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ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, PLEASANT VALLEY .*
This parish was admitted into union with the Convention in 1837, and has been served at intervals by resident and missionary clergy. In the report of 1853, by Rev: Sheldon Davis, rector, the communicants are set down as 17, and the church spoken of as a central point for mission work in the rural regions. In the report of 1885, Rev. Duncan McCulloch, rector, the communicants are 60, and the other statistics indi- cate a promise of thrift and increase.
CHRIST CHURCH, MARLBOROUGH,
Was organized February 27, 1837. The first church was built, and consecrated by Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk, September 19, 1839. It was destroyed by fire Sunday morn- ing, December 27, 1857. The present edifice was built in 1858, and consecrated October 26, the same year, by Bishop Horatio Potter. The succession of rectors is as follows : the Rev. Robert Shaw, who organized the parish, February 27, 1837, to December, 1839; Rev. George W. Fash, missionary, from June, 1840, to July 1, 1843 ; services were held by lay readers until June 10, 1845, when Rev. Samuel Hawksley was ordained deacon and chosen rector. He died September 2, 1855, aged 41. Services were held by lay readers and by Rev. James C. Richmond, until the Rev. Samuel M. Akerly was appointed missionary, March 13, 1857. He was chosen rec- tor September 21, 1861, and resigned in June, 1875. He was
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succeeded by Rev. George Waters, August 29, 1875, and re- signed in October, 1876. He was succeeded, October 14, 1876, by the present incumbent, Rev. John W. Buckmaster.
A rectory was built in 1862 on a lot adjoining the church, and in 1875 a commodious shed was provided for the use of the parishioners.
Since organization 210 have been baptized and 96 have received confirmation. The present number of communicants is 56. The wardens, in 1837, were : Edward Armstrong and Miles J. Fletcher; in 1848, Gabriel Merritt and -; in 1857, Andrew Oddie and John Buckley; in 1867, Leonard Carpen- ter and John Buckley ; in 1877, James Carpenter and Edward Jackson ; in 1886, James Carpenter and William Armstrong.
The first church was a small frame building, 25 by 40 feet, burnt after Christmas service in 1857. The present edifice is Gothic in style, and built of brick, after designs by Richard Upjohn. The dimensions are 33 by 78 feet, and there are sit- tings for 250 people. The cost was $7,000. The rectory, built in 1862, cost $3,000. The church, rectory, and shed, costing $300, were built during the rectorship of Rev. Samuel M. Akerly.
CHURCH OF THE ANNUNCIATION, NEW YORK.
This parish was organized on the Feast of the Annunciation in 1838. The first church edifice was purchased from another corporation. The present church was erected in 1847. The corner-stone was laid September 12th, by Dr. Berrian, rector of Trinity Parish. The church was first opened for Divine service in August, 1847, was consecrated by Bishop Horatio Potter, September 30, 1855, and made a free church in 1873. The rectors have been : Rev. Samuel Seabury, D.D., 1838- 1868, and Rev. William Jones Seabury, D.D., rector since 1868. The following clergy have been assistant ministers : Rev. Arthur Cary, Rev. Thomas Preston (afterwards a Roman Catholic priest), Rev. James A. Upjohn, Rev. Henry Norman Hudson, LL.D., Rev. William Walton, D.D., Rev. Edward Folsom Baker, Rev. E. H. Cressey, D.D., Rev. Thomas McKee Brown, Rev. Nelson S. Rulison (now assistant Bishop
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of Central Pennsylvania), Rev. Henry Duyckinck, Rev. Francis Harrison, D.D., Rev. Charles P. Dorset, Rev. George F. Siegmund, D.D. (in charge of German missions), Rev. J. J. R. Spong, Rev. James H. H. Brown, and Rev. Charles Edgar Taylor.
A rectory was built in 1869. The vestry room was en- larged and a story added during the first rectorship, and a chapel, with society and chorister rooms, have been added during the present. (There is no report given of baptisms, confirmations, or communicants.) The wardens in 1838 were : Hon. Samuel Jones and Hon. Wm. H. Bell ; in 1848, Hon. Samuel Jones and Edward Houghton ; in 1858, Benjamin A. Mumford and Floyd Smith ; in 1868, Floyd Smith and John D. Jones, and in 1878, John D. Jones and Hon. George Shea.
