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The call was accepted by Mr. Perry in the following letter:
" To the Second Society in the town of Windsor :
Brethren - After having returned you my most hearty thanks for the honor and respect you have done me, by inviting of me (on the 28th of October last) to settle with you in the work of the Gospel Ministry. I would inform you by these lines, that 1 have taken your proposal into serious consideration, consulted Heaven for direction, and taken all proper advice in this great and important affair, and accordingly return an answer to your request, in the following manner (viz) that I fully and freely accept of the settlement by the society votes, also that I freely accept of the salary by the society votes for my support, so long. as I shall continue among you as your Minister. As your courteous behavior to, and Christian treatment of me have effectually engaged my heart to you, let it be our constant care to keep up a Christian temper and deportment towards each other, and mutually strive to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, that he who is Head over all things to llis Church, may dwell in the midst of us. and bless our honest designs to promote the Glory of God in the salvation of souls, and may we long rejoice together in beholding the Glory of God, and the prosperity of the Redvemer's Kingdom among us.
Brethren, pray for me, that I may be a faithful and successful laborer in God's Vineyard, and that I may study to show myself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to, be ashamed, and may that Love, Peace, and Harmony. I trust is really subsisting between us at present, continue, until we shall be admitted into the New Jerusalem, and God's Holy Temple above, where Love reigns without dissimulation. which is the prayer and shall ever be the constant endeavor of your friend and well wisher
Windsor. April the 28th. 1755.
JOSEPH PERRY.
This letter was read to the Church meeting convened - 29th day of April, and the Clerk of the Society was directed to send letters of invita- tion for a Council of Ministers to ordain Mr. Perry, and the last Wed- nesday in May was appointed to be kept by the Church as a day of Fast- ing and Prayer, and the Rev. Eliphalet Williams and William Russell were invited to preach to them on that day, in which they were to im- plore the Divine blessing upon their choice." Accordingly, on the 11th, the second Wednesday of June following, "he was duly ordained as colleague pastor over the Second church of Windsor." The Council, on that occasion ( which represented the churches of Sherburne and Ded- ham, Mass., of Holland, Hartford, East Hartford, Poquomock. Ellington. Wintonbury, Windsor, and Windsor North Society), was entertained at the house of Capt. Ebenezer Grant, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Sanmel Porter, of Sherburne.' Mr. Perry was a native of Sher- hurne, Mass., graduated at Harvard College in 1752, and was in his 230 year when he became Mr. Edwards' colleague. ? He possessed a fine education, a strong mind, promising talents, and great amiability of
1 A Sermon | preached at the f ordination | of the Reverend | Mr. Joseph Perry, ] to the | Pastoral care of | a Church in Windsor: | June 11, 1255. | By Samuel Porter, A.M., Į Pastor of a Church in Sherburne Boston: New England: Printed by John Draper, at his Printing Office in Newberry Street, | mdeciv. Text. 1 Cor., 11, 2.
2 Mss. Rev. Thomas Robbins, S W. Ch. Rer.
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character, and a wonderful aptness in prayer. These, together with his fervent piety, soon endeared him to the hearts of his new charge, and commended him to the confidence of their aged pastor.
Windsor, Septm 19, 1255 [the first called by Mr. Perry. ] At a meeting of the 24 (hh of Christ in Windsor, at House of Jos. Newbery, duely Warned for this purpose (viz) To know y" Minds of SA Chh in Regard to the practice of Requiring a Relation of Christ- ian Experiences from Persons to be admitted to ful Communion with sd (bh & to setthe a Rule of Future Conduct in Refference to this Question (viz) whether Relations should be held as a Term of Communion - after having sufficiently debated this matter the ('bh unanimously came to the following vote.
Viz, That however this ohh is well pleased with y' Practice of giving in Relations & should be glad alf Persons yt join our Communion would find it in yr hearts to do it, as thinking this practice is for edification, yet we do not ensist upon Relations as a Term of Communion -
This is the true original vote of the sd (hh attest4
Jos. Perry, Pastor of så (bh
Death of Rer. Mr. Edwards.
