[679] Cf. article from Richmond Enquirer, Dec. 9, 1873, copied in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1874, p. 257.
[680] Cf. C. Campbell’s Genealogy of the Spotswood Family, published in 1868.
[681] Post, ch. viii.
[682] See ch. viii.
[683] Vol. III. p. 166.
[684] There is a copy of this rare discourse in Harvard College library. Perry in his Amer. Episc. Church, i. 139, gives a rude drawing of the title, as if it were a fac-simile of it. Cf. Dexter’s Bibliog. of Congregationalism, no. 2,530, and the notice of Thomas Bray, in Sprague’s Annals, v. 17. See the views of old churches in Meade, Perry, and Appleton’s Monthly, vol. vi. 701; xii. 193, etc.
[685] Ecclesiastical Contributions, vol. i.
[686] W. S. Perry’s Hist. Coll. of the American Colonial Church, and his Hist. of the Amer. Episc. Church (1885).
[687] “Early Episcopacy in Virginia,” in his introduction to White’s Memoirs of the Episc. Church, p. xxiv., etc.
[688] It is said that the collection of parish registers and vestry books which Meade gathered was finally bestowed by him upon the theological seminary near Alexandria. Spotswood Letters, i. p. 166.