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1821, Rhinebeck, Jesse Hunt.
This year Duchess is put into the New Haven District. Daniel Bray. ton is appointed to Amenia-Salisbury, Coles Carpenter, Lucius Baldwin. [No ministers were stationed at Pine Plains until 1835.]
1822. James Young, D. Brayton at Amenia, Presiding Elder, Henry Stead.
1823, Rhinebeck, James Young, Presiding Elder, Henry Stead.
Cyrus Silliman at Amenia.
1824, Duchess, Samuel Draper, Samuel Cochrane, Presiding Elder, Henry Stead.
Rhinebeck, Salisbury, David Miller, John Lovejoy, George Coles. Amenia, John Reynolds.
1825, Duchess, Samuel Cochrane, Nicholas White, Wm. M. Willett, Presiding Elder, Henry Stead.
1826, Rhinebeck, Timothy Benedict, Amenia, John Reynolds, Presid- ing Elder, Henry Stead.
1827, Rhinebeck, Timothy Benedict, Amenia, Wm. Jewet, J. C. Bon- tecou, A. Hunt, Elder.
1828, Rhinebeck, Fitch Reed. Amenia, Wm. Jewet, A. S. Hill, A. Hunt, Supt., Presiding Elder, P. P. Sanford.
OLD STORE AND BUILDINGS FORMERLY ON CORNER OF BOWMAN'S OPERA HOUSE.
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1829, Rhinebeck, Stephen Remington, Amenia, Fitch Reed, A. S. Hill, A. Hunt, Supt .. Duchess and Milan, A. M. Osborn, M. Richardson.
1830, Rhinebeck, Stephen Remington, Amenia, F. Reed, L. Clark, A. Hunt, Supt., Milan. A. S. Hill, Presiding Elder, P. P. Sanford.
1831, Rhinebeck, Amenia, Samuel Cochran, Lorin Clark, Milan, A. S. Hill, Mallinson, Supt. A. Hunt.
1832, Rhinebeck, Amenia, S. Cochran, F. Donnelly, Milan, L. Clark, Supt. A. Hunt.
1833, Rhinebeck, Amenia, S. W. Fisher, S. Washburn, Milan, Lorin Clark, F. Donnelly, Supt. A. Hunt.
1834, Rhinebeck, Amenia, R. Wymond, S. Washburn, G. D. Sutten, Milan, W. M. Eangs, F. Donnelly, Supt. Hunt.
1835, Rhinebeek. Amenia, R. Wymond, E. Washburn, G. D. Sutten, Milan, D. Keeler, S. W. Smith, Copake and Pine Plains, D. B. Ostrander, W. Lull, Presiding Elder, Benjamin Griffin.
1836, Rhinebeck, Amenia, Fitch Reed, D. Holmes, J. P. Ellsworth, Milan. S. Cochran, Copake and Pine Plains, A. Bushnell, A. G. Shears, Presiding Elder, B. Griffin.
1837, Rhinebeck, Copake and Pine Plains, E. S. Stout, A, G. Shears, Presiding Elder, B. Griffin.
1838, Rhinebeek, Copake and Pine Plains, David Holmes, David Plumb, Presiding Elder, B. Griffin.
1839, Rhinebeek, Pine Plains, David Holmes.
The ministers of Pine Plains only will hereafter be named.
1840, M. Van Duzen, Presiding Elder, W. Jewett.
1841, M. Van Duzen, Presiding Elder, W. Jewett. 1842, Aaron Hunt, Presiding Elder, W. Jewett.
1843, Wm. Gothard, Presiding Elder, W. Jewett.
1844, Charles Chittenden, Presiding Elder, Jesse Hunt.
1845, Charles Chittenden, Presiding Elder, Jesse Hunt. 1846, Stephen M. Vail, Presiding Elder, Jesse Hunt. 1847, Albert Nash, Presiding Elder, Jesse Hunt.
1848, Thomas Ellis, Presiding Elder, Phineas Rice. 1849, Thomas Ellis, Presiding Elder, Phineas Rice. 1850, M. R. Lent, Presiding Elder, Phineas Rice. 1851, M. R. Lent, Presiding Elder, Phineas Rice.
