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PJ.769.035
3 Aug 1769:21 (1391)
From the Georgia Gazette, May 10. . . Some months ago, a
poor man died; the person who out of charity had taken care
of him in his sickness, intending to bury him without any
charge to the parish, had him buried in the way of his
posession as a dissenter, the meeting bell tolled and the
sexton of the meeting attended.
Since that the mate of a vessel died, who being a
Presbyterian, his captain also thought fit to have him
buried in his own way.
Thereupon a suit was brought against that captain and the
other person for the following fees, being the account given
in the first case:
To tolling the bell, - - L. 0. 3. 6
To the ground, 0. 3. 6
L. 0. 7. 0
A law being produced, the fee for the breaking of the
ground was not disputed, but as to tolling the bell, it was
thought no man could be entitled to wages that had done no
work, and so the decision was left to a jury. . . .
Dissenter had no right to the use of a bell at all, and that
the rector of the parish was to blame that he had it not
pulled down. [article analyzes this for several paragraphs
further]
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