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THE 
 
 GRANVILLE JUBILEE, 
 
 CELEBRATED AT 
 
 GEANVILLE, MASS., 
 
 attfltwt 27 art 28, 1345. 
 
 SPRINGFIELD: 
 
 PRINTED BY HORACE S. TAYLOR. 
 1845. 
 

At a meeting of the Sons of Granville, at the close 
 of the Jubilee, August 28, 1845, James Cooley, Esq. 
 in the chair, on motion of Mr. Rufus H. Barlow, 
 
 Voted unanimously, That the thanks of this meeting 
 
 be returned to those who delivered Addresses on the 
 
 first and second day of the Jubilee, and to Mrs. Sig- 
 
 ourney for the truly beautiful Hymns furnished for the 
 
 occasion, and that copies of the same be requested for 
 
 publication. 
 
 George W. Rose, Sec'y. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 At a meeting of the First Church of Christ in 
 Granville, Mass., Jan. 1st, 1845, the following 
 Resolutions were adopted : 
 
 1. Resolved, That whereas the first Sabbath 
 in June next, will complete a half century since 
 our Pastor, Rev. Timoxhy M. Cooley, D. D. 
 preached his first sermon with us ; that a day be 
 observed commemorative of the goodness of God, 
 with appropriate religious services. 
 
 2. Resolved, That the Sons and Daughters 
 who have emigrated from us, be invited to revisit 
 the home of their youth. 
 
 3. Resolved, That James Cooley, Ardon Sey- 
 mour, Jonathan B. Bancroft, Elijah Seymour and 
 Edmund Barlow, be a committee of arrangements 
 for the occasion. 
 
 4. Resolved, That the Jubilee be fixed on 
 Wednesday, the 27th day of August next. 
 
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 5. Resolved, That Rev. Doct. Cooley deliver a 
 historical sermon in the morning, and in the 
 afternoon the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper be 
 administered, and that the Rev. Doct. Hitchcock, 
 President of Amherst College, a descendant of 
 one of the earliest Deacons of this church, be 
 invited to preach a sermon on the occasion. 
 
 James Cooley, Moderator, pro tern. 
 
 Granville, Jan. 1, 1845. 
 
SEMI-CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL. 
 
 At a meetino- of the inhabitants of the East 
 parish in Granville, on the 7th day of April, 1845. 
 
 Voted, That we hold a Jubilee on the 27th day 
 of August next, in commemoration of the fiftieth 
 year since Rev. Timothy M. Cooley, D. D. preach- 
 ed his first sermon in this place. 
 
 The person who leaves the place of his nativity 
 and settles in some distant part of the country, 
 often meditates with delight on the scenes of his 
 early life, and when he finds the evening of his 
 days approaching, still cherishes with fond recol- 
 lection the scenes of his youth. But in a special 
 manner does the true Christian reflect on his early 
 religious impressions, and he cannot forget his 
 spiritual Father who directed his footsteps in the 
 pathway to heaven. 
 
 Voted, That the following persons be a com 
 mittee of arrangements on the occasion : 
 
 E. 
 
 C. Spelman, 
 
 J. 
 
 P. 
 
 Cooley, 
 
 P. 
 
 L. BuELL, 
 
 II. 
 
 II 
 
 Barlow, 
 
 E. 
 
 Wright, 
 
 B. 
 
 C. 
 
 Dickinson 
 
 L. Brown, Moderator. 
 E. Wright, Clerk. 
 
 East Granville, April 7, 1845. 
 
OFFICERS OF THE JUBILEE. 
 
 JAMES COOLEY, President. 
 
 ELIJAH C. SPELMAN, 
 RUFUS H. BARLOW 
 
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 Marshals. 
 
 Committee of 
 
 Mr. Jona B. Bancroft, 
 
 " Ardon Seymour, 
 
 u Elijah Seymour, 
 
 " Alpheus Bancroft, 
 
 " P. L. Buell, 
 
 " E. Wright, 
 
 " j. p. cooley, 
 
 " Jeptha Rose, 
 
 " B. C. Dickinson, 
 
 " L. Tryon, 
 
 " L. H. Cooley, 
 
 " J. Gillett, 
 
 Mrs. T. M. Cooley, 2d, 
 
 " R. Pomeroy, Jr. 
 
 Arrangements. 
 !Mrs. L. Battles, 
 
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 ss Tirzah Parsons, 
 
 ' Sybil Parlow, 
 
 ' Jane Cooley, 
 
 ' Clarilla Spelman, 
 
 ' Clarissa Root, 
 
 ' Irene Barlow, 
 
 ' Deborah Spelman, 
 
 ' Clarissa Spelman, 
 
 ' Cynthia Parsons, 
 
 ' Delia Wells, 
 
 ' Sarah E. Tillotson, 
 
 ' Sophia Seymour. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 FIRST DAY. 
 
 August 27, 1845. 
 At 10 o'clock, A. M. at Doct. Cooley's Church in 
 East Granville, Rev. Roger Harrison, of Tolland, intro- 
 duced the exercises of the day with Invocation, reading 
 a portion of the Scriptures, succeeded with the following 
 remarks : 
 
 My Dear Friends : 
 
 We are assembled to-day by the Providence 
 of God, on a deeply interesting occasion: to 
 celebrate with you a Jubilee. This day closes 
 up a period of fifty years since your beloved 
 Pastor was ordained over this church and con- 
 gregation, as your Instructor in the great truths 
 of the word of God, which are absolutely neces- 
 sary to make us wise unto salvation. 
 
 Rare indeed, are the instances in which the- 
 connection between the minister and the church, 
 and congregation over which he has been set as 
 a watchman, have continued for such a length 
 
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 of time as in the present instance. Truly, my 
 friends, God has been very kind and merciful, and 
 abundant in goodness to you as a church and 
 people, in prolonging the life and usefulness of 
 your beloved Pastor to this day. Yes, it is an 
 event which so rarely takes place, that well may 
 we assemble to commemorate it. My friends, 
 you are under the strongest obligations, and I 
 presume you sensibly feel it, this day to raise 
 your grateful hearts to Heaven, and to praise God 
 for such a blessing as the stated administration 
 of the Gospel, and its sacred ordinances by your 
 beloved Pastor, uninterrupted for fifty years. 
 
 Your beloved Pastor and myself formed an 
 acquaintance in our youthful days at Yale College, 
 where we spent three years together in our classic 
 studies ; only one year's difference in our college 
 standing, and about three years in our ages. We 
 attended to the study of Theology about the same 
 time, were examined by the same association on 
 the same day, and received our license to preach 
 the everlasting Gospel bearing the same date, 
 slept together the succeeding night in the same 
 bed, and we parted the next morning, not know- 
 ing that we should ever meet again in the present 
 world. But Divine Providence so ordered that 
 in a few years we found ourselves settled in the 
 same town, where we have lived in good fellow- 
 
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 ship and friendly intercourse to the present day; 
 have exceeded the common bounds of threescore 
 years and ten, we here stand before you to-day as 
 the sturdy oak when the forests have been pros- 
 trated by the stormy wind and raging tempest. 
 Yes, while very probable, almost two generations 
 in this society have been prostrated by the stroke 
 of death, since the ordination of your beloved 
 Pastor, he still survives, and is blessed with such 
 health and strength, both of body and intellect, 
 that he is able to discharge all the duties of his 
 sacred office. O ! what a blessing has God 
 bestowed on this church and people, and is still 
 continuing it? May you, my dear friends, duly 
 appreciate it, and give all the praise and the glory 
 to him from Whom you have received it. 
 
 And now, my dear friend and brother ; this 
 day witnesseth to you and to me, the boundless 
 mercy and goodness of our Heavenly Father. 
 Truly we can say with the inspired Apostle : 
 * Having obtained help of God we continue unto 
 this day.' How many of our youthful compan- 
 ions, our classmates, who started in the career of 
 life with us, and whose prospects for length of 
 days and years were perhaps as promising, are 
 now mouldering in their graves. 
 
 Yes, dear Sir, few indeed have weathered the 
 storms of life, and are now on the borders of four- 
 
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 score years. Shall we not then on this most 
 interesting occasion, feel to praise God for his 
 boundless mercy and loving kindness towards us? 
 O ! let the remainder of our lives be devoted to 
 his service ; and may we at last be found faithful 
 servants, and hear the plaudit of our Divine 
 Master : ' Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit 
 the kingdom prepared for you before the founda- 
 tion of the world.' 
 
SACRED MUSIC. 
 
 WELCOME TO RETURNING EMIGRANTS AT THE HALF-CENTENNIAL 
 
 ANNIVERSARY. 
 
 BY MRS. 1 . H. SIGOURNEY. 
 
 Back to the quiet scenes 
 
 Where erst your childhood strayed ; 
 Back to the green and ancient trees, 
 
 Whose branches sweep the glade. 
 
 Back to the sparkling streams 
 That marked your infant play, 
 
 And still a tuneful welcome speak, 
 While rushing on their way. 
 
 Back to your Pastor's side, 
 
 The aged and the true, 
 Beloved wanderers, come ! return ! 
 
 Affection waits for you. 
 
 Come to your father's graves, 
 
 Who in their Saviour sleep, 
 And muse upon the hallowed sod, 
 
 Yet not to idly weep. 
 
 But to renew your vow 
 
 With former zeal and love, 
 Their precepts and their path to keep, 
 
 Until ye meet above. 
 
SALUTATORY ADDRESS. 
 
 BY JAMES COOLEY, ES<*. 
 
 Kindred and Friends : 
 
 It is a duty allotted to me on this occasion, 
 to tender to this assembly, and particularly the 
 native emigrants from this town, the greetings 
 of friendship ; to extend to you the kind saluta- 
 tions of affection and love, and welcome you to 
 this our Jubilee. 
 
 To you who have come here from the far 
 regions of the west and the south, or the less 
 remote locations of the north and the east, we 
 greet you. To you who have left your adopted 
 homes to revisit these scenes of your childhood, 
 kindly we greet you. The old mansions in which 
 you were cradled, greet you. The rough hills 
 and vallies, still occupying the same old immove- 
 able positions, with their rugged smiles, greet 
 you. The crystal fountains that gush from the 
 hillsides and trickle in limpid streams through 
 these deep vallies, greet you. The balmy winds, 
 the salubrious breath of heaven, wafted down from 
 these tall cliffs, teeming with the blessed elements 
 of health and life, salute you. All these old 
 
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 moss-covered granite rocks that have been dumb 
 for five thousand years, have, all at once, become 
 vocal, and on this occasion echo to you the voice 
 of welcome. 
 
 We are met, my friends, to commemorate the 
 fiftieth anniversary of the pastoral life of our 
 present minister. It is our Jubilee, hallowed by 
 antiquity to mutual kindness, forbearance, and 
 social benevolence, when every man is to return 
 to his kindred and family. 
 
 It is indeed no ordinary occasion. We seldom 
 hear, and still more seldom see, an occasion like 
 this. The annals of our country show but few 
 such seasons, and a sense of grateful acknowledg- 
 ment requires that it be noticed with a flow of 
 rational joy and gratitude. We do not claim it 
 as a cause of special excitement; nothing thril- 
 ling in the event or the circumstance. 
 
 We boast no human achievement, no deeds of 
 valor, no array of armies or blood-stained battle 
 fields. We boast no victory over our fellow men ; 
 no roar of cannon heralds in the morning. We 
 gather here to acknowledge in solemn humility, 
 a remarkable event in Divine Providence, pecu- 
 liarly dispensed to this i people for wise and 
 benevolent purposes, and it is proper that the oc- 
 casion, like the Jubilee of the Hebrews, should 
 bring together long separated friends, to meet in 
 
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 mutual congratulations, and breathe again the 
 air of their fathers. 
 
 Although we boast no deeds of human heroism, 
 no triumph over a fallen foe ; yet we deem the 
 occasion worthy of the generous elation of our 
 hearts, that the town of Granville, humble indeed 
 as we are, situated upon the Alps of New Eng- 
 land, should in the Providence of God, present 
 to the world so remarkable an era, a period that 
 seems to fill up, as it were, an epoch in the annals 
 of time. 
 
 And in commemorating this event, we are led 
 to many reflections ; some solemn, some joyful. 
 If we look back to scenes of former times ; to the 
 commencement of this era, it recalls to our rec- 
 ollection the spirit of our ancestors ; their noble 
 deeds ; and shows a bright spot in their characters 
 worthy of our pride and veneration. 
 
 Fifty years ago they laid the plan for the event 
 which we have realised, and which we this day 
 commemorate. By their voluntary contributions 
 they raised and established a fund, the income 
 of which was devoted to the perpetual support of 
 a Gospel Minister. At this time, and under these 
 auspices our present pastor was settled. In this 
 connexion we have continued a half century. A 
 generation has passed away, and a new one has 
 taken their place. 
 
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 Among the long list of those worthy donors, 
 scarce a single individual remains among us. 
 One by one they have gone; their names are 
 erased from the subscription book, and we look 
 about in vain for their faces ; they were prominent 
 men in this house, but now their seats are vacant. 
 We go to their old homesteads and their farm- 
 houses, they are not there : we go into the fields 
 and trace the familiar pathways, hallowed by 
 their footsteps, we find them not ; we climb upon 
 some eminence and shout aloud their names, 
 they hear us not ; no answer returns ; no re- 
 sponse but a sad and melancholy echo. 
 
 * Our fathers, where are they V Where are 
 the men who founded our institutions, established 
 our ordinances, earned our inheritances, built our 
 school-houses, and put in motion the noble system 
 by which we live with so much ease and comfort ? 
 Where are the men who toiled up and down 
 these hills by day and by night; and the women 
 too ? Those blessed mothers who nourished and 
 cherished us, who gave life and sustenance, and 
 energy, and capacity, and character, to this living 
 multitude? Where are those good old Puritan 
 standards? Gone! They have done their work 
 and gone to their rest. 
 
 * In yonder churchyard's still, secluded shade, 
 
 Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, 
 
 Each in their narrow cell forever laid, 
 The rude forefathers of our hamlet sleep.' 
 
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 And, blessed be God, there is a country beyond 
 that lonely spot where trials cease, their toils are 
 forgotten, and their reward is immortal glory. 
 
 And may we not indulge an honest pride in 
 contemplating the character of the descendants 
 of this worthy ancestry 1 
 
 Mother Granville, sterile and barren as she is, 
 is not without merits. The good old lady has a 
 name abroad, and she has a fair claim to a seat, 
 although a low and humble one, in the temple of 
 fame. She has produced a prolific progeny, and 
 I may say, an honorable and a patriotic one ; 
 none more so. They may justly be said to pos- 
 sess the spirit and enterprise as well as the blood 
 of their fathers. Travel where you will, you 
 meet them. Go into the boat, the cars, the 
 hotels, behind the counter, in the shops, in the 
 fields, in the factories, at the bar, and in the 
 Senate of the United States. But alas ! our 
 Senator is no more ! We have to mourn the loss 
 of one of our noble sons ; he whose voice could 
 charm a Senate, and to whom the hierarchies 
 would almost listen, is silent in his tomb; the 
 earth covers him. That pillar in our national 
 councils has fallen, and he sleeps with the illus- 
 trious dead. 
 
 If this apostrophe is a digression from my 
 subject, I hope to be pardoned ; as what traveller 
 
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 would not turn aside to drop a tear at the tomb 
 of Isaac Chapman Bates. 
 
 The address was here suspended, while the following 
 Ode by Mrs. Sigourney,on the death of Mr. Bates, was 
 sung by the choir. 
 
 A voice was in the lofty halls 
 Where meet the high, and great, 
 
 And long the listener's ear enchained 
 With eloquent debate. 
 
 The voice of him who e'er maintained 
 High thought, and noble deed, 
 
 Was in its vigor lifted up, 
 Still, for the right to plead. 
 
 A sudden pause ! — That voice no more 
 
 Upheld a nation's trust, 
 But from the open grave there came 
 
 An echo, — * dust to dust !' 
 
 A cry of mourning from the home 
 Where sweet affections dwell, 
 
 And silence settling round the hearth 
 Where his loved accents fell. 
 
 Ah ! long shall smitten love deplore 
 
 This fearful stroke of fate, 
 And patriot virtue grateful bless 
 
 The unforgotten great. 
 
 I was remarking that the sons of Granville, 
 were scattered abroad, and were found in every 
 
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 station and situation in life. Many of them are 
 in the learned professions, adorning the pulpit, 
 the bar, and the bench of justice. 
 
 No matter how exalted the station, they are 
 adequate to its dignity. They are neither idle 
 nor dull. Their views are not bounded by plan 
 nor distance. They are on the shores of the 
 Atlantic and the Pacific. They are on the borders 
 of the lakes, they are on the Mississippi and the 
 great rivers of the West, and all along from New 
 Orleans to the foot of the Rocky Mountains. No 
 country so remote, and no climate so inhospitable 
 but they venture there. 
 
 The same spirit of enterprise and perseverance 
 that led our pilgrim fathers across the ocean, 
 prompts them to go. Every breeze wafts them ; 
 and when they stop, the spot on which they light, 
 becomes at once a scene of industry and busi- 
 ness. The great moral principles of New Eng- 
 land life are planted deep, and their habitations 
 soon exhibit a picture of plenty, wealth, and inde- 
 pendence, and every thing that contributes to 
 human comfort and happiness. 
 
 It may be boasting ; be it so, it is nevertheless 
 true, that some of the proudest states in the Union 
 have received a mighty impulse from this poor 
 town. Who settled western New York? Who 
 opened the avenues to the Great Genesee Valley, 
 
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 and the shores of the Lakes 1 The sons of Gran- 
 ville; Oliver Phelps, Ezra Marvin, Abner Barlow. 
 These were the men that planned the enterprise, 
 and pursued the project that terminated in a per- 
 manent settlement of that fertile region. These 
 men, with others of our citizens, were the fearless 
 spirits that first penetrated that wilderness. They 
 cut a passage through the dense forests of the 
 Mohawk and dragged their teams through mud 
 and over unbridged creeks and rivers, and carried 
 life and light and activity and civilization into that 
 noble country. Plymouth rock never witnessed 
 a bolder stroke than this. They feared nothing. 
 If there were ' Lions in the way,' they tamed 
 them. The Anakims they vanquished. The 
 frightened savages fled before them, or settled 
 down quietly by their side. These are the men 
 that first turned up the turf of those rich wheat 
 fields, and laid the foundations of those splendid 
 cities and villages of the west. 
 
 So also the State of Ohio. That sturdy young 
 giant of the Union has had a swarm from this old 
 hive, which has spread an influence over that land 
 which will tell as long as time lasts. 
 
 Forty years ago, the whole lake shore of that 
 state was a mere waste ; a darksome forest. The 
 wild Indian paddled his bark canoe along those 
 beautiful waters and streams. The rough lake 
 
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 winds whistled through the forests. No civilized 
 foot was there, until our citizens opened the way. 
 It is well remembered what numbers left this 
 place. Whole families, men, women and children, 
 old and young, abandoned their native home, to 
 seek their fortunes in this new country. This was 
 an enterprise few men would undertake. 
 
