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Subject: Re: [VAFairfax] History of Truro Parish on CD
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:16:02 -0600
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THE HISTORY OF TRURO PARISH IS AVAILABLE TO ALL ON THE NET AT

http://www.ls.net/~newriver/va/truro1.htm

PJD
11/4/05



On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Doris Christian wrote:

> THE HISTORY
>
> OF
>
> TRURO PARISH
>
> IN VIRGINIA
>
> BY
>
> REV. PHILIP SLAUGHTER, D.D.
>
>
> Edited With Notes and Addenda By REV. EDWARD L. GOODWIN
>
> Historiographer of the Diocese of Virginia
>
>
>
> Now on searchable, indexed CD:
>
> Check it out at your local library or archives.
> or dmkheritage.com
>
> This 183 page book, including index, written in 1907 contains
> information about Truro Parish which was part of the Northern Neck
> Grants. "Within this territory were the seats of the Fairfaxes,
> Washingtons, Masons, McCartys, Fitzhughs, Brents, Alexanders,
> Lewises, Mercers, Daniels, Carters, Dades, Stuarts, Corbins,
> Tayloes, Steptoes, Newtons, Browns, Lees, Thorntons, Balls, Smiths,
> and other leading families too many to mention, who dispensed an
> elegant hospitality at Northumberland House, Nomini, Stratford,
> Chantilly, Mount Airy, Sabine Hall, Bedford, Albion, Cedar Grove,
> Boscobel, Richland, Marleborough, Woodstock, Gunston, Belvoir,
> Woodlawn, Mount Vernon, etc. Beginning at Lancaster, county was
> taken from county, Parish from Parish, as the population of each
> passed the frontiers, until in 1730 Prince William was taken from
> Stafford and King George Counties, above Chappawansick Creek and
> Deep Run, and along the Potomac, to the "Great Mountains." This
> became also Hamilton Parish; which Parish, by an Act of the General
> Assembly passed at the Session of May, 1732, to take effect the
> first of the following November, was divided into two Parishes "By
> the river Ockoquan, and the Bull Run, (a branch thereof,) and a
> course from thence to the Indian Thoroughfare of the Blue Ridge of
> Mountains," (Ashby's Gap.) All that part of Prince William lying
> below the said bounds was to retain the name of Hamilton, "And all
> that other part of the said county, which lies above those bounds,
> shall hereafter be called and known by the name of Truro." The
> Parish was named after the Parish in Cornwall, in England, which is
> now the Diocese of Truro."
>
>
> Index:
> Adam, Adams, Alexander, Alexanders, Allan, Allen, Alrich,
> Andrews, Ashford, Atkins, Aubrey, Awbrey, Aylatt, Ayres, Baker,
> Bakers, Ball, Ballard, Balls, Barbour, Barker, Barkley, Barnes,
> Barry, Bartlett, Barton, Bassett, Bates, Baugus, Baxter, Baylis,
> Bayly, Beach, Beckwith, Bedford, Bennet, Bennit, Berkeley,
> Berkley, Bird, Blackburn, Blackburns, Blair, Bleight,
> Blumfield, Boggess, Boilston, Boilstone, Bond, Bosman, Bowie,
> Bowling, Bowman, Boyden, Boylston, Braddock, Breckenridge, Brents,
> Broadwater, Brocket, Bronaugh, Brown, Browns, Bryan, Bryant,
> Bucklands, Buckley, Burke, Burkes, Burrows, Cairde, Canady, Car,
> Carlyle, Carney, Carpenter, Carter, Carters, Carty, Cash,
> Caton, Champneys, Chapman, Chase, Chesher, Chichester,
> Chichesters, Claggett, Clapham, Cleveland, Clifton, Cockburn,
> Cocke, Cockerell, Cofer, Coffer, Cole, Coleman, Colemans, Colvill,
> Cookburn, Cooke, Cooper, Coopers, Copein, Corbins, Corner, Cox,
