Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ,Conn., in 1776, and came to Bklyn in 1783. When a youth hesought the Lord, and was gloriously converted in a cornfieldbetween Fulton-st. and Columbia Heights. [E. C. Hewas cl. ldr. in 1806, afterward trus. and some time prest of theboard. During the last 20 yrs. of his life he was one of thechief pillars in Washgtn-st. ch. He and Gamaliel King werethe builders of the ist York-st. ch. By industry and enterprisehe amassed a competence, but
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ,Conn., in 1776, and came to Bklyn in 1783. When a youth hesought the Lord, and was gloriously converted in a cornfieldbetween Fulton-st. and Columbia Heights. [E. C. Hewas cl. ldr. in 1806, afterward trus. and some time prest of theboard. During the last 20 yrs. of his life he was one of thechief pillars in Washgtn-st. ch. He and Gamaliel King werethe builders of the ist York-st. ch. By industry and enterprisehe amassed a competence, but through others, whom he unwiselyand generously trusted, he lost the whole of his hard-earnedproperty. He was P. M. under Pres. Jackson in 1831 and in1834, and he was one of Bklyns 1st board of aldermen LStUesHist. Bklyn, vol. ii, pp. 236, 243.] Before his death he was 468 Old Sands Street CJiurch. appointed inspector of customs in N. York, and of pavementsin Bklyn. He d., it is said, at the house of Geo. I. Seney, Esq.,Feby 8, 1854, age 77. A sketch by Stiles [Hist. Bklyn, vol. ii,p. 81] describes him as peculiar in gait, clean-shaven, round-. JOSBPH MOSER. shouldered, and dressed in dark-colored clothes, and saysfurther: His ministrations to the sick and the heavy-laden,his labors in the S. S., his untiring interest in the youth of theplace—counseling them and originating entertainments forthem, in which instruction and amusement were most judiciouslyblended—endeared him to the hearts of both old and young.—*Rachel, his w., appears to have j. the Sands-st. ch. in its veryinfancy. She was at that time the w. of Peter Cannon, thecooper, in whose shop the 1st stated services by the Meth. wereheld in Bklyn in 1787, and in whose house the 1st trustees wereelected in 1794. The name of Rachel Cannon is on the oldestknown register of Sands-st. ch., (1798,) and it is not unlikelythat her name was recorded on the 1st class paper in 1787, andthat by her influence her husband, who w
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