Following are a few excerpts of church records transcribed from PWCo Chancery cases. The Chancery number for each corresponds to the
Library of Virginia Chancery Index.
Chancery 153-1870-001
Upon the application of the
congregations worshiping at the Union Church at Independent Hill in
Prince William County and it appearing to the Court that the former
trustees of said Church property have all died or left the
neighborhood, it is adjudged, ordered and decreed that A. B. Weedon,
Sidney F. Teasdale, Wm. M. Lynn, Horace Cole, and John W. Davis be
and they are hereby appointed trustees in the room and stead of those
who have died and left the neighborhood as aforesaid.
May 11th 1870
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Chancery 153-1875-043
January 2, 1875
Trustees of White Union Church
A. Nicol
Edwin Nelson
Geo. Sexsmith
Jas. B. Reid
A. M. Hershey
Austin Weedon
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Chancery 153-1875-044
I, Sidney F. Teasdale, Deacon of
Woodbine Baptist (New School) Church hereby ask the circuit court of
Prince William County to appoint and confirm as Trustees of said
church the following persons.
Levi C. Lynn, John H. Renoe, George W.
Lowe, Charles W. Teasdale and Aylett Nicol as Trustees to the
property of said Church, said Trustees having been appointed in
accordance with the Rules and Regulations of said church
Brentsville, Va.
May 3d 1875
S. F. Teasdale
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Chancery 153-1905-007
In vacation, before Hon. Chas. E.
Nicol, Judge of the Circuit Court for Prince William County, this
19th day of June 1905.
Upon the petition of the Trustees of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Manassas, Virginia.
This day came C. H. Beiber, Wm. R.
May, M. L. Pence and N. G. Moore, Trustees of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church, of Manassas, Virginia, and filed their petition,
asking leave to encumber a certain lot or parcel of land, lying and
being situate in the Town of Manassas, Va., on Lee Avenue, and being
the same property conveyed to certain trustees for the said
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Manassas, by George C. Round and
Eminly C. Round by deed bearing date on the 21st day of
December 1895.
And it appearing to the judge that it
is the desire and will of the congregation of the said Evangelical
Lutheran Church to encumber the said lot aforesaid for the purpose of
finishing the parsonage commenced thereon, as set out in the said
petition, therefore I, Charles E. Nicol, Judge of the Circuit Court
for Prince William County, Va., do grant unto the said trustees, or
their successors, power and authority to borrow $600 Dollars, the
said sum so borrowed to be expended in the completion of the
parsonage, for such time as said trustees deem advisable so that the
term do not exceed six years, and convey the lot aforesaid int rust
to secure the payment of the sum borrowed.
The Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Prince William County will spread the above order upon the Chancery
order book of this court.
C. E. Nicol
Judge of the Circuit Court of Prince
William County, Virginia
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Chancery 153-1905-042
This cause came on this day to be heard
on the report of John Johnson, Treasurer of the Colored Baptist
Church of Manassas and papers formerly read to which report there are
no exceptions and was argued by counsel on consideration whereof it
appearing to the said Court that the said Treasurer has distributed
the money paid to him by P. V. Portner in obedience to a decree
entered in this cause it is therefore adjudged, ordered and decreed
that the said John Johnson and M. D. Williams his surety be released
from said bond executed in this cause, as all of the said money has
been distributed as provided in said decree. And this decree shall
be final.
