The Churchwardens and Vestry, July 17, 1754, invited the Rev. Jonathan Copp, the Society's Missionary at Augusta, Georgia, to take the cure of this Parish. Mr. Copp declined the invitation, in consequence of a previous appointment in Maryland, by Lord Baltimore. He, afterwards, however, settled in this Province. In consequence of this disappointment, applications for a Clergyman were made to the Bishop of London.

The Parishioners met, April 14, 1756, and engaged the Rev. John Rowan, A. M. to serve the cure, until a regular election should be held. Mr. Rowan had discharged this duty since Nov. 17, 1755, and continued about two years. The Clergy, at their Annual Meeting in Charles-Town, April 5, 1758, appointed the' Rev. Mr. Fayerweather to officiate occasionally in this Parish.

The Rev. Samuel Fenner Warren, A. M. arrived in the Province in 1758, as a Missionary from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and entered upon the cure of this Parish, June 4.

The situation of Echaw Church, in a corner of the Parish, was inconvenient to many of the Parishioners; application was made to the Assembly, and an Act was passed, April 12, 1768, directing another to be built at, or near, Wambaw Bridge, to be called the Parish Church of St. James', Santee. The Church at Echaw, heretofore used as the Parish Church, was declared a Chapel of Ease, and the Rector or Minister was directed to perform Divine Service there every fourth Sunday, provided it were not Easter Day, Whitsunday or Christmas Day, in which case, he was to officiate on the second Sunday, and then on every fourth. Messrs. Thomas Lynch, Daniel Horry, John Drake, Jacob Motte, jun. Paul Mazyck, Jonah Collins and Elias Horry, were appointed Commissioners to receive subscriptions, to build the Church, and to sell the Pews. They were likewise directed to sell

the Glebe or Parsonage, and to purchase another in a more convenient part of the Parish. By the same Act, Messrs. Theodore Gaillard, Paul Douxsaint, Richard Withers, Daniel M'Gregor and Peter Mouzon, were appointed Commissioners for receiving subscriptions, and building a Chapel of Ease, at such place near the seven mile post, on the road leading from Cochran's Ferry to Charles Town, as they should think fit. The Rector or Minister to officiate there every fourth Sunday, except it fell on Easter Day, Whitsunday or Christmas Day, and then to officiate on the succeeding Sunday, and so on as required.

The Communion Plate belonging to Echaw Church, consists of a Chalice and two Plates. On the Chalice is engraved The Gift of Ralph Jerman 1750. On one of the Plates, Pro Sancta Jacobi. Jacob Nicola Schwartzkoff; 11th Feb. 1756; and on the other, Pro Sancta Jacobi, Santee; The Gift of George Simmonet, July 13th, Anno Domini 1764.

Thomas Lynch, presented, June 15, 1773, a Service of Communion Plate to the Parish Church at Wambaw. The person to whose care it was committed, went to St. Augustine, after the War of the Revolation, and it has since been lost to the Church.

An elegant Folio Bible, and two Prayer Books, were presented to the Wambaw Church, in 1773. They have lettered on the sides, The Gift of Mrs. Rebecca Motte, for St. James' Church, Santee. During the War, some British soldiers stole the Bible. It was carried to England, and exposed for sale on a Bookstall in London. A gentleman accidentally seeing it, purchased it, and politely restored it to the Church.

The Rev. Samuel F. Warren, Rector of St. James', Santee, was the eldest son of the Rev. Richard Warren, Rector of Cavendish, in Suffolk, Eng. He was born Dec. 14, 1728, old style. The second son, John, was Lord Bishop of Bangor, and the youngest, Richard,

