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From: "David Roberts" <>
Subject: More on St. Barnabas, Queen Anne Parish
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:36:22 -0500
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I checked the web page for the Episcopal church:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/directory.htm

From here you can look at the entire country.
Washington is in Province III.
You can get a list of all churches in the Washington Diocese from that site.

Here I found St. Barnabas, Leeland, Queen Anne Parish.
Its web site is:
http://stbarnabas.net/
The contact info is:
P. O. Box 4528, Upper Marlboro, MD 20775
street address: 14111 Oak Grove Road
phones: 301-249-5000; 301-249-3838(fax)

The web site has a picture of the church, but I didn't find anything on it
about the history.
I'm sure a google search would uncover something about the history of this
parish.

David


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Roberts" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 7:34 AM
Subject: [MDSTMARY-L] St. Barnabas, Queen Anne Parish


> Mary Beth:
>
> Yes, St. Barnabas still exists. I haven't been there in some years, but
the
> church was on a Prince George's historical house tour that I went on some
> years ago. When my Sunday School class went on its "field trip" last
Sunday
> [12-4] to our former associate pastor's current church north of Upper
> Marlboro, I saw the sign for St. Barnabas on U. S. 301. It's located in
> Leeland, a community north of Upper Marlboro & south of Bowie, just west
off
> U. S. 301.
>
> Here's what "Maryland: A New Guide to the Old Line State" [1976] has to
say
> about the church:
>
> "Continuing on Church Road, at 1.9 m. is St. Barnabas Church (open every
> day), which serves a parish (Queen Anne's) formed from St. Paul's Parish,
> Prince George's County, by an Act of the Assembly in 1704. Construction of
> the first brick church, which replaced a wooden chapel, was begun in 1708.
> Gustavus Hesselius (1682 - 1755), the Swedish artist who came to America
in
> 1711, painted an altarpiece of the "Last Supper" between 1721 and 1722 on
> commission from the vestry. However, when the present church was built in
> 1773, during the incumbency of Rev. Jonathan Boucher (see below), the
> picture disappeared, and it was not rediscovered until 1848. The church is
> built of brick laid in Flemish bond and is a full two story high with a
> steep double-hipped roof that flares at the eves. The belfry, a small
> separate structure of brick, was erected in 1930 in honoe of Dr. John
Contee
> Fairfax, eleventh Baron of Cameron. The parish has a communion service
dated
> 1718."
>
> The painting was on display in the church when I was there for the tour.
>
> This section along 301 had been quite rural and open until the last few
> years. Somehow. Prince George's was holding back sprawl in this section
for
> years. Not so now. It's filling up fast w/ stores and McMansions ... too
bad
> because it was a nice section. The decline of the tobacco industry in
> Southern Maryland certainly has been a factor.
>
> Anyway, Mary Beth, the church is still standing. You should think of
> visiting it when you are here.
>
> You might want to check the homepage of the Episcopal Diocese of
Washington
> [D. C., Montgomery, Prince George's, Charles and St. Mary's] for more info
> on this church.
>
> David
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Abordo" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 8:51 PM
> Subject: [MDSTMARY-L] Early Maryland Church Records?
>
>
> > Might anyone be kind enough to point me toward Early Maryland Church
> Records?
> >
> > I an intersted in Saint Barnabas, Queen Anne Parrish, Prince George,
MD.
> Does it still exist? If so were is it located? ( FamiLy notes, which maybe
> be in error, mention Leland, MD which I do not find in my Atlas).
> >
> > On 26 March 1734 Edward Evans was baptisted at Saint Barnabas, Queen
Anne
> Parrish, Prince George, MD. My hope is that the recards will indicate the
> name of his father and mother. The gentleman in question married several
> times.
> >
> > Thank you for any suggestions or leads!
> >
> > Mary Beth
> >
>

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