Newman Virginia Roots

Essex County, Virginia

Enslaved Laborers in Essex

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Essex County Cemeteries

1737 Morgan family cemetery

Land from John Morgan Sr’s will was sold “burying place excepted”. John’s sons William and Ed Morgan, and his widow Ann Morgan, sold 354 acres to James Garnett Essex DB 20, pg 177. John Morgan’s neighbors had land on the south side of the Occupacia Creek. This cemetery was probably near the Occupacia Creek.

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1745 Bates family cemetery

John Bates will was written 6 April 1745. His son James Bates gets “one acre of land belonging to the tract of land I sold to Colt Joseph Smith which being the place my father was buried.”

Essex County, Virginia will book 7, page 481-482

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Saint Anne’s Parish

Parish formed 1704. First church built closer to the Glebe house, near the mouth of Occupacia creek at the end of Dangerfield Landing Road, in use 1665-1721. Sale’s church replaced this lower church by the mouth of the Occupaia creek and existed about 1721-1776. Vauter’s Church was built about 1731.

1. first church in Saint Anne’s (no longer standing), 2. Sale’s Church (no longer standing), 3. Vaughter’s Church. Note: St Mathews Episcopal Church (Old Church Store) started construction 1861.