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Ch. org. Aug. 7, 1812; last in Minutes, 1856; present ch. org. June 27, 1876.
Enos Bliss
Oct. 1799
July 1803
Benjamin Abbott
1834
1835
Stillman Morgan
1838
1844
James Hobart
1844
1845
Royal D. Metcalf, Lic.
Mar. 1874
Apr. 1875
[Thomas P. Vaille, Lic.]
June 1875
June 1876
James L. Harrington
o. p. Oct. 25, 1876
d June 30, 1877
Nov. 1877
Aug. 1879
[Alfred M. Masenheimer, Lic.]
May 1880
May 1881
Frederick L. Small, Lic.
June 1881
June 1882
Frederick B. Rockwood, Lic.
Apr. 1884
Apr. 1885
Chalmer H. Cooledge
Aug. 1885
Apr. 1892
A. Hathaway Francis
Oct. 1892
Oct. 1893
Azro A. Smith
Jan. 1894
Aug. 1897
W. Parkyn Jackson
b Jan. 1898
i Feb. 23, 1898
d Apr. 24, 1900
Ernest E. Angell
o. p. Apr. 24, 1900
d Mar. 5, 1902
Andrew J. Eastman
June 1902
May 1904
Ira E. Pinney
June 1904
June 1905
Solomon T. Achenbach
Nov. 1905
Jan. 1907
George W. Winch
1909
Dec. 1909
[Amos J. Lord, Lic.]
Oct. 1911
ORWELL
Organized Dec. 12, 1787. Population, 1800, 1376; 1850, 1470; 1910, 1065. Ch. org. 1789.
Sylvanus Chapin
o. p. Mar. 30, 1791
d May 26, 1801 e 1804
James W. Woodward
i Dec. 22, 1831 Nov. 1834 b July 1853
o. p. Mar. 29, 1860
83
VERMONT CONGREGATIONALISM.
Mason Knapen Ira Ingraham Sherman Kellogg
o. p. June 1, 1808 o. p. June 11, 1820 b 1825 i Mar. 14, 1826 i Oct. 3, 1834 o. p. Dec. 21, 1843
d Aug. 24, 1819 d Oct. 23, 1822
Henry Morris
Rufus S. Cushman
Lewis A. Austin
d Aug. 4, 1868
Milton L. Severance
d Dec. 28, 1880
Soltau F. Calhoun
Benjamin Swift
o. p. June 26, 1862 i Feb. 3, 1869 i Dec. 28, 1880 b June 1893 i Feb. 27, 1894 Sept. 1907 b July 1913 o. p. Nov. 4, 1913
d Mar. 26, 1907 July 1913
PANTON
Organized Mar. 30, 1784.
Population, 1800, 363; 1850, 559; 1910, 345.
Ch. org. Mar. 2, 1808; disbanded to unite with Addison, June 29, 1816. PAWLET
Organized 1769, or earlier.
Population, 1800, 1938; 1850, 1843; 1910, 1959. Ch. org. Aug. 8, 1781.
Lewis Beebe John Griswold
o. p. June 14, 1787
d May 6, 1791 e 1824
Fayette Shipherd, colleague
o. p. Dec. 5, 1826
d Oct. 27, 1830
Elijah W. Plumb
o. p. May 18, 1831 b May 1846
d Oct. 29, 1845
Elijah H. Bonney
o. p. Feb. 25, 1847
Samuel M. Wood
Feb. 1854
d Sept. 27, 1853 Jan. 1860
Azariah Hyde
Mar. 1860
Sept. 1865
Levi H. Stone
Jan. 1866
Jan. 1871
John P. DeMeritt
June 1871
Mar. 1873
John F. Aiken
June 1873
Sept. 1878
George A. Foss
Oct. 1878
Nov. 1879
Nathaniel S. Moore
May 1880
Dec. 1882
Isaac W. Peach
o. p. June 19, 1883
d Dec. 27, 1886 Oct. 1878
Rollins B. Fay
June 1887
Edwin J. Klock
Apr. 1889
Jan. 1890
Wilmond Warner
Mar. 1891
Jan. 1897
Lewis T. Hughes
June 1897
July 1900
Arthur F. Eldridge
Oct. 1900
Aug. 1902
Daniel McIntyre
June 1903
June 1906
John W. Hird
Jan. 1907
Oct. 1911
Louis Ellms
Dec. 1911
May 1914
[Stephen C. Fooks, Lic.]
Nov. 1914
Welsh ch., West Pawlet, org. Jan. 22, 1881; first in Minutes, 1884.
Thomas M. Owen
1888
Mar. 1891
Thomas D. Evans
Jan. 1892
1893
Thomas M. Owen
Dec. 1893
Nov. 1896
William R. Edwards
Apr. 1897
Mar. 1906
W. Tanner Hughes
b Apr. 1906 i d Sept. 5, 1909 Jan. 1911
Robert G. Nicholson
B. Gwernydd Newton
Oct. 1909 1911
d Apr. 13, 1832 d Oct. 4, 1841 d May 7, 1862
d July 19, 1892
J. Christopher Williams
L. Myrven Isaacs
o. p. Oct. 23, 1793
d Aug. 11, 1830
1883
May 1887
84
VERMONT CONGREGATIONALISM.