 A long journey of seven hundred miles was 
 before them. No railroads, no canals or steam- 
 boats; a mere over-land journey, through swamps 
 and untrod deserts; a constant toil by day and by 
 night for more than forty days. But they were 
 the choice spirits of New England ; legitimate 
 sons of old Granville, who shrunk at no hardship 
 and feared no peril. They saw in the heavens 
 the pillar and the cloud ; they placed their hopes 
 and their anticipations, and their all in the most 
 high God, and thus they passed the Jordan. The 
 walls of Jericho crumbled down before them, and 
 with loud hosannas, they placed their feet upon 
 the promised land. Here they were like the 
 precious ' hundred and one,' that landed from the 
 May Flower two hundred years before ; worn out 
 with fatigue. No dwelling to cover them ; no 
 father, or brothers, or friends to receive and wel- 
 come them ; a howling wilderness before them ; 
 their funds probably exhausted. But, if they had 
 nothing in their pockets, their heads and hearts 
 
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 were full ; they had untired courage and strong 
 moral and intellectual power. The sun, moon 
 and stars were shining above them in all their 
 brilliancy, and the blessed canopy of heaven was 
 dropping down manna in their paths. 
 
 From the rude cabin of logs and bark, rolled 
 up in a single day, has succeeded the stately 
 mansion ; churches and colleges have arisen all 
 over the country, and adorn the land like brilliants 
 in the coronet of a prince. Wealth and plenty 
 surround them ; prosperity and comfort prevails 
 in their dwellings ; and great joy and rejoicing 
 in their habitations. 
 
 And now, my friends, may you enjoy the fes- 
 tivities of this day with all its anticipated pleasures, 
 and when we part, may you still be under the 
 guidance of that power whose tender mercies are 
 over all his works ; and may we all hereafter meet 
 to spend an unending Jubilee in mansions not 
 made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 
 
NAMES OF THE CHOIR OF SINGERS AT THE 
 JUBILEE, AUGUST, 1845. 
 Orville Noble, Chorister. 
 
 James P. Cooley, Organist. 
 
 James S. Andrews, 
 Porter E. Gowdy, 
 Eliphalet Wright, 
 David Kellogg, 
 Orson Gibbons, 
 Orsemus Gibbons, 
 Martin Gibbons, 
 Chauncey Howe, 
 Carleton Brown, 
 Newton Seymour, 
 Henry Clark, 
 Sanford Clark, 
 Milton Seymour, 
 Asa Seymour, 
 George King, 
 Linus Gibbons, 
 Moses Gibbons, 
 Henry Tryon, 
 Franklin Cooley, 
 Edward Spelman, 
 Tirzah M. Parsons, 
 Sarah S. Ranney, 
 Sarah A. Noble, 
 Julia H. Bates, 
 
 Lucina Spelman, 
 Sybil C. Andrews, 
 Celia E. Brown, 
 Maria M. Kellogg, 
 Elizabeth Gibbons, 
 Martha Gibbons, 
 Sarah E. Tillotson, 
 Jane Parsons, 
 Flora Hodge, 
 Alzira Rose, 
 Laura Seymour, 
 Caroline Bancroft, 
 Martha Gibbons, 
 Mary Gibbons, 
 Lucina Gibbons, 
 Charlotte Gibbons, 
 Caroline Seymour, 
 Elizabeth Clark, 
 Almira Tillotson, 
 Susan Rose, 
 Ellen Cooley, 
 Abigail Hatch, 
 Maria Hatch. 
 
HISTORICAL DISCOURSE. 
 
 IV REV. DOCT. COOLEY. 
 
 Love of home is a principle which we all 
 honor. We look back upon the scenes of early 
 life with a kind of hallowed enthusiasm. The 
 recollections of the family circle, the humble 
 school-house, the hill-side for winter pastime : 
 especially the recollection of the great family 
 Bible, the morning and evening prayer, the Satur- 
 day evening catechising, mingled with councils 
 and tears, are all written on the mind as with the 
 'diamond's point.' 
 
 Wherever the spirit of adventure or enterprise 
 may have borne you, love of home, sooner than 
 any other emotion, will call forth the tears of 
 joyous and painful recollections. Moved by this 
 honorable affection, an unwonted multitude are 
 now crowding around us. 
 
 Sons and daughters of Granville, we welcome 
 you here. In obedience to our call you have come 
 from the great West, from the South and from the 
 North ; from remote cities and villages, from the 
 farm-house, the workshop and the counting-room ; 
 from the toils and cares of professional life, you 
 
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 have come to celebrate the Granville Jubilee. I 
 repeat it, We welcome you all here. We 
 welcome you to this pure air which you breathed 
 in your infancy, and to this pure water from the 
 mountain rock. We welcome you to our houses 
 and to our hearts. Especially do we welcome 
 you into this ' Holy of Holies,' where your godly 
 fathers and mothers loved to meet, where many of 
 you were dedicated with baptismal water, and 
 where not a few of you having believed on the 
 Lord Jesus, here in these courts ' sealed your 
 engagement to be the Lord's. 5 
 
 You have come to visit the place of your fathers' 
 sepulchres ; how appropriate therefore to com- 
 memorate the virtues of those to whom under God 
 we are indebted for our most valuable blessings. 
 
 The sons of Granville love and revere the 
 place which gave them birth. True, indeed, we 
 have nothing whereof to glory ; we are but a 
 speck on the map of our country. Scarcely are 
 we known beyond the rock-bound mountains 
 which surround us. 
 
 We have no peculiar water privileges, no facto- 
 ries with their ten thousand spindles, no rich 
 prairies with golden wheat harvests ; indeed, no 
 place will suffer us to claim a kindred, except 
 perhaps the 'High Alps' of Switzerland. We 
 have, however here, among these rocks and hill 
 
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 sides, mind which is capable of the diamond 
 polish. God in his providence has raised up a 
 generation here, who have spread themselves 
 through the land, and by their enterprise and 
 virtuous deeds, have reflected honor upon their 
 parents and their birth place. 
 
 The first inhabitants of this town were descend- 
 ants of the pilgrims, and some of them can trace 
 their origin to the ' hundred and one ' who landed 
 on Plymouth rock. More than a century has 
 rolled away since the first adventurer fixed his 
 humble dwelling here, (1736). By a little aid of 
 the imagination, we seem to see the lonely 
 pilgrim, with no associate but the wife of his 
 youth, bidding farewell to home and kindred, and 
 wending his way to these untrodden wilds. It 
 was then as great an enterprise to emigrate from 
 Springfield to Bedford, (the early name of this 
 town,) as it is now to travel to the Rocky moun- 
 tains. 
 
 Samuel Bancroft, of Springfield, was the first 
 settler ; he built the first rude cabin here, and 
 may be regarded as the patriarch of Granville. 
 He was a facetious, kind hearted, industrious 
 man, a little below mediocrity in stature. Some 
 of us remember him well, when he appeared 
 abroad, especially on the Sabbath, in his antique' 
 dress, with his triangular cocked hat, and the still 
 
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 more imposing appendage of a white bush wig, 
 inspiring the reverence of beholders. He was 
 one of the first board of Selectmen in Granville, 
 and in 1775 was chosen Representative to the 
 General Court in Watertown. 
 
 The next settlers were Daniel Cooley, Jonathan 
 Rose, Samuel Gillett, Thomas Spelman, John 
 Root, Ephraim Manson, Phineas Pratt, and Tho- 
 mas Brown, Esq. 
 
 A little later, Jabez Dunham, Peter Gibbons, 
 Jonathan Church ; and still later, Asa Seymour, 
 Esq. The longevity of our ancestors was remark- 
 able. The ancestor of the Spelmans died at the 
 age of 93 ; of the Roots, 91 ; of the Churches, 
 95; Cooleys, 90; Gilletts, 87; Gibbons, 92; 
 Rose, 103. The manner in which some of them 
 came to their end, was also remarkable. Sam- 
 uel Gillett fell dead while walking in his field ; 
 the first death in Granville, 1739. Samuel 
 Bancroft retired in health and died before morn- 
 ing ; Daniel Cooley died of a wound ; Jonathan 
 Rose perished in his burning buildings ; Ephraim 
 Manson while working off his potash, at a late 
 hour of night, slipped into the boiling caldron, 
 while at its most intense heat ; though he rescued 
 himself so as to give alarm, died in a few hours- 
 The skin came off from his hands entire, like a 
 glove. While the voice of promise said : ' Thy 
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 days shall be long upon the land which the Lord 
 thy God giveth thee,' another voice cried : ' Be 
 ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, 
 the Son of man cometh.' 
 
 The first house in Middle Granville was built 
 by David Rose, mostly of stone, as a safe-guard 
 against savage invasion. The other early settlers 
 were John Bates, David Clark, the Robinsons, 
 Parsons, Curtisses, Coes, and Baldwins. The 
 West Parish, (for I shall speak of the three 
 parishes as they were before the incorporation of 
 Tolland,) was not settled till the year 1750. The 
 early inhabitants were James Barlow, Samuel 
 Hubbard, Moses Goff, Titus Fowler, Esq., David 
 Fowler, Robert Hamilton, Thomas Hamilton, and 
 James Hamilton. 
 
 The town of Granville was purchased by 
 Anthony Mather, of one Toto, an Indian sachem. 
 It lies on the eastern part of one of the ranges 
 of the Green Mountains, having Connecticut line 
 for its southern boundary. Length, fifteen miles ; 
 breadth, seven miles on the west boundary, and 
 five miles on the east, comprising 41,193 acres. 
 In the distribution of settling lots, 2,070 acres 
 were appropriated to public uses. 
 
 In 1754, it was incorporated and ' invested 
 with the powers and privileges and immunities 
 that towns in the province do, or may enjoy, that 
 
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 of sending a representative to the the general 
 court excepted. 
 
 The war spirit which has spread ' weeping, 
 lamentation and woe through the earth,' was early 
 felt in this peaceful and retired settlement. Our 
 country from the first, has been the scene of 
 sanguinary achievements. Necessity compelled 
 our fathers to make provisions for self-preserva- 
 tion. 
 
 * The band of persecuted believers soon became 
 a band of Christian soldiers.' 
 
 Massachusetts, 'the cradle of the Independence,' 
 furnished one third of the soldiers for the war of 
 the revolution,* and few towns in the state, of 
 no greater resources, contributed more efficient 
 means in the prosecution of that eventful struggle 
 than the town of Granville. 
 
 The aggressive acts of the British Parliament 
 caused an excitement, like an electric spark, to 
 fly through the States. Our fathers caught the 
 patriotic enthusiasm, and as early as July 11th, 
 1774, a town meeting was held, and a committee 
 raised 'to inspect the debate subsisting between 
 the mother country and the inhabitants of 
 America. 
 
 The committee were Timothy Robinson, Esq., 
 
 * Whole number 220, 000, of which Massachusetts|furnishcd 09,000. 
 
32 G R A K V I L L E J V B I L E E 
 
 Dea. Luke Hitchcock, Hon. Oliver Phelps, Jo- 
 siah Harvey Esq., Lieut. Samuel Bancroft, Na- 
 than Barlow, and John Hamilton. At a future 
 meetings the committee reported a number of 
 spirited and patriotic resolutions, which were 
 adopted unanimously. The following is a speci- 
 men : ' That the inhabitants of his majesty's 
 province, and the other colonies in America are 
 justly entitled to all the rights, liberties, and 
 privileges that the inhabitants of Great Britain 
 are entitled to, and we would humbly request, 
 and confidently challenge these rights, liberties, 
 and privileges to us belonging, as free, natural 
 born, English subjects.' 
 
 ' That it is our opinion, that the acts of 
 Parliament are calculated to enslave those, his 
 majesty's free and loyal subjects in America.' 
 
 ' That in order to obtain redress from the 
 calamities in which we are so deeply involved, 
 it is our opinion that a suspension of all com- 
 merce with Great Britain be solemnly subscribed 
 to by the people.' 
 
 This is the language, and these were the 
 movements of high-minded, patriotic men. 
 
 Here is the wisdom, the intelligence, the 
 decision of character, the unflinching courage, 
 the love of liberty, which marked the character 
 of our fathers, and our country in ' times which 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 33 
 
 tried mens' souls.' Here is not the moh-spirit, 
 but the dignified style of men ' resolved to be 
 free.' In less than one year after this, the firs 
 blood was shed at Lexington, April 19th, 1775. 
 
 In March 1775, this town voted to raise fifty 
 pounds, to encourage fifty men to enlist as 
 ' minute men.' 
 
 In 1781 'the town raised .£756 9s 4d, silver 
 money, as a bounty to encourage sixty men to enlist 
 in the continental army.' It cost them blood as 
 well as treasure. 
 
 The flower and strength of the town were under 
 enlistment, and as many as fourteen perished in 
 the army. Cromwell's soldiers carried the Bible 
 into the field, in their pockets ; not a few of ours, 
 it is believed, carried it in their hearts. 
 
 Isaac Chapman, a young man of fervent piety, 
 and of great excellence, having left his youthful 
 and beautiful wife, with an infant* in her arms, 
 died in the camp, at Ticonderoga, and was 
 buried on the banks of Lake Champlain. 
 
 Luke Hitchcock, a pillar in the town, a pillar 
 and an officer in the church, being one of a 
 volunteer company, for an attack on Crown 
 Point, died of the camp fever, in New Lebanon, 
 on his homeward march, at the house of one Mr. 
 
 * Madam Content Cooley. 
 
34 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 Douglass, who was friendly enough to take him 
 in for the night. 
 
 Enos Seaward, a son of pious parents, died at 
 New London. John Bartlett, in the battle at 
 White Plains, took aim at one of the light horse, 
 as he was rushing towards him, and his piece 
 missing fire, the enemy with his broad sword 
 severed his head in the midst, and the two parts 
 fell upon his shoulders. Two of our men fell at 
 Stone Arabia, mingling their blood with that of 
 many of the brave sons of Massachusetts, in the 
 murderous attack of the indians on the banks of 
 the Mohawk. 
 
 'Here few shall part where many meet, 
 The snow shall be their winding sheet, 
 And every turf beneath their feet 
 Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.' 
 
 Oh ! how fervently must we cry to God, that 
 he would 'rebuke the nations, and that men may 
 learn war no more.' 
 
 But let us turn from these affecting recitals to 
 a subject which is friendly to universal peace 
 and good will to men. 
 
 The maxim of the pilgrims ; ' a school for 
 every district, a Bible for every family, a minister 
 for every town,' was very fully carried out by our 
 pious fathers. As early as 1762, the town voted 
 to raise .£20 for the support of schools, and each 
 
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 tion. 
 
 In 183? an Academy was erected in Middle 
 Granville, which is exerting a good influence in 
 the cause of education. 
 
 We are not behind other places in liberally 
 educated, distinguished, and self-made men. As 
 many as thirty have received literary degrees 
 from American Colleges. 
 *Rufus Harvey, 
 Timothy M. Cooley, 
 Elijah Bates, 
 *Stephen Twining, 
 *David B. Curtiss, 
 Truman Baldwin, 
 *Isaac Chapman Bates, 
 Seth M. Leavenworth, 
 *Gurdon Hall, 
 *Lorrin Chittendon Hatch, 
 John Seward, 
 Harvey Coe, 
 Charles F. Bates, 
 Junius H. Hatch, 
 *Charles Stebbius Robinson. 
 Thomas Twining, 
 Roger C. Hatch, 
 Timothy Chapman Cooley, 
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 Fourteen ministers, ten lawyers, two physi- 
 cians. Several, without academical privileges, 
 have risen to honor and usefulness. 
 
 Hon. Oliver Phelps, by his own efforts, rose 
 from the humble condition of a servant boy, to 
 a seat in the Governor's Council ; as Commis- 
 sary for the American army, he merited and 
 received the thanks of the Commander in Chief. 
 He removed to Canandaigua, N. Y., and was 
 member of Congress and Judge in Ontario 
 county. Died 26th Feb., 1809. 
 
 Col. Timothy Robinson possessed talents of a 
 high order. As a civil magistrate, he tried 
 many causes, and in no instance was his decision 
 reversed in a higher court. 
 
 ^Deceased. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 37 
 
 In the time of Shay's rebellion, he and a 
 company of the ' court party,' on their way to 
 Springfield, in defence of government, v/ere 
 met by a party of the mob, double their number, 
 and after a skirmish, near the great rock, were 
 taken prisoners. The Colonel, as being the most 
 obnoxious, was confined under a strong guard. 
 Next day was Sabbath, and he read and prayed 
 with them, and discoursed on state affairs, setting 
 forth the moral wrong of resisting law by arms, 
 especially when the people have all the power at 
 the ballot box, of redressing their wrongs, by 
 changing their rulers. They listened to their 
 prisoner, for he wept and they wept. The 
 result was, they all became politically converted, 
 and the very next day, he and his guard proceed- 
 ed to Springfield in the cause of ' law and order.' 
 
 In an hour of darkest and deepest affliction, 
 he shewed an instance of calm submission which 
 I cannot omit to mention. He was father of a 
 brilliant family ; all except one being daughters ; 
 a favorite was connected with a clergyman in 
 Vermont. Having taken leave and gone to her 
 new home ; she had scarcely laid aside her bridal 
 dress, when news flew back, as if the winds had 
 given it speed, that their daughter died suddenly, 
 and that by opium taken by her own hand. 
 
 The mother and the daughters shrieked and 
 4 
 
38 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 cried aloud for grief and agony. The father 
 entered the room at the moment, and with 
 sternness of rebuke, characteristic of great minds, 
 stamped upon the floor, and hushed the tumult ; 
 and then sitting down, with great parental kind- 
 ness, commenced a train of remarks to sooth the 
 broken heart and vindicate the sovreignty, 
 goodness, and tender mercy of God. The effect 
 was most happy. 
 
 Rev. Lemuel Haynes, when abandoned by his 
 natural, or rather unnatural mother, found a 
 home and a mother's care in this place. He was 
 bound out as a servant, at the age of five months, 
 and at the age of twenty-seven, in spite of all the 
 prejudices of color aud cast, he occupied a pulpit 
 in this place, with universal approbation. 
 
 The apple tree is still standing, where the 
 Saviour found him and made him free. The 
 story of the Saturday evening sermon, and the 
 chimney corner education of Lemuel Haynes is 
 worthy of being told on the banks of the Senegal, 
 in the days of the millenium. 
 
 Hon. Timothy Rose was the instrument of 
 planting a colony in the centre of Ohio. His 
 name, like that of William Penn, will be long 
 held in affectionate remembrance. 
 
 Hon. John Phelps, graduate of Harvard Uni- 
 versity ; High Sheriff of Hampden County, was 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 39 
 
 distinguished for his activity, kindness, and 
 generosity. 
 
