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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 โ€œseating the congregationโ€ was laid upon the Selectmen.

Posted in StoriesTagged box pews, first church, Meeting House
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Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts by Abraham Hammatt
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ยฉ Gordon Harris 2026

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