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THE BIBLE AND COMMON PRAYER BOOK SOCIETY OF TRINITY CHURCH, SOUTHPORT, CONNECTICUT.
CONSTITUTION AND MEMBERSHIP.
At a meeting of a number of gentlemen, members of Trinity Episcopal Church in Fairfield, on the first day of January 1818, for the purpose of forming a Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, the following was unanimously adopted as their Constitution :
ARTICLE 1ST .-- This organization shall be known and dis- tinguished by the name of the Bible and Common Prayer Book Society of the Town of Fairfield.
ARTICLE 2ND .- Every person who shall annually pay into the treasury one dollar shall be a member of said Society. And whosoever shall pay at one time the sum of seven dollars shall be a member for life.
ARTICLE 3RD .- The officers of the Society shall be chosen annually and shall consist of one president, one vice-president, a treasurer, a secretary, and three directors, a majority of whom shall constitute a board to transact business. The clergyman in charge of Trinity Church, in the Town of Fair- field, shall be the president ex-officio, and the treasurer shall give bonds for the faithful discharge of his trust, to the satis- faction of the board, and also make an annual report to the board of the state of the funds.
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ARTICLE 4TH .- It shall be the duty of all the members of the board to exert themselves to obtain subscriptions and donations, and pay the same into the treasury, and all such subscriptions and donations shall be considered a permanent fund and be put to interest, and no more than the interest thereof shall be used for the purposes of the Society until the funds amount to one hundred dollars.
ARTICLE 5TH .- With the interest of the funds the directors shall purchase Bibles without note or comment, and Common Prayer Books, and distribute them to the needy under the direction of the board and the latter shall make report of their doings, the state of the funds, etc., to the annual meeting of the Society.
ARTICLE 6TH .- There shall be an annual meeting of the Society sometime in the month of January at such time and place as the president, or in his absence, the secretary shall direct.
ARTICLE 7TH .- There shall be a book provided by the secre- tary in which he shall record the names of the members, and the several sums given by them, also the proceedings of the meetings and such other matters as shall be directed by the board.
ARTICLE 8TH .- No person shall receive any pecuniary re- ward for his services as an officer or agent of this Society.
ARTICLE 9TH .- The foregoing shall be the Constitution of the Bible and Common Prayer Book Society of Trinity Church in the Town of Fairfield, and said Constitution shall not be altered except at an annual meeting, and by the votes of two- thirds of the members present.
After the foregoing Constitution was read and adopted the meeting proceeded to the election of officers for the year ensuing, and the following gentlemen were appointed by a unanimous vote, viz .:
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Rev. Philo Shelton, President.
Mr. William Robinson, Vice-President.
Mr. Jesse Banks, Secretary. Mr. Jeremiah Sturges, Treasurer.
Mr. Walter Sherwood, Mr. Joseph W. Davis, Mr. Abel Beers, directors.
LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS.
PRESIDENTS.
Rev. Philo Shelton, 1818-25.
Rev. William Shelton, D. D., 1825-29.
Rev. Charles Smith, 1829-34.
Rev. Nathaniel E. Cornwall, 1834-53.
Rev. James E. Purdy, 1853-58.
Rev. Rufus Emery, 1858-70.
Rev. Edward L. Wells, 1870-77.
Rev. Taliaferro P. Caskey, 1877-79.
Rev. Charles G. Adams, 1879-90.
Rev. Edmund Guilbert, 1891-
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
Mr. William Robinson, 1818-26. Mr. Walter Sherwood, 1826-36.
Mr. James Bulkley, 1836-45.
Mr. Abel Beers, 1845-58.
Mr. William Bulkley, 1858-59.
Mr. Abel Beers, 1859-63.
Mr. William Bulkley, 1863-68. Mr. Abel Beers, 1868-75.
Mr. Jonathan Godfrey, Jr., 1875-83.
Mr. Augustus Jennings, 1883-86.
Mr. Franklin Bulkley, 1886-
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LIFE MEMBERS.
