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J. A. WATERMAN & CO.,. SADING CLOTHIERS FRANKLIN.
C. F. HARTTMANN, FURNITURE, CARPETS, STOVES, -AND-
House Furnishing Goods.
MORSE'S BLOCK,
FRANKLIN.
PICTURE FRAMING. UPHOLSTERING AND REPAIRING.
. BEST.
EXPERIENCE COUNTS.
FISHER'S INSURANCE AGENCY.
ESTABLISHED I853.
FIRE. LIFE.
ACCIDENT.
Gives Strongest Companies. Best Form of Policy.
Honorable Settlement.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.
Telegraph or Telephone at Agency's expense. Home Office at Medway, Mass.
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HISTORY AND DIRECTORY
FRANKLIN,
MASS.
C. E. GRIFFIN,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
RAY'S BLOCK, 3
FRANKLIN, -
MASS.
GEORGE W. WIGGIN, FRANKLIN, MASS.
SEWALL A. FAUNCE, HARRISON SQ., MASS.
WIGGIN & FAUNCE, ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS AT LAW. 27 SCHOOL STREET (Room 29), BOSTON.
RAY'S BLOCK, =
FRANKLIN.
GENTS' FINE FURNISHINGS.
43 LINGUEN STREET, BOSTON.
A. E. FOSS & CO., HISTORY AND DIRECTORY PUBLISHERS NEEDHAM, MASS.
RELIABLE HATTERS.
CE BROWN, PRINTER,
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ENLARGEMENTS
In Crayon, India Ink, Water Colors, and
PASTEL
ALL WORK Finely Finished.
All Negatives Preserved. Duplicate Orders can be had at any time.
E. E. REED, Artist Photographer,
DEPOT STREET,
- FRANKLIN, MASS.
A. E. FOSS,
DIRECTORY PUBLISHER,
NEEDHAM, - - MASS.
O. F. METCALF & SON,
- DEALERS IN -
Hay, Grain, Flour, Oats and Mill Feed.
ALSO, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
LUMBER AND BUILDERS' SUPPLIES.
Orders for Shop Work and Jobbing Promptly Executed. Packing Boxes and Cases a Specialty.
CENTRAL STREET, FRANKLIN.
HISTORY AND DIRECTORY
-OF-
FRANKLIN MASS.
FOR
1890.
CONTAINING A COMPLETE RESIDENT, STREET AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY, TOWN OFFICERS, SOCIETIES, CHURCHES, POST OFFICES, ETC., ETC.
AND A
HISTORY OF THE TOWN
FROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME.
Compiled and Published by A. E. FOSS & CO., Needham.
BOSTON : PRESS OF F. I. BROWN, 43 LINCOLN STREET, 1890.
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W. S. RUSSELL, DEALER IN
IRST LASS CONFECTIONERY. Fruits, Nuts, Cigars, g.c., ICE CREAM AND WATER ICES, No. I Metcalfs' Block, Main Street, Franklin, Mass.
M. E. POND, D. D. S.,
Gas or Eather Administered for the Extraction of Teeth.
Dental Office : EXCHANGE BLOCK,
MAIN STREET, - - FRANKLIN, MASS.
H. E. RUGGLES,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law. AGENT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO., N. Y.,
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
ROOM 5, MORSE'S BLOCK, FRANKLIN, MASS.
FRANKLIN SOAP MANUFACTORY, R. SOMMERS, Proprietor. -Make a Specialty of-
GRANULATED AMMONIA O SOAP. Best Soap in the World for Laundry, Kitchen or family use.
Saves money and time. Leaves the Clothes White. Does not injure the hands. Pound Package 10 cents. All grades of Family, Laundry, Fulling and Scouring Soaps.
For Sale by all Grocers and at the Manufactory.
ENCOURAGE HOME MANUFACTURERS.
Factory : Dean Ave., - - Franklin, Mass.
CONTENTS
Abbreviations Used, 86
Business Directory, - 129
Churches, - 68
Fire Department,
84
Historical Sketch,
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Index to Advertisers,
- 139
Post Offices, -
66
Resident Directory,
- 86 -
Schools and Teachers,.
