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still be added ten families on the western branch of 

 Cooper Biver. 



Thus, in 1720, all the Churches of the Huguenots, 

 out of Charleston, had gone over to the Church 

 Establishment; and in 1724 the French Protestant 

 Church of Charleston was on the point of following 

 their example. " I have read," says Daniel Kavenel, 

 of Charleston, "in the letter-book of Isaac Mazyck, 

 the immigrant [one of the founders of this Church], 

 two letters addressed by him to Mr. Gordin, a refugee 

 to South Carolina, then in Europe. The first was 

 dated in 1721, the second in 1725. The first is a reply 

 to a letter of Mr. Gordin, who must have been re- 

 quested to make eiibrts to procure a minister, and who 

 had stated that, having occasion to leave London, he 

 had committed the matter to his brother. Mr. Mazyck 

 complains that he had transferred so important a com- 

 mission to one known to favor 'the union of your 

 Church with the Episcopal.' His second letter is de- 

 spondent. He says: ' Efforts will now be too late; the 

 Church is going over to the Church Establishment.' 

 His apprehensions, we know, were not formally real- 

 ized; but they show how nearly this Church had then 

 lost its distinctive character. It had no doubt been 

 deeply agitated and divided. Their brethren in the 

 country parishes had relinquished their original wor- 

 ship by accepting incorporation under the Church Act 

 of 1706. The same method had been adopted by the 

 refugees in the other colonies. Men with families 

 were anxious to provide for them a worship less liable 

 to interruption than their own. While we may lament 

 the diversion, for which there were so many just rea- 

 sons, and which in process of time all had to yield, 

 we must admire the constancy of those who under so 



