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MANUAL OF THE
CHURCH OF CHRIST
CONGREGATIONAL
IN MILFORD CONNECTICUT
With Biographical Sketches of the Pastors
EDITED BY
REV. ROY M. HOUGHTON, D.D. *
ASSISTED BY
Miss BERTHA E. BURGESS
Mrs. FREDUS M. CASE
Miss ANNA M. FENN
Rev. HOWARD C. MESERVE Mr. RICHARD N. PLATT Mrs. FREDERICK M. SMITH Miss GLADYS L. WELLS
Manual Committee
MILFORD CONNECTICUT 1945
* 21 Highand St. your Haren Il, com.
The Printing-Office of the Yale University Press
PREFACE 1931887
M ANUALS of the First Church of Christ in Milford were published in 1844, 1855, 1867, 1873, 1887, and 1922; pastorates of Coe, Brace, Hubbell, Lyman, Calhoun and Briggs; Manuals of Plymouth Church were published in 1855, 1861, 1874, and 1908; in the pastorates of Scofield, Harvey, Griffin, and Meserve. A book of 190 pages was published in 1890, containing the proceedings of the 250th Anniversary, held August 25, 1889. In that book are two historical sermons; one for the occasion, by Rev. Elijah Baldwin; the other by a former pastor, Rev. J. A. Biddle, preached in the Church August 9, 1876, but never before published. Memorial tablets for six former pastors; Prudden, Newton, Andrew, Whittelsey, Pinneo and Brace, were presented. That volume contains the presentation addresses. It also includes "The Present Condition of the Church," and other items of historical interest. Following the Tercentenary Celebra- tion in August, 1939, a thirty-two page book was published, with proceedings, photographs, historical sermon and other articles.
This is the first Manual published since the Churches were united. Beside the usual historical and other items which make up a Church Manual this one contains a brief biography of each of the thirty-seven pastors. The 1,322 members are listed in alpha- betical order, with the year they united with the Church, and whether by Confession of Faith or by Letter. A great deal of research and painstaking work have gone into the preparation of this volume. With so many names and such a variety of items, mistakes are sure to occur. When such errors and omissions are discovered please report them to the Church Office for correction.
Man has no higher privilege than to become a true member of the Christian Church. It is a real challenge to be a member of this old, historic Church. Each member should know something of its background, and of the devoted men and women of ten generations, who by faith transformed the wilderness, endured hardness by great sacrifice, and conquered gloriously. They are now members of the Church Triumphant. With humility, faith and courage let us gird on the whole armor of God, and try to do for our time what they did for theirs.
R. M. H.
April 2, 1945.
CONTENTS
Frontispiece
Preface
3
Historical Sketch
7
Early Records
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Beginnings of Plymouth Church
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The Pastors and Dates
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The Elders and Deacons
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The Clerks
16
Additions and Baptisms
17
Revivals
18
Biographical Sketches of the Pastors
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Organizations
40
Officers and Committees
41
Form for Reception of Members
43
Constitution and By-Laws
46
Resident Members
57
Non-Resident Members
81
The Honor Roll 86
HISTORICAL SKETCH
T HE First Church of Christ in Milford was organized in New Haven, August 22, 1639. The Reverend Peter Prudden led a company of fifteen families from England to these shores. They arrived in Boston on July 3, 1637. That summer and the next winter were spent with friends in Dedham. The following spring they joined the Davenport-Eaton Company and sailed to what is now New Haven with the founders of the New Haven Colony. Their first religious services on Connecticut soil were held under an oak tree on Sunday, April 25, 1638. The Reverend John Davenport preached in the morning. The Reverend Peter Prudden preached in the afternoon from the text: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight."
Mr. Prudden and his party desired a church and a colony of their own. Land was purchased February 12, 1639. No attempt was made at settlement that winter. Other families joined them until the party consisted of fifty-four heads of families and about. two hundred persons.
Before moving to Wepawaug they organized their church. It was gathered around seven of their best men whom they called "pillars." The "seven pillars" were the Reverend Peter Prudden, William Fowler, Edmund Tapp, Zachariah Whitman, John Astwood, Thomas Buckingham and Thomas Welch.
