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The Home Department was formed in February, 1886, and since that time has enrolled 90 persons, the present number being 30. In this period $165 have been contributed to missions, and the average of lessons studied has steadily increased, being now about 40 per member yearly.
The Chapinville School was organized in its present form in September, 1880, by Mr. Norton, assisted by some of the young men of the church, and it was in his charge up to the beginning of 1894. It is now in charge of Mr. Albert H. Shepard of that place. The attendance is about 30.
The Institute School was organized by Dr. Henry M. Knight in 1860, soon after the Institute itself was started. The scholars range in age from 8 to 60, and comprise one of the most interesting schools in the state. They follow the International lessons, sing the gospel hymns, and learn passages of scripture. The past year the attendance has
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been, at an average, 95. The teachers now in charge are the Misses Velie, Johannsen, and Van Rennselaer.
The Mt. Riga School is maintained by the co-operation of our own and the Methodist churches, although Mr. Marcus Sherwood has done more for it than all others together. It is held in the schoolhouse near the dam, and enrolls about 30.
Our interest in these schools is in some cases partial, but, counting only our own proportion, it appears that the church to-day has a Sunday-school roll of 390, and an average attendance of 280. The S. S. benevolence exceeds $250 a year.
The Temperance Sunday-school was begun by Mr. T. L. Norton in December, 1880. It now meets monthly the second Sabbath afternoon. Is composed of scholars from our own and the Methodist churches, and aims to give systematic instruction in temperance principles.
THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF THE CHURCH.
In addition to Sunday-school instruction, the training of our young people has been cared for in several ways. In 1887 the young men were gathered into a religious organiza- tion called the Order of St. Paul. It was through their help that several Sunday-schools were started and maintained, until most of them had gone to college or left the town. They helped also to circulate the Salisbury Bible Card, a series of daily scriptural readings which were used in this vicinity until the handbooks of The Congregationalist supplied the want, and the card was discontinued. In April, 1887, The King's Daughters were organized, and maintained a vigorous life until the beginning of '94, when both organ- izations were merged into the now flourishing Y. P. S. C. E. The Endeavor Society has now about thirty members and is an efficient, earnest band of growing souls. The pres., is George Parsons ; vice-pres., Miss Minnie Suydam ; sec'y and treas., Miss Della Parsons.
The Mission Band was formed in 1891, and aims to train the smaller children to an intelligent interest in missions. The Band meets once a month, has about 30 on its roll, and is succeeding admirably in its aim.
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THE LADIES' SOCIETIES.
The spirit of Dorcas and Abigail has always been rife in this church. Mr. Norton has spoken of the benevolent work during the war, but it needs to be said that the same zeal has shown itself in less stirring times for soldiers under another flag. As far back as June of 1835 a sewing society was organ- ized, of which The Lakeville Sewing Society is the lineal descendant. In 1859 The Salisbury Ladies' Aid Society was formed. September 7, 1874, saw the birth of the Woman's Board of Missions, and October 1, 1884, that of The Woman's Board of Home Missions. All these organiz- ations render active and devoted service to the cause of the Kingdom in various ways. The past year they raised in money and goods $576.
THE DEVOTIONAL MEETINGS.
The prayer meetings of the church are well supported. It is a devout congregation. The general meetings are held on Sunday night at 7.00 o'clock, and on Wednesday evening at 7.30. The pastor usually leads, although, in his absence there are six or eight others who do so. The subjects are taken from The Congregationalist or The Advance, also from the Endeavor list. It is not uncommon to have an attend- ance of 80. Some people are helped by the Sunday night meeting who attend no other religious service.
The Endeavor Society has of course its weekly meeting, which is at 6.00 o'clock Sunday evenings. It has as many as twenty or twenty-five leaders, and an attendance varying from 25 to 40.
The Ladies' Missionary meeting is held once a month at private houses, alternating between Salisbury and Lakeville.
A Preparatory meeting is held before each Communion on Friday afternoon.
Teachers' prayer meetings are conducted by the super- intendent occasionally, and Cottage meetings are held quite often, especially in the winter months.
A Town Farm meeting is maintained by Deacons Mer- win and Wilson, a great blessing to its aged inmates.
THE CHURCH RECORDS.
T HE records proper consist of four volumes, the first two folios, 13 x8; the last two quartos, 10x 7. With them is a collection of papers, letters-missive, reports, confes- sions, statements, etc., preserved in a tin box, but little back of 1800. The town records supply ecclesiastical data for the first sixty years, and the society's books shed light on "the temporalities " since 1804.
