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" The Rev. Mr. Howe officiated at St. Paul's, with others, until some time in February, 1865, when he left the city in consequence of his objecting to read the prayer for the President of the United States. The same thing occurred to the Rev. Mr. Marshall, D. D. The United States officers, by request, got permission to hold service at Grace Church, and the Rev. Mr. Green officiated, with others, for a time, until the Rector of the church returned. The public availed themselves of it, and the church was filled.
" During the bombardment of the city the church was in imminent danger of being destroyed, as the steeple was made a lookout station for the Confederate General, and had a rope-ladder from the second balcony, which was in- tended to be used to descend, in case of danger, by the officers stationed there to observe the surrounding country. The wonder is that it was not hit often by the shells. But several struck the church, and if the organ had remained in its place, it would have been destroyed ; but, through the exertions and timely thoughtfulness of Mr. Alexander Robertson, and some other members, it was taken down, as well as the chandelier, and boxed up with many other articles of church furniture, and sent away for safety.
" The church bells were removed to Columbia by the pub- lic authorities, with the consent of the Vestry, some time in June, 1862, after the battle of Secessionville, as also the communion plate, which was very costly, as described in Dr. Dalcho's History of the Church, to which several pieces were added by members of the congregation. They were all in the care of Mr. J. K. Sass, President of the Bank of Charleston (at Columbia), but were destroyed by the United States soldiers under General Sherman in the burning of Columbia. On several occasions after their being sent away, Mr. Alexander Robertson loaned the set of com- munion plate belonging to. Grace Church, Sullivan's Island, which was returned to him.
" The interior of the building was very much damaged, several shells having entered the roof, and one entered the east end of the chancel, which tore off and knocked down
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the whole interior of the same, with the gilded tablets con- taining the Ten Commandments, the Belief and the Lord's Prayer, exploding at the same time, and sinking into the pavement of the altar, destroying the pews and even burst- ing out the panels of the pulpit and scattering to destruc- tion the whole within its range. It was a schocking scene of desolation. And after the building was left in this sit- uation, it was plundered by thieves, by night and by day. Followers of the United States Army made free with the contents of it; although informed against by the Sexton, they would intrude. On one occasion, a large number of visitors, from curiosity, entered and broke off from the pilasters the gilded and carved ornaments, and took from the front of the pulpit the initials I. H. S., which were in- laid in ivory. The pulpit was the original one put up at the building of the church in 1752, and preached in on the Ist February, 1761.
"The repairs after the cessation of the war necessary to to be made were undertaken by Mr. James R. Pringle, and required considerable time and labor, and by his judgment and good management the church was opened on the 26th November, 1865, making two years and seven days from the time it was closed. The expenses of the repairs, 1 should be recorded in the minutes as they will add another example of his economy and useful services to the church. The Rector being absent, the Chairman of the Vestry in- vited the Rev. James Warley Miles to open the church, and he accordingly complied, as will be seen by the correspond- ence recorded."
The party of visitors who robbed the church of the I. H. S. were followers of the United States army which took pos- sessions of the town in February, 1865, and some years after a Northern clergyman, who shall be nameless, restored the lost initials with the remarkable statement that he did so as there was no place for them in his church.2
The first shell which struck the building entered near the
" These repairs cost about $5,000. Circular of Vestry, January 10, 1887. 2 The present Rector.
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second window from Meeting street in the south gallery and exploded in the place left vacant by the removal of the organ.1 Another buried itself in the first pew on the left as you enter the middle aisle and burst, but did little harm.
The steeple was never struck.
Until Mr. Keith's return to the city the church seems to have been kept open by the Rev. Jas. W. Miles, as in 1866 the Vestry offered him fifty dollars for his services, which he declined to receive on account of the general poverty.2 How dire that poverty was is so well illustrated by the fol- lowing letter from the Rector of St. Michael's that I give it in full as an illustration of the times :
ANDERSON, (S. C.,) December 8, 1865.
