The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . andthe old structures which still survive, as well as the localitieswhere historic ones once stood, are objects of a strong attach-ment. The Story of Boston would be incomplete withouta sketch of these and it may serve to impart to those whoare strangers to the city the reason why Bostonians considerthere is no place worth living in but Boston. The first church or meeting house in Boston was erectedin August, 1632, on what i
The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . andthe old structures which still survive, as well as the localitieswhere historic ones once stood, are objects of a strong attach-ment. The Story of Boston would be incomplete withouta sketch of these and it may serve to impart to those whoare strangers to the city the reason why Bostonians considerthere is no place worth living in but Boston. The first church or meeting house in Boston was erectedin August, 1632, on what is now State street, at the cornerof Devonshire; it was built of logs with thatched roof, andfor several years was used as a house for worship and a placewhere the Governor and assistants met and directed the affairsof the colony. In 1639 ^ larger one, on the present site ofthe Rogers building, Washington street, opposite State, waserected. Its present location is at the corner of Berkleyand Marlboro streets, where a magnificent edifice has beenerected, costing about three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Extracts from the early records serve to inform us of 121. First Meeting-house m Boston the strictness in which those people of that day were Walker, the wife of one Richard Walker, having beforethis day (29th, 2d month, 1638) been often privately admon-ished of sundry scandals, as of drunkenish, intemperate, andunclean of wantonish behavior, also of manifold lies andstill persisting impentiently therein, was by joint consentcast out of the church. Our brother Richard Wayte, havingpurloyned out of buckskin leather brought unto him so muchthereof as would make three men gloves to the scandall ofsundry without as well as of his brethren, and also havingbeen by some of the brethren dealt withall for it, did oftendeny and forswear the same, without hearkening, was there-fore cast out of the church. Our sister. Temperance Jewette,was by our pastor in the name of the Lord
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