on February 8th, 1878, to George Thomas, Executor of the Estate of
Thomas Gass, Ship Builder, in this city. It was for a period of five
years, at six per cent, rate of interest. On June 1st, 1881 a little
over three years after, it was assigned to George Wright Gass, of
Liverpool, Eng., and on September 30th of the same year Mr. Gass
assigned it to Lucy A. Gregory, Widow, of Fredericton, when a new
mortgage was made out between the Trustees of this Church and Lucy A.
Gregory. This new mortgage was dated October 5th, 1881, and in
December, 1884, part of it was transferred to T. W. Daniel, John Boyd
and H. W. Frith of this City, Trustees of the Estate of John Gillis;
and five years later, January, 1889, $5,000 was assigned to J.
Colebrook Carter, of England. On March 7th, 1896, $2,300 was paid on
this $9,000 mortgage, reducing it to $6,700, and the rate of interest
was reduced to five per cent. After these transfers had been made,
the interest on the total amount was paid by the Church to Mr. H.
Lawrance Sturdee for Lucy A. Gregory and others. This was done up to
1901 when Mr. Sturdee was paid interest at five per cent, on $1,700
only, and Messrs. G. C. & C. J. Coster, acting for Mr. J. Colebrook
Carter, of England, received the interest at five per cent, on
$5,000, but in the year 1902, the $9,000 mortgage which had become
somewhat mixed up by transfers, etc., was cancelled, and a new
mortgage of $8,000 was placed on the Church property, everything
being straightened out to the satisfaction of the Trustees and their
Solicitor.
From the estate of our late beloved Brother and Sister Dyall, the
Trustees were enabled to pay off the mortgage for
$2,500 held by Sophia Isabella Bliss Robinson,
$1,100 on the mortgage held by J. H. Moran s Executors,
$2,300 on the Lucy A. Gregory mortgage, making a total
paid on mortgages from this Estate of $5,900. This is in addition to
$2,000 given by Brother and Sister Dyall during their lifetime.
You will notice that there were mortgages on this property amounting
to $13,600, all at the rate of interest of six per cent, or an annual
interest charge on mortgages alone of $870.00. In addition to these
mortgages, the Trustees were carrying a heavy liability on notes and
unpaid bills. At one time there were $3,770 running in notes, and
$2,465 of unpaid bills. In 1879 the debt was reduced $4,000, but from
the year 1879 to 1902 twenty-three years in all the Church did
practically nothing to reduce the mortgages, except the raising of
about $600.00 through the Sinking Fund.
In regard to the last mortgage that has just been paid. In 1902 eight
years ago the balance due on the $9,000 mortgage was $6,700, at five
per cent, rate of interest, and owing to heavy expenditures on the
south wall of the Church which was practically rebuilt, and other
necessary repairs, and to wipe out some notes then running, the
Trustees borrowed from the late William L. Waring and Addie M.
McLean, Guardians of Hugh McLean s Infants, $8,000 at four and
one-half per cent, rate of interest. This enabled the Trustees to pay
off the $6,700 mortgage and all other liabilities of the Church. This
mortgage was drawn giving the Trustees the privilege of reducing it
$1,000 every two years, and at its expiration in May, 1907, they
could pay as much as they wished.
A few months before this mortgage was given, it was decided at one of
our business meetings to take a Thanksgiving Offering each year, on
the Sunday preceding Thanksgiving, and raise at least $500.00 towards
the Mortgage. The result of the appeals each year was beyond our
expectations, following amounts being received:
1902 ............... $608.00
1903 ................. 627.00
1904 ................. 686.00
1905 ................. 596.00
1906 ................. 905.00
1907 ................. 646.00
1908 .............. 1,128.00
1909 .............. 1,075.00
1910 .............. 2,516.00
————
Total . . $8,787.0
The people took hold of the idea with great interest and enthusiasm.
In eight years we have received sufficient money to entirely wipe out
the mortgage and partly pay for the improvements recently put on the
lower flat of parsonage and Church parlors, and tonight I am glad to
report that there is no mortgage on this dear old Germain Street
Baptist Church, now one hundred years old. It has been paid in
full—cancelled at the Registry Office—and in a few moments we will
see it go up in smoke.
