Marker found on grave near marble slab.
The Hon. Edmund Jenings, Esq, son of Sir Edmund Jenings of Ripon in Yorkshire, England was born in 1659 and died in 1727. He was Attorney General, Secretary of State, President of the Council, and from 1706-1710 Acting-Governor of the Colony of Virginia. For many years he was a Vestryman of Bruton Parish and was serving the Church in this capacity when this building was erected. In 1710 he was instrumenal in persuading the House of Burgesses "to appropriate a sufficient sum of money for the building pews for the Governor, Council and House of Burgesses" in the two wings and intervening part of the Church, this entire portion of the Church being subsequently built and paid for by the House of Burgesses under the supervision of Governor Alexander Spotswood.
Marble slab placed here in 1905.
All above quoted from the pamphlet titled A GUIDE TO THE MEMORIALS OF BRUTON PARISH CHURCH with maps, published by Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, VA, 2006 edited by Susan H. Godson, maps by Joseph L. Spruill, photographs by Hal Lindsay and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
The Hon. Edmund Jenings, Esq, son of Sir Edmund Jenings of Ripon in Yorkshire, England was born in 1659 and died in 1727. He was Attorney General, Secretary of State, President of the Council, and from 1706-1710 Acting-Governor of the Colony of Virginia. For many years he was a Vestryman of Bruton Parish and was serving the Church in this capacity when this building was erected. In 1710 he was instrumenal in persuading the House of Burgesses "to appropriate a sufficient sum of money for the building pews for the Governor, Council and House of Burgesses" in the two wings and intervening part of the Church, this entire portion of the Church being subsequently built and paid for by the House of Burgesses under the supervision of Governor Alexander Spotswood.
Marble slab placed here in 1905.
All above quoted from the pamphlet titled A GUIDE TO THE MEMORIALS OF BRUTON PARISH CHURCH with maps, published by Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, VA, 2006 edited by Susan H. Godson, maps by Joseph L. Spruill, photographs by Hal Lindsay and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Marker found on grave near marble slab.
The Hon. Edmund Jenings, Esq, son of Sir Edmund Jenings of Ripon in Yorkshire, England was born in 1659 and died in 1727. He was Attorney General, Secretary of State, President of the Council, and from 1706-1710 Acting-Governor of the Colony of Virginia. For many years he was a Vestryman of Bruton Parish and was serving the Church in this capacity when this building was erected. In 1710 he was instrumenal in persuading the House of Burgesses "to appropriate a sufficient sum of money for the building pews for the Governor, Council and House of Burgesses" in the two wings and intervening part of the Church, this entire portion of the Church being subsequently built and paid for by the House of Burgesses under the supervision of Governor Alexander Spotswood.
Marble slab placed here in 1905.
All above quoted from the pamphlet titled A GUIDE TO THE MEMORIALS OF BRUTON PARISH CHURCH with maps, published by Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, VA, 2006 edited by Susan H. Godson, maps by Joseph L. Spruill, photographs by Hal Lindsay and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
The Hon. Edmund Jenings, Esq, son of Sir Edmund Jenings of Ripon in Yorkshire, England was born in 1659 and died in 1727. He was Attorney General, Secretary of State, President of the Council, and from 1706-1710 Acting-Governor of the Colony of Virginia. For many years he was a Vestryman of Bruton Parish and was serving the Church in this capacity when this building was erected. In 1710 he was instrumenal in persuading the House of Burgesses "to appropriate a sufficient sum of money for the building pews for the Governor, Council and House of Burgesses" in the two wings and intervening part of the Church, this entire portion of the Church being subsequently built and paid for by the House of Burgesses under the supervision of Governor Alexander Spotswood.
Marble slab placed here in 1905.
All above quoted from the pamphlet titled A GUIDE TO THE MEMORIALS OF BRUTON PARISH CHURCH with maps, published by Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, VA, 2006 edited by Susan H. Godson, maps by Joseph L. Spruill, photographs by Hal Lindsay and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
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