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1800, Mar. 9, Archibald and Lyman, sons of Jesse Wheeler. Mar. 30, David, son of Benjamin Kemp. June 8, Elmira, dau. of Nathan Ellis; Maria, dau. of Oliver Osgood. June 17, George and Ermina, ch. of Daniel Foster of Stoddard. Aug. 7, Melvin and Jesse, sons of Jesse Morse. Sept. 15, Ira, Asenath, Asa, William Comstock, Simeon, ch. of Lydia, widow of Simeon Ellis. Nov. 9, Asa, son of Jeremiah Leland ; Eliza, dau. of Elijah Osgood. Dec. 14, Elijah, son of Jonathan Baker.
1801, May 3 (?), Prudence, Sarah, Joseph, Lydia, James, Mary, Melissa, Eli- sha Ellis, ch. of James Sawyer. July 5, Amasa, son of Abel Allen ; Laura, dau. of Rev. Wm. Muzzy. July 12, Melissa, dau. of Luther Wilder. Sept. 6, Electa, dau. of Roswell Hubbard. Oct. 3, Susannah and Calvin, ch. of Thos. McLeod. Oct. 26, Velender, son of Elijah Carter. Nov. 8, Eliza, dau. of Nathan Bolster. 1802. Apr. 25, Pamelia, dau. of Solomon Rugg. May 9, Luther, son of
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Thos. Rider ; Nathan, son of Nathan Ellis. July 4, Emeline, dau. of Ben. Kemp. July 14, Alpheus, son of Jonathan Kendall. Sept. 5, Lucy, dau. of Oliver Osgood. Sept. 13, George Washington, son of Samuel Seward. Nov. 21, Electa, dau. of Nathaniel Evans of Stoddard, at Stoddard.
1803, May I, Rachel, dau. of James Sawyer. June (12?), Abijah, son of Nathan Bolster. July 3, William Monroe, son of Rev. Wm. Muzzy. Aug. 7, Electa, dau. of Roswell Hubbard.
1804, June II, Lucy, dau. of Elijah Osgood. June 17, Patty, dau. of Jere- miah Leland.
1805, Feb. 23, Thos. Jefferson, son of Thos. McLeod. Apr. 28, Melinda, dau. of Nathan Bolster. June 23, Mary Ann, dau. of Roswell Hubbard ; Abby Ann, dau. of Rev. Wm. Muzzy. July 14, Charles, David Mead, and William, sons of Solomon Woods. Oct. 6, Sarah, dau. of Luther Wilder. Nov. 17, Solomon, son of Solomon Woods.
1806, Nov. 30, Walter Sawyer, son of Thomas Rider.
1807, May 10, Anna, dau. of Elijah Carter. June 21, Laura, dau. of Nathan Bolster.
18c8, Jan. 10, Samuel Church, son of Roswell Hubbard. Aug. 28, Aurelia, Abigail, and Catharine, daus. of Erastus Hubbard.
1809, Jan. 5, George Frederick, son of Thos. P. Batchelor. Feb. 12, Mary, wife of Wm. Winch. Mar. 12, Erastus, son of Erastus Hubbard. June 8, Mary Ann, dau. of Jonathan Clark of Gilsum. Aug. 10, Lyman, son of Nathan Bolster. Sept. 10, Sarah Kinney (?), dau. of Thos. McLeod. Dec. 24, Sarah, dau. of Rev. Wm. Muzzy.
1810, Jan, 28, Lodice, dau. of Wm. Winch. Sept. 23, John, son of Jonas Stevens. Oct. 21, Anna Hunt, dau. of Erastus Hubbard. Oct. 28, Dauphin Clark, son of Jonathan Kendall.
18II, March 3, Charlotte Wilson, dau. of Roswell Nims. July 10, Allen Merrill, son of Luther Wilder. July 18, Calvin, son of a Mr. Dort, at Gilsum. Aug. 10, Elvira, dau. of Nathan Ellis. Nov. II, Eliza, Nancy, and Mary Ann, daus. of Dr. Messer Cannon.
