e South Side of Goose Creek,
as far as the fork of Little River, and that they perform the same
sometime in the month of October or November, next, and report
their proceedings according to law.

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October 6, 1740:

Nicholas Carroll, sexton Pohick Church, 400 pounds of tobacco.

Jas. Bennitt, sexton at the New Church, 400 pounds of tobacco.

John Aubrey, sexton at Goose Creek, 400 pounds of tobacco.

May 21, 1745:

At a vestry held for Truro Parish, May 21, 1745, present Rev. Mr.
Cha. Green, minister, and church wardens and vestrymen.

Ordered, that a church be built at or near the spring nigh Mr.
Hutchinson's on the mountain road, of the following dimensions: 40
feet long, 32 feet wide and 13 feet pitch. To be weather boarded
with 3/4-inch feather-edge plank, quartered and beaded; shingled
with 18-inch pine shingles; sawed frame, and frame work ceiled with
quartered plank, beaded, and floored with 1-1/4-inch plank, with
proper cornice under the eaves, with pulpit, desk, communion table,
etc. With doors, windows & seats, after the manner of the Upper
Church, and all the proper facings and mouldings; and window
shutters, to be shingled with single tiers, weather boarded with
eights, and filled with tens or brads; locks and hinges that are
necessary for the same.

Ordered, That the Clerk of the Vestry prepare deeds for Mr. Andrew
Hutchinson conveying two acres of land to this Parish for house of
the Church to be built thereon, and church yard.

Hugh Thomas undertakes to complete the aforesaid church and to
enclose it by the last day of October, next, and to finish and
complete it by the last day of October, then next following, for
24,500 pounds of tobacco, to be paid him at two payments, and the
clerk of the vestry is ordered to prepare articles of agreement and
bond for the performance of the same.

CHA. GREEN, }
JOHN WEST, } Ch. Wardens.

Teste: { Wm. Henry Terrett,
{ Clk. Vestry.

October 12, 1747:
Philip Howell, sexton, Pohick, 400 pounds of tobacco.
Mary Bennitt, sexton, Upper Church, 400 pounds of tobacco.
Mary McDowell, sexton, Goose Creek, 400 pounds of tobacco.
Wm. Grove, sexton, New Church, 172 pounds of tobacco