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down. I have picked up wrought nails and melted 

 glass on that spot more than a hundred years after it 

 had burned." 



The second Friends' meeting-house (erected 1730) 

 stood very near the corner of Main and Saratoga 

 Streets, within the space now used as their burial 

 ground. After the meeting-house had been removed to 

 the corner of Pleasant and Main Streets, more land was 

 fenced in, and the present proportions of the grounds 

 were obtained. 



Again Mr. Folger says : " The third meeting-house, 

 as the one on Main and Pleasant Streets may be called, 

 was built in part of material from the second one, but 

 greatly enlarged. I think it was erected in 1790. It 

 was two stories high, and was a spacious building : 

 the Friends, about the time of its erection, and long 

 since my day, comprising a large proportion of the 

 people. On account of the size of the building, it was 

 several times used as the court-house. It was taken 

 down, — probably in 1834, — and the materials were 

 carried to Commercial Wharf, and used in the construc- 

 tion of the ' Charles G. Coffin store ' on the said wharf." 

 The " annual meeting of Friends" of Nantucket, 

 Bristol, and Barnstable Counties held their meetings 

 in the above-mentioned building, on account of its size. 



The fourth Friends' meeting-house was doubtless 

 built in 1793, and stood on the site of the house now 

 occupied by Mrs. Clarissa Allen, and extended nearly 

 to Broad Street, but it was not so large as the one on 

 Main Street. 



It seems that this fourth house was built to accommo- 

 date the northern members, as many lived far north, 