67
Societies, -
74
Street Directory, - 64 -
Town Officers,
-
- 83
H. J. FOLGER & CO.
Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods.
OPERA HOUSE BLOCK.
LEADERS FOR LOW PRICES IN OUR LINE.
FRANKLIN, MASS.
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C. W. STEWART,
AGENT FOR THE
National and White Star Line of Foreign Steamers,
And for FIRST-CLASS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. B. F. Savings Bank Building.
Cor. Union and Central Streets, Franklin.
JJ J. STEWART, Is always ready to recelve orders for
T-E-A-M-I-N-G OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
Furniture and Piano Moving a Specialty.
Estimates Furnished at short notice on contracts for Grading, Excavating, &c. Stone furnished for Wells. Cellars, &c. Steam Boilers, Engines and heavy machinery of all kinds moved at short notice.
Orders left at R. B. Stewart & Co's. Carriage Factory, or by mail will receive prompt attention. P. O. Box 115.
Residence and Stable, King and Peck Streets, Franklin.
HOTEL DARLING,
MAIN STREET. ONE MINUTE FROM DEPOT
ACCOMMODATIONS FIRST CLASS.
Electric Light. Well heated. Comfortable Quarters for the Travelling Public
A HOTEL WHICH ALL DRUMMERS SEEK.
RATES $2.00 PER DAY.
N. E. DARLING, - -
PROPRIETOR.
FRANKLIN DIRECTORY
ALFRED BRIGGS,
PROPRIETOR OF THE
FRANKLIN HOUSE
BOARD BY DAY OR WEEK,
TRANSIENTS ACCOMMODATED AT REASONABLE RATES.
A Good Livery Opposite
H. A. PLYMPTON, D. V. S. +:+
LIVERY, SALE AND BOARDING STABLE.
Horses, Carriages and Harnesses of all kinds for sale or Exchange. Also Teams with careful drivers to any part of the Country
Union Street, near Central, Franklin, Mass,
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CRESCENT * HOUSE, A
COR. MAIN AND CRESCENT STS, FRANKLIN.
ACCOMMODATIONS * FIRST * CLASS,
ELECTRIC LIGHT. STEAM HEAT.
Situated on the Highest Land in Town.
Four Minute Walk from Depot.
FREE CARRIAGE TO THE HOUSE.
S. J. CAPRON, PROP'R.
S. W. THAYER,
- DEALER IN-
Boots, Shoes, Rubbers.
A full Stock Constantly on land. All Goods warranted as represented.
BUY YOUR BOOTS AND SHOES
AT THE
FRANKLIN BOOT AND SHOE STORE, . MAIN STREET.
HISTORY OF FRANKLIN.
More than two hundred and forty years ago when the for- est trees had withdrawn their shadows hardly the distance of an Indian's arrow-flight from Boston Common, the Puritan immigrants began to feel an impulse to "go West."
Following rather than leading this impulse, the Governor and his court, in session at Newtone, Sept. 2, 1635, ordered " that there shall be a plantation settled about two miles above the falls at Charles River, on the northeast side thereof, to have ground lying to it on both sides of the river, both upland and meadow, to be laid out hereafter as the court shall direct."
September 8th of the next year. 1636, this order was fol- lowed by another, naming the new settlement " Deddham " and this grant of territory was so large as to include what now forms thirteen towns and parts of four others.
Twenty-four years passed away, and the new settlers so spread that in 1660 thirty-four of them bought of the Wam- panoags six hundred acres of land still farther west, for one hundred and sixty pounds. They adopted the Indian name Wollomonopoag. Among their still familiar names were Anthony Fisher, Sargent Ellis, Robert Ware, James Thorp, Isaac Bullard, Samuel Fisher, Samuel Parker, John Far- rington, Ralph Freeman and Sargent Stevens.
Oct. 16, 1673, a petition for the incorporation of Wollo- monopoag as a town was presented to the General Court, and with, to us, astonishing promptness, was granted " the
'The greater part of this Historical Sketch is taken from the His- tory of Norfolk County, published in 1884. By special permission of the author.
