First Parish Church, Unitarian, Beverly, Mass. a vol. of historical interest pub. in honor of the 275th anniversary of the founding of the church on Sept. 20, 1667, Part 11

Author: First Parish Church (Beverly, Mass.)
Publication date: 1942
Publisher: [Beverly, Mass.]
Number of Pages: 264


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1787


Nathan Dane-Father of American Law-member of First Parish, as chair- man of the Resolutions Committee of the Old Congress, recommends a Con- stitutional Convention to be held in Philadelphia. He also drafts and carries to its final passage the Northwest Territory Ordinance of 1787. Meeting-house enlarged.


1795


Fourth bell installed, made by Thos. Dickerson and Sons, London.


1802


Joseph McKeen resigns to become the first president of Bowdoin College (1802-7).


1803 Fifth bell, made by Paul Revere and Sons, installed after the fourth bell cracks. Fifth bell recast by Wm. Blake and Co., Boston, in 1896. Now at the Immanuel Congregational Church, Ryal Side.


1803


1804


1804-27


Abiel Abbot becomes the sixth pastor (1803-28). Holds Unitarian views. Pulpit Bible rebound and singing pews furnished by ladies of the church. Abiel Abbot, as chairman of the school committee, elevates the standards of education in Beverly. In this period the church becomes Unitarian. The parish is the largest in New England, numbering about 3000 souls.


1810


Sunday School founded by two ladies of the parish, Joanna B. Prince and Hannah Hill, for neglected children of the town. It is first Sunday School known to have been organized in New England. Robert Rantoul is its first superintendent.


1822


Meeting-house first warmed by two stoves.


1828


1825 Robert Rantoul, parish clerk and deacon, a devoted member of the church, gives address of welcome to Lafayette when he visits Beverly on Aug. 31. Meeting-house draped in black for forty days at death of Abiel Abbot.


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1785


Lives on site of


1796


1714 1716


1735 The Beverly church belatedly accepts the Cambridge Platform of 1680, with modifications and exceptions, indicating a liberal tendency.


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1828 1830 1830 1831 (Aug. 8) 1831 1832 1832 (May) 1835 1836


Church presents a silver tankard to the Second Parish. Temperance movement makes great progress in Beverly.


Christopher Tappan Thayer becomes the seventh pastor (1830-58). Mr. Thayer serves as chairman of the school committee.


Dr. Joshua Fisher founds the Ministerial Fund with gift of $1000.


Church gives silver tankard to the Beverly Farms church. Ministerial Fund incorporated (Jan.) and trustees incorporated (April), with Robert Rantoul as chairman.


Israel Thorndike, liberal and devoted member of the church, dies.


Meeting-house remodelled, organ installed, and Willard clock placed in the tower.


1836


The name of the Beverly Charitable Society, founded by Dr. Joshua Fisher, changed to the Fisher Charitable Society, by Act of the General Court. Female Charitable Society organized, with women of the First Parish continuously among its leaders to this day, Mrs. Samuel P. White being its present president.


1842 1842


Meeting-house frescoed inside and out.


First Parish Sunday School, together with six others, celebrates Fourth of July in Ellis Square with over 2000 pupils present from the entire town. North side of church roof ruined by fire.


1844 1845 1859


Pulpit Bible again rebound.


John Calvin Kimball becomes the eighth pastor (1859-70). In the anti- slavery period several prominent members of the parish are vocal against the evils of slavery: Nathan Dane, Robert Rantoul, Jr., Charles G. Loring, and Charles W. Upham.


1867


Meeting-house remodelled, becoming, according to Rev. Edwin M. Stone, author of the "History of Beverly," the finest in the county, and one of the finest in the country at that time. Front architecture in Greek style, with fluted columns.


Two Hundredth Anniversary of founding of the church celebrated, with an impressive and scholarly address by Rev. Christopher T. Thayer.


1867 (Wed., Oct. 2) 1872 1880 1885 (Oct. 4) 1889 (Apr. 30) 1894 1895 1897 1898 1899 1902


Ellery Channing Butler becomes the ninth pastor (1872-94).


Meeting-house altered and new organ installed.


Seventy-fifth anniversary of founding of the Sunday School celebrated.


