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Among students who supplied the church, the Rev. Frank Norton Greeley (now in the Auburn Seminary completing his studies) will ever be remembered by the many who highly appre- ciated his temporary labors here.
The favorite resort of these students was the house of Mr. Cyrus Lull. Mrs Lull's bountiful and excellent hospitality to students and ministers, has earned for her residence the title many deservedly give it, " The ministers' home." The hospitality of Messrs. Otis, Mann, Wood, Howe, Buck, and others, deserves mention.
On the 19th of July, 1863, the celebrated Father Waldo, then over 100 years of age, preached in this pulpit an eloquent, power- ful sermon distinctly and forcibly delivered, from Rev. iii, 18 : " I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou " mayst be rich, and white raiment that thou mayst be clothed, " and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear, and annoint " thine eyes, with eye-salve, that thou mayst see !" Father Waldo frequently preached in the churches of this neigborhood. Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn Tabernacle, says, in one of his sermons :*
" I was one Thanksgiving day in my pulpit, in Syracuse, N. Y., " and Rev. Father Waldo, at ninety-eight years of age, stood " beside me. The choir sang a tune. I said, ' I am sorry they " sang that new tune ; nobody seems to know it.' 'Bless you, " my son,' said the old man, ' I heard that seventy years ago.'"
The Sessional Acts of the Church in discipline and resolution upon the practices of its members, indicate some of the difficul- ties attending the spiritual upbuilding of the church. Other res- olutions indicate the state of the society and the relation of this to sister churches of the village, at different times of its history.
Thus, August 12, 1856, Session resolved in the matter of dancing :--
" Whereas, The practice of dancing, at public or private par- " ties, has always been condemned by the Presbyterian church, " not only by general consent of its members, but by the re- " peated action of the highest judicatory of the church ; and,
*Daily Thoughts, page 88.
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" Whereas, It is a violation of the covenant of this particular " church, tends to wound the feelings of Christians and injure " the cause of Christ ; therefore, Resolved, That we feel bound " as a Session to guard against being drawn into this practice ; " Resolved, 2d, That we shall feel it to be our duty to commence " a course of discipline with those members who hereafter " offend."
OCTOBER 29, 1858 .- Session resolved to unite with the M. E. church in relation to a monthly distribution of tracts throughout the bounds of the village.
AUGUST 27, 1859 .-- The plan of Rotary Eldership first deter- mined on.
SEPTEMBER 2, 1862 .-- Session met with Rev. Richard Dunning, Moderator, and " Resolved, That as a Session, placed as guard- " ians over the purity and prosperity of the church, in the " admission of members, hereafter to require of them a pledge of " entire abstinence from the use, manufacture and sale of intoxi- " cating drinks, except for medicinal, mechanical or sacramental " purposes. Inasmuch as some use the milder form of intoxicat- " ing drinks, which, in larger quantities, produce the same injur- " ious effects on individuals and the church of Christ, we would " be distinctly understood as including in the above pledge, wine, " beer and cider possessing intoxicating qualities, as well as dis- " tilled liquors. 2. Resolved, That the violation of the above " pledge will be considered an offence calling for church dis- " cipline."
A church can never be permanently injured by the charitable and consistent exercise of discipline upon offending members. The purity, prosperity, and honor of the church, demand obedi- ence to her regulations. If in a wise, and prayerful, and kindly discharge of these delicate and painful duties, members who will not yield to counsel are cut off: whatever loss the church sustains thereby, must be laid at the door of the offenders.
THE HISTORY OF THE TEMPERANCE CAUSE
in Jordan, with which the Presbyterian church has been identi- fied since its organization, demands a place in this memorial The
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Rev. John Ingersoll was an active Temperance man, and com- meneed labor in this cause at the ontset of his missionary labors here, before the organization of the church.
He drew up a Temperance pledge, but the only men who could be induced to sign, were Edmund W. and Alva D. Botsford and Aaron Pitney, M. D. Miss Delana Botsford ( Auntie Botsford, as she was called) requested that the ladies should be allowed to sign, whereupon a dozen or more affixed their names; but not a few of the married ladies had to submit to severe "curtain lectures" in consequence, for Temperance pledges were not very popular then.
