Excerpt from The Story of Mary Washington Episcopal Church on the Neck. His name had headed the list Of parish vestrymen in 1654, preceding that Of the clergyman, an arbitrary order followed in the cases Of his namesake-son John, and Robert, surnamed King Carter, the greatest Of the line. The temper and customs Of the day and country were semi-feudal leaders were few in number and despotic in Spirit. If plant ers and small farmers dwelt together in unity it was because the autocrat's position was not questioned. SO near to Christ Church which the first Carter had builded, that the two were early in the eighteenth century united into one parish, was St. Mary's White Chapel; the place Of worship for those belonging to this parish was a chapel-oi-ease Of the mother Church. Prominent among her vestrymen for almost one hundred years was the name of Ball. It occurs so frequently upon the crumbling tombstones paving the Old churchyard as to persuade one into the idea that this was, at the first, a family burying ground, and the Chapel an afterthought. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.