Existing comment:
James Honyman, 1675-1750
James Honyman, an Anglican minister in Rhode Island during the first half of the eighteenth century, began his career in England as a missionary preacher with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. In 1704, he was recruited to take charge of the newly established Trinity Church in Newport. Given Rhode Island's religious tolerance at the time -- a legacy of Roger Williams's work -- the colony was home to many antiestablishment religious sects. Although many early settlers moved there to get away from the Church of England, Honyman's leadership proved that diverse religions could coexist in relative harmony. Over a forty-six-year career in Newport, Honyman made Trinity one of the most influential Anglican churches in colonial America. English engraver Samuel Okey created this posthumous mezzotint portrait when he lived in Rhode Island.
Samuel Okey, after ? Gains Mezzotint, 1774 |