Historical review. One hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the First Church of Christ in Amherst, Massachusetts. November 7, 1889, Part 11

Author: First Church of (Amherst, Mass.) 4n
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Amherst, Mass., Press of the Amherst Record
Number of Pages: 146


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N't'l Strong. b. 1673, d. 1750. . m. 1697.


Rebec. Stebbins. b. 1676, d, 1712.


- Eben. Sheldon. b. 1678, d. 1755. m. 1701. Mary Hunt. b. 1680.


Miriam Sheldon. b. 1704, d. 1796.


N't'l Coleman. b. 1709, d. 1792. m. 1739.


Mercy Smith. ( b. 1715, d. 1798.


Eliph. Beecher. b. 1711, d. 1777. m. 1732.


N't'l Coleman. b. 1684, d. 1755. m. 1705. Mary Ely. L Chileab Smith. b. 1685, d. 1746. m. 1710. Mercy Golding.


Joseph Beecher. b- 1683. m. 1710.


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N't'l Strong. b. 1698, d 1781. m. 1721.


Rebecca Strong. b. 1724, d. 1811.


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PETITION AGAINST BUILDING TWO MEETING HOUSES.


[ Manuscript copied by Rev. J. H. Temple, and deposited in the Library of Amherst College by M. F. Dickinson, Jr.]


14 : 684. Mass. Archives.


To his Excellency Thomas Hutchinson Esq. Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over his Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England and Vice Admiral of the same.


To the Honbl his Majesty's Council and House of Representatives in General Court assembled at Boston on the 26th day of May A. D. 1773.


The subscribing Petitioners Inhabitants of the District of Amherst in the County of Hampshire


Most humbly shew.


That the District of Amherst contains a Tract of Land nearly equal to seven miles in length and three miles in breadth taken together: That in the year 1735, a Precinct or Parish was erected there by the name of the Third Precinct of Hladley, in which town said lands then were. That in the year 1738 a Meeting House was erected, and in the year 1739 a Minister was settled there. That in the year 1759 the same Parish or Precinct was erected into a District by the name of Amherst, with some Inhabitants of Hadley Parish with their Farms annexed thereto. That your Petitioners are most of them Inhabitants of the middle Part of the said District, whose Lands and Estates are adjacent to the said Meeting House on each side, and towards each end of the District, and that they and their predecessors were the first original set- tlers of the Parish of East Hadley, from which said Amherst was erected, who bore the principal part of the burden of beginning and bringing forward the settlement at first, of building a Meeting House, supporting the Ministry and all other charges ; and have continued to bear the greater part of Expenses of every kind from the original settlement of the Parish to this day. That though they have long held a state of good agreement and harmony among themselves, and conducted their affairs both ecclesiastical and civil with great unanimity, yet are now in a most unhappy controversy with the inhab- itants of the remote parts of the District respecting the building a Meeting House for Public Worship. That partly by reason of the Inhabitants who were admitted from Hadley Parish to be incorporated with Amherst at their own request, and because of their great distance from their own Meeting House, partly by reason of the increase of settlers in the remoter parts and near the two ends of the District, and partly by the methods used by the opposite party to multiply their votes, by transferring property from the father's List to the son's, who tho' qualified according to the letter of the Province Law ought to every equitable purpose to be considered as having


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no property at all : Your Petitioners, though owning the greater part of the Property within the District, are yet in respect of their number of voters become a minor party, and being as they conceive oppressed and likely still to be oppressed by the strength of a prevailing majority, and being under necessity therefore to seek redress & Protection in Legislative Power, hum- bly beg leave to open and state their matters of complaint in the following manner (viz.)


