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try, Including all Donations, subscriptions, and additions made Mr. Perry since his in- stallment.
The Rev. Mr. Perry, settled 11th June, 1755.
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3 year, 1758, - 60 0 0
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14 year, 1769, $75, addition €40. 115 0 0
15 year, 1770, 875, $40,
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16 year, 1771, - 75 0 0
17 year, 1772, 675. addition £20, 95 0 0
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BIOGRAPHY OF REV. THOMAS ROBBINS, D.D.
discourses : also (in Muss. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1st series, iii.) a History of East Windsor. Conn. (see Sprague's Innals Am. Pulpit : also Genealo- gies in 2d volume of this work). Mr. MeClure seems to have kept the church records very well. but previously they had been much neglected.
Mr. MeClure's colleague and successor, Rev. THOMAS ROBBINS, D.D., born at Norfolk, Conn., 11 Ang., 1777. He was the son of Rev. Ammi Ruhamah Robbins, first pastor of that town, and Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Lazarus, and granddaughter of Dr. Francis Le Baron. Of a family which, on his father's side, had produced four ministers in three differ- ent generations, and growing up in an atmosphere of culture and theol- ogy, it is not strange that he was found to be prepared for college at the age of fifteen, and in 1792 entered Yale, whence: in 1795, at the end of his junior year, he was transferred to Williams College, Massachusetts, of which his father had been made a trustee. From Williams, then, he graduated A.B., Sept. 7, 1796, and on 14th of same month took the same degree at Yale with his old classmates there. For two years after grad- uation he was teaching (at Sheffield, Mass., and at Torringford, Conn. ), and studied theology with Rov. Ephraim Judson of the former place, and with Rev. Samuel JJ. Mills of the latter, completing his theological edu- cation in 1798 with Rev. Stephen West of Stockbridge, Mass., and was licensed by the Litchfield North Association, 26 Sept. of that year. The next ten years were mostly spent by him as a missionary of the Connectiont Missionary Society among the new settlements of Vermont, New York, and the Western Reserve in Ohio. Previous to his going to this latter field. he was ordained, 20 July, 1803. Ile relinquished it in 1806, on account of ill-health contracted by toil and exposure of the service. " His first regular settlement in the ministry was at East Windsor, South parish, (now Sonth Windsor), Conn., where he preached for a number of months previous to his installation, May 3, 1809, (his father preaching the ordi- nation sermon from John xxi. 15, 16, 17,) as colleague with Dr. David MelInre, who died in 1820: Mr. Robbins then being sole pastor until Sept., 1827. About the time of his going to East Windsor, a plan which he had secretly cherished for some time began to take shape in his mind. lle set about the work of gathering a large library of choice books, of a theological rather than a secular type, but with large admixtures of mis- cellaneous works. He was an unmarried man, of simple habits, and he thought, ont of his modest income as a country minister. he could add a hundred volumes a year to his stock. He set about this work with a (quiet perseverance. and year by year saw his plan unfolding, even beyond his own expectations at the beginning. Between thirty and forty years this process went steadily forward, until he had gathered a private library which, for his day, was of gigantic proportions. If one desires to see what a fixed purpose, with moderate means, can accomplish, let him
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go to the rooms of the Connectiont Historical Society at Hartford, where this library of Dr. Robbins now has its settled abiding-place, and he will be cheered by the stately array of bookshelves there presented. This li- brary is especially rich in choice editions of the Christian Fathers.
After leaving East Windsor, he was installed, Feb .. 1830, at Strat- ford, Conn., where he remained only until Sept., 1831; being soon called to assist his venerable unele, Rev. Lemmel Le Baron of the Second church, Rochester (now Mattapoisett ), Mass., as colleague. On Mr. Le Baron's death, Oct., 1836, Mr. Robbins remained as sole pastor until 1844, when he was dismissed. At this time, when he was 67 years of age, with a record of 46 years of ministerial service, there came a very unexpected turn in his life, mainly through the agency of Hon. Heury Barnard of Hartford, by which his valuable collection of books found a permanent home in the keeping of the Connecticut Historical Society, and Dr. Robbins himself the position of librarian on a sufficient salary. And so the next ten years of his life were most pleasantly spent at Hart- ford, in the companionship of his beloved volumes, until, in 1854, at the age of 77, the infirmities of age obliged him to retire from all publie du- ties. Amid his numerous kindred in his native town of Norfolk, he was most kindly cared for, and died 13 Sept., 1856, at the house of a niece in Colebrook, Com., aged 79.
lle was a man of most remarkable system and order, as is evidenced by the daily diary which he kept from the 1st of January, 1796, when a student at Williams College, - with scarcely a break or omission - until 1854, a period of 58 years. It has since been published,' and the read- ers of this history are indebted to it for many facts and side-lights upon East Windsor matters.
