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horseback, there is no doubt but that many a weary traveler has partaken of the good cheer of this famous hostelry. This house was destroyed by fire October 28, 1887, but a fine pho- tograph of it was exhibited at the anniversary by Mr. Clark M. Watrous, as was also the unique sign that swung before its door, which was kindly loaned by Mrs. Stewart D. Parmelee. Deacon Clark held for many years the office of Justice of the Peace, an office of far greater powers and jurisdiction at that time than the present, and his court records show that a large number of cases were brought before him for adjudication and settlement, and that many offenders against the peace and order of the community learned from him in a practical manner that "the law was a terror to evil-doers." He married, February 1, 1744, Sarah, daughter of Captain Nathaniel and Mehitable (Hurlbut) White, born October 24, 1724, who died January 26, 1780. He died August 8, 1809, aged ninety-four years.
CHILDREN OF DEACON JOHN CLARK.
John, born March 15, 1745; married Feb. 15, 1767, Deborah Mosely. Mehitable, born Nov. 14, 1746; died Nov. 1, 1747.
Sarah, born Feb. 20, 1747-S; married first, Nov. IS, 1767, James Johnson, Jr .; second, Jan. 18, 17SI, Capt. Silas Dunham.
Mehitable, born April S, 1750; married November 13. 1771, Daniel Judd, Jr.
Daniel, born Oct. 13, 1752; married June 30, 1780, Lydia Davison. A Revolutionary soldier, Pomfret, Conn.
Esther, born Oct. 2, 1754; married Peter Parker.
Elijah, born Nov. 1, 1756; died Nov., 1776, in the army in New York State.
Desire, born June 12, 1759; died June 12, 1759.
David, born May 23, 1760.
Lydia, born April 13, 1763; married Nov. 21, 1784, Joseph Davison, of Pomfret, Conn.
Moses, born Nov. 23, 1766; baptized Nov. 30, 1766; married June 3, 1788, Millicent Blish.
Deacons Smith and Clark, having become incapacitated from performing the duties of the office by reason of the infirmities of age, it was deemed best by the church to appoint their suc- cessors, and on the fifth day of February, 1795, James Bill, Esq., and Gideon Arnold were selected for that purpose. An account of Deacon Bill will be found in connection with the family of the Rev. John Norton, whose daughter he married.
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Gideon Arnold, who was chosen as the colleague of James Bill, was the son of Deacon Gideon and Abigail (Brainerd) Arnold, and was born in Haddam in 1735. He married, Sep- tember 2, 1761, Lucy, daughter of Gershom and Mary (Buell) Hinckley, of Lebanon, born March 19, 1738. He resided in a house now standing near the silk mill and was licensed as a tavern keeper and carried on a small farm. His wife died March 1, ISO1, in the sixty-third year of her age, after a long and painful illness, which she endured with exemplary patience and resignation in the hopes of Christian salvation. He died February 17, 1807, in the seventy-second year of his age, and his tombstone, standing in Lakeview Cemetery, tells the pass- er-by who pauses for a moment to read, that being highly respected in life, his death was universally lamented.
" In veracity he was strict, In his profession sincere; In his friendship he was clost, In his manner meek, In religion exemplary."
CHILDREN OF DEACON GIDEON ARNOLD.
Apollos, born March 23. 1763; married August 12, 1784, Lucy Bill. Mary, born Sept. 5, 1765; baptized Sept. 15, 1765; died Jan. 10, 1768. Dan, born June 11, 1767; baptized July 26, 1767; married Arethusa Gillett, and lived in Hebron, Conn. A son, born June 6, 1769; died June 8, 1769.
* Mary, born Sept. 14, 1772; died April 18, 1793.
Charles, born Nov. 16, 1776; married first, Deborah Thomas; second, Lucy Thomas, of Lebanon, Conn. Lucy, born Jan. 12, 1779; married April 7, 1803, Capt. David Buell.
* Copy of inscription on tombstone in Lakeview Cemetery:
Sacred to the Memory of MISS POLLY ARNOLD danghter of Mr Gideon & Mrs Lucy Arnold who after a short illness departed this life ye ISth of April AD 1793 in ye z1st year of her age.
She was a person unaffected in her mien, mild and sedate in her temper, benevolent in her nature, sincere in her profession, exemplary in her life, engaging in her man- ners, pleasant, calm and resigned in death.
