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orial Side Altar, Altar and Candlesticks, presented by the Parish h memory of Martha Hulme Canfield.
emorial gift to the parish of two Chancel Prayer Books was made n Advent 1929 by Mrs. Albert E. Buck in memory of her father, Cyrus Smith Hard.
ry Altar in the Rectory Chapel was the gift of Miss Mabel Holkins int Chase in memory of John Lathrop Burdett, her uncle who left his lome to the parish for a Rectory.
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ST. JAMES' EPISCOPAL CHURCH, ARLINGTON
INCORPORATION OF THE PARISH ACCORDING TO LAWS OF THE STATE OF VERMONT
Hitherto the meetings of the Vestry had been held without form recognized by the state.
At a meeting of the Vestry held on April 19, 1823 the mit record that in accordance with a statute of the state passed Nover 10, 1814, requiring that religious societies shall be constituted
or a certain specified form, it was voted that this society shall
after be considered as organized according to the form prescribe said statute, to wit:
"We, the Subscribers, Inhabitants of the Town of Arlington the County of Bennington and state of Vermont, do hereby vc tarily associate and agree to form a society or to continue the so which has heretofore existed, by the name of the Protestant Epist Church Society in Arlington for the purpose of building Me Houses, and settling and supporting ministers according to the section of an Act entitled: "An act for the support of the G passed October 26, 1793.
In witness whereof we have hereunto severally set our } Dated at Arlington in the county aforesaid this 19th day of Apı the year of our Lord 1823.
Signed:
Cyrus Hurd
Martin C. Deming John Holden
Asahel Hurd
Sylvester Deming Elijah Hawley
Elisha Hawley
Samuel Canfield Levine Hard
Martin Hard
Cyrus B. Hills
Noble Hard
Luther Stone
Enos Canfield
John Holden Jr.
John Holden
Truman Hard
Zadok Hard Jr.
Abel Benedict
Austin Seeley
Reuben B. Oatman
Wm. Imus
John B. Lathrop
Samuel Folsom
Lewis Dyers
Sylvanus Hard
Wm. MacAuley Jr.
Simeon Cole
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APPENDIX
The State Seal
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ENRY Stevens, Esq., the State Antiquarian, gives the following account of the origin of the seal of Vermont:
I had heard that the Vermont coat-of-arms originated in Ar- ;ton and stopped there to obtain reliable authority for the story.
I had in my pocket the guard-roll of Governor Chittenden; an man was pointed out to me (Mr. Deming, I believe was his name) one of this Company.
I joined him, introduced myself and walked down with him to his ise.
It was a summer, warm day, about noon, and we sat down in the ch before the door, where some vines grew, to have a chat. I asked 1 if he was one of Chittenden's guard. He was proud as a peacock be asked. I showed him the roll; there was his name, and he in- med me that he was the only man of the Company then living. I asked where he boarded at the time. "At the Governor's," he lied, "I was a young man and so boarded with him. We had plenty eat and drink, a good place it was."
Said I: "Do you remember anything of the drinking cup?"
"Yes, they were of horn." Had any of them any marks on them? es, the seal of our State was first engraved on one of them. I have nk out of it many a time."
An English Lieutenant, who used to bring letters secretly to the vernor, was there one time, "sparking" the Governor's hired girl. stopped several days, and taking a view from the west window of Governor's residence, of a wheat field some two acres in the distance, rond which was a knoll with one solitary pine upon its top, he en- ved it upon this cup.
The field was fenced off from a level space intervening between the use. Within this space he put "the cow" with her head reached er the fence for the grain.
The Governor's drinking cups were made from the horn of an ox, d bottomed with wood.
First was cut off a cup from the lower end of the horn that asured half a pint, next a gill cup, then a third cup which was a ss.
The engraved cup attracted the notice of Ira Allen, who adopted device for our State seal; only when he took hold of it he brought e cow over the fence into the midst of the grain-bundles on either e, so when she had eaten one stack the other was ready.
Mr. Stevens meanwhile kindly showed unto us several variations of is device, adopted from time to time, on old State proclamations, etc., his possession. Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Vol. 1.
