AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF TRINITY CHURCH, NEW YORK. BY THE REV. WILLIAM BERRIAN, D. D. THE RECTOR OF THE SAME. H IFORNIA New York: STANFORD AND SWORDS, 139, BROADWAY. BX 5980 ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York. SPRECKELS JOHN R. M'GOWN, Printer. PREFACE. THE present volume will have, perhaps, but slight claims to general attention, while, at the same time, it may be by no means deficient in local interest. The minuteness of detail into which it was thought expedient to enter, in order to give a full and perfect history of Trinity Church, may make it wearisome to those who are altogether unconnected with it. This very circumstance, however, will probably render it still more acceptable to the actual members of our ancient Parish; to those who have been nurtured in it, but who are now scattered abroad among the churches which have sprung from it; to the descendants of those who formerly belonged to it; and to such others also, as delight in antiquarian research, and take pride in the growth and improvement of their native place. It is only necessary to add, that the materials for this work were derived from a great variety of authentic sources, but principally from the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Smith's History of New-York, Hawkins' Missions of the Church of England, the Minutes of the Vestry from the foundation of the Parish to the present time, and from my own recollections for nearly half a century. 108258 |