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BAPTIST SOCIETIES.
The first services in Brunswick by any preacher of the Baptist denomination were held in the year 1783. About this time Elders Case, Potter, and Lord preached here in some private houses, and though it is not known that they made any converts, the attention of
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the people was thus drawn to their particular theological views. On October 21, 1783, Reverend Isaac Case arrived in town. The next afternoon he preached at the house of a Mr. Woodard, and on the afternoon of the following day, he preached at the house of Mr. Samuel Getchell.1
In 1789 2 or 1790,3 Samuel Woodard and others formed themselves into a Baptist Society and refused taxes to the First Parish. In May, 1790, Joseph Morse entered in the town records his protest against ever paying anything to any Congregational or Presbyterian preacher.
On June 20, 1794, Judah Chase, William Mariner, Aaron Snow, Samuel Mariner, John Getchell, John Mariner, Charles Cowan, Peter Jordan. Robert Jordan, Anthony Woodside, David Ferrin, John Fer- rin, Robert Dunning, David Clark, Benjamin Getchell, Stephen Getchell, John Williams, George Williams, Philip Higgins, Reuben Higgins, Sylvanus Combs, Philip Higgins, Jr., Samuel Williams, William Thompson, Joseph O'Donehue, Joseph Morse, Richard Orr, William Stanwood, Samuel Dunlap, Daniel Brown, Philip .Owens, 4 Samuel Huey, Joseph Ross, John Mariner, Jr., Josiah Simpson, Michael Grows, Nathan Combs, George Winslow, Joseph Saint Combs, William Dunning, Samuel Woodward, Peter Woodward, Wil- liam Gatchell, Jr., Ezekiel Spaulding, Ezekiel Spaulding, Jr., John S. Gatchell, John Ridout, Samuel Gatchell, John Matthews,. David Lin- scot, William Woodside, Jr., George Combs, and George Combs, Jr., were incorporated by the name of " THE BAPTIST RELIGIOUS SOCIETY IN BRUNSWICK, HARPSWELL, AND BATH."5 Previous to this time the society had no legal existence.
In May, 1795, the town voted to pass by the fourth article in the warrant concerning allowing the Baptists to use the meeting-houses a part of the time.
The following is a list of the names of those who joined the Baptists in 1796 : -
On March 4, David Whitney, Simeon Whitney, Samuel Bean, Joshua Purinton, Abraham Capelon, Lemuel Standish, Jonathan Osgood, Jr., Jonathan Osgood, Francis Winter, Benjamin Chefford, Charles Peter- son, William Grace, John Grace, James Ward, Thomas Crawford, Thomas McKenny, Isaiah Crooker, Hannah Crooker, Elijah Williams, Thomas Wilhams, Jr.
1 Millett. 2 Greenleaf's Ecclesiastical Sketches
8 Pejepscot Papers.
4 Said to have been the first person ever baptized by immersion in Brunswick.
5 Massachusetts Special Laws, 1, p. 529.
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On March 10, William Swanton, Jr., John Lowell, Otis Little, Patrick Murray.
On March 12, Joseph West, James Wakefield.
On March 14, John Whitmore, James Mitchell. Eliphalet Lowell, William S. Crooker, Samuel Lumber, Joseph Lumber, Birduck Berry, Thomas Mitchell.
On March 16, John McFarlan, John Eneos, Patrick Williams. Thomas Williams. Jolm Williams, Joshua Williams, John Campbell, John Lemont, Stephen Combes, Stephen Combes, Jr., Thomas Combes, John Holbrook, Jolin Sprague, Simeon Higgins. Jacob Low, James Low. Zedoc Lincoln, William Marshall, William Marshall, Jr.
On March 17, William Jackson, Edward Oliver, Christopher Daley.
On March 18, Samuel Davis, James Davidson, Samuel Todd. Simeon Tumor, Charles Lincoln, Jonathan Ryon, Benjamin Brown, Jr., Eliphalet Brown. David Coultson, Patrick Grace, Nathaniel Springot, John Sinclair. 1
In 1798 the town voted " to allow the Baptist Society their extraor- dinary expense in the lawsuit between them and the other society in this town." which was to be in full of all demands. The object of this suit is nowhere stated, but the record of the Court of Common Pleas shows that at the October term of Court in 1795, " Samuel Woodward of Brunswick in the County of Cumberland, Clerk and Teacher of Piety, Religion and Morality," brought a suit against the inhabitants of Brunswick, one of whom was Thomas Thompson, a deputy sheriff, in a plea of the case that the inhabitants were indebted to the said Woodward in the sum of £10 17s. 6d. The plaintiff failed to recover, and costs were awarded to the defendants for nine- teen dollars and eighty-six cents. The plaintiff appealed to a higher court. This was probably the lawsuit referred to, though we cannot be certain about the matter, since the original papers cannot be found. It is probable that there was an assessment of taxes made by the town, which was also the First Parish, upon property of some kind, to sustain preaching, and the suit was instituted by this society to obtain its share of the amount collected.
