The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . , no doubt,the determination of the Dutch themselves to leavetheir church in the fort, which they surrendered to the English, and tobuild for themselves a new church in Garden street. In accordancewilii Ihe agreement which had been made between them Dailli- hadthe s])ecial oversight of the country churches, whil>t Peiret hatl morel)articularly charge of that of New York. Ihis arrangement continuedin force until 16i»6, when Daillu accepted a call from the French church 420 IIISTOBY OF THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH. of Boston. In the m
The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . , no doubt,the determination of the Dutch themselves to leavetheir church in the fort, which they surrendered to the English, and tobuild for themselves a new church in Garden street. In accordancewilii Ihe agreement which had been made between them Dailli- hadthe s])ecial oversight of the country churches, whil>t Peiret hatl morel)articularly charge of that of New York. Ihis arrangement continuedin force until 16i»6, when Daillu accepted a call from the French church 420 IIISTOBY OF THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH. of Boston. In the moantimo, however, the prosperity of the New Yorkchurch increased daily. In 1703 Pcirct and his consistory were author-ized, by an act of the Assembly, to sell the church in Markettieldstreet, which had become entirely too small, and to apply the proceeds,and such other contributions as might be voluntarily made for thatpurpose, to the erection of a new and larger church. On the 8th ofJuly, 1704, the corner-stone of the uew church was laid by Lord Cora-. PIXE STREET CHURCH IN IS31. bury, and the building itself was completed towards the end of thesame year. This was that unique church edifice in Pine street, nearNassau, which was used for public worship until 1834, and which stillsubsists in the present J^glise du Saint Esprit, in West Twenty-second street. Peiret, who had been the prime mover in the erection of the twoFrench churches, died on the 1st of September, 1704, and wasburied in Trinity church-yard. He is said to have been a man oflearning, and, from all that is known of him, he was certainly a nobleexam]ile of the Huguenot pastor. He was followed by a long seriesof able and devoted men, but under whom the church which he hadfounded gradually declined. In 1750, after the close of Kous longpastorate, its membership had been reduced to a mere the occupation of New York by the British the building wasused as a storehouse; nor was it reopened for divine ser\
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