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 Historical sketch of the 
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HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 OF 
 
 THE MASSACHUSETTS BAPTIST 
 MISSIONARY SOCIETY 
 
Rev. W. H. Eaton, 
 Secretary, 1888 — 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH of the 
 MASSACHUSETTS BAPTIST 
 MISSIONARY SOCIETY AND 
 CONVENTION ^ 1802-1902 
 
 With an Appendix and Other 
 Related Matters 
 
 BY 
 
 REV. W. H. EATON 
 
 Secretary, 1888- 
 
 Published by 
 
 Massachusetts Baptist Convention 
 
 Boston 
 
Copyright, igoj 
 By Rev. W. H. Eaton 
 
 Colonial iSrrsa 
 
 Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. 
 
 Boston, Mass., U. S. A, 
 
Foreword 
 
 At the annual meeting of the Massachusetts 
 Baptist Convention — originally known as the Mas- 
 sachusetts Baptist Missionary Society — held in Oc- 
 tober, 1 90 1, the President, Rev. E. P. Farnham, 
 suggested the propriety of commemorating, by 
 special memorial services, the one hundredth an- 
 niversary, and that some person be appointed to 
 deliver a historical address. This suggestion was 
 adopted, and the Rev. W. H. Eaton, the Secretary, 
 was subsequently appointed by the Executive Com- 
 mittee to be the historian for the occasion. It was 
 deemed best to hold the memorial service in connec- 
 tion with the annual meeting rather than on the 
 precise date of the anniversary, which would have 
 been May 26, 1902. The service was accordingly 
 held on the morning of October 29th, with the First 
 Baptist Church, in Boston, in whose meeting-house 
 the first meeting was held. The attendance was 
 large, and the impressive exercises were given addi- 
 tional interest by the presence of six ministers who 
 were in attendance upon the semi-centennial at Era- 
 
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 mingham, fifty years before. After listening to such 
 a portion of the historical address as the limits of time 
 permitted, a vote was passed that the same be pub- 
 lished in full. In accordance with such instructions, 
 the undersigned committee, specially appointed for 
 the purpose, submit in the following pages the his- 
 tory prepared, accompanied by quite a large number 
 of illustrations which they anticipate will give added 
 interest to the reader, and a list of Massachusetts 
 Baptist pastors for a century. No attempt has been 
 made to broaden the scope of the work as originally 
 designed, and persons, places, and contemporary 
 events have only been given such notice as the 
 presentation of facts concerning the origin and 
 progress of the Society has made necessary. 
 
 There have been inserted in the appendix copies 
 of several historical papers, the signatures in fac- 
 simile of the Baptist ministers in Massachusetts to 
 a notable document issued in 1847, and other related 
 matter. 
 
 The index, it is hoped, will be found valuable by 
 those who wish to refer to dates, to important events, 
 and to the connection of individuals with the work of 
 the Society. 
 
 Special acknowledgment is made of the valuable 
 assistance in the furnishing of statistical data afforded 
 by Mr. Francis E. Blake and Rev. N. R. Everts. 
 Credit should also be given to the histories published 
 
FOREWORD VU 
 
 by Isaac Backus, David Benedict, H. S. Burrage, and 
 A. H. Newman, and to the " New York Century 
 of Missions ; " also to the " History of the First 
 Baptist Church, Boston," by Nathan E. Wood, 
 D. D. ; to the Backus Society for the loan of original 
 documents, and to numerous other individuals who 
 through correspondence and suggestion have aided 
 in furnishing facts of value. 
 
 The Committee submit the results of their labors, 
 with the hope that they may prove stimulating to 
 future noble endeavor, and serve to perpetuate the 
 memory of an important period in our denominational 
 growth, and especially the development along lines of 
 missionary activity. 
 
 (Signed) 
 William H. Eaton, \ 
 Franklin Hutchinson, V Committee. 
 Joseph S. Swaim, J 
 
List of Illustrations 
 
 Rev. W. H. Eaton 
 
 Samuel Stillman, D. D 
 
 Thomas Baldwin, D. D 
 
 Meeting- House, WHERE the Massachusetts Bap- 
 tist Missionary Society (Convention) Was 
 Organized 
 
 Rev. Isaac Backus, A. M 
 
 Rev. Joseph Grafton 
 
 Lucius Bolles, D. D. . 
 
 Rev. John M. Peck . 
 
 Francis Wayland, D. D., LL. D 
 
 Rev. James M. Winchell 
 
 Daniel Sharp, D. D. . 
 
 Rev. Bela Jacobs 
 
 Rev. Charles Train . 
 
 Deacon Asa Wilbur . 
 
 Deacon Levi Farwell 
 
 Howard Malcolm, D. D., LL. D 
 
 Baron Stow, D. D. 
 
 William D. Ticknor . 
 
 William Lamson, D. D. 
 
 Samuel B. Swaim, D. D. 
 
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Hon. Isaac Davis 
 Hon. George N. Briggs . 
 Robert Mills, D.D. . 
 Hon. J. M. S. Williams . 
 George Barton Ide, D. D. 
 William H. Shailer, D.D. 
 Daniel C. Eddy, D. D. 
 Joseph C. Foster, D. D. 
 George W. Bosworth, D. D. 
 Joseph Ricker, D. D. . 
 Deacon George W. Chipman 
 C. M. Bowers, D. D. . 
 Hon. Chester W. Kingsley 
 William A. Munroe, Esq. 
 Hon. Joseph H. Walker . 
 Robert G. Seymour, D. D. 
 Hon. E. S. Wilkinson 
 William H. Breed 
 Hon. E. Nelson Blake 
 Stephen Moore . 
 William W. Main 
 Dwight Chester 
 Dudley P. Bailey, Esq. . 
 J. P. Abbott, D. D. . 
 Rev. Edwin P. Farnham . 
 George C. Whitney . 
 
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Massachusetts Baptist 
 Missionary Society 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 This book is designed to record the history of the 
 Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society. The 
 preparations of Providence, the existing conditions, 
 — material, social, political, — the personnel of the 
 founders and of the early missionaries, can receive 
 but little attention. A few backward glancings 
 must suffice. Time would fail to tell of Roger 
 Williams, Henry Dunster, Obadiah Holmes ; of 
 persecutions so severe and long continued that in 
 1774 the Philadelphia Association recommended the 
 churches to contribute a fund for brethren under 
 ecclesiastical oppression in New England ; of men in 
 labors abundant, like Shubael Stearns of Boston, and 
 Daniel Marshall of Connecticut, who gave up homes 
 and property to go forth into North Carolina and 
 Virginia, and so preach that in seventeen years a 
 
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 church, organized with sixteen members, had in- 
 creased to 142 churches, one of them — the church 
 at Sandy Creek — numbering above six hundred 
 members ; while from the membership of these 
 churches 125 rninisters had been ordained. Such 
 were the ancestors of the men who organized this 
 Missionary Society. 
 
 The changes wrought by a century make it well- 
 nigh impossible to fully appreciate the conditions 
 under which this Society was formed. Thomas 
 Jefferson had recently become President, and the 
 seat of government removed to Washington, Ad- 
 justment to the existing conditions under the new 
 form of government was as yet incomplete. Politi- 
 cally, strife between Federalists and Republicans was 
 very acrimonious. John Adams, a Massachusetts 
 man, the immediate predecessor of Jefferson, had 
 failed of reelection, and in this Commonwealth — 
 where the people have always been outspoken in the 
 expression of their convictions — there was much 
 dissatisfaction and unrest. 
 
 Where so dense a population is now found, there 
 were at the beginning of the century no cities, and 
 but few towns with a population above one thousand. 
 Boston, the largest town in the State, had in 1800 
 only 24,655 inhabitants. In the State, as a whole, 
 there was, as shown by the same census, a population 
 of 423,845, with, in round numbers, one hundred 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 3 
 
 Baptist churches, and six thousand members. Of 
 these churches there were twelve numbering upwards 
 of 150 members. The largest, having 347 members, 
 was located in Dartmouth. But three of the twelve 
 churches are as large now as they were at that time, 
 and five of the remainder have become extinct. 
 
 A considerable community of Baptists resided 
 south of Boston, in the vicinity of Middleboro, 
 reaching across to Swansea — in which town the 
 first Baptist church in the State was planted in 1663. 
 The estabhshment of this church was not so much an 
 organization or reorganization, as a relocation. It was 
 originally organized April i, 1649, as the First Baptist 
 Church of Illston, Glamorganshire, Wales, by Rev. 
 John Myles, a man of conspicuous ability, educated 
 at Oxford University, who had held a high ecclesias- 
 tical position under Cromwell. Persecuted under 
 Charles II., members of this church with their pas- 
 tor left their native land in 1662, soon after the 
 passage by Parliament of what was known as 
 the " Act of Uniformity," the effect of which was 
 to drive Myles and two thousand other ministers from 
 the pastorate, or into exile. He and his flock sought 
 an asylum in the New World. Coming to what was 
 then known as Rehoboth, they at once instituted 
 Baptist worship and renewed their covenant ; but 
 they were not to be exempt from persecution on 
 this side of the Atlantic, for in 1667, Pastor Myles 
 
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 and one of his brethren were arraigned for a breach 
 of order in setting up a pubUc meeting " without the 
 knowledge and approbation of the court, to the dis- 
 turbance of the peace of the place," and fined five 
 pounds. However, they were not driven from the 
 colony by the Pilgrim government, but given a loca- 
 tion by themselves with a generous allotment of land. 
 Being allowed to choose a name, they called the place 
 Swansea, after a town in Wales. 
 
 A colony from this church removed to Western 
 Massachusetts about 1750, and located in Cheshire 
 and Adams, and in that section of the State, on 
 either side of the spur of the Green Mountain Range, 
 known as the Berkshire Hills, about midway between 
 the Connecticut River and the New York line, they 
 became quite numerous. The churches in Chester- 
 field, Sandisfield, and Cheshire were for a time the 
 largest in the State. 
 
 When one thinks of the sparse population, the 
 streams in general without bridges except such as 
 were made by the ice of winter, of the primitive 
 methods of conveyance, of blazed trees and bridle 
 paths, of the meeting-houses unheated in winter, the 
 tallow candle with its dim light, the open fireplace, 
 of the distaff and the loom, and the homespun cloth- 
 ing, he seems to be going back into the twilight of 
 distant centuries. 
 
 The people, impoverished by the long severe strain 
 
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 of the war through which their independence had 
 been achieved, were also suffering the ills of a depre- 
 ciated currency, with the public credit much impaired. 
 To such a people, inured to hardship, in the clos- 
 ing years of the eighteenth century had come a 
 revival of religion with its mighty uplift of spiritual 
 power, bringing into the churches so large a number 
 destined to become devoted servants of Christ, that 
 some have accounted it the richest harvest of souls 
 ever gathered on this continent. Under the impulse 
 of this quickening, when kinsfolk and acquaintance 
 had been won, a yearning was felt for the perishing 
 in regions remote. At Associations, in their annual 
 convocations, the pastors and representatives of the 
 churches discussed the question of how this spirit of 
 service, and the power of individual effort, could be 
 so conserved as to realize the force of cooperation 
 in promoting the extension of the empire of truth. 
 At the first, individuals — largely pastors obtaining 
 leave of absence from their churches — had gone 
 forth a few weeks to the frontier and into the wilder- 
 ness, preaching where people could be gathered, but 
 the capacity for such service was limited, and it was so 
 manifestly inadequate as to almost compel the in- 
 quiry, " How can the need be more adequately 
 met.^" When the relations of Baptists and Congre- 
 gationalists as they then existed are taken into ac- 
 count, it seems a wonder that local unions were 
 
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 effected among them to send into destitute com- 
 munities a Baptist minister, or a Congregationalist, 
 as the case might be, usually one from their own 
 number, to labor for a few weeks or months. So far 
 as known, Boston furnished the first instance of this 
 kind of effort. Rev. David Irish being sent by a 
 union Society to the frontier settlements in New 
 York in 1794. 
 
 Another manifestation of the missionary spirit, 
 feeling its way after more effective methods, was 
 found in the action of the Philadelphia and Warren, 
 and, perhaps most notable of all, of the famous old 
 Shaftesbury Association of Western Massachusetts, 
 Eastern New York, and Vermont, which for at least 
 eight years previous to the organization of the Massa- 
 chusetts Baptist Missionary Society sent forth some 
 of its ministers every year into New York, New 
 Hampshire, Vermont, and Canada ; money for their 
 expenses being secured by a collection taken at the 
 annual meeting. Think for a moment of the serious 
 condition of spiritual destitution when one of the 
 missionaries reported travelling through New York, 
 Vermont, and northward into lower Canada, returning 
 through New Hampshire to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 
 making a preaching tour of six hundred miles without 
 meeting a minister of the gospel ! 
 
Samuel Stillman, D. D. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 The burden of the Great Commission and the con- 
 straining love of Christ seems to have specially moved 
 the hearts of the Reverends Samuel Stillman, Thomas 
 Baldwin, Thomas Waterman, Joseph Grafton, Elisha 
 Williams, Hezekiah Smith, and their compeers. No 
 pen has told what seasons of prayer and consultation 
 were held, but Rev. Thomas Waterman made record 
 of the fact that on the twenty-sixth day of May, 1 802, 
 in the meeting-house of the First Baptist Church in 
 Boston, was held a meeting which marked the en- 
 trance by our denomination in this country upon a 
 missionary career which has doubtless far exceeded 
 the most sanguine anticipations of the originators of 
 the movement. 
 
 The site of the first meeting-house, — where this 
 Society was organized, — at the corner of Salem and 
 Stillman Streets, was originally occupied on the 15th 
 of February, 1679, the location having been chosen 
 so near the water for convenience for baptismal ser- 
 vices. The original house was removed to South 
 Boston in 1771, and was afterwards occupied by the 
 South Baptist Church. 
 
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8 HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 The old first building of this church was the one 
 whose doors were nailed up by authority of the 
 colonial government, and in the strange and rapid 
 mutations of public sentiment, into this same house, 
 in 1 71 8, came Reverends Increase Mather, Cotton 
 Mather, and James Webb, who but a few years before 
 had used their influence to drive the Baptists from 
 the colony, to participate in the ordination services 
 of Rev. Elisha Calendar, as pastor of the church. 
 
 The original missive, under whose call the first 
 meeting was held, reads as follows : 
 
 " To our Christian Brethren united with us in the Faith and 
 Order of the Gospel, we send greeting. 
 
 " Dearly Beloved : — Wishing grace, mercy, and peace 
 to abound through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 " Being deeply impressed with the important obligations we 
 are under, as professing Christians, not only to pray for the 
 prosperity of Zion, but to use our best endeavors to promote, 
 and spread far and wide the knowledge of our divine 
 Immanuel ; and reflecting seriously upon the affecting situa- 
 tion of many of our dear fellow men, who,- from local and 
 other circumstances, are deprived of the means of Christian 
 knowledge and consolation, which we enjoy from a preached 
 gospel, we feel our hearts go out toward them in ardent 
 desires for their salvation. 
 
 " Under such impressions, and dominated by the laudable 
 exertions which many of our Christian friends of different 
 denominations on both sides of the Atlantic are making to 
 extend the empire of truth and promote the salvation of dying 
 men, we propose the forming of a Missionary Society for the 
 purpose hereafter mentioned. And, in order to make our 
 
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 intention more explicit, we submit to your consideration the 
 following." 
 
 The Constitution thus presented for consideration, 
 which was subsequently adopted, reads : 
 
 " Article I. This Society shall be distinguished and known 
 by the name of the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary 
 Society. 
 
 " Article II. This Society shall be composed of such 
 members only as shall subscribe and pay at least one dollar 
 annually to its funds.' 
 
 " Article III. The members, at their first meeting, and at 
 their annual meeting ever after, shall by ballot appoint Twelve 
 Trustees, eight whereof shall be ministers, or professing 
 brethren of the Baptist denomination ; the other four may be 
 chosen from the members at large; who shall conduct the 
 business of the Society in the manner hereafter described. 
 
 " Article IV. The object of this Society shall be to furnish 
 occasional preaching, and to promote the knowledge of evan- 
 gehstic truth in the new settlements within these United 
 States ; or further if circumstances should render it proper. 
 
 '■'■Article V. The Trustees shall have power to apply the 
 funds of the Society, according to their discretion, in all cases 
 in which they shall not be limited by special direction of the 
 Society. 
 
 " Article VI. They shall have power to appoint and dis- 
 miss missionaries, to pay them, and generally to transact all the 
 business necessary for the accomplishment of the important 
 object of the Society. 
 
 ' To Article II. the following foot-note was appended : 
 
 " This small sum, which by this article is made necessary in 
 
 order to become a member, is not designed to restrict such as have 
 
 it in their power to subscribe more liberally." 
 
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 " Article VII. The Trustees shall annually appoint a Sec- 
 retary, who shall keep a correct and fair account of their pro- 
 ceedings, which shall be read to the Society at their next 
 succeeding meeting. They shall also make choice of one of 
 their number to preside, who, with four other Trustees, shall 
 be a quorum to do business ; or, if the stated Chairman shall 
 not be present, any five of the Trustees shall be a quorum. 
 
 " Article VIII. The Chairman shall have power to call 
 a meeting of the Trustees at his discretion ; and it shall be 
 his duty to call such a meeting whenever requested by three 
 of the Trustees. In case of death of the Chairman, the 
 Secretary, when applied to as above, shall call a meeting in 
 order to appoint another Chairman, or transact other neces- 
 sary business. 
 
 '■'■Article IX. The Society shall annually appoint a Treas- 
 urer, who shall exhibit both to the Society and to the Trustees 
 the state of the treasury, whenever he shall be called on for 
 that purpose. 
 
 '■'■Article X. The Trustees shall annually exhibit to the 
 Society a particular account of the missionaries employed by 
 them; the place to which they are, or they have been sent; 
 the state of the funds ; the receipts and expenditures ; and 
 whatever else relates to the institution. 
 
 '■'^ Article XI. The Trustees, and all other officers of this 
 Society, shall enter upon their respective offices on the last 
 Wednesday of May annually, and shall continue in office 
 for one year. 
 
 *■' Article XII. The Society shall hold their first meeting 
 for the choice of officers at the First Baptist Meeting-house in 
 Boston on the last Wednesday of May next, at nine o'clock 
 A. M., and in every year thereafter at the same time and place, 
 unless otherwise ordered by the Society or Trustees. 
 
 '■'Article XIII. In order more effectually to aid the inten- 
 tions of the Society, it is proposed to have a sermon delivered 
 at one of the Baptist meeting-houses in Boston at such time 
 
Thomas Baldwin, D. D. 
 
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 as the Society shall determine ; and a public contribution by 
 the people. 
 
 '■'■Article XIV. It shall be in the power of the Society, at 
 their annual meeting, from time to time, to make such amend- 
 ments and alterations as experience shall dictate, or to dissolve 
 the same when the purposes of its institutions shall render its 
 existence no longer necessary." 
 
 To this proposed Constitution was appended the 
 following address : 
 
 " Dear Sir : — Not doubting of your concurrence in this 
 good work, we send you these proposals ; and should they 
 meet with your approbation, we request you to use your influ- 
 ence to procure subscribers among your friends. 
 
 " We request you, sir, to receive the subscriptions, and 
 return this paper, together with the money you may collect, to 
 one of the subscribers in Boston on or before the last Wednes- 
 day in May next. 
 
 " We subscribe ourselves : 
 " Yours, dear Sir, in the Faith of the Gospel, 
 Samuel Stillman, ^ 
 Thomas Baldwin, Committee of 
 Richard Smith, the Baptist 
 
 Daniel Wild, ' churches 
 
 John Wait, 
 Thomas Badger, 
 " April 2g, 1802.'" 
 
 ill Boston. 
 
 In response to this call a meeting was held in the 
 meeting-house of the historic First Baptist Church 
 in Boston. 
 
 The list of those present and participating in the 
 deliberations and actions show it to have been a most 
 
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 notable assembly, in every respect worthy to be 
 called representative of the denomination. First on 
 the list stands the name of Dr. Samuel Stillman, the 
 peerless preacher of his time among the Baptists, 
 and by common consent regarded as first in the city. 
 Rev. Thomas Baldwin was also there, with Dr. Stephen 
 Gano, Joseph Grafton of Newton, Dr. Hezekiah 
 Smith of Haverhill, Rev. Elisha Williams of Beverly, 
 Rev. Thomas Rand of West Springfield, Rev. John 
 Peak of Newburyport, and others. The list of lay- 
 men present was scarcely less notable, including such 
 names as Colonel Dana and Capt. Thomas Badger. 
 
 Dr. Hezekiah Smith was appointed moderator, and 
 Rev. Lucius Bolles of Salem, clerk pro tern. 
 
 The " Throne of Grace " was addressed by the 
 moderator, after which it was voted that the proposed 
 Constitution, which had been submitted with the call 
 of the meeting, be accepted as it stood. 
 
 A committee, of which Doctor Baldwin was chair- 
 man, was appointed to place in nomination a list of 
 twelve persons for Trustees. The following names 
 of persons were submitted, who were afterward 
 elected : 
 
 Rev. Samuel Stillman Rev. Joel Briggs 
 
 " Hezekiah Smith Rev. Valentine W. Rathbun 
 
 " Thomas Baldwin Colonel Dana 
 
 " Joseph Grafton Mr. O. Holden 
 
 " Stephen Gano Deacon Richard Smith 
 " Thomas Waterman 
 
Meeting-house, where the Massachusetts Baptist 
 Missionary Society (Convention) was organized. 
 
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 Deacon Daniel Wild was elected Treasurer, and 
 Rev. Thomas Waterman, Secretary. The closing 
 prayer was offered by Doctor Stillman, and an 
 adjournment effected to the meeting of the Warren 
 Association at Wrentham. 
 
 At the first meeting of the Trustees, held on the 
 same day at the dwelling-house of Doctor Baldwin, 
 Reverends John Tripp and Isaac Case were ap- 
 pointed missionaries for the British Provinces, and 
 the District of Maine. Rev. John Leland of Che- 
 shire was appointed to the Western Mission. Also, 
 voted that each missionary be allowed his travelling 
 expenses (he finding his own horse), that he receive 
 $5.00 a week as a compensation for his labor, but 
 "that all the money each missionary may receive as 
 presents be accounted for to the Trustees." 
 
 Doctors Stillman and Baldwin, Reverends Grafton 
 and Waterman, with Deacon John Wait, were ap- 
 pointed a standing committee for the year to manage 
 the concerns of the Society. 
 
 At a meeting of the Trustees held at Wrentham, 
 on September 8th, at the dwelling-house of Rev. 
 William Williams, arrangements were made to have 
 Doctor Stillman deliver a sermon at the next annual 
 meeting, to be followed by a collection for the bene- 
 fit of the Society. 
 
 On the 1 5th of September, at a meeting held with 
 Doctor Stillman, Rev. Joseph Cornell was appointed 
 
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 to the Western Mission in place of John Leland 
 declined. 
 
 The following letter was addressed to the mission- 
 aries thus sent forth, by the committee : 
 
 " Rev. and Dear Brethren : — The Committee of the 
 Trustees of the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society feel 
 unfeigned satisfaction in regarding you as some of the instru- 
 ments through whose exertions, under the blessing of the great 
 Head of the Church, they entertain a pleasing hope that the 
 important aims of the Society will in some degree be answered 
 in the enlargement of the Redeemer's Kingdom, and the exten- 
 sion of the influence of vital godliness. They are persuaded 
 that your zeal for the divine glory, and compassionate affection 
 for the souls of men, will stimulate you to every effort which 
 human agency can effect, to promote the glorious cause in 
 which you have embarked. And your past experience in the 
 gospel ministry in general, and in the missionary engagements 
 in particular, will preclude the necessity of minute instructions 
 on this subject. There are, however, a few observations to 
 which the Committee feel it incumbent on them to request your 
 attention as being adapted in their view to subserve the design 
 which the members of the Society have associated to promote. 
 
 " I . We wish you to bear in remembrance that it is a primary 
 object of this institution to send the proclamation of the grace 
 of the gospel to those, who from local situations are deprived 
 of the benefits of a stated exercise of the Christian ministry. 
 You will, therefore, endeavor, as discretion shall dictate and 
 circumstances render practicable, to direct your labors in a 
 particular manner to persons thus situated, by which means 
 the light of divine truth will be diffused through a circle as 
 extensive as the limitations of time will allow. 
 
 " 2. The Committee most strenuously recommend that you 
 solicitously avoid all interference and allusions to those polit- 
 ical topics which divide the opinions and too much irritate the 
 
Rev. Isaac Backus, A. M. 
 
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 passions of our fellow citizens. Subjects of this description 
 are not merely irrelevant to the spiritual purposes of mission- 
 ary exertion, but manifestly subversive to all reasonable pros- 
 pect of success, since their inevitable tendency is to excite 
 disunion, division, and that asperity of feelings which stands 
 directly opposed to the meekness and gentleness of the Chris- 
 tian temper. We are persuaded that you feel the propriety of 
 this suggestion, and that you are convinced that ' the wrath 
 of man worketh not the righteousness of God.' 
 
 " The Committee have only to add their request that you keep 
 an exact journal of the most remarkable occurrences which take 
 place, such as your reception in the places where your labors 
 may be employed, the encouragements or difficulties you may 
 meet with, and the appearances of success with which your 
 endeavors may be crowned. In addition to this regular jour- 
 nal of your transactions, it is the desire of the Committee that 
 our brethren will occasionally transmit such information of the 
 progress of the mission as you may judge useful and inter- 
 esting. 
 