Rev. Wm. Page, the next pastor, who succeeded Mr. Ingersoll in the spring of 1831, continued the labor in this canse. At his request, Lawyer Porter (who settled in Jordan during 1831) drew up a new pledge, and signed it himself. Mr. Porter at that time attended the Presbyterian church. It was during Mr. Page's ministry that the first temperance meeting was held in the basement of the church. It was an interesting and exciting time. After short addresses had been delivered by Messrs. John Dodge, Henry and Theron Warren, advocating total abstinence from the entire list of intoxicants (wine and cider not excepted), Lemuel B. Raymont, Esq., a practicing attorney, and active in society matters, who had fortified himself for the occasion with two large volumes of "Scott's Commentary," opened the case for the moderate drinkers with considerable legal flourish and display. Af- ter reading and commenting on Old Testament allusions to wine, &c., he turned triumphantly to Scott's comment on Our Savior's miracle of turning the water into wine, closing with the crush- ing (?) peroration : "To make myself wiser and better than Our " Savior, is a height to which I have not yet attained." Then, with an air of conquest, "he closed the book and sat down." Whereupon, a young man, who was then a comparative stranger (Mr. Hurlbut), asked permission to read the miracle referred to, and, taking a small testament from his pocket, he read the same, closing with the simple statement, as full of argument as of satire : " When our learned friend will give us wine made " from pure water, we will, with his permisssion, drink his
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health in the wine so provided." The meeting then closed with a cold water song.
The cause of temperance received a heavy blow when Dr. Coxe, of the Auburn Seminary, came to deliver a temperance lecture on the 4th of July, 1848. The audience was driven out of the church, and the lecturer "silenced," by cannon being fired in the vestibule. Thomas L. Carson (mentioned in the obituaries) was a zealot in the temperance reform, sacrific- ing much time and property in the enterprise. "The Carson League" (a society and a paper bearing his name) was organized and supported by him. Deacon Charles Barnes was first Presi- dent of "The Carson League."
About 1850, Miss Susan B. Anthony organized a "Ladies' Tem- perance Association," of which Mrs. Charles Barnes was the first President.
That society accomplished much good. Other societies have been formed at different times. They have ultimated in the I. O. G. T. of Jordan, a society of no inconsiderable size and influ- ence to-day. There is yet large room for labor in this good cause. Many of our young men are going down to ruin, for which the Jordan saloon keepers will be held largely accountable. The victims and dupes of this dread foe of religion and humanity call on Christians and philanthropists everywhere to rally around the temperance flag and labor for the downfall of intemperance.
THE MUSICAL APPOINTMENTS OF THE CHURCH,
vocal and instrumental, have presented every phase of expression and experience common to the subject. Vocal music, choir and congregational combined, was the original plan, 15 or 20 singers, in the south end gallery, leading and sustaining. All the instru- mental music then was evolved from the tuning-fork.
That little instrument prophesied of and prepared the way for more imposing instrumental music. God's great world is full of music, and material things minister to His praise.
Man moulds the material into beautiful instruments and makes them express the thoughts of his mind, and the homage of
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his heart. It seems strange that the Presbyterian church should have waited so long for the organ and stringed instruments, wherewith to praise the Lord, or that such august and learned as- semblages of men as constitute its general assembly should have ever discussed the wisdom and rightness of their introduc- tion, in the face of express injunctions, such as "praise the Lord with organs," " play skilfully with a loud noise!" Yet the con- troversy in some parts of christendom, and among some of our churches, waxes hot to-day.
The good founders and fathers of the church, who sang in its worship the first hymns of praise, altho' they took the key-note from an instrument, regarded instruments of music as children of Hades, that ought never to have seen the sanctuary light.
They could not see that every time the tuning-fork was called into use, it ministered a protest against their prejudices, and pro- phesied that they should be overborne. At last, there appeared in the singing gallery a ".Fiddle," so to shock the sentiments of one eminent deacon,* that, with a solemn protest against the in- vasion, he withdrew from association with it, as a conscientious Israelite would from an uncircumcised Philistine. At length, however, this good deacon, who was " an Israelite in deed and in truth, in whom there was no allowed guile," was converted to the new musical faith, and not only learned to play one, but made one, as large it was possible for him to make it. Thus, like his first conversion, his second was genuine and thorough, yielding generous and appropriate fruit !
