CUMBERLAND PARISH Lunenburg County, Virginia 1746‑1816 Vestry Book By LANDON C. BELL PhD., M.A., LL.B. Author of The Old Free State Published Richmond, 1930 Cumberland parish in 1746 included the counties that are now Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Halifax, Charoltte, Campbell, Bedford, Franklin, Patrick, Henry and Pittsylvania. This is a 564 page book with a 20 page index. It contains some genealogy records, vestry...... Vestry Records contain lists of taxes collected and from whom (revenue); some deaths, and “welfare” information, such as payments to people caring for indigents; the church paying for caskets and burials for the indigent; the sick, disabled or orphans being placed in people’s homes with an allowance for their care; etc.; also, various donations to the church, and craftsmen who worked on the church (expenses).....also, Procession records; these are land boundary records within the Cumberland parish... i.e. a record of everyone who owned land within the parish. Here is the information on the book. If your local library does not have it and you cannot borrow it from the loaning library, you might want to check into this website. dmkheritage.com they have it on CD. They also have other books on Virginia and neighboring states with the Table of Contents and INDEXES listed. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION CHAPTER II. THE PARISH CHAPTER III. THE VESTRY CHAPTER IV. THE CHURCHES CHAPTER V. THE GLEBE CHAPTER VI. THE MINISTERS CHAPTER VII. PRCESSIONING CHAPTER VIII. THE DECLINE CHAPTER IX. REVEREND JAMES CRAIG CHAPTER X. REVEREND JOHN CAMERON . CHAPTER XI. GENEALOGICAL NOTES: Bacon, Ballard, Betts, Billups, Boulden, Blagrave Brodnax, Buford Caldwell, Cameron, Chappell, Claiborne, Clay, Cox, Cureton, Delony, Dixon, Edloe, Ellidge, Ellis, Embry, Epes, Farmer, Ferth, Fontaine Garland CHAPTER XII & XIII.GENEALOGICAL NOTES (Continued) : Gee, Glenn, Hall, Hardy, Hawkins, Hobson, Howard, Jackson, Jefferson, Jenings, Jordan, Lamkin, Lanier, Lester, Macfarland, Marrable, Martin, Nash, Neblett, Parrish, Pettus, Phillips, Ragsdale, Read, Robertson, Smith, Speed, Stevenson, Stokes, Street, Tabb, Talbott, Taylor, Tomlinson, Tucker, Twitty, Winn ............ CHAPTER XIV. REVEREND JOHN CAMERON'S REGISTERS. Register of Marriages: Bristol Parish, 1784‑1793 Nottoway Parish, 1794‑1795 Cumberland Parish, 1796‑1815 Register of Baptisms and Funerals: Cumberland Parish, 1815 CHAPTERXV.THE VESTRY BOOK, 1746‑1816 for Index (too long to put in e-mail): http://dmkheritage.com/store/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=67 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VABRUNSW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message