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Orson Butterfield was born in Jefferson county, N. Y., in 1808. He was a half brother of Joseph Pratt, the surveyor. In 1830 he removed to Clarendon and purchased a farm on lot 44, in the eastern part of the town. Here he remained till his death in 1857. In 1833 he married Lydia Wright of Jefferson county, who died in Clarendon in 1887. They had nine children.
George M. Copeland, born in Massachusetts in 1815, was the son of Samuel Copeland, and the brother of Samuel Copeland, jr., of Murray. In 1821 he came with his father's family to the vicinity of Rochester ; in 1826 to Murray, and in 1830 to Clarendon and entered the store cf David Sturges as a clerk. In 1843, on the death of Mr. Sturges, he assumed control of the business as executor, and subsequently, in part- nership with his uncle, Benjamin Copeland, as a proprietor. He was connected with the business here, either alone or in partnership with others until his death. In 1839 he married Laura A., daughter of 73
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David Sturges, and they had twelve children. Of the sons John A., is a Universalist clergyman, and Richard W., Benjamin, and Arthur Copeland are clergymen of. the M. E. Church ; David S Copeland is the author of the History of Clarendon; and G. H. and S. H. Copeland are engaged in business in Clarendon. A daughter, Cynthia A., is the wife of Rev. J. I. Boswell. Mrs. Copeland died in 1869, and in 1870 he married Mrs. Charlotte M. Hanson, of Wisconsin, a native of New York. Mr. Copelend died in 1892.
Lemuel Cook was born in Connecticut in 1759. In 1775 he entered the Revolutionary army and served to the end of the war. He bore the scars of wounds received in battle, and the selectmen of his town re- mitted his poll tax on account of these wounds. He also received a pension from the government. His two brothers were also Revolution- ary soldiers. His first wife, a native of Connecticut, was Hannah Cur- tis. From their native State they removed to Oneida county, N. Y., thence to Onondaga county, and in 1823 to Bergen, Genesee county, where she died in 1831. His second wife was Ruth Cooper of Monroe county. They came to Clarendon about 1835 and located on lot 70, in the southeast part of the town, where they resided during many years. He reared to maturity seven sons and three daughters, all except one of whom lived to be octogenarians. Mr. Cook died May 20, 1866, at the age of 107 years ; probably the greateast age ever reached by any one in Orleans county. He was buried with Masonic honors. His last wife died in 1848.
Giles Orcutt was born in Chenango county, N. Y., in 1811. In his boyhood he removed with his father's family to Chautauqua county, and when a young man he came to Genesee county, where he worked by the month during twelve years. About 1840 he removed to Barre, and five years later to Clarendon, locating on lot 6, south from Claren- don village, where he died in 1878. His wife, who survived him, was Harriet Patterson, of Pittsford, Monroe county. They reared two chil- dren.
Alexander Miller was born in Byron, Genesee county, N. Y., in 1818. In the same year his father died, and in 1822 his mother married Wash- ington Wright and removed to Barre. At the age of twenty-five he re- moved to Clarendon and engaged in the manufacture of agricultural
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implements. In 1872 he relinquished this business and removed to Ber- gen, Genesee county, and thence in 1880, to Caledonia, Livingston county, where he died in 1886. In 1844 he married Lois Willard, sub- sequently the wife of O. P. Culver. They reared four children : Ogden S. Miller, who died in Holley in 1893; Fred W. Miller, Jennie V. (Mrs. Walter Pettengill). and Nellie (Mrs. William A. Bissell.)
