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Little, [ ] rancis, xliv.
Lively, Edward, 128, 150, 161, 165; petitioner, 127; sexton, 60, 63, 65, 682, 71, 74, 77, 79, 84, 87, 91, 95, 98, 102, 104, 110, 114, 117, 120, 125, 131, 134, 138, 139, 141, 142, 144, 1482, 152, 155, 157.
Lively, Elizabeth, 167, 171, 172, 174, 177, 184.
Livingstone (Levingstone), Wil- liam, 13, 15, 16, 21, 24, 27, 234.
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Lockalere, Robt., 21.
London, Lord Bishop of, lii, 40; Public Record Office, xvii (note), xx, xxxi (note), xxxvii, xxxix (note), xl (note), xli (note), xliv (note), 1 (note), lii (note), liii, liv (note).
Longworthie, John, xliv. Lord Bishop of London, lii.
Lossen, Nick., xlv.
Lovall, Charles, xlv2.
Lowder, Robert, petitioner, xl, xli. Lower Church, lix; addition to, 196, 197, 200, 204; benches for, 146, 172, 191; clerk of, 59, 62, 65, 68, 71, 74, 76, 79, 84, 87, 90, 95, 98, 101, 104, 109, 113, 117, 120, 125, 130, 134, 138, 141, 144, 148, 152, 155, 160, 164, 167, 170, 173, 176, 180, 183, 186, 190, 193, 198, 202, 205; communion plate and ornaments to be purchased for, 1vi; communions for, 126, 131, 134, 138, 142, 145, 148, 152, 156, 164, 167, 170, 173, 177, 180, 183, 187, 190, 194, 198, 202; con- tractors required to finish, in ac- cordance with agreement, 67; hassocks for, 146; horseblocks for, 146, 191; minister engaged for, 39; repaired, 168; set of plate for, 92; sexton at, 2, 12, 19, 21, 26, 34, 38, 43, 59, 63, 65, 68, 71, 74, 79, 84, 87, 91, 95, 98, 102, 104, 110, 114, 117, 120, 125, 131, 134, 138, 141, 144, 148, 152, 155, 157, 160, 164, 167, 170, 176, 181, 182, 183, 187, 190, 194, 197, 198, 202; sextoness at, 173, 205; to be painted, 93; tobacco levied for repairing, to be sold, 125; trees planted at, 69; vestry for
Blisland Parish held at, 11, 23, 30, 38, 42, 46, 51, 54, 59, 64, 71, 76, 83, 98, 104, 112, 113, 120, 140, 147, 166, 173, 179, 186, 193, 201, 204, 212, 213, 215, 220; yard cleaned, 69, 164; yard to be laid off and bricked in, 83. Lownell, Tho., xlv. Lucas, Thos., 110.
Lucerie (?), John, jr., xliv, xliv (note).
Luck, John, 26, 34.
Lyon, Daniel, 2043, 206, 207.
Lyon, John, constable, 110.
Lyon, Thos., 49.
Lyon, Thos., sr., 81.
M'Cormick (M'Comick), Mary, 181, 184, 188, 191, 195. See also Mackormack.
M'gary, Thomas, 1782, 1813, 184. Mackain, , 52, 57, 69.
McKain (Mackain, Mackaine, Ma- kain), William, liv, 56, 584, 63; churchwarden, 50, 512, 52, 53, 543, 552, 58; clerk of Wilmington Par- ish, 20; magistrate, 42, 60; mem- ber of the committee to propor- tion the levy, 73; petitioner, 64; vestryman, 41, 42, 45, 46, 59, 61, 62, 64, 672, 68, 71, 75. Mackenzie, Alexander, 2352. Mackenzie, Ken., 117, 2353. Mackormack, -, 27.
See also M'Cormick.
Mackoy, John, xliv. xliv (note). Macon, William, liii, 126, 161, 163 ; churchwarden, 157, 1582, 159"; sheriff and collector of parish levy, 23, 53, 58; successor to, appointed, 163, 172; vestryman, 154, 155.
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Magazine, fort duties levied to- ward building, xliii.
Magistrate, 1, 3, 8, 142, 28, 412, 422, 50, 60.
Mahone (M'hone), Sackvile, 149, 156, 161, 165, 167, 171, 174, 177. Manning, Ann, 219.
