Third Elizabeth City Parish Church

Here is the site of "The New Church of Kecoughtan", built before 1667 on Pembroke Farm as the third church of Elizabeth City Parish, established in 1610. It was a frame building and its brick foundation and some early colonial ...

Elizabeth City Parish

First visited by Englishmen May 10, 1607.

Fortified at Old Point by Captain George Percy, October, 1609.

Settled by Lord De La Warr, July, 1610;

Reinforced by Sir Thomas Dale, May, 1611;

The Rev. William Mease being the first minister.

Named ...