1818.
Rev. Philo Shelton, Jesse Banks,
Abel Beers,
Grisella and Mary Bradley, Stephen Osborn, William Robinson, Walter Sherwood,
Benjamin Sturges,
Gersham Sturges,
Jeremiah Sturges. 1827.
Joseph Bulkley. 1829. James Bulkley.
1831.
Rev. Charles Smith. 1839
Edward Carew, Jonathan Godfrey,
George Robinson, Henry Sturges. 1840.
Rev. Nathaniel E. Cornwall. 1846.
David Banks,
George Ogden,
Henry Perry. 1852. Augustus Jennings.
1853. George M. Hawkins.
1854.
Rev. James S. Purdy, Charles Bulkley, William Bulkley,
Isaac Milbank. 1862.
Oliver Bulkley, Jeremiah Sturges. 1865.
John H. Sherwood. 1866. Andrew Bulkley. 1867.
Franklin Bulkley, Francis Jelliff.
1868.
(Semi-Centennial Year.) Rt. Rev. John Williams, D.D.
Rev. Rufus Emery,
Mrs. William Bulkley,
Mrs. Andrew Bulkley,
Mrs. Mary J. Gallagher,
Mrs. Augustus Jennings,
Mrs. Nehemiah Perry, Mrs. Benjamin Pomeroy,
Miss Josephine B. Pomeroy,
Mrs. Brooks Hughes Wells, Mrs. Edward H. Winslow,
Patrick Griffin, Henry Davis,
Arthur O. Jennings, James D. Jennings,
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Benjamin Pomeroy, Justus Sherwood, M. D.
Jesup B. Wakeman. 1869.
Mrs. Sarah J. Morehouse,
Frederick Bulkley,
William C. Bulkley,
William D. Gallagher,
John Hawkins,
Howard N. Wakeman. 1870. Miss Elizabeth D. Banks. 1871.
Rev. Edward L. Wells. 1878. Rev. Taliaferro P. Caskey,
Sidney Hawkins,
Charles Rockwell.
1879. Charles F. Bulkley. 1881.
Rev. Charles G. Adams,
Moses Bulkley. 1886. Edward M. Bulkley,
Abraham B. Sturges, M. D. 1889.
E. Livingston Wells. 1890.
Joseph Bradley. 1891.
Roderick P. Curtis. 1892. Rev. Edmund Guilbert, D. D. E. Cornelius Sherwood. 1893.
Lewis A. Curtis,
Lewis B. Curtis.
1894.
Oliver T. Sherwood. 1895.
John A. Gorham.
1898.
Azor O. Hawkins.
At the Semi-Centennial meeting of the Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, held in Trinity Church, February 7th, 1868, the following report was made: "The Society has now been in existence fifty years, and has distributed Bibles and Prayer Books, whenever asked for, to the needy of this parish; also to the Sunday school ; also to St. Paul's of Fair- field, to Weston, to Easton, to Kansas, to Michigan, to vessels of this port, to war vessels of the United States Government, in all, fourteen hundred and forty-one books of Common Prayer, eighty-eight New Testaments, and fifty-one Bibles, besides in 1835, purchasing one large Prayer Book for use of Trinity Church, and again in 1856, one large Bible, and three large Prayer Books for the same purpose."
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It is estimated that the Society up to the present time, 1898, has distributed, in the aggregate, nearly six thousand copies of the Bible, the New Testament, and the Book of Common Prayer. The total amount of invested funds is $561.12, and the present officers as elected January, 1898, are :
Rev. Dr. Edmund Guilbert, President, Ex officio.
Franklin Bulkley, Vice President.
John H. Sherwood, John Hawkins, Charles F. Bulkley, E. L. Wells, Oliver Bulkley, E. C. Sherwood, A. O. Jennings, R. P. Curtis, H. N. Wakeman, Directors.