1852-53, A. H. Ferguson.
1854-55, W. G. Browning. 1856-57. J. N. Shaffer. 1858-59, L. W. Walsworth.
1860-61, Z. N. Lewis.
1862-63, Wm. Bloomer. 1864-66, F. S. Barnum. 1867-68, H. B. Mead.
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1869-71, G. D. Townsend.
1872-73, B. H. Burch.
1874-76, W. E. Ketcham.
1877-79, W. F. Brush.
1880-81, B. N. Lewis.
1882, B. N. Lewis.
1883-84, John Wesley Selleck.
1885, John Wesley Selleck.
1886, C. H. Reynolds.
1887, W. A. Mackey.
1888, W. A. Mackey.
1889, W. A. Mackey.
1890, F. R. Bouton. 1891, F. R. Bouton.
1892, A. E. Barnett.
1893, A. E. Barnett
1894, A. E. Barnett.
1895, Albert Stevens.
1896, James Douglass.
CHAPTER XVII.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
The meeting for the incorporation of the Baptist Society of Pine Plain was held at the house of Alfred Brush, May 4th, 1836, who at that time lived in the "Graham block house" in the rear of Walter T. Myers' furniture store property, and now owned by Isaiah Dibble. The house was repaired a few years since and the old square logs covered with siding. Alfred Brush and Aaron E. Winchell presided at this meeting and Cornelius Hus- ted, Charles Couch, Justus Boothe,- Niles Hartwell, Alfred Brush and Aaron E. Winchell were elected trustees. These proceedings were certi- fied to by Stephen Thorne. one of the county Judges, on April eleventh following, and recorded June 28, 1836, in book No. 1 of church records in the county clerk's office at Poughkeepsie on pages 122, 123.
This organization was the outcome of a few settlers of that church be- lief who came to "the pine plains" in the earlier years of this century from 1810 to 1815, of whom may be noted Justus Boothe, Aaron E. Winchell, Niles Hartwell and Alfred Brush. Mr. Winchell and Mr. Hartwell had been residents of Spencer's Corners-now North East-where as early as 1766 a Baptist church had been organized with which the Winchell and Hart- well families were identified. Alfred Brush had received his early educa- tion in this denomination at Danbury, Conn. When the "Union Meeting House"-now Presbyterian-was built in 1815, they and others of Baptist tendencies contributed to its erection expecting to have their quarter share of time in the use of the union house. After its completion the Rev, John Buttolph, a Baptist minister of North East (Spencer's Corners), was the first regular preacher of this denomination. He preached about two years be- tween 1819 and 1822, and about this time the Baptist interest in the union house was transferred by the trustees to the Dutch Reformed. This act of the trustees was probably the cause of the withdrawal of Rev. John But- tolph. The Rev. Robert G. Armstrong was at this time the ordained min- ister of the Presbyterians and occupied the pulpit his share-one quarter- of the time. The doctrinal points of baptism by immersion and by sprink- ling by these two respective ministers from the same pulpit, which each pressed to the front in accordance with the denominational strife of that era, to say the least was detrimental to church harmony and union. The " Union house". became a house of disunion. The Baptists, however, were permitted to hold meetings, and the Rev. Luman Burtch, who was pastor of the present Baptist church at Bangall when this union house was built, and twenty years or more continuously thereafter, succeeded Mr. But-
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tolph. He was a plain, practical and popular preacher, always speaking extemporaneously, never using head notes. He was a remarkable man in logical demonstration, and in his ministry was politic, ever careful to not give offense. He preached here with a good degree of regularity, once in four weeks, until about 1835, when a series of revival meetings were held, which resulted (referring specially to the Baptist church) in the first bap- tisms of the Baptist church, June 7, 1835, in the Shacameco stream at Hammertown a short distance below the bridge. The following persons were then and there baptized: Cornelius Husted, Alfred Brush, Milton Smith, Frederick Couch and wife, Henry Gillum, Caroline Thompson and Salvina Boothe. Elder Burtch baptized them. It was an impressive scene made more impressive by time, place and surroundings. The large wil- lows there then were in fresh leaf, and their extreme pendant branches were swaying gracefully in the soft moving atmosphere of that beautiful afternoon. It was 2 o'clock. The banks of the stream on either side were lined with spectators, boys in the branches of the willows above, all intent with breathless stillness to see these devout ones go each down into the water, led by that venerable elder, there buried in baptism, then come up out of the water, and he meanwhile with that inimitable penetrating voice of his, speaking appropriate scripture lessons of belief, faith, hope, death and resurrection. It brought to mind the primitive mode of baptism in the river Jordan. This