The pleasant relations which they sustained to each other were. however, soon broken, by the death of the venerable Edwards, on the 27th of January, 1758, in the S9th year of his age. For 63 years he had been a faithful laborer in the Lord's harvest-field. How many precious souls were bound up in the sheaf which he presented to his Master will never be known to ns on earth, for the records of this church during his ministry, as well as that of Mr. Perry, are lost.' But certain we may he, that the crown which Timothy Edwards wears at his Lord's right hand in the heavenly mansion above, is not the least for brightness among those that surround the " starry throne."
We find in Dr. Sprague's valuable Annals of the American Pulpit, the following account of Mr. Edwards's appearance, character, and habits, from the pen of his descendant, Dr. Sereno E. Dwight :
" Mr. Edwards was about five feet ten inches in height ; of fair complexion ; of a strong, robust frame : full but not corpulent. He was a man of polished manners. particularly attentive to his dress, and to propriety of exterior ; never appearing in public but in the full dress of a clergyman.
" The management not only of his domestic concerns, but of his property generally. was entrusted to the care of Mrs. Edwards, who discharged the duties of a wife and a mother with singular fidelity and success. In strength of character she resembled her father : and like him she left behind her in the place where she resided for seventy six years, that 'good name' which is . better than precious ointment.' On a visit to East
1 " As also, in great part, during that of Mr. Whelply " (Church Manual). It was our good fortune to find, in some manuscripts of the Rev. Timothy Edwards, belonging 10 Mrs. 1. Weld, of Hartford, a copy of the Original Church Covenant ; list of church members under date of 1200, and baptisms from Angust, 1695, to July, 1203. These. with other private memoranda concerning church matters, constitute the earliest and only records of the Second Church, prior to 1830. They have been duly incorporated in Appendix G.
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Windsor in the summer of 1823, I found a considerable number of persons advanced in years, who had been well acquainted with Mrs. Edwards, and two upwards of ninety who had been pupils of her husband. From them I learned that she had received a superior education in Boston ; was tall, dignified and commanding in her appearance, affable and gentle in her manners, and was regarded as surpassing her husband in native vigor of understanding. They all united in speaking of her as possessed of remarkable judgment and prudence, of an exact sense of propriety, of extensive infor- mation, of a thorough knowledge of the scriptures and of theology, and of singular conscientiousness, piety, and excellence of character. By her careful attention to all his domestic concerns, her husband was left at full liberty to devote himself to the proper duties of his profession. Like many of the clergy of that early period, in New England, he was well acquainted with Hebrew literature, and was regarded as a man of more than usual learning. but was particularly distinguished for his accurate knowl- edge of the Greek and Roman classics. In addition to his other duties, he annually prepared a number of pupils for college ; there being, at that time, no academies or public schools endowed for this purpose. One of my aged informants, who pursued his preparatory studies under him, told me that, on his admission to college, when the officers had learned with whom he had studied, they remarked to him that there was no need of examining Mr. Edwards's scholars." ?
" He was also something of a poet, for Roger Wolcott, in the dedication of his poems, 1723, thus addresses him:
" Yet where you censure, Sir, don't make the verse. You pinned to Glover's venerable hearse, The standard for their trial ; nor enact, You never will acquit what's less exact.
" Sir, that will never do ; rules so severe Would ever leave Apollo's altar bare, His priests no service : all must starve together, And fair Parnassus' verdant tops must wither.
1 llis account books, as quoted by Stoughton, in his Windsor Farmex, Furnish us with an interesting glimpse of the immense educational labor performed by this learned pastor of a retired country parish, viz .:
" ' Jan'y 10' 1722-3. To Teaching his Son Matthew, viz. Dea. Rockwells Son Matthew, two years and as long besides as from Jan'y 10th to Sept. 8th, as I reckon it 138 weeks at 2x. 6d. per week, all is, £17, 05x, 00d. And 'June 14th,' 1726. Reckoned with Thomas Grant and due from him to me for teaching Matthew Rockwell (1 casting in ten shillings) as a gift to his mother Rockwell -$12-19x4-05d. Thomas Grant was son- in-law to Dea. Matthew Rockwell, having married Elizabeth, dan. of the deacon.
