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![]() GHS Events CalendarTuesday August 21st at 7pm “Coastal Erosion and Disappearing Maine (Pre)-History” Tuesday September 18th at 7pm “Surveying Georgetown – When is a Stone Wall Just a Stone Wall?” Click HERE For Past Programs.
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Notes on Free Will Baptist Preachers crossed the Kennebec at Georgetown … : Rev. Frederick L. Wiley, Life and Influence of the Rev. Benjamin Randall, Founder of the Free Baptist Denomination (American Baptist Publication Society, 1915) 95 George Lamb’s career: Rev. G. A. Burgess and Rev. J. T. Ward, Free Baptist Cyclopaedia: Historical and biographical … (Free Baptist Cyclopaedia Co., 1889) 329. Silas Curtis: Ibid.pp. 145-146. Ephraim Stinchfield: Ibid. pp. 622-624 and Ephraim Stinchfield papers (Maine Historical Society). Without a seminary …: For an outline of the evolution of the Free Baptist Education Society to Bates College, see Historical Note, Guide to the Freewill Baptist records, 1797-1970 (http://abacus.bates.edu/muskie-archives/EADFindingAids/MC091.html retrieved July 4, 2018). At least three women…: Susan (Stevens) Emmons, married February 22, 1810 and gave birth on April 8; Mary (Oliver) Oliver, married June 7, 1810 and gave birth in October; Polley (Hogan) Stinson, married April 17, 1810 and gave birth on August 10. The headstones of John and Mehitable Linnan (near the northwest corner of Oak Cemetery) are each engraved with a verse from the hymn Why Should We Start and Fear to Die?, by Isaac Watts (1674-1748). The hymn has been published in hymnals of several Protestant denominations since at least the early 19th century, ranging from A Selection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs: designed (especially the former part) for the use of congregations as an appendix to Dr. Watt's Psalms and Hymn (1809) no. 412 to The Baptist Hymnal: for use in the church and home (2012) no. 620. |
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