. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. ommissionwas jjrepared appointingEobert Hunter Morrislieutenant - governor ofNew York, and it lay forsome time in the Secre-tary of States office. Itwas afterwards annulled,the De Lancey influenceat court having turnedthe scale. Kev, Henry Barclay had been rector of Trinity Church since October,174(i. Clinton signed his certificate of induction, although his Excellencywas rarely ever seen in the sanctuary; he was not a religious man. In1748 the subject of building St. Georges Chapel was agitated, and sixlots fronting on Nassau
. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. ommissionwas jjrepared appointingEobert Hunter Morrislieutenant - governor ofNew York, and it lay forsome time in the Secre-tary of States office. Itwas afterwards annulled,the De Lancey influenceat court having turnedthe scale. Kev, Henry Barclay had been rector of Trinity Church since October,174(i. Clinton signed his certificate of induction, although his Excellencywas rarely ever seen in the sanctuary; he was not a religious man. In1748 the subject of building St. Georges Chapel was agitated, and sixlots fronting on Nassau, near Fair Street, were selected as a site, andbought of David CTarkson for £ 500. Shortly after, some lots belongingto Colonel Beekman, fronting Pieekman, near Cliff Street, were esteemedmore suitable. They were accordingly jiurchased for £ 645. The corner-stone of the edifice was laid in 1749, a few weeks prior to the marriage ofthe minister (Mr. Barclay) to the daughter of Anthony Eutgers. Thevery next evening, Mr. Barclays assistant, Eev. Mr. Auchmuty, was. St. Georges 1752. A GLIMPSE OF XEIV YORK IN 1732. 633 married to Mrs. Tucker. Both ladies were sjwken of iu the highestterms of praise by the journals of the day. The chapel was uot com-pleted until 1752, and was consecrated in July of that year. Its aisleswere flagged with gray stone, and its decorations were very imique. Itwas ninety-two by seventy-two ieet upon the ground; the steeple waslofty, about one hundred and seventy-five feet high, but irregular. Itwas a striking object so far from the town and regarded with no little in-terest. A parsonage was subsequently built adjoining the chapel edifice,but for a time it stood almost alone upon the pretty elevation, with onlyan occasional house here and there in the neighborhood.^ The Moravians had become so numerous that they built a small cha])elin Fulton Street, about the same time. A number of stores and pri-vate houses sprang into existence ; the mayor, E
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