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George Remington, Second Battalion Heavy Artillery, one year, mus- tered out September 3, 1865.
William H. Smith, band of the Fifteenth, discharged August 9, 1865.
David F. Smith, Company G, Tenth Massachusetts, wounded at Fair Oaks, and discharged.
Jason G. Smith, navy gunboat Freeborn, afterwards First Sergeant in Company G, Fourth Cavalry, mustered out November 14, 1865.
Lucian W. Spencer, - Twenty-first, Teamster.
Francis F. Spencer, Company H, Fifty-first, mustered out July 27, 1863.
Oliver Stone, Company A, Twenty-first, discharged.
John Stone, Company C, Twenty-fifth, re-enlisted and was mustered out.
Thomas A. Stone, Sergeant Company H, Fifty-first, mustered out July 27, 1863.
William A.Sears, Company H, Thirty-fourth, died of wounds received in battle, June 18, 1864.
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Paul Sarboro, Company H, Thirty-fourth, wounded at Stickney's Farm, mustered out June 16, 1865.
Warren F. Sikes, Company G, Tenth New York cavalry.
Terrence Smith, Company II, Fifty-first Massachusetts, nine months.
Alvin S. Streeter, Junior, Company H, Fifty-first Massachusetts, nine months.
Charles B. Sumner, Company A, Forty-fifth (cadet), nine months, mustered out July 8, 1863.
Albert Saunders, - Twenty-first, discharged for disability, re-enlisted into Second Heavy Artillery, mustered out.
William Shumaker, Company E, Fourth Cavalry, taken prisoner at Petersburg, Virginia, died at Andersonville, September, 1864.
David Stone, First Cavalry.
William Sabin, Company H, Fifty-first Massachusetts, nine months mustered out, re-enlisted in Company A, Thirty-fourth Massachusetts, killed July 9, 1864.
John Spencer, Company F, Fourth Cavalry, died at Fortress Monroe, November 19, 1864.
Charles Seymour, Company G, Second Heavy Artillery, died a pris- oner at Charleston, South Carolina, September 1, 1864.
Austin Stevens, drafted, entered service, and was discharged for disa- bility, July 1, 1864.
John Tanner, drafted July 13, 1863, entered Company B, Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, and was killed July 13, 1864.
S. Judson Tiffany, Company F, Thirty-fourth, wounded and taken prisoner at New Market, Virginia, May 15, and died at Andersonville, September 1, 1864.
Edwin E. Tiffany, Company A, Forty-fifth (cadet), nine months, dis- charged January 13, 1863, and re-enlisted in A, Seventh New York, promoted Sergeant, was detailed to staff of General Hicks, and made Second Lieutenant, mustered out May, 1865.
Patrick Tallis, Company F, Fourth Cavalry, deserted in March, 1864.
Kayson Tiernay, Company H, Thirty-fourth, mustered out June 16. 1865.
John Tully, Thirty-fourth, enlisted into Company A, Fifty-seventh, and died at Alexandria, Virginia, May 16, 1865.
Everett A. Town, Company C, Fourth Cavalry, one year, mustered out November 14, 1865.
Alonzo Vinton, Company II, Twenty-fifth, mustered out for re-enlist- ment in Second Heavy Artillery, mustered out September 3, 1865.
Waldo Vinton, Company H, Twenty-first, mustered out for re-enlist- ment in Second Heavy Artillery.
Albertus A. Wibur, Second Battalion Heavy Artillery, one year, mus- tered out September 8, 1865.
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Daniel Walker, Sergeant Company K, Twenty-second, wounded at Gaines' Mill, June 27, and again at Fredericksburg, December 17, 1862, mustered out October 8, 1864.
Edward Wald, Company C, Twenty-first, discharged for disability November 15, 1862.
Alexander Wald, Company H, Thirty-fourth, discharged for disability December 18, 1863.
Leonard G. Webster, Company H, Fifty-first, nine months, mustered out July 27, 1863.
John K. Walker, Company II, Fifty-first, nine months, discharged for disability March 3, 1863.