was the baptismal place for many years. No man, as I now remember, was more impressive than Elder Burtch in this Bap- tist baptismal lesson, "and they went down both into the water both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him." His voice was full and strong, without tremulous sentiment, and had great traveling power with- out harshness. It was adapted to out-door speaking and he had many oc- occasions of this sort in this ministry. The preparatory service of this first baptism was held at the Bangall church, July 18, 1835. Preparatory service for the second baptism was held at the dwelling house of Cornelius Hus- ted, at Hammertown. This was the first Baptist church meeting in the town of Pine Plains. Elder Burtch was present, and in accordance with this preparatory meeting in August following these were baptized: Peter W. Husted, Julia Husted, Julia Anna Woolsey, Aaron E. Winchell, Lydia E. Winchell, Charlotte Conklin and Leonard Booth. These two baptismal ceremonies made a membership of fifteen for this society, which as yet, according to the Baptist church polity, belonged to the Bangall church. Hence this society was then called a branch of that church.
The next year, 1836, an effort was made to build a church building- The present church lot was purchased for six hundred dollars, and a con- tract made with Elijah B. Northrop, of Pine Plains, to build the church and have it finished by July 1, 1837. The building was to be thirty-four feet by fifty-as it stands now it is thirty-six by forty-eight-with a base- ment and belfry. By June 1st, 1837, it was nearly enclosed, the roof and
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belfry nearly finished, and the flooring down. Saturday, June 3d, 1837, about 6 p. m., a tornado, now called a cyclone, passed through the village. This church building was in its path of destruction and it fell to the ground.
Rev. Luman Burtch, pastor of the Baptist church at Bangall, who had been preaching here, now lent a ready and willing hand in rebuilding the church. The Baptist churches of the county were appealed to for aid. Elder Thomas Winter and Aaron E. Winchell were appointed to solicit sub- scriptions from North East church, Elder L. W. Webster and John Guernsey from Amenia, Elder Alexander Smith and James Ketcham from Dover, Elder Luman Burtch and Asa Thompson from Stanford, Elder Isaac Bevan and A. Osborn from Fishkill, Elder Philip Roberts and G. F. Hurd from Pleasant Valley. Elder Burtch was chiefly instrumental for these appeals to sister churches and by persistent effort the church was completed, and dedicated by Elder John Leeland, May 7, 1838, taking his text from Mat- thew, 16th chap. and eighteenth verse: "And I say also unto thee that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church; and the gates of hell shail not prevail against it."
In February, 1839, Elder Nathan D. Benedict, from Woodstock, Ct., preached his first sermon by invitation and in the same month the society extended a formal call which he accepted. The salary was three hundred and fifty dollars a year and a house free of rent. He was the first settled pastor of this church. A meeting was called May 20th of this year for the society to become a distinct Baptist church and a meeting on the 30th inst. was decided upon, when by invitation the Stanford, North East, Amenia and Dover churches should be represented in ecclesiastical council. The meeting was held pursuant to appointment and letters read from the churches at Woodstock, Conn., from which Elder Benedict and family came, and letters from the Stanford and North East Baptist churches, each of these churches recommending a separate and distinct organization for the Pine Plains church. The Baptist society or church of Pine Plains was then organized with the following members: Elder Nathan D. Benedict and wife, their daughter Mary Ann Benedict, from the Baptist church of Woodstock, Conn. From Stanford or Bangall Baptist church were Corne- lius Husted Peter W. Husted, Julia Husted, Julia Ann Woolsey, Aaron E. Winchell, Lydia L. Winchell, Caroline Thompson, Mary Thompson, Smith B. Couch, Amy G. Couch, Charles Couch, Frederick Couch, Marga- ret Couch, Alfred Brush, Sophia Brush. William H. Conklin, Elizabeth Conklin, Leonard Boothe, Salvina Best and Phebe T. Husted. From the Baptist church at North East were Niles Hartwell, Mary Hartwell and Mary McLane, twenty-six in all. At this meeting ten articles of faith were adopted and incorporated in the deed for the church lot. These articles were certified to by Aaron E. Winchell before Epaphroditus Taylor, a commissioner of deeds, and the whole proceedings with the deed recorded in Liber number 68 of deeds on pages 147, 148, in the County Clerk's office,
BAPTIST CHURCH AND PARSONAGE, JANUARY. 1889,
