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FIRST CHURCH IN HARTFORD.
COVENANT.
In the presence of God and this assembly you do now seriously, deliberately, and forever give up yourselves, in faith and love and holy obedience, to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; accepting the Lord Jehovah to be your God; Jesus Christ to be your Prophet, Priest, and King; and the Holy Ghost to be be your Sanctifier, Comforter, and Guide. Although humbly acknowledging your weakness and guilt, and your liability to error and sin, still you do sincerely desire, and by the aids of divine grace do promise, to receive in love the pure doctrines of the Gospel, to walk in the statutes and ordinances of the Lord, blameless, and to do honor to your high and holy vocation by a life of piety towards God and benevolence towards your fellow- men.
In humble reliance on the grace of God, you thus promise and engage.
In consequence of these your professions and promises, we do cordially receive you as members of this Church; we welcome you to fellowship and communion with us in the blessings of the Gospel, and engage on our part, according to the opportunity and ability given us, to treat you with Christian affection, to watch over you with tenderness, and to offer our prayers to the great Head of the Church, that you may be enabled to fulfill the solemn covenant which you have now made. The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.
And now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the throne of His glory with exceeding great joy,-to the only wise God, our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. AMEN.
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COVENANT AND FULL-COMMUNION MEMBERSHIP.
COVENANT AND FULL-COMMUNION MEMBERSHIP.
The division of church-members on the records of this Church, as of old New England churches generally, into two classes- Covenant and Full-Communion members, makes an explanation of the now obsolete distinction desirable to modern readers.
The original view of church-membership held by the New England fathers involved the possession of experimental piety in each member. As John Cotton said:
" Wee receive none as Members into the Church but such as may be Concieved to be recieved of God into Fellowship with Christ the head of the Church."
At the same time, however, the founders of these churches held to the extension of the Abrahamic Covenant to the Christian Church, and to a qualified church-membership made by Infant Baptism. This membership was not, indeed, complete, and could not "orderly" be "continued and confirmed " without some personal act of faith in after years.
But many of these children having such inchoate membership grew up to manhood and womanhood without that further expe- rience deemed requisite to complete and justify their full recog- nition as in "Fellowship with Christ." They did not come to the Lord's Supper, and had only the visible connection with the Church which their infantile baptism gave them.
When, therefore, such persons married and had children, and desired them to be baptized, what was to be done? Was their connection with the Church by infant baptism substantial enough in itself, and in lack of supposed fitness for the communion table, to justify the baptism of their children?
To consider this question a Ministerial Assembly of Massachu- setts and Connecticut pastors met in Boston in June, 1657, and arrived at the conclusion :
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"It is the duty of those children [who confederate in their parents] when grown up to years of discretion though not yet fit for the Lord's Supper, to own the Covenant they made with their parents by entering thereinto in their own persons. And in case they understand the Grounds of Religion and are not scandalous, and solemnly own the Covenant in their own persons, wherein they give up both themselves and children to the Lord, and desire baptism for them, we (with due reverence for any godly learned that may dissent) see not sufficient cause to deny baptism to their children."
This opinion of the Ministerial Assembly was shortly after ratified by the Synod of Massachusetts churches met in Boston in 1662. Its language on this point is as follows:
"Church-members who were admitted in minority, understand- ing the doctrine of faith, and publickly professing their assent thereto: not scandalous in life, and solemnly owning the Cove- nant before the Church, wherein they give up themselves and children to the Lord, and subject themselves to the government of Christ in the Church, their children are to be baptized."
Thus ratified by ministerial and synodical authority the prac- tice spread and shortly became almost universal, of the adoption by the churches of two forms of Covenant-one admitting mem- bers to Full-Communion privileges, the other to the privilege of Baptism for their children, but not to the Lord's Supper. The Church became thus a practically divided body: a part being regarded as experimental Christians and communing at the Lord's table; the rest, Half-way Covenant members, making no profession of experimental grace, but so far possessing a churchly character as to transmit the right of baptism to their offspring.
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CATALOGUE.
EXPLANATIONS.
¿ Signifies that the person was received by letter from another Church.
