. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. COLONEL GEORGE LATIMER A hero of the American* Revolution; Speaker of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania; Collector of the Port of Philadelphia; a Trustee of Old Pine Street for a generation, who is buried in the churchyard From a portrait in possession of Judge Latimer, of Pastorate of George Duffield. 77 used. Rouses version had been used up to thistime. It is said that Agassiz could from a single bone ofthe fish determine its species. So one may find theministry
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. COLONEL GEORGE LATIMER A hero of the American* Revolution; Speaker of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania; Collector of the Port of Philadelphia; a Trustee of Old Pine Street for a generation, who is buried in the churchyard From a portrait in possession of Judge Latimer, of Pastorate of George Duffield. 77 used. Rouses version had been used up to thistime. It is said that Agassiz could from a single bone ofthe fish determine its species. So one may find theministry of a pastor quite clearly indicated in hisrecords. For quite a while, it was thought that records were lost, but the spirit of researchwhich distinguished the fourth pastor of Old PineStreet, Dr. Ezra Stiles Ely, secured, in part, these rec-ords to our church. From Dr. Duffields son he ob-tained his baptismal records from February 20, 1775,to January 18, 1790. These records, made in Dr. Duf-fields own handwriting, are now in our books, as theywere copied in the clean, clear handwriting of Dr. show that during a period of fifteen years baptized 1340 persons. This would be anaverage of about ninety a year. Dr. Ely found anothervolume written by Dr. Duffield, which proved to be apart of his marriage register. The first leaves of thisvolume were evidently lost. Th
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