1744, Nov. 22, appears the first entry in the old pig-skin folio in the handwriting of Rev. Jonathan Lee, being the transactions of the first council.
1788, March 16, is the last entry, the year of his death. It is the admission, apparently, of Mrs. Abigail Galusha, and is as follows: "wife of Mr. Gelush." Mr. Lee was un- trammeled in his spelling, especially in names. One may even find Ketcham spelled with a C, viz. : “ Ephe- riem Cetchum," the reverend speller being led thereto, it would seem, by the familiar auricular association of "catch" and "ketch." On this account it is wise in searching for names to look farther than the usual initial, for our first pastor had a sweeping way of rel- egating family names from their alphabetic classifica- tion to the apostolic category of "any other creature." 1788, Oct. 31. Here begins Col. Adonijah Strong, recording as his first entry the death of Rev. Jonathan Lee on Oct. 8th, and ending with the settlement of Mr. Cross- man June 28, 1797.
1798, April 22. Rev. J. W. Crossman's handwriting appears and continues until within three months of his death in 1812; his last entry is the baptism in September of " Almira, Emily, Julia Ann, Samuel Church, and Har- riet, children of Jonathan Scoville and wife."
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1813, Jan. 17. "Asa Hutchinson was chosen scribe for this church," and wrote the rest of book 1, the last entry being the account of the council installing Mr. Hyde in 1818.
1818, March 17. Rev. Lavius Hyde began the second folio, repeating the account of the council, and continuing for four years. The best penman to date.
1822, Oct. 13. Lot Norton began his term.
1825, Feb. I. Rev. L. E. Lathrop's entries begin and con- tinte for eleven years.
1837, Jan. 20. Timothy Chittenden served for a few months. 1837, Sept. 27. Rev. Adam Reid appears and continues the records for forty years to a month. His writing is very regular and shapely for the first twenty years, but about 1857 it becomes more angular and loses evenness until it seems to be another hand altogether.
1877, Oct. 6. Deacon Graham served for a while.
1878, Jan. 4. Rev. C. L. Kitchel's term begins and continues until Oct. 9, 1881, the records, especially the statistics of benevolences, showing great nicety and elegance of pen- manship. Mr. Kitchel had a bank training.
1881, Dec. 30. Rev. L. H. Reid wrote until Jan. 31, 1883.
1883, Feb. 4. Deacon Graham resumed the pen, and con-
tinued as church clerk until his death in 1888, another person assisting him somewhat.
1889, March I. Deacon H. S. Wilson's records begin and continue to date. While the writing of Mr. Hyde, Mr. Lot Norton, Dr. Reid, Mr. Kitchel, and Dr. L. H. Reid are exceptionally fine, as well as accurate, it would be difficult to find anywhere more beautiful penmanship than that of the present church clerk.
The earlier books ought to be rebound or reinforced so as to preserve their original covers. It would be a wise thing, also, for the church to prepare a register of members, baptisms, marriages, admissions, dismissions, deaths, coun- cils, and officers, as there is constant and increasing demand for all this information, especially as relates to the previous century.
THE SOCIETY.
T HE Congregational Society was organized November 12, 1804. Col. Joshua Porter was moderator of the meet- ing. Asa Hutchinson was made clerk; Silas Moore, treas- urer; Abner Northrop, collector. The first committee were Samuel Lee, Elisha Sterling, and Adonijah Strong. It was voted to lay a tax of I cent on the dollar on the grand list of the year 1804, to defray expenses. The next year the rate was fifteen mills; by 1812 it was 2 cents on the dollar ; by 1816, 21/2 cents ; 1817, 3 cents ; 1820, 4 cents ; while from 1822 to 1824 it was 5 cents, after which taxation was abolished and the pews were sold, or "leased," as it was termed.
In 1805 a committee of fourteen was appointed "to seat the meeting-house," and it took every man of them to do it! This seating committee was appointed annually thereafter, usually one from each school district, and what with having to say to one, "Friend, go up higher," and to another, "Sit thou here under my footstool," they found life a serious business. In 1821 their report was carried by the narrow margin of 23 to 20, and finally refused altogether. There is no known way of seating a meeting-house to suit everybody.
In 1808 we find $25 appropriated "for the purpose of encouraging singing," a sum which rose to $60 and $75 annually afterward.
In 1810 is a vote of $15 in favor of Rev. Mr. Kinney " for supplying the pulpit three Sabbaths in the absence of Mr. Crossman," about the same proportion to the salary as now.