MY DEAR SIR: I have received your letter informing me of the inability of the Vestry to procure the means of my transportation to town, and shall therefore endeavor to make arrangements for going down alone. When I shall be able to accomplish it I do not know.
Mr. Elliott3 came over to see me upon the receipt of your letter yesterday, and we both determined, that when we could, we should go down without our families. I can- not leave mine until I can provide something for their maintainance, though at a sacrifice of my means. As soon as I can make such arrangements, I will reserve enough to pay my way down.
Respectfully and truly yours, P. TRAPIER KEITH.
HON. E. FROST, Chairman of Vestry.4
Here we have the Ministers and Vestry of a large con- gregation, owning thousands of dollars worth of real and personal property, unable to raise the amount necessary for a journey of about two hundred miles.
On the 27th January, 1866, the Rev. J. H. Elliott, resigned, 5 and after a delay to see if they could possibly retain him,
1 The Sexton. 2N. V. B., 150.
3 Assistant Minister at St. Michael's.
4 N. V. B., 139. 5 N. V. B., 142.
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the Vestry regretfully accepted his resignation. Soon after they tendered him $500, on account of the arrears of his salary, but he declined to accept it in a very cordial letter dated April 2, 1866.1
After serving the church as assistant and Rector for nearly twenty-eight years, the Rev. Mr. Keith died August 23. 1868; his incumbency being by far the largest in the century and a quarter, which measures St. Michael's life.
Some little time before Mr. Keith's death, the Rev. R. S. Trapier, was elected assistant, but did not enter upon the duties of his office till October 28, 1868, and on the 19th of January, 1869, was made Rector .?
It only remains to tell how the terrible cyclone of August 25th, 1885, blew down about three feet of the upper part of the spire with the ball and vane; tore off half the slates from the roof-inflicting damage to the extent of $2,0003-and we come to the sadest page in St. Michael's history.
The Church had just been finished, the last touches being given to the work during the closing days of August, when the terrible earthquake of the 3Ist of August, 1886, shat- tered the building to such an extent that people expected it to fall at any moment, the News and Courier, of September Ist, 1886, speaking of it as the " saddest wreck of all " in the city, and deploring the danger of the loss of the old Church, so dear to Charlestonians. The walls were shattered in many places, the steeple had sunk eight inches, and was slightly out of the perpendicular, a fissure several inches wide ran through the vestibule and up the middle aisle for ten or fifteen feet, the portico seemed about to fall into the street and the galleries into the body of the Church. The vestibule, under the steeple, presented a curious appear- ance, being highest in the center and sloping away to all four sides, much like the top of a huge pillow. Fortunately, the fears as to the safety of the Church proved groundless, and in the course of a few months it will be restored to its
1N. V. B., 147. 2 Mr. Trapier. 3Vestry Books.
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original condition, but at an expense of $15,000 to $20,000.1 Beneath the chancel rest the remains of Bishops Bowen and Dehon, and in the Church yard sleeps John Rutledge, some time Dictator of South Carolina, and Charleston Fraser, the artist. Under the present vestry room, built in 1884, Gen. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney is buried, and near the eastern Church yard wall, Robert Y. Hayne and James L. Pettigru " rest from their labors." Dr. Dalcho is commemorated by a tablet on the outside of the south wall of the church, and the headstone of Alexander Shirras, the founder of the Dispen- sary, is close against the western wall of the churchyard, while not far off are the graves of Major-General Mordecai Gist, of the Maryland Line, and James Parsons, once Vice- President of South Carolina. But we must not forget the tomb of Mrs. Martha Grimké, who died September 22d, 1764, at whose funeral St. Michael's bells were tolled for the first time. 2
Like most church yards, this one has its queer epitaphs, and the famous one,
" View this tomb as you pass by, For as you are so once was I, And as I am, so must you be ; Prepare yourself to follow me, "
is on an obscure headstone, while a cross of wood tells us that
" The beautiful she have faded from our track.
We mourn her, but we cannot bring her back."
And over the grave of a sea Captain is the nautical stanza,
" Although I here at anchor be With many of our fleet, We must set sail one day again Our Saviour Christ to meet."
