Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . * «M» ***** CvLhL tit t & tr&^> HT*<$i £(tr*^i<*jf6iX: (^/^^^fr^^-^A^ 6ls tti?& jkM** $4M&&* *CL* ^+U**&Li-«t fuV %f9&H.*JU*g: mi- fife* S«t£r-J 378 COMMEMORATION OF HISTORIC PLACES IX NKW JERSEY. [May, public meeting house of this place, before anumerous assembly, and the next day he hadthe certificate of his ordination. A generation later, in 1730-31, the samecongregation erected another building, dis-tant five miles south-west on White Hill,and enlarged it in 1750-53 to the size of thepresent Tennent Church, and for one hun-dred an
Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan - June 1895) . * «M» ***** CvLhL tit t & tr&^> HT*<$i £(tr*^i<*jf6iX: (^/^^^fr^^-^A^ 6ls tti?& jkM** $4M&&* *CL* ^+U**&Li-«t fuV %f9&H.*JU*g: mi- fife* S«t£r-J 378 COMMEMORATION OF HISTORIC PLACES IX NKW JERSEY. [May, public meeting house of this place, before anumerous assembly, and the next day he hadthe certificate of his ordination. A generation later, in 1730-31, the samecongregation erected another building, dis-tant five miles south-west on White Hill,and enlarged it in 1750-53 to the size of thepresent Tennent Church, and for one hun-dred and fifty years it was called the Church Presbytery of which we have any recordedminutes. Here began the great revival inour portion of the Church, under the minis-try of John Tennent.* Here was the firstregular ordination of a minister by the firstPresbytery of our Church in this country. It is a surprise that a locality, thus inti-mately associated with the early history ofour Church, has been so little known and. FREEHOLD, NOW TENNENT CHURCH. of Freehold. They worshiped for an un-known period alternately in the two is historic ground. On that old ScotsBurial Acre, now overgrown with large trees,are many tombstones, and among them standsthat of John Boyd, with a Latin inscription,now almost illegible. On the surface liesanother, to the memory of that man of God,John Tennent, who was called in 1730 anddied in 1732. Here in 1706 met the first honored. The Tennent Church, because ofits association with the famous WilliamTennent, Jr., who was its pastor for fortyyears, and because of its association withthe Revolutionary scenes of the Battle ofMonmouth, has overshadowed the originalchurch and obscured its memory. The Old Scots Meeting House has disap-peared; but the Tennent Church, with its^Hodges History Pres. Ch., P. II., p. 24. L895. COMMEMORATION OF fflSTORIC PLACES IN Ni:\V JERSEY. :379 lofty pulpit and sounding board, with itsstraight back pews and deep gall
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