In 1820 it was proposed to rent the pews, but the pro- position was stormily voted down. In 1824, however, the vote carried, " that we sell the pews in the meeting-house to defray the expenses of the society so far as the avails thereof will enable us to do." Evidently the fathers felt the innova- tion to be hazardous to the exchequer, but the society's
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committee were able to report the gratifying news next year that the sale of pews had amounted to $776.75, or rather more than the usual income. The avails continued at about that figure until after Dr. Reid's settlement, when they rose to more than twice that sum, and with some fluctuations even higher; in 1894 the pew rents were $1,686.
The records of the society shed some light on the troubles during Mr. Hyde's pastorate. It appears therefrom, that on calling him the vote of the society stood 43 to 8. Two years afterward, when he offered his first resignation, his majority was 63 to 4, a substantial gain. The council called for reconciliation is fully treated in six folio pages, apparently by the famous Dr. Lyman Beecher, who was one of the council, and evidently its leading spirit. The following tribute to Mr. Hyde is from his report. “ We re- gard with surprise the estimate which has been made by some of their pastor, . . . in point of scholarship he was surpassed by few, if he was by one, in his class. At Andover he stood high in the estimation of the professors, and in the churches abroad he stands high among the first class of young ministers."
Asa Hutchinson was the first clerk of the society from 1804 to 1817; Judge Samuel Church from 1817 to 1824; Wm. C. Sterling, 1824 to 1828; Myron Hutchinson, 1828 to 1870, a term of 42 years ; Daniel Pratt from 1870 to 1890, and Theodore F. Dexter from 1890 to date.
The following votes passed in 1824 show that some of those attending church were not hopefully pious :
" Voted, to have a tything man set in the north gallery for the purpose of preventing as far as possible the defacing of the house."
" Voted, that the society's committee be directed to draw an order in favor of Lot Norton, Esq., for $10, it being on account of a counterfeit $10 bill received by said Norton as society's committee."
In 1827 we find them voting to "insure the meeting- house for $4,000."
In 1835, " Voted, that we will not permit the meeting- house bell to be rung for the benefit of the school kept in the academy."
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At the same meeting which called Dr. Reid in 1837, Churchill Coffing, Geo. H. Lee, John C. Coffing, Moses Wells, and Geo. C. Dodge, are elected to membership.
In 1848 the society passed resolutions of acceptance and gratitude on occasion of the legacies of Capt. John C. Coffing ; as they did also in 1890 on account of the Scoville Brothers benefactions.
The officers of the society at present are :- Committee, Fred'k P. Miles, chairman ; Henry S. Wilson, Albert P. Felts. Clerk, Theo. F. Dexter. Treasurer, Rev. Lyman Warner.
The report of November, 1894, showed an income from pew rents of $1,686.38; from the Scoville fund, $487.50; from the Coffing parsonage fund, $29; from the weekly offer- ings, $433.02 ; from subscription for repairs, $610 ; a total of $3,245.90. The expenses were for salary of minister, $1,700 ; for organist, $250; for sexton, $100; for church repairs, $605.53 ; for parsonage repairs, $116.79; for all other expenses, $207.28 ; a total of $2,979.60.
The society's annual meeting and sale of pews is in- variably held the day after Thanksgiving.
THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY FUNDS.
T HE Church and Society may be said to have no funds worth speaking of, or funds of considerable worth, according as we view the case. In the sense of having moneys in hand to administer at will, or to use as desired, we have next to nothing : in the sense of having the benefit of moneys in trust, to be applied in specified ways, we are fairly well provided for. The exact case is as follows : there are six funds of one kind and another.
I. The Walton Fund, bequeathed in 1810 by Mrs. Esther Walton "for the support of the communion table." The fund is administered by the treasurer of the church, and now amounts to $27, which is in the Salisbury Savings Bank.
2. The Coffing Sunday-school Fund, bequeathed in 1847 by John Churchill Coffing, consisting of the sum of $200, whose interest is "to be paid for the benefit of a Sunday-school of the congregation worshiping in the Congregational Meet- ing House." The fund is administered by the selectmen, and yields $12 per annum.
3. The Parsonage Repairs Fund, bequeathed in 1847 by John C. Coffing, consisting of $500, whose interest is "to be applied and expended for the purpose of keeping in repair the parsonage and grounds." This is administered by the Society's committee: is invested in a western farm mort- gage of $250 and a deposit of $250 with the Salisbury Savings Society. The former bears six per cent., the latter four.