While another tells of the mother of nine children, who died, " aged seventeen years and twenty-seven days."
In the southwest corner of the plot is a curious old affair,
1 Vestry Books.
2 Memoirs of the late Charles Fraser, in possession of Dr. H. D. Fraser.
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much like the headboard of a bed. It is of black cypress, with cedar posts, and upon it is inscribed the date 1770; yet, in spite of its one hundred and seventeen years of ex- posure to all weathers, it is still sound, except that during the late war a shell cut off one leg, which has been renewed. Tradition tells us that this board was thought old at the end of the last century.
The Act laying off St. Michael's Parish and providing for the building of the Church, directs " That a commodious pew be set up therein, for the use of the Governor or Com- mander-in-Chief, and the Council for the time being ;"1 this was done, and up to forty years ago, the large square pew on the north side of the middle aisle, No. 43, was known as the Governor's Pew. Here Washington worshiped on the afternoon of Sunday, May 8, 1791 ; and one Sunday morn- ing, seventy-one years later, a handsome officer, of middle age, wearing a shabby gray uniform, was ushered by the sexton into the same pew, and after service people told each other that it was Gen. Robert E. Lee.2 Thus, by a strange coincidence, these two world-famous Virginians sat in the same pew in St. Michael's.
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster have likewise worshiped in the old Church, 3 but we cannot learn that the third of the great triumvirate of Senators was ever there.
The City Gazette, of May 14, 1791, says that on Saturday, May 7, 1791, "The President also visited St. Michael's Church, went up the steeple to the second balcony, where he had a view of the city, harbor, rivers, and the adjacent country, with which he was much pleased." It adds, that after the afternoon service at St. Michael's, Washington " dined, at a private dinner with the Hon. Major-General Moultrie."
Since the earthquake the congregation of St. Michael's has worshipped in the Sunday-School Room of St. John's Lutheran Church-most kindly loaned for the purpose-the owners for part of the time giving up their afternoon service
17 Stat., 81. 2 Mr. John Beasley, the Sexton.
3 Several Members of Congregation.
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to accommodate their guests ; and it gives great pleasure to one of St. Michael's congregation to put on record the gratitude universally felt.
It only remains for us to call attention to the blunders in some verses by Aldine, called " How He Saved St. Michael's." The church saved having been old St. Philip's, burned in 1835, and the hero of the story receiving his freedom from the Vestry of that Church, not from the City Council, and taking the name of Will Philip Lining.1
Now our task is done, and if there are in it sins of omis- sion or of commission, the fault is one of head, and not of heart; for though more practiced pens might have done better, they could not have been moved by deeper love and veneration for Old St. Michael's.
1 King's Newspaper Press, 39.
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APPENDIX TO ST. MICHAEL'S.
RECTORS AND ASSISTANT MINISTERS OF ST. MICHAEL'S, 1761-1886.
From
Feb'y I, 1761. Rev. Robert Cooper, Rector. .. July
June 2, 1765. Rev. Samuel Hart, Assistant. . June
2, 1770.
Dec. 19, 1770. Rev. John Bullman, Assistant. Aug. 18, 1774.
March 27, 1778. Rev. Charles Frederick Moreau, Rector .May
12, 1780.
July 29, 1781. Rev. Edward Jenkins, Rector. .Dec.
14, 1782.
Dec. 14, 1782. Rev. Henry Purcell,* Rector .. May
24, 1802.
March 19, 1790. Rev. Thomas Gates, Rectort .. .Oct.
25, 1796.
Oct. 30, 1796. Rev. Edward Jenkins, Rector . Dec.
17, 1804.
Dec. 19, 1802. Rev. Nathaniel Bowen, Rector.
Aug. I, 1809.
July 19, 1809. Rev. Theodore Dehon, Rector.
Aug.
6, 1817.
Jan'y, 1805. Rev. William Percy, Assistant to St. Philip's and St. Michael's .Dec.
March 1, 1818. Rev. Nathaniel Bowen, Rector
.Aug.
