Qualla: Hungars Church https://qualla.com/hungars-church en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/d/j/hungars-church-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Hungars Church https://qualla.com/hungars-church Hungars Church: Introduction https://qualla.com/hungars-church/ Photo credit GeorgiaByler, CC BY-SA 4.0. The communion silver on the altar at Hungars Church was given to the congregation in 1741 by John Custis. His daughter-in-law, born Martha Dandridge, would soon be widowed and then marry a man named George Washington. The alms basin is older still, donated to a wooden chapel by Magothy Bay around 1690 by Lieutenant Governor Francis Nicholson. The current brick church, the third parish church of Hungars Parish, was built around 1742 in what was then called Church Neck, on land that the Accawmacke people had farmed and fished for centuries before any of these names arrived.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/d/j/hungars-church-wp/dqdj-hungars-church-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Hungars Church: Accawmake Kingdome https://qualla.com/hungars-church/ Photo credit self, CC BY-SA 4.0. Before the English came, this land was the homeland of the Accawmacke, an Algonquian-speaking people who had built a network of small towns up and down the Delmarva Peninsula. The colonists who arrived in the 1630s adopted the name Accawmake Shire for their new outpost and gave i...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/d/j/hungars-church-wp/dqdj-hungars-church-accawmake-kingdome.mp3 0:06 2 full Hungars Church: The Charlton Litigation https://qualla.com/hungars-church/ Photo credit self, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1653 a wealthy vestryman named Stephen Charlton, who had quarreled with the Reverend Cotton, donated land for a glebe to support the parish minister and may have funded the construction of a church. Two years later he was dead. His will left his estate to the church on the con...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/d/j/hungars-church-wp/dqdj-hungars-church-the-charlton-litigation.mp3 0:06 3 full Hungars Church: The Third Church https://qualla.com/hungars-church/ Photo credit Russbird17, CC BY-SA 4.0. The current Hungars Church is the third parish church of Hungars Parish, built around 1742, likely prompted by the establishment in 1731 of a ferry from nearby Hungars Creek to York and Hampton. The new brick church was, before the Revolution, the second-largest in Virginia. A wi...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/q/d/j/hungars-church-wp/dqdj-hungars-church-the-third-church.mp3 0:06 4 full Hungars Church: Two Churches, One Parish https://qualla.com/hungars-church/ Photo credit Jweaver28, CC BY-SA 3.0. Since 1828 the parish has had two churches. Christ Church at Eastville was built that year on land donated by Severn E. Parker of Kendall Grove, replacing the abandoned Magothy chapel. Both churches stand today; both are on the National Register; Christ Church is part of the East...

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