In 1813 Lucas Webb built a saw mill on lot 69, on Sandy Creek, in the north part of the town. A few years afterward he erected a grist mill near the same site. In 1821 the town was divided into twenty- seven road districts. In 1839 a bounty of one shilling per head was placed on crows. From 1821 to 1835 $1,076 were appropriated for schools and $50 for the support of the poor. Probably the first stove in town was placed in the Polly Tavern in 1830. The first reaper in Clarendon was used by James Cain in 1850, and the first hip or gambrel- roofed barn was built by John Irish in 1842. The Robinson burying ground is one of the oldest in town, while that on the Byron road dates back to 1826 or before. In the former William Lewis, the first sheriff of the county, was buried. The first interments in the Glidden ceme- tery seem to have been made in 1827 and in that on the Root road as early as 1824. The graveyard near the old Polly tavern has not been used for several years. It appears to have been opened about 1827. The old Christian cemetery, a mile west of Clarendon village, contains the remains of Daniel Brackett, sr., a Revolutionary soldier, who was buried there about 1826. The first interment in it, however, was in 1821. The town meetings and elections in Clarendon were held in a frame school house from 1821 till 1837, in Elizur Pratt's tavern till 1849, in the present hotel till 1878, and since then in the town hall. The first tangible effort to inaugurate a temperance movement in town was in 1847, when a society known as the Sons of Temperance was organized. The first lodge of Good Templars in Clarendon was insti- tuted in 1868. The W. C. T. U. was organized August 21, 1883, the first president being Mrs. Harriet Gleason. This Union established the Loyal Temperance Legion July 15, 1887. In 1883 Rev. J. A. Cope- land instituted a system of temperance camps, one of which is located at Clarendon. It has been under the management of S. Herbert Cope- land and its annual sessions have been held in George M. Copeland's grove.
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The first physician in town was Benjamin Bussey, of whom Copeland says: "This doctor went from house to house with his pill bags ad- ministering the favorite mercury of that day, while the mothers kept on hand picra, and in later time pills, castor oil, rhubarb, paregoric, and sulphur with molasses in the spring, the child taking the same from a stick just before breakfast. In this pill bag of the doctor's could also be found the awful turnkey." Dr. Bussey practiced his profession from Clarendon village. Among his successors are recalled the names of Drs. Henry Carter, Jonathan Howard, T. H. Noyes, Hiram B. Lewis, S. E. Southworth, W. H. Watson, S. H. Dutton, C. S. Pugsley, M. E. Brackett, John H. O'Brien, Cowing, Cornwell, Keith, Benjamin Wood- . hull, and others.
The first school house in Clarendon was built of logs, in 1812 or 1813, a little south of Farwell's Mills. It was a primitive structure, and in it Amanda Bills taught the first school in the summer of 1813. It was superseded in 1819, by a frame building, in which Horace Steele taught the first term the following winter. Here the elections were held until 1837. In the present stone school house, built in 1846, the first teach- ers were John B. King and Malvina A. Vandyke. Clarissa Lee had a select school here at an early day, and Elviretta Lewis had another in 1836. The first school house in district number four was built in 1815 and the same year another was erected in district number thirteen, both of logs. In 1821 the town had nine school districts and 425 scholars.
In 1814 there was in Clarendon an infantry company of militia com- manded by Captain Stephen Martin. In 1818 this was divided into two companies, the one in the north part of the town being under Captain E. S. Cone and that in the south part under Captain Shubael Lewis. Captain Lewis became colonel of the 215th Regiment about 1825, and the same year an artillery company was formed with Aretas Pierce as captain. These trained in Murray. Nicholas E. Darrow was colonel of the 25th Regiment of Artillery. Of Revolutionary soldiers who have made Clarendon their residence the names are remembered of Thomas Mc Manners (a colored man), Charles Lee, Ira Dodge, Ebe nezer Lewis, William Tousley, Benjamin Pettengill, and Lemuel Cook. In the war of 1812 many who became residents of this town took part. Some of these have been mentioned in this chapter, there were doubt-
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less many others ; but the records of their service are not accessible. Martin Higgins was a volunteer in the Mexican war. In the late civil war Clarendon sent a large number of her brave and loyal citizens to the front, a list of whom is as follows :
Charles Avery, 13th Inf.
Miles Forbush, 24th Cav.
Hiram Allen, 8th Art.
Franklin Furey, 8th Art.
Edward Alexander, 30th Eng. Asa S. Allo
Spencer Ford, 50th Eng.
Abraham B. Baldwin, 151st Inf.
Merritt M. Bateman, 8th Art.
Thomas Farthing.
Thomas Barre, 4th Art.
Squire Goff, 151st Inf.
John P. Bailey, 94th Inf.
Edward Gladden, 151st Inf.
Joseph Burke, Ist Art.
Leander Gelisbee, 151st Inf.