Parish celebrates Centenary of Washington's Inaugural.


William Bernard Geoghegan becomes the tenth pastor (1894-6). Parish Aid Alliance organized.


Benjamin Reynolds Bulkeley becomes the eleventh pastor (1897-1915).


Hannah Bray, friend and benefactor of the Sunday School, dies. The piano given by Miss Bray is still used on the stage in the Parish House.


William Endicott, business man and devoted member of the parish, dies, his life spanning the terms of twenty-five presidents of the United States. Meeting-house completely refurnished, new windows installed, and addition made to organ and the rear room.


Hymnal "Hymns of the Ages" compiled by Louisa Putnam Loring, who presented two hundred copies to the church.


1906 1909-10


William Howard Taft, President of the United States, attends summer services regularly, while residing at his summer "White House" in Bev- erly. Traditional pastor's pew (No. 84) occupied by the President and since marked with a plate.


1910


One Hundredth Anniversary of founding of the Sunday School observed. Tablet unveiled by Master Edward Ober, kin of Miss Hill, on southeast wall of the church, in memory of Joanna B. Prince and Hannah Hill, founders of the Sunday School.


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1904


Parish House at 9 Federal St. dedicated.


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1913 (Oct.) 1916 1917


Philip R. Morrill, the present sexton, begins his duties. The church's sextons have averaged over a quarter of a century of service each.


Pemberton Hale Cressey becomes the twelfth pastor (1916-20).


Tablet dedicated on south wall of the church in memory of the Rev. Ellery Channing Butler, ninth pastor.


1917 (Sun., Sept. 29) 1920 (Jan. 1) 1921 1925


Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of founding of the church ob- served, with address by the Rev. T. E. Waters of the Old North Church of Ipswich.


Old South Chapter, Laymen's League, organized.


Howard Charles Gale becomes the thirteenth pastor (1921-24).


Fred Rinaldo Lewis becomes the fourteenth pastor (1925-41).


Old South Club, an evening club for women, organized by Mr. Lewis.


1926 (Jan. 15) 1931 (Oct. 18) -


Roland W. Boyden, distinguished public servant of his country at home and abroad, devoted member of the parish, and superintendent of its Sunday School, dies while attending the Sunday service.


1931


Chimes installed as a legacy of Mary A. Butler, widow of Ellery Channing Butler, in memory of their son, Max Lovell Butler. The three morning and afternoon peals are variations of the old Dick Whittington tune and the two evening peals are variations of the Guildford chime.


1934


Choir of young people, organized by Mr. Lewis and trained by Ralph Emerson Stevens, the present organist, begins to make its successful and much appreciated contribution to the Sunday morning service.


1935


One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the founding of the Sunday School observed.


1941 (Oct.) 1942


Mr. Lewis resigns to become pastor of the Unitarian church in Gloucester. William Herman Gysan, Th.D., becomes the fifteenth pastor.


(Mar. 15)


Junior Church and Junior Choir organized.


(Apr. 12)


(May 24) John Hale Society organized for high school youth in the parish, and named in honor of the first minister of the church.


(Oct. 11)


Two Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of founding of the church to be observed at 2:30 p.m., with address by the Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Eliot, of Cambridge, descendant of Andrew Elliott, first town clerk. Installa- tion of Dr. Gysan as fifteenth pastor by Dr. J. Vernon Muir, chairman of the Parish Committee, at the close of the Anniversary service.


BENEFACTORS OF THE PARISH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL


MINISTERIAL FUND:


Dr. Joshua Fisher, Heirs of Israel Thorndike, Snake Hill Parsonage Land (sale), Charles Davis, C. T. Thayer Fund, Hannah Bray, William Endicott, Lydia Stone, Emeline S. Robertson, Hale St. Chapel (sale), and Mary A. Butler. Total: $22,362. GENERAL PARISH FUND:


Family of Roland W. Boyden, Abbey W. and Belle Hunt. Total: $40,000. MISCELLANEOUS FUND :


Robert Rantoul, Andrew W. Rogers, and Mary A. Butler.


TOTAL OF PARISH FUNDS: $64,962.


