The Pilgrims, fearing the Indians might attack them, built a logmeetinghouse on a hill, and used it as a fort, placing their cannon on its flat roof.
In the meetinghouse men and women sat apart, listening to the long prayers and sermons, or slowly singing very sober hymns.
At the ancient meetinghouse the ancient doctrines of future punishment were preached and the literal inspiration of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation was not questioned.
At the end authority was given for the conveyance to Mr. Hubbard of the site of the old meetinghouse in full satisfaction of his claim.
Afterwards, however, the Methodists built a meetinghouse in the village, and for several years we had seats and attended the services.
There was one church and one meetinghouse in each town, and the parochial expenses were paid from the municipal revenues.
A spirit, called the spirit of progress, had seized the leaders and it was resolved to build a new meetinghouse on the top of the hill.
The larger part of the village is on the southern side of a hill, and the first meetinghouse was midway on the slope and facing south.
One day in August William went to a Quaker meetinghouse in Gracechurch Street in London, and happened to find soldiers on guard before the building.
Very early on that morning a large number of colonists gathered at the crossroads near the Friends' meetinghouse at Wrightstown in Pennsylvania.
A pleasant little incident is told of how, as William Penn was riding one day to the Quaker meetinghouse at Haverford, outside Philadelphia, he overtook a little barefooted girl, Rebecca Wood, who was also going to the meeting.
We attend council meeting in Shaffer's meetinghouse to-day.
One is that he wants Brother Koontz to be at the Flat Rock meetinghouse on December 8, at 10 o'clock, without fail.
He does not give the name of the meetinghouse where the Annual Meeting was held this year, but says that he and Brother Daniel had lodging at Brother Umbenhaver's the first night.
In the afternoon preaching in the meetinghouse and love feast at night.
Council meeting at the brick meetinghousein Augusta County.
She informed us that there was a Baptist minister, named Newton, who had a congregation and a meetinghouse about five miles from there.
The same evening I held a meeting in the Methodist meetinghouse in the town of Farmington.
On a hot Sunday afternoon in July 1835, during an electrical storm, the meetinghouse was struck by lightning.
Before this book goes to press the Old Presbyterian Meetinghouse will have opened its doors again for regular services.
Captain John Harper lies buried in the cemetery of the old Presbyterian meetinghousenear two of his daughters, Mrs. John C.
McIllwayne, for access to the old Presbyterian meetinghouse session books.
The meetinghouse is a neat plain building, in perfect repair, still used by the Friends at Ulverstone and the neighbourhood for religious worship.
While the alarm company were preparing to meet them in the town, Captain Minot, who commanded them, thought it proper to take possession of the hill above the meetinghouse as the most advantageous situation.
The Indians had barricaded the end of the meetinghouse and the barn belonging to the garrison, with boards and hay, and so, protected from the bullets of the settlers, they fought at close quarters and kept up an incessant fire.
Each Sunday in the amen corner of the Reverend John Hancock's meetinghouse was mustered the well washed and combed brood of Mr. and Mrs. Adams.
In August, 1868, the fort was almost destroyed by fire, which burned up nineteen rooms and most of their contents, the meetinghouse and a cotton gin also being included in the destruction.
The second year's work was at Thatcher, where the old adobe meetinghouse was occupied.
Its first sessions were in the meetinghouse at Central, with Joy Dunion as principal.
It was held in the meetinghouse that formerly stood in the sandy pasture near the old cemetery.
The first meetinghouse built in Salem had a "catted" chimney, that is, the chimney was built with sticks laid cobhouse fashion and the whole daubed with clay inside and out.
The weekly gathering at the meetinghouse was always looked forward to with some anticipation by both old and young and the sacredness of the day did not prevent discreet conversation on purely secular topics.
To sentence a culprit to expiate his crime before the congregation in the meetinghouse was a common thing.
If the animal had taken to the deep woods instead of staying near the meetinghouse the servants might have had their fun without paying for it.
Dorchester built a meetinghousein 1632 with a thatched roof.
Probably the last instance in Massachusetts when this "ordeal of touch" was inflicted, occurred in a little old meetinghouse in the parish of West Boxford, in Essex County, one July day in the year 1769.
To assist in mounting and dismounting horse blocks were used at the meetinghouse and in other public places.
Wind, tide, and the meetinghouse bell enabled him to calculate his position: he could not be far from the Castle; he resolved to make for Dorchester Heights.
The meetinghouse was in Brattle Street, close by the barracks.
From the belfry of the meetinghouse the bell was sending its peals far and wide over fields and woodlands.
With uncovered heads the regiments stood in front of the meetinghouse while Reverend Mr. Langdon, president of the college, offered prayer.
That beyond is the Old North Meetinghouse where Cotton Mather preached.
An hour at noon, and then the meetinghouse bells were tolling for the afternoon service.
Consequently in the earlier years of the Colony all business ceased, shops were closed, usual occupations suspended, and the entire community flocked to the meetinghouse of the parish to listen to the discourse of the minister.
The meetinghouse bell was still ringing, and other bells began to clang.
It was very delightful when the choir came in with the organ, in contrast to the singing in Rumford meetinghouse where the deacon lined the Psalms, two lines at a time, and set the tune with his pitch-pipe.
Footnote 8: The old brick meetinghouseof the First Church occupied the site of the present Rogers Building, nearly opposite the Old State House.
That stately mansion near the meetinghouse was the home of Lieutenant-Governor Hutchinson.
Westward rose Beacon Hill, its sunny slopes dotted with houses and gardens; farther away, across Charles River, he could see the steeple of Cambridge meetinghouse and the roof of the college.
It was a bitter, bad day, with heavy wind and rain; yet our meetinghouse was crowded.
A town was laid out, a hewn-log meetinghouse was erected, a grist mill was built, and a day school was conducted in the meetinghouse under the direction of Professor Orson Spencer of Boston.
But on this occasion the band had been instructed by the Mayor to go up to the "Mormon" meetinghouse and there play selections during the festivities which the natives had arranged for.
Trinity Church, Oxford, stands on the site of a log meetinghouse where Church of England services were held as early as 1698.
A Presbyterian meetinghousewas pulled down, and cries of "An Ormond!
