BrutonThe Fount Friends of : Our Worldwide Congregation

March 2013

Why a Friends of Bruton Day? Jim Morford, Friends of Bruton Committee Chairman

Friends of Bruton is an outreach information, please send an email to program designed to enable those who live [email protected]. distant from Williamsburg to unite with our Friends needing to make lodging resident members in building a broader arrangements can do so by calling 1-800- fellowship - Our Worldwide Congregation. HISTORY to make reservations for the From his earliest discussions about , the Williamsbug Lodge or creating the Friends program, our Rector, Father the Williamsburg Woodlands Hotel & Suites. Chris Epperson, envisioned an annual event at To receive a discount, mention that you are the church providing the opportunity to bring a Friend of Bruton. both our local and our worldwide congregations April is Religion in Williamsburg into a closer Christian fellowship. Month, and is offering is loved and many special events. Among those cherished not only by its dedicated local scheduled for the weekend of April 19-21 are communicants, but also by many who have had multiple showings at the DeWitt Wallace a previous connection with Bruton and no longer Museum of Link Among the Days, a video of live in the area. Each year, as thousands of the story of the Rev. Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin, visitors come to tour, take part in Sunday rector of Bruton Parish Church, and his dream services and candlelight concerts, many wish to restore Williamsburg to its 18th-century to establish a continuing relationship. Friends appearance. On Friday afternoon at 5:00 of Bruton offers that opportunity to share in the p.m. there will be a lecture at the DeWitt heritage and spiritual life of our historic church. Wallace Museum entitled Born Again: The April 20th will be the First Annual Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early Friends Day at Bruton! The day will feature a America by Catherine A. Brekus, Associate special guided tour of the church, the first Professor of Religions in America and the Building meeting of the Friends of Bruton Advisory History of Christianity at the University of Council, a reception for Charter Members, a Chicago. Saturday at 11:00 a.m. at the a broader luncheon talk by Dr. Carl Lounsbury, author and Governor’s Palace Gardens, listen to Thomas Senior Architectural Historian at Colonial Jefferson discuss his views on religion. A fellowship Williamsburg, a candlelight concert performed Colonial Williamsburg Visitors Pass or Good through by the Lenoir-Rhyne Youth Choir from Hickory, Neighbor Pass is required to access these North Carolina and a Coffee Connections events. More details are available online at Our reception at the Custis House at 10:30 a.m. on colonialwilliamsburg.com. Worldwide Sunday morning, the 21st. Some of these events We do hope that Friends of Bruton require reservations. If you have not already who are able to join us for Friends Day will Congregation done so or did not receive reservation find it an enjoyable and enriching experience.

Bruton Parish Church, P.O. Box 3520, Williamsburg, 23187-3520 757-229-2891 www.brutonparish.org Friends of Bruton Connections From Advisory Council Formed The Past by Jim Morford, Chairman By Judy Covarrubias Friends of Bruton Committee Wow! We ask you to let us know about The Friends of Bruton Committee has your connections to Bruton Parish and did you created an Advisory Council to recommend, ever. We want to thank you so much for your evaluate and support programs and projects interest and enthusiasm for The Bruton Fount, undertaken by the Committee. As you know from and encourage you to keep those cards and reading previous issues of The Bruton Fount, the letters coming. In this issue, you will find articles Committee has been meeting monthly for the past written by ancestors of Joseph Cabell, Joshua year to launch Friends of Bruton: Our Worldwide Fry, John Page, and William and Jane Christian. Congregation. In addition, you connected with us through our In order to provide guidance to our small Facebook page and via email. Here are some operating committee, we have created an interesting highlights about your ancestors whom Advisory Council to help guide us as we seek to we want to share with our readers. preserve and promote the heritage of Bruton George Yeardley (1587 – 1627): He was Parish Church – both spiritual and historic. The three-times colonial Governor of the British membership of the Council is drawn from Bruton . He is best remembered for parishioners and individuals from the greater presiding over the first legislative body in Virginia Williamsburg area whose particular expertise will in 1619. It became the House of enhance and enrich the Friends program as it Burgesses. moves forward. William Powell (before It is anticipated that the Council will meet 1577 – 1623): He was a member at least once a year. However, individual members of the first in may be asked from time to time for their advice 1619. with respect to specific projects or issues. The Nathaniel Powell (about first meeting of the Council is being planned for 1587 – 1622): He wrote much of a breakfast on Saturday, April 20, 2013 in Lewis ’s “.” Hall of the Bruton Parish House at the start of our Sir Edmund Jennings first Friends of Bruton Day. (1659 – 1727): He was buried at As we go to press, the Friends of Bruton Bruton Parish Church, and Advisory Council membership includes: Governor