When Surry was formed in 1771, North Carolina was a Colony of Great Britian. The Church of England was the State church and this carried over into the Colonies. The Church of England declared that a county was also a parish, an ecclesiastical district having its own church and member of the clergy. Surry's parish was given the name of St. Jude. Apparently, no clergyman was assigned to St. Jude nor did one volunteer, possibly because the Revolution was forming.
"The Assembly of North Carolina had granted the request of the Moravians (in the late 1750s or the 1760s) to constitute the Moravian land as a separate parish with the name Dobb's Parish. The Moravians were obligated to provide an English-speaking minister to care for the spiritual needs of English-speaking settlers of whatever denomination living within the parish. The first was the Rev. Jacob Rogers. He lived in Bethabara with the Moravians. They were required to elect a vestry and two church wardens and the liturgy of the Church of England must be read four times a year. "
"The village occasionally had English visitors who were glad to hear the Church of England service."
("Information from Fries, Adelaide L., The Road to Salem, UNC Press, 1944-1972, p. 73.")