A Bell is on the way to us from Meneely’s Foundry – weight 224 lbs. A handsome silver Service has been presented by one who desired to be unnamed. Also, we have received from a Lady of St Michael’s, Charleston, a Surplice, and “a fair white linen cloth” for communion times.
(Source: The Rev. Jarvis Buxton, Parochial Report, Trinity Church, Asheville, 1851 Journal of Convention, 38)