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T
HE
. ONE
HUNDRETH
A N N I V E RS A RY of the
Wapping Congregational Meeting House
Erected
1801
and Occupied
1802
in South Windsor,
Connecticut
OCTOBER ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH
NINETEEN
HUNDRED
& TWO
���..
���REV.
J.
E. HURLBUT.
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SATURDAY MORNING.
Service at 10.30.
Organ Voluntary.
Doxology.
Rev . F. R. Waite
Scripture Reading,
Gloria.
Rev. E. E. Colburn
Prayer-(Response
by Choir), ·
Anthem-"Great
is the Lord."
Opening Address,
The Pastor, Rev. J. E. Hurlbut
Responses. Rev. Roscoe Nelson
Rev. D. E. Jones
Rev. C. A. Jaquith
Rev. E. W. Burch
Rev. W. F. English, Ph. D. Rev. W. Stanley Post
Hymn 603--"Glorious
Things of Thee are Spoken."
Benediction.
SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
Service at 2.00.
Organ Voluntary.
Anthem-"Praise
God."
Prayer-(Response
by Choir),
Rev. W. B. Tuthill
Address,
Rev. C. H. Barber
Historical Addresses,
Dea. C. C. Vinton and W. A. Howe
Anthem-"Let us Kneel before the Lord."
Reminiscent Addresses,
J. M. Talcott and Mrs. E. S. Bissell
Hymn 597-"Blest be the Tie that Binds."
Benediction.
SUNDAY MORNING.
Service at 10.45.
Organ Voluntary.
Doxology.
Invocation.
Gloria.
Bible Reading-(Response
Anthem.
Baptism of Children.
by Choir).
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Prayer.
Mrs . Alice Ewell
Solo--''The Planes of Peace, "
Rev.
W . S. Hawkes
Sermon,
Lord
God
Almighty
.''
Hymn 1-"Holy,
Holy, Holy!
Benediction.
Sunday School Service.
SUNDAY EVENING.
Service at 7 .00.
Praise Service--Old Time Hymns and other selections .
Sermon,
Rev . E . N. Hardy
Hymn 599-"I Love Thy Kingdom , Lord."
Benediction.
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PASTORS.
1765---1800
MATTHEWROCKWELL, \
MosEs TUTHILL,
f
July 10, 1829-1832
HENRY MORRIS,
July, 1832-May 1, 1835
DAVID L. HUNN,
June 29, 1836--April 29, 1840
Installed,
MARVINRooT,
Jan.-,
1843
Supply,
0. F. PARKER,
o. F. PARKER, Ordained and Installed,
Jan. 3, 1844-Oct. 24, 1848
WM. WRIGHT,
Installed,
Aug. 22, 1854-May 1, 1865
W. S. HAWKES, Ordained and Installed,
Nov. 12, 1868-Mar. 31, 1871
CHARLESDRAKE, Supply,
1871
STEPHEN FENN,
1873; died Feb. 19, 1875
HENRY E. HART,
June 20, 1875-June,
1878
CHAS. N. FLANDERS,"
Nov., 1878-Jan.6,
1884
GEO. A. BRYAN,
May 1, 1884-Nov. 1, 1886
DANIEL PHILLIPS,
April 1, 1887-April 1, 1388
G. 0. McINTYRE,
May, 1888-Aug. 1, 1889
E. N. HARDY,
Aug., 1889-Sept.
1, 1890
F. M. HOLLISTER,Ordained and Installed,
Dec. 31, 1890--Apr. 5, 1892
C. A. REDGRAvE, Supply-,
June 1, 1892-June
1, 1895
W. STANLEYPosT, "
Oct. 1, 1895---April 1, 1900
Oct. 1. 1900JOHN E. HURLBUT, "
THE CENTURY CYCLE.
The centuries have run their round,
The Fathers sleep beneath the ground.
God's acres hold their precious dust,
While God, in whom they put their trust,
Their spirits keep against that day
When heaven and earth shall pass away
And kingdoms be, by promised word,
The kingdoms of His Christ, our Lord.
Whence came these men of courage tried
Who for their faith had gladly died
If by their death that faith could be
God's gift to lands beyond the sea?
In ancient annals we may read,God sifted nations for this seed.
The rack, the dungeon, sword and stake,
Where martyrs died for Jesus' sake,
This dreadful work of sifting did.
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Then God, in Holland, this seed hid
Until, beyond the swelling wave,
Columbus to the old world gave
A continent so grand and great
That God no longer had to wait.
His time had come to plant this seed,
The world's great hope, the world's great need,
That long to Him for help had cried,
In Pilgrim met and satisfied.
These men of sturdy faith and mold
Sought not this land for greed of gold,
But love of God and truth and right,
And as God said, "Let there be light,"
And on creation's night there broke
That light that into being woke
Those starry hosts that made this world,
As round the throne of God it whirled,
The home of races yet unborn:
So broke for liberty God's morn.
From tyrant's shackles faith set free
When God said, "Let the Pilgrims be."
'Tis true that with the Pilgrim band
There later came to this fair land
The Puritan of faith the same.
From this twin stock the courage came
That made the Saxons pioneers,
Not taking counsel of their fears,
But westward pressing, thither led,
By Southern Cross above their head
Last seen by eyes in Eastern sky
When Christ upon the cross did die,
Till globe encircled this hosts' van
Came back where journey they began.
Not here need we these names rehearse,
For oft before, in poets' verse,
These names with reverence have been told,
As novice counts her beads of gold
And with each bead, breathes forth a prayer,
So midst the nations everywhere
These names are found as incense rare.
Thus has it come to pass that we
From all these lands those rivulets see
That have been as a river grand
To water and enrich this land,
For when Old Glory waves above
With liberty men's hearts must move,
And peoples of all clime and race
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With those to manor born take place
As citizens, their lives to give
To make America to live,And while this alchemy shall hold
To change all metals into gold,
The gold of character and right,
We still shall be the beacon light
Of hope to nations yet unborn
And lead to God's Millennial Morn.
But let us now a short time look
Upon the page of open book
That gives us views of long ago,
That these men we may better know.
Not palaces of marble white
That shine as pearls in sunshine bright,
Or blaze at night with lights that seem
Creations of Aladdin's dream,
Filled with a furniture so fine
That in its making and design
Artistic skill its zenith found.
Not this, but huts of logs, where ground
Made hard by usage was the floor,
No glass for windows or for door,
With furniture of homely make,These were their homes where morn did wake
The hymn of praise to God who gave
His Son from sin the world to save,
And with the hymn the heartfelt prayer
For this, God's fellowship and care
In all the work of each new day.
At night, e'er head on pillow lay,
The praise again for blessings brought,
The prayer that for protection sought
As night, with perils new, drew nea,r.
Not that these men knew aught of fear,
But in new countries, with the fight
To wrest from Nature in her might
The treasures of her wooded soil
That call for sacrifice and toil,
Another conflict must be fought
As savage beast and foe oft sought
Their life blood. What! have we forgot
The Deerfield massacre?
That spot
But one of many in this land
Where suddenly an Indian band
From far off Canada swooped down
As hawk on prey, and morning found
But smoking ruins left to tell
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Of those who in death's struggle fell,
Or captive to a cruel foe
Stained with their blood the winter's snow,
Till Canada was reached to be
The place of their captivity.
Have we forgotten this? Then we
Know naught of cost of liberty .
.And with these homes of praise and prayer
Went meetinghouse that everywhere
Was centre of each hamlet's life,
I ts presence stilling angry strife,
As mother, 'mid her girls and boys
With loving counsel, keeps peace poise,
And helps her children strong to grow,
And in the ways of wisdom go,
The meetinghouse and home to be
The hands of Christianity;
And here in W apping hamlet came
This meetinghouse that place to claim
One hundred years ago, for then
We find, writ by a woman's pen:
"Today, for which let God be praised,
A meetinghouse was safely raised."
June third that day, yet year went by
And fall with flaming torch drew nigh
As forest trees with colors bright
Flashed with a thousand rays of light
Before the house completed stood
Pronounced by those who saw it good,
For if we should this house compare
With meetinghouses everywhere
One hundred years before this day,
Then of this building we would say,"A palace as compared with hut."
Of course with architectural strut
Of present day, this is not true,
But I would rather this church view
Than many that this name now bear
Whose wondrous shapes not anywhere
In earth or sky or sea are found,
And which with echo so abound
That preacher's voice is made to be
As droning bug or buzzing bee.
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Since then, some changes have been made,
The floor been lifted up and laid
Where it is now; below you see
The old floor as it used to be,
The old square pulpit, where the Word
With no uncertain sound was heard,
But with heart passion all aflame,
"Thus saith the Lord," the message cameThe galleries that circled round
Where unnailed floors gave out a sound
Quite deafening, as the youngsters' feet
Their tipping surface used to meet.
For here it was the children sat
To often feel the warning pat
Of tithing master's ruling stick
'Gainst which it was no use to kick,
For no despotic prince or king
Did rod of might or justice swing
With more determined zeal and sway
Then tithing master of that day.
And of these boys one pastor said
That oft, into temptation led
By jackknife, of the ancient kind,
"Much ingenuity of mind"
Did show, constructing their profile
On wall in quaint artistic style.
Which was but their prophetic ken
Of what they did when they were men
To make their mark in Church and State.
So if development be late,
These noisy boys,-yes,
girls as well,Will yet to generations tell
What good New England stock can do
When time and tact has worked it through.
These both long since have passed from view:
Like preacher and like people too,
They had their day, their work did well,
And we are here of this to tell
And honor give to these true men
Who served their age with sword and pen,
And hoes as well, for we of late
Have had this man brought down to date,
"The man with hoe," by poet's ken
The grandest of God's noblemen.
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One hundred years they worshipped here:
The bridal train, the funeral bier
Passed up these aisles. The words were said
Before men laid from sight their dead
In graveyard, as in England found
To compass meetinghouse around.
That comfort gave and hope and life
When soul was tost with passion's strife,
Or godly counsel well applied
To hearts of groom and blushing bride,
That joy which overflowed them then
Might not rest in the hope of men
But God, whose joy could only be
That which should last eternally.
From out these homes, the children went,Their strength and wisdom gladly lent
To make the town, the city, state,
To be as they today are ·great,
This nation of all nations found
In liberty to most abound,
In righteousness and justice too,
Its part in God's great work to <lo.
We have not time today in verse
These noble deeds to all rehearse,
But what is better, let men see
Their virtues in our lives to be,
And when this Anniversary Day
Of century that has passed away
Will blossom in the centurv new .
To make us noble, strong and true,
Our work for God to grandly do.
This is the welcome we extend
As you these services attend.
Our Church, our homes, our hearts, throw wide,
While as our guests you here abide.
JOHN E. HURLBUT.
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PAPER
BY DEACON
VINTON
In the history of the settlement of the Town of East Windsor, the people living on the east side of the "great River" had
become so numerous that they petitioned and obtained leave
of the General Court to establish separate worship.
Some of the names of the forty-four men who signed this
petition were Nathaniel Bissell, Samuel Grant, Samuel Rockwell, Thomas Stoughton,
John Stoughton,
Simon Wolcott.
Such liberty was granted by the Court, May 10, 1694, under the
name of Windsor farm.
The services of Timothy Edwards were secured the November following, and he commenced his labors among this scattered
people.
The families to which Mr. Edwards ministered were scattered
upon one long winding path, a little way back from Connecticut
Meadows, which reached from Hartford town line, four miles
below his home, to an equal distance above.
This road, which
at the first was only a rude bridle path, was gradually improved
and enlarged, as the years passed on, until it became to be
known at the Street, a name which still continues in common
use and distinguishing it from all other roads in this vicinity.
Mr. Edwards was ordained in 1698-his
ministry lasting
more than sixty-three years-only
ending by his death in 1758during which time parishes had been established, one in Ellington, in 1735, and another parish on the east side of the river
under the memorial of Thomas Grant and others, subscribing
thereunto, inhabitants
of Wapping, on east side of second
Society in Windsor.
Leave was granted in 1761, in consequence
of their distance from the place of public worship, that they
might be a half ecclesiastical parish, and for five months in the
year might procure preaching themselves, and be exempt from
taxation in the old parish during that portion of each year.
This peculiar organization long ago ceased to exist, but may be
regarded as a forerunner of the present Congregational Church
in Wapping.
We have
then the somewhat
remarkable
fact of four
ecclesiastical parishes existing upon the east side of the Connecticut River, within the limit of the ancient town of Windsor,
before the Town of East Windsor itself came into being.
About the year 1700, and following, settlements were being
made in Wapping and vicinity, which for a time made themselves accommodated
by attending
services in the Second
Society, but as the roads were extremely bad they petitioned
for winter privileges-that
is-hire
a minister for six months
in the year-or,
during the winter months.
This seemingly
reasonable request was for many years neglected, but was finally
conceded.
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The first meetinghouse
was under the title of a schoolhouse,
about 1765, and it stood near the present parsonage
of the
Congregational
Society.
The windows were boarded up above
and only those below were glazed.
This church edifice became so dilapidated
that the six
months' winter privileges were extended to eight by leave of
the General Court; the warm weather
was substituted
for
winter.
The people worshipped
the rest of the season with
the Society in the "Street,"
which invited them to do so, free
of tax.
Their edifice was us ed onl y spring, summer and fall,
until it became so entirely out of repair , as to acquire the appellation of the "W apping barn" and was pulled down in 1789,
by some young men, out on a frolic.
After some delay a church edifice was designed, and the
frame for the structure
was raised in 1801, and is the one in
which we now worship.
rt · stood a year without
covering.
In 1802, a subscription
was raised to cover the building and
glaze the windows.
The pulpit and seats were rough and
unfinished.
A pillow with clean case was carried ever y Sunday
and placed on the pulpit for a cushion.
The building was
erected by people of different denominations
living in Wapping
on a mission plan.
The Congregationalists
were to become sole proprietors b y paying the others - which they did in 1816 and 1817.
In 1829, money was raised by subscription
to lath and
plaster the house, build a breast work around the gallery ', and
a pulpit, at which time the settees were removed and the repairs
which were contemplated
were completed.
Services
were
continued in the house during the following years, up to the year
of 1843, when the Rev. 0. F. Parker commenced
his labors
here, and through his efforts the building was changed to its
present plan and shape.
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PAPER
BY WM. A. HOWE.
We celebrate today the Centennial of the occupanc y of this
house of worship, and though for thirty years it was in an
unfinished
state, here worshipped
the fathers and mothers,
and today their children meet to recall the past, and to look
forward with hope to the future.
