 26, 1846, age 44 years. It being only four weeks since her beloved husband was committed to the grave. (Buried between the church and the main entrance of the cemetery, near a sycamore tree.) Dedicated filial piety to parental love. The grave of Joseph and Jane Mayo^ Honour thy Father and thy Mother. (White marble shaft.) *Happily, the burial stones in the appealing cemetery were for years objects of ruthless disfiguration by the idle and thoughtless, and many were shamefully maimed. For years, it has been stated, that cows were allowed to graze in the hallowed enclosure. About 1875 the late Thomas H. Wynne, of venerating spirit, was chairman of a committee appointed by the City Council to see to the disposition of an annual appropriation for the care of the cemetery. An early exercise by the committee was the recutting of disfigured epitaphs and the gathering up of fragmentary tombstones and their subse- quent preservation by securing them with iron clamps to the walls of the grounds at its southeast point on the Twenty-fifth street side. 476 History Henrico Parish, In memory of Mary Ann^, wlio died Augt. 30, 1821, aged 10 months and 20 days, and of Wm. Armstrong^ who died Oct. 11, 1829, aged 2 years, children of John and Rebecca McKeage. In memory of Margaret Foster^ daughter of J. H. and M. A. Morrison, born 26 June, 1847. Died 8 Sept., 1847. Sacred to the memory of Capt. John Moss^ who departed this life on the 14th December, 1813, aged 63 years. Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Sarah Moss^ wife of Capt. John Moss, who departed this life on the 19th October, 1813, aged 66 years. (Both of above white marble slabs on brick vaults.) St. John's Church. 477 In memory of Dak^iet. McDebmott^ who died Oct. 6, 1814, a native of Ireland, County of Dusmegal, and parish of Fahan. (Buried in the rear of the vestry room of the church, near a large cedar tree. About 20 feet high, the top was blown off in a very severe storm.) In memory of Adolphous Marquis^ son of Elijah and Sarah Marquis, who died 22d ^N'ov., 1811, aged 1 year, 7 months and 20 days. (Gray sandstone headstone.) In memory of Martha Ann Marquis, daughter of Elijah and Sarah Marquis, who departed this life the 12th day of October, 1816, aged five years and six months. (Gray sandstone headstone.) Robert P. Moody, who died the 2Sth day of August, 1812, aged 14 years and 10 months. Let not man sigh or idle tears be shed. Those common rites are paid to common dead. Of grief if grief exceed a sigh or tear. 478 History Henrico Parish, In memory of Joseph A. Myers^* son of the late Joseph A. Myers. The deceased was born Oct. 27th, A. D. 1799, and departed this life Feb. 14th, A. D. 1834, in the 35th year of his age. He met the approach of death with the calmness resignation and steadfast hope which mark the last hours of the honest man and Christian. (White marble slab on pedestals.) In memory of John S. Myers^ who was born Oct. 2d, 1798, and died July 6th, 1836. 'Not my will, but Thine, O Lord, be done. (White marble slab on pedestal.) In memory of Lewis Myees^ native of Leichtenburg, Germany, who died Feb. 24, 1800. aged 36 years. Reader, Who'er thou art, whatever thy sins, repent; For night may come e'er thoughtless noon is spent. Grim death, too, here conveys the unerring dart, ^or heeds the orphan's cries nor widoAvs breaking heart. *In the Richmond Directory of 1819 (the first published by John Maddox, a "Quaker," or of the Society of Friends). "Joseph A. Myers" appears as clerk of the old market, i. s., of E St. (Main) between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, second from the Union Hotel. There were others of the name in Richmond who were prominent. Some assuredly were of the Jewish race. The name is to-day promi- nently represented in Richmond and elsewhere in Virginia. St. John^s Chubch. 479 Here lies the remains of Louisa^ the daughter of Lewis Myers. She quit this life that happiness to know Which none on earth hath power to bestow. Departed this life 1803, EVILINIA S. Myers. (Gray sandstone headstone.) In memory of Mrs. Susannah Myees^ who departed this life the 11th Sep., 1815, aged 43 years. Capt. Joseph A. Myers^ was born on the 24th of May, A. R 1765, & departed this life on the 29th of September, A. D. 1827, M 62 y's, 4 mo. & 5 d's. The deceased was a native of ISTew York, & emigrated to this City at an early age, where he continued to reside till the close of his life. (White marble slab on pedestals.) To the memory of James Gillis Mutter^ who departed this life on the 6th June, 1814, aged 12 months and thirteen days. 480 HisTOBY Heneico Parish, To the memory of Mrs. EiJZABETH Myers^ relict of the late Capt. Joseph A. Myers, who was born on the 25th day of Oct., A. D. 1769, and departed this life suddenly on the evening of the 11th day of Jan., A. D. 1829, JE 59 years, 2 mo. & 10 days. Seized by apoplexy, she became its victim in less than 8 hours. The deceased was the only daughter of John & Eva Stubblefield,* natives of the State, & was born in the County of James City, where she re- mained during the two first years of her infancy, when her parents removed from thence tO' the County of Charles City. Deprived by death at a very early age of parental care. An orphan, she was committed to the care of her maternal uncle, and when about 14 y's of age removed with him to this city, where she continued to reside till death sealed her earthly existence. D. Kitter & Son, IST. Haven, Conn. (White mable slab on pedestals.) In memory of William Mitchell., f son of the late Thomas Mitchell, of Kilmannock, in Scotland, born on the 16th day of January, 1791, and died on the 1st day of December, 1822. Beneath this stone lieth the remains of one whose virtues endeared him to many hearts; few have been so loved, so lamented. (White marble slab on pedestal enclosed with iron railing.) ♦The Stubblefield family, of East Virginia, and in Stafford and Spotsylvania counties, have been prominent, socially, and in official position. fWm., of the firm of "Wm. & G. H. Mitchell," appears in the Rich- mond Directory of 1819, as "E. S. of 14th St., D & E streets." Rev. Robert A. Goodwin, 1893, and Present Rector. St. John's Chuech. 481 In memory of John McCeedie^ late merchant of this city, a native of Scotland, who was born Oct. 17th, 1770, and was killed by a sentinel on his way to assist in extinguishing a fire at the barracks, February 4th, 1807. He was correct and honorable in disposition, benevolent and humane. This monument was erected by his affectionate relict. In memory of J^ANCY McCkedie^ wife of the late John McCredie^ was born the 11th June, 1777, and departed this life the 26th June, 1822. (This is inscribed by her affectionate children.) (White marble slab on brick vault.) In memory of William Mitchell^* a native of Kilmannock, in Scotland, but many years a citizen of Virginia, and a respectable merchant of this city. He died February 10th, 1805, aged 60 years. For integrity of heart and that charity of mind which thinketh no evil, he was eminently distinguished. He lived respected and died sincerely regretted, best beloved by those who knew him best. (White marble slab on pedestals enclosed by iron railing.) *Father of Wm. Mitchell, Jr., of the firm of Mitchell & Tyler, jewelers. 31 4^2 History Henbico Parish, (Fragment.) John Ma — who departed this life ^OY. 17, 1801, aged 42 years. In memory of Charlotte McBride, the wife of John McBride, who was born the 16th day of March, 1785, and died the 10th of August, 1803. (Gray sandstone headstone.) James McBride. In memory of John McDonald^ a native of Inverness, Scotland, died 27th October, 1815, aged 34 years. Margaret, wife of John McDonald, a native of Inverness, Scotland, died 27th Oct., 1815, ^ 34 years. Margaret sleep soft thou filled thy sphere in life A tender mother^ a fond feeling wife Thrice happy spirit: Faith in vision bright Beholds thee robed in glory's living light D'ear Sainted Margaret from the realms of bliss View al] that loved thee wrapt in deep distress View them before they brave the distant wave Bend in mute anguish o'er thy humble grave. (White marble slab on brick vault.) To the memory of Mrs. Mary Matthew, who died Jan. 13, 1820, age 62 years. (Buried in the rear of the Sunday school room.) St. John's Chueoh. 483 Sacred to the memory of Charles McGinniss^ a native of Ireland, but for many years a citizen of this city, who died Aug. 19, 1841, in 50 year of his age. Sum up his character as a Christian. He was an Israelite indeed in whom there was no guile. This stone is a monument of the devoted affection of his bereaved, surviving widow, who however rejoices in the hope of the resurrection of the just. And to be a partaker with her beloved husband. In the Saints' everlasting rest. Glory to God in the highest. (Buried 30 feet from the walk and near the main en- trance, on the right-hand side as you enter the gate.) In memory of Ann Matthews^ born August 1st, 1786, died 24th Jany, 1817, consort of George Matthews, and daughter of James and Ann Hill. When Christ who is our life shall appear Then shall we all so appear. Also the remains of her infant child deposited in the grave. Thomas Maule^* died 1st Mo. 19th, 1818, aged 63 years and 1 month. Maegaret Maule^ departed this life 1st Mo. 27th, 1835, aged 65 years and 9 months. ♦Father of the late Thos. W. Maule. 484 History Henrico Parish, In memory of Andrew McNeil^ son of Alex, and Elizabetb MclSTeil, who died April 19, 182— age T months. Also Sarah Taylor^ January 14th, 1791. (Buried near the main entrance of the new Sunday school.) To the memory of Daniel McFall^ who died Nov. 5th, 1837, in the 56th year of his age, a native of Londonderry, Ireland, and for 24 years a resident of Richmond, Va. Also Mary^ consort of Daniel McFall, who died April 25th, 1832, in the 45th year of her age, a native of Philadelphia. (Square chancel of marble surmounted by an urn.) Also in memory of Eliza Caroline^ who died August 27, 1816, aged 9 months. Also Elvania, who died May 4th, 1821, aged 18 months. Also Robert James, who died August 23rd, 1837, aged 2 years and 7 months, children of Daniel and Mary McFall. St. John's Chukch. 485 Sacred to the memory of James McKenzie, a native of Ross Shire, Scotland, who departed this life on the 22nd of Oct., 1827, aged 53 years. Here lies the body of Henry Mettert^ who departed this life June lYth, 1822, in the 46th year of his age. The affection of Mildred, his widow, has caused this stone to be erected to his memory. This monument is consecrated to the memory of Thomas Nicolson^ late printer of this city, who died the 10th day of ^^Tovember, 1808, aged 58 years. As a neighbor, friend and relation he was kind, benevolent and attentive and strictly upright in his conduct to all. A lover of order, He was universally regular and correct in his manners. To crovni all he was a real friend to religion • and indefatigable in his endeavors to make its public service pleasing as well as useful. (White marble slab on brick vault.) (Buried between the office and the main entrance of the church.) 486 History Henkico Paeish, Here lies the body of Robert Nicolson^ who departed this life on the 14th day of July, 1797, aged 72 years. (White marble headstone.) Mrs. Elizabeth Jacquelin IN'oeton^ died August 24, 1798, wife of Daniel I^orboune ITorton, and only child of Daniel* and Lucy Nelson Call. Through life she performed with exemplary piety the duties of a wife and daughter. She displayed pre-eminently those endearing qualities which most engage the affections While with pious hope, she sought a heavenly inheritance. Her weeping mother hath consecrated this monument to her memory. (White marble slab on pedestals near the church — so much defaced as to be hardly legible.) Sacred to the memory of Mary ISTicholas, wife of P. JSr. iN'icholas, t and daughter of John and Elizabeth Spear, of Baltimore. She was born July 10th, 1780, and died the 26th April, 1820. Her talents, her virtues and her goodness Made her a blessing and an ornament of this life. Her unaffected piety, and fine faith in the Goodness and intercession of a Saviour Gave her the fullest assurance of a happy immortality. *Daniel Call, distinguished lawyer; editor of "Call's Virginia Re- ports." t Judge Philip Norborn Nicholas. St. John's Chuech. 487 Sacred to the memory of Isabella E'eilson, a native of the county of Donegal, Ireland, who died January 29th, 1825, aged 39 years. May her soul rest in peace. In memory of John Oliver^ son of Robt. and Rebecca Oliver, who died April 1st, 1817, age 6 years. (Buried 40 feet from the main entrance of the cemetery, near a large sycamore tree.) Sacred to the memory of Jekamiah O' Sullivan^ a native of Killarney, County of Kerry, Ireland Died on the 31st of Aug., 1840, in the 54th year of his age. May he rest in peace. Amen. (Buried near the southeast corner of the churchyard.) Sacred to the memory Mrs. Mary Ann, consort of Mr. Dennis O'Connor, a native of Bantrybay, County of Cork, Ireland, who departed this life ISTovember the 3rd, 1840, aged 27 years. May she rest in peace. Amen. 488 History Henrico Parish, Sacred to the memory of Caroline S. Otey^ wife of Jolm Otey, who died March 30th, 1841, in the 31st year of her age, This stone was erected by him who knew her best and can best estimate her worth. Also her infant daughter, Lucy Ann^ aged 2 months, 9 days. John W. Otey^ died 'Nov. 7th, 1873. (Buried in the rear of the church, about 50 feet frOm the west door.) In memory of Mrs. Rachel Poindexter^ a native of the State of JSTew Jersey, and consort of James H. Poindexter, of this city, who departed this life April 10th, 1833. Here also lies Sarah Cornelia, daughter of James and Rachel Poindexter, aged 5 months. Capt. William Pearson, departed this life June 2nd, 1833, in his 36th year. Also his wife, Mary Anna, departed this life Oct. 9th, 1849, in her 49 th year. (White marble slab on brick vault.) St. John's Church. 489 Kev. John T. Points^ born in Staimton, Va., October 18tb, 1830. Died June lOtb, 1860. Erected by the Ladies of St. John's Church and his Masonic* brethren in grateful remembrance of his labour and love amongst them. Elected Pastor of St. John's Church October 26th, 1859, and entered upon his duties ITovember 6th, 1859. Our Pastor Our Brother. (Handsome marble shaft on plinth of same material, en- closed with iron railing. ) (Gray sandstone.) In memory of Enoch Perry^ who was born July 9th in the year of our Lord 1805, and departed this life 12th May, in the year of our Lord 1835. Rachel Perry. (Remainder illegible.) John Paul^ born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and his wife, Judith Virginia Hii.don, bom in Richmond, Ya. ♦He was Grand Master of Masons in Virginia. 490 BLisTOKY Henrico Pabish, In memory of EUDORA SWARTOUT PeTTTJS, consort of James C. Pettus, and daughter of Col. Francis Wicker^ born June 20th, 1811, died June 20th, 1836. This monument was erected by her affectionate husband to mark the spot in future where she was laid, who with three little children mourn her early loss, and to whom she was a devoted wife and mother. In memory of CoRAziE Ann Porter^ daughter of James A. Porter and Sarah, his wife, who departed this life on the 22nd day of September, 1818, aged 2 years and 9 months. Sacred to the memory of John Plantie^ a native of France, who departed this life the 10th May, 1820. This stone is placed here by a loving and affectionate wife. Thou whom within these hallowed Walls shall move Know that the stone was fix'd By generous love. St. John's Church. 491 Sacred to the memory of Josephine Virginia Plantie. Born Feb. 13, 1818. Died Jan. 21, 1833. Sacred to the memory of John Plantie, son of John and Martha Plantie. Born Feb. 25, 1820. Died Dec. 18, 1822, aged 2 years and 10 months. Sacred to the memory of Mr. Samuel Pointer,* who departed this life July 12th, 1808, aged 38 years. ^ In memory of John Purse, a native of County Down, Ireland, who departed this life the 1st Jany., 1814, aged 42 years. (Thick white marble headstone.) In memory of Mary T. Pulling, wife of Thos. Pulling, died 'Nov. 20, 1817, age 27 years. (Between the main entrance and the new Sunday school room. ) *An early Superintendent of the Virginia Penitentiary. 492 Hjstoby Henrico Paeish, Sacred to the memory Allan Pollock^ mLerchant, born in Glasgow, Scotland, 20th Jany., 1786, died at his house Chelsea, near Richmond, 29th Jany., 1816. (Marble slab on pedestals enclosed by iron railing.) In memory of Capt. Cyrus Palmer^ son of Dea. Jedidiah Palmer, of Preston, Connecticut, who died Oct. 6, 1795, age 26 years. (Buried right up against the front of the old brick school house.) In memory of Eliz'h, wife of David Perkins, who departed this life July 29th, 1801, aged 26 years. Also Pebecca^ daughter of David Eliz'h Perkins, who departed this life July 30th, 1801, aged 17 months. (Gray slab headstone.) In memory of Polly Perkins^ who departed this life mv. 11th, 1800, aged 10 months. In memory of Eliz'h Perkins^ who departed this life Oct. 31st, 1800, aged 2 years and 8 months. St. John's Church. 493 To the memory of John Lewis Price^ beloved and only child of Henry Wm. Price and Sarah, his wife, was born 28th of Sept., 1788, and departed this life 6th Sept., 1806. (White marble headstone.) Gov. John Page. Spe Labor Levis. Died Oct. 11th, 1808, a^ed 64 years. Blessed are they which die in the Lord. (Buried at the southeast corner of the church.) In memory of Priscilla K. Peck^ dau2:hter of Simon Peck. (Fragment.) (Fragment.) Here lays the body of Judith Prichard^ who died . James A. Porter. In memory of CoRANNE Ann Porter^ daughter of James A. Porter and Sarah, his wife, who departed this life on ^the 22 of September, 1818, aged 2 years and 9 months. Sleep lovely babe And take thy Rest God took thee home He thought it best. 494 HisTOEY Henrico Parish, Ebenezer Parker. 1749 1831 Iron tablet erected by S. A. R. In memory of Louis Pizzini^ infant son of Juan and C. Y. Pizzini, bom June 14tb, 1837, and died September 30th, • 1840. Here lyetb the body of Robert Pose^"^ Rector of Albemarle Parish. His extraordinary Genius and Capacity, in all the polite and usefull Arts of Life, iho equaled by few were yet exceeded by the great Goodness of his Heart Humanity Benovolence and Charitv ran through the whole course of his Life and were exerted with uncommon Penetration and Judgement upon their proper Object, without INToise or Ostentation. In his Friendships, he was warm and steady, in his Manners gentle and easy, in his Conversation entertaining and instructive, With the most tender piety he discharged all domes- tick Duties of Husband, Father, Son and Brother. In short He was a friend to the whole human Race and upon that principle a strenuous Assertor and Defender of Liberty. He died the 30th day of June, 1751, in the 47th year of his age. (Buried opposite the east door, 20 feet from the church.) ♦Of a noble Scotch family. He was the friend and executor of Gov. Alexander Spotswood, and his descendants in Virginia and the South are held in the highest social regard. St* John's Chubch. 495 Albert Rose. Died 1754. Yir Probus et integer. (Buried at the east door in the rear of Robert Rose's grave, facing the east door.) In memory of Frances Rowland^ who was born August 11th, 1779, and departed this life August 25th, 1785, aged 6 years and 14 days. In memory of of Robert L. Rawlings^ who departed this life 11th Sept., 1789, aged 41 years amd 6 months. (Coarse mottled marble headstone.) In memory Mr. Charles Rothery^ printer, who departed this life March 10th, 1795, aged 19 years and 8 months. Sacred to the memory of Henry T. Reeve^ a native of Long Island, State of New York, who departed this life 10th April, 1821, aged 27 years. Reader, prepare to meet thy God. (Red sandstone headstone.) 496 History Heneico Pabish, Here lies the body of Andrew Ronald,* Attorney at Law, of the city of Richmond, who died on the 1st day of June, 1799, aged 57 years. His legal knowledge, strict integrity and indefatigable attention to the duties of his profession procured him general confidence and an extensive practice. This monument is consecrated to his memory by the conjugal affection of Catherine, his widow. (Marble slab on brick vault.) Sacred to the memory of Andrew White, son of Garret I. and Margaret Raymond, who departed this life April 29th, 1827, aged 2 years and 7 months. (Marble headstone.) Sacred to the memory of Wm. D. Rust, son of I. S. and A. Rust. Obit. April 6th, 1821, aged 1 year, 5 months and 18 days. ♦Andrew Ronald appears in records with the title of "Gineral" — of the militia or State forces, doubtless. Wm. Ronald, his brother, was an estimable citizen. A daughter of the latter, Jane 2, became the wife of Nicholas Mills, a successful merchant and writer of Chesterfield county, whose residence at the northeast corner of Eighth and Leigh streets, with adjacent grounds, largely devoted to a garden, was an attraction to citizens and visitors for many years. The armory of the Richmond Howitzers, on north Eighth street, near Duval, is on the lot known as the City Springs lot, which was formerly owned by Nicholas Mills. Rev. Jas. W. Shields, Assistant Minister, 1874. Rev. Lyman B. Wharton, Assistant Minister, 1883. Rev. f. M. Burch, Assistant Minister, 1883-1884. Key. W'm. B. Everett, M. D. Assistant Minister, 1885-1886. St. John^s Chuech. 497 Here are deposited the remains of Lavinia^ consort of Beverly'^ Kandolph, and daughter of Harry and J^ancy Heth. She departed this life on the 15th March, 1815, in the 28 th year of her age. It is left to the flowing tears and deep grief of all that knew her to speak in silent eloquence her funeral applause : for such was the engaging manners, such the amiable virtues of Lavinia Randolph that no one ever lived more beloved or died more lamented, to her precious memory parental and conjugal affection consecrates this stone. In the grave for a while she must lie. But in peace and silence profound; That when Jesus shall call from the sky She may instantly awake at the sound. ye parents and husband who grieve, Let this consolation remain. That the day will most surely arrive When you'll see your Lavinia again. By a friend. In memory of Nicholas B. S. Rind; died March 12th, 1845, aged 48. Our Mother, Mary C. Royster^ died Feb. 14, 1858, aged 82 years. She rests in peace. ♦Misrendered, should be Beverley. 32 498 History Henrico Parish, Sacred tO' the memory of Sarah^ consort of Henry Raymond, who departed this life JSTov. 8th, 1823, in the 37th year of her age. Also of Mrs. Mary Hazlett^ who departed this life March 21st, 1821, in the 75th year of her age. Also in memory of Mary Elizabeth^ daughter of James & Mary Hazlett, who died Oct. 1st, 1825, aged 1 year & 2 days. (White marble slab, brick vanlt.) ^ YouEL Rust. (Fragment.) Fred Rust^ Obit. April 6, 1821, aged one year, 5 months & 18 days. (Sixty feet from the main entrance of the old Sunday school.) In memory of Elizabeth^ wife of Robert Robinson. Died I^ov. 15th, A. D. 1803. (White marble headstone.) St. John^s Chuech. 499 Sacred to the memory of Eliza C. Ross^ who departed this life in the icity of Richmond 24th December, 1817. She was the daughter of John & Priscilla Miller, & born 12th April, 1790. Married to Randolph Ross in Lexington, Virginia, 17th July, 1810. Issue, five children. Her sufferings for nearly 14 months previous to the awful dispensation was only surpassed by an elevation of mind the offspring of an approving conscience. To her the icy arms of Death had no terror. She died as she had lived with the exclamation: I am happy, I am happy. In her three surviving children lost the most tender and endearing mother a disconsolate husband the most affectionate wife. May the Guardian Angel of Heaven conduct them whilst here in the paths of that virtue of which she was a bright example, prays her most devoted and affectionate husband, Randolph Ross. (White marble slab, formerly on pedestals and enclosed by iron railing; the former thrown down and broken into several fragments; the latter has been carried off, with the exception of one side of the enclosure, which is still stand- ing.) In memory of Benjntett Ralston^ who died July 27, 1834, aged 57 years. (Buried near the main entrance of the church, in the same plot with Dr. Alex. W. Weddell.) In memory of Peter Ralstoist^* who died August 22d, 1822, aged about 43 years. Marble headstone.) ♦His son, Peter W. Ralston, died highly respected a few years ago. 500 History Henkico Parish, Sacred to tlie memory of William Ryan^ born in Cashill, County of Tipperary, Ireland; died August 12th, 1824, aged 50 years. Also his wife, Catherine, died July lOth, 1826, aged 40 years. Also Patrick Ryan^ son of the above William and Catherine Ryan, died September 15th, 1840, aged 21 years. Affection sore long time I bore. Physicians' skill was vain. Till God pleased that death should seize And ease me of my pain. (White marble headstone.) J. R. (Fragment.) In memory of Jo AN A. Richards, who departed this life 3d Peby., 1819, in the 39 year of his age. A native of Ipswich, Mass. In memory of James Re at, who died Peb. 18, 1815, in the 33 year of his age. (Buried 30 feet from the main entrance of the church, pointing towards the new Sunday school room.) St. John''s Church. 501 In memory Janet Russell^ a native of Falkirk^ Scotland, who departed this life Sept. 24th, 1803, aged 68 years. Gray sandstone headstone.) E. R. (Gray sandstone headstone, lying down near church door.) This stone is erected to the memory of James Ritchie^ who departed this life Sept. 14th, 1838, aged 24. In memory of the infant son of James & Christiana Ritchie. Born the 20th, & died 22 Oct., 1818. Suffer little children to come unto Me. This stone is erected to the memory of James Ritchie^ Jb,_, who departed this life Sept. 14, 1838, age 1, 24. 502 HiSTOBY Hensico Parish, In memory of William^ son of James & Christiana Ritchie, who was born July 22, 1800, and • died May 9th, 1812. Sacred to the memory of George Ritchie^ a native of Fif eshire, Scotland ; born Apl. 9th, 1Y92, died Oct. 30th, 1835. Also William^ William D. & Georgiana^ all infant children of George & Mary Ritchie. In memory of Thomas^ son of James &; Christiana Ritchie. (Fragment.) Sacred to the memory of James Graham Smith, son of Andrew & Isabella Smith, who died on the 4th Feb., 1821, aged 4 years. St. John's Chuech. 503 Sacred to the memory of Robert Safford_, late of Boston, Massachusetts, who departed this life on the 6th July, 1817, in the 27th year of his age. The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when they sleep in dust. In memory of Geo. Smith^ son of Dalrymple Smith & Mary Falconer. Born 17th June, 1793, died Oct. 12th, 1820. Also Lilly Smith^ daughter of D. S. & M. E. Born July 2nd, 1805, died June 18th, 1828. Sacred to the memory of Mr. Charles Southgate^ who departed this life March 1st, 1818, in the 58th year of his age. As a poet and musician few were his equals. What though his body turns to dust, That God in whom he placed his trust Has raised his soul from nature's bed -, Then seek him not among the dead. That soul which glowed with music's fire Has joined a bright celestial choir. 504 History HEisriiico Parish, Sacred to the memory of Sarah Aistn Smith^ wife of Capt. Edmond Smith., of 'New Jersey, and daughter of Benjamin & Kachel Weath^rby, who departed this life Sept. 23rd, 1826, aged 19 years, Y months, and 23 days. Return my friends and cease to weep, Whilst in Christ Jesus here I sleep. Prepare yourselves, your souls to save, There's no repentance in the grave. Stop my friends as you pass by. As you are now so once was I, As I am now, you soon must be, Prepare yourselves to follow me. Also entered by her side her infant child. Sacred to the memory of Francis Strobia^ born May 6th, 178Y, died Feb. 28th, 1815. (Granite chancel inlaid with marble panels and sur- mounted by a granite shaft.) l^ICHOLAS BrOWJSt SeABROOK,* aged 67 years, died June 29th, 1790. (White marble slab on brick vault.) In memory of James Simms^ who was born July 17th, 1754, and died December 2nd, 1793. ♦The name Seabrook is preserved, notably in the tobacco ware- house at the corner of Grace and Nineteenth streets. St. John^s Chubch. 505 This family vault contains the remains of Mary P. Steobia^ wife of John Strobia, who died May 24th, 179 5, in the 33 rd year of her age. Also the remains of John Steobia^ who died March 10th, 1809, in the 67th year of his age. Also John H. Strobia^"^ born April 5th, 1785, died Oct. 10th, 1856. Also Ann M. Steobia. Born May 27th, 1788, died Sept. 4, 1877. (Marble slab on brick vault.) To the memory of Samuel B., son of William & Martha Skinner, died April 29th, 1850, aged 17 years. Short was his life, severe his pain; To be with Christ is now his gain, A loving son and tender brother, Short was our joys on earth together. •? *John H. Strobia was a successful merchant, held in high esteem. He had musical taste, was a skilled performer, and one of a coterie of which Wm. H. Pitzwhyllsonn, bookseller, and long Grand Secre- tary of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Virginia, was a member. Fitzwhyllsonn was a Welshman, and on the visit of Lafayette to Richmond, in 1824, was recognized by the General as the quondam drum-major of General Cornwallis. In person Fitzwhyllsonn was short and rotund. It would appear that those who fought us in our struggle for independence were not rancorously regarded in Rich- mond if they proved circumspect as citizens. 506 History Henrico Parish, To the memory of Mary Southgate^ wlio departed this life May 28th, 1840, aged 76 years. Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Eliza W. Saunders^ consort of Samuel T. Saunders, and daughter of *Mr. Robert and Ann Davidson, who departed this life on the 10th of September, 1822, in the 27th year of her age. An affectionate husband and four dear children are left to unite with her relatives and friends in lamenting her un- timely death and their irreparable loss, to know her was to love her, she was therefore most beloved by those who knew her best. In memory of Samuel Shield Saunders^ born Feb. 14th, 1785, died Dec. 13th, 1851. Sacred to the memory of Eliza Stkattojst^ who died in Richmond May 1st, 1857, aged 59 years. Also Louis Stratton^, died Feb. 27, 1822, aged 28 years. (Buried near the Twenty-fifth and Grace str eets gate.) *"Robt. Davidson" appears in the Richmond Directory of 1819 as: "D. S. S. of E. over Cochran and Williams." St. John's Chuech. 607 Miss Mary Augustus Solomoh died June 17th, 18Y3. (Buried about 50 feet on the south side from the new Sunday school.) In memory of Capt. M. Seagers^ died Aug. 6, 1882, aged 6Q years. In memory of RoBT. D. Snell^ son of Ig. M. Snell. Sacred to the Memory of George F. Stras^ who departed this life Jan. 19th, 1811, aged 65 years. His genius fled up to the stars From whence it came^ and That warm heart of thine With all its generous and Open vessels compressed Into a clod of the valley. (Gray sandstone slab on pedestal.) Samuel Sheppard^ a native of Boston, is here entombed. Died Sept. 21st, 1815, age near 53 years. Eighteen years faithful service in the honourable station of Auditor of Public Accounts of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Had so endeared him to the Legislature, that it was with great reluctance his resignation was accepted by that body. The session of 1814. In the heart of his relatives and the citizens of Richmond, is erected a monument of affection and esteem which time alone can efface. (Buried by a large sugarberry tree near the new Sunday school building.) 508 HiSTOEY Henrico Parish, Sacred to the memory of John Sawyer^ a native of Edinburgli, Scotland. Born June 20th, 1Y99, died Sept. 30th, 1832. "' (Marble headstone.) Sacred to the memory of Benj. F. Spalding^ who departed this life 16th July, 1833, in the 3Yth year of his age. (White marble headstone.) In memory of William H. Stith,* Born in Gloucester county, died in the city of Richmond Sept. 17th, 1837, aged 37 years. Seize mortal seize the transient hour. Improve each moment as it flies. Life's a short summer, man's a flower, He dies, alas, how soon he dies! In memory of Mrs. Rebecca Stith. Died May 19th, 1880. (Buried between the church and 25th and Grace streets.) ♦The name Stith is historic in Virginia. Robert Boiling, who married first Jane Rolfe, the granddaughter of Pocahontas, th^ "gentle Indian princess," is second Anne, daughter of John Stith. The first record of the name is in Charles City county. St. John's Chubch. 509 In memory of Abraham Shields, stone cutter and brick layer, a native in the County of Durham, Old England, who departed this life Oct. 9th, 1798, aged 28 years. When I was young and in my prime, It pleased the Lord to end my time, And took me to a place of rest. Where Jesus Christ did think it best. Here lies the body of Elizh. Drew Spencer, daughter of Chs. Spencer, who departed this life July 30th, 1799, aged 15 months. (Sandstone headstone.) Here lies the body of Mary Ann Spencer, who departed this life the 29th of August, 1800, aged 4 years. (Sandstone headstone.) Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Martha B. Shore, who died the 19th of May, 1803, in the 29th year of her age. (Gray sandstone headstone.) In memory of Sally H. Starr. Born Oct. 20, 1791, died Dec. 11, 1792. 510 History Heneico Parish, Memory of Thos. B. Staee^ born Aug. 25, 1Y93, died , 1794. Charles Keck^ son of Levi & Charlotte Shelly. Died April 6th, 1820, aged 7 months. We placed him here, and Gabriel mark'd the spot Whence to call an offering fit to heaven. In memory of Eliza Steel^ who departed this life October 3d, 1814, aged 13 ys. 1 mo., 11 days. A native of Philadelphia. Miss Rebecca Scott died E'ov. 30th, 1816, aged 65. Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Catherine Slaughter,, the beloved partner of Smith Slaughter, Esq., of Jefferson county. She was born ISTov. 12th, 1763, and suddenly departed from this transitory scene Jany. 12th, 1822, aged 56 years & 2 months. The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away Blessed be the name of the Lord. (White marble headstone.) St. John^s Chuech. 511 Here repose the mortal remains of Robert Sloan^ a native of tlie Parrish of Connor in the county of Antrim, and a member of the Connor Lodge 'No. 832, Ireland.* He departed this life Dec. 10th, 1816, aged 35 years. Erected by M. Crawford. Sacred to the memory of Martha Street^ of the Borough of N'orfolk, who died the 7th day of August, 1813, on her passage to Richmond, aged 56 years. Sarah Taylor^ February 14th, 1791. In memory of Elizabeth Taylor^ daughter of Jno. and ^ Sarah Taylor, born 4th May, 1794, died 13th Aug., 1796, aged 2 years and 3 months. Mary Frances Taylor^ born Oct. 10, 1845, died June 27, 1847. Buried in the same grave. George Edward Taylor^ born Dec. 3, 1849, died Jan. 29, 1855. *It will be observed that "Scotia" and "Erin" furnished many citizens of early Richmond-the Scotch being especially prominent and enterprising as merchants, and later as millers, the hardy representative of whom it has been urged that he might find ex- earTcoTonillTa^s'" ' ''''" '^^' '" "^^ ^'^^"^^^^« ^^ ^^^^^^ ^-- 612 History Henkico Paeish, In memory of P. H. Taylor, son of W. H. and Gal::|.riella Taylor, who departed this life on the 18th day of August, 1810, aged 1 year, 8 mor (Gray sandstone headstone.) To the memory of Maria Elizabeth Thompkins, the daughter of Christ.^ and Mary Thompkins, who was born 28 July, 1808, and died 5th of Sept., 1810. (Gray sandstone block near the ground.) (Buried between the main walk and the new Sunday school, near Wm. Weymouth vault.*) Here lies the body of Archibali) Toney, who died March 24th, 1811. (Buried on the north side of the brick Sunday school near a large iron fence.) In memory of Mrs. Sarah, wife of Mr. Silas Thompson, of Cheshire, Conn., who died March 2nd, 1848, iE 29. Also their daughter, Sarah, who died Feb. 10, 1818, M 3 weeks. (Marble headstone.) ♦"Christopher Tompkins" appears in the Richmond Directory of 1819 as "carpenter, u. s. of G., bt. 6th and 7th Sts., first from 7th St." I Rev. Pike Powers, D. D. Assistant Minister, 1888-1890. Rev. C. R. Kutk, Assistant Minister, 1891-1893. Rev. J. tl. BURKHEAD, Assistant Minister. 1896-1897. Rev. E. B. Snead, Assistant Minister, 1901-1903. St. John's Chuech. 513 In memory of Maria Ducher^ consort of David Trueheart, who departed this life on the 17th of August, 1817, in the 20th year of her age. ^ To the memory of Joseph Thomas^ son of Joseph Thomas, of France, died 3rd Sept., 1811. Here lies the body of M. H. TOUNEEY, who died ISlov. 5th, 1813, age 17 months and 5 days. Sacred to the memory of Mary, consort of William P. Thompson, and daughter of Anthony and Sophia Zemee, of the city of Lancaster, Pa., who departed this life April 11th, 1852, aged 75 years. (White marble monument.) Sacred to the memory of Polly Todd, who died the 22nd of Aug., 1822, age 17 years. (On the west side of the church near a large sugarberry tree. ) 33 514 History Heneico Parish, Sacred to the memory of Isabella Tuson^ a native of the county of Donegal, Ireland, who died Jan. 29, 1825, age 39 years. May her soul rest in peace. Sacred to the memory of Lewis ]^. Todd^ born 15th IS^ov., 1802, died mv. 19th, 1833. His bereaved widow causes this monument to be erected to his memory. Sacred to the memory of Gideon" L., son of Elijah and Amelia Townsend, died May 11th, 183Y, aged 3 years and 11 months. In memory of Amelia^ wife of Elijah Townsend, who departed this life October 10th, 1840, aged 32 years and 4 months and 6 days. In vain we look for rest below When 'tis not to be found Rest is the plant that will not grow In any earthly ground But while our souls mount up above The firmament so high Within our blest Redeemer's love There's everlasting joy. St. John's Chuboh. 515 In memory of Ezra, son of Elijah and Amelia Townsend, wlio departed this life Sept. 26th, 1834, aged 2 years and 19 days. Rev. JoHivT S. Watt^* died in Dinwiddle Co. Jan. 4th, 1879. (Twenty feet from the main entrance of the church, near the walk on the left side leaving the church.) To Our Mother. Penelope Margaret Wright^ beloved wife of A. W. Weddell, D. D. February 29, 1840-January 9, 1901. !N"umbered with thy saints in glory everlasting. In memory of Joseph West^ died Oct. 18th, 1788, A. 3 y & 5 m. In memory of Mrs. Jane Wiseham^ who died the 1st May, 1790, age 42 years. (Facing the main entrance of the church, close by the wall. ) To the memory of Jacob P. Wilson^ of l^ew York, who was born Oct. 21, 1793, and died Oct. 19, 1818. (Thirty-three feet in the rear of the new Sunday school r oom.) *Son of Hugh Watt, of Glencairn, Ireland. 516 History Henrico Parish, Rev. Alex. Weddell^ Rector of St. John's Church. Born at Tarboro^ N. C, May 20th, 1841, died at Richmond^ Va., Dec. 6, 1883. Father unto thy hands I commend myspirit. Yea thou will answer for me Righteous Lord ; Thine all tiie merits, Mine's the great reward. Thine the sharp thorns And mine the golden crown; Mine the life won^ And thine the life laid down. Hymn 67. Large hearted, Large minded; A lover of the truth, And of manhood ; Bold, untiring, faithful In the service of the Master ; Tender, watchful and unceasing in the care of his flock. His people loved and revered him. In memory of James Wilson^ a native of Banffshire in Scotland, and by profession a mason, who departed this life at Fire Creek, Oct. 5th, 1818, aged 58 years. ° as a mory of gratitude & long survive ° Obliterated. (Red sandstone slab 3 feet broad and 6 inches thick, curiously lettered. St. John's Chueoh. 517 In memory of Susan Wilson^ who departed this life 24th Oct., 1817, aged 5 months and 20 days. In memory of Mrs. Jane Wilson^ who departed this life 1792. Sacred to the beloved memory of Ann C. Watson^ a native of Charleston, S. C, and the wife of James Watson, of this city. She was born the 13th January, 1799, and departed this life May 27, 1822. Fair and blooming yesterday 'Now a loathsome corpse I lie See how beauty fades away Oh prepare, prepare to die. (Marble slab.) In memory of Jas. Wilkie^ died July 5th, 1822, aged 1 year and 25 days. Sacred to the memory of Capt. Wm. Webb, who died on 26th April, 1805. He lived beloved and died regretted And fled forever from my view Thou partner of my soul adieu Our hopes are now to meet above Where pain shall cease, where all is love. (ISTear the keeper's office.) 518 History Heneico Pabish, Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Wertii^ the affectionate consort of John J. Werth, who departed this life on the 30th August, 1823,^ in the 44th year of her age. In life she was most beloved and in death most lamented by those who knew her best. Sacred to the memory of dear departed Henry^ youngest son of Jno. J. Werth, who was snatched from his fond parents by death on the 5th of ISTov., 1818, at the ten- der age of 9 years, 7 months and 10 days. Tread gently on his ashes. In memory of Jane^ daughter of John and Eleanor Warrock, born 16th of August, 1823, died 4th of Sept., 1827, aged 4 years and 10 days. St. John's Chukch. 619 In memory of John Warhock^ Jk.^ son of John and Eleanor Warrock^ born 16tli March, 1815, and died 26th July, 1816, aged 3 years, 1 month and 11 days. Sacred to the memory of Salvester Walkley^ who was horn in ISTorth Richmond on April the 9th, 1781, and died August the 18th, 1817. Also Mary Walkley^ consort of Salvester Walkley, who was born in Bristol^ England, April the 3rd, 1781, and died January the 24th, 1838. ^o sickness or sorrow or pain Shall ever disquiet them now, Eor death to their spirits was gain Since Christ was their life below. Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Sarah White^ wife of Mr. Samuel White, and daughter of Mr. Wm. and Mrs. Mary Gary, of Boston (Massachusetts), who died Jany. 20th, 1800, aged 28. This languishing head is at rest Its thinking and aching are o'er This quiet immovable breast Is heaved by affliction no more. (Broad blue slate headstone.) 520 History Henrico Parish, In memorj of Mrs. DoLLEY White^ the wife of Samuel White, ^ and the daughter of John and Dolley Pointer, of Powhatan. In memory of Wm. Alexander^ son of Th. and Margaret White, who died Sept. 14, 1824, aged 12 months. When the Archangel's trump shall sound And souls and bodies join, What crowds shall wish their days below Had been as short as thine. Sacred to the memorv of Andrew White^ who departed this life April 20, 1824, age 2 years. (Buried near the main entrance of the new Sunday school room. ) In memory of Thomas Ward White,* late editor and proprietor of The Southern Literary Messenger. Born March 28th, 1788. Died January 19th, 1843. (Twelve feet from the main entrance of the new Sunday school. ) ♦Founder and long the publisher of the Southern Literary Mes- senger. St. John^s Chuech. 521 Sacred to the memory of Thomas Henky White^ only son of Thomas W. and Margaret A. White, who died of the prevailing epidemic Oct. 7, 1832, aged 19 years. Thanks to that hlessed volume which hath brought Light, life and immortality to man Death has no terror to the heir of Heaven It is the portal to His Father's throne This world is full of evil and care and suffering Its joys are transient, vain and fleeting. Illusive as a shadow, happy he at peace with God, who quits it earliest for pure bliss, rather rejoice than mourn that so soon have earth exchanged £or Heaven. (Marble slab.) Sacred to the memory of Margaret Ann^ consort of Thos. W. White, born 24th July, 1794, departed this life 12th Dec, 1837. This stone is devoted to her memory by him who best knew her worth and most deplores her loss. (Square marble plinth on marble vase.) Here lies buried Rhoda Winston^ the affectionate and beloved wife of John Winston, who died the 22nd day of July, 1825, aged 48 years. (Gray sandstone headstone.) 622 HisTOEY Heneico Paeish, I. H. S. In memory of Louis Werco^ a native of France, and for many years a respectable citizen of Richmond^ died Dec. 7th, 1812, ^ aged 56 years, and of Victoria Werco, his daughter, died 27th Dec, 1829, aged 19 years. Also Victoria Celeste^ daughter of Louis Cary, and wife of J. M. Delcampo. Born at St. Domingo,* 26th Oct., 1787, died 14th May, 1848.. She was the widow of Louis Werco. Sacred to the memory of J. 0. Whipple. Mrs. Whipple, consort of. Sacred to the memory of Warren Augustus Williams^ son of Wilson and Elizabeth H. Williams, who was born on the 3rd of July, 1830, and departed this life the 9th of August, 1831. So fades the lovely blooming flower Frail, smiling solace of an hour So soon our transient comfort fly And pleasure only blooms to die^^ *Many refugees from St. Domingo sought asylum in Richmond after the servile uprising in the island near the close of the eigh- teenth century. St. John's Chuech. 523 Here lies the remains of Geddes Winston^* wlio departed this life on the 9th day of June, 1784, in the 60th year of his a2:e. To his precious memory filial piety consecrates this stone. (Gray sandstone headstone.) In memory of Anne Maria, youngest daughter of James and Ann M. Williams, who died Yth ApL, 1810, aged 8 years, 4 months. Light and peace, force deriving From the hand of God most high In His glorious presence living She shall never, never die. In memory of Joseph M. Williams, son of Jas. and Ann M. Williams, who died 13th Sept., 1823, aged 19 months. Suffer little children To come unto me And forbid them not For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. ♦His daughters married respectively Rev. John D. Blair (D. D., one of the "two parsons" of revered memory), and Thomas Ruther- ford, the ancestor of the worthy family of the name in Virginia. 524 History Heneico Parish, In memory of Dorothy E. Williams^ daughter of Jas. and Ann M. Williams, who died 11th Oct., 1823, aged 6 years, 28 days. The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Memento. Ann Ricks Winston^ the devoted and beloved wife of James Winston, born Dec. 31st, 1790, died May 14th, 1850. Particularly dear to her relations by consanguinity She was not less to those by affinity. (White marble shaft.) In memory of James Winston,, born March 8th, 1791, died Nov. 15th, 1859. To die is gain. His firm but meek and quiet spirit will ever be cherished by his endeared children and grandchildren. He never made an enemy or lost a friend. 1st Peter, 3rd Chapter, 3 & 4th verses. Thy smile once filled a house with gladness. Wm. W. Weymouth,* Family Vault, 1817. (Granite block.) fCapt. Wm. W. Weymouth, an old seafarer. St. John's Chukch. 525 In memory of Rebecca Winnie^ consort of James Winnie, who departed this life the 20th Deer., 1814, aged 33 years. An affectionate wife, a tender mother. ( Sandstone headstone. ) In memory of Maria Winchester, who departed this life Dec. 27th, 1816, aged 56 years. The Heyd Winchester's* wife lies here, a companion whome he loved most dear to heavenly mansions he has gone before. There they have now met to part no more. (Fragment broken off and lying down.) In memory of Ambrose D. Wrenn, born 7th July, 1805, and died 22nd Angnst, 1823, in the 19th year of his age. (Marble headstone.) Here rest the remains of James Washington Willett^ the son of James and Mary Willett, Bom the 29th Oct., 1823, died the 29th Octr., 1824. ♦Rev. Elhanah Winchester, of the "Universalist" Church. 626 History Henrico Parish, Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth Wicker, consort of Col. Francis Wicker,* bom Sept. 4th, 1789, Died Aug. 15th, 1837. In life she was endeared by her jcandour and integrity to all who knew her. In death with a firm unshaken faith in the all sufiicient mercy of Jesus Christ her Savior she without fear committed her spirit to God who gave it. Eleven of her children has preceded her to the tomb. Her husband and two sons survive — to mourn their loss. Sacred to the memory of Dr. William Waedlaw, t who departed this life on the 12th October, 1829, aged 53 years. (Marble slab on pedestal.) Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Sarah Wardlaw, who died on the 22nd day of April, 1808, in the 32nd year of her age. Lo w^here this silent marble weeps A friend, a wife, a mother sleeps, A heart within whose sacred cell The peaceful virtues loved to dwell. (White marble slab.) ♦Lumber merchant, yard "Elm St. R.," Richmond Directory, 1819, father of Robert Tate Wicker, Coroner of Richmond. f'Druggist, cor. of E and Bell Alley," Richmond Directory of 1819. St. John's Chuboh. 527 Sacred to tbe memory of Mary M. Wardlaw^ who departed this life on the 15th March, 1849, in the 53 rd year of her age. