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Following Rev. Dr. Meade, who Rev. Mr. Snelling thinks as- sumed charge about 1868,t and continued until 1873, the order of succession was:
Rev. Levi Boyer, From 1873 to 1876. : Rev. W. L. Hooper, From 1876 to 1878.
: „Then followed another interregnum with rectors in temporary charge, among them being Rev. H. W. Fay, Rev. Charles L. Sweet (1881 to 1883).
Rev Edward Porter Little From 1884 to 1893
Rev. J. Cullen Ayer, Ph. D. From 1893 to 1900
Rev. John W. Gill From Mar. to June 1901
Rev. George Herbet Patterson From June 1900 to 1903±
*Dr. Ewer says: "It is rarely that a young man can be found willing to assume so unusual and conspicuous a post as that which Dr. Jenks so long and so well filled. It was a step which required no little . self-sacrifice on his part. There is many another man, who would have tried it for a while and then abandoned it. But Sunday after Sunday came, and years passed, and still he was found faithful to his self-imposed duty. He richly deserved the thanks not only of the Wardens and Vestrymen of the Parish, and all its parishioners, but also of every non-resident friend of the Parish."
¡Rev. Mr. Dudley in his "Churches and Pastors" (p. 14) gives the following succession at St. Paul following Rev. Noah Disbrowe; Rev. Samuel H. Meade, Nov. 9, 1872 to Mar. 29, 1875; William R. Hooper Jr., April 1875 to April 1876; Levi Boyer, July 1876 to Sept 24, 1883; H. Warren Fay April 1883 to April 1885; Charles F. Sweet July 1, 1885 to April 11, 1887; Edward Porter Little, May 24, 1887 to Nov. 30, 1893; Edward C. Gardner, Dec 15, 1893 to Apr. 12, 1896; J. Cullen Ayer, Apr. 12, 1896 to Oct. 1,1899; Edward C. Gardner, Nov. 1, 1899 to Nov. 30, 1900; John W. Gill, Mar. 1 to June 1, 1901.
... 'įIt was during the rectorship of Rev. Mr. Patterson that the present beautiful stone church was erected as a memorial by Miss Caroline French.
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Rev. H. H. Ryder
Rev. Edward L. Eustis
Rev. Samuel Snelling
Rev. Charles Mallory
Rev. Samuel Snelling
From 1903 to 1911
From 1911 to 1913 : : .
In charge one year :
From May 1914 to Nov. 1917
From Nov. 1917 to
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
The First Baptist Church was organized in 1839. Rev. Daniel Round Jr was especially active in the movement and became the first Pastor of the new Church. During 1839 and 1840 the organiza- tion met in Franklin Hall (on Water Street). In 1840 the Summer
BAPTIST CHURCH (Summer Street)
Street meetinghouse was built and dedicated in December of that year. The following year (1841) the tower and vestry were added .* Rev Myron S. Dudley in his Churches and Pastors of Nantuck- et, says of the pastors of this Church-t "In the course of pulpit
*Godfrey p. 77-8.
Page 15.
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service for this Church, there has been an unusual period of tem- porary supplies. Also, among those who have been considered pas- tors, there are many short terms of service, sometimes less than a year." Mr Dudley does not list in his roll the temporary supplies, but does name those regularly reported as pastor though their sojourn was less than a year. Mr Dudley gives in his list:
Daniel Round Jr, from June 1839, to February 1844.
James Barnaby, from July 1844, to October 4. 1845.
George James Johnson, from December 22, 1846, to August 1. 1847.
Reuben Jaffrey, from 1847 to July 22, 1849.
Isaac Sawyer, from 1850 to 1851.
1853.
Thomas W. Clark, from May 25, 1851 to
Charles B. Smith, from June - 1854 to September 1, 1855.
Abner D. Gorham, from November 1855 to September 1857.
Abijah Hall, from April 1858 to July 1858.
George Howell,* from April 1859 to June 1861. --- Parker, from October 1861 to April 1862.
