Catherine Culpeper, Lady Fairfax, had all her children baptized in Bromfield chapel and later built there a family vault where she buried her mother, and was herself interred, as were a number of her descendants. The Bromfield register thus became a genealogical source record for the last generation of the proprietors of the Northern Neck. For these considerations the Virginia Assembly gave the name Bromfield to the parish created in Culpeper (VA) in 1752

Culpeper County was founded in 1748 from Orange. Counties formed from Culpeper include Madison, Rappahannock.

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