Schuyler B. Bills, 50th Eng.
George E. Gardner, 8th Art.
George Bell. James Brannary. John Brown.
Homer C. Holmes, 8th Art.
Philip Cornell, 8th Cav.
Benjamin Hines, 8th Art,
George D. Church, 8th Art.
Patrick Hayes, 151st Inf.
Orson T. Cook, 8th Art.
Michael Heits, 8th Art.
William Cook, 151st Inf.
Clinton Hood, 13th Inf.
Levi D. Curtiss, 8th Cav.
Luther Hickey, 105th Inf.
Charles Cook, 8th Art.
Hamilton Hoag, 21st Cav.
George Cromer, 151st Inf.
Nathaniel Hammer, 105th Inf.
Charles D. Cornell, 8th Art.
William H. Hastings, 17tl: Bat.
John A. Copeland, 27th Inf. Hiram Cady, 105th Inf.
John Hart, Ist Art.
David Childs, 2d Art.
Matthew Doyle. Joseph Dumas. Lewis E. Darrow, 151st Inf.
William Joiner, 105th Inf.
Irving Jenkins, 14th Art .;
Eugene E. Dutton, 4th Art.
Frederic Dutton, 8th Art.
Patrick Dolan, 8th Art.
John H. Kerby, 4th Art.
Mark Denning, 4th Art. Thomas Eison, 8th Cav. James Ennis, 8th Art.
Albert Etherington, 8th Art.
William Ely, 94th Inf,
Samil J. Fincher, 8th Art.
Ira J. Finch, 8th Art.
Martin Foster, 151st Inf.
J. L. Harper. Joseph Clapp.
George Johnson. Henry Johnson.
James Jones.
. Peter Lawlor. 3d Cav. John Larkins, 90th Inf. William H. Lowering.
John McFarlane, 8th Art. Matthew McFarlane, 8th Art.
William Mepstead, jr., 8th Art. Chauncey Matson, 151st Inf. Edward Merril, 151st Inf.
William S. Holmes, 8th Art.
James M. Cook, 8th Art,
Henry J. Hunt, 8th Art.
Oleander Gurney.
William Farnsworth, 89th Inf.
James Farr.
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Charles Minnie, 94th Inf.
William Mulligan, 94th Inf.
Erastus Stiver, 8th Art.
Benjamin Swan, 8th Art.
Cornelius Sullivan, 8th Art.
George Smith, 50th Eng.
Leonard Morris. George McFarlane.
George Sutherland.
Augustus Martin.
Frederick Smith.
Patrick Murphy.
John Snyder.
Alonson McCord.
Alanson Sahsbury, 151st Inf.
Lewis Pierce.
Herbert Taylor, 104th Inf.
Gifford S. Tuff, 8th Art.
Joseph Thompson, 13th Inf.
John North, 13th Inf.
John J. Odikirk, 8th Art.
Daniel T. Phillis, 8th Cav.
Albert J. Potter, 151st Inf.
Nathan Venton, Sth Art.
Charles Pridmore, 151st Inf.
A. Van Antwerp, 8th Art.
Marion Patterson, 4th Art.
Thomas Westcott, 8th Art.
Warren S. Peck, 13th Inf.
William H. Peterson, Ist Art.
William H. Westcott, 4th Art.
William Preston, 94th Inf.
Luther M. Weiss, 8th Art.
Charles Putnam, 17th Bat.
Henry W. Wier, 8th Art.
Albert G. Reed, 8th Art.
Amos Wetherbee, 8th Art.
Charles E. Reynolds, 8th Art.
John M. Wetherbee, 151st Inf.
Daniel Root, 151st Inf.
Peter Riley, 89th Inf.
W. H. Wetherbee, 12th Inf.
George Weed, 105th Inf.
James Welch.
Henry Ryan.
Harmon Salisbury, Capt. U. S. Col. Tr.
James M. Sherman, 8th Art.
James B. Shed, 151st Inf.
John W. Stephens, 140th Inf.
Albert Weller, 151st Inf.
Alcolin Ross. William Ross.
Herbert Webster, 105th Inf.
Nathan Warren, 94th Inf. John Williams.
James Walker.