Their "Covenant" with God and with one another was written by Peter Prudden and is preserved in his handwriting in the first book of Church Records. The government of the town was a Theocracy, a little republic independent of all outside authority. God was their only King and the Bible their only law book. The franchise and the right to hold office were limited to church members. This system was changed when Milford merged with the Connecticut Colony in 1665, and property rather than church membership became the basis of citizenship.
The Milford Church has been one of the largest and most im- portant in the state through three centuries. The early pastors were men of exceptional ability. Two were educated in Cam- bridge, England; one was graduated from Harvard, one from Princeton, one from Dartmouth, one from Oberlin, three from
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Amherst, and fourteen from Yale. One was tutor in Harvard, four were tutors in Yale, two were members of the Yale Cor- poration, and one was acting president of Yale for fourteen years.
The church was divided in 1741, following the great revival of Edwards and Whitefield. The controversy of the "Old Lights" and the "New Lights" caused a division in many of the older churches of Connecticut. It was one of those things which was inevitable, and for which no one is to be blamed. It resulted in great good to the Kingdom. Plymouth Church was formed at . that time, beginning its 185 years of honorable history, and its long line of godly ministers. The first pastor was Job Prudden, great grandson of the founder and first pastor of Milford. The occasion for the division had long been forgotten. There was a growing feeling of good will between the two churches. It was inevitable that they should become one church again. They were reunited in 1926; and the wholesome stream of spiritual life flows on.
FROM EARLY RECORDS
T HE founding of the Church is mentioned in Mather's Magnalia: "There were then two famous Churches gathered in New Haven-gathered in two days, one following upon the other-Mr. Davenport's and Mr. Prudden's, and with this one singular circumstance, that a mighty barn was the place wherein the duties of that Solemnity were at- tended."
The only authentic account of that transaction is in the Church Records in Peter Prudden's handwriting:
"The Church of Christ in Milford was first gathered at New Haven upon August 22, 1639. The persons first joining in the foundation were those whose names are next under mentioned: Peter Prudden, William Fowler, Edmund Tapp, Zachariah Whitman, John Astwood, Thomas Buckingham, Thomas Welch."
THE COVENANT
"THE church covenant yt they entered unto is hereunder written: Since it hath pleased ye Lord of his infinite goodness and free grace to call us (a company of poor miserable wretches) out of ye world unto fellowship with himselfe in Jesus Christ, and to bestow himself upon us by an everlasting covenant of his free grace sealed in ye blood of Jesus Christ, to be our God, and to make and avouch us to be his people, and hath undertaken to circumcise our hearts, that we may love ye Lord our God, and feare him, and walk in his wayes: we, therefore, do, this day, avouch ye Lord to be our God, even Jehovah, the only true God, the Almighty maker of heaven and earth, the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ; and wee do this day enter into a holy covenant with ye Lord, and one with another, through ye grace and help of Christ strengthening us (without whom we can do nothing), to deny ourselves and all ungodliness and worldly lusts, and all corruptions and pollutions, wherein in any sort wee have walked. And do give up ourselves wholly to ye Lord Jesus Christ, to be taught and governed by him in all relations, conditions and conversations in this world; avouching him to be our only prophet and teacher, our only Priest and Propitiation, our only King and Lawgiver. And we do further bind ourselves, in his strength, to walk before him, in all professed subjection to all his holy ordinances,
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according to ye rule of the gospel, and also to walk together with his church and ye members thereof in all brotherly love and holy watch- fulness to ye mutual building up one another in Fayth and Love. All which ye Lord help us to perform, through his rich grace in Christ, according to his Covenant. Amen."
MR. PRUDDEN'S ORDINATION
"I, Peter Prudden, was called to the office of a pastour in this church, and ordayned at New Haven, by Zachariah Whitman, William Fowler, Edmund Tapp, designed by ye church to that work; Zacha- riah Whitman being ye moderator for that meeting, in a day of solemn humiliation, upon ye 2nd Wednesday in April, 1640, being, I remember, ye 8th day of ye month."
PLYMOUTH CHURCH-THE BEGINNINGS
THE following is taken from the manual edited by Rev. William C. Scofield, in 1855, "principally made up of extracts from the ancient records of the Church and Society."
