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"O, I have ta'en Too little care of this !"
will not visit the pillow of the mechanic or merchant, the lawyer or tradesman, of Boston. If their sagacity has first pointed the way to wealth, and their boldness has followed it successfully, they have not for- gotten the " houseless heads and unfed sides, the looped and windowed raggedness," that are to be found in every, the most prosperous, com- inunity.
We will merely give the names of some of these charitable institutions.
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Among those which have been incorporated are the Massachusetts Humane Society, the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, the Massa- chusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association, the Boston Dispensary, the Boston Female Asylum, the Howard Benevolent Society, the Asylum for Indigent Boys, the Provident Institution for Savings, the Society for the Religious and Moral Instruction of the Poor, the Penitent Females' Refuge, the Female Orphan Asylum, the Lying-in Hospital, the Blind Asylum, the Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Massachusetts General Hospital, the Farm School, and the Insane Asylum. Besides these, and many more of the same kind, there are charitable provisions made by every religious society for its own poor, and there is a public establishment called the Ministry at Large, the object of which is, to inquire into all descriptions of destitution, and to apply the necessary alleviation. The views of the societies above named, are general and comprehensive, but there are other institutions not less active, though more limited in their scope. Such are the Samaritan and Fragment Societies ; the Fatherless and Widows' Society ; the Society for the Relief of the Distressed; the Episcopal Charitable Society ; the British Charitable, the Irish Charitable, the Massachusetts Charitable, and the Fuel Societies ; the Needlewoman's Friend and the Seaman's Friend Societies; the Prison Discipline Society, &c., &c. If we add to these many strictly private associations for benev- olent purposes, we may without vanity repeat the words of Increase Mather, who said, "for charity, he might indeed speak it without Mattery, this town hath not inany equals on the face of the earth." From this topic we pass, by an easy and natural transition, to our system of free schools, and other means of education, the indispensa- ble support of republics. The Massachusetts system of free schools is too well known throughout the world to require that its history or meth- ods should be given here. The earliest trace of it is found in the Boston records under the date of April 13th, 1635, - that is, five years after the settlement. A subscription " towards the maintenance of a free school- master," at the head of which stand the names of Governor Vane, Gov- ernor Winthrop, and Mr. Richard Bellingham, is found on the last leaf of the oldest volume of town records ; and the same records show, that the subject has continued from that time to the present, to command the unintermitted, faithful, and earnest attention of the authorities of the town. Among the fruits of this system of free education, may be counted several voluntary associations of young men, having for their object in- structions of a higher degree, so organized as to be accessible to all ; such as the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the Mercan- tile Library Association, the Mechanics' Institute, &c. The best minds of the State and country are employed in delivering courses of public lectures before these societies every winter. Neither must we omit to mention that noblest of private foundations, the Lowell Institute, - the
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work of a wise, patriotic, and munificent spirit, who, by means of it, has done so much for his city, and for the promotion of knowledge,
" That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue."
In 1822, the act of the Legislature was passed, conferring upon Boston the name and privileges of a city. This change had engaged the atten- tion of the people of Boston as early as the year 1651, and from that time forward, at considerably long intervals, ineffectual attempts had been made to bring it about. The charter was not accepted finally without opposi- tion. The first Mayor was the Hon. John Phillips, who, during a year of some excitement, administered the new form of government in a man. ner suited to conciliate the feelings of its opponents. The adoption of the city charter, and the election of the Hon. Josiah Quincy to the office of Mayor on the second year, must be regarded as a most important era in the history of Boston. "The destinies of the city of Boston," said Mr. Quincy, in one of his inaugural addresses, "are of a nature too plain to be denied or misconceived. The prognostics of its future greatness are written on the face of nature too legibly and too indelibly to be mistaken. The indications are apparent from the location of our city, from its har- bur, and its relative position among rival towns and cities ; above all, from the character of its inhabitants, and the singular degree of enter- prise and intelligence which are diffused through every class of its citi- zens." To hasten the fulfilment of those prognostics, to interpret those indications, to unfold and direct those destinies, Mr. Quincy applied all the powers of a mind, vigorous, inventive, resolute, and expanded, with such prudence and courage, that he has added lustre to a name distin guished in the annals of this colony, and of the country, from the date of the first patent to the present day.