It is well for us to remember those who laid the foundations
of our Church and of our State, those who, amid perils and
privations,
planted what we are now enjoying, the fathers and
mothers of our own goodly Connecticut.
The Pilgrim Fathers came to New England first, and we
give them due honor, but there were others beside those who
came in the Mayflower.
New England had its Winthrops,
its
Cotton, its Hooker, its Eaton, its Davenport,
and others, the
Puritan Fathers of Massachusetts
Bay and of Connecticut.
There were wide diversities of view, not only as between the
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Pilgrims and the Puritans, but equally wide differences among
the Puritan Fathers of Massachusetts Bay. John Cotton and
Thomas Hooker were the leaders in opposing views concerning
both church and civil affairs. Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield were settled by those who were in sympathy with Hooker,
corning mostly from Dorchester, Newtown, now Cambridge,
and Watertown.
We have descendants of the early settlers
of each of these towns in our church and congregation.
Thomas Hooker and his friends did not favor independency,
so we find in the further development of the Connecticut church
order, a closer relationship between the churches than prevailed
in the mother colony of Massachusetts, and under the Consociation System our churches grew and prospered, and when
many of the old churches of Massachusetts became Unitarian,
our Connecticut churches , with but one exception, stood firm
on the old foundations.
The three towns in 1639, formed the first known written
Constitution in the world. Here in Connecticut were laid the
foundations of our State and of the Nation.
Our fathers of Connecticut gave the right to vote in civil
affairs to those who were not members of the church, while
Massachusetts restricted it to church members only, and very
naturally Connecticut attracted rnany settlers who were not
members of churches.
Though the settlers of these three towns
brought with them churches already organized, these churches
were very small as compared with the number of inhabitants.
Wethersfield in 1640, with more than sixty families, had but
seven male church members, and the churches of Hartford and
Windsor, though probably larger, were also small, though no
very definite statement as to numbers is given.
In some of our early settlements the church organization
did not come in till several years after. In a Connecticut town
settled in 1640, there was no church organization for a period
of sixty-seven years, though there was a succession of ministers
and a house of worship.
Our Puritan forefathers insisted on having the meetinghouse
and the public worship of God, even when they were not associated together in church estate, and the towns not only supported the same, but compelled attendance on the Sabbath
Day. In 1669, one town was negligent in the matter, and the
General Court or Assembly of Connecticut resolved, "if the sayd
people's prudent consideration do not move them to make such
provision of a suitable person, sound and orthodox in his principles and apt to teach, so approved by 'four neighboring ministers who were named,' the Court will themselves procure and
settle a preaching minister amongst them and take sufficient
order that he be maintayned by them at their next session."
It was not the idea of our fathers that the church organization alone was responsible for the support of public worship,
but it was like the school, a public necessity, for the benefit of
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all , and to be paid for from the public treasur y, and the rates
paid by those who w ere Episcopalians
or Baptists were paid
for the support of tho se churches; all oth ers paid to the Congr egationalists,
and this was the law till 1816.
In 1694, the part of Windsor on the east side of the river
was incorporated
as a distinct societ y, and after 1700 the mor e
eastern portion of Windsor began to be settled . In 1735, th e
northeastern
section was made a society b y the name of Ellington , and in 1757 the societ y of North Windsor was incorporated.
The di v iding line began at the mouth of Scantic River , following
it to the crossing of th e road leading to Enfield , thence following
the line of the Stiles lot to the east end of the three mile lots,
thence on a lin e parallel to th e north line of Hartford to th e
east part of the town and the Ellington line. This line runs
by Mr . Nevers' place, farther east b y Mr . Hosmer's and a little
below Mr. J. A. Belknap 's, to a point just north of W. A. Howe 's,
which point is the southeast corner of the old North or Scantic
parish; thence the line ran northerly
past the house of Mrs.
E. S. Bissell to the southwest corner of Ellington .
The same year, 1757, Benjamin Stoughton, Dani el Rockwell ,
Daniel Skinner, Samuel Smith, Daniel Bissell, Thomas Bissell ,
Thomas Grant, Thomas Sadd, John Rockwell, Rockwell Grant,
John Boynton, Robert White, Aaron Strong, James Fitch and
George Smith, inhabitants
of Wapping, petitioned the General
Court for the privilege of separate religious worship and to be
made a society . They speak of the difficulty of going to the
street, especially in the winter, that there were thirty-eight
families with 250 souls living at a distanc e of from four to eight
miles from their present place of worship.
The General Assembly did not grant their request.
In 1760, another petition was sent, which was also refused,
and again in the spring of 1761, thirty-three
persons petitioned
with the same result, but in October following the fourth petition
was successful, and W apping was made a half society or winter
parish , and was permitted to have preaching for five months
in the year.
A petition to the General Assembly soon followed,
asking for another month, but it was not granted .
Services were held at first in private houses till in 1765 the
first house of worship was built on or very near the site now
occupied by our parsonage.
It was left in an unfinished state,
and was not fit for winter use, and the five months were changed
to a more favorable season, the people going to the Street
during the other seveff months.
Five famiiies living west of the east end of the three mile
lots were included in the half society, the bounds on the west
going in and out on the three mile line to include these families.
There were no easy carriages or even wagons in those early
days, and the fathers and mothers went to meeting on horseback, taking such of the children as could be carried in front on
the horse or behind; the rest of the family walked, and the road
�to the Street must have been in very bad condition at times.
Some of us remember seeing the very first road vehicles our
grandfathers had.
There was preaching in Wapping as early as 1762 . Matthew
Rockwell, son of Deacon Samuel Rockwell of East Windsor,
a graduate of Yale in 1728, preached to the people, for how
long a period is not known . Services were for a part of the year
only , and for this reason Wapping could not well have a resident minister.
Mr. Rockwell, living at the Street, could come
ov er and preach for so long a time as he was wanted.
Rev . Moses Tuthill preached here for three years. His wife
was of the Edwards family.
He graduated at Yale in 1745.
He died at Southold, L. I., 1785.
His first ministry was at Granville, Mass.
Then he
preached in Delaware, and later came to East Windsor.
He
appears to have been here in 1769. He is said to have been a
man of talent, though eccentric, and if he was eccentric, his
wife was not less so . When in 1745 or '46 he asked of Rev.
Mr . Edwards, the hand of his daughter Martha, Mr. Edwards
assured him that she would be a thorn in his flesh; that God's
grace might perhaps liv e with her, but that no man could with
any comfort.
He took the risk, and married her. He is said
to have been a faithful and acceptable minister of the Gospel,
his ministry "blessed with prosperity and peace."
One Sabbath Mr. Tuthill did not appear in the pulpit, and
after waiting for some time , his wife, who was present, was
asked where Mr. Tuthill was? She said that, as she had stayed
at home to take care of the children long enough, she told him
it was his turn now, so he stayed at home in her place.
At another time Mr. Tuthill failed to appear in his pulpit,
and after waiting a while, inquir y was made as to his absence.
His wife sa id that he went off down to the woods on Satu r day
and he had not come back. She did not know why. So some
of the men went to find him and in the woods they came to a
hollow log with a man's feet sticking out. Mr . Tuthill had
followed something which had run into the log, and he having
a long surtout with cape , it had rolled up when he tried to back
out an.d he was fast. The men pulled but could not get him
out, and they had to split the log before he could be released.
After his death his family came to live in W apping in a
house near Mr. Waldo Belcher's and where Mrs. Tuthill died
in 1794. TwQ daughters lived there for some years after.
In April, 1772, thirty-one persons petitioned the General
Assembly for eight months' preaching, which was granted.
The petitioners
were Benjamin Stoughton,
Ezra Rockwell,
John Rockwell, Thatcher Lathrop, Samuel Smith, Isaac Rockwell, Nathan Kingsley, Gideon Grant, Justus Loomis, Daniel
Rockwell , Daniel Rockwell, Jr., Ebenezer Rockwell, William
Grant, Oliver Skinner, Abner Rockwell, Noah Barber, Barzillai
Green, Matthew Sadd, Isaac Grant, John Skinner, Timothy
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Skinner, Daniel Skinner, Daniel Skinner, Jr., Timothy Bissell,
John Bowlen, David Wright,
Alexander
Elmer, Rockwell
Grant, Benjamin Smith, Zalmon Kingsley, Phineas Strong.
With no services for four months in each year, it is evident
that no permanent ministry could be secured.
In January, 1799, the old house of worship was torn down,
and it was not till 1802, one hundred years ago, that the present
one was occupied.
Various ministers preached to the people.
Rev. Mr. Blakely, a Baptist minister, preached for two years,
1816, '17, and with considerable
success, though there was
s~me dissatisfaction with him on the part of some of the congregation.
The close of his ministry here marks also the end of
the W apping Half Society.
With the new State Constitution,
the Ecclesiastical
Society of the . Standing Order, as it was
called, was changed to a voluntary organization, and the School
Society was separated from the Ecclesiastical, retaining the old
Society boundaries.
For about nine years following there was no preaching
service in Wapping.
The people who attended church, went
to the Street, and some, perhaps, to Scantic.
Some of them
were members of the First Church.
Intemperance
came in
and made sad havoc in the community.
About 1826, Rev. V. Osborn, a Methodist minister, began to
preach to the people of W apping, and continued for two years.
He was disposed to be controversial and there was friction and
dissatisfaction
in his congregation.
In 1827, he organized
the Methodist Episcopal Church in this place with eight members, and which in 1833 erected its present house of worship.
Today the pastors and people of the two churches are in harmony, working together in this vineyard of the Lord.
It was a time of theological controversy, not only as between
Arminians and Calvinists, but there was a sharper and more
bitter one, even, between the old and new schools, both in the
Presbyterian
and in the Congregational
churches.
The East
Windsor Hill Seminary was founded to combat the heresies
of the New Haven Seminary.
Drs. Tyler and Taylor, now we
trust of one mind and knowing more than they could know
when on earth, were leaders of opposing forces. Men contended
earnestly for the faith which was supposed to have been once
delivered to the saints, and in our churches "the doctrines"
were made promiIJ-ent in religious teaching.
In 1838 at the examination
of a young girl of fifteen for
admission to this church, one of the deacons questioned her
as to her belief in foreordination.
Some of the people here
were members of the First Church, and in discussing this question, "Must our children be brought up under a religious belief
different from the one which we and our fathers embraced?"
resolved to make an effort to sustain a minister of their own,
and Rev . Hiram N. Brinsmade labored among them for six
months.
A revival commenced in the North School District,
�among children belonging to the school, which soon spread to
the adults, anri. the organization of a church began to be talked
about.
Mr. Brinsmade closed his labors here in the spring of 1829.
Mr. Roland and Mr. Kennedy supplied till July when Rev.
Henry Morris began his work here. A Council met at the house
of Mr. Samuel Hall, February 2, 1830. Rev. Samuel Whelpley
of the First Church was moderator.
The Council proceeded
to organize a church.
Twenty-five persons were received by
letters from the First Church and three from the Second or
Scantic Church, a total of 28. In April, 22 united on profession
of faith and four by letter, making a total of 54 members at the
beginning of this church.
The next year there was a powerful
work of grace, beginning with a protracted meeting of six days
conducted by Mr. Barrows, an evangelist, commencing August
30, and before Mr. Morris closed his pastorate
in 1832, 28
persons united on confession.
Rev. David L. Hunn began his ministry here July, 1832,
coming from the neighboring church at Vernon, and the church
soon received several families from the North or Scan tic parish
and from Vernon.
Deacon Anson Bissell from the Scantic
church, became a deacon of this church.
Deacon Bissell had
three sons who became ministers.
Rev. Dr. Lemuel Bissell
for many years connected with the Mahratta mission in India,
and whose children, Rev. Henry and Misses Julia and Emily
Bissell are prominent in missionary and medical work in that
mission. Rev. Henry N. Bissell was a pastor in Michigan and
Rev. Sanford Bissell, in Illinois.
In September, 1832, and January, 1833, the church received
14 by letter, 11 of whom were from the Scantic church and
three from Vernon.
Four united on profession, two of whom
were from Scantic.
By 1836, the southern portion of the North parish had been
transferred to Wapping, and from these families we have today,
some of those who are active in our church work.
June 29, 1836, Rev. Marvin Root was installed as pastor.
September 26, 1837, the church became connected with the
Hartford North Consociation.
Mr. Root resigned April, 1839,
but the resignation was not accepted.
He was dismissed April,
1840.
The church was supplied by various ministers and in the
latter part of 1841 when the church was still without a pastor,
21 persons were received on profession of faith.
The early period of the church was marked by most wonderful
seasons of revival.
January 1, 1843, Mr. 0. F. Parker began
to supply the pulpit and January 3, 1844, he was ordained and
installed pastor.
In 1846, 13 persons united with the church,
the fruits of a revival.
About 1845 or '46 the church edifice had come to be unsatisfactory, and the question of repair or rebuilding was agitated
�and with differing minds, but in January, 1849, the remodelled
church was dedicated . Mr. Parker's health failed and he was
dismissed a few months previous to the dedication.
For the next following years there was no settled pastor.
Rev. John Frazer supplied for two years.
Rev. Mr. Strong,
one, and Dr. Tyler and others from the Seminar y supplied till
the coming and installation
of Re v. William Wright, in 1854 .
Mr. Wright was dismissed aft er a pastorate
of nearly eleven
years . When th e church was without a pastor in 1852, 14
united on prof ession and again in Janu a r y, 1868 , six more wer e
added.
Rev. Winfield S. Hawkes was installed pastor in 1868 and
in January, 1869 , 13 more were receiv ed , the fruit of his labors .
He was dismissed March, 1871.
Rev . Charl es W . Drake follow ed and was succe eded by R ev.
Stephen Fenn, who died here three years later.
Rev . Henry
E . Hart, his successor, received 29 to the church in the three
years he was with us.
Our next pastor , Rev. C. N. Flanders , was with us six years,
and in this time th e afternoon services were given up.
Rev. G. A. Bryan was here for eighteen months and in thi s
time the Christian
Endeavor
Societ y was formed.
Rev.
Daniel Phillips served here one year.
Rev. 0. G. McIntyre
followed and in August, 1889, Rev . Edwin N . Hardy came to us ,
quickening into new life the Endeavor Society and the church ,
and during that one year 19 new members were added to the
church .
Rev. F. M. Hollister 's pastorate of a year and three months
followed . He was dismissed April , 1892, being called to Waterbury.
Rev . C. A. Redgrave
supplied for the next three years,
followed by Rev. W. S. Post as acting pastor till April, 1900,
a pastorate of four and a half years.