was Physician in Ordinary to George III. and the Prince of Wales. The Rev. S. F. Warren received the rudiments of his education at the Grammar School at St. Edmunds-Bury, and finished it in Trinity-Hall, Camb. He was Ordained Deacon, June 10, 1750, by the Archbishop of York, and Priest, June 17, 1753, by the Bishop of Peterborough. He was first a Curate in the Parish Church of South Colingham, in the County of Nottingham, and afterwards, for six years, Curate of Eastry, in the County of Kent. He was prevailed upon, by Sir James Wright, to come to America, and was licensed by the Bishop of London, Jan. 12, 1758, to exercise the Ministerial Office in this Province. Immediately on his arrival, he was elected Rector of St. James', Santee, and continued to officiate in this cure until August 1774, when he returned to England on a visit to his relations. The Archbishop of Canterbury offered him a small Living in Kent, with a promise of promotion if he would remain in England; but being warmly attached to the interests and independence of America, he declined these offers, and, crossing over into France, went to Martinique, and returned to Charles-Town in May 1778. Mr. Warren resumed his functions, and officiated occasionally until the fall of Charles-Town in May 1780. When Lord Cornwallis passed through the Parish, Mr. Warren, with several others, was ordered to take a Parole, and some time after, was compelled to take Protection. As soon as the enemy left Carolina, Mr. Warren resumed his functions, and occasionally officiated until Jan. 1789, when declining health, and the infirmities of age, induced him to preach his farewell Sermon, and to discontinue his Ministerial duties. He died 3d March 1789, and was buried in Echaw Churchyard. From Mr. Warren's private Register it appears that, while he was Rector of this Parish, he married 242 couple, Baptised 470 Infants and Adults, and Buried 187 Persons. His Communiçants in 1788, were, on

Easter Sunday 24, on Whitsunday 30, and on Christmas day 17.*

The Rev. John Stuart was elected Rector, March 22, 1789, and continued in this Cure about two years. The Rev. Thomas D. Bladen was elected, Jan. 22, 1797. He was Ordained by Bishop Smith, of So. Ca. Deacon, Dec. 20, 1795, and Priest, Dec. 19, 1796. He remained in this Parish but one year. The Rev. John O'Donnell was elected Rector, July 4, 1802, and left the Cure July 1804. He was succeeded in 1808, by the Rev. Philip Mathews, who was Ordained Deacon and Priest, in April 1804, by Bishop Madison, of Virginia. Mr. Mathews having removed to St.' Luke's, this Parish remained long vacant. Divine Service was occasionally performed here, by such of the Clergy as could make it convenient to visit it. The Rev. Albert Arney Muller officiated here during the winter and spring of 1819, and performed Service, on alternate Sundays, at the Wambaw and Echaw Churches, to very respectable Congregations. There is a Glebe belonging to the Parish, but the buildings on it are not tenantable. Divine Service is suspended from June to November.

On the North side of Santee, there is a neat Chapel, built in 1804, by Thomas Horry and John Hume, Esqrs. and several other respectable Planters in the neighbourhood. Mr. Lippit officiated here as a LayReader, by License of Bishop Bowen, from Nov. 1818 to June 1819.

* Mr. Warren was the father of Col. Samuel Warren, an Officer of merit in the War of the Revolution, and who, for several years, presided over the Senate of this State. This gentleman furnished us with the foregoing particulars of his family, and has politely presented a considerable number of his father's books to the Theological Library of the Protestant Episcopal Society for the Advance. ment of Christianity in So. Ca.

CHAPTER X.

Prince George's Parish, Winyaw.

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THIS Parish was taken off from St. James', Santee, by Act of Assembly, March 10, 1721, and its bounds. declared to be "to the South-West on Santee River, and to the North-East on Cape Fear River, to the Eastward on the Ocean, and to the Westward as far as it shall be inhabited by his majesty's subjects." Church and Parsonage-House were directed to be built in such place as the Governor and Council should approve, with the consent of a majority of the Inhabitant who were of the Church of England. The Rector or Minister, was to be chosen conformably to the Church Act, and to have a salary of £150, per ann. Capt. Meredith Hughes, Mr. John Lane, and Mr. John Hayes, were appointed commissioners; and were authorized to draw from the public Treasury, a sum not exceeding £1000, for "building the said Parish Church and Parsonage-House.' An Act was passed April 9, 1734, for dividing the Parish, to form the Parish of Prince Frederick. Another portion of it was taken off by an Act passed May 23, 1767, to form the Parish of All-Saints, Waccamaw.

General Nicolson, Governor of the Province, commenced a subscription for building the Church, with £100, and his influence and example procured it a liberal support. The Church was began in 1726, and