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OF THE

CHURCH IN BURLINGTON.

NEW JERSEY;

COMPRISING THE FACTS AND INCIDENTS OF NEARLY
TWO HUNDRED YEARS, FROM ORIGINAL,

CONTEMPORANEOUS SOURCES.

BY THE

REV. GEORGE MORGAN HILLS, D. D.,

RECTOR OF ST. MARY'S PARISH,

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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.

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