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ther, fully, clearly, and amply, Give, Grant, Rattifie, and confirm unto ye aforesaid Thomas Stanton, Ephraim Miner, Nehemiah Palmer, Na- thaniel Chesebrough, Mr. James Noyes, with ye rest of ye above-named persons aforesaid, and to all other persons at this present time pro- prietors with them of this said tract of land, now being in their full and praceable possession and seisin, and to their heirs and assigns, or such as shall legally succeed or represent them or either of them, forever ye aforesaid tract of laml commonly known by ye name of Stoningtown, lying in ye colony aforesaid, and bounded as followeth-beginning at ye mouth of Mistick River, and northerly up said River and brook, falling in ye said river to ye pond by Lanstrom Hill to ye north end of ye pond, where ye pond is seven chains and one pole wide, thence north to an ash tree formerly marked with eight notches, standing by a still brook, thence north to a white oak tree, formerly marked with ten notches, known by ye name of Stoningtown, northwest corner tree, from thence extended a line dne east by heaps of stones, marked trees, and monu- ments in ye line nine miles to a rock, about four foothigh, of ye form of an ovell, marked with a letter S on ye south side, aml a white oak standing by it marked with ye letter R, which rock is about one hun- dred rods to ye southeast of a cedar swamp, and from said rock south somewhat westerly to ye mouth of Ashowanze River, where said river falls into l'aweatuck River, and by ye middle stream of said Pawcatnck Riveruntoye sea, taking in ye small adjacent islands to ye month of Meis- tick River aforest, together with all and singular ye messages, tenna- ments, meadows, pastures, commons, woods, underwoods, waters, fishings, small islands, isletts, and herridittaments, whatsover being belonging or anywise appertaining to ye said tract of land aforesaid, and do hereby grant and confirm to ye said proprietors, their heirs and assigns, or such as shall legally succeed or represent them, hisor their several particular respective proprietors in ye premises, according to such alotments, or divisions as yo ancestors of ye said present proprietors or said proprietors themselves have already made by virtue of any gifts or grants of said town or townsmen of Pequot, now called New London, or shall here- after make of ye same. To Have and to hold the said tract of land with ye premises aforesaid to them yo said Thomas Stauton, Ephraim Miner, Nehemiah l'almer, Nathaniel Chesebrough, James Noyes, and all others ye present proprietors of ye said tract and premises their Heirs and As- signs, or such as shall legally succeed or represent them forever, as a good, sure, rightful, perfect, absolute, and lawful estate, in fee simple, according to ye aforesaid Letters Patents after ye most free tenure of his majisties mannor of East Greenwich in the county of Kent. To ye sole only proper use and behoff of them, ye said Thomas Stanton, Ephraim Miner, Nehemiah Palmer, Nathaniel Chesebrough, James Noyes, with all other yo present proprietors of ye said tract and premises, their heirs and assigns, or such as shall legally succeed or represent them forever, as a good, sure, rightfull estate in manner as aforesaid, reserving only to his majestie our sovereign Lord George of England, King, and his successors forever one fifth part of all gold or silver mines or oar that have been or shall be found within ye premises, so granted and con- firmed and further we ye said Governor and company, the aforesaid tract of land, and premises, and every part and parcell thereof, hereby granted and confirmed to ye said Thomas Stanton, Ephraim Miner, Nehemiah Palmer, Nathaniel Chesebrough, James Noyes, Daniel Mason, John Gal- lup, Daniel Denison, Isaac Wheeler, Stephen Richardson, John Frink, William Bennet, Robert Stanton, Samuel Stanton, Joseph Stanton, Ger- shom Palmer, Moses Palmer, Daniel Palmer, Ichabod Palmer, Joseph Palmer, William Palmer, George Palmer, Walter Palmer, Samuel Stan- ton Secundus, Samuel Stanton, Junr., Daniel Stanton, Manassah Miner, Ephram Miner, Joseph Miner, Elnathan Miner, Samuel Miner, James Miner, John Miner, Thomas Miner, Samuel Chesebrough, William Chesebrough, Elihu Chesebrough, Elisha Chesebrough, Samuel Chose- brough Secundus, Ebenezer Searle, Thomas Noyes, John Noyes, Benadam Gallup, William Gallup, William Donison, William Denison Secundus, William Wheeler, John Mason, Samuel Mason, Benjamin Hewit, Henry Stephens, John Frink Junr, Ebenezer Billing, Jeremiah Main, Daniel Shaw, Thomas York, George Denison, and to ye rest of ye present pro- prietors thereof, their Heirs and assigns, or such as shall legally snc- ceed or represent them to their own proper use in ye manner and under ye limitations above expressed Against us, and all, and every orther per- son or persons, lawfully claiming by from or under us. Shall and will warrant and forever detend by these presents.