Manning (Maning), John, 72, 177, 181, 207, 2102, 213, 214, 215, 219, 221, 224, 227, 229.
Manning, Margt., 149, 156, 161, 165.
Manning, Robert, 94.
Manning, Sarah, 167, 171, 174, 177, 178. Manning, Stephen, 75, 81. Manning, William, 175.
Maple tree, xi.
Maples, Josiah, 102, 105, 110.
Maples, Richard, tailor, 442.
Maples, Thomas, 64, 66, 69, 71.
Markland, John, 57.
Marks, , 35.
Marston Parish, xii (note), xvi2, xvii, xvii (note)2, xxvii, xxviii. Martin, Jeremiah, 160, 183, 184, 187, 190, 213. Martin, John, xxxvi (note).
Martin, Richard, 127.
Massie, Charles, liv. Massie, Peter, xliv. Massie, Thomas, liii. Matchemeed Swamp, xi2. Mathews, Saml., xxxviii, x1.
Mattaponi River, xviii', xix2, xx2, xxi3, xxii3, xxii (note), xxiii, xxv2, xxvi, xxviii, xxix, xxxv, xlvi (note).
Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, ix, ix (note), x (note), xxxii (note). Meal, for indigent persons, 191.
Meat, for indigent person, 27.
Medicine, 2352; for indigent per- sons, 13, 19, 46, 78, 150, 208, 224. Merchant ship, English, xxxvi. Merideth, Rebeckah, 49.
Merrideth, John, 91, 99. Merriman, Mrs. - -, 2093. Merriman, James, 210, 212, 213, 214, 216, 219, 221.
Merriman, Thomas, 210, 214, 219. Merritt, Edwd., 21.
Middlesex County, xxvi, lii; to- bacco riots in, xlviii, xlix. Mid[ ]1ton, Martin, xlv.
Militia, fine assessed in pork for the use of, xxxvii; of James City Co. called out, 217 ; of New Kent Co. called out, 217.
Milkhouse, to be built, 45.
Miller, John, 49, 52, 57, 59, 63, 65, 68, 71, 74, 77, 79, 84, 87.
Millsford (?), Charles, xlv, xlv (note). Mims, Thomas, xlvi.
Ministers, act concerning induc- tion of, li; list of, 233.
Mohun, Warick, lii.
Molasses, for indigent persons, 188, 191, 196, 199.
Moll, a Negro, 92.
Money, bequeathed to parish to purchase a piece of plate, 103; bequeathed to the poor of the parish, 92; depreciation of, 216; fine paid in current, 32; levy pay- able in tobacco or, 225; paper, reduced to specie, 222; raised by selling tobacco, 48; to be raised to pay for glebe house, 62; work on glebe house paid for in cur- rent, 42.
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Moore, Benjamin, 188, 191, 196, 199.
Moore, Honour, 67, 70, 72, 74, 77, 79, 85, 872.
Moore, James, xlvi.
Moore, John, 55, 563, 67.
Mooreman, Thomas, xlv.
- Morgan, Edward, xlvi.
Morris, Owen, 21.
Morris, William, churchwarden, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 41, 42, 442, 45, 46, 48, 49, 51; justice of the peace, liii; magistrate, 28, 42; sheriff and collector of parish levy, 53, 58; successor to, appointed, 8, 33, 50, 75; to sell tobacco belonging to the parish, 43; tobacco viewer and teller, 10; vestryman, 1, 9, 12, 18, 25, 26, 30, 33, 36, 37, 38, 41, 52, 54, 55, 56, 59, 61, 62, 64, 68, 71.
Moryson (Morison, Morrison), Francis, xxxvii, xxxix, x12, xli, xlii.
Moss (Mosse), William, xlvi, xlvi (note)2, 2043.
Mossom, David, minister, liv, 39, 2333.
Mt. Vernon, Ivi.
Mulatto, 162.
Murder, woman condemned for, 1. Mutlow, William, 150, 163.
Nails, 12. Nansemond County, xxxV. Napkin, 191.
Narrows, xiv2, xv.
Nears, Henry, 84.
Negroes, xxxviii2, x12 ; certain, levy free, 21, 37, 39, 48, 64, 92, 109, 151, 166, 169, 218; quarters for, on glebe, 44.
