The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-12-19

when the present parish church was bull
on the same site, the Rev. William FinneJ
obtained one of these old ffag-stones, which
he placed at the mouth of the well at hi
home plantation, near Churchville, and be-
lieve it is still there.
In 1853 an act was passed bv the Assem-
bly, reducing the incomes of rectors to thirty
pounds of tobacco per poll-to remain il
force until ITO.
In August. 1853, civilian Prigg was paid
f918 for repairing the yard [yard fence al
the Chapel, and making new upping blocks
And in September Of the following year
capt. John Hall undertakes to post and rail
in the Church yard with locust posts and
white oak plank, the yard to be 208 by 144
feet" This fence would enclose very little
more than one-third of the original lot oftwo
acres.
In 1865, as shown by the recitations in q
deed in the Record Office of Hartford county,
Rev. Andrew Lendrum obtained patent to
resurvey i've tracts of land near Musketto
Creek" which being reduced into one entire
tract of 321 acres, he named primrose Hill"
This may have been the reverend gentleman's
home during his few remaining years.
On the 10 June, 1866, "the vestry agrees
to build vestry House 20 by Is feet"
which, ten days later, "Mr. Benjamin Gull
yer undertakes for f103i0. And in
November it is resolved that "the Court
be petitioned for 10 per poll" the OBJ
iect being, no doubt, to defray the cost of
| the projected building.
In the following year MIR. George Patter-
son was appointed sexton of the Church"
and William Webb whose account as sexton
at the Chapel eight years before had never
been settled, was ordered to be paid. Both
of these sections were afterwards promin-
bar IF tho looa1 RpvOlut aru (iOn-
mttee.
May, 1857. "The sexton is to lay out the
burying ground, and receive two shillings six
pence for each grave" This probably refers
to the Chapel burying ground, which, how
ever, may already have been used as such.
In Perry's contributions to the History of
the Episcopal Church." it is stated that In
1867 the income of the rector OF st. Georges
was 9241. 10 8 but unfortunately we are not
informed whether this amount is currency or
sterling.
In March, 1869, "Rev. Andrew Lendrum
undertook the sections place for this year.
for 800 pounds of tobacco, for person to be
mentioned next vestryday, and to dress the
church three time a year with green bows,
and KEEP large fires, lin the westinghouse, OF
course as there was never any fire in the
church, and clean the Church" &C.
In June, Francis Deacon. sexton of the
chapel, produces his account, Is shillings
for washing the surplus" And in July, "Mr.
Henry Waters and Mr.. Richard Wells to get
some one to mend the gallery at the Chapel"
For this purpose the sum of f2.16 was ex-
pended
In ITO the act of seven years before, al
lowing 30 per poll to the minister Gnstead of
40 per poll, the allowance under the act of
establishment expired, and as the Assembly,
after much angry contention between the two
houses, failed to renew it, or to substitute
another act, the Governor proclaimed the
original act in force. This caused tremend-
GUS popular commotion for the next three
years, during which the support of the min
SONS refusing to pay the tax. In 1773 COM
promise was effected by which the ministerial
allowance was again fixed at 80 per poll, with
the option, however, of paying instead
four shillings in specie, and thus matters con-
tinued until the establishment was abolished
in 1777.
On Monday, 2lst May, ITO, the vestry
met at the Chapel. present, Rev. Andrew
Lendrum, Mr. Richard Dallam, Mr.. Amos
Garrett, Mr.. Aquills Hall, Mr.. Henry Wat.
tiers, and Church Warden, Edward Hall.
Two cases of unlawful cohabitation" were
brought before them. In one case the par
ties were ordered to be presented to the Grand
Jury. In the other the charges were not
proven.
In the parish Register is the following
REV Andrew Lendrum, Rector of the par
ish, departed this life, Sep. I'd, ITO"
Mr.. Lendrum, go far as appears, died
widower, having lost his wife ten years be-
fore. He left two cons and two daughters.
Robert Burney, his oldest child, owned land
in Bush River Neck as late, at least, as 1775.
1t has been said that Rev. John Porter was
indicted into St. Georges in 1859. But this
is disproved not only by the fact that MIR.
Lendrum did not die until the following year
but he is on record as having acted with the
vestry at two meetings during that year, one
held in May, as we have seen, and the other
on the 4th of June, when he was appointed
to make a presentation to the grand jury
The probability is that Mr. Porter was, in
1859, Curate of the Parish, assisting the Rec
tor, Mr.. Lendrum, in his declining days, or
during i'll health. Mr.. Porter is represented
as having been a very gifted man, drawing
great crowds by his eloquence. But his ca
reer was brief-fo' he died within year Of
his appointment as curate.
In May, It'll, "the vestry agreed with
William Coale to repair the Chapel, the pews
to be taken up and new floors laid on good
locust stills, and good yellow poplar plank,
and the pews to be fixed workmanlke, the
Pulpit to be righted up, the Communion to
be done in the same manner as that in the
Church, the stairs in the Gallery to be right
ed up, new stills in the Doors, and doors
mended and glass put in where wanted, the
Alleys to be laid with Tell, or brick endways.
The stills to be laid on good stone wall and
to make four benches. To receive 1924 the
1st July, 1772, Work to be done Dec.
25th, 1771. Richard Dallam and Henry
Walters to overlook the work.