Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ds, writesto the author from Stirling, Scot.:I have often heard my father speak of his early efforts toestablish a S. S. in Bklyn. She was not aware that he everhad a loc. preachers license, but J. Wesley Harper mentionshim as a loc. pr. in Sands-st. ch. in 1816. [See trusteesrecords.] Returning to Europe he was Mayor of Liverpool in1843. After enjoying unusual success in business he met withreverses, by which all his property was swept away. Whil
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ds, writesto the author from Stirling, Scot.:I have often heard my father speak of his early efforts toestablish a S. S. in Bklyn. She was not aware that he everhad a loc. preachers license, but J. Wesley Harper mentionshim as a loc. pr. in Sands-st. ch. in 1816. [See trusteesrecords.] Returning to Europe he was Mayor of Liverpool in1843. After enjoying unusual success in business he met withreverses, by which all his property was swept away. While inprosperity his gifts to the ch. were large. His portrait is in theMeth. Centenary picture, the more prominent and shorter of thetwo standing figures. He d. at the residence of his dau., , on the Clyde, near Glasgow, Apr. 4, 1867, age 76, andwas bur. in the Necropolis, Glasgow, where his w. was laid4 yrs. previously. The stone he erected over her grave bears hisname. List of the children: Thos. Branson, who resides inFrance; Hugh Spooner, who d. in Jamaica, W I.; Sarah Ellis;Susannah; Mary, (Mrs. Black;) James Stopford, who was in. f ... THOMAS SANDS. Record of Members. 489 business with his father in N. York, and afterward d. there,(1879,) leaving a wid. and 4 children. Three daughters ofThos. Sands reside in Scotland. It is said that most of hisdescendants, including those in N. York, are Episcopalians —Sanford, Watson, , cl. ldr., off. Missy Soc; was astove dealer in N. York; resides in Bklvn.—Savage, , rem. by c, 1849, to E. Bklyn.— SAYRE, MRS. Saywell, Wm., rem. by c, 1871; member 3 yrs —SCHENCK, MRS. REBECCA.—Schenck, Sarah J., c, 1864—**Schnell, Anna, w, of John, dau. of HenryShawver, d. Oct. 14, 1805, age 52. [See stone in ]—*Schnell, John, member in 1798. One John Snell d. , 1812, age 72. [See stone in old ch-yard.]—SCHRIVENER,HENRY— SCHRIVENER, MRS. HENRY —Schureman,Catharine, rem. 1>
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