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IX. FREDERICK ALDRIDGE,
b. June 10, 1793.
X. PELEG,
b. August 10, 1795.
XI. CLARISSA,
b. August 19, 1797.
XII. WILLARD,
b. March 13, 1800.
1785.
No business of special interest was transacted in the town meetings of this year.
The Society held eleven meetings during the year, with a view to locating and building a new meeting-house. A location would be fixed at one meeting, and reconsidered, and a new one established at another, and then the doings of the second meeting reconsidered. and the first location re-established. The size of the house to be erected was first fixed at 46 by 56 feet, then it was changed to 50 by 40, and then four feet was added to the length, and then a tax of one shilling on the pound was voted, and a committee appointed to apply to the Assembly for power to tax non-resident landowners eightpence on the acre. A build- ing committee was appointed, who were instructed "to carry on the building forthwith." At this stage of the business, a new meeting was held, which reconsidered the previous doings, and petitioned the Assembly to free the Society from public taxes, until it can build a meeting-house.
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A subsequent meeting instructed Mr. Hurlbut " to repair the old meet- ing house, viz. : lay down boards on the joists, that people may sit above ; also, make a ladder or stairs to go up into the upper part of the meeting- house, and make seats to sit on above, and that he do the same at the cost of the Society.". The old meeting-house, of unknown origin, and located nearly a mile south of the present center, has been already described .* It would be incredible that such a place "for men to sit above," as was constructed pursuant to the foregoing vote, could have been resorted to, were not the frame of the structure stillf a standing witness to the fact that the attic gallery existed, with the rafters coming down to the floor, the floor having an opening of not more than nine feet square over the pulpit, through which the good Parson Knapp was required to throw up his preaching to the hungry sinners who had made their venturous way up the outside ladder, through a gable door, into this eock-loft. It is equally hard to conceive that three readers and four or five choristers should be needed to conduct the psalm-singing in a building of such modest dimensions.
The conflicting votes above referred to were all adopted between the first of January and last of May. In September it was voted "to build a meeting house near the crotch of the roads by Mr. Hurlbut's, at a stake and stones within Doctor Everitt's home lot, about twelve or fifteen rods from his dwelling house, if on application made to the county court said place shall be established," and "if the court do not establish the above-mentioned place, to apply for a new committee."
October 6, five choristers were appointed, and the vote to build the meeting house on the spot designated was reiterated.
December 12 it was voted to build, cover, and close it in, and lay the lower floor by the first of the following October; also, "to raise one shilling on the pound of the list of August, 1785, to be paid in good pine boards, or whitewood clapboards, or neat cattle, or labor, or good pine shingles, the boards and shingles to be delivered by ye 10th day of June next, and what is not paid by said 10th of June, to be paid in beef cattle by y® 10th day of October next, and ye above articles to be deliv . ered at ye meeting house spot."
The building spot selected, and on which the new house was erected, and in process of time completed, was on the green nearly in front of the dwelling of Theron Bronson, Esq. The ground was then covered with a heavy growth of chestnut trees.
1785.
The new comers of this year were as follows :-
SALMON HAWLEY from Stratford, who built and lived in the first
* Page 78.
t This paragraph was written before the building fell, in 1867.
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house above the Dugway, on the old Winchester road, lately owned by Sophronia Leonard, and now torn down. He sold out in 1795, and his name is not found on the tax list afterwards. He married Jane
CHILDREN.
I. JERUSHA, b. in Stratford, January 28, 1778.
II WM. SALMON, b.
December 25, 1779.
III. EUNICE, b. April 20, 1782.
IV. SUSANNA, b.
March 9, 1784.
V. JAMES, b. in Winchester, April 27, 1786.
VI. DANIEL, b. ‹‹ February 16, 1789.
VII. AVIS, b.
May 17, 1793.
CHARLES KENT, who lived in Hall Meadow, near Rufus Drake's, until 1787, was fined for profane swearing in 1787, and is described as an absconding debtor in 1788.
ZEBA MEACHAM is on the tax list of this year, and onward to 1789. He owned land on the old south road, north of the Everitt place.