Captain Salem Marsh, fell at Chancellorsville, May 1, 1863, in com- mand of the Second United States Regulars, twenty-eight years of age, a graduate of West Point, in 1860, a native of this town.
Colonel Samuel Jamison, of Second Minnesota, promoted from Cap- tain, a native of this town, and recently a resident.
NAVY.
William Blute, discharged July, 1865.
Cornelius Cummins, West Gulf Squadron, Ship Lackawana, discharged July, 1865.
John Burns, Frigate Santee.
Michael Eagan, Gunboat Tasca, discharged in April, 1865.
F. A. IIurd, Gunboat Kennebec.
Alexander Longmore, Frigate Santec.
Charles L. Newhall, Frigate Minnesota and San Jacinto, now stationed at Pensacola.
Joseph Olney, Frigate Cumberland.
Denis Kehay, bought.
BOUGHT, FIFTEENTH MASSACHUSETTS BATTERY.
Joseph Coburn,
John Miller,
John Williamson,
James Conologue,
Thomas MeIntire,
Michael Walker,
John Devins,
James McDonald,
George Haylett,
John Gillmore,
Jones Riley,
Peter McPhail,
James Gayton, George Rickert,
John Scott, Daniel Boyce,
Theodore C. Lewis, Patrick Quinn,
Edward Murray, William D. Waddell,
Albert Burton,
George T. Brown,
George H. Cutter,
George Reese,
Raymond Russell,
William Dewitt, Samuel Newhall,
John Smidt,
William Ripley, Aaron Bell,
Thomas Brown,
Edward Farrell, Thomas Higgins, Charles Hersey, James A. Johnson, John Kinney, John E. Mathews.
Charles Sherman,
Frank Turner,
Henry Vina,
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DRAFTED ON JULY 13, 1863-54 MEN.
Martin White, $300 commutation. Henry Vinton, insufficient teeth. Daniel Hogan, alien.
Henry D. Mason, $300 וי
motherless child Alvin Dillabar, insufficient teeth.
E. Merritt Cole, under 12.
James Carroll, - fingers on left hand.
Frederick Kind, in service March 3.
A. J. Combs, chest too small, 28 in. Julins E. Alden, hernia.
M. M. Marble, $300 commutation. Patrick Kane, $300
John Tulley, disease of heart.
M. K. Olney, no upper teeth.
Edwin Streeter, $300 commutation. J. M. Ammidown, only son.
H. H. Gould, $300
Timothy Mahan, alien.
F. M. Fuller, no upper teeth.
HI. H. Patterson,
H. D. Lane, $300 commutation.
F. W. Ames, accepted and ran away. David Brown, entered service.
Benjamin F. Walker, $300 commu- tation.
Michael Blute. John C. Freeman, entered service. Leonard Cutler, no upper teeth.
John Tannar, entered service.
A. T. Hamilton, right leg 2 in. short. George Shepard, non-resident.
Pliny M. Clark, only son.
Lendall P. Tower, $300 commuta- tion. Francis Richey, run away.
William Booth, $300 commutation. Sylvanus Chamberlain, $300 Edward Calvert, son elect.
E. A. Gleason, insufficient teeth.
DRAFTED ON MAY 17, 1864-15 MEN.
William C. Barnes, exempted. C. W. Wells, $300 commutation. Austin Stevens, entered service.
Merrick Ammidown, $300 commu- William D. Morse, $300 tation. John L. Bacon, no teeth.
Michael Reily, exempted. Abijah Vinton, $300 commutation.
George W. Horn, $300 commutation. J. B. Plimpton, $300 commutation. Lyman Chamberlain, $300
Theodore Reynolds, $300 George T. Nelson, $300 George W. Sabin, exempted.
F. A. Nichols, $300 commutation.
We have endeavored to make the foregoing list as complete and ac- curate as possible. Any person discovering an omission or error is
E. A. Comstock, chest too small. W. F. Potter, $300 commutation. Lyman E. Lathe, $300 J. B. Davis, disability. John R. Amidon, in service Mar. 3. Walter S. Cook, insufficient teeth. Horace Walker, hernia.
