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and they had formed a separate society called " Friends 

 of the Northern District." On the 25th of the third 

 month, 1829, the two societies, however, decided to 

 unite, and thereafter met at the South or Main Street 

 house. 



Atlantic Hall, on Main Street, was erected for the 

 Hicksite or Unitarian Friends in the year 1836 or 1837, 

 and was used by that society for some years ; but as 

 death gradually diminished the number of its members, 

 the building was finally sold, and has for a number of 

 years been used for very different purposes from that 

 for which it was designed. The Orthodox Friends 

 Society erected a large two-story edifice on the west 

 side of Fair Street in 1833, and first met there for 

 worship in the tenth month of that year. Some years 

 after, a division of the society took place (seventh 

 month, 1845), and the smaller party met for a while in 

 the Abner Coffin house on Winter Street, where the 

 Coffin School-house now stands. Afterwards the neat 

 little house on the east side of Centre Street was 

 erected for them in 1850, where they have since met, 

 but are now greatly reduced in numbers by deaths and 

 removals. Although they are in the minority here, they 

 are in unison with the greater part of Friends in New 

 England, Indiana, Great Britain, and elsewhere. The 

 larger body, after the division of 1845, continued for 

 some time to meet in the large meeting-house on Fair 

 Street. Then they went into the school-house a few 

 feet to the northward ; the large house was sold, taken 

 down, and carried from the island. They still occupy 

 the smaller building. 



The first Methodist church was erected on the corner 



