Thank you for posting this! I was able to access the complete text of this book last night through Heritage Quest. If your library subscribes to Heritage Quest, and allows home access through the use of your barcode, you can find it by searching "Books" with the term Truro Parish. Lori Murphy On Dec 5, 2007 8:26 PM, Doris Christian <dmkchristian@austin.rr.com> wrote: > THE HISTORY OF TRURO PARISH IN VIRGINIA > > BY REV. PHILIP SLAUGHTER, D.D. > > Edited With Notes and Addenda By REV. EDWARD L. GOODWIN > > Historiographer of the Diocese of Virginia > > Use this index to see if you family is listed. > If you cannot find this book in your local library or cannot borrow a > copy from a lending library, you may want to go to > http://www.dmkheritage.com/store/ We have it on a CD. > > > This 183 page book, including index, written in 1907 contains > information about Truro Parish which was part of the Northern Neck > Grants. > > "Within this territory were the seats of the Fairfaxes, Washingtons, > Masons, McCartys, Fitzhughs, Brents, Alexanders, Lewises, Mercers, > Daniels, Carters, Dades, Stuarts, Corbins, Tayloes, Steptoes, > Newtons, Browns, Lees, Thorntons, Balls, Smiths, and other leading > families too many to mention, who dispensed an elegant hospitality at > Northumberland House, Nomini, Stratford, Chantilly, Mount Airy, > Sabine Hall, Bedford, Albion, Cedar Grove, Boscobel, Richland, > Marleborough, Woodstock, Gunston, Belvoir, Woodlawn, Mount Vernon, > etc. Beginning at Lancaster, county was taken from county, Parish > from Parish, as the population of each passed the frontiers, until in > 1730 Prince William was taken from Stafford and King George Counties, > above Chappawansick Creek and Deep Run, and along the Potomac, to the > "Great Mountains." This became also Hamilton Parish; which Parish, by > an Act of the General Assembly passed at the Session of May, 1732, to > take effect the first of the following November, was divided into two > Parishes "By the river Ockoquan, and the Bull Run, (a branch > thereof,) and a course from thence to the Indian Thoroughfare of the > Blue Ridge of Mountains," (Ashby's Gap.) All that part of Prince > William lying below the said bounds was to retain the name of > Hamilton, "And all that other part of the said county, which lies > above those bounds, shall hereafter be called and known by the name > of Truro." The Parish was named after the Parish in Cornwall, in > England, which is now the Diocese of Truro." > > > Index: > Adam, Adams, Alexander, Alexanders, Allan, Allen, Alrich, Andrews, > Ashford, Atkins, Aubrey, Awbrey, Aylatt, Ayres, Baker, Bakers, > Ball, Ballard, Balls, Barbour, Barker, Barkley, Barnes, Barry, > Bartlett, Barton, Bassett, Bates, Baugus, Baxter, Baylis, Bayly, > Beach, Beckwith, Bedford, Bennet, Bennit, Berkeley, Berkley, Bird, > Blackburn, Blackburns, Blair, Bleight, Blumfield, Boggess, > Boilston, Boilstone, Bond, Bosman, Bowie, Bowling, Bowman, Boyden, > Boylston, Braddock, Breckenridge, Brents, Broadwater, Brocket, > Bronaugh, Brown, Browns, Bryan, Bryant, Bucklands, Buckley, Burke, > Burkes, Burrows, Cairde, Canady, Car, Carlyle, Carney, Carpenter, > Carter, Carters, Carty, Cash, Caton, Champneys, Chapman, Chase, > Chesher, Chichester, Chichesters, Claggett, Clapham, Cleveland, > Clifton, Cockburn, Cocke, Cockerell, Cofer, Coffer, Cole, Coleman, > Colemans, Colvill, Cookburn, Cooke, Cooper, Coopers, Copein, > Corbins, Corner, Cox, Crutcher, Cullison, Custis, Dade, Dades, > Dainty, Dalton, Dame, Daniel, Daniels, Darne, Darrel, Darrell, > Darus, Davie, Davis, De