Let weeping virtue mourn around thy tomb And meek eyed pity vail thy early doom Yet worth like thine sustains no wide decay Tho. time should sweep these sculptured lines away In realms of bliss beyond the verge of time Thy name shall flourish in immortal prime Tho. here alas thy lifes short circuit ends Thou best of daughters, sisters and of friends
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On the 16th of May, 1805, a little more than ten years after the election of Deacons Bill and Arnold, Moses Cook and Isaac Smith were elected as their successors. Moses Cook was the son of Josiah and Hannah (Sparrow) Cook, and was baptized in the church at Middle Haddam, September 26, 1742. He resided north of the lake, and in company with his younger brother, Richard, carried on a grist mill that formerly stood where the East Hampton Bell Company's manufactory now stands. He married, December 18, 1765, Elizabeth Cone, and they were admitted to full communion in this church April 23, 1769. She died October 8, 1808, aged sixty-four years, and he married second, April 11, 1809, Ede, daughter of Jabez and Sarah (Judd) Clark and widow of John Norton, Jr. He died May 15, 1818, aged seventy-five years, and his second wife died February 18, 1827. His children were by his first wife, and were, as far as can be ascertained, as follows:
Lydia, born Sept. 23, 1766; baptized May IS, 1769; married Comfort Beebee.
Selden, born Mar. 17, 1768; baptized May 18, 1769; died Nov. 16, 1769. Selden, born Jan. 4, 1770; baptized Jan. 14, 1770.
Moses, born Jan. 7, 1772; baptized April 3, 1772.
Elizabeth, born 1774; married Sept. 11, 1794, Adonijah Strong, Jr.
Josiah, born -; died June 4, 1778.
Susanna, born 1776; died May 8, 1778.
Josiah, born -; baptized May 9, 1779.
Susanna, born -; baptized September 6, 1779; married first, April 25, 1798, Daniel Butler Newton; second, Sept. 17, ISO1, Henry Strong.
Hannah, born -; baptized June 6, 1782.
Livia, born -; baptized July IS, 1784; married Nov. 3, 1803, Wix Watrous.
Selden, born -; baptized June 25, 1786.
Orrin, born -; baptized Nov. 16, 1788; married June 22, IS13, Polly Parmelee.
Isaac Smith, colleague of Deacon Cook, was the son of Dea- con Isaac and Mary (Sparrow) Smith, and was born November 18, 1745. He married, January 9, 1772, Jerusha Brooks. He was a farmer and resided in a house now standing near the eastern terminus of Walnut avenue. He died October 28, 1815, aged seventy years. She died July 11, 1836, aged ninety-one years and six months.
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CHILDREN OF DEACON ISAAC SMITH.
Isaac, born Oct. 1I, 1772; married Sept. 12, 1796, Hannah Brown, and was a successful physician in Portland, Conn.
Amasa, born July 22, 1774; married Mary Williams; was a school-teacher. Jerusha, born June 29, 1776; died May 13, 1860.
Mary, born June 5, 1778.
Brooks, born June 3, 17So; baptized July 23, 1780; married Mar. 7, ISII, Elizabeth Brooks.
Infant son, born May 29, 1782, still-born.
Azubah, born Oct. 15, 1783; baptized Nov. 30, 1783; married Benja- min Cobb.
Infant daughter, born Jan. S. 1785, still-born.
Porter, born April S, 1788; baptized Nov. 16, 17SS; married Statira Brainerd, Nov. 3, 18II.
Washington, born Jan. 28, 1791; married first, Cynthia Barstow; sec- ond, Mary J. Davis.
Joseph Sage was elected a deacon July 24, 1815, and was the son of Ebenezer and Abiah (Southmayd) Sage, and was born in Middletown in 1757. He kept the toll gate on the turnpike road near the Griffith place, where the railroad now crosses. He died February 20, 1818, aged sixty years, and was interred in the cemetery at Middle Haddam. He had no children.
David Clark, elected deacon of this church July 10, 1816, was the son of Deacon Jolin and Sarah (White) Clark, and was born May 23, 1760. He was a farmer and tavern keeper, and for many years a Justice of the Peace. He was the first Worshipful Master of Warren Lodge, No. 51, F. and A. M., instituted August 1, ISII, and which for many years met in the house of Orrin Alvord, near the meeting house. He served a short term during the latter part of the Revolutionary War as a private, and in 1831 was granted a pension of $26.66 per annum. He died January 8, 1839, aged seventy-nine years. He resided at the old homestead on Clark's Hill, and was thrice married. His first wife was Jerusha, daughter of Cap- tain Abijah and Margaret (Dewey) Hall, who was born May 21, 1760, and to whom he was married September 19, 1782. She died August 24, 1800, and he married second, Novein- ber 15, ISO1, Eunice, daughter of Joshua and Ruth (Mayo ) Griffith, born April 16, 1780. She died July 27, ISII, and he married third, May 28, 1813, Mehitable, daughter of George and Mehitable ( Miller) Hubbard, born June 12, 1782. Slie died November 26, 1854.