PEACHAM
Organized Mar. 18, 1783.
Population, 1800, 873; 1850, 1377; 1910, 777. Ch. org. Apr. 14, 1794.
Leonard Worcester
b June 1799
David Merrill, colleague
i Sept. 9, 1841
* July 22, 1850
Asaph Boutelle
i Feb. 13, 1851
Jan. 12, 1866
Perrin B. Fisk
i Aug. 22, 1866
d July 12, 1870
Myron S. Dudley
Dec. 1970
Aug. 1873
Azel W. Wild
i Jan. 22, 1874
d Dec. 21, 1881
Sanford S. Martyn
June 1882
Jan. 1887
Herbert M. Andrews
May 1887
Dec. 1888
John K. Williams
July 1889
June 1909
Thomas A. Carlson
May 1910
PERU
Organized Mar. 1, 1802.
Population, 1800, 130; 1850, 567; 1910, 242, Ch. org. Dec. 23, 1807.
Oliver Plympton
o. p. Dec. 29, 1813
May 25, 1814
Nathaniel Rawson
1825
1828
Nathaniel Hurd
Apr. 1931
Mar. 1833
Bowman Brown 1334
1835
Thomas Baldwin
o. p. June 15, 1836
e 1844
Aurelius S. Swift
1844
1848
Asa F. Clark
b Apr. 1848
i July 11, 1849
d Mar. 1859
Robert D. Miller
Oct. 1859
Sept. 1864
Matthew A. Gates
h 1865
i Jan. 2, 1867
d Aug. 20, 1868
Asa F. Clark
Oct. 1868
June 1873
Samuel H. Amsden
June 1973
Oct. 1876
Charles Rockwell
Nov. 1.876
May 1878
Charles Scott
June 1878
1879
Samuel L. Vincent
b Jan. 1880
i Oct. 30, 1880
d Oct. 23, 1882 1884
Aaron B. Peffers
June 1884
June 1888
William R. Dugan
Oct. 1888
Sept. 1893
John D. Emerson
Apr. 1894
Dec. 1894
[George O. Bruce, Wes. Meth.]
Apr. 1896
Nov. 1897
Charles B. Atwood
July 1898
Dec. 1899
Wallace H. Wood
Apr. 1900
Apr. 1901
Oliver Brown
b July 1901
r Oct. 14, 1902
May 1904
[George O. Bruce, Wes. Meth.]
May 1904
Nov. 1905
[Howard B. Tilden, Bapt.]
Apr. 1909
Nov. 1913
Stephen S. Wood b July 1914
r Aug. 27, 1914
PITTSFIELD
Organized Mar., 1793. Population, 1800, 164; 1850, 512; 1910, 402. -
Ch. of Pittsfield and Stockbridge org. Sept. 17, 1803.
o. p. Oct. 30, 1799 h June 1841
e 1.840 * May 28, 1846
Theodore J. Clark
1882
d July 10, 1849
85
VERMONT CONGREGATIONALISM.
Archibald Campbell Isaac P. Lowe
Prince Jenne
John Ransom
[Phinehas Randall, Lic.]
1810
Justin Parsons
· i Sept. 15, 1813
d Sept. 20, 1831 Jan. 1834
Joseph Marsh
Mar. 1834
Mar. 1835
[Asa Putney, Lic.]
1837
1838
Samuel Sparhawk
b May 1838
John H. Beckwith, Lic.
1841
d Sept. 30, 1841 Dec. 1842
Benjamin Abbott
Jan. 1843
Jan. 1846
Josiah B. Clark
Mar. 1847
1851
Thomas W. Duncan
Nov. 1851
Dec. 1852
Abel Patten
1853
Feb. 1855
Aurelius S. Swift
1857
Feb. 1859
Charles Scott
1859
Feb. 1862
Azel W. Wild, Lic.
Mar. 1862
Mar. 1864
Samuel Sparhawk
Apr. 1864
* Nov. 8, 1869
Josiah B. Clark
Nov. 1869
1873
Charles W. Clark
Nov. 1874
Apr. 1878
Thomas S. Hubbard
1878
Mar. 1882
Clifford H. Smith
June 1882
Sept. 1883
Joseph Marsh
Mar. 1884
Mar. 1885
Henry W. Conry
Oct. 1886
Oct. 1887
Allen J. Smith, Lic.
July 1888
Apr. 1890
Thomas S. Hubbard
1891
1893
Edward H. Eppens, Lic.
May 1896
May 1897
Frank W. Hazen
June 1897
Jan. 1902
Charles Wattie
June 1902
June 1903
F. Wilson Day, Chr.
June 1906
May 190S
PITTSFORD
Organized 1770.
Population, 1800, 1413; 1850, 2026; 1910, 2479. Ch. org. Apr. 14, 1784.
