102 LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE [1783 



1774. Hamilton Bell,* Stei>ney Parish, Somerset county. 

 1763. Leonard Cutting, Ail Hallows', Worcester county. 



Will Smith, Stepney Parish, Worcester county. 

 1774. Ralph Higinbotham, St. Ann's, Ann Arundel county. 

 17S4. Edward Gantt,* Christ Church, Calvert. 

 1785. Hatch Dent,* Trinity, Charles county. 



The Convention agreed that until a regular ordination of clergy 

 could be obtained, there should be three clergymen appointed on 

 each Shore, in order to examine such young gentlemen as might 

 offer themselves candidates for Holy Orders in our churches : such 

 examiners to report their moral character, their knowledge in 

 the learned languages and divinity, and their attachment to the 

 doctrines of the Christian religion as professed and taught in our 

 Church; and to recommend such candidates as upon examination 

 might be thought worthy to serve as readers in any parish that 

 might think proper to employ them, leaving such parishes, as to the 

 administration of the sacraments and other proper functions of the 

 clerical character, to the more immediate direction of such neigh- 

 boring clergymen as might agree to visit them occasionally for the 

 purpose. 



Dr. Smith, the Rev. Dr. Gordon,t and Dr. Samuel Keene were 

 appointed for the Eastern Shore, and the Rev. Dr. West, | Dr. 

 Thomas John Claggett, and Dr. Thomas Gates, for the Western. 



On the 15th of May of this year an important event took place 

 in the domestic affairs of Dr. Smith : his eldest daughter, Wil- 

 liamina,§ was married to Charles Goldsborough, Esq., of Horn's 



* Natives of the States — two natives of Virginia and three of New York. 



f John' Gordox, D. D., a native of Scotland, brought up in the Church, ordained 

 in 1745. On coming to Maryland became the incumbent of St. Ann's, Annapolis; in 

 1750, of St. Michael's, Talbot; a Whig of the Revolution; after 1776 had a school 

 at his residence ; published three sermons ; died in 1790, aged upwards of 70. — Al.LEN. 



\ William West, D. D., a native of Virginia, brought up in the Church, ordained in 

 1761. Coming from Virginia in 1763, he became the incumbent of Westminster Parish, 

 Ann Arundel county; in 1767 of St. Andrew's, .St. Mary's; in 1772 of St, George's, 

 Hartford, and in 1779 Rector of St. Paul's, Baltimore. A Whig of the Revolution; 

 successively Secretary and President of the Maryland Convention, and member of the 

 examining, superintending, and standing committees, and delegate to the General 

 Convention. He died 1791, ret 54. — Allen. 



\ The portrait of this lady (which accompanies this volume) is taken from a minia- 

 ture in a ring, which tradition says was painted by the unfortunate Major Andre, at 

 the time of the Meschianza, in which she participated. The ring is now the property 

 of Thos, P. Cradock, Esq., of Marvland, to whom I am indebted for its use. — II. \V. S. 



