Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . and the later scenes in which the name of LadyFrankland will mingle again with our story, under the darkeningsky of the Revolution, belong in a subsequent period. Mr. Prices interest in the Episcopal colony and church atHopkinton had so much to do with the growing dissatisfactionof the congregation at Kings Chapel, and entered so largelyinto his own ministerial plans, that it is too intimately inter-woven with our narrative to be passed by without furthernotice. The town of Hopkinton, in Worcester County, incor-po
Annals of King's Chapel from the Puritan age of New England to the present day . and the later scenes in which the name of LadyFrankland will mingle again with our story, under the darkeningsky of the Revolution, belong in a subsequent period. Mr. Prices interest in the Episcopal colony and church atHopkinton had so much to do with the growing dissatisfactionof the congregation at Kings Chapel, and entered so largelyinto his own ministerial plans, that it is too intimately inter-woven with our narrative to be passed by without furthernotice. The town of Hopkinton, in Worcester County, incor-porated in 1715, owed its name to Edward Hopkins of London,an early governor of Connecticut, and one of the first settlersof Hartford, who returning later to England had bequeathed^500 to Harvard College. On receiving this money in 1713the college had invested it in this extensive tract of land, givingthe name in honor of the donor. x 1 See Quincys Harvard College, i. 411. Rev. Nathanael Howes Century205; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 1S71-73, p. Sermon, at Hopkinton, Dec. 24, 1815,. Country Home of Rev. Roger Price, (near the first parish church)AT HOPKINTON.
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