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Title: Historic fields and mansions of Middlesex
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
Subjects: Middlesex County (Mass.)--History Middlesex County (Mass.)--Description and travel
Publisher: J.R. Osgood and Company
Contributing Library: Thoreau Society Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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oir arestill remaining. And, very like, the stiff, straight-backed pewsare a relic of ancient discomfort. The tablets bearing the TenCommandments are mementos of Old Trinity in Boston whenthe wooden edifice was taken down, and have by this meanssurvived their mother church, which the great fire of 1872 lefta magnificent ruin. A silver flagon and cup, now in use tocelebrate the Holy Communion, were presented by GovernorHutchinson in 1772. These vessels were the property ofKings Chapel, Boston, which then received a new service inexchange for the old. They are inscribed as The Gift of K. William and Q Mary To ye Revd Samll. Myles For ye nse of Theire Majesties Chappell in N. England. MDCXCIV. Dr. Apthorp was succeeded by Eev. Winwood Serjeant, inwhose time, the Eevolution having converted his wealthy andinfluential parishioners into refugees and driven him to seek anasylum elsewhere, the church became a barrack, in which Cap-tain Chesters company, of Wethersfield, Connecticut, was quar-
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CAMBRIDGE COMMON AND LANDMARKS. 275 tered at the time of Bunker Hill, and after them one of thecompanies of Southern riflemen. It appears also to have beensome time occupied as a guard-house by our forces, rivalling inthis respect the wanton usage of the Boston churches by thekings troops. But was not Westminster Abbey occupied bysoldiery in 1643 ? General Washington, himself a churchman,attended a service here, held at the request of Mrs. Washing-ton, on Sunday, the last day of 1775. The religious rite wasperformed by Colonel William Palfrey, one of the Generalsaids. Mrs. Gates and Mrs. Custis were also present. Thereis a tradition that Washington continued to attend servicehere, but the General was probably too politic to have adopteda course so little in accord with the views of the army in gen-eral. He attended Dr. Appletons church at times, and alwaysshowed himself possessed of true Christian liberality. On atleast one occasion he partook of the Sacrament at the Presby-terian tab

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