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citizens. With the destruction of Pineville that of 

 the Hbrary followed. The books were either lost or 

 destroyed, and we doubt whether the shelves now 

 contain a single volume. 



The citizens of Pineville being all planters, long 

 residents in the country, and for the most part de- 

 scendants of the Huguenots of Santee Parish, were 

 almost, as a matter of course, attached to the Epis- 

 copal Church. For several years after the founda- 

 tion of the village, divine service continued to be 

 performed in the parish church. But the course of 

 events changed completely the condition of the 

 parish, and by the year 1808 the church was, as It 

 were, left in the wilderness, and the service discon- 

 tinued. For a short period Mr. Baker officiated, 

 every Sunday, as lay reader in the chapel, near the 

 village, and it was then determined to enjoy the 

 advantages of religious worship at home. A neat 

 wooden church was accordingly erected in the vil- 

 lage, and placed under the rectorship of the Rev. 

 C. B. Snowden. Chapels for winter service, by the 

 same rector, were soon afterwards erected in St. 

 John's Berkeley, at Black Oak, and the Rocks, so 

 that, though there were three different places of 

 worship, the congregation was considered but one. 



The erection of the two chapels in St. John's 

 Berkeley gave rise to a lawsuit of a singular charac- 

 ter, which completely destroyed the social relations 

 existing between the upper and lower portions of 