During the eight years we have been working to reduce this mortgage
nearly all of our people have helped in its reduction, and tonight as
we burn it, no one can say that it was paid by only a few, but all
have come to our help. Many have had this very much at heart, and
denied themselves considerably in order to give their assistance in
this noble work.
I am also happy to report that in all the pledges of the past eight
years of over $8,000, the shrinkage has been less than one per cent.,
which speaks well for this dear old Church.
Now Brethren, here is the Mortgage. It is signed for the Trustees of
the Church by our late beloved Deacon T. S. Simms, Chairman, and G.
U. Hay, Secretary, and is marked “Cancelled by Certificate No.
83,348, May 23, 1910. J. V. McLellan, Registrar.”
DONALDSON HUNT,
Treasurer.
May 25, 1910.
Officers and Committees for 1910.
—————
T. H. BELYEA, Church Clerk.
D. HUNT, Treasurer.
DEACONS.
WILLIAM LEWIS.
W. H. COLWELL.
W. C. CROSS.
S. H. DAVIS.
DONALDSON HUNT.
J. H. WASSON.
J. P. DUVAL.
CHURCH STEWARDS.
RUPERT G. HALEY
DAVID DEARNESS.
F. C. FISHER, Treasurer of Denominational Funds.
J. W. VANWART AND W. F. NOBLES, Pew Stewards.
W. H. COLWELL AND J. H. WASSON, Assistant Treasurers.
S. H. DAVIS, Church Accountant.
TRUSTEES.
J. W. VANWART.
WILLIAM LEWIS.
W. H. COLWELL.
SILAS McDIARMID.
DR. G. U. HAY.
DAVID F. BROWN.
D. HUNT.
W. C. CROSS.
E. L. RISING.
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
S. H. DAVIS.
D. HUNT.
W. H. COLWELL.
F. C. FISHER.
H. H. REID.
S. E. FISHER.
E. L. RISING.
W. F. NOBLES.
W. C. CROSS.
J. H. WASSON.
J. W. VANWART.
T. H. BELYEA.
R. G. HALEY.
H. W. ROBERTSON.
CHAS. R. WASSON.
LEWIS W.
Officers and Committees for 1910.
USHERS.
W. F. NOBLES.
G. F. H. BUERHAUS.
W. H. COLWELL.
DR. G. U. HAY.
D HUNT.
DAVID DEARNESS.
H. H. REID.
J. W. VANWART.
J. P. DUVAL.
E. L. RISING.
S. H. DAVIS.
T. H. BELYEA.
J. H. WASSON.
F. C. FISHER.
W. C. BROWN.
CHOIR COMMITTEE.
S. E. FISHER.
G. F. H. BUERHAUS.
W. F. NOBLES.
GEO. W. PARKER.
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE.
THE PASTOR, THE DEACONS AND THE CHURCH CLERK.
BAPTISMAL COMMITTEE.
DEACONS S. H. DAVIS, W. H. COLWELL, D. HUNT, AND
THE CHURCH CLERK.
MRS. DEARNESS, MRS. SIMS AND MRS. TITUS.
LAYMAN’S MISSIONARY MOVEMENT COMMITTEE.
W. C. CROSS, Convener.
W. F. NOBLES.
R. G. HAYLEY.
H. H. REID.
S. E. FISHER.
C. R. WASSON.
J. W. VANWART.
G. F. H. BUERHAUS.
S. H. DAVIS.
J. H. WASSON.
L. W. SIMMS.
E. M. SIPPRELL.
DAVID F. BROWN, Building Inspector.
H. H. REID AND G. F. BURNETT, Auditors.
GEO. OLDFORD, Sexton.
Resident Membership of the Church
———————
ARMSTRONG, Mrs. Andrew
ALLAN, Mrs. Fred.
ALLAN, Mrs. C. B.
ARCHIBALD, Mrs. Edgar
ASHFORD, Hugh G.
BARBOUR, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
BARBOUR, Miss Alice
BELDING, Mrs. Eliza
BARTLETT, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
BERRYMAN, Miss Anne
BARKER, Mrs. G. M.
BARKER, Fred R.
BARKER, Miss Florence Vera
BONNELL, Mrs. W. P.
BONNELL, Percy L.
BROWN, David F.
BELYEA, Mr. and Mrs. T. H.
BELYEA, Walter R.
BOWMAN, Miss Bessie
BLACK, Mrs. S. McCully
BLACK, Miss Margaret
BELYEA, Mr. and Mrs. A. P.
