. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. n in her possession she opened a store, which provedvery successful. By this turn of fortune she was enabled toconsummate her wishes in giving a liberal education to hereldest son. At an early day, young Rush evinced a strong pref-erence for the study and profession of law, but by the persuasionsof his mother he consented to the practice of medicine. * 1 Belisles History of Independence Hall, pages 226, 227. 94 History of Old Pine Street. Among the signers of the Duffield call, and
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. n in her possession she opened a store, which provedvery successful. By this turn of fortune she was enabled toconsummate her wishes in giving a liberal education to hereldest son. At an early day, young Rush evinced a strong pref-erence for the study and profession of law, but by the persuasionsof his mother he consented to the practice of medicine. * 1 Belisles History of Independence Hall, pages 226, 227. 94 History of Old Pine Street. Among the signers of the Duffield call, and thesleepers in the old churchyard, is a man, of whose warservice we have no record, but who has come down tous as a hero of the Revolution, William Hurrie, whorang the old State House bell on the day that theDeclaration of Independence was given to the In the Committee Book of Old Pine Street Church there are blank pages between the entries of February 7, 1776, and May 6, 1780, that are mute witnesses of a glorious unwritten history which this chapter suggests. 1 Leaves of a Century Plant, page til JOHN BLAIR SMITH A. B. (Princeton); D. D. (PrincetonJ Officer in the War of the American Revolution; Moderator of General Assembly; first President of Union College; second Pastor of the church, and buried in the churchyard From a portrait in possession of Union College.
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