A. B. Sturges, Oliver Bulkley, Franklin Bulkley, Finance Committee.
H. N. Wakeman, Secretary and Treasurer.
John Hawkins, John H. Sherwood, A. O. Jennings, Standing Committee.
INDEX.
[ THE INDEX DOES NOT EXTEND EITHER TO THE NOTES OR THE APPENDICES.
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INDEX.
INDEX.
A
Aberdeen, 62 Academy Building, 92, 118 Act of Toleration, 8 Adams, Abraham, 36
Adams, Rev. Chas. G., 146, 151; 12th Rector, 1879-90
Adams, Nathan, 10
Alvord, Jessup, 96, 97
Alvord, Nelson B., 97
American Episcopate, 61
American Clergy, 43
American Revolution, 52
Applegate, Avis, 36
Applegate, John, 36
B
Baldwin, Rev. Ashbel, 64, 124 Banks, Miss Elizabeth D., 112, 155 Banks, Miss Mary J., 112, 155
Banks, David, 147
Banks, Jesse, 76
Beeman, Rev. Allen E., 124
Beardsley, Samuel, 83
Belden, Nathan, 141
Beers, Abel, 78, 95, 102, 103, 115
Beers, Henry, 96, 97, 102
Beers, Ruben, 65, 72 Benjamin, Rev. Wm. H., 133 Betts, Lyman, 96 Bible and Common Prayer Book Society of Trinity Parish, 79 Bishops in America, 61 Bishop, Rev. E. F. 133
Bostwick, Rev. W. L., 120
Book of Common Prayer, 80
Booth, Richard, 82 Bradley, Miss Griselda, 96, 97, 102, 141
Bradley, Miss Mary, 96, 97, 102, 141
Bradley, David, 102
Brathwaite, Rev. F. W., 133
Brewster, Right Rev. Chauncey B., 143
British Army, in New Haven and Fairfield, 53
Bridge, Rev. Mr., 27
Bronson, Rev. Wm. White, 120
Brown, Rev. Daniel, 31
Brown, Rebecca, 37
Brownell, Right Rev. Thomas C., 87
Burnet, Bishop, 14
Burr, Miss Mary Frances, 155
Burr, Col. John, 83
Burr, Moses, 65
Burr, Ozias, 65
Burr, Thadeus, 70
Burritt, Elijah, 165
Burroughs, Edgar, 113
Bulkley, Miss C, Malvina, 112
Bulkley, Miss Louisa D., 112
Bulkley, Miss Mary Jane, 112
Bulkley, Miss Mary Josephine, 112
Bulkley, Mrs. Hattie, 112
Bulkley, Abraham, 76
Bulkley, Andrew, 96, 97, 102, 103, 113, 136 Bulkley, Charles, 96, 102, 141, 142 Bulkley, Edwin, 122
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Bulkley, Eleazar, 96
Bulkley, George, 96, 113
Bulkley, Hezekiah, 59, 96
Bulkley, Jas. B., 96, 97 Bulkley, Joel B., 90, 102 Bulkley, Jonathan, 96 Bulkley, Josiah, 67 Bulkley, L. H., 96
Bulkley, Lewis D., 122
Bulkley, Lot, 97, 102, 141
Bulkley, Moses, 96, 97, 102,
103, 119, 136
Bulkley, Peter, 66
Bulkley, Walter, 95, 96
Bulkley, Ward, 102
Bulkley, William, 96, 97, 102, 103, 119, 136 Burlington, N. J., 23
C
Candor, Rev. Mr., 124 Caner, Rev. Henry, 39, 43; 1st Rector, 1727-47
Canedy, William, 102
Cannon, Philip, 83
Caskey, Taliaferro P., 142, 145; 11th Rector, 1877-79,
Chapel, 139 Charles, I., 3
Charles, II, 7 Charter, new, 13
Chestnut Ridge, 46
Choir in "Old Church on the Hill," 112
Clapp, Rev. Mr. 124
Clark, Rev. Dr. J. L., 132
