Henrico Parish, Henrico County, Virginia Genealogy

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History[edit | edit source]

Henrico Parish has served Henrico County, Virginia. In the early period, it was also known as Henricopolis Church. Between 1680 and 1714, it was also known as Varina Parish.[1] In a 1724 report to the Bishop of London the parish was described as eighteen by twenty-five miles with two churches and a chapel.[2] This chapel was likely the "Falls Chapel" (near the James River at Richmond) mentioned eleven years later in the Vestry Book (by this time the second "church" from the 1724 report was in the newly established Dale Parish south of the James River)[2]. By December 1741, a new edifice on what is now known as "Church Hill" had replaced the Falls Chapel.[2] It was first known as "The New Church" and "The Upper Church". Later it was called "The Richmond Church", and "The Town Church" among other names (including the lengthy "Henrico Church on Richmond Hill"). The Vestry for Henrico Parish began meeting consistently in this new building "at Richmond Town" on November 13, 1749 instead of the older "Curles Church" near Varina where they had met previously. April 25, 1829 was the first time this newer church was referred to as "St. John's Church, Richmond" in the parish Vestry Book.  There is no record revealing exactly when the "St. John's" name was officially chosen.[2] By this time, it was colloquially known as the "Old Church" and had a much smaller congregation than Monumental Church built on Shockoe Hill in 1814 as Richmond had expanded mainly westward.[2]

Patrick Henry delivered his famous "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech at St. John's (then known as the "Richmond" or "Town" church) on the 23rd of March 1775.

Founded[edit | edit source]

Boundary[edit | edit source]

Record Loss[edit | edit source]

  • Vestry book begins in 1730

Resources[edit | edit source]

Cemetery[edit | edit source]

Inscriptions of the graves at St. John's Church were published in Moore's 1904 history.

Parish History[edit | edit source]

Meade's 1861 history of the two parishes of Henrico is available online.[4]

  • Burton, Lewis W. Annals of Henrico Parish, Diocese of Virginia and Especially of St. John's Church, the Present Mother Church of the Parish, from 1611 to 1884. Richmond, VA, USA: Williams Printing Company, 1942. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
  • Moore, J. Staunton. The Annals and History of Henrico Parish, Diocese of Virginia: and St. John's P.E. Church. Richmond, Va., 1904; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1979. Available at FS Library [2 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($); Internet Archive (1); Internet Archive (2); Internet Archive (3).
  • Robinson, Morgan P. "Henrico Parish in the Diocese of Virginia and the Parishes Descended Therefrom," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Jan., 1935), pp. 8-40. FS Library Book 975.5 B2v; digital version at JSTOR ($).

Rev. R.A. Goodwin's history of St. John's Church, Richmond, Virginia (1907) has been digitized by Google Books.[5]

Parish Records[edit | edit source]

Parish Registers[edit | edit source]

The parish registers, which date from colonial times, are published in Moore's 1904 history.

Vestry Books[edit | edit source]

The original Henrico Parish Vestry Book survives for the years 1730 to 1773.[6] It has been published:

  • Brock, R.A. The Vestry Book of Henrico Parish, Virginia, 1730-1773, From the Original Manuscript, with Notes and Appendix. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1991. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library - free.

Websites[edit | edit source]

 Wikipedia has more about this subject: St. John's Episcopal Church (Richmond, Virginia)

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ Freddie Spradlin, "Parishes of Virginia," VAGenWeb, accessed 29 January 2011; Hening's Statutes at Large; Emily J. Salmon and Edward D.C. Campbell Jr., The Hornbook of Virginia History (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Moore, J. Staunton. The Annals and History of Henrico Parish, Diocese of Virginia: and St. John's P.E. Church. Richmond, Va., 1904, pp. 9, 13, 18, 30, 38.
  3. ↑ Freddie Spradlin, "Parishes of Virginia," VAGenWeb, accessed 29 January 2011; Hening's Statutes at Large; Emily J. Salmon and Edward D.C. Campbell Jr., The Hornbook of Virginia History (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994).
  4. ↑ William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1861). Digital versions at Internet Archive: Vol. I and Vol. II.
  5. ↑ Colonial Churches: A Series of Sketches of Churches in the Original Colony of Virginia (Richmond, Va.: Southern Churchman Co., 1907), 87-92.
  6. ↑ Review of History of Henrico Parish and Old St. John's Church, Richmond, in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Oct. 1904):220-221. Digital version at JSTOR ($).


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