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CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

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ARTICLE XLVI 
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Antrim parish, Halifax county—Rev. Mr. Dresser's letter about it to Dr. Hawks
—Sketch of its ministers—Rev. Alexander Hay—Evan Ragland, Esq.—
Testimony to the religious belief of Patrick Henry—His answer to Payne's
"Age of Reason"—Mr. Grammar—Rev. Mr. Clark minister in part of the
county—His labours among the poor and servants 
ARTICLE XLVII. 
Parishes in Pittsylvania, Henry, Campbell, and Bedford—Camden parish—No
vestry-book—Records of court mortifying—Rev. Mr. Guilliam—Church and
glebe—Vestrymen—Colonel Isaac Coles and family—Church built at the instance
of Mr. Dresser—Patrick parish—Rev. Messrs Webb and Wade—Moore
parish, Campbell county—Succession of ministers—Church in Lynchburg—
Russell parish—Imperfect list of its old churches—Church at Liberty 
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ARTICLE XLVIII. 
Parishes in Amelia, Nottoway, and Prince Edward—Raleigh and Nottoway
parishes—Rev. Mr. Brunskill—His toryism—Threats in church—Churches
in Amelia—Families—Egglestons, Archers, Bookers, Tabbs, Banisters, &c.
—Old Grubhill—Attachment to the name—Vestrymen—Rev. Messrs. Lee and
Berkeley—Nottoway parish—Its ministers—Treatment of one of its old
churches—St. Patrick's parish, Prince Edward—Its ministers—The Rev. Mr.
McRoberts—Contest about an old church—Mr. William Berkeley—Rise and
progress of Presbyterianism in this part of Virginia—View of it confirmed
and enlarged by a friend—Hampden-Sydney College—The Smiths and others
—The Reads, Mayos, Carringtons, Venables, Watkins 
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ARTICLE XLIX. 
Parishes in Cumberland, Buckingham, and Fluvanna—St. James Southam—
Vestry-book—List of its ministers—List of its churches—List of its vestrymen—Rev.
Mr. McClaurine—Littleton parish—Rev. Mr. McCrae—Other
ministers—Assault on Mr. McCrae—His defence by Patrick Henry—The
Carringtons—Sermon by Mr. McCrae—Tillotson parish—Its ministers and
churches—Parish of Fluvanna—Its ministers and church 
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ARTICLE L 
Fredericksville and Trinity parishes, in Louisa and Albemarle counties—Vestry-book—Test-oaths
and oaths of allegiance—List of vestrymen before the
division of the parish—List of vestrymen after the division—List of ministers
—The Maurys—The Walker family—Old Walker's Church—The church's
petition for funds to repair it—The new church 
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ARTICLE LI. 
St. Anne's parish, Albemarle—First churches ordered in the time of the Rev.
Robert Rose—Other ministers—The Rev. Charles Clay—His patriotic sermon—Vestrymen
in St. Anne's parish—Other churches—Later ministers—
Old Ballinger Church—General Cocke—Church in Charlotteville—Mr. Hatch
—Mr. Jefferson—Rev. Zachariah Mead—His mode of curing consumption—
University—Its chaplains—Pestilence among the students—Extract from a
funeral-sermon delivered by the author of these notices—Offence given by it 
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ARTICLE LII. 
Parishes in Amherst, Nelson, Botetourt, Rockbridge, Greenbrier, and Mortgomery—Ministers
in Amherst and Lexington parishes—Churches in the
 
same—Churches in Lexington parish after the division—List of vestrymen,
from the vestry-book—Amherst parish, in Nelson county—Ministers of it—
Churches—Old one removed and repaired by Mr. Coles and Mr. Martin—The
family of Cabells—Sermon of the Rev. Mr. O'Neale on the death of two daughters
of Nicholas Cabell—The Massie family—Mr. William Waller—Botetourt
parish—Its ministers and churches—Old Major Burwell and his descendants
—Church in Rockbridge—Its ministers and church—The prospect at Wytheville,
Abington, &c 
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ARTICLE LIII. 