In 1799, Philip Owen, William Dunning. Daniel Brown, Judah Chase, Samuel Dunlap, Josiah Simpson, Anthony Woodside. Michael Grows, and Joseph Ross withdrew from this society and formed one at Maquoit.
1 Pejepscot Papers.
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The meeting-house of the Brunswick, Harpswell, and Bath society was at New Meadows. The date of its erection, according to the inscription upon the present building, was about 1800. The records of this church are in existence, but we have not been able to procure the loan of them and are therefore unable to give any further account of it.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BRUNSWICK.
[1799.] A small number of persons having been led to embrace " Believers' Baptism," thought it might conduce to the glory of God and their comfort to be embodied together in church order. They therefore applied to the church in North Yarmouth and the church in Harpswell, of the Baptist order, for their assistance. Agrecably with this request the elders and messengers from those churches, together with Elder Williams, met at the Baptist meeting-house at Maquoit, on the second week in September, 1799. Elder Woodward preached a ser- mon in the forenoon on the nature of church order.
The brethren and sisters who met to be embodied were examined with regard to their articles of faith and covenant, and it appearing that they had adopted the same which is embraced by the Bowdoin- ham Association, a summary of which is printed in their minutes, the council decided to give them the hand of fellowship as a distinct Bap- tist church. The names of those thus embodied were, Judah Chase, Samuel Dunlap, William Stanwood, Sarah Woodside, Philip Owen, Mrs. Ross, wife of William Ross, and J. Merrill.
Mr. Merrill was dismissed from the Bowdoin church and the others from the Harpswell church in order to form this new church in Brunswick.
William Woodside was baptized, and then the church made choice of Samuel Dunlap as deacon.
Elder Williams having for some time preached to the Baptist society in Brunswick and in Topsham, they mutually requested him to remove his residence among them and preach for the two societies alternately. The invitation was accepted, and he moved with his family to Brunswick, January 24, 1800, preaching half the time for the Baptist society in Brunswick, and half for the Baptist society in Topsham.
On the fifteenth of April, 1800, an arrangement was made by which Elder Williams should preach for the ensuing year for the socie- ties of Brunswick and Topsham, each society paying one hundred dollars for his services.
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In April, 1801, Elder Williams was engaged to preach for the Brunswick society alone at a salary of two hundred dollars, and in April, 1802, he was engaged to supply the pulpit for another year. In the spring of 1803 he removed to Beverly, Massachusetts. having preached his farewell discourse on the twenty-fourth of April. ". After Elder Williams left us, a Brother Kendall providentially fell in here and preached for ns." 1
On the twenty-second of February, 1803, Philip Owen, William Dunning, Daniel Brown, Judah Chase, Samuel Dunlap, Josiah Simp- son, Anthony Woodside, Michael Grows, Joseph Ross, Samuel Stan- wood, William Woodside, Andrew Blake, Abraham Toothaker, Wil- liam Starbird, David Curtis, James Stanwood, Adam Woodside, David Dunning, William Ross, Frederic French, Nathaniel Chase, James Chase, William Swett, Shimuel Owen, Abner Melcher, William Low, Charles Ryan, Ephraim Hunt, William Lunt, Andrew Dunning. William Hunt, Anthony Chase, Gideon Toothaker, John Given, David Given, and Uriah Elliot were incorporated as the BAPTIST SOCIETY IN BRUNSWICK.
The following is a list of the members of the church in 1803 : Deacon Samuel Dunlap, Judah Chase, Philip Owen, John Merrill, Esquire, Wm. Woodside, Mrs. Sarah Woodside, Mrs. Ross, wife of Wm. Ross, Abraham Toothaker and his wife, Betsey Owen, Molly Toothaker, Jane Curtiss, Molly Merryman, Mr. Browning and Mrs. Browning, Elisha Snow, Jean Dunning, Betsey Alexander, Martha Hunt, Jane Martin, Mrs. Snow, wife of Elisha Snow, Mrs. Brown, wife of Daniel Brown, Sarah Alexander, Mrs. Sparks, Ilitty Hasey, Abner Melcher, Nabby Atherton, Katharine Willson, Andrew Blake, Heziah Blake, Peggy Stanwood, Ann Chase, and Shimuel Owen.
