The Reverend Phillips Payson was settled as pastor, October 26, 1757. He was a noted scholar and teacher, and was a man of much influence in his day. He was an active patriot during the Revolution, led his parishioners in person, and held a commission from the Massachusetts authorities. He preached the Election Sermon in 1778, and died in office, January 11, 1801. He was born in Walpole, January 18, 1730, and was graduated at Harvard College in 1754. The Reverend Joseph Tuckerman, D.D., was ordained and settled over the parish November 4, 1801, and maintained this relation for just one quarter of a century, preaching his farewell sermon November 4, 1826. He was born in Boston, January 18, 1778; was graduated at Harvard College in 1798; died in Havana, April 20, 1840. The First Baptist Church, the first religious society at Ferry Village, was organized in 1836. The Unitarian Church was organized in 1838. The First Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1839. The meeting-house they first occupied was on Park Street; it has been recently sold to the Grand Army of the Republic. The edifice they now occupy is on Walnut Street. [Illustration: REVERE RUBBER COMPANY.] The St. Luke's Episcopal Church and the First Congregational Church were organized in 1841. The First Universalist Church was organized in 1842. The Central Congregational Church was organized in 1843, under the name of Winnisimmet. The St. Rose Catholic Church was organized in 1849. The Mount Bellingham Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1853. The Cary-avenue Baptist Church was organized in 1859. The Third Congregational Church was organized in 1877. [Illustration: T.H. BUCK & BROTHER'S LUMBER YARD.] The importance of education for the children was recognized at an early date by the settlers of Winnisimmet and Rumney Marsh. Brother Oliver may have given instruction; Thomas Cheever certainly did, and for his services received twenty pounds per annum from the town of Boston, as shown by the vote of January 24, 1709. In 1833, the town of Chelsea was divided into three districts, known as the Ferry, Centre, and Point. In 1834, Point Shirley district was set off from the Point; and in 1838 the northern district was set off from the Centre. The school committee, first elected in 1797, made their first written report in 1839; their first printed report in 1841. The first schoolhouse in Ferry district was built in 1833, near the corner of Chestnut Street and Washington Avenue. [Illustration: BOSTON RUBBER COMPANY, WINNISIMETT STREET.] In 1837, the Park-street schoolhouse was built, and the following year a grammar school was kept. In 1839, a primary school was started at Prattville. From the committee's report one is led to infer "that a stump with a piece of board on top for a seat, having no back attached, affords no enviable resting-place."