IN the year of our Lord, 1737, on account of the advanced age of Rev. Samuel Andrew, who had, for more than half a century, been intrusted with the pastoral care of what is now the First Church and Society in Milford, "the Rev. Samuel Whittlesey was by a majority of votes invited, called and settled there in opposition to a great number, though a minor part, which laid the foundation of much discord and confusion in the church. The principal objection against Mr. Whittlesey was a suspicion of his being in the Arminian Scheme, and the brethren opposed to his settlement obtaining no satisfaction as to that matter, vigorously prosecuted their opposition to the time of his settlement." At length they consented to his ordination on condition, that, if at the end of six months they remained dissatisfied still, they should "have the liberty of another chosen by them, to be settled in the ministry as a colleague to Mr. Whittlesey."
But Mr. W. "did so well guard his ministrations during the six months as not to lie open to any exceptions of weight. Hoping that he would so continue, they did not move for a compliance with the agreement afore mentioned." It was not long however before he gave them uneasiness, by reason of his "delivering from the desk such doctrines as they did not believe were agreeable to the Word of God, neither were embraced by their pious predecessors, the Fathers of England."
Having sought to bring their grievances before the Church, but
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failing through the refusal of Mr. Whittlesey to lay the matter before that body, "two of their number waited on the Rev. Association of that County in their session at Durham, in May, 1740, for advice and counsel in their distressed and uneasy circumstances, and for answer were told they had no advice to give. Thus did their Reverend Fathers in the ministry slight them in their distressed and afflicted state."
Afterward, that no way for relief might be left unattempted, one of their number in the Annual Town Meeting, in Dec. 1740, made a moving speech, representing the uneasy state many were in under the present ministry, desiring the Town might take into consideration and attempt some relief, but to no purpose. The Hon. Jonathan Law, Esq., Moderator of the meeting, appearing not pleased with it, and putting it aside.
Every attempt for relief from the Church, the Association, and the Town failing, they were obliged to seek some other method for obtaining it. After having been so unsuccessful in their attempt for relief under the Constitution of these churches, they were naturally and necessarily led to look out for a Constitution of Church Govern- ment that might be more agreeable to the Word of God, than they had reason to think that was, under which they had found it so difficult to obtain relief in their distresses. Therefore they were induced to dissent from that Constitution, and to declare for the excellent es tablishment of the Church of Scotland.
The following is the form of the declaration:
"We, the subscribers in the Town of Milford and in the Colony of Connecticut, do hereby testify and declare ourselves to be of the Presbyterian profession, according to the established religion of that part of Great Britain called Scotland; and whereas, by an act made in the first year of King William and Queen Mary, liberty is granted to such as shall soberly dissent from the religion established by law, of worshipping God according to their own consciences, which said act is by an act of this Colony incorporated into the Laws of this Colony ;- We therefore, that we may enjoy the privileges granted in said act, do hereby appoint the following gentlemen or any five of them, in our names to apply to the next County Court, there to per- form what in the act is required."
[Here follow the names of the Committee.]
"And we do hereby promise each other that we will do the utmost in our power to promote and advance the work and design we are engaging ourselves in, as witness our hands: Milford, 5th day of January, 1741.
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"Seth Plumb
Jesse Lambert
Peleg Baldwin
Samuel Santford, Jun.
Jesse Smith
Daniel Downs
Samuel Merchant
Lewis Mallett
Samuel Hines
John Oviatt James Smith
Gyles Oviatt
Deliverance Downs
Samuel Ells
Jonathan Fowler
Nathaniel Buckingham
Samuel Hine
Samuel Oviatt, Jun.
Daniel Collins
Wm. Fenn
Joseph Prichard
Andrew Santford
Joseph Northup
George Clark
John Baldwin
Benjamin Fenn
Josiah Hine
Jeremiah Peck
Joel Baldwin
Joseph Smith
Andrew Santford, Jun.
Barth'l. Poors
Samuel Bristol
Thomas Welch
Wm. Sewal Sears
Joseph Howman
Joseph Fenn, Jun.
Lemuel Smith
John Downs
Josiah Tibbals
Nathaniel Ells
Samuel Oviatt
Samuel Ells, Jun.
Samuel Hine, Jun.
John Smith
Horace Peck .* "
Then follows a bitter controversy and litigation.
The doors of the Meeting House were closed against five Evangelical preachers this year, (1743), and one of them preached on the door steps to an assembly of a thousand people.
The General Assembly in 1750, released them from taxes to the First Society, and granted them certain parish privileges. But they were not incorporated with ample privileges as a society till May, 1760.