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next day "-so say the colonial records. Thus Wrentham, the namesake of the English home of some of the settlers, took her place and name in history.
The settlement increased so steadily that in 1718 it was dividied into four school districts, each with a three month's school. These afterwards became substantially the shoots of three substantial towns, the chief of which was Franklin, the others Norfolk and Bellingham. The next year (1719) the first precinct was set off and called Bellingham.
After many petitions and refusals, Wrentham reluctantly gave her consent, and, on the 23d of December, 1737, Gov- ernor Belcher with his signature cut off a second precinct, which in forty years grew into the town of Franklin.
THE NEW PRECINCT .- The first warrant to organize the new precinct was issued by Jonathan Ware, justice of the peace, and was addressed to Robert Pond, Daniel Hawes, David Jones, Daniel Thurston, and John Adams, five of the freeholders. The other petitioners were : David Pond, John Failes, Samuel Morse, Michael, Wilson, Ezra Pond, Samuel Metcalf, Ebenr. Sheckelworth, Ebenr. Partridge, Thomas Man, Sr., John Smith, Eleazer Metcalf, Josiah Haws, Joseph Whiting, Eleazer Fisher, Simon Slocum, James New, Uriah Wilson, Edward Hall, Nathaniel Fisher, Samuel Partridge, Daniel Maccane, Baruch Pond, Nathaniel Fairbanks, Jonathan Wright, Benjamin Rockwood, John Richardson, Job Part- ridge, Thomas Rockwood, Robert Blake, John Fisher, David Lawrence Jr., Eleazer Ware, Eleazer Metcalf, Jr., Ebenezer Lawrence, Michael Metcalf, Ebenezer Hunting, Edward Gay, Nathaniel Haws, Ebenr. Clark, David Darling, Ichabod Pond, Lineard Fisher, David Lawrence. In all 48.
The first meeting was held on the 16th of January, 1737- 38, at twelve o'clock. The needful officers were chosen, and four days later, at a second meeting, they went to work with a will. First, they voted eighty pounds for preaching, and appointed a committee to secure it ; another committee was chosen to provide materials for a meeting-house in place of the small building heretofore provided, to be forty feet long, thirty-one wide, and twenty-feet posts. They also sent a request to Wrentham for the fufillment of a promise made them ten years before, that money paid them, amount-
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ing to one hundred and thirty pounds eleven shillings, towards its meeting house should be repaid to them. At first Wrentham refused, but after four months' delay the request was granted.
FIRST CHURCH AND MINISTER .- Meantime, a church must be organized to occupy the new meeting-house when built, and listen to a minister yet to be called. Some twenty brethren, having secured letters from the mother- church at Wrentham, kept the 16th of February, 1738, " as a day of solemn fasting and prayer to implore the blessing of God and His direction in the settling of a church, and in order to the calling and settling of a gospel minister in said place." And on that day in a large assembly the covenant was read and accepted, and Rev. Mr. Baxter of Medfield, moderator, pronounced them a duly-organized church of our Lord Jesus Christ. Without any listening to miscellaneous candidates, they united upon their first selected preacher. On Nov. 8, 1738, Rev. Elias Haven was installed as the first pastor of the new church. The audience assembled, not in the meeting-house, as it was not yet built, but in a valley near its future site. After sixteen years of ministerial work, performed in physical weariness and pain, Rev. Mr. Haven died of consumption, and God gave him rest from his labors, Aug. 10, 1754, in his fortieth year. The stones placed by a re- membering town over his grave in the old cemetery still stand, and the inscription thereon may be legible for years to come.
