Excerpt from Historical Notices of St. James' Parish, Wilmington, North Carolina In a second letter, dated Wilmington, May 25, 1741, Mr. Moir informed the Society he had twice travelled over the country between the Cape Fear and Neuse tivers, and performed the duties of his sacred oflice - praying, preaching, and administering the Sacra ments - that since his last report, he had baptized. Three hundred and thirteen children and three adults, but the number Iof' communicants was very small, the people being ignorant of religion to the last degree. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.