The first Church of the Annunciation, now St. Ambrose, corner of Prince and Thompson Streets, was consecrated Octo- ber 2, 1839, by Bishop Benjamin T. Onderdonk. Here, on Sunday, January 5, 1845, two days after the date of his sus- pension from the episcopal office, he received Holy Commun- ion at the hands of Bishop Gadsden, of South Carolina, and from this time until his death, in 1861, he continued a regular attendant upon the daily and weekly services of the church. Rev. James Lloyd Breck, D.D., and Rev. Robert Weeks, were superintendents of Sunday-school in this parish, while candidates for orders. The Rev. Francis L. Hawks, D.D., occupied the pulpit as the guest of the parish, about the year 1864-1865 ; and Rev. Joaquin de Palma officiated between its regular services on Sundays, in Spanish, for the Church of Santiago, for several years.
ST. LUKE'S CHURCH, SOMERS.
This parish was organized in 1835, and the church erected in 1842. The rectors have been Rev. George Strebeck, 1804 ; Rev. Alexander Frazer, 1835; Rev. David H. Short, 1842 ; Rev. Samuel C. Davis, 1844; Rev. Alfred H. Partridge, 1846 ; Rev. John Wells Moore, 1851 ; Rev. George S. Gordon, 1856; Rev. Charles Douglas, 1861; Rev. William Murphy, 1863; Rev. Benjamin Webb, 1865, and 1869, Rev. R. Condit Rus-
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sell, present incumbent. The record of clerical acts is defect- ive. Since organization 120 have received confirmation. In 1842 there were 13 communicants; the present number is 64. The wardens in 1836 were: Isaac Purdy and Frederick J. Coffin ; in 1846, Joshua Purdy and Charles Wright ; in 1856, Thaddeus Barlow and William Turk; the same in 1866 and 1876; and in 1885, Thaddeus Barlow and James Hyatt.
ST. PHILIP'S IN THE HIGHLANDS, PHILIPSTOWN .*
No report has been made from this parish, on account of unavoidable obstructions. It was received into union with the Convention in 1840. Among its rectors have been : Rev. E. H. Peeke, Rev. C. F. Hoffman, Rev. A. Zabriskie Gray (now warden of Racine College), and the present incumbent, Rev. Walter Thompson. The wardens are Hon. Hamilton Fish and Thomas B. Arden. The number of communicants in 1885 was 106.
ST. MARY'S IN THE HIGHLANDS
Was organized in 1839. The first church was consecrated November 16, 1841. The present edifice, built of stone, Gothic in design, and admirable for its decorations and ap- pointments, was consecrated July 23, 1868. The clergy have been : Rev. Ebenezer Williams, 1839-1844; Rev. Robert Shaw, 1844-1859; Rev. Charles William Morrill, 1861-1864; Rev. Mytton Maury, 1865-1871 ; Rev. Charles Carroll Parsons, 1872-1874; Rev. Isaac Van Winkle, 1874, and present rector. A rectory was purchased in 1886. An elaborate and costly Sunday-school chapel, harmonizing in material and design with the church, and with it constituting an architectural group of singular beauty, was completed in July, 1874, during the rectorship of Rev. C. C. Parsons. Since organization I,022 baptisms are recorded, and 384 have received confirma- tion. The present number of communicants is 92. From 1839-1876 the wardens were : Gouverneur Kemble (who died September, 1875) and Robert Parker Parrott (who died De- cember, 1878); 1876-1878, Robert Parker Parrott and Gouv-
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erneur Kemble, a nephew of the elder Gouverneur Kem- ble ; and 1878-1886, Gouverneur Kemble and Charles Miller. Among the more munificent benefactors of the parish have been the late Gouverneur Kemble, Robert P. Parrott and F. P. James.
