[Excerpts from "The First Parishes of the Province of Maryland" by Percy G. Skirvin, 1923] [excerpted by Mark Murphy, 16 Mar 2004] p. 147 "No. 22 St. Michael's Parish consists of Mill & Bay Hundreds and part of Island Hundred that is to say from the Court House Downward" [Talbot]. This parish was bounded on the east by the main road that now leads from Wye Mills to Easton and by the Tred Avon river. On the south by the Choptank river. Both the Chesapeake and the Eastern bays bounded it on the west. The Wye river and Skipton creek, formerly known as Brewer's Branch, were its northern bounds. "VESTRYMEN for the sd Parish chosen. &ca vizt Capt John Davis Capt James Murphy (of Rich Neck) Mr Thomas Smithson Mr Michaell Turbut Mr Hugh Sherwood Mr John Power." CHRIST CHURCH is the present representative of the original church of this old parish and stands in the tow. of St. Michael's. The Rev. James Clayland, as minister, received in 1672 from Mr. Andrew Skinner a gift of 50 acres of land part of a grant called "Forked Neck" in Miles River Neck to be used as a Glebe "forever hereafter to be holden...and belonging to ye aforesaid Church of Christ there congregated." He becam rector of St. Michael's Parish, 1692. In 1696 he was succeeded by the Rev. Rich'd Marsden who served until 1707.... [end of file]