Henry, I thought the Church Warden was selected by Church officials, and the vestrymen by Church members. It will be interesting to see what the difference is. Anita Wills >From: Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history > <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: colonial vestries >Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:39:40 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from mc5-f11.law1.hotmail.com ([65.54.252.18]) by >mc5-s4.law1.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Wed, 5 Feb >2003 09:42:29 -0800 >Received: from listlva.lib.va.us ([192.131.239.33]) by >mc5-f11.law1.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Wed, 5 Feb >2003 09:42:23 -0800 >Received: from liste (10.10.254.33:4705) by listlva.lib.va.us (LSMTP for >Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <[log in to unmask]>; Wed, 5 Feb >2003 12:39:30 -0500 >Received: from LISTLVA.LIB.VA.US by LISTLVA.LIB.VA.US (LISTSERV-TCP/IP >release 1.8e) with spool id 3739 for [log in to unmask]; >Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:39:30 -0500 >Received: from mailrtr02.ntelos.net by listlva.lib.va.us (LSMTP for Windows >NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <[log in to unmask]>; Wed, 5 Feb >2003 12:39:30 -0500 >Received: from cstone.net ([209.145.72.76]) by mailrtr02.ntelos.net > (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id h15Hf6d21349 for ><[log in to unmask]>; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 12:41:06 -0500 >X-Message-Info: dHZMQeBBv44lPE7o4B5bAg== >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) > Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 >X-Accept-Language: en-us, en >References: <[log in to unmask]> >Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> >Sender: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history > <[log in to unmask]> >Precedence: list >Return-Path: [log in to unmask] >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Feb 2003 17:42:23.0593 (UTC) >FILETIME=[F0C4E590:01C2CD3D] > >I have a couple of questions about colonial vestries which I would like >to put to the list. Is there a difference between a vestryman and a >church warden? Would it be correct to say that since a county's >justices of the peace and other officials were appointed by the colonial >governor, the vestries were the only local political entities that were >elected? > >Henry Wiencek >Charlottesville > >To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions >at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html