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Poughkeepsie. Thus the Baptist church had now a habitation and an organization ecclesiastical and civil. The next step was for the church to be a member of the Baptist Council or Association, and for this purpose a meeting was appointed for May 30, 1839, at 10 a. m., when delegates of the following respective churches were present: Pine Plains, Elder N. D. Benedict and A. E. Winchell; Stanford, Elder Burtch, Deacon Asa A. Thompson, Leonard Carman and Benjamin Palmer; North East, Elder Winter, Deacon David Sheldon, Martin E. Winchell and A. Aldrich; Ame- nia, Elder L. W. Webster, Deacon Seth Thompson, John K. Mead and N. Rose; 2d Dover, Seneca Mabbett was the only delegate from Dover, Elder Smith, the pastor there, being absent on a western journey. (Note. I think Mr. N. Rose, of Amenia, is the only one now (1897) living of the above named persons.) At this meeting it was "resolved unanimously that the council approve of the articles of faith and practice together with the covenant adopted by said brethren at Pine Plains." In the afternoon of that day Elder Luman Burtch preached and Elder Thomas Winter gave the right hand of fellowship to the newly admitted church to the sister- hood of churches.
Elder Benedict was pastor until January, 1813, when he resigned, to take effect April first of that year. He was succeeded by Joseph B. Breed, of Rahway, N. J .. who was introduced to the society by Dr. Rufus Bab- cock, of the Baptist church of Po'keepsie, by a letter of May 5, 1843, which reads :
"Dear Brethren: I have the pleasure of introducing to you Bro. Reed and his excellent wife. As he takes his all with him in his visit to you, I trust he will not be in such great haste to depart as your last visitor, Bro. Driver, was."
Elder Breed's "his all" mentioned in the above extract refers to his little daughter. He came May 6, 1843, on his visit, and the 13th following an unanimous call was extended to him at a salary of $400. He moved his furniture from Rahway to Rhinebeck at his own expense. and from thence the society moved him to Pine Plains. He entered upon his labors the last Sabbath in May, 1843. He was social, a good entertainer, an up to date man, and a popular preacher. He had been here about a year and a half when affliction and loss by death came unto it. December 20, 1844, Niles Hartwell deceased. January 4, 1845, Walter Reynolds passed away. Mr. Reynolds was not a member, but his interest and contributions were liberal. A little more than three years later, August 10, 1848, this church lost a strong friend by the death of Aaron E. Winchell. He had been its clerk, continuously to August 14, 1847, when he resigned this office. At this resignation the church say "we return him our sincere thanks for his kind services thus rendered and pray that the great Head of the Church may reward him for his labor of love." Mr. Breed was deeply affected when preaching his funeral sermon. Mr. Winchell deceased at Lebanon.
Elder Breed presented his resignation at a church meeting held April
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14, 1849, which was accepted. He was going to Alleghany City. He was succeeded by Elder Russell, from West Stockbridge, Mass., who preached two months, commencing the 24th of June. In August of this year the society purchased the dwelling of F. W. Davis for a parsonage. Elder Breed returned in March, 1850, and was pastor until October, 1851, when his resignation was accepted. The church had no regular supply for about two years, and meanwhile Elder Smith preached occasionally until April, 1852. He was succeeded by H. L. Morgan, a student of the Hamilton Theological Seminary, who supplied the pulpit during his vacation of three months commencing August 28, 1852. The next pastor was Rev. Samuel B. Willis, of Maryland, Otsego Co., N. Y., who preached his first sermon. May 1, 1853. He left in April, 1855. Elder Lucas, of Bangall, and Elder Weed, of Hyde Park, each preached irregularly for a year and a half, the church meanwhile being without a pastor. Elder John Reynolds, from Clifton Park Baptist church, followed and became the settled pastor. He arrived the first week in December, 1856, and preached his first ser- mon December seventh. He was its pastor seventeen years excepting an omission of one year. In mind and character he may be put on the bor- ders of unique, yet withal sound to the core mentally and in heart. His method and habit of thought were his own. His conclusions came to him more instinctively perhaps than by logical processes. He had an easy, fluent style of writing so plain and natural that a child could understand and be interested in it. Some of his letters to the Association are rare and choice specimens of church literature, certainly the finest I have ever seen. He loved Pine Plains and its surroundings, and lived until his de- cease with harness on, May 14, 1873, in his seventy-ninth year. He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery. During his pastorate the last of the origi- nal members of the society passed away.