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Index of Names
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ms, Horace M., 130, 5
ns, Charles A., 91
ns, Mary A., 111 ns, Samuel, 13
1, Ethan, 18, 129, 149 rew, Reuben H., 77 rew, Mrs. Reuben H.,
rews, Elihu, 17 rews, Rev. Samuel, 16 ns, Mrs. Clifford, 81
B y, Rev. A. H., D.D., , 68 r, Mrs. O. R., 81 er, Orange R., 77 er, Remember, 13, 14, 3, 78 ver, Rev. Daniel, 23, 1,30 , Rev. Edward, 24, 25, 5 helder, Mrs. J. K., 85 h, Rev. Abraham, .D., 6
:h, Rev. John, 13 :h, Rev. Stephen, 38, 0 edict, Pitman, 13 edict, Samuel, 77 jamin, Mrs. Paul, 81 jamin, Mrs. Helene, 81 :ridge, Mrs. Elizabeth, 1
is, William J., 77 is, Mrs. William J., 81, 3, 85 :o, Isaac, 13
ell, Rt. Rev. William Henry Augustus, D.D., 3, 59, 72, 73
Bixby, Mrs. Warren, 80 Bliss, Rev. J. Isham, D.D., 97
Bliss, Rt. Rev. George Yemens, D.D., 125
Booth, Rt. Rev. Samuel Babcock, D.D., 126, 127, 128 Bostwick, Rev. Gideon, 16, 24, 30
Bottum, Mrs. Harold, 81, 83 Bradley, Mrs. Elizabeth, 81 Brainerd, Deaconess Louisa, 82 Bronson, Mrs. Fred, 80 Bronson, Rev. Abraham, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, (his death) 41, 54, 60, 61, 132, 134, 135, 137, 150 Bronson, Mrs. Ida, 80 Brown, Rev. W. J., 33, 120, 123
Brownson, Mary, 147
Brush, Frederick H., 77 Brush, Rev. George Robert, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123
Brush, Mrs. G. R., 80, 83, 122
Buck, Albert E., 77
Buck, Mrs. Charles, 80, 85
Buck, David, 13
Buck, Mrs. Fanny M., 80 Buck, Gould, 75
Buck, Miss Grace, 82
Buck, Lemuel, 13, 74
Bump, Mrs. Louise, 80 Burbank, Mrs. C. E., 80,
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Burdett, Jesse, 77
Burdett, Mrs. Jesse, 80
Burdett, John Lathrop, 77, 122 Burleson, Bishop Hugh L., 1
Burritt, Daniel, 13 Burton, Dr. Simon, 12
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Canfield, Albert D., 77 Canfield, Mrs. Almera Hawley, 87
Canfield, Anson, 75
Canfield, Betsey, 83
Canfield, Mrs. Charles, 80
Canfield, Rev. Eli H., 65, 66, 74 Canfield, Enos, 75
Canfield, Mrs. Frank, 80
Canfield, Frank N., 62
Canfield, Fred S., 77
Canfield, Galen, 75
Canfield, Harmon, 75
Canfield, Israel, 13
Canfield, Dr. James
Hulme, 88 Canfield, Martha Hulme, Bequest of, 116
Canfield, Miss Martha Hulme, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90
Canfield, Miss Mary Ann, 87 Canfield, Nathan, 13, 17, 18, 23, 74 Canfield, Mrs. Nathaniel, 96 Canfield, Samuel, 75
Canfield, Thomas H., 68, 75,76 Canfield, Zadok, 87
Carnahan, Rev. James Curtiss, 103-104 Catlin, Rev. Russell, 20, 30 Chapman, Rev. George T., 39 Chapman, Rev. John W., 68
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ST. JAMES' EPISCOPAL CHURCH, ARLINGTON
Chase, Rev. Carlton, 40 Chase, Rt. Rev. Philander, 76 Chipman, Hon. Nathaniel, 33 G
Chittenden, Rev. Bethuel,
24, 26, 30, 31, 38, 75 Clap, Rev. Joel, 31
Cleghorn, Miss Sarah, 84, 92
Coe, Mrs. Alfred, 81, 83
Coit, Rev. J. Howland, 41 Colden, Cadwallader Gov., 130
Cole, Miss Betty, 83
Cole, Mrs. Jacob, 81
Cole, Lawrence A., 77
Cole, Mrs. Lawrence A., 81
Cole, Simeon, 75
Coleman, Rt. Rev. Leigh- ton, D.D., 100
Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 77
Congdon, Mrs. Herbert W., 83
Cossitt, Rev. Ramea, 5
Cranfield, Gov. (N. H.), 3
Crofut, Charles Hawley, 56, 62, 77 Crofut, David, 13, 74
Crofut, Mrs. David, 80
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Dayton, Caleb, 13, 17, 23, 74
Dayton, Josiah, 13
Deming, Martin C., 54
Deming, Martin H., 77
Deming, Mrs. Mary Chit- tenden, 83, 85
Deming, Sylvester, 43, 75
DuBois, Mrs. Cora, 83, 85
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Ensworth, Henry Board- man, 103-104
