CHAPTEE n.
 

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This building is, with the exception of St. Paul's
Chapel, the only church edifice now used for sacred
purposes in New York, which dates back to a period
prior to the Eevolutionary War.

From the Eev. Dr. De Witt's Historical Discourse,
pronounced in this building on the last Lord's day in
August, 1856, we learn that measures were taken by
the Consistory for the building of this house of wor¬
ship early in 1767. In June of that year, it was re¬
solved "that the church should be erected on the
grounds of Mr. Harpending, that it should be one
hundred feet in length and seventy in breadth, that
it should front on Horse and Cart Lane, and be plac¬
ed in the middle of the lot." Tlie " grounds" here
referred to, included not only the site of the church,
but a number of lots in the vicinity, given to the
Consistory by Mr. John Haepending, or as he him¬
self wrote the name, Herbendinck.