George Neff.
A. J. Plimpton, $300 commutation.
Wm. M. L. Spurr, feeble constitu- tion.
Robert Herron, $300 commutation. Henry E. Gilbert, entered service.
Charles Gerrold, son elect.
Exempt-extension of
Manning Plimpton, exempted.
Oscar Barrett, hernia, sight injured. J. J. Oakes, insufficient teeth. John Kelly, in service.
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respectfully desired to report the same to the Selectmen or Town Clerk, that a perfectly correct copy may be preserved in the town archives.
Respectfully submitted,
M. E. IRWIN, C. V. CARPENTER,
Auditing
A. J. BARTHOLOMEW, Committee.
SOUTHBRIDGE, February 1, 1866."
WARS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Number of soldiers in the war of the Revolution, - 275,000
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66 of 1812 to 1815, - 527,637
with Seminoles, 1817, 5,911
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with Black Hawk, 1832, 5,031
66
with Florida Indians, 1836 to 1842, 29,953
with the Greek Indians, - 12,483
66
with Mexico in 1846, 73,260
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of Rebellion, 1861 to 1865, 2, 688, 528
SOLDIERS FURNISHED BY DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF THE COLONIES DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.
The colonies were severally called upon by Congress for specific quotas. Massachusetts' quota, 52,698 men ; furnished, 83,052 men. Virginia's quota, 48,416 men ; furnished, 30,- 101 men. Thus Virginia fell short 17,421 men, and Massa- chusetts furnished 30,350 men more than her quota; while the other New England colonies furnished the numbers in proportion to their population. Pennsylvania fell short 7,450 men ; Maryland, 8,747 men short. Delaware short 211 men; and South Carolina's quota was 16,932, but furnished only 6,660 men .* The whole number of Continental soldiers were, during the Revolutionary War, 231,971; militia, 56,163.
During the late war of Rebellion, President Lincoln called, by proclamation, for 2,942,748 soldiers, the quota for Massa- chusetts being 139,095 ; her soldiers sent to the field amounted to 158,380, as follows : In 1861, 35,913; in 1862, 33,204; in 1863, 17,814 ; in 1864, 52,728 ; in 1865, 6,809. The total
* See New Hampshire Historical Collections, vol. I, p. 236.
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negro troops furnished for the war was 186,017; of these Massachusetts provided 3,966, her Fifty-fourth and Fifty- fifth regiments not being included.
The whole amount of compensation money paid during the war was $26,366,316.78, of which Massachusetts paid $1,610,- 400; also, Massachusetts paid State bounties to soldiers, amounting to $22,965,550.36.
FURTHER REBELLION WAR STATISTICS.
The following table shows the total casualties in action, and from the effects of wounds and disease, in the volunteer troops furnished by the several States and Territories, in the regular and colored troops, and other organizations, raised directly under the authority of the United States, and the aggregate number of troops raised under all the calls reduced to the three years' standard :
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STATES AND TERRITORIES.
Killed or died of wounds.
Died of dis- ease.
Total killed or died by disease or wounds.
Total num- ber called to service reduced to three years' time.