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Farnham, Mrs. Henry, 80 Fifer, Rev. Philip T., 152, 153, 154 Fifer, Mrs. Philip, 81, 83
Fisher, Mrs. Dorothy Can- Hard, Zadok, 13, 17, hro field, 10, 78, 87, 88, 93 74 15 Frume, James, 13 Hard, Mrs. Zadok, 80, 8 jhro
Gault, Mrs. Jerome, 80
Gibson, Rev. Kiliaen VanRensselaer, 113, 114, 115
Gilbert, Rev. John Mills, 117, 118
Gilchrist, Clarence Dyer, 166
Gilchrist, Mrs. C. D., 81, 83,85
Gilliat, Rev. Francis, 64, 65. Goewey, Mrs. Maria S., 80, 85 Graham, Col. John A., 26, 27 Graves, Rev. Gemont, 61, 62
Gray, Rev. Jordan, 31, 40, 75
Grey, Capt. John, 13
Griswold, Rt. Rev. Alex- ander Viets, D.D., 33, 36, 37, 44, 45
Grout, Mrs. Harry, 81, 82, 85
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Hale, Rev. Charles Stuart, 55, 56,105,106
Hall, Rt. Rev. Arthur, C. A., D.D., 98, Elec- tion and Consecration of, 99, 123, 124, 126, 127
Hard, Rev. Anson B., 52, 74 *c
Hard, Alma Davis, 84
Hard, Clarence E., 82
Hard Family, Descendants of, 17 K
Hard, Gordon M., 77
Hard, James, 13
Hard, The Misses Libbie and Abbie, 80, 85
Hard, Orin, 74 Hard, Miss Sadie F., 81, 85
Hard, Sylvanus, 75
Hart, Rev. Samuel, D.I.s 97 Haskins, Kittridge, 68 Hawley, Abel, 74 ke åke
Hawley, Abijah, 75
Hawley, Andrew, 74
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Hawley, Curtis, 75
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Hawley, Rev. Fletcher 74
Hawley, Capt. Jehiel, 1:
14, 16, 24, 30, 74, 14 146, 149, 150
Hawley, Miss Pauline, 8; inf Henderson, Miss Eloise, ! A Henderson, Mrs. John, 8 85 Hills, Cyrus B., 54, 75
Hogbin, Mrs. E. Orvis, 8 Holbrook, Stewart H., 1 Holden, Mrs. George, & 85 Holden, John, 75
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Holden, Mrs. Marion Ru 84, 85
Holden, William S., 74 Hopkins, Rev. John
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Henry, D.D., 62 port
Hopkins, Rt. Rev. Johı
Henry, D.D., 37, 49, 50, 51, 52, 56, 58 Pich Hopkins, Maria Graves, FR Houghton, Mrs. Mary, 8 30
Howard, Mrs. George, 8 by
Hoyt, Mrs. Alice M., 62
Hurd, Asahel, 75
Hurd, Phineas, 13
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Immen, Mrs. Burton, 81 83
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Jolley, May Bronson, 85 Judson, Mrs. J. R., 80
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King, Mrs. Melvin, 81
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LaBatt, Mrs. Maude A., : Lathrop, John B., 75
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rop, Mrs. Ernest, 80, rop, Mrs. May, 80, rence, Mrs. Nellie, 80 te, Miss Dorothy, 83 te, Richard B., 77 lard, Ebenezer, 13 ord, Rev. John, 4 n, Col. M., 24 ns, Constance May, 111
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lory, Zaccheus, 13 hross, William W., 37 ble, Miss Lauretta, 80 Auley, Miss Antoinette, 5 Auley, Miss Lillian, 85 Auley, Miss Mildred, 85 Auley, Mrs. William, 0, 85 Guire, Mrs. Fred, 81 Kee, Rev. J. Elmer, 123 chell, George, 13 ntague, Rev. William, 2 rton, Thomas, 4 N
:hols, Rev. James, first Rector, 17, 19, 23, 24, res, y, 8 0 e, 8 yes, Mrs. Walter, 80 62 O
tman, Daniel, 13 tman, George, 13 den, Rev. J. C., 24
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:k, Thomas, 13 inington, Dr. Edgar L., 27
kins, Rev. Nathaniel, 22 rkins, Rev. William S., 50,51
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Perry, Rt. Rev. James De Wolf, D.D., 1, 3 Peters, Rev. Samuel, D.D., 26, 27, 28 Phillips, Mrs. W. S., 85 Pratt, Rev. George S., 66 Provoost, Rt. Rev. Samuel, P. 1
Putnam, Mrs. Clyde, 81 Randall, Rev. John, 63, 64 Richardson, Rev. George Lynde, D.D., 56 Rockwell, Mrs. J. A., 81 Rockwell, Mrs. Norman, 81
Rogers, Mrs. Sarah, 82 Roosevelt, Rev. Sherwood, 107, 115, 116 Russell, George A., M.D., 77 Russell, Mrs. Dorothy, 82, 83