That within two years last past the Increase of inhabitants made it needful to provide a new Meeting House for Public Worship : That on a motion for this purpose, the Inhabitants of the remoter settlements towards each end of the District united together in a Design of procuring the District (how- ever small in its extent) to be divided into two Districts, so that the extrem- ities of the two Districts should be at the present Centre, and your Petition- ers on each side of the present Meeting House, to be at the remote or extreme parts of the two proposed Districts. This Proposal was brought before a District Meeting holden on the 13th Day of January A. D. 1772, and though opposed by your Petitioners, a vote was then passed for the proposed Divis- ion, That from a supposed insufficiency in the proceeding, the same matter was again brought before a District Meeting holden the 10th Day of March in the same year : and there being then an equal number of voters on each side of the question no vote was passed, That afterwards the Party for the Division entered into an agreement for effecting their purpose by procuring a Majority for erecting two Meeting Houses at the joint expense of the whole District before any Division should be made, or any new District erected, and to place them so as to subserve their design of a future Division towards the ends of the present, and in the middle of each proposed District, whereby they apprehended that your Petitioners overpowered by their majority, would be finally brought by compulsion to join with them in procuring such a Divis- ion, That pursuant to this design a meeting was holden on the 14th day of April last past, at which (having previously multiplied their voters in the manner above described) they procured a majority for erecting the two Meeting Honses : and a vote was accordingly passed, And tho' nothing as yet hath been done in pursuance of said vote, yet your Petitioners are threat- ened with the speedy execution of it, All which votes and proceedings, by attested copies thereof herewith exhibited will appear. On which state of facts your petitioners humbly beg leave to represent and observe : That the whole District of Amherst being of no larger extent than nearly as above set forth, cannot admit of having a new District erected therefrom in the man- ner contended for, without effecting the ruin of the whole, as neither of the two could be able to support public expenses : That the Division contended for is such for which no precedent can be produced, nor any reason assigned : That the very remotest of the Inhabitants have no further travel to the cen- tre of Amherst than what is common to many of the Inhabitants of most of the Towns within the Province. And if any reason could be given for so extraordinary a measure, the same must hold and hold much stronger in almost every Town and District and produce Divisions and subdivisions throughout the whole. That your Petitioners think it mnost injurious to themselves to


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be dictated by an opposite Party in respect to their tenderest rights, and especially in matters relating to the Worship of God. That their opponent will such are unjustly endeavoring to compel them to join in societies wherein the have no disposition to join, and many of them to abandon their Parish, Church dors the Exce Orde asses Hous Hany lothe Partı and Minister, to which they are most cordially united; and to be so incorpo rated together in each respective new formed society with those of an advers Party, of opposite sentiments and exasperated minds : That each of the little weak and already ruined societies must have nothing in prospect but to be i possible further ruined by increasing Confusion and Discord among them selves. That your Petitioners having acquired their Estates at a rate propor tionate to the value of their present situation, may not, consistent with jus tice, have such privileges wrested from them, That confiding in the Equit prev


of their cause, they would cheerfully have submitted it to the decision of th General Court : but that their opponents (either thro' diffidence of the succes bety of their cause, or for some other reason to your Petitioners unknown) wholly an 0 ee Deter com Hexan think ifto be An Josia declining to make any application to the General Court for a new District t be erected, have adopted the violent measure of forcing your Petitioners t contribute to the expense of the said two Meeting Houses, which purpose i executed they consider as a manifest oppression under colour of Law, an an high abuse of the Power vested in Towns and Districts by the Acts c this Province, That the vote whereof your Petitioners complain was pro cured by voters qualified by unfair means, as above expressed, and that you Petitioners having the property of more than half the Estate within the Dissimed trict, and who must therefore bear the greater part of the expense, the who Jona of which they should esteem to be worse than lost. Your Petitioners fu Jonat John Natha ther beg leave to represent that during the whole controversy they hav adopted every pacific measure ; have never used any undne method to mult Alex' ply their voters, choosing rather to want a majority than to procure it b Moses unfair means, And now finding all attempts of Accommodation to be in vair Danie Elisha Natha and despairing of justice without the intervention of Legislative Powe Your Petitioners most humbly pray the attention of your Excellency an Hezel Honors to their unhappy situation. And though they are sensible that now" B division of Amherst can be made without great prejudice to the whole, andona if left to their own election should be very far from desiring it in any mai Natha Jonath ner whatever : Yet since the opposite Party seem resolved to please the Gideon own humor at the expense of your Petitioners' ruin, Your Petitioners mo: Nath'l Jouat Isaac humbly pray your Excellency and Honors to interpose for their relief, allowing them, whose interests and sentiments are united, to be a corporation and Parish by themselves in the middle of Amherst, enjoying all privilege solom and being liable to all duties of a Parochial nature that are incumbent on thwaitst District of Amherst, leaving our Opponents their election to remain with usath'] on reasonable terms : or be incorporated together among themselves as the I do remote situation will best permit or join to be incorporated with some adja by the ent towns or Parishes, as they can obtain consent for admittance there, An And if the granting your Petitioners prayer herein, should seem to throw the others opponents into much calamity, which your petitioners by no means desire, Aud it may be avoided : Yet since our opponents which are now the Major Partto