of Virginia in 1706. He Bruton members: Sue Godson, Anne was also a member of the House Conkling, Will Molineux, Joe Spruill, Marcia of Burgesses and a member of Hibbitts, Linda Rowe, Channing Hall, Taylor the Bruton Parish Vestry. He Stoemer, Rebecca Davy, and Colin Campbell. authorized the building of our Members from the greater Williamsburg present church in 1710. community: Dr. Taylor Reveley, President of the I also had the privilege College of William and Mary; Dr. William Kelso, of having a most interesting Jamestown Archeologist; Dr. Carl Lounsbury, conversation with one of our author & Architectural Historian at Colonial members, Cynthia Lee. She wanted to know if Williamsburg; Hon. Paul Freiling, Vice Mayor of 40 or more years counted. I said of course. Her Williamsburg; Dr. Neal Tognazzini, Asstistant father-in-law, General Robert Vernon Lee who Professor of Philosophy, the College of William died in 1987, was a member of the Vestry at and Mary; Dennis Montgomery, Biographer of Dr. Bruton Parish and a delegate to Council. General W.A.R Goodwin; Jeff & Jo Anne Coy, first Charter Lee’s wife, Barbara Burgess Lee, was President Members of Friends of Bruton; Joe Poole III, of the Women’s Club. She sold cookbooks every Colonial Williamsburg Foundation; Scott Spence, Friday out of the Parish House Parlor where the Architect. Bruton Parish Shop is now located. Cynthia’s late Ex Officio members of the Advisory husband, Robert Vernon Lee, Jr. was the first lay Council include the Bruton clergy; members of reader in Bruton Parish Church, and a West Point the Friends of Bruton Committee; Marty Easton, graduate from the class of 1946. Vestry Senior Warden; Judy Covarrubias, Editor Those who came before us left a rich of The Bruton Fount, and Hilary Cooley, Bruton and powerful legacy. They all fought valiantly for Parish Director of Communications. Additional freedom and gave generously of their time and members may be added from time to time. talents to their families, Bruton Parish Church, We believe the Advisory Council will and their communities. These few mentioned had provide valuable guidance on the development strong faith and a desire to do God’s work in our and evaluation of programs for the enhancement world. I salute their memory along with you, of the Friends of Bruton project. and thank you for sharing with us. Religion after the nave just west of the transept, and the altar was American Revolution moved to this new wall. The room created in the nave By Sue Godson was used for Sunday School and meetings, and the tower became a coal bin. Always looking for funding, The American Revolution opened the the church even charged rent for the pews. door for religious denominations other than the The years following the American Revolution Church of to gain footholds and to brought great changes to religion in Williamsburg. expand in Williamsburg. Indeed, long before the Observances changed from the tightly controlled state colonies broke with the mother country groups church of colonial times to the free exercise of the of dissenters challenged the established state beliefs of many denominations. Religious freedom had church. arrived in the old colonial capital. As early as 1739, the evangelical preacher and a founder of Methodism, the Rev. George Whitefield, preached a sermon at Bruton John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Parish Church. Presbyterians received govern- ment permission to meet publicly in 1765. By the Memorial Concerts next decade, slaves and free blacks began By Beckie Davy meeting as Baptists in secret locations. The Revolution ushered in great changes As we journey through Lent in our approach to Holy for religion in Virginia and at Bruton. The political Week and Easter, the Bruton Parish Choirs have also begun break with the mother country affected the ties preparations for the annual John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial with the . The disestablishment Concert. This year’s performance will take place on Saturday, of the state church in 1784 ended financial April 27 at 8:00 p.m. and will feature two works from the 18th support and compulsory attendance. For Bruton, century, Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge by William Boyce, the removal of the state capital to Richmond in and the Wedding Anthem, Sing Unto God of George Frideric 1780 stripped the parish of many prominent Handel, along with the 2009 canticle setting of Te Deum by members. The Virginia Statute for Religious Karl Jenkins. This combination of new and old was also part of Freedom of 1786 codified the separation of church the very first memorial concert, which included a Mozart Missa and state, and the final blow was the state’s brevis and what was then less than a seizure of Bruton’s glebe lands in 1813. 