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It is not creditable to the good taste of those who projected the removal of the venerable stones from the upper Green, that they willingly left the burial place of Gov. Eaton without some memorial to indicate its position. Fortunately, its situation is definitely known from President Stiles. The foot of his grave is in a line thirteen feet westerly from the foot stone of the grave supposed to be Whalley's, on a line parallel with the north fence of the Green ; while, the head of the grave is sixteen feet due east from the reputed grave of Goffe. A little more than two centuries ago, " a comly tomb such as the colony was capable of," was placed, by order of the General Court, over the remains of the wise and revered Goverror. The same stone now stands in the new Cemetery, in good preservation, and should be re- stored to the place where it originally stood, to remain, till in some future time it shall be superseded by a monument worthy of his memory, and not unworthy of the people whose forefath- ers he led into the wilderness.
The new burial ground on Grove street, contains about 18 acres. It is said to be the first cemetery in the United States- that was laid out into family lots. Some who have deserved well of their country and of the world, lie buried in this inclo- sure. Many more who have been useful in the discharge of local public trusts, also rest here from their labors. Not an in considerable degree of taste has been exhibited in a number of its monuments. The place makes no pretensions to the elegance or the expenditure common to the cemeteries of large metropol- itan cities ; it is only a handsomely kept, well shaded burial ground, where the eye is not offended with an appearance of things not in harmony with the tenderness and reverence due to the dead. Beginning at the southeastern corner of the ground, we designate by the tiers of lots, the places where may be found the monuments more commonly sought out by stran- gers, or such as are specially deserving of notice.
IST TIER. Caleb Hotchkiss, who was killed by the British, when they plundered New Haven, July 5, 1779.
Gen. Robinson Hinman, erected by the grand lodge of Con- necticut, I. O. O. F., to the memory of their grand master.
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2D TIER. Chauncey A. Goodrich, Professor of Rhetoric, and subsequently of the Pastoral Charge in Yale College,-died in 1860, aged 70 years.
John P. Austin, identified with the early history of Texas, died at Brazonia, Texas, 1834, aged 60 years.
James L. Kingsley, Professor of the Latin language in Yale College, died in 1852, aged 75 years.
3D TIER. Timothy Pitkin, the historian, and representative and senator in Congress, died in 1847, aged 81 years.
Jared Mansfield, surveyor-general of the United States, and Professor at West Point, died in 1830, aged 70 years.
4TH TIER. Charles A. Ingersoll, District Judge U. S. Court, died in 1860, aged 63.
Commander Ralph Voorhies, died at Smyrna in 1842, in com- mand of the U. S. ship Preble, aged 50 years. The monument was erected by the officers and crew of the Preble.
Sereno E. Dwight, President Hamilton College, died in 1855, aged 64.
David Daggett, Chief Justice of Connecticut, died in 1851, aged 86.
Abraham Bishop, Collector of the Port of New Haven, died in 1844, aged 81.
James Hillhouse, for fifty years Treasurer of Yale College, sixteen years Senator in Congress, and fifteen years Commis- sioner of the School Fund of Connecticut, died in 1832, aged 78.
James A. Hillhouse, author of "Hadad," &c., died 1840, aged 51.
Col. Joseph Drake, died in 1836, aged 99.
The lot of Henry Trowbridge and family.
Seth P. Staples, a distinguished counsellor of law, died in 1861, aged 85.
Hezekiah Frith, of the Island of Bermuda, a student of Yale College, accidentally shot by a classmate, died in 1806, aged 16
Aaron N. Skinner, Mayor of New Haven, honorably distin guished for his devotion to the interests and embellishment of the city, died in 1858, aged 58.
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5TH TIER. Ezra Stiles, President of Yale College, died in 1795, aged 73.
Timothy Dwight, President of Yale College, died in 1817, aged 65.
Pierrepont Edwards, Chief Justice of Connecticut, died in 1826, aged 75.
Henry W. Edwards, Governor of the State, Representative and Senator in Congress, died in 1847, aged 67.
Henry Pierrepont Edwards, a Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, died in 1855, aged 46.
The lot of Titus Street and family.
Æneas Munson, President of the Conn. Medical Society, died in 1826, aged 92.
Nathan Beers, an officer in the revolutionary army, died in 1849, aged 96. Mary, his wife, died in 1861, aged 98.
Simeon Baldwin, Representative in Congress, Judge of Supe- rior Court of Conn., died in 1851, aged 89.
Roger Sherman, signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in 1793, aged 72.
Thomas Clapp, President of Yale College, died in 1767, aged 64.
Nathan Smith, Senator in Congress, died in 1835, aged 65.
