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*abt 1652<ref>Freddie Spradlin, [http://vagenweb.org/parishes.htm "Parishes of Virginia,"] VAGenWeb, accessed 29 January 2011; [http://vagenweb.org/hening/''Hening's Statutes at Large;''] Emily J. Salmon and Edward D.C. Campbell Jr., ''The Hornbook of Virginia History'' (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994).</ref>
*abt 1652<ref>Freddie Spradlin, [https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~grannyapple/genealogy/HANCOCK/VA%20Colonial%20Parishes.html "Parishes of Virginia,"] VAGenWeb, accessed 29 January 2011; [https://usgenwebsites.org/vagenweb/hening/ ''Hening's Statutes at Large;''] Emily J. Salmon and Edward D.C. Campbell Jr., ''The Hornbook of Virginia History'' (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994).</ref>
*The first actual reference to Petsoe Parish is found in a land grant to William Thornton dated 16 February 1665/6.<ref>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).</ref>
*The first actual reference to Petsoe Parish is found in a land grant to William Thornton dated 16 February 1665/6.<ref>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).</ref>


Latest revision as of 16:02, 17 July 2025

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

Websites

References

  1. ↑ 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).
  2. ↑ Poplar Spring Church, The Historical Marker Database
  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. ↑ 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).
  5. ↑ Epitaphs of Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Tidewater Virginia through 1865 (Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, 1959), 118.
  6. ↑ 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.


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