James E. Crawford, from April 1862 to February 1863.
Silas Ripley, from January 1866 to June 1867.
John J. Bronson, from September 1868 to April 1870.
William L. Loomis from November 1873 to May 1 1874.
R. D. Fish from June 1874 to November 1875.
Alden B. Whipple# from November 14, 1875 to February 1879.
Daniel Round Jr ** from August 1879 to July 1882.
G. J. Ganun from December 21, 1882 to May 1883.
Charles F. Nicholson from May 21 1885 to November 20, 1885.
William Dugdale from January. 23, 1887 to April 1888.
James R. Patterson from March 1889 to October 1896. Edward A. Tuck from November 1896 to December 1 1897. Roland F. Alger from May 15 1898 to November 1901.
George A. Bryanttt from September 1902 to December 1902.
William Browntt from June 1903 to October 1903.
Daniel R. Higginstt from January 1904 to September 1905.
Hengo J. P. Selinger from October 1905 to September 1906.
N. P. Jones from March 1907 to September 1907.
Frank S. Jones from May 1908 to December 1909.
Phanuel B. Covell from March 1910 to November 1913.
Drew T. Wyman from January 1914 to May 1916.
H. H. Alger from July 1916 to Nov. 1918.
N. B. Rogers from October 1921
*Was a layman. (Dudley p. 15).
¡Rev. Mr. Crawford was at the same time Pastor of the Pleasant Street Baptist Church (colored).
įMr. Whipple was Principal of the High School from 1855 to 1858 and from 1876 to 1879.
** Rev. Mr. Rounds was in Nantucket on a visit, and the Church being without a Pastor he was invited to the Pastorate and for the second time accepted the office. ++Laymen.
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THE AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH
In a letter written May 13, 1872,* Rev. James E. Crawford gave the following as the records of the two African Baptist churches, the York Street and the one over which Mr. Crawford was for many years Pastor, the Pleasant Street Baptist Church, which was organized out of the York. "This," he says, "is all the information I can give you relative to the colored Baptists."
"Nantucket May 24th 1831; Baptist Church Newtown.
The Lord having in His Providence cast the lot of those whose names are hereafter found as the constituent members of the African Baptist Church on the Island, far from the churches to which some of us formerly belonged, we felt it our duty and privilege to become a distinct Baptist Church. Pursuant to these impressions on our mind we sent for Eld. Seth Eamers of Mar- tha's Vineyard and Edward Harris of Hyannis, Barnstable, pastors of Baptist Churches in those places, to take it into consideration our situation and if in their opinion we were entitled to church privi- leges to reorganize as such. Accordingly they came and after hear- ing us relate our Christian experiences & religious views, they gave it as their opinion that we ought to become a distinct Church; after having heard both preach unto us Jesus & the resurrection two of our number received Baptism by Eld. Harris; we were then publickly reorganized; by them as the African Baptist Church & received the hand of fellowship by Eld. Harris & an address by Eld. Emes; they then administered the Lord's Supper. .
The following are the names who constituted the Church at its beginning :
John Barber, Charles Godfrey, Rhoda Boston,
Sarah DeLuce, Charles Groves, Sarah Dennison.
Mary Marsh, Hannah C. Boston, Priscilla Thompson,
The meetings were held in the same building which had been used as a schoolhouse.
Services were held by the organization for several years, the pulpit supplies being temporary, generally white, and sent from Cape Cod for one or more Sundays. "There is," says Mr. Dudley,} a letter extant which indicates that the Rev. Jeremiah Kelley, a white preacher, became Pastor of this Church in 1835, but there is no record to show how long he remained. He is remembered by some of the oldest colored citizens."
The Church organization continued apparently until some time in the "forties" but removals, deaths and other causes so depleted the society that it ceased to exist. In December, 1846, and January, 1847, measures were taken to reorganize and incorporate the Church and Society. It was more than a year before the effort was successful, the Pleasant Street Baptist Church being organized April 19, 1848 .** The record says:
*Unpublished.