SIMEON MOORE, Jr., son of Simeon of Windsor, this year received by conveyance from his father the James Crocker farm, and other adjacent lands. He lived in the Crocker house (now torn down), at the parting of the old Waterbury Turnpike from the Green Woods Turnpike, until about 1808, when he removed to Ohio. His wife, Hannah, died October 22, 1794.
CHILDREN.
I. LOVINA, b. April 16, 1786 ; m. Elijah Benedict.
II. WEALTHY,
b. March 24, 1789.
III. SIMEON, b. June 8, 1791.
IV. HANNAH,
b. January 15, 1794.
CAPTAIN JOHN NASH6 came from Torrington to Winchester in early life, and for many years followed the joiner's trade, after which he became a highly respected and wealthy farmer. He first owned and occupied a house at the center, afterward burned down, which stood on the site of Rev. Frederick Marsh's residence. He afterward built and occupied during his remaining life the house now owned by his son, Alva Nash, Esq., half a mile north of the center. He was a man of pure life and kind heart, universally respected, and often employed in the affairs of the town.
He was born in West Hartford, July 18, 1758, son of John5 (born December 1, 1728), and Mary (Graves) Nash ; g. son of Mosesª (born Hadley, July 2, 1696), and Rebecca (Kellogg) Nash; g.g. son of Lieutenant John3 and Elizabeth (Kellogg) Nash ; g.g.g. son of Timothy2
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(born 1626) and Rebecca (Stone) Nash, and g.g.g.g. son of Thomas1 and Margery Nash, who were among the first settlers of New Haven. He married Esther Whiting, born Torrington, September 13, 1763, daughter of Benjamin and Esther Whiting. She died March 4, 1835, aged 71 years ; he died October 21, 1835, aged 77 years.
CHILDREN.
J, LUCY,7 b. May 8, 1783 ; m. December, 1801, John Wetmore.
II. HANNAH,7 Crum.
b. December 23, 1787; m. October 22, 1811; Wm.
III. ALVAH,7 b. September 26, 1793.
IV. MARY GRAVES,7 b. January 21, 1797 ; m. 1819, October 27, Calvin Sage of Colebrook.
V. NANCY,7 b. June 2, 1801 ; m. May 30, 1827, Stephen Monson.
VI. SAMUEL JOHN,7 b. September 25, 1806; d. September 8, 1808.
ALVA NASH,7 Esq., a clothier and farmer, resides in the paternal · homestead, half a mile north of the center. He has twice represented the town in the General Assembly, and has held the office of justice of the peace. He married March 16, 1819, Rebecca Sage.
CHILDREN.
I SUSAN REBECCA, b. October 12, 1820 ; m. November 4, 1845, Isaac A. Bronson. She d. April 7, 1857.
II. LORENZO SAMUEL, b. December 30, 1823 ; m. January, 1852, Caroline E. Tuller.
DANIEL SANDIFORTH'S name is on the tax list of this year. He was son of the wife of Reuben Miner by her first husband, and is believed to have removed to New Hartford.
NATHAN L. WADE's name is also on the tax list of this year.
JUSTUS WRIGHT, a carpenter, who was of Torrington, December 29, 1783, was named in the tax list of 1785. He owned and occupied the former homestead of Aaron Cook in Blue Street, which he sold in 1795 ; he married December 2, 1784, Abigail Blackman ; had son, Calvin, born October 5, 1785.
The freemen admitted this year were William Castel and Bela Hills.
1786.
The following vote in town meeting this year, indicates a prudent care of the people to prevent improper allowances, by the Selectmen, of claims against the town.
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Voted, that not any person whatever, who shall do any service for the town the present year, shall be allowed to receive any reward therefor, until he shall exhibit his account before the next annual town meeting, and have his account allowed by said meeting.
Another, appointing a committee "to examine into the debts due to and from the town, and make out an exact statement of accounts respect- ing the town's debts and credits and lay the same before the next town meeting," seems to show that the chronic tendency of the town's affairs to get into a snarl, had an early beginning.
The Society, this year, voted a tax of 3 pence on the Pound, to enable the meeting house committee to procure glass and nails ; - to be paid in beef, cattle or pork, or flax seed, or one-quarter of it in butter or cheese, at the current market price, or in cash at a deduction of 10 per cent.
The electors admitted . this year were Jolin Wright, Martin North, Jr., and Richard Coit.
