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St. Philip's, though dedicated in 1768, had been begun more than twenty years earlier, and had probably resounded to the strains of that remarkable "Thanksgiving Hymn" composed by Governor Arthur Dobbs upon the capture of Quebec by Wolfe in 1759.
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THE WALLS OF ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH, BRUNSWICK, SHOWING PART OF THE CORNER-STONE BROKEN OUT AND RIFLED BY FEDERAL SOLDIERS IN 1865.
But the glory of old Brunswick was transient, and its life was absorbed by the new settlement fifteen miles higher up the river. In 1739, the Assembly passed an act by which it was provided that the county offices of New Hanover, and the office of the Collector and