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CHILDREN OF DEACON DAVID CLARK.
( By first wife.)
Elijah, born Jan. 28, 1784; baptized Oct. 3, 1784.
Chauncey, born Jan. 19, 1789; baptized April 26, 1789; married Zilpah Griffith.
Jerusha Hall, born August, 1800; baptized Aug. 25, 1800; died Oct. 23, 1800.
( By second wife.)
Deborah Griffith, born Nov. 3, 1802; baptized May 15, 1803; married Hubbard Barton.
Emilia Adeline, born Jan. 1, 1805; baptized April 28, 1805; married Minories Watrous.
Jerusha llall, born Dec. 1, 1807; baptized Dec. 1, 1807; married Lewis Utley.
(By third wife.)
Mary Esther, born July 27, 1814, town record; baptized July 10, 1814, church record; married William Bailey.
Warren Ackley Skinner, who was elected deacon May I, ISIS, was the son of Samuel and Ruth ( Ackley ) Skinner, aud was born in the parish of Westchester, in the town of Col- chester, March 7, 1789. He was a fariner, and resided on Miller's Hill in the house occupied by Mrs. Sarah A. Skinner. He died January 4, 1862, and after the record of his death upon the church books is written the following quotation from the twelfth Psalm, first verse: "Help, Lord! for the godly inan ceaseth!" He and his wife united with this church by letter from Westchester in 1816. He was ever zealous for the work of the Lord, and in the Lord's hand was an important factor in the building up of the church, both in spiritual and temporal things, during the forty-five years that he was a faith- ful watchman upon the walls of Zion. He married, November 28, 1810, Anna, daughter of Asa and Auna ( Marvin ) Day, born January 28, 1791, who died September 18, 1879.
CHILDREN OF DEACON WARREN ACKLEY SKINNER.
Diantha, born Sept. 19, ISII; baptized July 28, 1816; married Feb. 15, 1832, Anson Carpenter.
Samuel, born May 14, 1814; baptized July 28, 1816; married Oct. 6, IS41, Laura A. Markham.
Ruth Ann, born Nov. 24, 1816; baptized May 11, 1817; married Oct. 6, 1841, Ambrose N. Markham.
Emily, born Feb. 21, 1819; baptized June 20, 1819; married Nov. S, 1843, John B. Hungerford.
Mary Octavo, born July 27, 1821; baptized July 27, 1821; married Sept. 23, 1844, Daniel N. Markham.
DEA. WARREN A. SKINNER, 1789-1862.
MRS. ANNA SKINNER, 1791-1879.
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RESIDENCE OF DEA. WARREN A. SKINNER. ( MILLER'S HILL. )
DEA. SAMUEL SKINNER, 1814-1895.
MRS. LAURA SKINNER.
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Henry L., born May 30, 1823; baptized Aug. 24, 1823; married ( )ct. 7, 1849, Clarine A. Markham.
John Williams, born Feb. 26, 1825; baptized Sept. 11, 1825; married Oct. 3. 1847, Amelia Stranahan.
Warren, born June 17, 1828; baptized Sept. 28, 1828; married April 29, 1855, Sarah M. Ackley.
Lyman Francis, born Sept. 18, 1830; baptized July 3, 1831; married first, Dec. 31. 1855, Nancy M. Clark; second, April 25, 1865, Grace E. Brown.
Rosannah, born Oct. 5, 1832; baptized Aug. 25, 1833; married Nov. 26, 1852, Horatio D. Chapman.
Diodate Brockway West was chosen deacon December II, 1823. He was the son of Rev. Joel and Elizabeth ( Brockway) West, and was born July 20, 1798, and was admitted to com- munion July 4, 1819. He was a farmer and commercial traveler, and resided at the old homestead near the outlet of the lake. He represented the town in the General Assembly in 1870. He married, May 1, 1822, Nancy, daughter of Capt. Timothy and Hannah (Sears) Rogers. She died July 5, 1855. He died June 13, 1881.
