. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. tor, Kev Eldridgo Mix, whoso installation wo have noticed. Thechurch was organized in 1710, fifty-three years after the settlement of Newark, as theMountain Society. Sixty-four years afterwards the parish was incorporated as theSecond Presbyterian church, of Newark. In 180(5, Orange, which till this date hadformed a part of the township of Newark, was incorporated as a town, and in 1811 theLegislature changed the title of the church to the First Presbyterian church, ofOrange. The terms of service of the difTerent pastors h
. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. tor, Kev Eldridgo Mix, whoso installation wo have noticed. Thechurch was organized in 1710, fifty-three years after the settlement of Newark, as theMountain Society. Sixty-four years afterwards the parish was incorporated as theSecond Presbyterian church, of Newark. In 180(5, Orange, which till this date hadformed a part of the township of Newark, was incorporated as a town, and in 1811 theLegislature changed the title of the church to the First Presbyterian church, ofOrange. The terms of service of the difTerent pastors have been respectively 25,14,34, 32, 22 and 10 years, with intervals of terms when the congregation was ministeredto by temporary and stated supplies. All of its pastors have died among the people towhom they ministered, except Dr. Chapman, who, after a service of 34 years, deemedit wise to seek anotlier field of labor, because of outspoken and decided patriotic senti-ments during the revolutionary struggle. In 1G3J the church will be years old. ESSEX COUNTV. 187. View in Orange, N. J. Th»j following inscriptions are from monuments in the old grave-yurd, excepting the last two, which are from monuments in theOrange cemetery. Survivors, lets all imitate the virtues of our Pastor,And copy after him, like as he did his Lord and us most awful was the stroke, by which he was removedUnto the full fruition of the God he served and lie the remains of the Rev. Mr. Daniel Taylor, who was minister of this parish— years. He deceased 8th January, Anno Domini 1747-8, in the 57th year of his age. This stone was erected as a monumental token of love and gratitude to our late pas-tor, the Rev. Caleb Smith, who died 22d October, 1762, in the 39th year of his this tomb the precious relics Ue,Of one too great to live, but not to by nature with superior swim in science, and to scan the arts,To soar aloft, inflamed with sacred love,To know,
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