 In the end, the rector remained at Pohick for the next twenty years as a respected clergyman; at his death in 1765 George Washington served as his executor.He was replaced as rector by Lee Massey, a former lawyer who was ordained in 1766 and took up his post the following year.Massey's duties frequently took him to other churches in the parish, and as a result Pohick Church was not open for services every Sunday of the year.