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The names of these original members, as copied from the Rov. Mr. Bissell's Mss. record, are:
Isaac Butler and wife,
David Grant,
Daniel Foot and wife.
Nathan Burr.
Thomas Adams and wife.
Job Drake,
Robert Barnett and wife,
Hezekiah Drake.
Cornelius Gillet and wife,
Jonathan Hubbard's wife.
Peletiah Mills and wife. Joshua Case and wife.
Anthony Hoskins' wife.
. Samuel Case and wife,
Hezekiah Parsons' wife,
Ephraim Brown's wife, Noadiah Burr's wife.
Daniel Eggleton's wife,
Solomon Clark And wife. William Webster and wife. Jonathan Filley and wife, John Burr, Ir .. and wife, Alexander Hoskins and wife. Jacob Drake, Jr., and wife,
Abel Gillet's wife. Nathaniel Cook's wife, John Loomis' wife,
Nath. Case and wife.
Stephen's Goodwin's wife.
Enoch Drake. Jr., and wife,
Enoch Drake's wife,
Stephen Burr and wife, Jouah Gillet and wife,
Joseph Hoskins' wife,
Daniel Brown & wife,
Jonathan Brown, Isaac Skinner.
Moses Cadwell and wife,
James Eggleston.
Daniel Rowel and wife.
Timothy Moses,
John Burr's wife,
.Jonathan Gillet and wife. -67.
The first book of records of this church (which in 1751 was known as the Fifth Society in Windsor) is still extant and in a good state of preservation, with the exception of one or more leaves at the beginning, which contained the larger part of the names of the original members -- the balance being in Vol. 2 of the Church Record :. Within a few years from the organization the following, among others, were added to the original membership, viz. : the wife of Thomas Humphrey, Isaac Barber, Mary Filley, three Cases, and the wives of Samuel Webster and Thomas Phelps. No formal creed is on record as having been used at the organ- ization ; but we have in Mr. Bissell's own handwriting -and probably of his own composing - the following brief and tender Covenant, which was used instead:
" We do solemnly avouch the Eternal Father, Son and Holy Ghost, to be our God. and do devote and dedicate ourselves and children to Him, promising, as He shall ena- ble us by His Grace to believe His truths, obey His will, run the race of His command- ments, walking before Him and being upright, exercising ourselves in ye duties of Sobriety, Justice, & Charity, watching over one another in the Lord; and because Christ
Peter Mille's wife.
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Faith appointed spiritual administration in His house, as censures for offenders. consola- tous for the penitent. Teachings nel Quickenings for all, such as The Word and Saera- cents, we will truly countenance and faithfully submit to the regular administration of them in this place, and carefully perform our respective and enjoyned duties, that we may all be saved in the dave of the Lord."
There were at this time ( 1738) 65 families in Wintonbury, compris- ing 325 souls.
About this time it was voted at Society meeting, "we will give Mr. Bissell 2200 yearly for the space of three years, whereof $100 yearly is for his salary and the other $100 is for his settlement, the money at the present currency." This £100. on the then existing scale of metal coin, was equivalent to 560, which sum was finally established as his salary, with the addition of 3s cords of " 3 foot" wood yearly.
In the faithful discharge of the mutual and pleasant relations which should exist between a beloved pastor and his people, time sped tran- qnilly on, until. in 1779. Mr. Bissell's failing health obliged him to ask for assistance in his ministrations. From that date his pulpit was sup- plied until his death, which occurred January 28, 1783.