Netherland, John, xxx.
New Kent County, v, ix, xii (note), xiii, xiv, xvi, xvi (note), xvii, xvii (note), xviii4, xxv, xxvi2, xxxi”, xxviii2, xxix, xxx2, xxxii4, xxxiii, xxxivª, xxxV, xxxv (note), xxxvi?, xxxvi (note), xxxvii2, xliii, xlv (note), xlvii, xlviii2, xlix2, 1, li, lii, 1v2, 1vi3, 1vii, viii2, lix2, 1xi, 233; area and population of, liii; boundary line of, xiii, xiv; clerk of, liv; collectors, 230; coroners of, liii; county lieutenant of, liv ; deputy sheriff of, 112, 116, 119, 124, 128, 133, 197; dividing line between New Kent north side and south side, xxi; dividing line between James City County and, lix; established, xxvii; justices of the peace of, xlix, liii; militia of, called on duty, 217; parishes in, xxi, xxii; petitions of inhab- itants of xxxvii, x1, xli, xlii; sheriff of, liii, 93, 103, 108, 137, 215, 223, 225, 228, 230 ; surveyor, liv; tobacco riots in, xlviii, xlix2; town to be established in, xlviii New Kent County court, 48, 95; clerk of, xxxvi, 110, 228.
Newman, Edward, sexton, 123, 125, 131, 134, 138, 141, 143 .
New Pocoson (Poquoson) Parish, xvi (note), xvii.
Niccoll (?), James, xlv.
Nicholson, Francis, letter to, li.
Norfolk, x.
Norris, Nathaniel, 2, 5.
Northey, Edward, 1, li (note).
Norvell (Norvel), William, 194, 210, 215, 216, 219, 221, 227, 229.
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Oakley, Francis, 210, 214. Oakley, Thos., 882, 98, 118.
Oakley, Mrs. Thos., 77.
Oaths, action of vestry in reference to, 67; appointed for vestrymen, 61, 64, 75; governor's opinion re- garding the taking of, 65; to- bacco tellers required to take, 10°, 112, 152.
Oda, [a Negro(?)], 127.
Odall (Odal), Anderson, 64, 66, 69, 70, 71.
Odall, Joyce, 70.
Odell (Odal, Odel), James, 195, 224, 230.
Odell (Odal), Prudence, 188, 203, 206, 209, 212, 215, 219, 221.
Oglesby, Charles, 21.
Oglesby, Mary, 12.
Old glebe. See Glebe land.
Old Rappahannock County, xxvi.
Orders, from Lord Bishop of Lon- don, 40.
Ordinaries, Chiswel's, 159, 235; Furnea's, 26, 235.
Ornaments, to be purchased for the Lower Church, 1vi.
Otey, Mrs. -, 229.
Otey, John, liii.
Oustin, Sam, xlvi (note). See also Austin.
Oznaburgs, 6 ells of, 191.
Page, Thomas, xlv.
Pamunkey Indians, xxxv.
Pamunkey Neck, xviii3, xix5, xix (note), xx6, xxii3, xxii (note), xxiii6, xxv4, xxviii2, xxix, xxxiv, xlv, xlvi, xlvi (note) ; certain in- habitants of, restored to St. John's Parish, xxiv; English settlers in, xxiii, xxiv; Indian
reservation in, xxiv; petition of the inhabitants of, xix; proces- sioners in that part of, in St. Peter's Parish, xxiii, xlvii (note); settlement of, xxiii, xxiii (note).
Pamunkey River, xii, xvii, xviii6, xix, xx3, xxi5, xxii2, xxiii, xxv, ·
xxvi, xxviii2, xxxii, xxxv2, 1v (note), Ivi, 1viii, 235.
Paper money, 220; reduced to specie, 222. Parish, Jones, 52.
Parish, petition regarding the establishment of a, xix.
