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Bruton Parish was formed in 1674 when Marston Parish (formed in 1654) in York County merged with Middletown Parish. The first vestrymen for Bruton Parish, named at its creation in 1674, were Col. Thomas Ballard Sr. , Daniel Parke , Col. John Page , James Besouth , Robert Cobbs , James Bray , Capt. Philip Chesley and William Aylett .
Marston Parish, founded in 1654 in adjacent York County merged with Middletown Parish in 1674 to form the new Bruton Parish. Bruton Parish Church (circa 1902) The name "Bruton Parish" honored the prominent Ludwell family and Governor Sir William Berkeley, whose ancestral homes were at Bruton in Somerset, England. Reverend Roland Jones was the ...
Bruton Parish Poorhouse Archeological Site is a historic archaeological site located near Williamsburg, York County, Virginia. It is the site of a poorhouse established by Bruton Parish Church after a 1755 act of the assembly empowering all the colony's parishes to erect poorhouses.
Old Bruton Church, Williamsburg, Virginia, in the Time of Lord Dunmore - painting by Alfred Wordsworth Thompson (MET, 99.28) Items portrayed in this file depicts
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Born in James City County to the former Sarah Lucy Bullock and her husband, George Augustus Norvell, Hugh Norvell married multiple women named Sarah. The former Sarah Besouth (1674-1704) gave birth to sons George (1693-1786), Hugh Jr. (1699-1759) and William Norvell (1695-1757) as well as daughters who married and became Elizabeth (Mrs. George) Baskerville (1692-1732) and Mary (Mrs. William ...
In 1903, Goodwin became pastor of the historic Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, a small city which had served as Virginia's capitol from 1699 until 1780. He soon found that in 1884, the parish's women had formed a preservationist group, which had evolved into the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. They had repaired ...
Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Virginia. Original church built 1683 on land donated by Colonel John Page. The shaft commemorating Col. Page is at right of the church door in this photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston. John Page was born around 1627, likely in East Bedfont, Middlesex, the parish records for which do not survive for that ...