tion cost $1,100.
This property proved to be very valuable, as they decided after many
years to make it one of its most fashionable thoroughfares. Bought for
almost a pittance, this property had advanced in value to such an
extent that the business interests offered a high price for it and it
was sold.

[25] A new edifice is being favorably considered to accommodate the
growing congregation. A building fund has been started for this
purpose.

[26] This account was taken from the records of the Third Baptist
Church.

[27] There were elected the following officers in 1885: W. C. Laws,
Joseph Jones, Henry Hughes, James H. West, Daniel Lewis, Moten Waites,
and Joseph Montgomery. P. H. Umbles officiated during the vacancy of
the pulpit occasioned by the death of Mr. Jefferson, which occurred in
October, 1885.

On March 19 James H. Lee of New Bedford, who had formerly been
connected with the Third Baptist Church, was called to the pastorate.
He accepted and preached his inaugural sermon May 9 and was installed
on May 30. During the first seven years of his administration 242
members were received by baptism, 49 by letter, 62 by experience, 59
by restoration. In the same period 24 were dismissed by letter, 65
excluded and 117 lost by deaths. A debt of $3,475.55 was paid during
this period including balance due on site. The collections aggregated
$28,729.

[28] The following officers were then in charge: Deacons W. L. Laws,
Daniel Lewis, Joseph Jones, Joseph Montgomery, James H. West, Henry
Hughes, and Moten Waites; and Trustees Alexander Peyton, Henry C.
Bolden, William Reynolds, Ottowa Nichols, Richard Basey, George Duff
and Dennis Johnson. After the death of Rev. James H. Lee, Rev. Mr.
Bullock became the pastor.

[29] James L. Pinn is the present pastor, having served since
September, 1916.

[30] Records of the Shiloh Baptist Church.

[31] About a year before the church was organized a number of
Baptists, who with their children afterward formed the church, met in
a little shanty situated at that time on the south side of L Street,
just across from the present church house, and under the direction of
J. McCleary Perkins, a white Union soldier, formed a Sunday School.
The members of this Sunday School were largely adults of African
descent, while the teachers were from both races. The Bible was the
book from which morals and religion were taught, and Webster's
blueback speller was the constant companion of childr