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owe to each other : A Sermon, preached at the opening of the 

 reverend Presbytery of Salem, at Groton, June 9, 1784. By 

 Nathaniel Whitaker, D. D. Together with the Minutes of 

 the said Presbytery in his Case ; a short plan of Presbyterian 

 Church -Government ; with an Appendix, by the same author ; 

 containing a Display of the Sophistry, Misrepresentations and 

 glaring Falsehoods published in a late Pamphlet, entitled, ' Dr. 

 Whitaker's neighbor is come and searcheth him out. — or a 

 Defence of the late Council's Result.' A Lying Tongue is but 

 for a Moment. Solomon^ 



After Dr. Whitaker's dismission, he remained in town for a 

 time, but never again preached here. He left Salem and 

 obtained charge of a small Society in Canaan, in Maine, but 

 Avhile there had the further misfortune to be called to account 

 before the Supreme Court upon a criminal charge, of which 

 however he was cleared through the lack of sufficient evidence 

 to convict him. From Canaan he went to Virginia, and prac- 

 ticed medicine, for which he had some aptitude, as appeared at 

 the time of the pre valance of the small-pox in Salem, in 1774. 

 He died January 21, 1795, aged 63 years. 



William McGilchrist op the Episcopal Church. Mr. 

 McGilchrist w^as the second Rector of the Episcopal church, 

 succeeding Mr. Brockwell in that office. He was appointed in 

 1746, by the " society [in England] for the Propagation of the 

 Gospel in Foreign Parts," in accordance with an earnest peti- 

 tion of the society here, which ran as follows : 



" To his Grace, the most Kevd. Father iu God, John, Lord Archbishop 

 of Canterbury, President, and to the rest of the Right Keverend Right 

 Hon'l and Worthy Governors and [Members of the Society for the Prop- 

 agation of ye Gospel in Foreign Parts : 



Gent. — The Removal of the Rev'd Mr. Brockwell, the Society's 

 Missionary in this Town, by ye Bishop of London to the King's Chapel 

 in Boston, in the Room of Mr. Roe, makes us once more petitioners to 

 the Hon'l Society, That they will be pleased to appoint some suitable 

 Gen't for this Church. We doubt not but that you have had a satisfac- 

 tory acco't from Mr. Brockwell of the state of our Church, as also the 

 great expense we have been at in raising and finishing a house suitable 

 for ye Worship of ye Supreme Being. When we say great expense it 

 ia so indeed considering the small number engaged in the affair, and 

 have at last compleated ye same, and as this town is the Shire Town of 

 the County and ye next markett Town to Boston in New England, you 

 cannot but conclude, our opposition has been great (having what ye 

 world calls great men, our antagonists.) But thanks to Heaven they 



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