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bury, Mass., Sept. 14, 1840, aged eighty-seven years. 

 For two or three years after the dismission of Mr. Oliver, 

 the pulpit was again temporarily supplied by Messrs. 

 Story, Alden, and Micah Stone, until the ordination of 



REV. MOSES DOW 



on the 18th of March, 1801, as the fourth minister. Mr. 

 Dow was born in Atkinson, N. H., Feb. 4, 1771, and a 

 graduate of Dartmouth College in the class of 1796. He 

 retired from this pastoral office in April, 1813, with the 

 highest testimonials of the council that granted his dis- 

 mission as "an able, faithful, discreet and devoted minis- 

 ter of Jesus Christ." He was afterwards installed at 

 York, Me., Nov. 9, 1815, and resigned the position, 

 Feb. 17. L830. He died at Plaistow, X. II., in 1837-, 

 aged sixty-six. 



Rev. F. M. Stone, for many years a pastor of this 

 church, the author of the history of Beverly and now the 

 devoted and able minister at large in Providence, and 

 others were mentioned. ■ ■ 



Allusion was also made to Hugh Hill, the distinguished 

 commander of one of the privateers from Beverly during 

 the revolutionary war, whose country seat is within the 

 limits of this parish, and where he resided from 1803 till 

 his decease, which occurred Feb. 24, L829. [See Hist. 

 Coll. of Essex Institute, Vol. IV, page 181.] 



Mr. Henry Wilson of Beverly, mentioned some in- 

 teresting facts respecting the church in which the meeting 

 was held, the frame of which was the identical one erected 

 one hundred and fifty-five years ago, although the exterior 

 and interior have both been considerably modified, in 

 adaptation to the present wants of the community. In 



