Daniel Cornwell, tailor, was a churchman indeed, of gentle manners, of good family, and strictest integrity. he served as clerk (1805) in Christ Church, Manhasset, where he sat in a little box under the reading-desk, gave out the Psalm, led the singing, and made the responses. When he came to Jamaica he was so devoted to the interests of the church that he became collector in church, collector of subscriptions, one of the committee for regulating the pews and the burying ground, sexton and vestryman. His punctuality and quiet demeanor in church were exemplary. He died, September 21, 1842, aged sixty-eight.
-Antiquities of the parish church, Jamaica (including Newtown and Flushing ... By Henry Onderdonk
-Antiquities of the parish church, Jamaica (including Newtown and Flushing ... By Henry Onderdonk
Daniel Cornwell, tailor, was a churchman indeed, of gentle manners, of good family, and strictest integrity. he served as clerk (1805) in Christ Church, Manhasset, where he sat in a little box under the reading-desk, gave out the Psalm, led the singing, and made the responses. When he came to Jamaica he was so devoted to the interests of the church that he became collector in church, collector of subscriptions, one of the committee for regulating the pews and the burying ground, sexton and vestryman. His punctuality and quiet demeanor in church were exemplary. He died, September 21, 1842, aged sixty-eight.
-Antiquities of the parish church, Jamaica (including Newtown and Flushing ... By Henry Onderdonk
-Antiquities of the parish church, Jamaica (including Newtown and Flushing ... By Henry Onderdonk
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