Quincy Market, which has been justly styled " one of the boldest, most useful, and splendid public improvements that have taken place in the Eastern States," is not ouly a great advantage to the city, but a fitting monument of Mr. Quincy's genius.
How well the impulse to improvements given by Mr. Quincy has been followed out, the subsequent pages of this volume, containing pictorial and other descriptions of the public buildings and places of the city, will abundantly show.
The introduction of Railroads, the first two of which were opened for public travel in 1335, supplied a means of further progress, well suited to the character of our people. The union of this city with the great lakes on one side, and England on the other, with the Canadas on the north, and the States on the south, has rendered it one of the principle depois of commerce, and one of the chief mediums of travel.
We mentioned on a former page, that in 1711, a Southern and Eastern mail ran once a week to Plymouth and Maine, and a Western mail once
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a fortnight to Connecticut and New York. In 1791, a new telegraph was invented by Mr. Grout, of Belchertown, with which he boasted that in less than ten minutes he had asked' a question and received an answer from a place ninety miles distant.
We introduce these facts here to suggest to the reader a moment's re- fection upon the great changes and improvements which seem to mark our age as one of the most favored in history. The rapid increase of Boston in wealth, population, and all the elements of greatness, reminds us that no small portion of the benefits of this favored age has fallen to our share. When the first bridge to South Boston was built, that whole peninsula contained but ten families, and now it numbers the population of a small city. In 1831, there was but a single family on Noddle's Island, East Boston ; it now contains twelve thousand inhabitants. Both these parts of the city are in the most flourishing condition, and share largely in the general prosperity. When justice is done to South Boston, by a judicious improvement, which will confer upon it a portion of the water advantages to which East Boston owes its more rapid gain, South Boston will also become the seat of commerce as well as of manufactures.
But we must close here our brief, and to us unsatisfactory, abridgment of the history of Boston. It would be impossible, however, for a native Bostonian, when on this theme, to lay down his pen without grasping at some of the rich fruit, - the " apples of gold in pictures of silver," - the instructions of that wisdom which speaketh in the streets of our city, to those who are able to heed her voice. If this history teaches any thing, and such a pregnant history must contain many precious maxims, it teaches this, that implicit obedience to law is, in a republican communi- ty, the only security for life and property ; that the Union of these States is the most important element in our commercial prosperity ; and apart from those personal interests which must, more or less, influence the conduct of all men, we find the strongest inducements to the support of our commercial prosperity in this consideration, - that commerce is the human instrument which, above all others, has been employed by the Creator of the Universe in promoting the physical, moral, and intellectual advancement of mankind.
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CHURCHES AND MINISTERS IN BOSTON.
Name.
Founded.
Denomination.
Pastors.
When settled.
Location.
First Church ...
1630 1650
Cong. Unitarian .. Cong. Unitarian ..
Rev. Chandler Robbins . No Minister ...
IS33
Friends' Meeting-House ...
1664
Quaker ....
First Baptist Church.
1665
Baptist. ....
Rev. Rollin H. Neale ...
1837
Old South Church ..
1669 Orthodox Cong ..
Rev. George W. Blagden. D. D.
Rev. Ephraim Peabody, D. D ..
Rev. Samuel K. Lothrop.
1834
Brattle Street Church .. New North Church
1686 | Cong. Unitarian .. 1699 | Cong. Unitarian .. 1714 1719 17:22 Cong. Unitarian .. Cong. Unitarian .. Episcopal ..
Rev. Joshua Young.
Rev. Alexander Young, D. D ..
1849 Hanover, c. Clark 1825 Summer, c. Bedford Salem street
Christ Church ...
1727
Cong. Unitarian .. Cong. Unitarian .. Episcopal ....
Rev. Thomas Starr King .. Rt. Rev. Manton Eastburn, D. D. .
1848
Federal, c. Channing Hollis street Summer, c. Hawley Lynde street
West Church ...
1737 1743 1785
Congregational ... Baptist ..
Rev. Levi Tucker, D. D ..
1806 1849 Baldwin place
Second Baptist Church ... First Universalist Church. .. Church of the Holy Cross ... Chapel of Holy Cross ..
1783 1788
Universalist ... Roman Catholic .. Roman Catholic .. Methodist ..
Rev. J. J. Williams .. Rev. Joseph Cummings ..