The new comers of the year were:
WILLIAM KEYES, whose name is on the tax list of 1786, resided in the town until near the close of the last century. He is named of Torring- ton in 1797. He owned in 1786, for about a year, nineteen acres of land in the vicinity of Alva Nash ; and afterward had an interest in land on the Green Woods turnpike, near the Green Woods Hotel. He married, Jan- uary 2, 1777, Seba Smith.
CHILDREN.
I. WILLIAM,2 b. Jan. 12, 1778.
II. PRUDENCE,2 b. Dec. 7, 1779.
III. SALLY,2 b. " 24, 1783.
IV. TRUMBULL,2 b. Oct. 3, 1787.
WILLIAM KEYES,2 married, November 23, 1797, Anna, daughter of John Sweet ; lived in the house at the east corner of Lake and Rockwell streets, and died about 1800, leaving a son, William. She married (2d), Rev. Daniel Coe.
LONDON, OR LUNNON, a negro, a resident of the town, was, this year, brought before Justice Alvord on a complaint for breach of the peace. The complaint was quashed. He had wife Phillis.
1787.
A petition was brought to the October session of the General Assem- bly of 1786, for incorporating the east part of Winchester and the part of Barkhamsted west of Farmington River as a town, which was continued through the years 1787 and 1788, and finally rejected. In the annual
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town meeting of this year the town voted its assent to the prayer of the petition, provided the new town should not extend westerly beyond the Long Pond and the west boundary of the second tier; which would have excluded all the inhabitants on Coe Street, north of the Indian Meadow bridge.
The following document was entered on the Society records of this year.
Winchester, October 9th, 1786. This may certify that I have received from the Society's Committee in full all that was due me from the So- ciety, from the beginning of the world to the year 1782.
Witness my hand,
JOSHUA KNAPP.
The following freemen were admitted this year: John Marshall, Abra- ham Andrews, Jr., John Nash, William Chamberlin, Ozias Brownson, Jr., Lemuel Bassett, and Martin Hurlbut.
Only one new resident of Winchester Society is found this year, while the new comers into Winsted were more numerous than in any previous year.
DAVID HUNGERFORD, of that part of Farmington which is now Bristol, was a soldier in the French war, and died near Saratoga, New York, of camp fever, aged 45 years. He had five children, of whom David died about the same time as his father, of the same disease, aged 18. Joel and Jonah settled in Watertown, Connecticut, and had families. Ann mar- ried Rev. Mr. Tiler, and was the youngest.
REUBEN HUNGERFORD, born in Bristol September 9, 1748 ; married, April -, 1776, Olive Gaylord, born June 24, 1760. He bought land in Winchester, February 4, 1780, when he was named of Farmington ; again June 14, 1783, when he was of Norfolk; and September 6, 1787 he was of Winchester, and so appears by frequent deeds thereafter. He first lived near the Norfolk line, until April 6, 1795, he bought of Moses Wright, of Colebrook, the place directly opposite the Green Woods Hotel, where he spent the rest of his life .* He served three months in the war
* He was a man of great energy and marked peculiarities. The story is told of an assessment in old Winchester for building the second meeting house, in which he was assessed beyond all reason by the committee appointed for that purpose. At the meet- ing to which the committee reported their assessments, Mr. Hungerford protested in his nervous Saxon that he wouldn't pay such an extortionate assessment, - that they might build their own meeting honse ; - and he would go down to Noppit to meeting. The meeting was adjourned without action on the subject matter for a week. At the adjourned meeting Mr. Hungerford entered another appearance with a changed mind. " Mr. Moderator," said he, "I told you t'other day I'd go to Noppit to meeting before I'd pay my tax. I've been thinkin' it over since, - and I now think, for a man who haint got no religion to go deviling off down to Noppit to get it, is a mean business. I won't do it, but I'll pay my tax like a man."
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of the revolution. He died November 10, 1828. His wife was the pro- fessional mid-wife of the region, attending all calls, and often riding six or eight miles on horse back, with one of her own nursing babes in her arms, until incapacitated by age. Her last professional service being at the birth of George E. Woodford, March 27, 1836, when she had to be carried in a rocking-chair. She is entitled to this notice for assisting the compiler of these annals into the world in 1799. She died in Winchester July 6, 1839, aged 79.
