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APPENDIX G.
STATEMENT BY REV. NATHANIEL E. CORNWALL, WRITTEN IN THE PARISH RECORD, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1851.
The most important facts in the history of this parish, from A. D. 1704, to A. D. 1725, are sufficiently set forth in an historical discourse, delivered by Rev. N. E. Cornwall, at the celebration of the third Jubilee of the Society for the Propa- gation of the Gospel, on the 8th Sunday after Trinity, August 10th, 1851, and published at the request of the wardens and vestrymen of the parish. There are other sketches of the same period, drawn from less authentic sources of information, in the first volume of the Church- man's Magazine, ( old series,) and in other periodicals of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and various historical discourses concerning other old parishes.
The most needful addition to such annals of this parish, is to be found in a list of names attached to a certain petition or memorial, which was addressed to the Colonial Legislature of Connecticut, in the year 1738, by most of the Episcopalians of mature age, then residing within the Colony. These names are given below. The originals are preserved, with the memorial, in the archives of the State, at Hartford, in the tenth volume of matters "Ecclesiastical." The records of Trinity parish having been destroyed, as is supposed, in the conflagation of Fairfield, 1779, such a list of persons, calling themselves Episcopalians, in 1738, affords the best basis that can be found for a satisfactory estimate of the state and progress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in this vicinity at that interesting period in the history of Connecticut. Most of the names are still common in this Township. But some of them have been for many years quite unknown here. And a few of those which are still common in these parts have been long wanting in the list of members of this parish.
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Without data, however, for a comparison of this list with others, usually found in parish registers, no sure inferences can be drawn from such facts.
David Adams,
Robert Lord,
Nathaniel Adams,
Benjamin Lines,
Nathan Adams,
Hester Lines,
Nathan Adams, Jr.,
Robert Lord,
Stephen Adams,
Cula C. Lyon,
Joseph Barlow,
Samuel Lyon,
George Barlow,
Ebenezer Lyon,
Samuel Barlow,
Ebenezer Lyon, Jr.,
Samuel Barlow, Jr.,
Samuel Lyon,
John Bell,
Joseph Lockwood,
Joseph Beers,
Sarah Mackenzie,
Joseph Beers, Jr.,
John Mather,
David Beers,
George McEwen,
David Bostwick,
Nathan Meeker,
David Bostwick, Jr.,
Ephriam Nichols,
Richard Caner,
Ignatius Nicoll,
Peter Coley,
John Nicela,
Jonathan Cutler,
William Osborn,
Samuel Davis,
John Pound,
Moses Downing,
Abraham Puling,
Charles Duncomb,
John Smith,
Josiah Gilbert,
George Stewart,
Alexander Green,
David Sturges,
Luke Guire,
Benjamin Sturges, Jr.,
Ebenezer Guire,
Jonathan Sturges, Jr.,
Ebenezer Hale,
Elnathan Sturges,
Samuel Hill,
Samuel Squire,
William Hill,
William Taylor,
Matthew House,
Daniel Thompson,
Ebenezer Hubbell,
Benjamin Turney,
David A. James,
Thomas Turney,
Nathan Jennings,
Zabulon Waklorn,
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Joshua Jennings,
Moses Ward,
John Jennings,
Samuel Ward,
Samuel Jennings, John Knapp,
Nathaniel Whitehead, Abigail Whitlock,
Daniel Knapp,
Abraham Whitlock,
James Livesay,
John Whitlock,
Richard Livesay,
John Whitear,
Elnathan Lloyd,
Buckland Williams.
In connection with the above names it is also to be re- membered that Trinity parish at that time, embraced Strat- field, ( now Bridgeport ), North Fairfield, ( now Weston. ) And it is worthy of notice as not a little remarkable, that among the names herewith recorded, are not found those of Burr, Bulkley, Perry, Sherwood, and Bradley, now so common, not only in this Township, but also among Episcopalians in these parts. This fact would justify a supposition that after that time, as before, there was a tendency on the part of many Congregationalists of this Township towards the Episcopal Church. And it seems quite certain from various circum- stances, that there has been always here a very favorable state of feeling in the community at large towards Episcopacy. Some local and temporary disadvantages have sometimes hindered the progress of this parish, but upon the whole, it may be safely said to have advanced much more rapidly than the population of the Township.