 " And now, dear brethren, we affectionately commend you 
 to the protecting care of our adorable Master, who has encour- 
 aged His faithful servants by the assurances of His constant 
 presence with them. We cordially unite in fervent supplica- 
 tions for your success, and pray that you may be eminently 
 blessed in all the branches of the gospel ministry, in the awak- 
 ening of sinners, and in confirming and edifying those who have 
 believed through grace. 
 
 »' Signed by order of the Committee, 
 
 " Samuel Stillman, Chairman. 
 " Thomas Waterman, Secretary:" 
 
 Thoughtful provision for the missionaries' intro- 
 duction to the people on the fields they were to visit 
 was made through the following letter : 
 
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 " To our Christian Brethren and Friends whose lot is cast in 
 the wilderness, remote from the stated ministry of the Word 
 and ordinances, the Committee of the Massachusetts Bap- 
 tist Missionary Society sendeth greeting : 
 " Dearly Beloved and Longed For : — God having 
 put it into the heart of a number of your friends in this part of 
 the land to unite for the purpose of sending the gospel into the 
 new Settlements, and further in His providence should open 
 the door. In compliance with their wishes, we have appointed 
 our beloved brethren, the Rev. Missionaries Cornell, Tripp, and 
 Case, to visit and preach with you as opportunities may pre- 
 sent themselves. We, therefore, affectionately commend them 
 to you as those whom we judge faithful, and whom we hope 
 God will own and bless among you. Receive them, therefore, 
 in the Lord, and like the noble Bereans search the Scriptures 
 prayerfully, and see whether the things that they shall preach 
 to you from time to time be not according to the oracles of 
 truth. 
 
 " Our fervent prayers accompany them in their journeyings 
 among you, and we earnestly hope in due time to hear of their 
 prosperity and success. We commend them and you to God, 
 and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you 
 up, and to give you an inheritance among all them who are 
 sanctified. 
 
 M Signed by the Committee." 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 In the records of the second annual meeting, held 
 with the First Church, Boston, May 25, 1803, is 
 found the first mention of an effort to secure the 
 publication of a missionary magazine, the following 
 action being taken : 
 
 " Voted: That it is the wish of the Society that a practical 
 work be published, containing such information as may be 
 considered interesting to the Society." 
 
 At a meeting of the Trustees subsequently held, 
 Dr. Thomas Baldwin was appointed " Conductor " of 
 the proposed magazine, with Dr. Samuel Stillman, 
 Rev. Joseph Grafton, and Mr. James Loring, as 
 assistants. 
 
 The manuscript copy of Rev. Isaac Backus's 
 "Abridged History of New England Baptists " was 
 also referred to this committee for examination. 
 
 The annual meeting for the year 1804 was held 
 with the Second Baptist Church, Boston, and hon- 
 ored with the presence of Rev. Isaac Backus, who 
 offered the opening prayer. Considerable time at 
 this meeting was spent in listening to the letters 
 from missionaries, and tender mention was made 
 
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 of the absence of Rev. Joseph Grafton on account of 
 sickness in his family. 
 
 The thanks of the Society were tendered to female 
 friends of Medfield and Dover, and to the female 
 society in Boston for a contribution of ;^ 132.84. 
 Acknowledgment was also made of a large gift by 
 the hand of Doctor Stillman from some gentleman 
 whose name was withheld, and of other generous 
 contributions. 
 
 At this meeting a letter of fraternal greeting from 
 the General Assembly of the Presbyterians, which 
 had held a recent session in Philadelphia, was read, 
 in which, with felicitous expressions of Christian 
 courtesy, they proceeded to give an historical sketch 
 of the missionary work of that denomination, alluding 
 by name to Rev. David Brainard and others, mention- 
 ing in particular " four descriptions of people " to 
 whom the Assembly were then endeavoring to send 
 missions : 
 
 1. To those who are settled on our frontier. 
 
 2. To certain places in some settled parts where the gospel 
 has not been regularly established. 
 
 3. To the black people of the United States. 
 
 4. To the Indians. 
 
 They submitted also the following queries: 
 
 How long has your Society existed ? 
 
 What were the circumstances and motives that led to its 
 institution ? 
 
Rev. Joseph Grafton. 
 
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 What obstacles or difficulties have you had to surmount? 
 What are your funds ? 
 What is the number of your missionaries ? 
 Are they all men of education ? 
 What instructions do you give your missionaries? 
 What are the places to which you have already sent 
 missions ? 
 
 To what other places do you contemplate sending them ? 
 What has been your success hitherto ? 
 What are your prospects for the future ? 
 What advice can you give to us ? 
 
 The missive concludes as follows : 
 
 " We have nothing further to add but our entreaties and 
 our hopes that your prayers may be united with ours and most 
 fervently offered at the Throne of Grace that God may give 
 the heathen to His Son for an inheritance, and the uttermost 
 parts of the earth for His possession, and that He may speed- 
 ily become King of Nations as He is King of saints." 
 
 The annual meeting of 1804 was adjourned to 
 May 30th, when the propriety of forming a perma- 
 nent fund for the Society was considered and referred 
 to a committee, with Doctor Baldwin as chairman. 
 The same committee, somewhat enlarged, was also 
 authorized to petition the Legislature for an act 
 of incorporation. 
 
 Naturally enough, with high rates of postage and 
 the scarcity of money, it was found difficult to make 
 the magazine a direct source of profit to the Society, 
 and an arrangement was made with Doctor Baldwin, 
 giving him sole charge, he to profit by it as he might, 
 
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 on condition that he pay into the treasury of the 
 Society $25 for each number issued, this vote 
 being made retroactive so as to include all former 
 numbers. 
 
 The records for the next two years make inci- 
 dental mention in 1805 of a meeting of the Trustees 
 of the Baptist Education Society, of increased atten- 
 tion being given to the work in New Brunswick, and 
 of the multiplication of contributing ladies' societies, 
 especial mention being made of the liberality of the 
 societies in Medfield and Boston. 
 
 In 1806 the Society made its first appropriation 
 to aid in sustaining stated preaching in a town. The 
 place was East Greenwich, R. I. This grant was 
 made on condition that the church also contribute 
 a specific sum, to be applied for the support of a 
 student from Brown University. 
 
 At the annual meeting in 1807, the Treasurer 
 reported a balance in the treasury of nearly $2,000. 
 
 The churches were fast becoming imbued with the 
 missionary spirit, and the work in various directions 
 was pushed forward with no little enthusiasm, 
 
 A missionary society having been organized in 
 New York, correspondence was opened with it, 
 which resulted in a union of effort in the support 
 of a mission to the Tuscarora Indians. This union 
 became in subsequent years a source of no little 
 embarrassment, and was finally dissolved by mutual 
 
Lucius Bolles, D D. 
 
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 consent, the Massachusetts Society paying above 
 1^530 to make final settlement of some disputed 
 claims. 
 
 In 1808 a committee was appointed to petition the 
 Legislature for an act of incorporation, and, what 
 is remarkable and exceptional in Baptist history, 
 it is a matter of record that they were instructed 
 also to petition for pecuniary assistance from the 
 State in propagating the gospel in the Province of 
 Maine. Happily, this request was not granted, but 
 an act of incorporation was passed by the Legislature 
 on February 28, 1808. The incorporators named 
 were Thomas Baldwin, D. D., Rev. Joseph Clay, 
 Deacon John Wait, of Boston ; Rev. William Collier, 
 Deacon David Goodwin, Deacon John Carter, of 
 Charlestown ; Rev. Joseph Grafton, and John Kend- 
 rick, Esq., of Newton ; Rev. Lucius Bolles of Salem ; 
 Rev. William Williams of Wrentham ; Rev. Ehsha 
 Williams of Beverly ; Rev. William Batchelder of 
 Haverhill ; Rev. Valentine W. Rath bun of Bridge- 
 water ; and Rev. John Peak of Newburyport. 
 
 The name under which the corporation was formed 
 was "The Baptist Missionary Society in Massachu- 
 setts." By the original charter the corporation was 
 "allowed to receive and hold real estate of any kind 
 in fee simple, or other estate, not exceeding $15,000, 
 and receive real and personal estate by donation, 
 bequest, legacy, or otherwise, not exceeding ;^ 10,000, 
 
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 the annual income of all which real and personal 
 estate shall be held to the sole use and purposes of 
 diffusing Christian knowledge in such manner as the 
 said corporation shall judge will best promote and 
 answer the designs of their incorporation, provided, 
 however, that each and every one of the missionaries, 
 or other instructors or teachers employed by the 
 said corporation, shall be of the Protestant religion, 
 of competent learning, of reputed piety and prudence, 
 and of exemplary morals," the duration of the charter 
 to extend for fifteen years from the passage of the 
 act. (See Appendix A.) 
 
 The annual meeting in May, 1808, accepted the 
 charter, and the Society became duly incorporated. 
 In order to meet legal requirements properly, the 
 following vote was passed, which, in the light of 
 the present, suggests the progress that has been 
 made since the days when the mails were too expen- 
 sive to be used except in cases of absolute necessity : 
 
 " Voiedy That the Secretary be directed to notify the Trus- 
 tees of the meetings of this Board through the medium of' the 
 post-office, if no other mode of conveyance offers." 
 
 Two other acts of the annual meeting of this 
 memorable year (1808) are found, one in an appro- 
 priation to that pioneer colored preacher, the Rev. 
 Thomas Paul, who labored with what was then known 
 as the "African Church," now St. Paul's, Boston, and 
 
Rev. John AI. Peck. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 23 
 
 extended his missionary activity to various towns in 
 the vicinity, for sending him on a mission to Hayti ; 
 and the other, in a communication addressed to the 
 Warren Association, asking it to recommend to all 
 the churches belonging to the Association the adop- 
 tion of some measure to "establish a permanent 
 income to the Missionary Society, either by subscrip- 
 tion or annual contributions, as may suit the conven- 
 ience of the churches." 
 
 The report of the Board, signed by William Collier, 
 the Secretary, as published in the Missionary Maga- 
 zine, records the employment of thirteen missionaries 
 in Vermont, New York, New Hampshire, Lower 
 Canada, the District of Maine ; also of work in New 
 Brunswick, and among the Tuscarora Indians, and 
 concludes with these words : 
 
 " The people in the new settlements who solicit our assist- 
 ance, the aged, middle-aged, and even the children and youth, 
 feelingly press the missionaries to come again, to come and 
 live among them and speak to them of the words of this life. 
 In a word, we have everything to stimulate to unremittent 
 exertions — the promises of God, the command of Christ, the 
 glory of God, and the honor of being workers together with 
 Him in the establishment and extension of that Kingdom 
 which is not of this world, but which, one day, will cover the 
 earth as the waters cover the sea, and finally of beholding 
 millions of the so-called risen in glory the fruits of a precious 
 Saviour's death, and the price of the riches of sovereign grace." 
 
 The special interest manifested in the condition of 
 Central New York finds explanation in the fact that 
 
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 in the grant of land the original Charter gave to the 
 Massachusetts Colony, was embraced a strip of ter- 
 ritory of the present width of the State, extending 
 from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This bisect- 
 ing of the State of New York, caused much contro- 
 versy. The matter under dispute was adjusted finally 
 by a conference of representatives of the two States 
 held in Hartford in 1786, when it was agreed that 
 the sovereignty should remain vested in New York, 
 but that Massachusetts should have preemption rights 
 in all territory east of a certain meridian line. For 
 this reason the country was settled largely by Massa- 
 chusetts people, in whose welfare their kinsmen natu- 
 rally felt a special interest. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 In i8io a new departure was taken by the Society 
 in setting apart a portion of its funds to be disbursed 
 under a special committee for domestic missions, 
 having special reference to the aid of churches in 
 the support of pastors. 
 
 The records of 1810 also make mention of a 
 society of young men in Boston offering to assume 
 the entire support of a missionary appointed to labor 
 under the direction of the Board. 
 
 In 181 3 Daniel Sharp, D. D., became Secretary. 
 
 The financial condition of the Society would seem 
 at this time to have been quite good, a vote being 
 passed at the annual meeting, to authorize the Secre- 
 tary and Treasurer to see that the surplus of the 
 money belonging to the Society then on hand be 
 properly invested, and also that the Treasurer be 
 asked to furnish bondsmen. 
 
 The scrutiny of the Treasurer's accounts during 
 these years was apparently very critical, mention 
 being made of the appointment of a special com- 
 mittee to examine into the securities of notes in the 
 
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 hands of the Treasurer, and ascertain if they were 
 satisfactory, and in another instance we find the 
 President requested to " receive security of the 
 Treasurer this present week." 
 
 In 1 813 a committee was appointed to confer with 
 Elder Joseph Bradley in connection with a local mis- 
 sion in New Hampshire, and the same year a record 
 is had of the holding of a special meeting of the 
 Convention Board at Weare, N. H, The explana- 
 tion of holding a meeting at a point so remote 
 is probably found in the fact that it was held in 
 connection with a meeting of the Warren Associa- 
 tion. 
 
 Mention was made in the records of this year of 
 the organization of an auxiliary society in Maine, and 
 an exchange of fraternal greetings follows. 
 
 In 18 14 a committee was appointed to provide 
 supplies for destitute places, to which it was found 
 inexpedient to send missionaries. This committee 
 was continued in subsequent years to meet the 
 increasing demands of settled communities for the 
 stated preaching of the Word. 
 
 The term "home mission" first occurs on the 
 records of that year. There was then a marked 
 scarcity of available men for missionary service, and 
 letters of inquiry were addressed to the prominent 
 ministers in several States to learn if there were 
 any ministers in their neighborhood "qualified and 
 
Francis Wayland, D. D., LL. D. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 2/ 
 
 disposed to engage in the services of our home 
 mission ? ' ' 
 
 At the annual meeting of the year 1816, an inno- 
 vation upon the order of exercises which had pre- 
 vailed from the beginning was introduced, the report 
 of the Board being followed upon motion of its 
 adoption by an address by Jeremiah Chaplin, D. D., 
 upon " The Importance of Christians being more 
 actively engaged in the Cause of Missions," and in 
 like manner the Treasurer's report was followed by 
 Rev. Lucius Bolles in an address by which he 
 brought into view " the very limited means of the 
 Society when first founded, and our present ample 
 resources." 
 
 There are other indications that the financial situ- 
 ation of the Society at this time was quite easy, and 
 so continued up to the time when the attention of 
 the churches was in measure diverted from the 
 home to the foreign field. Under such conditions 
 the compensation of the missionaries was increased 
 by one dollar per week. 
 
 At a Board meeting this year, steps were taken, by 
 the appointment of a committee, to assist churches in 
 procuring stated supplies and pastors. This action 
 formed a natural supplement to the itinerant mis- 
 sionary service through which churches were being 
 gathered in various localities, and appears to have 
 been the initial movement which led, subsequently. 
 
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 to the organization of the Convention, which existed 
 from 1823 to 1835, contemporaneous with the old 
 Society. 
 
 During the years from 18 12 to 1820 considerable 
 sums were received from missionary societies known 
 as "female societies," "mite societies," "young men's 
 societies," etc., from localities outside Massachusetts 
 — from Rhode Island in particular. 
 
 In the records of this year an allusion is found to 
 Sunday schools, occurring in the form of a recommen- 
 dation that " the money contributed by children's mite 
 societies be devoted to the support of Sunday schools 
 in destitute parts." 
 
 During 18 16 a new series of the Magazine was 
 begun, and the name changed from TJie Massachu- 
 setts Baptist Missionary Magazine to The American 
 Baptist Missionary Magazine and Missionary Intelli- 
 gencer. It was also made a bi-monthly instead of 
 a quarterly, as in the years immediately preceding. 
 
 At a Board meeting held in December, 18 17, 
 mention was made of a communication from Mr. 
 Rice to Doctor Baldwin, and also of one from the 
 Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Foreign 
 Missions. From the recorded action of the meeting, 
 it appears that two of the editors of the Magazine 
 had made a contract to allow the use of its columns 
 in the interest of foreign missions, and that the 
 Board for Foreign Missions had agreed to distribute 
 

 
 Rev. James M. Winchell. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 29 
 
 a certain number of copies of the Magazine, which 
 were to be delivered them in Philadelphia. Either 
 these had not been called for as expected, or the 
 sum agreed for payment had not been received. 
 Some one considering himself properly authorized had 
 contracted certain debts for the outfits of missiona- 
 ries of the Foreign Board, and failing to receive the 
 financial support expected, he applied to the Trustees 
 of the Missionary Society for relief, which was 
 granted by the Society authorizing the Treasurer to 
 pay this debt. 
 
 Under the same date mention was made of the 
 sale of a piece of real estate, given in trust for the 
 benefit of a domestic or home mission in America 
 for a term of twenty years succeeding the decease 
 of the widow of the testator, afterward to be trans- 
 ferred to the Baptist Education Fund for the pur- 
 pose of " educating pious young men of indigent 
 circumstances in literary and theological knowledge 
 for the ministry." This gift amounted to ^3,600 — 
 a very considerable sum for the times. Instead of 
 being divided between the different objects to which 
 assistance was proposed, the income was given for 
 a term of years to one cause, and then in perpetuity 
 to another. 
 
 In 18 18 it was voted that the report of the Trus- 
 tees be not only printed in the Magazine as hitherto, 
 but published in separate form. Missionaries were 
 
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 instructed to form societies auxiliary wherever it was 
 practicable, and also to use their influence to extend 
 the circulation of the Magazine. 
 
 The condition of the funds appears to have been 
 much less favorable in i8 18-19. 
 
 Up to the year 18 19, the records are singularly 
 silent concerning the death of those prominently 
 identified with the work of the Society ; even in the 
 case of Dr. Samuel Stillman and Isaac Backus no 
 mention is made. But this year we find allusion to 
 the death of Rev. James M. Winchell, with instruc- 
 tion that the committee procure a likeness of him 
 for use in the Magazine. 
 
 As a happy illustration of the tact with which the 
 fathers dealt with questions not unlike some which 
 arise at the present time, observe the following 
 record : 
 
 " As our brethren of the New Hampshire Society appear to 
 contemplate supplies to several churches rather than the ap- 
 pointment of a missionary for three or six months, as proposed 
 in our communication to them, and as we learn from their 
 agent that some of the persons named have commenced their 
 labors without receiving appointment, which is not in conform- 
 ity with our regulations, 
 
 " Voted., That the Secretary be requested, affectionately, to 
 state to our brethren that our views were probably misappre- 
 hended by them, but that we will cheerfully give the appoint- 
 ment, if proposed for a mission, for three months to such 
 persons as they shall recommend for New Hampshire." 
 
Daniel Sharp, D. D. 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 In the year 1822 a committee consisting of Doc- 
 tors Thomas Baldwin and Daniel Sharp were ap- 
 pointed to petition the Legislature to extend the time 
 of the act of incorporation, and also to enlarge the 
 powers of the Society, so that " it may be allowed to 
 hold personal and real estate to the amount of 
 $50,000." It was also voted to obtain a seal for the 
 Society, and at the meeting of the Board held in 
 1822, it was reported that a seal had been procured, 
 and that the committee appointed to secure the 
 renewal of the corporation had been successful. 
 
 The report of the Board for this year, from the 
 pen of Doctor Sharp, makes the following allusion 
 to its being the twentieth anniversary of the Society : 
 
 " It is now twenty years since this Society held its first 
 meeting for the choice of officers, and the transaction of other 
 business connected with the objects for which it was estab- 
 hshed. And although several highly respected ministers of 
 Christ, who took an active part on that occasion long ago, 
 have entered into rest, yet there are a few spared who remem- 
 ber with feelings of lively interest the circumstances which 
 
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 attended its organization. They were permitted the honor of 
 bestowing on this institution in its infancy their fostering care ; 
 and have observed its growth from year to year until it has 
 arrived at a state of maturity which gives them peculiar pleas- 
 ure. Indeed, none of us can have a correct knowledge of the 
 rise and progress of this Society without feelings of gratitude 
 for its past success, and confident expectation of its future 
 prosperity. We have abundant reason to thank God and 
 take courage ; and to continue the work which our venerable 
 predecessors commenced ; and to persevere in well doing, see- 
 ing that in due time we shall reap if we faint not." 
 
 The reports of missionary work published in the 
 Magazine show that this was a period of great activity 
 in the formation of churches. Special mention was 
 made of the organization of the Claremont and First 
 Concord, N. H,, churches, which have since had 
 eventful histories. 
 
 At the Board meeting held in 1822, an appropria- 
 tion of ;^ 1,000 from the legacy of a Mrs. Bull was 
 made to the brethren in Calcutta, subject to the 
 order of Rev. Adoniram Judson, Jr., to be expended 
 in the translation of the Scriptures. 
 
 Perhaps with the thought that the best gifts ought 
 to be more widely distributed, on the suggestion of 
 a Mr. Moriarty, it was voted in 1822 that the follow- 
 ing named ministers engage in temporal itinerant 
 labors, to receive ^30 each per annum for their 
 travelling expenses. The men thus designated were 
 as follows : 
 
Rev. Bel a Jacobs. 
 
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 Thomas Baldwin, D. D. Rev. Joseph Grafton 
 
 Luaus Belles, D.D. . Elisha Williams 
 
 Rev. Ebenezer Nelson <i r- • 
 
 " Bela Jacobs N^'T^f '""' ^^■ 
 
 " Beniamln c r ,. Nathaniel W. Williams 
 
 Benjamin C. Grafton Daniel Sharp, D. D. 
 
 In .819, Rev. John Keeley ("Father Keeley") 
 dehvered an introductory discourse at the opelg 
 of the annual meeting, a custom which, in the 
 modtfied form of an annual sermon, has been fol- 
 lowed w,th but few interruptions to the present 
 
 In September of this year, the Trustees appointed 
 a commrttee to obtain a preacher for Portsmouth, N 
 H., and were "empowered to give such remuner-' 
 ation as m their judgment the facts of the case may 
 
 require. ^ 
 
 At the same meeting an appropriation of $200 was 
 made to the Hamilton Missionary Baptist Society tor 
 the benefit of the Oneida Indians. Another item 
 appears authorizing the appropriation of a sum not 
 exceeding ^50 to the editors of the Magazine to 
 bemused m obtaining -the earliest intelligence from 
 
 The next year we find Rev. Thomas Paul, then 
 pastor of the First African Church in Boston, again 
 appomted to go on a six months' mission to Hayti 
 w.th an appropriation of $2^, and his pulpit to' 
 be supplied meanwhile. 
 
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 In 1823, an appropriation of ^1,161 was made 
 for the translation of the Scriptures into the Burmese 
 language. 
 
 At a Board meeting held in 1824, at the house of 
 Rev. Nathaniel W. Williams, of Beverly, a letter 
 was read from Rev. John M. Peck, telling of the 
 formation of Bible Societies, and asking for a box 
 of Magazines for free distribution. 
 
 At the same meeting a letter was read from a 
 Brother Treadwell in Hayti expressing the thanks 
 of the people for the missionary work of Thomas 
 Paul. Further particulars from the mission on that 
 island were furnished by a communication from Rev. 
 Asa Goldsburg, who appears to have been at that 
 time laboring there and in need of assistance to " ac- 
 quire a knowledge of the French language." 
 
 An account was given of the situation of the 
 Indians at the station where Rev. Isaac McCoy was 
 then stationed, the place being what is now known 
 as Niles, Michigan. 
 
 Special mention is made of the appointment of 
 Rev. John M. Peck for six months. The occasion 
 of his appointment at this time is doubtless due to the 
 fact that he had been for some time previously in 
 the employ of the foreign mission society, which 
 had been unable to continue his labors. When he 
 wrote from the West to this Society and made 
 application for appointment by it, his request was 
 
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 at once granted, and he remained in the service of 
 the Society with shght interruption until the forma- 
 tion of the American Baptist Home Mission Society 
 in 1832. 
 
 The Trustees evidently experienced a difficulty, 
 not unknown at the present time, in securing suitably 
 equipped missionaries to preach in other than the Eng- 
 lish language, as we find Dr. Daniel Sharp and Francis 
 Wayland, Jr., appointed a committee to take such 
 measures as " shall by them be deemed expedient 
 concerning the education of two young colored men 
 with a view to preparing them for missionary ser- 
 vice in Hayti." The men were found and entered 
 at Dartmouth College at the expense of the Society, 
 which also provided them with a French tutor. 
 
 In 1824 the publication of the Magazine was 
 changed from a bi-monthly to a monthly periodical. 
 
 During that year an appointment was given to 
 Rev. Adoniram Judson, of Plymouth, the father of 
 the noted missionary bearing the same name. 
 
 During the year 1824, a missionary was appointed 
 to labor in the city of Montreal and another in the 
 Province of Upper Canada. The work previously 
 begun at Fredonia, New York, and Ashtabula, Ohio, 
 also engaged much of the attention of the Society. 
 Importunate appeals, accompanied with vivid state- 
 ments as to the condition of religion and morals and 
 the lack of suitable ministers in Illinois and Missouri, 
 
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 were laid before the Board at every meeting by its 
 general missionary to that region, Rev. John M. Peck. 
 What he did in opening up that country to the gos- 
 pel proved of inestimable value, both from his labors 
 on the field and the results of his efforts for interest- 
 ing the people of the East in the work he had so 
 much at heart. 
 
 From the annual report made to the editors of 
 the Magazine, it seems that as a monthly publication 
 it had reached a circulation of five thousand (5,000) 
 copies, and provision was made to furnish Lucius 
 BoUes, D. D., who was then Secretary of the Foreign 
 Board, with copies for gratuitous distribution to the 
 missionaries on the foreign field. 
 
