AN

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

PROTESTANT

EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

IN

SOUTH-CAROLINA,

FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE PROVINCE,

то

The War of the Revolution;

WITH NOTICES OF THE PRESENT STATE OF THE CHURCH IN EACH PARISH :

AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE

EARLY CIVIL HISTORY OF CAROLINA,

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED;

THE LAWS RELATING TO RELIGIOUS WORSHIP; THE JOURNALS AND RULES
OF THE CONVENTION OF SOUTH-CAROLINA; THE CONSTITUTION AND
CANONS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AND
THE COURSE OF ECCLESIASTICAL STUDIES:

WITH

An Index, and List of Subscribers.

BY FREDERICK DALCHO, M. D.

Assistant Minister of St. Michael's Church, Charleston.

CHARLESTON:

PUBLISHED BY E. THAYER, AT HIS THEOLOGICAL BOOK-STORE, BROAD STREET

Arch'd. E. Miller, Printer, 120, Broad-street.

District of South-Carolina, to wit.

SEAL

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the fifteenth day of March, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and in the forty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, the Rev. Frederick Dalcho, M. D. of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right wherof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:

"An Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South-Carolina, from the first settlement of the Province, to the War of the Revolution, with notices of the present state of the Church in each Parish: and some account of the early Civil History of Carolina, never before published. To which are added; the Laws relating to Religious Worship; the Journals and Rules of the Convention of So. Carolina; the Constitution and Cannons of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the Course of Ecclesiastical Studies: with an Index, and List of Subscribers. By Frederick Dalcho, M. D. Assistant Minister of St. Michael's Church, Charleston."

In conformity with the act of Congress of the United States, entitled “An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned," and also to the act entitled “An act supplementary to an act entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints."

JAMES JERVEY,

Clerk of the District of South-Caroline.

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