The benevolent Institutions connected with the Church, are active and efficient. Among them, the ‘Female Industrious School Association,’ is distinguished, not less for its laudable object, than for the zeal and prudence with which that object is pursued.

(Source: The Rev. Jarvis B. Buxton, Parochial Report, St. John’s, Fayetteville, 1832 Journal of Convention, 9)