Then was read Mr Gabriel D'Emillian [sic]
Minister of Nangemy & Port Tobacco Parishes Representation

To their Honours the President & Council for the Province of Maryland now assembled

May it please your Honours
Gabriel D'Emilliane Minister of Nangemy & Port Tobacco Parishes in Charles County your Honours most humble Petitioner does humbly represent that the Aforesaid Parishes being not able to give him a competent Subsistence as having the Charge of a Family & having Experienced that the said Revenue is not Sufficient to supply him with necessarys whereby he hath been obliged to Run in debt thirty three Pounds in one year tho he was Reduced next to a starving condition with his Family the last Summer
Therefore your Honours most humble Petitioner to Avoid the bad Consequences of running further into Debt & being advanced in years & sickly not fit now to undertake the Planting Trade or other things Conducing to Better his Circumstances and having received since his Coming into [p. 301] this Province none of the helps Promised in England to Ministers residing in small Parishes nor the Advantage of two Blacks Granted to his Glebe which he was to have at his first coming into Nangemy Parish the Bill which he had drawn

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upon the Reverend Doctor Bray for the purchasing the same being returned Protested & his Parishioners of nangemy having not complied with the Building of an house which they were according to Agreement to have built for him at his first Coming to the Parish whereby he hath been sadly disappointed & put to Charges he humbly supplicates your Honours that he may be translated from the said Parish to Christ Church Parish in Calvert County now vacant where he is unanimously desired by all the Vestry & parishioners as does appear by their address to his Honour the honble President Esqr Tench which great act of Charity to him and his distressed Family he shall ever acknowledge
And pray &ca

Your Honours most humble Petitioner does further Represent that his mission into these parts by my Lord Bishop of London is not confined to any place in Particular but in general to perform the ministerial Functions in the Province of Maryland and his being chosen to be sent to Nangemy was at his Request your Honours most humble Petitioner made of it to the Reverend Doctor Bray thinking there was some advantage to be settled on a Glebe not understanding then the Affairs of this Country
He knows that some are of Opinion that he can do some considerable good among the papists there Been [p. 302] formerly a Romanist himself but he doth to his Grief Experience the Contrary for the Priests of those places have so deeply put into their heads that they ought by no means under pain of mortal Sin to enter into Conference or discourse with an apostate so they do call him that he perceiveth they fly all from him & abhor his very Name & Sight therefore he humbly conceives any other Protestant Minister whom they should not abominate so much would he more likely to Succeed among them
The Board being very sensible of the said Mr D'Emillians good Qualifications & that the Parishioners are very desirous to have him ordered that a Presentation to the said Parish of Christ Church in Calvert County be drawn for him.