CHILDREN.
I. LOIS, b. in Winchester, Jan. 29, 1777; m. Nov. 20, 1794, Joseph Cowles; they were among the first settlers of Austinburgh, Ohio in 1801. She d. March 9, 1841.
II. POLLY, m. Shubael Coy, settled in Oxford, N. Y., where she d. in 1832.
III. AMOS, b. Dec. 17, 1781 ; m. 1814, Betsey Latourette ; settled at Mt. Morris, N. Y. He d. May 6, 1861.
IV. CHAUNCEY, b. ; d. aged 7 years.
V. REUBEN, b. June 3, 1786; d. Jan. 27, 1809.
VI. OLIVE, b. April 19, 1788; m. Noah North ; settled in Alexander, N. Y., where he d. Sept. 28, 1824, and she March 11, 1849.
VII. SALLY, b. Feb. 12, 1790; m. Jan. 23, 1813, Halsey Phillips ; set- tled in Colebrook, Ohio; she d. Feb. 2, 1867.
VIII. ANN, b. April 5, 1793; m. Salmon Drake ; she d. Aug. 26, 1866, leaving a son Henry Hungerford, b. Feb. 21, 1833, who m. May 18, 1862, Mariam Roberts, b. in Colebrook, Sept. 7, 1840.
CHILDREN.
1. George F., b. May 12, 1864. 2. Anna, b. Sept. 8, 1866.
IX. LUCINDA (twin), b. Dec. 30, 1794; m. April, 1825, Ethan Pendleton ; she d. in Norfolk, June 29, 1829
X. DELINDA (twin); b. Dec. 30, 1794 ; d. Jan. 10, 1809, of hydrocephalus.
XI. CANDACE, b. Sept. 5, 1798; m. May 19, 1819, Samuel D. Gilbert ; she d. June 17, 1840.
XII. AMANDA, b. Sept. 16, 1801 ; d. unmarried, Feb. 26, 1847.
XIII. CHAUNCEY, b. March 11, 1803; m. April 20, 1825, Cynthia Allen, b. Oct. 22, 1804 ; settled in Mt. Morris, N. Y.
1788.
The town manifested its appreciation of the services of its officers and agents, by the following vote in annual meeting this year :
Voted, that none that shall do business for the town, in the town, the year ensuing, shall have any wages therefor, except one meal of victuals a day.
In Society meeting, a tax of 1} pence on the pound was laid, " to ena- ble the Meeting House Committee to pay the debts they have contracted
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for building the meeting house, and also to procure glass for the glazing of the meeting house, to be paid by the 15th day of December next."
This is the only record indicating the progress thus far made in the work, which by a former vote was directed to be finished by 1st October, 1786.
The freemen admitted this year were, Justus Wright, Samuel Roberts, Peter Blackman, John Videto, Christopher Whiting, Levi Wilkinson, Joel Coe, Zalmon Benedict, and Jesse Hills.
The new comers were as follows :
ZALMON BENEDICT, son of Silas Benedict, from Danbury, who was killed in the Wyoming massacre. He returned with his mother to Dan- bury, and thence removed to Winchester this year as is supposed. He first lived in a log house in Danbury quarter, some thirty rods south of the iron mine; afterward on Taylor's Brook near Torrington line, - and after 1805, in Danbury quarter, not far from the burying ground. He m. Chloe Perry, of Danbury.
CHILDREN.
I. JOHN, 2 b. Oct. 22, 1789.
II. LOVISA,2 b. Nov. 12, 1791 ; m. Feb. 2, 1820, Norman Baldwin.
III. RUAMA,2 b. June 1, 1794 ; m. - Pratt.
JOHN BENEDICT,2 resided on the Samuel Hawley place, 100 rods north of the Danbury Burying Ground, till about 1869, and now lives in Norfolk. He m. Jan. 30, 1811, Rebecca, dan. of Samuel Hawley; she d. May 10, 1857.
CHILDREN.
