porated in 1805, by the name of "The Vestry and Churchwardens of St. Paul's Parish."

The Journals of this Parish, and the Parochial Register, antecedent to the Revolution, are lost. The Journals now extant commence April 17, 1786. In 1819, there were 537 white Inhabitants in this Parish.

CHAPTER XX.

St. John's Parish, Colleton.

THIS Parish was taken off from St. Paul's, by Act of Assembly, April 9, 1734. It was composed of "John's Island, Wadmalaw Island, Edisto Island, and the other adjacent Islands to the seaward." Col. John Fenwick, Col. Jolm Gibbes, John Stanyarne, sen. Capt. Samuel Underwood, and Capt. John Jenkins, were appointed Commissioners to accept and take grants of Land for a Glebe, to build the Church and ParsonageHouse, &c. The buildings were to be erected at such place as the Commissioners, with the consent of the Inhabitants who subscribed to the same, should deem most convenient. The Rector or Minister to be elected, to receive the same salary, and to be subject to the same regulations, as Ministers of other country Parishes.

The Inhabitants met pursuant to law, June 18, 1734, on John's Island, and fixed upon a part of Mr. Abraham Waights' land for the site of the Church. An election being then held for Parochial Officers, the following gentlemen were chosen:

Churchwardens: Richard Stanyarne, and Culshe Golightly.

Vestrymen: Col. John Gibbes, Thomas Tattnell, Capt. Underwood, Abraham Waight, Thomas Hart, Robert Sams, and John Stanyarne.

In 1738, applications were made to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and to the Bishop of London, for a Minister; and a subscription was opened, at the same time, for building a Parsonage-House.

The Rev. Samuel Quincy, A. M. arrived in the Province, June 28, 1742. He was elected by the Vestry to the cure of this Parish, July 5, and on the 27th, his wife fell a sacrifice to the climate. He was a native of Boston, and was Ordained Deacon, Oct. 18, and Priest, Oct. 28, 1730, by Dr. Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle. He continued here until 1745, when he resigned. The Rev. Thomas Thompson, who had formerly been Rector of St. Bartholomew's, and afterwards of St. George's, Dorchester, and whose ill health had compelled him to leave the Province in 1746, returned to Carolina, and officiated in this Parish from Sept. 1748, to 1750, when the Rev. William Orr, of St. Paul's, was appointed to this cure, May 7, and continued here until his death, in 1755. He was succeeded by the Rev. Jonathan Copp, A. M. who entered upon the duties of the cure, Jan. 28, 1756. The Parishioners met, June 24, 1760, pursuant to a Precept from the Church commissioners, and elected Mr. Copp, Rector of the Parish. He died in 1762.

Mr. Copp was born in New London, and graduated at Yale College. He had been a teacher of the Languages and Mathematics in his native town, and was highly recommended by the Missionaries, for his attainments and piety. He went to England in 1750, and was ordained by Dr. Sherlock, Bishop of London, Deacon, Dec. 23, and Priest, Dec. 27, 1750. He was then sent by the Society as their Missionary to Augusta. In 1751, he came to Carolina, and remained here two years, when he returned to Georgia. In 1755 he settled in this Province.

The Rev. Isaac Amory, A. M. arrived in the Province in 1764, and on the 19th of November entered

upon the cure of this Parish, to which he had been specially invited before he left England. He commenced his duties with zeal, and paid particular attention to the religious instruction of the negroes. This produced some remonstrance from his congregation. But as he believed it to be the duty of every Christian Minister to afford religious instruction to every class of people, and as his Diocesan had required it,* at his hands, he resigned his cure Sept. 13, 1765, and left the Province the following year.t

Mr. Amory was succeeded by the Rev. William Dawson, A. M. who was elected Rector, Nov. 3, 1765. Mr. Dawson was born at East-Lothian, Scotland, in 1718, and was educated at the University of St. Andrew's. He was Ordained Deacon, May 6, 1764, by Dr. Cornwallis, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield. His Letters of Priest's Orders are not extant; but it is probable that, he was soon after admitted to that sacred Order, as he was Licensed by Dr. Terrick, Bishop of London, July 2, 1764, to perform the Ministerial Office in Pensacola. He arrived in Charles-Town, Aug. 1765, and immediately.proceeded to the place of his destination. As no accommodations could immediately be provided for his family, Gov. Johnson permitted him to return to Carolina for some time, leaving a Curate in the Church. It is remarkable, that Mr. Dawson, died on John's Island, Jan. 19,

* See Page 113.

t Dr. Joseph Johnson has politely furnished us with some further particulars of Mr. Amory, who was his Mother's Uncle. He was born in England, and when his parents came to Carolina, he remained to complete his education and to receive Holy Orders. His parents had left England with the rest of their family, under the expectation of inheriting from his grandfather, that part of Charleston beyond Market-street, afterwards called Trott's Point, for which he had obtained a Grant. It is not necessary to state the manner in which their descendants lost this rich inheritance. Mr. Amory, disappointed both in his spiritual and temporal expectations in Carolina, resigned his Cure, and returned to England in 1766. He obtained a small Living near Newark upon Trent, in which he continued to exercise his Clerical functions, contented and happy, until the end of 1793, when he died without children. Mr. Amory was a man of talents, piety and zeal; he felt a deep interest in promoting the spiritual welfare of all his fellow-creatures, and deemed nothing a trouble that would promote the Redeemer's kingdom.

1767, and that his Curate died on the same day in Pensacola.

The Rev. John Lewis, A. M. took charge of this Cure, Jan. 1, 1769.

An Act was passed April 7, 1770, for building a Chapel of Ease on Edisto Island, and the Rector of the Parish was required to officiate there, every sixth Sunday. This Chapel was not built.

The following extracts from the Will of Col. John Gibbs are recorded on the Journals of the Vestry of St. John's Parish, on the 16th April, 1770:

"Item. I will and bequeath, One Thousand Pounds which I have now put out for that use, which I appoint my two Sons, Robert and John Gibbs, with the Vestry and Churchwardens of the Parish of St. John's, Colleton County, John's Island, to put out, and keep out, the said One Thousand Pounds with good security, by the said Robert and John Gibbs, with the Vestry and Churchwardens for the time being, and their Successors, which money so given for the use of the Church of England on John's Island, for the use of that Church on John's Island, and for no other Church, or for any other use whatever: the Interest of the said thousand pounds shall be for the use and support of the Minister of the aforesaid Church, which shall be paid to the Minister of the said Church yearly and every year, which money shall be for that use and no other use or purpose whatever. If there should happen to be no Minister in the Parish, then the Interest shall be put out for the same purpose to be added to the principal. Sometimes it happens that a Minister proves disagreeable to the people of the Parish, and not to be worthy of the Interest; then it shall be in the discretion of my two Sons above mentioned, with the Churchwardens and Vestry not to pay the money till he behaves to the satisfaction of the Parish.

"Item. I will, and give five hundred pounds I have now put out at Interest. I appoint my two Sons