History of Fairfield County, Connecticut : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 179

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) comp. cn
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1572

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* Condensed from Huntington's History.

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STAMFORD.

Jona. Ayres ; Deboralı, W'e of Jos. Husted; Kezia, W'e of Jas. Roberts; Thankful, dau. of Mrs. Weed ; Martha, W'e of - Waring; Hannah, W'e of Jas. Seofield ; Elizab. Bishop; Esther, W'e of Dan'l Whiting; Mary Bonton; Bethia Scofield; Mary Lounsbury; Sarah, W'e of Gershom Mead ; Mary, W'e of Sergt. Jno. Scofield; Mary, dau. of Sergt. Sam'l Scofield; Mrs. Hannah Mather ; Hannah Dan, W'e David ; Mary, W'e Benj. Jones. Whole No. 99 Females. Total, 174.

" The above list comprises probably all the resident members of this first ehureh of Stamford in 1746.

"Dr. Welles continued here until his death, in 1776. Under his ministry there was a steady growth of the chureh.

"The three town notables of that day, Col. Jonathan Hoyt, Capt. Jonathan Maltby, and Mr. Abraham Davenport, were made a committee to 'manage that affear.' A few years later, 1762, the society add a hundred pounds of new metal to the bell, and have it run anew. The cloek seems to have been a bill of expense and trouble to them, and it was soon removed.

" Another innovation was introduced in 1747. The society, probably out of regard to the wishes of their new pastor, voted to change the form of their serviee of song in the sanetuary ; and this ehange took place, both in the First Church at the eentre and in the new `church in Middlesex parish, now Darien. The vote of the First Society in 1747 is: 'Per vote, the society agree to sing aeeording to regular singing, ealled ye new way of singing, in ye publie worship of God.' The vote in the Middlesex society was: 'Yt Mr. Jonathan Bell, or any other man agreed upon to sing or tune ye salm in his absence, in times of publieht worship, may tune it in ye old way or new, which sutes you best.'

"This change from the old to the new way of singing had been introduced in 1721. The eight or nine tunes brought over with the pioneers 'had beeome barbar- ously perverted,' and Rev. Thomas Walter, of Rox- bury, Mass., composer in that year, published 'The Grounds and Rules of Musie Explained ; or, an In- troduetion to the Art of Singing by Note.' The treatise 'contained twenty-four tunes, harmonized in three parts.'

"In 1750 one other innovation seems to have eom- pleted the changes which were deemed of absolute need. After due deliberation, doubtless, 'the society agrees that Doetor Watteses avartion of ye psalms shall be introdneed into ye prisbeterian eongration.'

" Dr. Welles died in 1776, after the struggle of our Revolution had fairly begun ; and the church was left without a pastor until its elose.

"The last record in the fair handwriting of Dr. Welles bears date Dee. 8, 1775, and simply preserves the appointment of Stephen Bishop as deaeon in the chureh.

"Several candidates, it would seem, officiated here after Dr. Welles' deeease. The church has no record

to show that they invited either of them to settle. The society, in 1780, make application to Rev. Mr. Kettletas to supply the pulpit, if possible; and from baptisms performed during this interval, he probably preached some months.

"The peculiar language employed in the records of the society of date March 24, 1777, would suggest that they were not prepared to settle any one as pastor. By 1781 they had evidently become tired of being without a settled minister, and formally voted to en- deavor to settle one. They vote, also, to apply to Rev. Mr. Searl to accept the pastorate.

"In August, 1777, they unanimously vote to settle Rev. John Avery. They vote him a hundred pounds annually, for three years, in silver or gold, and to give him three hundred pounds also, in three equal pay- ments, and after the third year to give him one hun- dred and twenty-five pounds annually.

"The Rev. John Avery was ordained Jan. 16, 1782, and the record is again resumed.

"Mr. Avery continued to preach here until Sep- tember, 1791, in which month his death oceurred. The last records made by his hand are of September 4th, in this year, the one enrolling Abraham Smith as member of the church, and the other witnessing the marriage of John Larkin and Elizabeth Hoyt.