Eleazar Harwood
o. p. Mar. 17, 1785 i Dec. 30, 1807 b Oct. 1817
o. p. Jan. 29, 1818
d Feb. 1822
John Ingersoll
o. p. Dec. 18, 1823
d Sept. 1826
Willard Child
Aaron G. Pease
Charles Walker
o. p. Apr. 25, 1827 o. p. June 22, 1842 b Aug. 1846 i Dec. 2, 1846 o. p. May 31, 1866 o. p. Sept. 8, 1870 i Dec. 28, 1880 b Nov. 1892
d Sept. 8, 1841 d Oct. 7, 1845 d Dec. 6, 1864 @ 1865
Myron A. Munson
d June 28, 1869
Russell T. Hall
d Aug. 22, 1879 * May 19, 1890
Charles C. McIntire
Clifford H. Smith
i Dec. 28, 1892 b May 1912 i June 27, 1912
d June 28, 1911
Edward P. Treat
Orange Parish, or Whipple Hollow, ch. org. 1789; lived but a few years. Abraham Carpenter i 1789 Aug. 21, 1797
Benjamin Wooster 1803
* May 19, 1807 d 1814
Holland Weeks
Asa Messer
o. p. Mar. 19, 1839
Daniel Rockwell
July 1832
86
VERMONT CONGREGATIONALISM.
PLAINFIELD
Organized Apr. 4, 1796.
Population, 1800, 256; 1850, 808; 1910, 785. Ch. org. Nov. 13, 1799. [Jonathan Kinney, Lic.]
1799
1812
Nathaniel Hurd
1825
Sept. 1827
John F. Stone, Lic.
Oct. 1827
June 1828
Joseph Thacher
b Jan. 1829
o. p. June 10, 1829
d Aug. 1834
John Orr, Lic.
1839
May 1840
Buel W. Smith
1840
1841
James Hobart
1841
1842
Samuel Marsh
June 1842
Nov. 1844
Calvin Granger
1846
Aug. 1848
Aurelius S. Swift
b Aug. 1848
e Aug. 1852
Joel Fisk
b Mar. 1855
i May 30, 1855
Dec. 16, 1856
Horace Herrick
June 1857
Nov. 1859
Alfred 'T. Waterman, Lic.
Sept. 1860
Sept. 1861
Caleb M. Winch
Nov. 1861
Oct. 1868
Horace Pratt
Nov. 1868
Apr. 1871
Charles Redfield
June 1873
June 1877
Clark E. Ferrin
i Feb. 13, 1878
* June 27, 1881
William T. Swinnerton
b 1881
i Sept. 27, 1882
d Dec. 24, 1888
Oramel F. Thayer
Apr. 1889
Apr. 1890
Edwin H. Alden
Oct. 1890
Apr. 1891
H. DeWitt Williams
June 1892
Oct. 1895
Edward O. Grisbrook
Mar. 1896
Feb. 1898
Ernest L. Walz
Jan. 1902
Oct. 1903
Robert L. Sheaff
Oct. 1903
Mar. 1906
Perrin B. Fisk
Apr. 1906
May 1911
PLYMOUTH
Organized 1787.
Population, 1800, 497; 1850, 1226; 1910, 482.
Ch. org. Sept. 9, 1804; reorg. Dec. 1882; established in village of Tyson from 1881.
Prince Jenne
1806 1810
b Nov. 1819
o. p. Nov. 20, 1820 Nov. 1828
d May 12, 1824
John A. Avery
Nov. 1829
Jubilee Wellman
1842
1844
Thomas Baldwin
June 1845
Sept. 1851
May 1853
Jan. 1858
1862
1873
Mason Moore
Aug. 1877
Dec. 1879
Richard B. Grover
Sept. 1881
Mar. 1884
Herman P. Fisher
Nov. 1884
Mar. 1889
Evan Thomas
Sept. 1889
June 1893
Francis H. Boynton
Nov. 1893
Oct. 1894
Stephen H. Robinson
Apr. 1895
Dec. 1897
Alfred V. Bliss
Jan. 1898
Oct. 1903
Rodney W. Roundy
June 1904
Sept. 1907
[William J. Ballou, Pres.]
Jan. 1908
Joseph Brown
Abel Manning
i Nov. 7, 1849
d Oct. 26, 1852
87
VERMONT CONGREGATIONALISM.
POMFRET
Organized Mar. 1773.
Population, 1800, 1106; 1850, 1546; 1910, 703. Ch. org. Jan. 8, 1783.
Aaron Hutchinson July 1776 1781
Elisha Hutchinson
i Dec. 14, 1784
Ignatius Thomson
o. p. Nov. 20, 1805
d Jan. 8, 1795 d Apr. 26, 1810
[Charles Calkins, Lic.]
1812
1813
Isaac P. Lowe, Lic.
1814
1815
[Amos Wood, Lic.]
June 1816
John Dutton
i Mar. 17, 1819
Sept. 1817 d June 1824
Samuel Marsh
1826
1827
Joseph Marsh
o. p. Sept. 24, 1828
d Aug. 22, 1831
Joseph B. White
1834
1835
George Butterfield
1844
1845
Elihu Smith
Oct. 1847
1855
Simeon B. Durfee
1856
Alpheus J. Pike, Lic.
