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Vestry Book of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1793 (Paperback)
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Vestry Book of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1793 (Paperback)
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More than a half-century ago, C. G. Chamberlayne, under the
sponsorship of the Virginia State Library, transcribed, edited, and
indexed a number of original Virginia parish vestry books, four of
which are reprinted here. While the dates of coverage and lengths
of the volumes vary, they are nonetheless similar in terms of scope
and content. Each volume contains the oldest known records
pertaining to that parish, in most cases beginning only a few years
following the parish's date of formation. Mr. Chamberlayne begins
each vestry book with an Introduction that pieces together the
formation of the parish and important milestones in its history
from published and original sources. Facsimilies of pages from the
original vestry books, maps, and photographs help to put each
volume into greater context, moreover. Appended to the vestry books
are brief lists of the various parish ministers, with an indication
of their earliest date of service as found in the records. The
transcriptions themselves, ranging from about 250 to more than 600
pages of text, relate to the following issues growing out of the
business affairs of colonial parish vestries; namely, payments to
persons for services rendered to the parish, oaths and lists of
oath-takers, news of the arrival of ministers, the appointment of
church wardens, issues related to indentured servants, lists of
tithables, payment of salaries and other obligations, the formation
of parish precincts with the names of the families apportioned
therein, the warding of children, and so on. In each case, these
four scarce collections of colonial church records establish the
existence of thousands of Virginia inhabitants, each of whom is
easily found in the index or indexes at the back of the book.
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