St. George's parish, Spottsylvania county—The Rev. Mr. Slaughter's history of
it—Governor Spottswood—Germanna—Colonel Byrd's account of Fredericksburg—List
of its ministers—Of its churches—Of its vestrymen—The two
Maryes—Rev. Mr. Thornton—General Washington's visit to Fredericksburg
—Republican mode of choosing a minister—Rev. Samuel Low—Perkeley parish—Its
ministers and churches 
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ARTICLE LIV. 
St. Mark's parish, Culpepper—Its first vestrymen—Church at Germanna—Colonel
Byrd's account of it and the place—The German settlement there, and
its removal—Numerous churches in Culpepper—List of vestrymen, from the
old vestry-book—The Rev. Mr. Thompson—His letter to Mrs. Spottswood,
and its effect—Mr. Woodville and family 
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ARTICLE LV. 
Churches in St. Thomas parish, Orange county—The Rev. Mr. Earnest's
account of them—Names and locations of the churches—Major Burton—
Indian antiquities on the Rapidan River—Benjamin Cave an early settler
—Plate, the gift of the grandmother of President Madison—The letter of
James Madison, Sr. to Mr. Leland, the Baptist preacher, about the use of
our churches—The Rev. Matthew Maury and the Rev. Mr. Waddell employed
to preach in them—The latter administered the Lord's Supper to our people
—Mr. Wirt's account of him exaggerated—List of ministers—Rev. Mr. Marye
—Old Mrs. Madison's Confirmation by Bishop Moore 
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ARTICLE LVI. 
Genealogy of the Madison and Taylor families, from the papers and diary of
President Madison and his father—President Madison's religious character
—His mother's piety—His wife's baptism late in life—Attachment of the
Taylors and Madisons to the Church—Philip Williams's oration on the death
of Mr. Madison and view of his course in relation to the Church—Favourable
opinion of his religious belief 
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ARTICLE LVII 
Northern Neck of Virginia—Bounds of the Northern Neck—Fairfax family—
Its history in England—Four volumes of letters, &c recently published—
Their Protestant character at an early period—The Rev. Henry Fairfax—
Rev. Denny Martin and Rev. Bryan Fairfax—History of Cromwell's great
general, George William Fairfax, of Belvoir—Address to the descendants
—The Carter family—John and his wives—Robert (alias King) Carter and his
wives—Councillor Carter, of Nomini—His excellency but eccentricity—Mr.
Charles Carter, of Shirly—His generosity to the widow of the Rev. Mr.
Currie and to the poor—King Carter's character 
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ARTICLE LVIII 
Parishes in Lancaster county—Old vestry-books—The loss of one of them—
Discipline proved by them—Account of my visit to Christ Church in 1837—
 
The tombs of the Carters and their wives—The Kellys—The epitaphs—The
repairing of the church—White Chapel Church, St. Mary's parish—A list of
the ministers of both parishes—A list of the vestrymen—Tombs at White
Chapel—The family of Balls—The Rev. Mr. Waddell—Records of the court
—Letter of Joseph Ball, from London, to his sister, the mother of General
Washington, concerning the project of young Washington's entering the navy
—Also a letter to his nephew after Braddock's defeat 
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ARTICLE LIX. 
Parishes in Northumberland county—Wycomico and St. Stephen parishes—
Early history of the county—Ministers of the county—Old Wycomico—Visits
of Bishop Moore and myself—Its downfall—The sale of its bricks and nonpayment—Its
Communion-vessels in the church at Millwood—History of the
Lee family—Richard Henry Lee and children—Old Stratford House built by
Queen Caroline—Old Northumberland House—Mr. Presley, and Presley
Thornton—Postscript—Further notice of the Lees—The Corbin family—Old
vestry-book found—(See Appendix
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ARTICLE LX. 
Cople parish, Westmoreland—Ministers of it—Churches of it—Yeocomico—
Visit to it in 1834—The McGuire family—The Newton family—Tombstones
and epitaphs in Cople parish—Contest about the church—Judge McComas's
letter—Letter of Mr. Rogers, of Princeton, New Jersey 
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ARTICLE LXI. 
