Part 9 (1/2)

August 8,----:

At a vestry held for Truro Parish the 8th of August, for appointing processioners.

Ordered, That John Trammell and John Harle procession all the patented lands between Difficult Run and Broad Run, and that they perform the same sometime in the month of October or November, next, and report their proceedings according to law.

Ordered, That Anthony Hampton and Wm. Moore procession all the patented lands between Broad Run and the South Side of Goose Creek, as far as the fork of Little River, and that they perform the same sometime in the month of October or November, next, and report their proceedings according to law.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Miss Ada Rhodes]

October 6, 1740:

Nicholas Carroll, s.e.xton Pohick Church, 400 pounds of tobacco.

Jas. Bennitt, s.e.xton at the New Church, 400 pounds of tobacco.

John Aubrey, s.e.xton at Goose Creek, 400 pounds of tobacco.

May 21, 1745:

At a vestry held for Truro Parish, May 21, 1745, present Rev. Mr.

Cha. Green, minister, and church wardens and vestrymen.

Ordered, that a church be built at or near the spring nigh Mr.

Hutchinson's on the mountain road, of the following dimensions: 40 feet long, 32 feet wide and 13 feet pitch. To be weather boarded with 3/4-inch feather-edge plank, quartered and beaded; s.h.i.+ngled with 18-inch pine s.h.i.+ngles; sawed frame, and frame work ceiled with quartered plank, beaded, and floored with 1-1/4-inch plank, with proper cornice under the eaves, with pulpit, desk, communion table, etc. With doors, windows & seats, after the manner of the Upper Church, and all the proper facings and mouldings; and window shutters, to be s.h.i.+ngled with single tiers, weather boarded with eights, and filled with tens or brads; locks and hinges that are necessary for the same.

Ordered, That the Clerk of the Vestry prepare deeds for Mr. Andrew Hutchinson conveying two acres of land to this Parish for house of the Church to be built thereon, and church yard.

Hugh Thomas undertakes to complete the aforesaid church and to enclose it by the last day of October, next, and to finish and complete it by the last day of October, then next following, for 24,500 pounds of tobacco, to be paid him at two payments, and the clerk of the vestry is ordered to prepare articles of agreement and bond for the performance of the same.

CHA. GREEN, } JOHN WEST, } Ch. Wardens.

Teste: { Wm. Henry Terrett, { Clk. Vestry.

October 12, 1747: Philip Howell, s.e.xton, Pohick, 400 pounds of tobacco.

Mary Bennitt, s.e.xton, Upper Church, 400 pounds of tobacco.

Mary McDowell, s.e.xton, Goose Creek, 400 pounds of tobacco.

Wm. Grove, s.e.xton, New Church, 172 pounds of tobacco.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Mr. W. W. Kinsley]

October 10, 1748: Bennitt, clk., 1,200 pounds of tobacco.

Wm. Chautneys, clk. at the New Church, 1,200 pounds of tobacco.

Mary Bennitt, s.e.xton at Upper Church, 400 pounds of tobacco.

Alexander, s.e.xton at Goose Creek, 400 pounds of tobacco.

Wm. Grove, s.e.xton at New Church, 400 pounds of tobacco.

October 10, 1749: Truro Parish divided.--Upper Parish called Cameron.