Mr . George B . Hawkes, son of our former pastor , supplied
during the summer, and October 1, Rev . John E. Hurlbut
came to us, from the Church of the Cov enant, Worcester, Mass.
In February
of last y ear the church became incorporated
under the state law , and the Society transferred
to the church
the real estate, house of worship and parsonage , the trust funds
which were then in its possession and the support of public
worship here . Fourteen
of our young people came into the
church during the pastorate of Mr. Post, and since our present
pastor came 15 more have professed their faith in Christ.
The hope of our Church is in its young people who are coming
in to take the places of some of us who will soon pass away.
We owe much to those who have sustained our Christian Endeavor Society, and the Junior Society, the nursery from which
this church has received some of its fruitful members .
In January,
1833, after the accessions from Scan tic and
Vernon, there were 98 members, since which there have been
�received 223 by profession
number is 124.
PAPER
and
151 by let ter.
Th e present
BY MRS. E. S. BISSELL.
In vis iting the home of his childhood a celebrated physician
once said, . "It surprises me how the sight of these familiar
fields, rocks and brooks bring back to my mind impressions
made upon me by my famil y training.
I suppose they are the
friends to whom I uncon sciously told my joys and so rrows .
But the straRgest part is that they bring back so vividly m y
fat her , mother, brother and sister, that they seem to be present
with m e now , I hear m y father telling of the building of that
ho us e, our home, till I realiz e more fully than in m y childhood
days the tremendous power of his muscular frame, his indomnitable will and his loving heart."
And so my friends within these walls and listening to the
history of effort, discourag emen t and final success in obtaining
per mission to build a house of worship, we feel the very presence
of those resolute m en and women who gave us this heritage .
Though memory cannot quite reach the beginnings, we look
upon the faces of those who were there, and many incidents of
the past come floating through our minds as recounted to us in
our youtn by those "gone before ."
William Sadd, one of the original members of this church,
te lls of the hard work and scant gatherings of money that they
might have a home place of worship .
Lyman Sadd, a young man of 28 or 29 years, the first superintendent of Sunday school which was formed before the church
was organized, with the woman of his choice, Mary Skinner ,
as his wife, devoted their energies for years to the best interests
of church and Sunday school.
Aunt Mary Lyman-as
we familiarly ca lled h er-I can see
her with the little ones gathered around her , looking up lov ingly in her face, as she told them of the love of Jesus, and of
the necessity of always doing right .
She was never too old to be wanted as a te ac her. Class
after class passed into life's arena and still she was at h er post.
Some of the oldest here present were doubtl ess among h er bo ys
and girls .
Rosina Green tells of the la ck of cushioned pews and plastered
walls. No smoke troubled
the singers' voices.
Footstoves
contained the only artificial heat . Home-made woolen stockings
in cowhide boots kept the feet of the sturdy farmers warm ,
while their hearts glowed with spiritual fire kindled at the famil y
altar , and fanned by the preach er's words of exhortation
and
warning.
Was it a hardship for those men and women to gather within
that desolate room , and, seated on the rude b enches made of
slabs, listeD. to long doctrinal sermons, for enoon and afternoon,
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and Sunday school, with only time in the intermission
to eat a
cooky or two and replenish coals in footstove from neighboring
fires?
If a hardship it was a hardship they loved, made bearable'
by looking forward to a better condition of creature comforts
and an expectation
of the continued
presence of God's Spirit.
Religion to them was life.
As George McDonald says, "Religion is not an addition to
life, or a starry crown set upon the head of humanity . The
man to whom virtue _is but the ornament of character, something
over and ·above and not essential to it , is not yet a man ." So
their life was growth and when the meetinghouse
becam e the
home of one denomination
they grew united in effort to better
their home.
Instead
of rough slab seats with men on one side of the
room and women on the other, and children in the gallery, they
wanted family pews and pews they had.
Instead of galleries
with floor boards unnailed,
they wanted them finished and so
it was.
The opportunity
for the children to devise mischief
was great.
And whether the stick of timber that fell from the
side gallery into Priest Root's pew, where his wife was sitting,
was aided by the kick of little toes will probably never be known.
Those square pews!
They embody my first recollections
of
church going, and the minister, who wore the first pair of gold
spectacles
I had ever seen, was a terror to my childish imagination.
I thought his double pair of eyes could tell even my
thoughts.
But seated on a low stool behind the high back of
the pew with father and our family and Uncle Kellogg and his
family, I thought
I could escape his vision.
My little cousin
Jennie, younger than myself, now risen to the dignity of Grandma
Howe, beguiled the time by playing bopeep with her handkerchief.
I essayed to do likewise, but a reproving
glance from
Aunt Margaret convinced
me that the minister could see me
through
the boards.
As Nicholas Minturn,
who was always
studying cause and effect, looking from a garret window, seeing
the tree tops in the distance swaying in the breeze, concluded
it was the trees that caused the wind to blow, so I concluded
that my misdemeanors
had come to be unbearable
and father
suddenly
decided to take us to Vernon to church.
Alas! I
never saw those square pews again.
Progress was the watchword . Life was growth, and the church home was again to be
renovated.
Some wanted
the old building removed
and a new one
built on a hill to the northeast,
claiming it would be more
nearly the center of the parish.
Mr. Parker preached a sermon
on "Sanballat
and Tobiah hindering
the work of the Lord,"
which caused offense not only to the High Hill people who
seceded, but to some who remained.
The subsequent
history
of those who seceded justifies us in believing that they were not
lacking in Christian love and service.
I am told that three heads of families left the room in sermon
�time. James Skinner said he did not blame them and felt
inclined to do the same thing himself.
My sister, Mrs. Par so ns ,
to ld me that she remember ed that when father drove home
that da y he plied the whip with unusual v igor, say ing , "Get up,
Sanba llat , go it Tobiah."
He with William Kello gg and Oliver Dart, unlike Tobiah
and Sanb allat, had their part and lot in the remodelling, inasmuc h as the y paid th eir full quota in money for the repairs,
but the y and their families left and went to Vernon. Just here
I wo uld like to r ead a portion of a letter received from my sister
in Milwaukee.
"My recollections of th e old church as it was in the times
befo r e th e advent of Mr. Parker, through whose endeavors it
was remodelled are restricted to the ex terior with the exception
that on th e day of the sermon where in the High Hill people
were scored for " hind eri ng the work of the Lord." I distinctly
remember sitting in a high backed, square pew next the wall on
the right hand aisle about a third of th e way from door to pulpit.
All the pews b y the wall were of the square, old fashioned kind,
but I think those in the center of th e building were like the
mode rn slip though short and narrow.
The exterior as I recall
it to my mental vision, was a ve ry model of ugliness, high,
sq uare and somewhat weather beaten , wi th a multitude
of
cur tainless windows that seemed to stare reproachfully at the
little reprobate, who at an early age developed a dislike of long ,
doc trin al sermons and of th e books in the Sunday school library.
"A t that tim e, th e only Looks she could get hold of were memoirs of good little children who suffe red so patiently that they
died young.
"To my childish mind the logic of it all was that it didn't pay
to be good and patient in illnes s.
" I wanted to live and grow up and I hated those scenes so
thoro ughl y that eve n the walls of the old church where the books
were kept nev er failed to arouse m y " innate cussedness" and
at the same time to awaken my New England conscience to such
an extent that I felt as though the Day of Judgment was staring at me through th e ugly , curtainless windows.
To this day
I am inclined to shiver at th e thought of the old church as it was,
and without entering into the wh ys and wherefores of the oppo sition movement , which took us children from ·w apping at an
ear ly age, I am trul y grateful to those who persist ed in their
efforts to transform the ugl y old building into a n ea t , tasteful
modern church .''
Staunch members continued the building.
Herman Hall,
who lived on the sit e of the present high sc hool building, gave
th e stone underpinning , and was always active in the interest of
the edifice. H e took care of the bui ldin g, in other words was
janitor for upwards of tw ent y years, and received in compensa tion one dollar a year.
It was the custom for the congregation to stand during the
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long prayer (said sometimes to be an hour long, timed by the
watch).
After the custom..,.ceased.,..Deacon
Horace..,,_Stoughton
always reverently stood facing the minister with his head slightly
bowed, while John Stoughton also stood with his back to the
minister and looked out of the window.
The children, both boys and girls, went barefoot in the
summer both at their homes and at school, but it was out of
character to appear on holy ground without shoes on their feet.
They carried them in their hand till within sight of the church
when they would put them on, much to their discomfort.
One
lady here present tells me that she remembers when she was
four years old,walking over two miles to church and wearing a
blue dress with polka dots, and when near here, put on her shoes
as was the custom, as did her sister with her.
This little girl was in after years assistant superintendent
of
the Sunday school and was also secretary of the Ladies' Sewing Society eight years.
Cora Martin, living with her grandmother,
was dressed ready
for church and then required to sit • still till all were ready to go.
That to her was the most tedious part of the day.
A penny for
keeping quiet in service time was a compensation.
Then in the
intermission
a walk to the graveyard was enlivening.
Doubtless heads of dill, caraway seed and fennel (meeting
seed as it was called), beguiled the time for many little ones.
You who pity those children for being made to go to church,
please remember they could not have been hired to stay at home.
They were used to hardships and were not carried around on
pillows till they were six years old.
It seems strange to us to think of our late Deacon Collins as
a little boy, but Mrs. Alonzo Barber tells me she remembers
at the time Mr. Barrows held protracted
meetings, that he and
his sister Henrietta, with other children, were baptized.
He was
then about ten years old. She also remembers Mrs. John Collins
(the deacon's mother), Mrs. Eldad Barber (my grandmother),
and Mrs. William Sadd, going forward for prayers.
The singing in church was an important
feature, and was
at one time led by Colonel Frederick H. Sadd, who, with his
tuning fork pitched the tune, beat the time, and the choir followed his lead with uplifted voices as near together as possible.
The "Psalms and Hymns" was universally used and had to
be set to appropriate
music by the chorister.
If the leader was absent an attempt would be made to start
the tune, sometimes pitched so high that at the second verse
another member of the choir would hurriedly start on a lower
key, and "others boldly waded in and chased each other" till
they triumphantly
:finished the tune.
I do not know just when instrumental
music was introduced
but the need of a reliable guide was felt and a bass viol played
by A very Stoughton was used, though I think a euphoniad was
tried first.
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Mr. Lorin Loomis had a small melodeon which he brought
to church with him, taking it home at night.
He took it to rehearsals also. It was a happy day for the choir (and congregation too) when they were able to purchase their first organ .
The donation party was one of the events of the year. Perhaps not so much to the minister and his family, as it is possible
Will Carleton went behind the scenes in many a parsonage
when he wrote "Elder Lamb's Donation."
But to the young
people it afforded a social opportunity unequalled by any other
event.
Sleighing parties were planned and singing schools started
when all met together at the minister's and weddings were the
outcome.
The monthly missionary concert was a regular part of the
service, and not to be interested in foreign missions was falling
short of duty and bordered on heathenism.
Doubtless interest
in the subject was increased by the fact that Deacon Anson
Bissell's son Lemuel, went out as a missionary to India.
The young ladies who were appointed by the church , among
whom were Harriet Green and Fanny Skinner, to canvass the
parish and collect money for the American Board sometimes
met with sharp rebuffs as though begging money for themselves,
but oftener found members ready with money laid by in store
for those who should gather the Lord's tithes .
In order to preserve due decorum during divine service, a
tithing man was annually appointed.
He was to have special
care of the boys and girls in the gallery and also to waken sleepers in the congregation . The boys and girls naturally found
playing and whispering more interesting than the sixthlys and
tenthlys of the sermon, but Laura Ann, Amelia and Miranda
The boys who
found the reprimand at home not so interesting.
were taken by the coat collar down the gallery stairs dreaded
the approach of the tithing man and were made glad to keep
their ears busy and their tongues idle . Sometimes the pastors
took matters in their own hands and publicly rebuked disturbers.
Mr. Root once, when annoyed by whisperers, stopped in his sermon and in his deep toned voice said, "Boys, keep your tongues
between your teeth ." I can remember when the tithing man's
labors were confined to the singers' gallery, where the boys liked
to sit behind the singers.
Lorenzo Crane as tithing man was
not so much feared, as he persuaded to good behavior by sugar
plums instead of force. Perhaps the removal of the singers to
the front in the audience-room made the office less onerous.
The youth of today are more angelic and only need a figure head,
the present tithing man never exercising the power of his office.
Well do I remember those singers in the gallery, Chauncey
Stoughton, Wolcott, Gertrude, Charlotte, Cornelia, Sarah, Alice,
Laura, Josie, Helen, Edith, Henry, Frank, Revillo, Seth and
many others.
I think one only remains in the choir who was
among the gallery singers.
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I have mentioned the custom of standing in prayer time.
It was also the custom for the congregation
to rise when the
choir sang and turning with their backs to the preacher face
the singers in the gallery.
But there • came into our midst a
lady from the city unused to the custom, who stood facing the
minister and remained so in her decided but unobtrusive manner.
The next Sabbath and succeeding ones many followed her example until half turned one way and half the other.
The pastor
asked for uniformity and all quietly gave up the old custom.
So
much for the force of Mrs. H. W . Sadd's example.
Does memory bring back to us the sermon preached?
It
certainly does many texts . "And lo, a cake of barley bread
tumbled into the host of Midian," was the text of the first sermon Mr. Hawkes preached
here.
Mr. Winch
from Enfield
preached here one Sunday from the text, "Thou fool."
Others
had this text, "Speak unto the 'children of Israel that they go
forward;"
and another, "First cast out the beam out of thine
own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to pull the mote out of
thy brother's eye."
Rev. Daniel Phillips, whose stay here was only too short,
gave a discourse one fast day on the political phase which was
much enjoyed.
Mr. Hardy's prayer meeting talks made us feel the necessity
of our own right living and our responsibility
for our neighbors
conversion.
Mr. Wright in his farewell sermon spoke of the impossibility
of pleasing everybody . One wanted the minister to do things
in his way and another in his way, and perhaps he commits the
unpardonable
offense of having a mind of his own.
While the Seminary was located at East Windsor Hill this
church had the benefit 'of weighty instruction.
Doctor Tyler
and Doctor Thompson, professors in the Seminary, frequently
discoursed on Foreordination,
Total Depravity,
Perseverance
of the Saints, Original Sin, Future Punishment,
Sanctification
and Redemption.
Were candidates for admission to the church
supposed to fully understand
these subjects?
I remember talking with two daughters of a former member
here.
One joined the Congregationalists
and one the Methodists.
When asked why they did not both join the same church
the reply was, "I believe in total depravity and live up to it.
