Drawn on Mr. William Parish, ending the first of May 1746. Jonas Green, Register. Mr. King presented the following Account viz. 1746 May 1. The Vestry of St. Ann's Parish Dr. To washing the Church Linen one year August 13, 1746. £ 1..0..0 At a Vestry held in the School House, Present The Reverend Mr. John Gordon, Rector, Mr. Simon Duff, Mr. Thomas Jennings, Mr. Edward Dorsey, Vestrymen. Jonas Green, Church Warden. The Reverend Mr. Gordon acquainted the Vestry that John Ross Esq. of the City of Annapolis had sent to him a Pall of Cloth of Gold left by his Deceased Spouse Mrs. Alicia Ross as a Legacy to the church of St. Ann's Parish; which Pall was by order of the Vestry lodged in the Hands of the Church wardens, for the use of the said Church and to testify their Regard to the memory of the said Mrs. Alicia Ross. Easter Monday, April 20, 1747. It being a very Stormy Rainy Day, the Vestry did not meet. Easter Tuesday, April 21, 1747. The Revd. Mr. John Gordon, Rector, Messieurs Simon Duff, William Roberts, and Thomas Jennings, Vestrymen, and Jonas [p. 270] Green and Gamaliel Butler, Church wardens, with several others of the Parishioners, met in the Church and made Choice of Mr. Ashbury Sutton and Jonas Green to be Vestrymen in the room of Capt. Charles Griffith and Mr. Simon Duff, who are discharged from that Office. And likewise made choice of Messieurs William Reynolds, and Samuel Soumaier, to be Church wardens in the room of Jonas Green and Gamaliel Butler, who are Discharged from that office. The two new elected Vestrymen, and the Two Church wardens above-named were qualified according to the Act of Assembly. The same Day a Vestry was held, Present The Revd. Mr. John Gordon, Rector, Messieurs William Roberts, Thomas Jennings, Ashbury Sutton, Jonas Green, Vestrymen, and Mr. William Reynolds, Church warden. Ordered, That a Breast-Work be erected in the Chapel of this Parish, before the Clerk's seat. At a Vestry held, July 14, 1747. Present The Revd. Mr. John Gordon, Rector, Messieurs, John Carpenter, Edward Dorsey, Jonas Green, Vestrymen, Mr. Samuel Soumaier, Church warden. The Vestry Adjourns to 6 o'clock p. m. July 14, 1747. Afternoon, The Vestry met according to [p. 271] Adjournment. Ordered, That at the same Time a Vestryman will be Chosen in the room of Mr. William Roberts, who is gone out of the Province. And that at the same Time the Lots belonging to this Parish, and lying in Annapolis, will be Leased for Sixty-three years according to a late Act of Assembly to the Highest Bidders. . . July 23, 1747. The Vestry met. Present, The Revd. Mr. John Gordon, Rector, Messieurs Thomas Jennings, John Carpenter, Edward Dorsey, Ashbury Sutton, Jonas Green, Vestry[p. 272] men, Messieurs, William Reynolds, Samuel Soumaier, Church wardens. And several others of the Parishioners, who make choice of Mr. Nicholas Maccubbin, to be a Vestryman of this Parish, in the room of Mr. Wm. Roberts. Daniel Dulany Esq. buys 3000 Weight of Tobacco, belonging to the Vestry, in the Hands of the High Sheriff at 10/ per Hundred, [see Book of Accounts, Page 19]. Daniel Dulany Esq. agrees with the Vestry, to take the Lot number 59, at Three Pounds Sterling per Annum for Sixty Three years, agreeable to the Act of Assembly Passed in May this present year. Mr. Thomas King likewise agrees with the Vestry to take Half an Acre of the Lot Number 61, the westermost part of the Lot, wheron is standing a Stone House formerly the Prison, for the same Term of years at Four Pounds, Five Shillings Sterling per Annum. The Vestry Adjourns to the first Tuesday in August. At a Vestry held Aug. 4, 1747. Present The Revd. Mr. John Gordon, Rector, Messieurs Thomas Jennings, John Carpenter, Ashbury Sutton, Jonas Green, Vestrymen. Messi: William Reynolds, Samuel Soumaier, Church Wardens. Mr. Nicholas Maccubbin who was Elected a Vestryman on the 23rd past, appeared, and was Qualified according to Law. Mr. William Reynolds, agrees with the Vestry to take the [p. 273] Lot Number 60, and the remainder of Number 61, (after Mr. King's half Acre is taken off) at Four Pounds Sterling per Annum, for the Term of Sixty Three