 Asa Seymour, Esq., with a very scanty educa- 
 tion, exerted great influence. He was remarkable 
 for short convincing speeches in town meeting. 
 After giving out his three or four brief sentences 
 on some difficult and vexing subject, it was ' as 
 when in old time they asked counsel at Abel, and 
 so they ended the matter.' 
 
 James Barlow, Esq., by industry, and integrity, 
 and kindness, merited the love of all ; the friend 
 of the friendless. 
 
 Joel Root, Esq., without patrimony, by habits 
 of economy and industry accumulated an amount 
 of wealth attained by few. 
 
 Hezekiah Robinson, Esq., though a humble 
 mechanic, was a benefactor to the world. His 
 shop was the resort of the poor and friendless 
 young man, many of whom by the influence of 
 his business habits and unfeigned piety, are now 
 among the most respectable sons of Granville. 
 
 The lamented Noah Cooley, Esq., was a self 
 made man. His sun went down while it was 
 yet noon. He left a valuable patrimony to his 
 orphan and amiable children ; and what is better 
 than wealth, the legacy of an unblemished repu- 
 tation. 
 
 Rev. Gurdon Hall was born in West Gran- 
 
40 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 ville, April 8, 1784, and gave early indications of 
 talents of the first order. 
 
 Rev. Roger Harrison, a boarder in the family 
 of his father, proposed to young Hall the subject 
 of acquiring a liberal education, which pleased 
 him much. His father was much opposed, but 
 Hall was nol to be moved from his purpose, and 
 by his ' constant pleading,' and by the ' inter- 
 cession and advice of his minister,' at length 
 obtained his father's consent, and at the age of 
 nineteen, commenced his studies preparatory for 
 college, with Rev. Mr. Harrison. 
 
 He was instructed with accuracy, and said 
 President Fitch, on his examination for admis- 
 sion into Williams College, ' He understands the 
 very radix of the languages.' In the course of 
 College life, a revival commenced in his native 
 place, and during vacation, his mind which had 
 been hitherto thoughtless, was somewhat im- 
 pressed, and on his return to college, a powerful 
 revival commenced in that Institution. 
 
 Hall was among the most prominent subjects. 
 He was one of those ' choice spirits' in Williams 
 College, in whose breasts was first kindled a zeal 
 for missions among the heathen. ' On Wednesday 
 afternoon,' says President Griffin, 'they used to 
 retire for prayer to the bottom of the valley 
 south of the west college, and on Saturday 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE 41 
 
 afternoons, to the more remote meadow, on the 
 bank of the Hoosack ; and there, under the 
 haystacks, those young Elijahs prayed into exis- 
 tance the embryo of American Missions to the 
 heathen, 5 
 
 He was valedictory orator when he was 
 graduated at Williams College. He was one of 
 the first company of American Missionaries to 
 heathen lands. No one was more eminently 
 qualified. He possessed hardihood and great 
 physical strength. He outlived several of the 
 mission family. Pie sent his wife and two sons 
 to his native land, and he soon heard the painful 
 intelligence that one of the dear boys died on his 
 passage, and the great deep was his grave. The 
 other son survives, and is a youth of great promise. 
 
 On the 2d of March, 1826, Mr. Hall left the 
 Mission House at -Bombay, on a tour, expecting 
 to return in one month. Alas ! he went to that 
 ' bourne from whence no traveller returns !' 
 
 On the 20th he died at Doorlee Dapoor, aged 
 42 years. On the preceding day he reached 
 the heathen temple, in good health. At four in 
 the morning he was seized by the hand of death. 
 He had disposed of the last particle of medicine 
 he had with him, and had now none for himself. 
 He counselled and prayed with those around him, 
 and sweetly fell asleep on the bosom of Jesus, 
 4* 
 
42 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 Last, but not least ; the Hon. Isaac Chapman 
 Bates, the statesman, the Christian, the eloquent 
 orator, whose voice has long been heard in the 
 Legislature of the nation, and whom we hoped 
 to have seen on this day, has died to live. He 
 slumbers in the same grounds with Strong, and 
 Hooker, and Stoddard, and Brainard, honorable 
 and pious dead, without leaving an enemy to 
 plant a thorn upon his grave. 
 
 I could not omit these ' meditations among the 
 tombs.' I might prolong them, but I forbear. 
 It is an office of great delicacy to characterize 
 the dead, and still more so, the living. 
 
 Hon. Anson V. Parsons, of Pennsylvania ; Hon. 
 Samuel B^croft, of Ohio; Elijah Bates, Esq., 
 Enoch Drake, Esq., Silas Winchell, Esq., Hon. 
 Patrick Boise, a son of Granville by adoption, 
 James Cooley, Esq., Vincent Holcomb, Esq., Isra- 
 el Parsons, Esq., Joseph J. West, the Barlows, 
 Spelmans, Cooleys, Roses, Dickinsons, Bancrofts 
 Coes, Robinsons, Gibbonses, Marvins, Ameses; 
 and many others of the sons of Granville, dis- 
 persed from New Orleans to the lakes of the 
 North, to whom we might make reference, are 
 names whom we wish to commemorate on this 
 occasion. Indeed, to every son and daughter, 
 born within our bounds, we desire to extend the 
 benediction : ' The Lord bless you and keep you. 
 The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 43 
 
 be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his 
 countenance upon you and give you peace. 
 
 I have spoken of the school house ; the meeting 
 house rose up promptly by its side. Our first 
 house of worship was erected at so early a date, 
 that no record tells when the corner stone thereof 
 was laid. There is a faint tradition that when it 
 was raised, every man, woman and child in the 
 town, could be comfortably seated on the sills of 
 the house. The house had no bell, nor cushions, 
 nor carpet, nor stoves, nor blinds, nor organ, for 
 the comfort and delight of the worshippers ; but 
 there were warm hearts which might well put to 
 blush many of their descendants. 
 
 The meeting house in Middle Granville was 
 built in 1778. The first in West Granville was 
 raised in 1795, and the second was begun, 
 finished and dedicated in 1843. The Baptist 
 meeting house was finished in 1824; and this 
 house in which we are now assembled was raised 
 May 27th, 1802, and dedicated Nov. 10th. The 
 bell was a free-will offering, from the ladies 
 of the parish ; and their daughters, by their own 
 industry, have contributed many articles ' to 
 beautify the house of the Lord.' 
 
 These six houses, built for God, well propor- 
 tioned, and well finished, are a testimony that 
 the inhabitants are not infidels, but Christians ; 
 
44 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 and that they appreciate in some sense, the 
 hallowing principles of the Christian religion. 
 They have not been reared up as an engine of 
 state policy, or merely as an ornament to our 
 villages, but as places of sacred resort, where ' the 
 rich and the poor meet together ' to worship him 
 'who is the Maker of them all.' 
 
 Measures have not been wanting to supply 
 these pulpits with a pious, orthodox ministry. 
 
 In West Granville, a church was organized in 
 1797, 1 and Jan. 13th 1791), Rev. Roger Harrison 
 was ordained, and is still living. Rev. Alonzo 
 Sanderson, the present Pastor, was ordained July 
 12, 1844. 
 
 In Middle Granville, the church 2 was formed 
 Nov. 17th, 1781, and Rev. Aaron J. Booge 
 ordained as Pastor, Nov. 17th, 1786, and his 
 ministry of six years was closed by dismission. 
 
 Rev. Joel Baker was ordained Jan. 21, 1797. 
 He continued the faithful and successful pastor 
 till his death. He was especially gifted in prayer, 
 and in pastoral visitation. The last year of his 
 life he was unable to preach, and was assisted 
 
 1 Deacons, Thomas Twining, Marvin Moore, Silas Knight, William 
 Freeman, Warren Gates, Philo Smith, Edward L. Tinker, Elizur D. 
 Moore. 
 
 This church was formed by a council, consisting of Rev. Messrs. 
 Nathaniel Gaylord, Jacob Catlin, D. D., and Timothy M. Cooley. 
 
 2 Comprising twenty eight members, fourteen males and fourteen 
 females. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 45 
 
 by a colleague; and in Sept. 1832, with great 
 peace and in the full assurance of hope, he fell 
 asleep in Jesus. His successors were Rev. Scth 
 Chapin, and Rev. Henry Eddy. The present 
 pastor is Rev. Calvin Foote, installed Sept. 1st, 
 1841. 1 
 
 The Baptist church in East Granville, was 
 organized, Feb. 19, 1791, and in 1808 numbered 
 eighty-two members. In 1798, Elder Christopher 
 Miner preached with them, continuing as stated 
 supply for ten years. 
 
 Rev. Silas Root was ordained pastor, Jan. 5, 
 1817. His successors were Rev. Richard Grif- 
 fing, Rev. John Higby. The present pastor is 
 Rev George D. Felton. 2 
 
 This beloved sister church though of another 
 name, has risen up by our side, and we cheerfully 
 give her the right hand of fellowship. 
 
 If we do not hold to one baptlspi, we agree in 
 * one Lord and one faith,' and we do not reject 
 those whom Christ receives ; and if we do not 
 'go to the same house of God in company' we 
 can ' take sweet counsel together.' And if we 
 do not ' see eye to eye' so as to meet at the same 
 ' table of the Lord's supper,' we hope to meet at 
 the ' marriage supper of the Lamb.' 
 
 1 Deacons, Timothy Robinson, Aaron Coc, Elihu Adkins, Elihu 
 Pomeroy, Hezekiah Robinson, Nathan Parsons, George Shepard, 
 Lyman Shepard. 
 
 2 Deacons, Elijah Spelman, Lemuel Bancroft. 
 
46 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 No record tells us when the first congregational 
 church was formed in Granville, and the first 
 pastor ordained. The early inhabitants lived in 
 the time of the ' great awakening ' in the days 
 of Edwards and Whitefield, and some of them 
 heard the living voices of those holy men, when 
 30,000, or even 50,000 were born into the King- 
 dom of Christ. The first members of this church, 
 warm-hearted from the pungent sermons of 
 Reynolds, Pomeroy, Devotion, Chauncey, and 
 Russell, planted themselves here, because, as one 
 of the members piously remarked, ' it is the 
 very best place to prepare for heaven.' They 
 assembled on these hill sides, without concert, 
 and with no bond of union, except the glowing 
 love of young converts. When they had been 
 here about eleven years, few and feeble, but 
 strong in faith, they had a meeting house, a 
 church organization, and a settled pastor. Rev. 
 Moses Tuttle, the first minister, a graduate of 
 Yale College, was ordained about 1747. His 
 wife was one of the ten daughters of Rev. Tim- 
 othy Edwards, of East Windsor, and sister of 
 the great Jonathan Edwards of Northampton ; 
 and it is a pleasing conjecture, and not improba- 
 ble, that his brother in law, and perhaps, the 
 venerable father, nearly four score years old, 
 were present and aided in the ordination solem- 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 4? 
 
 nities. Mr. Tuttle was an orthodox, and faithful 
 minister, and his short ministry, of six years, was 
 blessed with prosperity and peace. The good 
 man, after his dismission, preached in various 
 places, and died in peace at Southhold, Long- 
 Island, in a good old age. 
 
 'March, 1753, the church in Bedford, in their 
 desolate circumstances, held a meeting ; chose 
 David Rose moderator, Ebenezer Seaward, clerk. 
 Agreed that Cambridge platform be read. Agreed 
 that some persons be chosen to examine said 
 platform, and give their thought concerning the 
 meaning of it.' 
 
 ' Firstly, we agree that grace is of absolute 
 necessity to the right receiving of the Lord's 
 Supper, and we find no Divine rule for a wrong 
 receiving of it. 
 
 ' We agree that if any person shall manifestly 
 declare that the Lord's supper is a converting 
 ordinance, he shall not be admitted into our 
 fellowship.' 
 
 We admire these plain principles for their 
 brevity, and their orthodoxy. At this early pe- 
 riod, error was abroad in the land, and the 
 famous Mr. Stoddard of Northampton, and a 
 majority of the churches in Hampshire county, 
 believed and professed, that ' the sacrament of 
 the Lord's supper was a converting ordinance.' 
 
48 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 The great Edwards was not suffered to make his 
 plea against this delusive error. It is grateful to 
 know that the little church here were 'valiant 
 for the truth.' 
 
 'In Sept. 1755, Mr. Cornelius Jones received 
 a call to the pastoral office, but declined it.' 
 
 'In August 3d, 1766, voted that Mr. Jedediah 
 Smith be a minister in Granville.' He was to 
 receive as settlement, o£100, and as salary <£50 
 annually, and his wood, and after the French 
 war, <£5 was to be added. 
 
 In Dec. 1756, he was ordained to the pastoral 
 office. The second week after the ordination, 
 the church met and re-affirmed their opposition 
 to the Stoddardean practice. 
 
 ' At an adjourned meeting, Mr. Justus Rose 
 was called, upon probation, and upon proof and 
 trial for the office of Deacon. 
 
 'Voted, that Watts's psalms be sung.' 
 
 The movements of this church are marked, 
 thus far, with great prudence. Justus Rose then 
 32 years old, was called to the office of deacon, 
 but not without 'proof and trial.' Nothing was 
 done with haste. The introduction of a new 
 psalm book, was not attempted, without the action 
 of the church. Thus commenced the ministry 
 of Mr. Smith. 
 
 Said Lemuel Haynes : ' He was an evangelical 
 
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 preacher. He used to make, at times, consider- 
 able impsession on my mind. He used zealously 
 to call upon the youth to remember their Creator. 
 
 ' He would preach to us the dreadful state of 
 the damned.' 
 
 From such a church and from such a pastor, 
 it was to be expected that the blessing of God 
 would not be withheld. 
 
 In the second and third years of his ministry, 
 was experienced one of those heavenly refresh- 
 ings, which are the glory of our churches. 
 
 The spirit of God came down to open the 
 eyes of the blind to their lost condition. 
 
 Says one of the subjects : ' I found that for all 
 my doings and good duties and strivings, I was 
 not a whit nearer heaven than before. I contin- 
 ued lamenting my miserable condition until God 
 was pleased to take away my burden.' 
 
 In the copious records of this blessed work of 
 God's grace, which time has spared, there is no 
 intimation of exalting human agency. All the 
 glory is ascribed to the Holy Ghost. 
 
 As many as thirty were added to the church 
 by profession, and their influence has been 
 perceptibly felt in the town for more than half a 
 century. 
 
 In a work of God's holy spirit, one is taken 
 and another is left. Many fair moralists were 
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50 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 unaffected. A quickened conscience, however, 
 could not fail of discerning, that a fearful line 
 of demarcation was now drawn between them- 
 selves and professing Christians. 
 
 The Stoddardean principle, that ' the sacrament 
 was a converting ordinance,' suited the wants of 
 the self-righteous formalists. Mr. Smith was 
 known to favor these views. The subject was 
 discussed in open town meeting, and at length a 
 council was called in to crush down the orthodox 
 in the church. I cannot give you the details. 
 The result was, that the doors of the church 
 were flung open, and all persons, ' outwardly clean 
 and doctrinally taught ' were admitted to the 
 Lord's supper without the pretence of piety 
 Halfway-covenanters (so called) were admitted to 
 the privilege of baptism for their children. 
 
 Now, ' the glory was departed.' The pure 
 principles of the church which had been affirmed 
 and reaffirmed, were now abandoned. The best 
 members ' hung their harps upon the willows, 
 and wept when they remembered Zion.' Some 
 were offended and withdrew, and set up a meet- 
 ing in a barn, styling themselves separates. The 
 church proceeded to call them to account as 
 covenant breakers. For the space of three years 
 and a half, painful efforts were made to reclaim 
 them, but without effect. The church sent them 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 51 
 
 the first and second admonition, according to 
 apostolic order, and as these measures were 
 unheeded, they cut them off by excommunication. 
 
 Here a division commenced which time has 
 failed to heal. 
 
 The remaining years of Mr. Smith's ministry 
 were tumultuous and unblessed. Council after 
 council was called in, to advise and to heal, but 
 in vain. The separates were accused of cove- 
 nant-breaking, the pastor of ' changing his 
 principles,' and the church with ' holding fellow- 
 ship with unsanctified men.' Crimination begat 
 recrimination, till at length, the pastor, seeing 
 no prospect of usefulness or cessation of strife, 
 resolved to ask a dismission. Accordingly, the 
 pastoral relation was dissolved April 16, 1776. 
 
 Mr. Smith is spoken of as a man 'of re- 
 markable piety, pleasantness and affability.' He 
 immediately left the place with his numerous 
 family, leaving many warm personal friends here. 
 He embarked at Middletown Conn., for the 
 South, and died on his passage up the Mississippi 
 river. The funeral rites were attended, and he 
 was buried on the land, but as the river gradually 
 encroached upon the shore, the remains of my 
 venerable predecessor, long since were washed 
 away by the ' father of waters.' 
 
 A council was called by the church in their 
 
52 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 1 desolate circumstances,' and in the result, a 
 new platform of church government, comprising 
 essentially, the primitive principles of the church* 
 was recommended. 
 
 On the first day of the year 1777, the church 
 convened and observed a day of fasting and 
 prayer, and renewal of covenant. They met 
 again the second day, and resolved ' that those 
 men that were at the gathering of the church in 
 Bedford should be the men to lead in the renewal 
 of covenant.' 
 
 Thus the church was purged from corruptions 
 and abuses and restored to her primeval purity- 
 And if our venerable fathers could now come to 
 us in their funereal vestments, how would they 
 warn us to beware of abusing divine institutions, 
 and trifling with sacramental seals : ' For unto 
 the wicked, God saith, what hast thou to do to 
 declare my statutes, or that thou shouldst take 
 my covenant in thy mouth.' 
 
 No wonder that the sacred seal of infant 
 baptism, which had been applied to the children 
 of unbelievers, should consequently be under- 
 valued and neglected. 
 
 The church was now but a remnant. 
 
 * The council which gave this seasonable advice comprised the 
 following persons : 
 
 Pastors — Rev. Stephen West, D. D., Rev. Jonathan Huntington, 
 Rev. Daniel Collins, Rev. Lemuel Munson. Delegates : James 
 Gray, Nathan Leonard, Lemuel Collins. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 53 
 
 The separates were excluded on the one hand 
 and the Stoddardeans on the other. 
 
 ' The daughter of Zion was left as a cottage 
 in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucum- 
 bers, as a beseiged city.' If Deacon Justus Rose 
 and his four brothers who acted with him ; Dea. 
 Howe, the Coes and the Robinsons, who stood 
 faithful among the faithless ;' if they had 
 forsaken the church and joined with the separates 
 on the one hand, or Stodardeans on the other, 
 our Zion must have died without a helper, and 
 infidels would have scoffed at her dying groans. 
 But the Lord said : ' Destroy it not for a blessing 
 is in it.' 
 