1812, Jan. 4, George Washington, son of Roswell Nims. Oct. 19, Laura, dau. of Erastus Hubbard. Oct. 25, Sampson Wilder, son of Mrs. Thomas Hastings.
1813, Aug. 15, Roswell, son of Roswell Nims.
1814 and 1815, no baptisms.
1816, June 23, Joseph Alexander and Edwin, sons of Joseph Gibbs. Aug. 18, Samuel Hubbard, son of Erastus Kemp. Sept. II, Sarah and Laura, daus. of Stephen Hale; Nov. 26, Joseph Videll, adopted son of the widow, Ann Jones.
1817, July 20, Laura, Ebenezer, Mary, John, and Oren, ch. of John Mason. Aug. 29, Sarah, dau. of Erastus Hubbard. Oct. 12, Mary, Joel, William Farrar, and Patty (for Martha) Farrar, ch. of David Porter; Rachel, Phebe, Chloe, Cla- rissa, Milan, and Minot, ch. of the widow of John Wright. Aug. 2, Deborah, wife of David Porter; Miss Lucy Porter.
1818, May 24, Jerusha, Elijah, Sibyl, ch. of Bela Mason ; David Haven, son of John Mason. June 21, Sophia, dau. of David Porter. Oct. 12, Reuben, son of Reuben Morse; Alonzo, Ashley, Sylvester, and Ruth, ch. of Joseph Mason.
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1819, May 23, Oman, Daphne, John, ch. of the widow of John Hoar. May 29, Elizabeth Ann, dau. of Erastus Kemp; Benjamin, Nancy, Rebecca, Grata, Abigail, Eleanor, and Lovisa, ch. of Benjamin Kingsbury.
1820, Apr. 26, Eliza Ann, dau. of Benjamin Tyler. July 11, Charles, son of Breed Osgood. Aug. 8, Fanny Sophia, dau. of Erastus Kemp.
1821, Aug. 26, George Frost and Harriet Lavina, ch. of Ellsworth Hubbard. Sept. 15, Maria, and Perley Warren, ch. of Elijah Frost; Charles, Orlando, Sarah Louisa, ch. of Rufus Mason. Sept. 20, Mr. Selim Frost, and Mr. Benja- min Frost.
1822, Jan. 13, Sarah, wife of Philander Nims. April 22, Frederick Brown, Dauphin White, George Washington, Emery Nelson, Sarah Muzzy, Francis Ormond, Justus Woodbury, ch. of Philander Nims. May 13, George, son of John Mason. Oct. 7, Orville, son of Rufus Mason.
1823, July 12, Susannah, wife of John Farrar. July 13, George, son of Breed Osgood.
1824, April 25, Elizabeth Falora and Mary Ann, daus. of Ellsworth Hubbard. June 29, Susannah, dau. of John Farrar.
· 1825, Apr. 22, Harriet Lafayette, dau. of Philander Nims. May 8, David, son of Erastus Kemp.
1826, Jan. I, Elmina, wife of Artemas Nye. Mar. 12, Martha, dau. of Ellsworth Hubbard. Apr. 9, Amanda, dau. of Artemas Nye. May 10, Henry Jackson, son of John Newman. May 24, William Orlo, Edmund Perry, and Ezra Osgood, sons of Eliakim N. Kemp. June 19, George Solon, Abigail Butterfield, Enoch Alba, and Sarah Alma, ch. of Benjamin Kemp, Jr. July 19, Enoch Charles Augustus, son of Enoch Woods, Jr. Sept. 16, a date without a name, was probably intended for the baptism of Enoch Woods, son of Rufus Mason. Oct. 7, Paulina Tucker, dau. of Nathaniel Evans.
1827, Apr. 21, Solon, son of Artemas Nye. Mar. 25, Francis Alexander, Mary Ann, and Olive Adams, ch. of James Bolster. July 3, Mary Asenath, dau. of John Farrar. Nov. 18, Esther Ann, dau. of Philander Nims. Dec. 24, Ros- well, son of Erastus Kemp. Dec. 26, Ellen Grace, dau. of Benjamin Tyler.
1828, No baptisms.
