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A History of American Christianity

CHAPTER IX
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"It grieved them that Church of England men should be stigmatized with the grim and horrid title of dissenters" ("The Making of Pennsylvania," p.

192).

One of the most pathetically amusing instances of the misfit of the Englishman in America is that of the Rev.
Mr.Poyer at Jamaica, L.I.The meeting-house and glebe-lands that had been provided by the people of that parish for the use of themselves and their pastor were gotten, neither honorably nor lawfully, into the possession of the missionary of the "S.

P.G." and his scanty following, and held by him in spite of law and justice for twenty-five years.

At last the owners of the property succeeded in evicting him by process of law.


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