History of the Old Tennent . on Did with Fasting Prayer & Laying on ot Hands Ordainthe Revd Mr. Willm Tennent Junr to Pastoral Charge in thisCongregation The Names of the Ministers of the Commit-tee were the Revd Mr. Joseph Morgan Moderator Mr. Wil-liam Tennent * * * *& Mr. Eleazar Wales. The Namesof the Committee ****** Charles Gordon & JohnHutton Elders. Mr. Tennent continued the active and earnest pastor of oldFreehold until his triumphant death March 8, 1777, when hehad almost reached seventy-two years of life. He had been ahelper of the poor, a friend to the rich, a true and loya
History of the Old Tennent . on Did with Fasting Prayer & Laying on ot Hands Ordainthe Revd Mr. Willm Tennent Junr to Pastoral Charge in thisCongregation The Names of the Ministers of the Commit-tee were the Revd Mr. Joseph Morgan Moderator Mr. Wil-liam Tennent * * * *& Mr. Eleazar Wales. The Namesof the Committee ****** Charles Gordon & JohnHutton Elders. Mr. Tennent continued the active and earnest pastor of oldFreehold until his triumphant death March 8, 1777, when hehad almost reached seventy-two years of life. He had been ahelper of the poor, a friend to the rich, a true and loyal pa-triot, a peacemaker of unusual tact, and a trusted and reveredpastor. A great concourse of people from his own congrega-tion and from the country around assembled at his funeralservice. His body was buried beneath the floor near the cen-tre of the church on White Hill where it rests unto this was buried here, it is said, for safety from possible molesta-tion by English sympathizers. Forty-one years after this,. 44 HISTORY OF OLD TENXENT. in 1818, a memorial tablet three feet by six feet in size, madeof white marble and with a suitable inscription thereon, wasplaced in the wall of the church on the west side of the funds for the erection of this tablet were contributed byfriends, subscriptions being solicited by a young woman withothers to assist her. In 1890 this tablet was removed to thewall on the east side of the pulpit and its engraved letters re-gilded. This was in order to erect a recess where it had beenplaced, and in which a pipe organ now stands. (See illustra-tion). With the settlement of William Tennent the church en-tered upon a long period of flourishing growth. The numberof communicants in the church increased. The reviving timesof John Tennents ministry continued after his death, and aharvest from his labors was partially reaped by his brotherthrough a number of years. 13ut William Tennents preach-ing and energetic and thorough pastoral vis
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