THE MEETING HOUSE .- The precinct having an organized church, a settled minister and his salary provided, and ma- terials ready for a church building, its next duty was to select a site whereon to build. This, as in the first settlements of all New England towns, must be at the centre of its territory ; for in those early days no house was permitted to be built above half a mile from the meeting-house without leave of the Court. At a meeting of the settlers, held 7th of April, 1738, five men were sent into a corner " to Debate and Con- sider and Perfix upon a place for Building a Meeting-House on and bring it to the Precinct in one hour. Meanwhile, the rest spent that hour in voting and unvoting until they reached an apparent finality, -to set the house " at the most conven- ientest place on that acre of Land That was laid out By
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Thomas Man for the use of the West Inhabitants in said Precinct." But who shall decide where this "most con- venientest place " is ? Mr. Plimpton " survair " of Medfield, is selected to bring his implements to bear on the solution, who reports for the west corner of Man's lot "as near as they conveniently can." But next year, May 9th, 1739, a new question arises, whether this be the exact centre of the precinct, and a new surveyor is called to this problem. He and his two chainmen are put under oath to honestly " sur- vey the ground where the meeting-house shall shortly lie" May 23d he reports in writing as follows :
" To the Inhabitants of Wrentham, Westerly Precinct,
Gent1 :- These may Inform you that I the Subscriber Have Been and Measured to find the Center of sd Precinct, Mess.s Decon Barber and Benj. Rockwood being chainman, and according to what we find by Measuring on the Ground from the Northerly End to the Southerly End and from the Westerly Side to the Easterly Side of the Same I find the Center of sd Measuring to be South westerly from the Present Meeting- house a little Beter than an Hundred Rods, where we Pitched a Stake and Made a heap of Stones. Eleazer Fisher, Surveyor."
The deed of an acre of land from Thomas Man was accepted Sept. 11, 1739, and was put for safekeeping into the care of Simon Slocum. In the same month of September, another committee put seats in the barn-like building accord- ing to the timber provided, and " one lock and key and bolts and latches for the doors, and cants " for the gallery stairs, and also a foundation for the pulpit and pulpit stairs, and rails round the galleries, and made five " pillows "-a small number for a modern audience. The bills, presented March 3, 1740, show that the committees had been reasonably expeditious. The final cost of the meeting-house was £238 13s. 6d., as reported in October, 1741. The boys, too, were promptly at work, for in July, 1740, Capt. Fairbanks is directed to get the windows mended, and to prosecute the depredators.
Pari passu with the meeting-house arose the " horsehouses," whose long strings of successors afterwards made the Franklin Common so famous. They were all planted and grew on Thomas Man's acre. Among them were Richard Puffer's " small diner-house," and Isaac Heton and Dr. Jones had a " small noon-house."
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Of this oldest real meeting house no picture or description is in existence. Some of the sashes, two feet square with five-inch panes of glass set diagonally in lead, were visible in an old house not many years ago, but of their present whereabouts, if they exist at all, no man knoweth.
The building stood on the slight hill north of the present Catholic Church, in a surrounding girth of dwarfish pitch- pines. It was guarded by platoons of horse-sheds and some small dinner houses, where the forefathers of the hamlet shared their lunch and exchanged opinions, and the mothers nursed their infants and compared news during the hour's noon intermission of the Sabbath service.
The first house was used-subjected to occasional internal modifictions as the congregation increased and the taste changed-until Oct. 12, 1789, forty-eight years from its completion. A committee was then chosen to sell the outgrown and aged building within twenty days, or to pull it down at their discretion. As there is no record of its sale, it was probably taken down. Next to the house and its minister comes
THE CHURCH MUSIC "y Olden Time."-The " Old Bay Psalm-Book " was used at first in all the colonial churches. A chorister started the tunes with a pitch-pipe, and the congregation, each in his own good time,-which might be faster or slower than the leader's-followed on or has- tened ahead. All sang the same part, and with an energy begotton of facing northeasters, felling forest trees, and shouting to tardy oxen winding among their stumps. No two sang alike, and the sounds were so grevious to the ears of the people that their distress found voice in a vote of the precinct, June 26, 1738, " to sing no other tunes than are Pricked Down in our former Psalm Books which were Printed between Thirty and forty years Agoe, and To sing Them as They are Prickt down in them as Near as they can." The older people remonstrated against this invasion of their liberties, but the precinct refused in September, " to ease those that were inclined to sing the old way." Six months later, March 8, 1738-39, the church " voted to sing by rule, according to note," and chose Joseph Whiting to set the tunes in the church. Later in the same
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evening some curious soul stirred up the brethren by the query, " What notice will the church take of one of the brethren's stricking into a pitch of the tune usually raised February 18th ?" For answer, another vote was recorded :
" Whereas, our brother, David Pond, as several of our bretheren, viz., David Jones, Ebenzer Hunting, Benj. Rockwood, Jr .. Aaron Haws and Michael Metcalf, apprehend, struck into a pitch of the tune on Febru- ary 18th, in the public worship in the forenoon raised above what was set; after most of the congregation, as is thought, kept the pitch for three lines, and after our pastor had desired them that had raised it to fall to the pitch that was set to be suitable. decent or to that purpose ; the question was put. whether the church apprehends this our brother David Pond's so doing to be disorderly ; and it passed in the affirmative, and David Pond is suspended until satisfaction is given."