 During that year, and years immediately succeed- 
 ing, the making of appropriations to aid churches in 
 the support of pastors, which had hitherto been the 
 exception, became quite general, and the list of 
 churches thus assisted contains the names of many 
 which have since become fields of great importance. 
 Among these we find Saco, Machias, Waterville, and 
 South Berwick, in Maine ; Buffalo, Oswego, and 
 Amsterdam, N. Y. ; St. Louis, Mo. ; Portsmouth, 
 Claremont, Concord, Peterboro, Hampton Falls, 
 Great Falls (now Somersworth), N. H. ; also Bil- 
 lerica, Chelmsford, Plymouth, Watertown, Spring- 
 field, Weston, Taunton, West Cambridge (now 
 Arlington), Gloucester, Northampton, Hingham, 
 
Rev. Charles Traix. 
 
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 South Abington (now Whitman) and Bellingham, 
 in Massachusetts; with Bristol and several others, 
 in Rhode Island. 
 
 That year the irrepressible Missionary Peck ap- 
 pealed for funds, and for the organization of a Board 
 to establish a theological seminary in the West. A 
 committee was appointed, and contributions sohcited 
 for this purpose, to be deposited with the Society. 
 
 It is not strange that in those times, with opera- 
 tions so greatly enlarged, records should be fre- 
 quently made of inability to render assistance for 
 lack of funds. The enlarging field was becoming 
 too vast in area and too populous for the evangelizing 
 agencies of the Baptists of a single State. 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 At the annual meeting in May, 1825, Dr. Thomas 
 Baldwin was reelected President. Perhaps the list of 
 officers and Trustees never in any year contained more 
 eminent names. Doctor Baldwin presided at the an- 
 nual meeting, and also at a protracted session of the 
 Board on May 26th. Immediately after the meeting 
 he started on an official visit to the college at Water- 
 ville, Me., where he arrived and spent the day of the 
 29th of May in examining the condition of affairs in 
 connection with the institution, and retired at night 
 to awake in eternity. 
 
 In 1825, on motion of Francis Wayland, seconded 
 by Doctor Sharp, this suggestive vote was passed : 
 
 " Resolved, That we as a Society humbly express our entire 
 dependence upon God, and thank Him for the degree of suc- 
 cess which has attended the efforts of the Society the past 
 year." 
 
 At the next meeting of the Board, held on the 20th 
 of September, 1825, at Methuen, a letter was directed 
 to Mrs. Baldwin, expressing the sympathy of the 
 Board with her under the "great affliction she had 
 
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HISTORICAL SKETCH 39 
 
 experienced in the recent death of her revered and 
 beloved husband," with an expression of the respect 
 of the Society for the memory of its late President. 
 
 It would seem that a portion of the permanent 
 funds of the Society were invested in government 
 bonds which had matured, as mention is made of 
 a vote instructing the Treasurer to receive payment 
 from the government. 
 
 During the same year the proprietor of The Chris- 
 tian Watchman requested that he be allowed to make 
 arrangements with the Board which might promote 
 the circulation of the paper as well as the good of the 
 Society. A committee was appointed to take the 
 matter into consideration, who subsequently reported 
 in favor of appointing a committee to advertise in the 
 editorial department of the paper as circumstances 
 might require, but who should not be held responsible 
 for furnishing matter for its columns. The mission- 
 aries and officers of the Society were to interest 
 themselves in promoting the circulation of the paper, 
 for which a share of the profits should be paid into 
 its treasury. The committee appointed to assist the 
 editor consisted of Daniel Sharp, D. D., and Francis 
 Way land, Jr. 
 
 During the years 1826-29 the first mention was 
 made in the records of the Society of the State Con- 
 vention which had been organized in 1823; such 
 allusions in general taking the form of making appro- 
 
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 priations to churches conditioned on their not receiving 
 duplicate assistance from the State Convention. 
 
 In 1826 the name of Asa Wilbur, afterward for a 
 half-century connected with the Convention, whose 
 manly presence and gracious words are fresh in the 
 memory of some now living, first appears as coming 
 before the Board in the interest of the church in 
 Hingham. He was a Director for nearly a half- 
 century, for seven years the President of the Con- 
 vention, and prominently identified with the securing 
 to the Society of the Bumstead estate, which added 
 so largely to its endowment. His active interest and 
 effort contributed much to secure the preservation of 
 the church property at Andover in a time of peril, 
 and at his decease he placed his large holdings in the 
 Bowdoin Square meeting-house property in the hands 
 of the Convention. Few men whose names are on 
 the noble list of its faithful servants, who rest from 
 their labors, did more than he to advance its interests. 
 
 At the meeting in June, 1 826, a committee appeared 
 from the Board of Foreign Missions to know on what 
 terms the Board would transfer ownership of the Bap- 
 tist Missionary Magazine to that body. The matter 
 was referred to a committee consisting of Deacons 
 Ensign Lincoln and Levi Farwell, who reported to 
 an adjourned meeting that, "having had a mutual 
 consultation upon the subject, it is their opinion that 
 several advantages would result to religion generally, 
 
Deacon Asa Wilbur. 
 
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 and to that of missions particularly, by transferring 
 the publication of the American Baptist Missionary 
 Magazine to the American Board of Foreign Mis- 
 sions. They feel that such an arrangement would 
 better compare with the idea of its being a denomina- 
 tional or national publication, that it would increase 
 its circulation and thus more extensively diffuse relig- 
 ious intelhgence. Your committee, therefore, pro- 
 pose the following resolution : 
 
 " Resolved, That from and after the first day of January 
 next, the American Baptist Magazine be transferred to the 
 Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, on condition that the work 
 continue to be pubHshed in Boston, and that one-half of the 
 profits be annually paid to the Baptist Missionary Society of 
 Massachusetts, provided, however, that the amount paid to the 
 Society shall not exceed ^500 per annum." 
 
 The report of the Committee was accepted, and 
 their recommendation adopted. 
 
 Considerable difficulty was evidently found in ad- 
 justing the unsettled accounts of the agents for the 
 Magazine, and the provision whereby it was made 
 obligatory on the Board for Foreign Missions to pay 
 one-half of the profits into the treasury of the Society 
 was subsequently rescinded. 
 
 Church affairs at Watertown, Mass., during this 
 period occupied considerable of the time at every 
 Board meeting. The matter of place as well as 
 preacher was much debated. A vote was passed 
 
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 finally that the Society take the management en- 
 tirely into its own hands, procure a hall, and employ 
 professors from the seminary at Newton for stated 
 supplies. 
 
 About this time a change was made in the method 
 of aiding churches in Ohio, so that the money was 
 paid in a gross sum to the Ohio Missionary Society, 
 to be disbursed by its officers. 
 
 At the annual meeting in 1828 it was voted "to 
 change the annual meeting of the Society from morn- 
 ing to evening, and that the place of the annual ser- 
 mon be taken by addresses." 
 
 Mention is made of a publication at this date, des- 
 ignated as The Home Mission Magazi7ie^ of which 
 the Secretary was authorized to procure a copy at 
 the expense of the Society. 
 
 In 1829 Doctor Sharp, who had for sixteen years 
 served as Secretary of the Society, conducted a large 
 portion of its correspondence, and written all its vo- 
 luminous records, whose writing during that period 
 had changed from the bold, firm hand of a man in his 
 full vigor to the cramped and tremulous style pecul- 
 iar to old age, retired from the position of Secretary, 
 and it was voted that the " thanks of the Society be 
 affectionately presented to Brother Sharp for his 
 arduous services for the past sixteen years as our 
 Secretary." 
 
 He was succeeded by Rev. Howard Malcom, the 
 
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 43 
 
 well-known author of the dictionary which bears his 
 name. A writer whose penmanship was exceptionally 
 fine, he fully maintained the legibility and accuracy 
 with which the records had been kept from the be- 
 ginning. 
 
 The following paragraph from the report for 1828 
 is suggestive : 
 
 "The Board are entirely of the opinion that while able 
 agents are indispensable to the collection of competent funds 
 to sustain the operations of the Board in the support of mis- 
 sions, their services are not the least productive missionary 
 labor that can be performed thereby. In many instances there 
 will be as much real advantage from judicious advice to churches 
 in the management of their ecclesiastical and pecuniary affairs 
 as from such direct missionary aid as the missionary usually 
 performs." 
 
 This careful discrimination, which may have been 
 designed indirectly to reply to a criticism upon the 
 expense of agencies, shows an appreciation of the 
 benefit which results from the contact of churches 
 with the representatives of missionary societies, too 
 often overlooked. 
 
 The frequency and amount of the appropriations 
 made to the church at Waterville, Me., during this 
 period shows that the Board appreciated the impor- 
 tance of establishing the church there, in a college 
 town, on firm foundations. In August Doctor Chap- 
 lin, of Waterville, was present at a meeting of the 
 Board, and offered prayer. 
 
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 There was a marked scarcity of missionaries, and 
 it was voted "that our Secretary be requested to 
 enter into extensive correspondence throughout the 
 United States to discover brethren suitable to be- 
 come our missionaries, and the most important places 
 for our cultivation." 
 
 In 1830 mention was made of a grant to the Penn- 
 sylvania Missionary Society, and an allusion to the 
 work which the Society was prosecuting at Mt, 
 Holly, N. J. 
 
 A letter from the Rev. Jesse Mercer, of Georgia, 
 describing the condition of the Baptist churches in 
 that State, tells that their great difficulty is the paucity 
 of ministers. Rev. Basil Manley, of Charleston, 
 S. C, in answer to the inquiries of the Secretary 
 for men, also reported that no brethren could be 
 spared from that State ; that they had several 
 vacant churches for whom pastors could not be 
 found. 
 
 At the meeting of the Board in March, 1830, a 
 letter was received from M. Moses, of Exeter, N. H,, 
 informing the Society of a legacy by one Dolly Smith 
 of that place. 
 
 At the annual meeting in May, the records state 
 that the audience was very great, and manifested the 
 deepest interest in the proceedings of the Society, 
 and in the remarks of the speakers. Rev. J. Newton 
 Brown, of Exeter, N. H., and Rev. Daniel Chess- 
 
Deacon Levi Farwell. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 45 
 
 man, of Lynn, Mass., who were reported to have 
 spoken with much feeling and power. 
 
 Secretary Malcom reminded the Society that he 
 only accepted the duties of Secretary for a single 
 year, and could not continue them on account of the 
 condition of his eyes. In accordance with his wish 
 thus expressed he was not reelected, and Rev. 
 Daniel Chessman was chosen as his successor. 
 
 Mr. Malcom* s only report as Secretary of the 
 Board was one of the ablest ever presented to the 
 Society, discussing in considerable detail the religious 
 conditions prevailing in different States, with a review 
 of the past history of the Society, which had been in 
 existence for twenty-eight years, recalling to mind 
 that in " its origin and primary efforts sole regard 
 was had to the support of itinerant missionary labors 
 amid settlements destitute of any stated ministrations 
 of God's Word. On this plan it continued for many 
 years with great usefulness. . . . The great change 
 in the circumstances of the country has necessarily 
 produced some modification of this plan. A multi- 
 tude of feeble churches are constituted which cannot 
 naturally support a pastor, and few neighborhoods 
 can now be found which do not at times enjoy the 
 labors of some of Christ's public servants. While, 
 therefore, the original plan of itinerancies continues 
 to receive a large portion of attention, it is also be- 
 coming a common practice to aid young and feeble 
 
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 churches in procuring regular ministerial services. 
 Thus $2^ or $50 often secures pastoral labor for six 
 months or a whole year to a church which without 
 this gratuity would be wholly destitute." 
 
 Mr. Malcom stated that since the origin of the 
 Society it had expended, previous to 1830, more 
 than ;^5 5,000, which had secured an amount of min- 
 isterial service equal to the labors of an individual 
 for 211 years. In connection with his report on 
 work in the State of Illinois, he remarked : " The case 
 calls imperiously to the Eastern Baptists for help. 
 Perhaps there is no single point on which we as a 
 denomination can more advantageously spend our 
 money than on the support of this region. We have 
 nothing in the vast West so important, and that 
 West is the most important part of this country. 
 Here is a region extending from the Pacific Ocean 
 to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Alleghany to 
 the Rocky Mountains, embracing a territory in which 
 could be put thirty States equal in size to New York, 
 and which will one day, perhaps, contain two hundred 
 millions of inhabitants. All New England is a speck 
 to this country. Neither Greece nor Burmah, nor 
 any other country, presents more encouragement to 
 missionary labor, or more loudly demands it at our 
 hand." 
 
 One of the contributions received by the Treasurer 
 was accompanied by the following note : 
 
Howard Malcom, D. D., LL. D. 
 
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 " Sir : — I send you the enclosed Three Dollars for the use 
 of the Missionary Society, it being saved the past year by the 
 entire abstinence from the use of ardent spirits in any form, 
 and I think duty requires that it be cast into the treasury of 
 the Lord. Yours with respect, ." 
 
 At the Board meeting in August, Rev. Mr. Bene- 
 dict, of Rhode Island, told of the destitute condition 
 of a large population on the Blackstone River, 
 and asked the appointment of a missionary to that 
 section, which was granted. 
 
 At this meeting mention was made of the comple- 
 tion of a meeting-house at Watertown, and the state- 
 ment made that a church of forty members had been 
 organized. 
 
 Among the appropriations made in 1829 was one 
 for the support of a preacher at the Branch of the 
 Federal Street Church at South Boston, and the re- 
 port mentions that an excellent meeting-house was 
 then in process of erection. 
 
 An appropriation of ^100 was made to the church 
 at Newburn, N. C. Further aid was also granted 
 the church in Concord, N. H. 
 
 The large number of appointments made would 
 seem to indicate a good condition of the treasury. 
 One was for a missionary to labor in Adams and 
 Jefferson Counties, iMissouri. Appropriations for the 
 support of missionaries in nearly every State were 
 made during this year ; also for the translation of the 
 
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 Scriptures into Burmese ; a certain investment in 
 the City and Columbia Bank being transferred to the 
 Treasurer of the Foreign Board for this purpose. 
 
 In 1830 an appropriation of ;^ioo was made for 
 the support of preaching in the Baptist meeting- 
 house in South Boston. 
 
 This year, through Howard Malcom, a safe was 
 procured for the safe-keeping of the Society's books 
 and papers. 
 
 At the annual meeting in 183 1, held with the 
 First Church, Boston, the acceptance of the Treas- 
 urer's report was moved by Rev, Baron Stow, of 
 Portsmouth, N. H., and seconded by Hon. Heman 
 Lincoln. The audience was large and attentive. 
 Rev. Joseph Grafton, who had been President since 
 Doctor Baldwin's death, was reelected, with Rev. 
 Charles Train for Vice-President, William Leverett 
 as Secretary, and Ensign Lincoln as Treasurer. The 
 place of meeting of the Board was designated as 
 "Missionary Rooms, No. 52 Washington Street, 
 Boston." 
 
 In response to a request from the Rhode Island 
 Convention, ^200 was appropriated for its assistance ; 
 perhaps as a return of what had been expended by 
 the Rhode Island Society in the formation of the 
 First Baptist Church, Fall River. 
 
 At this time money was expended quite freely in 
 laying the foundations in Detroit, Michigan, and such 
 
Barox Stow, D. D. 
 
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 liberality proved a good investment indeed for the 
 denomination. 
 
 At the Board meeting in August, 1831, Brethren 
 Daniel Sharp, Lucius Bolles, and James D. Knowles 
 were appointed a committee to confer with the 
 brethren expected to graduate from the next class 
 at Newton, and expend j^ioo for each one of those 
 who would settle in the West as missionaries of the 
 Society. 
 
CHAPTER VII. 
 
 At the meeting of the Board held on November 9, 
 1 83 1, this most important action was taken : a com- 
 munication was read from Rev, Henry Jackson, 
 stating that at a meeting of several gentlemen held 
 in Boston on Monday, November 7th, Rev. Jonathan 
 Going, being present, read an extract from his journal 
 kept during a tour through the, Western country 
 from which he had just returned ; after which it was 
 voted that the report of Mr, Going be read before 
 the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society, with 
 the request that it would "devise some system of 
 efficient operations by which the interest of piety and 
 of the Baptist denomination may be promoted in the 
 Western part of our country." 
 
 Voted, To hear the report of Mr. Going, after 
 which a committee was appointed consisting of Doc- 
 tors Daniel Sharp and Lucius S, Bolles and Revs, 
 James D. Knowles, and Henry Jackson, to take the 
 subject into consideration and report such measure 
 as they might deem it advisable for the Board to 
 
 50 
 
William D. Ticknor. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 5 I 
 
 adopt. The committee, after consultation, recom- 
 mended the following resolutions, which were unani- 
 mously adopted, viz. : 
 
 " I. Resolved, That measures ought to be immediately 
 adopted for organizing a Home Mission Society, either by 
 modifying the operations of this Society, or by forming an- 
 other. 
 
 " 2. Resolved, That the committee be nominated for the 
 formation of such a Society, with the authority to employ an 
 agent, if they shall think it advisable, and to hold such com- 
 munications with individuals in other parts of the country as 
 they shall deem it to be necessary. 
 
 "3. Resolved, That it is expedient to proceed immediately, 
 so far as our funds will permit, to appoint missionaries to labor 
 in the Valley of the Mississippi. 
 
 " 4. Resolved, That in the opinion of this Board, it is the 
 duty of Rev. Jonathan Going to devote himself to the promo- 
 tion of the cause of the Saviour in the Valley of the Missis- 
 sippi." 
 
 Voted, That the committee referred to in the 
 second resolution above consist of Revs. Daniel 
 Sharp, Lucius S. Bolles, James D. Knowles, Henry 
 Jackson, and Heman Lincoln. 
 
 An appropriation of ^100 was made this year 
 to the church in Augusta, Maine, on condition that 
 preaching be maintained, and the court-house se- 
 cured for a place of worship. 
 
 At a meeting of the Board in February, 1832, the 
 committee appointed at the last meeting to devise 
 measures relative to the formation of a Home Mission 
 
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 Society, etc., reported that Doctors Sharp and Bolles 
 and Rev. Jonathan Going had visited New York, 
 and conferred on the subject with the brethren in the 
 State. Their report was " that it was inexpedient to 
 organize a new society immediately, and it was desir- 
 able to have further consultation on the subject with 
 brethren in other parts of the country; to effect 
 this, that Rev. Jonathan Going be appointed to that 
 service." 
 
 Voted, To accept the report of this committee, and 
 defray their travelling expenses. 
 
 At the annual meeting in 1832, Rev. Joseph Graf- 
 ton, who had served the Society as President ever 
 since the death of Doctor Baldwin, declined further 
 service, and the Secretary makes this note and com- 
 ment on this action : " Rev. Mr. Grafton was unani- 
 mously nominated for President, but at his earnest 
 request was excused from again serving the Society 
 in this capacity." Of the fourteen ministers whose 
 names were officially among the members at the 
 organization of the Society two only survived. Of 
 these two, Mr. Grafton was one and Rev. John Peak 
 the other. 
 
 Between the quarterly meeting of February 8, 
 1832, and the annual meeting of the next May, it 
 would seem that the organization of the Home Mis- 
 sion Society had been effected, as the minutes 
 of the proceedings contain this item : 
 
William Lam son, D. D. 
 
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 " Rev. Jonathan Going, Secretary of the Home Mission 
 Society, addressed the congregation for ten or fifteen minutes." 
 
 At the Board meeting of the Trustees subsequently 
 held, it was — 
 
 " Resolved, That the Board now elected be authorized and 
 instructed to form such a union, and so cooperate with the 
 American Baptist Home Mission Society as will best promote 
 the great object of its organization. 
 
 " Also Voted, That the Secretary write to the Treasurer of 
 the Home Mission Society, Deacon Colgate, expressing our 
 cordial friendship for that Society, and our intention to aid 
 its operations as our means may enable us ; that the Board 
 have appropriated to their use $200, which may be called for 
 at their pleasure." 
 
 A foot-note below the records of the quarterly 
 meeting in November of this year reads: "Mr. 
 Ensign Lincoln, Treasurer of the Society, died De- 
 cember 2, 1832, Lord's Day evening. He had served 
 the Society as its Treasurer for about twenty-two 
 years." 
 
 At the next meeting it was — 
 
 «' Resolved, That this Board cherish a grateful and affection- 
 ate recollection of the services of their late Treasurer, Mr. 
 Ensign Lincoln. They deeply feel for themselves the loss they 
 have sustained in his decease, and would express their sincere 
 sympathies for his bereaved and afflicted family." 
 
 A high sense of honor and Christian courtesy 
 would seem to have characterized all the business 
 
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 proceedings of the Society from the beginning, and 
 among the acts of the year 1834, we find that upon 
 the discovery that an appropriation made several 
 years before had never been paid, the missionary 
 who suffered the loss was paid in full with interest. 
 
 As a natural result of the organization of a new 
 Society and the transfer to it of so large a portion of 
 the work, some confusion attended the period of re- 
 adjustment, but as fast as possible the work outside 
 of New England seems to have been transferred to 
 the Home Mission Society. 
 
 A Society known as the Western Baptist Educa- 
 tional Association, was organized in Boston on the 
 30th of May, 1832, for the promotion of good schools 
 and education generally in the valley of the Mississippi, 
 to be under the direction of pious, competent teach- 
 ers. While of brief existence, some $2,000 was raised 
 and applied to the special training of teachers for 
 the West, and in introducing them to their fields of 
 labor. Much effort was made by correspondence to 
 induce the inhabitants of the new towns and cities of 
 the West to establish schools in every neighborhood, 
 and academies at proper distances, having in mind 
 that instruction in Biblical theology be given in the 
 academies, and the way thus gradually prepared for 
 colleges and universities. 
 
 This Society was one of the three united in the 
 Convention at the time of its reorganization. 
 
Samuel B. Swaim, D. D. 
 
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 The young men who engaged in this educational 
 work were accustomed to visit a community, hire a 
 room, provide such furniture as seemed indispensa- 
 ble, canvass the community for pupils, and open the 
 school, depending upon their patrons for compensa- 
 tion. If they gave satisfaction, their labors met with 
 moderate recompense, but in some cases it proved 
 otherwise, and lack of patronage soon compelled their 
 retirement. 
 
 Rev. Bela Jacobs, then pastor of what is now known 
 as the Second Baptist Church, Cambridge, was also 
 sent by the Society into the Western Valley to " ex- 
 plore its vast prairies. States, and Territories, and 
 ascertain their condition, and into various parts of 
 New England to secure, encourage, and direct suit- 
 able teachers to go out to establish and maintain 
 schools." 
 
 Mr. Jacobs met with a violent death at the door 
 of his meeting-house in East Cambridge. While at- 
 tempting to step from his carriage to enter the church 
 to conduct morning worship, his horse started and 
 he was thrown to the ground and almost instantly 
 killed. 
 
 1833. This year witnessed the termination of a 
 struggle for entire separation of Church and State 
 which had extended over more than a century, and 
 none had greater occasion for rejoicing than the 
 Baptists w^ho had suffered much injustice by being 
 
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 taxed for the support of a State church. Massachu- 
 setts Baptists were first and foremost in the assertion 
 of the principles of soul liberty and universal tolera- 
 tion, and in extending their efforts to secure the 
 incorporation of their cherished principles into the 
 national Constitution, and afterward to the other 
 States of New England. The struggle finally ended 
 where it began, and had been most bitter — in Massa- 
 chusetts. Nowhere else, it would seem, were the 
 champions of the support of religion by the State so 
 persistent. The triumph was finally secured through 
 the submission to the people of an amendment to the 
 Constitution, which was ratified at the polls Nov. 
 
 II, 1833- 
 
 The amendment as at first proposed in the year 
 1820, by Rev. N. W. Williams, who was a member 
 of the Constitutional Convention, failed of adoption 
 by the narrow margin of 179 votes in favor to 186 
 opposed ; Daniel Webster, then a member, voting 
 and speaking in opposition to the change. 
 
 As early in the history of the Society as 1822, 
 considerable dissatisfaction was felt over the seeming 
 neglect of aggressive work in the State in conse- 
 quence of the Society's resources being so severely 
 taxed by the demands in regions more remote — in 
 the West in particular. As a result, at a meeting 
 held in connection with the anniversary of the Massa- 
 chusetts Baptist Missionary Society on May 26, 
 
Hon. Isaac Davis. 
 
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 S7 
 
 1824, a committee was appointed to prepare and 
 issue a circular to the Baptist churches in Massachu- 
 setts on the subject of a State Convention. The 
 formation of a Convention for the two States of 
 Massachusetts and Rhode Island was also recom- 
 mended by the Warren Association at its annual 
 meeting. The committee was authorized, if the 
 response was favorable, to issue a call for a meeting 
 and prepare a Preamble and Constitution, which was 
 done, and on November loth a meeting was held at 
 the First Baptist meeting-house in Boston, for the 
 purpose of forming a Convention of the Baptist de- 
 nomination in Massachusetts. 
 
 The call was for delegates chosen by the respective 
 Associations. 
 
 The Warren Association was represented by 
 Reverends Stephen Gano, William Gamwell, Silas 
 Hall, and Francis Wayland, Jr. 
 
 From the Boston Association came Reverends 
 Thomas Baldwin, Lucius S. Bolles, John Parkhurst, 
 Charles Train, Messrs. Charles O. Kimball and Levi 
 Farwell. 
 
 From the Worcester Association, Reverends Jona- 
 than Going, Elisha Andrews, and Abial Fisher, Jr. 
 
 From the Old Colony, Reverends Benjamin C. 
 Grafton and Samuel Glover. 
 
 From the Westfield, Reverends David Wright and 
 Samuel Abbott. 
 
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 From the Leyden, Reverend James Parsons. 
 
 The meeting organized with the choice of Rev. 
 Stephen Gano, moderator, and Charles O. Kimball, 
 clerk. 
 
