>>>From: MHG7867726@aol.com >>>To: gwbo@hotmail.com >>>Subject: The Southwark Parish, reported by Wm Byrd in did not extist > until 1825??? >>>Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:04:52 EDT >>> >>> IS THE REPORT BY CHARLES KIMBALL INCORRECT? >>> >>>Can you assist me in finding out if the information about the "School of >>>Mr. >>>Griffin called Christina, for Indians on the borders of my parish" from a >>>letter by The Reverend John Cargill Minister of Southwark Parish--made to >>>the>>>Bishop of London was correct? >>> >>>Also, in question a report in 1728 from the chronicles of Wm. Byrd's 1728 >>>Expedition for Surveying the Boundary lines between Virginia and North >>>Carolina "On Sept. 27th the chaplain on the exposition christened two >>>children on Cabin Branch, Off Fountain's Creek. The next day they passed >>>Pea>>>Hill Creek--Lizard Creek--The duty should have fallen to the Parish >>>> Priest, > >>>Reverend John Cargill of Southwark Parish in which these settlers lived, >>>the>>>Rev. Cargill was over 100 miles away near the James River. He knew, >>>vaguely,>>>that the "Indian School" was in his care, but he seemed averse ever to >>>venturing into the uncivilized woods." >>> >>>I just received an E-mail saying the parish of John Cargill in Southwark >>>did>>>not exist until 1825???? from a Mr. Giles Goddard--Is he correct? Southwark Parish was created by the Virginia General Assembly in November 1647. Documentation is in Hening's Statutes at Large (reprint Charlottesville, 1969) vol. 1, p. 347. Information from the Reverend John Cargill's 1724 report can be found at the Surry County Historical Society web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaschsm/ Click on History Notes (on the bar at the left side) Scroll down and click on Reports to the Bishop of London -- Eve S. Gregory, Historian and Director Virginia Foundation for Archaeological Research, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/~vavfar/ Frances Bland Randolph Chapter, NSDAR, VIS Chairman http://www.rootsweb.com/~vabrcdar/ Visit my home page for history and genealogy links! http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~eve368g/