But David Pond froze over at this cold blast of reproof and suspension, and his musical thermometer went below zero, where it stayed for thirteen years. At last, Jan. 12, 1751-52, he melted into confession of error, and all discord was drowned in harmony.
Another vote of the church on this subject is significant. May 18, 1739, it was voted: "That the man that tunes the Psalm in the congregation be limited till further direction to some particular tunes, and the tunes limited are Canterbury, London, Windsor, St. David's, Cambridge, Short One Hun- dredth, and One Hundredth and Forty-eighth Psalm tunes ; and Benj. Rockwood, Jr., to tune the psalm." Ten years' practice so wore upon these seven permitted tunes that, April 5, 1749, the church removed the limitation and the hymns thereafter flowed smoothly on in many separate streams like the voice of many waters. All went musically, as between the tunes, for a time ; but on April 15, 1770, sprang up a war of rival hymn-books which lasted for five years, until the 4th of July, 1765, when it was decided by the victory of Dr. Watts' version of the psalms over the Old Bay Psalm- Book, and Tate and Brady's version of psalms and hymns. Dr. Watts remained in possession of the field for nearly ninety years, until the Puritan hymn-and-tune-book, born in Mendon Association in 1858, raised him also onto the shelf of antiques.
THE PRECINCT MINISTERS .- Rev. Elias Haven, the first minister of the young church, after sixteen years of pastoral
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labor in failing health, through which he was tenderly helped by a loving people, died of consumption in 1744, and was buried in the central cemetery of the town, where a stone still stands to his memory. Then came the trying experi- ence of hearing candidates and selecting his successor. But they sat down patiently to scrutinize whomsoever came be- fore them ; and the sitting, if not the patience, lasted for six years. One after another preached in review before them. Aaron Putnam, Joseph Haven, Stephen Holmes, Thomas Brooks, a Mr. Norton, Joseph Manning, to whom they said, " Stay with us," but he declined ; Messrs. Parsons, Good- hue, Phillips, Payson, who also declined their call ; Jesse Root and Nathan Holt, who refused to stay ; John Eals, Mr. Gregory, and at last came Caleb Barnum, of Danbury, Conn. He, the fourteenth candidate, was urged to stay by one hun- dred and two votes, and was offered seventy pounds salary per annum, and one hundred and thirty-three pounds settle- ment as an additional motive. After several months of consideration, he finally accepted, and was settled June 4, 1760, and six years after the death of Mr. Haven.
Rev. Caleb Barnum was the son of Thomas and Deborah, born in Danbury, June 30, 1836; graduated at Princeton, 1757, and received an A. M. in 1768 from both Princeton and Harvard. His brief pastorate of eight years was full of divers disturbances, not the least of which was the hymn-book conflict already mentioned. Some differed also from his opinions and beliefs as preached from the pulpit, and some left to attend Separatists' meetings, but the majority vindi- cated the pastor. The differences seemed to be more between the precinct and the church than the church itself ; but the minister stood as a central figure between the two parties, and was attacked by both. His resignation was caused by these dissensions, and being made final, despite their reluc- tance to grant it, he was dismissed March 6, 1768.