4. The Coffing Fund for the Encouragement of Religion and Morals, bequeathed and so named by John C. Coffing in 1847. It consists of $500, which was to be placed at interest until it had doubled five times; after that "the interest shall be forever applied for the use and benefit of said Congrega- tional Society." This fund at present consists of $5,000 in debenture bonds and $882 deposited in the savings bank. Administered by the Society's committee.
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5. The Caroline Davis Fund, bequeathed in 1870 for the Sunday-school. Of this legacy $135 has been expended for books, and about $50 remains in the savings bank. [1894.] It is administered by the treasurer of the Church.
6. The Lois Church Scoville Fund, bequeathed by Na- thaniel Church Scoville in 1890, consisting of $10,000. It is administered by the Farmers' Loan and Trust Co. of New York city, and yields at present $487.50 to the benefit of the Society.
These six funds represent a principal of $16,659.
NOTES ON SALISBURY BY REV. THOMAS ROBBINS, D.D.
The Rev. Thomas Robbins, D.D., son of Rev. Ammi Robbins, the first pastor of Norfolk, and allied in kinship with the family of our own Mr. S. S. Robbins, kept a diary from his senior year in Williams College, 1796 to 1854, scarcely missing a day. This has been edited by Rev. Increase N. Tarbox, D.D., and printed in two large volumes by the Connecticut Historical Society. It is a perfect mine of information on this region, and contains numerous refer- ences to Salisbury which I append, by the kindness of Mrs. S. P. Robbins, owner of a set of the books. The entries are sometimes followed by an explanatory note of Dr. Tarbox's.
1797, April I. " Mr. Crossman here to-day. Has a call at Salisbury ; £200 settlement, and £120 salary." "The ordinary form of settling a minister at that time. The £200 was to provide a house and lands, and the other was for yearly support."
April 22. "Warm. ... My father (Rev. Ammi Robbins of Norfolk) went to change with Mr. Crossman."
June 28. "Suppose there is an ordination at Salisbury to-day. Sleep with my window open constantly." Correct, Mr. Crossman was ordained this date.
Sept. 27. "Good weather. General training at Salis- bury. Some frost."
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1798, Oct. 21. "Preached for Mr. Farrand (of South Canaan), who preached at Salisbury."
1799, Oct. 9. "Rode to Taunton (Mass.). Tarried at Col. Crossman's. They were very kind." This was the father of our Rev. J. W. C. Being a military man, it is in- teresting to observe that he gave his son a military name, Joseph Warren.
1803, Aug. 25. "Left home for a long tour, as I hope, in the service of my Redeemer. Rode through Salisbury into New York State; tarried at a poor tavern."
1806, Sept. 30. " Rode with my father to Salisbury, and met with the Association (the Litchfield North Association). The Association examined and licensed four young men who appeared very well. They acknowledged me as one of their number." "These four young men were Rev. Fred- erick Marsh, pastor at Winchester from 1809 to 1851, who died in that town in 1873, aged 93; Rev. Timothy P. Gillet, life-long pastor at Branford, 1808 to. 1866; Rev. Heman Humphrey, D.D., long the able President of Amherst Col- lege; and Rev. Bennet Tyler, D.D., called to be head of the Connecticut Theological Institute, now the Hartford Theo- logical Seminary. It is rare that a ministerial association has the opportunity to license in one day four young men destined to so large a measure of Christian service."
1807, Feb. 21. " Mr. Crossman of Salisbury has been here this week to commence a course of discipline with this church (Winchester) for their treatment of Mr. Bassett."
1812, Dec. 28. " We have favorable accounts from Rus- sia. I hope Providence is about to limit the successes of the French conqueror. On the 20th, heard of the surprising death of Rev. Mr. Crossman of Salisbury. He had a good constitution and was in the midst of his days."
1829, July 24, Hartford. "Mr. Hyde of Bolton called on me." Rev. Lavius Hyde, who was twice pastor of Bolton.
1831, June 14. "Rode with Mr. Marsh of Winchester, to Salisbury, in heat and dust, and met with the Association. Nearly half of the members were absent. Almost every society has more or less of a revival."
1837, April 26, Bedford. " At evening attended the For- eign Mission meeting. Mr. Bird, a missionary from Pales-
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tine, with us and spoke." Rev. Isaac Bird born at Salisbury ; Yale, 1816; Andover, 1820; died at Great Barrington, 1876.
1844, Dec. 7. "Wrote to Mr. Reid of Salisbury." Dr. Tarbox's note on Rev. Adam Reid, " He was a sturdy, abid- ing man."
