Parrish Transcript



This is a Transcript of a few pages from a hand written table I was given copies of by Dennis Gammon. Dennis's sister found this table while cleaning out an old Parrish home in Goochland VA.

I have tried to keep it as it was written. If the author put one letter of a word on one line and the rest of the letters on another line, you will find it true in this transcript. You will also have to insert your own sentence breaks since I didn't see a single period or comma in the tablet.

We had to guess at some words. The words we could not figure out have a question mark next to them. This transcript may contain errors where we guessed the wrong word. A few names are in question.

The Author of the Tablet is unknown. Enough people in the Tablet have been identified to know it is written about real people of the Parrish families in Goochland and Louisa Counties of Virginia.



Page 120
Who married add Payne
the thirteenth marriage where
Parrish relationships come together
or Rosser Trashr married
Margaret Pryor Parrish Town
near the Louisa county line
Aajoin Goochland County Virginia
near Newline Church in
Louisa County Virginia Parrish
Town Parrish's are the faimly
of Connie Parrish husband James
Parrish Connie Parrish herself
does not belong to the Parrish
Town Parrish's you will under
stand what I mean by writing
this history and record of
the Parrish family for
Alexander L Parrish of
Goochland County Virginia

Page 129

Post Office Gumspring Louisa
County Virginia and his sister
Miss Virginia A Parrish of Gooch
land County Virginia Post Office
Gumspring Louisa County Virginia
give me all the points and inform
ation how to write this history of
the Parrish family for him and
his sister to read the fourth m
arriage of Rivan Parrish and
Mary Susan Brooking brought
the two families of Parrishes to
gether again are all true unto
date and correct in everyway
whis date Old Bob Tail John
Parrish coued have been the
wealthist man in Goochland
County Virginia if he waued agree
to give up his planatian and

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leave his Louisa home
and give up his planatian for
Elk Island on James River and
his Double Barrel Shot Gun
but he would not let the indians
have his Double Barrel Shot
Gun for the whole of Elk Isla
nd same way and where Elk
Hill Railroad Stations stand
on the James River divisian of
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad

then as a nice old peace in
Goochland County Virginia an
the Bradshaw Road Leading
from the old mountain road
to the three notch road
went by the name of Cahita?
at Parrish Town you call Davenport
old peace where there is

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a very good spring under a large
hickory tree people used to stop
to water their horses in olden
times and get water to drink
when they are traveling along
the Bradshaw Road to Richmon
d Virginia and from Richmond
Virginia to other places in Gooch
land County Virginia and Lou
isa County Virginia Old Captain
Sharrard Parrish was the
richist man in Parrish Town
and worth about one hundred
thousand dollars he married
Mildred Blackwell a very rich
woman remember one thing
Captain Sharrard Parrish was
the richest man who lived in
Parrish Town at one time

Page 132

There was some talking at
building achurch near where
James Francis Allahizer Sr use
to live on the Bradshaw Road un
der the largest oaks trees stand
ing on the public road where
people stop to water their horses
in olden times where people
stopped to feed their horses in
olden times when they are
traveling over the country and
county of Louisa and Goochland
Alexander L Parrish has the
best farm in the Parrish Tow
n neighborhood it raise
good crops of corn and
wheat and raise very fine
tobacco there was agood
many chickens in the

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neighborhood at Parrish Town
where people could have
them meetings and furn
ish them for churches purposes
there was agood deal of
Goochland County land call
Goochland in Parrish Town
that will sell for ten dollar
s per acre anytime Parrish
Town Parrishes are very good
people in everyway and stand very
well In their neighborhood
where they live all the time
there was a good many merc
hants in the Parrish family
their names are Andrew
Broadders Woodward who is
a member of the firm of
Woodward and Deane

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Hardware merchants at
Louisa Virginia Mr Deane M
Arriad Mr Woodward daughter
James Samuel Parrish is law
yer and yet agood law parac
tice in Richmond Virginia
and other places Eugene
Medrian Parrish at is a merchant
at Kents store neighborhood
Fluvanna County Virginia
and get agood deal of trade in
dry goods and grocery vus
iness and a farmer his father
the Rev William Shelton
Parrish is a Baptist preacher
the Rev Louis Payton Little
is a Baptist preaher the
Rev James Kent is a Baptist
preacher John Nichols

Page 135

Walker is a merchant Brian
Poindexter store Louisa County
Virginia also adealer in saw
meal business amember of
the school board for the
mineral magisterial district
same as mineral district
and also amember of the board
of supervisors for the mineral
magisterial district for the
next four years to come
John W McGhee? is amerchant
and get agood trade in the grocery
business and dry good business
also the same way and a farmer Dr James Henry Hatch
is a physician and yet agood
medical practice for a prac
ting medical physician

Page 136

James Aubry? Kent who
? a drug store what
Louisa Virginia no as the
Kent Drug Store and get a
good trade In drug business
avery fine trade in the drug
business Miss Hatice
Gertrudge? Rigsby
the
school teacher of Goochland
County Virginia Miss
Hatice G Rigsby Post Office
address ? Goochland County
Virginia Miss Eva Gertrudge
is the ?-------
singer Miss Eva G Parrish
Post Office address is Archid
Louisa County Virginia Miss
Eva G Parrish is a resident
at Goochland County

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Virginia Archid Post Office is
near Goochland County line
is correct as far I know any
thing about the Parrish family
at Virginia and their relationship
in this book is tell you about
your relations if there is any
mistakes about this record
of the Parrish family you can
have them correct as I can
make mistakes as well as
other people sometimes the
Parrish stands as well
and very well in everyway
family stands these times
I have the younger generations
will go through the neigh
borhood of their relations where
they used to live years ago

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and save what they think of
the parentry around Parrish
Town I will write a longer
history of the Parrish family
if I can get some more
information and points to
write the family wh(ere) from
the first generation wh(ere) to
present time and have it prin
ted In book form for the
Parrish family to read about
to their children and grand
children altogether I am
working nearly all the time
to get some more information
and write a larger history of the
same family and record of
the same family same way
and let people know

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and see what they think of
their relations long time ago the
Parrish family are all over agood
many counties of Virginia and
the south side Virginia counties
so you can see for yourself with
out anyone telling you about
it I am very well posted on
the Parrish of Virginia
myself and the valley of Virginia
Myself I have to have family
in printed ? farm I have to have
seen some of the best crops
raised in Goochland Virgi
nia raised In Parrish Town
an lickinghole creek in Gooch
land County Virginia so you can
tell people about the crops when
you pass through Parrish Town