. A history of Pennsylvania. le and chaste yet dignified andhandsome architecture. To Hamiltonalso is probably due the preservationof the square behind the hall as apublic open green and walks forever. The hall was first used for theAssembly in October, 1736, but thebuilding was not finished until 1748. The Liberty Assem-bly was called together by a bell, andthe need of a larger one had been feltfor some time. In 1751 a resolution for a great bell was passed and a committee consistingof Isaac Norris, Thomas Leech, and Edward Warner wasappointed to procure one. The order was sent to
. A history of Pennsylvania. le and chaste yet dignified andhandsome architecture. To Hamiltonalso is probably due the preservationof the square behind the hall as apublic open green and walks forever. The hall was first used for theAssembly in October, 1736, but thebuilding was not finished until 1748. The Liberty Assem-bly was called together by a bell, andthe need of a larger one had been feltfor some time. In 1751 a resolution for a great bell was passed and a committee consistingof Isaac Norris, Thomas Leech, and Edward Warner wasappointed to procure one. The order was sent to Londonfor a bell of two thousand pounds weight to cost about£100. Minute directions for its making were given, includ-ing the inscriptions to be placed upon it. The bell arrived,in August, 1752, and was duly hung in the tower. In test-ing the bell it was cracked so that it had to be it was unsatisfactory, and was re-cast a second tiir.(\ ^ The Philadeli>hia workmen who re-cast the bell were Pass & Liberty Hell 86 HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA This third casting was satisfactory and the bell was rung onmany occasions, the most notable of which was in July,1776, when the independence of the colonies was many years the bell has been known as the LibertyBell. The almost prophetic motto, Proclaim Libertythroughout all the Land, to all the inhabitants thereof.—: 10, was suggested by Isaac Norris.^ The bell is saidto have been cracked, July 8, 1835, when it was beingtolled for the death of Chief Justice Marshall. Christ Church. — Another building begun at this periodwas Christ Church on Second Street. There had been asearly as 1695 ^^ Episcopal church there, which was rebuiltin 1711, and to which Queen Anne in 1708 had given somesilver articles for the communion service. But it was feltthat a larger and handsomer building was needed, so in 1727the work was begun. Dr. John Kearsley, who had been onthe building committee of the state house
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