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ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, NORTH BEAVER STREET, YORK, PA.
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BY M.
J.
SHAMBAUGH,
JG
YORK, PA.4)
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH
St. John's Episcopal Church, founded
1769, is an interesting type of the Church
of the Revolutionary period. The body of
Thomas Hartley, Patriot, Soldier, States-
man, lies beneath its walls and a tablet to
his memory was placed in the Church by
the Yorktown Chapter of the D. A. R. The
remains of Major John B. Clark, an officer
of the Revolution, are interred in the
Churchyard. Other graves antedating T
1800 are found there. Colonel Wilkinson
challenged General Gates to a duel "behind
the English Church." Washington once. H
attempted to worship in this Church, but
was turned away, owing to the absence of R
the clergyman at Carlisle, his other charge.
Whereupon, in his diary, Washington
records he attended service in the German
Church and heard an excellent sermon in
English, but was in no danger of being
converted, as he could not understand a
word of it. The Rev. John Andrew
Rector at the time the Church was built,
was subsequently an early Provost of
University of Pennsylvania.
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