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Manual o/Westfield 
 Congregational Church 
 
 Formerly known as the 
 First Church of Killingly 
 
 Danielson, Connecticut 
 
 1715-1905 
 
 S. Sherbeme Mathews, D.D., Minister 
 
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 FRANK WOOD, PRINTER 
 
 BOSTON 
 
preface 
 
 The publication of this Manual is paid for out of a small 
 sum of money placed in the pastor's hands by one of the boys 
 of the parish, the late Mr. Chas. L. Tiffany, of New York, " to 
 be used for the dear old church in any way which you may 
 think best." This is in addition to the $3,000 conditionally 
 given for the Parish House, and kept intact for that purpose, 
 of which full record is made elsewhere. Hence it seems fit- 
 ting that Mr. Tiffany's picture should appear herein. 
 
 This is believed to be the sixth manual ever published by our 
 church. The date of the first is unknown ; the second was 
 I)ublished in 1846, during the pastorate of Dr. Rice ; the third 
 in 1802, during Mr. Davenport's ministry; while the fourth 
 and fifth bear upon their title pages the date of 1877 and 
 1890 respectively. 
 
 In October, 1901, our church appointed a committee of eight 
 "to co-operate with the pastor in the preparation of a new 
 church manual." Early in 1904 at the pastor's request two 
 others were added. The committee as now constituted is as 
 follows : Deacons Wm. Henry Chollar, Geo. B. Guild, Simeon 
 Danielson, Messrs. Edward Dexter, Penuel Sprague, P. B. Sib- 
 ley, Hon. Harry E. Back, Mrs. Marcus Wood, Miss Sarah M. 
 Burlingame, and Mrs. Mathews-Richardson. 
 
 As the old and now famous church of Gainsborough, Eng- 
 land, lost its historic consciousness so that for perhaps a cen- 
 tury or more it thought of itself as only an obscure struggling 
 church, not realizing that it was the oldest Congregational 
 church in England, and that the Pilgrim Fathers had gone forth 
 to Amsterdam and Ley den and Plymouth, Mass., from its 
 membership, and in later years has come to appreciate the 
 
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richness of its heritage, so careful and prolonged investigation 
 seems bringing a new historic consciousness to many in our 
 own midst. 
 
 Nov. 10, 1904, the Manual Committee made its report to the 
 church thru a subcommittee of three. The church then in- 
 structed the undersigned subcommittee to proceed at once with 
 the publication of the new Manual. 
 
 A larger amount of work than would at first seem possible 
 has been involved in the way of research in the preparation of 
 this little volume. Much has been done by nearly every mem- 
 ber of the Committee, and many instructive and interesting 
 evenings have been spent together as a committee. While the 
 compiler acknowledges gratefully the large amount of sympa- 
 thy and ready help he has had from the Committee, he thinks 
 it only proper to say that he is himself alone responsible for 
 the Historical Statement, although the church kindly listened 
 upon two successive evenings to the reading of it, and then 
 voted its publication. 
 
 It was the compiler's intention to print the list of about five 
 hundred or more infants baptized in the early years of the 
 church — between 1710 and 1757; and also to prepare a brief 
 chapter upon the exceedingly interesting and illuminating 
 religious history of the church, as it comes to view in the 
 various covenants — not creeds — of the church; but on the whole 
 it seems best to leave these and similar matters to be treated 
 in connection with the bicentennial of Mr. Fisk's coming in 
 1710, or of the formal organization of the church in 1715. 
 
 It will be noted that the By-Laws, Covenant, etc., are simply 
 an adaptation of the Manual prepared and commended by the 
 National Council of Congregational Churches, and have been 
 adopted for the sake of coming into closer harmony and fellow- 
 ship with our denomination as a whole. 
 
 Earnestly commending a careful and prayerful study of this 
 Manual to every member of our church, and praying that as a 
 church we may be true to our noble and gracious history, we 
 are, 
 
 S. S. Mathews. 
 Harry E. Back. 
 George B. Guild. 
 
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S. Shekberne Mathews, D.D. 
 
Contents 
 
 Page 
 
 Preface iii, iv 
 
 Table of Contents v 
 
 Bibliography vi, vii 
 
 Historical Statement 1-48 
 
 Other Churches of Killingly 49-51 
 
 Some Missionary Children of the Church . . . 52-54 
 
 The Trust Funds of the Church 55, 56 
 
 Forms for Bequests 57 
 
 By-Laws 58-67 
 
 Order of Procedure at Annual Meeting ... 65 
 
 Burial Hill Declaration of Faith 68, 69 
 
 National Council Creed of 1895 69-71 
 
 Form for Reception of Members 72-75 
 
 Form for Infant Baptism 76, 77 
 
 Order of Morning Worship 78 
 
 Table of Ministers facing 79 
 
 The Diaconate 79-81 
 
 Superintendents of Sunday Schools . . . . 82, 83 
 
 Lists of Early Members 84-97 
 
 Chronological List of Members since the Reorgan- 
 ization 98-142 
 
 Present Members 143-151 
 
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Bibliography 
 
 Among the authorities used in the preparation of the follow- 
 ing Historical Statement are : — 
 
 ''A Book of Church Records, The Gift of J. F. (John Fisk) 
 to the Church of Kellingly, March the 1st, 1715." 
 
 ''Records of Church at Breakneck Hill." Found in West 
 Torrington, Litchfield Co., Conn., and presented to the town of 
 Killingly by Rev. Wm. S. Hutchins, of Indian Orchard, Mass., 
 April 27, 1897. 
 
 The Records of the West Society in Killingly. 
 
 The Records of the Westfield Congregational Church. 
 
 Four Manuals of our Church. 
 
 Articles of Faith and Covenant of tlie Congregational 
 Cburcli in West^Killingly, Conn. As Revised and Adopted 
 in 1845. West Killingly: Edwin B. Carter, Printer. 1846. 
 
 Articles of Faith and Covenant of the Westfield Church, 
 West Killingly, Conn., with a List of Members, March 1, 
 1862. Danielsonville: Printed at the Transcript Office. 1S62. 
 
 Articles of Faith and Covenant of the Westfield Church, 
 West Killingly, Conn., with a List of Members, January 
 1,1877. Danielsonville: Transci'ipt Print. 1877. 
 
 Articles of Faith and Covenant of the Westfield Church 
 (Danielsonville), West Killingly, Conn., with a List of 
 Members, November 15, 1890. Boston : T. R. Marvm & Son, 
 Church Printers, 73 Federal Street. 1890. 
 
 Sermon preached by "Priest" Whitmore, Thanksgiving Day 
 
 1841. (MS.) 
 Semi-Centennial Sermon preached by Dr. Rice, 1851. (MS.) 
 Historical Sermon preached by Rev. Wm. H. Beard, long 
 
 pastor of Congregational Church in South Killingly. 
 
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History of Windham County. By Ellen D. Larned. 2 vols. 
 Published by the author, 1874. 
 
 The Clmrclies of Windham County. A series of valuable 
 papers published in the Congregational Quarterly. 
 
 The Ecclesiastical History of Connecticut. 
 
 History of the Congregationallsts. By Prof. Williston 
 Walker. Chas. Scribner's Sons. 
 
 History of American Christianity. By Pvev. Leonard W. 
 Bacon, D.D. Chas. Scribner's Sons. 
 
 The Keligious Forces of America. By H. K. Carroll, LL.D. 
 Chas. Scribner's Sons. 
 
 Narrative and Critical History of America. By Justin Win- 
 sor. 8 vols. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1878. 
 
 History of the United States. By George Bancroft. 6 vols. 
 D. Appleton & Co., 1885. 
 
 Monograph, "Sketches." By Isaac T. Hutchins. Tran- 
 script Office, Danielson, Conn., 1878. 
 
 Multitudinous conversations with the late Mrs. L. A. Weld, 
 daughter of Rev. Roswell Whitmore, and with other aged 
 members of our church. 
 
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It is not vnth us as loith men u'hom small things can dis- 
 courage^ or small discontentments cause to vnsh themselves at 
 
 home again. 
 
 Wm. Brewstee. 
 
 Rietorical Statetncnt 
 
 Elsewhere * the writer of this Statement has called attention 
 to the fact that the first white settlement of what afterwards 
 became the town of Killingly — of which the present beautiful 
 borough of Danielson is still a part — was by a number of Eng- 
 lish families shortly before the year 1700 — about a year before 
 Yale College was organized at Saybrook, and about four years 
 before the first permanent Boston newspaper was published, 
 The Boston Neins Letter^ in a town then having some seven 
 thousand inhabitants. 
 
 In her History of Windham County — which, despite a few 
 errors, and the utter lack of any proper index, is still a pains- 
 taking and almost invaluable work for the student of the his- 
 tory of Windham County — Miss Ellen Larned says that "the 
 first white settler of the town was Richard Evans, who came 
 in 1693 and who bought for £20 the two-hundred-acre grant of 
 (one who will be recognized as an ancestor of a famous Amer- 
 ican banker) the late Rev. James Pierpont, of New Haven," 
 the father of Mrs. President Edwards and one of the founders 
 of Yale College. This piece of land "was laid out about east 
 of the Quinebaug, three miles from Woodstock (New Roxbury), 
 and just south of" that survey which was long supposed to 
 mark the boundary between Massachusetts and Connecticut 
 known as "Woodward and Saffery's line." Mr. Evans was 
 
 *See the Centennial volume published by Parish House Associa- 
 tion, 1903. 
 
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soon joined by Peter Aspinwall and several other settlers, who 
 came with their families. In an unpublished sermon of real 
 historic value preached on Thanksgiving day, November, 1841, 
 "Priest" Roswell Whitmore, one of the most gifted pastors 
 which this or any church in Windham County has had, states 
 that '■'■ the first white child born in the town was John Leavens, 
 who served as town clerk for many years." The date of his 
 birth is not given. 
 
 The site of the town was deeded June 18, 1700, to James and 
 Jabez Corbin, by James Fitch of Norwich, and is described as 
 " on the east side of a river commonly called Quinebaug, and 
 bounded by the wilderness." The town received incorpora- 
 tion from the General Assembly of Connecticut at Hartford in 
 1708 — a year ecclesiastically memorable as promulgating the 
 famous Saybrook Platform — and four years after the incor- 
 poration of the town of Boston, Mass. The boundaries of 
 the new town were to be : on the north the Massachusetts 
 line ; on the east the Rhode Island line ; on the south the town 
 of Plainfield, and on the west the Quinebaug River. As thus 
 bounded it included an area about twenty-one by four or six 
 miles. All the families thus far mentioned settled in the more 
 northerly part of the district which was to constitute the 
 town, — a district which was years later to be reduced by tak- 
 ing from it what is now Thompson (set off as a parish in 1728, 
 organized as a town in 1785), and much of the present town of 
 Putnam. 
 
 Up to this time this entire region was, of course, the abode 
 of the Red Man. Dr. Thomas O. Rice, in his semi-centennial 
 sermon, preached August 26, 1851, fifty years after the Reor- 
 ganization of the church in Westfield, says : — 
 
 The two tribes that claimed this region were the Mohegans and 
 the Nipmucks. 
 
 That 
 
 The feet of John Eliot, the Roxbury apostle to the Indians (have) 
 trod upon our soil. 
 
 And that 
 
 The widow of Deacon Joseph Gay of Thompson, formerly Anna 
 Spaulding of South Killingly, who recently died at an advanced age, 
 
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said that when she was a child, about the year 1770, she heard Samp- 
 son Occum preach in Mr. Knight's meeting house (at South Killingly) 
 to the white people. 
 
 The first white man actually to settle within the limits of 
 the present town of Killingly was Mr. James Danielson, of 
 Block Island, who, passing through the region during the In- 
 dian war, was so charmed with the beautiful "neck of land " 
 between the Quinebaug and Assawaga Rivers that in 1707 he 
 purchased it of Major James Fitch, of Xorwich, for £170. Here 
 his descendants still live. 
 
 At the very incorporation of the tovrn, in accordance with 
 the invariable custom of those early Xew England settlers, 
 provision was made for the stated worship of Almighty God. 
 The original Act of Incorporation, May, 1708, as quoted by 
 Miss Larned, Vol. I, page 164, says : — 
 
 This Assembly grants a township . . . Always provided. That no 
 person now inhabiting on said land, or any other persons dwelling 
 without this colony who have pui'chased any lands within the said 
 township, that shall not give due obedience to all the laws of this 
 colony for the upholding the worship of God and paying of all public 
 charges, shall have no benefit by this act. . . . And this Assembly de- 
 sires the Honorable Governor to commissionate Lieutenant Aspin- 
 wall, or some other suitable person, to train and command the 
 soldiers in the said township, and to give a name to the said town, 
 and also appoint the figure of a brand for their horses. It is also 
 desired that the Honorable Governoi-, Major Fitch, and Mr. Richard 
 Christophers, or any two of them, shall give advice and direction for 
 the calling and settling of a minister in the said town as need shall 
 require. 
 
 Notwithstanding these early provisions for public worship, 
 it naturally took a little time before a church of their own 
 could be established. During the early years these sturdy 
 men, with their devout families, were accustomed to drive to 
 Plainfield, Woodstock ("New Roxbury"), etc., for Lord's Day 
 worship, but in October, 1710, the General Court, convened in 
 Xew Haven, granted their petition to lay 
 
 A tax of fifteen shillings on every one hundred acres of all divided 
 lands throughout said town for the building a meetinghouse, a minis- 
 ter's house, and for settling a minister. 
 
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Hereupon a call was extended to John Fisk, A.M., of Brain- 
 tree, Mass., a graduate of Harvard College in the Class of 1702, 
 and a son of the Rev. Moses Fisk, pastor of the old Congrega- 
 tional Church of Braintree, Mass., which long afterwards was 
 to have as its minister the late Rev. Richard Salter Storrs, 
 D.D., and later as his associate that eloquent preacher and 
 famous Edwardean scholar, the late Prof. Edwards A. Park, 
 D.D., LL.D., of Andover Theological Seminary; and still later 
 the distinguished son of the church, the late Rev. Dr. R. S. 
 Storrs, Jr., D.D., LL.D. Thus, 
 
 The Fikst Minister in Killingly was the 
 Rev. John Fisk, A.M. 
 
 Upon the arrival of Mr. Fisk, which would seem to have been 
 in the fall of 1710 (or possibly early in 1711), he began to hold 
 religious services in different parts of the town, apparently in 
 private houses. Inasmuch as, being unordained, he was not at 
 liberty to administer either of the two sacraments, we find that 
 neighboring ministers were accustomed to come occasionally 
 to Killingly to baptize and conduct the communion service 
 thru several following years, until the ordination of the new 
 minister. The earliest record of such a visit is one which states 
 that Mr. Estabrook of Canterbury was present September 9, 
 1711, to administer the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and to 
 baptize three children. In the permanently valuable sermon 
 already referred to. Dr. Rice states that in 1711 the town voted 
 to give its new minister three hundred and fifty acres of land 
 "for his encouragement" to become their settled pastor. 
 Miss Lamed makes a similar statement and says that it was 
 then that 
 
 James Leavens and Sampson Howe were appointed a committee 
 to lay out this; Eleazar Bateman and Ephraim Warren to survey it. 
 Two hundred acres were laid out to him on Fi-ench River, beyond the 
 bounds of Killingly as it afterwards proved. Seventy-five acres for 
 the homestead were selected on the eastern slope of Killingly Hill, 
 and seventy-five on Assawaga or Five Mile River. 
 
 Mr. Whitmore, who antedated Miss Larned by a large frac- 
 tion of a century, and who was some forty years before Dr. 
 
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Rice, and who should have known whereof he affirms, states 
 that July 16, 1711, 
 
 The proprietors and inhabitants gi'anted 350 acres as a parsonage, 
 and Dec. 10, following, they voted it all to Mr. Fiske, so that in all he 
 had live hundred and thirty acres. 
 
 As to the salary paid to this first minister of Killingly little 
 further seems to be known. The plot of one hundred acres of 
 land given by Captain Chandler to the first settled minister of 
 Killingly, 
 
 Which land, by the ordering of Divine Providence, appertains to 
 John Fiske, 
 
 was laid out to him in 1721, 
 
 West of Five- Mile River, a half mile east of the meetinghouse, 
 
 and was presumably included in the five hundred and thirty 
 acres referred to by Mr. Whitmore. 
 
 Four years later (1714) a meetinghouse was raised and cov- 
 ered about a third of a mile south of the present meeting- 
 house at Putnam Heights. Priest Whitmore, in the sermon 
 already referred to, says that this first meetinghouse "■ stood 
 on the east side of the road ... on land now (1841) owned by 
 Benjamin Mathews, and after the sills had been placed on their 
 foundation every male person over twenty-one in the whole 
 town seated themselves around on the sills, and they just filled 
 up the sills." He then adds the interesting item that " the 
 house was of small dimensions." The following summer (1715) 
 it was made ready for occupancy, and preparations were made 
 for the formal organization of a church. The fifteenth day of 
 September, 1715, was observed as a day of solemn fasting and 
 prayer, that they might have the best preparation for the 
 gathering of the new church and ordination of a minister. 
 
 A most interesting but much worn book bound in vellum, 
 now in the keeping of Mr. Charles Torry of Putnam Heights — 
 with many leaves loose and some missing — bears the following 
 inscription: "A Book of Church Records, The Gift of J. F. 
 (John Fisk) to the Church of KeUingly, March the 1st, 1715." 
 
 The first entry in this book after the fly leaf inscription is as 
 follows ; — 
 
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Kellingly, Sept. 15, 1715. This day was observed in this place as a 
 day of Solemn Fasting and Prayer to Humble our Selves before God 
 for our many and Great offences and to Implore the Gracious Pres- 
 ence -with us in Gathering a Church here and in the ordination of a 
 Pastor over us. The Reverend Mr. Estabrook of Canterbury carried 
 on the Service A : M : and Preached from Heb. 12, 28, and the Revd. Mr. 
 D wight of Woodstock performed the service P. M. and Preached from 
 Cant. 8, 8. 
 
 As bearing upon their sense of the seriousness of the work 
 of organizing a new church of Christ — as also illustrative of 
 the red tape of the times — it is interesting to picture Messrs. 
 Peter Aspinwall and Simon Bryant taking the long journey 
 to Hartford, immediately following this day of fasting and 
 prayer, that there they might present to the General Assembly 
 on behalf of " a company of communicants or inhabitants of 
 the town of Killingly " the following petition: — 
 
 It having pleased Almighty God in his merciful providence to 
 bring his own work so far forward among us, notwithstanding the 
 many and great difficulties we have met in forming our new planta- 
 tion, as to unite our hearts in the choice of the Reverend John 
 Fisk to be the minister of this town— of whose accomplishments 
 for the evangelical service we have had experience for a con- 
 siderable season to our great satisfaction, and with whom 
 we have agreed for a settlement in the ministry among us. 
 And as there appears among us a competent number of persons 
 to form themselves into a particular church of Christ, that we 
 may have the aforesaid gentleman installed into the pastoral office 
 over us, and the blessed institutions of Christ dispensed to us, and 
 also being informed of our duty and obligation established by law to 
 endeavor the countenance of the Government over us that the com- 
 municants here may coalesce into a church estate and fellowship— we, 
 therefore, your humble petitioners, affectionately pray this Great and 
 General Court in their great wisdom and extensive benignity to exert 
 their authoi'ity for our benefit as the law directs, by passing an act 
 that the brethren in full communion among us may enjoy the leave 
 and approbation of this Honorable Assembly for embodying into 
 church estate, that so a gospel candlestick may be erected in the fields 
 of the wood, with a burning and shining light flxt in it, to the glorj^ 
 of our ascended Lord, and for the comfort and edification of ourselves 
 and latest posterity— which good work we have been appointed 
 (God's gracious providence permitting) to accomplish very speedily. 
 
 A little more than a month later, having in the meanwhile 
 received through their messenger, Lieut. Peter Aspinwall, 
 
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special permission from the General Court for " the communi- 
 cants to coalesce into a church estate and fellowship," on the 
 nineteenth day of October (1715) a church of eleven members 
 was publicly gathered in Killingly, and John Fisk, A.M., or- 
 dained its minister. 
 
 The second entry in the old book, whose records for the first 
 thirty years are in Mr. Fisk's clear and precise handwriting, 
 reads : — 
 
 Kellingly, Oct. 19, 1715. This Day was Publickly Gathered a Church 
 in this place, and J. Fisk, A.M., was Ordained the Pastor of it. The 
 Reverend Mr. Dwight of Woodstock Opened the Service with Prayer. 
 The Reverend Mr, Baxter Preached from Rom. 1, 16, For I am not 
 ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for It is the Power of God unto Sal- 
 vation to Every one that Belie veth. The Reverend Mr. Thatcher of 
 Milton Gave tlie Chax'ge and made the Preceding and Subsequent 
 Prayer, and the Reverend Mr, Estabrook of Canterbury Gave the Right 
 Hand of Fellowship. Part of a Psalm was Sung, and the assembly 
 Dismissed with Pronouncing the Blessing. J. F. 
 
 The next entry is headed : — 
 
 An Account of their Names who were by a Council (on Oct. 19, 1715) 
 of Pastors and Messengers: Embodyed into Church Estate in the 
 Town of Kellingly, viz., John Fisk, Pastor Elect, James Danielson, 
 Eliezar Bateman, Peter Aspinwall, Richard Blosse, George Blanchard, 
 Isaac Jewitt, James Levins, Thomas Gould, Stephen Grover, and 
 Sampson How. Eleven in number. 
 
 Of these original members Messrs. Danielson, Aspinwall, 
 Leavens, and Howe came by letter from the church in Wood- 
 stock, Conn. ; the following six persons from different Massachu- 
 setts churches, — Mr. Bateman from Woburn, Mr. Blosse from 
 West Watertown, Mr. Blanchard from Lexington, Mr. Jewett 
 from Rowley ; while Messrs. Thomas and Stephen Grover were 
 "admitted by the council," that is, upon confession of their 
 faith. 
 
 According to this entry there would seem to have been only 
 eleven men and no women who '•'■ coalesced " or " embodyed into 
 Church Estate." From a table, however, printed on a later 
 page of this manual, it appears that eight ladies (six of them 
 wives of as many of the above men) brought letters from other 
 churches (six of them being recommended in the same letters 
 as their husbands), yet for some reason — etiquette or other 
 
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considerations — were not admitted till the church was organ- 
 ized. Just when these ladies were voted in as members of 
 the church cannot be determined, the records contenting 
 themselves with stating the date of their letters of dismission 
 and recommendation to the new church, though all are dated 
 prior to the organization. 
 
 In addition to the above, Mr. and Mrs. James Willson joined 
 a little later, their letter from the church in Lexington, Mass., 
 being dated December 27, 1715. 
 
 Abundant evidence exists that the life and ministry of Mr. 
 Fisk in Killingly were of exceptional ability and value. 
 
 It would seem that during his pastorate of nearly twenty-six 
 years from his installation, about 352 persons were added to 
 membership, or an average of about 13^ a year. Thus upon 
 his dismissal in 1741 from his nearly thirty years' pastorate 
 Mr. Fisk left a church with a membership of more than two 
 hundred.* 
 
 Students of heredity will be interested to note that, accord- 
 ing to Dr. Rice, our first minister was "the grandson of the 
 Rev. John Fisk, of Wenham, Mass., and later of Chelmsford, 
 a native of England, and a man of great wealth, who came to 
 this country in middle life, and according to the custom of the 
 time studied two professions, medicine and theology, and be- 
 came eminent in both" ; and that his (our Mr. Fisk'sJ father 
 was the author of a catechism entitled, The Olive Branch 
 Watered. Dr. Rice quotes the Rev. Increase Mather, of Bos- 
 ton, as saying: "Among the sorest afflictions to which he 
 
 * Miss Larned and one or two other authors state that the member- 
 ship of the church when Mr. Fisk left it numbered " more than four 
 hundred," and the compiler of this manual quoted the statement 
 upon this authority in his historical sermon in connection with the 
 semi-centennial of the reorganization of the church. Upon further 
 investigation, however, and after a careful study of the original rec- 
 ords of the church in the Kev. John Fisk's own handwriting, he finds 
 himself in doubt as to just what the membership was, but the facts 
 seem clearly not to corroborate this oft-repeated statement quoted by 
 Miss Lamed and others. Dr. Rice says: ''Including those who joined 
 under the halfway covenant about three hundred were added to the church 
 during his (Mr. F.'s) ministry of twenty-six years." 
 
 The church records are now accessible in Mr. Fisk's own handwrit- 
 ing, and as examined by the compiler of this manual, and copied in 
 
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(the Rev. Moses Fisk) was called was the loss of his concord- 
 ance ; that is, his wife, who was so expert in the Scriptures as 
 to render any other concordance unnecessary." 
 
 As one studies the character and work of this first minister 
 of Killingly, his methodical habits, and the constant evidences 
 of the historic spirit appearing in all his work, one is not 
 surprised to find that he was related by a common ancestor — 
 grandfather of our first pastor — to his distinguished namesake, 
 also a graduate of Harvard, whose untimely death in 1901, as 
 litterateur, historian, scientist, philosopher, and teacher of re- 
 ligious truth, was mourned by the whole English speaking 
 world. 
 
 Mr. Fisk married November 26, 1717, Abigail, daughter of Reverend 
 Nehemiah Hobart of Newton, Mass., and sister of Mr. (Rev.j Samuel 
 Estabrook of Cantei-bury. The only incident of his domestic life that 
 has come down to us is the burning of his house and all its contents 
 one Sabbath, when the family were attending public worship. 
 
 In his semi-centennial sermon in 1851 Dr. Rice says that 
 The children of this marriage were five, and some of the descend- 
 ants are now living among us worthy and excellent citizens. 
 
 Strangely enough as it would seem till one remembers that, 
 in accordance with the custom of those early times, Mr. Fisk 
 himself kept the church records, the only allusion which they 
 show from first to last bearing upon the termination of that 
 remarkably efficient ministry is the following : — 
 
 At a Church meeting of the First Church in Kellingly upon July 23, 
 1741— It was then voted by said Church with the Consent of Mr. John 
 Fisk that the Consociation of the County of Windham be called to 
 
 full by a lay member of this manual committee, contain four lists, 
 which together embody all the information which the records contain 
 on this subject. The first of these lists is 
 
 (1) An account of baptisms performed since the gathering of a 
 Church in Kellingly by J. Fisk, Pastor. Both of old, young and Infant 
 persons— here observe that those names which are prefixed with the 
 letter (a) are aged people, and those with {y) are young persons, and 
 those with (7) are Infants and children, and with this mark (*) are 
 since dead. 
 
 In ordinary computations of church membership such a list as this 
 would not be considered as having any value. This list includes 777 
 names, of whom 28 are marked " young," including some married peo- 
 ple and 7 "aged." 
 
meet at this place upon Wednesday, the 5th day of August next at ten 
 of the clock in the forenoon, to hear and consider and determine the 
 differences and difficulties that are between ye said Mr. Fisk and 
 the church arising from several scandalous reports spread abroad 
 concerning him, the said Mr. Fisk. It was then voted that Deacon 
 Bateman sign letters missive to the said Churches in behalf of the 
 brethren. It was then voted that the following brethren be a commit- 
 tee to represent the Church in laying its affairs before the council 
 viz.: Deacon Eleazar Bateman, Mr. Joseph Leavens, Mr. Samuel Dan- 
 ielson, Mr. Ebenezer Knight, and Mr. Gideon Draper, and that these 
 brethren be a committee to provide for the said Council. 
 
 Test: John Fisk, Pastor. 
 
 It is pleasant to have the testimony of an early successor of 
 Mr. Fisk's that the " scandalous reports spread abroad con- 
 cerning" Mr. Fisk in no wise touched his moral character. 
 It is known that he continued to reside as a highly prized 
 member of his old church and parish for many years, that he 
 built himself a pew in the new meetinghouse, and bore his part 
 in all matters of current expenses of the society until his death 
 at an advanced age. Dr. Rice says that 
 
 He died in 1773, having almost attained his ninetietli year. 
 
 He was buried not far from his old meetinghouse, just west 
 of what is now Putnam Heights, where his grave may still 
 be visited. 
 
 Such had been the remarkable growth of '' the First Society 
 of Killingly," despite the members dismissed to constitute the 
 new Thompson Parish a year after the termination of Mr. Fisk's 
 pastorate, and especially so one-sided was the location of the 
 meetinghouse after the north precinct had been formally set 
 
 List (2) is what has been known as the halfway covenant. 
 
 (2) An account of such Persons who have entered into Covenant 
 and renewed ye Baptismall Engagements under ye Pastoral care of 
 J. F. since the first gathering ye Church of Christ in Kellingly. 
 
 This list includes 152 names. 
 
 (3) An account of their names who have been received into full 
 Communion with the Church of Christ in Kellingly by J. F., Pastor of 
 ye C. there. 
 
 Of these there are 201. 
 
 It would seem that lists (2) and (3) must Include all those who by 
 any usual methods of computation could be regarded as within the 
 membership of the church. Yet these give a total of 1524-201=353. If 
 now we add the eleven original (male) members and their seven 
 
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off, that in August, 1742, a committee of the General Court, 
 appointed the previous May, in response to a petition, selected 
 a new site for a larger meetinghouse more geographically cen- 
 tral, even if more inaccessible to many than the old one. The 
 top of a "bare hill belonging to Captain Warren," long known 
 as Breakneck Hill, but referred to in the records of the Gen- 
 eral Court as " Bone Hill," was chosen. Despite sad divisions 
 and many protests within the society this vote of the General 
 Court was complied with, and on March 28, 1744, a new meeting- 
 house was erected, and after much delay, owing to dissensions 
 within the church, was completed and occupied some months 
 later. Mr. Whitmore quaintly says, "and preaching was per- 
 formed." 
 
 But it is painfully apparent that the old church did not get 
 its new location and its new meetinghouse without a contro- 
 versy so serious in its character and issues as that it ought to 
 prove a warning to posterity through all the years. In order 
 to an understanding of this painful controversy one should 
 bear in mind the perplexities and difficulties which always 
 arise in connection with a change of location of a schoolhouse 
 or meetinghouse, and also the spirit of freedom which was 
 even then rapidly growing. After the great revival which 
 swept over Xew England in 1740 and following, a new spirit of 
 independency had appeared in many communities, and in 
 Killingly many had embraced what was known as the Separate 
 teaching. As early as 1734-1735 a group of families, compris- 
 ing in all about a hundred and fifty persons, living in the south 
 
 wives, who brought letters, whose names, strangely enough, do 
 not appear on either of the lists here given, we have a total of 
 35'2'-J-18=370, which would certainly seem to include all who were mem- 
 bers of the church at any time during Mr. Fisk's ministry, either by 
 the "halfway covenant," or in full communion. Some name3 ap- 
 pear on both lists of halfway covenanters who later came to full 
 communion. And this result surprisingly accords (though not ex- 
 actly) with Mr. Whitmore's statement that during Mr. F.'s ministry 
 seven hundred and sixty-three persons were baptized, two hundred 
 and fifty-four being admitted to full communion, and one hundred and 
 forty-eight to the halfway covenant. 
 
 The fourth list, the last in the book in his handwriting, and appar- 
 ently written late in his ministry (an entry on the preceding page be- 
 ing dated 1741, May 8), says :— 
 
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part of the town, had been granted permission by the General 
 Court " to hire an orthodox minister five months of the year, 
 and had been given (temporary) freedom from the ministerial 
 tax " previously paid toward the support of the Rev. Mr. Fisk 
 and the First Society. While this permission was granted by 
 the General Court, ostensibly on account of their long distance 
 from the meetinghouse of the First Society, the fact that these 
 people and their successors organized themselves into a Sepa- 
 rate church as soon as permission could be obtained (in 1746), 
 suggests that they were probably essentially Separates in their 
 sympathies from the beginning. 
 
 Thus what seemed to the brethren of that day "great and 
 irreconcilable religious differences" increased the perplexities 
 of the situation. It was indeed a stormy time, and the issue of 
 the Breakneck Hill controversy seems to have been rendered 
 the more serious and certain by a temporary union between 
 that little band of devoted people in the south part of the town 
 who were adopting the new Separate principles, and a group of 
 anti-Breakneck families who lived near the old meetinghouse 
 close by the Thompson line, and who objected to the remote 
 site selected by the committee from the General Court. 
 
 While it is not necessary to discuss the merits of the various 
 individuals concerned in the Breakneck Hill controversy, the 
 following /acts are worthy of the most careful study and reflec- 
 tion by students of the ecclesiastical history of Killingly, and 
 especially by all who are members of the old church as, in its 
 reorganized form, it continues its interesting history in Daniel- 
 
 (4) Here f ollowetli an acct. of their Names who are either members 
 in Full Communion with the Church in Kellingly hy Reception or 
 Recommendation or doe usuall Partake at the Sacrament with those 
 Here. 
 
 This would seem intended to include all those persons who com- 
 posed the membership of the church as that term is commonly em- 
 ployed now, and possibly a few habitual worshipers beside. This 
 total is 205— those who were or might be habitual communicants then. 
 This is almost exactly half the number of the communicants of our 
 own church and congregation now. 
 
 Thus the only way in which Miss Larned's statement of "over 400 
 members " at any one time could be made to stand, would be to some- 
 how reckon in a lot of the baptized infants as members of the church 
 —a thing which Mr. Fisk carefully omits doing among all his lists. 
 
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son to-day. Several of these facts are quoted from Miss Ellen 
 Lamed' s History of Windham County already referred to. 
 
 On September 13, 1741, a few weeks after the dismissal of 
 Mr. Fisk from his thirty-one year's pastorate (including the five 
 years of his work prior to the formal organization), the First 
 Society of Killingly voted eighty to five in favor of building a 
 new meetinghouse to take the place of the rude structure 
 erected twenty-six years before. Samuel Danielson was ap- 
 pointed to present a petition to the General Assembly, in 
 accordance with the law of the time, asking them to appoint 
 a committee to select a suitable location for the new meeting- 
 house. In response to this petition the General Assembly ap- 
 pointed a committee consisting of the famous Revolutionary 
 patriot, "Brother Jonathan " Trumbull, Jonathan Huntington, 
 and Ebenezer Wales, who selected a site "two rods south of 
 the old meetinghouse." 
 
 The earnest representations of influential men like Samuel 
 Danielson, Capt. Ephraim Warren, Gideon Draper, and Boaz 
 Stearns, that the selected site was only two miles from the 
 northerly end of the society, and eight miles from its southerly 
 end, induced the Assembly to appoint in May, 1742, a second 
 committee, consisting of Messrs. Deacon Eleazar Gary of Wind- 
 ham, Josiah Conant, and Experience Porter. The following 
 August these gentlemen came to Killingly and selected a new 
 site upon "Bone Hill." Adjoining this property Capt. Eph- 
 raim Warren proposed to give a training field, a burying 
 ground, and a quarter of an acre to surround the meeting- 
 house. (This he later did.) 
 
 Hereupon a minority of fifty-one people petitioned the As- 
 sembly not to oblige them to build on Breakneck or "Bone " 
 Hill. In reply to this petition the Assembly voted, 
 
 That the report of the second committee he established, and the 
 Society proceed to build a meetinghouse upon the spot affixed by 
 them. 
 
 At a meeting of the society held November 21, 1743, the 
 question, — 
 
 Whether or no the Society would now proceed to build a meeting- 
 house on said place 
 
 " was negatived." 
 
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But a meeting held December 20th following showed an 
 overwhelming majority in favor of obeying the directions of 
 the Assembly. Mr. Justice Leavens, the leader of the mi- 
 nority (which, as w^e have seen, had grown to fifty-one), Avho 
 had petitioned the Assembly not to send them to Breakneck 
 Hill, was moderator of this meeting ; and finally, when he saw 
 that the vast majority were determined to go against his 
 wishes, declared the meeting adjourned^ and left the house with 
 such as would folloio him ! Hereupon the majority, thus left in 
 possession, earnestly declaring that this meeting had been 
 called for the express purpose of finally settling this long-vexed 
 question, proceeded to choose a new moderator, a new society 
 clerk (Samuel Danielson), a society committee, and voted to 
 build a large meetinghouse on Breakneck Hill, as ordered by 
 the General Assembly. The work went rapidly forward, and 
 March 28, 1744, was set as the "raising " day. 
 
 Miss Larned says (Vol. I, page 337) : — 
 
 A few days previous a meeting was warned by (the ubiquitous) 
 Justice Leavens, to see wliether or not to divide the Society, which 
 resulted in another triumph for the Breakneck party. Boaz Stearns 
 was cliosen moderator. Sixty -three were for dividing and sixty-seven 
 against it. 
 
 At a regular society meeting held Apr. '.},... the Breakneck party 
 were clearly in the ascendency. Boaz Stearns was chosen moderator, 
 Samuel Danielson, Boaz Stearns, Gideon Draper and Joseph Bateman 
 a committee to supply the pulpit. It was then voted, " That the so- 
 ciety was pleased and satisfied with the meetinghouse frame erected 
 on the place prefixt by the Assembly, and Samuel Danielson, Gideon 
 Draper and Joseph Bateman appointed a committee to carry on and 
 finish said house." 
 
 Despite great opposition and apparent trickery on the part of 
 the minority. 
 
 On August 2^11 (1744) a meeting was held, warned by Samuel Dan- 
 ielson, Clerk, which voted to proceed with it (the work on the new 
 house) and levy twelve pence in the pound for that purpose. 
 
 In October (1744) both parties in the church reiterated their 
 grievances to the General Assembly, the majority reporting 
 that they had procured much material in an attempt to carry 
 out the Assembly's instructions, and were being hindered by 
 an obstinate minority. 
 
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A fourth committee was theu appointed— Colonel Huntington, Sim- 
 eon Minor and Captain Joseph Adams— with instructions to consider 
 the premises, and divide the society if they thought best. This com- 
 mittee decided that division was not advisable, and that the new house At 
 Breakneck should he established as the meetinghouse for the whole 
 society. 
 
 And thus it was that after fearful turmoil and the bitterest 
 opposition the old First Church of Killingly finally, by a large 
 majority, voted to 
 
 Proceed joyfully to finish their meetinghouse, call a minister and 
 establish religious services. 
 