Parish levy, certain persons dis- charged from payment of, 21, 223, 32, 37, 39, 41, 45, 47, 48, 50, 512, 64, 68, 72, 73, 75, 78, 81, 92, 942, 109, 119, 1272, 1512, 158, 163, 166, 169, 192, 2182, 225, 228; charges for building ves- try house to be laid at the lay- ing of, 107; collectors of, 3, 6, 9, 13, 22, 23, 24, 28, 32, 36, 39, 41, 48, 50, 53, 58, 60, 61, 64, 70, 73, 76, 78, 82, 85, 86, 88, 89, 92, 93, 972, 1002, 1032, 107, 108, 111, 112, 115, 116, 1192, 120, 123, 124, 127, 128, 1332, 136, 137, 140, 143, 147, 151, 154, 157, 163, 165, 169, 172, 176, 179, 182, 185, 188, 193, 197, 201, 203, 208, 211, 215, 218, 2202, 222, 223, 2252, 226, 228, 230; collectors of, to give bond, 4, 6, 9, 14, 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 32, 36, 39, 41, 48, 50, 53, 58, 61, 64, 67, 70, 73, 74, 76, 78, 82, 85, 86, 88, 89, 92, 93, 972, 100, 101, 103, 107, 108, 111, 112, 116, 119, 120, 123, 124, 127, 128, 1332, 136, 137, 140, 143, 147, 151, 154,
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157, 163, 165, 169, 172, 176, 179, 182, 185, 188, 193, 197, 201, 203, 208, 211, 215, 218, 220, 223, 226, 228; collectors to distrain for, 4, 6, 9, 14, 22, 24, 28, 32, 36, 39, 41, 61, 70, 73, 76, 78, 82, 86, 89, 93, 97, 101, 103, 108, 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 133, 137; com- mittee to proportion, 73, 92, 119, 157, 158, 1692, 185, 211, 220; payable in cash or tobacco, 225; proportioned, 3, 6, 9, 13, 22, 28, 32, 36, 39, 40, 48, 50, 53, 58, 73, 76, 78, 82, 86, 87, 93, 97, 100, 103, 108, 112, 116, 119, 124, 128, 133, 137, 139; to collect overdue, 28.
Parish record books of colonial Virginia, x.
Parish register, births and deaths to be recorded in, 33.
Parish tobacco. See Tobacco.
Parish treasurer, report of, 182.
Parishes, early
colonial, xii (note), xxvii, xxxii; counties co-terminous with, in area, xxvi; dividing line between, xxi; established during the pe- riod from 1643 to 1655, xxvi; in New Kent County, xxi, xxii, xxxii; in York County, xii (note), xvi (note), xvii; sched- ule of, in Virginia, xx.
Parks, William, 84.
Parliament of the Common- wealth, xv.
Pasteur, Mrs. 175.
Pasteur, William, 184, 235.
Patents, to land in Blisland Parish, xi, xii, xv; to land in
Pamunkey Neck, xlv (note);
to land in York County, xi, xii, xiii, xiv; to land on the south side of the Mattaponi, xlv (note), xlvi (note).
Patroler, 126, 1272, 1433.
Paul, Lydda (Lydday), 139, 142. Pauley, . 78.
Pauley, Samuel, 69, 71, 75.
Pease, [ ] sephe, xliv.
Pennington, -, 70. Pennington, Mrs. Ann, 1022, 1212, 131
Pennington, Robert, 38, 103; churchwarden, 1002; vestryman, 902, 922, 93, 95, 98.
Perkins, 229. Perkins (Pirkins), Mary, 2272, 229.
Perrine, James, xliv.
Perry, Historical Collections Relat- ing to the American Colonial Church, lii (note), liii (note). Pethwood, John, 3, 8, 122.
Petitions, concerning parish levy, 212, 222, 32, 41, 47, 482, 50, 512, 64, 68, 109, 119, 166; for ap- pointment as sexton, 21; for repealing the warehouse at Taskanask, lv; of inhabitants of Blisland Parish, xxxiii, 208; of Richard Clarke, xxxvii-xli; of Samuel Sutton, xxxvi (note); of some of the in- habitants of Blisland Parish, liii; of Stephen Tarleton, xli; of the inhabitants of Pamunkey Neck, xix; of three planters of New Kent County, xl.
Petsworth Parish, v, lii, 2353. Petticoat, for indigent person, 70. Pettis, Jno., lii.
Pettus, Thomas, clerk of the
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Lower Church, 59, 62, 65, 68, 71, 74, 76, 79, 84, 87, 90, 95.
Pew, offer for, in the Brick Church, 24.
Pews, for the Upper Church, 129; in the new church, 56.
Philbates (Filbates), Eliz., 69, 71.