1847, Jan. 16. “ Received a very good letter about obitu- aries from Rev. Jonathan Lee of Salisbury." This was the grandson of the first pastor.
1847, June 9. " Received a letter, a very good one, from Mr. Lot Norton of Salisbury." Lot Norton was graduated at Yale in 1822, and died in 1880.
LETTERS OF REGRET.
FROM THE REV. ALBERT H. PLUMB, D.D.,
Pastor of the Walnut Ave. Congregational Church, Roxbury, Boston, Mass.
3 HAROLD ST., ROXBURY, BOSTON, Nov. 21, '94.
Dear Mrs. Robbins :
I thank you for your very kind invitation to the 150th anniversary of the Salisbury Church. As a representative of the descendants of the first minister of the parish it would give me much pleasure to share in the festivities and con- gratulations of so memorable an occasion. It would not only be a great privilege, but I should feel that I had some right among you all to felicitate ourselves and our country generally, on the sturdy virtues, the industry and honesty, frugality and charity, the patriotism and piety of the fathers, who laid the foundations of our national prosperity and honor. They had their frailties and deficiencies as we have, but their steady fidelity to truth as they saw it, their humble . endeavor to meet the daily obligations of their lot in the fear of God were of such large influence that "they builded
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better than they knew," and the institutions of our broad land to-day feel the power of the character they exhibited and the principles they confessed.
ALBERT H. PLUMB.
FROM THE REV. SAMUEL J. ANDREWS, D.D., Author of " The Life of Our Lord," Hartford.
HARTFORD, Nov. 21, 1894. My Dear Mr. Goddard :
I have received an invitation to be present at the observ- ance of your one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of church life. Were it not for the exposure of the weather and the distance, I should go, but I have been taught by some ex- perience that it is better for an old man to keep near his own fireside in these changeable autumn days. I have many pleasant recollections connected with the church at Salisbury, going back to Dr. Lathrop's pastorate. My first preaching there was in 1846, when Dr. Reid was absent in Scotland. I had just been licensed and the sermon I then preached was the earliest I wrote. Most of those then active are gone. I preached again about '60, but how long or under what circumstances I do not at this moment recall. Dr. Reid was either unwell or was again absent.
I thus feel a personal interest in your celebration, and shall hope to find some fit account of it in the papers, or in pamphlet form.
Please remember me.
I am very truly, S. J. ANDREWS.
FROM THE REV. SAMUEL HARRIS, D.D., LL.D., Dwight Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Seminary.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., NOV. 16, 1894. Dear Bro. Goddard :
Please present to the committee my thanks for the invi- tation to attend the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
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your church. I should very much enjoy being with you and the church on that interesting occasion, but my engage- ments here are such that I shall be unable to attend. I trust the services will be spiritually quickening and that the church will start on its fourth half-century with renewed enthusiasm and energy.
Very truly yours, SAMUEL HARRIS.
THE ILLUSTRATIONS.
T HE picture of the church exterior is from a recent photo- graph by Sheldon of Winsted, furnished by Mrs. Harriet W. Warner. It gives an excellent view of the tower and belfry, surmounted by what the fathers' contract called the " decent vane." It shows the white coat, which, as con- trasted with the dark tint of St. John's, has given rise in the village to the familiar names " The White Church " and " The Brown Church." The building beyond is the Acad- emy, and the space between is part of the Meeting-house Green or Training Ground of old. In the Academy's "upper chamber " the prayer-meeting has been held for many years. Between the church and Academy, over the letter B, appears the head of old Barrackmatiff; this is crowned by a tree shaped like a cross, but scarcely distinguishable in the picture. C marks the Centennial Elm set out by the town in 1876. In front of the Academy, over E, is the elm, which, when a sapling, Silas Wells brought on his back and planted there. Its girth is now more than fourteen and a half feet. P marks the town-post, plastered with legal notices. K is the iron kettle, familiarly known as "The Kittle," placed there by George Coffing, fed by a fine spring that also sup- plies the Library and the station, where more than a hundred teams water every summer day.
The interior view was taken by Mr. Thomas Martin from a point near the center doors. By holding a little ways off the perspective and detail will appear better. The
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church does not commonly have such a "dim religious light."
The Town Hall picture was taken by the same from a window in the Library, a position chosen so as to show the old burying-ground back of it. Here are the graves of Rev. Jonathan Lee and Rev. J. W. Crossman, also of Rev. Jas. Glassbrook, a candidate in the last century, who died on the field. Had this publication been anticipated last summer, a more cheerful view would have appeared. As it is, the winter view, while colder, shows the relation to the foot-hills of Mt. Riga.
