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1842, January 16 .- Phillip Harrison, infant son of James Bol- ton. An infant daughter of Wyndham Robertson, Esq. Two German children. A child of John Heth. A child of Beverley Heth. A child of Ludwell H. Brown. A child of Henry W. Moncure. A child of Robert C. Nicholas. A child (unknown.) A child of C. W. Macmurdo. Catherine Moore, (a foundling.)
Baptisms remembered to have been done by Bishop Moore, (but imperfectly reported from memory), in 1841:
1842, February. -- Henrietta, infant daughter of Henry and Doris Schutte.
February 19. - Elizabeth Rose Scott, adult. Mary Amanda Wil- liamson, adult.
March 12. - Alexander, infant son of Dr. John A. Cunningham.
March 31 .- Harrison, infant son of Charles F. Osborne. An in- fant child of General James W. Pegram, baptized by Rev. N. H. Cobbs.
April 10 .- Hugh Mercer, infant son of Robert C. Stanard. Mary Louisa, infant daughter of Nathaniel C. Denby.
April 22 .- Wm. Clarkson Meredith, adult.
* NOTE .- (By the Rev. Wm. Norwood.)-" Until after the 11th of November, 1841, (the date of Bishop Moore's death), this list is imperfect, as I only record from my private journal the bap- tisms performed by me, those performed by Bishop Moore be- ing omitted, except in a few cases when they were remembered."
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May 10 .- Mrs. Mary M. Elfreth, adult.
" 11 .- Mrs. Uria Davenport, adult ; Mrs. William F. Watson, adult.
May 14 .- Mr. B. P. Perkins, adult, and by immersion in James River.
May 15 .- Miss Mary Ellen Clarke, adult.
" 19 .- Elizabeth, Susan, and Nancy, infant daughters of Oliver P. Beirne.
June 5 .- Henrietta, infant daughter of Edward S. Gay.
June 12. - Maria, infant daughter of Frederick Anderson.
" 14. - James, infant son of Ludwell H. Brown.
" 15 .- James Layne, adult. Cornelia Jenkins, adult.
" 19 .- Bradfute, infant son, and Roselie, infant daughter, of Corbin Warwick, Esq.
June 24 .- Belinda Ann Mitchell, adult. Joseph Hartson Coats, adult.
June 28 .- John Wren, infant son of Dr. George T. Kennon. William, infant son of John F. Wren.
July 17 .- Thomas Hall, infant son of Hall Neilson.
September 4 .- Robert Haxall, infant son of Geo. D. Fisher.
" 14. - Henry Julius, infant son of Charles Loth.
66 26. - Frederick Gustavus, infant son of Frederick Rein- hardt.
September 29 .- Geo. Theodore, infant son of Jacob Mattern. October 5 .- Francis Taliaferro, infant son of F. E. Brooke.
" 9 .- John, infant son of John J. Worth.
" 14 -Mary Baskerville, infant daughter of Wm. B. Ham- ilton.
October 16 .- Edwin Irvin and Louisa Irvin, orphans ; nephew and niece of the Rev. Benjamin M. Miller.
October 30 .- James Dunlop, infant son of Henry W. Moncure, born 2nd August, 1842.
November 29 .- Alexander Albert, infant son of Augustus Henrice, born August 29, 1842. Mildred Ann and Betty Bennett, in- fant daughters of Wm. F. Watson.
December .- William, infant son of Wm. Anderson.
1843, January 2 .- Kathleen, born July 18, 1839 ; and Anne, born August 12, 1842, infant daughters of Joseph R. Anderson.
January 5 .- Helen Patterson, infant daughter of Richard Crouch, born July 19, 1839.
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January 6. - Thomas Leiper, child of Richard Crouch. Mary Blair and Alice Williams, infant daughters of John Adams Smith.