A name in a parenthesis () following the name of a female, is, or was, the Christian name of the husband. The letter w, pre- ceding the husband's name, is to be read widow. The names of females who were married during their connection with this church as members are followed by their husbands' names in parenthesis.
Names of such as have been ordained to the work of the ministry are printed in SMALL CAPITALS.
In the column of dates of dismissal (page 53 ff.), an (*) indicates that the person was regularly dismissed but that there is no record of the date. A (+) shows that the person was dropped by vote of the Church.
An (*) in the column of dates of deaths shows that the person died in the membership of this Church but that the date was not recorded and could not at this time be ascertained.
PASTORS AND TEACHERS.
The distinction between the Pastor and the Teacher in early New England Churches is defined in a letter of several of their ministers in August, 1639, in answer to inquiries of ministers in England, as follows : "Pastor and Teacher have various duties in common. Both preach by way of doctrine and application, and administer the seals. Still there is a difference between them. The Teacher 'is principally to attend upon points of knowledge and doctrine, though not without application,' and therefore his work is thus expressed, 'let him attend on teach- ing ;' but the pastor's principal duty is to preach on 'points of practice, though not without doctrine,' and hence his work is ' to attend on exhortation."
It is impossible to say how fully the idea of such distinction in ministerial function and title was maintained in this Church after the choice of its first ministers, Hooker and Stone. And after the withdrawal of Mr. Whiting at the formation of the Second Church, leaving Mr. Haynes in sole charge of this Church, there is not even an apparent continuance of the idea.
REV. THOMAS HOOKER was ordained Pastor October 11, 1633, and died July 7, 1647, in the 61st year of his age, having served the Church thirteen years and nine months.
REV. SAMUEL STONE was ordained Teacher Oct. 11, 1633, and died July 20, 1663, in his 61st year, having served the Church twenty-nine years and nine months, of which thirteen years and nine months were in connection with Mr. Hooker ; thirteen years he had sole charge of the Church, and about three years in con- nection with his associate and successor, Rev. John Whiting.
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REV. JOHN WHITING was ordained colleague with Mr. Stone early in 1660, and served the Church ten years, till February 22, 1670, when he became Pastor of the Second Church in Hartford. Of the ten years of Mr. Whiting's service about three were in connection with Rev. Mr. Stone ; three years he was sole Pastor, and four years were in connection with his associate and succes- sor, Rev. Mr. Haynes. He died November, 1689, aged 50 years.
REV. JOSEPH HAYNES was ordained colleague with Mr. Whit- ing some time in 1664, and died May 24, 1679, aged 38 years. He served the Church fifteen years, four years in connection with Mr. Whiting, and eleven as sole pastor.
REV. ISAAC FOSTER was ordained Pastor early in 1680, and died August 20, 1682, aged about 30 years, having served the Church two years and some months.
REV. TIMOTHY WOODBRIDGE, after having ministered to the congregation more than two years, was ordained Pastor Novem- ber, 1685, and died April 30, 1732, aged 79 years, having sus- tained the pastoral relation forty-six years and six months, and ministered to the Church nearly forty-nine years.
REV. DANIEL WADSWORTH was ordained Pastor September 28, 1732, and died November 12, 1747, in the 43d year of his age, having served the Church fifteen years and two months.
REV. EDWARD DORR was ordained Pastor April 27, 1748, and died October 20, 1772, in his 50th year, having served the Church twenty-four years and five months.
REV. NATHAN STRONG was ordained Pastor January 5, 1774, and died December 25, 1816, in the 69th year of his age, having served the Church forty-two years and eleven months.
REV. JOEL HAWES was ordained Pastor March 4, 1818 ; resigned the Pastoral care May 5, 1864 ; and died June 4, 1867, in the 78th year of his age, having sustained pastoral relations to the Church forty-nine years and three months ; of which period he was sole Pastor forty-four years and seven months, senior Pastor one year and six months, and Pastor emeritus three years.
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PASTORS AND TEACHERS.
REV. WOLCOTT CALKINS was ordained colleague Pastor with Dr. Hawes October 22, 1862, and dismissed July 6, 1864, having served the Church as associate Pastor one year and nine months.
