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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
John M. HastingsJan. 1870 John C. BurdakinJan. 16, 1875 first Methodist Episcopal.—From the first settling of Lechmere Point (or East Cambridge) the few inhabitants were obliged to attend church in Boston or Charlestown until the autumn of 1818, when the Methodist Society was formed by the following named persons, all of whom had been members of the church previous to their coming to the Point; namely, William Granville, Mr. Granville seems to have been a preacher or exhorter. Elizabeth Granville, Eliza Sargent, Lucinda Sargent, William Swindel, and Charles Elliot. 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.