Excerpt from List of Persons Ordained Deacons in the Protestant Episcopal Church: From Jan. 1, 1858, to Jan. 1, 1885 T 0 bishop george burgess, of blessed memory, the American Church owes its List of Persons admitted to the Order of Deacons, from 1785 to an invaluable contribution to its biographical annals, and a gift of loye. But for the disinterested, loving, patient researches of that devoted prelate, there are names that would have been lost and forgotten on earth; though they are, as we humbly trust, in the. Book_ of life. Bishop Burgess gave the manuscript of his list of twenty-seven hundred and eighty-seven names to the House of Bishops in 1859. Five dioceses asked for the loan of it. Through the zealous efforts of an aged clergyman of Massachusetts, the late Rev. William S. Bartlet, m.a., who edited the work, and made an index to it, it was published by subscription in 1874. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.