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Voted : that the thanks of this Vestry be made to William Dehon, Esq., of Boston, for the distinguished service rendered this Church, by receiving and transmitting five hundred dollars, pre- sented to the Permanent Fund of this Church.
January 6, 1818. Voted: that the Revª Mr. Webb take the school-house, upon the same terms that Mr. Rodman had hitherto done; that he take immediate possession of the same under the direction of the Rector and Wardens, and at the end of his term to return the school-house in as good order, wear and tear always ex- cepted, as he receives it.
Easter Monday, March 23, 1818. Present : The Rector, Oliver H. Perry, Edward T. Waring, Silas Dean, James Mumford, Saun- ders Malbone, Samuel F. Gardiner, Charles Cotton, Samuel Fowler
269a The new burial ground was a small strip of land added to the grave- yard, by purchase, at the extreme west end.
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ANNALS OF TRINITY CHURCH,
Gardner, Levi Tower, William Crooke, Benj. Gardiner, John B. Lyon, Samuel Whitehorne, John G. Whitehorne, Wm. Shaw, Benj. Haz- ard, William C. Gibbs270 and Richard K. Randolph.
Dr. Charles Cotton elected Senior Warden.
S. Fowler Gardner, Junior Warden.
Vestrymen : Benj. Gardiner, Edw. Brinley, Benj. B. Mumford, Steph. T. Northam, Silas Dean, William Crooke, Saml Whitehorne, John G. Whitehorne, John P. Mann, Levi Tower, Robinson Potter.
Richard K. Randolph, Treasurer.
John B. Lyon, Sec'y to Corporation and Clerk to Vestry.
Miss Eliza Davis was chosen organist, salary $60, whose duty it shall be to attend and perform on every Sunday, Christmas and Good Friday.
Delegates to the State Convention: Benj. Gardiner, Samuel Whitehorne, Stephen T. Northam, Benj. B. Mumford.
Voted: that the tax of $10 on each pew be continued.
On motion of Stephen T. Northam it was voted : that a committee of five, Wm. C. Gibbs, Benj. Hazard, Edw. Brinley, Wm. Crooke and John P. Mann, be appointed to take into consideration the ex- pediency of revising our present charter, and report to the corpora- tion on the first Monday in May next.
Voted : that the practice of carrying the contribution box round the Church on Sundays be discontinued, but the quarterly collec- tion be continued.
270 wesi bles William C. Gibbs was the son of George Gibbs. He was born February 10, 1790, and died February 24, 1871. His wife was Mary Kane, daughter of Charles Kane, of New York, to whom he was married in 1822. In the political excite- ment in 1821 he was elected Governor of the State of Rhode Island, and held the office till 1824. He had also represented Newport in the Legislature, and for many years was a prominent citizen of Newport.
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April 7, 1818. Voted : that the fence around the two-acre lot be immediately repaired, at the expense of the Church.
Voted : That the committee who were to attend to the above be requested to make an arrangement with the Rector, by allowing him $24 per year for the rent of the said lot, and the Church take the lot under their own direction.
Voted : that in consideration of services rendered the Rector and his family by Doct. Edmund T. Waring, that the tax now due from him be relinquished.
Voted : that the owners of the following pews being in arrears for taxes, that the pews be advertised for sale immediately-Nos. 35, 50, 52, 60, 61, 70 and 89.
Meeting of the Corporation, May 4, 1818.
The committee appointed on Easter Monday made report in part ; thereupon it was
Voted : that the following amendments be made to the Charter, viz. :
"Be it enacted by the General Assembly, and by the authority thereof it is enacted, that the election of officers by the Corporation of Trinity Church shall be by ballot without nomination."
Voted : that the committee heretofore appointed upon the subject of amendments to the Charter be continued, and directed to ascer- tain the powers and duties of the Rectors of this Church previous to the charter last granted, and also the powers and duties of Rec- tors of other Episcopal Churches in this State, and to report to the congregation on Thursday next, at eleven o'clock, A.M.
The following motion was made by James Mumford, and referred to the committee on the revision of the charter : " That the charter be so far altered that no pew shall be sold or held responsible for the payment of any other charges or expenses, except the actual repairs on the church edifice.
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May 18, 1818. The committee to make an arrangement with the Rector respecting the two-acre lot, made a verbal report, that they had, with the consent of the Rector, rented the lot for five years, at an annual rent of $24, the tenant to be at the expense of fencing.
Voted: that the Wardens be authorized to have the steeple re- paired and secured immediately.