Dr. Robbins, though unmarried, had easy and friendly access to many cultivated households among his kindred and acquaintances, and was eminently a social and companionable man. In person and man- ners he bore graceful traces of his French deseent on the maternal side, as well as of the stately and positive line of Puritan clergymen on his father's side. Of moderate stature, marked refinement in look and man- ners, of spotless neatness, and adhering to the antique style of dress after it had been generally laid aside, he moved about among his fellow- men at the middle of the present century, a most excellent specimen of the scholar and gentleman of the previous generation.
As a minister of the Gospel he was sincerely pions, gentle and car- nest in his ministrations and labors, even to the point of self-sacrifiee. Through all the early and middle years of his professional life he was a
1 Diary of Thomas Robbins. D. D., 1796-1854. Printed for his nephew [ Robbins Bat- tell, Esq.] ; owned by the Connecticut Historical Society. In two volumes. Edited and annotated by Increase N Tarbox Boston: 1886, vii. 1052; 1131.
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very busy man. Besides his regular parish cares and responsibilities, he was called upon, to a very large extent, for publie sermons and addresses and many outside trusts. He was, moreover, a kind of pioneer in a class of studies and labors pertaining to early New England history and gone- alogy. He was one of the founders of the Connectient Historical Soci- ety. was an active member of the American Antiquarian Society of Wor- cester, as also of the New England Historie-Genealogieal Society of Boston. He wrote and published a little volume, entitled, Historical View of the First Planters of New England (two editions - 1815 and 1853), and he edited the first and second American editions of Cotton Mather's Magnalia (1820 and 1853); a View of All Religions reached its third edition, 1834: and the list of published productions of his pen, given in appendix to his Diary, shows that he was a most facile and in- dustrious writer. When the Massachusetts Board of Education was first formed, in 1837. with Hon. Horace Mann for secretary, Dr. Robbins be- ing then pastor at Mattapoisett, was made a member of the Board, and traveled considerably with Mr. Mann, making addresses on education be- fore large public gatherings. It was while at Mattapoisett, in 1838, that he received the degree of D.D. from Harvard College.
[The foregoing sketch is condensed from the biography prefixed to his Diary, and from one contributed to the New Eng. Hist-Gen. Rec- ord, both by the late J. N. Tarbox, D.D. ; for the portrait we are indebted to the kindness of Robbins Battell, Esq., and his sister, Anna Battell, of Norfolk, Conn. The author of this History of Ancient Windsor also desires to confess that it was largely the kindly attention and influence of Dr. Thomas Robbins which turned his attention, while yet a boy, to the pleasures of historical research - hence this History : and his own personal recollections of Dr. Robbins, first contributed to the N. Y. Round Table, 1866, under the title of " The Old Librarian," have been embodied in the appendices to the Diary before referred to. ]
SAMUEL W. WHELPLEY, settled April 17, 1828, dismissed 6 Der., 1830 : (son of Rev. Samnel), M.A. ; grad. Vt. Univ., 1818, and from Mid- dlebury Coll., 1823; first settled at Plattsburg, N. Y .; after leaving South Windsor was engaged in teaching at Providence, R. L., and died about 1850. (Sprague's Innals, iv. 382.)
CHAUNCEY GRAHAM LEE (son of Rev. Chauncey Lee of Colebrook ); settled 8 Aug., 1832: dismissed 30 March, 1836: of Colebrook, Conn .: grad. Middlebury Coll., 1817 : ordained pastor Monroe, Con., Oct. 31, 1821-26: installed pastor S. W. (as above ) ; ordained pastor Naugatuck, Com., 1838-40: died a member of Westchester Presbytery, at New Haven, Conn., without charge, 20 Feb., 1871, æ. 75.