Maine,
2,811
5,544
8,415
56,595
New Hampshire,
1,661
2,530
4.191
30,827
Vermont,
1,902
2,998
4,800
29,052
Massachusetts,
6,029
7,904
13,933
123,844
Rhode Island,
476
1,073
1,549
17,878
Connecticut, -
1,962
3,309
5,211
50,514
New York, -
14,445
17,407
31,852
381,693
New Jersey,
1,694
2,966
4,660
55,785
Pennsylvania,
10,284
11,090
21,374
267,558
Delaware,
310
214
524
10,303
Maryland,
718
863
1,581
40,692
District of Columbia,
55
244
299
11,536
Ohio,
11,237
14,398
25,635
237,976
Indiana,
5,817
13,392
19,209
152,283
Illinois,
8,908
19,934
28,842
212,694
Michigan,
3,927
8,499
12,426
80,865
Wisconsin,
3,818
6,986
10,804
78,985
Minnesota,
608
1,676
2,284
19,675
Iowa,
3,444
8,642
12,086
68,182
Kansas, -
1,226
2,194
3,120
18,624
California, -
92
299
391
7,451
West Virginia,
1,213
1,842
3,025
27,653
Kentucky,
1,884
5,245
7,129
70,348
Missouri,
2,365
7,346
9,711
86,192
Tennessee,
2,222
2,193
4,475
12,077
Colorado,
108
207
315
1,762
Washington Territory,
29
107
136
805
Dakota Territory,
10
10
181
Nebraska Territory,
14
123
137
380
New Mexico Territory,
23
160
183
1,011
Regular Army,
2 047
2,832
4,879
Colored Troops,
2,997
25,301
29,353
186,017
Penitent Rebels, -
14
352
366
Hancock's Veterans,
9
406
415
Mississippi Reserve.
248
185
43
Indian Territory,
374
416
790
Alabama,
65
290
355
Florida,
169
102
271
Texas,
33
278
311
North Carolina,
54
349
303
Louisiana,
22
769
991
Arkansas,
384
545
929
Nevada,
10
225
235
Oregon, -
67
667
734
96,089
184,331
280,420
2,340,328
-
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COST OF THE ARMY DURING THE REBELLION WAR.
The following figures show the annual pay for the army, both volunteers and regulars, for six years :
Year 1862, Volunteers, $91,116,610, Regulars, $5,646,778
1863,
180,442, 683,
6,557,094
.. 1864,
220, 853, 973,
6,272,222
1865, .. 300,738,635,
7,992,324
..
1866,
248,943,313, ٠٠ 10,431,004
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1867. ٠٠ 42,588,782,
14,024,492
Total,
$1,084,683,949 $50,933,916
disbursements for army for six years, - $1, 135, 617, 865
NATIONALITY OF THE ARMY.
During this war it was a constant representation with the English writers, favoring the Rebels, to assert that the Federal army was almost wholly composed of foreigners. Professor B. A. Gould's work on statistics has the following on nation- ality of the white soldiers in the Union army at this period :
Native Americans,
- 1,523,300
Per cent, 75.48
British American,
53,500
2.65
English,
45,500
٠٠
2.26
Irish,
144,200
2.14
German,
176,800
..
8.76
Other foreigners,
48,400
2.38
Foreigners, nativity unknown,
26,500
1.33
2,018,200
100
The facts show conclusively that the Union army was not an alien one, but three fourths native Americans.
LIST OF THE FORTS IN THE SOUTHIERN STATES,
With their cost, number of guns, and men necessary to garri- son them properly. This is the report made by Colonel Totten, of the Engineers :
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Name.
Men. Guns.
Fort MeHenry,
Place. Baltimore,
Cost. $146,000
850
74
" Carroll, -
135,000
800
159
" Delaware, Delaware River,
Delaware,
539,000
750
151
66 Madison, Annapolis,
Maryland, 66
15,000
150
31
Severn, -
6,000
60
14
" Washington,
Potomac River,
575,000
400
83
Monroe, Old Point Comfort,
Virginia, 2,400,000
2,450
371
Calhoun, Hampton Roads, Norfolk, “
1,664,000
1,120
224
66 Macon, Beaufort,
North Carolina,
460,000
300
61
66 Johnson, Cape Fear,
5,000
60
16
" Caswell, Oak Island, -
66
571,000
400
87
6. Sumpter, Charleston,
South Carolina,
677,000
650
140
66 Castle Pinckney,
43,000
100
25
" Moultrie
75,000
300
54
" Pulaski, Savannah,
Georgia,
923,000
900
150
" Jackson,
80,000
70
14
Marion, St. Augustine,
Florida, 66
51,000
100
25
" Taylor, Key West
Jefferson, Tortugas,
Expensive 1,500
298
" Barancas, Pensacola,
315,000
250
49
" Redoubt,
McRea, 66
384,000
650
150
66 Morgan, Mobile, -
Alabama, 1,212,000
700
132
66 St. Philip, Mouth of the Mississippi River,
143,000
800
124
Jackson, 66
817,000
600
150
" Pike, Rigolets, -
Louisiana,
472,000
300
49
" Macomb, Chief Menteur, -
447,000
300
49
" Livingston, Barataria Bay,
312,000
300
52
66
1,000
185
Pickens,
729,000
1,200
212
109,000
26
66
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In addition to these are many incomplete works, as fol- lows : Ship island, Mississippi river; Georgetown, South Carolina ; Port Royal roads, South Carolina ; Tybee islands, Savannah ; Galveston, Brazos, Santiago, and Matagorda bay, Texas.