 This was in October, 1744. Worship in the new house was 
 begun at once upon the completion of the building, and a min- 
 ister settled either in the fall of 1744 or early in 1745. 
 
 But it soon appeared that the persistent minority which had 
 so long proven a troublesome thorn in the side of the old First 
 Society did not propose to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, 
 even if the General Assembly, by its enactments and com- 
 mittees, and the famous Gov. Roger Walcott, by a personal 
 visit, did command and entreat to that end. 
 
 Little wonder is it then that, after having built the new 
 meetinghouse on Breakneck, on the spot selected by the fourth 
 committee sent out by the General Court, — including Governor 
 Walcott, — and finding that real union seemed impossible, the 
 First Church of Killingly worshiping on Breakneck Hill united, 
 in the interests of peace, with the factions in the north and in 
 the south in petitioning the General Court to divide the parish, 
 and allow the brethren living near the Thompson line to return 
 and worship by themselves near their own homes. The fol- 
 lowing year, 1745, this petition was granted, and in October 
 of the same year a dividing line was agreed upon, from the 
 Quinebaug River to Rhode Island Colony line. 
 
 So as to leave Deacon Eleazer Bateman's dwelling-house ten rods 
 north of said line, and all the inhabitants south of said line shall re- 
 main by themselves a distinct ecclesiastic society, and those who live 
 north side shall be and by thenaselves become a distinct ecclesiastic 
 society; save only and except Thomas Bateman, Nathaniel Brown, 
 Gideon Draper, Jun., Salmon Wheat and other citators, who have lib- 
 erty to join with said south inhabitants, and also John Firman, Deacon 
 
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Daniel Lawrence, Benjamin Barret, and Israel Proctor, who have lib- 
 erty to join said northern inhabitants. Each member to take benefit 
 of school money in proportion to estate. 
 
 Thus far we have seen that certain persons who were dissat- 
 isfied with the new location were given permission to go off 
 and set up worship and organize a new church nearer their 
 own homes. Hence, when a little later these seceding breth- 
 ren — who were to have built a new meetinghouse near the site 
 of the original home of the First Church, but who had returned 
 to the old meetinghouse instead — by apparent strategy secured 
 permission to call themselves the First Society in Killingly, 
 while the church, which, by direction of the General Court, 
 had built its new place of worship on Breakneck Hill, was 
 given the name. The South (or the First and South) Society in 
 Killingly ; naturally great consternation was felt, and earnest 
 protest made by the latter.* This protest, however, came too 
 late, and was all to no purpose. ' ' The Great and General 
 Court" refused to recall the permission already hastily granted, 
 so that in this way the North Killingly Church (now Putnam 
 Heights^ came to have as its legal title. The First (or First and 
 Middle) Society in Killingly ; and the Breakneck Hill Church 
 as its legal title, The South (or First and SouthJ Society in 
 Killingly. 
 
 Thus both churches seem henceforth to have claimed and 
 used the word "First" in their legal title. The records of the 
 church composed of the minority, which returned to what is 
 now Putnam Heights, refer — after the division, not before — to 
 that body as ''The First and Middle Church in Killingly"; 
 
 *Miss Larned, Vol. I., p. 341, well says: " Having with great magna- 
 nimity, for the sake of accommodating and compounding differences, 
 refrained from opposing society division on condition that the meet- 
 inghouse they had built should remain within their limits, they 
 supposed they would remain and be acknowledged as theirs* society 
 in the township, but to their consternation the middle (or Killingly 
 Hill Minority) society claimed that distinction. Once more the south 
 (or Breakneck Hill) settlers repaired in great wrath to the Assembly, 
 declaring that their neighbors ought not to be the first society, nor did 
 the bill entitle them to it, but was so drawn that neither division was 
 denominated, and " praying that they might be and remain the first 
 society, and be called by that name." 
 
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while in the sermon already quoted from, "Priest Wliitmore" 
 says that the Breakneck Hill Church was known as the "First 
 and South Society of Killingly."* 
 
 There is no evidence of any reorganization at that time 
 other than as any church might reorganize for better work 
 after some trying experience, such as a modern summer va- 
 cation or the loss of a considerable number from its member- 
 ship. It was the First Church of Killingly which the General 
 Court had authorized to move to Breakneck Hill, and which 
 by a majority vote had thus moved. And here the whole 
 church seems to have worshiped together as the First Church 
 in Killingly for at least a series of months. Sometime later — 
 in October, 1745 — the General Court divided the parish, and 
 allowed that portion which was dissatisfied with the new 
 location to move back to the old region and to build a new 
 meetinghouse there. 
 
 Though the General Court, by some strange means, had 
 authorized the portion of the church which had decided to 
 worship in the old meetinghouse till a new one could be built, 
 to assume the name. The First (or First and Middle) Society in 
 Killingly, the General Court did not, and of course could not, 
 change the date of the organization of this Breakneck Hill 
 Church, which had occurred exactly thirty years before, Octo- 
 ber 19, 1715. With these facts in mind it is easy to see why 
 the church should have been known for many subsequent years 
 as " The First and South Society in Killingly." t 
 
 It is interesting to note that Priest Whitmore says that the 
 lot of land comprising some three or four acres on Breakneck 
 Hill, given to the First Society by Mr. Eliphalet Warren, was 
 
 *Dr. Rice says that the term "So. Society" or South Parish was 
 commonly applied to the First Church of Killingly to distinguish it 
 from the " Thompson church, which was the North parish." 
 
 t Dr. Rice alludes to the fact that in his day there had been dis- 
 cussion as to whether the church on Breakneck Hill or the one on 
 Killingly Hill was really the First Church of Killingly, as both had 
 claimed the name. He inclined to think that the Killingly Hill Church 
 was entitled to the name, but based his opinions largely upon the fact that 
 the Breakneck Hill records were lost, and that if they could be found they would 
 probably confirm that claim ! In the wondrous providence of God they 
 have since been found (the first ten or twelve years of them) and 
 show just the opposite. 
 
in his day (1841) still owned by the Breakneck Hill Parish, and 
 by them had been let to the town for a term of ninety-nine years. 
 
 We have already seen that the Rev. John Fisk, the first min- 
 ister of the church, was dismissed from his pastorate by 
 council, at his own request, in 1741. It is a most interesting 
 and gratifying circumstance that despite the unhappy feelings 
 incident to the termination of his long and faithful pastorate, 
 and the change of location from ''Old Killingly Hill" to 
 " Breakneck Hill," and the secession the following year of the 
 minority, to set up separate worship by themselves in the old 
 meetinghouse, yet the subsequent relations of the two churches 
 — or of the two parts of the one old First Society in Killingly — 
 seem, when once the division had been accomplished, to have 
 been wholly amicable and cordial. 
 
 The Rev. Nehemiah Barker, pastor of the old church on 
 Breakneck Hill, is recorded as having married the Rev. Mr. 
 Aaron Brown and Mrs. Damaris Howe, iS'ovember 21, 1754, and 
 as having helped examine, ordain and install him as pastor of 
 the neio First Church on Killingly Hill Wednesday, December 
 9th, following. And this delightful intercourse and Christian 
 fellowship seems to have continued through all the succeeding 
 years. 
 
 The First Church of Killingly had for its 
 
 Second Minister the Rev. Nehemiah Barkek. 
 
 The new meetinghouse on Breakneck Hill was erected, as 
 we have seen, in 1744. Mr. Whitmore says, "As soon as the 
 house was in a situation to hold public worship, ' preaching 
 was performed ' in it, and the Rev. Nehemiah Barker received 
 a call and was settled as the minister and pastor of the First 
 Church and Society in 1745, as near as can be ascertained " — 
 being ordained and installed February 26, 1745. He also says that 
 no record of the exact date of Mr. Barker's settlement could 
 be found in his day, the records of the Breakneck Hill Church 
 having been lost, but that it could not have been later than 
 1745^ as the town records show that he performed a wedding 
 ceremony that year. That his ministry continued at least ten 
 years seems evident from the fact that the town records show 
 that he performed another marriage ceremony as late as 1755. 
 
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It is an interesting circumstance that a portion of these rec- 
 ords were discovered several years ago — after they had been 
 missing for a century or so — in the attic of a family in West 
 Torrington, Conn., and in 1897 were presented to the town of 
 Killingly by the Rev. William S. Hutchins of Indian Orchard, 
 Mass. 
 
 They cover a period of only about ten years, from 1745 to 
 1755. The remainder of the records are believed to have been 
 burned. Hence it is impossible to say how many were added 
 to membership during this ministry. * 
 
 So far as can be judged from this distance of time, the minis- 
 try of Mr. Barker was as successful as could reasonably have 
 been expected. The fragments of the records that have come 
 to light are methodical and singularly distinct. They show 
 that during this pastorate fourteen persons were received to 
 full communion on confession of their faith, and eleven by let- 
 ter. There is also a list of seventy-eight children who were 
 baptized during the same period. Upon leaving Killingly he 
 is reported to have accepted a call to a church on Long Island, 
 X. Y. 
 
 Continuing with the history of the First and South Church 
 on Breakneck Hill, Mr. Whitmore says that soon after the dis- 
 missal of Mr. Barker the question as to the wisdom of remov- 
 ing to a more accessible location than the top of Breakneck 
 Hill began to be agitated and it was decided to remove to what 
 is now known as Killingly Centre. The precise date of this 
 removal Mr. Whitmore was unable to learn with certainty, but 
 after investigation he believed it to have occurred about 1757 
 or 1758 — some two or three years after the dismissal of Mr. 
 Barker. Either to facilitate removal or for some other reason, 
 he says, the timbers of the building were cut off by some ten 
 or eleven feet, making the audience room in the new location 
 considerably smaller than it originally was. Mr. Whitmore 
 writing in 1841 adds, " Many remember the house in its last 
 location, where it was occupied many years as a townhouse." 
 We who live to-day know that our present townhouse, standing 
 upon the site of the remodeled meetinghouse at Killingly 
 Centre, was to a considerable extent built of the same 
 timbers. 
 
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The Third Minister, the Eev. Eden Burroughs, D.D.,* 
 says in records kept by himself, that he came to the old church 
 worshiping in the remodeled house at Killingly Centre, August 
 29, 1759, and " preached on probation till November following," 
 Mr. Whitmore says that " he was ordained (and no doubt in- 
 stalled) Jan. 23, 1760, aged 23," and continued in this pastorate 
 " about eleven years." He adds that the exact date of its close 
 is uncertain, but that it was probably some time in 1771, as 
 
 I find a record of a ministerial act performed by him June the 25th, 
 1771. The dwelling house that he built is standing, and is owned and 
 occupied (1841) by Mr. Barzillai Fisher. 
 
 Dr. Rice says that Dr. Burroughs was pastor "about twelve 
 years, from January 23, 1760." Mr. Whitmore quotes the letter 
 of Mr. Burroughs accepting the call to the old church, as show- 
 ing him to be a man of ability and of thoroughly evangelical ear- 
 nestness. 
 
 The loss of the church records makes it impossible to know 
 how many were added to the membership of the church during 
 Dr. Burroughs' ministry. 
 
 Upon leaving Killingly late in 1771 or 1772, Mr. Burroughs went 
 to Hanover, N. H., where for nearly forty years longer he was 
 pastor of the church close by that " charity school for Indians " 
 later known as Dartmouth College, which had been moved 
 from Windham County, Conn., by its founder, Rev. Eleazar 
 Wheelock. This Rev. Eden Burroughs — with whose son's 
 pranks when a student at Hanover all Dartmouth men are 
 familiar — died in 1810 at the advanced age of eighty-five or 
 eighty-six in the pastorate of the Congregational Church at 
 Hartford, Vt., across the Connecticut River from Hanover, 
 whither he had been called from his Dartmouth College 
 pastorate. 
 
 To return once more to our First and South or Breakneck 
 Hill Society, now worshiping at Killingly Centre, Mr. Whit- 
 more says that following the removal of Mr. Burroughs to the 
 Dartmouth College pastorate, the people became considerably 
 discouraged. In connection with this remark it should be 
 remembered that it was a time of widespread religious declen- 
 
 *The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon its warm friend, 
 Mr. Burroughs, by Dartmouth College after his removal to Hanover. 
 
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sion. ''The Society had preaching only occasionally, and the 
 church languished. Some of the meeting folks sold and moved 
 away.'' Of those who remained some connected themselves 
 with neighboring churches, some with the church in Brooklyn, 
 and others with the church in Xorth Killingly ; while he inti- 
 mates, but does not state, that some were drawn in with the 
 party of Separates or New Lights " in what," he says, " is now 
 (1841) called South Killingly."" He adds that when he came to 
 Killingly (in 1812), "the tabernacle of David had fallen." 
 
 But though weak, it was still a regular Congregational Church 
 of Jesus Christ. A period of ten or more years follows of which 
 we have no definite record, although in noting this fact it should 
 also be noted that churches moved much more slowly in those 
 days than now. Four or five or even ten years was not a very 
 unusual time for a church to be without a minister. 
 
 Mr. Fisk had labored five years before there were eleven men 
 to be organized into a church ; it was four years after his pas- 
 torate closed before his successor, Mr. Barker, came, and we 
 shall presently see that in the later history of our church, it 
 was eight years after the erection of the new meetinghouse in 
 the west field before they had a settled minister. 
 
 It is interesting to note in this connection that according to 
 Dr. Rice in his semi-centennial sermon, the church in South 
 Killingly ''for a quarter of a century after the dismission of 
 Mr. Day (in 1826) . . . had no pastor, and some of the time no 
 regular preaching. Several persons supplied the pulpit for a 
 longer or shorter time." Later it again became fiourishing 
 and influential. In the same connection it is significant that 
 the church which was continued by the minority in the old 
 meetinghouse on Killingly Hill — now Putnam Heights — has 
 not had an installed pastor for several decades past.* 
 
 But the old church on Putnam Heights is not extinct, and 
 has as good a right, ecclesiastically, to call itself a Congrega- 
 
 *Mr. Chas. D. Torrey, the present clerk of this Putnam Heights 
 Church, as it is now called, writes the compiler under date of April 
 27, 1904, that they have had no regnlar, settled ministry since the dis- 
 missal of Rev. B. H. Hopkinson from his four years' pastorate in 1856. 
 He adds that " the church records do not show who were the supply- 
 ing preachers" even, "for thirty years at least," and that no services 
 are even attempted except in summer. 
 
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tional church as has the Old South Church of Boston, or any- 
 other similar organization in the world. Its few members and 
 many friends hope and earnestly pray that in the good provi- 
 dence of God it may yet become once more a power in the 
 world for good. 
 
 We do not know how much of the long interregnum follow- 
 ing Mr. Burroughs' retirement was occupied with ''stated sup- 
 plies," or with meeting by themselves for worship. Mr. 
 Whitmore says that " the society had preaching occasionally." 
 Dr. Rice says that the old church continued ''about forty 
 years," from 1746, having in the meanwhile removed from 
 Breakneck Hill to Killingly Centre. This would make it ex- 
 istent till 1786 at least, which was only ten years before the 
 new meetinghouse appears in "the west field." He also adds 
 that the old meetinghouse stood till " about twenty-five years 
 ago (which would bring it to 1826), when it was pulled down 
 and a part of it used in our present townhouse. 
 
 There seems to have been a certain period during which no 
 regular worship was had. Still, though much reduced in 
 strength and numbers, the old First and South or Breakneck 
 Hill Church of Jesus Christ, located at Killingly Centre, yet 
 lived. It would be interesting to know how many of the 
 members were still resident. This we have no means of know- 
 ing. Poor creatures, they do seem to have been pretty well 
 discouraged I Some years before this they had some two hun- 
 dred members or more. Perhaps now they had not more than 
 a hundred, or perhaps fifty, or even a score or two of members. 
 We have no means of knowing just how many. Mr. Whitmore 
 says that "the tabernacle of David had fallen." No doubt; 
 but He who had said that "though a corn of wheat fall into 
 the ground and die, it shall yet bring forth much fruit," had 
 not forgotten it. 
 
 Our ax)preciation of the difficulties and perplexities against 
 which this old church — our Alma Mater — was struggling will 
 be aided if we glance for a moment at the conditions by which 
 that band of followers was surrounded. It was a time of 
 fearful stress for individuals and for the nation. The mightiest 
 struggle for human liberty which the world has known occurred 
 within this period. 
 
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The entire spiritual horizon of that day exhibited clouds 
 which were portentous indeed. Perhaps never in the history 
 of the modern world has Christianity witnessed a darker hour 
 than that which settled down upon the American churches as 
 the eighteenth century was drawing toward its close. The 
 philosophic deism of Jefferson and his followers, Tom Paine's 
 Age of Beason, with its immoral influences, united with other 
 evil tendencies of the time to produce a result the enormity of 
 whose evil portent almost beggars description. This low state 
 of the spiritual life seems to have been characteristic not of 
 some one locality, but of the country at large. It affected in- 
 stitutions of learning, commercial life, and churches as well. 
 In 1782 Princeton College had among its students only two 
 who even professed to be Christians. In his invaluable History 
 of American Christianity, Dr. Leonard W. Bacon tells us that 
 in 1798 the Presbyterian General Assembly, representing the 
 dominant religious force of the region, spoke thus concerning 
 the religious condition of the country : — 
 
 " ' Formidable innovations and convulsions in Europe,' says 
 this conservative body, 'threaten destruction to morals and 
 religion. Scenes of devastation and bloodshed unexampled in 
 the history of modern nations have convulsed the world, and 
 our country is threatened with similar calamities. We per- 
 ceive with pain and fearful apprehension a general dereliction 
 of religious principles and practice among our fellow citizens ; 
 a visible and prevailing impiety and contempt for the laws and 
 institutions of religion ; and an abounding infidelity, which in 
 many instances tends to atheism itself. The profligacy and 
 corruption of the public morals have advanced with a progress 
 proportionate to our declension in religion. Profaneness, pride, 
 luxury, injustice, intemperance, lewdness, and every species of 
 debauchery and loose indulgence greatly abound.' " 
 
 That religious opinions were at least in a state of flux at 
 Harvard is indicated in the fact that in 1805 Henry Ware, long 
 a Unitarian minister at Hingham, Mass., was, amid many pro- 
 tests, called to the Howard Chair of Divinity in Harvard Col- 
 lege, which had been founded in 1722 by Thomas Hollis, of 
 London, England, a Baptist friend of New England, for the 
 training of godly youth for the evangelical ministry. 
 
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The outlook in the Episcopal denomination was, if possible, 
 still more discouraging. Dr. Bacon tells us that, completely 
 disheartened. Bishop Provoost, of New York, had relinquished 
 his work, thinking that Episcopacy could not much longer 
 continue, and that Chief Justice Marshall and Bishop Madi- 
 son, of Virginia, were a unit in thinking that the Church was 
 too far gone ever to be revived. 
 
 Even the fiery zeal of early Methodism felt the dreadful dark- 
 ness, and for the three years ending with 1796, — the year in 
 which the new meetinghouse was built in the west field, — their 
 total membership in the United States — comparatively small 
 at best — diminished at the rate of about four thousand a year. 
 
 The condition of the border states, as illustrated in Peter 
 Cartwright's description of the state of things in Kentucky and 
 Tennessee, is in keeping with all the rest, and suggests the 
 fearful pass to which things had come. 
 
 Even our own Yale, which had been founded nearly a century 
 earlier, especially for the training of a godly and scholarly min- 
 istry, had become a hotbed for infidelity and immorality. 
 
 The writer's grandfather, though afterwards an eminent 
 minister, left Yale a rabid deist shortly before President Dwight 
 came, and has left strong testimony as to the demoralizing in- 
 fluence of the college as the last decade of the eighteenth 
 century came into being. In his autobiography Dr. Lyman 
 Beecher, then a sophomore, vividly describes the state of 
 things at Yale in 1795, when President Dwight took the presi- 
 dency of the struggling college : " Before he (President Dwight) 
 came the college was in a most ungodly state. The college 
 church was almost extinct. Most of the students were skep- 
 tical, and rowdies were plenty. Wine and liquors were kept in 
 many rooms ; intemperance, profanity, gambling, and licen- 
 tiousness were common. . . . Boys that dressed flax in the 
 barn, as I used to, read Tom Paine and believed him. . . . 
 Most of the class before me were infidels, and called each other 
 Voltaire, Rousseau, D'Alembert," etc. 
 
 Thus we see that the low estate of the old First and South 
 Parish Church in Killingly was only one phase of the very 
 widespread religious declension of the time, though possibly 
 somewhat aggravated by local conditions. Who can wonder 
 
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that amid such an environment, and breathing such an atmos- 
 phere, the little hand of resident members of the old church 
 became somewhat disheartened? No doubt that Mr. Whit- 
 more expressed the feeling of many when he said that "the 
 tabernacle of David had fallen." But let us not forget that 
 the covenant-keeping God had not fallen. He who hath said, 
 "When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee, 
 and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee," and who 
 said, " He that believeth in me, though he were dead yet shall 
 he live" — He whose are all the covenant mercies — had not 
 forgotten even that dormant or discouraged church of Jesus 
 Christ. Yale College Church had only two members when Dr. 
 Dwight came to the presidency in 1795, and another church I 
 heard of in later years had come to have only one member. 
 But they were churches of Jesus Christ all the same, and were 
 acknowledged as such. A church does not cease to exist just 
 because it omits its services for a Sunday, or for a month, or a 
 year, or a series of years for that matter, so long as it does not 
 disband. And here at Killingly there were evidently praying 
 hearts. Who shall say what crying to God there may have 
 been in secret '? 
 
 We have noted the widespread religious declension of the 
 time. One is thankful to be able to add that certain encourag- 
 ing signs began to appear. Here and there in secret places 
 God seems to have had the seven thousand who had not bowed 
 the knee to Baal, — a faithful few who were sending up a 
 mighty cry to the covenant-keeping God. This was true in 
 Killingly and elsewhere. No view^ of the close of the eight- 
 eenth century from a religious standpoint w^ould be complete 
 that should not make recognition of another important fact 
 than that mentioned a moment ago. The prayers of devout 
 hearts who cried mightily to God from out the darkness which 
 was upon the land and upon the churches were at length 
 heard, so that before the century closed there were indications 
 of a spiritual quickening. In his scholarly and fascinating 
 History of the Congregationalists in the United States, Prof. 
 Williston Walker, of Yale University, tells us that in 1791 a 
 religious revival of great power developed in Yarmouth, Me. ; 
 in 1792, in Lee, Mass., in East Haddam and Lyme in this state. 
 
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So rapid was the spread of this precious divine flame that 
 within a very few years it had appeared throughout New Eng- 
 land, the Middle States, and what was then known as the 
 Western Reserve. Professor Walker quotes the late Dr. Ed- 
 ward D. Griffin, of New Hartford, Conn., as saying: " ' I saw a 
 continual succession of heavenly sprinklings ... in Connec- 
 ticut, until in 1799 I could stand at my door in New Hartford, 
 . . . and number fifty or sixty contiguous congregations laid 
 down in one field of divine wonders, and as many more in dif- 
 ferent parts of New England.' These spiritual awakenings, 
 though local, were often of great strength, and they appeared 
 here and there in New England and beyond year after year. 
 The powerful revivals of 1799 were prolonged at least till 1805, 
 and then, though lessened, did not wholly cease. In 1802 Yale 
 College was greatly stirred. The years 1807 and 1808 were 
 seasons of quickening in Rhode Island and Western Massa- 
 chusetts. From 1815 to 1818 one sixth of all the towns of 
 Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire were much 
 moved, while in Rutland County, Vermont, there was almost a 
 spiritual revolution." 
 
 In Killingly as elsewhere there seems to have been a little 
 band — at least a few individuals — who were crying to God in 
 secret, and who, like Simeon of old, were "waiting" for the 
 consolation of Israel. That this was true is evidenced, I 
 think, by what followed. Mr. Whitmore says that after the 
 lapse of nearly a score of years, during which regular services 
 had been, for the most part, at least, discontinued, "it was 
 thought best to arise and build"; that is, the members who 
 remained of the old First and South or Breakneck Hill Church 
 of Killingly Centre, which had been organized in 1715 with 
 Rev. John Fisk of Harvard as its first pastor, the Rev. Nehe- 
 miah Barker as its second, and the Rev. Eden Burroughs as its 
 tliird minister, resolved to arise and by the blessing of God to 
 rebuild the old church. "After several meetings and much 
 conversation," those who felt disposed to build decided that, 
 on the whole, it would be wiser to change the location once 
 more, and to rebuild in the "west field" instead of in the 
 "east field" at Killingly Centre. Hence in 1796 — no doubt 
 after years of deliberation and preparation — they provided 
 
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funds and raised the new meetinghouse in the west field, Dr. 
 Penuel Hutchins and Mr. Robert Howe giving the noble site, — 
 a building " which we now occupy," Mr. Whitmore says in his 
 1841 Thanksgiving sermon already referred to. (Mr. Whit- 
 more gives the date of the new meetinghouse as 1798, but the 
 preponderance of evidence seems in favor of a date two years 
 earlier, as Mr. Isaac T. Hutchins in a brief autobiographical 
 article still extant, mentions the erection of the new house in 
 Westfield as one of two or three memorable occurrences which 
 marked the year of his own birth, which was 1796.) "There 
 were a few members of the church still living," he says, "■ and 
 the following season (which would be 1797) they began to look 
 after the missing ones." Meanwhile the means of grace were, 
 of course, continued in the new house of worship. Thus sev- 
 eral years go by in the midst of heroic endeavor and of evi- 
 dently increasing encouragement. 
 
 At least two facts must be considered in order to understand 
 the important step which soon followed, involving once more a 
 change of name for the old church. 
 
 (1) Although the legislature had, late in 1745, given the old 
 church the title of "■ The South or the First and South Society 
 in Killingly," and although it had for the years since been 
 known by the latter title, yet it must be remembered that in 
 the meantime the party of Separates, who in 1734-5 had been 
 given permission to worship by themselves five months of the 
 year, had organized a church in 1746 in that part of the town 
 which had later come to be known as South Killingly; and 
 that thus in 1796 there were two churches only three or four 
 miles apart with titles confusingly similar, one being known 
 as the First and South Society in Killingly, the other as the 
 Church in South Killingly. 
 
 (2) When, too, we remember that in those days, before the 
 churches had learned the modern, easy-going method of simply 
 dropping the names of inconvenient absentees, it was felt to 
 be a matter of great responsibility to look up and properly 
 care for absent members, it is easy to see that the thought of a 
 possible reorganization of the church with one more change of 
 name would help to avoid confusion and in various ways aid 
 the church in the work before it. 
 
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It woiild be interesting to know how many members there 
 were at this time, and how many of them were absentees. 
 For this, however, the data are wanting. Some half a century 
 before this the membership had exceeded two hundred, as we 
 have seen. " There were a few living " as late as his own pas- 
 torate, says Mr. Whitmore, " who were members of the church 
 in Mr. Burroughs' time, but on the whole, a reorganization 
 was deemed expedient." 
 
 And thus on the twenty-fifth day of August, 1801, after 
 repeated preliminary conferences — in the house of Dr. Penuel 
 Hutchins, on June 29th, and in the presence of the pastors of 
 the neighboring churches of South Killingly, Brooklyn and 
 Plainfield, and at Zadoc Hutchins', July 13th, at 4 p. m., and 
 elsewhere — this old First and South Society Church of Kil- 
 lingly, by aid of an ecclesiastical council, escaped several per- 
 plexing questions by changing its name so as to become known 
 as ''the new Church of Christ in the West Society of Kil- 
 lingly " — in " the west field."" * 
 
 The low estate to which ecclesiastical matters had come in 
 that time of fearful religious declension further appears in the 
 fact that for a number of years even the formality of a com- 
 munion service had not been had by these professing Christians. 
 A committee appointed to provide facilities for the observing 
 of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper reported to an ad- 
 journed meeting October 24, 1801, at the house of Zadoc 
 Hutchins, that, 
 
 * The question naturally arises at this point as to who were the men 
 who thus sought to renew their covenant. The compiler has been 
 unahle to get absolute proof that the seven men who were in the 
 church at its reorganization were all descended from those who were 
 in the old church long before, but a prolonged and careful study of the 
 subject leaves him with a profound conviction that that was probably 
 the case. 
 
 James Danielson of the reorganization was certainly a grandson of 
 the Samuel Danielson who so valiantly, and with notable zeal and jus- 
 tice, led the majority through the Breakneck Hill controversy, and 
 great grandson of James Danielson, who united with the church at its 
 organization in 1715, and of his wife, Mrs. Mary Danielson, who in 
 1732 presented to the church the costly silver chalice which, with its 
 mutes, we still occasionally use in lieu of our individual cups. 
 
 We know that Hutchins is .i name that had been frequently appear- 
 
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There was no church furniture to be found except what was at Col. 
 (Wm.) Danielson's, viz., a Flaggou and one Cuii. 
 
 As to what had become of the missing pieces of the com- 
 munion '^furniture" nothing is said. If they ever appeared 
 no record is made of the fact. The whole matter seems to have 
 been dismissed (at least so far as any official notice is con- 
 cerned) with the statement, — 
 
 The brethren agi-eed to purchase the necessary furniture, and Dis- 
 solved the meeting. 
 
 In view of the long time during which no communion season 
 was observed, it is no wonder that a minute adopted by them 
 June 29, 1801, more than five years after they had built their 
 new meetinghouse in the west field, declares that, — 
 
 Being sensible that we have lived in the neglect of those duties 
 which God in his word has injoined upon mankind to perform, and 
 Especially those who are heads of Families, and being brought (as we 
 trust) to a just sence of our sins and Enequities, and our lost ondone 
 State by nature. Brought by the Grace of God (as we hope) to confess 
 our Sins to God and one another, and Depending upon the mercy of 
 God through the Atonement and intercession of Jesus Christ to take 
 up our cross and follow him and walk together as the heirs of the 
 grace of God, and feeling it our Duty to make known our minds to a 
 number of our Neighbors we proceed to renew our Covenant with 
 God, 
 
 and to reorganize the old church. 
 
 The first Church meeting that was held after the Establishment of the 
 nevj Church was held at the House of Zadoc Spalding the 10th of 
 October, 1801. 
 
 ing in the church records long before Dr. Penuel or Mr. Shubael came 
 to light. It had been a familiar name at least since " Wyman and Ab- 
 agail Hutchins renewed their covenant Sept. 14, 1736;" since Joseph 
 Hutchius and Zuriah his wife, and Ruth Hutchins were "received to 
 full communion June 26, 1737; and since John Hutchins was a member 
 as per an undated list in Mr. Fisk's handwriting apparently dating from 
 near the close of his ministry in 1741. 
 
 Boaz Stearns of the reorganization at least reminds us of the Dea- 
 con Boaz Stearns who was elected to the diaconate in 1746; while 
 Zadoc Spalding at least suggests others of the same name since the 
 day when on August 29, 1725, Jacob and Hannah Spalding were re- 
 ceived by Mr. Fisk"to full communion;" and since that other day 
 when on April 29, 1733, "Stephen Spalding and Mary his wife" were 
 received to a similar relation. 
 
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One of many incidental confirmations of the antiquity of our 
 church as here brought to view is suggested by the significant 
 phrase used at the reorganization — the "iVe?y Church of Christ 
 in the West Society in Killingly " — as if in contradistinction 
 from the old church that had moved over from " the east 
 field'' to "the west field " and built a new meetinghouse five 
 years before in 1796. 
 
 A second confirmation appears in the inscription borne by 
 one of the chalices in our old communion service, "The Gift 
 of Mrs. Mary Danielson to the First Church in Killingly, 1732.''' 
 It is unnecessary to say that the church must have been in 
 existence before that communion cup was presented to it. 
 
 On January 7, 1802, " pewter tankards " were purchased for 
 the communion table at a cost of $6, and were paid for by " an 
 average among the brethren," and on that day Widow Sarah 
 Danielson, relict to Col. William Danielson, deceased, pre- 
 sented " for the use of the communion table a table-cloth and 
 napkins, suitable and very ornamental." 
 
 The title which the old First Church adopted at its reorgan- 
 ization August 25, 1801, perhaps served its temporary purpose 
 and was soon discarded or dropped. 
 
 The title, Westfield Congregational Church, seems to have 
 grown up gradually, no record appearing of its formal adoption. 
 
 But it soon became apparent that merely to reorganize and 
 take a new name would not solve the problem which they had 
 in hand, any more than building a new meetinghouse in a new 
 location would accomplish that end. 
 
 At great sacrifice and by heroic effort, this little group of 
 faithful descendants of early members of the old First Church 
 in Killingly had built a new meetinghouse in the west field in 
 1796, with a solemn determination to revive the old church of 
 their love so long dormant, but they now found themselves 
 face to face with what many would have considered, and would 
 consider to-day, insurmountable difficulties. One of these was 
 of a financial character. Of course the settling of a minister 
 and the keeping up of the means of grace meant money. 
 These men were not wealthy, but apparently in rather humble 
 circumstances. There are, undoubtedly, individuals in our 
 own congregation who could buy them all up if they were on 
 
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the market to-day and still have made but little inroad upon 
 their capital. In those days money was a scarce article, even 
 to those who possessed property. There seems to have been 
 doubt as to how they should get hold of the income which 
 they were likely to need from year to year. Hence it is pro- 
 foundly significant when we read that in view of their poverty 
 they decided to raise a fund among themselves of -$3,000, the 
 income of which should be for the preaching of the gospel! 
 '•The church and society being small and feeble," says good 
 Mr. Whitmore, ''were at times somewhat discouraged, but 
 they proposed to establish a fund of •'$3,000 which served as a 
 sort of band to bind the society together." Such was the scar- 
 city of money and such the poverty of these men that a num- 
 ber of them actually mortgaged their homes to raise the money 
 with which to pay their share. It is certain that others gave 
 their notes for the amounts of their subscription, said notes to 
 be a lien upon their several estates till paid. Many years later 
 the fund was added to by some of the descendants of these 
 men by a similar method, and some of these latter notes, Dea- 
 con William H. Chollar, more than forty years the singularly 
 efficient treasurer of the Westfield Ecclesiastical Society, says 
 have been paid since he became treasurer. The original fund 
 of 83,000 made as a kind of Thanksgiving offering to God for 
 helping them to organize as a church has been inherited by 
 us ; and after being slightly increased by some of the liberal 
 descendants of these very men, and by fortunate investments 
 by skillful and faithful stewards, now amounts to 84,700, and its 
 annual income is constantly used for the preaching of the gospel. 
 A further trial of faith was experienced during the time 
 immediately following the building of the new meetinghouse 
 in the west field. Three candidates were called. Mr. Whit- 
 more says of these candidates: "The Rev. Alvah Porter and 
 David H. Williston negatived the call. Rev. Daniel Farring- 
 ton gave the affirmative answer, but his health prevented his 
 settlement." This was in April, 1802, says Mr. Whitmore. 
 
 The Fourth Minister (and the first after the Reorganization), 
 The Rev. Gordon Johnson, 
 "became a candidate in June, 1804, and in October following 
 
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received a call to become their minister, and was ordained the 
 pastor of this church and society December 12, 1804, eight full 
 years after the new house was built.'''' 
 
 It is unnecessary to include in this statement the details of the 
 history of the last hundred years, as they were brought out so 
 fully in the admirable series of papers given mostly by mem- 
 bers of our church, who were especially fitted to write upon 
 their respective themes, in connection with the centennial of 
 our Reorganization, observed in 1901 — which proved, as we 
 then found, to be the one hundred and eighty-sixth of our 
 history. 
 
 The series of papers then presented included, besides a 
 historical sermon by the pastor, papers on "■ The Thirteen 
 Members" (who constituted our church at the time of its re- 
 organization in 1801), by Mrs. Joseph Danielson ; "Our Eleven 
 Ministers " (of the century), by Miss Lucy Danielson (now Mrs. 
 John Hutchins); ''Reminiscences of 'Priest' Whitmore," by 
 Miss Ellen Lamed, of Thompson; "Our Deacons," by Mrs. 
 Albert Danielson; " Our Financial Sponsor, the Ecclesiastical 
 Society," Deacon William Henry Chollar; "Woman's Work in 
 the Church," Mrs. Esther Burlingame Jacobs; "The Young 
 People's Work of the Century," Mrs. Elisabeth Mathews- 
 Richardson; "Our Sunday School Work for the Century," 
 Deacon William Henry Chollar; "Our Ministerial and Mis- 
 sionary Sons and Daughters," Mr. (now Deacon) Simeon 
 Danielson; "The Sweet Singers of Israel," Mr. Henry M. 
 Danielson. 
 
 The sumptuous little volume containing these able, interest- 
 ing, and exceeding valuable papers, published by our Parish 
 House Association at fifty cents each, will prove increasingly 
 valuable as time goes on, and should be in the hands of every 
 member of our church able to secure one of the few remaining 
 copies. 
 
 Still, despite the thoroughness of these invaluable papers, it 
 seems proper to make brief mention here of the various pasto- 
 rates, and especially to record certain facts concerning the first 
 two ministers after our Reorganization, only lately brought to 
 light. This is notably true of Mr. Whitmore's ministry, which 
 marked such an epoch in the church's history. 
 
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Mr. Johnson's pastorate continued four years and one month, 
 he being dismissed by council January 18, 1809. Mr. Whitmore 
 
 says : — 
 
 Mr. Johnson's ministry was uncomfortable to him, and not alto- 
 gether pleasant for the people— but two were admitted to the church 
 during his ministry, one by letter, the other by profession. Through 
 all his trials Mr. Johnson's moral character remained unsoiled. He 
 preached in various places after his dismission, but spent most of his 
 time in cultivating his little farm, and died in this place Apr., 1823, 
 aged fifty-seven. 
 
 The Fifth Minister, the Rev. Roswell Whitmore, 
 
 came to the church under very trying and interesting circum- 
 stances. Although the new meetinghouse had been built and 
 occupied more than fifteen years, the actual membership of 
 the church still numbered only fourteen persons, while recent 
 experiences seem to have pretty well discouraged even these. 
 The following extracts from the church records explain them- 
 selves : — 
 
 THE CALL to MR. WHITMORE. 
 
