After Dr. P. left Woolwich, he was appointed in 1793, Minister of Westminster Chapel, known by the name of Dr. Peckwell's. In 1798 he was appointed to Queen's-Square Chapel, where he continued until 1804, when he returned to Charleston.

In Jan. 1805, he was appointed a temporary Assistant, or third Minister, in St. Philip's and St. Michael's Churches, and in 1807, the So. Ca. College conferred on him the degree of D. D. He continued in St. Michael's until July 1809, and in St. Philip's, until Jan. 1810. The friends of Dr. P. were desirous that he should succeed Dr. Jenkins in the Rectorship of St. Philip's, but Mr. Simons being elected, they collected a congregation in the Calvinistic Church of French Protestants, then vacant, and formed a “Third Episcopal Church." Dr. P. was elected Rector, and the Church was represented in Convention, Feb. 1810. Arrangements were then made for building a new church, which happily resulted in the completion of "St. Paul's Church, Radcliffeborough." Great credit is due to Dr. P. for his active and unwearied exertions, in promoting this pious work. He was elected Rector of this Church, in April 1816, in which he continued until he left the State, in the spring of 1819.

Soon after his arrival in London, he was called to his great account. He died July 13, 1819, after an illness of four days, in the 75th year of his age. His illness was occasioned by exposure at midnight, half dressed, while seeking shelter from a fire which broke out in the adjoining house. He was buried in the catacombs under the new Church of Mary-le-bone, the Parish in which he died. A Funeral Discourse was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Gadsden, at St. Philip's Church, Oct. 8, 1819, at the request of the Bible Society, of which Dr. P. had been a Vice President since its foundation.

Dr. P. in his religious opinions was a Calvinist. He believed the Church to be Calvinistic in its Articles,

but its Clergy to be Arminians in Doctrine. He professed his entire approbation of the XXXIX Articles which he had subscribed, and admired the evangelical Liturgy of the Church. In the latter part of his life, he but seldom indulged himself in making even a trifling abridgement of its compendious form, but usually delivered it as prescribed by the church. Dr. P. deserves great credit for this conformity, considering the latitude he allowed himself in the early part of his Ministry; but the Clergy of the Diocess, rigidly and conscientiously adhering to the canons and rubrics, set him an example which it was difficult not to follow.

The following anecdote will show that, notwithstanding his erratic ministrations when he first came to America, he held the order of the Church in reverence. When officiating in the White-Meeting, as the Independent Church was then called, he assisted the Rev. Mr. Tennent, its Minister, in the Administration of the Lord's Supper, according to the forms of that Church. But when Dr. P. in the Episcopal Church in Savannah, was about to administer that Holy Ordinance, he refused Mr. Tennent's assistance, who hap pened to be present, because he was not Episcopally Ordained, and could not officiate in an Episcopal Church.

Dr. P. was a great admirer of Mr. Romaine and Mr. Madan, and rather made them his model than Mr. Whitefield, whom he had heard but once, and then was disappointed.

Dr. P. while in Charleston, published, " An Apology for the Episcopal Church in a series of Letters, on the Nature, Ground and Foundation of Episcopacy.""The Clergyman and People's Remembrancer, in two parts: I. An Essay on the Ministerial Character: II. A delineation of the true Christian's character."

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PAROCHIAL REGISTER of St. Philip's Church, Charles-Town.

The number of free white persons in the Parishes of St. Philip and St. Michael, according to the Census taken in 1819, is 13,834.

CHAPTER V.

St. James' Parish, Goose-Creek.

THIS Parish was laid off by Act of Assembly, Nov. 30, 1706, and its Boundaries defined by an Act, Dec. 18, 1708, as follow: "to the North-East by the bounds of St. John's Parish, and to the Back River to the East, by Cooper River, to the bounds of the Parish of St. Philip's, Charles-Town, to the South by the bounds of the said St. Philip's, and to the SouthWest by a North-West line, from the Northernmost corner of the Plantation or Tract of land, formerly belonging to Mr. Christopher Smith, deceased, the bounds of St. Philip's Parish unto the North-West bounds of Berkley County, and to the North-West by the said bounds of the said County."

Before the establishment of the Church of England in this Province, by law, the district about GooseCreek had become thickly settled. The Rev. William Corbin, A. M. is the first Clergyman on record, who officiated in this settlement. He arrived in 1700, and left the Province in 1703. Mr. Corbin was formerly Preacher at the Chapel of Bromley St. Leonard, Middlesex, and in 1695, published a Thanksgiving Sermon, from Ezra iii. 11. The Rev. Samuel Thomas, was the first Missionary sent to South-Carolina by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. He arrived in 1702, and soon after was ap