. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. which the University of Pennsylvania had itsorigin. In 1752, the congregation moved into thechurch which they had erected at Third and ArchStreets, where they worshipped for eighty-three third building was situated on Seventh Street,near Arch, and was dedicated in 1837. The congrega-tion entered the present beautiful church at Twenty-first and Walnut Streets in 1872. The third Presbyterian congregation organized inPhiladelphia was Old Pine Street. It will be seenthat thi
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. which the University of Pennsylvania had itsorigin. In 1752, the congregation moved into thechurch which they had erected at Third and ArchStreets, where they worshipped for eighty-three third building was situated on Seventh Street,near Arch, and was dedicated in 1837. The congrega-tion entered the present beautiful church at Twenty-first and Walnut Streets in 1872. The third Presbyterian congregation organized inPhiladelphia was Old Pine Street. It will be seenthat this is truly a daughter of the mother Pine Street is the only living colonial church ofthe Presbyterian denomination, on its original founda-tion, in Philadelphia. In noble simplicity, this churchlooks down upon her blessed dead who cherished hercourts before the nation was born. It is the placewhich Old Pine Street holds in colonial history, andin the Revolutionary struggle, and in the historic devel-opment of Presbyterianism in Philadelphia, that makesthis history a debt of love to our The Founding of the Church. When the Pine Street house of worship was built,Philadelphia was a provincial town of some twenty-five thousand inhabitants. This estimate of popula-tion is made from a contemporary almanac,1 whichstates that the dwelling houses in the city and suburbsnumbered four thousand four hundred and seventy-four. The town extended somewhat over two milesalong the Delaware River. The western boundarywas very irregular. A line beginning at the OldSwedes Church, touching at Fourth and Pine Streets,and running between Fourth and Fifth Streets toVine, would perhaps fairly indicate the western of the streets running east and west below Southreached farther than Fifth Street. The length ofQueen Street was two squares. Where the town ex-tended furthest from the Delaware, houses beyondSixth Street were suburban. Much of the district im-mediately west of
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