LEVI SMITH. settled 6 May, 1840; dismissed May 1, 1849; born at
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Litchfield, Conn., 1790; grad. Y. C., 1818; studied theol. at New Haven ; ordained as evangelist, June, 1821, and labored as such many years with success; installed pastor Wayland, Mass., about from 1829 or '30, for four years : installed pastor First church, Kennebunkport, Me., 1832-38 ; acting pastor South church there 1838, Jan. 10 to 11 April, 1839; in- stalled pastor South Windsor (as above), where he died 15 Jan., 185-4, w. 64. ( Funeral Sermon by Ree. Barnet Tyler, D.D. ; Prof. Wm. C. Fowler's Essay, 1876; Maine Minutes, 1867, 22, 56.
EDWARD HOOKER, D.D., born at Goshen, Conn., 1794: grad. Midd., 1811: settled Sept. 4, 1849; dismissed April 16, 1856; died 3 March, 1875. Two of his sons became ministers, Rev. Elias C. and Rev. Ed- wund T .; the former is dead. Two of his daughters married ministers.
JUDSON BURR STODDARD, Settled 16 April, 1856 ; dismissed 7 April, 1863; born at Pawlet, Vt., 1813 ; grad. U. C., 1840 ; Union Theol. Sem. 18-10-43; stated supply Yorktown, N. Y., 1843-44: ordained pastor Sherman, Conn., 16 May, 1844-54 ; installed pastor So. W. (as above) ; acting pastor Croton Falls, N. Y., 1863-65; acting pastor South Meri- den. Conn., 1865-68; acting pastor Centerbrook, 1869-1875; later resi- dence, Cheshire, Conn. ( Union Theol. Sem. Cat. ) He was a descendant of Rev. Timo. Edwards, first pastor of this parish.
PHILANDER O. POWERS, acting pastor, Sept. 1864 to Mch., 1866.
GEORGE A. BOWMAN, settled 29 Ang., 1866 ; dismissed 30 Nov., 1879; grad. Bowd. Coll., 1843; Bangor Theol. Sem., 1847: ordained pastor South Kennebunkport, Me., 9 Aug., 1848-April 19, 1854; acting pastor Presbyterian church Manchester. N. I., 1865; ord. in O. School Pres. connection ; installed pastor S. W. ( as above ) : served a church in N. Y. rity about one year; then at Manchester, where he served six years, both churches being Presbyterian.
NEWTON 1. JONES, 1881.
FREDERICK E. SNow, grad. Y. Theol. School ; settled 12 Sept., 1883; dismissed 19 Nov., 1888.
FREDERICK ALVORD, took charge of the church as acting pastor, 26 May, 1889. See Genealogies.
Deacons.
JOB DRAKE, first mentioned July 21, 1699, in the Stoughton Ace't Book ( Windsor Farmes, p. 50), where he is commissioned to buy the first communion service for the new church, mentioned in Rev. Mr. Ed- wards's Rate Book ( W. Farmex, pp. 91, 92). Dea. Job died April 19, 1733.
SAMUEL ROCKWELL (associate with Dea. Drake), first mentioned in Mr. Edwards's Rate Book, June, 1725 ; he died the same year.
JOSEPH SKINNER, mentioned as such in the " seating of ye meet- ing-house," Feb., 1722-3 ( W. Farmes, p. 100).
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THE OLD MEETING-HOUSE, SOUTH WINDSOR; ERECTED, 1761; DEMOLISHED, 1845. ( From sketch by E. W. Ellsworth, in the Wolcott Memorial.)
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DEACONS OF SOUTH WINDSOR CHURCH.
MATTHEW ROCKWELL.
PORTER, mentioned in Mr. Edwards's Rate Book ( W. Farmes, 109).
DANIEL ROCKWELL, mentioned as such in Mr. Edwards's Rate Book. ( W. Farmes, 108).
BENONI OLCOTT.
AMASA LOOMIS (Capt.).
THOMAS SADD.
AMASA LOOOMIS, Jr., app. in his father's place, 27 Sept., 1793; also app. treasurer and clerk of ch. ( Ch. Rec., p. 41).
ABNER REED. ( app. 22 May, 1799.
DANIEL ROCKWELL,
ERASTUS ELLSWORTH, app. + April. 1834; resigned March, 1849.
