The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-01

left Of the altar, TO the memory Of
the Surveyor-General's wife. 1t reads:
Here lies the body of Mrs Margaret
Palmer, wife Of Robert Palmer, Esq,
one of His Majesty's Council and Sur
veyor General of the Lands of this
Province, who departed this life Oct.
10. 1765, aged "A years. After labor
ing ten OF them under the SeNereSt
bodily Affections, brought on by
change Of climate, and though she
went to her native land, received no
relief, but returned and bore them
with resolution and reS,g-
nation to the last
The church Is built of English
brick. you are told. but this seems
improbable, as good brick were then
being made at Bath. But the SOU and
centre OF Bath is 81. Thomas church.
flanked on one side by q prosperous
congregation of M~ethodists and on the
other by the 'Disciples.' The build
ing. maintained by Il devoted co1Igre-
cation small and poor, only able to
afford one service a month, stands IN
eloquent testimony Of that long gone
day of earnest piety and simple pio-
neer requirements yet OF enduring
vitality. Ii was the first hOus of God
built in the province, and service Is
still held in it. To the churchmen Of
North Carolina this little building
should be a shrine. maintained and
treasured by the diocese of the entire
State.
From the end Of the street there is
a beautiful overlook Of Bath creek,
two miles across, to where it enters
the four-mile wide Pamlico. On the
far shore OF the Parnlico, n opposite
to Path, is Core Point. where the Col
onial road continued to New Bern.
Path creek enters Paml3cO river be
tween two points OF land: On the right
Paradise Point, where Governor
Eden's house stood: and on the left
by Plum Point. the site of Edward
Teach's house. \ umbe of years
ago Sam Harris. who was walking far
out on the sands of PUN Point which
were exposed by al unusual low tide,
caused by Il prolonged spell OF north
| east wind, found a money 7ar that
contained twenty-cight hundred
pieces Of copper money and & few sill
YER pieces. The n~eighborhOOd prompt
ly went cTazy-absolutely crazy. Now
| all around the site OF T'each's house.
and abort on Plum Point q stranger
! might think there had been q mao
reyelry Of barbecues. Holes and pits
| and wells have bee dug everywhere
by the foolish and crcdulous ones.
Accounts differ as to where Tobias
knights house stood. Some locate It
three miles down the river. and others
! III t5dIG HOW'LL. ott hIlIShio ~
| lain on il his completely
with Teach. Very compromising let
tiers from the Colonial Secretary were
| found on T'each's dead body that re-
port says SWAN three times around
Maynard's boat, calling to the head
after 1t was cut off. ] for one believe
this story to be a~pocryphal, although Ii
maye have happened. Those We're wild.
strange times. But read of this fight
for yourself. Williamson gives All &C
count OF it; 50 does Martin, and
Hawks repeats It. Howard Pyle has
made q story Of it in Jack Balllster 8
Fortune and Johnson's General
History of FIighwayrnen" has it. So
has Icsauemeing's "~Buccanccrs and
of America
Toward the upper end of Baths
main street stands the Marsh House
big and Saunt, with an atmosphere or
the past in It's roonnS and passages 1t
was built in 17i4 by a Freedman
named Cataunch Tor the Whitemores.
1t passed to the Marsh family in ltt6,
and is still in their possession. A
burying ground in the rear of the
house has a quaint slate headstone to
the memory Of Mrs. Mary Evans, who
! departed this life January 31st, 115S,