25, 1839.
Feb'y 23, 1819. Rev. Frederick Dalcho Assistant .
.Nov. 24, 1836.
Nov. 29, 1835. Rev. W. W. Spear, Assistant .
.Oct. I, 1839.
Oct. I, 1839. Rev. W. W. Spear, Rector. .
.Oct.
I, 1840.
Oct. I, 1840. Rev. Paul Trapier, Rector .. Nov.
25, 1846.
Oct. I, 1840. Rev. Paul Trapier Keith, Assistant .May I, 1847.
May I, 1847. Rev. Paul Trapier Keith, Rector. Aug. 23, 1868.
June 6, 1847. Rev. Thomas John Young, Assistant .Oct. II, 1852.
Jan'y 30, 1853. Rev. James Warley Miles, Assistant. .June 30, 1853.
Nov. 25, 1853. Rev. James H. Elliott, Assistant ..
.Jan'y 27, 1866.
Oct. 28, 1868. Rev. Richard S. Trapier, Assistant
.Jan'y 19, 1869.
Jan'y 19, 1869. Rev. Richard S. Trapier, Rector.
WARDENS AND VESTRYMEN OF ST. MICHAEL'S,
FROM 1759 TO 1886, BOTH DATES IN- CLUSIVE.
1759 .- Wardens, Robert Pringle, David Deas; Vestry Benjamin Smith, Rob't Brewton, Wm. Roper, Geo. Milli- gen, Chas. Pinckney, John McQueen, David Deas. Smith would not serve and Deas was Warden, so John Guerard and Geo. Austin were elected.
1760 .- Same Wardens; Vestry, Geo. Austin, John Guer- ard, Jacob Motte, John Moultrie, Wm. Roper, John McCall, Chas Pinckney.
1761 .- Wardens, David Deas, John McCall; Vestry, Jacob Motte, Thos. Shubrick, Rob't Pringle, Chas. Pinck- ney, Wm. Burrows, Wm. Gibbes, Job Milner.
*Not regularly elected till April 2, 1784, but served as stated.
+For some years St. Michael's had two Rectors.
To
2, 1776.
31, 1809.
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1762 .- Wardens, Wm. Gibbes, Richard Downs ; Vestry, Jacob Motte, Rob't Pringle, Fred Grimké, Wm. Roper, Wm. Burrows, Eben'r Simmons, Jr., David Deas.
1763 .- Wardens, Wm. Gibbes, Thos. Farr, Jr .; Vestry, Jacob Motte, Fred Grimké, David Deas, John Hume, Jas. Parsons, Rawlins Lowndes, Wm. Burrows.
1764 .- Wardens, Wm. Bampfeild, John Dawson; Vestry, Jas. Parsons, Wm. Gibbes, Eben'r Simmons, Rawlins Lowndes, Fred. Grimké, Jno. Ward, Jno. Savage.
1765 .- Wardens, Wm. Bampfeild, Thos. Savage ; Vestry, Jas. Parsons, Wm. Gibbes, Chas. Pinckney, Josh. Ward, Walter Mansell, Ed. Lightwood, Jr., Thos. Stone, Jr.
1766 .- Wardens, Thos. Savage, Thos. L't'n Smith ; Ves. try, Chas. Pinckney, Wm. Bampfeild, Josh. Ward, Thos. Stone, Jr., Isaac Motte, Ed. Lightwood, Jr., Jas. Parsons.
1767 .- Wardens, Ed. Lightwood, Jr., Isaac Huger; Vestry, John Chapman, Jas. Parsons, Thos. L. Smith, Thos. Savage, Isaac Motte, Josh. Ward, Wm. Bampfeild.
1768 .- Wardens, Ed. Lightwood, Jr., Josh. Ward ; Ves- try, Jas. Parsons, Isaac Huger, Thos. Savage, Thos. Lough- ton Smith, Isaac Motte, John Chapman, Wm. Bampfeild.
