A Virginia Village Part 9

August 8,----:

At a vestry held for Truro Parish the 8th of August, for appointing processioners.

Ordered, That John Trammell and John Harle procession all the patented lands between Difficult Run and Broad Run, and that they perform the same sometime in the month of October or November, next, and report their proceedings according to law.

Ordered, That Anthony Hampton and Wm. Moore procession all the patented lands between Broad Run and the South Side of Goose Creek, as far as the fork of Little River, and that they perform the same sometime in the month of October or November, next, and report their proceedings according to law.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Miss Ada Rhodes]

October 6, 1740:

Nicholas Carroll, s.e.xton Pohick Church, 400 pounds of tobacco.

Jas. Bennitt, s.e.xton at the New Church, 400 pounds of tobacco.

John Aubrey, s.e.xton at Goose Creek, 400 pounds of tobacco.

May 21, 1745:

At a vestry held for Truro Parish, May 21, 1745, present Rev. Mr.

Cha. Green, minister, and church wardens and vestrymen.

Ordered, that a church be built at or near the spring nigh Mr.

Hutchinson's on the mountain road, of the following dimensions: 40 feet long, 32 feet wide and 13 feet pitch. To be weather boarded with 3/4-inch feather-edge plank, quartered and beaded; s.h.i.+ngled with 18-inch pine s.h.i.+ngles; sawed frame, and frame work ceiled with quartered plank, beaded, and floored with 1-1/4-inch plank, with proper cornice under the eaves, with pulpit, desk, communion table, etc. With doors, windows & seats, after the manner of the Upper Church, and all the proper facings and mouldings; and window shutters, to be s.h.i.+ngled with single tiers, weather boarded with eights, and filled with tens or brads; locks and hinges that are necessary for the same.

Ordered, That the Clerk of the Vestry prepare deeds for Mr. Andrew Hutchinson conveying two acres of land to this Parish for house of the Church to be built thereon, and church yard.

Hugh Thomas undertakes to complete the aforesaid church and to enclose it by the last day of October, next, and to finish and complete it by the last day of October, then next following, for 24,500 pounds of tobacco, to be paid him at two payments, and the clerk of the vestry is ordered to prepare articles of agreement and bond for the performance of the same.

CHA. GREEN, } JOHN WEST, } Ch. Wardens.

Teste: { Wm. Henry Terrett, { Clk. Vestry.

October 12, 1747: Philip Howell, s.e.xton, Pohick, 400 pounds of tobacco.

Mary Bennitt, s.e.xton, Upper Church, 400 pounds of tobacco.

Mary McDowell, s.e.xton, Goose Creek, 400 pounds of tobacco.

Wm. Grove, s.e.xton, New Church, 172 pounds of tobacco.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Mr. W. W. Kinsley]

October 10, 1748: Bennitt, clk., 1,200 pounds of tobacco.

Wm. Chautneys, clk. at the New Church, 1,200 pounds of tobacco.

Mary Bennitt, s.e.xton at Upper Church, 400 pounds of tobacco.

Alexander, s.e.xton at Goose Creek, 400 pounds of tobacco.

Wm. Grove, s.e.xton at New Church, 400 pounds of tobacco.

October 10, 1749: Truro Parish divided.--Upper Parish called Cameron.

John Wiber Danty, clk. Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco.

Mary Bennitt, s.e.xton, Upper Church, 460 pounds of tobacco.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Mr. H. A. Fellows]

February 19, 1749-50:

Present: Rev. Mr. Cha. Green, Minister, Mr. Hugh West, Mr. Geo.

Mason, Mr. Jas. Hamilton, Mr. Cha. Broadwater, Mr. Danl. McCarty, Wm. Payne, Abra. Barnes, Thos. Wren, Robt. Boggers, and John Turley;

Ordered: That an addition be built to the Upper Church according to the plan produced to the Vestry; and Cha. Broadwater, gent., undertakes to do the same and finish and complete it by the laying of the next parish levy, for the sum of 12,000 pounds of tobacco, which is then to be levied for him.

October 9, 1749:

John Wiber Danty, clk. at Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco.

Mary Bennitt, s.e.xton, ditto, 460 pounds of tobacco.

Jacob Remy, for paling in the New Church, making horse blocks and tarring church, etc., our proportionable part, 1,950 pounds of tobacco.

Ordered: That the Vestry do meet the third Monday in February next, at the Glebe house, in order to see what repairs are wanted to it and the New Church, and the Church Wardens are ordered to give notice to workmen to appear there to undertake the work and also to repair the Pohick Church and the Vestry House.

October 8, 1750:

John Wiber Danty, clk. Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco.

Mary Bennitt, s.e.xton Upper Church, 460 pounds of tobacco.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Residence of Mr. G. A. L. Merrifield]

October 14, 1751:

John Wiber Danty, clk. Upper Church for 7 months attendance, 581 pounds of tobacco.

Mary Bennitt, s.e.xton, Upper Church, 560 pounds of tobacco.

October 2, 1752:

John Wiber Danty, clk. Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco.

Mary Bennitt, s.e.xton, Upper Church, 560 pounds of tobacco.

Ordered: That the clerk of the Upper Church read prayers every intervening Sunday, and that he be allowed 1,200 pounds of tobacco per annum for his salary.

Mr. Cha. Broadwater and Mr. Abraham Barnes are appointed Church Wardens for this parish for the ensuing year.

October 22, 1753:

Mary Bennitt, s.e.xton at the Upper Church, 560 pounds of tobacco.

John Wiber Danty, clerk at the Upper Church, 1,100 pounds of tobacco.