Nathan Smith, Professor of Surgery in Yale College, died in 1826, aged 66.
Theophilus Eaton, first Governor of the New Haven Colony, died in 1658.
Margaret Arnold, wife of Benedict Arnold, died in 1775, aged 30 years.
7TH TIER. Rev. James Dana, minister of the First Church, died in 1812, aged 77.
8TH TIER. Rev. Jehudi Ashmun, first Colonial Agent at Libe- ria, died in 1828, aged 34.
10TH TIER. Henry Eld, U. S. N., first discoverer of the Ant- arctic Continent, in Wilkes' Exploring Expedition, died in 1850, aged 35.
Jeremiah Atwater, President of Middlebury, and also of Dickinson College, died in 1858, aged 84.
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11TH TIER. William Tully, Professor of Materia Medica, Yale College, died in 1859, aged 73.
The lot of John Fitch and family.
12TH TIER. Harry Croswell, rector of Trinity Church, died in 1858, aged 79.
William Croswell, rector of the Church of the Advent, Bos- ton, died in 1851, aged 47.
Thomas Hubbard, Professor of Surgery, Yale College, died in 1838, aged 62.
13TH TIER. Docius Wadsworth, Chief of the Ordnance De- partment of the Army, died in 1821, aged 53.
Samuel Merwin, minister of the North Church, died in 1856, aged 75.
Nathaniel W. Taylor, Professor of Divinity, Yale College, died in 1858, aged 71.
Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, died in 1825, aged 61.
Noah Webster, author of the American Dictionary, died in 1843, aged 84.
Denison Olmsted, Professor of Natural Philosophy, Yale College, died in 1859, aged 68.
14TH TIER. David Humphrey, Colonel in the Revolutionary army, minister to Portugal and Spain, died in 1818, aged 65.
Ithiel Town, distinguished as an architect, died in 1848, aged 60.
Henry P. Storrs, member of Congress from New York, died in 1833, aged 49.
Henry Deforest, M. D., missionary in Syria, died in 1858, aged 44.
Stones from the ancient burying ground.
15TH TIER. Samuel J. Hitchcock, Professor of Law, Yale Col. lege, died in 1845, aged 59.
17TH AND 18TH TIERS, (north end.) Burial place for persons not owning a lot.
19TH TIER. Graves of soldiers who were wounded at the bat- tle of Fair Oaks, near Richmond, Va.
20TH TIER. John Pitkin Norton, Professor Scientific Agricul- ture, Yale College, died 1853, aged 30.
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EVERGREEN CEMETERY.
The lots in the Grove Street Cemetery having become high in price, and difficult to be obtained, a meeting of citizens was held Sept. 15, 1848, to take into consideration the subject of a new Cemetery. An Association was formed by persons present at that meeting, who resolved that its stock should be divided into three hundred shares at ten dollars each. Directors of the Association were elected Oct. 17th, who purchased from Nathan Peck, Esq., Nov. 20, 1848, a tract of land, fronting on West street about 760 feet and extending westerly about 1000 feet to the border of the West River marshes and embracing an area of about 13} acres. In 1856 a further purchase was made from the same proprietor of 24 additional acres. The grounds are admirably fitted for burial purposes and capable of being made exceedingly beautiful, both from their position on the banks of West River and from their diversified surface. The first burial in the Cemetery was made in the year 1848.
Among the monuments and family lots, the following are deserving of mention. The alleys are numbered from the en- trance gate. On the left
1st Alley .- Lot belonging to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
3d Alley .- Lot of Massena Clark.
5th Alley .- Lot of Jerome B. Wheat.
7th Alley .- Lot of William Goodwin and T. Lawton.
8th Alley .- Lot of John Mathewman.
9th Alley .- Amos H. Gilbert, died 'at Fort McHenry, July 4th, 1861, aged 21 years. One of the first to enlist in defence of his country. Lot of Erastus Lee.
10th Alley .- Lot of John W. Kimball.
11th Alley .- Lot of John G. North. Lot of Daniel Cole.
12th Alley .- Lot of E. B. Dickerman. Lot of J. W. Madden.
13th Alley .- Lot of Chauncey Ives. Lot of Nathaniel Booth. Lot of John Tillou and Thomas P. Grilley. Lot of Jarvis Jocelyn. Lot of Wm. C. DeForrest.
14th Alley .- Lot of Henry Hodges. Lot of Edward Har-
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rison. Capt. Henchman S. Soule, died March 10, 1860, aged 59 years. Lot of D. S. Glenny. Lot of Benjamin Noyes.