Speaking of prejudice and opposition to musical instruments, as innovations not to be tolerated, I remember, myself, meeting one of these orthodox worthies, when canvassing for donations to an organ fund, and being repulsed with the crushing reply : " There'll be no organs in the millennium."
There was more volume and strength in the tone than in the argument of the statement. I felt like responding in the lan- guage of the Welshman, who would have it that Welsh would be the sole language of heaven : "Then I don't want to be there,"
*Greene.
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and left him, thinking of the Shakspearian saying, " The man that hath no music in his soul is fit for "-well, we wont say what, because some with music in their souls, are fit for similar enterprises.
At length the organ came from our mother-church at Elbridge. It has well-nigh fulfilled its mission, and waits but the raising up and arrival of its successor before its "tuneful (?) breath" shall cease, and its remains be carried to their final resting place, among the relics of antiquity !
Ours would be a rare musical history if, in the composition of our choirs at periods past, and in the execution of its perform- ances, there had not been "crochets," "quavers," "semi-quavers," "demi-semi-quavers," "breaks," "rests," "pauses," and "varia- tions"-music set in "sharps" and "flats," and occasionally well matched by the conduct of performers. Characters in musical writing have had correspondences in the disciples of the science ; nevertheless the history of Jordan church music and choirs will bear comparison with that of the best of our country churches. Indeed, our church has in it, now, some very excellent singers ; and though congregational singing, with a leader, is now the order of things, when for an extra occasion a choir is needed, the talent of the society furnishes one of which we may be justly proud. The excellent rendering of our praise, on this memorial day, bears witness to this fact.
The hymn book originally in use was "The Psalmody." On December 26, 1861, the "Session voted to recommend to the con- " gregation a change of hymn books from the Psalmody to the " Psalmist, published by our General Assembly." And .Novem- ber 7, 1875, a committee appointed by the congregation, after a sermon on "Congregational Singing," introduced the new Pres- byterian Hymnal, now in use, and engaged Calvin Foote Dag- gett and his daughter as leader and organist, at a compensation of $2 per week, an expense assumed by "The Ladies' Aid So- ciety."
In conclusion, one word as to the membership of the church, and reasons of special interest in respect to its spiritual up-build-
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ing. Since its organization the church has received about 600 members. Nearly 400 of these have been received since 1842. The largest membership was 127 (in 1860) during the pastorate of the Rev. Richard Dunning It has ranged from 127 to 80. Its present membership is 95. The largest number added on profession of faith at any one time, since Mr. Thacher's ministry, is 21. The first important revival was at the time the Rev. John Covert, from the Auburn Seminary-now residing in Chicago, and Secretary of the Chicago branch of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society-preached here, from 1832 to 1833. Dr. Burchard, the revivalist, held a protracted meeting, resulting in about fifty conversions.
One of our original members recalls overtaking Mr. Burchard about the close of that series of meetings, and overhearing his soliloquy "as he passed along : "Fifty conversions-that's pretty good for old Jordan." It was while this revival was in progress Mr. Covert left and a call was extended to the Rev. Washington Thacher to become pastor of the church. The membership was then ninety-six. In 1840 (January) a year before Mr. Thacher's resignation, there was a considerable revival. Twenty united on profession of faith at one communion. Several of our present members are fruits of that revival.
APRIL 2, 1843 .- Eighteen joined the church on profession and five by letter.
JANUARY 24, 1850 .- During Rev. Calvin Waterbury's minis- try, «'the church met for prayer, confession and exhortation, in " view of the low state of religion, and continued assembled " afternoon and evening, with some tokens of Divine favor."
JANUARY 1, 1860 -During Mr. Dunning's effectual ministry, twenty-one united with the church on profession of faith. About one-half of these are with us to-day.