BISSETT, Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
BARNES, Mrs. Charles
BARNES, Miss Bessie
BROWN, Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
BROWN, Mr. and Mrs. C. Winter
BROWN, Mrs. E. Clinton
BURDITT, Miss Edith
BURLEY, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
BURNS, Mrs. Andrew
BURNETT, G. H.
BUERHAUS, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. H.
BUERHAUS, William R.
BAKER, Mr. and Mrs. Avery O.
COMPTON, Miss Annie C.
COMPTON, Miss Annette
COMPTON, Mrs. F. G.
COMPTON, Miss Cline
CATHERINE, Mrs. Samuel R.
CROSS, Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
CROSS, Lois M. CROSS, Audrey F.
CROSS, Paul B.
CASE, Mrs. Bradbury J.
CASE, Miss Eulila
COLWELL, Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
COLWELL, Miss Annie
COLWELL, Miss Nettie
COLWELL, Miss Emma
CALHOUN, Mrs. J. R.
CHRISTIANSEN, Mr. and Mrs. L.
CLIFFORD, Armstrong
CURRIE, Miss Ada
CURRIE, Miss Rosalie
COOPER, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. T.
CHEYNE, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W.
COOKSON, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
COOKSON, Miss Hazel S.
COOKSON, Miss Ina M.
CASSIDY, Mrs. A. F. CARR, Mrs. Arthur
CAMPBELL, Mrs. P. W. D.
CLARK, Mrs. J. Alfred
CAMPBELL, Miss Bertha B.
COFFIN, Miss Mary
DENHAM, Mr. and Mrs. T. D.
DENHAM, William T.
DENHAM, Miss Muriel
DAY, Mrs. Geo. W.
DAVIS, Mr. and Mrs. S. H.
DAVIS, Kenneth
DAVIS, Vera Edna
DAVIS, Robert W.
DICK, Miss Ella
DICK, Mrs. H. J.
DALEY, Mrs. Annie
DUVAL, Mr. and Mrs. J. P.
DUVAL, Foster
DUVAL, William
DEARNESS, Mr. and Mrs. David
DEARNESS, Miss Margaret
DEARNESS, Arthur J.
DURBIN, John
DEAN, Richard N.
DYKEMAN, Mr. and Mrs. F. A.
DYKEMAN, Miss Lota
DYKEMAN, Ewart
DODGE, Miss Georgie
DODGE, Miss Gladys
DODGE, William
DISHART, Miss Kate
DISHART, Hattie
DUNBRACK, Miss Winnifred
DAYE, Mrs. Fred T.
ESTABROOK, Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
ESTABROOK, Miss Maud
ESTABROOK, Miss Nan
ESTABROOKS, Mrs. T. H.
ESTABROOKS, Miss Elsie
ESTABROOKS, Miss Marion
ESTEY, Mrs. Jas. A.
ESTEY, Miss Lu
ESTEY, Miss Ethel
ESTEY, Miss Alice
ESTEY, Miss Eva
EVERETT, Mrs. H. L.
FRANCIS, Hugh L.
FRANCIS, Miss Ella
FRANCIS, Sydney S.
FISHER, Mrs. E. K.
FISHER, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A.
FISHER, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley E.
FISHER, Mr. and Mrs. Fred. C.
FERRIS, Joseph
FOWLER, Burpee A.
FINLEY, Mrs. Joseph
GOLDING, Mrs. Emily
GILMOUR, Mrs. A. B.
GIFFORD, Mrs. Mary
GIFFORD, Lewis
GIFFORD, Miss Mildred
GIFFORD, Hildur N.
GIFFORD, John T.
GARRICK, Miss Pearl
GRAY, Miss Emma
GRAY, Miss Muriel
GRAY, Gerald L.
HARDING, Mrs. Mary
HUNTER, Mrs. Wm. J.
HARDING, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E
HARDING, Miss Marion
HARDING, Miss Olive
HARVEY, Henry P.
HATFIELD, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
HATFIELD, Miss Nettie
HATFIELD, Miss Mabel HAY, Dr. and Mrs.
METZ, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.
MARTIN, Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
MARTIN, Chester
MARTIN, Grover C.
MARTIN, Miss Melita
MOTT, Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
MOTT, Clair
MATTHEWS, Miss Mary
MORIARTY, Mrs. J. R.