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vill be content with nothing short of Division and Division to be effected by uch violent means, your Petitioners humbly pray your Excellency and Hon- ors to make such a Division as will save and protect an injured and innocent Party: and suffer our opponents rather to be ruined alone, than leave them the Power of involving your Petitioners with then : Otherwise that your Excellency and Honors would provide for our safety by passing an Act or Order for depriving the District of Amlierst of the power of raising or assessing any monies on the Inhabitants for the building of such Meeting Houses, or for excusing y'r petitioners from contributing any proportion of iny Taxes raised for such purpose ; or grant relief to your Petitioners in any other way or manner as you in y'r great wisdom shall think fit. And for the preventing any contention or disturbances that might arise in the District between the Parties in the mean time, y'r Petitioners most humbly pray that in Order may be passed for staying all proceedings, either in erecting said Meeting Houses, or in Demolishing the present Meeting House until the final Determination of y'r Excellency & Honors hereon. They also pray that a . committee of the General Court may be appointed to repair to Amherst, to examine into the Matters alledged in this Petition if y'r Excellency & Honors hink fit : And that all the costs arising by this application may be ordered o be paid by the District of Amherst.


And as in duty bound shall pray


Josiah Chauncey John Morton


Noah Dickinson


Dis Simeon Strong


Moses Cook


Simeon Pomeroy


Jona Dickinson


Jona Dickinson Jr.


Joseph Dickinson


Jonathan Cowls John Field


Gid Dickinson Jr.


Thomas Bascoul Eph™ Kellogg Jr.


Natlian Moody Alex'r Smith byMoses Warner


John Billings


Jonathan Smith


Daniel Kellogg


Samuel Gould


Martin Smith


Elisha Ingram


Moses Warner


Joel Billings


Nathan Dickinson


David Smith


Thomas Hastings Jr.


ADC Hezekiah Belding W" Boltwood Jona Edwards and an


Josepli Bolles


Gideon Dickinson


Nathaniel Coleman


Timothy Clap


Edward Elmer


Jonathan Moody Gideon Hendersonl


Eben' Kellogg


David Stockbridge


os Nath'l Alex" Smith Jonatlian Nash isaac Goodale


Noah Smith


Seth Coleman


Elijalı Baker


Joseph Church


John Nash


Solo™ Boltwood


Noadiah Lewis


Waitstill Hastings


Silas Matthews


Nath'l Peck


Timothy Hubbard


I do hereby certify that the whole Rateable Estate of Amherst as footed adoy the Assessors on their last List amounts to


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And of that sum what belongs to one of the Anabaptist persuasion, and ›thers not Inhabitants of Amherst amounts to £202: 15


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At a meeting of the District Jan. 26, 1774 it was " Voted to Choose two Agents to Refer a Petition to the General Court to obtain the Division of the District," also " to Authorise two Men to Make answer to the general Court's Citation in Consequence of a Petition of a Number of Inhabitants of Amherst." Choice was made of Reuben Dickinson and Moses Dickinson to fill both positions.


