 1837 - Yes, date unknown
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| Name |
BOISSEAU Virginia Sara Francoise |
| Birth |
Nov 1837 |
Prince George County, VA  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
Yes, date unknown |
| Person ID |
I11835 |
Booth Family |
| Last Modified |
27 Apr 2015 |
| Father |
BOISSEAU Joseph Holmes, b. 15 Mar 1795, Prince George County, VA d. 12 Jan 1839, Prince George County, VA (Age 43 years) |
| Mother |
SIMMONS Rebecca Eldridge Heath, b. 8 Dec 1797 d. 29 Jan 1870, Petersburg, VA (Age 72 years) |
| Marriage |
8 Dec 1819 |
Prince George County, VA |
- Married by Rev William Snead, who was later Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia
Subject: Re: [HARRISON] Rev. William Harrison of Petersburg VA
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:25:22 EDT
Thought this might interest you:
Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia.
Article XL.
At the death of Mr. Robertson in 1740, an agreement was made with a Rev. Mr.
Hartwell to become the minister; but, misunderstandings taking place as to
the terms, it was never carried into execution. Mr. Robert Ferguson was then
chosen, and continued to be the minister for ten years,--until 1750. He was
succeeded by the Rev. Eleazer Robertson, who continued two years, and was
succeeded by the Rev. Thomas Wilkinson, who resigned in 1762, and was succeeded by
the Rev. William Harrison, who resigned in 1780, though continuing to reside
in Petersburg until his death in 1814, being eighty-four years of age. The
parish being advertised as vacant, the Rev. Mr. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr.
Cameron were candidates in 1784. The latter was chosen, and ministered in the
parish until 1793, when he resigned. Of him I shall speak in another place. In
the following year the Rev. Andrew Syme was elected, and continued until his
resignation in 1839,--a period of forty-five years. He continued to reside in
Petersburg until his death, esteemed and beloved, by all who knew him, as "an
Israelite in whom there was no guile." For further particulars of him the
reader is referred to my article on South Farnham parish, Essex county, from
which he removed to Bristol parish, and to the Rev. Mr. Slaughter's full and
very interesting pamphlet on Bristol parish. For some years previous to his
resignation of the parish, Mr. Syme, on account of increasing infirmities, had
called for an assistant, and obtained the services of the Rev. Hobart Bartlett,
from New York, whose fine talents, popular preaching, and agreeable manners
contributed much to the increase of the congregation. In the year 1839 I was
induced, under peculiar circumstances, to take the temporary charge of the
congregation, but soon accomplished the object had in view, and procured for
the congregation the services of the Rev. Mr. Cobbs, now Bishop of Alabama. His
ministry, during the few years of its continuance, was very prosperous in
all respects. During that period a general awakening of the souls of the people
of Petersburg took place, and the ministers of all denominations laboured
faithfully in prayer, and sermons, and exhortations, private and public.
Instead of discouraging such extraordinary efforts for so extraordinary an
outpouring of the Spirit of God as was granted, Mr. Cobbs came behind none, and went
beyond some, in the frequency and continuance of his religious exercises. The
result was, that no congregation was more highly blest in the results
thereof. I laid my hands on the heads of ninety-three at that time, who, for the
last three months, had been receiving the daily instructions of their minister,
either public or private, and of such other ministers as he was able to
bring to his help. During Mr. Cobbs's ministry the ladies of the Wilmer
Association--who had for so many years been the most active of all in supporting
beneficiaries at our Seminary, sending at times to the amount of five and six
hundred dollars to the treasury--began to divert their funds from this to the
promotion of missionary labours in the town of Petersburg. The result has been
the establishment of the prosperous church under the care of the Rev. Mr.
Gibson. In the year 1843 the Rev. Mr. Slaughter accepted a call to this parish,
after the resignation of the Rev. Mr. Cobbs. His services were so acceptable
to the people, that at the end of the six months which he had proposed to
himself as a trial, he agreed to continue, nor did he cease to labour there until
his health so failed as to make it improper to add further efforts. He was
succeeded by the Rev. Horace Stringfellow, who continued until the year 1854.
His place has been supplied during the present year (1856) by the Rev. Mr.
Platt, from Alabama.
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Colonial churches in the original colony of Virginia : a series of sketches
Page 173
On November 22d, 1762, the Rev. Thomas Wilkerson resigned the parish. The
same day he was succeeded by Rev. William Harrison The first twelve years or
so of Mr. Harrison's incumbency seem to have been uneventful enough; then came
the troublous times of the war with England. Under date of October 19th,
1775, occurs the following entry in the vestry book:
Whereas, The callamitous State of the Country renders it Doubtfull (page
174) whether a Sufficient Sum Can be Collected from the people, for payment of
the Parochial Debt, in Money. And by the Restrained Laid on Exports, by
publick (sic) Consent, The Parishioners are Precluded of the Election which the
Law Had Giveing (sic) them, in paying their Due's in Tobo or Money. It is
Determined by Vestry That the Ministers Salary Shall be Estimated at One Hundred
And Forty four Pound's, to be Collected as Nearly as Possible in Money Unless
the prohibition on Exports Should be Removed, And in that Case the People to
be at Liberty to pay in Tobo at Eighteen Shillings Per Hundred, In Lieu of
Money, According to there (sic) Own Choice. And it's further to be Understood
that the Revd Mr. Harrison shall wait for the Ballance, (sic) After the
Collection is made, three Years without Interest, unless it should Please HEAVEN
to Put an End before that time, To the Troubles of our Country, And then it
is understood that Encumbered [t's] Salary shall be Demandable in the usual
and 'accustomed way.'"
Poor Mr. Harrison! One is hardly surprised at finding the following entered
on the minutes of the vestry meeting held February 4, 1780: "This day of
the Late Rector, the Revd. Mr. Harrison, wrote in his Resignation of his Cure
of this Parish, which is accepted."
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From the family burying ground at "Porter Hill," corner of Harrison and
Early Streets, Petersburg, Va.
Sacred
to the memory
of the
REV'D WILLIAM HARRISON
who departed this life
20th of November 1814
Aged 84 Years.
In tender regard of whom
His Widow
hath caused this monument to be erected.
Here let him rest in peace
And let us try to live like him
That we like him may die.
SACRED
to the memory
of
Mrs. Ann Harrison.
who departed this life
July the 2nd 1829
Aged 60 Years.
Her Children
from a sense of duty & affection
have caused this monument
to be erected
in the memory of
their tender Parent.
If worth departed claims the heartfelt tear,
Then stop -- and let it stream profusely here.
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REVEREND JOHN CAMERON'S REGISTERS
Register of Marriages
Bristol Parish, 1784-1793,
1788 Dec .. William HARRISON & Ann MORISON Pr. George 2 8 "
_MK Harrison_ (<http://mkharrison.com/>)
_Ancestry.com <http://Ancestry.com>_
(<http://www.ancestry.com/affiliate/landing/index3b.htm?o_xid=0039742867&o_lid=0039742867>)
_Barrow County, GA_ (<http://www.rootsweb.com/~gabarrow/>)
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