Newtown's history and historian, Ezra Levan Johnson . SILAS i\. BEERS See Page 85. SHOWING RELATIVE POSITION OF THE TWOCHURCHES 1793 and 1870 NEWTOWNS EPISCOPAL CHURCHES 85 Parker, born 1859, is an eminent lawyer of Lowell, Mass. In 1866, the parish bought the homestead of Isaac Beers, justsouth of the old church and separated from it by a branch road con-necting at the rear of the Church with the road leading to SandyHook The town relinquished its right to this road. The strip ofroad, together with the homestead bought of Isaac Beers, madeample room for the site and building of the new Church
Newtown's history and historian, Ezra Levan Johnson . SILAS i\. BEERS See Page 85. SHOWING RELATIVE POSITION OF THE TWOCHURCHES 1793 and 1870 NEWTOWNS EPISCOPAL CHURCHES 85 Parker, born 1859, is an eminent lawyer of Lowell, Mass. In 1866, the parish bought the homestead of Isaac Beers, justsouth of the old church and separated from it by a branch road con-necting at the rear of the Church with the road leading to SandyHook The town relinquished its right to this road. The strip ofroad, together with the homestead bought of Isaac Beers, madeample room for the site and building of the new Church, withoutdisturbing the old Church building. After the completion of thestone Church, the old building w^as sold at auction for $100 andtorn down. The building committee were, Mr. Henry Sanford, Simeon , David H. Johnson, Henry B. Glover, Aaron Sanford. , 1867, Walter Clarke, Daniel N. Morgan, Silas N. Beers, Le-grand Fairchild and Frederick Chambers were added to the build-ing committee. The architect w^as Mr. Silas Norman Beers, one of Newtow^nsgifted sons. He, wi
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