Westover Parish on the north side of the James was established in 1613. The current church was built in 1730, before that the church was on Westover Plantation; built between 1630 and 1637. The church was destroyed during the Civil war when it was used as a stable for federal troops, who used the gravestones as tent floors.
Charles City County was one of the four corporations set up by the London Company in 1618. When the Virginia Colony was divided in 1634, the county included land both to the north and south of the James River, from James City to Henrico County. In 1703, the territory south of the river was formed into Prince George County.
The first colony was Charles City, established in 1612 as a fortification from the Indians on the south bank of the Appomattox. About the same time, on the north side of the James, about 12 miles from Jamestown, Governor Dale founded the plantations of West and Shirley Hundred, as part of his New Bermudas, around the main settlement of Bermuda Hundred. In 1617, Weyanoke was given to Sir George Yeardley by Opechancanough, with 2200 acres on the north bank of the James between Mapsico and Queen's Creeks. In 1618, Smith's Hundred was established- 100,000 acres between the Weyanoke and Chichahominy river on the north side of the James, but this plantation was anihiliated in the Indian massacre of 1622. Weyanoke plantation also extended south of the James River from Westover plantation on the east to Kennon's Creek on the north and Upper Chippokes Creek on the south.
Westover plantation was originally on land granted to Thomas West (Lord de la Warr) and his brothers on the West and Shirley Hundred, which was united by marriage of Thomas West to Cecily Shirley. This lay on both sides of the James River from Henrico County (Gunn's Run) on the north to Flowerdew Hundred on the south.
On the south side of the river, Martin's Brandon plantation and Merchants Hope were established by Captain John Martin in 1618 and 1620 and later passed on to John Sadler, Thomas Quiney and associates in 1643.
The earliest church was St. Mary's in Smith's Hundred (later Southampton Hundred) by 1619, but most parishioners were affected by the massacre of 1622.
Wallingford Parish church, a brick building on Chickahominy Creek near Kennon's Creek was likely built around 1648 but the parish was added to Westover in 1720.
Blandford church also had outlying wood frame chapels; the Ferry Chapel, near the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Kennon's brick house at Conjurers Neck, and another at Sapponey.
William and Martha Womack
Wm born Sept 10, 1723 bapt Jan 19, 1724
Laurana dtr of Eliz Womack b 20 March 1728
Ephaim son of Womack and Mable Pucket born 24 Jan bap 10 April 1721
Isham son of Womack and Mable Pucket born 14 Oct 1723 bap 23 April 1724
Richard son of Richard and Martha Pucket born 17 March 1718
Phebe dau of John and Judith Pucket b 11 Jan bap March 5 1720
Wm son of John and Judith Puckett b 15 Sept bap 17 Dec 1720
Sources:
Vestry Book and Register of Bristol Parish 1720-1789
Chamberlain's Colonial Churches- Blandford Church
Meade's History of Bristol Parish
Births from Bristol Parish Register- Chamberlayne (Ancestry.com)
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