. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . hat his congregationincreases very much; more than 200 come to churchevery Sunday. After worshiping five or six years in the county court-house the people began to exert themselves toward build-ing a new church, and solicited help from abroad. OnFriday April 5th 1734 the new church was opened, withthe name of Grace Church, and divine service per-formed there for the first time. Mr. Colgan preached asermon on the occasion, from Genesis xviii. 16, 17. Gov-ernor Cosby and his wh
. History of Queens County, New York, with illustrations, portraits, & sketches of prominent families and individuals . hat his congregationincreases very much; more than 200 come to churchevery Sunday. After worshiping five or six years in the county court-house the people began to exert themselves toward build-ing a new church, and solicited help from abroad. OnFriday April 5th 1734 the new church was opened, withthe name of Grace Church, and divine service per-formed there for the first time. Mr. Colgan preached asermon on the occasion, from Genesis xviii. 16, 17. Gov-ernor Cosby and his whole family were pleased to honorthe meeting with their presence, and by their very gen-erous benefactions great encouragement was given. Themilitia was under arms to attend his excellency, and sogreat a concourse of people met that the church was notable to contain the number. After the sermon Vv-asended his excellency and family, and several gentlemen,ladies and clergy, were very splendidly entertained atthe house of Samuel Clowes, a tavern in the town,by the members of the church. :^6 ttlSTORV OF QUEENS Grace Church, fob Divine Worship Friday April 5th 1734. The governors lady gave cloth for the pulpit, reading-desk and communion table; also a large Bible, prayerbook and surplice. Mr. Colgan writes (October nth 1737): We now wor-ship in the church, which tis thought will be one ot thehandsomest in North America, but is not yet want a bell. Our church is flourishing. We are atpeace with the sectaries around us. The following were the pew-holders in Grace ChurchFebruary 23d 1737: Richard Betts, Richard Betts jr.,Timothy Bridges, Andrew Clark, Samuel Clowes, SamuelClowes jr., Thomas Colgan, Robert Freeman, RobertHqwell, Gabriel Luff, Sarah Poyer gratis, George Rey-nolds, Daniel Sawyer, Samuel Smith, William Steed, Ben-jamin Taylor, Benjamin Thorne, Isaac Van Hook, An-thony Waters, William Welling, Benjamin and DanielWhitehead, Edward Willett
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