Coit, Rev. G. S., 120, 123
Cotton, John, 21
Coley, David, 96
Coley, Jonathan, 66
Collyer, Thomas L., 65
Commencement at Yale College Concordate, 64 Confirmation, Rite of, 81
Cornwall, Miss Anna E., 111
Cornwall, Rev. Asa, 100
Cornwall, Rev. Nathaniel E.,
108, 116; 7th Rector, 1834-53 Cushion, Rev. Mr., 21
Curtis, Mrs. Lewis A., 155
Cutler, Rev. Timothy, 31, 60
D
Davis, Miss Cornelia, 113 Davis, Miss Emily, 113 Davis, Hezekiah, 96, 102 Davis, Joseph W., 96, 97, 102, 103 Davenport, John, 2
Davies, Right Rev. Thos. F., 124
Deshon, Rev. G. H., 132
Dimon, Ebenezer, 96
Dimon, W. D., 96
Down, Levi, 96, 97
Dudley, Governor, 20
Dudley, Henry, 96
Dwight, President Timothy, 54
E
Erasmus, 4 Elizabeth, Queen, 4
Eliot, Rev. Mr., 55
Emery, Rev. Rufus, 127, 137; 9th Rector, 1858-71
Emery, Rev. S. M., 132
F
Fairfield, Burning of, 53
Fairfield, Churchmen in, 9, 10 First Church Edifice, location, 34; dedicated, 34; proves to be to small, 40; replaced by a larger structure, 41 First Southport Parsonage, be- gun, 104; sold, 107
Fifth Church Edifice, location, 119; consecrated, 120; de- stroyed by tornado, 128 Fisher, Rev. C. R., 120 Fourth Church Edifice, originally designed as a Chapel for the mother Church, 95; location, 95 ; consecrated, 95; contribut- ors, 96; popularity, 101; be- comes the Parish Church, 104; Christmas festivities, 111; choir, 112; destroyed by fire, 118
Furniss, Jos. H., 92 French, Rev. Louis, 120, 132 G Gallagher, Mrs. Mary J., 156 Gordon, Rev. Patrick, 20
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Godfrey, Jonathan, 96, 102, 112, 115, 119, 131, 147 Godfrey, Rev. Stephen, 102 Godfrey, Rev. J., 133 Gore, Canon, 15
Gorham, Shubael, 66
Goodwin, Rev. F. J., 120
Graves, Matthew, 61 Greenfield Hill, 54, 69, 101
Greenwich, 46
Guilbert, Rev. Edmund, 152, 160; 13th Rector, 1891-
H
Hallam, Rev. Dr., 123 Hanford, Mr., 28
Hawks, Rev. Francis L., 95, 96, 102
Hawkins, B. A., 96
Hawkins, Benj. B., 102
Hawkins, Benj. N., 102
Hawkins, Edward, 155
Heathcote, Caleb, 24, 25, 26
Hobart, Right Rev. John Henry, 80,81 Hull, Sarah, 96 Hall, John, 97
J
Jackson, Rev. Prof., 120 Jarvis, Right Rev. Abraham, 20, 71
Jelliff, Francis, 113, 149, 153
Jennings, Aaron, 96, 102
Jennings, Augustus, 119, 147
Jennings, David, 37, 76
Jennings, James, 97 Jennings, Joshua, 96 Johnson, Rev. Samuel, 9, 30, 31, 34, 60, 79, 131 Johnson, Rev. Geo. D., 133
Johnson, Rev. Samuel Roosevelt, 118, 120 Johnson, Rev. Wm. Allen, 125 Jones, Rev. Wm. Strother, 124 Judah, Rev. Mr., 83 Judd, Rev. Mr., 120, 124
Katlin, Ezra, 59 Keith, Rev. George, 19, 22, 23
Kirtland, Ezra, 65. Knapp, Henry R., 123
L
Laborie, Dr. James, 28, 29, 34 Lacy, Miss Phoebe, 145 Lamson, Rev. Joseph, 44, 45, 48, 82; 2d Rector, 1747-74 Leonard, Wm. B., 122 Leffingwell, Rev. C. S., 123, 124