 After prayer by the moderator, ministering breth- 
 ren present were invited to participate in the deliber- 
 ations. The circular addressed to the churches and 
 the call of the meeting were then read, and after 
 discussion, which continued through three sessions, 
 the draft, after being somewhat amended, was 
 adopted. (For full text of the same see Appendix 
 B, page 221.) 
 
 The new Society thus formed was composed of 
 delegates chosen by the several Associations in Mas- 
 sachusetts, in the proportion of one delegate to every 
 five churches, and a certificate of election to this ser- 
 vice, signed by the clerk of the Association, was 
 required from each delegate. 
 
 The permanent organization was effected by choos- 
 ing Rev. Lucius Bolles, D. D., President (Thomas 
 Baldwin, D. D., was first chosen, but declined ser- 
 vice). Rev. Stephen Gano, Vice - President, Rev. 
 Francis Wayland, Jr., Corresponding Secretary, Rev, 
 Jonathan Going, Recording Secretary, and Deacon 
 Levi Farwell, Treasurer. 
 
 The fact that the membership of the body was 
 almost identical with that of the Missionary Society 
 attests to the friendly relations between the two 
 
^^ 
 
 Hon. George N. Briggs. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 59 
 
 bodies, and shows conclusively that the organization 
 of the Convention originated from within the Mission- 
 ary Society, It is quite evident that in the scope 
 of its proposed work was included an effort to secure 
 closer relations between the Baptist churches of the 
 State, or rather between the churches connected with 
 the Associations of the State. It will be noticed that 
 Rev. Stephen Gano, elected as Vice-President, was 
 pastor of the First Church in Providence. The 
 statistics pubHshed for that year show that these 
 Associations included a number of churches located 
 in other States. 
 
 The preamble stated that the great object of the 
 Convention was " To promote the Cause of Christ 
 by means of affording greater facilities for concert 
 and cooperation among the Baptist churches in Mas- 
 sachusetts, and other churches associated with them." 
 But slight mention was made in the original Consti- 
 tution of an intention to conduct missionary oper- 
 ations, but provision was made for the Society to act 
 in a measure as a clearing-house to receive from 
 churches contributions for missionary objects, and 
 transmit the same to the treasurers of the respective 
 Societies. While such may have been the chief in- 
 tent, the Convention very soon began to aid churches 
 in a small way. As early as the next session, the 
 Board was instructed so far as possible to render 
 their missionaries stationary. This indicates within 
 
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 the limits of the State the general line of demarkation 
 between the Missionary Society and the Convention, 
 the work of the former being chiefly itinerary, while 
 that of the latter was more directly appHed to the 
 sustaining of a settled ministry over the churches. 
 
 Four years later an address to the churches in 
 behalf of the Convention, prepared by Rev. Rufus 
 Babcock, of Salem, makes the following statement 
 with reference to the origin of the Society : " Four 
 years since, in view of the many destitute churches, 
 and with the hope that something efficient might be 
 done by combining our labors and counsels for their 
 supply and for the infusion of the gospel, this Con- 
 vention after mature and prayerful consideration was 
 organized." 
 
 The statistics of the Associations represented gave 
 a total membership of 15,161, of which 2,418 
 belonged to churches without the State. 
 
 A significant feature of this list was the large 
 number of unassociated churches, showing at this 
 date that the fear of ecclesiastical domination still 
 made many churches distrustful of missionary organ- 
 izations. 
 
 At the anniversary in 1825, during the free con- 
 ference upon the state of religion, which was held in 
 connection with each annual meeting. Rev. Joseph 
 Grafton made touching allusion to the death of 
 Rev. Ebenezer Nelson and Dr. Thomas Baldwin, 
 
Robert C. Mills, D. D. 
 
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 with whom he had for thirty-five years been con- 
 nected in the Christian ministry, and in uninterrupted 
 brotherly love. During the thirty-eight years of his 
 connection with the Boston and Warren Associations 
 as pastor of a church, his associates, Brethren 
 Manning and Skillman, Stillman, Backus, and Smith, 
 had died, leaving him, with one other, whom he does 
 not name, the only aged ministers in the Boston Asso- 
 ciation. In connection with his judicious and force- 
 ful remarks upon education, he quoted a remark 
 which the Reverend Doctor Manning made many 
 years previous, when preaching from these words, 
 " Study to show thyself approved unto God, a work- 
 man that needeth not to be ashamed:" "Should 
 a minister have whatever literary qualifications you 
 please, if he has not an experimental knowledge 
 of the Lord Jesus Christ, he must be a workman 
 who has need to be ashamed." 
 
 The report upon the state of domestic missions 
 made grateful mention of the success which had 
 attended the labors of the parent Society : 
 
 " The hearts of thousands of saints who once enjoyed the 
 privileges of the gospel in more favored parts of the country, 
 but who had been providentially removed to destitute regions, 
 have been made to rejoice in the visits and labors of its mis- 
 sionaries, while multitudes of sinners but for these labors of 
 love might have perished for lack of the knowledge of the 
 truth as it is in Jesus. Small and feeble churches have been 
 encouraged and comforted, and many churches have been 
 
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 gathered by their labors. In some regions of the country, the 
 territories, which now contain large and flourishing associa- 
 tions, were for a time chiefly, or perhaps exclusively, supplied 
 with preaching by the efforts of this Society." 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Naturally enough the organization of the Home 
 Mission Society turned the attention of members of 
 the Missionary Society and the Convention to the 
 desirability of union. With the ehmination of the 
 work outside of Massachusetts, the denomination was 
 left with two State missionary organizations upon its 
 hands. 
 
 At the meeting of the Trustees held on November 
 II, 1834, it was recorded that they were met by 
 Brethren Abisha N, Sanderson, Addison Parker, and 
 Eben Thresher, a committee appointed by the State 
 Convention at their late meeting, to confer with the 
 Trustees respecting the amalgamation of the two 
 societies in such a way that the business might be 
 transacted by one Board, and thus have but one 
 domestic missionary society in the State. After 
 some attention to other business, they entered upon 
 a discussion of the subject of amalgamating this 
 Society with the Convention. It was proposed that 
 "this Society shall change its name, taking that of 
 'The State Convention,' as similar Conventions exist 
 in nearly all the States of the Union, and that the 
 
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 Board of the Convention take charge of the home 
 
 mission affairs of the Commonwealth." 
 
 After a free and full discussion of the subject, on 
 
 motion of Rev. Baron Stow, it was — 
 
 " Voted, That in the opinion of this Board it is expedient 
 that the proposed amalgamation take place." 
 
 The following resolutions were passed unanimously, 
 namely : 
 
 " Resolved, That a committee of three be raised to ascer- 
 tain whether a change of name of this Society to that of ' The 
 Massachusetts Baptist Convention,' and a transfer of its funds, 
 responsibilities, etc., can be made without prejudice to either, 
 and that they be authorized to take legal counsel in the 
 premises. 
 
 '■'■Resolved, That in case they become satisfied that such 
 change can consistently be made, they proceed to draw up 
 and present to the General Court of Massachusetts, a petition 
 for the same, combining such methods of action as the inter- 
 ests of the denomination, and particularly of home missions, 
 require. 
 
 ^^ Resolved, That Lucius S. Bolles, William Leverett, and 
 Jonathan Aldrich be a committee to confer with aforesaid 
 committee. 
 
 " Voted, That the committee for the Convention be chosen 
 to act with the above named committee in preparing a Consti- 
 tution and by-laws for the new Society, should such a Society 
 be formed. 
 
 " Voted, That the committee of this Board be authorized to 
 call a meeting of the Society, should that be deemed necessary, 
 and be found practicable." 
 
 The committee from the Convention held a meeting 
 and passed the following resolution : 
 
Hon. J. M. S. Williams. 
 
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 "/Resolved, That the committee on behalf of The Massa- 
 chusetts Baptist Convention to confer with the Board of The 
 Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society, with a view to the 
 amalgamation of the two Societies, are fully satisfied with the 
 measures of the Missionary Board as already entered into upon 
 this subject, and that we ardently hope that the arrangements 
 proposed may be carried into effect. 
 
 [Signed] Abisha Sanderson. 
 
 Addison Parker. 
 Ebenezer Thresher." 
 
 At the next meeting of the Trustees it was re- 
 ported by the Secretary, in behalf of the committee 
 appointed at the former meeting to take legal advice 
 on the matter of changing the name of the Society 
 to that of "The State Convention," and to petition 
 the general court for the purpose, that the agents con- 
 sulted on the subject were of the opinion " that the 
 proposed alteration may take place, and that the 
 Board can petition the Legislature for a change of 
 name." 
 
 This report was accepted, after which it was voted 
 that the committee proceed to accomplish the object 
 for which they were appointed, and that they be 
 authorized to obtain the assistance of some legal 
 agent. The Rev'ds Baron Stow and Elisha S. 
 Williams were added to the committee. 
 
 At a meeting held on the 17th of March, 1835, 
 a report was made by Doctor Bolles on behalf of the 
 committee on change of name of this Society, stating 
 
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 that the charter petitioned for had been obtained. It 
 was then voted " to authorize the Secretary to inform 
 the Convention of what had been done, and after this 
 pray that they may proceed to make arrangements 
 for assuming the funds and responsibilities of this 
 Society." 
 
 At this meeting the last appropriations of the 
 Society under its old name to churches were made, 
 recipients being the churches in Kennebunk and 
 Augusta, Me. 
 
 On the 27th of May, 1835, the thirty-third annual 
 meeting was held. After the election of officers, 
 what the Trustees had done in relation to petition- 
 ing the Legislature, and of changing the name of the 
 Society to that of the Massachusetts Baptist Conven- 
 tion, etc., was submitted to the Society, upon which 
 the following vote was unanimously passed : 
 
 '■'■Resolved^ That the Society approve what has been done by 
 Trustees, and that the whole be submitted to the acceptance of 
 the Convention by that body." 
 
 The trust was accepted, and the officers chosen 
 were approved as the officers of the Society under 
 its new name for the ensuing year. 
 
 Rev. Alonzo King, the last Secretary of the Con- 
 vention, was elected to the same position after the 
 reorganization, and entered upon his labors with 
 great zeal and much promise of usefulness ; but 
 the record of his work is brief. " He saw and 
 
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 deeply felt the wants of the churches and of the 
 country, and, listening to the solicitations of his 
 brethren, he took upon himself this toilsome office. 
 Knowing the little that had been accomplished, and 
 feeling desirous to see the cause prosper, he laid too 
 violently hold of the business for his physical ener- 
 gies, and fell a victim to his attachment to Zion." 
 We may not wonder that he broke under the strain 
 when we note his plan of operations : " The Secretary 
 of the Convention designs visiting every convention, 
 meeting of ministers and missionary society and 
 church and congregation in the denomination in the 
 Commonwealth, to lay before them the objects of 
 the Convention and obtain their cooperation. . . . 
 He will also correspond with individual and collec- 
 tive bodies in reference to these grand objects." 
 
 He was succeeded by Rev. Charles O. Kimball, 
 who during the remaining nine months of the year 
 1835-36, visited eight Associations, seven conven- 
 tions, eighty-two churches ; attended eleven church- 
 meetings, five ordinations and installations ; visited 
 and addressed thirty Sabbath schools ; delivered 1 20 
 addresses and sermons, and travelled 4,037 miles. 
 
 Of the officers in general, it may be said that the 
 selection appears to have been made from the mem- 
 bers of each of the uniting societies. With this union 
 the original name disappears for a time. 
 
 At the next anniversary, held on the 26th of May, 
 
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 1836, the annual report made this fitting mention of 
 the past : 
 
 " This Society has long and deservedly held a place in the 
 affections and participated in the contributions of the rehgious 
 public. It has contributed no small share to the interest which 
 the anniversaries of this consecrated week have in former years 
 excited. At its annual meeting we have met the venerable 
 fathers in our denomination, and witnessed their zeal and lib- 
 erality in the cause of God. Its nativity is marked with the 
 very commencement of the nineteenth century ; it is the first 
 Baptist Missionary Society ever established in this country. 
 It was founded in this city May 26, 1802, just thirty-four years 
 ago this day. It had its origin in the prayers, and was watered 
 by the tears of those holy men now with God, — Stillman, 
 Smith, Baldwin, Gano, and their associates. They saw the 
 whitening fields around them, and entered into their labors 
 with alacrity and joy. 
 
 " Through the instrumentalities of this Society, a large 
 number of feeble churches have been revived and enlarged ; 
 and thousands of immortal souls have been brought under the 
 saving influence of the gospel. Its missionaries have travelled 
 and preached in almost every State and Territory in the Union, 
 the British Provinces, and some of the West India Islands. 
 This Society has employed more than 190 different mission- 
 aries, who have faithfully and successfully labored in its service 
 for a period in the aggregate of more than 230 years. Its re- 
 ceipts and disbursements have exceeded the sum of $70,000. 
 Naught but the annals of eternity can disclose the amount of 
 good accomplished and the number of precious souls saved by 
 these holy and untiring labors of love." 
 
 In something like a song of triumph, the report 
 goes on to speak as follows of the union which 
 has been effected : 
 
George Barton Ide, D. D. 
 
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 " The friends and patrons of domestic missions have 
 been long and ardently desirous of obtaining a simple 
 and efficient organization in this important department 
 of benevolent effort throughout this ancient Commonwealth ; 
 an organization economical in its expenditures, vigorous 
 in its operations, and uniting all their energies, while it 
 should with the utmost kindness equally and judiciously dis- 
 pense its benefactions to all the deserving applicants ; an 
 organization which should embrace the combined efforts of 
 the whole denomination in this Commonwealth in sending the 
 gospel to the great Western Valley, and in aiding our feeble 
 churches and supplying destitute places at home ; and an 
 organization which should present this momentous subject 
 before the Christian community sometime during the week of 
 our religious festivities, affording them an opportunity of con- 
 gratulating the friends of our adorable Redeemer upon the 
 prosperity of the cause, and soliciting their fervent prayers and 
 liberal contributions. 
 
 " This grand object, so desirable in itself, and so important 
 to the pfomotion of the cause of Christ in the midst of us, it 
 is confidently believed has been accomplished by the recent 
 changes in our domestic operations. For strict attention to 
 the personal piety of individual members of a Christian church, 
 and to the spirituality and discipline of the churches in a de- 
 nomination are of vital importance to the prosperity of Zion. 
 These alterations were brought about by means of an amalga- 
 mation of three distinct societies into one, viz. : 
 
 " The Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society, The Con- 
 vention, and The Western Baptist Education Society." 
 
CHAPTER IX. 
 
 At the thirty-fourth anniversary, a report was 
 made of aid rendered to thirty-one churches in the 
 support of pastors, while the Westfield Evangelical 
 Benevolent Society, the Wendell Missionary Society, 
 the Domestic Missionary Society of the Barnstable 
 Association, and a similar organization in the Old 
 Colony Association, also aided ten churches, of which 
 specific mention was made. Many others were prob- 
 ably aided. On the list of churches receiving aid 
 that year are several that have long since become 
 among the strongest churches in the State ; for 
 example, Athol, Fitchburg First, Medway, Gardner, 
 Springfield First, Taunton, Winchendon, and Glou- 
 cester First. 
 
 At this time, and for several succeeding years, 
 Charles O. Kimball, the Secretary, devoted his 
 entire time to the work of the Convention, and 
 until the unsatisfactory financial condition eventu- 
 ally led to the dispensing with the services of a paid 
 Secretary. 
 
 Under the arrangements which then existed with 
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HISTORICAL SKETCH J I 
 
 the Home Mission Society, in addition to whatever 
 was received as designated for Home Missions, the 
 Convention contributed from its treasury all its re- 
 ceipts in excess of ^3,000. During the first year 
 after the reorganization, the total receipts of the 
 Convention were ^3,579.96; for Home Missions, 
 ;^i, 346.92 ; for the Western Educational Work Asso- 
 ciation, $1 19.65. The following year showed a pain- 
 ful decrease in the receipts for distinctly State work, 
 and the decline continued until a considerable debt 
 had been incurred, and the Society became so handi- 
 capped by debt that for several years very few 
 appropriations were made. 
 
 It is difficult to understand fully what were the 
 causes that led to this decline in interest on the part 
 of the churches in State Missions. Perhaps the great 
 interest in Foreign Missions, and the attractiveness of 
 the work of the Home Mission Society in the West, 
 where so many of their kindred had removed, served 
 in some measure to divert attention from the work 
 of the home field. 
 
 In this time of financial difficulty, the question of 
 ways and means was prominent before each anniver- 
 sary meeting, and the employment of agents to visit 
 the churches and solicit contributions much discussed. 
 
 Many of the methods which come before mission- 
 ary societies at anniversaries at the present time were 
 proposed and considered; and as early as 1836 we 
 
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 find what is now known as the "wheel plan," of 
 setting apart the benevolence of certain months to 
 some specific object, recommended to the churches 
 for adoption. Agents were employed for brief terms, 
 but men soon tired in the service, and the increased 
 receipts as a result of such appeals seemed hardly 
 sufficient to warrant the continuance of effort. 
 
 During this period churches, to a much greater 
 extent, contributed money to constitute a pastor, or 
 some member, a life member. Perhaps this method 
 may have been more general because the membership 
 of the body was at this time so largely made up of 
 delegates appointed by the several Associations, but 
 whatever the motive, the result of increasing the Ufe- 
 membership has always been good, as it tends to 
 multiply the number of individuals who have special 
 interest in the work. 
 
 Considerable income was derived from the Chris- 
 tian Watchman through an arrangement with the 
 publisher, Mr. William Nichols, supposed to be of 
 mutual advantage. The Convention, through its 
 missionaries and pastors, endeavored to promote the 
 circulation of the paper, and a percentage of the 
 profits was paid into the treasury of the Convention. 
 The receipts from this source amounted to about 
 ;^300 a year for several years. 
 
 In the annual report for 1837 mention was made 
 of the eminent success which had attended the labors 
 
William H. Shailer, D. D. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 73 
 
 of a. worthy pastor, who had succeeded in introducing 
 the paper into every family in his congregation. 
 
 For a few years after the reorganization, a con- 
 siderable portion of the funds received came from the 
 Baptist Evangelical Benevolent Society in the western 
 part of Massachusetts, designated to be expended 
 within the limits of the Westfield Association. 
 
 This Society deserves more extended mention. 
 At the annual meeting of the Westfield Associ- 
 ation, held at Becket, September 3d and 4th, 1823, 
 a committee, of which Rev'ds Asa Todd and 
 Thomas Rand were members, offered a report : 
 " That it is their opinion that the moral state of the 
 surrounding region, the tone of Christian feeling in 
 the churches, and the spirit of the times, urge the 
 expediency of forming, without loss of time, a society 
 which can receive and appropriate the avails of their 
 Christian liberality ; and that it is expedient to ap- 
 point a personal meeting, and to recommend to each 
 of the churches of this Association to send delegates, 
 for the purpose of organizing such a society and con- 
 sulting on the course which shall tend most to its 
 future prosperity." This report was adopted, and the 
 Society was duly organized at a special meeting held 
 in November of the same year, with the Rev. David 
 Wright, of Westfield, Secretary, and Mr. Norman 
 Warriner, of Agawam, Treasurer. 
 
 The receipts from the churches from year to year 
 
74 HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 were widely distributed, but the more considerable 
 portion was used through the channel of the Con- 
 vention. An annual missionary meeting was held 
 in connection with the Association. The Society 
 continued until 1852, 
 
 The following resolution, proposed by Rev. Jona- 
 than Loring, and adopted by the annual meeting in 
 1837, seems worthy of note, revealing as it does the 
 high ideal of the fathers whose memory and deeds 
 we recall. 
 
 " Resolved^ That from the obligations of the Christian to 
 the Lord Jesus Christ, the peculiar circumstances of our 
 denomination, especially in the valley of the Mississippi ; the 
 efforts now making by foreign influence to subvert our most 
 sacred principles, and control our future destinies, and the 
 voice of Divine Providence from the four quarters of the 
 globe for a more enlarged system of benevolent effort, our 
 whole denomination in North America, are held by the most 
 sacred bonds to desire most ardently, to pray most devoutly 
 and constantly, to labor unremittingly, and to contribute bounti- 
 fully for Home Missions, till every church is provided with 
 a pastor, every family brought under religious influence, every 
 child sufficiently taught in the Word of God ; every town, 
 village, and settiement provided with religious ministrations ; 
 every ordinance of the gospel restored to apostolic purity, 
 every private and public vice eradicated, and every sinner 
 converted." 
 
 The report of the Board for the year 1837 was 
 very methodically arranged under ten sub-heads : 
 
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 1. Churches visited. 6. Difficulties to encounter. 
 
 2. Destitute churches sup- 7. Associations. 
 
 plied. 8, Agencies. 
 
 3. Missionaries employed. 9. Applications and appropri- 
 
 4. Teachers directed to the ations. 
 
 West. ID, Closing remarks. 
 
 5. American Baptist Home 
 
 Mission Society. 
 
 Forty-one churches received assistance during the 
 year, and among the destitute places supplied, Sud- 
 bury, Neponset, and Long Plain were mentioned. 
 
 Rev. David Wright, missionary in the Westfield 
 Association, reported raising ^2,800 for the Central 
 Baptist Church in Westfield to aid it in building, and 
 apologizes for giving so large a portion of his time to 
 this one church, saying, " I trust labor there will not 
 ultimately be in vain, and therefore have felt justified 
 in spending much time with them." He had also 
 found time to preach 180 times. Among the diffi- 
 culties to encounter, four find explicit mention : 
 First, "The exceeding ardent desires manifested by 
 many to get immediately rich." Second, "The un- 
 paralleled pecuniary embarrassments of the times." 
 Third, "The want of systematic and persevering 
 efforts in carrying forward the benevolent enterprises 
 of the day." And fourth, "The frequent removal of 
 pastors." Mention was also made of a few "anti- 
 effort" churches which disparaged Sabbath schools 
 and mission societies. 
 
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 During the remainder of the decade 1830-40 there 
 was a continuance of the financial crisis, and the 
 work was carried on with difficulty and much cur- 
 tailment, but, notwithstanding, a considerable debt 
 was incurred. A church was organized this year at 
 Woodville, Hon, Isaac Davis, of Worcester, suc- 
 ceeded Levi Farwell, of Cambridge, as President, in 
 1838. 
 
 In 1839 the continuance of unfavorable financial 
 conditions culminated at the annual meeting in the 
 offering of a resolution looking to such modifications 
 of the duties of the Secretary as would allow of their 
 performance by a pastor whose compensation should 
 be nominal. This proposition was referred to the 
 Board, and resulted in the retirement of Secretary 
 Kimball, who was succeeded by Rev. Charles Train, 
 of Framingham, the first of a line of unpaid servants 
 who, after the reorganization, served the Society with 
 great fidelity and ability, only accepting remuneration 
 to meet their expenses necessarily incurred. The first 
 meeting of the decade 1840-50 was one of great de- 
 spondency. Owing to small receipts and the former 
 use by some contributions designated for the Home 
 Mission Society necessitating reimbursement, only 
 1^230 was appropriated to churches for the entire 
 year, this amount being divided between Spencer, 
 Rome, Townsend, East Randolph, Amherst, South- 
 boro, Woodville, and Buckland. The total receipts 
 
Daniel C. Eddy, D. D. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH jy 
 
 for the year amounted to $2,121. Under such de- 
 pressing conditions, only relieved by the fact that all 
 outstanding obligations had been discharged, a cir- 
 cular was addressed to the churches asking increased 
 contributions. The response was not very hearty, 
 and a committee on the future pohcy of the Conven- 
 tion reported, only suggesting the employment of an 
 additional missionary, without indicating any method 
 by which his support could be provided. 
 
CHAPTER X. 
 
 In 1 84 1 the Board was able to distribute among 
 the churches only ^550. A considerable portion 
 of this amount was expended in aid of the First 
 Church, Pittsfield, and the churches at Northampton, 
 Medway, and Baldwin sville. A paragraph from the 
 annual report may sound as familiar as a thrice- 
 told tale: 
 
 " The Board of the Convention ! what have they done the 
 past year ? They have met regularly each quarter, listened to 
 appeals most thrilling, moving appeals from feeble and desti- 
 tute churches within the limits of the Commonwealth ; they 
 have then coolly, anxiously deliberated and inquired what was 
 the state of the treasury ; and they have divided the scanty 
 sum at their disposal among these churches, somewhat in the 
 manner that the parent would divide his only loaf among his 
 crying, starving children." 
 
 This year the Board did one great, grand deed that 
 resulted in untold benefit, in securing for a missionary 
 the Rev, Hervey Fittz, whose whole subsequent life 
 was given to most faithful and efficient itinerant 
 service among the churches of the State. Of the 
 
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HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 79 
 
 extent of his useful labors, and the results accom- 
 plished through his long and faithful ministry, the 
 half has never been told. 
 
 In 1844 Hon. Levi Farwell, who had had two 
 periods of service as President, died, and of him it 
 was said, " His history has been written in acts of 
 benevolence, known and read of all men." Asa Wil- 
 bur, the beloved deacon, was elected his successor. 
 
 This year (1844) there was a manifest change 
 in tone. The annual report speaks of largely 
 increased receipts, in part, however, due to a legacy, 
 and of much more accomplished than in years imme- 
 diately preceding. The churches at Medford, Acton, 
 and East Boston appear upon the list of those receiv- 
 ing aid. 
 
 In 1845 the Board recommended the plan of 
 apportioning to the churches the amount asked from 
 each for the year, which was adopted and has been 
 to a considerable extent continued to the present 
 time — a plan which has been ignored by some 
 churches, but on the whole has proved the most 
 successful of the various methods which have been 
 tried. 
 
