. The city of Troy and its vicinity. fly members of .the FirstPresbyterian Church, having deter-mined to form a second Presbyteriansociety in the city, and to erect a houseof worship, and having appointedJeremiah Dauchy, Stephen Eldridge,William D. Haight, Robert D. • Silli-man, Uriah Wallace, and GideonBuckingham trustees, circulated aSubscription paper to obtain money tosecure a site and to erect a hundred and eight persons sub-scribed ,f 11,165, in sums from $5 to$1,000, payable to the trustees. OnMay 22, that year, the trustees pur-chased lots 873 and 874, on the south-east co
. The city of Troy and its vicinity. fly members of .the FirstPresbyterian Church, having deter-mined to form a second Presbyteriansociety in the city, and to erect a houseof worship, and having appointedJeremiah Dauchy, Stephen Eldridge,William D. Haight, Robert D. • Silli-man, Uriah Wallace, and GideonBuckingham trustees, circulated aSubscription paper to obtain money tosecure a site and to erect a hundred and eight persons sub-scribed ,f 11,165, in sums from $5 to$1,000, payable to the trustees. OnMay 22, that year, the trustees pur-chased lots 873 and 874, on the south-east corner of Grand Division andSixth streets, for $650. At a meetingheld May 25, in the school-house, onthe west side of Fourth Street, nearthe corner of Fourth and Elbow (Ful-ton) streets, where the organizers ofthe society had been attending divineservices, the persons already mention-ed as trustees were elected such offi-cers of the Second PresbyterianCongregation of the city of Troy,according to the laws of the state ofNew York, II. SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 244 The erection of a meeting-housewas begun in June, on the plat ofground on Grand Division Street. OnWednesday, July 12, the trustees re-ceived those of the First PresbyterianChurch, at the house of Gideon Buck-ingham, on the east side of FourthStreet, adjacent the site of the TroyCity National Bank, and with a num-ber of invited ministers proceeded tothe site of the church to lay the cor-ner-stone. In the cavity of the stonewas placed a cast-iron box, on thebottom of which the name of the firmof Starbuck & Gurley, iron-founders,was imprinted, and on the bell-metalcover was lettered: Julius Hanks,July 12, 1826. Deposited in the boxwas a copper-plate, on which was in-scribed : The corner-stone of theSecond Presbyterian Church was laidJuly 12, 1826. Trustees, JeremiahDauchy, Stephen Eldridge, WilliamD. Haight, Robert D. Silliman,Uriah Wallace, Gideon Brown, mason; John Ayres,carpenter. With it were co
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