A frontier parish church authorized by Act of Assembly 1742 as "a Chapel of Ease for the Forest Inhabitants" of Saint Paul's Parish (Baltimore). Reverend Thomas Craddock inducted as first minister January 14, 1745.
Named for free school of Trentham, Staffordshire, England, where Reverend Thomas Craddock had taught. When he married High Sheriff John Risteau's daughter, this estate was her dowry. They built a house in 1746 and in 1747 he opened a boy's boardin…