. The romance of old New England churches. f the year1Y58 recalled him to his native land, andshortly after his return he married Eliza-beth, the daughter of Judge Foster Hutch-inson. Thus well educated, well born, andwell settled in life, this young man was 213 OLD XEW ENGLAND CHURCHES held to be an ideal rector for the newchurch. The Society for the Propagation of theGospel in Foreign Parts (established byKing William III. on the sixteenth ofJune, 1701), had promptly acceded to therequest of the Cambridge petitioners. Al-though it was already supporting in Massa-chusetts Kings Chapel, Christ
. The romance of old New England churches. f the year1Y58 recalled him to his native land, andshortly after his return he married Eliza-beth, the daughter of Judge Foster Hutch-inson. Thus well educated, well born, andwell settled in life, this young man was 213 OLD XEW ENGLAND CHURCHES held to be an ideal rector for the newchurch. The Society for the Propagation of theGospel in Foreign Parts (established byKing William III. on the sixteenth ofJune, 1701), had promptly acceded to therequest of the Cambridge petitioners. Al-though it was already supporting in Massa-chusetts Kings Chapel, Christ Church,and Trinity in Boston, St. Michaels atMarblehead, St. Peters at Salem, at Newburyport, St. Thomass atTaunton, St. Pauls at Hopkinton, ChristChurch at Braintree (now Quincy), andSt. Andrews at Scituate, it cheerfullyadded the Cambridge enterprise to its list,and appointed as rector the choice of theCambridge people, with a salary allowancefrom them of fifty pounds sterling perannum. In the architect appointed to draw up214. OLD NEW ENGLAND CHUKCHES plans for the church, the little group ofCambridge gentlemen were very they chose Mr. Peter Harrison, thenof Newport, Rhode Island, who, ten yearsbefore, had designed Kings Chapel inBoston. Mr. Harrison had probably beeninduced to come to this country by BishopBerkeley,^ whose story is bound up withold Trinity, Newport, and he had broughtwith him the best traditions of Sir Chris-topher Wren, who was, at this period, theleading architectural spirit of is believed to have worked in the oldcountry upon the palace of the Duke ofMarlborough, at Woodstock, and uponother similarly imposing piles. His de-sign for Christ Church has been pro-nounced a real advance over KingsChapel. Erom its first erection the edificehas been considered by connoisseurs in 1 See Romance of Old New England Roof trees. 215 OLD :new exglaxd churches architecture one of the best constructedchurches in New England. In generalappea
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