Boston Jenkins Drayton served as one of the African-American lay assistants serving the "colored" congregation at St. John's. He was strongly influenced by Bachman who helped convince him to go to Liberia as a missionary. The South Carolina Synod provided its blessing and ordination, but his financial backing came from the African-American members of the church in Charleston. The governor of Liberia, a nation established on the West Coast of Africa for freed American slaves who wished to return to African, gave him land on which to build a church and school. He soon gathered a flock and petitioned Charleston for $800 to build a school house that would also serve as a church. Though the synod Missionary fund had nearly $2,000 at this time, he received none of it. Discouraged, he left the ministry, entered politics and later served as governor of Maryland state in Liberia. He also became the third Chief Justice of the Liberian Supreme Court. He died in 1866.