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.ÿþ31.A part of Wallingford Parish on the east side of the Chickahominy River was absorbed intoJames City Parish.The area in Charles City County on the west side of the Chickahominy becamepart of Westover Parish.Hening, 4:94 95; JHB, 5:276 96; Cocke DSV, 62, 84 86, 89 91.32.Hening, 4:443.33.Church, 30; Cocke DV, 147.34.Church, 98 99; JHB, 5:49, 54, 59, 66; Cocke DV, 201.35.James Blair to the Bishop of London, 28 July 1724, Fulham Papers, 12:31 32; Hening, 4:141;JHB, 5:376 77, 382, 387 95; Church, 261 62.36.Hening, 4:444 45; JHB, 6:205, 219; Cocke DSV, 148.37.Hening, 5:75 77; JHB, 6:328, 375, 379, 386 87; Cocke DSV, 59 60.38.The assembly s authorization in 1769 of an addition of a part of South Farnham Parish toSt.Anne s Parish exemplifies ongoing adjustments to parish boundaries.To St.Anne s Parish it ap-proved   the addition of the upper end of Southfarnham parish, in the county of Essex, which liesabove the following line, to wit, from col.Francis Waring s mill run, at the mouth of the road branch,thence up the said branch to a marked black oak, at the head thereof, from thence south sixty de-grees west to the main road, thence south forty-seven degrees went to a small persimon and mapletree, at the head of a branch of Hoskins run.  Hening, 8:406.39.St.Mark s Parish Vestry Minutes,11 October1738, 8 October1739,14 October1740,12 October1741, 27 November 1751, 20 November 1752.40.St.Andrew s Parish Vestry Minutes, 3 October 1745, 7 November 1746, 24 September 1753,27 November 1754.Other divisions authorized during this period (1730 60) occurred when similartithable levels were reached: St.George s Parish (Spotsylvania County) in1731 1,465 tithables; Hen-rico Parish (Henrico County) in 1734 1,754; Bristol Parish (Prince George County) in 1735 2,084;Bristol Parish again in 1742 1,668; Truro Parish (Fairfax County) in 1749 1,667; and Cumber-land Parish (Lunenburg County) in 1757 2,587.St.George s Parish (Spotsylvania) Vestry Minutes,8 September 1730, 29 September 1731; Henrico Parish Vestry Minutes, 13 October 1732; Churchill G.Chamberlayne, ed., The Vestry Book and Register of Bristol Parish, Virginia, 1720 1789 (Richmond, Va., 1898),11 November 1734, 10 November 1735, 12 October 1741, 14 October 1742; Truro Parish Vestry Minutes,10 October1748, 9 October1749; Landon C.Bell, ed., Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia, VestryBook, 1746 1816 (Richmond, Va., 1930), 5 November 1756, 5 December 1757.41.JHB, 11:195.42.Ibid., 7:97.43.No precise date of origin can be assigned to the multicongregation innovation.However, thereis implicit evidence as early as 1632 in a statute specifying the responsibility of parish ministers topreach every Sunday:   But because in this colony the places of their cure are in many places ffardistant,  the act provided   that the mynisters does so divide theire turnes as by joynt agreement ofthe parishioners they should be desired.  Laws, 1:157.Katharine L.Brown suggests that the intentwas that no parishioner would have to travel more than six miles to church.Brown, Hills of the Lord:Background of the Episcopal Church in Southwestern Virginia, 1738 1938 (Roanoke, Va., 1979), 7.44.Virginians explicitly repudiated the practice of plurality a clergyman having rights to morethan one   living.  In 1710 the governor s council decreed: pluralities   will give great dissatisfactionto the Inhabitants of this Colony not only because it is not possible in two large Parishes for oneMinister to discharge (as he ought) the duty of his office in visiting the sick and administering theSacraments when necessity requires, but as it will likewise prove a very great discouragement toother worthy Clergymen to come into the Country.  EJC, 27 April 1710, 3:244 46.A few instancesearly in the eighteenth century of Virginia parsons taking responsibility for two parishes were expe-dient responses to parishes experiencing persistent problems in obtaining and supporting ministers.Gov.Alexander Spotswood to the Bishop of London, 26 October 1715, in Robert A.Brock, ed., TheOfficial Letters of Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1710 1722, Now First Printedfrom the Manuscript in the Collections of the Virginia Historical Society, Collections of the Virginia HistorySociety, new ser., 2 vols.(Richmond, Va.,1882,1885), 2:137.At least one, and perhaps several, parsons,however, held livings in England simultaneously with their residence in Virginia.James Sclater earlyin the century, for example, had two English livings while serving in Charles Parish.What provision.340 notes to pages 23 28 [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]