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Excerpt from The Baptist Memorial and Monthly Chronicle, 1842, Vol. 1: Devoted to the History and Biography, the Statistics and Literature of the Denomination, With a Compendious Chronicle of Passing Events of Striking or Permanent Religious Interest We learn from the preface to the last edition of their Confession of Faith, that the first baptist church in the city of New York, was founded in 1745. The members met together in private dwellings, until 1753, when they hired a Sail Loft in Cart and Horse Street, now William street. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.