3^ LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE [l/So 



land in convention and to raise up the Church from the ruin into 

 which the Revolutionary war had laid it. 



A Convention — the first, wc may perhaps say, in the State of 

 Maryland — was accordingly assembled at Chestertown, Kent 

 county, November 9th, 1780. 



There were present : 

 Rev. Samuel Keene, Rector of St. Luke's, Queen Anne's county. 

 Rev. William Smith, D. D., Rector of Chester Parish, Kent county. 

 Rev. James Jones Wilmer, Rector of Shrewsbury Parish, Kent county. 

 Col. Richard Lloyd, Vestryman of St. Paul's Parish, Kent county. 

 Mr. James Dunn, " " " " «' 



Mr. John Page, " '' " '' " 



Mr. Richard Miller, " " '' " " 



Mr. Simon Wickes, " '• " " «« 



Dr. John Scott, Vestryman of Chester Parish, Kent county. 

 Mr. John Bolton, " " " " '' 



Mr. J. W. Tilden, " " " " '' 



Mr. St. Leger Everett, " " " " 



Mr. James Wroth, " " " " " 



Mr. John Kennard, Church Warden of Chester Parish, Kent county. 

 Mr. Sturgess, '•' " " " " " 



Mr. Christopher Hall, Vestryman of Shrewsbury, S. Sassafras, Kent. 

 Mr. George Moffett, " " <« . <£ 



Mr. William Keating, " " " '' 



Mr. C , Church Warden, *< " " 



Mr. John Brown, Vestryman of St. Luke's, Queen Anne's county. 

 Mr. Downs, " " " " " 



Dr. William Bordly. 

 Dr. Van Dyke. 

 Col. Isaac Perkins. 

 Mr. Charles Groom. ♦ 

 Mr. William Keene. 

 Mr. James Hackett. 



Dr. Smith was appointed President of this Convention. 



A petition to the General Assembly of Maryland for the support 

 of public religion was read and approved, and ordered to be sent 

 to each vestry in the State ; and if by them approved, after obtain- 

 ing signatures in their respective Parishes, it was carried up to the 

 Legislature. The petition, which I presume was from the pen of 

 Dr. Smith, was as follows : 