 Seventeen hundred and eighty-seven was ' a 
 year of the right hand of the Almighty.' God 
 was pleased to send into this place a preacher of 
 the gospel by the name of Barnabas Lathrop, a 
 modest, holy man, of moderate talents and 
 limited education. He came among us, as if 
 dropped down from heaven, no one knew how 
 or from whence. His method in the pulpit was 
 very earnest, ' and the Lord was with him.' For 
 thirty years neither rain nor dew had fallen upon 
 these ' mountains of Gilboa.' He ventured to 
 say to one of the deacons of the church : ' There 
 is going to be an awakening here.' God's time f 
 ' his set time to favor Zion was come/ and the 
 5* 
 
54 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 Holy Spirit was poured out copiously upon the 
 children of the church. Those who had ' caused 
 divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine 
 which they had received,' were left almost wholly 
 unblest. As many as forty gave evidence of 
 having passed from death unto life. Dec. 17, 
 within a few days of ten years after the church 
 had ' kept a day of fasting and prayer, and 
 renewal of covenant,' was observed as a day of 
 Thanksgiving, and of examining candidates for 
 admission. Jan. 26, 1788, about thirty were 
 admitted to the communion by Rev. Mr. Gillett 
 of Torrington.* Memorable day ! Such as had 
 never been before witnessed in this place. Mr. 
 Lathrop received a call for settlement, but through 
 want of unanimity in the church and concurrence 
 in the society, it was a failure, and the good man 
 silently retired, whether into some obscure corner 
 of the earth, or whether he has been dismissed 
 to his rest, we have no means of deciding. 
 
 Rev. William Bradford labored several years 
 as a stated supply, and although no revival 
 occurred, he was blessed as a peace-maker, in 
 healing divisions in the church, and thus prepar- 
 ing it for united action, in calling and settling a 
 minister of the gospel. 
 
 * His text was, Jer. 3 19 : ' But I said, how shall I put thee among 
 the children. 1 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 'OO 
 
 March 16, 1789, Mr. Sylvester Sage was 
 invited to settle here in the work of the ministry, 
 but refused.. Dec. 14, 1792, the church gave a 
 call to Mr. Silas Churchill, to become their pastor, 
 but he declined it. 
 
 A half century has passed away since, with 
 trembling, inexperienced steps, I entered this 
 pulpit for the first time. Having on the 2(3th of 
 May, 1795, at a meeting of the ministers of New 
 Haven East association, at the house of Rev. 
 Doct. Goodrich of Durham, received liceuce to 
 preach the gospel, my first sermons on the first 
 Sabbath in June, were preached in this pulpit. 
 An event occurred here, the last and the least to 
 be expected, in the common course of human 
 events. On the 15th of Nov. the church met 
 and voted : ' To give Mr. Timothy M. Cooley a 
 call to settle with us as our gospel minister.' 
 
 That the church after so many years of con- 
 troversy, should unite harmoniously in any one, 
 and especially in one of their own sons, seemed 
 most improbable. And that the Pastor elect 
 should consent to become the teacher of father 
 and mother, and grand-parents, and the venerable 
 fathers in the church, and in the town, was 
 equally improbable. In that day the law of 
 Moses was in full force and virtue : 'Thou shalt 
 
56 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 rise up before the hoary head, and honor the 
 face of the old man, I am the Lord.' 
 
 An urgent and unanimous call from another 
 respectable and highly intelligent people, in- 
 creased the perplexity.* Jan. 1, 1790, a reply 
 to the call was presented, closing in the following 
 manner : 
 
 ' My relation to this church is peculiarly 
 intimate ; Having obtained your charity so far, 
 even in my childhood, as to be received into 
 your fellowship and communion. 
 
 You have watched over my conduct during 
 that season of life, in which we are most exposed 
 to wander. This lays me under great obligation 
 to you. Confiding in your friendship I accept 
 of your invitation, reposing an humble confidence 
 in him who has promised to be with his apostles 
 always, even unto the end of the world, Amen !' 
 
 On the 3d day of Feb. 1798, while standing 
 in this memorable pulpit, I was solemnly conse- 
 crated to the pastoral office, by prayer and the 
 
 * * At a town meeting legally warned and holden at Salisbury (by 
 adjournment) on the 30th day of October, A. D. 1795, a vote was 
 called for, (after considerable discussion, and mutual deliberation) to 
 see whether we will give Mr. Timothy M. Cooley a call to settle in 
 this town, in the work of the gospel ministry. Voted, unanimously 
 in the affirmative. Voted, that we will give to the said Mr. Cooley 
 the sum of £200 lawful money, as settlement. Voted, that we will 
 give the said Mr. Cooley the sum of one hundred pounds lawful 
 money, annually, as salary, during the time he shall perform the 
 functions of a gospel minister with us. Voted, that. Captain Milo 
 Lee, Captain Nathaniel Freeman, and John Whittlesey, Esq., be a 
 committee to wait on the said Mr. Cooley, with the doings of the 
 meeting. Asa Hutchinson, Town Clerk. 
 
G U A N V I L I, E JUBILEE. 57 
 
 imposition of the hands of the presbytery, by my 
 then fathers in the ministry, all of whom, with 
 one exception, 1 have long since, one after another, 
 finished their course and gone the way of all the 
 earth. Rev. Joseph Badger led in the introduc- 
 tory prayer. Rev. Charles Backus D. D. preached 
 the sermon. 2 Rev. Aaron Church offered the 
 ordaining prayer. Rev. Joseph Lathrop, D. D., 
 gave the charge. Rev. Bezaleel Howard, D. D. 
 gave the right hand of fellowship, and Rev. 
 Nathaniel Gaylord offered the concluding prayer. 
 
 The parish was small, comprising 877 souls; 
 438 males and 439 females, including many 
 belonging to the Baptist church and society. 
 
 By a generous effort a fund was immediately 
 raised for the support of the gospel. 
 
 Hon. Oliver Phelps made a liberal present of 
 500 dollars, to the Parish; the residue was 
 contributed by Eighty-one persons, each one 
 giving from one hundred pounds down to the 
 widow's mite, according to their several ability ; 
 and thus by a freewill offering, and with great 
 unanimity, they taxed themselves in due propor- 
 tion, for the support of the ministry. The effect 
 was good for many years. 
 
 In the commencement of my ministry, I took 
 this for my motto : ' Feed my lambs.' 
 
 1 Rev. Joseph Badger. 
 
 2 Froin Romans 1, ix. 
 
58 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 For several years, instruction was given to 
 children at appointed seasons, in the intermission 
 on the Sabbath. I find the following record : 
 
 ' Nov. 27, 179S, children were instructed in the 
 Assembly's catechism. Present, 69 males, 69 
 females.' 
 
 It is but too common, at this day, to cast contempt 
 upon this excellent summary of Christian doctrine. 
 I feel no sympathy with this course. I glory in 
 these truths as the foundation of all our hopes, 
 and all our comforts ; and I can cordially recom- 
 mend this catechism to every Christian family. 
 I hail it as an omen of a better day, that the 
 ' Assembly's shorter catechism ' is resuming its 
 place in Sabbath school and family instruction. 
 
 There is a chapter in our history, which my 
 own feelings might prompt me to pass over in 
 silence, but a regard to truth and duty forbid the 
 omission. 
 
 Thanksgiving day, in the primitive days of 
 New England, was a religious festival, most 
 sacredly observed. Later years have perverted 
 the hallowed season to vain mirth, and intemper- 
 ate revelry. In 1797, Thanksgiving ball came 
 on here, and it was a season which had been 
 long and anxiously anticipated ; and there was 
 an unusual assemblage of the young, of all 
 conditions. One heavenly minded father had 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 59 
 
 said to his son at parting: ' You may go, but I 
 shall pray for you all the while.' The sound of 
 the violin and the cheerful faces of all present, 
 enraptured every heart. But the movements of 
 the dance had not continued long, when ' death 
 with his pale horse entered the chamber and hell 
 followed after him/ The chief manager of the 
 ceremonies was attacked with mortal disease 
 and carried out of the assembly. Still, the 
 dance went on ; but a few hasty moments passed 
 before the young man who left home with his 
 pious father's warning sounding in his ear, was 
 attacked in the same manner and carried out in 
 the agonies of remorse, as well as distressing 
 pain. An attempt was made by some of the 
 stout hearted, to stifle the fearful emotions, and 
 proceed, but the amusement was scarcely re- 
 sumed, when a young lady was taken dangerously 
 ill, and carried home. It now seemed like 
 Belshazzar ; s hall when ' a man's hand came forth 
 and wrote upon the plaster of the wall of the 
 King's palace.' 
 
 The most stout hearted sat down, and the 
 music stopped. Said a young lady, a favorite of 
 the company, ' we could dance no longer.' Some 
 proposed singing, but the hand of the Almighty 
 had turned their mirth into the deepest sadness. 
 At breaking up and separating, as if judgment 
 
GO GR A NVILLli JUBILEE. 
 
 still pursued them, one young man fell as he 
 mounted his horse, and had his arm broken. 
 The young man who left home with his father's 
 faithful warning, was carried back the next day, 
 and was met at the door, by his father with a 
 smile of forgiving kindness. 
 
 The young lady was still more dangerously 
 ill. Once and again I was myself called in to 
 see her breathe her last. The person is present 
 here, who commenced making her funeral dress. 
 The chief manager was carried home to die! 
 He survived but ten days, with his mind filled 
 with fearful forebodings, and his body with deadly 
 pain. When told by his anxious mother that he 
 must die, he cried in the agony of deepest 
 despair, 'O mother! mother! don't let me die; 
 I cannot die, I am unprepared.' 
 
 Thus died the gay, the youthful, the reckless 
 John Sweatman, leaving fearful apprehensions, 
 as to what became of his soul. 
 
 The impressions made upon many of the youth 
 at the chamber of mirth, at the death bed, and 
 at the funeral services, never wore off. This 
 was the end of the giddy recreation of the ball 
 chamber, with that entire generation ; and for the 
 greatest part of half a century, the most intelli- 
 gent and pious among us, of all ages, have 
 discountenanced such vanities. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 61 
 
 Early the next year, a revival of religion 
 commenced. Professing Christians were much 
 awakened and breathed out their earnest desires 
 for a revival. Christian parents were very 
 anxious for their children, and many like Simeon, 
 were waiting for c the consolation of Israel.' 
 
 On the second Sabbath in June, a very plain 
 sermon was preached from Ezekiel 37, iii. which 
 was blessed to the awakening of a number of 
 the impenitent. The work of God's Holy Spirit 
 which had been many days concealed, now burst 
 forth. The glorious work spread with surprising 
 rapidity through the place. Few whether old or 
 young remained unaffected. It was evidently 
 the work of God's holy spirit. No extraordinary 
 means or measures were employed, and nearly 
 all the labor was performed by myself, with what 
 aid I could find within my own parish. 
 
 The height of the work was in the midst of the 
 ingathering of harvest, and yet meetings on a week 
 day were crowded and still as the burying ground. 
 
 The doctrines inculcated were substantially 
 those of the great Edwards, and special caution 
 was used to guard the subjects from false and 
 delusive hopes. The work of God's Spirit was 
 remarkably free from enthusiasm and confusion. 
 There were no instances of very great distress 
 or outcries, or enthusiastic rants of joy. 
 6 
 
G2 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 As the happy results of this outpouring of the 
 Holy Spirit, the church, was doubled in numbers. 
 The Bible was more loved and studied. Family 
 prayer revived ; the religious instruction of 
 children promoted ; the sanctuary crowded, and 
 the distinguishing doctrines of the gospel more 
 studied and loved. 
 
 Jan. 3, 1802, the church and congregation 
 with but one dissenting voice, signified by rising, 
 their engagement to promote Home Missions. 
 Timothy Rose was appointed delegate to a con- 
 vention at Northampton to ratify a constitution 
 for the Hampshire Missionary Society. This 
 was for home missions. 
 
 Nor has there been less interest in the cause 
 of Foreign Missions. In June 1815 the church 
 gave their sanction to ' the monthly concert of 
 prayer.' A Female Benevolent Society has been 
 in operation for nearly forty years. 
 
 In 1812, my Bible Class, which has existed 
 thirty-three years, was organized, and enrolled. 
 Terms of admission, recital memoriter of the 
 Assembles shorter catechism and a perusal of the 
 whole Bible in course. On admission, each one 
 received a Bible with this inscription, ' Read the 
 Scriptures daily.' 
 
 A library was furnished comprising the writ- 
 ings of Edwards, Proudfit, Lathrop, Baxter, 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEK. 63 
 
 Silliman, Rollin, and kindred authors. The 
 readers enrolled their names on the blank leaves. 
 
 The Library, long since, was worn, and scat- 
 tered and lost ; but the effects of the books upon 
 the readers were more valuable than their weight 
 in the purest gold. 
 
 In 1816, God was pleased to pour out his spirit, 
 and as many as seventy were hopefully born again, 
 and principally members of the Bible class. 
 
 The time had been when this church was but 
 a remnant, and only a k\v aged persons, with 
 their whitening locks, gathered around the sacra- 
 mental Board, but now as the precious fruits of 
 God's grace, we might see three generations, the 
 aged pilgrim of ninety years, the middle aged, 
 and children of eleven or twelve coming up with us 
 to the Lord's supper. 
 
 On New Year's eve, 1823, the classical school 
 convened to listen to an oration from one of their 
 number by previous appointment. Unexpectedly 
 to the pupils, the closing part of the address was 
 so tenderly impressive that nearly all were in tears, 
 and the inquiry was made with deep impression, 
 What shall I do to be saved ? 
 
 The work spread into the village, and as many 
 as thirty, in the judgment of charity, passed from 
 death unto life. The orator of the evening be- 
 came hopefully pious, and was preparing for the 
 
64 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 ministry, when amidst brightening prospects, he 
 sunk into an untimely grave. 
 
 The members of the Bible class, in remem- 
 brance of the home of their youth, contributed 
 to the dressing of the pulpit, and purchasing the 
 organ. And three of the number have recently 
 sent to the church, communion furniture, with 
 suitable engravings. 
 
 In 1828, the grand era of the Temperance 
 Reformation commenced ; the subject was pre- 
 sented from this pulpit, with unqualified plainness. 
 Soon after, this church appointed a committee to 
 devise means to promote temperance. As the 
 cause was declining, the youth in a single district 
 in 1831, united in a most efficient Temperance 
 Society, holding stated meetings, and sustaining 
 the noble cause by animated and convincing dis- 
 cussions. The Lord smiled upon these juvenile 
 efforts, and poured out his holy spirit upon the 
 Youth's Temperance Society, and as fruits of the 
 revival, one has entered the ministry, and several 
 are officers or pillars in the church. 
 
 Granville has raised up and sent forth into the 
 great harvest field eighteen 1 accredited ministers 
 
 1 Lemuel Haynes, Timothy M. Cooley, Silas Root, Gurdon Hall, 
 Truman Baldwin, John Seward, Harvey Coe, Alvin Coe, Seth M. 
 Leavenworth, Roger C. Hatch, Benson Baldwin, Charles S. Robinson, 
 Joseph J. Foot, D. D. George Foot, Augustus Pomeroy, David B. Coe, 
 John Territt, David L. Coe. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. DO 
 
 of the gospel. They have been working men. 
 Several of them have sunk down and died in their 
 master's service. As far as I know, not a blem- 
 ish rests upon the moral or ministerial character 
 of one of the number. Some of them have taken 
 rank among the first in their profession, for great 
 excellence and moral worth. We have also rais- 
 ed up for the healing art as many as twenty well 
 educated physicians. 1 Some of them stand at 
 the head of their profession ; and all, as far as I 
 know, are men of fair reputation, and fair stand- 
 ing. Six of the ministers and nine physicians, 
 have closed their earthly labors. 
 
 We have dismissed six of our deacons and rec- 
 commended them affectionately to the fellowship 
 of other churches. 
 
 Many of our sons and daughters, the stay of 
 their time worn fathers and mothers, the spirit of 
 adventure has borne far away from us, and dis- 
 persed through the land. 
 
 Some of our lamented sons have sickened and 
 died in the West and the South/ No kind mo- 
 
 1 George W. Sanfbrd, John A. Stiles, Samuel O. Parsons, Lyman 
 N. Baldwin, Henry Pratt, Chauncey B. Fowler, Alfred Belden, Henry 
 K. Spelman, Ruf'us Harvey, Esq., Rowland P. Cooley, Luther Pratt, 
 Vincent Holcombe Esq., John B. Cooley, Zebina Smith, Jesse Smith, 
 Samuel B. Barlow, Phineas R. Cooley, Luther Spelman, William 
 Webster. 
 
 2 Cooley Spelman, William Andrews, Timothy C. Tibbals, Phineas 
 R. Cooley, Henry Hubbard, Elea/.ar Strong, Oliver C. Dickinson, Orion 
 West, Nathaniel C. Marvin. 
 
66 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 ther or father watched their dying pillow. No 
 mourner visits their lonely graves. 
 
 1 Lamented youth ! 
 By foreign hands your dying eyes Were closed, 
 By foreign hands your decent limbs composed, 
 By foreign hands your humble graves adorned, 
 By strangers honored and by strangers mourned.' 
 
 May 29, 1805, a church of twenty-four mem- 
 bers was organized, and deacons chosen accord- 
 ing to gospel order, with reference to founding a 
 colony in the centre of Ohio. 
 
 This was a great loss to us. We could spare 
 our young ministers and young physicians, and 
 even our deacons, and supply their places by 
 others. But when the strength and beauty of the 
 church and parish were demanded, the loss was 
 irreparable. But as the hand of God was in it, 
 we said to them : ' Go and we will pray for you.' 
 
 Early next autumn, amidst prayers and tears 
 and heart breakings, they took leave, expecting 
 that the next meeting would be in our father's 
 kingdom. Like Israel in the desert, no steam- 
 boat nor rail car aided their march. In forty-six 
 days they reached their destined home, an unbro- 
 ken wilderness, and several united in cutting down 
 the first tree. They were 176 in number, 52 of 
 whom were heads of families. Says Rev. Mr. 
 Little, their present pastor, ' The emigrants ac- 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 67 
 
 cording to the commandment, first attended to 
 the things of the kingdom of God. They first 
 organized the church before they set out on their 
 journey. The first business on their arrival was 
 to hear a sermon. The preacher only waited for 
 them to release the cattle from the wagons. 
 
 Theirs* tree cut, on the town plat, was that 
 by which public worship was held on the Sabbath. 
 The first Sabbath, though the 16th of cold No- 
 vember, was honored by a forenoon and afternoon 
 service, under the canopy of heaven. The first 
 cabin built after their arrival was the meeting- 
 house for several succeeding Sabbaths.' Thus 
 they begun right. 
 
 This company left us at the time of our great- 
 est prosperity as a church. We had just enjoyed 
 a season of refreshment from the Lord, in which 
 these beloved brethren shared abundantly. The 
 emigrants had borne the heat and burden of the 
 day, in raising the fund and building this meeting- 
 house. They could carry neither the meeting- 
 house nor the fund with them. They made 
 request for the minister, but in this were denied. 
 The Lord however, sent them a pastor ' after his 
 own heart,' and blessed his labors. 
 