The Rev. HEZEKIAH BISSELL was the son of Set. David and Ruth ( Warner) Bissell. of East Windsor, where he was born 30 Jannary, 1710, 11, and was prepared for college by the pastor of that town, the Rev. Timothy Edwards. He graduated from Yale College 1733, being the first of his name among the alumni of that institution. He married 20 Nov .. 1740, Mary (daughter of Rev. Ephraim) Woodbridge ( H. C. 1701) of Groton, Ct. His ministerial labors in Wintonbury Parish were most industriously performed. He baptized 1,057 children, besides over 100 who were baptized by other clergymen during his pastorate, making "> an average of 26 baptisms for each of the forty-five years of his ministry. The first child baptized by him was on 18 Feb., 1738, four days after his ordination : and on the same day occurred the first death in his pas- torate, that of Timothy (son of Moses ) Cadwell, aged 6 years. The first marriage he pe formed. 22 Sept., 1738, was that of Stephen Gillet and Anna Loomis. Four deaths occurred during each of the first two years succeeding his ordination, out of a population of 325 souls - not far from the later proportion of deaths to the population. During his fourth year there were fourteen deaths, twelve of which were infants and young children. The only year of his ministry in which he had as many as ten added to the church by profession was 1741, when twelve were so added. From 1738 to 1783, a period of forty-five years, he records 114 received as church members, including one by letter.
Mr. Bissell's funeral sermon, preached by Rev. David S. Rowland of Windsor, was printed, and describes him as "serious and judicious, unbiased by party views, . . . a fervent preacher;" also as "a man
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qualified for his office by natural ability, learning, and good judgment : a man respected, no word having been transmitted to his discredit : # man, moreover, net gloomy but encouraging social intercourse and in- cent gayeties." His records are written in a hand somewhat elegatd and bear indications of accurate habits and good taste.
On his monument in the old cemetery at Bloomfield is the following inscription :
" Sacred | to the Memory of the Reverend | HEZEKIAH BISSELL | His birth war, at Windsor, of piou- į and reputable Parents. Yale College was the place of his | Lib eral Accomplishments an I the Scent f of his usefulness was extended. He was alike unmoved by all the Vices | and Errors of the late Times | Secure against both, his doc trines & į his Life was Exemplary. Remarkable | Peace and good order that reigned among the People of his Charge | During his Ministry, bear Witness ! To the Prudence and Greatness | of his Mind. In Domestic Connections | he was truly a Consort & a Father | and in Social Life a Friend indeed | After the faithful Labors of 45 | years la Sacred Offices his last | and best Daye arrived which was | January 28th, A. D. 1785 atat 72."
In the early years of his ministry Mr. Bissell had adopted the " Half-Way Covenant." which admitted all persons of civil behavior to the watch of the church, and to the privileges of baptism for their child- ren, without attending the Lord's Supper. Under the working of this rule the number of actual communicants in the church had become very small. After Mr. Bissell's death, and in September, 1785, the church adopted a new Covenant and Confession of Faith, and at the same time abolished the Half-Way Covenant, accompanying its abolition, however, by the following compromisory vote:
Voted, That all those of competent knowledge in the word of God, and of regular life and conversation, and that appear to be serious and conscientious in the judgment of the church, may be admitted to Covenant with this Church."
But, as this resolution still seemed to leave it an open question whether those who had formerly been admitted to the Half-Way Cove- nant were exeluded from this privilege, the church, on March 10, 1786. "Voted that those who have owned the Covenant have still a right to offer their children for baptism, so long as they walk orderly."
Much opposition ensued, and the society, which was then much dis- turbed by Separatists, as well as by difficulties which had arisen as to settling a successor to their late pastor, was in a most uncomfortable state. Finally, they voted, although with difficulty and by a small ma- jority only, to reconsider their former vote ; and adopted the rule of the Stratford Church, which admitted persons to full communion without necessarily requiring them to partake of the Lord's Supper. Under this rule, which lasted only to 1791, five persons were admitted to full com- munion, who felt unworthy of partaking of the Lord's Supper, viz. : Heze-
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kiah Latimer, Jr., and wife Rebecca (who became hopeful converts in the revival of 1799), Peletiah Parsons, and wife Roxy, and Dorthesias Hubbard.
