Trinity Episcopal Church
Archive Material for Trinity Episcopal Church, Marshfield, Massachusetts, 18th-19th Century
This archive material for Trinity Episcopal Church, Marshfield, Massachusetts, 18th-19th Century was found in 2013 in boxes and on shelving nearby the Priest's office on Highland Street. It was in an uncatalogued and perhaps incomplete state. All known and available original material was included and organized into folders of like items. Prior to the Revolutionary War, the church was part of the Church of England's Anglican Communion and was not referred to as "episcopal."
Consent was granted from the Priest to Timothy Davidson, then Member of the Board of the Marshfield Historical Society and Church Warden, to remove the material and place it in acid free enclosures, as its value was recognized as needing preservation. He made amateur efforts to catalog the material at the time.
It was then recognized that the oldest material -- namely a bound volume of handwritten Notes -- represented material from Trinity's first church structure that, in 1747, was located in the Centre Marshfield Cemetery. In 2025, Davidson was granted permission to move the preserved archives to the Marshfield Historical Society's headquarters at the Marcia Thomas House of Webster Street in Marshfield.
Consent was granted from the Priest to Timothy Davidson, then Member of the Board of the Marshfield Historical Society and Church Warden, to remove the material and place it in acid free enclosures, as its value was recognized as needing preservation. He made amateur efforts to catalog the material at the time.
It was then recognized that the oldest material -- namely a bound volume of handwritten Notes -- represented material from Trinity's first church structure that, in 1747, was located in the Centre Marshfield Cemetery. In 2025, Davidson was granted permission to move the preserved archives to the Marshfield Historical Society's headquarters at the Marcia Thomas House of Webster Street in Marshfield.