{"id":132,"date":"2007-12-18T19:07:32","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T02:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/18\/virginia-church-records\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T19:11:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T02:11:35","slug":"virginia-church-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/18\/virginia-church-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Church Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very excited I am this evening!\u00a0 I have been researching Virginia Church Records and I’d like to share two studies that\u00a0show specific ancestors doing fun things.<\/p>\n

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  1. Nelson, John K.\u00a0 A Blessed Company:\u00a0 Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 2001.\u00a0 University of North Carolina Press, PO Box 2288, Chapel Hill NC 27515-2288.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.uncpress.unc.edu<\/a>\u00a0 There were 47 parishes in 1690 and 95 in 1775, on the eve of the American Revolution which changed established religious worship and record keeping for all time.\u00a0 Appendix A is a “Biographical Dictionary of Virginia’s Anglican Parish Clergy, 1690-1776”–some 365 clergyman.\u00a0 Included among these is William Stith, born 1707 in Virginia.\u00a0 He married Judith Randolph.\u00a0 He graduated from the College of William and Mary and served as master of the grammar school.\u00a0 He was also a local historian. I’m hunting now for what he wrote.<\/li>\n
  2. Worrall, Jay R.\u00a0 The Friendly Virginians:\u00a0 America’s First<\/em><\/strong> Quakers.<\/em><\/strong> 1994.\u00a0 Available Iberian Publishing Company, 548 Cedar Creek Drive, Athens GA 30605-3408.\u00a0 Quakers appeared first\u00a0in Virginia in Sep 1655.\u00a0 The population was 18,000 scattered through the woods along the rivers and creeks of the Tidewater.\u00a0 About 50% of these were indentured servants who had to serve their masters for a period of years before they could acquire lands of their own.\u00a0 There were also about 5,000 Black slaves and 4,000 Indians.\u00a0 Appendix A is a “List of Quaker Meetings in Virginia” and there is an accompanying map showing the locations by number.\u00a0 Quakers brought America their commitment to peace and their desire to end war and violence; their\u00a0belief in religious freedom, civil rights, women’s rights, aid for Native Americans, and recommended\u00a0changes to\u00a0the penal system.\u00a0 Included among the pages at random are several references to John Hunnicutt, of Burleigh who along with James Ladd, a minister from Charles City County, and Pleasants Terrell of Caroline Meeting partnered with Robert Pleasants to represent the Virginia Monthly Meeting in 1787.\u00a0 Virginia was in the middle of an earnest debate over whether slavery should be abolished.\u00a0 And Robert Pleasants and\u00a0six other Friends, including John Hunnicutt,\u00a0proposed the formation of the Virginia Abolition Society in 1790.\u00a0 They invited other churches to participate.\u00a0 George Washington suggested that this took real courage, since “nearly all Virginians are convinced that the general emancipation of Negroes cannot occur in the near future and for this reason they do not wish to organize a society which might\u00a0 give their slaves dangerous ideas.” p. 243.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I just love to discover records showing pedigree ancestors involved in\u00a0important historical events of the day.\u00a0 Churches led the way in the drive to abolish slavery and in several states, when the civil authorities moved too slow, they held organizing meetings, collected funds to compensate slave owners, encouraged their own members to emancipate their Blacks in their wills (even when it was illegal to do so).\u00a0<\/p>\n

    How excited I am to discover that the\u00a0Hunnicutts and their relatives put their actions behind their beliefs.\u00a0\u00a0Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com<\/a><\/p>\n

    PS\u00a0 I haven’t forgotten the picture of my kitchen and I invite you to study it carefully.\u00a0 I’ll give you a pattern to follow to examine and evaluate photos, maps, illustrations, and documents.\u00a0 Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

    PPS\u00a0 115 years ago\u00a0today,\u00a0The Nutcracker Suite<\/em><\/strong> by Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky, was performed for the first time.\u00a0 54 years ago this week, I was part of a corps of dancers who danced the Sugar Plum Fairy, performed as a Christmas assembly at my school.\u00a0 And today, my granddaughter Sarah Eakle, is performing for the third year in a row with Ballet West’s production of the Nutcracker.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You probably have little interest in this bit of family history–it is very important to me however<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Very excited I am this evening!\u00a0 I have been researching Virginia Church Records and I’d like to share two studies that\u00a0show specific ancestors doing fun things. Nelson, John K.\u00a0 A Blessed Company:\u00a0 Parishes, Parsons, and Parishioners in Anglican Virginia, 1690-1776.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}