THEODORE ELMER, app. 26 Mar., 1849; resigned the office on account of age and infirmity, 27 Aug., 1868; removed by letter to East Hartford 22 Feb., 1875.
JOHN SELDEN CLAPP, chosen to succeed .Theodore Elmer, 10 Sept .. 1868.
JOHN ALLEN, app. 26 Mar., 1849; removed to Vernon, Conn., 1869.
JOHN W. STOUGHTON, chosen to fill vacancy, 6 June, 1869. Deacon Stoughton, having removed from the place, tendered his resignation, and it was accepted 17 Jan., 1878.
. GEORGE S. BISSELL, chosen to fill vacancy, 8 Feb., 1878.
In 1824, the meeting-house which stood in the highway was moved. Rev. Mr. Robbins notes in his Diary, 27 April, 1824, " The people moved the meeting-house about the width of the house, forty-five feet directly back : the whole of it stood in the street. It went easy and perfectly safe without any injury or accident. It appears better than was expected. When it was done, we went into the house and had a short religions ex- ercise. We have much reason to bless God. After preparing timber for the ways, etc., it was done in six days." All the planning for the ro- moval of this edifice was done by Mr. Abner Reed, who at the time was absent attending to his duties as a member of the legislature then in session at New Haven. Letters of direction to his son, Abner L. Reed, which are now in possession of the author of this history, testify to his great anxiety concerning the successful completion of the job.
Heating the Meeting-house .- Rev. Mr. Robbins's Diary, under date of Dee., 1821. says: " There is some difference of opinion here about procuring a stove for the meeting-house, all seem to wish to have one. It is not for my sake." Liberty was granted, in that year, to certain persons to put up "a stove or stoves" at their own expense. Stoves had been introdneed into the East Hartford church in 1818; but were not put into the Seantie church until some years after 1821.
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In 1845, the old meeting-house was taken down, and a new one built and completed in 1846, on nearly the same ground. The same year, by the division of the old town of East Windsor, this church be- came the First Church of South Windsor.
Watts' Psalms and Hymns are still in use in this church. The seasons of communion were quarterly till 1852 : since that time once in two months.
The practice of admitting persons into the church on what was called the half-way covenant plan continued here until March 27, 1808, when it was quietly abolished. A relation of Christian experience was required of all candidates for full communion from an early period. This church has repeatedly and solemnly adopted the Cambridge Plat- form and Westminster Confession, as the foundation of their union in discipline and doctrine, because, in their view, most agreeable to the word of God.
From the year 1786 to 1827, a period of forty-one years (during the ministry of Dr. MeClure and Mr. Robbins), a record was kept by them, in the church book, of all the deaths that occurred within the bounds of this society : with the ages and diseases of the deceased, which gives ample verification of the remarkable salubrity of the place.
In March, 1887, the Wolcott Memorial Chapel was completed. It was the gift of Col. Sanmel Tudor Wolcott, cost about 82,000. and was furnished by the ladies of the society.
Singing. The matter of singing seems to have been a disturbing one in the churches of this region about this time. There appears to have been a Mr. George Beale and his son Matthew, who traveled abont from church to church, giving instruction in church music, and concern- ing whose innovations upon the old style of psalmody there arose a wide diversity of opinions ( see pp. 273, 274). Mr. Edwards's flock, however, were apparently progressive, since we find the following vote of " May 22. 1727. Voted, that for the future the rule of singing in this society shall be according to the rule of singing now brought in and taught among us by Mr. Beall."
April, 1776. Voted, that " the young men who sing on the tenor be allowed to sit in the north front gallery."
Erastus Wolcott, Jr., chosen chorister, " to set the psalm and lead m singing."
March, 1780. " Question put to this society whether they were willing to admit the use of the pitch-pipe in setting the psalm in public worship. Voted in the negative."
This little instrument seems to have been the innocent cause of much noise and disturbance in the society. On the 30th of the same month, a similar vote met with a similar fate : whereupon the singers re-
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MINISTERS RAISED IN EAST ( SOUTH ) WINDSOR.
fused to sing, and a difficulty also arose concerning the choice of a chorister. The emeute was finally allayed by the reappointment of the " Old Committee."
