Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-14
Use of Communion
Set Revived by
Marblehead Church

Marblehead, Mass, January IL
(AP)-From the bank vaults where 4
is ordinarily kept as a protection
against theft the 200-year-old soli,
silver communion set of the Secont
Congregational (Unitarian) Church O.
this town was taken yesterday ant
| used in communion service. TIL,
chief piece in the set is a baptisma
bowl which was used at the christen
ing of Agnes SURFACE, heroine of one
of the most celebrated romances O.
colonial days in Massachusetts.
The daughter Of a poor Marbleheat
fisherman, Agnes was born in 1926
The minister who. christened her wa,
Rev. Edward Holyoke, who after q
long pastorate here became presiden,
of Harvard College. When she was II
years old she was employed as a ser
want in the Fountain Inn here.
Visiting the inn while on a business
trip to Marblehead, Charles Henry
Frankland, collector of the port oil
Boston, saw the girl scrubbing fool
and was impressed by her beauty
Noting that she wore neither shoes
nor stockings he gave her money tc
buy them. On a later visit he OBJ.
served that her feet were still bare
and she told him she had bought the
shoes and stockings but was saving
them ito wear to meeting"
F'rankland, who was a lineal de.
scendant of Oliver Cromwell, became
interested in the girl and obtained heI
parents consent to take her to Boston
for an education. She became accom-.
plished in the social graces of the pc.
Rod. Meanwhile FARMLAND upon the
death of an uncle had succeeded to a
baTonetcy and was generally known as
Sir Harry. A love affair developed blu,
because of the difference in their so.
cial stations Sir Harry persuaded Ag.
mes to live with him without marriage
Boston society thereupon ostracized
Agnes. In 1852 Sir Harry took her to
Hopkinton, where he built a mansion
and developed beautiful country es.
tate. When called to England or
business in 1854 he took Agnes but
his family refused to receive her
They toured Europe and spent some
months in Lisbon. then the gayest
capital on the continent.
On All Saints Day, 1855, came the
terrible Lisbon earthquake. Agnes was
unhurt. Sir Harry, who had beer
driving to church with a woman com.
panion, was buried in the ruins. Ag.
nes in wandering about In search OF
him heard his cries and helped rescue
him. In gratitude for his escape he
married her and thereafter she was
received with open arms in London
and Boston society.
After Sir Harry's death in England
in 1853 Lady F'rankland returned tt
Hopkinton and lived in the mansion
which he had bequeathed to their nat.
ural son, Henry Cromwell. In III;
she was given a safe conduct to Bos
ton. After watching the Battle Of
Bunker Hill from her pretentious
home in the then fashionable NORTH
End she returned to England. In latel
years she married John Drew, a Chi
chester, England. banker. She died {
year later. in 1888. Henry Cromwell
| became captain in the British navy
but unwilling to fight against his ma
tive America he retired before the enc
of the Revolution. He spent the res
of his life in England.
The mansion at Hopkinton was on
of the show places of Massachusett!
until it was burned in 1858.