30-year-old Sacred Service by the Weakened, Bruton Parish barely survived in the Jewish composer, Ernest Bloch. early years of the 19th century. Even the fabric A scrapbook of programs of the building itself deteriorated. from each of these concerts reveals Into this vacuum moved the three a wide range of repertory. Although denominations that already had toe holds in the the bulk of the major works city. The Methodists formally split with the Anglican performed have drawn from the 18th church in 1784 and became a separate century, both from the baroque and denomination. Their numbers grew so fast that classical eras, notable additions have they built a brick church on Duke of Gloucester included Bernstein’s Chichester Dr. JanEl Will, Arthur Rhea, Street to the west of the powder magazine in Psalms, Poulenc’s Gloria, Requiems Rebecca Davy, Jock Darling 1842. by Brahms, Fauré and Duruflé, and Similarly, the Presbyterians had enjoyed more recently, works by living composers such as John Rutter, permission to worship openly since 1765. They Bob Chilcott and Andrew Carter. met in a private home near Campbell’s Tavern In 2010, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of these for many years and finally built a church on palace concerts, Arthur Rhea, who conducted the first in May of 1960, green in 1885. That building served the returned to Bruton to attend that spring’s performance. A picture congregation until 1930. from that event includes the four musicians who have conducted Under the early leadership of slave these Rockefeller memorial concerts over the past fifty plus preachers Moses, then Gowan Pamphlet, free and years. Two of the altos who sang in the 1960 performance are slave blacks had organized a church by 1818 and still members of the choir, and a bass from that first year is still met in a house on Nassau Street. Soon known as an active member of the parish. The rich musical heritage of the First Baptist Church, they built a brick sanc- Bruton Parish continues to be cherished by listeners and tuary at the same location in 1856. performers alike. By 1828, white Baptists were meeting in While organ recitals were the first performances revived the powder magazine and were called the Zion on a regular basis after the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg, Baptist Church of Williamsburg, then Williamsburg a tradition of the church’s choir presenting an annual spring Baptist Church. They grew rapidly and built a concert was well established by the mid-20th century. After church to the east of the powder magazine by Rockefeller’s death on May 11, 1960, the vestry voted that this 1856. spring concert be designated as a memorial to him, and so they During these years, Bruton Parish have been offered ever since. Although the title suggests that struggled for survival, but by the 1830s, it had the expenses for the concerts are paid by a Rockefeller embraced the Sunday School movement and endowment, they have, from the beginning, been covered attracted children of all faiths to meet there. through the collection of a freewill offering and the church’s Separate classes for whites and blacks were music budget, as provided largely by pledging members. The taught at our church. A few years later, the interior memorial concerts have been and remain a generous gift to the underwent “modernization.” The high pews were performers and to the community while honoring a man whose cut down and painted, and the pulpit and flagstone philanthropy helped make historic Williamsburg what it is today. floor removed. A partition wall went up in the Book Review of “: The Art of Power” by Jon Meacham Reviewed by Bill Barker

Thanks to Jon Meacham’s latest work, Mr. Meacham draws upon that certain sense of “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,” we can Jeffersonianism in all of us to realize, as T.J. did, get securely back in the saddle with Mr. Jefferson that it is not the duty of government to change and help him re-establish himself as perhaps the human nature but rather to work with it in greatest champion of human liberty in the providing the greatest good for the greatest modern world. Mr. Meacham’s other biographies number. on Andrew Jackson, and the friendship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill serve Jon Meacham will be in Williamsburg for a book to inform us about the personal struggles within lecture on Thursday, May 9th at the Hennage the lives of these individuals devoted to Auditorium, Dewitt Wallace Museum. maintaining the principles of human freedom. In the “Art of Power,” we enter into an intimate Bill Barker portrays Thomas Jefferson in relationship with Mr. Jefferson and accompany Williamsburg, and on stage and screen. It is a him on his journey to establish these principals privilege to have someone who knows in the form of our nation’s system of Democratic/ Mr. Jefferson as intimately as Mr. Barker does Republican law and government. review this latest work. In the beginning of his book, Mr. Meacham encourages us to walk with T.J. in his early manhood along the Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg as he is learning about Winter Shelter Program and experiencing the many facets and factions within human nature. We continue with him By The Rev’d Bob Gay during his first political contests as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and cannot help Many communities across the country run a but be astounded with Jefferson’s success in winter shelter program. Usually churches come together expressing, in words the hopes, and aspirations to take turns providing meals and a place to sleep on behalf of man’s universal franchise for throughout the winter. This winter, for the first time, the freedom. We travel to France with him as he greater Williamsburg area had such a shelter program. proceeds to tighten and improve the close Bruton Parish was the host site during the week of relationship initiated between our two nations by February 9th through 16th. Dr. Franklin. We follow “the red fox,” as his While many may not detractors referred to him, during his two think Williamsburg has a signifi- administrations as President, and