On November 17, 1858, Elder Luman Burtch, pastor of the Baptist church at Bangall, deceased, and at a regular covenant meeting of Pine Plains Baptist church Dec. 11, 1858, the minutes say :
"Whereas, this church affectionately regards him as its founder, and many of its members cherish his memory as their father in Christ; Re- solved, that the sympathies of this church be tendered to his aged and be loved widow, and also to the church in Stanford, of which he was the effi cient and honored pastor during the greater portion of his life, and a ser- mon commemorative of his unusually protracted and eminently successful ministry be preached in this place on the morning of the first Sabbath in January, 1859."
Probably Elder Reynolds was the author of this resolution. Elder Burtch at his decease was in his eighty-second year and was buried in the cemetery near the old Baptist church at Bangall. This epitaph is on the headstone:
"Fallen is the man who long has stood A pillar in the house of God. Fallen did I say-he's raised on high And stands a pillar in the sky."
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Cornelius Husted deceased in 1859, and in regard to this Elder Rey- nolds in his annual letter to the Association for that year writes this beau- tiful tribute :
"Cornelius Husted is dead. One of the foremost in forming this. church, devoted with earnestness and liberality to our best interests du- ring all our varied history, and laying up in store for us of his earthlv bounty a generous legacy to brighten our prospects when his own should be the sunshine of salvation completed in heaven, he fell asleep in Jesus calmly as the sun sinks to rest, after a long and beautiful day, on the 16th of March in the 70th years of his age.'
The words "a generous legacy " in the above tribute are explained by this resolution :
" Resolved, That the thanks of the church are due the family of our deceased brother, Cornelius Husted, for generously paying the mortgage, near two hundred dollars on the parsonage, and thus freeing the church property from debt. A noble deed of Christian benevolence ! May it be like ' bread cast upon the waters.
In December, 1870. Phebe W. Husted, widow of Cornelius Husted,. deceased, and in the church record is this, written by Elder Reynolds:
.December 7th, 1870. This day the remains of sister Phebe Husted were laid away in the grave to await the resurrection of the just. She united with the church at its formation, and her life was a beautiful illus- tration of the highest style of Christian excellence. Meek, humble, de- vout, earnest, wedded to Christ, and devoted heart, hand and soul to the good of the church. She saw her end drawing near with perfect calmness: and died as the sun goes down in a serene sky from a world it had shined to bless. While living she contributed liberally to the support of the church, and left the stream of her generous benefactions to flow on undi- minished long after her happy union with the church triumphant in heav- en."
"She was a good mother." "The memory of the just is blessed."
On March 6th, 1872, Deacon Alfred Brush deceased, and Elder Rey- nolds wrote this memoriam :
"Bro. Brush had been a very active deacon of the church from its or- ganization. His piety like his mind was of a vigorous and unyielding stamp. He always did his own thinking, laid his own plans, and caried out as far as he could his conscientious and established convictions of duty. He loved the church next to his Saviour and gladly would he have made it a perfect church ' without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing.' For twenty years he had been an invalid, for five of the last nearly help- less. He saw without fear-with gladness even-his end approaching and met it in the vigor of faith and hope, aged eighty-six."
Thus the last officers of the church at its organization were laid away in the tomb under the ministration of Elder Reynolds.
