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 place when the House of Burgesses was moved to Williamsburg, in 1699.

The bell which has rung out the years for more than a century and a quarter, has engraved upon it, "The gift of James Tarpley to Bruton Parish, 1761." There was a still older bell, which has been referred to; for the vestry, in 1769, entered an order for their contractor, Benjamin Powell, to have the "Old Bell and the materials of the old steeple." (For associations connected with this bell, see copy of inscription on the Bell tablet.)