St. George's Spesutia Church
 

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St. George's (Spesutia) Vestry Parish House, 1766

St. Georges Episcopal Church, also known as Spesutia Church, where our branch of the Pattersons were baptized and buried. Detailed church records exist going back to the 17th century, showing Pattersons as members of the church and vestry.

Harford County, Maryland was first discovered in 1608 by Captain John Smith of the Virginia Colony, when he made a fairly accurate map of the upper country and its islands and shores. About 1649, Colonel Nathaniel Utie came from Virginia to explore the upper bay region and find a place to settle, and was granted an island located a few hundred yards south of Havre de Grace. He named it Spesutie, using the Latin Spes-Utie, meaning Utie's Hope. The spelling was later changed to Spesutia as it is known today. When  the Church of England became the established church of  the Palatinate  of  Maryland, the first Vestry House was  erected  at Spesutie  Parish on the property which belonged by grant to  Col. Nathaniel  Utie. In 1718, Spesutie Parish was divided into St. George's and St. John's Parishes, and the Spesutia Church of St. George's Parish was erected two miles away at Perryman, where it still stands today.

St. George's Parish
Spesutia Road 
Perryman, MD 21130 
Phone:410-272-6622 
Mail Address:  P.O. Box 22, Perryman MD 21130
  
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