 He gave the opening prayer, the first offered in the new Capitol in Washington D.C.He served through the end of the session.His first group of confirmations, a class of forty-four, took place in 1793 at St. John's Church at Broad Creek, near today's Fort Washington overlooking the Potomac River, in Prince George's County a few months after his consecration, and were presented by the then third rector, the Rev.