1829, Jan. 11, Sarah, wife of Calvin Locke; Cynthia Locke, afterwards Mrs. Moses Gerould. Feb. 8, Lewis Downing, son of Nathaniel Evans. Mar. 29, Augusta, Henry (usually called Harry), Roxana, Emily, Cynthia, James Mason, ch. of James W. Osgood.
1830, Apr. 25, Mary Elizabeth, dau, of Benjamin Kemp, Jr. Her brother, Benjamin Franklin, was probably baptized the same day. Apr. (25?), Rufus Osgood, son of Rufus Mason. June 10, Samuel Henry, son of Henry Nims, July (II ?), Carlton Penniman, son of Benjamin Frost. July 11, Sarah Jane, dau. of Erastus Kemp; Henry, son of Roswell Osgood. Sept. 21, Sarah Nor- cross, and Mary Jane, ch. of Ephraim Foster.
1831, Jan. 9, Mr. Rufus Mason. Jan. 29, Atwell Comstock and Lavina Lane, ch. of Asa Ellis. Sept. 11, Mr. Charles P. Locke. Oct. 16, Lucy Ann, dau. of Martin Rugg ; Emily Sophia and Horace Kendall, ch. of Harrison Rugg.
1832, Jan. I, Mary, wife of David Estey ; Anna, wife of Henry Nims. Mar. 25, Mary Nims, afterwards Mrs. James Rawson; Lydia Locke, afterwards Mrs.
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Lanmon Nims; Lavina Locke, afterwards Mrs. Abijah W. Kingsbury ; George Washington, son of David Estey. June 10, Eliza Ann, and George Cannon, ch. of George Hubbard; Roxana, Samuel Adams, Alfred, Orlando Abijah, Betsey Fay, and Lestina Jane, ch. of Abijah Seward. Oct. 23, Almira Jane, dau. of Lucius Nims.
1833, June 17, Edwin Brant, son of Benjamin Frost. June 23, Lucius Edward, son of Henry Nims. July 14, Lura, dau. of Roswell Osgood.
1834, June 8, Gardner Harrison, son of Harrison Rugg. June 15, Harriet Louisa Augusta and (probably ?) Helen Amanda Maria, daus. of Rufus Mason ; Edwin Augustine, son of Benjamin Kemp, Jr. July 13, Sarah Ellen, dau. of D. W. Houghton.
1835, June II, Henry Martin, son of Dea. Benjamin Frost.
1836, July 10, Henry Ellsworth, son of Ellsworth Hubbard ; Charles Edward, son of Daniel W. Houghton. Sept. 4, Daniel Willard, son of Harrison Rugg; Mr. Benjamin Willis.
1837, July 2, Edna Augusta, dau. of Alonzo Mason.
1838, May 6, John, son of Samuel Locke; Susan, Samuel Newell, and Sarah Jane, ch. of Mrs. Samuel Locke, by her former husband, Israel B. Fifield. July I, Mr. Charles Judson White; Miss Abby Ann Muzzy Winch. Sept. 2, Miss Betsey Wardwell, afterwards, Mrs. Geo. F. Hubbard. Sept. 9, Samuel, son of Lanmon Nims; Lucius Pembroke, son of Lucius Nims; Edward Beecher, son of Seth Nims. Oct. 14, Sarah Ann Jewett, dau. of Charles P. Locke; Jeremiah Van Brunt, son of Daniel Grosvenor Wright. Nov. 4, Mary, wife of Oliver Brown; Mr. (afterwards Rev.) Granville Wardwell; Miss Julia M. Marshall.
1839, Mar. 5, Mr. Ichabod Nichols Wardwell and Lodice, his wife; and Mr. Hersey Wardwell. May 5, Miss Laurenza Felt. July 7, Lois, wife of Ezra Wardwell. Aug. 7, Lodice, Amos Nichols, and Sarah Maria, ch. of I. N. Ward- well.
1840, June 5, Sarah M. Hall, afterwards Mrs. David Nims. July 5, Ellen Elizabeth, dau. of Seth Nims. July 12, Elizabeth Alma and Ellen Jane, ch. of Dauphin Spaulding. Dec. (day not recorded), Rosalind, dau. of Reuben Morse, Jr.
