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From: "David Roberts" <>
Subject: [MDSTMARY] More on Piscataway Parish
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 07:56:59 -0400
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Mike & the List:

I looked thru' my file folder on "Episcopal Church - Maryland" and found a
xerox of a map with the original 1692 parishes marked out on the map.

Piscataway Parish took in a section of present-day Charles County. The
parish line was Mattawoman Creek to the Potomac River. The area around
Indian Head, Pomonkey, Marshall Hall - everything in Charles County north of
Mattawoman Creek - was in Piscataway Parish. [Piscataway later became King
George Parish]

So, Mike - it's possible your relatives in Piscataway Parish MIGHT have
lived in this section which is now in Charles County. Since current St.
John's Parish wasn't cut off until the 1820s, a person in Piscataway Parish
in 1787 could have been living in Charles County.

St. John's Chapel, Pomonkey, is in St. John's Parish - this was the
southerly part of Piscataway Parish cut off in 1823. The chapel is in
Charles County; the parish church - Christ Church, Accokeek - is in Prince
George's. So that parish, once a part of the 1692 Piscataway Parish, is
over-lapping the county line.

I couldn't figure it out from the booklet I'm using - "A Guide to Historic
Episcopal Churches of Southern Maryland" - but it appears that St. James,
Indian Head, MIGHT BE a separate parish. No dates were given for the
creation of parish - if indeed it is a parish - but the church congregation
dates to the World War I era & is connected to U. S. Navy activity at Indian
Head. According to the map I have, Indian Head is clearly in the original
1692 Piscataway Parish.

Again, Mike, this will just CONFUSE the issue ... Charles ? or Prince
George's ? .... Well, that depends !!!!!

David

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Roberts" <>
To: <>; <>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 8:14 PM
Subject: [MDSTMARY] Piscataway Parish


> Mike:
>
> As Linda said, Piscataway Parish is in Prince George's County, but early
on
> it was in Charles County. The formation of Prince George's County from
> Charles & Calvert - 1695 - post-dates by a few years the 1692
Establishment
> of the Church of England in Maryland. Piscataway was one of the original
> 1692 parishes.
>
> The county line between Charles & Prince George's has also been moved, I
> believe; I think the Marshall Hall area was at one time in Prince George's
&
> then was returned to Charles; but I might be wrong on this.
>
> Piscataway Parish was re-named St. John's Parish and re-named again King
> George Parish, which is - I believe- its name today. The parish church -
St.
> John's, Broad Creek, was built in 1722/1723, rebuilt & enlarged 1765-1768,
> remodeled in 1820, the 1840s and 1910-1913. The present church is on the
> National Register of Historic Places.
>
> Anglican activity in the Broad Creek area of present Prince George's
County,
> dates to ca. 1660. A frame church was built in 1696. St. John's, Broad
> Creek, is across from Mount Vernon & "tradition" has George Washington
> crossing the Potomac to attend services there.
>
> Christ Church, Accokeek, was established as a Chapel of Ease for
Piscataway
> Parish in 1698. A frame chapel was built; it was replaced in 1745 by a
brick
> chapel, the wall of which still remain. In 1823, King George Parish was
> divided and the southerly area was set off as St. John's Parish, restoring
> the 2nd of the 3 names of the larger original parish. The older chapel,
now
> the parish church, burned in 1856. The walls of the 1745 chapel were used
in
> the reconstruction of the present church in 1857.
>
> I hope this helps you locate your people.
>
> David
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "The Goughs" <>
> To: "rootsweb, stmarys" <>; "Rootsweb Charles
County
> MD" <>; "Washington County KY Rootsweb"
> <>; <>
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 10:39 PM
> Subject: [MDSTMARY] I recieved this tidbit about the Basil Smallwood that
> married Mary Gough.
>
>
> > Dear lists, I received this tidbit about the Basil Smallwood that
> > married Mary Gough. There daughter married William Vize in Washington
> > County, KY and Settled in Union County, KY. Piscataway Parish is in
> > which Maryland County? I don't have any additional information about
> > Mary Ann; perhaps she is buried next to her father in ????.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > From the book, Maryland Genealogies Vol. ll, I found this: Although
> > the writer was not able to place Basil Smallwood in the family of Col.
> > James Smallwood, he did believe he was a part of that family. He wrote,
> > "Basil Smallwood married Mary Gareff (1) Piscataway Parish, May 13,
> > 1787. He is in the 1790 census of Charles County, MD. He had a
> > daughter, Mary Ann who was born January 16, 1792."
> >
> > Thank you again for the information.
> >
>
>
>
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