It is possible that bishops moving from one place to another may have carried with them the records that they created and/or their personal records. I'd look further than Virginia. You never know what you might find.
Anita Wills <[log in to unmask]> wrote: One of my cousins, is now a Bishop in Southeastern Pennsylvania. He is the
first African American Bishop elected in Southeastern Pennsylvania (Bishop
Nathan Baxter). He was at the Washington Cathederal for many years, and
oversaw the staff there.
Anita
>From: [log in to unmask]
>Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: The beginning of the Episcopal Church
>Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:39:42 EST
>
>In a message dated 1/14/07 10:27:54 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > > So records before then would be with the Anglican Church? Here, or in
> > > the UK? Or were the records shifted over to the Episcopal Church?
> >
>
>As a lifelong Episcopalian and avid historian, maybe I can shed a little
>light on this topic. At least I'll try.
>
>In the beginning and up to the time of the Revolutionary War, everyone not
>excepted by Act of the Legislature was required by law to attend the local
>Anglican Church and participate in its activities. Those excepted after
>early 1700
>were German sects, French Huguenots, Scotch Irish Presbyterians, and
>Quakers.
>
>
>There was, in fact, much contention when the Baptist denomination began
>making inroads among Virginia population in the 1760s. One Baptist
>Pastor,
>Jeremiah Moore of Fairfax County, was arrested and jailed because he "was
>not
>sanctioned by the State as a Minister." Neither were other Baptist Pastors
>at this
>time. The story is that after he was arrested, the Reverend Moore stood
>at
>the latticework window of his Alexandria jail cell and began to spread the
>Gospel from there. He attracted such immense crowds, so it is reported,
>that the
>local establishment released him from jail. Today, Jeremiah Moore is
>considered by many to be the Father of the Baptist Church in Northern
>Virginia and
>Washington DC. His brick home in Vienna VA, built in the late 1700s, has
>in
>recent years been painstakingly disassembled and is in storage while
>financing
>is being acquired to reconstruct it on another site.
>
>In the colonial Anglican Church, territory was divided into Parishes,
>usually
>covering a single county. Local records, especially births, marriages, and
>deaths were kept there. In addition each Parish had Vestry records kept
>by
>local church leaders. Here the social record of the Parishes may be
>found; i.e.
>payments for care of the poor, ill, and orphaned, church improvements and
>supplies, etc. The Parish also carried out the important ancient British
>tradition of "walking the bounds." This regular process included all
>owners of
>adjoining boundaries who agreed in person, or by approved representative,
>to the
>placement of the boundary marker. The resulting agreements often appear in
>Vestry Minutes. I think that even today, it is against Virginia law to
>cut down
>a "marker tree" or destroy a boundary markers.
>
>Few colonial Parish Registries or Vestry Minutes survived the centuries;
>but
>some - specifically in New Kent and Hanover Counties - did survive
>and
>are invaluable resources in these counties where county court house records
>up to the Civil War period are largely destroyed. The Parish is New Kent
>County was St. Peter's Parish, and in Hanover, St. Paul's Parish. These
>records
>have been published and, I believe, are also available on the internet.
>
>The modern Episcopal Church is divided into Dioceses who elect their own
>Bishops. Most of the social activities, such as "walking the bounds" were
>passed
>on to local government from the colonial Anglican Church.
>
>Joyce Browning
>Fairfax County, Virginia
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>
>
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