January 15 .- Lucy Parke, infant daughter of Dr. L. W. Cham- berlayne. Sarah Page, infant daughter of Mrs. Henrietta Fox. Henry Brown, infant son of Edwin Robinson, born April 8, 1842. Clarence, infant son of Abram Warwick. John Johns, infant son of Rev. Wm. Norwood, baptized by Right Rev. John Johns, and born 13th October, 1842, the day of Bishop John's consecration. William Tinsley, brother of Elizabeth Randolph, born June 12, 1833.
January 27 .- Henrietta Amelia, infant daughter of - East- man, born January 14, 1843. James Rawlins, born January 31, 1843; and Mary Chapman, born February, 1841, children of Dr. Socrates Maupin.
April 22 .- Agnes Conway, infant daughter of Moncure Robin- son, born April 8, 1842. Phebe, infant daughter of John N. and Anna Jane Shields.
April 23 .- Channing Moore, infant son of Dr. James Bolton, born January 24, 1843. Elizabeth, infant daughter of Anthony Thornton.
April 24 .- Ellena Frances Hurt, orphan, aged 12. Virginia Hardy, orphan, aged 8.
April 25 .- John Buchanan, born September 9, 1842, and Henry Delaplane, born October 7, 1840, sons of John B. Danforth.
May 14. - Mrs. Frances Robinson, wife of Mr. Edwin Robinson. June 25 .- Richard Channing Moore, infant son of Thomas R. Price. .
July 2 .- Samuel Demilt, infant son of Wm. Mitchell, Jr., born October 31, 1842.
July 4. - An infant son of Mr. Krahe.
October 10 .- Ann Eliza, child of Dr. Miles George, born Aug. 10, 1839.
October 15. - Virginia Johnson, infant daughter of General Jas. W. Pegram, born July 15, 1843,
October 23 .- Susan Overton, infant daughter of John O. Steger, born February 7, 1843.
October 30. -- An infant daughter of John F. Wren.
December 27 .- Henry Lawson, infant son of Mr. James, of Farmville.
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1844, January 7 .- Christopher, born August 10, 1839, and Channing Moore, born April 10, 1843, sons of Anthony Robin- son, Jr., Esq.
January 8 .- Arthur Shaaff, infant son of Right Rev. John Johns, born October 10, 1843.
March 11. - Margaret Nimmo, infant daughter of Geo. W. and Elizabeth T. Munford, born June 1, 1843. Henry St. George, infant son of Beverley and Jane S. Tucker, born May 25, 1843. March 24 .- Ann Carter, born August 5, 1832; Virginia, born June 28, 1835, and Alice, born January 22, 1842, children of
Benjamin Watkins and Julia Wickham Leigh. Meriwether,. infant son of C. Waldrop and Ann F. Macmurdo, born Octo- ber 22, 1843. Charles Wyndham, born Aug. 8, 1841, and Henry Erskine, born Oct. 25, 1843 ; sons of Charles S. and Margaret L. Gay; Elizabeth Cary, daughter of Elizabeth B. and Ro. C. Nicholas, born Aug. 6, 1843. Elizabeth Frances. Wellford, a negro presented by Dr. and Mrs. Jas. Bolton.
March 31 .- Miss Anne C. Robinson, daughter of Mr. Anthony Robinson, Jr. Mary, infant daughter of John and Mary Amanda Stewart.
April 24 .-- James French, son of John M. and Peggy Patton,. born September 18, 1843.
May 5. -- Mary Phillips, daughter of James H. and Phebe Gard- ner, born January 3, 1843. Wm. Hamilton, son of Wm. H. and Nannie Macfarland, born March 14, 1844. Alice, daughter of Andrew Beirne. Ravenscroft, son of Chas. J. and Elizabeth Macmurdo, born April 4, 1844.
May 30 .-- Ann Dabney, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Chamberlayne, born May 18, 1844. Charlotte Elizabeth, daugh- ter of William and Mary Archer, born September 15, 1843.