ST. ANN'S CHURCH, MORRISANIA,*
Was admitted into Convention in 1841. The Rev. Charles R. Jones was rector at that date. In 1843 the parish had no rector. In 1844 Rev. Charles Aldis is first mentioned as rec- tor, and continued until 1847. In 1849 Rev. A. B. Carter is recorded as rector ; in 1852, Rev. J. Pinckney Hammond ; in 1857, Rev. Wm. Huckel, until 1881 ; and in 1882, Rev. H. Kettell, D.D., present incumbent, who reported, in 1885, 205 communicants. "The parish is in a most satisfactory condi- tion. The Sunday-school is crowded, and the vestry propose the erection of a new chapel during the coming spring. The church property is in excellent condition, and has been im- proved by the planting of shade trees along the front of the church grounds. There is no debt."
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, ESOPUS .*
This parish was received into union with the Convention in 1842. The church was built by Mrs. Anna Watts, a mem- ber of the Rutherford-Stuyvesant family, and a member of Ascension Parish, New York. A rectory of stone was built in 1860, and Mr. Archibald Russell was for many years con- nected with the welfare of the parish as a summer resident. Among the rectors have been Rev. Philip Berry, Rev. Mr. Smithett, Rev. Richard Temple, Rev. Henry Beers Sherman, and in 1885, Rev. Alexander Capron, present incumbent. In his report to the Convention, the number of communicants is set down at 25. It is also mentioned that the number of families resident through the year has so largely increased that the prospects for future growth are encouraging.
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CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY, NEW YORK.
This parish was organized in 1842, and the church erected in 1849. The rectors have been: Rev. Caleb Clapp, 1849- 1871; Rev. J. F. Esch, 1878-1879; Rev. George F. Nelson, 1879-1884; and since that year the present incumbent, Rev. Lawrence H. Schwab. There is a rectory, in which services were held before the church was built. Dating as far back as 1834, records of clerical acts have been found in this parish. There have been 2,118 baptisms administered and 528 have received confirmation. The present number of communi- cants is 60. In 1852 the wardens were : Dr. James R. Chapin and Peter M. Swaine; in 1862, Benjamin Tanner and Peter M. Swaine; in 1872, John L. Smith and John Guy; and in 1882, John Guy and George W. Church.
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, CLIFTON,
Was organized in 1843, and the corner-stone of the first church laid September 12th. The corner-stone of the second and present church was laid November 10, 1869, and it was con- secrated September 30, 1871. The rectors have been : Rev. Kingston Goddard, 1844-1847; Rev. Alexander G. Mercer, D.D., 1847-1852 ; Rev. R. M. Abercrombie, 1853-1856; Rev. J. C. Eccleston, D.D., 1856-1863 ; Rev. T. K. Conrad, 1863- 1866; and Rev. J. C. Eccleston, D.D., recalled May, 1867, and present incumbent. A spacious and beautiful rectory was provided on the church grounds in 1882, and Mercer Memorial Chapel, with Sunday-school buildings, were erected in 1884. The present number of communicants is 350.
St. Simon's Mission to the Germans was organized by Rev. Dr. Abercrombie in 1854, and is now carried on as a mis- sion for destitute English-speaking people. The wardens of St. John's reported are : Charles M. Simonson and William H. Aspinwall in 1843, and John A. Appleton and George S. Scofield in 1869.
The first edifice was a plain wooden structure, and stood on the west side of the street, nearly opposite the present grounds, which lie on the east side, and have a pleasant slope
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towards the Narrows, which lie in full view. The architect of the new church was Arthur Gilman. The style selected was Edwardian Gothic, and the material is a grayish stone. The plan is cruciform, the nave and transepts being wide and short, so that nearly all the sittings command a view of the chancel. The exterior and interior proportions are singularly harmonious, and the windows are filled with some of the best glass of the leading makers in London. There are few churches where so much really excellent glass may be found. These windows are nearly all memorials. Among the bene- factors of the parish, mention is due of John A. Appleton, for many years a devout parishioner, and a munificent con- tributor to the funds for the erection of both church and rec- tory. The Mercer Memorial was chiefly provided for through the generous consideration of the residuary legatees of the late Dr. Mercer.