then into the cant number of homeless “autumn years” of his retirement as he pursues individuals and families, we the creation of his “Academical Village.” unfortunately do. Most of our In “The Art of Power” we remain with homeless have roots in the area Mr. Jefferson through the “shedding of his mortal and work at low-paying jobs in coil” and are reminded why we grew up with an retail or the tourist industry. innate curiosity about the “sage of Monticello.” Most of these jobs are seasonal All along the route on our journey with “Tall Tom,” and part-time. it becomes evident that his propensity to have a To increase the number of churches involved in thin skin for politics is overcome by his effort to this effort, those churches which could not act as a host master a control of his talents, and to apply them site (due to either lack of facilities or remote location) with adroit practicality to the measure of the partnered with host churches in providing volunteers and moment. And, in so doing, continues to dedicate food. Our “partner church” was King of Glory Lutheran his life to planting the principles of a free Church. government firmly in place for the benefit of We averaged sixteen guests per night. The present and future generations, and make them shelter opened at 6:30 in the evening. Dinner, breakfast applicable to human suffrage throughout the and a lunch-to-go were provided. Since Shrove Tuesday world. The journey seems a bit too short as one was in the middle of our week, our guests were invited hardly wishes to put the book down. And yet, to our traditional pancake supper. It Jon Meacham beckons us to continue to research was a blessing to have them as part of more of the fascinating stories and accomplish- our family that night. The shelter closed ments in the life of Thomas Jefferson. More during the day at 6:30 in the morning. importantly, he encourages us to continue the We had over one hundred people journey ourselves on behalf of generations to volunteer to help in some way with the follow. shelter, and we have already started After nearly fifty years of weathering planning for next year’s program. attacks against Mr. Jefferson’s character and To see some pictures and read some highlights accomplishments, we may once again feel com- of the week, please see the article entitled “The Gospel fortable in cheering him on as an unceasing Was Preached” in the March issue of The Chronicle. advocate for improving the human condition. The Heritage of Bruton Parish Church By Randy Cabell

Joseph Cabell was born September 19, at the 1954 meeting when President Eisenhower 1732 near Licking Hole Creek in Goochland authorized the U-2 program. After the downing County. In 1752, he married Mary Hopkins. He of the U-2 over Soviet Russia on May 1, 1960, followed his older brother, William, into public Gen. Cabell was passionately committed to getting service, in 1762 becoming a major in the militia, the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, out of Soviet prison. and in 1764 was elected to the House of Burgesses In 1962, as acting director of the CIA, he for Buckingham County. He and William both were initiated an effort with the U.S. State serving in the House when Governor Dunmore Department which culminated in the dissolved the body in 1775. His name and exchange of Powers for Soviet Spy Rudolf William’s appear on Pew #24 in Bruton Parish. Abel. It has always been interesting to me that John Cabell Breckinridge, a Joseph Cabell and his descendants seem to Great-Grandson of Col. Joseph was represent The Military Line of Cabells. born at Cabells Dale in Lexington, Joseph rose to the rank of Colonel in the Kentucky in 1821. He graduated from Virginia Militia, and served at the Siege of Center College, later attended The Yorktown under Lafayette. Several of his nephews, College of New Jersey (now notably William Cabell, Jr., served under him at Princeton), and then studied law at Transylvania General CP Cabell, The Siege. A grandson, General Benjamin University in Lexington. During The Mexican War from a book jacket William Sheridan Cabell was born to Joseph (1846-1848), he served as a major in a Kentucky of his memoirs Cabell, Jr. and his wife, Pocohontas Rebecca volunteer regiment, and distinguished himself at “A Man of Bolling Cabell in 1793. To quote from “The Cabells Buena Vista. Upon returning from the war, he Intelligence.” and Their Kin,” by Alexander Brown, “Gen. Cabell entered political life in 1849, and was elected to served in the War of 1812, which was waged for the Kentucky Legislature, and in 1851 and 1853 the vindication of Northern rights, and in 1861, to the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1856, no man took a firmer stand for the vindication of he was elected vice-president of the United States Southern rights than he did. Although too old under James Buchanan. The 1856 campaign and infirm to enter the service himself, at the slogan was “Go with Buck and Breck!” In the first blast of the trumpet of war he gave his six presidential election of 1860, he ran a distant sons to the Southern cause, leaving no one at second with 72 electoral votes, to Abraham home to smooth his dying pillow or to minister to Lincoln’s 172. him in his dying hour.” But to Virginians and to all General William Lewis Cabell was the Cabells, he is best remembered born in 1827 to General B.W.S. Cabell and Sarah as the architect of the Confederate Epes Doswell Cabell. He graduated from West victory at the Battle