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George's, Fredericksburg, met before the church was completed. It was probably during a visit to Mr. Staige that Mr. Marye made an impression on the people of that place. At any rate the early Vestry-book shows that, in 1735, the churchwardens, after the colonial custom, asked leave of the Governor of Virginia to call James Marye to their pulpit, and it was granted. He is described as "Mr.
J.H. Gittens, an old vestry-book of St John's, in which various entries occur of the name of Ferdinando Palæologus, from 1649 till 1669, as vestryman, churchwarden, trustee, surveyor of the highway, sidesman to the churchwarden, and lieutenant, &c. The last entry is that of his burial, 'October 3d 1678. His name also appears in a legal document respecting the sale of some land, executed in 1658.
Why, seeing that all was chaste and legal, why should she interfere to make them unhappy so few the chances of happiness in this world! Mrs. Berry related the seizure of her ring. "One wrench," said the sobbing culprit, "one, and my ring was off!" She had no suspicions, and the task of writing her name in the vestry-book had been too enacting for a thought upon the other signatures.
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