 At a regular church meeting convened at the meetinghouse on the 
 25th day of Nov. A. D. 1812 James Danielson was chosen Moderator. 
 The meeting was opened with prayer. The brethren of the church 
 Voted 1st to give Mr. Roswell Whitmore a call to settle over this church 
 in the work of the Ministry in Westfield Society. 2nd, Voted and chose 
 Mr. Shubel Hutchins and Jas. Danielson a Committee to join with a 
 committee chosen from the Society to caiTy the above into effect. 
 Then Voted to dissolve the meeting. 
 
 Shubel Hutchins, 
 
 JAS. DANIELSON. ^ Committee. 
 
 KiLLINGLr, Nov. 25, 1812. 
 
 LETTER TO MR. WHITMORE. 
 
 We the subscribers being appointed a committee from the Society 
 in Westfield in the town of Killingly for the purpose of presenting you 
 a call to settle in the Gospel Ministry in said Society take this method 
 to inform you of the proceedings of said Society. At a legal meeting 
 of the Proprietors of the Fund for the Support of a Preacher of the 
 Gospel in Westfield Society, and others that conti-ibuted for said pur- 
 pose in said Westfield Society— Voted as follows, viz., (1) To join with 
 the Church in giving Mr. Roswell Whitmore a call to settle in the 
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Ck)spel Ministry in this Society. (2) To offer for his encouragement 
 three hundred and thirty dollars in cash annually, and ten cords of 
 wood for said purpose. (3) Chose Messrs. John Day, Silas Hutchins, 
 and Nathan Fuller a Committee to present Mr, Roswell Whitmore the 
 above Call and Proposals. 
 
 (Signed) John Day, \ 
 
 Silas Hutchins, [ Committee. 
 
 Nathan Fuller, ' 
 
 KiLLINGLY, Nov. 25, 1812. 
 
 Mr. Whitmore's reply to the call is so characteristic and ad- 
 mirable that it might almost be taken as a model : — 
 
 KiLLINGLY, December 10th, 1812. 
 To the Church and Society of Westfleld:— 
 
 Beloved and much respected . . . God in Christ Jesus has been 
 pleased to dispence a diversity of gifts among his members here on the 
 earth; Affirming that in the day of his ascension into the highest heav- 
 ens, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men— He gave some 
 apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors 
 and teachers : For the perfecting of the saints for the work of the minis- 
 try for the edefying of the body of Christ— In these latter days he hath 
 not sent prophets, but Pastors and teachers— God in his providence 
 through the instrumentality of some of his ministering servants hath 
 assigned me a part in this great work to which I cheerfully devote my 
 time and all that I possess— This Church and Society having proceeded 
 to give me a call to settle over them in the wont of a Gospel Minister 
 1 after consulting my own feeling, taking into consideration the citu- 
 ation of this chosen people; obtaining advice from those on whose 
 judgement I place more dependance than that of my own, and above 
 all as I would humbly hope have asked wisdom of Him who hath said 
 " If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God "—conclude to give my 
 answer in the affirmative. Relying on your liberality for a comforta- 
 ble support — unto you and looking from you I shall expect it. I ask 
 not for the honors and emoluments of this world. I do not wish to fill 
 my coffers out of your hard earnings, but to live with you ; Wishing 
 that the proposed connexion might tend to the furtherance of the 
 Gospel, that we might hereafter learn that Christ's cause has been ad- 
 vanced and our own souls greatly benefitted, is the Prayer of your 
 affectionate Servant 
 
 Ro SWELL Whitmore. 
 
 Mr. Whitmore' s ordination and installation — as also the 
 method of doing things ecclesiastically in those days — appears 
 in the following minute : — 
 
 At an ecclesiastical counsel regularly convened by letters missive 
 at the house of Gen. James Danielson Esq. Westfield Society in Kil- 
 
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Delegates 
 
 lingly 12th day of Jenuary A.D. 1813 for the purpose of separating Mr. 
 Roswell Whitmore to the work of the gospel ministry in said Society. 
 
 PRESENT PASTORS 
 
 The Rev. Moses C. Welch, D.D., 
 
 Rev. William Storrs, 
 
 Rev. Lodovius Weld, 
 
 Rev. Walter Lyon, 
 
 Rev. Israel Day, 
 
 Rev. Elisha Atkins, 
 Dr. Benedick unable to attend. 
 
 The counsel being opened with prayer by D.D. Welch, Moderator, 
 the necessary papers being exhibited to the counsel and laying a 
 proper foundation for them to proceed accordingly proceeded to ex- 
 amine the pastor elect with regard to his regular standing in the 
 church of Christ, his invitation to settle over this people in the work 
 of the gospel ministry together with his sentiments, doctrinal knowl- 
 ledge. Christian experience and internal qualifications for the work 
 of the gospel ministry— being satisfied with the same— The question 
 was then put whether this counsel will proceed to ordain Mr. Roswell 
 Whitmore to the work of the gospel Ministry— Voted unanimovisly in 
 the affirmative; and that the public exercises be performed as fol- 
 lows: That Mr. Stors make the introductory prayer; that Dr. Welch 
 preach the sermon ; that Mr. Day make the consecrating prayer ; that 
 Dr. Welch, Mr. Lyon and Day impose hands, that Mr. Lyon give the 
 charge to the Pastor and also to the people of his charge ; that Mr. 
 Weld give the right hand of fellowship ; and that Mr. Atkins make the 
 concluding prayer. Then voted that the public exercises commence 
 at the meeting house on the morrow morning precisely at 11 o'clock- 
 Voted the above to be the minutes of the counsel. 
 
 Attest: LoDOvicus Weld, Scribe. 
 
 Mr. Whitmore was a graduate of Williams College, and had 
 been accustomed often to meet with his friends, Adoniram Jud- 
 son, Samuel Xott, Newell, and the rest in the famous Haystack 
 prayer meetings for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the 
 world. He was also a man of notably vigorous personality 
 and positive views. As might have been expected with such a 
 beginning, his ministry was attended with marked spiritual 
 results. 
 
 There were numerous seasons of ingathering — he upon one 
 occasion, in 1832, receiving 93 persons to membership in one day 
 and 131 within the year, while in 1842 no less than 140 were 
 added to the membership. Mr. Whitmore says : — 
 
 The church employed different persons to preach until Nov., 1811, 
 when the present Pastor came to this place and preached— not as a 
 
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candidate at first but as an occasional supply. The church at this 
 time consisted of fourteen ineuibers— two of whom were soon after 
 dismissed— so that twelve may be reckoned as constituting the church 
 Nov., 1811. During the following winter and spring there was some 
 special attention to religion in the Society, and eight or ten persons 
 were added to the church. 
 
 Nov. 1812, 1 received a unanimous call from the church and Society 
 to become their Pastor and Minister and was ordained Jan. 13, 1813. 
 There soon followed an interesting revival of religion, and twenty- 
 four were added to the church. 
 
 Writing in 1841, about a year and a half before the close of 
 his thirty years' ministry here, he said that he had already 
 "administered the seal of baptism to 920, had married 250 
 couples, attended 750 funei-als, and had received to the 
 church about 300 members." 
 
 When he preached the above sermon he could not have real- 
 ized how great a blessing God had in store for him just ahead, 
 or perhaps he may have felt encouraged to redouble his efforts 
 in view of God's merciful character as illustrated in the large 
 mercies already received. Or perhaps he felt impelled to more 
 earnest effort himself, as he saw his ministry drawing toward 
 its close. Be this as it may, the year 1842 brought the largest 
 ingathering of any year of which we have record in all the 
 nearly two centuries of the church's life down to the present 
 moment. He welcomed to church membership that year 140 
 persons — 103 of them on a single Sunday. A total of 495 per- 
 sons were added to membership during Mr. Whitmore's 
 thirty years' ministry, an average of about 16i for each year. 
 
 The only minutes in the church records calculated to throw 
 any light on the termination of this strong pastorate is the fol- 
 lowing : — 
 
 At an Ecclesiastical Council convened May 2, 1843, at the meeting- 
 house in Westfleld by letters missive from the church and Society in 
 that place for the purpose of dissolving, if they judge best the pas- 
 toral relations between the Rev. Roswell Whitmore and the said 
 Society. Present : — 
 
 Rev. Daniel Dow, D.D., from the church in Thompson, 
 Rev. Asa King, from the church in Westminster. 
 Rev. Joseph Allen, from the church in Sterling. 
 Rev. Thomas Gordon, from the church in Voluntown. 
 Rev. Henry Robinson, from the church in North Killingly 
 
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Rev. Jas. J. Tillotson, from the church in Brooklyn. 
 Rev. Jona. A. Welch, from the church in BrookljTi. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Dow was chosen Moderator, and Mr. Robinson, Scribe. The 
 Council was opened by prayer by the Moderator. Communications 
 were received by the Council from Rev. Mr. Whitmore, showing that 
 his salary is in arrears, and expressing his wish on this account to 
 be released from his pastoral relation. Communications were re- 
 ceived from the committees of the church and Society showing their 
 respective bodies in reference to calling the Council and assenting to 
 the statement of Mr. Whitmore that they had not made up to him the 
 arrears of his salary. A communication was also laid before the 
 Council signed by about seventy members of the Church and Congre- 
 gation in Westfield, expressing their grief at some things which had 
 recently transpired in church in relation to their Pastor; their strong 
 attachment to him, and their reluctance to part with him. 
 
 After due deliberation, the Council are unanimous in the opinion 
 that it is expedient to dissolve the pastoral relation between Rev. 
 Roswell Whitmore and the Church and Society in this place and by 
 solemn vote do hereby declare said relation this day dissolved. 
 
 In coming to this result, the Counsel hereby declare, that under the 
 circumstances of the case, they have acted, as they think in accord- 
 ance with the pi-inciples of justice and the demands of duty; to pro- 
 mote the cause of truth and holiness; The welfare of Zion; the best 
 interests of this church and society, and the peace and happiness both 
 of the individual members and of their beloved Pastor. 
 
 They feel much regret at parting with this respected brother, who 
 has so long and so ably discharged the duties of the ministry in 
 this place, and whose labors have been so frequently and so abun- 
 dantly blessed, in the conviction and conversion of sinners and th 
 edification of saints. They view him and they hereby recommend 
 him to all who may wish to enjoy his future labors; as a sound, able 
 and faithful minister of Christ; qualified instrumentally to build up 
 the saints, to warn sinners and to instruct all classes of hearers, and 
 devoutly hope he may yet be the-'^happy instrument of much good to 
 the cause of Zion and the souls of men. 
 
 At the same time the Council sympathize with this Church and 
 Society in their present trials, and lament with them the loss they 
 have sustained in the dismission of their Pastor; and the necessity 
 which has been found to exist for his removal. They also cherish the 
 hope, that as the subsequent fruit of their late Pastor's instruction and 
 of their own intelegence, wisdom and love of gospel truth and order, 
 they will immediately adopt those pacific and judicious measures, 
 which will not only remove any obstacles now existing, but secure 
 to themselves the continued enjoyment of Gospel ordinances and pas- 
 toral labors ; and above all that peace and harmony, which have been 
 their portion in days past and which are essential to the prosperity of 
 Zion and the conversion of souls. 
 
 The Council commend this Church and Society and their late re- 
 
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spected Pastor to the care and protection of the great Head of the 
 Church, praying that the events of this day may be duly regarded in 
 bringing all who are here concerned, to a more humble dependence 
 on God and more entire devotion to his cause and service. 
 
 Daniel Dow, Mod. 
 
 Henry Robinson, Scribe. 
 
 The few statements made concerning the subsequent minis- 
 ters will be almost wholly quoted from Mrs. Lucy (Danielson) 
 Hutchins' paper in our Centennial Volume, whose able character 
 sketches are the more valuable in that, aside from her natural 
 gifts and acquired accomplishments, she enjoys the remarkable 
 distinction of having known, personally and intimately, all the 
 ministers which this church has had during the last century, 
 except Mr. Johnson, whose ministry was brief. This was 
 made possible by the long ministry of Mr. Whitmore. 
 
 The Sixth Minister, 
 The Rev. Thomas O. Rice, D.D., 
 
 was installed January 1, 1846. ''He graduated from Amherst 
 and East Windsor. He came to us a young man fresh from 
 the seminary, and gave himself to the work of developing the 
 best life of the church and the town. Personally, he was 
 tall and slender, with a fine head and a bright, piercing eye. 
 In the pulpit, on the street, everywhere, he attracted attention 
 by his distinguished appearance. At once he made himself a 
 power ; he had a clear, logical, discriminating mind. There 
 were thought and ability in the treatment of his subject that com- 
 pelled the respect of the hearer, whoever he might be. Coming 
 to us so soon after the great revival, he had a great trust com- 
 mitted to him to train the converts for efficient service. With 
 conversion he was not content ; he labored to indoctrinate into 
 the fundamental principles of the gospel the young people of his 
 congregation. He laid foundations for men and women of sta- 
 bility and character who have been pillars in the church, rooted 
 and grounded in the faith. There are men and women living 
 to-day who were members of his theological class. The ordi- 
 nary Sunday school teaching did not go deep enough for him. 
 He touched our community at many points, especially along 
 educational lines. Our Free Public Library is the outgrowth 
 
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of the 'Young People's Library Association,' which he 
 started and to which he made a generous donation. In con- 
 versation he was genial, — even jovial in our homes, — but in- 
 tensely serious and dignified in the pulpit. At that period 
 Windham County was noted for its able ministry, and as a 
 leader of religious thought Mr. Rice stood pre-eminent by 
 common consent. On March 25, 1856, he was dismissed and 
 went to Rockville." 
 
 During the pastorate of Dr. Rice the Ecclesiastical Society 
 erected the new and beautiful meetinghouse, now occupied, 
 about a third of a mile from the old one in the "west field." 
 Dr. Edward N. Kirk, of Boston, preached the dedication 
 sermon. Prior to this Dr. Rice had arranged a six months' ex- 
 change of pulpits with the eminent evangelist. Rev. John D. 
 Potter, then settled in Illinois. It is said to have been largely 
 the result of this wise arrangement that upon the first Sunday 
 in the new meetinghouse Dr. Rice was privileged to receive 
 (July 1, 1855) seventy persons to membership, including a 
 number who have since done exceptional service for the king- 
 dom of God. During the eleven and one sixth years' ministry 
 of Dr. Rice 165 persons were added to the membership, an 
 average of nearly 15 a year. 
 
 During the interim following the resignation of Dr. Rice, the 
 Rev. William Patton, D.D., served as "stated supply" forayear. 
 His profound scholarship, brilliant intellectual qualities, and 
 gifts as a speaker, made what seems a lasting impression. 
 
 The Seventh Minister, 
 The Rev. Thomas T. Wateeman, 
 
 was installed January 15, 1858. " His ministry here continued 
 three years. He was a different type of man from his pred- 
 ecessor. With beauty of face, snow-white hair, well-propor- 
 tioned figure, with gifts and graces of an orator, his was an 
 attractive personality. When a younger man, in the prime of 
 his power, he was counted a brilliant and popular preacher ; 
 people of all denominations crowded to hear him. He was 
 still an impressive speaker, having the power to present the 
 truth in new and striking forms, and to attract to the services 
 persons not accustomed to church attendance. In character 
 
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he was intense, emotional, magnetic. Socially he was winsome 
 and attractive, especially to the young. On the whole, his 
 ministry here was full of loving service and usefulness. On 
 January 30, 1861, he was dismissed, and went to Spencer, 
 Mass." During Mr. Waterman's three years' ministry 56 were 
 added to membership, an average of nearly 19 a year. 
 
 The Eighth Regular Minister, 
 The Rev. William W. Davenport, 
 
 began his ministry August 21, 1861. " He studied theology 
 under the Rev. Dr. A. C. Thompson, of Roxbury, Mass. He 
 left a lucrative business in Boston because he thought it his 
 duty to preach the gospel of Christ. It is not easy to write 
 justly about Mr. Davenport without using what to those who 
 did not know him would appear extravagant terms. His char- 
 acter was one of rare and beautiful symmetry. W-e loved him, 
 not so much for what he did as for what he was. Courteous, 
 refined, intellectual, he exerted a high-toned influence on all 
 with whom he came in contact." '' Jesus Christ was the Alpha 
 and the Omega of all his ministrations." Mr. Davenport's 
 seven years' ministry added 67 to membership, an average of 
 about 9i a year. 
 
 In May, 1868, there convened, at the invitation of our church, 
 an ecclesiastical council, which might well be famous in view 
 of its occasion, its composition (including a number whose 
 names are famous in the annals of our denomination), its 
 length and its ''Result." It lasted through three full days, 
 from ten o'clock Tuesday morning. May 19th, till late Thursday 
 evening, May 21, 1868. It included the Rev. Drs. A. H. Quint, 
 New Bedford, H. J. Patrick and Increase N. Tarbox, West 
 Newton and Boston, Mass. ; and the Rev. Messrs. C. Blodgett, 
 Pawtucket, R. I., J. D. Moore, Central Village, Conn., F. 
 Williams, Chaplin, Hiram Day, Windham, and A. Dunning of 
 Thompson, together with six lay delegates. 
 
 The Result, unanimously reached, is so notable as to be 
 worthy of preservation and study. It may be read in the 
 church records. 
 
 "When Mr. Davenport left us pulmonary trouble had already 
 begun, and by the advice of friends he left our shores for 
 
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Southern France, where he died May 20, 1870. He entered 
 through the gates of the celestial city, whose joys were ever a 
 reality to him, and whose glories he delighted to describe/' 
 
 The Ninth Minister, 
 The Rev. Jeremiah Taylor, D.D., 
 
 was installed May 12, 1869. "Lie graduated from Amherst, 
 Andover, and Princeton. Endowed by nature with a com- 
 manding presence, courteous, dignified, he was always a fine 
 example of the Christian gentleman. He was a man of schol- 
 arly attainments, a Bible preacher, and helpful in building up 
 believers in the faith of the gospel. In his sermons his 
 illustrations were drawn largely from Scripture and other lofty 
 sources, seldom from everyday occurrences. His strongest 
 work and best thought were in the mid-week service, when 
 he unfolded to us great Scriptural truths of difficult passages. 
 In ministerial gatherings in the county, his benignant presence 
 and wise words made him always welcome. His amiability, 
 cheerfulness, and the beautiful consistency of his character are 
 cherished in memory by us all. He led us in the green pastures 
 and beside the still waters where his own soul had been fed, 
 and he was honored as well in the county as among his own 
 people.'' He was the first installed minister here after the re- 
 organization to receive the degree of D.D. — Drs. Barker and 
 Rice not having received their Doctorate degree till after leav- 
 ing this pastorate. His two and one half years added 36 to 
 membership, a yearly average of nearly 14. After his dismis- 
 sion on December 31, 1871, he went to Providence, and later 
 became district secretary of the American Tract Society, with 
 headquarters in Boston. 
 
 During the three years interim following Dr. Taylor the pul- 
 pit was supplied one year by the Rev. Elias ISTason, of Billerica, 
 Mass. ''We think of Mr. Nason as resembling Henry Ward 
 Beecher in his physique and in some of his mental gifts. He 
 had a style all his own. He never used too many words; he 
 always seemed to have the most clear understanding of what 
 he wished to say. He was a man of wide culture, musical, 
 thoroughly familiar with current and classical literature, and 
 used it most happily to illustrate his teachings. Brilliant and 
 
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versatile, he was one of those fortunate men who can do a good 
 many things equally well, from writing an interesting sermon 
 to composing music and writing hymns." 
 
 The Tenth Minister, 
 The Rev. Adelbert F. Keith, 
 was a graduate of Hartford Theological Seminary, and was in- 
 stalled October 13, 1874. '' Who that knew Mr. Keith can forget 
 his saintly face, which unconsciously was preaching a sermon 
 day by day more persuasively than any which came from his lips ! 
 His marked distinction was his spirituality. He lived so closely 
 with his Master that it might truly be said of him, ' Behold an 
 Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.' What he seemed 
 that he was, and his people knew it. As a preacher, he is re- 
 membered as emphasizing the practical side of Christian truth 
 to everyday conduct. Among his many graces he was pre- 
 eminently a man of prayer. How many there are, the saint, 
 the sinner, and the suffering, who have felt themselves lifted 
 into the Everlasting Arms on the wings of his prayers! There 
 are men who have served this church more eloquent of speech, 
 more learned in the language of the schools, but as a conse- 
 crated, devout follower of Christ none has surpassed him. He 
 was great in goodness. We can bear testimony to his fidelity 
 as a pastor, to his earnestness as a preacher, and the faithful 
 discharge of all his duties in a spirit of loyalty to Christ.'" His 
 two and one half years' ministry added 39 to membership, a 
 yearly average of nearly 16. On May 15, 1877, he was dismissed 
 and went to North Providence. He passed out of this life at 
 his home in Brockton, Mass., in 190-. 
 
 The Eleventh Minister, 
 The Rev. James Dingwell, 
 was a graduate of Amherst College and Bangor Theological 
 Seminary, and was installed January 24, 1878. 
 
 ''Mr. Dingwell was a remarkable man in the union of qualities 
 that went to make his character. His good judgment was his 
 strongest mental characteristic, and he united with this, tact 
 and wisdom rarely excelled. How skillfully he avoided fric- 
 tion and smoothed out our tangled affairs! With quiet tact 
 
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and gentleness, and yet with firmness, he led his people where 
 he would, and he led us where he should. He was a strong 
 man. As a preacher he brought to his pulpit sermons marked 
 by intellectual vigor and deep insight into spiritual truth. His 
 life and habits were distinctively those of a student. How thor- 
 oughly he read as well as widely, making the best use of all 
 the resources of knowledge within his reach! He taught his 
 people to crave earnestly the best he could give them. He had 
 little imagination, but great power of application. He was a 
 person of breadth in all his views, with a mind open and recep- 
 tive to all that is highest and best, and he took a lively interest 
 in the great questions of the day. The large circle of young 
 people under his care received his special training. In his 
 genial way he was always ready with a word of cheer and en- 
 couragement to the most timid and self-distrustful in their 
 efforts to do well, inciting them to make the most of their 
 talents. The results appear in our church to-day. On the 
 social side he was the least self-asserting of men — the reverse 
 of a great talker, but a close observer and an excellent listener. 
 Modest in his demeanor, he was trustful of men, thus calling 
 out all the good in them. And did not his own lovely traits 
 call forth the admiration of all who personally knew him? 
 
 Mr. Dingwell had great organizing power, a genuine love of 
 system, and a practical grasp upon the details of business. 
 Under his leadership the monetary conditions of our church 
 were greatly improved ; the interior of our house of worship 
 was partially remodeled and beautified. To meet our great 
 need of an organ, he gave his time and gathered the money. 
 A portion of the legacy from the estate of Shubael Hutchins 
 for the pastor's library was expended by him in the purchase 
 of books which he selected. Our weekly offering system was 
 adopted, and the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor 
 inaugurated. One would have to search long and far to dupli- 
 cate the harmony existing between pastor and people, or the 
 faithful and efficient service rendered by him in the twelve 
 years of his ministry. When he left us, December 1, 1889, to 
 go to Rockville, no pastor was more beloved." 
 
 It is an interesting tribute to Mr. Dingwell's attractiveness 
 that one of the officers of the church made him his guest dur- 
 
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ing a delightful four months' tour of Europe. His ministry of 
 nearly twelve years added 182 to membership, a yearly average 
 of about 15. 
 
 The Twelfth Minister, 
 The Rev. Edward Anderson, 
 
 was installed May 13, 1890. He studied theology with his 
 father, the Rev. Rufus Anderson, D.D., the eminent Secretary 
 of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 
 Mr. Anderson had a fine physique, with the air and bearing 
 of a military man, having been brevetted brigadier general for 
 service during the Civil War; and "when he spoke he spoke as 
 a man of authority. He was brilliant as an orator, original in 
 his ideas, and of large resources. In his sermons he was the 
 last of men to say, ' It seems to me.' He was confident of his 
 position, and did not rely on the ipse dixit of any man. His 
 opinion on any subject provoked discussion whether or not it 
 received endorsement. Mr. Anderson was far ahead of his 
 generation in his progressive ideas, and was reckoned among 
 the more liberal of our ministers." His five years and a 
 fraction added 49 to membership, an average of a little more 
 than 9. He was dismissed by council June 1, 1895, went to 
 Chicago, and later, during the long illness of Dr. Dickinson, 
 became acting pastor at Berkeley Temple, Boston. 
 
 The Thirteenth Minister, 
 The Rev. Herbert S. Brown, 
 began his work in November, 1895. He was educated at Yale. 
 ' ' In character he was intensely earnest in whatever he under- 
 took, straightforward, independent. What he believed, he 
 believed with all his soul. He thought he knew what was 
 right, and took it for granted that his people thought as he 
 did. His presentation of truth was clear, practical, appealing 
 to the conscience. He identified himself with all the moral 
 forces of the town, and was specially active in aggressive tem- 
 perance work. He was fearless in denouncing sin and advo- 
 cating needed reforms. He had the courage of his convictions, 
 and even the enemies of religion respected him. 
 
 Mr. Brown was an untiring worker in every department of 
 his field, and he knew how to set his people at work, — espe- 
 
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cially in the prayer meeting, where his marked ability was 
 shown in lifting us out of the ruts into which we had fallen in 
 the past years. He removed the meeting from the small vestry 
 to the more spacious lecture room. He varied the exercises 
 from week to week, so that no two successive meetings were 
 conducted on the same plan. His meetings were never dull, 
 but attractive to young and old. His prayers were remarkable; 
 they were sermons in themselves. During his pastorate the 
 church was incorporated, and individual communion cups were 
 adopted. No one questioned his genuine piety or his sincere 
 purpose to win men from the world and lead them unto the 
 Lamb of God." After his dismission, in November, 1898, he 
 went to Darien, Conn., where he is still pastor. 
 
 The Fourteenth Minister is 
 The Rev. S. Sherberxe Mathews, D.D., 
 
 who, as compiler of this manual, is glad to confess tliat 
 such a history of gifted and faithful ministers calls for the best 
 in any man who may be privileged to be their successor. 
 
 During this pastorate the Ecclesiastical Society unanimously 
 voted to turn over its holdings to the church, which had be- 
 come legally incorporated under the leadership of the Rev. 
 Mr. Brown, and then after nearly a hundred years of helpful 
 history dissolved as a Society, the gentlemen who had com- 
 posed its membership henceforth contributing directly to the 
 church. One of the last acts of the Ecclesiastical Society was 
 itself a fine illustration of the genius of New England Congre- 
 gationalism, viz., the donation of a plot of land from the 
 church lawn to enable the commodious new Public Library to 
 be contiguous to the historic church of the town. Upon the 
 dissolution of the Westfield Ecclesiastical Society in 1901 Dea- 
 con Wm. Henry Chollar, the senior deacon of the church, who 
 had also served as the Society treasurer for more than forty 
 years with singular efficiency, was, by unanimous vote of the 
 church, made Financial Adviser of the church for life. 
 
 In 1900 more than $5,600 was subscribed for the payment of 
 a debt of about 84,500, which had been carried in whole or in 
 part for more than twenty-five years, and upon which $4,650 
 had been paid in interest. 
 
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As these pages go to press in late December, 1004, it is still 
 somewhat uncertain whether or not the full amount necessary 
 to complete the conditional fund of -$15,000 for a Memorial 
 Parish House will be secured. This house, if built, is intended 
 as a center for the religious, philanthropic and social work of 
 the church, as also a memorial to those who, having wrought 
 well for God and humanity in this midst, have ceased from 
 their labors ; and is expected to be built against the rear of the 
 church (connected with it) and fronting on Davis Park. 
 
 It is proper to record the fact here that the eminent mer- 
 chant, the late Mr. Charles L. Tiffany of New York, whose 
 boyhood home was Danielson and whose father and mother, 
 Mr. Comfort and Mrs. Chloe Tiffany, were long exceptionally 
 useful members of this church, sent the Pastor a conditional 
 gift of $3,000 toward this object as long ago as 1901. The 
 Hon. Harry E. Back and Senator F. A. Jacobs immediately 
 supplemented Mr. Tiffany's gift with a subscription of $500 
 each. These gifts were later duplicated and added to by others. 
 
 As time went on the discovery was made that the Parish 
 House idea was not new, but that an effort had been made to 
 secure a similar result during the pastorate of Mr. Anderson, 
 and the Sunday School service of Warden E. L. Palmer, and 
 Hon. (formerly Deacon) F. A. Jacobs — several hundred dollars 
 having then been raised — and now available — for the purpose. 
 
 The astonishing fact was also developed that some years ago 
 one of the beloved officers of the church had proposed to erect 
 a parish house (or chapel with various rooms) and present it 
 outright to the church, but that the church had never taken 
 any action concerning it. 
 
 It is an interesting fact that several gentlemen, not church 
 members, who were far-seeing as to the needs of the commu- 
 nity, together with certain godly and enthusiastic women who 
 had long been praying over the matter, and the Young Men's 
 Club, the Y. P. S. C. E., etc., so rallied together as to arouse en- 
 thusiasm and to seem to be carrying the scheme to tardy but 
 glorious fruition. 
 
 In partial explanation of the long delay in completing this 
 fund it is perhaps proper to state that in addition to the loss 
 of several thousand dollars because of tardiness on the part 
 
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Mr. Chas. L. Tiffany 
 
of the church in meeting stipulated conditions, no less than 
 •S6,000 legally subscribed has been lost on account of business 
 adversity which has overtaken those subscribing it. The fact 
 that aside from all these setbacks we are still within about 
 $3,000 of our desired goal encourages the expectation that 
 somehow our covenant-keeping God will surely meet our 
 apparent need and fulfill the desires of our hearts. The con- 
 ditions upon which the fund is given require that at least five 
 thousand dollars shall be set aside as a fund for heating, 
 lighting, etc. 
 
 To facilitate the work in several particulars it seemed wise 
 legally to incorporate. This was done. 
 
 In December, 1904, the Association unanimously adopted 
 the following minute : — 
 
 Voted, that the first five thousand dollars which shall come into 
 possession of this Association from any source be set aside as endow- 
 ment for said House. 
 
 During the six years of this ministry (lacking one Com- 
 munion season), the church membership has increased by 122, 
 a yearly average of a little more than 20f . During these six 
 years the deacons have been accustomed to meet the pastor for 
 prayer every Sunday morning, at 10.45 in the vestry. These 
 liave been precious and helpful seasons. 
 
 For the first time in its history the church has been repre- 
 sented in the National Council of Congregational Churches. 
 Judge A. C Bill was a delegate to the session of the Council 
 meeting in Portland, Me., in 1901, and Dr. Mathews to that at 
 Des Moines, October 13-20, 1904. 
 
 As this proof is being corrected, the church has just had its 
 annual roll call. The following item from last Sunday's Cal- 
 endar explains itself : — 
 
 That came near being a model Annual Meeting last Thursday. 
 Harmonious, encouraging, tender, spiritual, progressive, may it be a 
 type of many to come. That was a noble series of addresses by the 
 laymen of the church at the roll call, too. The directress in charge 
 stated that a larger number sat down to the banquet than ever in the 
 history of the church. 
 
 Looking back through nearly two centuries since John Fisk, 
 four years after his graduati(m from Harvard, came down from 
 
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his father's church in Braintree, Mass., to begin his life work 
 on Killingly Hill, and to his ordination and installation five 
 years later, Octoljer 19, 1715, one sees an eminent appropriate- 
 ness in the text from which, the Kev. Mr. Baxter preached, 
 Romans i. 16, — "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,'' 
 etc. The two centuries of history now drawing to a close have, 
 to a notable degree, borne witness to the gospel as the power 
 of God. This history shows that God remembers his covenant 
 mercies not merely to the third and fourth generations of them 
 that love him, but far beyond that. 
 
 Not only do all of the eight men who were in the Reorganiza- 
 tion of the church in 1801 seem to have been descendants of 
 those who united with our church either at its organization in 
 1715 or else in years soon after that, but the names of Hutch- 
 ins and Stearns are honorably perpetuated amongst us, while 
 James and Mary Danielson, who united at the original organ- 
 ization, have to-day some 24 persons direct descendants among 
 the membership of our church, — some of these being in the 
 seventh generation. 
 
 Surely the manifold manifestations of the mercies of our 
 covenant-keeping God call for renewed consideration on the 
 part of us to whom it is granted to enter into so goodly a 
 heritage. 
 
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The Proposed Parish House 
 
Cbe Other Churches of KiUingly 
 
 The second church in Killingly was organized January, 1730, 
 in accordance with permission of the General Court, and the 
 "Society" setoff as a separate precinct by vote of the town 
 January 30, 1728. Public worship soon afterwards began to be 
 observed in this "North Society," although it was not organ- 
 ized into the town of Thompson till June, 1785. Upon the 
 day of the organization of this new church in "The North 
 Society," Mr. Marston Cabot, of Salem, Mass., a traditional 
 descendant of the famous explorer, and a graduate of Harvard 
 College in 1724, was installed its pastor. 
 
 The third church in Killingly was the one composed of the 
 minority which seceded from the First Church, worshiping on 
 Breakneck Hill, and went back to worship in the old meeting- 
 house on Killingly Hill in 1745, or early in 1746. The historian 
 here finds himself confronted by a curious state of things ; 
 there seems no evidence that either of these two divisions of 
 the old First Church ever "reorganized" after the council 
 of 1715. The "majority" of course did not, and the minority 
 seems also, so far as we have any record, to have considered 
 itself likewise as continuing an existence begun long before. 
 It is prof oundly significant that the ecclesiastical council which 
 installed Mr. Barker as Mr. Fisk's successor in 1745 does not 
 in any way intimate that the old church on Breakneck Hill 
 needs any "reorganization" or "recognition by council," or 
 anything of the kind, but simply proceeds to ordain and install 
 the new pastor. 
 
 The fourth church in Killingly seems to have been the 
 "Separate Church," which later became Congregational, in 
 what is now known as South Killingly. Its formal organiza- 
 
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tion dates from December, 1746, eleven years after certain 
 people had been given permission by the legislature to have 
 a minister five months of the year to preach nearer their own 
 homes than the meetinghouse on Killingly Hill. 
 
 The fifth church in Killingly seems to have been " the Cal- 
 vinistic Baptist" at East Killingly, which. Dr. Rice says, came 
 into existence during the historic year 1776. 
 
 The sixth church was the Methodist Episcopal Church of 
 Danielson, which, as nearly as can be ascertained, became 
 recognized as a distinct church in 1842, the conference in that 
 year appointing the Rev. George May its regular minister, 
 although preaching services seem to have been held with more 
 or less regularity somewhat previously. As early as 1839 the 
 Rev. John Lovejoy had organized a "class" of five persons 
 here. In 1840 the Rev. Hezekiah Thatcher, of Central Village, 
 preached, and increased the "class" to thirteen members, 
 with Edwin Dunlap leader. In 1841 the Rev. A. B. Wheeler 
 conducted services here regularly with the assistance of "local 
 preachers," until in 1842 the conference formally assigned a 
 pastor, and apparently recognized this " station " as a distinct 
 church. 
 
 The seventh church was the Congregational Church of Day- 
 ville, organized May, 1849 ; its first pastor being the Rev. 
 Roswell Whitmore, who during his long pastorate at Danielson 
 had ministered to quite a number of these same people. 
 
 The eighth church in the town of Killingly was the Free 
 Will Baptist Church of East Killingly. It was organized in 
 1851. As early as 1826 the widely known "Elder Daniel 
 Williams" had organized what was known as the "Foster 
 and Killingly Free Will Baptist Church," just over the line in 
 Rhode Island, and remained its pastor more than fifty years — 
 a man of large and helpful influence in the ecclesiastical history 
 of this whole region. After East Killingly became a separate 
 church he continued pastor of both; and the two organiza- 
 tions, not more than four or five miles apart, though in differ- 
 ent states, have a common and efficient minister to-day. The 
 East Killingly (F. W. B.) meetinghouse was built in 1851. 
 
 The ninth church seems to have been the Roman Catholic, 
 which, begun as a mission on Franklin Street in 1851 by Father 
 
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McCabe, of Moosup, became St. James Church, August 29, 
 1864. Its present edifice was dedicated in 1900. 
 
 The tenth church was the Protestant Episcopal, the nucleus 
 of which seems to have come from the ancient church on 
 Church Street, Brooklyn. When it was decided to erect a 
 house of worship in Brooklyn Village for the convenience of a 
 majority of the Church Street worshipers, certain members de- 
 cided that they could not go so far, and with others organized a 
 church in Danielson. Rector George A. Alcott says this was 
 "in the late seventies." Their tasteful church edifice and 
 rectory, though not large, constitute one of the most harmoni- 
 ous ecclesiastical "plants'" in the community. The church 
 stands on the site of the old academy where Dr. W. T. Harris, 
 United States Commissioner of Education, and many other 
 eminent men received their early training. 
 
 The eleventh church seems to have been the Roman Catholic 
 at Dayville, organized in the early seventies. 
 
 The twelfth church was the Baptist, now one of the most 
 vigorous, organized in 1875. 
 
 The thirteenth church was the Congregational at Williams- 
 ville, organized in 1883. 
 
 The fourteenth church was the Advent, organized in 
 
 The fifteenth church seems to have been the outgrowth of 
 a " mission," was organized in 1902 and is known as the Holi- 
 ness Church. 
 
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Some JMissionary Cbildreti of the Cburcb 
 
 (Prepared by Deacon Simeon Danielson.) 
 
 Rev. Zolva Wliitmore, a relative of Rev. Roswell Whitmore 
 the fifth pastor of this church, joined this church in 1813, 
 studied divinity under the late Dr. Nathaniel Emmons, of 
 Franklin, and died in 1867. 
 
 Rev. Nathaniel Emmons Johnson, son of Gordon Johnson, 
 joined in 1820, studied divinity with Dr. Cox, settled in New 
 York state, and was afterward for many years editor of the 
 New York Evangelist. 
 
 Rev. Ezra G. Johnson joined in 1832, was pastor at Johns- 
 town, N. y., 1843-50, and at Centerville, N. Y., where he died 
 in 1854. 
 
 Rev. Jabez Parkhurst joined in 1828, became a minister, and 
 died in 1843. 
 
 Rev. Joel Baker united with the church in 1847, had several 
 pastorates in different states, and retired from the ministry at 
 the age of seventy-seven. 
 
