Joseph Annis was active in Church affairs, and was a petitioner, on January 28, 1711, to the Bishop of London, in which he asked for a minister to head the church that was to be built at Newbury (Queen Ann's Chapel). The request was granted, and the church was completed August 1, 1712. Joseph was named in a letter dated August 31, 1909 by Reverend Rufus Emery of Newburyport, MA. Reverend Emery wrote the following to Dr. John McNab Currier, author of David Annis of Hopkinton and Bath, New Hampshire (1911): "In 1711 a mission of the Church of England was formed in Newbury. I have recently examined the record book of this mission. The name of Annis is frequently found in this record. Under April 15, 1718, Joseph was one of a committee to examine the accounts of that mission. April 28, 1728, Joseph chosen Vestryman, April 15, 1734, Joseph chosen Vestryman, April 18, 1737, Joseph chosen Vestryman, 1746, Joseph chosen Warden of Queen Ann's Chapel in 1750, at the venerable age of 84". Queen Anne's Chapel was the second Episcopal church erected in Massachusetts, and today is the oldest church in the diocese.
Joseph Annis was active in Church affairs, and was a petitioner, on January 28, 1711, to the Bishop of London, in which he asked for a minister to head the church that was to be built at Newbury (Queen Ann's Chapel). The request was granted, and the church was completed August 1, 1712. Joseph was named in a letter dated August 31, 1909 by Reverend Rufus Emery of Newburyport, MA. Reverend Emery wrote the following to Dr. John McNab Currier, author of David Annis of Hopkinton and Bath, New Hampshire (1911): "In 1711 a mission of the Church of England was formed in Newbury. I have recently examined the record book of this mission. The name of Annis is frequently found in this record. Under April 15, 1718, Joseph was one of a committee to examine the accounts of that mission. April 28, 1728, Joseph chosen Vestryman, April 15, 1734, Joseph chosen Vestryman, April 18, 1737, Joseph chosen Vestryman, 1746, Joseph chosen Warden of Queen Ann's Chapel in 1750, at the venerable age of 84". Queen Anne's Chapel was the second Episcopal church erected in Massachusetts, and today is the oldest church in the diocese.
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