History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . s born in Burlington county,New Jersey, December 11, 1792, and died at Philadelpia, March 3,1881. He married Emma Billington, of Philadelphia, June 8, 1814and was the father of seven children. His eldest daughter, Anna, wastwice married her first husband being Ex-Judge Richard Jones,Montgomery county. Pa., who was U. S Counsel General to his early years, Mr. Nightingale engaged in business in Baltimoreand Philadelphia, which he left for the ministry. He was succeededat New Brit
History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . s born in Burlington county,New Jersey, December 11, 1792, and died at Philadelpia, March 3,1881. He married Emma Billington, of Philadelphia, June 8, 1814and was the father of seven children. His eldest daughter, Anna, wastwice married her first husband being Ex-Judge Richard Jones,Montgomery county. Pa., who was U. S Counsel General to his early years, Mr. Nightingale engaged in business in Baltimoreand Philadelphia, which he left for the ministry. He was succeededat New Britain by the Rev. Heman Lincoln, 1845. He now spentseveral years in Doylestown without a charge, occasionally preachingin the various churches. He was an unique person and an able , who knew him well, and of the same faith and belief, called the Zachary Taylor of the Baptist ministry. After the attempt of Mr. Nightingale, to organize a Baptist con- 4 At Doylestown, April 30, 1840, Matilda Nightingale, of consumption,daughter of the Rev. Samuel Nightingale, in her twentieth SALEM REFORMED CHURCH, 1S97. DOYLESTOWN, OLD AND NEW. 209 gregation and erect a church building in Doylestown, a period oftwenty-two years elapsed before a second effort was made. This wasin 1867. From 1850, their pastors at New Britain preached occasion-ally in the Court House and Masonic Hall, and on the 14th of April,1867, a Baptist Sunday School was organized in the Beneficial the nth of November, the Baptists of the vicinity met to considerthe question of a church organization, the Rev. W. S. Wood in thechair. There were twenty-eight persons present, twenty-four fromNew Britain, three from Davisville and one from Philadelphia. Theproposition was agreed to and, at a subsequent meeting, December 3,the First Baptist church, of Doylestown, was organized with forty-nineconstituent members, thirty-six of whom brought letters of dismissalfrom New Britain. The New Hampshir
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