June 16 .-- Channing Moore, son of Rev. William and Winnifred B. Norwood, born March 8, 1844.
July 14. - Anne Eliza, daughter of Charles F. and Mary Osborne, born April 2, 1844. William Graham, son of Joseph R. and Sally Anderson, born June 9, 1844. Emily, daughter of Jaque- lin B. and Mary Marshall Harvie, born January 12, 1840.
September 25 .-- John George, son of George and Margaret Grill, born, July 26, 1844.
October 20 .- Jane Nicholas, daughter of Dr. Socrates and Sarah. Maupin, born June 5, 1844.
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November 10. - Helen Frances, born July 24, 1842; and Caro- line Gardner, born March 29, 1844; daughters of Ambrose and Mary Ann D. Carlton. Mary Ann, daughter of George N. and Margaret A. C. Johnson, born July 18, 1844. Thomas, son of George T. and Caroline Booker, born April 16, 1844.
November 24 .- James, son of James and Ann McRae Dunlop, born August 24, 1844. James Rhodes, son of John and Amanda P. Werth, born August 31, 1844.
December 15 .- Charles Francis, born November 21, 1841, and Josephine, born January 13, 1844, children of Mr. Nenzel.
December 25 .- Jacobina Carolina, daughter of Jacob and Mary Karn, born August 20, 1844. William Jacob, son of Charles and Dorathea Loth, born, November 8, 1844.
December 29 .- John Jaquelin, son of Henry W. and Catherine C. Moncure, born December 23, 1843.
1845, January 12 .- John Overton Steger, adult.
January 15 .-- Philip Pendleton, son of John O. and Mary Steger, born August 14, 1844. Benjamin Frederick, son of Frederick and Cora Anderson, born January 11, 1844. An in- fant child of Mr. Anthony Thornton.
April 27 .- Cyrus Henry, born July 23, 1834. Gertrude, born October 6, 1836. Charles Adams, born February 15, 1841; Benjamin Franklin, born October 17, 1842 ; and Robert Henry, born July 6, 1844, children of Robert H. and Cornelia Jen- kins.
June 20. - James Ellis, son of Nathaniel Beverley and Jane S. Tucker, born October 25, 1844. Elizabeth Ellis, daughter of George Wythe and Elizabeth T. Munford, born February 15, 1845.
July 2 .- Cary Robinson, son of John N. and Anna J. Shields. " 13. - Samuel Albert, son of George and Ann Beauchamp.
August 13. - Theodosia Virginia, daughter of John F. and Cath- erine E. Wren, born June 17, 1845.
November .- Horatio Sprague, son of William and Mary Ann An- derson. John Richards, son of Wm. S. and Ann O. Triplett, born May 11, 1845.
November 29 .- William Garland, son of Wm. M. and Rebecca Overton, born March 8, 1845. William C. Crump, adult.
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CONFIRMATIONS .*
1839 .- December 29.
Mrs. David Campbell, (wife of Governor.)
Julia Nelson.
66 Caroline Booker.
66 Cora Anderson.
66 Nath'l Denby.
Miss Emeline Gardner.
Sarah Tazewell.
66 Louisa Tazewell.
66
Mary Louisa Randolph. Miss Henrietta Bolton.
Mrs. Robert C. Stanard. 1841 .- April 7.
Mrs. Henningham Lyons.
66 Ann Triplett.
66 Emily Triplett.
66 Mary Weed.
Miss Mary Stanard.
Jane S. Ellis.
Mary Tabb, of Gloucester. June 6.
Caroline Anthony.
Miss Catherine J. Clarke.
Ellen Harvie.
Wm. B. Johnson.
66 Harriet Richardson.
Mrs. Dr. Watson.
Miss Sally Watson. " Fanny Baylor.
Thomas R. Price.
Mrs. George Beirne, of Hunts- ville, Ala.
Wm. Copland.
Miss Virginia Harvie.
" Mary Green.