" In Witness whereof we have agreed and concluded that this present instrument be signed in our name by ye Governor and Secretary of this corporation, as also that our common seal be affixed hereunto.
" Datei in New Haven ye 24 day of October Anno Domini 1716. An- noque Regni Regis, Georgi, Magnes, Britanies, Tertia.
G. SALTONSTALL, Gov." " Ily order of ye Governor.
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In 1726 the First and South Society in Stonington decided to build a new meeting-house, and to locate it at the Centre, at a place now known as Putnam Cor- ners, about half a mile cast of the old meeting-house. The action of this meeting gave dissatisfaction to a large number of the members of the society, who preferred the old site at Agreement Hill. Other town-meetings followed relative to the location of the proposed new house, the result of which was.that no definite action was reached for several years.
Petition after petition was addressed to the General Assembly until 1731, when an agreement was reached to divide the society north and south. Previous to this two meeting-houses had been raised, one on Agreement Hill, and the other at Putnam Corners, neither of which were completed for a number of years. After this the east and west societies acted wholly independent of each other.
The meeting-house at the Putnam Corners was the largest, with two tiers of galleries one above the other, with an immense sounding-board. After the division of the old society, Mr. Rossiter, who was the second settled pastor here, continued his labors until his death, which took place in 1762. Previous to his death and during his pastorate the town sold the old ministry land, and divided the avails of the sale equally among the then three societies of the town. After the death of Mr. Rossiter some of the more prominent men in the two south societies favored a reunion, which was seconded by the pastors of the neighboring churches.1
1 TERMS OF THE UNION .- "Ist. That ye two meeting houses now standing in said society shall be common property and joint interest of ye two parishes to be united. When they are united and as ye peues in each meeting house are a personal property we ye sd committees agree to give up our right and title to said peues that they may become a common stock with said houses and also to recommend it to ye other proprieters of ye peues to do ye same that they may become ye legal property of all in common and improved as such with the said two meet- ing houses.
"2d. We agree that after ye sd societys are united as afourd and by their legal vote think it convenant & best to build another meeting- house for publick worship in ye room & stead of ye sd two meeting- houses now standing in said societyes for ye better accomidation of sd society that ye sd meeting house shall be built on that acor of land that Nathan Chesebrough Esq. has generously ginen by promis for to erect a meeting-house on near ye dwelling house of Mr Nath" Ilewitts sd Na- than Chesebrough Esq. having first given a deed of sd land for ye purpose afoursd.
"3d. It is also agreed that the ministry and school money of both ministry land money in each society be made equal by each society if either be wanting, and that ye school money in ye said east society be improned in ye sd east society on the east side of Stoney brook, and that ye school money in ye said west society be improued in said society on ye west side of Stoney brook, & this to be a standing rule for said so- cietyes when made one but to be so understood as not to hinder any that desire to take benefit of ye whole.
"4th. That ye Revd Nath" Eells shall have ye Pastoral charge and care of said societyes when united and ye church of Christ therein with ye same jurisdicktion and athority ouer ye whole as he is now uested with ouer ye said east society and that his anowell sallery shall be raised and paid him att ye joint charge of ye sd united society.
"5th. It is agreed ye two societyes shall assemble at ye east meeting house to worship six months each year, and in ye west meeting-house the other six months and when a meeting-house is erected on ye place
In 1763 the matter was brought before both societies, and finally a plan of union was prepared and agreed upon, and subsequently adopted by both parishes, and accepted by the churches.
The Assembly established the same,2 with such provisions as were necessary to enable the old socie- ties to merge and hold their property, and then directed the mode of organizing the new society. After the reunion they called the Rev. Nathaniel Eells (the pastor of the East Society ) to become the pastor of the reunited societies, which he accepted, and for several
agreed on, then said societys so united as aforesaid shall meet and wor- shipin said house as afoursd.
"6th. It is allso agreed in order to confirm each and every artical of ye fourgoing terms of agreement ofred to ye consideration of sd societyes that they may bee made sertain and unchangeable that ye said so- cietyes by their agents address ye Honourable and General Assem- bly in May next by a proper memoral to rattify and confirm their afoursd proposals of agreement that we may by their athority established our own aets herein be again one united ecclesiastical society which is ye sincear and harty wishes and desire of &.
