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A History of St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia, With Notes of Old Churches and Old Families, and Illustrations of the Manners and Customs of the Olden Time
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Memoir of the Life of the Rt. REV. William Meade, D. D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Virginia
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A History of Bristol Parish, with a Tribute to the Memory of Its Oldest Rector
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Philip Slaughter was an American Episcopal clergyman and historian.
Background
He was born on October 26, 1808 at his father's home, "Springfield, " in Culpeper County, Virginia, United States, a descendant of a family that had been prominent in Culpeper County since the earlier years of its settlement; his parents were Philip Slaughter, a captain in the American Revolution, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Thomas Towles, of Lancaster County, Virginia, and widow of William Brock.
Education
After preliminary training at an academy in Winchester, in 1825 the younger Philip entered the University of Virginia, finishing his course in 1828.
Career
For five years he practised law, giving up this profession in order to prepare himself for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church at the Theological Seminary in Virginia, at Alexandria. Ordained deacon in May 1834 and advanced to the priesthood in July 1835, he was in active pastoral work for about twelve years, serving the Church in Middleburg; Christ Church, Georgetown; Meade and Johns parishes, Fauquier County; and for the last five years of this period, St. Paul's Church, Petersburg.
His services were in constant demand in series of meetings, called "Associations. " In connection with these, he preached in many of the city churches and rural parishes of Virginia. His health failing, he spent the years 1848 and 1849 in travel in Europe, and was then compelled to give up the hope of further continuous pastoral work.
Returning to Richmond, he established in 1850 the Virginia Colonizationist. For five years he edited this periodical with signal ability, and was successful in enlisting the interest of the Virginia legislature and in securing large appropriations for the project. He then removed to his own home on Slaughter's Mountain in Culpeper County.
With the aid of friends he erected a church building upon his father's farm in which he preached as his health permitted. The church was destroyed during the Civil War. Driven from his home by invading forces, he found refuge with his family in Petersburg. While sojourning here he published a religious paper, the Army and Navy Messenger, for distribution among the soldiers of the Confederate army.
At the close of the war he returned to his home in Culpeper County and devoted the remainder of his life to historical and genealogical studies, in which from early life he had been interested. In 1846 he published A History of Bristol Parish, and the following year, A History of St. George's Parish, both of which were revised and republished, the former in 1879 by Slaughter himself, and the latter in 1890 by Dr. R. A. Brock. Slaughter had formulated a plan for the preparation of a general history of the old parishes and families of Virginia and for years had been gathering material, but his declining health compelled him to relinquish the task and to turn over the material to Bishop William Meade, who after years of research published in 1857 his monumental work, Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia. Slaughter himself wrote A History of St. Mark's Parish (1877) and had practically completed, at the time of his death, The History of Truro Parish, which was published in 1908 by Rev. Edward L. Goodwin.
In addition to his parish histories, Slaughter was the author of many historical books, pamphlets, and addresses.
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Personality
Quotes from others about the person
Though brief, writes a biographer, his active ministry was "brilliant and effective. He had all the personal magnetism, the fire and spiritual power of Whitefield. Great crowds attended on his ministry and conversions were numbered by the hundred" (Brock, post).
Connections
On June 20, 1834, he married Anne Sophia, daughter of Dr. Thomas Semmes, of Alexandria, Virginia, who with one daughter survived him.