" Elizabeth Randolph.
66 John Rutherfoord.
66 Mary Ann Adams.
Miss Nancy Trent.
66 Morrison.
66 Elizabeth F. Haxall.
Catherine Page.
Miss Ann McRae.
66 Mary A. Williamson.
Charles R. Barney.
Mrs. Wm. B. Chamberlayne. 66 C. Waldrop Macmurdo.
Miss Columbia Gwathmey.
66 John Thompson.
* NOTE. - (By Rev. Wm. Norwood) : "This list is complete as far back as December 29, 1839, being copied from my private journal, which contained a perfect list from its commencement."
Miss Maria Gwathmey. 66
Harriet Porter.
66 Eliza Ann Heath.
Mrs. Mary Gilmer. December 23.
Mrs. Rebecca Robinson.
Lucy Howard.
Geo. Nicolson Johnson.
Mary A. Jenkins.
Mary Sheppard.
" Mary Claiborne.
Alexander McRae. 1842 .- February 20.
Dr. Robert W. Haxall.
Joseph Trent. Judge Richard E. Parker. 1840 .- June 21.
66 Margaret Holmes.
Mrs. Virginia Heth.
Catherine Ambler, (Mrs. E. S. Gay now.)
66 Ellen Beirne.
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Mrs. Eliza Cunningham. Miss Mary Williams.
Mrs. Andrew Stevenson. C. Elizabeth Price. Miss Virginia Hall.
66 Sarah Hall. June 26.
Dr. Richard Cary Ambler.
Arch'd B. Anderson.
Miss. Julia G. Barton.
Efford B. Bentley.
Mrs James Brooks.
Miss Louisa Campbell.
James Claiborne.
Joseph H. Coates.
James B. Cunningham.
Peter V. Daniel, Jr.
Mrs. Isaac Davenport, Sr. Mary M. Elfroth. Thomas H. Ellis.
Mrs. Henrietta Fox.
Miss Caroline Gardner.
Phebe A. Gardner. Mrs. Miles George. Claiborne W. Gooch.
Temple Gwathmey. Richard C. Hall. Miss Bettie A. Harrison. " Mary E. Higginbotham. Mrs. Robert H. Jenkins. James Layne. Miss Susan Layne. Bettie Lee. Alexander Ludlame. Miss Martha Mackenzie. C. Waldrop Macmurdo. . Wm. C. Meredith. Miss Belinda Mitchell: Hugh Thomas Nelson. James J. Page.
George S. Palmer. B. P. Perkins. D. Copland Randolph. Miss Harriet W. Randolph. 66 Carolina Stewart.
John Stewart. John H. Strebia.
Mrs. John H. Strobia.
James Taylor.
Anthony Thornton.
Mrs. Anthony Thornton.
Peterfield Trent.
Mrs. Wm. F. Watson. 66 Joseph A. Weed. Miss Virginia Wilcox.
Alice Williams.
Wm. Williams. Edward Wills.
Mrs. John F. Wren. 1843 .-- January 22.
Joseph R. Anderson. Mrs. Joseph R. Anderson.
I. H. Anthony. Miss Julia Blackwell.
Gilbert B. Claiborne. Mrs. Richard Crouch. Mr. - Easman.
John R. Edmunds, of Halifax county, Va. Mrs. Julia Fourquerean.
Thomas Fourquerean.
Miss Matilda Gwathmey.
Edward C. Harrison.
Miss Ann Hunter. John Adams Smith.
Mrs. Chas. Maurice Smith.
George Weed. Miss Hanah E. Weed. May 21. Mrs. Peter V. Daniel.
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Wm. B. Hamilton. William Nelson.
Miss Charlotte Ritchie. Margaret Ritchie. Mrs. Edwin Robinson. Mrs. Alice Worthington. 1844-March 31. Miss Ella Burfoot, (by Bishop Johns.)
" Rosabel Burfoot.