" April 11, 1792, the society unanimously vote Mr. Coe a call to settle, on a salary of one hundred and fifty pounds; and the committee were to write to Mr. Coe and to the Presbytery of New York to in- form them of the proceedings. The church, on the 13th of the same month, after listening to Mr. Coe, vote also, unanimously, to approve the eall. The answer of Mr. Coe does not appear in the records of either the church or society. Daniel Smith was or- dained pastor of the church June 13, 1793.

" A new house on the corner of Atlantie and Bank Streets was dedieated Sept. 23, 1858.

" The following is a list of ministers who have served this ehureh from its organization : Riehard Denton, 1641-44; John Bishop, 1644-94; John Davenport, 1694-1731; Ebenezer Wright, ordained in 1732, and died here in May, 1746; Noah Welles, D.D., or- dained Dec. 31, 1746, and died here Dec. 31, 1776; Abraham Kettletas, preacher in 1780. He was li- eensed by Fairfield East Association in 1756; John Avery, ordained Jan. 16, 1782, and died here in Sep- tember, 1791 ; Daniel Smith, ordained June 13, 1793, and died here, 1846; John W. Alvord, installed eol- league with Mr. Smith, March 16, 1842, and dismissed Oet. 14, 1846 ; Isaac Jennings, installed Sept. 1, 1847, and dismissed April 28, 1853; James Hoyt, preacher from June, 1853, to January, 1855; Henry B. Elliot, installed Dee. 4, 1855, and dismissed July 6, 1858; Joseph Anderson was called Dec. 9, 1858, installed March 27, 1860, and dismissed Feb. 26, 1861; Leon- ard W. Bacon, pastor-elect from Nov. 17, 1861, until January, 1865; Richard B. Thurston, G. B. Wilcox, Samuel Scovel."

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HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, NORTHI STAMFORD. " This church was organized June 4, 1782, and con- sisted of twenty-two members, as follows :

" Benjamin Wecd, Ebenczer Weed, Zebulon Husted, Amos Wecd, Israel Weed, Joseph Ambler, John Mc- Cullum, Ebenezer Dcan, Miles Weed, Reuben Sco- field, Mercy Hoyt, Elizabeth Ambler, Abigail Weed, Kezia Dean, Mary McCullum, Mercy Hoyt, Jr., Pru- dence Weed, Sarah Seeley, Elizabeth Scofield, Rebecca Ayres, Rebecca Curtis, and Rebecca Beedle.

" Previously to this date the celebrated Dr. Samuel Hopkins, of Newport, R. I., who had left his parish when the British took possession of the town in 1776, and who had come to Stamford in 1778 to supply the pulpit of his deceased classmate, Dr. Welles, had been also supplying this pulpit for about a year and a half. He left in 1780, and the church was supplied with temporary preachers until March 23, 1784, wlien Solomon Wolcot was ordained first pastor. He con- tinued to labor until his dismission, June 21, 1785.

" The other ministers of this parish have been : John Shepperd, ordained June 27, 1787, and dismissed June 11, 1794; Amzi Lewis, installed June 17, 1795, and died here April 5, 1819; Henry Fuller, installed June 6, 1821, and dismissed Jan. 23, 1844; Nathaniel Pierson, preached here from April, 1844, to January, 1846; William H. Magie, from January, 1846, to January, 1849; William E. Catlin, from March, 1849, to March, 1850; F. E. M. Bachelor, for several months in 1850 and 1851 ; Livingston Willard, installed March, 1852, and dismissed in June, 1856; John White sup- plied the pulpit from May, 1857, to October, 1858; W. S. Clark, 1859-61; H. T. Ford, 1862; Roswell Smith, 1863-64; H. L. Teller, 1866-68; Josiah Pea- body, 1868-73; R. H. Wilkin, 1874-75; Jesse Brush, 1876-80; R. J. Billings, 1880, present pastor. The church building was burned, and has since been rebuilt."

LONG RIDGE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

" About the year 1840 a union church was built on Long Ridge, which the Congregational portion of the community secured in 1842, when they organized a church and society. The names of the members of the church were Isaac Ayres, Jared Holly, Charles E. Smith, William L. Holly, Alfred Ayres, Ransford A. Ferris, Polly Holly, Harriet M. Holly, Sally Scofield, Harriet .E. Ayres, Hannah R. Raymond, Mary W. Smith, Ann M. Holly, Lydia Ferris, Clarissa Smith, and Pliebe Scofield. .