She believes in falling from grace and practices it."
Method"Assurance of 1:wpe," was a subject often discussed.
ist camp meetings were held in neighboring woods.
One year
the camp meeting ground was near where Elam Belknap now
lives.
A crowd had gathered when a down pour of rain drove
them to their tents and then from their tents to houses in the
neighborhood.
Lorenzo Dow, an eccentric preacher with great
force of character, with other Methodist brothers, found grandfather's hospitable
roof a shelter from the storm . Naturally
conversation
at meal time was upon the all engrossing topic of
�religion.
The great man insisted on ones knowing that he was
saved, and exclaimed, Oh, ye miserable, whining Presbyterians,
you hope and hope and are always hoping you are saved.
Now
I am just as sure of going to Heaven as I am of eating that piece
of meat.
In his earnestness
he gesticulated
so forcibly with
his hand that held the fork, that the piece of meat became
loosened and fell to the floor and the dog ate it up. This story
has been told with variations but Mrs . Howe will vouch for its
actual occurrence, as related, in the house now her home.
One hundred years is a long time in the retrospect and we are
obliged to pass over many familiar incidents , but the Civil War
was a time that touched men's hearts and tried men's souls.
From this church and community
went many of manhood's
fairest promise.
Forty years ago on the 25th day of August,
1862, a war meeting was held in the basement of this church.
At that time quite a number from this place signed their names
to the roll and enlisted for the army.
This was one of the most
solemn meetings ever held in this house.
The music was a drum
corps, but it brought tears from a great many of those present,
for it was almost certain that some of those boys would never
come back to meet with us again in the old meetinghouse.
With them went the prayers of those left behind.
With the
prayers went work and sometimes twice a week did the sewing
society meet to lay out and do work for the suffering soldiers.
Stockings were knit, bandages made of lint prepared with careful hand, and contributions
received and forwarded, not only to
personal friends but for the common cause in which our boys
enlisted.
There was no time or inclination
for church dissension.
The most important
feature in church work is spiritual prosperity.
In union is strength and strength means growth and
growth means not only increase in numbers but increase in
creature comforts in our place of worship, a sense of home life.
We are growing to feel the need of a place of social prayer.
Some of the best prayer meetings that I remember were
held in homes of the the people.
This audience room is too
large for our best social prayer.
Unless there is the heat of
brotherly love (and he that loveth God lovet h his brother also)
the prayers freeze in the atmosphere.
We should hate to find
ourselves in the condition of the church whose roof leaked badly.
Patching was of no avail, so they had to tear off the whole roof.
There they found accumulated
prayers that had ascended no
higher than the roof and had mildewed.
When the mid-week service is held there is a dampening
influence in the scattered
audience and we earnestly desire a
cozy, warm prayer meeting home and a place for our best social
development.
To that end we are working to collect funds
In building it we want the foundation laid firm
for a chapel.
and solid on the ;Rock Christ Jesus and its structure such as
shall contain only the Spirit of the Lord, even the Holy Spirit.
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Then shall we all agree that our church is a part of the new
Jerusalem.
That in its construction are the elements of strength
as of iron, the brilliance of the ruby, the transparence
of the
sapphire, the lustre of the diamond, and the ductility, softness
and malleability of gold. "Instead of our fathers shall be our
children."
They began worship in an unfinished building but they did
not hold that they had more religion on account of it. They
knew that their religion would enable them to carry forward
the work.
Their steadfastness
was such as progressed.
George McDonald says, "Some apparent
steadfastness
is
but sluggishness and comes from incapacity to generate change
or contribute
toward personal growth."
When Rev. W. S. Hawkes first came among us we felt our
weakness, then began our strength.
From paying a salary of $500, we agreed to pay $800.
Though applying for aid to the H. M. S. we were persuaded
by Mr. Hawkes that we could do the work ourselves and we did
it and not only paid his salary with reasonable promptness
but built a parsonage and gave more to missionary work than
in previous years.
Following this effort which some criticised as unwise and
impossible was a sifting of hearts as to whom the gold and
silver belonged, also a question as to whom the hearts belonged.
The barley loaf overturned the tents and revealed the insecurity
of our reliance.
Church members were pricked in their hearts
and the unconverted
said, "We would see Jesus."
Friends
near and dear to us accepted Christ as their Saviour and established the family altar, for Mr. Hawkes insisted on a thorough
consecration.
Our hearts go out with a bound of joy and thankfulness,
first to our Heavenly Father, then to our earthly fathers who
gave us this heritage.
And we would pass on to our children
more than we have received and cement the bond of Christian
love and fellowship.
MRS.
E. S.
BISSELL.
Exodus 22:12.-"Honor
thy father and thy mother; that
thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee."
Genesis 17:16.-"I
will bless her, and she shall be a mother
of nations."
Judges 5:7.-"Deborah
arose .....
a mother in Israel.."
The Bible gives great prominence
to the family; every
reader must have noticed it; almost at the beginning we have the
institution of the ideal family; one man and one woman, united
for life, thenceforward
one, so far as aims, interests and rewards are concerned.
At the two beginnings of the race,
Adam and Noah, it was "father and mother," two, not three
or more, father and mother; not a hint of more than one wife.
All nature exhibits the male as physically stronger, and the
�leader, which is also assumed in the Bible regarding man; and
often when the man is spoken of he stands for the whole
family . But while this is constantly so, there are not wanting
records of women of such individuality
that they are accorded
special notice; and wifehood and motherhood
are constantly
honored in the history of God's people . Sarah, Abraham's wife,
is particulariy named and promised blessings.
It is one peculiarity of our Holy Book, the Bible, that it makes prominent
mention of women and children; no such records are found in
the holy books of any other religion . Although in most of the
Bible history it is assumed that women exerted their due influence and performed their tasks, yet a multitude are named;
we readily recall Eve, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Jocobed, the
mother of Moses, Zipporah his wife and Miriam his sister ,
Deborah, "a mother in Israel," who was 9ne of the Judges or
Rulers, the mother of Jabez, whose name is not given, but whose
prayer shows that she was a notable woman; Ruth the Moabitess, Hannah the mother of Samuel, Abigail the wife of Nabal
and afterwards of David, the woman of Shunem of Elisha's day,
and others.
The stories of Ruth, Naomi, Abigail and the Shunemite show us a glimpse of the rural home life of those days, and
that in some cases, if not in many, it was sweet and godly; from
which we may gather that all through those troubled days there
were some who kept the traditions of the Fathers and feared
God; and it was just so in Europe preceding the Reformation;
through those Dark Ages there were among the people pure
he.arts and homes where the fire of Pentecost was kept burning.
During the later years of the Hebrew kings, preceding the Captivity, we hear little of the women; but we may be sure there
were good mothers to have produced Daniel, Shadrach, Meshack
and Abed-Nego.
At a later period the story of Zacharias and
Elizabeth and Mary the mother of our Lord, show us that good
women were not wanting in Canaan at that time . The Hebrews
had always honored women as other nations, as a rule, did not;
and the coming of the Savior put special honor on them;
and
from Mary of Nazareth down through the Christian Ages woman
has been receiving her right.
And it is along this particular
line of thought I am to speak today . From the sermons of
Stephen, Peter and Paul we see how much the early Christian
preachers dwelt on the story of the Fathers of the Hebrew people; the Fathers of the Christian church are just as worthy
of mention, and were as truly called of God as were the Patriarchs; and the leaders of the Reformation were their rightful
successors; and the Fathers and Mothers of America, those who
first came to these shores, and their immediate children, who
were the pioneers of these towns where Christian institutions
were planted and have flourished, are as worthy of mention on
the Lord's Day in Church service as those whose names are
written in the Bible. These are later Worthies of Faith, some
of whose names would undoubtedly
have been included in the
�XI th of Hebrews had that narrative been written one hundred
years ago instead of eighteen hundred years ago . In that remarkable
chapter women are named and others referred to .
On such occasions as this it is more common that the Fathers
receive mention; although often the term is used generically,
and the Mothers are just as much meant as the Fathers.
I love
and honor the Fathers; none more than I; but today I am to
speak particularly
of the Mothers-the
women of our early history; to emphasize what we of America owe to them.
Most of you must be aware that many of the first attempts
of Europeans to colonize America were made by " men only."
The Spanish colonies around the Gialf of Mexico were thus started
and only succeeded after many failures . The ever recurring
story makes it almost seem as though Spaniards thought men,
monks and the Inquisition
were enough , without good women
to be honorable wives and mothers . And what was true of the
Catholic Spaniards at the south was also true of the Protestant
English in Virginia, and at several places on the coast of Massachusetts, New Hampshire
and Maine . And in Canada Louis
XIV followed the Catholic Spanish method.
When the term of
service of his soldiers expired, which he had sent to Canada, he
used his influence to induce both officers and men to settle in
that land; but after a time that astute monarch was quite surprised and pained to learn that the French population was not
increasing, although half-breeds were multiplying
from Indian
mothers; Louis at once set about correcting his mistake, and
proceeded to provide French wives and mothers by Government aid; the prospect of a husband, a home, and a dower of
money was held out as an inducement
to women and girls to
cross the ocean to Canada ; and many ship-loads were thus sent
over; while much the larger number were respectable, yet among
so many thus secured, of necessity, there would be some of indifferent physical, mental and moral quality, which accounts
for the complaint of one of the prominent Nuns who had charge
of these immigrant women, who wrote of one ship's company
as a "cargo of mixed goods ." The historian Parkman says of
this movement of Louis XIV, "It is a pecularity of Canadian immigration, at its most flourishing epoch , that it was mainly an
immigration
of single men and single women.
The cases in
which entire families came over were comparatively
few."
The Protestant
English settlements
which were attempted
on the same plan, with "men only" were failures, all except
Jamestown which almost failed, and was only saved by the coming of virtuous women , the story of which is told in the popular
novel "To Have and to Hold."
The first English settlement which had a healthful and unfaltering growth from the start was that at Plymouth;
and the
women of the Pilgrim band, as wives, mothers,
sisters and
daughters, had been in consultation
with the men before they
left England for Holland, and while in the Low Countries they
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were in all the consultations
about coming to the:New World;
and the social unit that came in the Mayflower was not the individual, a man, and he perhaps, a poor debtor, a rake, or a
"ne'er
do well," but the social unit of the Pilgrims was the
family, the Christian family of father, mother and children; and
while there were some young men and women of marriageable
age in that company, they were not sent because of that fact,
but because they were members of some family.
And it is significant of the character of the Pilgrim band that a woman was
in the first boat-load sent ashore for final location at Plymouth,
and a woman, Mary Chilton, was the first to step on historic
Plymouth Rock.
Thomas Weston, a London merchant,
who posed as a good
Puritan, advanced money for the outfit and vessels of the Pilgrims; but soon became disgusted with the small and slow profits; it was his belief that the Plymouth party was hindered by
having their families with them; and he determined
to try for
quicker returns, and sent over a colony of men without family
incumbrance,
who located on the shores of Massachusetts
Bay;
but they soon so rioted among themselves
and so abused the
Indians that they came near causing their own destruction
and
that of the Pilgrims also, who saved them from the Indians and
then from starvation,
and I imagine it was the tender-hearted
Pilgrim women who prompted
the men to their rescue.
As the years went on the large and rich party in England
known as Puritans, found their lot under James I growing harder
and harder to bear; he seemed determined to keep the promise
he had once made that he would "harry them out of the land."
And when he died in 1625 it was soon seen that their lot would
be no easier under his son Charles I; they were now hearing
much about the success of the Plymouth
colony, and in 1627
and 1628 there were many deliberations
among them whether
considerable numbers should not emigrate to this new land; the
historian Green says these matters "were talked over in every
Puritan household;
it is certain that the women of these households knew all about the plans and purposes, and when all was
ready to begin, John Endicott was sent ahead to prepare the
way, and Bancroft significantly says that Endicott's
"wife and
family were the companions of his voyage, the hostages of his
fixed attachment
to the New World."
So woman was at the
first permanent settlement of Massachusetts
Bay as she had been
at Plymouth;
and when the Connecticut
Colony was about to
begin, the advance party was sent by sea and the Connecticut
River, and, as at Plymouth, it was a woman, Rachel Stiles, who
first stepped ashore at Old Windsor.
And it was the same at
New Haven, the godly and refining English woman was there.
Virginia, with its contract women for wives and mothers,
had a dubious growth for many years; what afterwards
gave
that Colony its distinguished
character was the fact that during
the Commonwealth
times in England many of the Cavaliers took
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their families, wives and children, to that Colony, and their
women were among the very best of Old England; and in this
we see again the distinctive English Christian social unit-the
family.
The Pilgrim and Puritan women who helped make these New
England settlements a success from the start were some of the
very best of women-kind of any race or age. One has but to
read their record to admire them, and to discover the secret of
the dominance of their descendants in the making of this Nation.
In the Puritan party of England were many representatives
of the nobility, and some of them were planning to come to
America with their wealth, retainers and titles; but the major
part of the would-be settlers would not agree that the titles and
special privileges of the nobility should be recognized and continued in the new settlements; and so most of them held back
from coming; but quite a number of relatives and some of their
daughters came, and among them Lady Arabella, daughter of the
Earl of Lincoln, and wife of Isaac Johnson, an excellent man and
a great helper of the colony with money and service; in letters
of the time we read much of Lady Arabella's gentle Christian
graces; she and her husband were not rugged enough to endure
the hardships and were among the first to die. Bancroft says
of those early Puritans and their efforts, "Woman was there to
struggle against unforeseen hardships, unwonted sorrows."
As
half the Pilgrim band died that first awful winter at Plymouth,
so about 200 of the Puritans at Salem, Charlestown and Boston
during that first summer.
After describing their sufferings,
Bancroft says, "Their enthusiasm was softened by the mildest
sympathy with suffering humanity, while sincere faith kept
guard against despondency and weakness.
Not a hurried line,
not a trace of repining appears in their records.
. . . . .
For that placid resignation which diffuses grace round the bed
of sickness, and makes death too serene for sorrow and too
beautiful for fear, no one was more remarkable than the
daughter of Thomas Sharp, whose youth and sex, and, as it
seemed, unqualified virtues, won warmest eulogies. . . . .
.
Even little children caught the spirit of the
place; and in their last hours, awoke to the awful mystery of
the impending change, awaited its approach in the tranquil confidence of faith, and went to the grave full of immortality."
