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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Meeting-house brook and the second Meeting-house. (search)
est in the church, as it was called. It was about fifty feet long by thirty wide. There was no finish about it. The pulpit was nearly in the centre, and a partition across it. Back of the pulpit was for the colored people. They had a stand-up seat in front. There were some seats, or benches, just as you choose to call them. It was never painted outside. It had three doors for the white people and one for the colored. It stood in a bend of the road in the woods. The place was called Warrenton, so a prisoner told me whom we had there all day. I think he had not been to church for some time, although he was taken about a mile from there. He said he owned a farm and two slaves. I asked him what denomination worshipped there, and he said he believed it was Missionary. He did n't pretend to know much, but I think he knew more than he cared to have known. We kept him until we got to our journey's end, and then let him go. During the day we had a battle at Kingston. There were qu