" Dated Stonington Jan. ye 17th A.D. 1765 all ye aboue and fourgoing articals was agreed on and voted by ye afoursd Comtee in ye affermative " JOHN HALLAM " SIMON RHODES
" ELINU CHIESEBROUGII " PHINEAS STANTON
" NEHEMIAH WILLIAMS " JOHN DENISON YE 3rd
" AMOS CHESEBROUGH " JOSEPHI PAGE
" NATHAN PALMER " JOSEPH MINER
" JOSEPH DENISON " DANIEL DENISON
"JOHN WILLIAMS
" NATHII GALLUP
" Voted, That said report with ye additions to & alterations of ye 3rd Paragraph in said Report following, be inserted in said report, viz, That all ye school moneys belonging to sd east society at this time, shall when sd societyes are united and became one intire ecclesiatical society, be improued within ye limmits theirof or ye side of Stoney brook, and that ye school moneys now belonging to said west society be improved within ye limmits thereof on ye west side of Stoney brook, and that be a sure and nnalterable rule.
" Dated March 25th 1725."-Society Records.
2 " At a General assembly of the Governor and company of the Colony of Connecticut holden at Hartford May Second Thursday, A.D. 1765. Upon the memorial of the East and West Society's in Stonington, shew- ing to this Assembly that on the Death of the Revd Mr Ebenezer Rosseter Pastor of the Church in said West Society being advised by the Revd Benjamin Lord, Asher Rosseter, and Jonathan Barker Associations Con- mittee again to unite into one Ecclesiastical Society, and the said East and West Society's having accordingly agreed thereupon, and made ap- plication to this Assembly for that purpose as pr Memorial on file, &c.
" Resolred by this assembly that the said East and West Society's in said Stonington, be again united and become one entire Ecclesiastical Society, to be for the future called and known by the name of the first Society, in said Stonington, and they are hereby united, created, and made one entire Ecclesiastical Society with all the Priviledges and Im- manities by Law allowed to other Ecclesiastical Society's in this Colony, vested with and enjoyed the same Priviledges and Advantages which the said East and West Society's have heretofore severally had and enjoyed, -and that they the said East and West Society's be and they are hereby enabled and empowered as separate and distinct Society's to act and transact any society or Parish affairs to compleat the settlements re- ferred to in said memorial until the first day of December next, and Jo- seph Denison Esqr of said Stonington shall be, and he is hereby fully empowered, authorized by himself or other Person by him for that pur- pose appointed and directed after said first day of December next, and during said month of December to give legal warning to all the inhab- itants of said first Society that are qualified by Law to vote in Society affairs to meet at such time and place as he the said Joseph shall for that purpose in said first Society appoint, and being so met, that he preside as Moderator of such meeting, in the forming of said Society, and choice of all officers, and other Prudentials of said Society as Occasion may re- quire. A true copy of Record Examined by George Wyllys Secretary, Conn."-Colonial Records.
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years preached alternately for six months in the east house and six months in the west house. A majority were looking forward to the erection of a new meeting- house at the place designated by the terms of the union. But they were doomed to disappointment. Long Point, now Stonington borough, was not settled until 1752, but the settlement increased so rapidly that they demanded and secured the afternoon service of Mr. Eells. This produced great dissatisfaction in the cast and northern part of the society, and various so- ciety meetings were held, and petitions to the General Assembly were preferred without satisfactory results. Finally eighty-three of the inhabitants of the village,1
1 " To the Honorable General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut to be held at Hartford on the second Thursday of May instant. The mc- morial of William Morgan, Benjamin Park, John Denison 4th, Joseph Denison 2d, Oliver Hilbard, Edward Hancox, Oliver Smith, & the rest of the subscribers hereto in behalf of themselves & the professors of the es- tablishd Religion of the Colony, living at a place called Long Point in Stonington in the County of New London humbly sheweth, that they are scituate near four miles from any meeting house & that the inhabit- ants living at sd Long Point are generally poor they living principally by the whale & cod-fishery, there carried on, to the public advantage, by which means within a few years said place has increas'd to upwards of eighty families among which are twenty widows, seventeen of which have children as families there that the whole number of inhabitants are nigh to five hundred, that there is not among them more than one horse to ten families, so that but very few are able to attend meeting at the meet- ing-house except those that are robust hardy & us'd to travel on foot, which are very few, the greater number of said inhabitants consisting of women & children, that thereupon the society have for several years consented to have one sermon preached at sd point every sabbath by their Revd Pastor, which he has performed & is still willing to continue, but their number has so increas'd that it is very inconvenient for those that do attend public worship (as they have no where to convene but in a small school house or private houses) & many more than at present do attend would if there was room to accommodate them ; that for the want of a proper place to meet in for the celebrating divine service, many who means the sabbaths are misspent & may be more & more misspent & prophaned, that those who would be glad to build a house & maintain preaching & good order among them have been & continue unable of themselves to bear the expense, by which the cause of religion much suffers there, & the good people among them greatly fear the increase of vice & irreligion. That the town of which yr memorialists are a part, have lately paid & are liable to pay upwards of one thousand pounds for the deliciency of several collectors that have lately fail'd that your me- morialists from great necessity, by their being very remote from any consant grist mill, have lately contributed about £70 as an incourage- ment to an undertaker to build a wind mill at sd point, which with about the same sum lately subscribed by sd inhabitants for a school house, with the great labour & expence they have been at to make roads & causeways to sd point, all which with the poor success that attended the last years fishery, & the lowness of markets & the various & different sentiments in the religious denomination of christians among them, viz. : First day Baptists, Seven day Baptists & the Quakers or those call'd Friends, are such real grief & great discouragements to your memorial- ists, who are of the establishd Religion of this Colony, that they can no longer think of obtaining a meeting-house by subscription or any other ways among themselves.
