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ST. ANN'S CHURCH, 
 
 FROM THE YEAR 1784 TO THE YEAR 1843, 
 
 WITH 
 
 A MEMORIAL OF THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 
 
 TO WHICH IS ACt»ED, 
 
 AN APPENDIX, 
 
 CONTAINING A BRIEF NOTICE OF THE OTHER EPISCOPAL CHURCHES 
 
 IN BROOKLYN. 
 
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 BY A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER. 
 
 
 BROOKLYN: 
 
 F. G. FISH, 41 FRONT STREET 
 
 1845. 
 
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 Enteirefl according to the act of Congress, in the year 1845, by V. G. Fish, in the 
 Clerli's Office of thfe District Cotjrt of the Southern District of New- York. 
 
 J. p. Wright, Printer, 
 122 Fulton street, N.V, 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 St. Ann's was for more than forty years the only Episcopal 
 Church in Brooklyn; and of the Churches of the same Commu- 
 nion that have since arisen within our borders, her members have 
 been the chief founders, or have greatly assisted in the organiza- 
 tion. Three of her eleven Rectors have been made Bishops 
 over important Dioceses. She has long been "as a cily set 
 on a hill" as to privileges. A goodly company have confessed 
 within her fold " the faith of Christ crucified," and some who 
 made this confession half a century ago are still spared to kneel 
 at her altars and enjoy her ministrations. The instruction which 
 her Sunday Schools provide, evinces her care for the young; and 
 her comparatively liberal contributions to Missionary and kindred 
 objects have caused " very excellent things to be spoken of her." 
 A knowledge of these circumstances led to the supposition that 
 there might be some points in the history of this Church which, if 
 wrouf^ht into a connected narrative, would be of interest to those 
 who had at any time belonged to the parish. With a view to an 
 attempt of the kind, application was made to the Rector, about 
 two years since, to ascertain what materials the records of the 
 Church would supply. These were found on investigation much 
 less complete than was hoped, — affording but little that could be 
 used beyond a list of communicants, and that very defective, or 
 altogether wanting, in the period preceding the year 1800. It 
 was presumed, however, that much of the deficiency of official 
 data might be made up from other sources, and especially by 
 individual recollections, and it was therefore determined to 
 prosecute the undertaking,— with little forethought, perhaps, as 
 
IV PREFACE. 
 
 to the difficuliies of such a course ; for it is certain that none can 
 fully know or appreciate them, who liave not heen engaged in 
 similar labor. The result will be found in the following pages. 
 
 To those who may think that facts and incidents are omitted 
 which should have been inserted, and that some things aj)pear 
 which might better have been left out, it may suffice to say, that 
 all has been gathered which could well be, under the circum- 
 stances, and as to the want of any discrimination in the admission 
 of irrelevant matters, the opinions will be as various, probably, as 
 the feelings and tastes of the readers. 
 
 The great desire has been to present a Memorial of the Sun- 
 day Schools — their establishment, progress, and results — in 
 order to excite a warmer and more general interest and sympathy 
 in their behalf. They are emphatically the nurseries of the 
 Church, and hold a relation to the young next in importance to 
 that of the family and the of Pastor, — in some instances, circum- 
 stances may give them even higher interest. If they were 
 looked upon with greater favor by the congregation, and ofiener 
 visited, and personally aided, the " good they do'' might be abun- 
 dantly increased. 
 
 But there are it is hoped many things concerning the Church, 
 also, which her members will be glad to see here collected, and 
 embodied for preservation. They will look back to their " day of 
 small things," and be thankful for their present enlarged borders 
 and measure of prosperity. Beholding as in a mirror their un- 
 surpassed privileges, the^^ will be reminded of their great and in- 
 creased responsibilities. The long list of communicants will 
 recall past friendships and associations, and lead, perhaps, to a 
 more earnest " reaching forth to the things which are before !" 
 
 If such shall be the effect of this unpretending volume (for pre- 
 tensions of every sort are disclaimed, as regards both the under- 
 signed and his subject) ; — if it shall tend in any degree to make 
 the Schools better appreciated, the Church more loved, and its 
 surrounding Missionary field more diligently cultivated ; if it 
 shall draw its members into a kindlier and closer fellowship, and 
 excite a stronger sympathy for those who " sit in darkness," the 
 purpose and aim of the undertaking will be fully answered. 
 
 The undersigned has to acknowledge his obligations to several 
 
PREFACE. V 
 
 of the congregation for the favor with which they looked upon his 
 inquiries, and the aid they aflbrded ; and also to some at a dis- 
 tance, for information and valuable hints. One gentleman, es- 
 pecially, who gave a clue by which an important fact was ascer- 
 tained, deserves mention, as well for the promptness with which 
 he answered a letter-of inquiry, as that he has since been re- 
 moved from earthly scenes. The allusion is to Judge Sherman, 
 of Connecticut, whose letter will be found at page 14. 
 
 It may be staled as some excuse for any defect in the arrange- 
 ment or execution of the work, that a corsiderable portion of the 
 materials has been collected since the printing was commenced. 
 Method or symmetry was thus in a good measure precluded. 
 
 But, such as it is, the book is humbly and prayerfully submit- 
 ted to the members and friends of St. Ann's. 
 
 F. G. FISH. 
 
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 After most of the sheets were printed, they were submitted to 
 the venerable and respected Rector of St. George's, who kindly 
 sent the following note in acknowledgment : 
 
 Dear Sir, — I have read with much pleasure your Memo- 
 rial of St. Ami's Church, Brooklyn. To the congregation, 
 the past annals of their interesting establishment, and espe- 
 cially of its Sunday Schools, will no doubt prove very ac- 
 ceptable, and the gradual growth which both have expe- 
 rienced be a cauvse of gratitude to the Author and Giver of 
 every good and perfect gift. The correctness of the general 
 history of our Church is much promoted by accurate details 
 of its several departments, and every contribution such as 
 yours thrown into the general stock of materials, is promo- 
 tive of this end. 
 
 Hoping that our beloved brother, its present incumbent, 
 may long be favored to continue his useful labors, and the 
 prosperity of his present charge be contfiiually increasing 
 under the blessing of the Great Head of the Church, I am, 
 very truly yours, 
 
 JAMES MILNOR. 
 St. George's Rectory, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1845. 
 
 Mr. F. G. Fish 
 
1:;^ If the perusal of these pages shall recall any facts or inci» 
 dents, which have been passed over, calculated to illustrate or 
 throw light upon the history of this Church, their communication 
 to the subscriber, or to the Rector for him, will be considered as 
 a favor. r. g. f. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Establishment of the Church ^ 
 
 Rev. John Sayre 
 
 Rev. James Sayre— Judge Sherman's Letter 14 
 
 Rev. George Wright •• ^ '•"" ••••=•• ^^ 
 
 Rev. E. D. Rattoone •••• - ^^ 
 
 Rev. A. Hull..... • ' 2^ 
 
 Rev. S. Nesbitt • ^^ 
 
 Rev. J. Ireland - • -• ^^ 
 
 Rev. H. J. Feltus - • ^^ 
 
 Rev. J. P. K. Henshaw - ^ - • ^^ 
 
 Rev. H. Smith '•'••- • '^^ 
 
 Rev. H. U. Onderdonk ^^ 
 
 Rev. C. P. Mcllvaine ^^ 
 
 Rev. B. C. Cutler '^^ 
 
 Rev. Chas. Bancroft ^^^ 
 
 The Sunday Schools— First School 129 
 
 Resignation of Mr. Peet —Succession of Mr. Matthews 137 
 
 Extracts from Records - ^^^ 
 
 Officers of First School • • ^^^ 
 
 Second School— Letter of the Rector 151 
 
 Teachers of Second School 1'''^ 
 
 Teachers uf First School ^ •••••• 1"^^ 
 
 View of First School — Children's Church ■• 177 
 
 Additional ™ 
 
 Rev. Mr. Smith's Letter • l^'^ 
 
 Wm. Spencer's Letter... « ^^^ 
 
 Record of Marriages— 'Baptisms 1^^ 
 
 Burials — Confirmations ' ••' • ^^^ 
 
 Communicants of St. Ann's Church 1^^ 
 
 Communion Notice • • •^^'^ 
 
 Vestry of St. Ann's. - ^^^ 
 
 Appendix.— Episcopal Churches - ^H 
 
 Appendix A ^^ 
 
 Lines to a Pastor • • ' 
 
 Hymns for the Sunday School -. • ■ - ^^® 
 
ERRATA. 
 
 Page 20— 3d line from bottom, for " 1784," read 1834. 
 
 Page 21— 7th line from bottom, read John Cornell, instead of " Whitehead." 
 
 Page 55— last line, read 1823, instead of "1S2S." 
 
 Page 114— beginning of 2d line from top, for " lire," read the. 
 
 Page 116— 15th line of last paragraph, read "silvery." 
 
 Page 178 — 8ih line from top, instead of " 67" scholars, read 66. 
 
 Page 192— last line but one, read desires, instead of "desirous." 
 
ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 The first religious society in Brooklyn was the Dutch Re- 
 formed, organized in 1660,--one hundred and eighty-four years 
 ago,-~under the pastoral care of the Rev. Henry Solinus, (or 
 Hendricus Selwyn,) and from which has emanated the present 
 charge of the Rev. Mr. Dwight. Its Hraits were not confined to 
 the village, hut embraced much of the surrounding country, and 
 its place of worship, for nearly a century and a half, was in Ful- 
 ton street, some distance above the Military Garden. In 1810, 
 it was transferred to its present site in Joralemon street. 
 
 It is said that the Episcopal Church was es- 
 tabhshed here in 1766 ; it is so set down in some 
 historical publications upon Brooklyn and Long 
 Island ; but on what data or facts the statement 
 rests, the writer of this, after much research, has 
 failed to discover. From an examination of the 
 printed reports of the English " Society for pro- 
 pagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts," it does 
 not appear that Brooklyn was a Missionary Sta- 
 
10 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 tion, although, for many years previous to the 
 Revolutionary War, there w^ere tiventy-two such 
 stations in the then Colony of New York. 
 The Church here, then, if really established at 
 the date referred to, must have been indepen- 
 dent of the usual provision from abroad, and its 
 records, if any were kept previous to and during 
 the war, may have been carried off by the Brit- 
 ish with the civil records of the place. But the 
 more probable opinion is, that Episcopal servi- 
 ces were first performed in Brooklyn, and per- 
 haps in the year named, by some of the clergy 
 of New-York, and occasionally continued after- 
 wards as circumstances rendered expedient or 
 convenience allowed. There were, even at the 
 close of the Revolutionary War, less than sixty 
 houses in all the town, and not more than that 
 number of families, and it is hardly to be sup- 
 posed that nearly twenty years anterior to that 
 time, persons preferring the Episcopal service 
 were sufficiently numerous to support its regular 
 administration, especially as a majority of the 
 inhabitants wxre descendants of the first settlers, 
 from Holland, and had for more than a century 
 uninterruptedly maintained the worship of the 
 Reformed Dutch Church. But, whatever con- 
 jecture may be, nothing is known ; not even the 
 name of any regular minister can be rem em- 
 
REV. JOHN SAYRE. 11 
 
 bered or referred to before the year 1784. It is 
 true, a tradition has prevailed that the Rev. Mr. 
 Sayre, " a British refugee," preached here du- 
 ring the w^ar ; and this circumstance induced a 
 further examination of the Society's reports 
 above mentioned, with the following result : 
 
 The Rev. John Sayre, employed as one cf 
 the Missionaries of this Society, was in the year 
 1774 transferred from Newburgh, New York, 
 to Fairfield, in Connecticut, and there remained 
 until the destruction of that town by the British 
 forces under Governor Tryon in 1779, wdien he 
 came to Brooklyn.* Soon after this, he went 
 
 * The following incident is related by the Episcopal Minister in 
 Fairfield (in a note to a sermon preached in 1842), on the authority of a 
 communicant of his Church, then 83 years old, a daughter of the Mr. 
 Piersons here mentioned : 
 
 While the flames were still raging at Fairfield, Gov. Tryon and 
 Rev. Mr. Sayre were observed walking together through the principal 
 street by a Mr. Piersons, an ardent patriot, and probably one of the 
 sufferers, who was a remarkably good shot with a rifle. Exasperated 
 at the wanton and cruel conduct of the British commander, Piersons 
 raised his piece three several times for the purpose of shooting him, but 
 as often and finally desisted, lest he should endanger the life of his Mi- 
 nister also, whom, in respect to this outrage, he justly considered to be 
 blameless. In passing through a field towards his home, Piersons en- 
 countered and captured a British' soldier, but soon after falling in with 
 a party of the enemy, he was captured in his turn. Preparations were 
 instantly made to hang him ; a rope was affixed to his neck, and then 
 to a tree ; but just as he was about to be swung off, a British officer 
 came up, cut the rope, and gave orders that Piersons should be retained 
 as a prisoner. He was accordingly soon afterwards sent to the Brook- 
 lyn station, the knowledge of which coming to Mr. Sayre, he interceded 
 successfully with the British autliorities for his release, and had him 
 
12 ST. ANN*S CHURCH. 
 
 by invitation to Huntington, L. I. When he had 
 been but a few days here, however, the house at 
 v/hich he v/as staying was entered by a party of 
 men from Connecticut, who, after a dihgent 
 search, retired without doing any injury, or taking 
 any thing away. This circumstance led Mr. 
 Sayre to suppose himself to have been the object 
 of pursuit, and he therefore thought it prudent 
 to return immediately to Brooklyn. The report 
 of the Society for 1780 states, that although Mr. 
 S. is unemployed, his salary is continued to him. 
 That of the following year has an " extract of a 
 letter from the Rev. Mr. S., late Missionary at 
 Fairfield," dated July 20, 1780, which says that 
 as soon as he regained his health, he assisted the 
 Rev. Mr. Bloomer in his mission at Jamaica, at 
 an allowance of .£80 a year. 
 
 From all this it would seem, that the residence 
 of Mr. Sayre here could only have been short 
 and occasional, and that his ministrations were 
 probably confined to the British troops, then in 
 possession of the town, and such transient hear- 
 ers as w^ere disposed to be present. 
 
 It may not, however, be without interest in 
 this connection to add, that Mr. Sayre is said to 
 
 sent home. It is but just to Mr. S. to add, that this intercession was 
 made without any intimation having been given him that his own hfe 
 had been preserved by the forbearance of his former parishioner. 
 
REV. JOHN SAYRE. 13 
 
 have been more tlian ordinarily possessed of 
 the requisite quahfications for his office, (see 
 Appendix A,) and to have faithfully performed its 
 duties, at least while in Fairfield. During the 
 period he officiated in that parish, the commu- 
 nicants increased from forty to one hundred. 
 Yet, from the peculiar state of the times, he was 
 subjected to great discouragements and hard- 
 ships. Receiving his appointment and salary 
 from a society in England, and his feelings and 
 sympathies naturally favoring that country in the 
 contest then going on, he was the object of con- 
 tinual suspicion and distrust to the opposite par- 
 ty, and various pretexts were sought to drive 
 him from his position. At one time his house 
 was beset by tw^o hundred mihtiamen, who were 
 only dissuaded from attacking it by the assu- 
 rance that his wife was too ill to be remov^ed. 
 He was afterwards confined to his house and 
 garden ; and subsequently, because he refused 
 to subscribe to what he deemed dishonorable 
 and disloyal requisitions, he was sent to New 
 Britain; and it was not until after eighteen 
 months' detention that he was allowed the range 
 of the county. This enlargement brought him 
 again wdthin reach of his ministerial charge. 
 When Fairfield was burnt, he saved nothing of 
 his little property. 
 
14 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 One of the reports of the Society, in refer- 
 ring to their Missionary, thus concludes : " It is 
 with extreme regret that he (Mr. S.) has left his 
 flock, but he blesses God that in all his trials he 
 has endeavored to keep a conscience void of 
 offence, and constantly strove to discharge his 
 duty to his Master, his King, and his People, 
 and he expresses a full sense of gratitude to 
 God for his divine protection, and that tranquili- 
 ty of mind w^hich, through his grace, he has all 
 along enjoyed." 
 
 Since the foregoing was penned, a gentleman 
 of Fairfield has obligingly furnished the follow- 
 ing letter, in answer to interrogatories preferred 
 to him at the suggestion of a former Rector of 
 Grace Church, Jamaica: 
 
 '' Fail-field, Sepf. 3, 1844. 
 
 " Dear Sir : By last evening's mail, I received 
 your letter of the 30th ult. You inquire relative 
 to the ' Rev. John Say re, once a minister in 
 Fairfield.' I cannot find that any person of that 
 name ever resided here, and presume that the 
 Rev. James Say re is intended, who was an in- 
 habitant of this village the last years of his life. 
 As he died near half a century ago, he was per- 
 sonally known to but few of the present genera- 
 
REV. JAMES SAY^E. 15 
 
 tion. I commenced my professional life in Nor- 
 walk, and while I resided there, in 1797, during 
 the session of a Court in Fairfield, I attended 
 the meeting on the Sabbath, of the Congrega- 
 tional Church, of which the Rev. Andrew Elli- 
 ott w^as pastor. Mr. Say re supplied the pulpit, 
 the only occasion on which I ever heard him 
 preach. His manner vvas admirably suited to 
 pulpit eloquence. In reading the Scriptures and 
 delivering his discourse, it was perfectly unaf- 
 fected, evincive of deep devotional piety, and 
 powerfully impressive on the minds of his audi- 
 ence. A breathless silence pervaded the con- 
 gregation. All eyes were fixed upon the speaker. 
 His sentiments were evangelical and interesting. 
 How far this was a specimen of his performan- 
 ces generally, I have no personal knowledge. 
 But he left behind him the reputation of pos- 
 sessing respectable talents and very conscientious 
 and distinguished piety. His sentiments towards 
 other denominations than his own were liberal, 
 and he often supplied the pulpits of Congrega- 
 tional Ministers. I cannot learn, by the brief 
 inquiry which I have had opportunity to make, 
 that he was ever the Minister of any Church in 
 this place. He married the daughter of Doct. 
 Forgue, of Fairfield, and, while here, resided 
 with his family in the house which belonged to 
 his mother-in-law, and was built by her father, 
 Mr. Dennie, a wealthy merchant. 
 
 This morning I have visited his grave, and 
 taken from the headstone the following inscrip- 
 tion : 
 
16 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 % 
 
 Rev'd JAMES SAYRE 
 
 DEPARTED THIS LIFE 
 
 Feb'y 18, 1798, 
 Mt. 53. 
 
 * * * * ^ * 4«r 
 
 Yours, very respectfully, 
 
 R. M. s. 
 
 Mr. F. G. F." 
 
 Reference being made in the omitted part of 
 this letter to a daughter of Rev. James Sayre, 
 residing in New York, inquiries were made of 
 her accordingly, and also of the husband of her 
 deceased sister. From the latter, the following 
 particulars were obtained : 
 
 "James Sayre was born in New- York, Janu- 
 ary 19, 1745. Died at Fairfield, February 18, 
 1798. Three children were born at Brooklyn, 
 James Dennie Sayre, Elizabeth Sayre, and John 
 Sayre, all deceased ; the two first at Fairfield, 
 Connecticut, the last at St. Mary's, Georgia. 
 Mrs. Sayre died in December, 1797, and EUza- 
 beth nine days after her father. It seems, from 
 the dedication of one of the sermons, that he 
 first studied law, and probably was induced to 
 study divinity by his brother John, who was 
 stationed at Fairfield. He preached at Freder- 
 icksburgh [now Northeast, Dutchess Co., N. Y.], 
 before the war. Upon the possession of New 
 York by the English, he joined them, and was 
 stationed at Brooklyn. The brothers both left 
 
REV. JAMES SAYRE. 17 
 
 at the evacuatioii of New York, (or about that 
 tune,) for Nova Scotia or New Brunswick. I 
 think John Sajre went to England. James, 
 through his friend, (Thad's Burr, of Fairfield, 
 being an influential Whig of '76,) had leave to 
 return, and appears to have returned next year, 
 was settled at Newport for a few years, left about 
 1788, and returned there again in 1795, and left 
 in 1796, or near those dates. After this, he 
 preached as a Congregationalist, [i. e., probably, 
 he preached in those vacant Congregational 
 Churches for w^iich clergymen of that denomi- 
 nation were not readily procured,] and was hired 
 to preach in several places w4iere there were 
 vacancies. I recollect of his preaching at Green- 
 field Hill, (my native place,) for some time, and 
 was at the time of his last sickness engaged at 
 the Congregational Society at Stratfield, (now 
 at Bridgeport.) From his papers and other in- 
 formation, he appears to have been well edu- 
 cated, and understood the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, 
 French, and German languages." 
 
 The fact that there were at this period two 
 ministers of the name of Sayre is here for the 
 first time disclosed. Both, it appears, were na- 
 tives of New York, — both were educated and 
 ordained in England. John, the eldest, the Mis- 
 sionary at Fairfield, it will be seen is the one 
 first spoken of in the preceding pages ; James, it 
 is now made certain, ii^as stationed at Brooklyn 
 
18 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 between five and six years — say, from May, 
 1778, until or near the time of the evacuation of 
 the British troops in November, 1783. 
 
 Thirty-one of his sermons have been ex- 
 amined, all of which have " Brooklyn" endorsed 
 upon them, as one of the places where they were 
 delivered. Two or three have the endorsement, 
 " Brooklyn Church," but this is supposed by a 
 venerable citizen who has been consulted to re- 
 fer, not to any Episcopal Church then existing 
 here, but to the Dutch Church, where, it is 
 within his knowledge. Episcopal clergymen, as 
 well as those of other denominations, were fre- 
 quently invited to preach. One of the sermons, 
 upon St. Luke, xix., 10, — " For the Son of Man 
 is come to seek and to save that which was lost," 
 — and which is probably the first preached after 
 his ordination, is thus endorsed : 
 
 " Sunday, a. m., Sept. 25, 1774, at St. Catha- 
 rine's Church, London ; p. m., at a Church in 
 Mark Lane. Sunday Evening, Dec. 18, 1774, 
 St. Paul's, Philadelphia ; Christmas, a. m., St, 
 Paul's, N. Y. ; Fredericksburgh, Sunday, p. m., 
 Jan. 8, 1775; Huntington, Sept. 21, 1777; 
 Brooklyn, May 23, 1779— July 29, 1781 ; Bran- 
 ford, Aug. 21, 1785; N. Guilford, March 26, 
 1786; Newport, March 4, 1787; Stratford, Oct. 
 31, 1790." 
 
 Another of the sermons, preached on the 30th 
 
HEV. JAMES SAYRE. 19 
 
 of January, 1775, is upon Romans, xiii., 1, 2, 
 " Let every soul be subject unto the higher 
 powers. For there is no power but of God : the 
 powers that be are ordained of God. Whoso- 
 ever, therefore, resisteth the power, resisteth the 
 ordinance of God ; and they that resist, shall 
 receive to themselves damnation," This was 
 the anniversary of the death of Charles L, a day 
 which the Church of England has appointed to 
 be annually kept in remembrance of that event, 
 as a day of fasting, prayer, &c., " to deprecate 
 the divine judgments," and as there were many 
 indications that the exasperated feeling existing 
 in the Colonies in regard to the arbitrary meas- 
 ures of the mother country might, unless speedi- 
 ly allayed, be the occasion of an open rupture, 
 the preacher, as was quite natural, strenuously 
 contended for that most tin- democratic doctrine, 
 " passive obedience and non-resistance, ' as one 
 clearly taught in the Scriptures, and earnestly 
 admonished his hearers not to " resist the ordi- 
 nance of God," but to " remain subject to the 
 powers that be." 
 
 The following dedication of this sermon, for 
 it appears to have been printed, has given rise to 
 the supposition, doubtless well-founded, that Mr. 
 Sayre had been in the practice of the law before 
 he entered the ministry : 
 
J20 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 '• DEDICATION. 
 
 "To his respected Superiors, the Judges, and 
 to his late Brethren, the Gentlemen of the 
 Law, in the Provinces of New-York and Penn- 
 sylvania (particularly), the following Sermon is 
 inscribed by 
 
 Their humble Servant, 
 
 And affectionate (late) Brother, 
 
 The Author." 
 
 The following, which had before escaped no- 
 tice, was found on a second examination of the 
 Record of Baptisms : 
 
 ''Aug. 20, 1783. — John, son of John and 
 Helena Van Nostrand. Copied from a certifi- 
 cate of Rev. James Sayre, Minister of the Church 
 at Brooklyn Ferry." 
 
 FIlOx^ 1734 TO !7S9. 
 
 In the spring of 1784, the Rev. George 
 Wright commenced the Episcopal service in 
 the house then known as A'^o. 40 Fulton street, 
 (now about 43,) which was pulled down on the 
 12th of March, 1784. Subsequently, the con- 
 gregation removed to the barn of Mr. John 
 Middagh, in the rear of his house at the corner 
 
R^V. GEORGE WRIGttT. 21 
 
 of Henry and F niton streets, (standing in 1844,) 
 and stiil later to a house built by the British 
 troops at the corner of Middagh and Fulton 
 streets, which was suitably fitted up for the pur- 
 pose. 
 
 In 1785, a union or partnership house of wor- 
 ship was erected on the present Episcopal bury- 
 ing-ground in Fulton street, for Mr. Matlack, an 
 independent preacher, with whom a Mr. Wall 
 was associated as Clerk. It was not long, how- 
 ever, before several of those who liad taken a 
 prominent part in the undertaking became dis- 
 affected, and the building soon afterwards coming 
 into the possession of some of Mr. A¥ right's 
 members, it was thenceforward used by his con- 
 gregation — being consecrated about the same 
 time by Bishop Provoost. 
 
 On the 23d of April, 1787, a Legislative 
 act was passed, incorporating " The Episcopal 
 Church of Brooldynl' in which the follovving 
 persons were named as 
 
 Trustees — Messrs. Whitehead Cornell, Mat- 
 thew Gleaves, Joshua Sands, Joseph Sealy, 
 John Van Nostrand, Aquila Giles, and Henry 
 Stanton. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Wright continued to officiate here 
 until sometime about the middle of the year 
 1789, when he appears to have left. He was 
 
22 ST. ANN^S CHURCH. 
 
 for a few months at Jamaica, and then removed 
 to HaUfax, in Nova Scotia, that Province having 
 just been erected into a Bisliop's See, and the 
 Rev. Dr. Inghs, of New York, appointed the 
 first Bishop. 
 
 Mr. Wright was a native of Ireland, and or- 
 dained to the Ministry there before coming to 
 this country. He was of rather slender consti- 
 tution, and therefore often needed, and readily 
 received, the nursing of some of those who, in 
 the then dearth of Ministers, felt how great 
 would be the loss of his pastoral services. 
 
 He attended in behalf of St. Ann's the ses- 
 sions of the Diocesan Convention for June and 
 November, 1787, and November, 1788. There 
 appears to have been no Clerical Representative 
 in 1789. The Lay Delegates during this period 
 were, in 
 
 1786 — Aquila Giles, Joshua Sands. 
 
 1787 — John Van Nostrand, Joshua Sands. 
 
 1788— A. Giles, John Carpender, J. Middagh. 
 
 1789— A. Giles, J. Sands, J. Van Nostrand. 
 
 II. 
 
 1739 TO 1792. ' 
 
 The Rev. Elijah D. Rattoone succeeded 
 Mr. Wright in the latter part of (perhaps Octo- 
 
REV. E. D. RATTOONE. 23 
 
 ber) 1789,* and continued till Marcli, 1792, 
 when lie accepted the Professorship of Greek in 
 Columbia College, which station he held till 
 1795, being also Assistant Minister of Trinity 
 Church, New^ark, during most of the same pe- 
 riod. He was a graduate of Nassau (Princeton) 
 College. His name is recorded as the Minister 
 of St. Ann's in the Journals of the State Con- 
 ventions for 1790 and 1791, and for the latter 
 year, he was Secretary of that body, and a 
 Member of the Standing Committee. He was 
 also Secretary of the Convention for the two fol- 
 lowing years. In 1792, in connection with Dr. 
 Beach and Dr. Benjamin Moore, he was ap- 
 pointed to revise and correct the Book of Com- 
 mon Prayer, then going through the press. The 
 sermon at the opening of the Convention of 1793 
 was preached by him. In the Convention of 
 1797, he proposed a canon " for the better ascer- 
 taining of the qualifications of candidates for 
 Holy Orders." This was subsequently with- 
 drawn or suspended by the mover, and the fol- 
 lowing resolution, introduced by the Rev. Mr. 
 Vandyke, and seconded by Mr. R., was substi- 
 tuted : 
 
 * He could at this time have been a Lay Reader only, as he was 
 not ordained Deacon until the 10th of January, 1790. 
 
24 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 " Resolved, That the Clerical and Lay Depu- 
 ties from this Convention to the General Con- 
 vention be instructed to propose and advocate 
 in that body the obtaining of a more effectual 
 and guarded mode of ascertaining the qualifica- 
 tions of candidates for Holy Orders ; and that 
 the Bishop be requested to use his influence for 
 the accomplishment of the same salutary pur- 
 pose." 
 
 The subject does not appear to have been 
 acted upon. 
 
 Mr. Rattoonehadthe charge of Grace Church, 
 Jamaica, and St. George's Church, Flushing, 
 from May, 1797, till 1802. He subsequently re- 
 moved to the Diocese of Maryland, v/as Rector 
 of St. Paul's Church, Baltimore county, in 1804, 
 and was residing in the city of Baltimore in 
 1808. The degree of D. D. had been conferred 
 upon him, probably by Columbia College. 
 
 He is still remembered by several of the older 
 members of St. Ann's. 
 
 The Lay Delegates to the Convention were, 
 
 In 1790 — A. Giles, J. Carpender, J. Cornell. 
 1791 — Aquila Giles, John Carpender. 
 
REV. A. HULL. 25 
 
 III. 
 
 Rev. Ambrose Hull, Deacon, followed Mr. 
 Rattoone (1792) ; but he remained only a fev^^ 
 months. Removing to the South, he succeeded 
 to a large estate, and soon abandoned the min- 
 istry. 
 
 There was no Clerical Delegate to the Con- 
 vention of 1792. The Lay Representatives 
 were Messrs. Aquila Giles, John Van Nostrand, 
 and Paul Durell. 
 
 Mr. Wood, in his History of Long Island^ 
 speaks of the Rev. Mr. Doty as officiating in 
 Brooklyn about this time ; and it has been stated 
 that the Rev. Mr. Fowler also preached here in 
 the earlier period of the Church. The name of 
 Doty does not appear in the record of clergy in 
 the State of New York at all ; the Rev. Andrew 
 Folder was ordained Deacon in 1789, and it is 
 possible he may have preached here a few times 
 after Mr. Wright left, and before Mr. Rattoone 
 was called. In 1790 and 1791, he was Rector 
 of the Church at Oyster Bay, and in 1792 and 
 several follov/ing years. Rector of St. Peter's 
 Church, Peekskill, and St. Philip's Church, Be- 
 verly. 
 
26 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 IV. 
 
 FROM 1793 TO 1798. 
 
 From the List of Baptisms, it would appear 
 that the Rev. Samuel Nesbitt's connection 
 with the chm'ch commenced in January, 1793. 
 On the 22d of June, 1795, the Church was re- 
 organized, and incorporated by the name of " St 
 Anns Church" a title it had tacitly received 
 some years before, in compliment, it is said, to 
 Mrs. Ann Sands, who, with her husband, (Mr. 
 Joshua Sands,) had been its most liberal donor. 
 The building was refitted and painted blue, 
 which some of our older inhabitants well remem- 
 ber. Rev. Mr. Nesbitt was constituted Rector, 
 and the following gentlemen composed the 
 Vestry : 
 
 Wa7'dens — John Van Nostrand, Geo. Powers. 
 
 Vestrymen — Joshua Sands, Paul Durell, Jo- 
 seph Fox, William Carpender, Aquila Giles, 
 John Cornell, Gilbert Van Mater, Robert Stod- 
 dard. 
 
 Easter Monday was appointed as the time of 
 holding future elections. 
 
 Mr. Nesbitt represented St. Ann's in the Dio- 
 cesan Convention for the years 1793, '4, '6, and 
 '7. There was no Convention in '95. 
 
REV. S. NESBITT REV. J. IRELAND. 27 
 
 The Lay Delegates for this period were, in 
 
 1793 — A. Giles, J. Van Nostrand, G. Powers. 
 
 1794 — Geo. Powers, Gilbert Van Mater. 
 
 1796— J. Van Nostrand, G. Powers, P. Durell. 
 
 1797— A. Giles, J. Van Nostrand, J. Fisher. 
 
 Mr. Nesbitt resided in Nev/-York for some 
 years, after retiring from the rectorship of St. 
 Ann's. 
 
 V. 
 
 FROM 1798 TO 1807. 
 
 Mr. Nesbitt was followed by the Rev. John 
 Ireland, in 1798, but what time elapsed between 
 the retirement of the one and the succession of 
 the other, does not appear. It was during Mr. 
 Ireland's rectorship that the Stone Church,* 
 which preceded the present edifice, and the first 
 erected on the ground given by Mr. and Mrs. 
 Sands, was built and occupied, — being conse- 
 crated by Bishop Benjamin Moore on the 30th 
 of May, 1805, at which time, also, thirty-seven 
 persons received the rite of confirmation. But 
 
 * The walls of this Church were so much injured by the blowing up 
 of a powder-mill in the vicinity, in the year 1808, that the building wf s 
 thought by many persons to be very unsafe long before it was taken 
 down in 1824. 
 
28 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 few particulars, however, bj which to form a 
 judgment as to the state and progress of the 
 Church up to and during this period, have been 
 obtained. 
 
 Mr. Ireland continued in charge of the parish 
 until May, 1807. He was engaged for six months 
 in that or the following year at Jamaica, L. I., 
 and subsequently obtained the appointment of 
 Chaplain in the United States' Navy, which he 
 held until his death in March, 1823. He was 
 a native of England, where he was educated, 
 but received orders at the hands of Bishop Clag- 
 gett, of Maryland ; and was Associate Rector of 
 St. Paul's Church, Baltimore county, and after- 
 wards Rector of St. Peter's Church, Westches- 
 ter, N. Y., before coming to St. Ann's. More 
 than ordinary intellectual endowments are con- 
 ceded to him, and he was an attractive speaker. 
 
 In 1804, there were reported to the Diocesan 
 Convention, 20 baptisms, 18 marriages, 20 fune- 
 rals, about 70 families, 77 communicants. 
 
 In 1805, communicants 78, baptisms 51, mar- 
 riages 19, funerals 15. 
 
 In 1806, communicants 76, baptisms 41, mar- 
 riages 21, interments 13. 
 
 There were no Conventions in 1798, '99, and 
 1800. Mr. Ireland represented St. Ann's from 
 1801 to 1806 inclusive. 
 
REV. H. J. FELTUS. 29 
 
 The Lay Delegates to the Convention were, 
 In 1801 — Geo. Powers, Wm. Grigg, R. Hodge. 
 1802 — Robert Hodge, Wm. Grigg. 
 1804 — R. Hodge, W. Grigg, Wm. Fm-man. 
 1805— R. Hodge. 
 1806— R. Hodge, W. Grigg, Sam'l Sackett 
 
 VI. 
 
 FROM 1807 TO 1S14. 
 
 The Rev. Henry James Feltus succeeded 
 to the Rectorship of the Church in 1807. He 
 was a native of Ireland, having been born in the 
 city of Dublin in the year 1775, and emigrated 
 to this country before he had reached his ma- 
 jority. By the death of his father, Mr. Feltus 
 w^as left at a very tender age to the care of a 
 mother, who seemed conscious of the obligations 
 and responsibilities which were now devolved 
 upon her, both as a parent and a Christian ; and 
 who, accordingly, while providing for the tem- 
 poral wants of her young family, was careful 
 also, to inculcate principles and habits that should 
 prove a safeguard through the journey of life. 
 Although deriving from the income of a school 
 for young ladies a respectable support, she was 
 yet unable to bestow upon her son what is termed 
 
30 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 a liberal education ; but we may safely infer, 
 from his subsequent career, that no opportuni- 
 ties for improvement that were placed within 
 his reach were neglected. While yet a youth, 
 he became a member of the Methodist Commu- 
 nion, and was brought into contact with, and 
 had the benefit of, the ministrations of such men 
 as the Rev. John Wesley, Dr. Coke, and Dr. 
 Adam Clarke — the last of whom extended to 
 him his particular notice and friendship. 
 
 Soon after Dr. Clarke's arrival in Dublin, he 
 organized a Society, the object of which was to 
 administer to the necessities of the poor, sick, 
 and helpless strangers who thronged that city. 
 This Society was composed principally of young 
 men, who, Howard-like, went out into the high- 
 ways and hedges, and into prisons, work-houses, 
 and hospitals, extending relief to the needy, and 
 holding forth the hopes and consolations of re- 
 ligion to all. In this self-denying work, young 
 Feltus was a prominent actor, and it doubtless 
 contributed greatly to deepen that sympathy for 
 the destitute, whether of worldly or spiritual 
 good, which was characteristic of his after life. 
 
 In 1794, Mr. Feltus was married to Martha 
 Ryan, a young lady of deep piety, and of a 
 spirit and zeal kindred to his own. In the spring 
 of 1795, after spending some time in Liverpool 
 
REV. MR. FELTUS. 31 
 
 with his friend Dr. Clarke, who was then sta- 
 tioned in that city, he embarked for New- York, 
 where he arrived on the 4th of July. He sub- 
 sequently established himself at Elizabethtown, 
 N. J., where for two years he was engaged as a 
 teacher of youth, and occasionally as a preacher 
 or exhorter among the Methodists. He then 
 accepted an invitation to take charge of an 
 Academy belonging to the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church in the then upper part of the city of 
 New- York. How long he remained here is not 
 certainly known, but in the course of 1799, or 
 the following year, he was admitted to the minis- 
 try of the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop 
 White, of Pennsylvania ; and after officiating for 
 some time at Easton, becam.e Rector of Trinity 
 Church, Swedesboro', N. J. Here he remained 
 until 1807, when he accepted the call to St. 
 Ann's. 
 
 It is the testimony of one who knew him 
 well,* that his ministrations here were " greatly 
 to the satisfaction of his flock." His unremitting 
 attention to his parochial duties — his cheerful 
 attendance upon, and affectionate demeanor to- 
 wards the sick and dying, — together with his 
 
 * The author of a small pamphlet published soon after the death of 
 Dr. Feltus, from which some of these particulars are derived. 
 
32 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 popular talents as a preacher, " obtained for him, 
 in a large degree, the esteem and love of his 
 people. He had the happiness of forming a 
 close intimacy with, and a strong attachment for, 
 many of the congregation and others, which 
 continued to the end of his life." 
 
 Of similar purport is the testimony of those of 
 Mr. F.'s charge here, whom the waiter of this 
 has had the opportunity of consulting. Their 
 reminiscences of him are most grateful, and high- 
 ly commendatory of his amiable and Christian 
 character, as well as ability in the pulpit. Some 
 of those who joined the Communion under his 
 successor, attribute their first serious impressions 
 to the pastoral exhortations of Mr. F. ; thus 
 affording another example of the truth of our 
 Lord's saying, that " one soweth and another 
 reapeth." Happy is the laborer whose faith 
 assures him " that both he that soweth and he 
 that reapeth shall rejoice together." Perhaps 
 the more direct and pungent appeals of Mr. 
 Henshaw may have had the effect to quicken and 
 mature resolutions which had been incipiently 
 formed during the preceding ministry.^ 
 
 * It was during his residence here that Mr. F. experienced a most|afflic- 
 tive dispensation in the death of his son, Wm. Feltns, a midshipman in 
 the Navy, of great promise. This young man, at his own urgent request, 
 had been entrusted to the care of the late Lieut. Col Gamble, who was 
 
REV. MR. FELTUS. 33 
 
 He had attended the Diocesan Conventions 
 during this period with one exception, when he 
 was prevented by indisposition. On the question 
 of the passage of the resolutions, in 1812, deny- 
 ing the right of Bishop Provoost to exercise 
 Episcopal authority in this diocese after his re- 
 signation and the election of his successor, Mr. 
 Feltus was excused from voting, as were also 
 
 attached to Commodore Porter^s command in the South Seas. After 
 the capture of a number of prizes, the Commodore sailed in the Essex 
 from the Marquesas Islands, leaving Col. Gamble in charge of four of 
 the captured vessels. A few days after, the men mutinied, and gained 
 possession of one of the prizes, a heavy ai-med ship, called the Seringa- 
 patam, and detained Col. G., who had been severely wounded in the 
 conflict, and midshipmen Feltus and Clapp, as prisoners, until 10 
 o'clock at night, and then set them adrift in a leaky boat. By great ex. 
 ertions, however, Col. G. and his young companions succeeded in 
 reaching the shore between two and three o'clock in the morning, but 
 they had scarcely set their feet upon land, before they were attacked by 
 the savages, when young Feltus, and three others who had not joined 
 in the mutiny, were killed. 
 
 The circumstance is thus alluded to in Col. Gamble's Journal : 
 " Let any man of sensibility judge what my feelings are at this mo- 
 ment — but two days since, they were put to the torture by a mutiny, 
 and now to have a youth of sixteen whom I tenderly loved, and who 
 possessed every qualification necessary to command respect and esteem, 
 united with a great ambition to become a proficient in his profession, 
 which he had already so far accomplished as to excite the admiration of 
 every naval officer who knew him, cut off by cannibals, and that, too, at 
 a moment when he was most dear to me, is a trial so agonizing as to 
 render life almost a burden. 
 
 " It will not appear strange that I should have formed a brotherly 
 affection for a young man placed under my immediate care by his own 
 request, whose mind was adorned with every virtue, and in whom I 
 placed the most implicit confidence at all times, there being a cordial 
 attachment and a wish on his part to execute all orders with cheerful- 
 ness, and even to anticipate my wishes. He was an acquisition to the 
 service, an ornament to his parents, and deserved a better fate, but it is 
 the will of Providence, — I can truly say, I loved him tenderly." 
 
34 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Harris and Rev. Dr. Richard Ciianning 
 Moore. 
 
 The salary of Mr. Feltus being insufficient, 
 with the greatest industry and economy, for the 
 support of his increasing family, he wsls induced 
 to accept a call to St. Stephen's Church, N. Y., 
 many of the members of which had been his 
 friends during his former residence in that part 
 of the city. Accordingly, on the 15th of June, 
 1814, he resigned the rectorship of St. Ann's, 
 and not long after, entered upon his new charge. 
 
 The Lay Delegates and Parish Reports during 
 the continuance of Mr. F. here, were as follows : 
 
 1807— R. Hodge, Wm. Grigg. 
 
 1808 — Robert Hodge, Jas. B. Clarke. Com- 
 municants 60, added 16, total 76 ; baptisms 24 ; 
 marriages 11 ; deaths 12. 
 
 1809 — R. Hodge, Wm. Grigg. Communi- 
 cants 94; baptisms 28; marriages 15 ; deaths 
 12. 
 
 1810— Wm. Grigg, J. Cornell, J. B. Clarke. 
 Communicants 110, [12 deaths and removals, 
 added 28] ; baptisms 43 ; marriages 10; deaths 
 22. 
 
 1811 — Special Convention in May to elect a 
 Bishop. Joshua Sands. In October, Dele- 
 gates, same as in 1810. Communicants 112 ; 
 marriages 12 ; deaths 10. 
 
REV. DR. FELTUS. 35 
 
 1812 — Delegates same as in 1810. Commu- 
 nicants 121, [remov'd 6, added 15] ; marriages 7. 
 
 1813— Wm. Cornwell, John Cornell, Jas. B. 
 Clarke. Commmiicants 120 ; baptisms 25; mar- 
 riages 10 ; deaths 26. 
 
 At the time of his resignation, (15th June, 
 1814,) there were 123 communicants. 
 
 The ministrations of ^Dr. Feltus were highly 
 acceptable to the people of St. Stephen's, and 
 they were faithfully continued for fourteen years. 
 
 It is related by one of his parishioners, that on 
 some occasion when an extra service had been 
 appointed, the night unexpectedly became ex- 
 ceedingly stormy. This, however, did not, as it 
 was naturally supposed, prevent a large assem- 
 blage. The hour for commencing arrived, and 
 passed, but no Minister appeared. A con- 
 siderable further time elapsed, and still he came 
 not. At length, one of the Wardens read a por- 
 tion of the evening service, and the people were 
 dismissed to their homes. A few of the Rector's 
 friends, anxious lest some ill had befallen him, 
 called at his residence, and to their astonishment 
 found him quietly seated at his fireside, l^he 
 surprize became mutual, and not a little embar- 
 
 * The degree of D.D. was conferred during his ministry at St i^te- 
 phen's. 
 
36 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 rassing on his part, when he was informed that 
 a numerous auditory had been rather impatient- 
 ly awaiting his presence. He had scarcely ex- 
 pected that any one Avould venture to brave the 
 inclemency of the weather. The lesson was 
 not lost upon him.* 
 
 It was his practice to attend, and to open 
 with appropriate religious exercises, the meetings 
 of all the Societies connected with the Church, 
 and this served especially to endear him to, and 
 to encourage and stimulate to good deeds, the 
 working members of his flock. 
 
 The death of Mrs. F. occurred in 1816, and 
 was most deeply felt and regretted. She is re- 
 presented to have been a woman of uncommon 
 excellence, and her character is thus drawn by 
 the acquaintance and friend already referred 
 to : 
 
 " In all the relations of life, as a daughter, 
 wife, and mother, she was pre-eminently distin- 
 guished for the faithful discharge of every sacred 
 and social duty. Of her it might with truth be 
 said, that she displayed in her life those charac- 
 teristic qualities of mind and heart, which the 
 wisest of men has recorded as the distinctive 
 
 * It much oftener happens that the Minister, punctually in his place 
 at the appointed time, whatever the state of the weather, finds only here 
 and there a solitary hearer — the absentees being generally those who 
 might attend with the least discomfort or inconvenience. 
 