Reorganization undoubtedly means organization.
¿Churches and Pastors of Nantucket, p. 13.
** The organization occupied its own house of worship at the corner of York and Pleasant streets.
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"The Council consisted of the following named brethren From the Summer St Baptist Church,
Rev Reuben Jeffery, Dea. Alex Swain, Watson Holmes
Stephen Easton, Wm. C. Folger, Seth E. Swain.
From 1st Tisbury Church.
Rev. O. F. Walker, C. Norton. Job H. Gorham.
From 2d Barnstable Church Rev. Tubal Wakefield. From the Marshpee Church. Sampson Alvin.
The Council organized by choosing Rev Tubal Wakefield, Mod- erator, Rev. O. F. Walker, Clerk. Rev James E. Crawford was ap- pointed Pastor and continued in that capacity up to the time of his death which occurred October 20. 1888 filling a pastorate of 41 years, the longest in the record of Island pastorates.
Mr Crawford will be remembered by many of the older resi- dents of Nantucket as being so light complexioned as easily to pass for a white man. He was one of those genial but sincere and up- right men who commanded respect and esteem. The receipts from his parishioners were meager for his parish was small and its mem- bers poor, and Mr Crawford supported himself by following the occupation of a barber. There is no record of any ministerial suc- cessor to the Church.
(Note. In the Nantucket Inquirer of June 22, 1836, appeared the following notice.)
"Protracted Meeting
It is expected that the Rev Mr Choules of New Bedford, Rev. C. O. Kimball of Methuen, and Rev. D. Chessman of Barnstable will visit Nantucket on the 28inst. and hold a series of meetings at the Town Hall afternoons and evenings. The meetings will com- mence on Tuesday the 28th at 2 o'clock P. M. and at quarter before 8 in the evening. There will be preaching at the same time in the Baptist meeting house at Newtown."
What denomination this movement was allied to does not seem clear."
PEOPLE'S BAPTIST CHURCH
During the pastorate of Rev. Edward A. Tuck over the First Baptist Church from November, 1896, to December, 1897, a schism divided the Society and some of them withdrew and the others un- der the leadership of Mr Tuck, who became their first Pastor, or- ganized the People's Baptist Church. They purchased the former Friend's Meetinghouse, on Center Street, and it was formally dedi- cated to their service November 23. 1899. Mr Tuck's pastorate con- tinued from December 12, 1897 to June, 1899. He was succeeded by
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Rev Thomas S. Sayer. The first meetings of the dissenters were held in the meetinghouse of the colored Baptists on York street. At the meeting of the Barnstable Association of Baptist churches delegates were from the parent church and also from those who had withdrawn. The York street delegates alone were recognized. This action compelled the Massachusetts State Convention of Baptist Churches to recognize the dissenters. Legal notice, was sent from the Convention in Boston for those occupying the Church building on Summer street to vacate the building as the Convention had a claim on the property. Those holding possession obeyed the order and moved into Wendell's Hall on Main street. Here, under the ministrations of Rev. Mr Tuck public worship was conducted, the name given to the new organization being "The People's Baptist Church." Those who had been conducting their services in the York Street meeting house returned to the Summer Street building and resumed worship there under the name of the First Baptist Church and Rev Roland F. Alger was called to be their spiritual leader. ;
The People's Baptist Church purchased the Friend's Meeting- house on Center street, renovated it added new seats and an organ and held services there. Rev. Mr. Tuck continued the leadership un- til June 1899, when he resigned. In December 1899, Rev. Thomas S. Sayer, a native Nantucketer was called to the pastorate. Under his administration a Council was called and the Church was admitted to the Taunton Baptist Association. Rev. Mr Sayer remained a year and a half, going from Nantucket to Hebronville, Mass. He was suc- ceeded by Rev. J. E. Dinsmore, who served a little over a year. When he left, the Church disbanded and sold its property to Mr. Roberts and the building is now an annex to the Roberts House.