 Rev. Herbert A. Reed united with this church in 1820, 
 preached in the states of New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, 
 and became Superintendent of Congregational Missions in 
 Michigan, where he died. 
 
 Rev. Charles Hartwell united in 1849, while principal of the 
 High School here, went to China in 1853 as missionary of the 
 A. B. C. F. M. His permanent address is Pagoda Anchorage, 
 Foochow, China. 
 
 Rev. George Ingersoll Stearns, — a grandson of Samuel and 
 Mary Stearns, who united with this church in 1801, — joined in 
 1842, was installed pastor of the Congregational Church of 
 Windham, 1852, and died in that pastorate in 1862. 
 
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Rev. Henry Kies united with the church in 1842, and was 
 engaged in home missionary work in Iowa till his death in 
 1857. 
 
 Rev. Isaac Newton Cundall joined in 1842, ordained in 1854, 
 held several responsible positions as pastor, superintendent of 
 schools and of Soldiers' Orphan Home, and was finally pro- 
 fessor at Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. Died July 
 23, 1889. 
 
 Rev. Henry F. Hyde united with this church in 1855 and held 
 several successful pastorates in Woodstock, Pomfret and Rock- 
 ville, where he died in 1880. 
 
 Rev. William Albert James united in 1855 and preached in 
 Connecticut, Ohio, Michigan and California, where he died in 
 J892. 
 
 Rev. William M. Johnson united with this church in 1858, 
 preached at Farmington, Me., October 9th, and died October 
 12, 1864. 
 
 Rev. John Howland united with this church in 1882, was 
 principal of the high school, married a daughter of our Deacon 
 and Mrs. William H. Chollar, and for some twenty-five years 
 past has been a missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. at Guadala- 
 jarah, Mexico. 
 
 Mrs. Sara B. (Chollar) Howland, wife of Rev. J. Howland, 
 united with this church, 1874, and is laboring with her hus- 
 band in missionary work. Their eldest daughter is now (1904) 
 a member of the freshman class at Mt. Holyoke College. 
 
 Dr. Mary Ayer McKinnon united with this church in 1897, 
 was for some years a missionary of the Presbyterian Board at 
 Soochow, China, where in 190- she married Capt. Mc- 
 Kinnon. 
 
 Rev. Frank Perrin united in 1881, and returned to Texas, 
 where he is a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 Rev. James McLaughlin united in 1883, and is now an Episco- 
 pal minister in Hartford, Conn. 
 
 Rev. Sherrod Soule united in 1878, preached in Beverly, 
 Mass., and in 1892 entered upon his present pastorate at 
 Naugatuck, Conn. 
 
 Miss Marietta Kies, Ph.D., united in 1892, became an eminent 
 teacher at Mt. Holyoke Seminary, and later occupied a chair 
 
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in the University of Indiana till her death in 1899. The pastor 
 of this church compiled a memorial volume to her. 
 
 Miss Mary Ann Kies united with this church in 1855 and 
 engaged in mission work in New York, and died in 1868. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Danielson united with the church in 1855, and 
 preached in Maine, New York, and his last pastorate at South- 
 ington, Conn., and died in 1898. 
 
 Rev. Robert G. Hutchins, D.D., was a native of Danielson, 
 and was converted here, though seems not actually to have 
 united with this church. A graduate of Williams College and of 
 Seminary, he was pastor of Plymouth Church, Minne- 
 apolis, at Los Angeles, Cal., Fostoria, Ohio, and is now at work 
 under Presbyterian auspices in New York City. 
 
 Rev. Edwin A. Waldo united with this church in 1876, grad- 
 uated from Andover Seminary ; was a man of observed refine- 
 ment, of marked devotion, able to adapt himself to multifarious 
 circumstances, and assiduous as a student of sociological con- 
 ditions. Whether connected with the missionary work of 
 Berkeley Temple, Boston, with Hull House, Chicago, or amid 
 the diverse environment of California mining camps, he has 
 been ever altruistic and helpful to his fellow men. He was 
 ordained Oct. 26, 1904, at Smyrna Park, Ceres, Cal., where he is 
 now pastor of Pilgrim Congregational Church. 
 
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Cruet funde 
 
 OF THE WESTFIELD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND AUXILI- 
 ARIES, AS REPORTED BY DEACON WM. H. CHOLLAR 
 
 These (Jan. 1, 1905) are four in number : — 
 
 (1) The first dates from about 1801, and its income was to be 
 used for the ordinary requirements of the church. Some 
 mortgaged their farms to raise this fund. It now consists of : 
 
 20 Shares of Thames National Bank Stock . . 12,000.00 
 
 Premium on the above at market value . . 1,000.00 
 
 3 Shares Windham County National Bank Stock . 300.00 
 
 Deposit Book Windham County Savings Bank . 1,077.32 
 
 Deposit Book Brooklyn Savings Bank . . 350.00 
 
 14,727.32 
 
 (2) The Shubael Hutchins Fund for the Pastor's Library, as 
 indicated in the following extract from the will : — 
 
 EXTRACT FROM WILL. 
 
 To the Westfield Ecclesiastical Society in (said) Killingly, the sura 
 of two thousand dollars, of which amount the sum of one thousand 
 dollars shall be invested under the direction of said society within 
 two months after the same is paid to them, in books suitable and 
 proper for a Poster's Library — the rest of said sum of two thousand dol- 
 lars to be securely invested and the interest and income therefrom to 
 be in like manner annually expended in the purchase of additional 
 books and works for said Pastor's Library, — and said Pastor's Library 
 to be kept in a suitable place provided by said society and under such 
 rules and regulations as said society shall direct, so that only the 
 Pastor for the time being, may from time to time take books there- 
 from for his use, and the members of said society have the privilege 
 of perusal of the same at the Library rooms, but without the privilege 
 of removing them therefrom. 
 
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It was paid over to the treasurer of the Westfield Ecclesiasti- 
 cal Society, Jan. 12, 1886, and in accordance with the require- 
 ments of the will, $1,000 was expended by Pastor Dingwell and 
 a co-operating committee in purchasing an admirably selected 
 collection of books — mainly philosophical and historical — 
 within sixty days. 
 
 January, 1905, this fund consisted of 
 Deposit Book Norwich Society for Savings . . $500.00 
 Deposit Book Brooklyn Savings Bank . . . $500.00 
 
 $1,000.00 
 The income of this fund is usually about $40 a year. 
 
 (3) The Dean Legacy. Dating from February, 1883. Book 
 12, page 389, Probate records : — 
 
 loth item of the last Wills of David A. Dean and his Wife Mary Ann 
 Dean. 
 
 All the rest and residue and remainder of my estate I give and be- 
 queath to the Congi-egational Church of Danielson, and direct that it 
 be given by Said Church and used for the Several Charitable purposes 
 to which this Church Contributed, and divided among Said Charities 
 as the Deacons of Said Church Shall direct, or as a Majority of Said 
 Deacons Shall direct. 
 
 This fund in January, 1905, is as follows : — 
 Deposit Books Windham County Savings Bank, 
 and the Brooklyn Savings Bank .... $2,463.82 
 
 (4) The Jeremiah Hill Fund .... $500.00 
 
 A clause in the will of Jeremiah Hill, who died in December, 
 1904, reads as follows : — 
 
 I give and bequeath to the Westfield Cong'l Church of Danielson, 
 Conn., five hundred dollars ($500) to use the income thereof for the 
 Support of the preaching of the Gospel. 
 
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FORMS OF BEQUESTS. 
 
 I give and bequeath to The Westfield Congregational Church, 
 of Danielson, Conn., a church corporation organized and exist- 
 ing under the laws of the State of Connecticut, the sum of 
 Dollars. 
 
 I give and bequeath to The Westfield Parish House Associa- 
 tion, in the town of Killingly, a corporation organized and 
 existing under the laws of the State of Connecticut, the sum 
 of Dollars. 
 
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By-Laws 
 
 ARTICLE I 
 
 NAME 
 
 This Church shall be called the Westfleld Congregational 
 Church of Danielson, Conn. 
 
 ARTICLE II 
 
 COVENANT 
 
 The covenant by which this Church exists as a distinct body, 
 and which every member accepts, is as follows : — 
 
 Acknowledging Jesus Christ to be our Saviour and Lord, 
 and accepting the Holy Scriptures as our rule of faith and 
 practice, and recognizing the privilege and duty of uniting our- 
 selves for Christian fellowship, the enjoyment of Christian 
 ordinances, the public worship of God, and the advancement 
 of his kingdom in the world, we do now, in the sight of God 
 and invoking his blessing, solemnly covenant and agree with 
 each other to associate ourselves to be a Church of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ, as warranted by the Word of God. 
 
 We agree to maintain the institutions of the gospel, to sub- 
 mit ourselves to the orderly administration of the affairs of the 
 Church, and to walk together in brotherly love. 
 
 And this we do depending upon the aid of our Heavenly 
 Father, who so loved the world that he gave his only begotten 
 Son for our salvation, and of Jesus Christ who hath redeemed 
 us with his blood, and of the Holy Spirit our Comforter and 
 Guide. 
 
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ARTICLE III 
 
 CHAKACTER 
 
 Section 1. Polity. Its government is vested in the body 
 of believers who compose it. It is subject to the control of no 
 other ecclesiastical body, but it recognizes and sustains the 
 oblig-ations of mutual counsel and co-operation which are com- 
 mon among Congregational churches, and it is in fellowship 
 with all churches which acknowledge Jesus the Christ to be 
 their divine Redeemer and Lord. 
 
 Sect. 2. Doctrine. It receives the Scriptures as its author- 
 ity in matters of faith and practice. Its understanding of 
 Christian truth as contained therein is in accord with the be- 
 lief of the Congregational churches of the United States, and 
 substantially as set forth by unanimous vote of the National 
 Council of 1865, or by the National Council's Commission in 
 1883, in the form authorized to be printed in this Manual. 
 
 ARTICLE IV 
 
 MEMBERSHIP 
 
 Section 1. Qualifications. Its membership consists of such 
 persons as confess Jesus Christ to be their Saviour and Lord, 
 and who (1) after due examination, either by the Church Com- 
 mittee or by the Church itself, as to their Christian experience, 
 and, if coming from other churches, as to their letters of dis- 
 mission and recommendation or satisfactory substitutes there- 
 for, and (2) after proposal from the pulpit on some Lord's Day 
 prior to that of their reception, (3) have been accepted by vote 
 of the Church and, having been baptized, (4) enter into its 
 Covenant and subscribe to its By-Laws, and are formally 
 received into its fellowship. 
 
 Sect. 2. Reception. The reception of members shall ordi- 
 narily be upon some Lord's Day when the Lord's Supper is 
 administered, and shall be in the form appended to these 
 By-Laws. 
 
 Sect. 3. Duties. Members are expected, first of all, to be 
 faithful in all the spiritual duties essential to the Christian 
 life; and also to attend habitually the services of this Church, 
 to give regularly for its support and its charities, and to share 
 in its organized work. 
 
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Sect. 4. Rights. Such members as are in full and regular 
 standing, and do not hold letters of dismission and recom- 
 mendation, and have attained the age of twenty-one years, and 
 such only, may act and vote in the transactions of the Church. 
 
 Sect. 5. Termination. The continuance of membership 
 shall be subject to the principles and usages of the Congrega- 
 tional churches, and especially as follows : — 
 
 (1) Any member in good and regular standing who desires 
 a letter of dismission and recommendation to any other evan- 
 gelical church is entitled to receive it upon his written request. 
 In case of removal to another community he should promptly 
 make such request. This letter shall be valid as a recom- 
 mendation for only one year from its date, unless renewed, and 
 this restriction shall be stated in the letter. 
 
 (2) If a member desires to join a religious body with which 
 this Church is not in fellowship, or which would not receive 
 its letter, the Church may, at his request, give him a certificate 
 of his good standing and terminate his membership. 
 
 (3) If a member in good standing request to be released from 
 his covenant obligations to this Church for reasons which the 
 Church may finally deem satisfactory, after it shall have pa- 
 tiently and kindly endeavored to secure his continuance in its 
 fellowship, such request may be granted and his membership 
 terminated. 
 
 (4) The Church may also, after due notice and hearing and 
 kindly effort to make such action unnecessary, terminate the 
 membership of persons for the space of two years non-resident, 
 or for the same space of time not habitually worshiping with 
 the Church, or for the same space of time not contributing to 
 its support according to the system prescribed by the Church, 
 or in some way satisfactory thereto. 
 
 (5) Should a member become an offence to the Church and 
 to its good name by reason of immoral or un-Christian conduct, 
 or by persistent breach of his covenant vows, the Church may 
 terminate his membership, but only after due notice and hear- 
 ing, and after faithful efforts have been made to bring such 
 member to repentance and amendment. 
 
 (6) The membership of no person shall be terminated (ex- 
 cept by letter) at the meeting when the recommendation for 
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Sect. 6. Restoration. Any person whose membership has 
 been terminated may be restored by vote of the Church, if for 
 any offence, upon evidence of his repentance and reforma- 
 tion, or, if on account of continued absence, upon satisfactory 
 explanation. 
 
 ARTICLE V 
 
 OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 
 
 Section 1. The officers and committees shall be as fol- 
 lows ; — 
 
 (1) A Pastor, to be chosen and called by the Church when- 
 ever a vacancy occurs, and to be installed by Council when the 
 Church and Pastor shall so agree. 
 
 (2) A Clerk, to be chosen at each annual meeting to serve 
 for one year and until his successor shall be chosen and 
 qualified. 
 
 (3) Eight Deacons, two of whom shall be elected at each 
 annual meeting to serve for four years. Nine Deaconesses to 
 serve three years, three to be elected annually. 
 
 (4) A Treasurer, to be chosen at each annual meeting to 
 serve for one year and until another shall be chosen in his stead. 
 
 (5) A Superintendent of the Sunday school, to be chosen at 
 each annual meeting. 
 
 (6) A Church Committee, to be known as the Pastors Coun- 
 cil, to act with regard to the spiritual concerns of the Church, 
 which shall consist of the above-named officers and the presi- 
 dent of the Y. P. S. C. E. 
 
 (7) A Weekly Offering Committee, consisting of three mem- 
 bers, in addition to the Pastor and Deacons, who shall be ex 
 officns members of said Committee. This Committee, under 
 the direction of the Pastor's Council, shall have charge of the 
 system of benevolence of the Church, and shall pay over all 
 money received by them to the Church Treasurer. 
 
 (8) A Prudential Committee, which shall consist of five 
 members, to have charge of all real property belonging to the 
 Church, and, under the direction of the Church, of its financial 
 and business affairs. 
 
 Three members of said Committee shall serve for a term not 
 exceeding three years, being so chosen that the term of one 
 
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shall expire each year. The Church Clerk and Treasurer shall 
 be ex officiis the other two members of said Committee, but 
 neither shall be chairman. 
 
 (9) All the officers and committees named in the above sec- 
 tions shall be elected by ballot, and all elections shall be deter- 
 mined by a majority of the votes cast by the members present 
 who are qualified to vote. 
 
 (10) The Church may also choose a Music Committee and 
 such other committees as it may deem advisable. 
 
 Sect. 2. The Pastor shall have in charge the spiritual wel- 
 fare of the congregation ; he shall preach the Word and have 
 in his care the stated services of public worship, and sliall 
 administer the sacraments. He shall preside at all meetings 
 of the Church, except as limited in Article VIII, Sect. 2 (4), 
 relating to business meetings. 
 
 Sect. 3. The Clerk shall keep a complete record of the 
 transactions at all business meetings of the Church, and any 
 other items of historical interest, and also of the Church Com- 
 mittee and of the Prudential Committee. These records of the 
 Church shall be read for approval at each Preparatory Lecture. 
 He shall secure the signatures of members to the By-Laws, and 
 keep a register of their names with dates of admission and dis- 
 mission or death, together with a record of baptisms. He 
 shall also notify all officers, members of committees, and dele- 
 gates, of their election or appointment. He shall issue letters 
 of dismission and recommendation voted by the Church, pre- 
 serve on file all communications and written official reports, 
 and give legal notice of all meetings where such notice is nec- 
 essary, as indicated in these By-Laws. 
 
 Sect. 4. The Deacons shall provide for the Lord's Supper 
 and aid in its administration, and shall care for the poor, 
 calling upon the Treasurer, by vote as a board, at their discre- 
 tion, for any funds in his possession held for these purposes. 
 
 Sect. 5. The Pastor's Council shall examine and propound 
 candidates for admission to the Church, shall provide for the 
 supply of the pulpit in any vacation of the pastor, shall decide 
 on objects for regular or special collections when the Church 
 has not acted thereon, shall have regard to discipline as pro- 
 vided in the article relating to that subject, and shall be watch- 
 
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ful for the spiritual interests of the Church. It shall make a 
 written report at each annual meeting of the matters under its 
 charge. 
 
 Sect. 6. The Treasurer shall keep separate accounts, as 
 follows : — 
 
 (a) Of all moneys contributed at the Lord's Supper, if any, 
 which shall be primarily devoted to the relief of the poor, and 
 which contributions, together with all other moneys given for 
 that purpose, he shall hold subject to the order of the Board of 
 Deacons. (6) Of all moneys raised for the objects of Christian 
 benevolence, to be paid by him to the several persons or soci- 
 eties entitled thereto, (c) Of all moneys received by him for 
 the support of public worship or of any department of church 
 work, to be paid out on the order of the Church or of any 
 persons or committees authorized by the Church therefor. 
 
 All the Treasurer's accounts shall be kept distinct from all 
 other accounts, and all deposits made, and all checks drawn 
 by him shall be in the name of the Church. 
 
 He shall make an annual written report in detail of his 
 receipts and expenditures, properly audited by some jjerson 
 previously appointed by the Church. 
 
 Sect. 7. The Superintendent of the Sunday school shall 
 have the general oversight and direction of the school, and 
 shall conduct its affairs upon such general plans and in such 
 methods as may be approved by the Pastor's Council. 
 
 He shall, at the annual meeting of the Church, present a 
 written report of the work of the school during the year, with 
 such recommendations as he may deem wise. 
 
 ARTICLE VI 
 
 PROPERTY AND FINANCES 
 
 The Prudential Committee shall have the actual care of the 
 place of worship, but shall have no power to buy, sell, mort- 
 gage, lease, or transfer any property without a specific vote 
 of the Church authorizing such action. They shall provide, 
 under the direction of the Church, for the raising of money 
 for the support of its public services, shall have general charge 
 of its finances other than moneys contributed at the Lord's 
 Supper or for any charitable or benevolent objects, shall au- 
 
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thorize and direct the Treasurer as to the payment of moneys 
 under their control, shall provide for the proper auditing of 
 his accounts unless the Church shall appoint an auditor, and 
 may, at their discretion, call meetings of the Church for 
 matters with which they are concerned. They shall make at 
 the annual meeting a detailed report in writing of all their 
 transactions during the year. 
 
 ARTICLE VII 
 
 ORGANIZATIONS* 
 
 The Church regards as integral parts of itself all organiza- 
 tions formed for the purposes of ministration and which use 
 the facilities of the Church property. Of all such organiza- 
 tions the Pastor shall have general oversight, and the Church 
 will expect a report from each at its annual meeting. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII 
 
 MEETINGS 
 
 Section 1. For Worship. (1) Public services shall be held 
 statedly on the Lord's Day and on some regular evening of 
 each week. 
 
 (2) The Lord's Supper shall be celebrated at such regular 
 dates as the Church may, from time to time, determine ; and 
 unless otherwise ordered, upon the first Lord's Day of each 
 alternate month beginning with January. The midweek meet- 
 ing next preceding shall be devoted to a Preparatory Service. 
 
 (3) Occasional religious meetings may be appointed by the 
 Pastor at his discretion, or by vote of the Church. 
 
 Sect. 2. For Business. (1) At any of the regular meetings 
 for worship the Church may, without special notice, act upon 
 the reception of members previously propounded or upon the 
 dismissal of members to other churches, and upon the appoint- 
 ment of delegates to councils and conferences of churches or 
 upon any ordinary business. 
 
 (2) The Pastor may, and shall, when requested, by the 
 Pastor's Council, call from the pulpit special business meetings, 
 the particular object of the meeting being clearly stated in 
 the notice. 
 
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Special meetings of the Church shall also be called by the 
 Clerk upon the written application of any five adult members 
 specifying the object thereof, which notice shall be read at the 
 public service on the Lord's Day next preceding the day fixed 
 for such meeting. Xo special meeting shall be held on the 
 same day on which the notice is given. 
 
 (3) The annual meeting of the Church shall be held ujjon 
 such day in January as the Pastor's Council may decide, at 
 which time the annual reports shall be presented and ofiicers 
 elected, and such other business transacted as may be specified 
 in the call or authorized in the By-Laws. This meeting shall 
 be called by the Clerk in the manner specified in the paragraph 
 next preceding. 
 
 (4) The Pastor shall preside at all business meetings, except 
 that in his absence, or when the business relates to himself, the 
 Church shall elect a chairman. 
 
 (5) At the annual and all special meetings fifteen members 
 shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction 
 of business.* 
 
 (6) The order of procedure at the annual meeting shall be : — 
 
 Organization. 
 
 Prayer. 
 
 Reading of Minutes. 
 
 Report of Clerk. 
 
 Report of Pastor's Council. 
 
 Report of Prudential Committee. 
 
 Report of Treasurer. 
 
 Report of Auditor. 
 
 Report of Sunday School Superintendent. 
 
 Report of Ladies' Benevolent Society. 
 
 Report of Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society. 
 
 Report of Young Ladies' Mission Circle. 
 
 Report of Heart and Hand Mission Band. 
 
 Report of President of Y. P. S. C. E. 
 
 Report of Young Men's Club. 
 
 Report of other organizations. 
 
 ♦This small number is made to constitute a quorum simply because 
 it accords with the longtime usage of the Church. 
 
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Report of Nominating Committee. 
 Election of Officers. 
 Miscellaneous Business. 
 Reading of Minutes for Approval. 
 
 ARTICLE IX 
 
 DISCIPLINE 
 
 Section 1. Should any unhappy differences arise between 
 members, the aggrieved member shall follow, in a tender spirit, 
 the rules given by our Lord in the eighteenth chapter of the 
 Gospel according to Matthew. 
 
 Sect. 2. Should any case of gross breach of covenant, or of 
 public scandal, occur, the Church Committee shall endeavor to 
 remove the offence, and if such effort fail shall report the case 
 to the Church. 
 
 Sect. 3. If the Church vote to entertain a complaint, which 
 must be made in writing, it shall appoint a reasonable time and 
 place of hearing and notify the person in question thereof, 
 furnishing him with a copy of the charges. 
 
 Sect. 4. At such hearing, the accused member may call to 
 his aid any member of the Church as counsel. If he shall not 
 present himself at the time appointed, or give satisfactory rea- 
 sons for his neglect so to do, the Church may proceed in his 
 absence. 
 
 Sect. 5. All such proceedings should be pervaded by a 
 spirit of Christian kindness and forbearance, but should an 
 adverse decision be reached, the Church may proceed to ad- 
 monish or to declare the offender to be no longer in the mem- 
 bership of the Church. 
 
 Sect. 6. In case of grave difficulty the Church will be ready, 
 if requested, to ask advice of a mutual council. 
 
 ARTICLE X 
 
 AMENDMENTS 
 
 These By-Laws may be amended by a three fourths vote of 
 the members present and voting at any annual meeting of the 
 Church, or at a meeting specially called for that purpose, the 
 proposed amendment being inserted in the call ; but no change 
 
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shall be made in Articles II and III, entitled "Covenant'' and 
 "Character," except at an annual meeting, and by a three 
 fourths vote of all the members of the Church entitled to vote, 
 said proposed change having been laid before the Church in 
 writing at a business meeting not less than one month before 
 the time of the proposed action, and read from the pulpit on 
 the Lord's Day next succeeding such proposal. 
 
 The doctrines on which a church is seen to act will prevail over 
 those which are merely uttered. 
 
 Jonathan Edwards. 
 
 The rule of this knowledge^ faith, and obedience concerning 
 the worship and service of God and all other Christian duties, is 
 not the opinions, desires, laws, or constitutions of men, but the 
 loritten word of the everliving God. 
 
 Confession of London Cong'l Church, 
 Issued in Amsterdam, 1596. 
 
 This church has its personal consciousness. A certain invisi- 
 ble spiritual force associates its members, selects its aims, directs 
 its conclusions, prompts or limits its organized action. 
 
 Richard S. Storrs. 
 
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Congregational Statements of Doctrine 
 
 The Burial Hill Declaration of Faith Adopted by 
 THE National Council, 1865 
 
 Recognizing the unity of the Church of Christ in all the world, 
 and knowing that we are but one branch of ChrisVs people^ while 
 adhering to our peculiar faith and order, we extend to all be- 
 lievers the hand of Christian felloxo ship, upon the basis of those 
 great fundamental truths in which all Christians should agree. 
 With them we confess our faith in God, the Father, the Son, 
 and the Holy Ghost, the only living and true God ; in Jesus 
 Christ, the incarnate Word, who is exalted to be our Redeemer 
 and King ; and in the Holy Comforter, who is present in the 
 Church to regenerate and sanctify the soul. 
 
 With the whole Church we confess the common sinfulness 
 and ruin of our race, and acknowledge that it is only through 
 the work accomplished by the life and expiatory death of 
 Christ, that believers in him are justified before God, receive 
 the remission of sins, and, through the presence and grace of 
 the Holy Comforter, are delivered from the power of sin and 
 perfected in holiness. 
 
 We believe also in an organized and visible Church, in the 
 ministry of the Word, in the sacraments of Baptism and the 
 Lord's Supper, in the resurrection of the body, and in the final 
 judgment, the issues of which are eternal life and everlasting 
 punishment. 
 
 We receive these truths on the testimony of God, given 
 through Prophets and Apostles, and in the life, the miracles, 
 
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the death, the resurrection, of his Son, our divine Redeemer — 
 a testimony preserved for the Church in the Scriptures of the 
 Old and New Testaments, which were composed by holy men 
 as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. 
 
 Affirming now our belief that those who thus hold ''One 
 Faith, one Lord, one Baptism," together constitute the one 
 Catholic Church, the several households of which, though 
 called by different names, are the one body of Christ ; and that 
 these members of his body are sacredly bound to keep " the 
 unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace," we declare that we 
 will co-operate with all who hold these truths. With them we 
 will carry the gospel into every part of the land, and with them 
 we will go into all the world, and " Preach the gospel to every 
 creature.*' May He to whom "all power is given in heaven 
 and earth" fulfill the promise which is all our hope: " Lo, I 
 am with you alway, even to the end of the world." To Him 
 be praise in the Church forever. Amen. 
 
 The Statement of Doctrine Presented in 1883 by the 
 National Council Commission, in the Form Author- 
 ized FOR THIS Purpose in 1895 
 
 I. We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of 
 heaven and eatth, and of all things visible and invisible ; 
 
 And in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who is of one 
 substance with the Father ; by whom all things were made ; 
 
 And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, who 
 is sent from the Father and Son, and who together with the 
 Father and Son is worshiped and glorified. 
 
 II. We believe that the Providence of God, by which he 
 executes his eternal purposes in the government of the world, 
 is in and over all events ; yet so that the freedom and respon- 
 sibility of man are not impaired, and sin is the act of the 
 creature alone. 
 
 III. We believe that man was made in the image of God, 
 that he might know, love, and obey God, and enjoy Him for- 
 ever ; that our first parents by disobedience fell under the 
 righteous condemnation of God ; and that all men are so alien- 
 ated from God that there is no salvation from the guilt and 
 power of sin except through God's redeeming grace. 
 
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IV. We believe that God would have all men return to him ; 
 that to this end he has made himself known, not only through 
 the works of nature, the course of his providence, and the con- 
 sciences of men, but also through supernatural revelations 
 made especially to a chosen people, and above all, when the 
 fulness of time was come, through Jesus Christ his Son. 
 
 V. We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New 
 Testaments are the record of God's revelation of Himself in 
 the work of redemption ; that they were written by men under 
 the special guidance of the Holy Spirit ; that they are able to 
 make wise unto salvation ; and that they constitute the author- 
 itative standard by which religious teaching and human con- 
 duct are to be regulated and judged. 
 
 VI. We believe that the love of God to sinful men has found 
 its highest expression in the redemptive work of his Son ; who 
 became man, uniting his divine nature with our human nature 
 in one person; who was tempted like other men, yet without 
 sin ; who, by his humiliation, his holy obedience, his sufferings, 
 his death on the cross, and his resurrection, became a perfect 
 Redeemer ; whose sacrifice of himself for the sins of the world 
 declares the righteousness of God, and is the sole and sufficient 
 ground of forgiveness and of reconciliation with him. 
 
 VII. We believe that Jesus Christ, after he had risen from 
 the dead, ascended into heaven, where, as the one Mediator 
 between God and man, he carries forward his work of saving 
 men ; that he sends the Holy Spirit to convict them of sin, and 
 to lead them to repentance and faith ; and that those who 
 through renewing grace turn to righteousness, and trust in 
 Jesus Christ as their Redeemer, receive for his sake the for- 
 giveness of their sins, and are made the children of God. 
 
 VIII. We believe that those who are thus regenerated and 
 justified grow in sanctified character through fellowship with 
 Christ, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and obedience to the 
 truth ; that a holy life is the fruit and evidence of saving faith; 
 and that the believer's hope of continuance in such a life is in 
 the preserving grace of God. 
 
 IX. We believe that Jesus Christ came to establish among 
 men the kingdom of God, the reign of truth and love, right- 
 eousness and peace; that to Jesus Christ, the Head of this 
 
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instruction in the Scriptures, by admonition, by persuasion, 
 and especially by a godly life and conversation, to lead them 
 to a saving knowledge of Christ ; and you recognize in this 
 rite of baptism the seal of that covenant, and the sign of the 
 spiritual cleansing which it typifies ? 
 
 Answer, We do. 
 
 The rite of Baptism having been administered, the Church 
 shall arise and repeat the following 
 
 COVENANT OF THE CHURCH 
 
 We also, as your fellow members in this Church of Christ, 
 do join with you in the covenant which you make this day in 
 behalf of these your children. We recognize our relation to 
 them as in a peculiar sense the children of the Church, promis- 
 ing with you to watch over them, to care for all their spiritual 
 interests, and especially to labor and pray for their salvation, 
 that they may early become the subjects of that inward grace 
 whose outward sign they have now received. 
 
 After praijer by the officiating minister, the congregation still 
 standing, the following chant shall be sung, vjhile the children 
 retire: — 
 
 S^ 
 
 ifl 
 
 -g=r 
 
 ^^^ 
 
 m 
 
 G^ €j^ G^ \ G^~ "&*" • ^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 r- 
 
 -■&- 
 
 2_'|a. 
 
 t 
 
 1. Then will I sprinkle clean || water, .up- || on you, 
 
 And li ye shall || be || clean ; 
 
 2. A new heart also || will I ii give you, 
 
 And a new spirit || will I || put with- || in you ; 
 
 3. The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting 
 
 upon II them that || fear Him. 
 And His righteousness !l unto || children's || children. 
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Order of dorsbip 
 
 Service at 11 a. m. 
 Prelude. 
 Doxology.* 
 
 Invocation, closing with the Lord's Prayer.* 
 Anthem. 
 
 Responsive Reading.* 
 ''Gloria Patri.""* 
 Hymn. 
 
 Scripture Lesson. 
 Prayer and Response. 
 Offertory. 
 Hymn.* 
 Sermon. 
 Hymn.* 
 
 Prayer and Benediction. 
 Postlude. 
 
 N. B. All the Amens are sung by the choir except that following 
 the Offertory. 
 
 * Congregation standing. 
 
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MINISTERS 
 
 COLLEGE 
 
 PLACE OF 
 
 THEOLOGICAL 
 
 EDUCATION 
 
 DISMISSED 
 
 T. John Fisk, A.M., 
 Nehemiah Barker, 
 Eden Burroughs, D.D., 
 Gordon Johnson, 
 
 ROSWELL WHITMORE, 
 
 Thomas O. Rice, D.D., 
 Thos. t. Waterman, 
 Wm. W. Davenport, 
 Jeremiah Taylor, D.D., 
 Adelbert F. Keith, 
 James Dingwell, 
 Edward Anderson, 
 Herbert S. Brown, 
 S. S. Mathews, D.D., 
 
 Braintree, Mass. 
 Unknown, 
 
 Farmington, Conn. 
 August, 1766, 
 
 Ashford, Conn., 
 
 April 10, 1787, 
 
 Ashby, Mass., 
 
 Aug. 19, 1815, 
 
 Windham, Conn., 
 Sept. 24, 18ul, 
 
 Hallowell, Me., 
 Feb. 28, 1 
 
 Hawley, Mass., 
 
 June 11, 1817, 
 
 Brockton, Mass., 
 
 Aug. 2, 1841 
 
 Providence, R. I., 
 June 11, 1838 
 
 Boston, Mass., 
 
 Nov. 19, 1833, 
 
 Salisbury, Mass., 
 
 June 3, 1847, 
 
 Harvard, 1702, 
 Yale, 1742, 
 
 Middlebury, 
 Williams, 
 
 Amherst, 
 Yale, 
 
 Amherst, 
 
 Yale, 
 
 Tutors, X 
 
 His father, Rev. Moses 
 Fisk of Braintree, 
 
 Dr. Emmons, Franklin, 
 
 Mass. 
 Rev. Mr. Warren, Wil- 
 
 braham, 
 Dr. Backus, Somers, Ct. 
 East Windsor, Conn. 
 
 His father. Rev. Elijah 
 Waterman, 
 
 Rev. A. C. Thompson, 
 
 D.D., Roxbury, Mass. 
 
 Andover Theo. Sem. ( 
 
 Princeton Theo.Sem. \ 
 
 Hartford Theo. Sem. 
 Bangor Theo. Sem. 
 
 His father, Rev. R. 
 
 Anderson, D.D. 
 
 Yale, 
 
 Andover, Class of '74, 
 
 About Nov., 
 1715, 
 
 Feb. 25, 1745,* 
 Jan. 23, 17Cn, 
 O.Dec. 12, 1804, 
 O.Jan. 13, 1813, 
 O.Jan. 1,1845, 
 I Jan. 18, 1858, 
 
 0. Aug.21, 1861, 
 
 1. May 12, 1869, 
 I. Oct. 13, 1874, 
 I. Jan. 24, 1878, 
 I. May 13, 1890, 
 Nov. 1805, 
 April 8, 1898, § 
 
 1741. 
 
 17.55. 
 
 1772.t 
 
 Jan. 31, 1809. 
 
 March 2, 1843. 
 
 March 25, 1856. 
 
 Jan. 30, 1801. 
 
 Sept. 30, 1868. 
 
 Dec. 31, 1871. 
 
 May 15, 1877. 
 
 Dec. 1, 1889. 
 
 1895. 
 
 Nov., 1898. 
 
 * Ordained and installed. 
 
 t Stated and occasional supplies till the new meetinghouse was built in " the west field " in 1796, and then till the 
 settlement of Rev. Gordon Johnson. 
 
 X Took college studies under tutors because of ill health. Studied 1 year in Europe. 
 
 § Was called to pastorate in December, 1898, accepted call February following, and was installed, with sermon bj- 
 Dr. Lyman Abbott, January, 1899. 
 
Cbe Diaconate 
 
 The church has for nearly two centuries had men who in 
 many cases have shown themselves of exceptional ability and 
 gifts in this divinely appointed office. The first entry after 
 that of the organization of the church is as follows : — 
 
 Killingly, Dec. 29, 1715, The church was detained after the Publick 
 service preparatory to the communion on ye ensuing Sabbath for the 
 choice of Deacons, and by a great majority Brothers Peter Aspinwall 
 and Brother Elieze Bateman were chosen to that office and accepted 
 the choice. 
 
 Peter Aspinwall, Dec. 29, 1715. 
 Elieze Bateman, Dec. 29, 1715. 
 Eliezer Bateman, Jr., Jan. 1, 1729. 
 Hanniel Clark, Oct. 10, 1733. 
 Boaz Stearns, May 9, 1745. 
 Nathanael Pattin, May 9, 1745. 
 Samuel Knight, *) 
 Samuel Stearns, 
 Daniel Davis, 
 Silas Hutchins, 
 
 James Danielson, 
 Shubael Hutchins, 
 Adam B. Danielson, 
 Warren Stearns, 
 Stowell L. Weld, 
 William H. Chollar, 
 John Waldo, 
 
 Date of election uncertain. 
 
 DEACONS 
 
 elected March 14, 1813 *Oct. 23, 1827. 
 March 14, 1813— Nov. 27, 1828. 
 Nov. 27, 1828 *April 14, 1872. 
 Nov. 27, 1828 *Jan. 23, 1862. 
 March 27, 1862 *Dec. 16, 1865. 
 March 27, 1862— 
 March 27, 1862— 
 
 Died. 
 
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Elisha Danielson, elected April 13, 1866 *Oct. 6, 1866. 
 
 John D. Bigelow, '' Dec. 28, 1886 *Feb. 14, 1888. 
 
 Joseph W. Stone, " Jan. 13, 1875— 
 
 Ezekiel R. BurUngame, '' Jan. 27, 1885 *Dec. 27, 1887. 
 
 Charles Phillips, " March 29, 1888— Jan. 23, 1902. 
 
 John A. Paine, '' Jan. 8, 1891— 
 
 Joel Witter, "■ Jan. 8, 1891— Jan. 17, 1901. 
 
 George B. Guild, " Jan. 8, 1891— 
 
 Fred A. Jacobs, " Jan. 8, 1891— Feb. 11, 1897 
 
 Gilbert A. Bailey, " Feb. 11, 1897 *Oct. 12, 1898. 
 
