Devout people of what was then Frederick Parish built this chapel, and Frederick County, Virginia joined Col. Robert Worthington in completing it in 1769. It was first called the English Church, then Berkeley Church, then Norborne Chapel, as the parish was Norborne from 1770 to 1815. The Rev. Daniel Sturgis was its first minister of record from 1771 to 1785, and the Washington, Nourse, Davenport, and Throckmorton families worshiped here.