On September 8, 1804, Elder Titcomb, of Portland, at the request of the church and society, agreed " to minister to them in holy things." This invitation was formally extended by the society on August 29, 1805, and was accepted by him on the first of the following September.
On June 2, 1821, Elder Titcomb was dismissed at his own request, and received a letter of recommendation to other churches. The church was destitute of a settled pastor for some time, but had occa- sional preaching from Elder Titcomb and others.
On January 23, 1822, Benjamin Titcomb, Jr., was ordained, the churches in Topsham, Portland, North Yarmouth, Bath, Harpswell, and Freeport assisting. On November 11 of the same year a com-
1 All of this account is from the church and parish records.
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mittee consisting of David Given, John O'Brien, and Ephraim Brown was chosen " to provide a suitable place in the village and also an- other at Maquoit,1 to meet in the winter for worship, and to take into consideration our present difficult situation in regard to making a selection of a teacher for the present year."
On the eleventh of March, 1824, it was voted that Elder Benjamin Titcomb contine his labors in the church as usual.
On the ninth of August of that year Shimnel Owen, a member of this church, was ordained as an evangelist. In November, a committee was appointed to ascertain the minds of the individual church members as to whether they were satisfied with the labors of Elder Titcomb.
It appears from the records that the church had been somewhat divided, and on the sixth of April, 1825, it was voted that "this church views with abhorrence and detestation their present state as a church, and feeling desirous to walk 'together in the faith and fellow- ship of the gospel, we do hereby unitedly agree to bury forever in oblivion all hardness which we may have felt or do now feel in our minds against any of our brethren or sisters, and that we will, with the help of the Divine Spirit, freely and voluntarily forgive all that may have trespassed against us." Up to this time the whole member- ship of the church was about one hundred and fifty.2
On the tenth of April the following members requested to be dis- missed to form themselves into a church, or to join some other church, and the request was granted :-
Aaron Dunning, Philip Owen, Catharine II. Putnam, Mary Hum- . phreys, Sarah Owen, Margaret Donahue, Elizabeth Gould, Nancy Swift, Elizabeth Dunning, Mary Blake, Mary Chase, Betsey Petingill, and Sarah Stanwood.
At the same meeting the church refused to grant permission to two of its members to withdraw and join the church of the Second Society, and a committee was chosen to prepare a statement of facts relative to the conduct of the other church since its formation.
On the twenty-sixth of June. 1826, a petition was addressed to Peter O. Alden, Esquire, a justice of the peace, requesting him to issue his warrant to one of the subscribers, directing him to call a meeting of those persons who were desirous of being incorporated into a religions society, to be called the FIRST BAPTIST RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF BRUNSWICK.
1 There was no chimney in the Maquoit meeting-house, and there was therefore no way of heating it.
2 Millet.
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In accordance with this petition, Esquire Alden issued his warrant to Ephraim Brown, directing him to call a meeting of the petitioners on the eighth day of July. 1826. At this meeting the society was organized by the choice of the following officers : -
John Brown. moderator : Jonathan Snow, clerk ; David Given, John Brown, and Captain John Given, Jr., assessors ; David Given, col- lector and treasurer ; John Brown, David Given, Ephraim Brown, and Samuel Given, standing committee ; Ephraim Brown. William H. Morse, William James, wardens ; Nathaniel Melcher, sexton.
This organization was virtually the same as that incorporated in 1803. as the " Baptist Society in Brunswick." Many of its members had withdrawn and had established themselves as a society in the village, called the "Second Baptist Society." It is quite probable that the officers of the old society were among those who seceded, and being thus left without an organization, the remaining members applied to a justice of the peace under the laws of Maine, for authority to reorganize under a slightly different name.
In July the society voted to raise two hundred dollars for the ensu- ing year.
On September, 1826, the churches of the First and Second Societies met to discuss their differences. The church of the First Society claimed that the other church had no right to admit as members those who were excluded from the former, until they had been restored to fellowship and regularly dismissed by it. The church of the Second Society claimed that they had a right to admit such members, so long as the other church had nothing against the Christian character of these individuals. No agreement was reached between the two. In November, Adam Wilson was invited to preach one half the time.
On January 8, 1827, it was voted to join in fellowship with the Second Church, which had acknowledged some irregularities in receiv- ing members who were excluded from the First Church.
