Birth records in VA do not begin until 1853-1896 and then pick up again in 1912. SOME church of England Registers are Extant, but very few. Unfortunately, Camden Parish Register did not survive. At the Rev War outbreak, the Parish vestry ran the minister off as a Tory, and he probably took the Register with him, as it was a record of rites performed by him rather than a church record like Vestry minutes. If you can find a copy of April Miller's Shelton County, you may can find him in this. Not knowing where queries are coming from makes it hard to respond as to what the libraries in the questioners' localities might have in their collections. Bannika@aol.com wrote: > Am looking to verify the birth of Thomas Shelton on July 25, 1802 in Camden > Parish. Parents may be Bennett and Mary Ann Ausling Shelton. Thanks. > > ==== VAPITTSY Mailing List ==== > Only a genealogist regards a step backwards as progress.