66 Claiborne.
66 Susan Harvie.
66 E. Harriet Haxall.
Sarah Holmes.
Ann Johns.
Dr. Carter P. Johnson. Chapman Johnson.
George N. Johnson.
Miss Elizabeth Leigh.
" Mary Page.
Miss Rosalie Pollard.
66 Ann C. Robinson. " Cornelia Robinson. Mrs. - Redwood. Miss Mary Smith.
Mrs. John O. Steger.
Miss Julia Thompson. 1845. Miss Elizabeth Wickham. Sunday before Easter.
Miss Sarah Blackwell.
Susan Bright. - Meade. Mrs. Mary Middleton. Miss Mary Mosby.
" Virginia Mosby.
Maria Payne.
Annie Pellet.
Mrs. Moncure Robinson.
John O. Steger.
COMMUNICANTS ADDED IN 1842-'45.
1842. Miss Matilda Gwathmey.
Joseph R. Anderson.
Mrs. Joseph R. Anderson. J. H. Anthony. Efford B. Bentley.
Miss Mary E. Higginbotham.
" Catherine R. Johns. Mrs. John Johns.
Miss Julia Johns.
Mrs. Ro. H. Jenkins.
Gilbert B. Clairborne.
Joseph H. Coates.
James B. Cunningham.
Mrs. Benjamin B. Minor.
Miss Belinda J. Mitchell.
Miss Leah Davies. Thomas H. Ellis. George W. Ferry.
Mrs. Julia Fourquerean.
Thomas A. Fourquerean. Mrs. Henrietta Fox. Miles George. Mr. - - Green.
Edw. C. Harrison.
William Brown. Miss Louisa Campbell.
James Layne. Miss Betty Lee.
James J. Page.
Miss Elizabeth Paine.
Harriet Porter. Chas. Maurice Smith. John Adams Smith. Mrs. Christian Swann. Dr. Peterfield Trent.
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George Weed. Miss Hannah E. Weed. Edward Wills. Mrs. John F. Wren. 1843.
Bessie Bartlett (returned).
6. Mary Bozman.
Miss Ella Burfoot.
" Rosabell Burfoot.
Claiborne.
Mr. Clerc.
Cowall.
Mrs. Richard Crouch.
66 Peter V. Daniel.
Miss Annabella Gibson.
Wm. B. Hamilton.
Miss Susan Harvie.
E. Harriet Haxall.
" Anne Johns.
Dr. Carter P. Johnson.
Chapman Johnson.
George Nicolson Johnson.
Miss Elizabeth Leigh.
Moses, (a colored servant of Mr. Taylor.)
William Nelson.
Miss Polly Page.
Mrs. Redwood.
Miss Charlotte Ritchie.
66 Ann C. Robinson.
Cornelia Robinson.
Mrs Edwin Robinson.
Miss Mary Smith.
Mrs. John O. Steger.
Corbin Warwick.
Miss Elizabeth Wickham. 1844-1845.
Mr. Bissell.
Mrs. Bissell.
Miss Sarah Blackwell.
Mrs. Germain Briant.
Miss Susan Bright. Mrs. Elvira H. Bruce.
Miss Sarah Bruce. Mrs. Mary Carter.
Wm. C. Crump.
Mary M. Cunningham.
Mortimer Davis. Theodore Garnett.
Mrs. Caroline Hall.
Miss Caroline B. Hall.
Harriet Hall.
Mr. - Lipscomb.
Mrs. Lipscomb.
Benjamin L. Meade.
Mrs. Benjamin L. Meade.
Miss Mary E. Meade.
Silas Merchant.
Mrs. Mary Middleton.
Mr. - Mitchell.
Miss Mary Mosby.
Virginia Mosby.
Martha I. Murray.
66 Rebecca B. Murray.
Mrs. Rebecca Overton. Miss Maria Payne.