Hampton roads is the great naval station of the Southern coast, and the only good roadstead south of the Delaware. Pensacola is very strong, and the only naval depot on the gulf. The fortresses at Key West and Tortugas are among the most powerful in the world; and every vessel that crosses the gulf passes in sight of both.
ECCLESIASTICAL.
CHAPTER VI.
THE CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY.
THE origin of the Congregational church and society was a colony of twenty-one members of the Congregational church in Sturbridge. They were residents in the poll parish that was established here by an act of the Legislature, Feb- rnary 28, 1801. These members were dismissed from the church in Sturbridge, and organized this church on the 16th day of September following :
NAMES OF THESE FIRST MEMBERS.
Ralph Wheelock, Samuel Ellis.
Lucy Johnson Mason,
Asa Walker, Deborah Child Freeman, Mary Howard Mason,
Daniel Morse, Lois Hibbard Morse, Abigail Smith Ellis,
Elias Plimpton, Rachael Smith Foster, Phebe Stacy Morse,
Fletcher Foster, Experience C. Wheelock, Jemima Corbin Harding,
Abel Mason, Anne Clark Dresser, Ruth Hobbs Mason,
Jason Morse, Lois Smith Foster, Mary Chub Chamberlain.
This small colony united in their public religions worship with the Baptists and Methodists in the parish meeting- house ; and their number of members in this church was not increased until the year 1815, when, during that year, five new members were added, to wit: George Sumner, Mar- garet Burt Sumner, Keziah Freeman Brown, Lydia Plimpton, and Joshua Harding.
This was the condition of the church when the parish was, by an act of the Legislature, made a town by the name of Southbridge, February 15, 1816.
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INCORPORATION.
This society was incorporated by the General Court, De- cember 13, 1816, by the name of " Congregational Religious Society in Southbridge," with all the powers and privileges which other religious societies enjoy, according to the con- stitution and laws of Massachusetts.
The following are the names of the incorporators, to wit:
"Daniel Morse, Joshua Harding, Samuel Newell, Frederick Whiting Bottom, Fletcher Foster, Abel Mason, Oliver Plimpton, Jason Morse, Freeman Pratt, Timothy Paige, George Sumner, Oliver Mason, Junior, James Wheelock, Ralph Harding, Elbridge G. Harding, Salem Marsh, Calvin Ammidown, Joseph Clark, Abel Mason, Junior, Ralph Wheelock, Waterman Potter, Pliny Arnold, Ebenezer D. Ammidown, Asahel Prouty, Oliver Mason, Smith Foster, Duty Marsh, Duty Marsh, Junior, Moses Mason, Oliver Hooker, Henry Hooker, Abijah Richardson, Parker Morse, John Rider, Mason Morse, Enoch Bacon, Stephen H. Esterbrook, Nathaniel Marslı, David Atherton, Smith Ellis, Denison Wheelock, Corbin Lyon, John Newell, Jonathan Green, George Gleason, John Marsh, Alpheus Foster, Joseph Eaton, Moses Wheelock, Aaron Putnam, John Marsh, Junior, Joel Walker, Dresser Bacon, Benjamin Walker, Hinsdale Foster, Davis Wheelock, Calvin Wheelock, Luther Wheelock, Chauncey Plimpton, Samuel Austin Groves, Samuel Lewis Newell, Bela Carpenter, with their families and estates, together with such others as may hereafter associate with them, and their successors. "*
PROCEEDINGS.