Philbates (Filbates), James, 71, 80.
Phillips, George, xliv.
Phips, Sarah, 66.
Physic. See Medicine.
Physicians, list of, 234.
Pickett (Picket, Pigget, Piggett), Martha, 99, 102, 105, 110, 114, 117, 121, 126, 146.
Pigg, John, 65.
Piggett, Martha. See Pickett, Martha.
Piggot (Piggett, Piggott), John, 170, 175; sexton, 176, 180, 182. Piggot, Pearson, 181.
Piggott, William, 227. Pitblado, Sarah, 131.
Pitblado, William, 122.
Pitman, Elenor, 80, 84, 87, 91, 96, 99, 102, 105, 110, 114, 1172, 118, 121, 126, 131, 134, 138, 144. Plains, 191.
Plank, 12; for coffin, 181; for roofing, 56; for the glebe, 126; for threshing floor, 122; for Upper Church, 150.
Plant, Wm. (?), xlvii.
Plate. See Church plate.
Poll abatement, 50, 53, 58. Pond, Eliza., 199.
Pond, Matt., 21.
Poor people. See Indigent per- sons.
Pork, fine assessed in, xxxvii; for indigent person, 188.
Poropotank Creek, xvi, xviii, xxii2, xxviii2.
Porter, Robert, petitioner, xl, xli. Potter, Roger, xxxvii, xxxviii2, x1. Potter, Thomas, 213.
Pouncey, John, xi, xii, xiii.
Pouncey's Creek, xii.
Pouncie, Roger, xlvi, xlvi (note). Power, Edward, churchwarden,
157, 1593, 162, 1633, 164, 222, 2232, 225, 226, 227; collector, 228; successor to, appointed, 166, 228; vestryman, 154, 155, 170, 186, 204, 205, 208, 212, 214, 218, 221, 229, 2313.
Power, John, 882, 91, 135, 138, 146, 148, 151, 152; churchwar- den, 85, 86, 893, 902, 132, 133, 134, 1362, 137, 1473, 1512; suc- cessor to, appointed, 92, 140, 154, 172; vestryman, 75, 83, 92, 93, 95, 101, 104, 106, 107, 109, 112, 113, 120, 124, 125, 141, 144, 155, 158, 1592.
Powers, Henry, 56.
Preachers. See Ministers.
Precincts, parish divided into, xvii, 9, 103, 11, 152, 25, 37. Prentis, John, 175.
The Present State of Virginia, liii.
Price, Edmund, xlvi.
Priddy, Robert, xiv. Pride, James, 222.
Prinage, 43.
Prince, Silvanus, 203, 205, 208, 213.
Processioners, appointed, 173, 186, 201, 213; in Pamunkey Neck district, xxiii, xlvii (note); in St. Peter's Parish, xliv (note)4, xlv (note)5, xlvi5, xlvii (note)5, 1; list of, 192; re-
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turns of, examined, 106, 163, 166, 179, 189; returns of, re- corded, 108, 169, 179, 192.
Proclamation, xlii.
Protestant Episcopal Church, parish record books belonging to, x; vestrymen subscribe to doctrine, discipline and wor- ship of, 231.
Protestant Episcopal Review and Church Register, ix.
Pryor (Pryer, Pryour), David, 37, 63, 66, 88, 91, 92.
Pulpit, for the new church, 56; in the Upper Church, to be changed, 129.
Pulpit cloth, mended, 149.
Purple cloth, 43.
Purple silk lace, 43. Purple silk tassels, 43.
Quarter, on the glebe for Ne- groes, 44, 78; tobacco levied for building, 111, 113; tobacco levied for lathing, 118.
Queen's Creek, xii (note), xvi, xvii, xxvii.
Quitrents, 77; of the glebe land, 5, 12, 71, 91, 96; of the glebe land in James City Co., 27; of the old glebe land, 27; Saml. Curl discharged from paying for two years, 85.
Ramsey, Sarah, 177, 191.
Rappahannock County, xxvi.
Rappahannock River, xxvi.
Ratcliffe, -, 97.
Ratcliffe, Ben., 143.
Ratcliffe, Francis, 112, 113; Richardson, Mary, 1212.
churchwarden, 107, 1082, 1092,
110, 111, 112; vestryman, 103, 104, 106.
