oldest public building still standing in the United States.

   

'The Flushing Friends Quaker Meeting House was built in 1694 as a small frame structure on land acquired in 1692 by John Bowne and John Rodman in Flushing, New York. The first recorded meeting held there was on November 24, 1694. This original structure is now the easterly third of the current structure, which was expanded 1716-1719." 

The Quakers continued to meet in secret in the woods until John Bowne offered his home for meetings. 

Bowne was banished to Holland for refusing to pay the fine, but returned two years later to combat the persecution that the Quakers faced. The group drafted the Flushing Remonstrance and in Holland, Bowne pleaded before the Dutch West India Company to  

honor the cause of religious freedom, 

 and a letter was written in 1663 to Governor Stuyvesant to end the persecution of Quakers."  

 "the building requires repairs, it is still open for meetings and Sunday School" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Quaker_Meeting_House_(Queens)

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"The Chester Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Chester, Pennsylvania that served as the Chester County courthouse from 1724 to 1789, the Delaware County courthouse from 1789 to 1850 and the City Hall for the city of Chester.  

It was built in 1724 and is the oldest public building still standing in the United States. 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/212600548/thomas-finley 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/211998834/john-heaven 

"This branch of the Heaven clan is of Scotch Irish descent and is claimed to date back to the Scottish Clan of MacBeth. 

 The Heaven clan first originated in Scotland and family members later left to northern Ireland for political and religious reasons."

Scottish family    Heaven

MOTTO - Non omnis moriar (I shall not die)