La storia e le antichità di Boston .. . h energia, anche se sono trascorsi quasi due anni prima che una casa fosse finita finora asto ospitare la società. Poi è stato registrato, che £2^Q hadwas contribuito da novantasei individui. La casa era stata poi 1689.Luglio 4 è stato costruito, ad un costo di circa <£284. Se questo cliente in-cluded trentacinque shillings, pagato al sig. William Smith per benching di esso, non è indicato chiaramente. Come la Società ha ottatola terra su cui si trovava la Chiesa, non è stato scoperto, ma non è affatto improbabile che sia stato preso byorder del governatore Andros dal co

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The history and antiquities of Boston .. . h energy, though almost two years elapsed before a house was so far finished asto accommodate the Society. Then it was recorded, that £2^Q hadbeen contributed by ninety-six individuals. The house had then 1689.July 4 been built, at a cost of about <£284. Whether this account in-cluded thirty-five shillings, paid to Mr. William Smith for benching of it, it is not clearly stated. How the Society obtainedthe land on which the Church stood, has not been discovered, but it isnot at all improbable that it was taken byorder of Governor Andros out of the com-mon burial-place, which was given to theTown by Mr. Isaac Johnson. It was ofwood, and stood upon part of the groundnow occupied by the present edifice, at the, north-east corner of Tremont and Schoolstreets. The Revolution was a sensiblecheck upon the prosperity of the Society, and their House had no pews up to 1693 ;in that year the officers of Sir FrancisWhelers fleet which put into Boston torecruit, made up a donation for the Church. FIRST EnSCOPAL CHUHCH.^ importauce, as one of the most arbitrary actsever perpetrated in this country, while it re-mained under the English government. Noexcuse is to be rendered for it. It was such adeliberate outrage on the common rights ofproperty, to say nothing of conscience andliberty, that we may only wonder that Androsand his abettors suffered no personal violencefrom the people. —Hist. Kings Chapel, 39. * Cotton Ilill was an eminence near thesoutherly termination of Pemberton Square, andnearly opposite the gate of Kings ChapelBurying-ground. The Rev. John Cotton re-Bided near it, and hence its name. I Francis Nicholson, Lieut. Governor of N. York, in a letter to Andros, dated New York, Nov. 15th, 1688, says, jIy humble service toall our friends and acquaintance, and I hopethe little Church and its Parson are both well.You have taken away all the old Acts, bookesof Council, and bookes of Pattens; soe peoplecomeing to have coppies fr

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• bookauthordrakesam
• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1850
• bookyear1856