. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. the Pine Street Church was ready foroccupancy. So that while the new church was build-ing a congregation was being prepared for it. It was no surprise that when, on February 23, 1768,the people met in Pine Street Church to select theirpews, one hundred pews were at once taken, and thateighty of these were awarded to those attending themission. It was a strong testimony to the loyalty andcoherence of the mother church that only twenty pewswere rented to her members. For we must remem
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. the Pine Street Church was ready foroccupancy. So that while the new church was build-ing a congregation was being prepared for it. It was no surprise that when, on February 23, 1768,the people met in Pine Street Church to select theirpews, one hundred pews were at once taken, and thateighty of these were awarded to those attending themission. It was a strong testimony to the loyalty andcoherence of the mother church that only twenty pewswere rented to her members. For we must rememberthat the Market Street Church was overcrowded, andthat the new church was very attractive. Within threemonths of this memorable day, June twelfth, the firstsongs of praise and the first sermon were heard in thenew See Appendix B. W ** :^Sm sLa <* J^J B HT/.jB 1 A 1 1 v^\M - JOHN EWING A. B. (Princeton); D. D. (Edinburgh) Provost of the University of Pennsylvania; forty years Pastor ofthe First Church, who is buried in the churchyard From the portrait in the Pennsylvania Historical Society ?.
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