Reviewing the histories of active members, who have gone from, or are yet with us, our attention has been called to the immense advantages of parental culture and prayer and care, in securing early conversions to God and consecration to his service, and the blessed results of such youthful training and consecra-
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tion. Witness of those who have gone out from us into wide fields of usefulness : The Reverends Eli and Alfred Botsford, who united with the church at the respective ages of eleven and twelve years. While of those who have come to us from other churches, and are actively interested in our church enterprises and prosperity, the present president of our Ladies' Aid Society illustrates this point. Mrs. Purce united with the Glen's Falls church at twelve years of age, and was transferred to our com- munion and fellowship in 1863. A descendant, in the tenth generation, from the Cushman family, who came over in the immortal Mayflower, she holds, still, their Christian faith and polity-an illustration of the truth, " His mercy is on them that fear him throughout all generations." The father of Mrs. Purce was Deacon Myron Osborn, of Glen's Falls. He died in 1850, being sixty-two years old, the pastor preaching from Acts xi, xxiv: " For he was a good man. His children arise to call him blessed." " Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." " Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined."
May God say of us, in this matter of parental training, as he said of Abraham : " I know him that he will command his chil- " dren and his household after him; and they shall keep the " way of the Lord."
DECEMBER 3, 1862 .- Session resolved to visit the membership next week, for religious enquiry, and awakening a greater interest in the subject of religion. Since then some showers of grace, of like kind with revivals alluded to, though not very extensive, have revived the hopes and refreshed the hearts of ministers and people.
It is some time, however, since the church has been blessed with a deep and widespread work of grace. For this we pray. As we to-day retrospect our history, let us open our hearts to re- ceive the truths taught thereby ; let us rejoice in, and bless God for, our present mercies ; let us, in view of demands and responsi- bilities imposed upon us by present needs and future interests, give ourselves to prayer and labor " with full assurance of faith." Repenting of whatever in the past occasions regret, let
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us renew our vows, " stir up the gifts that are within us," and with united prayer and purpose look and labor for the upbuild- ing and extension of our Zion.
To this end "let old friends strengthen former loves and let old hatreds die "-let us see to it that no "root of bitterness springing up" chokes the good seed already sown : but "endeav- oring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace "- having fervent charity,one for the other,and following peace with all men, with cheerful, hearty, effectual co-operation, put our hands and hearts to the work of the future-
"THEN GOD, EVEN OUR OWN GOD, SHALL GIVE US HIS BLESS- ING !"
"PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM. THEY SHALL PROSPER THAT LOVE THEE."
"I LOVE THY CHURCH, O GOD ! HER WALLS BEFORE THEE STAND, DEAR AS THE APPLE OF THINE EYE AND GRAVEN ON THY HAND. "
"FOR HER MY TEARS SHALL FALL, FOR HER MY PRAYERS ASCEND ; TO HER MY CARES AND TOILS BE GIVEN, TILL TOILS AND CARES SHALL END."
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APPENDIX
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ur Church and Society,
CONSISTING OF
A. List of Ministers, Etc.
B. List of Elders.
C. List of Trustees.
D. Returns to General Assembly.
E. List of Members January 1, 1844.
F. List of Members January 1, 1877.
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A
MINISTERS' NAMES.
Date came. Date Left.
Service.
Length
Additions to Church.
Prof. | Cer.
John Ingersoll,
1829
1830
11%
$300 00 S.S.
George Warner,
1831
1832
1
John Covert,
1832
1833
1
Washington Thacher,
Jan. 1833
Nov. 1841
816
600 00
P.
66
Huntington Lyman,
Nov. 1841
Mar 1843
1%
500 00 S.S.
5
13
Aaron Judson,
Oct. 1843
May 1848
5
600 00 S.S.
10
24
H. B. Hosford,
Nov. 1848
Nov. 1849
1
500 00 S.S.
2
Calvin Waterbury, -
Nov. 1849
May 1851
1%
500 00 S.S.
10
8
«Immer N. Crittenden,
Oct. 1852
Oct. 1855
3
500 00 S.S.
21
9
William Wakeman,
July 1856
July 1857
1
500 00 S.S.
2
1
Judson Aspinwall,
June 1857
June 1858
1
600 00 S S.
1
1
Richard Dunning.
May 1858
July 1863
5
500 00
P.
37
16
Richard Proctor,
Aug. 1863
Sept. 1864
1 21%
800 00
P.
12
10
Cyrus M. Perry.
Feb 1868
May 1872
4
750 00
P.
11
9
I. O. Filmore, D. D.,
July 1873
Oct. 1874
1%
1000 00 S.S.
11
2
J. Edward Close, (present pastor) May 1875
B List of Elders.
