Subject: Petition of Margueritte Chiffelle 17 January 1759
Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 01:07:08 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 04:10:01 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
Organization: gamecock@yours.com
To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

Wednesday the 17th Day of January 1759.

"... A Petition of Margueritte Chiffelle was presented to the House and read
setting forth,

That her Husband the Reverend Mr. Henry Chiffelle, late Rector of the Parish of
St. Peter's Purysburgh, died some time in November last, after a Residence of
twenty four Years in that Parish, and having faithfully and pi-ously discharged
the Ministerial Function during that space of Time:

That her said late Husband had for some time past received an annual Allowance
of Eight hundred Pounds from the Public of this Province for his Salary and
House Rent, and that the last half Year's Allowance Commenced upon the 25th of
September last and expires upon the 25th of March next.

That the Petitioner is informed that this House on many Occasions, and under
such Circumstances have provided in the Estimate for House Rent and Salary for
the Remainder of the half Year Commencing in the Life time of the Minister and
not expiring 'till after his Decease.

That the Petitioner is the rather emboldened to make this Application, as She is
left with the Care, Maintainance and Education of four Children unable at
present to provide for themselves, and that her Circumstances are such as will
barely enable her to extend Relief to them and fulfill the Engagements of
Na-ture to her fatherless Offspring, and praying that the said Allowance for her
late Husband's Salary and House Rent to the 25th of March next as Rector of the
Parochial Church aforesaid may be provided for in the Ensuing Tax Bill.

Resolved that the Public Treasurer do pay unto Mrs. Margueritte Chiffelle, Widow
and Administratrix of the Reverend Mr. Henry Chiffelle, deceased late Rector of
the Parish of St. Peter's Purysburgh, the half Year's Salary or Allowance which
would become due to him the 25th of March next, in Consideration of his faithful
and pious Discharge of the Ministerial Func-tion, toward enabling her to support
her Children, out of the Fund appro-priated for payment of the Salarys of the
Clergy in this Province.

Ordered that the said Resolution be sent to the Governor for his Excellency's
Assent and to His Majesty's Council for their Concurrence, and that Mr. Speaker
do sign the Same...."

Source:
The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
Published by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
ISBN: 1-880067-28-5

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