1857
William N. Bacon
b June 1859
William H. Kingsbury
Nov. 1863
Charles Duren
July 1867
July 1869
David M. Elwood
May 1971
Aug. 1872
Daniel Goodhue
May 1874
May 1875
Allen Hazen
May 1875
June 1877
William A. Remele, Lic.
June 1879
Sept. 1881
Henry A. Van Dalsem
July 1882
July 1887
Allen J. Smith
Apr. 1890
Apr. 1898
Frank N. Saltmarsh
Apr. 1898
Apr. 1903
Albert G. Heyhoe
June 1904
Mar. 1907
William C. H. Moe
May 1907
Sept. 1908
Newell C. Maynard
Oct. 1908
June 1909
Nathaniel S. Moore
Nov. 1911
* Feb. 2, 1913
George E. Ladd
June 1913
POULTNEY
Organized Mar. 8, 1775.
Population, 1800, 1694; 1850, 2329; 1910, 3644. Ch. org. 1780.
o. p. 1780
d July 7, 1796 e 1798
Prince Jenne
1799
1800
Samuel Leonard
i May 18, 1803
Ethan Smith i Nov. 21, 1821
Sylvester Cochran
o. p. Oct. 24, 1827
Solomon Lyman
i Feb. 25, 1835
Joseph H. Myers
o. p .. Oct. 5, 1843
Aaron G. Pease
Mar. 1846
Daniel C. Frost
i Sept. 22, 1847 1848
Jacob E. Blakely
6 1851
Guy C. Strong
Calvin N. Ransom
John G. Hale
o. p. Mar. 9, 1853 1854 b Nov. 1855 i Jan. 10, 1856 i Apr. 18, 1860
d June 6, 1821 d Dec. 1826 d Oct. 13, 1834 d Nov 16, 1842 d Sept. 30, 1846
Dec. 1846 d July 6, 1848 1851
Cephas H. Kent
* May 6, 1854 1855
d Jan. 6, 1859 d Feb. 23, 1869
1
1858
o. p. Dec. 28, 1859
d July 22, 1863 June 1867
Ithamar Hebard
88
VERMONT CONGREGATIONALISM.
Ovid Miner
1869
1873
Calvin Granger
1873
1888
William A. Remele
July 1888
Oct. 1893
Aug. 1896
Feb. 1898
Edgar F. Blanchard
Nov. 1899
May 1902
Another ch. org. before 1790; united with first ch. Oct. 3, 1796.
James Thompson
1790
Oct. 1796
POWNAL
Organized Mar. 8, 1763.
Population, 1800, 1692; 1850, 1742; 1910, 1599. Ch. org. at North Pownal, May 21, 1851.
Elihu Loomis
b 1850
Charles Peabody
1854
1855
Gurdon Hayes
1855
1856
Charles Peabody
1856
1857
John Bascom
1857
1865
[John L. Cook, M. E.]
1868
* May 15, 1878
[B. B. Scott]
1879
1881
Warren W. Winchester
1882
1884
William R. Stocking
1884
1885
Rollins B. Fay
June 1885
May 1887
[Wilbur F. Poor, Lic.]
1887
1888
[Thomas C. Richards, M. E.]
Apr. 1888
Apr. 1890
[Philip Goettel, M. E.]
Apr. 1890
Apr. 1.891
[Thomas Munro, M. E.]
Apr. 1891.
Apr. 1894
[Erskine L. Arnold, M. E.]
Apr. 1894
Apr. 1896
Ferdinand V. D. Garretson
Apr. 1906
Sept. 1901
Owen Janes
Dec. 1901
Jan. 1905
E. Irving Rackett
June 1905
June 1908
Charles E. Hitchcock
Jan. 1913
PROCTOR
Incorporated from parts of Rutland and Pittsford, 1886.
Population, 1910, 2871.
Swedish ch. org. Sept. 25, 1888; rec. as Cong., Oct. 15, 1890.
Sven J. Blomquist
o. p. Oct. 15, 1890 i Aug. 21, 1894 June 1902
d Apr. 23, 1902
August F. Tornblom
Sept. 1903
Gustaf Wiman
Oct. 1903
Sept. 1909
Charles J. Vahlstrom
Nov. 1909
Mar. 1912
John M. Henrikson
Apr. 1912
July 1913
Axel Strandine
Oct. 1913
PUTNEY
Organized May 8, 1770. Population, 1800, 1574; 1850, 1425; 1910, 788. Ch. org. Oct. 16, 1776.
Josiah Goodhue
i Oct. 17, 1776
* Nov. 14, 1797
Jairus Remington
b Nov. 1799
e Oct. 1802
Elisha D. Andrews
o. p. Feb. 12, 1800 b Nov. 1806
d Feb. 15, 1803
Benjamin H. Pitman
o. p. June 25, 1807 i Mar. 3, 1830
Amos Foster
i Feb. 13, 1833
d May 27, 1829 d Nov. 1, 1832 d Sept. 21, 1853 d Dec. 9, 1857
James Aiken
i Jan. 11, 1854
d Aug. 21, 1894
Carl J. Anderson
o. p. Oct. 22, 1851
Dec. 1852
89
VERMONT CONGREGATIONALISM.
