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Augusta Parish serves Augusta County, Virginia. Located in Staunton, it has since been renamed Trinity Church. Trinity Chapel also served parishioners.[1]
A chapel of ease, built in 1747, served parishioners in what is now Rockingham County, Virginia.[2]
Founded
- 1738[3]
Resources
Cemetery
More than 100 tombstones from Trinity Episcopal Churchyard are described at Find A Grave.
Parish History
Augusta Parish reports:[4]
- Convention of 1820 (p. 142)
- Convention of 1821 (p. 147)
- Convention of 1823 (p. 163)
- Convention of 1824 (p. 171)
- Convention of 1825 (p. 182)
- Convention of 1829 (p. 232)
- Convention of 1830 (p. 245)
- Convention of 1831 (p. 258)
- Convention of 1833 (p. 292)
- Convention of 1834 (p. 307)
- Convention of 1835 (p. 326)
Bibliography
- Van Devanter, J.N. History of the Augusta Church from 1737 to 1900. Staunton, Va.: The Ross Printing Company, 1900. Digital version at Google Books.
- Ruffin, Beverley. Augusta Parish, Virginia, 1738-1780. Verona, Va.: McClure Press, 1970. Available at FHL Book 975.5916 K2r.
Parish Records
Colonial parish registers have been lost.
Websites
- Trinity Church Marker, The Historical Marker Database
- First Church in Rockingham County, The Historical Marker Database
References
- ↑ Francis Lister Hawks, A Narrative of Events Connected with the Rise and Progress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia: To Which is Added an Appendix, Containing the Journals of the Conventions in Virginia from the Commencement to the Present Time (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1836), 307. Digital version at Google Books.
- ↑ First Church in Rockingham County, The Historical Marker Database
- ↑ Freddie Spradlin, "Parishes of Virginia," VAGenWeb, accessed 29 January 2011; Hening's Statutes at Large; Emily J. Salmon and Edward D.C. Campbell Jr., The Hornbook of Virginia History (Richmond: Library of Virginia, 1994).
- ↑ Francis Lister Hawks, A Narrative of Events Connected with the Rise and Progress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia: To Which is Added an Appendix, Containing the Journals of the Conventions in Virginia from the Commencement to the Present Time (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1836). Digital version at Google Books.
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