St. Thomas?CO Parish in Virginia was formed from St. Mark?COs Parish in 1740. The new parish encompassed present-day Orange, Greene, and a strip of southern Madison counties. Based on an extensive examination of primary sources, the work at hand is the first accurate description of the formation of St. Thomas?CO Parish, its member churches, its ministers, and others who played a significant part in its colonial history. In the absence of surviving vestry books for St. Thomas?CO Parish, or even an accurate map of the parish, the author was able to extract valuable information pertaining to St. Thomas?CO Parish from the surviving vestry books of the neighboring parishes of St. Mark?COs and St. George?COs. However, as Mrs. Papageorgiou explains in her Preface, Spotsylvania and Orange County road orders comprise the backbone of her study. The road orders for the construction and maintenance of roads, as recorded in county court order books, provide evidence to the existence of...

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