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord. By the death of her only sister early in life, she was left in charge of five motherless children, to whose education and training for time and eternity all her energies of mind and body under God were consecrated, for her they will ever cherish the warmest affection and the most lively gratitude. As a feeble testimony of grateful remembrance this stone is erected by her nieces and nephews. (Marble slab on pedestals.) Sacred to the memory of Dr. Ekastus Willey^ who departed this life Feb. 24, 1839, age 48 years. Also Hawnah^ his wife, who died March 12th, 1822, age 24 years. Their bodies rest in peace. In the calm and silent grave. And while affection mourns the departed, Faith sooth's the wounded spirits, And hope points to their home in immortality. (Eighty feet from the main entrance of the cemetery on the right-hand side as you enter the grounds, seven feet from the wall.) In memory of Maria Louisa Wyse^ who died Sept. 22nd, 1831. (Buried near the main entrance of the church in the same plot that Eev. Alex. Weddell is buried.) 528 History Henkico Parish, To the memory of NiNNIN WySE^ a native of Falkirk, in Scotland, he was born in the year of onr Lord 1742, and departed this life the 5th day of [N'ovember, 1807, in the 60th year of his age. (Gray sandstone headstone.) Sacred to the memory of Martha Ant^^ wife of Joshua Walker, who departed this life Oct. 1st, 1835, aged 24 years, 6 months and 25 days. Greatly esteemed for her exemplary conduct in all the relations of daughter, wife and mother. This languishing head is at rest Its thinking and aching are o'er This quiet immovable breast Is heav'd by affliction no more This heart is no longer the seat Of trouble and torturing pain It ceases to flutter and beat It never shall flutter again. This monument was erected by her bereaved husband. (White marble slab on brick vault.) A Tomb Of gray sandstone bearing no inscription, in southwest corner of church-yard. St. John's Chubch. Here lies the remains of George Williamson, wlio departed this life Sept. 6th, 1823, aged 48 years. This small tribute of respect to his memory, is erected by his disconsolate widow. Farewell my wife wipe off your tears Here I mus^t lie until Christ appears And when he comes I hope to rise Unto a life that never dies. Here also lies the body of his son, John Williamson. (Marble slab.) In memory of B. C. YoUNGHUSBANDj who died in the 19th year of her age, on the 23rd October, 1793. (Sandstone headstone.) Sacred to the memory of Margaret, wife of John Young, a native of Edinburgh, in Scotland, who departed this life the 5th ISTovember, 1825, aged 38 years. I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you but a little while and the world seeth Me no more, But ye see me because I live Ye shall live also. 34 529 IISTDEX ABANDONMENT OP CHURCH, 45. Adams, Dr. John, presents relic from Curie's, 12. Adams, John, 33. Adams, Col. Richard, 36, 49. Adams, Richard, Jr., 33. Adams, Thomas B., 33. Address by Hon. Wm. Wirt Henry on 150th anniversary, 133-162. Address by Rt. Rev. A. M. Ran- doliDh at 150th anniversary, 117-132. A great sorrow falls upon the rec- tor (Rev, L. W. Burton) and his wife, 70. Alms basin presented, 69. Alteration of the church, 52. Ambler, Jacquelin, kindness of to Mr. Buchanan, 27. America's earliest legislative body, 23. Annals of Henrico Parish, 5. Annals of the parish and church, 58. Anniversary, 150th, 81. Appearance of St. John's church- yard at present time, 99. Application to City Council for permission to build new school-house, 50. Application to tlie Council of ihe city "for the protection and preservation of the burying ground," 46; ordinance in re- gard to same, 46, 47. Argall, Gov., asks for a minister, 7. Arrearages put in hands of col- lector, 28. Assistant Bishops of Virginia, 103. Assistant minister chosen for the parish, 30. Assistant minister employed at Weddell mission, 92. A thank-offering to God. 81. Attendance upon church, 9. Attractiveness and beauty of St. John's grounds, 101. Authorities and references, 3. BACKUS, REV. A. M., 72. Bacon's Branch, contract for church at, 16. Baker, Rev. F. M., 51. Baldwin, David J., 95. Baptismal font from Curie's church, 12. Baptismal name of Pocahontas, 7. Baptisms, 261. Baptisms by — Burch, Rev. F. M., 310, 311. Burkhead, Rev. J. H., 329, 330, 331, 333. Burton, Rev. L. W., 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 319, 320. 321, 323, 324, 325. Burton and Kuyk, Revs., 324, 325. Butler, Rev. Wm. C, 290, 291. Croes, Rev. Robt. B., 279. 280. Everett, Rev. W. B., 312, 313. Funsten, Rev. J. B., 72, 315, 320. Gibson. Rev. C. J., 301, 304. Goodwin, Rev. E. L.. 331. Goodwin. Rev. R. A., 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341. 342, 344. Hart, Rev. Wm. H. (1815-1828, 1836-1842). 263-277. Kenler, Rev. H. S., 283, 284, 289, 290. Kuyk, Rev. C. R., 322, 323, 32'4, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329. Lee, Rev. Wm. F., 277. Miller. Rev. Benj., 277. Minnigerode, Rev. Chas., 290. Moore, Bishop, 280. Morrison. Rev. J. H., 281. Nash, Rev. P. G., 322. Nelson, Rev. Robert, 290. Norwood, Rev. Wm., 28'. ^91, 292. 532 IlsTDEX. Nugent, Rev. P. R., 334. Feet, Rev. Edward W., 278. Points, Rev. John T., 288, 289. Powers and Burton, Revs., 319. Snead, Rev. E. B., 337, 338, 339, 340, 341. 342, 343. Tillinghast, Rev. N. P., 280. Wall, Rev. Henry, 296. Weddell, Rev. Alex. W., 300, 301, 304-310. Weddell and Burch, Revs., 310. Wharton, Rev. L. B., 310. Whittle, Bishop, 310. Wilmer, Rev. Joseph, 292. Baptisms, number of, 61. Bargrave, Rev. Thomas, 8, 86. Barracks for British soldiers, 1781, 24. Bayard, Chevalier, 59. _ Beginning of Church in Virginia, 5. Beginning of record book, 10. Bell for the church, 40, 41, 45. Bermuda Hundreds, 6. Berkeley, Sir Wm. (Gov.), 35. Bishop of Lexington, Ky., 86. Bishop of London calls for report, 9. Bishop Madison, death of, 30. Bishops Madison and Meade, 98. Bishop of New York, 81. Bishops of Virginia, assistant, 103. Bishops of Virginia, 163. Gibson, Rt. Rev. R. A., 183. Griffith, Rev. Dr. David, 165. Johns, Rt. Rev. John, 176. Madison, Rt. Rev. James, 170. Meade, Rt. Rev. Wm., 174. Moore, Rt. Rev. R. Channing, 172. Newton, Rt. Rev. John B., 185. Whittle, Rt. Rev. P. M., 181. 'Bishops of Virginia, succession of, 103. Bishop Whittle grants use of flowers on sesqui-centennial celebration, 82. Plair, A. Beirne, 89. Blair, Lewis H., 89. Blair, Rev. James, 9, 86. Blair, Rev. John D., 28. Bodeker, Miss Pearl, 60. Boiling, John, vestryman, 1741, 19. Bosseux, Capt. and Mrs. Cyrus, 58, 82. Bossieux, Cyrus, 57, 58. Boucher, Rev. Jonathan, 20. , Bounds of St. John's Parish, 6. Braine, Sarah, 69. Brass font and ewer purchased, 78. Brewer, Sackville, reader at Curie's and clerk of vestry, 17il, 13, 19. Brick school-house, 41; erected, 43; repaired, 78. Brick wall placed around church lot, 1770, 21. Brock, Dr. R. A., 10, 58, 60. Brock, Rev. Zach., 13. Brocken, Rev. James^ 25. Brotherhood of St. Andrew, 74, 192. Brotherhood, the, 73. Brown, R. L.. 69, 76. Brown, Mrs. R. L., 74. Buchanan, Rev. John, chosen rec- tor of the parish, 1785, 25. Buchanan, Rev. John, D. D., elect- ed treasurer of Diocese, 26, 35, 36. Buck Roe, 20 Bruton Parish, 43. Butler, Rev. Wm. C, 48. Burch, Rev. Francis M., 53, 54. Burials by — Baker, Rev. F. M., 357. Barrett, Rev. Robert S., 368, 371. Beckwith, Rev. Gary, 409. Blankenship, W. S., 391. Bundy, Geo. (colored lay read- er), 403. Burkhead and Downman, Revs., 397. Burkhead, Rev. J. H., 397, 398, 399. Burch, Rev. F. M., 375, 376. Burton, Rev. L. W., 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391. 392, 394. Burton, Rev. and Mr. Abbitt (lay reader at St. Mark's), 393. Burton and Clopton, Revs, 387. Burton and Pair, Revs., 388. Burton and Funsten, Revs., 386. Index, 533 Burton and Gammon, Revs., 388. Burton, Rev. L. W., and Mr. Griffith (lay reader), 392. Burton and Kuyk, Revs. 390, 391, 394. Burton and Nash, Revs., 389. Burton and Newton, Revs., 391. Burton, Newton and Downman, Revs., 391. Burton, Revs. L. W., and J. Peterkin, 376. Burton and Pollard, Revs., 378. Burton and Powers, Revs., 389. Burton and Ray, Revs., 389. Burton, Reid and Shields, Revs., 379. Burton and Randolph, Revs., 392. Burton and Smith, Revs., 393. Burton, Revs. L. W., and R. R. Hov/ison, 380. Burton and P. Powers, Drs., 382. Butler, Rev. Wm. C, 357, 358. Cooke, Rev. Mr., 409. Cooke and Goodwin, Revs., 403. Cooper and Burton, Drs., 382. Cutler, Revs. L. A., and L. W. Burton, 384. Dashiell and Burton, Revs., 389. Dashiell and Shields, Revs., 366. Everett, Rev. W. B., 377, 378, 379. Funsten, Rev. Geo. M., 383. Funsten, Rev. J. B., 380, 381, 386. Gailor, Bishop, 395. Gammon and Burton, Revs., 389, 393. Gammon, Burton and Mason, Revs., 394. Gammon and Goodwin, 396. Garlick and Weddell, Drs., 367. Gibson and Weddell, Drs., 370. Gibson, Dr., 368. 375. Goodwin, Rev. R. A., 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401. 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409. Goodwin and Cooke, Revs., 408, 409. Goodwin and Cooper, Revs,, 398. Goodwin and Denniss, Revs., 403, 405. Goodwin and Downman, Revs., 396. Goodwin and McDeriot, Revs., 408. Goodwin and Spencer, Revs., 397. Goodwin and Nash, Revs., 395. Goodwin and Staley, Revs., 407. Hammon, Rev., 365. Hart, Rev. W. H., 349, 350. Hatcher and Goodwin, Revs., 402. Howison, Revs. R. R., and L. W. Burton, 379. Jackson, Rev. Robt. F., Jr., 373. Judkins, Newton and Burton, Revs.,' 382. Judkins and Weddell, Drs., 368. Kepler, Rev. H. S., 351, 357, 358, 366, 371. Kuyk, Rev. C R., 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396. Lambeth, Burton and Sturgis, Revs., 384. Landrum and Burton, Drs., 384. T.oe:an, Rev. M. P., 397. Martin, Revs., J. C, and L. W. Burton. 383. Martin, Burton and Sturgis, Revs., 384. McCabe, Rev. J. D., 360. McCulloh, Rev. Duncan, 375, 376. Mead, Rev. G. Otis, 408, 409. Minnigerode and Weddell, Drs., 369. Morrison, Rev. J. H., 350. 351. Nash, Rev. P. G., 374, 392, 399, 400, 401. Nash and Burton, Revs., 386, 389. Nelson, Rev. Robert. 357. Newton, Rev. John B., 386. Norwood. Rev. Wm., 358, 360. Norwood and Wall, Revs., 363. Nugent, Rev. P. R., 402. Patterson, Rev. Mr., 360. Peterkin, Dr., 374. Peterkin and Gibson, Drs., 373. Peterkin and Kepler, Drs., 368. Peterkin and Weddell, Drs., 370. oo4 Index. Peterkin, AVeddell and Scott, Drs., 369. Peterson, Revs. P. A., and Bur- ton, 388, 394. Points, Rev. J. T., 357. Pollard and Everett. Revs., 379. Powers, Rev. Pike, 375, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 389. Proctor and Weddell, Drs., 371. Randolph, Rt. Rev. A. M., 381. Ray, Burton, Peterson and Vaiden, Revs., 893. Rav, Burton and Wright, Revs., 391. Reid and Burton, Drs., 381. Shields, Rev. Jas. W., 366, 369. Sledd, Judkins. Cole and Bur- ton, Revs., 390. Snead. Rev.E. B., 405. 406, 407, 408, 409. Strange, Rev. Robert, 409. Stringfellow and Weddell, Revs., 372. Tucker and Goodwin, Revs., 400. Vest, Rev. Geo. S., 409. Wall. Rev. E. W., 367. - Wall, Rev. Henry, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366. Weddell. Rev. A. W., 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375. Weddell and Gibson, Drs., 372, Weddell and Kepler, Drs., 367. Weddell and Minnigerode, Drs., 368, 370. Weddell and Peterkin, Drs., 370, 372. Y/eddell and Semms, Drs., 368. Wharton, Rev. L. B.. 375, 381. Woodbridge, Dr., 368, 369. Woodbridge and Wall", Revs., 364. Woodward. Revs. J. P. and Burton, 387. Burton, Rev. Lewis W., 58, 63. Burton, Rev. Lewis Wm., 37; called, 65; the beloved, 67; his motto, 72; services on Exec. Com. Am. Ch. Miss. Soc'y, representative Church Temperance Society of Va., Vice-Pres. Richmond Protes- tant Episcopal Miss'y Society, etc., 76; has "calls," 83; ladies meet inx^gard to "calls," 83; congregation express their views as to "calls." 8, 84, 85; accepts call and preaches farewell sermon, 85.; invited to visit and preach at St. John's, 86. Burton, Mrs. (wife of the rector), soul and spirit of entertain- ments, 75. Burton, Lewis James Hendree, 70. Burial place of Col. Ed. Carring- ton, 24. Burying ground, 33. Busher, Rev. Joseph, accepted, but resigned, 19. Byrd, Jr., Col. Wm., 58. Byrd, WMlliam, 17. Byrd, Wm., donates lots, 18. CANDE OF ST. JOHN'S AL- most sputtered out, 44. Care of the poor, 11. Carrington, Col. Edward, follow- ed Henry, 24. Carrington, Mr. Edward, letter of, 27. Carrington, P. R., 33, 34, 35, 37, 40, 57, 58. 60. Carrington, P. R., and wife, 77. Gary, Wilson, 20. Centennial, sesqui, 3. Chapel at Boar Swamp. 22, Chapel at Deep Run, 22. Chapel of Good Shepherd, 71, 72. Christ church, 40, 42, 51. Christian, Guy, 95. Church enlarged, 1772, 21; re- opened, 52. Church known by several names, 20. Church lot fenced in with wood, 21. City Hall, 33 Clayton, Miss, 100. Clark and Goodwin, Revs., 407. Cocke, Bowler, appointed church warden, 25. Cocke, Bowler, vestryman, 1741, 19. Cocke, Jas. Powell, warden, 1741, 19. Cohen, Israel and Hester, 101. Index. 535 Cole, Rsv. Roscow, declined offer of parish, 1751, 20. Coles, John, 100. Colony divided into shires, 6. Committee on Sociability and En- tertainments, 75. Committee on St. John's History (J. S. Moore, chairman), ap- pointed, 57. Committee — on Burials, Charity, Church Decency and Order, Entertainments, Sick, Strang- ers and Absentees, — Comparison of the work of Revs. Weddell, Burton, and Good- win, 66. Communicants St. John's, num- ber, 31-43. Communicants, 57, 197. Communicants: Alphabetical list of from 1860- 1903, 200-222; under recto- rate of Rev. Wm. H. Hart, 199. ConfirAiations, number of, 61. Congratulations to Rt. Rev. L. W. Burton by the vestry on ele- vation to the Bishopric of Lexington, Ky., 86. Corner-stone laid by Masons, 1818, 31. Craigie, P. J., 94. Croes, Rev. Robert B., 42, 43. Crump, Dr. L. C, 92. Curd, Edward, vestryman, 1741, 19. Curie's church, 12. Curtis, Capt. John A. and wife, 70. Cussen Fund, 94. Cussens, W. J., 87. DALE PARISH SET UP, 13. Dale, Sir Thomas, found a settle- ment, 5. Dashiell, Rev. T. G., 51. Davics Memorial, 59. Davies, W. W., 57, 58, 59, 81. Davies, Mrs. W. W., 59. Day's (Mr.) proposition, 35. Death of — Dr. Burton's father, 85. Crump, Dr. L. C, 92. Estes, Mrs. James M., 95. Goodwin, Mrs. Mary E., 88. Madison, Bishop James, 30. Saunders, B. A., 92. Selden, Rev. Miles, 25. Shields, Mrs. Caroline, 93. Decline of divine worship, 26. De Lar War, 5. Depressed conditions of Church in Virginia, 1799-1812, 29. Devoted adherents, 40. Diocese of Virginia, first conven- tion of, 1785, 2«. Domestic and Foreign Society, 38. Donation of lots by Wm. Byrd, 18. Drew, Mrs. E. T., 71, 72. Drew, Thomas H., 27. Drowning of Whitaker, 7. Dutch Gap the location of first church, 5. Dr. William Whitaker, 6. Duval, Mrs. Sally D., 71. EALES, JOHN, READER AT Richmond, 1741, 19. East transcept door cut through, 48. Edmund Pendleton president Vir- ginia Convention of 1^75, 23. Edmund Randolph and Bowler Cocke appointed wardens, 25. Election of R. Channing Moore to the Bishopric, 30. Eleven new pews added, 53. Emery, Miss Julia C, 72. Emmanuel church, 51. Endowment Fund, 95-6-7. Enlargement of church decided on, 1772, 21. Episcopal Church on Richmond Hill, 33. Estes, Mrs. James M., 53, 71, 94, 95. Everett, Rev. W. B., 68. Extensive repairs and improve- ments, 70. PALLS "CHAPPEL," 12. Palls Chapel abandoned, 1741, 18. Famous revolution speech of Pa- trick Henry, 113-115. Fatal reaction, 47. First entry in second vestry book, 24. First General Assembly meets in church at Jamestown, 23. 536 Index. First meeting of Curie's vestry in Richmond, 20. First record in second vestry book, 24. Fenney (or Finney), Rev. Wm., 86. Fitzwilson, Miss E. A., 93. Frame school-house repaired, 79. Franklin, Mrs. Alice M., 60. Fraternal spirit between Rev. John D. Blair and Mr. Bu- chanan, 28. Fuller, Wm., collector and vestry- man, 1741, 19. GAMBLE, COLONEL, 100. Gates, Sir Thomas, 5. Gavin, Rev. Anthony, 14. Gibson, Bishop R. A., 60, 103, 176, 180. Glebe land, S6. Glebe of the parish, 13. Goochland county cut off, 13. Good Shepherd Sunday school or- ganized, 71; consecrated, 72. Goodwin, Mrs. Mary E.^ 88. Goodwin, Rev. R. A., 60, 66, 67, 86, 87, 97, 98, 99, 183, 185. Grace church, 51. Grade lowered on 24th street, 78, 79. Graffigna, Antoni, 47, 101. Griffith, Rev. David, 25, 61, 103. Gretter, Miss F. P., 60. Growth of church spiritual rather than material, 33. Guild, the, 73. HALEY. SARAH, 100. Hammond, Rev. J. E., 51. Hart, Mrs. Lydia H., 35. Hart, Rev. Wm. H., 35, 36, 37, 43, 57. Hart, Rev. Wm. H., elected assist- ant minister, 30. Hart, Rev. W. H., accepts call, 43, 44; death of, 44. Heads of Families, 57. Heads of Families: Hart, Rev. Wm. H., rector, 190, 194; Mor- rison, Rev. J. H., rector, 195. Henrico court-house and prison, 13. Henrico county and parish re- duced, 13. Henrico Parish, 38. Henrico Parish, Annals of, 5. Henrico Parish book found, 1867, 10. Henrico Parish, boundary in 1724, 9. Henrico, religious character of, 5. Henrico, vestrymen of, 36. Henricopolis founded, 5. Henry, Hon. Wm. Wirt, 82. Henry, Hon. Wm. Wirt, address by, 133, 162. Henry's first oratory, 11. Henry, Patrick, makes his liberty speech, 23, 58. History of St. John's Church, 55. Hobson, John, sexton at Curies, 1741, 19. Holy Day declared by Assembly, 9. Hour of service changed, 81. Houses in Richmond when cap- tured by Arnold, 24. Howard, B. P., 53, 68. Hungry fed, naked clothed and poor have the Gospel preach- ed to them, 75. ILLUSTRATIONS: Autograph and coat of arms of Rev. William Stith, opp. 200. Buchanan, Rev. John, opp. 240. Burch, Rev. F. M., opp. 496. Burkhead, Rev. J. H., opp. 512. Burton, Rev. L. W., opp, 464. Butler, Rev. Wm. C, opp. 400. Croes, Rev. Robt. B., opp. 320. Everett, Rev. W. B., opp. 496. Gibson, Rt. Rev. R. A., opp. 183. Goodwin, Rev. Robt. A., opp. 480. Hart, Rev. Wm. H., opp. 264. Henry, Patrick, opp. 113. Johns, Rt. Rev. John, opp. 176. Kepler, Rev. H. S., opp. 368. Kuyk, Rev. C. R., opp. 512. Lee, Rev. Wm. F., opp. 280. Madison, Bishop James, opp. 170. Marriage of Pocahontas, opp. 8. Meade, Rt. Rev. Wm., opp. 174. Moore, J. Staunton, opp. 64. Moore, Rt. Rev. R. Channing, opp. 172. Morrison, Rev. J. H., opp. 344. Index, 537 Newton, Rt Rev. J. B., opp. 185. Norwood, Rev. William, opp. 416. Peet, Rev. E. W., opp. 300. Points, Rev. John T., opp. 384. Powers, Rev. Pike, opp. 512. Randolph, Rt. Rev. A. M., opp. . 117. St. John's Church in 1900, next second title page; interior view opposite. St. John's Church in 1903, with new tower, opp. 57. Selden, Rev. Miles, opp. 216. Shields, Rev. Jas. W., opp. 496. Snead, Rev. E. B., opp. 512. Wall, Rev. Henry, opp. 432. Weddell, Rev. Alex. W., opp. 448. Wharton, Rev. L. B., opp. 496. Whittle, Rt. Rev. F. M., opp. 180. Improvements of church stated by Prof. Cornelius Walker, 21. Income of parish, how derived, 10. Increase in number of Episco- palians in Richmond, 43. Indian massacre, 8. Indian Town Hill, 58. Indian Town, Richmond, chosen for location of church, 1740, 17. Indian relics, 100. Interments under control of City Council, 46. Interregnum in succession of ministers of Henrico Parish filled, SQ. Introduction to History St. John's Church, 57. Inscriptions, 411. Inscriptions: Alphabetical list of on monuments, 413-529. Inventory of property, 28. JACKSON, REV. H. M., 80, 81, 82. Jamestown, 5. Johns, Bishop John, 103. Johnston, Jos. W., 82. Jones, Miss Mary E., 87. Judge Marshall's opinion of the Caledonian cottages, 24. Junior Aid Society, 73. KEITH, Rev. James, 13, 86. Kepler, Rev. Henry S., 45, 48, 52, 53. Knights of Temperance, 73. LABOR OF LOVE, 61. Lacy, Miss Emma, 89, 94. Landrum, Rev. W. W., 81. Largest increase, 65. Lectern purchased, 81. Lee Rev. Wm. F., 37, 38, 39, 40, 42. Legacy to Weddell mission, 87. Letter from Richard Channing Moore Page, 88. Letter of Mrs. Edward Carring- ton, 26. Levy for new church laid, 1737, 16. Lines of old church described in present edifice, 18. List of burials, 347. Little Gleaners, 73. Lord's Supper administered only at the great festivals, 27. Lots given by Mr. Byrd, 18. MADISON, BISHOP JAMES, death of, 30. Manner in which to approach the communion table, 77. Marriage of Gen. Washington, 14. Marriage of Pocahontas to Rolfe, 7. Marriages, 1628 to 1791, 215, 232. Marriages by — Blagrove, Rev. Benj., 1786-1791, 232. Burch, Rev. Francis M., 253. Burton, Rev. Lewis Wm., 253, 254, 255, 256, 257. Burton, Revs. L. W. and A. B. Tizzard, 255. • Burton, Revs. L. W. and Geo. Cooper, 256. Burton and Downman, Revs., 253. Butler, Rev. Wm. C, 248. Cooper, Revs. Geo. and R. A. Goodwin, 257. Croes, Rev. Robert B., 245. Funsten, Rev. Jas. B., 254. 538 Index. Goodwin, Rev. R. A., 257, 258, 259, 260. Goodwin, Revs. R. A. and Geo. Cooper, 259. Goodvv'in, Revs. R. A., and J. Y. Downman, and Geo. Cooper, 258. Goodwin, Rev. R. A. and W. E. Evans, 260. Goodwin, Revs. R. A., and A. B. Tizzard, 257. Goodwin, Revs. R. A., and Geo. Vandersiice, 258. Hart, Rev. Wm. H., 1815-1828, 1836-1842, 233, 244. Howison, Revs. R. R., and L. W. Burton, 254. Judkins, Revs. W. E., and L. W. Burton, 254. Kepler, Rev. H. S., 246. Kuyk, Rev. C. R., 256, 257. Lee, Rev. Wm. P., 244. Minnigerode and Weddell, Revs.. 251. Morrison, Rev. J. H., 245. Nelson, Rev. Robert, 248. Newton, Rev. J. B.. 254, 256. Norwood, Rev. Wm., 249. Peet, Rev. Edward W., 244. Peterkin, Revs. J. and L. W. Burton, 255. Points, Rev. John T., 248. Pollard, Revs. John and L. W. Burton, 254. Powers, Rev. Pike, 52, 254. Scott, Rev. Jno. G., 260. Scott, Revs. Jno. G. and R. A. Goodwin, 259. Shields, Rev. J. W., 251. Snead, Rev. E. B., 259, 260. Wall, Rev. Henry., 250. Weddell, Rev. Alex. W., 251, 252, 253. Wharton, Rev. L. B., 253. Marriages, number of, 61. McCredie, Mr., 100. Mayer, Jno. F., 57, 58. Mayo, P. H., 71. Mayo, Geo. Pickett, 94. Meade, Bishop, 36, 37, 103. Meade Memorial, 51. Medium of exchange, 11. Meeting of Va. Convention of 1775, 23. Memorial Window to A. Y. Stokes, 76. Minute on the ending of the 19th and in commemoration of the 20th century, 93-94. Minister in 1741, 19. Ministers Henrico Parish, succes- sion of, 105, 106. Minister's salary in 1619, 8. Minor, G. G., 57. Missionary scholarships, 73. Monumental church, 42. Monumental church opened for worship, 30. Monuments, inscriptions on, 413- 529. Moody, Dwight L., 63. Moore Memorial, 52. Moore, J. Staunton, 55, 57, 62, 93, 165. Moore, Mrs. J. S., 60. Moore, Bishop R. Channing, 30, 37, 39, 42, 43, 103. Moore, Rev. David, 31. Morrison, Rev. J. H. 44, 45, 58. Mosby, Robert, vestryman, 1741, 19. Mossom, Rev. David, 13. Mother church of parish, 67. Mr. Selden, chaplain of the 1775 Convention, 23. Musical features of the parish, 28. NAMES OF THE CHURCH, 38. Neglected condition of the old churchyard, 46. New church agitated, 15. New church, 39. New church, Mr. Day's proposi- tion, 35. New organ purchased, 28, 31. New school building abandoned, 47. Newton, Rev. Jno. B., 80. Newton, Jno. B., Assist. Bishop, 103. No meeting of vestry between April 29, 1794, and May 12, 1812, 29. No record of Revolutionary pe- riod, 23. Norwood, Rev. Dr. Wm., 45, 49, 50. Index. 539 Not unusual for Conventions to meet in churches, 23. Number of burials, 61. OFFICERS OF ST. JOHN'S IN 1741, 19. Of what the church was possessed in 1785, 26. Old Carrington mansion, 83. Old parsonage on 24th street sold, 76. Old sycamore tree, 78. Old Westover church, 69. One hundred and fiftieth anni- versary, 81. Only one interment in 1891, 41. Organist elected, 43. Organ moved to main floor, 76. Original communion rail, 22. Original gallery, 21. PAGE, GOV. JOHN, 88. Parents and teachers catechize children, 10. Parish levy for 1773, 22. Parsonage undermined, 50. Parson Hart, 39. Parson's cause, 11. Patrick Henry flashed the elec- tric spark, 23. Patrick Henry, Revolution speech of, 113-115. Passion Week, 38. Peet, Rev. Edw. W., 41, 42. Permission given R. L. Brown and Rev. L. W. Burton to erect memorial v/indows, 76. Petition to establish new church on Shockoe Hill, 42. Pewholders, 58. Pewholders and heads of fami- lies, 187. Pews in St. John's Church, 40. Pewholders, January, 1845, 189. Pine Apple Church, 39, 40. Place of residence of Governor of Colony, 6. Plan adopted for securing more revenue, 27. Pocahontas baptized as Rebec- ca, 7. Pocahontas taken prisoner, 7, Points, Rev. John T., 48, 72. Poor, care of, account entered for, 11. Position Patrick Henry occupied while speaking, 23. Poval, John, vestryman, 1741, 19. Pov/ers, Rev. Pike, 52, 70. Preaching only once every five weeks, 20. Preamble and resolutions of the vestry to the committee on so- ciability and entertainments, 75. Precious and sacred relic, 12. Preface, 3. Preparing to maintain a bishop, 26. Present brick walk from 24th street opened, 41. Present rectory purchased, 76. Preservation of the burying- ground, 40. President of the Virginia Conven- tion of 1775, 23. President of William and Mary College elected, 1752, 19. Private cemeteries, 100, 101. Processioning land, 11. Protest of vestry against confis- cation of glebe lands, 36. Pulling, Charlie, 100. Pulpits furnishing ordered from England, 20. QUESTION OP NEW ORGAN discussed, 28. RADY, CHARLES P., 31. Randolph, Bishop A. M., 81, 103. Randolph. Peter, vestryman, 1741, 19. Randolph, Richard, vestryman, 1741, 17, 19. Randolph, Rt. Rev. A. M., ad- dress of, 117-132. Randolph, William, 12. Readers and Sexton at Curies and Richmond. 1741, 19. Rebecca, baptismal name of Poca- hontas, 7. Rector to have charge of grave- yard, 34. Redford, John, vestryman, 1741, 19. References and authorities, 3. Relic from Curie's church, 12. Religious denominations, 33. Removal of front pews and change in communion rail, 77. 540 Index. Renting pews, 34. Repairs to tlie church, 1898, 92. Resignation of Rev. L. W. Bur- ton, 85. Resolution of condolence to Rev. L. W. Burton on death of his father, 85. Restoration, The, 65. Rev. Alexander Whitaker, 5. Revival of material prosperity, 31. Rev. John Buchanan elected treas- urer of the Diocese, 26. Rev. Mr. James Keith, 13. Rev. Miles Selden elected rector, 1752, 20. Rev. W. Stith received as minis- ter of parish, 14. Richardson, D. C, 60. de Richebourg, Claude Philippi, 86. Richmond chosen for site, 1740, 17. "Richmond" church, 20. Richmond falls into the hands of Arnold, 24. Richmond Randolph Lodge, A. F. and A. M., 31. Richmond Theatre burned, 30. Rives, Col. Alfred L., 49. Robinson, Rev. Geo., 9, 86. "Rocketts," origin of name, 19. Rock Hall, 6^ 12, 13. Roe, Sir James, 20. Rolfe, John, marries Pocahontas, 7. Rose, Rev. Robert, 87. Rutherfoord, Thomas M., 89. SAUNDERS, EDMUND A., 69, 70, 71, 92. Scott, Gen. Winfield, 37. Seat of President of Va. Conven- tion of 1775, 22. Second Vestry book of the parish, 24. Selden, Rev. Miles, elected minis- ter, 1752, 20; death of, 25. Services held at Capitol on alter- nate Sundays, 27. Sesqui-centennial celebration of St. John's, 82. Settlement of Henrico, 5. Shields, Rev. Jas. W., 51, 89. Shields, Mrs. Caroline, 93. Shields, Miss Cornelia M., 77. Shields, Miss Nannie M., 77. Shires, Colony divided into, 6. Shockoe Cemetery, 34. Sir Thomas Dale, 5. Sisterhood, The, 73. Site of a University, 8. Site of the first church, 5. Sketches of Bishops of Virginia, 163. Sounding board, 21. Sounding board restored, 69. Southern Churchman founded, 40. Souvenir programme, 81. Spire blown down, 89. Spiritual energies u^ot confined to Richmond church, 22. Spiritual prosperity, 47. Sprigg, Rev. D. F., 51, 52. Stanard, W. G., 60, 170, 172, 174. St. Andrew's church, 52. St. Andrew's church, Houisville, Ky., 83, 84. St. John's chapter of St. Andrew's Brotherhood, 74. St. John's church, 55, 57, 69. St. John's church increased to Its present size, 40. "St. John's" church first so called, 38. St. John's steeple blown down, 49. St. Peter's parish, 13. St. James' church, 43. St. John's burying ground, 79. St. John's Union, 73. St. Luke's church, 45. St. Mark's church, 45, 51. St. John's churchyard, inscrip- tions on monuments in, 413-529. St. Paul's church, 45. St. Philip's church, 51. Stern, Mr. L., 77. Stith elected president of William and Mary College, 1752, 19. Stith resigns from the parish, 1751, 19. Stith, Rev. Wm., 14, 61. Stith's History, 19. Stith, Wm., minister in 1741, 19. Stockton, Rev. Jonah, 8. Stokes, Allen Y., 76. Storm cloud of the Revolutionary War, 23. Story of the missions, 79. Index. 541 Subscriptions given to town ser- geant for collection, 28, Succession of Bishops of Vir- ginia, 103. Succession of ministers of Henri- co parish, 105, 106. Succession of vestrymen, 107-112. Sunday school flourishing, 32. Surplices, &c., ordered from Eng- land, 20. Sydney, Sir Philip, 59. TEMPORARY SUPPLY, 13. Tendency to "move up town," 65. The "accurate Stith," 19. The "Henry" Bell, 76. Thorpe, Geo., supt. of building, 8. Three unusual services, 81. Tide begins to ebb from Curie's church, 20. Tide of spiritual prosperity high, 47. Tithes, first parish levy, 10. Tobacco the medium of exchange, 11. "Town" church. 20. Town inhabited by the Scotch, 24. Transition, a church of, 65. Tucker, Rev. Dallas, 51. Tunnelling Church Hill, 50. Twenty-fifth street door closed, 1857 or 1859, 22. Two gentlemen and a few ladies at communion, 29. Two new Sunday schools estab- lished, 47, 53. UNIVERSITY PROJECT COMBS to grief, 8. University, site of, 8. "Upper" church, 20. Use of surplices introduced by Rev. Mr. Lee, 39. VARINA, 13. Vestry began to hold their ses- sions at "Richmond town," 20. Vestry Book of Henrico parish be- gun, 10. Vestrymen of Henrico, 36. Vestrymen, succession of, 107- 112. Vestry of Henrico parish, 43. Virginia Company dissolved, 9. Virginia Convention of 1775 in session, 23. Virginia Land Office, 36. Visitors to the old church, 78. WALKER, DR., 38, 39, 41. Walker, Rev. Cornelius, 21, 41. Walker, Rev. Prof. Cornelius, 99. Wall on Broad street lowered, 79. Wall, Rev. Henry, 50, 51, 52. -■ Wardens and vestrymen, 1741, 19. Wardens of St. John's church, 38. Ware, Rev. Jacob, 9, 86. Washington, General, marriage of, 14. Washington, George, 80. Weddell, Rev. Alex. W., 52, 53, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 74. Weddell Mission S. S., 68, 71. West entrance to churchyard closed, 79. Weymouth, Miss, 100. Wharton, Rev. Lyman B., D. D., 53. Whitaker, Rev. Alex., 5, 58. Whitaker, Dr. Wm., 6. Whittle, Rt. Rev. F. M., (Bishop) 71, 82, 103. Whole number of families, 31-44. Wickham, Wm., succeeds Whita- ker, 7. William and Mary College, 9. ' Williamson's, church building or- dered at, 15. Williams, Eleanor, Sexton at Richmond, 1741, 19. Williams, Miss Stella, 60. Williamson, John, vestryman, 19. Wilmer, Bishop, 51. Winston, Geddes, 89. Woodbridge, Rev. Geo., 45. Wood, Governor James, 101. Wood, Mrs. Jean, 101. Work on the new church aban- doned, 32. ZEAL, PIETY AND DEVOTION, 61. THE VESTRY BOOK —OF— Henrico Parish, Virginia, l?30-l??3, From the Original Manuscript, —WITH- NOTES AND APPENDIX, — BY- DR. R. A. BROCK. CD CD 00 o p <^ ro » HH <^-^ >; O H ts -r- 513 c H cr ro H ■o- M p !>! ^+- ^ :^ 02 ZD tj' H *n C3- C-H o ^3- r+ K- * ;: 3 >: en a: ^ n P (-^ ►— ■ i-S r~ o r^ tn ffi H^ (T> P — 1 ►-S 1^ ^ P en AT a Vestry, held October the twenty Eight, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty, at CUKLES^ Church. Prefent. The Reverend Mr. James Keith, J ohn Worfham, Jofeph Eoyal, John Boiling. Dr. Richard Randolph,^ John Redford, Bowler Cocke^ Henrico Parifh. To the Reverend James Keith, To William Perkins, Reader, To Richard Williams, ditto, To Charles Griffith, ditto. To Do. Clerk of the Yeftry, To John Hobfon, Sexton, To John Ofborn, Ditto, To Thomas Branch, for Ferriages, To Thomas Jefferfon,^ Do. To Joseph Wilkinfon, for Ann Hewett, To the Chnrch-wardens for the poor, viz : Abraham Robinfon, Pardue's Sons, To Jofeph Wilkinson, To Sarah Woodcock, for her f on, To Hutchins Burton, for Sarah Rawlins, To John Herbert, To Abraham Bailey, for John Worth, Brought over, 1 25,800 1,164 To Elizabeth Womack, for keeping a found- ling child fix months, 500 40 To the Church-wardens, for Suf anna Wake- field, 800 64 To Richard Williams, Sexton, 600 ♦Figure illegible in original. tPounds of Tobacco, VESTEY BOOK OF To Capt® John Eedford, for the railing of the Church, in full payment, 4,000 320 To William Bafs, ditto, 4,000 200 To Capt^ John Eedford, for fix Benches, 200 16 To William Eobertfon, for keeping Andrew Crawford four months and burying of him, 1,000 80 To Capt^ Jofeph Eoyal, for twenty-nine le- vies, entered in the lift and live in King William parifh, 1,131 To Ditto, for nine Infolvents, 351 To CoP Francis Epps, as Per Acct, 1,113 To Jofeph Eoyal, for ^ve Tithables, twice lifted, 195 To Jofeph Eoyal, Collected for good paiment, 541 47,158 Due to the Parifh, 62 47,220 40,231 2,904 Sallary, 4,023 Cafk,^ 2,904 Henrico Parifh Cr. By 1574 Tithables at 30it) of Tob'o Per pole, 47,220 Ordered, That Capt® Jofeph Eoyal to receive, according to law, of Every Tithable p'fon within this parifh, thirty pounds of tobacco, being the parifh levy for this year, and that he pay the Several Allowances before mentioned to the refpective perfons to whom the fame are due. JAMES KEITH, Minifter. ST. JOHN S CHUECH. AT A Vestry held for Henkico Parish, the Twenty-Sev- enth of September, in the Year of Our Lord One Thoufand Seven Hundred and thirty One. Prefent. Jofeph Royal, church-warden; Francis Eppes, John Red- ford, Bowler Cocke, Edward Booker, James Powel Cocke and John Worfham, Jofeph Mayo^ and William Worfham, Gen- tlemen take the Oath of Veftrymen for the Parifh. Prefent, Jofeph and William Worfham, Gent. Purfuant to an Act of Aifembly of this Colony, directing due manner of proceffioning of lands, &c.,^ the following pre- cincts are lay'd out and directed to be proceffioned for the parifh aforefaid, vizt: the ^North fide lower precinct from Turkey Ifland Creek up to four Mile Creek, between White Oak Swamp and the River, and that part of this parifh from the lower line between White Oak and Chiquohomony as high as Thomas Matthew's plantation. Prefent, the Reverend James Keith. Jofeph Pleafants and Stephen Woodfon are appointed to fee the proceffioning made to the lower precinct, on the North fide between the River and Swamp, and John Cocke and Thomas Wilkins in the precinct, back between the two Swamps and four mile creek. From ffour Mile Creek to the River at the Mouth of ffield's Creek, all Within the Main Road to the River, John Redford and Benjamin Burton are appointed to see proceffioned. From ffour Mile Creek bridge above the Said Creek, croff- ing ]^ortherly as the Said Creek tendeth to the head, and thence Out to Thomas Matthew's, thence up Chiquohomony Swamp to upland Brook bridge, thence as the road tendeth to Rocketts, thence to the Mouth of ffield's Creek, thence to the place began at, by Joell Walker and James Cocke to be pro- ceffioned. From upland brook bridge, up the branch to the head to John Walford's on Do., thence down the faid Run to Tucka- hoe Creek, thence as the faid Creek tendeth to the River, thence down the River to Rocketts, to be proceffioned by John Price and John Williamfon. D VESTRY BOOK OF . From the Mouth of Deeprun up Tuckahoe to the Mouth of Chuinbley's branch, thence along the County line to Hanover line, thence down Chiquohomony Swamp to the Mouth of up- land Brook, thence up the Brook to the bridge, to be procef- fioned by Robert Mofby and John Shepherd. The ffirst precinct on the South fide James River, to begin at the mouth of powel's Creek, Running up the river to the Ware run, thence up the faid Run to the Appomattox Road, thence along the faid Road to the parifh line, thence down the faid Line to the place began at, to be proceffioned by William Mofeley and Robert Ealam. From the Mouth of Ware run up the river to the Mouth of fTalling Creek, thence up the Said Creek Oppofite to Tallies' C)ld plantation, thence acrofs to Grill's Old plantation on Svvift Creek, thence down the faid Creek to the parifh Line, thence along the Said Line to Appomattox Road, thence along the faid Road to the place began at, to be proceffioned by Henry Yanderhood and ffield Jefferfon.'^ From the Mouth of ffalling Creek up the river to the Mouth of Powhite Creek, thence up the Said Creek to Lucy's Spring, thence croffing to Lodwick Tanner's on Swift Creek, ill' nee down the faid Creek to Grill's Plantation, thence acrofh to Tullitt's Old plantation, thence down ffalling Creek to the Mouth thereof, to be proceffioned by Wharham Eafly and Thomas Harris. ifrom the Mouth of Powhite up the River to the parifh line, thence along the parifh Lines to the County Lines, thence along the County line to Swift Creek, thence down the Creek to Lodowicks Tanner's, thence to the Mouth of Powhite Creek to be proceffioned by John James Fflourenoy and Fran- cis fflournoy. From parifh line on the South fide Swift Creek, along the faid Line to Appomattox River, thence up the faid River to the Mouth of Middle Creek, thence to Swift Creek, as Straight a Courfe as may be gueffed, to Robert Arfhurst's plantations, thence down the faid Creek to the place began at, to be proceffioned by William Locket and Benjamin Loket, Jun'r. From the Mouth of Middle Creek on Appomattox River, up the Same to the County Line, thence along the said Line to ST. JOHN S CHURCH. / Swift Creek, thence down the faid Creek to the faid Robert Arfhiirft's plantation, thence to the head of Middle Creek, thence down the faid Creek to the place began at, to be pro- ceffioned by Edward Hafkins and Creed Haskins. JAMES KEITH. At a Yestey held for the parifh of Henrico, at CURLES Church, October the Eleventh, in the Year of Our Lord One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Thirty-one. Prefent. The Reverend Mr. James Keith. William Randolph, Efq^ Richard RandoljDh, Francis Eppes, John Redford, James Powel Cocke, Bowler Cocke, Edward Booker, William Worfham, Jofeph Mayo, John Worfham. Henrico Parifh. To the Reverend James Keith, To William Perkins, Reader, To Richard Williams, Reader, To Charles Griffith, Reader, To Do. Clerk of the Yef try, To John Hobf on, Sexton, To John Ofborn, Do To Thomas Branch, fferriages. To Peter Jefferfon, Son and Ex'r. of Thomas Jeff erf on, and to ffield Jefferfon, Brother to the faid Peter Jefferfon, for fferriages. To Jofeph Wilkinson, for Ann Hewett, To the Church wardens for the floor, viz : To Abraham Robinfon, To Jofeph Williamfon, To Elianos Clerk, for keeping John Spring five weeks. To Suf anna Woodcocke, for her fon. To Hutchins Burton, for Sarah Rawlins, To John Herbert, Dr. 16,000 64 2,000 80 1,680 69 2,000 80 500 80 600 25 600 28 1,200 48 1,200 48 1,200 48 1,400 800 300 200 700 28 1,000 40 8 VESTRY BOOK OF . To Capt® Jofeph Royal, for Sufanna Wake- field, 800 32 To Elianor Williams, as Sexton, for her Own Ufe 600 24: To the Church wardens for Bread and Wine laft year, 400 To Michael Taylor, for John Littleworth, 400 To Abraham Bayley, for keeping John Lit- tleworth two months, 133 To the Church-wardens for bread and Wine this Year, 100 To Sufanna Ware, for curing John Weft's hand, 800 To Mary Harding, for curing Mary Burnet of a Burn, 240 To Mary Harding, for keeping Mary Burnet three Months, 300 To John Synock, for putting up the Glafs of the Church Winder, 10 To the Reverend James Keith, 14 per ct. on his Sallary, 2,616 To the Church-warden, toward repairing the Chappie, 1,000 38,Y79 1,343 Ordered, That William Randolph, Efq, and Mr. Edward Booker, be appointed Church-wardens. Ordered, That Elianor Williams be continued as Sexton of the Chappie Ordered, Sackfield Brewer be appointed Reader in the Chappie, Richard Williams being abfconded from his duty therein. Ordered, That the Veftry do meet at the Court Houfe, on Satur- day next, to proportion the Parifh Levy, this Veftry not to be ST. Johns's church. 9 able to do the fame, by reafon, the lift of Titbables is not Complete. JAMES KEITH. At a Vestry, held for the Parifh of HENKICO, in tbe county of Henrico, ITovember the Second, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and thirty-one, Prefent. The Eeverend James Keith. Francis Epps, Kichard Kandolph, Bowler Cocke, Jofeph Mayo, John Boiling,^ John Worfham, Edward Booker, and James Powel Cocke. Henrico Parifh, Dr. To Brought forward, 38,779 1,343 To Capt^ Jofeph Koyal, for Eight Infolvents, at 39 lbs. Tob'o, 272 To Seth Ward, for Infolvents, 420 To Capt® Jofeph Koyal, as per aacc% 612 To Edward Bennett, for a Levy over charged in the year 1729, 39 40,022 Sallary at 4 lbs. Per Ct., 1,601 Cafk, 1,343 43,012 Balance due to the Parish, 46 43,012 Henrico Parish, Or. By Josefh Koyal, for a ballance due in the 'Year 1729, HO By " for " due in the Year 1730, 62 By 1680 Tithables at 25^ lbs TVo per poll, 42,840 43,012 10 VESTRY BOOK OF Ordered, That Capt® Henrj Anderfon do receive, According to Law, of Every Tithable perfon Within the parifh, twenty- five pounds and a half of tobacco being the parifh Levy for this year, and that he pay the Several Allowances before men- tioned to the refpective persons to whom the fame are due. JAMES KEITH. At a Vestky held for the parifh of HENRICO, at Curies Church the thirteenth day of October, in the Year of Our Lord One Thouf and and Seven Hundred and thirty-two. Prefent, The Reverend Mr. James Keith. William Randolph, Francis Eppes, Richard Randolph, Joseph Royal, Bowler Cocke, Edward Booker, James Powel Cocke, John Worfham, William Worfham, John Boiling. Henrico Parish. To the Reverend Mr. James Keith, To William Perkins, Reader, To Sackfield Brewer, Do. To Charles Griffith, Do. To Ditto, Clerk of the Vestry, To John Hobfon, Sexton, To Thomas Branch, for ferriage. To ffield JefPerfon, for Do. To Jofeph Wilkinson for keeping Ann Hewitt seven months. To the Church Wardens for the Poor, viz : Dr. 6,000 640 2,000 80 2,000 80 2,000 80 500 20 600 24 1,200 48 120 48 700 28 1,400 50 To Abraham Robinfon, lo Richard Wood for keeping Jofeph Wil- liamfon, 800 32 To Elianor Williams, Sexton of the Chappie, 600 24 To Sufanna Wood for keeping her son, 1,200 48 To Hutchkins Burton for keeping Sarah Rawlins, 700 28 ST. JOHN S CHUKCH. 13 To Chiircli wardens for bread and Wine, 400 To 14 lb. per ct. on Mr. Keith's Sallary, 2,616 To Capt. Jofepb Royal under cafk in Eight Infolvents laft year, 40 To William Pardue, 600 24 To Elizabeth Bargeff for keeping Ann Bry- ant's child one year, ending the 18th De- cember next, SOO To Thomas Ofborne, Jun'r, for keeping a Baf- tard Child a year, ending the firft day of February next, 800 To James Eranklin for keeping Alice Bryant, 484 To Philip Smith for keeping a Baftard Child fix months, ending the twenty-third day of Octob'r, 400 To Ralph Jackfon for keeping two of Robert Blakeley's children, ^ 250 To Jof eph Watf on for keeping a bastard child three months, To Michael Taylor for keeping John Worth a year, 'iTOO 28 To Conveniency for Do. at 14 per cent. 98 To William Ligon for keeping Mary Dundan, 600 24 ^^-"^o Conveniency for Do. at 14 per ct, 84 To Hays Whitloe for keeping William Weath- er one year, TOO To Conveniency for Do. at 14 per ct., 98 To the Church warden for the ufe of John Tanner, 500 To Jof eph Wilkinf on for burying- Ann Hewet, and other charges in her sicknefs, 310 To Elianor Clark for cureing and keeping Su- fanna Wakefield two months, 800 To Jofeph Royal for keeping Suf anna Wake- field, ^ 500 To John ^afh for Infolvents, and twice lifted perfons, and an Error in Cafting up one thoufand pounds of tobacco in laft levy, 1,419 12 VESTRY BOOK OF To William Kandolpli, Efq., towards two Sur- plus' and two Common Prayer Books, 2,500 To William Cocke for 14 Infolvents, and per- ( 406 fons twice lifted, ( 281 To John Smyth, a Grandfon of Humphrey Smyth, to be paid to the Church wardens, 300 To Capt. Jofeph E-oyal for John Higdin's pa- rifh levy, < 30 To Capt. Jofeph Royal for Conveniency on his Aoc't laft year, 71 To John Smart for a levy laft year, 25 J 47,437i 1364 Sallary at 4 per cent, 1,897-^ Cafk/ 1,364 50,699 Balance due to the Parifh, 213 50,912 Henrico Parifh, Gr. By 1,754 Tithables, at 29 lb of Tob'o per poll, 50,866 By the laft year ballance due from the Col- lector, 46 50,912 Richard Wood applying to this Veftry for a Maintainance of Jofeph Williamfon, an Idiot, and the Veftry being in- formed that he hath a Right to a Tract of land, containing about three hundred acres, which is unpatented, they are of Opinion the Value of faid Tract of Land Ought to be Apply'd for the Maintenance of the faid Jofeph Williamfon. Whereupon the faid Richard agrees to keep the faid Jofeph for four years in Confideration that the Land may be granted to William* Law to the faid Jofeph, which this Veftry think reafonable, and humbly reprefent it to the Gov- ernor and Council for the Grant Accordingly. ♦Illegible. ST. Johns's chukch. 13 Ordered that Capt. Henry Anderfon do receive according to Law of Every tithable perfon within this parifh twenty- Nine pounds of Tobacco, being the parifh levy for this year — and that he pay the feveral allowances above Mentioned to the refpective perfons to whom the fame are due, for which Maj'r Richard Randolph and Capt. James Powel Cocke be- come Securitys. Ordered, That Capt. John Worfham be appointed Church-warden in the room of Mr. Edward Booker. JAMES KEITH. AT A VESTRY held the Second day of March, in the Year of Our Lord One thoufand Seven hundred and thirty- two. Prefent. The Reverend Mr. James Keith. William Randolph, Richard Randolph, Jofeph Royal, Bowler Cocke, James Powel Cocke, John Worfham, and William Worfham. Charles Griffith, Reader of the lower Church in this parifh being dead, Stephen Dewey is appointed to succeed him. Ordered, That Stephen Dewey be appointed Clerk of the Veftry, in the Room of Charles Griffith, deceafed. Mr. Edward Booker, one of the Veftry of this Parifh be- ing removed, Mr. Arthur Mofeley is appointed to succeed him. JAMES KEITH, Minifter, AT A VESTRY held for Henrico parifh, the twelfth day of Oct'r., in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Seven hun- dred and thirty-three. Prefent. William Randolph, Efq'r, Francis Eppes, Bowler Cocke, James Powel Cocke, John Worfham, William Worfham. And Mr. Arthur Mofeley being at the laf t Veftry elected a Veftryman for Henrico parifh, now takes an Oath to Exe- 14 VESTRY BOOK OF cute that Office truly and to be Conformable to the D'octrines and C'if cipline of the Church of England. Ordered, That the Veftry proceed to the laying of the Parif h levy. Henrico Parifh, Dr. To the Eeverend Mr. James Keith, Minister, 16,000 640 To William Perkins, one of the Readers, 2,000 80 To ffield Brown Do. 2,000 80 Eales Do. a Year ending the Second of March next, 2,000 80 To Stephen Dewey, Clerk of the Veftry, a Year ending the Second of March next, 500 20 To John Hobfon, Sexton, 600 24 To John Ofborn Do. 600 24 To Thomas Branch for ferriage, 1,200 48 To ffield Jefferfon for Do. 1,200 48 To the Church-wardens for the poor, To Abraham Robinf on, .> 1,400 56 Woodcocke for keeping her fon,- 1,200 48 To Hutchkins Burton, for keeping Sufanna Rawlins, TOO 28 To Jofeph Ligon for keeping Littleworth three months and a half, and burying him, 536 22 To for the time he kept him, 100 To Hutchkins Burton for keeping Sufanna Rollins, TOO 28 To Mary I^orth for keeping Sufanna Burnett, 1,000 40 To Robert BuUington for keeping William Watkins, 800 28 To 14 per ct. for Convenience on Do. 112 To Thomas Gibfon for keeping William Hob- fon by 51 Months, 350 28 To James Aiken, Jun'r., for keeping faid Hobby by five weeks, 125 ST. JOHN S CHUECH. 15 To Abel Turner for keeping James Wood four Months, Ending I^ov'r Twelft next, 266 To Eichard Eandolph, Gent, for and Ells oz- nabs. for Wm. Hobby, 60 To 4 per ct. for Conveniency, 8 To William Pride for keeping Jas. Wood 2 Months, and for Some Cloaths for the faid Wood, 282 To the Church-wardens for Bread and Wine, 400 To 14 per ct. on Mr. Keith's Sallary for Con- veniency, ' 2,616 To Sarah Herbert for burying John Erayfer, 200 To John Boiling, Gent, for keeping and Bury- ing John Hance, 200 To Ezekiel Sudbury for Burying Henry Exon, 200 To Seth Ward for Burying John Warwick, 80 Due to the Collectors for Infolvens and per- fons twice lifted, 250 To ffield Jefferfon for Siting up horfe blocks at the Church, 100 10 11 ocillary at 4 per ct. Cafk, ' 36,615 1,517 1,290 129 39,422 129 Ordered, 39,226 196 39,442 That John ISTafh and William Euller do receive according to Law of every Tithable perfon within this parifh Twenty- two pounds of Tobacco, being the parifh levy for this year, and that they pay the feveral allowances before mentioned to the refpective persons to whom Same are Due. Bowler Cocke and Jas. Powel Cocke Gent. Securities. 