. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . action was, no doubt, the determination of the Dutch themselves to leavetheir church in the fort, which they surrendered to the English, and tobuild for themselves a new church in Garden street. In accordancewith the agreement which had been made between them Daill6 hadthe special oversight of the country churches, whilst Peiret had moreparticularly charge of that of New York. This arrangement continuedin force until 1696, when Daill6 accepted a call from the French church 420 HISTOKY OF THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHUECH. of Boston. In th
. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . action was, no doubt, the determination of the Dutch themselves to leavetheir church in the fort, which they surrendered to the English, and tobuild for themselves a new church in Garden street. In accordancewith the agreement which had been made between them Daill6 hadthe special oversight of the country churches, whilst Peiret had moreparticularly charge of that of New York. This arrangement continuedin force until 1696, when Daill6 accepted a call from the French church 420 HISTOKY OF THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHUECH. of Boston. In the meantime, however, the prosperity of the New Yorkchurch increased daily. In 1703 Peiret and his consistory were author-ized, by an act of the Assembly, to sell the chuich in Marketfieldstreet, which had become entu-ely too small, and to apply the proceeds,and such other contributions as might be voluntarily made for thatpurpose, to the erection of a new and larger church. On the 8th ofJuly, 1704, the corner-stone of the new church was laid by Lord Corn-. PINE STREET CHUECH IN 1831. bury, and the building itself was completed towards the end of thesame year. This was that unique church edifice in Pine street, nearNassau, which was used for public worship until 1834, and which stillsubsists in the present Eglise du Saint JUsprit, in West Twent}^-second street. Peiret, who had been the prime mover in the erection of the twoFrench churches, died on the 1st of September, 1704, and wasburied in Trinity church-yard. He is said to have been a man oflearning, and, from all that is known of Mm, he was certainty a nobleexample of the Huguenot pastor. He was followed hy a long seriesof able and devoted men, but under whom the church which he hadfounded gradually declined. In 1750, after the close of Kous longpastorate, its membership had been reduced to a mere the occupation of New York by the British the building wasused as a storehouse; nor was it reopened for divine ser
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