1841, July 18, Mr. Daniel W. Houghton ; Susan, dau. of Samuel Locke ; Joel Williston, son of Daniel Grosvenor Wright. Sept. 4, Ellery Edward, son cf Harrison Rugg.
1842, Mar. 3, Edward Alanson, son of Rev. Alanson Alvord. May 29, Mary Arethusa French, dau. of Alonzo Mason. June 5, Edward Elliot, son of Dea. Asa E. Wilson. Sept. II, Emily Maria, dau. of David Nims. Oct. 31, Rosalind Ursula, dau. of Reuben Morse, Jr. Nov. 6, Milan Dauphin, son of Dauphin Spaulding. Nov. 14, Adelaide Arethusa Relief, dau. of Sylvester Mason.
1843, Sept. 3, Marietta, dau. of James Rawson. Sept. 17, Augustus Frost, son of Seth Nims. Nov. 5, Augustus Newell, son of I. N. Wardwell.
1844, Mar. 3, Edna Antoinette, dau. of Dauphin Spaulding. May 5, Rock- well Breed, son of Dea. A. E. Wilson. July 7, Mr. Dauphin Spaulding. Nov. 10, Isaac Wilson and Emma Antoinette, ch. of Charles Rawson.
1845, June 8, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Hersey Wardwell.
1846, May 3, Mary Augusta, dau. of Dauphin Spaulding. July 5, Harriet
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Ursula, dau. of James Rawson ; Emily Rosette, dau. of Daniel Towne. Oct. 30, Thomas Cooley, son of Rev. Thomas S. Norton.
1847, Mar. 7, Joseph Vryling, son of Sylvester Mason. July I, Elizabeth Josephine and Sarah Abby, daus. of David Nims. July 4, Maria Rozina, dau. of Dauphin Spaulding ; Abby Lavina, dau. of Geo. F. Hubbard.
1848, July 2, Caroline Aletta, dau. of I. N. Wardwell; George Washington and Roswell Curtis, sons of Roswell Osgood; Miss Henrietta Melvina Brown ; Miss Eveline Elizabeth Felt. Nov. 5, Miss Mary Melvina Goodnow.
1849, July 1, Julia Gertrude, dau. of Rev. T. 'S. Norton; Herbert Milton, son of Alexander B. Brown ; Almon Clifford, son of Levi F. Mason; Austin Atwell, son of Atwell C. Ellis.
1850, Jan. 6, Miss Almira Sprague Felt; Miss Ellen Jane Rugg. May 5, Mrs. Mary Ann, wife of Charles P. Locke.
1851, Mar. 2, Sarah Jane, dau. of Hersey Wardwell. July 6, Charles Esban, son of Charles Rawson ; Arthur Wellington, son of A. B. Brown ; Lewis Carey, son of Rev. T. S. Norton.
1852, July 4, Harriet Lestina, dau. of D. A. Felt; George Washington, son of Franklin Buckminster. Sept. 6, Theodore Jewett, son of John Locke; John Milton, son of Geo. F. Hubbard.
1853, June 30, Samuel Seward, son of George White. July 3, Mr. George White; Albert Gardner, son of Nahum Nims; Albert Frederick, son of Freder- ick B. Nims; Jane Elizabeth, dau. of Wm. Smith ; Juliette, dau. of F. B. Nims ; Abby Maria, dau. of C. F. Wilson ; Ann Pauline, dau. of Mrs. Betsey Miller. Sept. I, Minot Wesley, son of Geo. F. Hubbard; Leston Everett, son of Levi F. Mason. Sept. 4, Frederick Alonzo, son of Alonzo Farrar; Lucy Ann, dau. of Daniel Goodnow; Diancy Marilla, dau. of Levi Nash. Nov. 6, Mrs. Amanda, wife of Charles Mason ; Ann Amanda and Charles Henry, ch. of Charles Mason.
1854, Mar. 5, Henry Otis, son of Ashley Spaulding. Nov. 2, Isabella Susan, dau. of Dauphin Spaulding. Nov. 5, Mr. Alfred Weston Heald.