" 1726, Dec. 16, Janus Skinner came to learn to write in ye evening " :
" 1726/7. Jan. 12, Ibijah Skinner came to learn to write: 25 or 26, Joseph Norberry came to write: Daniel and Jonathan Skinner came to learn to write in ye evening: · Isetate,' son of Joseph Loomis, Sen', 'schooling': Ang. 28, Mr. John Anderson brought his son to me to keep at my house and to learn to read, &c .; Oct. 16, ' Thonuts Moore, By his father's and mother's desire came to me & began his accidence in order to get Learning'; Nov. 20, ' Lt. Inter Bissell desired me to take his son Ixque and teach him y. Latin Tongue, &c .- Nov. 21, ' he sent his son Isaac': Nov. 27, ' Sergt. David Bissell sent his son Ihezekiah to me to be Instructed in ye Latin Tongue': Rev. Hezekiah Bissell grad. Y. C. 1733, was pastor at Bloomfield.
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"lle was for that period, unusually liberal and enlightened, with regard to the education of his children - preparing not only his son, but each of his daughters also. for college. In a letter, bearing date August 3, 170, while absent on the expedition to Canada, he wishes that Jonathan and the girls may continue to prosecute the study of Latin : and in another of Angust ith, that he may continue to recite his Latin to his elder sisters. When his daughters were of proper age, he sent them to Boston to finish their education. Both he and Mrs. Edwards were exemplary in their care of their religious instruction ; and, as the reward of their parental fidelity, were permitted to see the fruits of piety in them all, during their youth.
" He always preached estemporaneously, and, until he was upwards of seventy. withont noting down the heads of his discourse. After that time he commonly wrote the divisions on small slips of paper, which, as they occasionally appeared beyond the leaves of the Bible that he held in his hand, his parishioners called . Mr. Edwards' thumb papers,' Apologizing for this one day to one of his pupils, he remarked to him that he found his memory beginning to fail, but that he thought his judgment as sound
to me to be Instructed in ye Latin Tongue &e &c ye next Saturday late in ye afternoon went home and came again next Monday. Jan'y 13 he went home again & came again Feb. 6. 1728-9. Feb. 22 he went home again.'
" Jan. 12. John Wolcott, Aun' came with JJuo. Eliot by his Sister's Eliot's desire as he told me that I might teach him the Latin Tongue.
" 1729, Nov. 10. Alexander [s. Gov. Roger] Wolcott came to me to be Instructed in y" Tongues, viz. to be further Instructed for ye revival of his learning - so that it was evident that, tho' only 17 yrs of age, he had been studious. He grad. Y. C. 1431. and became a distinguished physician.
" 1730. Thomas Burbank, of Suffield was a student Aug. 31. 'On a Monday William Holeatt, Jur, came to me to be instructed in the Tongues," Mr. William Wil- cott seur came to my house to talk with me about my Teaching his Son. I told him he must give me 3 xh per week for Teaching him. I also told him y' I did nt oblige or bind myself to take up with that. But if I found that would nt do he must give me more, and that I should nt allow or abate anything for vacancies except yy were con siderable, (meaning very considerable) to which he seemed ready readily to Consent, not making y" least Objection. I told ye young man w" I first consented to take him that he must do some chores for me, besides what his Father gave me for his Learning, or to y'effect, to wh he seemed also very readily and freely to Consent.' The next reference to this pupil reads: ' Abont July 21. 1731, William Wolcott went to the Col- lege, Engr.'-and the father is further debited with ' Annis 1780 & 1731. To Instruct ing his Son William in the Latin and Greek Tongues 45 Weekes at 3xk per W. 2006 - 15×4-00d' lle grad. Y. C. 1734.
"1231. 29 July. Elunder Grunt- ' The widow Grant's acet. concerning my teaching her Son Ebenezer, in my Red pocket book. Fo. 53, 7).
· 1732, Dec. 11. John Diggers came to me by his father's desire to be Instructed in yr Latin Tongue, &e. (was still a pupil as late as 1286). He grad. Y. C. 12.40.
" 1238. Corp" Ebenezer Bissell is D' To Teaching his Son aleron y" Latin and Greek Tongues, with 4 Rates == 928-06x, 10d: also in 1739.