This church and society gave a call to the Rev. Jason Park to become their first pastor, October 10, 1816; and on the 18th of December following he was ordained.
The services on this occasion were in the following manner : Rev. Otis Lane, of Sturbridge, offered the introductory prayer ; Rev. Erastus Learned, of Canterbury, Connecticut, preached the sermon from the text, Acts, xx, 24 :
"None of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry
* See vol. v, Massachusetts Special Laws, p. 174.
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which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the Gospel of the grace of God."
The Rev. Daniel Dow, D. D., of Thompson, Connecticut, offered the consecrating prayer ; Rev. Eliphalet Lyon, of South Woodstock, Connecticut, gave the charge to the pastor ; Rev. Edwards Whipple, of Charlton, gave the right hand of fellowship; Rev. Alvin Underwood, of West Woodstock, Con- nectient, addressed the people, and Rev. Samuel Backus, of North Woodstock, made the concluding prayer.
In the year 1815 this society arranged for a piece of ground for the location of a meeting-house, including 1 and 2 acres of land, it being the same on which the meeting-house of this society now stands, and the house and lot, now the residence of Dr. Samuel Hartwell, next south of the same.
This meeting-house lot was a part of the homestead farm of the late Colonel Benjamin Freeman, (son of Samuel Freeman, born, October 24, 1744, and died, May 22, 1806); it contained 149 acres, 1 quarter, and 15 rods. It was sold by his execu- tors, Joshua Harding and Jonathan Perry, of Sturbridge, to Andrew Brown, of Woodstock, April 8, 1807 .* Andrew Brown, of Woodstock, sold this farm to Daniel Briggs, of Sturbridge, January 4, 1811 ;; Daniel Briggs, sold the same farm to John, Luther, and Calvin Ammidown, for $5,600, March 29, 1813.
John Ammidown, having deceased, December 3, 1814, it became necessary soon after, in arranging the settlement of his estate, to partition these lands, when, as a part of the share of Calvin Ammidown, he received this 1 and 2 acres, with other parcels of lands and buildings, included in the same deed, September 11, 1816.# The first occupancy of these grounds was the erection of the house now the residence of
* See Worcester Records, book 166, p. 463.
t See book 178, p. 243.
# See Worcester Records, book 202, p. 291.
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Dr. Hartwell. This house was erected by Major Calvin Ammidown, in behalf of the society; its design was to afford accommodation for a parsonage, and a hall for temporary publie religious worship, until their meeting-house should be erected.
Major Ammidown conveyed by deed this 1 and } acres of land, and the house, as above stated, to the following members of this society, August 28, 1818, for the considera- tion of $1,800, to wit : Joshua Harding, Elbridge G. Harding, Daniel Morse, Fletcher Foster, Ralph Harding, George Sumner, John Marsh, Duty Marsh, Samuel Newell, Freeman Pratt, Waterman Potter, Abel Mason, Junior, Oliver Mason, Junior, Jason Morse, Joseph Clark, Enoch Bacon, Frederick W. Bottom, Oliver Plimpton, Ralph Wheelock, Dennison Wheelock, Alpheus Foster, John Newell, Corbin Lyon, Parker Morse, Ira Carpenter, and William Sumner.
The house is described in Major Ammidown's deed as being on the east side of the road, nearly opposite the house of Frederick W. Bottom.
The sale was by shares ; the number is described as forty- seven shares, which were subscribed and paid for by the fore- going parties, grantees in the deed, including those shares taken by the grantor.
This deed was executed in presence of John Butler and Frederick W. Bottom, and acknowledged before F. W. Bot- tom, Justice of Peace .*
MEETING-HOUSE.
Their meeting-house was ereeted in 1821, and dedicated, January 1, 1822. The Rev. Jason Park preached the dedi- catory sermon. This house was enlarged and remodeled in 1839, and rededicated, September 5, of the same year; the sermon by Rev. Eber Carpenter, pastor. This house has been
* Recorded, Worcester, book 217, pp. 534 and 535.
