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HHO' CHARLES PARISH YORK COUNTY, VIRGINIA HISTORY AND REGISTERS BIRTHS 1648—1789 DEATHS 1665—1787 By LANDON C. BELL PUBLISHED BY THE VIRGINIA STATE LIBRARY BOARD RICHMOND: DIVISION OF PURCHASE AND PRINTING 1932 (hnO^ 175,54^.3' fab Table of Contents PAGE CHAPTER I CHARLES PARISH 1 CHAPTER II THE MINISTERS OF CHARLES PARISH 21 CHAPTER III THE REGISTERS OF CHARLES PARISH 32 CHAPTER IV THE REGISTER OF BIRTHS OF CHARLES PARISH, 1648-1789 41 CHAPTER V THE REGISTER OF DEATHS OF CHARLES PARISH, 1665-1787 201 Introductory Note Each clerk of a vestry of the established church of the Colony of Virginia kept two record books. In one, the vestry book, he recorded the transactions of the vestry at its various meetings, and in the other, the register, listed the births and deaths that occurred in the parish. The ma jority of these books have in course of time been lost, but those that remain—nearly half a hundred—are of very great value. To the historian the vestry books are the more important of the two kinds of record books, but to the genealogist the registers yield a greater amount of prized information. The present volume is the Register of Charles Parish, York County, containing earlier entries than does any other Virginia church record book that has been preserved. It is on that account of unusual interest, and it is further of unusual interest and value because of the length of the period covered, 1648-1789. The register is not printed as originally written, but, for the sake of easy reference, in two alphabetical lists, one for the births and the other for the deaths. The immense labor of making these two alphabetical lists from originals frequently very hard to decipher has been carried through by Landon C. Bell, of Columbus, Ohio, who has also prepared introductory chapters giving the history of the parish, biographies'of the rectors, and a de scription and history of the original book. Mr. Bell was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and is a devoted Virginian. Though he now lives away from his native State, nothing delights him more than to delve into Virginia records, to make these, by printing, accessible to students everywhere, and to interpret them. He already has to his credit, in addition to several addresses and vi HISTORY AND REGISTERS OF CHARLES PARISH' pamphlets, "The Old Free State," a two-volume history of Lunenburg County; "Cumberland Parish," containing the vestry book of the parish that was co-extensive with Lunen burg County when that county was first erected and de creased with it as successive counties were cut off from Lunenburg and successive parishes from itself—with ap propriate historical and genealogical chapters; and "Sun light^ on the Southside," which consists of lists of tithables (or tithes) in Lunenburg County in the period 1748-1783, furnished with a suitable introduction. The present volume adds substantially to Mr. Bell's achievements. No one can look at the original book on photostat reproductions of which he worked without being astonished at his patience and at the same time being thankful for it. It is sincerely to be hoped that he will have the time— his inclination is taken for granted—to prepare another church record book (whether a vestry book or a register) for printing, and that the appropriations of the Virginia State Library will be sufficient to pay for its publication. After the present volume comes from the press, a second volume edited by Dr. Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, a companion volume to his "Vestry Book of Stratton Major Parish, King and Queen County, Virginia, 1729-1783," will be published by the Library Board. It will be a great piece of good fortune if publication of this class of material may be kept up indefinitely till all the books have been made accessible to the public. H. R. McILWAINE, State Librarian. Richmond, August 10, 1932. Preface The oldest volume of records of the Established Church in Colonial Virginia has never, until now, been printed. The principal records of the church establishment were the registers,—of births and christenings, of marriages, of deaths,—and the vestry books, or records of the proceed ings of the vestries. The registers were required by law,— by a series of laws varying from time to time,—to be kept as public records. The proceedings of the vestries were kept currently as a matter of convenience and necessity. The fate of these records is a sad one; most of them have been lost or destroyed. And only a few of those that have survived have been published. The earliest of these records now known to be in exist ence is the Parish Register of Births of Charles Parish (or its predecessor parish), York County, Virginia, the en tries in which begin October 6, 1648. The contents of this register and of the register of deaths for the same parish, beginning in 1665, are printed for the first time in the present volume. In connection with these registers, it has seemed appro priate to attempt some historical account of the parish. This has been done in a few brief chapters, presenting such facts as are available respecting the history of the parish, its ministers, etc. The treatment is not very satisfactory, due, in part at least, to the paucity of material from which to draw, after this long lapse of time. The registers are not printed verbatim as they appear in the original book entries; instead, the entries have been carefully rearranged so as to present the names of persons born and those who died, in alphabetical order in the na ture of a self-indexing arrangement. Names so arranged do not appear in the index. All others are fully indexed in the usual way. This subject is more fully explained in the appropriate chapters, hereinafter. 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