The South Congregational (Unitarian) Church was organized November 7, 1830, and the edifice was dedicated December 25, 1832.  The Reverend William Barry was pastor from 1830 to 1835; the Reverend Henry A. Mills, D.D., from 1836 to 1853; the Reverend Theodore Tibbetts, in 1855 and 1856; the Reverend Frederick Hinckley, from 1856 to 1864; the Reverend Charles Grinnell was settled February 19, 1867; the Reverend Henry Blanchard was ordained January 19, 1871; the Reverend Josiah Lafayette Seward was ordained December 31, 1874.

[Illustration:  DANIEL LOVEJOY AND SON’S MACHINE KNIFE WORKS.]

The Appleton-street (Orthodox) Congregational Church was organized December 2, 1830; their edifice was built the following year.  The Reverend William Twining was pastor from 1831 to 1835; A.C.  Burnap, from 1837 to 1852; the Reverend George Darling, from 1852 to 1855; the Reverend John P. Cleaveland, D.D., from 1855 to 1862, when he became chaplain of the Thirtieth Massachusetts Regiment in the Department of the Gulf; the Reverend J.E.  Rankin, from 1863 to 1865; the Reverend A.P.  Foster, was settled October 3, 1866, resigned October 17, 1868; the Reverend J.M.  Green was installed July 30, 1870.

The Worthen-street Baptist Church was organized in 1831.  The edifice known as St. Mary’s Church was built for this society.  Their present edifice was built in 1838.  The Reverend James Barnaby was pastor from 1832 to 1835; the Reverend Lemuel Porter, from 1835 to 1851; the Reverend J.W.  Smith, from 1851 to 1853; the Reverend D.D.  Winn, from 1853 to 1855; the Reverend T.D.  Worrall, from 1855 to 1857; the Reverend J.W.  Bonham, from 1857 to 1860; the Reverend George F. Warren, from 1860 to 1867; the Reverend F.R.  Morse, from 1867 to 1870; the Reverend D.H.  Miller, D.D., from 1870 to 1873; the Reverend E.A.  Lecompte, in 1873.  The present pastor is the Reverend John C. Emery.

[Illustration:  HOYT & SHEDD’S BLOCK, MIDDLESEX STREET.]

In 1831, the St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church was erected, but was replaced in 1854 by the present more spacious edifice.  The church was consecrated October 29, 1854, by Bishop Fitzpatrick, of Boston, and Bishop O’Riley, of Hartford.  The pastors have been the Reverend John Mahoney, the Reverend Peter Connelly, the Reverend James T. McDermott, the Reverend Henry J. Tucker, and the Reverend John O’Brien.

In 1833, a free church of the Christian denomination was organized under the ministry of the Reverend Timothy Cole.  The experiment proved a failure and the building was afterwards converted to the uses of an armory.

The Freewill Baptist Church was organized in 1834, and in 1837 a spacious edifice was erected.  Through mismanagement the society came to grief and the building was used for commercial purposes.  In 1853, the society built another edifice on Paige Street.  The pastors of this church have been the Reverend Nathaniel Thurston, the Reverend Jonathan Woodman, the Reverend Silas Curtis, the Reverend A.K.  Moulton, the Reverend J.B.  Davis, the Reverend Darwin Mott, the Reverend George W. Bean, the Reverend J.B.  Drew, the Reverend D.A.  Marham, the Reverend J.E.  Dame, and the Reverend E.W.  Porter.