Point, Dorchester county, Maryland. The ceremony was performed in the homestead at Chestertown, by the Rev. Samuel Keene, in the presence of Governor Paca, and a large assembly of the first people of the State, who had been called together by the laying of the corner-stone of Washington College, and the Convention of the Church. Mr. Goldsborough was the son of Robert Goldsborough, Barrister-at-Law; had been brought up a lawyer; born Nov. 21st, 1761, died June 22d, 1801. CHAPTER XLV. DR. WHITE, DR. BLACKWELL OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DR. BEACH OF NEW JERSEY DESIROUS OF A CONTINENTAL CONVENTION-DR. SMITH IN MARYLAND ASSISTS THE PROJECT-DR. SMITH TO DR. WHITE-A CHURCH CONFERENCE IS MADE AT A MEETING OF THE Clergy to RE-ESTABLISH THE CORPORATION FOR THE RELIEF OF THE WIDOWS AND CHILDREN OF THE CLERGY, FOUNDED, 1769 -ECCLESIASTICAL CONVENTION OF PENNSYLVANIA, MAY 25TH, 1784-DECLARATION BY IT OF PRINCIPLES-ECCLESIASTICAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND, JUNE 22D, 1784-DR. SMITH'S SERMON AT IT-DECLARATION BY IT OF PRINCIPLES SUFFICIENTLY HARMONIOUS WITH THOSE OF THE PENNSYLVANIA CONVENTION— CONVENTION OF SEVERAL STATES IN NEW YORK, OCTOBER 6TH, 1784-DR. SMITH PRESIDES-FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES DECLARED BY IT, AND PROCEEDINGS END-DR. SMITH CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE TO FRAME AN ECCLESIASTICAL CONSTITUTION AND TO FRAME AND PROPOSE A PROPER SUBSTITUTE FOR THE STATE PRAYERS-DR. SMITH ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE CORPORATION FOR THE RELIEF of the Widows, etc. WHILE Dr. Smith was thus actively engaged in the work of education in Maryland and in re-establishing the church in that State, his brethren in Pennsylvania, Dr. White and Dr. Blackwell, were equally active not only in re-establishing the Church in Pennsylvania, but also in the further work of endeavoring to assemble the clergy of all the States in what was called a "Continental Convention." The efforts of the respective parties-originated probably by the Reverend Abraham Beach, D. D., at one time a minister of Trinity Church, New York, but more lately resident in Brunswick, N. J.-were natural to their positions. Dr. Smith had been driven from Pennsylvania by an embittered and proscriptive political faction, and found in the quiet shades of Chestertown a retreat from their gross and exasperating injustice. Maryland, he supposed it probable, might thenceforth become his |