REV. DR. FELTUS. 37 
 
 marks of a good and virtuous wife. 'The heart 
 of her husband doth safely trust in her, — she will 
 do him good and not evil all the days of her life ; 
 her price is above rubies ; she stretcheth forth 
 her hands to the poor; she openeth her mouth 
 with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of 
 kindness ; her children rise up and call her 
 blessed, — her husband, also, and he praiseth her, 
 for to him she is a crow n of glory.' " 
 
 From this period until his own death, nothing 
 occurred in the life of Dr. F. which is deemed 
 of sufficient interest to be particularly noted here. 
 His decease took place on Sunday, 24th Au- 
 gust, 1828, in the 54th year of his age, after a 
 painful illness of several weeks. Nine of his 
 fourteen children survived him ; and although 
 there was much in the circumstances of such a 
 family, needing the protection and support of a 
 parent, combined with the affection and venera- 
 tion of his people, to attach him to life, he seems 
 to have aw aited his summons w ith calm resigna- 
 tion, and a confiding trust in his Saviour. To 
 some inquiry of a valued female friend who had 
 attended upon his ministry here, he replied, " My 
 dear madam, I am in the hands of my heavenly 
 Father. He knows what is best for me and 
 mine — whether for life or death, for time or 
 eternity — and let his holy will be done." 
 
 The following: extract is from the No. of the 
 
38 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Christian Journal for the month immediately 
 following the death of Dr. F. : 
 
 " The genuineness and sincerity of his piety 
 appeared in that trying hour of the near approach 
 of death, when every insufficient dependence 
 must fail, and nature, unsanctified and unaided 
 by grace, must leave the sufferer without comfort, 
 without support, and without hope. His illness 
 was of three or four weeks' continuance, and 
 afforded a blessed opportunity of witnessing the 
 humility, the composure, and the triumph with 
 which a Christian can die. He spoke much of 
 the love of the divine Saviour, and the richness 
 and sufficiency of divine grace. He warmly 
 commended, as he strikingly exhibited, the car- 
 dinal evangelical virtue of humility. He thought 
 and talked much of the Church. He loved to 
 have his brethren pray with him, when they were 
 at his bed-side, and entered heartily into the de- 
 votions. 
 
 Thus, in constant spiritual communion with 
 his God and Saviour, and in constant manifesta- 
 tion of the faith, hope, and charity of the Gospel, 
 he bore with exemplary patience and resignation, 
 unusually protracted debility and suffering, and 
 waited with calmness for the hour of his release. 
 At length that hour came. God's holy day, 
 which had nearly all been spent by him on earth, 
 was closed in paradise. It was made to him, 
 indeed, a day of rest, rest from the labors of the 
 Church below, and a call to the blessed services 
 of the Church in heaven. On the following day, 
 
REV. MR. HENSHAW. 39 
 
 his mortal part was deposited, with the appointed 
 hallowed rites, and in the presence of an im- 
 mense concourse of weeping brethren, parishion- 
 ers, and friends, beneath the chancel of his own 
 Church, and in the same grave which, twelve 
 years before, had received the remains of the 
 wife whom he dearly loved." 
 
 VII. 
 
 JULY, 1814, TO JULY, 1817. 
 
 Rev. John Prentiss Kewley Henshaw, 
 Deacon, commenced his parochial duties in St. 
 Ann's in July, 1814, at the early age of 22, hav- 
 ing been born in Middletown, Connecticut, in 
 June, 1792. He graduated at Middlebury Col- 
 lege, passing the highest examinations, and re- 
 ceiving the degree of A. B. at 16. The follow- 
 ing year he spent as a resident graduate at Har- 
 vard University, officiating at the same time as 
 Lay Reader m the Church at Cambridge. Within 
 two years after, he formed two congregations in 
 the northern part of Vermont, and w^as ordained 
 to the Deaconate on his 21st birth-day, from 
 which time till his removal to Brooklyn, he had 
 the charge of a church in Marblehead, Massa- 
 chusetts. 
 
40 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Mr. Henshaw entered upon the discharge of 
 his important trust here with the ardor of one 
 under the all-pervading influence of a "first love," 
 and did not leave unimproved any allowable 
 means or persuasives to awaken his people to a 
 just sense of their responsibihties. His appeals 
 to the heart and conscience were so direct, and 
 his exhortations to purity and devotedness of life 
 seemed so reasonable and obligatory, that many 
 "were not able to resist the wisdom and the 
 spirit by which he spake." Yet to those who 
 were " at ease in Zion," this " Methodistical sort 
 of preaching" was greatly offensive, and some 
 complained that "Church order" was violated by 
 the prayer and other extra meetings which were 
 held, and especially by those in which there was 
 any union wdth other denominations. Notwith- 
 standing this partial dissatisfaction, however, the 
 Church may be said to have greatly prospered 
 during this ministry. Several who then united 
 in the Communion for the first time, are still 
 members of St. Ann's, and ever "zealous of good 
 works ;" and some of them are untiring teachers 
 in the Sunday School. 
 
 In a letter written in answer to inquiries as to 
 the state of the Church at this period, Dr. Hen- 
 shaw says ; 
 
 " My own connection with St. Ann's, though 
 
REV. MR. HENSHAW. 41 
 
 brief, awakens many pleasing and grateful recol- 
 lections. I was very young at the time, and in 
 Deacon's orders for two-thirds or more of the 
 period, yet my labors met with acceptance far 
 beyond their merits, and the register will show a 
 very considerable increase of faithful communi- 
 cants under my weak ministrations." 
 
 ]Mr. Henshaw was ordained to the Priesthood, 
 and instituted Rector in July, 1816, and in the 
 summer of 1817, resigned his charge, and removed 
 to Baltimore, having been elected to the Rector- 
 ship of St. Peter's Church in that city. He at- 
 tended the Diocesan Convention of 1814 and of 
 1815, but was absent from that of 1816. 
 
 The Lay Delegates and Parochial Reports 
 during this ministry were as follows : 
 
 1814— William Grigg, John Cornell, Jas. B. 
 Clarke. Communicants 124; baptisms 24; mar- 
 riages 7 ; deaths 3. 
 
 1815 — TheodosiusHunt, Fanning C. Tucker. 
 Communicants 129 [removals and deaths 15, 
 added 22] ; baptisms 24 ; marriages 9 ; deaths 
 21. 
 
 1816 — Joshua Sands, J. H. Moore. Commu- 
 nicants 144 ; baptisms 38 ; marriages 20 ; deaths 
 8. 
 
 Contributions for 1816 — To Missionary fund, 
 $72 70 ; Episcopal, $34 35 :— $107 05. 
 
42 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Since *Dr. Henshaw's removal to Baltimore, 
 he has occupied a large space in the eye of the 
 Christian public. Besides being peculiarly suc- 
 cessful and blessed as a preacher and pastor 
 among his own people, he has long been known 
 throughout the Church, and out of it, as an elo- 
 quent and persuasive advocate and expounder of 
 Gospel truth. Among his published writings, 
 " Theology for the People," and a Life of the 
 late Bishop Moore, of Virginia, both of them 
 large octavos, are the most considerable. He 
 has published, also, " A Minister's Instructions to 
 his People on the subject of Confirmation ;" 
 "The Communicant's Guide ;" "Sheridan's Elo- 
 cution, with Directions for reading the Church 
 Service ;" " Lectures upon the Second Advent of 
 the Redeemer;" "A Selection of Hymns for 
 social Meetings and private Devotions;" together 
 with several addresses before literary institu- 
 tions, and a great number of sermons, — among 
 which is that delivered at the recent triennial 
 meeting of the Board of Missions. 
 
 He has been a conspicuous member of the 
 General Convention, and of the Convention of 
 Maryland, and also of the Board of Missions. 
 
 * The degrees of A.M. andD.D. were conferred by Middlebury Col- 
 lege ; the latter after he went to Baltimore. 
 
REV. DR. HENSHAW. 43 
 
 He was a member of the Convention which 
 originated the " American Bible Society," and 
 has held, if he does not still hold, the office of 
 Director of the "American Tract Society." 
 
 Dr. Henshaw was on one or two occasions a 
 prominent candidate for the Episcopate in his 
 own Diocese. In June, 1843, he was elected 
 Bishop of Rhode Island, and on the 11th of 
 August following, was consecrated to that high 
 and responsible office in St. John's Church, Pro- 
 vidence, Bishops Brownell, B. T. Onderdonk, 
 Doane, Hopkins, Whittingham, and Johns, and 
 between fifty and sixty other clergymen, being 
 present. From the circumstance of Dr. Plen- 
 shaw's being the first Bishop of this little Dio- 
 cese (small as to territory), and that he may be 
 said to have gone out — remotely at least — from 
 among us, it is presumed the following brief ac- 
 count of the consecration, copied from the Epis- 
 copal Recorder, and written by one who once 
 successfully labored in a portion of that interest- 
 ing field, and is now gone to his reward,^ will 
 not be deemed out of place : 
 
 " Morning prayer was read by the Rev. Dr. 
 Crocker, and the sermon was preached by the 
 Bishop of Maryland, from the fifth verse of the 
 
 ♦ The late Rev. Dr. John A. Clark. 
 
44 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, " Increase our 
 faith." After certain introductory observ ations, 
 the Bishop proceeded to show the necessity of 
 an increase of faith, in the presence of Christ in 
 the Church, in the indwehing of the Holy Spirit, 
 and in the efficacy of prayer. These points 
 were urged with the preacher's usual earnest 
 fervor, addressing himself more especially to his 
 brethren of the clergy, and exhorting them to 
 strive by their exertions and teachings to pro- 
 mote this desirable end. 
 
 " The Bishop of Connecticut, being the senior 
 Bishop present, then proceeded with the Conse- 
 cration Service, Bishops Hopkins and Johns 
 reading the Epistle and Gospel, and Bishop 
 Doane the Litany. All the Bishops present 
 united in the laying on of hands, and the whole 
 service concluded Avith the Holy Communion. 
 
 " The Bishop-elect was instituted as Rector 
 of Grace Charcli, Providence, on the day pre- 
 ceding the Consecration ; the sermon being 
 preached by himself, in the absence of Bishop 
 Johns, who was expected to discharge this duty. 
 Divine service was held in Grace Church on 
 Thursday and Friday evening. 
 
 " The Bishop of Rhode Island enters upon 
 the duties of his Episcopate under the most fa- 
 vorable auspices. A Diocese so compact, that 
 every parish may be reached in a single day's 
 journey, — a clergy harmonious and true to the 
 real principles of the Gospel, and the Church — 
 a diocesan missionary organization, at once effec- 
 
 -««k 
 
REV. DR. HENSHAW. 45 
 
 tive and conservative — a people intelligent, and 
 devoted to the interests of religion ; all these ad- 
 vantages seem to make this diocese one of the 
 most attractive fields of labor in the Church. 
 
 " Our heart's desire and prayer to God is, that 
 He will bless our brother in his new relations, 
 and give him abundant success. We trust and 
 believe that as in days past, so in days to come, 
 the truth as it is in Jesus will, in this important 
 section of the Lord's vineyard, be faithfully 
 preached, ' truly received and truly foHowed.' 
 
 " We have been informed that in proportion to 
 the whole populrtion, the number of Episcopa- 
 hans in Rhode Island is larger than in any other 
 diocese. If so, this is a striking testimony to the 
 wisdom and policy of the moderate and evange- 
 lical spirit which has for many years character- 
 ized the operations there pursued by the Minis- 
 ters of our beloved Church." 
 
 Bishop Henshavv has since been invested with 
 the provisional charge of the Church in Maine. 
 
 In his occasional visits to St. Ann's, though all 
 have " heard him gladly," to some, additional in- 
 terest has been imparted by the recollection that 
 he was once their Pastor. 
 
*:6 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 FROM JULY, 1817, TO OCTOBER, 1819. 
 
 The Rev. Hugh Smith succeeded Mr. Hen- 
 shaw. He commenced his labors in the Parish 
 in July, 1817, and with such assiduity and de- 
 votedness as showed that no endeavors on his 
 part would be wanting to render his ministra- 
 tions acceptable ; and to a very considerable ex- 
 tent these endeavors were successful. It is a 
 rare thing, however, that all the members of a 
 congregation are of " one heart and one mind" 
 even as it respects their Minister. Some are 
 not satisfied, when at the same time they might 
 find it difficult perhaps to assign a reason for 
 being otherwise. Mr. Smith and his predeces- 
 sor were not the happy shepherds to witness en- 
 tire concord among their flock. On the contra- 
 ry, impatience under their teaching and a desire 
 of change were so visibly manifest, at least with 
 a portion of the congregation, — it may be a small 
 portion, and from different causes in the two cases, 
 — that both, after comparatively short periods, 
 were induced to accept calls to other fields of 
 duty, when it is probable a more kindly feeling 
 and a more Hberal allowance for immaturity of 
 
x-^y^ REV. MR. SMITH. 47 
 
 years and official experience might have secured 
 their services for a long time. That these ser- 
 vices were worthy of no mean consideration, 
 their subsequent career has given abundant and 
 honorable evidence. 
 
 It is said, that one of the later sermons of Mr- 
 Henshaw, before he left, was upon the words, 
 " Behold, how great a matter a little fire kin- 
 dlethl' which may be supposed to indicate in 
 some degree the ruffled state of feeling in the 
 congregation. 
 
 The last Sunday but one that Mr. Smith re- 
 mained was Communion. He had just received 
 Priest's orders, and was therefore now^ for the 
 first time empowered to administer that ordin- 
 ance, which he did on this occasion without as- 
 sistance, in accordance with his own wish. His 
 text, from Luke xxii., 15, was pecuharly touch- 
 ing and significant : — " With desire, I have de- 
 sired to eat this passover with you before I 
 suffer!' 
 
 The subject of his last sermon was drawn from 
 the 27th verse of the first chapter of Philippi- 
 ans, " Only let your conversation he as it hecom- 
 eth the Gospel of Christ ; that whether I come 
 and see you, or else he ahsent, I may hear of your 
 affairs, that ye stand in one spirit, with one mind 
 striving together far the faith of the Gospel!' 
 
48 ST. ANxN'S CHURCH. 
 
 It may readily be conceived, that, upon the point 
 of separating from his charge, the mere utter- 
 ance of these words must have subdued every 
 feehng of unkindness, if any had been enter- 
 tained ; but when the preacher proceeded to 
 give vent to the reflections which, at such a time 
 and under such circumstances were naturally 
 forced upon his mind, it is said the entire audi- 
 ence were greatly affected, and from the memo- 
 ries of some of those present the vivid impres- 
 sions of that hour are not effaced even to this 
 day. 
 
 Mr. Smith's pastoral visits greatly attached 
 some of his parishioners to him, especially those 
 who had been in circumstances of affliction. 
 
 A Sunday School was established in the early 
 part of this Ministry, and was at first kept in the 
 Public School House at the corner of Concord 
 and Adams streets, and afterwards, it is believed, 
 in Stewart's alley, and then in a School Room 
 in Middagh street. At the beginning, it em- 
 braced two or three other denominations, but 
 there not being a perfect agreement among them, 
 a separation soon took place. The scholars 
 were taken altogether from the poorest class, 
 — Sunday Schools not being so well understood 
 or appreciated then as now. Indeed, many peo- 
 ple, when called upon by the teachers for their 
 
REV. DR. SMITH. 49 
 
 children, expressed their surprize, sometimes ra- 
 ther suspiciously and deridingly, at the extra be- 
 nevolence that could urge to the humble work of 
 going forth to solicit scholars, in order to teach 
 them for nothing I The school was continued 
 two or three years under Mr. Smith's successor. 
 During some part of its existence, it was under 
 the immediate superintendence or supervision of 
 the Vestry of the Church. Mr. J. P. F. Clarke 
 was also Superintendent at one period, and after 
 his ordination in December, 1820, Capt. Da- 
 shiel, a young officer of the Navy, whose Chris- 
 tian character is highly spoken of, took the 
 charge, and when he was ordered to sea, one of 
 the teachers (Mr. Smith) had the principal di- 
 rection. Several of the present members of St. 
 Ann's were at different times teachers in this 
 school. 
 
 Bishop Hob art, in his address to the Conven- 
 tion of 1817, reports his confirmation in St. 
 Ann s, on the second Sunday of October, of up- 
 w^ards of sixty persons. The parish register for 
 this year, which was sent to the Convention, Mr. 
 S. not being in attendance, reported 135 com- 
 municants, 27 baptisms, 3 marriages, 14 deaths. 
 Contributions to the Missionary fund, $42 00. 
 Lay Delegates, Wm. Grigg and John Cornell. 
 
 1818 — Mr. Smith was present at the Conven- 
 
50 ST. Ann's church. 
 
 tion this year, as were also from St. Ann's, Wm. 
 Cornwell, Wm. Grigg, Charles Hewlett. Com- 
 municants, died and removed 9, added 11, in all 
 137; baptisms 16 ; marriages 18; funerals 20. 
 Contributions — Missionary fund $40, Episcopal 
 $23 59. 
 
 1819 — Mr. Smith was absent from the Con- 
 vention, being about to resign his charge. J. H. 
 Moore attended as Lay Delegate. Communi- 
 cants reported, added 10, died 1, removed into 
 the parish 2, present number 148, baptisms 21, 
 marriages 19, funerals 20. Contributions — Mis- 
 sionary fund $34 25, Episcopal $39 36. 
 
 Mr. Smith was admitted to the Priesthood by 
 Bishop Hobart on the 16th of October, 1819 ; 
 and on leaving Brooklyn, assumed the Rector- 
 ship of St. Paul's Church, at Augusta, Georgia. 
 He remained there until 1831, when he re- 
 moved to Christ Church, Hartford, Connecticut; 
 thence, in 1833, to the Mission Church of the 
 Evangelists, in New York ; and finally, in 1837, 
 to St. Peter's Church, near the Theological Se- 
 minary. 
 
 Dr. Smith (the degree of D.D. was conferred 
 by Columbia College, of which he was a gradu- 
 ate, during his ministry at Augusta) is a native of 
 New Utrecht, in this county. He has recently 
 been placed somewhat conspicuously in the pub- 
 
REV. MR. ONDERDONK. 51 
 
 lie eye by some of the ecclesiastical proceedings 
 in this diocese. Whatever may be thought of 
 the expediency or strict propriety of his course in 
 the premises, surely no true Churchman or right 
 minded man can fail to honor him for his firmness 
 and disregard of personal consequences, in fol- 
 lov^ing the convictions of duty, even although 
 it should throw him into seeming hostility to his 
 Diocesan and many of his clerical brethren. 
 
 IX. 
 
 FROM NOVEMBER 1819, TO OCTOBER, 1S27. 
 
 Rev. Henry Ustick OnderdOxNK was insti- 
 tuted Rector in November, 1819, and although 
 the circumstances under which he catered upon 
 his new charge were peculiarly trying and un- 
 promising, the prosperity of the parish may be 
 said to have realized all reasonable expectations 
 during his long connection with it, and which 
 was only broken off by his election and conse- 
 cration as Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania, and 
 removal to that Diocese, in October, 1827. 
 The number of communicants during this period 
 ranged from 150 to 185. The opening of St. 
 John's, in 1826, took off some 12 or 15, but 
 
52 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 additions soon brought up that number again. 
 There were usually present at the communion 
 from 100 to 130. 
 
 The church building being considered too 
 unsafe for much farther use, the corner stone of 
 the present edifice was laid on the 31st March, 
 1824, the Vestry consisting of the following gen- 
 tlemen : — 
 
 Wardens — Wm. Cornwell, Joshua Sands. 
 
 Vestrymen — James B. Clarke, Robert Bach, 
 Adam Tredwell, Fanning C. Tucker, John H. 
 Moore, Robert Carter, Losee Van Nostrand, A, 
 H. Van Bokkelin. 
 
 Treasurer — William Cornwell. 
 
 The new edifice being completed was conse- 
 crated on the 30th of July, 1825. It is built on 
 a stone foundation 90 feet long by 68 in width. 
 The height is 34 feet to the top of the eaves, 
 and 80 to the top of the tower. There were 
 originally 150 pews ; some few have been 
 added since. Fifty -four of those on the 
 ground floor and three in the gallery sold for 
 $18,300. 
 
 The following notice of the Consecration is 
 extracted from the ''Long Island Star,'' printed 
 at the time : 
 
 "Bishop Croes, of New Jersey, acted for 
 Bishop Hobart, absent in Europe. The sermon, 
 
REV. MR. ONDERDONK. 53 
 
 one of great ability and interest, was preached 
 by Bishop White of Pennsylvania. Bishop 
 Kemp of Maryland, was also present. Morning 
 prayer by the Rev. Mr. Duffie, of New York. 
 Lessons read by the Rev. R. B. Croes, Rich- 
 mond, Staten Island. Sentence of Consecration 
 by the Rev. Mr. Whitehouse. About twenty 
 other clergymen from different parts of the Union 
 were present, and a number of students of the 
 Theological Seminary. The congregation was 
 large, and deeply impressed with the solemnity. 
 The venerable appearance of the officiating 
 Bishop, and of the aged preacher, was particu- 
 larly striking. 
 
 " On the day following (Sunday, 31st) Bishop 
 Croes administered the rite of confirmation in 
 the new Church, and seldom, if ever, has a more 
 affecting or a more beautiful spectacle been be- 
 held — more than 70 [72] persons, most of them 
 in the morning of life, circhng round the altar, 
 and each receiving a solemn benediction from 
 the venerable Ambassador of Christ. Many of 
 the crowded audience were melted to tears; they 
 were the tears of joy and hope, — of a lively 
 pleasure, too moving to have any other than this 
 silent and eloquent expression." 
 
 What changes have occurred — what voids 
 have been made and filled — in the twenty years 
 which have elapsed ! Of those whe took part 
 in the exercises of that day, most have departed 
 from among the living. The three Bishops — 
 
54 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Kemp, Croes, and White, (the eldest last) — were 
 successively transferred from the field of toil to 
 the harvest of reward. Mr. Duffie was cut off 
 in the midst, as it were, of his labors. And 
 Bishop Hobart, who was represented on this oc- 
 casion by the Bishop of New Jersey, was sud- 
 denly stricken down while in the active discharge 
 of his arduous duties. The Rector of St. Ann's 
 has filled the place of the venerable Bishop of 
 Pennsylvania. Mr. Whitehouse now occupies 
 the pulpit of the lamented Duffie. And Mr. 
 Croes is a Missionary within the Episcopal ju- 
 risdiction of the then Assistant Minister of the 
 aged preacher at this consecration. 
 
 A new Parsonage was built and occupied in 
 1826. It stood where Clarke street now enters 
 Fulton street, and nearly opposite to the bury- 
 ing ground. In 1834, the building was sold to 
 Losee Van Nostrand, Esq., and by him removed. 
 
 The Sunday School, commenced under the 
 ministry of Mr. Smith, was (as before stated) 
 continued for some time under Mr. Onderdonk, 
 It got into a rather languishing state at last, how- 
 ever, from the want of teachers or other cause, 
 and was discontinued. Subsequently, a Female 
 Sunday School, embracing, like the preceding, 
 children of the poor only, was commenced at 
 the suggestion of the Rector, and placed under 
 
REV. MR. ONDERDONK. 55 
 
 the superintendence of Miss Mary Ann Wetiiiore 
 (now Mrs. Alden Spooner), and by her con- 
 tinued for three or more years. She was assist- 
 ed by several of her week-day scholars. The 
 school, on anniversary and other public occa- 
 sions, united with that of St. Paul's Church, 
 New York. 
 
 Mr. Onderdonk attended the Diocesan Con- 
 ventions while in charge of the Church. The 
 Parochial reports and names of the Lay Dele- 
 gates were as follows : 
 
 1820 — JohnH. Moore, Chs. Hewlett, James 
 B. Clarke. Communicants (1 death, 28 added), 
 171, baptisms 30, marriages 9, funerals 15. Con- 
 tributions, Missy $57, Episcopal $30 08. On 
 the 2 2d October, Bishop Hobart admitted to the 
 Priesthood, Rev. Wm. Barlow, of Canandaigua, 
 and afterwards administered the rite of confirm- 
 ation to 50 persons. 
 
 1821 — J. H. Moore, Robert Bach, James B. 
 Clarke. Communicants (20 added, 6 deaths) 
 about 170, baptisms 53, marriages 19, funerals 
 26. Contributions, Missy $52, Episcopal $35. 
 
 1822 — [Report not obtained.] Rev. J. P. F. 
 Clarke was admitted to the order of Priests in 
 St. Ann's by Bishop Hobart, in December ; and 
 there was probably a Confirmation also this year. 
 
 1828— J. H. Moore, J. B. Clarke. Commu- 
 
56 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 nicants (removed 14, died 2, added 29) about 
 170, baptisms 26, marriages 14, funerals 22. 
 Contributions, Missy $56 90, Episcopal $32, 
 Diocesan $15 75. " The Vestry have deter- 
 mined to rebuild the Church on a large scale, 
 and more than $12,000 have been subscribed 
 for this purpose." 
 
 1824 — Delegates same as last year. Commu- 
 nicants (added 12, died 9, removed 6) about 170, 
 baptisms 43, marriages 11, funerals 37. Contri- 
 butions, Missy $56 90, Episcopal $37 15, Dio- 
 cesan $15 75. "The new Church is now en- 
 closed." 
 
 1825 — Communicants (31 added) about 185, 
 baptisms 64, marriages 13, funerals (many not 
 of the parish) 59. The new Church was fin- 
 ished and consecrated this year, and 72 persons 
 confirmed, as mentioned above. 
 
 1826 — [Report not obtained]. 
 
 1827 — Fanning C. Tucker. Communicants 
 (added 23, removed 8, died 4, joined St. Johns 
 15) about 180, baptisms 64, marriages 15, fune- 
 rals (many not of the parish) 15. Contributions, 
 Miss'y $73 34, Episcopal $47 88, Diocesan 
 $15 75. Bishop Hobart, 14th October, con- 
 firmed 46 persons. 
 
 Mr. Onderdonk was born in the city of New 
 York in the year 1789 ; received his classical 
 
REV. DR. ONDERDONK. 57 
 
 education in Columbia College ; was ordained 
 Deacon in December, 1815, and Priest in April, 
 1816 ; employed as Missionary at Canandaigua, 
 from January, 1816, to the spring of 1818 ; then 
 was Rector of the parish until November, 1819, 
 when he accepted the call to St. Ann's. The 
 degrees of A. B., A. M., M. D., and D. D., were 
 conferred by Columbia College— the last, after 
 his election to the Episcopate. The degree of 
 Doctor of Divinity was also accorded by Gene- 
 va College. 
 
 Besides a few sermons and small tracts, and 
 three charges, he published a pamphlet in Can- 
 andaigua, two or three in Brooklyn and Phila- 
 delphia, to help on the then new Hymns and 
 the Selected Psalms, "Episcopacy Tested," &c., 
 with the controversy, an "Essay on Regenera- 
 tion," a small volume of "Family Devotions," 
 some articles in the " Christian Journal," some in 
 the "Church Register," many in the "Protestant 
 Episcopalian," some in the "Banner of the 
 Cross," and occasional ones in other papers. 
 
 4t * -X: •«• -X- 7t -* 
 
 Bishop Onderdonk tendered the resignation 
 of his Episcopal jurisdiction to the Convention 
 of Pennsylvania, in September, 1844, which w?3 
 accepted, and the act was confirmed by the 
 House of Bishops, in October, 1844. 
 
 4 
 
58 ST. ANN'S CHURCH* 
 
 X. 
 
 FROM NOVEMBER, 1927, TO MAY, 1833. 
 
 Rev. Charles Pettit McIlvaine was bom 
 in Burlington, N. J., graduated at Princeton in 
 September, 1816, prepared for the Ministry un- 
 der the direction of the late Rev. Dr. Wharton, 
 of Burlington (except about twenty months of 
 the period, spent at the Princeton Theological 
 Seminary), and was ordained by Bishop White, 
 in July, 1820. Either towards the close of this, 
 or early in the following year, he w^as invested 
 with the charge of Christ Church, Georgetown, 
 D. C, where he soon acquired the reputation of 
 an eloquent and fearless preacher. It is remem- 
 bered, that Mr. M's election to the Chaplaincy 
 of the United States' Senate, at its session in 
 1823 or 1824, caused quite " a sensation ;" and 
 also that w^ar was waged against " the world, 
 the flesh, and the devil," as exhibited in the offi- 
 cial and " high circles" w hich gave him audience 
 at the Capitol, with no less earnestness than 
 with the same enemies manifesting themselves 
 in !nore humble conditions perhaps, in his own 
 parish. 
 
 In 1824, or 1825, Mr. M. was appointed Pro- 
 
fefiV. Mr, MCtLVAlNE. 59 
 
 Jessor of Moral Philosophy and Chaplain in the 
 United States' Military Academy at West Point 
 and in the fall of 1827, was invited to become 
 Rector of St. Ann's. That he here addressed 
 himself to his work with the earnestness, and 
 hdehty, and fearlessness of one who feels the dig^ 
 mty and importance of his station, and is con^ 
 scious that, through Christ strengthening him he 
 may do all things, is shown by the result—a nu^ 
 merous, attentive, and attached congregation 
 and a large and continued accession of Church' 
 members. 
 
 Soon after he came to the parish a Bible Clas« 
 was commenced, which was well attended • and 
 other week-day services, with occasional sea- 
 sons for prayer, were appointed. In May 
 1828, a Sunday School was established, having 
 the Rector's commendation, encouragement and 
 personal co-operation, which was soon in a flour^ 
 ishiug condition, and became of much interest to 
 the members of the Church. 
 
 In the spring of 1830, the pastoral labors of 
 Mr. M. had so much impaired his health, that he 
 was induced, with the consent of the Vestry to 
 visit England for its restoration. It being neces- 
 sary for him to embark before he had an oppor- 
 tunity of taking formal leave of the congregation 
 he sent them a Pastoral Letter, containing such 
 
gQ ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 expressions of good will, and sucli godly counsel 
 as the relation between them, thus temporarily 
 suspended, seemed to require. , „ , ,„ 
 
 The puloit of St. Anns, during the Rectors 
 absenceNv;s supplied, for the first few w^eks by 
 the Rev. Samuel Seabury, the present editor ot 
 the " Churchman," and afterwards by the Rev. 
 
 Chauncerj Colton. , 
 Mr Mcllvaine's voyage out was protracted and 
 boisterous, and he arrived too late for some of the 
 most interesting of the English religious anniver- 
 saries.* Daring his stay abroad, h. v.sited the 
 scene of Legh Richmond's labors in the Isle of 
 Wight an account of which was sent to the bun- 
 da School. Towards the close of October, after 
 an absence of about six months, he returned to 
 his charge,-and, with restored health, and le- 
 freshed spirits, entered anew upon hxs pastoial 
 duties. ^ 
 
 . Rev. Dr. Manor ^ then also in England, thus wrote, under date of 
 
 June 14, 1830 : Mcllvaine did not arrive until after 
 
 •a greatly regret ed that b^^^^^^^^^^ ^.^^^^ eoctety the several 
 
 the anniversaries of the ^J'l f ^ 1^^^, Book and Homily Society, and 
 Missionary f ocieties and the P ayej ^o^ ^ 1^,, exertions on 
 
 that the unpleasant ^^^^f "P^",^ I subsequent meetnigs. 
 
 two occasions, obliged l^^^^^^^f^'j/^^J^'Per of The newspaper reports, a 
 As .xn evidence of tne ^ise^-fble characte^ o L^J^ ^^ ^1,^ ^^ni- 
 
 day or two ago the speech ddiveted by brmhei^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^.^.^^ ^^^ 
 vei-sary of the Md.tary and Nava Bible .oc y ^^^ ^ newspaper, en- 
 correcuon by the ^^^^^^^^^JS^^ ,nany blunders. But, a ter 
 deavoring to correct ^^^.^^^^f^ P^'j '^nt it back, with an intuTiat.on that 
 all, It was so bad, that brother ^^^^^^^ "^^^^ \^ ^^^, be entirely sup- 
 it was beyond correction, ana requeauuo i^ 
 pfrestfed." 
 
REV. MR. MCILVAINE. 61 
 
 The year 1831 was one of awakened reli- 
 gious interest in the parish,^ which was mani- 
 fested in the additions made to the numher of com- 
 municants. This year, also, the Rector received 
 calls from two important parishes, one of which 
 was that of St. Paul's, Boston. Both were de- 
 clined. 
 
 In the winter of 1831-2, Mr. Mcllvaine, as 
 " Professor of the Evidences of Revealed Reli- 
 gion and Sacred Antiquities," in the University 
 of the city of New York, to which he had just pre- 
 
 * In the pai'ochial report of this year, the Rector says : 
 " The congregation of St. Ann's, Brooklyn, under the blessing of 
 God, is favored with a measure of harmony and general prosperity, for 
 which he feels a debt of great thankfulness to the Shepherd and Bishop 
 of souls. It has pleased the Lord, during the last year, to accompany 
 the preaching of the word with signal evidences of his presence and con- 
 verting grace. Many have been added to the number of the professed, 
 and it is believed, faithful followers of Christ. The fruits of the Spirit 
 have been manifested among the people, not only in their increased at- 
 tachment to and attendance upon the ordinances of the Church. Bap- 
 tism has been administered to more than twice as many as during any 
 preceding year of the ministry of the present Rector. The Lord's Sup- 
 per has had a large addition of Communicants. The several societies 
 of the congregation are flourishing. A monthly meeting, in special re- 
 ference to Missionary efforts, and for the dissemination of Missionary 
 intelligence, has been productive of a considerable increase of affection 
 for the Missionary cause. The Sunday School engages the warm in- 
 terest of all classes in the Church, and is highly prosperous. Matiy of 
 the teachers, and some of the elder pupils, have become hopefully pious, 
 during the last year. The Bible Class has been well attended, and pro- 
 ductive of eminent benefit to the minds and hearts of its members. The 
 ordinance of confirmation was administered, in the spring, to 71 mem- 
 bers of the congregation, almost all of whom are now communicants. 
 Besides the Sunday services, there has been a regular lecture on Wed- 
 nesday night ; and durins: Lent, and four weeks of preparation for con- 
 firmation, there was another on Friday night. Before every Commu- 
 nion Sunday, there has been a preparatory lecture in the Church; be- 
 sides a meeting in the Sunday School room, at which, on the Saturday 
 night preceding communion, the Rector has met the communicants for 
 prayer and exhortation." 
 
62 ST. ANN'S CHURCH, 
 
 viously been appointed, delivered at Clinton Hall, 
 before the " Young Men's Society for Moral 
 Improvement," a series of Lectures on the Evi- 
 dences of Christianity, which were about the 
 same time also presented, in substance, to his 
 congregation. They have since been published 
 in two octavo volumes, and received high com- 
 mendation both at home and abroad. 
 
 The summer of 1832 w^ill be remembered as 
 the season of the cholera. Brooklyn did not 
 escape the severe visitation, and during its entire 
 prevalence here, Mr. M. was indefatigable in the 
 performance among his people of all those duties 
 w^iich are expected of a faithful and sympathis- 
 ing Christian Pastor.* 
 
 Mr. M. was elected Bishop of Ohio in Sep- 
 tember, 1832, and consecrated, together with 
 the present Diocesans of Vermont, Kentucky, 
 
 * The following is an extract from the parochial report of 1832 : 
 " Under the divine blessing, the condition of tliis congregation has 
 bsen prosperous since the last report. Besides the usual services of the 
 Lord's day, a lecture in the evening of Wednesday, and a large Bible 
 Class on Tues;iay evening, have been sustained during all the year, ex- 
 cept the three last months, and have been greatly blessed. During the 
 late prevalence of disease, the congregation have met for prayer and 
 hearing the word, at six o'clock in the morning, twice in the week. A 
 spirit of zeal and liberality in behalf of Missions, prevails and increases 
 in the congregation. The Sunday School flourishes, and is full. The 
 utmost harmony reigns among the people. The Rector has abundant 
 reason to be thankful. Although surrounded with pestilence, scarcely 
 any of his flock retired from the town on account of it, and the church 
 was never better filled. Many of the communicants were unwearied and 
 unsparing in their attendance upon the sick and dead. Through divine 
 goodness, only nine of the congregation, and only two communicants, 
 died by the prevailing disease." 
 
REV. MR. MCILVAINE. 63 
 
 and New Jersey, in St. Paul's Church, New 
 York, on the 31st October following. He made 
 a visit to his Diocese not long after, but did not 
 enter permanently upon its duties until June or 
 July, 1833, — remaining Rector of St. Ann's un- 
 til the end of April. His farewell sermon to his 
 people was published, and the following extracts 
 will serve perhaps to revive, should they meet 
 the eye of any of the congregation of that time, 
 some of the feelings inspired by its delivery: 
 
 " ' / am noiv ready to he offered, and the time 
 of my deimrture is at hand. I have fought a 
 good fight' &c., 2 Tim. iv, 6, 7, 8. Do not ap- 
 prehend, my brethren, that I f<m going to be 
 guilty of such an outrage upon all modesty as to 
 apply these Vv^ords to myself, in the entire sense 
 in which they were applicable to the circum- 
 stances and ministry of that eminent servant of 
 Christ from whose pen they were received. My 
 chief reason in their selection is the convenient 
 introduction they afford to such topics as I de- 
 sire to embrace in the present discourse. * ^ 
 Permit me, first, to take a brief survey of the past 
 —And here I must begin by taking the cup of 
 thanksgiving and speaking of the loving kind- 
 ness of the Lord. It is now about five years 
 and six months since we became associated to- 
 gether. How eminently God has been to me, 
 during that time, gracious and merciful, slow to 
 anger and of great kindness, I shall never know 
 till I have found the depth of my own unworthi- 
 
64 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 11 ess and have numbered blessings as many as 
 the drops of the morning dew — as rich as the 
 worth of immortal souls. I might dwell without 
 ceasing upon the goodness of God to me in my 
 individual and private capacity. I might raise 
 an altar to the praise of God for his tender mer- 
 cy to my family, which, while it has had death 
 on every side, and has presented a mark which 
 his shaft could easily have hit, and, during the 
 last summer, inhabited the atmosphere of the 
 pestilence, and was in and out among its victims, 
 has scarcely been visited by a dangerous illness, 
 and has been remarkably shielded from the usual 
 calamities of life. But these are blessings to be 
 remembered rather between parents and chil- 
 dren, than the Pastor and his congregation. I 
 w^ould speak of those w ith w hich you have been 
 more particularly connected. I have a debt of 
 gratitude for the peace and harmony which have 
 characterized our mutual relations. If the sur- 
 face has been sometimes a little disturbed, it was 
 no more than the ripple of an hour, which a right 
 sense of the infirmities which beset the best might 
 easily excuse, and which the main current of 
 brotherly kindness and charity never felt. I be- 
 lieve it has been the happiness of very few of the 
 Ministers of Christ to be blessed with a people 
 more affectionate to them, or more at peace 
 among themselves. My dear friends, you have 
 been at least united in iDeing always abundant in 
 kindness to one who would be glad to think he 
 had made you a more adequate recompense. I 
 do beheve that you have obeyed the injunction 
 
REV. MR. MCILVAINE. ('5 
 
 of the Bible in esteeming him very highly in love 
 for his vs^ork sake. 
 
 " And here I cannot but remember, among my 
 blessings, the kind and harmonious intercourse 
 which has ever subsisted between the other con- 
 gregations and Ministers of this town, on the one 
 part, and this flock and myself on the other. We 
 have not forgotten our respective peculiarities, 
 nor lightly esteemed them ; but we have es- 
 teemed, as unspeakably more important, those 
 great points of agreement which bind together 
 all the disciples of Christ into one family of bre- 
 thren ; which form the basis of their common 
 hopes, the features of their common spirit, and 
 will unite them hereafter and forever in a com- 
 mon and eternal inheritance of glory. The evi- 
 dences of regard which I have received from the 
 inhabitants of this town in general, and the 
 Christian fellowship in which I have been per- 
 mitted to live with the Ministers and members 
 of other Churches, have contributed not a little 
 to weave those bonds of attachment which now 
 render the time of departure so painful. ' Let 
 brotherly love continue.' 
 
 " But the mercy which in point of importance 
 infinitelv transcends all others in a Minister's 
 course, is found in the fact of my unworthy la- 
 bors having been accepted of God through the 
 merits of the Lord Jesus, so as to be made effec- 
 tual to the conversion of many souls to right- 
 eousness, as well as the increase of others in 
 faith and love. # # # * * 
 
 "To what extent God has given me this 
 
 4* 
 
66 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 blessedness, I will not say, lest I should seem to 
 boast and to desire your praise. I cannot think 
 of taking any honor to myself for a work in 
 which the power was so exchisively of God, and 
 my agency was no more than that of the clay 
 upon the eyes of the man that was blind from 
 his birth. * ^ But while the praise 
 
 belongs to the Lord, mine is the boundless debt 
 of thankfuhiess. How many do I see in this as- 
 sembly whose countenances recall that affec- 
 tionate passage of St. Paul : 'What is our hope, 
 or joy, or crown of rejoicing ; are not even ye in 
 the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ ? For ye 
 are our glory and joy. For now we live, if ye 
 stand fast in the Lord.' P^or each one of them 
 I have a debt of love and gratitude that must en- 
 dure forever. With each of them, I have a bond 
 of relationship and of affection that must equally 
 endure forever. In regard to all, I can say, with 
 the venerable St. John, ' I have no greater joy 
 than to hear that my children walk in truth. 
 
 " But in taking a survey of the past, from the 
 circumstances in which I now speak, one of the 
 topics that rise most prominently, is the dis- 
 cliarge of duty — how has this stewardship been 
 sustained — have 1 fought a good fight, and kept, 
 and faithfully contended for, the faith of the 
 Gospel ] So far as the inquiry refers to the se- 
 crets of the heart — the hidden things of thought, 
 and motive, and affection, and spirit, it would 
 not be appropriate to urge it in this public dis- 
 course. My heavenly Father knows that in all 
 my labors, 1 have been a poor miserable sinner. 
 
REV. MR. MCILVAINE. 67 
 
 It is enough to have such a witness. So far from 
 feeling any disposition to glory in any thing I 
 have done, I can do nothing now, in relation to 
 my whole ministry, but bring all its public and 
 social acts — all my discourses, and all the spirit 
 and feeling with which they w^ere delivered, to 
 the fountain opened for sin and uncleanness, to 
 Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, to the 
 blood of sprinkling, to be washed from the de- 
 filement of sin, and accepted through infinite 
 grace. But still, I may say, in some important 
 sense, * / have fought a good fight! I speak of 
 the contest, in which I have been engaged, as 
 good; and the modes and iveapons, that have 
 been employed, as good, without reference either 
 to the spirit or the skill with which the contest 
 has been conducted. ^ % >k 
 
 "■ I have made it an invariable rule in my dis- 
 courses to hold forth Christ, Christ crucified, to 
 dying sinners, as the resurrection and the life. 
 * ^ * My sermon seemed 
 
 never to have finished its course, till by some 
 road or other it had arrived at the cross. My 
 w^eapons always felt as if they had no power, till 
 by some means or other they had been dipped 
 in the blood of the cross. No passage of Scrip- 
 ture has ever stood before me so much like a 
 pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night, to 
 guide me how and what to preach, as that which 
 I have so often repeated, ' Of him are ye in 
 Christ Jesus, ivho of God is inade unto us ids- 
 do?n, arid righteousness, and sanctifi cation, and 
 redemptionl 1 Cor. i. Blessed be God, for all 
 
68 ST. ANN^S CHURCH. 
 
 that I have learned from this one precious text ! 
 It lias been my pole-star. I ascribe whatever 
 precious fruits God has given to my ministry, to 
 my having been led to steer, amidst all varieties 
 of modes and doctrines, by the unfailing light of 
 this one truth, that Christ is made unto us wis- 
 dom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and 
 redemption ; that to lead sinners to Christ is the 
 only way to lead them to wisdom and holiness, 
 as well as to justification and redemption ; and 
 consequently that nothing can be done to make 
 men holy in heart and life, or happy in the hope 
 of peace with God, but in proportion as they are 
 led to set their affections directly upon Christ 
 Faith and works, pardon and purity, are one in 
 Christ Jesus. Out of his precious side came 
 both water and blood. The same spear drew 
 them both. Thus will he that cometh to Jesus 
 derive from his death, by the same act of faith, 
 as well the purification of his heart from the pol- 
 lution of sin, as the justification of his soul from 
 its guilt. Thus has it been my endeavor, by the 
 help of God, constantly to preach." 
 
 " Secondly. The time of departure naturally 
 suggests anticipations of the future. Paul was 
 leaving the world, and looking forward to his 
 crown of glory. I am exchanging this beloved 
 vineyard for a field of labor unspeakably more 
 arduous, and self-denying, and responsible. 
 Henceforth there is laid up for me, in all proba- 
 bility, a great burden of care, with many trials, 
 and I doubt not, many mercies. But of this I 
 need not speak. Wherever the Lord may call 
 
REV. MR. MCILVAINE. 69 
 
 me to do or suffer, I trast I can say without 
 boasting, ' I am ready to be offered.' ^ * 
 
 " Thirdly, the time of a Minister's departure 
 is naturally one of counsel and exhortation. 1 
 would say a word for my dear brother, who is 
 now over you in the Lord, and whose pulpit this, 
 so dear to me, has now become. I am sure that 
 you have only to know him, especially as a la- 
 borer for Christ and a Pastor from house to house, 
 to love him as you have loved me, and whh much 
 more reason. He knows how to preach the cross 
 both in season and out of season. He needs no 
 better commendation. I pray for him, that when- 
 ever he stands in this desk, or is preparing to do 
 so, he may be filled with the Holy Ghost, and 
 may always ' come to you in the fulness of the 
 blessing of the Gospel of peace.' And this also 
 I pray, that when you hear the word at his lips, 
 you will receive it, not as the word of man, but, 
 as it will be, the word of God, which effectually 
 worketh in them that believe ; so will it make 
 you wise unto salvation." 
 
 Then follows, " A word to those with whom" 
 he had "broken bread," with an exhortation, 
 among other things, " to cherish the Sunday 
 School as the nursery of the Church, and to 
 multiply such fountains of fight and heakh as 
 widely as possible ;" " A word to parents," in re- 
 gard to the religious education of their children ; 
 and " A word to the young," especially those 
 whom he " must leave without a saving interest 
 in the righteousness of Christ." 
 