It
is easy to see that such men were made what they were, not
only by their faith, but by that faith shared and sustained by
their sweet, intelligent and godly women. If any of you are curious to know more of just what those women were, read the story
of Margaret Tyndall, third wife of Governor John Winthrop. Her
letters show the strong and beautiful character which sustained
and encouraged her husband during the planning for the Puritan
colony. He was a prominent lawyer of good estate and social
standing, and she from a family of still higher social grade; she
not only intelligently counselled him in advance, but cordially
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assented to his going at first alone when she must remain behind
for motherhood,
and afterwards
when he had not hidden one of
the trials from her, she was anxious to join him that she might
share them with her beloved husband and so help and cheer him
and advance
the great cause.
It is clearly evident that Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
Bay and the Connecticut
Colonies
would never have been embalmed in song and story if it had not
been for the quality of our foremothers,
who possessed "unfeigned faith" like that of Lois and Eunice, the grandmother
and mother of Timothy.
And with their assured faith was their
placid devotion, their quiet but deep enthusiasm,
their unrepining endurance,
their gentle ministrations,
and their fervid love,
all of which made the men what they were-good
men nobler.
The story of some of those women has been written and given
the world; the story of many more ought to be carefully gathered
together and published to the world before the records are lost.
A concrete case often impresses us more than general facts; and
for my purpose today I have one at hand that is peculiarly appropriate for this place and occasion; for the "mother in Israel"
of whom I am about to speak was born in the town of which
Wapping and South Windsor was a part, and many of her descendents
have lived in this town; and some, I think, in this
parish, and some of them are, I think, here present today.
She
was not one of the first settlers of Plymouth
or Massachusetts
Bay, but the daughter of one of them, who soon left the seaboard
settlements
and came to this Valley and helped to make this
town and surrounding
region; so this woman and her descendants are a part of your history, and her story peculiarly appropriate to this occasion.
I refer to
ESTHER
W ARHAM.
Esther, or as sometimes written in the old records, Hester
Warham,
was born in Windsor, where her remarkable
father
was the first pastor.
It would be highly interesting
to speak
of that Forefather,
but I am to tell of his daughter, a Foremother.
Before her father came to this town he lived a short time in Dorchester, Mass., whose first minister was Richard Mather, another
remarkable
man.
His son Eleazar was called to be the first
pastor of the Northampton,
Mass., church, and needing a wife,
sought her in the family of his father's friend, John Warham;
and having wooed and won the young and attractive
girl, the
impatient
lover hastened
the marriage,
and Esther became a
bride when a month or two less than 15 years of age.
This need
not surprise us, for the character,
mission and environments
of
those first settlers hastened development
of body and mind, and
the Puritans in a corrupt age looked on early marriage as a safeguard of the purity of the home.
Some time before this Governor John Winthrop
of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony, was
�not yet 18 years old when first married in England, and his
second brid e was but 17 y ea rs old at marri age, and both unions
were looked upon with appro v al by all concerned at the time ;
and 70 y ears after the time of E sther's marriage Sarah Pierrepont ,
was onl y 17 years of age wh en sh e m a rri ed Jonathan Edwards ,
th e grandson of our Esther.
Anoth er common practice in those
early New Engl and da ys wa s th e interm arriage betw een
minister s ' families; Esther, a minist er 's d aughter was marri ed
to a minister , th e son of a mini ster , and afterwards six of h er
se v en daughters marri ed minist ers , and some of her sons took
minist ers' daught ers to wif e. This girl wife liv ed happil y with
Mr. Mather 'almo st ten ye ars , and after a widowhood of five
y ears married her husband's
succe ssor in the pastoral office ,
Solomon Stoddard , with whom sh e live d in happin ess 55 y ears.
H e was no common man; th e gr andson of Go v ernor Winthrop's
sis te r , he p os sessed gr eat abilit y.
The President Timothy Dwight of Yale College , one hundred
ye ars ago , said that h e "possessed , probabl y, mor e influence
than an y other clergyman in the Pro v ince during a period of 30
y ears.
He was regarded with a re v erence which will scarcely
be rendered to any other man."
Another said of him, " His look and behavior was such as
gave those who conversed with him, occasion to say of him, as
the woman of the prophet , 'I perceive that this is a man of
God.'"
The Indians called him "The Englishman's
God," and
his grandson, Edwards, said he was a "ver y great man."
Yet
it was he, more than anyone else, who introduced into the New
England churches what was called the "Half-way
Covenant,"
which was accepting
church m embership
before conversion,
whence it was called "a half-way covenant ."
Stoddard was a m an of intell ect and faith, and came to his
belief in the "Half-way
Covenant"
in a singular manner, in
which his remarkable
wife, without intending to lead to that
It is said that, in the common acresult, played a leading part.
ceptation of the term, he was not a converted man when he
began his Northampton
pastorate, and that when that change
did come to him the human agent that led to it was Mrs.
Stoddard.
The way in which the stor y has come down to us
shows how near we really ar e to those days.
My great-grandfather
was born in 1715 , and it is as though
he. having known some of the parties, told the story to his son,
my grandfather,
and he to m y father, and my father to me. We
are onl y three lives, if long ones , away from it . Dr. Increase N . Tarbox , who was born in East Windsor, so a son of
Windsor town, had the story from Dr. Thomas "\iVilli ams of
Providence,
who had it from Dr . Joseph Lath ro p of West
Springfield, who was ordained about the tim e E dwards left
Northampton,
when some must have been still liv ing who readily
recalled Stoddard and his wife Esther.
The nub of t h e story is
that as time went on Mrs. Stoddard feared that h er abl e husb and
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had not an experimental
knowledge of Christ as a Savior, which
opinion was shared by some of her intimate friends, a company
or godly women; and Mrs. Stoddard began praying with these
women for her husband's
conversion;
after a while he noticed
that his wife was keeping an appointment
a certain day of the
week, and asked her about it. ' Mrs. Stoddard frankly told him
the burden of her heart which deeply affected him.
Not long
afterwards,
when officiating
at the communion
table,
he
had a new view of Christ as his personal
Savior,
which
produced
a radical
change in his thinking
and preaching.
And it is a curious
and
interesting
fact, showing
how
personal
experiences
are apt to color
and
shape
our
thinking
and conduct, that that experience having come to
Mr. Stoddard
at the communion
table
he ever after
attached a new and deeper meaning to that rite, thinking it almost, if not quite, a saving ordinance.
There is much reason
to accept this story; and it shows both the strong individuality
and the deep spiritual piety of Esther W arham.
Mr. Stoddard
was an advocate
of the Half-way Covenant,
and practiced it; but through the influence of his wife he was so
spiritual minded, and his preaching so pungent, that it undoubtedly saved his congregation
from the spiritual deadness which
prevailed in most of the churches where the Half-way Covenant
was practiced;
and there was a spiritual
atmosphere
in that
town which was ready to be affected by the searching preaching
of Edwards, who succeeded Mr. Stoddard, and whose grandson
he was.
Esther survived her husband seven years, and thus as wife or
widow of pastors she was identified with that church for 77
years.
She was the mother of 13 children, some records say 15;
but 13 grew up, married and had families.
Hers was a remarkable
experience
and hers a remarkable
family.
Of some of the daughters a few words should be said:
The oldest was Eunice Mather, 'who married Rev. John Williams,
first pastor of the Deerfield Church; when that town was captured by the French•and
Indians in 1704, the whole family were
made captives and started for Canada; Mrs. Williams had a babe
but a few days old, and could not endure the hardship;
knowing
that she would soon fall out and probably be at once killed by
the Indians
she took a tender
and affectionate
farewell
of her husband,
in which the same strong
faith of her
mother Esther was prominent,
and calmly waited for her fate
which for her and her babe soon came from the merciless Indian.
Mr. Williams and the other children were carried to Canada.
All but one daughter· were afterward ransomed;
that daughter
would not be given up by the Indians,
afterwards
married
among them, and many of her descendants
are today numbered
among the Canada Indians.
Stephen,
one of the boys was
afterwards the first pastor of the Longmeadow
Church.
Esther
W arham's eldest daughter by Mr. Stoddard was named Esther
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after herself, and became the wife of Rev. Timothy Edwards,
first pastor of the first Church of this town; she is spoken of as
having been stately, handsome, of polished manners, thoroughly
educated, having a "business head," being an earnest Christian,
and altogether a strong character;
she and Mr. Edwards lived
together 64 years and she was the mother of 11 children, of
whom the fifth, and the only boy, was the distinguished
Jonathan Edwards; one boy among ten sisters! and perhaps that
was a reason of his sweetness and gentleness of character, for
although as bold as a lion, he was a man of exceeding gentle
spirit and breeding.
Those ten sisters were thorough scholars
and assisted their father in teaching the boys he fitted for Yale
College; like their mother they were tall, all six feet or more
in height! and Mr. Edwards used to facetiously
say he "had
sixty feet of daughters!"
Seven of the ten married in Connecticut, and from them are descended some of the most prominent
families of this town and State.
The youngest of them was Martha, who was the erratic wife
of Rev. Moses Tuthill, the second pastor of this parish, who, I
understand
preached here some time before the church was
organized.
Two of their daughters
inherited
some of their
mother's erratic ways, and lived in this part of the town, the
last of the two not dying till 1837. During my pastorate the
aged people used to tell me anecdotes
of the family, one of
Martha Edwards Tuthill who was a "thorn in the flesh" to her
husband; and perchance, a "means of grace" to him.
Passing over others mention should be made of another
granddaughter,
Jonathan Edwards' daughter Esther, who married Rev. Aaron Burr, President of Princeton,
N. J., College,
who was the father of Aaron Burr, Vice-President
of the United
States; a man of whom many strange things not to his credit
are told.
It has often excited wonder that Aaron Burr should
have been the unprincipled man he was with such a godly ancestry behind him.
But during my studies the past year I have
discovered that Jonathan
Edwards'
grandmother,
mother of
Rev. Timothy Edwards of our First Church, was a woman of
deranged mind, as well as other members of her family; and if
we accept the teaching of heredity we need not be surprised
that some strange and dark individuals appeared among her descendants, as three notable ones did; one each in three successive generations, of whom her granddaughter,
Martha Edwards
Tuthill of this town was one; her great-grandson,
youngest son
of Jonathan
Edwards,
was another; and Aaron Burr, her
great-great-grandson
was a third.
However we view her, Esther Warham was a remarkable
woman; of her mother we know little; but history says her
father was an uncommon
man; being sometimes called "the
gentle Warham," but a noted preacher, who left his impress on
Old Windsor.
It is of local interest to us today that Jolin Warham's daugh-
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ter next older than Esther was Sarah.
Her granddaughter
was
Elizabeth Moore Foster, whose body was one of the first buried
in the yard directly back of this meetinghouse.
not far from
where I stand.
I understand
that all the Fosters of this part
of the town, and all the descendants
of Edward Chapman
Grant, are descendants of this woman, granddaughter
of Sarah
Warham, sister of our Esther.
We have seen that Esther was wife of the first and second
pastors of the Northampton
Church and that the third was her
grandson, Jonathan
Edwards;
the fifth was her great-greatgrandson, who was the pastor 56 years, and a grandson of his
was, in our day, pastor 14 years; which shows that the husbands
or descendants of Esther Warham have been pastors of that one
church for 158 years of its history; or 160 if we count the two
years when another was associate pastor with one of the others.
A vast host of her descendants have been Congregational ministers; a half dozen have been College Presidents, some United
States Senators, some Governors, others representatives,
judges,
lawyers, physicians, and many others prominent
men and women of this country.
Among the families descended from her who have furnished
many noted ministers have been two lines of the Williams family,
the Edwards, Dwight, Mather, Stoddard, Hooker, Strong, Porter, Parsons, Baccus,
Hopkins,
Woodbridge,
Park, Hawley,
Sheldon, and Storrs families, and others I have not recalled;
and General W. T. and Hon. John Sherman,
outside the pulpit,
and who -can tell how many others?
As we read her story it not hard to trace her influence; we
see it through her uncommon daughters in the parsonages to
which they went in different parts of New England; her spirituality was felt in many parishes beyond Northampton.
It
reached the parsonage in South Windsor Street in a letter which
she sent her daughter Esther after the birth of Jonathan
Ed wards, congratulating
her on the birth of her son, and referring
to the death of her own daughter Eunice by the Indians, which
breathes a spirit of strong faith and implicit trust in the divine
wisdom.
But, womanlike, there is a postcript to the letter, in
the thoughtful
mother
appears. She says, "P. S. I would
have sent you a half a thousand pins and a porringer of marmalat if I had an opporturtity."
Her influence is clearly seen in
Jonathan
Edwards; many of her traits reappear in him, and it
is interesting
t,o know that he was her pastor some years and
that she lived to see the first great revival that came under his
preaching at Northampton.
How that must have rejoiced her
devotedly pious soul? When we become acquainted
with Edwards' grandmother
and wonderful wife we are not much surprised that he was the man he was. Of him Whittier wrote:
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"In the church of the wilderness Edwards wrought,
Shaping his creed at the forge of thought;
And with Thor's own hammer welded and bent
The iron links of his argument,
Which strove to grasp in its mighty span
The purpose of God and the fate of man!
Yet faithful still, in his daily round.
To the weak, and the poor, and sin-sick found,
The schoolman's lore and the casuist's art
Drew warmth and life from his fervent heart.
Had he not seen in the solitudes
Of his deep and dark Northampton
woods
A vision about him falI?
Not the blinding splendor that fell on Saul,
But the tenderer glory that rests on them
Who walk in the New Jerusalem,
Where never the sun nor moon are known,
But the Lord and His love are the light alone!
And watching the sweet, still countenance
Of the wife of his bosom rapt in trance,
Had he not treasured each broken word
Of the mystical wonder seen and heard;
And loved the beautiful dreamer more
That thus to the desert of earth she bore
Clusters of Rschol from Canaan's shore?"
This "wife of his bosom,"
"the beautiful
dreamer,"
was
Sarah, daughter of Rev. John Pierrepont of New Haven, who,
when but 13 years of age, had such remarkable religious experiences; "trances" Whittier calls them, but wholly unlike those
of so-called "mediums;"
but such religious exercises that the
repute of them went far and wide; and Edwards, before he ever
saw her wrote about them and her in his diary, and she became
his wife when but seventeen years of age, and seemed from the
first a matured character; and when the mother of six children
George Whitefield wrote, after a visit to her home, that she was
the most beautiful woman he had ever known; and who, from
abundant testimony, was as practical and winsome, as beautiful. She was a woman after the own heart of Esther W ar:rnm,
her grandmother-in-law.