1849
First Methodist Epis. Church First Christian Church ... 1804
1792
Christian.
Elder Edward Edmunds ...
1844 Summer, c. Sea
African Baptist Church. . .. Second Meth. Epis. Church ..
1805
Baptist ..
Rev. William Thompson .. Rev. Isaac A. Savage ...
1851 1851
Belknap street Bromfield street
CHURCHES AND MINISTERS
Hollis Street Church ..
1772
Trinity Church ..
1734
Rev. Charles Lowell. D. D.
Rev. Sebastian Streeter .
Rt. Rev. J. B. Fitzpatrick, D. D .. .
1824 Hanover, c. Bennet Franklin street Franklin street Hanover street
Federal Street Church.
Rev. Ezra S. Gannett, D. D ..
1824
1836 Washington st. Milk Tremont, c. School Brattle street
Stone Chapel ...
1846
Chauncey place Freeman place Milton place Hanover st. Union
Second Church .
New South Church
1806 | Methodist ...
Third Baptist Church ... Park Street Church .... St. Matthew's Church ...
1807 | Baptist .... 1809 1816 Episcopal ..
Orthodox Cong ..
Rev. Andrew L. Stone ..
Rev. Joseph H. Clinch
Rev. Hosea Ballon ...
Rev. Thomas Worcester.
Rev. E. Grissom ..
Rev. Nehemiah Adams, D. D.
1834
1851 May street South Boston Essex, c. Rowe South Boston
Union or Essex Street Church. St. Augustine's Church. .
St. Paul's Church. 1829 1922
Bulfinch Street Church .. Phillips Church.
Twelfth Cong. Church.
Bowdoin Street Church ..
Thirteenth Cong. Church
Pitts Street Chapel.
Salem Street Church .. Pine Street Church. ..
South Cong. Church ...
Rowe Street Baptist Church .. Bethel Church ..
Mariner's Church ...
St. Stephen's Chapel.
1829.
Episcopal .
Rev. Charles Mason.
1848 Temple street
1844 Broadway, S. B.
1846 Broadway, S. B.
Rev. Loranus Crowell
1851 Church street Warren street
Rev. Charles F. Barnard.
Rev. Otis A. Skinner ...
1849 Warren street
1835
Winter street Endicot street
Rev. J. McElroy ...
Rev. Thomas Lynch ..
Northampton street
1850 East Boston
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Rev. Daniel Sharp, D. D.
[1812 | Charles street
1849 Park, c. Tremont
1839 1817
Broadway, S. B. School street
Second Universalist Church ..
1816 Universalist .. . New Jerusalem Church .... 1818 Swedenborgian .. ISIS |Methodist .... African Meth. Epis. Church .. Hawes Place Church ..
1819 Cong. Unitarian ..
Rev. T. Fitzimmons.
Rev. Alexander H. Vinton, D. D ...
Rev. Frederick T. Gray ..
Rev. John W. Alvord ..
Rev. Samuel Barrett, D. D.
1825
Rev. Jared B. Waterbury, D. D. 1846
Rev. James I. T. Coolidge. .
1842
Rev. Samuel H. Winkley ...
1846
1844 Salem, c. N. Bennet
1849 1842 Washington, c. Pine Washington. c. Castle
Rev. Baron Stow, D. D.
1848 Bedford, c. Rowe North square 1828
Rev. Edward T. Taylor.
Rev. George W. Bourne. Rev. E. M. P. Wells.
1849 Purchase street Purchase street 1844
Grace Church .. Fourth Universalist Church .. South Baptist Church ...
1830 1831 1834 1835 1835
Universalist .. Baptist ... Methodist .. Cong. Unitarian .. Universalist. . . . . Orthodox Cong .. Roman Catholic .. Roman Catholic .. 1837 Orthodox Cong ..
1835 1836 1837
St. Mary's Church ... St. Patrick's Church. Maverick Church ...
IS19 Orthodox Cong .. 1819 Roman Catholic .. Episcopal . . Cong. Unitarian .. 1523 Orthodox Cong .. 1825 Cong. Unitarian .. 1825 Orthodox Cong .. 1825 1826 1827 Cong. Unitarian .. Cong. Unitarian .. Orthodox Cong .. 1827 Orthodox Cong .. 1827 1827 1823 1828 Cong. Unitarian .. Baptist ... Methodist .. Orthodox Cong .. 1829 Episcopal .