70 ST. Ann's church. 
 
 The congregation had contributed a very con- 
 siderable amount for the benefit of Kenyon Col- 
 lege. Their liberality, the Bishop said, had al- 
 together exceeded his expectations, and would be 
 " long remembered as a precious testimony of 
 their affection for him whose appeal they had so 
 kindly met." 
 
 The visits of Bishop M. to the parish, since 
 his removal to Ohio, have been frequent, and al- 
 ways gratifying to those who were of his flock 
 here, as affording an opportunity either of a re- 
 newal of personal intercourse, or of hearing from 
 the pulpit the voice of one who was so " long time 
 with them" in a most endearing relation. 
 
 Since his entrance upon the discharge of his 
 present trust, the Bishop has been so much be- 
 fore the Church bv his official acts or his writ- 
 ings, that this publication could hardly convey 
 any information respecting him not already in 
 the mind of every one. Besides sermons on va- 
 rious public occasions, and addresses and charges 
 to the conventions of his diocese, to which par- 
 ticular importance has been attached by the dis- 
 cussions that have agitated our communion, he 
 has published a large volume on the " Oxford 
 Theology," a work on "Justification," and an 
 edited edition of " Melville's Sermons." 
 
 He has made, also, a visit to England in pro- 
 motion of the interests of Kenyon College. 
 
REV. MR. MCILVAINE. 
 
 71 
 
 The following table embraces the names of the 
 Delegates to the Convention during this Rector- 
 ship, and a summary of the parochial reports : 
 
 1828- 
 
 -Rev. C. P. Mcllvaine. 
 No Laymen attended. 
 Baptisms (infants 31, 
 
 adult 1) - 
 
 Marriages - - - 
 
 Funerals - - - 
 
 Communicants (added 
 
 32, died 3, removed 
 
 2) - - - 
 
 32 
 10 
 40 
 
 - 195 
 
 1829- 
 
 Collections — Mission- 
 ary Society - ;^89 
 
 -Rev. C. P. Mcllvaine. 
 Matthew Clarkson. 
 Fanning C. Tucker. 
 Jehiel Jaggar. 
 Baptisms - - - 
 Marriages - - - 
 Funerals - - - 
 Communicants (added 
 33, removed 13, died 
 6, erased as not ac- 
 counted for, being re- 
 ceived from late Rec- 
 tor 12) known 
 
 00 
 
 37 
 11 
 31 
 
 194 
 
 Collection— Miss'y, $61 00 
 Episcopal - 44 29 
 Diocesan - 18 75 
 
 S124 04 
 
 1830 — (Rector absent. No pa- 
 rochial report.) 
 Fanning C. Tucker. 
 Joshua Sands. 
 Matthew Clarkson. 
 
 Collection — Missions, Do- 
 mestic - ^248 81 
 Foreign - 132 06 
 
 Liberia - 7 00 
 
 Greek Missions, 
 
 from a Friend 50 00 
 To constitute the 
 Rector patron 
 of Miss, Soc. 
 
 and by him gi- 
 ven to G'k M., 100 00 
 
 S537 87 
 
 1831— Rev. C. P. Mcllvaine. 
 
 Robert Bach. 
 
 John M. GJ amble. 
 
 Baptisms (children 68, 
 adults 16) - - 84 
 
 Marriages •• - - 21 
 
 Communicants (added 
 88, removed and de- 
 ceased 45) - - 254 
 
 Confirmed - - - 71 
 
 Collection— Miss. S461 70 
 Sunday School, 150 00 
 B. and P. B'k Soc. 90 00 
 Colonization Soc. 43 20 
 Self-support'g Sch. 
 
 in Delaware, 100 00 
 To the Poor, 200 00 
 Prot.Ep Ed. Soc. 200 00 
 
 SI, 245 39 
 
 1832~Rev. C. P. Mcllvaine. 
 F. C. Tucker. 
 John M. Gamble. 
 Baptisms (children 26, 
 
 adults 9) - - 35 
 
 Marriages - - - 14 
 Communicants (added 
 
 59, died or rem. 21) 292 
 
 Collection— S. S. S120 20 
 B. and P. B'k Soc. 55 44 
 For the Poor, 400 00 
 Diocesan Fund, 15 00 
 Diocesan Miss. 118 03 
 D. & For. Miss. 854 00 
 Ch. atFayetteville, 82 77 
 Ed. of Candidates 
 
 for Ministry, 200 00 
 
 l,S45 44 
 
7?^ ST. ANN^S CHURCH. 
 
 XI. 
 
 FROM MAY, 1833, TO JANUARY, 1845. 
 
 So far it has been our province to speak of 
 those who have either ceased from their earthly 
 labors, or are engaged elsewhere in the Master's 
 service, and whose ministry here, therefore, may 
 pass under review, or be made the subject of de- 
 corous remark, without any infringement of con- 
 ventional rules. We have now to refer to what 
 is present and before us, and hence our duty is 
 greatly more difficult, because more delicate. 
 Yet, surely, we may be permitted to " speak of 
 the things we have seen," and to avail of that 
 knowledge of others which may legitimately sub- 
 serve the object proposed— that of embodying the 
 leading incidents in the history ,of our Church. 
 
 Rev. Benjamin Clarke Cutler is a native 
 of Jamaica Plains, Roxbury township, Massa- 
 chusetts. It is said that his determination to 
 enter the Ministry cost him a severe struggle ; 
 not, indeed, that he did not sufficiently realize 
 the obligations of his Christian profession, but 
 his thoughts and inclination had long been 
 turned towards another pursuit, in which he was 
 
REV. MR. CUTLER. 73 
 
 then actively engaged. The Episcopal Chiircli 
 in Massachusetts at this time (1817 or 1818) 
 was in a very low state, small in numbers, and 
 exhibiting little comparatively of that life and 
 spirituality by which it has since been char- 
 acterized. It was greatly felt, that active and 
 zealous men were needed in the Ministry, and 
 Mr. Cutler's friends earnestly besought him 
 to commence a course of preparation for this 
 work. Their importunities — according, proba- 
 bly, with his own convictions of duty, after ma- 
 ture reflection and prayer — at length prevailed ; 
 and after passing the usual collegiate period at 
 Brown University, he graduated in September, 
 1822. His theological studies were prosecuted 
 under the direction of the lit. Rev. A. V. Gris- 
 wold. Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, by whom 
 he was admitted to the order both of Deacon 
 and Priest, — to the latter, with the Rev. Theo- 
 dore Edson, in St. Ann's Church, Lowell, at 
 the time of the consecration of that Church, in 
 March, 1825. 
 
 His first charge was that of " Christ Church," 
 Quincy,^ in the vicinity of Boston, where he 
 
 * The Gospel Advocate of this period thus speaks, in reference to the 
 ordination and settlement of Mr. Cutler: 
 
 " This ordination is an event of peculiar interest to the Church at 
 large, and particularly to the society at Uuincy. For many years that 
 parish, having been destitute of a Rector, has been m a low and de- 
 
74 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 remained for seven years, and where his la- 
 bors were much blessed. The communicants 
 increased ten fold, — from eight or nine to nine- 
 ty, — the Church was twice enlarged, and before 
 he left a subscription was opened for the erec- 
 tion of a new edifice, which was accomplished 
 under his successor. Christmas, 1827, complet- 
 ed a century from the formation of the Church, 
 
 pressed state, though they have sometimes been suppHed with lay 
 readers, and have occasionally had tlie services of clergymen. We 
 trust, however, they are no longer to be dependent upon occasional as- 
 sistance, but that the gentleman now admitted to orders will long con- 
 tinue with them, and prove to them, and to those who may hereafter 
 become connected with them, a faithful watchman upon the walls of 
 Zion. May the great Head of the Church vouchsafe his blessing upon 
 them. It may not be amiss to state that the venerable ex-President 
 John Adams [who was present at the ordination] has given to this so- 
 ciety the privilege of taking from his quarry a sufficient quantity of stone 
 to erect a church whenever they are disposed to avail themselves of the 
 gift." 
 
 On opening a subscription, some time afterwards, to build a new 
 church, the question was agitated, in reference to the liberal offer of Mr. 
 Adams, whether the stone should be used in a hewn or rough state* 
 Mr. Cutler's opinion was thus given : 
 
 ***** 
 But Nature's humble vale demands 
 No costly offerings at our hands. 
 
 Her temples, like her hills, should rise 
 In simple grandeur to the skies ; 
 Her altars, like her offerings, be 
 Ample, and true, and pure, and free. 
 
 The stones the patriarch Jacob found, 
 His prayers and tears made holy ground, — 
 Un/icwn, unpotisli^d, in his hands, 
 The altar of the desert stands. 
 
 The new edifice, however, was not commenced until after Mr. C. had 
 left the parish, and then it was preferred to construct it of wood! 
 
REV. MR. CUTLER. 75 
 
 and in a sermon preached by Mr. C. on the oc- 
 casion, much interesting information as to its 
 history is given. Its first Rector was Rev. Ebe- 
 nezer Miller, a graduate of Harvard University, 
 ordained by the Bishop of London, and em- 
 ployed by the " Society for propagating the Gos- 
 pel in foreign parts," which contributed £60 a 
 year for his support. His ministry continued until 
 his death in 1763, a period of thirty-six years. 
 Rev. Edward Winslow, also a graduate of Har- 
 vard, follow^ed. After the commencement of the 
 Revolutionary War, thinking it inexpedient to 
 use the prayers for the Royal family, and being 
 unwilling to perform the service without them, 
 he came to New York, in which city he died 
 some years afterwards, and was buried under the 
 altar of St. George's Church. From 1777 to 
 1784, Mr. Cleverly, who is spoken of as a very 
 worthy man, officiated as lay reader ; and from 
 the latter date until 1822, the Church was only 
 occasionally opened, as the assistance of clergy- 
 men or lay readers could be obtained. It ap- 
 pears that the venerable Society above named 
 continued the ^£60 a year towards the salary of 
 a Minister for this Church for half a century — 
 amounting altogether to more than $13,000 ! 
 The following paragraph of the sermon is in al- 
 lusion to this fact : 
 
76 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 *' The friends of religion have spared no ex- 
 pense in furnishing this Church with the means 
 of grace. Let us he ready to furnish them to 
 others with the same hberahty. Let destitute 
 Churches in this State, and in the Western fo- 
 rests, never plead in vain ; and even should the 
 cry come to our ears from perishing milhons over 
 the waters, let us remember, that the cries of this 
 very Church were heard for fifty years continu- 
 ally across the Atlantic ; and that 3000 miles of 
 ocean afforded no excuse for withholding aid. 
 * Freely ye have received, freely give.' " 
 
 The reader will not fail to perceive that the 
 Minister at Quincy gives here at least an intima- 
 tion of the views in regard to Missions, which 
 have since been more fully developed by the 
 Rector of St. Ann's. 
 
 In 1829, ill health compelled Mr. C.to relin- 
 quish, temporarily, his professional labors, and to 
 travel. It was his intention to return to the pa- 
 rish should his health become re-established, but 
 this hope not being realized, he formally resigned 
 the rectorship in the following year. 
 
 In a voyage to Savannah (accompanied by 
 Mrs. C, and his sister and family), he encoun- 
 tered a violent gale off Cape Hatteras, and for 
 seventy-two hours was in momentary expecta- 
 tion of being engulphed in the deep. The Sun- 
 day after his arrival at Savannah, he preached 
 
REV. MR. CUTLER- 
 
 11 
 
 in '' Christ Church" in that city from the words, 
 " What shall I render unto the Lord for all his 
 henejits /" His heaUh continuing to dechne, he 
 made a journey on horseback to Saco, in Maine, 
 where, in July, 1830, he took charge of " Trini- 
 ty Church," for three months ; but in the fear of a 
 northern winter, a temporary call was accepted to 
 three parishes in Loudoun county, Virginia,— 
 Leesburg, Aldie, and Middleburg. While here, 
 Ml-. C.— still, apparently, in a state of bodily 
 weakness— wrote to his late parishioners at 
 Uuincy an affectionate and affecting farewell 
 letter, in which he referred to the circumstances 
 which prevented his taking personal leave of 
 them the previous summer, and reminded them 
 generally that the warnings and instructions he 
 had given during his ministry among them stood 
 charged against them and against him, as either 
 "faithfully or unfaithfully delivered and received, ' 
 and they were enjoined to consider, whether 
 these instructions and warnings, imperfect as 
 they may have been, would not, if unimproved, 
 leave them without excuse in the day of account. 
 The communicants were addressed as his immor- 
 tal relatives, with whom, already "joined in spi- 
 rit," he anticipated a "joyful meeting" where 
 there would be no more separation. He exhort- 
 ed them to be " earnest," to be " humble," to be 
 
^S ST. ANN^S CMURCil. 
 
 " charitable," in their rehgion — not charitable in 
 any sense that imphes indifference as to what 
 men beheve, but which " makes allowances for 
 men, both as to what they believe and what they 
 do." They were urged to continual reading and 
 meditation upon the Bible ; there they " would 
 see charity described." " Go," said he, " to the 
 Bible to learn your doctrines ; hear your preach- 
 er, but hold fast your Bible." They were ex- 
 horted, also, to " be steadfast and unmovable" as 
 " members of a pure and Gospel Church," and 
 not to be " carried away by divers and strange 
 doctrines." Commending his successor to their 
 kindness and prayers, he bade them '' farewell," 
 pointing them to " the right hand of God" as the 
 goal at which they should strive to meet, when 
 " the trials and wanderings of life" were past. 
 
 An invitation was extended to Mr. C. to be- 
 come Rector of Grace Church, Providence, but 
 continued dehcate health induced him to decline 
 it. A call some time afterwards to the Mission 
 Church of the " Holy Evangelists," in the city 
 of New York, was accepted. 
 
 During the eighteen months of his ministry 
 here, commencing the 8th of December, 1831, 
 he was " instant in season and out of season" in 
 the discharge of his varied duties, and his labors 
 were cheered by the prosperit;^ of the Mission, 
 
REV* MR. CUTLER. t9 
 
 and the satisfaction of all who were in any wise 
 connected with it. About sixty persons were 
 added to the communion, Sunday and Infant 
 Schools, numbering more than four hundred 
 children, were established, and from $1000 to 
 $1200 distributed through his hands to the poor. 
 His intercourse with the members of his charge, 
 which, from the prevalence of the cholera, and 
 from their peculiar state and condition, was ne- 
 cessarily frequent, and consumed his entire time 
 during the week, so commended him to their af- 
 fections, that the separation from them, when it 
 came to be made, showed the exceeding strength 
 of the tie that united them. Perhaps the con- 
 nection of Pastor and people was never dissolved 
 with a greater sacrifice of feeling, produced in 
 this instance rather through the urgency of 
 friends than from a desire of the Missionary to 
 leave his interesting field of labor. 
 
 Mr. Cutler was called to St. Ann's on the 11th 
 of February, 1833, was instituted into the rec- 
 torship on the 21st of April, and opened his 
 ministry here on the first Sunday in May, with 
 this text, " Not by might, nor by power, but by 
 my Spirit, saith the Lord,'^ Zech. iv, 6. 
 
 To a casual observer, looking to the "things 
 that do appear" merely, and without any refer- 
 ence to that sustaining grace upon which the 
 
80 St. ANNS CHURCil. 
 
 true Christian Minister so entirely relies, there 
 might seem in the prospect much to intimidate 
 and discourage. The peculiar acceptableness of 
 Mr. McIlvTcine's pulpit ministrations, the readi- 
 ness of his extemporaneous efforts, the favorable 
 impression which the delivery and publication of 
 his Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity 
 produced, and his recent elevation to the Episco- 
 pate, added to the remembrance of his deportment 
 during the pestilence of the previous summer, 
 gave him a strong hold upon the sympathies and 
 affections of those with whom his pastoral rela- 
 tions were now to cease. Under these circum- 
 stances, — and considering the tendency of even 
 miessential differences, more or less prevaihng in 
 all congregations, to disunite the members on 
 every change of Minister, who is for the time a 
 common bond of union,— it would not have 
 been matter of surprize if his successor had failed 
 to meet, at once, with that appreciation and fa- 
 vor which otherwise could not be withheld. No 
 higher commendation, therefore, of the new in- 
 cumbent need be desired than the fact, that the 
 interest in the instructions from the pulpit re- 
 mained undiminished, that entire union and 
 peace continued to reign in the parish, and that 
 the income of the Church very considerably ad- 
 vanced. The present and late Ministers, drink- 
 
REV. MR. CUTLER. 81 
 
 ing continually at the same exhaustless fountain 
 of Truth, imbibed as a consequence the same 
 spirit, and the gifts of each, though differing in 
 their nature, were by the divine blessing made 
 effective to the same great end. 
 
 St. Ann's had already shown an interest in the 
 Missionary cause, and that interest was not now 
 suffered to decline. The new Rector had, from 
 the beginning of his ministry, as before intimated, 
 been an ardent advocate of Missions, in the 
 largest sense of the term. He had contended 
 that it was the duty of the Church to engage in 
 and carry on the Missionary work, and that she 
 could not at all discharge her obligations, or in- 
 deed be a living Church, without being so en- 
 gaged. " Go preach the Gospel to every crea- 
 ture," was a command which, in its spirit at 
 least, was held to be binding on all " who named 
 the name of Christ." In commencing his min- 
 isterial duties here, therefore, he at once approved 
 of and continued the monthly meeting for prayer 
 and the communication of Missionary intelli- 
 gence, as the most certain method of keeping 
 alive and increasing the Missionary spirit. 
 
 On the recognition by the Church, through 
 the General Convention of 1835, of the prin- 
 ciple above referred to, the establishment of 
 the Board of Missions, and the appointment of 
 
 5 
 
82 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 the Domestic and Foreign Committees to su- 
 perintend and conduct the Missionary opera- 
 tions, the Rector of St. Ann's became a hfe 
 member of the Board, and a member of the Fo- 
 reign Committee. The duties of this Commit- 
 tee, to wliich he has been regularly re-elected 
 since, have engaged much of his attention and 
 time, and on two or three occasions, in the low 
 state of the Missionary treasury, he has under- 
 taken journeys for the purpose of presenting the 
 subject to the Churches, and obtaining the ne- 
 cessary aid to prosecute the work in hand. Du- 
 ring all this period, whatever may have been the 
 immediate embarrassments, or difficulties to be 
 surmounted, or the disheartening aspect of the 
 future, and whoever else may have desponded, 
 he has never at all relaxed his exertions to swell 
 the amount of funds, in which he has ever 
 found a ready response from his people, nor — 
 with a momentary exception, perhaps — faltered 
 in his confidence that the existing arrangements 
 to carry on the Missionary work would eventu- 
 ally be sustained by the Church at large. 
 
 Mr. Joseph Sands, a member of the Vestry, 
 has also represented this Church for several years 
 in the Board of Missions. 
 
 Among the first acts under the new rector- 
 ship was the establishment of the Second Sun- 
 
REV. MR. CUTLER. 83 
 
 day School^ in order to provide instruction for 
 those children of the parish who could not gain 
 admission to the other school on account of its 
 already crowded condition. It was for a con- 
 siderable period embarrassed and restricted in its 
 benefits by the want of a suitable room, but after 
 much exertion on the part of the Minister, and 
 persevering self-denial and patience of the Super- 
 intendent and teachers, this was obviated. The 
 Sunday Schools have ever been regarded by the 
 Rector with affectionate interest and solicitude, 
 and considered as a blessed means of sowing in 
 the young heart that good seed which alone can 
 "bring forth fruit unto eternal life." That this 
 interest and solicitude suffer no diminution, is 
 evinced by his continued visits and instructions, 
 even wdien bodily weakness and the pressure of 
 other duties would readily excuse their omis- 
 sion. 
 
 A Bible Class was commenced in the early 
 part of the present Ministry, and continued for 
 soQie time, when, being found to encroach on 
 other meetings and duties, it was suspended. 
 
 Extra services have been held in each season 
 of Lent, both in the Church and Chapel. In 
 the years 1834 and 1835, an early hour of the 
 morning was set apart for this purpose, when 
 the attendance was very respectable, and the pe- 
 
84 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 riod was marked, as perhaps in some other 
 years, by great interest and solemnity. 
 
 Several lectures on the leading doctrines of 
 the Bible, as interwoven into the liturgy and ser- 
 vices of the Church, were delivered about this 
 period. 
 
 At each recurring season of Confirmation in 
 the Church, a series of preparatory lectures and 
 instructions, particularly adapted to the subject, 
 has been addressed by the Rector to those who 
 were looking to a participation in this rite, and 
 to others feeling sufficiently interested to be 
 present. 
 
 In the fall and winter of 1842-3, a course of 
 (Wednesday evening) lectures was delivered, on 
 The Life and Character of St. Paul, which 
 were heard with much interest and edification. 
 Great importance was attached in some of these 
 lectures to preparation, — study, — acquisitions, — 
 to a right and successful discharge of the minis- 
 terial office ; and the Apostle Paul was in- 
 stanced as an eminent example of a Minister 
 thoroughly furnished for his work. It is gratify- 
 ing to remember, how entirely the views then 
 taken on this subject corresponded with those 
 recently set forth in St. Ann's by a respected 
 brother Presbyter, and three of our venerated 
 Bishops. 
 
REV. MR. CUTLER. 85 
 
 The general scope of these lectures may be 
 gathered from the principal points discussed, and 
 the texts, as here presented : 
 
 I. General character of St. Paul's piety. 2 Cor, xi, 22, 23 — "Are 
 they Hebrews'? so am I. Are they Israelites 1 so am I. Are 
 they the seed of Abraham 1 so am I. Are they Ministers of 
 Christ 1 (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abun- 
 dant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in 
 deaths oft." 
 
 II. Paul the Persecutor. Acts ix, 1. 2 — *•' And Saul, yet breathing 
 out threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the 
 Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him letters 
 unto Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this 
 way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them 
 bound unto Jerusalem." 
 
 III. Paul the Convert. Gal. i, 23—" But they had heard only, That 
 
 he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith 
 which once he destroyed." 
 
 IV. Paul the Convert (continued). 1 Tim. i, 16 — " Howbeit, for 
 
 this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might 
 shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which 
 should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting." 
 V. Paul called to the Ministry. Gal i, 15, 16— "But when it 
 pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and 
 called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might 
 preach him among the heathen ; immediately I conferred not 
 with flesh and blood." 
 VI. Paul the Preacher: 1, Evangelical. 1 Cor. i, 17 — " Christ sent 
 me not to baptise, but to preach the Gospel, not with wisdom 
 of words, lest the cross of Chri&t should be made of none effect.' 
 VII. Paul the Preacher (continued) : 2, Experimental ; 3, Controver- 
 sial; 4, Successful. 2 Cor. iv, 13 — " We having the same 
 spirit of faith, according as it is written, 1 believed, and there- 
 fore have I spoken ; we also believe, and therefore speak." 
 VIII. Paul triumphant in death. 2 Tim. iv, 7 — " I have fought a good 
 fight, I have finished my course/' &c. 
 
 If the space could be spared, an insertion here 
 of the texts which have formed the leading sub- 
 
86 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 jects of discourse for a series of years would 
 doubtless be both acceptable and profitable, as 
 assisting; the recollections of those who heard 
 them, and as giving to others an idea of the ge- 
 neral character of the preaching which it is the 
 privilege of the members of this Church to enjoy. 
 It may suffice to say, however, that " Christ cru- 
 cified" — Christ the only and all-sufficient Sa- 
 viour — has emphatically marked these ministra- 
 tions. Amidst all other topics, this great truth 
 has never been forgotten, or overlaid, or thrust 
 out of its due prominence in the Gospel por- 
 traiture. Nor must another characteristic be 
 passed over, — the entire absence of a controver- 
 sial spirit. While there has never been any 
 concealment of opinions, the points in dispute 
 between different parties in the Church have not 
 been unnecessarily obtruded into the pulpit. 
 Error has been combatted or reproved, less by 
 any direct exposure of its gloss or enormity, than 
 by holding up for reception or approval its op- 
 posite truth. The flock has been uniformly led 
 beside " the still waters," as well as " in green 
 pastures." 
 
 Two hundred and thirty-five persons have 
 been confirmed, in St. Ann's, at five different 
 times, during the present rectorship, and five 
 others of the congregation were confirmed in St. 
 
REV. MR. CUTLER. 87 
 
 John's, in February, 1839 — making in all, two 
 hundred and forty. 
 
 There have also been, up t'' '^ first of Ja- 
 nuary, 184:5, seven hundred nnd Jifteen baptisms, 
 one hundred and sixty-four marriages, and three 
 himdred and sixty burials. 
 
 On the 24th of April, 1836, an ordination was 
 held in St. Ann's, when the Bishop of the Dio- 
 cese admitted the Rev. Wm. W. Niles to the 
 Priesthood, and Mr. Calvin Colton and Mr. Na- 
 thaniel P. Knajyp to the order of Deacons, the 
 Rector of the Church and the Rev. Mr. Diller, 
 then of St. John's, assisting in the services. On 
 Sunday, the 3d of November, 1844, the Bishop 
 of the Diocese admitted to the order of Deacons 
 Mr. Alfred Augustine Watson. The sermon 
 was preached by Bishop Kemper, and the can- 
 didate presented by the Rector, Rev. Mr. Ban- 
 croft, Assistant Minister of the Church, reading 
 the lessons. Mr. Knapp and Mr. Watson had 
 long been members of St. Ann's, and teachers in 
 
 the Sundav School. 
 
 .J 
 
 Mr. J. Carpenter Smith, ordained in New 
 York in July, 1842, and Mr. Charles Bancroft, 
 ordained at Quebec in July, 1843, were also 
 members of St. Ann's at the period of their ordi- 
 nation, and had successively the charge of the 
 Second Sunday School 
 
88 ST. Ann's church. 
 
 Rev. D. V. M, Johnson, formerly of Trinity 
 Church (since changed to St. Luke's) in this 
 city, now of Islip, L. L, Rev. L. Van Bokkelin^ 
 Chaplain and Teacher in St. Paul's College, 
 College Point (Flushing), Rev. Peter S. Chaun- 
 cey, Rector of Christ Church, Rye, N. Y., Rev. 
 Jas. P. F. Clarke, Manhasset, L. I., Rev. James 
 Adams, Missionary at Flemington and vicinity, 
 N. J., and Rev. John I. Tucker, have all, at dif- 
 ferent periods, been connected with the congre- 
 gation and Sunday Schools of St. Ann's. 
 
 When the present Rector assumed the charge 
 of the parish, there was but one other Episcopal 
 Church in Brooklyn. In the month of Septem- 
 ber, 1833, the Church being unable to accom- 
 modate all wdio wished to obtain seats, or all 
 who were at least desirous of enjoying Episcopal 
 services, measures were taken to establish a Mis- 
 sion or Free Church, and the Rev. Thomas 
 Pyne, (who, with the Rector of St. Ann's, was 
 niamly instrumental in commencing and forward- 
 ing this w^ork,) was engaged as the Missionary. 
 Services were the first year held in the Public 
 School Room in Middagh street, — the follow- 
 ing gentlemen being a " Committee of Manage- 
 ment" : Conklin Brush, Wm. Betts, Horatio N. 
 Pettit, David Gardner, Jr., Charles Congdon, N, 
 Luquer, Wm. L. Hudso.i. Mr. Gardner had 
 
REV. MR. CUTLER. 89 
 
 belonged to St. Ann's, but was now connected 
 with St. John's. The rest were members of 
 St. Ann's ; and, with the exception of Mr. Pet- 
 tit, so continued, aUhough rendering all needful 
 service to the new undertaking. Subsequently, a 
 building which had been used as a place of wor- 
 ship by the First Baptist Congregation was ob- 
 tained and fitted up for the newly-formed one, 
 which received the name of St. PauVs. Mr. 
 Hudson and Mr. Pettit were the first Wardens, 
 and afterwards Mr. Brush succeeded Mr. Pettit, 
 and Mr. Wm. R. Dean became one of the Vestry. 
 Mr. Pettit took charge of the Sunday School, and 
 drew his teachers mostly from St. Ann's congre- 
 gation, who yet, in entering this destitute and in- 
 viting field, did not, except in some few cases, 
 think it necessary to dissever, even for a time, 
 their connection with their own Church. These 
 teachers engaged in their labor with much self- 
 denial and perseverance. The females, especi- 
 ally, some of whom had been in Sunday Schools 
 under two former Rectors, went cheerfully to the 
 work of visiting the poorer families, searching 
 out untaught and unclothed children, and then 
 uniting with their benevolent friends of the 
 Church, and others, in providing comfortable 
 garments, that these children might go and be 
 taught the most important of all knowledge. 
 
 5* 
 
90 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Christ Church was founded in May, 1835, 
 principally by members of this parish whose re- 
 sidences were in South Brooklyn, then begin- 
 ning, after the estabhshment of the South Ferry 
 and the opening of the Railroad, rapidly to set- 
 tle. The Rector of St. Ann's held services pre- 
 paratory to commencing this enterprise, as early 
 as the preceding year. In his parochial report 
 to the Convention of 1835, he says — "A new 
 Church has been formed the past year, chiefly 
 out of this congregation, called ' Christ Church,' 
 and measures are now in a train to erect an edi- 
 fice suitable to the present flattering prospects of 
 this growing city." The edifice was not com- 
 menced until 1841, the corner stone being laid 
 by the Bishop of the Diocese on the 26th of 
 June of that year. Dr. Cutler delivered the ad- 
 dress on the occasion, from the words in St. Mat- 
 thew xvi., 18, "Upon this rock will I build my 
 Church." 
 
 In April, 1836, Trinity Church, Clinton Ave- 
 nue, was consecrated, and in 1837, St, Marys, 
 at the Wallabout, was opened for public wor- 
 ship, the Rector of St. Ann's assisting in the ser- 
 vices, and her members consenting to form part 
 of the vestries, and otherwise promoting the un- 
 dertakings. 
 
 Much the same may be said of St. PauVs, 
 
REV. MR. CUTLER. 91 
 
 Flatbusli. It was built mainly by a vestryman 
 of St. Ann's, Mr. Clarkson. 
 
 lEimmanuel Church, also, although established 
 in the first instance by members of Christ Church, 
 subsequently drew upon this parish for some of 
 its most active managers and substantial sup- 
 porters. 
 
 Thus it is seen, that the same liberal, expansive 
 (and it may be added. Gospel) spirit which im- 
 pels St. Ann's to aid in sending forth the " light 
 and truth" of Revelation to the benighted nations 
 abroad, as well as to her religiously destitute 
 brethren and children in the West and South, 
 urges her also to lend a cheerful hand in multi- 
 plying at home the peculiar blessings of which 
 she is herself possessed. 
 
 In 1839, the third Rectory, a substantial brick 
 house, was built in the Church yard, fronting 
 Sands street. It was first occupied in the spring 
 of 1840. 
 
 In September, 1841, a Parish Library was 
 opened to the free use of the congregation. The 
 books had been in part collected from different 
 members by the Rector, and others purchased. 
 The printed catalogue embraces nearly three 
 hundred volumes, and considerable additions 
 
92 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 have been made since. Very many persons 
 have availed themselves of the benefits, and ap- 
 preciate the value, of this Library. 
 
 The arrangements necessary to form an Or- 
 phan Asylum were made in St. Ann's Church, 
 in the year 1833, and one of the female members, 
 besides having been First Directress from the 
 commencement, has labored in its support with 
 an ardor and perseverance that are worthy of all 
 praise. Others, also, have manifested their in- 
 terest in this charity, either by their liberality, by 
 acting as officers, or by some other service in its 
 behalf. A former Sunday School Teacher at 
 St. Ann's has been for some years Superinten- 
 dent of the Asylum Sunday School. 
 
 An Education Society was established many 
 years ago, perhaps during Mr. Henshaw's minis- 
 try, which was continued until 1836 or 1837, 
 when it appears to have dissolved. By its means 
 for a long time, a very considerable amount of 
 funds, assisted by fairs occasionally held, was an- 
 nually raised, of which more than two thousand 
 dollars were paid over to the Theological Sem- 
 inary of Virginia. 
 
 A congregational Dorcas Society was long in 
 existence, but has recently been suspended, — 
 temporarily, it is hoped, for although there is a 
 similar society belonging more particularly to 
 
REV. MR. CUTLER. 93 
 
 one of the Sunday Schools, a general one is still 
 greatly needed. 
 
 Some twenty-five or thirty years since, several 
 ladies, among whom the venerable Mrs. Sands 
 was the active spirit, associated under the name 
 of the Louisian Society, for the purpose of edu- 
 cating poor children, and fit them for usefulness. 
 The establishment combined the several objects 
 of the Day, Sunday, and Infant Schools, and a 
 House of Industry. A teacher was provided, 
 and the ladies superintended in turn. After 
 having been continued for a long time, the school 
 was finally given up, under the rectorship of 
 Mr. Mcllvaine, — it is said, with exceeding re- 
 luctance ; and it is certainly much to be regret- 
 ted. Would tliRt the mantle of its chief mana- 
 ger might fall on some of the younger females 
 of the congregation, and that similar institutions 
 might rise up to bless the poor around us. 
 
 A meeting for prayers, and recollection of the 
 instructions of the Sabbath, has for years been 
 held on Monday evening of each week, at the 
 house of Mrs. Sands, which is said to be attend- 
 ed with much interest. 
 
 In the tall of 1841, a Fair was held by the 
 ladies of St. Ann's in aid of Jubilee College. 
 The amount raised was $400, which was grate- 
 fully acknowledged by Bishop Chase. 
 
94 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Besides what would be placed under the head 
 of collections, St. Ann's has given various sums 
 towards the erection and repair of Churches; 
 and a set of Communion Plate was presented by 
 members of this congregation to the African 
 Mission. 
 
 April, 1843, completed ten years of the pre- 
 sent ministry. The Rector had in this time 
 preached one thousand sermons, and in other 
 ways presented to his flock the great subject of 
 his embassy. In addition to this, they had en- 
 joyed during this period the privilege — which is 
 granted to but few other churches — of hearing 
 not only many of the distinguished Presbyters, 
 but most of the Bishops of our communion, who 
 have generally in their sermons brought out and 
 given prominence to those chief doctrines of 
 Scripture which had before been topics of dis- 
 course by our own Minister. Surely, of all 
 others, this people cannot plead ignorance of 
 " that Light which is come into the world." 
 
 The out-door labors of the parish, added to 
 those of preparing for the pulpit, had become so 
 increased and onerous, that the Rector well 
 nigh sank under them, and was obliged to seek 
 a respite. His physician and many friends 
 suggested and urged a voyage to Europe, which 
 
REV. DR. CUTLER. 95 
 
 was finally determined on. He preached a part- 
 ing sermon on the 7th of May, from the words, 
 " Seek ye first the kingdom of Godl' &c., and 
 expected to have embarked in the course of that 
 week, but was detained until Monday of the 
 next week, when, accompanied by Mrs. Cutler, 
 and amidst the regrets and blessings of all, he 
 sailed in the packet ship " Stephen Whitney," 
 for Liverpool — being attended down the bay by 
 many of the congregation, and others. 
 
 That the parish was now in a very prosper- 
 ous state may be inferred from a comparison of 
 the income of the Church at three several pe- 
 riods : 
 
 From 1828 to 1833, . . % 8,903 61 
 From 1833 to 1838, . . 11,833 73 
 From 1838 to 1843, . . 18,769 74 
 
 The degree of D. D. was conferred upon Mr. 
 Cutler in the year 1835, by Columbia College, 
 New York. 
 
 Many invitations from eligible parishes in dif- 
 ferent parts of the country have been extended 
 to Dr. C, but the hope is indulged that as he has 
 not been, so he will not be, induced to surrender 
 his present station in the Church. 
 
96 ST. ANiN'S CHURCH. 
 
 i^* The following four pages are extra, and 
 may be read or not. Tliev are, however, com- 
 mended to the serious consideration of all who 
 do not desire to see their Ministers prematurely 
 destroyed by being overtasked. Others can pass 
 them over. 
 
 The extracts copied below, in relation to the 
 labors of clergymen, although of considerably ex- 
 tended application, are of more particular inter- 
 est to some of the parishes in Brooklyn. They 
 are from the pen of a gentleman, who, being a 
 physician, an author, and a Sunday School 
 teacher, may be supposed to know by experi- 
 ence something of the amount of mental and 
 physical labor the human system is able to bear. 
 A reason for introducing the subject here is, that 
 though the evil has long existed, no reform is 
 likely to take place, unless first moved by laymen, 
 — for the victims will rather suffer on, or seek 
 relief by removal, than subject themselves to the 
 odium of innovating upon a custom which is 
 yearly depriving the Church of some of its most 
 valuable Ministers : 
 
 " It is certainly enough for any one to write 
 two sermons in a single week habitually, pro- 
 vided they are studied as well as written. This 
 
LABORS OF CLERGYMEN. 97 
 
 kind of labor, mental labor I mean, is exceed- 
 ingly exhausting, although they who have never 
 labored in this w ay seem to have no idea of it ; 
 and not a few who labor hard in this way, and 
 suffer as a consequence, do not seem to know 
 what ails them. < Multitudes of Ministers and 
 teachers, and other literary men, destroy them- 
 selves every year, by this overtaxing the brain 
 and nervous system ; when a little less study, 
 and a little more exercise, would have been the 
 means not only of saving their health, but of 
 prolonging their lives. ^ ^ ^ ^ 
 
 " What are the demands which, in point of 
 fact, we make of them I First, we require two 
 sermons of them. Secondly, we require them 
 to give us extra sermons, lectures, &c. Thirdly, 
 we require them to be ready for funeral services, 
 marriages, &c., and to visit the sick. Fourthly, 
 they are expected to visit occasionally all the 
 families of the parish whether sick or well. Fifth- 
 ly, Ministers are expected not only to visit large- 
 ly the sick and the well, and the schools into the 
 bargain, but they must be at home always^ to re- 
 ceive the calls of all who wish to see them, as 
 well as those wdio only wish to hinder them, and 
 these last in particular. For none of those who 
 call to see a Minister will so soon complain that 
 he is absent unnecessarily, consulting his own 
 ease or pleasure, as those who, though they have 
 least to say, call oftenest, and stay longest. 
 Sixthly, they must be ready for every extra work 
 of charity that comes along, and above all, to 
 take an active part in all the crusades which are 
 
98 ST. ann's church. 
 
 to be made against the various forms of vice 
 which exist among us, and usually to take the 
 lead in them. They have no akernative but to 
 enUst in such war, and to enhst too as officers, 
 and not as mere private soldiers. Finally, they 
 must not only do this, — the work of nearly half 
 a dozen strong-minded, able-bodied men, — but 
 they must rule well their own household," &c. 
 
 " Of the Minister, we are apt to make demands 
 which not only border upon impossibility, but 
 which are actually impossible, even for an angel. 
 * * * * ^ The truth is, 
 
 the pulpit duties of modern Ministers are alto- 
 gether too great and arduous. If so much is to 
 be made of sermonizing, as many suppose ; if a 
 Minister is to be required to write, every w^eek, 
 two new sermons, — not merely scrawl them, but 
 write them from the recesses of his own brain, 
 — then there ought to be connected with him in 
 the parish, a Pastor to perform the rest of the 
 duties. No man, I say once more, who has a 
 family to provide for, both as respects body and 
 soul, and a body and soul of his own to be duly 
 managed also, can do more for a parish than to 
 study and write two sermons in a week, if they 
 are studied and written as they ought to be. He 
 must eventually suffer in the performance of the 
 task ; and most men will sink under the burden 
 in a few years." — [Dr. Alcott.'] 
 
 A former Rector of St. Ann's, who had charge 
 of the parish when its duties, aside from those 
 
LABORS OF CLERGYMEN. 99 
 
 of the pulpit, were scarcely half what they are 
 at present, in a letter to the writer says, that his 
 time here was wholly " occupied in the heavy 
 parochial labors that were required, and in pre- 
 paration for the pulpit." Another Rector, al- 
 though coming as it were fresh to the parish, 
 had not performed its duties three years, before 
 ill health compelled him to suspend them for six 
 months, and to make a voyage to Europe. It is 
 not improbable, that three years more of iinin- 
 teiTupted service would have made it necessary 
 for him to resort to the same expedient to renew 
 his again enfeebled energies. 
 
 It may not always be remembered, that the 
 Rectors of city churches are often called upon 
 to visit the sick, or perform the funeral service, 
 among those within their parishes who do not 
 belong to their congregations, — transient per- 
 sons, or those who never think of a clergyman, 
 or of the " God who made them," until some ca- 
 lamity overtakes them. The amount of labor 
 arising from such cases, is sometimes very con- 
 siderable ; and it is work — missionary work — 
 which no conscientious Minister will decline, or 
 seek to avoid ; nor should his people desire him 
 to do so. But, then, ought they not to lighten his 
 burden in some other way ? 
 
100 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 The general concerns of the parish, during 
 the absence of the Rector, had been entrusted 
 to Mr. Charles Bancroft. On the 25th of 
 July, Mr. B. was ordained to the ministry, at 
 Quebec, by the Bishop of that diocese, and im- 
 mediately appointed to the " Chapelry of St. 
 Paul," in that city, — the appointment to com- 
 mence on the first of the following October. Re- 
 turning directly to Brooklyn, he was invested 
 with the charge of the parish for the time be- 
 ing, and chiefly supplied the pulpit till the close 
 of September. Different clergymen were pro- 
 vided for the previous and following periods. In 
 June, Bishop McUvaine brought to the notice of 
 the congregation the debt and danger of loss to 
 the Church, of the institutions at Gambier. In 
 July, the Rev. Dr. Boone presented the claims 
 of the China Mission ; and in September, Rev. 
 J. W. Miles those of the projected Mission to 
 Syria. For the two latter objects, no collections 
 were taken up. Subscriptions to the amount of 
 about $2,000 were obtained for the relief of 
 Kenyon College, — being one-fifteenth part of 
 the whole sum proposed to be raised. At the 
 close of a sermon in the Church on the 3d of 
 December following, from the words " My grace 
 is sufficient for thee," the Bishop said he was 
 gratified in being able to state, that the mission 
 
REV. DR. CUTLER. 101 
 
 upon which he entered some months previously, 
 and which he commenced in St. Ann's, had just 
 terminated successfully, and that the debt against 
 the Church institutions in Ohio would " be 
 wiped off" before he left the city. " I com- 
 menced my subscriptions in this Church," said 
 he, " and here I end my labors by this public ac- 
 knowledgment." 
 
 Mr. Bancroft officiated for the last time on the 
 24th of September, and was presented by the 
 vestry with a vote of thanks, as a testimony of 
 their satisfaction with his services. 
 
 The Rector's voyage out was of twenty-one 
 days' duration, and a portion of it rough and 
 tempestuous, occasioning much sickness and ex- 
 citement, and did not therefore produce an im- 
 mediate good effect upon his heahh. A partial 
 benefit, however, was experienced after a season 
 of retirement and rest. In London he met se- 
 veral of his parishioners ; and hence he ad- 
 dressed a letter to his congregation at home. 
 Oxford and Cambridge w^ere among the various 
 places visited in England, and a short trip was 
 made to the continent. After about four months 
 spent in the enjoyment of " Christian society," 
 the homeward passage was taken in the packet 
 ship " Sheffield," Capt. Popham, on the 5th of 
 October. The Rector had at "this time re- 
 
102 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 gained his strength up to that point when travel- 
 ing is most profitable," — in other words, when he 
 might hope to be benefitted by a land jom*ney. 
 
 The passengers had hardly left Liverpool be- 
 fore they " were overtaken by a violent gale of 
 wind in the Irish Channel — between Holyhead 
 and Tuscar light. This continued for three 
 days, and at the expiration of that time, it is be- 
 lieved, most of the cabin passengers endured the 
 distress of mind, sea-sickness, and fatigue of a 
 wdiole voyage. From that time until their arri- 
 val, they had a succession of hard westerly gales, 
 and also one most severe tempest from the 
 southeast." 
 
 The passengers, however, w ere highly favored 
 in each other's society, " having (in the words of 
 Dr. C, whose account is here quoted), all that in- 
 telligence, piety, urbanity, and harmony of feeling 
 and action could afford." On Saturday, the lltli 
 of November, at eight o'clock, a pilot was taken 
 on board, the ship being near the south side of 
 Long Island, in 20 fathoms water. All seemed to 
 be going on very w^ell until about one o'clock in 
 the afternoon, when the ship struck on llomer 
 Shoal, lightly at first, but soon with such force 
 as to excite the utmost consternation and alarm. 
 
 " In a few moments, all the cabin passengers 
 came in a body into the ladies' cabin, and one 
 of them called for prayer to Almighty God. The 
 
REV. DR. CUTLER. 103 
 
 ship was then strildng with great violence and 
 threatening ahnost instant destruction. Kneehng 
 round the table, we poured out our hearts to 
 God. When this prayer was offered, another 
 was put up, and another. By this time the minds 
 of all seemed more calm. We sat down, and 
 some endeavored to encourage others with the 
 hope of being rescued from the wreck. But most 
 of the passengers were silent — revolving over the 
 events which in the short space of an hour had 
 taken place. Prayer was soon again called for 
 by some of the passengers, and it was offered, 
 and with a fervency, and with responses from 
 many present, which it would be well to con- 
 tinue at all times. An hour had now elapsed. 
 It was then proposed by our commander that we 
 should take some refreshment : this was at first 
 declined — many exclaiming that they had no 
 appetite for food. Some joints of meat were 
 placed upon the table, but none I think partook 
 of them, the agitation of the ship requiring all 
 our attention in order to keep our seats. We 
 then arranged ourselves, the ladies on the sofas, 
 and the gentlemen on the floor, and remained 
 like persons awaiting a summons to ascend the 
 scaffold. It should be remarked, that after the 
 first mental shock was past, a great degree of 
 calmness was acquired by all in the cabin, and 
 soon by all in the ship. This may be attributed 
 to two causes. Great pains had been taken from 
 the commencement of the voyage to furnish eve- 
 ry person that was destitute with the Bible and 
 Prayer Book, and every copy of a grant from the 
 
104 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 British and Foreign Bible Society in London, 
 brought on board by the writer, was given away. 
 Many tracts were also given and distributed 
 throughout the ship. Divine service had been 
 performed regularly in the cabin and in the steer- 
 age, the Captain himself taking the prayers as 
 the priest in his own house. 
 