Henry M. Grout
o. p. Sept. 1, 1858
d Feb. 20, 1861 Oct. 1865
Theodore M. Dwight
Apr. 1861
Amos Foster
Feb. 1866
Dec. 1872
[Jehiel Claflin, Chr.]
Mar. 1873
Apr. 1875
[John E. Russell, Lic.]
Apr. 1875
Apr. 1878
Austin Dodge
Apr. 1878
Apr. 1881
Lincoln Harlow
b May 1881 i Sept. 14, 1881 July 1884 o. p. June 30, 1886
d Apr. 22, 1884 Mar. 1886
Henry M. Bowden
d Sept. 14, 1887 d Mar. 5, 1893
Frank F. Lewis
o. p. Nov. 2, 1888
Edward P. Seymour
Dec. 1894
Dec. 1895
Fred M. Wiswall
Mar. 1896
Mar. 1898
Clarence J. Harris
May 1898
Sept. 1899
Willis T. Sparhawk
Oct. 1899
Nov. 1901
Charles E. Hayward
July 1902
July 1904
J. Duke King
Jan. 1905
Sept. 1906
Lewis W. Morey
Dec. 1906
Dec. 1910
Simon F. Goodheart
Nov. 1914
RANDOLPH
Organized Mar. 31, 1783.
Population, 1800, 1841; 1850, 2666; 1910, 3191. First ch. (Randolph Center) org. May 30, 1786.
Elijah Brainerd
o. p. Sept. 5, 1786
d Jan. 4, 1798
Tilton Eastman
o. p. June 3, 1801
d May 25, 1830
Moses Kimball
b 1830
d Nov. 26, 1833
Elderkin J. Boardman
i Aug. 13, 1834 b 1842
d Sept. 16, 1840
Nelson Clark
o. p. July 16, 1844
d Apr. 7, 1846
George Butterfield
Sept. 1846
Jan. 1852
Samuel Sparhawk
Jan. 1852
Jan. 1855
Jacob C. Goss
Feb. 1855
Aug. 1859
Obadiah D. Allis
Aug. 1859 Jan. 1863
Jan. 1863 Jan. 1865
Royal Parkinson
i Jan. 3, 1866
d Aug. 11, 1870
Henry J. Colwell
i Apr. 8, 1874 Mar. 1875
d Feb. 23, 1875 Mar. 1876
William S. Blaisdell
Mar. 1876
Sept. 1883 Dec. 1SS4
Rolla G. Bugbee
Oct. 1883
Charles A. Perry
Jan. 1885
July 1886
John J. Strong
Nov. 1887
Oct. 1888
James A. Bates
May 1890
Apr. 1898
Aubrey C. Gilmore, Lic.
Sept. 1898
Mar. 1900
Edwin M. May
b May 1900
r
Jan. 15, 1901
Apr. 8, 1901
George W. Patterson
b May· 1901
e Nov. 1906
i Feb. 4, 1902
not dismissed
[Frederic A. Wells, M. E.]
Apr. 1907
Apr. 1910
Robert Clark
June 1910
Apr. 1912
[Walter P. Bradford, Lic.]
June 1912
May 1913
Arthur A. Wall
May 1914
Second ch. org. Oct. 21, 1831; disbanded to form Bethany ch., Jan. 1, 1906.
Salmon Hurlbut
Oct. 1831 Jan. 1836
Dana B. Bradford
[S. E. Root, F. B.]
o. p. Jan. 25, 1832
William R. Dugan
90
VERMONT CONGREGATIONALISM.
Tilton Eastman
1836
1837
John C. Wilder
i Feb. 22, 1837
d Nov. 27, 1838
Charles Granger, Lic.
Dec. 1838
Dec. 1839
John A. Vinton
Dec. 1839
Jan. 1842
Samuel Sparhawk
Feb. 1842
Nov. 1845
Josiah B. Clark
1845
1846
Samuel Sparhawk
Dec. 1846
July 1851
Calvin Selden
Dec. 1851
Dec. 1852
Edward B. Emerson
May 1853
Nov. 1854
Samuel Sparhawk
Jan. 1855
Jan. 1861
Henry A. Hazen
Jan. 1861
Jan. 1862
James P. Stone
Jan. 1862
Jan. 1863
Obadiah D. Allis
Jan. 1863
Nov. 1865
Charles C. Torrey
Jan. 1866
July 1867
Samuel W. Dike
b Jan. 1868
o. p. Feb. 3, 1869
d Nov. 7, 1877
Vitellus M. Hardy
b Feb. 1878
George E. Ladd
June 1901
Mar. 1905
Fraser Metzger, Chr.
Apr. 1905
Jan. 1906
Bethany ch. org. Jan. 1, 1906, by the union of the preceding and Christian ch.
Fraser Metzger
b Jan. 1906 i May 15, 1908
READING
Organized Mar. 30, 1780.