Voted : that the Rector be requested to furnish annually, on the first of December, a list of the poor of the Church for the use of the Vestry.
Voted : that the Sexton be directed not to deliver the keys of the Church to any person except the Wardens or Vestry, without an order from one of the Wardens.
June 3, 1818. Voted : that the Wardens be empowered to have the spire painted and the balls and vane gilded.
June 5, 1818. At a meeting of the corporation, the committee appointed at Easter, on the revision of the charter, made a verbal report, and recommended the adoption of the following :
" That in the election of any Minister of this Church, as provided by the sixth section of the charter, the vote of three-fifths of all the members of the corporation shall be required to make a choice, and by the same number of votes any Minister of said Church may be removed by the corporation ; three months' previous notice of said removal having been given to him; and upon similar notice, any such Minister shall at all times be at liberty to withdraw from sd Church."
Whereupon it was voted : that the above bill be passed, and that Benj. Hazard and Wm. C. Gibbs, Esquires, be a committee to pre- sent the bill passed at the Corporation Meeting, May 4th, and the above bill, to the General Assembly at their next session, for their sanction, as amendments to the constitution.
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NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND.
A motion was made that the Charter be so far amended as that the Rector shall be admitted into the Vestry, which motion was negatived.
Voted : that the Wardens be authorized and directed to have the organ removed as far back as they shall think proper.
July 1, 1818. Voted: that the Church edifice be painted, with- out and within, and whitewashed ; that the trees within the Church- yard be cut down below the earth; that the fences be put in perfect repair, and that a committee be appointed to solicit subscriptions to defray the expense: O. H. Perry,271 Wm. C. Gibbs, Stephen T. Northam and Robinson Potter to be that committee.
August 5, 1818. Voted : that the floor of the Church be sheathed and painted.
August 21, 1818. Voted : that the Wardens be authorized to have the outside of the pews painted stone color ; and they were in- structed to purchase six yards of silk velvet and gold fringe for the desk, etc.
712 with his family, occupied the Cham- plin pew, No. 14, north aisle, which pew is still in the possession of some
of his descendants. On the wall over it there is a marble tablet, bearing this inscription :
"To the Memory of Commodore OLIVER HAZARD PERRY, U. S. Navy : Born at South Kingston, Rhode Island, August 23, 1785. Died while on a Diplomatic Mission to Venezuela, Aug. 23, 1819.
" His Remains were brought to this Place by order of the Govern- ment, in the U. S. ship Lexington, and Re-interred by his Native State, in 1827 .*
" History records his Public Deeds and Private Worth.
" This Tablet is erected by his Widow, ELIZABETH CHAMPLIN PERRY, August, 1855, as a mark of her continued Affection and Respect for his Memory."
* An error ; it should be 1826.
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ANNALS OF TRINITY CHURCH,
September 2, 1818. Voted: that the Wardens be authorized to have the under part of the benches painted light lead color, and the Creed, Commandments, and Lord's Prayer, on the Altar, painted, lettered and gilded.
Voted : that in future no colored people be allowed to sit down stairs.
Voted : that owing to the numbers of the pews being altered, that a new register of the pews, as they now are, with the former numbers, be recorded on the Vestry books.
Voted : that the pews belonging to the Church be exposed for sale on the 5th inst. at public auction, and if they bring the price appraised, or over, to sell them.
October 12, 1818. Voted : that the Vestry will not allow the carpenters, for their work on the steeple, over $1.50 per day.
October 18, 1818. Voted : that the Corporation present the Rector with ten cords of wood.
November 4, 1818. Voted : that the Vestry grant for the use of the Sunday School the belfrey of the Church; the same to be put in repair under the direction of the Wardens.
December 9, 1818. Voted: that the Wardens be authorized to purchase a foot-stove for the Rector.
February 3, 1819. Voted : that the Wardens be authorized to purchase a foot-stove for the organist, and direct the sexton to fur- nish fire for the same.
Voted : that Mr. Samuel Whitehorne, the Treasurer of the Per- manent Fund, be authorized to give Isaac Winslow and Saunders Malbone, Executors of the estate of the late Mrs. C. Malbone, a bond of indemnity in case any demands should be presented against the estate, to bear an equal proportion, according to the amount given by Mrs. Malbone to the Permanent Fund.