 " Again. There was among the passengers 
 every form of religious profession — Churchmen, 
 Presbyterians, Papists, Baptists, and Methodists. 
 But, from first to last, not a note of controversy 
 had been heard. And I verily believe that this 
 absence of contentions, this " unity, peace and 
 concord," had great weight with careless men, in 
 inducing a belief iji the truth of that religion, 
 which, under some form or other, all of us main- 
 tained. What a delightful prayer was that of 
 our Saviour, " that all may be one, that the world 
 may believe that thou hast sent me." To these 
 two causes I am inchned to attribute the com- 
 parative tranquility which, for ten hours out of 
 twelve, was visible. 
 
 " But O, who can reveal what was working 
 under this visible composure I Who can describe 
 the process of thought w^iich was resorted to in 
 order to accommodate the soul to existing cir- 
 cumstances. Much was perceptible in the ex- 
 pression of the countenance, and in the tones of 
 the voice ; and the results of intellectual habits 
 long formed were not illegible. From what 
 sprung that ability to seize upon the consolations 
 of religion, and to impart them to others, even 
 while the very flesh was trembling on the bones ? 
 
REV. MR. CUTLER. 105 
 
 Whence sprung the female fortitude which 
 seemed hardly to desire the sympathy which was 
 uttered or evinced ? The previous life, the 
 avowed principles and plain practice of every 
 person now brought forth its proper harvest. 
 How true is it, " that whatsoever a man soweth 
 that shall he also reap.' But whatever were 
 their thoughts, I shall retain a high respect for 
 all my fellow-passengers, on account of their 
 self-possession throughout the whole of this aw- 
 ful night. I saw a gentleman return to the la- 
 dies' cabin, after all were driven out of it by 
 the water, to recover some article of clothing for 
 the servant of another passenger, who in the 
 hurry had nothing on her head. And at the 
 last moment of agony, when the Captain came 
 to take in his arms a lady to carry her on the 
 deck, I saw her insist upon his taking another 
 lady, who, although unattended by any relative, 
 was entitled to every respect. Indeed, it required 
 sufferings like these to touch the deepest springs 
 in the bosom of refined and cultivated minds. 
 
 " During the night, our excellent commander 
 urged us to take refreshment. Bread and wine 
 and water were handed around twice or three 
 times at intervals, and O how solemn, and to 
 some of us how sacramental, that refreshment ! 
 
 " But previous to our removal to the upper 
 deck, in order to prepare us all, and especially the 
 ladies, for the exposure, the Captain came down, 
 and recommended that tea and bread should be 
 prepared for us, and then, said he, turning to me, 
 ' and then, Sir, let us have prayers.' After par- 
 
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106 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 taking of this ' last Supper,' as we supposed, the 
 46th, the 130th, and the 107th Psahns, and the 
 27th chapter of the Acts, were read ; a hjmn 
 was sung and prayers were offered. It will not 
 appear strange that after this, even cheerfulness 
 was in some measure acquired. It w^as now 
 near midnight ; previous to this, however, while 
 the moments were slowly departing with a leaden 
 step, one of the clergymen present selected from 
 the Bible a text, and delivered a short but appro- 
 priate discourse, mingling the most pointed and 
 personal application to his hearers, and especial- 
 ly to all who had not as yet publicly decided to 
 be on the Lord's side. The text was, ' As Moses 
 lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, (surely we 
 were in a waste howling ivilderness then,) even 
 so must the Son of man be lifted up, that who- 
 soever believeth in Him, should not perish, but 
 have everlasting life.' John iii. 
 
 " It was now drawing towards midnight, and 
 we had all been driven from below to the upper 
 deck. The ship was not built in modern style, 
 and the round-house was little more than a cano- 
 py over the companion way. The steerage pas- 
 sengers w4io had taken refuge there, were re- 
 moved, and those from the cabin took their 
 places. Every inch of room w^hich remained, 
 was granted to the women from the steerage — 
 baggage from below being excluded, that as many 
 of the people as possible might be sheltered ; and 
 here we sat in a dense mass looking at each other, 
 and at death which was staring us in the face. 
 Our captain was standing half way down the 
 
REV. DR. CUTLER. 107 
 
 companion ladder that he might converse with 
 one and another, whose sorrows found vent in 
 words. Every moment the water was rising be- 
 low, and the ship was gradually and bodily sink- 
 ing, and settling in the sea and in the sand." 
 
 Reference is then made to the providences 
 which led to the rescue of the passengers, — the 
 efforts of the steamer to find the wreck, and its 
 final discovery by a blue light, " displayed, in the 
 hurry or hopelessness of the attempt, on the lee 
 quarter, which looked sea-ward, a direction the 
 the very opposite from whence relief was to be 
 expected ; and yet, in the very quarter where, 
 by circumstances, it w as to be found." 
 
 " As it respects ourselves, the last hour was the 
 bitterest, the most hopeless, and the worst. How 
 true is it, that ' man's extremity is God's oppor- 
 tunity.' The first hour on the wreck was one 
 of excitement, agitation, lamentation, and visible 
 and audible suffering. The last hour was one 
 of silent and heart-rending, but smothered agony. 
 All had made up their minds — all had acquired 
 fortitude ; perhaps from different sources — all 
 were subdued, affectionate, and respectful to each 
 other. Social prayer, which had been resorted 
 to again and again below deck, seemed now to 
 be a dispensation which had past aw ay and given 
 place to that individual application to the Saviour 
 of sinners which immediately precedes death. 
 Every soul seemed wrapped in its own medita- 
 tions. -Xr * # * 
 
108 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 " Our watches now told us that midnight was 
 past, and the tide, which the captain said would 
 go down and leave the ship dry in the cabin, 
 continued to rise within, while by the almanac 
 it had been falling for two hours or more outside 
 the ship. Alas, some of us knew that it was a 
 tide, which, so far as we were concerned, would 
 never go down. One gentleman observing his 
 watch to have run down, took his key to wind 
 it up, but suddenly stopped, and said, ' I shall 
 have no further use for time' and replaced it in 
 his pocket in its silent and death-like sleep. 
 
 " It was about this time that a steerage pas- 
 senger on the deck gave notice that an object in 
 the distance appeared to be approaching. There 
 was a rush to that side of the ship, but nothing 
 could be seen. The officers of the ship looked, 
 but gave no encouragement. Shortly this per- 
 son again made the same report ; all eyes were 
 employed, but in vain. A third exclamation was 
 uttered, and now the captain placed himself 
 where the best sight could be obtained, and after 
 looking through his glass, expressed ho^e, and 
 then confidence, Afeiv sjmrks tvere emitted from 
 the dark mass, and a shout pealed f'ojn the deck, 
 ' a steamer has arrived !' 
 
 " Who can tell what was felt at this moment 1 
 God grant that none of the readers of this may 
 ever know the transition which was then expe- 
 rienced. 
 
 " Parents and children embraced : husbands 
 and wives, nay strangers were seen clasping each 
 other, and expressing and uttering their awful joy. 
 
REV. MR. CUTLER. 109 
 
 A young gentleman burst into the middle of the 
 crowd, and said to the writer, ' Now let us praise 
 God! He rose and repeated the doxology, 
 * Praise God from whom all blessings flow ,' and 
 there arose a hymn of praise from one hundred 
 voices on that dark deck, accompanied by the 
 deep base of the surrounding billows, — which 
 bore upwards the gushing emotions of our hearts, 
 and rendered to Him whom it was due, the whole 
 praise of our deliverance. 
 
 " In six hours afterwards we were at home." 
 
 The length of time which elapsed after the 
 sailing of the Sheffield, without the appearance 
 of the expected passengers, naturally created 
 much uneasiness and apprehension as to their 
 safety. The news, however, of the disaster to 
 their ship, and the peril in which their lives had 
 been placed, was received simultaneously with 
 their arrival at the Rectory early in the morning 
 of the 12th of November. They immediately 
 retired to rest, which, after " a day and a night" 
 thus passed " in the deep," may well be supposed 
 to be both welcome and needful. The morning 
 instruction in Church w as drawn from the words 
 of the Psalmist, as quoted by St. Peter, " The 
 eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his 
 ears are open unto their cry." In concluding 
 his sermon, the preacher made a happy and 
 touching allusion to the events of the preceding 
 
110 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 night, considering the rescue and restoration 
 of him in whom, as their friend and spiritual 
 guide, this people felt so deep an interest, as af- 
 fording an illustration of the truth of the text to 
 which no one could be insensible. " The ejes 
 of the Lord," said he, ivere indeed over his ser- 
 vants for good, " and his ears open unto their 
 cry." To many of the congregation this unex- 
 pected reference to their Pastor conveyed the 
 first intelligence of his return. 
 
 In the afternoon, the flock had the happiness 
 of seeing their restored Shepherd, and of hear- 
 ing his voice in the Evening Service, — he hav- 
 ing first visited the schools as hereafter noticed. 
 " A Hymn of Gratitude," written for the occa- 
 sion of his return, by a teacher in the Sunday 
 School, was sung by the choir on his entrance. 
 The scene of congratulation and welcome exlii- 
 bited after service, is thus described by a specta- 
 tor, in a letter to a friend : 
 
 " The eagerness with w^hich the opportunity 
 was embraced, at the chancel, to welcome and 
 congratulate the Pastor, showed that ' gladness' 
 had indeed visited the fold. Here, was to be 
 seen, in mourner's attire, a group of persons to 
 whom he had evidently administered consolation 
 in affliction, struggling to subdue their agitated 
 feelings, that they might give him a calmer greet- 
 ing. There, many pressed anxiously forward, 
 
REV. DIl. CUTLER. Ill 
 
 to be among the first to take his extended hand, 
 —some silently, whose feelings were too deep 
 for utterance, and others in a very tumult of joy. 
 The gathering soon became so dense as to 
 threaten to exclude the ' httle ones' who had 
 waited impatiently an opportunity to ' pluck his 
 gown to share his smile ;' and some, who might 
 previously have received particular tokens of his 
 affection, were elevated in their parents' arms, 
 and reaching forward to catch a look of recogni- 
 tion. The meeting with her Pastor of a vene- 
 rable member of the Church, ' a mother in Is- 
 rael," was most impressive, and called to mind 
 the beautiful account of the restoration of the 
 widow's son, by our Saviour, when ' he delivered 
 him to his mother.' When he approached her, 
 she was kneeling at the altar, apparently ab- 
 sorbed by her emotions, or offering silently her 
 thanksgiving to Him whose promise is, to ' give 
 his angels charge' and ' to keep in all their ways' 
 those who put their trust in Him, and who al- 
 most seemed now to say, ' Woman, behold thy 
 son !' " "^ ■^'' "^ ^ * * 
 
 " The efficacy of prayer must have been im- 
 pressed upon the minds of all present. Near- 
 ly all, even the children, had promised to remem- 
 ber their Pastor in their daily petitions at the 
 Throne of Grace, and here perhaps many of 
 them received their first practical assurance of 
 the power, and goodness, and faithfulness of God, 
 — their first impression, not to be effaced, of 
 daily dependence on Him, and their encourage- 
 
112 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 ment to persevere in a duty so happy in its re- 
 sults." ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 
 
 The lesson taught by this signal deliverance 
 was not suffered to pass unimproved. A sermon 
 particularly referring to the event was preached 
 from the words, " I waited patiently for the 
 Lord, and he inclined unto me, and heard my 
 cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible 
 pit, out of the miry clay, and set my foot upon a 
 rock, and established my goings. And he hath 
 put a new song into my mouth, even praise unto 
 our God ; many shall see it and fear, and shall 
 trust in the Lord." Psalm xl, 1, 2, 3. It was 
 suggested that the design of this and similar pro- 
 vidences was, to put those who professed to place 
 their dependence upon God to a trial of their 
 faith, and to show those who had not hitherto 
 regarded Him, the hollowness of all things in 
 which they had trusted, and to bring them to a 
 decision whether or not they would ?ioiv have 
 him to be their Refuge and Saviour. 
 
 Other occasions were taken to inculcate, in 
 reference to this deliverance, an entire reliance 
 upon the promises held out to the believer, and 
 otherwise to improve the subject. 
 
 The Rector, after a little rest, re-engaged in 
 his parochial duties, for a considerable time with 
 his usual activity ; but his health, far from having 
 
REV. DR. CUTLER. 113 
 
 been re-established by his visit to Europe, be- 
 came more enfeebled as spring approached, and 
 an arrangement was made by wdiich the services 
 of the Rev. Mr. Bancroft were secured, for one 
 year, as Assistant Minister of the parish. 
 
 Mr. B. is a native of Montreal, Lower Cana- 
 da. His parents were born in the United 
 States. He pursued his classical studies in 
 Columbia College, and those for the ministry 
 under the direction of Dr. Cutler and Dr. Stone, 
 and at St. Paul's College, Flushing, in which in- 
 stitution he was for two years a Tutor. He 
 received Deacon's orders, as before stated, in 
 July, 1843, and entered upon his charge at due- 
 bee in October. In May 1844, he was admitted 
 to the Priesthood by the Bishop of Montreal, and 
 commenced his duties in St. Ann's on the 22d 
 of that month. 
 
 The Rector embraced the opportunity, in the 
 course of the next three months, to be absent for 
 six or eight weeks, making a trip to the eastern 
 end of the Island, and spending some time at 
 Saratoga. 
 
 Considerable sickness prevailed in the parish 
 during the past year, and the places of several 
 revered members of the Church have been left 
 vacant by death. 
 
 St. Ann's (the Sunday Schools and members 
 
114 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 of the congregation unitedly) has undertaken 
 tire support of one Scholarship in Jubilee Col- 
 lege. WiUiain Sjjencer, a member of School 
 No. 1, and a youth of much promise, went out as 
 the beneficiary in October last. 
 
 The following named Bishops have preached 
 in St. Ann's since the adjournment of the late 
 Ge teral Convention: 
 
 Bishop Kemper, November 3, (ordination ser- 
 mon,) — Rev. ii, 10. 
 
 Bishop (presiding) Chase^ November 3, — 
 Heb. X, 38. 
 
 Bishop Smith, December 1 — Psalm cxix, 67, 
 " Before I was afflicted I w ent astray, but now 
 have 1 kept thy word." 
 
 Bishop Mcllvaine, December 12 (Thanks- 
 giving) — Rom. xii, 1. 
 
 December 15, Bishop Johns — St. John vi, 27, 
 " Him hath God the Father sealed." Afternoon, 
 Bishop Lee — Rom. i, 16. 
 
 December 22, Bishop Hopldns — Gen. xvi, 8, 
 " Whence camest thou, and whither wilt thou 
 go f Evening, Bishop Johns — Acts v, 20. 
 
 A meeting, in which several of the Episcopal 
 congregations of Brooklyn united, was held in 
 St. Ann's on the evening of November 10th, to 
 aid the Theological Seminary of Virginia. Ad- 
 dresses were made by Bishops Meade and Johns, 
 
REV. DR. CUTLER. 115 
 
 Dr. Stone, and the Rector, and a collection was 
 taken up, which amounted to $400. 
 
 " It is delightful to think of the privileges 
 of St. Amis Church, and the simplicity with 
 which the Gospel is administered and professed. 
 At 9 o'clock, you may see the children and 
 youth assembling, dressed with care, and disco- 
 vering the general prosperity of the people. The 
 Chapel is open, and both of its floors receive 
 their precious charge. Here may be seen more 
 than 300 scholars, with 60 teachers. At ten, the 
 Pastor enters to inspect the schools, and to smile 
 on the dear lambs of the flock. At half-past ten, 
 the great Congregation enter with solemnity 
 the Church. The organ commences its notes 
 of solemn and elevated music. It stops. The 
 Minister pronounces some sen^nces of Holy 
 Writ, and then looks round with words of ex- 
 hortation to pray. The service of God begins: 
 Confession, — Prayer, — Praise, — Chanting, — Li- 
 tany, — Commandments, — Psalm and Hymn, suc- 
 ceed. Now, strengthened and elevated by devo- 
 tion, the congregation sit for instruction. Then 
 follows the preacher, in words prepared and 
 prayed over, and adapted to the wants and sor- 
 rows of the people. {Impression is perhaps pro- 
 
116 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 duced, — resolutions formed, prayers framed.) A 
 blessing is pronounced. 
 
 " Again, at two o'clock, the van-guard assem- 
 ble, — the children enter the Chapel, take their 
 seats, engage in short prayer, and then are ques- 
 tioned on the lesson of the day, uniting at the 
 conclusion in a song of praise. At 3, they join 
 the congregation, and re-enter the Church. A 
 second time the service is celebrated, and the peo- 
 ple worship, and the word of God is dispensed. 
 After this, the parish library is opened for the use 
 of the congregation, and the children assem- 
 ble at the libraries of their respective schools, 
 select their books from a thousand at their dis- 
 posal, and retire with the smiles and often with 
 the caresses of the female teachers. For two 
 hours the Chapel is closed. 
 
 "Evening has set in. The clear and silver 
 tones of St. Ann's bell break again upon the ear. 
 They remind us that the day is not yet gone. A 
 little of the Sabbath remains ; let us gather up 
 the fragments that nothing be lost. At a quar- 
 ter past 7, the people assemble in the Chapel. 
 It is brilliantly lighted, and its 200 seats are soon 
 filled. The worship begins by a hymn of praise. 
 A shorter service is then pronounced, a chapter 
 read, a psalm sung, and a plain and practical 
 discourse deUvered. It is done. The Minister 
 
REV. DR. CUTLER. 117 
 
 who has officiated takes his seat, and the Pastor 
 rises in the desk. He salutes the people with 
 some pleasant words, and reviews the labors of 
 the day ; reminds them of their privileges, and 
 commends them to the Saviour of sinners, — that 
 great Shepherd of the sheep, — and describing his 
 power and love, leaves Him finally and vividly 
 before their minds. The blessing is then pro- 
 nounced, and the day is concluded. 
 
 " A few linger to salute the Pastor, to tell him 
 of some one in trouble, or to ask assistance for 
 some person in distress. 
 
 " * Go, man of pleasure, strike thy lyre, 
 Of broken Sabbaths sing the charms; 
 
 Our's is the Prophet's car of fire 
 Which bears us to a Father's arms.' 
 
 " St. Ann's ! ' Peace be within thy walls and 
 prosperity within thy palaces.' " 
 
 It will be seen by the list of church members, 
 that the three set down for 1788, during the mi- 
 nistry of the first Rector, continued through all 
 the succeeding rectorships to that of the present, 
 and that two of them yet survive, — Mrs. Ann 
 Sands and Mrs. Jane Boerum. The third, Mrs. 
 Sarah Middagh, died in August, 1837, at the 
 advanced age of 92. Mrs. Sarah Cornell (wi- 
 
118 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 dow of John), has also been a communicant for 
 more than half a century. 
 
 Mrs. Middagh lived long enough to see her 
 interest and labors in behalf of the Church, in its 
 days of weakness and depression, rewarded by a 
 healthy and widely-expanded maturity. In a 
 sermon preached soon after her decease, the 
 Rector in substance said : 
 
 " At the time I assumed the charge of this 
 parish, the venerable widow of Mr. John Mid- 
 dagh was in her 89th year, and still able to at- 
 tend public worship. From a short period after- 
 wards, however, to the day of her death, she 
 continued gradually to decline, and was mostly 
 confined to her house. The activity of her early 
 years it was not of course my privilege to ob- 
 serve. But from what I have learned from 
 others, and could infer from conversations with 
 her, she mubt have exerted an important influ- 
 ence in her circle of friends. On no subject did 
 she speak with more animation or apparent de- 
 light than on that of the establishment of the 
 Church here. Notwithstanding her great age, 
 she still retained the liveliest recollection of 
 all the circumstances of its infancy, and by her 
 manner of dwelhng on them, discovered that the 
 prosperity of the cause was near her heart. In 
 her house, half a century ago, the Ministers of 
 religion were hospitably entertained, and, from 
 that time to the present, most welcome guests. 
 The death of Mrs. Middagh was most peaceful 
 
REV. DR. CUTLER. 119 
 
 and liappy. She came to the grave as a shock 
 of corn in its season. Not a cloud appeared on 
 her mind ; not a wish remained unaccompUshed 
 in her heart. As she approached her end, she 
 was heard to repeat the hymn never to be for- 
 gotten — 
 
 * Jesus, Saviour of my soul, 
 Let me to thy bosom fly.' 
 
 " A short time before her death, I administered 
 to her in her own apartment the Lord's Supper, 
 surrounded by relatives and friends. She re- 
 ceived the affecting memorials with pious sensi- 
 bihty and gratitude, and the third Sunday after, 
 she was, I trust, at the marriage Supper of the 
 Lamb !" 
 
 The relirious instruction of domestics Mrs. 
 Middagh considered not only a sacred duty, but 
 in her individual case an especial privilege. She 
 took to the baptismal font more than twenty per- 
 sons of color, at different times in her service, — 
 eighteen of whom were born in her own house. 
 
 Mr. Joshua Sands w^as a liberal patron and 
 often an officer of the Church from its earliest 
 period, but he does not appear to have joined 
 the communion till the year 1808. When the 
 British barrack, at the corner of Fulton and 
 Middagh streets, had been fitted up for the recep- 
 tion of the congregation, during the ministry of 
 the Rev. Mr. Wright, lots were drawn for the 
 
120 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 choice of pews, which resulted in assigning to 
 Mr. Sands a pew close by the door, and to the 
 late Mr. John Cole one near the pulpit, greatly 
 to the disappointment of both, — one dishking so 
 low a seat and the other so high a one. An ex- 
 change was effected, however, which proved mu- 
 tually satisfactory. Mr. Sands died in Septem- 
 ber, 1835, being Senior Warden at the time. A 
 marble tablet is placed within the Church, on its 
 southern wall, with the following inscription : 
 
 TO 
 
 COMMEMORATE THEIR RESPECT 
 
 FOR THE CHARACTER AND BENEFACTIONS OF 
 
 JOSHUA SANDS, 
 
 LONG A WARDEN OF THIS PARISH, 
 THIS TABI.ET 
 
 IS ERECTED BY 
 
 THE VESTRY OF ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 OB. A.D. 1835. 
 
 M. 77. 
 
 Mr. Sands had been a useful citizen as well 
 as zealous churchman, having held various civil 
 offices of trust and responsibility, among which 
 were those of Collector of the Customs, Mem- 
 ber of Congress, and Trustee of the village. 
 
 Mr. George Foivers, who died in 1826, at the 
 age of 82, was one of the most liberal benefactors 
 of the Church, giving $1,000 on one occasion. 
 
REV. DR. CUTLER. 121 
 
 He was frequently a Delegate to the Diocesan 
 Convention, was many years of the Vestry, and 
 held the post of Warden as early as 1795. 
 
 On page 21, the name of Mr. Whitehead Cor- 
 nell is printed as one of the .Trustees on the in- 
 corporation of the Episcopal Church, in 1787. 
 It should be Mr. John Cornell. This gentle- 
 man was long an active friend of the Church, 
 and frequently one of its officers, but his name 
 is not found in the subjoined list of commu- 
 nicants, — neither are the names of Aquila Giles, 
 Joseph Sealy, Robert Stoddard, Samuel Sack- 
 ett, Adam Tredwell, A. H. Van Bokkelin, and 
 Theodosius Hunt, — all occasionally of the Ves- 
 try or among the Delegates to the Convention. 
 The first record preserved is for the year 1790. 
 A few names are also put down for the two fol- 
 lowing years. There is then a hiatus to the 
 year 1799. Some of the persons above-named 
 probably came to the communion during this 
 time. Mr. Cornell died in 1820, and Mr. Sack- 
 ett in 1822. 
 
 m^^ It is ascertained that Mr. Cornell was a 
 member, and a most worthy and devoted one ; 
 as was also Mr. Patchen, whose name is not on 
 the record. 
 
 5 a* 
 
122 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Joh7i Marshall Gamble, Colonel U. S. Marines, 
 was an officer of the Cliurcli at the time of 
 his decease, which occurred in September, 1836. 
 He showed bj his example that the most un- 
 blemished Christian character is not inconsistent 
 with, but rather sheds lustre upon, the military 
 profession, not less than on all the other occupa- 
 tions of life. Col. Gamble, — whose father, Ma- 
 jor Win. Gamble, was an officer in the Revolu- 
 tion, — had been for some years in command of 
 the Marine Corps of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 
 and was the last of four brothers who had died 
 in the naval service of the United States. Tho- 
 mas, commanding the ship of war Erie, died in 
 the Mediterranean in the year 1818 or 1819. 
 Peter, acting First Lieutenant, was killed on 
 board the flag-ship under Commodore Macdo- 
 nough, in the battle on Lake Champlain, in Sep- 
 tember, 1814. Francis died in the West Indies, 
 while in command of one of the United States' 
 schooners on that station. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Cutler, whose name is in the list 
 of communicants, was the mother of the Rector, 
 and relict of Benjamin Clarke Cutler, of Bos- 
 ton, for many years Sheriff of Norfolk county. 
 She died on the 26th of October, 1836, aged 
 
REV. MR. CUTLEIl. 123 
 
 75, and her remains were taken to St. Thomas' 
 Church-jard, New York. The following no- 
 tice of this lady was published, at the time of her 
 decease, in a Boston paper : 
 
 Mrs. C. " was a native of Georgetown, S. C, 
 and was the daughter of Esther, the only sister 
 of Gen. Francis Marion. In possession of fine 
 intellectual powers, a strongly marked character, 
 and deeply imbued with a spirit she caught from 
 scenes and personages of the Revolution with 
 which she was familiar, her conversation was a 
 source of never-failing interest to those by whom 
 she was surrounded ; and the writer of this hum- 
 ble tribute to departed worth has often listened 
 with excited feelings to her enthusiastic and 
 spirit-stirring details of by-gone days. There 
 was intimately interwoven in her character a 
 noble simplicity and a high-toned, lofty feeling, 
 which commanded the respect and affection of 
 all who knew her. In the various relations of 
 domestic life, she afforded an example of duties 
 performed and affections gratified. Numerous 
 descendants and an extended circle of acquaint- 
 ance regret the space she has left behind ; but 
 while Affection mourns, she draws consolation 
 from the recollection of her well-spent life. Her 
 body has gone to its mother earth, — her spirit to 
 its parent God. Honor to her earthly memory, 
 —eternal rest to her sainted spirit." 
 
124 ©T. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 i^eitcntoratitra. 
 
 The house in which Episcopal seiTices were 
 first held in Brooklyn, after the Revolntion, was; 
 in Fulton street, as before noted, a little above 
 Front, then No. 40, now aboiit 43. It belonged 
 to a Mr. Rapelye, and two contiguous rooms 
 were thrown open to the attendants. As a cer- 
 tificate of baptism, dated August 20, 1783, was 
 given bj the Rev. James Sajre, " as Minister of 
 the Episcopal Church al Brooklyn Ferry," it is- 
 possible this might have been the place of wor- 
 ship during at least a part of the time he offi- 
 ciated here. 
 
 Mr John Van Nostrand was principally in- 
 strumental in introducing the Rev. Mr. Wright 
 to Brooklyn, although he was heartily seconded 
 by others in securing hi& engagement. There 
 was at this time great prejudice against our com- 
 munion, and very little distinction was made by 
 non-Episcopalians between it and that of Rome. 
 The few devoted friends of the Church, and in 
 actual communion with it, who now united in 
 its establishment here, found their " day of small 
 things" a day also of hard things, and they were 
 compelled to avail, in some instances, of the 
 liberality, and influence, and personal aid of those 
 
MEMORANDA. 125 
 
 who had httle more than an outward regard for 
 rehgion. This circumstxince will explain why 
 so many were Church officers, who were never 
 Church members. 
 
 Mr. John Middagh's barn, the second place 
 in which the little congregation worshipped, is 
 at this time occupied as a soapstone manufac- 
 tory by Mr. Q,uimby, and presents a most an- 
 tique and grotesque appearance. Those who 
 are curious to contrast the outward circum- 
 stances of the Church then, with those of the 
 Church noiv, can stand at the corner of Fulton 
 and Henry streets, and look on that picture, and 
 then on this. 
 
 The explosion of the powder mill in the year 
 1808, which, it was said, injured the walls of 
 St. Ann's Church (the stone church which 
 fronted Sands street), took place between twelve 
 and one o'clock in the day. The people were 
 all at dinner — that was the hour for dining 
 among all classes at that period — and there was 
 therefore no one in the mill at the time of the 
 accident. A son of one of the present venerable 
 members of the church, who was engaged in the 
 ■manufacture of powder, had just left the dinner- 
 table, and proceeded to the river in order to send 
 a boat which he had freighted with the article 
 to New York. When the explosion was heard, 
 
126 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 the parents very naturally became exceedingly 
 alarmed for their son, as did many of the neigh- 
 bors, who had seen him pass, and to whom his 
 purpose was known. It was soon ascertained, 
 however, that the cause of alarm proceeded from 
 a different quarter. A nephew of another vener- 
 able member of the Church was the actual suf- 
 ferer, as to the destruction of property. This 
 mill was somewhere in the vicinity of Jay and 
 Tillary streets. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Wright was married, soon after his 
 engagement here, to an Enghsh lady, then resid- 
 ing in New York. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Rattoone was married to a daughter 
 of the Rev. Dr. Beach, of New York, said to be 
 a lady of great worth. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Ireland was married to Mrs-. Hannah 
 Tucker, before coming to Brooklyn, probably 
 while Rector of St. Peter's Church, Westchester. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Feltus was married in 1794, as al- 
 ready stated, to Martha Ryan, a woman to 
 whom many living witnesses accord an " excel- 
 lent spirit." Mr. F. had a large family, and se- 
 veral of his children are living in New York. • 
 
 Rev. Mr. Henshaw was married to Miss Mary 
 Gorhani, of Bristol, Rhode Island, a short time 
 before taking charge of St. Ann's. 
 
MEMORANDA. 127 
 
 Rev. Mr. Styiith was married (probably in the 
 year 1817) to Miss Ellen Clarke, seconA daughter 
 of the late James B. Clarke, Esq., of Brooklyn. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Onderdonk was married to Miss 
 Carter, sister of the late Kobert Carter, Esq., 
 some three or four years, it is believed, before 
 his removal to Brooklyn. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Mcllvaine, wdiile Rector of Christ 
 Church, Georgetown, was married to Miss Ein- 
 ily Cox, of Burlington, New Jersey. Since their 
 removal to Ohio, the family have suffered se- 
 vere afflictions in the death of the second son 
 [Bloonifield), a youth whose mental development 
 and amiable manners had excited much expec- 
 tation among his friends ; and of the eldest 
 daughter {Emily). Both had been members of 
 St. Ann's Sunday School. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Cutler, the present Rector, was mar- 
 ried in Christ Church, Boston, Oct. 30, 182.2, by 
 the Rev. Mr. Eaton, to Miss Harriet Bancroft, 
 daughter of James Bancroft, Esq., of Boston. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Bancroft, Assistant Minister, was 
 married on the 24th of September, 1844, in 
 Christ Church, Philadelphia, by the Rev. Dr. 
 Cutler, to Miss Ellen, second daughter of J. Feiv 
 S77iith, Esq. 
 
 Nothing has been ascertained respecting the 
 marriage either of Mr. Hidl or Mr. Neshitt, 
 
128 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 The following summary of the Rector's reports 
 to the Convention will show the amount of con- 
 tributions, &c. in each year : 
 
 1833— Collections, $3,772 65, of which 82,300 were for Kenyon 
 College. Delegates lo Convention, T. I. Chew, Fanning C. 
 Tucker, Cyrus Bill. 
 
 1834— Collections, Sl,226 49. *' The Church may be con- 
 sidered as flourishing, both in respect to temporal and spiritual 
 things." Delegates, T. I. Chew, Cyrus Bill, J. M. Ga«ible. 
 
 1835 — Collections, $880 61, (Diocesan, Education, and Mis- 
 sionary). " The Rector has the gratification of reporting this 
 Church as in a flourishing condition. The disposition manifested 
 by the members of St. Ann's to devote their time and their pro- 
 perty to the promotion of true religion has afforded him thankful- 
 ness for the past, and inspired him with still greater hope for the 
 time to come." Delegate, Wm. Betts. 
 
 1836 and 1837 — Reports not obtained. 
 
 1838— Collections, $2,835. Delegates, T.,1. Chew, Frederick 
 T. Peet, D. B. Douglass. 
 
 1839— Collections, $1,832. " It is difficult to ascertain the 
 exact number of communicants belonging to an old parish Church 
 in a city. To the number of 468 I have arrived by taking the 
 list my predecessor left, subtracting deaths and removals, and 
 adding new names. About 240 are generally present to partake 
 of ttie Supper." Delegates, Hosea Webster, D. B. Douglass. 
 
 1840 — Contributions for Church and Missionary objects,$2, 481. 
 Delegates, T. I. Ciiew, Hosea Webster. 
 
 1841 — Contributions from the congregation for charitable and 
 Missionary purposes, $2,246 48; of the Sunday Schools, $140 50. 
 Delegates, Cyrus Bill, H. Webster, W. B. Cooper. 
 
 1842— Contributions of the congregation, $2,140 12; of the 
 Schools, $100 for Greek Mission; about $20 for Africa. Dele- 
 gates, T. I. Chew, Joseph Pettit. 
 
 1843 — Contributions of the congregation, $2,635; 1st School, 
 $100 to Greek Mission ; 2d School, $25 for Africa. 
 
 1844 — Contributions of the congregation, $2,175 70 ; schools, 
 $162. Delegates, Cyrus Bill, Joseph Sands, H. Webster. 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 
 
 iFirst School, 
 
 It appears by the Records of this School that 
 the first meeting which took place for the pur- 
 pose of its establishment was on the 30th of 
 April, 1828, at the house of Mr. R. M. White, 
 in Hicks street. The following persons were 
 present : 
 
 Rev. C. P. Mcllvaine, Rector of the Church. 
 
 Mr. F. T. Peet, Mrs. C. H. Richards, 
 
 " J. W. Burtis, " R. M. White, 
 
 " W. W. Pratt, Miss Crommelin, 
 
 " Judah Back, " Greenwood. 
 
 " R. M. White, 
 
 " J. Greenwood. 
 
 There being fewer in attendance than was 
 anticipated, no definite proceedings occurred. 
 Two subsequent meetings took place without 
 an organization being effected. A fourth meet- 
 ing was held on the 13th of May, at the house 
 of Mr. J. S. Doughty, when rules were adopted 
 6 
 
130 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 for the government of the School, and the fol- 
 lowing officers chosen : 
 
 Superintendent — F. T. Peet. 
 
 Secretary — George A. Bartow. 
 
 Standing Committee — J. W. Burtis, Thos. I. 
 Chew, Cyrus Bill, L. Van Nostrand, Rich'd M. 
 White, E. Sprague, W. W. Pratt, and the Su- 
 perintendent, ex officio. 
 
 . On Sunday the 18th May, the Superinten- 
 dent, Secretary, seventeen teachers, and ninety 
 children attended at the school-room, and were 
 affectionately and appropriately addressed by the 
 Rector. The lesson for the following Sunday 
 was announced, and the remainder of the day 
 consumed in registering and classing the scho- 
 lars. 
 
 The regular instructions commenced on the 
 25th of May, — 105 children attending in the 
 forenoon, and 104 in the afternoon ; from 
 which time the school steadily increased in 
 numbers. 
 
 Measures were taken at an early day to pro- 
 vide commodious and permanent accommoda- 
 tions for the school. Leave was obtained of 
 the vestry of St. Ann's to erect a building 80 
 feet long, 25 feet wide, and one story in height, 
 at the corner of Washington and Prospect 
 streets, adjoining the Church, which was accord- 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 131 
 
 ingly soon after undertaken, under the direction 
 of a Building Committee, consisting of Messrs. 
 Peet, Chew, Van Nostrand, Burtis, and Sprague. 
 It was completed at a cost of something over 
 $1500, and occupied for the first time on the 
 11th of January, 1829, — the occasion being 
 marked by appropriate exercises. In the eve- 
 ning of the same day a public examination of 
 the pupils took place in the Church, on the 
 Scripture doctrine of the Resuri'eciion and the 
 Neic Birth, on the Catechism, and on the Pi'o- 
 phecies. The apparently high gratification of a 
 numerous auditory afforded happiness and en- 
 couragement both to those actively engaged in 
 the school and those who otherwise were pro- 
 moting its success. 
 
 From this period the school seems to have 
 especially prospered. In a report of the Super- 
 intendent to the Pbector, dated May 26, 1831, 
 aboiit three years after the commencement of 
 the school, it is stated that there had been con- 
 nected with it 31 male and 52 female teachers 
 — of whom 35 were "professors of religion pre- 
 vious to their uniting with the school, and 20 
 professed their faith in Christ afterwards." 
 Thirty-eight teachers (15 male and 23 female) 
 then remained, and 453 of the children, out of 
 1024 that had been registered on the books — 
 
132 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 the weekly average attendance being not far 
 from 250. 
 
 Four years after this, — that is, in May, 1835, 
 and seven years from the estabhshment of the 
 school, — a report was made by the Superinten- 
 dent to the Rev. F. H. Cuming, then Secretary 
 of the Episcopal Sunday School Union, in which 
 it is said that of the 1787 children who had at 
 this time entered the school, many, "owing to the 
 changeable habits of the population," had re- 
 mained but a short time, but a "much larger 
 proportion had received two, three, and four 
 years' instruction," and many continued to be 
 members who attended at the commencement. 
 
 " The school (says the report) consists of a 
 Superintendent, Secretary, Librarian, 13 male 
 and 27 female — in all 43 — conductors ; and 
 155 male and 240 female — making 395 — 
 scholars. Of the scholars, from 250 to 260 
 are taught from Sabbath to Sabbath. Thirty- 
 five of the teachers are communicants. Eight 
 of them commenced their labors with us seven 
 years since, and continue faithful, giving us no 
 cause to fear that they will faint by the way." 
 The whole number of teachers who have thus 
 far labored with us is 60 male and 73 fe- 
 male — making 133 in all. Few of these have 
 left us without some good and sufficient reason ; 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 133 
 
 and wherever they have located themselves in 
 different parts of our land (many of them in our 
 Western valley) they have recommenced their 
 work of self-denial and of pleasure ; and their 
 influence has been felt perhaps in a much better 
 and greater degree than if they had remained 
 with us. Many of our teachers were followers 
 of the Saviour before connecting themselves 
 with the school: but we report 25 as having 
 found, in their endeavors to bless others, a bless- 
 ing resting on their own souls ; and instances 
 have been rare, where teachers have united with 
 us (as we believed from good motives) and con- 
 tinued any length of time, without receiving a 
 blessing. Fifteen of our scholars have numbered 
 themselves with the disciples of Jesus, attributing 
 their serious impressions to the instructions of 
 the Sunday School. And our hearts are often 
 cheered by the report, that those who have left 
 us to reside in different sections of our country 
 have laid to heart what has been taught them, 
 and have cast in their lot with God's people. 
 
 " Our system of instruction is as follows : 
 The first and second Sundays in the month, 
 selected Scripture lessons, wdth Questions.^ 
 Third Sunday, some doctrine or duty, to be 
 
 * The " Union Gluestions." 
 
134 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 proved from the Bible. All the children are re- 
 quired to commit fou?', and the larger six proofs. 
 The teacher's assistance in selecting them is al- 
 lowed, but the elder scholars are urged to select 
 them themselves, or get the assistance of their 
 parents. Fourth Sunday, the Catechism of the 
 Church. 
 
 " All the children who can read, hear the same 
 lesson. The teachers endeavor to make their 
 instructions simple enough to benefit the young- 
 est, and sufficiently instructive to improve the 
 eldest. From half to three-fourths of an hour is 
 occupied at the close of the school every Sab- 
 bath in an examination from the desk of the 
 different classes in the lesson for the day, and 
 such practical remarks and application of the 
 truths taught in the lesson made as are deemed 
 appropriate. This duty is performed by the 
 Superintendent, except when the Pastor is 
 present. 
 
 " Those children who are not sufficiently ad- 
 vanced to learn the regular lesson, are taught 
 hymns, simple catechisms, &c. — the whole in- 
 struction, as far as possible, being strictly reli- 
 gious. We have a w^ell-selected Library of be- 
 tween 1000 and 1100 volumes. It is much used 
 by the school, and is of invaluable assistance to 
 us in our work. Terms of admission to it are, 
 
THE SUxNDAY SCHOOL. 135 
 
 — general good conduct at school and in church, 
 and a correct recitation of the lesson. 
 
 '' A weekly meeting of teachers for instruction 
 on the lesson, and for prayer for a blessing on 
 our labors, was commenced with the school, and 
 is still continued. The teachers here are tho- 
 roughly examined on the lesson which they are 
 to teach the children the coming Sabbath, and it 
 is evident that those who attend it most steadily 
 are best prepared for their duty. We deem this 
 meeting essential to the interests of our school. 
 
 " A Missionary Association exists among our 
 children, whose object is to educate females at 
 the Mission School in Athens, Greece. Its 
 managers (female) are taken from some of our 
 younger teachers (who were formerly scholars) 
 and our elder children. Their duty is to collect 
 from each of the scholars 6d. per month. They 
 meet monthly to pay over the amount of their 
 collections to their treasurer, at which time some 
 Missionary intelligence is read to them by the 
 Superintendent, who usually meets with them. 
 Their collections amount to from $120 to $150 
 annually.^ We esteem the amount of money 
 they contribute as of little consequence, com- 
 pared to the cultivation in their youthful hearts 
 
 * In 1836, the amount collected reached $229 00. 
 
136 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 of feelings of benevolence and love towards those 
 who are less favored than themselves."* 
 
 In pursuance of an invitation from the Pro- 
 testant Episcopal Sunday School Union, a con- 
 nection took place with that institution in Octo- 
 ber 1835, — the privilege being conceded to the 
 school of using such books of instruction as it 
 might prefer. This union was in accordance 
 with the expressed wish of a large majority of 
 the teachers. 
 
 In a report to the Union by the Superinten- 
 dent in June following, it is said, " Our prospects 
 for the coming year are encouraging. We pre- 
 sent now, as we have done during the eight yeai*s 
 of our existence, a company of teachers faithful 
 and devoted to their work, dwelling in harmony 
 and love, willing to bear each other's burdens, 
 and desirous to promote each other's good ; hav- 
 ing constantly in view, in all their efforts, the 
 spiritual welfare of their children." 
 
 The report for the year 1837, which is the 
 last recorded, if not the last rendered, does not 
 disclose any thing worthy of mention here, except 
 
 * The desire is very strongly urged upon the children of both schools, 
 that their contributions should be entirely their own, — the earnings of 
 their labor, or the reward of good conduct, or the result of self-denial, — 
 that a double blessing may be realized, in which both the giver and re- 
 ceiver shall peirticipate. 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 137 
 
 that the school had somewhat fallen off in num- 
 bers from previous years. 
 
 Since that period, — owing mainly to the es- 
 tablishment of many other schools of different 
 denominations within the limits of the parish, — 
 there has been a considerable further decrease, 
 both in teachers and scholars, but none, it is 
 believed, in efficiency or good results. 
 
 There have been, from the commencement of 
 this school to the first of Jan'y, 1845, ninety-jive 
 male, and one hundi'ed and thirteen female teach- 
 ers; and in the same time, 2,800 children have 
 received more or less instruction. Thirty-eight 
 of the teachers, who were not communicants be- 
 fore, and forty-three of the scholars, have been 
 admitted to the Communion in St. Ann's. That 
 many, very many more of the children may have 
 received into their hearts, while under instruction 
 here, that good seed which, since their removal 
 hence, has sprung up and brought forth fruit, 
 there is great reason for believing, from various 
 circumstances and incidents that have from time 
 to time transpired. 
 
 Mr. Feet resigned the superintendency of the 
 School in March last, and left it in care, for 
 the time being, of Mr. A. D. Matthews, who, on 
 the 12tli July following, was, by an election in the 
 usual form, permanently invested with its charge. 
 
138 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Mr. Peet, during his long connection with the 
 school, took great interest in its success, and de- 
 voted much time to the discharge of the duties 
 it devolved on him. And he had the gratifica- 
 tion of seeing, before he left it, many of his early 
 scholars among his most devoted teachers, others 
 of them in the Ministry, and other?, again, occu- 
 pying honorable stations in life, and dispensing 
 around them those hallowed and grateful influ- 
 ences which might be supposed to follow^ the in- 
 structions here imparted. 
 
 It is thought that a few extracts from the Re- 
 cords of the school, through the long period of its 
 history, may add to the interest which the reader 
 cannot but feel in this important nursery and 
 auxihary of the Church. These extracts, as will 
 be seen, are mostly taken at considerable inter- 
 vals apart, and therefore embrace but a small 
 proportion of the addresses from the Rector and 
 visiting clergymen, with which the children were 
 favored. It should be remarked, also, that the 
 Second School in later years enjoyed, though for 
 the most part separately, much if not all the 
 clerical instruction here referred to. 
 
 Aug. 19, 1830 — A number of the congrega- 
 tion being present, instead of the usual question- 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 139 
 
 ing on the lesson, an extract from our absent 
 Pastor's^ Journal was read, giving an account of 
 his visit to the grave of ''Little Jane, the Young 
 Cottager," and to the grave and former dwelling 
 of the " Dairyman's Daughter." 
 
 Oct. 31, 1830 — At an early hour, the room 
 was filled with the parents and relatives of the 
 scholars. After our Pastor [just returned to his 
 people] had addressed himself to the teachers and 
 children, the Superintendent alluded to the cause 
 of his absence, and the answer that God had 
 given to our prayers in his complete restoration 
 to health ; and called upon the school to give 
 him welcome in singing a hymnf of praise to 
 God, prepared for the occasion, after which he 
 addressed the school, and offered a prayer. 
 
 * Rev. Mr. Mcllvaine, then absent for the benefit of his health, in 
 England. 
 
 t The following verses are selected from this hymn : 
 
 Lord of Life ! our infant voices 
 
 We would tune in humble praise ; 
 Faith that waited — now rejoices, 
 God is good in all his ways. 
 
 Lord, our Pastor ever bless, 
 
 To feed Thy lambs in righteousness. 
 
 Thou hast borne him o'er the billow, 
 
 While the stormy winds were high ; 
 And Thy breast has been his pillow 
 
 When disease and death were nigh. 
 
