The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . uilding there wasdeposited with appropriate ceremonies a circular silver platewith the inscription : — THISBUILDING DESIG-NED FOr. THE PUBLICKWORSHIP OF GOD, WAS FOUN-DED WITH HARMONY ANDLOVE BY THE FIRST PARISHINROXBURT, MAT 2D 1803. LAUS DEO. Ten years later, and soon after a discourse by Rev. , from Acts xviii, 17, this identical plate, which hadbeen surreptitiously removed from its place, was handed byMr. Ebenezer Brewer to Cap
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . uilding there wasdeposited with appropriate ceremonies a circular silver platewith the inscription : — THISBUILDING DESIG-NED FOr. THE PUBLICKWORSHIP OF GOD, WAS FOUN-DED WITH HARMONY ANDLOVE BY THE FIRST PARISHINROXBURT, MAT 2D 1803. LAUS DEO. Ten years later, and soon after a discourse by Rev. , from Acts xviii, 17, this identical plate, which hadbeen surreptitiously removed from its place, was handed byMr. Ebenezer Brewer to Capt Jonathan Dorr, one of theparish committee. Upon the back of the plate when returned THE FIRST CHURCH. 289 there was found written, •• This Tallent which the slothfulservant hid in the earth, mite have been sold for six shillingsand seven pence, and given to the poor. — • but Gallio caredfor none of these things. By vote of the parish in 180), town meetings in the churchwere interdicted, and as a result a town house was built soonafterwards. In April, 1306, the new clock was set up inthe tower by Mr. Simon Willard, its inventor and thk first The -ale of pews in the new house left, after paying for thebuilding, a surplus of This sum. on the proposi-tion of Gen. Heath in town meeting, was divided among thetax-pavers of the parish, pro rat. In 1857 four of thesepew-holders were yet living, and also twenty-five of thedescendants of the original founders of 1632. In that yearthe edifice was repaired, its interior greatly improved, andthe horse-sheds, so long an eyesore to the neighborhood,removed. A handsome chapel has recently been erected onthe Putnam Street Mde. This is one of the oldest as well as one of the largest andmost influential religious societies in New England, being 290 THE FIRST CHURCH. fifth in the order of time, those of Salem (1629), Dorchester(1630), Boston, and Watertown (1632) having alone pre-ceded it. It was gathered in
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