Meanwhile, a great quarrel was going on in the society over the set- tlement of a pastor. The principal candidate. Rev. Solonon Walcott. was bitterly opposed - several of those who were inimical to him going so far as to " certify " themselves as having joined the Baptists. But his friends finally triumphed. and he was installed 24th May, 1786, re- reiving no settlement. but a salary of $300 and thirty cords of three- foot wood. The unhappy contention. however, to which his settlement had given rise, was still unhealed. The church, indeed, made a desper- ate attempt to extricate themselves from their embarrassment by the fol- lowing vote of 15th Nov .. 1790 : " This Church, conscious of their own imperfections, and of the failings of human nature, and earnestly desir- ous to be built up in gospel order and regularity, remembering their unhappy situation during the late contest, vote to forgive mutually their past offences towards each other, and to cultivate mutual peace and brotherly love." But even this pacific measure failed of its desired effect ; the malcontents would not return to the fold, and peace was only restored by Mr. Walcott's dismission in 1790.
Rev. SOLOMON WALCOTT, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1776; was ordained pastor at North Stamford. Conn., in 1780, and was dis- missed froi there in 1786. After leaving Wintonbury, he removed to Canajoharie, N. Y.
He was succeeded by the Rev. William F. Miller, who was ordained at Wintonbury, 30 November, 1791, receiving £100 salary, and the same allowance of wood as his predecessor. The membership of his charge then numbered fifty-eight ; and by his piety, taet, and faithfulness he succeeded in fully restoring the harmony and tranquillity of the hitherto divided flock, which was visited with several interesting seasons of re- vival. The most noticeable of these were in the years 1799 and 1800, when fifty-two were added, and 1808 and 1809 when forty were added to the church. Previous to his settlement, the Society threw out the Stratford rule, and re-adopted the vote of 6th October, 1785. They also voted " that the parson is only as any other church member."> And dur-
! "At a Church Meeting regularly assembled at Wintonbury Meeting House, by ad- journment, on the 4th day of October, A. D. 1791.
"Dea" Caleb Hitchcock, Moderator.
" The Question was put, whether this Church will suffer the practice of Peoples owning the Covenant, and having their Children baptized?
. Voted in the affirmative, by Seven; four were silent.
"Also voted that in future, none shall be admitted into full Communion with this Church except such as will attend upon all the Ordinances of the Gospel.
" One only dissenting.
" Voted unanimously, that it is the Opinion of this Church, that a settled ordained, VOL. 1 -38
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ing the years of Mr. Miller's pastorate, the church proceeded in an orderly manner. and after repeated attempts at conciliation, to deal with those members who, during the recent dissensions had left them and joined the Baptists.
The want of better and more sufficient accommodations for public worship had long been pressing upon the attention of the parish : and, as early as 1797, it had been voted in the Society meeting that ~ a subscrip- tion paper may circulate through this Society for raising money to build a new meeting-house on Whirlwind Hill, or on the old Meeting- house plain." Nothing came of this resolution, however, until a start was apparently given to the matter by a sermon preached in Wintonbury by Rev. Mr. Stebbins of simsbury, whom the late Rev. Allan McLean alludes to in his Half-Century Discourse, as an " intelligent, shrewd, and sarcastic " man, who not infrequently exhibited the latter traits not only in conversation but in his pulpit utterances. In this case, Mr. Stebbins preached from the text. .. Surely. the fear of God is not in this place." and is reported to have freely exercised his gift of sarcasm upon the ap- pearance of the ancient meeting-house, saying, among other things, " When you pass through a village and see the elapboards on the meet- ing-house hanging dingle-dangle by one nail, you may be sure that the love of God is not in that people." This must have been about 1800, in which year the matter seems to have been taken up in earnest. the society voting that a meeting-house should be built, if a place could be agreed upon. Subscriptions of money and gifts of timber, etc., were procured. the old church was demolished to make way for the new one, which was to occupy the same site: and during the summer and autumn of 1801. worship was held. according to the recollection of some who were lately living, under the spreading boughs of four great oaks, standing near to- gether-one of which still stands opposite the S. E. corner of the present (1890) edifier. A view of this second meeting-house is given in Barber's Hist. Coll. of Conn. It was fifty feet long and forty feet broad, and was first occupied on the occasion of its dedication, December 6, 1801, and a sermon was preached by the pastor, from Mark xi. 15, 16, 17. "Not a pew empty above, or below. A joyous day."