 Thou hast been his strength in weakness, 
 
 Thou hast been his refuge near; 
 Thou hast raised him up from sickness, 
 
 Thou hast banished all our fear. 
 
 Lord of Life ! may now Thy pleasure, 
 
 Prosper in thy servant's care ; 
 Spirit ! send thy heavenly treasure, 
 Bid us crowns of glory wear ! 
 
 & 
 
140 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Oct. 2, 1831 — Closed school by singing a 
 hymn appointed by our Pastor, in reference to 
 his remaining with us, after having received two 
 important calls. 
 
 Ja?i. 22, 1832 — The school w^as opened this 
 morning as usual, but with feelings of deep so- 
 lemnity on account of the death of our dear 
 scholar, Sarah Elizabeth Doughty, who was 
 called to enter on her everlasting rest at fiYe 
 o'clock on Friday morning the 10th instant. 
 The instructions of the Sunday School were 
 blessed to her, and she has left behind the sweet 
 assurance that she sleeps in Jesus. Our dear 
 Pastor visited and addressed the school on the 
 solemn occasion. From the deep feeling mani- 
 fested, we hope spiritual good will result. In the 
 afternoon, the remains of Miss D. were taken 
 from her residence to the Chm'ch, the school 
 walking in procession, where the burial service 
 was read, and an appropriate address delivered. 
 [An interesting little volume, giving an account 
 of the sickness and death of this young lady, has 
 been published as a Sunday S. Library book.] 
 
 Aug. 5, 1832 — Twenty-one of our teachers, 
 and more than half our scholars, are either ab- 
 sent from the village, or detained at home by 
 sickness. One of our pupils \^Andrew Hihharcr\, 
 about 11 years of age, died on Wednesday morn- 
 ing of cholera. He occupied his accustomed 
 seat in school last Sunday. 
 
 Sept. 30, 1832 — Was visited by our dear Pas- 
 tor, who addressed the School on the goodness 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 141 
 
 of God in sparing our scholars so remarkably 
 during the prevalence of the cholera, only one 
 having died [young Hibbard], out of nearly 500 
 teachers and scholars. 
 
 Jan. 27, 1833 — The children and teachers 
 contributed nine dollars this day for a destitute 
 family. 
 
 Ajnil 28, 1833 — Our much-loved Pastor vis- 
 ited us this afternoon, and made his parting ad- 
 dress [being about to leave to take charge of his 
 diocese]. May the blessing of the Almighty rest 
 upon us under the ministry of his successor, as it 
 has under him. 
 
 RECTORSHIP OF REV. MR. CUTLER. 
 
 June 30, 1833 — Visited by our Pastor, who 
 addressed to us a very solemn appeal from the 
 wordsj " We must all appear before the judg- 
 ment seat of Christ." Visited also by our late 
 Pastor, who took each teacher by the hand, 
 perhaps for the last time. 
 
 Dec. 29, 1833 — Our Pastor addressed the 
 children very impressively on the death of Sarah 
 Woolsey, a girl of five years of age, who we have 
 reason to hope is gone to her rest. 
 
 April 13, 1834 — [Appears a record in relation 
 to John Pettit, belonging to Mr. Geo. White's 
 class, who had died the preceding week, after a 
 short and severe illness.] 
 
 April 20, 1834~Miss Ellen Smith, who has 
 taught in our School the past five years, died on 
 Monday last, the 14th instant, aged 36 years. 
 
142 ST. ANxN'S CHURCH. 
 
 She had long been a consistent and devoted 
 Christian, and leaves us, in the midst of our af- 
 fliction, to rejoice in the comfortable hope that 
 she now makes one of that glorious company 
 who cease not day nor night to praise Him who 
 hath washed them by his blood. [In the after- 
 noon, our Pastor addressed to the School some 
 impressive remarks on the importance of laying 
 these afflictive dispensations to heart.] 
 
 May 4, 1834 — The decease of another httle 
 boy, Walter Nichols, is recorded this day. Al- 
 though but six years of age, it is said he gave 
 many evidences of a preparation for death, and 
 the hope is expressed that " Jesus took him in 
 his arms and blessed him." 
 
 June 24, 1834 — Our Pastor examined the 
 School in the Catechism, and then made some 
 remarks on the occasion of the death of one of 
 our scholars, for whom our prayers had been so- 
 licited the two previous Sundays. School No. 2 
 w^as present. 
 
 Oct, 5, 1834 — Visited by Bishop Mcllvaine. 
 
 Oct. 19, 1834 — Our Pastor addressed us on 
 the bereavement experienced in the decease of 
 Fanning C. Tucker, who was for six years a 
 member of our School. The children were af- 
 fectionately urged to lay the solemn warning to 
 heart. 
 
 Nov. 2, 1834 — Our Pastor addressed us, de- 
 livering a message to the children he had received 
 from a dying boy the past wxek. 
 
 Dec. 21, 1834 — Our Pastor addressed us on 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 143 
 
 the death of Miss Charlotte Bill, formerly one of 
 our teachers. 
 
 Dec. 28, 1834 — Oar Pastor, and B'p Smith, 
 of Kentucky, addressed the School. 
 
 May 17, 1835 — Visited by Messrs. Lockwood 
 and Hanson, who are about to proceed to China, 
 and are the first Missionaries to the heathen sent 
 oat by the Protestant Episcopal Church in the 
 United States. [They addressed the school in 
 relation to their Mission, and requested that it 
 and themselves might be the subject of prayer.]^ 
 
 May 31, 1835 — Bishop Smith addressed the 
 school on the subject of the China Mission. 
 
 July 12, 1835 — The Superintendent read to 
 the school an account of the sickness and death 
 of Miss Enuna Malcolm, formerly a teacher here. 
 Her death was that of the righteous. 
 
 July 19, 1835 — The Superintendent read a 
 letter from Edward Brindley, a student in Bris- 
 tol College, giving an account of the happy death 
 of his brother Freclerick, who was formerly a 
 member of Mr. R. M. White's class in this school. 
 
 Aug. 30, 1835 — This afternoon the 2d School 
 met with us, and our Pastor preached to us a 
 short sermon from the text, " Suffer little chil- 
 dren to come unto me," &c. 
 
 Sept. 6, 1835 — Visited by our Pastor and 
 Bishop Mcllvaine. 
 
 Sept. 29, 1835 — Visited by Miss Baldwin, of 
 
 * They spent two or three years in one of the Chinese Islands, and 
 then returned to this country. 
 
144 ST. AxNN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Virginia, who is soon to sail for Athens (Greece), 
 to assist in the Mission estabhshnient there. 
 
 November 22, December 6 and 13, 1835, and 
 January 3, 1836 — [The school was addressed 
 by the Rector on the subject of Confirmation ; 
 and also on the latter day by the Bishop of the 
 Diocese, previous to the administration of the 
 rite in the Church.] 
 
 May 18, 1836 — We were visited this after- 
 noon by Mr. Ruggles, a Missionary to the Sand- 
 wich Islands, who gave us an account of the 
 condition of children in those Islands, &c., and 
 concluded by singing the two first stanzas of the 
 Hymn, " From Greenland's Icy Mountains," in 
 the language of the Sandwich Islanders. Visited 
 also by our Pastor, vv^ho addressed the school. 
 
 May 26, 1836— Visited by the Rev. Mr. 
 Cuming, who addressed the school in a very per- 
 tinent and impressive manner. 
 
 June 26, 1836— Visited by Mrs. Hill, from 
 Greece. 
 
 July 26, 1836 — Visited by the Rev. Lancelot 
 B. Minor,^ Missionary to Africa. Our Pastor 
 preached a sermon this day in relation to the 
 death of the presiding Bishop of the Church, the 
 Right Rev. Dr. White.] 
 
 July 31, 1836 — Addressed by our Pastor and 
 the Rev. Mr. Greenleaff 
 
 * Died in his field of labor, Cavalla, Western Africa, on the 29th of 
 May, 1843. 
 
 t Mr. G. occupied the pulpit during the absence of the Rector in the 
 month of August. 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 145 
 
 Sejjt. 1836. — The school was opened by 
 prayer by the Rev. Dr. Robertson, one of our 
 Missionaries to Greece, recently arrived in this 
 country (the 2d School being present). Dr. R. 
 gave an interesting account of the schools under 
 his care [at Syra] in Greece. He also spoke of 
 the great destitution in which the children of that 
 country lived, and urged upon our children the 
 duty of desiring and cherishing a Missionary 
 spirit. 
 
 Sept. 25, 1836— Visited by the Rev. F. H. 
 Cuming, Secretary of the Prot. Ep. Sunday Sch. 
 Union, who preached in the Church, and took 
 up a collection in aid of the funds of the Union, 
 amounting to $120. 
 
 Ja7i. 1, 1837 — Our Pastor addressed the 
 School on the New Year. 
 
 Jan. 15, 1837 — [The lamentable shipwreck 
 of the barque Mexico, on Hempstead beach, in 
 the night of the 1st inst., on her voyage from 
 Liverpool to New- York, was the subject of an 
 impressive address to the school by our Pastor.] 
 
 Ajyril 2, 1837 — [The Superintendent read a 
 letter from Mr. Charles Douglass, formerly a 
 scholar here, who is now a member of Trinity 
 College, in the University of Cambridge, Eng- 
 land.*] 
 
 * The Rev. Dr. Tyng, in an account of his visit to this University, 
 during a public examination, after referring to the amount and severity 
 of the tasks required of the pupils, has this paragraph : 
 
 " I was much pleased to find among the names of the distinguished 
 scholars at this examination, Mr. Douglass, a son of the President of 
 Kenyon College ; and I was more than once complimented upon the 
 character of this' young American." 
 
146 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 April 9, 1837 — The remains of Sophia Lee, 
 a member of this school, were this day taken 
 into the Church, where the fmieral service was 
 performed. 
 
 June 25, 1837 — The 2d School met with us 
 this afternoon, and Bishop Mcllvaine made a 
 very earnest and affectionate address to us on 
 coming to the Lord Jesus Christ. He said he 
 could tell us nothing new, but he brought good 
 old things to our remembrance, and we trust the 
 Holy Spirit will grant a blessing. Our Pastor 
 likewise addressed the schools. 
 
 July 2, 1837 — Visited by Bishop Mcllvaine 
 and our Pastor. 
 
 July 30, 1837 — Our Pastor addressed the 
 school on the subject of the death of one of our 
 former pupils, Miss Belinda Dean, who departed 
 this life during the past week. 
 
 Sept. 3, 1837 — Addressed by our Pastor and 
 the Rev. E. W. Peet, of Chilicothe, Ohio. 
 
 Oct. 8, 1837 — Addressed by our Pastor on the 
 death of Rachel M. Smith, formerly one of our 
 scholars. 
 
 Nov. 26, 1837— Addressed by the Plcv. Mr. 
 Goddard on the importance of building on the 
 good foundation. 
 
 Jan. 7, 1838 — Visited by our Pastor, who 
 addressed himself especially to the children of 12 
 years of age, from the words of our Saviour, in 
 answer to his mother, when she found him in the 
 Temple, listening to the doctors, and asking them 
 questions : " Wist ye not that I must be about 
 my Father's business !" 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 147 
 
 Feb. 25, 1838 — Addressed by the Rev. Mr. 
 Kellogg, of the Mission Church in Vande water 
 street, N. Y. 
 
 April 29, 1838 — Addressed by our Pastor on 
 the subject of Confirmation, which holy rite is 
 to be administered in the Church this morning 
 [24 scholars, and 4 teachers were among the 
 number confirmed.] 
 
 May 27, 1838 — Addressed by our Pastor on 
 the interesting fact that this day 10 years ago, 
 this school was first commenced.^ 
 
 July 1, 1838 — Our Pastor made a few re- 
 marks to the school on the distressing loss of the 
 Pulaski steamer. 
 
 Sept. 2, 1838 — Our Pastor addressed the 
 school in the morning. In the afternoon, preached 
 a sermon to both schools. 
 
 * In a sermon preached this day, or about this time, in the Church, 
 the Rector said : 
 
 " A Sunday School for the children of the Church was a most happy 
 invention, and was doubtless inspired in the heart of a venerated and 
 now sainted man by the Holy Spirit himself. For more than fifty 
 years has this glorious expedient been in operation, and the zeal and 
 activity of the Church have had an opportunity for continual and com- 
 plete employment, 
 
 " To sketch the origin, progress, and success of the Sunday School 
 which, ten years ago, was commenced in this Church, and to describe 
 its beneficial effects upon 150 teachers and 2500 children, would be a 
 task too great for the present occasion. I can only say, that the labors 
 of the teachers in this school (nowbecoine two) continue unabated from 
 week to week, and I speak with solemnity and joy when I say, that the 
 Spirit of God has of late apparently crowned this labor with success. 
 Children have been transferred from the bench of the teacher to the altar 
 of God, and like the Tree of Life, this Church has appeared not only 
 covered with leaves, and laden with fruit, but at the same time orna- 
 mented with buds and blossoms." 
 
148 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 The space already occupied by these extracts, 
 enables us only summarily to notice a portion 
 of the remainder that were copied for insertion. 
 In June, 1839, the Superintendent referred with 
 much impressiveness to the sudden death of Al- 
 derman John Wright, Superintendent of the 2d 
 Presbyterian School, and to that of one of our 
 own scholars, Sarah E. D. Newton, an adopted 
 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Doughty. — In 
 January, 1840, Rev. Mr. (now Bishop) South- 
 gate addressed the school, referring to the trials 
 he endured in his then recent tour in Persia, 
 &c., which were however more than recom- 
 pensed by his consolations, and expressing his 
 determination to devote his life to the missiona- 
 ry work. He explained the manner in which 
 the contributions of the scholars intended for the 
 education of Greek children were calculated to 
 be of general benefit to that country, exhorted 
 them not to grow weary in well-doing, and al- 
 ways to accompany their gifts with prayers for 
 the spiritual illumination of their less favored 
 brothers and sisters. — In November, 1841, Rev. 
 Mr. Hill addressed the school in relation to his 
 Mission establishment at Athens, when 8100 a 
 year were pledged for the support of a beneficia- 
 ry, to be selected by Mrs. Hill. — The Superin- 
 tendent communicated to the school some ex- 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 149 
 
 tracts of a letter from Miss Paterson, of Edin- 
 burgh, in which mention is made of the death 
 of her brother (Johri), who was for several years 
 Secretary of this school. His decease took place 
 under the paternal roof, February 5, 1842, and 
 although not a professing Christian while here, 
 it is inferred from his sister's account of his last 
 days, " that he was a penitent, and found peace 
 in the finished righteousness of his Saviour." 
 — The murder of young Phelps was made by 
 the Rector the subject of an admonitory address 
 to the children. — The two schools, Sunday be- 
 fore Christmas, 1840, contributed S28, (double 
 the amount required,) to furnish the inmates of 
 the Orphan Asylum with a Christmas dinner. — 
 The funeral of Miss Mary Jane Van Pelt took 
 place the 31st October, 1842, her remains being 
 brought into the Church, where the burial ser- 
 vice was performed, accompanied by such re- 
 marks by the Rector as the occasion suggested. 
 She had been connected with the school, as 
 scholar and teacher, from its commencement, 
 except for a few months in 1834, when she was 
 a teacher in St. Paul's (Mission) School. A re- 
 cord made at the time states, that she had "in 
 all things commended herself to her teacher 
 (Miss Ann D. Smith), the Superintendent, and 
 the school." 
 
150 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Officers of School No. 1, from 1828 to 1845. 
 
 Superintendent — Frederick T. Peet, until the 
 31st of March, 1844, when he resigned. 
 During his occasional absences, Rich'd M. 
 White, Charles Congdon, and A. D. Mat- 
 thews, had severally officiated. The latter 
 gentleman succeeded Mr. Peet in the 
 charge of the School. 
 
 Secretarij — George A. Bartow, 1828. R. W. 
 Dow^, 1829 ; lost, in the steamer Lexington. 
 George W. Dow, 1830. Edgar J. Bartow, 
 Nov. 1833. John Paterson, Nov. 1834; 
 died in Edinburgh, 1842. E. J. Bartow, 
 1838. A. E. Douglass, January, 1840. 
 Henry Bancroft, Nov. 1842. Wm. Peet, 
 June, 1843. John Birdsall, Dec. 1843. 
 N. D. Morgan, Aug. 1844. 
 
 Librarian — W. C. Booth, E. J. Bartow, jointly, 
 1829. E. J. Bartow, 1830. Fanning C. 
 Tucker ; died October, 1834. WiUiam J. 
 Miller, March, 1834. Charles E. Craven, 
 April, 1837 ; deceased. Wm. C. Flower, 
 March, 1838. William Peet, Sept. 1838. 
 Wm. Peet and Claudius B. Nichols, joint- 
 ly, Feb. 1839. C. B. Nichols, June, 1843. 
 
 About 1220 volumes in the Library. 
 
Srse .Secontr Scl^ool* 
 
 The following is a reply to sundry inquiries 
 made of the Rector just before his embarkation 
 for England : 
 
 Ship Sheffield, from Liverpool to New- York, 
 At Sea, November 7th, 1843, Lat. 41. 4, Long. 67*. 
 
 My Dear Sir : Your letter of May I have just 
 reperused. Its contents have been in my mind 
 ever since I parted from you. But my continual 
 motion from place to place during a long jour- 
 ney has prevented me from sitting down quietly 
 to reply to your requests. I am happy to find 
 that you have undertaken to collect some infor- 
 mation concerning the Sunday Schools of St. 
 Ann's Church ; because the success with which 
 they have been crowned may encourage others 
 to undertake a work, w hich, although applauded 
 where faithfully performed, still might deter, by 
 its arduousness, many timid and irresolute minds. 
 This important undertaking was begun more 
 than fifteen years ago, and the same enterprizing 
 mind which was chiefly concerned in its com- 
 mencement, has, with some others, continued 
 
152 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 through the whole period unremittingly to pro- 
 mote it. Actively engaged in commercial la- 
 bor, and occupied with the care of a large 
 family, it may be inferred that to uncommon 
 'perseverance, much of his success must be at- 
 tributed. But human means, however impor- 
 tant, are not the cause of success ; " Paul may 
 plant and Apollos w ater," hut God must give 
 " the increase." Prayer has been relied upon for 
 the success of these schools as much as any other 
 thing. Nor has prayer in this instance been 
 merely the performance of a task, or the sub- 
 mission to a rule : it has been the language of 
 hearts sincerely anxious for the salvation of the 
 souls in a certain sense committed to their charge 
 — and it has been the effect of faith in the truth 
 and promises of God's word ; . in that solemn 
 truth, that " Except a man be born of water and 
 of the Spirit, he cannot see the kingdom of God," 
 and in that precious promise, that when " two of 
 you shall agree, as touching any thing they shall 
 ask, it shall be done for them." 
 
 Prayer has not been confined to the opening 
 and closing of the school, nor to the Sabbath 
 only. In the w^eek, at the meeting of the teach- 
 ers, this great duty has been performed ; and at 
 other times, both in the closet and at the family 
 circle, this work of supplication has been con- 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. 153 
 
 tinned. Sure I am, that many and fervent, and 
 I think effectual prayers have been raised for 
 these schools, and such as may always be ex- 
 pected to precede the outpouring of God's Spirit. 
 So important and so natural an act had prayer 
 become to the children, that when their Pastor 
 went to Europe for his health in the year 1830, 
 the members of School No. 1, then only in ex- 
 istence, rose up in a body in the school, and 
 promised to pray for their absent Minister daily. 
 What a rich return for pastoral fidelity and affec- 
 tion ! The letter, informing that Pastor of the 
 fact, was received in the interior of England, and 
 cheered greatly the despondency of an absent 
 father and Shepherd ! Again, in the year 1843, 
 when a succeeding Pastor was about embarking 
 for Europe, from the same cause, the two schools 
 assembled for the purpose of bidding him fare- 
 w^ell ; and then, out of 400 children, most who 
 were old enough to understand the request, rose 
 up and made the same sweet promise of offering 
 daily prayer for their Pastor and his family. 
 That Pastor, who now writes this, was greatly 
 comforted by such a promise, and especially on 
 the Lord's day. If God *' heard the voice of the 
 lad," Ishmael, will He not hear the prayers of 
 children now, and if Chri^t was once pleased 
 when children cried " Hosannah !" will he not be 
 
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154 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 intreated when children cry for mercy on one 
 who had often brought them in the arms of faith 
 to Him, and very many of them in the arms, and 
 in the rite of Holy Baptism ] 
 
 In considering the success of these schools, 
 another feature must be noticed : it is the Gospel 
 method of teaching the truth pursued in them, 
 and the Church-like air of the schools. Many 
 and many a funeral sermon has been preached 
 in these embryo Churches,* for some teacher or 
 juvenile member who had died : many and many 
 a discourse on public calamities of pestilence, 
 fire, or flood. Every thing which has agitated 
 the community around, and of course interested 
 the minds of the children, has been made the 
 theme of discourse, and turned to a spiritual ac- 
 count. Missionary addresses have been con- 
 tinually delivered to them in a juvenile style, and 
 their little and yet liberal donations to this cause 
 have proved that such seed was not sown in vain. 
 Nor have their Pastors and Superintendents only 
 preached here, but very many other Ministers 
 and Missionaries, and intelligent persons en- 
 gaged in Sunday School instruction, have also 
 come before them in the " fulness of the blessing 
 
 * The reader cannot fail to have discovered the truth of this remark in 
 perusing the preceding extracts from the records of one of the schools. 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 155 
 
 of the Gospel of Christ." The effect of this mode 
 of teaching has been perceptible in a good at- 
 tendance on the schools, and in a continual sup- 
 ply of funds to the Missionary treasury of the 
 Church : and incidentally, also, on the occasion 
 of their present Pastor's departure for Europe. 
 Supposing that he would visit Sunday Schools 
 in a far country, some of the older children sent 
 him written messages, (appropriate texts of Scrip- 
 ture,) for their fellow Sunday scholars across the 
 water. These were delivered afterwards by that 
 Pastor to the children of the Sunday School of 
 St. Stephen's Church, Coleman street, Lon- 
 don, and drew forth from its children most ap- 
 propriate Scripture messages in return. The 
 same messages were afterwards delivered to the 
 children of Rev. Dr. Marsh's Sunday School, 
 Leamington, Warwickshire, and were attended 
 by the same effect, and again to the children of 
 the Rev. Mr. Hill's school. Rector of Freming- 
 ton, Devonshire, with more impression than on 
 either of the above occasions. Answers from 
 these were also returned. The teachers of these 
 schools were inquisitive to know the progress 
 which St. Ann's children had made in religious 
 knowledge, and were disposed to hold them up 
 as an example. From still another Sunday 
 School in London, an interesting and useful ad- 
 
156 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 dress has been made, and sent to St. Ann's 
 schools, in return for their messages read by 
 Mr. Hough, a zealous teacher of that school. 
 Proficiency in Christian knowledge may well be 
 expected of some of those children who have 
 been in St. Ann's schools for eighteen years, 
 and whose parents have taken great pains to 
 second the instructions of their teachers. 
 
 Having touched upon some of the causes of 
 success in these schools, I proceed to recall the 
 circumstances which led to the formation of 
 School No. 2. 
 
 When the present writer first entered on the 
 Rectorship of St. Ann's Church in May, 1833, 
 he found the Sunday School of the Church 
 in the most flourishing condition. A large 
 brick building erected for the purpose, 80 feet 
 long and 25 feet wide, was literally full of scho- 
 lars, and as the summer approached, became too 
 much crowded for the health of the children. 
 It was then that a second school was proposed. 
 But so great was the interest of the teachers in, 
 and their attachment to, this school, that it was not 
 easy to find candidates for laborers in the new 
 school. For a short time, however, the import- 
 ance of the undertaking induced a sufficient 
 number of persons to engage in the work. A 
 meeting was held, a choir of teachex*s formed, 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 157 
 
 and after nomination by the Rector, a Superin- 
 tendent fixed upon and appointed. This school 
 commenced with a small number of children, and 
 for some years after its organization it was im- 
 possible to place it on a footing, as it respects a 
 room or accommodations, which should insure a 
 rapid increase. It was held for a time in the 
 gallery of the Church, then in a room procured 
 in an adjoining street, and I believe in some third 
 apartment* Nothing but the calm and perse- 
 vering determination of the Superintendent and 
 teachers, under the divine blessing, secured its 
 final establishment. The house erected for the 
 first school almost joined one side of the Church. 
 Many of the congregation were unwilling that 
 that house should be built, fearing that it might 
 intercept the light, or otherwise injure the Church. 
 When, then, it was proposed, as the only re- 
 source for School No. 2, to add a second story 
 to the first building, the project was disapproved 
 by some, and although the most strenuous efforts 
 were made by some kind friends in the vestry, it 
 was not until a year after the presentation of the 
 request, that a vote passed the vestry of the Church 
 permitting such an addition to be made. As 
 
 * We think the School was subjected to five or six removals before 
 it obtained a permanent location. 
 
158 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 soon as this was effected, the Rector commenced, 
 and even then the vestry dechned employing the 
 funds of the Church in the work. They, how- 
 ever, appointed a committee of their number to 
 take charge of the work, and to report to them. 
 As soon as this vote passed the vestry, the Rec- 
 tor undertook the business of collecting funds 
 from the congregation by personal application : 
 and a sum not less than fifteen hundred dollars 
 was thus obtained. This was not accomplished 
 without much effort, as the design of raising the 
 old building w^as not fully approved by the peo- 
 ple. By this effort, a new room of ample di- 
 mensions was acquired, 75 feet long by 25 feet 
 high. From the entrance of School No. 2 on 
 these airy and commodious premises, it began to 
 increase, and continuing under the care of the 
 same faithful Superintendent and teachers for 
 several years, it became the source of spiritual 
 edification to a large number of children. A 
 more united and steady company of instructors 
 were rarely seen. It is true they had the ex- 
 ample of the first school before their eyes. But 
 there was also no small discouragement arising 
 from the same cause. The first school could not 
 be equalled by the second ; for there were cir- 
 cumstances connected with its establishment and 
 operations which insured particular affection and 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. l59 
 
 interest. Comparisons between the two would 
 not fail to be made by the zealous supporters 
 of the enterprize, and these would by no means 
 increase their hopes of abundant success. Still 
 they proceeded on from year to year until their 
 numbers w^ere approaching fast those of the older 
 and original school. In 1840, their first Superin- 
 tendent left them, and took charge of a Sunday 
 School in a new Church. This gentleman, Mr. 
 Charles Congdon, in retiring from this useful, 
 and to a Christian, honorable station, was re- 
 warded by the strongest expressions of respect 
 and affection from the friends and supporters of 
 the school, but undoubtedly more still by a re- 
 collection of the long-continued labors in the 
 cause of his Saviour, which through divine grace 
 he w as enabled and disposed to bestow. May a 
 still higher reward be in store for him wdien the 
 Lord makes up his jewels. Daring Mr. Cong- 
 don's superintendency, many interesting facts 
 might have been furnished for this sketch, had 
 there been any knowledge of the present design, 
 but to perform their duty seemed to be the first 
 and last object of the teachers. The Pastor of 
 this school w^as a witness of much that might 
 well be know n, but at this distance of time it 
 would be difficult to recover from memory its 
 details. At a distribution of prizes for the per- 
 
160 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 feet recollecting of the Church Catechism, this 
 school took its full share of rewards. And one 
 of the boys who obtained a Bible or a Prayer- 
 Book, testified on his death-bed to the truth of 
 that promise, " Whatsoever a man sowetli, that 
 shall he also reap." That boy " died in faith," 
 and it is believed that the exhortations delivered 
 by him during his dying hours will not soon be 
 lost. To his remaining brother, and to his pa- 
 rents, his addresses were most affecting, fervent 
 and faithful. It may be well said of this youth, 
 " though dead, he yet speaketh." 
 
 Another fact connected with this school, is the 
 ordination to the ministry of the next Superin- 
 tendent, the Rev. John Carpenter Srnith, Rec- 
 tor of a Church in Wooster, Ohio.* 
 
 Mr. Smith was a Sunday School scholar of 
 St. Ann's Church. He became a teacher in 
 School No. 2, afterwards its Superintendent, and 
 then was ordained by the Bishop of New York 
 to the Gospel ministry. This itself is one of the 
 finest fruits of this good work. What a stimulus 
 to teachers is the thought, that some of the youth 
 who are receiving instruction at their hands are 
 destined to be the future lights of the world. 
 Who can doubt but that the influence of the 
 
 * Now of Trinity Parish, Rockaway, L. I. 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 161 
 
 Sunday Scliool contributed largely to form the 
 determination on the part of Air. Smith to be- 
 come a Minister of Christ ! How large, then, 
 may be the circle of blessings within which a 
 Sunday School operates ! and how may a pious 
 lay teacher preach to a benighted world through 
 the instrument which he has raised up ! Minis- 
 ters, Missionaries, and mothers in Israel, will 
 undoubtedly proceed in one unbroken rank from 
 these fountains of knowledge to enlighten and 
 bless the Church and the world. 
 
 The next Superintendent of this school was a 
 teacher in School No. 1, now the Rev. C. Ban- 
 croft, Minister of St. Paul's Chapelry, Quebec, 
 L. C. Under Mr. Bancroft the school flourish- 
 ed ; and its numbers became about equal to those 
 of the original School No. 1. The weekly bib- 
 lical lectures of Mr. Smith and Mr. Bancroft to 
 the teachers were considered as valuable means 
 of improvement, and like all the efforts of Chris- 
 tian benevolence, were twice blessed, first to the 
 hearers, and next to the speakers themselves. 
 To what finer kind of discipline can the expec- 
 tant of holy orders submit, as preparatory to the 
 exercise of the Pastoral office, than this ? He is 
 first the scholar, then the teacher of scholars, 
 and afterwards the teacher of teachers. If our 
 blessed Lord laid great stress upon " feeding his 
 
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162 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 lambs," and if the Sunday School is the nursery 
 of the Ministry and of the Church, then a people 
 may be sure of such a blessing who possess a 
 Pastor graduated from these institutions. The 
 finest talents and the most ardent piety may fail 
 to convert adults and men who have grown old 
 in vice ; but simple, steady, and prayerful em- 
 ployment of Sunday School instruction cannot 
 fail to be crowned with success. Train up a 
 child in the way he should go, and when he is 
 old he will not depart from it. Under the last 
 mentioned Superintendent, the library was con- 
 siderably enlarged, and at his ordination in July, 
 1843, the school had not fallen from the flour- 
 ishing condition under the long-remembered and 
 judicious superintendency of the once teacher 
 and scholar, the Rev. Mr. Smith. May the 
 blessing of God the Father, Son, and Spirit, rest 
 upon their labors. With the proper qualification 
 of a thorough literary, and of the prescribed 
 course of theological studies, with youth and 
 health, and with a large circle of Christian friends 
 to aid them with their prayers, much maybe ex- 
 pected from the ministry of these two young and 
 zealous Pastors. But to vv^hatever usefulness or 
 eminence they may arrive, it cannot be doubted 
 that they will look back to the Sunday School 
 as the fountain-head from whence their ministe- 
 rial usefulness took its rise. 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 163 
 
 A letter, received from Mr. Bancroft by the 
 Rector of St. Ann's, while in England, shows 
 the spirit of piety which exists in the germ in 
 many a youthful member of his late charge. 
 
 [This letter enclosed texts of Scripture from 
 both scholars and teachers, put into the form of 
 letters, with the addition, in some cases, of ex- 
 pressions of affection for their Pastor, and desire 
 for his return. Mr. B. says, " Some of the chil- 
 dren appear to be seriously inclined, though not 
 decidedly pious. Last Sunday, I asked those 
 to rise who had remembered to pray for their 
 Pastor, and the majority of the school arose."] 
 
 Now, my dear Sir, I have complied with your 
 request as far as possible, while distant from 
 home and the records of my parish. That your 
 design may be attended with success, is the sin- 
 cere wish of your faithful and attached Pastor, 
 
 B. c. c. 
 
 Darino; the absence of the Rector, the school 
 was addressed, among other clergymen, by the 
 late Superintendent (the Rev. Mr. Smith), 
 on two occasions; by the Rev. J. W. Miles, the 
 newly appointed Missionary to Syria; and by 
 the Rev. Mr. Kellogg. Mr. Smith alluded very 
 happily to his former connection with the school, 
 and exhorted the teachers to consider well their 
 
164 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 " high calhng," its honor and responsibihty, and 
 to take care that they were not less dihgent and 
 conscientious in the discharge of its duties, than 
 in the business affairs of hfe. An affectionate 
 appeal was also made to the scholars. 
 
 In the month of July, a letter, directed to St. 
 Ann's schools, was received from the Rector, 
 dated " London, 30th June," in which he gives 
 an account of his visit and address to the schools 
 connected with the Re\ . Josiah Pratt' s Church, 
 before referred to. In the course of his instruc- 
 tions in our schools on the Sunday previous to 
 his leaving Brooklyn, he put various questions 
 to the children as to the most interesting portions 
 of the Bible to a sinner, referring especially to 
 the 16th verse of the 3d chapter of St. John, 
 and bringing as distinctly and vividly as possible 
 before the youthful mind, that boundless love that 
 would save a perishing world. But so power- 
 less were words to express the immensity of this 
 love, that even He who had command of all lan- 
 guage, the blessed Saviour himself, could only 
 say, " God SO loved the world,'' &c. On the 
 occasion of his visit to the London schools, 
 mentioned above, our Pastor pursued a similar 
 course of instruction, asking nearly the same 
 questions, and receiving the same answers. He 
 then delivered the messages which our children 
 
THE SUNDAY SCyHOOLS. 165 
 
 had sent — " taking out, one by one, the httle pa- 
 pers on which they were written, and reading 
 them, and then commenting on each." The 
 question was then asked, if any boy or girl 
 wished to send a message to children over the 
 water, 3000 miles off] A boy named this : 
 " Watch and pray, lest ye enter into tempta- 
 tion ;" and a girl this : " I love them that love 
 me, and they that seek me early shall find me." 
 From these two texts, our Pastor drew an instruc- 
 tive lesson for his own " dear lambs." And in 
 the commencement of this letter he says to them : 
 " Ever since I parted with you, on Sunday the 
 14th of May, in the Chapel, you have been in 
 my mind. The promise of many of you to pray 
 for me I have fondly cherished, and the promise 
 I then made to pray for you I have faithfully 
 performed. Daily have I thought of you before 
 a throne of grace, and prayed that you might 
 remember your Saviour in the days of your 
 youth." 
 
 Some weeks after this, three letters were 
 transmitted by our still absent Pastor from Mr. 
 Pratt's school, one from the boys, another from 
 the girls, and the third from the Superintendent 
 of the male department. The letter from the girls, 
 evidently written, as it purports to be, by one 
 of their own number, is certainly creditable to the 
 
166 ST. A^N'S CHURCH. 
 
 school, especially as the pupils are of a condition 
 in society that necessarily confines their instruc- 
 tion mainly to that which is obtained on Sun- 
 day. The letter is dated July 8th, and the fol- 
 lowing are extracts : 
 
 " From the Sunday School Girls of the Church of St. Stephen's, Cole- 
 man street, London, to the Sunday Schools of St. Ann's, Brook- 
 lyn : 
 
 " Dear Brothers and Sisters : During the visit 
 of your beloved Pastor to this land we have been 
 highly favored with his presence at our Church 
 and school, and were much pleased with the 
 account he gave us of the progress of religion in 
 America.^ We received by him many in- 
 teresting lessons from you, for which we return 
 you our sincere thanks, and trust we shall ever 
 remember and live according to them ; for how 
 great will be our condemnation, if we neglect 
 those blessed things we are taught. We think 
 we are greatly blessed in having such a Pastor 
 as the Rev. Josiali Pratt, in promoting our wel- 
 fare, and encouraging us to go on with zeal in 
 the Missionary cause, of which he is considered 
 the father here.f Think, dear fellow-scholars, 
 
 * Our Pastor had given an account of the state of religious instruction 
 in the schools connected with his own Church in Brooklyn. In the 
 minds of these simple-hearted girls, Brooldyn probably comprehended 
 all America! Nor is this want of geographical knowledge to be deemed 
 a reproach to them, when many of their more favored countrymen, with 
 some of the editorial fraternity, frequently betray more lamentable igno- 
 rance in regard to the extent and divisions of our country. 
 
 t This, we believe, is strictly the fact. It is said by the London Re- 
 cord, that " for twenty years, he conducted the affairs of the Church 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 167 
 
 what a privilege it is for us to be born in a Chris- 
 tian land, where the Gospel is freely preached to 
 all, — with Sabbath schools to attend, and so 
 many dear teachers to instruct us in the way of 
 sah'ation, and warn us to flee from the wrath to 
 come. Our Superintendents, who are the Misses 
 Pratt, we owe many thanks to, and trust we shall 
 ever be grateful for their kindness and instruc- 
 tions, and, with the blessing of God, profit by 
 them, and bring forth fruit like good seed in a 
 fruitful soil, knowing that we are not oar own, 
 but bought with a price. .... 
 O may we give our hearts to God in our youth. 
 Then is the time, if we would be blest with his 
 peculiar smile. . . . He has said, 
 
 " I love them that love me, and they that seek 
 me early shall fmd me." We have every op- 
 portunity of doing so ; let us embrace it. 
 Pray earnestly for the Holy Spirit to strengthen 
 you ; for " by grace are ye saved, through faith, 
 and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God." 
 
 Missionary Society almost single-handed ; and when he gave up the 
 Secretaryship, he consented to become Chairman of the Corresponding 
 Committee. He was the sole projector, and for more than twenty years 
 the sole editor, of the Missionary Register^ So great an interest did he 
 take, also, in the infusion of a Missionary spirit into the Episcopal 
 Church of this country, that, in a correspondence with the late Bishop 
 Griswold on the subject, he urged the formation of a Missionary Society 
 here, and proffered, it is believed, besides any other assistance he could 
 render, a contribution to its funds. 
 
 The intelligence of Mr. Pratt's death reached here a {qw weeks since^ 
 He had been for more than twenty years Minister of St. Stephen's, 
 and is succeeded by his son. He was the intimate friend of Mr. Cecil, 
 and at one period his Curate (at St. John's, Bedford Row ). 
 
168 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Be obedient to yonr teachers, for in so doing 
 you will please God. Pray for all nations, and 
 may your prayers, with the prayers of England, 
 be answered to the good of many souls." . . 
 
 [Signed by seven Girls.] 
 
 The letter from the Superintendent covered 
 eleven texts of Scripture in the autographs of the 
 same number of boys. They had requested to 
 be allowed the privilege of sending us these 
 Scripture epistles, both as an acknowledgment 
 of those thev had received from our schools and 
 as a token of their good will towards us. The se- 
 lection of texts, though from memory at the mo- 
 ment of writing, was for the most part appropri- 
 ate. That of the first boy was, 
 
 " Kemeinber thy Creator in the days of thy 
 youth, before the evil days come,'' S^c. 
 
 And that of the last, 
 
 " The eyes of the Lord are in every place he- 
 holding the evil and the good!' 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Bancroft, in reading the letters 
 and texts to the schools, interspersed such re- 
 marks as were pertinent to the occasion and the 
 subjects suggested. 
 
 Mr. Bancroft ended his duties in the school 
 on the 24th of September, preparatory to leaving 
 for Quebec. He had previously sent in his re- 
 signation as Superintendent, and received from 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 169 
 
 the teachers, through a committee, a token of 
 their sense of his personal worth and official ser- 
 vices, for which he had tendered his acknow- 
 ledgments. On taking leave of his charge, he 
 affectionately and earnestly exhorted the children 
 to "seek first the kingdom of God," assuring 
 them that all needful things would be added ; 
 and expressed his thankfulness to the teachers 
 for their uniform kindness towards him, as well 
 as ready co-operation in all plans for the pros- 
 perity of the school. 
 
 At the instance of Mr. Bancroft, and by the 
 concurrence of the teachers, the charge of the 
 school, until the return of the Rector, was com- 
 mitted to Mr. F. G. Fish, who was afterwards 
 further continued in charge until the last Sunday 
 in May, 1844, when Mr. Bancroft, having re- 
 turned to the city, and become Assistant Minis- 
 ter of the parish, resumed the superintendency. 
 
 The Rector, as before related, returned on 
 Sunday morning, the 12th of November.* In 
 the expectation that he would visit them in the 
 afternoon, both schools assembled in the Chapel 
 at 2 o'clock, many of the congregation being 
 present. The children rose on his entrance, and 
 
 * A good deal of anxiety seemed to prevail in the school on the pre- 
 vious Sunday, at the length of time which had elapsed since the sailing 
 
170 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 on reaching the desk he offered a short prayer, 
 which commenced with these words : " Blessed 
 Jesus ! at Thy feet we parted with these dear 
 lambs ; at Thy feet we meet them again." A 
 Hymn, prepared for the occasion, was then sung 
 by the schools. This was followed by a few ,. 
 remarks from the Rector, in the course of which 
 he said, that nothing at any time gave him more 
 happiness than to meet the assembled children 
 of his flock, but that happiness was now greatly 
 enhanced by the reflection that a few hours be- 
 fore there was little or no prospect of his being 
 thus favored. The contrast of his situation on 
 the deck of a sinking ship, entertaining scarce- 
 ly a hope of escape, with the cheering scene be- 
 fore him, excited emotions beyond the power of 
 words to express. He said he had much to 
 communicate that would interest the schools, — 
 some letters and messages to read, &c., — all of 
 
 of the Sheffield. This state of feeling was embodied in a " Prayer for 
 our Pastor," which was intended to bs sung the morning he arrived, 
 but a more joyous strain was happily called for. The following are 
 two of the verses : 
 
 For his frail bark we watch and weep. 
 So long, long toss'd upon the wave. — 
 
 O thou art mighty, fearful Deep ! 
 But One is mightier still — to save ! 
 
 Saviour ! who once to earnest prayer 
 
 Bade winds and fears alike to cease, — 
 So, peaceful home our Shepherd bear, 
 And to his flock i-estore like peace. 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 171 
 
 which might occupy the spare moments of two 
 or three Smidajs. The schools which he visited 
 abroad, presented a very different aspect from 
 those of St. Ann's. They were composed, for 
 the most part, of children in far less eligible cir- 
 cumstances in life. But the benefits and privi- 
 leges which the Sunday School offered were, 
 perhaps, fully as much prized and improved by 
 them as by the children here. He concluded by 
 referring to the distribution of Bibles and Tracts 
 on board ship, and the apparently rehgious — and, 
 in their great extremity, tranquillizing — influence 
 thereby produced. 
 
 The communications referred to above were 
 subsequently made. A letter was read from Mr. 
 Edwin Hough, head clerk in the office of one of 
 the English religious societies, addressed to St. 
 Ann's schools, which the Rector desired might 
 be answered by them. Various texts of Scrip- 
 ture, from two or three schools in London with 
 which Mr. H. was connected, accompanied the 
 letter, which, he said, was " a voice from the 
 land of our fathers," and which contained some 
 excellent admonition to our children, a familiar 
 illustration of the nature or meaning of Faith, and 
 a kindly reference to our Pastor, who was com- 
 mended to our " increasing love." 
 
 Letters were also read from Miss Pratt and 
 
172 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Mr. Waddlngton, Superintendents of the male 
 and female departments of Mr. Pratt's school, 
 and much other matter of interest and instruc- 
 tion was communicated. 
 
 A few days after the Rector's visit to St. Ste- 
 phen's, a large number of teachers and others 
 called at his lodgings, to make inquiries as to the 
 state of Sunday School instruction in the United 
 States. In the course of conversation, the 
 " Christmas Offering" of our children Avas men- 
 tioned. The idea was entirely new to them, 
 and they seemed to be impressed with the belief, 
 as were many others to whom it was afterwards 
 communicated, that the adoption of the plan in 
 England would lead to great results. 
 
 The intercourse thus commenced between 
 these widely distant schools — first suggested by 
 our Pastor, — may not only be the source of many 
 pleasant recollections, but be productive of much 
 good, by enlarging the sympathies, if not the 
 minds of the children, on both sides of the water, 
 and by stimulating them to a more diligent im- 
 provement of their blessed privileges. 
 
 Several hymns had been written by persons 
 connected with the school, or by their friends, 
 to welcome the return of the Rector. Copies of 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 173 
 
 these, with a note expressing the continued re- 
 spect and affection of the teachers and scholars, 
 having been, at their own desire, sent to him 
 through the Acting Superintendent, the follow- 
 ing letter of acknowledgment was returned : 
 
 Rectory ot St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, Dec. 18, 1843. 
 
 My Dear Sit, — None but the Saviour and 
 Searcher of hearts can know the emotions of 
 gratitude which filled my soul on the morning of 
 Sunday, the 12th of November last, when I came 
 in sight of St. Ann's Church, and saw the sun 
 gilding its tower. I dare not indulge myself in 
 describing my feelings. It was a resurrection 
 from the grave. You may judge, then, what 
 were the feelings of affection and humility with 
 which I listened a few hours afterwards to the 
 singing of those hymns which you have sent me, 
 while in the midst of the children and teachers 
 of the Sunday Schools. 
 
 You will not be surprised to know that I in- 
 stinctively shrunk from so undeserved an honor ; 
 and yet I could rejoice in that high sense of the 
 value of a Christian Pastor's services, which the 
 teachers and scholars entertained, and which 
 gave rise to the composition and singing of those 
 hymns. To my dear and most highly esteemed 
 friends, and invaluable fellow-laborers of the Sun- 
 day School, present my sincerest thanks, and to 
 
174 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 their beloved flock my most devoted pastoral 
 aflection, and believe me, in the best of bonds, 
 Most affectionately, yom's and theirs, 
 
 B. c. c. 
 
 A Dorcas Society, consisting mostly of the 
 teachers of the school, was formed in the fall of 
 1841, for the purpose of providing clothing for 
 poor scholars and their parents. It has been 
 continued through the winter months since, and, 
 besides giving comfort to many famiUes, has 
 greatly aided in keeping up the attendance of the 
 school. The ladies meet once in two weeks, 
 from house to house, — preceding the labors of 
 each evening by reading a chapter from God's 
 Word, and closing them with a hymn of praise, 
 and occasionally by prayer."^ 
 
 * In suspending their operations in the spring of 1844, for the warm 
 season, one of their number wrote a neat and appropriate " Parting 
 Hymn," which was discoursed in very charming music by the " Dor- 
 cases" present. Two of the stanzas were as follow: 
 
 Our means, though small, have cloth'd 
 
 God's little ones, distress'd, 
 Such babes as when on earth 
 
 Our dear Redeemer bless'd. 
 Then we will Heaven's great King adore 
 For smiling on our scanty store. 
 