Rawleigh, James, 223. Rawleigh, Walter, 1502, 192, 223. Rawson, Charles, 70, 72, 74, 87. Rawson, Thomas, 191, 207.
Recommendation, of minister by James Blair, 40; by William Gooch, 40.
Reece, Mary, 99. Register books, of Blisland Parish, 33, 158; of Wilmington Parish, 85.
Register clerk, appointed, 33.
Rent, house and land, paid for in- digent persons, 178, 192, 194, 199, 202, 206, 2093, 216, 219, 222, 2242, 2272, 2293; of the glebe, 22, 29, 39, 73, 85, 115; paid by Saml. Cur1, 39, 57, 60, 63, 66, 69,85.
Reynolds, John, 1.
, 352, 44, 46, Richardson, 75.
Richardson, Benjamin, tobacco teller and viewer, 25, 33, 37.
Richardson, John, 46, 49, 65, 66, 69, 71, 115, 122, 126, 1312, 145, 146, 159; churchwarden, 63, 642, 65, 672, 682, 123, 124, 1252, 1282, 1292, 1302; member of the com- mittee to run dividing line, 86; processioner, 192; sheriff and collector of the parish levy, 1032, 107, 108; successor to ap- pointed, 132; vestiyman, 612, 62, 74, 76, 79, 833, 87, 89, 90, 93, 952, 98, 101, 106, 108, 109, 112, 113, 116, 120, 133, 141, 144, 147, 151, 155.
Richardson, Richard, liii, 63, 89;
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churchwarden, 28, 30, 31, 33; magistrate, 8; sheriff and col- lector of the parish levy, 40, 48; successor to, appointed, 33, 83; tobacco viewer and teller, 10; vestryman, 4, 7, 9, 12, 15, 25, 26, 36, 38, 41, 42, 45, 46, 48, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 59, 61, 62, 64, 68, 74.
Richardson, Stanup, churchwar- den, 232; collector of the sub- scription for 1785, 232; vestry- man, 231, 232.
Richardson, William, 153, 181, 183, 191, 205; churchwarden, 1663, 167, 1693, 1702, 1722, 200, 2012, 203, 2042; successor to, appointed, 172, 208; vestryman, 154, 1592, 163, 173, 179, 182, 186, 189, 193, 198.
Richmond, x, lv (note), 1xi, 231. Rivers, ridges between, dividing line between counties and parishes, xxi.
Robards, Evan, sexton, 19.
Roberts, Rite, 102, 1052.
Robinson, Morgan P., 1xi.
Rockahock, 1vii.
Roe (?), John, xliv.
Rogers, John, xiii.
Roper, John, xxxiii, xlvii, xlvii (note) 2.
Rosse, Will., xlvii, xlvii (note)2. Rountree (Rowntree), John, 21; tobacco viewer and teller, 33, 37.
Rountree, William, jr., 77. Rowe, Mrs. , 153, 156.
Rowe (Row), Mary, 121, 146, 149, 150, 160, 164, 167, 169.
Rue, Peter, 187.
Rum, for funeral, 131.
Russell, -- , 66. Russell, Armistead, vestryman, 197, 205.
Russell, Burnal, 121, 153, 156, 192; payments to the estate of, 2022; sexton, 197, 198.
Russell (Russel), John, 143, 150; vestryman, 89, 101, 104, 113.
Russell (Russel), John, jr., ves- tryman, 832, 87, 94.
Russell, Rebecca, payment to the estate of, 210; sextoness, 205.
St. John's Parish, xix, xx2, xxii (note), xxiv, xxv, xxix, xxxii.
St. Paul's Parish, xxvii.
St. Peter's Church, 1viii2, lix.
St. Peter's Parish, xviii2, xix4, xix (note), xx, xxi, xxii, xxviii, xxix, xxx4, xxxi, xxxii4, xliv (note)4, xlv (note)5, liii, liv, 1vi, 189, 233; act concerning the inhabitants of Pamunkey Neck district of, xxiv; cut off from Blisland Parish, xxiii, xxxii; dividing line between Blisland Parish and, xx2, xxxiii, 54, 64, 86; English settlers in, xxiv; established, xviii, xxiii; processioners in xlvi,5 xlvii (note)5, 1; vestry book of, xix (note), xx, xxxii, xxxiii, xlvi (note)5, xlvii (note)5; vestry of, opposed to induction of minister, lii; vestryman of, xlix, 1.