After the hearing the General Court ordered that a committee con- sisting of Artemas Ward Esq. of the Council and Mr. Pickering and Col. Bacon of the House "repair to the District of Amherst, view the same, hear the parties on the spot, and make report what they think proper for the Court to do thereon : and that the Inhabitants of sd District in the mean time wholly surcease & forbear all proceedings relative to the building any new Meeting House or Houses in said District."


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Pending further action, there came the agitation over the oppress- ions of the Crown, and then the Revolution. It is interesting to observe that the very meeting in Amherst which sent the "two Agents " to Boston to appear before the General Court in behalf of dividing the District also chose "a Com'tee of Corrispondence to Refer with the Com'tee of Corrispondence in the town of Boston," and that the same Reuben Dickinson and Moses Dickinson were put on this committee with three others none of whom were of the petitioners.


Plainly the way was open for them to unite with the revolutionary party and all the circumstances conspired to promote the union. So, too, it became natural for the petitioners to fall into the opposing conservative party.


Until this time Josiah Chauncey and Simeon Strong had been more prominent in official positions than any others in the place. They had been Justices of the Peace,-the former since 1758 and the latter since 1768 ; they had been Moderators of the District Meet- ings, too, and had served often on important committees. But now there is a complete change. Moses Dickinson is made Justice of the Peace, and he and Reuben Dickinson appear continually in the most important stations, while Chauncey and Strong are passed by.


An explanation of this may be found in the petition. The first subscriber to it was Josiah Chauncey and the second Simeon Strong. There can be no doubt that they were the principal authors of it and that their masterly leadership thwarted the scheme of the carefully consolidated majority and prevented the division of the town.


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THE ORIGIN OF THE SECOND CHURCH AND PARISH.


The following official document furnished by Mr. J. W. Allen, Clerk of the Second Parish, gives the names of those who were identified with that Parish at its origin.


IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1783. AMHERST INCORPORATED. CHAP. III.


An Act for incorporating a Number of the Inhabitants of the Town of Amherst in the County of Ilampshire, into a separate Parish, by the Name of the Second Parish in the Town of Amherst


Whereas a number of the inhabitants of the town of Amherst, in the said county, herein-after named, have petitioned this Court to be incorporated into a separate parish, for reasons set forth in the petition


Therefore be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same. That the said petitioners, namely.


Nathan Dickinson Moses Dickinson, John Billing.


John Dickinson,


Joseplı Eastman,


Ebenezer Mattoon,


Timothy Green.


Pelatiah Smith


Ebenezer Dickinson,


Noah Dickinson,


Hezekiah Belding


Ebenezer Williams,


Henry Franklin, John Robins


Jacob Warner,


Abijah Williams, Joseph Robins,


James Merrick second,


Azariah Dickinson, John Ingraham


Andrew Kimbal


Samuel Henry, Nathan Perkins, Noadiah Lewis,


Noah Hawley,


Ebenezer Dickinson third Joseph Morton,


Oliver Clapp.


Lemuel Moody Giles Church,


Ebenezer Eastman


Nathan Dickinson junior, Nathaniel Dickinson 2d,


Gideon Moore,


Stephen Cole,


Waitstill Dickinson,


Thomas Marshall,


Amariah Dana, John Eastman,


Joseph Dickinson,


David Cowls,


David Rich,


Simeon Cowls,


Benanuel Leach,


Elihu Dickinson,


Abner Adams,


Joseph Eastman junior, Reuben Ingraham,


Samuel Ingraham,


Reuben Dickinson, Clement Marshall,


Thomas Morton,


Reuben Dickinson junior, Ebenezer Dickinson 2d,


Ebenezer Mattoon junior, Amos Ayres,


Adam Rice,


Solomon Dickinson,


Levi Dickinson,


Asa Dickinson,


Ebenezer Ingraham, Nathan Perkins junior,


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Zimri Dickinson,


Joseph Williams,


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and Gad Dickinson together with their estates which they now have, or may hereafter possess, in their own right, in the said town of Amherst, be, and hereby are incorporated into a separate parish by the name of the second parish in the town of Amherst.