Washington parish, Westmoreland county—The ministers—Rev. Mr. De Butts
—His letter to the Bishop of London—Rev. Archibald Campbell—History
of himself and family—Old Round Hill and Pope's Creek Churches—Other
ministers—Washington's birthplace—A visit to it and the vault—Proposition
before the Legislature in relation to them—Leeds or Bray's Church—The
town a cradle of Virginia patriotism—Resolutions there adopted, (See Appendix)—Bishop
Payne's letter about Old Round Hill Church, and his family
—The Washington family—The wills of the two brothers John and Lawrence,
the first settlers in Virginia—The vault at Stratford—Thomas Lee
buried at Pope's Creek Church 
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ARTICLE LXII. 
Farnham and Lunenburg parishes, Richmond county—Records of the court at
Tappahannock—Magistrates of old Rappahannock county and Sittenburne
parish—Records of Richmond county—Principal families—Farnham parish
and churches—Ministers—Vestrymen—Address of the vestry to it—Letters
to and from Bishop Madison—My visit to Farnham Church in 1837—Lunenburg
parish and churches—Ministers—Controversy between the Rev. Mr.
Kay and some of his vestry—Rev. Mr. Giberne—Letter of a friend (Colonel
Carter) in Lunenburg parish, concerning the old churches and ministers—
The Tayloe family—Micous and Fauntleroys intermarry 
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ARTICLE LXIII 
Parishes in King George—Changes in their boundaries—Hanover parish—Its
churches and ministers—Its vestrymen, from the vestry-book and records of
the court—Rev. Mr. Boucher—Letter of General Washington to him—Recent
history of the parish—The Turner family—Brunswick parish—Its ministers,
churches, and vestrymen—St. Paul's parish—Old vestry-book and register,
begun by the Rev. David Stuart, and continued by his son, William Stuart—
Their long and excellent ministry—Other ministers—St. Paul's Church—My
visit to it in 1812 or 1813—The old African woman—History of the Fitzhugh
family 
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ARTICLE LXIV 
Overwharton parish, Stafford county—Alexander Scott—His tombstone—Rev.
Mr. Moncure—His history by Mrs. Wood—Tomb of her mother—Death of
 
the Rev. Mr. Moncure—Letter of George Mason, of Gunston, on the occasion
—Ministers after Mr. Moncure—Old Aquia Church—Old Potomac Church
—Letter of Judge Daniel, giving an account of the old families around the
two churches 
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ARTICLE LXV. 
Dettingen parish, Prince William county—Vestry-book—Ministers—Rev.
James Scott—His descendants—His son and the duel—Churches in the
parish—Old pieces of Communion-plate—Dumfries—Care of the vestry in
having apprentices instructed—Rev. John Scott buried in the old church at
Winchester—His history—Ministers after him—Names of vestrymen and
lay readers 
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ARTICLE LXVI. 
Hamilton and Leeds parishes, Fauquier—Fate of the vestry-book—Rev. Mr.
Keith—Rev. Mr. Brunskill—The churches—Other ministers—Rev. Mr.
Thomson's patriotic sermon—Oakhill—The principal families—Rev. Mr.
Lemmon—Judge Marshall—Anecdotes of him—Tenderness to Mrs. Marshall
—His religious opinions—Letter of the Rev. Mr. Norwood 
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ARTICLE LXVII. 
Truro parish, Fairfax county—Rev. Charles Green—Rev. Lee Massey—Sermons
of Mr. Massey—First vestry an unlawful one—Pohick Church, when
built—Vestrymen of it—Contest between Washington and Mason about the
site—My visit to it in 1837—Its repairs—Sketch of the Mason family—
Mother of Temple Mason—Her pious letters—The Lewis family—Martin
Cockburn—The Hendersons—The Rev. Mason Weems—Mount Vernon after
the death of Mrs. Washington—The Blackburns—Judge Washington—Two
letters from Mr. Stoddert, of Maryland, concerning the Rev. Lee Massey,
George Johnson, and Martin Cockburn, and Mrs. Cockburn—Mistake in the
same—General Washington's English coach 
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ARTICLE LXVIII. 
Religious character of Washington—The Rev. Mr. McGuire's book—Washington's
early advantages under pious friends and ministers—Early indication
of pious feelings—His public documents prove it—The general voice ascribes
it to him—His private devotion—His public acts when a young officer—His
correspondence with Governor Dinwiddie—His private diary testifies to it—
As General of the army, his orders are marked by it—His respect for the
Sabbath as private citizen and President of the United States—His condemnation
of swearing, of gambling, of duelling—His belief of a special Providence—How
far he was addicted to hunting—Was he a communicant?—
Bishop White's account of it—His last moments 
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ARTICLE LXIX. 
