Appendix. 513

By John Mumford for the purchase of a Bastard Child of Rachel
Mosleys sold agreeable to the Act of Assembly for the use of the
County .......................................................... 400

By Ballance in the Sheriffs Hands due to the County of Worcester
on laying the Levie last Year...................................... 878

By 3823 Taxable Persons within the County of Worcester as appears
by the several Lists thereof returned by the Constables of the several
Hundreds at 31 Lb.s of Tobacco p Poll............................ 118513

Lb.s Tob.^o 134115

[Endorsed]

In Testimony that the foregoing is a true Copy of the Levie List
in Worcester County as well Debits as Credits for the Year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred sixty and six, the Seal of the
County of Worcester is hereto affixed this seventh Day of March
Anno Dom 1767.

p H Johnson Clk

of Worcester Cot.^y Court

V

PETITION, DATED MAY 16, 1767, FROM THE VESTRY
OF COVENTRY PARISH OF WORCESTER COUNTY
TO GOVERNOR HORATIO SHARPE IN RE-
GARD TO THE APPOINTMENT OF A
NEW RECTOR FOR THAT PARISH

[THIS PETITION, DATED MAY l6, 1767, TO SHARPE
FROM THE VESTRY OF COVENTRY PARISH, SIGNED BY 183
PARISHIONERS INCLUDING 6 VESTRYMEN AND 2 CHURCH
WARDENS, CALLS ATTENTION TO THE "LONG PERISHING
STATE" OF THE PARISH AS THE RESULT OF THE DE-
LINQUENCIES OF THE FORMER RECTOR, THE REVEREND

NATHANIEL WHITAKER, PRAYS THAT NO RECTOR "BE
IMPOSED" ON THE PARISH WITHOUT ITS APPROBATION,
AND REQUESTS THE INDUCTION OF THE REVEREND DOC-
TOR THOMAS BRADLEY CHANDLER. SEE PAGES Ixx, Ixxii,

Cviii FOR THE BACKGROUND AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE
PETITION, AND THE DELINQUENCIES OF THE RECENTLY
DECEASED RECTOR, NATHANIEL WHITAKER.!

To his Excellency Horatio Sharp Esq.r, Governor of the province of Maryland Whereas your Excellency in consequence of an Adress presented you on the death of the late Incumbent of Coventry Parish, in the Name of the Vestery of the said Parish at the Earnest desire of the Parisheners; you in consideration of the long perishing state of

MSS Archives of Maryland Gilmor Papers Vol. I, Division 2 PP. 54, 61 Md.Hist.Soc.