Since organization, although the earlier parish records are incomplete, 939 baptisms are registered, and 607 persons have received confirmation.
ST. LUKE'S CHURCH, ROSSVILLE.
This parish was organized June 18, 1843, and the church was erected in 1844. The rectors have been : Rev. C. D. Jackson, 1843-1847; Rev. Samuel Morehouse, 1847-1848 ; Rev. B. F. Taylor, 1849 -; Rev. Wm. H. Reese, 1851-1855; Rev. Jesse Pound, 1856 and died 1866; Rev. Wm. Henry Bean, 1866 until his decease, in April, 1876; Rev. James R. Sharp, 1877-1882; and since February, 1883, Rev. Wm. Wardlaw, the present incumbent. Since organization 325 baptisms are recorded, and 175 have received confirmation. The present number is 68, and the number has varied but little since 1854. The wardens in 1843 were Wm. E. Ross and Wm. Shea ; in 1853, Wm. Shea and Thomas Platt ; in 1863 and 1873, David A. Edgar and Henry H. Biddle; and in 1883, Henry H. Biddle and Henry S. Sequied. Since the establishment of this parish, services have been held continuously and the work of the church carried on, although the measure of success of which it gave promise during the earlier years
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has not been realized to the extent that its friends might desire. This has been owing chiefly to the want of adequate facilities for travel between this place and the city of New York. The increase of population has been very gradual, and the parish has suffered by the removal of many valuable families whose places have not been filled. Still it has exerted a wide and healthy influence, and maintained a firm hold over the affections of the people. Within the past two years the church edifice has been repaired and improved, and attendance at services and Sunday-school have largely in- creased.
CHRIST CHURCH, PELHAM.
This parish was organized in 1844, and the church edifice built in 1843. The rectors have been : Rev. Robert Bolton, 1844; Rev. Alexander Shiras, 1852 ; Rev. C. W. Bolton, 1855 ; Rev. N. E. Cornwall, 1857 ; Rev. M. M. Dillon, 1861 ; Rev. E. W. Syle, 1864; Rev. J. M. Harding, 1868 ; and since 1871, Rev. Charles Higbee, present incumbent. In 1863-4, Rev. S. S. Cheever was assistant minister. A rectory was obtained in 1867. A Sunday-school house was built in 1865, Rev. Mr. Syle, rector. Since organization 501 have been baptized, and 187 received confirmation. At present there are 70 communi. cants. In 1844 the wardens were: Richard Morris and H. Grunzebach; in 1850, Richard Morris and Philip Schuyler ; in 1860, Philip Schuyler and W. H. LeRoy; in 1870, R. W. Edgar and A. Newbold Morris; in 1880, the same; and at present, R. W. Edgar and C. H. de Luze. Within the last two years both the church building and rectory have been renovated and handsomely decorated. A fine stone Sunday- school house is about to be erected near the church, an enlarge- ment of which is now under consideration, as the present demand for pews is greater than the supply.
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, NORTH CASTLE.
This parish was organized October 10, 1842, and a church erected in 1843. The rectors have been : Rev. R. W. Harris, from 1842-1853; Rev. J. D. Vermilye, from 1853 until his death in 1864; Rev. J. W. Hyde, from 1865-1867; Rev. C.
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W. Bolton, from 1867-1880; Rev. Benjamin F. Hall, from 1881-1882; and Rev. John T. Pearce, present rector, who as- sumed charge October 28, 1883. The parish built a spacious rectory in 1870, during the rectorship of Rev. C. W. Bolton. There are 330 baptisms recorded, and 151 have received con- firmation. The present number of communicants is 44. There is no sufficient record of wardens to present in this connec- tion. The settlement in the town of North Castle, now called Armonck, at the time the parish was organized and its pres- ent church edifice erected, was called by the name of Miles' Square. Previous to the organization of the parish, Rev. R. W. Harris, its first rector, had officiated here for some time, it being a mission station. During that time, and up to the erecting a proper church, the place of worship had been an old log cabin, built on the site where the Methodist meeting- house now stands. Besides the rectors already named, there were other clergymen who officiated on occasions of vacan- cies in the rectorship.
CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION, NEW YORK.
This parish was organized in 1844. The corner-stone was laid on St. James' Day, 1844, and the church completed and consecrated on the third Sunday in Advent, 1846. The pastors have been: Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg, D.D. (founder of the parish), 1846-1859; Rev. Francis Effing- ham Lawrence, D.D., 1859-1879, and Rev. Henry Mottel, from 1879 to date. The rectory was built in 1851. A schoolhouse was built in 1852, a Sister's Home in 1852 (during Dr. Muhlenberg's pastorate), and a Home for Aged Women in 1867, and a Babies' Shelter, in 1871. All these works and charities lie within the ministry of the pastor. Since organization, 3,200 baptisms are recorded, and 1,800 have been confirmed. In 1846 there were 200 communicants ; in 1856, 350 ; in 1866, 500; in 1876, 700, and at present, 1886, there are 925.
This parish is organized under a Board of Trustees, who at the organization were : Robert B. Minturn, John H. Swift,
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William E. Chisholm, A. W. Reynolds, Edgar H. Richards, with Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg and Rev. F. E. Lawrence. The present board are Rev. Henry Mottet, President, Edgar A. Richards, George Cabot Ward, Charles W. Ogden, Francis McNeil Bacon, Charles Spear and Hilborne L. Roosevelt.
This was the first free church * in this country ; the first to establish early communions; the first to establish weekly celebrations ; the first to sustain daily prayers; the first to divide the services; the first to establish a choir of men and boys; the first to have a Christmas tree for poor children ; the first to adorn altar and font with flowers; the first with chancel lights at Epiphany, and the first in the Anglican and American Church to organize a sisterhood (1852). The receipts from voluntary contributions and the offertory, dur- ing 1885, for the support of the church, were $12,125.37, and for benevolent uses, $35,460.10, making a total of $47,585.47.
Among the organized activities of the parish are a Work- ing Men's Club, a Working Girls' Club, a Boys' Club, an Employment Society, a Missionary Society, a Sunday-school numbering 654 scholars, with 52 officers and teachers, and an Industrial School numbering 354 scholars and teachers. The church occupies the north-east corner of Sixth Avenue and Twentieth Street ; the rectory stands adjoining on Twentieth Street, while the Sister's House, Home for Aged, chapel and parish rooms are adjoining on Sixth Avenue. They are built of brown stone in Gothic, after Upjohn's designs, and constitute together a picturesque and harmonious group.
In a communication received from Sister Anne Ayres, she writes : The Church of the Holy Communion was built en- tirely by Dr. Muhlenberg's only sister, Mrs. Mary Anna C.
* It is necessary in this connection to refer the reader to the report of the Parish of the Epiphany, New York, where its organization as a free church is placed at 1833. If these data are correct, it appears that the Church of the Epiphany has a priority over the Church of the Holy Communion, of eleven years, as the pioneer free church. It further appears that St. Mary's, Manhattanville, New York, was a free church, in 1833, as was stated in the parish report to the Diocesan Convention of that year. In this connection the present rector writes : " and it is probable that there were no pew rentals, after 1831, and for twenty- three years of the present rectorship it has continued a free church."
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Rogers, widow of Mr. John Rogers, and in pursuance of a wish of her husband's in his last illness, " that a church might be erected to the glory of God where the rich and the poor would meet together " (as Dr. Muhlenberg had often set forth among his relatives in God's house they should). Mrs. Rogers, I believe, was left quite free in the matters of cost, locality, etc., her husband leaving his property to her unre- stricted use and disposal. She also built the rectory of the church. In the earlier years, indeed for many years, Mrs. Rogers annually gave largely to the support of the church, through the weekly offertory and otherwise. " The Church of the Holy Communion has always been supported by the weekly offertory," said Dr. Muhlenberg a few years before his decease, 1872, " but I have never thought that that should be exclusively the means of support for such churches. The offertory should give the opportunity for all to contribute ac- cording to their ability, but, in addition, the more wealthy members, because I have always repudiated the notion that free churches should be exclusively for the poor. Their fundamental idea is in the meeting of the rich and poor to- gether in the House of the Lord. They are practical demon- strations of the Christian Church as the divine brother- hood."