In October, 1791, we find the first mention made of that now poput- lar and necessary institution, singing schools.
" l'ofed, To raise and use the sum of ES lawful money in hiring a singing master to teach the young people of said society the art or rule of singing psalmody."
After this date, the singing school becomes one of the most regular items of expense on the society's books.
Pers and Seatings, etc. The practice of seating the meeting-house continued, until within the memory of those who are now living. The long seats in the meeting-house were altered to peux in 1785; a clock was voted for in 1810; and, in 1821, the plan of selling or leasing seats was adopted.
Ministers raised in this Parish.
Rev. Pres. JONATHAN (son of the parish's first pastor, Rev. Timothy ) EDWARDS, see Edwards' Genealogy, in our second volume.
Dr. MATTHEW ROCKWELL (son of Dea. Samuel), b. in 1708: ed. by Rev. Timo. Edwards, in whose Diary we find recorded "Jany 10, 1722-3. To Teaching his Son Matthew, viz. : Dea. Rockwell's Son Mat- thew. two years and as long besides as from Janty 10th to Sept. Sth, as I reckon it 138 weeks at 2x. 67. per week, all is £17, 05%. 00d." After the father's death, 1725, we find the teacher thus accounting with the adm. of the estate, Thomas Grant : "June 14, 1726, Reckoned with Thomas Grant and due from him to me for teaching Matthew Rockwell (I casting in ten shillings as a gift to his mother Rockwell), €12-19x. -05d." While a student with Mr. Edwards, Mr. Rockwell fell in love with one of the daughters, and an engagement followed. After the com- pletion of his college course (he grad. Y. 6. 1728), Mr. R. built in E. W. a honse still standing. The south front room was supplied with one of the ample fireplaces common at that time, over the crown of which was built into the chimney wall a brick tablet, with the initials of his inamo- rata's name burned therein. But, for some reason now unknown the en gagement was broken, and Dr. Rockwell immediately left his new house for a less pretentions one in the south part of the town, where, in 17 13, he married with JJemima Cook. This house ( 1883) was occupied by Miss Henrietta Rockwell, of E. W. HHill : and remains much as it was in 1737-40, except that the fireplace was walled up some 65 years ago, and reduced to modern dimensions.
During the dissensions in the E. W. ch., 1735-40, Mr. Rockwell preached in Mr. Edwards' stead. '
' Stoughton's Windsor Farmes.
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Rev. ISAAC STILES, first pastor of No. Haven, Ct., and father of Pres. Ezra Stiles of Yale College.
Rev. JOHN ELLSWORTH (see Chapter on Ellington ).
Rev. JOEL WEST, b. Lebanon, Ct., 1766; grad. Dart. Coll., 1789: became a memb. E. W. ch. and student in theol, 1790 : pastor ordained East Hampton First ch., Ct., until his death, 1826, aged 60. ( Dart. Coll. Alumni, '52 ).
Rev. AMASA LOOMIS, grad. Y. C., 1807 ; home miss. under Miss. Soc. of Conn. in Ohio : pastor Salem, Ct., 1813-17 ; d. 1824.
Rev. JULIUS ALEXANDER REED, b. 1809: grad. Y. C., 1829: Yale Theol. Sem., 1836: ord. 1836; in home miss. work 1836-39: chaplain of Worcester Insane Retreat, 1839-40: in Iowa 1840-44, as agent of Am. Home Miss. Soc., Iowa, 1845-57, and for So. Iowa, 1862-69: d. 1891, at Davenport, lowa ( Yale Sem. Cat.). See Reed Genealogy.
Rev. SAMUEL WOLCOTT, D.D., b. So. W. 2 July, 1813 : grad. Y. C., 1833 ; grad. And. Theol. Sem., 1837 ; served the A. B. F. M. in their office 1837-39; ord. Nov .; 1839, as missionary to Syria ; his work was much disturbed by the then troublous times of that country, but he made extensive and valuable researches into the Biblical geography of Pales- tine; returned to America 1843; pastor installed Cong. church, Long- meadow, 30 Aug., 1843-47 ; pastor installed Oct., 1849-53, Cong. ch. Belchertown, Mass. ; pastor installed ligh St. ch. Providence, R. I., Apl., 1853-59 : pastor installed New Eng. ch. Chicago, 27 Sept., 1859- 61 ; pastor installed Plymouth ch. Cleveland, 1862-1874, when he res. to become Sec. of Ohio Home Miss. Soc., where he remained 8 yrs. ; then 2 yrs. in Cleveland ; then ret. to Longmeadow, Mass., where he d. Feb. 25. 1886. See Wolcott Genealogy.