Fairfax parish—Christ Church—Original names of Alexandria—Churches—
Ministers—Rev. Bryan Fairfax—Rev. Dr. Griffith—Visit to the Falls Church
—Dr. McQuerr—Griffith chosen first Bishop—His zeal in the cause of the
Church—Correspondence with Dr. Buchanon—Case of the glebe—List of
vestrymen—George Taylor and Edmund I. Lee 
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ARTICLE LXX. 
St. Paul's Church, Alexandria, Cameron and Shelburne parishes, Loudon
county—Separation from Christ Church under Mr. Gibson—Purchase of
Old St. Paul's—First vestry—Other vestrymen—New church—Liberality of
Mr. McLean—Bishop Claggett—Bishop Madison—List of ministers—Cameron
parish—Its ministers and churches—Shelburne—Its churches and ministers
and vestrymen—Rev. Dr. Griffith—Rev. Mr. Dunn—The glebe—Lawsuit
—Its vestrymen 
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ARTICLE LXXI. 
Parishes in Frederick county—The Valley of Virginia—Mr. Jefferson's opinion
of it correct—Germans the first settlers—The Hites—Presbyterians tolerated
—First vestry condemned—Log churches—Lord Fairfax—List of the vestrymen—Lay
readers—Ministers—Alexander Balmaine—Mrs. Hannah Washington—Cunningham's
Chapel 
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ARTICLE LXXII. 
Continuation of ministers—Old parish divided into four—New churches—Free
and common churches opposed—Burwell graveyard—List of vestrymen continued—The
Burwell family—Governor Nicholson and Miss Burwell—Edmund
Randolph—His account of the infidelity of the age at William and Mary 
287 
ARTICLE LXXIII. 
Norbourne parish, Berkeley county—The Shepherds—Shepherdstown and its
churches—Charlestown and the old church—The Washingtons—The ministers
of this parish—The Rev. Benjamin Allen—Martinsburg and the old church—
The Pendleton family—Judge Pendleton's autobiography—The value of respectable
birth—Colonel Edward Colston—Other families 
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ARTICLE LXXIV. 
Morgan's Chapel—The character of Morgan Morgan—The family—Benjamin
Allen—Names of other ministers—New churches—General Charles Lee and
his impious will—Other Generals around 
802 
ARTICLE LXXV. 
Parishes in Hampshire and Shenandoah—List of ministers in Hampshire—
Rev. Norman Nash and Bishop Moore about the study of the dead languages
—The old Scotchman and his commentary—The churches built by the Messrs.
Nash—Parish of Beckford, in Dunmore, afterwards Shenandoah, county—
Settled by Germans—The Swedish congregation united with the Episcopal
Church under Peter Muhlenburg, afterwards General Muhlenburg—Sketch
of his history—Downfall of the Church—Recent and fruitless efforts for its
revival 
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ARTICLE LXXVI. 
Parishes in Augusta and Rockingham—First part of the valley seen by the
white man—Governor Spottswood's view of it from the Blue Ridge—First
vestry—Its first ministers—Rev. Mr. Balmaine—His patriotism—Address
from the county on American affairs—Vestrymen and Burgesses—The Virginia
Assembly driven to Staunton—Met in the old church—Later ministers—
New church—Present church—Old churches in Rockingham—Gabriel Jones
—Peachy Gilmer—The Lewis family 
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ARTICLE LXXVII. 
Churches in Brooke county—Dr. Doddridge's account of the neglect of the Episcopal
Church in the West—Objections to it—Dr. Doddridge's history and
character—His labours in Brooke county—The churches in it—The ministers—The
case of Western Virginia—Proposition to divide the Diocese—The
result—Extract from my pamphlet on the subject 
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ARTICLE LXXVIII. 
Churches in Wheeling, Clarksburg, Fairmont, Weston, and Buchanon—Dr.