CHILDREN OF DEACON DIODATE BROCKWAY WEST.
Child, still-born, Jan. 20, 1823. Marianne Rogers, born Sept. 26, 1824. Julia Brockway, born Sept. 10, 1828.
Herbert Rogers, born March 16, 1831; died Jan. 26, 1855.
December 30, 1857, Samuel Skinner and Allen Cushman Clark were chosen, and continued to exercise the duties of that office until December 18, 1888, when they were relieved from active service, and a new method of choosing incumbents of that office came into vogue.
Samuel Skinner was the son of Deacon Warren A. and Anna (Day) Skinner, and was born May 14, 1814. He resided near Skinner's Mills and carried on the manufacture of paper boxes to a considerable extent. He united with the church on profession of faith, in 1833, and ever after was a faithful, earnest worker in the service of the Master. He was rarely absent from any service of the church, and for years was the acknowledged leader of the prayer meetings. He married, October 6, 1841, Laura Ann, daughter of John and Anna (Estabrook) (Niles) Markhanı, born October 25, 1813, and died without issue.
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Allen C. Clark was the son of Amos and Betsey M. S. (Smith) Clark, and was born August 9, 1817. He married, April 2, 1845, Frances M. Ackley, who died April 5, 1897. He was a farmer and stonecutter, and is still living on Miller's Hill at the age of eiglity-one years. They had one child, who died in infancy.
Beginning with December 18, 1888, the deacons were chosen biennially to serve four years. After four years' service they are ineligible for election to this office for the space of two years. Under this new method the following persons have served the church in the office of deacon: Hubert E. Carpenter, Chauncey B. West, Elijah C. Barton, Walter C. Clark, Edwin D. Barton, Horatio D. Chapman, John Watrous, Horace W. Porter.
Of this number only one has passed away-Chauncey B. West, who died August 28, 1893. He was an earnest Chris- tian man and ever faithful to the church.
Dea. Elijah C. Barton.
Dea. Hubert E. Carpenter.
Dea. Horatio D. Chapman.
Dea. Walter C. Clark.
Dea. Chauncey B. West.
Dea. John Watrous.
Dea. Edwin D. Barton.
Dea. H. Welton Porter.
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OLD DOCUMENTS.
OLL OF COMPANY that responded to the Lexington Alarm from Chatham in 1775, and their term of service, copied from "Connecticut Soldiers in the Revolution." The entire Company were residents at the time of East Hampton parish.
Silas Dunham, Captain, - 5 days.
Amos Clark, -
- 5 days.
Timothy Percival, Lieutenant, 5
Elijah Clark, 5
Isaac Kneeland, Clerk, - 5 . 6
Marcus Cole, Sergeant,
5
Hezekiah Goff, -
5
5
Privates.
Stephen Olmsted,
5 Elijah Bailey.
Ralph Smith,
Samuel Kilbourn, 3
5
Nathaniel Markham,
5
Daniel Hill,
5
Elisha Cornwell, -
5
Sylvanus Freeman, 5 Ezra Purple,
3
William White, - 5 Joshua Bailey,
Samuel Sexton, - -
5 James Johnson, Jr., -
3
Benjamin Kneeland. -
5 Nathaniel Garnsey, 3
Thomas Hill, 5 Ithamer Pelton, - -
Daniel Clark, 5
5
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Caleb Cook,
2
2 John Norton, Jr., Ezra Ackley, 3
John Johnson, -
5
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Nehemiah Day, - -
5 David Caswell,
2
5
5
5
Lazarus Watrous,
5
Samuel Hill,
5 Daniel MacKall,
Samuel Freeman,
5
William Bevin,
Daniel Park,
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Upon the Memorial of Jolin Clark, Stephen Griffith, Hez. Russ, Samuel Wadsworth, Jonathan Bayley, David Bayley, John Bevin junior, Joseph Parke, Ebenezer Clark, Jabez Clark, William Clark, Shubal Lewis, Josiah Cook, Isaac Smith, William Norket, William Norket junior, Daniel Young. Ezra Andrews, James Johnson, Caleb Johnson, William Bevin, Seth Knowles, Isaac Williams, John Markham and Thomas Lewis, all of Middletown, in Hartford County, showing to this Assembly that they live very remote from the place of publick worship in the third society in Middletown whereunto they belong, praying that upon their hiring an approved minister to preach to them six months in a year they should be released from paying towards the minister's salary of said society one-half of their rates or taxes that shall be taxed against them on that account,
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Resolved by the Assembly, That the said John Clark, &c., for this current year and annually on their procuring an orthodox minister to preach to them six months in a year, they be released and are hereby released from paying to said society one-half of what might otherwise be taxed against them by said society for their minister's salary.