REV. GEORGE H. GOULD was installed Pastor December 14, 1864, and dismissed October 11, 1870, having served the Church five years and ten months.
REV. ELIAS H. RICHARDSON was installed Pastor April 24, 1872, and dismissed .January 1, 1879, having served the Church six years and eight months.
REV. GEORGE LEON WALKER was installed Pastor February 27, 1879.
RULING ELDER.
The office of Ruling Elder in the early New England Churches is thus defined by John Cotton: " The office of the Ruling Elder is to assist the Pastors and Teachers in diligent attendance to all other acts of rule besides exhortation and doctrine, as becomes good stewards of the household of God." It is not known whether this Church had more than one Ruling Elder.
WILLIAM GOODWIN was chosen and ordained, it is supposed, on or previous to October 11, 1633, and removed from Hartford in 1660, and died in March, 1673.
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FIRST CHURCH IN HARTFORD.
DEACONS.
NAMES.
CHOSEN.
DIED. *1660.
AGED.
Andrew Warner,
Oct., 1633.
Edward Stebbins,
Aug., 1668.
Joseph Mygat,
1680.
84
Richard Butler,
Aug., 1684.
Paul Peck,
April, 1691.
Dec., 1695.
87
Joseph Easton,
April, 1691.
Jan.,
1712.
Joseph Olmsted,
April, 1691.
Nov.,
1726.
John Sheldon,
1712.
Feb.,
1734.
John Shepherd,
1712.
March, 1736.
Thomas Richards,
1712.
April, 1749.
83
Nathaniel Goodwin,
March, 1734.
March, 1747.
79
John Edwards,
March, 1734.
May, 1769.
73
Joseph Talcott,
Dec., 1748.
Nov.,
1780.
79
Ozias Goodwin,
Jan.,
1756.
Jan.,
1776.
87
Daniel Goodwin,
1769.
Jan.,
1772.
67
Benjamin Payne,
Jan.,
1782.
54
John Shepard,
April,
1789.
80
Solomon Smith,
April,
1786.
52
Caleb Bull,
Feb.,
1797.
51
Ezra Corning,
July,
1816.
79
Isaac Bull,
1789.
Nov.,
1824.
84
Joseph Steward,
1797.
April,
1822.
69
Aaron Chapin,
Oct.,
1813.
Dec.,
1838.
85
Aaron Colton,
Oct.,
1813.
June,
1840.
81
Josiah Beckwith,
Oct.,
1813.
Jan.,
1827.
64
Russell Bunce,
Nov.,
1821.
April,
1846.
69
William W. Ellsworth, Nov.,
1821.
Jan.,
1868.
79
William W. Turner,
Sept.,
1828. Res. Oct.,
1852.
Thomas S. Williams,
Oct.,
1836.
Dec.,
1861.
84
*Removed to Hadley, Mass., with Elder Goodwin, in 1660, where he died, 1684.
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DEACONS.
NAMES.
CHOSEN. DIED. AGED.
Thomas Smith, Melvin Copeland,
March, 1838. Res. Oct., 1852.
Sept., 1840. Res. 1844.
John Beach, Lewis Weld,
Aug., 1844. Res. Oct., 1852.
Nov., 1846. Dec., 1853. 57
Samuel S. Ward,
Nov., 1852. Dec., 1879.
78
Bryan E. Hooker,
Nov., 1852. Res. March, 1874.
Loyal Wilcox,
Jan.,
1854. Res. Jan., 1861.
Samuel M. Capron,
Collins Stone,
Dec.,
1863. Dec., 1870. 58
Daniel W. Brigham,
Dec., 1863. Left by Letter June, 1870.
Rowland Swift,
May, 1867. Res. Feb., 1874.
Homer Blanchard, Nov., 1869.
Lucius Barbour, Nov., 1869.
Feb., 1873. 67
William S. Hurd,
March, 1874.
July, 1876. 677
William W. House,
March, 1874. Term exp'd 1878.
Henry P. Stearns,
March, 1874. Term exp'd 1879.
William H. Miller,
March, 1874. Term exp'd 1880.
