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Show i FAMED OLD CHURCH A FEW months ago there was celebratetl the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the 1 completion and opening of St. ; Paul's chapel iu Trinity parish, in the days when Britain still ruled New ' York, and Trinity parish was an in-j in-j tegral part of the established church of England. Trinity's first outlying chapel, built in 1752, and called St. George's, stood at the corner of Cliff and Beekman streets. It may uot be generally known that St. Paul's had originally, besides the main entrance at the Hudson river end of the church, north and south doors, on each side of the church, with entrance porches. They were subsequently subse-quently stoned up and canopied pews erected in their places. One of these pews was reserved for President Washington, the other for the governor. gov-ernor. It is said that after Trinity church was burned and St. Paul's became be-came the principal church of the city, the north door was closed first and a canopied, elevated pew fitted up and decorated for the king's representative and viceroy, the governor of the province. prov-ince. "The facts," Dr. Morgan Dix said, "which I have gathered show that Washington sat, at different times, on each side of the church ; on the north side, In the place of the royal Governor, until a new place was provided, pro-vided, and then for a short time on the south ; because after the rebuilding of It -8 silSu.,, St. Paul's Chapel. I Trinity church, it does not appear that he ever again attended St. Paul's. Yonder, Yon-der, then, is the place where Y;i. Iiinu-ton Iiinu-ton sat, with his wife, 'Lady Wa-'. ..z-ton,' ..z-ton,' as she was called. There eame to this church, some three or four years ago, an aged man, who said that when a boy he used to sit with the schoolboy tribe of that period, in the north gallery; and that the general and 'Lady Washington' were wont to drive up Fair street to church, on Sundays, Sun-days, in a coach and four; and that it t was a never-fniling delight to him and . bis comrades to watch Uiem iu the j cuiiopied pew below. |