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Show An Ancient Parsonage of Maine. The Congregational -parsonage at Klttery is one of tho oldest houses In the Btate of Maine. It is the oldest ecclesiastical residence in the state, nd the oldest one in present use la New England. The house was built in 1729, in the days of the Hon. William Wil-liam Pepperrell, father of Sir William Pepperrell. It contains the library bequeathed' be-queathed' by, Sir William to Dr. Benjamin Benja-min Stevens, for 40 years minister, pf the Kittery Point church. Dr. Stevens In his turn bequeathed the library to the Congregational ministers of Kit tery and York for all time. Many of. these books contain the Pepperredl coat of arms. |