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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The second Congregational and Mystic churches. (search)
Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher of the Salem-street Church in Boston. The church consisted of sixty members. July 29 Nathaniel Jaquith, Galen James, Jotham Stetson and John Stetson were chosen deacons. All of them had held the same office in the mother church, and the last named, who had served in that church for eight years, continued faithfully to discharge the duties of the office till his death, in 1899, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. The Mystic Society was legally organized Aug. 13, 1847. The land on which the building now stands on Salem street was soon purchased, and a house capable of seating about five hundred persons was erected, and dedicated to the worship of God Feb. 14, 1849. The house contained seventy-three pews, whose appraised value ranged from ninety to two hundred and fifty dollars. About half of the pews were sold to individuals and the rest were held as stock by five persons and rented at eight per cent. of their appraised value. Two-fifths of that st