of New Market. Point but when the Civil War started, he cast his In May 1864, by then a Major lot with the Confederacy, leading a number of General, he was ordered to cobble actions in the west, together a force to meet Union where he gained the General Siegel, who was leading nickname “Old Tige,” an army up the valley from since he fought like a Winchester. Part of Breckinridge’s tiger. After the war, force consisted of the cadet corps he studied law, and from Virginia Military Institute. moved to Dallas Saturday, May 14, astride his horse, where he was elected he addressed the newly arrived cadets: Mayor four times – a “I do not expect to have to call upon you record unequaled by tomorrow, but if I do, I know that you will do John Cabell anyone before or your duty.” Breckinridge since. When he died The battle was joined Sunday morning, (from the 1994 in 1911, 50,000 and I always get a lump in my throat when I read republication of people lined the the next exchange. Mid afternoon, his aide came Alexander Brown’s streets of Dallas for the funeral, and another to the General, reporting that the Confederate hard-cover book 25,000 witnessed the ceremony at Greenwood line was sagging under heavy Union artillery fire, “The Cabells and Cemetery. One of “Old Tige’s” grandsons, Earle and the VMI cadets would have to be committed. Their Kin”) Cabell, was later elected mayor of Dallas, and Breckinridge asked simply, “Will the boys stand?” was serving in 1964 when President Kennedy was To which his aide responded, “Yes ... they are assassinated. Earle went on to be elected to the best Virginia blood, and they will.” U.S. House of Representatives. “Well, put the boys in, and may God Earle’s brother, Charles Pearre Cabell, forgive me for the order.” graduated from West Point in 1925, joined the The cadets stormed across the soggy fledgling Army Air Corps, fought in WW-II, and field, and carried the day, capturing the Union eventually rose to four-star rank. He was deputy artillery on the ridge. Ten cadets “died on the director of The Central Intelligence Agency under field of honor,” including a distant cousin of Allen Dulles, and I have a copy of a declassified Breckinridge, Sgt. William Henry Cabell, from TOP SECRET meeting report showing him present Richmond. Joshua Fry Colonel John Page By Jane Van Brimer 1627 – 1692 By Page Laubach Warden I am a proud seventh generation descendent of Colonel Joshua Fry, and a member John Page came to Virginia circa 1650 of the National Society of Colonial Dames of and settled in Middle Plantation, which is now America; and I’m delighted to share a bit of his called Williamsburg. Born of English gentry, he illustrious history with Friends of Bruton: Our was a prosperous man with 200 acres of land in Worldwide Congregation. Gloucester. He quickly acquired more land in Born in 1690 is Somersetshire, England, York, Lancaster and James City counties, Joshua Fry attended Cambridge University and establishing himself in the Colony by holding arrived in Virginia sometime in the early years of minor public offices. He was elected to the House the 18th century. He was appointed Master of the of Burgess in 1654 – 1655. In 1680, he was grammar school for boys which was attached to appointed to the Governor’s Council. the College of William and Mary. Subsequently, Col. Page realized the he was promoted to Master of Natural Philosophy importance of our navigable (mathematics), and was one of the five professors waterways, one of Virginia’s who laid the cornerstones of the President’s house greatest assets. However, he felt in 1729. that the bustling rough and Fry gained political prominence through tumble life of port cities might his memberships in the House of Burgesses and lead to cultural degeneration of the King’s Council. He would have attended Bruton the Colony. He felt that for Parish Church while in Williamsburg for business, Virginia to succeed, it must although he was listed as Vestryman at Valters become a haven for civility and Episcopal Church in Essex County, as well as education in order to promote County Magistrate. cultural growth and preserve the In 1743, he moved his family to what heritage of Christianity that he later became Albemarle County where he was felt was so important. named Chief Surveyor. Assisting Fry with his A devout Anglican, he gave land for a Colonel John Page work was Peter Jefferson, father of Thomas church and the wall surrounding it, in Middle from “The Kin Patch” Jefferson. Their bonds of friendship lasted until Plantation. And he served on the vestry of Bruton death. Joshua Fry is most famous for the Fry- Parish Church. Jefferson Map of Virginia and Maryland, The book, “A Deed Of Gift,” is testimony considered the most comprehensive map of the to his faith. He worked hard to see that area. It was unique because it was compiled from Williamsburg became the Capitol of the Colony actual surveying records. This map was useful and the seat of the College of William and Mary. for many succeeding generations. His picture shows him rather dour and aloof. In Colonel Fry died in 1754 near Ft. reality, I think he was a man with an air of self- Cumberland, Maryland after a fall from a horse. confidence and ambition, determined to help make He had command of the Virginia Regiment and the world a better place through his deep religious was succeeded by , who gave convictions and his passion for education. He the eulogy at his funeral. rightly earned the title, “Father of Williamsburg.”