16 VESTEY BOOK OF Ordered, Tliat the refignation of Mr. James Keith^^ as Minister of this Parifh be received. Ordered, That the Church Wardens of this parifh in behalf of tho Veftry do make a repref entation hereof to the Governor. WILLIAM RANDOLPH, Ch. Warn. AT A VESTRY held at CurPs Church, for Henrico Par- ifh, ye 17th day of June, 1735. Prefent. William Randolph, Efq'r, Richard Randolph, Bowler Cocke and James Powell Cocke, Gent. Vestrymen. Purf uant to the directions of an Act of Assembly, directing the Dividing of Henrico parifh, the freeholders and houfe- keepers preffent do unanimously Ellect Edward Curd, John Williamfon, James Cocke, John Povall and Robt. Mofsby, which with ye Veftrymen, formerly of this parifh, make up the number twelve, who take the Oaths and Subfcribe ye Declarations as Yeftrymen. I do Sincerely promif e and Swear to be Conformable to the Doctrine and Difcipline of the Church of England, June ye 17th, 1735. I EDWARD CURD, JOHIST WILLIAMSON", JAMES COCKE, JOHN POVALL, ROBERT MOSBY, !i\ WILLIAM FULLER Order. James powel Cocke and James Cocke Gent, are Ellected Church Wardens for this parifh. The Veftry agree that Mr. Zach. Brook do preach a day in every fifth week at the falls Chappel, and Mr. David Moffon^ every fifth Sunday at the Church, for which they are to be Allowed four hundred pounds of Tob'o p. Sermon. Sackville Brewer is continued Reader of this Church and Clerk of ye Veftry. ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 17 John Eals is continued Reader of ye Chappel. John Hobfon is continued Sexton of this Church. Elenor Williams is continued Sexton at ye Chappel. AT A VESTRY held at Curl's Church Sunday Morning September ye 2nd, 1735. Prefeni, James Powel Cocke, James Cocke, Richard Randolph, John Redford, Bowler Cocke, John Boiling, Edward Curd, John Povall, John Williamfon and Robt.^iofby Gent., Vef- trymen. The Rev'd Mr. Anthony Gavin produces a letter from the Hon'ble William Gooch, E'ffqr., his Maj's Lieut. Governor of this Colony, and another from the RevM James Blair, Com- miffary, directed to the Church Wardens and Gent, of the Yeftry, recommending the f aid Mr. Gavin to the care of this Parifh, which are Read, and the Veftry being defirous of firftt hearing him performe the Office of his Minifterial func- tion, do fufpend their Opinion as to his reception till after Sermon, when they do agree to meet again. Whereas, the Rev'd Anthony Gavin hath performed his office both in reading and preaching to the General Satiffac- tion and appreciation of the Veftry, it is thereupon unani- moufly agreed that he be received and entertained as Minifter of this Parifh. And it is thereupon Ordered that the Church Wardens do Answer the Governor's and Commiffary's letters, and inform them of the proceedings herein. JAMES POWEL COCKE, Church Warden. AT A VESTRY held at Curl's Church, for Henrico par- ifh, for laying the parifh levy, JSTovember the 24th, 1735. Prefent. The Rev'd Anthony Gavin, Min'r, James Powel Cocke and James Cock, Church-wardens, William Randolph, Effqr., Richard Randolph, John Redford, Bowler Cocke, John Boil- ing, Edward Curd, and John Williamson Gent. Veftrymen. 18 VESTKY BOOK OF Henrico Parifh, Dr. To Ballance due to the Collector laft year, To Mr. Moffon for preaching four Sermons, at 500 per, To Do. for three Sermons, at 400, To 14 per ct. on said 1,200 for Convenience, To John Ealls, Reader at Chappell, To Sackvil Brewer, Reader, To Do. as Clerk of the Veftry, To John Hobfon, Sexton, To Elenor Williams Do. at Chappell, To the Church-wardens for Bread and Wine, To Suf anna Woodcock for keeping her Son, To Collector on E"orthfide for Infolvents Acc't, To Do. for Northfide of James River for Do. To William perkins, Reader for Seven Months, 1,167 To John Ofborn, Sexton for Seven Months, To Mr. Brook for preaching at the Chappel, To Thomas Branch yr. proportion of Seven Months ferriage. To Walter Scot for keeping John Lyle, To Robert Bullington for keeping and burying Wm. Withers, 1,200 To William Randolph, Effqr., for Beding for said Withers, To 14 per cent, on Do. for Conveniency, To ye Clerk of the Court for Copping Two Laws, To Elenor Turner for keeping James Wood, To Ralph Jackfon for keeping Wm. Hobby, To Hutchkins Burton for keeping Sufanna Rollins, To Mary North for keeping Sufanna Burnet, To Mr. Anthony Gavin, pt. of his iirft year's Sallary, To 14 per cent, on Do. for Conveniency, Tobacco. Cafk. 196 2,000 1,200 168 2,000 80 2,000 80 500 20 600 24 600 24 400 1,200 48 418 264 1,167 46 350 14 1,600 381 14 400 168 1,680 80 150 350 700 28 1,000 40 12,000 480 1,680 ST. JOHN S CHUKCH. 19 To Lemmon Childers for burying Weft, and taking care of his Child, 600 To Elizabeth Burges for keeping John Lyle two years, 1,600 35,376 912 Cafk, 912 36,288 Commiffion at 4 per cent, 1,452 37,Y40 Henrico Parifh, Or. By Tobacco Levy'd in Dale parifh ^N'eck, 4,136 By 1,013 Tithables, at 33 pounds Tobacco per pole, 33,429 Ballance due to the Collector, 175 37,740 It is ordered that John !^afh, Gent, do receive of every Tithable perfon of this parifh Thirty-three pounds of Tobac- co, being the parifh Levey for this year; and if any perfon refufes to pay the same he is to Difftrain for it, and pay unto each parifh creditor reifpectively their feveral sums of To- bacco as in the proportions of the faid Levy are mentioned, for the performance of which the faid John [N^afh Enters into Bond, Bowler Cocke and John Boiling, Gent. Securitys. Mr. William Fuller is Choiffen a Veftryman in the Eoom of Jofeph Mayo, Gent, who is Avilling to reffign the place the said ffuller take the Oaths as A Veftryman, and Signs the Declaration accordingly, prefent William Fuller. on the Motion of mr. Anthony Gavin, the Yeftry do agree to make all neceffary Reparations to the Gleeb House, and to build a Kitchen Twenty-four feet long and Sixteen feet broad, to be under-pined with Brick, and an infide Brick Chimney. Richard Randolph and Edward Curd, Gent, are appointed 20 VESTRY BOOK OF to view the Chappel and report what reparation and Addi- tions are thereunto wanting. It is ordered that Mr. John ITafh, Collector of this parifh do receive of every Tithable in the faid parifh Six pence Curr't. money, or five pounds of Tobacco, to be employ' d to- wards repairing the Chappel. Ant. Gavin, Min'r., Jas. powel Cocke, James Cocke, Church Wardens. AT A YESTKY held at Curl's Church, for Henrico par- ifh, the Sixth day of December, Ano. 1735. Prefent. James powel Cocke, James Cocke, Church Wardens ; Wil- liam Eandolph, Effqr., Eichard Eandolph, Bowler Cocke, John Eedford, John povall, John Williamfon, Eobert Mofby and William Fuller, Gent., Yeftrymen. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, directing the manner of proceffioning every perfon's Land, and the fol- lowing precinct are laid out and Directed to be proceffioned as follows, Viz. : In Obedience to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in purfuance of an order of Henrico County Court, made at a Court held for the faid County the firft day of December, anno 1735: The Veftry do order that John Ellis, William Ellis and Abraham Childers, with the Affif tance of the l^eigh- boring freeholders, do fome time before the laft day of March N'ext coming, goe in proceffion and renew the bounds of all the Land adjoining on James Eiver, between Weftham and the upper bounds of the parifh, to Extend back as far as Gor- din's Eoad, that leads up to Eocketts ; and that the faid John Ellis, William Ellis and Abraham Childers, (or any two of them,) do take and return to this parifh Yeftry an Account of every perfon's Land they fhall procefiion, and of ye perf ons prefent at the fame, and of what Lands in their precinct they fhall fail to proceffion, and of the particular reafon of fuch failure. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in Obedience to an Order of Henrico County Court, made at a Court held for the faid County the firft day of December, nno. 1735. The Yeftry do order that Jofeph parfons, Thomas ST. J0HN''S CHURCH. 21 Owen, and William Brittain, with the Affiftance of ye Neigh- boring freeholders, do Sometime before the laf tt day of March !N^ext coming, go in proeeffion and renew the bounds of all the Land from William Gordin's on the back Road to the head of ye parifh, thence to the Main Swamp so Down to Turner's Run, thence up Hungary Branch to the head of upland Brook, thence to Gordin's aforef aid ; and that the f aid Jofeph parfon, Thomas owin and William Britain, (or any two of them,) do take and return to this parifh Veftry an account of every per- fon's land they fhall proeeffion, and of the perfons prefent at the Same, and all lands in their precinct they fhall fail to pro- eeffion, and of the particular reafon of fuch failure. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in Obe- dience to an order of Henrico County Court, made at a Court held for the faid County the firft day of December, ano. 1735 ; The Veftry do order that John Watfon, John Williamfon and Wm. patman, with the Affiftance of the l^eighboring free- holders, do Sometime before the laft day of March 'Next com- ing, goe in proeeffion and renew the bounds of all the lands between upland Brook and Chickahominy Swamp, and that the faid John Watfon, John Williamfon and William pat- man, (or any two of them,) do take and return to this parifh Veftry an Account of every perfon's land they shall pro- eeffion, and of the perfons prefent at the Same, and of what Land in their precinct they fhall Fail to proeeffion, and of the particular Reafon of Such Failure. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony in Obe- dience to an Order of Henrico County Court, made at a Court held for the Said County the firft day of D'ecember, ano. 1735 : The Veftry do order that Joel Walker, Henry Stokes and John Smith, with the Affiftance of the Neighboring free- holders, do Sometime before the laft day of March Next coming, goe in proeeffion and renew the bounds of all lands between Chickahominy Swamp and the Brook Road, as low as Mary Cannon's and Smith's Mill ; and that the faid Joel Walker, Henry Stokes and John Smith, (or any two of them,) do take and return to this parifh Veftry and Account of every perfon's land they shall proeeffion, and of the perfons prefent at the fame, and of what land in their precincts they fhall fail to proeeffion, and the particular reafon of fuch failure. 22 VESTEY BOOK OF Purf uant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in Obe- dience to an order of Henrico County Court, made at a Court held for the faid County the firft day of December, ano. 1Y35: The Veftry do order that Thomas Wood, Hutchkins burton and John price, with the Affiftance of the Neighbor- ing freeholders do Sometime before the laft day of March Next coming, go in proceffion and Renew the bounds of all lands adjoining on the River between Gilly's Creek and Weft- ham, to Extend back as far as Mary Cannon's and William Gordin's, and that the faid Thomas Wood, Hutchkins Burton and John price, (or any two of them,) do take and return to this parifh Veftry an Account of every perfon's land they fhall proceffion, and of the perfons prefent at ye Same, and of what land in their precincts they fhall fail to proceffion, and the particular reafon of Such failure. Purf uant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in Obe- dience to an Order of Henrico County Court, at a Court held for the faid County, the firft day of December, ano. 1735 : The Veftry do order that William Lewis, Henry Hatcher and Daniel price, with the Affiftance of the Neighboring freeholders, do Sometime before the laft day of March Next coming, go in proceffion and renew the bounds of all lands from the Mouth of Gilley's Creek to William Lewis's, on Chickahominy Swamp, thence up the faid Swamp to Smith's mill, thence to Mary Cannon's, to the place firft MentioneS, and that ye faid Wm. Lewis, Llenry Hatcher and Daniel price, (or any two of them,) do take and return to this parifh Veftry an Account of every perfon's Land they fhall pro- ceffion, and the perfons prefent at the Same, and of what land in their precinct they fhall fail to proceffion, and the partic- ular reafon of fuch failure. Purf uant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in obe- dience to an order of Henrico County Court, held for the said County, the firft day of December, ano. 1735: The Veftry do order that John Giles, Thomas Mofby and John Allday, with the Affiftance of the Neighboring freeholders, do Some- time before the laft day of March Next coming, goe in pro- ceffion, and renew the bounds of all Lands adjoining on the River between Gilly's Creek and Cornealiouf's, Extending back as far as ye Seven pines Road, as low as the Southern ST. John's church. 23 Branch Bridge, and that the faid John Giles, John Aulday and Thomas Mofby, (or any two of them,) do take and re- turn to this parifh Yeftry, an account of every perfon's Land they fhall proceffion, and ye perfons prefent at the Same, and of what Land in their precinct they fhall fail to proceffion, and the particular reafons of fuch failure. Purf uant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in Obe- dience to an order of Henrico County Court, Made at a Court for the Said County, the firft day of December, ano. 1735 : The Veftry do order that John Stuart, Ewd. Cox and Benja- min Burton, with ye Affiftance of the Neighboring free hold- ers, do Sometime before the laft day of March Next coming, goe in proceffion and renew the bounds of all lands included, Corneliuf's, Twomile Creek, ye Main Roade, And that the Said John Stuart, Edward Cox and Benjamin Burton, or any two of them, do take and return to this parifh Veftry an Ac- count of every perfons Land they fhall proceffion, and the perfons prefent at the Same, and of what Land they fhall fail to proceffion, and the particular Beafon of Such failure. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in obe- dience to an order of Henrico County Court, at a Court held for the faid County, the firft day of December, ano. 1735 : The Veftry order that John Bedford, junr., Abraham Child- ers and Henry Sharp, with the Affiftance of the Neighboring free holders, do Sometime before the laft of March Next com- ing, go in proceffion and renew the bounds of all the Lands between Two Mile Creek, four mile Creek and the main Road, and that the Said John Bedford, Henry Sharp and Abraham Childers, (or any twO' of them,) do take and return to this parifh Veftry an Account of every perfon's Land they fhall proceffion, and the perfons prefent, and of what land in their precincts they fhall fail to proceffion, and the pareicular reafon of fuch failure. Purfuant to an Act of A'ifembly of this Colony, and in Obedience to an order of Henrico County Court, and at a Court held for ye Said County, the firft day of December, ano. 1735 : The Veftry do order that Jofeph Adkins, William Whitloe and Darby Enroughty, with the Affiftance of the Neighboring freeholders. Sometime before the laft day of March Next Coming, go in proceffion and renew the bounds 24 VESTRY BOOK OF of all Lands between Cornelinf's and four Mile Creek, from ye Main Road back as far as the Seven pines Road, and that the Said Jofeph Adkins, William Whitloe, and Darby En- ronghty/^ (or any two of them,) do take and return to this parifh Veftry an account of all lands by them proceffioned, and the perfon prefent at the fame, and of What Land they fhall fail to proceffion in their precinct, and the particular reafon of fuch failure. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, in Obe- dience to an order of Henrico County Court, made at a Court held for the Said County, the firft day of December, ano. 1Y35: The Veftry do order that Edward Allen, John Eerris and Richard Williamfon, with the Affiftance of ye I^eighbor- ing free holders, do Sometime before the laft day of the March l^ext Coming, goe in proceffion and Renew the bounds of all lands between William Lewif's, Bore's Swamp, the Main Swamp, and the Seven pines Road, and the Edward Allen, John Eerris and Richard W^illiamfon, or any two of the them, do take and return to the Veftry of this parifh an account of every perfon's Land they fhall proceffion, and the perfons prefent at the Same, and of all land they fhall fail to proceffion in their precinct, and the particular reafon of fuch failure. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in obe- dience to the order of Henrico County Court, made at a Court held for ye faid County, this firft day of D'ecember, Ano. 1Y35 : The Veftry do order that John Cocke, Gerrard Ellifon and Giles Carter, with the Affiftance of the Neighbor- ing free holders, do Sometime before the laft day of March 'Next coming, goe in proceffion and renew the lands of all Lands from Bore Swamp, on Chickahominy Swamp, to the lower bounds of ye parifh, thence Southerly to the place where the long bridge road parts with Bottom Bridge Road, and that the faid John Cocke, Gerrard Ellifon and Giles Cocke, (or any two of them,) do take and return to their par- ifh Veftry an account of every perfon's Lands by them pro- ceffioned, and the perfons prefent at the Same, and of all Land in their precinct they Shall fail to proceffion, and the particular reafons of Such failure. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in Obedience to an order of Henrico County Court, Made at a ST. JOHN''s CHURCH. 25 Court for the Said County, the firft day of December, Ano. 1735 : The Veftry do order that Edward Goode, John Hobfon and Samuel Gathright, with the Affiftance of the N^eighbor- ing free holders, do Sometime before the laft day of March 'Next Coming, goe in proceffion and renew ye bounds of all land Between Baily's run and four mile Creek, as far as the Road that leads from Chickahominy Swamp to Varina, and that the said Edward Goode, John Hobfon and Samuel Gathright, or any two of them, do take & return to this parifh Veftry an Account of all the Lands they Shall proceffion, and the perfons prefent at the Same, and of all land in their pre- cinct they fhall fail to procefl&on, and the particular reafons of Such failure. Purf uant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in Obe- dience to an Order of Henrico County Court, Made at a Court held for ye County aforefaid, the firft day of December, Ano. 1785 : The Veftry do order that Thomas pleafant, Steven Woodfon and Charles ffloyd, with the Affiftance of the N'eigh- boring free holders, do Sometime before the laft day of March I^ext coming, go in proceffion and renew the bounds of all lands between Baily's Kun and the lower bound of the parifh, to Extend back as far as Weftern Bun, and the faid Tho. pleafants, Steven Woodfon and Charles floyd, or any two of them, do take and return to this parifh Veftry an Account of every perfon's land they fhall proceffiion, and the perfons prefent at the Same, and of all land in their precinct they fhall fail to proceffion, and the particular reafon of fuch fail- ure. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in Obe- dience to an Order of Henrico County Court, made at a Court held for ye County aforefaid, the firft day of December, 1735 : The Veftry do order that William Porter, Junr., John Warriner and Stephen Floyd, with the Affiftance of the free holders and N^eighbors, do Sometime before the laft day of March Next Coming, goe in proceffion and renew the bounds of all Land from the Weftern Bun to the outward precinct on Chickahominy Swamp, and that the faid William Porter, John Warriner and Steven Floyd, (or any two of them,) do take and return to this parifh Veftry An Account of every perf on's land they fhall proceffion, and the perfons prefent at 26 VESTEY BOOK OF the Same, and of all Land in their precincts they fhall fail to proceffion, and the particular Keafon of Such failure. Purfuant to an Order of Yeftry, made at a Yeftry held for Henrico par if h the fixth day of December, ano. Dom. 1735, Directing the proceffioning of every perf on's Land within the faid parifh. The Several proceffioners appointed do make Ke- turn of their proceedings within their refpective precincts as follows, viz: In obedience to this within order we have proceffioned all the Lands within our precinct, Excepting William Adkins, living in Goochland County & never appeared; Thomas Pleaf ants and Mary Mof by, Orphants, and John Watkins and Ann Daniel, We have returned to the Church Wardens, given under our hands this 18 day of March, 1735. JOHN WATSON, JOHN WILLIAMSON, WILLIAM PATMAN. Copy Teft. Proceffioned Obadiah Smith's land, with his Conf ent, himfelf being prefent. Proceffioned Mary Cannon's Land, with her Confent. Proceffioned Gilly Grew Marrin's Land, with his Confent. Proceffioned Luke Smith's Land, he being prefent. Proceffioned Jofeph Pleafants' Land, he being prefent. Proceffioned John Pleafants' Land, he being prefent. Proceffioned William Hill's Land, he being prefent. Proceffioned Robert Sharp's Land, he being prefent. Proceffioned John Britain's Land, he being prefent. Proceffioned William Ferriffe's Land, he being prefent. Proceffioned Robert Morriff's Land, he being prefent. Proceffiioned part of Thomas Williamfon's Line. By JOELL WALKER, HENRY STOKES, JOHN SMITH. Copy Teft. Purfuant to an Order of Yeftry, held for Henrico parifh ye 6 day of Dec'r. 1735, we have proceffioned the Lands or- dered us by the Yeftry, which are as f olloweth, viz : procef- ST. John's church. 27 fioned the Line of Richard Levens and Benjamin Burton; alfo the line of Benjamin Burton and John Cox; John Cox and John Whitlows line; John Whitlo's and William Whitlo's line ; James Whitlo's and William Whitlo's line ; James Whit- lows Back line ; Darby Enrufty and John Scott's line ; Darby Enrufty and Abraham Childers' line ; Larner Bradf haw and Jofeph Adkins' line; Abraham Childers and Jofeph Adkins' line; Abraham Childers and John Scott's line; Jofeph Ad- kins, Jane Scott's line ; Jane Scott and Erayzer's line ; Jofeph Adkins and John Brion's line ; John Brion and Erayzer's line ; John Brion and Larner Bradfhaw Line ; all which Lines we have Renewed in prefence of the parties owning the f aid Lands. Alfo we have proceffioned John Cox and Richard Renard Line; And William Whitlo and Richard Renard Line ; John Cox and William Whitlo being prefent, and Miell Turpin in behalf of ye f aid Renard ; alfo we proceffioned the Lines of James and Thomas pleaf ant's line ; William Whitlo and Thomas pleafant's line, Darby Enrufty and Thomas pleaf ant's line; John and Benj. Scott and Thomas pleafant's Line; all the parties being prefent at the renewing of the bounds aforefaid, (Thomas pleaf ant only Excepted,) he not having notice. Jofeph Mayo's Land not proceffioned occa- fioned by his not Attending us there the Time appointed. We also renewed William Burton's Line, Which is all the patiented lands in the precinct. Ordered as per the Veftry above Mentioned. Teft: Certified per WM. WHITLO, JOS. ATKII^S. In Obedience to an Order of the Veftry of this parifh, and according to the directions of an Act of Affembly entitled an Act for Settling the titles and bounds of Land and for pre- venting unlawful fhooting & Ranging thereupon. We, the Subscribers, having gon in proceffion of the Several Lands within our precinct, as by order (Jated Dec'r ye 6, 1735, with the freeholders f olloweth, viz : Theodric Carter, his Land proceffioned. John Webb, Do. Garrard Ellyfon, Do. Zb VESTRY BOOK OF Jolin Spear, his land proceffioned Sam Bugg Do. Francis Brothers, Do. Erancis Amos, Do. John Mofs, Do. William Clarke, Do. Hobert Ferris, Do. William Ferris, Ju'r, Do. William Ferris, Sen'r, Do. Edward Goode, Do. Ann Auftin, Do. John Bottom in behalf of Philamone Smith, Do. Richard Truman, Jr., Do. John Bottom, Do. Richard Truman, Jr, his line not to be found below Boar Swp. Michael Hartwell^ Do. John Roper, Do. Thomas Watkins, Do. Richard More, Do. Part of John Cock's Land not proceffioned by Reafon of Thomas Pleaf ants failing to appear. The lines of the Lands between James powel Cocke, and John Robertfon not being found. The lines between James powel Cocke and John Hales not agreed on. John Robertfon, part of his lines not to be found. Edward Moffby refufes to proceffion part of the Land of Thomas Epps, proceffioned in our precinct ; the Lines be- tween John Cocke and Giles Carter that is in the County. Given under our hands ye laft day of March, 1736. Teft: JNO. COCKE, GILES CARTER, GAR'D ELLYSOK This is to certifie that William Lewis, Henry Hatcher and Daniel Price, with the Affiftance of ye IsTeighboring freehold- ers hath renewed all the lines in our precinct according to the Order, Except the line of Jofeph Watfon, which can't be ST. J0HN''S CHURCH. 29 found, and the Land that ye have already Returned to the Church Warden. Copy Teft: WILLIAM LEWIS, DANIEL PRICE, HENRY HATCHER. This is to Certifie that we have proceffioned all the Lands in our precinct by me, Thomas Wood, and Jno. Price and Huth's Burton. This is to Certifie that Edmond Allen, John Paris, Richard Williamfon, with the Affiftance of the Neighboring freehold- ers, hath renewed all the Lines in our precinct. Except a Line between Capt. James Cocke and Thomas Matthews, and the reafon it was not proceffioned Capt. Cocke never came to pro- ceffion, and a Outline of Jofeph Watfon's, and the reafon that it was not proceffioned, the line could not be found, and every perfon prefent being at the fame time. January ye 1ft, 1735-6. Proceffioned the following lines Between John Stweed and William Einney; Between Wil- liam Finney and Judith Cocke. January ye 12, Between Mr. Jofeph Mayo and Wilbf bier Marrien ; between Mr. Mayo and James Frankling; Between Thomas Robertfon and Eln'r Williams ; Between Mr. Jofeph Mayo and Thomas Robertfon. January ye 15th, Between James Frankling and Thomas Ro- bertfon ; Between Thomas Robertfon and William Burton ; William Burton and Alex'r Robertfon and Jofeph Mayo ; Be- tween Alexander Robertfon and Abram and George Abny. January 16, Between Judith Cocke and Thomas Baily; John Giles and Charles Belew; Between Thomas Baily, John Giles and Charles Belew; Between Nicholas Giles and John Allday. Jan^y 28, Between John Giles, Thomas Mofley; Between Thomas Allday and John Giles. March ye 8th, Between Collo. William Randolph and Francis Marrin. March ye 11th. Between Colo. William Randolph, John Allday, Thos. Mofley. The Lines between Brazner Cocke and Francis Marrin, and between Fran's Marrin and Warham 30 VESTRY BOOK OF Eafley, lying obfcure, do agree that tlie Surveyor fhall run them. JOHIT GILES, Copy Teft: JOHN ALLDAY. THE ORDER Executed in proceffioning and returning proceffioned the lines of Martha Hambleton, prefent; Wil- liam Eoard and John Mofley proceffioned John Bqwe land, prefent; John Mofby proceffioned William Turner's Land, prefent ; David Atkines an John Mofby proceffioned the Land of Will'm Eoard, preffent; Mofby and John foard procef- fioned the land of John Shepherd, preifent; John Johnfon and James Bohannan. Jacob Shepherd's Land proceffioned, prefent; John Johnfon and John Shepherd proceffioned the Land of Rob't Morris, prefent; Matthew Hutchinson and John Shepherd, David adkin's Land, preffent; William ford and John Mofby proceffioned the Land of Jofeph Parsons, preffent; Robert Mofby and John Brumfield proceffioned William Britain's Land, prefent; Robert Mofley and Henry Britain proceffioned Ifaac Winf ton's ^^ Land, prefent; Henry Britain and Robert Mofby proceffioned the Land Robert Mofby, prefent; Ifaac Winf ton and Henry Britains procef- fioned the Land of Ralph Hunt and John Royal, prefent; Robert Mofby and John Whealer proceffioned the Land of Obadiah Smith, prefent; Thomas Conway and James Con- way proceffioned the Land of Michael Hilton, prefent ; John Whealer, Thomas Conway, Obadiah Smith, proceffioned Mat- thew Hutchinfon Land, prefent; John Whealer and John Royali proceffioned the Land of Thomas Conway and ISTich's Prior, prefent ; James Conway and Edward price and Walter Clarke, proceffioned the Land of James Conway and Benja- min Cannon, and Mary Walters, prefent; Thomas Conway and Edward prior and Charles Cannon, proceffioned the Land of Simon Ligon, prefent ; William Harler and John Martin proceffioned John Martin's, prefent; Simon Ligon and Wil- liam Street proceffioned the land of Robert Timf on, prefent ; John Tomfon and William Harlow proceffioned the Land of Robert Hardwick, prefent ; Thomas Een ton and John iN'orth, proceffioned the land of John l^orth, prefent; Robert Hard- ST. John's church. 31 wick and Edward Tommas, proceffioned Thomas fentons, prefent; William Street and Robert Hardwick proceffioned William Harlo's, prefent ; Simon Ligon proceffioned William Street, prefent ; John Martin proceff'd Jacob Roberfon, pref- ent; Charles Cannon and ISTich's Prior, prc^eff'd John Wood- fon's Land, prefent, himfelf ; proceffioned the land of Abra- ham Childers, prefent; Hutchins, Burton and Thomas Cot- tral procefhoned Hutchins Burton's and William Gordins', prefent ; Abram Childers and John Gordin, part of a Tract of Collo. William Randolph's not proceff'd. The Lines not found, Thomas Bootwright 'Not, he being Abfent. Sarah Hews, her Land not proceffioned, No one to f how us the Lines. THOS. OWEIT, Copy Tef t : WM. BRITAUST, JOS. PARSONS. BY VIRTUE of an order of this Yeftry of the parifh, We, the Subfcribers, have gon in proceffion and renewed the bounds of all thofe within thofe limits mencioned in the f aid order. Several of the Neighboring Free holders. Together with owners of the faid Lands being prefent at the doing of the Same. Thofe under-mencioned Excepted, Viz. : The Sev- eral parts of That dividend of Land formerly belonging to John Cocke in the Low grounds, Not done by Reafon none of the owners were prefent when the Adjacent Lands were pro- ceffioned ; the Lands whereon Henry Irby lived not done for ye Same Reason. The Line between James powell Cocke and Thomas Pleaf ants was proceffioned, but in the Meafuring the head Line of the point. Land there was an Error of Thirty poles in the length of that line. The Courfe and diftance is by the faid Cocke and Pleafants agreed on, and between themfelves will rectifie the above Miftake. The Line between James Cocke and William Porter, Junior, Not to be found ; and that between the faid Cock and John Williams not done for the Same Reafon. The partition Lines between Between Richard Randolph and Charles Woodfon; alfo that between John Pleafants and the faid Woodfon Omitted by Reafon ye the Said Lines were very plain and well known. Together with Richard Randolph's Not being prefent when the Adja- 32 VESTRY BOOK OF cent Land were proceffioned.- Tlie Line between Thos. Pleaf- ants' Land and the Land formerly Benjamin Hatcher's Not don for ye Same Reafon. The bounds of the Land that was Charles Llolmes, now John Pleafants, ]^ot don, l^either the upper 'Not lower line ; the parties Concerned protending to Settle them between them Selves. The Line parting the Land that was formerly Solomon Knibbs and Jas. Hatcher's, not done, there being no line to be found. The head Line of the Said Tract adjoining To Thos. Pleafants', Not done, the par- ties intending to do it between them Selves. The Line parting the Land of John Boiling, formerly Wm. head's, in like man- ner to be done. THOMAS PLEASANTS, STEPHEN WOODSON, Copy Teft: CHARLES ELO YD. We, the Subscribers, have proceffioned all the lines within our precinct, which is betwixt Baly's Run and four Mile Creek, Except the Line betwixt Edward Goode and Edward Bennet, and Bennet refufe to proceffion that Line and A Line betwixt Edward Goode and Thos. Matthis, which they have agreed to make ; and a line betwixt Wm. Erogmorton and Ed- ward Bennet, we could not find ; and a parcel of Land upon White-oak Swamp, belonging to Mr. Eppes, who never came to meet us tho. Often required; and a Line between Capt. James Cocke and John Williams. Cocke never came tho, re- quired. By us, EDWARD GOODE, SAMUEL S. GATHRIGHT, Copy Text. JOHN :***" HOBSON. The lands Between Two mile Creek, four Mile Creek, and the Main Country Road, Quietly proceffioned. Except between John Redford's and William Parker ; likewife between Abra- ham Childers and Henry Sharp, but agree to have the lines run by Maj'r John Bowling Quietly. ABRAHAM CHILDERS, JOHN REDEORD, JuitX HENRY SHARP. ST. J0HN''S CHURCH. 33 We, tlie Subfcribers, have proceffioned all the Land within our precinct; only the Lands belonging to the honourable William Randolph, Efq'r, and mr. William Randolph, Gent., in Goochland, their Lines 'Not being found. Collo. Richard Randolph never came to go with us, and his is left undone. Robert Hardwick's, John ITorth's, Thos. Fenton's, George Hardwick, prefent with the Owners thereof; Thomas Ally, Thos. Jennett's, John Shoemaker, prefent; .ISrich's Pryor, Thomas Cosral, each being one with the other ; Jacob Robin- fon's, Benjamin Cannon's, Charles Cannon, prefentj George Freeman, John Griffin, Thomas Ally, prefent; part of mr. William Randolph, Gent., in Goochland, being done, which part lies in the Ifland of Tuckahoe ; those being part of Sev- eral perf on's Land left undone by Reafon of the Gent's Lines as firft Mencioned not being done. JOHN ELLIS, May ye 3, 1Y36. WILL'a ELLIS, Copy Teft: ABRA. CHILDERS. The lines between John Cocke and William Parsons, both agreed in the prefence of Giles Carter and Thos. Jolley. The Line between John Cocke and Jofeph Woodfon, proceffioned, and both agreed in prefence of Wm. Porter, Sen'r, John Wil- liams, James Volton. The Line between Joseph Woodfon and William Porter, Jun'r, proceffioned, and both agreed in prefence of William Porter, Sen'r, John Cocke, John Wil- liams, Jane Yaulton. The line between William Porter, Sen'r and Humphrey Smith, proceffioned, and both agreed in pre- fence of William Porter, Sen'r. The Line between Francis Gathright and Elizabeth Eaft, proceffioned, and both agreed in prefence of William Porter, Sen'r and John Williams. The line between John Cocke and Thomas Watkins, proceffioned, and both agreed in prefence of William Porter, Sen'r. The Line between Thomas Watkins and Jofeph Woodfon, pro- ceffioned, and both agi-eed in prefence of John Cocke and William Porter, Senior. The Line between William Porter, Sen'r and Thos. Watkins, proceffioned, and both agreed in prefence of John Cocke. The Line between William porter, Sen'r and James Cocke, proceffioned and agreed. The Line 34 VESTEY BOOK OF between Cols. Harrifon, and William Lewis, and Thomas Watkins, and Thomas Binford, and Edward Mofby, pro- ceffioned, and agreed in pref ence of James powel Cocke, John Cocke, Giles Carter, John Owin. The Line between Charles Floyd and Stephen Floyd, proceffioned and agreed. A Line between Stephen Woodfon and William Lewis, proceffioned and agreed. A line between William porter, Sen'r and James Vaulton, agreed. A Line between William Porter, Sen'r, and John Williams, agreed. The Lines between William Lewis and Thomas Watkins, not renewed, becaufe Thos. Watkins would not appear, a Line between Stephen Floyd and Stephen Woodfon, not agreed on. A Line between Wm. Porter, Senior, and James Cocke, Not renewed, becaufe James Cocke did not appear. Francis Rowins' Line not proceffioned, ITobody would appear to do it for him. WM. PORTER, JuN E, JOHN WORRINER, Copy Teft: STEPHEN FLOYD. AT A VESTRY held at CurPs Church, for Henrico parifh, on Sunday, the 18th July, 1736. Prefent. William Randolph, Bowler Cocke, John Boiling, James Powell Cocke, James Cocke, John Redford, John Powell, Edward Curd, John Williamfon and William Fuller, Gent. Veftrymen. The reverend mr. William Stith-"-^ produces a Letter from the Hon'l William Gooch, Efq'r, his Majesty's Lieut. Gover- nor of the Colony, and another from the rever'd mr. James Blair, Commiffary, directed to the Church Wardens and Gent, of the Veftry, recommending the f aid mr. Stith to the Cure of this parifh, which are read, and ye faid Mr. Stith hath this Day performed his minifterial function, both in preaching and reading to the General Satiffaction and appro- ST. J0HN''S CHURCH. 35 bation of the Veftry, whereupon they do unanimously agree to receive him as Minif ter of this parif h. Signed by JAMES POWELL COCKE, JAMES COCKE, Church Wardens. Purfuant to an Order of Vestry, held for Henrico parish the 6 day of December, ano. 1735: We, John Stewart, Ed- ward Cox and Benjamin Burton, being appointed proceffion- ers in the precinct between Cornielioufffe's two Mile Creek and the Mane County road: In obedience to the faid order, we mett on the 9th day of January, and dide proceed to fulfil the faid order, viz. : The bounds of Land between Edward Cox and John Cox, renewed ; the Said Edward and John being present, done in prefence of Thomas Jordan. As Alfo the Bounds of Land Between Edward Cox and Thos. Jordan, the parties being pref ent ; renewed in prefence of John Cox. As Alfo the bounds of land between John Cox and Thos. Jordan, renewed ; the partys being pref ent. As Alfo the bounds of land between William perkins and Thomas Branch, renewed, the partys being pref ent ; done in prefence of Arthur Giles. As Alfo the Bounds of Land between Thomas Branch and William Burton, renewed, the parties being prefent ; done in prefence of William pirkins and Arthur Giles. As Alfo the Bounds of Land between William pirkins and William Burton, renewed, the parties being prefent ; done in prefence of Tho. Branch and Art. Giles. As Alfo the Bounds of Land between Edward Cox and William pirkin, renewed, the partys being prefent; done in prefence of Authur Giles. As Alfo the bounds of Land between Edward Cox and Sarah Mofley, renewed, the parties being prefent; done in prefence of Wm. Pirkins and Art. Giles. As Alfo the bounds of land between Sarah Mofly and Wil- 36 VESTRY BOOK OF liam pirkins, renewed, the parties being pref ent ; done in pre- f ence of Art. Giles. As Alfo the bounds of Land between Thomas Branch and John Taylor, an Orphant, renewed; William pirkins, his Guardian, and the said Branch being pref ent; done in pre- f ence of Art. Giles. As Alfo the bounds of Land between Sarah Mofley and John Taylor, the Said Moiley and William pirkins being pre- f ent at renewing the fame ; done in pref ence of Arthur Giles and Thomas Pirkins. As Alfo the boimds of land between William pirkins and John Taylor, renewed, the Said pirkins being pref ent; done in prefence of Art. Giles. As Alfo the bounds of land between William Burton and Samuel Hancock, renewed, the party being pref ent; done in prefence of Thomas Woodcocke. As Alfo the bounds of Land between William pirkins and Samuel Hancock, ye Said pirkins being prefent ;^ done by the Conf ent of ye Said Hancocke ; prefent, Thomas Woodcocke. As Alfo the Bounds of Land between Wm. Pirkins and Robert BuUington, renewed, the parties being prefent ; done in prefence of Thos. Woodcocke. As Alfo the bounds of land between John Stewart and Judith Cocke, renewed, the partys being prefent; done in prefence of Thos. Ballow, William Pinney, Abraham Baly. As Alfo the bounds of land between Judith Cocke and Tabitha Ballon, renewed, the partys prefent ; done in prefence of Thos. Ballow, Abra. Baly and Wm. Pinney. As Alfo the bounds of land between Abraham Baly and Tabitha Ballou, renewed, the partys being prefent; done in prefence of Thomas Ballow and Wm. Pinney. As Alfo the bounds of land between Benjamin Burton and Wm. Finney, renew'd, the partys being prefent; don in prefence of Abraham Baly and Thomas Ballow. As Alfo the bounds of land between Wm. Pinney and Richard Cox renewed, the partys being prefent ; Don in pre- fence of Abraham Baly. As Alfo the bounds of land between John Cox and Michael ST. John's churcit. 37 Turpin, renewed, the parties being prefent; don in prefence of of Hays Whitloe. As Alfo the bounds of land between John Cox and Benj'a Burton, renewed, the parties being prefent ; done in prefence of Hais Whitloe. As Alfo the bounds of land between William Finney and Michael Turpin, renewed, the parties being prefent ; Done in prefence of John Cox and Hays Whitloe. As Alfo the bounds of land between John Stewart and John Ellis, the f aid Stewart prefent : renewed by conf ent of the faid Ellis, in prefence of Benj. Burton, Junr. As Alfo the bounds of L'd Between Erancis Epps and Thomas Branch, renewed, the parties being prefent; done in prefence of Thos. Branch and Roderick Evans. As Alfo the bounds of land between Francis Eppes and Will. Burton, renewed, the parties being prefent ; don in pre- fence of Thomas Branch and Roderick Evans. As Alfo the bounds of Land between Francis Eppes and John Stewart, renewed, the parties being prefent; done in prefence of Roderick Evans. As Alfo the bounds of land between Francis Eppes and Samuel Hancock, renewed, the said Hancock being prefent; don by ye Confent of ye Sd. Eppes. As Alfo the bounds of land between Benj a. Burton and Samuel Hancock, renewed ; the parties being prefent. As Alfo the bounds of land between Benj a. Burton and John Ellis, renewed, the parties being prefent; done in pre- fence of Abraham Baly. As Alfo the bounds of land between William Fuller and Hays Whitloe, renewed, the Said Whitloe being prefent ; don by Confent of the Said Fuller, in the prefence of Wm. Fin- ney. As Alfo the bounds of land between William Fuller and prudence Cox, renewed by Confent of the Said Fuller, in prefence of Wm. Finney and Hays Whitloe. As Alfo the bounds of land between Robert Bullington and Thos. Jordan, renewed; the parties being prefent. As Alfo the bounds of land between William pirkins and Thomas Jordan, renewed, the Said Jordan being prefent ; don 38 VESTEY BOOK OF by Confent of the said pirkins in prefence of Robert Bul- lington. An Account of Lands not proceffioned, with the particular reafons why they were not proceffioned. The bounds of land between Edward Cox and John Cox at a place CalPd Wilkinfon's Bottom, not renewed; the par- ties being prefent and Willing to proceffion, but no line to be found. The bounds of land between William Randolph and Ed- ward Cox, not renewed, by reafon of the f aid Randolph's fail- ing to come to renew the Same. The bounds of land between William Randolph and Thomas Jordan, not renewed, by reafon of the faid Ran- dolph's failing to come to renew the fame. The bounds of land between William Randolph and Rob- ert Builington, not renowned, by reafon of the faid Randolph's failing to come. The bounds of land between William Randolph and Rod- erick TJrquhart, not renewed, by reafon of both parties Ab- fence. The bounds of land between William Randolph and Wil- liam parker, not renewed, by reafon of the Said Randolph's failing to come to renew the Same. The bounds of land between William Randolph and the Gleeb Land, not renewed, by reafon of the Said Randolph's failing to come to renew the Same. The bounds of land between Maj'r John Boiling and the Gleeb Land not renewed, by reafon 'No perfon to Sho the Bounds. The bounds of land between Maj'r John Boiling and Tem- perance Builington, not renewed, by reafon of the Said Bul- lington's Abfence. The bounds of land between Robert Builington and Rode- rick L^rquhart, not renew'd, by reafon of the said Urquhart's Abfence. The bounds of land between Capt. Francis Eppes and Benja. Burton, not renew'd; the parties prefent and Willing to proceffion, but no limits be found. The bounds of land between Capt. Francis Eppes and Wm. ST. J0HN''S CHURCH. 39 Puller, 'Not renewed, by reafon of the Said Eppes failing to Come to renew the fame. The bounds of land between Capt. Francis Eppes and John Cox, not renewed^ by reafon of the Said Eppes failing to come to renew the Same. The bounds of land between Maj'r John Boiling and Capt. Francis Eppes, not renewed, by reafon of both parties being Abfence. The bounds of land between Ma jr. John Boiling and Wil- liam Fuller,' not renewed, by reafon of both partys' Ab- fence. The bounds of land between Prudence Cox and Richard Renard, not renewed, by reafon of both partys' Abfence. The bounds of land between William Finney and Abra. Baily, not renewed, the party's prefent and Willing to pro- ceffion, but no line to be found. The bounds of land between William Finney and Judith Cocke, not renewed. The partys prefent and Willing to pro- ceffion, but no line to be found. J0H:N" STEWART, EDWARD' COX, Copy Teft: BEiYJA. BURTOK AT A VESTRY held at CurPs Church, for laying the parifh Levey, the Eleventh day of December, 1736. Prefent. JAMES POWELL COCKE, ) > Church Wardens. JAMES COCKE, Gent., ) William Randolph, Efqr., Richard Randolph, John Red- ford, Bowler Cocke, John powell and William Fuller, Gent. Yeftrymen. Henrico Parifh^ Dr., 1736. Gr. Tob. Cafk. To Ballance due to Collector laft year, 175 To the Rev'd mr. William Stith, 12,000 480 To Conveniency on Do. 2 031 40 VESTRY BOOK OF To Sackvil Brewer, Reader, a year's Sallary, To Do. Clerk of the Veftry, To John Eals, Reader at Chapel, To John Hobfon, Sexton, To Elenor Williams, Sexton at Chapel, To the Church Wardens for Communion Bread and Wine, To Sufanna Woodcocke for keeping her Son, To Mary ^orth for keeping Sufanna Burnet, To Hutchins Burton for keeping Sufanna Rol- lings, To the Collector for Infolvents, &c., perfons twice lifted. To the Rev'd Mr. Brooks for fhort Levy'd him laft year for preaching, To Robert Hardwick for his Son, an impotent perfon. To Elizabeth Fuffel for Keeping and Burying Elenor Weft, To the Collectors for a Mif take in levying mr. Gavin's Tob'o laft year, Cafk, 27,5Y2 Commiffion on 27,572 lb Tobacco at 6 per Cent, is 1,654 2,000 80 1,000 40 2,000 80 600 24 600 24 400 1,200 40 1,000 40 700 28 891 680 500 600 351 844 29,226 Due from the Collectors to the parifh, 543 Henrico Parifh is Credit 1736, 29,769 By the Collectors for 14 per Cent, of 4,136 lb Tob'o Received of Dale parifh, and by him paid here with that Deduction, 579 By 973 Tithables, at 30 R) Tobacco per pole, is 29,190 29,769 ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 41 John Nafh, Gent., is Appointed Collector of this parifh this year, and it is ordered that he do receive of every Titha- ble perfon within the faid parifh according to law. Thirty pounds of Tobacco being the Levy for this year, and if any perfon refufes to pay the Same, he is to Def train for it, and that he do pay unto each parifh Creditor Refpectively their Several Sums of Tobacco, as in the proportions of the faid levy are mentioned, for the performance of all which the faid John isTaf h Enters into Bond ; Richard Randolph and Bowler Cocke, Gent., Enters themf elves Security. John E"afh, Gent., prefents an Account of the Money re- ceived by him as Collector at Six pence per pole of the Tith- ables in this parifh, which was to have been apply'd- towards the repairing the Chapel, by which it appears that there is due from him to the parifh the Sum of Nineteen pounds Two Shillings and Two pence. It is ordered that he do pay the faid Sum of Money to Richard Randolph, Gent, who is de- fired to receive and keep the Same in his hands for the ufe of the parifh till further Orders. JAMES POWELL COCKE, ^ > Ch. Wardens, JAMES COCKE, ) AT A VESTRY held at Curl's Church for Henrico parifh, ye 8th day of October, Anno. Dom., 1Y37, for laying ye parifh Levey. Prefent. James powell Cocke, James Cocke, Church Wardens; Richard Randolph, John Redford, Bowler Cocke, John Boi- ling, William Fuller, John povall, Edward Curd, John Wil- liamfon and Robert Mofby, Gent. Veftrymen. Henrico Parifh, Dr., for ye year 1737. To the Rev'd Mr. William Stith, To ye 14 per Cent, on Do. for Conveniency, To Sackvil Brewer, Reader at CurFs Church, To Do. as Clerk of ye Veftry, To John Ales, Reader at Chapel, Gr. Tob. Cafk. 10,000 400 1,693 2,000 80 500 20 2,000 80 42 VESTRY BOOK OF To Jolm Hobfon, Sexton at Curl's Cliurcli, To Elenor Williams, Sexton at Chapel, To ye Church Wardens for Communion Bread and Wine, To Sufanna Woodcock for keeping her Son, an Impotent perfon, To Mary Burnet for keeping Sufanna Burnnet, To Hutchins Burton for keeping Sufanna Rol- lings, To Robert Hardwick for keeping his Son, an Impotent perfon, To ye Collector for Insolvents, &c.. To the Church Wardens for ye Ufe of Eliza- beth Baily, a poor Old Woman, To the Church Wardens for ye life of Widow Stephens, a poor Blind Woman, To 14 per Cent, on faid 1,000 for Conveniency, To Edmond Allen for keping his Son, an Ideot, To Elizabeth Euffel for keeping John Weft, an Infant, 400 To Thos. Jennet, for keeping Eliza, pike, till laying ye Next Levey, 900 600 24 600 24 400 1,200 48 1,000 40 YOO 28 500 20 330 400 600 160 600 24,583 764 Cafk, 764 25,347 To Commiffion at 6 per Cent on 25,347, is 1,520 26,867 To 5,250 ft) Groff Tob'o to be appli'd towards Building ye 'New Church at Williamfon's 5,250 To 5,250 ft) Grofs Tob'o to be Apply'd towards Building and Repairing of Gleeb Houfes, 5,240 Per Contra Cr., 37,3j37 By Ballance due from Collector laft year, 543 By 1,050 Tithables at 35 per pole. Amounts to 35,750 By a Ballance due to the Collector, 74 37,267 ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 43 William fFuller, Gent., is appointed Collector of the parifh Levey for this year, and it is ordered that he do receive of every Tithable perfon within the Said parifh, Thirty-two pounds of Tobacco, with the Ufual deduction being the Levey for this year, and if any perfon refufes to pay the Same, he is to Def train for it; and that he do pay unto each parifh Creditor refpectively, their Several and refpective Sums of Tobacco as in the Said Levey appears to be Due ; for the per- formance of all which the f aid ffuller enters into Bond ; John Redford and John Povall Securitys. On the Motion of Thomas Jennet, his Son Robert is Ex- empted from paying parifh Levey. It is ordered that Richard Randolph, Gent., do pay James Cocke, Church Warden, Two pounds one Shilling and ITine pence out of the parifh Money in his hands, for Somuch by the Said Cocke, paid James Hunt for Mending ye Chappel Windows. The Veftry do agree to build a Church on the Moft Con- venient place at or near Thomas Williamfon's in this parifh, to be Sixty feet in length and Twenty-five feet in breadth, and fourteen feet pitch; to be finifhed in a plain Manner, after the Moddle of Curl's Church. And it is ordered that the Clerk do set up Advertifements of the particular parts of the faid buildings, and of the time and place of undertaking the Same. It is ordered that the Collector do receive of every Tithable perfon in the parifh, five pounds of Tobacco, after the Ufual deduction, to be Apply'd towards building the ISTew Church at Willi amfon's. It is ordered that the Collector do receive of every Tithable perfon in this parifh, five pounds of Tobacco after the Ufual Deductions ; to be Apply'd towards building and repairing the Gleeb Houfes. Richard Randolph, Gent., is appointed to treat with fome perfon to undertake ye faid reparations, &c. Signed, JAMES POWELL COCKE, JAMES COCKE, Cli. Wardens. 