I. SAMUEL HAWLEY, b. Jan. 25, 1814; m. Lavina Canfield.
II. LAURA, b. 1816 ; m. Samuel Hart.
III. LYMAN, b. 1818; m. Polly Simons.
IV. CAROLINE, b. 1820; m. William Price.
V. WILLIAM, b. 1822.
VI. HELEN. b. Aug. 13, 1838 ; m. Newman B. Gilbert.
NATHAN BROUGHTON lived until 1792 in a log house on Sucker Brook road, near the house built by James B. White, now owned by Fit- tus Stack. He probably left the town before 1800. He had wife, Elizabeth.
CHILDREN.
I. CHARLES,
b. Jan. 23, 1782.
II. MARY,
b. Sept. 17, 1784.
III. DARIUS CLARK,
b. Aug. 31, 1786 ; d. Sept. 5, 1788.
IV. NATHAN,
b. July 31, 1788.
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V. DARIUS CLARK, b. Nov. 14, 1790.
VI. URIEL,
b. Oct. 12, 1792.
VII. ESTHER,
b. Aug. 13, 1794.
EPHRAIM FOOT, from Colchester, owned and lived on the Edward Rugg Farm, in Danbury Quarter, from 1788 to 1795, after which he removed to Hamilton, Herkimer Co., N. Y.
ROSWELL GRANT, son of Elijah Grant of Norfolk, resided until 1804 in the northwest corner of the town, on part of the Richard Beckley farm, and afterward lived for many years on the same farm in Norfolk. He was a large farmer and laborious man, honest and conscientious in a way of his own. Having carelessly left his barn doors open through a mid winter night, he punished himself the night following by again open- ing them and sitting in the draft of a bitter northwest wind until morn- ing. In his declining years he became poor, and worked in Winsted as a hired man. Such was his love for work, that he would steal off on Sun- days and hoe his pious employer's potatoes, without his knowledge, and without compensation.
He joined the Continental Army when seventeen years old, and endured hard service with characteristic fortitude. When Baron Steuben was selecting his corps for special discipline, he passed in front of Grant's company while on parade. Grant was surprised to find himself the only man taken from the company, being, as he said, " such a little nubbin' of a fellow, I had no idea he would take me." While in the Highlands, he was posted as guard on one of the bleakest points, in extremely cold weather; the army moved, without recalling him, but he stuck to his post till relieved, two days after.
Going to Litchfield in his advanced life, on foot, a neighbor entrusted him with a letter to be delivered there. He had reached within a mile of his home, after dark, on his return, when he discovered that he had brought the letter back. He immediately turned and walked fourteen miles to Litchfield, delivered the letter, and came home before daylight the next morning.
He m. Anna Coy, who d. March -, 1810, aged 50 years ; and lfe m. (2d) May 16, 1811, Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence. She d. Oct. 6, 1815, aged 45. He d. July 7, 1837, aged nearly 75 years.
CHILDREN.
I. MANIALA, b. Norfolk, July 31, 1785; m. Elijah Pinney.
II. AMARILLA MINERVA, b. N., March -, 1789 ; d. W., Ap. 23, 1852, unm.
III. DEIDAMIA A., b. N., May -, 1794; m. Edwin M. Strong.
IV. SAGE WASHINGTON, b. N., Aug. 13, 1800; m. Lucy Spaulding of New Marlborough, Mass. He d. W., Nov. 4, 1866. She m. (2d) Roswell Smith. They had a son, Ward Grant, now living.
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CHILDREN BY SECOND WIFE.
V. A DAUGHTER (twin),
b. N., Feb. 11, 1812.
VI. ANNA ELIZABETHI (twin), b. N., Feb. 11, 1812.
HEWITT HILLS, son of Medad, of Goshen, a large farmer, and promi- nent business man of the town, this year settled on the farm, and built the house thereon, now owned by Henry Drake on Blue Street, near Tor- rington line. He was a representative to the General Assembly between 1790 and 1800, and filled at various times most of the town offices.
In company with Thomas Spencer, Jr., about 1796, he built and traded in the building on Lake Street, where the depot of the Conn. Western R. R. now stands. He was a man of good person and address, shrewd in his business, and influential in the community. He removed to Ver- non, Oneida Co., N. Y., about 1805. No record of his family is found, except the following marriages of his daughters.