Rev. Frederick H. Ayres was engaged to supply the pulpit, commencing his ministry Nov. 6, 1842, and preaching until 1853.

From that time meetings have been kept up for the most of the time, the church having enjoyed the labors of the following ministers, nonc of whom have been installed : Mr. Perry, Augustus B. Collins, John Smith, Ezra D. Kinney, Dennis Platt, -- Timloe, Gilbert, and S. C. Fessenden, present pastor."

ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.#

" The first services according to the rites of the Epis- copal Church held in Stamford were conducted by Rev. Henry Caner in the winter of 1726-27.

"In 1738 a very earnest and lengthy plea was sent to the General Assembly of Connecticut, asking that the members of the Church of England in the State might be excused from paying for the support of the Con- gregational mode of worship. This plea has attached to it the signatures of 636 Episcopalians in nine towns. Fifty of these names are from Stamford and Green- wich. They are Gershom Lockwood, Samuel Mills, Caleb Knapp, John Lockwood, William King, Henry Jones, Benjamin Knapp, James Knapp, Joseph Knapp, Jeremy Peck, Hezekiah Lockwood, Jonathan Lock- wood, Jonathan Austen, Thomas Johnson, Thomas Ballis, David Reynolds, John Avery, John Johnson," John -, James Wilson, Benjamin Young, Robert Arnold, John Burley, Nathaniel Hubbard, Peter Demill, John Finch, Benjamin Day, John Hicks, Mills Riggs, Isracl Knapp, Charles Southerland, Richard Charlton, Samuel Morine, Isaac Quintard, Joseph Barton, Nathaniel Lockwood, John Kirkham, Nathaniel Worden, Thomas Roberts, and Abraham Rundal, Jr. The above list . is preceded by this memorandum :

"' Under the care of Rev. Mr. Wetmore. The subscribers belonging to . Greenwich and Stamford to be annexed to the general address of the mem- bers and professors of the Church of England, in the colony of Connec- ticut, To the Honorable General Court, in May, 1738 ; which address hav- ing been communicated to us, the subscribers, we hereunto sigu our names.'

"In addition to the above-named address, these Stamford petitioners drew up a plea of their own, of more than three closely-written foolscap pages, ur- gently demanding at least a partial exemption from the tax imposed upon them to support a ministry which they could not approve. They asked that at least they might be allowed to join with those of their own church in a neighboring colony (Green- wich), and that they might use their tax for the sup- port of the ministers of their own choice in that colony, 'provided, always, that the said minister's settled abode and residence be within five miles of this colony, and that by officiating alternately in each colony he performs divine service at least twelve times in the year in this colony.' In addition to the preceding names, this special petition has the follow- ing : Abraham Nichols, John Matthews, and Na- thaniel Worden, Jr.

"The petition was negatived in both houses of the Legislature. In 1740 the Rev. James Wetmore was preaching in Stamford once in four wecks, and this seems to have been the only Episcopal service held at that time in the town.

" The following votes of the town give us our only knowledge of the progress made by the Episcopalians at this time. The first, was under date of Dec. 2,

* Condensed from Huntington's History.

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1742, and is in answer to an appeal made by the Episcopalians for a grant of land on which to build:

"' The town agree to put in a committee to view tho place by Mr. Eliphalet Holly's where the professors of the Church of England have petitioned for setting a chuch house, whether it may be granted without damage to the town, and to make return to the adjourned town meeting; and Ensign Jonathan Bell, Sergeant Nathaniel Weed, and Joseph Bishop to be the court for the purpose aforesaid.'

"The result of the examination made by the com- mittee appears under date of Dec. 10, 1742 :

"'The town agree to give the professors of the Church of England a piece of land, to set a church house upon, on the hill between tho widow Holly's house and Nathan Stevens' house-the picce of land to be 45 fcet long, east and west, and to be 35 feet wide, when the committee shall lay it out; the committeo to bo Ensign Jona. Bell, Sorgeant Nathaniel Weed, and Joseph Bishop.'