15th Alley .- Lot belonging to the New Haven Fire Depart- ment. Lot of Henry E. Hull. Lot of Hannibal Kimball. Lot of James King. Nathaniel Olmsted died May 17, 1860 aged 74 years. Lot of James Brewster. Lot of Elihu Fowler. Lot of Wilson H. Clark.
On the right
5th Alley .- Lewis Fish, died Nov. 29, 1848. The first per- son buried in the Cemetery. Lot of N. W. Merwin. Lot of Russell and Geo. A. Chapman. Lot of Benj. H. Johnson.
8th Alley .- Lot of Cornelius Smith. Rev. Stephen Bangs died March 21, 1856, aged 23 years. Rev. Horace Bartlett, died Feb. 1858, aged 65 years.
10th Alley .- Bevel Sperry lost his life at a fire in State st., Oct. 24, 1852, aged 20 years. Erected by Phoenix Engine Company, No. 5.
12th Alley .- Richard Wight killed by Clark, May 1, 1855. Clarissa Lyman, widow of Rev. Wm. Richards, for 25 years a Missionary to the Sandwich Islands, died Oct. 3, 1861, aged 67 years.
HEBREW CEMETERY.
A purchase was made by the Jewish residents of the City sev- eral years since, of a piece of ground on the north side of Whal- ley Avenue, opposite Hamilton Park, containing about 1} acres, which has since been used exclusively by them as a place of burial. Adjoining it on the east, and within the city limits, is the burial place of the inhabitants of Westville. Previous to this, the dead of this village were buried with the other inhab- itants of the town.
FAIR HAVEN CEMETERY.
The residents of this village laid out, many years since, a cemetery in the rear of the present Congregational church, which is divided into family lots and embellished with many tasteful monuments.
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ROMAN CATHOLIC CEMETERIES.
The Cemetery in Davenport Avenue for the burial of Roman Catholics was opened in the year 1834. After a few years, the grounds were found wholly inadequate to the largely increased number of Catholics in the city, and a purchase of a large and level tract of land on Columbus street near the West river, was made in 1850, and consecrated by the Bishop of the Dio- ocese. Many handsome monuments have already been erected, and the general appearance of the Cemetery is very creditable to those who have it in charge. An elegant monument has re- cently been erected in the south part of the grounds to the memory of the first Bishops of the Hartford Diocese, Bishop Wm. Tyler, who died in 1849, and Bishop B. O'Rielly, who was lost at sea in the year 1856.
The only remaining place within the city limits which has ever been used as a public burial place for the dead, is the site of the original Trinity Church, on the east side of Church street, just below its junction with Chapel street. The inter- ments here seem not to have been numerous, and ceased, ex- cept in very peculiar cases, by vote of a parish meeting, in the year 1785.
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CITY HALL .*
The first buildings erected for public civil uses stood on the Green near College street, and about opposite the North Middle College. The general meetings of the Colony Jurisdiction, in accordance with a custom not unknown to the early settlers, in the parish churches of their fatherland, were probably held in the "meeting house." The old State House built in the year 1763, just north of Trinity Church, was next used for public purposes. In 1830, the present State House was erected, partly at the expense of the city and town, and furnished partial ac- comodations for the civil necessities of the community. In the
*The accompanying engraving of the City Hall, wasexecuted by Lockwood Sanford, expressly for the New Haven Directory.
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summer of 1862, a new City Hall was erected, or as some pre- fer to call it, a Hall of Records, (probably from the fact that among all the definitions of the word "Hall," there is none which can properly be used in connection with a place for the deposit of records.)
The history of this elegant edifice and of the lot on which it stood, is deserving of permanent record. The facts respecting the structure itself are derived from Mayor Welch's address to the Common Council; the history of the lot on which it stands were communicated by Henry White, Esq.
" The lot on which the new Hall is built, is a part of a larger lot of about three acres, which in the original division of the town plot, made in 1639, was allotted to Mr. Owen Rowe. It extended, on Church street, from the north line of the lot now owned by the Town and City, so far south as to include most of the Tontine, block, and, in depth, about forty feet east of Orange street.
Mr. Rowe was a citizen and tradesman of London, and was one of the largest subscribers to the undertaking for the settle- ment of New Haven; but he never became an inhabitant. He took an active part in the civil war in England, was a Colonel in the army of the Parliament, and one of the Judges who con- demned Chaales I. to death. . At the restoration of Charles II., he was thrown into prison, and died soon after, in the Tower of London.
As the rear of this lot adjoined the rear of Mr. Davenport's home lot, which had its front on Elm street, the Town ordered a passage way of eight feet in width, to be fenced off from the north side of Mr. Rowe's lot, so that the pastor might walk from his own garden directly to the meeting house, which stood then where the liberty pole now stands. This path was over the vacant land between the north wall of the Hall and the home lot of Dr. Knight.