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Seabury, Rt. Rev. Samuel, D.D., 2, 27
Searing, Rev. Richard C., 67, 69, 70, 81 Searl, John, Isaac, William, 12
Seele, Austin, 13
Shaeffer, Mrs. Meade, 81 Smith, Rev. Francis W., 60 Smith, Miss Maude, 81 Spargo, Hon. John, 138, 139
Sperry, Anson H., 33 Squiers, Mrs. Dorothy, 81, 83
Squiers, Walter E., 77 Stewart, Mrs. Clara Louise, 82 Stoddard, Eliakim, 13 Stone, Luther, 17, 23, 74 Stone, Miss Sara A., 80 Sutton, Rev. J. W., D.D., 151
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Tappan, Rev. J. M., 42 Taylor, Rev. Alfred, 110, 111
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Van Dyck, Rt. Rev. Ved- der, D.D., 151, 152 Viault, Mrs. Jerome, 80
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Wadleigh, Rev. Frederick Augustus, 54, 55, 145, 146 Wadleigh, George H., Be- quest of, 121
Wallis, Ebenezer, 12 Warlow, Rev. William Meyler, 111, 112, 113
Watkins, David, 13
Watkins, Miss Mary (now Mrs. Cushing), 85 Watkins, Rev. S. Halsted 81, 83, 108, 109, 110, Bequest of, 121 Watkins, Mrs. Helen R., 82 Weeks, Rt. Rev. William Farrar, D.D., 124, 125 Wentworth, Benning, 10,
11, 130, 131, 132, 133 White, Bishop William, 1 White, Mrs. Frank, 81 Whitten, Mrs. George, 80 Wilcox, Mrs. Andrew, 81 Wilcox, Mrs. Clifford, 81 Williams, Robert, 77 Willson, Mrs. Mary, 81 Wood, Mrs. Arthur, Sr., 81
Wood, Mrs. Arthur, Jr., 81
Woodworth, Edward Can- field, 56, 62, 65, 77 Woodworth, Mrs. Emily M., 80, 81, 83 Young, Mrs. William, 81
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Index of Places and Facts
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Act of Parliament, 26 Addison, 29 Altar Guild, 82 Arlington, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 21, 23, 29, 30, 31, 37, 75, 145
Arlington, Beginnings of the Episcopal Church in, 9 Arlington, capital of in- dependent Republic of Vermont, 148 D Arlington in 1764, 11 Arlington, Why so named, "Daily Service" (1854), 13 62
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Baptist Church, Arlington, Diocesan Branch of
9, 147 Bellows Falls, 39 Bethel, 29, 31 Bethel Church (St. James), 32 Bethesda Church (W. Ar- lington), 32 Bishop Hopkins Hall, Re- pairs and Improvements of, 152 Boy Scouts, 114 Brotherhood of St. An- drew, 114
Burdett Memorial Rectory Blessing of, 122 Burlington, 39
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Castleton, 29 Centennial Memorial En- dowment Fund of the Diocese, 127 Centennial of First Con- vention of Episcopal Church in Vermont, 67
Centennial of Laying of Cornerstone of St. James' Church, 120 Chancel, Recess, 104 Charters, 10, 27 Church Sheds, 54 Churchyard Stone Wall, building of, 121 Colonial Cemetery, West Arlington, 148 Convention of Episcopal Church, first, 17, 23
Diocese of Vermont, or- ganization of, 49, 68
Woman's Auxiliary, 80 Diocesan Music School and Conference, 154
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Eastern Diocese, history of the, 32, 48 Electric Fixtures and Lights, installation of, 121 Endowment Fund, Church- yard, 121
Endowment Fund, St. James Parish, 155 Episcopal Church, founda- tion of Arlington, 16, 17 Episcopal Fund, the, 71 Evangelical Churchman- ship, 37
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Factory Point (Manches- ter), 65 Fairfield, 29, 31, 39
Federated Diocese, 37 First Charge of Bishop Hall: (1) Duties of La' Readers. (2) A Weekl Eucharist. (3) Vested Choirs, 101 Foot Stoves, 63 Fundamental alterations il the Church, 104-107
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Glebe Lands, History and Benefits of, 24, 27, 30H 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137 138, 139 g