St. Stephen's Parish, xxi, xxii, xxiii.
Salivating, 13, 19, 46, 69, 71. Salmon, Tho., 2, 52. Samson, Mary, 132, 1352. Sanders, Mrs. -- , 224.
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Sanders, Elizabeth, 190, 202, 207, 223. Sanders, Grissell, 123.
Sanders, Laney Jones, 207.
Sanders, Susannah (Susanna), 1752, 177, 178, 181, 184, 187, 190, 194, 199, 202, 207.
Sash glass, 56.
Sash windows, for the Upper Church, 129, 206.
Sawyer, Sarah, 45.
Sawyer, William, 45.
Schooling, payments for, of in- digent children, 2022, 209, 224. Scimino Creek, xii (note)2, xiii2, xiv, xvi2, xvi (note)2, xvii2, xvii (note), xviii, xxvii2, xxviii2, xxxi, liv.
Sclater, - -, 31, 352.
Sclater, John, 36, 38, 58; church- warden, 28, 30; justice of the peace, liii; magistrate, 142, 412, 502; sheriff and collector of parish levies, 282, 31, 32; ves- tryman, 4, 7, 9, 12, 15, 23, 26, 38, 41, 45, 46, 51, 52, 54, 55. See also Slater, John; Slaugh- ter, John.
Scott, John, liii2, 212, 27, 292, 31, 234.
Seats, Edmd. Walker paid for making, 66.
Sermon, to be printed and dis- tributed, liv.
Servant, 13, 15, 21, 44.
Servants, English, xxxviii3, x12. Sexton, 4, 5, 72, 462, 522, 572, 76; appointed, 43, 60, 82, 94, 97, 100, 123, 143, 157, 182, 197; at Lower Church, 2, 12, 192, 21, 26, 34, 38, 59, 63, 65, 68, 71, 74, 84, 87, 91, 95, 98, 102, 104, 110, 114,
117, 120, 125, 131, 134, 138, 141, 144, 148, 152, 155, 160, 164, 167, 170, 176, 180, 183, 187, 190, 194, 198, 202, 205; at Upper Church, 2, 12, 19, 26, 30, 34, 38, 46, 59, 63, 65, 68, 71, 74, 79, 84, 87, 91, 95 98, 101, 105, 110, 114, 117, 120, 125, 131, 134, 138, 141, 167, 170, 173, 176, 180, 183, 187, 190, 194, 198, 202, 205.
Sextoness, at Lower Church, 173, 205; at Upper Church, 94, 95, 97, 143, 144, 148, 152, 155, 160, 164.
Sharp, Andrew, xlvii.
Sharp (Tharp), Richard, 152.
Shea (Shay), John, 227, 229. Shed, 78.
Shelbourn, Augustine, 71, 72, 75, 77.
Shelbourn, James, 77, 80.
Shelbourn, Mary, 21, 272, 31, 38.
Shelbourn, Thomas, 38, 80.
Shelbourn, Wm., 69.
Sheriff, John, 119, 122.
Sheriff, Mary, 127.
Sheriff, 4, 23, 27; collector of parish levy, 28, 32, 36, 39, 40, 48, 53, 58, 85, 88, 92, 93, 103, 107, 108, 136, 137, 140, 215, 223, 2252, 228, 230; deputy, collec- tor of parish levy, 3, 6, 9, 13, 22, 23, 50, 61, 73, 97, 1002, 112, 116, 119, 124, 128, 133, 143, 147, 151, 154, 157, 163, 165, 169, 172, 176, 179, 182, 185, 197, 200; deputy, of James City County, 2, 225; deputy, of New Kent County, 112, 116, 119, 124, 128, 133, 197; of James City County, 127, 223, 225, 228, 230; of New Kent County, 93, 103, 108, 136,
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137, 215, 223, 225, 228, 230; of York County, xlv (note), xlix2. Sheriffs, fees of, 19; grievance concerning, xliii.
Shermer, John, 1172, 1212, 126, 139, 156, 181, 187, 203; church- warden, 115, 119, 120, 1542, 155; successor to, appointed, 123, 157; vestryman, 109, 113, 125, 130, 133, 137, 141, 151, 158, 159, 163, 166, 170, 173, 176, 179, 182, 186, 189.
