tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post3635281433125243292..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: The Unhappy Ministerial Career of the Rev. John CarnesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-80674875223461131212010-09-14T19:48:31.353-05:002010-09-14T19:48:31.353-05:00I stand corrected . Our currrent building dates f...I stand corrected . Our currrent building dates from 1810; I was confused by the 200th year celebration we're having, and just added an extra 100 years... mea culpa! <br /><br />The previous building that Carnes knew is not there anymore. I've seen maps that show that all the Newman buildings (there have been 4) were within 100 feet of each other on the same corner since 1643, but there's only one building on the corner now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-30047558138678421242010-09-14T18:00:05.267-05:002010-09-14T18:00:05.267-05:00Thanks for that information! For some reason my re...Thanks for that information! For some reason my research is ending up in a lot of borderlands these days: Seekonk, Suffield, Dunstable. Hard to keep straight.<br /><br />I went looking for a picture of the <a href="http://www.newmanucc.org/" rel="nofollow">Newman Congregational Church</a>, and found that Wikipedia says the current building dates to 1810. Is the building Carnes knew also around, or was that the predecessor to the current church?J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-50504912330910289182010-09-14T15:25:02.197-05:002010-09-14T15:25:02.197-05:00Just a point of clarification: The Rev. John Carn...Just a point of clarification: The Rev. John Carnes served the FIRST Church in Seekonk. Today that church is known as the Newman Congregational Church. The building in which he preached is still there, and services are held there every Sunday, but it is no longer in Seekonk. The state boundaries changed around 1863, and now the building is in East Providence (Rumford) Rhode Island. There is a Seekonk Congregational Church in Massachusetts; it is a daughter of the Newman Church, as is the Rehoboth Congregational Church. The original settlement of Rehoboth encompassed what is today Rehoboth, Seekonk, much of East Providence, and part of Pawtucket RI.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com