James Platt.
Alexander Peal.
Edward True, 94th Inf.
Geoage True, 94th Inf.
Adin Taylor, 8th Cav.
William Valan, 8th Cav.
The town of Clarendon in 1880 had a population of 1,797 ; in 1890 of 1,731. In 1893 it had real estate assessed at $942,670 (equalized $803,188), and personal property assessed at $89,800. Its entire tax aggregated $5,978.76, the rate per cent. being .00548254. The town audits allowed amounted to $1,238.87. Four corporations are assessed real estate as follows: N. Y. C & H. R. R. R. Co., $25,000 ; Holley Water Works. $20,000; Western Union Telegraph Company, $75 ; and the Mutual Life Insurance Company $2,350. The town officers
Owen McAllister, 14th Art. Robert L. Morgan, 50th Eng. Richard McLord.
George J. Singler, 151st Inf.
James Smith.
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for 1894 are: Eugene Crossett, supervisor ; Frank Tamblyn, town clerk ; Ira Dexter, overseer of the poor; Owen McAllister, highway commissioner ; John W. Millard, N. Eugene Warren, Simon P. Freer, Bert Glidden, justices of the peace ; Charles Wilson, jr., Adelbert H. Carr, Charles T. Putnam, assessors ; Joseph W. Murphy, collector.
CLARENDON .- This village, which was for many years called after its founder, Farwell's Mills, is located about a mile north from the geo- graphical center of the town. As before stated, Judge Farwell, the first settler in the township, came here in the spring of 1811. In that year he erected a saw mill and in 1813 a grist mill. In 1812 Alan- son Dudley came, purchased from Mr. Farwell a piece of land, and built thereon a house, the second in the place He soon afterward erected a tannery and established a shoe shop. The saw mill that was built in 1811 was rebuilt in 1845, and in 1852 a new one was erected. The grist mill first erected was supplanted by another some thirty years later, built by Eldridge Farwell and Remick Knowles, In time the supply of water for these mills diminished, and in 1857 a steam engine was added for use in times of low water. These mills were owned and conducted by different parties till 1873, when two young men, Ogden S. Miller and Walter T. Pettengill, came in possession of them. They added machinery for the manufacture of cider and its conversion into vinegar, erected an entensive evaporator, and expanded the business till it was surpassed by few establishments of the kind in the State. They added a planing mill to the saw mill, purchased large quantities of timber lands in Tonawanda swamp, and conducted a large business in lumber. The grist mill was purchased by Charles Riggs in 1886, and in 1887 rollers were introduced. The present owner is Alonzo Smith.
No business enterprise was ever undertaken in Clarendon that brought as much money into the place as the operations of Miller & Pettengill. They afterward established works at Holley, where an active business is prosecuted. In 1815 a distillery was erected here by Joseph Sturges, who, with his brother David, manufactured spirituous liquors for several years. A clothiery was established about 1818 by John Phelps, but as the domestic manufacture of cloth gradually diminished its usefulness ceased, till finally it was altogether abandoned.
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The first store was kept by Denman Brainard. In 1821 Hiram Frisbie and William Pierpont commenced the mercantile business here, suc- ceeded in 1829 by David Sturges, who, in 1836, built the stone store at the junction of Main, Holly and Albion streets. He continued the business here till his death in 1843. In 1830 George M. Copeland, then fifteen years of age, became a clerk in Sturges's store, and on the death of the latter became a proprietor, and he was, with a short inter- val, in the business till his death. Many other mercantile establish- ments have from time to time arisen and flourished for longer or shorter periods, but the continued existence of this in the same build- ing for more than half a century is a remarkable instance of the lon- gevity of a business. From 1811 the log house of Judge Farwell was a place where hospitality was dispensed, but in 1821 William Pierpont built and opened a hotel. It was conducted by many landlords, and was enlarged several times ; but in 1849 it was burned. In 1837 a tavern was opened in what is now the Clarendon Hotel. In 1839 what was known as the Cottage Inn was started in a building which is now a dwelling, on Albion street. Prior to the establishment of railroads Clarendon was a point where many teamsters stopped on their way to and from the Erie Canal, and hotel keeping was a lively business here ; but since 1851 it has become less remunerative. Several asheries were conducted here while the forests were being cleared away, but they have long since ceased operations, and their sites are hardly remem- bered. The first blacksmith here, in 1813, was Henry Jones ; the first tailor was a man named Evarts ; and the first shoe shop was opened by Alonzo Dudley, in 1812. A foundry was once carried on here. On the IIth of November, 1892, the village was visited by a fire which destroyed a church, a general store, a hardware store, a meat market and a dwelling, all of which except the dwelling have been rebuilt.