Annie Pellet. Mrs. Railey. Wirt Robinson, (returned from Reading, Penn. )
John O. Steger. Mrs. Beverley Tucker, (returned from Jefferson County, Va.)
John Womble. Miss Virginia Womble,
This closes the list of communicants under the
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Rev. Mr. Norwood, up to the time he resigned his rectorship of the Monumental Church, and went to St. Paul's, say the first Sunday in December, 1845.
MARRIAGES.
Copied from Col. Ellis's journal, furnished from the record of the Rev. Mr. Norwood, to Dec. 1845.
July 10 .- Mr. James Brooks, of New York, to Mary Louisa Ran- dolph of Wilton.
July 26 .- Thomas F. Butler to Virginia Lamb, both of Richmond. August 17 .-- Lewis G. Keith to Eliza M. Sanxay.
September 22 .- Alexander Randall, of Maryland, to Catharine G. Wirt.
December 2 .- W. J. Bennett, of Charleston, S. C., to. Sarah F. Rutherfoord, of Richmond.
December 27 .- Peter Fehr to Wilhelmina Cohlhaus. Christian Mepps to Margurita Gerberding.
1842, February 24. - Richard S. Massie to Sarah Maria Thompson. April .- Augustus Schad to Mary Kohlhouse.
May 17 .- George Fitzgerald, of Nottoway county, to Sarah B. Tazewell.
September 22. - John Joseph Roles, of Florida, to Sarah F. Cook. September 29 .- John Gottfield Lange to Madeline Lipps.
October 5 .- Henry Staats to Margaret Behne.
" 8 .- Frederick Hoffner to Frances Good. Lewis Rhine- hardt to Christiana Paul.
1843, January 25 .- Albert J. White, United States Senator from Indiana, to Harriet W. Randolph.
March 9 .- John Stewart to Mary Amanda Williamson. A colored. servant, to one of Mr. David Walker's.
June 15. - James Dunlop to Ann McRae.
August 6 .- Chas. Sterrican to Margarett Ann Mepps. September 14. - Caleb Jones to Mary Mackenzie.
66 19 .- Alex. Ludham to Frances Ann Anderson.
December 21 .- William Marshall, late of England, to Gertrude Virginia Hall, grandaughter of Right Rev. R. C. Moore, D. D., deceased.
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December 27. - Fabius Maximus Lawson to Sarah Angelina Gilliam.
1844, February 15. - John Grattan Cabell to Sarah Tankersley.
18 .- John W. Brimmer to Elizabeth Hartzbarger.
September 12 .- Joseph Goode to Eudora Virginia Jenks.
October 16. - Archibald Blair to Lavinia K. Lanness.
27 .- Henry Smith to Hannah Susannah Santon.
November 10. - Benjamin 'Johnson Barbour, of Orange Co., to Caroline Homassel Watson, of Richmond.
November 21 .- Richard Schutte to Tensa Ross.
December 12 .- Herbert P. Lefebvre to Mary O. Williams.
1845, February 6 .- Efford Bolling Bentley to Lucy Williamson Chamberlayne.
September 25. - Samuel J. Harrison to Nannie Caskie.
October 29 .- Joseph H. Crenshaw to Martha Virginia Womble.
November 13 .- Adolphus F. D. Gifford, late of England, to Mary Ann, daughter of Chapman Johnson, Esq.
This list closes Mr. Norwood's record of marriages to like period of communicants, say to December, 1845.
FUNERALS.
1841, November -Child of B. W. Leigh, Esq.
December .- An infant son of John M. Patton, Esq. .A child of Wm. F. Watson. Miss Georgianna Randolph.
November 14 .- At Lynchburg, Virginia, the Right Rev. Richard Channing Moore, D. D., late bishop of Virginia. An infant son of Mr. Wm. F. Watson. George Wickham.
December .- Mrs. Richard Randolph.
1842, February 7 .- Ellen Hall.
