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In the run up to the Civil War, "he did not support the anti-slavery movement" and segregated the pews in the church by race. When a visiting southern clergyman was traveling through the area, Burgess would often invite him to preach. Congregants were sometimes offended by what the visiting preacher
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Besides three who died in childhood, they had four children: Miriam Mason, Ebenezer Prince, Edward
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William Jenks, a pastor from Green Street in Boston, would spend the summers in Dedham. Burgess would invite him to stand on his left during services and Jenks would lead the "long prayer."
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would visit the United States, he would frequently preach from the Allin pulpit.
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502:"Dead Men (and Women) Tell a Tale"
500:Fahy, Katrina (October 31, 2014).
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129:Dedham Institution for Savings
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628:Clarke, Wm. Horatio (1903).
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