The history and antiquities of Boston .. . i i j i l^ ni i t- brick, and was consecrated on the ^Ist otJanuary, 1811. It is about seventy-nine by seventy-six feet, exclusiveof the tower, and contained 130 pews on the floor, and thirty-eight inthe gallery. The Steeple is 196 feet in height, f The first Minister was the Rev. Mather Byles, who was ordainedDecember 20th, 1732. He continued its pastor till 1777, when he wasdismissed ; being one of the very few Tory Ministers of the was succeeded by the Rev. Ebenezer Wight, who was ordainedFebruary 25th, 1778, and was dismissed, at his re
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . i i j i l^ ni i t- brick, and was consecrated on the ^Ist otJanuary, 1811. It is about seventy-nine by seventy-six feet, exclusiveof the tower, and contained 130 pews on the floor, and thirty-eight inthe gallery. The Steeple is 196 feet in height, f The first Minister was the Rev. Mather Byles, who was ordainedDecember 20th, 1732. He continued its pastor till 1777, when he wasdismissed ; being one of the very few Tory Ministers of the was succeeded by the Rev. Ebenezer Wight, who was ordainedFebruary 25th, 1778, and was dismissed, at his request, in September, * Miss J. Fenno, in her volume of Poems, The House of God, wherein our friend did preach, p. G5, has one / On the Dreadful Conflagra- ^ solemn lesson unto us may teach, etc. tion in iJoston in 1787, and thus alludea to f It was struck by lightning on the 8th ofthe burning of the Church : April, 1837, when lire was communicated to the wood-work supporting the iron spire, whichwas not quenched until the vane had 1731.] DEATHS—OLIVER, GREEN, JEKYLL. 591 1788. The third Minister was the Rev. Samuel West, who was installedMarch 12th, 1789, and died April 10th, 1808, at the age of him succeeded the Rev. Horace Holly, installed in March, 1809,who was dismissed 24 August, 1818. He died on the 31st. of July,1827, at the age of forty years and five months. The Rev. John Pierpont was ordained April 14th, 1819, dismissed May 10th, 1845. Fosdick, Jr., ordained in 1846, dismissed in 1847. In 1848Thomas Starr King was settled there, and is the present Minister. The Act providing for the safe keeping of powder being^^ ? found not sufficient to prevent the breaches of that Act, anexplanatory Act was passed, for erecting a Powder-house in was now provided that if any persons were found to have powder intheir possession, without license, above a stipulated quantity, the Avholeshould be forfeited, and the former penalties were doubled.
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