May, 1743. Past in ye Lower House. Test: JNO FOWLER, Clerk. Concurred in the Upper House. Test: GEO. WYLLYS, Secy.
To the Honourable General Assembly to be held at Hartford In the County of Hartford on the Second Thursday of may 1743
We the under written all Inhabatants In middleton in said County in the third society in Middleton afsd to this Honourable assembly Humbly sheweth that the several Habetations wherein we dwell are more than five mile distent the nearest of us and most of us seven mile & some more from the place of publick worship whereto we Belong and the Roads are very dificult to Travel & especially the winter & spring season; and by the approbation of the Society's Committee we have hired app person approved to preach amongst us for more than six months the Last year & we being under such circumstances Humbly pray that this Assembly wold-Grant that on our hireing a minister to Preach six months In ayear yearly we may be Released from paying Taxes to the. Society whereto we Belong six months in ayear, or that we may Receive of the Society's Committee one half of what shall be colected from us for the Seport of our ministers yearly Salary .- or some other way Grant Relief as your IIon- ours in your Great wisdom shall think fitt and your memorialists as In duty Bond shall ever Pray.
Middleton April 29th 1743.
Signed by JOHN CLARK and twenty-four others.
Ecclesiastical Records,
l'ol. 9, p. 40.
To the Honourable General assembly of his Majestyes Colony of Connecticutt to Be held at Newhaven In the County of Newhaven on the Second Thurs- day of October A.D. 1744
the Humble memoral of us under written all of the third Society In Mid- dleton In Hartford County to this Honourable assembly Humbly sheweth that your memorelist all of us Living In said Society and are agreat way distance from the Publick worship the Nearest of us more than five miles and some Ten miles and the Rhoads we are to Travel in are very Rough and Bad to Travel in and upon our memorials to this Honourable assembly In May 1743 this assembly Released us from paying to the Support of our minister one half of our ministeral charges on our hireing preaching amongst our Selves part of the year-and your memorilst have ever Since hired a minister among our Selves and we are Sensible of our poor Circumstances & Inability to be asociety but
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wold hope that we are and shall be able to Hire a preacher among our Selves if we were not obliged to pay to the Seports of our minister in the Society and the Circumstances of the Rest of the Society are able to Seport our minister without us wohl therefore Humbly pray that this Assembly would Release us and all others within the Bounds following (viz South on Middle Hadam Society. East on Colchester Bounds & to Extend west by said Society to a Highway that Runs North & South the west side of the Greate Ilill so coled to Run by said North & South Highway from Middle Hadam Souciety to the South end of the Great Ilill then to Run Northeasterly by the west side of the said Hill to the three mile division so caled then to Glausenberry Bounds then East by Glausenberry to Colchester) from paying any ministeral charges to said Society on our Ilireing an orthodox minister among ourselves and that we may be enabled to Raise a Tax on our poles and Ratable Estate to pay the minister or ministers we shall so hire or In some other way Grant Relief to your poor memorelist and we as In duty Bound shall ever pray.
Middleton October 8th 1744
Signed by EBEN'R CLARK and thirty-five others.
Ecclesiastical Records, l'ol. 9, p. 43.
The first petition, dated April 29, 1743, has the following names attached:
John Clark, Jabez Clark,
James Johnson,
Stephen Griffith,
William Clark, Caleb Johnson,
Hezekiah Russ,
Shubal Lewis, William Bevin,
Saml. Wadsworth,
Josiah Cook,
Thos. Smith (erased), Seth Knowles,
Jonathan Baley, Isaac Smith,
David Bailey, his his
John Bevin, Junr.,
mark
Joseph Parke,
William Norket, Jr.,
John Markham, Thomas Lewis.
Ebenezer Clark,
Daniel Young,
Ezra Andrews,
The second petition is dated October 8, 1744, and is signed by thirty-six petitioners, as follows:
Ebenezer Clark,
llezekiah Russ,
Hezekiah Russ, Jr.,
William Clark,
Isaac Smith,
John Markham,
David Cerby (?),
John Clark, Isaac Williams,
Joseph Parke, Jabez Clark,
Samuel Egelston, William Norket, Jr., Zaccheus Cooke, James Johnson,
William Norket, Sr., Jonathan Bayley, Ezra Andrews, Elisha Cornwell, William Bevin, Soloman - (?),
James Cady, David Anderson, John Bevin, Giles Hall, Hamlin John Hall, Samuel Wadsworth George Hubbard, Isaac Thompson, Caleb Johnson, Mary Johnson (?), Daniel Young, Josiah Cook.