Doddridge the first who preached in Wheeling—Bishop Chase moved its
organization—Mr. John Armstrong the first rector—Names of the first vestrymen—Succession
of vestrymen—Succession of ministers—Churches—
Action of the vestry as to the division of the Diocese—Mr. Simms—Judge
Caldwell—Resignation of the Rev. William Armstrong—Church in East
 
Wheeling established with the approbation of Mr. Armstrong—Its ministers
—Glebe-house and church—Church in Clarksburg—Its ministers and church
—Case of Mr. McMechin—Mr. Despard—Church in Weston—Its ministers—
Church in Fairmont—Its ministers—Buchanon 
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ARTICLE LXXIX. 
Churches in Kanawha, at Ravenswood, Parkersburg and its vicinity, New
Martinsville, and Moundsville—Rev. Mr. Page first minister in Kanawha—
Other ministers—The church in Charleston—Its history—List of vestrymen
—Old Mrs. Quarrier and family—The Salines—Coalsmouth—Its churches—
The Hudsons and Thompsons—Vestrymen—Stations on the Kanawha—
Point Pleasant—Mercer's Bottom—Bruce Chapel—Ravenswood Church—Its
builders—Vestrymen—Ladies' association—Ministers—Bellville Church—
Its builder—Parkersburg—Its church—Ministers—Vestrymen—Cow Creek
Church—New Martinsville—Moundsville 
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ARTICLE LXXX. 
The General Church—The Church in Maryland—Dr. Chandler's testimony—
Bishop White's opinion of the old clergy—Sir William Berkeley's wish as to
schools and printing—Church in South Carolina—Her first missionaries—
The sermons of that day in England and America—Dr. Coke's estimate of
the clergy—Tillotson's sermons the best in use—Tracts of the Christian
Knowledge Society—Mr. Wilberforce—The Rev. Mr. Bacon, of Maryland—
Instruction of servants—Moralizing preaching—My first acquaintances
among the clergy—Bishop White, Dr. Abercrombie, Bishop Hobart, &c.—Dr.
Percy, of South Carolina—His tracts—His history—My tour in favour of the
Colonization Society—Acquaintances formed—Results of it—General Convention—Hymns
added to the Prayer-Book—History of it—Public baptism
and pious sponsors recommended—Francis Key—Great deference for Bishops
—A change in that respect—Proposed alteration in the thirty-fifth canon—
The general seminary—Judge Cameron—Bishop White's statement—My own
—Proposed changes in the service—Episcopal Sunday-School Union—Evangelical
Knowledge Society—Missionary Society of the Church—Memorial and
commission of Bishops—My letter to the commission—Concluding remarks. 
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APPENDICES. 
No. 1.—Journal of the Convention of 1719  393 
No. 2.—Celebration at Jamestown in 1807  420 
No. 3.—Origin of the names of parishes  425 
No. 4.—List of names of old families of Virginia, and of those from Wales  428 
No. 5.—Rolph's letter concerning the early settlements in Virginia  430 
No. 6.—Association in the Northern Neck, in 1766, against the Stamp Act  434 
No. 7.—Sundry Acts of the Virginia Assembly, memorials, &c., from the year
1776 to 1802, concerning the Episcopal Church 
436 
No. 8.—Dr. Hawk's account of the last years of the Church, glebe question, &c.  446 
No. 9.—Judge Story's opinion in the Supreme Court on the glebe question  452 
No. 10.—John Randolph's recantation of Gibbon's principles  459 
No. 11.—The Rev. David Mossom's epitaph  460 
No. 12.—Genealogy of the Ellis family  460 
No. 13.—Of the Baylor family  464 
No. 14.—The Peyton family  466 
No. 15.—Ministers, &c. of St. Stephen's and Wycomico parishes, Northumberl'd  467 
No. 16.—Extracts from Ralphe Hamor  469 
No. 17.—The Brokenbrough and Fauntleroy families  474 
No. 18.—The Beverley family  481 
No. 19.—The Phillips and Fowke families  482 
No. 20.—Further and more accurate information concerning Pohick Church  484 
No. 21.—The inscription on Commissary Blair's tombstone in the old graveyard
at Jamestown 
486 
No. 22.—Episcopal High School  488 
No. 23.—Further Statements concerning the Religious Character of Washington
and the Question whether he was a Communicant or not 
490 
No. 24.—Extract from the "Virginia Almanac" for 1776  495 
No. 25.—Blissland Parish. New Kent County  496