1. APPENDIX, No. 1.
The original of the following Call was found by Mr. Nicholas
Black in looking over the papers of his uncle, the late Thomas Black.
It was published in the Charlottesville Chronicle of March 21st, 1879.
Ivy Creek, March 29, 1747.
Whereas it is agreed or proposed that ye Inhabitants of Ivy Creek
and ye Mountain Plain Congregation joyn together with ye Congregation
of Rockfish, to call and invite ye Reverend Samuel Black, now
Residing in ye bounds of ye Reverend Mr. John Craig's Congregation,
to be our Minister and Pastor to administer ye ordinances of ye
Gospel among us: All we, whose names are hereunto affixed, do
promise and oblige ourselves to pay yearly and every year ye several
sums annexed to our names, for ye outward support and Incouragement
of ye said Mr. Samuel Black during his abode and continuance
among us, for ye one half of his Labor in ye Administration of Gospel
Ordinances to us in an orderly way, according to ye Rules and
Practice of our Orthodox Reformed Presbyterian Church: as Witness
our hands.
|
£ |
S. |
D. |
| Michael Woods |
1 |
10 |
|
| William Woods |
1 |
10 |
|
| Archibald Woods |
1 |
5 |
|
| William Wallace |
1 |
5 |
|
| Andrew Wallace |
|
15 |
|
| John Woods Sr. |
|
15 |
|
| John Greer |
|
10 |
|
| Thomas Lockhart |
|
10 |
|
| Peter Hairston |
|
8 |
|
| Adam Gaudylock |
|
10 |
|
| Michael Woods Jr. |
|
10 |
|
| William McCord |
|
10 |
|
| John Gamble |
|
10 |
|
| Davis Stockton |
1 |
00 |
|
| Hugh Dobbins |
|
10 |
|
| David Lewis |
|
5 |
|
| James Gamble |
|
5 |
|
| Charles Lambert |
|
5 |
|
| John Monday |
|
5 |
|
| Thomas Evins |
|
5 |
|
| Thomas Wright |
|
5 |
|
| William Little |
|
10 |
2½ |
| Nathan Woods |
|
10 |
3 |
| Samuel Jameson |
1 |
00 |
|
| John Lockhart |
|
15 |
|
| Hendry Burch |
|
10 |
|
| Thomas Alexander |
|
10 |
|
| Patrick Woods |
|
8 |
2 |
| John McCulloch |
|
10 |
|
| William Ogans |
|
12 |
6 |
| William Chamberlain |
|
5 |
|
| Thomas Craig |
|
5 |
|
| John Thompson |
|
5 |
|
| John Corban |
|
6 |
2 |
| Hendry Carr |
|
5 |
2½ |
| James Weir |
|
12 |
2 |
| Robert McNeilly |
|
6 |
2 |
| John Dicky |
|
6 |
1 |
| William Norris |
|
6 |
1 |
| John Kincaid |
|
5 |
|
| John Woods Jr. |
|
5 |
|
| John Jameson |
|
10 |
|
| Benjamin Wheeler |
|
5 |
|
| W. Bucknall |
|
5 |
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| John Burrisse |
|
5 |
|
| Robert Stewart |
|
5 |
2 |
| James Kincaid |
|
10 |
5 |
| Andrew McWilliams |
|
10 |
2½ |
| George Dawson |
|
5 |
2½ |
| Joseph Kincaid |
1 |
00 |
|
| John McCord |
1 |
00 |
|
| Archibald Woods |
|
10 |
|
| William Whiteside |
|
10 |
|
| William Bustard |
|
6 |
|
| Thomas Whiteside |
|
10 |
|
| Matthew Mullins |
|
5 |
|
| Richard Stockton |
|
12 |
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