. Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day. Country Home of Rev. Roger Price, (near the first parish church)at Country Home of Rev. James Freeman, D. Newton. TRINITY CHURCH. —A CLOSING 517 About the year 1736 Roger Price there purchased a largetract of land on the banks of a noble river. Here he built achurch at his own expense, and obtained for it an endowment ofa glebe of one hundred and seventy acres for the use of theEpiscopal Church.^ He also gave a chuich-yard containing anacre and a half, as a burial-place for the church peo
. Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day. Country Home of Rev. Roger Price, (near the first parish church)at Country Home of Rev. James Freeman, D. Newton. TRINITY CHURCH. —A CLOSING 517 About the year 1736 Roger Price there purchased a largetract of land on the banks of a noble river. Here he built achurch at his own expense, and obtained for it an endowment ofa glebe of one hundred and seventy acres for the use of theEpiscopal Church.^ He also gave a chuich-yard containing anacre and a half, as a burial-place for the church people. Histwo children who died in this country are buried in this his surviving children returned to America in 1783, thischurch was found in such a dilapidated condition that it wastaken down, and a new church built on the site, his childrengiving the timber and contributing funds. Roger Price also purchased of Charles Morris an unfinishedhouse and large tract of land with a fine grove, in the centre ofthe town of Hopkinton, finishing the house and occupying it dur-ing the summer months. In all the letters this house is men-tioned as the Ma
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