16 Sept. 1873, Rev. William Fisher Lewis, Presb., present rector.

The assistant minister of the parish is the Rev. H. M. Torbert, who

is also chaplain at St. Gabriel's School. This school is under the charge

a Dierl at North Andovor, Mass., Jan. 24, 1S49. Rector of St. Paul's, Portland, Mo., from ISIS to 1831. From 1SS1 to 1837, rector of Saccacappa, when he removed to Concord, N. H., where he officiated until about 1S41.

b Died id Egrcmont Place, New Uoad, London, England, Nov. 26, 1S52. Tlis last parochial connection, in" this country, was with the church of St. George the Martvr, in New York City.

c Died at Chicago. 111.. Feb. 24, 1S50. He had been rector of St. Paul's in Syracuse arid subsequently of Ogdensburgh.

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of the sisters of St. Mary who have admirably succeeded by great personal exertion in making practical the idea, of a female boarding school, where solid attainments, correct notions of woman's exact position in society, and a healthy growth of mind, heart and body can be attained to the exclusion of more pretentious accomplishments; finery in dress and that abominable theory that woman is a mere ornament of society." The sisters have two other schools in the United States, one in New York and one in Memphis, Tenn." " The designs of these schools is to offer to Church people, and all who wish to have their daughters grow up in the doctrines of a true religious faith, an opportunity at the smallest cost, to obtain a thorough education." Surrounded by the old parochial Church of St. Peter's is an extensive grave yard containing memorials to the Penoyers, Wards, Drakes, Ferris's, &c, &c. The oldest interment appears to have been Mary, wife of John Ward, who died on the 15th of September, 1765, in the 69th year of age.