In this issue, we have articles by Charles C. Crenshaw, Joanne L. Yeck, and Karen Lucas Williams, among several others!

Crenshaw’s article on Chestnut Grove Baptist Church of Earlysville begins:

“The Chestnut Grove Baptist Church in Earlysville, Virginia, was established on May
9, 1773, as Albemarle Baptist Church. Forty-six white and two black members met at the Lewis’s meeting house on Staunton Road, which we now know as Ivy Road and Route 250 West. The meeting house was located where people now enjoy playing on the Birdwood Golf Course. It was the first Baptist Church in Albemarle County. Andrew Tribble was ordained the first minister in June 1777. William “Billy” Woods, pastor of the church for many years after 1780, sent a petition to Virginia General Assembly Delegate Thomas Jefferson, requesting the Anglican Church be disestablished, to put every denomination on an equal footing.” …

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Contents of the Fall 2019 issue:

• Chestnut Grove Baptist Church History, by Charles Conway Crenshaw
• One Man’s Black Sheep … is Another Man’s Local Hero: Discovering Gene Harris and Chicago’s Club Alabam, by Joanne L. Yeck
• The Spiller Family of Buckingham County, Virginia, by Karen Lucas Williams
• Will of Mary “Polly” (Spears) Spiller, Buckingham County, Virginia (circa 1848)
• Documents from the Case of James M. Spiller, etc. vs. Reuben Sorrell, Hanover County, Virginia, including the Will of James Spears (1833)
• Henry Spiller & Wife vs. Mary Calvert, Culpeper County, VA, including the Will of Ralls Calvert, Culpeper County, VA
• Marriage Announcements in the Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA), August-December, 1894, by Diane Inman
• Gathering to Share African American History and Genealogy in Central VA, by Andi Cumbo-Floyd
• The Tale of a Black Sheep: Stephen Price Maury, compiled and annotated by Richard L. Nicholas
• Fluvanna Historical Society Preserves Court Records, by Tricia Johnson
• Fluvanna County Circuit Court Awarded Grant to Preserve Local Records
• President’s Column, by Patricia Lukas
• August 2019 CVGA Field Trip

If you have any articles you’d like to share with CVGA members, please send an email to the editor, eleanordew@gmail.com. — The Editor.