Identifier: historyofnewyork01loss (find matches)
Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891
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Publisher: New York : Perine Engraving and Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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, and the next year the Society for Promoting the Gospel among Seamen in thePort of New York, more familiarly known as The Port Society, was formed. Under the auspices of the last-named society was erected the first Mariners Churchever built, it is supposed. It was in Roosevelt Street, near the East River, and was dedi-cated in June, 1820. Rev. Ward Stafford, its projector, was its pastor. In 1821 TheNew York Rethel Union, with the good Divie Rethune as its president, was organized. Almost simultaneously with these movements in New York for ministering to thespiritual and intellectual wants of seamen, similar organizations were effected at Phila-delphia (1810), at Savannah (1821), Portland and New Orleans (1823), New Bedford andNorfolk (1825), and at other places. So early as 1825 there existed in the United Statesseventy Bethel Unions, thirty-three Marine Bible Societies, and fifteen churches andfloating chapels for the benefit of seamen. The Bethel flag had circumnavigated theglobe.
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CHURCHES and HOSPITALS FIRST DECADE, 1830-1840. 135 chants and others. Other meetings were held, and the subject contin-ued to l)c discussed, when, on May 5, 1828, Tijk American SeamensFriend Society was organized, with the Hon. Smith Thompson,ex-Secretary of the Navy, as president; Rev. Charles P. Mcllvaine(afterward bishop of the Diocese of Ohio), corresponding secretary ;Philip Flagler, recording secretary ; Silas Holmes, treasurer, and Rev.Joshua Leavitt, general agent. The institution of foreign agencies was almost immediately begun,and now they exist in almost every important seaport in the world.The first agent sent to China was the Rev. David Abeel, and at aboutthe same time agents were sent to the Sandwich Islands, France, anilelsewhere. The Sailors Magazine (yet published) was started thesame year. In 1820 a seamens savings hank was started, and thesame year a home for colored seamen was established. The societywas incorporated in L833. In 1842 a home was opened for white sa

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