Prince George is also the home of the oldest Episcopalian church still standing and still being used as a house of worship in America. Merchants
Hope Church was completed in 1657 and was named after the Merchants Hope Plantation which was located west of Martin's Brandon.

Merchants Hope Church also played a part in Bacon's Rebellion. In 1676 at Jordan Point, Bacon and many outraged settlers protested against edicts of
the royal governors and demanded home rule. They met at Merchants Hope Church where they signed petitions to Governor Berkeley demanding help
against Indian attacks. Berkeley dismissed their petitions leaving Bacon and 211 volunteers to take matters into their own hands. Ref

“The lower section of Weyanoke Parish was cut off to form the Parish of Martin’s Brandon and the portion of Westover Parish south of the James was erected into the Parish of Jordans. The new Martin’s Brandon Parish extended from Upper Chippokes Creek to Flowerdew Hundred and Jordan’s Parish was between Martin’s Brandon and the mouth of the Appomattox, beyond which was Bristol Parish extending indefinitely to the far west. Jordan’s, in 1688, was reunited with Westover by consent of parishioners, but Martin’s Brandon continued to thrive. - The Hopewell Story