1855, Nov. 25, Herbert Osnier, son of Hersey Wardwell.
1856, Nov. I, Charles Woods, son of Geo. F. Hubbard ; Charles Gilmore, son of Alonzo Farrar.
1857, June 30, Marshall Thomas, son of Dauphin Spaulding. Sept. 3, George Csgood, Amos Frost, and Harriet Maria, ch. of the late George Wardwell. Sept. 6, George Henry, son of F. B. Nims.
1858, Aug. 29, Charles Carroll, son of C. F. Wilson; Nov. 7, Mrs. Sarah Griffin Marshall, wife of C. F. Wilson. Dec. 23, Edgar Levi, son of George White.
1859, July 7, Jennie Ida, dau. of Alonzo Farrar ; Frances Adella, dau. of John Locke.
1860, May 3, Edwin Justus, Augusta Octavia, Reuben Austin, Hannah Cornelia, Chloe Angelia, ch. of Justus Dunn.
1861, July 6, Helen Mabel, dau. of Alonzo Farrar. July 7, Daniel Minot, son of Henry O. Spaulding. Nov. I, Dennis Carlton, son of Joseph N. Nims ; Hattie Ann, dau. of Justus Dunn.
1862. No baptisms.
1863, May 3, Mrs. Mary Buss, wife of Caleb Goodnow.
1864, July 3, Marshall Wilson and Octavia Josephine, ch. of F. B. Nims ;
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Alanson Augustus and Mason Adams, sons of D. A. Nims ; Charles Francis, and Ella Maria, ch. of Caleb Goodnow ; Lucy Jane, adopted dau. of Benjamin Kemp, Jr. Sarah Abby, dau. of Ashley Spaulding. Sept. 1, Addie Maria, dau. of Albert G. Nims. Sept. 3, George Lyman, son of D. A. Nims; Mr. Joseph N. Nims ; Francis Ormond and Harriet Abby Ann, ch. of F. B. Nims ; Fred Ells- worth, son of Joseph N. Nims. Nov. 5, Edward and Clarissa Adeline, ch. of Ashley Spaulding.
1865, Aug. 31, Alice Carrie, dau. of Albert G. Nims.
1866 and 1867. No baptisms.
1868, Jan. 5, Estella Adeline Corliss, dau. of Amos Wardwell ; Mrs. Ruth Maria Hale, wife of George H. Nims; Mrs. Julia Ann Wilson, wife of L. P. Nims. Mar. I, Joseph Henry, son of Charles Mason.
1869, May 23, Carrie Maria, dau. of George H. Nims. Sept. 1, Edwin Fifield and Althea Maria, ch. of Joseph N. Nims. Sept. 3, Myra Breed, dau. of L. P. Nims.
1870, May I, Rosa Mary, dau. of Perry E. Kemp.
1871. No baptisms.
1872, May 5, Mr. George Aaron Willey. July 7, Mary Emma, dau. of Alan- son A. Nims.
1873, July 6, Arthur Jones and Henry Walter, sons of George Hubbard ; Miss Etta E. Tubbs, afterwards Mrs. Keyes; Ellen Maria, dau. of Henry C. Rawson; Ernest Augustine, son of Albert G. Nims. Sept. 7, Sarah Ann and Lillian Helen, daus. of Lorenzo W. Mason. Alice, adopted dau. of Daniel H. Mason.
1874. No baptisms.
1875, Sept. 5, Henry Luther and Raymond Perry, sons of David F. Smith ; Leslie Adams, ch. of Alanson A. Nims; Winfred Jewett, son of Sam. S. White.
1876, Mar. 15, Myrtle Eva, dau. of Austin A. Ellis, at the home, and on the 88th anniversary of the birth, of her great-grandmother, Mrs. Asa Ellis of Sullivan.
1877 and 1878. No baptisms.
1879, Nov. 2, Ida Jane Kenerson, dau. of Mrs. Elliot J. Davis, by her former husband, Sylvanus J. Kenerson.