Comparing these names with those on page 115 it will be found that eight appear in both lists. These are Italicised above. One other name of the former list, that of Gideon Henderson, is found on the earliest roll of members of the Second Church. Of these nine men, seven had served on the Committees of Correspondence and four had been in the army.


During the Revolution there had been eight Committees of Corres- pondence with twenty-nine different members. Nineteen of these are named in the above list. There are twenty-four names of this list which are to be found in the rolls of soldiers published by Rev. P. W. Lyman. In these rolls about one hundred and fifty soldiers in all are accredited to Amherst.


Several prominent officers were in this movement to form the Sec- ond Parish. Capt. Reuben Dickinson, Capt. Ebenezer Mattoon, Lieut. Noah Dickinson and Lieut. Joseph Dickinson. Capt. Mattoon was especially conspicuous ; the meetings of the Councils were at his house, and the final Council was popularly spoken of as Capt. Mat- toon's Council .*


On the side of the Old Church Josiah Chauncey and Simeon Strong are conspicuous leaders again. The Committee for the Ordination of Mr. Parsons consisted of these two with Seth Coleman : the Com- mittee " to treat with the aggrieved Brethren," a little later, of them with Dea. Eleazar Smith : and the Committee to make a statement of the case of the Church before the subsequent Council, of them with Dea. Jonathan Edwards.


The Council called for the Ordination of Mr. Parsons was as follows :


The First Church in Springfield Rev Robert Breck The Church in Sunderland Rev. Joseph Ashley


66 .. Northfield Rev. John Hubbard


66 66 " Hadley Rev. Sam'l Hopkins


66 " Greenfield Rev. Roger Newton


" Barre Rev. Josiah Dana


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"' Granby Rev. Simon Backus


* An examination of state papers by Mr. John Jameson of Boston confirms the view that this withdrawal from the old Church was mainly for political reasons.


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Below are extracts from the Diary of Rev. Enoch Hale of West- hampton, copied by Rev. George Lyman from the original manuscripts now in the possession of Rev. Dr. E. E. Hale of Boston.


" Sep. 30. 1782 Ride to Amherst to Ebenezer Mattoon's to join in Council to advise the aggrieved party.


Rev. Elders Delegates Dea. King, S. Hamp. - Williamsburg


Jona. Judd, Moderator


Joseph Strong, Scribe,


Rufus Wells, Jos. Lyman,


Dea. Salmon White, Whateley


Dea. Elijah Morton, Hatfield


Ephm Wright Esq., N. Hamp.


Sol. Williams. Enoch Hale,


Dea. Reuben Wright, W. Hamp.


Oct Ist Hear and consult.


"' 2 Attend ordination of Mr, Parsons, Rev. Breck preached : Hopkins gave charge : Dana prayed first : Hubbard of Northfield prayed to ordain : Morton prayed last : Backus gave right hand.


Return to Council. hear and consult till 12 or 1 o'clock.


Oct. 3. Result and dissolve.


Oct. 28. To Amherst again in Council. Mr. Sylvester Judd, delegate


Nov. 11. To Amherst on Council. to Capt. Mattoon's. by adjournment -- hear parties.


Nov. 12, Aggrieved party make proposal to offer Mr. Parsons and his church in answer to theirs made them last even, which I drew for the Committee and which the Council approves, but judge the offer made by the other party unequal and insufficient. Advise the party if their proposal of uniting in the choice of a Mutual Council is not complied with in four weeks to proceed to organize and settle a minister."


The account in the Records of the First Church is as follows :


" Many of the members of the chh, left the worship and communion of the church and formed themselves in a distinct society by agreeing among them- selves.


They sent to the church a paper called the Testimony and Representation signed by twenty one members of ye church purporting their dissatisfaction. These aggrieved, as they styled themselves, presented the church with a report of an ex parte council dated Oct. 28, '82 . . which was read at a meeting Nov. 10th and the following votes passed.


