Newtown's history and historian, Ezra Levan Johnson . f Englandmeeting house had not been located quite as ye town directs, as ye 28 rodssouth of ye Presbyterian meeting house terminated 19 feet southward ofye south sill of ye Church of England meeting house as they are now laid. The same day John Glover, Jr., Thomas Skidmore and James Hard,committee of the Episcopal church, apologized for the mistake : We ye subscribers, members of ye church of England in Newtown, beingsensible that we have not fully complied with ye vote of sd town in respectto building ye Church, in that we did not lay ye f
Newtown's history and historian, Ezra Levan Johnson . f Englandmeeting house had not been located quite as ye town directs, as ye 28 rodssouth of ye Presbyterian meeting house terminated 19 feet southward ofye south sill of ye Church of England meeting house as they are now laid. The same day John Glover, Jr., Thomas Skidmore and James Hard,committee of the Episcopal church, apologized for the mistake : We ye subscribers, members of ye church of England in Newtown, beingsensible that we have not fully complied with ye vote of sd town in respectto building ye Church, in that we did not lay ye foundation of sd Church asfar southward as it ought to have been by sd vote, by about 20 feet and inso doing have so far done contrary to good order and ye agreement of yetown by sd vote and hereby desire that those who are aggrieved to forgiveus that rong. —John Glover, Thomas Skidmore, John Glover, the Com-mitte. Ye subscribers hereunto received ye above acknowledgment and accept-ed it to put on record, April 12, 1746. John Northrope, Town X X c 5 c t^
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