1880, May 2, Jennie A. Brooks (adult) ; Letitia Delia and Celeste Elizabeth, adopted daus. of Rev. H. W. L. Thurston.
1881. No baptisms.
1882, Nov. 9, Frank Everett, son of Chas. F. Jewett.
1883, 1884, and 1885. No baptisms.
1886, July 4, Brainard Drake, son of Augustus F. Nims; Eugene and Estella Adeline, ch. of Geo. W. Marston; Osmond L. Kimball (adult) ; Mabel Ida and Althea Spaulding, daus. of Marshall J. Barrett.
1887 and 1888. No baptisms. ·
1889, June 16, Rupert Jewett and Ruth Dorothea, twin ch. of Arthur P. Morse.
1890. No baptisms.
1891, Jan. 18, Edward Leslie, son of Chas. F. Jewett; Grace Stella and Allan Mason, ch. of Mason A. Nims; Elwyn W. Wilcox (adult) ; Lewis W. Smith
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(adult) ; Geo. W. Wellman (adult) ; Andrew Almon Tyler (adult) ; Emma Jane Hubbard (adult).
1892 to 1896. No baptismns.
1897, Sept. 5, Ethel Abbie, dau. of Marshall J. Barrett.
1898, Sept. 4, Sarah Emma, dau. of Marshall J. Barrett; Susan Harriet, dau. of Charles A. Brooks; Louisa Frances, dau. of Wm. W. Yardley ; David Francis, son of George D. Smith.
1899. No baptisms.
1900, Jan. 7, Bessie Vienna, dau. of Marshall J. Barrett; Burton Edward, son of Geo. D. Smith.
1901, July 14, Ida May, wife of Eugene Marston.
1902 and 1903. No baptisms.
1904, Sept. 11, Carl Merton, son of Marshall J. Barrett.
In this catalogue of baptisms of the old church, it will be discovered, by consulting the genealogical tables, that the baptisms of certain children of per- sons who were members of the church are not here recorded. Such omissions were infrequent and were doubtless due to the carelessness of clergymen, in failing to record the facts, rather than to the neglect of parents in failing to bring their children for baptism. In some cases, where it is known that there was a failure to record, we have, in this catalogue, supplied the deficiencies. There are other instances where the omissions are, beyond any doubt, due to carelessness. Sometimes the oldest children in a family were christened in the church of which their parents were members before joining the Sullivan church. Sometimes there was a neglect in baptizing the youngest children, because there happened to be no pastor serving the church. However, where omissions are discovered in the midst of a family of children, where children both older and younger than those omitted had received the rite, it is fair to presume that the omissions were wholly due to a failure to record the facts. When ministers were on an exchange, children were sometimes christened by the visiting min- ister. Such baptisms frequently failed of a record. Of names positively known to have been omitted from the list are those of Laura Maria, dau. of Ellsworth Hubbard ; Frances Amanda, dau. of Dauphin Spaulding; Henry Chandler, son of Philander Nims ; Lucinda, dau. of Abel Allen, who was probably intended for the one recorded Lydia, as Mr. Allen had no child named Lydia ; Nehemiah, son of Jonathan Burnham ; Dolly, dau. of Fortunatus Eager; Erastus, son of Erastus Kemp; Fanny, dau. of Roswell Osgood; Relief, dau. of James Sawyer ; Josiah, son of I. N. Wardwell ; and Samuel and Sarah, ch. of Daniel Wilson ; probably, also, Joshua, son of Joshua Osgood.
Our catalogue comprises 560 names; or 573, if we include the 13 omitted names just mentioned.
PASTORS.
I. WILLIAM MUZZY (MUZZEY, as later spelled), A. B., Harvard, 1793 ; studied for ministry with Rev. J. Clark ; ordained at Sullivan, Feb. 7, 1798 ; dis- missed by council, at his request, May 22, 1827 ; a scholar and model gentleman of the olden school ; his only settlement; passed his remaining years in his' native town of Lexington, Mass., where he died, Apr. 16, 1835, having been born there, May 25, 1771.