John Allen,
March, 1878. Term exp'd 1884.
William W. House,
Jan.,
1879. Term exp'd 1882.
Daniel R. Howe,
Feb.,
1880. Term exp'd 1881.
Henry P. Stearns,
Feb.,
1880. Term exp'd 1883.
Rowland Swift, Feb.,
1881.
Henry E. Taintor,
Feb.,
1882. Term exp'd 1885.
William W. House,
Feb., 1883.
Samuel M. Hotchkiss, Feb.,
1884.
Henry P. Stearns,
Feb.,
1885.
Jan., Feb., 1861. Left by Letter July, 1866.
George W. Corning,
1854.
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FIRST CHURCH IN HARTFORD.
PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE.
COMMITTEE CONSTITUTED BY VOTE OF THE CHURCH SEPT. 7, 1821.
NAMES.
CHOSEN.
LEFT OFFICE.
Russell Bunce,
Sept., 1821.
Chosen Deacon 1821
William W. Ellsworth,
Sept .. 1821.
Chosen Deacon 1821
Normand Smith,
Sept., 1821.
1823
Caleb Goodwin,
Sept., 1821.
1823
James R. Woodbridge,
Sept., 1821.
1823
Henry Hudson,
Sept.,
1821.
1841
William Watson,
Jan.,
1824.
Nov., 1836
Peter Thacher,
Jan.,
1824.
1845
Eli Gilman,
Jan.,
1824.
1842
Roderick Terry,
Jan.,
1824.
1832
Robert Anderson,
Jan.,
1824.
1832
Melvin Copeland,
Jan.,
1832.
1835
James R. Woodbridge,
Jan.,
1832.
1837
Lewis Weld,
Feb.,
1835.
1838
Edward Goodwin,
Jan., 1837.
1883
Thomas Smith,
Jan.,
1837.
Chosen Deacon 1838
Barzillai Hudson,
March, 1838.
1871
Whiting H. Hollister,
March, 1838.
1843
John Beach,
Jan.,
1842.
Chosen Deacon 1844
Calvin Day,
Jan., 1843.
1884
Bela Turner,
Jan., 1844.
1845
Henry A. Perkins,
Jan., 1845.
1866
James M. Bunce,
Jan., 1846.
1852
John O. Pitkin,
Jan.,
1846.
1851
Collins Stone,
Jan., 1851.
1852
Charles A. Goodrich,
Jan., 1853.
1858
William W. House,
Jan., 1853.
Chosen Deacon 1874
Loyal Wilcox,
Jan., 1853.
Chosen Deacon 1854
Leonard Church,
Jan.,
1859.
1872
PRUDENTIAL COMMITTEE.
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NAMES.
CHOSEN.
LEFT OFFICE.
Lucius Barbour,
Feb., 1866.
Chosen Deacon 1869
Alfred R. Skinner,
Feb., 1870.
1879
William S. Hurd, Feb., 1872.
Chosen Deacon 1874
James P. Foster,
Feb., 1873.
1876
George Roberts, Feb.,
1875.
1878
William M. Hudson, John Allen,
Feb., 1876.
Chosen Deacon 1878
Samuel M. Hotchkiss,
March, 1879.
Chosen Deacon 1884
Melancthon Storrs,
March, 1879.
Francis B. Cooley,
Feb.,
1880.
Daniel H. Wells,
Feb., 1884.
1885
George R. Shepherd,
Feb., 1884.
John C. Parsons,
Feb., 1885.
Solon P. Davis,
Feb.,
1885.
2
.
Feb., 1875.
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FIRST CHURCH IN HARTFORD.
ORIGINAL AND EARLY MEMBERS. 1633-1639.
[It is impossible to certify that all the persons named in the following list of Original Proprietors, Holders by Courtesie, and Settlers in Hartford, copied from a Town Record made in 1639, were members of the Church. But in the entire perishing of the Church Records for this period it is so impossible to deter- mine who of them were not members - while the presumption respecting for the greater number of them is so strong that they were members - that it is deemed best to give their names in full, and without any attempt at distinguishing those among them as to whose membership there can be no doubt. The dates of the deaths of the persons named in this list, and the other facts men- tioned respecting them, have been gained from many sources, and perhaps may not be free from errors. This table well illustrates the mobile quality of all early settlements in a new country, and suggests that many new comers must have speedily followed the first founders to keep good their places.]
