Re: Midway Church architectural style

["Robert Newton" <rnewton29@mchsi.com>]

Dear Mr. Bowen,
My name is Robert Quarterman Newton and I am trying to trace the ancestors
of my GGrandfather, Robert Quarterman Baker, as far back as possible.
According to my records, Bakers, Sumners, Ways, and Osgoods are related from
the early 18th century.  Is your book for sale and would it help for this
era?

Thanks,

Bob N
----- Original Message -----
From: <DaneBowen@aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Midway Church architectural style


>
> One might say that the Midway Church was in the style of the Puritans,
> whether brick or wooden.  The smaller churches were wooden, and the grand
> ones, such as Boston's Old South Meeting House, were of brick, but the
> interior was always the same----about as Spartan as one could get.  Not
even
> candlestick holders were tolerated, certainly no cross or picture.
>
> At first the Puritan churches of New England were exactly like their Cape
> Cod, Salt Box style houses, brought from East Anglia northeast of
> London----except, the houses had a chimney in the center of the house so
it
> could warm various rooms. The birth house of John Adams as well as the
house
> of the Salem witch craft victim, Mrs. Nurse, at New Salem, show this
style.
> Their churches had no chimneys because the  Puritans did not believe in
> heating churches.  The one in Midway had and has neither heat nor
lighting.
> The Midway Church was different from New England in that there was a
balcony
> at the back for seating slaves. Photographs of all these buildings except
> Boston's Old South Meeting house appear in the Way family history I
> published.
>
> Later, in New England, the churches were no longer entered from the center
of
> the long side of the building, as in the restored Old Meeting House at New
> Salem, Mass..  Instead, they had a steeple at one end and the people
entered
> the church from the shorter side rather than the longer side.  In the
burial
> crypt of John Adams and wife and their son John Quincy Adams and wife,
there
> is a model of this type of church attended by the Adams family. The Midway
> Church is of this style.
>
> Dane Bowen in Alexandria, Va., researching Bowen, Bacon, Carlton
(Carleton),
> Luker, Sanders (Saunders), Chaudoin (Chaudoins), Maverick, Richey
(Ritchie,
> Richie, Ritchey), Spence, Sumner, Way, and Wells families.
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