+Alva D. Botsford,
John Dales.
*Cyrus Lull,
+Aaron Pitney,
+Caleb Brown,
+Salmon Greene,
*Silas E. Mann, +William Richards,
*Charles Barnes,
Ira Hamilton,
+Ebenezer Morehouse+Pomeroy Toby,
*George S. Barnes,
+A. T. Hendricks,
+Sidney N. Norton, *Thomas C. Ward.
+Ebenezer Daggett,
*Charles Kelly.
* Members of present Session.
+ Deceased.
C
List of Trustees.
*Charles Barnes,
*George &. Barnes, Willard P. Bump, Ed. W. Botsford,
Salmon Greene, *A. B. Howe, Ira Hamilton, Justus Hougn *Win F. Jayne, Herman Jenkyns, *Charles Kelly, *Cyrus Lull, Charles E. Morris.
*Silas E. Mann Daniel Mather. James McClure, Jr.,
*James McKissick, *William H. Nash, Sidney M. Noi ton, Isaac Otis, Sen'r, Herod Otis,
Pomeroy Tobey,
Nelson Williams,
John Dales,
Eben. Morehouse,
Aaron Pitney,
William Richards, James W. Redfield.
*Thomas Stevens,
*Thacher Stevens. William R. Thomas, *John Tyler,
Erastus Baker, Jr. Thomas L. Carson, Charles Chadwick, Ebenezer Daggett, Horace Dodge,
*Isaac C. Otis,
Henry Warren, *Thomas C. Ward.
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6.
Not known
William Page,
1830
1831
1
450 00 S.S.
66
*R. B. Welch, -
June 1851
May 1852
1
365 00 S.S.
-
600 00 S.S.
2
9
J.V. C. Nellis,
May 1865
Oct. 1867
of
SALARY.
Y'RS.
66
N. B .- Some may be inadvertently omitted from this List, owing to loss of Regis- ter.
* Indicates those still residing here, and connected with the church or congregation.
RETURNS TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Years.
Added on Ex.
Added on Cer.
Whole No.
Adult Bap.
Infant
S. S. Members.
Home Missions
Foreign Missions.
Education.
Publication.
Church Erection.
Relief Fund.
Freedmen.
General Assem.
Sustentation.
Congregational.
1836
16
·
21
95
3
17
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:
. .
:
20
. .
. .
...
...
1855
17
2
121
1
1
71
20
40
20
·
.
· ·
...
...
.
.
1856
10:
121
..
:
. .
10
29
44
..
D
1858
·
1
101
·
.
1
14
9
20
·
- .
. .
...
·
8
3
7
16
27
32
. .
. .
...
...
..
:
·
...
...
. ..
1863
3
118
117
1
1
19
13
16
.
. .
...
2850
1865
9
100
1
·
·
5
23
· .
.
10
6
1006
1867
1868
2
90
2
2
50
IA
23
10
1869
2
3
90
2
. .
2
60
40
50
115
..
1871
4
1
80
. .
..
·
60
17
15
112
00
..
. .
1874
12
1
81
OC
. .
2
75
19
14
3
3
co .
3
4
4
...
1169
1876
4
4
84
.
110
9
6
·
6
. .
11
co
...
1150
1872
4
. .
80
2
. .
14
16
115
11
9
5
...
. . .
. .
5
..
1105
1870
.
3
80
. .
2
. .
2
70
or
10
·
.
6
...
6
...
. ..
. ..
..
·
10
5
...
1000
1861
3
124
·
3
6
28
12 10
10
..
-
6
...
....
1863
2
12268
105
1
1
. .
.
9
.
. .
..
..
·
..
...
·
121
· ·
:
113
16
5
. .
. .
·
1846
4
..
. .
1854
1
7
94
127
·
·
1
- .
..
6.
.
. .
. .
6
1864
6
93
. .
20
9
10
. .
...
.
6
...
1866
HCNON0.
3
90
6
100
...
969
5
5
23
.
. .
6
...
. . . .
3
.
8
17
11
. .
5
...
1859
1
1860
29
.
96
2
00
32
38
1857
. .
...
10
·
28
312
·
5
. .
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OUR CHURCH AND HER INTERESTS.
Bap.