Their first legal meeting was held 29th October, 1760. The As- sembly, in May, 1770, allowed them their proportion of the funds for the support of the Gospel.
THE NAME CHANGED
THE following resolution was passed by the General Assembly at the May session, 1859:
Resolved by this Assembly, That the name of the Second Ecclesias- tical Society of Milford be and hereby is changed to Plymouth Society of Milford, by which name it shall be hereafter known and called, and shall be vested with all the rights, privileges and immunities now possessed by said Second Ecclesiastical Society of Milford.
*All these persons were members of the Church.
THE PASTORS
Rev. Peter Prudden 1639-1656
Rev. Roger Newton 1660-1683
Rev. Samuel Andrew
1685-1738
Rev. Samuel Whittelsey
1737-1741
CHURCH DIVIDED 1741
FIRST
Rev. Samuel Whittelsey 1741-1768
Rev. Samuel Wales 1770-1782
Rev. William Lockwood 1784-1796
Rev. Bezaleel Pinneo 1796-1849
Rev. David B. Coe
1840-1844
Rev. Jonathan Brace
1845-1863
Rev. James Hubbell
1864-1869
Rev. Albert J. Lyman
1870-1873
Rev. Jacob A. Biddle
1875-1880
Rev. Seneca M. Keeler
1880-1883
Rev. Newell M. Calhoun
1884-1887
Rev. Frank L. Ferguson
1888-1890
Rev. Henry H. Morse
1891-1905
Rev. Frederick A. Sumner
1907-1916
Rev. Leslie B. Briggs
1917-1925
PLYMOUTH
Rev. Job Prudden 1747-1774
Rev. Josiah Sherman 1775-178I
Rev. David Tullar
1784-1802
Rev. Sherman Johnson 1805-1806
Rev. Caleb Pitkin 1808-1816
Rev. Jehu Clark
1817-1827
Rev. Asa M. Train
1828-1850
Rev. James M. Sherwood
1851-1852
Rev. Stephen G. Dodd
1852-1854
Rev. William C. Scofield
1854-1858
Rev. W. Nye Harvey 1858-1861
Rev. George H. Griffin 1865-1885
Rev. Nathan G. Axtell
1886-1889
Rev. Charles E. Upson 1889-1902
Rev. Howard C. Meserve 1902-1912
Rev. Clarence Reidenbach 1913-1918
Rev. Frank E. Carlson
1918-1920
Rev. Charles F. Atkins
1921-1926
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CHURCH REUNITED 1926 Rev. Charles F. Atkins 1926-1931 Rev. Roy M. Houghton 1931-
ELDERS AND DEACONS
REV. JOHN SHERMAN was chosen Teacher of First Church soon after it was organized. He declined the appointment and no one was ever again elected to that office. The office of Ruling Elder continued until 1712.
Plymouth Church had Ruling Elders for a time while under the Presbyterian form of Government. Following are the names of the Ruling Elders of each church:
FIRST CHURCH
PLYMOUTH CHURCH
Zachariah Whitman
Ordained 1645
Noah Baldwin
John Clark Ordained 1673
Nathaniel Buckingham
Daniel Buckingham
Ordained 1673
Ephraim Strong
Benjamin Fenn
THE DEACONS
THE Church Records do not give complete information regarding the election of Deacons until after 1800. The names of those in the original Church of Christ and in the First Church up until 1786 are from a list compiled by the Rev. J. A. Biddle at the time of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the Church. The Deacons of the Plymouth Church up until 1818 are from a Church Manual compiled in 1861 dur- ing the pastorate of the Rev. W. Nye Harvey.
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Elected
Zachariah Whitman 1639 ?
Benjamin Fenn 1647
John Fletcher
1659
George Clark, Sr.
1650
Jasper Gunn
Richard Platt
1708 ?
Thomas Clark
John Camp
1713
Josiah Platt
Joseph Clark
1735 ?
Richard Platt Jr.
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Elected
Elected
John Smith
1755
Richard Platt, Jr.
1865
Samuel Woodruff (?)
Caleb T. Merwin
1865
Thomas Baldwin (?)
James B. Benjamin
1866
Nathaniel Buckingham
1765
George G. Baldwin
1868
Daniel Clark (?)