1769 .- Wardens, Josh. Ward, Edmund Head; Vestry, Jas. Parsons, Rob't Pringle, John Chapman, Wm. Bamp- feild, Isaac Motte, Ed. Lightwood, Jr., Peter Leger.
1770 .- Wardens, Edmund Head, Rob't Stott; Vestry, Jas. Parsons, Rob't Pringle, Wm. Bampfeild, Isaac Motte, Ed. Lightwood, Peter Leger, Josh. Ward.
1771 .- Wardens, Robt. Stott, Aaron Loocock; Vestry, Jas. Parsons, Isaac Motte, Wm. Bampfeild, Ed. Lightwood, Josh. Ward, Peter Leger, Thos. L. Smith.
1772 .- Wardens, Geo. Abbott Hall, Andrew Lord ; Ves- try, James Parsons, Isaac Motte, Wm. Bampfeild, Ed. Light- wood, Josh. Ward, Peter Leger, Sir Edmund Head, Bart.
1773 .- Wardens, Sam. Legaré, John Baker ; Vestry, James Parsons, Ed. Lightwood, Peter Leger, Sir Edmund Head, Thos. Heyward, Jr., Ed. Blake, Geo. Abbott Hall.
1774-5 .- Wardens, John McCall, Jr., John Brewton ; Vestry, same as last except Robt. Williams Powell substi- tuted for E. Lightwood.
1776 .- Wardens, Jas. McCall, John Dart; Vestry, Jas. Parsons, Ed. Blake, Peter Leger, Geo. Abbott Hall, Josh Ward, Ed. Lightwood, Sam. Legaré.
1777 .- Wardens, John Dart, Elias Horry, Jr .; Vestry, Jas. Parsons, Geo. Abbott Hall, Sam. Legaré, Ed. Light- wood, Ed. Blake, Wm. Gibbes, John McCall, Jr.
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1778 .- Wardens, Hy. Crouch, John Owen ; Vestry, Wm. Gibbes, Ed. Blake, Ed. Lightwood, Geo. Abbott Hall, Elias Horry, Jr., John Dart, John McCall, Jr.
1779 .- Wardens, John Owen, Thos. Waring; Vestry, same as last, except Chas. Pinckney substituted for John McCall, Jr.
1780 .- No election on record.
1781 .- Wardens, John McCall, Jr., Ed. Legge, Jr .; Vestry, Robt. Williams, Ben. Dart, Chas. Atkins, John Wragg, Wm. Greenwood, George Cooke, John Glen.
1782 .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, Rob't Williams, John Glen, Gideon Dupont, Jr., John Deas, Richard Wayne, Archibald Brown, John Harleston.
1783 .- Wardens, Daniel Hall, Philip Prioleau; Vestry, Ed. Blake, Ed. Lightwood, Josh Ward, Peter Bacot, Wm. Gibbes, Sam. Legaré, Geo. Abbott Hall.
1784 .- Wardens, Jas. Simons, Thos. Roper; Vestry, Ed. Blake, Wm. Gibbes, Isaac Motte, Wm. Price, John Deas, Peirce Butler, Roger Smith.
1785 .- Wardens, Geo. Greenland, John Glen; Vestry, Thos. Bee, Wm. Price, Ed. Rutledge, Roger Smith, Isaac Motte, Ed. Blake, Peirce Butler.
1786 .- Wardens, Jacob Deveaux, J. Beale ; Vestry, Isaac Moote, Roger Smith, Peirce Butler, Wm. Price, Ed. Blake, Noble Wimberly Jones, Aaron Loocock.
1787 .- Wardens, Erasmus Audley, Rich'd Cole ; Vestry, Ed. Blake, Aaron Loocock, Roger Smith, Wm. Price, Jacob Read, Isaac Motte, Peirce Butler.
1788 .- Wardens, Robt. Dewar, Geo. Bampfield ; Vestry, Ed. Blake, Aaron Loocock, Roger Smith, Jacob Read, Isaac Motte, John Dawson (only six).
1789 .- Wardens, Jos. Dill, Jr., Wm. Clarkson ; Vestry, same as last year, with the addition of John Julius Pringle.
