History of the Old Tennent . spite the efforts of the congregation to preserve this par-sonage farm in perpetual possession, it appears that it was soldin just about one hundred years after its purchase, for a churchrecord tells us that William T. Sutphin, being the highestbidder, the farm was struck off to him at the sum of NineThousand, nine hundred dollars. This was dated March, 1835. 52 IITSTORY. OF OLD TEXXEXT. Thus was made a break in the historical connections of thetemporal possessions of the old church, which never can bereplaced, since the old parsonage was more venerable th
History of the Old Tennent . spite the efforts of the congregation to preserve this par-sonage farm in perpetual possession, it appears that it was soldin just about one hundred years after its purchase, for a churchrecord tells us that William T. Sutphin, being the highestbidder, the farm was struck off to him at the sum of NineThousand, nine hundred dollars. This was dated March, 1835. 52 IITSTORY. OF OLD TEXXEXT. Thus was made a break in the historical connections of thetemporal possessions of the old church, which never can bereplaced, since the old parsonage was more venerable than theold church building itself. For some years this old housestood empty, a sorrowful reminder of men that were buriedand of things that were past. It gradually fell into decay andbecame lamentably dilapidated, partly by the ravages of time,and partly by the hands of relic seekers, Avho frequentlystopped off the railroad trains, which ran close by, and carriedaway memento pieces. Finally, about 1861, the old buildingwas taken The Old Tenneut Parsonage in dilapidated state. John Brainerd writes in his journal, Tuesday, Aug. 22,1749.—Attended religious duties, and after some time tookleave of Dr. Le Count and his spouse, and rode about threemiles to a medicinal spring, where were a number of my peo-ple, who came there to drink the waters; with these I spentconsiderable time in conversation and prayer. Took leave ofthem and went to several houses in Freehold, where I hadbusiness, and in the evening came to Mr. Tennents; aftersome conversation with him attended to religious duties andwent to rest. The name of Dr. Peter Laconte appears in theearly church records as a communicant in 1744; and againthe same name is put for the owner of pew Xo. 7 in the gal-lery of the church, and purchased in 1754 for £8. Also in thebaptismal records occur five names of children of Dr. Peter THE BATTLE OF MOXMOUTH. 53 La Conte. Doubtless this is the same person of whom JohnBrainercl speaks
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