First Church of Roxbury

First Church in Roxbury, which, gathered in 1631, was the sixth church founded in New England. The Church has had five different meeting houses at its site at the intersection of Highland Avenue and Centre Street, with the current dwelling, built in 1803, still standing today as the oldest wooden frame church building in Boston.

According to the Roxbury Historical Society, the First Church of Roxbury marked the first stop of the April 18, 1775 Midnight Ride by William Dawes who, along with Paul Revere, was dispatched on different routes by Joseph Warren (from Green Dragon Tavern) to warn Lexington and Concord of the British incursion during the Revolutionary War. (They say he originated from here but that’s too far from colonial Boston where Joseph Warren would have dispatched Dawes from) (See Boston Neck for more on William Dawes)

Each year since 1777 the church supports a re-enactment honoring William Dawes starting at John Eliot Square in front of the church with subsequent stops in Mission Hill, Brookline, Cambridge, Arlington, and finally Lexington.

What fruitage did these spiritual leaders produce? Mt 7:15-20. Consider John 17:16 vs Acts 20:29, 30. What would Jesus have said seeing this?

-Source Links-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Hill,_Boston

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxbury,_Boston#cite_ref-:10_9-1:~:text=suited%20for%20cider.-,Revolutionary%20War%20and%20following,-%5Bedit%5D

https://www.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2021/08/04%20First%20Church%20report%20final%2008-03-2021_.pdf

https://www.thehistorylist.com/events/the-reenactment-of-the-rides-of-paul-revere-and-william-dawes-massachusetts