SUNDAY SCHOOL :


Charles Davis, Henry Woodberry, Hannah Bray, Albert Perry, Frances E. Wells, Elizabeth K. Foster, and Emeline Robertson. Total Sunday School funds: $8500. DONORS OF THE PARISH SILVER :


Robert Briscoe, Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Blowers, Hannah Stone, Deacon William Dodge, Capt. I. Herrick and sons, Deacon I. Wood and sons, Brethren and Sisters of the church (two pieces), Mrs. Mary Barnard, Mrs. Elizabeth Boyles, a Church Committee, Pastor and Deacons, and Mrs. Mary Dane. The silver collection consists of fifteen communion pieces and a baptismal bowl.


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INDEX


(Not including names in present church organization, page 106, or members of 275th Anniversary Committees, page 109.)


PAGE


- A -


Abbot, Abiel


1, 64, 114


Abbot, Dr. (Dane St.)


.7


Abbott, Joseph H.


75


Alliance, Parish Aid.


76, 107, 115


Andrews, William


23


Antiquity, Curious Items of


99


Anti-Slavery Cause


58 ff.,


115


Arminian


50


- B -


Bailey, Goodman


36


Baker


113


Balch, John


11


Balch, John, Jr.


81


Baptismal Bowl


100, 116


Barnard, Rev. John


99


Barnard, Mrs. Mary


99,


116


Barrett, Thomas


37


Bartlett, William


67


Bass River


113


Batchelder, Rev. Geo.


75


Batchelder, Josiah


81


Bells .... first, 18, 113; second, 113;


third, 114; fourth, 114; fifth, 114 Benefactors of the Parish and Sun- day School .... 77, 79, 80, 82, 83, 93, 95, 99, 116


Bennett, Cotton


83


Bequests to First Parish 79 ff.


Beverly, City of 111


"Beverly (hymn)"


.76


Beverly Church, Organization of 31


Beverly Farms Church 77, 115


Beverly Female Charitable


Society


92, 93, 115


10


Beverly Harbor


Beverly Ministerial Asso-


ciation


111, 114


Beverly, Name of


14


Beverly National Bank


91, 95, 96


Bible, Pulpit


77, 100, 114


Bi-Centennial Address


5


Bishop, Mrs. Elizabeth


113


Bishopp


113


Blacke


113


Blowers, Chief Justice


46


Blowers, Thomas


1, 46, 80, 99,


113, 114, 116


Bowdoin College


1, 57, 104, 114


Boyden, Albert


78


Boyden, Roland W


79, 96, 116


Boyden, Dr. W. C.


72, 75


Boyles, Mrs. Elizabeth


99, 116


Brackenbury


113


Brainard, David 26


Bray, Hannah


79, 90, 115, 116


Briscoe, Lieut. Robert ....


.. 77, 99, 113,


114, 116


Bulkeley, Benjamin Reynolds .. 1, 115 1, 2, 77,


Butler, Ellery Channing


93, 94, 115, 116


Butler Flower Fund


94


Butler, Mrs. Mary A.


77, 79, 80,


93, 94, 116


Butler, Max Lovell


2, 77, 116


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Cabot, Andrew


52,


85


Cabot, John


52


Cabot, Lydia 85


Calef, Robert


42


Cambridge Platform


114


Chair, of Joseph Champney 77


Champney, Joseph


1, 47, 100, 114


Cheever, Ezekiel


16


Children in Church 35


Chimes, Butler


2, 77, 116


Choir, the First


37, 114


Choirs, Senior and Junior


78, 116


Christening Robe


77


Christmas Presents (Rogers Fund) 96


Church School (1942) 107


Church Silver


77, 99, 116


Civil War, Beverly in the.


21


Cleaves, Deacon Benjamin


100


Communion Silver


77, 99, 116


Conant, Roger


9 ff., 11, 12, 22,


27, 113


Connant


113


Corning


113


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Corning, John


81


Cotton, John 22


Covenant


30


Creed


30, 31


Cressy, Pemberton Hale.


1, 77, 116


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Dane, Mrs. Mary


100, 116


Dane, Nathan


58, 114, 115


Davis, Charles


79, 87, 116


De Normandie, Richard C.


82


Dixey


113


Dodge


113


Dodge, Joshua


81


99, 116


Dodge, Deacon William


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Elders, Ruling (rejected)


29, 114


Eliot, Dr. Samuel A.


