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Records of Hickory Neck Episcopal Church located in Toano, Virginia. Most of the material in this collection is from the Hickory Neck Church with a permanent loan or deposit agreement. Other material is from members of Hickory Neck Church or Williamsburg, Virginia area residents.
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Hickory Neck Church records, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.
Collection is arranged by accession.
Collection formerly identified as MSS Acc 1994.57.
Records include annual congregational minutes, 1956-1992 (with gaps); administrative papers, chiefly 1950, 1975-1985; worship service bulletins, 1934-1963; booklets and speeches concerning the history of the church, correspondence regarding property, insurance and construction of parish house; baptismal, confirmation, and burial records; and letters of transfer. Other records are correspondence with missionaries, documents concerning Arthur Pierce Middleton; annual parochial reports, vestry minutes, women's organization (Women of Hickory Neck and Women's Guild) minutes, photographs and manuscript volumes. Box 1 contains photocopies of church records spanning 1721-1786 and 1824-1825, such as from the Church Vestry book and a diary excerpt. Permanent loan mediated through the Williamsburg Historic Records Association.
Letter from Martha Boelt to Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Nunn with attached September 1984 "report of Junior Warden" and a play, entitled, "Around Hickory Neck," dated October 1984. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon L. Nunn via the Williamsburg Historic Records Association.
Records of Hickory Neck Episcopal Church from 1960-1980's. Includes correspondence, bulletins, lists of members, a typed history, and newspaper clippings. Concerns building parish house and Hickory Necks status as a Virgainia Historic Landmark. Also includes minutes and annual reports of the Women of Hickory Neck and a hymnal which belonged to John Melville Jennings. Deposit by Hickory Neck Church, The Rev. Michael Delk.
Bookplate "...John Jennings from your Rector." and "John Melville Jennings, Jr., ESQ., Toano, James City County, Virginia."
Hickory Neck Church pencil drawing (photograph) circa 1935. Photograph (scanned) of a pencil drawing of Hickory Neck Episcopal Church by Joseph Geddes. Original in Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Deposit by Martha McCartney.
Correspondence concerning James Emory's resignation from Hickory Neck Episcopal Church vestry. Accession records do not designate who gave SCRC this gift.
3 volumes: the cookbook "A Time for Feasting" published by the Church in 2008, a Bible, printed in England before 1950 , and a 1938 altar service book "The Holy Communion."
Records of Hickory Neck Episcopal Church from 1960-1980's. Includes correspondence, bulletins, lists of members, a typed history, and newspaper clippings. Concerns building parish house and Hickory Necks status as a Virgainia Historic Landmark. Also includes minutes and annual reports of the Women of Hickory Neck and a hymnal which belonged to John Melville Jennings.
Contains a minute book, 1948-1953, of Hickory Neck Church. Also includes ephemera, 1999-2002, relating to Hickory Neck Church.
Contains programs from The Ordination of the Priesthood for Maria Alexandria Kane, on May 4, 2011, and Lauren Miller McDonald on August 23, 2008. Also included in this accession is a print of a drawing of Hickory Neck Church by Elizabeth J. Heider.
Vestry minutes from Hickory Neck Church for 2007 through August 2009.
Contains vestry minutes from 1991-2002 and records related to the annual meeting in 2001. Includes a 5 1/4 inch floppy disk with vestry minutes from 1991-1992.
Contains a copy of the Ordination of Priests program at Hickory Neck Church. December 15, 2012.