 The annual report for 1846 tells of sixty-two 
 churches needing aid to the amount of 1^4,000, with 
 nine localities in which new churches ought to be 
 organized. An able report upon finances fur- 
 nished this terse summary of important principles 
 
8o HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 to be applied to the benevolent contributions of the 
 churches : 
 
 "Giving should be (i) Systematic; (2) Personal; (3) Fre- 
 quent ; (4) ' As God hath prospered.' " This was designated as 
 the Apostolic plan. 
 
 The chairman of the committee, and evidently 
 the writer of this notable report, was Rev. William 
 Hague. In a retrospect, the annual report recalls 
 to mind the more than thirty years' history preced- 
 ing the one of the Home Mission Society, and adds, 
 " We shall be claiming nothing which is not justly 
 due in saying that the plan of that noble institution 
 was conceived and matured chiefly by men who had 
 been connected with the Massachusetts Baptist Mis- 
 sionary Society." 
 
 This year the annual meeting was changed from 
 May to October, and what was originally regarded 
 as an experiment, afterward became the settled 
 practice. 
 
 As a nucleus of a permanent fund, the Society this 
 year set aside ^3,000 paid on a legacy made to the 
 original organization in 18 14. This money came 
 from the estate of Thomas Baxter, of Bridgewater. 
 That it was over thirty years in reaching the treasury 
 shows that legal proceedings in former times were not 
 always expeditious. 
 
 Among the successful applicants for aid appear 
 
Joseph C. Foster, D. D. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 8 I 
 
 the churches at Westminster and Charlestown 
 Neck. 
 
 Among the curiosities of this period we find an 
 amendment to the Constitution allowing the election, 
 in addition to the President, of a moderator for the 
 annual meeting. 
 
 In 1847 the Baptist ministers of Massachusetts 
 united over their own signatures in a declaration and 
 protest upon the question of slavery. (See Appen- 
 dix D, page 231.) The original document in the hand- 
 writing of Baron Stow, which has been preserved, 
 contains the signature of 116 ministers, but one of 
 whom is now living. This interesting paper will 
 be found in the Appendix, and no person reading it 
 will be left in doubt with reference to the attitude 
 of Massachusetts Baptist ministers at that time upon 
 a question which was destined in a few years to con- 
 vulse the nation. 
 
 The report of 1849 contains the first allusion to 
 a decrease in population in some of the towns — the 
 beginning of that great exodus to the West, and 
 the gravitation to great manufacturing centres, which 
 has almost depopulated many towns, and for a decade 
 made the term " Convention "and " feeble churches " 
 almost synonymous. The mention of this drift in 
 population occurs in a threefold classification of aided 
 churches as those (i) weak from a decrease in popu- 
 lation ; (2) weak from overshadowing influences ; (3) 
 
82 HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 weak because recently organized in manufacturing 
 places, but full of promise. 
 
 The Committee on Sunday Schools and Publica- 
 tions reported a list of the Baptist publications with 
 the circulation in the State and elsewhere. The cir- 
 culation was as follows : Missionary Magazine, 1,240 ; 
 Christian Reviezv, 171 ; Sunday School Treasury, 
 1,200; Macedonian, 4,162; Reaper, 7,000; Watch- 
 man and Reflector, 6,732. 
 
 A legacy by Mrs. Prudence Far well, of Cambridge, 
 provided that the Missionary Union pay $400 annu- 
 ally in perpetuity to the Treasurer of the Convention. 
 With the consent of all parties the Convention ac- 
 cepted, instead, ^6,666 as payment in full. 
 
 An appropriation of ^100 to Leominster would 
 seem to have been made prior to the organization of 
 the church. 
 
 In 1846 the Home Mission Society dissolved its 
 connection with the Convention, and determined to 
 rely in the future wholly upon its own agencies. 
 
 The report for 1849 chronicles the death of Rev. 
 Charles Train in these words : 
 
 " Years before a majority of this body had entered upon the 
 scenes of active life, his name was enrolled among the friends 
 and officers of the Convention and of the Missionary Society, 
 of which it is the legal representative. In one of the darkest 
 periods of its history, our departed brother was appointed 
 Secretary of this body, and by his wisdom and efficiency lost 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 83 
 
 confidence was to a considerable extent restored to the Conven- 
 tion, and during his time of service some of those measures 
 were taken and plans adopted which have given efficiency to 
 the Convention in later years." 
 
 The receipts from the churches in 1850 were 
 small, amounting to only ;^ 1,600, and aided churches 
 only received ^1,259. Among those who shared in 
 the distribution was one long since become a power 
 and one of the most generous contributors of recent 
 years, — the Second Church in Holyoke. The Con- 
 vention has made few better investments than in this 
 noble church. Natick, Gardner, and Winchendon 
 were also on the list at this time. 
 
 The annual meeting of 185 1, held in Fall River, 
 was characterized by a progressive spirit, and several 
 of its recommendations have continued in force to the 
 present time. With this date began the printing of 
 the list of ordained ministers, alphabetically arranged 
 and classified as to their present employment, and 
 the page devoted to a summary of the Associations 
 was revised, with added columns. In 1 851, for the 
 only time in the Convention's history, the annual 
 sermon, by H. T. Love, pastor at North Adams, was 
 printed in full with the minutes. It was a most re- 
 markable sermon, containing many statistics whose 
 compilation must have cost the preacher much labor, 
 and pervaded by a missionary spirit based upon 
 the highest motives. The year immediately preced- 
 
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 ing had been a period of religious declension through- 
 out New England, following the extraordinary activity 
 and large ingatherings of the period 1840-43, when 
 so many looked for the immediate return of the Lord 
 Jesus, and the sermon was a trumpet-call to renewed 
 activity and consecration. The lost condition and 
 future prospects of the impenitent were presented 
 with startUng imagery, and the unutterable responsi- 
 bility of the Church of Christ exhibited in the plainest 
 terms. In a foot-note, the author credits the Berk- 
 shire and the Boston Associations with being excep- 
 tions from the rule of decrease in membership, and 
 notes that the increase of the former for a decade 
 had been 144 per cent., while the churches of the 
 latter had increased for the same period three thou- 
 sand in aggregate membership. 
 
 The expense incurred in publishing this sermon 
 caused dissatisfaction and resulted soon afterward in 
 the passage of a resolution prohibiting the printing of 
 sermons at the Society's expense. At the same 
 meeting, the President of the Convention, A. J. 
 Bellows, M. D., contributed a valuable table of statis- 
 tics showing the increase in population and in the 
 membership of evangelical churches for the last 
 twenty years. 
 
 At the date of compilation, one person to eight 
 and one-half in the State was a member of a Baptist, 
 Congregationalist, or Methodist church. The gain 
 
George W. Bos worth, D. D. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 85 
 
 in population had been 62 per cent. ; in church-mem- 
 bership in the denomination, ^6 per cent. In Boston 
 the gain in population had been 124 per cent., and in 
 church-membership as above, 163 per cent. 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 
 The semi-centennial of the Society in 1852, held 
 with the church in Framingham, was not observed by 
 special services, but the report of the Board from the 
 pen of Rev. William H. Shailer was largely devoted to 
 a review of the past history of the Convention. The 
 report closes tenderly with the following reflections 
 upon the brevity of human life and service : 
 
 " Fifty years hence, probably not one of us on whom the 
 responsibilities of sustaining this Association now rest will be 
 living. All, all will have passed on to that other state of exist- 
 ence. But it is a pleasing thought that of the faithful, the 
 sower and the reaper shall rejoice together ! Here one generation 
 succeeds another, and we labor in places and offices made vacant 
 by others, some of whom we have only known in name, and the 
 records which have been left of their deeds and their virtues ; 
 and this is the condition on which we have our earthly existence, 
 our works are to have a termination, our places are to be left 
 desolate ; earth has no rest for us, no abiding-place ; for a city 
 in which they may continue and repose, the faithful must look 
 beyond this world. In the beautiful language of another, 
 ' There is only one dwelling-place of the good which shall never 
 be desolate ; only the shade of the tree of life shall be always 
 refreshing ; only the stream from the fountain of life shall flow 
 on without end.' Let us seek so to live and act our part on the 
 stage of life, that we may be gathered in that place, repose 
 
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 beneath the shade of that tree, and drink of the stream from 
 that fountain." 
 
 That no more special attention was given to so 
 notable an anniversary seems strange in the light of 
 present tendencies. The records fail to show that 
 other than in the annual report any allusion was 
 made to the completion of a half-century of service. 
 Of those present at this meeting, there still remain 
 among us Reverends C. M. Bowers, J. M. Rockwood, 
 Jonathan Tilson, D. B. Ford, and J. H. Tilton, with 
 Rev. William Howe, who does not seem to have been 
 present at the anniversary meeting. 
 
 Both the President and the Secretary retired at 
 this meeting, and were succeeded respectively by Rev. 
 Daniel Sanderson and Rev. George W. Bosworth. 
 
 The only notable action taken at this meeting was 
 an endorsement of the then new Maine Liquor Law, 
 and a vote to curtail the length of the reports from 
 each Association to what could be read in six minutes. 
 A comparison of the receipts for distinctively State 
 work in 185 1 with those of 1841 show an increase 
 from $1,221 to $3,827. 
 
 At the annual meeting in 1853, complaint was 
 made that the missionaries of the Convention had 
 labored with churches not needing such assistance, 
 and that they had unduly interfered with the supply- 
 ing of the churches. A committee of inquiry was 
 appointed, who were unable to find facts substantiat- 
 
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 ing the charges preferred, and recommended that any 
 party aggrieved present his grievance to the Board. 
 
 The death of Daniel Sharp, D. D., for more than 
 forty years pastor of the Charles Street Church in 
 Boston, Secretary under the old organization of the 
 Society from 1813 to 1829, gave occasion for the 
 remark that "This Society has probably been more 
 indebted to the personal work of Doctor Sharp than 
 any other man. The annual reports for the years of 
 his service — years so eventful in the history of the 
 denomination — were prepared by his pen, and are 
 replete with wisdom and historic matter." 
 
 At a subsequent meeting, arrangements were made 
 for the publication of a suitable memoir of this 
 venerable man. 
 
 In 1857 it was proposed that an inquiry be made 
 as to the feasibility of some consolidation of benevo- 
 lent societies. The annual report of this year 
 alludes to a financial crisis, seriously affecting benevo- 
 lent contributions. 
 
 At the annual meeting in 1859, held in Spring- 
 field, the President, George B. Ide, D. D., introduced 
 a colored woman who made a plea for the last hun- 
 dred of ^1,000 needed to purchase her sister's 
 freedom, and the required amount was at once 
 contributed. 
 
 In i860 a new officer was appointed in the person 
 of Rev. Kendall Brooks, who was elected Statistical 
 
Joseph Ricker, D. D. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 89 
 
 Secretary, and the sum of ^25 placed at his disposal 
 for expenses of correspondence. 
 
 During the ten years 1850-60, thirty-three new 
 churches were organized, twenty-two of which were 
 for a time beneficiaries of the Society. During the 
 same period, the names of ten churches disappeared 
 from the list. They were for the most part churches 
 in towns being rapidly depopulated, from which the 
 youth went forth to the larger possibilities of the 
 city and Western life. 
 
 Probably the extinction of most of these churches 
 was an inevitable result of the changed conditions in 
 rural Massachusetts, but subsequent changes have 
 shown that assistance given a little longer might 
 have resulted in ultimate recovery and the perpetua- 
 tion of denominational interests in what are now im- 
 portant centres, where, for lack of a Baptist church, 
 much loss of members results, and the children 
 in Baptist families become associated with other 
 churches, with whose Sabbath schools and social 
 life they have become identified. There are such 
 towns at present in which there are many Baptists 
 residing, very few of whose children, if converted, 
 will be found adhering to the faith of their fathers. 
 
 Over the meeting held with the Harvard Street 
 Church, Boston, Oct. 30, 1861, the shadow of the 
 Civil War hung deeply, and the reports in general 
 contained allusions to the absence in the army of 
 
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 pastors and members, and the unspeakable solicitude 
 for the living at the front, and of sorrow for those 
 who had already lain down their lives. 
 
 Among the committees appointed for this year 
 was one of the state of the country. Their report, 
 which was replete with Christian patriotism, was 
 adopted, and the copy transmitted to the State De- 
 partment at Washington. It reads as follows: 
 
 " This Convention of the Baptist churches of Massachusetts, 
 convened in a time of formidable revolt and civil war, deems 
 it fitting to put on record its solemn judgment in reference to 
 the principles involved in the pending strife, and the duty of 
 Christian citizens toward an imperilled government. 
 
 " We hold that government is the first necessity of social 
 beings, and hence must be a divine ordinance, and not a 
 human device ; that men are under it, not as having joined it, 
 but as being bound up in an original law of social life which 
 acts with equal force on all the scattered particles of human- 
 ity ; in short, that God is the founder of the civil state and the 
 sole Fountain of civil power ; according to the words of the 
 apostle, ' For there is no power but of God ; the powers that 
 be are ordained of God.' 
 
 " We also hold that, as government is a divine ordinance, it 
 is to be exercised not as man pleases, but as God ordains, 
 that is to say, for the great ends of individual and social well- 
 being, in the appointed ways of Christian well doing; and 
 that, in the true sphere of its ordination, it is entitled to the 
 reverence and obedience of all who share its protection or live 
 under its sway. Holding these views to be grounded alike in 
 reason and in Scripture, Therefore 
 
 " Resolved^ That we regard the existing revolt against our 
 National Government, not only as a breach of human law, but 
 
Deacon George W. Chipman. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 9 1 
 
 as wanton rebellion against the authority of God ; and whether 
 we consider the Sovereignty which it spurns, or the iniquity 
 which it seeks to enthrone, it must be contemplated with 
 execration and loathing by all unprejudiced and God-fearing 
 men. 
 
 " Resolved, That inasmuch as this unrighteous war against 
 a good and beneficent government is waged avowedly in the 
 interest of African Slavery, which has been authoritatively set 
 forth as the corner-stone of the so-called Southern Confeder- 
 acy, the fact ought to open the eyes of all loyal men as to the 
 character and tendencies of that system of abominations, and 
 to lead the public authorities to avail themselves of every 
 measure justified by the spirit of the Constitution, and de- 
 manded by the political or military exigencies of the time, for 
 its eradication from the land. 
 
 " Resolved, That it is the duty of our people, in this solemn 
 crisis which has come upon us, to rally as one man for the 
 support of our cherished institutions of government, and that 
 it behooves all, without respect to sect or party, to strengthen 
 the hands of the National Administration by a prompt response 
 to all its legitimate behests, by a patient forbearance toward 
 all alleged excesses or its seeming shortcomings, and by every 
 form of material and moral support. 
 
 " Resolved, That we recognize in the present mournful state 
 of our country the righteous visitation of a jealous God ; and 
 that we can look for salvation only by turning away from our 
 vain boastings, by repairing the wrongs which we have prac- 
 tised against the weak, by renouncing the greed of our avarice, 
 and by dealing justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with 
 our God." 
 
 Secretary Joseph Ricker, who had served since 
 1858, notes as a matter of wonder that the receipts 
 from the churches had not been materially diminished 
 
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 by the political disturbances, and the diversion of 
 interest. What has been said of this year applies 
 with equal force to the succeeding years of the con- 
 tinuance of the great rebellion. 
 
 In 1863 William D. Ticknor, after a period of 
 service extending over twenty-eight years, retired 
 from the position of Treasurer, which he had so ably 
 filled, and was succeeded by George W. Chipman. 
 The thanks of the Convention were tendered the 
 retiring Treasurer for the very valuable and satisfac- 
 tory services he had long rendered as the Treasurer 
 of this body. He died a few months afterward while 
 away on a business trip. Unusual mortality prevailed 
 among the members of the Board during this year, 
 no less than six deaths occurring. 
 
 The first beginnings of the controversy concerning 
 the education of the freedmen were made a matter of 
 consideration by the annual meeting in 1863, and 
 the action of the American Baptist Home Mission 
 Society in seeking to organize a distinct department 
 for the work of instructing, elevating, and Christian- 
 izing this long oppressed and neglected people was 
 heartily approved. It is noted that Dr. Baron Stow, 
 who had presided over the Convention for the last 
 four years with distinguished ability, and who had 
 declined reelection, resigned the chair to his succes- 
 sor, S. B. Swaim, D. D. 
 
 At the annual meeting for 1865, held in Taunton, 
 
C. AI. Bowers, D. D. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 93 
 
 Rev. Joseph Ricker declined reelection as Secretary 
 and was succeeded by one who is still a member of 
 the Board, outranking all others in consecutive ser- 
 vice, Charles M. Bowers, D. D., of Clinton. Large 
 mortality also finds record in the report for this year, 
 including in the list of taken, the names of S. B. 
 Swaim, D. D., President of the Society, and Francis 
 Wayland, LL. D., who was Secretary of the Society 
 for the years 1824-25. 
 
 The return of peace to the land was joyfully 
 welcomed and gratefully acknowledged, and the next 
 year, 1866, the Committee on the State of the Coun- 
 try gave strong expression of opposition to any policy 
 of reconstruction which should ignore the criminality 
 of the late rebellion. A new voice raised in the dis- 
 cussions of the annual meeting, was that of one who 
 afterward became one of the most earnest advocates 
 of an aggressive policy in the work of State evangel- 
 ization, Albert K. Potter, D. D., then of Springfield. 
 
 C. M. Bowers, D. D., after a service of a single 
 year, resigned as Secretary to allow the election to the 
 office of a man to give his whole time to the raising 
 of funds for the Convention, to the reorganization of 
 its agencies, and the general oversight of its interests. 
 This change occurring during the interim between 
 annual meetings. Rev. B. F. Bronson was appointed 
 Secretary by the Board, and this action was con- 
 firmed by his reelection at the next annual meeting. 
 
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 This change marked a return to the policy which 
 prevailed after reorganization. 
 
 With peace, there seems to have come increased 
 spiritual prosperity ; not for many years had there 
 been so large ingathering to the churches, and the 
 roll of membership was enlarged in one year to the 
 extent of over two thousand members. 
 
 After a service of less than, two years. Secretary 
 Bronson resigned, and his predecessor, C. M. Bowers, 
 D. D., also became his successor, and, in the annual 
 report for that year, recalled some items of great 
 interest from the past history of the Convention, 
 such as the fact that Dr. Francis Wayland, Rev, 
 John M. Peck, Professors Ira Chase and Solomon 
 Peck, and Dr. Jonathan Going had been salaried 
 missionaries in the employ of the Society. 
 
 In 1868 circumstances precipitated throughout the 
 denomination a spirited discussion of the communion 
 question, and at the annual meeting of that year the 
 following preamble and resolution, presented by Rev. 
 William Lamson, were adopted : 
 
 " Whereas the Massachusetts Baptist Convention has from 
 its origin acknowledged the Scriptures to be the supreme 
 authority for Christians in all matters of faith and practice, 
 Therefore, 
 
 " Resolved, That this Convention, in common with our de- 
 nomination, recognize the order of baptism before the Lord's 
 Supper as a divine authority, it having been observed by the 
 Apostolic and the New Testament Church ; and for any 
 
Hon. Chester W. Kingsley. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 95 
 
 inversion of this order we have no precept or example or 
 allusion in the Word of God." 
 
 The two churches contributing the largest amount 
 into the treasury of the Convention for the year 
 1869 were First, Springfield, which contributed $6^-^), 
 and Second, Holyoke, ^400, the gross receipts for 
 the year amounting to $9,238. The long extended 
 litigation to secure what is known as the Bumstead 
 Estate this year reached a successful conclusion, 
 which was the occasion of much rejoicing ; and had 
 the future appreciation in value of that property been 
 anticipated, a still higher note of joy might have 
 been struck. 
 
 In 1870, the question of the appointment of a 
 Financial Secretary received considerable attention, 
 but a resolution authorizing such appointment was 
 laid upon the table. Aid was rendered during 1869 
 to sixty-one churches, a much larger number than 
 ever before. The report of the Board contains the 
 melancholy announcement that the receipts from 
 churches and individuals had fallen to less than 
 ;^5,ooo for the year, and that over two-thirds of the 
 churches of one of the largest Associations had made 
 no contribution whatever ; the aggregate from all 
 the churches of the State being less than the salary 
 paid their pastor by several churches. Expenditures 
 made necessary in the improvement of the Bumstead 
 Estate, so that it could become a producer of income, 
 
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 tended to diminish further the amount available for 
 aiding churches. 
 
 During the decade closing with the year 1870, 
 eighteen new churches were organized, Lawrence, 
 Second ; Lynn, Third ; East Gloucester ; Union Tem- 
 ple, Boston ; State Street, Springfield ; Broadway, 
 Cambridge ; West Newton, First ; Groveland ; West 
 Amesbury ; Pondville ; Marlboro ; Quincy Point ; 
 North Bellingham ; Franklin ; Brookville ; Stoneham ; 
 Orange ; and Ruggles Street, Boston. Quincy Point 
 and Groveland failed to obtain a permanent foothold. 
 Could the present extensive ship-building at Quincy 
 Point, with the great increase of population, have 
 been foreseen, and the property retained, it would 
 now afford facilities for labor in an important 
 field without injury to the Calvary or West Quincy 
 churches. The number of churches dropped from 
 the list during this period was twenty, showing a 
 decrease of two in ten years, but there was a net 
 increase of about five thousand in membership. 
 
William A. Munroe, Esq. 
 
CHAPTER XII. 
 
 In the year 1870, the American Baptist Home 
 Mission Society began work in the State among the 
 Canadian French. Hitherto all that had been done 
 in the work of evangelization of the various races 
 composing the new population had been sporadic and 
 in connection with local churches. The prevaiHng 
 conditions served to make manifest to those who 
 studied the situation the necessity of special effort. 
 In the light of subsequent developments, the impor- 
 tance of this movement cannot be overestimated, and 
 the indebtedness of the denomination locally to the 
 Home Mission Society for its wise forecast and 
 initiative, deserves the emphasis of lively gratitude. 
 
 It is to the honor of the Baptist denomination 
 that they were the first to put forth organized effort 
 for the evangelization of the French in the United 
 States. 
 
 The French Baptist work which is now being car- 
 ried on in New England began in 1870. The first 
 missionary employed was Rev. Narcisse Cyr, who 
 labored in Haverhill, Salem, Worcester, Springfield, 
 Lowell, and Fall River. He was succeeded, in 1873, 
 
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98 HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 by Rev. J. N. Williams, who has continued as general 
 missionary to the French in New England to the 
 present time — a man of wisdom and devout Chris- 
 tian spirit, whose labors have been invaluable. 
 
 The general feeling of the churches toward distinct 
 work among the foreign population was at first some- 
 what averse, for various reasons, and awaking to the 
 responsibility of this mission field at our own doors 
 came very slowly. This change of population, not 
 paralleled in any State in the Union, which continues 
 with accelerating rapidity, and had reached, at the 
 time of the taking of the census in 1890, the appal- 
 ling proportion of 62 3-4 per cent, of the inhabitants of 
 the State, either foreign born or of one remove, fur- 
 nishes one of the greatest and gravest problems 
 which confronts the Christian Church, and, in its 
 broader range, comprehends social, political, and 
 ethical questions of exceeding gravity. 
 
 The variety of the races represented makes the 
 work still more complex and abounding, and the 
 outcome locally is as yet uncertain. On the one 
 hand appears the application of the great law of as- 
 similation and the blending of diverse races in a new 
 citizenship, the general use in the second generation 
 of the English language, the gradual obliteration of 
 distinctive racial traits, and many other characteris- 
 tics suggestive of the preparations of Providence for 
 the fulfilment of that prayer of our Lord that " they 
 
Hox\. Joseph H. Walker. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 99 
 
 all may be one." On the other hand, if the Church be 
 remiss and fail to improve her opportunity, there is 
 had the dire possibility that, in a comparatively few 
 years, evangelical religion will be overshadowed and 
 superseded by other systems of religion, with which 
 many of the most cherished institutions and privi- 
 leges, bought with a great price and accounted most 
 sacred, are incompatible. 
 
 In the prosecution of this great work the securing 
 of missionaries has been, and still continues a matter 
 of much difficulty. This is especially true of the 
 Italians, who are coming at present more rapidly 
 than any other race, and are quite accessible. 
 
 The annual report for 1870, from the trenchant 
 pen of Doctor Bowers, contains many striking and 
 suggestive paragraphs applicable to present condi- 
 tions, of which the following are examples : 
 
 " The Board is compelled to suggest that there may be 
 places which need something more than money. They need 
 working church-members and a class of missionary ministers. 
 . . . Good preaching is one of the distinguishing mercies of 
 Divine Providence to any people, yet it is far from being the 
 main need of churches that report an attendance at the sanc- 
 tuary of only forty or fifty souls, small and great. They need 
 the ' beautiful feet ' upon the mountains of ' Him that bring- 
 eth good tidings, and publisheth salvation.' They need the 
 activity and fireside work of a ministry that does not feel it a 
 dangerous impertinence to carry Christian labor beyond the 
 two or three score persons found in the meeting-house on the 
 Sabbath, and called distinctively ' our people.' If some towns 
 
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 like Jericho are suddenly captured by powerful horns and holy 
 blowing, there are more like the cities in the valley of Rephaim 
 that can be gained only by patiently ' fetching a compass be- 
 hind' them. There is a kind of missionary laborer that is 
 always successful in making the wilderness and solitary places 
 glad. The Board does not believe in the absolute necessity of 
 any church, located amongst two or three thousand people, re- 
 maining always in a languishing and depressed condition." 
 