111, 116


Ellenwood


113


Elliott, Andrew, first Town Clerk of


Beverly


26, 81, 88, 113


Endicott, John


12, 22, 90


Endicott, Samuel


83


Endicott, William ...


79, 89, 115, 116


Essex Unitarian Association


111


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Fenn, Dan Huntington


111


Fisher Charitable Society


.. 84, 115


Fisher, Dr. Joshua


47, 79, 83,


115, 116


Ford, Edward


83


Foster, Elizabeth K.


79, 92, 116


Founding of the Beverly Parish .... 24


Fraser, A. Scott


76


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Gale, Bradford E.


111


Gale, Howard Charles


1, 111, 116


Galloupe, Augustus A.


100


King Philip's War


18


General Parish Fund


79, 116


Geoghegan, William Bernard .. 1, 115


Giddings, Charles S.


90


Gifts to First Parish


79 ff.


Goodridge, Samuel


105


Groves, Peter


102


Guildford Chimes


78, 116


Gysan, William Herman


1, 106,


111, 116


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Hale, Rev. Edward E.


75


Hale, John. 1, 26 ff., 32, 41, 45, 77, 101, 102, 113


Hale, John, Society .... 76, 78, 107, 116


Hale, Mrs. John


25, 41, 43, 113


Hale, Mrs. Rebeckah


113


Hale, Col. Robert


47, 102, 113


Hale St. Chapel


79, 116


Harvard College 1, 26, 47, 53, 54, 102


Haskall


113


Haskell, Samuel


81


Hayward, Nathaniel


102


Herrick, Capt. I. and sons


99,


116


Herrick, Edith


23


Herrick, Henry


23


Higginson, John


32


Hill


113


Hill, Hannah


2, 77, 114, 115


Hill, Hugh


52


Hill, John


101


"History of Beverly


(Stone)"


75,


115


Hour glass


36


Hubbard (Hobart), Joshua


and Jeremiah


26, 113


Hubbard, Robert


35


Hunt, Abby W. and


Belle


79, 97, 116


Hymns, Original


71-73


Hymnals


37


Hymns of the Ages


76, 115


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Installation of Fifteenth Pastor.


.111


Ipswich


31, 39, 77, 111, 116


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Jackson, Charles, James and Patrick 52


Jacobson, Henry


Frontispage


John Hale Society


76, 78, 107, 116


Johnson, Lady Arbella


.22


Junior Church


76, 78, 107


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Kimball, Emily O.


72


Kimball, John Calvin


1, 87, 115


Kirwan, Richard


52


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Lafayette welcomed by Robert


Rantoul


86, 114


Larcom, Lucy


72-3, 75


Lathropp


113


Laymen's League


76, 107, 116


Leslie, Bernard S.


Frontispage


Lewis, Fred Rinaldo


.. 1, 78, .111, 116


Lexington, Battle of


50


Liberties, Body of


23


Lightning, John Hale's


deliverance from


101


London Company


12


Loring, Caleb W.


75


Loring, Charles G.


61, 115


Loring, Louisa P.


76, 115


Loring family


.76


118


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Lothrop Club 76


Lothrop, Mrs. Thomas 25


Lothrop, Thomas


9, 15 ff., 19,


101, 113


Lovett


113


Lovett, Josiah II 82, 83


Luff


113


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Manchester, Unitarian Church 111


Mather, Cotton


42


May Festival


91


Meeting-house, The First


25, 113


Meeting-house, The Second .... 33, 113


Meeting-houses


2, 113, 114, 115


Ministerial Fund.


.93, 95, 115, 116


Ministers of the Parish 1


Ministerial Fund


.79,


83


Miscellaneous Funds


80, 116


"Modern Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft," by John Hale 113


Morgan


113


Morgan, Robert 102


Morrill, Philip R.


106, 116


Muir, Dr. J. Vernon


111, 116


Music


37


McKeen, Joseph .... 1, 55, 103, 104, 114


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Nichols, William Stanley


111


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Ober, Charles E.