On February 23, Elder Benjamin Titcomb asked permission to preach to those of the society who resided in the village, or to hold meetings in that part of the town, and it was voted "that it is the opinion of this church that Elder Titcomb is at liberty to preach any- where in this town where he views it to be his duty." In April some of the members of the old society complained that many members , absented themselves and attended Mr. Titcomb's meeting in the vil- lage instead of their own.
It had been the practice for some years to hold the meetings of the society in the village in the winter, and at the old meeting-house at
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Maquoit in the summer. This year, on June 1, the village members requested that the meetings might continue in the village through the summer, but it was voted not to do so. A few days later thirteen members petitioned for liberty to attend meeting in the village, as it would be more convenient for them, but their request was not granted. In October, Elder Titcomb asked a dismissal, which was granted him, and also to Mary, his wife, and to Elizabeth Titcomb, Ephraim Brown, and Rebecca, his wife, Thomas Stanwood and wife, Thomas Noyes, Joanna Moore, and Mary R. Dunlap ; and on the third of November, Joshua Bishop, David Wilson, William Randall, Mary Perkins, Patience Bishop, James Wilson, Isabelle Merryman, and Ruth Skol- field, of Harpswell, were dismissed to form a church in that town.
On January 4, 1828, a resolution was passed that Elder Titcomb, Ephraim Brown, John O'Brien, and others, " having asked dismission for the purpose of uniting with some other church, and having joined the First Church at Bath, and under their patronage have established a meeting in the village while there is already one church of this faith there, causes us grief, and we feel in duty bound to express disfellow- ship with such a procedure."
During the summer of this year, thirty-eight were added to the church.
In consequence of the action of the First Baptist Church in Bath in sustaining the new movement in Brunswick village, a council was held February 29, 1829, to settle the difficulties between that church and the First Baptist Church in Brunswick, but the action of the council is not recorded. On May 31, however, the Bath church sent a confes- sion of their wrong-doing in having set up a branch church in Bruns- wick without consultation with the churches already existing there. This action of the Bath church evidently reconciled this church to the formation of the new one in the village, for on October 11, Jonathan Snow and Thomas Ward were chosen delegates to assist in organizing the branch of the Bath church, known as the Federal Street Church, in Brunswick; into an independent church.
The pulpit of the Maquoit or First Baptist Church had been sup- plied during the past three years by Elders Samuel Mariner, Adam Wilson, Shimuel Owen, and Henry Randall.1
On May 22, 1830, it was agreed to try to raise money by subscrip- tion for the support of the gospel.
On the twentieth of August, 1831, it was voted that Elder John
1 Millett.
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Bailey, formerly of Wiscasset, take the pastoral care of the church. Ile resigned his pastorate in June, 1833.
Elder William Johnson became pastor of the church in 1836, and continued in that capacity until 1840. In July, 1836, Elder Noah Norton and wife were received by letter from the Baptist Church in Bowdoin. In 1838 the parish voted to raise by tax one hundred and fifty dollars for the ensuing year's expenses.
In April, 1840, it was voted to engage Elder Noah Norton, and to raise one hundred and fifty dollars by tax, and fifty dollars by sub- scription.
It was voted this year that all pew-owners should give up their pews, and that thereafter they should all be free.
On May 1, 1841, it was voted to build a new meeting-house, and that it should stand on the west side of the twelve-rod road, near the road leading to Harpswell ; and Captain William Stanwood, Jonathan Snow. Jacob Skolfield, and William Stanwood, 2d, were chosen a building committee. Although there is nothing further upon the sub- ject in the records, it is known that instead of building a new meeting- house. the one on Federal Street, belonging to the Universalists, was. about 1846. purchased and moved to a lot near the junction of the old Harpswell and Mair Point roads, and it was thereafter known as the " Forest Church."
From 1841 to 1845. Elder Norton was annually chosen preacher.
Elder Joseph Hutchinson was chosen pastor in 1848, and in 1852 was dismissed at his own request.
Meetings seem to have been held in the years 1853, 1858, and 1866, but there is no record of any settled pastor, or of any impor- tant transactions.
On May 19, 1867, Grenville M. Atkins was invited to become their pastor, and accepted the invitation. He was ordained June 13, 1867. He preached a few days over a year, resigning his charge on May 31, 1868. Since then there has been no settled pastor of this church.
The last entry in the records is dated April 29, 1867, and is to the effect that the parish met on that day and reorganized, and voted " to raise al! we can for the support of the gospel."