1790 .- No Wardens recorded ; Vestry, Ed. Blake, Aaron Loocok, John Dawson, Roger Smith, Geo. Greenland (only five).
1791 .- Wardens, Thos. Jervey, Thos. Gordon ; Vestry, same as last, with the addition of Thos. Waring, Sr.
I792 .- Wardens, Thos. Gordon, Sam. Baker ; Vestry, Ed. Blake, Aaron Loocock, Roger Smith, Geo. Greenland, Ar- noldus Vanderhorst, Thos. Horry, Thos. Waring, Sr.
1793 .- Wardens, no change ; Vestry, John Huger, A. Van- derhorst, Thos. Waring, Sr., Thos. Horry, G. Greenland, Roger Smith (only six).
1794 .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, same as last, with the addition of Ed. Blake.
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1795 .- Wardens, Sam. Baker, Jos. Dill, Jr .; Vestry, Geo. Greenland, Roger Smith, Thos. Waring, Sr., Daniel Hall, John Huger, Ed. Blake, Jas. Shoolbred, John Blake, in place of Ed. Blake, who died during the year.
1796 .- Wardens, Sam. Baker, Thos. Bampfield ; Vestry, Josh. Ward, Roger Smith, Geo. Greenland, John Blake, Thos. Waring, Sr., John Huger, Daniel Hall.
1797 .- Wardens, David Alexander, Wm. Miller ; Vestry, same as last, omitting John Blake (only six.)
1798-9 .- Wardens, Wm. Miller, Geo. Reid ; Vestry. Josh. Ward, A. Vanderhorst, Daniel Hall, Roger Smith, Robert Hazelhurst, Francis Bonneau, John Huger.
1800 .- Wardens, no change ; Vestry, A. Vanderhorst, John Huger, Robert Hazelhurst, Francis Bonneau, D. Alex- ander, Micah Jenkins, John Dawson, Jr.
1801 .- Wardens, Geo. Reid, Chas. Kershaw ; Vestry, no change.
1802-3 .- Wardens, no change ; Vestry, no change, except J. J. Pringle, for Francis Bonneau.
1804 .- Wardens, John Potter, Jas. M. Ward ; Vestry, J. J. Pringle, Thos. Parker, Micah Jenkins, David Alexan- der, Geo. Reid, John Dawson, Jr., Rob't Hazelhurst.
1805 .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, R. Hazelhurst, D. Alexander, Thos. Parker, John Dawson, Jr., G. Reid, Thos. Waring, Sr., Wm. Hasell Gibbes.
1806 .- Wardens, Nathaniel Ingraham, John Robertson ; Vestry, no change, except Chas. Kershaw for W. H. Gibbes.
1807-8 .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, John Dawson, Jr., Rob't Hazelhurst, D. Alexander, Geo. Reid, Chas. Ker- shaw, Theo. Gaillard, Jr., J. J. Pringle.
1809 .-- Wardens, no change; Vestry, R. Hazelhurst, Micah Jenkins, John Dawson, Jr., Theo. Gaillard, D. Alex- ander, John Potter, J. J. Pringle.
1810-II .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, no change, ex- cept Jacob Reid in place of J. J. Pringle.
1812-13 .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, no change, ex- cept Rob't J. Turnbull in place of Theo. Gaillard.
1814 .- Wardens, no change ; Vestry, John Dawson, D. Alexander, Jacob Reid, Rob't Hazelhurst, Thos. Waring, Sr., Chas. Kershaw, John Potter.
1815-16 .- Wardens, John Robertson, Jas. Jervey ; Ves- try, no change.
1817 .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, no change, except Elias Horry in place of Jacob Reid.
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1818 .- Wardens, no change ; Vestry, Chas. Kershaw, D. Alexander, R. Hazelhurst, John Potter, Elias Horry, John Dawson, Rob't J. Turnbull.
