A Female Benevolent Society has been instituted for the purpose of furnishing with work those females who are unable of themselves to procure it, and also to relieve those who are incapable of labour. A great number of the female members of the congregation are attached to this Society, and take an active part in its proceedings.

(Source: The Rev. Richard S. Mason, Parochial Report, Christ Church, New Bern, 1822 Journal of Convention, 9)