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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
ot. Ms. Letter from Mr. O. H. Durrell. For a time they met in private houses; and the first sermon to them was delivered by the Reverend Enoch Mudge in the house of Mr. William Granville. Public worship was first regularly established in a schoolhouse on North Third Street, where the Society worshipped until 1823, when Mr. Granville erected a small, convenient chapel on Gore Street, now occupied as a dwelling-house. Ms. Letter from Mr. O. H. Durrell. By an Act of the General Court, June 14, 1823, Amos Binney and others were incorporated as Trustees of the Methodist Religious Society in Cambridge. About this time a lot of land was donated to the society, on which a substantial brick church was erected, and dedicated in the autumn of 1825. 2 That house, on the southwesterly corner of Cambridge and Third streets, stood about forty-five years, when it was demolished, and a much larger brick edifice was erected on the same spot, at a cost of $45,000, which was dedicated December 12