we have established a Female Missionary, and Common Prayer Book Society

In giving an account of the State of the Parish, according to the fifth canon, I may further state, that agreeably to the recommendation of the last Convention, we have established a Female Missionary, and Common Prayer Book Society, which numbers about forty subscribers, at three dollars per annum. We have likewise a Bible Society – a Society for the promotion of Industry; one for the Education of poor children, and a Sunday School of one hundred and fifty scholars.

(Source: The Rev. Adam Empie, Parochial Report, St. James, Wilmington, 1820 Journal of Convention, 4)