Whether this church will appear before an Ecclesiastical Council, chosen by a number of the Brethren who style themselves the aggrieved, at their adjournment? Voted in the negative. Upon a second question Whether this church will unite with the aggrieved Brethren in the choice of a mutual coun- cil and submit to their decision the matter referred to in the Testimony and Representation? Voted in the affirmative.


Voted, To send the aggrieved committee a letter offering to unite with them in ye choice of a mutual council-signed by ye pastor."


At a meeting Nov. 24th. "Voted, That Simeon Strong Esq. Josiah Chaun-


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cey Esq., and Dea, Eleazar Smith be a Com'tee to treat with the aggrieved upon the subject of submitting all matter of grievance to a Mutual Council. Voted That they present the aggrieved with a letter of Proposals of Sub- mission."


At a meeting Dec. 3rd. " The Com'tee appointed to treat with the aggrieved Brethren presented the church with a letter purporting the aggrieved would not agree to the church's proposals of Submission to a Mutual Council. Voted That this church will invite an Ecclesiastical Council to look into the affairs of the church and give their advice respecting the Brethren who style themselves aggrieved."


Fifteen churches were invited to this council, but only seven were represented. Those printed in Italics constituted the council.


The Church in Northfield, Rev John Hubbard. Seth Field Esq.


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" Greenfield. Rev. Roger Newton, Dea. E. Graves


" Hadley, Rev. Sam'l Hopkins


66 " Granby, Rev. Simon Backus


" First Church in Springfield, Rev. Robt Breck, Mr. Robt Church


The Church in W. Springfield, Rev. Jos. Lathrop


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" Suffield, Rev. Ebenezer Gay.


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" East Windsor, Rev. Thos. Potwine


" W. Windsor, N. Parish, Rev. Theo. Hinsdale, Capt. Nathan Hayden.


66 " Hartford, Rev. Nathan Strong.


" Barre, Rev. Josiah Dana, Mr. Nathan Jennison.


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" Rutland, Rev. Jos. Buckminster


66 " Spencer, Rev. Joseph Pope,


46 " Brookfield, E. Parish, Rev. Nathan Fiske, Capt. Seth Bannister


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" Belchertown, Rev. Justus Forward, Dea Edward Smith


According to present usage a council composed of a minority of the churches invited would not be competent to transact business.


In this case, however, the council prepared a result, and at a meeting of the church Jan. 19, 1783 it was voted to accept the same. It recommended the church to "exercise forbearance and condescen- sion towards their Brethren who had unwarrantably withdrawn from their communion and cordially to receive them upon their return, deeming their return a sufficient retraction of their errors."


It is not clear wherein lay the particular difficulty that prevented the calling of a mutual council when both parties seem to have strongly desired it. Remembering, however, that on one side were several old army officers and that they had for counsellors a number of min- isters who had been ardent advocates of the Revolution (among them a brother of Nathan Hale the martyr) and that on the other side were. men who had disbelieved in the Revolution from the start, it may not


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seem strange that they found causes of disagreement on the subject at issue.


Had a mutual council been called it might, perhaps, have healed the bitter and painful division.


From our point of view it would seem that both of the councils, that of " the aggrieved" and that of the old Church, made a great mistake in not refusing to give other advice than that a competent mutual council be called. Nothing can be plainer now than the ina- bility of either of these councils, as they were constituted, to deal effectively with the case in hand and to accomplish what needed to be done. In the perspective of a century, however, the aspect of things is wholly changed.


NOTE. On page 100, tenth line from the bottom, read, " on part of the same Lot." On page 104 add to Abbreviations, Barkh. for Barkhamstead ; Barns. for Barns- table; Rox. for Roxbury ; Wat. for Watertown.


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STATISTICS OF THE CHURCH.


TABULATED CHIEFLY FROM ANNUAL REPORTS TO THE GENERAL ASSOCIATION.


FOR YEAR ENDING JAN. 1.


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MEMBERS.


ADMITTED.


REMOVED.


BAPT.


MALES.


