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Chesterfield County (Va.) Organization Records, 1892-1937. Local government records collection, Chesterfield County Court
Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
These items came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer of records from Chesterfield County Circuit Court.
This collection is located at the State Records Center. Contact Archives Research Services for access information, directions,
and hours.
Chesterfield County was named for Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth earl of Chesterfield, Brtitish statesman and diplomat, and
was formed from Henrico County in 1749.
Chesterfield County (Va.) Organization Records, 1892-1937. The records are comprised of petitions, orders, resolutions, and
decrees documenting the sale or mortgaging of properties owned by churches and one freemason organization, the Chester Lodge
No. 94 of the A.F.& A.M. They records contain names of trustees and copies of resolutions passed by members.
Included are records pertaining to properties owned by the the Chesterfield Circuit, Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1892;
Bethia Baptist Church, 1892; Chester Baptist Church, 1905 and 1908; Matoaca Charge, Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1905;
Second Baptist Church of Manchester, 1905; West End Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1905; Church of the Good Shepherd, Protestant
Episcopal Church South, 1908; Oak Grove Baptist Church, 1908; Woodland Heights Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1913; Bon
Air Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1914; Clopton St. Baptist Church, 1914; Ettrick Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1923-1924;
Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1928; Highland Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1929; Parsonage, West Chesterfield
Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1928; Shelbourne Ave. Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1937; and the Chester
Lodge No. 94 of the A.F. & A.M., 1909.