1637 

Lynnhaven Parish congregation meets in Adam & Sarah Thorogood’s home. 1639Church One opens at Church Point.

Source: Lower Norfolk County, Virginia, Court Records, Book A, 1637-1646, p. 1

 

1640  

Lynnhaven Parish’s first mentioned in records.

First Lynnhaven Parish Vestry chosen.

Sources: Lower Norfolk court, August 3, 1640. The Colonial Churches of Lynnhaven Parish, Princess Anne County, Virginia. George Carrington Mason, The William and Mary College Quarterly Magazine, Vol 18, No. 3, July 1938, p. 271

 

1642  

Lynnhaven Parish boundaries established.

Source: Act of Assembly. W.W. Hening, ed., Statutes at Large of Virginia, vol. I, 250

 

1689  

Frame courthouse for Lower Norfolk County ordered built on Eastern Shore of Lynnhaven River near Southern End of Great Neck.

Source: Lower Norfolk County deeds, 1686-95, p.146. Virginia Beach Central Library

 

1691  

Princess Anne County formed.

Vestry orders Church Two built.

Source: Princess Anne County court order, April 1, 1691. Recorded September 9, 1698

 

1692 

Church Two opens on site next to current historic church.

First courthouse for PA County ordered built near the new church (Church Two.)

Source: Princess Anne County Court Order of 1692

 

1694  

Ebenezer Taylor deeds two acres to Parish vestry two years after church was built.

Source: Taylor deed of 1694

 

1695 

Courthouse for new PA County ordered to be built on land belonging to “new brick church.”

Sources: Mason, Vestry Record, p. xxvii; Princess Anne County Orders 1691-1709, I, 37. Central Library

 

1706 

Grace Sherwood ducked.

Source: Princess Anne County Order Book 1, p 445

 

1724 

Church Two decaying.

Source: Vestry Record, Nov 17, 1724

 

1733 

Vestry orders Church Three.

Source: Mason, George Carrington, Vestry Book of Lynnhaven Parish, p. 18

 

1736 

Courthouse next to Church Two removed.

Source: Mason, George Carrington, Vestry Book of Lynnhaven Parish, p. xv

Church Three (current church) opens.

Source: Mason, George Carrington, Vestry Book of Lynnhaven Parish, p. 21

Lynnhaven Parish Vestry orders Church Two become a school.

Source: Mason, George Carrington, Vestry Book of Lynnhaven Parish, p. 23

 

1767

Vestry resolves to sell Negro Wench, Rachal.

Source: Mason, George Carrington, Vestry Book of Lynnhaven Parish, p. 79.

 

1777 

Dickson’s will probated. Gives money to Free School.

Source: Robert Dickson’s will

 

1780 

Lynnhaven Parish Vestry hires school master.

 

1785 

Disestablishment of the Church of England in Virginia.

Source: Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. W.W. Hening, ed., Statutes at Large of Virginia, vol. 12 (1823): 84-86, 1786

Last Lynnhaven Parish Vestry Record entry.

Termination of Lynnhaven Parish Vestry.

Source: Mason, Vestry Record, p 124

 

1787 

New Vestry elected at Kempsville.

Kempsville Emmanuel Episcopal Church Vestry Record begins.

Source: Mason, George Carrington, Vestry Book of Lynnhaven Parish, p. 124

 

1794 

Kempsville Emmanuel Episcopal Church Vestry orders school moved to Kempsville.

Source: Emmanuel Vestry book, March 20 1780

 

1822  

“Donation” name first used.

Source: Source: Emmanuel Vestry Record

 

1842 

Rev John G. Hull reorganizes parish.

Source: Colonial Churches of Tidewater Virginia, p. 284

 

1843 

Emmanuel Church built in Kempsville.

Source: Colonial Churches of Tidewater Virginia, p. 284

 

1882  

Fire destroys Church Three (current church.)

No primary record found.

 

1916  

Church Three (current church) reconstructed and reopened after being unused 130 years.

 

1960  

Church Three (current church) renovated.