OF THE CHURCH IN BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY; COMPRISING THE FACTS AND INCIDENTS OF NEARLY CONTEMPORANEOUS SOURCES. BY THE REV. GEORGE MORGAN HILLS, D. D., RECTOR OF ST. MARY'S PARISH, AND DEAN OF THE CONVOCATION OF BURLINGTON. TRENTON, N. J.: Rev. H. W. FOOTE, Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by GEORGE MORGAN HILLS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. JOHN TALBOT, M. A., FOUNDER AND FIRST RECTOR OF THE CHURCH IN BURLINGTON. WHO, AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF MISSIONARY TOIL, WITH CEASELESS, BUT INEFFECTUAL, ENTREATIES THAT A BISHOP MIGHT BE GIVEN TO AMERICA, WAS INDUCED TO RECEIVE CONSECRATION FROM A LINE OF NONJURORS, IN ENGLAND; AND RETURNED TO BURLINGTON, WHERE, AFTER THREE YEARS MORE OF MINISTRATION, FOLLOWED BY TWO OF INHIBITION, HE DIED, AND WAS BURIED WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH WHICH HE BUILT, NOVEMBER, A. D. 1727. |