years. . . . Jonas Green produces an Account to the Vestry for Wine, Bread, &c., for the Church, during his Church-wardenship amounting to Fifty three shillings and six-pence, Which is allow'd. September 1, 1747. At a Vestry held in the Church The several Leases of the Lots belonging to this Parish were this Day signed by the several Parties. . LETTERS OF REV. JONATHAN BOUCHER. (Continued from Vol. VIII, p. 352.) To Rev. Mr. James Dear Sir, Paddington, 28th April, 1776. I doubt not your having long ere this, received my Letter by Mr. Troutbeck, as well as a subsequent one by the Post. On Saturday last, I was favoured with yours of the 21st ult. by Mr. Philips, who, I rely, has been duly careful to forward to you the Paper, about which I am both asham'd & sorry You should have had so much Trouble and Expence. The latter I entreat & insist that you would charge to me, and for the former, I trust, my Letters above-mentioned will, in some Sort, plead my Excuse. : You will see I considered the Instrument sent you by Mr. Troutbeck, as, in itself, a Mortgage, to all Intents & Purposes: indeed, I think it better than the more formal one since executed. But, I fancy, I am not much learned in the Doctrine of Mortgages; as, I own, I shou'd have thought that you have return'd Me as good in Law, as it certainly was in Justice & Equity as being, legally, as much my Act & Deed, as those sign'd immediately by my own Hand. Should you also be of opinion, that the former one of my drawing up, by the Direction of Mr. Edwards, is a mortgage, or as good as a Mortgage, I apprehend you will not think them both necessary: unless it be, that that of yours be not, as I think it is not, a sufficient Warranty & Security for your advancing any further sums for the Support of these poor Unfortunates-nor, indeed, for all that you have already advanced. For tho' I must persist to declare that I do not owe Mrs. C. more than the sum [p. 242] I have mentioned, as, by good luck, my Papers will prove, as well as some of her own, yet I am unwilling that You or Yours, circumstanced as all American Property is now, shou'd rely on her only for sums lent, certainly, at my Instance, if not by my express Desire. And, it is my Wish & Intention, that, whatever Reason I cannot but think I have to be offended with her, for having led you to blame Me in a Matter wherein She, at least, should have known that I did not deserve to be blamed. The Children not only shou'd not be deserted, nor you, finally, run any Risque of losing either by Them, Her, or Me. You will therefore, be so good as to consider the Matter with this View: and, if the actual Mortgage be better than that I had sent you, but insufficient, as I have supposed, to indemnify You for the farther Advancement of Monies which will be necessary (for as to any Hopes of receiving any from Maryland, I have none you cannot even, in any Way that I know of, get a Letter thither) I am willing that you shou'd keep both: only, in that Case, I believe it will be necessary by way of providing against the Contingency of your Death or mine, that you shou'd make a Memorandum on the Backs of them, that They are not for different Sums. As They now stand, this would certainly be thought to be the Case, shou'd they happen, as I trust they will not, to be settled by any others than ourselves. With regard to the Children, I hope, you will still continue your attention to them: at this Distance I cannot well take them off your Hands, as wou'd best become me, and I dare not think of removing them hither[p. 243] wards. Are they Apprenticed out yet-and, at what Expence are they now? You must be as frugal; lest, should this unhappy Dispute continue long, or terminate soon, unfortunately, They may have run out my means of giving Thera Credit. I think I ought to write to Them; &, if you think so, & will tell me how, & where to direct to them, I will. My Sister at Blencogo has distressed me exceedingly: few as my Relations are, I have had a good deal of Trouble about them. She writes to my wife, that they have not yet paid their Rent: & with a World of complaints, seems pretty clearly to |