Died.
Mr. John Haines,
March 1, 1654.
Mr. George Willis,
March 9, 1645.
Mr. Edward Hopkins,
March, 1657.
Mr. Thomas Wells,
Jan. 14, 1660.
Mr. John Webster,
April 6, 1661. Moved to Hadley.
Mr. Thomas Hooker, Mr. Samuel Stone,
July 20, 1663.
Mr. Wm. Goodwine,
March 11, 1673.
Moved to Hadley.
Mr. Wm. Whittinge,
Mr. Matthew Allyn,
July, 1647. 1671.
Moved to Windsor.
Mr. John Tallcott,
1659-60.
James Olmsted, 1640.
William Westwood,
April 9, 1669.
Moved to Hadley.
William Pantrey.
Andrew Warner,
1684. Moved to Hadley.
John Steele,
1664. Moved to Farmington.
Nathaniel Warde,
May,
1664. Moved to Hadley.
July 7,1647.
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ORIGINAL AND EARLY MEMBERS.
Died.
John White,
Dec., 1683. Moved to Hadley.
William Wadsworth,
1675-6.
Thomas Hosmore,
April 12, 1687.
Thomas Scott,
Nov. 6, 1643.
William Lewis,
1683.
Moved to Hadley.
William Spencer,
1640.
William Andrewes,
uncertain.
Steven Heart,
Jan. 16, 1686.
1683. Moved to Farmington. Moved to Hadley.
John Crow, John Moodey,
1655 (?)
Thomas Standley,
1663.
Moved to Hadley.
Timothy Standley,
Oct.,
1648.
Edward Stebbing,
1663.
Andrew Bacon,
Oct.
4, 1669.
Moved to Hadley.
John Barnard,
May
23, 1664.
Moved to Hadley.
Gregory Wilterton,
July,
1674.
Samuel Wakeman,
1641.
William Gibbons.
John Pratt,
July 15, 1655.
Richard Goodman,
April 1, 1676.
Moved to Hadley.
Nathaniel Elly,
Dec. 25, 1675.
Moved to Norwalk.
William Ruscoe.
1670.
George Steele,
1665.
Steven Post,
Aug. 16, 1659.
Moved to Saybrook.
Thomas Judd,
Nov. 12, 1688.
Moved to Farmington.
Thomas Birchwood,
1684. Moved to Saybrook.
John Clarke,
Nov. 22, 1712.
Moved to Farmington.
Matthew Marvell,
1687.
Moved to Norwalk.
William Butler,
1648.
Thomas Lord.
John Skinner. John Marsh,
1688. Moved to Hadley.
Richard Lord,
May 17, 1662.
Richard Webb,
July, 1655.
John Maynard.
William Kellsey,
Moved to Killingworth,
James Ensigne, John Hopkins,
1654.
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FIRST CHURCH IN HARTFORD.
Died.
Jeremy Adams,
Robert Daye,
Thomas Spencer,
Sept. 11, 1687.
Nathaniel Richards,
Moved to Norwalk.
Joseph Mygatt,
Dec. 7,1680.
William Blumfield,
Richard Butler,
Aug. 6, 1684.
George Grave,
Dec.
3, 1692.
Moved to Middletown.
Arthur Smith,
1654.
William Hill,
July,
1683.
Moved to Hadley.
Thomas Olcok,
1654-5.
James Coale,
1652.
John Arnold,
1664.
Thomas Bull,
1684.
George Stocking,
May,
1683.
William Heyden,
Sept.
27, 1669.
Moved to Windsor.
Nicholas Clarke,
July
2, 1680.
Thomas Stanton,
1678.
Moved to Stonington. Moved to Norwalk.
Zachary Field,
June
28, 1666.
Moved to Northa'pton.
Thomas Roote,
July
17, 1694.
Moved to Northa'pton.
William Parker,
Dec.
