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Mr. Chase, yes I think he was quite busy...lol..a Connecticutt man who became a Congregationalist minister. If he was a typical Yankee cleric he probably had about 25 children, but I don't know that for a fact. Today what's left of the Congregationalists, the original pilgrim church, is almost completely gone and what's left is up to its gunnels in strange leanings that would have astonished the early New England preachers and townsfolk and sent them to their knees in fright, repugnance and trepidation. I do have some blood lines up that way, although I regard them as something of a curiosity.

I do know that the Congregationalists were big, and still are, on the autonomy of each local church. The purest forms of democracy in America have found expression in the Yankee village churches, some of which I understand, are even making noises about secession.

Our first raid on St Alban's was a bust, but we may have a better shot at it now. What about that?

Jim

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