. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. l John Steele, livedto be an octogenarian in the active service of thechurch. A marble shaft marks his tomb in the church-yard, along the left side of the gravel path to FourthStreet. The bald record of General Steeles Revolu-tionary career is as follows: December 4, 1776, FirstLieutenant, Fourth Pennsylvania; May 27, 1778, Cap-tain-Lieutenant; March 21, 1779, Captain; January 17,1781, transferred to First Pennsylvania, in which heserved to the end of the War. But the details of his
. A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church. l John Steele, livedto be an octogenarian in the active service of thechurch. A marble shaft marks his tomb in the church-yard, along the left side of the gravel path to FourthStreet. The bald record of General Steeles Revolu-tionary career is as follows: December 4, 1776, FirstLieutenant, Fourth Pennsylvania; May 27, 1778, Cap-tain-Lieutenant; March 21, 1779, Captain; January 17,1781, transferred to First Pennsylvania, in which heserved to the end of the War. But the details of hiscareer read like a romance. We have space only tostate that he was desperately wounded in the Battleof Brandywine, having been left for dead on the field;and that he was aide-de-camp to Washington in NewJersey, having charge of Madame Washington at Mor-ristown. At Yorktown, he had the good fortune to 1 Der Gantz Neue Ferbesserte Nord-Americanische Calender,auf das i78oste Jahr Christi. Zum Fiinstenmalberansgegebenund verfertiget von Anthony Sharp, Philom. a American Historical Register, Vol. III., page VAULT OF PAUL COX A patriotic soldier in the American Revolution, long a Trustee. . in the Third Presbyterian Church East Walk directly behind the hydrant.
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