Rev, Winwood Sarjeant

see Lorenzo Sabine's Biographical Sketches, Amrican Loyalists p.592
• an Episcopal Clergyman of Boston, Massachusetts who was deported

also:
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register :

Tufts University
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu › hopper › text
The next Rector of Christ Church was Rev. Winwood Sarjeant, supposed to be a native of England, who was ordained Priest by Bishop Pearce, Dec. 19, 1756."

more completely

(About Christ's Church, Cambridge) (Christ Church, in Cambridge MA)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church_%28Cambridge,_Massachus...

This church was originally established as a missionary station by the ‘Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,’ under the charge of Rev. East Apthorp, who was born in Boston, 1733, and educated at Cambridge, England. ‘The original subscription for building the church is dated at Boston, April 25, 1759.
The church was opened for the performance of divine service, Oct. 15, 1761.’ Rev. Mr. Apthorp again visited England in 1765, where he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and became successively Vicar of Croydon, Rector of St. Mary-le-Bow, London, and a Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral. He died April 16, 1816, aged 83 years.

The next Rector of Christ Church was Rev. Winwood Sarjeant, supposed to be a native of England, who was ordained Priest by Bishop Pearce, Dec. 19, 1756. He commenced his rectorship as a missionary in June, 1767, and continued to perform the duties of his office, until the commencement of the Revolutionary War, when he retired to Kingston, N. H., and afterwards to Newbury. In 1777 he had an attack of paralysis, and in 1778 went to England. He died at Bath, Sept. 20, 1780. ‘The congregation had almost entirely dispersed at the beginning of the war. Perhaps no church in the country was more completely broken up. Of all the persons who took part in its concerns, including the sixty-eight original subscribers for the building (several of whom, however, were of Boston), and twenty original purchasers of pews, not a name appears on the records after the Revolution but those of John Pigeon, Esq., and Judge Joseph Lee. The former espoused the patriotic side; the latter was a loyalist, but being a quiet man and moderate in his opinions, remained unmolested.’6 Divine service is said to have been had in the church a few times while the army remained in Cambridge. It was also occupied and much damaged by the soldiers, who were destitute of proper barracks. It ‘was left for many years in a melancholy and desecrated condition, the doors shattered and all the windows broken out, exposed to rain and storms and every sort of depredation, its beauty gone, its [309] sanctuary defiled, the wind howling through its deserted aisles and about its stained and decaying walls; the whole building being a disgrace instead of an ornament to the town. No effort appears to have been made for the renewal of divine worship till the beginning of the year 1790.’7 The edifice was then repaired, and an effort was made for the regular administration of religious services.