Database Manager on April 11th, 2018:
This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ.<br>
Identified by John Speller, citing information from this publication: Report and Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, 1879, p.45.<br>
"In the following year (1763,) Mr. Breynton subscribed to the fund being raised for the purchase of an organ, and although there is no written document by which to prove it the instrument was obtained and put up in the church sometime during the year 1765, for a minute of proceedings of the next year shows that the organ was in its place, having been erected by a Mr. Evans who, by the way, had to be paid for his services with borrowed money. There is a tradition relative to this instrument that a Spanish ship, on her way to South America, was brought into harbor as a prize, and that among the articles composing her cargo was an organ made of' excellent material having a solid mahogany frame [casework?] of chaste design, on its way to a Roman Catholic Chapel. The organ, as the other goods on board, was offered for sale and the church wardens of St. Paul-s became its purchasers. The instrument did good and faithful service for many years, lasting until the year 1841, when a new one was brought from England and took its place in the old frame [casework?]. This remained in St. Paul-s until 1873, when it was purchased by a member of the congregation and put up in Trinity Church, which had a short time before become the property of St. Paul-s corporation."