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Title: History of Saint Mark's church, New Britain, Conn., and of its predecessor Christ church, Wethersfield and Berlin, from the first Church of England service in America to nineteen hundred and seven
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Shepard, James, 1838-1926
Subjects: Saint Mark's Church (New Britain, Conn.)
Publisher: New Britain, Conn., Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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ise more charity, or at leastuse less intrigue and persecution. Mrs. Davis has returnedand is almost sick with grief and exertion but (was) somebetter Sunday evening. . . . Your good mother is not verywell, time and infirmities fritter away our old and failing framesand the place that knows us now will soon know us no more.It is however of little import if we succeed in gaining the markof the prize of our high calling and can be joyfully transferredfrom a temporal to a celestial Kingdom. Eternal in theheavens where reigns eternal peace and joy. The name ofEmanuel Russell will never fade from the History of St. MarksChurch, The excerpts from the letters of William Russell werefurnished us by Mr. H. E. Russell of New London, Conn, andthe other Russell letters were loaned us by Mr. William H.Russell of Englewood, N. J. The first resident Rector, Mr. Davis, left here about June i,1838, with his grief-stricken wife and was soon settled atAkron, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ordway of Puyallup,
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>*J < IN NEW BRITAIN. 305 Washin,q-ton, (formerly of New Britain,) have presented St.Marks Church with the Life of Thomas Jefferson, by T. J.Davis, also a photograph of Mr. Davis in his old age and anold daguerreotype of Mr. Davis and family, taken not longafter they were here. We are thus enabled to present a pictureof the Davis family, consisting as it did when Mr. Davis washere, of )\Ir. and IVIrs. Davis and two sons, Thomas the elderson, and James Montgomery the younger son. The sameParish meeting that voted to dissolve the relations of pastorand people prepared themselves for being without any ministerby the election of George Winchester as Lay Reader. In theJournal of Convention for 1838, the Rev. Zebadiah Hyde Mans-field, a newly ordered Deacon, is in the Clergy list as officiat-ing at St. Marks Church, New Britain. Mrs. Francis givesJune 22 as the beginning of his ministry here, but we place itas on or before June 12, the date of the Convention. TheBishops address to the

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