44 VESTRY BOOK OF AT A VESTRY held at CurPs Cliurcli for laying tlie Levey of Henrico parifh, 'Nov. 25th, 1738. Prefent. che Eev'd William Stith, Jas. powell Cocke, James Cocke, Bowler Cocke, John Boiling, John Bedford, William ffuller and John Povall, Gent. Veftrymen. Dr. Henrico Parifh, Novr 25th, 1738. To the Rev'nd Mr. William Stith, a year's Sallerry, To 14 per Cent, for Conveniency, To a balla. dne to Collector, To Jack Brewer, Reader at Curl's, To Do., his Sallery as Clerk at Veftry, To John Eals, Reader at Chappel, To John Hobfon, Sexton at Curl's, To Elenor Williams, Sexton at Chappel, To the Church Wardens for bread and Wine, To Snf anna Woodcocke for keeping and bury- ing her Son, To Mary ^^orth for Keeping Mary Burnet, To Hutchings Burton for Keeping Sufanna Rollins 6 Months, To Robert Hardwick, for Keeping his Son, To the Church Wardens for ye life of Eliza- beth Baley, To 14 per Cent, for Conveniency, To the Church Wardens for the life of Widow Stephen's l^et, 1,000, is To Elizabeth Morton for burying John Armf- tead. To the Church wardens for Rebeckah pruit. To the Collector for Infolvents and perfons twice lifted, To Edmond Allen for Keeping his Son, To the Church Wardens for John Weft and In- fant, Gr. Tob. Cafk. 16,000 640 2,708 74 2,000 80 500 20 2,000 80 600 24 600 24 400 228 1,000 40 364 500 20 400 65 1,162 200 520 700 600 24 400 16 ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 45 To Thos. Jennet for Keeping John pike, an Infant, till laying next parifh levy, 900 35 To James Hatcher for making benches at Church, 120 is 139 32,060 1,012 Cafk Added, 1,012 33,072 To Commiffion on 34656 at 6 p. Ch. is 2,079 35,151 Henrico parifh Credit. By 1,83 Tithables at 32 R) Tobo. per pole is 34,656 ^' Ballance due to the Collector, 495 35,151 James Cocke, Gent. Church Warden, produfeth his Ac- count of Two pounds two Shillings and Eleven pence. Current Money, by him paid for repairs done this Chappel. It is or- dered that Kichard Kandolph, Gent., do pay him the f aid fum out of his parifh Money in his hands. James powell Cocke produfeth his Account againft the parifh, wherein it appears that Eight Shillings, Current Money, is due to him for Mending the Church Windows. It is ordered that Richard Randolph, Gent., do pay him the Same out of the parifh Money in his hands. Mr. William ffuller is appointed a Collector of the parifh Levey this year, and it is ordered that he do receive of every Tithable perfon in the Said parifh, thirty-two pounds of Tobo. according to Law, and that he pay the Several Allow- ances Above Mentioned to the refpective perfons to whom it is due. Bowler Cocke and John Poval, Gent., enter them- felves Securitys. JAMES POWELL COCKE, JAMES COCKE. 46 VESTRY BOOK OF AT A VESTEY held at Curl's Church, for henrico parifh, July ye 21ft, Ano. Dom. 1Y39 : Prefent. The Rever'd William Stith, James powell Cocke, James Cocke, Bowler Cocke, John Bedford, Edward Curd, Robert Mofby, John Povall, William ifuller and John Williamfon, Gent. In obedience to an Order of Henrico Court, and purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, the Veftry do proceed to divide the parifh into Several precincts and appoint per- fons to go in proceffion and renew the Bounds of Lands ac- cording to law. firfi precinct. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in obe- dience to an Order of Henrico Court, it is Ordered that John North, Thomas ffenton and Thomas Ellis, with the affiftance of their ^Neighboring free holders, do Sometime before the laft day of March next, go in proceffion and renew the Bounds of all Lands from the Mouth of Weft Ham to William Gor- den's, hence upwards, all between Gorden's Road and James River to the head of the parifh. And that the said John North, Thomas ffenton, and Thomas Ellis (or any two of them) do take and return to this parifh Veftry an Account of every perfons Land by them proceffioned, together with the names of thofe prefent, and Alfo what Lands they fhall fail to proceffion and the particular Reafon of Such failure. Second precinct. ffrom William Gorden's Road to the head of the parifh, thence to the Main Road Swamp, thence down to Turner's Run, thence up Hungry Branch to the head of Upland Brook, from thence to Gorden's aforefaid. John Shepherd, John Royal and Robert Webb are appointed proceffioners. Third precinct. All between Chickahominy Swamp and ITpland Brook, to the head of the f aid Brook. Nathaniel Bacon, John Watkins and peter patrick are appointed proceffioners. Col. Wm. Byrd, Jr., who donated the site upon which St. John's Church stands. i ST. John's church. 47 ffourth precinct. All between Chickahominy Swamp and the Brook Road, as low as Mary Cannon's and Smith's Mill. Robert Sharp, John pleasant and John Brittain are appointed proceffioners. ffifth precinct. All between the Mouth of Gilley's Creek and Weft Ham^ on the River, and to extend back from Gorden's and Marj Cannon's. John Coles, James Young and Richard Levens are appointed proceffioners. Sixth precinct. ffrom the Mouth of Gilley's Creek on James River to Wil- liam Lewis's, on Chickahominy Swamp, thence upward as high as Smith's Mill and Mary Cannon's. Thorn's Watkins, John Harwood and Alex'r Mofs, proceffioners. Seventh precinct. All below the Mouth of Gilley's Creek and Corneliuf 's, on James River, and to Extend back as far as Seven pines Road, and as low as the Southern Branch Bridge, ffrans. Redford, Gilly Marrin and George Abney are proceffioners. Eigth precinct. All between Corneliuf 's and Two Mile Creek, on the River, and to Extend back as far as the Main Country Road. Sam'l Hancock, William parker and John Cox are appointed procef- fioners. Ninth precinct. All between Two Mile Creek, ffour Mile Creek, James River and the Main Country Road. If aac Sharp, William perce and William Stone are appointed proceffioners. Tenth precinct. All between Corneliuf's and four Mile Creek, on the Main Road, hence back as far as the Seven pines Road. John ffra- fer, James Whitlow and John Whitlow are proceffioners. D & ^'<:f 48 VESTRY BOOK OF ' Efeventh 'precinct. All between William Lewis's^ Boar Swamp, Cliickaliomin;^ Swamp, and the Seven pines Koad. Joseph Watfon, Martin Martin and Jofeph Childfe are appointed proceffioners. Twelfth precinct. ffrom the Mouth of Boar Swamp, on Chickahominj, to the lower Bounds of the parifh, thence between Boar Swamp and the parifh line South Wards as far as where the Koad forks for Long Bridge and Bottom Bridge. Thomas Watkins, Sam. Bugg and John Carter are proceffioners. Thirteenth precinct. ffrom Bayly's Eun to four Mile Creek, all between the Eoad that leads from four Mile Creek Bridge to Chickahom- iny Swamp and James Kiver. Jofeph Hopfon, ISTich's Hop- fon and John Darby are appointed proceffioners. Fourteenth precinct. All between Bailey's Eun and the Lower Bounds of this Parifh, to Extend back as far as the Weftern Eun. Charles Woodfon, James Hatcher and John Williams are proceffion- ers. fifteenth precinct. All between the Weftern Eun, the head of Bailey's Eun and the parifh line, to Extend IsTorth w'd as far as the fork of Long Bridge Eoad. Humphrey Smith, Thomas Binford and Edward Eaft, proceffioners. William Eandolph, Efqr., who was a Yeftryman for the parifh, having resigned that place, Peter Eandolph,^ ^ Gent., is chofen to fucceed him. It is Ordered the Church Wardens do give ^N'otice an Set up Advertifements at all publick places in this parifh, that on the Second Thursday in October next. At CurPs Church, will be held a Veftry, in order to let out the Building of the New Church, at which time, the parifh levy will be laid. JAMES POWEL COCKE, JAMES COCKE, Church Wardens. ST. JOHN^S CHUECH. 49 AT A VESTKY, held for Henrico parifh, the xj day of October, Anno que Dom. 1739 : ' Prefent, Richard Randolph, Bowler Cocke, John Williamfon, John Boiling, Edward Curd, Robert Mofby, James Powell Cocke, James Cocke, John Povall and Wm. ffuller, Gent., Vef try- men. Wm. ifuller, late Collector of this parifh, on Account of parifh Tob'o, by him Sold in the Year 1738, viz: £. s. d. To the Honb'le William Randolph, Efq. 2,915@12 per ct. amounting to 17 9 9J To Mr. Beverley Ran- dolph, 1,164@13 do. 7 11 3| To Richard Randolph, Gent. 3,978@li do. 24 7 4^ and 432 Accounted for by faid Collector, @1^ do. 2 14 52 12 5J Richard Randolph, Gent., produfes an Account for Build- ings and repairs done on the Glebe, by which it appears that a Balance of thirty-nine pounds eight fhillings and eight pence, current Money, is due to him from the parifh. It is thereupon Ordered, that the feveral fums of Money, which appears by this collection account, due to the parifh, viz: from Honourable William Randolph, Efqr., Seventeen pounds [N'ine Shillings and N^ine pence half ; from Mr. Bev- erley Randolph, Seven pounds Elleven Shillings and three pence, three farthings ; and from the faid Collector, Mr. Wil- liam ffuller, two pounds fourteen Shillings. Amounting in the whole to twenty Seven pounds fifteen Shillings and a peny farthing — be paid unto the faid Richard Randolph in part of this Ballance. 50 VESTBY BOOK OF The Vef try proceed to Lay the parif h Levy : Debtor Henrico parifh, for the year 1739. Gr. Tob'o. Cafk. 17,708 640 495 2,000 80 1,000 40 2,000 80 600 24 600 24 To the Rev'd Mr. Stith, 16,640 ISTet is To Ballance due to laft year's Collector, To Sackville Brewer, Reader at Curl's, To ditto. Clerk of the Veftry, being proceMon- ing year. To John Eals, Eeader at Chapel, To John Hobfon, Sexton at Curie's, To Elenor Williams, Sexton at Chapel, To the Church Wardens, for Communion Bread and Wine, 400 To ditto, for the ufe of Mary Burnet, if living, 1,000 To ditto, for the ufe of Elizabeth Baley, 400 To ditto, for Eebecca pruet, neet 600 is 698 To Edmond Allen, for keeping his Son, an Idiot, 600 24 To Robert Hardwick, for keeping his Son, 500 To the Church Wardens, for the ufe of John Weft, an Infant, 400 16 To ditto, for the ufe of Jane Jennings, 800 32 To ditto, for the ufe of Mary Hutchens, 800 To So much towards Building the jN'ew Church, 20,000 E'eet is 23,256 Tobacco Levied to Build Barn on the Glebe, 5,000 IS^eet is 5,816 61,033 Corn's at 6 per ct. on 69,544, the Whole Sum to be received, 4,172 65,205 Ballance due, 499 65,704 60,073 960 Cafk added, 960 ST. JOHN''s CHURCH. 61 Henrico Parifh, Cr. By William Fuller, late Collector as per his own Account, 96 By 1,112 Tithables at 59 R) ToVo per pole is 65,608 65,704 Sackville Brewer is appointed Collector of the parifh for the enfuing year, and it is ordered that he do receive of every Tithahle perfon within the f aid parifh, the fum of Fifty I^ine pounds of Tobacco, after the Ufual Deduction, and that he do pay the Several Allowances above mentioned to the perfons to whom due. Bowler Cocke and Beverly Randolph, Gent.-^^ Enter themfelves Securitys for the Same. Signed: ' JAMES POWELL COCKE, JAMES COCKE, Churc Wardens. AT A VESTRY held for Henrico parifh, on the Twen- tieth day of Dec'r, anno 1739 : Prefent. Mr. William Stith, Minifter; James Powel Cock and James Cocke, Church Wardens ; Richard Randolph, John Redford, James Povall, James Williamfon, William fPuUer and Robert Mofby, Gent., Yeftrymen. It is agreed that a Church be Built on the Mof t Convenient Spot of Ground near ye Spring, on Richardfon's Road, on the South Side of Bacon's Branch, on the Land of the Honoura- ble William Byrd, Efq., to be Sixty feet long and Twenty -^ve broad, and fourteen feet pitch'd, to be finifh'd in a plain manner after the moddle of Curl's Church. Richard Ran- dolph, Efq., Gent., undertakes the faid Building, and engages to finifh the Same by the Tenth day of June, which fhall be in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and forty one ; for which the Yeftry agrees to pay him the fum of three hundred and seventeen pounds Ten Shillings Current Money, to be paid by the Ammount of Sales of twenty thouf and pounds of Tob'o Annually, to be Lev'd on the parifh and fold here for money, till the whole payment be compleat. It is agreed 52 VESTEY BOOK OF that a Barn be Built on the Glebe forty feet long and Twenty- broad and Ten and a half feet pitchM, the frames to be Sawed out of Good timber to be covered in good heart fhingles, nailed on ; the floor to be laid with two inch plank, and Un- derpined with Brick or Stone. James Hatcher undertakes the f aid Building, and engages to finish the fame Workman- like, by the Twentieth day of June next, for which the Vef- try agrees to pay him Thirty five pounds Current Money, to be Eaifed by the fale of Tobacco Levy'd on the parifh for that purpof e. It is ordered that the parifh Collector do pay into the hands of the Church Wardens the Tobacco levyed for the ufe of the parifh, as foon as he can Conveniently Collect the fame, and the Church Wardens are Impowered to make any private Bargain and fell the f aid Tobacco for money, but not under twelve fhillings and fix pence per hundred^ otherwife they are to fell it at publick fale to the highef t bidder. JAMES POWELL COCKE, JAMES COCKE. Every perfon under Writen, have proceffioned their land Marks as us. Richard More, E-ichard Truman, Michael Hartfield, Thomas Bottom, ffrancis Wilkinfon, fPrans. Brothers, ffran- cis WagftafF, Thomas Watkins, John Hales, John Speare, Genet Ellifon, Samuel Bugg, Ann Auftin, Edward Goode, John Ferris, William Ferris, William Clark, Robert fferris, John Cocke, Walter Leigh. Certified by us, THOMAS WATKIE'S, SAMUEL BUGG, JOHN" CARTER, JAS. POWELL COCKE, Teft: JAMES COCKE. Purfuant to the within order, we, the subfcribers, have made quiet and peaceable procefiion of all lands according to the within orders, except two Certain parcels belonging to ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 53 Orphants not of Age — one being left by Jofeph Pleafants, deceafed, and the other by Jofeph Mofby^ dec'd. Per ISTATH'L BACON, JOHIST WATKINS, PETEK PATKICK. JAS. POWELL COCK, Teft: . JAMES COCKE. This is to Certifye, that we have proceffioned the Lands within our Bounds according to order, with peaceable pof- feffion, and Satisfaction to the perfons whose names are fub- f cribed : Between & William Porter, Sen'r, Humphrey Smith, William Porter, Jr., John Pleafant, John Cock, William Perfons, Thos. Watkins, William Shields, Charles Floyd, Stephen Floyd, Stephen Woodfon, John Midleton, Geo. Pike, Thomas Binford, Foliot Power, Wm. Eaft. HUMPHKEY SMITH, EDWAKD EAST, THOMAS BIJ^FORD. March 29th, 1740. JAMES POWELL COCKE, Copy teft: JAS. COCKE. Feb. 11, 1740 — an Account of proceffioning, viz : phillemon perkins, John Frayfer, William Stone, John Frayfer, Will. ITegro, Ben. Scott, Henry Whitloe, Hays Whitloe, Robert Scott, all prefent. Francis Redford, John Bedford, Sen'r, prefent. Abraham Childer, John Redford, Sen'r, Jofeph Woodfin, Robert Blairs, If aac Sharp, Fran's Rowan, prefent. Fran's previce, Maj John Boiling, John Redford, Jun'r, both prefent. In Obedience to an order of Yeftry, for the sub- fcribers have proceffioned all the Lands in our precinct by us. ISAAC SHARP, WM. PERCE, WM. STONE. JAS. POWELL COCKE, Copy Teft : JAMES COCKE. In Obedience to an Order of Henrico Court, John Whit- loe, James Whitloe and John Frayfer, being appointed by the Yeftry of Henrico parifh to procefs and renew the Lands Marks from Four Mile Creek to Cornelius Creek on the Main 54 VESTRY BOOK OF Road, and to Extend Back as far as the Seven pines Road, hath renewed them as followeth, Feb. 6, 1739 : The Land Marks between Charles Caffy and philemon Frayfer Renewed ; Charles Caffy and William Frayfer being prefent. The land Mark between Jofeph Adkins and phile- mon Frayfer renewed ; Joseph Adkins, William Frayfer and Charles Caffy being prefent. The land Marks between Charles Caffy and Joseph Adkins Renewed; Jos. Adkins. Charles Caffy and William Frayfer prefent. The Land marks between Jofeph Adkins and William Frayfer renew- ed; Jofeph Adkins, Charles Caffy and William Frayfer prefent. The land marks between Benjamin Scot and Jean Scot renewed; Joseph Adkins, Benjamin Scot and Jean Scot prefent. The land marks between Darby Enronghty and Benjamin Scot renewed; Darby Enronghty and Benjamin Scot prefent. The land marks between Henry Whitloe and Benjamin Scot renewed; Henry Whitloe and Benja. Scott prefent. The land marks between Larner Bradfhaw and Charles Caffy renewed; Larner Bradfhaw, Charles Caffy & Henry Whitlo prefent. The land marks between Abraham Childers and Larner Bradfhaw renewed; Larner Bradshaw, Abraham Childers and Charles Caffy prefent. The Land- marks between Abraham Childers and Joseph Adkins renew- ed; Abraham Childers, Jos. Adkins, Charles Caffy prefent. The landmarks between Abraham Childers and Jean Scot ren'd; Abraham Childers, Jean Scot and Henry Whitloe prefent. The land marks between Abram Childers and Ben- jamin Scot renew; Abraham Childers, Benja. Scot and Jofeph Adkins prefent. The land marks between Abraham Childers and Darby Enronghty renewed ; Abraham Childers, Darby Enronghty and Jofeph Adkins prefent. The land marks between Darby Enronghty and Henry Whitloe renew- ed; Darby Enronghty, Henry Whitloe and Benja. Scot pref- ent. The land marks between Benjamin Bnrton and John Weft renewed; Benjamin Bnrton, John Weft and Henry Whitloe prefent. The land marks between John Whitloe and John Weft renewed ; John Whitloe, John Weft and Wil- liam Whitloe pref't. The land marks between William Whitloe and John Weft renewed; William Whitloe, John Weft and Miel Turpin prefent. The land mark between ST. Johns's church. 55 William Whitloe and John Whitloe renewed ; William Wliit- loe and John Whitloe prefent. The landmarks between Wm. Whitloe and Eichard Kenyard renew'd; William Whitloe and Miles Turpin prefent. The land marks between Wil- liam Whitloe and Henry Whitloe renew'd ; William Whitloe prefent. The land marks between William Whitloe and Henry Whitloe renewed, and James Whitloe renewed; Wil- liam Whitloe prefent. The land marks bet. James Whitloe and Henry Whitloe renewed ; Jas. Whitloe and Wm. Whitloe and Jos. Adkins prefent. The land marks between William Bur ton J Sen'r, and Benj. Burton renewed; Benj. Benjamin Burton prefent. The landmarks of James Whitloe renewed, binding on unpatent land; William Wliitlo and Jofeph Ad- kins prefent. The land marks between John Weft and Jofeph Richard Reynard not found; and Mr. Jos. Mayo's land marks not renewed; he not coming to the appointed Time. William Burton, Sen'r, land marks not renewed ; he not coming to the appointed Time. They both joining to unpatented lands. Per JAMES WHITLOE, JOHIST FRAYSER, JAS. POWELL COCKE, Copy Test. JAMES C0CE:E. In Obedience to the within order, we have gon in procef- fion and renewed the bounds of the Several Tracts of Land within the Limits of the fame Order, in the pref ence and with the Confent of the proprietors of faid Lands. Wit. our hands this 15 day of February, 1739. Per ROBERT SHARP, J^tq. PLEASA:^rTS. JNO BRITTIAISr, JAS. POWELL COCKE, Copy Teft. JAMES COCKE. jurfuant to an order of Veftry, we, the subfcribers, have attempted to renew the Bounds of Mr. John Cocke and Mr. Samuel Wortham's Land, who refufed, for which reafon Mr. Cock, Saith Thos. Carter, Jun'r, and Thos. Cocke, Sen'r, and George Baker, who joins him, Clames part of his Land, 56 VESTKY BOOK OF and Mr. Wortham Land not proceffioned, he entending to Survey, &c. Certify'd by us, THOS. WATKIjN^S, SAM'L BUGG, JOHIST CARTER, JAMES POWELL COCKE, Copy Teft. JAMES COCKE. In Obedience to the within Order, we have renewed the Bounds of all ye Lands within mentioned, in peace and quiet- nefs, with Confent of the Owners. Given under our hands, this 31st day of March, 1740. JOHN^ ROYAL, JOH^ SHEPHERD, ROB'T WEBB, JAMES POWELL COCKE, Copy Teft. JAMES COCKE. Jofeph Watfon and Jofeph Childers hath feen Richard Williamfon's Land processioned, and Martin Martin's Land proceffioned, and Edward Allen's land proceffioned, and Eliz- abeth Mottherwiler's land, all but one line between Capt. James Cocke and her, we cant find, and Charles Winfrey's land proceffioned; Thomas Eaft's land proceffioned, and Jofeph Childers' land proceffioned; Capt. James Cock, his land not proceffioned, we cant find any line ; Elizabeth Mor- ton, her land not proceffioned, for we cant find any line be- tween Capt. James Cock and her ; Thos. Elmore, one Tract of land not proceffioned, we cant find any line; the land where he lives is proceffioned ; John Ferris, his land proceffioned. JAMES POWELL COCKE, Copy Teft. JAMES COCKE. In Obedience to an order of Henrico Court, 1739, We, the appointed proceffioners, have, with our utmoft care, procef- fioned all the lands within our precinct. Except Some lines not found Agreed on by the Owners thereof, viz: Between Edward Goode and Jefeph pleafants; Edward Goode and Thomas Childrey ; Wm. Eaft and Ephraim Gathrit ; Thomas Binford and Edward Mofby. Wit's our hands, March 26, 1740. ITICHOLAS HOBSOI^, JNO. EISTROUGHTY, JAMES POWELL COCKE, Copy Teft. JAMES COCKE. ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 57 Land proceffioned by Thomas Fenton, Thomas Ellis and John I^orth, 1739 ; Widow Freeman, Holy Freeman, John Do., Amos Hix, (Holy Freeman, John Do., Thomas Ally,) Thomas Jennet, Thomas Elliis, William Ellis, Edward Eeves, Wm. Ellis, (bought of Edward Reves, Thomas Ally, Edward Reves, John Shoemaker, Thomas Ally, Wm. Ellis, Thomas Jennet, John Shoemaker, Edward Reves, Edward Reves, Thomas Cottrell, Sam'l Pincham, Thomas Cotrall, Edward Reves, Thomas Cotrall, Jacob Robertfon, Thomas Cotrall, Abra. Childers, Thomas Cotrall, Jacob Robertfon, Richard Cottrall, Thomas Cottrall, Ben. Cannon, Thomas Cottrall, Richard Eaft, Jacob Robertfon, Thos. Cotrall, Nich. Pryor, Thos. Cotrall, Zachariah Ford, Thos. Cotrall^ Robert Hardwick, John North, Robert Hardwick, George Chambers, Thos. Fenton, George Chambers; Mr. William Randolph, conld not poffibly go over his line ; Colo. Richard Randolph, his line not gon over ; John Ellis, William Ellis, Thomas Ellis, Hen. Ellis, Charles Ellis, Jofeph Ellis— they all present. JAMES POWELL COCKE, Copy Teft. JAMES COCKE, January 1ft, 1740. In Obedience to an order of Veftry, held for Henrico parifh the 21ft day of July, 1739, we, the fubfcribers, have Been in proceffion and renewed the Bounds of the following lands, viz; The Line Between Gillegrew Morrin and Capt. Jofeph Mayo, the uper Side Capt. Mayo's land ; alf o the line between the f aid Robertfon and William Burton, Jun'r. The Line betwen Capt. Jos. Mayo and Jas. Franklin. The line between the f aid Mayo and Widow Ab- ney, and between the faid Mayo and Gilley Marrin. prefent — Capt. Jofeph Mayo, Wm. Burton, jr., Thos. Ro- bertfon, James Franklin, George Robertfon. Per GILLIE MARRIK, GEORGE, ABITY. The Line between John Stewart and William Finney. The line between the faid Finney and Capt. Wm. Cocke, dec'd; and between the faid Cocke and Thomas Bailey, prefent — Wm. Finney, John Stewart, Sam'l Branch, Thomas Baley. 58 VESTRY BOOK OF The line between the faid Cocke and Tabithy Ballon, pre- fent — Charles Ballon and Thos. Baley. The line between Thos. Bayley and John Giles, prefent — John Giles and Thos. Mofby. The line between the Said Giles and Thos. Mofby. prefent — John Giles and Thomas Mofby. The line between Frans. E-edford and John Allday. prefent — the faid Allday and his two Sons, John and Thomas Allday. The line between Thomas Mofby and Peter Randolph, and between the faid Randolph and John Allday ; alf o the line be- tween the faid Randolph and Brazure Cock, and between the faid Randolph and Gilley Marrin ; the faid Randolph agree- ing that John Allday and Thos. Mofby fhonld Show us all his lines who were prefent. April 1ft, 1Y40. FRAI^CIS REDFORD, GILLIGREW MARRIIT, JAMES POWELL COCKE, Copy Teft. JAMES COCKE. In Obedience to an order, Directed to ns, the Subfcribers, dated the 21ft day of July, 1739, by the Veftry of Henrico parifh, to procefSon and renew the Bounds of all lands be- tween the mouth of Gilley's Creek and Weftham, on the river, and to Extend back as far as Gordons and Mary Can- nons, to which we make the following returns, this 31ft day cf March, 1740 : We proceffioned all the lands within the Above mentioned Bounds but Colo. William Byrd's and Gil- ley Marrin's ; they, nor no perf ons for them, did meet at the Time appointed; they perf ons that owned the lands Seemed all Well Satiffied. Per JOHN^ COLES, RICHARD LEVEIES, JAMES POWELL COCKE^ Copy Teft. JAMES COCKE. Purfuant to an Order of Veftry, we, the subfcribers, have proceffioned all lands within thofe precincts mentioned by the Order dated 21ft day of July, 1739, Excepting ISTich. Davies ; Reafon is unknown to us. Colo. Benjamin Harrifon's lirye is unknown to us. ALEX'R MOSS, JOHIST HARWOOD, JAMES POWELL COCKE, Copy Teft. JAMES COCKE. ST. John's chukch. 69 All the Gentlemen are agreed in our purfinks without pro- ceffioning. CHAKLES WOODSOI!^, JOHI^ WILLIAMSO:^', JAS. HATCHEE, JAMES POWELL COCKE, Copy Teft. JAMES COCKE. AT A VESTRY held at the Court Houfe, for Henrico parifh, the 5th day of May, 1740, prefent — James powell Cocke, James Cocke, Church Wardens ; Richard Randolph, John Redford, Bowler Cocke, John Povall, Wm. Euller and John Williamfon, Gent., Yeftrymen. Peter Randolph, Gent., who was formerly chofen to be Yeftryman of this parifh, now comes and takes the Oaths ap- pointed and is thereupon Admitted accordingly. Prefent — Peter Randolph, Gent. The Clerk Informs the Yef try that the Several perf ons, who were appointed proceffioners for the year 1739, have made returns of their proceedings, which, by him, is regif- tered in the parifh Book; whereupon the Church Wardens do proceed to Examine and Atteft the Same. The Yeftry do fell the Twenty five Thoufand pounds of Tobacco levy'd in October laft, for the ufe of the parifh, unto Colo. Richard Randolph, who agrees to give for the fame after the rate of Ten Shillings per hundred, Current money. It is thereupon Ordered that the Collector do pay him the Said Tobacco as Soon as he can Conveniently Collect the same. AT A YESTRY held for Henrico parifh, the 13 Day of October, Anno Dom. 1740: prefent — Mr. William Stith, Clerk; James po'l Cocke, James Cocke, Gent., Church War- dens ; Richard Randolph, John Redf ord, Bowler Cocke, John Williamfon and Wm. Euller, Gent., Yeftrymen. Henrico Parifh, Dr., for the year 1740. Neet ToVo. To the Rev'd Mr. William Stith, One Sallary, 16,000 To 4 per ct. on do. for Cafk, 640 To fo much towards building the New Church, 20,000 To Sackville Brewer, Reader at Curl's Church, 1,789 60 YESTRY BOOK OF To do. as Clerk of the Veftry, 430 To do. as late Collector for Infolvents, &c., 1,069 To John Eals, Reador at Chappel, 1,T89 To John Hopfon, Sexton at Curl's Church, 536 To Elenor Williams, Do. at Chappel, 536 To the Church Wardens, for Communion Bread and Wine, 344 To John ISTorth, for keeping Mary Burnett, 896 To Edmond Allen, for keeping his Son, an Idiot, 536 To Robert Hardwick, for keeping his Son, 430 To the Church Wardens, for the ufe Elizabeth Baley, 600 To Do. for Rebecca pruit, 600 To Do. for John Weft, an Infant, 400 To Do. for Jane Jennings, '^^15 To Do. for Benjamin Good, a Blind man, 800 To James po'l Cocke, for a Scrubbing brufh for ye Church, 20 To the Church Wardens, for Elenor Green, 200 To f o much to be fold for money to pay James Hatcher his Ballance for Building a Barn on the Glebe, 2,000 50,330 To Commiffion on 53,486@6 per ct is 3,209 53,539 Per Contra Credit: By 1,138 Tythables, @ 47 R)s. per pole, is 53,486 By Ball'e due to the Collector, 6S 53,539 Mr. William Fuller is appointed parifh Collector for the Enfuing year, and it is ordered that he do receive of every Tithable perfon within the parifh, forty Seven pounds of Tobacco, and if any perfon refufe to pay the fame, he is to Def train for it ; he enters into Bond for the performance thereof. John Redford and John Williamfon, Gent., are his Securities. ST. John's church. 61 Eichard Eandolph, Gentleman, produces a letter Directed to him, from the Hon'ble William Byrd, Efquire, which is read as f olloweth, Viz : ^'October 12, 1740. ^'I fhoiild, with great pleafure, oblige the Veftry, and particularly your f elf, in granting them an Acre to build their Church upon, but there are fo many roads already through that Land, that the Damage to me would be too great to have another of a mile long cut thro' it. I fhould be very glad if you would pleafe to think Eichmond a proper place, and confidering the great number of people that live below it, and would pay their Devotions there, that would not care to go fo much higher, I can't but think it would be agreeable to moft of the people, and if they will agree to have it there, I will give them two of the bef t lots, that are not taken up, and befides give them any Pine Timber they can find on that Side Shockoe Creek, and Wood for burning of Bricks into the bargain. I hope the Gent, of the Veftry will believe me a Friend to the Church when I make them the Offer, and that 1 am both theirs, "Sir, and "Your moft Humble Serv't, "W. EYED." Whereupon the queftion is put whether the faid Church fhould be Built on the Hill caled Indian Town, at Eichmond, or at Thomas Williamfon's plantation on the Brook Eoad, and is carry ed by a majority of voices for the former. It is thereupon Ordered that the Church, formerly Agreed to be Built by Eichard Eandolph, Gent., on the South Side of Bacon's Branch, be Built on Indian Town, at Eichmond, after the Same manner as in the faid Former Agreement, was mentioned. JAMES P'L COCKE, JAMES COCKE. AT A VESTEY, held at the Court House, for Henrico parifh, ye 6 day of July, 1741 : Prefent — Eichard Eandolph, James p'l Cocke, Bowler Cocke, John Povall, William Fuller, James Cocke and John Williamfon, Gent., Veftrymen. 62 VESTEY BOOK OF It is ordered that Mr. William Fuller, the parifh Collector, do Sell what Tobacco he now hath in his hands, belonging to the parifh, this day at publick Sale for Cafh, to the higheft bidder, and that he fell the remainder of the f aid parifh To- bacco, which he hath not yet Collected, in Like manner, at Aug'ft Court next. JAMES P'L COCKE, ) > Church Wardens. JAMES COCKE, ) AT A VESTEY held for Henrico Parifh, the Seventh day of Decem'r, 1741 : prefent— The Eev'd Mr. William Stith, James Po'l Cocke and James Cock, Gent., Church Warden; Richard Randolph, John Boiling, Bowler Cocke, John Red- ford, John Povall, William Fuller and Peter Randolph, Gt., Yeftrymen. Dr. Henrico Parifh^ for the year 1741. To the Rev'd Mr. William Stith, his Sallery and Cafk, 16,640 To Sash. Brewer, Reador, 1,789 To Do. as Clerk of the Yeftry, 450 To Do. for Infolvents in Anno 1741, 212 To John Eals, Reador, 1,789 To John Hopfon, Sexton, 636 To the Church Wardens, for Benja. Goode, blind, 800 To Do. for Rebecca pruet, 600 To Do. for Elenor Green, 250 To Do. for Communion Bread and Wine, 344 To Mary ^tsTorth, for keeping Mary Burnet, 896 To Edmond Allen, for his Son, an Idiot, 536 To the Son of Robert Hardwick, Lame, 430 To Ball'e due to Mr. Fuller, late Collector, 53 To Do. for Infolvents, &c., 752 To Wm. Porter, Jun'r, over charged Anno 1740, . 53 26,666 To Com. on 28,224 @ 6 per ct, 1,693 28,359 ST. JOHIsr''s CHUECH. 63 Henrico parifh is Cr. for tJie year 1741. By 1,176 Tithables at 24 per pole is ' 28,224 By Ballance due to the Collector, 135 28,359 Richard Royal, Gent., is appointed Collector of the parifh Levy for the Enfuing year, and it is ordered that he do re- ceive of Every tithable perfon in the f aid parifh, the fum of twenty-fonr pounds of tobacco, and in cafe of a refufal or delay he is to deftrain for the fame. Beverly Randolph, Gent, enters himfelf Security. Mr. William Fuller prefents an Acct of the tobacco fold by him as Collector, for the ufe of the Parifh, which is or- dered to be ladged with the Clerk. JAMES P'L COCKE, JAMES COCKE. AT A VESTRY held for Henrico parifh, October ye 2d, 1742 : Prefent— The Rev'd Mr. William Stith, Min'r ; James Powell Cocke and James Cocke, Church Wardens; Richard Randolph, John Boiling, Bowler Cocke, John Povall and Robert Mofby, Veftrymen. Dr. Henrico Parifh for ihe year 1742. Wt ToVo. To the Rev. Mr. William Stith, his Sallery and Cafk, 16,640 To John Eals, a Reador at Upper Church, 1,789- To John Hopfon, Sexton at Curl's Church, 536 To the Church Wardens, for Communion Bread and Wine, 344 To Richard Royal, Collector for a Bal. for laft year due to him, 135 To the Chnrch Wardens, for the ufe of Benjamin Good, Blind, 1,200 To Do. for Rebeccah Pruit, 600 To Do. for Elenor Green, 250 To Mary Hughs, for keeping Mary Burnet, 896 To Edmond Allen, for keeping his Son, 536 E 64 VESTKY BOOK OF To Church Wardens, for Elizabeth Hamlet, 800 To Do. for Edward Skinner, 600 To James Powel Cock, for his Advance for Benjamin Good and Elizabeth Hamlet, Cafk, £3. 11. 6. in Tob'o, 600 To Sack. Brewer, for fifteen months Sallary as Read- er, and Cafk Included, 2,236 To Do. for Clerk of the Veftry, Cafk included, 447 To Do. for Surveying the Glebe, 430 To Mary Bennet, for keeping Wm. Weft, a poor Or- phant, 800 To Church Wardens, for Jane Jennings, 1,000 To Do. for Elizabeth Baley, 600 To fo much towards Building a Chapel at Deep Run, 10,000 To John Hutchen, for the Church Wardens to dif- pofe of for his Ufe, 406 41,381 Com's for Collector, 2,488 43,869 Do. Parifh is Cr. By Richard Royal, Collector for Tob'o Rec'd of per- fons not Seffed, 504 By 1,239 Tithables at 35 Tob'o per pole is 43,365 43,869 Richard Royal, Gent., is appointed Parifh Collector for the enfuing year, who enters into bond Accordingly. John Boiling and John Povall, Gent., enters themf elves securities. On the petition of Thomas Eenton and others, it is agreed and ordered that a Chappel be built on the hill above Deep Run on the main road, on the land of* to be in length, forty Eight; and Breadth, Twenty four — to be weatherboard ed with Eetheredge planck and covered with hart shingles, nailed on — to have three Pews, Reading Defks, ♦Illegible. ST. JOHN^S CHURCH. 65 Pulj^it and Gallery, to be finifhed workmanlike in a plain, ftrong manner. And it is agreed that the Veftry do meet at Curl's Church on the laft Saturday in .November next, To Treat with un- dertakers about building the said Chappel, of which the Church Wardens are to give iJ^otice. Beverley Kandolph, Gent., is chofen a Yeftryman in the room of Mr. Edward Curd, dec'd. JAMES PO'L COCKE, JAMES COCKE. AT A VESTRY held for Henrico Parifh, at Curl's Church, July 16, 1743: Prefent— James Powell Cocke and James Cocke, Church Wardens; Richard Randolph, John Redford, John Povall, Beverly Randolph and John William- fon. Gentlemen, Veftrymen. Beverly Randolph, Gent., having been formerly elected a member of this Veftry, in the room of Mr. Edward Curd, de- ceafed, now comes and takes the Oaths as by law appointed to qualifie him self for that office. John Coles, Gent.,^^ is chofen a Veftryman in the room of Mr. William Fuller, dec'd. Thomas Mofby and William Einney are chofen in the room of John Boiling & Bowler Cocke, Gent., who are moved out of the Parifh. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in Obedience to an order of Henrico County Court, The Parifh is Divided into several precincts, and perfons appointed in each precinct to go in proceffion and renew the Bounds of each perfons Land. Firft Precinct: Ordered that Thomas Hughes, Thomas Ellis and William Ellis, with the Affiftance of their l^eighboring freeholders, do fometime before laft day of March next, go in proceffion and renew the bounds of all lands from the mouth of Great Weftham to William Gordon's, thence upwards all between Gordon's Road and James River, to the head of the parifh. And that the f aid Thomas Hughs, Thomas Ellis and Wm. El- lis, or any two of them, do take and return to this Parifh Veftry an Account of every perfon's land by them procef- 66 VESTKY BOOK OF iioned, Together with the Raines of thofe prefent, an alfo what lands they fhall fail to -proceffion, and the particular Reafon of fuch failure. Second Precinct: From William Gordon's Road to the head of the Parifh; thence to Chickahominy Swamp, and down that to Turner's Run, and up Hungry Branch to the head of Afnam Brook and from thence to Gorden's aforesaid. Ifaac Winftone, Jofeph Parfons and William Britain, appointed proceffioners. Third Precinct: All between Chickahominy Swamp and Afnan Brook to the head of faid Brook. Ludwell Bacon, Matthew Hopfon and William Owen, Appointed proceffioners. Fourth Precinct: All between Chickahominy Swamp and the Brook Road, as low as Cannon's and Smith's Mill. Robert Sharp, John Pleafant and Silvanus Walker, are appointed proceffioners. Fifth Precinct: mMI between the mouth of Gilley's Creek and Great Weft- ham Road, on the River, and to extend back as far as Can- non's and Gorden's. Jofeph Hopkins, John Langford and Robert Sharp, Jun'r, are appointed proceffioners. Sixth Precinct: From the mouth of Gilley's Creek, on James River, to Wil- liam Lewifes, on Chickahominy Swamp, Thence upwards as liigh as Cannon's and Smith's Mill. K'athaniel Vanderwall and John Gunn, and Edward Curd, are appointed proceffion- ers. Seventh Precinct: All between Gilley's Creek and Coneliuf's, from the River, back as far as the Seven Pines Road, and as low as the Southern Branch Bridge. William Finney, John Giles and ISTicholas Giles, are appointed proceffioners. Eighth Precinct: All between Corneliuf's and Two mile Creek, the main County road and the river. Edward Cox, John Stewart and Benj. Burton appointed proceffioners. ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 67 Ninth Precinct: All between Two mile Creek, Eour Mile Creek, James river and the main Country road. Jofeph Woodfon, Henry Sharp and Francis Pierce, proceffioners. Tenth Precinct: All between Corneliuf s and Eonr mile Creek, from the main Country Road, to Seven Pines Road. William Whit- low, Darby Enroughty & Charles Caffy, proceffioners. Eleventh Precinct: All between William Lewif's and Boar Swamp, on Chicka- hominy, to Extend back as the Head of Boar Swamp. Rich- ard Williamfon, Julius Allen and Andrew Matthews, ap- pointed proceffioners. Twelf Precinct: From the mouth of Boar Swamp to the County line on Chickahominy Swamp, thence to Extend Southward as far as the fork of Long Bridge Road. John Cocke, John Hale and Thomas Binford, proceffioners. Thirteenth Precinct: All between Four Mile Creek, Bailey's Run and White Oak Swamp, the beft. Robert pleafant, Mathias Ayrs and Pew. Price, appointed proceffioners. Fourteenth Precinct: All between Bailey's Run, the County Line and the Weft- ern Run. Charles Woodfon, James Hatcher and John Wil- liamfon, proceffioners. Fifteenth Precinct: All between the head of Bailey's Run, the Weftern Run and the Coimty line, to extend ISTorthward as far as the fork of the long bridg Road. William Porter, Jun'r, John Mid- dleton and Stephen AVoodfon, proceffioners. JAMES P'L COCKE, JAMES COCKE, C'h Wardens. 68 VESTKY BOOK OF AT A VESTKY, held at CurPs Church, for Henrico Pa- rif h, on Fryday, xvj day of December, Anno q. Dona. 1743 : John Coles, Gent., who was formerly elected a member of this Veftry in the room of Mr. William Fuller, deceafed, now comes and takes the Oath of a Veftryman, and is thereupon admitted, as ufual. Prefent. Richard Randolph, Beverley Randolph, John Redford, John Povall, James 230well Cocke, John Williamfon and John Coles, Gent., Veftrymen. Dr. Henrico Parifh for the year 1743. JSTet Tob'o. To the Rever'd Mr. William Stith, his fallery and cafk, 16,640 To John Eals, Reador, fallery and cafk, 1,789 To Mark Clark, Reador, fallery and do. 1,789 To Sack. Brewer, Clerk of Veftry, proceffioning year, 895 To John ITopfon, Sexton at Curl's Church, 536 To Elenor Williams, Do. at Chapel, 536 To the Church Wardens, for Communion Bread and Wine, 344 To the Church Wardens, for the ufe of Benj. Good, blind, 1,500 To Mary Hughes, for keeping Mary Burnet, 896 To Edmond Allen, for keeping his fon, an Idiot, 1,000 To the Churchwardens, for Elizabeth Hamlet, 800 To Do. for the ufe of Ann Skinner, a poor widow, 400 To the Church Wardens, for Jane Jennings, 1,000 To do, for Elizabeth Bailey, 600 To Martha Bennett, for keeping orph't Will Weft till Ap'l 'Next, 400 To the Church Wardens, for Rebeccah Pruit, 600 To Colo. Richard Randolph, for ufe of John Hutchens, 400 To Thomas Pirkins, for keeping Ann Evans a Year, 300 To Colo. Richard Randolph, for ufe of William Ford, 600 To Do. for lame phelemon Childers, 500 To John Forfic, for keeping Nehemiah Watfon three months, 250 ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 69 To Cock, for £1. 19. 9, Advanced for faid Watfon, 230 To the Church Wardens, for the ufe of Nehemiah Watfon, - 1,200 To John Hopfon, for clearing ye Church Yard formerly, 100 To William Street, for Heading Prayers at Deep Kun, 1,000 34,405 To Comm'on on 34,405 lbs. Tob'o, at 6 per ct, is 2,064 36,469 Ballance due from ye Collector to the Parifh, 641 37,110 Henrico Parifh is Cred'r. By 1,237 Tithables, at 30 per pole, Affeffed, 37,110 James Cock, Gent., is appointed Collector, who gives Bond Accordingly; Richard Randolph and Beverley Randolph, Gent., his Security s. Beverly Randolph and John Coles, Gent., are chofen Church Wardens for the Enfuing year, who take the Oath Accordingly. Beverley Randolph, Gent., agrees to Build on the Gleebe a Tobacco Houfe, Forty feet Long and twenty broad, to be well framed with good Timber, and covered with good Shingles, ^N^ailed on ; to be finif hed in every ref pect Workmanlike, ac- cording to the manner of Such fort of Houfes, for which he is to receive Twenty pounds Curr't Money. BEVERLEY RANDOLPH, ) ^ JOHN COLES, S ^^' ^^''^''''' Henrico Parifh, in Obedience to the Worfhipful Gentle- men of the Veftry, we, the Subfcribers, have proceffioned all the Lands in our precinct ; only part of a line between Steven Floyd's and Steven Woodfon's not agreed, and Wm. Griffin refufes to proceffion. Mr. John Pleafants neglected to pro- ceffion his land. WM. PORTER, Jun'r, Copy Teft. JOHN MIDDLETON. 70 VESTRY BOOK OF A return of the order of the Veftry for proceffioning the Bounds alloted to Eobert pleafant, Matthew Ayres and Pew Price, lines not proceffioned, as Follows : Edward Good, Ju'r^ he not being willing; Tho. Matthew, Edward Good, line Trees not to be found ; Colo. Kichard Eandolph's lines being newly done; Kobert Pleafants, Edward Good, Jr., line trees not to be found ; Thomas Pleafants, James Woodfin, ref ufing to go ; John Hobfon, Eliza Hobfon, bounds not made between them. Copy Teft. Purfuant to an order of Veftry, we have given notice to all the Free holders in our precinct, and have accordingly gon in proceffion on all the Lines of thofe who would attend us. CHARLES W00DS0:N', JAS. HATCHER, Copy Teft. JOHN WILLIAMS. By a Veftry held at CurTs Church, Dated July 16, 1743, we have proceffioned thefe Lines: The line of William and Francis Pierce and Robert Blairs, Abraham Childers, there with us ; the line of William Sharp and Robert Blaufe,, Ifack Sharp and Abraham Childers with us ; then the line of John Bedford and John Boiling, John Bedford and Abraham Childers with us; then the line of John Boiling and Hays Whitlow, Hays Whitlow, Junior, in the Room of his Father, and John Redford, Abram Childers with us; then the lines of Robert Cott, ISTegro Jane and Hays Whitlow, ISTegro Jane, Henry Whitlow, Negro Jane, John Frazure, Negro Jane, Hays Whitlow, Abraham Childers, John Red there ; then the line of William Stone and John Frazure, Philemon Pirkins, John Frazure there; then the line of William Stone and John Frayfer, Philemon Perkings, Wm. Stone, John Fray- f ure there ; then the lines of John Redford, Senior, and Rob- ert Blaufe, Robert Blaufe not there, John Redford there and Abraham Childers there ; then the lines of Abraham Childers and Francis Redford, his Father, John Redford, in his room, and Abraham Childers with us; then the line of Philemon Perkins and John Frayzur, John Era f ure, John Redford, Abram Childers there ; then the line of Jof eph Woodfon and ST. JOHN S CHUKCH. 71 Philemon Pirkins and Robert Blaus, Abraham Childers, John Bedford there with us ; then the line of Jof eph Wood- fon and Robert Blanfe, John Redford, Abraham Childers there ; then the line of Jof eph Woodf on and Abraham Chil- ders, John Redford, Sen'r, Abraham Childers there; then the line of John Redford, Sen'r, and iVbraham Childers, they there ; then the line of John Redford, Jun'r, and Fran's Red- ford, by order of their Father ; then the line of John Redf ord and Milnor Redford, by order of their Father ; all thef e lines being peacably proceffioned by us. JOSEPH woodso:n^, HEl^RY SHARP, FRAN'S PIERCE. Copy Teft. Feb'y 22, 1743. In Obedience to an Order of Henrico Court, we, the Sub- fcribers, have gon in proceffion and renewed the Bounds of the Several Tracts of Land within the limits of the faid Or- der, in the prefence and with the Confent of the proprietors of the faid lands, as Witnefs our hands and c this 3rd day of ffeb., 174f . ROBERT SHARP, Copy Teft. JOHN PLEASANTS, Jb. All the Patented Land in our precincts, according to the direction of the order, all perfons being prefent by n^i. DARBY INRUFTY, Copy Teft. CHARLES CASSY, WILLIAM WHITLOW. Whereas, by order perfent Lands, John Pheris, Thomas Elmore, William Gathrit, one line don joining Elmore ; Capt,. James Cocke not done ; proceffioned Jofeph Childers, Charles Winfrey, Anthony Matthews, Edward Allen, Arobria Elmor, Martin Martin, Jofeph Watfon, Richard Williamfon, Wil- liam Ives, William Sprague, John Leafon, Edward Dean, Julius Allen, Thomas Bethel, John Warner, Ephraim Gath- rit, Richard Truman, Thos. Spragin, all quietly proceffioned By Richard Williamfon, Julius Allen, Antho. Matthews. Copy Teft. 72 VESTRY BOOK OF John Cocke, Thomas Binford, John Hales : We have pro- ceffioned all the Lands to be found in our Bounds. Copy Teft. March 20, 1744. AT A VESTRY held at Curls Church, For Henrico Parifh, the 19th day of JSTovember, 1744: Prefent — the Rev- erb William Stith, Minifter ; Beverley Randolph and John Coles, Church Wardens; Rich'd Randolph, James Powell Cocke, John Redford, Peter Randolph and John Povall, Veftrymen. Dr. Henrico Parifh for ye year 1744. 