In February, 1872, at a church meeting it was "unanimously voted that Elder Reynolds be requested to stay with them as their pastor as long as he could perform the work of the pastorate, but after that when
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he could not perform that work." A noble and worthy act to a noble and worthy pastor, and Elder Reynolds writes, " I acknowledged that kindness thankfully," but the deep feeling behind this formal expression was known only to him. His decease came May 14 the next year, he having preached his last sermon May 4, only ten days before. His widow deceased in De- cember, 1876, at. Philadelphia, and her remains brought to Pine Plains and placed by the side of her husband in Evergreen Cemetery. Elder Stearns preached a funeral sermon on the occasion in the church. Elder Reynolds was an ardent supporter of the government in the war of the re- bellion. "The civil war raging in our once happy country, " he writes, "the muscle and patriotism and all the resources of the nation with the united prayers of all Christians are demanded by the crisis, and can any one who feels that he has a country and that this is his native land, and has discrim- ination to perceive the opposite characters of loyalty and treason deserve such a name as this if he will not pray and strive to defend it." Surely this is patriotism of a high order.
It was during his pastorate in 1870 that the church was substantially repaired at an expense of about $3,500, leaving it substantially as seen in the cut. In 1878 an application was made to the court for an order to sell the parsonage of the incorporated church property. The sale was made in 1874, and proceeds applied to the church indebtedness.
The next pastor was Elder S. L. Holman, who accepted the pastorate in March, 1874, in connection with his pastorate of the Baptist church at Millerton, where he was then living. He was pastor until May, 1875, having accepted a pastorate in Worcester, Mass. He preached his last sermon in Pine Plains in the afternoon of May twenty-third. Elder W. R. Conley then preached occasionally until the spring of 1876, when Rev. Everett D. Stearns, of Pawling, became pastor. He preached his first sermon as pas tor April 2, 1876. In this year the present parsonage was built, and in the following winter Mr. Stearns moved into it as its first occupant. He was pastor until 1877, and preached his last sermon September thirtieth of that year. Rev. John B. Nairn, from Madison University, succeeded to the pulpit and preached from June to September, 1878. He was only a supply. Rev. E. D. Craft succeeded as pastor. preaching his first sermon as pastor October 6, 1878, and his last one September 28, 1879. The next pastor was Rev. J. Burnett, who preached his first sermon March 1, 1880. IIe remained over four years and preached his last sermon July 27, 1884, and returned to the Baptist church at Tariffville, Conn., of which he had formerly been pastor. Elder Roberts then supplied the pulpit for three months in the winter of 1884 and '5. Rev. J. E. Dodsley preached twice in May, 1885. who was followed by Rev. J. L. Benedict, who left in Octo- ber following. The next pastor was Rev. C. E. Witts, who commenced his pastorate Mar. 14. 1886. He remained about two years, his resignation be- ing accepted in June, 1888. On the first of September, Rev. Horace S.
WALTER W. HUSTED. [See Lineage.]
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Quillin commenced his pastoral relation, and service although not then hav- ing been ordained. For this purpose a council of sister churches was. called Nov. 14, 1888, at Pine Plains, when he was ordained and became in fact its pastor. The ceremonies took place in the evening in which the. respective pastors of the Methodist and Presbyterian, churches participat- ed. Rev. Samnel Alınan, of New York, was moderator. April 24, 1892, Rev. H. S. Quillin presented his resignation, which was reluctantly ac- cepted. His last service was in May. Rev. Jas. Milner Morris, of Emanuel church, was next occupant of the pulpit commencing May 14, 1892. He- had not then been ordained, and for this purpose a council of sister church- es was called to meet at Fine Plains Oct. 18, 1892, when he was ordained by the council and became pastor of the church. Mr. Morris and Mr. Quillin were each licentiates from Emanuel church, New York, and recom- mended to the Pine Plains church by Rev. Samuel Alman, pastor of Eman- uel church, who was moderator at each of the ordination services. Mr. Morris remained about a year. The year following, the church was again. without a pastor. Rev. C. N. Nichols, from near New London, Conn., came about April 1st, 1894, and was its pastor until April 1st, 1896, when, he resigned the pastorate. There has been occasional service since he, left, but no pastor since Mr. Nichols up to September, 1896.
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