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==== Cemetery ==== | ==== Cemetery ==== | ||
Several of the old graves at the parish cemetery are described at [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2332073&CScntry=4&CSst=48&CScnty=2838&CSsr=61& Find | Several of the old graves at the parish cemetery are described at [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2332073&CScntry=4&CSst=48&CScnty=2838&CSsr=61& Find a Grave]. | ||
The Virginia State Library discussed Petsworth Church Cemetery in a survey of Gloucester County graves published in 1959, but did not mention any legible gravestones.<ref>''Epitaphs of Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Tidewater Virginia through 1865'' (Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, 1959), 118.</ref> {{ | The Virginia State Library discussed Petsworth Church Cemetery in a survey of Gloucester County graves published in 1959, but did not mention any legible gravestones.<ref>''Epitaphs of Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Tidewater Virginia through 1865'' (Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, 1959), 118.</ref> {{FSC|388829|item|disp=FS Library Book 975.53 V3e}}.<br> | ||
=== Parish History === | |||
Meade's 1861 history of Petsworth Parish is available [http://archive.org/stream/oldchurchesminis01meaduoft#page/320/mode/2up online.]<ref>William Meade, ''Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia'', 2 vols. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1861). Digital versions at Internet Archive: [ | Meade's 1861 history of Petsworth Parish is available [http://archive.org/stream/oldchurchesminis01meaduoft#page/320/mode/2up online.]<ref>William Meade, ''Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia'', 2 vols. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1861). Digital versions at Internet Archive: [https://www.archive.org/details/oldchurchesminis01meaduoft Vol. I] and [http://archive.org/details/oldchurchesminis02meaduoft Vol. II].</ref> | ||
==== Parish Records ==== | ==== Parish Records ==== | ||
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===== Vestry Books ===== | ===== Vestry Books ===== | ||
*Chamberlayne, Churchill Gibson. ''The Vestry Book of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1793'' Richmond [Virginia]: Library Board, Division of Purchase and Printing, 1933. {{ | *Chamberlayne, Churchill Gibson. ''The Vestry Book of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1793'' Richmond [Virginia]: Library Board, Division of Purchase and Printing, 1933. {{FSC|106748|title-id|disp=FS Library US/CAN Book 975.532 K2c}} and {{FSC|106748|title-id|disp=US/CAN Film 1425712 Item 7}}; Reprint {{FSC|454934|title-id|disp=US/CAN Book 975.532 K2c 1979}}; [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ez6_pr0qUiEC Google Books] and [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-56145/the-vestry-book-of-petsworth-parish-gloucester-county-virginia-1677 MyHeritage] ($). | ||
== Websites == | == Websites == | ||
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[[Category:Gloucester_County,_Virginia]] | [[Category:Gloucester_County,_Virginia]] | ||
[[Category:Virginia Parishes]] | |||
Latest revision as of 18:08, 13 March 2024
United States 
Virginia Petsworth Parish
History
Petsworth (earlier known as Petsoe[1]) Parish has served Gloucester County, Virginia. The parish church was called Poplar Spring Church.[2]
Founded
- abt 1652[3]
- The first actual reference to Petsoe Parish is found in a land grant to William Thornton dated 16 February 1665/6.[4]
Resources
Cemetery
Several of the old graves at the parish cemetery are described at Find a Grave.
The Virginia State Library discussed Petsworth Church Cemetery in a survey of Gloucester County graves published in 1959, but did not mention any legible gravestones.[5] FS Library Book 975.53 V3e.
Parish History
Meade's 1861 history of Petsworth Parish is available online.[6]
Parish Records
Parish registers do not survive.
Vestry Books
- Chamberlayne, Churchill Gibson. The Vestry Book of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1793 Richmond [Virginia]: Library Board, Division of Purchase and Printing, 1933. FS Library US/CAN Book 975.532 K2c and US/CAN Film 1425712 Item 7; Reprint US/CAN Book 975.532 K2c 1979; Google Books and MyHeritage ($).
Websites
- Poplar Spring Church, The Historical Marker Database
References
- ↑ C. G. Chamberlayne, The Vestry Book of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1793 (Richmond: Division of Purchase and Printing, 1933), p. xiii; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 9 March 2019).
- ↑ Poplar Spring Church, The Historical Marker Database
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Thornton, Wm. grantee, Land grant 16 February 1665/1666, Gloucester Co., Virginia, Land Office Patents No. 5, 1661-1666 (v.1 & 2 p.1-369), p. 573 (Reel 5); Virginia. Colonial Land Office. Patents, 1623-1774, Library of Virginia; digital images, Library of Virginia (http://www.lva.virginia.gov/ : accessed 14 March 2019).
- ↑ Epitaphs of Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Tidewater Virginia through 1865 (Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, 1959), 118.
- ↑ 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.