Random recollections of Albany, from 1800 to 1808 . This church was dcmolislied in 1806, and the materials used inthe construction of the Middle Dutch Church on Beaver and Hud-son streets. It was erected in 1715. The Episcopalians began theerection of their church in State street 1714, which stimulated theDutch to the vigorous prosecution of a similar enterprise. Thewalls were laid around the old church, and in September of tiuityear the services in the old church were omitted in the afternoonof one Sunday on account of the obstructions to the entrance. InOctober the services were again interr
Random recollections of Albany, from 1800 to 1808 . This church was dcmolislied in 1806, and the materials used inthe construction of the Middle Dutch Church on Beaver and Hud-son streets. It was erected in 1715. The Episcopalians began theerection of their church in State street 1714, which stimulated theDutch to the vigorous prosecution of a similar enterprise. Thewalls were laid around the old church, and in September of tiuityear the services in the old church were omitted in the afternoonof one Sunday on account of the obstructions to the entrance. InOctober the services were again interrupted two Sundays, whilethe old church was being demolished. On the third Sunday child-ren were baptized in the new church iu the afternoou. This was 40 Recollections of Albany. be immortal, submitted to its fate, and fell! not atthe foot of Pompeys statue, exactly, but at the footof State street, wliicli freed from that obstruction,thenceforward became the Rialto of the city, wherepedlers of stale sea-cod, and country hucksters, nowdo DUTCH EEFORMED CHURCH, Erected 1715, demolished 1806. thought to be so notable a feat that it is still an oft repeated tradi-tion. Equally note-worthy is the fact that the first person bap-tized in the new church in 1715, was the last one for whom the belltolled at her funeral in 1806, her age being 93. Recollections of Albany. 41 Even the dogs now began to bark in broken Eng-lish: many of them, indeed, had aheady caughtthe Yankee twang, so rapid was the progress ofrefinement. In the process of a few brief years,all that was venerable in the eyes of the ancientburgers disappeared. Then came the great eclipseof 1806,^ which clearly announced the fall and finalend of the Dutch dynasty. It is hardly necessary 1 This eclipse forms an epoch in our history. It was capturedby Ezra Ames and Simeon De Witt. The former made a paintingof it, and the latter described it. The accompanying engrav-ing is but a very poor counterpart of ]VIr. Amess j
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