be a full and final determination of the matter about the ceiling and boards, and the agreement between the Church wardens and Mr John Porter shall be thence.
At a Vestry holden at the House of Mrs Sarah Gillam ye 15th Day of December 1702. . . .
Coll William Wilkinson and Capt Thomas Leuten having Served one Year in the Station of Church Wardens, and the Choice of new Church Wardens being debated :
Mr William Duckenfield and Mr Edward Smithwick are appointed Church Wardens for the ensuing year. . . .
The Chappel being this Day viewed by all the Vestry here present and are Satisfied therewith and do receive the House and Keys from Mr John Porter he promising to provide So much Lime as will Wash the Ceiling of the Chappel, and the Vestry to be at the Charge of a Workman to do the Same.
William L. Saunders, editor, The Colonial Records of North Carolina (Raleigh, 1886), I, 558-561 passim.
78. Proceedings of a Town-Meeting (1720/1–1721)
BY CLERK CAPTAIN RICHARD WATERMAN
Out of many records this has been chosen as including a variety of business in small compass. The elections show the number and variety of offices. — Bibliography : E. Channing, Town and County Government ; G. E. Howard, Local Constitutional History, — See also Channing and Hart, Guide, §§118, 147; Contemporaries, I, No. 165.
ATT a Towns Quarter meeteing held att Prouidence this 27th day of January anno Dom : 1720/21
Major William Hopkins Chosen Moderator :
| Grand Jurimen Called for by the moderator Returned |
William Harris Robert Currey |
Pettee jurymen Called for by the moderator Returned |
Samuel Aldrich Roger Burllinggame William Hopkins Carpenter Ebenezer Spreague |
