Random recollections of Albany, from 1800 to 1808 . f Dr. Nott,! carried me, nolens volens, into thePresbyterian brick church of South-pearl street.^Thus I acquired, at nearly one and the same time,a decided inclination to church and state; or, in Of all the persons mentioned in these reminiscences, it is 1)e-lieved Dr. Nott is the only survivor. He was born in Ashford,Conn., 25th .June, 1773. This is the oldest church edifice in the city, having beenerected in 1796, and is now occupied by the Congregationalists,imder Dr. Palmer. There were not at this time more than sevenor eight church edifi
Random recollections of Albany, from 1800 to 1808 . f Dr. Nott,! carried me, nolens volens, into thePresbyterian brick church of South-pearl street.^Thus I acquired, at nearly one and the same time,a decided inclination to church and state; or, in Of all the persons mentioned in these reminiscences, it is 1)e-lieved Dr. Nott is the only survivor. He was born in Ashford,Conn., 25th .June, 1773. This is the oldest church edifice in the city, having beenerected in 1796, and is now occupied by the Congregationalists,imder Dr. Palmer. There were not at this time more than sevenor eight church edifices. Two of these were Dutch Reformed,one Lutheran, one Episcopal, one Presbyterian, one German Re-formed, which may at this time have been occupied by the Se-ceders, and one Cathohc. These are mentioned in the order ofseniority. There was also a society of Scotch Presbyterians,and of Methodists; the traveler Rochefaucault-Liancourt saysthe latter had a society here in 1794; whether they had a churchor worshipped in private houses does not FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Now ConOTegalional. Recollections of Albany. 75 other words, a marked taste for politics andpreaching. No one certainly, could have studiedunder abler masters ; and for many of the opinionsI entertain to this day, I hold those mastersresponsible. But the only names belonging to the church, ofwhich my memory took cognizance, at the periodreferred to, or of which I have an} distinct recol-lection, are those of Kott, Romaine and Bradford.^ Mr. Bradford was a well educated — well read —and gentlemanly man. He was, moreover, oneof the handsomest men in the city, which in theminds or fancies of the fairer part of his congre-gation, added no doubt to his eloquence, and ofcourse to his usefulness in the church. Mr. Ro-maine was an able man, of a denunciatory andvehement style of oratory — altogether too Calvin-istic to suit the taste of his hearers. But it mustbe remembered that, 1 John Melancthon Bradford wa
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