A New Year's sermon : delivered at Chaplin, Conn., Saturday, January 3rd, 1864 / by Francis Williams (Still Image)
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In the late 1700s, residents of what is now Chaplin had no town of their own. Their lands were divided among Mansfield, Hampton and Windham. To attend church, they had to travel a considerable distance over bad roads, often in inclement weather. Benjamin Chaplin, a wealthy deacon of the Mansfield church, who built his home on the Natchaug River, was among those who regularly made this long and uncomfortable trip to attend his duties. Before Chaplin died in 1795, he bequeathed three hundred pounds ($1,500) to form an ecclesiastical society charged with building a new meeting house on the condition that this church be built within a mile and a quarter of his homestead.
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The Congregational church was organized by an ecclesiastical council, May 31st, 1810, consisting of fifteen members. Present on the council: Reverend Nathan Williams, D. D., of Tolland, moderator; Reverend Moses C_ Welch, of North Mansfield, scribe; and Reverend Hollis Sampson, of Eastford, with their delegates. The creed and covenant adopted by the church were
approved by the council.
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REVEREND FRANCIS WILLIAMS was the sixth pastor of the church. He entered Williams College in 1834 and graduated in the class of 1838, speaking an oration at commencement. He was one of the prize speakers in his junior year, and had also a junior oration. Immediately after graduation he entered the Theological Seminary at East Windsor Hill, Conn., where he graduated in August, 1841. During his educational course, he taught in Coxsackie, N.Y., two terms in Hawley, Mass., and during the winter of his senior year he was principal of the Sanderson Academy in his native town, and one winter during his seminary course he was principal of the academy in Windsor, Conn. He was licensed to preach at the close of the middle year in the seminary, by the Franklin County Association at Coleraine, Mass. Nearly six months before he closed his seminary course, he received a call to settle in Eastford, Conn., and accepted it, on condition that he should complete his course at the seminary, supply the pulpit by exchanges, or by sending some of his classmates, whenever he, wished; his salary then commenced, and he has been under a regular salary continuously from that day to the present. Reverend Doctor Tyler, of East Windsor Hill, preached his ordination sermon. General Nathaniel Lyon, of Eastford, graduated at West Point and came to his home at about the same time, and henceforth until Lyon's death, they became personal friends; Mr. Williams offering the prayer at his funeral. After a little more than ten years, Mr_ Williams accepted a call to settle in Bloomfield, Conn. Reverend Doctor Milton Badger, of New York, preached the sermon of installation. In 1858, Mr. Williams accepted a call to settle in Chaplin, where he has remained for about thirty-two years. Professor Edward A. Lawrence, D. D., of East Windsor Hill, preached the installation sermon. His health has been good almost during his entire ministry. Since his graduation at the Theological seminary, in 1841, he has been but twice absent from the annual anniversary of the seminary, and then he was detained to attend funerals. For more than thirty years he has been a trustee in the Hartford Theological Seminary, only the Hon. Newton Case, of Hartford, being his senior in office. On several occasions he has been a member of the examining committee in that institution. For several years he has been a director of the Connecticut Home Missionary Society and a trustee of the Ministers' Fund, and has never been absent from one of the-meetings. For more than forty years he has been acting school visitor in the different towns where he has resided. In 1876 he was elected as a member of the legislature and was a member of the committee on temperance.
On the 22d of October, 1841, he married Miss Mahala R. Badger, daughter of Enoch Badger, of Springfield, Mass. She was sister of Reverend Norman Badger, a classmate of Stanton, the great war secretary, a professor at Gambia College, O., president of Shelby College, Ky., and died while chaplain in the army. She was also a niece of Doctor Milton Badger, long a distinguished secretary of the Home Missionary Society. They have had five children, four sons and one daughter. Two sons died in infancy. Edward F. graduated at Williams College in the class of 1868, taught for a short time, when failing health compelled him to return to his home in Chaplin, where he died October 6th, 1869, aged 24. Charles H_ graduated at Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., became a member of Haight's Engineer Corps, took a severe cold while at Rondout, N. Y., surveying the Hudson River railroad, had severe hemorrhage of the throat, and died in Chaplin, December 19th, 1874, at the age of 26. Mary Elizabeth, their only daughter, graduated at Mt. Holyoke Seminary in the class of 1871, taught select school after graduation, married Reverend William H. Phipps, October 10th, 1872. He has been pastor in East Woodstock, Poquonock, and Prospect, Conn., where he has been pastor for about eleven years, and where he still continues his labors.
several sermons preached by Mr. Williams in addition to this one have been printed in pamphlet form, and several in part or in full in newspapers.
1. Temperance Funeral Sermon of Francis Squires. At his own request preached, Text 2d Kings, 10. 9: " Responsible Agents of Intemperance." In American Temperance Preacher No. 4.
2. Funeral of Benjamin Bosworth, Esq., of Eastford.
3. Funeral of Reverend Asa King, pastor in Westminster, Conn.
4. Funeral of Mrs. Asa King, preached in Westminster.
5. Funeral of two soldiers from Chaplin, killed in the battle of Winchester, Earl Ashley and Anson A. Fenton, preached in Chaplin. Text, John 18, 36.
6. New Year's Sermon, January 5th, 1863, in Chaplin.
7. New Year's Sermon, January 3d, 1874, in Chaplin.
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