In June, 1808, the church adopted the Confession of Faith and Cov- enant now in nse, and, in 1811, Mr. Miller was dismissed, 133 new mem- bers having been admitted during his pastorate.
Minister, has no greater Authority in the Church, than any private Brother, except his being (of Course) Moderator, and holding a casting Vote.
" Voted, to appoint a Committee, and appointed M' Bissell, Dea" Hitchcock and M' Titus Burr in the name of this Church to confer with Me Miller, and communicate to him the Doings of this meeting.
" The above is a true Copy of Record.
"Test Hez' Bissell Chh Regr."
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Rev. WILLIAM F. MILLER was a graduate of Vale in 1786, a scholarly man. of strong mental grasp and ardent piety, as well as of a noble countenance and bearing. Several of his sermons were published and can be found in the Library of the Connecticut Historical Society. He was a good church historian : prepared for the above-mentioned society a very good digest of Wintonbury history (to which this sketch is in- debted ) ; and left very full and well-written accounts of transactions in the parish which immediately preceded and happened during his minis- try, especially as to the origin of the dissensions which led finally to his unsettlement. His labors in Wintonbury seem to merit the grateful re- membrance of this church.
He was succeeded by the Rev. JOHN BARTLETT, who was installed 15th February, 1815, dismissed 19th May, 1831. He was a brother of Rov. Shubael Bartlett of East Windsor: was born loth August, 1784, in Leb- anon, Conn. : graduated at Yale College, 1807 : settled at Warren, N. Y., 1×11; after he left Wintonbury, he was ( 1831-35 ) agent for the Bible Society : then settled, 1835-49. at West Avon, N. Y., where he contimed to reside until his death in 1866. His ministry at Wintonbury was fruit- ful of gool; forty-eight were added during a powerful revival in 1821 ; and, by letter and profession, over one hundred members during his ministry, and a record of much religious activity. During a part of his pastorate, an unusual amount of death and disease prevailed which prob- ably aided todeepen serious impressions. A Sunday-school was origin- ated during his ministry. 13th April, 1827. of which Dea. Enoch Frisbie was superintendent, and the Congregational Society received in 1821 from the will of Mr. Peletiah Allyn a very considerable addition to its financial resources.
Rev. ANSEL NASH, installed 7th April, 1831, was dismissed at his own request. February 24, 1835, to enter the service of the American Education Society, leaving a record of many additions to the church during his ministry. He was born at Hartford, Vt., graduated at Wil- liams College, 1809, and at Andover Theological Seminary; ordained pastor Tolland. Conn., 1>13-31: installed pastor, Bloomfield, Conn., 1×31-35; agent Am. Educ. Soe., 1835-39 ; preached at Rockville, Conn., 1839-41 ; agent Am. Edne. Soc., 1841-44; aeting pastor, Colchester, Vt., 1845-48; died at Brattleboro, Vt., 11th August, 1851, aged 63. - ( Dur- fee's Annals Williams College, 302. )
Rev. CORNELIUS B. EVEREST, installed at Bloomfield, Conn., 22d January, 1836, was born at Cornwall, 1789 ; graduated at Williams Col- lege, 1811 ; studied theology under Dr. Lyman Beecher of Litchfield, and Dr. Porter of Washington, Conn .; was an evangelist for two years ; or- dained pastor, Windham, Conn., 1815-27 ; ordained pastor First Church, Norwich, Conn., 1829-36 ; installed pastor, Bloomfield, 1836, whenee he
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was dismissed. 13th October, 1840; acting pastor, Poquonoek, Coun .. 1842-52, where he resided until his removal to Philadelphia in 1ss. where he d. 29th March, 1870, agrd >1. While at Bloomfield he com- memorated (1838) the Church's Centennial, from 1 Corinthians, iii. 9, " Ye are God's Builling." -(Minutes of Gen. Conference, 1569, p. 107.)
