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J. Paul Hudson Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Gifts in 2001 and 2004 via the Williamsburg Historical Record Assocation. Accession 2004.37 by Sue Godson. Accession 2004.44 by Fred Boelt.
Processed by Bradley Glasebrook in 2002.
J. Paul Hudson worked for the National Park Service at Yosemite National Park, Morristown National Historical Park and as museum curator at Colonial National Historical Park (Jamestown, Va. and Yorktown, Va.). Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .
Historical notes compiled by J. Paul Hudson. Papers relate to colonial churches in Virginia. Primary focus is on the history of Bruton Parish Church and the church at Jamestown, Virginia and the people associated with them.
Includes box of index notes entitled "Church Notes" which is organized by subject, name of church and county and/or author.
Accession 2004.37:
Material regarding Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Bruton, England. Poem and photograph.
Accession 2004.44 addition:
Concerns Richard Burke. Includes blueprint of plaque, bulletins, September 13,1964, commemorating Richard Burke, second minister of Jamestown Church (performed marriage of Rolfe and Pocahantas), and correspondence relating to the Burke plaque at Jamestown Church.
Accession 2008.266:
Three binders containing copy of typed manuscript of "Seventeenth-Century Glass Excavated at Jamestown, Virginia" by J. Paul Hudson. Dated September 1978. An earlier version or part of this study is in book form in Swem's General Stacks: NK5112 H79 1961 Seventeenth century glass wine bottles and seals excavated at Jamestown .
Bruton Parish Church (Williamsburg, Va.) Records, Series 5, Church History, J. Paul Hudson Papers, Box 61 and Box 62.
Hudson's career with the National Park Service. Includes his time at Yosemite National Park, Morristown National Historical Park, and Colonial National Historical Park, Jamestown and Yorktown. Box I.
Recollection of Geroge Washington birth home and Mt. Vernon
Box I
pp. 1-51
pp. 52-112
pp. 113-155
pp. 156-sources
Scope and Contents Includes condensed history, chronology of clergy at Bruton, chronology of Bruton Parish Chruch, 1614-1818, chronology of Middle Plantation Parish, 1633-1674, and reports on the 1938 excavation of Bruton churchyard in search of Bacon's vault. Historical survey and guide of churchyard. Chronology of people buried in churchyard. Research papers on pews, galleries, bell, organ, ornaments, font, silver, and objects owned by Bruton Parish. Various informational booklets. Minutes of Historical Advisory Committee and Bruton Vestry, 1632-1828. Correspondence with Thom Blair. Article on religion in Colonial Virginia. Famous Americans with Bruton association. Reports, correspondence, and articles of various family associations with Bruton Parish. Report on the Establishment Years, 1674-1802, by Thom Blair. History report on Bruton by Edward C. Riley. Condensed history by Hudson and W.A.R. Goodwin. Book entitled, "Notes on the Early History of Bruton Parish Church", compiled by Hudson, bound July 23, 1999. Boxes II, III, IV.
Folders 1-45
pp. 1-70.
pp. 71-143
Folders 1-43
Folders 1-71
pp. i-49
pp. 50-108
All are extra copies
2 copies
Report on the founding of the American Anglican Church at Jamestown. Jamestown ministries 1607-circa 1758. The churches at Jamestown 1607-1907. Publications of The Virginian Churchman with articles on Jamestown Church. Report on the Jamestown settlement in 1621-23. The Church in 1617 and 1639. Various brochures and booklet titles, "The Church Comes to America," undated. Report by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities on the Jamestown Church. Photos of church ruins and excavations. Box V.
2 copies
2nd copy
Scope and Contents Report on colonial churches of Virginia by Hudson. A brief guide to the colonial churches of Virginia, with map. Several articles on colonial churches in Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Chronology of Virginia churches by A. Lawrence Kocher, circa 1957. Report titled "Samuel Davies, Apostle of Dissent in Colonial Virginia" by George Pilcher. The Dioceses of Virginia Parish Lines. Colonial churches which have disappeared and been excavated. Information, photos, brochures, and programs for opening Virginia churches. Boxes V and VI.
St. Paul's, Henrico, Randolph, Bristol, Nottoway, Lynnhaven, Albemarle, James City, Portsmouth
Christ Church, St. Mary's, Whitechapel, North Farnham, South Farnham, Truro, St. Martin's, Varina, Fairfax.
Charles River Shire, St. Peter's, Blisland, Sale, Overwharton, Fredericksville, St. Anne's, Frederick
Stone excavated in reference to Pontius Pilate