Benjamin Fletcher
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Benjamin Fletcher was colonial governor of New York from 1692 to 1697. Fletcher was known for the Ministry Act of 1693, which secured the place of Anglicans as the official religion in New York. He al
"Sea Robbers of NY" Howard Pyle: Harper's Magazine, November 1894
Trinity Church (Manhattan)
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Trinity Church is a historic parish in the Episcopal Diocese of New York. The church is located at 89 Broadway opposite Wall Street, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Know
Benjamin Fletcher
…Fletcher was known for the Ministry Act of 1693, which secured the place of Anglicans as the official religion in New York. He also built the first Trinity Church in 1698. Under Col. Fletcher, piracy was a leading economic development tool in the city's competition with the ports of Boston and Philadelphia. New…
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Loyalist Charles Inglis, Rector of Trinity Church (1765–1783)
September 1776 view of New York City showing at center left the spire of Trinity Church
Trinity Church 1788–1839 in 1827