> Crutcher, Cullison, Custis, Dade, Dades, Dainty, Dalton, Dame,
> Daniel, Daniels, Darne, Darrel, Darrell, Darus, Davie, Davis, De
> Butts, Demevill, Deneale, Denty, Deskins, Dickins, Dickson,
> Diskin, Dixon, Dodd, Dodge, Donaldson, Douglass, Dozier, Dulan,
> Dulin, Dunbarr, Duntan, Ellett, Elliott, Ellzey, Eltenger, Elzey,
> Elzy, Emms, English, Erskine, Evans, Ewel, Ewell, Fairfax,
> Fairfaxes, Fairhurst, Falkner, Farguson, Fauquier, Ficklin,
> Fitzhugh, Fitzhughs, Fleming, Foote, Forbes, Ford, Foster,
> Fowler, Franklin, French, Furguson, Furgussons, Gaillard, Gardner,
> Garrett, Gerard, Gibson, Gilmore, Gladdin, Gladding, Gleading,
> Godfrey, Gooch, GOODWIN, Goram, Graham, Grant, Grantum, Grayson,
> Green, Griffin, Griffith, Grigsby, Grymes, Guest, Gunnel, Gunnell,
> Gunnells, Hago, Hairsling, Hall, Halley, Halling, Hamilton,
> Hampton, Harle, Harris, Harrison, Hart, Hartley, Hartshorne,
> Haslip, Haugo, Hawley, Henderson, Hendersons, Hening, Henry,
> Herbert, Hereford, Heryford, Hester, Hews, Hicherson, Hicks,
> Higgerson, Hollis, Holmes, Hord, Howel, Howson, Hull, Hunter,
> Hunters, Huntt, Hurst, Husk, Hutchinson, Hutchinsons, Hutt,
> Jackson, Jacobs, James, Janney, Jefferey, Jefferson, Jenifer,
> Jenkins, Jenny, John, Johns, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Judy,
> Keen, Keith, Kemp, King, Kirk, Kirkland, Kitchen, Kloman, Koon,
> Krouch, Kurhling, Lamphier, Landstreet, Lane, Langfier, Lasswell,
> Lawfull, Lay, Lee, Lees, Lewis, Lewises, Lindsey, Linton,
> Littlejohn, Lockwood, Love, Loves, Loyd, Lucas, Lumley, Lund,
> Lynton, Macgill, Machen, Macrae, Madden, Madison, Manley,
> Marshall, Martin, Mason, Masons, Massey, Masterson, Mc.Bee,
> Mc.Carty, Mc.Cartys, McCarty, McCartys, McGill, McIlhenny,
> McWhorter, Meade, Meckby, Melton, Mercers, Middleton, Milstead,
> Minor, Moncure, Monroe, Monteith, Moore, Morton, Moscrope,
> Moseley, Moss, Mosses, Moxley, Muir, Munroe, Murray, Musgrove,
> Neale, Neill, Netherton, Nevitt, Newton, Newtons, Nisbett,
> Noland, Norton, Offutt, Omohundro, Osborn, Osborne, Owen,
> Owsley, Packard, Page, Payne, Peabody, Peak, Peake, Pendleton,
> Penson, Perin, Perkins, Peyton, Piper, Platt, Pollard, Popejoy,
> Porter, Posey, Potter, Powell, Presley, Price, Pritchett, Ramey,
> Ramsay, Ramsey, Randolph, Ratcliffe, Ratcliffes, Reagan, Reagans,
> Reardon, Reid, Richardson, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Roe,
> Ronks, Ross, Rumsey, Russell, Ryers, Saintclare, Samford,
> Sanders, Sands, Sanford, Saunders, Scandall, Scott, Seal, Sears,
> Sebastian, Selectman, Shaddedin, Shaw, Shelton, Shortridge,
> Simmonds, Simpson, Slaughter, Smallwood, Smith, Smiths, Sommers,
> Sparks, Specht, Spurr, Stephens, Steptoes, Stoddert, Stone,
> Straham, Stribling, Stuart, Stuarts, Sturman, Stutt, Summers,
> Talbot, Taliaferro, Tayloes, Taylor, Tebbs, Terrett, Terretts,
> Theisz, Thomas, Thomases, Thompson, Thornton, Thorntons, Thrift,
> Tillett, Towners, Townsend, Trammel, Trammell, Triplett, Turley,
> Turner, Valandigam, Veal, Violet, Violett, Wade, Wagener, Wait,
> Waite, Walker, Wallis, Ward, Warden, Wardens, Warner, Washington,
> Washingtons, Watson, Waugh, Weems, West, Westmoreland, Weston,
> Wheeler, White, Whitford, Whittle, Wiley, Wilks, Williams, Willis,
> Windsor, Winsor, Withers, Wren, Wright, Wyatt, Wythe, Young
>
>
>
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