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APPENDIX H.
SKETCH OF THE CHURCH AT FAIRFIELD WRITTEN BY THE REV. PHILO SHELTON, 1804.
On the 26th day of August, 1722, the Rev. Mr. Picket, from Stratford, came to Fairfield, and preached at the house of Mr. Thomas Hanford, to about six families. This was the first time that Divine service was performed in the Town, agreeable to the rites and usages of the Church of England. After this, the people met and read prayers among themselves, and the Rev. Mr. Johnson, from Stratford, occasionally preached for them. On the 22nd of June, 1725, a Church was raised at Fairfield, about one and a half miles west, from the meeting-house, and on the 10th of November following, it being a public Thanksgiving Day, the Rev. Dr. Johnson opened the new Church with a sermon suitable to the occasion.
Some where about this time, there was a law, obliging people of all denominations, to be taxed for the support of the Presbyterian worship; this, the Episcopalians looked upon as a great grievance, and some had the resolution to refuse pay- ing this tax, and were committed to gaol. Of this number were Mr. Ward, of Fairfield, and Messrs. Glover and Hard, of Newtown. Upon this, a memorial was presented to the General Assembly, signed by the Church Wardens of Fair- field, praying to be excused from supporting a worship in which they did not believe, nor join. Their prayer was heard, and the taxes of the Episcopalians were allowed in future, to be applied to the support of their own profession, obliging them to be taxed in the same proportion by the Presbyterian's committee, the tax to be collected by their collector, and then paid over to the Church Clergyman, or to the wardens, which law continued in existence until the American Independence.
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The Church people at Fairfield increasing some, they were very desirous to have a Clergyman settled among them. They purchased a lot of land, about half an acre, with a house for his accommodation, and sent the deed by the hands of a certain Mr. Henry Caner, to the Society in England, praying that he might be clothed with Priests' Orders, and settled over them. Their petition was heard, and the Rev. Mr. Caner returned to Fairfield in October, 1727, with a salary of fifty pounds sterling per annum, and the people were very happy in his administrations, and the Church flourished under his ministry. The principal people who composed the Church were Messrs. Ward, Adams, Wilson, Hanford, Jennings, Lyon, Barlow, Beers, Sturges, and others. The Church that was . first built was small, not sufficient now to contain the mem- bers. On the 9th of August, 1738, they raised another, of fifty-four feet by thirty-six, with a steeple, and with charitable donations from New York and from the Society in England, the Church was finished very decently with a bell.
The Rev. Mr. Caner continued at Fairfield, as their minister, until the year 1744. He was then, by the Missionary Society, removed to Boston, to the great grief of the Episcopalians of Fairfield, he being a man of eminent talents, a great preacher, and an able defender of the doctrines of the Church, and a very agreeable, engaging companion and neighbor. While he was at Fairfield, the Church flourished, her numbers increased, and all appeared to be happy. He was born in England, came to America in his youth, was educated at Yale College, studied divinity under Doctor Johnson, married a Miss McKensey, daughter of Mr. McKensey.
He continued a preacher in the Church at Boston until the war broke out between Great Britain and America. When the British troops came there he left town and returned to England, and lived to be a very aged man, and finally died in peace and was gathered to his Fathers, the Lord having prospered him in his work of the ministery, by which many
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souls were converted from the error of their ways, established in the faith and rest in hope.
In the year 1745, the Rev. Mr. Joseph Lamson was ordained to the ministry, and placed by the Society in the Church at Fairfield, vacated by the Rev. Mr. Caner, with a salary equal to his predecessor. The members of the Church having increased considerably, those who resided in the Parish of Stratfield, thought it too far to attend at Fairfield, exerted themselves, and in the year 1748, raised a Church in the parish, and the next year it was opened and dedicated by the Rev. Dr. Johnson. The principal proprietors in building this Church were Col. John Burr, Messrs. John Holbertson, Timothy Wheeler, Joseph Seely, John Nichols, Richard Hall, Samuel Beardslee, and others. This Col. Burr was a man of singular abilities, of large property, and a warm advocate for the Church, having received his education in the Presbyterian profession, but when he arrived at mature years, he changed his profession. About this time Whitfield, Tennant, and other zealous preachers, came to this country, fired the people with enthusiasm and an overheated zeal for religion, which the Colonel looked upon as inconsistent with the true Spirit of the Gospel, which teaches order and good government to her children. He turned his attention to the study of the Gospel, and embraced the Church of England, as being most agreeable to the rules of our Blessed Lord and His Apostles. He spent the remainder of his days in the Church, and died in a good old age.
