Box 17

Contains typed documents and published material of lists and biographical sketches of the church's clergy over the years, including rectors from the colonial period.

Contains a photocopy of a chapter from "Builders of the Old North State" by Marshall Delancey Haywood on Reverend Solomon Halling (c. 1754-1813), who was rector of St. James from 1795-1809.

Contains correspondence from Reverend M. Bethel Judd (1776-1858) to the vestry of St. James. Judd was rector briefly from 1815-1816 in the gap between Rev. Empie's terms of service.

Contains correspondence from Reverend William Douglas Cairns (1804-1850) to the vestry of St. James. Cairns served as rector from 1829-1833.

Contains correspondence about and from Reverend Thomas Frederick Davis (1804-1871) to the vestry of St. James. Davis served as rector from 1833-1836. Also includes two handwritten notes detailing biographical information about Davis.

Contains correspondence and a sheet of handwritten notes related to Reverend Dr. Robert B. Drane (c. 1797-1862), who was rector of St. James from 1836-1843 and 1844-1862. Also includes a photocopy of Drane's address at the internment of Dr. Thomas H. Wright in 1861.

Contains a memorial publication from after Rev. Atkinson's passing and a write up on Atkinson's role in the Diocese of North Carolina from 1992.

Contains correspondence by and related to Rev. Atkinson.

Contains five undated photographs of Rev. Atkinson. One is cut from a newspaper or print publication.

Letter to Rev. Watson from Bishop Thomas Atkinson stating that it was permissible, given the area was under control of "the enemy," that prayers be omitted for the president and congress of the Confederate States. "The enemy" was Union troops following the fall of Fort Fisher two weeks earlier.