Population, 1800, 1120; 1850, 1171; 1910, 530.
Ch. org. June 26, 1787; for a time Presbyterian, and connected with
Grafton Presbytery; last in Minutes, 1851.
Nahum Sargeant
o. p. Nov. 23, 1787
* Oct. 7, 1792
Eli S. Hunter, Lic.
o. p. Feb. 22, 1819
d 1821
Abram Marsh
June 1828
June 1830
READSBORO
Organized 1786.
Population, 1800, 234; 1850, 857; 1910, 1252.
No ch.
RICHFORD
Organized Mar. 30, 1799.
Population, 1800, 13; 1850, 1074; 1910, 2907.
No ch.
RICHMOND
Organized out of parts of Jericho, Williston, and Huntington, Mar., 1795.
Population, 1800, 718; 1850, 1453; 1910, 1419. Ch. org. Sept. 24, 1801.
1826
1827
Brainerd B. Cutler
May 1836
Jan. 1838
Lyman Lovewell
1840
1844
Guy C. Sampson
1844
1847
Zenas Bliss
1848
Jan. 1854
Nathan Ward, Lic.
Apr. 1854
1855
Charles F. Halsey
Aug. 1855
Oct. 1857
Luther P. Blodgett
1818
Moses Elliot
i Mar. 13, 1879
d Sept. 19, 1900
91
VERMONT CONGREGATIONALISM.
Theodore J. Holmes
May 1859
1861
Edwin H. Alden, Lic.
Jan. 1863
Jan. 1864
Eben Halley, Lic.
May 1865
1868
1869
1870
Josiah L. Litch
1870
June 1873
Austin Hazen
Sept. 1875
* May 22, 1895
Daniel Thomas
Dec. 1895
Jan. 1897
[Silas P. Perry, F. B.]
Feb. 1897
Aug. 1898
William J. Watt
Aug. 1898
Jan. 1902
Theodore J. Holmes
Jan. 1902
Oct. 1903
Edward P. Treat
May 1904
Apr. 1912
Charles Wattie
Sept. 1912
RIPTON
Organized Mar. 3, 1828.
Population, 1800, 0; 1850, 567; 1910, 421. Ch. org. Nov. 6, 1828.
Elihu B. Baxter
Oct. 1829
Oct. 1830
Lucius F. Clark
May 1845
May 1846
Asa Hemenway
May 1851
Dec. 1860
Cephas H. Kent
b Oct. 1861
e Sept. 1879
[James A. Devine, Pres.]
Mar. 1880
Mar. 1881
Moses Patten
Apr. 1883
Apr. 1SS7
[George W. Pierce]
Apr. 1889
Apr. 1890
George A. Bennett, Lic.
May 1895
Dec. 1898
John J. MacDonald
Jan. 1899
Sept. 1899
Thomas W. Darling
Jan. 1901
Jan. 1902
ROCHESTER
Organized May 15, 1788. ,
Population, 1800, 524; 1850, 1493; 1910, 1317. Ch. org. Sept. 11, 1801.
Luther P. Blodgett
o. p. Apr. 29, 1807
d May 13, 1819
Salmon Hurlbut
b 1820
d Nov. 10, 1831
Sherman Kellogg
Apr. 1835
Calvin D. Noble
b Apr. 1836
d June 30, 1840
William Scales
b 1841
d Aug. 3, 1847
Thomas Riggs
b June 1850
i Oct. 17, 1850 1854
d Feb. 20, 1854 1855
Caleb B. Tracy
Jan. 1856
June 1859
Isaac B. Smith
Mar. 1860
Aug. 1862
Edward E. Herrick
Aug. 1863
Jan. 1866
Henry M. Holiday
May 1867
Oct. 1868
Thomas S. Hubbard
Nov. 1868
Nov. 1877
Sylvester S. Grinnell
June 1878
Nov. 1880
Moses Patten
June 1881
Apr. 1883
Reuben D. Osgood
Sept. 1883
Sept. 1886
Elbridge Gerry
Oct. 1886
Oct. 1888
Rollins B. Fay
Nov. 1888
Nov. 1889
Carleton Hazen
Aug. 1891
1899
o. p. Feb. 28, 1821 Apr. 1832
o. p. June 8, 1836
i July 12, 1843 1847
1849
Albert Manson
Thomas S. Hubbard
i Sept. 4, 1863
Feb. 2, 1885
92
VERMONT CONGREGATIONALISM.
Homer W. Hildreth b Nov. 1899 i Aug. 22, 1900 William H. Watson Mar. 1907
d Nov. 4, 1906 Apr. 1912
Howard A. Lincoln
Aug. 1912
West Rochester ch. org. Dec. 5, 1909.
Howard A. Lincoln
Aug. 1912 1913
ROCKINGHAM
Organized, Mar., 1761.
Population, 1800, 1684; 1850, 2837; 1910, 6207.
Ch. of Rockingham and Chester org. Oct 27, 1773; separated into two chs., 1778; ch. became extinct, and was reorg. Nov. 5, 1818; disbanded 1839.
