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Title: A history of old Pine street; being the record of an hundred and forty years in the life of a colonial church
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Gibbons, Hughes Oliphant, 1843- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Third Presbyterian Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Philadelphia, The John C. Winston company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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VAULT OF PAUL COX A patriotic soldier in the American Revolution, long a Trustee. . . in the Third Presbyterian Church East Walk directly behind the hydrant.
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Old Pine Street Men in the Revolution. 87 be field officer on the day of the surrender of Cornwallis.Thirty years later, at the outbreak of the War of 1812,this remarkable man formed a company of old peoplefor the defense of Philadelphia, of which he was electedcaptain.1 His first lieutenant was William Smiley, wholater became an elder of the church. It was GeneralSteele who took the lead in the churchs second fightfor independence. 2 Another octogenarian and prominent officer of thechurch, whose tomb is directly behind the church alongthe walk, was Colonel William Linnard, the faithfultreasurer of the church for more than a generation,who built the galleries in 1793. William Linnardwas commissioned Captain-Lieutenant in the SixthCompany of Colonel Jehu Eyres Artillery Battalion,August 27, 1777, which attempted to prevent the Brit-ish crossing the Brandywine at Pyles Ford. On Sep-tember eleventh of the same year, he was transferredto the First Artillery, whose cannon, placed at themou

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