" Where fore they humbly pray that liberty may be granted to build a meeting house for public worship at said Long Point, & that your Honours would in your great goodness grant them a Lottery for raising a sum sufficient for the purpose aforesaid or so much as your Honours shall think proper under such restrictions & regulations as your Hon- ours shall think fit, & your memorialist as in duty bound shall ever pray.
" Dated at Stonington May 10th, 1774
" William Morgan, Benjamin Park, John Denison 4th, Joseph Denison 2d, Edward Hancox, John Rathimun, Edward Kells, John Brown, junr., Acors Sheffield, James Tripp, John Brown, John Brown jun., Andrew Brown, Paul Champlin, John Lamb, Thomas Burteh, An- drew Stanton, Nath1 Crandal, Nath' Hancox, Joseph Hillard, Jere-
in 1774, addressed the Assembly for liberty to build a meeting-house by lottery, which was granted at the October session of 1774, limiting the amount to be raised thereby to four hundred pounds.2 The man- agers of the lottery did not at once inaugurate their scheme, nor did they accomplish it until 1777, which was successfully drawn and the necessary funds se- cured.
But the Revolutionary war so absorbed the means of the people that a large part of this sum was used for the defense of the place, and the balance invested in Continental bills, which after the close of the war became worthless. Whereupon, in 1785,3 another
miah Tenny, Nathan Palmer junr., Benjamin C. Grofton, Eliphalet Buddington Jr., Samuel Bebe, Thos. Littlefield, Samt Niles, Nathan- iel Hall, Nathaniel Minar, Oliver Hillard, David Pahner, Wait Rathlin, Elcanah Cobb, Ebenezer Cobb, Stanton York, Mary Elliot, John Rathbun jun., Abm Borden, Sands Niles, Peter Crary, Nathan- iel Babcock, Wm Avery, James Beebee, Stephen Minar, Oliver Smith, John Denison 5th, Jared Crandal, John Minar, David Sea- bury, Elisha Satterlec, Peleg Brown, Abigail Chesebrough, Asa Pal- mer, Robert Robison, Simeon Ashcroft, Job Irish, William Chester, Erastus Rosseter, Thankful Gallaway, Boradel Sparhawk, Patience Avery, Nathaniel Dyer, David Hillard, Elizabeth Stanton, Sam! Sat- terlee, Billings Burtch, Nath' Tripp, Wm Fellows, Michael Ash, Ed- ward S. Coleman, Prudence Cobb, Culbert Fanning, Jerusha Grif- fing, Rebecca Chesebrough, Paul Crandal, P'ersilla Randall, Anna Cooper, Lucy Beebce, Moses l'almer, Sam' Babcock, Martha Burch, Israel Lewis, Simeon Aams, Jeremiah Wilbur."-Conn. Archives, by C. J. Hoadley, No. 83.
