The Founding of St John's Church

Our church had its beginnings in late 1854 when nine citizens of the town of Sandwich gathered for the first time as a religious society to be known as St John's Episcopal Church.  John W. Jarves, son of the founder of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Factory, was the Senior Warden and services were held in Montezuma Hall located at 10 Jarves Street.  Reverend Thomas B. Flowers , Rector of the Church of the Messiah in Woods Hole, offered his services on the first Sunday evening of each month.  The Society continued to meet in public halls for the next 45 years.