Frontispage


Ober, Master Edward 115


Officers (1942) 106


Old South Chapter, Laymen's


League


76, 107, 116


Old South Club


76, 107, 116


Ordinance of 1787


60, 114


Organ


2, 115


Organization (1942)


106


Organizations (1942)


106


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Palfrey, Peter 11


Parish Aid Alliance


76, 107, 115


Parish and Church


29


Parish Funds


82, 116


Parish House


76, 115


Parish (Church) Silver .... 77, 99, 116


Parris, Mr.


44


Patch


113


Perry, Albert


79, 91, 116


Pierce, Calvin P. 79


Prides, William


81


Prince, Mrs. Joanna B ..


2, 77, 114,


115


Pulpit Bible


77, 100, 114, 115


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Rantoul, Robert ...... 61, 67, 75, 80, 83,


86, 89, 114, 115, 116


Ratcliffe, Philip


.23


Rayment, Jonathan


33, 102


Records of First Parish, Beverly .. 100


Religious Services, First in Beverly 17


Revere, Paul and Sons


114


Robertson, Emeline


79, 92,


116


Rogers, Andrew W.


80, 95,


116


Roundy, Deacon Robert


100


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Salem.


12, 24, 31, 32, 39, 113


Sallows, Abigail


113


School Committee 114


Seating Rules


34


Second Parish.


77, 111, 114, 115


Sexton.


36,


115


Silver, Church (Parish) .... 77, 99, 116 Singing-Pew .100


Snake Hill Parsonage Land .... 79, 116 Snake Hill Pasture 80


"Speaking Evil of Rulers" by Joseph McKeen 56


Spiller, Robert L. .... Frontispage, 111


Stevens, Charles


83


Stevens, Ralph Emerson .78, 106, 116


Stickney, Dr. Geo. A. and


Harriet


84


Stone


113


Stone, Rev. Edwin M .- "History


of Beverly"


75, 115


Stone, Hannah


.99, 116


Stone, Lydia


79, 92, 116


Stoves, first used in 1822


2, 114


Sunday School


91, 92, 96, 114,


115, 116


Sunday School Centennial


77, 115


Sunday School, Founding of .... 66, 114


Sunday School Fund


79, 116


Sunday School Superintendent,


first


114


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Taft, President


William H.


76-77, 115


Temperance Movement


115


Text used at reopening of meeting- house in 1835 49


Thayer, Christopher Toppan ...... 1, 5, 67, 72, 75, 79, 82, 84, 88, 115 Thayer, Christopher Toppan, Fund 79, 88, 116


Thayer, Mrs. Christopher T ..


.89


Thorndike, Hon. Israel ...... 47, 79, 85,


115, 116


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Thorndike, John, Jr. 99


Thorndike, Larcom 104


Thorndike, William 83


Times, Beverly Evening .Frontispage Town Clerk, first in Beverly 26


Two Hundredth Anniversary 5, 71, 75, 115


Tucker, Ernest S. Frontispage


Two Hundred Fiftieth


Anniversary


77, 116


Two Hundred Seventy-Fifth


Anniversary


116


Two Hundred Seventy-Fifth


Anniversary Committees


109


Two Hundred Seventy-Fifth


Anniversary Service


111


- U -


Unitarian Controversy 65


Unitarian views 114


Upham, Charles W.


62,


115


Upham, William P.


100


- W -


Ward, Nathaniel


23


Washington's Inaugural,


Centenary of


115


Waters, Rev. T. E. 77, 116


Watts, Psalms and Hymns. .37, 114


Wells, Frances E. 79, 91, 116


Wenham 31, 111


White, Mrs. Samuel P. 115


Whittington Chimes


78, 116


Willard Clock


115


Willard, Joseph


1, 50, 102, 114


Willard, Major Simon 19, 20


Williams, Roger


22


Wilson, Rev. Edmund B. 75


Winslow, Sidney W., First. 95


Witchcraft Delusion, The. 38, 113


Witchcraft Trials, John Hale's Role in 41


Witchcraft, Upham's History of. .43


Wolfe


113


Wood, Deacon I. and sons .... 99, 116


Woodberry 113


Woodberry, Charles 100, 101


Woodberry, Henry


79, 89, 116


Woodberry, John


11, 13


Woodberry,


Peter


100


Woodberry, Richard 81


Woodberry, William 13, 113


Worsley, Mary E.


71


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