 This lovely daughter of ours, has outgrown 
 the mother church. They number eight hundred 
 and eighty admissions. Says the pastor, Rev. 
 
68 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 Jacob Little : ' I ought perhaps to say, that my 
 people have built mostly by their own means, two 
 Academies, costing $20,000, and have given as 
 much as $10,000 more within a few years, to 
 other benevolent objects.' 
 
 The good name of this lovely daughter of ours 
 has crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and her generous 
 deeds have been celebrated in England and Scot- 
 land. What is infinitely more honorable, ' her 
 prayers and her alms have gone up for a memorial 
 before God ' in heaven. 
 
 We rejoice in her well earned reputation. For 
 my brethren and companions sake, I will say, 
 1 peace be within thee !' 
 
 This town has not been passed by in respect to 
 those heavenly visitations, styled revivals of re- 
 ligion. I have already made allusions to this 
 subject. 
 
 In the past half century, the several congrega- 
 tional churches in Granville have been blessed 
 with as many as twenty, what the great Stoddard 
 called harvest seasons. 
 
 1st, in 1798-9, in East Granville, admissions 51. 
 
 2d, in 1803, in Middle Granville, under Rev. 
 Mr. Baker, 42. 
 
 3d, in 1806, West Granville, Rev. Mr. Harrison, 
 36 ; Gurdon Hall was among the subjects. 
 
 4th, in 1810, East Granville, 15 ; a child twelve 
 years old died in triumph. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 69 
 
 5th, 1815, West Granville, Rev. Mr. Harrison, 
 34. 
 
 6th, 1816, Middle Granville ; a surprising work 
 under Mr. Baker, 60 ; several entered the minis- 
 try. 
 
 7th, 1816-17, East Granville, especially in the 
 Bible class, 61. 
 
 8th, 1823, East Granville, commenced on the 
 evening of New Years day, in connexion with 
 a Literary performance in the classical school, 
 24. 
 
 10th, 1824-5, Middle Granville, Mr. Baker, 12. 
 
 11th, 1826, East Granville 5 limited, 13. 
 
 12th, 1829-30, East Granville, 30. 
 
 13th, 1830-31, East Granville, 18. 
 
 14th, 1830-31, West Granville, Rev. Mr. North- 
 rop, 30. 
 
 15th, 1835, East Granville, 27. 
 
 16th, 1837, Middle Granville, 34. 
 
 17th, 1841, Middle Granville, Rev. Mr. Foote. 
 19. 
 
 18th, 1843, East Granville, limited to the Bible 
 class. 
 
 19th, 1844, West Granville, Rev. Mr. Sander- 
 son, 12. 
 
 20th, 1844, East Granville, 12. 
 
 Our daughter church in Granville, Ohio, has 
 been favored with ten revivals. 
 

 
 
 GRANVILLE 
 
 1st 
 
 occurred 
 
 Harris, 
 
 in 
 
 1808 
 
 2d 
 
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 1818 
 
 3d 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 
 1822 
 
 4th 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 
 1828 
 
 5th 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 
 1831 
 
 6th 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 
 1832 
 
 7th 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 
 1835 
 
 8th 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 
 1837 
 
 9th 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 
 1840 
 
 10th 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 
 1842 
 
 under Rev. Timothy 
 40. 
 21. 
 53. 
 
 84. 
 
 116. 
 
 24. 
 
 28. 
 82. 
 28. 
 44. 
 
 It gives me happiness to add that the Baptist 
 church in this place has been refreshed and 
 enlarged by revivals of religion. And I may 
 add, our Methodist brethren have been blessed 
 with revivals. 
 
 It has been my happiness to have a personal 
 knowledge of the several seasons of revivals, 
 within the bounds of this town. Prayer, and the 
 plain truths of God's word, have been the means 
 which God has owned and blessed. 
 
 The four pulpits in this place, have presented 
 with plainness, the doctrines of grace, keeping 
 back nothing which is profitable. 
 
 In these twenty seasons of God's visitation, 
 there has been neither the fire, nor the earth- 
 quake, nor the strong wind which rent the moun- 
 tains, but ' the still small voice ' which caused 
 Elijah to wrap his face in his mantle. 
 
6 R A H V I L L I JUBILEE. 71 
 
 Seasons of revival have uniformly left our 
 churches in a state of quietude and great harmo- 
 ny, and we cannot but regard them as ' years of 
 the right hand of the Almighty.' 
 
 The number of members in this church, when 
 I took the oversight of it, was fifty-nine. 1 Twenty- 
 four males and thirty-five females. Admission 
 by examination 333. The present number is 
 133 ; 41 males and 92 females. 
 
 The following are the names of those who 
 have been deacons in this church. 
 
 Justus Rose, chosen Feb. 3, 1757, died 1781. 
 Luke Hitchcock, Sept. 20, 1758, died 1775, at 
 New Lebanon, returning from the army. Sam- 
 uel Coe, Nov. 15, 1759. Ephraim Howe, 1791, 
 died march 24, 1806. Isaac Bartlett, April 26, 
 1793, Dec. 26, 1817. William Cooley, April 
 18, 1793, April 14, 1825. Timothy Rose, Jan. 
 3, 1795; moved away. James Coe, Nov. 3, 
 1806, moved away, died Aug. 1845. Festus 
 Spelman, July 1, 1807; moved away, died Oct. 
 11,1818. Oliver Coe, May 18, 1815; moved 
 away; died Jan. 16, 1840. Levi Cooley, April 
 31, 1819 ; moved away. William Seymour, Aug. 
 30, 1832. Leander Strickland, April 17, 1833. 
 Gideon D. Seymour, moved away and deceased. 
 
 1 By :i rule in this church, members from other churches, as well 
 us from the world, have been admitted by examination, till recently. 
 
72 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 On this deeply interesting day, I must bring 
 my thank-offering to the altar. 
 
 Truly God' has shown me his goodness all my 
 past days. If he has given me a cup of deep 
 affliction, it has been mingled with kindness. 
 
 At the age of five years, when my revered 
 father buried two of his children, in a single 
 week, he noticed a burial place for a third, which 
 he expected me soon to occupy. After hope- 
 less weeks, God raised me up, and I have not 
 been confined to my room a day for 68 years. 
 But I must not glory in my health ; it may fail 
 in an hour. Visitations of sickness, deeply 
 distressing, and long protracted, have been felt 
 in my numerous family ; and for six long years, 
 our lamp was never extinguished through the 
 night. Even when death has taken our dear 
 ones in the bloom of their youth, or in the 
 midst of brightening prosperity, we have been 
 cheered with triumphant hopes that our loss was 
 their unspeakable gain. 
 
 In review of my long ministry of half a century, 
 I have reason for deep lamentation. 
 
 In every thing 1 have come short. I have 
 been with you in weakness, in fear, and in much 
 trembling. Through the goodness of God, I 
 have been sustained here. ' I ne'er have changed 
 nor wished to change my place.' I have met 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 73 
 
 you at every communion season, six times in a 
 year, with the exception of four and a half 
 months, when on a mission to the west, and three 
 months on a pastoral visit to our brethren in 
 Granville, Ohio. 
 
 With few exceptions, I have supplied this 
 pulpit on the Sabbath. Five times, I have by 
 previous appointment, performed a visitation of 
 the entire parish, making a record of the name 
 and age of each individual ; conversing and 
 praying with parents and children. 
 
 In addition to weekly and district meetings, 
 for prayer and preaching, I have attended as 
 many as 1400 Bible Class lessons, for the benefit 
 of youth. In seasons of revival, meetings have 
 been multiplied, as the exigency required. 
 
 Besides the supervision of common schools as 
 town committee 48 years, and of the higher 
 Institutions of learning the greatest part of that 
 time; as many as eight hundred pupils have 
 received instruction from my lips, preparatory 
 for college, and for business, sixty of whom have 
 entered the ministry. 
 
 Besides meetings of Association, and County 
 
 Benevolent Societies, I have attended sixty 
 
 ecclesiastical councils. 1 have solemnized two 
 
 hundred and forty-four marriages, attended about 
 
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74 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 five hundred funerals and usually preached a ser- 
 mon on the occasion. 
 
 In these diversified opportunities, to form the 
 undying mind of my fellow beings, I ought to 
 have done much. No work can be more affect- 
 ingly responsible. 
 
 In view of my deficiencies I am filled with 
 shame and blushing. In view of what God has 
 wrought among us, especially in these ten revi- 
 vals of religion, I must exclaim, ' Not unto us, 
 O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give 
 glory for thy mercy and thy truth's sake.' 
 
 The year of my ordination, the burial ground 
 was not broken. So long an armistice with the 
 king of terrors at any other time, has not been 
 known here for ninety years. 
 
 In fifty years, six hundred, nearly three-fourths 
 of the entire population of the parish, have been 
 numbered with the dead. 
 
 In 1812, the spotted fever prevailed, which 
 was fatal in nearly every instance. 
 
 Deaths that year, 26. 
 
 In 1813, putrid fever proved mortal to many in 
 the meridian of life. Deaths, 23. The average 
 number is 12 in a single year. One in twenty 
 have reached the great age of 90 years. 
 
 In comparing the bills of mortality of West- 
 field, Monson, Salisbury, and Granville, I find the 
 
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 following results : In Monson and Salisbury one in 
 67 died annually. In East Granville one in 73, in 
 Westfield, which I always regarded as more 
 sickly than her neighbors, only one in 80. 
 
 What changes have fifty years produced ! 
 How many families have been broken up ! How 
 many streets depopulated! I now preach to a 
 new congregation. I administer the Lord's Sup- 
 per to a new church. It is four years since the 
 last member, resident with us was dismissed to 
 her rest. 
 
 The last message from her sainted lips, was a 
 request, that the next weekly sermon might be at 
 her house. The sermon was there, but it was 
 her funeral sermon. Who of us has not a father, 
 a mother, a husband, a wife, or a child among 
 those 600 graves. Scarcely a house remains in 
 my parish bounds, which I have not visited, when 
 death was at the door, and from which I have 
 not accompanied you in the funeral procession. 
 I am witness how cheerfully, how triumphantly, 
 many of the dear children of God have given up 
 their spirits, and with what fearful forebodings 
 many impenitent mortals have met their final 
 summons. 
 
 In review. How much do we owe to our 
 fathers. They cleared the fields which we cul- 
 tivate. They reared the houses where we dwell. 
 
76 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 (They fought the hard battles of the Indepen- 
 dence.) When they established a fund, laid the 
 foundation for a permanent ministry, without 
 money and without price ; and when they erected 
 this goodly house, how often did the remark 
 fall upon my ear, ■ we are doing all this for 
 our children.' They broke up the fallow ground, 
 scattered the seed, that you might reap the 
 harvest. They were men of plain manners, 
 but noble purpose and generous hearts. I re- 
 member them when with silvery locks they set 
 before me here, from Sabbath to Sabbath. Ven- 
 erable men ! If the spirits of the pious dead 
 ever revisit the places they loved on earth, (and 
 who would repel so pleasing a thought) are they 
 not now with us on a visit of love, viewing their 
 sons and daughters with all the zeal of the ' rapt 
 seraph that adores and burns.' 
 
 Do we owe much to our fathers ? How much 
 more to God ! The same hand which placed the 
 sun to enlighten the natural world, placed his 
 church here, saying, 'ye are the salt of the earth, 
 ye are the light of the world ; out of its bosom 
 have streamed those benefits which have blessed 
 and beautified its population.' Whatever that is 
 pure, and lovely, and of good report within our 
 borders, whatever of intelligence and enterprise 
 which have given us so goodly a standing among 
 
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 our neighbors, and formed the character of those 
 who have gone abroad from us through the land, 
 is to be ascribed to the enlightening, and the 
 hallowing influence of the church and of the 
 Christian religion. Banish from this place the 
 church and the gospel, and the twenty revivals 
 of religion, and this beautiful scenery would be 
 overspread with a pall of darkness and atheism. 
 
 But I must hasten to a conclusion. 
 
 Having reviewed the past, let us pause a mo- 
 ment and look into the dark, unknown future. 
 The past half century has been the most extra- 
 ordinary portion of time, in some respects, since 
 the crucifixion of Christ. 
 
 The half century to come, may be invested 
 with even still greater interest. 
 
 Who will be actors, and what will be the 
 scenes in the next half century ? Who will 
 survive to celebrate the next Jubilee ? These 
 everlasting hills and vales will remain. The 
 brooks will continue to run. The sun, and stars, 
 and moon, will pursue their courses unchanging 
 and unchangeable. The fearful northern lights, 
 the meteoric showers, and perhaps new signs and 
 wonders will be presented to view ; but we shall 
 not be here. The pastors and the churches will 
 have slept the long sleep. Nothing will remain 
 but the tomb stones which record our names. 
 
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 Oh ! may it be written upon them, ♦ these all died 
 
 in the faith.' 
 
 c O glorious hour, O blest abode, 
 I shall be near and like my God !' 
 
 Sons and daughters of Granville, resident and 
 emigrant, God is good in suffering us to meet 
 here to day. Another such day we shall never 
 behold. 
 
 My children, / am glad to see you before I 
 die. To some of you I must say ' It is the last 
 time.' You will hear my voice and ' see my face 
 no more.' This ancient pulpit, mine for more 
 than half a century, if indeed a tasteful genera- 
 tion should refrain from laying rude hands upon 
 the ancient structure, will pass to other hands. 
 
 One word of counsel. Act worthy of your 
 forefathers, worthy of your privileges. Be Chris- 
 tians ! real Christians ! 
 
 Some of you, it is to be feared, are halting 
 between two opinions ; undecided whom to serve ; 
 crying a little more sleep, a little more slumber, 
 a little more folding of the hands to sleep. 
 
 Listen, I beseech you to the voice of a friend 
 and not a flatterer. Every thing is at stake. 
 Eternity, with all its glorious and fearful retribu- 
 tions is suspended upon your present choice. 
 
 The Great God says to each of you, ' My son 
 give me thy heart.' The blessed Redeemer speaks 
 
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 with an inviting voice, ■ come unto me and I will 
 give you rest.' Neglect this, and all is lost. 
 Listen to these reasonable admonitions, and 
 when the last trumpet shall break up these 
 sepulchres, when the earth and the sea shall give 
 up the dead that are in them, you will come to 
 Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon your 
 heads. 
 
ODE, 
 
 ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SETTLEMENT 
 OF REV. T. M. COOLEY. 
 
 BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. 
 
 ' Mid the fair vales that bore him, 
 
 The Patriarch and Friend, 
 Where still serenely o'er him 
 
 The summer branches bend. 
 
 He, long, salvation's story 
 
 With faithful zeal hath told, 
 And to the realms of glory, 
 
 Invited young and old. 
 
 Oh ! gather fondly round him, 
 
 Ye, bright in early bloom, 
 To fill their vacant places, 
 
 Who slumber in the tomb. 
 
 Ye, whose unbroken spirits, 
 
 No toils of time have tried, 
 Give honors to the hoary head, 
 
 And gather near his side. 
 
 While to the God of Heaven, 
 Your thankful prayers ascend, 
 
 Who thus doth to the children spare 
 Their sainted father's friend. 
 
At the close of the morning exercises, it was an- 
 nounced by the President of the Day, that a Dinner was 
 prepared, to which the whole assembly was respectfully 
 invited. 
 
 The Marshals forthwith proceeded to organize this 
 great gathering into a procession, and with the accom- 
 paniment of the Granville Band of Music, they were 
 conducted to the tables in the following order. 
 
 President of the Day. 
 
 Committee of Arrangements. 
 
 Choir of Singers. 
 
 Clergy. 
 
 Emigrants and invited Guests. 
 
 Citizens. 
 
 The tents were erected on a beautiful lawn in the 
 vicinity of the church, on the grounds of Mrs. Root, 
 who kindly proffered the same for the occasion. 
 
 The tables were arranged, and spread, and loaded,by 
 the united efforts of the ladies of East Granville, with 
 their characteristic taste and munificence, and a joyous 
 company of more than 2,000 persons partook of the 
 repast. 
 
AFTERNOON SERVICES. 
 
 At 4 o'clock the congregation re-assembled in the 
 church and participated in the following exercises. 
 
 Sacred Music. 
 
 Prayer by Rev. Mr Robbins. 
 
 Sacred Music. 
 
 Sermon by Rev. Mr. Coe of New York. 
 
 Sacred Music. 
 
The elements being prepared by the officers of the 
 church, for the commemoration of the Lord's Supper, 
 a solemn and affecting address was made to a crowded 
 assembly of communicants, on presentation of the bread 
 by Rev. Mr. Hatch of Warwick, and he was assisted by 
 Rev. Mr. Davis of Westfield, who made the following 
 remarks at the administration of the cup.' 
 
 My Christian Friends : 
 
 We assembled in the morning to listen to an 
 account of the labors of this Servant, and of the 
 scenes through which he has passed. We are 
 now gathered around this table, to commemorate 
 the sufferings and death of the Master. The 
 servant has toiled in the field of his labors, fifty 
 years ; but the Master whom we serve, the great 
 High Priest, ever liveth ; of his years there is 
 no end. 
 
 Fifty years is a long time for a man to preach 
 the gospel, especially in the same place. Only 
 here and there one are indulged with this high 
 privilege. The Pastor of this church, is the fifth 
 clergyman that has ever done it in Hampden 
 County. 
 
 Of the one hundred and twenty-three Pastors 
 that have been ordained and installed as Pastors of 
 churches in this county, Taylor of Westfield, and 
 
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 Baldwin of Palmer, continued their pastoral 
 charge fifty years. Williams, of Longmeadow, 
 and Lathrop of West Springfield, continued in 
 office sixty-six years ; and now we add to this list, 
 Cooley, of Granville. 
 
 But while the preaching of the gospel is com- 
 mitted to frail and dying men, the master we 
 serve, the Saviour, whose death we now com- 
 memorate, liveth forever. 
 
 He maketh intercession for us continually, 
 before the throne of God. 
 
 This cup is an emblem of that blood that was 
 shed for us, and without which there is no 
 remission of sin. 
 
 To this we are indebted for the hopes we 
 cherish of escaping from hell, and of securing 
 a place in heaven. We are here reminded that 
 we are sinners, and entirely destitute of any 
 personal righteousness. 
 
 Jesus Christ by his sufferings and death, hath 
 atoned for sin. We receive him as our atoning 
 Saviour, and with penitence of heart, and with 
 a purpose to reform from sin, we rely upon him. 
 By coming to this table and partaking of these 
 elements, we reaffirm our faith in Christ, and 
 renew our covenant engagements. Let it be 
 seen that we are profited by these communion 
 seasons ; that we are more watchful and more 
 earnest in our efforts to glorify God. 
 