" 1742. Varon Hutchinson was a boarder and pupil.
.. 17-15. John (afterwards Col.) Stoughton.
** 1749. Capt. Joshue Loomis' son George was a pupil."
In addition to these we may name his own son Rev. and Pres, Jonathan Edicards, Y. 6. 1220 ; Rev. Isere Stilex, Y. C. 1722, Pastor at No. Haven and father of Pres. Ezra Stiles: Daniel Edwards (half brother), Y. C. 1720; and the list might be still more en- larged. It is evident from some of these entries, that his well-instructed daughters also rendered assistance in this work of teaching, especially when he was called away from home.
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Facsimile OF A SERMON OF REV. MR. EDWARDS, OCT. 29, 1695." Two-thirds .Infull Six.
though Mr. Edwards was perhaps the more learned man, and more animated in his visited and preached in his desk. It was the customary remark of the people that. 'al-
manner. yet Me. JJomtthan was the deeper preacher.'
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1 It is said, by one competent to know whereof he speaks, that Mr. Edwards left
as ever; and this was likewise the opinion of his people till near the close of his life. lle is not known to have written out but a single sermon, which was preached at the
General Election in 1932, and was published. It is a solemn and faithful application of
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HISTORY OF ANCIENT WINDSOR.
" His influence over his congregation was commanding, and was steadily exerted on the side of truth and righteousness. When he knew of any division among them. he went immediately to see that the parties were reconciled; and when he heard of any improper conduct on the part of any individuals, it was his uniformi custom to go and reprove them. Under his preaching the gospel was attended with a regular, uniform efficacy, and in frequent instances with revivals of religion; yet no record is preserved of the actual admissions to the church.
" In some of the family letters I find incidental mention of a revival of religion as existing in 1715 and 1716, during which Mrs. Edwards and two of her daughters made a profession of their Christian faith; and several others of the family are spoken of *as traveling towards Zion with their faces thitherward.' His son observes, in 1987. that he had known of no parish in the west of New England, except Northampton, which bad as often been favored with revivals of religion as that of his father." 1
In the ancient burying ground of East Windsor, which commands an extended view of the beautiful Connectient Valley, rest the ro- mains of this devoted servant of God. Over them, on a monumental table, is inseribed :
" In memory of the Revd. Mr. TIMOTHY EDWARDS, Pastor of the 2d Society of Windsor (whose singular Gifts and Piety rendered him an excellent, and in the Judy ment of Charity, a successful minister of the Gospel, who died January 27. A. D. 1768, in the 89 year of his age, and 64th of his ministry. And his remains buried under this stone.
AN EPITAPIL. " The Man of God, who nobly pled. llis Master's Cause, alass! is dead. His Voice no more! but awful Urn. Still speaks to Men their great Concern. His Praise, on Souls by Heaven Imprest. This mouldering Stone will long outlast. When Grace completes the Work begun, Bright Saints will shine his living Crown."
The partner of his bosom, who had so long shared with him life's toils and labors, survived him but twelve years, during which time she retained her mental faculties in remarkable vigor. Her husband's salary, and the affection of his Hoek, was continued to her until her death, January 19, 1770, at the advanced age of ninety-nine years. As she had been a most efficient helper to her husband, so, by her active piety and good influence, she greatly assisted and strengthened his supressor in the ministry.
A New Meeting-House.
Meanwhile the good people had been agitating the propriety of erecting a new meeting-house, for the old one was altogether insufficient
some 2,000 sermons " written out ;" most of which, with many others of his papers, have been destroyed, some sixty only remaining. Interesting specimens of his sermons are given in Mr. Stoughton's Windsor Farnus.
1 . Men: Sprague's Annuels Am. Pulpit, i. 230 232; Cong. Quart .. 1811, 256 27, by Rev. 1. N. Tarbox.
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to meet the wants of the fast increasing population, Indeed, as early as 1752, the society had decided to build anew, and some steps had been taken towards it ; but in 1753, in consequence of some contentions (as usual) in regard to its location, the necessity of settling a new minister, and the burden of $300 paid to the society, which had been set off in the north parish, under the Rev. Mr. Potwine, it was concluded not to build " at present."
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