Rev. Edward Beecher, D. D .. Rev. Henry M. Dexter ..
Rev. Frederick D. Huntington.
1846 Broadway, S. B. Chambers, c. Allen Bowdoin street Harrison av. c. Beach Pitts street
IN BOSTON.
Rev. T. D. Cook. Rev. George W. Bosworth.
Third Meth. Epis. Church .... Warren Street Chapel ... Fifth Universalist Church .. Central Church ...
Rev. William M. Rogers.
1828 Bowdoin street
1842 Tremont, n. Winter
1839 Bulfinch street
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CHURCHES AND MINISTERS IN BOSTON, CONTINUED.
Name.
Founded.
Denomination.
Pastors.
When settled.
Location.
Zion Church. .
1833 1839
Methodist .. .
Rev. W. H. Bishop ..
1851
Fourth Meth. Epis. Church .. Harvard Street Church. ...
1839
Baptist .. .
Rev. Joseph Banvard ..
1846
1839 Baptist ...
Rev. Nathaniel Colver.
1846
1839
Cong. Unitarian .. Lutheran ...
Rev. Frederick W. Bogen ...
1845
Baptist ....
Rev. Pharcellus Church, D. D. .
1818
1840
Methodist ...
Rev. James Porter ...
1849
Rev. C. H. Webster
1851 Ritchie Hall, E. B.
Mount Vernon Church.
1842
Rev. Edward N. Kirk.
1841
Church of the Adventists ...
1842
Rev. Joshua V. Himes.
1842
Church of the Messiah ..
1843 Episcopal.
Rev. George M. Randall.
1845
Florence street
Freewill Baptist Church ..
1843
Freewill
Rev. Rasom Dunn.
1850 North Bennet street
Winthrop Church ..
East Boston Broadway, S. B.
Ch. of St. Peter and St. Paul .. St. John's Church ...
Rev. George F. Haskins
Moon street
Church of the Advent. .
1844
Rev. William Croswell.
Rev. G. Eck. .
Rev. C. McCallion
East Boston
1844
Rev. J. Strouss. .
1851
503 Washington street
Synagogue of Israelites .... 23th Congregational Society .. Church of the Saviour ...
1845 1845
Roman Catholic .. Roman Catholic .. Jewish .. . Congregational .. Cong. Unitarian ..
Rev. Theodore Parker ..
1846
Melodeon
Rev. Robert C. Waterston
1845 | Bedford street
CHURCHES AND MINISTERS
Tremont Street Bip. Church .. Suffolk Street Chapel ... . German Evangelical Luth .... Bowdoin Square Bap. Church. Fifth Meth. Epis. Church .... Sixth Meth. Epis. Church .... Sixth Universalist Church .... German Evangelical Church ..
1839 1841 1840
Methodist .. .
Rev. Edward Cooke.
1848
1810 1840
Universalist Germ. Protestant Orthodox Cong .. Second Advent ..
Rev. Louis B. Schwarz ..
1949 Shawmut, n. Pleasant Ashburton place Chardon street
1844 1844 1814
Baptist .. Roman Catholic .. Roman Catholic .. Episcopal ... ..
Rev. Terence Fitzsimmons.
1844 Green street Suffolk street
Church of the Holy Trinity .. Church of St. Nicholas ..
1811 1844
Methodist ..
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Rev. N. E. Colleigh.
Rev. Samuel B. Cruft ..
1846
West Centre street N. Russell street Harrison av. c. Harv'd Tremont Temple Suffolk, c. Rutland Suffolk, c. Waltham Bowdoin square D. street, S. B. East Boston
Union Baptist Church .. Second Hawes Church ..
1543| Baptist 1845 |Cong. Unitarian .. 1545 ; Orthodox Cong ..
Rev. William Howe ..
Merruna k sicel South Boston
Rev. Joy H. Fairchild.
1845
Broadway, S. B.
Payson Church ... Boston Bapust Bethel ..
1845 ! Baptist ... ..
Rev. Phineas Stowe ..
1515
Lewis, c. Commercial Canton, c. Suffolk Ann street Indiana street Suffolk street
Pilgrim Cong. Society.
