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William T. Rumsey, who gave the lot for the church and was one of its first vestrymen. The church was completed and consecrated by Right Rev. William Meade, D. D. on June 28th, 1845, under the name of Zion Church. In 1861, when Fairfax became involved in war, the church became a storehouse for munitions.
Ebenezer Kneeland, successor in the Church at Stratford to the Rev. Dr. Johnson whose granddaughter, Charity, he had married. From the records of the Episcopal Church in the adjoining town of Milford, it appears that at a vestry meeting, held April 17, 1776, after electing wardens and vestrymen, Mr. Kneeland being present, it was "voted that Mr.
I think he's going to take his enlightened self out of India. 'I'd give a good deal if he were knocked over. It might keep a few vestrymen of his kidney to their own parish. But what's this about cholera? It's full early for anything of that kind, said the warden of an unprofitable salt-lick. 'Don't know, said the Deputy Commissioner reflectively. 'We've got locusts with us.
Elder, one of the vestrymen, and found him quite busy with customers. He waited for half an hour for him to be disengaged, and then went out, saying, as he passed him at the counter, that he would call in again. "Oh, dear!" he murmured to himself, with a long-drawn sigh, as he emerged upon the street, "is not this humiliating?
And the opening to their conversation was unexpected. The old man put on his spectacles, and drew from the top of one of the bundles a letter. "This is from one of your vestrymen, Mr. Gordon Atterbury," he said, and proceeded to read it, slowly. When he had finished he laid it down. "Is that, according to your recollection, Mr.
Here are churches printing, publishing, scattering all over America and Europe, statements of belief which perhaps hardly one man in ten among their pew-holders or vestrymen believes.
Washington in an attack of the measles, and caught and returned two of his parishioner's runaway slaves. As early as 1724 the clergyman of the parish in which Mount Vernon was situated reported that he catechised the youth of his congregation "in Lent and a great part of the Summer," and George, as the son of one of his vestrymen, undoubtedly received a due amount of questioning.
My father sent it out. It's rather amusing. 'One of those vestrymen that call 'emselves M.P.'s again, is it? said Spurstow, who read his newspapers when he could get them. 'Yes. Listen to this. It's to your address, Lowndes. The man was making a speech to his constituents, and he piled it on.
'These fractures, exclaimed the vestrymen, 'have been there from time immemorial; and there were some otherwise sensible persons, who remarked that professional men always wanted to carve out employment for themselves, and that the whole of the necessary repairs could be done at a comparatively small expense."* The vestry then called in another person, a mason of the town, and directed him to cut away the injured part of a particular pillar, in order to underbuild it.
Sacrilege!" Barnum assumed a conciliatory tone, reminding them that he always stopped his band playing during their week-day services, and suggesting the fairness of the obligation being made mutual. "If those flags are not down in ten minutes," cried one of the vestrymen, "I will cut them down."
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