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Just a point of clarification: The Rev. John Carnes served the FIRST Church in Seekonk. Today that church is known as the Newman Congregational Church. The building in which he preached is still there, and services are held there every Sunday, but it is no longer in Seekonk. The state boundaries changed around 1863, and now the building is in East Providence (Rumford) Rhode Island. There is a Seekonk Congregational Church in Massachusetts; it is a daughter of the Newman Church, as is the Rehoboth Congregational Church. The original settlement of Rehoboth encompassed what is today Rehoboth, Seekonk, much of East Providence, and part of Pawtucket RI.
Sep 14, 2010, 4:25:02 PM
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