"The lot granted, as above, to the Episcopalians was the southeast corner of the present lot held by St. John's Parish, in front of their parsonage. On this lot the first church was built. It was so far finished in March, 1747, that it could be used.

" Mr. Wetmore seems to have been succeeded by the Rev. Henry Caner, of Fairfield, who, with his brother Richard, of Norwalk, and a Mr. Miner, supplied the Episcopalians with what preaching or service they had down to the commencement of Mr. Ebenezer Dibble's long and successful ministry.

"In 1746 we find Mr. Caner, of Fairfield, bitterly lamenting the want of ministers for both Norwalk and Stamford. He reports both places as losing ground, for want of a more constant service than he can supply.

" Rev. Mr. Dibble was rector in 1748. In 1757 he reports his parish united and prosperous. He says : ' We have sundry accessions to the church since my last of the 29th of September.'

" John Lloyd, the same, doubtless, whose name ap- pears as one of the vestry of the church in 1759, in consideration of £343 6s. 11d., received from St. George Talbot, Esq., of Barn Island, N. Y., makes over ' to the Venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts' two tracts of land, one of eighteen acres one rood and twenty-three rods, in Northfield, on the west side of Mill River; and the other of four acres, twenty-nine, at North Street, bounded south by North Street, west by Church of England parsonage, and east by highway. These lands, by the terms of the surrender, were ' to be and inure to the use of the missionary, for the time being, the rector or incumbent of St. John's Church, and his successors, as the glebe lands of the Church of England in said Stamford.'

" Under the administration of Mr. Dibble and his successors the parish was greatly prospered. Their first house of worship answered for the use of the congregation until 1843, when the present church was built, where it now stands. This, in its turn, was soon found too small, and was enlarged in 1855 to its present dimensions. But even this enlarge-

ment was not found to answer the needs of the parish long, and May 14, 1860, they were called to lay the corner-stone of their new mission chapel, St. An- drew's, between Washington Avenne and Northfield Street. The only rectors of this period were Revs. Jonathan Judd and Ambrose S. Todd. From the summer of 1858, the labors of Dr.' Todd having become too great for his failing strength, the parish employed an assistant, Rev. Walter Mitchell, then in deacon's orders, and who was ordained priest April 27,1859.

" Dr. Todd continued in the rectorship of the par- ish until his death, June 22, 1861 ; and his assistant, Mr. Mitchell, was instituted rector Nov. 13, 1861. Under his rectorship the church was increasingly prosperous. He was assisted by Rev. F. W. Braith- waite. On the resignation of Mr. Mitchell, in 1866, Rev. William Tatlock entered on the rectorship, Aug. 30, 1866. He is assisted by the Rev. Joseph W. Hyde. The continued prosperity of the parish is evinced by the building of Emmanuel church at Shinoh in 1867, to meet the wants of the northeast part of the parislı.

"The following is the list of the clergy who have officiated in this parish, as far as the records of the church and contemporaneous history have furnished their names: James Wetmore, 1735-41 ; Henry Caner, 1744-47; Ebenezer Dibble, 'D.D., 1747-97; Calvin White, 1798; J. H. Reynolds, S. Wheaton, and Ammi Rogers, the latter of whom was degraded from the ministry by Bishop Jarvis, in 1804; Jona- than Judd, instituted rector Oct. 10, 1810, and re- signed in 1822; Bennet Glover; Ambrose Todd, D.D .; Walter Mitchell, instituted reetor Nov. 13, 1861, and resigned Fcb. 4, 1866; William Tatlock, instituted rector Aug. 30, 1866."

ST. ANDREW'S CHAPEL.

"The corner-stone of this ehapel, between Wash- ington Avenue and Northfield Street, was laid May 14, 1860, and the house was finished and consecrated May 8, 1861. The persons who have officiated at this chapel have been Thomas W. Punnett, who in November, 1861, accepted the rectorship of St. Paul's Church, Staten Island, and Arthur Mason, Nathaniel E. Whiting, and F. Windsor Braithwaite, who was or- dained deacon in St. Andrew's chapel June 17, 1862. and ordained priest June 17, 1865. About the same time St. Andrew's was organized into an independent parish, and Mr. Braithwaite was called to be rector, and is the present incumbent."