 Willard S. Danielson, " Jan. 19, 1899— 
 
 David Witter, " Jan. 17, 1901— 
 
 Simeon Danielson, " Jan. 23, 1902— 
 
 DEACONESSES 
 
 At the annual meeting in 1879 it was voted that six deacon- 
 esses be appointed, and the Pastor was authorized to select 
 them. In 1899 the parish was divided into nine districts, and 
 the number of deaconesses increased to nine, — one in charge 
 of each district. These districts are : — 
 
 Miss Mary Dexter, 1879-1891. 
 Miss Emily Danielson, 1879-1891. 
 Mrs. E. Scarborough, 1879-1891. 
 Mrs. Albert Danielson, 1879-1891. 
 Mrs. M. P. Dowe, 1879-1902. 
 Mrs. Jeremiah Hill, 1879. 
 Mrs. Wesley Wilson, 1887. 
 Mrs. Simon Waldo, 1887-1895. 
 Mrs. Richard Lathrop, 1891. 
 Mrs. Ludentia A. Weld, 1891-1895. 
 Mrs. George Lyon, 1891-1902. 
 Mrs. Wesley Wilson, 1893. 
 Miss Clarissa Adams, 1891-1898. 
 Mrs. Marcus Wood, 1895-1902. 
 Mrs. Simeon Danielson, 1896-1902. 
 Mrs. P. B. Sibley, 1897-1901. 
 Mrs. George B. Guild, 1898-1900. 
 
 * Died. 
 
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DEACONESSES — Continued 
 Mrs. David Witter, 1900-1903. 
 Mrs. John Paine, 1902-1903. 
 Mrs. Susan Stone, 1895 — 
 Mrs. Arthur G. Bill, 1897— 
 Mrs. Priscilla Brown, 1900—; 
 Miss Olive D. Sanger, 1902— 
 Mrs. George Cole, 1902— 
 Miss Nellie Gleason, 1902— 
 Mrs. Esther Jacobs, 1902-1905. 
 Mrs. James Paine, 1903 — 
 Miss Ellen J. Hyde, 19—. 
 Mrs. Joseph Danielson, 1905 — 
 
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Superintendentd 
 
 OF THE WESTFIELD OONGKEGATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOLS 
 
 OF THE HOME SCHOOL 
 
 Elisha Carpenter*, dates not found. 
 H. L. Danielson, 1858-1864. 
 W. H. Chollar, 1864, 
 J. D. Bigelow, date not found. 
 W. H. Chollar, 1870. 
 Henry M. Danielson, 1871. 
 F. G. Sawtelle, 1872-1876. 
 W. H. Chollar, 1876. 
 E. A. Phinney, 1877-1879. 
 Rev. Jas. Dingwell, 1880. 
 J. Witter, 1881. 
 A. P. Somes, 1882-1884. 
 J. W. Stone, 1885. 
 W. K. Logee, 1885-1886 
 Wesley Wilson, 1887. 
 E. L. Palmer, 1888-1891. 
 Geo. Guild, 1892-1901. 
 W. H. Barron, 1902-1904 
 Geo. B. Guild, Jan., 1905— 
 During a period of several years branch schools were con- 
 ducted in several parts of the town. 
 
 1862 
 Killingly Center. 
 
 Hulet or Mashentuck. 
 
 Warren or Green Hollow Road. 
 
 *The late distinguished Judge Carpenter of the Supreme Bench of 
 Connecticut. 
 
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1863 
 
 K. Center, E. Davis, Supt. 
 Hulet, Deacon J. Waldo, Supt. 
 Warren District, E. A. Peckham, Supt. 
 
 1864 
 K. Center, E. Davis, Supt. 
 Hulet, Deacon J. Waldo, Supt. 
 Warren District, E. A. Peckham, Supt. 
 
 1865 
 K. Center, E. A. Peckham, Supt. 
 Hulet, Israel Simmons, Supt. 
 Brooklyn Side, N. E. Williams, Supt. 
 
 1866 
 
 K. Center, E. A. Peckham, Supt. 
 
 Hulet, A. Z. Kies, Supt. 
 
 This village. Deacon J. D. Bigelow. 
 
 1867 
 K. Center, E. A. Peckham, 7 months. 
 Hulet, A. G. Cumnock, 5 months. 
 This village. Deacon J. D. Bigelow. 
 
 1868 
 K. Center, E. A. Peckham, 5 months. 
 Hulet, P. H. Sprague and H. M. Danielson, 7 months. 
 This village. Deacon J . D. Bigelow. 
 
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Lists of )VIeinbers 
 
 ORIGINAL MEMBERS 
 
 "An account of their names who were by a council (on Oct. 
 19th, 1715) of elders and messengers embodied into Ch. estate 
 in the town of Kellingly.'' 
 
 John risk Pastor elect James Danielson 
 
 Eliesar Batman Peter Aspinwall 
 
 Richard Blosse George Blanchard 
 
 Isaac Jewett James Levins 
 
 Thomas Gould Stephen Grover 
 
 Sampson Howe 
 
 ("Eleven in number.") 
 
 '•' An account of the names of those with respect to whom let- 
 ters recomend and dissmissary have been obtained for the 
 more orderly transaction, and partaking of special privileges 
 with the Church of Kellingly. Both males and females and 
 the time of being admitted into this Church." 
 
 1715 James Danielson and Mary his wife, Woodstock 
 
 " Peter Aspinwell & Elizabeth his wife, Woodstock 
 
 " Eliesar Batman from W^oburn 
 
 " *Richard Blosse from W. Watertown 
 
 " George Blanchard & Sarah his Wife — Lexington 
 
 " Isaac Jewett & Dorcas his Wife — Rowley 
 
 " James Levens & Mary his Wife — Woodstock 
 
 " Thomas Gould & Stephen Grover received by Council 
 
 '' Sampson Howe & Priscilla Gould — Woodstock 
 
 * Richard Blosse is put down as liaving been received in 1716, but 
 his position among the others would seem to indicate that 1715 was 
 intended. 
 
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1715 The Wife of Jno Migliill— Woodstock 
 The Wife of Tho. Mighill— Woodstock 
 
 " James Wilson & his Wife from Lexington 
 
 1716 Dorathy Felshaw from Weston 
 
 1718 Benjamin Bixby & Martha his Wife — Reading 
 
 " John Hutchings & Mary his Wife — Plainfield 
 
 " Mrs Abigal Fisk — Mansfield 
 
 " Elisabeth Batman — Woburn 
 
 1721 Elisabeth Lawrence — Plainfield 
 '• Susanna Alexander — Medway 
 
 1722 Nathaniel Johnson & Mehitable his wife — Haverhill 
 1724 Hanniel Clark — from Haverhill 
 
 1728 Samuel Xarrimore — Boston Old Xorth 
 
 1727 Francis Whitmore & his Wife from Stratford 
 "■ Mary the Wife of John Haskell — Middleboro 
 
 1728 Ivory Upham from Reading & 
 " Tabitha his Wife from Woburn 
 
 1729 John Barrit & Dorathy his Wife— Maiden 
 " Ephraim Gyle from Haverhill 
 
 1730 David Bosworth & Priscilla his Wife — Plimpton 
 '•'■ Mary Covill from Plainfield 
 
 1733 Jesse Carpenter & Margaret his Wife — Woodstock 
 
 1736 Benjamin Bruce & his Wife — Framingham 
 " Marcy W of Daniel Lawrence — Mansfield 
 
 1737 Hannah Wife of Dr. Bateman — Lexington 
 '' David Roberts & Rachel his Wife — Woburn 
 
 1739 Hannah Wife of John Evens— Plainfield 
 
 " Mary ye Wife of Thomas Mighill Jr — Maiden 
 
 1740 Sarah ye Wife of Thomas Harris — Plainfield 
 
 "An account of such Persons who have entered into Covenant 
 & renewed ye Baptismall engagements undi" ye Pastoral care 
 of J. F. (John Fisk) since the first gathering ye Church of 
 Christ in Kellingly. The Distinction made by ye Letter E & 
 R & * a sign of ye Death." 
 
 (*• Half Way Covenant." Total 152 persons.) 
 
 1715 Deborah ye wife Nath. Brown 
 RSamuel Winter & 
 RElisabeth his wife. 
 
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^ of Eben. Brooks 
 
 1716 RWilliam Cady'& 
 
 Sarah^^his wife. 
 
 ^ ( Nath. ye son & j „ ,^ ^ , 
 ■= I Elis. ye Daughter [o^N-C^^dy 
 
 Abigal ye Daughter of W. Robinson 
 Risaac Cutler 
 
 Martlia ye wife of Eb : Brooks 
 
 Mary ye wife of Will. Bobinson 
 RWilliam & Hannah Learned* 
 
 Ebenezer, 
 Ejabez & 
 
 Eliezar, 
 
 Martha, 
 
 Unis & 
 
 Priscilla 
 
 Sarah ye wife of David Rosse & 
 
 David Rosse. 
 *Benj. & Elis. Levens 
 Rjoseph & Elis. Cady 
 
 John & Mary Kemins 
 Ejoanna ye Daughter of N. Cady 
 RAbigal ye wife of James Cady 
 RAbigall ye wife of Sal Draper 
 RHannah ye wife of John Firmin 
 EMichael Hulet 
 
 1717 RSamuel Davis & Sarah his wife 
 R James Willson junr. 
 RMary Priest, Widow 
 Rjoseph Barrett & Lydia his wife 
 RAbigal ye wife of Joseph Parks 
 
 Hesekiah Sabin & 
 Zuriah his wife 
 Edward Converse & 
 Elis. his Wife 
 Thomas Whitmore & 
 
 1720R 
 
 Elisabeth his Wife 
 
 EJoseph Covell, junr. & 
 
 RHannah his Wife 
 
 RMary ye Wife of John Winter, junr. 
 
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1720 RUrian Horsmer & *Sarah his Wife. 
 
 1721 EAllis ye Wife of John Grover 
 
 1722E I Be^t^^s & ) Daughters of Jab. Utter 
 I Elisabeth ) ^ 
 
 RHannah ye Wife of Saml. Converse, junr. 
 
 1723 EEbenesar Green son of Henry Gr. junr. 
 ESamuel Vitter. 
 
 1724 EHenry Green, junr. & 
 Rhis Wife Judith 
 
 RMehittable ye Wife of Jabez Alleine 
 
 James Barns & Elisabeth his Wife. 
 
 i^T» { Daniel Whitmore & 
 1 i 2oR 
 
 ( Dorcas his Wife. 
 
 RKatherine ye Wife of Nathan' 1. Blanchard 
 
 RThomas Mighills, junr. & 
 
 Mary his Wife 
 RSarah ye Wife of Sam. '11. Cutler. 
 
 Abigal ye Wife of Stephen Cady 
 RHannah ye Wife of Eliesar Brooks 
 
 1726 RMargarett ye Wife of John Lee 
 RDavid Cadey & Hannah his Wife 
 RMary the Wife of Samll. Whitmore 
 
 Ephraim Warren & Tabitha his Wife. 
 
 1727 Risaac Jewett, Junr. & Ann his Wife 
 EJohn Stacy 
 
 Rjaasariah Horsmer & Rachel his Wife 
 
 EWilliam Jarvis & Elisabeth his Wife 
 
 ESamuel Daillee 
 1728R i Ephraim Whitmore & Elis. his Wife 
 
 i John Felshaw & Elisa. his Wife 
 
 John Haskell, Sen.* Entered into Covt. Privately on his 
 Death bed 
 
 EEleasar Green 
 
 f Seth Green 
 E } Mathew Green 
 
 V Esther Green 
 
 ERobert Plank 
 
 I Benja. Sudney 
 E ) Eliphalet Wight 
 
 ' Mehitabell [87] 
 
1731R 
 
 1728 ESarah Marsh & 
 EElisa. Marsh 
 EKesia Munion & 
 ESarah Munion 
 eAIHs Shaw 
 
 1729 EZurviah ye Wife of John Bowers 
 Rjohn Hallwall 
 
 REbeneser Wilson & Anne his Wife 
 
 1730 Rjames Cadey 
 
 Esther ye Daughter of Daniel Lawrence 
 RPenellopy Thompson & 
 
 Elisa. ye Wife of Stephen Henington 
 
 Joseph Moffitt & 
 
 Mary his Wife 
 
 Josiah son of Maniel Clark 
 RDavid Waters & Margery his Wife 
 
 1732 RSamuel Bloice 
 
 1733 REleasar Watson & Mary his Wife 
 RRichd. Lilly 
 
 Rjohn Knight & Susanna his Wife 
 Rjonathan Cadey 
 Rjohn Williams 
 EJoanna his Wife 
 
 1734 RElisa ye Wife of Enoch Moffitt 
 RCyprian & Jerusha Morse 
 RStephen Brown 
 
 Susanna ye Wife of James Johnson 
 Rjohn Russell & Sarah his Wife 
 Mehittable ye Wife of Will. Moffitt. 
 
 1735 RDavid Day & Bathsheba his Wife 
 RBenja. Cadey & Elisabeth his Wife 
 
 1736 RWilliam Blanchard 
 Rjohn & Mirriam Burley 
 
 David Russell, junr. & Anna his Wife. 
 1738 Stephen Russell & Lucy his Wife 
 
 Sarah ye Wife of John Pooler 
 
 Abigal, Mary & Judith, Daughters of John Fuller 
 RMary ye Wife of Thomas Harris, junr. 
 Rjohn & Abigal Robbins 
 
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1738 BWyman & Abigal Hutchins 
 
 RElisa. ye Wife of John Firmin, junr. 
 
 ''An account of their names who have been received into full 
 Communion with the Church of Christ in Kellingly, by J. Fisk, 
 Pastor of ye C. there." 
 
 ON CONFESSION OF FAITH 
 
 1715 Richard Dresser & Marcy his Wife 
 
 1716 John Preston & Mary his Wife 
 Sarah ye AVife of Mathew Alleine 
 Andrew Phillips & Elisa his Wife 
 Sarah the Wife of Isaac Cutler 
 Mary ye Wife of Will. Robinson 
 David Church & Mary his Wife 
 Ebeneser Brooks & Martha his Wife 
 Jacob Cumins & Martha his Wife 
 Joseph Levens & Judith his Wife 
 John Younglove 
 
 Allis ye Wife of Joseph Covell 
 
 1717 David Russell 
 
 Ebeneser Knight & Lydia his Wife 
 Susanna ye Wife of Ebenez. Kee 
 Dorothy ye Wife of Samll. Robbins. 
 Deborah ye Wife of Xath. Brown 
 Sarah ye Wife of Left. Cadey 
 Eleasar Batman & Mary his Wife 
 Mary Batman 
 
 Abigal ye Wife of Daniel Cadey & 
 Hephsibah ye Wife of Dav. Shapley 
 Thomas Whitmore 
 David Shapley 
 Michael Hulett 
 
 1718 Israel Proctor 
 
 Elisabeth ye Wife of David Cutting 
 Ebeneser Brooks, junr. & Sarah his Wife 
 
 1719 Mehitabell ye Wife of H. Elithorp 
 Mehitabell ye Wife of Ja. Willson, junr. 
 Elisabeth ye Wife of Robert Burch 
 
 1721 Samuel Converse 
 
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1721 Sarah ye Wife of David Bosse 
 Allis ye Wife John Grover 
 Elisa. ye Wife of John Cooper 
 
 1722 Sarah ye Daughter of Will. Gary. 
 
 1723 Ebeneser Green & Sarah his Wife 
 Joanna Wife of Samuel Utter 
 
 1724 Henry Green, junr. 
 
 Elisabeth Leavens, Widow of Benj. L. 
 Hannah ye Wife Will^ii. Learned 
 Mary the Wife of John Winter 
 John Cooper 
 
 1725 Edward Converse & Elisabeth his Wife 
 Thomas Converse & Martha his Wife 
 Samuel Danielson & Comfort Starr 
 Jerusha Duglass 
 
 Sarah the Wife of Sam'l. Danielson 
 
 Gideon Draper 
 
 Abigal ye Wife of Gideon Draper 
 
 Robert Day 
 
 William Whitney & Mary his Wife 
 
 John Church & Eliz. his Wife 
 
 Jacob Spaulding & Hannah his Wife 
 
 1726 Mary ye Wife of Benja. Barrett 
 Lydia ye Daughter of Jona. Eaton 
 
 1727 Abigal the Wife of Jacob Commins 
 Elisa. the Wife of Sam'l Winters. 
 Sarah ye Wife of John Stacy 
 Hannah ye Wife of Eleas. Brooks 
 John Brown & Sarah Davis, Widow. 
 Daniel Whitmore & Dorcas his Wife 
 
 Boaz Sterns, Amos Pierce & Mary his Wife, Sarah 
 Daillee. 
 
 1728 John Winter, Senr., & Robert Cook 
 Joseph Batman, Thomas Batman 
 
 Eleaser Green, Benja. Winter & Zebediah Clark 
 Dorcas Jewitt 
 
 Unis Brooks, Ruth Batman, Elisabeth Grover 
 Robert Plank & Hannah his Wife 
 Thomas Whitmore, junr. & Elisabeth his Wife 
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1728 Hannah ye Daughter of Jas. Willson 
 Hesekiah Sabin & Zurviah his Wife 
 Benja. Pudney & Abigal his Wife 
 Elisa. ye Wife of Jos. Cady, Junr. 
 Abigal ye Wife of Stephen Cadey 
 Elisa. ye Wife of Comfort Starce 
 Hephsiba ye Wife of Xath'l. Cosby 
 Mary Lee, Relict of Saml. Lee. 
 Margarett ye Wife of John Lee 
 Dorathy ye Wife of John Willson 
 Nathaniel Stone & Mary his Wife 
 Dorcas ye Daughter of John Wylle 
 Tabitha ye Wife of Haniel Clark 
 Hannah ye Wife of John Pepper 
 
 Samuel Converse, Junr. & Priscilla, Wife Nath'l. Coller. 
 
 Catherine ye Wife of Nath'l. Blanchard 
 
 Lydia the Daughter of John Brown 
 
 Sarah ye Wife of Edward Mynion 
 
 John Falshaw & Elisabeth his Wife 
 
 Mary ye Daughter of Jos. Jewitt 
 
 Mary the Wife of Sam'l. Whitmore 
 
 Hannah ye Wife of David Cadey 
 
 1729 Israel Joslin 
 
 Joseph Barrit & Lydia his Wife 
 Benjamin Barritt 
 
 Jabes Brooks, John Bowers & Zurviah his Wife 
 Mary Cutler 
 
 John Russell & Elisa. his Wife, Mehittable AUyne 
 Abigal Wife of Ja. Cadey 
 Sibylla ye Daughter of John Parks 
 Sarah ye Wife of David Marsh 
 
 Joseph Symonds & Mary his Wife & Mary ye Wid. of 
 Thos. Mighill. 
 
 1730 Elisa. ye Wife of Thomas Batman 
 Mary Lock 
 
 1731 Allis ye Wife of Joseph Batman 
 John Leavens & Mary his Wife 
 Mary the Wife of Joseph Mighill 
 
 1732 Jemima ye Wife of John Younglove 
 
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1732 Martha ye Wife of Samuel Bloice 
 
 1733 Hesekiah Cutler 
 
 Eunice ye Wife of Daniel Church 
 Stephen Spaulding & Mary his Wife 
 Joseph Moffitt & Seth Cutler 
 Dorathy ye Wife of Pelor & 
 Mary ye Wife of Richard Lilly 
 Betty ye Wife of Jonathan Cadey 
 
 1734 John Eaton & Rachel his Wife 
 Sarah ye Wife of Stephen Brown 
 Mehittable ye Wife of Will. Moffitt 
 Andrew Phillips, Junr. & Elisabeth his Wife 
 Nathaniel Patten & Anna his Wife 
 Priscilla ye Wife of Thomas Batman 
 
 1735 Sarah ye Daughter of J. & A. Fisk 
 Amity ye Wife of Lebbeus Graves. 
 Jacob Baker A. M. 
 
 Sarah ye Wife of William Johnson 
 
 1736 Pegge ye Wife of John Priest 
 
 John Church, Junr. & Amey his Wife 
 Ruth ye Wife of Thorn. Whitmore 
 Thankf. ye Wife of Will. Blanchard 
 Susanna ye Wife of Hesekiah Cutler 
 Elisb. ye Wife of Ephr. Whitmore 
 
 1737 Joseph Hutchins & Zurviah his Wife & 
 Ruth Hutchins 
 
 Samuel Knight & Rachel his Wife 
 Elisa. ye Daughter of Sergt. Ja. Leav. 
 
 1738 Daniel Lawrence 
 
 1739 Cornelius Whitney & Sarah his Wife 
 Eunice Bruce, Daughter of Benja. B 
 
 1740 Elisabeth Bateman 
 
 Thomas Moffit & Benjamin Leavens 
 Susannah ye wife of John Church 
 Stephen Russell & Lucy his Wife 
 Bathsheba, Wife of David Day 
 Elisabeth ye Wife of Benj. Cadey 
 Bathsheba Johnson, Widow 
 
 1741 Joseph Leavens, Junr. 
 
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''Here followeth an acct. of theire names who are either 
 members in Full Communion with the Church in Kellingly by 
 Reception or Recomendation or doe usuall partake at the Sac- 
 rament with those Here. Xote that those whose names are 
 Prefixed with ye letter (R) are Removed, those with the letter 
 (E) are excomunicated & Putt off the Chh. & those with this 
 figure (*) are Deceased as also ye letter (F) signifies ye females." 
 
 Benjamin Bigsby* 
 Martha his Wife f. 
 Isaac Jewit & 
 Dorcas his Wife f. 
 John Younglove 
 Sampson How & 
 Allis his Wife f. 
 Jonathan Eaton & 
 Lydia his Wife f 
 Richard Dresser & 
 Marcy his Wife f . 
 Dorcas Converse f. 
 Dorathy Felshaw f . 
 Hannah Briant f. 
 James Willson & 
 Margaret his Wife f. 
 George Blanchard & 
 Sarah his Wife f. 
 John Fisk, Pastor 
 James Leavens & 
 Mary his Wife f. 
 Susanna Kee 
 Sarah Hlid f. 
 Mary Robinson f.* 
 Joseph Leavens & 
 Judith his Wife f. 
 David Church & * 
 Mary his Wife f . 
 Peter Aspinwall & 
 Elisab. his Wife f. 
 Mary Whitmore f 
 
 Abigal Mighill f . 
 Elisabeth Mighill f. 
 James Danielson & 
 Mary his Wife f. 
 Mary Waters f. 
 Elisab. Day f. 
 David Russell & 
 Susanna his Wife f. 
 Israel Cumins & 
 Marth. his Wife f. * 
 Hannah Cutler f 
 Richard Blosse 
 Sarah Cutler f 
 Abigale Winter f * 
 John Preston & r. 
 Mary his Wife f. r. 
 *Allis Covel f. 
 Andrew Phillips & 
 Elisa. his Wife f. 
 Abiel Lamb & 
 Hannah his Wife f. 
 Eliesar Batman & 
 Elisabeth his Wife f. 
 Thomas Gould & 
 Priscilla his Wife f. 
 Ebeneser Brooks & ^ 
 Martha his Wife f. 
 Stephen Grover & * 
 Elisab. his Wife f. 
 Dorathy Robins f. 
 Ebeneser Knight & 
 [90] 
 
Lydia his Wife f . 
 Margaret Proctor f 
 Sarah Brown f 
 Sarah Cadey, Senr. 
 Eleasar Batman, Junr. & 
 Mary his Wife f 
 Mary Batman f 
 Abigal Cadey, Senr. f 
 Hepsibah Shapley f 
 Abigal ye Wife of J. Fisk 
 Michael Hulett 
 Thomas Whitman 
 David Shapley* 
 Israel Proctor 
 R*Mary Kemins f 
 John Hutchins & 
 Mary his Wife f 
 Elisa. Cutting f 
 Ebeneser Brooks, Junr. 
 & Sarah his Wife f 
 RMoses Barrett & 
 *Sarah his Wife f 
 Mehittable Ellithorp f 
 RMehittable Willson f 
 *Samuel Converse 
 Sarah Rosse f 
 *Elisabeth Lawrence f 
 Allis Grover f 
 Elisabeth Burch f 
 Elisa. Cooper f 
 *RSarah Gary f 
 *Ebeneser Green & 
 *Sarah his Wife f 
 Jonathan Clough & 
 *Sarah his Wife 
 Nathaniel Johnson & 
 Mehittable his Wife f 
 
 Wight f 
 
 Parks f 
 
 Elisabeth Preston f 
 
 Joanna Utter f 
 
 Henry Green, Junr. 
 
 Elisabeth Leavens f 
 
 Nathaniel Merrill & 
 
 Mary Merrill f 
 
 *John Cooper 
 
 William Learned & 
 
 Hannah Learned f 
 
 Edward Converse & 
 
 Elisa. his Wife f 
 
 Thomas Converse & 
 
 *Martha his Wife f 
 
 Rjerusha Duglas f 
 
 Samuel Danielson 
 
 Comfort Starr 
 
 Sarah Danielson f 
 
 Gideon Draper 
 
 Abigal Draper f 
 
 Robert Day 
 
 William Whitney & 
 
 Mary his Wife f 
 
 John Church & 
 
 Elisab. his Wife f 
 
 Jacob Spalding & 
 
 Hannah his Wife f 
 
 Mary ye Wife of Benj. Barrett f 
 
 RLydia Eaton f 
 
 Abigal Cumins f 
 
 Elisabeth Winter f 
 
 RSarah Stacy f 
 
 Hannah ye Wife of Eas. 
 
 Brooks f 
 Daniel Whitmore & 
 Dorcas his Wife f 
 Boaz Sterns 
 Amos Peirce & 
 Mary his Wife r [ielson 
 
 Sarah ye Wife of Samuel Dan- 
 [94] 
 
Rjohn Winter, Senr. 
 
 RRobert Cook 
 
 Joseph Batman 
 
 Thomas Batman 
 
 Eleasar Green 
 
 RBenjamin Whiter 
 
 RZebediah Clark 
 
 Unis Brooks f 
 
 Ruth Batman 
 
 Elisa Grover, Junr. f 
 
 Dorcas Jewett f 
 
 Robert Plank & 
 
 Hannah his Wife f 
 
 Thomas Whitmore & 
 
 Elisabeth his Wife f 
 
 Hannah ye Daughter of Ja. 
 
 Willson 
 Hesekiah Sabin & 
 Zerviah his Wife f [Junr. 
 
 Mary ye Wife of John Winter, 
 Benja. Pudney & 
 Abigal his Wife f 
 Elisa. Cadey of Jos. Junr. 
 Abigal Cadey of Stephen Junr. 
 Elisa. Starre f 
 Hephsibah Crosby f 
 *Mary Lee f 
 Margaret Lee f 
 Dorathy Willson f 
 Nathaniel Stone & 
 Mary his Wife f 
 Dorcas Wylle f 
 
 Ivory Upham & 
 
 Tabitha his Wife f 
 
 Tabitha Clark f 
 
 Hannah Pepper f 
 
 Samuel Converse, Junr. 
 
 Priscilla Collar f 
 
 Catherine Blanchard f 
 
 Lydia Brown, D. of J.Brown, f 
 
 Sarah Mynion f 
 
 John Falshaw 
 
 Eliea. Falshaw f 
 
 Mary Jewet f 
 
 Mary Whitmore f 
 
 Hannah Cadey f 
 
 Israel Joslin 
 
 Joseph Barrett & 
 
 Lydia his Wife f 
 
 Benja. Barrett 
 
 Jabez Brooks 
 
 John Brown & 
 
 Zerviah his Wife f 
 
 RMary Cutler f 
 
 John Russell & 
 
 Eliza, his Wife f 
 
 Mehittable Allyn f 
 
 Abigal Cady W. of James f 
 
 *Sibylla Park f 
 
 *John Barrett & 
 
 *Dorathy his Wife f 
 
 Sarah, W. of David Marsh, f 
 
 Josiah Symonds & 
 
 Mary his Wife f 
 
 [95] 
 
" Received into full Communion by this Chh. were the 
 following Persons. '^ 
 
 (upon confession) 
 
 1746 
 
 David Russell Juni' the 30th Day of March. 
 
 Esther Leavens Aprill the 30th Day. 
 
 Nathaniel Draper on the 11th day of May. 
 
 Margrett Carpenter June the 8th Day. 
 
 Zyporah Xegrow of Capt. Danielson was on the Same Day 
 
 Baptized and Rec*^ to full Communion. 
 John Robbens November 16th Day. 
 Annis the wife of David Russell Junr. 
 
 1752 
 
 Abigail wife of Jno. Robbens Upon the 12th Day of January. 
 Eleazar Warren in July. 
 
 1753 
 
 Wid. Sarah Chilson Nov. the 4th day. 
 
 Olive the wife of Eleazar Warren Dec^r ye 9th. 
 
 1754 
 
 Nathan Starkweather Novbr 17th Day. 
 Pricilla wife of Oliver Steams April 20th. 
 
 "by letters reoomendatory '' 
 
 1746 
 
 Silas Huchens ) f j.om Mortlake. 
 
 Gideon Draper Junr ) 
 
 [96] 
 
Nathaniel Blancharcl from Plainfield. 
 
 1747 
 
 I 
 
 Nathaniel Aspinwall & Eliz. his wife ) from the first chh. in 
 Eliz. Barker the wife of Neh. Barker ) Woodstock. 
 
 1749 
 Benjamin Huchens and Judith his wife from Plainlield. 
 
 1750 
 Richard Whittemore from Chelsea. 
 
 1752 
 Zervia the wife of Cornelius Whitney from Mortlake. 
 
 1753 
 
 Daniel Davis and I f^^^^()^^^^^ 
 Thamar his wife i 
 
 [97] 
 
Cbronological Xist 
 
 From the Reorganization 
 
 Those marked thus,*, are deceased (the date when know a 
 follows the name); those marked "r" have been dismissed 
 to other churches; those marked thus,t, have been excom- 
 municated or suspended; those marked "e" have been 
 stricken from the roll. The churches from which members 
 have been received are set against their names thus, J, 
 When not otherwise marked members were received upon 
 confession. 
 
 MEMBERS AT THE RE-ORGANIZATION. 
 
 August 25, 1801. 
 
 1 *Mr. Zadoc Spalding Aug. 29, 1817 
 
 2 *Mr. Boaz Stearns Apr. 20, 1805 
 
 3 ♦Mr. Zadoc Hutchins Feb. 17, 18.35 
 
 4 *Mr. James Danielson. (Dea.) Oct. 23, 1827 
 
 5 *Mr. Penuel Hutchins Oct. 17, 1841 
 
 6 ♦Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchins Apr. 26, 1820 
 
 7 ♦Mr. Samuel Stearns Mar. 20, 1806 
 
 8 ♦Mrs. Mary Stearns Feb. 6, 1861 
 
 9 ♦Mrs. Abigail Stearns Oct., 1832 
 
 10 ♦Mrs. Sarah L. Danielson Apr. 24, 1852 
 
 11 ♦Mr. Shubael Hutchins. (Dea.) Apr. 14, 1841 
 
 12 ♦Mrs. Hannah Spalding Nov. 26, 1809 
 
 13 ♦Mrs. Anna Kies 
 
 ADMISSIONS. 
 1802. 
 
 14 ♦Mrs. Avis Hutchins Sept. 25, 1860 
 
 15 ♦Mrs. Mary Hutchins Mar. 15, 1825 
 
 1804. 
 
 16 ♦Mr. Gordon Johnson. (Rev.) Apr. 25, 1823 
 
 [98] 
 
1807. 
 
 17 ♦Mrs. Judith Dexter, JPomfret, Ct Apr. 2, 1847 
 
 18 ♦Mrs. Sarah Danielson Sept. 9, 1852 
 
 1812. 
 
 19 *Mr. Josiah Dean Dec. 11, 1845 
 
 20 ♦Mrs. Sarah Day Aug. 5, 1848 
 
 21 ♦Mrs. Mary Dean Apr. 17, 1820 
 
 22 ♦Mrs. Nabby Malbone Sept. 18, 1812 
 
 23 ♦Miss Betsey Day Apr. 3, 1843 
 
 24 ♦Mrs. Avis (Hutchins) Whitmore Sept. 25, 1860 
 
 25 ♦Miss Polly Hutchins Sept. 15, 1827 
 
 26 tMr. David Day 
 
 1813. 
 
 27 ♦Mr. Henry Spalding Feb. 5, 1813 
 
 28 *Mr. William Danielson July 12, 1819 
 
 20 EMr. Oliver Carpenter 
 
 30 ♦Mrs. Luna Johnson, JColchester, Ct Feb., 1832 
 
 31 EMr. William Prince 
 
 32 ♦Mrs. Nancy Jillson Apr. 9, 1853 
 
 33 ♦Mr. Warren Stearns. (Dea.) Jan. 23, 1862 
 
 34 ♦Mrs. Hannah (Smith) Clark 
 
 35 liMrs. Diana (Alexander) Carder 
 
 36 ♦Mr. Zolva Whitmore. (Rev.) Aug. 5,1867 
 
 37 ♦Mr. Eleazer Williams Sept. 16, 1841 
 
 38 *Mr. William Cundall Apr. 24, 1829 
 
 39 *Mrs. Nancy (Rice) Cundall Jan. 29, 1858 
 
 40 *Mrs. Annis Day Apr. 27, 1848 
 
 41 ♦Mrs. Sarah Tanner Apr. 5, 1826 
 
 42 tMr. William Carder 
 
 43 ♦Mrs. Miriam Grover Apr. 5, 1824 
 
 44 ♦Mrs. Lucinda (Davenport) Alexander .Feb. 16, 1849 
 
 45 ♦Miss Susannah Williams July 11, 1859 
 
 46 *Mrs. Marr (Williams) Williams May, 1839 
 
 47 ♦Mrs. Mary Williams Nov. 1, 1861 
 
 48 RMrs. Sarah (Williams) Lj^on 
 
 49 ♦Miss Elizabeth Cundall Feb. 17, 1814 
 
 50 ♦Miss Hannah Cundall June 9, 1841 
 
 51 EMiss Mary Gillett 
 
 52 *Mrs. Leona (Lane) Lamb Mar. 29, 1879 
 
 53 rMiss Hannah Whitmore 
 
 1814. 
 
 54 ♦Mr. Jonathan Cutler 
 
 55 ♦Mrs. Keziah Cutler Jan. 19, 1828 
 
 [99] 
 
56 RMr. Barzillai Fisher 
 
 57 *Mr. Silas Hutchins May 4, 1814 
 
 58 *Mr. Abraham Rice , Dec. 5, 1845 
 
 59 *Mrs. Prussia Fisher June 8, 1846 
 
 60 *Mrs. Althea (Engalls) Waters Jan., 1836 
 
 61 *Mrs. Henrietta (Carder) Sabin Nov. 9, 1841 
 
 62 ♦Miss Anna Chamberlin 
 
 63 ♦Mrs. Cynthia Rice Dec. 7, 1855 
 
 64 *Miss Sophia Greenman, ^Thompson, 
 
 Ct May 4, 1842 
 
 65 *Mrs. Nancy Sykes, IThompson, Ct Oct., 1861 
 
 66 *Miss Charlotte Alexander 
 
 1816. 
 
 67 *Mrs. Anna Wilson, tRnynham, Mass. .Dec. 26, 1869 
 
 1817. 
 
 68 *Mr. John Sabin May 1,1821 
 
 69 *Mrs. Clarissa Cundall Oct. 1, 1837 
 
 70 *Mrs. Christiana Fisher May 3, 1823 
 
 71 *Mrs. Louisa Fisher Mar. 29, 1849 
 
 72 *Mr. Elisha Danielson. (Dea.) Oct. 6,1866 
 
 1820. 
 
 73 *Mr. Nathan Fuller July 18, 1848 
 
 74 *Mr. Laban Fisher July 4,1860 
 
 75 RMr. John Danielson 
 
 76 *Mrs. Lydia Fuller Mar., 1840 
 
 77 RMrs. Abigail Fisher 
 
 78 *Mrs. Lydia Chamberlin 
 
 79 *Mr. Zadoc Spalding Jan. 23, 1839 
 
 80 *Mr. Comfort Tiffany Dec, 1843 
 
 81 *Mr. David Fisher Sept. 12, 1862 
 
 82 RMr. Warren Chamberlin 
 
 83 RMr. John Chollar .' 
 
 84 *Mr. Isaac T. Hutchins Oct. 25, 1884 
 
 85 *Mr. Jacob W. Danielson Nov. 15, 1856 
 
 86 RMr. Herbert A. Reed. (Rev.) 
 
 87 *Mrs. Sally Martin Jan., 1861 
 
 88 *Mrs. Harty (Dexter) Danielson .. Oct. 26, 1880 
 
 89 *Miss Elizabeth Danielson May 11, 1820 
 
 90 *Mr. Samuel Danielson July 22, 1845 
 
 91 *Mr. Benjamin Tanner Sept. 16, 1849 
 
 92 *Mr. Willard Danielson Feb. 10, 1843 
 
 93 *Mr. George Danielson Aug. 17, 1883 
 
 94 ♦Mr. Elisha P. Spalding Sept. 30, 1837 
 
 [100] 
 
95 *Mr. Henry B. Bacon Mar., 1841 
 
 96 RMr. William Hutchins 
 
 97 RMr. Nathaniel E. Johnson. (Rev.) 
 
 98 rMfs. Amy Chamberlin 
 
 99 RMrs. Elizabeth Danielson 
 
 100 RMiss Lucy (Danielson) Crosby 
 
 101 *Mrs. Lydia B. Morse Apr. 22, 1889 
 
 102 RMrs. Eliza (Bacon) Taft 
 
 103 RMrs. Sally (Bacon) Allen 
 
 104 *Mrs. Henrietta (Spalding) Burroughs .Jan. 28, 1884 
 
 105 ^Miss Eliza Draper Dec. 5, 1884 
 
 106 *Mrs. Eliza (Tiffany) Morse Sept. 3, 1858 
 
 107 *Mrs. Anna Young June 6, 1859 
 
 108 RMrs. Joanna (Hutchins) Sprague 
 
 109 *Miss Almira Rice Aug. 30, 1824 
 
 110 *Miss Mary Spalding, $So. Killingly ..Nov. 28, 1823 
 
 111 *Mr. Adam B. Danielson. (Dea.) Apr. 14, 1872 
 
 112 *Mr. Hezekiah L. Danielson Nov. 7, 1881 
 
 113 *Mrs. Melancia W. (Robinson) Daniel- 
 
 son Dec. 8, 1869 
 
 114 *Miss Mary Ann Huntington May, 1836 
 
 115 RMiss Betsey Stowell 
 
 116 RMrs. Mary (Dexter) Elliott 
 
 117 RMr. William Reed 
 
 118 RMrs. Marcia (Learned) Woodworth 
 
 119 RMiss Melora (Alexander) Sherman 
 
 120 RMiss Sally (Day) Warren 
 
 121 *Mrs. Lucy Perry 
 
 122 RMrs. Celinda Reed 
 
 123 RMr. Havilah Mowry 
 
 124 *Mr. Samuel Stearns Sept. 19, 1842 
 
 125 *Miss Mary Bassett Dec. 21, 1826 
 
 126 RMiss Mary (Danielson) Buck 
 
 1821. 
 
