. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. -tion only two elders had been included in the newBoard. This report was accompanied by the adoptionby the Board of Trustees of a complete system of by-laws for the corporation. These by-laws indicate thehigh business character of the men who now had chargeof the temporalities of the church. They were men ofvision, and saw that there was before them a greatwork, which it would require years to accomplish. Thelarge, fine lot on Lombard Street, which they had pro-cured with such enter
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. -tion only two elders had been included in the newBoard. This report was accompanied by the adoptionby the Board of Trustees of a complete system of by-laws for the corporation. These by-laws indicate thehigh business character of the men who now had chargeof the temporalities of the church. They were men ofvision, and saw that there was before them a greatwork, which it would require years to accomplish. Thelarge, fine lot on Lombard Street, which they had pro-cured with such enterprise and self-denial, that theymight have a new burying-ground, was gone. A housefor social meeting and for the use of the Session wasgreatly needed. The church was calling for a num-ber of expensive improvements, including a new 1819 a burying-ground was secured on Carpenter -SIX PROMINENT TRUSTEES OF FORMER YEARS Captain Simeon Toby, Charles Robb, Captain IVilmon Whilldin, Ed-win Greble, Oliver Harvey Willard, Jacob Good-heart dc Turck From photographs in possession of the church. # ^\ ^ 1/ * I.
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