'Net Tob'o. To. Mr. William Stith, Sallery and Cafk, 16,640 To John Eals, Reador, 1,789 To Mark Clark, Reador, 1,789 To Sack Brown, Clerk of the Veftry, 450 To Bowler Cocke, for Recording Deed of Church Land, 86 To John Hohfon, Sexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, Do., 536 To Church Wardens, for Bread and Wine, 344 To Do., for the ufe of Benjamin Good, 1,500 To Thomas Hughes, for keeping Mary Burnet, 890 To Edmond Allen, for his Son, an Idiot, 1,000 To Church Wardens, for Elizabeth Hamlet, 500 To Do., for Ann Skinner, 400 To Mr. Burnert, for keeping Will Weft, laft year, 400 To Church Wardens, for Jane Jennings, 1,000 To Do., for Elizabeth Bailey, 600 To Do., for Rebecca Pruit, 600 To Colo. Richard Randolph, for John Hutchens, 400 To Do., for William Ford, 600 To Do., for Lame Childers, 500 To Henry Cox, for Ann Evans, 400 To the Church Wardens, for Nehemiah Watfon, 800 To William Street, Reador at Deep Run, 1,789 To Samuel Gathrit, for keeping William Daniel, 700 To Church Wardens, for Clothes for faid Daniel, 200 To Jofeph Hopfon, for keeping his Lame son,^ 800 ST. J0HN''S CHUECH. 73 To the Church Wardens to be fold for the ufe of the Parifh, 10,000 45,255 To Commiffion, at 6 per ct, 2,715 47,970 BalPe due to the Parifh, 223 48,193 Parifh Cr. for- the year 1744. Bj James Cocke, laft year Collector, for a BaH'e in laft Levy, and Tob'o rec'd of Perfons not lifted, according to his own Acc't, 1,213 By 1,305 Tithables, at 36 per pole, 46,890 48,193 James Cocke, Gent., is appointed Parifh Collector for the enfuing year, who gives Bond accordingly. Richard Randolph and Peter Randolph, Gent., enter themf elves fecuriteys. Peter Randolph and John Coles, Gent., are appointed to agree with the cheapeft workmen they can, to undertake and Finifh the Chappel to be Built at Deep Run, and to report their proceedings in the premifes to the next veftry. Beverley Randolph, Gent., is Impowered and defired by the Veftry to fend to England, as foon as conveniently he can, for the Following things, on the Parifh account, viz: One Parfon's Surplis, a Pulpit Cufhion and Cloth, Two Cloths for Reading Defks, a Communion Table Cloth, and a Dozen of Cufhions to be of good Purple Cloth, and the Surples good Holland ; alf o a large Bible and four large Prayer Books. BEVERLEY RANDOLPH, JOHN COLES, Signed. AT A VESTRY, held at the Court Houfe, for Henrico Parifh, the 2d day of December, 1745 : Prefent — the revM 74 VESTRY BOOK OF Mr. William Stith, Minifter; Beverley Kandolph and John Coles, Cliurch Wardens, Richard Randolph, Peter Randolph, James Cocke, William Finney and John Redford, Gent., Veftrymen. Dr. Henrico Parifh for the year 1745. Nett Tob'o. To the Rev. Mr. William Stith, Minis'r, Sallery and Cafk, 16,640 To John Eals, Reador, 1,789 To Mark Clark, Reader, 1,789 To William Street, Reader, 1,789 To Richard Deane, Clerk of the Veftry, 450 To John Hopfon, Sexton, 536 To Eleanor Williams, do., 536 To the Church Wardens, for Bread and Wine, 344 To do., for the ufe of Benjamin Goode, 1,500 To do., for keeping Mary Burnet, 896 To Edmond Allen, for his fon, an Idiot, 1,000 To the Church Wardens, for Elizabeth Hamlet, 500 To do., for Jane Jennings, 1,000 To do., for Elizabeth Baley, 600 To do., for Rebecca Pruit, 600 To Colo. Richard Randolph, for William Ford, 600 To do., for Lame Childers, 500 To the Church Wardens, for Nehemiah Watfon, 800 To Jofeph Hobfon, for keeping his lame son, 800 To John Coles, Church Warden, for the Ballance of £6. 3. 9id, w'ch is now due to him as p'r his acco't, and if it overpays the faid Ball., he is to account for it in the next Levy, 1,000 To the Church Wardens, for Jane Jennitt, 1,200 To John Shoemaker, for clearing the arbor at Deep Runn, and for an Acre of Land to fet the Chappel upon, 536 To James Hatcher, for making a coffin for John Hutchens, ^^ To William Lawlefs, for keeping Mary Burnet's baf- tard child — the faid Mary Burnet being an Idiot and upon the Parifh, 700 ST. John's chuecii. 75 To Abraham Baley, for burying Mary Gwinn, a mu- latto, a poor p'fon, who happened to be taken ill and dyed at his Houfe, 100 To the Church Wardens, to be fold for the ufe of the Parifh, 11,215 47,500 To Commifiion on 7,500, at 6 per cent, 2,850 50,350 To Samuel Gathrite, to be paid out of ye above BalFce, w'ch was ord'd to be fold, 400 Ballance due from the Collectorj 400 51,15Q Do. Parifh Cr. for the year 1745. By 1,325 Tithables, at 38 per pole, 50,350 By Hobfon's Allowance difallowed, 800 51,150 Ordered — That William Gay, Collector, receive of each Tithable in the Parifh thirty Eight pounds of Tobacco per poll, who gives Bond according. Peter Randolph & John Archer, Gent., his Securities. Ordered — That Richard Deane is appointed Clerk of the Yeftry. Ordered — That the Ballance due from the Collector, being 'Nine pounds & Eight pence be paid to Colo. Richard Randolph. Ordered — That the Ballance in Mr. Bedford's hands, for Colo. Boi- ling's tiths, three pounds four fhillings, be paid likewife to Colo. Richard Randolph. BEVERLEY RANDOLPH, JOHN" COLES, Signed. 76 VESTRY BOOK OF AT A VESTEY, held at Varina, for Henrico Parifh, De- cember 2, 1746 : Present. The Kev. William Stith, Kichard Randolph, Peter Ran- dolphj John Coles, William Finney, John Redford & John Povall, Gent., Yeftrymen. Henrico Parifh for the year 1746. To the Rev'd William Stith, Minifter, fallery and cafk, ' 16,640 To John Eals, reader, 1,789 To Mark Clark, reader, 1,789 To William Street, reader, 1,789 To Richard Deane, Clerk of the Yeftry, 450 To John Hobfon, Sexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, do., 536 To John Shoemaker, for keeping and cleaning the arbor, 536 To the Church Wardens, for Bread and Wine, 344 To Colo. Richard Randolph, for the ufe of Ben. Goode 1,500 To the Church Wardens, for Jane Jennings, 1,000 To do., for keeping Mary Burnet, 896 To do., for keeping Elizabeth Baley, 600 To do., for Rebecca Pruit, 600 To Edmond Allen, for his Son, and Idiot, 1,000 To Colo. Richard Randolph, for William Ford, 600 To do., for Lame Childers, 500 To the Church Wardens, for James Jennit, 1,200 To William Lawlefs, for keeping Mary Burnet's baf- tard Child — fhe being an Idiot and upon the parifh, 700 To Thomas Wood, for gates & and fencing, &c., to the Upper Church yard, 2,000 To Eleanor Williams, for making curtains, &c., for the Upper Church, 300 To Nicholas Giles, for one Levy overlifted in 1744, 36 To Charles Floyd, for one Levy laft year overcharged, 36 35,377 To Commiffions on 35,377 at 6 per ct, 2,123 ST. John's church. 77 To Eichard Deane, for 12 Infolvents at 3G each, 432 To Ballance to be paid to the Church Wardens, to be fold for ye ufe of ye P'rifh, 6,706 44,638 Henrico Parifh, Cr, By Major John Coles, his Tob'o, ball'e as per acc't, 1,102 By do., Cafh Acco. 6. 17. 12 By a Ball'ce due from Kich'd Eoyal, w'ch the Ch. Wardens are defired to receive, 4. 1. 8 By a Ball'ce due from Colo. Eichard Eandolph, as per Acco. 51. 19. 10, 504 By 1,304 Tithes, at 33 per polle, 43,032 44,638 Ordered — That Eichard Eandolph & John Coles, Gent., be appointed Church Wardens for the enfuing year. Ordered — That Eichard Deane be appointed Parifh Collector, and that he receive of every Tithable thirty three pounds of To- bacco, in cafe of refuf al, to disftrain for the fame, and to give Bond and Security to the Church Wardens accordingly. EICHAED EANDOLPH, JOHl^ COLES, Signed. AT A VESTEY, held at Curl's Church, for Henrico Pa- rifh, August 4th, Anno 1747, for dividing the Parifh into feveral precincts, and appoint perfons to go in proceffion and renew the bounds of Land according to law. Prefent, The Eev'd Mr. WilFm Stith, Minif ter ; Eich'd Eandolph, John Coles, Church Wardens; Peter Eandolph, John Eed- ford, James Powel Cocke, John Poval, John Williamfon, Eob't Mofby, Yeftrymen. 78 VESTRY BOOK OF First Precinct. Purf uant to an Act of Aff embly of this colony, and in obe- dience to an Order of Henrico Court, it is ordered that Henry Ellis, Charles Ellis, John Ellis and William Harding, w'th the Affiftance of their neighboring free holders, do sometime before the laft day of March next, go in proceffion and renew the Bounds of all lands from the mouth of Weft Ham to Will'm Gordon's, thence upwards and between Gordon's Road and James River to the head of the parif h ; and that the f aid Henry Ellis, Charles Ellis, Mr. John Ellis, Will'm Harding, (or any two of them,) do take and return to this Parif h Vef- try an Account of Every perfons I and by them proceffioned, together with the names of thofe prefent, and alf o what Land he fhall fail to proceffion and the particular reafon of fuch failure. Second Precinct. Erom the mouth of Meredith's Branch to the head of it, and from thence to the head of Eaftern Branch, thence down the faid Branch to Gordon's Road, including all the land Be- tween the Eaftern Gordon's Road, Hanover and Goochland lines. Peter Purryear, Rich'd Lovatt, Richard Eaft and Edward Pryor, are appointed Proceff'rs. Third Precinct. From the mouth of Turner's Run to the head, thence to the mouth of hungry, thence to the head of the faid Run, and from thence to the head of the Brook, including all the lands to the Brook, and in the Eork thereof and Gordon's road, and fo up to the Eaftern Branch, thence up that Branch to the head of Meredith's, down the Chickahominy Swamp, down the Swamp to the place began at. Rich'd Holland, Rob't Webb, John Shepard & Thomas Bowles, Jun'r, are appointed Proceff'rs. Fourth Precinct. All between Chickahominy Swamp and Upland Brook to the head of the faid. Langstone Bacon, Wm. Pattman, Stephen Panky and Thomas Owen, are appointed Proceff'rs. Fifth Precinct. All between Chickahominy Swamp and the Brook road, as ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 79 low as Mary Cannon's and Smith's Mill. Jos. Pleafants, Jun'r, John Smith, Obadiah Smith, John Britain, pro'rs. Sixth Precinct. All between the mouth of Gilley's Creek and Weft Ham, on the river, and to extend back as far as Gordon's and Mary Cannon's. Eob't Cooke, Wm. Sneed, Jno. Price, Jacob Smith, are appointed proceffioners. Seventh Precinct. From the mouth of Gilley's Creek, on James River, to Jos. Lewif's, on Chickahominy Swamp, thence upward as high as Smith's Mill and Mary Cannon's. Jof'h Lewis, Ed. Curd, Daniel Price, fon Daniel, William Smith, are appointed proceff'rs. Eighth Preciiict. All between the mouth of Gilley's creek and Corneliuf's, on James river, and to extend back as far as Seven Pines road, and as low as the Southern Branch Bridge. Matthew Herbert, Jno. Alday, Sen'r, George Roberfon and Brazure Cock, are appointed proceff's. Ninth Precinct. All between Corneliuf's and Two mile creek, on the River, and to extend back as far as the Main Country Road. John Cox, John Bullington, Wm. Parker, Thos. Perkins, are ap- pointed proceff'rs. Tenth Precinct. All between Two mile Creek, Four mile Creek, James river, and the main Country road. Ifaac Sharpe, John Fra- zure, Wm. Pierce and Haife Whitlo, app'd proceff'rs. Eleventh Precinct. All between Corneliuf's and Four mile Creek, on the main road, thence as far back as the Seven pines road, Including the Fork of Boar Swamp. Thomas Bethel, Fran's Wagftaff, Richard Truman and John Weft, appointed proceffioners. 80 VESTEY BOOK OF Twelfth Precinct. All between Lewif 's, Boar Swamp, Chickalioniiiij Swamp, and the Seven pines road. William Gathright, Thos. Ellmore, Edmnnd Allen, Wm. Ferrifs, Sen., appointed proceffioners. Thirteenth Precinct, From the mouth of Boar Swamp, on Chickahominy, to the lower bounds of the parifh line fouthward as far as where the road forks for Long Bridge and Bottom Bridge. Rich'd Moore, Jno. Carter's fon, Gerrard Ellyfon and Sam'l Bugg, Sen'r, app'd proceffioners. Fourteenth Precinct. From Bailey's Run to Four mile Creek; all between the road that leads from Four mile creek bridge to Chickah'y Swamp and James river, Including the fork of White Oak Swamp. Samuel Gathright, Thomas Matthews, John Chil- ders and Edward Goode, are appointed proceffioners. Fifteenth Precinct. All between Bailey's Run and the low^er bounds of the Pa- rifh, to extend back as far the Weftern Run, John Plea- fant's, Bailey's. E'ich's Hobfon, Wm. Hobfon and John Pleafants, at Curie's, appointed proceff'rs. Sixteenth Precinct. All between the Weftern Run, the head of Bailey's Run and the Parifh line, to extend northward as far as the fork of Long bridge road. John Middleton, Humphrey Smith, Ste- phen Woodfon and Robert Mattox, appointed proceffioners. Ordered — That Solomon Carey be appointed Clerk of the Veftry in the room of Richard Deane, deceafed, and that John Bryant be appointed a clerk in the room of John Eales, who is be- come incapable of executing his office. His fallary to com- mence from the first day of June last. RICHARD' RANDOLPH, JOHN" COLES, Signed. ST. Johns's church. 81 AT A VESTKY, held at Colo. Richard Randolph's, for Henrico Parish, January 19th, 174|-. Prefent, Thei Rev'd William Stith, Richard Randolph, Church Wardens : Peter Randolph, John Povall, John Redford, Jno. Willianilon and Robert Mofeby, Veftrymen. Dr. Henrico Parifh for the year 1747. To the Rev'd William Stith, Salary & cafk, 16,640 To eTohn Eals, for reading 7 months at the Up'r Chu'h, 1,039 To John Bryant, for 5 months as ditto, 750 To Mark Clark, read'r, 1,789 To William Street, reader, 1,789 To Solomon Cary, Clerk Veftry, proceffioning y'r, 895 To J'ohn Hohfon, fexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, do., 536 To John Shoemaker, for keep'g and clean'g the arbor, 53 Q To the Church Wardens, for Bread and Wine, 344 To Colo. Richard Randolph, for the ufe of Benja. Goode, 1,500 To the Church Wardens, for Jane Jennings, 600 To do., for keeping Mary Burnet, 896 To do., foi Eliza. Bailey, 600 To Edmond Allen, for his fon, an Idiot, 1,000 To Colo. Richard Randolph, for William Ford, 600 To do., for Lame Childers, 500 To do., for James Jennitt, 600 To William Lawlefs, for keeping Mary Burnett's baf- tard child, fhe being an Idiot, on the Parifh, 600 To the Church Wardens, for Rebecca Pruit, 600 To Dajiiel Baker, 600 To John Liptoott, . 600 To Anna Smith, 400 To Edward Goode, for curing George Macon's hand, 489 To ("Jharles Ballon, for Infolvents, 200 82 VESTBY BOOK OF To tlie Church Wardens, to be fold for the uf e of the pa'h, 8,989 To Commiffions on 46,410, at 6 per ct, 2,784 46,410 Henrico Parifh, Cr. By 1,326 Tithes, at 35 per poll, 46,410 Kichard Kandolph, Jun'x,^^ William Eandolph,^^ Daniel Price & William Lewifs, are elected veftrymen in the room of Jolm Coles & Powell Cocke, deceafed, and James Cocke & Will'm Finney, who have removed out of the Parifh. Eichard Kandolph, Jnn'r, takes the oath by the law pre- fcribed, and is admitted to his place in the Veftry. Peter Randolph, Gent, is chofen Church Warden. Ordered that the house upon the Gleeb be repaired, & an addition of 20 feet at each end, with two windows in each room, and that the Church Wardens be impowered to agree with workmen; and the Chimneys to be pull'd down & re- built. Ordered that the Church Wardens do pay to Andrew Bar- clay £7. 13. 3^, due to him from the Veftry, & do receive of Maj'r Coles' Eftate £3. 0. 6, the BalPnce due to the Veftry. Ordered — That Francis Bedford and Charles Ballou be appointed parifh Collector, and that they receive of every tith thirty five pounds of tobacco — in cafe of refuf al, to diftrain for the fame — who gives bond and Security accord'ly. RICHARD RAISTDOLPH, PETER RAITDOLPH, Church Wardens. AT A VESTRY, held at Chatfworth, for Henrico Parifh, January 24th, 1748-9. ST. JOHN^S CHURCH. 83 Prefent. The Eeverend William Stith, Peter Kandolph, Church Warden; John Poval, Thomas Mofely, William Randolph, Robt. Mofeby, Jno. Williamfon and Jno. Bedford, Gent., Veftrymen. William Lewis having taken the Oath of a Veftryman takes his feat accordingly. Dr. Henrico Parifh for the year 1Y48. To the Reverend William Stith, Minifter, Salary and cafk, ' 16,640 To John Bryant, reader, 1,789 To Mark Clarke, do., 1,789 To William Street, do., 1,789 To Solomon Cary, Clerk Veftry, 450 To John Hobfon, Sexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, do., 536 To John Shoemaker, for Cleaning the Arbour, 536 To the Church Wardens, for Bread and Wine, 344 To do., for keeping Mary Burnett, 1,000 To the Church Wardens, for Jane Jennings, 600 To Colo. Richard Randolph, for the ufe of Benja. Goode, 896 To the Church Wardens, for Elizabeth Bailey, 850 To Edmond Allen, for his fon, an Idiot, 1,000 To Colo. Richard Randolph, for Wm. Eord, 600 To do., for Lame Childers, 500 To the Church Wardens, for James Jennett, 800 To William Lawlefs, for keeping Mary Burnet's baf- tard child, fhe being an Idiot, and upon ye Parifh, 600 To Robert Morris, for burying Rebecca Pruitt, 200 To Daniel Baker, 600 To John Liptrott, 400 To Anne Smith, 300 To Peter Randolph, for keeping Eliz'a Bailey the re- maining part of her life, 600 To John Jones, for keeping his Daughter, being a Fool, 300 To Humphrey Smith, for keep'g Thomas Bethel, 500 84 VESTKY BOOK OF To Godfrey Piles^ for a levy overcliarged in 1746, 33 To Charles Ballow, for infolvents, 490 To the Church Wardens, to be fold for the nfe of the Parifh, 16,349 To Commiffion on 54,284 lb ToVo at 6 p. ct, 3,257 Henrico Parifh Cr. By 1,324 Tithables at 41 per poll, 54,284 Ordered — That the Church Wardens take the neceffary method to recover 6,706 pounds Tob'o, Levied in 1746, for the ufe of the parifh, w'ch was collected by Richard Deane, and not Accounted for. John Poval and Peter Randolph, Gent., are appointed Church Wardens for the enfuing year, and have taken the Oath Accord'ly. Ordered — That the Church Wardens Agree with Workmen to build a houfe upon the Gleebe, 48 by 20, two outfide chimneys, a cellar 20 by 20, to be finifhed Strong, Neat and Plain. Jno. Ellis is Elected Veftryman in the room of Daniel Price, who refufes to act. JOHN POVALL, PETER RANDOLPH, Church Wardens. We, the fubscribers, in Obedience to an order of the Vef- try, held at Curl's, for Henrico Parifh, have proceffioned the lands within the precincts hereafternamed, viz. : between Cor- neliuf's and four mile Creek, thence back to the feven pines Road, Including the fork of Boar Swamp ; the line between Garrard, Robert Ellyfon and Richard Trueman, Not procef- fioned on the Acco't of the f aid Richard Trueman ; And the line between William Burton (living in Goochland) and Benj. Burton, not proceffioned, the faid William not prefent. Erans Wagftaff, Jno. Weft, Richard Truman, Junr., Thomas Bethell; 25th March, 1748. Copy Tef t. ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 85 Purfuant to an order of Henrico Court, we, the fubfcrib- ers, have proceffioned all the following lands : Capt. Jno. Wal- ton's land, Capt. John Williamfon's land, Henry Stoke's land, E'athaniel Bacon's land, William Bacon's land, Ifaac Winfton's land, William Owen's land, John Owen's land, Matthew Hobfon's land, Jno. Law's land, Eliza Watkin's land, John Orange's land, Jno. Cornet's land, William Ford's land, John Mofeby's land, James Brittain's land, James Jones' land, Thos. Conoway's land, David Terey's land, Ro. Sharp's land, William Hillory's land, James Crawford's land, Daniel Fitz Patrick's land, John Bois' land, and all other lands to us directed. Given under our hands this 24th day of March, 1747-8. WILLIAM PALMER, LANGSTONE BACOIT, STEPHEIST PAISTKY, Copy Teft. THOMAS OWEN. Purfuant to an order of Veftry, we, the Subfcribers, have made a quiet and peacable proceffion of all the lands within our precincts, except Colo. Benjamin Harrifon, who did not appear. JOHN" MIDDLETO]^, HUMPHREY SMITH, Copy Teft. ROBERT MATTOX. All the lands proceffioned in Precincts, excepting Thomas Watkins, and the reafon is he will not fhow his line. Mary- Cannon's is Orfands Land. Colo. Benja. Harrifon no atten- dance, Gilligrew Marin, no attendance. JOSEPH LEWIS, EDW'D CURD, DANIEL PRICE, Copy Teft. WILLIAM SMITH. In obedience to an order of Henrico Court, We, and each of us, hath gone in and proceffioned and renewed the bounds of all lands between the Mouth of Gilley's Creek and the Weft Ham on the river, and hath Extended back as far as 86 VESTRY BOOK OF Gordon's and Mary Cannon's, with a peacable and quiet pro- ceffion from under our hands. KOBEET COOKE, JOHIT PKICE, JACOB SMITH, Copy Teft. WILLIAM SI^EED. We, the Subfcribers, have proceffioned all the lands with- in our proceffion, according to the order of Yeftry, only Michael Gathright, it being not bounded. EDMOInTD alle^, THOMAS ELMOKE, WILLIAM GATHKIGHT, Copy Teft. WILLIAM FERRIS. In Obedience to an Order of Veftry, to us directed, we have, with the affiftance of the Neighbors and Freeholders in our Precinct, proceffioned all the lands therein, Save the lines Annexed, viz. : A line between John Pleaf ants, senr., and Chas. Woodfon, the line not plain and no line. A line between John Pleaf ants, Senr,, and Bowler Cocke, the line not plain and the faid Bowler Cocke not prefent, Hindered. A line between John Pleafants, Senr. and John Pleafants Jr., no line. A line between do. and Thomas Holmes, no line. Three lines between James Hatcher and do., no lines. A line between Jno. Pleafants, Junr., and do., no line. A line between Jno. Pleafants, Junr. and Charles Wood- fon, no line. A do between do., and Bowler Cocke, the Same Reafon. The line between Bowler Cocke and Thomas Holmes, no line. The line between James Hatcher and Bowler Cocke, no line. The line between Richard Randolph and Bowler Cocke^ not done, by reafon neither party would attend. The line between Richard Randolph and Jas. Pleafants, not done, by reafon of Randolph's not attending. Richard Randolph, of Curls, Builder of the Original Cliursh. ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 87 The line between James Cocke and John Poval, not done, Cocke not attending. The line between Charles Carter and Peter Burton, not done, Carter being an infant. John Povall's and Chas. Floyd's line joining Chas. Carter, not done by the fame reafon. John Povall's lines between him and Robert Poval, not done, Robert being an infant. Signed by the Proceffioners. JOHN^ PLEASANTS, Junr., NICHOLAS HOBSON, JOHN PLEASANTS, (Curies,) Copy Teft WILLIAM HOBSON. AT A VESTRY held at Richmond the 16th day of Nov., 1749. Prefent. The Reverend William Stith, Thomas Mofeby, John Red- ford, Wm. Lewis, Rob't Mofeby, John Williamfon, John Povall and William Randolph. Rich'd Rocket is chofen Clerk of the Yeftry in the room of Solomon Cary. Bowler Cocke elected a Yeftryman in the Room of Richard Randolph, Efqr., Died; William Randolph, Efqr., Elected Church Warden in the room of Peter Randolph, Efqr., and took the oaths accordingly. JOHN POYALL, WILLIAM RANDOLPH. AT A YESTRY held at Yarina February 6th, 1749-50. Prefent. The Reverend William Stith, William Randolph, Church Warden; Thomas Mofeby John Renford, William Lewis, John Ellis, Bowler Cocke, Gent. ; Vestryman, John Wil- liamfon. Henrico parifh is Dr. for ye year 1750. To William Stith, Minifter, Salary and Cafk, 16,640 To John Bryan, reader, 1,789 88 VESTRY BOOK OF To Mark Clarke, Ditto, 1,789 To William Street, Ditto, 1,789 To Kichard Kocket, Clerk of the Veftry, 536 To John Hobfon, Sexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, do., 536 To the Church Wardens, for Bread and Wine, 344 To John Shoemaker, for cleaning of Chappie, 536 STITH. AT A VESTEY, held at Kichmond Town, the 8 Day of February, 1750. Prefent. The Kev'd William Stith, Minifter, William Eandolph and John Povall, Church Wardens. Peter Randolph, Thomas Mofeby and William Lewis, Gentlemen Yeftrymen. Bowler Cocke, John Ellis, Gent'm, take the Oaths to the Government and Subfcribe the Teft, an accordingly admitted. Henrico Parifh Dr. for the year 1750. To William Stith, Minifter, S'lary & cafk, 16,640 To John Bryan, reader, 1,789 To Mark Clark, do., 1,789 To William Street, Ditto, 1,789 To Richard Rocket, elk. of the Veftry, 450 To John Hobfon, fexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, do., 536 To the Church Wardens, for Bread and Wine, 344 To John Shoemaker, clean'g the chappie, 536 To Benjamin Goode, 1,500 To the Church Wardens, for Jane Jennings, 600 To do., for keeping Mary Burnet, 896 To Edmond Allen, for his fon, an Idiot, 1,000 To the Church Wardens, for William Eord, 600 To do., for Lame Childers, 500 To do., for James Jinnitt, 800 To do., Daniel Baker, 600 To John Jones, for keeping his daughter, a Eool, 300 ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 89 To William Lawlef s, for keeping Mary Burnett's child from the fir ft of Auguft till this time, 300 To Robert Mofeby, 180 To the Church Wardens, for Francis Archer, 300 To Do., for the Widow Hanfford, 600 To lie in the Church Warden's hand till further or- ders, 13,156 To Commiffion 6 per ct, 2,739 47,880 Cr. By 1,368 Tithables, at 35 per pole, 47,880 WILLIAM RANDOLPH, JOHN POVALL, Ch. Wardens. AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond Town, the 29 day of September, 1750. Prefent. The Reverend William Stith, Minister, William Randolph and John Povall, Church Wardens. John Redford, Bowler Cocke, John Ellis and John Wil- liamfon, Gent'n Veftrymen. Henrico Parifh Dr. for ihe year 1761. To William Stith, Minifter, fallery and cafk, 16,640 To John Bryan, Reader, 1,789 To Mark Clarke, Bo., 1,789 To William Street, Do., 1,789 To Richard Rocket, Clerk of the Veftry, 450 To John Hobfon. Sexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, Do., 536 To John Shoemaker, Do., 536 To the Church Wardens, for Bread and Wine, 344 To Benjamin Goode, 1,000 To Jane Jennings, 600 To Mary Burnett, 890 To Mary Allen, for her Son, an Idiott, 1,000 90 VESTRY BOOK OF To William Ford, 600 To Limme Childers, 500 To James Jennitt, 800 To Daniel Baker, 600 To Francis Archer, 300 To the Widow Hanfford, 500 To John Oakling, for keeping James Brown 6 weeks and burying him, 200 To John Burton, for Sundry Goods brought for Mary Brown, and Carrying her to Blifland Parifh, 300 To Johnathan Williams, for repairing the Church Yard, &c., 50 The Church Wardens, to be paid John Shoemaker, when he acknowledges a deed for one Acre of Land whereon the Deep Bun Church ftands, 100 To Doctor Hopper, for cutting off CowfelPs Arms, 500 To lie in the Church Warden's hands till further or- ders, 14,807 47,162 To Commiffion at 6 per ct., 2,818 Cr. 49,980 By 1,470 Tithables, at 34 per poll, 49,980 JOHK POVALL, WILLIAM KAISTDOLPH. AT A VESTKY, held at Kichmond Town, August ye 17, 1751. Prefent. The Keverend Mr. William Stith, Minif ter ; William Kan- dolph and John Povall, Church Wardens ; Eichard Kandolph, John Bedford, John Ellis, John Winston and Eobert Mofe- by, Veftrymen. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this colony, and in obe- dience to an Order of Henrico Court, the Parifh is divided into Precincts, and perfons appointed in each precinct to Proceffion and renew the Bounds of each perfons Land. ST. John's chuech. 91 Fir ft Precinct. Ordered — That Richard Cottrel, John Lancafter, Jofeph Ellis and Jofeph Freeman, with the Affiftance of the Neighbouring freeholders, do, before the laft day of March next, proceffion and renew the bounds of all lands from the Mouth of great Weftham to William Gordon's, thence upwards between Gor- don's Road and James River to the head of the Parif h • and that the faid Richard Cottrell, John Lancafter, Jofeph Ellis and Jofeph Freeman, or any two of them, do take and return to the Veftry an Acco. of every Perfons Land by them Pro- ceffioned, together with the names of thofe prefent, and alfo what land they fail to proceffion, and the Particular reafon of such failure. From William Gordon's Road to the head of the Parifh, thence to Chickahominy Swamp, and down that to Turner's Run, and up Hungry Branch to the head of land Brook, and from thence to Gordon's Aforefaid. Robert Mofeby, Junr., Theopilus Favours, Richard Holland, Wm. Brittain, are ap- pointed Proceffioners. Third Precinct. All between Chickahominy Swamp and Ofland Brook to the head of the faid Brook. Henry Stokes, William Bacon and Jofeph Parfons, Junr. Uh, All between Chickahominy Swamp and the Brook Road, as low as Cannon's and Smith's Mill. John Pleafants, John Smith and Drury Wood. 5. All between the Mouth of Gilley's Creek and great Weft- ham on the River, and to extend as far back as Cannon's and Gordon's. William Deriguid, Dacy Southall and John Gunn. 6. From the Mouth of Gilley's Creek on James River to Jno. Lewis on Chickahominy Swamp, thence upwards as high as Cannon's and Smith's Mill. Thomas Watkins, William Price and Thomas Cocke. 92 VESTRY BOOK OF 7. All between Gilley's Creek and Corneliuf's, from the River back as far as the Seven Pines Road, and as low as the Southern Branch Bridge. David Burton, John Aldaj, Jr., Thomas Alday and Nicholas Giles, Junr. 8. All between Corneliuf 's and Two Mfle Creek, James River and the Main Country Road. Milner Redford, Hays Whit- low, Lufby Turpin and Thomas Jordan. 9. All between two Mile Creek, Four Mile Creek, James River, and the Main Country Road. William Sharpe, Wil- liam Pierce and Francis Pierce. 10. All between Corneliuf's and Four Mile Creek, from the Main County Road to Seven Pines Road. John Whitlow, James Whitlow, William Whitlow and Richard Reynard. 11. All between William Lewif's and Boar Swamp on Chicka- hominy, to extend back as far as the head of Boar Swamp. Julius Allen, Martin Martin and Anthony Matthews. Twelfth Precinct. From the Mouth of Boar Swamp to the County Line on Chickahominy, thence to extend Southward as far as the Long Bridge Road. George Pyke, Thomas Watkins and John Hales. 13. All between Four Mile Creek, Bailey's Runand White Oak Swamp. Jos. Hobf on, Jno. Hobf on and SamL Gathright. 14. All between Bailey's Run, The County Line and the Weft- ern Run. Charles Woodfon, James Hatcher and Step. Wood. 15. All between the head of Bailey's Run, the Weftern Run and the county line, to extend N'orthward as far as the fork of ST. JOHN S CHUECH. 93 the Long Bridge Road. John Middleton, Humphrey Smith and Edward Eaft. Ifaac Winfton, Jnnr., is Elected a Veftryman in the room of Beverly Randolph, Efqr., deceafM. WILLIAM RANDOLPH, JOHIST POVALL. AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond Town the 3d day of December, 1751. Prefent. The Reverend Mr. William Stith, Minif ter ; William Ran- dolph and John Povall, Church Wardens; Richard Ran- dolph, Bowler Cocke, Junr., William Lewis, John William- fon, Robert Mofeby and John Ellis, Gent., Yeftrymen. Richard Randolph, John Williamfon, Gent'm, are elected Church Wardens in the room of Wm. Randolph and John Povall, and took the Oath Accordingly. Ordered — The Churchwardens do agree with the workmen to repair and Paint the Church at Curie's, and do whats nec- effary to the Church at Richmond. Henrico Parifh Dr., for the year 1Y52. To William Stith, Minifter, 17,280 To John Bryan, Reader, 1,789 To Mark Clarke, Do., 1,789 To William Street, Do., 1,789 To Richard Rockett, elk. Yeft'y ye proceffi'g year, 895 To John Hobfon, Sexton, 536 To Ellenor Williams, Do., 536 To John Shoemaker, Do., 536 To the Church Wardens, for Bread and Wine, 344 To Benjamin Goode, 500 To Mary Burnett, 896 To Mary Allen, for her fon, an Idiott, 1,000 To William Eord, 600 To Lemme Childers, 500 To Daniel Baker, 600 To Francis Archer, 400 94 VESTRY BOOK OF To Thomas Bates, for keeping Anu Smith laft year, 300 To Ann Smith, for the enfuing year, 300 To John Liptrott, 400 To lie in the Church Warden's hands till further or- ders, ' 14,962 To Obadiah E,obinfon, 500 To Commiffion at 6 per cent, 2,784 49,236 Cr. By 1,492 Tythables @ 33 per pole, 49,236 The Reverend Mr. William Stith refigns this Parifh the firft day of October next, he^ being chofen Minifter of S. Anns ; and it is ordered that the Church Wardens write to the Reverend Mr. Rofcow Cole, to make him an offer of the Parifh. Mark Clarke is difmifed from the office as Clerk of Curl's Church. EICHAED RAIsTDOLPH, JOHN WILLIAMSO]^. In Obedience to the Within order, we, the Subfcribers, have gone in proceffion and renewed the bounds of the feveral tracts of land within the limits to us prefcribed, in the pref- ence of and the confent of the proprietors of the faid lands, all excepting a line between Capt. John Williamfon and Cuthbert Williamfon, an orphan, which we were forbid to do. Witnefs our hands this 21 Peb'y, 1752. JOHN PLEASANTS, JOHN SMITH, Copy Teft. DRURY WOOD. AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond, the 22d day June, 1752. Prefent. The Hon'ble Peter Randolph, Efqr., Mr. William Stith, Minifter; Eichard Eandolph and John Williamfon, Church Wardens; Bowler Cocke, Junr., William Eandolph, John Ellis and William Lewis, Gentlemen, Veftrymen. The Eeverend Mr. Jofeph Bewfher is unanimously elected ST. John's church. 95 Minifter in the room of Mr. William Stith, to enter on his office the firft day of October next. Mark Clark is elected Clerk of Curl's Church in the room of his father. JOIELN WM'SOE", KICHAKD RANDOLPH. AT A VESTEY, held in Eichmond Town the 25th daj of Auguft, 1752. . Prefent. The Hon'ble • Peter Eandolph, Efqr., Eichard Eandolph and John Williamf on, Church Wardens ; John Povall, Bow- ler Cocke, William Lewis and John Ellis, Gentlemen, Vef- trymen. Mr. Samuel DuvaP*^ is elected a Veftryman in the Eoom of John Eedford, Deceafed. Mr. Jofeph Lewis is Elected a Veftryman in the room of If aac Winf ton,' who ref uf eth to act. The Eeverend Mr. Miles Selden^^ is unanimously elected Minifter in the room of Mr. Jofeph Bewfher, who refigns this Parifh, to enter on his office the firft day October next. EICHAED EANDOLPH. JOHN WM'SON. AT A VESTEY, held at Eichmond Town the 8th day of December, 1752. Prefent. The Eev'd Miles Selden, William Eandolph, John Wil- liamfon, John Povall, Bowler Cocke, Jr., William Lewis, John Ellis and Eobt. Mofeby, Gent. Abraham Conley, Jr.^ is chofen clark of the Veftry in the room of Eich'd Eockett, who having refigned. Samuel Du Vail and Jofeph Lewis, Gent, take the Oaths to the Government and Subfcribe the Teft. Ordered — That the Minifter perform Divine Service at the Upper Church once in five Weeks. Ordered — That -Mr. Samuel Du Vail value the Porches of the Gleabe, and that the Church War- dens pay Colo. Bland what they fhall be valued at over and above his agreement. Ordered — That the Church Wardens agree with workmen to raile the Church yard and to pail in a garden at the Gleabe. G 96 VESTKY BOOK OF Ordered — That the Collector allow Sarah Scott 500 lb of Tobo. out of the fines due to this Parifh, and that Wm. Green be allowed five hundred pounds of Tobo. out of the fines. Judith Ruff, exempted from paying the Parifh Levy. Bowler Cocke, Jr., and Samuel Du Vail, Gent., are ap- pointed Church Wardens for the enfuing year. Henrico Parifh, '^ Dr. To the Rev'd Mr. William Stith, for one half year's Sallery, 8,320 To the Rev'd Mr. Miles Selden, 8,320 To John Bryant, 1,789 To Mark Clark, Jr., 1,789 To William Street, 1,789 To Richard Rockett, late elk. Veftry, 500 To John Hobfon Sexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, Do., 536 To John Shoemaker, Bo., 536 To the Church Wardens, for Bread and Wine, 344 To Benjamin Goode, 500 To Mary Burnet, 896 To Mary Allen, for her Son, an Idiot, 1,000 To William Ford, 600 To Lemmy Childers, 500 To Daniel Bacon, 600 To Francis Archer, ^ 400 To Ann Smith, 300 To John Liptrott, 500 To Obadiah Robinfon, 400 To Margaret Leigh, for taking care of Lucy Freeman, 300 To lye in the hands of the Church Wardens till fur- ther orders, 11,205 To the Collectors Commiffions, .2,730 45,510 Cr. By 1,517 Tithables at 30 lb Tobacco per pole, 45,510 BOWLER COCKE, SAML. DU VAL. ST. John's chuech. 97 AT A VESTKY, held at Kichmond Town the 15th day of October, 1753. Prefent, The Eev'd Miles Selden, William Kandolph, Bowler Cocke, Kichard Kandolph, Eobert Mofeby, John Williamfon, Jofeph Lewis, John Ellis, Samuel Du Vail and William Lewis, Gent. Veftry. Henrico Parifh, Dr. To the Eev'd Miles Selden, 16,640 To John Bryan, elk., 1,789 To Mark Clark, Jimr., 1,789 To William Street, 1,789 To Abraham Cowley, elk. Veftry, 500 To Thomas Holmes, fexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, 536 To John Shoemaker, 536 To the Church Wardens, for Bread and Wine, 344 To Benjamin Goode, 500 To Mary Burnett, 896 To Mary Allen, for her Son, an Idiot, 1,000 To William Ford, 600 To Lemmy Childers, 500 To Danniel Baker, 400 To Francis Archer, 500 To Anne Smith, 500 To John Liptrott, 500 To Margaret Leepor, for taking care of John Lee, 500 To James Lucas, 200 To Matthew Bridgeman, for taking care of Obadiah Robinfon, 232 To the Rev'd Miles Selden, fhort levy'd laft year, 665 To the Eev'd Miles Selden, four per ct. on his Sal- lery, allowed by him, 300 To Benjamin Goode, for keeping Freeman's child, 500 To John Goode and his Wife, 333 To Lye in the hands of the Church Wardens till far- ther orders, 20,139 53,424 98 VESTRY BOOK OF To the Sheriff's Commiffions, 3,19Y Cr. 56,651 By 1,490 Tithables, at 30 lb Tob'o per pole, 56,621 JSTathaniel Bridgewater is exempted from paying the Par- ifh Levy. Ordered — That the Church Wardens pay the William Stith twenty-four pounds ten fhilling for the work done to the Gleabe at Varina. Ordered — That the Church Wardens pay to John Wil- liamfon sixteen pounds eleaven and fix pence for money ex- pended on the Poore of the Parifh. Ordered — That the Church Wardens Agree with Work- men to Build a Hen Houfe, and Repair and move the ftable on the Glebe. William Randolph and Jofeph Lewis are appointed Church Wardens for the enfuing year. Ordered — That Richard Randolph pay the money in his hands to the Church Wardens. WILLIAM RAISTDOLPH, JOSEPH LEWIS. AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond Town, JSTov. Yth, 1754. Prefent. The Rev'd Miles Selden, William Randolph, Jofeph Lewis, John Williamfon, John Povall, William Lewis, John Wil- liamfon and Samuel Du Yall, Gent, of the Veftry. Henrico Parifh, Dr. To the Rev'd Miles Selden, 17,150 To John Bryan, elk., 1,789 To Mark Clarke, Jimr., 1,789 To William Street, 1,789 To Abraham Cowley, Clerk Veftry, 500 To Thomas Hoomes, Sexton, 536 ;To Elenor Williams, 536 To John Shoemaker, 536 To the Church Wardens, for Bread and Wine, 344 To Benjamin Goode, 500 ST. John's church. 99 To Mary Burnet, ^^^ To Mary Allen, her fon, an Idiot, 1,000 • To Wiliiam Ford, 600 To Lemmy Childers, ^00 To John Liptrott, ^00 To Francis Archer, ^00 To Margaret Lee, for taking care of John Lee, 500 To James Lucas, ^00 To Benjamin Goode, for taking Freeman's child, 300 To John Goode and his wife, 500 To Kobert Yaxley, for keeping Elinor Addam's Child, 500 To lye in the hands of the Church Wardens till fur- ther orders, 1,425 33,090 To the Collector's Commiffions, 1,985 Cr. 35,075 By 1,525 Tithables, at 23 per pole, 35,075 John Povall and Jofeph Lewis are chofen Church War- dens for the enfuing year. Ordered — That the Prefent Church Wardens pay the hal- lance of twenty feven pounds feaventeen fhillings and two pence, which they have in their hands, to the Church War- dens for the Enfuing year. Ordered — That the Church Wardens pay Samuel Du Yall feaven pounds feven fhillings and fix pence, the Ballance of his acco't for repairing the Church at Curls. JOHIN- POYALL, JOSEPH LEWIS. AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond Town, July 25th, 1755. Prefent. William Randolph, William Lewis, John Povall, Bowler Cocke, John Ellifs, Samuel Du Yall, John Wiliamfon, Jo- feph Lewis. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony and in obe- 100 VESTRY BOOK OF dience to an order of Henrico Court, the Parifh, as divided into precincts, and perfons appointed in each precinct to pro- ceffion and renew the bounds of each perfons land. Fir ft Precinct. Ordered — That Eichard Cottrell, David Staples, Henry Ellifs, and Jofeph Ellifs, with the affiftance of the I^eighbor- ing Freeholders, do, before the 11th day of April next, pre- ceffion and renew the bounds of all the lands from the mouth of great Weftham to William Gordon's, thence upwards be- tween Gordon's road and James River, to the head of the Par- if h ; and that the f aid Richard Cottrell, C'avid Staples, Hen- ry Ellifs, William and Jofeph Ellifs, or any two of them, do make and return to this Veftry, an acco't of Every perfon's land by them proceffioned, together with the names of thofe prefent, and alfo what lands they fail to proceffion, and the particular reafon of such failure. 2. From William Gordon's road to the head of the Parifh, thence to Chickahominy Swamp, and down that to Turner's Run, and up Hungry Branch, to the head of Oiland Brook, and down thence to Gordon's aforefaid. Robert Mofeby, Jr.^ Jofeph Parfon, Junr., Ifaac Winfton, Jofeph Parfon, Junr. Out. 3. All between Chickahominy Swamp and Upland Brook, to the head of faid Brook. ISTathaniel Bacon, Henry Stokes, Elifha Miller and William Bacon. Out. 4. All between Chickahominy Swamp and the Brook Road, as low as Cannon and Smith's Mill. John Smith, John Pleafants, Robt. Sharpe, Jr. Drury Wood. 5. All between the mouth of Gilley's Creek and great Weft- ham on the river, and to be extended back as far as Cannon's and Gordon's. Jacob Smith, John Gunn, Davy Southall, Valentine Ball. ST. JOHN S CHUKCH. 101 6. From the mouth of Gilley's Creek, on James river, to Jo- feph Lewis on Chickahominy Swamp, thence upwards as high as Cannon's and Smith's Mill. William Smith, Edward Curd, John Harwood, Nat Vandevall. 7. All between Gilley's Creek and Cornellyf es, from the river, back as far as Seven Pines Koad, and as low as the Southern Branch Bridge. Thomas Aldy, ^Ticholafs Giles, Junr., Mat- thew Herbert, Nicholas Malor. Out. 8. All between Corneliffus and two mile creek, the main county road and the river. John Stewart, Benja. Burton^ John Burton, richard renalds. 9. All between two mile creek, four mile creek, James river and the main co'y road. Milenor Bedford, John redford, Francis Pierce and William Parker. 10. All between CornellyfFes and four mile creek, from the main co'y road to Seaven Pines road. James Whitlow, Wil- liam Whitlow, Henry Whitlow and Bichard Whitlow. 11. All between Jofeph Lewis and Boar Swamp on Chicka- hominay, to extend back as far as the head of Boar Swamp. Julius Allen, Anthony Matthews, William Gathwrite and Kobert Spears. 12. From the mouth of Boar Swamp to the co'y line on Chick- ahominy, thence to extend Southward as far as the Long Bridge Road. Thomas Watkins, Benja. Jordan, John Car- ter, John White. 13. All betwetsn four mile Creek, Bailey's Run and White Oak Swamp. Jofeph Hopfin, Samuel Gathwrite, William Hopfin, James Linfey. 102 VESTRY BOOK OF 14. All between Bailey's Run, the Co'y Line and the Weftern Klin Branch. Charles Woodfon, Stephen Woodfon, John Pleafants Bailey, and Robert Pleafants, Jnnr. Fifteenth Precinct. All between the head of Bailey's run, the Weftern Run, and the County Line, to extend I^orthward as far as the fork of the Long Bridge road. John Martin, Humphrey Smith, John Royfter and John Brackett. JOHINJ" POVALL, JOSEPH LEWIS. AT A VESTRY, held in Richmond Town the 4th day of :N'ov'r, 1755. Prefent. The Rev'd Miles Selden, William Randolph, John Povall, Richard Randolph, Jofeph Lewis, Jno. Williamfon, William Lewis, Samuel Du Vail and rob't Mofeby, Gent., Veftry. Henrico Parifh, Dr. To the Rev'd Miles Selden, 17,150 To John Bryan, elk., 1,789 To Mark Clark, Junr., 1,789 To William Street, 1,789 To Abraham Cowley, 700 To Thomas Homes, Sexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, 536 To John Shoemaker, 536 To the Church Wardens, for Bread and Wine, 344 To Benjamin Goode, 300 To Mary Burnet, 896 To Mary Allen, her fon, an Idiot, 800 To William Ford, 500 To Lemmy Childers, 250 To John Liptrott 250 To Francis Archer, 300 To Margaret Lee, for the care of John Lee, 400 To Benjamin Good, for the care of Freeman's child, 300 ST. John's chuech. 103 To John Good and wife, 500 To Sufanna Morton, 250 To Matthew Herbert for keeping Freeman's child, 300 To James Woodfin, for keeping Wm. Taylor's children, 400 30,615 To the Collector's Commiffions, 1,871 To lye in the hands of the Church Wardens, 500 Cr. 33,066 By 1,503, Tythables @ 22 per pole, 33,066 Ordered — That the Church Wardens, repay robert Goode, for 16 Tythables, at 23 per pole, over lifted laft year; like- wife repay James Brittain for one Tythe a 23, over lifted laft year. Richard Randolph and Jofeph Lewis, are elected Church Wardens for the enfuing year. RICHARD RAISTDOLPH, JOSEPH LEWIS. In Obedience to an Order of Henrico Yeftry, we have Proceffion the Lines According to the Within Order, from the mouth of Gilley's Creek to Cannon's, and from thence to Weftham, with Peacable and Quiet Poffeffion. Given under our hands this Tth day of April, 1756. DASEY SOUTHALL, JACOB SMITH. According to the Within Order, we have proceffioned all the lands in our precincts, befides the lines between Capt. James Cock and Thomas Watkins, ye f'd Watkins refufing; and a line between John Williamfon, Junr., and Thomas Franklin, for want of Attendance Apr. 9th, 1756. WILLIAM SMITH, 'NAT YANDERYALL, JNO. HARWOOD, EWD CURD. In obedience to an order of the Yeftry, we have procef- 104 VESTRY BCK)K OF fioned and renewed the bounds of every perfon's lands men- tioned in the within order. THOMAS WATKIE"S, JOHN CAKTEK, ISAAC WHITE. Purfuant to an order of the Veftry of Henrico, we have, in Obedience to the f'd order, renewed all the lands in our precincts, except as follows : The lands bound between Jof eph Bailey and Hickifon Cox, by reafon of the f'd Cox not being prefent. The lands between John Cox and L'ickinfon Cox, for the reafon aforef aid. The lands between George Cox, Orphan; Edw'd Cox, Dec'd, and Thomas Perkins; no perfon appearing for f'd Orphan. The lands between Lifby Turpin and Dickinfon Cox, the f'd Cox not appearing. The lands between Edw'd Osbiirn and the aforef'd George Cox, for the reafon aforef aid. The lands between Thomas Jordan and the f'd George Cox, for the reafon aforefaid. The lands between Thomas Eandolph, orphan of William Kandolph, dec'd ; and the lands of Jno. Bowling, the Glebe land, Harwood BuUington, William Parker, Thomas Jor- dan, Kobert BuUington; no perfon appearing for the f'd Orphan. The lands between Jno. Bowling and the Gleabe lands, the f'd Bowling not appearing. The lands between Jno. Bowling, and Harwood BuUing- ton, an infant, neither parties being prefent. The lands between John Boiling and Thomas Jordan, for the reafon aforesaid. The lands between Harwood BuUington, infant, William Parker, no perfon appearing for f'd infant. The lands between Wm. Epps and Jno. Stewart, Thos. Branch, Wm. Burton, Alex'r Long, Jno. Bowling, William Eandolph, Jno. Cox, Benja. Burton: the f'd Wm. Epps not being prefent. JOHN STEWAET, KICHAED EENAED, JNO. BUETON. ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 105 Purfuant to an order of Veftry, we Lave poffeffioned and renew the bounds of all the lands within the limits to as men- tioned in pref ence and with the conf ent of all the proprietors. kobert sharpe, jjn'o. pleasants, j:^o. smith, drury wood. Purfuant to an order of the Veftry, we have renewed the bounds of all the lands therein mentioned, excepting a line between l^icholas Medor and Ben, Burton; the parties not agreeing to have done; and Philip Mayo land, no -nerfon ap- pearing. :>^AT'L BACON", HENRY BACON, ELISHA MILLER. Purfuant to an order of Veftry, we, the Subfcribers, have poffeffioned and renewed all the lines in our precinct. JAMES WHITLOW, WM. WHITLOW, HENRY WHITLOW, RICHARD WHITLOW. Purfuant to an order of Yeftry, we have renewed the bounds of all the lands therein mention, except as f olloweth : Between John Bowling and Jno. Bedford, Jno. Bowlinge and Hays Whitlow, Robert Pleafant and Millenor Redford, Jno. Pleafants, Senr., Jno. Pleafants, Junr., and Millenor Redford ; they all failing to attend. MILLENOR REDFORD, JNO. REDEORD, ERANCIS PIERCE, WILLIAM PARKER. AT A YESTRY, held at Richmond Town January 3d, 1757. Prefent. The Rev'd Miles Selden, William Randolph, Bowler Cocke, William Lewis, John Williamfon, Samuel Du Yall, Richard Randolph, Jofeph Lewis and John Elliff, Gent. Yeftry. 106 VESTRY BOOK OF Henrico Parifh, Dr. To the Eev'd Miles Selden, 17,150 To John Bryan, elk., 1,789 To Mark Clark, Junr., 1,789 To William Street, 1,789 To Abraham Cowley, Clk. Veftry, 500 To Thomas Homes, fexten, 536 To Elenor Williams, 536 To John Shoemaker, 536 To the Church Wardens, 344 To Benjamin Goode, 500 To Mary Allen, her fon, an Ideot, 800 To Wiliiam Ford, 500 To Lemmy Childers, 250 To John Liptrott, 5^50 To Francis Archer, 400 To Margaret Lee, for the Care of John Lee, 400 To Benjamin Goode, for the care of Freeman's child, 300 To John Goode and Wife, 250 To Siifanna Morton, 250 To Matthew Herbert, for the care of Freeman's child, 300 To James Woodfin, for the care of Taylor's children, 500 To Edward Pry or, for the care of his child, 250 I; To the Church Wardens, for the maintainance of John V^ Liggon's wife and child, 800 To lye in the hands of the Church Wardens, 674 To the Collector's Commiffions, 2,003 Cr. 33,396 By 1,518 Tithables at 22 per pole, 33,396 Eichard Randolph and Jofeph Lewis is elected Church Wardens for the enf uing year. RICHARD RAISTDOLPH, JOSEPH LEWIS. AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond Town, December the 5th, 1757. ST. John's church. 