21, 1686. 1647.
Moved to Saybrook.
Seth Grant,
William Pratt,
Moved to Saybrook. Moved to Norwalk.
Richard Olmsted,
1686.
Moved to Norwalk.
Jolın Baysey,
1671.
Joseph Easton.
Thomas Selden,
1655.
Francis Andrewes,
1662-3.
Moved to Fairfield.
Richard Church,
Dec.
16, 1667.
Moved to Hadley.
William Hide,
1681. 1648.
Moved to Saybrook.
Richard Wrisley,
William Holton,
Aug. 12, 1691.
Moved to Northa'pton.
Robert Bartlett,
March 14, 1676.
Moved to Northa'pton.
Edward Elmer,
1676. 1666.
Moved to Northa'pton.
Jonathan Ince,
Aug. 11, 1683. 1648.
Richard Lyman, 1640.
Moved to New London.
Thomas Hales,
Samuel Hales,
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ORIGINAL AND EARLY MEMBERS.
Died.
John Cullick,
Jan. 23, 1663. Moved to Boston.
John Brunson,
1680. Moved to Farmington.
John Warner,
1679. Moved to Farmington.
William Cornwell,
Feb. 21, 1678.
Moved to Middletown.
Thomas Woodford,
March 6, 1667.
Moved to Northa'pton.
John Biddell,
1687. 1672.
Thomas Lord, Jr.,
1661.
Moved to Norwalk. Moved to Wethersfield.
John Hollaway,
Oct. 18, 1684.
Nathaniel Kellog,
Thomas Barnes,
Richard Seymour, John Purcasse,
Nov. 25, 1655.
1645.
William Phillips,
1653.
Nicholas Disbroe,
1683.
Benjamin Burre,
March 31, 1681.
Hosea Goodwin,
April,
1683.
Robert Wade,
John Olmsteed,
Benjamin Munn,
Nov., 1675.
Daniel Garwood,
1687 (?)
John Hall,
May
26, 1673.
Moved to Middletown.
John Morrice,
1669.
Nathaniel Barding,
1674.
John Ginnings,
Moved to Southa'pton.
Paul Pecke, Dec.,
1695.
George Hubbard,
1685.
Moved to Middletown.
Thomas Blisse.
Thomas Blisse, Jr.,
April 15, 1688.
Edward Lay,
Thomas Gridley,
John Sables,
John Pierce.
Giles Smith,
1669. Moved to Fairfield. 1657 (?)
William Westley. Thomas Richards. Henry Walkley.
Moved to Saybrook. Moved to Saybrook. Moved to Farmington. Moved to Wethersfield.
Richard Watts,
Moved to Saybrook. Moved to Saybrook. Moved to Springfield.
Moved to Farmington. Moved to Farmington. Moved to Farmington.
Ralph Keylor,
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Died. July 19, 1665.
Thomas Upson,
Widdowe Beets.
Thomas Bunce,
1683.
William Watts,
Moved to England.
Bartholomew Greene.
John Stone,
Moved to Guilford.
Samuel Greenhill,
(Died early).
Clement Chapling,
Moved to Wethersfield. Moved to Wethersfield.
Dorothy Chester,
Thomas Beale.
Thomas Fisher.
Samuel Whitehead,
1690.
Moved to New Haven.
John Friend,
1656.
Moved to Boston.
Abram Pratt.
Thomas Goodfellow,
Nov. 25, 1685.
Moved to Wethersfield.
Thomas Munson,
1685. Moved to New Haven.
Thomas Hongerforth,
1663. Moved to New London.
Reynold Marvin,
1662. Moved to Farmington.
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MEMBERS WHO WENT TO HADLEY.
MEMBERS WHO WENT TO HADLEY. 1659-1660.
[During the later years of the Reverend Teacher Stone, after the death of the first Pastor, Mr. Hooker, an unhappy and pro- tracted quarrel arose in the Church, which resulted in the depar- ture of a considerable number of its members to Hadley. An agreement to go was signed "at Goodman Ward's house in Hartford, April 18, 1659." This list contains many names which appear on the last above given, but there are some new ones and some of a second generation.]
