TILLOTSON PARISH, BUCKINGHAM COUNTY.
These come next in geographical order, although not taken from
Cumberland county and Littleton parish.
At the time that Albemarle county and St. Anne's parish, in
the same, were separated from Goochland, they comprehended all
that is now Buckingham, Fluvanna, Nelson, and Amherst, as well
as Albemarle. In the year 1757, Tillotson parish was separated
from St. Anne's parish, and, in the year 1761, the county of Buckingham
was taken from Albemarle.
We have a list of ministers for 1758,—the year after the parish
was formed,—but there is none belonging to it. Our next list is
for 1773, when the Rev. Mr. Peasly is minister, and continues to
be in the years 1774 and 1776. How much longer, if at all, or
who, if any, succeeded, is not known, as there are no records until
1785,—nine years after. No delegation then appears, and the
name of Tillotson disappears from the journal until the year 1830,
when the Rev. Mr. Osgood, minister of Moore parish, Campbell
county, reports some services in it. In the year 1833, the Rev.
Mr. Swift was there. In the year 1838, the Rev. Mr. Cofer,—how
long before or after we have not the present means of ascertaining.
In the year 1845, the Rev. Mr. Meredith appears as its minister,
and has continued so to the present time. A new church has been
erected in this parish, which now stands at Curdsville, having been
originally placed a few miles from its present site, but recently
removed to its present more convenient position.
No vestry-book remains to furnish the names of the old vestrymen
and families of this parish.
There were two old churches in Buckingham. At one of them,
called Goodwin, near the court-house, we have officiated. The
locality of the other we cannot specify, but think that it was
somewhere near the Methodist Female College.