By this time the Church people in the parishes of North Fair- field, and Norfield having increased considerably, and being at the distanceof eight or ten miles from the Fairfield Church, they thought it better to build a Church to accommodate those two Societies. They accordingly, in the year 1762, erected a frame and closed it, but soon after, the Rev. Mr. Lamson, being in a poor state of health, unable to officiate much in the out parishes, the Church was not finished before the American
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war commenced, which seemed to stagnate all business. In the year 1773, Mr. Lamson sickened and died. He was born at Stratford, educated at Yale College, conformed to the Church of England in the time of the Whitfieldian stir. He supported an honorable character, was much informed and esteemed as a physician, as well as a Divine. He left at his death, a widow and five children, three daughters and two sons. In the time of his ministry, the liberal Mr. Talbot, of New York, made a visit to Fairfield, and left as a benefit for the Church, a very handsome present, to the amount of at least, one hundred pounds, L. M. With some of this money, the trustees of the Church purchased a piece of land, at a place called Round Hill, about nine acres. One hundred dollars was put out to use in the hands of Mr. Jonathan Coley, which since has been collected and applied to the building of the new Church, and another hundred dollars was put to use in the hands of Peter Dibble, who, in the trouble- some American war, went to Nova Scotia, forfeited his estate and the Church lost the debt. Mr. Talbot also furnished the Communion Table with a set of plate, which in the time of the burning of the town by the British, was either consumed or plundered ; the latter, I think is most probable.
In the year 1774, the Rev. Mr. John Sayre, from Fredericks- burgh, was invited by the parish to take charge of the Churches. He wrote to the Society, acquainted them of the death of their missionary, Mr. Lamson, and informed them of the invitation of the people, and should wait their approba- tion of acceptance.
The Society appointed him, agreeable to the request of the people, and fixed his salary at twenty-five pounds sterling per annum. Mr. Sayre was a man of superior abilities, and a great preacher. He was rather inclining to the Calvinistic principles, but a high Tory. Soon after he settled at Fair- field, the Colonies revolted from Great Britain, which pro- duced a bloody war, and in the contest, in the year 1779, a
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party of the King's troops, under the command of Governor Tryon, came to Fairfield, took possession of the town, plundered it and then burnt it, without any distinction to friend or foe. In the general conflagration the Church was consumed, and the parsonage house, together with the library, which contained some hundreds of volumes. The Church Records shared the same fate. This was a most fatal blow to the Episcopal Society of Fairfield, losing the Church, the parsonage, the library, the plate, and at this time Mr. Sayre, with his family, left the town and never returned again, together with a number of the principal inhabitants.
The remainder thought it not best to hang their harps upon the willows, and give up the Church for lost, but relying on the promises of God, that the Church should never be extinct, they called a meeting of the several Churches, viz., Fairfield, Stratfield, and North Fairfield, to take into con- sideration what was best to be done. They were unani- mously of opinion that it was their duty to keep the Church together and have Divine Service performed among them until they could be supplied with a clergyman. They appointed a committee to look out for some candidate to read prayers for them, and upon inquiry, they heard of Mr. Philo Shelton, of Ripton, to whom they applied, and he engaged to open Church for them until they should be other- wise supplied. He continued their reader until Bishop Seabury returned from Europe, clothed with Episcopa authority to ordain and govern the Church, and in August, 1785, Mr. Shelton was admitted to the Order of Deacons, in Christ Church, Middletown, by the Right Rev. Bishop Seabury, and to Priest's Orders, in Trinity Church, New Haven, in September following, by the same prelate, and settled over the Churches of Fairfield, Stratfield, and Weston, with a living salary of one hundred pounds, L. M. per annum, with the use of what lands belong to said Church.
