A responsibility for $600 towards the price of the Lot on which the Church is placed was generously assumed by the Juvenile Sewing Society of the congregation, and $350 of this sum has been already paid by them. The sum of $500 has also been appropriated to the Vestry by the elder Female Working Society of the Parish towards the same object, and this in addition to their annual appropriation of $230 for the support of their Charity School for poor children.

(Source: The Rev. Robert B. Drane, Parochial Report, St. James, Wilmington, 1839 Journal of Convention, 18)