History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century; . and seventy-five years before. It is surmounted by a tower with abell, the latter being the gift of the Boston & Maine Railroad. Theauditorium is twenty-five by forty feet and comfortably seats twohundred people. The floor is of birch, the wainscoting of Carolina pine, and the walls are whitened. The win-dows are of cathedral glass. The seats areopera chairs, and on the platform is a mahog-any pulpit made and presented to the chapelby Daniel Cross. The pulp
History of Concord, New Hampshire, from the original grant in seventeen hundred and twenty-five to the opening of the twentieth century; . and seventy-five years before. It is surmounted by a tower with abell, the latter being the gift of the Boston & Maine Railroad. Theauditorium is twenty-five by forty feet and comfortably seats twohundred people. The floor is of birch, the wainscoting of Carolina pine, and the walls are whitened. The win-dows are of cathedral glass. The seats areopera chairs, and on the platform is a mahog-any pulpit made and presented to the chapelby Daniel Cross. The pulpit Bible is the giftof Mrs. Abner Blodgett, in memory of herfather, the late Elder John Hook. The fur-nishing of the chapel was the contribution ofthe people of the Plains. The chapel is calledImmanuel chapel, and is undenominational. Itwas dedicated Sunday, December 9, 1900. Thebuilding committee were John C. Thorne, Will-iam P. Fiske, and Herbert W. Denio. Preach-ing has been maintained with some regularity,and the Sunday-school has been successfully carried on under thesuperintendence of Oliver W. Crowell of the North Immanuel Chapel. NOTES. Reverend Enoch Coffin was the first preacher of Concord, but notits first minister. He preached more or less to the people for twoyears, as the records show that at a meeting of the proprietors heldat Bradford, Mass., March 12, 1729, it was voted: That the sum offour pounds be allowed and paid unto the heirs of Reverend EnochCoffin, deceased, for his preaching and performing divine service atPenny Cook, in full discharge. Mr. Coffin was born in the old Coffin house which still stands inNewbury, Mass., erected upwards of two hundred and fifty years evidently was not of robust health, for, receiving a call to Dun-stable, N. H., he was obliged to decline in consequence of ill perhaps felt that an expedition into the forest would be invigo-rating, and he applied for admission as one of the proposed settlersof Penny
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