I. LUCY HILLS, m. May 28, 1795, Thomas Spencer, Jr.
II. MARY HILLS, m. Nov. 16, 1797, Abijah Brownson.
III. ELIZA HILLS, m. - Isaae Brownson.
IV. LOUISA HILLS, m. March, 1802, Stephen Wade.
JACOB KIMBERLY is named of Goshen, in a deed of January 23, 1788, conveying to him a half acre lot, with a house thereon, on the west side of the Hall Meadow stream near Torrington line, which he there- after occupied until 1791 or later. He was of Goshen in 1794, of. Winchester in 1801, of Torrington in 1802. when he bought the farm now owned by Amanda Church, on the Little Pond road, near Green Woods Turnpike, and resided there until 1804, and then bought and occupied the George Raymond farm on Wallen's Hill, which he sold to Jesse Clarke in 1805. He was living in Otis, Mass., in 1815. He was a convivial man, of great humor. His witty sayings are still quoted by the old people in this community.
JACOB KIMBERLY, Jr., in 1800, became the owner of the old Caleb Beach place, in Hall Meadow, and resided there until his death, Decem- ber 24, 1813. He married June 11, 1797, Nancy Pond.
CHILDREN.
I. LAURA,
b. April 15, 1798.
II. FREELOVE,
b. November 2, 1799 ; d. September 17, 1801.
III. OLIVE,
b. April 14, 1801 ; d. November 3, 1808.
IV. FREELOVE,
b. January 21, 1804.
V. HORACE SIDNEY,
b. July 26, 1805.
VI. ESTHER EMILY, 23
b. June 22, 1807.
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VII. MARY MEINITABEL, b. March 17, 1810.
VIII. SILAS, b. April 29, 1812 ; d. December 6, 1812.
IX. JACOB HARVEY, b. November 8, 1813.
JOEL AND ELISHA KIMBERLY, sons of Jacob, Senr., received from him a deed of land in 1802, east of Green Woods Turnpike, opposite the Little Pond Road Bridge over Mad River, which they parted with in 1804, and are no more found on the records.
DAVID MURRAY, a Scotch-Irishman, was assessed on the list of this year. In 1789, his wife, Sarah, became the owner of a lot, with a log shanty thereon, on the easterly side of the Dugway road, nearly opposite Mrs. Sopronia Leonard's, in which they lived until 1793, or later. It is believed that they removed to Vernon, N. Y.
Their son, William, had a family, and lived in various parts of Win- sted, until he removed to Colebrook about 1840. He married, not far from 1806, Ann Hewitt.
HEMAN SMITH. from Goshen, this year bought and moved on to the farm of Noah Gleason, on the south part of Blue Street, which he occu- pied until 1801, when he sold out to Isaac Brownson, and removed to Vernon, N. Y. He was a man highly esteemed, prominent in town affairs, and three times a representative of the town between 1795 and 1800. He was a son of Stephen Smith from Farmington, was born in Goshen, and married Hannah Dunning. He left no record of his family in Winchester.
1789.
The records of town meetings this year embrace routine business only. No freemen werc admitted.
Eleven society meetings were held. Much action was had on the matter of arrearages in the collection of society rates. Numbers who were too poor to pay were excused, and those delinquents not excused were allowed to pay in good merchantable sheep at a penny a pound, in lambs at a penny and a farthing, in good well-washed wool at sixteen pence, to be delivered to the Society's Committee at the parsonage by the 29th of June.
A bad habit of unpunctual attendance at society meetings was attempted to be corrected by a vote "that all society meetings to be hereafter held, either by warning or adjournment, shall be opened within one hour after the time appointed," and " that no vote passed in such meetings after sun setting shall be deemed a legal vote."
The absence of any allusion to discontent with Mr. Knapp for a few
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years past seemed to indicate a wearing away of old grudges. We are therefore surprised to find the following vote of July 17 :-
Voted-That Lieutenant Samuel Hurlbut, John Minor, Levi Norton, Thomas Spencer, and Huitt Hills, be a committee to attend with the Church Committee in stating the matters of grievance with Rev. Mr. Knapp's past conduct. July 24 it was voted, to lay our matters of diffi- culty between Mr. Knapp and the Church and Society before the Association, and to invite the Association to meet at the house of Levi Brownson, on Tuesday, three weeks from next Tuesday, at 11 A.M. August 19 it was voted " that it shall be lawful to transact business in this meeting until midnight," and before midnight it was voted to accept the advice of the Association.
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