THE AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
"The African Methodist Episcopal Church in Nantucket" was incorporated under Chapter 18 of the Acts of 1835, the bill being approved by the Lieut. Governor. Locally it was known as the Zion Methodist Episcopal Church. Those named in the incorporation are Bristol Wright, Arthur Cooper and John Cooper. Its Meeting- house was located on the south side of West York street, not far from the corner of Pleasant and York streets. A dwelling-house stands on the site of the Church building. There is no record of the activities of the Church.
SECOND METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
The "Second Methodist Episcopal Church in Nantucket" was incorporated by Chapter 41 of the Acts of 1846 approved by the Governor February 14. The Trustees named under the act of incor-
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poration were William Jenkins. William Hart, Samuel Dunham, James Macy, Henry S. Coffin, Elisha Smith, George Bowen, Caleb W. Field, and Owen C. Spooner. They held their meetings in the "Teazer" Meeting house, formerly occupied by the First Metho- dist Church, at the corner of Fair and Lyon streets. The Church lived about ten years. There are no records known to be in exis- tence regarding its transactions. Rev. Mr Dudley says *- "Of the preachers, the only names recalled by informants are the Reverends Trakey, Blake, and Dunbar. Rev. Mr. Dunbar was the last preacher, his date being about 1856.
REFORMED METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
"The Reformed Methodist Episcopal Church," says Rev Mr Dudley, ¿ was a movement in revolt from the First Methodist Church, largely of local self-government." It met for worship in a building at the foot of Silver Street near Union Street. The So- ciety also met at the Sailors' Bethel, which was located on Union Street nearly opposite Stone Alley.
The only information obtainable concerning this organization comes from the advertising columns of the Inquirer. The first inti- mation is contained in a "Notice" published October 31 1835, and indicates trouble. It reads "A Meeting of the Reformed Methodist Church, in this town, on the 27th instant, it was Voted-That Owen Swain and John Gardner be impeached as Trustees of said Church, for illegally shutting the Meeting House against the Church and Congregation." The advertisement is unsigned. Messrs Swain and Gardner retaliate in the issue of November 7 by stating that at a meeting of the male members and Trustees of the Church October 20 it was voted that "Moses Swift# be no longer a member of said Church" and also "That said Swift shall not have the privilege of preaching in said Church." "The above votes were past in conse- quence of the treatment of said Swift of a Member of said Church
*Church and Pastors of Nantucket, p. 19. Note-There seems to have arisen in 1838 a question of proprie- torship over some of the property connected with the Fair Street Meetinghouse in 1838. The only clue there is to it is an unsigned adver- tisement in the Inquirer of March 17 in which appears a call for a meet- ing of the proprietors and friends in the vestry of the Meetinghouse "to consult together on the subject of the Methodist Parsonage so-called. Their object is to ascertain whether they have or have not, as mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church or as donors any right of property in said Parsonage. Also to see what advice it is expedient and proper to give the present occupant relative to removal or other- wise." Trustees, church members and all interested are invited to attend. There is no report of the meeting. The Editor intimates that anti-slavery questions are concerned. It is not impossible that this may have been an aftermath to the suspension of Rev. John Lord by the Conference of 1837.
+Page 19.
įMr. Dudley describes Swift as "a layman, whose occupation was that of a ship carpenter, and who held his appointment by the au- thority of the local Conference of the Reformed Methodist Church." (page 19).
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and others." The notice stated that Mr Pierce will preach at the Church on Sunday next.
More advertisements follow. Mr. Swift denies the legality of the meeting and the jurisdiction of the two Trustees, signing his remonstrance as Pastor, while the two Trustees in turn say that Mr Swift has his redress before a committee of the neighboring Churches, before a committee of Ministers of the Reformed Metho- dist Church, or by a civil suit.
