The Congregation continues to be indebted for no inconsiderable share of its outward prosperity, to the little band of devoted females constituting what is called ‘the Church Society.’ Among their other benefactions, they have generously appropriated one hundred dollars of their earnings to aid in procuring a Bell, although the accomplishment of their favorite object, the purchase of an organ, has, thereby, been greatly retarded. Considering the untiring zeal of these industrious Daughters of Zion, and their great anxiety to promote the perfection of our worship, it is to be regretted, that some of those whom God has abundantly prospered in this world’s good, have not stepped forward to enable them, at once, to accomplish their enterprise.

(Source: The Rev. George W. Freeman, Parochial Report, Christ Church, Raleigh, 1832 Journal of Convention, 14)