HAMPTON, VA - CEMETERIES – Pembroke Farm Cemetery
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


LVA Titled Files: Survey Report, Pembroke Farm graveyard:
                  1936 Mar. 16
                  Research made by Arthur R. Thompson

Cemetery Location:  Just west of Hampton, Virginia, on what was once Pembroke 
                    Farm, in Elizabeth City County.
                    Hampton, Virginia


DATE:

1697, date of oldest grave.

OWNERS:

(blank)

DESCRIPTION:

This is an unused graveyard of St. John’s Parish.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE:


About 1900 the Reverend C. Braxton Bryan, then Rector, found scattered about, 
some old and broken tombstones, four of which he had placed in a concrete 
rectangle; the inscriptions are partially decipherable today.  They marked the 
last resting place of John Nevill, Esq., Vice Admiral of His Majesty’s Fleet, 
1697; Thomas Curle, Gent. 1700; Reverend Andrew Thompson, Minister of the Parish 
seven years, 1719, and Peter Heyman, Esq., 1700; the latter stone was given by 
His Excellency, Francis Micholson, Esq.  Peter Heyman was Collector of Customs; 
he was killed April 29th, 1700, with a small shot from the pirate ship La Paix 
as he stood at the side of Governor Micholson on H.H.S. Shoreham.


SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

Peninsular of Virginia History and Pictures Compiled by H. R. Houston.

Tombstone Inscriptions

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