Easter Monday, April 12, 1819. Present : John G. Whitehorne, Samuel Whitehorne, William Hunter, E. S. Hunt, Henry Potter,
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E. T. Waring, Thos. Bush, John P. Mann, Wm. Shaw, Wm. Crooke, John Wood, Benj. Hazard, Levi Tower, Benj. Fry, Robinson Potter, Henry Bull,272 Edward Brinley, Charles Cotton, Saunders Malbone and Stephen T. Northam.
Robinson Potter was chosen Senior Warden. Wm. H. Rathbone, Junior Warden. Richard K. Randolph, Treasurer. John B. Lyon, Sec'y of Corporation and Clerk of the Vestry.
Vestrymen : Benj. Gardiner, Edward Brinley, B. B. Mumford, Steph. T. Northam, Silas Dean, Wm. Crooke, S. Whitehorne, J. G. Whitehorne, John P. Mann, Levi Tower, John Wood.
Miss Eliza Davis was chosen organist, salary $80. John Springer, Sexton.
Delegates to State Convention : Benj. Gardiner, John P. Mann, Steph. T. Northam.
Voted : that the tax of ten dollars on each pew be continued.
Voted : that in consequence of the indisposition of Mr. Wheaton in the year -- , which caused him an extraordinary expenditure, that the sum of $96 be and is hereby voted him.
June 13, 1819. At a meeting of the Corporation held in the Church,
272 Henry Bul. was born at Newport, August 29, 1778, and died October 12, 1841. He was of the fifth genera- tion from Governor Henry Bull, one of the original purchasers of Aquidneck, now the island of Rhode Island. Thrown upon his own resources in early life, he began business in Newport at the age of sixteen years, and in 1803 was both master and supercargo of a vessel bound for the West Indies. In 1807 he was in business in Newport, and continued to be engaged in commer- cial pursuits up to the time of his death. For nearly twenty years he was a leading and useful member of the General Assembly, and in 1836 he was chosen a Presidential Elector. To the history of the State and town he gave much attention, and he wrote a valuable series of papers known as "Memoirs of Rhode Island," which were published in the Rhode Island Republican.
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Voted : That the Minister be reinstated in the Vestry and placed in the same situation he was before the last revision of the Charter.
Voted : that Wm. Hunter, W. Crooke and J. P. Mann be a com- mittee to make what alteration is necessary in the charter for carry- ing the above vote into effect, and that they present the same to the next meeting of the State Legislature for their sanction.
July 12, 1819. The Senior Warden reported that Mr. Harrison had made a proposition to pay the Church $2000 on account of lease of the Kay Estate-$1000 in one year, and $1000 in two years, and renew the lease, so that the rent shall be in proportion to the old lease ;
Voted : that the proposition be acceded to.
Voted : that in future there shall not be any collection in church of the pew taxes, but that the Wardens be directed to have receipts printed, and give them to each proprietor on their paying their dues.
August 4, 1819. Voted : that the application of the Revd Mr. Webb for the use of the Church school-house once or twice a week till the first of October next, for the purpose of the meeting of the singers of the Methodist Congregation, to practice singing therein, be, and the same is granted.
October 10, 1819. Voted: that the Senior Warden be author- ized to purchase ten cords oak wood for the Rector, and have the same sawed and piled in the Parsonage cellar, and pay for the same out of the funds of the corporation.
December 1, 1819. Voted : that in future no fire be taken out of the stoves on Sundays or Prayer-days.273
273 It had been the custom for many years for elderly ladies and persons in feeble health, to send a foot-stove to the Church just before the hour of service, where it was filled with live walnut coals from the stoves and placed in the owner's pew. An occasional gratuity made this extra work
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Easter Monday, April 3, 1820. Robinson Potter chosen Senior Warden, W. H. Rathbone, Junior Warden.
James Mumford, Treasurer ; John B. Lyon, Secretary; Eliza Davis, Organist.
Vestrymen : Edward Brinley, Benj. B. Mumford, S. T. Northam, Wm. Crooke, Sam1 Whitehorne, J. G. Whitehorne, John P. Mann, Levi Tower, J. Wood, Chas. Cotton.
John Springer, Sexton.
Voted : that the tax of ten dollars on each pew be continued.
Delegates to the State Convention : Messrs. Edward Brinley, John P. Mann, S. Whitehorne.
April 5, 1820. Voted : that Benjamin Hazard be requested to draw up such a deed, to be made by the Corporation to Mr. Harri- son, as he shall think will be proper for this Society to make and execute, and report the same to this Vestry.
Voted : that the tax now due, and that may hereafter annually accrue and become due upon Dr. Waring's pew, in consideration of his professional services rendered, and to be rendered, the Revd Rector and his family, be remitted.
