Author: Spotsylvania County (Va.)
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 599

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Author: Lizabeth Ward Papageorgiou
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806353775
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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St. ThomasΓ Parish in Virginia was formed from St. MarkΓ s Parish in 1740. The new parish encompassed present-day Orange, Greene, and a strip of southern Madison counties. Based on an extensive examination of primary sources, the work at hand is the first accurate description of the formation of St. ThomasΓ Parish, its member churches, its ministers, and others who played a significant part in its colonial history. In the absence of surviving vestry books for St. ThomasΓ Parish, or even an accurate map of the parish, the author was able to extract valuable information pertaining to St. ThomasΓ Parish from the surviving vestry books of the neighboring parishes of St. MarkΓ s and St. GeorgeΓ s. However, as Mrs. Papageorgiou explains in her Preface, Spotsylvania and Orange County road orders comprise the backbone of her study. The road orders for the construction and maintenance of roads, as recorded in county court order books, provide evidence to the existence of churches and chapels throughout the parish. The road ordersΓ value to the genealogist is that they identify the overseers and work crews assigned to maintain the road and any bridges along it. So, for example, the road orders tell us that, between November 1, 1726, and April 2, 1734, John Rucker, Thomas Jackson, Joseph Hawkins, Abraham Bledsoe, Henry Downes, John Davis, and George Eastham all served as overseers of roads near Southwest Mountain Chapel in St. ThomasΓ Parish. This work is an excellent example of historical reconstruction. The Introduction explains how, when, and why St. ThomasΓ was established from its parent and grandparent parishes, St. MarkΓ s and St. GeorgeΓ s. Next, the author uses the road orders and other sources to pinpoint the timing and location of each of the following places of worship: Germana Church, Southwest Mountain Chapel, Southwest Mountain Church, Upper Chapel, St. ThomasΓ Parish, Upper Church, Middle (Brick) Church, Pine Stake Church, and New (Orange) Church. (Mrs. Papageorgiou has also appended a number of important court orders at the back of the volume.) The third chapter gives the tenure of every parish minister and his family members. The final chapter recounts how previous writers--notably Bishop William Meade and Philip Slaughter--have recorded the history of St. ThomasΓ Parish and where, more often than not, they went astray. Students of Virginia church history will welcome the comprehensive bibliography that follows the appendices.

Author: William Hopple Edwards
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666

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Author: William Armstrong Crozier
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ISBN: 9780806304687
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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This is a basic book in Virginia genealogy as it consists of thousands of abstracts of original courthouse records. Will books are abstracted from 1722 to 1800, except for the years 1750 to 1761. Marriages are abstracted from 1722 through 1750 and from 1795 to 1800. Guardians' bonds are listed from 1725 to 1798, and deeds from 1722 to 1800. Genealogists will appreciate that settlers from the Eastern Shore of Virginia and Maryland passed through Spotsylvania County, often remaining a generation or two before moving on to Orange, Culpeper, or Madison counties.

Author: Horace Edwin Hayden
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806301740
Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 804

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Facsimile reprint. Originally publshed: Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1891.

Author: William Everett Brockman
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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George Hume (1698-1760), second son of Sir George Hume, immigrated in 1721 from Scotland to Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and married Elizabeth Proctor. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry and genealogical data in Scotland, England and elsewhere.

Author: William Everett Brockman
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Author: Edward Lewis Goodwin
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: William Everett Brockman
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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