Lewis, Rev. Mr., 120
Lines, Benjamin, 37
Lockwood, John, 10
Lottery, 75, 77
Lord, Esther, 17
Lyon, Samuel, 10 Ludlow, Roger, 2, 7
M
Mackenzie, Rev. Aeneas, 28
Mackenzie, Dougal, 48
Marcy, John, 9
Marshall, Rev. Mr., 50
Marquand, Frederick, 100
Massachusetts, Colony of, 2
Mason, Capt., 2
Mead, Rev. Dr., 120, 123, 132
Meeker, Daniel, 65
Meeker, Samuel, 72
Meeker, W. B., 72
Methodists, 100
Mill River, 91
Minor, Richardson, 45
Muirson, Rev. George, 24, 26, 27
N
Nash, Henry, 102, 103
Newburgh, 137
New Canaan, 46
Newtown, L. I., 55
Nichols, Allan, 119, 147
Nichols, C. T., 97
Nichols, Ebenezer, 65
Nichols, John, 82
Nichols, Judson, 102
Nichols, Rev. Geo. Warner, 124
Nichols, Rev. Samuel, 124
Norwalk, 42, 46
Northfield, 42
Nova Scotia, 56
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Ogden, Abel, 97, 103 Ogden, George, 97, 102 Old Church on the Hill, 109 Olmstead, Rev. H., 124 Onderdonk, Right Rev. B. T., 95, 110 Ordinations, 32, 45, 64, 91, 118, 143 Osborn, Stephen, 96
F
Parish School of Trinity Church, 139
Parochiales Notitiae, 83
Parliament, English, 61
Penfield, Rachel, 96
Pequot Library, 1
Perry, Mrs. Francis D., 72, 153
Perry, Charles, 96, 97
Perry, Francis D., 147
Perry, Gordon, 96
Perry, Henry, 96, 97, 102
Perry, John, 4
Perry, Joseph, 96, 102
Perry, Nathaniel, 70
Perry Rectory, 158
Phillips, Rev. Mr., 27
Pigot, Rev. George, 28, 29, 60
Pike, Julius, 96, 102
Pitkin, William, 7
Pomeroy, Benjamin, 122, 129, 136, 141
Pomeroy, Benjamin, 2d, 141 Portland, 81
Potter, Rev. C. I., 120
Presbyterian Ministers, 63
Purdy, Rev. J. Souveraine, 117, 126; 8th Rector, 1853-58 Purves, Rev. J., 120, 124
Quakers, 20 Quinnipiack Harbor, 2
R
Redding, 1 Reid, Rev. H. H., 123
Revolution, American, 52 Ridgefield, 42, 46 Ripton, 57 Robinson, Miss Anna, 96
Robinson, Miss Jerusha, 113 Robinson, George, 97 Robinson, Smith, 97 Robinson, Thomas, 91, 97 Robinson, William, 78, 96 Robertson, Rev. Mr., 120 Rockwell, Miss Anna R., 157 Rockwell, Charles, 122, 147 Roosevelt, Marcus B., 120 Rowland, Thos. F., 7
Rumsey, Mrs. Abigail, 46
Russell, Rev. Mr., 120
Rye, 24, 45 S
Saltonstall, Gordon, 21
Saugatuck, 69
Sayre, Rev. John, 50, 56; 3d Rector, 1774-79
Scottish Episcopate, 62 Seabury, Right Rev. Samuel, elected Bishop, 62 ; consecrated, 62; at Yalecommencement, 63 ; holds first Convention of the Diocese, 64; ordination of Rev. Philo Shelton and Rev. Ashbel Baldwin, 64 Second Church Edifice, location, 40; described, 41; burned by British troops, 54
Seeley. Joseph, 82
Sharpe, Rev. Mr., 27
Sheffield, Joseph E., 123
Shelton, Mrs. Philo, 85
Shelton, Rev. Philo, 57, 88; 4th Rector, 1785-1825
