intervening Sunday, and that he be allowed 1,200 pounds of tobacco
per annum for his salary.

Mr. Cha. Broadwater and Mr. Abraham Barnes are appointed Church
Wardens for this parish for the ensuing year.

October 22, 1753:

Mary Bennitt, sexton at the Upper Church, 560 pounds of tobacco.

John Wiber Danty, clerk at the Upper Church, 1,100 pounds of
tobacco.

November 22, 1754:

Wm. Donaldson, Clk. Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco.

Mary Bennitt, sexton at the Upper Church, 560 pounds of tobacco.

September 17, 1755:

Ordered: That the several tracts of land that have their
beginnings between Hunting Creek and the Potomac, the road that
leads from Aubrey's Ferry to the Upper Church, and the road that
leads from Cameron to the Upper Church, be processioned sometime in
the month of December, next, and that John Dalton, Thos. Harrison,
John Hunter and Nathan'l Smith attend to see the same performed,
and that they take an account of their proceedings therein and
return the same to the next Vestry after the same shall be
performed.

[Illustration: Cottage of Mr. G. A. L. Merrifield]

November 27, 1755:

Wm. Donaldson, Clk. at Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco. James
Palmer, sexton at Falls Church, 560 pounds of tobacco.

November 29, 1756:

Mr. Lumley, Clk. at Upper Church, 1,000 pounds of tobacco. James
Palmer, sexton, Upper Church, 560 pounds of tobacco.

November 28, 1757:

Jas. Palmer, sexton at Falls Church, 560 pounds of tobacco.

November 27, 1758:

Jas. Palmer, sexton at Falls Church, 560 pounds of tobacco.

November 12, 1759:

Thos. Lewis, Clk. at Falls Church, 1,050 pounds of tobacco. Gerard
Trammell, sexton, at Falls Church, 560 pounds of tobacco.

[Illustration: Mr. Frank M. Thompson]

October 25, 1762:

Ordered that Geo. Washington, Esq., be chosen and appointed one of
the Vestrymen of this parish in the room of Wm. Peake, gent.,
deceased.

Ordered that the sexton at Falls Church be allowed 560 pounds of
tobacco.

October 3, 1763:

At a Vestry held for Truro Parish, October 3, 1763, present: Rev.
Mr. Green, minister; Wm. Payne, jun'r., and Henry Gunnell, Ch.
Wardens; Geo. Wm. Fairfax, Thos. Wren, Wm. Payne, Abra. Barnes,
Cha. Broadwater, John