Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (Bowie, Maryland)
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Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Bowie, Maryland was established in 1836 when it became independent of Queen Anne Parish.
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[edit] History
In December 17, 1717, Reverend Jacob Henderson was appointed as rector of Queen Anne Parish. That same year, he acquired numerous parcels of property through his marriage to the widow, Mary Duvall Ridgely (nee Stanton). In 1713, Henderson and his wife built a chapel on their land near their residence, part of the parcel known as Belair.[1][2]
On January 19, 1735, Mary Henderson died and was buried in Henderson's Chapel.[1] In 1737, Jacob Henderson gave the chapel and four acres of land for the use of Queen Anne's Parish called "the Glebe whereon there is a Chapple now standing." Almost 100 years later, in 1836 Henderson's Chapel became an independent congregation, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.[1][2][3] In 1737, Henderson gave four acres of land for the use of Queen Anne's Parish called "the Glebe whereon there is a Chapple now standing."[2]
[edit] New church and congregation
In 1827, the original church was replaced with a new brick church. Mary Henderson's remains are still interred in a crypt beneath the church, but the marble slab which covered her grave inside the first chapel was then placed prominently in the exterior east wall of the building.[1][3]
In 1836 Henderson's Chapel became an independent congregation, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.[1][2]
[edit] Recent times
In 1968 a private elementary school was established on the church grounds.[3]
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[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Sprague, William Buell (1859). Annals of the American Pulpit; or Commemorative Notices of Distinguished American Clergymen of Various Denominations From the Early Settlement of the Country to the Close of the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Five, Volume V.. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, pages 34-38.
- ^ a b c d Baltz, Shirley Vlasak (1984). A Chronicle of Belair. Bowie, Maryland: Bowie Heritage Committee, pages 4-9.
- ^ a b c A History of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.
