William Levington

[2] Levington likewise delivered addresses against slavery, including through the Ladies Philanthropic Benezet society, though that did not prevent Albany's mayor and others from providing glowing references upon his departure.

On June 23, 1824, the new missionary established the St. James First African Protestant Episcopal Church and school in an upstairs room of a building at Marion and Park Avenues in Baltimore.

[7] After some controversy during which Levington insisted that enslaved and free members of the congregation would receive the same rights, the new church was formally incorporated by Maryland's legislature in 1829.

Nathaniel Peck of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church), which African American teacher and activist William Watkins[9] thought was too conciliatory.

Joshua Peterkin, a recent white graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary, who soon left the mission congregation, as did several other pastors until George Freeman Bragg, who wrote and published a biography of his predecessor.

St. James Church relocated twice under Bragg, including to its current location across from Baltimore's Lafayette Square, which continues to display a memorial marker honoring its founder.

An embroidered sampler which Levington gave to his donor James Bosley on July 4, 1832 was purchased by the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, and is displayed in Williamsburg, Virginia.