EMMANUEL CHURCH, SHINOH.

"The corner-stone of this church was laid June 29, 1867. This neat Gothic structure, of stone, was built by the Missionary and Benevolent Society of St. John's, as a chapel of the parish church. It stands on the New Hope road, about three miles from the village."

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HISTORY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT.

BAPTIST CHURCHES.#

" The first item of information respecting the Bap- tists in this town is a statement made in 1769 by Eben- ezer Ferris. He had united with the Congregational Church, here, with his wife, Abigail, Feb. 12, 1769, and by October 27th of the same year he had become so far convinced of the invalidity of his baptism as to seek immersion at the hands of Elder Gano, of New York City. His own statement of the change is as follows :

"' Having been some time exercised in mind in disputes upon religious subjects, searching the Scriptures for understanding, and becoming con- vinced that the Baptists, in their practice, are agreeable to the order of the gospel, (I) made application to the Baptist Church in New York, under the pastoral care of Elder Gano. Desiring to unite with them in the privileges of the gospel, after being examined, they manifested their freedom. Was baptized Oct. 27, 1769, and received into church fellow- ship.'

" From the same records we learn that Elder Gano, in April, 1770, preached here, and baptized Nathan Scofield and John Ferris, of Stanwich, the former having been a member of the Congregational Church from the settlement of Dr. Welles, in 1647. In June he came again, and baptized Nehemiah Brown and David Wilson, of Horseneck, and Moses Reynolds, of Stanwich.

"In the following March, 1770-71, the persons above named, as being baptized 'with Moses Foun- tain, a Baptist, who lately came to this place, having joined the church of New York, our number (seven) was by said church considered as a branch of the same, residing in Stamford ; and to have the privilege of having ordinances of the gospel administered here by the Elder Gano, and to receive into church fellow- ship such persons as should be judged meet subjects by this branch and the elder.'

"It was further provided that Mr. Gano should preach here once a month for six months; upon which the branch 'agreed to meet statedly on Lord's day, for public worship, at the house of Moses Foun- tain. Begun first in April, 1771.'

" The following persons were baptized during this year : Oliver Sherwood, of Horseneck ; James Win- chel, Elizabeth Davis, Hannah Ferris, Rebecca Rey- nolds, of Stanwich; Elizabeth Rowel, of Horseneck ; Mindal Smith, of Bedford; William Brundage and Nathan Sutton, of Horseneck,-making the number, at the end of 1771, sixteen.

"In July of this year Ebenezer Ferris had been chosen deacon. The record states that of the above persons Mindal Smith had been previously baptized. "Deacon Ferris purchased a piece of land in Oc- tober, 1771, for a church site, for which he paid £4 10s., York money ; and on this site the frame of the first Baptist church this side of New York was raised, June 11, 1772. The same frame stands on the same lot, in the Bangall district, to this day. It is the only surviving representative in town of the almost uni-

versal type of the 'Lord's house' which prevailed in New England a hundred and fifty years ago.

"On the 6th of November, 1773, those Baptists who were living in this vicinity were organized into a sep- arate church, Elder Gano being present, and giving them 'the right hand of fellowship.' The list of the new church numbered twenty-one names. They are Ebenczer Ferris, Ezariah Winchel, Nathan Scofield, John Ferris, Nehemiah Brown, Sylvenus Reynolds, Gabriel Higgins, Joseph Webb, Jonathan Whelpley, . Moses Reynolds, John Higgins, Elizabeth Brown, Mindal Smith, Hannah Ferris, Rebecca Reynolds, Mary Reynolds, Elizabeth Davis, Mary Miller, Sarah Higgins, Esther Smith, and Hannah Tyler.

"The ministers who labored here for the next ten years were Elder Coles, 1773; Thomas Ustic, 1775; President Manning, of Providence, 1775; and Robert Morris. Mr. Morris had been licensed by the church to preach, in 1776, but he became loose in his doc- trinal views, and in 1780 his license was withdrawn, and he was excommunicated. In October of this year, Elkanah Holmes, of Nine Partners, came here and took the charge. His family followed him the next spring, and he continued here until October, 1784. Mr. Ferris, who had well discharged the office of a deacon, was also thought worthy of the minis- terial office, and accordingly, in October, 1783, he was licensed to preach, and on the 3d of the next July he was ordained formally to the work of the gospel min- istry.