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re-arranged internally to compare with the modern style, and embellished, at an expense of about $5,000. A second re- dedication took place Friday evening. September 24, 1669, the dedicatory sermon by the pastor elect. Rev. E. L. Jaggar, from 2d Chronicles, v. 14. Rev. B. F. Bronson, D. D., of the Baptist church; Rev. W. A. Braman, of the Methodist church of this town ; and Rev. M. L. Richardson, of Stur- bridge, assisted in the exercises. The following hymn, by Mrs. Sigourney, sung at the dedication of this house, Sep- . tember 5, 1839, was again sung on this occasion :
HYMN.
". Praise to Thee. Lord of Hosta. Omniscient and Divine. Whose favoring presence we invoke To this our temple-shrine.
In vain the builders' toil. In vain the prophet'e prayer.
To rear this consecrated dome With strength and beauty fair.
Cales: Thy spirit deign To light our incense fame. And to the altar gird the priest. To sanctify Thy name.
We thank Thee for Thy word. That herald from the sky- We thank Thee for the promised grace On which our souls rely.
And may an unbom race. Their country's hope and trust. Here magnify our fathers' God. When we are laid in dust. "
The society, being in harmony with the church in the choice of Rer. Mr. Jagzar. with a house of much beauty and good taste, and free of debt. gives evidence of an extended career of prosperity and usefulness.
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SOUTHBRIDGE.
Rev. E. L. Jaggar was installed pastor of this church on Thursday, October 14, 1869, the council concurring. The in- stallation services were as follows :
Invocation and reading of Scripture, by Rev. Austin Dodge, of Globe Village ; sermon from John 1, 12, by Rev. Charles M. Hyde, of Brimfield ; installation prayer, by Rev. John Haven, of Charlton ; right hand of fellowship, by Rev. Mar- tin L. Richardson, of Sturbridge ; charge to the pastor, by Rev. J. H. Windsor, of Grafton; address to the people, by Rev. Edwin B. Palmer, of Chicopee; the concluding prayer, by Rev. Henry Pratt, of Dudley ; and the benediction, by the pastor.
MINISTERS.
WIIEN SETTLED, AND TIME DISMISSED.
Rev. Jason Park, ordained, December 18, 1816; dismissed, December 18, 1832.
Rev. Henry J. Lamb, ordained, June 6, 1833; dismissed, April 23, 1835.
Rev. Eber Carpenter, installed, December 1, 1835; dismissed, July 21, 1864.
Rev. Edwin B. Palmer, installed, December 27, 1864; dismissed, May 3, 1869.
Rev. E. L. Jaggar, installed, October 14, 1869.
Rev. Isaac G. Bliss, now Bible agent at Constantinople, supplied this pulpit two years, 1854 and 1855, during the absence of Rev. Eber Carpenter.
DEACONS.
Asa Walker, elected, September 16, 1801; died, November 5, 1814, aged 71.
Daniel Morse, elected, September 16, 1801; died, January 7, 1832, aged 87.
Jason Morse, elected, December 20, 1821; resigned, August 22, 1831. George Sumner, elected, March 27, 1822; resigned, September 5, 1839. Henry Haynes, elected, August 22, 1831 ; resigned, September 5, 1839.
Josiah Hayward, elected, September 19, 1839; resigned, March 22, 1842.
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SOUTHBRIDGE.
Elbridge G. Harding, elected, September 19, 1839; resigned, June 3, 1851.
Jonathan Cutting, elected, June 4, 1842.
Samuel M. Lane, elected, March 12, 1851.
MEMBERS AND BAPTISMS.
Number of members when first organized, 21.
Admitted prior to ordination of Rev. Mr. Park, 17; baptized, 14.
.. under Rev. Mr. Park,
111:
102.
Rev. II. J. Lamb, 12;
8.
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66 Rev. Eber Carpenter, 273; .. 200.
Rev. Isaac Bliss,
Rev. Edwin B. Palmer,
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