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Tag: box pews

Seating in the Meeting House

December 7, 2025 Gordon Harris1 Comment
Sandown Meeting House

The question of greater and lesser dignity, carrying with it the question of higher or lower seats, became so vexing that the task of “seating the congregation” was laid upon the Selectmen.

Posted in StoriesTagged box pews, first church, Meeting House
Ipswich MA historic photos by William Varrel

Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts by Abraham Hammatt
Ipswich Massachusetts Revisited by William Varrel

© Gordon Harris 2026

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