And while the great men, the Fathers of New England, were departing into cold formality in
preaching and life, it was such women as this foremother and
her daughters
and others like them, who prayed, saw by intuition, and held by mighty but intelligent faith, the great center
of the gospel; and through Esther W arham, her daughter Esther
Stoddard Edwards, and her daughter-in -law, Sarah Pierrepont
Edwards, an influence was exerted on Jonathan
Edwards, by
grandmother, mother and wife, by whom more than by any other
man, the church of New England was brought back.
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The one hundreth anniversary of the Wapping Congregational Meeting House : erected 1801 and occupied 1802 in South Windsor, Connecticut
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Wapping Congregational Church (Wapping, Conn.) -- History
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A program of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the building of the Wapping Congregational Meeting House in South Windsor, Connecticut. It contains the program of the ceremonies and several papers on the history of the Congregation church in the area dating back to the 18th century.<br /><br /><br />The Church in Wapping, a section of South Windsor, was built in 1801 and initially served several denominations. The Baptists and Methodists later founded their own churches, so that by 1817, only the Congregationalists remained. They eventually organized as the Second Congregational Church in South Windsor in 1830. The Congregationalists later merged with the Methodists to found the Wapping Federated Church, which became the Wapping Community Church in 1936. The original appearance of the church is not known. It was altered to its current Greek Revival style in 1849.<br /><br /><a title="http://historicbuildingsct.com/?cat=9" href="http://historicbuildingsct.com/?cat=9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://historicbuildingsct.com/?cat=9</a>
October eleventh and twelfth, nineteen hundred & two.
Pagination irregular pages 9 and 10 repeated
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Our first year of army life: an anniversary address, delivered to the First Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, at their camp near Gaines' Mills, Va., June, 1862 / by the chaplain of the regiment
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95 p
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United States. Army. Connecticut Artillery Regiment, 1st (1862-1865)
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New Haven : T.H. Pease, 1862 ([New Haven?] : Printed by T.J. Stafford)
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Edward Ashley Walker (1835-1866), American clergyman, essayist and chaplain of the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment from May, 1861 to July, 1862, when he resigned due to ill health related to his military service. His wife, Katherine Kent Child Walker (1833-1916), was an author of children's books.<br /><a title="http://www.readseries.com/auth-oz/Walker-bio.htm" href="http://www.readseries.com/auth-oz/Walker-bio.htm">http://www.readseries.com/auth-oz/Walker-bio.htm</a><br /><br />
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Marian Anderson: a portrait (cover)
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Vehanen, Kosti, 1887-1957
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7 x 10", 2 color print
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Dust jacket of the 1st Edition
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1941
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Four years, a chronicle of the war by months, by Adrian Van Sinderen
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Sl{ETCHES
OF HISTORY
OF THE
CONGREGATIONAL
CHURCHy<P
SOCIETY
IN
,
LEDYARD.
DEUVERED
AUG. 14TH,
1859,
BEING •THE 48TH
....
PRESEN'Y
BY
ANNIVERSARY
THIMOTHY TUTTLE,
PASTOR.
"I have considered the days of old , tire-years of ,meient times."~Psalm
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NORWICH:
MANNING,
PERRY
OF THE
PASTORATE,
& CO., PRINTERS,
18 5 9.
FRANKLIN
SQUARE.
LXXVII,
6.
��DISCOURSE.
'' I have considered the d..ays of old., the ye ars of ancient tirnes."-P.sahn
LXXVII,
5.
The town, now known a.5 Ledyard, was formerly the second, or north parish in Groton. It was . incorporated as a
parish by legislative action in 1724 ,. and the first meeting of
the Society, of which we have any history, was held January
3d, 1725. There was no meeting hou se then erected, and
meetings were held for public worship on the Sabbat h at
private dwellings alternate ly, in various parts of the parish.
'I'he first preacher employed, (then a licent iate,) was Samuel
Seabury, a native of Groton, and fathe r of th e one, who afterwards became the Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut. Other
candidates were occasionaJly employed, and invit ed to settle
in the ministry, but they declined. Th e people at that time
manifested a commen dable zeal in seeking to obtain l?reachers.
In November 1726, a survey was made of the Society, north
and south, east and west, for the pnrpo~e of finding the exact center; an d on, or very near, that spot, as it was found
to be a suita ble location, the first meeting hou se was erected.
The frame of it was rai sed in 1727, and not, as it appears, by
the Society as such, but by individual subscript ion. Afterwards the Society voted to accept it as their house of worship.
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From what can be gathered from the old Society records, it
seems, that it mu st have stood a considerable time before any
covering was put upon it. Then, whatever was done to it, .
was done at interv als. So long as it stood, during 116 years ,
it was never completely finished. It was, in shape, like many
of the meeting hous es of former days, with the main door on
th e front side , with the pulpit opposite to it on the other side
of the house, and with a door at each end, and having nothing in th e form of eith er porch or steeple.
For the purpose of rai sing funds, so as to render it fit to
meet in, the ground floor was sold to individuals, and they
erected pews for their own accommodation, and to be h eld as
th eir property. '1.'ho se pews were like square boxes or pens,
with seats on all sides within, except in the door way. The
upright sides of the pews afforded no very convenient place
for sleepers in the time of worship. During thr ee successive
pastorat es, there was no inside plastering, except on the right
and left of the pulpit ; and it was open above to th e rid ge .}
The timbers of the house, above the ground floor, might all
be seen, and they wen~ of hu ge dimensions. So it remain ed
till after my settlement. Sometime during the revolution ary
war, it became a forsaken place, - forsaken, except by cattle,
which, feeding on the common in summer, entered it as a
place of shade.* About the year 1790, the body of th e hou se
outside was repaired, the pew owners consenting to give up
their rights, and makin g the hou se common stock, so that the
pews might be r ented. From that time, it was occupied occasionally by all sorts of preachers. In a moral sense, the Society was like a great common, un cultivat ed, and oversp read
by every thing of noxious growth. The old hou se stood, not
very secure against the winters cold, or the blast s of heaven ,
till the summer of 1843, when it gave place to the new one,
• This I had from one who then lived near by .
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built upon the same location. The last days of the old house
were probably its best, in a spiritual, if not in a temporal sense.
After my settleme nt , it underwent, in 1814, a more exte nsive
rep air than it ever ha d before ; but not a complete one. 'l'he
year before it was taken down, a revival of religion commenced, more extens ive, it is thought than any that ever preceded
it. That revival strengt hened the Society, and prepared the
way for the building of the new house.
We now go back to the commencement of church organization, and to the settlement of the ministry. Liberty was
obtain ed, ( a thing necessary in those days,) from the General
Assembly of the State, to organize a chur ch, and to settle a
mini ster. Th e grant of this liberty is dated November 9th,
1729 , and is in the following w:ords : " Thi s Assembly grants
leave to the inhabi tar1ts of th e north Society in the town of
Groton to embody into chur ch state, they first obtaining the
consent of the neighborin g chu rches." Th e exact time of
th e formation of the church is not known. At 'the time of
Mr. Owen's ordination in the 1st Society in Groton, November
22d, 17~7, there were 39 members ofthat-c1rnrc11living in this
Society. Probably they constitut ed the church th at was afterwards organiz ed here ; and perh aps ther e were others with
them. No record of the transaction remains. TJie church
must have been organized after th e grant for that purpose
was obtained, and before the settlement of a mini ster.
The Rev. Ebenezer Punder son was ordained th e first pastor
of the church, December 25th, 1729. The vote giving him a
call, is dated August 28th, 1729, and is in th e following
words : " Voted, that Mr. Eb enezer Punder son shall be our
Gospel pr eaching mini ster. Voted, also, that if Mr. Pund erson will settle in this Society, and take the pastoral charge of
it, he shall have two hundred pound s in mon ey th e first year,
and two hundred pound s th e second year; and to hav e one
hundred pounds a year in money yearly, which shall be his
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standing salary." " Mr. Punderson was a native of New
Haven, and a graduate of Yale CollegtJ in the class of 1726.
H e continued pastor of the church less than five years, having
changed hi s sentiments from Congregat ionali sm to Episcopacy.
On the first .of January previous to his dismi ssion, he made a
communication to th e Society, avowing hims elf a conformist
to the Episcopal chur ch of England . · This communic at ion
was received , it is said, " with amazement and sorrow ; and a
committee was appoin ted to reason with him and see if he
might be per su aded, that hi s ordination was good, and .that
he might return to hi s people again." But th e effort was·
unavailing.
A counci~ was convened, F ebruary 5th, 1734,
and the connection was dissolved. He was ord ain ed at North
Groton, (now Ledyard,) at tlie age of twenty-on e. Aft er his
dismission , he went to Engl and , and received Episcopal ordination, and returned in th e capacity of a missionar y und er the
direction of the " Society for tlie prop aga tion of the Gospel
in foreign parts." What led him to doubt th e validity of his
first ordination is not kno wn . But it was about t he time
when Epi scopacy began it s prevalenc e in Conn ecticut; and
perhaps the change of sentim ent in the elder Seabury, and
that of Mr . Johnson of Stratford, might have had an influenc e
upon his mind. After his return to this country, a church
edifice was built for him, about a mile and a half, in a direct
lin e northea st from the cente r of Ledyard , and the place still
r etains the nam e of Church Hill. 'fhat edifice was afterwards
remov ed north to the villag e of Poqu etani1ock, where it still
stands, though at present unoccupi ed. Mr. Punder son dr ew
off several influ ential families from the Society to Episcopacy ;
and his chaHge of sentiment laid the foundatio n for the Epis•The four hundred
people us a settlement,
iu auc1ent tim es; but
quent changes in the
pound s for the first two yea rs were d.oubtl ess considered by the
a sum to beg·in his official life with. Thi s wa s a tbiug customary
now entir ely done away; and well it ma y be, in these times of fremini st r y.
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copal churc11 now existing in the above mentioned village.
In 1755, it is said, he organized Trinity paris h in New Haven.
Afterwards he r emoved to Rye, N. Y., where he labored and
died in 1771, aged 63 years. What his doctrinal pre aching
was, while a Congregational ist, is not now known.
Th e next pastor of the chur ch was the Rev. And r ew Croswell. He was not a gradua te of Yale College, and, it is believ ed, not a native of Connect icut. After the disappointment
and trouble experienced by the Society in the case of Mr.
Pund erson, they seem to have been very cautious in regard to
giving another minister a sett lement. Mr. Croswell was ordained, October 14th, 1736. Th e settlement offered him was two
hundred pounds per annum for the first two years, and a
hundr ed and ten pounds per annum afterwards. H e was to
be paid "in bill s of public cre dit of this and th e neighboring
Government s."* But they stipul ated, that, "in case he should
withdraw from the established religion of this governm ent to
any other nersua sion, he should ret urn two hundred pounds
to the Society ." It appears that he was a man of ardent tem•
peram ent, coincidin g readil y with th e "New Light" movement, in sentiment and in act ion, and upholdin g and defending , by his writings, the enthusiastic wand ering s of Davenport.
In the tim e of the " Great Awak ening ," he is said to have
labored much in oth er pari shes besides hi s own. In 1742, he
preached in different to-wns in Massachusetts, as it is said,
"with irr egul ar zeal." 1Ut er thus wandering and pre aching
in variou s places, he det er mined to leave his Society, and,
making known hi s determination, a Society meeting was called,
and th e following vote was pas sed :
Wher eas Mr . Croswell is dete rmin ed to leave thi s Society, he thinking
him self called of God so to do, which thing we don't app rove of, yet ,ve
shall not oppose him there in, hut leave him to hi s own choice.
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hese bilJs of public credit, it seem s, were pape r currency then in use, and called
"old tenor." They were probably then below · pa r va lue, and co ntinu ed to depreciate.
It is probabl e that Mr. Pund erson wa s paid in t be same way; so was the next miuister
after Mr. Cr oswell.
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Then, on the same day of the Society meeting, without further ceremony, and regardless of ecclesiastical order, as we
may well suppose such a man would be, he addressed the
following note of resignation :
Whereas, I, the subscriber, once took charge of the Society in North
Groton, and they having left it to my choice to go away, if I saw fit, and
thought myself called so to do, I now resign my pastoral office over them,
wishing them the rest of heaven ' s bl"essings ,. and that the Most High God,
if he please s, would give them a pastor according to his own heart.
ANDREW
CROSWELL,
This was all the form of dismission which took place. In
April 17 48, almost two years afterwards, the Society voted,
that he was dismissed. Leaving the Society, he went to Boston, and the follbwing account of J1im we find in Tracy's
"History of the Great Awakening."
"In February 1748,
some members of the Congregational churches of Boston
embodied themselves as the eleventh Congregational cliurch.
October 5th of the same year, O:roswell,the defender of Davenport, was installed their pastor. The old south church refused
to unite in the installing Council, regarding the formation of
the church as a bad precedent, and tending to crumble the
churches to pieces. The French Protestant church being disbanded about this time, the new church obtained possession
of their meeting house in School street, where Croswell continued to be their pastor till he died, April 12th, 1785, aged
76 years, and having been several years blind."
As he was an admirer of Whitefield, as well as an advocate
of Davenport, we may conclude that he was Calvinistic in his
doctrinal sentiments. In the early part of my ministry here,
I heard him spoken of by old people ; but none of them could
give any particular account of him. It seems that he was
co-adjutor with Mr. Owen of Groton, and Mr. Parsons of
Lyme, in reference to the" Great Awakening." His contin-
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uance as pastor of the church in North Groton was about ten
years. I have no doubt he was, in the main, orthodox in his
religious belief, as the men of his stamp were, in those days.
The next pastor settled in the north Society was the Rev.
Jacob Johnson. I have understood that he was a native of
Wallingford. He was a graduate of Yale College in the class
of 1740. He was ordained here in June, 1749, and continued in the pastoral office about twenty-three years. In making
provision for his support, the Society, at their meeting, March
10th, 17 49, voted, " that Mr. Jacob J olmson should have four
hundred pounds settle!nent, and three hundred pounds in old
tenor bills _salary yearly, as long as he continues to be our Gospel preaching minister."* In October 1772, at a Society
meeting, he asked for a dismission, and his request was readily granted. No mention is made of any Council called for
the purpose of hi,; dismission.
