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Title: ... History of Oswego County, New York
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Johnson, Crisfield
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Publisher: Philadelphia, L.H. Everts & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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laid by Rev. Mr. McCarty on the.lib day of May, 1828, with ai)propriate religious .services;the Rev. Dr. Rudd, of Auburn, being )irescut and a,ssi.st-ing. It continued to be a missionary p;uisli until the year1885. The debt of three tboii.sind dollars contracted for thebuilding of the cliureh was )iaid by the aid of a gift fnnnTrinity church, in the city of New York, of one thousanddollars. From tliis date the church has been self-support-ing. The church building was consecrated to its holy jiur-)ioses on the 2.5th day of January, 1821), having beenfinished within the short space of nine months from thelaying of the corner-stone. It,s dimensions were .siveiityby fiHy-two feet. Its capacity was about four hundredpersons. The number of commuuieants at that time wasninety-one. The number of conimnnicants in the )iarishwhen .Mr. McCarly left it, in 184.), was the .same as it hadbeen ten years before. Rev. John S. Davenport becamethe rector of the parish in .\ugust, 184.), u;ion the rcsig-
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HISTORY OF OSWEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK. IGl nation of Rov. Jolin McCarfy. During the year 1850 theparish of the Evangelists was formed from this parish, andduring the next two years the erection of a stone churchedifice was begun upon the east side, which was opened forservices in December, 1852. Upon the resignation of Mr. Davenport in 1852, theRev. Anthony Scliuyler was called to the rectorship. Itwas decided in 1853 to erect a new church. In August,1854, the ground was broken, and the foundation of thenew edifice was laid. The corner-stone was laid with ap-propriate ceremonies upon the 12th day of October, 1854,by the Rev. W. B. A.shley, rector of St. Pauls church,Syracuse. The church was opened for divine services uponthe 1st day of January, 1857. The number of communi-cants at that time was one hundred and thirty-two. Thecost of the church building was thirteen thousand dollars.In 1857 the old church building, which had for severalyears been used for a school-house, was sold for two

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