Died.
John Webster,
April 5, 1661.
William Goodwin,
March 11, 1673.
John Crow,
Jan. 16, 1686.
Nathaniel Ward,
May,
1664.
John White,
Dec.,
1683.
John Barnard,
May 23, 1664.
Andrew Bacon,
Oct.
4, 1669. 1683.
William Lewis,
William Westwood,
April
9, 1669.
Richard Goodman,
April
1, 1676.
William Partrigg,
June 27, 1668. 1663.
Thomas Standley,
Dec.
16, 1667.
Francis Barnard,
Feb.
3, 1698.
John Marsh,
1688.
Nathaniel Standley,
Nov. 4, 1712.
Samuel Church,
April 13, 1684.
William Markum,
1689.
Samuel Moody,
1689.
Zechariah Field,
June 28, 1666.
Andrew Warner,
1684.
Daniel Warner,
April 30, 1692.
Richard Church,
Returned to Hartford.
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FIRST CHURCH IN HARTFORD.
[The following named persons also signed the Agreement to remove to Hadley, but either did not go, or remained there but a short time, and mostly returned.]
Died.
Gregory Wilerton, July, 1674.
John Arnold,
1664.
Ozias Goodwin,
April,
1683.
James Ensign,
1670.
Robert Webster,
1677.
George Steele,
1665.
William Lewis jr.,
1690.
Benjamin Harbert,
after
1685.
John Catling.
Mr. Samuel Hooker,
Edward Benton.
Nov. 6, 1697. Moved to Farmington. Moved to Guilford.
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MEMBERS SEPARATED TO THE SECOND CHURCH.
MEMBERS SEPARATED TO THE SECOND CHURCH, FEB. 22, 1670.
[The separation of members forming the Second Church was preluded by a long controversy led on the two sides by Rev. John Whiting and Rev. Joseph Haynes, the Associated Ministers of the Church, upon the Subject of Baptismal Qualifications and Synodical Authority. The difference in this Church was only a part of the general agitation in New England on these subjects, following the approval of what came to be called Half-way- Covenant Church membership by the Ministerial Assembly of 1657 and the Synod of 1662. The two pastors of the Church differed on the subject, Rev. Mr. Haynes, the younger minister, approving the "larger baptism " and synodical authority; Rev. Mr. Whiting disapproving the latter, and at the outset of the con- troversy the former also. His Church, however, on its formation immediately began the half-way covenant practice.]
Susannah Arnold, (w. John.)
Andrew Benton, 1683. to Haddam.
Hannah Benton,
John Bidall, 1687.
Sarah Bidall.
Thomas Bull, 1684.
Thomas Bunce, Sen., 1683.
Sarah Bunce.
John Cole,
1685.
Anne Cole.
James Ensing,
1671.
Sarah Ensing.
George Graw, Sen.,
Sept., 1673.
Sarah Graw.
Benj. Harbert,
before 1685.
Christian Harbert,
died before her husband.
Joseph Nash,
1678.
Margaret Nash, - survived her husband.
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FIRST CHURCH IN HARTFORD.
James Richards, Samford. Frances Stebbing,
July 11, 1680.
(w. Edward.) 1673.
James Steele.
Steele.
George Stocking,
May, 1683.
Agnes Stocking.
Margaret Watson, (w. John.) 1683.
Thomas Watts,
1683.
Elizabeth Watts,
Feb. 25, 1685.
Robert Webster,
1677.
Whapples.
Rev. John Whiting,
Sept. 8, 1689.
Sibbilla Whiting, }
before 1673.
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COVENANT MEMBERS.
LIST OF PERSONS OWNING THE COVENANT.
An account of persons coming into ye Church since my ordi- nation, which was Nov. 18, 1685. [T. WOODBRIDGE. ]
1685. Nov. 22. Benjamin Grimes. Roger Pitkin.
Dec.
6. Texell Ainsworth. Ainsworth (Texell).
Samuel Burr.
13. John Tullor. 27. Tho: Long. Long (Tho:).
1685. Jan. 31. Joseph Strickland.
1686. May 16. John Hopkins.
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