. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . er Wil-liams, submitted to his sentence, and the interest thathad been awakened died out or was absorbed by theQuaker revivals of the time; and, strange as it may seemto those who know the fearless zeal and untiring mission-ary spirit of this denomination, no attempt to organizeseems to have been made prior to the date first givenabove. The first meetings of the church were held in theschool-rooms of a Miss Hammond, and in 1857 a neatlittle church was erected at the junction
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . er Wil-liams, submitted to his sentence, and the interest thathad been awakened died out or was absorbed by theQuaker revivals of the time; and, strange as it may seemto those who know the fearless zeal and untiring mission-ary spirit of this denomination, no attempt to organizeseems to have been made prior to the date first givenabove. The first meetings of the church were held in theschool-rooms of a Miss Hammond, and in 1857 a neatlittle church was erected at the junction of Jamaica andJaggar avenues. Rev. Howard Osgood was the firstpastor. MOUNT PLEASANT UNION CHAPEL, at what is known as the head of the Vleigh, wasbuilt in 1858, Thomas Whitson donating the land andMrs Mary Pell subscribing the largest part of the cost ofits erection. It has been occupied by a union Sunday-school and for mission services by the clergymen of dif-ferent denominations from the adjacent villages. Duringthe winter of 1880-81 Rev. J. W. Smith, of Jamaica, heldservices there. I20 HISTORY OF QUEENS ROBERT M. BELL. Robert M. Bell is a son of Richard and Rachael(Moore) Bell, and is of Irish extraction on his fathersside; his mother was a Quakeress. Mr. Bell was born about six miles west of Port De-posit, in Cecil county, Md., March 3d 1807. Orphanedat the age of ten, by the death of his father, Robert wentto live, with his mother, at Sadsbury, Lancaster county,Pa., and remained there and with other relatives in thevicinity until 1824, when he was induced to take chargeof the farm of his uncle, Abram Bell, in the town ofFlushing, Long Island, of which a small part of present farm formed a portion. December 19th1832 Mr. Bell married Miss Catharine H. Lawrence, asister of Cornelius, Joseph and Richard Lawrence, whowere all at one time prominent and influential citizens ofNew York, who died January 7th 1880. Mr. Bell has two children, a son and a daughter,na
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