Sherwood, William, xxxv (note). Shingles, 782, 139; cypress, 90, 94, 129.
Ship, trial by court martial on board of, xxxvi.
Ships, fort duties levied upon, xliii.
Shoemaker (Shomaker, Shoo- maker), Francis, bond for daughter's fine, 3; petitioner, 32; sexton, 2, 5, 7, 12, 19, 43, 46, 49, 52, 57, 59; successor to, appointed, 60.
Shoes, for indigent persons, 142, 149, 195.
Shutters, wainscot, 56.
Sidwell, Richard, xlvi. Silk fringe, 43.
Silk lace, 43. Silk tassels, 43.
Skins, leather, 43.
Slater, Daniel, 172, 177, 180, 199, 213.
Slater, John, 190.
See also Sclater, John; Slaugh- ter, John.
Slater, Rebecca, 227.
Slater, William, 78, 111; clerk of the Lower Church, 98, 101, 104, 109, 134, 138, 141, 144.
Slaughter, John vestryman, 12. See also Sclater, John; Slater, John.
Smallpage (Smallepage), Sarah, 20, 27, 34, 35, 38, 46, 49.
Smith, Bryan, xxxviii4, x12, xli3. Smith, George, xlvii, xlvii
(note)2, 121, 126, 131, 134, 138, 142, 145, 148, 152, 156.
Smith, James, xlvi.
Smith, Joseph, 202, 209.
Smith, Rebecca, 66.
Smith, Thomas, 75, 135, 138, 141, 156, 174, 177, 187, 2023, 2062, 2082, 2095, 210.
Smith, W., 196.
Smith, William, 153, 165, 168, 171, 174, 177, 180, 184; deputy sheriff and collector, 151, 154, 157, 162, 163, 165, 169, 172, 176; member of the committee to proportion the levy, 157, 158; successor to, appointed, 207; vestryman, 203.
Smith, William (orphan), 202, 209, 210, 224.
Smokehouse, to be built, 50, 88.
Snead, Henry, xlv.
Snell, Rutherford, 1xi.
Southal, -, 1vii.
Southern Churchman, ix.
Southern Virginia, Diocese of, xvii.
Spanish brown, church doors and windows primed with, 56.
Speare, Robert, xlvii, xlvii (note)2.
Specie, parish levy levied in, 220. Specifications, for a church to be built in Blisland Parish, 53, 552; for an addition to the
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Upper Church, 94; for vestry house, 107.
Spencer, Nicholas, secretary of Virginia, xlviii.
Spraggins, William, processioner, 192
Spraglinge, Andrew, xlv. Stanup, John, 1x.
Stanup (Stanhope), Jeremiah, 90; vestryman, 622, 64, 67, 68, 71, 76, 832, 87.
Steward, Daniel, 134, 139, 142, 145, 156, 165.
Steward, John, 145, 156, 165.
Stockings, for indigent persons, 142, 195.
Stone, church isle to be of Bris- tol, 55.
Storehouses, feoffees of counties to establish, xlviii.
Strange, Henry, xlvi.
Stratton Major Parish, v, xxi, xxii, xxii (note), xxiii, xxvii, xxviii, xxxii, xxxiv.
Strong drink, grievance concern- ing the selling of, xliii.
Stubs, Tho., xlvii.
Sub sheriff. See Sheriff, deputy. Subscription for 1785, collectors of, 232.
Sugar, for indigent persons, 122, 188.
Supervisors, appointed, 56.
Surgeons, list of, 234.
Surplices, 43; laundered, 64, 682, 71, 76, 792, 842, 872, 912, 982, 102, 104, 105, 1102, 1142, 1172, 1202, 1252, 1312, 1342, 1382, 1412, 1442, 1482, 1522, 1552, 1602, 1642, 1672, 1702, 1732, 1762, 1802, 1832; material for, 1752; mended, 91, 98, 149, 153.
Surveyor, xxxiii, liv; of James City County, 86; paid for ser- vices, 88; to run dividing line, 64.
Sutton, Diana, 121, 126, 139.
Sutton, Samuel, xxxvi (note).
Swearing, fine for, 32.
Swiney, John, 117, 121.
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