So far as external appearances showed-that is so far as the advertising columns of the Inquirer showed-all was quiet for several months. On March 12. 1836, the following appeared-
"Notice is hereby given, to the Trustees and all members of the Reformed Methodist Church in this place, to meet at my house on Saturday Evening, 19th inst to transact business in relation to the ensuing Annual Conference, to be holden at Brewster, com- mencing on the 31st March inst. 1836.
Nantucket March 12. 1836
MOSES H. SWIFT.
Pastor Reformed Methodist Church
Messrs Swain and Gardner in a lengthy reply on March 19 reiterated their denial of Swift's claim to be Pastor and assert that he (Swift) had previously maintained the independence of the lo- cal Church. Mr Swift again replied March 23.
In the issue of the Inquirer of April 13, 1836 appeared this-
"Notice
By leave of Providence the Rev Benjamin Swift, of the Re- formed Methodist Conference in Massachusetts, will preach in the Reformed Meeting House in this place next Sabbath. By request -- BENJAMIN SWIFT."
But something immediately occurred that induced him to change his mind for the next issue of the paper (April 16) con- tained the following among the advertisements:
"(For the Inquirer)
Mr Editor :- I find in this place two parties calling them- selves Reform Methodists. One solicits, the other forbids my preach- ing in the Reformed Methodist Church, in this place, which they both claim as their property. Consequently, I shall not preach in the house, till a final decision; and the appointment made for services in the Reformed Methodist Church for tomorrow, is recall- ed. BENJAMIN SWIFT."
And so the curtain falls on the Reformed Methodist Church for there seems to be no further record.
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THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
The exact beginnings of the Roman Catholic Church in Nan- tucket seem involved in much the same obscurity that characteriz- es some of the Protestant ones. There does not seem to be any rec- ords of the early meeting. The local newspaper of today would have published such an event as a good piece of news but 75 years ago the advertising columns were the principal media for local hap- penings unless the event was some big calamity or something in which the editor was especially interested.
It is known, however, that as early as 1849 Rev. Fr. McNulty, of New Bedford, celebrated mass after the forms of the Roman Catholic Church in the old Town Hall, located at the corner of Main and Milk streets. The Town Hall was used for awhile and afterwards Pantheon Hall. The communicants were few, however,
ST. MARY'S (ROMAN CATHOLIC) CHURCH
at first and the services necessarily somewhat desultory. Mr. Dud- ley says: * "It is claimed that Mrs Lucy Sullivan, a native of Nan- tucket, who espoused the Roman Catholic faith, was the leader in the movement to establish Roman Catholic religious services on the Island."+
In the early days of the Church at Nantucket there was no permanently resident priest, but the Parish and its affairs seem to have been administered by priests from New Bedford or from va- rious towns in Barnstable County. A part of the time services were held in Broad Street Hall. The charge of affairs seems to have rest- ed with Rev. Fr. Mc Nulty so long as he was a resident of New Bed- ford. He was followed by Rev. Fr. Hennis, of New Bedford who made periodical visits and ministered to the religious needs of his
*Churches and Pastors on Nantucket, p. 160.
+Mrs. Sullivan became a convert to Roman Catholicism during a brief residence abroad and having married a man of that faith be- came the leader in the beginnings of the Church in Nantucket.
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people until his death in 1858 or 9. It was during his administra- tion that Harmony Hall, long a Temperance headquarters on Fed- eral street, was bought and consecrated as St Mary's Roman Catho- lic Church, the consecration being performed in 1858. Next to him came Rev. Fr. Fallon, whose service began in 1859. Following him came Frs Foley and Mc Mahon, who, like their predecessors, were from New Bedford. Then came Fr. O'Connor, of Harwich, Fr Mc- Cabe, of Fall River, Frs Brady, McComb and Clinton, of Sandwich, and Fr C. Mc Sweeney of Woods' Hole. The last named took charge in 1883. During his Priesthood the old St Mary's Church was re- moved and the lot enlarged and the present commodious Church building erected in its stead. The new Church was completed in 1897 and the first high Mass was celebrated in it on August 4 of that year. Fr. Mc Sweeney continued in charge until the close of 1901 when he was succeeded by Rev Fr Coffey, whose rectorship continued about a year. On June 1, 1903 the Catholics of Nantuck- et were established as a Parish with Rev Dr Thomas Mc Gee as Pastor. Under his direction the Parish made great progress. In May 1910 Rev Fr Kelley succeeded Dr Mc Gee, continuing a little less than three years. Rev. Fr Joseph M Griffin has been in charge of the Parish since February 1913.