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 It is a solemn consideration, my friends, that 
 we shall never more, together, ' drink of this 
 fruit of the vine until that day ' when we drink 
 it new with Christ in our Father's kingdom. 
 
 At the close of the communion services, the exercises 
 of the day, were concluded by singing Old Hundred by 
 the Choir. The assembly was then called to order by 
 the President. 
 
 Moved by Rev. Dr. Cooley, and seconded by Rev. 
 Mr. Coe, and Voted unanimously, that this Jubilee be 
 adjourned to the last Wednesday in August in the year 
 of our Lord 1895, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at this 
 place. And the President thereupon declared the same 
 adjourned accordingly. 
 
 James Coolev, President. 
 
 John Seymour, Secretary. 
 
At a meeting of the first church of Christ in Gran- 
 ville, Mass. Nov. 2, 1845. 
 
 Moved by James Cooley : That whereas three of the 
 sons of this church, viz. Rev. David B. Coe, Pastor 
 of Allen Street church, New York. Mr. Jesse B. 
 Spelman, and Mr. Joseph J. West, Merchants, New 
 York City, have presented us a complete and elegant 
 set of communion furniture, a reso'ution of thanks be 
 adopted and entered upon our records, and that the 
 same be published in the transactions of the Jubilee. 
 Timothy M. Cooley, Pastor. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 SECOND DAY. 
 
 Thursday, 28«/j August, 1845. 
 
 The Emigrant visitors and young Ladies and Gen- 
 tlemen of Granville, assembled on the green in front of 
 the church at 2 o'clock, P. M., and moved under the 
 escort of the Granville Band to the tent where the en- 
 tertainment of the previous day was prepared. 
 
 The tables were again abundantly furnished by a few 
 of the young gentlemen of East Granville, and a bles- 
 sing having been implored by Rev. Mr. Coe, of New 
 York, about three hundred partook of their bounties. 
 
 At the close of the refreshments and removal of the 
 cloth, James Cooley, Esq., President of the Day, called 
 for addresses and sentiments. 
 
 Rev. Doct. Cooley arose and addressed the assembly 
 as follows : 
 
 Children : 
 
 Granville is a goodly and venerable mother. 
 
 More than a hundred winters have passed over 
 
 her head, and yet she has neither a grey hair 
 
 nor a v/rinkle. She has nourished up a numer- 
 
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 ous family, and counts her children, not by 
 units or tens, but by fifties, by hundreds and by 
 thousands. No mother could be more affection- 
 ate, and few are more faithful and truly pious. 
 She begins with her children in their tenderest 
 childhood, by producing those salutary impres- 
 sions which will tell upon their life for many long 
 years to come, and even far beyond Time's narrow 
 bounds. I can compare her to no one with 
 fitter propriety, than to the time honored mother 
 of John Randolph, of Roanoke. Said this 
 shrewd and illustrious statesman, ' my mother 
 when I was but a little boy, used to put me to 
 bed at night, and taking my little hand into her 
 own soft, warm hand, she would bid me say, 
 Our Father which art in heaven. And it wa3 
 this that saved me from being a French Atheist.* 
 
 Our good and kind mother teaches her chil- 
 dren to pray. And she gives them a Bible, and 
 says to them, ' turn over a leaf in the Bible every 
 day.' 
 
 She teaches them to work as well as to pray. 
 All her daughters are like Solomon's virtuous 
 woman. ' She layeth her hands to the spindle, 
 and her hands hold the distaff.' 
 
 Mother Granville looks well to her sons as 
 well as her daughters, and scorns to have an 
 idler around her. They trudge to school and 
 
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 from school, through storm and winds, and 
 sleet and snow. They are sent to the farm 
 house, the shop, or the counting room, to gather 
 up every scrap of precious time in some handi- 
 craft for future use. She says to them, one and 
 all, 
 
 1 Go to the shop, the plow, the hedge or ditch, 
 
 Some honest calling use, no matter which ; 
 
 Be postman, porter, ply the laboring oar. 
 
 Employment keeps the sheriff from the door. 
 
 She selects some of her sons for a liberal 
 education for the bar, the pulpit and the healing 
 art. Others, daughters as well as sons, she 
 sends to the best institutions for learning the art 
 of teaching, and sends forth her well qualified 
 instructors for the common school, and the 
 high school. 
 
 A goodly number of her sons she keeps at 
 home, to take care of the old homestead, and 
 see that it does not go to decay. But her dwell- 
 ing is too strait for them all, and she scatters 
 them through the land, wherever business or 
 enterprise may invite them. 
 
 When they make their annual visitation, for 
 they are all lovers of home, she welcomes them 
 with joy and festivities ; and on such occasions, 
 she is like Nepthali's ' hind let loose,' l s7iegivet7i 
 goodly words.' 1 
 
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 When the festive days are passed away, they 
 all go back to their toils and cares with a light 
 heart. 
 
 If the dreadful miasma of the West and the 
 South tinges their fair and blushing faces with a 
 sallow and sickly hue, she calls them home and 
 with her infallible cure-all mountain air and 
 rock water, lights up the glow of health, and 
 manly vigor, and sends them back again to their 
 far off homes. 
 
 If her children sicken and die, for who is 
 there that shall not see death ? she calls together 
 her household to mourn and to weep for them. 
 And if she has the cheering evidence that they 
 died Christians, and all was well with the im- 
 mortal part, she wipes away the falling tear, 
 saying, ' It is all well ! The Lord gave, the 
 Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of 
 the Lord !' 
 
 Sons and daughters of Granville, emigrant and 
 resident : ' The Lord bless you and keep you. 
 The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and 
 be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his 
 countenance upon you, and give you peace.' 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 93 
 
 REV. WILLIAM CROWELL, 
 
 OF BOSTON, BEING CALLED UPON, OFFERED THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS. 
 
 Mr. President, and Ladies and Gentlemen of 
 Granville : 
 
 Most unexpectedly did I hear my name an- 
 nounced a few moments ago, as one who was to 
 address you. I did not consider myself worthy 
 of this distinction, for I have not the honor to be 
 one of the children of the venerable mother, 
 whose character and deeds have just been so 
 graphically and so truly described by your excel- 
 lent Pastor. Our parentage and birth-place you 
 know, are among those circumstances of our 
 lives, not left to our choice. Had I been allowed 
 to select a place of my own nativity, I might have 
 chosen Granville, and so have inherited the priv- 
 lege and the honor which you now enjoy, of 
 calling her my mother. But as I could not do 
 that, I have done the next best thing, the best 
 in my power ; I have made her my mother-in-law, 
 and although I have never been adopted into her 
 family, yet two of my children have the honor of 
 calling her mother. So you perceive I have 
 good reasons for feeling a deep interest in every 
 thing which concerns the prosperity and the 
 honor of Granville. She is all that your Pastor 
 
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 has described her, the mother of a numerous, 
 intelligent and useful family. Her children are 
 found in every part of our land, in city and in 
 country, filling and adorning all the walks of 
 professional and private life. And although I did 
 not arrive in season to hear the historical discourse 
 delivered yesterday by one so long and so closely 
 identified with her history, yet I am not ignorant 
 of the noble eminence which Granville has long 
 held among her sister towns, for the attention 
 which she has given to the education of the 
 young, and for the intelligence of her people. 
 For this eminence you are in no small degree 
 indebted to the labors and counsels of your ven- 
 erable Pastor, whom I can never think of, nor 
 mention but with high respect, for his long and 
 faithful services, both as a Christian minister, 
 and as a teacher of youth, under whose watchful 
 care and vigorous instructions, so many of you 
 have been trained up for happiness in this life, 
 and to seek for enduring happiness beyond the 
 grave. 
 
 Let me assure you, therefore, that you all have 
 great cause to be thankful, that you have enjoyed 
 the careful nursing, the faithful counsels, and the 
 healthful training of this venerable mother. 
 Your Pastor has told you that among her virtuous 
 deeds, she has put her children early to bed. 
 
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 This is no small compliment to her maternal 
 faithfulness and wisdom. It is greatly to her 
 praise that she has not left her children, like 
 many in our large towns and cities to run about 
 the streets in the evening. By this means she 
 has given them the healthy, robust frames, the 
 fine forms and blooming cheeks, which I see 
 before me. They have inhaled her pure air, they 
 have bounded up her steep hill sides, they have 
 been nourished by her plain, wholesome fare, till 
 they have become active and strong. She not 
 only puts them early to bed, but teaches them to 
 rise early in the morning. It was once given as 
 a reason why the mountain boys grew so tall, that 
 they had been so long accustomed to stretch 
 themselves up to look over the hills to see whether 
 the sun was about to rise ! This may be the 
 reason why so many of the young men here are 
 head and shoulders above the puny race bred up 
 in our cities. But for this early stretching, I 
 myself, for I also was born and bred upon the 
 mountains, might not have reached over five feet 
 six, thus reducing my stature a full half foot, a 
 diminution which I could ill afford to suffer. 
 
 You are all under great obligations to this 
 mother, for the salutary habits which she has 
 taught you, in short, for your entire physical, 
 intellectual and moral education. And here let 
 
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 me say, especially to the large number of youth 
 present, that a mountain town like this, is the 
 very best place the world affords, in which to 
 receive your early education, in whatever depart- 
 ment of the business of life you are afterwards 
 to be placed. Habits of stirring diligence, 
 energy and perseverance, are best acquired among 
 the scenery and employments which surround us 
 here. You may learn how to conquer sloth, to 
 surmount difficulties, cultivate strength of pur- 
 pose for the struggles of after life, to foster true 
 independence of soul while wielding the hoe, the 
 axe and the scythe. 
 
 Here in the country, are the right difficulties 
 to stir the hearts of the young, and the very best 
 incitements to overcome them. 
 
 The best foundation which can be laid for a 
 good education, that which gives the surest 
 guaranty of success in life, is the will to set 
 about and accomplish a task ; the power to con- 
 fine our unwilling selves to steady application, to 
 energetic, self-denying labor. Here is the place 
 to lay this foundation. If you are to be the 
 architects of your own fortunes, this must be the 
 corner stone. 
 
 If you commence here to act the diligent, the 
 manly, the virtuous, the generous and noble part, 
 you have the best preparation for an honorable 
 
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 part in any other sphere in which you may be 
 called to move. 
 
 Here, surrounded by this beautiful, grand, and 
 ever varying mountain scenery, is the best place 
 to educate the mind. The mind never was, nor 
 ever can be developed and fashioned by books 
 and teachers only. These have an important 
 part, but one far more so is to be performed by 
 companions, by scenery and circumstances. The 
 laboratory of the chemist may unfold to you some 
 of the mysteries of science, but here we are in 
 the wonderful laboratory of nature herself. Here 
 her most curious operations are continually going 
 on, full of the choicest instruction. Here, before 
 your eyes, the tree yearly puts forth its leaves, 
 its blossoms and its fruits. You see these curious 
 changes as they occur. Perhaps you have not 
 valued this privilege as you will, if in future 
 years it shall be your lot to be shut up among the 
 rattling pavements, the brick sidewalks, the high 
 walls, and tiled roofs of a city. We are in dan- 
 ger of forgetting how large a part of our most 
 valuable knowledge was acquired by early watch- 
 ing the operations of nature. Why, children 
 confined entirely to a city would scarcely know 
 whether cucumbers are made by machinery, or 
 eggs and sausages grew on trees, unless the mat- 
 ter were explained to them ! Both come from the 
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 market, but whether they grew by a process of 
 nature, or formed by the contrivances of human 
 art, they of their own observation, could not know. 
 In fact, the process of nature cannot be explained 
 to those who have never witnessed them. They 
 must be seen, investigated and long watched, to 
 be understood. You will pardon my homely 
 illustration, which after all is scarcely an extreme 
 supposition, if it serves to place this point in a 
 clearer light. 
 
 The operations of nature in the successive 
 changes attendant on the seasons, in the laws 
 which regulate the production and decay of 
 animal and vegetable life, form that basis for the 
 successful development of the intellectual powers 
 which nothing else can supply. No person is 
 thoroughly educated, in the best sense of that 
 term, who has not spent much time in the coun- 
 try, and watched with an inquiring mind the 
 wonderful operations of God, who is there in a 
 special sense our Teacher, whose works are 
 great, sought out of all them that have pleasure 
 therein. 
 
 That this, yea that far more than this is true, 
 is manifest, not only from the construction of the 
 natural world, and the adaptation of our minds 
 to receive pleasure and instruction from its study, 
 but the structure of the Bible attests the impor- 
 
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 tance of this truth. The Bible we call the word 
 of God, because the very words in which it is 
 written were chosen by God himself, who inspir- 
 ed the sacred penmen to record them just as they 
 are, for our instruction. The style thereof, and 
 the imagery, the figurative language, the pictures 
 of scenery, are all such as are best adapted to 
 please, to strengthen, to instruct the universal 
 mind of man. They were all selected by Him 
 who created the mind, and who perfectly under- 
 stands its powers. But how full is the Bible of 
 illustrations, figures of speech, and parables, 
 drawn from the scenery and occupations of the 
 country ! The lofty mountain crowned with 
 majestic cedars, the rich valley waving with 
 corn, the green pastures, the ever flowing river, 
 the trees, the flowers, the habits of the gentle 
 sheep, contrasted with the wild goat bounding 
 over its chosen crags, the wild ass snuffing up 
 the wind at his pleasure, and the patient ox, 
 bowing his neck to the yoke. These, with sim- 
 ilar objects and scenes peculiar to the country, 
 form no small part of the matter for illustration 
 with which the scriptures so much abound. Thus 
 the works of God are made to illustrate His word, 
 that man may know it is the highest dignity and 
 happiness of his nature to study them together. 
 If we would fully understand and feel the force 
 
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 and beauty of those illustrations, we must be well 
 acquainted with the scenery of the country. 
 
 Let me urge you, then, to prize highly the 
 place of your birth. Let me remind the youth 
 of Granville that they have a great work to do, 
 to carry on what their sires have so nobly begun. 
 Much has already been done here in the cause 
 of education, but you can do, you ought to do, 
 much more. You ought to have the best schools, 
 which shall send forth the best minds to bless 
 the world. 
 
 May you never tarnish the bright fame of your 
 fathers, now so conspicuously reflected back 
 from that flourishing and famous town in the 
 West, which derived its foundation, its institu- 
 tions, and its name from this. It was but yester- 
 day I heard a Professor of the College in 
 Granville, Ohio, an entire stranger of this place, 
 expressing his deep regret, that he could not 
 find time to make a pilgrimage hither, to pay 
 his respects to this town, as the honored mother 
 of that honored daughter. Your fathers had an 
 honorable name to gain, and they have won it 
 well. You have that name to keep. Let it not 
 fail to go down with increasing lustre, to the 
 latest posterity. Prize highly your native hills, 
 because God has made them a highly favored 
 place for training up men for the realities of life, 
 and the pure bliss of Heaven. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 101 
 
 ADDRESS OF REV. DAVID B. COE, 
 
 I'ASTOR OF ALLEN STREET CHURCH, NEW YORK. 
 
 The festivities of the occasion which has 
 called us together are now drawing to a close. 
 It has been an occasion, as we shall all testify, 
 of peculiar and delightful interest. We who 
 have been wanderers from our native spot, have 
 revisited the scenes of our early days, greeted 
 those who survive of our early friends, and 
 walked amid the graves, and read the memorials 
 there, of those who have finished their earthly 
 course. 
 
 We have listened to the record of God's merci- 
 ful dealings with our venerable, spiritual Father, 
 and the people for whom he has so long labored 
 in the ministry. 
 
 We are now about to separate to our different 
 and distant homes, and our next meeting will be 
 on the final day, and around the throne of Judg- 
 ment. 
 
 But to recount the mercies of God to us, and 
 to the people of our native town, and revive the 
 friendships of our youth amid these familiar 
 scenes, are not the ultimate ends of our assem- 
 bling. 
 
 We must not fail to inquire as we close these 
 
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 exercises, what are the impressions which it 
 becomes us to carry away from this place, and 
 this occasion. And I am sure that none of us 
 can resist the conviction, which all that we have 
 seen, and heard, and felt, has been fitted to pro- 
 duce ; that upon us rests peculiar obligations. 
 
 We are all under high obligations to the place 
 which gave us birth. We have been told that 
 this mother of ours has won an excellent reputa- 
 tion ; that she has brought forth, and nurtured 
 many distinguished sons, and virtuous and useful 
 daughters ; that they are to be found in all parts 
 of our country, and engaged in all departments 
 of useful and honorable enterprise. 
 
 This reputation of our mother Granville, is, to 
 some extent in our keeping, and we are responsible 
 for its preservation. We are the representatives 
 of our native town, in all those communities 
 where we are known ; and let us see to it, that 
 her fair fame is not tarnished in our hands. Let 
 it not be to their disgrace when we boast of our 
 pious puritan ancestry, and of our nurture in the 
 wholesome, moral atmosphere, and bracing air 
 of these granite hills. Let us show the effect of 
 such a paternity, and such a culture by our 
 steadfast adhesion to the pure principles which 
 our fathers taught us, and by our earnest devotion 
 to the cause for which they suffered so many 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 103 
 
 hardships and perils. Then our mother will not 
 blush to own us as her offspring ; and when our 
 children and children's children shall assemble on 
 this spot, in 1895, they will rejoice, as we do now, 
 in the good character of their native town, and in 
 the heritage of a spotless example, bequeathed to 
 them by their fathers. 
 
 We are reminded, by the present occasion, of 
 our great indebtedness to our former Pastor. 
 
 In the multitude of emotions excited by this 
 festival, a prominent one, I am sure, has been 
 that of gratitude to him who was the spiritual 
 guide of our childhood and youth. For we 
 must be sensible that to him, under God, we owe 
 in no small measure, whatever of temporal and 
 spiritual prosperity this community has enjoyed, 
 and whatever of good, we as individuals have 
 been enabled to accomplish in the world. Yet 
 none of us, probably, are fully aware of the 
 extent of this indebtedness. 
 
 We should remember that nearly all of us 
 heard from his lips, those words of truth and life 
 which have been the power of God to our salva- 
 tion ; and if we shall ever be admitted to the 
 mansions of the redeemed above, we shall be 
 stars in his crown of rejoicing. Many of us 
 moreover, are of that eight hundred, whose 
 
104 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 minds were early trained in his study, and under 
 his tuition. 
 
 Others still received our first impulse in the 
 pursuit of knowledge, from the perusal of that 
 precious library which he founded and sustained 
 for so many years. I may testify for one, at 
 least. I shall ever attribute to that source, my 
 earliest thirst for intellectual pursuits; and 
 whatever of happiness to myself and of good to 
 others, has resulted from them, may I, may we 
 all never cease to remember with deep gratitude 
 these beneficent labors of our venerable Pastor. 
 