Voted : That the Sunday-school that now assemble in the organ- loft be requested not to meet there in future, and that the same be exclusively reserved for the accommodation of the organist and singers.
July 8, 1820. Voted : that the Society of which John G. White- horne is a member, be and they are hereby authorized and per- mitted, to meet in the Church and use the organ in their perform-
anything but a hardship to the sexton, who, to oblige all callers, fre- quently so reduced the quantity of coals in the stoves as to rob the con- gregation of the heat they had a right to look for. This abuse led to the above order.
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ances, and that the Senior Warden be requested to make known to the Rector the object of this vote.
August 2, 1820. Voted: that Robinson Potter, with either Benj. Hazard or Wm. Hunter, be a committee to make the arrangement with Mr. Harrison immediately.
September 11, 1820. Voted : that the Rector and Samuel White- horne be a committee to make such arrangements for the accom- modation of the Clergy, that may attend the Convention, as they may think expedient.
October 4, 1820. Voted : that the organist be requested to ac- company the organ with her voice in the voluntaries.
November 19, 1820. At a meeting of the corporation, voted : that six cords oak wood be purchased for the Revª Mr. Wheaton, and the same be sawed and piled in his cellar.
December 8, 1820. Voted: that the indenture and the terms and conditions thereof be and the same are hereby agreed to and confirmed, and that Jas. Mumford, Treasurer of the Corporation, be and he is hereby directed to affix thereto the common seal of sd corporation and to sign the same in his said capacity, agreeably to the charter, to deliver the same to the said Richard Harrison, Esq., and to receive in exchange his part of sª indenture, duly executed.
February 7, 1821. Voted: that the subject of the music be postponed until the next meeting of the Vestry, and that Doct. Mann be specially notified to attend.
Voted : that a pew be selected by the Wardens for the accom- modation of John Handy's family, which shall be free of tax.
April 4, 1821. Voted : that the trustee of the Permanent Fund, the Senior Warden and the Treasurer, be directed to make out their accounts and inform the Auditors when made out and ready for their examination, so as to enable them to report thereon on Easter Monday.
April 11, 1821. Voted: that the Rector be requested to direct
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the organist to sing the morning and evening hymns, if it meets his approval.
Annual meeting of the corporation, Easter Monday, April 23, 1821.
Present : The Rector, Henry Bull, S. Fowler Gardner, Wm. H. Rathbone, Henry Potter, Levi Tower, John G. Whitehorne, C. S. Hunt, James Mumford, S. H. Cahoone, Robt. Robinson, Rob'n Potter, H. S. Newcomb, Saml Whitehorne, Wm. Hunter, Chs. Cotton, Wm. Crooke, Edw. Brinley, Wm. C. Gibbs.
The following gentlemen were duly elected officers for the year ensuing :
Stephen T. Northam, Senior Warden ..
Wm. H. Rathbone, Junior Warden.
Vestrymen: Edward Brinley, Benj. B. Mumford, Wm. Crooke, S. Whitehorne, J. G. Whitehorne, John P. Mann, Levi Tower, Rob'n Potter, Rob. Robinson, John B. Lyon.
Steph. H. Cahoone, Secretary ; Jas. Mumford, Treasurer ; Miss Eliza Davis, Organist; salary, $80 per annum. John Springer, Sexton ; salary, $40 per annum.
Voted : that the tax of ten dollars on each pew be continued, and that the Wardens rent the gallery pews.
Delegates to the State Convention : E. Brinley, S. T. Northam, J. P. Mann and S. Whitehorne.
Auditors : J. G. Whitehorne, S. Fowler Gardner.
The Treasurer of the Permanent Fund made the following re- port, which was received and ordered to be recorded :
PEWS IN TRINITY CHURCH, EASTER, 1821.
No. OWNERS.
I Church,
2 do
3 do
4 do
OCCUPANTS. George Cox, one-half pew. John Tew, one-half pew.
Mrs. Lawton and Miss Burdick.
22
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No OWNERS.
OCCUPANTS.
5 Thomas Bush,
Thomas Bush.
David Melville,
6 David King, 274
John B Lyon.
7 Mrs. Wickham,
Mrs. Miles.
Mrs. Gardiner,
8 Mrs. Gardiner,
Mrs. Penrose.
§ Steph. H. Cahoone,
9 Esther Freebody,
W. Norris.
IO Estate of Jona. Almy,
II Estate of Benj. Gardiner,
B. Gardiner's family.
I2 Sarah Wood,
I3 Margaret Champlin,
14 Margaret Champlin,
Sarah Greene.
