. Baltimore : its history and its people. the its completion this church was closed on account of financial em-barrassments, and the congregation worshipped temporarily in a privatehouse on South Charles street, probably one of those erected by theFrench settlers. It was summarily reopened about the beginning of theRevolutionary War, upon the demand of a company of soldiers underCaptain Galbraith, who, desiring to attend the services of their church onSunday, refused to permit the claims of the contractors to stand in theway.^^ It was not until .some years later that a residen
. Baltimore : its history and its people. the its completion this church was closed on account of financial em-barrassments, and the congregation worshipped temporarily in a privatehouse on South Charles street, probably one of those erected by theFrench settlers. It was summarily reopened about the beginning of theRevolutionary War, upon the demand of a company of soldiers underCaptain Galbraith, who, desiring to attend the services of their church onSunday, refused to permit the claims of the contractors to stand in theway.^^ It was not until .some years later that a resident priest was secured,the congregation being dependent until then upon occasional visits by thedomestic chaplain from Doughoregan Manor, the seat of the Carroll fam-ily, about fifteen miles from the town. When the French troops under Count Rochambeau passed throughBaltimore in 1781 on their way to Yorktown to take part in the campaign Griffith: Aiinols of Baltimore, p. 36. ° llsed for caulking ships. Griffith: Annals of Baltimore, p. SCALE3^00 INCH MAP OF THE ORIGINAL TRACTS OF LAND INCLUDED WITHIN THE PRESENT LIMITS OF BALTIMORE. [1768] HISTORY OF BALTIMORE 21 against Lord Cornwallis, their chaplain, IAbbe Robin, celebrated mass andpreached for the little congregation. That the worshippers were thenchiefly composed of the Acadians is shown by the account of this visitingpriest who preached to them in the French language/- In 1763 the town had grown to sufficient size to justify the provisionof more efficient means than had previously existed for protection againstfires. In that year a company of volunteer firemen was organized underthe name of the Mechanical Company, and a hand engine, imported fromHolland and hence called the Dutchman, was purchased for it in to this time, the houses being widely detached, the sole reliance forprotection against fire appears to have been placed in ladders which eachhouseholder was required to keep, such as would enable
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