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CHAPTER VII.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF BUSHWICK, 1700-1869.

In the absence of any ecclesiastical records, we have no evidence of the organization of a church, or the erection of a house of worship, in this town, prior to the commencement of the last century. “A part of the communion service still in use,” says Prime, “bears the date of 1708, from which it is inferred that the church

THE OLD BUSHWICK CHURCH, IN 1828.
(BUSHWICK AVENUE BETWEEN CONSELYEA AND SKILLMAN STREETS, E. D.)

was formed about that time. There is also a receipt extant, for a church bell, dated in 1711, which renders it probable that the