MARR, Mrs. H. G.
MARR, Miss Helen K.
MARR, John H.
MULLIN, John R.
MULLIN, Tyler B.
MORGAN, Mrs. Joseph
McLEOD, Miss Alberta
McNICHOL, Mrs. Harriet
McDIARMID, Mr. and Mrs. Silas
McDIARMID, Miss Enid
McDIARMID, Miss Grace
McDIARMID, Miss Audrey
McDIARMID, Miss Elsie
MCLELLAN, Mrs. David
McINTYRE, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. W. E.
McINTYRE, A. Gordon
McINTYRE, Willard
MACKINNON, John G.
MACKINNON, Miss Lizzie
MACAULAY, Mrs. Grace
McMANN, Boyd McNALLY, Miss Frances
MACFARLANE, Mrs. John E.
McKEE, Mrs. Jas. L.
NOBLES, W. F.
NORTHRUP, Miss Leah
NORTHRUP, Gerald
NORTHRUP, George
NOBLES, Miss Maude
OULTON, Mrs. Geo.
W. PERLEY, Mrs. Harold
PERKINS, Mrs. Thos
PARKER, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W.
PARKER, Miss Mildred
PATERSON, Mrs. W. F. B.
POOLE, Mrs. Mary E.
PETERS, Mrs. Alice M.
PETERS, Miss Hilda PETERS, Arthur W.
POLLY, Mrs. Geo. T.
PERKINS, Edward
PETERS, Mrs. Fred A.
PATTISON, Miss Sadie
REED, Mrs. Charlotte
ROBERTSON, Capt Andrew
RAINNIE, Mrs. Gavin
REID, Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
REID, Miss Marion B.
ROBINSON, Mrs. T. W.
ROBINSON, Miss Lizzie
ROBERTSON, Mrs. Benjamin
ROTHWELL, Mrs. Bertha
ROGERS, Thomas
ROGERS, Miss Ethel
ROOP, W. E.
RISING, Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
RISING, Harold
ROBERTSON, Mr. and Mrs. H.W.
RITCHIE, Mrs. Ada
RITCHIE, Miss Helen
REYNOLDS, Miss Lottie Russ, Miss Marion D.
SHERRARD, Mr. and Mrs. John L.
SPEARS, Mrs. Sarah
STEEVES, Mrs. J. T.
STEEVES, Miss Lottie
STAPLES, Mrs. A. G.
STAPLES, Miss Hattie
SULIS, Mrs. A. W.
SECORD, Fred A.
SIMPSON, W. C.
SIMMS, Mrs. T. S.
SIMMS, Hugh Rutherford
SIMMS, Stockwell SIMMS, Philip
SIMMS, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W.
SPEARS, Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
STEEVES, Mr. and Mrs. Reverdy
STEEVES, Miss Sarah
SMITH, Mrs. Rufus R.
SMITH, Hollis Lester
SMITH, Mrs. Wm. S.
SABEAN, Mrs. Eldridge
SIPPRELL, Miss Olive
SCOTT, Mr. and Mrs. N. C.
SCOTT, Miss Maude
SWANSON, Miss Kate
SAUNDERS, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
SPRAGG, Mrs. Moses
TENNANT, Mrs. David
TITUS, Mrs. Mary E.
THORNE, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E.
THORNE, Douglas C.
THURSTON, Miss Isabella
THOMPSON, Mrs.
VAUGHAN, Mrs. LeBaron V
VAUGHAN, Miss Estelle
VAUGHAN, Miss Minnie
VAUGHAN, Miss Eva V.
VANWART, Mr. and Mrs. John W.
VANWART, Miss Myrtle
VAUGHAN, Mrs. Frank P.
WORDEN, Mrs. R. T.
WASSON, Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
WASSON, Miss Maude
WASSON, Master William B.
WASSON, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. R.
WIGMORE, Mr. and Mrs. Rupert W.
WIGMORE, Miss Ethel
WOODLEY, Mrs. Rebecca
WOODLEY, Miss Ida
WOODLEY, Miss Bessie
WHITE, Ralph E
WATSON, Mrs. Andrew
WARD, Luther
WARD, Miss Blanche
WATTS, Miss Annie
WELDON, John
WARING, Miss Evelyn
YEOMANS, Herbert
Non-Resident Membership.
