Would anyone be able to provide some insight into how and when entries were entered into the Overwharton Parish register (or, alternatively, into any other Virginia parish registers)?

I recently secured a copy of a few pages from the Overwharton register, from the Library of Virginia.  The pages cover three months in early 1750.  I notice that every entry on all three pages is written in the same handwriting, and that the handwriting in all of the entries has precisely the same slant, thickness, etc.  Apparently, all of these entries were written at the same time, in one sitting.  That is not what I expected; I had thought that entries in parish registers were made as the events occurred.

Could this "parish register" really be a *transcription* of the register, made some years later (although apparently still during the Colonial period)?

Thank you.

Scott

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