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  Painted by Tho. Cole.       Engraved by Geo. W. Hatch.
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  “FATHER CLARK,”

  OR

  The Pioneer Preacher.

  SKETCHES AND INCIDENTS
  OF
  REV. JOHN CLARK,

  BY AN OLD PIONEER.


  NEW YORK:
  SHELDON, LAMPORT & BLAKEMAN,
  No. 115 NASSAU STREET.
  1855.




  Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by

  SHELDON, LAMPORT & BLAKEMAN,

  In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the
  Southern District of New York.


  JOHN J. REED,
  _Stereotyper and Printer_,
  16 Spruce street.




INTRODUCTION.


The incidents,