Three men of letters Author:Moses Coit Tyler Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: it, and read it to the congregation, from the con- tents of which it appeared the Dean might be expected to land in Newport every moment. The church was dismisse... more »d with the blessing, and Mr. Honyman, with the wardens, vestry, and congregation, male and female, repaired immediately to the wharf, where they arrived a little before the Dean, his family, and friends." ' On the day after this notable event a Newport correspondent of "The New England Weekly Courier" thus announced the news to the people of Boston ; " Yesterday arrived here Dean Berkeley, of Londonderry, in a pretty large ship. He is a gentleman of middle stature, of an agreeable, pleasant, and erect aspect. He was ushered into the town with a great number of gentlemen, to whom he behaved himself after a very complaisant manner. T is said he proposes tojtarry here with his family about three months." Instead of tarrying there only about three months the Dean tarried there nearly three years. He soon purchased a farm three or 1 W. Updike, " Illrtory of Hie Kphcop! Church In Narra. Kn!t," 395. four miles from Newport, near the sea; and he built there a large house, which he named "Whitehall." He had brought with him not only ample wealth in money and in personal and household goods, but a library of several thousand volumes. During the whole time of his sojourn in America he lived very quietly, and in almost unbroken retirement. He was ' kindly and familiar with people of all religious faiths in Newport. Occasionally he preached in the Newport church, or went with the faithful missionary, Mr. Honyman, among the Nar- ragansett Indians. He was the highest officer of the Anglican Church who had ever been in America; and his coming hither, and his long stay here were a mystery to the public, and to some of them, lik...« less