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    1. [SCCHARLE] St. Philips and St. Michaels
    2. Elizabeth Russo
    3. Now perhaps I can figure out how best to spend some of my time in Charleston by determining where my ancestors actually worshipped. Ideally, I'm trying to spend either Good Friday or Easter Sunday in one of the actual churches any of the ancestors may have knelt. I hope to enlist the help of this good list yet again in this particular quest. First up, St. Philips and my HUTCHINSON ancestors--assuming I have the right Hutchinsons... One of my presumed ancestors, Dr. JOHN HUTCHINSON, was a trustee for St. Philips in 1720 and oversaw some of the building details for the second church. Now as I understand it, the second one was built on the present site--the first one having been on the site of the current St. Michaels--but is not the actual current church building which was built in 1835 because number 2 was burned completely. Now if the current St. Michaels was built in 1752 on the site of the "old" St. Philips, then it appears that I will not be able to be in the actual building Dr. Hutchinson worshipped. So, two questions: 1. Am I correct in my understanding? 2. Since he died between 1729 and 1731, are there records for those years indicating where people were buried? Several of his family members show up in the register for baptisms, marriages, and burials, but where would I find out where he was actually buried? Thank you again, list, and thank you as always to Betty for sending me the St. Philips register info [altho I can't find a reference for John's burial--did I miss it?]... Elizabeth

    03/31/2000 08:52:53