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In the year 1790, the Episcopalians thought it best to exert their abilities and see if they could not get them another house. They went to work and in time raised a frame of fifty-six feet by thirty-four, with a steeple, and by September following, they closed it so we were able to meet in it. The Church stands about one mile west from where the last stood, at a place called Mill Plain.
There is, belonging to this Church, a piece of land laying at Round Hill, about two miles from the State line, also the half acre where the parsonage house formerly stood, both of which pieces are in possession of the present incumbent. There is no other property belonging to either of the three Churches.
The Church at Stratfield was not finished until the year 1789, and then it was consecrated by the Right Rev. Dr. Seabury. The one at Fairfield was consecrated by the Right Rev. Dr. Jarvis, the 18th of October, 1798. The number of families belonging to the three Churches is about 200. Com- municants one hundred and fifty, (only one of color). All those of proper age have been confirmed. There has been baptized by the Rev. Mr. Shelton since August, 1785, until February, 1799, eight hundred souls, twenty-five of which were adults.
The Borough of Stratfield populating much faster than the other parts of the parish, the greatest number of Episcopalians living in that part of the Society, it was thought best by many that the Church should be placed there. A meeting was called to take the minds of the members, and it was thought advisable to pull the old Church down and build a new one out of the materials, as far as they would go. The vote was taken, and almost unanimously, so to do, and in March 1801, the Church was razed to the ground, and on the 2nd of July following, another frame erected in the Borough of Bridgeport, fifty- eight feet by thirty-eight, closed, glazed, and floored, so as to
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meet in it on the 29th of November following. While the Church was in building, they met sometimes in the school house, and sometimes in the meeting-house, where they were invited by the Presbyterians.
[ Here the Sketch of the Church, written by the Rev. Philo Shelton comes to a close.]
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APPENDIX I.
PAROCHIALES NOTITIAE, BEING A PRIVATE REGISTER KEPT BY THE REV. PHILO SHELTON, OF THOSE CHRISTIANS, BAP- TIZED, CONFIRMED, ADMITTED TO THE COMMU- NION, MARRIED, AND BURIED BY HIM WHILE RECTOR OF TRINITY CHURCH, FAIRFIELD, 1785-1825.
(The original is in the possession of Mr. Hamilton Shelton, of Bridgeport. It contains the record of 1,978 Baptisms ; 454 Confirmations ; 268 Marriages ; 588 Communicants; 838 Burials, a total of 4,126.)
BAPTIZED. 1785.
August 14th, Elizabeth, daughter to Dr. Thos. Quinlan ; Elijah, son to Isaac Edwards; Clarissa, daughter to Ruel Gray.
August 21st, Sarah, daughter to Ebenezer Mills ; Lewis, son to David Nichols.
September 2nd, Peter, son to Benjamin Sherwood.
September 4th, Wakeman, son to John Burr; John, son to Jesse Dickerson ; Daniel, son to Seth Bulkley.
September 11th, Anna, daughter to Calvin Whelar ; Hannah, daughter to Joseph Treadwell; Jonathan, son to Seth Gilbert; Pallinah, daughter to Thadeus Gilbert ; Charles, son to Thomas Green; Nathan Platt, son to Nathan Bennet ; Sarah, daughter to Thomas Squire; Joseph, son to John Glover.
September 22nd, Timothy, son to Timothy Shaler ; Susan- nah, daughter to James Allin.
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October 2nd, Sarah, daughter to Mary Morehouse; Dru- siltah, daughter to John Nichols; Jesse Morehouse, son to Peter Stocker; Squire, son to Ezekiel Oysterbanks; Nabby, daughter to Ezekiel Bennet.
October 23rd, John, son to Ruben Gilbert.
November 6th, Ichabod Woolcott, son to Woolcott Chancy ; John Whitier, son to Ezra Whelar.
November 13th, Charlotte, Daughter to Jarvis Platt; Phineas, son to John Squire.
November 18th, Esther, daughter to David Sherwood.
November 20th, Eunice, daughter to Thomas Elwood ; Elizabeth, daughter to Mr. Bulkley ; Rebeckah, daughter to Benjamin Sturges; Lucretia, daughter to John Redfield ; Darias, an adult servant to Hezekiah Sturges; Jube, son to Darias.