785
10
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E
Members of the Church,
UP TO JAN. 1, 1844, ACCORDING TO A LIST PREPARED AT THAT TIME BY REV. A. JUDSON.
Electus Adams,
Alva D. Botsford,
Sally Eager, Sally Fitch, Julia Fitch,
Orpha McClure, Charles Morris, Betsy Morris,
William Stevens. Linden S. Stevens,
George Stevens,
*Thomas Stevens,
Ellen Stevens,
Mary Ann Botsford, Sally Frary, Elihu Frary,
Eliza Stevens, Alonzo Stevens,
Delana Botsford, Alfred Botsford, Eli Clark Botsford, Eliza Bell,
Delatus W. Frary, Lorinda Frary,
Lydia McGinnis,
William Nicholson,
Isabel Nicholson,
Sidney N. Norton, Sara Nicholson,
Mary Simmons, Alva Sweetland,
*Charles Barnes, Sarah Barncs,
James Funday, Salmon Greene,
Amy Greene,
Eli A. Greene,
John Gibbs,
*Sara Coonley Otis,
Caroline Symonds, Fanstina Stow,
Catharine C. Graves, Lavinia Otis,
Mary Gregory,
Olive Otis, Sally Powers.
Joshua Sherman, Jr., Harriet Sherman,
*Eliza Howland,
Samuel Hoyt,
*Caroline Powers,
Sara M. Thacher,
Nancy Hoyt,
William K. Powers,
Emily Thompson,
Rithinia Butler, Mary M. Button,
Priscilla Hough,
Timothy Hough, Lucy Hough,
Aaron Pitney, Betsy Pitney,
Asa G. Tolcot,
Alph Talcot,
A. F. Hendrick,
Mary Hendrick.
Elishaba Palmer,
Frances Page,
Nancy C. Tibbitts,
Eliza Van Valkenburg
Jane Van Valkenburg
Eliz Van Valkenberg Elizabetlı Velie,
Wealthy A. VanKine,
Henry VanKine. Archibald Ward; *Jane Ward,
Mary R. Ward,
Nancy J. Ward,
Eliza J. Ward,
Cornelia Wheeler, Emily Weeler,
William Wright,
Susanna Woolsey, .
Sara Jane West,
Clarissa Williams,
Almira Wait, H. M. Williams, Catherine Williams,
Mary Wilson, Helen Wright.
Antonette Wright, Daniel Wilson,
Martin Deforest,
Abigail Deforest,
Matilda Dinman,
Betsy Drake,
John Delaney, Huldah Eggleston,
Aaron Morehouse, Esther Morehouse, Eben. M. Morehouse, Barney Malone,
Daniel W. Matthews, Margaret Riggs,
Lucius J. Root, Hannah Rhodes, Clarissa Rhodes, Abigail Sabill, Angeline Sherman,
Augustus Stevens, *Caroline Stevens. John Stevens,
Matilda Stevens,
Eben s. Williams,
Polly Williams.
N. B .- It will be observed that only fourteen members remain with us who were, or had been, members on Jan. 1, 1844. A large number of the rest are deceased.
* Indicates those now in membership with us.
Ed. W. Botsford, Luther Botsford, Charles Botsford,
Mercy Fuller,
Cynthia Mason,
Mrs. Monroe, Harriet Monroe, George Monroe, Amelia McGinnis,
Margaret Smith,
Charles Bell, Ellen Bell,
Robert Fleming, Susan Felt,
Rebecca G. NicholsonSally Sweetland, William Newall, Isaac Otis, Herod Otis,
Hannah M. Sweetland Ann J. Sweetland,
William P. Bump, Charlotte Bump, Peter Bonta, Lucinda Bonta, Rhoda Baker, Elizabeth Breed, Alexander Bishop, Mary Bishop.
Nathaniel Gray, Mary Gray,
Relief Powers.
Sarah G. Thacher,
Sophronia Bishop, Gideon S. Button, Maria Belding. James Beach,
Justus Hough.
Sarah M. K. Powers, Pomeroy Tobey, Samuel Powers,
Lois Tobey, William Timly,
Eunice K. Button, Elvina A. Button, Frances Benson, Betsy Clark, Louisa Clark, Sarah Cossett, David Carson. Julia Carson,
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