Connected with the history of this church is the following anecdote which is told of William Woodside. He became " converted " under the preaching of Elder Potter, and at one of the meetings related his " experience," and, as was the custom in those days, he had much to say derogatory of himself. He was in reality a very good man, but in his remarks he called himself a bad man, one who was wholly evil,
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whose every act was wicked, and whose imaginations were all vain. When he sat down, a relative arose and with becoming gravity said that he could vouch for the truth of all William had said !
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH AND SOCIETY.
On Tuesday, May 5, 1825, a church was regularly constituted in this place, agreeably to the Baptist platform, by a council assembled for the purpose, under the title of the " Second Baptist Church in Bruns- wick." The council consisted of delegates from eight churches, who were unanimously agreed in giving the right hand of fellowship. The records of this church have not been found, and it is not positively known who were its members. It is probable, however, that Aaron Dunning, Philip Owen, Catharine H. Putnam, Mary Humphreys, Sarah Owen, Margaret Donahue, Elizabeth Gould, Nancy Swift, Elizabeth Dunning, Mary Blake, Mary Chase, Betsey Pettingill, Sarah Stanwood, Heman Pettingill, and Stanwood Dunning were among the first mem- bers. All of these persons were previously members of the First Baptist Church, and were dismissed from that church on the tenth of April of that year in order "to form themselves into a church, or to join some other church." The Second Baptist Society was not formed for a year later.
In 1826 a meeting-house was erected on School Street. Elder Shimuel Owen was pastor of this society from 1827 until it dissolved, in 1840.1 The building was then sold to the Congregationalists, and has been used by them ever since as a vestry.
FEDERAL STREET BAPTIST SOCIETY.
In 1828, Elder Benjamin Titcomb, Ephraim Brown, John O'Brien, and a few other members of the First Baptist Society, asked and received dismission from that church and united with the First Baptist Church of Bath, under whose patronage they established meetings in the village of Brunswick. Notwithstanding there was at the same time another Baptist society in the village (the Second Baptist), and notwithstanding the opposition made toward this new movement by the First Baptist Society, it was successful, and in 1829 it was organ- ized as a church. In April, work was begun upon a meeting-house. and the building was completed on the twelfth of the following Sep- tember. It was situated on Federal Street, at the corner of what is now Franklin Street.2 This church, it is said, was under the pastoral
1 Millet.
2 It is now the Catholic Church.
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care of Elder Titcomb during the whole period of its existence. It was dropped from the association of Baptist churches in 1839. No records of the church having been found, we are unable to give a more complete and aceurate sketeh.
MAINE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH AND SOCIETY.
In the early part of 1840 a very extensive revival took place in Topsham and Brunswick. In October, twenty-four persons from the church in Topsham, who resided in Brunswick, were organized into a chnreh. The society was formed in the same year, and a meeting- house, containing seventy-five pews, was erected on Maine Street, a few rods north of Lincoln Street.1 The Reverend Paul S. Adams, from South Berwick, was the first pastor, from January 3, 1841, to 1813. He was succeeded by Reverend Dudley C. Haynes, whose pastorate lasted between two and three years.
Reverend John Hubbard, Jr., was chosen pastor January, 1846, at a salary of two hundred dollars per annum. His pastorate ended Oc- tober 4, 1851. Reverend J. W. Coburn was pastor from March 15, 1852, until June 2, 1853 : and in November of the latter year he was succeeded by the Reverend Charles Ayer, who remained until Septem- ber 1, 1856. Reverend E. Andrews, an evangelist, then supplied the pulpit for a few months, and was succeeded by the Reverend James D. Reid, in October, 1857. In 1859, Reverend Charles Ayer again sup- plied the pulpit.
In June, 1860, the Reverend George Knox was installed as pastor of the society. In June, 1861, Mr. Knox was granted a leave of absence to act as chaplain of a Maine regiment, and Reverend S. W. Taylor was engaged to supply the pulpit during his absence. The former was discharged from his pastorate, at his own request, November 17, 1861. He was afterward killed by a fall from his horse.
In 1862, Reverend T. J. B. House was chosen pastor, and remained with the society three years. In 1865, Reverend C. M. Herring was chosen pastor. During his pastorate a vestry was built and the meeting-house was repaired and remodelled.
Mr. Herring resigned his pastorate July 26, 1868, and was sue- ceeded, the next spring, by Reverend S. W. Emerson, who remained but one year.
Reverend B. F. Lawrenee became pastor in June, 1870, and
1 The present Baptist Church.
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remained for four years. Reverend E. S. Small, the present pastor. began his pastorate February 20, 1876.
The foregoing sketch of this parish is made from notes furnished by the parish clerk. It is not so full as could be wished, but is as com- plete as possible from the notes furnished.
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