LE, My ancestor, ROBERT BEASLEY who was located variously in Perq. and Chowan Counties was supposedly married before 1655 in Chowan (did it exist pre 1655?). Also, his son, JAMES BEASLEY was apparently married on17 March 1675/6 in PERQUIMANS PRECINCT, ALBEMARLE COUNTY, NC. Is it possible yours is in the same situation? Mine would also have been Anglican (Episcopalian). He married MARY CROPLEY daughter of JOHN CROPLEY & ANN VINS/VINES. JAMES BEASLEY died (will probated) in BERKELEY PRECINCT, CHOWAN COUNTY, according to my notes. I have a feeling the changes have less to do with his MOVING than with the changing boundary lines of the counties and precincts(?)....soon to include STATE lines. I don't know what CHURCH JAMES BEASLEY & MARY CROPLEY were married in...possibly it was a family chapel. But I see what your problem might be in finding records. DO let me know if you find what churches existed in that time period. Thanks, Carole Caroline Burnett Cook descendant of: BEASLEY,CROPLEY, VINES/VINS, BLOUNT,NORCOM,HOSKINS ALSTON, NORTON In a message dated 5/7/00 12:49:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, NCPERQUI-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Sat, 6 May 2000 23:47:25 -0500 From: "Le Bateman" <LeBateman@NetZero.Net> To: NCPERQUI-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <000f01bfb7df$59073da0$a6763004@fpfzqlga> Subject: [NCPERQUI] Vestry Book Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was wondering if there was a Perquimans County Vestry Book covering 1694-1732. One of my ancestors had a civil wedding ceremony because there was no Anglican Church in Perquimans County in 1694, now would there be a record of his wedding and the births of his child in a vestrybook. The child was born in 1697. Le _____________________________________________ >>