The picture of Rev. Lavius Hyde is furnished by his son, Deacon T. C. P. Hyde of Andover, Conn. It was taken in 1863, when Mr. Hyde was 74, and, although more than forty years after his Salisbury pastorate, shows the clear kindly eyes and strong chin that must have distinguished him then. His granddaughter, Miss Mary E. Hyde, writes of him and his gifted wife, Abigail Bradley of Stockbridge, "They had two daughters born in Salisbury, and afterwards had six other children. My grandfather had pastorates in Bolton, Ellington, Wayland, Mass., Becket, Mass., and a second one in Bolton. In all places he showed rare tact in gathering and teaching children, and his memory still re- mains as fragrant incense. He died at Vernon, Conn., April 3, 1865."
Dr. Lathrop's picture, although an old one, is considered by his family "wonderfully good." It was obtained of his daughter, Mrs. Emma Lathrop Booth, wife of the Rev. Robert Russell Booth, D.D., pastor of a Presbyterian church in New York city. Mrs. Booth was born in Salisbury in the house now occupied by Dr. Burtch, then owned by Dr. Lathrop. She writes, "All that you say of my father's geniality is true ; he was always the most beloved of pastors, as my dear mother was of pastors' wives." Dr. Hickok of Union College preached his funeral sermon at Sharon in 1857, saying of him, "He was genial, cordial, social, stead- fast, and always trustworthy."
Dr. Reid's picture is from a crayon taken for Mrs. Coffing, and is generally considered a most satisfactory likeness. The mouth shows more evidence of humor than some other portraits of him.
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Mr. Kitchel's is a very fine likeness, as also that of Dr. L. H. Reid and Mr. Norton.
The pictures of the deacons are of unequal merit artistic- ally, owing to the differences in ancient and modern photography. That of Deacon Whittlesey is from an old tin-type and very small.
Efforts to obtain pictures of the first two pastors were unsuccessful, and it is not known that any likeness, even a silhouette, of either is extant.
The last picture, that of the present pastor, is added in compliance with a written request of his people.
IN CONCLUSION.
With full knowledge of its unavoidable omissions and short-comings, this little volume is issued, in hope of its add- ing something to our fathers' deserving honor, something to the present love we bear our Christian home, and something to the interest of those who come after us. And with our fathers and our children will we ever pray,
God Bless Our Church.
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INDEX OF NAMES.
Abrams, Rev. F. D., 10. Andrews, Rev. S. J., D.D., 79. Averill, Chester, 48. Averill, Robert, 26.
Ball, Robert H., 59. Barden, Edwin J., 55. Barnes, Albert E., 55, 60. Bartlett, Loring, 21. Bates, Admatha, 54. Beebe, Samuel, 17.
Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, 26, 41. Beecher, Rev. Lyman, D.D., 73. Bellows, Samuel, 17.
Bingham, Caleb, 20. Bird, Rev. Isaac, 78.
Bird, Dea. Joseph, 9, 16. Bissell, Chas. H., 3.
Bissell, Hiram J., 3, 10. Booth, Mrs. Emma Lathrop, 81. Bostwick, Mrs. Eliza Joanna, 49. Bostwick, Joseph, 55. Bostwick, Robert, 59. Bosworth, H. Pitt, 55, 60. Brewster, Lyman D., 26. Buell, Eliphalet, 21. Buell, Dea. Nathaniel, 9, 16, 19, 20, 35. Burrall, Geo. B., 3, 10, 21, 66. Burrall, Mrs. Mary B., 10, 67. Bushnell, Rev. Albert, 63. Bushnell, George, 55. Bushnell, William, 18.
Camp, Dea. Hezekiah, 9. Chipman, Dea. Thomas, 9, 17. Chittenden, Dea. Timothy, 9, 71. Church, Albert E., 48. Church, Samuel, 5, 15-17, 73. Clapp, President, 33. Coffing, Churchill, 74. Coffing, Fannie Elizabeth, 12.
Coffing, Mrs. Fannie Williams, II, 49, 81. Coffing, George, 11, 55, 80. Coffing, John Churchill, 10, 17, 27, 43, 74, 75. Coffing, Mrs. Maria Birch, 10. Crossman, Colonel, 77. Crossman, Rev. Joseph Warren, 5, 9, 15, 36, 64, 70, 72, 76, 77, 81.
Davis, Caroline, 76. Day, Hon. Thomas N., II. Deane, Rev. James, 54, 63. Dexter, Jennie O., 67.
