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that of his wife. Quite lately, in response to urgent demand, the building has been thrown open on certain days to the crowds of historical pilgrims who annually flock to Quincy that they may see the spot sacred to the memory of this greatest of American households.

EAST APTHORP AND HIS PARISH

B

TROUBLES1

EAUTIFUL old Christ Church,

in Cambridge, may be said to be

the godchild, after a fashion, of King's Chapel in Boston. For it was by the rector of the old parish, good Doctor Caner, that, almost one hundred and fifty years ago, this letter was drawn up and sent to the famous Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the body then in charge of the entire missionary activity of the Church of England.

1 NOTE: The data for this chapter was found principally in "History of Christ Church," Cambridge (1893), by Samuel F. Batchelder.

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EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR VIEWS OF KING'S CHAPEL, BOSTON, MASS.

"To the Revd. Dr. Bearcroft, Secretary to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts:

"BOSTON, 5 April, 1759.

"REVEREND SIR:

"We the subscribers, for ourselves, and in the name and at the desire of a considerable number of families professing the Church of England at Cambridge, Watertown, and places adjacent, humbly beg leave to represent to the Society the difficulties we labour under in regard to the means of public worship, and to entreat their charitable assistance. There is no church nearer to us than Boston, which is from some of us eight, from others ten and twelve miles distant; unless, for shortening the way, we submit to the inconveniences of crossing a large ferry, which in stormy weather, and in the winter

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