Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

The Records of the First Church in Boston

1630–1868

Committee on Publication

lyman henry butterfield

robert earle moody

walter muir whitehill

Editor of Publications

walter muir whitehill

The Old Brick Meeting House, 1713–1808

Painted by John Rubens Smith, circa 1808

Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts

VOLUME XL

COLLECTIONS

THE RECORDS OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN BOSTON 1630–1868

Edited by

RICHARD D. PIERCE

Boston

published by the society

1961

the anthoensen press, portland, maine