 We find in 1871 the first mention of The Woman's 
 Foreign Missionary Society through the passage of 
 the following resolution : 
 
 " Resolved, That we recognize the hand of God in the for- 
 mation of The Woman's Missionary Society, and in its re- 
 markable prosperity the signal favor of the great Head of 
 the Church ; that we should do all in our power to advance 
 its interests, and especially by urging the formation of auxil- 
 iary societies in all the churches in the Commonwealth." 
 
 This year the President of the Convention was 
 Dexter H. Brigham, of Springfield. Although the 
 Board made constant effort to secure a suitable per- 
 son to give his whole time to the work of Secretary, 
 one after another of the men chosen declined, and 
 Doctor Bowers continued in connection with his pas- 
 torate to serve as Secretary. The meeting of this 
 year was held with the Baptist church in South 
 Abington, now Whitman, and the annual report notes 
 that the church received aid from the Convention 
 during the first ten years of its history. After a 
 growth of half a century it had " become the largest 
 
Robert G. Seymour, D. D. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH lOI 
 
 and ablest church in its Association, with only 
 twenty-five churches in the State contributing an 
 equal amount for benevolence or home expenses." 
 Hon. J. S. Walker was elected President, C. M. 
 Bowers, D. D., continuing in the office of Secretary. 
 
 The annual meeting of 1873 was held with the 
 First Church in Pittsfield, which now numbers 1,077, 
 from which in 1841 report was received at the Con- 
 vention that they •* are now few and feeble. They 
 have a good meeting-house in the delightful village 
 of Pittsfield. Have no pastor, but are anxious to 
 ■obtain one. Can raise $200 among themselves, and 
 ask ^200 from the Convention. For the sum of 
 ;^40O they think a suitable man may be obtained." 
 
 Among the causes which have contributed to the 
 growth of this church may be mentioned the identi- 
 fication with its membership of men of large business 
 ability, as well as sterling piety, who have given 
 freely of their time and means for the promotion of 
 its interests. Notable among these stands the name 
 of Honorable George N. Briggs, for nine years Gov- 
 ernor of the Commonwealth, a man who exemplified 
 his Christian profession in his conduct of public as 
 well as private affairs. 
 
 At this meeting the Convention, on the sugges- 
 tion of Dr. Albert K. Potter, took action looking to 
 relieving the veteran missionary. Rev. Hervey Fittz, 
 from anxiety with reference to his future temporal 
 
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 need by the passage of a resolution " that this Con- 
 vention approves of the Board continuing the services 
 of Rev. Hervey Fittz with a salary of ;^i,ooo per 
 year while he shall live." 
 
 A paragraph in the annual report suggested that 
 "the Education Society might require of its benefi- 
 ciaries from this State, as some equivalent for aid ren- 
 dered, a term of two years' service with our feeble 
 churches." 
 
 The report of 1874 contains an allusion to the im- 
 portant work of the Convention among the foreign 
 born : " The Board can report a very important 
 movement of related interest in the successful estab- 
 lishment of a prosperous mission among the Swedes 
 in Boston. In and around the metropolis have settled 
 thousands of emigrants from Sweden, whose Swedish 
 brethren, Johansen and Ostergren, had already begun 
 to collect some of their countrymen into small meetings 
 and speak to them of Christ in their native tongue ; 
 and thus exhibiting the spirit of missionary labor, one 
 of them was encouraged to devote himself exclusively 
 to the work. The use of the Temple vestry, and that 
 also of the First Baptist Church, has been kindly 
 allowed the Swedes, and a congregation of over two 
 hundred souls has been gathered to enjoy the Word 
 of Life. The work has been signally blessed, quite a 
 number having been converted and admitted to the 
 fellowship of the Temple Church." 
 
Hon. E. S. Wilkinson. 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 By the increased financial ability of the Convention, 
 through the income of the Burastead Estate and from 
 other resources, an aggressive work was made possi- 
 ble, and in 1875 much attention was given by the 
 Board to the finding of new centres of population in 
 which Baptist churches ought to be formed. In the 
 annual report the organization of a church in Spencer, 
 a second church in Fitchburg, and one in Blackstone, 
 were recommended. The largest appropriation for 
 any individual church or mission was this year appro- 
 priated to the Swedish work in Boston, amounting to 
 
 ^400. 
 
 In 1876 some apprehension arose with reference to 
 the possible harm which might come from the increase 
 of life directors privileged to vote in all meetings of 
 the Board, and the Constitution was amended to in- 
 clude a new form of membership known as " Honorary 
 Life Directors." 
 
 An additional missionary, in the person of Rev. 
 
 Jonathan Tilson, this year received an appointment 
 
 and entered upon a career of usefulness extending 
 
 over a term of years. 
 
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I04 HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 Deacon George W, Chipman, the immediate suc- 
 cessor of William Ticknor, who had for so many 
 years served as Treasurer of the Convention, and 
 cooperated most heartily with Rev. Hervey Fittz 
 in the organization of the church at Hudson, and 
 churches in other places, retired from service, and 
 was succeeded, for the only time in the history of 
 the Convention, by a clergyman, Andrew Pollard, 
 D. D. 
 
 What seems to have been a backward step was 
 for some reason taken this year in the turning over 
 of the Swedish work in Boston to the Home Mission 
 Society. On the other hand, an advance step was 
 made in a successful attempt to group two or more 
 churches under one pastor. 
 
 In 1877 the records of the meeting contained the 
 following resolution, adopted on motion of Rev. R S. 
 Evans : 
 
 " Resolved^ That it be suggested to the consideration of the 
 Board to adopt the following rules of administration : 
 
 " I . That the members of the Board from the several Asso- 
 ciations be a sub-committee of the Board, to whom all appli- 
 cations of the churches for aid within said Association shall 
 be made, and such committee shall make a written statement 
 to the Board of the condition of such churches and their claims 
 upon the Board. 
 
 " 2. That the Board appoint an Executive Committee of nine 
 members, including the President, Secretary, and Treasurer, 
 to whom all communications of the Associational Sub-Com- 
 mittee shall come, and who shall make all apportionments of 
 
William H. Breed. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH I05 
 
 money to the churches, and transact all the business the Board 
 may entrust to them." 
 
 The Treasurer's account revealed the astonishing 
 fact that, during the fiscal year, the churches of the 
 State contributed on an average only $\6 apiece for 
 State Missions, It is also noted in striking contrast 
 in this report : " There are fifty ministers to-day in 
 Massachusetts that ought to have from some source 
 an addition to their salaries of two or three hundred 
 dollars each." 
 
 As an illustration of the errors of opinion which 
 used to obtain in some of our churches, witness the 
 following extract from a letter to the Board. In 
 answer to the question whether the church was 
 doing any missionary work, the clerk replied, "We 
 think the work of visiting and inviting to Christ be- 
 longs to pastors." 
 
 The first steps taken looking to the organization of 
 a church edifice department in State mission work 
 was taken in 1878 by the adoption of the following 
 resolutions : 
 
 " I. Resolved^ That if in the judgment of the Board it be 
 deemed expedient, the Board shall place before the churches 
 of the Commonwealth one or two promising fields needing and 
 desiring aid in church or chapel building, requesting special 
 gifts to be disbursed by a committee of laymen appointed by 
 the Board for that purpose. 
 
 " 2. Resolved, That the Board have authority, if in its judg- 
 ment it seems advisable, to set aside as a building fund a part 
 
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 of all the income of the invested funds of the Convention, to 
 be used at intervals of two or three years for this purpose of 
 building, enlarging, or repairing houses of worship," 
 
 This year the Convention was called to mourn the 
 loss of two of its long-time servants in the persons of 
 Deacon Asa Wilbur and Rev, Hervey Fittz. For 
 over thirty-five years they had been associated, and 
 counselled together in things pertaining to the growth 
 of our Zion. At the meeting of the Board when 
 Father Fittz was appointed missionary, Deacon Asa 
 Wilbur presided. Seven years he served as President, 
 and for more than thirty years as Director. He was 
 also for many years a member of the Finance Com- 
 mittee. His name takes fit place with Batchelder, 
 Lincoln, and Loring, and other noble laymen. 
 
 Father Fittz, the beloved missionary, received his 
 first appointment in 1843. When he died there was 
 not a single individual holding a place among the 
 Directors or officers of the Convention who was offi- 
 cially connected with it at the time of his appointment. 
 Robert C. Mills, D. D., President of the Convention 
 at the time of his death, said of him, " Most men in 
 their labors give a part of themselves, but Father 
 Fittz in his missionary services invested his whole 
 being." 
 
 In connection with a resolution instructing the 
 Board to consider the question of an Executive Com- 
 mittee, other extensive readjustments were discussed, 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH lOJ 
 
 and the recommendation renewed to employ a Secre- 
 tary and Superintendent who would be able to give 
 his whole time to the work of the Convention. The 
 choice in this instance fell upon Rev. George W. Gard- 
 ner, but like many others, he declined the arduous ser- 
 vice, and clerical duties, with such other aid as he 
 was able to render, remained for another year in the 
 hands of Doctor Bowers. 
 
 The year 1879 was in some respects the most 
 notable of the decade now under consideration. 
 After repeated failures, a Secretary and Superin- 
 tendent were secured in the person of George W. 
 Bosworth, D. D., who entered upon a service of 
 eminent usefulness continuing until his death in 
 1888. Before accepting the position, he submitted 
 in writing his conception of what ought to be done, 
 which obtained approval at the hands of the newly 
 constituted Executive Committee. In accordance 
 with his recommendation, the advance movement 
 looking to the organization of churches and the 
 building of meeting-houses in new and important 
 centres was, from the beginning of his administration, 
 made a special feature of State mission work. In 
 accord with this plan, the following resolution was 
 adopted : 
 
 " Resolved, That hereafter no part of the income of the 
 invested funds shall be used in appropriations merely to sup- 
 port preaching ; but, when in the judgment of the Board or 
 
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 the Executive Committee, it may be expedient to use a portion 
 of said income for other purposes than lessening the debt of 
 the corporation, the same shall be devoted to the work of pro- 
 viding suitable places of worship in fields especially needing 
 them." 
 
 An order was also adopted at the annual meeting 
 of this year that the Committee on Nominations 
 submit their report for the next annual meeting 
 in the form of printed ballots, a practice which has 
 since prevailed. An ineffectual effort was made at 
 the same session to secure the printing under one 
 cover of the minutes of the several Associations 
 and those of the State anniversaries. In the way 
 of church building, special attention was given this 
 year to meeting-houses in Franklin and Brockton. 
 
 In 1880 Hon. Eustace C. Fitz succeeded to the 
 Presidency of the Convention. 
 
 This might be properly distinguished as a debt- 
 paying year, for report was made at the annual 
 meeting of the discharge of indebtedness of various 
 churches to the amount of ;$2 17,736. Among the 
 churches thus emancipated were First, Pittsfield, 
 First, Medford, Warren Avenue, Boston, and First, 
 Lawrence. 
 
 An important step was taken on motion of Deacon 
 George W. Chipman by the adoption of the follow- 
 ing order : 
 
 " Ordered, That the Executive Committee be instructed to 
 make no appropriation toward the expense of building any 
 
Hon. E. Nelson Blake. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH IO9 
 
 meeting-house or toward the liquidation of any debt on a 
 meeting-house, unless the titles to such house be so arranged, 
 by the necessary legal instrument and acts, as to secure to the 
 Convention the aforesaid property in case the church owning 
 it, and receiving such aid, shall, at any future day, cease to 
 exist, or to maintain the institutions and observe the ordi- 
 nances of the gospel, as a regular Baptist Church." 
 
 This inaugurated a policy which has since been 
 pursued with ever increasing appreciation of its 
 value. 
 
 The number of new churches organized during the 
 decade ending with 1880 was thirty. The number 
 dropped from the list was six. The marked decrease 
 in the number of churches becoming extinct shows 
 that the decline in population had in a great measure 
 spent its force. The increase in membership during 
 this period was 7,289. 
 
 In 1 88 1 it was found necessary to modify the vote 
 by which the income of the permanent fund was 
 devoted exclusively to building purposes and desig- 
 nated as the church edifice fund. The completion 
 of a meeting-house was made an occasion for rejoic- 
 ing, it being the first instance of a building set apart 
 for public worship in which the gospel was to be 
 preached in a foreign tongue. The next year appro- 
 priations to aid in building were paid to six churches, 
 and pledges were made to West Springfield, Maple- 
 wood, and Lincoln Square, Worcester. Aid to main- 
 tain public worship was given to forty-one churches. 
 
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 The annual meeting in 1883 adopted the following 
 resolution, moved by Dr. B. D. Marshall : 
 
 '■'■Resolved, That the time has come when this Convention 
 should unite with the American Baptist Home Mission Society 
 in their efforts to reach the French Canadians residing in this 
 Commonwealth." 
 
 The foundation for this action was probably found 
 in the following paragraph from the annual report : 
 
 " A French Baptist mission was established in Worcester in 
 the fall of 1880, which has been supported financially by the 
 American Baptist Home Mission Society, and the Baptist 
 churches in that city. It has prospered, and the circum- 
 stances evidently demand its continuance. It has been pro- 
 posed, both by the churches there, and the Secretary of the 
 Home Mission Society, that this Convention join that Society 
 in this enterprise, as the Connecticut and other State Conven- 
 tions have done in similar cases. The Worcester churches 
 have greatly honored themselves by their very liberal aggres- 
 sive movements, not only in behalf of the people ' to the 
 manor born,' but also in behalf of the French, and of the 
 Swedes, who have a flourishing church, to whom they have 
 pledged $4,000 and more toward the cost of a meeting-house, 
 which they have undertaken to build. Surely the Convention 
 cannot hesitate to cooperate with them in such labors. 
 
 " Brethren and Friends, whether we consider the nature of 
 the work into which we have entered, or the responsibility 
 connected with the funds entrusted to us for distribution, or 
 the signal success, which, under God, has attended our opera- 
 tions, or the opportunities which now confront us, we cannot 
 fail to hear calls, and to feel powerful influences to earnest 
 and conscientious exertions to fulfil the mission of this Society, 
 so that we may transmit the trust to our successors with such 
 
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 a record as shall save us from reproach, and incite them to 
 deeds far nobler, which the future conditions of this Common- 
 wealth are likely to demand, and their resources will doubtless 
 enable them to perform." 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 Through an amendment to the Constitution, the 
 plan of electing the Board in three classes was 
 adopted in 1884, and the Executive Committee en- 
 larged to nine members. This year, also, marked 
 a change in the presiding officer, R. G. Seymour, 
 D. D., succeeding Hon, Eustace C. Fitz. 
 
 At the same meeting the initiative was taken look- 
 ing to the enlargement of the Sunday-school work in 
 the State : George C. Whitney, C. D. Morris, D. D., 
 and L. B. Philbrick were appointed to act with the 
 Committee of Arrangements for the next meeting, in 
 arranging for a meeting in the interests of the Sun- 
 day-school work of the State. The outcome of this 
 resolution and the further discussion of the matter 
 of State Sunday-school organization ultimated the 
 next year in the organization of that now vigorous 
 and well-known body, the Massachusetts Baptist 
 Sunday School Association, from whose planting 
 of Sunday schools so many churches have been 
 organized, and whose influence upon the Sunday- 
 school work of the State has been so great as to 
 attract much attention. 
 
Stephen Moore, 
 President Sunday School Association, 1891 — 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH II3 
 
 The organization of the Association in 1885 was 
 effected by the choice of Mr. George C. Whitney as 
 President, C. C. Barry, Corresponding Secretary, and 
 F. F. Morton, Recording Secretary. 
 
 In 1888, Mr. WilHam N. Hartshorn succeeded to 
 the Presidency, continuing in office until 1891, and 
 rendering most valuable service. He was succeeded 
 by Mr. Stephen Moore, who has continued to admir- 
 ably discharge the duties of the position until the 
 present time, and has given freely of his best 
 thought, his money, and his time for promoting the 
 work of the Society. 
 
 After a discussion extending over years immedi- 
 ately preceding, in 1890 the Association decided to 
 employ the services of a State Secretary whose entire 
 time should be given to promoting the interests of 
 the Sunday-school work in Massachusetts, and Mr. 
 Wilham W. Main was appointed to that position, 
 which he has since filled with great efficiency, his 
 labors having been attended with marked success. 
 
 During the period since the organization of the 
 Association, it numbers among its achievements the 
 organization of one hundred and fifty Sunday schools, 
 out of which thirty-six churches have been formed, 
 and the erection of seventeen chapels, valued at 
 ^28,400. This enlargement has been attended by 
 an increase of membership in the Sunday schools of 
 the State of 11,916, and it is a most significant fact 
 
I 1 4 HIS TO RICA L SKE T€H 
 
 that during the past decade seventy-five per cent, of 
 the baptisms into the Baptist churches of the State 
 have been from the membership of the Sunday 
 schools. 
 
 During the past three years special attention has 
 been given to the formation of organized men's 
 classes for Bible study in connection with other 
 departments of Sunday-school work. About one 
 hundred of these classes have been formed, with 
 over six thousand men enrolled. 
 
 The funds required for the prosecution of so exten- 
 sive a work have been provided through various 
 channels, among the most efficient of which may be 
 numbered the " Helpers' League." A large amount 
 of literature has also been distributed, while the con- 
 ferences and institutes for Sunday-school workers 
 which have been held, and the special instruction 
 given, has tended largely to lift the standard of the 
 work done by the Bible schools throughout the 
 State. 
 
 Among the churches receiving aid to build this 
 year were Spencer ; Vineyard Haven ; Worcester, 
 First Swede ; Brockton, Swede ; and Stoughton 
 Street, Boston, $i,ooo each. Fifteen hundred dollars 
 was also paid Roslindale for the same purpose. 
 
 The report of the Board for 1884 speaks of special 
 efforts and generous aid rendered in an attempt to 
 establish churches in Revere, Roslindale, and Lower 
 
William W. Main. 
 Secretary Sunday Scliool Association, 1890- 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH II5 
 
 Mills. Very soon after its organization, the vigor- 
 ous young church at Lincoln Square, in 1885, in- 
 vited the holding of the State anniversaries with 
 them. 
 
 Among the churches receiving aid to build this 
 year were the Fourth Street, South Boston ; Athol ; 
 and Union, Cambridge. Of the year's work as a whole, 
 it. was said: "The reports have recorded successes 
 unparalleled in the history of the Convention." 
 
 During this year the work among the foreign-born 
 was enlarged by the appointing of a French mission- 
 ^ary to Lowell and Haverhill. The working force in 
 the Worcester Association was also increased. Dur- 
 ing a large part of the year two evangelists were 
 employed holding meetings with various churches, 
 and a third evangelist was reported as under engage- 
 ment for the year to come. 
 
 In 1886 the name of Dwight Chester appears for 
 the first time as Treasurer of the Convention, he 
 having been preceded for a brief term of service by 
 William A. Munroe, Esq., who through legal assist- 
 ance and in many other ways, has rendered the 
 Society invaluable service. 
 
 Mr. Chester has continued with fidelity to dis- 
 charge the increasingly onerous duties of the position 
 until the present time, the years of 1892-93 ex- 
 cepted, when the position was filled in an able and 
 satisfactory manner by William H. Breed, who has 
 
Il6 HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 been for many years a member of the Executive 
 Committee, who felt compelled after two years' ser- 
 vice, by reason of ill-health, to decline reelection. 
 
 Among the new churches organized this year 
 were North Abington and North Brockton. 
 
 That this was a year of continuance in extensive 
 evangelistic work appears in the report that the 
 committee had employed the full-time services of 
 Rev. O. D. Thomas, and also engaged Rev'ds 
 W. H. Batson, S. Hartwell Pratt, R. M. Birdsall, 
 and H, G. DeWitt for a portion of the year. Large 
 appropriations were also made for building purposes 
 in Worcester, Brockton North, Carew Street, Spring- 
 field, and smaller sums to ten other churches and 
 missions, including a grant of ^500 to Inman Square, 
 Cambridge. 
 
 During the latter part of this decade, 1880-90, 
 in several of the largest cities of the Commonwealth 
 the Baptist churches organized for city mission work, 
 and the increased strength of concerted effort resulted 
 in the organization of numerous churches, several of 
 which are at present among the strongest in the 
 State. In the earlier stages of the history of these 
 churches, the aid rendered by the Convention was 
 generally made through the local city mission society, 
 which became responsible for the proper disburse- 
 ment of the funds received. It is a significant fact 
 that, while these city mission societies were active, 
 
DwiGHT Chester, 
 Treasurer, 1894 — 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH II/ 
 
 the growth of the denomination in their localities 
 was much more rapid than in years preceding, or 
 subsequent. 
 
 At the annual meeting in 1887 it was voted, on 
 motion of A. J. Gordon, D. D., "That the Board of 
 the Massachusetts Baptist Convention be authorized 
 to take from the invested funds of the Society, a 
 sum not exceeding ^10,000, annually, for the next 
 ten years, and employ the same in assisting to plant 
 new churches and to erect meeting-houses, in such 
 localities as they may judge best." 
 
 Hon. E. S. Wilkinson, of North Adams, was elected 
 President of the Society. 
 
 The meeting heartily endorsed the action of the 
 Executive Committee in the employment of the best 
 evangelistic talent, and instructed them to prosecute 
 this enterprise with unrelaxed energy. The resolution 
 was also adopted "That a Committee of Three be 
 appointed by the Convention to confer with the 
 Newton Theological Institution, and on behalf of the 
 Convention, under advice of the Executive Committee, 
 to facilitate so far as possible the establishing of a 
 training school for French Baptist ministers in con- 
 nection with the Institution." 
 
 Among the new applicants for aid to build at this 
 period are found Winter Hill, Somerville ; Mt. Wash- 
 ington, Haverhill ; Warren Avenue, Brockton ; and 
 the Ebenezer Church, Boston. 
 
Il8 HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 Eight different towns find mention at which work 
 was being done among the Swedes, and the abundant 
 labors of the year found partial fruitage in the 
 organization of four new churches, one of which, 
 Dorchester Temple, has since become large in mem- 
 bership and influence. 
 
 In January, 1888, Dr. George W, Bosworth, for 
 eleven years the resourceful and able Secretary of 
 the Society, died. That part of his service covered 
 by the period from 1880 to 1888 was one of great 
 enlargement in the work of the Convention. He 
 watched over the infant life of many churches which 
 have since become very strong, and standing memo- 
 rials to the wisdom and foresight which led to their 
 planting. In the growth of the eleven churches 
 organized in the year immediately preceding his 
 death, he was intensely interested. While highly 
 esteemed for his powers as a preacher and his excel- 
 lent qualities as a pastor, it may be that in this last 
 work of his life, to which he gave himself so fully, he 
 accomplished more tending to the uplifting of the 
 Kingdom of Christ than in any other sphere of his 
 varied and useful labors. 
 
 He was succeeded by the present Secretary, who 
 was elected at a meeting specially called to fill the 
 vacancy for the remainder of the year 1888. 
 
 During this most recent period in the history of 
 the Society, the poHcy pursued has been in the main 
 
Dudley P. Bailey, Esq. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH II9 
 
 a continuance and enlargement on that of the years 
 immediately preceding. 
 
 The closing decade of the Nineteenth Century 
 was marked by the large gifts made to the mis- 
 sionary work of the Convention from such men 
 as Henry A. Pevear, Barnabas D, Capen, Joseph 
 C. Foster, D. D., and Hon. Chester W. Kingsley. 
 These men following in the footsteps of such noble 
 givers as Hon. J. Warren Merrill, and others of an 
 earlier time, have manifested by their deeds their 
 appreciation of the importance of vigorous prosecu- 
 tion of the work of home evangelization. 
 
 A complete list of such benefactions will be found 
 in Historical Notes, on page 130. 
 
 In 1889 William A. Munroe, Esq., retired from 
 the onerous position of Attorney of the Society, in 
 whose affairs he had long taken so deep an interest, 
 and whose generous contributions of money as well 
 as time had been freely bestowed. He was suc- 
 ceeded by Dudley P. Bailey, Esq., who has since 
 rendered an uninterrupted and most efficient service, 
 and fully deserves the gratitude of the Society whose 
 interests he has in so many ways subserved. 
 
 In 1 89 1, after a service of great fidelity and 
 usefulness, Hon. E. S. Wilkinson declined reelec- 
 tion, and was succeeded by another distinguished 
 layman, H. H, Bowman, Esq., who for three years 
 presided over the public meetings of the Society 
 
120 HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 with dignity and tact. He was succeeded in 1894 
 by Hon. E, Nelson Blake, a man whose whole being 
 was pervaded by missionary enthusiasm, and whose 
 service was fully in keeping with the best traditions 
 of the position. On his retirement in 1898, J. P. 
 Abbott, D. D., who had been for a number of years 
 an active and devoted member of the Executive 
 Committee, and a leader in the counsels and enter- 
 prises of the Society, was chosen President. Before, 
 however, he had completed a full year's service, he 
 was called to a pastorate in Wisconsin, and obliged 
 to retire after so brief service, to the regret of many. 
 At the annual meeting in 1899, Rev. Edwin P. 
 Farnham was chosen President, and for three years 
 occupied the chair with grace, and extended his 
 helpful interest to every department of the Society's 
 varied work. On his retirement in 1902, he was 
 succeeded by George C. Whitney, who had been 
 a member of the Executive Committee from the 
 time of its organization, and for several years imme- 
 diately preceding his election as President of the 
 Society had served as its chairman. 
 
James P. Abbott, D. D. 
 
CHAPTER XV. 
 
 A BEGINNING had previously been made in the ap- 
 plication of undesignated funds in the hands of the 
 Society to aid in church building. This policy was 
 continued until nothing was left but the permanent 
 
 fund. 
 
