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Category : Orange County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Orange County, Virginia, Will Book 1, 1735-1743
Author: The Colonial Churches of St. Thomas' Parish Orange County, Virginia
Author: Lizabeth Ward PapageorgiouPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806353775
Category : Court records
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
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.
Prodigy Houses of Virginia
Author: Barbara Burlison MooneyPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813926735
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Introduction : "An art which shews so much" -- Defining the prodigy house : architectural aesthetics and the colonial dialect -- "Blind stupid fortune" : profiling the architectural patron -- "Reason reascends her throne" : the impact of dowry -- "Each rascal will be a director" : architectural patrons and the building process -- Learning to become "good mechanics in building" -- Epistemologies of female space : early Tidewater mansions -- Political power and the limits of genteel architecture
LEAVES OF A STUNTED SHRUB Vol One
Author: Publisher: RICHARD BALDWIN COOK
ISBN: 0979125758
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Orange County, Virginia: Deed Books 1 and 2, 1735-1738; Judgments, 1735
Author: John Frederick DormanPublisher:
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Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Orange County, Virginia Deed Book Abstracts, 1743-1759
Author: SparacioOrange County, Virginia Deeds 1743-1759
Author: Ruth SparacioPublisher:
ISBN: 9781680341393
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Deed books typically contain records of land transactions plus leases, mortgages, bills of sale, slave manumissions, and powers of attorney. Deed books are a main staple in genealogy research to determine family relationships. This volume contains entries from Orange County Deed Book 9, 1743-1744; Orange County Deed Book 10, 1745-1747; Orange County Deed Book 11, Part 1, 1747-1751; Orange County Deed Book 11, Part II, 1734-1760; and Orange County Deed Book 12, 1751-1759. Originally published 1985; reprinted 2016
Orange County, Virginia Order Book: Order book 3, 1741-1743
Author: Michael R. MarshallPublisher:
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Category : Augusta County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Author: Ruth Sparacio