107 Prefent. The Eev'd Miles Selden, William Eandolph, Samuel Du Vail, Jofeph Lewis, John Povall, Kichard Eandolph, Wil- liam Lewis, John Elliif, Gent. Veftrj. Thomas Adams^^ is elected a Veftrjman in the room of John Williamfon, dec'd. Henrico Parifh^ Dr. To the Kev'd Miles Selden, 17,150 To John Bryan, elk., 1,789 To Mark Clark, Junr., 1,789 To William Street, 1,789 To Abraham Cowley, 500 To Agneff Homes, fexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, 536 To John Shoemaker, 536 To the Church Wardens, 344 To Benjamin Goode, 500 To Mary Allen, her fon, an idiot, 800 To William Ford, 500 To Lemmy Childers, 250 To John Liptrott, 300 To Margaret Lee, for the care of John Lee, 400 To Benjamin Goode, for the care of Freeman's child, 300 To John Goode and wife, 300 To Sarah Morton, 240 To James Woodfin, for the care of Taylor's children, 500 To the Church Wardens, for the care of John Lig- gan's wife and child, 800 To Matthew Herbert for the care of Freeman's child, 300 To Stephen Childers, for the care of his fon's child, 250 To John Shoemaker, for one acre of land where Deep Run Chapel ftands, 100 30,019 To lye in the hands of the Church Wardens, 2,259 To the Collector's Commiffions, 2,692 108 VESTRY BOOK OF Cr., 24,870 By 1,585 Tiths. at 22 per pole, 34,870 Kichard Randolph and Jofeph Lewis are appointed Church Wardens for the enfuing year. Mr. Samuel Du Vail, Sheriff, is appointed the Parifh Col- lector for the enfuing year. Ordered — That the Church Wardens take bond of him ac- cording to law. RICHARD RAI^DOLPH, JOSEPH LEWIS. AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond Town, Dec. 17th, 1758. Prefeni. The Rev'd Miles Selden, William Randolph, Bowler Cocke, William Lewis, Thomas Addams, Jofeph Lewis, John Ellifs, and Richard Randolph, Gent. Richard Randolph and Jofeph Lewis are appointed Church Wardens for the enfuing year. Henrico Parifh, Dr. To the Rev^d Miles Selden, 17,150 To John Bryan, elk., 1,789 To Mark Clark, Junr., 1,789 To William Street, 1,789 To Abraham Cowley, 500 To Agnefs Homes, Sexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, 536 To John Shoemaker, 536 To the Church Wardens, 344 To Benjamin Goode, 500 To Mary Allen, for her Son, an Ideot, 800 To William Ford, 500 To Lemmy Childers, 500 To John Liptrott, 300 To Margaret Lee, for the ufe of John Lee, 700 To Sufanna Morton, 250 To James Woodfin, for the care of Taylor's Children, 500 ST. JOHN^S CHURCH. 109 To the Church Wardens, for the care of John Lig- gon's Wife and child, 1,200 To William Ford's Wife, 300 To Mary Walters, 500 To Samuel Liggon, for the care of John Liggon's Child, 250 To John Hobfon, for the care of Rob't Down's chil- dren two y'rs paft, 600 To the Sheriff for infolvents, 484 To Robert Cooke, for the care of Sufannah, a Mulatto, 400 32,753 To the Sheriff's Commiffions, 2,151 To lye in the hands of the Church Wardens, 956 Cr. 35,860 By 1,630 Tiths at 22 per Poles, 35,860 Mr. Samuel Cu Vail, Sher'f, is appointed the Parish Col- lector for the Ensuing Year. Ordered — That the Church Wardens take Bond of him According to Law. RICHARD RANDOLPH, JOSEPH LEWIS. AT A VESTRY, held for Henrico Parish at Richmond Town, Oct'r, 11th, 1759. Prefent. The Rev'd Miles Selden, Richard Randolph, Bowler Cocke, William Lewis, John Ellifs, Samuel Du Vail, and Jofeph Lewis, Gent. Henrico Parifh, Dr. To the Rev'd Miles Selden, 17,150 To John Bryan, elk., 1,789 To Mark Clark, Junr., 1,789 To William Street, 1,789 To Abraham Cowley, 800 To Agnefs Homes, fexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, 536 110 VESTRY BOOK OF To Jolni Shoemaker, 536 To the Church Wardens, 344 To Benjamin Goode, 500 To Mary Allen, her fon an Ideot, 1,000 To William Ford and Wife, 500 To Lemmy Childers, 500 To John Liptrott, 300 To Margaret Lee, for the Care of John Lee, 1,000 To Siifanna Morton, 400 To Elizabeth Dorton, for the care of John Liggon's wife, 1,000 To Mary Walters, 500 To Eobert Cook, for the care of Sufannah, a Molatto, 200 To Hays Whitlow, for the care of Mary Prevdo's child, a Baftard, 600 To Elizabeth Lucas, 400 To Thomas Watkins, for his care of William Chap- man, 400 To the Collector Commiffions, 2,126 To lye in the hands of the Church Wardens, 753 Cr. 35,448 By 1,658 Tiths at 21 per pole, 35,448 Mr. Kyland Eandolph^^ is Elected a Yeftryman in the room of Thomas Mofby who has refigned. Ordered — That the Church Wardens Agree with the Work- men to Dig & Brick a Well at the Gleab, & make all such re- pairs as they shall think IsTecessary & a Greeable to law. Mr. Philip Mayo, Shf.' is appointed the Parifh Collector for the Ensuing Year. Ordered — That the Church Wardens take Bond and Security of him according to law. Ordered — That the prefent Church Wardens settle the Acc'ts of Eichard Eandolph and Lewis, late Church Wardens. Col'o Eichard Eandolph and Samuel Duvall are Chofen Church Wardens for the Enfuing Year. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly of this Colony, and in obe- dience to an order of Henrico County Court, the Parish is divided in to Precincts and perfons appointed in each Pre- cinct to proceffion and renew the Bounds of each Perfon's land. ST. John's chuech. Ill 1. Ordered — That Eich'd Cottrell, David Staples, Henry El- lifs, William Ellifs and Jofeph Ellifs, with the Affiftance of the Neighboring Freeholders, do before the 11th day of April next, proceffion and renew the bounds of all the lands from the mouth of Great Weft Ham to William Gordon's, thence upwards between Gordon's road and James river to the head of this parifh, and that the said Richard Cottrell, David Sta- ples, Henry Ellifs, William Ellifs and Jofeph Ellifs, or any two of them, do make and return to this Yeftry an acc't of every perfon's lands by them proceffioned, together with the names of thofe prefent, and alfo what lands they fail to pro- ceffion and the particular reafon of fuch failure. 2d. From William Gordon's road to the head of the Parish, thence to Chickahominy fwamp, and down that to Turner's run, and up Hungary Branch to the head of Upland Brook, and from thence to Gordon's aforef aid — Thomas Wilkinfon, iN'athaniel Wilkinfon, Thomas Owen and William Bacon. 3d. All between Chickahominy Swamp and Upland Brook to the head of the faid Brook — Henry Stokes, Elifha Miller, William Jones and John Mofeby. 4. All between Chickahominy Swamp and the Brook road, as low as Cannon & Smith's mill — John Smith, John Pleafants, Kobert Williamfon and Drury Wood. 6. All between the mouth of Gilley's Creek and the great Weftham on the river, and to be extended back as far as Cannon's and Gordon's — Jacob Smith, John Gunn, Turner Southall and Benjamin Clarke. 6. From the mouth of Gilley's Creek, on James River, to Jo- feph Lewif's, on Chickahominy Swamp, thence upwards as H 112 VESTEY BOOK OF high as Cannon's and Smith's Mill — William Smith, Edward Curd, John Harwood and JSTath'l Vandevall. Y. All between Gilley's Creek and Cornelliffes, from the river back as far as the Seven Pines Road, and as low as the South- ern Branch Bridge — Jacob Burton, JSTicholas Giles, Matthew Herbert and l^icholas Meador. 8. All between Cornelliffes and two Mile Creek, the main County Boad and the Biver — John Stewart, John Burton, fon of Wm. Joiiah Bullington, and Thomas Jordan, Jun'r. 9. All between two mile Creek, Four mile Creek and the river and the main County road — Milner Bedford, John Bedford, Francis Pierce and William Parker. 10. All between Cornellifes and Four mile Creek, from the main County road to Seven Pines road — James Whitlow, William Whitlow, Henry Whitlow and Bichard Whitlow. 11. All between Jofeph Lewis and Boar Swamp, on Chicka- hominy, to extend back as far as the head of Boar Swamp — Julius Allen, Anthony Matthews, William Gathright and Robert Spears. 12. From the mouth of Boar Swamp to the County line on Chickahominy, thence to extend Southward as far as the Long Bridge Road — Thomas Waitkins, Ifaac White, John Carter and John Hayles. 13. All between Four mile Creek, Bailey's Run and White Oak Swamp — Jofeph Hobfin, Samuel Gathright, William Hobfin and Thomas Childrey. 14. AH between Bailey's Run, the County line and the Wef tern ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 113 Branch — Charles Woodfon, John Pleafants, Jr., Bailey, Kobert Pleafants, Jnn'r and John Martin. 15. All between the Head of Bailey's Run, the Weftern Run and the County line, to extend North Ward as far as the fork of the Long Bridge Road — Humphrey Smith, John Royf ster, John Middleton and Martin Martin, Sr. SAMUEL DU VALL, RICHARD RANDOLPH. We have proceffioned the lands between Two mile Creek and Fore mile Creek, the River and main County road ; the line between Robert Pleafants and Milner Redford, procef- fioned — Jno. Pleafants, Robert Pleafants, John Redford and Milner Redford, pref ent ; the lines between John Redford and Milner Redford agreed, John and Milner Redford, pref ent ; the lines between John' Pleafants and Francis Pierce, failing to meet; the lines between John Boiling and John Bedford^ not done. Boiling failing to mete ; the lines between Hays Whitlow and John Pleafants, Jun'r, not done, Pleafants fail- ing to meet ; the lines between John. Frazure and Andrew Redford, not done, Andrew under age ; likewif e Andrew Red- ford and Robert Scott, not done, the same reafon; the lines between John Bowling and Hays Whitlow, not done. Bowling failing to meet; the line between Jno, and John Redford, agreed, John and Milner Redford, and John Redford, Jun'r, pref ent; the line between John Pleafants and John Sharpe, not done, failing to meet ; the line between Robert Pleafants and John Redford, agreed, Robert Pleafants and John and Milner Redford, prefent. JOHN REDFORD, MILNER REDFORD, WILLIAM PARKER, FRANCIS PIERCE. In Obedience to an Order of Henrico Yesftry, we have gone and proceffioned the lines which we were appointed to do, from Cannon's up Colo. Byrd's line, betwixt Mr. Du- valFs and Mr. Byrd, James Patterfon and Drury Wood, prefent ; and betwixt Mr. Bird and Drury Wood ; Mr. Patter- 114 VESTRY BOOK OF son only by Drnry Wood's orders; and betwixt Mrs. Byrd's and Jacob Smith, prefent, Benjamin Clarke and James Pat- terson; and betwixt John Pierce and the s'd Byrd, prefent, Philip Watfon, John Price and James Patterson ; and be- tween John Price and Jacob Smith, pref en t, Jacob Smith and Samnel Price; and between John Price, Price and Thomas Williamfon, prefent, Samnel Price, William Miller; and be- tween Jacob Smith and Thos, Williamion. prefent, William Miller and Samuel Price ; and between Robert Williamfon and Cuthbert Williamfon, prefent, William Bacon and Rob- ert Sharpe ; and between Cuthbert Williamfon and Jacob Smith ; and between l^athaniel Bridgewater and Thos. Wm'fon, prefent, Nat. Bridgewater and William Snead ; be- tween Wm. Snead and Wm. Bridgwater; and between Wm. Sneed and Ben. Clarke ; between Wm. Bridgwater and Wm. Simes; between Wm. Simes and Jonathan Bridgwater; be- tween Wm. Kelley and Jonath. Bridgwater ; between Wm. Kelley and G-eorge Kelley; between George Kelley and Ben. Clarke ; between John Clarke and Thos. Lewis ; between Thomas Lewis and John Gordon and Val'e Ball; between Valentine Ball and Ben. Clarke; between Benjamin Clark and Philip Watf on ; between Philip Watf on and William Simms ; between William Byrd and Philip Watf on ; between William Byrd and Vallentine Ball, with Peacable and Quiet Proceffion, the parties being all prefent. Given under our hands. BEN^JA. CLARK, JACOB SMITH. According to an Order of Henrico Veftry, we have procef- fioned all the lines wihch we were appointed, from the mouth Gilley's Creek to Great Weftham, with a peacable and quiet proceffion in the prefence of Samuel Duvall, James Patterfon, Thomas Wood, William Wood, Thomas Cardwell, John TTew and John Wood. Given under our hands this 7th day of April, 1760. JOHN Guisrisr, TURNER SOUTHALL.24 In Obedience to an Order of Henrico Veftry, we have Peacably and Quietly proceffioned all the lands between the ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 115 head of Bailey's run, the Weftern run, and the County line, extending as far as the Fork of Long Bridge road. Given un- der our hands this 6th day of April, 1760. j:ro. roystek, MARTIISr MARTIK Purfuant to an Order of Veftry of Henrico County, we have proceffioned and renewed all the lines within mentioned, except the line between Capt. Jofeph Lewis and William Flem'g Cocke — which Cocke refufing to proceffion. william smith, edw'd curd, j^o. harwood, :kath'l yajstderyall. In Obedience to the within Order, we, the fubf cribers have gone in proceffion and renewed the Bounds of the feveral Tracts of land within the limits, to us f ubf cribed, being in the prefents and with the confents of the proprietors of the faid lands. Witnefs our hands. DRURY WOOD, ROBT. WM'SON, JI^O. PLEASANTS, J'NO. SMITH. Purfuant to an Order of Henrico Yeftry, directed to us, we, the fubf cribers, have renewed the bounds of every per- fons land within the bounds of faid order — Prefent, Rich'd and Robert Moore, Ephraim Gathright, William Bottom, William Ferris, Robert Ferris, John Bottom, George Adams, William Davis, Richard Whitlock, Francis Wilkinfon, Rob- ert Pleafants and Martin Martin, Jun'r, Geoge Clopton and Thomas Bottom. March 27th, 1760. THOMAS WATKI:N'S, JOHN CARTER, ISAAC WHITE. In Obedience to an Order of the Yeftry of Henrico Parifh, we, the fubfcribers having given notice to all the freeholders 116 VESTRY BOOK OF witliin our Precinct, have gone with and renewed the lines of the feveral perfons as mentioned below, viz: Firft, we went on the lines between Charles Woodfon and William Hatcher — the said Hatcher refused to proceffion, say- ing it was not a line agreeable to his patent ; pref ent, Richard Randolph and Ryland Randolph. Thence to the line between John Pleafants, his son Robert Pleafants and Richard Ran- dolph, the Mark Trees were, without opofition renewed. Thence on the line between the faid John Pleafants, Jr., and Wm. Hatcher's — the faid Hatcher refufing to proceffion for the fame reafon as between him and Charles Woodfon. Thence on the lines between John Pleafants and John Pleaf- ants the younger — the faid John Pleafants, Jun'r, refufing to proceffion, he alledging that if the line between him and Wil- liam Hatcher is not right this cannot be fo, feing they muft be parallel ; prefent, Richard Randolph, Bowler Cocke, John Pleafants, William Hatcher and all the proceffioners. At the fame time, the faid William Hatcher ordered us to make the proper return, which we acquainted Richard Randolph, one of the Church Wardens, with. Thence on the line between Ryland Randolph and Bowler Cocke quietly proceffioned and the lines renewed. Thence on the line between the faid Cocke and Richard Randolph done as aforef aid. Thence on the line between the faid Randolph and John Pleafants, Jun'r, done as aforef aid; prefent, Wm. Hatcher, Bowler Cocke and all the Proceffioners. Thence on the line between John PovalFs and Robert Povall, done quietly and all the lines renewed. Thence on the line between Charles Floyd and John Povall, done as aforefaid. Thence on the line between the faid John Povall and Stephen Woodfon, done as aforefaid. The other lines between thofe parties being Water Courfes ; prefent, John Pleafants, Charles Woodfon, John Martin, John Povall, Charles Floyd, Charles Floyd, Robt. Povall and John Chrif- tian, Jr. All the other lines within our Precinct were not pro- ceffioned by the parties not attending. Given under our hands this 11th day of April, 1760. CHARLES WOODSON, JOHN PLEASANTS, Jr., ROBERT PLEASANTS, Jr., JOHN MARTIN. ST. JOHN S CHUECH. 117 We have proceffioned all the lands that is within the within mentioned bounds without any objection. WILLIAM HOBSOISr, SAM. GATHRIGHT. AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond Town, Dec^r 2nd, 1760: Prefent. The Rev'd Miles Selden, William Randolph, Richard Ran- dolph, William Lewis, Robert Mofby, Jofeph Lewis, Ryland Randolph, Samuel Duval, John Ellis and Thos. Adams. Henrico County, Dr, To the Rev'd Miles Selden, 17,150 To John Bryan, cl'k, 1,789 To Mark Clarke, 1,789 To William Street, 1,789 To Abraham Cowley, 500 To Agnes Homes, sexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, do., 536 To John Shoemaker, 536 To the Church Wardens, 344 To Benjamin Goode, 500 To Mary Allen, her fon an idiot, 1,000 To William Ford, 500 To Lemmy Childers, 500 To John Liptrott, 500 To Margaret Lee, for the care of Jno. Lee, 1,000 To Sufannah Morton, 500 To Elizabeth Dolton, for the care of John Liggon's wife, 1,000 To Mary Walters, 500 To Thos. Watkins, for the care of Wm. Chapman, 400 To Abraham Cowley, for Infolvents, 840 To Richard Allen, for keeping Margaret Childers, 200 To the Church Wardens, for keeping Ursley Green, 500 To Sarah Wotton, 300 118 VESTRY BOOK OF To the Collector's Commiffions, 2,246 To Ly in the hands of the Church Wardens, 1,989 37,444 Cr, By 1,702 Tiths, at 22 per pole, *: 37,444 Ordered that the Sheriff Collect twenty-two JPounds of ToVo Pole for the nfe of the Parifh. Thomas Mofeley refigns his place in the Yeftry^ and Ry- land Randolph is chofen in his room. Ryland Randolph and Thos. Adams are chofen Church Wardens for the enfuing year. THOS. ADAMS, EY. ra:^bolph. AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond Town, October 3d, 1761: Prefent. The Rev'd Miles Selden, Richard Randolph, Bowler Cocke, William Lewis, John Ellis, Jofeph Lewis^ Samuel Duvall, Ryland Randolph and Thomas Adams, Gent. Henrico Parifh^ Dr, To the Rev'd Miles Selden, 17,150 To John Bryan, cl'k, 1,789 To Mark Clark, 1,789 To William Street, 1,789 To Abraham Cowley, 500 To Agnes Homes, sexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, 536 To John Shoemaker, 500 To the Church Wardens, 344 To Benjamin Goode, 1,000 To Mary Allen, her fon an idot, 500 To William Ford, 500 To Lemmy Childers, 500 ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 119 To John Liptrott, 1.000 To Kichard Moon, for the care of John Lee, 500 To Sufannah Morton, 1,000 To Elizabeth Dolton, for the care of John Liggon's wife, 500 To Mary Walters, 500 To the Church Wardens, for Margaret Childers, i^OO To Sarah Walton, 500 To the Church Wardens, for Mary Lefter, 536 To the Collector's Commiffions, 2,218 To Ly in the hands of the Church Wardens, 2,294 36,981 Ct, By 1,Y61 Tiths, at 21 per Pole, 36,981 Ordered, That the Church Wardens pay Jeffe Burton f even pounds ten f hillings and four pence, for Providing for John Aldy's orphans. Ryland Randolph and Thomas Adams, Gent., are chofen Church Wardens for the enfuing year. Ordered, That the prefent Church Wardens fettle with Colo. Richard Randolph and Mr. Samuel Duvall, late Church Wardens, for year 1Y59 and 1760, and that they return an Acco't of the fame to the next Yeftry. Richard Adams,^^ Gent, is chofen a Yeftry man in the room of William Randolph, dec'd. Ordered, That the Sherriff collect of each Tith, twenty- one pounds of tob'o for the ufe of the Parrifh. THOS. ADAMS, RY. ra:n'dolph. AT A YESTRY, held at Richmond Town, October 4th, 1762. Prefent. The Rev'd Miles Selden, Rich'd Randolph, Bowler Cocke, Jun'r, Wm. Lewis, John Ellis, Samuel Duval, Ryland Ran- dolph and Richard Adams, Gent., Yeftrymen. 120 VESTRY BOOK OF Henrico Parifh, Dr. To the Eev'd Miles Selden, 17,150 To John Bryan, elk., 1,789 To Mark Clark, Jnnr., 1,789 To William Street, 1,789 To Fortu. Sjdnor, Clerk of Veftry, 500 To Agnes Homes, fexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, 536 To John Shoemaker, 536 To the Church Wardens, 344 To Benjamin Goode, 500 To Mary Allen, for her Son, an Ideot, 1,000 To William Ford, 500 To Lemmy Childers, 500 To John Liptrott, 500 To Eichard Moore, for the care of John Lee, 1,000 To Snfanna Morton, 700 To Eliza. Dalton, for the care of Jno. Ligon's wife, 1,000 To Mary Walters, 1,000 To the Ch. W'dns, for Margaret Childers, 500 To do., for Mary Lefter, 500 To Philemon Childris, 500 To Eliza. Eales, 700 To a Serv't woman, named Catharine, belonging to Wm. Jones' eftate, 500 To the Collector's Commiffions, 2,638 To Thos. Eice, 500 To remain in Ch. W'dng hands, 5,468 43,975 Cr,, By 1,759 Tithables at 25 lbs. per Polls, 43,975 Eyland Eandolph and Eichard Adams, Gent., are chofen Ch. W'dns for the County, for the enfuing year. Ordered, That the Ch. W'dns pay Jeffe Burton thirteen ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 121 pounds four fhill's and three pence half penny for providing for orphans of John Alday, dec'd. Ordered, That the Ch. W'dns pay Richard Adams his acco. ag't the Parifhoners, of Five pounds thirteen fhillings and three pence half penny. Ordered, That the Ch. Wdns pay Sam'l Etival his acco. for providing for Jofeph Sayer. Ordered, That the Ch. Wdns pay Ryland Randolph his acco. Ordered, That the Ch. W^ns pay Robert Elliott thirty fhillings, for burying a man. Ordered, That the Ch. Wdns purchafe a Silver Cup and Salver of the fize of that at Richmond Church, for the ufe of Deep Run Church. Ordered, That the Ch. Wdns collect of every Tithable perfon in this County 25 lbs. Tob'o, for the ufe of the Parifh, and in cafe of refufal or delay, that they make diftrefs ac- cording to law. RICHARD ADAMS, Teste: RY. RAISTDOLPH. FoRTU. Sydnor^ CVh Veftry. AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond Town, Henrico County, on Monday, 24th day of October, 1763. Prefent, The Rev^d Miles Selden, Richard Randolph, Bowler Cocke, Jun'r, William Lewis, John Ellifs, Samuel Duval, Ryland Randolph and Richard Adams, Gent., Veftrymen. The Parifh, Dr. To the reVd Miles Selden, . 17,150 To John Bryan, elk., 1,789 To Mark Clark, elk., 1,789 To William Street, clerk, 1,789 To Fortu. Sydnor, Clerk Veftry, 500 To Agnes Homes, Sexton, 536 122 VESTRY BOOK OF To Elenor Williams, for cleaning clmrcli, 536 To Jno. Ellis, who is app'd sexton to deep Run Church, 536 To the Ch. WMs, 344 To Ben. Goode, ' 500 To John Liptrot, 800 To Eichard Moore, for Jno. Lee, 1,200 To Sufa. Morton, 800 To Eliza. Dalton, for Ligon's wife, 1,000 To Mary Walters, 1,000 To Margaret Childers, 500 To the Ch. W'dns, for Mary Lefter, 500 To Thomas Conway and Wife, 1,000 To Philemon Childers, 500 To Catharine McBurnet, 500 To Thomas Rice, 500 To John Jones and Wife, 1,000 To Mary Franklin, 800 To Jane Porter, 300 To prudence Williamfon, for the fupport of her chil- dren, 1,000 To John Weft, 500 To John Clarkfon, 50 Aron Freeman, exempted from paying Parifh Levy, Jno. Enroughty, for himfelf and fon, 1,000 To James Whitlow, for Wm. Reins, 800 To the Ch. W'dns, for John Conway, 300 To Alex'r Robinfon, for James Conway, 500 To Judith Blackbone, 500 To Miles Redford, 4 lbs. twice lifted, 84 To Martha Redford, for 2 do., 42 To John Oakley, for One do., 21 To Lewis Hancock, for 3 do., 63 To William Morris, for 1 do., 25 To Jno Ragland,26 for 1 do., 25 To William Smith, for 1 do., 25 To John John Shepherd, for 5 do., \ 125 To Collector's Commiffions, 2,977 To remain the Ch. W'dns Hands, 5,465 49,851 ST. John's chuech. 123 Or. By the Shff. for Tith's twice Lifted, 225 By 1,838 Tiths, at 27 lb per Poll, 49,626 49,851 £. s. d. 12 17 9 10 6 18 13 3 34 1 8 2 17 93 19 11 Cafh, Dr. To the Rev'd Miles Selden, his Acco., To Nich's Sherrer, his do.. To Jeffee Burton, for Allday's Orphans, To Thomas Wilkinfon, for Conway, To Ryland Randolph, as Ch. W'dn, as per acco. To do., for fmall pox negro, Cr. By Bairnce, Ch. W'dns hands, By Richard Randolph, By Ch. W'dns, for fines. By Ryland Randolph, for Sarah Doane, do.. Balance due from Parifh, To do., for their cloths that was burnt, Richard Randolph and Rich'd Adams are chofen Ch. W'dns for the enfuing year. The Sheriff is appointed Collector of the levy. Ordered, That he give Bond at next Court of that he col- lect of every Tithable perfon in the County 27 lbs. n't tob'o. Signed, 55 1 2 5 3 10 2 10 30 13 11 22 93 19 11 RYLAISTD RAOT3'0LPH, RICHARD ADAMS. Tefte: POETU. SyDNOE^ C, V, 124 VESTRY BOOK OF AT A VESTKY, held at Kicliinond Town, On Thurfsday, the lOth October, 1764. Prefent, The Eev'd Miles Selden, Rich'd Eandolph, Bowler Cocke, William Lewis, John Ellis, Jo. Lewis, Samuel Duval, Ryland Randolph and Richard Adams, Gent., Yeft. Men. To the Rev'd Mr. Selden, 17,150 To John Bryan, 1,789 To Mark Clark, 1,789 To Fortu. Sydnor, 500 To Wm. Street, 1,789 To Agnes Homes, Sexton, 536 To Elenor Williams, do., 536 To Jos. Ellis, do., 536 To Ch. W'dns, 344 To Ben. Goode, 500 To John Liptrott, 800 To Richard Moore, for Jno. Lee, 800 To Sufannah Morton, 800 To Eliza. Dalto, for Ligon's Wife, 1,000 To Mary Walter, 1,000 To Margaret Childers, 500 To Ch. Wardens, for Mary Lefter, 600 To Thomas Conaway and wife, 1,000 To Philemon Childers, 1,000 To Catherine McBurnet, 500 To Thomas Rice, 500 To Mary Frankling, 800 To Jane Porter, 800 To Prudence Williamfon, for sup't of children, 1,000 To John Weft, 500 To Ch. Wardens, for Wm. Reins, 300 To John Enroughty, for son, 300 To John Conaway, for keeping Thomas Conaway, 100 To Judith Blackboard, for her two Bas. children, 500 To Winfrey Wright, Exempted from pay'g Parifh levies for the future. To Jno. Grimftead, for sup't of his wife, 500 ST. John's chubch. 125 To Elizabeth Lucas, 500 To Ann Spurlock, 500 To William Hogg, 500 To Thomas Williams, for removing Sarah and Thomas Koberts, 120 To David Atkins, for Sally Turner's has. child, 500 To Eliza. Eales, ' 500 40,689 To Sheriff, for 21 Infolvents, 533 To Jofeph Parfons, for 16 Tyths, twice enlifted, 423 46,032 By 1,918 Tiths, at 24 lbs. Tob'o, To Cr. per Poll, 46,032 The Sheriff appt. Col. of this levy, and to give bond. Bowler Cocke and Samuel Duval^ Gents., appointed Ch. W'dns. Ordered, that the Ch. W'dns have proper feats where want- ing at the Churches in this Parifh. Ballance in the hands of former Ch. Wardens, as per Acc't to be paid the prefent Ch. Wardens, £12, 6, 11. Teft: v'^; B. COCKE, Junr., SAML. DU VAL. The Parifh, Dr. lbs. Tob'o. To the Eev'd Mr. Selden, his Annual Sallary, 17,157 To Jno. Bryan, Clk, Richmond Church, his do., 1,789 To William Street, Clk, Deep Run Church, his do., 1,789 To James Sharp, reader at Curl's Church, his do., 1,789 To Agnes Hoomes, Sexton, 536 To Jofeph Ellis, Sexton, 536 To Fortu. Sydnor, Clk Veftry, 536 To the Ch. W'dns, 344 To do., for Mary Lefter, 500 To Benja. Goode, 500 126 VESTKY BOOK OF To Sufa. Morton, To Eliza. Dalton, To Mary Walters, To Margaret Childers, To Mary Conway, To Philemon Childers, To Catherine McBurnet, To Thomas Rice, To Mary Franklin, To Jane Porter, To prudence Williamfon, To John Weft, To Jno. Enroughty, for fon. To Ch. W'dns, for Wm. Rives, To Judith Blackbond, for her and baf'd children. To John Grimftead, for his Wife, To Eliza. Lucas, To Ann Spurlock, To Wm. Hogg, To Daniel Atkins, for Sally Turner's B. child, To Mary Bridgman, widow, for her children To the Ch. W'dns, for Margaret Brown, To the Ch. W'dns, for Jno. Jones, To Eleanor Williams, To Samuel Thompfon, payable to Ch. W'dns, To Hayes Whitlow, for William Clark, To the Rev'd Mr. Selden, for 2 tiths twice lifted. To Eliza McCallum, for Ann O'Brien, 8 months. To John Branfford, for do., laft year. To Sher's Corn's, To remain Sheriff's hands, for Collecting, 500 800 1,000 1,000 500 TOO 1,000 500 500 800 800 1,000 1,000 500 300 500 500 500 500 500 500 600 750 500 500 500 300 48 300 2,824 1,164 47,075 Or. By 1,887 Tiths, at 25 lbs. per Poll, 47,075 By Ball., in the Hands of former Ch. W'dns, £15, 20. Ord'd, That Ch. W'dns pay Jno. Price his acc't, £2, 18, 4. The Baptismal Font. ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 127 OrdM, That the Ch. W'dns, pay Jno. Barnes his acco., £3, 7, 6. Philip Watfon, Daniel Price and ]^athaniel Wilkinf on, are chofen Veftryman; Phil. Watfon, in the room of Thos. Adams, who is removed out of the Parifh; Dan'l Price, in the room of John Povall, dec'd ; and I^athaniel Wilkinf on in the room of Robt. Mofby, who has refigned. Richard Randolph and Joseph Lewis, Gent., are appointed Ch. Wdns for the enfuing year. Jofeph Lewis is appointed Collector of this levy, to give bond to Ch. W'dns. RICHARD RAISTDOLPH, JOSEPH LEWIS. AT A VESTRY, held at the Court Houfe of Henrico County, on Wednesday, the 22d day of Oct'br, 1766, for lay- ing the Parifh levy, prefent — the Rev'd Miles Selden, Rich- ard Randolph, Jofeph Lewis, Rich'd Adams, Bowler Cocke, Ryland Randolph, Daniel Price and Samuel Duval, Yeftry- men. The Parifh, Dr, To the Rev'd Mr. Selden, on his Annual Sallary, 17,150 To John Bryan, elk Rich'd Church, 1,789 To William Street, elk Deep run, 1,789 To Jofeph Sharp, Clerk Curl's, 1,789 To Agnefs Homes, Sexton, 536 To Eleanor Williams, Sexton, 536 To Jofeph Ellis, Sexton, 536 To Eortu. Sydnor, elk Veftry, 500 To the Ch. W'dns, 344 To do,, for Mary Lefter, 500 To do., for Margaret Brown, . ■ 750 To do., John Jones, 500 To Benj. Goode, 500 To Sufa. Morton, 800 To Eliza. Dalton, for Ligon's Wife, 1,000 To Mary Walker, . 1,000 To Margaret Childers, 500 To Mary Conway, 1,000 128 VESTRY BOOK OF To Mary Bridgman, 600 To Catharine McBurnett, 500 To Thomas Kice, 500 To Mary Frankling, 800 To Jane Porter, 800 To prudence Williamfon, 1,000 To Jno. Weft, 800 To John Enroughty, for his fon and felf, 1,000 To Jno. Grimftead, for his Wife, 500 To Eliza Lncas, 500 To Ann Siirlock, 500 To Wm. Hogg, 1,000 To David Atkins, for Sally Turner's Baftard, 500 To Eleanor Williams, ' 500 To the Ch. WMns, for Sam'l Thomfon, 500 To the Ch. W'dns, for Wm. Eeins, 300 To Judith Blackbond, (pay'ble Ch. W'dns,) for her children, 500 To Elza McCallum, for Ann Obrien, 300 To Margery Barnes, 500 To Amos Liptrot, 500 To Jno. Clark, for Burying Phil's children, 150 To Roger Cocke Bailey, for Jemima Scott, 150 To Collectors Com's, at 6 per ct., 2,856 To a Deposit in Ch. W'dns hands, 825 4Y,600 By 1,904 Tith's, @ 25 R)s. per Poll, 4Y,600 | John Randolph,^ '^ is chofen a Veftryman in the room of 1 Philip Watfon, dec'd. \ Thos. Robinfon and Benja. Clark, are exempted from pay- ! ing Parifh Levys. By Ballance in the Hands of prefent Ch. W'dns, £2, 2, 42. Richard Randolph and Jos. Lewis, Gent., Chose Ch. W'dns for the Enfuing year. Jos. Lewis, Sher., Appointed Collector of this Levy. RICHARD RA:NrDOLPH, JOSEPH LEWIS. ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 129 AT A VESTEY, held at the Court Houfe, on Wednefday, the 14 Day of October, 1767, for Laying the Parifh Levy, Prefent^ — The Rev'd Mr. Selden, Wm. Lewis, Bowler Cocke, Jos. Lewis, Richard Adams, Ryland Randolph, Dan'l Price and ]S[ath'l Wilkinfon. The Parifh, Dr. To the Rev'd Mr. Selden, his Sallary, 17,150 To Jno. Bryan, 1,789 To Wm. Street, 1,786 To James Sharp, 1,789 To Agnes Homes, as Sexton, 536 To Eleanor Williams, Sexton, 536 To Fortu. Sydnor, Clk proc'g year. 536 To the Ch. W'dns for Church Ex's, 344 To Mary Lefter, 1,000 To Wm. Reins, 400 To Margaret Brown, 300 To John Jones, 500 To Sam'l Thompfon, 500 To Benja. Goode, 500 To Eliza. Dalton, for Liggon's Wife, 400 To Margaret Childers, 800 To Catha. McBurnet, 400 Thos. Rice, 250 To Mary Franklin, 400 To Jane Porter, 650 To prudence Williamfon, for her children, 800 To Jno. Weft, 600 To John Enroughty, for himfelf and Son, 600 To Judith Blackbond, 800 To John Grimftead, for his Wife, 500 To Eliza Lucas, 500 To Ann Spvirlock, 400 To Wm. Hogg, 400 To David Atkins, for Sally Turner's Child, 750 To Mary Bridgwater, 400 To Eleanor Williams, 500 To Margery Barnes, 400 130 VESTBY BOOK OF To Amos Liptrot, 400 To Kicli'd Moore, 400 To Eliza. Eales, K. Cottrell, laft year, 400 To Eliza. Eales, '^^0 To N^ath'l Bridgwater, for his Wife, 800 To John Price, Eliza. Porter's Baftard Children, 300 To the Ch. W'dns, for the Thos. Jeff's Wife and Children, 400 To Collectors Commiffions, @ 6 p. ct. 2,491 To Catharine Freeman, 600 44,010 Cr. By 1,903 Ths., @ 23 K)s. per poll, 43,769 Ball, due the Collect., 241 44,010 By Ball, in Hands of Jos. Lewis, Ch. W'dns, 2, 17, 02. On pet. Thos. Alley, he is Set Parifh Levy free. George Cox, App'd a Veftryman, in the Room of Peter Randolph, Efq'r, dec'd. Richard Adams and Ryland Randolph, Gent., Chofen Ch. W'dns the enfning year. The Ch. W'dns are App'd Collectors of the Levy. Pnrfuant to an Act of Affemhly and in Obedience to an Order of Henrico Court, the Veftry do divide the parifh into precincts, and Appoint perfons to proceffion every perfons land, as follows: Richard Cottrell, Jos. Brown, Thos. Ellis and Wm. Ellis, to procefRon from the mouth of Great Weftham to William Gordon's, thence up Between Gordon's Road and Jas. River, to the Head of the Parifh. 2. William Winfton, Thos. Owen, Thos. Wilkinfon and Wil- liam Bacon, from Gordon's road to the Head of the Parifh, thence to Chickahominy Swamp, and down that to the Head of Upland Brook and thence to Gordon's aforef'd. ST. John's church. 131 3. Wm. Jones, Jiio. Mofby, Fras. Cornet and Jos. Britton, from Chickaliominy Swamp and Upland Brook to the Head of f'd Brook. 4. John Pleafants, Sam'l Williamfon, Martin Burton, and Drewry Wood, Between Chickahominy Swamp and the Brook road, as Low as Cannon's and Smith's Mill. Jacob Smith, Drury Brazeal, Wm. 'New and John Wood, between the Mouth of Gilley's Creek and Great Weftham, and from Cannon and Gordon's to the Kiver. 6. Edward Curd, Jno. Harwood, Jas. Cocke and Jacob Plea- fants, from the mouth of Gilley's Creek to Jos. Lewif's, on Chickahominy Swamp, and up as far as Cannon Smith's Mill. Y. Mich's Giles, Matthew Herbert, John Whitlow and Jos. Whitlock, jr., Between Gilley's' and Cornelius Creek from the Eiver to the Seven Pines road, and as Low as the South- ern Branch Bridge. 8. Jofiah Bullington, Jno. Burton, Thomas Jordan, Jr., and Eobt. Atkins, between Corneliuf 's and four Mile Creek, the Main County road and the River. 9. Milner Bedford, Jno. Bedford, William Parker and Rich- ard Sharpe, between Two mile Creek, four Mile Creek, the Main Road and the River. 10. William Frayfer, William Whitlow, William Bullington and Richard Whitlow, between Corneliuf's and four Mile Creek, from the Main road to the Seven Pines road. 11. Julius Allen, Anthony Matthews, Robert Spiers and Jacob 132 VESTEY BOOK OF Paris, between Jos. Lewif's and Boar Swamp, on Cliickahom- inj, to the Head of Boar Swamp. 12. Jno. Carter, Jno. Hales, Benja. Jordan and William Paris, from the mouth of Boar Swamp to the County Line, on Chickahominj, and back to the Long Bridge road. 13. " Sam'l Gathright, William Hobfon, Thos. Childrej and John Gathright, between Four mile Creek, Bailey's Eun and White Oak Swamp. 14. Chas. Woodfon, Robert Pleafants, Robert Pleafants, Jr., Thos. Pleafants and Jno. Martin, Between Bailey's Pun, the County Line and the Weftern Branch. 15. Humphrey Smith, John Royfter, Thos. Rogers and Thos. Jolley, Between the Head of Bailey's Run, the Weftern Runn, and the County Line, as far N"orth as the Pork of the Long Bridge road; and, it is Ordered, That the f'd procef- iioners Return an Account of their proceedings According to law. RICH'D ADAMS, RY. RAISTDOLPH. AT A VPSTRY, held in the Court Houfe of Henrico County, on Wednesday, the 9th day of ISTovember, 1768, for laying the Parifh Levy. Prefent. The Rev'd Miles Selden, Rich'd Randolph, Jno. Ellis, Sam'l Duval, Bowler Cocke, Ryland Randolph, Jos, Lewis, Dan'l Price, I^athaniel Wilkinson.^^ Geo. Cox Took the Oath required by Law. Pref't, G. Cox. The Parifh of Henrico, Dr. To the Rev'd Miles Selden, his Annual Sallary, 17,150 To John Bryan, clerk, 1,789 To William* Street, do., 1,789 ST. JOHN S CHUKCH. 133 To Jas. Sharp, do., IjVSO To Agnes Homes, Sexton Curl's Church, 536 To Eich'd Williams, who is app'd do., K. Church, 536 To Jos. Ellis, do.. Deep Kun do., 536 To Fortun. Sydnor, Clk Veftry, 500 To the C. Wdns, for Elem'ts, 300 To do., for Mary Lefter, To do., for Margaret Brown, To do., for Samuel Thompfon, To Benja. Goode, To Eliza. Dalton, for Liggon's Wife, To Margaret Childers, To Catharine Burnet, To Thomas Eice, To Jno. Weft, To Jno. Enroughty and his fon. To Jno. Grimf tead, for his wife. To Eliza. Lucas, To Ann Spurlock, To Wm. Hogg, To Mary Bridgman, To Eleanor Williams, To Margery Barnes, To Amos Liptrot, To Richard Moore, To E^ath'l Bridgwater, for his wife. To the Ch. Wdns, for the poor of the Parifh, 25,000 To Solo. Fuffel, for taking care of Eliza. Carter and her two children, Eight weeks, 300 To IsTich's Conway, for a Tith 2d lifted, 23 lo Abra. Bailey, for Maint'g Jemima Scott 2 years, 500 To Wm. Smith, for do., Jno. Burnet 13 days, 150 To Wm. Rohinfon, Confta., for Conv'g 7 paupers do., to Chesterfield, 48 To do., for a Woman, Margaret Mackmaham, (heVg to to K. Queen,) and four children to Hanover^ 160 To do., for 2 levies in 1767 and 1766, 48 To James Lindfey, Confta., for do., 48 134 VESTKY BOOK OF To James Allen, for 14 Infov'ts, for 1767 @ 23 Tbs. ToVo, 322 To Abra. Balej, for David Johnfton, 300 To Geo. Scherrer, for Burying a Poor Woman, 100 To Geo. Donald, for Burying a Poor Woman, 100 To Sam'l Shepherd, for Catharine Freeman, 40 To Mark Woodcock, for 7 Tiths 2ce lifted, ' 161 To Jos. Whitlock, for 1 do., 23 To Kich'd Williams, for mending Surplis, 30 To Jno. Barnes, for Margery Barnes, 200 To Wm. Morris, for Burying Eliza Lucas, 100 62,578 To Collectors Com's, @ 6 per ct., 3,154 55,732 By 2,012 Tiths, @ 28 lbs. per Poll, 56,336 By a Depofition in Collectors Hands, 604 It is the Opinion of the Yeftry, that Curl's Church be re- moved, and that Richard and George Cox, Samuel Duval, Jos. Lewis, ^^Tath'l Wilkinfon and Thos. Watkins, Gent., or any five of them, view the moft convenient place to Build one on, and that they make Report to the next Vef try, to be held for laying the Parifh Levy. Ord'd, Richard Randolph fend for filver f alver and 1 pint zD Silver Cup, for the ufe of D. Runn Church. By Ball'ce in the Hands of Richard Adams, p. 17, 12. Ord., Ch. W'dns pay Jno. Clarkfon 3 7-12 for prov'g for Thos. Rice 3 months. Richard Randolph and Samuel Duval, Gent., are Chofen Ch. W'dns for Enfuing year. Jas. Allen and Jno. Royfter are app'd Collectors of this levy, to give Bonds to the C'lk Yeftry. RICHARD RANDOLPH, SAM. DIJ YAL. In Obedience to an Order of Yeftry, we have Proceffioned ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 135 all the Lines and Bounds of the Lands as we were directed^ which were as follows: The Lines between fore mile Creek, two mile Creek, Mane road and river. The Lines between John Pleafants and Francis Epes agreed. The Lines between John Pleafants and John Sharpe agreed. The Lines between John Pleafants and Milner Bedford agreed. The Lines between Kobt. Pleafants and Jofeph Woodfon agreed. The Lines between John and Milner Bedford agreed. The Lines between William C. Bedford and Arche filbard agreed. The Lines between John and William Frayfer agreed. The Lines between William Prayfer and Hays Whitlo agreed. The Lines between John Pleafants and Francis Pearce Juft Agreed. Proceffioned by JOHI^ BEDFOBD, MILNEB BEDFOBD, WM. PABKEB, BICH'D SHABPE. February 29th, 1768. In Obedience to an Order of the Henrico Veftry, we have proceffioned the Lands in our Precinct, from Gilley's Creek to the Weftham — only the lands of William Wills, the Parties not appearing to f how the lines between. Given under hands. JACOB SMITH, DBUBY BBAZEAL, WM. l^EW, JOHIsr WOOD. In Obedience to the within Order, we have proceffioned all the Lands within our Precincts, all the Parties agreed. BICHABD COTTBELL, THOMAS ELLIS, WILLIAM ELLIS, JOSEPH BBOWN. 136 VESTRY BOOK OF Purfuant to an Order of Veftry, to us directed, We, tlie fubfcribers, have gone in proceffion and renewed the Bounds of the feveral Tracts of Land within the Limmits to us Pro- fcribed, Being in prefence and with the confent of the pro- prietors of faid land. Witnefs our hand this 13th day of February, 1768. JOHlSr PLEASANTS, DKUKY WOOD, MABTIJSr BURTON, SAM'L WILLIAMSON. Purfuant to an Order of Veftry, to us directed, We, the fubfcribers, have gone in proceffion, in Preference and with confent of the Parties, have renewed the Several Lines with- in the Bounds prefcribed in faid Order. Given under our hands this Twenty-firft day of March, one thoufand feven hundred and sixty-eight. EDWARD CURD, Sen'r, JOHN HARWOOD, Sen'r, JAMES COCKE, Jun'r, JACOB PLEASANTS. In Obedience to an Order of Veftry, hereto annexed, we have peacably proceffioned all Lines in our Precinct, the Par- ties being prefent. SAMUEL GATHRIGHT, WM. HOPSON, THOS. CHILDREY, JNO. GATHRIGHT. In Compliance with the Orders of Henrico County Court, For Proceffioning the Lands between Cornelius Creek and two mile Creek, the main County road and river. We procef- fioned the Lines between Lizby Turpin and Jofeph Bailey, and between Lizby Turpin and Richard Reynards, and be- tween Richard Reynard, and Jofeph Bailey — Richard Rey- nard and Jos. Bailey, prefent; alfo the Lines between Abra- ham Bailey and Jofeph Bailey — ^both parties Prefent; and between Hays Whitlow and Jonathan Williams — both par- ties prefent ; Between Joflah Bullington and John Burton — ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 137 both partys pref ent ; and between Jofiah Biillington and Wil- liam Burton — both parties pref ent ; and Between Jeffee Bur- ton and John Burton — both parties pref ent; and Between George Cox and William Burton — both Parties prefent ; and between George Cox and Epps — both parties prefent; and between Mary Stewart and Randolph Leonard — Ward and Nicholas Giles prefent; and between George Cox and Wil- liam Perkins — both Parties Prefent; between George Cox and Thomas Jordone, Jun'r — both Parties prefent; between Wm. Perkins and Josias Bullington — both parties Prefent; between Wm. Barker and Randolph — both parties Prefent; Between Stewart's and Epps — Both prefent. JOHIS^ BURTON, JOSIAH BULLINGTON, THOS. JORDON, Jun'r, ROBT. ADKINS. AT A VESTRY, held at the Court Houfe, on Monday, the 16th Day of April, 1770, for Laying the Parifh Levy. Prefent. Richard Randolph, Bowler Cocke, Ryland Randolph, Sam'l Duval, Jos. Lewis, Rich'd Adams and George Cox, Gent., Veftrymen. The Parifh, Dr. To the Rev'd Mr. Selden, his Annual Sall'y, 17,150 To John Bryan, elk Richmond Church, 1,789 To Wm. Street, elk Deep Run do., 1,789 To Jas. Sharp, do. Curl's, 1,789 To Agnes Homes, Sexton Curl's, 536 To Rich'd Williams, do. Richmond Church, 536 To Jos. Ellis, do. of Deep Run Church, 536 To Eortu. Sydnor, Clk Veftry, 536 To the Ch. W'dns, for Church Elem'ts, 300 To Jas. Royal, for keep'g J. Black bas. child, 500 Prest. Jno. Randolph, To Thos. Alley and Wife, 400 To Sam'l Thompfon, 300 138 VESTKY BOOK OF To Hannah Clark, 300 To the Ch. W'dns, for Matt. Bridgman, 300 To the do., for Margaret Childers, 300 To do., Margaret Brown, 300 To do., Eliza. Dalton, for Liggon's Wife, 600 To do., Thos. Eice, 400 To do., for Jno. Weft and his daughter Molly, 600 To Jno. Grimftead, for his wife, 300 To Ch. W'dns, for Ann Spurlock, 500 To Ch. W'dns, for Wm. Hogg, 500 To Mary Bridgman, for herfelf and child, 500 To ^Nath'l Bridgwater and wife, 600 To Anto. Matthews, for Eliza Childers, 300 To the Ch. W'dns, for Roht. Scott, 300 To do., for Aaron Freeman and wife, 300 To Henry Brittain, 300 32,561 To Com's for collecting, 2,274 34,835 To a Depofition in Ch. W'dns hands, 3,073 37,908 Cr. By 2,106 Tiths, @ 18 pr. Poll, 37,908 Ord'd, Ch. W'dns pay Jas. Vaughn four pounds, for pro- viding for Margaret Brown 8 months. Ord'd, Ch. W'dns pay Thos. Watkins £3, 3, 0, for David Johnfon. The Order of laft Vef try, for the removal of Curl's Church cont'd, and Wm Lewis and Rich'd Adams, Gent., are added to f'd order. Richard Adams and Geo. Cox. Gent., are chofen Ch. W'dns for the enfuing year. Ord'd, Ch. W'dns Lett to loweft bidder the inclofing of the ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 139 land belonging the Churcli at Richmond, with Saw'd Pofts and rails in the Beft workmanlike manner. Ord'd, That Richard Randolph and Sam'l Duval, Gent, former Ch. W'dns, pay the Ballance of Mnetj-four pounds J^ineteen Shillings and -J to Ballance of due from the (to the Parifh) to Rich'd Adams and Geo. Cox, Gent., the pref'g Ch. W'dns. Geo. Cox, Gent., is app'd ColFr of this Levy. RICH'D ADAMS, GEORGE COX. AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond, on Thurfday, the 25th Day of November, 1770, for Laying the Parifh Levy. Prefent. The Rev. Miles Selden, Wm. Lewis, Jos. Lewis, John Ellis, Ryland Randolph, Geo. Cox, Sam'l Dtival, Rich'd Adams, Richard Randolph, Gents., Veftrymen. The Parifh, Dr. To the Rev'd Miles Selden, his Annual Sallery, 17,150 To Wm. Street, Clk of deep run, 1,^^89 To Jos. Sharp, do.. Curl's, 1,T89 To John Bryan, do. Richmond, 536 To Agnes Homes, sexton at Curl's Church, 536 To Rich'd Wm'fon, do. to Richmond Church, 536 To Jos. Elis, do. Deep Run, 500 To Eortu. Sydnor, Clk Yeftry, 300 To Church Wardens, for Church elements, 500 To Thos. Alley and Wife, 500 To Hannah Clark, 500 To Ch. W'dns, for Matt. Bridgman, 500 To do., for Marg't Childers, 700 To do., for Mary Brown, 50 To do., for Eliza. Dalton, for Liggon's Wife, 1,000 To do., for Thos. Rice, 600 To do., for Jno. Weft and his daughter Molly, 600 14U VESTRY BOOK OF To John Grimftead, for his wife, 500 To Ch. W'dns, for Ann Spurlock, 800 To do., for Wm. Hogg, 800 T\) do., for l^ath'l Bridwater, for his wife, 600 To do., for Eliza. Childers, 600 To Ch. W'dns, for Aaron Freeman's Wife, 600 To do., for Henry Brittain's Wife, 600 To do., for Catharine McBurnet, 500 To do., for Benja. Goode, 600 To do., for John Jones, 600 To do., for Mary Franklin, 600 To do., for Mary Swinton, 600 To do., for Richard Moore, 500 To John Enroughty, for felf and fon. 1,000 To Sheriff's Com'ns for Collecting, 2,389 To the Depofitam, 42,214 146 42,360 Cr. By 2,118 Tiths, @ 20 per Poll, 42,360 It is agreed that the Ch. W'dns pay unto Mary Thomfon one pound feven fhillings, for Burying her hufband. Richard Adams and George Cox, Gent., are Chofen Church wardens for the Enfuing year. Ord'd, That the prefent Church W'ds do fettle with R'd Randolph and Sam'l Duval, Gent., former Church wardens, for the money that is due in their hands, and in cafe refuf al or delay of payment, that they commence fuit againft them for the Ball'ce in their hands. Ord'd, That the Ch. W'ds do let to the Loweft bidder the Walling in of the Richmond Church Yard w'th Bricks, 4 foot and f high above ground, to the Loweft bidder, includ'g the Land beFg to the Church. Ord'd, That the Ch. W'ds agree with any perfon for the Cure of Pridgeon Waddle's Kofe — not exceed'g ten pounds. ST. John's church. 141 Turner Southall, Gent., is cliofen Veftryman in the room of John Randolph, Gent. EICHARD ADAMS, GEOEGE COX. AT A YESTEY, held at the Court Houfe, on Monday, the 8th day of July, 1771, for Appointing Proceffioners of the Bounds of every Perfons land in the Parifh and County of Henrico. Prefent. Eichard Eandolph, Wm. Lewis, Sam'l Duval, Eichard Adams, Dan'l Price, E'ath'l Wilkinfon, George Cox, Yeftry- men. Purfuant to an Act of Affembly, and in Obedience to an order of Henrico Court, this Yeftry do now divide the parifh into precincts, and appoint perfons to proceffion every perfons Land in f'd Parifh. 1^0. 1. Eichard Cottrell, Jos. Brown, Jeffe Ellis, William Ellis, Sam'l Shepherd, Jos. Ellis — from the mouth of Great Weft Ham to William Gordon's, thence up between Gordon's road and James river, to the head of the Parifh. 'Eo, 2. Thos. Owin, Dabney Pettus, Sam'l Williamfon and Wm. Miller — from the fork of the Brook and Swamp, thence up the Brook to Gordon's Eoad, thence to the Head of Hungary Branch, thence to Turner's Eunn, thence down the Eun to Chick'y Swamp, and down the Swamp to the Beginning. 3. Wm. Jones, John Mofby, Eran's Cornet, Jos. Brittain — from Chickahominy Swamp and Upland Brook to the head of the f aid Brook. 4. Jno. Pleafants, Carp'r, Sam'l Williamfon, Martin Burton and Drury Wood — Between Chickahominy Swamp and the Brook Eoad, as low as Kennon's & Smith's Mill. 142 VESTEY BOOK OF 6. Edward Curd, John Harwood, Jas. Cocke, and Jacob Pleaf ants — from the Mouth of Gilley's Creek to Jos. Lewif's, on Chickahominy Swamp, and up as far as Kennon & Smith's Mill. 6. ITich's Giles, Matthew Herbett, Jno. Whitlow, Jas. Whit- low — Between Gilley's Creek and Cornelinf's, from the River to the Seven Pines Road, and as low down as the South- ern Branch Bridge. 