Registers and Records : 1787-1945.

            Trinity Church, the oldest Anglican church in New Brunswick, was built in 1789 by newly-settled United Empire Loyalists from Connecticut and New York. Loyalists arrived in Kingston in 1784, and made provisions for the establishment of an Anglican Church. The first clergyman in the parish was Reverend John Beardsley. Before a church building was in place, prayer meetings were lead by Walter Dibblee at the Scribner home.  In 1787, Reverend James Scovil of Waterbury, Connecticut who was a missionary for the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel, arrived at Kingston. A hilltop site was selected in 1787, and both the church and the rectory were constructed by 1789, being consecrated in November of that year.  Upon the death of James Scovil in 1808, he was succeeded by his son, Reverend Elias Scovil, who would pass the position of clergyman on to his son, Reverend William Elias Scovil. (Parish of Kingston, Parks Canada, Connor DeMerchant/ Anglican Parish of Kingston)            

            The reel contains: burials, 1816-1857; burials, 1876-1970, which include the following churchyards: St. James, Long Reach, St. Paul's, Whitehead, and All Saints, Clifton; vestry books, 1784-1901; and a list of rectors, 1787-1945.
            

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