March 6 .- Phillips Gardner ; Philip Harrison, son of Dr. J. Bol- ton.
May .- Mrs. Archibald Blair. An infant daughter of Wm. Ander- son. A child at the orphan asylum. A child of Mr. William Beers.
June .- A child of Mr. Campbell.
August. - Miss Eliza Robinson.
October 1 .- Alfred Powell.
October 11 .- Mrs. Mary Green.
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October 12 .- Mr. Robert Pollard, aged 87, father of Mrs. Thos. Richardson.
October 22 .- An infant son of Dr. Micajah Clarke.
November 19 .- Dr. Joseph Trent. Mrs. William Watson. An infant son of Byrd Chamberlayne. An infant son of William Anderson. Mary Blair, an infant daughter of John Adams Smith, and an infant son of same, from scarlet fever.
1843, January 6 .- Helen Patterson, infant daughter of Richard Crouch.
January 14 .- Agnes, daughter of Moncure Robinson, Esq.
15 .- Frances, daughter of B. W. Leigh, Esq., aged five years and six months.
" 26 .- Miss Elizabeth Fisher, (commonly known as Aunt Betsy, sister of the late George Fisher, and aunt of Mr. George D. Fisher.) An infant daughter of Dr. Kennon, and infant son of same. Helen, infant daughter of C. J. Macmurdo, Jr. Moore Robinson, adult, (son of Mr. John Robinson, and the brother of Mrs. R. B. Haxall.) Peyton Drew, (an old citizen and brother of the late Mr. Thos. H. Drew.)
May 16 .- An infant son of Dr. Miles George.
June 22 .- Mrs. Catherine J. Clarke, of Chesterfield county.
June 27 .- Mr. Robert Gilliam.
July 8 .- Mr. Campbell.
" 25 .- An infant child of Byrd Chamberlayne.
September 4 .- An infant child of Wm. Myers, (not named.) 27 .- Cary Robinson, adult, son of Mr. John Robinson, and brother of Messrs. Moncure and Conway Robinson. October 3. - Mrs. John Mays.
8 .- Mr. John R. Triplett.
" 20 .- John H., son of Mr. Nathaniel Denby.
66 Miss Mary Clairborne. Mr. Gooch.
1844, June 5 .- Alice, infant daughter of Andrew Beirne. A child of Mr. Goode, (not of the congregation.)
July 26 .- F. W. Hoppe, aged 23 years, a Prussian, and buried by Rev. Mr. Coles.
September 8 .- James B., son of J. B. Campbell, Esq., of Charleston, S. C., aged 6 years.
September 23. - Mrs. Mary G., wife of Caleb Jones, and daugh- ter of Mrs. Mackenzie. '
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September 29. - Ravenscroft, infant son of Mr. Charles J. Mac- murdo, Jr.
November 12. - Joseph Danforth, (father of the late Col. John B. Danforth.)
November 18 .- Miss Eloisa Frances Archer, and daughter of Dr. Branch T. Archer.
November 19 .- Mr. Wm. Brown, son of James Brown, Jr.
20 .- Mrs. John G. Mosby.
December 28 .- Mrs. Ann W. Chamberlayne.
29 .- Mary Chapman, infant daughter of Dr. Socrates Maupin.
1845, January 9 .- Mosby Chamberlayne. Mr. Wm. D. Wren. May 8 .- Mr. David Walker.
" 10 .- Mrs. Mary Louisa, wife of Mr. James G. Brooks.
" 12 .-- Hon. William H. Roane.
July 31 .- Cary Robinson, son of Mr. John N. Shields. Mr. - , at the Tredegar iron works.
August 19 .-- Jane, daughter of Wm. Brown, deceased.
November 15 .-- Mrs. James Allen. Russell Bigger, son of Col. Thos. B. Bigger. Lewis Harvie, son of the Late General Jaquelin B. Harvie, killed accidently with his shot-gun hunt- ing.
