The above report has a sad blank as the result of our fatal calamity on the night of March 27th, last, when our beautiful church, with Sunday School books, Pipe organ, all the furniture, and the Parish Register was all consumed by fire, the actual loss to the Parish being not less than seven thousand dollars. At the present we have pledged about $2,800 to start the erection of a church in the town. Who will help us in this our day of necessity?

(Source: The Rev. H. G. Hilton, Parochial Report, Trinity Church, Scotland Neck, 1884 Journal of Convention, 83)