I have been sitting with this post for two weeks. Some of the details seem inaccurate.
Friends [commonly called Quakers] (1) began meeting at Cedar Creek in 1719 at a location now designated 15100 Quaker Church Road, S.R. 803, in Hanover County; (2) became a Preparative Meeting in 1721 under White Oak Swamp (sometime called Weyanoke) Monthly Meeting mostly held on the James River 3.6 miles SE of Charles City Court House; and (3) became a full monthly meeting in 1738. All these precede 1740. In 1858 the entire Cedar Creek congregation was merged with and met as the Richmond Preparative Meeting of Weyanoke Monthly Meeting, and in 1875 the Monthly Meeting was renamed Richmond Monthly Meeting and has met continuously since then (though apparently in homes during the Civil War when the Confederates seized the Quaker meetinghouse and rendered it unusable).
Cordially,
Tom Hill
Thomas C. Hill
Charlottesville, VA 22901
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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brooks, Vincent (LVA)
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Rev. Lacy,
The following record is in our online catalog. The records are available in the Archives Research Room and can be accessed at the Library Tuesday-Friday, 9-4:30.
Call Number 33591
Author Erhardt, Ray K.
Title Papers, 1987-1988.
Material 85 leaves
Summary Papers, 1987-1988, of Ray K. Erhardt of Hanover County, Virginia, consisting of PROTESTANT WORSHIP IN VIRGINIA: THE OLDEST CONGREGATION, 1987, a history of the establishment of the first Presbyterian congregation Virginia in Hanover County which traces the congregation’s meeting place from Lacy’s Meeting House through Fork Church to Ground Squirrel Church, and its final designation as Calvary Christian Church, a Disciples of Christ congregation. TRAVELERS REST GOODALL’S TAVERN is a history of a tavern established in Hanover County in the 18th century and run by the Goodall family well into the 19th century, and it also provides a history of the ownership of the land, as well as a history of the Goodall and Parke families. There are two drafts of TRAVELERS REST, one dated September 1987 and the other July 1988 (two copies). Both PROTESTANT WORSHIP IN VIRGINIA and TRAVELERS REST GOODALL’S TAVERN contain maps and bibliographies.
Cite As Ray K. Erhardt. Papers, 1987-1988. Accession 33591. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Format Photocopies.
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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history On Behalf Of Thomas Lacy
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 6:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] out of the box: Jailing the Jerks
I receive your Out of the Box posts and reading Jailing the Jerkers sparked my curiosity - not specifically about the issues in the article but about church histories in general.
For several years we have been researching Stephen Lacy's Meetinghouse founded in 1740 in Hanover County. This is reputed to be the first Meetinghouse established in Hanover and possibly in Virginia according to the recorded history of Calvary Christian Church (Ashland Rd. & Chewning Rod.) formerly Ground Squirrel Meetinghouse established in 1745.
I am a direct descendent of Stephen Lacy, oldest son of Thomas Lacy II, oldest son of Thomas Lacy I, immigrant.
Do you have any history on Lacy's Meetinghouse you could share?
Thank you.
Tom Lacy
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