 127 *Mr. Alexander Thompson June 6, 1834 
 
 128 *Mrs. Bertha Young, tSo. Killingly, Ct. ..May, 1839 
 
 129 EMrs. Harriett (Bushnell) Safford 
 
 130 RMrs. Eunice Thompson 
 
 131 RMrs. Elizabeth (Chamberlain) Rickard . . 
 
 132 ♦Miss Jane Danielson July 14, 1876 
 
 133 *Mrs. Roby Handall Feb. 14, 1866 
 
 1822. 
 
 134 *Mr. Luther Day Apr. 9, 1882 
 
 135 *Mr. Welcome S. Fisher June 10, 1879 
 
 [101] 
 
136 EMrs. Wealthy (Day) Alton 
 
 137 *Mrs. Lucy A. (Bassett) Alverson Mar. 25, 1834 
 
 138 *Miss Eliza Bassett Sept. 29, 1857 
 
 139 *Mr. Samuel Davis Dec. 24, 1822 
 
 1824. 
 
 140 rMIss Mary S. Willard 
 
 1825. 
 
 141 *Mrs. Chloe Tiffany Nov., 1852 
 
 142 *Mrs. Lucy (Danielson) Sprague Aug., 1827 
 
 143 *Miss Mary Ann Danielson Sept., 1825 
 
 144 RMrs. Eliza Chollar, JNo. Killingly, Ct. . . 
 
 145 ♦Mrs. Julia A. Day, $No. Killingly, Ct. . . .June, 1839 
 
 1826. 
 
 146 *Mis8 Maria Millett 
 
 1827. 
 
 147 rMf. Asher Starkweather 
 
 148 bMf. Henry Dexter 
 
 149 RMrs. Aurelia Danielson, JSo. Killingly, 
 
 Ct Feb., 1874 
 
 150 RMrs. Celinda Sparks, JAttleboro, Mass. . 
 
 151 *Miss Amy C. Bacon Feb. 16, 1874 
 
 152 RMrs. Rosanna Starkweather 
 
 153 *Mrs. Mary Stearns Aug. 13, 1886 
 
 154 ♦Mrs. Julia (Handall) Batty 
 
 155 ♦Mrs. Julia A. (Field) Bliss Apr. 13, 1872 
 
 1828. 
 
 156 ♦Mr. Jabez Parkhurst Apr. 21, 1843 
 
 157 ♦Mrs. Sally Parkhurst .July, 1841 
 
 158 ♦Mr. Erastus Hammett July 12, 1876 
 
 159 ♦Mrs. Priscilla Hammett Oct. 5, 1889 
 
 160 EMiss Lucinda Day July 28, 1892 
 
 161 RMrs. Mary C. (Rice) Keenan 
 
 162 EMr. John Sparks 
 
 163 ♦Mrs. Mary A. (Malbone) Bacon June 8, 1890 
 
 164 ♦Mr. William Eaton Oct., 1838 
 
 165 RMrs. Cynthia rHandall) Baker 
 
 166 ♦Mrs. Lucy M. Danielson Apr. 19, 1847 
 
 167 ♦Mrs. Almira (Bassett) Capron May 25, 1851 
 
 168 RMr. Jabez A. Allen 
 
 169 RMr. Seth Draper 
 
 170 *Mrs. Sarah A. (Young) Backus Mar. 13, 1896 
 
 [102] 
 
171 *Mrs. Ruth Hutchins July 3, 1840 
 
 172 rMis. Roxanna (Hutchins) Park 
 
 173 EMrs. Mary A. (Taylor) Munroe 
 
 174 *Mrs. Mary R. Danielson Jan 3, 1832 
 
 175 RMrs. Mary (Chollar) Osgood 
 
 176 *Mrs. Mary A. (Durkee) Johnson 
 
 177 *Mrs. Laura S. Danielson Jan. 11, 1870 
 
 178 RMr. Cyrus Whitmore 
 
 179 RMrs. Lucy Whitmore 
 
 180 ♦Mrs. Sarah Hutchins Mar. 9, 1887 
 
 181 RMiss Roby Rouse 
 
 182 *Mrs. Eliza M. (Handall) Johnson 
 
 183 *Mrs. Ann Shepherd 
 
 184 *Miss Celia Cook Apr. 27, 1848 
 
 1829. 
 
 185 *Mrs. Mary A, Austin 
 
 1830. 
 
 186 ♦Mr. Anthony Mowry 
 
 187 RMiss Clarissa Johnson 
 
 188 ♦Mrs. Esther (Williams) Danielson Feb. 4, 1888 
 
 1831. 
 
 189 ♦Mr. Eleazer Warren, JSouth Killingly, 
 
 Ct Jan. 1, 1832 
 
 190 ♦Mrs. Jerusha M. Warren, JSouth Kil- 
 
 lingly, Ct 1841 
 
 191 RMrs. Laurana W. (Park) Holbrook 
 
 192 RMrs. Avis L. (Whitmore) Weld 
 
 193 ♦Mr. John B. Hyde Nov., 1838 
 
 194 *Mrs. Daniel L. Clark 
 
 195 RMr. Cyra Bassett 
 
 196 RMr. William Alexander 
 
 197 RMr. Silas Mason 
 
 198 RMr. Nelson Leavens 
 
 199 ♦Mr. Ebenezer Young Aug. 19, 1851 
 
 200 tMrs. Mary A. (Preston) Pond 
 
 201 ♦Miss Martha Mowry Jan. 5, 1864 
 
 1832. 
 
 202 RMr. .John Bassett 
 
 203 ♦Mr. Jonathan Dexter Oct. 18, 1872 
 
 204 ♦Mr. Marvin A. Dexter June 1, 1878 
 
 205 tMr. William Dexter 
 
 [103] 
 
206 tMr. George H. Leavens 
 
 207 KMrs. Susan Bassett 
 
 208 *Mrs. Sophia F. Dexter Mar. 6, 1876 
 
 209 rMfs. Harriet (Fisher) Martin 
 
 210 RMrs. Roxanna (Bassett) Bacon 
 
 211 *Miss Patty White 
 
 212 *Mr. Samuel Hyde 
 
 213 *Mr. Isaac Cundall Apr. 14, 1846 
 
 214 *Mr. James Bussey 1873 
 
 215 tMr. Joseph Kelly 
 
 216 *Mr. William Chollar Feb. 23, 1892 
 
 217 *Mr. Thomas Backus Dec. 9, 1858 
 
 218 *Mr. Giles Woodworth July 27, 1877 
 
 219 tMr. John J. Angel 
 
 220 RMr. Gardner G. Clark 
 
 221 *Mr. Edwin Kelly Aug., 1838 
 
 222 *Mr. William Fuller 
 
 223 RMr. John P. Comins 
 
 224 *Mr. George A. Niles Apr. 7, 1890 
 
 225 *Mrs. Ann Hyde 
 
 226 *Mrs. Philura Woodworth Feb. 5, 1856 
 
 227 *Mrs. Deborah Tanner June 12, 1871 
 
 228 RMrs. E]lizabeth P. (Chollar) Leavens 
 
 229 *Mrs. Jemima (Young) Stearns Feb. 26, 1885 
 
 230 *Mrs. Harriett (Young) Hyde 
 
 231 RMrs. Elizabeth (Cundall) Spalding 
 
 232 *Mrs. Celinda Chollar Oct. 12, 1847 
 
 233 *Mrs. Henrietta Angel June, 18oT 
 
 234 RMrs. Sarepta (liaw) Tanner 
 
 235 *Mrs. Rebecca F. (Law) Darby June 26, 1893 
 
 236 *Mrs. Deborah P. Law Sept. 18, 1854 
 
 237 *Mrs. Cordelia W. (Preston) Winsor . . Feb. 13, 1895 
 
 238 RMrs. Susan Parkhurst 
 
 239 RMrs. Lucy P. (Chollar) Potter 
 
 240 RMr. Waterman A. Fisher 
 
 241 *Mr. Lewis Williams Dec. 25, 1851 
 
 242 RMr. Jared Willitims 
 
 243 *Mr. Zadoc Wilson Jan. 24, 1863 
 
 244 *Mr. Samuel S. Danielson May 11, 1864 
 
 245 *Mr. Daniel Wilson Apr., 1867 
 
 246 RMrs. Calista Dexter 
 
 247 EMrs. Almira (Cady) Adams 
 
 248 *Mrs. Hannah W. (Wilson) Willis Mar., 1838 
 
 249 *Mrs. Abbie (Fisher) Brewster Jan. 15, 1871 
 
 250 *Miss Ocia A. Thompson May 2, 1833 
 
 251 *Mr. Abner F. Bacon Feb. 21, 1875 
 
 [104] 
 
252 *Mr. Frederick Day 
 
 253 *Mr. Lyman Lamb Apr. 8,1879 
 
 254 *Mr. William C. Bacon May 9, 1877 
 
 255 RMr. Joshua Wilber 
 
 256 *Mr. Simon S. Hutchins Dec, 1840 
 
 257 *Mr. Rufus Jillson May 22, 1853 
 
 258 RMr. Chester Parkhurst 
 
 259 *Mrs. Abigail Lamb May 4, 1841 
 
 200 *Mrs. Ann (Blake) Bacon Oct. 26, 1857 
 
 261 *Mrs. LudoYisa Howe 1838 
 
 262 *Mr. James H. Spalding Jan., 1837 
 
 263 *Mr. Orville M. Capron April 6, 1880 
 
 264 RMrs. Margaret L. Wilber 
 
 265 *Miss Harriet N. Wliitmore Dec. 14, 1898 
 
 266 *Mrs. Abilene H. Hutchins Dec. 3, 1865 
 
 267 t^tr. Ziba Warren 
 
 268 RMrs. Jernsha (Bacon) Field 
 
 269 *Mrs. Huldah Davis Mar. 19, 1853 
 
 270 *Miss Frances M. Whitmore Aug. 21, 1840 
 
 271 RMiss Polly Cutler 
 
 272 RMrs. Abby (Cutler) Cole 
 
 273 *Mrs. Harriet K. Hutchins Jan. 8, 1855 
 
 274 *Mr. George Law 1874 
 
 275 RMr. Charles Cady 
 
 276 *Mr. John B. Young Sept. 12, 1859 
 
 277 *Mr. John Kenyon 
 
 278 RMr. Elisha Chamberlin 
 
 279 *Mr. Ezra R. Chamberlin Nov. 14, 1837 
 
 280 EMrs. Jane (Comins) Titus 
 
 281 EMrs. Clarissa R. (Cundall) Fuller 
 
 282 *Miss Polly Richmond 
 
 283 *Mrs. Sally (Fisher) Sydleman 
 
 284 RMrs. Mary S. (Comins) Lillibridge 
 
 285 *Miss Sally Leavens Mar. 1841 
 
 286 fMr. Silas Hutchins 
 
 287 *Miss Lucy Bacon Aug. 2, 1873 
 
 288 *Mrs. Celia (Davis) Nichols Jan. 29, 1863 
 
 289 RMrs. Harriet O. A. (Young) Tiffany 
 
 290 RMrs. Fanny (Comins) Chamberlin 
 
 291 *Mrs. Emily (Fisher) Day Sept. 30, 1894 
 
 292 *Mr. Henry W. Hyde 
 
 293 *Mrs. Mary Ann Dexter, tBrooklyn, Ct. Oct. 24, 1883 
 
 294 *Mr. Samuel Reynolds July 31, 1882 
 
 295 *Mr. John Blackmar May, 1838 
 
 296 fMr. George Day 
 
 297 tMr. Nathan Law 
 
 [105] 
 
298 *Mr. Lorin Hovle 
 
 299 *Mrs. Sally Reynolds Sept. 15. 1866 
 
 300 ♦Mrs. Esther Kenyon Nov., 1856 
 
 301 *Miss Susan Hoyle 
 
 302 *Mrs. Celia (Austin) Bennett 
 
 303 tMrs. Mercy (Blackmar) Joslin 
 
 304 *Miss Sally Hoyle 
 
 305 *Miss Sarah A. Woodworth Mar., 1885 
 
 306 *Miss Betsey Olney Sept., 1838 
 
 307 *Mrs. Sabrina Tanner Mar. 23, 1854 
 
 308 fMr. Artemas Graves - 
 
 309 RMr. Ebenezer Richmond 
 
 310 *Mr. Horace E. Davis Aug. 10, 1900 
 
 311 BMr. Ezra G. Johnson 
 
 312 *Mrs. Betsey (Bridges) Richardson 
 
 313 *Miss Abigail Davis June 8, 1849 
 
 314 *Mrs. Mary L. (Fisher) Whitcomb Mar., 1838 
 
 315 *Mr. Philip Tanner Jan 4, 1874 
 
 316 *Mrs. Sally Tanner Dec. 4, 1882 
 
 317 RMrs. Eliza (Durkee) Salisbury 
 
 318 *Mr. Edwin Draper Apr. 23, 1858 
 
 319 ♦Miss Lucy Thompson Dee. 12, 1835 
 
 320 ♦Mr. David A. Bacon, |So. Killingly, 
 
 Ct July 27, 1859 
 
 321 *Mrs. Sarah Bacon, $So. Killingly, Ct. . .May 1, 1849 
 
 322 RMrs. Sally (Thompson) Carder 
 
 323 RMrs. Roxanna (Thompson) Kingsley .... 
 
 324 t^lr. John S. Kenyon 
 
 325 *Mrs. i^hoebe (Clough) Washburn 
 
 326 RMiss Olive Fisher 
 
 327 *Mr. Jonathan Warren 
 
 328 ""Mrs. Lucy (Kelly) Green Apr. 21, 1897 
 
 329 *Mrs. Eunice Hyde Jan. 27, 1856 
 
 330 *Miss Celia Kenyon 
 
 331 *Mr, William L. Dyer 
 
 332 *Miss Amy Hoyle July 12, 1835 
 
 1833. 
 
 333 *Mrs. Jemima Blake 
 
 334 *Mr. Horace Burroughs Mar. 15, 1884 
 
 335 RMr. Edmund P. Tiffany 
 
 336 *Mr. Charles E. Morse, tw. Woodstock, 
 
 Ct 
 
 337 fMr. William Brown 
 
 338 *Miss Elizabeth Reynolds July 9, 1884 
 
 339 RMrs. Lydia (Fisher) Keith 
 
 [106] 
 
1834. 
 
 340 tMr. Simon C. Kelly 
 
 341 *Mrs. Milly Day, JPlainfield, Ct June 17, 1857 
 
 842 *Mrs. Sarah G. Danielson, JN. Killiiigly. 
 
 Ct Nov. 27, 18()>S 
 
 1835. 
 348 *Mr. Thomas Danielson, ^Thompson, Ct. .Nov., 1839 
 
 344 *Mrs. Adah Danielson, ^Thompson, Ct. 
 
 Mar. 4, 1874 
 
 345 *Mrs. Elizabeth Bonn Oct. 23, 1804 
 
 346 *Mrs. Phila Davis, tSo. Killingly, Ct. . .Oct. 2, 1882 
 
 347 RMr. Robert D. Dorrance, toxford, Mass. 
 
 348 EMrs. Lucy Dorrance, JOxford, Mass. . . 
 
 1836. 
 
 349 RMr. Benjamin F. Durkee 
 
 1837. 
 
 350 RMrs. Louisa Fisher 
 
 351 RMr. Stowell L. Weld, ^Providence, R. I. 
 
 Dec. 16, 1865 
 
 352 RMrs. Esther Jencks 
 
 353 RMrs. Sarah A. (Davison) Kin.c 
 
 354 *Mrs. Cynthia S. Dexter Mar. 3, 1869 
 
 355 RMrs. Eunice Dexter, ^Thompson, Ct. . . 
 
 356 *Mrs. Sophia Leavens, tSturbridge, Mass. 
 
 Jan. 8, 1860 
 
 357 *Mrs. Erasta Danielson, tThompson, Ct. Dec. 8, 1839 
 
 358 *Mrs. Harriet Law, JProvidence, R. I. ..Sept., 1839 
 
 359 *Mrs. Mary S. Segur, tThompson, Ct. ...June, 1840 
 
 360 *Mr. Nathan Wood, JSo. Killingly, Ct. Nov. 30, 1873 
 
 1840. 
 
 361 *Mr. Augustus Hammett. JN. Y. City .July 14, 1857 
 
 362 *Mrs. Phebe W. Hammett, JN. Y. City Oct. 31, 1858 
 
 363 *Mrs. Lucy A. (Lamb) Easterbrooks 
 
 364 RMrs. Mary A. (Lamb) Pierce 
 
 365 rMi-s. Eliza E. (Parkhurst) Mahrs 
 
 366 RMrs. Tamar M. (Davison) Buck 
 
 367 Mrs. Mary M. (Adams) Lillibridge 
 
 368 RMrs. Amy A. Cha raberlin 
 
 369 *Mrs. Sally A. (Dean) Card Jan. 26, 1851 
 
 370 RMr. Leonard Thomoson, tNo. Killingly, 
 
 Ct 
 
 [107] 
 
371 RMrs. Abby Thompson, $No. Killingly, 
 
 Ct 
 
 372 *Mr. David A. Dean, JCoventry, R. I. . . Dec. 2, 1893 
 
 373 *Mrs. Sarah Rathbun, $Lisbon, Ct Dec. 7, 1878 
 
 374 RMr. .James A. Fisher 
 
 375 RMiss Nancy H. Fisher 
 
 376 *Mr. Joel Davison Oct. 8, 1861 
 
 377 RMr. Thomas H. Hutchins 
 
 378 *Miss Chloe P. Davison Feb. 8, 1892 
 
 379 *Mrs. Lucy Comins, JNo. Killingly, Ct. Mar. 12, 1861 
 
 380 *Mr. Edmund Badger, tBrooklyn, Ct May, 1842 
 
 381 *Mrs. Jane Badger, JBrooklyn, Ct 
 
 1842. 
 
 382 RMr. Ananias Austin 
 
 383 RMrs. Althea Austin 
 
 384 *Mrs. Nancy Hutchins Nov. 22, 1842 
 
 385 RMrs. Adaline A. (Day) Bates 
 
 386 RMrs. Julia R. (Wilson) Pierce 
 
 387 tMr. Hezekiah D. Law 
 
 388 RMrs. Ann (Comins) Ward 
 
 389 RMrs. Cynthia Champion 
 
 390 *Mrs. Peddy Pickering 
 
 391 *Mrs. Julia A. (Sparks) Logee May 17, 1878 
 
 392 *Mrs. Almh-a (Sparks) Wood July 18, 1852 
 
 393 *Mrs. Mary (Ai-nold) Matthews Jan. 10, 1864 
 
 394 RMr. William B. Ames 
 
 395 RMrs. Lucy Ann Ames 
 
 396 *Mr. Oliver B. Burnham Feb, 10, 1864 
 
 397 *Mrs. Margaret B. Burnham May, 1885 
 
 398 *Mr. Danforth Newell Sept. 28, 1875 
 
 399 *Mr. James H. Hutchins Apr. 21, 1844 
 
 400 *Mr. Simon Spalding Apr. 17, 1859 
 
 401 RMr. Samuel H. Grosvenor 
 
 402 RMr. Joseph D. Bates 
 
 403 RMr. Caleb H. Johnson 
 
 404 tMr. William H. Chamberlin 
 
 405 RMr. Richard R. Buck 
 
 406 RMr. Isaac N. Cundall. (Rev.) 
 
 407 EMr. Leonard A. Tanner 
 
 408 RMr. Francis Burroughs 
 
 409 EMr. Elam C. Beach 
 
 410 *Mr. Charles Stone 
 
 411 RMr. Jesse S. Ely 
 
 412 RMr. Henry Spalding 
 
 413 RMr. Barnabas B. Hyde 
 
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414 *Mr. George W. Spalding Oct., 1874 
 
 415 tMr. Amasa Olney 
 
 416 *Mr. George W. Danielson Mar. 25, 1884 
 
 417 tMr. Pardon Bennett 
 
 418 Mr. William Corains 
 
 419 RMrs. Caroline (Comins) Congdon 
 
 420 *Mrs. Elizabeth (Olney) Ames 
 
 421 *Mrs. Eliza M. (Tanner) Comins March 25, 1899 
 
 422 *Mrs. Berthena Dean Feb. 11, 1873 
 
 423 *Mrs. Mary E. (Spalding) demons Jmie 11, 18G9 
 
 424 fMrs. Averilda (Olney) Wiggins 
 
 425 RMrs. Emily E, (Davison) Warner 
 
 426 RMr. Joseph W. Cundall 
 
 427 *Mrs. Eliza Young June 7, 1853 
 
 428 *Miss Althea Hutchins 
 
 429 RMrs. Laura A. (Parkhurst) Rathbun . . . 
 
 430 *Mrs. Phila Parker Mar. 10, 1866 
 
 431 RMrs. Zipporah A. (Webb) Chafee 
 
 432 tMrs. Olive F. (Rathbun) Chamberlin . . 
 
 433 *Miss Lucy B. Chamberlin Dec. 26, 1853 
 
 434 *Mrs. Mary Davis June 27, 1865 
 
 435 *Mrs. Jane Spalding Mar. 12, 1873 
 
 436 *Miss Sophia Greenman, JThompson, Ct. .May, 1842 
 
 437 RMrs. Susan M. (Davis) Truesdell 
 
 438 tMr. Smith B. Chase 
 
 439 *Mr. Edward Davis May 14, 1897 
 
 440 *Mrs. Elizabeth Rickard, JPomfret, Ct. . . May, 1877 
 
 441 *Mr. William H. Hutchins 
 
 442 *Mrs. Mary Ann Newell July 16, 1876 
 
 443 *Mr. Zebina Adams Dec. 1, 1859 
 
 444 *Mr. Lorenzo Lillibridge May 11, 1885 
 
 445 RMr. Ebenezer P. Rathbun 
 
 446 *Mr. David A. Gleason 
 
 447 Mr. Edmund A. Dean 
 
 448 *Mrs. Rhoda D. Adams Dec. 1, 1879 
 
 449 Miss Emily Ann Adams 
 
 450 *Mrs. Lucy A. (Newell) Potter July 5, 1864 
 
 451 EMiss Angeline C. Woodworth 
 
 452 RMrs. Marcia A. (Hyde) Sherman 
 
 453 RMrs. Elizabeth A. (Woodworth) Moyses 
 
 454 *Miss Lydia L. Backus Jan. 26, 1847 
 
 455 *Miss Rebecca W. Hutchins Dec. 21, 1847 
 
 456 RMr. Samuel S. Sprague 
 
 457 RMrs. Esther P. (Hutchins) Sprague 
 
 458 RMiss Ellen Williams 
 
 459 RMr. Joseph B. Whitmore 
 
 [109] 
 
460 *Mr. William P. Spalding Mar. 18, 1873 
 
 461 RMr. Calvin Cooper 
 
 462 *Mr. Stephen Rickard Mar. 6, 1870 
 
 463 RMr. Benjamin P. Parkhurst 
 
 464 *Mr. Israel Simmons Aug. 3, 1882 
 
 465 RMrs. Harriet B. Ely, INo. Killingly, Ct. 
 
 466 RMrs. Jane Bassett, $No. Killingly, Ct. ... 
 
 467 RMrs. Eliza A. (Davis) Kingsley 
 
 468 RMrs. Martha Handall 
 
 469 Mrs. Lucy M. (Chase) Young 
 
 470 RMrs. Nancy F. Stone 
 
 471 RMr. Leavens Jenks 
 
 472 *Mrs. Mary Ann Simmons Dec. 27, 1888 
 
 473 RMr. Charles H. Fisher 
 
 474 *Mr. Edward L. Cundall Oct. 5, 1885 
 
 475 RMrs. M. L. J. (Dean) Doty 
 
 476 Mrs. Charlotte T. (Danielson) Capron . . 
 
 477 Mrs. Lucy S. (Danielson) Hutchins 
 
 478 RMr. George I. Stearns. (Rev.) 
 
 479 EMrs. Mary (Bassett) Spalding 
 
 480 RMrs. Elizabeth P. (Newell) Wall 
 
 481 *Mrs. Anna Davison, tErooklyn, Ct. . .Apr. 6, 1863 
 
 482 RMr. Prosper Alexander 
 
 483 RMrs. Avis L. (Rickard) Burgess 
 
 484 RMr. Justin Hammond 
 
 485 tMr. Peter Boss 
 
 486 RMr. David E. Hall 
 
 487 RMrs. Christiana Bartlett 
 
 488 EMrs. Martha J. Boss 
 
 489 RMr. Erastus D, Hutchins 
 
 490 RMrs. Harriet (Cundall) Segur 
 
 491 RMiss Pamelia Spalding 
 
 492 RMiss Emeline Johnson 
 
 493 RMiss Lucy Elizabeth Johnson 
 
 494 RMrs. Betsy (Handall) Gilbert 
 
 495 RMrs. Adelia (Darby) Baker 
 
 496 RMr. Simon Spalding 2d 
 
 497 RMiss Abby C. Spalding 
 
 498 *Mrs. Sarah F. Danielson Feb. 19, 1870 
 
 499 EMr. Joel Davison, Jr 
 
 500 *Mr. Daniel W. Davison Sept., 1877 
 
 501 *Mrs. Dolly Niles June 21, 1893 
 
 502 *Mrs. Relief Hall Mar. 1, 1854 
 
 503 RMrs. Lydia Olney 
 
 504 *Mrs. Betsy H. Ely, tBrooklyn, Ct. . .July 22, 1892 
 
 505 *Miss Olive Badger, ^Brooklyn, Ct. ...Feb. 17, 1876 
 
 [110] 
 
506 *Mrs. Laura (Badger) Ashley, JBrooklyn, 
 
 Ct 
 
 507 rMfs. Bathsheba B. Sprague, JWarren, 
 
 508 *Mr. Edwin Ely, JHarwinton, Ct Jan. 13, 1883 
 
 509 RMrs. Mary Johnson, ^Thompson, Ct. ... 
 
 510 EMrs. Catharine A. (Cimdall) Hyde, JBap. 
 
 Ch., Plainfield, Ct 
 
 511 *Mr. Arthur Gleason, JPomfret, Ct 
 
 512 RMrs. Sarah Gleason, tpomfret, Ct 
 
 513 *Mr. William James, tPomfret, Ct. ..Aug. 3, 1878 
 
 514 *Mrs. Abigail W. James, JPomfret, Ct. Aug. 26, 1886 
 
 515 *Miss Lucy Backus 1857 
 
 516 *Miss Eunice Danielson May 25, 1851 
 
 517 RMrs. Susan Hammond 
 
 518 RMr. Jesse Handall 
 
 519 tMr. William K. Kies 
 
 520 *Mr. Henry Kies. (Rev.) Aug. 19,1855 
 
 521 RMr. George W. Kies 
 
 1844. 
 
 522 RMr. Daniel E. Day 
 
 523 RMrs. Abigail S. (Stearns) Austin 
 
 524 RMrs. Lucy M. (Brewster) Carpenter .... 
 
 525 RMrs. Lucy Brewster, JHampton, Ct 
 
 1845. 
 
 526 *Mrs. Pamelia Angell, $Waterville, Me. . . 
 
 527 RMr. Ebenezer Kelley, $No. Killingly, Ct. 
 
 528 RMrs. Esther Kelley, $No. Killingly, Ct. 
 
 529 *Mrs. Susan N. Leavens, JFranklin, Ct. July 25, 1900 
 
 530 RMr. George A. Cundall 
 
 531 RMrs. Mary E. Pinckney 
 
 532 RMrs. Emily Bigelow, ^Brooklyn, Ct 
 
 533 *Mrs. Clarissa Dexter, JPomfret, Ct. .Sept. 25, 1850 
 
 534 RMrs. Sarah Cundall, tNorwich, Ct 
 
 535 Mrs. Lydia (Corey) Hawkins, $W. Med- 
 
 way, Mass 
 
 1846. 
 
 536 *Mr. Bishop T. Bliss, ITownsend, Vt. ..May 5, 1872 
 
 537 tMr. William Osgood, JAbington, Ct 
 
 538 RMrs. Roxanna Bacon, IWorcester, Mass. 
 
 539 *Mrs. Melora Carder, $No. Killingly, 
 
 Ct Sept. 8, 1853 
 
 [111] 
 
540 *Mr. John P. Chamberlin, ICincinnati, 
 
 O Feb. 15, 1871 
 
 541 *Mrs. Elizabeth P. Chamberlin, JCincin- 
 
 nati, O Dec. 16, 1891 
 
 542 *Mr. tJela Carpenter, t Attleboro', Mass. . . 
 
 543 *Mrs. Mary C. Rice, $Bap. Ch., Pittsfield, 
 
 Mass Apr. 14, 1849 
 
 544 RMr. Charles H. Fuller, $N. Y. City 
 
 545 RMrs. Martha Fuller, JN. Y. City 
 
 546 *Mrs. Ellen S. (Day) Griggs July 3, 1855 
 
 547 *Mrs. Mary D. (Danielson) Jacques . . . May 3, 1853 
 
 548 *Miss Mary Danielson Oct. 20,1858 
 
 549 RMrs. Sally (Austin) Starkweather, JNo. 
 
 Killingly, Ct 
 
 550 *Mrs. Hannah Pray, tpomfret, Ct Oct. 19, 1880 
 
 551 RMr. Charles Allen, {Westminster, Ct. ... 
 
 552 RMrs. Harriet Allen, tAbington, Ct 
 
 553 RMr. Joel Baker, Jr., JBrooklyn, Ct 
 
 554 RMrs. Matilda Converse 
 
 Jan. 2, 1848. 
 
 555 RMr. Joseph B. Crandall, ^Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 556 RMrs. Maria Theresa Crandall 
 
 March 6, 1848. 
 
 557 *Mr, Orlin Clark, {Bradford, Vt June 22, 1851 
 
 558 *Mrs. Orill C. Clark, {Bradford, Vt. ..Sept. 16, 1880 
 
 May 21, 1848. 
 
 559 RMr. Jarvis Crandall, {Tolland, Ct 
 
 560 RMrs. Harriet H. Crandall, {Norwich, Ct. 
 
 561 RMrs. Martha J. (Crandall) Richmond, 
 
 {Plainfleld, Ct 
 
 562 RMrs. Mary T. (Crandall) Hull, {Plain- 
 
 field, Ct 
 
 July 2, 1848. 
 
 563 RMrs. Emily M. (Handall) Perrin 
 
 564 *Mrs. Elizabeth L. (Tanner) Williams . . Mar. 1, 1886 
 
 Sept. 3, 1848. 
 
 565 *Mrs. Charlotte H. Jacobs, {Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 Mar. 25, 1896 
 Nov. 12, 1848. 
 
 566 *Miss Alee H. Williams, {So. Woodstock, 
 
 Ct Aug. 6, 1878 
 
 [112] 
 
March 4, 1849. 
 
 567 RMrs, Lydia R. Day, tRaynham, Mass... 
 
 July 1, l&i9. 
 
 568 RMrs. Charlotte H. (Niles) Thomas, tcen- 
 
 tral Village, Ct 
 
 Nov. 4. 1849. 
 
 569 RMr. Charles Hartwell, JAmherst, Mass.. 
 
 570 RMrs. Amelia D. (Jones) Stearns, JSo. 
 
 Hadley, Mass 
 
 March 3, 1850. 
 
 571 *Mr. Nelson E. Williams, JSo. Woodstock, 
 
 Ct Aug. 18, 1882 
 
 May 5, 1850. 
 
 572 RMiss Lucy E. Edmands, JMethodist Ch., 
 
 Lowell, Mass 
 
 June 16, 1850. 
 
 573 RMr. Harley P. Angell, tNo. Scituate, 
 
 R. I 
 
 574 RMrs. Waity C. Angell, tNo. Scituate, 
 
 R. I 
 
 575 *Mrs. Lucretia H. Woodworth, tE. Had- 
 
 dam, Ct Sept. 4, 1852 
 
 Oct. 13, 1850. 
 
 576 RMrs. Caroline J. Hill, iBuffalo, N. Y. 
 
 Nov. 2, 1851. 
 
 577 RMrs. Margaret M. Rice, tBoston, Mass. 
 
 Nov. 16, 1851. 
 
 578 Mr. John Waldo, (Dea.) tLisbon, Ct 
 
 579 *Mrs. Lydia Waldo, tLisbon, Ct July 1, 1895 
 
 March 14, 1852. 
 
 580 RMrs. Abigail T. Burroughs 
 
 581 *Mrs. Hannah (Howard) Sharp 
 
 .582 Miss Clarissa A. Adams 
 
 583 EMrs. Eliza M. (Danielson) Vedder 
 
 584 RMr. Henry Williams 
 
 585 RMrs. Margaret Gordon, tcentral Village, 
 
 Ct 
 
 586 RMrs. Jedidah Chamberlin, JBozrah, Ct. 
 
 [113] 
 
May 16, 1852. 
 
 587 Mrs. Ellen Maria Hutchins, $No. Killing- 
 
 ly, Ct 
 
 588 *Miss Clarissa Day, iSo. Killingly, Ct .Jan. 17, 1864 
 
 589 *Miss Harriet Day, JSo. Killingly, Ct. ..Jan. 14, 1894 
 
 Nov. 7, 1852. 
 
 590 *Mr. Rnfus Robinson, iPorafret, Ct. ..Aug. 20, 1866 
 
 591 RMrs. Nancy Robinson, IPomfret, Ct. . . 
 
 Nov. 6, 1853. 
 
 592 RMrs, Mary F. (Stearns) Root 
 
 59.3 RMrs. Abby (Dexter) Crosby 
 
 594 Miss Mary Dexter 
 
 595 RMr. Amos D. Lockwood, tsiatersville, 
 
 R. I 
 
 596 RMrs. Sarah F. Lockwood, tSlatersville, 
 
 R. I 
 
 597 RMrs. Sarah D. (Lockwood) Danielson, 
 
 $Slatersville, R.I 
 
 Nov. 27, 1853. 
 
 598 RMrs. Harriet G. Cai-penter, ^Eastford, 
 
 Ct 
 
 July 2, 1854. 
 
 599 *Mr. Samuel Dorrance Day, lEllicotville, 
 
 N. Y May 10, 1885 
 
 600 Mr. Simon S. Waldo, ^Canterbury, Ct. . . 
 
 601 *Mr. Ezra Hutchins, $No. Scituate, R. I. 
 
 Dec. 29, 1897 
 
 602 RMrs. Mary A. Cochran, JTrinity, New- 
 
 foundland 
 
 Sept. 3, 1854. 
 
 603 *Mr. George B. Robinson, $E. Hampton, 
 
 Ct Apr. 2, 1856 
 
 Nov. 5, 1854. 
 
 604 *Mrs. Mahala Allen, tpomf ret, Ct Oct. 8, 1887 
 
 605 *Mrs. Lucinda Fisher, JPomfret, Ct. ...Oct. 1, 1885 
 
 606 RMrs. Helen O. Rickard, JHunter, N. Y. 
 
 607 *Mr. Charles S. Hawkins June 30, 1899 
 
 March 4, 1855. 
 
 608 RMr. Orrin Ashley, tHaraptou, Ct 
 
 609 RMrs. Diana Carder, ^Brooklyn, Ct 
 
March 25, 1855. 
 
 610 *Mr. Nathan Olds, | Westminster, Ct. .Dec. 12, 1860 
 
 611 KMrs. Lois A. Olds, ^Westminster, Ct. ... 
 
 612 *Mr. William B. Sprague, JScotland, Ct. 
 
 Oct.lO, 1870 
 
 613 *Mrs. Joanna Sprague, JScotland, Ct. ..May 4, 1886 
 
 May 6, 1855. 
 
 614 RMrs. Sarah (Waldo) Wales, ^Canterbury, 
 
 Ct 
 
 July 1, 1855. 
 
 615 *Mrs. Adeline (Barstow) Scarborough, 
 
 t Westminster, Ct Sept. 14, 1900 
 
 616 RMiss Hannah Hindley. iSlatersville, N. Y. 
 
 617 *Miss Clarissa Johnson, tcincinnatus, N. 
 
 Y Dec. 4, 1866 
 
 618 *Mr. Horace Day, |So. Killingly, Ct. .Dec. 11, 1868 
 
 619 *Mrs. Annis R. Day, JSo. Killingly, Ct. 
 
