Rev. Isaac William Giberne was licensed as a preacher in 1758 and went to Virginia the following year to find a parish. He first lived at Thomas Turner's plantation Walsingham in King George County, Va., across the Rappahannock from Port Royal. In 1760, he married Mary Fauntleroy Beale, a wealthy widow, and moved to her home, Belle Ville, in Richmond County, Lunenburg Parish, which he served from 1762 to 1795.