Rev. WILLIAM W. BACKES, grad. Yale College and licensed 1832 ; installed 24th March, 1841 ; dismissed 16th April, 1844.
Rev. DANIEL GIBBS, acting pastor, 1841-5 ; graduated at Middle- bury College, Vt. ; served in the West: once supplied a church in Now- town. Conn .; while at Bloomfield attempted to alter the Covenant, but was stoutly resisted.
Rev. ALFRED C. RAYMOND, installed Dec. 3, 1845 ; remained until 1848 ; resides at New Haven, without charge.
Rev. FRANCIS R. WILLIAMS, installed 30th Dee., 1851 ; dismissed 1858; afterwards settled at Chaplin. Con.
A new and beautiful church edifice, 82 by 48 feet in size, was exerted and dedicated Dec. 22, 1558, and furnished with a fine 1.564 Ib. bell and a clock. The steeple of this edifice was blown down in 1862, and rebuilt in 1-72; and in 1875 a new bell of 1,608 lbs. weight was pro- eured. The pulpit was supplied in 1860 and 1861 by the Rev. Samnet B. Forbes (later in business in West Winsted, Conn.).
REV. GEORGE B. NEWCOMB was ordained pastor 15th October, 1861. and dismissed 1866 : was afterwards acting pastor of the Dwight Place Church, New Haven, Conn. : in 1886, was a professor in the College of the City of New York. To a "Century and a Quarter" sermon. preached by Mr. Newcomb in Jannary, 1864 ( from 1 Corinthians, vii. 31) and to which we have had access in manuscript, we are indebted for some of the details presented in this chapter.
Rev. JAMES B. CLEVELAND was installed 31 Dec., 1867, dismissed 1875 ; since an acting pastor in Kensington, Com.
Rev. WILLIAM A. HALLOCK served the church from 1st May. 1875- 87; was acting pastor at Gilead, Con., then served in Watson. N. Y., until he returned to Connecticut.
Rev. EUGENE F. ATWOOD, 1887.
The membership of this church was, in 1738. 67; in 1791, 58: iu 1833, 118: in 1840, 93: in 1860, 100; in 1880, 137, with a Sunday- school of 115 scholars, and comprising 102 families.
The church has passed through the following rerivals, viz. : 1741. in which 12 members were added ; 1799, 54 added ( see Fowler's account of this revival in Conn. Evangel. May., ii. 268, 272, 285, 310): 1805, 10 added ; 1821, 48 added: 1825, -; 1832, 15 added ; 1834. 11 added; 1856, 11 added ; 1858, 17 added; 1864, 11 added: 1868, 32 added.
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THE BAPTIST SOCIETY IN WINTONBURY.
Ministers raised in this Parish. - WILLIAM CASE, grad. Y. C., 1821, and at Andover Theol. Sem., 1>21 : ordained pastor Chester, Conn., 1824- 35: acting pastor New Hartford, Con., 1835-6 ; w. c. East Windsor, 136-2: acting pastor Middle Haddam. Con., First Church, 1842-44 : teacher at Haddam. 1844-46: acting pastor North Madison, Conn., 1-46-47 : w. c. 1847-April 28. 1>58, when he died at Hartford, Conn., aged 62. (And. Cat., 1550.)
HEZEKIAH GOODWIN, preacher of the Gospel, who died in this par- ish, 1767, aged 27. was probably raised here. His name is on Rev. Hezekiah Bissell's death-roll. He graduated Yale College, 1761, being the first of his name among its alumni ( see Epitaph, Goodwin ).
