. Bowen's Picture of Boston, or The citizen's and stranger's guide to the metropolis of Massachusetts, and its environs. : To which is prefixed the Annals of Boston. ; Embellished with engravings. merica. Hecommenced in the vicinity of New-York, in the year1770, arrived in Boston on the 26th, and preached hisfirst sermon here on the 30th of October, 1733. It wasnot, however, till 1785, that his followers acquirednumbers sufficient to induce them to provide themselveswith a separate house for public worship. The disso-lution of Dr. Mathers society afforded them a goodopportunity, which they emb
. Bowen's Picture of Boston, or The citizen's and stranger's guide to the metropolis of Massachusetts, and its environs. : To which is prefixed the Annals of Boston. ; Embellished with engravings. merica. Hecommenced in the vicinity of New-York, in the year1770, arrived in Boston on the 26th, and preached hisfirst sermon here on the 30th of October, 1733. It wasnot, however, till 1785, that his followers acquirednumbers sufficient to induce them to provide themselveswith a separate house for public worship. The disso-lution of Dr. Mathers society afforded them a goodopportunity, which they embraced, and purchasedthe house which he had occupied, at the corner of Ben-net and Hanover Streets. The same building still re-mains, having been, however, several times alteredand enlarged, so that it will now accommodate a nu-merous congregation. It is the last of the ancientwooden churches. * For an account of this and of the Rev. Andrew Croswells churchwhich existed from 1743 to 1785, occupying the Old French Church,and for a notice of the Sandemanin Society, which commenced in1764, and continued its meetings till 1823, we refer to Dr. SnowsHistory of Boston pp. 229, 231, 256. 1 mi.
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