This closes the list of funerals as recorded by the Rev. Dr. Norwood, up to the date of his resignation as rector of the Monumental Church.
" LETTER OF CONSECRATION, FOR REV. JOHN JOHNS, OF MARYLAND.
"Know all men by these presents, that we, Alex- ander Viets Griswold, D. D., Bishop of the Protes- tant Episcopal Church in the Eastern Diocese, Presiding Bishop; William Meade, D. D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Virginia ; Levi Silliman Ives, D. D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of North
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Carolina ; and William Rollinson Whittingham, D. D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Maryland, under the protection of Al- mighty God, in the Monumental Church of the city of Richmond, on Thursday, the thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, did then and there, rightly and canonically consecrate our beloved in Christ, John Johns, rector of Christ Church, Baltimore, Maryland, of whose sufficiency in good learning, soundness in the faith, and purity of manners, we were fully ascertained, into the office of bishop, to which he hath been elected by the convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Vir- ginia, to assist the bishop of the church in the said State in the duties of the Episcopal office, and to succeed him in case of suvivorship.
"Given in the city of Richmond, on the thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thou- sand eight hundred and forty-two."
ALEXANRER V. GRISWOLD, [Seal.]
WILLIAM MEADE,' [Seal.]
L. SILLIMAN IVES, [Seal.]
WM. ROLLINSON WHITTINGHAM, [Seal.]
The consecration sermon on this occasion, after- wards published by request of the bishops and clergy present, was preached by Bishop Ives, from the text, second Timothy, eleventh chapter, fifteenth verse : "Study to show thyself approved unto God,"-his theme being the "Christian bishop approving him- self to God."
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1843.
The convention met in the Monumental Church, Richmond, on Wednesday, May 17th; Bishop Meade, president, Rev. Benjamin M. Miller, secretary.
The Rev. Nicholas P. Tillinghast, assistant minis- ter of the Monumental Church, took his seat as a member of the convention. Messrs. Williams and William H. Macfarland attended as the lay delegates from the Monumental Church.
Bishop Johns, in his annual address to the con- vention, said :
"On the 14th of October, the day succeeding my consecration, I left Richmond, in company with Bishop Meade, for Lynchburg, and arrived there the 15th. The next day being Sunday, I preached both morning and night, and also at night on the 17th.
"The events of the last few days, my brethren, were well calculated to produce an impression not easily described, and I trust not soon to be forgotten.
"Those solemn services, which had introduced me to the untried and eventful responsibilities of the episcopate, engaging me to a participation in its un- ceasing cares and varied labors, and that in a field comparatively unknown, and amongst a people to whom I came almost as a stranger, were vividly present to my mind. The affecting associations, ir- resistibly suggested by the scenes through which I passed,-consecrated in the very church which had so long been blessed by the invaluable pastoral services of the venerable and beloved bishop whose lamented death furnished the occasion for the pro-
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ceeding,-consecrated on the very spot on which the bier which sustained his mortal remains had rested during the funeral rites; the drapery of mourning still covering the sacred places where he had so often and so earnestly officiated for men in things pertaining to God; surrounded by those whose wounds, not yet healed, were opened afresh by the recollections inseparable from the occasion; then starting to enter upon my duties along the very line of the canal by which the corpse of the good bishop had been brought home; commencing my services in the very town where his labors ended ; preaching my first sermon in the very pulpit in which his pleasant voice proclaimed, for the last time, the precious gospel which he loved to publish,-all these affecting coincidences crowded upon me with inex- pressible power. My heart's desire and prayer to God were that I might be blessed with the faithful and affectionate spirit with which he served Christ, and honored to aid in sustaining the church in this diocese, which he and the beloved friend and brother with whom it is my privilege to be associated had so largely contributed to revive and enlarge. To share in the confidence and affection of the clergy and laity which they enjoyed, to carry out their wise policy, and to partake of their success and re- ward, is my most ardent desire.
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