=========================================+==============+============ | Total |Communicants | number of | or members. Denomination. |organizations.|------------ | |Total number | |reported. -----------------------------------------+--------------+------------ All denominations | 97 | 7,606 _Baptist bodies_: | | Baptists-- | | Southern Baptist Convention | 11 | 1,199 National Baptist Convention | | (colored) | 15 | 1,235 Free Baptists | 2 | 55 Primitive Baptists | 6 | 171 _Friends_: | | Society of Friends (Orthodox) | 2 | 122 Religious Society of Friends | | (Hicksite) | 3 | 278 _Lutheran bodies_: | | General Synod of the Evangelical | | Lutheran Church in the United | | States of America | 4 | 645 _Methodist bodies_:[17] | | Methodist Episcopal Church | 19 | 1,179 Methodist Episcopal Church (South) | 21 | 1,716 Colored Methodist Episcopal Church | 1 | 45 _Presbyterian bodies_: | | Presbyterian Church in the United | | States (South) | 4 | 345 _Protestant Episcopal Church_ | 7 | 416 _Reformed bodies_: | | Reformed Church in the United States | 1 | 140 _Roman Catholic Church_ | 1 | 60 -----------------------------------------+--------------+-------------
[Footnote 17: Leesburg had, until a year or so ago when it was razed, one of the oldest Methodist churches in America. The building, a large stone structure, long abandoned, with galleries around three sides, stood in the midst of an old Methodist graveyard in which are tombstones more than a century old. It was built, according to report, in 1780.
Leesburg is the oldest Methodist territory in the bounds of the Baltimore Conference in Virginia, and it was here that the first Methodist Conference held in the State convened May 19, 1778.]
In 1742, Prince William County, a part of the stupendous Culpeper grant, was divided and the county of Fairfax created and named in honor of its titled proprietor. Commencing at the confluence of the Potomac and Occoquan rivers, the line of demarcation followed the latter stream and its tributary, Bull Run, to its ultimate source in the mountain of that name, from which point it was continued to the summit of said mountain, pursuing thereafter a direct course to the thoroughfare in the Blue Ridge, known as "Ashby's Gap."