 Notwithstanding this extensive reduction in the 
 assets of the Society, the permanent fund has in- 
 creased from ^272,220 in 1888 to ^345.555 at the 
 present time. Nearly every year for the past decade 
 from the gathered accumulations of a lifetime some 
 brother or sister in making final disposition of prop- 
 erty has left a portion to the Convention. Where 
 no conditions have been specified, and the gift was 
 made for the general purposes of the Convention, the 
 legacy has been applied to the meeting of current 
 expenses, but in many cases it has been specified 
 that the income only should be used, and in a num- 
 ber of cases special churches have been designated 
 as beneficiaries, while they may remain in need of 
 such aid or continue to maintain public worship as 
 regular Baptist churches. Several parties advanced 
 in years have also chosen to be their own executors. 
 
122 HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 and have paid into the Convention treasury amounts 
 on which they, or other specified parties, are to re- 
 ceive the interest at a specified rate during Ufe. 
 
 Since the annual meeting of the Convention in 
 1888, there have been received bequests without 
 conditions amounting to $20,121.48, which amount 
 has been expended for general ordinary work of the 
 Convention. 
 
 During the same period there has been received in 
 bequests and from hving donors $128,111.11, which 
 has been added to the permanent fund, and of which 
 the income only can be used. 
 
 Additions to the permanent fund, amounting to 
 $12,150 have been made, of which the income is to 
 be paid to designated churches. 
 
 From the Royce Fund $18,500 has been received 
 and designated to certain named churches to aid in 
 building. 
 
 Thirty-three thousand, nine hundred dollars has 
 been received with an agreement to pay the donor, 
 or some party named, a designated income during life. 
 
 The total receipts during this period from these 
 sources for the purposes named are $212,782.59, of 
 which $38,621.48 has been expended, and $174, 161. 11 
 remains as part of the permanent funds of the Con- 
 vention, 
 
 These contributions — most welcome and helpful 
 — have been made in varying amounts according to 
 
Rev. Edwin P. Farnham. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 1 23 
 
 the ability and election of the donor, and the smallest 
 donation may have been given with a spirit of con- 
 secration as deep, and a love as ardent, as that of 
 those who have been able to enrich the treasury by 
 the gift of thousands. One legacy, that of Daniel S. 
 Ford, has as yet been paid only in part. 
 
 That an endowment of so considerable amount 
 should have an unfavorable effect by diminishing 
 the contributions of some individuals is no doubt 
 true, but it is unlikely that the liberality without 
 such endowment would have been so enlarged as to 
 allow the prosecution of the work of the Society 
 upon the scale of its present magnitude, and under 
 existing conditions of need which are likely to in- 
 crease rather than diminish in the immediate future, 
 it is doubtful if those who are making disposition of 
 their property, with recognition of the claims of Chris- 
 tian stewardship, can make any investment of a sum 
 likely to yield greater returns in the increase of the 
 kingdom, than by setting aside a portion for sustain- 
 ing preaching of the gospel to the new population, 
 so many of whom know not the sound thereof. 
 
 While the decline of population in various towns 
 in Berkshire and Franklin Counties and on Cape 
 Cod has been in the main arrested, there has not been 
 sufficient recovery to materially improve the hard 
 conditions under which the country churches in 
 these localities struggle for existence, and an increase 
 
124 HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 of appropriations from time to time has been made 
 necessary in order to keep the candlestick in its 
 place. In some instances, the aid received from 
 without has proved ineffectual to arrest the decline 
 in members, and unless more favorable conditions 
 arise, or more successful methods for cultivating 
 fields are adopted, additional names will drop from 
 the list of our churches. 
 
 The overwhelming tide of immigration, which has 
 continued until Massachusetts has become propor- 
 tionally more foreign than any other State in the 
 Union, has created a demand by the exigencies of 
 the situation, and afforded an opportunity for indefi- 
 nite enlargement in the foreign department of work. 
 The only line on which there has been a decrease of 
 expenditure has been that of evangelistic work. In 
 somewhat sharp contrast from the extensive employ- 
 ment of evangelists in 1889-90 the Convention has, 
 in more recent years, gone to the other extreme, 
 thus repeating the tendency which has been so 
 generally manifested by the churches independent 
 of aid. 
 
 The work of the State Missionary Society is so 
 largely conserving and advisory that no statistical 
 summary can be made to include much of its most 
 important service, but statistics show that during the 
 past fourteen years it has aided fifty-one young 
 churches, expended $144,138.21 in sustaining old 
 
George C. Whitney, 
 President, 1902 — 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH 12$ 
 
 Churches, invested $135,825.65 in meeting-houses 
 and chapels and for new interests; affording aid in 
 one or the other of these forms to 148 churches. 
 During the same period it has expended $59,098.88 m 
 giving the gospel to alien races who have come to make 
 their homes among us, divided as follows : 
 
 To the French 
 
 " " Swedes 
 
 " " Germans . 
 
 1' " Portuguese 
 
 " " Finns 
 
 " " ItaUans 
 
 '« «' Russians . 
 
 $34,943 87 
 8,408 24 
 
 4,427 50 
 7,982 29 
 
 1,613 25 
 
 1,620 73 
 
 100 00 
 
 During this period there has been a gain of thirty- 
 seven in the number of Baptist churches in Massa- 
 chusetts, and of 14,171 in the number of church 
 
 members. . 
 
 The marked decline in the rural population of 
 several counties, the increased facilities for travel 
 with steam and electric hues, radiating m all direc- 
 tions from the centres of city life, making residence 
 possible remote from the place of daily labor, and 
 the growing Roman Catholic population, with the 
 noticeable increase in the non-churchgoing popula- 
 tion, tend to make the future of many old and 
 historic churches precarious in the extreme, not only 
 furnishing problems hard to solve, but makmg it a 
 matter of wonder and thanksgiving that during this 
 
126 HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 transitional period so few churches — only five — 
 have become extinct. 
 
 A thoughtful man, familiar with the present con- 
 ditions, can hardly look forward seeking to discern 
 the signs of the times, without apprehension. The 
 standard of Christ was raised in this world never to 
 be lowered, but whether it is to be permanent in any 
 given locality, Massachusetts not excepted, is still an 
 open question. With such a wealth of history with 
 its treasured lessons behind, such perils confronting 
 the Church, and such a present opportunity afforded 
 by the new population, there is a demand not only 
 for the continuance of the Society's work, but, more 
 than this, for enlargement along every line of effort. 
 If the opportunities are somewhat changed from the 
 day of beginnings a century ago, who shall say that 
 with the million-footed tramp of our dense popula- 
 tion, they are not greater than ever before } 
 
 It may be that this unexampled comminghng of 
 races, making the whole State in city and country a 
 mission field, is the preparation of Providence, through 
 the evangelization of the French, the Italians, the 
 Portuguese, the Finns, the Swedes, and others of 
 varying dialect and hue, to the more speedily give 
 the gospel to all nations, and allow Massachusetts 
 Baptists, in the accomplishment of a purpose so sub- 
 lime, to be in a special sense laborers together with 
 God. 
 
Historical Notes as to the Invested 
 
 Funds and Finances of the 
 
 Convention 
 
 BY DUDLEY P. BAILEY, ESQ. 
 
 The early history of our invested funds is wrapped in 
 much obscurity. The convention had a fund as early as 
 1836, amounting to upwards of $3,000, though from what 
 source it was derived the treasurers' reports fail to state; 
 neither is there on the treasurer's books until 185 1 any state- 
 ment showing the amount or character of the fund. The 
 receipts of interest from year to year show that the original 
 fund of $3,000 or a little more had during the period of 
 depression following the crisis of 1837 dwindled to a very 
 small amount. In 1846 the fund was reinforced from an 
 unexpected quarter by a legacy given by Thompson Baxter, 
 of Bridgewater, who died in 1814, leaving a valuable estate 
 to be divided equally on the death of his widow among all 
 the societies then legally organized in Massachusetts for 
 the spread of the gospel, in the United States. For some 
 reason the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society was at 
 first overlooked in the distribution of this fund, and it was 
 not until 1846 that the share due to it, amounting to $1,501.04, 
 was paid over with interest from 1821, amounting to $1,724.78, 
 making in all $3,225.82, leaving after the payment of a com- 
 mission of $50, $3,175.82, of which the Convention set aside 
 $3,000 to be a part of its invested funds. From that date 
 the fund has continued to grow. A memorandum on the 
 inside cover of the treasurer's book shows assets in June, 
 1851, of $4,243.24, to which was added in the same year, 
 from the estate of Prudence Fanvell, through the American 
 Baptist Missionary Union, $6,666.67, making in all $10,910.91. 
 
 127 
 
128 HISTORICAL NOTES 
 
 In 1868 the fund had reached $18,866.66. In 1869 it was in- 
 creased by $22,898 from the estate of Sarah Bumstead, carrying 
 the total up to $42,873.56. Sarah Bumstead died March 21, 
 1865, at the advanced age of ninety-one years, leaving a 
 valuable estate on Washington Street, Boston. She left two 
 wills, one made in 1851, another in 1853, and a codicil made 
 in 1857, the first mainly in favor of the Massachusetts Bap- 
 tist Convention, and the second largely so. The will of 
 1853 and the codicil were allowed pro-forma in the Probate 
 Court. An appeal was taken by the heirs to the Supreme 
 Judicial Court, where two trials were had, the last resulting 
 adversely to the will. The case was taken to the full 
 bench of the Supreme Judicial Court, where a new trial was 
 ordered (see Shailer v. Bumstead ct al. 99 Mass. 112). Pending 
 the new trial a settlement was effected, by which the will 
 was set aside and the estate was conveyed to the Convention 
 by the heirs, on terms sufficiently favorable to increase the 
 fund as above. For this favorable result the Convention was 
 largely indebted to Deacon Asa Wilbur and Deacon Geo. W. 
 Chipman. After crediting this amount to the fund, the 
 property, with a small adjoining estate subsequently pur- 
 chased, represented an investment of about $144,000. The 
 estate was sold Jan. i, 1886, to Jason S. Bailey for $300,000, 
 giving the Convention, with other accessions received in the 
 meantime, a fund of $273,720. Aid rendered to churches in 
 building houses of worship reduced the fund to $163,094.44 
 in 1896, but the very liberal gifts since received have more 
 than filled the vacuum, and the Convention starts on its 
 second century better equipped than ever for the great work 
 before it. 
 
 As to the other financial data a nearly complete list of 
 the legacies and gifts is appended. To make it absolutely 
 complete would involve an amount of time and labor which 
 circumstances do not now permit. 
 
 The table of receipts and expenditures is intended in the 
 main to show the amounts received and paid for current 
 expenses, though in some cases, especially in the earlier years, 
 legacies are included. As a general rule in the later years 
 they have been included only where given for current expenses. 
 
RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS 
 
 Financial 
 Year 
 
 Donations 
 
 1835-36 
 183^37 
 1837-38 
 1838-39 
 1839-40 
 
 I 8 40-4 I 
 1841-42 
 1842-43 
 
 1843-44 
 
 1844-45 
 
 1845-46 
 
 i846t 
 
 1846-47 
 
 1847-48 
 
 1848-49 
 
 1849-50 
 
 1850-51 
 
 1851-52 
 
 1852-53 
 
 1853-54 
 
 1854-55 
 
 1855-56 
 
 1856-57 
 
 1857-58 
 
 1858-59 
 
 1859-60 
 
 1860-61 
 
 1861-62 
 
 1862-63 
 
 1863-64 
 
 1864-65 
 
 1865-66 
 
 1866-67 
 
 1867-68 
 
 1868-69 
 
 1869-70 
 
 1870-71 
 
 1871-72 
 
 1872-73 
 
 1873-74 
 
 1874-75 
 
 1875-76 
 
 1876-77 
 
 1877-78 
 
 1878-79 
 
 1879-80 
 
 Income of 
 
 Invested 
 
 Funds and 
 
 Rents, net 
 
 4,710.97 
 3.511-15 
 5.303-63 
 5,454.98 
 2,020.22 
 
 1.777-44 
 2,829.64 
 1,629.16 
 
 *5.6o9-37 
 2,689.82 
 1,984.70 
 4,827.30 
 3,264.48 
 
 2,733-09 
 3,810.07 
 
 2,754-74 
 3,283.71 
 2,338-32 
 3,261.32 
 
 3. 1 1 5-96 
 2,725.50 
 2,988.97 
 2,415.44 
 2,360.32 
 2,646.68 
 2,278.51 
 
 1,977-37 
 1,741.06 
 2,100.93 
 2,950.69 
 3.498.58 
 6,87341 
 6,779-94 
 4,762.58 
 6,392.49 
 4,648.74 
 7,107.29 
 6,124.50 
 7,147.86 
 4,523-0 
 
 4,501-75 
 6,711.24 
 4,087.31 
 4,378.94 
 3,849-78 
 5.054-58 
 
 1835-80 $177,537-55 
 
 Total 
 
 ^191.36 
 57-18 
 96.18 
 120.18 
 66.18 
 66.18 
 66.18 
 66.18 
 32.00 
 18.18 
 48.00 
 18.18 
 138.10 
 
 242.34 
 
 244.00 
 
 285.50 
 
 218.25 
 
 782.50 
 
 693.88 
 
 725.62 
 
 865.50 
 
 744.00 
 
 744.00 
 
 866.91 
 
 796.00 
 
 880.50 
 
 854.84 
 
 701.87 
 
 830.00 
 
 834.00 
 
 476.12 
 
 769.94 
 
 967 .60 
 
 600.57 
 
 1,655.27 
 
 18.71 
 
 36-37 
 
 3.223-33 
 
 1,043.14 
 
 3,788.72 
 
 5.794-94 
 
 4.030.33 
 
 4,642.01 
 
 3.658.26 
 
 2,050.49 
 
 3.595-7 
 
 ; 4,902.33 
 
 3.568.33 
 5,399.81 
 
 5.575-16 
 2,086.40 
 1,843.62 
 2,895.82 
 1,695-34 
 
 *5.64i-37 
 2,708.00 
 2,032.70 
 4,845.48 
 3.402.58 
 
 2,975-43 
 4,054.07 
 3,040.24 
 3,501.96 
 3,120.82 
 3.955-20 
 3,841-58 
 3,591.00 
 
 3.732-97 
 3.159-44 
 3,227.23 
 3,442.68 
 3,159.01 
 2,832.21 
 2,442.93 
 
 2,930-93 
 3,784.69 
 3.974-70 
 7,643-35 
 7.747-54 
 5.363-15 
 8,047.76 
 
 4,667.4s 
 7,143.66 
 
 9.347-83 
 8,191.00 
 
 8,311.74 
 10,296.69 
 10,741-57 
 8,729-32 
 8,037.20 
 5,900.27 
 8,650.30 
 
 Disburse- 
 ments 
 
 Amount of 
 Invested 
 Funds at 
 end of Fi- 
 nancial Year 
 
 ,645.31 $226,182.86 
 
 $4,147.63 
 3,882.00 
 6,000.62 
 
 5.435-37 
 2,457.18 
 
 1,773.58 
 2,398.61 
 1,822.68 
 *5,69i.4i 
 3,012.81 
 2,165.04 
 1,647.91 
 3,100.62 
 3,043.08 
 4,181.59 
 2,860.02 
 
 3.511-14 
 
 1,829.78 
 3,886.76 
 3,476.88 
 
 3,541-59 
 3,708 
 
 3.571-96 
 2,687.71 
 3,655-53 
 3.035-92 
 2,790-31 
 2,649,96 
 2,892.19 
 3,215-67 
 3.962.77 
 5,888.79 
 7,624"" 
 
 5,094-83 
 7,041.07 
 
 5.085-34 
 6,59901 
 6,271.21 
 8,032.11 
 7,887.15 
 7,834-50 
 8,683.30 
 9,306.68 
 
 8,853-52 
 6,566.44 
 
 7.548-59 
 
 $3,200.00 
 
 $210,353.95 
 
 1,100.00 
 
 4,000.00 
 
 12,500.00 
 12,766.66 
 
 18,409.66 
 17,866.66 
 18,866.66 
 42,873.56 
 
 * Includin- $2,227.57 received and paid nut on account of the Home Mission 
 Society. Tl?e figures for I835-39- inclusive, also include receipts and disbursement 
 on account of the Home Mission Society. , , . ., 
 
 t May-Oct. Financial year had previously ended in JMay. 
 129 
 
RECEIPTS. 1880-1902 
 
 Financial Year 
 
 Donations 
 
 From Invested 
 Funds and Rents 
 
 Total 
 
 1880-81 
 
 $ 6,741.97 
 
 $ 4,217-21 
 
 $10,959.18 
 
 1881-82 
 
 4,802.00 
 
 4,982.12 
 
 9,784.12 
 
 1882-83 
 
 4,965.87 
 
 10,022.68 
 
 14,988.55 
 
 1883-84 
 
 5>56o.37 
 
 10,259.03 
 
 15,819.40 
 
 1884-85 
 
 4,869.49 
 
 10,828.89 
 
 15,698-38 
 
 1885-86 
 
 4,586.50 
 
 8,977-98 
 
 13,564.48 
 
 1886-87 
 
 8,339.66 
 
 11,144.72 
 
 19,484.38 
 
 1887-88 
 
 8,020.07 
 
 11,932-34 
 
 19,952.41 
 
 1888-89 
 
 6,871.53 
 
 11,511.45 
 
 18,382.98 
 
 1889-90 
 
 7,141.27 
 
 12,634.91 
 
 19,776.18 
 
 1890-91 
 
 7,136.82 
 
 10,354.90 
 
 17,491.72 
 
 1891-92 
 
 6,644.34 
 
 9,598.83 
 
 16,243.17 
 
 1892-93 
 
 7,006.16 
 
 9,128.85 
 
 16,135.01 
 
 1893-94 
 
 9.383-30 
 
 6,126.11 
 
 15,509.41 
 
 1894-95 
 
 12,326.04 
 
 9,053-76 
 
 21,379.80 
 
 1895-96 
 
 15,278.11 
 
 8,387.98 
 
 23,666.09 
 
 1896-97 
 
 12,291.62 
 
 8,519.84 
 
 20,811.46 
 
 1897-98 
 
 12,066.75 
 
 10,047.36 
 
 22,114.11 
 
 1898-99 
 
 II. 19345 
 
 8,368.98 
 
 19,562.43 
 
 1899-1900 
 
 13,952.42 
 
 8,276.06 
 
 22,228.48 
 
 1900-01 
 
 10,609.72 
 
 10,098.55 
 
 20,708.27 
 
 1901-02 
 
 12,174.90 
 
 11,330.00 
 
 23,504.90 
 
 Total 1880-02 
 
 $191,962.36 
 
 $205,802.55 
 
 $397,764-91 
 
 DISBURSEMENTS. 1880-1902 
 
 Financial Year 
 
 Church Building 
 
 Other Expenses 
 
 Total 
 
 1880-81 
 
 $ 3,782.65 
 
 $ 6.556.19 
 
 $10,338.84 
 
 1881-82 
 
 873.00 
 
 7,604.69 
 
 8,477.69 
 
 1882-83 
 
 4,248.30 
 
 7,496.22 
 
 11,744.52 
 
 1883-84 
 
 7,032.00 
 
 7,963.56 
 
 14,995-56 
 
 1884-85 
 
 7,822.15 
 
 9,605.52 
 
 17,427.67 
 
 1885-86 
 
 6,684.00 
 
 12,279.52 
 
 18,963.52 
 
 1886-87 
 
 5,044.90 
 
 14,890.25 
 
 19,935-15 
 
 1887-88 
 
 8,132.81 
 
 15,054-31 
 
 23,187.12 
 
 1888-89 
 
 13,183.00 
 
 16,899.59 
 
 30,082.59 
 
 1 889-90 
 
 25,806.75 
 
 18,612.89 
 
 44,419.64 
 
 1890-91 
 
 10.398.10 
 
 18,732.47 
 
 29,130-57 
 
 1891-92 
 
 8,985.91 
 
 20,209.73 
 
 29,195.64 
 
 1892-93 
 
 21,445.81 
 
 22,623.40 
 
 44,069.21 
 
 1893-94 
 
 11,986.00 
 
 25,139-67 
 
 37,125-67 
 
 1894-95 
 
 1,834.00 
 
 20,270.13 
 
 22,104.13 
 
 1895-96 
 
 2,150.00 
 
 21,032.45 
 
 23,182.45 
 
 1896-97 
 
 3,390-00 
 
 20,701.79 
 
 24,091.79 
 
 1897-98 
 
 3,375-00 
 
 22,242.78 
 
 25,617.78 
 
 1898-99 
 
 500.00 
 
 18,484.91 
 
 18,984.91 
 
 I 899- I 900 
 
 2,700.00 
 
 24,024.71 
 
 26,724.71 
 
 1900-01 
 
 
 18,482.87 
 
 18,482.87 
 
 1901-02 
 
 1,725.00 
 
 23,598.01 
 
 25,323.01 
 
 Total 1880-02 
 
 $151,099.38 
 
 1372,505.86 
 
 $523,60504 
 
 130 
 
HISTORICAL NOTES 
 
 131 
 
 Receipts of Massachusetts Baptist Mis 
 
 sionary Society 
 Receipts of Massachusetts Baptist Con 
 
 vention ..... 
 Receipts of Massachusetts Baptist Con 
 
 vention ..... 
 Receipts of Massachusetts Baptist Con 
 
 vention 
 
 Total 100 years, 
 
 Disbursements of the two societies 
 Disbursements of the Massachusetts 
 
 Baptist Convention 
 Disbursements of the Massachusetts 
 
 Baptist Convention 
 
 Church Building, 
 
 Total for Church Building from In- 
 vested Funds of Convention 
 
 Total for Church Building from Royce 
 Fund 
 
 Total for Church Building from Mercy 
 Blaney Fund 
 
 1802-35 about 
 1824-35 about 
 1835-80 
 1880-1902 
 
 1802-35 about 
 1835-80 
 I 880- I 902* 
 
 5 70,000.00 
 
 20,000.00 
 
 226,182.86 
 
 397,764.91 
 
 S7I3-94777 
 
 \ 90,000.00 
 
 210,353-95 
 372,505.86 
 
 ^672,859.81 
 151,099.38 
 
 J?823,959.i9 
 
 1880-1902 ^151,099.38 
 1 880-1 902 18,500.00 
 
 1880-1902 16,336.14 
 
 ^185,935.52 
 
 INVESTED FUNDS {net) 
 I 886- I 902 
 
 1886 
 
 $273,720.00 
 
 1895 
 
 $165,516.34 
 
 1887 
 
 275,220.00 
 
 1896 
 
 163,094.44 
 
 1888 
 
 272,220.00 
 
 1897 
 
 177,011.44 
 
 1889 
 
 261,020.00 
 
 1898 
 
 196,768.16 
 
 1890 
 
 248,720.00 
 
 1899 
 
 203,289.69 
 
 I89I 
 
 238,620.00 
 
 1900 
 
 205,713.61 
 
 1892 
 
 222,645.00 
 
 I90I 
 
 255.236-99 
 
 1893 
 
 204,320.00 
 
 1902 
 
 280,572.37 
 
 1894 
 
 167,218.24 
 
 
 
 * Receipts on account of Investable Funds not included. 
 
132 
 
 HISTORICAL NOTES 
 
 A NEARLY COMPLETE LIST OF LEGACIES GIVEN 
 TO THE MASSACHUSETTS BAPTIST CONVENTION 
 
 1843-44 Nicholas Brown . 
 J. W. Tolman 
 
 1843-44 Nicholas Brown . 
 
 Rev. Zephania Edes estate 
 
 1844-45 Nicholas Brown estate . 
 1845-46 Nicholas Brown estate, 4th 
 ment .... 
 Miss Elizabeth Heath estate 
 
 pay 
 
 1846 Nicholas Brown estate, 5th pay 
 
 ment 
 
 Thompson Baxter estate 
 
 1846-47 John Perry estate . 
 1847-48 Joseph Woodcock estate 
 
 Nicholas Brown estate, 6th pay 
 ment 
 
 1848-49 Nicholas Brown estate, 7th pay- 
 ment ..... 
 Hannah Carleton . 
 Sarah Smith .... 
 
 1849-50 Nicholas Brown estate, 8th pay 
 ment ..... 
 Jonas Taylor estate 
 
 1850-51 Nicholas Brown estate, 9th pay 
 
 ment 
 
 American Baptist Missionary 
 Union, Prudence Far well 
 legacy* . . . . . 
 
 1851-52 Nicholas Brown estate, loth and 
 last payment .... 
 Mary Houghton estate . 
 
 % 300.00 
 381-51 
 
 % 681.51 
 
 300.00 
 300.00 
 
 300.00 
 50.00 
 
 300.00 
 
 300.00 
 810.42 
 
 600.00 
 300.00 
 
 350.00 
 
 350.00 
 
 3.475-82 
 116.35 
 
 300.00 
 
 650.00 
 
 300.00 
 
 500.00 
 
 60.00 
 
 
 
 860.00 
 
 300.00 
 12.50 
 
 312.50 
 
 
 300.00 
 
 
 6,666.67 
 
 
 6,966.67 
 
 1,110.42 
 
 * Mrs. Farwell devised a large amount of real estate to the Missionary Union on 
 the trust that it pay to the Convention J5400 per annum. By an arrangement made 
 between the two societies the Missionary Union paid over the above sum of 
 $6,666.67, which it was estimated would yield at 6 per cent, per annum an amount 
 equal to the annuity of f 400. 
 