December 4th, Joseph, son to William Prince; Sarah, daughter to Nathaniel Hubble.
December 21st, Elizabeth, daughter to Samuel Edwards ; Lucy, daughter to Isaac Hinman ; Josiah, son to Seth Bulkley.
1786.
January 1st, Prince, servant to Jonathan Bulkley, adult ; Charles, servant to Capt Wakeman, adult.
January 15th, John, son to Elijah Williams.
January 29th, Mary, daughter to Michael Sealy ; Huldah, daughter to James Dascomb.
February 15th, Abby, daughter to Jonathan Cole; John, son to Horlbert Lockwood ; Lewis Wakeman, son Dyekman.
April 5th, Charles, son to Gershom Bulkley ; Francis, son to Abraham Bulkley ; Sarah, daughter to Ebenezer Osbourn ; John Burr, son to David Jennings; Talcott, son to David Jennings ; Denna, son to Denna Chapman ; Tammy, daughter to Joseph Rockwell.
April 13th, Levi, son to Daniel Evis.
April 30th, Philo, son to Jonathan Kinner.
May 2nd, Richard Walker, son to Samuel Booth.
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June 4th, Charity, daughter to Elijah Burr; Hannah daughter to William Nichols.
June 11th, Eunice, daughter to Isaac Platt ; Abraham, son to Ruel Thorp.
June 14th, Silas, son to Thadeus Guyer.
June 15th, John Morris, son to William Heron.
June 18th, Polly, daughter to Joshua Oysterbank ; Samuel Taylor, son to Aaron Ginnings.
June 30th, Joseph Brinsmade, son of James French.
July 2nd, Lucy, daughter to John Lockwood; Peter, son to Robert Sendder ; Able, son to Increase Burr ; Polly, daughter to Daniel Thorp; Edward, son to Elias Sturges.
July 10th, William, son to Jeremiah Duncan ; Daniel, son to ditto, twins.
July 16th, Elijah, son to Zebulon Kirtland ; Hezekiah, son to Wilson Whelar; Sally, daughter to John Porter.
July 23rd, Isaac, son to James Sanford ; Huldah, daughter to Elijah Williams ; Sally, daughter to Nathan Bennett ; William, son to Ephriam Nichols ; Isaac, son to Nathaniel Whithead; Anna, daughter to Nathaniel Nichols.
July 24th, Betsey, daughter to Josiah Wakelee.
August 13th, Abraham Lion, an adult person ; Nathiel Jervis, son to Thomas Gilbert ; Levi, son to Abraham Lyon ; Polly, daughter to Alexander Smith Platt.
August 23rd, Elezar, son to Silas Beardsley ; Philo, son to Silas Beardsley.
September 3rd, Gilbert, son to Jonathan Coley, Jr.
September 6th, Joseph, David, Mabel, William, Siblle, Seth, and Esther, children of Daniel Whelar.
September 10th, Polly, daughter to George Batterson.
September 24th, Elleanor, daughter to Peter Bulkley. October 1st, Lydea, daughter to Isaac Jarvis.
October 8th, Betsey, daughter to Josiah Smith.
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October 22nd, Eunice, daughter to Thadeus Perry, of North- field ; James, son to John Robertson ; James Edward, son to Nathaniel Ginnings, Mill River.
November 4th, Charity, daughter to Benajah Ross.
November 12th, Jerusha, daughter to Benjamin Sherwood.
November 14th, Ruth, daughter to Denton Sealy.
December 3rd, Tamar, servant to Sarah Forgue, adult.
December 31st, Pierce, son to Edmund Darrow ; Edmund, son to ditto ; Caty, daughter to William Peet.
1787.
February 13th, Elijah Nichols, Allelia, Silena, children of Jonathan Edwards; Paullina, daughter to Michael Beardsley ; Sarah, daughter to Zalmon Lyon; two children for Perry, the shoemaker.
February 20th, Anna, daughter to James Redfield, Jr .; John, son to Dudley.
March 4th, Charles Pulford, son to Deborah Lorin.
March 5th, Augur, son to Elijah Hubbill ; Anna, daughter to ditto ; Rossel, son to Gideon Hubbell ; Hesper, daughter to Dimothy Chapman ; Dennis, son to Andrew Burns.
