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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.
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