Steph. T. Northam,
15 Steph. T. Northam,
I6 Church,
I7 Mrs. John Langley,
18 Church,
19 Estate of Silas Dean,
20 William Crooke,
2I Church,
Mary Easton.
22 Miss Dillon,
23 H. S. Newcomb,
H. S. Newcomb.
24 Thomas White,
Thomas White.
25 Robinson Potter,
Robinson Potter.
274
David Thing
David Coggeshall.
Almy Wood.
Margaret Champlin.
.Mrs. Burdick. Benjamin Brenton.
Mrs. John Langley.
Mrs. McKenzie,
- Mrs. Morgan. Miss Mary Dean.
§ James Gardiner,
Edw. C. Gardiner,
Miss Dillon.
Dr. David King was born at Raynham, Mass., in 1774, graduated at Rhode Island College in 1796, became the pu- pil of Dr. James Thatcher, of Plymouth, Mass., and in 1799 began the practice of medicine in Newport, the field of his usefulness during the rest of his days. The first person vaccinated in Rhode Island, Walter Cornell, was vaccinated by Dr. King. Dr. King was one of the first promoters of the Rhode Island Medical Society, and held in turn the offices of Censor, Vice-President and President. Stricken with paralysis in August, 1834, he gradually failed till November 14, 1836, when he passed away. Mrs. Ann Gordon King, his widow, survived till November 9, 1852, when she died at the age of 70 years.
Mrs. Wickham,
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No. OWNERS.
OCCUPANTS.
26 Samuel F. Gardner,
Samuel F. Gardner.
27 Henry Sherburne,
Henry Sherburne.
28 Samuel Whitehorne,
Samuel Whitehorne.
29 Charles O. Handy,
Thomas Handy.
30 Mrs. Wickham,
Mrs. Stewart,
Mrs. Stewart.
3I
Edward Stanhope,
Edward Stanhope.
M. Sherman, one-half pew.
32 33
do
34
do
35 do
36 do
37
do
Russell Coggeshall, Catharine Thurston.
38
do
39
do
40 do
42 do
Thomas W. Brown.
Miss Nicholi, Miss Mayberry. Sarah Freebody. W. H. Rathbone. Nicholas Geoffroy.
Henry Bull.
Robert Robinson.
[ William Douglass, ( Susan Atkinson. Edmund T. Waring. William Crooke.
Mrs. Fry.
Permanent Fund,
Mrs. Moore. Rector's Family.
Lieut. Lyon.
Estate of F. Brinley,
57 58 Miss Susan Mason, William Hunter,
59 60 Estate of F. Malbone, 61 Levi Tower, 62 Thomas Dennis,
Mary Staunton. Mrs. O. H. Perry. William Hunter.
Mrs. Breese,
Levi Tower. Mrs. Reece.
43
do
44 Bannister Estate, W. H. Rathbone,
45 46 Nicholas Geoffroy,
47 Henry Bull,
48 Robert Robinson,
49 Estate of F. Malbone,
50 Edmund T. Waring,
5I William Crooke,
52 Estate of F. Brinley,
53 54 Church, do 55 56 Permanent Fund,
Mrs. Townsend, one-half pew. -
Church,
Mrs. Wickham.
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ANNALS OF TRINITY CHURCH,
OWNERS.
OCCUPANTS.
Sarah Wood.
John G. Whitehorne.
Benj. B. Mumford.
Henry Moore.
James Mumford. John Handy.
do
do
71 do
72 do
73 John L. Boss,
74 Andrew V. Allen,
75 Richard K. Randolph.
76 Edward Brinley,
77 John P. Mann,
78 Estate of George Gibbs,
79 Stephen T. Northam,
80 Estate of George Gibbs;
81 Jacob Smith,
82 John G. Whitehorne,
83 Church,
84 Sarah Freebody,
Church,
85 86 do .do do 87 88 89 Mrs. Gibbs,
90 William V. Taylor,
John R. Sherman, Estate of F. Robinson,
do do do John R. Stanhope, Jeremiah Lawton, Church, do
91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 do
99 do
William Rider. 5 Paul Mumford, .C. Bannister. John L. Boss.
Andrew V. Allen,
R. K. Randolph.
Edward Brinley. John P. Mann.
Charles Cotton, 5 P. Johnson. S. T. Northam. Wm. C. Gibbs, Mrs. Greene. Jacob Smith. Edward Martin.