 Apr. 22, 1884 
 
 620 Mr. Edward Dexter 
 
 621 Mr. Albert Danielson 
 
 622 *Miss Ellen M. Danielson Oct. 19, 1859 
 
 623 *Mrs. Joanna D. (James) Squyer Apr. 30, 1890 
 
 624 BMrs. Harriet P. (.James) Hutchins 
 
 625 EMiss Sarah S. Hall 
 
 626 *Mrs. Melissa L. (Kies) Vaughn Dec. 9, 1869 
 
 627 *Mrs. Marietta Davis Mar. 16, 1897 
 
 628 *Miss Harriet G. Danielson Mar. 7, 1858 
 
 629 *Miss Harriet O. Bacl5:us Jan. 11, 1898 
 
 630 Miss Charlotte Tanner 
 
 631 Miss Emily Danielson 
 
 632 Mrs. Susan M. (Bacon) Stone 
 
 633 EMrs. Harriet E. (Bacon) Palmer 
 
 634 RMiss Maria Jane Tracy 
 
 635 RMrs. Mary J. (Bacon) Williams 
 
 636 Mrs. Emily M. (Smiths Cundall 
 
 637 Mrs. Julia A. (Aldrich) Waldo 
 
 638 RMiss Elizabeth S. (Danielson) Cundall.. 
 
 639 RMrs. Elizabeth R. (Drowne) McPherson. . 
 
 640 RMrs. Clarissa S. (Waldo) Cook 
 
 641 *Mrs. Maria A. (Davis) Darling July 13, 1898 
 
 642 RMr. William A. James (Rev.) 
 
 643 RMr. Pliny Pratt 
 
 644 RMrs. Helen J. Pratt 
 
 645 RMr. John W. Danielson 
 
 [115] 
 
646 RMr. Henry E. Simmons 
 
 647 RMr. Nathan Olds. Jr 
 
 648 BMrs. Elizabeth E. (Brown) Montgomery 
 
 649 RMr. Isaac Adams 
 
 650 EMr. John Hutchins 
 
 651 *Miss Hannah Hutchins Sept. 3, 1861 
 
 652 RMrs. Mary (Hutchins) Williams 
 
 653 RMrs. Elizabeth (Hutchins) Fisher 
 
 654 RMr. George H. Hutchins 
 
 655 Mrs. Mary R. (Danielson) Chollar 
 
 656 RMrs. Elizabeth F. (Danielson) Ayer . . . 
 
 657 RMrs. Susan S. (Lester) Johnson 
 
 658 RMrs. Mary F. (Lester) Fuller 
 
 659 *Mr. Ebenezer S. Young Dec. 20, 1871 
 
 660 RMr. George A. Bacon 
 
 661 *Mr. Samuel D. Danielson Jan. 11, 1903 
 
 662 *Mr. Evan H. Malbone Dec. 22, 1895 
 
 663 Mr. William H. Chollar. (Dea.) 
 
 664 RMr. Elisha Carpenter 
 
 665 Mrs. Eliza M. Adams 
 
 666 RMr. Peleg R. Walker 
 
 667 RMr. Francis P. Johnson 
 
 668 RMr. Henry F. Hyde. (Rev.) 
 
 669 *Mr. Samuel Hutchins Jan. 16, 1886 
 
 670 RMiss Amelia deF. Lockwood 
 
 671 Miss Olive D. Adams 
 
 672 RMiss Emma R. Humes 
 
 673 RMrs. Frances P. (Davis) Dorrance .... 
 
 674 EMiss Cornelia J. Golder 
 
 675 *Mr. Martin W. Walker 
 
 676 RMiss Harriet A. Hutchins 
 
 677 RMiss Mary Ann Kies 
 
 678 RMrs. Meleatiah C. Jackson 
 
 679 *Mr. Edwin Waldo Sept. 8, 1860 
 
 680 RMr. Solomon Drowne 
 
 681 RMiss Mary L. Drowne 
 
 682 RMrs. Susan L. Drowne 
 
 683 EMrs. Elizabeth McLaughlin 
 
 684 RMrs. Charlotte W. (Day) Lyon 
 
 Sept. 2, 1855. 
 
 685 RMrs. Mary (Torrey) Howe, tNo. Killing- 
 
 ly, Ct 
 
 Nov. 4, 1855. 
 
 686 *Mrs. Emily Jencks, t Slaters ville, R. I.. .Apr. 9, 1893 
 
 [116] 
 
687 RMrs. Nancy Gallup, JYork, Penn 
 
 G88 EMr. Joseph Danielson. (Rev.) 
 
 Jan. 6, 1856. 
 
 689 RMrs. Susan E. Miller, tBrooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 690 *Mr. Havilah M. Sprague May 30, 1874 
 
 Jan., 1857. 
 
 691 Mr. John Dexter, ^Providence, R. I 
 
 Feb., 1857. 
 
 692 *Mrs. Emily Bigelow, ^Providence, R. I. 
 
 July 7, 1886 
 July 12, 1857. 
 
 693 *Mr. Henry Hutchins Aug. 8, 1877 
 
 694 RMr. Charles C. Cundall 
 
 695 *Mr. John D. Bigelow (Dea.) Feb. 14, 1888 
 
 696 EMr. J. Augustus Spalding 
 
 697 *Mr. Robert Hughes May 6, 1864 
 
 698 EMr. Joseph G. Ayer 
 
 699 *Mr. James Danielson, Jr Oct. 12, 1864 
 
 700 Mr. George Lloyd 
 
 701 *Mr. Edwin W. Davis Sept. 17, 1903 
 
 702 EMr. Cyrus P. Greene 
 
 703 EMr. George E. Jewett 
 
 704 *Mr. William E. Simmons Sept. 23, 1886 
 
 705 EMr. Edward T. Marvel 
 
 706 EMr. Earl W. Fisher 
 
 707 EMr. Benjamin W. Gallup 
 
 708 RMrs. Hannah S. Spalding 
 
 709 EMrs. Hannah M. Hughes 
 
 710 EMrs. Emeline Angel 
 
 711 *Mrs. Ellen L. (Davis) Lloyd May 26, 1886 
 
 712 RMrs. Ann C. (Tucker) Jackson 
 
 713 Mrs. Mary J. (Dexter) Fiske 
 
 714 *Miss Mary E. Hyde Apr. 18, 1865 
 
 715 EMrs. Maria (Hutchins) Fay 
 
 716 Mrs. Isabella (Kerr) Waldo 
 
 717 RMrs. Sarah E. (Chamberlin) Davis 
 
 718 RMrs. Laura A. (Chapman) Farquhar .... 
 
 719 Mrs. Lucy C. (Card) Arnold 
 
 720 EMiss Sarah R. Fuller 
 
 721 RMrs. Elizabeth H. (Coxen) Snow 
 
 722 EMrs. Miranda Z. (Leavens) Sweet 
 
 723 *Miss Ann Kerr June 12, 1863 
 
 [117] 
 
Sept. 6, 1857. 
 
 724 RMrs. Emily H. Humes 
 
 725 rMi's. Mary J. (Keigwin) Barrows 
 
 726 EMiss Jane E. Coon 
 
 727 Mrs. Emma J. (Steanis) Danielson 
 
 728 RMrs. Phebe E. (Gordon) Bartlett 
 
 Jan. 3, 1858. 
 
 729 RMr. William C. Tucker 
 
 730 *Mr. Edwin A. Peckham July 5, 1891 
 
 731 *Mr. Ahira Z. Kies Feb. 19, 1882 
 
 732 RMrs. Caroline F. (Bacon) Fuller 
 
 733 *Mrs. Sarah G. (Danielson) Sprague . .June 24, 1875 
 
 734 Mrs. Lucy W. Chamberlin 
 
 735 RMrs. Harriet A. (Chamberlin) Little . . . 
 
 1858. 
 
 736 *Mrs. HaiTiet N. Hyde Nov. 16, 1895 
 
 737 RMiss Calista C. Bacon 
 
 738 RMrs. Ellen A. (Hutchins) Sabin 
 
 739 EMrs. Adelia A. Hutchins 
 
 740 *Mr. William M. Johnson Oct. 16, 1864 
 
 741 *Mr. Herbert S. Danielson Oct. 1, 1866 
 
 742 EMr. Thomas K. Bates 
 
 743 *Mrs. Mary Jane Bates Feb. 27, 1864 
 
 744 *Mrs. Harriet L. Y. Chamberlin May 2, 1904 
 
 745 Mrs. Emily M. (Fuller) Lathrop 
 
 746 *Mrs. Ruth L. Chapman Aug. 23,1896 
 
 747 Mrs. H. F. (Weld) Danielson 
 
 748 *Mrs. Mary Hutchins Feb. 6, 1864 
 
 749 *Miss Mary Ann Day Sept. 12, 1859 
 
 750 *Mr. Roswell Whitmore. (Rev.) |By Let- 
 
 ter Apr. 2, 1861 
 
 751 ♦Mr. Stowell L. Weld. (Dea.) $Syracuse, 
 
 N. Y Dec. 16, 1865 
 
 752 *Mr. Henry G. Dunham, tProvidenee, 
 
 R. I 
 
 753 RMr. Elijah M. Jackson, JW. Woodstock, 
 
 Ct 
 
 754 RMr. Cyrus Coburn, JLowell, Mass 
 
 755 RMrs. Sarah T. Coburn, JLowell, Mass 
 
 756 RMr. Elisha T. Potter, $Lisbon, Ct 
 
 757 RMr. T. T. Waterman. (Rev.) $ Winona, 
 
 Minn 
 
 758 *Mrs. Ludentia A. Weld, ^Syracuse, N. Y., 
 
 Nov. 10, 1904 
 
 [118] 
 
759 EMrs. Almira B. Dunham, J: Providence, 
 R. I 
 
 TtiO RMiss Hannah E. Dunham, JCentral Vil- 
 lage, Ct 
 
 761 RMiss Anna Maria Woodward, $Waure- 
 
 gan, Ct 
 
 762 *Mrs. Cynthia Bemis, tSo. Royalston, 
 
 Mass Aug. 9, 1879 
 
 763 *Mrs. Lucy Ripley, twindham, Ct 
 
 764 *Mrs. Abigail A. Adams, JWindham, Ct. 
 
 Aug. 4, 1864 
 
 765 *Mrs. Amy Wood, tSo. Killingly, Ct. .Feb. 28, 1874 
 
 766 RMrs. Abigail Whitcomb, $M. E. Ch., W. 
 
 Killingly, Ct 
 
 767 *Mrs. Emma Hammond, ^Brooklyn, Ct. 
 
 Nov. 14, 1890 
 
 768 RMrs. Maria S. Potter, tpiainfield, Ct. . . 
 
 769 RMrs. Delia S. Waterman, IWinona, Minn. 
 
 770 RMiss Lucy M. Waterman, JWinona, Minn. 
 
 771 RMrs. Nancy A. Dewing, JWestminster, 
 
 Ct 
 
 772 Mrs. Mary D. Peckham, JBap. Ch., Wake- 
 
 field, R. I 
 
 773 RMrs. Nancy P. Hall, JSutton, Mass 
 
 Jan., 1859. 
 
 774 RMrs. Elizabeth McAlister 
 
 March, 1859. 
 
 775 *Mrs. Bathsheba M. Pratt Feb. 25, 1861 
 
 May, 1859 
 
 776 RMr. Van Buren Dye 
 
 777 *Mrs. Charlotte Brown July 18, 1864 
 
 July, 1859. 
 
 778 RMrs. Fanny A. Leavens 
 
 779 *Mrs. Mary P. Hammett Apr. 13, 1901 
 
 Sept., 1859. 
 
 780 RMr. George S. Truesdell, JDayville, Ct. 
 
 781 RMrs. Susan M. Truesdell, tDayville, Ct. 
 
 782 *Mrs. Eliza E. Mahrs, IMedway, Mass. Nov. 19, 1891 
 
 Nov., 1859. 
 
 783 RMiss Romelia L. Peckham 
 
 [119] 
 
Jan., 1860. 
 
 784 EMrs. Mary S. (Curtis) Randall 
 
 785 'Miss R. Marinda Adams Nov. 14, 1903 
 
 786 Miss Sarah Kerr 
 
 787 EMiss Mary Russell 
 
 788 *Mrs. Sarah M. Kerr, |M. E. Ch., Ireland 
 
 Feb. 22, 1895 
 May, 1860. 
 
 789 Mrs. Julia E. (Jencks) Green 
 
 790 RMrs. S. J. Humes, JMeth. Ch., Iowa 
 
 1860. 
 
 791 *Mrs. Eliza Thompson, tRap. Ch., E. 
 
 Greenwich, R. I May 30, 1889 
 
 792 Mrs. Ella (Thompson) Wood, |Bap. Ch., 
 
 E. Greenwich, R. I 
 
 Aug. 30, 1861. 
 
 793 *Rev. Wm. W. Davenport, JRoxbury, 
 
 Mass May 19, 1870 
 
 Nov. 1, 1861. 
 
 794 Mrs. Anna B. Williams, ^Central Village, 
 
 Ct 
 
 Jan. 3, 1862. 
 
 795 RMrs. Josephine A. Hutchins, JProvidence, 
 
 R. I 
 
 May 2, 1862. 
 
 796 *Mr. James H. Barrett, JPutnam, Ct. .Sept. 7, 1885 
 
 797 RMr. Newton Perkins, JHarwinton, Ct. . . 
 
 798 *Mrs. Celia Spalding, $So. Kiliingly, Ct. Feb. 9, 1871 
 
 799 *Miss Elvira Spalding, JSo. Kiliingly, 
 
 Ct May 25, 1885 
 
 800 RMiss Hannah M. Fuller, $Fah*lee, Vt... 
 
 801 RMrs. Mary (Waldo) Witter, ^Canterbury, 
 
 Ct 
 
 802 *Mrs. Eliza N. C. Sweet, ^Westminster, 
 
 Ct July 9, 1870 
 
 803 *Miss Mary Jane Lovett Aug. 31, 1883 
 
 July 5, 1862. 
 
 804 RMrs. Avis Whittemore, JAbington, Ct. . . 
 
 805 *Miss Abby C. Gay, tThompson, Ct 1885 
 
 806 RMrs. Elizabeth (Day) James 
 
 [120] 
 
807 Miss Mary E. Day 
 
 808 Miss Caroline E. Arnold 
 
 Oct. 31, 1862. 
 
 809 *Mrs. Frances E. (Backus) Davidson. .June 16, 1901 
 SIO Miss Catharine E. Danielson 
 
 811 EMis^ Eliza P. (Day) Brown 
 
 Feb. 27, 1863. 
 
 812 BMrs. Mary J. (Perkins) Clark 
 
 813 Mrs. Ellen P. (Cliamberlin) Jacobs 
 
 814 *Miss Frances C. Williams May 11, 1863 
 
 Sept. 4, 1863. 
 
 815 nMr. Charles A. Davenport 
 
 Jan. 1, 1864. 
 
 816 EMr. Caleb Colvin, Jr., JWhitinsville, 
 
 Mass 
 
 817 RMrs. Helen E. (Hyde) Day 
 
 S18 *Miss Helen M. Bacon April 28, 1868 
 
 819 rMIss Amorette A. Bemis 
 
 Sept. 2, 1864. 
 
 820 *Mr. Daniel S. Hubbard, ?Bap. Ch., 
 
 Plainfield, Ct Aug. 17, 1890 
 
 Nov. 4, 1864. 
 
 821 *Mrs. Nancy L. Barrett, JNew Haven, 
 
 Ct May 20, 1878 
 
 Dec. 30, 1864. 
 
 822 *Mr. Calvin Leffingwell, $E. Putnam, 
 
 Ct Sept. 28, 1873 
 
 823 *Miss Mary Jane Kerr Aug. 10, 1868 
 
 May 5, 1865. 
 
 824 *Mrs. Alice B. Chase, tAbington, Ct. .Dec. 20, 1880 
 
 825 Mrs. Harriet Gleason, ^Canterbury, Ct. . 
 
 826 Mrs. Emily A. Dowe 
 
 827 EMiss Lucretia C. Danielson 
 
 Nov. 3, 1865. 
 
 828 EMr. George O. Hopkins, $F. W. Bap. 
 
 Ch., Foster, R. I 
 
 829 *Mrs. Sarah E. Hopkins, ^Providence, 
 
 R. 1 1870 
 
 [121] 
 
830 Mr. William H. Backus 
 
 831 RMr. William J. Chapman 
 
 832 RMr. William H. Danielson 
 
 833 BMr. Ralph James 
 
 834 EMr. Charles N. Capron 
 
 835 Mrs. Harriet J. (Hammond) Danielson . . 
 
 March 2, 1866. 
 
 836 RMrs. Anna V. Sherman, JPresb. Ch., 
 
 Lansingburg, N. Y 
 
 May 4, 1866. 
 
 837 *Mr. Henry N. demons, tprovidence, 
 
 R. I Nov. 3, 1902 
 
 838 *Mrs. Mary E. demons, JProvidence, 
 
 R. I June 11, 1869 
 
 839 RMr. Edward C. Buck, $Thompson, Ct. . . 
 
 Nov. 2, 1866. 
 
 840 RMr. Alexander G. Cumnock, $Lowell, 
 
 Mass 
 
 841 RMrs. Fanny F. Cumnock, $Lowell, 
 
 Mass 
 
 842 *Mrs. Hannah M. Curtis, JSprague, Ct. . 
 
 March 1, 1867. 
 
 843 RMr. Daniel L. Burlingham, |Meth. Ch., 
 
 Danielson, Ct 
 
 844 Mrs. Harriet M. Burroughs 
 
 845 RMrs. Susan A. Burroughs 
 
 846 RMr. Merrill A. Ladd 
 
 May 3, 1867. 
 
 847 *Mrs. Celinda A. Chase, $Abngton, Ct, June 20, 1904 
 
 July 5, 1867. 
 
 848 Mrs. Emma (Darling) Reynolds, $Presb. 
 
 Ch., Mt. Bethel, Pa 
 
 849 *Mrs. Emma C. (Hill) Harrington Aug. 19, 1868 
 
 Aug. 30, 1867. 
 
 850 RMrs. Emily A. (demons) Merriam 
 
 [122] 
 
Feb. 28, 1868. 
 
 851 Miss Abby G. Backus 
 
 852 rMfs. Harriet A. (Dowe) Carpenter 
 
 853 *Miss Ellen Hammond Jan. 28, 1875 
 
 854 Miss Ellen J. Hyde 
 
 July 3, 1868. 
 
 855 *Mr. Chauucy C. Chamberlin Sept. 3, 1902 
 
 856 Mr. Penuel H. Sprague 
 
 857 Mr. Edward H. Jacobs 
 
 Sept. 4, 1868. 
 
 858 *Mrs. Melissa S. Hyde, .tDudley, Mass. Apr. 1, 1880 
 
 859 *Mr. Samuel W. Hutchins Sept. 21, 1872 
 
 May 2, 1869. 
 
 860 EMr. Henry M, Danielson 
 
 861 Mr. Edwin L. Palmer 
 
 862 *Mrs. Olive Griffith May 8, 1884 
 
 July 4, 1869. 
 
 863 RMr. Charles C. Cundall, $J(iwett City, 
 
 Ct 
 
 864 Mrs. Elizabeth S. Cundall, JJewett City, 
 
 Ct 
 
 865 *Mrs. Elizabeth Danielson. tBv Letter Feb. 14, 1877 
 
 866 *Mrs. Susan A. Peck, iJewett City, Ct.. 1874 
 
 867 EMrs. Ellen Potter. tBy Letter 
 
 868 Mrs. L. Nettie (Mahrs) Sprague 
 
 869 RMrs. Susie E. (Mahrs) Logee 
 
 870 *Mrs. Clara A. (Potter) Danielson Nov. 16, 1876 
 
 871 *Mrs. Phebe A. (Keach) Palmer May 6, 1873 
 
 Sept. 5, 1869. 
 
 872 RMr. George T. Jones, JLewiston, Me. . . 
 
 873 RMrs. Mary L. Jones, JLewiston, Me. . . 
 
 874 *Miss Mary R. Hyde June 3, 1878 
 
 Nov. 7, 1869. 
 
 875 RMr. Leonard T. Brown. JBy Letter. 
 
 Dec. 31, 1869. 
 
 876 RMrs. Elizabeth B. Suiters. $By Letter. 
 
 877 RMiss Elizabeth B. Suiters. |By Letter. 
 
 [123] 
 
March 6, 1870. 
 
 879 RMiss Julia A. Ellison 
 
 880 RMiss Amy Ann Potter 
 
 April 29, 1870. 
 
 881 *Mr. Jeremiah Hill, $Bap. Ch., Moosup, 
 
 Ct Dec, 1904 
 
 882 *Mrs. Abby B. Hill, JBap. Ch., Moosup, 
 
 Ct Jan. 25, 1900 
 
 883 Mrs. Emily E. Warner, JFoster, R. I. ... 
 
 July 3, 1870. 
 
 884 RMr. Roswell W. Weld 
 
 885 *Mr. Gideon C. Heath July 31, 1870 
 
 Nov. 6, 1870. 
 
 886 RMrs. Abby W. Heath 
 
 887 RMr. Daniel W. Hyde, JPomfret, Ct. ... 
 
 888 RMrs. Daniel Paterson, ijiWebster, Mass. 
 
 May 7, 1871. 
 
 889 RMr. Joel Witter, $Hanover, Ct 
 
 890 Mr. Joseph W. Stone. (Dea.) $No. Wood- 
 
 stock, Ct 
 
 891 *Mrs. Caroline A. Stone, $No. Woodstock, 
 
 Ct Jan. 6, 1901 
 
 892 Mrs. Helen L. Danielson, ^Canterbury, Ct. 
 
 Sept 2, 1871. 
 
 893 *Mr. Richard S. Lathrop, tCentral Vil- 
 
 lage, Ct May 28, 1882 
 
 Nov. 1, 1871. 
 
 894 RMr. Alfred Clark, $Northfield, Vt 
 
 Dec. 29, 1871. 
 
 895 Mr. Fred G. Sawtelle, $Norridgewock, 
 
 Me 
 
 896 Mrs. Elizabeth W. Sawtelle, JNorridge- 
 
 wock, Me 
 
 897 RMr. Henry V. Lathrop 
 
 898 Mr. Simeon Danielson (Dea.) 
 
 July 7, 1872. 
 
 899 *Mr. Ebenezer P. Rathbun. JPutnam, 
 
 Ct Oct. 11, 1879 
 
 900 Mrs. Lora A. Rathbun, ^Putnam, Ct. .. 
 
 [124] 
 
1872. 
 
 901 RMrs. Harriet Ellison. JBy Letter 
 
 902 RMr. Asa W. Brown, JMystic, Ct 
 
 903 RMrs. Maria Brown, $Mystic, Ct 
 
 904: *Mr. Ezekiel R. Burlingame (Dea.), JDay- 
 
 ville, Ct Dec. 27, 1887 
 
 905 *Mrs. Sarah A. Burlingame, $DayviIle, Ct. 
 
 Dec. 13, 1901 
 
 906 RMr. Olney Burlingame, IDayville, Ct. . . 
 
 907 *Mrs. Adaline Day, $Burlington, Mass. 
 
 Feb. 11, 1877 
 
 908 *Mrs. Ella C. (Stone) Davenport April 28, 1881 
 
 909 RMr. William Grumball 
 
 Jan. 1873. 
 
 910 Mr. Charles D. King, tBrooklyn, Ct. ... 
 
 911 *Mrs. Mary L. King, tBrooklyn, Ct. ...Jan. 4, 1897 
 
 912 *Mrs. Mary B. Hubbard, tgo. Killingly, 
 
 Ct Apr. 2, 1900 
 
 July 5, 1874. 
 
 913 RMrs. Mary K. Thompson, $No. Brook- 
 
 field, Mass 
 
 914 *Mrs. EUen M. Wilson Apr. 3, 1883 
 
 915 RMiss Annie Kerr 
 
 916 Miss Elizabeth Bradford 
 
 917 Mrs. Esther A. (Burlingame) Jacobs .... 
 
 918 Miss Mary L. Hall 
 
 919 Mrs. Lucy M. (Chase) Law 
 
 920 Miss Kate E. Scarborough 
 
 921 Miss Emily B. Scarborough 
 
 922 EMrs. Alice T. (Hall) Chapman 
 
 923 RMrs. Fannie M. (Scranton) Wilson 
 
 924 Mrs. Sarah B. (Chollar) Howland 
 
 925 RMrs. Hattie R. (Scofield) Bailey 
 
 926 RMr. John R. Davis 
 
 927 RMr. George L. Wilson 
 
 928 RMr. Charles E. Bigelow 
 
 929 Mr. George C. Foote 
 
 930 *Mr. Charles E. Danielson Feb. 23, 1883 
 
 931 Mr. Henry M. Thompson 
 
 932 *Mr. Ferdinand S. demons .Jan. 18, 1897 
 
 933 RMr. Edwin L. Danielson 
 
 934 RMr. Rufus P. Chase 
 
 935 Mr. Walter H. Danielson 
 
 936 Mr. George M. Stone 
 
 [12 5] 
 
937 Mr. Mortimer L. Hall 
 
 938 Mr. Arthur G. Bill 
 
 939 Mr. George E. Danielson 
 
 Sept. 6, 1874. 
 
 940 *Mrs. Charlotte Simmons Aug. 1, 1876 
 
 941 RMrs. Ella M. (Short) Barrett 
 
 Oct. 13, 1874. 
 
 942 *Adelbert F. Keith, (Rev.), $Windham, Ct. 
 
 Nov. 1, 1874. 
 
 943 RMrs. Eliza G. Keith, $Windham, Ct. . . 
 
 944 RMr. Edwin A. Phinney, {Westminster, 
 
 Ct 
 
 945 RMr. Charles Dearden 
 
 946 RMrs. Mary M, Bemis 
 
 1874. 
 
 947 *Mrs. Mary E. (Young) Stetson, $Bast 
 
 Putnam, Ct June 29, 1887 
 
 948 *Mr. Albert Dewing, {Westminster, Ct. Feb. 3, 1890 
 
 Jan. 3, 1875. 
 
 949 RMr. Jerome B. Shepardson, tUxbridge, 
 
 Mass 
 
 950 RMrs. Mary B. Shepardson, JUxbridge, 
 
 Mass 
 
 May 2, 1875. 
 
 951 RMiss Celia G. Hulse 
 
 952 RMrs. Elsie C. Fuller, $Presb. Ch., Piper 
 
 Ct, 111 
 
 July 4, 1875. 
 
 953 RMr. William K. Logee, {Providence, 
 
 R. I 
 
 Jan. 2, 1876. 
 
 954 RMrs. Caroline L. Soule, {Hampton, Ct. 
 
 955 Mrs. Lillian E. (Chase) Bill 
 
 Mar. 5, 1876. 
 
 956 RMr. Herbert L. Strait 
 
 957 RMrs. Addie C. Strait 
 
 958 Miss Edna M. Lillibrldge 
 
 [126] 
 
U59 RMiss Anna S. Hendrickson 
 
 960 Miss Sarah M. Card 
 
 961 Miss Francella E. Adams 
 
 962 RMrs. Sarah E. Burlingame 
 
 963 RMrs. Honora Darby 
 
 May 7, 1876. 
 
 964 Mrs. Isabel A. Neff 
 
 965 RMrs. Mary E. (Chapmnn) Phinney 
 
 966 RMiss Edna J. Bartlett 
 
 967 Mrs. Lizzie (Darlini?» Harris 
 
 968 RMr. Edwin A. Waldo (Rev.) 
 
 July 2, 1876. 
 
 969 Mrs. Maria E. Bates, JF. W. B. Ch., 
 
 Georgiaville, R. I 
 
 970 Miss Annie A . Lathrop 
 
 971 RMrs. Bertha L. (Wilson) Howell 
 
 972 Mrs. Mary E. (King) Witter 
 
 Nov. 5, 1876. 
 
 973 RMrs. Sibyl M. Staplin, tMeth. Ch., New 
 
 London, Ct 
 
 Jan. 7, 1877. 
 
 974 *Mrs. Sophia W. Greene, JChicopee Falls, 
 
 Mass Mar. 16, 1877 
 
 975 RMr. Charles Phillips (Dea.), tDouglass, 
 
 Mass 
 
 976 RMrs. Sarah F. Phillips, JEast Douglass, 
 
 Mass 
 
 May 3, 1877. 
 
 977 RMr. John P. Comins, tBrooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 978 RMrs. Mary Comins, tBrooklyn, N. Y... 
 
 979 RMr. James H. Bailey, tPawtucket, R. I. 
 
 980 RMrs. Hertilla B. Bailey, JPawtncket, 
 
 R. I 
 
 Jan. 4, 1878. 
 
 981 RMr. James Dingwell. (Rev.) JAshfield, 
 
 Mass 
 
 982 RMrs. Mary C. Dingwell, tAshfield, Mass. 
 
 Mar. 3, 1878. 
 
 983 RMr. Sherrod Soule (Rev.) 
 
 984 RMr. George Soiile 
 
 985 RMr. John Davenport, |Piitnam, Ct 
 
 [127] 
 
Nov., 1878. 
 
 986 RMr. Ephraim Keech 
 
 987 RMr. Arthur L. CundaU 
 
 988 Mr. Clarence E. Cundall 
 
 May 4, 1879. 
 
 989 RMrs. Elizabeth (Clapp) DeForrest 
 
 990 RMrs. Jennie J. (Phillips) White 
 
 991 Mrs. Ida E. (Day) Prentice 
 
 992 RMrs. Clara E. Chapman, $ Warwick, R. I. 
 
 Jan. 1, 1880. 
 
 993 RMrs. Nettie C. Davenport, ^Brooklyn, Ct. 
 
 May 2, 1880. 
 
 994 RMrs. Annie F. Gardiner, tWhitinsville, 
 
 Mass 
 
 Sept. 5, 1880. 
 
 995 RMr. Charles Brett, $Fall River, Mass. . . 
 
 996 EMrs. Agnes Brett, JFall River, Mass. . . 
 
 997 eMIss Mary A. Brett, JFall River, Mass. . . 
 
 998 *Miss Jennie Wheaton Nov. 6, 1883 
 
 Nov. 7, 1880. 
 
 999 *Mr. John P. Dexter, JPomfret, Ct. ..Jan. 3, 1883 
 
 1000 RMrs. Myra A. Dexter, tChester, Mass. . . 
 
 Feb. 3, 1881. 
 
 1001 RMr. Asa P. Stafford 
 
 Mar. 3, 1881. 
 
 1002 RMr. George Jencks, tDayville, Ct 
 
 1003 RMrs. Lucy B. Jencks, |N. Scituate, R. I. 
 
 June 5, 1881. 
 
 1004 RMr. John C. Bassett 
 
 1005 RMr. Fred W. Franklin 
 
 1006 RMr. Frank J. Perrin. (Rev.) 
 
 1007 Miss Nettie J. Clark 
 
 1008 RMrs. Luella B. (Davis) Lovell 
 
 1009 Miss Nellie M. Gleason 
 
 1010 Miss Hortense E. Griffiths 
 
 1011 Mrs. Mary A. (Hutchins) Tayntor 
 
 1012 RMiss Alice G. Patten 
 
 1013 *Miss Annie B. Shaw 
 
 [128] 
 
1014 Mrs. Lizzie B. (Stevens) Hay ward 
 
 1015 *Mr. Augustus Bassett, tDayville, Ct., Dec. 25, 1890 
 
 1016 *Mrs. Sarah J. Bassett, tDayville, Ct. . .Sept. 6, 1902 
 
 1017 *Miss Annie L. Bassett, $Dayville, Ct. ..July 29, 1887 
 
 1018 Mrs. Charlotte H. N. Thomas, |Dayville, 
 
 Ct 
 
 1019 RMr. Mortimer W. Thomas 
 
 Sept. 1, 1.S81. 
 
 1020 *Mr. Joseph B. Trowbridge Feb. 22, 1900 
 
 Jan. 1, 1882. 
 
 1021 Mrs. Alma F. Lyon 
 
 1022 :Mrs. Martha E. (Stanley) Cornwell, JNew 
 
 Britain. Ct 
 
 102.3 Mr. John Howland. (Rev.) tconway, 
 Mass 
 
 Mar. 2, 1882. 
 
 1024 *Mr. J. Q. A. Stone, tNewburyport, Mass. 
 
 July 3, 1898 
 
 1025 *Mrs. Eliza A. Stone, tNewburyport, 
 
 Mass Sept. 7, 1891 
 
 Dec. 28. 18.82. 
 
 1026 Mr. Wesley Wilson, tputnam, Ct 
 
 1027 Mrs. Emily E. Wilson, tPutnam, Ct 
 
 1028 Mrs. Clara E. Jacobs, t-New Haven, Ct. . 
 
 Mar. 4, 1883. 
 
 1029 *Mr. Everett Danielson Nov. 14, 1884 
 
 1030 EMr. Arthur A. Dean 
 
 1031 RMr. .James McLaughlin 
 
 1032 RMr. George E. Perrin 
 
 1033 Mr. Charles D. Stone , 
 
 1034 RMr. Edward L. Williams 
 
 May 6, 1883. 
 
 1035 Mr. Fred A. Jacobs 
 
 1036 Miss Marion D. Chollar 
 
 1037 *Mrs. Kezia D. Knight May 22, 1900 
 
 1038 Mrs. Phoebe I;. (Butts) Milliken 
 
 1039 Mrs. Ellen L. (Hammett) Cole 
 
 1040 Miss Abbie :M. Hammett 
 
 1041 *Mr. John M. Dowe Oct. 7, 1902 
 
 1042 Mr. Charles A. Dowe 
 
 1043 RMr. Edward Carr, tjewett City, Ct 
 
 [12 9] 
 
1044 RMrs. Edward Carr, JiJewett City, Ct. ... 
 
 1045 *Mrs. Fannie L. Keech, twauregan, 
 
 Ct Dec. 25, 1888 
 
 June 28; 1883. 
 
 1046 ♦Mr. Ethan Coe, tGeneva, 111 Feb. 4, 1886 
 
 1047 'Mrs. Minerva Coe, IGeneva, 111 May 18, 1890 
 
 1048 Mrs. Mary C. Danielson, JLansing, 
 
 Mich 
 
 Jan. 3, 1884. 
 
 1049 Mrs. Helen W. Dowe, $Norton, Mass. .. 
 
 1050 RMr. Gilbert A. Bailey, tpawtucket, R. I. 
 
 Feb. 28, 1884. 
 
 1051 Miss Sarah S. Hall, iSutton, Mass 
 
 1052 *Mrs. Eunice Thompson, IDayville, Ct. 
 
 Dec. 24, 1891 
 May 4, 1884. 
 
 1053 RMrs. Emily A. Merriam, tprovidence, 
 
 R. I 
 
 1054 Mr. Joseph Farron 
 
 1055 Mrs. Amelia Farron 
 
 1056 RMrs. Minnie F. (Hall) Vaughn 
 
 Aug. 3, 1884. 
 
 1057 RMiss Ruth Witter, tRanover, Ct 
 
 Sept. 25, ]884. 
 
 1058 RMrs. Mary E. Burnett, tGreenville, Ct... 
 
 Jan. 1, 1885. 
 
 1059 RMiss Ella C. Chapman, tjewett City, Ct. 
 
 Jan. 4, 1885. 
 
 1060 *Mrs. Ellen Clayton Snow Sept. 13, 1885 
 
 Mar. 1, 1885. 
 
 1061 *Mrs. Elizabeth G. Scranton July 1, 1886 
 
 1062 RMrs. M. M. Griffin 
 
 1063 Mrs.Ida E. Bradford 
 
 1064 RMrs. Clara E. (Davis) Shippee 
 
 1065 Miss C^aroline F. Danielson 
 
 1066 Mr. Willard S. Danielson (Dea.) 
 
 1067 *Mr. George B. Waldo July 8, 1904 
 
 1068 *Mrs. Mary A. Deau Mar. 29, 1893 
 
 [130] 
 
July 5, 1885. 
 
 1069 Mrs. Ella M. Palmer 
 
 1070 Mr. William D. Logee 
 
 Mar. 7, 1886. 
 
 1071 Mr. Georg:<» L. lij-on 
 
 April 15, 1886. 
 
 1072 *Mrs. Amelia F. (Alexander) Danielson, 
 
 tDayville, Ct Sept. 13, 1904 
 
 1073 *Mr. James H. Bailey, $Rehoboth, 
 
 Mass Mar. 29, 1902 
 
 1074 *Mrs. Hertilla B. Bailey, tRehoboth, 
 
 Mass Oct. 29, 1901 
 
 April 29, 1886. 
 
 1075 RMrs. Clara I. Burgess, JE. Killingly, Ct. 
 
 Sept. 2, 1886. 
 
 1076 Mrs. Sophia M. Simmons, JLawrence, 
 
 Mass 
 
 Sept. 5, 1886. 
 
 1077 Mr. Edward W. Hayward 
 
 1078 *Mrs. Bertha L. (Stevens) Heath ....Apr. 2.5, 1900 
 
 1079 RMiss Sarah E. Palmer 
 
 1080 Mrs. Alice C. (Newbury) Davis 
 
 Nov. 7, 1886. 
 
 1081 Mrs. Hattie B. Danielson, JBrooklyn, Ct. 
 
 Jan. 2, 1887. 
 
 1082 RMrs. Nellie A. (Wilson) Cundall 
 
 1083 Miss Amelia B. Hutchins 
 
 1084 Mrs. Ella D. (Hutchins) Back 
 
 Mar. 6, 1887. 
 
 1085 RMr. Charles B. Green 
 
 1086 Miss Eliza A. Burnham 
 
 May 1, 1887. 
 
 1087 Mrs. Mary J. Lee 
 
 1088 Miss Laura E. Shepardson 
 
 1089 Miss Anna Jane Davis 
 
 [131] 
 
July 3, 1887. 
 
 1090 Mrs. Harriet C. Day, JDay villo, Ct 
 
 1091 EMrs. Mabel M. Gleason 
 
 Oct. 27, 1887. 
 
 1092 Mrs. Mary G. Bill, $Chaplin, Ct 
 
 Nov. 6, 1887. 
 
 1093 *Miss Annie E. Butts April 5, 1894 
 
 Dec. 29, 1887. 
 
 1094 Mrs. Nancy W. Durkee, JPomfret, Ct. .. 
 
 Jan. 1, 1888. 
 
 1095 Mrs. Annie E. (.Jacobs) Bullard 
 
 1096 *Miss Bertha M. Dewing Mar. 31, 1895 
 
 Mar. 1, 1888. 
 
 1097 Mrs. Edith W. Bailey, JSouthbridge, 
 
 Mass 
 
 1098 BMiss Laura C. Browning, toil City, Pa. 
 
 March 4, 1888. 
 
