This cemetery began in ~1670 as the burial ground for the family of Captain George Brent. About a dozen known burials exist from 1670 to 1806, as well as two modern burials (1990s) to keep the cemetery legally active under Virginia law. But more than two dozen additional burials are suspected but were lost when Union troops stole tombstones for flooring in winter quarter camps during the Civil War. One of the oldest cemeteries in Virginia, now protected as a National historical site.