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Excerpt from The Early History of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the Diocese of Maine
In extending his labors to the neighboring plantations, he became well known at Portsmouth, N. H., where the church people had set up common prayer as early as and had already organized a parish, with fifty acres of land for a glebc, and a chapel with a dwelling for the minister. 2 He was elected its first minister in 1640. In this new field of employment, he spent a portion of his time in places out side of his immediate charge. He was bold and decided in the utterance of his opinions, and particularly in regard to the claims of Massachusetts for control beyond her proper limits. A Puritan minister of Dover, by the name of Lark ham, provoked a controversy with him by preaching a ser mon against such hirelings, supposed to be aimed at Mr. Gibson, which called forth a severe reply, wherein, Win throp says, he did scandalize our government; who also adds, that he, being wholly addicted to the hierarchy and discipline of England, did exercise a ministerial function in the same way, and did marry and baptize at the Isle of Shoals, which found to be within our jurisdiction, 3 where in the practice of clerical duties had been forbidden to the Episcopal clergy, by the laws of Massachusetts.
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