Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . s and the mem-bers of the House of Burgesses; the Harrisons, Pen-dletons, Patrick Henry, the Randolphs, the Lees andmanv other illustrious dignitaries, and from this churchemanated the religious, social and political life thatcharacterized the Old Dominion. Bruton Church, evidently named from Bruton,Somerset, England, the home of Gov. Berkeley, wasfounded in 1632. Prior to 1665 there was a smallframe church of which little is known, but the sec-ond church, built of brick, was erected on l
Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . s and the mem-bers of the House of Burgesses; the Harrisons, Pen-dletons, Patrick Henry, the Randolphs, the Lees andmanv other illustrious dignitaries, and from this churchemanated the religious, social and political life thatcharacterized the Old Dominion. Bruton Church, evidently named from Bruton,Somerset, England, the home of Gov. Berkeley, wasfounded in 1632. Prior to 1665 there was a smallframe church of which little is known, but the sec-ond church, built of brick, was erected on land do-nated by Col. John Page, 1683. The present struc-ture, designed by Gov. Alexander Spotswood, wasbuilt of blue and red glazed brick, in 1710. Here worshipped the Colonial Governors and mem- — 59 — bers of the House of Burgesses. A large square pewwas provided for the governor and a beautiful silkdrapery hung from brass supports, secluding himfrom the rest of the congregation when desired. Thepews for the members of the House were placed to-gether across the transepts. This part of the church. BRUTON CHURCH, WILLIAMSBURG was built by and for the members of the House ofBurgesses. The old Register, badly mutilated, found a fewyears ago, contains records from 1662 to 1797. Thefirst entry in the vestry book is dated April 18, 29, 1683, the volume records: The ParishChurch is at length completed. The fees of theParish clerk were three pounds of tobacco forregistering every christening and burial in ye Par-ish. The Sexton to have ten of tobacco for every — 60 — grave that he diggs. June 5, 1682, it was agreed thatthe rector be paid ye sum of sixteen thousand, sixhundred and sixty-six pounds of tobacco and caske. In 1699, the Jamestown Church was abandonedwith the town, and Bruton Church became its recog-nized successor. The font, which tradition says isthe one from which Pocahontas was baptized, to-gether with the Communion Service, was given intothe keepin
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