In regard to Mr. Johnson's theology, sca1;celyanything now
remains to show what it was. When I came to occupy the
saµie field of labor, there were some who remembered him,
but were too young when he went away to appreciate his
labors, or to recollect much about the substance of his preaching. They simply remembered, that they had a minister to
preach to them when they were boys. But very few productions were left by him in print; but, from what I have seen
of his, I am led to believe that he was a little visionary. He
published an account of the religous experience of a little
daughter of his, who died at the age of eight years, in which
*Another vote was passed at that meeting in the words following: "Voted, that the
said £400 settlement and £300 salary shall be paid in the following articles, or bills of
public credit, equivalent thereunto at the time of the annual payment, viz: pork at 2s
per lb, beef at ls per lb, wheat at 30s per bushel, indian corn at 15s, rye at 20s, cheese at
2s per lb, butter at 4s, oats at 7s 6d per bushel, sheep's wool at Ss per lb. flax at 4s, the
payment of money to be regulated by an equal proportion oJ each article; always provided, and it is to be understood, that if the said Mr. Johnson should withdraw himself
to any other persuasion, he shall return the said £400 settlement to the Society again, in
the same value as he received it ." We see by the above how greatly the "old tenor" had
depreciate 1.
2
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there was something stated bordering on the marvelous. But
perhaps some allowance should be made in view of the ardent
affection of a doating parent. It does not appear, however,
that his orthodoxy was ever questioned.
H e married a Miss Giddin gs of Pr eston, by whom he had
several children. He owned a farm, on which he labored in
part for hi s maintenanc e. .A piece of swamp land was cleared
by him and cultivated, on which, I have been told - by old
people, that he labore d much himself, till he was somewhat
blackened by toil, and smoke, and th e sun' s rays. The hou se
in which he lived is still stand ing.
It was some time during his mini stry, that the Rogere ne
Quakers" manifest ed their zeal in opposition to th e regular
ministrations of the Gospel. Mr. John son, as well as other
ministers in the vicinity, was often annoyed by th em in the
tim e of worship. Both men and women sometimes brought
their work to the meeting hous e for the purpos e, it would
seem, of disturbing the congregation, and of seeking what
they consider ed perse cution. Sometimes they would speak
out, and charge the pr eacher with falsehood. Mr. Johnson
conceived a plan by which he hoped to put an end to their
disturbance. .As they were present on one occasion, he said,
seems
addressing himself to their leader, " as friend W-to be fond of meetings, I will, with his leave, appoint a meeting at his house." Th e man gave his consent. ..A.tthe ap•
pointed time, Mr. Johnson dress ed himself in his meanest
garb; (for the Quakers were opposed to any appearance of
what they considered pride in dre ss,) and girded himself
with a strap, and went to the place of meeting. His audience
being assembled,he commenced hi s sermon without first praying audibly ; for audible prayer was contrary to their creed.
When he had closed his discourse, the old Quaker remarked,
*The term Rogerene is derived from John Rogers, t h e found er of the Sect, a native of
New London. They are n ow peaceable and quiet .
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" what friend Jacob Johnson has said is very well, if he would
• only live up to it." · The conversation then turned upon the
pride of rlress, and Mr. Whit efield was mentioned as thus
showing his -pride. The Quaker wore on his head a checked
linen cap. Mr. Johnson, reaching forth his hand, took hold
of it and said, "I d<?not think Mr. Whitefield is any more
proud of his dress than you are of this cap." Thus the interview ended, and Mr. Johnson had no 'more annoyance of that
kind.
Soon after he was dismissed in 1772, he left this place, and
went to Wilkesbarre in Pennsylvania, where he died in 1794.
It has been reported that he dug his own grave ; but how long
before his death he did this, we are not informed.
What the state of the church in this place was, during the
three preceding pastorates,-whether it was ever in a flourishing condition, I have no means of knowing. No record of
it ever came into my hands, nor was any one found that knew
anything about the state of it. Not a member of it was left;
and no one could tell the story of its extinction.
A. separate church was formed here, ( " Strict Congregational," as termed by -the founders of such churches ; ) but,
at what time it was formed, I have not the means of knowing.
Probably it was about the time Mr. Croswell left the place.
Several such churches were formed in the southeastern part
of New London County, through the instrumentality of
Davenport or his followers. Of the one formed here, Park
A.llyn, a native of this place, became its pastor. A. church
edifice, small in its dimensions, was built for him, about two
miles west from the center of this parish; but it was long ago
removed to Gales Ferry, for the accommodation of the Methodist congregation. Elder A.llyn was, by a Council, deposed
from the ministry on account of alleged immorality, and his
church was left to be scattered. Some of the members were
living when I came to this place, and a few of them united
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with this church after it wa:sformed. Elder Allyn, I conclude
from what I could learn about him, was decidedly orthodox
in his belief of the doctrines of grace, as those separate Congregational ministers and churches were at t\ieir commence- ·
ment. They imbibed the principles of Whitefield, who was
truly evangelical in his preaching.
The Society, as such, in this place, remained vacant from
October 1772, till the time of my ordination, A.ugust 14th,
1811, being about 39 years. East Haven was the place of
my birth; and at Yale College, I received my first degree in .
1808.
The present church here was organized by the Rev. Walter
King, then of Norwich, Dec. 12th, 1810, and was composed
sm~llest
of five members, one male and four females,-thc
church probably that has ever been organized in modern
times.
At the time of my settlement, I took charge of the two
Congregational churches in the town of Groton,-the
north
and the south,-in consequence of the fact, that both parishes
were weak ; and my labors were equally divided between the
two, preaching at each place on alternate Sabbaths.
Thus I continued to labor alternately, until April 2d, 1834,
when my dismission from the south parish took place by
mutual consent, and with cordial feeling ; since which time
my ministry has been confined to the church and society in
Ledyard.
Here, since my settlement, I have passed ·through many a
"shady," as well as" sunny side;" and sometimes, especially
in the former part of my ministry, in consequence of opposi- ,
tion outside of the fold, the shades were dark and portentous,
threatening to extinguish every ray of hope respecting the
continuance of the ministrations of the Gospel in this place.
But the Lord has been better to his people than we feared ;
for he has caused the evil, with which we were annoyed, to
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work for our good, and t0 draw our hearts together in c1oser
bonds of union. Through help obtained from God, the churc h
and society have been sustained, ·and many pleasant seasons
have been enjoyed. Since the erection of the new house of
worship, the state of things, compared with former scenes,
ha s been peculiarly peaceful. Tru ly may it be said, the Lord
hath done great thin gs for his people here, whereof they may
well be glad. Yet, not to any human instrumentality, but to
his name , be all th e glory .
During the course of my ministry here, the people have
enjoyed five seasons of religious revival; more especially in
th e autumn of 1842 ; the result of which, in the following
year, was an addition of about fifty persons to the church.
The whole number, that have ever become members of the
church since it s form ation in 1810, including the original five,
is 209. Of these, 191 were received on profession, and 18 by
lett er. A.bout 70 are known to have passed away from the
land of the livin g to their eternal home; and many, yet living,
have gone from us to other part s of thi s country. The congregation here on the Sabbath has usu ally been small, compared with other mor e favored localiti es, consisting commonly
of not mor e than 150 persons. Th ere are between 40 and
50 families attached, more or less to the congregation. The
situation of the pla ce is such, that it probably will not increase much in population for years to come. Yet it is
ardently hoped, that the people will not hereafter suffer themselves to be without the stated ministrations of the Gospel, or
without a settled pastor; and if they do live without one, the
fault must be their own. They have now a fund, amounting
to $3,300, the avails of which are to be applied in sustaining
Congregational preaching ; and they cannot be diverted to
any other use. The avails of this fund, though apparently
small, are large enough doubtless for the r eal good of the
Society ; for people will not be apt to appreciat e the Gospel
very highly, unless it costs them something.
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But posterity may wish to know how this fund was obtained. .A year or two before I came to this place, the fathers of
this Society beg·an to think they had been long enough with•
out the regular ministration of the Gospel. But the question
with them was, how can a minister be sustaiirnd ? They
thought themselves too poor to bear the burden at their own
expense. The idea of obtaining a fund by means of a lottery,
(an idea, which would not now accord with the moral sense
of the community,) was conceived and carried into effect.
.A_grant for the purpose was obtained from the legislature ;
and about $2000 were raised in this way. In addition to this,
William Woodbridge, Esq., of Stonington, in his will,gave
$500 to the Society, on condition that they would raise an additional $500. They did so and the legacy was secured. Another addition of smaller amount was received,in consequence
of the receipt of a sum from the United States, due to the
State of Connecticut, and distributed by legislative action,
among the different denominations of Christians, and to Yale
College. Such ar<:lthe means by which the fund was obtained. By a proper use of the avails of it, and by what the
people themselves are able to pay, they will not content themselves to live without the stated ministrations of the Gospel,
unless they become morally degraded, and lost to a sense of
their high privileges. It is the ardent desire of their present
pastor, that they may be spiritually prospered in generations
and ages yet to come, that they may never be long without a
faithful shepherd, who shall love the flock,' and feed them
with knowledge and understanding, and lead them in the way
of holiness, and to Heaven at last.
Thus I have endeavored to bring the history of Congregationalism in this place, from the beginning, onward to this
time. Many more particulars doubtless might have been inserted ; but perhaps the insertion of them would not be '\>f
any essential benefit.
�Address
to the Congregation.
This day, my brethren and friends , is the 48th anniversary
of my ordination and settlement in this place. But very few
of you now present were witnesses of that transaction.
The
young, now entei·ing upon the stage of life, can never realize
what was the state of things, when I first came to this place.
But the first impression remains vividly in my own mind, and
I trust it ever will. I often think of the particular providence
which led me here. I had never been in any part of this
County but once be'fore, and never before in Groton. I came
to you an entire stranger. But there was something in the
manners of the people, especially in their kind treatment,
which interested me much. There were old men here, ( an
unusual number, I thought, for such a place,) who manifest~d
much interest in the welfare of the Society. But they soon
passed off the stage ; and if I had not been settled at the time
, I was: if the Society had waited three or four years longer
without a minister, untoward circumstances, it has seemed to
me, would have prevented the settlement of any one. It often
appeared to me, in times of trial, that I should be compelled
to leave the place. But God in his providence, ·has kept me
here ; and I hope it has not been altogether in vain. You are
now in a better state than the Society was in when I came.
There has been an advancement in common education, in
temperance, in moral principle generally, in your temporal
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interest, and, I hope in religion.
You are now far better
able to sustain the ministrations of the Gospel, than the people
were then. You have this house of worship; and you have
only to take car~ of it, and it will answer every needful purpose
for ·generations to come. But I take not merit to myself. Your
religious prosperity is all of God; and it becomes us to give
him all the praise. I may say, in the language of the apostle,
"I was with you in weaknes s, and in fear, and in much trembling."
Now, what remains in the future, God only knows. My wish
is, to retain the pastoral office so long as I live ; but ·to be relieved, at the proper time, from the performance of the active
duties of the pastorate.
I would not continue the .performance
of those duties, any longer than I can be useful ; nor any longer than my labors are acceptable to you. But that is a concern,
which I; at present, submit to your choice. In regard to a
successor in the ministry, consult your own interest, whenever
such a thing shall be necessary. But do not content yourselves
with employing a temporary supply; but have a pastor; and
choose one, if you can, who will be likely to stay with you, who
will feel an interest in your welfare. By often shifting and
trying many, you will be liable to become divided among yourselves. "Endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond
of peace ; " and may the peace of God be with you, and reign
in your hearts evermore.
�DOINGS OF THE COUNCIL
A T
THE
O RD I N A T I _O N
OF
l'li R •
T U T TL E.
At an Ecclesiastical Council conveiied by letters missive at
the house of Ca'pt. Elijah Bailey, in Groton, on the 18th day of
August, A. D. 1811, for the purpose of sett ing apart Mr.
Timothy Tuttle to the work of the ministry of the Gospel, over
the Congregational Churches and Societies in said town.
Present:
The Rev. Messrs. Jonathan Murdock," Bozrah; Jose ph
Strong, D. D.,* Norwich; Joseph Vail,* Hadlyme; Samuel
Nott, Franklin;
Walter King,* Norwich; Abisha Alden,*
Montvill e; David Smith, Durham; Ira Hart,* Stonington ;
Abel McEwen, New London; Horatio Waldo," Griswold.
IJelegates"-M essrs. Asa Woodworth,* from the church of
Christ in Bozrah; Mundator . Tracy," ls t church of christ in
Norwich; Ithamar Harvey," Hadlyme; Azariah Huntington,"
Franklin;
Nathaniel Otis," Montville; Dan Parmelee," Durham; Thomas Miner," Stonington; Jedediah Huntington,"
New London; 'Andrew Huntington,* 2d church of Christ in
Preston.
Dr. Strong was chosen Moderator, and Mr. McEwen, Scribe.
The Council was opened by prayer, by the Moderator.
Adjourned till 2 o'clock, P. M.
Met according to adjournment.
* Dead . All the Delegates are believed to
3
be dead .
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The Council requested and received from Mr. Tnttle, and
from the Committees of the 1st and 2d churches in Groton,
their call to him, to settle with them in the work of the ministry
0f the Gospel, and his answer; also the votes of the two socie'
ties,relative
to their mutual ag'reemcnt concerning his support,
and the division of his labors etween them.
·whereas, This Council having received information that the
church in the 2d society in Groton contai ns bqt one male member and six females ; and the question, whether this be a regu•
lar church, prepared to enter into a pastoral relation with a
minister of the Gospel having been referred to this Council:
Voted, as the opinion of this Council, that a Church of Christ
actually exists in the 2d society in Groton, and is hereby re·cognized as such.
Having examined the standing of Mr-.Tuttl e in the christian
church, his license to preach the Gospel, and his attainments in
_the knowledge of natural theology and of revealed religion,
' both doctrinal and experimental', the Council voted their unanimous approbation of his qualifications for the ministry of the ·
Gospel.
Voted, That the Council proceed to ordain Mr. Tuttle tomorrow, at half an hour past 10 o'clock, A. M.
The several parts of the service in the solemn ties of the ordination, were assigned in the following manner:
The Introductory Prayer to Rev. Mr King .
The Sermon to Rev. Mr. Smith.
Th e Consecrating Prayer to the Rev . Mr. )fordo ck, who, together with the Moderator and Messrs . Vail and Smith were to
Impose Hands ,
'I'he Charge to the Pastor, -to the Moderator.
The Charge to the People, to the Rev. Mr. Vail.
The presentation of the Right Hand of Fellowship to the
Rev. Mr. Hart, and
The Concluding Prayer to the R ev. Mr. Nott.
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Adjourned until half an hour past 8 o'clock, to-morrow
morning.
Met according to adjournment.
Adjourned until aft er the public solemnities of ordination.
Met according to adjournm ent aft er the public solemnities of
ordination, which were perform ed according to appointment .
Voted, That th e above minut es ar e a correct account of the
proceedings of this Council.
Test-JO SEPH STRONG, Moderator.
ABEL
McEWEN,Scribe.