John Clark, Jr., Aaron Clark, Seth Knowles,
William X , Norket, Isaac X Williams, mark
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s.
Jabez Clark,
39
Nathan llarding,
27
9 James Johnson, - Seth Knowles, - Stephen Griffith, - 45
58 10
Samuel Wadsworth,
40
Eben'r Clark,
42
13
John Bosworth, -
18
John Clark,
143 10 Daniel Young, - Josiah Cook, 21
22
John Markham,
Hlez'h Russ,
100 16 Azariah Andrews, 30
Daniel Hills,
31
John Stephens, -
26
Jon'an Bailey, -
48 16 Isaac Williams, -
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John Bevin, Junr.,
34
6 Isaac Smith, 30
Will'm Bevin,
20
Widow Johnson,
9
Joseph Parke, -
26
William Norket, 41
David Bailey, -
27
William Norket, Junr.,
20
Sam'l Eggleston,
30
George 1lubbard,
33
1100 6
The foregoing is a true copy of the Lists of Sundry of the Eastern Inhab- itants of the East Society in Middletown taken in ye year 1743 and I certify that the total sum for the whole of Sd Society in Sd year including the above lists is £5653 I.
State Archives Ecclesiastical,
Per WILLM ROCKWELL, T. Clerk.
L'ol. 9, pp. 41, 42.
To the Honourable General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut to be held at Hartford the Second Thursday of May A. D. 1746
the IIumble memorial of John Clark Ebenezer Clark and others some of the Inhabitants of the Third Society in Middleton Living at the Eastern part of said Society In ye County of Hartford by there agent Benjamin Stilman Humbly sheweth that this assembly at there sessions at Newhaven in October 1744, upon the petition of your memorelest to the Number of about forty persons this assembly Granted that all the Inhabitants that dwelt within the following Bounds shold have power meet together and choose a clerk to vote and agree to hire aminister and Grant Rates & Taxes to defray the Charge of hiring aminister &c, and the bounds to Districts to begin at the No. East Corner of Middle Iladam Bounds and from thense Running west to a highway Running Northerly and Sotherly on the west side of a hill coled the great hill and from Said Highway northerly by the Same to the South end of the Said Hill then Northerly by the west Side of Said Hill until it Comes to the three mile Division So caled thense by said Division to Glassenbery bounds then East by Glassenbery bounds to Colchester bounds then Southerly by Colchester bounds to the first mentioned place-and thereupon your memorilest have eversince hired a minister eleven months in ayear and sence that Time We have Increased so that we are Now on the publick List about Seventeen hun- dred pounds and we Live very farr distant from the place of public worship None Less than five miles-and if we shold longer continue with Said third Society it is Likely our Taxes wold be Great there for that said Society are
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about to Build a new meeting house we wold therefore Humbly Request that those that Live within Said Bounds may be sett off from said Society and be a Distinct Ecleastical Society with such preveliges as allowed by Law for Societys or that a Committe be appointed to view our circumstances and make Report to this assemble-and your memorests as In Duty Bound shall ever pray.
BENJAMIN STILMAN agent.
Middletown April 29th 1746.
Ecclesiastical Records, l'ol. 9, p. 45.
To Honourable General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticute in America Now setting att Hartford in the County of Hartford and Colony aforsd,
the memoriall of us the Subscribers Inhabitants of the Parish of East hamton in Middletown in the County of Hartford together With Some of the Inhab- itants of Middle hadam Society Humbly Sheweth to this Assembly that a question Ariseth Concerning the bounds of this our Parish as we lye Adjoining upon the Society of Middle haddam by Reason of an Alteration In the Length of a tear of Lots Colled the great Lotts now middle haddam grant Saith begin- ning att the great highway near the great River and running East on the north side of thomas Hatch Lot to the End of the great Lots to another highway then Turning and Runing Southerly in sd highway untill it Intersects a west Line=Drawn from the northwest corner of West Chester Society as it Lyeth in middletown which Grant was given out before that any allteration was made or the rear of sd Lots
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