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2. JOSIAH PEABODY, born at Henniker, Aug. 12, 1798 ; A. B., Dartmouth, 1825; ordained at Sullivan, Nov. 5, 1828; received his " three months' notice ", from the society, July 11, 1829; dismissed by council, Oct. 21, 1829; preached at Wilmington, Vt., in 1834, and, at times, in other places; returned to Sullivan, purchased the Wm. Brown house at Sullivan Centre, where he died, April 15, 1870. He was of a good family, an able scholar and writer, and a satirical poet of considerable merit. The society was not unanimous in the matter of his settle- ment. Dissatisfaction, increased by a displeasure, on the part of some of his flock, with his marriage, led to the severance of his pastoral relation with the society. Although an excellent man, he did not have that peculiar adaptation to parish work which is so essential to success. Many a clergyman has lost a parish by not marrying some lady whom the parishioners had " picked out."
3. JOB CUSHMAN, born in Kingston, Mass., Jan. 17, 1797; A.B., Brown, 1819 ; studied theology with Rev. Calvin Park, D. D .; licensed to preach by Old Colony Association, in August, 1821 ; ordained, July 6, 1825, at Springfield, N. H .; dismissed, July 6, 1828 ; acting pastor of this church in Sullivan, for two years from April 1, 1830, according to his statement to the writer, made many years ago, which corrects Hazen's dates (1829-1831), in his " Congregational and Pres- byterian Ministers and Churches of New Hampshire," also other authorities ; settled at Westford, Conn , 1832 ; North Wrentham (now Norfolk), Mass., 1833- 35 ; Prescott, Mass., Oct. 19, 1835 to Oct. 2, 1839 ; Tolland, Conn., 1841-3; Pal- myra, Pewaukee and Watertown, Wis., 1852-4 ; Truro and North Truro, Mass., 1856-9; Marlboro, Vt., 1859-61 ; Plymouth, Mass., 1862. He died at Grinnell, Iowa, of pneumonia, Aug. 5, 1878.
4. SAMUEL CLEVELAND BRADFORD, born at Francestown, N. H., July 2, 1795; A. B., Dartmouth, 1818; studied theology with Rev. James Bradford of Sheffield, Conn .; ordained at Crown Point, N. Y., June 25, 1822 ; remained there till 1827; preached at Derby, Vt., two years; acting pastor of this Sullivan church, as would appear from society records, from March 29, 1833 to Sept. I, 1833; then preached at other places in New Hampshire, and at Sunderland and Montague in Massachusetts; then went to Wisconsin ; finally returned to Fran- cestown, where he died, March 3, 1869.
5. JOEL WRIGHT, born at Mile Slip, now Milford, N. H., Jan. 27, 1784; A. B., Dartmouth, 1809; studied theology with Dr. Payson of Rindge; ordained, Dec. 9, 1812, at Leverett, Mass., dis. Jan. 6, 1820; at Goshen, Mass., Sept. 26, 1821 to Sept. 1828; at Wilmington, Vt., Oct. 28, 1829 to Jan. 2, 1834; installed at Sullivan, May 22, 1834, dis., at his request, by council, Apr. 28, 1840; settled later at Bristol, N. H .; died at South Hadley Falls, Mass., June 8, 1859.
6. ALANSON ALVORD, born at Granby, Mass., June 29, 1803 ; did not receive, so far as any records indicate, any collegiate or seminary education ; ordained, Nov. 19, 1834 ; served a time at Westmoreland; installed at Sullivan, Feb. 24, 1842, dismissed, by council, May 18, 1844; died, Dec. 2, 1862, at Mallet Creek, Ohio.
7. THOMAS SNELL NORTON, born at New Braintree, Mass., Nov. 25, 1813; A. B., Amherst, 1840; ordained, Feb. 4, 1846 (had been preaching since Sept. I, 1844); dismissed at his request, March 10, 1859, having had the longest ministry in town, excepting that of Mr. Muzzey (or Muzzy, as the latter spelled his name)
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subsequently settled at Dover, Mass., where he died, Mar. 14, 1891. He was an excellent man, greatly endeared to Sullivan people.
