St. Marys Parish, Virginia

United States   Virginia    St. Mary's Parish

History
St. Mary's Parish has served (Old) Rappahannock, Richmond, Essex, and Caroline counties. Mount Church, established by 1748, belonged to this parish.

Founded

 * abt 1677

Boundary
"An Act for Dividing St Marys Parish" (1713) culled from Colonial Office at the National Archives in London, is published in:


 * Chamberlayne, Churchill G. "Seven Parish Acts Heretofore Unpublished," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Jan. 1938):106-118. ; digital version at JSTOR ($).

Parish History
Meade's 1861 history of St. Mary's Parish is available online.

Church Records
Colonial parish registers do not survive.