Mrs. Mason. John W. Davis. Henry Tisdale.
John B. Gilpin.
Wm. C. Gibbs and Miss Greene.
Wm. V. Taylor. John R. Sherman. Henry Potter. Benj. Hazard. John R. Stanhope. Jeremiah Lawton.
Mary Wallace. John B. Atkinson, one-half pew.
No. 63 Estate of Peleg Wood,
64 John G. Whitehorne,
65 Benj. B. Mumford,
66 67 68 69 70
Henry Moore,
William Crooke,
Church,
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TRUSTEE'S REPORT.
EXPENDITURES AND RECEIPTS ON ACCOUNT OF THE PERMANENT FUND TO APRIL 21, 1821.
DR.
To 61 Shares Union Bank, cost,
$6745.00
" 14 Newport Bank, cost, 924.00
8 Bank of Rhode Island, cost, 816.00
" Sundry expenses, 6.82
" Cash on hand, .
508.70
$9000.52
CR.
By Subscriptions, notes, collections at church, legacies and donations, · .
$5933.76
By Interest on shares in bank and on notes paid and renewed, 3066.76
$9000.52
NOTE. - Amount received as per account above, . $9000.52 Sundry notes on hand, $841.93
Interest to April 21, 1821, .
227.00
Amount due on subscription list, 165.00
1068.93
Interest to April 21, 1821, 86.00
Pew in church given by Mrs. Miller, valued at 50.00
251.00
Total amount of Permanent Fund, $10,370.45
I do not consider that more than nine thousand, three hundred and fifty dollars of the above can be estimated as good.
Signed,
SAMUEL WHITEHORNE, Trustee.
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ANNALS OF TRINITY CHURCH,
RECTORS OF TRINITY CHURCH.
Rev. Mr. Lockyer,
1698
to
1704
Rev. James Honyman,
I704
I750*
Rev. James Leaming,
1750
I754
Rev. Thomas Pollen,
I754
1760
Rev. Marmaduke Browne,
I760
I77I*
Rev. James Sayre,
I786
66
1788
Rev. William Smith,
1789
I797
Rev. Theodore Dehon,
I 798
1809
Rev. Salmon Wheaton,
18IO
1840
Rev. Francis Vinton, D.D.,
1840
1844
Rev. Robert B. Hall,
1844
1846
Rev. Darius H. Brewer,
1846
1855
Rev. Alexander G. Mercer, D.D.,
1855
1860
Rev. Oliver H. Prescott,
1861
1863
Rev. John H. Black,
1863
66
1866
Rev. Isaac P. White, D.D.,
I866
66
1875*
Rev. George J. Magill,
1876
66
SENIOR WARDENS OF TRINITY CHURCH.
Nicholas Lange,
I709
to
Daniel Ayrault,
1719
I72I
Nathaniel Newdigate,
I72I
I722
Adam Powell,
I722
66 I723
William Coddington,
I723
I724
Henry Bull,
I724
I725
Godfrey Malbone,
I725
66
1726
William Wanton,
I731
I732
Jonathan Thurston,
I732
I733
James Martin,
I733
I734
Jahleel Brenton,
I734
1735
John Gidley,
I735
I736
Samuel Wickham,
1736
I737
Edward Scott,
I737
66 1738
Daniel Ayrault, Jr.,
1738
66
I739
66
66
66
66
66
* Died while at the head of the Church.
.
66
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NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND.
William Mumford,
I739
to
1740
Joseph Wanton,
1740
1741
John Bannister,
1741
1742
Peleg Brown,
I742
1743
Philip Wilkinson,
I743
I744
Stephen Ayrault,
1744
1745
Thomas Wickham,
I745
66 1746
William Paul,
I746 66
1747
Walter Chaloner,
1747
1748
Evan Malbone,
1748
1749
Charles Wickham,
I749
1750
Walter Cranston,
1750
175I
Robert Sherman,
1751
66
1752
Jonathan Thurston,
1752
1753
Thomas Vernon,
I753
1754
Edward Cole,
1754
1755
Metcalf Bowler,
1755
1756
Robert Jenkins,
1756
66
1757
Joseph Wanton, Jr.,
1757
1758
Charles Handy,
1758
66
1759
Andrew Hunter,
1759
1760
Isaac Stelle,
1760
1761
John Mawdsley,
1761
1762
Benjamin Mason,
1762
1763
Benjamin Brenton,
1763
1764
Samuel Bours,
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