and the church began to have ministers from the Swedish Church in Wilmington, Delaware preside over the congregation. Israel Acrelius, the noted Swedish Lutheran missionary and priest was a church minister at St. Paul's in 1756. In the west end of the Old St. Paul's Church was a large grey slab of sandstone erected to the memory of James Sandilands, an early landowner and merchant in Chester, with the following inscription: "Here lies interr-d the bodie of James Sandelands, marchant, in Upland, in Pennsylvania, who departed this mortal life, Aprile the 12, 1692, aged 56 years, and his wife, Ann Sandelands" In 1835, extensive repairs were made to the church with an increase in the number of pews and the addition of a gallery in the west end with a large main entrance underneath. The old St. Paul's Church on Third Street was demolished in 1850. Current church In 1859, a new church was built on the opposite side of Third Street. The new church was built of pointed stone in Gothic style with a spire one hundred and twenty-four feet high. In 1872, the church was again remodeled. On June 3, 1877, the church was struck by lightning and suffered damage. On March 19, 1884, the church caught fire and suffered additional damage. In April 1900, the current St. Paul's church was established at the 9th and Madison Street. The English Gothic architecture building is built of granite with doorways and windows of Indiana limestone. The architect was William Provost, Jr. In 1956, St. Paul's Church received a memorial gift of an Aeolian-Skinner organ. Old Swedish Burial Ground Also known as St. Paul's Burying Ground and St. Paul's Cemetery. John Morton Memorial John Morton, a signer to the Declaration of Independence is buried at the old St. Paul's burial ground. His remains lay beneath a plain marble obelisk, 11 feet in height. The inscription on the west side of the memorial reads: "Dedicated to the memory of John Morton, A member of the First American Congress from the State of Pennsylvania, Assembled in New York in 1765, and of the next Congress, assembled in Philadelphia in 1774. Born A.D., 1724 – Died April 1777." The inscription of the east side of the memorial reads: "In voting by States upon the question of the Independence of the American Colonies, there was a tie until the vote of Pennsylvania was given,