ST. BRIDE'S PARISH, NORFOLK COUNTY.
Of the position, lines, and boundaries of this we have no accurate
idea, but must refer our readers to the delineation of it in the
Act of Assembly, in 1761, which carved it out of Elizabeth River
parish. (See Henning's Statutes, 1761.) Having no lists of clergy
from 1758 until the year 1773, we must begin with 1773, when, as
well as in 1774, we find the Rev. James Pasteur its minister. In
the year 1776, the Rev. Emanuel Jones, Jr. becomes the minister.
How long he may have continued is not known. We know nothing
more of the parish until the year 1787, after the Revolution, when
the Rev. Needler Robinson appears on the list for one year, and
one only, as minister of St. Bride's parish. We presume he was
the last of her ministers.
Which of the old churches were embraced within her bounds I
know not, nor whether she erected any new ones.