The next February he was installed over the First Congre- gational Church in Taunton. In 1775 he joined the army of the Revolution, and became chaplain of the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, Col. John Greaton, then near Bos- ton, Feb. 10, 1776. On the return of his regiment from Montreal he was taken sick at Ticonderoga, and discharged
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July 24, dying at Pittsfield, Aug. 23, 1776, aged thirty- nine.
Once more the pulpit was empty, and again a procession of candidates appeared. One and another was called upon to stop, but each declined, and they all moved on. Then the people looked each upon his neighbor, and asked," Why will no one stay with us?"
The meeting-house, now thirty years old, and too small as well as growing old-fashioned (for there was even then a fashion for meeting-houses), was pondered upon as a possi- ble obstacle. Therefore, in 1772, they chose five men to " consult upon the conveniences and inconveniences of en- larging and repairing their meeting-house, and to draw a plan thereof and report."
Meanwhile, the committee of supply had in some way heard of a young graduate of Yale College who had preached in New York State, and was now among the New Hampshire hills. He was small in stature, with a thin, small voice, and he hesitated about appearing before a church containing two such vigorous and bellicose parties. But he came, October, 1769, and essayed to fill the vacant pulpit. So well did he supply their needs, and so thoroughly did they test him, that on Nov. 30, 1772, the church, by a vote of thirty-two out of thirty-four, invited him to become their pastor. Two weeks later the precinct heartily seconded their invitation, and April 21, 1773; Nathaniel Emmons was settled as the third precinct minister. The service was held out of doors, like that of both of his predecessors, in the valley west of the present Catholic Church.
The memory of Dr. Emmons' life and ministry is still bright in the town where he lived and labored for more than fifty years. His namesakes are found in many a family, and many a town and state, while anecdotes of him and his pithy apothegms are still currant, and still bright as new coin, and more valuable for use.
In one aspect Dr, Emmons has been and still is misrepre- sented. He was not curt, dogmatic, and repellent. He was not unsocial and austre to his people, nor a bugbear to the young. He was affable, genial, and witty, and enjoyed a good joke as keenly as any. In the pulpit his clear-cut and
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logical sentences sharpened the intellects of his hearers and made them alert, discriminating, and clear-headed thinkers, having settled opinions of their own. He ruled, therefore, only by always moving in the line of his people's intelligent convictions. They knew him to be simply following truth, and they had to follow his guidance because he justified to them every step of his way.
Dr. Emmons' active ministry continued about fifty-four years, from April 21, 1773, to May 28, 1827. Twice during this time, in 1781 and again in 1784, he became discouraged in his work and asked for a dismission; but his people unanimously refused to grant it. Before the close of 1784 a powerful revival added seventy to his church, quickened his weary spirit, and ended his discouragements. During his fifty-four years of work three hundred and eight were gathered into the church. But his slender physique could not forever second the strong spirit within, and in his eighty- third year he fainted in the pulpit while preaching a sermon from Acts ii. 37 (see " Emmons' Works," vol. vi., p 688.) He then knew that his earthly work was done, and a quiet waiting for the Master's call to " come up higher " was all that remained to him here. His letter of resignation to his people is worthy of a place in this history for its loving simplicity :
" Franklin, May 28, 1827."
" To the members of the Church, and to the members of the Religious Society of this place.
Brethren and Friends :- I have sustained the pastoral relation to you for more than fifty years, which is a long ministerial life. The decays of nature, and increasing infirmities of old age and my present feeble state of health, convince me that it is my duty to retire from the field of labor which I am no longer able to occupy to my own satisfaction nor to your benefit. I therefore take the liberty to inform you that I can no longer supply your pulpit and perform any ministerial labor among you ; and, at the same time, that I renounce all claims upon you for any future ministerial support, relying entirely on your wisdom and goodness to grant or not to grant any gratuity to your aged servant during the res- idue of his life.
Nathaniel Emmons."
After thirteen years of patient waiting, he died Sept. 23, 1849, at nearly ninety-six. Dr. Emmons' funeral, Monday, September 28th was attended by ministers and people from far and wide. It was the last service held in the old church which his voice had dedicated fifty-two years before. The next day the carpenters began their alterations.
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