7. Jofiah Bullington, Jno. Burton, Thos. Jordon, Jr., and Rob't Adkins — between Corneliuf's and two Mile Creek, the Main Country Road and River. 8. James Hallock, Richard Throgmorton, Wm. Parker, Rich'd Sharp — between two Mile Creek, from four Mile Creek, the Main road and river. 9. Benja. Johnfon, David Bowles, Michael Johnfon, IsTath'l Holm an, Wm. Shepherd and Benja. Shepherd — from the head of Turner's Runn to Hungry Branch, thence to Gor- don's Road, to the County Line, thence along that Line to Chickahominy Swamp, thence down the Swamp to Turner's Runn. 10. Jacob Smith, Wm. 'New and Sam'l Price, Lewis Ball, Leonard Henley, and Jno. Hodge and John Wood — between the Mouth of Gilley's Creek and Great Weftham, and from Kennon's and Gordon's to the River. 11. Thos. Goode, William Whitlow, Jos. Goode, Jno. Lindfay, and Edw'd Wade and Geo. Robertfon — between Corneliuf's and four Mile Creek, from the Main Road to the 7 Pines Road. ST. John's church. 143 12. Charles Allen, Anthony Matthews, Kobert Spears, Jacob Faris, Ifham Allen and James Valentine — between Jos. Lewis' and Boar Swamp, on Chickahominy to the head of Boar Swamp. 13. Jno. Carter, Wm. Faris, Wm. Gathright, (fon of Eph'a,) Thos. Watkins, Jr., Eobt. Jordan and Geo. Baker — from the Mouth of Boar Swamp to the County Line on Chickahominy, and back to the Long Bridge Boad. 14. Sam'l Gathright, William Hopfon, Thos. Childrey and John Gathright — between Four Mile Creek, Bailey's Bun and White Oak Swamp. 15. Bobert Pleafants, Bobert Pleafants, Jr., Thos. Pleafants, Thos. Eldridge and Bob't Poval — Between Bailey's Eunn,, the County Line and the Weftern Branch. 16. Thos. Bogers, Thos. Jolley and William Binford — ^between the head of Bailey's Bun, the Weftern Eunn and the County Line, as far I^orth as the fork of the Long Bridge Boad. Ordered, that the faid Proceffioners make their proceffions and Beturn an Account of their Proceedings, according to Law. BICHAED ADAMS, GEOEGE COX. AT A VESTEY held at Eichmond Town, Henrico Coun- ty, Monday, the 9th of day December, 1771, for Laying the Parifh Levy. Prefent. The Eev'd Miles Selden, Eichard Eandolph, Sam'l Duval, Bichard Adams, Jofeph Lewis, Turner Southall, George Cox, Daniel Price, Gentlemen, Veftrymen. J 144 VESTRY BOOK OF The Parifh Henrico^ Dr. To the Kev'd Miles Selden, his Annual Salary, 17,150 To Wm. Street, Clerk Deep Eun Church, 1,78^ To Jos. Sharp, do. Curl's Church, 1,789 To John Bryan, do. Eichmond, 1,789 To Agnes Holmes, Sexton at Curl's Church, 536 To Eichard Wm'fon, do. at Eichmond, 536 To Jos. Ellis, do. at Deep Eun, 536 To Fortu. Sydnor, C'lk. Veftry Proceff'g Year, 500 To the Church Wardens, for Church Elements, 300 To Thomas Alley, 250 To Hannah Clarke, 500 To the Church wardens, for Matthew Bridgman, 500 To do. for Margaret Childers, 700 To John Grinftead, for his wife, 500 To Jno. Weft and his daughter Molly, 700 To the Church Wardens, for Ann Spurlock, 1,000 To do., for William Hogg, 1,000 To do., for Nath'l Bridgwater, for Wife, 700 To do., for Eliza. Childers, 1,000 To do., for Aarons Freeman's Wife, 1,000 To do., for Henry Britain's Wife, 800 To do., for Catherine McBurnett, 500 To do., for Benja. Goode, 600 To do., for Mary Frankling, 700 To do., for Mary Swinton, 600 To do., for Eichard Moore, 500 To do., for Jno. Enroughty, for felf and fon, 1,000 To Jno. Orange, 300 ^vTo James Bowyer, for keeping Cathfton, 750 To Thomas Frankling, for keeping Mary Brown, 300 To Mrs. Abigail Eichard fon, for Mary and Sufanna Jeffs, children of Sarah Jeffs, in full for the Time fhe hath kept them, and to indemnify the Parifh from all charges for keep'g and Bringing up the f aid children for the time to come, they being now bound Apprentices to her, 1,500 ST. JOHN S CHUECH. 145 To Abra. Baily, Conft, his Acc't allowed for remov- ing five perfons out of this Parifh, 237 To allowed David Bowles a Levy Eemitted him, 20 To Thomas Chaddock, for Burying Martha Hutton, 200 To the Church Wardens, for William Going for tak- ing Shadrach Vaughan, Orphan, as apprentice, and indemnifying them from any farther Charge in Bringing up the s'd child, 250 To Collector's Commiffions, 3,493 To Depositam in hands Church Wardens, 13,400 52,225 Cr. By 2,329 Tithables, at 25 lb. per Poll, 58,225 The Sheriff of the County is appointed Collector, and to give Bond in the Office. Dr. to Balance Due the Church Wardens in Cafh, £22 17 5. EICHAED ADAMS, GEORGE COX. A Return of Jno. Pleafants, Carp'r, Drury Wood, Sam'l Williamfon and Martin Burton, who were, by Order of Vef- try held the 8th day of July, 1771, Appointed to Proceffion the Bounds of every perfons Land between Chickahominy Swamp and the Brook Road, as low as Kennon's & Smith's Mill. Purfuant to an Order of the Veftry, to us directed, we, the su-bfcribers, have gone in proceffion and renewed the Bounds of the Several Tracts of Lands within the Limits prefcribed by the faid order, according to Law. JOHI^ PLEASAI^TS, Carpt, DRURY WOOD, SAM'L WILLIAMSON", MARTIJN" BURTOK Teft, FoRTU. Sydnor^ C. Veftry. 146 VESTEY BOOK OF In Obedience to an Order of Veftry, we have proceffioned all the Bounds of Lands within the Bounds therein, moft of the Bounds, parties being prefent, and by Confent of thofe Abfent, who were convenient, all quietly done by us. BEK JOHNSOIT, DAVID BOWLES, MICHAEL JOHisrso:^, WILLIAM SHEPHERD, BE:^;rjAMi]sr shepherd. March 25th, 1772. In Obedience to an Order of Veftry, we the subfcribers, have proceffioned the Land within the within mentioned pre- cinct, all parties Agreed, given under our hands, this 27th day of March, 1772. JACOB SMITH, LEWIS BALL, LEOJSTARD HEI^LEY, JOKN WOOD. In Obedience to an Order Veftry, appointing us, the sub- fcribers, to proceffion the Lines from Weftham to Tuckahoe Creek, we have proceffioned the fame, all parties agreed, given under our hand this 6th day of April, 1772. JOSEPH ELLIS, SAMUEL SHEPHERD, JOSEPH BROWN", RICH'D COTTRELL. AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond Town, on Tuefday, the 8th day of December, 1772, for laying the Parifh Levy. Prefent. The Rev'd Miles Selden, Rich'd Randolph, Samuel Duval, Jos. Lewis, Rich'd Adams, Daniel Price^ George Cox and Turner Southall, Veftrymen. The Parifh, Dr. lbs. Tob'o. To the Rev'd Mr. Selden, his Annual SalPy, 17,150 To Wm. Street, Clk D. Run Church, 1,789 ST. JOHN S CHUECH. 147 To Jas. Sharp, do. Currs, 1,^89 To John Bryan, do. Kichmond, 1,789 To Jos. Ellis, do. Deep Kun, 536 To Fortu. Sydnor, Clk Veftry, 536 To Ch, W'dns, for Church Elements, 536 To Thomas Alley, 500 To Ch. W'dns, for Matt. Bridgman, 300 To do., for Margaret Childers, 250 To do., John Weft, 500 To do., for John Grimftead for Wife, 700 To do., for Molly Hogg and children, 700 To do., for :N'ath'l Bridgwater, 500 To do., for Aaron Freeman's Wife, 1,000 To do., Henry Britain, 500 To do., for Capt. McBurnet, 1,000 To do., for Benja. Goode, 1,000 To Mary Franklin, 500 To Mary Swinton, 600 To Richard Moore, 1,000 To John Enroughty, for felf and fon, 600 To John Orange, ' 600 To John Childers and wife, 1,000 To Matthew Jordan, 300 To Jane Morris, 1,000 To Efther Stedman, 300 To John Ragland, for Rachel Burton, orphan of Benjamin Burton, 500 To Richard Cottrell, for Pridgeon Waddell, as per Acco. £17, 4, 84, 500 To Sufa. Parfons, for Henry Britains and Pridgeon Waddels, as per Acco., £7, 4, 6, To Geo. Scherrer, for Burying a man that was drown'd, per Acco., £1, 5, 0, John Gordon, Exempted paying Levy, To Doct. P. Strachan, per Acco., £6, 2, 3, To John Myers, per Acco., £3, 0, 0, To Mary Thomfon, 500 To Ch. W'ds, for Shad. Vaughan, Alt. Simpfon, a bastard child of A. Weft, 300 148 VESTEY BOOK OF To Jas. Sharp, D. Sheriff, for Infolv'ts, per Acco., 300 To William Burton, do., for do., 150 To Corn's, for collecting, 3,329 To Depofitam, in Collectors Hands, 12,796 55,660 Cr. < By 2,420 Tiths, @ 23 K). per Poll, 55,660 Ord'd, Ch. W'dns bring Suit Ag't Mr. Sam'l Dtival on his Agreem't for Bricking in the Lands belonging to Richmond Church, he having failed to do the fame accd'g to fd Agreem't. It is the Opinion of the Yeftry that an addition of Forty feet in Length and the fame Width as the preft. Church at Richmond, be built to it, at the E'orth fide, with Gallery on both fides, and one end with proper windows above and be- low; and Ordered that the Ch. W'dns Lett to the Loweft Bidder the faid addition. Mr. Thos. Watkins^^ and Mr. William Randolph^^^ are chofen Veftrymen in the room of Wm. Lewis and Bowler Cocke, dec'd. Daniel Price and Turner Southall are appointed Ch. W'dns for the enfuing year. Nath'l Wilkinfon, Sheriff, is appointed Collector of this levy, and that he give Bond to the Ch. Wd'ns for Collecting of fame. TURNER SOUTHALL, DANIEL PRICE. AT A VESTRY, held at Richmond, on Fryday, the 17th Day of December, 1773, for laying the Parifh Levy. Prefent, The Rev'd Mr. Selden, Sam'l Duval, Jofeph Lewis, Daniel Price, George Cox, Turner Southall, JSTath'l Wilkinfon and Thomas Watkins. ST. JOHN S CHUECIT. 149 Br. Henrico Parifh. Lbs. Tobo. £ S D. To Kev'd Mr. Selden, bis Annual Salary, 17,150 125 1 To Wm. Street, Clk Deep Eun Cburcb, 1,789 13 10 To Jas. Sbarp, do., at CurFs, 1,789 13 10 To a Salary to be paid a elk Ricbmond Cburcb, hereafter to be app'd, and to remain in the Church Wardens hands till fuch appointment, 1,789 13 10 To E'd Trueman, elk Boar Swamp Church,^! 500 3 12 11 To the Sexton of CurFs Church, 536 3 15 07 To E'd Williams, Sexton of the Town Church, and a power granted the Ch. W'dns to difplace him if they think fit, 536 3 13 07 To Jos. Freeman, who is App'd Sexton of Deep Eun Church, in the room of Jos. Ellis, 536 3 15 07 To Fortu. Sydnor, elk Yeftry, 500 3 12 11 To the Ch. Wardens, for Ch. El'mnts, 300 2 3 09 To Thomas Alley, 500 3 12 11 To Ch. Wardens, for Matt. Bridgman, 700 5 2 01 To do., per Margaret Childrefs, 1,000 7 5 10 To do., per John Weft and Daus^hter, 1,000 7 5 10 To John Grimftead, for his Wife, 500 3 22 11 To do., for Molly Hogg and children, 700 5 2 01 To do., for ISrath'l Bridgwater, 800 5 16 08 To do., Catharine McBurnet, 500 3 12 11 To do., for Ben. Goode, 600 4 7 06 To do., for Mary Frankling, 1,000 7 5 10 To Mary Swinton, 600 4 7 06 To Eich'd Moore, 800 5 16 08 To John Enroughty, for felf and fon, 1,000 7 5 10 To John Orange, in the Ch. Wardens, 1,000 7 5 10 To Martha Jordan, 300 2 3 9 To Jane Morris, 500 3 12 11 150 VESTRY BOOK OF To John Ragland, for Rachel Burton, orphan of Ben Burton, 500 3 12 11 To Sufa, Clarke, 200 2 2 01 To Matthew Bridgman, in the Ch. War- dens hands, for keep'g Michael Cul- ling, Sen., 500 3 12 11 To. B. Price, for keeping Jas. CuUington, 600 4 7 06 To Elvia. Clarke, 600 4 7 06 To Mary Thompfon, 300 2 3 09 To Sufa. Clark, for keeping Waddell Brittain, 36 6 09 To Robert Spears, for Repairs done to Boar Swamp Church, 1 15 00 To Sam'l Robinfon, for keeping John Thompfon, 8 00 To Jofeph Ellis, for Steps to D. R. Church, 5 00 To Clark and Halland, 3 9 07 To Jno. Redcrofs, 1 00 To Thomas Watkins, for Elv'a Baker, 300 3 2 09 345 12 15 To the Sheriff, for collect'g, £551, 3, 1, 33 8 06 379 11 To a D'epofit'm, to remain in the hands of the Church Wardens to pay Contingent Charges, 178 2 02 £557 3 3 01 Cr, By 2,547 Tythes at 30 K)s. tob'o or 4, 4 J per Poll, at the option of the payer, £557 3 01 Peter Winfton,^^ Gent., is appM Collector of this Levy and ord'd he give Bond and Sec'y to the Church Wardens for that purpofe, and it is further Ordered, that he purchafe a td o o d M o 03 ST. JOHN S CHUECH. 151 fuff'ct quantity of Tobacco to difcharge the Salary of the Kev'd Mr. Selden. Daniel Price and Turner Southall, Gent., Church War- dens, returned an Account with the parifh, the ball'ce wher- of due to the f 'd Parifh is, £74, 3, 1^. Ord., The Clk record the f 'd Acc't, and in future every account of the like nature, for which the Veftry will make an allowance. Ord., That Church Wardens pay Geo. Rowland £24, 0, 0, and that Pichard Adams and Geo. Cox pay him the further fum of £75, 0, 0, if fo much in their hands, in part for the Brick Wall he is about to raife round the town Church. Dan'l Price and E'ath'l Wilkinfon are app'd Church War- dens for the Enfuing Year. DAISTIEL PRICE, 'NAT. WILKIN^SOK Dr, Henrico Parifh in Acco. with Daniel Price and Turner Southall. 1772. Feb. 7, To Cafh p'd for E'eceffarys for Mary Bol'g, 5 9 To Cafh p'd for a Bible and Prayer Book for Boar Swamp Meeting Houfe, To Cafh p'd for the Poft, for bringing the Books, To Cafh p'd the Printer, for Adver- tizing the Building — the Church, To Bufhels of Corn for Matt Bridge- man, To the Depofitam in tob'o, 12,796 lbs. To Henry Britton, 1,000 10 5 7 5 7 13,796 To 2 pr. ct. on 11,102 lbs. Tob'o, at 18 per, 1 19 llj To 10 Cafks, at 30 lbs. Tob'o each, 300 at 18 per, 2 14 152 VESTRY BOOK OF To Priz'g 10 Hhds. Tob'o, at 2-6, 16 Aug'ft 21, To 2 Bufh'ls Corn, for Matt Bridg- man, 2 6 To 1 Pr. of Shoes, of John MJcKnead, for H. Britton, 6 1 Sept. 6, To Cafh p'd Dr. Strachan, his Acco., 6 2 3 Oct. 4, To Cafh p'd Mrs. Parfons, ditto, 7 4 6 To 7 Yds. Linen, of W. Mitchel, for H. Britton, 15 lOj To 1 oz. Thread, for do., 7i To 1 lb. Coffee, for Matt Brigman, 1 6 To 2 lb. Bro. Sugar, for Ditto, 1 3 28, To li lb. bro. thr'd, 5 Ells Kolls, 4-7 qts, Eum, for Henry Britton, 8 1 To Cafh p'd Kich'd Cottrell, his Acco., 17 4 8^ To do., Jno. Sherrer, 1 5 To do., Jno. Myers, 3 To Ball per Contra, 74 3 2| £122 7 2 Dr. Henrico Parifh in acco. with D'l Price and T. Southall, Or, 1773. By 4 Hhds. Tob'o, fold :N'eil Camp- 'bell, 4,349 lbs. @ per, 39 2 9f By 6 Ditto, fold Richard Harmon, '4,753, @ 18 per, 60 15 4^ By ToVo fold the Sheriff on the ISTotes, 2,694, @ 2 d., 22 9 £122 7 2 By Ballance due the Parifh, £74 3 IJ Truly Recorded. Teste FORTH. SYDNOR, C. Y. ST. JOHN S CHURCH. 153 Dr, Henrico Parish in Acco. with Turner Southall and Daniel Price, Ch. Wdn's. 1773. Dec. 18, To Cafh p'd George Kowland, 24 1774. Sept. 24, To Cafh p'd Smith Blakey, 50 To Bairce due per Contra, 3 IJ £74 3 IJ Cr. 1773. ISTov. By BalPce Eendered this date, £74 3 Ij Errors Excepted, TUKlSrEE SOUTHALL. Teft, EOETU. SyDNOR^ G. y. A. B. C. Ann Cocke, the daughter of Bowler Cocke and Sarah his wife, was born at Bowler's Farm, on Kappahannock river^, the Eighteenth day of June, MDCCXX. Sufanna Cocke, daughter to the faid Bowler and Sarah, was born at Bremo, the Sixth day of JSToveniber, MDCCXII, and died the October following. Tabitha Cocke, was born the twenty-fifth of September, MDCCXXIY. Bowler Cocke, was born the Eleventh Day of March, MDCCXXYI. 154 VESTRY BOOK OF Sarah Cocke was born the Sixth day of February, MDCCXXVIII. Eliza. Cocke was born the fifteenth day of May, MDCCXXXI. Richard Cocke was born the Seventh day of March, MDCCXXXIII, and lived but twenty-five days. Charles Cocke was born the Ninth day of September, MDCCXXXV, and died the Fourth Day of Auguft, MDCCXXXIX. D. E. E. G. H. I. K. Francis Kemp, Son of Alexander Kemp and Matilda his wife was (horn) ye 13 day of October, 1Y35. L. Ann Lunfford, Daughter of Hannah Lunfiord, mulatto, was born Sept'r 13, 1731. Elizabeth LunfFord, daughter of faid Hannah, was Born July ye 10 Day, 1Y32. William Lunfford, Son of faid Hannah, was born March ye V day, 1785. John Lunfford, Son of faid Hannah, was born Seut'r ye 19 Day, 1737. ST. JOHN S CHUBCH. 155 Mary LunfFord, Daughter of faid Hannah, was born March 1 Day, 1739. Entered, October ye 14, 1740. Delivered me by Capt. John Redford. SACK BREWER, Clh C Vefy. Catherine Lorton, Daughter of Robert Lorton and Lucre- tia his wife, was born the 12th March, 1737-8. Ann Lorton, Daughter of the faid Robert Lorton and Lu- cretia his Wife, was born Auguft 15th, 1740. Thomas Lorton was born July the 14th, 1746. Robert Lorton was born January 11th, 1749. M. Arthur Mofby was killed by a fall from his Horfe ye 4th day of October, Anno Dom. 1736. Ann Middleton, Daughter of John Middleton and Judith his Wife, was born ye 12 Day of October, Anno Dom. MDCCXXXVIL liT. O. P. Elizabeth Poval, Daughter of Robert Povall and Judith his wife, was born in December, Anno 1729. Robert Povall, Son of the Above faid Robert and Judith, was born ye 3rd Day of July, Anno 1732. E, • Sarah, the Wife of Jno. Rees, who lately Arrived here in the Snow Phoenax, from London, departed this life the thir- tieth day of Aug'ft, Anno 1739. 156 VESTEY BOOK OF S. Eichard Sharp, Son of Henry Sharp and Mary his wife, was born ye 1 day of January, 1735. Mary, the Daughter of Henry Sharp and Mary his wife, was born the laft day of September, 1Y39. Henry, the Son of do., was born ye 27 day of March, 1734. Ann the Daughter of do., was born ye 10th day of June, 1741. T. Michael Taylor, departed this life ye 11 Day of January, Anno 1735. F. V. W. y. DEATHS KEGISTERED. Edmund Liptrot, departed this life December ye 12, 1735. Benjamin Hobfon, departed this life December ye 29, 1735. Mrs. Mary Randolph,^^ departed this life December ye 29, 1735. ST. John's church. 157 ^o Perfon fhall be Admitted a Yeftryman or Church Warden untill he has taken the Oaths and fubferibed to be conformable to the Doctrines and Difcipline of the Church of England, as enjoined by the Statiftics of 1 W. and M. I do fincerely promife and fwear that I will be faith- ful and bear true allegiance to his Majefty King George So help me God. I do fwear that I do, from my heart, abhor, deteft and adjure as impious and heretical, that Damnable Doctrine and profition, that Princes excommunicated by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be Depofed by their fub- jects or any other whatfoever. And I do declare, that no foreign Prince, perfon, prelate. State or Potentate, hath or Ought to have any Jurifdition, power. Superiority, pre-emi- nent or Authority, Ecclefiaftical or Spiritual, within this Realm. So help me God. THE DECLARATION". I, do declare that I do believe that there is not any Transfubftantiation in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, or in his Elements of Bread and Wine at or After the Con- fecration thereof, by any perfon whatfoever. JOHN" COLES, WM. FINNEY, WM. LEWIS. Feb. 8th, JOHN ELLIS. 1749. BOWLER COCKE, jun'r. THE OATH OF A CHURCH WARDEN. You fhall Execute the Office of a Church Warden in the Parifh where you are Chofen for the enfuing year^ Accord- ing to your Skill and Difcretion in his Majes. Laws, Eccle- siastical, now in force. So help you God. :n'otes. By De. K. a. Brock. ^OTE 1. Curls Church. — Though the orthography Curls appears to have quite generally obtained at the period of the text, and is, we are led to conclude, the only usage at the present time, it is obviously incorrect; the derivation being undoubtedly from the Virginia family name of Curie, to members of which, grants of land, extending over a period of one hundred years, may be found recorded in the books of the State Land Registry Office. A prominent representative of the family was the patriot Wilson Roscow Curie, of the Bevolutionary era. The church was situated on the north side of James river, distant some eight or nine mile below the city of Richmond. Bishop Meade terms it "the Four Mile Creek, or Curls Church," and erroneously, [as is patent from the text,] gives the time of its erection as 1748. He bases his conclusion upon the following extract from a letter bearing date that year, from Richard Randolph of Curls, to his son Richard: "Pray assist Wilkinson all you can in getting the church finished, and get the shells that will be wanted carted before the roads get bad. The joiner can inform you what shells I have at the Falls ; if more are wanted you must get them."* *01d Churches and Families of Va., vol. 1, p. 138. K 160 IS^OTES. The Kandolphs frequently undertook building. It is said that William Kandolph, of Turkey Island, the first of the name in the Colony of Virginia, laid the foundations of the wealth and importance of his family, from the profits ac- quired in ''building barns. "t One account states that he landed in the Colony of Virginia with a "broad-axe upon his shoulder."^ Col. Kichard Kandolph contracted, in 1739, to build the church at Richmond, agreeing to complete it by the 10th of June, 1741. It is not likely that it was so late as 1748 in being finished. At a meeting of the parish vestry, held October the 2d, 1742, a meeting of the Vestry was agreed upon, to be held at Curls Church in E"ovember follow- ing, to treat with undertakers for building a Chapel at Deep Run, and an appropriation was made towards the same of 10,000 lbs. of tobacco. This was, in all probability, the Church mentioned in the letter above quoted from. In May, 1826, Dr. John Adams presented to the Vestry of St. John's Church, Richmond, the baptismal font which had been used at Curls Church. § It is of white marble, and is in perfect preservation. Curls Church was demolished within the past twenty years. ISFoTE 2. Col, Richard Randolph of Curls, the son of Wm. Randoph of Turkey Island, was the grandfather of that me- teoric, though most erratic genius, John Randolph of Roan- oke. He married Jane, the daughter of John Boiling of Cobbs, who was the great-grandson of Pocahontas, his mother being Jane, the daughter of Thomas Rolph, or Rolfe, hence tGrigsby's Va. Convention of 1776, p. 77. Campbell's Va., p. 424. JNeill's Va. Papers. §Ms. Vestry Book of St. John's Church. [Period commencing 1785.] NOTES. IGI the royal aboriginal descent so much vaunted by these fami- lies. Richard Randolph was a member of the House of Burgesses from Henrico, in 1740, and succeeded his brother William as Treasurer of the Colony. He died in England, December 17th, 1748, in the 58th year of his age. His widow died March 4th, 1766, aged 62 years. Mss. Mem. Book of John Randolph of Boanohe. 'NoT^E 3. Thomas Jefferson. — The ancestors of the Jeffer- son family in Virginia are said to have emigrated from near Mount Snowden, in Wales. They. were among the first set- tlers of the Colony. The name", Jefferson, appears as the representative from Fleur de Hundred, in the Colonial As- sembly, which, by order of Governor Yeardly, was convened in the choir of the Church at Jamestown, on the 30th of July, 1619. This was the first legislative body of Europeans, [so far as our historical records exhibit,] that ever assembled in the 'New World. The first Jefferson of whom any definite accounts are preserved, was Thomas Jefferson, who resided at Osborne's, on James River, in the now county of Chester- field, which was formed from Henrico in 1748. He occu- pied a respectable social station, and was possessed of a com- petency. His children were three in number — sons : Thomas, of the text, [who died in the year 1731, his brother Peter being his executor,] Field and Peter, the father of President Jefferson, who was born February, 1708, and married, in 1738, Jane, the daughter of Isham Randolph, of Dungeress, in Goochland county. Peter Jefferson, though he enjoyed but few advantages of early education, was a man of vigor- ous intellect. Having adopted the profession of a surveyor, by continuous application he had made himself so proficient 162 NOTES. in his calling, that he was chosen, in connection with Joshua Fry, Professor of Mathematics in William and Mary College, to continue the boundary line between Virginia and :N'orth Carolina, and afterwards assisted Mr. Fry in preparing a map of the Colony of Virginia. Peter Jefferson was one of the first settlers, [about the year 1737,] of that portion of the county of Goochland which now forms that of Albemarle —the latter being formed in 1744. Goochland itself was carved from Henrico, in 1727. Peter Jefferson was a man of extraordinary physical strength ; he could "head up," that is raise from their sides to an upright position, at once, two hogsheads of tobacco weighing near a thousand pounds each. He died in 1757, leaving a widow, [who survived until 1776,] with six daughters and two sons, of whom Thomas, then fourteen years of age, was the elder. Randall's Jefferson, vol. 1, pp. 5, 6. GamphtlVs Ya., p. 604, and the text. E'oTE 4. Parish Levies. — By enactment, the sheriffs of the county, or an appointment of one of their number by re- spective parish vestries, was required to collect the public and parish levies, giving bond and security for the faithful performance of his duties. The assessments were made for loose tobacco, and for every hundred pounds paid in hogs- head, an allowance of eight per cent, was made for the hogs- head or "cask." The collector was empowered to distrain for failure or delay in payment. Each parish was required to support its own paupers, and the inhabitants of one parish were forbidden, under a penalty, to entertain, hire or employ any tithable person from another parish, unless he or she could produce a receipt from the collector of the parish from NOTES. 163 whence removing, for the taxes for the preceding year. All vagrants were adjudged ''rogues and vagabonds/' and were bound out for one year, if a hirer could be found. But if of such evil repute that no one would receive them, the County Court was empowered to order them ''thirty-nine lashes on the bare back, well laid on, at the whipping-post, and then discharged." They were liable, however, to re-arrest and repeated punishment. Vagrants and paupers were author- ized to be returned to the parishes of which they had last been resident. The Church Wardens were empowered to bind out, to the age of maturity, the children of such per- sons as w^ere deemed incapable of supporting or bringing them up in "honest courses." Henings Statutes, vol. Ill, p. 264; vol VI, pp. 29, 32. Note 5. Joseph Mayo emigrated from the Island of Bar- badoes, to Virginia, about the year 1727.* He was a mer- chant, and from the text, appears to have also followed sur- veying. His residence was Powhatan, the location of which is well authenticated as a residence of the aboriginal poten- tate of this name.t It is about a half mile below Rich- mond, and lies "to the south of the road which runs paral- lel w^ith the river, and on a verge of the second bank, or upper level of alluvium, some forty feet above the lower. The ground falls abruptly on the front or river side, and more gradually on the other quarters. On the east, the deep channel of a brook separates it from the most command- ing point of the upland." Immediately on the selection of *Bishop Meade's Old Churches and Families, vol. II, p. 39. tMss. Deed Book of Wm. Byrd of Westover, p. 93. 164 NOTES. Jamestown for the seat of tlie Colony, ^'Newport, Smith and twentie others were sent to discover the head of the river. By divers small habitations they passed, in six days they ar- rived at a town called Powhatan, consisting of some twelve houses, pleasantly seated on a hill; before it three fertile isles; about it many of their corne-fields; the place is very pleasant, and strong by nature — of this place the prince is called Powhatan, and the people Powhatans — to this place the river is navigable; but higher, within a myle, by reason of the Rockes and Isles, there is not passage for a small Boat; this they call the Falles.''^ "A granite boulder, about a ton in weight, is pointed out as ^Powhatan's Tombstone/ '' but there is no evidence justifying the designation. It bears many traces of rude carving. A row of symmetri- cal holes, an inch or more deep, runs along the top. On the sloping side, are graven marks of the shape of a child's and an adult's foot, a horse-shoe, and others less distinguishable. These are obviously of far greater age than other cuttings on the same surface, which are dated 1741, and which give in two or three places, the initial M., of the family in posses- sion: Mayo."§ In a narrative of ^^Capt. N'ewport's discov- eries, Virginia," May 21st, 1607, Powhatan is thus describ- ed : "We came to the second inlet described in the ryver ; over against on Popham syde, in the habitatyon of the greate Kyng Pawatah [one of the early modes of spelling Powha- tan,] which I call Pawatah's Tower. It is scituat upon a highe hill by the water syde; a playne between it and the JSmith Hist, of Va., Richmond, Reprint, 1819, vol. I, pp. 151-2. §Loungings in the Footprints of the Pioneers W. C. Bruce, Har- per's Mag., May, 1859. NOTES. 165 water, twelve score over, whereon he sowes his wheate, beane, peaze, tobacco, pompions, gowrds, hempe, flaxe, &c. ; and were any art used to the naturall state of this place it would be a goodly habitatjon."!' The brother of Joseph Mayo, Major William Mayo, is supposed to have settled in the Colony about the same time. He accompanied, as one of the surveyors, in the years 1728-9, the commission which ran the dividing line between Virginia and ISTorth Carolina, so racily chronicled in the Westover Mss. He also, in 1737, laid off for Col. William Byrd, [the second of the name,] the town of Richmond. The brothers were the ancestors of the present very respectable family of Mayo in Virginia. Col. Wm. Mayo, Jr., of Pawhatan, served in the State line during the revolution, and was a member of the House of Delegates in 1780. The late Hon. Joseph Mayo, for a long series of years Mayor of Richmond, a worthy representative of this family, compiled, we have been informed, a genealogy which con- nected with the Mayos of England. It is to be hoped that it will be made public; the editor craves the privilege of copying. JSToTE 6. Processioning. — By Statute, every fourth year, between the last day of September and the last day of March following, the bounds of every person's land were required to be processioned, or ^^gone round," and the land-marks re- newed. Such marks being made by chopping the trees. The parishes were divided into precincts, and free-holders, at least two to every precinct, appointed to perform such duty. IJArcheologia, Americana, Trans, and Coll. Am. Ant. Soc, vol. IV, p. 44. 166 NOTES. Thej were required to make a return, in writing, to the parish vestry of the result of their action. It was ''Pro- vided always, That the processioning and settling the bounds of any lands belonging to any person being within the age of one and twenty years, ferae covert, non compos mentis, im- prisoned or out of the Colony, shall not be conclusive to such person until after the expiration of six years from and after the said severall capacitys shall be removed jand determined.'' Ilening's Statutes, vol. Ill, pp. 327-8. !NoTE 7. Field Jefferson, the brother of Thomas and Peter Jefferson, who died young and unmarried. IsToTE 8. William Randolph was the second of the name, of Turkey Island, where he is buried. He married Eliza Beverley, of Gloucester county. Had issue: Beverly, of Turkey Island; Peter, of Chatsworth, and William, of Wil- ton. The following is the inscription upon his monument : Here lieth the Honorable William Randolph, Esquire, Eldest Son of Colo. William Randolph, of this place, and of Mary, his wife, who was of the antient and eminent family of the Ishams, of Northamptonshire. Having been introduced early into Business, and passed thro' many of the inferior offices of Government, with great reputation & eminent capacity, He was at last, By his Majesty's happy choice, and the universal approbation of his country, advanced to the Council. His experience in Men & Business, The native gravity & dignity of his Person & Behaviour, his attachments to the Interests of his Country, NOTES. -^^ * knowledge of the laws in general, and of the laws and Constitution of this Colony in particular, his Integrity ahove all calumny or suspicion, the acuteness of his parts, and the extensiveness of his genius, Together with that solidity of Sense and judgment which were predominant in nil he said or did, Kendered him not only equal, but an ornament to the high office he bore, and made him universally lamented as a most able & impartial Judge, and an upright magistrate in all other respects. ^N'either was he less conspicuous for a certain majestic plainness of Sense and Honour, which carried him through all parts of private life with equal dignity and reputation, and deservedly obtained him the character of a just and good man in all the several duties & relations of Life. N'atus, \ Nov., 1681. Mortuus, i Oct. 19, 1742. The following in relation to the origin of the designation, Turhey Island, we hope may not be thought uninteresting. It is extracted from a quaint tract: ''A relatyon of the DISCOVERY OF OUR RIVER ( JaMES) FROM JaMES FoRKE INTO THE Maine ; made by Capt. Christopher ITewport, and SINCERELY WRITTEN AND OBSERVED BY A GENTLEMAN OF THE Colony." (State paper office America and the West In- dies.) The author of which has recently been determined, upon proofs adduced by Prof. William Green, LL. D., Bichmond, Va., to have been Capt. Gabriel Archer. On 168 NOTES. Thursday, May 21st, 1607, (Campbell, Hist, of Va., gives the date as June 4th,) Capt. Christopher N^ewport "having fitted our shallop with provision" — "tooke five gentlemen, four maryners, and fourteen saylors; (the names are all given, Smith mentions only himself, Newport and twentie others,) with whom he proceeded, with a perfect resolutyon not to returne ; but either to find the head of this ryver, the laake mentyoned by others heretofore, the sea againe, the mountynes Apalatsi, (Appalachian, modern,) or some issue.'' Having narrated a voyage of thirteen miles, the account pro- ceeds as follows : "May 22, Friday. Omitting no tyme, we passed up some sixteen myle further." [By recent meas- urement, the distance from City Point, near which is Turkey Island, to E'ewport !News, (properly and originally ISTewport ISTuce,) has been ascertained to be thirty miles, and to James- town, forty miles,] where wee found an ilet, on which were many turkeys, and greate store of young byrdes like black birdes; whereof we took dyvers, which we brake our fast with all," "the ryver skants of his breadth two mile before we come to the ilet mentyoned, (which I call Turkey He.") Archeologia Americana — Trans. Am. Ant. Soc, Vol. IV. pp. 41-2. l^OTE 9. John Boiling, of Cobbs, the son of Robert Boil- ing, (son of John and Mary Boiling, of Boiling Hall, who lived in the parish of All-halloway, or Allhallows, Barkin Parish, Town street, London, the first of the name who set- tled in Va.," born Dec. 26th, 1646, arrived in Va. Oct. 2d, 1660,) and Jane Bolfe, the grand-daughter of Pocahontas, was bom Jan. 27th, 1676, and died April 10th, 1729. He NOTES. 1^9 devoted himself to commence and amassed a large fortime. His daughter Jane, married the first Eichard Randolph of Curies. Mr. John Boiling, Surveyor, is mentioned in 1704.t ISToTE 10. The Rev. James Keith.— The Rev. Mr. Keith removed to Maryland in 1735* — doubtless him of the text. The name is a prominent one now, not only in that State, but also in Pennsylvania and Virginia. E'oTE 11. The Rev. David Mossom was bom in London, Mch. 25th, 1690, and died Jan. 4th, 1767. He was the Rector of St. Peter's Church, 'New Kent Co., Ya., for a period of forty years preceding his death. A beautiful mar- ble tablet in the wall, on the right hand side of the pulpit, did record his virtues. ''He officiated at the nuptials of Gen- eral Washington, at the White House, a few miles from St. Peter's Church."" This venerable place of worship was the victim of the vandalism of the Federal troops during the late war, its associations with the memory of the Father of his Country finding no responsive chord in the breasts of those zealous patriots, to stay their vengeful hands. ''The Church itself was broken and battered, and rendered wholly unfit for use. The old massive stone font, in which the children of two centuries had been baptized, was broken and scattered in fragments over the floor. The chancel was torn down, the pulpit and desk broken and defaced, and not a sash was left in the windows."^ The monument to Mr. Mosson was also ♦Memois of the Boiling Family, p. 4. fPapers of the Virginia Church, Steevens, p. 96. $Perry's Va. Papers, p. 358. IIBishop Meade's Old Churches, &c., Vol. I, p. 386; Vol. II, p. 490. §The Communication in the "Richmond Dispatch" of Feb G, ib71, over the signature "Senex." 170 NOTES. destroyed — nought but fragments remaining. The parish- oners lately appealed to the public for contributions to aid them to so far repair the old church, that divine service might be resumed within its hallowed halls. l^OTE 12. Darby Enroughty. — The locality, Darbytown, situate a few miles below Richmond, owes its designation to its having been at one time almost exclusively peopled by those bearing the name Darby or Enroughty. It being a re- markable fact that the two names, in common parlance among them, are regarded as synonymous and interchangeable. The first, B'arby, obtaining prevalence because of its brevity and easier pronunciation. (It is claimed, and with apparent rea- son, that the name was originally Derby, which among the lower English classes is even now pronounced, as by those simple people.) Those of them, however, who are able to write their names, (in doing so,) generally use that of En- roughty — which name indeed a majority of them affix to legal instruments. "We venture the highly probable conjecture that the indi- vidual above was the progentor of this humble, honest and simple family. His neighbors and succeeding generations, with a wayward ruthlessness which is constantly repeating itself in matters of popular designation, adopting the cog- nomen which least taxed their linguistic skill. Note 13. Isaac Winston. — The Winstons of Virginia are said to be descended from the ancient and honorable family of that name in England. Four of the name emigrated from Yorkshire, England, some time previous to the year 1710. Three brothers — Isaac, of the text, William Essex and James, and a cousin. Pleasant Winston. They were of the Society of NOTES. 171 Triends, and left England to enjoy freedom of religious opinion. 1. Isaac/ resided first in Henrico and afterwards in Han- over County, Va. He married Sarah . They had issue: 2. I. Anthony.^ 3. II. William.2 -w^ /j 4. III. Mary^ m. John Coles. 5. IV. Sarah^ m. first, Col. John Syme, second, Col. John Henry. 2. Anthony,2 (Isaac;") b. Sept. 29th, 1723; m. Feb. 27th, 1747, Alice, (b. May 21st, 1730,) daughter of James and Alice Taylor, of Caroline Co., Va. They had issuse: I. Sarah, b. Feb. 9th, 1748, died unmarried. 6. II. Anthony, b. >l(>v. 25th, 1750, m. Mch. 11th, 1776, Kezia Jones. 7. ]II. Alice, b. Mch. 20th, 1753, m. her cousin. Judge Edmund Winston, d. Feb., 1784. IV. Martha, b. June 3d, 1759, m. Charles Woodson, of Buclsingham Co. 6. Anthony^ { Anthony ^^ Isaac,") removed to Buckingham County, near the ''New Store,'' in 1771; m. Mch. 11th, 1776, Kesia, (b. Feb. 1760,) daughter of John and Elizabeth (Walker) Jones, from Wales. Anthony Winston was a Member both of the House of Burgesses and the patriot Virginia Convention of 1775, from the County of Bucking- ham. He was also a Captain in the Army of the Revolu- tion, and a gallant officer. He was the purchaser of Peter Francisco, famous for his feats of valor and strength, whom he released from slavery to allow to enlist in the patriotic army. He was sheriff of Buckingham County for a long series of years. He removed to Davidson Co., Tenn., in the autumn of 1801. 172 NOTES. Aiitliony and Kezia Had issue : I. Anthony, b. Dec. 5th, 1782. II. John Jones, b. May 31st, 1785. III. Edmund, b. May, 2d, 1787, died in childhood. 8. IV. William, b. Mch. 24th, 1789, d. 1859. 9. y. AliceTaylor, b. Dec. 21st, 1790, m. John, son of John Pettus, of Fluvania Co., Ya. His sister, Mrs. Shel- ton Burgess, was living May, 1871, in her 80th year, with her son John, near Bremo Bluff, Fluvanna Co. VI. Joel Walker, b. Dec. 6th, 1792. VII. Isaac, b. Jan. 22d, 1795. VIII. Mary Walker, b. ISTov. 6th, 1796, m. Jesse Jones IX. Betsy, b. Sept. 15th, 1798, d. an infant. X. Edmund, (second of the name,) b. June 15th, 1801, d. since the late war. XI. Thomas, b. May 3d, 1804, settled in Davidson Co., Tenn. In 1811 or '12, all of the children of Anthony and Kezia Winston, excepting the two youngest (who remained with their parents in Tennessee,) removed to that locality of Mis- sissippi Territory, which now constitutes Madison County, Alabama. '^In 1813, when the war with the Creek nation com- menced, a family council was held in Madison County, to determine which one of the seven brothers, and brothers-in- law should be selected to remain and protect all the families," whilst the other six "went to the war.'' "Wm. Winston was selected on account of his firmness and prudence to pro- tect the young families." The wives as well as their hus- bands were in the Council. "John Jones Winston was a NOTES. 173 Captain, and his eldest brother, Anthony, a Lieutenant in his company — the other Rye served in the ranks." General Jackson "was the personal friend of all these young men," and bore cheerful testimony to the gallantry of each. 10. John Anthony Winston,^ son of (William^ Anthony,^ Anthony,^ Isaac/) d. Dec. 22d, 18Y1. He represented Sumpter Co., Ala., for many years in the General Assembly as Representative or Senator. He was Colonel of the Ala. Eegt., Volunteer Infantry, during the Mexican war ; for two terms Governor of Alabama; President of the State Senate; Colonel Eighth Alabama Infantry, during the late war, participating in the battles fought on Virginia soil. He was elected United States Senator in 1866, but was not al- lowed to take his seat. He is described as having possessed an "unbending will" and a vigorous intellect. His style of speech was "bold and incisive." He was never called an orator, but as a debater, he had few, if any, equals in the State. His personal courage was undoubted. He was as he represented his family as being : "very tolerant in matters of religious faith." 11. John Jones Pettus,^ son of (John and Alice Taylor,^ Pettus, Anthony Winston,^ Anthony,^ Isaac/) was educated for the bar, but preferred planting. He was for many years before the late war a Member of the Mississippi Legislature in both of its branches. He was twice Governor of that State. Edmund Winston Pettus, brother of the preceding, was Solicitor for the State of Alabama for eight years ; Judge of the Circuit Court of the State ; Major and Lieutenant Colo- nel 20th Regiment Alabama Infantry, and Brigadier-General Confederate States Army during the late war. He was a gallant and efficient officer, and received the encomiums of his superior officers. He is now a distinguished practitioner of law in Selma, Ala. 174 l^OTES. 12. William Winston,^ son of (Isaac,^) was called Langa- loo William. '^He was a great hunter ; had a quarter in Bed- ford or Albemarle County; spent half the year there hunt- ing deer. He was fond of the Indians, and dressed like them, and was a favorite with them. An amour with the daughter of an Indian Chief, who was engaged to another Chief, involved him in difficulties with the savages. They besieged him in a log fort for a week. He defended himself with the aid of three negroes with rifles. Tom, one of the negroes, stood guard every night; at length the favorite squaw went out and made peace between the belligerents. Langaloo William was a great Indian fighter."* He was endowed with those impassioned powers of natural and all- prevailing oratory, which rendered his nephew, Patrick Hen- ry, the patriot, immortal. Wirt, in his life of the latter, quotes the following anecdote from a correspondent — Wm. Pope : "I have often heard my father, who was intimately ac- quainted with this William Winston, say, that he was the greatest orator he ever heard — Patrick Henry excepted. That during the last French and Indian war, and soon after Brad- dock's defeat, when the militia were marched to the frontiers of Virginia against the Indians, this William Winston was a Lieutenant of a company. That the men who were indif- ferently clothed, without tents, and exposed to the rigor and inclemency of the weather, discovered great aversion to the service, and were anxious and were clamorous to return to their families; when William Winston mounting a stump (the common rostrum of the field orator of Virginia,) and addressed them with keenness of invective, and declaimed with such force of eloquence on liberty and patriotism, that when he concluded, the general cry was ^Let us march on; lead us against the enemy !' and they were now willing, nay anxious, to encounter all those difficulties and dangers which but a few minutes before had almost produced mutiny." William Winston^ had issue : I. Elizabeth, a beauty, m. Peter Fontaine. ♦Article in the Virginia Standard, 185- NOTES. 175 II. Frances, m. Dr. Walker. III. Edmund, State Judge, m. first, his cousin, (Alice,^ daughter of Anthony J^ Isaac/) died in 1813, in the fifth score year of his age; second, Dolly, (Dandridge) the widow of Patrick Henry. Issue by the first marriage : I. George m. Dolly, daughter of Patrick Henry. Issue, five sons who removed to the State of Missouri, and two daughters, one of whom Elvira, m. Dr. Charles Dan- dridge. "She was a poetical genius, and corresponded with Maria Edgeworth." II. Edmund m. III. m. Dr. George Cabell, of Campbell Co. IV. Alice m. Frederick A. Cabell. 13. Winston,^ daughter of {Judge Edmund^ and Alice, William,^ Anthony,^ Isaac/-) m. Dr. George Ca- bell, of Campbell Co. Had issue: I. Marian F. m. Landon R. Cabell. II. Edmund Winston. III. George K. m. Eliza V. . IV. John B. m. Martha B. . V. William L. m. Eliza . VI. Paulina J. Cabell m. Alexander S. Henry. VII. Alice Winston m. Walter C. Carrington. Alice,^ daughter of Judge Edmund^ and Alice^ Winston, m. Frederick A. Cabell. Issue : I. m. Dr. John Horsley. II. m. John W. Mosby, uncle of Col. John S. Mosby, Partisan during the late war. III. Frederick M. m. Coleman. IV. Edmund Winston m. Lucy Gait. V. Clifford, M. D., m. Anthony. VI. Lewis Warrington m. Perkins. 5. Sarah Winston^ (Isaac^) m. first, Colonel John Syme, Member H. of Burgesses, and of the Virginia Convention of L 176 NOTES. 1775. Col. in tlie Kev. Issue: Sarah^ m. Samuel Jordan Cabeil, Lieutenant-Colonel Kevolution M. O. C. 1795. 1803. Sarah Syme^ m. second, Col. John Henry, H. of Burgesses, prepared a map of Virginia. Issue: I. Colonel William, Member of Virginia Assembly, from Fluvanna Co. II. Patrick (the orator) m. Dolly Dandridge. III. Lucy m. Valentine Wood. *: IV. Jane m. Colonel Samuel Meredith, of Hanover Co. 14. Geddes,^ son of (William Essex Winston,'^) died June 9th 1784, and is buried in St. John's Church yard, Eich- mond. His wife also lies there. They had issue: I. Hebecca m. Dr. Wm. Radford. II. Mary m. Rev. John D. Blair. III. Samuel Jordan d. unmarried. IV. Margaret m. Dr. John Adams. V. Julia m. Dr. John Shore. VI. Sarah m. Thomas Rutherf oord, of Richmond ; enter- prising and wealthy merchant and miller, who owned lots in every quarter of the city, which he had purchased during the period of real estate fever which prevailed directly after the war of 1812. I. Colonel John, Lieutenant-Governor and Acting Gover- nor of Virginia, 1841, d. 1870 ; m. Emily Ann Coles, who died August 26th, 1871. Issue: John Coles — House of Delegates, from Goochland County, for several years ; Emily Ann m. January 24th, 1853, Patrick Henry, son of Philip Aylett — of King William County, a grand-son of Patrick Henry — who lost his life by the calamity of the falling of the floor in the Richmond Capitol, April 27th, 1870. II. William. III. Samuel Jordan. IV. Alexander. V. Thomas m. first, Josephine Sims ; second, Sarah, daughter of Spotswood Wingfield. VI. Gustavus. NOTES. 177 YII. Jane m. Hodijah Meade. VIII. Sarah m. Wm. B. Randolph, of Chatsworth. IX. Martha m. Garland Tinsley, of Hanover Co. 15. Dr. John and Margaret (Winston) Adams,^ (GeddesJ^ William Essex^ ) had issue : I. Mary m. Dr. John Minge. II. Eliza m. John Heron. III. Margaret m. first, Charles Pickett, second. Colonel George Mayo Carrington, of Richmond. IV. Martha m. Burwell Moseley, of E"orfolk. V. Louisa m. Dr. Richard A. Carrington. VI. Elvira m. David Minge. VII. Richard m. Carter Harrison. VIII. John m. . 4. Mary^ (Isaac^) m. Major John Coles, a native of Ire- land. He was an early settler of Richmond, where he was engaged in merchandizing. A small frame building recently demolished, (1871) situated on Twenty-second, between Broad and Marshall streets, was pointed out as having been his residence. Many of the timbers, though more than a century old, were in a perfect state of preservation. Major John Coles was buried beneath the old Church at Richmond, the floors of which being removed in 1857, to replace the joists which were in a decayed condition, a metallic plate, bearing his name, was found. It was, however, so much corroded that it fell to pieces. John and Mary Coles had issue : Four sons and five daughters, of whom — I. Walter m. Lightf oot, of Sandy Point. Issue : Mildred m. Judge Paul Carrington, the younger, ,11. John settled in Albemarle, m. Rebecca, daughter of Henry Tucker. ..Issue : , x^'v ^^ / I. Mary m^ Carter, of Redlands. .."