. The New England magazine . Loyalist Reli led by the De Veber Fannily, Gagetown. Perhaps the most interesting relic ofthe revolutionary period now in St. Johnis the Royal coat of arms, which at one 314 THE Old Chaloner China. IN POSSESSION OF THE CALHOUN FAMILY, ST. JOHN. time hung on the walls of the councilchamber of the Old State House inBoston. This coat of arms was removedwhen the British evacuated that city in1776, and was taken to Halifax and after-wards to St. John, N. B. It was placedin the first church erected in St. John bythe Loyalists, which was Trinity, and ofwhich t
. The New England magazine . Loyalist Reli led by the De Veber Fannily, Gagetown. Perhaps the most interesting relic ofthe revolutionary period now in St. Johnis the Royal coat of arms, which at one 314 THE Old Chaloner China. IN POSSESSION OF THE CALHOUN FAMILY, ST. JOHN. time hung on the walls of the councilchamber of the Old State House inBoston. This coat of arms was removedwhen the British evacuated that city in1776, and was taken to Halifax and after-wards to St. John, N. B. It was placedin the first church erected in St. John bythe Loyalists, which was Trinity, and ofwhich the Rev. George Bisset was Rev. George Bisset was an Episco-pal minister of Newport, R. I. He diedin St. John in 1788, and his body wasplaced in the Putnam tomb. The secondrector of Trinity Ghurch was the Byles, Jr., who was the last rec-tor of Christ Church, Boston, and whowas a son of the Rev. Mather Byles, alsoof Boston, who was the first pastor ofHoUis Street Church. Old Trinity Churchin St. John was destroyed by the greatfire of 1877, but the precious relic ofthe revolution, the royal arms, was savedand now adorns the walls of the hand-some stone structure which has beenerected in plac
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