It overthrew all the Brick and Stone buildings in the Countrey, whereof several in my own Parish, which now are either leveled with the ground or standing Monuments of the Wrath of God, are so shattered and torn that they are irrepairable. While these were trembling, the Earth opened in my Parish in multitudes of Places, and through thier dire Chasms spew’d out Water to a considerable height above ground, in such quantities in some Places, that it made our Gullies run on a suddain, tho’ before exceeding dry; in so much that some were afraid of being overwhelmed at once by the River and Sea joining together to swallow up the Countrey, especially nigh the River, in the purest Mould, which had not Clay or other Consolidating Matter beneath to oppose the force of the Fountain of the Deep breaking up; for where that was, we do not find any cracks of the Earth at all; and yet it pleases God that we in the Parish have escaped the Danger much better than our Neighbour Parishes; for happening to content ourselves with mean and low built Houses, for the most part built with Timber, and boarded, or with Cratches set deep in the ground and Plaistered, such Houses are generally standing: So that we have means to assist one another in this calamitous distress. In 1728 the finances of the parish were in such a bad condition that a Bill was passed by the Assembly to reduce the rector’s salary from £150 to £100. Under date February 11, 1803, Lady Nugent records that “The Admiral brought Mr. and Mrs. Ledwich and Captain Dunn with him.” This may refer either to the rector of Vere or to his brother, G. Ledwich, the rector of Port Royal. On July 2 she entertained “the Mr. and Mrs. Ledwich” again. The following is a list of the rectors as complete as it has possible to make it: