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First Baptist Church of Troy
Watervliet, New York
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Samuel Wilson, known as “Uncle Sam,” attended services here and served as a trustee from 1808 until 1817. According to church records, E. and S. Wilson supplied the brick used to build the original church at a cost of $457.31.
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