Leeds Parish, Virginia

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History[edit | edit source]

Leeds Parish has served Fauquier and Prince William counties.

Founded[edit | edit source]

Boundary[edit | edit source]

Resources[edit | edit source]

Cemetery[edit | edit source]

A survey of the graves at Leeds Church was published in 1970.[2] FS Library Book 975.5275 V3b (pages 70-78).

Parish History[edit | edit source]

Meade's 1861 history of Leeds Parish is available online.[3]

Parish Records[edit | edit source]

Colonial parish registers have been lost.

1865-1914, 1971 Parish Registers and Vestry Minutes available on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. The first parish register covers the years 1866 to 1877, and includes histories, list of families, communicants, baptisms and births, confirmations, marriages, deaths and funerals, and collections and contributions. The second parish register covers the years 1879 to 1914, and contains lists of families, baptisms, confirmations, communicants, marriages, burials, and offerings. The volume of vestry minutes and financial accounts covers the years 1865 to 1899.

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. Nancy Chappelear Baird, Fauquier County, Virginia, Tombstone Inscriptions (n.p.: N.C. Baird, c1970).
  3. 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.