Butts, Demevill, Deneale, Denty, Deskins, > Dickins, Dickson, Diskin, Dixon, Dodd, Dodge, Donaldson, Douglass, > Dozier, Dulan, Dulin, Dunbarr, Duntan, Ellett, Elliott, Ellzey, > Eltenger, Elzey, Elzy, Emms, English, Erskine, Evans, Ewel, Ewell, > Fairfax, Fairfaxes, Fairhurst, Falkner, Farguson, Fauquier, Ficklin, > Fitzhugh, Fitzhughs, Fleming, Foote, Forbes, Ford, Foster, Fowler, > Franklin, French, Furguson, Furgussons, Gaillard, Gardner, Garrett, > Gerard, Gibson, Gilmore, Gladdin, Gladding, Gleading, Godfrey, > Gooch, GOODWIN, Goram, Graham, Grant, Grantum, Grayson, Green, > Griffin, Griffith, Grigsby, Grymes, Guest, Gunnel, Gunnell, > Gunnells, Hago, Hairsling, Hall, Halley, Halling, Hamilton, > Hampton, Harle, Harris, Harrison, Hart, Hartley, Hartshorne, > Haslip, Haugo, Hawley, Henderson, Hendersons, Hening, Henry, > Herbert, Hereford, Heryford, Hester, Hews, Hicherson, Hicks, > Higgerson, Hollis, Holmes, Hord, Howel, Howson, Hull, Hunter, > Hunters, Huntt, Hurst, Husk, Hutchinson, Hutchinsons, Hutt, > Jackson, Jacobs, James, Janney, Jefferey, Jefferson, Jenifer, > Jenkins, Jenny, John, Johns, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Judy, > Keen, Keith, Kemp, King, Kirk, Kirkland, Kitchen, Kloman, Koon, > Krouch, Kurhling, Lamphier, Landstreet, Lane, Langfier, Lasswell, > Lawfull, Lay, Lee, Lees, Lewis, Lewises, Lindsey, Linton, > Littlejohn, Lockwood, Love, Loves, Loyd, Lucas, Lumley, Lund, > Lynton, Macgill, Machen, Macrae, Madden, Madison, Manley, > Marshall, Martin, Mason, Masons, Massey, Masterson, Mc.Bee, > Mc.Carty, Mc.Cartys, McCarty, McCartys, McGill, McIlhenny, > McWhorter, Meade, Meckby, Melton, Mercers, Middleton, Milstead, > Minor, Moncure, Monroe, Monteith, Moore, Morton, Moscrope, > Moseley, Moss, Mosses, Moxley, Muir, Munroe, Murray, Musgrove, > Neale, Neill, Netherton, Nevitt, Newton, Newtons, Nisbett, > Noland, Norton, Offutt, Omohundro, Osborn, Osborne, Owen, Owsley, > Packard, Page, Payne, Peabody, Peak, Peake, Pendleton, Penson, > Perin, Perkins, Peyton, Piper, Platt, Pollard, Popejoy, Porter, > Posey, Potter, Powell, Presley, Price, Pritchett, Ramey, Ramsay, > Ramsey, Randolph, Ratcliffe, Ratcliffes, Reagan, Reagans, Reardon, > Reid, Richardson, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Roe, Ronks, Ross, > Rumsey, Russell, Ryers, Saintclare, Samford, Sanders, Sands, > Sanford, Saunders, Scandall, Scott, Seal, Sears, Sebastian, > Selectman, Shaddedin, Shaw, Shelton, Shortridge, Simmonds, > Simpson, Slaughter, Smallwood, Smith, Smiths, Sommers, Sparks, > Specht, Spurr, Stephens, Steptoes, Stoddert, Stone, Straham, > Stribling, Stuart, Stuarts, Sturman, Stutt, Summers, Talbot, > Taliaferro, Tayloes, Taylor, Tebbs, Terrett, Terretts, Theisz, > Thomas, Thomases, Thompson, Thornton, Thorntons, Thrift, Tillett, > Towners, Townsend, Trammel, Trammell, Triplett, Turley, Turner, > Valandigam, Veal, Violet, Violett, Wade, Wagener, Wait, Waite, > Walker, Wallis, Ward, Warden, Wardens, Warner, Washington, > Washingtons, Watson, Waugh, Weems, West, Westmoreland, Weston, > Wheeler, White, Whitford, Whittle, Wiley, Wilks, Williams, Willis, > Windsor, Winsor, Withers, Wren, Wright, Wyatt, Wythe, Young > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > The First Sunday in each month will set aside for a "Brick Wall" Roll > Call. 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