" Elder Ferris remained in charge of the Stamford Church for the rest of his life.

"The Baptists in the lower part of the town, be- coming more numerous, demanded a place of worship nearer than the one on Fort Hill, and accordingly, on the 24th of June, 1790, they raised the second Bap- tist house of the town, on the lot on River Street, a few rods south of the bridge. This house-similar in form to that on Fort Hill-gave way, in 1856, to a neat church, and this, in 1860, on the completion of the present elegant house on the corner of Broad and Atlantic Streets, was converted into the block now overlooking our village pond.

"In 1791, Marmaduke Earl assisted Mr. Ferris.

" The old church on Fort Hill was finally, in 1806, transferred to the Long Ridge Baptists, and became the Second Baptist Church of Stamford.

" The ministers of this church who have officiated since Mr. Earl's co-pastorship with Mr. Ferris have been Frederick Smith, co-pastor, from August, 1807, to February, 1817; Greenleaf S. Webb, co-pastor, from June, 1816, to April, 1821 ; John Ellis, pastor, from December, 1822, to October, 1836; William Bid- dle, from October, 1836, to January, 1839; James M. Stickney, from April, 1839, to April, 1842; Addison Parker, from April, 1843, to April, 1845; Henry H. Rouse, from November, 1845, to April, 1848; James Hepburn ; J. H. Parks, to the union of this and the Bethesda Church.

* Condensed from Huntington's History.

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" In 1848, the Bethesda Baptist Church was organ- ized, by sixty-two members from the First Church. They built on the corner of Atlantic and Cottage Streets, where they continued a separate organization until the two were happily reunited in 1858.

"On the organization of the Bethesda Chureli, in 1848, Mr. Rouse became the pastor of the new church, where he continued to officiate until January, 1857.

" Alanson H. Bliss succeeded him, and remained until the reunion of the two churches, in October, 1858.

" At the union of these two village churches, dis- posing of the two lots and church buildings which they owned, they purchased a lot on the corner of Broad and Atlantic Streets, and erected the elegant brick structure which now stands there. Its corner- stone was laid in August, 1859, and the house was dedicated.

" Its two pastors have been Philip S. Evans, in- stalled in November, 1858, and resigned in 1865, and Edward Lathrop, D.D., who was installed Feb. 22, 1866.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHI.#

" There seems to have been no record of the early Methodist movement in this vicinity, and it is doubt- ful whether any was made for several years after this denomination began its labors here. The earliest records now existing are those begun in 1830 by Rev. Daniel De Vinne, who was then stationed here. He introduces his records with a historical sketch, from which I take the following statement :

" The first regular society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in this town was formed about the year 1788. What circumstance led our min- isters to this place, who was the first preacher, or who formed the first class, cannot at present be ascertained. But it is most probablo that it was the Rev. Samuel Q. Talbot or Peter Moriarty, who traveled on tho New Rochelle Circuit. The next year, 1789, the Rev. Jesso Leo and Andrew Van Nostrand were appointed to Stamford Circuit. On their arrival at this place they found kindred spirits, who had drunk at tho same fountain with themselves,-Sister Elsie Scofield, who is now (1830) living, had been awakened by his ministry in this village, at the house of Mr. Gurnsey, somo years previous to 1791, the time at which sho joined the infaut society in this place; Mrs. Martha Reed, who has been awakened by the ministry of tho Rev. Freeborn Garretson, in Shel- burn, Nova Scotia, settling in this village in 1790. Immediately on her arrival she attached herself to tho class, which consisted of about twelve, over which one Enos Weed was placed as leader. The stated meetings were held at the house of a Mr. Lockwood, now owned by Mrs. Smith, near the present Methodist Episcopal church ; and the preachers were entertained by Gen. Waterbury, near the harbor, whose wife and sister were members.

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History of Fairfield County, Connecticut : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 179

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) comp. cn Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co. Number of Pages: 1572

Author: Hurd, D. Hamilton (Duane Hamilton) comp. cn
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. W. Lewis & co.
Number of Pages: 1572