2 " Anno Regni Regis Georgii tertiis 14 to .- At a General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut in New England in America hoklen at New Haven in said Colony on the second Thursday of October being the 18th day of said month, and continued by several adjournments of the fourth day of November next follow- ing, annoq : Domni, 1774. Upon the memorial of Nathaniel Minor Esqr, William Morgan and others, inhabitants of the first society in Stoning- ton, shewing that they live at Long Point in said society & are far remote from the place of public worship there, that said place has greatly in- creased in numbers within a few years past, that the inhabitants of said point & thereabout are generally poor & unable to build a house to meet for public worship, that it they had a house to meet in for that purpose they apprehend the growth of irreligion & impiety would be prevented, &c, praying for a lottery to build a meeting house &c-on which a com- mittee have been appointed who have reported in favour of said memorials & affixed a place for building &c, which report is accepted & there upon Resolved by this assembly that the memorialists have liberty & they are hereby authorized to raise by way of lottery the sum of £400 .. 0 .. 0 lawfull money to be applied for the purpose mentioned in said memorial & also the further sum of £30 .. 0 .. 0 lawfull money, to defray the expense of such lottery, & Nathaniel Minor Esqr, Joseph Denison 2ª, John Denison 4th, Peleg Chesebrough, & John Brown junr, all of said Stonington, or any three of them accepting said trust, are hereby appointed managers & directors of said lotteries who shall be jointly holden to make good all benefit tickets drawn in such lotteries & shall be sworn to a faithfull dis- charge of their said trust & the adventurers in said lotteries, shall have their remedy against said managers for the benefit tickets by them drawn in manner aforesaid & the monies so raised by said lotteries shall be laid out & applied to the purposes aforesaid & an account thereof be rendered to the General Assembly when demanded."-Conn. Archives, by C. J. Hoadley.
3 " At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut holden at Hart- ford in said State on the second Thursday of May, being the 12th day of said month, and continued by adjournments untill the ninth day of June next following Anno Dom. 1785. Upon the memorial of Nathaniel Minor John Denison 34 & Joseph Denison 2ed all of Long Point in Stonington, setting forth that they with others of the first Society in said Stoning- ton were on the second Thursday of October 1774, appointed Managers of a Lottery granted by the Honble General Assembly to your Memorial- ists William Morgan and others of the established Religion of the then Colony of Connecticut for the purpose of raising the sum of £400, to build a Meeting Ilouse at said Point. That said Managers procceded by
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petition was preferred to the Assembly, for liberty and authority to raise by lottery money enough to make up the four hundred pounds, which was granted, and the money raised. Instead of building a new house at the Point, they took down the old meeting-house at the Putnam Corners and moved it down there, and. with their scheme fund, old house, and subscription erected a meeting-house in 1785-86.
CHAPTER LXXIX.
STONINGTON-(Continued). WAR OF THE REVOLUTION.
PENDING the agitation that preceded the Revolu- tionary war in all of the colonies, that subsequently united in the Declaration of Independence, the town of Stonington was not indifferent to the momentous strug- gle, and in order to give force and effect to their political sentiments assembled in town-meeting, passed patriotic resolutions,1 and elected a Committee
way of Lottery to raise said sum in Continental Bills toward the Close of the Summer of 1777, when your Memorialists for whom the Grant was made, not being apprehensive of the depreciation that would attend said Bills and considering the great scarcity and dearness of materials for building said House and the danger they were then exposed to from the enemy who were then at New York, Newport and Long Island, thought best for the Grantees not then to proceed in building said House, since which the Bills in the Hands of your Memorialists have depreciated to alinost nothing except a part which has been turned into Public Securi- ties, Praying that a Judicious Committee may be appointed to examine into the matters of said Memorial and the true State and Circumstances of the money which they hold in trust, put a just value thereon, and that said Committee be enabled to direct said Managers, to raise on said Grant such Sums with what they already have as to make up the £400. Granted by your Honors as pr memorial &c.
" Resolved, by this Assembly that said Nathaniel Minor John Denison 3d, & Joseph Denison 2d be continued as Managers of said Lottery with the addition of James Rhodes and Elijah Palmer of said Stonington, and that the Honorable William Hillhouse and Benjamin Huntington Esqrs, and Elisha Lathrop Esq. be and they are hereby appointed a committee to enquire into the state and circumstances of said lottery and liqui- date and settle the Accounts thereof, and ascertain the value of the avails thereof in the Hands of said Managers, and in case said Committee shall judge it to be reasonable, they may and they are hereby Authorized and impowered to direct that said Managers proceed to Issue and draw such further numbers of tickets in said Lottery as to raise such sum of money for the purpose of building a meeting llouse at said Point as shall be thought by said Committee to be proper, not exceeding £400, including what is already on hand as aforesaid and exclusive of the cost of said Lottery, said managers to be accountable to the General Assembly when requested for their Doings in the premises."-Conn. Archives, by D. IV. Edgecomb.
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