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of Lyons and Fair Streets. A second one (the Chapel) 

 was built on the corner of Liberty and Centre Streets 

 in 1823. Services were held for many years in both 

 churches. The first church was known to the older 

 people as the u Teaser." The Chapel on Centre Street 

 is doubtless the largest edifice in town, seating perhaps 

 seven or eight hundred people. 



The second Congregational church, on Orange 

 Street, was built in 1809 by the Unitarian branch of 

 that faith. It is a large, roomy edifice with a pretty 

 interior, and during the past year has had many 

 improvements and repairs made upon it, having had 

 a new town clock placed in its tower, and been painted 

 externally from top to bottom ; full particulars of which 

 will be found in the article on the "Town Clock," on 

 page 79 



The York Street meeting-house was used by the 

 town as a school-house for children of color for several 

 years, commencing the latter part of 1828 and continu- 

 ing until the town built another farther south. In 

 1831 the York Street Colored Baptist Society was 

 formed, and they occupied that building for a number 

 of years, when the society, by removals and deaths 

 and other causes, ceased to exist. Afterward a new 

 society of people of color was organized, and in 1849 

 they chose Rev. James E. Crawford as their pastor, 

 which position he has since acceptably tilled, preach- 

 ing every Sunday evening to full houses. This so- 

 ciety is of the Baptist faith, and is styled the Pleasant 

 Street Baptist Society and Church. 



The Nantucket Baptist Church was formed in 1839. 

 They met that year and the succeeding one in Frank- 