William Thompson Christian and Jane Sophia Gilliam Christian By Turner Richardson

Ever since I was a small child visiting wedding the War was over, and they returned my grandparents and aunt in Williamsburg, I to James City County where they settled and always looked forward to going to the ultimately raised their five children. churchyard with my grandmother to put flowers My great-great grand-mother, Susan on the graves. It was very early on that I Marston Christian is buried just behind Jane knew that my great-”grands” were buried off Sophia G. Christian along with her son, the front door of Bruton Parish, as that was William Thompson Christian always the first stop. (Jane Sophia’s husband). William Thompson Christian and Jane Jane Sophia lived to be in Sophia Gilliam Christian met during the Civil her early 80s and died in the War in Richmond, Virginia at one of the many early 1920s. One of her hospitals in the area. They fell in love and were sons was Hodges Mann married at Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Christian, who served on Richmond, Virginia in December 1864. They the Vestry of Bruton Parish each had 12 (!!) groomsmen and bridesmaids Church, and was my in attendance. Only four months after their grandfather. Bruton Parish Gift Shop The Link Library by Judy Covarrubias By Bryant Cureton

The Garden Shop is open and filled with Bruton Parish’s Link Library is full of leads features to thrill everyone — bunnies and frogs to internet resources that are available to peak around the corners just looking for mischief. everyone all the time. For example, if you are You will find a fairyland of treasures. Check us interested in the historical context out on our website — www.brutonparish.org/shop. of Bruton Parish Church, you will find Our Gift Shop, opened since 1995, is staffed completely by volunteers, and all (click on the words to open) relevant proceeds go to outreach within our community, articles from Colonial Williamsburg; nationally, and worldwide. essays on religion in American Many things history; and a link to a Library of are made right here Congress exhibit on “Religion and in Williamsburg by the Founding of the American our own parish Republic .” There is also a listing of members. We websites of all the Colonial-era would love to share church buildings still to be found in with you a won- derful project that Virginia. some special people have been For those who pick up a printed copy of this issue, doing for years. below are the URL addresses of the links above: They are called Bulletin Beads, and http://www.brutonparish.org/link_library are made from http://www.history.org/almanack/life/religion/religionhdr.cfm bulletins and programs used at Bruton Parish. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/divam.htm This is a popular seller and a great http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/ fundraiser (beads sell for $7.50 each), so we are http://www.brutonparish.org/article298315.htm delighted to share with you! Thread a needle with dental floss, and double it. Tie a large bead on the end. Begin by Bruton Parish Outreach stringing a bulletin bead, then a small bead, then the center bead, then a third bead, etc. Grants Committee To make the bulletin bead, roll the cut By Neal Tognazzini, Chairman bulletin pieces on tooth picks. Begin with the larger end and roll, keeping it centered. When This committee is to “serve as the eyes and you get to the end, put a small bit of glue on the ears of Bruton Parish to explore the material and tip so that it sticks to the body of the bead. Stick spiritual needs of our community, our country and the the finished product on a piece of Styrofoam. world.” The largest portion of outreach dollars comes Use about 20 bulletin beads for one strand. After from the Bruton Parish Shop. We also receive gift making as many as you need, Mod-Podge (gloss- and memorial donations. Together with the Mission luster) them using Committee, we are charged with deciding how those a small artist dollars are spent each year, and consider grants from brush. As well as local, state, national and international levels. Merit giving them a bit of consideration is lengthy and thoughtful, and many a gloss, this makes times an interview process is used. A recommendation them very durable. is then put to vote. Let them dry and Since the Shop opened in 1995, completely then remove the staffed by volunteers, the Outreach Committee has toothpick. approved over $2,087,000 for worldwide needs. For When you example, in 2012, we gave $9,500 to Episcopal Relief have a strand of and Development for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. beads completed, Other local organizations we support on a regular basis tie several knots at include the Food Bank of the , the end. Cut the Hospice House & Support Care, Meals on Wheels, and dental floss leaving Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). about one fourth We want to offer a huge thank you to all inch of floss. Push the knot into the end of the Friends of Bruton who support us so generously by bulletin bead. Put a shot of glue into the hole to their personal services, shopping at the Bruton Parish keep the dental floss from unraveling. Shop, and personal donations. This is just another Six mm beads are suggested for use. way of doing what the church calls us to do. We work Eight mm can be used for the center. Anything hard to make sure your money is spent wisely and in smaller has a small hole and makes stringing the name of love. And we thank you for keeping us in difficult. The beads in the photo are doubled. your prayers as we seek guidance and wisdom to do Enjoy the project. And, of course, you God’s work. can order bulletin beads from the Bruton Parish Shop. Recognition Long Overdue By Ed Truslow

