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St. Peter's Church

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Stock #: 285436
Type: Postcard
Era: Divided Back
City: Salem
State: Massachusetts (MA)
County: Essex
Publisher: Hugh C. Leighton Co.
Postmark: Oct-17
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
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The present English Gothic Church of stone occupied by this ancient Episcopal society at the corner of Brown and St. Peter Streets was built in 1833 on land given by Philip English, a wealthy merchant of his time, for the site of the first church erected by the society in 1733. During the War of the Revolution public feeling against everything English ran so high that a law was enacted by the State Legislature forbidding the reading of the Episcopal service under penalty of 100 pounds and one year's imprisonment, and religious services were consequently suspended while the property of the society suffered from lawless violence

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