1846 Orthodox Cong ..
Rev. S. H. Higgins ...
1851
18.46 | Methodist ....
Rev. Richard C. Stone ..
1816 Cong. Unitarian.
Rev. Thomas Street.
1819
Lowell Institute Washington Hall East Boston Suffolk street Phillips place
Eighth Meth. Epis. Church .. First. Presbyterian Church .... St. John's Church ..
1846 | Presbyterian
Rev. Alexander Blaikie ..
1850 Washington street
Twelfth Baptist Church.
1848 | Baptist ..
Rev. L. A. Grimes ...
1848 Southac street
Bethel Church.
1548 | Methodist.
Rev. William Dorrell.
1850 W. Centre Purchase street
St. Vincent de Paul's.
1849 Roman Catholic ..
Rev. M. Galligher ..
St. Batolph Church. 1851
Episcopal .
Rev. O. S. Prescott.
1851 561 Washington street Beach street
Church of the Holy Family . . | 1851 | Roman Catholic .. | Rev. A. Manahan ..
IN BOSTON.
In the following pages will be found a condensed notice, such as the limits of this work and the space allotted to each would alone permit, of many of the churches of the metropolis, of their pastors from the beginning, and of some of the most prominent points in their history.
Until the commencement of the present century, the additions to the number of churches in the city were few and gradual. From that period, and especially for the last twenty years, the increase has been rapid, and, with multiplying sects, has, perhaps, exceeded the ratio of the population. Instead of twenty, which was the whole number in 1800, there are now upwards of one hundred worshipping societies in the city, ninety-eight of whom have their regular places of public worship. We reserve, for a second edition of this work, an account, with engravings, of the later churches which have been erected within the last four or five years; several of which are beautiful specimens of architecture.
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1845 | Universalist ..
Rev. D. D. Smith ..
South Universalist Society. Seamen's Chapel .. Indiana Street Cong. Church .. Shawmut Church ...
1845 | Episcopal ..
Rev. J. P. Robinson.
1845
IS45 | Cong. Unitarian ..
Rev. Thomas B. Fox ...
1845 Orthodox Cong ..
Rev. William C. Forster.
Wesleyan Methodist Church. East Boston Church .
1846 | Methodist ...
1:46 |Episcopal .
Rev. N. G. Allen.
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CHURCHES OF BOSTON
CHURCHES OF BOSTON.
The first church building erected in Boston was in the year 1632. Its location was near the present corner of State street and Devonshire street. Mr. Emerson, in his historical sketches of the church, states its location as not far from the spot on which the former Exchange Coffee- House was built. The church covenant of the first society was in the following words : -
" In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in obedience to his holy will and divine ordinance,
" We, whose names are here underwritten, being by his most wise and good providence brought together into this part of America, in the Bay of Massachusetts, and desirous to unite into one congregation or church, under the Lord Jesus Christ, our head, in such sort, as becometh all those whom he hath redeemed and santitied to himself, do hereby solemnly and religiously, as in his most holy presence, promise and bind ourselves to walk in all our ways according to the rule of the gospel, and in all sincere conformity to his holy ordinances, and in mutual love and respect to each other so near, as God shall give us grace."
The second church in Boston was erected in 1649, at the head of the North Square ; " when the northeast part of the town being separated from the other with a narrow stream cut through a nick of land by in- Justry, whereby that part is become an island."
The first Episcopal Society was formed in Boston in the year 1686, when the service of the Common Prayer Book was introduced. Such was the inveterate opposition of the early colonists to the adoption of any other form of worship than their own, that it was with great difficulty that the Baptists, Quakers, Roman Catholics, and Episcopalians, obtained a foot- ing in the city. The Old South Church was forcibly taken possession of in that year, the ministers who were previously consulted having agreed " that they could not, with a good conscience, consent to the use of their churches for the Episcopal service."
The first Baptist Society was formed in the year 1665, when prosecu- tions against members of that denomination were commenced. Their first house of worship was at the corner of Stillman and Salem street's.
The first Quakers who appeared in New England arrived at Boston in the year 1656. The General Court passed sentence of banishment against them. Three years afterwards, two members of this denomination were executed on account of their religious tenets. In 1661, King Charles the Second issued instructions that no more prosecutions should be made.