For many years, the National Society of that approved Virginia’s Declaration of Rights. In the Sons of the American Revolution (NSSAR) 1778, the Virginia legislature appointed him to the has had a goal to mark all the known the graves General Court. He moved through the judicial of the Revolutionary War Soldiers and Patriots ranks quickly, becoming the chief justice of the who won our independence. Williamsburg is full General Court in 1779, Chancellor of of so much history that the fact that Bruton Parish the High Court of Chancery by the end Church is the final resting place of three of 1780, and a member of the Virginia distinguished patriots has gone relatively Court of Appeals. In 1786, the unnoticed. The Williamsburg Chapter of the legislature appointed him to succeed NSSAR and Virginia Society (VASSAR) has Thomas Jefferson on a committee donated a bronze plaque recognizing the patriotic charged with revising Virginia’s service of Captain David Meade Randolph, statutes. In 1787, he served as a and John Blair. Mr. Pendleton’s delegate to the Federal Constitutional gravestone is in the north transept of the church Convention. In 1789, President building, and the others are in the churchyard. Washington nominated Blair and the However, their stones are illegible, for the most Senate confirmed him to sit as an part. The plaque has been mounted on the north Associate Justice on the first U.S. side wall of the nave of the church. Read more Supreme Court where he served until about these patriots! 1795. Captain David Meade Randolph (ca Bruton Parish Church has a proud history 1758-1830) was the second son of Richard and relating to the events of the Revolutionary War Ann Meade Randolph of Curles Neck Plantation period and recognition of these patriots has long on the in Henrico County. He married been overdue. Mary (Molly) Randolph, daughter of Thomas Mann Randolph, Sr. and Ann Cary. David’s tombstone inscription said of him that “He was an active partisan officer in the war of the Revolution, faithful in the duties of an important office assigned Register today and join us for our First Annual to him by President Washington and an upright man.” According to David Randolph’s Revolutionary War Pension Record, he was a Captain in the 1st Continental Light Dragoons which was also known as Colonel Bland’s Friends Day Regiment. April 20, 2013 Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803) a distinguished lawyer was born in Caroline County, and his life story exceeds the space that can be devoted. Among the positions he held include Come for the day! being appointed as a Justice of Caroline County, 1751; Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1752-1776; Represented Virginia at the Make it a weekend! Continental Congress, 1774-75; President of the Virginia Committee of Safety, 1775; President of Virginia Conventions, 1775-76; first Speaker of Saturday, April 20th, will be filled with activities the Virginia House of Delegates, appointed reviser especially planned for Friends of Bruton, but the entire of the statute laws of Virginia, 1776; First Judge weekend of Friday the 19th through Sunday the 20th of the High Court of Chancery, 1777; President offers many interesting events sponsored by Colonial of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 1778- 1803; and President of the Virginia Ratification Williamsburg. Convention, 1788. In 1788, President Washington appointed him to the new Federal Judiciary, a job Whether local parishioner or an out-of-town Friend, which he declined due to advancing age. He you need to register and have confirmed reservations continued to serve as the President of the Virginia for the Friends of Bruton Day events. Supreme Court of Appeals until his death in 1803. John Blair (1731 – 1800) was born Here's how to do it: and died in Williamsburg. John Blair’s early career took him to a seat in the House of Burgesses, where he represented the College of William and Please email [email protected] and Mary, and in 1765 voted against ’s more information along with a reservation form will Stamp Act resolutions. Not long afterwards he be emailed to you, or call 757-345-2252 directly, so became an activist for American rights. He helped you can participate! to write the non-importation agreements the colonies used to protest against British tax We look forward to seeing you in April! policies. He also helped to draft Virginia’s constitution of 1776, and served on the committee Pew Research Names on Pews in Bruton Parish Updated December 14, 2012 by Randolph W. Cabell By Randy Cabell Pew Last First Dates and Offices

