History of Long Island from its discovery & settlement to the present time; revised & greatly enlarged with aditions and a biography of the author by Charles JWerner . March 18, 1829, and continued tillJuly 9, 1835. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Hanson Cox, third pastor ofthis church, was born near Rahway, N. J., August 25,1793. His parents belonged to the Society of Friends,who carefully educated their son in the principles of theQuakers. He first devoted himself to the study of thelaw, but, turning his attention to divinity, was licensed bythe presbytery of New York in October, 1816, and wasordained b
History of Long Island from its discovery & settlement to the present time; revised & greatly enlarged with aditions and a biography of the author by Charles JWerner . March 18, 1829, and continued tillJuly 9, 1835. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Hanson Cox, third pastor ofthis church, was born near Rahway, N. J., August 25,1793. His parents belonged to the Society of Friends,who carefully educated their son in the principles of theQuakers. He first devoted himself to the study of thelaw, but, turning his attention to divinity, was licensed bythe presbytery of New York in October, 1816, and wasordained by the presbytery of New Jersey at Mendham,July I, 1817. He not only renounced the principles Inwhich he was nurtured, but published, in 1833, a volumeof nearly 700 pages, to prove that Quakerism Is notChristianity, with what success, must be left to the deci-sion of those better skilled In polemics than Cox was early appointed a professor in the theo-logical seminary at Auburn; was for fifteen years pastorof the Lalght Street Presbyterian Church In the city of - - I. ? •?* tf\ i ~ r il ! .. BE J fej I .-?<??:= ? d^ iMisi;! 1 *^^.]. HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND 259 New York; and was installed in this church May 8, presbytery of Brooklyn was erected October 17,1838, to which this church was immediately edifice was disposed of to a newly formed Congre-gational Society and possession delivered May 9, 1847,another building having been erected on Henry Street, ashereafter mentioned. The Presbyterian Church in Clinton Street, near Ful-ton, was organized October 25, 1831; the church edi-fice was erected in 1833, and dedicated May 4, 1834. Itis 6$ feet wide by no deep, and is built of brick in theGrecian Doric order. The Rev. Ichahod S. Spencer, , has been the onlypastor of this church. He is the son of Phineas andOlive Spencer of Rupert, Vt, where he was born Feb-ruary 24, 1798. He graduated at Union College,Schenectady, N. Y., in 1822, and was o
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