 And what is the requital that we owe him 1 
 Not our silver and our gold, not our grateful 
 encomiums, even. His language on this subject 
 has ever been, and doubtless still is, ' I have no 
 greater joy than to hear that my children walk in 
 truth.' This joy we can afford him. We ought 
 to do it. It is base ingratitude not to do it. Let 
 us afford him the happiness always to hear, that 
 wherever we go, in whatever sphere of life we 
 may be placed, we are governing our lives by 
 the pure precepts which he has taught us, and 
 are diligently serving our generation and our 
 God. 
 
 Thus will the evening of his days be cheered 
 by the reflection, that in his many spiritual chil- 
 dren he is leaving behind him the savor of a holy 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 105 
 
 influence, which shall linger and be diffused in 
 blessings upon many when he shall rest from his 
 labors. If we would not bring down the grey 
 hairs of our spiritual father with sorrow to the 
 grave ; but in some degree repay the debt we 
 owe him, let us present ourselves as the worthy 
 fruits of his spiritual husbandry in this vineyard 
 of the Lord. 
 
 But we are reminded to-day, of obligations 
 higher than those which we owe to our pastor or 
 to our native place. To whom do we owe it 
 that we breathed the pure air of these New Eng- 
 land hills, and not the malaria of a torrid 
 clime ? To whom do we owe it, that the 
 school house, the library, the sanctuary, and not 
 the bloody forms of pagan worship, were the 
 resorts of our childhood 1 To whom do we owe 
 it, that our spiritual guide was the true messenger 
 of God, pointing us to the narrow path of life, 
 and not the priest of some blinding and fatal 
 superstition 1 In short, to whom do we owe it, 
 that we had our birth and training on one of the 
 fairest and brightest spots of creation, and not 
 amid the darkness and gloom that brood over so 
 much of our earth? 
 
 We owe it to the sovereign pleasure of our 
 heavenly Father, the giver of all those peculiar 
 blessings in which we this day rejoice. They 
 
106 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 all therefore call upon us to render to the author 
 of them the tribute of grateful hearts and holy 
 lives. To that call let us give earnest heed. If 
 we fail to heed it, we fail of the principal lesson, 
 and lose the chief benefit of this occasion. For 
 this is the lesson that has been enforced upon 
 our attention, by all that we have seen, and heard, 
 and enjoyed, since we came together. It is the 
 language of every thing that has reminded us of 
 our high and peculiar privileges. It comes to 
 us from the mansion where we were born, from 
 the green fields where we played in childhood, 
 from the school house where we used to study, 
 from the familiar tones of yonder bell, that used 
 to call us to the house of God, from the graves 
 where our pious fathers sleep. Nay, all the 
 familiar objects which surround us, endeared by 
 so many associations, and reminding us of our 
 goodly heritage, call upon us to render our lives 
 a thank-offering to God. Here then, under the 
 hallowed influence of these scenes, I exhort 
 every son and daughter of Granville, to respond 
 to these claims by new vows of devotion to his 
 cause, and the welfare of our fellow men. Thus 
 shall we realize the appropriate effects of this 
 occasion, and be enabled to cherish the remem- 
 brance of it with pleasure, through our whole 
 lives. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 107 
 
 As we are now on the eve of separation, I 
 cannot but express, in behalf of the returned 
 emigrants, our grateful acknowledgments to our 
 friends, the citizens of Granville, for the ap- 
 pointment of this festival, and for their kind 
 attentions and hospitalities while we have been 
 with them. We separate to-day, like drops 
 issuing from the same cloud, to pursue their 
 separate journeys to the earth. Be it our office, 
 like theirs, to spread verdure and gladness around 
 us, while we stay on earth ; and having fulfilled 
 our mission like them, may we all rise to be 
 re-united in our common home in the skies, 
 
SENTIMENTS. 
 
 By a Visitor. 
 
 Old Granville ! yes, I love thee still, 
 
 Thou art my native home, 
 Thy joy so pure can ne'er be found 
 
 Where'er I rest or roam. 
 
 Though pleasure's path and fortune's smiles 
 
 In other climes seem fair, 
 The brightest of their hopes and joys, 
 
 Can nought with thee compare . 
 
 By Joseph J. West, of New York. 
 
 My friends, and brother emigrants : allow me 
 to propose, 
 
 The memory and prosperity of East Granville, 
 our early home ; its venerable and beloved pastor, 
 our youthful and constant friend ; and its very 
 worthy and esteemed President of this Jubilee, 
 who has been constant and untiring in his efforts 
 to aid and instruct the youth of this our native 
 town, from the time of our early remembrance 
 to the present hour. 
 
 By Oliver C. Dickinson, of Randolph, Ohio. 
 Mr. President : I give as a sentiment — Mother 
 
GUANVILLE JUBILEE. 109 
 
 Granville; your mother, my mother; I congratu- 
 late her in that great good she secured to her family 
 in taking that Elder Son to be the spiritual 
 steward of her house. 
 
 And here, Mr. President, I tender my thanks 
 for that invitation which was extended to me, to 
 return, after an absence of forty years from the 
 maternal domain, to participate in this festival, 
 this jubilee, marking the periodical time in which 
 this son and steward has so long, so faithfully, 
 and so acceptably performed the duties of his 
 important station. 
 
 With ready hearts we respond to your call. 
 We come; we are joyful on this occasion. We 
 are satisfied, because we love our mother; (we 
 love her in her children) because we love to gaze 
 on her hearth-stones, and think of all their asso- 
 ciations ; because there is music in the old 
 Sabbath bell ; because we are pleased to raise 
 our eyes to the same old sanctuary, where we 
 were wont to meet, in years gone by ; because 
 there the same servant of God still speaks the 
 same truths, from the same gospel of Christ, 
 which we were wont to hear in our boyhood ; 
 because your arms are wide open to welcome us. 
 
 Mr. President, our mother has sent forth many 
 sons and daughters through the length and breadth 
 of the land, and by the training of that Elder 
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110 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 Son, a large portion of these have gone out to 
 be blessings in our country. I hope our good 
 mother will scrutinize the moral character of her 
 emigrating children, and not give them a diploma 
 until developments of the right kind are distinctly 
 made. The great Western Valley is a dangerous 
 place for the young to form character. I 
 speak what I know, for certain it is she let me 
 ' slope off' before the right principle was im- 
 planted, or, perhaps I should say, before it 
 germinated ; and if I escaped the ruin to which 
 I was exposed, the ' smell of Jire is upon me.' 
 
 My young brothers and sisters who yet gather 
 around the parental hearth, a word to you. 
 
 When you have finished your moral education, 
 I invite you to come to the great West and do 
 good; but do not come until you have character 
 and decision ; and may your patriarchal, spiritual 
 guide live to train many more for usefulness here 
 and glory hereafter, and be made happy in the 
 prospect that an ever-increasing influence for 
 good will go forth from him, an influence which 
 shall not be stayed when he shall be gathered to 
 his fathers. 
 
 By Timothy C. Cooley, of Indiana. 
 
 The glorious hills of old Granville : as lofty as 
 our aspirations ; steadfast as our affections. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. Ill 
 
 By P. L. Buell. 
 
 The emigrants from Granville, who attend the 
 Jubilee : by their presence with us on this occa- 
 sion, they have manifested strong attachment for 
 the place of their nativity, their relatives and 
 friends, and for him whom many of them own as 
 their spiritual father. 
 
 By John Seymour. 
 
 Our beloved Pastor : as he has long been 
 spared to us, and we trust has been the means of 
 doing much good, may his last days be bright 
 and peaceful as the rays of the setting sun which 
 are now falling upon us. 
 
 By George W. Rose. 
 
 Our Pastor, like the sun, is setting ; he will 
 rise again in glory. 
 
 By Elijah C. Spelman. 
 
 Our Fathers : the glory of the half century, 
 though absent from this body are not forgotten, 
 May we, if like them, not be forgotten in 1895. 
 
 By Jonathan B. Bancroft. 
 
 Our Pastor, the favorite son of mother 
 Granville, our elder brother whom we love. Al- 
 though his sun has past its meridian, long may 
 it shine to guide us in the paths of virtue and 
 
JJ2 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 truth, and to greet the returning emigrant with 
 his cordial welcome and friendly smile so pecu- 
 liar to himself. And when it must set, may it 
 not go down behind the darkened west, but like 
 the day star, before the rising sun, melt away 
 into the light of Heaven. 
 
 By Rufus H. Barlow. 
 
 The emigrants from this place, and their 
 descendants ; may they continue to be an honor 
 to their mother Granville. 
 
 By Andrew Hubbard, of Springfield. 
 
 Mr. President : I am proud of being a son of 
 so large and noble a family as has been exhibited 
 at this Jubilee Festival, and I have taken great 
 pleasure in participating in its joys. And on 
 looking around, I notice what is characteristic on 
 the hills of old Granville, our time honored moth- 
 er ; a very distinctive appearance of health 
 marked on the countenance. And 1 will there- 
 fore give you the following sentiment. 
 
 The rosy cheeks of the fair daughters of this 
 venerable mother : May they ever blossom. 
 
 By Ardon Seymour. 
 
 The people ot East Granville; as they have 
 long enjoyed the labors of their Pastor, may he 
 share largely in their sympathies and affections, 
 now when he is old and grey headed. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 113 
 
 By Horatio N. Case, of Granby, Conn. 
 
 The early settlers of Granville ; they need no 
 monument to perpetuate their fame, for their 
 names are engraved on the hearts of their de- 
 scendants, and they will never forget to drop a 
 tear to their memory. 
 
 By E. Wright. 
 
 The sons and daughters of Granville ; we 
 congratulate them on the occasion of this Jubilee, 
 and whether they go abroad or remain at home to 
 cultivate and beautify the old homestead, may 
 they be ever fanned by the breezes of liberty, 
 respected and loved for all the virtues and graces 
 that adorn the Christian character. 
 
 By John Barlow, of Alabama. 
 
 Our Mothers ; they forgot not us, may we never 
 forget them. 
 
 By Roger S. Moore, of Southwick. 
 
 The late Hon. Isaac Chapman Bates; one of 
 Granville's most distinguished sons. Honest in 
 every trust, indefatigable in every duty. 
 
 By Vincent Holcombe, Esq. 
 
 Old Granville; may her sons and daughters, 
 now scattered through every state and territory 
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114 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 of this wide spread republic, remember, that it 
 was among the rocks and rivulets of these cloud 
 cap'd hills, that they received their first lesson in 
 industry, morality, virtue and religion. May 
 they teach them to their children, and may their 
 children's children acknowledge it with gratitude 
 at the approaching Jubilee in 1895. 
 
 By a Guest. 
 
 Moral knowledge ; the balance wheel of our 
 comforts here, and our hopes hereafter. 
 
 By William F. Eno, of Springfield. 
 
 The fair ladies of Granville, the fairest of the 
 fair ; may their fare be our fare, and our fare the 
 best of fare. 
 
 By Festus S. Barlow, of Southwick. 
 
 The sons of Granville; may we ever cultivate 
 sentiments as pure and benevolent as those of her 
 fair daughters. 
 
 By Jesse B. Spelman, of New York. 
 
 The Ladies of Granville ; like their ancestor 
 mothers, pure in principle, kind hearted, benevo- 
 lent, and worthy to be called, ' Mothers in Israel.' 
 
 By Ebenezer Roberts, of Hartford. 
 
 Granville ; as her adopted son, I venerate her. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 115 
 
 By Benjamin Adams 
 
 May the memory of this Jubilee be perpetual- 
 
 By James Cooley. 
 
 The Emigrants from Granville ; a noble prog- 
 eny, worthy of their ancestry, and worthy of 
 their country ; a blessing upon those that are 
 present, a kind remembrance of those that are 
 absent. 
 
 By Edwin A. Cooley, of Attica, N. Y. 
 
 Old Granville ; ' Remember thee ? Ay, while 
 memory holds a seat in this distracted globe.' 
 
 By Samuel M. Cooley, of New Orleans. 
 
 Our goodly mothers; they have rocked our 
 cradles, and we will rock theirs. 
 
 
116 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 By Benjamin Adams. 
 
 Mr. President: I consider this an important 
 era in the history of this, my native town ; a 
 season of great interest to me, and to us all. 
 
 Although I have been somewhat a wanderer 
 from the fold of this mother, I trust I have not 
 wholly disregarded her counsels, nor forgotten 
 her precepts ; and I return with renewed affection 
 to the home of my childhood, and the household 
 of my friends. 
 
 It is with no ordinary emotion of satisfaction 
 and happiness, that I meet this great concourse 
 of kindred and friends on this occasion. And to 
 cherish in our hearts a permanent remembrance 
 of the scenes of this interesting day, I move a 
 resolution that a Monument of Marble be erected 
 on, or near this spot, with suitable inscriptions, 
 in commemoration of this half century Festival. 
 
 Voted unanimously, that the above resolution 
 be adopted. 
 
GRANVII.I.F, JUBILEE. 
 
 HYMN. 
 
 SUNG BY THE ASSEMBLY. 
 
 Our Country ! ' tis of thee, 
 Sweet land of liberty, 
 
 Of thee we sing ; 
 Land where our fathers died, 
 Land of the pilgrims' pride, 
 From every mountain's side, 
 
 Let greetings ring. 
 
 Our native Country ! thee, 
 Land of the noble free, 
 
 Thy name we cheer ; 
 We love thy rocks and rills, 
 Thy woods and rugged hills ; 
 Our heart with rapture thrills 
 
 While we are here. 
 
 Let music swell the breeze, 
 And ring from all the trees 
 
 The festive sound ; 
 This is our Jubilee, 
 Our friends once more we see, 
 
 Joy smiles around. 
 
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118 GRANVILLE JUBILEE 
 
 CLOSING OF THE JUBILEE. 
 
 The day was now spent, and the sun hiding 
 his rich, mellow beams beyond the mountains of 
 the west, admonished this gladsome group of 
 heart-felt friends and kindred, that the last hour 
 of social greetings had elapsed, and the time of 
 parting had arrived. The sighs of separation 
 now mingled with the joys of meeting. Now 
 came the closing scene of the drama, the strong 
 heart beatings, the lingering look, the parting 
 hand, the last salutations of love ; and the ad- 
 vancing twilight shrouded the emotions of the 
 parting farewell. 
 
 FAREWELL. 
 
 4 And now as soon we sever, 
 Each to his weary way, 
 From memory's tablet, never, 
 Shall pass this joyful day. 
 
 And may the lesson taught us 
 In days and hours gone by, 
 
 By faithful hearts deep cherished, 
 Lead to a home on high.' 
 
By Rufus H. Barlow. 
 
 Mr. President : As the festivities of the occasion are 
 now closed, I move that this Jubilee be adjourned to 
 the last Thursday of August, 1895, at three o'clock in 
 the afternoon, at this place. 
 
 Voted unanimously. 
 
 James Cooley, President. 
 George W. Rose, Secretary. 
 
 THE END. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM THE SPRINGFIELD GAZETTE. 
 
 BY WILLIAM STOWE. 
 
 THE GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 ' Wednesday last, August 27th, was celebrated 
 by the sons and daughters of Granville, as a day 
 of Jubilee, commemorative of the fiftieth year of 
 the labors of Rev. Timothy Mather Cooley, D. 
 D., as pastor of the Congregational Church in 
 East Granville. The concourse of people on the 
 occasion was very great, filling the village church 
 to overflowing. Among them were not a few 
 who had gone out in times past, to various and 
 distant parts of the Union, who had now returned 
 to render their tribute of filial reverence and 
 gratitude to the beloved pastor of their youth, 
 and to interchange familiar greetings once more 
 with the friends and neighbors of earlier days, 
 around the patriarchal hearth stone. 
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122 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 The exercises at the church, commenced at 
 10 o'clock, and were introduced by Invocation, 
 and reading the 90th Psalm, by Rev. Roger Har- 
 rison of Tolland, who in conclusion, addressed 
 a few remarks to the congregation and to Doct. 
 Cooley. 
 
 The exercises of the morning closed about 
 one o'clock, when the multitude repaired to a 
 neighboring lot, where tables were spread with 
 an abundance of refreshments. 
 
 In the afternoon the church was again crowded, 
 and an interesting sermon was preached by Rev. 
 David Benton Coe, a son of Granville, and pastor 
 of Allen Street Presbyterian Church in New 
 York. The Lord's Supper was then administered 
 by Rev. Mr. Davis of Westfield, and Rev. Mr t 
 Hatch of Warwick. A beautiful set of two 
 silver tankards and eight goblets for the commu- 
 nion services, presented to the church by three 
 sons of Granville, (David B. Coe, Jesse B. Spel- 
 man, and Joseph J. West,) was upon the table, 
 and the gift was acknowledged in appropriate 
 terms by the venerable pastor. 
 
 On Thursday, many of the sons and daughters 
 remaining, a pic-nic party of some three or four 
 hundred persons assembled in the field which 
 they had occupied the previous day, and spent 
 several hours in happy social intercourse. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 1'23 
 
 Every thing passed off in the most happy 
 manner, and the recollection of the Granville 
 Jubilee, will be hallowed in the memory of her 
 sons for many years to come. 
 
 Great praise is due to the Committee of 
 Arrangements, for their successful exertions, and 
 although it was found impossible to provide seats 
 in the church, which will hold at most but twelve 
 or fifteen hundred, for all who were present, no 
 one was disposed to complain because the com- 
 mittee had not performed impossibilities in the 
 amplitude of their arrangements. 
 
 [From the New York Observer.] 
 
 THE GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 Never since the creation, probably, have the 
 hills of Granville, Mass., witnessed so lively a 
 scene, as on the morning of August 27, 1845. 
 
 It was the day appointed for the celebration of 
 the 50th anniversary of the Installation of Rev. 
 T. M. Cooley, D. D., as pastor of the church 
 and society in that place. He was born, bred, 
 and for fifty years has labored with great accept- 
 ance and success in this parish, and still performs 
 without assistance his arduous pastoral duties. 
 A half century having elapsed since his ondina- 
 tion. 
 
YZ\ GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 A circular was issued, inviting all the emigrants 
 from Granville, to return and celebrate this 
 anniversary with appropriate festivities. 
 
 At an early hour, almost the entire population 
 of the place, with multitudes from the neighboring 
 towns assembled at the Congregational Church. 
 
 The house was densely crowded in every part, 
 and hundreds gathered around the windows, de- 
 termined to be car witnesses, at least, of the novel 
 exercises. 
 
 The morning exercises were closed with prayer 
 by Rev. Mr. Hinsdale, of Blandford. The assem- 
 bly then formed a procession, and repaired to an 
 adjoining field, where a bountiful entertainment 
 had been provided by the citizens. The designed 
 informality of the exercises rendered it doubly re- 
 freshing. It afforded an opportunity to those who 
 had been separated in childhood, to meet and re- 
 vive amid those familiar scenes, the recollection of 
 their early friendships. Of the 800 whom the 
 venerable pastor had instructed in his study, many 
 had returned after many years of absence, to greet 
 once more their beloved instructor and spiritual 
 father. Several who went forth forty years ago, 
 to plant a church and colony in the wilderness of 
 Ohio, were first revisiting the home of their 
 childhood. Very few of the generation whom 
 they left behind them, now survived. It was 
 
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 affecting to see these grey headed men, who as 
 they looked in vain in each other's time worn 
 faces, for the features which were so familiar in 
 childhood, such a conflict of sad and joyful emo- 
 tions are rarely excited by a single occasion. 
 