 Oh ! what a sweet return 
 
 For time andjabor given — 
 Souls, souls immortal, train'd 
 
 For happiness and Heaven : 
 Then let us part with hearts at rest, 
 For God our work of love hath bless'd. 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 
 
 175 
 
 Officers and Teachers, September 1, 1833. 
 [The school was commenced the previous month.] 
 (now of 
 
 Charles Congdon, Sup't 
 
 Emmanuel School.) 
 Wm. H. Carter, Sec'y, (removed 
 
 to Flushing.) 
 Miss Catharine Disbrow. 
 Miss Margaret Back. 
 Miss Sarah Herner. 
 Mrs. Harris, 
 
 Mrs. Charles Congdon, 
 
 Mrs. Jane Ten Eyck. 
 
 Mrs. A. D. Matthews. 
 
 Miss Helen Teller. 
 
 Miss Ellen Cole. 
 
 Geo. Rhodes, (removed.) 
 
 John Gregory. 
 
 Arthur Dugdale, (deceased.) 
 
 Mr. William A. Morgan was Secretary of the school for several years, 
 and actively engaged in promoting its prosperity. 
 
 Officers and Teachers, January 1, 1845. 
 Rev. Chs. Bancroft, Superintendent. 
 
 H. P. Morgan, Secretary. 
 Henry G. Nichols, Librarian. 
 Abraham Halsey, Assistant 
 brai'ian. 
 
 Li- 
 
 Female Classes. 
 Miss Ann D. Smith, (Female Bi- 
 ble Class.) 
 Miss Ellen Cole.* 
 Miss Sarah Herner.* 
 Miss Cornelia Frieke. 
 Miss Eliza W. Baldwin. 
 Mrs, Elizabeth Dorsett. 
 Miss Maria Messenger, 
 Miss Euphemia Halsey. 
 Miss Hannah Johnson. 
 Miss CM, T, Smith, 
 Miss L, Margaret Tyson. 
 Miss Maria Louisa Lewis. 
 
 Messrs. Henry G. Nichols, O. D. Burtis, Thomas Lownes, and 
 James W. Greene, Visiting Committee of the School. 
 
 Miss Maria Baldwin. 
 Miss Phebe Ann Smith. 
 Miss Rosa Messenger. 
 Miss Jane Gault. 
 
 Mole Classes. 
 Mrs. Jane Ten Eyck.* 
 Mrs. Charles Bancroft. 
 Mrs, F. G. Fish. 
 Miss Ann Rose. 
 Mrs. A. M. Harper. 
 Mr.F.G. Fish (Male Bible Class).t 
 Mr, Henry Bancroft. 
 Mr. A, M. Harper. 
 Mr. James B, Smith. 
 Mr, Stanhope English. 
 Mr, Ferdinand Walker. 
 Mr. Robert W. ZuiU. 
 Mr. Chas. H. Robinson. 
 
 * These, it will be seen, have been teachers from the beginning, 
 t And aiding occasionally the Superintendent. 
 
176 
 
 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 Ef}t iFirst School 
 
 Officers and Teachers, January 11, 1829. 
 [At the opening of the new building erected for the school.] 
 
 Female Teachers. 
 Miss Mary Ann Wetmore. 
 
 " Mary Wilson. 
 
 " Sarah M. Crommelin. 
 
 " Baylis. 
 
 " Sarah White. 
 
 " Ann D, Smith. 
 
 " Sarah F. Hopkins. 
 
 " Charlotte Bill. 
 
 " Susan M. Taylor. 
 
 " Julia Kirk. 
 
 " Eliza Demai. 
 
 " Louisa Greenwood. 
 
 " Eliza Wilson. 
 
 « Mary F. Walker. 
 
 " Eliza Van Doren. 
 
 " Henshaw. 
 Mrs. J. W. Burtis. 
 Miss Ellen Louden. 
 
 Miss Isabella M'Hinch. 
 " Mary Dow. 
 " Frances Gill. 
 " Rachel Smith. 
 " Caroline Banning. 
 
 Mile Teachers. 
 
 Mr. Richard M. White. 
 
 " Elijah Sprague. 
 
 *' Andrew Comstock. 
 
 " Judah Back. 
 
 " Leonard Smith. 
 
 " Wm W. Fettit. 
 
 " Richard S. Tucker. 
 
 " Oliver D. Burtis. 
 
 " Mardenbrough White. 
 
 " Condit Barkeloo. 
 
 " James W. Burtis. 
 
 " J. L. Van Doren. 
 
 Officers and Teachers, Decemher 29, 1844. 
 
 Female Teachers. 
 Miss Harriet Brainard. 
 
 " M. A. Duffield. 
 
 " Emily Puffer. 
 
 '' S. B. Titus. 
 Mrs. B. C. Cutler. 
 Miss P. B. English. 
 
 " Elizabeth Chew. 
 
 " Jane Dikeman. 
 
 " Elizabeth Peet. 
 
 " Catharine J. Sands. 
 
 '' Rebecca Peet. 
 
 " H.Phelps— (Bible Class). 
 
 " M. Hill Sands. 
 
 " Eliza Dikeman. 
 
 " Sarah Cole. 
 
 " Harriet Dow. 
 
 '• Ellen Callaffhan. 
 
 Miss Caroline Callaghan. 
 
 " Phebe Pettit. 
 Mrs. J. S. Doughty. 
 Miss A. C. Titus. 
 
 " Annie Cornell. 
 
 " Mary J. Frieke, 
 
 Male Teachers. 
 Mr. A. D. Matthews, Act'g Supt. 
 " N. D. Morgan, Secretary. 
 *• C. B. Nichols, Librarian. 
 " Wm. W. Pettit. 
 •■' Marcus F. Hyde— (B.Class). 
 " Wm. R. Wadsworth. 
 " C. A. Van Kleeck. 
 " Thomas Doughty. 
 " John M. Beytel. 
 " William Chartres. 
 
 Siandiui^ CommUtee, chosen in 18.35. — Messrs. Thos. I. Chew,"Cyrus 
 Bill, Col John M. Gamble (deceased), James H. Clarke (deceased), 
 R. M. White (removed), A. D. Matthews, W. W. Pettit, and the Su- 
 perintendent (ex officio). 
 
T HE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 
 
 177 
 
 jg^_g»ggg;iit;bjj,r)«g^iaaf^^-.j:.»;^>!U^ 
 
 In the above Engraving will be seen a representation of the Sunday 
 School as originally built, and first occupied by School No, 1, in Janu- 
 ary, 1829. The names of the teachers at that time are inserted on the 
 opposite page. The additional story, for the accommodation of No. 2, 
 and which fortiis the Chapel, was completed in 1837. This story is 
 exhibited in the Engraving which faces the title page. 
 
 The Children's Church. — Separate services are held on Sunday, 
 morning and afternoon, in the lower room, for those children who have 
 no seats in Church, and any others disposed to be present. The at- 
 tendance thus far has been about one hundred, and a good deal of inte- 
 rest is beginning to be manifested by the young worshippers. Mr. C. 
 A. Van Kleeck and Mr. W. R. Wads worth are the Readers. 
 
 The Teachers' Meeting continues to be held weekly, in which both 
 schools unite, and is rendered interesting and profitable by the instruc- 
 tions of the Assistant Minister, who usually presides. It is held in the 
 Chapel, and the attendance is generally good. 
 
 The names of Mrs. Sarah Wait, who is temporarily absent from the 
 school, and Miss Brittan, were inadvertently omitted in the Ust of teach- 
 ers in the Second School, as printed on page 175. 
 
 8 
 
178 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 ^Iriiitional. 
 What the labors and influence of a Sunday 
 School teacher of the right spirit can accom- 
 plish, and sometimes do accomplish, may be 
 seen from the following statement, made up to 
 the beginning of 1843. A teacher in School 
 No. 1, in something less than ten years, had 
 given instruction to 67 scholars. Of these, 
 
 There still remain in the Class, - 10 
 Deceased, - - - - - 2 
 
 Transferred to other schools in the city, 6 
 In Sunday Schools in New- York, 2 
 
 In Sunday School in Connecticut, 1 
 
 — 21 
 In Brooklyn, but now unconnected with 
 
 School,*^ - - - - 12 
 
 Removed from the city, and residence 
 
 unknown, - - - - - ]9 
 
 " to Philadelphia, (a pious boy,) 1 
 
 " to England, - - - 1 
 
 Preparing tor the Ministry, at Boston, - 1 
 
 Teachers in First School, (including 1 
 
 Librarian,) ----- 4 
 Teachers in other schools, - - - 7 
 
 In all, ^^ 
 
 If the present number of the class, and the 
 nine who are known to be in other Sunday 
 Schools, together with the two deaths, are de- 
 ducted, there will remain 45. Of these, eleven 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 179 
 
 — nearl^^ one-fourth— are engaged as Sunday 
 School teachers, and it is possible that some of 
 those whose residences are unknown, may be 
 doing good in the same way. 
 
 Of the deceased, one, who died at the age of 
 11, after a painful illness of nearly three years, 
 during which it was a source of grief to him that 
 he was not oftener enabled to attend the school, 
 is thought to have given evidence of having taken 
 the Saviour to be his everlasting portion. The 
 other was lost from on board a vessel of w^ar in 
 the Pacific, in a violent storm, when no efforts 
 could have rescued him. As it is known that he 
 had long bitterly regretted his separation from 
 the paternal roof, the hopQ is indulged that he 
 also sought to be reconciled to his heavenly Pa- 
 rent, and was forgiven. 
 
 It is by no means intended to ascribe all the 
 good fruits in this case to the instructions of the 
 teacher alone, or even to the Sunday School. 
 Other influences, doubtless, had their effect. Yet, 
 after all reasonable deductions are made, much 
 must be placed to the credit of " faithful Sunday 
 School teaching ;" especially as, in this instance, 
 many of the scholars could have received little 
 or no religious instruction at home. 
 
 The teacher of this class has also been prin- 
 cipally instrumental, within the last five years, 
 
280 ST. ANN'S CHURCHi 
 
 of establishing six Sunday Schools in Sullivan 
 county, N.Y., among a population in a great de- 
 gree secluded, and almost wholly destitute of 
 religious privileges, and has kept them supplied 
 with libraries from donations of books he has 
 solicited and obtained from schools in Brooklyn, 
 among which those of St. Ann's have not been 
 the lelst liberal. The schools thus established 
 have been the means of silently and almost im- 
 perceptibly spreading the truths of the Gospel 
 where the ministry could not be had, and in 
 some instances persons who were openly op- 
 posed to their formation at first, have, through 
 their instrumentality, '^ put on the new man," 
 and become themselves laborers in the field. 
 The books have greatly aided this good result. 
 They are read, not only by the children who 
 take them out, but by or to tlie families to which 
 they belong, and by their neighbors around. 
 Thus, a religious, practical, evangelical book, al- 
 though a quiet, often becomes an effective 
 
 preacher. 
 
 ■ • 
 
 It has not been ascertained that more than 
 seven deaths have occurred among those who have 
 been connected with the Seco?id ScJwol, since its 
 commencement nearly twelve years since,— 
 three teachers and four scholars. 
 
 Mr. Arthur Dugdale, one of the first teachers, 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 181 
 
 died of consumption three or four years since, 
 but some time after he had left the school. 
 
 Mr. S. Evans, a teacher, died about two or 
 three years ago, having suffered for a consider- 
 able time from mental derangement. Both Mr. 
 Dugdale and Mr. Ev^lns died abroad. 
 
 The third teacher was Miss Anfi Amelia 
 Hitchens, whose death occurred October 18th, 
 1843. She became connected with the school 
 in May, 1840, and joined the communion the 
 July following. It is the testimony of the then 
 Superintendent, " that her light shone steadily 
 and brightly always," and that she manifested 
 the " graces of the meek and humble Christian." 
 The last Sunday she was in school was the one 
 immediately preceding the departure of her Pas- 
 tor for Europe. During most of her long illness, 
 she was visited by the present Superintendent of 
 the school (before his recent sojourn in Cana- 
 da), and derived from his conversations much 
 consolation. To a sister teacher, who spent a 
 night with her just before her decease, she said, 
 in answer to an inquiry, " I believe my sins are 
 all washed away in the blood of the Lamb." 
 She spoke of her love of Christian society, and 
 of the blessedness of the Sunday School, and 
 sent a message to the children, exhorting them 
 " to be very attentive to their teachers' instruc- 
 
182 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 tions." Her mind loved to dwell upon the 14th 
 chapter of St. John, and upon the hymns be- 
 ginning, " Rock of Ages 1 cleft for me," " Jesus, 
 Saviour of my soul," and " Jesus, my strength, 
 my hope !" It having been -remarked to her 
 that she might yet be spared until the return of 
 her Pastor, whom she greatly desired to see, she 
 replied, that as she had " lingered so long, it 
 might be the Lord had more work for her to 
 do." Just before her departure, she said to some 
 one about her, " Tell my dear friends, all is 
 peace — all is peace ;" and expressions of similar 
 import had frequently fallen from her. She 
 bore her long sickness without a murmur, and 
 finally yielded up her spirit in the full assurance 
 of a blessed immortality. Her remains were 
 taken to the Church, and the funeral service was 
 performed, in the absence of the Rector, by the 
 Rev. W. H. Lewis, of Calvary Church. In a 
 brief address, he alluded to the amiable Christian 
 character spontaneously accorded to the de- 
 ceased by those who knew her, and to her un- 
 obtrusive habits and charitable disposition. 
 
 Of the deceased scholars, one (young Gillis) 
 has already been referred to in the letter of the 
 Rector. Another, a little girl about four years 
 old, whose name is not recollected, died in con- 
 sequence of having been accidentally burnt. 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 183 
 
 The third, Julia B. Craig, (sister of one of 
 the teachers,) entered the school soon after its 
 commencement, and is said to have always 
 manifested much interest in its instructions. A 
 sermon which she heard some time before her 
 death made a deep impression upon her mind, 
 and caused her frequently to refer to it, and es- 
 pecially during her sickness. The prayer of 
 faith, it is declared, may ''save a soul alive," and 
 that she had a prayirig teacher is inferred from 
 a letter written to her pupil, in which her spiritual 
 welfare is strongly pressed upon her considera- 
 tion. " Can I hope," she asks, " that the seed 
 which I have endeavored to sow in faith, has 
 begun to bud in your soul \ If so, do not feel 
 diffident to disclose to me your feelings. It will 
 be my great delight to be the means of leading 
 you to that Saviour who is able and willing to 
 heal both soul and body." That she was indeed 
 led to that Saviour, there is reason to hope. She 
 died in the year 1838, at the age of fourteen. 
 
 Julia Dickinson, whose death occurred in Oc- 
 tober, 1841, at twelve years of age, appears to 
 have given very satisfactory evidence that she 
 was truly " a member of Christ" and " child of 
 God." She would repeat to her mother, with 
 expressions of delight, such* passages in the ser- 
 mons or prayers of her Pastor as particularly in- 
 
184 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 terested her. Jesus wa%, with her, a sweet name. 
 She was confident that she should see him and 
 her Christian friends in heaven, and would en- 
 deavour to sool he the grief of her parents by re- 
 minding them that the separation would be short, 
 and the meeting again " so happy." 
 
 Henry Phillips, of the First School, nine or 
 ten years of age, was drowned while on a visit 
 to Newburg. He was docile, apt to learn, and 
 obedient to parents and teachers, and his friends 
 were consoled with a good hope that all was 
 well with him at the last. 
 
 Eleven hundred and sixty children have re- 
 ceived instruction in School No. 2, since its 
 commencement. 
 
 A portion of the preceding pages in relation 
 to the Sunday Schools, was submitted to the 
 Rev. J. Carpenter Smith, with a request that if 
 any thing of especial interest, which occurred 
 during his connection with them, had been omit- 
 ted, he would be kind enough to supply the de- 
 ficiency. The following extracts from his an- 
 swer to this request, cannot fail to gratify the 
 
 reader : 
 
 • 
 
 The subject of Sunday Schools generally is 
 
 one which finds a ready response in every Chris- 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 185 
 
 tian's breast. But anything in relation to those 
 connected with St. Ann's Church, comes to me 
 clothed with peculiar interest. • It calls forth the 
 recollection of many scenes which will never be 
 effaced from mj memory. 
 
 In a communication from the present beloved 
 Rector of St. Ann's, a touching allusion is made 
 to my past connection with those schools, as 
 scholar, teacher, and superintendent, with the 
 remark : " Who can doubt but that the influence 
 of the Sunday School contributed largely to form 
 his determination of becoming a Minister of 
 Christ !" To this I can heartily respond. I 
 will not detain you with my " experience" as a 
 scholar of the Sunday School. It will ever be, 
 on my part, a subject of thankfulness to God 
 that I was early a member of that institution for 
 the training of the lambs of the flock. Though 
 from my youth belonging to a " household fear- 
 ing God," yet it was in the Sunday School that 
 first I listened, and was led by Divine grace to 
 Him who will be found by those who seek him 
 early. When I first made a profession of re- 
 ligion, in baptism, I was a Sunday School scho- 
 lar, and likewise when I ratified my vows in the 
 rite of confirmation. How far, by the blessing 
 of God, the instructions of my faithful Sunday 
 School teachers contributed to lead me on from 
 resolutions to actions, I will not say, but I can- 
 not resist the promptings of my feelings to add, 
 that if ever I am so happy as to be made a par- 
 taker of the joys above, as a sinner saved by 
 grace, I trust it will be but the ending of a course 
 
186 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 first commenced under the moulding influences 
 of the Sunday School. 
 
 I regret my inabihty to furnish you with any 
 incidents of interest in connection with the Se- 
 cond School during the time I was its superin- 
 tendent. While I sustained that relation, the 
 school was a field in which many faithful teach- 
 ers labored. " The unity of the Spirit in the 
 bond of peace," seemed to be characteristic of 
 their actions. There was a devotedness and 
 zeal in the cause at all times manifested, 
 whether in the labors of the Sunday School, or 
 the exercises of the Teachers' meeting, which 
 seemed to say, that the love of Jesus was the 
 constraining motive. I believe we had many 
 praying teachers. And I know, my dear sir, you 
 will agree with me in saying, that these are the 
 most efficient laborers in Sunday Schools. Pray- 
 ing and dieting — just the true Missionary spirit, 
 which, whether put forth by the Christian in the 
 work of his salvation, or the teacher in the Sun- 
 day School, or the Minister in his labor, is that 
 which best can bring about the establishment of 
 Christ's kingdom in our own hearts, and in the 
 world. And the prayer of faith, combined with 
 faithful effort, seems to be the great requisite in 
 Sundav School labor. It is the minds of the 
 young which form almost an unoccupied field, 
 upon which this labor is brought to bear. They 
 are thus fortified against the snares of the world 
 and the assaults of infidelity. Present fruit may 
 not always be seen — it is not always to be ex- 
 pected. And here is where faith is called into 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 187 
 
 exercise. The praying and faithful Sunday 
 School teacher ipay often diligently lahor in 
 behalf of his youthful charge ; he may be " in- 
 stant in season and out of season," in sowing the 
 good seed of the word ; he may not see any 
 fruit ; but it may be, when he has finished his 
 labors and gone to his rest, his work will lollow^- 
 The seed may take root and spring up. Some 
 poor, wandering prodigal, far from home and 
 happiness, may be directed to Jesus, and find 
 peace and joy in believing, when among the 
 scenes of by-gone and better days, he remembers 
 the plan of salvation through a crucified Saviour, 
 which was told him in his Sunday School. And 
 among those who will hereafter labor in heathen 
 lands, there may be many, in whose hearts the 
 first germs of piety and devotion to God, were, 
 by the Spirit's blessing, implanted by some' pious, 
 humble Sunday School Teacher, whose earthly 
 form may then be resting quietly beneath "the 
 clods of the valley." God works by means. Could 
 we see the chain of events by which in his pro- 
 vidence he has brought the Gospel even down 
 to us, we should, perhaps, find that often the 
 labors and influence of some humble Christian 
 have been the ordained means of raising up and 
 sending out the messengers of the Gospel of 
 peace, till they have reached us. And how 
 knows the pious Sunday School tea.cher but 
 that his labors, poor and unworthy though he 
 think them to be, and in weakness and fear 
 though they be performed, may not be blessed 
 by God so as to form an important link in that 
 
188 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 chain of events which will usher in the glorious 
 day of prophetic vision, when the kingdoms of 
 this world will become the kingdoms of the 
 Lord, " and the knowledge of the Lord shall 
 cover the earth as the waters cover the sea." 
 This, my dear sir, is an encouraging truth. It 
 not only seems to bid the Sunday School la- 
 borers " onward," but also to tell us that in the 
 great day when the Lord's servants are owned, 
 and the golden crowns are given, the Sun- 
 day School teacher, faithful to his trust here 
 below, will then " shine forth as the stars" among 
 those who " have turned many to righteousness;" 
 and that theirs will be the Saviour's welcome : 
 " Inasmuch as ye have done it to the least of 
 these, ye have done it to me." 
 
 An incident occurred at the last Missionary! 
 meeting in the Chapel which it may be of mte- 
 rest to notice in this connection. The even- 
 ing having been devoted to the seamen's cause, 
 which it was proposed to aid, the Rector said 
 there was a gentleman belonging to St Ann's 
 Church present, who, if he could be persuaded to 
 do so, might relate many thrilling adventures of 
 the sea-faring life. He had risen through all the 
 regular grades of his profession to that of Cap- 
 tain of the ship in which he sailed. He had 
 been a- Sunday School scholar, and, at the al- 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 189 
 
 tar, participated in the higliest privileges of 
 the Christian behever ; and since that period 
 he had on Sunday conducted the regular service 
 of the Church on board his ship. He was em- 
 phatically our oibn sailor. The Captain then 
 came forward, and confirmed what had been 
 said, — delicately referring to the piety of a mo- 
 ther who had placed him in the Sunday School, 
 where his first serious impressions were received, 
 and to the higher instructions of a Pastor, which 
 had prepared him for admission to the commun- 
 ion, and forced upon him the duty of supplying 
 to those under his command, as far as he could, 
 those religious privileges which their calling pre- 
 vented them from enjoying in the sanctuary. 
 
 An officer of the Navy present, formerly a tea- 
 cher in the Sunday School, and much engaged 
 in the cause of seamen, also made very many 
 interesting remarks, in the course of which, in 
 alludhig to* the wreck of the Sheffield, he said 
 that the danger of those on board was even 
 greater than had been apprehended. If there 
 
 had been two or three dashes more againsl* the 
 
 * 
 
 sand, all would have been lost, unless some spe- 
 cial mercy had interposed in their behalf 
 
 There have been several pubhc examinations 
 of the children, which always showed satisfac- 
 
190 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 tory results. For a number of years, the schools 
 united with those of other denominations in their 
 anniversary celebrations ; but since 1841 the 
 Episcopal schools have assembled by themselves. 
 The first separate meeting was in St. Ann's, 
 when a sermon was preached to the children by 
 the Rev. Mr. Haight, of New York. In 1843, 
 also in St. Ann's, the scholars were addressed by 
 the Rev. W. H. Lewis, and teachers and parents 
 by Mr. Hilghf. In 1844, the schools met in 
 Christ Church, and were addressed by the Rev. 
 Mr. Bedell and the Rev. Mr. Walter. 
 
 The Rector read last Sunday (February 23) 
 to the Schools assembled in Church, a letter from 
 William Spencer, the youth mentioned on page 
 114 as having been sent out by St. Ann's to 
 Jubilee College, to be educated with a view to 
 the Ministry. The letter is addressed to the Rev. 
 Mr. Bancroft, and the following is aa extract : 
 
 Jubilee College, Jan. 1845. 
 
 Rev. and Dear Sir — I hope you will excuse 
 my not writing to you before, but the reason is, 
 I have waited w ith the expectation of receiving 
 a reply from you to my first letter. I think that 
 you will feel anxious to know what progress I 
 am making in my studies. I think I understand 
 what I have already learnt in Latin. We ex- 
 pect to begin Caesar in about two months, and 
 in Greek we are already in the contracted nouns 
 of the third declension. We use Anthon's Greek 
 
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS. 191 
 
 and Latin Lessons. There are not rooms for 
 all the boys in the lower classes — but two large 
 dormitories, in one of these I am placed with 
 seven other boys, four of which are not studying 
 with any definite object, and only one intends 
 going through the course. The other three are 
 going away within a year. I will now tell you 
 our daily rules. We rise at half-past six, have 
 prayers (in school-room) at seven — breakfast 
 about half-past seven — go to school at nine, have 
 dinner at twelve or half-past, go to school at one, 
 come out at half-past four o'clock — have supper 
 at half-past five — study from half-past six to half- 
 past eight, at which time we have prayers,— 
 and then have liberty to retire. 
 
 We had beautiful services in our Chapel on 
 Christmas eve. (The Chapel was illuminated 
 with candles, and decorated with evergreens.) 
 Prayers were read by the Rev. Samuel Chase, 
 and the sermon preached by the Rev. Dudley 
 Chase, (the Bishop's son). — Preached from 
 Psalm xl, 9, " Lo, I come." There is a pretty 
 good congregation. The people come 15 and 
 20 miles distance to Church, and I cannot de- 
 scribe the eagerness with which they seem to 
 receive the word of God, and the spirit of devo- 
 tion which seems visible in the countenance of 
 all during the administration of the Lord's Sup- 
 per. When I look on such holy scenes as this 
 in a part of the country so destitute of religious 
 instruction, I hope and feel glad for the time to 
 come, When the knowledge of the Lord shall 
 cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. 
 
192 ST. ANN'S CHURCH. 
 
 With respect to my companions, they are all 
 in all very agreeable, although I must add with 
 regret that there are some few who do not by 
 their actions show the purity of their minds, but 
 these are amongst the number of irregular stu- 
 dents. I have felt at times (since I have been 
 here) very melancholy when 1 thought of Eng- 
 land and my dear mother and her pious instruc' 
 tions, and I think this has been increased by my 
 receiving so few letters. But I reflect with 
 gratitude, that through every feeling of trouble 
 that same Almighty arm has sustained me, which 
 has guided and pi'otected me throughout all my 
 life, and I think I can sav with that beautiful 
 Hymn, the 184th, which we so often sing, 
 
 " In each event of life, how clear 
 Thy ruling hand I see, 
 Each blessing to my soul more dear,' 
 Because conferred by thee." 
 
 He adds, that the country around " is very 
 beautiful," and that in five minutes time he can 
 be in some of the delightful retreats near the 
 College, and there " pour out his soul to" God, 
 and enjoy his presence in undisturbed peace." 
 He thinks his desire to enter the Ministry be- 
 comes stronger every day, — cannot say that he 
 was ever happier than when in St. Ann's Sun- 
 day School, — was rejoiced to hear of Mr. Wat- 
 son's ordination, — and desirous to be remem- 
 bered to him, to the Rector, and to the 1st School 
 and its Superintendent. 
 
MARRIAGES BAPTISMS. 193 
 
 3^ecorIr of iRftarriases. 
 
 Rev. E. D. Rattoonr — "On th821th June, 1790, married Cornelius 
 A. Remson, son of Rem Remson, to Miss Margaret Pearson^ 
 daughter of William and Anna VVilhelmina Pearson, both of 
 the township of Brookland, e. d, r." I 
 
 " On the 1.1th Nov'r, 1790, married Henry Harman, of New 
 York, to Mrs. Sarah Doughty, of Bedlar's [Bedlow's, proba- 
 bly] Island. Witnesses, Mr. Timothy Crawley and Mr. and 
 Mrs. Sulian [or Julian]. e. d. r." 1-2 
 
 Rev. SAMHfc Nesbitt — November 1793 ,to July, 1797 .... 33 
 Rev. JoHNiRELAND — September 9, 1798, to September 19, 1807 . 121 
 Rev. H. .T. Feltus— December 1, 1807, to June 16, 1814 ... 84 
 Rev, J. P. K. Henshaw — January 1, 1815, to January 16, 1817 . 39 
 Rev. Hugh Smith— July 20, 1817, to September 28, 1819 . . . 39 
 Rev. H. U. Onderdonk— December 22, 1819, to October 17, 1827, 116 
 
 Rev. C. P. McIf,VAiNE— Tn 1828, IG; 1829, 7; 1830, 5; 1831,22; 
 
 1832, 12; 1833, to May 8 70 
 
 Rev. B. C. Cutler— From May to end of 1833, 22; 1834, 21 ; 
 
 1835, 18; 1836,9; 1837, 13; 1838, 11; 1839, 12; 1840, 17; 
 
 1841, 13; 1842, 7; 1843, 7, and 1 by the Rev. Mr. Kellogg, 
 
 8 ; 1844, 13 164 
 
 August 20, 1783 — John, son of John and Helena Van Nostrand — 
 " Copied from a certificate of Rev. Jamks Sayre, Minister of 
 the Episcopal Church at Brooklyn Ferry" 1 
 
 October 13, 1787 — Joseph, Benjamin, and Abigail, children of Jo- 
 seph and Margaret Cawood, baptised by the Rev. Mv. Wright 3 
 
 October 23, 1789, to March 19, 1792— Certified l2th June, 1792, by 
 the Rev. E. D. Rattoone, "Minister of the Church at Brook- 
 land," as having been baptised " according to the rites and cere- 
 monies of the Church of England." 29 
 
 June 4, 1792, to August 19, 1T92 — Certified as being baptised "ac- 
 cording to the rites and ceremonies of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church," by Ambrose Hull 4 
 
 January 13, 1793, to May 4, 1795 — Baptised by the Rev. Samuel 
 
 Nesbitt 22 
 
 Under the Rectorship of Rev. John Ireland^' 307 
 
 " " Rev. H. J. Feltus 211 
 
 From July, 1815, to October 3, 1819 — Undei the Rectorship of Rev. 
 
 J. P. K. Henshaw and Rev. Hugh Smith 108 
 
 8 
 
194 
 
 ST. ANN'S CHURH. 
 
 October 31, 1819.— By the Rev. Dr. Milnor 1 
 
 November, 1819, to October, 1827--By the Rev. Mr. Onderdonk 400 
 November 11, 1827, to May, 1833— By the Rev. Mr. McIlvaine 245 
 May, 1833, to January, 1845— By the i.iev. Mr. Cutler . . . 715 
 
 BBtirtals. 
 
 " 1794, June 16 — Buried in the church-yard of St. Ann's, Brooklyn, 
 Mons'r Antoine Louis Legar, aged 67 years, native of Perigord, in Old 
 France. 
 
 N.B. This record was filled up by me, this 5th of November, 1800, 
 agreeably to written instructions from Dr. Samuel Nesbitt, Rector of St. 
 Ann's Church at the time of said interment. John Ireland." 
 
 1790- Rev. Mr. Nesbitt 
 
 3 
 
 1821- 
 
 -Pev.Mr. Ondeitonk23 
 
 1791 " *' 
 
 2 
 
 1822 
 
 (» 
 
 t< 
 
 
 25 
 
 1792-3— Not recorded. 
 
 
 1823 
 
 (( 
 
 l( 
 
 
 20 
 
 1794— Rev. Mr. Nesbitt 
 
 1— 6 
 
 1824 
 
 (( 
 
 ({ 
 
 
 45 
 
 1795, 6, 7— No record 
 
 
 1825 
 
 {( 
 
 (C 
 
 
 51 
 
 1798— Rev. Mr, Ireland 
 
 4 
 
 1826 
 
 (C 
 
 <( 
 
 
 64 
 
 1799 " " 
 
 4 
 
 1827 
 
 (C 
 
 i( 
 
 
 43-305 
 
 1800— No record. 
 
 
 1828- 
 
 -Rev. Mr. McIlvaine 
 
 41 
 
 180:- Rev. Mr. Ireland 
 
 1 
 
 1839 
 
 (. 
 
 <i 
 
 
 56 
 
 1802 " '« 
 
 10 
 
 1830 
 
 <( 
 
 (( 
 
 
 10 
 
 1803 " " 
 
 18 
 
 1831 
 
 (. 
 
 (( 
 
 
 48 
 
 1804 " " 
 
 18 
 
 1832 
 
 " Cholera " 
 
 
 53 
 
 1805 " " 
 
 12 
 
 1833- 
 
 -To May 
 
 (( 
 
 
 7-215 
 
 1806 " '* 
 
 11 
 
 1833- 
 
 -Rev. B. C. Cutler 
 
 25 
 
 1807 " 
 
 11—89 
 
 1834 
 
 K 
 
 c 
 
 
 39 
 
 1808 to 1813 inclusive— N 
 
 
 
 1835 
 
 (( 
 
 (( 
 
 
 37 
 
 record, but there were 
 
 1836 
 
 (( 
 
 a 
 
 
 34 
 
 reported to the Con v. 
 
 80 
 
 1837 
 
 (C 
 
 (( 
 
 
 25 
 
 1814— Rev. Mr. Henshaw 
 
 7 
 
 1838 
 
 (( 
 
 i( 
 
 
 36 
 
 1815 " 
 
 27 
 
 1839 
 
 U 
 
 (( 
 
 
 34 
 
 1816 " " 
 
 8—42 
 
 1840 
 
 (( 
 
 (( 
 
 
 25 
 
 1817— Rev. Mr. Smith 
 
 16 
 
 1841 
 
 (( 
 
 (C 
 
 
 22 
 
 1818 " 
 
 20—36 
 
 1842 
 
 C( 
 
 <( 
 
 
 35 
 
 1819— Rev. Mr. Onderdonk 16 
 
 1843 
 
 (C 
 
 (( 
 
 
 17 
 
 1820 " 
 
 18 
 
 1844 
 
 (C 
 
 (C 
 
 
 31-360 
 
 
 <H:otifltrmstionj 
 
 
 During 
 
 the present Rectorship. 
 
 
 
 
 November 10, 1834, . 
 
 
 
 
 34 
 
 persons. 
 
 January 3, 1836, 
 
 
 
 
 26 
 
 I 
 
 April 29, 1838, 
 
 
 
 
 58 
 
 
 Feb. 24, 1839, at St. Johns 
 
 7 * * 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 April 25, 1841. 
 
 
 
 
 63 
 
 
 February 25, 1844, 
 
 
 . 
 
 
 
 60 
 
 
€:ommttntcants o! St. Pith's <g:f)ttrc§. 
 
 For the convenience of printing, the names of the Communi- 
 cants are pat in a smaller type than was at first proposed, and 
 are therefore compressed within a considerably less space. As 
 CAPITALS are employed, however, the eye will notbeoflfend- 
 ed by the change. 
 
 It will be perceived that the names of the Rectors and Com- 
 municants are so' arranged as to show at a glance under whom 
 any particular person first came to the Communion, and, so far 
 as could be ascertained, how long each person may have con- 
 tinued, — the letter m signifying member. Thus, on the next 
 page, it will be seen that Mrs. Sarah Middagh, who communed 
 under the Rev. Mr. Wright, continued a member under all the 
 ministries dowiTto the fourth year of the present Rector ; and 
 that Mrs. Sands and Airs. Boerum, also communing under 
 Mr. W., are slill members. Israel Horsfield, the seventh name 
 on the list, it will also be seen, became a member under Mr. 
 Rattoone, and continued to Mr. Ireland : whether he then re- 
 moved, or died, is not known. And so of the rest. 
 
 There are doubtless some errors in this List ; but they arise 
 from the impossibility of avoiding them, and not from any 
 want of pains to insure correctness. That there are many 
 omissions, is certain. Some persons, coming to the Commu- 
 nion from other Churches, never n;ave their names to the Rec- 
 tor, and others have omitted to do so until sometime afterwards. 
 They would in either case fail to be recorded. In some few 
 instances, these omissions have been supplied. 
 
 The letters S.S.T. indicate that the person was a Sunday 
 School Teacher on coming to the Communion, or has been 
 since ; ^.iS. show that the person was a pupil of tlie school. 
 
MEMBERS.... 17§8 to 1§45. 
 
 o 
 
 COMMUNICANTS 
 
 178S Mis. SARAH MIDDAGH 
 
 jMrs. ANN SANDS m 
 
 IMrs. JANE BOERUM m 
 
 1790;JOHN VAN NOSTRaND.. 
 MARTHA GLEAVES.... 
 MARGARET GLEAVES.. 
 
 ISRAEL HOIlSriELD 
 
 JOSIAH BROWN 
 
 ELIZABETH BROWN. . 
 JOHN MIDUaGH 
 
 Dr SHREAV^ES 
 
 MARTHA SH (I EAVES 
 SARAH CARPENDER 
 ABIGAIL PATCHEN 
 TIMOTHY NOSTRAND., 
 ELIZAB. CORNELL, Sen 
 MARG VAN MATER 
 ELIZABETH GILES 
 ELEON'A McMULLIGAN 
 
 MARY MIDDAGH 
 
 JANE BOGART.., 
 
 ELIZAB. HOIISFIELD 
 GEOllGE POWERS 
 
 1791 GIDEON WEIRS..., 
 PAUL DAYIIEI-L... 
 MARY D.\YRELL.., 
 Mr.s. GATH PLACE 
 SARAH POWELI 
 
 1792 Mrs. SAR.AH CORNELL 
 JHANNAH CORNELL 
 
 Mrs. AYKINS 
 
 1799 Mrs. HaNNAM IRELAND 
 
 SCHULTZ 
 
 Mrs EL I, EN GRIGG 
 
 Mrs. HARRIS 
 
 Mrs. ELIZAB CORNELL 
 Miss CORNELL (d. E. sen 
 Mrs. ROBBINS 
 
 ^800 Mrs. MARY DAWSON.. .. 
 Mrs. SARAH MORiUS 
 
 1831 WM. GUIGG 
 
 Mrs. LUCY CARPENDER 
 
 Mrs. BUCKNER 
 
 Mrs EFJZA MAMER 
 CLEM'T MERIUAM 
 
 1802 Mrs. MARY TITUS (late 
 Mis-i Viin Nootrand) 
 
 Mrs. I.UDLAM 
 
 MARTH.\ DEMOTT 
 JOHN VAN PELT, S^n 
 JOHN VAN PELT, Jr 
 Mrs. VAN PELT. Jr 
 Mrs. CARPEN PER, Sen 
 Mrs HICKS, Widow 
 303 SUSANNAH BROWN 
 THOMAS BARFE 
 ALICE BARFE... 
 |WM. CORNELL., 
 Miss FOOTE 
 PHOEBE ATLEE 
 MARY DEHUaH. 
 
 May ELIZAB. MA(;KAY 
 
 July ELIZAB. SACKETT 
 
 REMARKS, 
 
 Wid. of John. Died, 
 [Aug. 13, 1837, 
 [aged 92. 
 Died, 
 Probably Matthew. 
 
 D'dOc,16,1805, a. 61 
 
 Died, 
 
 Removed to N. Y. 
 
 Died 1798. 
 Removed, 
 Deceased, 
 
 Do. 
 Removed, 
 
 Do. 
 
 Died, 1826, a^ed 82. 
 Romovcd to N. Y. 
 Died, 1803, a>re<i 58. 
 Died, June, 1809. 
 ..!Died,Sep. 30, 1816. 
 Removed, 
 mm mi 
 
 ..IDied 1820. 
 
 Removed to N. Y. 
 Dif'd 1831. 
 Removed to N. Y. 
 
 Rem. 1831. 
 Of the Vestry. 
 
 Deceased. 
 Rem. to Conn. 
 
 Rem. to N. Y. 
 
 Do. • 
 
 Do. 
 Deceased. 
 
 Rem. 
 Do. 
 Died Dec. 19, 1302. 
 
 Died 1803, aged 60. 
 Rem. 
 
 Died Oct, 10, 1803. 
 Died June 1816. 
 
July 3] 
 Oct. 23 
 
 Dec. 25 
 
 1804 
 Feb. 12r 
 
 Mar. 13 
 
 May 20 
 
 July 8 
 Dec. 25 
 
 COMMUNICANTS. 
 
 1805 
 
 April 14 
 
 Sept. 19 
 
 Oct. 27 i 
 
 1806 
 Feb. 5 
 
 jOct. 26 
 
 Dec. 25 
 
 1807 
 iMar. 29 { 
 
 WM. CORNVVELL 
 
 Mrs. ELIZ'H CORN WELL 
 
 JANE STRINGHAM 
 
 THOMAS CANFIELD , 
 
 SARAH CANFIELD 
 
 HILAH COOK , 
 
 STEWART 
 
 STEVVART 
 
 Mrs. BECK , 
 
 '• ELIZABETH FIELD . 
 .Miss M. WOLFENDALE... 
 
 Mrs. FURMAN, Sen 
 
 ELIZABETH SCRIBNER,. 
 
 RICHARD AUCAT , 
 
 LUCY AUCAT 
 
 Mr. PHILLIPS 
 
 Mrs PHILLIPS 
 
 Mrs. BART. TITUS 
 
 PHEBE BAYLEY 
 
 Mrs. LEMON 
 
 " BUEWER.Sen 
 
 ROBERT HODGE 
 
 Miss HODGE 
 
 MART. VAN NOSTHAND. 
 JOHN HAMMEL, Sexton. . 
 
 JEMIMA HAMMEL 
 
 Mrs. ANN W. BARBARIN.. 
 
 " JE.MIMA RETONG... 
 
 ADOLPHUS BIIOWER 
 
 Mi.<s MARY McLEOD 
 
 LAMBERT MOORE 
 
 REBECCA MOORE 
 
 HANNAH HEWLt;TT.... 
 
 Mr. BIRCH ."; 
 
 Mrs. BIRCH 
 
 " GOODERICH 
 
 Mi.5S FRANCES MOORE... 
 Mrs. M M. ONDERDONK. 
 
 TAMJ^R HOLMES 
 
 Mr. SVIITH 
 
 Mrs. SMITH 
 
 " BROWN 
 
 S. ANN VAN NOSTRAND. 
 
 Mr. MILWARD 
 
 .Mrs MILWARD 
 
 Miss MILWARD 
 
 .VIrs. CORNKLL, Sen 
 
 " McLEOD 
 
 " HARRIS 
 
 BETSEY, (freft black) 
 
 JOE " " 
 
 Mr. INGRAHAM 
 
 .Mrs. INGRAHAM 
 
 " UDALL 
 
 " LANDMAN 
 
 " SUTHERLAND 
 
 Miss POST 
 
 Mrs HICKS 
 
 " WEED 
 
 Miss HORSFIELD 
 
 Vlr.-^ MaRY SEAMAN. ... 
 
 lOHN STEWARD 
 
 Mrs. MARG'T STEWARD.. 
 
 " SARAH HARRIS 
 
 " FISHER 
 
 JAMES B. CLARKE 
 
 Mrs. ELEANOR CLARKE. 
 
 mm 
 
 mj. . 
 
 m . . 
 
 mim 
 
 m!m 
 
 m| 
 
 mm 
 
 ml 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 5 las 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m;m 
 
 mm 
 
 |m!.. 
 
 ■m| 
 
 m! 
 
 ml.. 
 
 m| 
 |m!m 
 
 ml 
 
 |m| 
 
 !mi.. 
 
 jm m 
 
 mm 
 
 m 
 m 
 m 
 
 T3 S ~ 
 
 cols 
 
 m m 
 mim 
 
 m n 
 m m 
 
 m m m 
 mjm 
 mm 
 
 mimim m 
 mlmlm m 
 
 REMARKS. 
 
 Vestryman, &c.,died 1830, 
 Died March 25, 1826, a. 86, 
 (Mrs. Israel Abrahams.) 
 Removed. 
 
 Removed. 
 Died Aug. 13, 1805 
 Ded May 3, 1S04. 
 Removed. 
 
 Vestryman and M. D. C. 
 
 Sexton. 
 
 Removed to St. John's.— 
 [Now warden St. Mary's. 
 
 Died 1829, aged 95. 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 > Joined 3Iethodist Ch. 
 
 Died Sept. 11, 1842, ag. 83 
 Died Oct. 30, 183G, ag. 74 
 Removed. 
 
 Removed. 
 
 Died July 12, 1806. 
 
 Died 1835, aged 84. 
 Removed. 
 
 Died 1822, aged 86 7 
 Deceased. 
 
 Removed. 
 Died Dec. 1842. 
 
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 COMMUNICANTS. 
 
 yj 
 
 r. 
 
 
 > 
 
 
 REMARKS. 
 
 
 n 
 
 
 "5 
 
 S 
 
 •fi'g 
 
 T 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 flH 
 
 X 
 
 "/J 
 
 tn 
 
 O 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 Oct. 13 
 
 Mrs. HURST 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 Mrs. CHAUNOEY, Sen 
 
 ni 
 
 
 . , 
 
 
 
 
 Removed. 
 
 
 
 JOSHUA SANDS 
 
 m 
 
 tn 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 tn 
 
 Vestryman, Warden. &c. 
 
 
 
 Mrs JOHN CORNELL 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 [Died Sept. 13,1835, 
 
 
 
 JOHN GIBBS 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 [aged 77. 
 
 
 
 Mrs. ISABELLA GIBBS 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Miss MESSIER 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 tn 
 
 
 
 Mrs. MARY MILLER 
 
 
 
 Mrs. JOHN J. JOHNSTON 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 in 
 
 m 
 
 Now of St. Luke's. 
 
 
 1809 
 
 FANNING C. TUCKER 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 in 
 
 ni 
 
 Removed to New York. 
 
 
 Eister 
 
 Mrs. A. M TUCKER 
 
 m 
 
 111 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 in 
 
 
 Died Feb'y, 1833. 
 
 
 
 R. CONOVER CORNELL 
 
 n 
 
 in 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 Miss HOPPER 
 
 m 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 in 
 
 Married. 
 
 
 Miss SARAH DEAN 
 
 
 
 Mrs DEAN, Sen 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 ni 
 
 tn 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 Mrs. PIERREPONT 
 
 m 
 ni 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 Died 1822, aged 68. 
 