 1099 EMrs. Avis Greenslit, ^Howard Valley, Ct. 
 
 1100 RMiss Martha E. Greenslit, ^Howard Val- 
 
 ley, Ct 
 
 1101 RMr. Elijah L. Greenslit, ^Howard Valley, 
 
 Ct 
 
 1102 Mr. George B. Guild (Dea.), tHampton, 
 
 Ct 
 
 1103 Mrs. Eva L. Guild, tRap. Ch., Danielson- 
 
 ville, Ct 
 
 1104 Mrs. Fanuie G. Paine, ^Brooklyn, Ct. . . 
 
 1105 RMr. Aurin P. Somes, JFairfleld. Ct 
 
 1106 RMrs. Emily A. Somes, ^Fairfield, Ct 
 
 1107 Mrs. Ellen M. Adams 
 
 1108 Mr. Charles H. Bacon 
 
 1109 Mrs. Alice M. Bacon 
 
 1110 *Mr. Benjamin A. Bailey Dec. 24, 1896 
 
 1111 Mrs. Emily W. Bailey 
 
 1112 Mrs. Mary U. (Bailey) Newell 
 
 1113 RMrs. Ida L. Bailey 
 
 1114 Miss Sarah M. Burlingame 
 
 1115 Miss Ella M. Chapman 
 
 1116 Mrs. Helen L. (Chapman) Sharp 
 
 1117 Mrs. Lucy Day 
 
 [13 2] 
 
1118 EMr. Herberi E. Day 
 
 1119 Mrs. Josephine A. Dewing 
 
 1120 Mrs. Lillian H. Foote 
 
 1121 EMiss Alice L. Green 
 
 1122 RMrs. Mary Louise (Griffin) Castle 
 
 1123 Mrs. Annie J. Hyde 
 
 1124 *Mr. William O. Jacobs Mar. 25, 1893 
 
 1125 EMr. Edwin P. Lyon 
 
 1126 Mr. Royal C. Rawson 
 
 1127 Mrs. Emily Rawson 
 
 1128 Mrs. Marietta (Sherman) Stone 
 
 1129 EMiss Emily G. Somes 
 
 1130 Mr. Charles F. Winkelman 
 
 1131 Mrs. Lucy G. (Ames) Danielson, |Bing- 
 
 hamton, N. Y 
 
 1132 EMr. WiUiam H. Darbie 
 
 1133 *Mr. James Darling Dec. 20, 1888 
 
 ] 134 Mrs. Margaret Dexter 
 
 1135 *Mr. Amasa Dowe Dec. 2, 1898 
 
 1136 EMr. Thomas D. Fuller 
 
 1137 Mrs. Mary E. Fuller, JFoster, R. I 
 
 1138 EMr. Andrew J. Gardiner 
 
 1139 Mrs. Adeline E. Hyde 
 
 1140 Mr. John A. Paine (Dea.) 
 
 1141 Mrs. Carrie E. Smith 
 
 July 1, 1888. 
 
 1142 *Mr. Henry W. Butts, $So. Killingly, 
 
 Ct June 24, 1889 
 
 1143 Mrs. Aurilla R. Smith, tSo. Killingly, Ct 
 
 1144 Mrs. Mary A. Griffiths, JFoster, R. I. . . 
 
 Sept. 9, 1888. 
 
 1145 Mr. John A. Piuze 
 
 Jan. 3, 1889. 
 
 1146 RMrs. Sarah J. Franklin, JPlymouth, Mass. 
 
 March 3, 1889. 
 
 1147 EMrs. Florence B. Dean, JMeth. Ch., Dan- 
 
 ielson, Ct 
 
 May 5, 1889. 
 
 1148 Mrs. Emma L. Scott, JProvidence, R. I. 
 
 July 7, 1889. 
 
 1149 *Mr. Nelson Leavens, tWauregan, Ct. .Jan. 24, 1893 
 
 [13 3] 
 
Sept. 1, 1889. 
 
 1150 RMrs. LilliaD K. Swan, $Wauregan, Ct. . . 
 
 Nov. 3, 1889. 
 
 1151 Mrs. Eliza J. Chase, JMilford, Mass. ... 
 
 1152 Mrs. Laura A. Davis, |New Haven, Ct. . 
 
 1153 Mrs. HnWa C. Doty, iMilford, Mass. .. 
 
 1154 Miss S. Anna Doty, JAttawaiigan, Ct. . 
 
 1155 *Mrs. Lucy B. Judson, JMilford, Mass. Sept. 9, 1897 
 
 1156 Mrs. Addie E. Bowen 
 
 1157 RMrs. Grace oreenwood (Scott) Wheatley 
 
 1158 Mr. Bradford W. Danielson 
 
 Dec. 1, 1889. 
 
 1159 *Mr. Hamilton H. NefC 
 
 1160 *Mrs. Eliza F. Neff, JProvidence, K. I. . . 
 
 1161 Mrs. Bertha H. (Jordan) Torrey 
 
 1162 Mrs. Louisa Winkleman, jMeth. Ch., 
 
 Westerly, R. I 
 
 May 4, 1890. 
 
 1163 *Mrs. Eunice F. Dexter, |Dayville, Ct., May 5, 1897 
 
 1164 Mrs. Mary J. Williams, tPomfret, Ct. . . 
 
 1165 Mr. David A. Witter, $ Webster, Mass. . . 
 
 1166 *Mrs. Philinda G. Battey, JMeth. Ch., 
 
 Danielson, Ct Jan. 24, 1901 
 
 1167 RMr. Edward Anderson (Rev.), JNorwalk, 
 
 Ct 
 
 1168 *Mrs. H. Flora Anderson, INorwalk, Ct. 
 
 Jan. 30, 1894 
 
 1169 RMiss Kate S. Anderson, fNorwalk, Ct. . . 
 
 1170 Mrs. Bessie B. (Chamberlain) Gardner . . 
 
 1171 Mrs. Mabel E. (Battey) Pellett 
 
 Jan. 4, 1891. 
 
 1172 Mrs. Tirza Woodhead 
 
 1173 REdward M. Batty, |M. E. Church, 
 
 Danielson 
 
 1174 RCelia G. Helse 
 
 May 3, 1891. 
 
 1175 Miss E. Frances Jencks, $Dayville 
 
 1176 Mrs. Agnes E. Wood, $ Woodstock 
 
 1177 w'm. T. Bailey, JCloud Co., Kan 
 
 1178 RMrs. Mary S. Clapp, |Brooklyn, Ct. ... 
 
 1179 RWilliam C. Dexter, ^Brooklyn, Ct 
 
 [134] 
 
1180 Mrs. Henrietta Hopkins 
 
 1181 Burdette C. Hopkins 
 
 1182 Edwin N. Shippee 
 
 1183 EClarence J. Witter 
 
 1184 ENellie A. Woodbridge 
 
 1185 Mariska S. Klein 
 
 Jan. 3, 1892. 
 
 1186 *Mrs. Eliza A. Kingsley, tBrooklyn, Ct. Feb. 3, 1892 
 
 March 6, 1892. 
 
 1187 RWm. J. Craig, IBoston, Mass 
 
 May 1, 1892. 
 
 1188 RMrs. Elisa C. Conklin, tN. E. Church, 
 
 Brooklyn, N. Y 
 
 Sept. 4, 1892. 
 
 1189 Mrs. Maranda Kies, ±Free Bap. Ch., E. 
 
 Killingly, Ct July 21, 1899 
 
 1190 *Marietta Kies, tpree Bap. Ch., E. Kil- 
 
 lingly, Ct 
 
 1191 EJulietta (Kies) Arnold, JB. Killingly, Ct. 
 
 Jan. 1, 1893. 
 
 1192 John R. Davis, $Cong. Ch., Avoca, Iowa. 
 
 1193 Mrs. Georgiana Davis, JAvoca, Iowa . . . 
 
 1194 Mary M. Stowell, tputnam, Ct 
 
 1195 Mrs. S. Emma Keach, twauregan, Ct. . . 
 
 1196 Abbie L. Medbury 
 
 1197 Myrtella A. Medbm-y 
 
 1198 Annie E. Lathrop 
 
 1199 Mrs. Frances (Brown) Warren 
 
 1200 Mi-s. Minnie M. (Davis) Warren 
 
 1201 Mrs. Florence O. (Brown) Bailey 
 
 1202 Mrs. Ada L. (Adams) Spencer 
 
 1203 Herbert C. Keach 
 
 March 3, 1895. 
 
 1204 Mrs. Mary Young Fay 
 
 1205 Rjohn F. Lowe 
 
 120«> Laura M. Braman 
 
 1207 Mrs. Mary E. Braman, IWauregan 
 
 May 5, 1895. 
 
 1208 RMrs. Mary E. (Hall) Sibley, JM. E. Ch., 
 
 Danielson 
 
 [ 1 '^> ^^ ] 
 
1209 Wm. D. Logee 
 
 1210 Mrs. Ida C. Logee 
 
 July 11, 1895. 
 
 1211 Mary L. Lee 
 
 March 1, 1896. 
 
 1212 EHerbert S. Brown (Rev.) |E. Ave., 
 
 Loekport, N. Y 
 
 1213 RMrs. Emma H. Brown, $E. Ave., Lock- 
 
 port, N. Y 
 
 1214 Charlotte D. Ayer, |Dayville, Ct 
 
 1215 Mrs. Eliza Ayer, JDayville, Ct 
 
 1216 Arthur F. Drew, Baptized 
 
 1217 Everell James, Baptized 
 
 1218 RRobert R. James, Baptized 
 
 1219 George W. Lyon, Baptized 
 
 1220 Glenn F. Lyon, Baptized 
 
 1221 RLucius P. Merriam, Baptized 
 
 1222 C. Abbott Phillips, Baptized 
 
 1223 William A. Phillips, Baptized 
 
 1224 George R. Rawson, Baptized 
 
 1225 RWalter A. Rawson, Baptized 
 
 1226 *Mrs. Hattie T. (Wheatley) Drew, Bap- 
 
 tized 
 
 1227 Grace E. Witter, Baptized 
 
 1228 Myron D. Witter, Baptized 
 
 1229 Fannie E. Day, $Meth. Ch., Danielson. . 
 
 May 3, 1896. 
 
 1230 Jesse F. Bailey, Baptized 
 
 1231 RJoseph V. Davis, Baptized 
 
 1232 Myrtella I. Dewing, Baptized 
 
 1233 nFred S. Sibley, $lst Trin. Brooklyn, Ct. . 
 
 1234 Preston B. Sibley, $lst Trin., Brooklyn, 
 
 Ct 
 
 1235 Mrs. Kate Sibley, list Trin., Brooklyn, 
 
 Ct 
 
 1236 Oliver D. Drew, tM. E. Ch., Danielson. . 
 
 1237 Mrs. Helen F. Drew, JM. E. Ch., Daniel- 
 
 son 
 
 Nov. 1, 1896. 
 
 1238 Sarah L. Ayer, $lst Trin. Ch., North- 
 
 field, Mass 
 
 1239 ^Gilbert A. Bailey (Dea.), JPresb. Ch., Dor- 
 
 chester, Mass 
 
 [13 6] 
 
1240 Mrs. Hattie R. Bailey, |Presb. Ch., Dor- 
 
 chester, Mass 
 
 March 7, 1897. 
 
 1241 Benjamin L. Bailey, Baptized 
 
 May 2, 1897. 
 
 1242 Mrs. Susan R. Baker, Jlst Trin., Brook- 
 
 lyn, Ct 
 
 Sept. 5, 1897. 
 
 1243 RMrs. Mary A. (Ayer) McKinnon, M. D., 
 
 JCentral Cong. Ch., Phila 
 
 Nov. 7, 1897. 
 
 1244 Mrs. Hattie G. Bartlett, tSo. Manchester, 
 
 Ct 
 
 1245 RMinnie J. Cowles, tCollinsville, Ct 
 
 Jan. 2, 1898. 
 
 1246 Katherine H. Bill 
 
 1247 RMrs. Fannie A. (Hall) King, |M. E. Ch., 
 
 Putnam 
 
 May 1, 1898. 
 
 1248 Emily A. Fuller, Baptized 
 
 1249 Flora E. Fuller, Baptized 
 
 July 3, 1898. 
 
 1250 Theodore E. Hammett, Baptized 
 
 Sept. 4, 1898. 
 
 1251 Mrs. Fannie W. Danielson, JCong. Ch., 
 
 Southington, Ct 
 
 1252 Louise W. Danielson, tCong. Ch., South- 
 
 ington, Ct 
 
 1253 Frances W. Danielson, tCong. Ch., 
 
 Southington, Ct 
 
 May 7, 1899. 
 
 1254 *Erastus Burlingham (Rev.) JCong. Ch., 
 
 Spencer, Mass 
 
 1255 Ida Maria Webster 
 
 July 2, 1899. 
 
 125G J. A. Bachman, ^Bristol, Ct 
 
 1257 Mrs. J. A. Bachman, JBristol, Ct 
 
 [13 7] 
 
Sept. 3, 1899. 
 
 1258 Grace A. Ames 
 
 1259 Jas. Albert Danielson 
 
 1260 Alice Josephine Danielson 
 
 Nov. 5, 1899. 
 
 1261 Wm. H. Barron, Jr., JUnion Ch., Provi- 
 
 dence, R. I 
 
 1262 Mrs. Lillian Briggs Barron 
 
 1263 Marjorie G. Bill 
 
 1264 Mrs. Eliza K. Evans 
 
 1265 Edith Louise Fuller 
 
 March 1, 1900. 
 
 1266 Chas. P. Backus, |Cong., Willimantic .. 
 
 1267 Mrs. Bertha A. Backus, ^Bristol. Ct. .. 
 
 1268 Harry E. Back, tUnion, Ct 
 
 1269 Mrs. Priscilla Brown, $Presb., Balti- 
 
 more, Md 
 
 1270 Jas. L. Prentice, IPomfret, Ct 
 
 1271 *Lucy B. Prentice, JPomfret, Ct 
 
 May, 1900. 
 
 1272 BRiith Jeanette Bailey 
 
 1273 Ada Amelia Danielson 
 
 1274 Florence Alice Danielson 
 
 1275 Minnie Amelia Farron 
 
 1276 Gladys Joan Palmer 
 
 1277 Mrs. Ella M. (Pellett) Lathrop, {West- 
 
 minster, Ct 
 
 July 1, 1900. 
 
 1278 RHelen Carlotta Bailey 
 
 1279 Oliver B. Jacobs 
 
 Nov. 1, 1900. 
 
 1280 Carrie H. James, JShawmut Cong. Ch., 
 
 Boston, Mass 
 
 1281 Eulalie James 
 
 Jan. 6, 1901. 
 
 1282 Andrew L. Chollar, |Cong. Ch. Woodstock, 
 
 111 
 
 1283 Mrs. Helen D. Chollar, |Cong. Ch., Wood- 
 
 stock, 111 
 
 1284 Geo. B. Ferguson, tTompkins Ave. Cong. 
 
 Ch., Brooklyn, N. Y 
 
 [138] 
 
 I 
 
1285 Mrs. Adeline M. Ferguson. JTompkins 
 
 Ave. Cong., Brooklyn, N. Y 
 
 1286 Mrs. Maria H. Hall, i2nd Cong. Ch., Put- 
 
 nam, Ct 
 
 1287 Mrs. A. C. (HaUiday) Paine, $Park Cong. 
 
 Ch., Norwich, Ct 
 
 1288 Mrs. .Janet Soutar, JCong. Ch., Green- 
 
 ville, Ct 
 
 1289 S. Sherberne Mathews, (Rev.), JHan- 
 
 over St. Cong. Ch., Milwaukee 
 
 1290 Arthur Rupert Paine 
 
 1291 J. A. Piuze 
 
 1292 Mrs. A. E. Scott, JCentral Presb. Ch., 
 
 N. Y. City 
 
 1293 Mary E. Smith, tCong. Ch., Williams- 
 
 ville. Ct 
 
 1294 Mrs. E. E. Smith, tCong. Ch., Williams- 
 
 ville, Ct 
 
 1295 Mrs. Chas. M. Smith, |Cong. Ch., Wil- 
 
 liamsville, Ct 
 
 1296 Mrs. C. S. Smith, iCong. Ch., Williams- 
 
 ville. Ct 
 
 1297 W. W. White, t2d Cong. Ch., Putnam, 
 
 Ct 
 
 1298 W. P. White, $2d Cong. Ch., Putnam, 
 
 Ct 
 
 1299 Mrs. J. D. White, i:2d Cong. Ch., Putnam, 
 
 Ct 
 
 March 3, 1901. 
 
 1300 Lou Rena Bates 
 
 1301 Grace Emily Fisher 
 
 1302 Alice Maxfield Jacobs 
 
 1303 Mrs. Annie Agnes (Aldrich) Lloyd 
 
 May 5, 1901. 
 
 1304 Will Carleton Bailey 
 
 1305 Lester A. Bill 
 
 1306 Prescot Wm. Lovell 
 
 1307 Wallace Martin Paine 
 
 1308 *Louis Piuze 
 
 1309 Wilfred Julian Piuze 
 
 1310 Ray Clifford Smith 
 
 1311 Dr. C. H. Otis, iCong. Ch., Colchester, 
 
 Ct 
 
 [139] 
 
July 7, 1901. 
 
 1312 Frank James Bailey 
 
 1313 Fred Simpson Keach 
 
 1314 Mrs. Elisabeth Mathews-Richardson, 
 
 JHanover St. Ch., Milwaukee 
 
 1315 Mrs. Mary J. Sanger, :|:Cong. Ch., Canter- 
 
 bury, Ct 
 
 1316 Olive D. Sanger, tCong. Ch., Canterbury, 
 
 Ct 
 
 Sept. 1, 1901. 
 
 1317 RMrs. EUen Law Manning, $lst Cong. Ch., 
 
 Grinnell, Iowa 
 
 1318 RMiss Miriam Manning, list Cong. Ch., 
 
 Grinnell, Iowa 
 
 1319 RMiss Myra Manning, Jlst Cong. Ch., 
 
 Wyoming, 111 
 
 1320 Mrs. S. Amelia Tillinghast, JPlymouth 
 
 Ch., Worcester, Mass 
 
 Nov. 3, 1901. 
 
 1321 F. W. Krieger, JCong. Ch., Putnam 
 
 1322 Mrs. Eliza Simmons Kent 
 
 1323 Wllhelmena Cooper Kent 
 
 Jan. 5, 1902. 
 
 1324 Miss Ada Ellen Davis 
 
 March 2, 1902. 
 
 1325 Miss Lizzie Fletcher Prentice 
 
 May 4, 1902. 
 
 1326 Raymond Griswold Bartlett 
 
 June, 1902. 
 
 1327 Mrs. Elizabeth S. Cundall, |Cong. Ch., Fair- 
 
 haven, Mass 
 
 Sept., 1902. 
 
 1328 Mr. H. C. Torrey (Dea.), $Cong. Ch., 
 
 Central Village 
 
 1329 *Mrs. Jane C. Torrey, tCong. Ch., Central 
 
 Village Jan. 10, 1903 
 
 1330 Burton G. Spencer 
 
 [140] 
 
Nov., 1902. 
 
 1331 Gordon Addison Johnstone, Jlst Presb., 
 
 Boston 
 
 1332 Mrs. Addison Johnstone, $lst Presb., 
 
 Boston 
 
 1333 EHenry D. Martin, JCong. Ch., Shirley, 
 
 Mass 
 
 1334 rMfs. Clara E. Martin 
 
 1335 Marion Webster 
 
 13.36 Geo. W. Cole, Baptized 
 
 1337 Oliver P. Bartlett 
 
 Jan 4, 1903. 
 
 1338 John Almond, Baptized 
 
 13.39 Mrs. Ann Almond, Baptized 
 
 1340 W. L. A. Fuller, Baptized 
 
 1 341 Harry J. Hyde, Baptized 
 
 1342 Ray W. Pellett, Baptized 
 
 1343 Fred Sutcliffe, ^Cleveland, Ohio 
 
 ].344 Mrs. Sarah Sutcliffe, ICleveland, Ohio .. 
 
 1345 Clara Brooks, ^Cleveland, Ohio 
 
 March 1, 1903. 
 
 1346 Julius Fridolin 
 
 1347 Mrs. Matilda Fridolin 
 
 May 3, 1903. 
 
 1.348 Helen Louise Bailey 
 
 1.349 Eileen May Davis 
 
 1350 Ruby Chapman Foote 
 
 1351 Marjorie Joy Jacobs 
 
 1352 Corinne Lucia Paine, Baptized 
 
 1353 Charlotte Agnes Palmer, Baptized 
 
 1354 Alice Hutchins Tayntor, Baptized 
 
 July 5, 1903. 
 
 1355 Edna Sutcliffe, Baptized 
 
 Sept. 6, 1908. 
 
 1356 Olive Elsie Bartlett, Baptized 
 
 Nov. 1, 1903. 
 
 1357 Mabel Adele Young, Baptized 
 
 Jan., 1904. 
 
 1358 Mrs. Ellen Weeks, rjiCong. Ch., Medway.. 
 
 [141] 
 
March, 1904. 
 T359 Grace M. Bacon 
 
 1360 Edward Manning Davis 
 
 1361 Leon Alfred Dewing 
 
 1362 Florence Edith Dewing 
 
 1363 May Dewing 
 
 1364 J. Dyer Potter 
 
 1365 Wm. Whitman 
 
 1366 Mrs. Mary A. Whitman, JCong. Ch., 
 
 Wauregan 
 
 May 1, 1904. 
 
 1367 Dora Alf orsine Piuze 
 
 July 3, 1904. 
 
 1368 Mrs. Mae Benham Davis 
 
 1369 Miss Mary E. Day, JCong., Lodi, Ohio . . 
 
 July 17, 1904. 
 Special Communion Service at Bedside, 
 
 1370 *Mrs. Mary Eliza Pike Jan. 3, 1905 
 
 Sept., 1904. 
 
 1371 Agnes Jacobs 
 
 1372 Merrill Colyer Smith 
 
 Jan. 8, 1905. 
 
 1373 Eleanor Elizabeth Smith, Baptized 
 
 1374 Carrie Damaris White, Baptized 
 
 1375 Catherine Ann White, Baptized 
 
 [14 2] 
 
present JMcmbers 
 
 449 Adams, Miss Emily Ann. 
 
 582 Adams, Miss Clarissa A. 
 
 671 Adams, Miss Olive D. 
 
 665 Adams, Mrs. Eliza M. 
 
 961 Adams, Miss Francella E. 
 
 1107 Adams, Mrs. Ellen M. 
 
 1338 Almond, Mrs. Ann. 
 
 1339 Almond, John. 
 1258 Ames, Miss Grace A. 
 
 719 Arnold, Mrs. Lucy C. 
 
 808 Arnold, Miss Caroline E. 
 
 1215 Ayer, Mrs. Eliza F. 
 
 1214 Ayer, Miss Charlotte D. 
 
 1238 Ayer, Miss Sarah L. 
 
 1256 Bachman, William. 
 
 1257 Bachman, Mrs. Xellie. 
 1268 Back, Judge Harry E. 
 1084 Back, Mrs. Ella D. 
 
 830 Backus, William H. 
 
 851 Backus, Miss Abby G. 
 
 1266 Backus, Charles P. 
 
 1267 Backus, Mrs. Bertha A. 
 
 1108 Bacon, Charles H. 
 
 1109 Bacon, Mrs. Alice M. 
 1359 Bacon, Miss Grace M. 
 1240 Bailey, Mrs. Hattie R. 
 1312 Bailey, Frank J. 
 1304 Bailey, Will C. 
 
 1349 Bailey, Miss Helen Louise. 
 [143] 
 
1177 Bailey, William T. 
 
 1230 Bailey, Jesse F. 
 
 1111 Bailey, Mrs. Emily W. 
 
 1241 Bailey, Benjamin L. 
 1097 Bailey, Mrs. Edith W. 
 1201 Bailey, Mrs. Florence S. 
 
 1242 Baker, Mrs. Susan R. 
 
 1261 Barron, William H., Jr. 
 
 1262 Barron, Mrs. Lillian B. 
 1337 Bartlett, Oliver P. 
 1244 Bartlett, Mrs. Hattie G. 
 1326 Bartlett, Raymond G. 
 1356 Bartlett, Miss Olive E. 
 
 969 Bates, Mrs. Maria E. 
 
 1300 Bates, Miss Lou Rena. 
 
 1092 Bill, Mrs. Mary G. 
 
 938 Bill, Arthur G. 
 
 955 Bill, Mrs. Lilian E. 
 
 1246 Bill, Miss Katherine. 
 
 1263 Bill, Miss Marjorie G. 
 1305 Bill, Lester A. 
 
 1156 Bovren, Mrs. Addie E. 
 
 916 Bradford, Miss Elizabeth. 
 
 1063 Bradford, Mrs. Ida E. 
 
 1207 Braman, Mrs. Mary E. 
 
 1206 Braman, Miss Laura May. 
 
 1345 Brooks, Miss Clara E. 
 
 1269 Brown, Mrs. Priscilla. 
 
 1095 Bullard, Mrs. Annie E. 
 
 1114 Burlingame, Miss Sara M. 
 1086 Burnham, Miss Eliza A. 
 
 844 Burroughs, Mrs. Harriet M. 
 
 476 Capron, Mrs. Charlotte T. 
 
 960 Card, Miss Sarah M. 
 
 734 Chamberlin, Mrs. Lucy W. 
 
 1115 Chapman, Miss Ella M. 
 1151 Chase, Mrs. Eliza J. 
 
 1282 Chollar, Andrew L. 
 
 1283 Chollar, Mrs. Helen D. 
 
 [144] 
 
663 Chollar, Dea. William Henry. 
 
 655 Chollar, Mrs. Mary R. 
 
 1036 Chollar, Miss Marion D. 
 
 1007 Clark, Miss Nettie J. 
 
 1336 Cole, George W. 
 
 1039 Cole, Mrs. Ellen L. H. 
 
 418 Comins, William. 
 
 1022 Cornwell, Mrs. Martha E. 
 
 636 Cundall, Mrs. Emily M. 
 
 988 Cundall, Clarence E. 
 
 1327 Cundall, Mrs. Elizabeth S. 
 
 810 Danielson, Miss Katherine E. 
 
 939 Danielson, George E. 
 
 1081 Danielson, Mrs. Hattie B. 
 
 935 Danielson, Walter H. 
 
 892 Danielson, Mrs. Helen L. 
 
 1251 Danielson, Mrs. Fannie W. 
 
 1252 Danielson, Miss Louise W. 
 
 1253 Danielson, Miss Frances W. 
 1260 Danielson, Miss Alice Josephine. 
 
 835 Danielson, Mrs. Harriet J. Hammond. 
 
 621 Danielson, Albert. 
 
 727 Danielson, Mrs. Emma J. 
 
 1065 Danielson, Miss Caroline F. 
 
 1066 Danielson, Dea. Willard S. 
 1131 Danielson, Mrs. Lucy G. 
 1158 Danielson, Bradford W. 
 1259 Danielson, James A. 
 
 898 Danielson, Dea. Simeon. 
 
 1048 Danielson, Mrs. Mary Christiana. 
 
 1273 Danielson, Miss Ada Amelia. 
 
 1274 Danielson, Miss Florence A. 
 631 Danielson, Miss Emily. 
 
 1089 Davis, Miss Anna J. 
 
 1192 Davis, John R. 
 
 1193 Davis, Mrs. Georgiana. 
 1350 Davis, Miss Eileen May. 
 1360 Davis, Edward M. 
 
 1368 Davis, Mrs. Mae Benham. 
 [145] 
 
1324 Davis, Miss Ada Ellen. 
 1080 Davis, Mrs. Alice C. 
 
 1152 Davis, Mrs. Laura A. 
 1090 Day, Mrs. Harriet C. 
 1117 Day, Mrs. Lucy. 
 1229 Day, Miss Fannie E. 
 1369 Day, Miss Mary E. 
 
 447 Dean, Edmund A. 
 1119 Dewing, Mrs. Josephine A. 
 1232 Dewing, Miss Myrtella J. 
 
 1361 Dewing, Leon Alfred. 
 
 1362 Dewing, Miss Florence E. 
 
 1363 Dewing, Miss May. 
 594 Dexter, Miss Mary. 
 620 Dexter, Edward. 
 
 1134 Dexter, Mrs. Margaret C. 
 691 Dexter, John. 
 
 1153 Doty, Mrs. Hulda C. 
 
 1154 Doty, Miss S. Anna. 
 826 Dowe, Mrs. Emily A. 
 
 1049 Dowe, Mrs. Helen W. 
 1042 Dowe, Charles A. 
 
 1236 Drew, Oliver D. 
 
 1237 Drew, Mrs. Helen F. 
 1216 Drew, Arthur F. 
 
 1094 Durkee, Mrs. Xancy W. 
 1264 Evans, Mrs. Eliza K. 
 
 1054 Farron, Joseph. 
 
 1055 Farron, Mrs. Amelia. 
 1275 Farron, Miss Minnie A. 
 1204 Fay, Mrs. Mary. 
 
 1284 Ferguson, George B. 
 
 1285 Ferguson, Mrs. Adaline M. 
 1301 Fisher, Miss Grace E. 
 
 713 Fiske, Mrs. Mary J. 
 
 929 Foote, George C. 
 1120 Foote, Mrs. Lilian C. 
 1351 Foote, Miss Ruby 0. 
 [146] 
 
1346 Fridolin, Julius. 
 
 1347 Fridolin, Mrs. Matilda. 
 1137 Fuller, Mrs. Mary E. 
 
 1249 Fuller, Miss Flora E. 
 1265 Fuller, Miss Edith L. 
 1340 Fuller, W. L. A. 
 
 1170 Gardner, Mrs. Bessie B. 
 
 825 Gleason, Mrs. Harriet. 
 
 1009 Gleason, Miss Nellie M. 
 789 Green, Mrs. Julia J. 
 
 1010 Griffiths, Miss Hortense E. 
 1144 Griffiths, Mrs. Mary A. 
 
 1102 Guild, Dea. George B. 
 
 1103 Guild, Mrs. Eva L. 
 1051 Hall, Miss Sarah S. 
 
 918 Hall, Miss Mary L. 
 
 1286 Hall, Mrs. Maria H. 
 
 1040 Hammett, Miss Abbie M. 
 
 1250 Hammett, Theodore E. 
 967 Harris, Mrs. Lizzie D. 
 535 Hawkins, Mrs. Lydia E. 
 
 1077 Hayward, Edward W. 
 
 1014 Hayward, Mrs. Lizzie B. 
 
 1180 Hopkins, Mrs. Henrietta. 
 
 1181 Hopkins, Burdette C. 
 1023 Howland, Rev. John. 
 
 924 Howland, Mrs. Sara B. 
 
 477 Hutchins, Mrs. Lucy S. 
 
 587 Hutchins, Mrs. Ellen M. 
 
 1083 Hutchins, Miss Amelia B. 
 
 854 Hyde, Miss Ellen J. 
 
 1123 Hyde, Mrs. Annie J. 
 
 1139 Hyde, Mrs. Adaline E. 
 
 1841 Hyde, Harry J. 
 
 857 Jacobs, Edward H. 
 
 813 Jacobs, Mrs. Ellen P. 
 
 1035 Jacobs, Frederick A. 
 
 1028 Jacobs, Mrs. Clara E. 
 
 1302 Jacobs, Miss Alice M. 
 
 [147] 
 
1352 Jacobs, Miss Marjorie J. 
 
 917 Jacobs, Mrs. Esther A. 
 
 1279 Jacobs, Oliver B. 
 1371 Jacobs, Miss Agnes. 
 1217 James, Everel. 
 
 1280 James, Miss Carrie H. 
 
 1281 James, Miss Eulalie. 
 1176 Jencks, Miss Frances. 
 
 1331 Johnstone, Gordon A. 
 
 1332 Johnstone, Mrs. Emma. 
 1195 Keech, Mrs. S. Emma. 
 1203 Keech, Herbert C. 
 1313 Keech, Fred S. 
 
 1322 Kent, Mrs, Eliza Simmons. 
 
 1323 Kent, Miss Wilhelmina C. 
 786 Kerr, Miss Sarah. 
 
 1189 Kies, Mrs. Marinda. 
 
 910 King, Charles D. 
 
 1185 Kline, Meriska. 
 
 1321 Krieger, F. W. 
 
 745 Lathrop, Mrs. Emily M. 
 
 970 Lathrop, Miss Annie A. 
 
 1277 Lathrop, Mrs. Ella M. 
 
 1198 Lathrop, Miss Annie E. 
 
 919 Law, Mrs. Lucy M. 
 
 1087 Lee, Mrs. Mary J. 
 
 1211 Lee, Miss Mary L. 
 
 367 Lillibridge, Mrs. Mary M. 
 
 958 Lillibridge, Miss Edna M. 
 
 700 Lloyd, George. 
 
 1303 Lloyd, Mrs. Agnes A. 
 
 1209 Logee, William D. 
 
 1210 Logee, Mrs. Ida C. 
 1306 Lovell, Prescott W. 
 1071 Lyon, George L. 
 1021 Lyon, Mrs. Alma F. 
 
 1219 Lyon, George W. 
 
 1220 Lyon, Glenn F. 
 
 1289 Mathews, Dr. S. Sherberne. 
 [148] 
 
1196 Medbury, Miss Abbie L. 
 
 1197 Medbury, Miss Myrtella A. 
 1038 Milliken, Mrs. Phoebe L. 
 
 964 Neff, Mrs. Isabel A. 
 
 1112 Newell, Mrs. Mary U. 
 
 1311 Otis, Dr. Clark H. 
 
 1140 Paine, Dea. John A. 
 
 1104 Paine, Mrs. Fannie (t. 
 
 1290 Paine, Arthur G. 
 1307 Paine, Wallace M. 
 1348 Paine, Miss Corinne L. 
 1287 Paine, Mrs. Agnes C. 
 
 861 Palmer, Edwin L. 
 
 1069 Palmer, Mrs. Ella M. 
 
 1276 Palmer, Miss Gladys J. 
 
 1353 Palmer, Miss Charlotte A. 
 
 772 Peckham, Mrs. Mary D. 
 
 1171 Pellett, Mrs. Mabel Batty. 
 
 1342 Pellett, Ray. 
 
 1222 Phillips, C. Abbot. 
 
 1223 Phillips, William A. 
 
 1291 Piuze, J. Alfred. 
 1309 Piuze, Wilfred J. 
 1367 Piuze, Miss Dora A. 
 1364 Potter, J. Dyer. 
 1270 Prentice, James L. 
 1325 Prentice, Miss Lizzie F. 
 
 991 Prentice, Mrs. Ida E. 
 
 900 Rathbun, Mrs. Lora A. 
 
 1126 Rawson, Royal C. 
 
 1127 Rawson, Mrs. Emily. 
 
 1224 Rawson, George R. 
 
 848 Reynolds, Mrs. Emma D. 
 
 1314 Richardson, Mrs. Elisabeth M. 
 
 1315 Sanger, Mrs. Mary J. 
 
 1316 Sanger, Miss Olive D. 
 
 895 Sawtelle, Fred G. 
 
 896 Sawtelle, Mrs. Elisabeth W. 
 921 Scarborough, Miss Emily B. 
 
 [149] 
 
920 Scarborough, Miss Kate E. 
 
 1292 Scott, Mrs. A. E. 
 1148 Scott, Mrs. Emma L. 
 1116 Sharpe, Mrs. Helen L. 
 1088 Shephardson, Miss Laura E. 
 1182 Shippee, Edwin N. 
 
 1234 Sibley, Preston B. 
 
 1235 Sibley, Mrs. Kate. 
 
 1076 Simmons, Mrs. Sophia M. 
 
 1141 Smith, Mrs. Carrie E. 
 
 1143 Smith, Mrs. Aurilla R. 
 
 1372 Smith, Merrill Colyer. 
 
 1294 Smith, Mrs. Eleanor E. 
 
 1293 Smith, Miss Mary E. 
 
 1295 Smith, Charles M. 
 
 1296 Smith, Mrs. Lilian S. 
 1310 Smith, Ray C. 
 
 1373 Smith, Miss Eleanor E. 
 1288 Soutar, Mrs. Janet. 
 1330 Spencer, Burton G. 
 1202 Spencer, Mrs. Ada L. 
 
 856 Sprague, Penuel H. 
 
 868 Sprague, Mrs. L. Nettie. 
 
 890 Stone, Dea. Joseph W. 
 
 936 Stone, George M. 
 
 632 Stone, Mrs. Susan M. B. 
 
 1033 Stone, Charles D. 
 
 1128 Stone, Mrs. Marietta. 
 
 1194 Stowell, Miss Mary M. 
 
 1343 Sutcliffe, Fred. 
 
 1344 Sutcliffe, Mrs. Sarah. 
 1355 Sutcliffe, Miss Edna. 
 
 630 Tanner, Miss Charlotte. 
 
 1011 Tayntor, Mrs. Mary A. 
 
 1354 Tayntor, Miss Alice H. 
 
 1018 Thomas, Mrs. Charlotte H. N. 
 
 931 Thompson, Henry M. 
 
 1320 Tillinghast, Mrs. S. Amelia. 
 
 1161 Torrey, Mrs. Bertha H. 
 [150] 
 
1328 Torrey, Henry C. 
 
 578 Waldo, Dea. John. 
 
 716 Waldo, Mrs. Isabella K. 
 
 600 Waldo, Simon S. 
 
 637 Waldo, Mrs. Julia A. 
 
 883 Warner, Mrs. Emily E. 
 
 1199 Warren, Mrs. Frances B. 
 
 1200 Warren, Mrs. Minnie M. 
 1255 Webster, Miss Ida M. 
 1335 Webster, Miss Marion. 
 1358 Weeks, Mrs. Ellen F. 
 
 1297 White, Warren W. 
 
 1298 White, Walter P. 
 
 1299 White, Mrs. Julia D. 
 
 1375 White, Miss Catherine Ann. 
 
 1374 White, Miss Carrie D. 
 
 1365 Whitman, William. 
 
 1366 Whitman, Mrs. Mary A. 
 
 1164 Williams, Mrs. Mary J. 
 794 Williams, Mrs. Anna B. 
 
 1026 Wilson, Wesley. 
 
 1027 Wilson, Mrs. Emily E. 
 1162 Winkleman, Mrs. Louisa. 
 1130 Winkleman, Charles F. 
 
 1165 Witter, Dea. David A. 
 972 Witter, Mrs. Mary E. 
 
 1227 Witter, Miss Grace E. 
 
 1228 Witter, Myron D. 
 792 Wood, Mrs. Ella T. 
 
 1175 Wood, Mrs. Agnes E. 
 
 1172 Woodhead, Mrs. Thirza. 
 
 469 Young, Mrs. Lucy M. 
 
 1204 Young, Mrs. Mary. 
 
 1357 Young, Miss Mabel. 
 
 Present membership 335. 
 
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