1780
Elliott B. Platt
1873
Thomas Clark
1784
Charles W. Miles
1877
Stephen Gunn
I786
George F. Platt
1880
Samuel Treat
I786
Darius S. Whitcomb
188I
Samuel Platt
1787
Henry N. Platt
1884
Joseph Platt
1789
O. Lindley Nettleton
1885
Daniel Buckingham
1789
Everard B. Clark
1888
Benedict A. Law
1798
Charles W. Merwin
1890
Benjamin Bull
1798
Charles H. Stowe
1890
John Whiting
1798
Samuel N. Oviatt
1893
Nathan Nettleton
1802
Frank J. Bosworth
1894
William Fenn
1815
Charles F. Bosworth
1897
Horatio Downs
1825
Charles L. Platt
1908
Thaddeus S. Plumb
1832
Frank N. Platt
I9II
George Mann
1832
Rev. Henry G. Marshall
I9II
Samuel A. Marshall
1836
Dr. John W. Mahony
1917
Stephen B. Ford
1836
George J. Smith 1918
John Benjamin
1846
Arthur B. Clark
1918
William Plumb
1855
David L. Clarke
1918
Samuel C. Glenny
1855
Castelle Tibbals
1918
Theophilus Miles
1865
PLYMOUTH CHURCH
Elected
Elected
Joseph Treat
Bryan Clark
1857
William Atwater
Albert A. Baldwin
I869
Samuel Platt
Frank H. Woodruff
1881
Jabez B. Bull
N. Truman Smith
1887
Henry Bull
J. W. Smith
1892
William Durand
George A. Roberts
1907
Samuel Higby
1818
Charles T. Proctor, Jr.
1907
Noah Kelsey
1834
Charles A. Eddy
1914
Allen C. Bull
1834
Arthur B. Clark 1915
William Fenn
1838
Charles L. Graves 1919
Theophilus Miles
1838
Charles Wilhelmy
1929
Harvey Mallory
184I
William Paul
192I
Dan Fenn
1849
M. Albert Harris
1924
Amos S. Bristol
1851
Albert A. Spender
1924
Hammond R. Beach
1855
Frank B. Persons
1924
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Elected
Elected
Ferdinand S. Baldwin
1927
Roy Goerss
1936
Charles H. Bryan, Sr.
1927
Carl W. Maddocks
1937
Charles R. Freeman
1927
Alvin W. Comstock
1937
Frank E. Cornwell
1928
Robert C. Hamilton
1938
Harry P. Brewer
1929
David E. Platt
1938
Irvin W. Sanford
1930
Rev. John G. Stanton
1938
James T. Trueman
1931
Harry O. Bangs
1939
Willis N. Butrick
1932
Albert A. Baldwin
1939
Rev. Howard C. Meserve
1932
George Storck
194I
Elwin T. Clarke
1933
George S. Murray
1943
Paul D. Shafer
1933
Arthur B. Leach
1944
Sidney L. Straley
1935
CLERKS
THE early records of both First and Plymouth Churches were kept by the pastors. Even after the position of clerk was es- tablished, the First Church by vote on January 4, 1865 designated the pastor as clerk, ex officio. Consequently, except between pastorates, the ministers of the First Church served as clerks until 1882.
FIRST CHURCH
David L. Baldwin 1863
Rev. James Hubbell 1865-1869
David Miles 1869
Rev. Albert J. Lyman 1870-1873 David Miles 1874
Rev. Jacob A. Biddle 1875-1880
Samuel B. Gunn 1880
Rev. Seneca M. Keeler 1880-188I
Samuel B. Gunn 1882-1883
David Miles
1883
George F. Platt 1884-1890
Sherman B. Smith 1891-1892
David L. Clarke
1893-1926
PLYMOUTH CHURCH
Nathan Fenn 1861-1870
Albert A. Baldwin 1871-1872
William B. Bristol 1873-1877 Albert A. Baldwin 1878-1899
Richard R. Hepburn 1899-19II
George A. Roberts 1911-1914
Albert A. Baldwin 1915-1926
CHURCH REUNITED
David L. Clarke
1926-1933
Miss Annie D. Nettleton 1934-1937
Arthur B. Leach 1938-1940
Richard N. Platt
1941-
J. Russell Lent
1934
Emil Usinger
1944
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ADDITIONS AND BAPTISMS
THE Manual of First Church edited by Rev. Mr. Briggs in 1922 gives an interesting summary of additions and baptisms under each of the pastors. Another table tells the story of revivals.