\ ^ II. Rebecca m. Jehn Singleton, of S. C. _ ' ' ' III.S ^^^^^.! m. Hon. Andrew Stevenson. IV. Elizabeth. V. Walter. ' s- 178 NOTES. YI. Edward. First Governor of Illinois, m. first, Light- foot. Issue: Isaac Coles. VII. Emily Ann m. Col. John Hutherfoord. VIII. Tucker. IX. John. X. Colonel Isaac mV*batharine Thompson, of 'New York, a sister of whom married Elbridge Gerry in 1790. Colonel Isaac and Catharine (Thompson) Coles had issue: I. Walter. II. Thompson. III. John. IV. Kobert. V. Jacob. VI. Catharine m. Baldwin, son of Philip Payne. VII. Mary m. James M. Whittle. The late George Winston, of Eichmond, is supposed to have been a descendant of Pleasant Winston, one of the original emigrants — the connecting links cannot, however, be stated by his family. His children were : I. James. II. Pleasants, now residing in Missouri. (He makes claim to a portion of the Chimborazo property of Eichmond, which was the site of a Confederate Hospital during* the late war.) III. Virginia J. m. W. F. Butler; d. ISTov. 22d, 1872, in her 57 th year. The descendants of James Winston^ in Hanover, Caroline, Louisa, and Goochland Counties, have long filled offices of local trust, clerks, sheriffs, &c. Mr. Wm. Winston was Lieu- tenant and Adjutant of Lee's Legion of Cavalry during the Eevolution. The names of John and Benjamin Winston are among the NOTES. 179 list of officers pensioned by the State of Virginia for service during the Kevolution. ''Joseph Winston, born in Virginia, 1746 ; d. near Ger- mantown, K C, 1814. He joined a company of rangers in 1760 ; was twice wounded in an Indian fight on the Green- brier; was pensioned by the Legislature for his gallantry; removed to Stokes Sounty, E". C, 1766 ; was its representa- tive 1775-6, and was appointed a Major; was in several fights victorious, and for his bravery at King's Mountain, where he commanded the right wing, had a sword voted him by the Legislature. Commissioner to Cherokee Indians, with whom a treaty was made in 1777 ; first Senator from Stokes County, in 1791; and Member of Legislature re- peatedly until 1812 ; M. C. 1793-5 and 1803-7. His son. General Joseph, d. in Platte County, Mo., Mch. 24th, 1810, aged 52. He filled an important position in Stokes Couutv, E". C. ; served in the war 1812 ; was for many years in the State Legislature, and was a Major-General of Militia. — Drake's Die. Am. Biog. We take this occasion to express our indobtedness for valu- able information embodied in the preceding note, which was rendered us with a prompt heartiness, by the late Hon. John Anthony Winston, of Mobile, and General Edmund Winston Pettus, of Selma, Ala. ; whose action is the more highly ap- preciated, because they were the sole representatives of the Winston Family, from whom we received any manner of as- sistance — the remainder of our many applications having been entirely neglected, or m.et with unpardonable rudeness. 180 NOTES. Our office may have been an unimportant one ; it has surely been as thankless as it has been gratuitous. l^OTE 14. The Reverend Wm. Stith was the son of Wil- liam Stith and Mary, the daughter of William Randolph, of Turkey Island. The issue of William and Mary Stith, was : I. William, b. 1789 ; m. Judith, daughter of Thomas Ran- dolph, of Tuckahoe; d. 1755. Issue: Mary, died unmarried. II. John, of Charles City County, Ya. III. Mary m. Commissary William Dawson, of William and Mary College, Va. Issue : A son who m. Johnson, of l^orth Carolina, whose son, William Johnson Dawson, was a Member of Congress 1793-5, from K C* ^^On the death of her husband, Mrs. Stith, at the instance of her brother. Sir John Randolph, removed to Williams- burg, and placed her son (William) in the grammar-school attached to the College of William and Mary^ where he pur- sued his academic studies, and graduated. His theological studies were completed in England, where he was ordained a Minister of the Episcopal Church. On his return to Virginia, in the year 1731, he was elected Master of the Grammar-school in the College, and Chaplain to the House of Burgesses."t On the 16th of July, 1736, he was in- stalled as Rector of Henrico Parish. At the Glebe House, of which at Varina, he wrote his history of Virginia. In August, 1752, he was elected President of William and Mary College, to which he removed, and over which he presided until his death in 1755. IsToTE 15. Peter Randolph^ of Chatsworth, was the second son of the second William Randolph, of Turkey Island. He married Lucy, daughter of Robert Boiling, of Bollingbrook. *Ms. Mem., Book of John Randolph, of Roanoke. fBishop Meade's Old Churches, Ac, Vol. I, p. 138. 181 NOTES. He was Clerk of the House of Burgesses, and Attorney- General of Virginia. Later, a Judge of the State Court. His portrait is at ^^Shirley," on James River. Note 16. Beverley Randolph of Turkey Island, was the first son of Wm. Randolph. He married Miss Lightfoot, of Sandy Point, and had no issue. Note 17. Major John Coles.— Vide Note 13. Note 18. Richard Randolph, Jr., Member of the House of Burgesses, 1769 ; son of the first Richard, of Curies, mar- ried Ann, daughter of David Meade, of Nansemond County. They had issue: I. Richard married Maria Beverly, of Blandford. II. David Meade, b. 1769, d. September 22d, 1830; Col. of cavalry in the Revolution; m. Mary Randolph, of Tuck- ahoe. He was appointed Marshal of Virginia by Washing- ton which office he held until the Presidency of Mr. Jetier- son'when, being a Federal in politics, he was displaced. Ihe Colonel and his lady were a jovial couple, and dispensed a generous and hearty hospitality. Their residence at Rich- mond was the commodious one now known as Allan s,( the present owner being the widow of the late John Allan, Esq., commonly termed "Jock," the patron of Edgar Allan Poe ) situated at the corner of Eifth and Main streets— the grounds of which extended to Sixth street. A frequent guest Mr. Edmund W. Rootes, a prominent merchant o± that day, of skillful rhyming capacity, of a highly facetious order, dubbed the Randolph mansion Moldavia, thus inge- niously uniting the christian names of host and hostess.* "A letter from HicTcory Cornhill, Esq., to his friends m the Country/' humorously and graphically depicting in rhyme, the follies and vices of fashionable society of the beginning of the present century, when card playing, to which both sexes were addicted, was a feature of every social gathering, and the costumes were as ludicrous as they were indecent, is attributed to Mr. Rootes; cl aim, however, has also heen ♦Richmond in By-Gone Days, Second Ed., p. 127. 182 NOTES. laid for it, for both the accomplished William Wirt, and the learned St. George Tucker, the elder. We cannot decide the question upon the intrinsic or internal character of the composition, and we are much too youthful to he able to more than transmit further the several traditions. It was republished in the Southern Literary Messenger, May, 1838. It appears also in Mr. Mordicae's entertaining little book, ^'Richmond in By-Gone Dayj," Second Edition. He ascribes the lines to George Tucker. III. Brett m. Lucy Beverley, of Blandford. IV. Ryland m. Elizabeth Frayser. Y. Susanna m. Benjamin Harrison, Jr., of Berkeley. VI. Jane m. Archibald Boiling, of Buckingham Co. VII. Anne m. Brett Randolph. VIII. Mary m. Col. Wm. Boiling, of Licking Hole, Mem- ber of House of Delegates, of Virginia. IX. Eliza m. David Meade. X. Sarah m. William !N^ewburne. l^OTE 19. William Randolph, of Wilton, m. Anne, sister of Governor Benj. Harrison, and daughter of Benjamin Harrison, of Berkeley, and Anne, (Carter) his wife. In 1745-6 he was elected to the House of Burgesses for Gooch- land, vice William Randolph, of Eighting Creek, deceased. They had issue: I. William d. young. II. Peter, Clerk of the House of Burgesses, in 1749. He m. first, Mary, grand-daughter of Governor Alexander Spotswood ; second, Mary Page, of J^orth River — died with- out issue. III. Harrison. IV. Benjamin. V. Peyton m. Lucy, daughter of Gov. Benj. Harrison. VI. Anne m. Benj. Harrison, of Brandon. VII. Elizabeth m. Philip Grymes, of Brandon, Rappa- hannock County. IS^o issue. NOTES. 183 VIII. Lucy m. Lewis Burwell, of King's Mill. 'No issue. ;N'ote 20. Samuel Du Val was a Member of the House of Burgesses in 1773 ; of the Virginia Convention of 1775, and an officer of the Kevolution. N'oTE 21. Bev. Miles Selden was the son of Joseph, first settler of the name in Virginia. He was Chaplain of the Virginia Convention of 1775. A son, Miles Selden, Jr., represented the County of Henrico, in the Virginia Assem- bly for several years. N'oTE 22. Thomas Adams was one of the Delegates from Virginia to the Convention held in Philadelphia in 1778, and a signer of the articles of Confederation between the States. He was a member of the Virginia Senate of 1786, from Augiista County. He was a brother of Colonel Richard Adams, the elder. N'oTE 23. Byland Randolph^ son of Richard Randolph, of Curies. He inherited an ample fortune, which, remarks his sarcastic Kinsman, ^^of Roanoke," ^^he squandered to the last shilling." !N'oTE 24. Turner SoutJiall was a member, successively, of both branches of the Virginia Assembly for a series of years during the Revolutionary war^ and afterwards. He was a zealous patriot and a highly useful citizen, being fre- quently elected to local offices of trust and importance. N"oTE 25. Richard Adams. — This was Col. Richard Adams, the elder, (son of Ebenezer, of York County,) born in 1723 ; died August 2d, 1800; married April 10th, 1755, Elizabeth Griffin, (sister of Judge Cyrus Griffin, of Virginia, President 184 NOTES. of the old Congress of 1788,) born 1738, died Dec. 23d, 1800. Colonel Adams was a member of the House of Burgesses 1773 ; of the Convention of 1775, and of the Virginia Assembly frequently afterwards. He was an en- terprising and public spirited citizen, inaugurating many and fostering most of the schemes of local improvement of his day. His means were ample and his landed possessions within the limits, and in the immediate vicinity of Richmond probably more extensive than any other, then resident. His residence on Richmond or Church Hill is still standing, being the large wooden building at the corner of 22d and Grace streets, so long occupied by the late Loftin ]^. EUett, Esq., and now used as a convent by the Roman Catholic Church. When first occupied by Colonel Adams it was within the outer limits of a thick grove of forest trees, a representative of which, a primeval oak, of monarchial dimensions, is still standing a few hundred yards distant, near the corner of 24th and Grace streets. Both the mansion of Col. Adams and the venerable St. John's Church were used as barracks by the British soldiery, under the traitor Arnold, during his occupancy of Richmond in 1781. The efforts of Col. Adams to induce the tide of improvement in the growing little town and embryo city of Richmond in the direction of his landed possessions on Richmond Hill, were constant and strenuous. A venerable descendant, a grand-daughter — Mrs. Eliza Griffin Carrington, now in her 83d year, relates an authentic tradition of her childhood: That quite a warm friendship at one time existed between her ancestor and Thomas Jefferson, who was a frequent guest of Col. Adams. During a visit of the former, not long preceding the Resolu- NOTES. 1°^ tion of the Assembly of Virginia, to remove the seat of government from Williamsburg to Eichmond, Jefferson, who was cognizant then of the measure, pledged himself to Col. Adams, in case of its success, to secure the location of the public buildings on Richmond Hill. Colonel Adams, in view of the prospective ultimate advantages in the enhance- ment in value of his surrounding property, promising a dona- tion of the requisite sites, for which were proposed command- ing points. The Act for the removal of the seat of govern- ment was passed June 4th, 1Y79,* though the definite location of the building was not indicated until the May term of 1780, when it was directed to be made upon Shockoe Hill. The following were the directors therein nominated to carry into effect the provisions of the Act, viz.: "His Excellency, Thomas Jefferson, esquire, Archibald Cary, Robert Carter Mcholas, Richard Adams, Edmund Randolph, 'Turner Southall, Robert Goode, James Buchanan, and Samuel Du Vall."t Mr. Jefferson incurred the life long enmity of Col. Adams because of the disappointment of the latter. Colonel Adams, at a period little later, erected, in Shockoe Creek Valley, upon the site now occupied by the depot buildings of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, a substantial and spacious market house for the convenience of the residents of Rich- mond Hill. Three sons of Colonel Adams were also promi- nent and useful citizens: Colonel Richard, Jr., (born 'Nov. 28th, 1760, died January 9th, 1817;) Samuel Griffin, (born May 5th, 1776, died July 15th, 1821;) (both of whom served in the Virginia Assembly,) and Dr. John, (born July * Journal Ho. of Delegates, ed. Williamsburg, 1779; p. 41. tHening's Statutes, X; p. 318. 186 NOTES. 14th, 1773, died June 23d, 1825,) who was, for some time, Mayor of Richmond; a daughter, Annie, (born Oct. 27th, 1762, died Oct. 27th, 1820,) married Col. Mayo Carrington, of Cumberland County. Colonel Adams and many of his descendants lie buried in the family cemetery, provided by himself, situated at the comer of 23d and Marshall streets. It occupies one-fourth of a square, and is substantially en- closed with a high brick wall. There is within our knowl- edge, only one other private burying-ground for the dead within the city limits, which is that of the Pickett family, immediately adjoining this, the enclosure of which has fallen to decay, and all of its tombstones have been shattered or defaced by the sacriligeous hands of wanton urchins, who, until police surveilliance was instituted, threatened to reduce the hallowed grounds of the time eloquent St. John's, to the same lamentable condition — ^many of its monuments present- ing painful evidences of their earnest assiduity in the heart- less work of mutilation and obliteration. We are not aware that there have been any interments in the Pickett grounds for a number of years past. Colonel Pichard Adams, Jr., inherited the paternal resi- dence; his brother Samuel erected the large mansion which formerly stood at the corner of 2 2d and Broad streets, and which was latterly known as Bellevue Hospital. It was de- stroyed by fire some years since. One of the Public School Houses now occupies its site, and Dr. John built and occu- pied that which is now known as the Van Lew residence, situated at the corner of 24th and Grace streets. The descendants of Col. Pichard Adams, the elder, are NOTES. 187 still represented by family names, the most prominent and of the first social position in the State, iN'oTE 26. John Bagland was the son of John and Anne (Beaufort) Ragland, who emigrated from Wales to the Col- ony of Virginia about the year 1723, and settled in Hanover Co. Grants of land to the extent of 16,000 acres are re- corded in the Land Registry Office of Virginia, in the name of John Ragland.^ His issue was: I. John (of the text,) married Ann Dudley, and settled in Goochland County. ^^^^^^ ii)/t^r "^^J*" ff!^ei.d I^^^Ji II. William^ married and had issue. P^ ^'T )'} /',. 'r4i,^m^ af^c III. SamueP married and settled in Louisa County. Had issue. IV. James^ married Catharine Davis. Had issue. V. Evan^ settled in Antrim Parish, Halifax Co. ; married. Had issue. VI. Pettus.2 VII. Martha^ married Thomas Tinsley. VIII. Francis^ married Jeremiah Pate. Pettus Ragland^ (John^) married Elizabeth Davis, of Hanover County. Daughter of John Davis of Wales. Had issue: "^ MI^. _ I. Jean,3 born April 12th, 1755, married Wm. Chick. II. John,3 born July 29th, 1756. III. William,^ born September 17th, 1757. IV. Sarah,3 born February 5th, 1759, married William Rice. V. Elizabeth,^ born March 24th, 1760, married B. Wright. . VI. Pettus,3 bom July 8th, 1761. Moved to Halifax County. 188 NOTES. VII. Samuel,^ born April 12tli, 1764. Died young. VIII. Martlia,3 born Sept. iTtli, 1765. IX. Evan,^ born Sept. 5th, 1767, married Year- mans, of Louisa County. Removed to Tennessee. X. Anne Beaufort,^ born Oct. 7tli, 1768. XI. ISTancy,-^ born July 13th, 1770, married Dr. Thomas Starke. XII. Catharine,^ born 1778, married John Bowe. XIII. Fendall,^ born 1780, died 1833, married Sarah, (died 1833) daughter of Edward and Amelia [N'elson, who were cousins and descendants in the third generation of Edward, bom 1690, (son of James Xelson, of Essex County, England,) who emigrated to Virginia in the year 1718, and married in 1719, Mary, the daughter of Edward and Jane Garland, of 'New Kent County, Va. The issue of FendalP and Sarah (^N'elson) Ragland was eight sons and four daughters — of whom Elizabeth Mildred,^ born Feb. 20th, 1814,married May 19th, 1836. Robert King, (son of John Philip and Elizabeth [King] Brock,) born December 15th, 1801, died May 27th, 1850. The editor, who is of their issue, and who has much material towards k genealogical account of the Ragland, Davis, Nelson and Garland families, would most thankfully enter into corres- pondence with any representative of either family who may be kindly disposed to further his object. To all such, he most heartily tenders any desired information he may have in possession. ISToTE 27. John Randolph married Francis, daughter of Richard Bland. Issue : I. Richard married Judith Randolph. II. Theodrick Bland died young. NOTES. 189 III. John, (of Roanoke) M. C. and Minister to Russia. IV. Jane Randolph. Note 28. Nathaniel Wilkinson, Member of the House of Delegates of Virginia, 1YY8-95. A prominent and most use- ful citizen. Note 29. Thomas Watkins. — The Watkins family of Virginia is supposed to be of Welsh descent. The name of James Watkins appears among the early emigrants of 1608. He may have been the ancestor of the family in Virginia. The first of the name of whom anything definite is known, was Thomas Watkins, of Swift Creek, Cumberland County, whose will bears date 1760. He had eight children. His eldest son, Thomas, of Chickahominy, (of the text) is thus spoken of by the late Benjamin Watkins Leigh, his great nephew: "Of Thomas Watkins, of Chickahominy, I have heard very full accounts from my mother, (his father was the Rev. William Leigh, of Chesterfield County,) and from my uncle Thomas, both of whom knew him well. He was a man of the highest respectability, in every point of view, and in particular, a man of indefatigable industry." He reared a large family of children, four sons and seven daughters, from whom have proceeded many descendants of various family names, in Virginia and the Southern States. His brother, Benjamin Watkins, married Miss Cary, of Warwick. He was the first clerk of Chesterfield County, which ofiice he held until his death. He was a man of capacity and a sterling patriot. He was a member of the Convention of 1776, and took an active part in the affairs of the Revolution. One of his daughters married the Rev. Wm. 190 NOTES. Leigh, the father of the chaste and elegant orator and able statesman, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, and the pure minded and learned Judge William Leigh, who so long and spotlessly wore the ermine. Another daughter, Francis^ married Wm. Finnie, of Amelia County, from whom are descended the numerous families of Finnic, Royall, Worsham, Sydnor and others, in Virginia and 'North Carolina. His son, Thomas Watkins, married Kebecca, the daughter of the Eev. Miles Selden; and one of their daughters was the first wife of Benjamin Watkins Leigh; another of Dr. Thomas Barksdale, of Halifax County. I^OTE 30. William Randolph. — This is presumed to be William Kandolph, of Bristol, son of Isham, of Durgeness. Note 31. Boar Swamp Church. — This church, so desig- nated from the swamp near which it was built and which still retains its original name, was situated about twelve miles east of Kichmond, upon the continuation of what is known as the Nine Mile Eoad. We have been informed that the original church was destroyed by fire, and another built upon its site by the Baptist denomination. The following extract deter- mines the latter event : "About 1773, he — Eev. Elijah Baker, began to stretch his lines, and to travel more extensively. Coming down into the lower end of Henrico, he, in conjunction with one or two others, planted Boar Swamp Church."^ The church has been frequently repaired, and its appear- ance, doubtless, somewhat altered. It has for a number of years past been known as Antioch Church. *Semple's Hist, of Va. Baptists, p. 393. NOTES. 191 i^OTE 32. Peter Wi7iston. — We are led to conclude this Peter Winston to have been the son of James, one of the three brothers, emigrants to Virginia. — Vide Note 13. The issue of Peter Winston was: I. Isaac^ m. Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Wm. Burton. II. William^ m. Martha Mosby, removed to Ky. III. Peter^ m. Louisa Mosby. IV. John- m. Susan, daughter of Capt. John Austin, of Hanover County. Of the same family was Moses Austin, the founder of Texas, who was a merchant in Richmond in 1789. He was also engaged in the manufacture of shot, by the old method of towers, for some years. He was the con- tractor for covering the State Capitol with a leaden roof. V. Susan^ m. Anderson Grubbs. Isaac Winston^ (Peter.^) • ■ Issue: I. Emily^ m. Dr. Peuben Meredith. II. Elizabeth^ m. Colonel Charles Parke Goodall, member of House Delegates, 1816; son of Major Parke Goodall, House of Delegates, Eev. Officer, Lieutenant of the company of volunteers of 1775, organized and commanded by Patrick Henry. Major Goodall was the proprietor of the Indian Queen Tavern, of Richmond, in ^^olden time." A son of Charles Parke, Charles Parke, (M. D'.,) Member of House Delegates, 1864. III. Mary^ m. Wm. Wingfield. IV. Amanda^ m. James Williamson. V. Thomas^ m. Johnson. William Winston,2 (Peter.^) M 192 NOTES. Issue : I. A daughter^ m. Dr. Jones. II. " m. Sheppard. Peter Wiiiston,^ (Peter.^) Issue : Ann Crawley^ m. John Jones. John P. Winston,2 (Peter.^) Issue : I. Mary Ann^ m. July 31st, 1817, Peter De Moville, of Charles City County; Member of House of Del. 1816-18. Issue — Felix^ removed to Tennessee. II. Peter^ m. Wood. Issue : Charles H., (A. M.,) Principal Baptist Female Institute, Kichmond. Susan Winston^ (Peter^) m. Anderson Grubbs. Issue : Peter Winston Grubbs. Note 33. Mrs. Mary Randolph, the wife of William, the first of the name who settled in Virginia. The date of her death was unknown to that indefatigable genealogist, lier brilliant descendant, John Kandolph, of Koanoke, and it has been obliterated by the ravages of time from her monu- ment at Turkey Island. 0^'"»" ■ - ■ 1 111 I" ■ ' * A, — Bowler Cocke, p. 3, line 8. He, together with his brother, were among the patentees of the rich land of Curie's Neck, on James Kiver, which was granted in one hundred acre lots. He was clerk of Henrico County in 1738. B. — Four-Mile Creeh, p. 5, line 13. So called from its distance from Henrico Town. C, — James Cocke, p. 16, line 16. Clerk of Henrico County in 1699. jr>. — Cornealiouss, p. 22, line 38, (Comelious's Creek.) So called from Cornelius De Hull, who owned land contig- uous to it. ^. — Joseph and John Pleasants, p. 26, lines 22-3. These were the sons of John Pleasants, who emigrated to Virginia from England in the year 1665, and settled in Henrico Coun- ty. The editor has in his possession a genealogical "Tree'' of this family, which though unbroken as regards names, and extending almost down to the last generation, is deficient in dates. He has also manuscript material pertaining to the history of the family, who were originally, in point of reli- gious belief, of the Society of Friends. The late Governor James Pleasants, Jr., John Hampden Pleasants, his son, the able journalist, founder and until his death in 1846 editor of the Kichmond Whig, and Hugh Kose Pleasants, the brother of the latter, so well known, more recently in connection with 194 APPENDIX. the Kiclunond Press, were the descendants of Joseph Pleas- ants of the text. The editor desires to perfect as far as may be practicable, a genealogy of the family, and would be grate- ful to any of its members, who might be kindly disposed to aid him with information concerning it. p^ — Bohert Pleasants, p. 70, line 2. The son of John, the younger, (vide preceding note.) He possessed a vigorous in- tellect, and was a man of most indomitable energy. He en- gaged in mercantile pursuits as well as planting, and was re- markably successful in the acquisition of wealth. He owned and resided upon the Curie's Plantation. He entered heartily into all schemes of philanthropy, and agricultural and me- chanical improvements. A subject, in which he was deeply interested, was the emancipation of the African race from slavery in this country — in behalf of which he was in con- stant correspondence with the early advocates of the meas- ure, both here and in England. The warmest esteem existed between him and the prominent philanthropists of Pennsyl- vania, Anthony Benzenet, James Pemberton, John Smith and others. Though he possessed a number of slaves, he emancipated them all by will. He conducted a correspond- ence with Robert Boiling, Jr., of Chellowe, Buckingham county, on the culture of the vine, the manufacture of wine in Virginia, and upon kindred subjects, in 1765-70. He died near the close of the last century. G. — St. Peter*s Church, 'New Kent County; vide note 11. Rev. David Mossom. It affords us deep gratification to be able to present the following extracts from a local announce- ment in the columns of the "Richmond Daily Dispatch,'' of the issue of I^ovember 14th, 1872, concerning this sacred APPENDIX. ^ ^^ relic of the past: "This old church has been substantially and beautifully repaired, and will be re-opened for ser- The original designs which had been shame- vice fully changed, have been restored. The high arched ceiling has been replaced, the walls replastered, finished with a hard coat, and pencilled to represent stone. A new gallery has been put up in the end of the church, and other modern im- provements not inharmonious with its original design intro-- duced. It is now one of the most beautiful, comfortable and effective of the country churches." H.— Jonathan Boucher, page XI, second foot line. John Mercer, the editor of an abridgement of the Laws of Virginia, printed by William Parks, at Williamsburg, in 1737, in a diary kept by him in Spotsylvania county, in 1766, men- tions a "Parson Bouchier/' Could this be adopted as the correct rendering of the name, the variable orthography of the text might readily be accounted for as apparent attempts at adaptation to its pronunciation. 7. Page XXII, foot note. New Church, Since the com mittal of the foregoing pages to the printer, the editor has been informed that the entire walls of the 'New Church were erected prior to the abandonment of the work. J,— Joseph Mayo, note 5, page 163. A recent visit of the editor to the old burying ground of the Mayo family at Pow- hatan,* enables him to present what he hopes will not be con- sidered an uninteresting addition to this note. The Cemetery is in area about fifty by one hundred feet, and is well enclosed by a brick wall — several cedar trees ♦Now owned by Mr. Greo. S. Prince. 196 APPENDIX, within the inclosure, measuring nearly two feet in diameter, are evidently of indigenous growth. The Cemetery is dis- tant from the mansion some two hundred yards^ following the current of the river, (between the two, lie the recently erected depot buildings of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- road.) It occupies the summit of an eminence rivalling that on which is built the mansion. Its military advantages caused its selection during our late unhappy strife as the site of fortifications, which remain a little to the left of the Cem- etery, almost as well-defined as when they were manned by the heroes of the "lost cause." The Cemetery (in which there is doubtless a number of un- marked graves) contains more than a score of monuments to the dead, bearing the family names of Mayo, Poythress, Ma- con, Scott, Cabell, Fulton, Thom and Atkinson — among the more interesting of them are the following : [Mayo Aems.] Here lyeth interred the Body Of Joseph Mayo,* Gent., Born in Sumersetshire, March 25th, 1693, and died March 25th, 1740. Aged, 47 years. N'ear this Tomb, also lie Interred The Bodys of three of his children; who died in their infancy, viz: Joseph Mayo^ born March the 28th, 1729, and died Oct. ye 9, 1732 ; Marianna Mayo, born May ye ♦The Joseph Mayo of the text. APPEI^DIX. 197 24tli, 1731, and died Sept. 5tli, 1732 ; Steph., the 2d, born Sept. 18th, 1735, and died Oct'r, 1736. [Mayo Aums.] Here lyeth Interred the Body Of George Mayo^ Eldest son of Joseph Mayo, was born In the Island of Barbadoes, August 30th, 1717, Died Feb. ye 19th, 1739. The two preceding are companion stones, lying side by side, prone upon the earth. They are, in dimensions, six feet six inches in length, by three feet three inches in width, and are fully five inches in thickness, the edges being rounded into the ogee form. The material is apparently a kind of marble of great hardness and density ; in color, a slatish gray. The perfect preservation of the inscriptions in all of their min- utiae and the still unmarred and polished surface of the stones, are evidences of their unusual durability. The carved inscriptions were palpably by a skilled hand. The family coat of arms being most artistically executed. The Mayo coat of arms is as follows : Azure, vair gules argent, between three coronets or. Crest, a unicorn's head erased, bearing a chevron vair gules and argent. Here the arms appear with a crescent for difference, and are rendered with an Esquire's helmet surmounting the shield, and an exquisite mantling of scroll work. The two following are head-stones of gray sandstone. Sacred To the Memory of 198 appendix. John Mayo, Who died June 17, 1Y86. ■ Aged, 50 years. Inspired by a grateful recollection of parental care and protection, this stone is rais'd by Filial Affection. Sacred ~" To the Memory of, Mary Mayo^ Spouse of J. M., who died Sept. 1792, in the 60th year of her Age. ITow follows a venerable couple — the tombs side by side, altar-shaped and of white marble: In Memory of Our Father, William Mayo, Who was born in the county of Gloucester Sept. 26th, 1757. Died in Eichmond, August 12th, 1837. Aged, 84 years. In Memory of Our Mother, Elizabeth Poytheess, Consort of William Mayo, Bom in the County of Prince George, 1759. APPENDIX. ' 199 Died at Powhatan seat, Aug. 6tli, 1806. Aged, 47 years. The two next are handsome monuments of white marble, obelisk in form. The inscriptions, which are presented on four sides of the one and three of the other, are as follows : 1^. Sacred To the Memory of Colonel John Mayo, He was born the 21st October, 1Y60, at Deep Creek, Powhatan county, and died at Belleville, in the County of Henrico, May 28th, 1818. Aged, 57 years and 7 months. W. He was endowed with an active mind, a feeling heart, and liberal spirit. Richmond will long remember his useful life, to which she owes various improvements, particularly the important Bridge which bears his name and connects 200 APPENDIX. her with Manchester. A work suggested and accomplished by individual enterprise and energy and perseverance. For many years He represented Henrico in the Greneral Assembly, and was elected by that body A Member of the Executive Council of State, But earthly pageant's have passed away, His mortal remains lies beneath this stone, His soul humbly offers itself to God. Reader pray thou with the widowed and the fatherless, that it may be mercifully accepted and graciously appointed to Seats of Bliss. - IN". Sacred To the Memory of Mrs. Abigail Mayo^* relict of the late *Her maiden name was De Hart, and she was a native of Eliza- bethtown, New Jersey. APPENDIX. 201 Col. Jolin Mayo, of Belleville, near Eicliinoiid, Virginia, The remembrance of her virtues, her strength of mind and character, her kindness and usefulness, will ever be cherished by her bereft children and friends. She lived beloved and respected, and died sincerely deplored, In the the 83rd year of Her Age. ^. Obit. 2nd of October, Anno Domini 1843 S. Green be the turf above thee, Mother of our other days ; None knew thee, but to love thee, 'None named thee, but to praise. E. Nat. 14th of February, Anno Domini 1761. We will conclude with the following inscription to the memory of two children of the late General Winfield Scott, who married a daughter of Col. John and Abigail Mayo, whose epitaphs precede this. The tomb is altar-shaped, with white marble slab and panelled slate sides, which, from the mouldering of the cement, are now falling away : 202 APPENDIX. In Memory of Two lovely children, John Mayo Scott^ Bom April 18th, 1819, Died Sept. 23rd, 1820, Buried at Montpelier, the seat of Ex-President Madison ; And Edwaed Winfield Scott^ Born Mar. 23rd, 1823, died May 17th, 1827, who lies Beneath this tomb, Sons of Winfield and Maria Mayo Scott. My soul melteth away for very heaviness. Comfort thou me, Oh, Lord! K. — l^ote 13. Isaac Winston. Though the origin of the Winston family in Virginia, is traditionally accepted by its members as rendered in the note, yet the following early men- tion of the name, which has come to the knowledge of the editor since the latter was penned, he deems it proper to of- fer here: He finds upon record in the Virginia Land Regis- try Office, grants of land to William Winston, the first, of date October 21st, 1687, and the last, 1706, numbering nearly 7,000 acres, and a grant of 1,079 acres in ISTew Kent county, to Anthony Winston, dated October 24th, 1701. Page 171, lines 11 and 12. The editor is now conclusive- ly satisfied that Isaac Winston^ had only two daughters, Mary APPENDIX. 203 t and Sarah, the former of whom was grand-mother of Mrs. Madison. He extracts the following from "The Paine Fami- ly Kegister," :N'o. 1, Albany, K Y., January 1st, 1857, edi- ted by Henry D. Paine, M. D. : "John Payne was an English gentleman of affluence and education. He settled in Goochland county on James river, Ya. He married Anna Fleming, grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Fleming, second son of the Earl of Wigdon, who came to this country in 1616, and settled in Kew Kent coun- ty, Ya., where he lived and died. John Payne,* his son, married Mary Coles, of Hanover county, Ya. His children were : William, Temple, Dolly, Lucy, Anna, Mary, John and Isaac. William died unmarried. Dolly married James Madison, 4th President of the United States. Lucy married 1st, G. Washington; 2d, Hon. T. Todd, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States. ANNAt married Hon. Richard Cutis, M. C. from Maine. Mary married Hon. J. J. Jaclcson, M. C. from Yirginia. John married Miss Wilcox, of Canada. Isaac died unmarried. L. — Page 186, line 9. Another private Cemetery has since come to the knowledge of the editor. It is located on the *John Payne was of the religious tenets of the Society of Friends, and acted for a number of years as Clerk at their "Yearly Meetings" held in Hanover county. His penmanship, specimens of which are in the possession of the editor, was of great beauty, regularity and minuteness. It would thus appear that the marked and graceful caligraphy of Mrs. Madison was hereditary. t"A sister of Mrs. Madison, and every way worthy of the same parentage." {John Quincey Adams. 204 APPENDIX. north side of Lester street, between Ij^icholson and Louisiana streets. It contains several monuments of white marble, one of which, erected to the memory of John Prosser, who died Oct. 25th, 1810, in his 38th year, is quite handsome. It is a plinth, some four feet in height, surmounted by an urn. The only remaining name appearing, is that of Wright, and the latest inscription bears date, 1821. INDEX TO THE VESTRY BOOK OP HENRICO PARISH, 1730-73 ABNY, 29. George, 29, 47, 57. Widow, 57. Adams, Annie [Carrington] 186. family, private cemetery of, 186. Bbenezer, 183. Elizabeth [Griffin] 183. Eleanor, 99. Eliza [Heron] 177. Elvira [Minge] 177. xGeorge, 115. Dr. John presents font to St. John's Church, 160, 176, 177, descendants of, 185, 186. John, 177. Louisa [Carrington] 177. Margaret [Pickett, Carring- ton] 177. Martha [Mosby] 177. Mary [Minge] 177. Richard, 177. Col. Richard, 119-27, 130, 132, 134, 137-41, 145-6, Genealogigy of, 151, 183, proffers land for site of State Capitol, 183. Jr., Col. Richard, old resi- dence of, 184, 185-6. Samuel Griffin, 185-6. Thomas, 107-8, 117-19, 127, 183. John Quincey, 204. Adkins, David, 30, 125-6, 128-9. Joseph, 23-4, 27, 54. William. 26. Aiken, Jr., James, 14. Albemarle County, 162. Alday, Senr., John, 29. Alday, Junr., John, 92. Allan, John, 181. Ales, John, 41. Allday, Thomas, 29, 58, 92. N Allen, Edward, 24, 56. Edmond, 29, 42, 44, 50, 60, 62, 63, 68, 72, 74, 76, 80, 83, 86, 88. Allen, James, 134. Julius, 67, 71, 92, 101, 112, 131. Mary, 89, 93, 96, 99, 102, 106, 107-8, 110, 118, 120. Richard, 117. Ally, Thomas, 33, 57, 101, 130, 137, 139, 144, 147, 149. Amos, Francis, 28. Anderson, Capt. Henry, 10. Anthony, 175. Appalachian or "Apalatsi" moun- tains, 168. Appomattox river and road, 6. Archer, Francis, 89-90, 93, 96, 99, 102, 106. V.., Capt. Gabriel — his relation of voyage up James river, 167. [Gent.] John, 75. Archeologia, Americana, 165, 168. Armstead, John^, 44. Arms of Mayo family of Va., 197. Arshurst, Robert, 6, 7. Arnold, Benedict, Invasion of Richmond, 1781, 184. Asnam, Brook, 66. Atkins, Robert, 131, 137. Atkinson, 196. Aulday, John, 23, 29, 30, 38, 120. Austin, Ann, 28, 52. Capt. John, 191. Moses the early pioneer of Texas, 191. Shot towers, 191. Susan [Winston] 191. Aylett, Patrick Henry, 176. Gen. Philip, 176. Ayrs, Matthias, 67, 70. 208 Index. BACON'S BRANCH, 51, 61. Bacon, Daniel, 96. Henry, 105. Ludwell, 66. Langstone, 79, 85. Nathaniel, 46, 53, 85, 100, 105. William, 85, 95, 100, 111, 114, 130. Bailey, Abraham, 3, 36, 75, 133-4, 145. Bailey's Run, 33-80. Bailey, Elizabeth, 42-83. .Joseph, 104, 137. Roger. Cocke, 128. Thomas, 29, 57, 58. Baker, Daniel, 81-97. Elvira. 150. Rev. Elijah, 190. George, 55. Ball, Lewis^ 146. Valentine, 100, 114. Ballon, Charles. 29-84. Tabitha, 36, 58. Thomas, 36. Barker, William, 137. Barclay, Andrew., 82. Barksdale, Dr. Thomas, 190. Barnes, John, 127-34. Margery, 128-34. Bass, William^, 4. Bates, Thomas, 94. Beaufort. Anne [Ragland] 187. Belleville, 201. Bennett, Edv/ard, 9, 32. Martha. 68. Mary, 64. Benzenet, Anthony, 194. Berkeley, W\, 182. Bethel, Thomas, 71-84. Beverley, El-za, 166. Lucy [Randolph] 182. of Blandford, Maria, 181. T^ewsher, Rev. Joseph, 94, 95. Binford, Thomas, 34-67. Black, 137. Blackford. Judith, 122-29. Blair, Rev. James, 17, 34. Rev. John D., 176. Robert, 53, 70. Blakey, Smith, 153. Blakeley, Robert, 11. Bland, Col., 95. Francis [Randolph] 188. Richard, 188. Blause, Robert, 70. Bliss-land Parish, 90. Boar Swamp, 24-92. Church, 190. Boiling, Archibald, 182. Jane, 160-8-9. John, 3-10, 15, 19, 32, 34-41, 44, 53, 62, 65, 70, 104, 105, 111, 160, 168. Major John, 32, 38. [Surveyor] John, 169. Mary, 168. Family Memoirs of, 169. of Blandford, Maria, 181. of Bollingbrooke, Robert, 180. Jr., of Chellowe, Robert, 194, of Licking Hole, Col. Wm., 182. Booker, Edward, 5, 7, 9, 13. Bootwright, Thomas, -31. Bottom, Thomas, 52, 115. John, 28, 115. Bottom's Bridge, 24, 48, 80. Bottom, Wm., 115. Boucher, Rev. Jonathan, 195. Bowe, John, 30, 85, 188. Bowler, 13, 116. Bowles, David, 145-6. Jr., Thomas, -7-9. Bowyer, James, 144. Bracket, John, 102. Braddock's Defeat, 174. Bradshaw. Larner, 27-54. Branch, Samuel, 57. Thomas, 3-104. Brandon, Thomas, 182. of Rappahannock Co., 182. Bransford, John, 129. Brazeal, Drury, 131, 135. Bremo, 153. Brewer, Sackfield. 8-155. Bridgman, Mary, 126-38. Matthew, 97, 152. Bridgewater, Mary, 129. Nathaniel, 98-149. Jonathan, 114. William, 114. Brion, John, 27. Brittain, James, 85-102. John, 26, 47, 55. Joseph, 130-1. Henry, 30-152. Waddell, 150. William, 21-91. Index. 209 Brock, Elizabeth [King] 188. John Philip, 188. Broclc, R. A., 188. Robert King, 188. Brook, Bridge, 5. Rev. Zachariah, 16, 18, 40. Road, 21-100. Brothers, Francis, 28, 52. Brown, Ffield, 14. James^ 90. Mary, 90, 139. Margaret, 126-138. Bruce's W. C, description of Pow- hatan, 164. Briimfield, John, 30. Bryant, Ann, 11. Alice, 11. Bryan, John, 80-147. Buchanan, James, 185. . Bugg, Samuel, 28-56. Senior, Samuel, 80. Bullington, John, 29. Harwood, 204. Josiah, 131-7. William, 131. Wm. Josiah, 112. Robert, 14-104. Temperance, 38. Burgess, Eliza, 11-19. John, 172. Shelton, 172. Burnett, Mary, 8-102. Susanna. Burton, Benjamin, 5-150. David, 92. Hutchins, 3-44. Jacob, 112. Jesse, 120-137. John, 90-137. Martin, 131-45. Peter, 87. Rachel, 147-50. William, 27-191. Sr., William, 29-55. Jr., William. Burwell, Lewis, 183. Butler, Wm. F., 178. Byrd, Wm., gives land for church, 51, 61, 114. Col. Wm., lands of, 58, pro- cessioned, 113, MS. Deed Book of, 163, 165. Mrs., 114. CABELL, ALICE WINSTON, 175. Dr. Clifford, 175. Edmund Winston, 175. . Frederick A., 175. Frederick M., 175. Dr. George, 175. George K., 175. John B., 175. Lewis Warington, 176. Landon R., 175. Marian F., 175. Paulina J., 175. Col. Samuel Jordan, 176. William L., 175. 196. Campbell's, Chas., Hist, of Va., 162, 168. Campbell, Neil, 152. Cannon, Benjamin, 33. Mary, 21, 85. & Smith's Mill, 21-91. Christopher, 30, 33. Cardwell, Thomas, 114. Carrington, Mrs. Eliza Griffin, 184. Col. George Mayo, 177. Col. Mayo, 186. Judge Paul, 177. Walter C, 175. Carter, Charles, 87. Eliza, 133. Giles, 24-34. .John, 48-132. Robert, 185. . Theodrick, 27. Jr., Thomas, 55. Carey, Solomon, 80-87. Carey, Archibald, 185. Miss, of Warwick, 189. Cask, 4. Cassy, Charles, 54, 67, 71. Cathstone, 144. Chaddock, Thomas, 145. Chapel, 8, IS, 60. Chambers, George, 57. Chapman, William, 110, 117. Chatsworth, 166. Chellowe, 194. Chick, William, 187. Childers, Abraham, 20-74. Eliza, 138-144. John, 80-147. Joseph, 48, 56, 71. 210 Index. Childers, Margaret, 117-149. Philemon, 19-126. Stephen, 107. Childrey, Thomas, 112, 132, 136. Chimborazo Hospital, C. S. A., 178. Chiquohominy Swamp, 5-191. Christian, Jr., John, 116. Church Collectors, 13. Church Wardens — Oaths of oflSce, declaration of, 157, powers of, 163. Chumley's Branch, 6. Clark, Benjamin, 111, 114, 128. Elvira, 150. Eleanor, 11. John, 314. Hannah, 138-144. Mark, 68-124. Jr., Mark, 95-121. Wm., 58, 52. Walter, 30. Clarkson, John, 122. Joseph, 134. Clopton, Geo., 115. Cobbs, 160. Cocke, Ann, 153. Brazure, 29-79. Bowler, 3-153, family reg- ister of, 154, death of, 193. Jr., Bowler, 94-137, birth of, 153, death of, 148, 157. Charles, 154. Giles, 24. Eliza, 154. Capt. James, 56-71-193. James, 5-103. Jr., James, 136. John, 5-72. James Powell, 5-182. Judith, 29-39. Richard, 154. Sarah, 153. Jr., Sarah, 154. Susanna, 154. Tabitha, 153. Thomas, 55-91. Sr., Thomas, 55. V/m. Fleming, 115. Wm., 12. Capt. Wm., 57. Cole, Rev. Roscow, 94. Coleman, 175. Coles, Catharine [Payne] 178. Elizabeth, 177. Hon. Edward, 178. Emily Ann, 176. Isaac, 178. Col. Isaac, 178. Jacob, 178. John, 47, 177. Major John, 77. Jr., John, 177. Mary 177, 203. Mary [Whittle] 178. Mildred [Carrington] 177. Rebecca [Singleton] 177.- Robert. 178. [Stevenson] 177. Thompson, 178. Tucker, 178. Walter, 177. Collectors of Parish, 18. Colonial Assembly of Va., 1619, 161. Conveniency on Tobacco, 18. Conway, James, 30-122. John, 124. Mary, 129. Nicholas, 133. Thomas, 30-124. Cooke, Robert, 109, 110. Cornelius, 22-193. Cornhill, Hickory, letter from, 181. Cornet, Francis, 131-144. John, 85. Cosral, Thomas, 33. Cott, Robert, 70. Cottrell, Richard, 57-152. Thomas, 31, 57. Cowley, Abraham, 95. Jr., Abraham, 97-118. Cowsel, 90. Cox, Edward, 23-104. George, 104, 151. riickinson, 104. Henry, 72. .Tohn, 27-104. Prudence, 37, 39. Richard, 36, 134. Crawford, James, 85. Andrew, 4. Crawley, Ann, 192. Curd, Edward, 85, 100, 102, 112, 115, 131, 136. m Index. 211 Curies' Church, 3, 51, 94, 133, 159, 160. Curie, Wm. Roscow, 159. Cutts, Hon. Richard, 203. DALE PARISH, 19, 40. Dandridge, Dolly [Henry] 175-6. Daniel, Ann, 26. William, 72. Darby, 23, 170. John, 48. Darby Town, 170. Darniel, 79. Dawson, Wm. [Commissary of Va.] 187. Wm. Johnson, 180. Davis, Catharine [Ragland] 187. Davies, Nicholas, 58. Davis, Wm., 115. Dean, Edward, 71. Deane, Richard, 74, 76, 80, 84. Deep Run Branch or Creek, 6. Chapel, built, 64. 69, 72, 90, 107, plate of, 120, 160. DeHart, 200. DeHull, Cornelius, 190. DeMoville, Felix, 192. Peter, 192. Jr., Peter, 192. Derby, 170. Deriguid, Wm., 91. Dewey, Stephen, 13, 14. Dickinson, 104. Dispatch, Richmond Daily, 194. Doane, Sarah^ 123. Dolton, Elizabeth. 110-139. Donald, George, 134. Downs, Robert, 109. Drake's, Francis S., Die. Am. Biog., 179. Drewry, 131. Dundan, Mary, 11. Dungeness, seat of Isham Ran- dolph, 161. DuVal, Samuel, 95-108, Sheriff and Collector, 109, 114-185. EALAM, ROBERT, 6. Eals, John, 17-81. Easly, Wharham, 6, 29. East, Edward, 48, 53, 93. Elizabeth, 33. Richard 56, 78. Wm., 53. Thos., 56. Eastern Branch, 79. Gordon's Road, 79. Edgeworth, Maria, 175. Elliott, Robert, 121. Ellet, Loften N., 184. Ellis, Charles, 57, 78. Jesse, 141. John, 20-124, 157. Henry, 57-111. Williams, 20-141. Thomas, 46, 130-5. Ellison, Robert, 84. Gerard, 24-84. Genet, 52. Elmore, Arobia, 71. Thomas, 57-86. Enroughty, Darby, 23-170. John, 122-149. Epps, Col. Francis, 4. Francis, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 37, 135. Thomas, 28. William, 104. Evans, Ann, 68, 72. Roderick, 37. { Exon, Henry, 15. FALLS OF JAMES RIVER, 164. Faris, Jacob, 132. John, 29, 132. Favours, Theopilus, 91. Fenton, Thomas, 30-64. Ferris, John, 24-52. Robert, 28, 52, 115. William, 26-115. Sr., William, 28. Jr., William, 28. Ffalling Creek, 6. Fflourenoy, John James, 6. Field's Creek, 5. Filbard, Archie, 135. Finnie, Wiliam, 190. Finney, William, 29-157. Fitzpatrick, Daniel, 85. Fleming, 115. Anna, 203. Fleming, Sir Thomas, 203. Fleur de Hundred, 161. Florida War, 172. Flournoy, Francis, 6. Floyd, Charles, 25-116. Stephen, 25, 69. Foard, Wm., 30. Ford, Wm., 68-120. Zachariah, 57. 212 Index. Forsie, John, 68. Four Mile Creek, 5-193. Bridge 5, 48. Francisco, Peter, 171. Franklin, James, 11, 29, 57. Mary, 122-149. Thomas, 103-144. Frayser, Elizabeth, 182." John, 15-79. William, 54-135. Fraziire, John, 113, 135. Freeman. Aaron, 122-147. Catharine, 130-4. George, 33. Holy, 57. John, 57. Joseph, 91, 149. Lucy, 96. Widow, 57. Frogmorton, Wm., 32, Fry, Joshua, 162. & Jefferson's Map of Va., 162. Fulton, 196. Fussell, Elizabeth, 40, 42. Solomon, 133. GALT, LUCY, 175. Garland, Edward, 188. Jane, 188. Gathright, Francis, 33. John, 132, 136. Michaol, 86. Samuel, 25-136. William, 71-112. Gathrit, Ephraim, 56, 71, 115. Gavin, Rev. Anthony, 17, 18, 20, 40. Gay, Wra., 75. Gerard, 84. Gerry, Elbridge, 178. Gibson, Thomas, 14. Giles, Art., 35, 36. John, 22-66. Nicholas, 29-137. Jr., Nicholas, 92-101. Ward, 137. Gilley's Creek, 22-92. Glebe Land, 38, 60, surveyed, 64, 104. House, 19, kitchen built, 19, house enlarged, 82. Gooch, Gov. AVm., 17, 34. Goochland County, 26-162. Goodall, Amanda [Williamson] 191. Goodall, Dr. Charles Parke, 191. Col. Charles Parke, 191. Mary [Wingfield] 191. Major Parke, 191. Thomas, 191. Goode, Benjamin, 64-149. Edward, 25-81. Jr., Edward, 70. John, 97-109. Robert, 103-185. Going, Wm., 145. Gordon, John, 31-147. Gordon's Road, 20-78. Gordon, Wm., 21-141. Great Westham, 65. Green, Eleanor, 60-63. Ursley, 117. William. 96. LL. D., William, 167. Griffin, Judge Cyrus, 183. John, 33. William, 69. Griffith, Charles, 3-13. Grisby's, LL. D., Hugh Blair — Va. Convention of 1776, 160. Grill's Old Plantation, 6. Grimstead, John, 124-49. Grubbs, Anderson, 191. Peter Winston, 192. Susan [Winston] 191. Grymes, Philip. 182. Gwinn, Mary, 75. HALE, JOHN, 67-132. Hales, John, 28-52. Hambleton, Martha, 30. Hamlet, Elizabeth, 64-74. Hancock, Sam;uel, 36, 47. Hancock, Le\n: c w.^ •s. C-^ V t^^ O t, o '¥: \ A^' .♦ IV O ^^^^^ .V jj^^x>^ ^ov^ ^l O O i*^^ , o -- ^^^ :<:$ •'?;)"o ^,. A. p V . s • . , ?^c^ ■^r. r'^ *■ n \ rJ ^. ^^ ^y-r, v-1 „ n a Mt. ^ l / « ^ o x^ ^a-zZ'^. z^^S m FLA. 2^ •> O .1^ • IBRARY OF CONGRESS 014 441 696 A