Clarendon village now contains two churches, a post office, three gen- eral stores, one shoe store, a millinery, two meat markets, a flour and feed store, a hotel, two blacksmiths, a wagon shop, a cooperage, a lime kiln, two cider mills, an evaporator, a grist mill, a saw mill, a stave and heading factory, and about 250 inhabitants. The present postmaster is Gordon L. St. John.
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MANNING .- In 1836 a Christian church was erected at what was for many years, West Clarendon, about two miles west from Clarendon village. Soon afterward a small blacksmith shop was started here, and in 1842 Elias Lawton built one on the site of the post-office. Prior to that time Omega Rose established a hotel near the present site of the church, and since that time a carriage shop was built and for some time conducted by Ira Bronson. John Millard had a whip factory here at one time, and Harry D. Stewart conducted a nursery some years. Josiah Lawton is now a blacksmith here, having succeeded his father, Elias. Besides this there is a manufactory of proprietary medicines conducted by Rev. J. W. Lawton. In 1887 a post-office was established at this place. It was named Manning, partly in honor of Daniel Man- ning, then a member of the national cabinet, and partly from Manning Packard, an old resident here. He has a store here, as has also R. E. Lawton. The present postmaster is Simon P. Freer.
The M. E. Church of Clarendon .- It is said that a Methodist Episco- pal class was formed in Clarendon village, then Farwell's Mills, as early as 1815. During more than thirty years meetings were held in the school house and in private dwellings. The increase in members necessitated the erection of a house of worship, and a legal organization was effected on the 28th of February, 1848, under the name of the First Methodist Episcopal Church and Society of Clarendon. Prepara- tions for the erection of a church building were commenced in 1851, the work was begun, and the building was dedicated in December of that year. The site was donated to the society by G. M. Copeland. Some twenty years later this house was thoroughly remodeled, en- larged and improved ; the grounds were enlarged, and sheds were erected, at a total cost of $3,000. In 1878 George M. Copeland donated a site for a parsonage, which was built at a cost of $1,500. In Novem- ber, 1892, the church building was burned, and during a year meetings were held in the town hall. In that time a new church edifice was erected, and was dedicated, free of debt, in November, 1893. Its cost was $4,000. This society and the one at Hulberton have, except for a few years, always been served by the same pastor. Of the early preach- ers who ministered to this charge the names have been ascertained of :
Revs. Israel Chamberlain, Hiram May, John Copeland, Josiah Breakmore, George
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Wilkinson, John H. Wallace, Glezen Fillmore and Micah Seager. Since 1860 the pastors have been Revs. J. Kennard, S. M. Hopkins, A. L. Chapin, W. F. Richards, D. D. Cook, E. M. Buck, William Barrett, E. S. Sparrow, G. W. Terry, H. C. Woods, William McGovern, John McEwen, C. W. Swift, A. L. Staples, William S. Tuttle, T. C. Swartz, A. H. Marzott, A. A. Craw, C. N. Patterson and R. Robinson.