The following table shows, as nearly as can be ascertained, the number of members received into the church and the number of children baptized by each pastor:
Time included
Additions Baptisms 7
The original "seven pillars"
Previous to Mr. Prudden's ordination
8
months
7
During the ministry of:
Mr. Prudden
16 years
100
224
Vacancy
4
years
6
1656-161.0
Mr. Newton
23
years
I55
384
Vacancy
212 years
2
I
Mr. Andrew
52
years
530
1553
Mr. Whittelsey
16
years
188
398
Mr. Whittelsey
15 years
176
373
Vacancy
2
years
2
2
Dr. Wales
II72 years
IO7
298
Vacancy
2
years
5
Mr. Lockwood
I2
years
93
225
Mr. Pinneo
44
years
716
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Dr. Coe
3
yrs.
8 mo.
213
64
Vacancy
I
yr.
I mo.
4
Dr. Brace
18
yrs.
3 mo.
268
232
Vacancy
9 mo.
2
7
Mr. Hubbell
4
yrs.
8 mo.
155
43
Vacancy
3 mo.
Mr. Lyman
3 yrs.
4 mo.
148
23
Mr. Biddle
5
yrs.
I mo.
68
30
Mr. Keeler
2
yrs.
4 mo.
.30
19
Mr. Calhoun
3
yrs.
5 mo.
80
18
Mr. Ferguson
2
yrs.
2 mo.
48
14
Mr. Morse
I4
yrs. II mo.
271
I2I
Vacancy
I yr.
7 mo.
I5
Mr. Sumner
9
yrs.
246
185
Vacancy
8 mo.
3
Mr. Briggs
9
yrs.
358
180
Mr. Atkins
6
yrs.
168
Mr. Houghton
13
yrs.
935
391
1075 935
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FOR many years after the formation of the church, additions to it were more frequent, but in smaller numbers at a time, than in later years. In no case were there more than fifteen added in one year, or more than twelve at one time. From 1733 to 1770 accessions became more frequent, but this is to be attributed chiefly to the plan of receiving members on the half-way cove- nant. In the early part of Mr. Whittelsey's ministry, commenced a general revival of religion throughout the New England Churches; and it is probable that of the unusual number ad- mitted to this church in the years 1738 and 1741, a large pro- portion were fruits of that revival.
The following table shows what years have been distinguished for revivals of religion-the number of additions to the church by profession-and the number admitted at one time:
Ministers
Additions Additions Years during the year at one time
Mr. Andrew
1730
37
Mr. Whittelsey
1738
43
Mr. Whittelsey
174I
70
22
Dr. Wales
1771
28
Mr. Lockwood
1790
28
Mr. Pinneo
1798
28
Mr. Pinneo
1816
37
Mr. Pinneo
1821
64
39
Mr. Pinneo
1828
107
65
Mr. Pinneo
1831
32
Mr. Pinneo
1832
95
62
Dr. Coe
1841
35
Dr. Coe
1843
145
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Dr. Brace
1850
25
25
Dr. Brace
1852
59
33
Dr. Brace
1855
56
52
Mr. Hubbell
1866
50
19
Mr. Hubbell
1868
45
30
Mr. Lyman
1872
93
88
Mr. Calhoun
1885
37
Mr. Ferguson
1889
34
19
Mr. Morse
1898
36
19
Mr. Sumner
1908
57
33
Mr. Briggs
1920
84
22
Mr. Houghton
1932
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44
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REVIVALS IN PLYMOUTH CHURCH
THE Manual of Plymouth Church edited by Rev. Mr. Meserve in 1908 gives an interesting summary of Revivals in that church. "It is known that the church enjoyed several revival seasons previous to the commencement of the present century, but the first on record occurred under the ministry of the Rev. David Tullar, and is thus noticed: "This year (1798) we have had a great harvest of souls; nearly seventy were added to the church. The awakening began to make its appearance in August 1798, and gradually increased from that time until the spring follow- ing. The subjects of the work were generally seized with a great sense of their wickedness, and so continued until they hopefully humbled, and were brought to the knowledge of the truth. A remarkable reformation in family prayer appears to have at- tended the work.'"
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