Petsworth Parish, Virginia
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Petsworth Parish
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History[edit | edit source]
Petsworth (earlier known as Petsoe[1]) Parish has served Gloucester County, Virginia Genealogy. The parish church was called Poplar Spring Church.[2]
Founded[edit | edit source]
- abt 1652[3]
- The first actual reference to Petsoe Parish is found in a land grant to William Thornton dated 16 February 1665/6.[4]
Resources[edit | edit source]
Cemetery[edit | edit source]
Several of the old graves at the parish cemetery are described at Find A Grave.
The Virginia State Library discussed Petsworth Church Cemetery in a survey of Gloucester County graves published in 1959, but did not mention any legible gravestones.[5] FHL Book 975.53 V3e.
Parish History[edit | edit source]
Meade's 1861 history of Petsworth Parish is available online.[6]
Parish Records[edit | edit source]
Parish registers do not survive.
Vestry Books[edit | edit source]
- Chamberlayne, Churchill Gibson. The Vestry Book of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1793 Richmond [Virginia]: Library Board, Division of Purchase and Printing, 1933. FHL US/CAN Book 975.532 K2c and US/CAN Film 1425712 Item 7; Reprint US/CAN Book 975.532 K2c 1979. Digital versions at Google Books and World Vital Records ($).
Websites[edit | edit source]
- Poplar Spring Church, The Historical Marker Database
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ C. G. Chamberlayne, The Vestry Book of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1677-1793 (Richmond: Division of Purchase and Printing, 1933), p. xiii; digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org : accessed 9 March 2019).
- ↑ Poplar Spring Church, The Historical Marker Database
- ↑ Freddie Spradlin, "Parishes of Virginia," VAGenWeb, accessed 29 January 2011; Hening's Statutes at Large; Emily J. Salmon and Edward D.C. Campbell Jr., The Hornbook of Virginia History (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994).
- ↑ Thornton, Wm. grantee, Land grant 16 February 1665/1666, Gloucester Co., Virginia, Land Office Patents No. 5, 1661-1666 (v.1 & 2 p.1-369), p. 573 (Reel 5); Virginia. Colonial Land Office. Patents, 1623-1774, Library of Virginia; digital images, Library of Virginia (http://www.lva.virginia.gov/ : accessed 14 March 2019).
- ↑ Epitaphs of Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Tidewater Virginia through 1865 (Richmond, Va.: Virginia State Library, 1959), 118.
- ↑ William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, 2 vols. (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1861). Digital versions at Internet Archive: Vol. I and Vol. II.