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History

St. James Northam Parish has served Goochland County, Virginia. Beaverdam Episcopal Church (also known as the Second Episcopal Church), built before 1764, was situated in Goochland County.^[1]

Founded

• 1744 from St. James Parish (Goochland Co.)^[2]

Boundary

Resources

Parish History

Parish Records

Parish Registers

• Douglas, William and William Mcfarlane Jones. The Douglas Register: Being a Detailed Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths Together with Other Interesting Notes, As Kept by the Rev. William Douglas, from 1750 to 1797: An Index of Goochland Wills, Notes on the French-Huguenot Refugees Who Lived in Manakin-town. 1928; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1977, c1966. Digital versions at Ancestry ($); World Vital Records ($). FHL Book 975.5455 V2d 1977.
  
• "Register of St. James Northam Parish, Goochland County," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Jul. 1906):24-36; Vol. 15, No. 2 (Oct. 1906):113-123; Vol. 15, No. 4 (Apr. 1907):249-255. FHL; digital version at JSTOR ($).

Vestry Books

The original St. James Northam Parish Vestry Book (1744-1850) is kept at the Library of Virginia.

• Hopkins, William Lindsay. St. James Northam Parish Vestry Book, 1744-1850, Goochland County, Virginia. Richmond, VA: Self-published, 1987. (Note: "Abstracted from a photocopy in the Virginia State Library.")

Websites

• Beaverdam Episcopal Church, The Historical Marker Database

References

1. ↑ Beaverdam Episcopal Church, The Historical Marker Database
2. ↑ 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).