The First Universalist Church of Clarendon .- At an early period meetings were held by Universalists at different places in Clarendon and South Murray and services were conducted by Revs. Mr. Samson, of Parma, Liscomb Knapp, and L. L. Flagler. As early as 1827 a society was formed, and November 3, 1832, it was incorporated as the First Universalist Society of Clarendon and South Murray. The first Board of Trustees consisted of Eldridge Farwell, David Matson, James Orr, Eli Bickford, Harrison Hatch and Ezekiel Lee. For three years after the incorporation of the society meetings were held alternately in the school houses at Clarendon and at Holley, but in 1835 a substantial stone church building was erected in Clarendon village on a lot donated by Eldridge Farwell. The original cost was $2,500. In 1870 it was remodeled and refitted at an expense of $2,500. In 1887 a parsonage was erected on the church lot at a cost of $1,500. The society has no debt. The pastors since 1827 have been :
Revs. Calvin Morton, Alfred Peck, Isaac Whitwell, Charles Hammond, William Andrews, Russell Tomlinson, Seth Remington, Thomas L. Clark, William B. Clark, Dewitt C. Tomlinson, William Cook, Alanson Kelsey, Henry L. Haywood, John J. Austin, Nelson Snell, William Knott, W. B. Randolph, J. W. Broeffle, W. C. Tansom, Ottoway, William Knott again, F. B. Peck, E. L. Conkling and H. M. Markley.
In 1843 a Sunday school was organized with Ira B. Keeley superin- tendent
The Christian Church of West Clarendon .- The Christian denomina- tion began in the United States at about 1800. It "seems to have sprung up simultaneously in different parts of the country without any preliminary interchange of sentiments or concerted plan of action. Their leading purpose at first appears to have been not so much to es- tablish any peculiar and distinctive doctrine as to assert, for indi- viduals and churches, more liberty and independence in relation to matters of faith and practice, to shake off the authority of human creeds and the shackles of prescribed modes and forms, and to make the Bible their only guide ; claiming for every man the right to be his own ex-
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positor of it, to judge for himself what are its doctrines and require- ments, and in practice to follow more strictly the simplicity of the apostles and primitive Christians." In September, 1815, a meeting was held at the house of William Burnham, in the town of Murray, then county of Genesee (a mile and a half northwest from Holley), and the following is a copy of the record of the proceedings at that meeting :
We, whose names are written in this book, acknowledge ourselves a church of Christ, taking Christ the son of God for our leader, master and lawgiver, and the scriptures for our rule of faith and practice.
The record continues :
In the first place a few names were joined together by Daniel Brackett ; then about the first of November, 1815, a few were added by Elder Morris. Then, in the month of March, 1817, the church was regularly organized by Elders Robinson Smith and Joseph Badger.
The following are the names recorded :
Daniel Brackett, Jesse Everts, Docas Everts, Urania Everts, Paul King, Winthrop Young, William Whitney, Sarah Whitney, Sarah Brackett, Thaddeus Austin, Eunice Thing, Robinson Smith, Joseph Terry, William B. Worden, Pollina Worden, Peter Miller, Esther Miller, Susannah Young, John Stockwell, Levi Preston, William Burn- ham, Phebe Burnham, Zebulon Rice, Polly Meed.
The pastors of this church were Revs. Daniel Brackett, Robinson Smith, Joseph Badger and others. Meetings were held in various places for several years, but about 1824 the place of meeting was estab- lished in the west part of the town, two miles from Clarendon village.
About 1826 a small society of this denomination sprang up in east Clarendon. It maintained an existence till 1829, when it united with the church in the western part of the town. In 1839 Daniel Brackett donated a site on lot 230, at west Clarendon, now Manning, and in the same year the society built a house of worship thereon, at a cost of about $2,000. In 1874 this house was repaired and improved at an ex- pense of $1,000. The pastors, since the removal of the church to west Clarendon, have been :
Revs. Daniel Brackett, Ezra Smith, Aaron Cornish, Ezra Gates, Richard Davis, Aaron C. Parker, W. T. Caton, F. D. Childs, Joseph Weeks, Henry S. Fish, F. R. Hoag, Isaac T. Tryon. Aaron Parker, Elias Jones, Jaines W. Lawton, Warren Vreeland, J. B. Clark, Elias Jones again, D. D. Moore, Warren Vreeland again, and D. D. Moore, the present pastor.
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The Second Free Will Baptist Church .- At an early day a Free Will Baptist Church was formed at East Clarendon. April 7, 1846, a society of this denomination was organized in the southwestern part of the town, and in 1850 the earlier organization was absorbed by it. Until 1859 the place of worship was the school house in district No. 10, but in that year it was changed to No. 4. This society has never built a house of worship. The first deacons were Jehiel Glidden, and John Hawley. The first clerk and treasurer was Chester Hawley. The pas- tors have been :
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