Rov. ELIAS CORNELIUS HOOKER (son of pastor of this ch. ) joined this ch. by profession, 1850: grad. Wms. Coll., 1857 ; grad. Princeton Sem. ; pastor ordained No. ch. Newburyport, Mass., 11 Dec., 1861 ; pastor installed Nashna, N. H., First ch., Sept. 13, 1865-68 ; pastor installed Stockbridge, Mass., 1870. until death, 5 Dec., 1873, aged 41. (Mass. Minutes, 1874, p. 122.)
Rev. CHARLES HENRY BISSELL, b. E. W. : joined ch. on prof., 1850 : grad. Wmns. Coll., 1858: grad. Theol. Instit., Ct. ; ord. Poquonock, 12 June, 1862, where he was acting pastor 1862-1865; acting pastor at Harwinton, Ct., 1865-68; since then preached in Missouri and lowa, where acting pastor at Traer, since 1875; Morris, III., 1889. In 1891. Laveta, Colorado.
Rev. EDWARD TRUMBULL HOOKER (S. of pastor of this ch. ) which he joined by profession. See pastors of Broad Brook church.
Rov. JAMES THOMAS FORD, b. Abington, Mass. : grad. Wms. Coll., 1851 ; joined this ch. 1 Jan., 1854, on prof. : edne. Theol. Sem., Conn .;
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pastor ordained Stowe, Vt., 25 Nov., 1857 : served a freedmen's church at Charleston, S. C., 1870- ; acting pastor San Bernardino, Cal., 1875- ; m. (as 2d wife) Sarah P. Bancroft, of So. W., Ct. ( Dur- fee's Annals.)
Rev. (and M.D. ) GEORGE C. REYNOLDS joined this ch. July, 1863 : phys. in Chicago; went as Medical missionary to Turkey under 1. B. F. M., where he was ordained and is serving.
Rev. GEORGE S. PELTON : grad. Theol. Instit., Ct., 1877 : ord. 15 May, 1877, missionary at Glyndon, Minn., Worcester, Mass. : in 1889 ligganum, Con.
Rev. WILLIAM A. THOMPSON, SON of Prof. William Thompson, pastor at Conway, Mass., and Reading, Mass., where he died 17 Sept., 1875.
CHURCH STATISTICS.
Revivals : 1715. Under Rev. Timo. Edwards's pastorate, of whom his son (Dr. and Pres.) Jonathan, said that he had known of no parish in the west of New England which had so often been favored with rovi- vals of religion.
1740/1. " The Great Awakening," in which Rev. Jonathan Ed- wards, son of the pastor of this parish, took so conspicuous a part. Gideon Grant, who d. in S. W., 1821, aged 94, joined the ch. in 1711, and was 77 yrs. a church member, was the last survivor of this great re- ligions awakening. There was no great revival again until 1821.
In 1809, eleven gathered into the church : 1814, eleven : 1>15, eleven: 1820, eleven : 1821, thirty-one : 1828, thirty-five: 1829, fifteen : 1833. eleven : 1850, fifteen : 1852, thirteen ; 1855, fourteen ; 1865, twelve ; and 1868. fourteen.
Membership. When Mr. Perry was called, 1758, the names of 32 male members were attached to the declaration, headed by Gov. Roger Wolcott. In 1787, Apl. 10th, there were 37 male and 52 female mem- bers, total 89, including 32 res. in Wapping. In 1791, there were S. In 1809 (beginning of Mr. Robbins's term), 26 male, 41 female, total, 67. 1810, May, 174 families, of which 40 professed to belong to other denom- inations. 1814, 169 families in society. 1816, 165 families in society. 1821, Jan. Ist, 43 males, 110 females, total, 153 (the highest number ever reported), though the membership may have been higher just after the revival of 1741, and before the formation of the Scantie church. 1833, 127 members. 1850, 88 members. 1879, 105 members. 1881. 86 members.
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