Includes two books; both the Vestry and Register were published by the Virginia Society of Colonial Dames.
The Vestry Book of Saint Peter's:
New Kent County, Va. from 1682-1758
250 pages, indexed
- Bonus Book -
Colonial Churches
390 pages, illustrated, indexed, searchable
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These books take on even greater importance in light of the loss of county records in New Kent County and King and Queen County and the
survival of mere fragments for King William County prior to 1865. New Kent County, Virginia, was created from York and a portion of James City
County in 1654, and it was itself the parent county of King & Queen and King William counties
Of greatest interest to genealogists, of course, are the genealogies and sketches of Old New Kent families. Following is a list of most of the main
families covered in this extraordinary work. (Researchers should bear in mind that many more surnames will be found in the index to the work.)
New Kent: Adams, Allen, Apperson, Armistead, Bacon, Bassett, Bathurst, Boyd, Burnet, Butts, Chamberlayne, Christian, Clayton, Clopton, Cousic,
Crump, Dancie, Dandridge, Daingerfield, Davies, Ellyson, Foster, Goddin, Graves, Jones, Lacy, Lafayette, Lewis, Littlepage, Lyddall, Macon, Massie,
Meaux, Mossom, Otey, Parke, Parkinson, Poindexter, Pollard, Scott, Semple, Stewart, Tarleton, Terrell, Tunstall, Vaiden, Martha Washington, Webb, Wilks,
Williams, Winslow, Woodward, and Wyatt-Field-Jefferson.
This vestry book contains records from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of the parish of St. Peter, which is located in New Kent County,
Virginia. The General Assembly created the parishes of the Established Church in colonial Virginia and then appointed the parish vestries to
conduct certain administrative affairs. The first portion of this database contains the minutes of the vestry meetings from 1684 to 1758. These
minutes include items such as the names of the men present at the meetings, accounting affairs of the parish, tithing matters, who is to preach
the next sermon, who is to serve as a minister, and other types of things that would be discussed at these meetings. The second and third
sections of the database are comprised of the registers recording the births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths occurring in the parish, however they
are incomplete. The second section contains the register recording these even ts from 1685 to 1730, while the third section records those from
1733 to the end of the century.
The Parish Register of St. Peter's:
New Kent County, VA
1682 to 1787
146 pages, searchable
Bishop Meade (Old Churches, Ministers and Families of VA) states there were originally two county parishes,
St. John’s north of York and Pamunkey rivers, and St. Peters, south of those streams. There is no record when
St. Peter’s was formed, but the registry begins 1682.
In 1704, St. Paul’s parish, afterwards in Hanover county, was formed from St. Peter’s. All persons, therefore,
who trace their ancestry to Hanover, as well as those of New Kent descent, may find information of interest in
these registers.