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 Freddie Spradlin has analyzed references to the formations and boundary changes of Church of England parishes found in ''Hening's Statutes at Large''. His notes are available online at [http://vagenweb.org/parishes.htm Parishes of Virginia] (part of [http://vagenweb.org/ VAGenWeb Project]).
-=== Histories and Guides  ===
-During the last half of the eighteenth century, the Church of England in Virginia&nbsp;lost much of its membership to dissenting religions. Many of the grand church buildings fell into disrepair. In the nineteenth century, "Many Virginians had a deep sense of living among the ruins of a more glorious past."<ref>Rhys Isaac, ''The Transformation of Virginia 1740-1790'' (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1982), 417.</ref>
-*Anderson, J.S. ''The History of the Church of England in the Colonies and Foreign Dependencies of the British Empire''. 3 vols. London: Rivington, 1856. Digital versions at Internet Archive: [http://www.archive.org/details/historyofchurch01ande Vol. 1], [http://www.archive.org/details/historyofchurcho02andeuoft Vol. 2], [http://www.archive.org/details/historyofchurcho03ande Vol. 3. [All three volumes include material on the history of the Church of England in Virginia.]
-*Axelson, Edith F. ''A Guide to Episcopal Church Records in Virginia''. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Publishing, 1988. {{FHL|384322|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 K27a}}. Includes parish register and vestry book inventories.
-*Bryden, George MacLaren. ''Virginia's Mother Church and the Political Conditions Under Which It Grew''. 2 vols. Richmond, Va.: Virginia Historical Society Press, 1947-1952. {{FHL|72441|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 K2bg v. 1-v. 2}}
-*Goodwin, Edward L. ''The Colonial Church in Virginia: With Biographical Sketches of the First Six Bishops of the Diocese of Virginia, and Other Historical Papers, Together with Brief Biographical Sketches of the Colonial Clergy of Virginia''. Milwaukee, Wisc.: Morehouse Pub., 1927. {{FHL|72470|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 K2g}}.
-*Goodwin, Wm. A.R. ''History of The Theological Seminary in Virginia and Its Historical Background.'' 1923. Digital versions at [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/392083-history-of-the-theological-seminary-in-virginia-and-its-historical-background?viewer=1&offset=1#page=2&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= FamilySearch Digital Library]-Vol. 1, [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/380116-history-of-the-theological-seminary-in-virginia-and-its-historical-background?viewer=1&offset=2#page=2&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= FamilySearch Digital Library]-Vol. 2.
-*Hawks, Francis Lister. ''A Narrative of Events Connected with the Rise and Progress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia: To Which is Added an Appendix, Containing the Journals of the Conventions in Virginia from the Commencement to the Present Time''. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1836. Digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=2p89AAAAYAAJ Google Books].
-*Meade, William. ''Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia''. 2 vols. 1857. Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1966. Digital versions of volume 1 at [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/509913-old-churches-ministers-and-families-of-virginia-vol-01?offset=1 FamilySearch Digital Library], [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48592 Ancestry] ($), [http://www.archive.org/details/oldchurchesminis01meaduoft Internet Archive]. Digital version of volume 2 at [http://www.archive.org/details/oldchurchesminis003253mbp Internet Archive], [https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/461500-old-churches-ministers-and-families-of-virginia-vol-02?offset=2 FamilySearch Digital Library]-Vol. 2. {{FHL|218395|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 K2m 1966}}. Mostly histories of early parishes but includes 6,900 names of individuals.
-*Upton, Dell. ''Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Virginia.'' Yale University Press, 1997.
-For images and brief histories of colonial churches where your ancestors worshipped, see:
-*''Colonial Churches: A Series of Sketches of Churches in the Original Colony of Virginia: With Pictures of Each Church.'' Richmond, Va.: Southern Churchman Co., 1907. Digital versions at [http://search.ancestry.com/iexec/Default.aspx?htx=BookList&dbid=28949 Ancestry] ($); [http://books.google.com/books?id=TSISAAAAYAAJ Google Books]; [http://www.archive.org/details/colonialchurches00rich Internet Archive]; 2nd ed. (1908): [http://books.google.com/books?id=MjFLAAAAMAAJ Google Books]; 1990 reprint: {{FHL|521948|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 K2cc}}.
-*Wigmore, Francis Marion. ''Old Parish Churches of Virginia: A Pictorial-Historic Exhibition of Photographs in Colors Lent to the Library of Congress''. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1929. Digital version at [http://archive.org/details/oldparishchurche00wigm Internet Archive] - free.
 === Clergy  ===