Samuel Whiting
o. p. Oct. 27, 1773
d May 8, 1809
Elijah Wollage
b July 1818 i Nov. 6, 1818 d 1821
Samuel Mason
b Aug. 1836 o. p. Jan. 5, 1837
d Aug. 22, 1838
Saxton's River ch. org. Jan. 1, 1825.
[Sereno Taylor, Bapt.]
Nov. 1824 b 1835
Dec. 1827
Nelson Barbour
o. p. Nov. 13, 1836
d Sept. 11, 1839
Samuel A. Benton
o. p. Jan. 15, 1840
d Nev. 23, 1842
Amzi D. Barber
1843
1852
John G. Wilson
1852
1856
Benjamin Ober
Feb. 1857
Feb. 1860
Augustus Chandler
Sept. 1860
Sept. 1861
William J. Harris
Oct. 1861
Sept. 1862
Lewis Grout
Sept. 1862
Sept. 1863
William S. Spaulding
1864
1865
Alanson S. Barton
Nov. 1865
Nov. 1866
Levi Loring
Apr. 1867
Apr. 1869
John G. Wilson
b Dec. 1869
i Jan. 12, 1870
d Dec. 5, 1871
Joseph Chandler
Jan. 1873
Jan. 1876
Amos Holbrook
Dec. 1876
Oct. 1881
William Sewall
Apr. 1882
Apr. 1883
George F. Chapin
Aug. 1883
At Cambridgeport a ch. is reported in Minutes of 1838, which was last in Minutes, 1847; present ch. org. Apr. 16, 1868.
J. Clinton McCollom b Nov. 1867
o. p. Mar. 23, 1869
Amos Foster
Sept. 1873
d May 26, 1873 Sept. 1874
Amos Holbrook
Apr. 1878
Oct. 1881
George F. Chapin
Aug. 1883
Aug. 1893
[Jeremiah C. Williamson, M. E.]
Apr. 1895
Aug. 1896
[Frank D. Goodrich, M. E.]
Aug. 1896
Apr. 1899
May 1900
Apr. 1901
[Will S. Dunn, M. E.]
Apr. 1902
Apr. 1903
[Frank M. Baker, M. E.]
Apr. 1903
Apr. 1905
[R. H. Stebbins, M. E.]
July 1905
Apr. 1906
[Herbert A. Miles, M. E.]
Apr. 1906
Apr. 1907
[Benjamin M. Charlton, M. E.]
May 1907
Apr. 1908
[William E. Lang, M. E.]
Apr. 1908
Mar. 1909
[Henry P. Sweet, M. E.]
Apr. 1909
93
VERMONT CONGREGATIONALISM.
Bellows Falls ch. org. Aug. 9, 1850.
Joel R. Arnold
Aug. 1850
Aug. 1851
John G. Wilson
Dec. 1851
Oct. 1852
Elijah H. Bonney
Oct. 1853
May 1854
Samuel Day
i Sept. 1854
d Sept. 1857
Isaac S. Perry
Dec. 1857
July 1862
Samuel S. Gardner
b July 1862
Moody A. Stevens
o. p. Oct. 3, 1862 Oct. 1864
d May 11, 1864 Sept. 1867
Cyrus Hamlin
o. p. Oct. 29, 1868
d Mar. 25, 1874
Nathan F. Carter
i Oct. 1, 1874 June 1879 b Dec. 1890
d May 22, 1879
Alfred B. Dascomb
Sept. 1890
J. Ellsworth Fullerton
i Mar. 25, 1891
*
Oct. 27, 1897
John H. Reid
i Apr. 26, 1898 b Oct. 1903
d Apr. 1, 1903
Jay T. Stocking
i Dec. 9, 1903
d Sept. 7, 1905
Arthur P. Pratt
i May 24, 1906
Bartonsville ch. org. Dec. 18, 1884; last in Minutes, 1890.
Charles H. Kenney
1883 Oct. 1S86
[Aaron W. Estey, Lay.]
Oct. 1886 1888
ROXBURY
Organized Mar. 25, 1796. Population, 1800, 113; 1850, 967; 1910, 615.
A ch. was org. as early as 1817, which appears in the Minutes up to the organization of present ch. in 1838; reorg. Mar., 1864.
Alden Ladd b Oct. 1863
o. p. Feb. 15, 1865
d Dec. 8, 1879
[Charles H. Covell, Lic.]
Dec. 1879
Henry C. Howard
Apr. 1882
Aug. 1.S81 May 1890
Malan H. Wright
b Oct. 1892
i Dec. 29, 1892
d Nov. 1, 1897
John R. Henderson, Lic.
Feb. 1898
Feb. 1900
[William P. Squires, Chr.]
June 1901
Feb. 1902
Joseph Boardman
June 1903
Jan. 1904
Lawrence A. Wilson, Lic.
June 1904
Apr. 1905
Caleb E. Smith
Sept. 1907
Dec. 1908
[William Moore, M. E.]
1913 Sept. 1914
ROYALTON
Organized between 1772 and 1778.
Population, 1800, 1501; 1850, 1850; 1910, 1452. Ch. org. Oct., 1777.
