Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ter he listened to the last ser-mon ever heard from his lips, from Eccl. iii, 16: And more-over, I saw under the sun a place of judgment, that wicked-ness was there; and a place of righteousness, that iniquitywas there. The wickedness of courts, royal, civil and eccle-siastical; and the iniquity practiced at places of worship wasthe theme of his discourse. He died much lamented, on the 10th of November, 1816,aged fifty-nine years. The Rev William
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ter he listened to the last ser-mon ever heard from his lips, from Eccl. iii, 16: And more-over, I saw under the sun a place of judgment, that wicked-ness was there; and a place of righteousness, that iniquitywas there. The wickedness of courts, royal, civil and eccle-siastical; and the iniquity practiced at places of worship wasthe theme of his discourse. He died much lamented, on the 10th of November, 1816,aged fifty-nine years. The Rev William Prettyman preachedhis funeral sermon. A plain marble slab marks the placeof his interment in the family burial ground on the farm up-on which he lived, a few hundred yards from the has been proposed to remove his remains to the church-yard, and erect a monument over them. Nancy, his wife, a daughter of Jacob Wright, who wasone of the founders of the Washington Methodist Episco-pal Church, sleeps by his side, but her grave is without amemorial. They left no children. Experience and Ministerial Labors of Rev. Thomas Smith, p. 23.
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