 On the following day the citizens and emigrants 
 assembled by invitation, and partook of a colla- 
 tion on the shaded lawn where the entertainment 
 of the previous day was prepared. Addresses 
 were delivered by Rev. Doct. Cooley, Rev. Mr. 
 Crowell, and Rev. Mr. Coe, of New York. 
 Sentiments were offered expressive of veneration 
 for the fathers and mothers of Granville ; of 
 affection for the venerable Pastor, and of grati- 
 tude to the citizens, whose kind hospitality had 
 contributed so much to the interest of the occa- 
 sion. 
 
 II 
 
NAMES OF THE NATIVE EMIGRANTS FROM 
 EAST GRANVILLE, NOW LIVING. 
 
 David B. Coe, JYeio York. 
 George N. Bates, Granville, JY. Y. 
 Samuel M. Cocley, New Orleans, La. 
 Sherman Bacon, St. Louis, Mo. 
 Oliver C. Dickinson, Randolph, Ohio. 
 Benjamin F. Bancroft, Granville, N. Y. 
 Timothy C. Cooley, Metamora, la. 
 Edwin Foote, Granville, JY. Y. 
 Julia A. Foote, " " 
 
 Enoch Drake, Freedom, Ohio. 
 Isaac A. Cooley, Belleville, JY. J. 
 Roger S. Moore, Southwick, Mass. 
 Sarah A. Moore, " " 
 
 Silas Winchell, Granville, Ohio. 
 Martin Buell, Washington, D. C. 
 Walter Dickinson, Randoljih, Ohio. 
 William B. Cooley, Pittsfield, Mass. 
 Mary S. Cooley, « " 
 
 Junius H. Hatch, Detroit, Mich. 
 Ebenezer Roberts, Hartford, Conn. 
 Sarah E. Roberts, " " 
 
 Joseph J. West, JYew York. 
 John Barlow, Alabama. 
 Caroline Bates, Rochester, JY. Y. 
 Stephen N. Wright, Mishawaha, la. 
 
128 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 Almira Wright, Mishawaka, la. 
 Richard Griffing, Wisconsin. 
 Juliett Griffing, " 
 
 Edwin A. Cooley, Attica, JY. Y. 
 Timothy S. Gibbons, Westchester, JY. Y. 
 Anson R. Taylor, Westmoreland, JY. Y. 
 Henry Bacon, St. Louis, Mo. 
 Patrick H. Boise, Providence, R. I. 
 Watson Cooley, Illinois. 
 Mary B. Snyder, " 
 Cynthia Parsons, Detroit, Mich. 
 Edmund M. King, Tariffville, Conn. 
 Ralsamon L. Spelman, Albany. 
 John A. Skiff, Windham, Ohio. 
 Eliza Skiff, " « 
 
 Clarilla Spelman, Pittsjield, Mass. 
 Francis H. Cooley, Illinois. 
 
 Moore, Freedom, Ohio. 
 Sybil Moore, « " 
 
 Frederick L. Cooley, Jacksonville, III. 
 Warren Gillett, Pennsylvania. 
 William Chickley, Jr. Southwick. 
 Horace K. Cooley. 
 Mary Ward, Charlestown. 
 Mary A. Dean, Brownhclm, Ohio. 
 Lucy Mead, Elkhart, Lid. 
 William C. Thrall, Mishawaka, Ind. 
 Cotton M. Thrall, Eden, Ohio. 
 Susan E. Seymour, Springfield, Mass. 
 George Cooley, Attica, JY. Y. 
 Elizur Marvin, Fairport, Ohio. 
 Susan Goodrich, Brownhelm, Ohio. 
 Timothy L. Thrall, Granville, Ohio. 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. I 3J ' 
 
 Curtiss Hoavi\ (Iruirrille, Ohio. 
 Sophia E. Seymour, Springfield, Mas 
 Laura Parsons, " u 
 
 Jane Drake, Westfield, Mass. 
 Edwin Harvey, Providence, R. I. 
 Jeremiah Munson, New Orleans, La. 
 Jerusha Munson, Cleveland, Ohio. 
 Edwin Wright, Granville, Ohio. 
 Cotton M. Thrall, Berkshire, Ohio. 
 Alexander Thrall, " " 
 
 Curtiss Howe, Granville, Ohio. 
 Helen Rose, Alexander, Ohio. 
 Jonathan Whitne} 7 , Montville, Ohio. 
 Seth Whitney, » " 
 
 Victs Whitney, « « 
 
 Francis Tinker, Columhus, Ohio. 
 Samuel M. Rose, Burlington, Ohio. 
 Spencer Spelman, Newark, Ohio. 
 Thomas Spelman, Alexander, Ohio. 
 Sylvester Spelman, Granville, Ohio. 
 William Bancroft, " " 
 
 Solon Spelman, Westfield, Mass. 
 Oscar Spelman, Springfield, Mass. 
 Charles Bancroft, " " 
 
 Julietta Cooley, Attica, N. Y. 
 Buell Spelman, Akron, Ohio. 
 Jane Porter, Ncio Orleans, La. 
 Ohel Spelman, Akron, Ohio, 
 George W. Sanford, Tariffville, Ct. 
 Randolph Sizer, Ottowa. 
 Miranda Sizer, " 
 
 Laura Goodwin, Cullinsville, Conn. 
 Richard Cornwell, Hartford, Conn. 
 
130 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 Calista A. Corn well, Hartford, Conn. 
 Luman Cooley, Philadelphia. 
 Jerome B. Granger, Southxoick, Mass. 
 James Ingraham, Hartford, Conn. 
 Clarissa R. Ingraham, " " 
 
 Enoch S. Bancroft, Wcstfield, Mass. 
 Horatio Wells, In. Prairie, Iowa. 
 Ely Strong, Springfield, Mass. 
 Ardon A. Seymour, Tariffville, Conn. 
 Harvey Seymour, " " 
 
 Augustus Collins, Granby, Conn. 
 Silas Rose, Springfield, Mass. 
 John P. Parsons, Rochester, N. Y. 
 Andrew J. Marvin, Southwick, Mass. 
 Marytta Parsons, Hartford, Conn. 
 Marshfield Parsons, Rochester, N. Y. 
 William Tinker, Buenos Ayres, S. A. 
 Levi Bancroft, Westfield, Mass. 
 Joseph Parsons, Rochester, N. Y. 
 William N. Marvin, Rockville, III. 
 Walter Rose, Buffalo, JV. Y. 
 William Jewell, Rochester, N. Y. 
 Emily Jewell, " « 
 
 Samuel Gould, " « 
 
 Caroline Gould, " " 
 
 Gideon D. Seymour, Randolph, Ohio. 
 Chauncey Rose, Suffield, Conn. 
 Augustus Ward, Farmington, Conn. 
 Augustus Williams, Brooklyn, JV*. Y. 
 Absalom Williams, Neto York. 
 Loring Lane, Hartford, Ct. 
 Harvey B. Spelman, Akron, Ohio. 
 Asa N. Seymour, " " 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 131 
 
 William Wells, Philadelphia. 
 Caroline Tibbals, Newark, JY. J. 
 James R. Hodge, Suffield, Conn. 
 William Ward, Wcstville, Conn. 
 Hosea Cooley, Granville, Ohio. 
 Frederic Curtiss, New York. 
 John B. Cooley, Burlington, Ohio. 
 William H. Cooley, » " 
 
 Samuel Barlow, Rochester, JY. Y. 
 Otis H. Cooley, Springfield, Mass. 
 Otis Hubbard, Kalamazoo, Mich. 
 Grove Cooley, Attica, JY. Y. 
 Jacob S. Root, Granby, Ct. 
 Bela Collins, Fond du lac, Wis. 
 Lambert V. Elliot, Penn Yan, JY. Y. 
 Sarah S. Elliot, " " 
 
 Cotton M. Cooley, Windsor, Conn. 
 William F. Eno, Springfield, Mass. 
 John L. Holmes, " " 
 
 Clarissa Bancroft, Hartford, Conn. 
 Rosamund Harvey, Tallahassee, Flor. 
 Cephas Strickland, Mica, JY. Y. 
 Horace Ames, Amherst, Mass. 
 William H. Ames, " " 
 
 Hubbard Bartlett, Lee, Mass. 
 Sophia Bartlett, " " 
 Samuel Bancroft, Granville, Ohio. 
 Tirzah Chandler, Westfield, Mass. 
 William Crowell, Boston, Mass. 
 Nancy Crowell, " " 
 
 Matthew L. Coe, Randolph, Ohio. 
 William Jones, Boston, Mass. 
 Sophia Jones, " " 
 
GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 Levi Rose, Granville, Ohio. 
 William J. Tibbals, Hartford, Ohio. 
 J. W. Graham, Canton, Ct. 
 Pamela Graham, " " 
 
 Elijah Bates, Westjield, Mass. 
 Heaton Granger, Southwick, Mass. 
 Amanda Granger, " " 
 
 Lincoln Tibbals, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 Orsamus L. Drake, Freedom, Ohio. 
 Gerard Bancroft, Granville, Ohio. 
 Festus S. Barlow, Southicick, Mass. 
 Jesse B. Spelman, JVeio York. 
 Eliza C. Spelman, » " 
 Francis Boise, Westjield, Mass. 
 Ellen Barr, " " 
 
 William Ward, Ncio Haven, Conn. 
 Henry B. Gibbons, Flushing, N. Y. 
 James Spelman, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 Orrin D. Ranney, Maumee, Ohio. 
 Timothy Hoag, Lee, Mass. 
 Polly Hoag, " " 
 
 Elizabeth Lloyd, Westjield, Mass. 
 John Ames, Tallahassee, Flor. 
 Chancey Adams, Collinsville, Conn. 
 Andrew Hubbard, Springfield, Mass. 
 Almira Hubbard, " « 
 
 William Barlow, Alabama. 
 Timothy Ranney, Maumee, Ohio. 
 Timothy W. Gibbons, Franklin, N. Y. 
 Ruby S. Gibbons, « " 
 
 Walter Rose, Buffalo, JV. Y. 
 Ezra M. Parsons, Rochester, N. Y. 
 Timothy S. Gibbons, Westchester, JV. F. 
 
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 James Coe, Rootstoum, Ohio. 
 Alpheus Gibbons, Railway, N. J. 
 Madison Root, Greenville, III. 
 James M. Root, Fall River, Mass. 
 Samuel B. Barlow, New York. 
 George Cooley, Milicaukie, Wis. 
 Cephas Buttles, Winnebago, Iowa. 
 Richard Cornwell, Hartford, Conn. 
 Calista A. Cornwell, " " 
 
 Rowland P. Cooley, Benson, Vt. 
 Mila S. Cooley, " » 
 
 Aurelius Dickinson, Claremont, N. II. 
 Samuel L. M. Barlow, Neio York. 
 Ralph Brown, Utica, N. Y. 
 Jacob Bancroft, Collinsville, Ct. 
 Cynthia Granger, Prairie clu Chicn, Wis. 
 William Bancroft, Castile, N. Y. 
 John Seymour, Wcstfield, Mass. 
 James Thrall, Bennington, Ohio. 
 Alexander Thrall, Berkshire, Ohio, 
 Thomas Cooley, Attica^ Neio York. 
 Daniel Cooley, Attica, New York. 
 Marcia Parsons, Springfield, Mass. 
 Horace Root, Wcstfield, Mass. 
 Mary Root, " " 
 
 Anson Clark, Waterloo, Neio York 
 Watson Cooley, Illinois. 
 Frederic L. Cooley, Vandalia, III. 
 Horace K. Cooley, Frecport, III. 
 Mary B. Snider, Maysville, III. 
 Charles Cooley, Canandaigua, N. Y. 
 Edwin White, Winchester, Conn. 
 Henry J. Wright, Canton, " 
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134 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 Martin^S. Tinker, Bolivia, Ohio. 
 John Rowell, Pittsfield, " 
 Isaac Gibbons, Dalton, Mass. 
 Benjamin Gibbons, Russell, JV. Y. 
 Orla Gibbons, Fitz William, JV. Y. 
 Roger U. Hatch, Warwick, Mass. 
 Bronson K. Hatch, Monroe, Mich. 
 Lyman W. Cowdery, Hartland, Conn. 
 Maryett Cowdery, " " 
 
 Augustin Munson, Granville, Ohio 
 Lyman Root, Painesville, Ohio. 
 Margarett Root, « " 
 
 Hiram Rose, Granville, Ohio. 
 Matthew L. Root, Fairport, Ohio. 
 Emily Root, " " 
 
 Edwin Rose, Buffalo, JV. Y. 
 Ralzamon, Spelman, Albany JV. Y. 
 Harmon Graves, Ashtabula, Ohio. 
 Roland Ives, Ives* Grove, Wis. 
 Benjamin R. Spelman, Albany, JV. F. 
 Jasper Marvin, Lima, JV. Y. 
 Persis Marvin, " " 
 Arba Lambson, Ann Arbor, Mich. 
 Ralzamon Church, Painesville, Ohio. 
 Silas Noble, Springfield, Mass. 
 Josephus Rose, Gencseo, JV. Y. 
 Joseph Lambson, Moscow, JV. Y. 
 Lemuel J. Bancroft, Castile, JV. Y. 
 Rolla Spelman, Rochester, JV. Y. 
 Thomas Gillett, Springfield, Mass. 
 Jarvis Gillett, Springfield, Mass. 
 William Harvey, Providence, R. I. 
 Alvin Holcomb, Colesvillc, JV. Y. 
 
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 Horace Holcomb, Colesville,JY. Y. 
 Alvin Holcombe, Jr. " " 
 
 Lewis Holcombe, " '* 
 
 Julia M. Watrons, « " 
 
 Jerome B. Granger, Southwick, Mass. 
 William M. Holcomb, Rrooldyn, HI. 
 Marytta Rice, Springfield, Mass. 
 Eliza Parsons, " " 
 
 Milton Hayes, Granby, Conn. 
 Elvira Hayes, " " 
 
 Rebecca P. Boise, Westfield, Mass. 
 Germanicus Cooley, Columbus, Ohio. 
 Frederick Parsons, Sjningfield, Mass. 
 Lee Rowley, Granville, Ohio. 
 Lucinda Watkins, Rutland, Vt. 
 Phineas Rowley, Gaines, JV. Y. 
 Roswell Rowley, New York. 
 Lurena Whitney, Huntsburgh, Ohio. 
 Harriet Rhoads, Montville, Ohio. 
 Philemon Cooley, Lochport, JV. Y. 
 Collins Seymour, Svffield, Ct. 
 Anson Clark, XJtica, JV. Y. 
 Warham Miller, Woodstock, Vt. 
 Friend Northway, Attica, JV. Y. 
 Daniel Webster, Lodi, Ohio. 
 Oliver Bancroft, Marcellus, JV. Y. 
 Dan Stow, Ohio. 
 
NAMES OF THE REPRESENTATIVES TO THE 
 GENERAL COURT FROM GRANVILLE. 
 
 1775, Timothy Robinson, Nathan Barlow. 
 
 1776, None chosen. 
 
 1777, Timothy Robinson, Nathan Barlow. 
 1773, None chosen. 
 
 1779, Oliver Phelps, Timothy Robinson. 
 
 1780, Oliver Phelps, Josiah Harvey. 
 
 1781, Timothy Robinson. 
 
 1782, None chosen. 
 
 1783, Timothy Robinson. 
 
 1784, None chosen. 
 
 1785, Timothy Robinson. 
 
 1786, William Cooley. 
 
 1787, Timothy Robinson, Titus Fowler. 
 
 1788, Samuel Thrall, John Hamilton. 
 
 1789, Clark Cooley. 
 
 1790, Timothy Robinson, James Hamilton. 
 
 1791, Thomas Burbank, James Hamilton. 
 
 1792, Timothy Robinson. 
 3793, Timothy Robinson. 
 
 1794, David Robinson, Titus Fowler. 
 
 1795, Enoch Bancroft, David Robinson, 
 
 1796, None chosen. 
 
 1797, David Robinson, Ezra Marvin. 
 
 1798, Ezra Marvin, Jacob Bates. 
 
 1799, John Phelps, James Hamilton. 
 
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138 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 
 
 1800, Israel Parsons, David Robinson. 
 
 1801, Israel Parsons, Thomas Hamilton. 
 
 1802, Israel Parsons, John Phelps. 
 
 1803, Israel Parsons, Titus Fowler. 
 
 1804, Israel Parsons, John Phelps. 
 
 1805, Israel Parsons, John Phelps. 
 
 1806, Abraham Granger. 
 
 1807, Enoch Bancroft, Abraham Granger. 
 
 1808, Israel Parsons, John Phelps. 
 
 1809, Israel Parsons, John Phelps. 
 
 1810, Israel Parsons, William Twining. 
 
 1811, None chosen. 
 
 1812, Asa Seymour, John Phelps. 
 
 1813, Israel Parsons, David Curtiss. 
 
 1814, James Barlow, David Curtiss. 
 
 1815, James Cooley, David Curtiss. 
 
 1816, James Cooley, Perry Babcock. 
 
 1817, James Cooley, Perry Babcock. 
 
 1818, James Cooley, Reuben Hills. 
 
 1819, James Cooley, Reuben Hills. 
 
 1820, James Barlow, Francis Stebbins. 
 
 1821, Joel Root. 
 
 1822, Francis Stebbins. 
 
 1823, Joel Root. 
 
 1824, Francis Stebbins. 
 
 1825, James Cooley. 
 
 1826, Hezekiah Robinson. 
 
 1827, Jonathan B. Bancroft. 
 
 1828, Patrick Boise. 
 
 1829, James Cooley. 
 
 1830, Patrick Boise. 
 
 1831, Jonathan B. Bancroft. 
 
 1832, Elijah Seymour, Noah Cooley. 
 
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 1833, Samuel Root, Denison Parsons. 
 
 1834, Elijah Seymour, Noah Cooley 
 
 1835, Alpheus Bancroft, Denison Parsons, 
 
 1836, Elijah Seymour, Levi Parsons. 
 
 1837, Elijah Seymour. 
 
 1838, Francis Peebles. 
 
 1839, Samuel Root. 
 
 1840, Aaron L. Curtiss. 
 
 1841, James Root. 
 
 1842, William C. Dunham. 
 
 1843, Henry Clark. 
 
 Hon. Patrick Boise, Executive Counsellor, 1832. 
 Hon. Patrick Boise, Senator, 1833. 
 
 Hon. Patrick Boise, Senator, 1834. 
 
 Hon. Isaac Chapman Bates, U. S. Senator, 1840. 
 
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