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AN

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE

PROTESTANT

EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

IN

SOUTH-CAROLINA,

FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE PROVINCE,

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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-CAROLINY, THE CONSTITUTION AND
CANONS OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AND

THE COURSE OF ECCLESIAETICAL STU»I125

WITH

An Index, and List of Subscribers.

LIBRARY.

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 wil

SEAL.

BE IT REMEMBERED; that on the fifteenth day of March, Anno Domini, one thousand gift 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 the claims as anthon 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-Carolina.

TO THE

Right Rev. NATHANIEL BOWEN, D. D.

BISHOP OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

IN THE DIOCESS OF SOUTH-CAROLINA

RIGHT REV. & DEAR SIR,

TO whom could I dedicate the following Pages, with so much propriety, as to one, who has been called, by the unanimous suffrage of Clergy and Laity, to preside over the Church whose history they record?

In offering to your acceptance the first Historical Acc unt of a part of the Church in America, permit me to express the satisfactin I derive from the opportunity, thus afforded me, of making this profession of my respect and esteem.

The early History of the Church in Carolina, is full of instruction to the Clergy of the present day. It must excite in our bosoms, the most ardent gratitude to God, and the sincerest reverence for those holy men, who braved the storms of the Ocean, and the terrors of the Wilderness, to preach the Gospel of a crucified Redeemer. It must excite our admiration and praise, that the banner of the cross was displayed by those hum

ble servants of God, in a savage land, surrounded bý perils to which we are strangers, and destitute of those comforts which we enjoy.

Surely then, we, to whom a better lot has fallen, have abundant reason, from their example and success, to exert all the faculties of our bodies and our minds, to render unto God "true and laudable service," in the salvation of the souls of men.

Influenced by your example, and encouraged by your godly counsel, the Clergy of your Diocess, I confidently trust, will walk "worthy of the vocation wherewith we are called," and "feed," with anxious solicitude and affection, the "sheep" and the "lambs" committed to our care, by the great "Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls."

May the Piety, Wisdom and Zeal, which, under God, have extended the borders of our Zion, in this portion of the Redeem's Kingdom, be favourably accepted at the Throne of Grace: And that you may long be preserved to illustrate the precepts of our Holy Religion, and to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things," are the sincere and fervent Prayers of

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Your faithful Son

and Servant, in Christ,

FREDERICK DALCHO.

Charleston, March 15th, 1820.

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