8. GEORGE WASHINGTON STINSON, born at Mont Vernon, N. H., Apr. 3, 1823, graduated Oberlin Theological Seminary, 1855 ; ordained at Chesterfield, Ill., Apr. 19, 1856 ; preached at Forestville, Iowa, 1857-8 ; acting pastor of this Sullivan church, July 1, 1859, to Mar. 24, 1861 ; Dalton N. H., July 1861 to July, 1863 ; served on the Christian Commission in the Civil War, finally settled at Maysville, Mo., where he died, Dec. 17, 1865. During his ministry, the bell was placed in the belfry.
9. NELSON BARBOUR, born at Bridport, Vt., Oct. 8, 1805; A. B., Middlebury College, 1831 ; Andover Seminary, 1834; agent for American Sunday School Union, 1834-35 ; settled at Saxton's River, Vt., 1835-39, ordained, Dec. 15, 1836; Dummerston, Vt., 1840-46; agent of American Protestant Society, 1846; Lang- don, 1849-52; Wolfeborough, 1852-54; Cummington, Mass., 1857-58; Jamaica, Vt., 1859-60 ; acting pastor of this Sullivan church, Apr. 1, 1861 to Aug. 9, 1863 ; West Fairlee, Vt., 1864-67; Georgia, Vt., in 1867, where he died, July 31, 1867.
IO. JOHN MURDOCK STOW, born at Hubbardston, Mass., Sept. 7, 1824; graduated at Bangor Theological Seminary, 1854; ordained at Walpole, Jan. 31, 1855, dismissed, Feb. 14, 1862; acting pastor of this Sullivan church, Sept. I, 1863 to Aug. 21, 1870; Hubbardston, Mass., Sept. 4, 1870 to his death in that town, May 9, 1877. He gave the address at the dedication of the Soldiers' Mon- ument and edited a pamphlet containing the address and an account of the pro- ceedings. He was the pastor in Sullivan during the last and most anxious period of the Civil War. His tender sympathy with those who mourned for the soldiers who died or were slain in the war was gratefully appreciated.
II. JOSEPH FAWCETT, born at Littlethorpe, Yorkshire, Eng., Dec. 23, 1820; received no collegiate or seminary education ; ordained in a Primitive Methodist church in Brooklyn, N. Y., in or about 1852; preached at Brooklyn, N. Y .; Tamaqua, Penn .; Brooklyn, N. Y. (2d time); Chichester, N. H .; Bath, N. H., Peterborough, N. H .; Amesbury, Mass. ; visited England; Chesterfield, N. H .; Surry N. H. ; supplied this Sullivan church, Apr 1, 1871 to Apr. 13, 1873 ; Ossipee Corners ; East Tilton ; Effingham; Ionia (in Wakefield); Ossipee Centre ; Lou- don ; Washington, N. H .; Sullivan, again ; finally, in Stoddard, where he closed a ministry of 50 years, which began ten or a dozen years before he had been ordained. He died in England, Jan. 2, 1905.
12. SAMUEL STILLMAN DRAKE, born at Stoughton (now Canton), Mass., July 21, 1804; graduated at Bangor Theological Seminary, 1834; ordained at Blanchard, Me., Oct. 15, 1834; subsequently settled at Biddeford, Phippsburg, Deer Isle, and Kittery, all in Maine ; acting pastor of the Sullivan church, from June 29, 1873 to Mar. 24, 1878; died at North Berwick, Me., Nov. 12, 1883.
13. HENRY WARREN LYMAN THURSTON, born in Hartford, Vt., Nov. 20, 1823; spent the first fifty years of his life in farming, trade, and mechanical pursuits ; no collegiate or seminary education ; ordained at Goshen, Aug. 20, 1875; subsequently settled at Harrisville, May 1, 1877 to May 1, 1879; acting pastor of this Sullivan church from May 1, 1879 to Sept. 11, 1881 ; Chichester, 1881 to 1884; Goshen, 1884-85 ; Boscawen, from 1885, for a few years ; Wilmot (supplying Andover Center), for a few years from Aug. 1, 1890. He died at Wilmot, Sept. 21, 1900.
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