Deacons chosen :
1738 Isane Butler, Samuel Case.
1801 Thomas Taylor.
1811 Elijah Loomis.
1759 William Manley.
1815 Enoch Frisbie.
1769 Reuben Case.
1816 Luther Fitch.
1828 Caleb Hitchcock.
1792 Col. Hez. Dissell. Dr. Caleb Hitchcock. 1845 Amos Gillett.
The Baptist Society in Wintonbury Parish. - The long and obsti- nate contention concerning the settlement of Rev. Mr. Walcott naturally alienated the minds of many of the Congregational Church members, who swelled the ranks of the " Separatists." This new sect, which dated from the " Great Revival" of 1740, had already made considerable prog- ress in Connecticut : and what tended to gain for it more proselytes in Wintonbury than anything else was a quarrel which occurred in Rev. Mr. Bissell's time between Abel Gillet,' a deacon in the church, and one John Hubbard. Mr. Bissell declined to side with either party, and, this being construed by Mr. Gillet as favoring his opponent, he left the church in anger and "turned Separate." Many of these Separatists became Baptists, and are first noticed in the affairs of the Old Society, in 1782. In 1786 they organized the First Baptist Church of Windsor, and settled as their pastor Ashbel (son of the above-named Dea. Abel)
Afkbel Gillet
Gillet. Steadily increasing in number, they built a small meeting-house in 1795, which has since been frequently repaired. Elder Gillet was most highly esteemed, even by those outside of the Baptist communion. His prayers were supposed to have special power with the Most High, so that he was much sent for to pray with the sick ; and if rain was needed,
! Father of the late Hon. Francis Gillette.
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especially during haying season. it was a common remark that there was " no use praying for rain until the parson's hay was in." Sometimes, in seasons of unusual drought, the people would turn out and help him got his hay in, and then send up their prayers for the needed relief. It is told of him that he once found a sheep straying after shearing and likely to perish, and that he took off his overcoat, wrapped it about the shiver- ing creature, and went to find its owner. And another story tells how Parson Miller, who had often ridiculed the Baptists, strayed away from his home on Whirlwind Hill, in a period of partial insanity, a little before his death, and made his way, barefooted, over the sharp snow- crust to the window of Elder Gillet's home, a mile and a half away : and how the good man arose and brought him him in, and devoted the rest of the night to warming and comforting the sufferer.'
Elder Gillet was succeeded by the Rev. Augustus Bolles, since whose time the church has had no settled ministry. In 1859 it was cared for by Rev. Ralph Il. Maine, at which time it had about fifty members. one of whom. Mr. Wealthy Thrall, then aged 95 years, was the only survivor of the original (twenty or so) members.
In the absence of the original church records, we gather, from the votes of excommunication and other official action of the Congregational Church, the following names of some who were original members of the Baptist order in Wintonbury, viz .:
Wd. Hepsihah Barnes, Joseph Fitch and wife, Prudence, Aaron Phelps and wife, Susanne,
Mary (wife of Samuch Eno,
Christian (wife of Caleb) Case, George Latimer.
Abel Pettibone and wife, Elisabeth,
A Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in Wintonbury 4 July. 1817, by the Rev. Aurora Seagar, a native of the place, who formed a class of three persons. viz .: Maria Palmer, Olive Hoskins, and Fanny Griswold. Edwin E. Griswold. afterwards Presiding Elder of the Bridgeport ( Conn.) District became connected with this class, March 20. 1818. The following preachers of this denomination have originated from this town: Aurora. Micah, and Schuyler Seagar; Edwin E. Gris- wold, Ebenezer Latimer, Walter W. Brewer, Reuben HI. Loomis.
The first church edifice was erected on Whirlwind Hill in 1833, and rebuilt on the present location, in the center of the town, 1854.
St. Andrews Protestant Episcopal Church originated in a contro- versy in the Simsbury Congregational Church in 1740, and its first edifice was erected in that part of Simsbury known as Scotland, and which was annexed, in 1843, to Bloomfield, forming the northwest por-
1 Mrs. E. S. Warner in Mem. Hist. Hurtford Co.
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tion of the town. near Tariffville and the railroad. The history of this parish, one of the oldest in the State, has been given by Noah A. Phelps in his Hist. of Simsbury. Granby, and Canton, 1845. After a lengthened suspension, it resumed services in 1863, and in 1868 was nearly sup- planted by an offshoot established by some of its members at Tariffville.
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