FIRST - Meeting House in Boston - Boston, MA
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The plaque is over a door of a building built on the site of the first meetinghouse, built in 1632, where services and government meetings were held in Boston.
Waymark Code: WMKEJ5
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 03/31/2014
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In Boston, near the Old State House, is a plaque on a building over a door that states that this is the site of the first meetinghouse in Boston.
The plaque is located at the corner of Devonshire and State Streets and faces the intersection. It is also visible from the Old State House from the end where the State MBTA subway station has an entrance.
The plaque states the following:
"Site of the first meeting house in Boston built AD 1632
Preachers John Wilson - John Eliot - John Cotton
Used before 1640 for town meetings and for
sessions of the General Court of the Colony."
A photo on flickr - likely originally from the Boston Public Library - has an engraved image of what the meetinghouse looked like and the followingtext below:
"A View of the First Meeting House in Boston. 1632.
John Wilson, Pastor
It stood on State Street near (now) Congress Street. Its roof was thatched, its walls were mud. Such was the humble Temple in which the Pilgrim Fathers worshipped. It had no elegance of the modern churches. No rich and splendid drapery hung around its pulpit. No velvet cushions covered its seats. No deep toned organ to assist in singing praises to God. It was such a house as fitted their humble circumstances. Previous to this structure, Mr. Wilson preached out in open air, under the trees. In 1639 this house became too small..."
The two other ministers were well known in Boston.
Rev. John Eliot was here for a brief time then became minister in the Roxbury First Church. He is best known for his 'Praying Indian' towns where Native Americans who converted to Christianity lived.
John Cotton was the premier minister and theologian for Massachusetts Bay Colony in the early years of the colony.
Source:
Wikipedia
(John Eliot - missionary):
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(John Cotton - minister):
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