Subject: 28 April 1758 Petition, Pedee in St. Marks Parish
Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:11:16 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:13:54 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
Organization: gamecock@yours.com
To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

Friday the 28th of April 1758.

"...Read also the Petition of the Subscribers, Inhabitants on Pedee in St. Marks
Parish, Setting Forth as Viz.

That the said Parish of St. Marks is too Extensive for One Minister to Officiate
and that a Church at Santee Cannot be of any Service to us the Inhabitants of
Peedee.

We therefore humbly Pray that St. Marks Parish be divided by Lynches Creek and
that the deviding Line of Prince Fredericks Parish be Extended Across Pedee
River to the North Boundaries. And your Petitioners as in duty Bound will Ever
Pray &c...."

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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