In a brief memorandum like this it is impossible to attempt more than the briefest outline of such a man and a life; not that the outline contains the subject, but may refresh remem- brances concerning him which few who knew him would willingly have passed out of household knowledge. The parish he created is to this day charged with his life and individuality. Indeed, he involuntarily left an impression of himself so sharply outlined in whatever movement, organi- zation, or body he had to do with, that it became simply ineradicable. His coadjutors and helpers could not help re- flecting him, and yet no great man left fewer imitators or professional followers. He was one of the most direct and ingenuous of men. He seemed incapable of arts and subter- fuges. He was always found glowing at head or heart, and, most frequently at both. As an educator he made the deep-
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est mark of any of his contemporaries ; and College Point men were among the best equipped figures of this great Church revival period. In many ways he was more than another Arnold of Rugby, and as a Christian leader and teacher he nowhere fell below the great Master of Rugby, in all that goes to building up and beautifying character.
Dr. Muhlenberg came at a time when dialectics and logical developments needed the mellowing tempering of his presence and spirit. He gave a new and permanent impulse to a qual- ity of ecclesiastical æstheticism wherein all Churchmen might become sharers. He recognized the bare, half-fledged condi- tion of the young Church just freed from the dangerous embrace of royal nurture, and yet awkward and ungraceful in its republican swaddling clothes. To Dr. Muhlenberg's won- derful patience, perseverance, and inextinguishable enthu- siasm, the Church owes not a little of her widely developed delight in the ritual beauty of holiness. As a propagandist of the free church movement, in which he was an early pioneer, he was simple, irresistible, and irrepressible. There are hymns, too, of his which reach the hearts of all the people. A lover of all workers in the Lord's vineyard, his hand first went forth to welcome and succor sisterhoods and orders of devout women. He was the earliest efficient worker in the cause of congregational church music. In the Memorial movement, he first demonstrated the accessibility of the House of Bishops and the General Convention to any vigor- ous movement of inquiry which had an honest footing in the Church, and those who knew him best and most wisely will always think of him as the actual father of the Church Con- gress as an unchallenged "third estate" in the evolution of Church thought and purpose. He left no formulated "school" to distract and perplex the future ; but he did leave a vigorous lesson of healthy inquiry and conservative evolution which secures the Church for some generations to come, saved from the plague of stagnation. His monuments are many for a single life. There is the Church of the Holy Communion and its constantly developing utilities, all at the foot of the cross ; there is St. Luke's Hospital, and there is St. Johnland, with
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its indefinite outreach of cheer and help, far down in the future. Such a personage was not a " popular man," nor the main-spring of a " party," nor one likely to strike hands with the materialism and formalism of the day. "Right dear in the sight of the Lord (and of the Lord's people) is the death of His saints."
THE CHURCH OF THE EPIPHANY, NEW YORK.
This parish was organized in 1833, during Epiphany-tide. Lots were purchased in Stanton Street and a church built. The corner-stone was laid by the Rt. Rev. Richard Chan- ning Moore, Bishop of Virginia, and the church was conse- crated June 28, 1834, by the Bishops of New York, Pennsyl- vania and Connecticut. This was the first free church in the city. The rectors have been: Rev. Lot Jones, D.D., from 1833 to his decease, October, 1865; Rev. B. B. Leacock, 1867-1872; Rev. Jacob Rambo, 1872-1873; Rev. U. T. Tracy, 1874-1884, and Rev. Alford A. Butler, incumbent, since May, 1884. The number of baptisms recorded is some- thing over 3,650, of which 3,234 are referable to the rector- ship of Dr. Jones, and 1,381 have received confirmation. The number of communicants in 1835 were 205 ; in 1845, 511; in 1855, --; in 1865, about 360 ; in 1875, 175 ; in 1880, 75 ; in 1885, 138, and the present number is 150.
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