From its beginning the progress of this church has been con- stant.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH
The first Sunday service of the authentic Christian Science movement was held at the Siasconset home of Miss Marion Crosby in the summer of 1903. There was an attendance of about 40, all but two of whom were summer visitors. These meetings were held for 13 years in the Sconset Chapel and in the cottages of various residents. In 1916 a hall was rented in Town and since that time regular services have continued there. The present Meeting-house of the Society is on Gardner street and the attendance is reported as steadily growing. A Sunday School has been organized.
THE INDIAN CHURCHES
It is somewhat singular that for the first half a century nearly after the settlement of the Island the only Christian churches in the community were those gathered among the Indians. From an early date, however, the Mayhews had labored to inculcate in the Indian inhabitants of two islands the principles of Christianity and even before Nantucket was settled by the whites the Mayhews had performed missionary work there.
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Thomas Mayhew Jr, son of Thomas the original purchaser of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, appears to have been the earliest to endeavor to Christianize the Indians. His early work was as a preacher to the English inhabitants but seeing the need of spirit- ual guidance so marked among the aborigines the effort to convert them became his life-work. The Sagamore Tonauquatick was one of his earliest converts. He wa's appreciative of the efforts of May- hew and said to him-"You shall be to us as one that standeth by a running river, filling many vessels; so shall you fill us with everlasting knowledge."*
The elder Mayhew was in full sympathy with the work of the son and on the untimely death of the latter, advanced in years as he was, the father learned the Indian language and became in turn a missionary among the red men. Gookin, in his "Historical Collections" says of the Praying Indians that the first light of the Gospel came to Nantucket by means of Messrs Thomas Mayhew father and son, aided by Hiacoomes a native pastor of one of the churches on the Vineyard. An efficient assistant was Peter Folger, whose early experience on the islands was as an interpreter and a preacher to the natives. Of Folger, Pierce, the biographer of the Mayhews terms him "an able and godly Englishman, employed in teaching the youth in reading, writing, and the principles of religion, by catechizing, being well learned likewise in the Scrip- tures, and capable of helping them in religious matters." On his removal to Nantucket he naturally acquired considerable influence.
In a letter to Captain Gookin of Cambridge the elder Thomas Mayhew wrote "I have often these thirty-two years been to Nan- tucket." Elliot, the "Apostle to the Indians, in 1670, visited Mar- thas Vineyard to ordain a pastor for an Indian church there and make an investigation as to the religious condition of the natives in those parts. The teacher of the praying Indians of Nantucket, who was present at some of the interviews with Elliot, reported that about ninety families on that Island prayed to God. Elliot appears to have recommended "that some of the most godly among them should join to the church at the Vineyard; and after some experi- ence of their godly walk, should issue forth into church state among themselves, and have officers ordained." Although there is no record showing the date when this recommendation was put into effect it must have followed very soon after the interview for in 1674 a church seems to have been fully established. Gookin states that he gained his facts from personal conversations with Nantucket Indians. There was one church admitted to full commu- nion which had thirty members, twenty of whom were men. The Pastor was Assassamoogh, or, as he was known among the English inhabitants, John Gibbs, very probably the man for whom King Philip sought when he came to the Island in 1665 and who was saved from the Indian chieftain's vengeance by the determined stand of the whites. Forty children and youth had been baptized
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