———————
BELMORE, Miss Emily
BEST, Miss Ada
BARTON, Miss Ambrosine A.
BROWN, Miss Laura
BARNES, Herbert
BRAKEY, Mrs. E.
BELYEA, Mrs. E. A. E.
BELDING, Mrs. George
BRESEE, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
BROWN, Charles A. J.
BROWN, Miss Ethel Mary
BILL, Mrs. Gordon
BOGGS, Mrs. T. H.
BARBOUR, Mrs. Nellie
BRIDGED, M.S. Mary E.
BUTLER, Mrs. J. Howard
COY, Mrs. Fannie
COY, Mrs. Joseph
COLWELL, Miss Eliza
CRAFTS, Mrs. A. C.
CLERKE, Mrs. James
COHOON, Gordon
CARR, Harry C.
HESLEY, Miss Margaret
COWAN, Miss Susie
COWAN, Miss May
CLARK, Miss Delia
DOANE, Mrs. Alice
DEMPSEY, Mrs. Josie
DUVAL, Rev. L. M.
DAKIN, Charles
DICK, Mrs. John
DAY, Miss Annie
EDGETT, Mr. and Mrs. James
ESTEY, Frank S.
ELLIS, Mrs. William
EVERETT, Miss Pearl
EASTWOOD, Miss Annie E.
FOWLER, Miss Hattie
FISHER, John C.
FISHER, Hiram
FISHER, Miss Edith
FOWNES, Mrs. Retta
FLOYD, J.
FARRIS, Miss Edith
FARRIS, Miss Elmira
FOWLER, Mrs. Delilah D.
FLETT, Mrs. Henry
FLEWELLING, Morris E.
FLOWERS, Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
GRANT, Mrs. Alvis
GOOD, Mrs. Jennie
GASKIN, Mrs. W. H.
GERARD, Mrs. Bertha
GROSS, Harley
HYDE, Mrs. Chas. H.
HARDING, Thomas
HYDE, Charles H.
HATT, Frederick
HARDING, Mrs. Olivia
HANSON, Miss Ethel
HUNTER, Frank D.
HEBB, Mrs. A. H.
HARVEY, James
HATFIELD, Seanen
HATFIELD, George
HATFIELD, Mrs. Ada
HARDING, Charles S.
INGHRAM, Miss Grace
INGHRAM, Miss Effie
JONAH, Miss Lizzie
KINGSTON, John W.
KYLE, Miss Maggie
LANE, Harry
LONDON, Miss Edith
LANE, Fred
MARCH, Mr. and Mrs. John
MORAN, Miss Lizzie
MORAN, Miss Susie
MITCHELL, Mrs. Sarah
MORRELL, Mrs. Otty
MOSHER, Miss Irene
MOSHER, Miss Helen
MOSHER, Joseph
MOTT, Mr. and Mrs. H. D.
McKINNON, Duncan
McKAY, A. S.
McMANN, Miss Mary
McKAY, Francis
McMANN, Walter C.
McFARLANE, William
McKELVIE, Mrs. Charles
McMANN, Miss Lillian
MCDONALD, Miss Ada
NORTHRUP, Miss
POTTER, Mrs. Allen
PRICHARD, Mrs. Charles
PITCAITHLY, Mrs. Agatha
POPE, Mrs. Ethelwyn
PECK, Fred E.
PATRIQUIN, Miss Lizzie
PETERS, Dr. LeBaron
PETERS, Dr. Maurice
PARKER, Charles W.
PATERSON, Mrs. Alexander
REEVE, Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
RAYMOND, Miss Lois
REID, Orlin
REID, Mrs. P. C.
ROBINSON, Miss Jane
SIMPSON, Mrs.
SMITH, Mrs. Amery
SMITH, Mrs. St. Clair
SULLIVAN, Miss Annie
SEELY, Miss Myrtle
STUART, Mrs. Gordon A.
STAPLES, Mr. and Mrs. Allan
SMITH, Colin SLEEP, Miss Lizzie
SCOTT, Mrs. S. D.
SEELY, Alfred
SPARROW, Mrs. C.
TAYLOR, Miss Alice
URQUHART, Miss Alice
URQUHART, Miss Annie E.
VANZILE, Mrs. L. M.
WALTON, Miss Martha
WILSON, Harry
WATSON, Miss Maggie
WISLEY, John A.
WILLIAMS, Mrs. Eliza