 
 Mrs. MESSIER 
 
 
 Oct. 15 
 
 Mis. ISaBELI-A murphy... 
 
 m 
 
 in 
 
 in 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 Died 1825. 
 
 
 
 Miss CATHARINE CORNELL, 
 
 ni 
 
 ai 
 
 tn 
 
 m 
 
 ni 
 
 m 
 
 (Daugtiter of John.) 
 
 
 
 TUNIS JOHNSON 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mrs. TUNIS JOHNSON 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mr.=! JANE HUNTER 
 
 n> 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Miss J \NE HORSFIELD 
 
 
 1810 
 Easter 
 
 Mrs. MiKINNEV 
 
 m 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 
 Died in 1S28. 
 
 
 Mrs. HEWLETT. 
 
 
 
 Mrs. ANDERSON, Sen 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 in 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mrs. E WREN 
 
 m 
 
 t; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Miss VANMATER 
 
 
 
 Mrs. PHEBE MARTIN (widow) 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 Died Nov. 3, 1835. 
 
 
 Dec. 25 
 
 Mrs BEGOIN 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 ISIl 
 
 HENRY HEWLETT 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mdrch 3 
 
 N HEWLETT 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 tn 
 
 m 
 
 nj 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 Miss JANE GaULT S.S.T. 
 
 
 
 " CORNELL 
 
 ni 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mr TAYLOR, (or^finisl) 
 
 
 
 Mrs. RANDECKSR 
 
 r 
 
 11 
 
 m 
 
 in 
 
 ni 
 
 tn 
 
 Died Jan. 3, 1837, aged 65 
 
 
 
 " D.WID STEWART 
 
 m 
 
 in 
 
 ni 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 ni 
 
 
 
 
 " .IANE(Aii'm)TREDWELL 
 
 M 
 
 m 
 
 ni 
 
 in 
 
 ni 
 
 in 
 
 Died Oct. 29, 1837. 
 
 
 
 Mi.^s ANN REMSON . . 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 .. 
 
 
 (Mrs. Angus.) 
 
 
 1812 
 
 Mrs. WILEY. Jr 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Miss ANN CORNELL 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 ni 
 
 m 
 
 ni 
 
 
 Daughter of W. J. C. D'd 
 
 
 
 ROBERT BARFE 
 
 ni 
 
 . , 
 
 
 
 
 
 Removed. [1827. 
 
 
 
 Mr PESTINA 
 
 m 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mrs PESTINA 
 
 
 
 Miss MARIA GAULT 
 
 tji 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 " ANN RHODES... 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1813 
 
 " JULIANA ANDERSON.. 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mrs. WM. J MILLER 
 
 m 
 m 
 ni 
 w 
 ni 
 m 
 
 
 in 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 in 
 m 
 
 (Mrs. Mastin.) 
 
 Removed to Geneva. 
 Narrows, I/. I. 
 
 
 Mr. POPE 
 
 
 Mrs. 1 OPE 
 
 
 Col. J. G SWIFT 
 
 
 Mrs. LOUISA SWIFT 
 
 
 " N. L MARTIN 
 
 
 
 " ANN HURST 
 
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 n) 
 
 tn 
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 m m 
 m m 
 
 III 
 
 01 
 
 Died Easter Monday,1834. 
 
 
 MARY JANE, or JAHN 
 
 
 
 WM. M' JENKINS 
 
 ni 
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 OLD TONEY. (mlorerl). 
 
 
 
 Miss MARGARET CORNELL. 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m ni 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 1814 
 
 " CHARL'TTE MILWARD 
 
 m 
 
 n 
 
 m ni 
 
 ni 
 
 m 
 
 Now at Christ Church. 
 
 
 
 Mrs. MATRON 
 
 m 
 m 
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 tn 
 
 rn 
 
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 ni 
 
 
 
 
 Miss KETTLETAS 
 
 
 WALTER NICHOLS 
 
 
 
 .lOHN JACKSON 
 
 ni 
 
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 ni m 
 
 
 Withdrew. 
 
 
 
 Mrs. HUM.\STON 
 
 m 
 
 
 
 i 
 
 
 
 
 1815 
 May 21 
 
 •' COWAN 
 
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 rn 
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 ni 
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 JOHN HAMMEL 
 
 m Now warden of St.Mary's 
 ii Sr. Marv's. 
 
 
 Mrs. JEMIMA HAMMEL 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 — - 
 
 
 
 
May 21. 
 July 11. 
 Sept. 17. 
 
 Nov. 12. 
 Xmas. 
 
 1816 
 Feb. 11. 
 
 Easter. 
 
 Nov. 23. 
 Dec. 25. 
 
 1817 
 lEaster. 
 
 Auk. 31. 
 
 1818 
 Jan. 18. 
 
 jMar. 29, 
 
 May 17. 
 
 Aug. 9, 
 Oct. 25 
 
 Dec. 25 
 
 1819 
 Ap. 11. 
 
 COMMUNICANTS. 
 
 Mrs. RICH 
 
 " RUCKLE,Jr 
 
 JAS. W BURTIS S.S.T, 
 
 Mrs. J W. BURTIS S S.T. 
 
 " M.'VRIA RENSHAW 
 
 «' DIANA RIKER 
 
 " MARIA SEAMAN 
 
 " SUSAN LEWIS..... 
 
 " MIDDAGH. Jr 
 
 JOSEPH PETTIT, , 
 
 ABIGAIL STILLWELL 
 
 Mrs. MARY BUCKBEE 
 
 ANN DENTON SMITH S S.T. 
 
 Miss PHEBE SMITH S.S.T. 
 
 Mrs. CATHARINE WISE 
 
 «' JANE ANN VAN PELT 
 
 HANNAH COX, (colored) 
 
 REBECCA SPOONER 
 
 CHARLOTTE MATTHEWS 
 
 MARY ANN DUFFIELD. ..S.S.T. 
 
 MARGARET SMITH 
 
 Capt. F. H. ELLISON 
 
 Mr,^. F H. ELLISON 
 
 CHARLES HEWLETT 
 
 HEN RY DIKEMAN ^ 
 
 Mrs: CARTER 
 
 MARY COLE 
 
 DORCAS TITUS 
 
 ROBERT PETTIT 
 
 SARAH H. RICHARDS 
 
 SIMEON PETTIT 
 
 MATTHEW JAMES 
 
 JAMES ASH. (colored) 
 
 Miss PARKER 
 
 Mrs JULIANA MAFFITT 
 
 " SUSANNAH M TAYLOR. . . 
 
 " FRANCIS PATCHEN 
 
 MARY GILL 
 
 VIARTHA ALLEN 
 
 DEBORAH STRETCH 
 
 Mrs ELEANOR L. SMITH 
 
 .IAS. P. F CLARKE 
 
 Mrs. CLARISSA CADY 
 
 " ELECTA CADY 
 
 NANCY Mc NEILL 
 
 Mrs. ANN ANGUS 
 
 DONALD MALCOLM 
 
 Mrs ERMINA D. MAL^ OLM.. . . 
 
 " MARY BEDEI,L 
 
 " SARAH WATERBURY 
 
 " EXPERIENCE McCOUN.... 
 
 Miss WHITE 
 
 Mrs, .lOH N MARTIN 
 
 JOHN FISHER 
 
 Mrs. SARAH ANN MARCH 
 
 ROBERT RHODES 
 
 ABRAHAM VAN NOSTRAND... 
 
 (OHN H MOORE 
 
 Mrs .lANE BAYLEY 
 
 >t!S.s CHARITY SMITH 
 
 Mrs. JANE SMITH 
 
 " VAN NO.STRAND 
 
 " ANN WORK 
 
 " (Capt.)EVANS 
 
 MARY NOEL ELLISON....S S T. 
 
 JUDAH BACK S.ST 
 
 Mrs. BERRY, (widow) 
 
 mm 
 mm 
 mjm 
 m m 
 m m 
 
 REMARKS. 
 
 mOne of the Vestry. 
 
 m| 
 
 ..jRemoved. 
 
 m 
 
 m (, Widow of Art.) 
 Removed. 
 
 m 
 m ni 
 
 Died May 1843. aged 80. 
 Died Ap 2, 1839, aged 73, 
 Died 1817. 
 
 (Now Mrs. Robert Petiit.) 
 
 Withdrew 1829. Died 
 [Sept. 1841, aged 54 
 
 mm.. Died Dec. 24, 1823. 
 mm.. Withdrew 1827. 
 
 .'Removed. 
 Rector, Manhassett, L. L 
 Died Oct., 1827. 
 
 Removed. 
 
 Died 182S, aged 52, 
 
 Removed. 
 
 mjm 
 
 mm Present Sexton. 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 ni 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 ni 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 D'd Feb. 7, 1840, aged 75. 
 R- moved. 
 
 Narrows, L. L 
 (Widow.) 
 
 Deceased. 
 
Oct. 24 
 
 1820 
 
 1821 
 
 COMMONICANTS. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Rev. 
 Mrs. 
 
 R. STEWART... 
 
 EMEI-INE FISHER 
 
 Capt. RICHARD DASHIELL 
 
 Mrs. MARY CROCKETT 
 
 " PERRY 
 
 " ELIZABETH ONDERDONK 
 
 » KETrLETAS 
 
 " BRUSH 
 
 " PIERREPONT 
 
 SAMUEL SEABURY 
 
 Mrs. SAM'L SEABURY' 
 
 Miss SEABURY 
 
 Mrs. TAYLOR 
 
 Miss PETTlT((JaughterSimeonP.) 
 
 Mrs. STEPHENS 
 
 Mr. ADAMS, (.bro-in-lavv Gen. Swift) 
 
 Mis. ADAMS 
 
 Mr. IRELAND 
 
 WHIIE 
 
 " BROWN 
 
 " GREEN 
 
 « SMITH (Chapel St.) 
 
 LOSEE VAN NOSTRAND 
 
 Mrs. L VAN NOSTRAND..:.... 
 
 " CHARLES HEWLETT , 
 
 Miss Mcknight , 
 
 WM. SALE , 
 
 Mrs. SALE 
 
 " HIGBEE 
 
 " SARAH DAVIS 
 
 " HANNAH TEN EY'^CK 
 
 " ALICE WILSON 
 
 ERASTUS WORTHINGTON .. 
 Mrs. ANNA WORTHINGTON. . . 
 
 " BENNETT.' 
 
 " MARY TIMPSON 
 
 •' FANNY KEYMER 
 
 Miss AGNES WHITE 
 
 Mrs. CALISTA HEWLETT 
 
 " SARAH H SMITH 
 
 " JULIANA QUACKENBOSS. 
 
 ANDREW DESENDORF 
 
 Mrs OLIVE DESENDORF 
 
 " ANN DESENDORF 
 
 " FURMAN 
 
 " TOTTEN 
 
 " J R. ADAMS 
 
 " HELEN SCHERMERHORN 
 
 " JANE ABRAHAMS 
 
 " DESENDORF 
 
 " ABBY H. CHEW 
 
 Miss MATILDA SANDS 
 
 Miss HANNAH BURTIS 
 
 H. R HOTCHKISS 
 
 Mrs. O'SULLIVAN 
 
 " WIGGINS 
 
 JOHN DURYEA 
 
 Mrs. PATCHEN 
 
 ". GRACE McGRUDER 
 
 " MARY DUNBAR 
 
 CHARLES (colored). 
 
 Mrs McNIELI 
 
 Miss McMELL , 
 
 " ELIZA EWING. . . 
 
 Mrs. MARIA J. THORNE 
 
 " MARIA J. NICHOLS 
 
 iMr. S. PYEN 
 
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 IJljOl 
 
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 in',. 
 
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 aijni 
 
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 ml 
 
 ai 
 
 mim 
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 Narrows, L. I. 
 Deceased. 
 
 mSisterofMrs. Ireland — died 
 [March20, 1837, aged 76 
 Removed. 
 Deceased 1831. 
 
 Grandson of Bishop Sea 
 [bury— Ed. Churchm 
 
 . Removed. 
 
 Removed. 
 
 Died March 26, 1823, a. 62. 
 
 Now of St. John's. 
 Removed. 
 
 Died Sept. 12, 1825. 
 
 Died in 1831. 
 
 ' Dec. 23, 1833, aged 66. 
 Deceased. 
 Removed. 
 
 Died 1826. 
 
 Died in 1&31. 
 
 (( (I 
 
 Removed. 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 (( 
 
 Removed. 
 
 n 
 
 Deceased.' 
 
 Now Mrs. F. C. Tucker, 
 Removed. 
 
 .( 
 
 {Deceased. 
 
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 .Removed. 
 

 
 COMMUNICANTS. « > 
 
 o s 
 
 o REMARKS. 
 
 
 1823 
 
 1824 
 
 Miss ANNA PIERREPONT mm 
 
 Mrs. DESPARD m 
 
 " HAMILTON mm 
 
 GREEN I>ESPARD m . . 
 
 m (Mrs. VanWagenen) died May 
 [14, 1839, aged 34. 
 
 ..Died 1826. 
 
 m Now Mrs. Titus. 
 
 m 
 
 . . Removed 1827. 
 
 m Now of St. John's. 
 
 m 
 
 I . . Chap. U.S.N. D'd Feb. 2, 1829. 
 L . . Deceased. 
 
 I 
 
 \ ; Died Nov.' 2, 1823, aged 29. 
 
 . . Removed. 
 
 . . Removed. 
 > m 
 1 m 
 
 Mother of Mrs. Gen'l Swift. 
 
 1 m Now of the Ch. at Flatbush, 
 1 m Do. do. do. 
 1 mlOf Emannuel Ch. 
 1 m Died May 5, 1835, aged 50. 
 
 1 m 
 
 1 . . Removed 
 . m Removed. 
 
 1 
 
 1 . . Daughter of Wm. C. 
 
 I m Died Dec. 22, 1838, aged 73. 
 
 . .. Auditor ofthe State,! 777, D'd. 
 
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 1 m Eldest daughter of Isaac. 
 
 1 
 1 
 ti 
 n m Deceased. 
 
 a 
 
 a'm 
 
 n'm Now Mrs. A. Spooner, Sen. 
 
 n m Warden. 
 
 n , . Died 1829. 
 
 n Emigrated to Africa. 
 
 n . . Do. do. 
 
 n m 
 
 n m 
 
 n 
 
 
 Miss GERTRUDE O. TREDWELL m 
 " ELIZABETH TREDWELL.. m m 
 
 " BENNETT m 
 
 Mrs. SARAH B ARNSTON mm 
 
 " ELIZABETH STRETCH. . . . m 
 
 Miss ANN MONTGOMERY mm 
 
 Mrs. SOPHIA GOODWIN m 
 
 Miss ANNA KINSEY mm 
 
 
 Miss JANE KINSEY mm 
 
 
 D. VAN VOORHEES m 
 
 
 Mrs. ANN VAN VOORHEES mm 
 
 Mr TREDWAY mm 
 
 
 Mrs. TREDWAY mm 
 
 
 Rev. CAVE JONES - mm 
 
 Mrs. JONES T. mm 
 
 
 Miss JONES mm 
 
 
 Mrs. ELIZABETH SMITH m . 
 
 Miss MARY WORTHINGTON.. . . m . 
 
 Miss SUSAN BONTOCOU m . 
 
 Mrs. L\1GHT m . 
 
 
 " PHE BE SMITH m ir 
 
 
 " GAULT m rr 
 
 
 " WALKER m. 
 
 
 Dr. McNEILL m 
 
 
 Mrs. MARIA HUNTINGTON m 
 
 JOHN H. CANNON m 
 
 
 MATTHEW CLARKSON mn 
 
 Mrs. CLARKSON m^n 
 
 
 TEUNIS CRAVEN mn 
 
 
 HANNAH TINGEY CRAVEN.... mln 
 JAMES COLE m'n 
 
 
 Mrs. SOPHI\ LEE m n 
 
 
 Miss DAWSON , S.S.Tm , 
 
 " CRAVEN m 
 
 
 Mrs. PRINCE mn 
 
 
 " PHEBE HOPKINS mn 
 
 
 Miss PROC m 
 
 
 " JANE CORNWELL mn 
 
 SARAH EBBOTSON mn 
 
 
 Mrs. JANE COLE , mn 
 
 
 PELEG BACK m 
 
 COMFORT SANDS m . 
 
 
 EDWARD CLOWES m 
 
 
 Mrs. JANE KING m 
 
 
 " ELIZA TRENCHARD m n 
 
 Miss ANN CORNELL m d 
 
 
 Mrs. PHEBE T, SMITH mn 
 
 
 " SUSAN P. CARTER mc 
 
 " ELEANOR STEVENSON. . . m c 
 « SUSAN WARING rat 
 
 
 Miss MARTHA WELLING m 
 
 THOMAS WEBB, (Naval Hosp.). . m n 
 WHITE m 
 
 
 Mrs. WHITE m 
 
 
 " ISABELLA W. CORNELL. . m r 
 MARY ANN WETMORE..S.S.T. mr 
 CYRUS BILL m c 
 
 
 Mrs. EUNICE BILL m i 
 
 
 GUSTAVUS V. CJESAR m r 
 
 
 ELIZABETH V. C^SAR m r 
 
 Mrs. ALICE CARUTH m i 
 
 
 Miss EMILY J. CARUTH. . .S.S.T. m i 
 " JULIA OSBORN mi 
 
1825 
 
 1825 
 
 1827 
 
 Xmas. 
 
 1828 
 Feb. 10. 
 
 May 25. 
 
 Mrs. ELIZABETH ALBERT m 
 
 ELIZABETH LOUDEN m 
 
 GRACIE m 
 
 Miss WILHELMINA J. E. MOOREm 
 
 JAMES MAXWELL m 
 
 Mrs. ELIZABETH ATTWOOD... m 
 
 R. V. W. THORNE m 
 
 VVM. PIERREPONT ...m 
 
 Mrs. JANE W. CORNELL m 
 
 JOHN HEAVER m 
 
 Mrs. COMMODORE CHAUNCEY. m 
 
 JOHN PETTIT m 
 
 Mrs. JOSIAH DOW m 
 
 Mrs. ANNC. TITUS m 
 
 WILLIAM MURRELL |m 
 
 Mrs. MURRELL . . m 
 
 , S.S.T.Im 
 
 COMMUNICANTS. 
 
 m 
 mim 
 
 mm 
 
 Reported Oct., 1825. Rem. 
 
 Removed. 
 Deceased. 
 Removed to N. Hampshire. 
 
 m 
 
 Pineapple street. 
 
 MissBAYLIS 
 
 ANNA WOOD 
 
 Mrs. HARRIS 
 
 ' Mrs. SARAH E. GUNNING. 
 Miss ELIZABETH HANCOCK.,. 
 Mrs. CATHARINE WAKELEY. 
 
 ' CYNTHIA McCOUN 
 
 LAWRENCE ARMSTRONG Im 
 
 Mrs. JANE ARMSTRONG [m 
 
 DANIEL NASH mm 
 
 Miss SARAH ANN SMITH ". m'm 
 
 Mrs. L. HICKS jmimm 
 
 ' WILSON, (at Mr. Hides') mm 
 
 ' AGNES FORBUSH ;m m'm'Died Oct. 11, 1835, aged 38. 
 
 = ELIZABETH VOORHEES..|m m in 
 
 ' ELIZABETH MORRISON... |m 
 
 ' ANNDAVISON, mm 
 
 JOHN W. MARSHALL m ml 
 
 Mrs. G. W. STANTON mm] 
 
 Removed. 
 Removed. 
 
 Dec'd. 
 
 m (Mrs. Ricker.) 
 I.eft in 1829. 
 
 . . 'Naval Hospital. Removed. 
 
 Wife of the Ferry Master. 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 • HOYT 
 
 Miss HOYT, Sen... 
 
 TIMOTHY W. COOKE 
 
 Mrs. SALLY COOKE 
 
 ■ Mrs. ANN MaRES 
 
 '■ MARY WALKER 
 
 Miss HANNAH McCOUN 
 
 Mrs. HELEN DEAN 
 
 lAMES GOODWIN 
 
 Miss JANE H. ELLISON 
 
 " FRANCES E. ELLISON... 
 SARAH M. CROMMELIN..S.S.T. 
 
 Mrs. EMILY McILVAINE 
 
 Mr. TAYLOR (organist) 
 
 Mrs. TAYLOR 
 
 " MEAD (daush'rWm Cornell) 
 
 RICHARD M. WHITE S.S.T.! 
 
 Mrs. ANNE. WHITE ' 
 
 " CHAS. HOYT 
 
 Miss EMILY C. PIERREPONT... 
 
 Mrs. WHITNEY 
 
 Miss ELLEN SMITH S.S.T. 
 
 Mr. TRIPPLER 
 
 Mrs. TRIPPLER 
 
 " DELIA BISHOP 
 
 FREDERICK T. PEET. . .ls( S. S. 
 
 Mrs. F. T. PEET.... 
 
 E. SPRAGUE 
 
 Mrs. HUNT 
 
 " P. REED 
 
 THOMAS TOWNSEND 
 
 Mrs. MARGARET TOWNSEND. . 
 
 Imm! 
 
 m 
 
 Died April 24, 1829. 
 Removed to New York. 
 
 Now Mrs. Degraw. 
 
 m 
 
 m .. Do. do. 
 
 m .. Do. do. 
 
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 m 
 mm m 
 m m 
 m m'm 
 
 m|m 
 
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 m|mj 
 
 m[ I Removed. 
 
 m mJRemoved. 
 
 m !..! Removed to N. Y. 
 
 m m Removed to Chiist Ch. 
 
 mm Died in 1842. 
 
 m ..iDied in 1831. 
 
 m m](Mrs. J. A. Perry.) 
 
 m!.. Removed to Ohio in 18-33. 
 
 mjm Died Ap. 15, ia34, aged 36. 
 
 m . . Removed to New York. 
 
 mj.. Do. do. 
 
 m 
 
 mm.Siiperintendent. Resigned. 
 
 mlm 
 
 m mlRemoved to New York. 
 
 m 
 
 Removed to Ohio. 
 
 Rem. to New York 1831. 
 Do. do. 
 
J'ly 13 
 
 Nov. 9 
 
 De. 2i 
 
 1829 
 Maris 
 
 1830 
 
 COMMUNICANTS. 
 
 NATH. COMSTOCK— rem 
 LIVIN'STON VAN DOREN 
 
 —rem 1833 S.S.T. 
 
 THOS. BRIGGS (weaver)— 
 
 rem 1833 
 
 MARG'RET BRIGGS— rem 
 Lt. FRANCIS SAUNDER- 
 
 SON, U.S.N —Deceased.. I 
 ALEX. HAWKINS (col'd) 
 
 —rem 1828 
 
 .Mr. GILLETT— rem 1829. 
 Mrs. GILLETT— rem 1829 
 Miss MOORE (reported Oct 
 
 1323)— rem May, 1829... 
 JOHN JAMES— rem 1830. 
 GEORGE SKILLEN— rem 
 
 ic^i S S T 
 
 Mrs. WALTER NICHOLS 
 
 — rem to Jamaica 
 
 RICH. STANTON— rem... 
 aACH. MATTHEWS (col.) 
 
 LUCETTE(col.) 
 
 Miss MARGARET VAN 
 
 BOKKELIN— rem '30N. Y 
 Miss LYDIA JONES— do .. 
 WIL'M VVORTHINGTON, 
 
 son of Erastus Worth'n 
 
 WM. DAVIS, died 1832 
 
 Miss WALKER— rem to N. 
 
 York 1830 S.S.T. 
 
 CHARLES J. ALDIS— rem 
 
 to New York 1830. .S.S.T. 
 THOMAS PYNE— rem 
 Mrs. ANDREW HIBBARD, 
 
 died 1832 mj^. 
 
 Mrs. E. D. HOTCHKISS— 
 
 rem to New Haven. S.S.T. 
 Mrs. TINGEY 
 
 " VAULK— rem 1830 . . , 
 THATCHER TUCKER— 
 
 rem to New York 
 
 Mrs. L. H. TUCKER— do.. 
 Miss SARAH A. CARTER 
 
 Now Mrs. Tucker.. .S.S.T 
 BENJ. GRUTT— rem to N. 
 
 York 1830 S.S.T. 
 
 Mrs. RACHEL GRUTT— 
 
 rem to N. Y. 1830.. S.S.T. 
 
 Mrs, LEASON 
 
 Mr. INCHO 
 
 PHILIP FLAGLER— rem to 
 
 Illinois 
 
 JAMES PRINCE— rem 1832 
 Mrs. JANE PRINCE— rem. 
 Mrs. G. COLDEN— do. do.. 
 
 " WOLCOTT— do. do.. 
 Miss FRANCES SMITH! 
 
 (Mrs. Aldis)— rem to N.Y. 
 
 Mrs. ALLEN 
 
 ANN M. SHACKERLY 
 
 JULIA KIRK— rem.. S. ST. 
 Mrs. STOUT— rem to N. Y 
 Miss S FRANCES HOP- 
 KINS— rem N. Y. . .S S T. 
 Mrs. SARAH ANN BRECK 
 
 ENRIDGE— rem to Pliiia. 
 Mrs. Dr. OSTRANDER— 
 
 rem to St. John's, decM. . 
 Miss ELIZABETH LOU- 
 DON, now Mrs.Kerr.S.S.T 
 Mrs. BARTOW 
 
 ,S d| DATE. 
 
 m m 
 
 m| 
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 m' 
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 mm 
 mmi 
 
 m 
 
 
 m 
 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 1831 
 Ap. 3. 
 
 M'y22 
 
 COMMUNICANTS. 
 
 SP 
 
 Miss SUSAN C. BARTOW, m m 
 Miss MARY A. BARTOW., m m 
 G. A. BARTOW, Sec.lstS.S. m m 
 
 .JOHN LARKIN Im 
 
 MARY COLLINS— rem toj 
 
 Ohio (married) tajm 
 
 MARGARET BACK.S.S.T.tm 
 
 Mrs. HETTY W HALL. . , . m 
 
 " THOMPSON— rem... Im 
 
 GEO. FARLEY— rem...... [m 
 
 Miss BROOM mm 
 
 MARIA COOK— rem N.Y ..Im 
 
 Mrs. VAN ALLEN Im m 
 
 " HANNAH— rem,dec'd'm 
 " MARIA WENDELL., m m 
 " ELIZ'HEDEY. dec'd.Imm 
 " MA'Y CHEEKS— remmim 
 Col. J. M. GAMBLE, U.S.M.{ 
 
 D'd Sep. 11, 1836, aged 45.|mlm 
 EDM. DAVIS- rem to Eng. m 
 Miss C. DELAMATER— I 
 
 rem to Oiiio S.S.T. m.m 
 
 Miss JULIANA WEST, now I 
 Mrs. K. Waring . . .S.S.T. m m 
 Miss MARY ABELL— rem m 
 
 JOHN GUNNING |m m 
 
 Mrs. SARAH GUNNING. . . in m 
 ' DEFOREST— rem.... mm 
 
 ' WEST mjm 
 
 HOSEA WEBSTER ;m|ni 
 
 Mrs. H. WEBSTER mm 
 
 HENRYHEWLETT— rem. m 
 
 WM. BIRD m 
 
 Mrs. MARY xMlLWARD. . .Im 
 ALFRED STUBBS— renrtoj 
 
 Yale College S.S.T. ini 
 
 MARY HEWLETT— rem Im 
 
 Mrs. SARAH LUQUER 'mm 
 
 Miss RACHEL SMITH 
 (Mrs. O. D. Bur(is).S.ST.'m m 
 
 Miss P. A. SMITH S S.T. m m 
 
 Mrs. CARMICHAEL— rpin. [. . Im 
 Lieut. WM. L. HUDSON,! 
 
 U.S.N SS.T. mim 
 
 HORATIO N. PETTIT- 
 
 rem to Illinois S.S.T. mjm 
 
 Mrs. ELIZABETH PAINE. m| 
 ROBERT CARTER— rem 
 
 to Flushing, died 
 
 PATIENCE NOBLE 
 
 DAVID GARDNER— rem. 
 MARIETTA GARDNER... 
 Dr GEO. WASH'N COD- 
 WISE— rem 1834. ..S.S.T. 
 Mrs. Capt. MARIA D. REN- 
 SHAW, (lied January,lS42, 
 a"ed 49 
 MrsAURILi/AHOWLANDmim 
 '• ROS'A BRUSH— rem. 
 
 CHAS. HOYT— rem 
 
 Mi.^s MARY HOYT (now 
 
 Mrs, Chs. Hoyl)....SS.T. 
 
 CHARLOTTE E. DOW— | 
 
 rem to Inrlianal832.S.S.T. m 
 Mrs, ELLEN WOOLSEY.. m 
 Mrs FRANCES H. FLAG 
 
 LER — rem to Illinois. ... m 
 Miss MARY J. WARREN— 
 
 mar'd, rem P. au P S.S.T.im 
 Mrs. ROSENA WALTERS m 
 Miss F. PIERREPONT Im 
 
 mm 
 mm 
 
 mm 
 
 m m 
 
 m 
 
COMMUNICANTS. 
 
 AU. 14 
 
 Oct. 2 
 
 Mrs. ANN NEWMAN, died 
 
 1834, aged 74 
 
 WM. W. PETTIT,...S S.T. 
 Miss MARTHA SWIFT— 
 
 rem Geneva, N.Y...S.S.T 
 SARAH ANN EDEY,d'd '32 
 Miss CHLRLOTTE BILL, 
 
 died Oct. 1834, aged 25 . . 
 ELIZABETH ANN WOL- 
 
 COTT— rem to N. Hav'n. 
 
 HARRIET WALKER 
 
 EGBERT K. VAN BEUREN 
 
 — rem to Oyster Bay 
 
 Mrs. SA'AH VAN BEUREN 
 
 — rem to Oyster Bay 
 Mrs. MATILDA BROWN 
 HAR'T THOMPSON, (col.) 
 MARY ANN BANNISTER. 
 
 Mrs. ELIZA HUDSON 
 
 DAVID SWllTT— rem west. 
 JULIA WHITE— rem 1831.. 
 Mrs. E.C.WORTHINGTON 
 
 SARAH JACKSON 
 
 HANNAH DAVIS— rem 
 
 Mrs. S. SELLON 
 
 Col. CRANE 
 
 JOSEPH SANDS, one of the 
 
 present Vestry. F. Com. 
 Mrs. MARIA SANDS 
 
 " CATHARINE VOSS, 
 
 died June 4, 1844, aged 85. 
 July 3 JOHN WHITMORE- rem. 
 1831 to Gambier. Oliio. . .S.S.T. 
 Miss J. R CROMMELIN.. 
 Miss M. O. CROMMELIN.. 
 CONKLIN BRUSH— rem'.. 
 ELIZA M. FORTIN— rem.. 
 Mrs. E. STEVENSON, (af- 
 terwards Mrs. H. Davis... 
 
 MARY DAVIS— rem 
 
 Mrs, SARAH DAVIS— rem. 
 HENRY DAVIS— Sext. St. 
 
 John's — since dec'd 
 
 GEORGE WHITE— rem. to 
 
 Gambier, Ohio S.S.T. 
 
 Miss S. M. TAYLOR, (Mrs. 
 
 Philhps) S.S.T. 
 
 Miss E. MALCOLM— rem. 
 
 toN.Y. 1832,d. 1835.S.S.T. 
 Miss L. GREENWOOD, re- 
 moved S.S.T. 
 
 Miss A. T. VAN DOREN— 
 
 rem. to Lex. Ky. '31. S.S.T. 
 Maj. D. B. DOUGLASS— late 
 
 Pres. Kenyon College. . . . 
 
 ISAAC SMITH— rem.S.S.T. 
 
 B. WELLS, (Mrs Simmons) 
 
 rem. to Boston, 1831.... 
 
 FRANCES WILLIAMS 
 
 MARGARET WILLIAMS.. 
 Mrs. EMMELINE SWIFT— 
 
 rem. to the West 
 
 SARAH HERNER... S.S.T. 
 WM. R. DEAN— died March 
 
 5, 1841, aged 46 
 
 CAROLINE SPOONER... 
 WILLIAM— left in 1832. . . . 
 
 ELIZABETH DEAN rn:m 
 
 JAMES DEAN mm 
 
 Mrs. OPHELIA G. MERLE, m 
 
 m 
 
 flb 
 
 DATE. 
 
 COMMUNIOANTS. 
 
 m 
 
 m m 
 m 
 m 
 m m 
 
 m 
 m m 
 mjm 
 m 
 m 
 
 No. 13 MARY A. VOSBURGH— 
 
 rem., since dec'd... S.S.T. m 
 ABBY FURMAN— remov'd. m 
 Mrs MARIA HORR 
 ANT. B. ELLISON— dec'd. m 
 De. 25 F. G. KERR— rem... S.S.T. m 
 
 MARD. WHITE— rem m 
 
 CLARISSA JONES. (m 
 
 Mrs. HAVILAND— dec'd 
 HELEN M. FULLER 
 SARAH MORSE 
 MissG. P.JOHNSON, S.S.T. 
 1832 Mrs. M. C. TOWNSEND 
 MARY A.HALL— mar. rem 
 
 Canada S.S.T 
 
 MARY HARRIS 
 Mrs. F AIRMAN 
 
 " OGSBURY 
 Miss OGSBURY 
 May22 Mrs. SARAH BADGLEY— 
 
 rem. to N. Y. 1833 ni 
 
 Mrs. ELIZA A. DONALD. .. m m 
 Miss SARAH RICHARDS 
 
 (Mrs. Verbryck) S.S.T. m va\ 
 
 Mrs. MARY DREW mm 
 
 Vliss DELIA BRUSH.S.S.T. mm 
 STEPHEN WHITNEY.... m 
 
 EDWARD HARRIS mm 
 
 Mrs. J. TEN EYCK.. S.S.T. m'm 
 J'nelOHANS BRODaLE— rem... m 
 N. LUQUER— rem., one of 
 
 Vestry of Christ Ch mm 
 
 MARY McHINCH, dec'd... 
 
 issL. H. PETTIT.. S.S.T. 
 
 .S. ABRAHAMS— under- 
 
 July22 JAMES" 'wEEiKS— rein! ' to 
 
 Poughkeepsie 
 
 Mrs. MARY ANN WEEKS 
 rem. to Poughkeepsie.. 
 
 Mrs. JACOBS 
 
 GEO. RHODES— rem.S.S.T. 
 
 SARAH COLE 
 
 JANE COLE 
 
 Miss M. SMITH, (Mrs. A. D. 
 
 Matthews) S.S.T. 
 
 WILLIAM DONALD 
 
 CHARLO'E TITUS. S.S.T. m 
 Miss CORN'A MIDDAGH, 
 
 (Mrs. Henshaw.) m 
 
 Mrs. ANN BETTS m 
 
 ELIZABETH BEVAN m 
 
 Mrs. ANN PYNE— rem. . . . m 
 
 Miss A. M. PYNE— rem... m 
 
 H. PYNE— rem m 
 
 " C. PYNE— rem m 
 
 .lAMES SAUNDERS m 
 
 SARAH SAUNDERS m 
 
 Miss E. T. WILSON, (Mrs 
 
 Titus) S.S.T. m 
 
 Mrs. M. H. SMITH.... S.S.T. m 
 
 " SARAH HODGE m 
 
 MEHITABLE HODGE m 
 
 CAROLINE WARING m 
 
 SARAH R. MILLER— rem. 
 
 1839 S.S.T. m 
 
 JULIA TITUS m 
 
 GEO. T. FOX mm 
 
 Miss MARY J. VAN PELT. 
 
 —died Oct. 1842 S.S.T. ml m 
 
 Sept.9 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
'Oct. 21 
 
 Febl7 
 
 Ap.7 
 
 COMMUNICANTS 
 
 Miss HARRIET SANDS... 
 
 Mrs. M ORIMKS— iPin ... 
 
 Mrs. HELExN STEVENS... 
 '• SA.RAH BIRKBECK.. 
 " ANN WEUB 
 
 Miss .JANE HITCHENS— 
 (Mrs Capr. Oils. Berry)... 
 
 HaNNWJI WARING 
 
 SARAH.IOHNSON 
 
 THOMAS J. CHEW.. 
 
 JAS. H. CLARKE, Sen- 
 died Sppt. 21, '44, aged 60. 
 
 PHILIP REED 
 
 Mrs. A. E. DOUGLASS— re.. 
 
 ANN SKILLER.- 
 
 AGNES CORNELL 
 
 MARV POYD. (Mrs J. H. 
 Muore)— rem 
 
 y 
 
 'tn m 
 I 111 I m 
 mm 
 mm 
 mm 
 
 mim 
 mim 
 mm 
 mjm 
 
 mm 
 mm 
 m!m 
 
 ml 
 mm 
 
 1833 
 
 COMMUNICANTS. 
 
 Mrs. WM. 15. COOPER... 
 Mrs. M DOUGHTV..S S.T. 
 [Mrs ELEANOR MILLER. 
 CHS.CONGDON, form Sup. 
 
 Now Sup. S.S. Eman'l Cli. 
 Mrs.SARAR WAiT,,S.S.T. 
 
 WM. BETTS ,.,.. 
 
 Mrs. WM. BETTS 
 
 ROBERT BANKS 
 
 Mrs. SUSAN B AN KS 
 
 " P. A. TOMLINSON.. 
 JULIA BANNERS-rcm. to 
 
 Hempstead S.S.T. 
 
 CHARLOTTE ADAMS. . . . 
 A D MATTHEWS. S.S.T. 
 
 WAL SMITH 
 
 Miss MARY CORNELL... 
 MARY F GILL— rem. S.S.T.! 
 
 mim ; 
 m'm I 
 mm 
 
 i 
 mm, 
 
 m m| 
 
 mim 
 
 m ml 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 REV. B. C. CUTLER, RECTO K,. 
 
 tCM^ [The persons whose names are in tlie following list have come to the cosn- 
 mumon (either for the first lime or from other Churches) under the present Rec- 
 torship. Tlie letter m signifies tliat the person is still a member. Tiie omission 
 of the m indicates thai the communicant has removed.] 
 
 Mav, jFRANCES SOPHIA ZUILL. 
 
 1833 {ELIZABETH MATTHEWS 
 iMrs. H. CUTLER S.ST, 
 
 " S CUTLER, moth'r of R. 
 
 1 died Oct. 28, 1836 ...., 
 
 HANNAH DAVIS 
 
 F. G FISH..,. .S.S.T 
 
 Mr. MURRELL 
 
 Mrs. MURRELL.. 
 
 Au. 11 MARY PEARSON 
 
 I .JO.SEPH A. PERRY.. 
 
 I .Mrs. C. CONGDON S S.T. 
 
 I ! '• T. HUNT 
 
 I " E. SACKETT 
 
 JMiss ELLEN COLE.. ..S ST. 
 iXmas ELIZA BARRETT GARRET. 
 j j.MARY SAVAGE., s.s 
 
 INANOY CROOK, (col'd).. S.S. 
 ! iCAROLINEE. WARING, Em'l 
 
 1834 iMiss PERRY.... 
 
 FeblSMr. McLELLEN. 
 
 |W. J. CORNELL, Vestry 'n, 
 ■ also Warden St. Mary's. ... 
 [WM. H. CARTER. Sec.2d S.S. 
 1.10HN GARRETr,dec'd.S ST. 
 HARRIET C. PIERREPONT. 
 
 (Mrs. E. .1. Bartow). . . .S.S. T 
 
 Mrs. EDY . .. 
 
 SIDNEY E. WINGATE ... 
 JAMES ADAMS, since taken 
 
 ord's.Mi^s. Flpm. N.,J S.ST. 
 Mrs CAROLINE B ADAMS. 
 ANDREW DICKINSON— re 
 
 to VViilJHmsburuh .S.S T. 
 
 Mrs ELVIRA DICKINSON.. 
 OPH'A ROSE, (Mrs. A. Flower) 
 
 S.S.T 
 
 Miss S. P. BANCROFT. . . . 
 J'ne22 Miss DISBROW— rem S.S.T. 
 Mns. HANNAH HURD 
 
 ' ANN WOODRUFF 
 
 ' McHINCH 
 
 ' PHILLIPS 
 
 I " PETTIT 
 
 IMrs. A. F. GREEN— dec'd... 
 Sept.? IMiss E. A CaRU TH.. ..S.S.T. 
 
 MARGARET LAMON 
 
 MissISABELLAG.BOyD,<Mrs. 
 
 I Rev.W.H.Moore)— re. S.S.T. 
 
 jMiss S. DOUGLASS (Mrs.Cor- 
 
 nell) S.S.T. 
 
 Ihenry thorne 
 
 Oct. 5 EBENEZER PARKER 
 
 (Mrs. CELIA PARKER, dec'd. 
 iDr. PURCELL COOKE '' 
 
 Oct.25 MARY TRUELOCK(in sick's.) 
 
 Novl6 Miss JULIA r' GAMBLE," (Mrs', 
 Lt. Totten, U.S.N.)... .S.S.T. 
 
 Mr. JACOBS 
 
 Mrs. COOK 
 
 Xmas " LOW, (Mrs. Robert Car- 
 ter) . ,. S.S.T. 
 
 NATHANIEL P. KNAPP, or- 
 dained An. 1836 S.S.T. 
 
 CHAS. MONEGAL 
 
 Mrs. JAS. B. CLARKE 
 
 1835 WM. B. COOPER, one of Ves- 
 try S.S.T. m 
 
 MARG'T DEFOREST.. S.ST 
 
 Ap.l'J IHENRY IBBOTSON 
 
 Mrs. ANNA F. IBBOTSON., 
 
 Mrs. FRIEKE 
 
 Miss H. H01% s.s.-rem. to 
 
 Christ Ch S.S.T. 
 
 JOHN SHAW— rem. to Ohio.. 
 
 WM. GONE.... 
 
 June 7: A. FOBES— rem. to Christ Ch. 
 iMiss VIRG. CRAVEN— dec'd. 
 
 ID. LL ARNOLD S.S.T 
 
 iMrs. ARNOLD 
 
 A«g30 JAS. W. GREENE S.S.T. 
 
 iMrs. MILLS 
 
 Oct.li.IOSEPH RUSHER 
 
 iMiss KINGMAN 
 
 iMr. COTTON 
 
 Dec21iMARG. DUYCKINK, dec'd... 
 25|JANE DONALD s.s. 
 
 10 
 
EDGAR J. BARTOW— rem. to} 
 
 Ca'vHrv S.S.T. 'id 
 
 Mrs. ANN CAMPliEI-L— -iec'd m 
 Miss NANCY CAMPBELL... !m 
 
 1836 N. J. HECAR, iiowofClirist Ch 
 
 Mrs. SMITH 
 
 Mrs. EM.MA MESSENGER... m 
 .Mi^.? E. MESSENGER, (Mrs 
 
 Dorset!) S.ST, m 
 
 Miss R. MESSENGER, S ST 
 " M. A. CARTER, (Mr.s T 
 A. M. Craven) decM. .S.S.T. 
 Easi'r ELIZABETfl CHEW.. S ST 
 
 EMILY LEE.: S.S.T. 
 
 Ap. 3 Mrs. A. M. ST. FELIX 
 
 " SEAMAN 
 
 CAR'NE HENSHAW..S.ST. 
 
 May CHARLES D PUFFER 
 
 MARGARET .lACKSON 
 
 June Mrs. S. A OSTRANDER 
 
 I Miss E. W. BALDWIN. S.ST.im 
 
 jJuly 2jISAAC WOODRUFF, (in sick-' 
 
 ness.) (iec'd |m 
 
 Miss SARAH WHIPPLE 
 
 DIANA BEEKMAN. (col'd)..m 
 Sep30|TENBROECK PERRY, (in' 
 
 I sickne-.^,) dec'd 'ni 
 
 ELIHU HARRTSON~Ch. Cli.| 
 Mrs. E. HARRISON— Ch. Ch. 
 " EMH.Y GIBBS— rem....! 
 Dec22 " E.POWELL(in sickness),! 
 
 deceased m 
 
 25'ISABELLA McKERMITT. . . . m 
 
 1837 ABM B. FLOWER.... S.S.T.l 
 
 HANNAH OAKS s.s m 
 
 Miss E PUFFER S S T. m 
 
 JOSEPH J. BREWER. S.ST 
 
 JAS PRINCE 
 
 JERUSH A PRINCE m 
 
 East'i^Miss E. KNAPP, (Mrs. Wm. H.i i 
 
 Mar. 31 Carter^ S S.T. m 
 
 Mrs.S A BREWER— died Feb.j : 
 
 24, 1813 !m 
 
 Miss ELLEN LOUDEN.S.S.T.I • 
 
 Mrs. BICKNELI^ 'm 
 
 HENRIETTA BRICKNELL,.i i 
 JOHN SMALLEY— rem. Phi 
 lad.- -snhs'qiienllv dec'd.... 
 
 Colonel CUTLER. U.S.A 
 
 Mayl4 Mrs. Col. CUTLER 
 
 Mrs. ELIZA STANFORD 
 
 Mrs. JOSHUA MARCH— dec'd 
 May29 Dr. A. B. COOK, U. S. A., (in 
 I sickness,) di^c'd Nov. ISS'^.. 
 J'nelS Mrs. MAULTBY (mother Mrs. 
 
 St. Felix) im 
 
 Mrs. SOPHIA LEE— died Oct. I 
 
 6, 1844, a^cii 44 m 
 
 Mrs. GEO CORNELL 
 
 July23 Miss ANN A.BRUSH,s.s.S.S T. in 
 " M L GAMBLE, ss S.S.T. m 
 July29 CATH. WHITTON, (in sick-f 
 
 ness) deceaseri 'm 
 
 THOMAS WHITTON, dec'd. .m 
 
 Mrs HAMILTON m 
 
 Sept.3 CHARLOTTE GILLIS m 
 
 Miss GORGAS 
 
 Mrs. MORGAN | 
 
 " HOLMES I 
 
 " SARAH ADAMS I 
 
 Miss BALDWIN, fniPawturket !m 
 Oct.3 " H. S RICHARDS, (Mrs.j 
 Huntington) ,s s.S S.T.!m 
 
 IMARY PIERREPONT 
 
 CHAS. E. DOliGLAssS— Trin 
 
 1 Coll Cainh En>^ S.S.T 
 
 13 Mrs. A B COOK 
 
 No. lOMr. FAXON im 
 
 Mrs. FAXON m 
 
 Xmas 
 
 Mr. W W HOOPER 
 
 Mrs. MARY HOOPER 
 
 Miss A W. HOOPER 
 
 " LUCY HOOPER — dec'd 
 
 Mav 24. 1S41, asr.25 
 
 " HARRIET HOOPER— d: 
 
 May. 1S24, aued^fj.. 
 
