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List of Rectors and Clergy in Charge of York, York-Hampton, and Grace Churches since 1697
1686 - 1701? Stephen Fouace [York Parish]
1701- James Slater (Sclater, Slaughter) [York, Hampton, and Charles Parishes]
1704-1712 Arthur Tillyard [York, Hampton, and York-Hampton Parishes]
1714 - Benjamin Goodwin
1722 - 1749 Frances Fontaine
1749 - 1777 John Camm
Joseph Davenport, Jr? [Charles Parish, service at York-Hampton is speculative]
1785 Robert Andrews
1786? - 1789 Samuel Sheild
1792 - 1794 James Henderson [Charles Parish]
Scott ? [mentioned by Bishop Meade in Old Churches, Ministers and Families]
Brockenbrough ? [see note above]
Hugh Nelson [lay minister, along with others]
1847 - 1849 Charles E. Minnigerode
1849 - 1852 Edward Withers
Thomas Ambler
F.M. Burch
1875 - 1907 Lyman B. Wharton [College of William and Mary]
1877 - 1883 Alexander Hundley [first year as a deacon]
1884 Alexander Overby [rector of Bruton Parish]
1887 - 1913 William Byrd Lee [rector of Abingdon and Ware Parishes]
1899 - 1901 Floyd Kurtz
1913 - 1923 E. Ruffin Jones [rector of Bruton Parish]
1923 - 1930 W.A.R. Goodwin [rector of Bruton Parish]
1927 - 1930 John B. Benley [curate, then rector]
1930 - 1932 William Laird
1933 - 1936 Col. Alfred A. Pruden [retired U.S. Army chaplain]
1937 - 1940 John Letcher Showell
1940 - 1952 Francis H. Graighill [rector of Bruton Parish]
1940 - 1942 George P. LeBarr [vicar]
1942 - 1946 Alfred L. Alley [vicar]
1946 - 1949 Robert S.S. Whitman [vicar]
1940 - 1950 George L. Barton, III [lay vicar]
1951 - 1956 Cornelius A. Zabriskie [first as lay vicar; rector after ordination in 1953]
1957 - 1964 Gordon B. Davis
1964 - 1971 John D. Alfriend, Jr.
1972 - 1975 Philip G. Porcher, Jr.
1976 - 1988 Claude S. Turner, Jr.
1988 - 1989 Donald D. Dunn [interim rector]
1989 - Careleton B. Bakkum
   
Note: from 1790 until 1953, it appears that all clergy serving at York-Hampton / Grace had primary duties elsewhere. They were part-time, not fully funded by the parish, and generally not resident in Yorktown. These ministers were ably supported and assisted by generations of lay people.

 

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