Of the ‘Ladies Working Society,’ I have to make honorable and grateful mention. Their efforts the past year have been more than ever successful; and in addition to a personal kindness to myself, which I thus take pleasure to acknowledge, they purpose making considerable improvements in the appearance and comfort of their Church, in the prosecutions of which good work, they have had the example of two generous individuals of the Congregation.

(Source: The Rev. Philip B. Wiley, Parochial Report, Christ Church, Elizabeth City, 1833 Journal of Convention, 24)