This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... l9- 18/3, when he was ordained as rector. In 1880 the entire debt of the church was paid, and work begun afresh on an unencumbered basis. The ground upon which St. Martin's Episcopal Church of Birmingham township was later erected was given to the adherents of the Church of England by Walter Martin, a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... l9- 18/3, when he was ordained as rector. In 1880 the entire debt of the church was paid, and work begun afresh on an unencumbered basis. The ground upon which St. Martin's Episcopal Church of Birmingham township was later erected was given to the adherents of the Church of England by Walter Martin, a Friend of Upper Chichester, who had become em* bittered against his sect because of being "dealt with" according to the customs of that society. In 1702 the few believers of that faith purchased a rude frame building, formerly a blacksmith shop, from John and Tobias Hendrickson. for the sum of 5, which they moved to the ground granted them by Walter Martin. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts established it as a missionary station, in connection with St. Paul's of Chester and the church at Concord. In 1745 the old frame structure becoming insufficient, a fund was raised and a small brick church erected, the old sanctuary coming into use as a school-house. In 1845, one hundred years later, the building had fallen into such dilapidation that it was determined to build a new edifice, which was accordingly done, making the third building occupied by the congregation. In 1822, St. Martin's separated itself from St. Paul's parish, and has since continued as an independent organization. John Larkin Jr., in 1879 presented the church with a tract of two acres adjoining the old churchyard of St. Martin's, which had been crowded with the bodies of those who had fallen under the scythe of the Grim Reaper. The Rev. Evan Evans first mentions what later became St. John's Episcopal Church of Concord, in a letter dated London, September 18, 1707, in which he writes on "the state of the church in Pennsylvania, most humbly...
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