Grants, New Hampshire, 14, 129, 130 Guild, St. James, 81
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Historical Letters, Bron- m son's, 29 Historical Pageant, 120 Houses, how built in 1764, 12
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Incorporation of the Prot- estant Episcopal Church Society in Arlington, 16
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Legislature of Vermont, Acts of, 133, 134 Library, Martha Canfield, 90, 92 List of Memorials St. James Church, 164, 165 166, 167 Litigation by the Episcopal Church, story of Glebe Land, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138
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gy, use of Prayer ok during Revolu- nary War, 7 list and Patriot, 3, 5
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chester, 29, 30, 31, 37 flower Club," 117 ing of Woman's 10p ixiliary and St. James of Child, 81 Feelmodist Church, E. Ar- igton, 9 llebury, 38, 39 ites of Vestry 1784- 03, Appendix 07 ionaries of the S.P.G. Colonial Days, 141, 2 7
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School House, the, 147 et Congregational hurch, 9 an, gift of, 51 door Chapel at Rock pint, 127
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sh Glebe Lands, 139 sh Statistics, Endow- ments and Properties, 55 liament and Episcopacy,
ochial School, 61, 104 zlet, 31 rs, High-backed, 106 yer Book, intolerance versus the, 5 cessional Cross, gift of, 21 perties and Church Statistics (1845), 55; 1868-1892 (Diocesan), 1 prietors: Laying out ands, roads, and settle- ments, 11
"Protracted Meetings," 52 Pulpit, "Hanging," 107 Puritans and Separatists, 2 Puritan versus Episcopacy, 1
R
Rectorships, duration of, 60 Rector's Message, The (Parish Letter), 122 Reredos, Memorial, 121 Retreats and Conferences, 124, 127, 128 Rock Point Schools, 57 Rutland, 38
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Salaries, method of pay- ment of, 20 Salary, The Bishop's (1868), 59
Sandgate, 29
Sesquicentennial of St. James Parish, 120 Sesquicentennial of State of Vermont held in Ar- lington, 78 Shelburne, 31, 38 Sheldon, 39
Social Life and Fellowship at St. James forty years ago and now, 85 Society, Congregational Home Missionary, 55 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 2, 6, 25, 27, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144 St. Albans, 39 St. Columban's Church, (Roman Catholic), 9
St. James' Church : Building of Bethel Church, 18 Building of St. James' Church, 43 Consecration of St. James' Church, 44
Plans of St. James' Church, 46, 47 St. James' Church, redeco- ration of, 121 St. James' Churchyard, History of, by Horace Mills Abrams, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149
St. James' Parish at Present, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155 St. James' Vestry (1869), 60 St. Matthew's, Sandgate, 41 State Seal, the, 169 Steam Heat in St. James Church, 63 Sunderland, ministrations of the Episcopal Church in, 123
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Tabernacle and Sanctuary Lamp, memorial be- quest of, 154 Tavern, Elnathan Mer- win's, 148 Tinmouth, 29
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Vergennes, 29, 31, 38 Vermont Episcopal Insti- tute, 71 Vested Choir, organization of, 121
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Wardens of St. James' Church, 161, 162, 163, 164 Weathersfield, 29 Week-day Religious Edu- cation in the School at Arlington, 153 Wells, 29, 31 West Arlington, 31, 55 Whigs and Anglican Priests, 28 Windsor, 39 Woman's Auxiliary, 80
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