Thirty-one "of the Vestry, Church Wardens, & Parishioners, of the Episcopal Church of the Parish of Saint Bartholomew" recall that, in 1761, "the Rector and Church Wardens, with the consent of the Vestry, sold the Glebe Land ... and with the monies arising therefrom purchased several negro slaves who with their increase were kept for the use of the Rector" or for hiring out. They report that, "in the year 1802, there then being no Rector or Parson of the Church," the church officials, "finding the negro slaves, to be inconvenient, unsuitable, and unproductive property" sold most of them at public auction. The petitioners therefore pray that the proceeds from said sale and the interest arising therefrom "be vested absolutely" in them "for the use of the said Church, and be subject in like manner with their other Funds, to their control."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
