Appendix. 451

May it please your Excellency .... 1729
We the Justices of Queen Annes County having reced your Letter
dated the 26^th of Feb^ry last, wherein you are pleased to require us to
transmit to you an answer to severall Particulars therein contained.
In Obedience thereto do hereby humbly offer to your Excellency the
following Answers.
I^st The number of Parishes in Queen Annes County are, three,
viz. S^t Pauls, Christ Church and [St. Luke's] a small part of S^t
Pauls in Talbot ....
The length of .... five
The reverend M^r [James] Cox [St. Paul's] Parish
The reverend M^r Thomas [Phillips] Christ Church
The reverend M^r Jn^o Lang Incumbent of S^t Luke's.
2^ndly In S^t Paul's Parish there are eleven hundred and forty seven
Tax^a in Christ Church three hundred and twenty four and in S^t Lukes
eight hundred and twenty two.

3^rdly In S^t Pauls and S^t Lukes there are no Glebes, houses, Slaves
or Stock

In Christ Church there is one Glebe containing one hundred and

fifty acres of land, and thereon two old dwelling houses (a good

framed dwelling house, built .... the charge of the Parish since
the Induction of the present Incumbent .... lately burnt) but
neither Stock ....
We are with
Your most obedient Servants
W. Turbutt Th: Hynson Wright
Arthur Emory Humphery Wells
Solomon Clayton W. Hemsley
And. Price

Black Book
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Letter
No. 17

May it please Your Excellency
S^r
In Obedience to your Commands in Your Excellency's of the 23^d
Instant we answer the Particulars therein as Follows Viz.

There are Four Parishe's within this County Namely Saint Barn-
aby's (the Rever^d Jacob Henderson present Incumbent) whose
length is about Twenty Miles and breadth Fourteen Containing
Eleven hundred and forty Eight Taxables But has no Glebe or Stock.
Saint Paul's Parish (the Reverend John Eversfield present Incum-
bent) whose length is about Twenty five Miles and breadth twelve
Containing Nine hundred and Sixteen Taxables it has a Glebe of
about One hundred acres of Land without houses or Stock. King
George's Parish (the Reverend John Fraser present Incumbent)

Letter

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