FEMALES.


TOTAL.


ABSENT.


PROF.


LETTER.


TOTAL


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DIS.


Ex.


TOT.


ADULT.


INFANT.


SAB. SCHOOL.


1828


47


113


160


37


3


40


1


3


13


29


1829


1830


1831


1832


173


7


100


6


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24


15


1833


84


143


227


2


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9


1


4


1


5


260


1835


1836


205


4


5


1


11


1


13


1837


65


133


198


6


0


1


15


1


3


14


300


1839


89


183


272


63


36


99


6


16


22


18


34


300


1840


4


11


15


1841


90


180


270


4


16


20


7


15


23


2


16


1843


92


185


277


15


12


27


9


9


1


19


9


250


1845


92


187


279


7


4


11


5


15


20


13


300


1846


105


221


326


52


10


62


3


12


15


10


30


250


1847


103


222


325


7


5


12


6


7


13


8


200


1848


96


213


309


2


10


3


15


18


12


160


1849


95


205


300


1


5


6


3


12


15


9


200


1851


122


235


357


86


9


95


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15


19


24


7


200


1852


121


229


350


11


4


15


or


2


7


8


1854


116


231


347


42


2


10


12


6


13


19


11


150


1856


114


222


336


64


13


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110


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322


57


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24


7


226


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105


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89


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86


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39


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203


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11


15


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246


1863


77


212


289


33


1


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4


5


4


6


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273


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214


304


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108


278


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112


277


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55


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104


282


386


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123


292


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10


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275


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113


260


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3


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7


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10


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28


300


1881


134


306


440


65


7


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5


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342


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121


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53


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52


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1


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4


2


350


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125


322


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66


13


17


30


7


16


23


6


3


316


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128


325


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65


16


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32


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7


1


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130


337


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127


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306


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195


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22


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20


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96


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288


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19


3


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14


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86


195


281


3


3


9


12


1


22


9


200


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336


2


6


8


19


19


4


4


8


8


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113


227


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10


9


26


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25


26


7


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1885


0


25


BENEVOLENT CONTRIBUTIONS.


The method of preparing these reports has varied from year to year. In some years they are fuller than in others, but necessarily they are incomplete always.


POR YEAR ENDING JAN'Y 1.


FOREIGN MISSIONS.


EDUCA- TION.


CHURCH HOME BUILDING. MISSIONS.


AM. MIS. ASSOC.


PUBLICA- TION.


OTHERS.


TOTAL.


1866 .


1867 .


864


1868 .


1,490


1869 .


829


1870.


595 .


78


238 .


102.


97


66.


. 1,176


1871 .


. 1,025


1872 .


284 .


103.


51.


1,476 .


. 1,914


1873 .


415.


40


59.


110.


156.


780


1874 .


278 .


10.


18


165.


31 .


357


859


1876 .


265 .


10.


30


117.


36.


165.


623


1877 .


484.


75


170.


32.


180.


941


1878 .


514.


37


613 .


140.


76 .


700.


. 2,321


:880 .


597.


20


335 .


86.


54.


290.


. 1,382


1881


305 .


31


603.


100.


77.


312.


. 1,428


1882 .


407.


33


413.


199 .


20.


110.


. 1,182


1883 .


563 .


113.


25


301 .


150.


59. 43 .


610.


. 1,821


1884 .


464.


46.


8


297.


90 .


130.


155.


555.


. 1,891


1886 . 1887 .


. 545.


60.


12


658 .


130. 233 .


43 .


143.


. 2,230


1888 .


843 .


118.


25


775 .


164.


12 .


59.


. 1,996


1889 .


1.008 .


190.


12


594 .


195 .


10.


362.


. 2,371


1890 .


. 701.


692 .


18


792 .


261.


45 .


117.


. 2,626


200.


. 1,148


1885 .


633.


60.


188 .


. 1,653


705.


57.


16


1,033 .


82.


20.


616


1879 .


. 755 .


. 1,137


1875 .


. 1.020


418 .


3465


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