Shelton, Rev. Geo. Augustus, 88
Shelton, Rev. William, 88, 93; 5th Rector, 1825-29
Sherman, R. M., 96
Sherman, Selleck, 97
Sherwood, Miss Juliette, 120
Sherwood, Aaron, 97
Sherwood, E., 96 Sherwood, Hull, 71, 86, 90, 96,
Sherwood, 97, 102, 103, 133
Sherwood, John, 58, 59, 65, 68
Sherwood, Mrs. John H., 155
Sherwood, John H., 113
Sherwood, Judas, 96
Sherwood, Justus, M. D., 102, 120, 145
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Sherwood, M. A., 96 Sherwood, Simon, 96, 97 Sherwood, Walter, 76, 86, 90, 96, 102, 103 Sherwood, William, 95, 96, 102, 103
Sherwood, Wm. S., 102
Short, Mrs. Cornelia Ann, 106 Short, Rev. J. H., 120, 130, 132 Slavery, in Connecticut Colony, 5 Smith, Rev. Charles, 94, 98; 6th Rector, 1829-34 Smith, George, 103 Southport, 92, 95, 97, 101, 105, 116, 124, 143, 154 Stamford, 46 Stearns, Rev. Mr., 120
Stratfield, 59, 65, 82
Stratford, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33, 45, 90 St. Barnabus Chapel, 120 St. John's Church, Bridgeport, 46,82 St. Paul's Church, Buffalo, 92
St. Paul's, Fairfield, 123
Steinburg, Elias, 102 Stiles, President, 63 Stimson, Rev. Levi, 120, 124, 132 Sturges, Mrs. Jerusha, 48 Sturges, Benjamin, 10 Sturges, David B., 102
Sturges, Henry, 97, 147
Sturges, Hezekiah, 68
Sturges, Jeremiah, 76, 78, 95, 96, 97, 102, 103, 113, 114
Sturges, Jonathan, 48, 96
Sturges, Joshua, 97 Sturges, Samuel, 48
Sturges, Seth, 65 Sturgis, Rev. Isaac C., 141
T
Talbot, Rev. John, 20 Talbot, St. George, 48 Tashua, 81 Tennison, Archbishop, 17 "The Old Church Bell," poem, 105
Third Church Edifice, location, 69; dimensions, 70; conse- crated, 72; description of, 73; demolished, 105
Thorp, Charles, 97 Titharton, Timothy, 9 Todd, Rev. A. S., 120 Tomlinson, Rev. D. G., 124
Tomlinson, Gideon, 76 Townsend, Rev. H., 124 Trinity Church, 34, 36, 38, 41, 43, 48, 52, 55, 69, 97, 114, 118, 120, 130, 157, 159
Venerable Society for the Propa- gation ofthe Gospel, organized, 17; seal, 18; missions in Con- necticut Colony, 25, 27, 34, 43, 45, 50
Wakeman, Mrs. Zalmon, 155
Wakeman, J. B., 97
Wakeman, Jessup, 96, 102, 103
Wakeman, L. B., 96
Wakeman, Maurice, 97
Wakeman, W. W., 96
Ward, Moses, 10
Washington Hall, 120
Weston, 59 Wetmore, Rev. Mr., 45
Wheeler, Calvin, 65
Wheeler, Daniel, 59
Wheeler, Timothy, 83
Whitefield, George, 44
Wilton, 46 Whitmar, Albert, 97 Wells, Rev. Edward L., 138, 143 ; 10th Rector, 1870-76
Wells, Rev. E. Livingston, 143
Wilberforce, Samuel, 63
Williams, Right Rev. John, 120 133 Williams, Rev. J. R., 120, 124, 133
Williams, Rev. W. H., 133
Willey, Rev. J. M., 132
Wood, Abi D., 102
Wood, John H., 112
Woodbury, 62
Y
Yale, Elihu, 61 Yarrington, Rev. B. M., 120
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