Dexter, J. Newton, 55. Dexter, Mrs. Mary L., 67.
Dexter, Theodore F., 67, 73, 74.
Dodge, George C., 59, 74. Dutton, Thomas, 19.
Eddy, Rev. Hiram, D.D., II. Edwards, Rev. Jonathan, D.D., 31, 34. Eldridge, Rev. Joseph, D.D., 41.
Farnam, Peter, 20. Farrand, Rev. Daniel, 77. Felts, Dea. Albert P., 9, 74. Fuller, Robert N., 26.
Galusha, Mrs. Abigail, 70. Gardner, Rev. Austin, 8. George, Rev. Jas. H., 10. George the Second, 11, 31. Gillet, Rev. Timothy P., 77. Gladden, Rev. Washington, D.D., 45. Glassbrook, Rev. James, 81. Graham, Dea. Moses L., 9, II, 21, 47, 48, 59, 71. Granger, Simeon, 18. Griggs, John S., 66.
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Hamilton, Alexander, II. Hanna, Rev. Chas. W., 10. Harris, Rev. Samuel, D.D., 79. Harrison, Mrs. Harriet, 42. Harrison, Jared, 20, 59, 66. Hibbard, Rev. Augustine G., 8, 10, 14. Hickok, Rev. L. P., D.D., SI.
Holley, Alexander H., 5, II, 23, 43, 48, 59. Holley, Alexander L., 11, 23, 26, 48, 54. Holley, Rev. Horace, D.D., II. Holley, John C., 23.
Holley, John M., II.
Holley, Mrs. Marcia Coffing, II.
Holley, Mrs. Maria, 42.
Holley, Mrs. Mary Ann Coggswell, II. Holley, Mrs. Sarah Day, 8, 11, 12, 44. Hotchkiss, Mrs. Maria H., 27.
Hubbard, Henry, 59.
Hubbard, Mrs. Jane R., 10, 67.
Humphrey, Rev. Heman, D.D., 77. Hutchinson, Asa, 11, 71, 72, 73.
Hutchinson, Dea. John, 9, 21, 42.
Hutchinson, Mrs. Mary Smith, 37, 42. Hutchinson, Dea. Myron, 9, 42, 59, 73. Hyde, Mrs. Abigail Bradley, 81.
Hyde, Rev. Lavius, 5, 9, 38, 64, 66, 71, 73, 77,81. Hyde, Mary E., 81. Hyde, Dea. T. C. P., 81.
Janes, Bishop Edmund S., 10. Jay, John, 35. Jester, Rev. T. Darlington, 10.
Jewell, Mrs. Andrew, II.
Jewell, Dea. David, 9, 48.
Jewell, Mrs. Mary Walton, 48, 67.
Jewell, Dea. Oliver, 9, 11, 47, 48, 59, 66. Johannsen, Miss, 68.
Kelley, Col. H. D., 59. Kelsey, Dea. Matthias, 9. Ketcham, Ephraim, 34, 70. Kinney, Rev. Mr., 72. Kitchel, Mrs. Alice Lloyd, 63. Kitchel, Mrs. Ann Sheldon, 63. Kitchel, Rev. Cornelius Ladd, 8, 9,
10, 12, 22, 27, 28, 30, 41, 44, 45, 46, 63, 64, 71, 82.
Kitchel, Rev. Harvey Dennison, D.D., 63.
Kitchel, William Lloyd, 63. Knickerbacor, Cornelius, 16. Knight, Dea. Henry M., 9, 11, 21, 29, 30, 41, 44, 59, 66, 67. Knight, Dr. Geo. H., 3, 10. Knight, Mrs. Kate Brannon, 12. Knight, Oren H., 54.
LaPlace, Mrs. E. R., II, 67. Lathrop, Rev. Leonard E., D.D., 5, 9, 38, 39, 64, 71, 79, 81.
Lathrop, Mrs. L. E., 38. Lee, Mrs. Elizabeth Metcalf, 33.
Lee, George H., 74.
Lee, Mrs. Harriet Landon, 10.
Lee, Rev. Jonathan, 5, 9, 15, 17, 22, 23, 33, 34, 35, 55, 63, 64, 70, 81. Lee, Rev. Jonathan, 2d, 5, 53, 78.
Lee, Joseph, 17.
Lee, Dea. Milo, 9, 20.
Lee, Samuel, 72.
Little, Robert E., 31.
McNeill, Virgil F., 55. Marsh, Ebenezer, 16.
Marsh, Rev. Frederick, 77.
Martin, Thomas, 67, 80.
