A partial collection of people, places and events that have made
Chesapeake City the unique and desirable location that it has become today.
Clergy who have served Augustine Parish, Chesapeake City,
Maryland
North Sassafras Parish Established 1692; Manor Chapel Established about 1690
1676 - John YEO
1692-1696 - Lawrence VANDERBUSH
1696-1711 Richard SEWELL
1712-1713 James CRAWFORD
1714-1723 - Richard SEWELL
1724-1731 - John URMSTONE (1724 N. Elk)
1731-1760 - Hugh JONES, II (1731 N. Elk)
Following the creation of Augustine Parish in 1744, the
Reverend Hugh Jones continued to serve both congregations as well as N. Elk. It
would appear that all clergy of this parish served another at the same time
until 1963.
1761-1774 - Joseph MATHER
*1774-1776 - Philip READING
*(SPG Missionary at Appoquinimy - St. Ann's,
Middletown, 1746)
1777-1780 Vacant
1781-1786 - William THOMPSON (1773 N. Elk)
1787-1789 - James Jones WILMER (Grandson of H. Jones)
**1786-1792 - Joseph COUDON
**(1784 Lay Reader, N. Elk, Ordained 1787, also
served St. Ann's and N. Elk in same years)
1793 - Vacant
1794-1801 - Jeremiah COSDON (& N. Sassafras)
1801-1838 Vacant, but records show service taken by:
1801-1802 - Joshua REESE, M.D. and Priest
1814 - Bishop Kemp reports church in ruins
1815 - Henry Lyon DAVIS (N. Sassafras) (1832-1834 Appoquinimy)
1817-1823 - William NIND(?) (N. Sassafras)
1823-1824 - George WELLER (N. Sassafras)
1825 - William PIGOT (N. Sassafras)
1826-1827 - George WELLER (N. Sassafras)
1827-1828 - Henry HOTCHKISS (N. Sassafras)
1830-1831 - Samuel LITGREAVES (N. Sassafras)
1832-1834 - James A. McKINNEY (N. Sassafras & Appoquinimy)
1835-1836 - John COLEMAN (N. Sassafras & Appoquinimy)
1837-1839 - Robert PIGGOT (N. Sassafras)
1838-1846 - I. P. BAUSMAN (Appoquinimy)
Records show church rebuilt and rededicated St. Andrews Day, 1841
by Bishop William R. Whittingham
1846-1852 - John WILEY (1840 N. Sassafras)
1853-1857 - Vacant
1855 - Franklin L. Knight (N. Sassafras)
1855-1860 - John ATKINSON (N. Sassafras)
1858-1866 - Robert Lloyd GOLDSBOROUGH
In 1882 the Church of the Good Shepherd was built, becoming the parish church
in 1887, and the Reverend Dr. William SCHOULER of Elkton became Rector. The
church was dedicated March 29, 1883, by Bishop LAY. From 1880 to 1964 only a
yearly service held regularly at St. Augustine.
Out of North Sassafras Parish
were created North Elk (1706), Augustine (1744), Trinity (1832), and Susquehanna
(1913).
1882-1886 - William SCHOULER
1866-1872 - R. H. B. MITCHELL
1873-1881 - Lewis WALKE (N. Sassafras 1873-1876)
1887-1890 - Jacob MILLER
(Lived on Bohemia Avenue, 1st Resident Rector? Full Time?)
1891 - John JONES, Deacon
1891-1892 - Ingram N. W. IRVINE, D.D.
1897 - C. S. DAVIDSON
1898-1899 - H. B. PHELPS
1900-1901 - William F. VENABLES
1901-1920 - Vacant or under other parishes
1901-1943 - Percy L. DONAGHAY
(Appoquinimy, Priest-in-charge here, 1920 at least)
1921-1923 - M. McLean GOLDIE
(May have served only Good Shepherd for a time, records show his moving expenses
shared by N. Sassafras and that he was Rector there for a time)
1923-1928 - John Frederick VIRGIN (1922 N. Elk)
A church school was organized July 13, 1924 and eventually reached an enrollment
of 93.
St. Augustine was refurbished and rededicated October 24, 1926.
1928-1931 - Harry Rudy ZIEGLER
1931-1932 - Vernon M. LANE (N. Sassafras)
1933-1941 - L. I. Insley (1930-1941 N. Elk)
1941-1948 - J. Warren ALBINSON, Trinity
1945 - Confirmation Class at Good Shepherd - 11 persons.
1941-1954 - Horace Lilly, later ordained, and Gary Brown served as lay readers
in N. Elk and Augustine Parishes.
1956-1958 - Dr. Herbert LESWING, JR. (Trinity)
1959-1962 - Joseph E. JAMES (Trinity)
1963 - Edward HAWKINS took some services.
1963-1968 Walden PELL, II, M. A. (Oxon), STD.
(Became priest-in-charge, because he chose to remain canonically resident in
Delaware. Co-founder and first Headmaster of St. Andrews, Middletown; became
Rector Emeritus 1981)
St. Augustine was refurbished and rededicated October 24, 1926 and again
June 21, 1964 by Bishop Miller.
1968-1980 - James Oren REYNOLDS
(Lived in what was possibly the only rectory ever owned by the parish, between
Warwick and Sassafras)
1981 - Charles V. DAY, III
Information compiled by Charles V. DAY, III
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