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PREAMBLE
ANDPROFESSION
OF FAITH.
The following Preamble ·an d Profes sion of Faith and Covenant were adopted at the organization of the Church in Ledyard, Dec. 12,'1810.
We, th e undersigned, viewing it our duty, and called of
God, to make profession of our faith before the world, and to
enter into visible Church state, do accordingly assume the title
of the 2d Congregational Church in Groton,* and desire to be
in union and fellowship with all the regular Churches of
Christ throughout this State, taking the word of God for our
guide. We do jointly and severally manifest our belief in the
following words :
PROFESSION
OF FAITH.
In the presence of .A.lmig
-hty God, the searcher of hearts,
and before the present witnesses, we profess our unfeigned
belief of the holy scriptures, as given by divine inspiration,
our acceptance of all the doctrines contained in them, and our
submission to the whole will of God revealed in his word.
Particul arly, we profess to believe, that the Lord Jehovah,
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost is the one living and
true God ; that the Lord J esns Christ is the Son of God, equal
to the Father, and the only Saviour of men; that the Holy
Ghost is also God, and that he is the only sanct ifier of those
who believe in Christ to the salvation of their souls.
*This was before Ledyard
was iucorporated as a town .
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We also profess to believe, that, in consequence of the fall
of man from his primitive state of innocence, all the human
race, while in a state of nature, are destitute of holiness, and
that a renovation of heart, during the present life, through
sanctification of the spirit ,of ·God, is necessary to fit mankind
for union and communion :with th e visible Church of Christ
on earth, and for an entrance into the kingdom of heaven.
We furthermore profess to believe, that all, who are the subjects of the renewing and sanctifying influences of the Divine
Spirit, exercise supreme love to God, benevolence towards
me11.,repentance of sin, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ,
whose righteousness forms the only ground of ju:,tification
before God, and that the law of God still remains their
rule of conduct.
Thus we profess to believe.
COVENANT.
We do likewise mutually enter into covenant, giving ourselves to God and one another :-Humbly hoping that we are
the subjects of the new birth, of that faith in Chrst, which
works by love and purifies the heart, and of that repentance
which is unto life, we avouch the Lord Jehovah to be our God,
Jesus Christ the Son of God to be our Saviour, and the Holy
Spirit to be our Sanctifier.
Depending on divine grace for sanctification, consolation,
and spiritual strength, and receiving the word of God, as the
only rule of our faith and practice, we submit to the brotherly watch and discipline of this Church of Christ, and engage
, on our parts, to comfort, assist, warn, and reprove its mem.bers, as becometh the faithful followers of Jesus.
We do now solemnly give up ourselves, and all that -tve
have, unto God, promising that we will endeavor to walk as
becometh the Gospel of Christ, that we may give no cause for
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others to speak evil of it on our account, but that the name
of God may be glorified in us.
Thus we engage.
Done at the North Society in Groton, in presence of Walter
King, pastor of the 2d Congregational Church in Norwich,
and Timothy Tuttle, candidate for the Gospel ministry.
A LIST
OF THE J)1ENIBERS
OF THE
CHURCH IN LEDY ARD,
INCL UDING
ALL . THAT
HAVE
BELOKGED
ORGANIZATION,
TO THE
CHURCH
SINCE
ITS
REFERENCES.-"Dead. t Regularly dismissed. IIAbsent
without dismission. 1 R eceived by letter. ex Excommunicated. 9Watch withdrawn in consequence of joining elsewhere with a dismission.
Names .
*Robert Allyn,
*Prudence :Morgan,
*Priscilla 1.ee,
*Fre elove 1\forgan,
~r,
1~!0.
Tim e of uniting.
D1~C-
*Anna Gallup.
The above named persons constituted
the Church at tbe time it was organized.
*Hannah Allyn, I ,
Oct. 1811.
*::\Ia.rtbaGallup, I,
"
"
*Hannah Chapman, 1,
,Jan. 12, 1812
*Agrippa Newton,
*.Margaret .Morgan, 1,
March 22 1 ''
tJohu Smith. I,
l\lay, "
Sally Smith, ·1,·
Aug. I , "
*Elizabeth Wood,
Auf
*Rebecca Allyn,
*Lydia Bellows,
*Lydia VVilliams,
S~pt•~?,·'
tllfary Geer ,
*Parthenia :l\forgan,
Feb. 14, ''
tBetsey Gallup,
June 13, "
*Joseph Lee,
Ju~~e~7, "
tAbby Williams, (Avery,)
tEliza Williams, (Hewitt,)
May 29, 1814.
tGrace Heath,
*Nancy Havens~
July 3, "
*Abigail \Yilliam s,
July 31, "
., "
*11ary Gallup,
:I ::
*Wa rr en Williams,
July 31, 1814
t Bela :Morgan.
tClrnrlotte
tPrudence
..
"
"
Stoddard. (Morgan)•·
"
illo r gan, (Lord,) Sept . 11, "
*Olive l\Iorgan.(Gallup,)
*P ri scilla Ave r y, (Lamb,)
*Jerusha Thomas, (Rose.)
*Eunice A11yn,
·
,;
•
Sept. 23, "
Oct 5,
"
Oct. 23. "'
,jj:Thomas.BellO'ws,
tElizabet h (.;allup.(Williams)Dec.
18: "
"tlannah Williams,
Jan. 16, 1815.
Jan 29, «
Sarah Stoddard , 2d,
tJerusha Button, (Hathawav,) May 3,
*Sally Bel1ows,
· July 2, "
l1Ma1y Ga rdner , (Gray,)
" ..
Mary Hakes, (Allyn,)
t Margaret Short, (Spice.r,)
*llashania Allyn,
Aug 2 "
*Sylv ia Newton,
*Robert VVilliams,
Aug.
22;"
Dec. 17, "
*Asa Bel lo ws,
J\Ia1ch 21, 1816.
*Susan Stark,
April 20, 1817.
*Prudence Chapman,(Eddy,)June29,
"
*Margaret Gallup,
June 25, 1820.
*1-hnnah Punderson,
June 10, 1821.
*L ucinda Hewitt ,
Sept. 15, 1822.
Russell Gallup,
July 6 1323.
Hannah Gallup,
Era stus Gal1up,
•~Iary Spicer, I.
Mary Spicer, 2d, I,
"
"
N ~v.
' 1 ••
" ''
V!,1~~4.
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Nov. 21, 1824 IJSarah Ann Smith, (Residence
unknown,
Jan. 1, 1843
"
·'
"
'· " ''
1~¥6· Eliza ,:v.Geer,
Frauces A. Gee r,
"
Eunice 8. " ' 1l1iams, (Avery,)
· '' " "
Oct. 21, 1827. 8arah E. N 01 man,
•.\Iary E. Allyn, (Williams,)
" "
"'
E sther Ga llup,
" ''
*Su8a n Gallup,
" "
May 4, 1828. Bet se y ballup,
Haniet E. Gall up ,
Sept . 26, "
Henrietta Billings, (Avery,}
IINancy \V illi ams,
Nov . 16, "
*Ilfary Ann O'Brien , (Allyn,)
l saac Gallup ,
llf,ay
l~f0
Prudence Gallup ,
Mary Well s, I, (Gallup,)
Denison B. ,villiam s,
Luc y Ji.. Gallup ,
]farch 5, "
" ,; "
tNathau P. Avery ,
James Ho!ie,
tJ-larlan Hyde,
William M. Gray,
1
As:i L. Gallup,
*1\1ary Ann GaUup, (Avery,)
'
*Abigail Bail ey,
Jul y 10, 1831. Edmund Spice r,
tMoses E. £\orman, ·
*Nancy Baile y~
"
"
"
tJames H. A,,ery,
*Seth \.YUIiams, Jr.,
Lucy .Aun \Yilh ams,
*F ree lov e Allyn,
Ab igai l :Morgan,
tWm. P. Hani s,
ex. H.obert.P. Ave ry,
l\farqaret Urn:e,
§Henry Franci s Brown,
Sa ran G1ay , 3d ,
t \Villiam 1'. Adams,
Sara h E. Brewster ,
'' " ''
Cynthia Billin~ s, (i\forgan,)
"
Eliza Gallup
" " "
tAuna Maria 'J uttle, (Cook,)
" '' "
*J ulia Ann W ood , 2d,
Harri et Newel l Tuttle,(Smith ,)"
tMa r y P. Williams , I,
March 19·, "
tFann _y AI. Gallup , (Williams)"
tAmos llf. Allyn,
May 7, "
*:Seth \\ ?illiams,
Aug. 2,1
,, "
t A sa Perkin s.
" " ''
'l'hau kful GeeT,
"
*Ha nnah VVil!iams,
" " "
Emily N. Avery,
tJ enette Perkins,
H
"
'~
tC ha l'iotte S. Cra nd a ll .
8arah Ann Bailey,
H
"
q
t France s E.Hewitt ,( l:lrowning)"
*C harlott e Champlin ,
July 2 "
tAbby L. Hewitt , (Coats,)
a
l!Ceceli:i Williams,(.Browning)
" ,!
tSybil Morgan, (timith,)
Oct. 2 "
tHenry Bil l,
Sept. 3, ·'
:Mary :Morga11,
" d
tJob n W. Miner,
l<eb. 18, 1844.
tEmi lia A lV
lin er,
" t,
,t
*~arah liray,
Nov. 13, "
*_l\Iargery Avery ,
Dec. 25, "
Fra nklin B rewster,
July 7, "
l\Iay 3, 1846.
*Robe rt Stoddard,
J~) Y l~f2, I srael Allyn,
*S11rah t:,toddard ,
tJoh u Myres, Jr., J,
l<eb. 6, 1848.
*Nathan Avery,
Frances E . Ga llup , I,
Nov. 19, ''
*~fargaret, Gall up , 2d,
tJar ed W. Sm ith ,
Nov. 17, "
H en rietta Allyn , (Stodda r d ,)
" " "
*Gidd in gs.llaynard,
Jul y 22, 1849.
tSamuel A Newton~
Oct. 14, "
tHarrietN . William s,(G-rant ,) Nov.4 , ''
William Smith,
l\larch 10, 1850.
t.Mary Newton,
" "
Jan. 5, 1851
tOw en M Av ery,
March 17, 1833. tNe lson Gall u p,
Belhiah IV. Ave ry, .(Spicer ,) "
"
"
*Erast us Gallup, 2d,
" " '1
t H enry Prentice ,
Jul y 21, "
Cha rles nr.Gall up ,
u
"
"
*Orlando Smith,
"
"
"
John S. Gray ,
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Rare Books
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Sketches of history of the Congregational Church and Society in Ledyard : delivered Aug. 14th, 1859, being the 48th anniversary of the present pastorate / by Thimothy [sic] Tuttle
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b30937346
F104.L42 Txx 1859
Description
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23 p. 23 cm
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Congregational Church and Society (Ledyard, Conn.)
Ledyard (Conn.) -- Church history
Abstract
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The Congregational Church in Ledyard, Connecticut predates the incorporation of the town as separate from Groton by over a century. Colonial Connecticut did not separate church and state, and so the perimeters of the Ecclesiastical Societies of the Congregational Church, the established religion, also served as municipal boundaries. In 1725, the North Parish was set off from Groton, because the inhabitants wished to worship closer to home.<br /><a title="http://www.town.ledyard.ct.us/index.aspx?NID=279" href="http://www.town.ledyard.ct.us/index.aspx?NID=279">http://www.town.ledyard.ct.us/index.aspx?NID=279</a>
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Norwich : Manning, Perry & Co., 1859
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Tuttle, Timothy, 1781-1864
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Connecticut Churches
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Rare Books
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37d53c9c-6c64-467a-a7d9-7d413a8d8208
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Les derniers Cesars de Byzance
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DF631 .T6 1857
DF631 .T6 1857
Description
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236 p. pl
Subject
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Byzantine Empire
French language
Abstract
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New ed
In <em>The Last Caesars of Byzantium</em>, French historian Louis Todiere details the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire. Outlining the progress of the Turks, decline of the Greeks, and fall of Constantinople, Todiere collaborated with several noted historians of the day, including John Cantacuzenus and Michael Ducas. Relevant to the Russian-Turkish war raging at the time, The Last Caesars of Byzantium in its original French attracted world-wide attention and was significant in the understanding of the time’s global conflict.
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Tours, Mame, 1866
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Todière, Louis Phocion, 1804-
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UUID
07e0c5b3-fef5-4f87-adbb-e51bc208a73d
Rare books
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Rare Books
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37d53c9c-6c64-467a-a7d9-7d413a8d8208
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Travels in Arabia, compiled and arranged by Bayard Taylor
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b14279332
DS207.T24 1881
Description
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iv, 325 p. illus. 19 cm
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Arabian Peninsula -- Description and travel
Abstract
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<a title="A volume in the Illustrated L ibrary of Travel series published by Scribners beginning in 1871, compiled and arranged by Bayard Taylor (1825 – 1878) an American poet, literary critic, translator, and travel author. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Taylor"> </a>
<p>A volume in the Illustrated Library of Travel series published by Scribners beginning in 1871, compiled and arranged by Bayard Taylor (1825 – 1878) an American poet, literary critic, translator, and travel author. <br /><a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Taylor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Taylor">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Taylor</a></p>
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New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1889, c1881
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Taylor, Bayard, 1825-1878
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UUID
f1bc7809-79bd-44e2-9d6e-209f91fe0947
Rare books
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Rare Books
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37d53c9c-6c64-467a-a7d9-7d413a8d8208
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Connecticut ideals : a brief statement of the government of Connecticut and the contributions of the state to the United States Constitution delivered before a meeting held in commemoration of the Tercentenary of Connecticut in the Child Memorial Hall in Fairfield thirteenth June, 1935
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9 p. 24 cm
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United States. Constitution
Connecticut -- Centennial celebrations, etc
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[New Haven : Yale University Press, 1935?]
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Swayne, Noah Haynes, 1804-1884
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F94.5 .S9 1935
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Rare Books
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37d53c9c-6c64-467a-a7d9-7d413a8d8208
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From "Poilu" to "Yank," by William Yorke Stevenson, Section no. 1, American Ambulance, 1917
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xxvi, 209, [1] p. front., plates, ports., double facsim. 20 cm
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
American Field Service
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Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918
Creator
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Stevenson, William Yorke, 1878-
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D570.9 .S76 1918
Abstract
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Chronicles the author's experiences as a member and later commandant of, the American Ambulance Service in WWI. This book is a sequel to "At the Front In A Flivver", a memoir of the author's experiences as a volunteer ambulance driver earlier in the war.
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Rare books
World War I