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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
he distance of about a mile from Stearns Chapel, and in view of the fact that the original name would not properly designate the church after its removal, it assumed the name of The Pilgrim Congregational Church, Feb. 27, 1871. The church has had only three Deacons:— John N. Meriam, elected Nov. 29, 1865. Edward Kendall, elected Nov. 29, 1865. Lyman G. Case, elected 1875. Broadway Baptist.—A Sabbath-school, consisting of twenty-eight scholars and fifteen teachers, was opened Dec. 16, 1860, in a room at the corner of Harvard and Clark streets, under the patronage of the First Baptist Church. In 1861, a small chapel was erected for the accommodation of the school, and for religious meetings, on the southerly side of Harvard Street, about two hundred feet easterly from Pine Street. The school held its first meeting in this chapel Jan. 12, 1862; and it was dedicated as a house of worship Feb. 9, 1862. This chapel was afterwards sold, and removed to the southeasterly corner