1819-20-21-22 .- Wardens, John Robertson, John Bay ; Vestry, Chas. Kershaw, D. Alexander, Rob't Hazelhurst, Rob't J. Turnbull, Dr. Wm. Reid, John S. Cogdell, Micah Jenkins.
1823 .- Wardens, no change ; Vestry, D. Alexander, Wm. Drayton, Sam'l Prioleau, Dr. Wm. Reid, Micah Jenkins, Wm. Hasell Gibbes, Dr. Ed. Brailsford.
1824-25-26 .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, no change, except Daniel Ravenel in place of Micah Jenkins.
1827 .-- Wardens, Dr. Horatio S. Waring, John Robert- son ; Vestry, D. Alexander, Dan'l Ravenel, Sam'l Prio- leau, Jas. Jervey, Jas. R. Pringle, Dr. Wm. Reid, Dr. Ed. Brailsford.
1828 .- Wardens, Dr. H. S. Waring, Wm. Timmons; Ves- try, no change, except John Robertson in place of Dan'l Ravenel.
1829-30-31 .- Wardens no change ; Vestry, D. Alex- ander, Sam'l Prioleau, John Robertson, Jas. R. Pringle, Jas. Jervey, Jas, L. Petigru, Dr. Wm. Read.
1832 .- Wardens, no change ; Vestry, no change, except Jas. H. Ladson in place of John Robertson.
1833 to 1838 .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, no change, except Dr. Isaac M. Campbell in place of Sam'l Prioleau.
1839 .- Wardens, Dr. H. S. Waring, A. E. Miller ; Ves- try, no change.
1840 .- Wardens, no change ; Vestry, Dr. Wm. Read, Jas. R. Pringle, Jas. Jervey, Jas. L. Petigru, Dr. I. M. Camp- bell, John S. Cogdell, Jas. H. Ladson.
1841-42 .- Wardens, A. E. Miller, Wm. Jervey ; Vestry, Dr. Wm. Read, Jas. L. Petigru, Dr. I. M. Campbell, J. S. Cogdell, Dr. H. S. Waring, Otis Mills, Jas. Jervey.
1843-44-45 .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, J. L. Pet- igru, Wm. J. Grayson, Sr., Dr. I, M. Campbell, Dr. Wm. Read, Dr. H. S. Waring, Otis Mills, Jas. M. Wilson.
1846 .- Wardens, A. E. Miller, only one on record ; Ves- try, no change, except Ed. Blake in place of Dr. William Read.
1847-48-49 .- Wardens, A. E. Miller, James R. Pringle ; Vestry, no change.
1850-51-52 .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, Dr. I. M. Campbell J. L. Pettigru, W. J. Grayson, James M. Wilson, W. A. Hayne, Dr. H. S. Waring, H. W. Conner.
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1853 .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, same, except J. K. Sass in place of H. W. Conner.
1854 .- Wardens, A. E. Milier, Charles D. Carr ; Vestry, Dr. I. M. Campbell, J. L. Pettigru, Wm. J. Grayson, Wm. B. Pringle, Dr. James P. Jervey, J. R. Pringle, Ed. Frost.
1855-56-57-58-59 .- Wardens, A. E. Miller, Alex. Rob- ertson ; Vestry, no change.
1860-61-62 .- Wardens, A. E. Miller, Wm. C. Courtney ; Vestry, no change, except Alex. Robertson in place Wm. J. Grayson.
1863 .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, Ed. Frost, William Bull Pringle, Dr. James P. Jervey, Alex. Robertson, Jas. R. Pringle Dr. I. M. Campbell, W. J. Grayson.
1864 .- Wardens, no change; Vestry, Ed. Frost, Wm. B. Pringle, Dr. Jas. P. Jervey, Alex. Robertson, Jas. R. Pringle, J. K. Sass, Thos. Frost.
1865 .- No election on record.
1866 .- Wardens, A. E. Miller, W. C. Courtney ; Vestry, Ed. Frost, Jas. R. Pringle, Alex. Robertson, Jas. M. Wil- son, Thos. Frost, Wm. B. Pringle, Dr. Jas. P. Jervey.
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