In the December issue of The Bruton 5 Archer James 1721 Vestryman Fount, you may recall I kicked off an effort to 5 Archer Michael look deeper at the nearly one hundred names on 4 Ballard Thomas 1674 - 1683 Vestryman 4 Beale Thomas the pews in the church. And I promised you a SrvyGen Beverly Peter 1716-1728 Deputy Surveyor General list, and here it is! My wife, Mary Kay, and I started 8 Blair Dr. Archibald 1721 Vestryman with that wonderful guidebook published in 2006 8 Blair John 1 1774 Vestryman 8 Blair John 2 Vestryman by the parish, “A Guide to the Memorials of Bruton 2 5 Bland Richard 1775 Burgess - Prince George County Parish Church.” We then went through the church 4 Bonyman Alexander 1683 Parish Clerk and photographed the names on each pew, just 2 5 Braxton Carter 1775 Burgess - King William County 2 Bray David 1710 Vestryman to make sure everything matched. So what you 2 Bray David Jr Vestry have in this article are the names and pew 2 Bray James 1674 Vestryman 2 Bray Thomas Vestry numbers as they exist in December 2012. SrvyGen Buckner William 1708-1716 Surveyor General Most of the names along the center aisle 1 0 Burwell Armistead 1769 Vestryman Prior to were vestrymen, or other men associated with 1 0 Burwell Lewis 1725 Vestryman 1 0 Burwell Nathaniel Vestryman the church itself. We are told that names on the 2 4 Cabell Joseph 1775 Burgess - Amherst County pews in the transepts are those of men who 2 4 Cabell William 1775 Burgess - Amherst County served in the House of Burgesses, but there was 2 7 Carr Dabney 1772 Burgess - Louisa County 1 8 Carrington Paul 1775 Burgess - Charlotte County no further information on them. So I spent a SecGov Carter John 1722-1743 In Office couple of hours in the John D. Rockefeller Library 2 7 Cary Archibald 1775 Burgess - Chesterfield Co. trying to find what years they served. That turned 8 Cary Henry 1721 Vestryman SrvyGen Cary Miles 1692-1708 Surveyor General out to be more difficult than I thought. I figured 2 6 Cocke John 1777 House of Delegates - Surrey Co. – apparently correctly – that most of the men SecGov Cocke William 1712-1720 In Office 1 Croshaw Joseph 1658 - Vestry Marston Parish were serving in 1775 when Governor Dunmore 2 2 Cu st is Daniel Park - shut down the Burgesses, so I started with the 2 2 Cu st is John 1727 Vestryman Burgesses for that year. I then started backing 2 2 Cu st is Mrs. Martha - 2 4 Digges Dudley 1775 Burgess - York County up, hoping to be able to put in the timespan they 1 1 Everard Thomas 1769 Vestryman served. But then came a problem. In several 1 1 Graves Ralph 1769 Vestryman Prior to cases, it was obvious that sons and fathers of the 1 1 Graves William 1769 Vestryman 6 Hansford William 1704 Vestryman same name served between 1730 and 1775, and 2 5 Harrison Benjamin 1775 Burgess - Charles City County it was not at all clear when the transition was 1 8 Henry Patrick 1775 Burgess - Hanover County made. So I just used one year, in most cases 7 Holloway John 1710 - 1715 Vestryman 1 8 Jefferson Thomas 1775 Burgess - Albermarle County 1775, but for a few the last year they served, like SecGov Jennings Edmund - 1772. 7 Jennings Edmund 1694-1715 Vestryman I also added the county which they 2 3 Lee Francis Lightfoot 1775 Burgess - Richmond County 2 3 Lee Richard Henry 1775 Burgess - Westmoreland County represented in 1775 or their last year. Along the 2 7 Lewis Andrew 1775 Burgess - Botetour County way, it was interesting to see that, indeed, George 5 Ludwell Philip 1684 Vestryman 5 Ludwell Thomas 1685 Vestryman Washington served several terms representing 4 Macon Gideon 1678 Vestryman Frederick County, but in 1775, it was Fairfax 1 3 Marshall John - County. 2 1 Mason George 1758 Burgess - Fairfax County SrvyGen Mayo William 1728 Chief Surveyor At least one woman has her name on one 1 4 Monroe James - of the transept pews – Anne Seddon Roy 1 9 Nelson Thomas 1775 Burgess - York County Rutherford. Pew numbers were pretty straight- SecGov Nelson Thomas 1743-1726 in Office 9 Nicholas Robert Carter 1754 Vestryman forward, but two large pews in the front of the 7 Norvell George Vestryman church had no numbers. These were: (1) 7 Norvell Hugh 1710-1725 Vestryman Secretary of State-Governors Pew which in 7 Novell William 1775 Vestryman 1 Owens JOhn 1674 - Sidesman the finest tradition of the TV Show NCIS, I 3 4 Page John 1772 Burgess - College of W&M abbreviated “SecGov,” and (2) Surveyors 1 Parke Daniel 1674 Vestryman 9 Parks William 1749 Vestryman General, which I abbreviated “SvryGen." My 1 9 Pendleton Edmund 1775Burgess - Caroline County wife and I have made every effort to make sure 6 Pettus Thomas 1698 Vestryman the names and pews are correct, but if you find 1 2 Prentis John 1769 Vestryman 1 2 Prentis William Vestryman an error, let me know. 2 0 Randolph Edmund 1776 5th Convention 2 0 Randolph Peyton 1747 Vestryman 2 0 Randolph Sir John 1727 Vestryman 2 6 Read Col. Clement 1766 Burgess - Charlotte County 2 6 Read Col. Isaac 1769 Burgess - Charlotte County 6 Robertson William 1705 Vestryman SecGov Robinson Christopher - 3 2 RutherfoordAnne Seddon Roy - 5 Thorpe Thomas 1698 Vestryman Prior to 3 Timson Samuel 1674 Vestryman 3 Timson Samuel Jr. 1740 Vestryman 3 Timson William 1710 Vestryman 3 Timson William Jr. 1726 Vestryman 1 2 Tucker St. George - 1 5 Tyler John - 9 Waller Benjamin 1744 Vestryman 1 6 WashingtonGen. George 1775 Burgess - Fairfax County 6 Whaley James 1701 Vestryman Prior to 6 Whaley Thomas 1769 Vestryman Prior to Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Sec Gov Wormly Ralph 1693 - 1701 In Office The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 2 1 Wythe George 1769 Vestryman