A Roman Catholic Church was first formed in this city in the year 1789. The first Methodist Church, erected in Boston, was opened by a Meth. odist Missionary in the year 1796. This building was erected in Hanover Avenue.
The first Universalist Society was established in the year 1785, when they purchased the meeting-house at the corner of Hanover and Bennett streets.
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FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
This ancient Congregational Church, the first in the metropolis, was regularly embodied at Charlestown, 27th August, 1630. In 1632, the first house of worship was built. It had mud walls and a thatched roof, and stood on the south side of what is now State street. The second meeting- house was erected in 1639, on the spot that "Joy's buildings " now occu- pies, in Washington street, and was burned down in the great fire of Oct. 2, 1711. In 1808, the present house in Chauncy place was solemnly ap- propriated to Christian worship.
PASTORS.
J. WILSON, from 1632 to 1667. J. COTTON, from 1633 to 1652. J. NOR- TON, from 1656 to 1663. J. DAVENPORT, from 1663 to 1670. J. ALLEN, from 1668 to 1710. J. OXENBRIDGE, from 1670 to 1674. J. MOODY, from 1681 to 1692. J. BAILEY, from 1693 to 1697. B. WADSWORTH, from 1696 to 1737. T. BRIDGE, from 1705 to 1715. T. FOXCRAFT, from 1717 to 1769. C. CHAUNCY, D. D., from 1727 to 1787. J. CLARKE, D. D., from 1778 to 1798. W. EMERSON, from 1799 to 1811. J. L. ABBOTT, from 1813 to to 1814. N. L. FROTHINGHAM, D. D., from 1815 to 1850.
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SECOND CHURCH.
NEW BRICK, OR SECOND CHURCH.
The preceding cut represents the New Brick, or Second Church, Hano- ver street, which belonged to the Congregationalists from 1650 till 1845 The Society was gathered in 1650. Their first edifice was built in North Square in 1649, burnt in 1676, rebuilt in 1677, and torn down for fuel by order of the British General Howe, in 1775. It was then called the Old North. The building now represented was dedicated May 10, 1721, and called the New Brick, by seceders from the New North. This building was demolished in the year 1844, and a splendid edifice erected on its site during the ministry of the Rev. Chandler Robbins. In 1845 the Society sold their new building to the First Methodist Church, and in 1850, pur- chased a Chapel in Freeman Place, where they now worship.
PASTORS.
JOHN MAYO, from 1655 to 1672. INCREASE MATHER, D. D., from 1669 to 1723. COTTON MATHER, D. D., from 1685 to 1723. JOSHUA GEE, from 1723 to 1748. SAMUEL MATHER, D. D., from 1732 to 1741. SAMUEL CHECKLEY, Jr., from 1747 to 1768. JOHN LATHROP, D. D., from 1763 to 1816. HENRY WARE, Jr., D. D., from 1817 to 1830. R. W. EMERSON, froin 1829 to 1832. CHANDLER ROBBINS, ord. 1833, present Pastor.
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, UNION STREET.
This Church was gathered in Charlestown, on the 25th of May, 1665; at its formation it consisted of nine members. The first house of worship way built in 1679, at the corner of Stillman and Salem streets. In 1771 a new house was built on the same spot, which was afterwards considerably enlarged. The present edifice, which is situated at the corner of Union and Hanover streets, was dedicated June 18, 1829. The house is built of brick, and is surmounted by a handsome tower. It contains 106 pews. The pulpit is of mahogany, and in front, connected with it, is the Baptis- tery, which is so situated that every person in the house may see the ordi- nance performed while seated in their pews.
PASTORS.
THOMAS GOULD, from 1665 to 1675. JOHN RUSSELL from 1675 to 1650, JOHN MILES, to February. 1653. JOHN EMBLEM, from 1651 to 1699. EL. LIS CALLENDER, from 1708 to 1715. ELISHA CALLENDER, from 1718, to 173S. JEREMIAH CONDY, from 1739 to 1764. SAMUEL STILLMAN, from 1765 to 1807. JOSEPH CLAY, from 1807 to 1809. JAMES M. WINCHELL, from 1814 to 1520. F. WAYLAND, Jr., from 1821 to 1826. C. P. GROVES .. NOR, from 1827 to 1830. W. HAGUE, from 1831 to 1837. R. H. NEALE, September, 1837, present Pastor.
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