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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.
Compiled by the Minister September, 1942
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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
· C -
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
117
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Corning, John
81
Cotton, John 22
Covenant
30
Creed
30, 31
Cressy, Pemberton Hale.
1, 77, 116
- D -
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
· E -
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
- F -
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
- G -
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
- H -
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
- J -
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
- M -
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
- N -
Nichols, William Stanley
111
- 0 -
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
- P-
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
- S -
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
- T-
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
119
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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
120
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