THE CHURCHES IN SOUTHAM PARISH.
The first church determined on was on Tear or Tar Wallett Hill.
The church has long been called Tar Wallett. It was built on the
land of Daniel Coleman, in what is now Littleton parish, Cumberland.
The next was ordered to be on James River, on Thomas
Carter's land. The next to be at or near the reading-place called
Worley's. At the same time Peterville Church is spoken of as
having a reader, and another chapel, called Ham, is ordered to be
examined. These last were doubtless built before the division of
the parish. Additions are made at different times to some of these
churches, as to those of Tear Wallett and South Chapel. Mr.
Alexander Trent is allowed to build a gallery for his family. Nicholas
Davies and Carter Henry Harrison are allowed to put additions
to Ham Chapel for their families. John Mayo and Benjamin
Moseby are allowed to build galleries in Peterville Church for their
families.
The vestry appears to have performed their duty in regard to a
glebe and glebe-houses for the ministers, and to have complied with
a law forbidding a vestryman to be a lay reader, by displacing two
who were lay readers, or rather by accepting their resignation.
A lay reader of disorderly behaviour is also summoned to answer
to the vestry.
The following is a list of the vestrymen:—William Randolph,
probably the second of that name; George Carrington, probably
the first of that name who settled on Willis Creek; (these were
the first churchwardens;) Alexander Trent, James Barnes, James
Terry, Benjamin Harrison, Charles Anderson, Samuel Scott, Stephen
Bedford, Thomas Turpin, John Baskerville, (in 1748, in room
of William Randolph, removed,) Benjamin Harris, (in place of
Benjamin Harrison, resigned,) Archibald Cary, Thomas Davenport,
(in place of Archibald Cary, removed in 1750,) Abraham Sally,
William Barnit, Creed Haskins, Wade Netherland, Alexander
Trent, Jr., John Fleming, Thompson Swann, Littlebury Moseby,
Henry Macon, Roderick Easly, John Netherland, Maurice Lang
horne, John Railey, George Carrington, Jr., Edward Haskins,
John Mosely, John Hughes, Edmund Logwood, William Mayo,
Richard Crump, George Williamson, William Ronald, Edmund
Vaughan, Peter F. Archer, William Bentley, Edward Carrington,
Brett Randolph. The clerks or lay readers were Messrs. Hubbard,
Anderson, Terry, Turpin, &c.