John Searle i Nov. 19, 1783
July 5, 1787
Azel Washburn
o. p. Sept. 3, 1789
Martin Tullar
i Nov. 27, 1793 1815
[Job S. Swift, Lic.]
Ebenezer Halping
o. p. Oct. 21, 1818
Joseph Torrey
o. p. Aug. 25, 1824 b Feb. 1828
Asahel C. Washburn
i June 11, 1828
Cyrus B. Drake James Caldwell
o. p. Oct. 12, 1837 1868
d Aug. 31, 1791 * Oct. 1, 1813 1816
d Feb. 27, 1822 d June 27, 1827
d Oct. 7, 1836 * Apr. 21, 1878 1872
(During leave of absence of Mr. Drake).
Sept. 1914
[Paul E. Moyer, Lic.]
94
VERMONT CONGREGATIONALISM.
Samuel W. Dike
b Apr. 1879 i Apr. 21, 1880 Sept. 1882
d July 25, 1882 Sept. 1883 1885
Solomon P. Giddings
1887
Hiram Q. Ward
July 1889
June 1892
James Ramage
July 1892
July 1893
Henry M. Goddard
Oct. 1893
May 1899
Wilford E. Mann
June 1899
Jan. 1902
Joel F. Whitney
May 1902
Apr. 1905
Charles E. Beals
June 1905
Sept. 1907
Newell C. Maynard
July 1909
June 1910
John L. Holden
June 1910
June 1912
[Cornelius N. Krook, M. E.]
July 1912
June 1914
[Ida E. Lewis, Lay.]
July 1914
South Royalton ch. org. Jan. 16, 1868.
Daniel W. Fox
b May 1868
i Apr. 2, 1869
d Mar. 10, 1870
Stephen F. Drew
May 1871
May 1872
Elisha W. Miller, Lic.
June 1872
Apr. 1873
Amzi B. Lyon
Jan. 1874
June 1875
Sidney K. B. Perkins
Nov. 1876
Aug. 1882
[William D. Smith, Lic.]
Sept. 1882
Sept. 1883
William Sewall
Jan. 1884
Jan. 1885
James Ramage
Oct. 1886
July 1893
Henry M. Goddard
Oct. 1893
May 1899
Wilford E. Mann
June 1899
Mar. 1903
Sherman Goodwin
Nov. 1903
Jan. 1912
Jeffrey G. Haigh
May 1912
RUPERT
Organized before 1780.
Population, 1800, 1648; 1850, 1101; 1910, 825. Ch. org. June 6, 1786.
Increase Graves
o. p. July 4, 1786
d May 2, 1793
John B. Preston
o. p. Feb. 8, 1798
* Feb. 21, 1813
Martin Powell
1818
1819
Daniel Marsh
1820
1824
David Wilson
b 1827
o. p. May 16, 1832
d Apr. 30, 1844
Ralden A. Watkins
July 1845
1855
Alanson Alvord
1855
1857
Josiah B. Clark
1857
1869
Joseph Garland
1870
1872
Daniel Goodhue
1873
1874
Amos B. Lambert
1874
1883
J. Loring Pratt
1883
1884
Bernard Copping
b 1884
i Sept. 3, 1885
Charles A. Perry
1887
J. Douglas Adam
b June 1890
o. p. Sept. 16, 1890
William Ewen W. Tanner Hughes
Mar. 1892
- Aug. 1906
J. Duke King
Feb. 1910
[William D. Smith, Lic.]
Elisha S. Fiske
June 1884
Albert I. Dutton
b 1885
i Sept. 1, 1886
d Sept. 26, 1887 Nov. 1888
d June 28, 1887 1889
d Feb. 28, 1892 * Feb. 19, 1906 Sept. 1909
95
VERMONT CONGREGATIONALISM.
CITY OF RUTLAND
Incorporated from part of town of Rutland, 1892, and organized as city, March, 1893.
Population, 1910, 13,546. Ch. org. Oct. 5, 1788.
Samuel Williams Jan. 1789
Heman Ball
o. p. Feb. 1, 1797 b July 1822
d Mar. 13, 1833
William Mitchell
i Mar. 14, 1933 Apr. 1847
Nov. 1848
Silas Aiken
i Mar. 22, 1849
d July 1, 1863
Norman Seaver, colleague
o. p. Aug. 29, 1860
d Nov. 4, 1868
James G. Johnson
i Apr. 21, 1870
d June 2, 1885
George W. Phillips
i June 17, 1886
d July 1, 1906
Charles N. Thorp, Lic., asst.
June 1896
Sept. 1897
George A. Swertfeger, asst.
Oct. 1902
1903
George Gilmour, asst.
Nov. 1903
Dec. 1905
William H. Spence
b Oct. 1906
d Mar. 20, 1912
Arthur H. Bradford
b Jan. 1913
i Feb. 19, 1913
TOWN OF RUTLAND
Organized as early as 1775; Rutland City, West Rutland, and a part of Proctor originally included.
Population, 1800, 2125; 1850, 3713; 1910, 1311.
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