"Among the men of the Revolution who attended Bruton Parish Church were
Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, George Wythe,
Patrick Henry, and George Mason. But the building's history, and that of
its churchyard, goes back further in time. Dating from 1715, the present
structure is the third in a series of Anglican houses of worship that
began in 1660. The first, which may or may not have been at or near the
18th-century site, was built, probably of wood, in the Old Fields at
Middle Plantation, Williamsburg's name until the 66-year-old community
was incorporated in 1699."
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