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title: A loyalist clergyman
description: Back in 2018, Peter Walker – now an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming – visited NEHGS to work in the William Clark collection
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# [A loyalist clergyman](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2020/07/loyalist-clergyman)

 Written by [Scott C. Steward](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/author/ssteward) | Jul 30, 2020 5:39:56 PM

<https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Samuel-Fayerweather-3.jpg> The Rev. Samuel Fayerweather (1725-1781), in the Society’s Fine Art Collection. Gift of Miss Elizabeth Harris of Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 16, 1924

The New England Historic Genealogical Society is a member of the [New England Regional Fellowship Consortium](http://www.masshist.org/fellowships/nerfc/) (NERFC), a group of libraries, museums, and other repositories holding materials for historical research. Each year fellows from the NERFC program visit NEHGS and the other members – from Connecticut to Massachusetts and Maine, from Rhode Island to New Hampshire and Vermont – to conduct research for their graduate work or as junior faculty at colleges and universities around the world.

Back in 2018, Peter Walker – now an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming – visited NEHGS to work in the [William Clark](http://library.nehgs.org/record=b1057593~S0) collection. He will be speaking this afternoon in a Zoom event via [King’s Chapel](http://www.kings-chapel.org/) in Boston entitled "[Massachusetts Loyalist Clergy in the Time of the American Revolution](http://www.kings-chapel.org/history-events.html)."

Peter’s work was also the subject of a *Vita Brevis* post in June 2018 entitled “[Indifferent to the world](https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2018/06/indifferent-to-the-world/).” I urge *Vita Brevis* readers to revisit Peter’s blog post and tune into the Zoom program today (July 30) at 5:30 p.m.

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