 Mrs. JANE ELIZA BETTS,. 
 
 " CHAS HORNE, Jr 
 
 " A M FOBES 
 
 " KELLOG 
 
 WM. MORRIS 
 
 Mrs. MORROW 
 
 Miss MORROW, (now Mrs.) 
 •, S.S.T. 
 
 18.38 Mrs. SHIELDS 
 FeblllS. EVANS— dec'd.. ..S.ST 
 
 iMrs. ARAMINTA D. PUFFER 
 
 I —der'd Dec. 1843 ni 
 
 MarllRICHARD S. TU<^KER |ni 
 
 IMi.^s A. H. CHEW— (Mrs. Lt.i | 
 
 ! Swift.) Aihanv S.S.T. im' 
 
 Miss REBECCA SHARP .. .jmi' 
 
 " HALSEY.. S.S.T. Im: 
 
 Basf'r JULIANA ENNIS !m 
 
 Wlut. Mrs. ELIZTH BOSTWICK..[m 
 JuneSi " HARRIET HALSEY in 
 
 Mr. BENSTEI I 
 
 Mrs. NEW^MAN S S.T.Im 
 
 " HITCH ENS. tni 
 
 CHS A. VAN KLEECK,SS.T. m 
 
 Mrs. E. VAN KLEECK.S S.T.I n> 
 
 Mr. DOPvSEY {m 
 
 JuneSJANE MaRL\ FOBES s.s. m 
 
 HARRIET ELIZA FOBES.s s. 
 
 IMiss SMITH 
 
 Ju]y22JOHN HALSEY S ST. 
 
 JMrs. CHAS. MILLS. .. .S.S.T. 
 
 Lieut.GEO TOTTEN, US.N.. 
 
 Mrs. MORGAN 
 
 Mrs HARRIET WALTERS.. 
 
 FELIXINE M. ST. FELIX. . . . 
 
 SARAH ('ORNELL s s. 
 
 CATHARINE BENNET... s.s. 
 
 Mrs. HALSEY 
 
 " ROBINSON 
 
 Miss BENSTAL (reported).... 
 
 Mr. RODGERS 
 
 Lieut. SWIFT 
 
 Mrs. SWIFT, deceased 
 
 Miss BROOM 
 
 Mrs. ANN ELIZA WILSON... 
 Xmas DAVID ANDERSON. Jr 
 
 (Mrs CAROLINE ANDERSON 
 
 Capt. HOYT— rem. to Mass... 
 
 Mrs. MARYTIMPSON 
 
 OSBORN 
 
 ITHOMAS M WATSON.S.S.T. 
 
 Mrs T M. WATSON 
 
 Mrs. CHAPMAN 
 
 CORNELIA ALMA CARMAN, m 
 IMr. M AC AULEY in 
 
 JMrs. Mr C All LEY m 
 
 " NAPIER, deceased 
 
 1839 T A. M. CRAVEN, U.S.N... 
 .Ian.27 ROBERT ROSS S.S.T 
 
 iMr DAMON 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
Mrs. DAMON 
 
 " TROWBRIDGE 
 
 " MALCOLM 
 
 CLARISSA CRANE HOYT,af 
 
 j tprvvards Mrs. (Rev N. P.) 
 
 ! Knapp. DM Tiiscal'a, Oc '4'J 
 F'b. 24Mrs. BRASHER 
 
 Ml. H S. CHAPMAN 
 
 Mrs. CHAPMAN, Jr 
 
 Dr. DEXTER 
 
 Ca-sterMrs. HUNT 
 
 W'tS. Mr. LYMAN 
 
 Miss CARRINGTON. 
 
 jCORNELlA JACKSON 
 
 JANE MH.LS 
 
 Miss HARRIET DOW.... ST 
 
 i.rOSEPH PETTIT,oiie nfVfsy 
 
 iMrs. PETTIT 
 
 Mrs. SNELL 
 
 Mr. WH.SON 
 
 Jun.23 Lt FRANCIS ELLISON. U S.N 
 
 jALFRED MONROE WEEKS 
 
 I — rsin. to N. Y S.S.T 
 
 [Miss P L PETTIT . ..S S T. 
 
 MaRGRaET NAPIER 
 
 JOHN LOWE 
 
 ?^ep.l5 Mrs. ANNA L. FISH. . ..S.S.T 
 
 Mrs. DANA 
 
 Oct 31, ROBERT DLYCKINCK, in 
 
 I sii'kri-"ss — deceased 
 
 No. 24 Mr. E. FULLER •. . 
 
 iSARAH ANN KNAPP (Mrs. E 
 
 I Fuller)— 
 
 j.Mrs JANSEN 
 
 XmasjWM. C. FLOWER S.S.T 
 
 '\Irs. ACO.STA 
 
 1840 I Miss ELIZA CUNNINGHAM. 
 Feb. 2 SARAH SrF.LIVAN 
 
 HARRIET BRAINARD.S.S.I 
 
 Mrs. BARAH FRENCH 
 
 1-^^ DOUGHERTY ^ Ret. fr'm 
 
 I—— DOUGHERTY S Com 
 
 MavSMrs. CAROLINE KEESE 
 
 Eist'rl " ELLEN M JACKSON.. 
 Ap. 19 WM. CIL\RTRES . . ..S.ST 
 
 iMiss MA'A BALDWIN. S.S.T 
 
 FERDI'D WALKER... S.ST. 
 
 Mrs ELMIRA WALKER 
 
 MI.Vs DORSETT 
 
 Mr. EDMUND DaVIS 
 
 Mrs. M. II Ml! LER 
 
 Ap. 20 MARY THORP, in sickness.. 
 
 SAMUEL ( RUM'! vEnaI'man) 
 June7Cai)l ENGLISH, U.S.M 
 
 Mrs ENGLISH 
 
 PENELOPE B ENGLISH. SST 
 
 'Mr. BROOKS 
 
 Mrs. BROOKS 
 
 JMiss BROOKS 
 
 IMftanl Mrs.UlSBEE 
 
 Mrs. LOUISA SMITH 
 
 !A,MEL[A(c<iiorerl) .lec'd 
 
 Julyl9S VAN NOSTRAND. ..S S.T 
 
 :Miss AMELIA A. HITCHENS. 
 
 I di^Ml Orr. IS, '43. HL'Rd 27.SST 
 
 |C.\THARINE SANDS 
 
 IMrs. ANN W. (Ahraham) HAL 
 
 ' SEY. <lip(I Jiinf>2S. '41.m'(I4.«! 
 Sep.l3Mrs. ELIZABETH H DIXON 
 Oct.l8 CHARLES BURDE TT 
 
 Mi.ss SUSANNA TITUS 
 
 No. 22 Mrs. EASTMAN 
 
 Mr. CHRISTOPHER 
 
 [Mrs. CHRISTOPHER m 
 
 " TOA'AI |m 
 
 " KIMMEL m 
 
 EUGENE THORNE m 
 
 Dec. 3 JAM S M ARSHALL,iri sickn's m 
 1 41 JEDWARDSHAW, do dec'd m 
 
 Jan.SlMiss SARAH C BETTS Ini 
 
 Mar. 7 Mrs. MARY KELLEY HALL., m 
 
 Mi.ss MARY HALL... 
 
 Mrs C. M. GIBSON S.S.T 
 
 Easter MARY ANN PUFFER , 
 
 JANE USTIC TITUS [m 
 
 EDWARD G MILLER,did '4l'm 
 Mr. and Mrs HOYT m 
 
 My 30 ANDREW M HARPER S ST m 
 ISABELLA G HARPER S.S.T m 
 
 Mr MORGAN !ni 
 
 Mrs. MORGAN S.S.T. ni 
 
 THERESA PIERREPONT. . . . m 
 
 GEO. F. TOMAl jm 
 
 JOS. P. WEBB (ctilored) 'm 
 
 JOHN ACCURST 
 
 lELlZA A. WATSON 
 
 July IS Mrs. JANE SNEDECOR, (N 
 
 Utreichl) 
 
 MissC. E. STANFORD. S.S.T 
 
 Mrs. DIKEMAN 
 
 Mrs. LIVINGSTON 
 
 Sept.5 VOLNEY A. ELLIS. 
 
 ELIZABETH R. PEET.S.S.T 
 ELLEN CORNEL*... S.S.T 
 Mrs ANN ROW, in sickness,! 
 
 dpreased. ^ . . . m 
 
 ALFRED AVVATSON, orda'd ! 
 
 Nov. 3. 1844 S.S.T |m 
 
 ml No. 2l!Lf. ALEX GIBSON. U. S. N. |m 
 Mrs. MARGARET CLARK... 'm 
 
 Mrs. BULLUS. Si n Ipi 
 
 Mrs. ROBERT C. NICHOLS. .'m 
 
 Mrs GOODWIN m 
 
 LOUISA HANFORD... S S T. m 
 ELPATIAM CARR .. S ST m 
 
 F'h.lSROSA RENSHAW.... !m 
 
 jMARY H. CIIEVV, (now Mrs 
 
 G. R Lewis, New London). 
 
 Mrs. WALTON 
 
 1842 
 
 m 
 
 Mrs. SPINOLA ;m 
 
 Mrs. JULIANA PHILLIP. 
 
 M'r.27 
 
 rn 
 
 WM. C. JEWE'lT SS.T.,m 
 
 Miss CARR 'm 
 
 " IlAN'AHJOHNSON.SSTni 
 » SEIDELL 'm 
 
 Mrs. PERRY |m 
 
 " MORGAN m 
 
 Miss ANN SEIDELL ^ni 
 
 Mrs. SMITH S S T. m 
 
 MaylSCapt. CHARLES C. BERRY, m 
 
 iMisa REBECCA I, PEET....ni 
 
 i " LOUISA MARCH im 
 
 I » DIKEMAN.. mi 
 
 " JULIA PIERREPONT... m 
 
 " ARNOLD im 
 
 " MACINTOSH m 
 
 iMrs BULLUS. Jr m 
 
 [THOMAS LOWNES.... S.S.T. 
 
 Mrs GRAHA.M 
 
 I " FURBER 
 
 2GMiss LYDIA WOOD 
 
 " ANNA WOOD S.S.T. 
 
 MARY ANN DRVDEN. . . s- s. 
 
 C. H. ROBINSON SST. 
 
 Mr. HIGGINS 
 
 Mrs. HIGGINS 
 
 Ju 
 
Miss HIGGINS m 
 
 Mrs Si;;§AN CLARK SMITH, ni 
 " llfciBECCA BALDWIN im 
 
 JulySl VVM. II IJUIJJ^ON Im 
 
 CAROLINE RENSHAW m 
 
 Mr. RHODES, Sen jm 
 
 Mrs. RHODES ,....|ni 
 
 iMr. RHODES Im 
 
 I " RHODES, Jr m 
 
 Sep.ll' " WILLIA.MS, aged S3 y'rsm 
 j '• ARNOLD . m 
 
 No. 20 ANDREW DOUGLASS,S.S.T m 
 
 I ANN ROSE ..S.S.T.im 
 
 JOSHUA PARKER Im 
 
 iMrs. ANN ELIZA CLARK |m 
 
 De 21jELlSHA HILL GOODWIN, in; 
 I siclines~ Im 
 
 XmasN. CLEAVELAND ml 
 
 iMrs. CLEAVELAND mi 
 
 i HUTCHINGS........ |m 
 
 1843 MARY DORBIN m; 
 
 Feb. 5 HENRY BANCROFT. .S.S.T.{n,| 
 
 IxMrs. CATHARINE RUST mi 
 
 iMrs. .lEWETT m 
 
 Mar. siMrs.PHEBE AMLTA BIGLEY ni 
 
 East'r .Mrs. MAHL\ BRADY |m 
 
 Ap. 16Mrs. ELIZABETH COMBS... mj 
 JMARY A. VANDEVEER (cuL) m, 
 
 isUSAN WARING jm! 
 
 IMiss M. MESSENGER., S S.T. m: 
 
 !JAN#ELLIS ..m! 
 
 Mrs. M E CORLIES m 
 
 THOS MESSENGER [ml 
 
 Mrs. ANN .MESSENGER 'm| 
 
 FRANCIS M AUR AN iml 
 
 IMrs. M AUR AN fn; 
 
 Mrs. WH.LLAMS Jm 
 
 JAS. SWH-T . ..Iiii 
 
 June CHARLOTTE E WILSON... 'm 
 
 DANIEL EMBURY ..Jm 
 
 SARAH SHIELDS Im 
 
 Sfipt. Mrs. H. G. NICOLS S.S.T. m 
 
 No. 26iWM. ! EET S.S.T. m, 
 
 MARY BURNS im 
 
 XmasMILES BULLEN im! 
 
 COR'LIUS VER BRYCK, rioc. m, 
 CLAUD. B. NICHOLS. ..S.S.T. |m| 
 
 WM. WAIN WRIGHT \m\ 
 
 Mrs. CHS. IL ROBINSON. ... Im; 
 1S44 MARY SMITH mj 
 
 Mar. 3 EUPHE.MIA HALSEY.. S.S.T. Iml 
 
 ELIZA GILLS 
 
 ELIZA PRESTIGE 
 
 Mrs WEBB, (colored) 
 
 ELIZA BROOKS 
 
 LOUISA BROOKS 
 
 Mr. HYDE 
 
 Mrs. PETTIT 
 
 Mrs. SWIFT 
 
 Mrs. MARY RUSHER 
 
 East'r .Mrs. MARY SMITH 
 
 W. R WADSWORTH.. S.ST 
 
 Mr.s. V. WADSWORTH, de 
 
 ceased , 
 
 Ma}2« Mi.<s JACKSON 
 
 Mrs. WILSON 
 
 Mrs. HARTSHORN 
 
 ELIZABETH SMITH 
 
 ELIZABETH THOMPSON.. 
 
 MARY ANN THOMPSON 
 
 CATH'NE C HALSEY. S.S.T. 
 
 CORNELIA FRIECK..S.ST 
 
 MARY JANE FUIECK.S S.T. 
 
 Sep. IMrs TITUS 
 
 ' ICapt. T. O ZUiLL 
 
 Oct. 6R<)BERTW. ZUILL. . .S.S.T. 
 
 IMiss MARIA HOLT 
 
 I IMiss H. PJH:LPS SS.T. 
 
 jMr. R. WADSWORTH 
 
 IMrs. WADSWORTH 
 
 ' iMiss CRO.MMELIN..: 
 
 Oct.25Miss CROMMELIN 
 
 I ;Miss CAROLINE TITUS, (in 
 
 Nov. 3i sicktipss) died Feb. 14.1845. 
 j iJOSEPH DEAN PHILLIPS . . 
 
 I |MAR1A L LEWIS S.S.T 
 
 XmasELlZABETH WATSON (ordi 
 I j nalioii) 
 
 Mrs ARABELLA LEE... . 
 
 Miss MA'RKTTA MACNARA 
 
 THATCHER TUCKER 
 
 Mrs. TUCKER 
 
 lOHN CONSTABLE 
 
 Mrs. CONSTABLE 
 
 Feb. i Acf^. CH. BANCROFT.S.S.T 
 •HS SKERRITT 
 
 lARVES B CURTIS. 
 
 vNNA A. CURTIS 
 
 PHEBE FORD 
 
 ELIZABETH H. SMITH 
 
 Miss TYSON SS.T. 
 
 IMiss PEARSON 
 
 Rev. J. CARPENTER SMITH and Rev.CHARLES BANCROFT were for .several 
 
 ye.irs communicaiils in the Church, ahhougli their names do not appear in the 
 
 preceding list. 
 WILLIAM CORNELL, fiih name from hot'om of 1st paae of Communicants, died 
 
 Feb. 11, 1830. He continued, tlierefure, to Mr. Mcllvaine. 
 WILLIAM CORNWELL, firsr namp on second page of Communicants, died (not 
 
 as thin-e prinied. but) Oi-t. 27, I 827, aged 54. 
 Mrs. ELIZABETH CORNWELL. (immediuely following, and the widow of the 
 
 last), died at IIem|)stead, April 15. 1S44, aaed 7(1. The nge and limpof dpcrasod 
 
 printed aiiainst this name should prohably be transferred to ELIZABETH 
 
 CORNELL, Sen. utider the year 1790. 
 
 The m opposite the names of Mr. and Mrs. HAMMEL, at the bottom of tlie3d 
 pa<je of Communicants, should he erased from tlie list two columns. They 
 left St. Ann's for St. John'a, under the rectorship of Mr. Onderdonk. 
 
 MARG.VRET STEWARD died Anril 2^, 1827, (und-^r Mr. Oiidor<lonk,^ a* the re- 
 markable Hge of 107 y<>ars. JOHN STE WAAl) died January 19, 1S29, (under 
 Mr. Mcllvaine), aged 98 years. 
 
 S. PYEN, at the boitom of the 5th page of Communicants, should be S. PYNE. 
 
Corner of Washins^ton and Sands Streets. 
 
 Rev. B. C. CUTLER, Rector. 
 
 Rev. CHARLES BANCROFT, Assistant Minister. 
 
 Residence — St. Ann's Rectory, No. 1 SancLs Street. 
 
 Messrs. CYRUS BILL, ) ^; , ,,, , ^ 
 
 FREDERICK T. PEET, \ ^'^^'"'^^^ yvuMcns. 
 Messrs. JOSEPH SANDS. HOSRA VVERSTER. WM. B COOPER. WHITE- 
 HEAD J. CORNELL, .JOSEPH PETTIT. THOMAS MESSENGER, 
 (Two Vacancie.s,) Vestn/fmn. 
 WHITEHEAD .1. CORxNELL iSecrelary . . .\VM. B. CiK>VER, Treasurer. 
 
 COMMUNION DAYS— A.D. 1845. 
 1- Quinqnagesima Sunday Fehniarv 2, 1844. 
 
 2. Easrer March 23, " 
 
 3. Whitsunday ,\ May 11, " 
 
 4. Fiftli Siuuiay after T'inifv June 22, " 
 
 5. Tf-ntli Sunday after Trinity July 27, " 
 
 6. Sxteenth Sunday after Trinity Se|)tembpr7, " 
 
 7. Tweniy-first Smiday after Trinity , , . October 12th, " 
 
 8. TvvfritysiKth Sunday after Trinity ,. N'lveniber 16, " 
 
 9. Christmas , -, December, 25, " 
 
 WEEK DAY SERVICES— //J t/ie Chapel, adjoining the Church. 
 
 Lecture, every Wednesday evening:. 
 
 A Missionary Meetins: on first Wednesday evening of every month 
 Services in Church. 
 
 Lecture preparatory to the Communion, on Wednesday evening be 
 fore every Communion Sunday. 
 
 Communion Lectures — -.lanuary 29 ; Good Friday, March 21 ; May 
 June 18 ; July 23 ; September 5; October 10; November 14; De 
 cember 24. 
 
 Baptisms — January 31 ; March 21; May 9; June 10; July 25 
 Septembers; October 10; November 14. 
 
 Services during Lent — Prayers at 11 o'clock every Wednesday 
 and Friday ; on Wednesday in the Chapel, and on Friday in the Church. 
 
 During Passion Week — Service every day. 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOLS— J/t^/ic Chapel. 
 
 No. 1, on the ground floor, Mr. A. D. Matthews, Superintendent. 
 
 No. 2, up stairs, Rev. C. Bancroft, Superintendent. 
 
 Schools open before Service morning and afternoon. 
 
 Public Divine service and a Sermon mornin^' and afternoon in the 
 School-room No. \, for children whose parents do not attend Church,! 
 — average attendance last year about 100. This service at the same, 
 hours with that in Church — Meeting for the teachers every Fridayi 
 jevening in the Sunday School room No. 2. 
 
 Library, about 200(3 volumes, open after church, Sunday afternoon. 
 
 PARISH LIBRARY— 7/4//^/? Vestibule of the Church. 
 
 For i\\(t use of all the congregation, free of expense. Opened every 
 Sunday afternoon after Divine service. — N.B. The number of the pew 
 to be given in taking out a book. 
 
 Mr. F. G. Fisir, No. 41 Front street, Agent for the Episcopal xle- 
 corder, Spirit oC Missions, Protestant Churchman, and London Chris- 
 tian Observer. 
 
 Robert Rhodes, Sexton ; J. Abraham, Undertaker. 
 
VESTRY FROM 1832 to 1844. 
 
 1832-3— Joshua Sands, 
 Robert Bach, 
 Matthew Clarkson, 
 Frederick T. Peet, 
 James W. Burtis, 
 Cyrus Bill, 
 Cliarles Hoyt, 
 Thomas J. Chew, 
 John M. Gamble, 
 Wm. Beits, 
 
 1833-4 — Joshua Sands, 
 
 Fanning C. Tucker, 
 
 Warden. 
 
 Vestry. 
 do. 
 do. 
 do, 
 do. 
 do. 
 do. 
 do. 
 Warden. 
 do. 
 [Vestry same as last year.] 
 1834-5 — [Wardens and Vestry as 
 last year.] 
 Cyrus Bill, Secretary. 
 Thomas J. Chew, Treasurer. 
 1835-6 — [All the same as last year.] 
 183G-7 — Thomas J. Chew, Wo,rden. 
 Cyrus Bill, do. 
 
 John M. Gamble, Vestry. 
 James W. Burtis, do. 
 
 Frederick T. Peet, do. 
 William Betts, do 
 
 Hosea Webster, do. 
 
 David B. Douglass, do. 
 Joseph Sands, do, 
 
 Conklin Brush, do. 
 
 Thomas J. Chew, Treasurer. 
 William Betts. Secretary. 
 1837-8— [Wardens and Vestry 
 same as last year, except 
 W. J. Cornell takes the 
 place of Col. Gamble, de- 
 ceased.] 
 
 Conklin Brush, Treasurer. 
 
 Wm. Betts, Secretary. 
 1838-9— [Wardens as before.] 
 
 James. W. Burtis, Vestry. 
 
 Frederick T. Peet, do. 
 
 Conklin Brush, do. 
 
 David B. Douglass, do. 
 
 Joseph Sands, do. 
 
 Hosea Webster, do. 
 
 R. S. Tucker, do. 
 
 Wm. B. Cooper, do, 
 
 1839-40— [Wardens and Vestry 
 same as last year, j 
 
 R. S. Tucker, Secretary. 
 
 W. B. Cooper, Treasurer. 
 1840-41 — [All sa.ne f^s before, ex- 
 cept W. J. Cornell takes 
 the place of D. B. Doug- 
 lass in the Vestry.] 
 1841-42 — [Wardens as before.] 
 
 F. T. Peet, Vestry. 
 
 J. W. Burtis, do, 
 
 Joseph Sands, do, 
 
 Hosea Webster, do, 
 
 R. S. Tucker, do. 
 
 Wm. B. Cooper, do. 
 
 Whitehead J. Cornell, do, 
 
 Joseph Pettit, do. 
 
 R. S. Tucker, Secretary. 
 
 W. B.Cooper, Treasurer. 
 1842-3 — [All same as last year.] 
 1843-4 — [Same as last year, ex- 
 cept Mr. Cornell is Sec- 
 retary^ instead of ^Mr. 
 Tucker, absent. ]i 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 St. SoIjn'S, (Johnson street.) 
 Rev. Evan M. Johnson, Ber.lor, 
 
 This Church was organized in the year 1826. The building 
 was erected at the expense of the Rector on his own gronnd, and 
 its use offered lo the conf^re^atioii Ibr several years without remu- 
 neration. It was then enhiiged and other'iKdse improved, and as- 
 ^toned by the congr^egation. The following are extracts from 
 such of the parochial reports as have been found : 
 
 1828. — Baptisms, 28; marriages, 14 ; communicants, 41 ; Sun- 
 day school teachers, 18 ; scholars, 200 ; attendants of school, 150. 
 
 1829. — .Aluch the same. 
 
 1830. — Communicants, 50. 
 
 1831. — Communicants, 84. 
 
 1835. — {Rev. J. W. D'dler, Assistant Minister) — Communi- 
 cants 116 ; school, 23 teachers, 194 scholars, and " highly 
 flourishing." 
 
 1838 — Communicants, 121; baptisms, 9G ; marriages, 31; 
 Sunday School, 18 teachers, 195 cliildren; collections, ^313. 
 
 1841. — Communicants, 133. Church " highly flourishing." 
 
 1842.— Communicants, 130; school, 150. " This Church has 
 never been in a more flourishing state, for which v.-e thank God, 
 and take courage." 
 
 1843 — Baptis.i,?, 70; marria;;es, 80; communicants, 130. 
 " The Sunday school continues to flourish as usual, and is emi- 
 nently useful in i)reparing the children to say the catechism to 
 the clergyman of the Church on the afternoon of each Lord's 
 day, when the Holy Communion is administered. Collections 
 have been made, once in each quarter, for objects specified by 
 the canons. The |)ublic services in the Church, besides those on 
 Sundays, are, pravers on Wednesday mornings, at 11 o'clock, 
 and on every festival day, at sunrise; the latter service is well 
 attended." 
 
 Rev. Stephen Patterson followed Mr. Diller as Assistant Min- 
 ister, and Rev. C. S. Henry, D. D., now occu[)ies the station. 
 
 St. V^wVb eijiivcl). 
 
 The Rector (Rev. Thomas S. Brittan), in his report to the 
 Convention of 1835, says, 
 
 " The churcli was commenced in the month of Sept., 1833, 
 
212 APPENDIX. 
 
 under the aLisj)ices of the Rev. Thomas Pyne, by whom Divine 
 services were performed in a (lisirict school-room liil the month 
 of September, 1634. A place of worship, recently vacated by n 
 Baptist congregation, was then purcliased and entered upon. In 
 the f()llowing month the church was received into conneciion. Ju 
 t!]e month of November, the Rev. Mr. Pyne resigned his charge, 
 the Rev. T. S. Brittan liecaiiie its Rector. The church was 
 consecrated in tfie month of June, and through the Divine blessing 
 its members have greatly increased. It has lately been repairetl 
 and enlarged; has a flourishing Sttnday Scliool, consisting of 28 
 teachers, and 276 scholars. As it is entirely supported by volun- 
 tary contributions of the inhabitants of Brooklyn, and still is loaded 
 with a heavy debt, it has been found impossihielo make at present 
 coileclions for other pi^rposes than the neces^^ary expenditure." 
 
 The debt of the Church continuing to ii^crease, the plan was 
 subsequently adopted of letting the pews; bflt this did not afffflW 
 the relief expected, and in 1839 or 1840, the edifice was sold, 
 and the Church susjieuded or broken up. 
 
 Calbai'l) CDlirdj, (late St. Paul's.) 
 Rev. William H. Lewis, Rector. 
 
 The first parochial report after the re-organizaiion of the 
 Church, a[)jiear3 to have been made to the Convention of 1841. 
 There had been during the year 36 hajHisms, 7 marriages, and 
 16 funerals. Of the communicants, 17 had been added as new, 
 125 had removed into the parish, 6 removed from it, and 1 had 
 died — leaving 13-5. Sunday school, 31 teachers, 214 children. 
 No collections had been made except for domestic and foreign 
 missions, $83,25, The report says : 
 
 " This church has been organized wltliin tlie past year. The 
 edifice formerly known as St. Paul's Church, was purchased by 
 Edgar J. Bartow, Esq., with the design of opening it as a free 
 church, and the present Rector was invited by him to engage in 
 the attempt to fi)rrn a new congregation, with the guarantee of 
 pecuniary support on his own responsibility, for one year. The 
 old building was much improved, furnished with a bell and organ, 
 and comfortably fitted up by the proprietor; and, on the 15th of 
 November, opened for public vvorshi]). The attendance was .soon 
 large enough to justify us in organizing a church, which was done 
 u[)der the name of Calvary Church ; and the Wardens and Vestry 
 then chosen, rented the building of the proprietor on easy terms, 
 ple(iging themselves to keep it open as a ^ree church imtil Easier, 
 1842, and confirmed the call to the Rector. In a few months, 
 tiie accommodations were found insufficient, and Mr. Bartow, at 
 the request of the Vestry, very cheerfully consented to enlarge 
 them at his own ex[)ense. Durincj most of the ten months that 
 we have been in operation, the edifice has been unrlergoing im- 
 provements, without, however, interrupting a single service; anij 
 
APPENDIX. 213 
 
 now that they are nearly completed, we are in possession of a 
 place of worship of twice the former size, whicli will contain, 
 galleries included, seven hundred or more, wiili a basement which 
 will accomtnodate three hundred and fifty Sunday scholars. 
 This enlarged church, for several months past, has been com- 
 pletely filled with a congregation, intelligent, respectable, and 
 devout in appearance, among whom we have many proofs that 
 the Spirit of God has been carrying on his new-creating work. 
 The (|uiet, unobtrusive benevolence of the individual to whom we 
 are so much indebted for our church accommodations, needs no 
 praise; but it should be mentioned, that we are also greatly in- 
 debted to our brethren of other Episcopal congregations in Brook- 
 lyn, for their liberal coiitrihutions, and to their respective Rectors, 
 for the kindest and most cordial co-operation with us in all our 
 efforts." 
 
 1842. — Baptisms 79, 16 of whom are adults; confirmed CO; 
 marriages 14 ; funerals 30; communicants 200 — 44 being added 
 as new, 77 removing into the parish, 55 out of it, and 1 having 
 died. The collections were ^250 59, for different objects. Three 
 services on Sunday, and a Wetlnesday evening lecture, were 
 kept up during the year; extra services were held in Lent; "the 
 Church was opened for prayers on the principal Fasts and Festi- 
 vities of the Church, and on Friday morning preceding the Com- 
 munion, which was administered on the first Sunday of every 
 month, except a festival occurred in the course of the month, 
 when that was selected for its administration. The afternoon of 
 each communion day is devoted to the catechetical instruction of 
 the children." 
 
 1843. — Baptisms 99 — 21 adults, 78 infants; confirmed 52; 
 marriages 13 ; funerals 31 ; commtanicants — 53 new, 54 removed 
 into the parish, 39 removed from it, and 9 deceased — 269 re- 
 maining in all. Collections §552 63 — $300 of wliich was raised 
 by the Female Benevolent Society for the Poor. A public ex- 
 aminntion of the Sunday School is hf^ld (piar'erly. The church 
 susiaiiied a hws in the death of the Seiiior Warden, Robert S. 
 Bartow. "We have," says the Rector's rej)orf, "still to ac- 
 knowledge the goodness of God in the continued unify, peace, 
 and pros|)erity of our parish. The canonical collections have 
 been made every month, and thouiih our peo|)le cannot give 
 largely, the plan of monthly offerings seems to meet with their 
 et)tire approbation." 
 
 1844. — Baptisms, 75; confirmed in St. Ann's Church 7, St. 
 John's 9 — 16; tnarriages, 9 ; funerals, 35; communicants, new 
 26. removed into the jjarish 46, removed from it 34, died 9, pre- 
 sent number 301 ; Sunday scholars, ab(Mit 300, teachers, 50 ; 
 contributions, ^913 13, of whir-h 850 were for Kenyon College, 
 $200 for Jubilee College, and '5^330 hnm the Lndies' Society for 
 the Poor. U|)wards of 500 volumes have been added to the S. S. 
 Library, during the last year; present number o(" volumes about 
 
214 APPENDIX. . 
 
 1,100. " The Church ha^ sustained itselfhy voluntary contribu- 
 tions of its own members, from thecommencement, except during 
 the past six months." 
 
 Present Vestry. — Peter Clark, E. Fuller, Wardens; Edi:;ar J. 
 Barlow, J. E. Underhill, Isaac Peck, Benjamin F. Wardwell, 
 H. T. Chapman, George L. Willard, William Handlen, Daniel 
 P. Barnard, Vestrymen. 
 
 C.firist CSurcf), (Clinton Street.) 
 
 The Chnrch was organized in 1835, but it is believed that it 
 did not have the benefit of regular services until 1837, when the 
 Rev. Kingston Goddard became Rector. A temporary f)lace of 
 worshi[) was occupied in Pacific street, until the |)resent elegant 
 edifice was consecrated, July "SBih, 1843. In 1838, the number 
 of communicants reported was 80 ; children in the Sunday School 
 158, with 28 teachers. In 1839 the contributions for various pur- 
 poses were S 1,393 2. Mr. Goddard resigned! in 1841, and Rev*. 
 John S. Stone, D.D., was called, and took charge of the parish in 
 May or June, of that year. The report of the Convention gives 
 175 as the number of communicants, and 150 pupils to the school. 
 In 1842, (thecongregation had taken possession of the new church,) 
 the communicants were reported as numbering 180, and the year 
 following 220. In this latter year (1843), the collections amounted 
 to $1,532 30, ^700 of which were for Kenyon College. " The 
 parish (says the Rector) is in all respects in a growing and pros- 
 perous condition." In 1844, 230 communicants were reported. 
 
 We have failed to obtain, as we had hoped, a detailed account 
 of this Church, and a description of the elegant edifice in which 
 it. worships. 
 
 STrilUtw Cijurci), (Clinton Avenue.) 
 
 This Church was organized in March, 1835. The first Vestry 
 consisted of George W. Pine and Robert Wilson, Wardens, and 
 D. B. Douglass, Charles Hoyt, Anson Blake, J. W. Hunter, 
 Beihuel Ackerley, Charles Bashan, A. S. Van Nostrand, and 
 A. B. Ellison, Vestrymen. A sione edifice, 45 by GO feet, was 
 erected on a plot r)f ground 100 by 200 feet, and consecrated in 
 1336. Rev. D. V.M. Johnson, Rev. Dr. Coit, and Rev. Mr. 
 Shimeall, were successively Rectors. In 1841, the parish having 
 become embarrassed, public worship was suspended. In 1842, 
 the church was reorganized under the name ot St. Luke's. 
 
APPENDIX, 215 
 
 St 2lufee*s Cijurcf), 
 
 Rev. Jacob W. Dlller, Rector. 
 Mr. Diller took charge of the parish in June, 1842. There 
 were reported to ihe Convention of that year 27 communicants, 
 and 46 in 1843. 
 
 St. l^arjj'S. (Clason Avenue.) 
 Rev. Joseph Hunter, Rector. 
 
 In March, 1836, a Sunday School was commenced here, 
 which formed the nucleus of the Church. In May following, 
 Mr. Hunter took charge of the school, and commenced lay-read- 
 ing to a small congregation which assembled with the children. 
 In 1837, a Church edifice of very limited extent was erected, and 
 a Church organized, to which the name of St. Mary's was 
 given. This edifice was consecrated by the Bishop of the Dio- 
 cese on the 1st of February, 1840, was enlargpd in 1841, and is 
 now capable of accommodating from 250 to 300 persons. Mr. 
 Hunter was ordained Deacon with the graduating class of the 
 Theological Seminary, July 7, 1839, in the Church of the An- 
 nunciation, and to the order of the Priesthood in St. Mary's. 
 The following [lersons composed the Vestry in 1843 — 
 Wardens — John Hammel, W. J. Cornell, (of Si. Ann's.) 
 Vestrymen — B. Ticknor, J. Whitman, J. L. Husted, B. H. 
 Riker, W. Kelley, A. D. Berry, E. Copland, K. S. Tucker, (of 
 St. Ann's.) 
 
 There are about 50 communicantg, and more than 100 cate- 
 chumens. 
 
 Hmntan tel ^^fjlirri), (Sidney Place ) 
 This Church was organized in 1839, Kev. Kingston Goddardj 
 Rector, and a neat brick edifice built and consecrated in 1840, 
 Since that period the congregation has been gradually increasing, 
 and the parish is prosperous. In 1842, according to the parochial 
 report, there were 97 communicants. The Vestry, in 1843, con- 
 sisted of Conklin Brush, senior Warden, Oliver H. Gordon, junior 
 Warden, and George Hastings, Henry S. WyckoHT, Edward 
 Whitehouse, William Dumonf, D. H. Arnold, G. F. Duckwiiz, 
 R. Aborn, and George F. Thomea, Vestrymen ; Geo. F. Thomea, 
 Treasurer, and Charles Congdon, acting Secretary In the be- 
 ginning of 1844, Mr. Goddard resigned his charge on account of 
 ill health, and not long after the Rev. Francis Vintoni of Rhode 
 Island, was called to the Rectorship, who entered upon his duties 
 in the following August. The present number of communicants 
 is about 150. Present vestry same as above, except that Henry 
 Shelden and A. M. Ryder have succeeded to G. F. Duckwitz 
 and Wm. Dnmont. 
 
216 APPENDIX. 
 
 St. 2r|)omas* CCijurc^. 
 
 This was organized as a free church on Easter Monday, 1843. 
 Rev. John F. Messenger, Minister. Fourteen communicants are 
 reported for that year, and 15 teachers, and 100 pupils in the 
 Sunday School. Services are held in a small building in Navy 
 street, near Myrtle Avenue. Measures are in [)rogress to erect a 
 permanent place of worship. ' 
 
 These notices have been partly made up from such of the pa- 
 rochial reports as w^ere at hand, in the absence of other materials 
 which it was desired to obtain, and which, in some instances, were 
 promised. 
 
 |:j= Si. Peters' s (colored) Church was formed some years ago, 
 but has been suspended for want of support. 
 
 11^ A large Gothic edifice is now in the progress of erection by 
 E . J. Bartow, Esq , but whether intended for one of the present 
 congregations, or for a new one, has not transpired. 
 
 [appendix a.] 
 Referred to at j)CLge 13. 
 
 The Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts re- 
 quired that every application for the appointment of a Missionary* 
 in stating the qualifications of the person presented, should be ex- 
 plicit as to "his temper, his prudence, his learning, his sober and 
 pious conversation, his zeal for the .Christian religion, and dili- 
 gence in his calling," &c. — And all persons concerned were be- 
 sought "not to recommend any man out of favor or aflTeclion, but 
 from a sincere regard to the honor of Almighty God and our blessed 
 Saviour." — And if any unworthy person should by any means 
 receive the appointment of Missionary, the Society " intreated 
 their friends in America, in the sacred name of Christ, to give 
 information, that they might put away from them that luicked 
 person/^ 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 211 
 
 The following interesting incident was copiel from an old publi- 
 cation by a femZle member of St. Ann's. It is not doubted that its in- 
 sertion here will be gratifying to many: 
 L-nes addressed by the Young Ladies of the Female Seminary at 
 
 Q^ M , to their Pastor, and placed by them in a basket ot 
 
 fresh gathered flowers which was hung at his door on May morn : 
 
 Pastor beloved ! at early dawn 
 We ranged the hills, the dale, the lawn, 
 And cuU'd their sweets, with meekest care, 
 For thee this chaplet to prepare. 
 
 Ah ! would the Spring a flower supply 
 Unfading as thy charity, 
 Still would the gift fell far below 
 The debt of gratitude we owe. 
 
 And long may each revolving year 
 
 Witness our faithful guardian's care, 
 
 Yet, let this simple present prove 
 
 How dear we hold thy watchful love ; 
 'Tis all we have, — may bounteous Heaven bestov/ 
 The wreath that blooms where living waters flow. 
 
 ANSWER BY RRV. B. C. C. 
 
 Dear lambs ! whom Jesus bids me feed, 
 
 And through life's rugged path to lead, » 
 
 How sweet the chaplel you have given 
 
 To grace a brow so bless'd of Heaven,—- 
 
 Bless'd by the hands of faith and prayer. 
 
 When laid in holy office there. 
 
 That chaplet is a wreath more bright 
 
 Than royal diadem of light. 
 
 The lambs of Christ their Shepherd own, 
 
 His friendly crook, his voice, are known ; 
 
 Oh may that chaplet flourish fair 
 
 Till every flower which blossoms there 
 
 A gem becomes, by glory given, 
 
 And every gem a soul in Heaven. 
 
 Go forth, my lambs, o'er hill and dale, 
 
 And pluck the sweetest flowers of morn. 
 But let the perfume they exhale 
 To every morning breeze, or gale,— 
 The mute but breathing praise they sing,— 
 Ascend to Heaven on Faith's bright wmg ; 
 Lisp ye the homage they would pay 
 To Him that ushers in the day. — 
 l^hose mountains, where the Gospel tread 
 Bedews the flowrets' fragrant bed; 
 Those mountains, where a gushing stream 
 Both slakes your thirst and leaves you clean; 
 There stop ! nor pass, by step too bold, 
 The bounds that mark Christ's peaceful fold ; 
 For there the world her snares has spread 
 For wandering sheep from Shepherd stray d. 
 
 John xxi, 1.5. 
 Heb. xii, 13, 
 
 Ordination service. 
 1 Tim. iv, 14. 
 
 John X, 9. 
 1 Thess. i, 19. 
 
 Isaiah lii, 7. 
 
 John iv, 14. 
 xiii, 3. 
 Genesis iii, 4. 
 
 1 John ii, 15. 
 
2L8 APPENDIX. 
 
 » 
 
 The following are the Hymns written on occasion of the return of the 
 present Rector of St. Ann's from Europe. They are inserted to show 
 the feeling which prevailed in the School. 
 
 THE PASTOR'S RETURN. 
 
 [[By a former Member of School No. 1.] 
 
 Welcome, dear Friend and Pastor ! 
 
 Defended and restor'd ; * 
 
 Let Christ, our Lord and Master, 
 
 For ever be ador'd ! 
 Unceasing supplication 
 
 Sent up to Mercy's throne, 
 Returns with rich salvation, 
 
 Abundantly pour'd down. 
 
 When on the stormy ocean 
 
 Thy midnight pathway lay. 
 He rul'd its wild commotion, 
 
 Whom winds and sea obey : 
 We hope thy God hath given 
 
 Some souls tliat sail'd with theCj 
 Rejoicing stars in heaven 
 
 To shine eternally ! 
 
 Saviour ! look down with favor 
 
 On us thy gather'd band ; 
 And guard thy lambs for ever, 
 
 In Britain's favor'd land ! 
 Still may the Churcli, exienilingj 
 
 Proclaim thy glorious grace ! 
 Thy Kingdom never ending 
 
 Its wonderful displays ! 
 
 Earth of Thy lovk is telling; 
 
 And the responsive throng 
 In distantlsles, is swelling 
 
 Redemption's rapturous song ! 
 In Heav'n, the wondrous story 
 
 Shall be renew'd, and then, 
 We'll publish forth Thy glory, 
 
 World without end — Amen ! 
 
 A WELCOMING HYMN. 
 [By a Female Friend of a Teacher.] 
 
 O ! thou hast come to \is again, 
 Our Pastor, kind and true ! 
 
 And grateful are our feelings when 
 Our duties we renew. 
 
 We welcome thee to this lov'd place. 
 Our friend! with joy sincere; 
 
 For oft we've longed to see thy face 
 Since thou wert with us here. 
 
APPENDIX. 219 
 
 The little ones of England's isle — 
 
 Christ's lambs within His fold — 
 We hope have cheered thy heart the while 
 
 With happiness untold. 
 
 But though our forms wove severed wide, 
 
 Our thoughts were with thee still ; 
 And e'er at morn and eventide 
 
 Our PROMISE we'd fulfil. 
 
 A nd did not then thy prayers arise 
 
 With ours, like heaven's bow, 
 Whose tints blend sweetly in the skies, 
 
 Though parted wide below 1 
 
 We thank " our Father," who, from harm, 
 
 Has safely shielded thee ; — 
 May all relying on His arm 
 
 Find like security! 
 
 A HYMN OF THANKSGIVING. 
 
 [By a Teacher in No. 2 ] 
 
 Come, let our hearts unite,^ 
 
 In one glad strain, to Him 
 Who sits enthroned in majesty 
 
 O'er saint and seraphim, — 
 
 For mercy shown to one 
 
 Now standing with us here, 
 Our Pastor, Teacher, Friend beloved,— 
 
 To all our hearts so dear. 
 
 When on the sea's wide waste, 
 Whose arm of love was nigh 
 
 To guard him safe, when billows roar'd, 
 And angry winds were high 1 
 
 'Twas thine, O God! 'twas Thine; 
 
 And for thy goodness shown, 
 This hymn of gratitude we raise 
 
 Before thy heavenly Throne. 
 
 Returned again, O bless 
 
 Our Pastor's work of love 
 In winning souls to Christ, and may 
 
 He ever faithful prove — 
 
 Till life's last hour ; O then, 
 
 His work for Jesus done. 
 Receive his soul — reward his faith 
 
 With an immortal crown ! 
 
220 At»P£NDIXi 
 
 THE GREETING. 
 
 • [By a Member of St. Ann's.] 
 
 There's gladness in the fold once more ! 
 
 And glowing hearts rejoice; 
 Thanks to our God ! our waiting o'er, 
 We hear the Sheplierd's voice ! 
 
 Foremost to join the joyous strain' 
 The cherish'd lambs would come, 
 
 And praise the Power that brings again 
 Our own dear Pastor home. 
 
 * * * * 
 "When here thy parting voice we heard,— ^ 
 
 So slow to hear before, — 
 And fear'd, perchance, thy look and word 
 Might cheer our hearts no more : — 
 
 And when we saw thy toil-worn form 
 Borne from our sight away, 
 
 And felt, alas ! that no return 
 Thy love and toil could pay :— 
 
 O then, in lowliness we bent, 
 
 And breatli'd our promis'd prayer : 
 The promised mercy Jksus sent. 
 And made our friend His care. 
 
 * * * * 
 We thank thee for sweet intercourse 
 
 With kindred hearts o'er sea ; 
 Of" pleasant memories" the source 
 Will this communing be, 
 
 We'r£ thankful, too, that time and space 
 
 Can but the prese7ice part, 
 And naught the blessed' bond efface 
 
 Which makes us one in heart. 
 
 * * * * 
 
 Here rest thee now, thy wand'ring feet, 
 Our fi^lt'ring steps to guide; 
 
 And may we show with vigor meet 
 We're nourish'd at thy side. 
 
 And now, in praise* and thankfulness, 
 We raise the fervent strain ; 
 
 Lord ! may we sing in Blessedness 
 The SONG OF PRAISE ajrain ! 
 
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