Merwin, Dea. John L., 8, 9, 25, 69.
Miles, Frederick Plumb, 3, 74.
Milliken, Rev. Charles D., 10.
Mills, Rev. Samuel J., 35. Moore, Rev. Daniel M., 10.
Moore, Mrs. Cornelia Landon, 26.
Moore, E. Lewis, 55.
Moore, Samuel, 11, 17, 48.
Moore, Silas, 72.
Moore, Silas Brewster, 48.
Nettleton, Rev. Asahel, D.D., 37, 49. Northrop, Abner, 72.
Norton, Lot, 11, 19, 20, 59, 66, 71, 73, 78 . Norton, Susan Reid, 67. Norton, Thomas, 12. Norton, Thomas Lot, 7, 9, 12, 28, 40, 52, 55, 66, 67, 68, 82.
Orton, Thomas B., 55. Owen, Elijah, 34.
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Parks, William, 59. Parsons, Della E., 68. Parsons, George Eugene, 68. Peck, William K., 21. Perkins, Charles, 67. Pettee, Joseph, 11. Pierpont, Rev. John, 10. Plumb, Rev. Albert H., D.D., 78. Porter, Col. Joshua, II, 34, 72. Porter, Peter B., 11. Pratt, Daniel, 59, 73. Pratt, Rev. Henry, 63. Pratt, Louise, 26. Pratt, Mrs. Olive Gay, 11, 26, 37.
Raymond, Henry J., 54. Reid, Rev. Adam, D.D., 5, 9, 12, 22, 23, 29, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 52, 53, 63, 64, 73, 74, 78, 79, 81. Reid, John G., 59, 60. Reid, Rev. Lewis Hubbard, D.D., 8, 9, 10, 12, 26, 46, 71, 82. Reid, Mrs. Maria Fuller, 26. Reid, Robert A., 9, 10, 12, 57.
Reid, Mrs. Wilhelmina, 42. Reid, William D., 55, 59. Robbins, Mrs. Ann B., 10. Robbins, Rev. Ammi R., 76. Robbins, Mrs. Sallie Porter, 76, 78. Robbins, Samuel S., 35, 76. Robbins, Rev. Thomas, D.D., 19, 76. Roberts, Albert, 67. Rudd, Malcolm Day, 8, 23, 24, 67. Rudd, William B., 3.
Sage, S., 36. Sanford, Joseph, 16. Scoville, Jonathan, 22, 45, 46, 70. Scoville, Mrs. Lois Church, 46, 49, 76. Scoville, Nathaniel Church, 22, 46. Scoville, Samuel C., 59, 70. Sedgwick, Frederick, 26. Sharpe, Allenia, 67. Sheldon, Col. Elisha, 35. Shepard, Albert H., 67. Sherwood, James, 55.
Sherwood, John, 55. Sherwood, Marcus E., 67, 68. Spencer, Dea. Job, 9. Smith, Dea. Gideon, 9, 66. Smith, John, 32. Smith, Thomas N., II. Starr, Rev. Edward C., 10. Sterling, Elisha, 72. Sterling, William C., 73. Stiles, Mrs. Francis, 11. Strong, Col. Adonijah, 20, 70, 72. Strong, Ellsworth H., 67. Suydam, Minnie A., 68. Sweet, John H., 55.
Tarbox, Rev. Increase N., D.D., 76. Trumbull, Senator Lyman, 54. Turner, Wolcott, 21. Tyler, Rev. Bennett, D.D., 77.
Utterwick, Rev. Henry, 10.
Van Deuzen, Henry, 16. Van Rennselaer, Elizabeth V., 68. Velie, Miss, 68.
Walker, Col. Robert, 17, 19. Walton, Mrs. Esther, 75.
Warner, Donald J., 3.
Warner, Mrs. Harriet Wells, 80.
Warner, Rev. Lyman, 10, 74.
Warner, Mrs. Maria Hutchinson, 67.
Washington, George, II, 31, 35. Wells, George Lee, 55, 60.
Wells, Moses, 18, 74. Wells, Silas, 49, 59, 80. Whittlesey, Dea. Eliphalet, 5, 9, 21, 41, 66, 82. . Whittlesey, Capt. Elisha, 19. Whittlesey, Rev. Elisha, 63. Whittlesey, John, 19, 20. Williams, Mrs. Clare Kingman, 12. Williams, Hubert, 3. Williams, Mrs. Maria Holley, 11, 30, 48. Wilson, Dea. Henry S., 9, 10, 67, 69, 71,74.
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