Author: William Lindsay HopkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
St. James Northam Parish Vestry Book, 1744-1850, Goochland County, Virginia
Author: William Lindsay HopkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
St. James Northam Parish Vestry Book, 1744-1850
Author: William L. HopkinsPublisher: Millefleurs
ISBN: 9780809586950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
St. James Northam Parish Vestry Book, 1744-1850, Goochland County, Virginia
Author: William Lindsay HopkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Originally the parish vestry dealt with land processioning, care of the poor, apprenticeships and guardianships of orphans, levying of taxes, and other civil matters. Around 1785 the counties took over these functions and placed them under civil authorities.
A Blessed Company
Author: John K. NelsonPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875104
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
In this book, John Nelson reconstructs everyday Anglican religious practice and experience in Virginia from the end of the seventeenth century to the start of the American Revolution. Challenging previous characterizations of the colonial Anglican establishment as weak, he reveals the fundamental role the church played in the political, social, and economic as well as the spiritual lives of its parishioners. Drawing on extensive research in parish and county records and other primary sources, Nelson describes Anglican Virginia's parish system, its parsons, its rituals of worship and rites of passage, and its parishioners' varied relationships to the church. All colonial Virginians--men and women, rich and poor, young and old, planters and merchants, servants and slaves, dissenters and freethinkers--belonged to a parish. As such, they were subject to its levies, its authority over marriage, and other social and economic dictates. In addition to its religious functions, the parish provided essential care for the poor, collaborated with the courts to handle civil disputes, and exerted its influence over many other aspects of community life. A Blessed Company demonstrates that, by creatively adapting Anglican parish organization and the language, forms, and modes of Anglican spirituality to the Chesapeake's distinctive environmental and human conditions, colonial Virginians sustained a remarkably effective and faithful Anglican church in the Old Dominion.
Holy Things and Profane
Author: Dell UptonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300065657
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
"Holy Things and Profane is a study of architecture -- of the thirty-seven extant colonial Anglican churches of Virginia and of their vanished neighbors whose existence is recorded in contemporary records, particularly the forty-six vestry books and registers that have survived in whole or in part."--Preface.
Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas
Author: Christina K. SchaeferPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806315768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.
The Jeffersons at Shadwell
Author: Susan KernPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300155700
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Merging archaeology, material culture, and social history, historian Susan Kern reveals the fascinating story of Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson and home to his parents, Jane and Peter Jefferson, their eight children, and over sixty slaves. Located in present-day Albemarle County, Virginia, Shadwell was at the time considered "the frontier." However, Kerndemonstrates thatShadwell was no crude log cabin; it was, in fact, a well-appointed gentry house full of fashionable goods, located at the center of a substantial plantation.Kern’s scholarship offers new views of the family’s role in settling Virginia as well as new perspectives on Thomas Jefferson himself. By examining a variety ofsources,including account books, diaries, and letters, Kern re-creates in rich detail the dailylives of the Jeffersons at Shadwell—from Jane Jefferson’s cultivation of a learned and cultured household to Peter Jefferson’s extensive business network and oversight of a thriving plantation.Shadwell was Thomas Jefferson’s patrimony, but Kern asserts that his real legacy there came from his parents, who cultivated the strong social connections that would later open doors for their children. At Shadwell, Jefferson learned the importance of fostering relationships with slaves, laborers, and powerful office holders, as well as the hierarchical structure of large plantations, which he later applied at Monticello. The story of Shadwell affects how we interpret much of what we know about Thomas Jefferson today, and Kern’s fascinating book is sure to become the standard work on Jefferson's early years.
Report of the State Librarian
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
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Author: Virginia