[Magdalen] A Note Re CofE and TEC History

[Jim Guthrie]

From: James Oppenheimer-Crawford

>In this area I recall seeing all of these tiny TECs that were barely
>functioning, and I suspect today a lot of them were knocked down or fell
>down.  Probably associated with some family settlement, long since no

Morgan again. When disgruntled vestry members and mover/shaker lay people came 
to him to complain about the Rector or something their local parish was doing of 
which they disapproved, he'd build them another church -- sometimes down the 
street from the other one. This was true all over the Diocese of NY and maybe 
Albany.

Some of these were always marginal, or made both churches marginal (even in the 
Post WWII heyday of religious participation) -- leading to closings and 
demolition.

Morgan couldn’t see why anyone would join any church other than TEC <g>.

Cheers,
Jim