In consequence of the failure of Mr. Rowe to join the colony as a settler, his lot, in 1643, was divided by the town among the adjoining owners, and the north part, on which the new Hall is built, was granted to Mr. Davenport, the pastor.
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Mr. Davenport died in 1670, and this lot descended to his only child, John Davenport, Jr., who died in 1676, and from him it came to his children, one of whom was Abigail Pierpont, wife of the Rev. James Pierpont, an early successor of Mr. Davenport in the ministry. Rev. Mr. Pierpont, in 1693, pur- chased the remaining shares, from the other children of Mr. Davenport, and soon after, exchanged this lot with the Town and the Trustees of the Grammar School, for a lot on the north side of the Green, adjoining his own residence. This lot was given by the Town to the Hopkins Grammar School, in fulfill- ment of the condition on which the Executors of Governor Hopkins' will had founded, in New Haven, the School for which he had made provision in his will, and which afterwards bore his name. The Hopkins Committee, for many years, derived an income from the lot, by leasing it for short terms, and, fre- quently, to the adjoining owners. The last of these leases on record, expired in 1771. The increasing difficulty of obtaining an adequate income from short leases, was one of the reasons which induced the Committee, in 1801, to make to the County of New Haven a long lease, for 999 years, of that part of the lot on which the Hall now stands. This conveyance was for a gross sum, in lieu of all future annual rents. The County, soon after, erected their County House and Jail on the lot, and continued to own and occupy it in this way, until the year 1856, when it was purchased of them by the Town, for its present uses, at an expense of twenty-five thousand dollars."
The urgent necessity for a public building which should ac- commodate the various public offices, gradually united the com- munity in the opinion that a building not unworthy of the City should be erected at the joint expense of city and town. At a City meeting held on the 23d of June, 1860, Philip S. Galpin, Frederick Croswell, David Cook, O. F. Winchester, Isaac Thomson, and Sylvanus Butler, were appointed a Com- mittee to co-operate and unite with a similar Committee on the part of the City to procure plans and contract for the erection of a suitable fire-proof building for the safe keeping of the
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public Records of the Town, City, and Probate District of New Haven, and for the public use of said Town, City, and Probate District, upon the lot of land known as the "County House Lot." The sum of forty thousand dollars was also voted at this meeting as the proportionate share of the Town towards the expense of the building. The Town had previously pur- chased the lot at an expense of twenty-five thousand dollars.
On the part of the City, it appears that the Common Coun- cil, on the 6th of July, 1859, appointed a Committee, consist- ing of the Mayor, Hon. P. S. Galpin, Ex-Alderman Henry S. Dawson, and Charles Atwater, Jr., to confer with the Select- men of the Town, relative to a joint ownership of the property on Church street, for the purpose of erecting thereon a build- ing for the Town Clerk's Office, Probate Office, Council Cham- ber, and other requirements for Town and City use, with au- thority to procure plans and estimates.
This Committee made their report to the Council, on the 5th of September, 1859, recommending that proper action be taken to erect the building; and subsequently, on the 19th of Sep tember, the Mayor was requested to call a City Meeting, to vote upon the question of proceeding, in connection with the Town authorities, to erect a building, and also asking the Legislature to give power to the City to issue bonds, to the amount of sixty thousand dollars.
The City meeting was called and held on the 15th of Octo- ber, 1859, and almost unanimously passed votes in favor of carrying forward the work.
On the 15th of October, 1859, a Committee consisting of Mayor H. M. Welch, Aldermen William B. Johnson and Philo Chatfield, and Councilmen Henry W. Benedict, Nicholas Countryman, and George Alling, was appointed by the Com- mon Council, to unite with the Committee appointed by the Town, and arrange for a joint ownership of the lot, and the erection of a suitable structure, at the equal expense of City and Town.
The Joint Committee, appointed by the Town and Council, held their first meeting on the 18th of July, 1860.
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These meetings were held from time to time, for examining plans, procuring estimates, and in arranging for the proper ac- commodation of the several public offices.
After mature deliberation, the plans of Henry Austin, Esq , were adopted, in Committee, and the contracts with Messrs. Perkins & Chatfield, for the mason work, and Mr. Nicholas Countryman, for the carpenter and wood work, were signed on the second day of April, 1861.
Messrs. Chatfield and Countryman, having become con- tractors, they resigned their places on the Committee, which were filled by the appointment of Alderman Benjamin N. Tuttle, and Councilman Augustus C. Wilcox.