March 11th, three children at Redding, Joseph, Andra, John Darling.
March 13th, Deborah Burns, an adult; Abijah, son to John Hubbill.
April 1st, Platt, son to Calvin Whelar, Jr .; Naomi, daughter to Baruck Taylor.
April 4th, Duthen, son to Elnathan Benjamin ; Betty, daughter to Agur Wells.
April 15th, Maria, daughter to Philo and Lucy Shelton ; Lucy, daughter to John and Huldah Burr; Anna, daughter to Thomas Quinlan.
May 15th, Lucy, daughter to Joseph French.
May 20th, Abigail, daughter to Josiah Bulkley ; Sally, daughter to John Redfield; Huldah, daughter to Hannah Persons.
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May 27th, Murry, son to Pamy Blackleach ; Rebeckah, daughter to Hezekiah Beach ; Lydea, daughter to Eli Beardsley.
August 19th, Munson, son to Isaac Hinman ; Thomas, son to Isaac Edwards.
September 16th, John Sprague, an adult.
October 14th, William, son to Angel Trubee; Samuel Comfort, son to Gershom Bulkley.
1788.
March 16th, Nathaniel, son to Leamon Sherwood ; Irena, daughter to Ruel Grey.
May 12th, Hezekiah Meeker, an adult; Whelar, a son to Hezekiah Meeker ; Alfred, son to Ezra Winton ; John, son to James Vaughn.
June 7th, David, son to David Lacey; Ruth, daughter to D. Lacey.
June 10th, Theophiplas, son to Eli Nichols ; Charles, son to Walter Whitney.
June 26 Zebulon Waklee; son to Zebulon Kirtland.
July 3rd, Hull, son to James Redfield, Jr. ; James, son to Jesse Lyon.
July 27th, Rachel, daughter of Elijah Raymond.
August 24, Lydea, daughter to Jonathan Baker.
September 7th, Sally, daughter of Seth Bulkley.
October 12th, Munson, son to Elijah Burr ; Anna, daughter to William Nichols; James, son to James Allen; Pheby, daughter to Charles Wing.
October 14th, Mary, daughter to Eben Thorp; Isaac, son to Nathaniel Fairchild.
November 7th, Mary, daughter to John Perry.
1789.
January 8th, Maria, daughter to William Peet.
February 3rd, Anna, daughter to Jonathan Bradley.
February 15th, Perseverance, a child of Aaron Gennings.
April 29th, Olive, daughter to Zebulon Kirtland.
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May 3rd, Nancy, daughter to Joseph Bulkley ; Sarah, daughter to Jesse Lyon.
May 10th, Anson, son to John Burr.
May 31st, Thomas, son to Dr. Thomas Quinland ; Cloe, daughter to Lyman Meeker; John Odel, son to Hezekiah Meeker ; Samuel Lynson, son to Samuel Edwards.
August 4th, John, son to Joseph French.
October 18th, Ann, daughter to Denton Sealy.
October 25th, Abel, son of Josiah Bulkley ; Esther, daughter to Abraham Bulkley.
November 7th, John Porter, an adult person; James, son to John Porter ; Nathaniel, son to ditto.
1790.
February 3rd, Molly Baker, Oliver Roe, adult persons ; Mary, daughter to Ezra Whelar ; Phillip, son to David Nichols, and two other children for the same, whose names I forgot ; two sons for John Nichols, John and Eliphalet ; two children for Ephriam Nichols; two for Master Riley; one for David Baker.
February 3rd, three for Levi Foot; two for - Robertson ; three for Epharas Wakeman ; one for Ezekiel Bennitt.
March 7th, Sarah, daughter to Benjamin Sturges.
April 11th, Ann, daughter to Philemon Sherwood ; Alden, son to Ezra Winton.
April 30th, Antony, son to Jonathan Baker.
May 9th, Philo Nichols, son to Philo and Lucy Shelton.
May 12th, Abigail Burr, daughter to Daniel Meeker ; Gershom, son to Gershom Bulkley ; William, son to William Bulkley ; Nathaniel Knap, son to Nathaniel Jinnings ; Alpha Jackson, son to Nathaniel Jinnings.
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