The Ladies have lately, with praiseworthy zeal, raised two hundred dollars for the purpose of building a Vestry Room; and a subscription paper is now in circulation among the male members of this flock, with a prospect of success, to build a Parsonage for their Minister.

(Source: The Rev. Jacob B. Morss, Parochial Report, Christ Church, Elizabeth City, 1841 Journal of Convention, 13)