Immediately after the signing of the contracts, the work of pulling down the old County House and Jail was commenced, the rubbish cleared away, and the foundations of the present structure were laid.
The building was finished according to contract the first day of October, 1862, and immediately occupied by the public officers of the City and Town.
The beautiful stone-work was furnished by Mr. George A. Shubert.
Mr. Stiles Stevens furnished the iron work, including the ample flight of stairs, which adds much to the harmony of the interior arrangements.
The marble work was executed and furnished by Mr. John Ritter, and the painting and graining under the direction of Mr. Franklin Andrews.
The gas pipes were put up under the superintendence of Mr. James M. Evarts.
A regard to solidity, stability, and permanence, has been carried into the details of the building, so that it is believed, it will stand for a long period, without expensive repairs.
The purposes to which the several offices of the building are devoted may be found in the last part of the Directory, under the head of "Public Institutions."
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CHURCHES.
New Haven from its settlement has made ample provision for public religious worship. At no time have any of its in- habitants been kept away from the services of religion by want of room in its churches. For a little more than a century one church edifice was sufficient for the entire community. Up to this time there were no Church of England people in the town ; the father and founder of Methodism was then a University Stu- dent at Oxford; a brief but emphatic law of the Colony, termina- ting with the phrase "shall suffer death," was not encouraging to Roman Catholic priests. Only a few gossiping women, with their unintelligible scruples and unceasing tattle, had in all this period interrupted the most absolute uniformity of the com- munity on all matters of religious doctrine and discipline.
CENTER CHURCH.
The First Church which is the oldest institution in the town -older even than its civil organization, was begun on the 21st of August, 1639. Its first edifice stood not far from the spot occupied by the present one. It was built in the year 1639, and continued, with much patching and more complaint, for 30 years. In the year 1668, a second edifice was erected near the center of the present lower green. This building did good ser- vice for nearly a century, when it was superceded in 1661 by what was barbarously styled the " Middle Brick," erected on the site now occupied by its successor the present Center Church. The latter was begun in the year 1813, and was finished at a cost of $32,000 and dedicated in the year 1815.
Its ministers all have been men of mark in their day. 1.
Settled.
Resigned.
Died.
Aged.
John Davenport, B. D.,
1639
1667
1670
73
William Hooke, (Teacher,) 1644
1656
1678
77
Nicholas Street, ( do. ) 1659
1674
James Pierrepont,
1684
1714
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Joseph Noyes,
1716
1761
73
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Settled.
Resigned.
Died.
Aged.
Chauncey Whittelsey,
1758
1787
70
James Dana, D. D.,
1789
1805
1812
77
Moses Stuart,
1806
1810
1858
72
Nathaniel W. Taylor, D. D. 1812
1822
1858
72
Leonard Bacon, D. D.,
1825
NORTH CHURCH.
The second (North) church organized in New Haven dates from the year 1742. Its first house of worship was erected on the south-east corner of Church and Elm streets, and was known to our fathers by the rather ominous title of "The Blue Meeting House." The church was divided by a secession of a portion of its members which took place in the year 1771, who erected a brick edifice on the site of the present North Church in the same year. A re-union of the two societies was effected in the year 1796, under its present legal designation of the "United Society." The present edifice was begun in the year 1813 and dedicated in 1815.
Its ministers have been as follows :
Samuel Bird,
Settled. 1751
Dismissed. 1768
Died.
Jonathan Edwards, D. D.,
1769
1795
1801
Samuel Austin, D. D. do.
1786
1790
1830
John Gemmel, D. D.,
1798
1801
Samuel Merwin,
1805
1831
1856
Leicester A Sawyer,
1836
1837
Samuel W. S. Dutton, D. D.
1838
1784
Allen Mather, (F. Haven Society,) 1773
1784
TRINITY CHURCH.
Episcopacy had its origin in New Haven about the year 1734. Rector Cutler of Yale College,, Mr. Whittmore, the Minister of North Haven and Mr. Johnson the Minister of West Haven, having declared their dissent from the Congregational order and discipline, soon after went to England for Episcopal or di- nation. No church appears to have been organized previous to 1755. The first church edifice was erected on the east side of
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Church street about 125 feet from its junction with Chapel in the year 1755. For many years the church was supplied by Missionaries of the English "Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts." In the year 1814 the present edifice was erected at a cost of about $30,000.
The Rectors of the Church have been as follows, viz :
Settled.
Dismissed.
Died.
Ebenezer Punderson,
1755
1762
1764
Solomon Palmer,
1763
1766
1770
Bela Hubbard,
1767
1812
Henry Whitlock,
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