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- Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume IV:
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"The Colonial Houses of Worship in America" by Harold Wickliffe Rose [1963]
"St. Barnabas Church (1774)
Leeland, Prince George's County, Maryland
By Act of Assembly in 1705, Queen Anne's Parish was formed out of St. Paul's Parish, Patuxent River (ss St. Paul's, Baden, No. 49). A brick church was begun in 1708 to replace a wooden chapel. This brick church was torn down in 1772, and in 1774 the present brick building was begun. That was in the first year of the ministry of the Reverend Jonathan Boucher, who was a close personal friend of George Washington. He was an outspoken Tory, who preached fiery sermons with a brace of pistols on the pulpit cushion ...[ following is a quote from him]. Finally he was restrained from mounting the pulpit, and he and his American wife sailed for England on the last ship out of Annapolis before the Revolution began. The building is of the early Georgian style ans is plain, and there is no ornamentation. The brick is laid in Flemish bond. The contract named Christopher Lowndes as builder."
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1774-1780 Prince George's County, Maryland Land Records Liber CC 2 [Abstract by Mike Marshall]; Page 662. At the request of Garland Carr the following Deed was recorded September 7, 1779
Indenture made September 6, 1779; Jonathan Boucher late of PGCo but now of the County of Middlesex in the Kingdom of Great Britain in consideration of 8520 pounds Maryland currency paid by Garland Carr of Louisa County, Virginia have made over to him all the lands devised to John Addison by the last will and testament of his father Col. John Addison, deceased by the direction of the said will laid off by Henry Rozer and Thomas Addison, brother to the said Col. John Addison, deceased the whole containing 1000 acres as appears by an instrument of writing executed by the said Rozer and Addison and recorded in Liber TT, folio 577 & 578 and since sold conveyed and made over by John Addison by deed of sale bearing date June 21, 1773 to Samuel Hanson, Thomas Addison & Jonathan Boucher; also a tract containing 72 ½ acres and beginning at a bounded sycamore standing in a tract called "Locust Thickett" and sold and conveyed by Thomas Addison to John Addison by deed dated June 21, 1773 and conveyed by him on the same date to Samuel Hanson, Thomas Addison & Jonathan Boucher [and bounded by "Irvin" late the property of John Tolson, deceased]; likewise the following Negroes; Jack, Patience, Tom, Little Jack, Ned, Billy, George, Ambrose, Cecelia, Euridice, Ned, Mary, Jacob, Phill, Jerry, Kate, Bess, Harry, Nan, Jenny, Louisa, Jem, Lucy, Bobadil, Will, Butter, Marry, Jack, Kinsy, Isaac, Beck, Romulus and Remus; also the whole stock of horses, black cattle, sheep and hogs now on the said plantation. Signed Jonathan Boucher by Overton Carr his attorney in the presence of and acknowledged before David Craufurd, Frank Leeke
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