Dettingen Parish, Virginia

United States   Virginia    Dettingen Parish

History
Dettingen Parish has served Fauquier and Prince William counties. Quantico Church and Broad Run Church (also known as Slate Run Church and "the church at Redmans") belonged to this parish.

Founded

 * 1744 from Hamilton Parish

Cemetery
A survey of the graves at Quantico Church was published in 1993. .

List of Ministers

 * List of Rectors of Dettingen Parish 1745-1978, The Newsletter of the Prince William County Genealogical Society, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Oct. 1987):32-33.

Parish History
Meade's 1861 history of Dettingen Parish is available online.

Parish Registers
Colonial parish registers have been lost.


 * "Dettingen Parish, Prince William County, Virginia, Dumfries Church Register, 1815-1824," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1986):90-98. Digital version at American Ancestors ($). . Includes register of communicants and baptisms.
 * Dettingen Parish Register of Marriages, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Feb. 1986):84.

Vestry Books

 * Records of Dettingen Parish, Prince William County, Virginia: Vestry Book, 1745-1785, Minutes of Meetings of the Overseers of the Poor, 1788-1802, Indentures, 1749-1782. Dumfries, Va.: Historic Dumfries Virginia, Inc., 1976.

Websites

 * Dumfries Cemetery, The Historical Marker Database
 * Quantico Church, The Historical Marker Database