HISTORICAL NOTES 
 
 1856-57 Elizabeth Hovey . 
 1857-58 Eleanor B. Willard estate 
 J. W. Ford . 
 
 1858-59 Thomas Baldwin estate 
 1863-64 Mrs. A. Coombs estate 
 1864-65 Mrs. A. Coombs estate 
 1865-66 Mary A. N. Swaim estate 
 Susan Tripp estate 
 
 1866-67 Mrs. Susan Tucker estate 
 1867-68 George Babcock estate 
 1868-69 Sarah Bumstead estate 
 
 Mrs. Susan Nelson estate 
 
 1872-73 Levi Conant estate 
 1873-74 Joel Merriam estate 
 1874-75 Levi Conant estate 
 Moses Briggs estate 
 
 1875-76 
 
 1876-77 
 
 Susan Tripp estate 
 Hannah Locke estate 
 Moses Briggs estate 
 
 Desire Crowell estate 
 Moses Briggs estate 
 John T. Bachellor estate 
 Margaret Wallis estate 
 Moses Briggs estate 
 
 1877-78 
 1878-79 
 1880-81 
 1881-82 
 
 1882-83 
 
 Moses Briggs estate 
 Sarah Chace estate 
 John Putnam estate 
 Susan Hinckley estate . 
 George Cummings estate 
 
 Lavinia Barker estate . 
 L. R. B. Fry estate 
 Mary Penniman estate . 
 Celia M. Magoon for Ambrose 
 Magoon fund . 
 
 1883-84 Gardner Colby estate . 
 1884-85 Mercy Blaney estate . 
 1885-86 Elvira C. Messenger estate 
 
 H. L. Eldridge estate . 
 
 Rev. Andrew Pollard estate 
 
 Mercy Blaney estate 
 
 $ icc.oo 
 loo.oc 
 
 500.00 
 500.00 
 
 22,898.00 
 714.15 
 
 500.00 
 2,000.00 
 
 113.02 
 1 50.00 
 800.00 
 
 50.00 
 
 700.00 
 
 161.72 
 
 1,000.00 
 
 170.50 
 
 400.00 
 1,000.00 
 
 100.00 
 
 1,000.00 
 
 500.00 
 
 1,000.00 
 
 230.00 
 
 12.50 
 
 75.00 
 
 i3'336-i4 
 
 1,000.00 
 
 200.00 
 200.00 
 427-50 
 427-50 
 
 1,000.00 
 
 500.00 
 
 1,000.00 
 
 23,612.15 
 
 500.00 
 
 1,000.00 
 
 2,500.00 
 
 1,063.02 
 
 2,082.22 
 100.00 
 200.00 
 200.00 
 
 1 ,400.00 
 
 2,600.00 
 
 10,000.00 
 
 3,300.00 
 
 i3'653-64 
 
134 
 
 HISTORICAL NOTES 
 
 1886-87 
 1887-88 
 
 1889-90 
 
 1891-92 
 
 1892-93 
 
 1893-94 
 1894-95 
 
 1895-96 
 
 Harriet N. Foster estate 
 Mary Crowell estate 
 Susan Fiske estate 
 Elizabeth N. Chase estate . 
 Benjamin Millet etsate . 
 Eliza A. Harding, $\f>0Q railroad 
 bond ..... 
 
 Samuel Hill estate 
 
 J. Warren Merrill estate 
 
 William B. Owen estate 
 
 Sarah Carver Church estate 
 Lucy Church estate 
 
 Thomas Nickerson estate 
 Sarah P. Brigham estate 
 
 5 165.14 
 672.75 
 
 1,000.00 
 386.31 
 
 1,600.00 
 
 1,000.00 
 500.00 
 
 2,000.00 
 500.00 
 
 Emmons Raymond Fund, for benefit of 
 
 Shutesbury Baptist Church 
 Ellen R. Dubois estate . 
 Abigail C. Parker estate 
 Henry R. Glover estate 
 
 Elizabeth Blackington estate 
 Ellen R. Dubois estate . 
 Abigail C. Parker estate 
 I. C. Plummer estate 
 
 1896-97 Abigail C. Parker estate 
 1897-98 Harriet M. Buss estate . 
 
 Harriet N. Flint estate . 
 
 Abigail C. Parker estate 
 
 1898-99 Amira Sherman . 
 
 1 899-1 900 D. Amidown estate . 
 
 Laura A. Day estate 
 
 Rev. J. C. Foster, D. D., estate 
 
 H. B. B. estate 
 
 Nathan W. Harris estate 
 
 1900-01 Rev. J. C. Foster, D. D., estate 
 A. D. Francis estate 
 Daniel S. Ford estate . 
 John A. Root estate 
 
 1901-02 R. H. Cole estate. 
 M. R. Lucas estate 
 Rev. J. C. Foster, D. D., estate 
 
 2,000.00 
 
 1,058.91 
 
 150.00 
 
 509.42 
 
 350.00 
 5,000.00 
 1,285.71 
 
 500.00 
 200.00 
 
 2,800.00 
 50.00 
 
 1,000.00 
 
 877.84 
 
 500.00 
 
 45.77778 
 
 1,000.00 
 
 % 933-77 
 
 3,824.20 
 
 9,000.00 
 
 1,500.00 
 
 2,500.00 
 5,000.00 
 
 3,100.00 
 
 3.618.33 
 
 3,050.00 
 
 6,635.71 
 200.00 
 
 4,550.00 
 
 48,155.62 
 
 200.00 
 
 250.00 
 
 17.26 
 
HISTORICAL NOTES 
 
 135 
 
 H. M. Buss estate 
 Daniel S. Ford estate 
 
 $ 100.00 
 24.833-33 
 
 Add the following of unknown date : 
 Charles Davis 
 EUzabeth Cummings . 
 Drufy Fund . 
 Benjamin Porter . 
 
 Total legacies .... 
 Of the foregoing legacies paid by instalments the totals 
 are as follows : 
 
 Nicholas Brown in all . • • $3,000.00 
 
 Less paid 
 Society 
 
 to Home 
 
 Mrs. A. Coombs 
 Levi Conant . 
 Moses Briggs 
 Mercy Blaney 
 Ellen R. Dubois 
 Susan Tripp . 
 J. C. Foster . 
 H. M. Buss . 
 Abigail C. Parker 
 Daniel S. Ford 
 
 Mission 
 
 2,000.00 
 
 $ 25,400.59 
 
 1199,857.52 
 
 500.00 
 500.00 
 
 I GO. 00 
 500.00 
 
 $201,457.52 
 
 $ 1,000.00 
 
 855.00 
 
 1,000.00 
 
 3-770.50 
 * 16.336.14 
 
 2,058.91 
 613.02 
 
 3,695.10 
 
 450.00 
 
 4,485.71 
 
 70,611.11 
 
 GIFTS MADE BY DONORS IN THEIR LIFETIME 
 
 Barnabas D. Capen, about . . • 
 1802-93 E. C. Hewitt for Lavina Hewitt Fund 
 1894-95 J- F- Clark (King Fund) . ■ $ 500.00 
 
 Marcus A. Gates . . • ■ 2,000.00 
 
 iSqi^-qe E. C. Hewitt (Lavina Hewitt 
 
 ^^ Fund) 500.00 
 
 Joel Proctor 1,000.00 
 
 Charles Chase . . • • 1.200,00 
 
 1,000.00 
 25,000.00 
 
 $24,660.00 
 500.00 
 
 2,500.00 
 
 1897-98 Rowena W. Leland Fund . 
 Chester W. Kingsley . 
 
 1898-99 A. K. Hawkes 
 
 » Given for Milton Lower Falls Church Building Fund. 
 
 2,700.00 
 
 26,000.00 
 1 ,000 00 
 
136 HISTORICAL NOTES 
 
 1899-1900 Henry A. Pevear . . . $3,000.00 
 
 F. M. D 2,500.00 
 
 $ 5,500.00 
 
 1901-02 Mrs. Selina N. Rice ..... 500.00 
 
 $ 63,360.00 
 Add legacies 201,457.52 
 
 Grand total ;5S264,8i7.52 
 
Pastors of Baptist Churches in 
 Massachusetts 
 
 1 802-1 902 
 
 The following list is probably incomplete and otherwise 
 imperfect. During the earlier part of the century many Bap- 
 tist churches were not connected with any Associations, and 
 made no reports. The statistical tables of Associations — 
 from which this list has been largely made — probably contain 
 errors both in names and dates. Much labor has been 
 bestowed upon it, but imperfections will probably be dis- 
 covered. All degrees are omitted. 
 
 Abar, Edward J. Westminster, 1902- ..,_.^. ^^^„_ 
 
 Abbott, Granville Sharp. Boston, South, 1863-69, Water- 
 
 Abbott^^Tames Per'cival. Medford, First, i877— 98- 
 
 AbboS Levi Augustus. Milford, 1855-58; Weymouth, 
 
 18^8—62: Middleboro, Central, 1862—68. 
 Abbott Samuel. Middleboro, Fourth (extinct), 1804-07, 
 
 Middleboro, First, 1807-17; Chester (now Huntmgton), 
 
 Abbo^^'^Stephen G. Wollaston, 1872-73; Needham, 
 
 1873—77 ; Stamford, Vt., 1878—80. 
 Abrams Lyman H. Somerville, Broadway, 1881. 
 aITus Alfred Windham. Boston, Twelfth (acting). 
 
 Tgne— 07; West Newton. Myrtle, 1900—01 
 Adam? P?UL S. South Reading (now Wakefield), 1845-49; 
 
 Newburyport, 1849-51; ?^°'e^^^°T'T8^^fi^" Dnrches- 
 Adams, Robert John. Holyoke, Second, 1869-86, Dorches 
 
 ter Stoughton Street, 1886— 93- „^ ,. o . o^. 
 
 Adlam Samuel. West Dedham (now Westwood) 1824-27 . 
 
 Marblehead. 1827-30, 1833-34; Gloucester, tirst, 
 
 1830—33- 
 
 137 
 
138 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Alden, John, Jr. Shelburne Falls, 1833—40; North Adams, 
 
 1840—46; Fayville, 1846—48; Westfield, Central, 1848—53; 
 
 Chesterfield, 1859—60. 
 Alden, William Harrison. North Attleboro, 1852 — 57; 
 
 Lowell, First, 1857—64; Westboro (acting), 1891—95; 
 
 Sharon (acting), 1896--98. 
 Aldrich, Jonathan. West Dedham (now Westwood), 
 
 1828 — 30 ; Beverly, First, 1830 — 2>2. ; Cambridge, Second, 
 
 1832 — 34; Worcester, First, 1834 — 2>T, Newburyport, 
 
 1838 — 40; Framingham, First, 1846 — 50; Middleboro, 
 
 Central, 1850—53. 
 Aldrich, Justus. Wales, 1862 — 66; Becket, 1866 — 68. 
 Aldrich, Thomas. Deerfield (extinct), 1837 — ^41. 
 Alger, Isaac. Pondville, 1869 — 72, 1879—82; Pocasset, 
 
 1872—73; Gay Head, 1873—75; Florida, 1877—78. 
 Alger, Roland F. Hinsdale, 1877—79 ; Becket, 1879—91 ; 
 
 Nantucket, Summer Street, 1898— 1901. 
 Allard, Samuel R. Wales, 1848 — 50. 
 
 Allen, Charles W. Newton, Second, 1899 — 1900; Middle- 
 boro, Third (Rock), 1900 — 
 Allen, George H. Chelmsford, First, 1866 — Tz; Ayer, 
 
 1873—80. 
 Allen, Isaac N. Halifax (extinct), 1886 — 87; Quincy Point 
 
 (extinct), 1887—88; Florida, 1888—^0; Gay Head, 
 
 1890 — 94. 
 Allen, John. Wrentham (extinct), 1824 — 27; Kingston, 
 
 1827 — 38; Seekonk (extinct), 1839 — 40; Sterling, 1842 — 44; 
 
 Mansfield, 1846 — 49; Groton, 1850 — 53. 
 Allen, Thomas U. New Bedford, Second (extinct), 
 
 1846—48. 
 Allton, Wilbur F. Attleboro, First, 1902 — 
 Alton, A. E. Holden, 1902 — 
 Ambler, John V. Lanesboro, 1837 — 56. 
 Ames, Lucius. Colerain, First, 1858—62. 
 Ames, W. W. Greenfield, First, 1856—59; Ashland, 1860—61. 
 Amos, Joseph. Nantucket, Summer Street, 1839 — 40; Gay 
 
 Head, 1842 — 47. 
 Amsden, S. H. Ashfield, 1854—56. 
 Anable. Charles W. Cambridge, Old, 1863—71 ; North 
 
 Adams, 1872—77; Springfield, First, 1877—82; Adams, 
 
 1883—90. 
 Andem, James. Middleboro, First, 1847—49; North Bridge- 
 water (extinct), 1850 — 52;Raynham, 1855 — 57- 
 Anderson, Charles William. Worcester, First Swede, 
 
 1898— 
 Anderson, Edward Coffin. Groveland (extinct), 1872 — T2>'^ 
 
 Petersham, 1873 — 75. 
 Anderson, Galusha. Salem, First, 1885 — 87. 
 Anderson, Samuel Duff. Billerica, First, 1894 — 97. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES I 39 
 
 Anderson, Thomas Davis. Salem, First, 1841 — 48; Boston, 
 
 Dudley Street, 1848—62; Boston, South, 1880—83. 
 Andrews, E. A. Boston, Bowdoin Square, 1876 — jy. 
 Andrews, Elisha. Templeton (now Baldwinville), 1802 — 23, 
 
 1828—30; Princeton (extinct), 1824; Princeton and 
 
 Leominster, 1825 — 26; Shelburne, First (extinct), 
 
 1836—37. 
 Andrews, Elisha Benjamin. Beverly, First, 1874 — 75- 
 Andrews, Erastus. West Springfield, First (now Agawam), 
 
 1830 — 2>^; Sunderland and Montague, 1832 — 38, 1845 — 57; 
 
 Bernardston, 1840 — 42; Deerfield (extinct), 1861 — 62; 
 
 Montague, 1862—65. 
 Andrews, Neil, Jr. Shelburne Falls, 1895 — 99! East Lynn, 
 
 1899 — 1901. 
 Angell, George. Southbridge, First (extinct), 1817 — 27. 
 Applegarth, Edward Carey. Boston, Elm Hill, 1898 — 
 Applegarth, Henry C. Cambridge, First, 1900 — 
 Appleton, J. P. Mansfield, 1844 — 46. 
 Apsey, William S. Cambridge, North Avenue, 1868 — 94; 
 
 Reading, 1895 — 98. 
 Archer, William. Woodville, 1854 — 55- 
 Archibald, Henry. Shrewsbury (extinct) and West Boyls- 
 
 ton, 1824 — 26; Belchertown, 1828 — 30; West Springfield, 
 
 Second (now Holyoke, First), 1830 — 33; Middlefield, 
 
 1833—35; Wenham, 1837—39- 
 Armstrong, William Frederick. Roslindale, 1881 — 82. 
 Arnold, Albert Nicholas. Newburyport, 1841 — 43 ; West- 
 
 boro, 1857 — 64. 
 Arry, Karl. Worcester, Finn, 1901 — 
 Arvine, Kazlitt. West Boylston, 1849 — 51. 
 Ashley, Andrew W. South Yarmouth, i860 — 62; Swansea, 
 
 1864—68; North Reading, 1868—71. 
 Ashley, Freeman B. Osterville, 1856 — 59; Sharon, 1859—64. 
 Ashley, John Fletcher. Templeton (now Baldwinville), 
 
 1858—61 ; North Attleboro, 1861—62. 
 Ashley, R. K. North Bridgewater (extinct), 1852 — 54; Gard- 
 ner, 1854 — 60. 
 Ashley, Samuel D. Becket. 1871 — 75 ; Huntington, 1875 — 78 ; 
 
 Huntington and Russell, 1878—84; Merrimac, 1885 — 91; 
 
 ^lillbury, 1891—^8. 
 Ashley, William W. Barnstable, Third, 1857—58; West 
 
 Harwich, 1858—59; Winchendon, 1859 — 61, 1869—70; 
 
 Edgartown, 1861—62, 1866 — 67. 
 Atchley, William A. South Framingham, 1901 — 
 Atha, George Richard. Fall River, Third, 1898 — 1902. 
 Athearn, William Davis. Ashfield, 1880 — 81 ; Spencer, 
 
 1883—85; Dighton, 1891 — 96; Woodville, 1896— 1901. 
 Atherton, Winthrop L. West Springfield. 1902 — 
 Atkinson, George O. Sterling, 1869 — 70. 
 
I40 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Atwell, George Benjamin. East Longmeadow, 1822 — 25. 
 
 Atwood, Thomas. Raynham, i860 — 62; Shirley, 1870 — 72; 
 North Tisbury, 1873 — 74. 
 
 Austin, Linus. Bernardston, 1826 — 27; Florida, 1828 — 30; 
 Hardwick and Ware (extinct), 1830; Holland (extinct), 
 1830 — :i2 ; Shutesbury, 1832 — 35. 
 
 AvERiLL, Alexander McCormick. Cambridge, North Avenue, 
 1853 — 59; Middleboro, Central, 1859 — 62; Holyoke, Sec- 
 ond, 1862—68. 
 
 Avery, David. Tyringham, 1851 — 52; Stamford, Vt., 1852 — 55; 
 Southwick, 1855 — 57; Leverett and Montague, 1857 — 59; 
 Barre, 1859 — 62; Sutton, First, 1862 — 63. 
 
 Avery, J. H. Danvers, 1842 — 44 ; Barnstable, Third, 1846 — 47. 
 
 Axtell, Seth Jones. West Medway, 1870 — 78; Weymouth, 
 1883—88. 
 
 Ayer, Charles. Fayville, 1856 — 59; Athol, 1861 — 63; Ster- 
 ling, 1863—65. 
 
 Ayer, Oliver. Littleton, 1838 — 44; Groton, 1866 — y:^; North 
 Oxford, 1874 — 80. 
 
 Ayer, William Oliver. Everett, 1884 — 90; Brockton, Warren 
 Avenue, 1893 — 
 
 Ayers, William Sullivan. Lowell, Worthen Street, 1885 — 91 ; 
 Westfield, Central, 1900 — 
 
 Babbitt, George F. Westboro, 1886 — 90; Amesbury, 1892 — 98. 
 
 Babcock, a. Holland (extinct), 1843 — 46. 
 
 Babcock, Rufus, Jr. Salem, First, 1827 — 33 ; New Bedford, 
 
 First, 1846^—50. 
 Backus, Isaac. Middleboro, First, — 1802 — 06. 
 Bacon, Albert M. Waltham, First, 1867 — 69. 
 Bacon, Francis Sheldon. Hudson, 1878 — 87; Marblehead, 
 
 1887—91. 
 Bacon, Joel Smith. Lynn, First, 1837 — 40. 
 Bailey, Charles Reuben. North Oxford, 1889 — 92. 
 Bailey, J. A. Edgartown, 1888. 
 Bailey, Nathan. West Newbury and Merrimacport (extinct), 
 
 1887—88; Dorchester, First, 1889—91; Methuen, 1892— 
 
 1902; Peabody, 1902 — 
 Bailey, S. Westboro, 1846. 
 
 Bailey, Timothy. Princeton (extinct), 1849 — 50. 
 Bakeman, Francis Wales. Newburyport, 1869 — 71 ; Worces- 
 ter, Main Street, 1873—76; Chelsea, First. 1884— 
 Baker, C. L. Colerain, Second, 1847 — 48; Bernardston, 
 
 1853; New Salem and Prescott (extinct), 1854 — 55; 
 
 Three Rivers, 1855 — 57; Savoy, First, 1857—60; Sutton, 
 
 First, 1863. 
 Baker, George R. Leominster, 1902 — 
 Baker, Henry Varnum. Charlemont, 1873 — yy. 
 Baker, Luther. Warren, 1802 — 14. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES I4I 
 
 Balcom, Jonas Haddon. Rehoboth, 1891 — 93 ; Baldwinville, 
 
 1893-98. 
 Baldwin, Albert. North Wrentham (extinct), 1848 — 50; 
 
 Winchendon, 1853 — 56. 
 Baldwin, Charles Jacob. Chelsea, First, 1868 — 74. 
 Baldwin, George Colfax, Jr. Springfield, First, 1885 — 99. 
 Baldwin, Henry F. Adams, 183 1. 
 Baldwin, Thomas. Boston, Second (now Warren Avenue), 
 
 — 1802 — 05. 
 Ball, Albert H. Greenfield, First, 1870 — 72; Westboro, 1882. 
 Ball, Eli. West Springfield, First (now Agawam), 1817 — 18. 
 Ball, Harvey. Hingham, 1828 — 30. 
 Ball, Mason. Amherst, 1834 — 36; Princeton (extinct), 
 
 1837 — 40; Amherst, 1846—48; Royalston Centre (ex- 
 tinct), 1850; South Hanson. 1863. 
 Ballard, John B. Dudley (extinct), 1825 — 26. 
 Ballard, Joseph, Jr. Medfield, 1824 — ^28; Lowell, First, 
 
 1839—46. 
 Banvard, Joseph. Salem, Central, 1835 — 46; Boston, Har- 
 vard Street, 1846 — 51 ; West Cambridge (now Arlington), 
 
 1851 — 53; Dorchester, First, 1876 — 83. 
 Barber, Joseph. Brewster, 1861 ; Sutton, First, 1864 — 65 ; 
 
 North Uxbridge, 1865—68; Bolton, 1868—71; West 
 
 Bridgewater, 1871 — 76; Westminster, 1876 — 80; Fayville, 
 
 1883—85; Middleboro, Third, 1888—92. 
 Barbour, E. D. Colerain, First, 1870. 
 Barbour, Thomas S. Fall River, First, 1883 — 95; Brookline, 
 
 1896—98. 
 Barlow, Joseph Lorenzo. Sandisfield, 1852 — 56. 
 Barnaby, James. West Harwich, 181 1 — 17, 1838 — 44, 1849 — 54. 
 
 1862 — 76; New Bedford, First, 1819 — 2Z\ Salisbury and 
 
 Amesbury, 1824 — 25; Danvers, 1830 — 32; Lowell, Second, 
 
 1832 — 34; West Townsend, 1836 — 37; Nantucket, 
 
 1845 — 46; Newburyport, 1855 — 56. 
 Barnes, Horace Franklin. Winchester, 1874 — 81 ; assistant 
 
 pastor, Tremont Temple, Boston, 1896--98. 
 Barnes. Lemuel Call. Newton Centre, 1887 — 93 ; Worcester, 
 
 First, 1902 — 
 Barnes, William Sullivan. Melrose, First, 1864 — 68. 
 Barrelle, Allen. Melrose, First, 1871 — 74; Rockland, 
 
 1879—81. 
 Barrett, Luther Gustavus. Weston, 1867 — 70; Winchester, 
 
 1870 — 74; South Abington (now Whitman), 1878 — 80; 
 
 Lowell, Fifth Street. 1888—91; Milford, 1891—93. 
 Barrett, Thomas. Grafton, First, 1816—20; Sharon, 
 
 1820 — 22; West Springfield, First (now Agawam), 
 
 1824 — 28; Dudley (extinct), 1830. 
 Barrows, B. W. Dorchester, First, 1855 — TZ. 
 
142 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Barrows, Comfort Edwin. South Danvers (now Peabody), 
 1861—65. 
 
 Barrows, John Harris. Marblehead, 1875 — 78; Boston, 
 South, 1878—79; Marlboro, 1880— «3. 
 
 Barrows, William Carey. Wahham, First, 1872 — 75; Rock- 
 land, 1887 — 91 ; Woburn, First, 1892 — 97 ; Somerville, 
 First (acting), 1897 — 98. 
 
 Barter, A. D. Charlemont and Rowe, 1893 — 95; Rowe, 
 1895—97; Savoy, 1897—99. 
 
 Bartlett, E. M. West Amesbury (now Merrimac), 1872 — y6; 
 Athol, 1876—81 ; Holyoke, First, 1881— 91 ; West Bridge- 
 water, 1894 — 96. 
 
 Bartlett, Francis J. Southwick, 1881 — 83, Grafton, First, 
 1883—89. 
 
 Bartlett, Hartnell John. Ashland, 1896; Ashland and 
 Fayville, 1897 — 98. 
 
 Bartlett, Joseph Frederick. Somerville, Broadway (Winter 
 Hill), 1885—88. 
 
 Bartlett, Walter Reynolds. Avon, 1900 — 
 
 Bartlett, William Porter. Lexington, 1883 — 84; North 
 Oxford, 1892 — 93 ; Manchaug and Second, Sutton, 
 1893-98. 
 
 Bary, Emil Benjamin. Newton, Second, 1883 — 84. 
 
 Baskwell, J. A. Swansea, 1868 — 70; South Yarmouth, 1870. 
 
 Basten, William Frederick. Mansfield, 1884 — 90. 
 
 Bastow, Jonathan. Natick, 1887—92. 
 
 Batchelder, Frederick Lyman. East Longmeadow, 1843 — 45; 
 
 1852-53- 
 
 Batchelder, William. Haverhill, First, 1805 — 18. 
 
 Batchelder, William. Sutton, Second, 1802 — 17. 
 
 Batchelor, Matthew. West Springfield, First (now Aga- 
 wam), 1838 — 40. 
 
 Bates, Barnabas. Barnstable, 1808 — 14. 
 
 Bates, Welcome E. Haverhill, Portland Street, 1888 — 97. 
 
 Batson, T. a. Turner's Falls, 1880—88. 
 
 Battelle, Allen Eleazer. Marshfield, First, 1852 — 55 ; Rock- 
 port, 1855 — 56; West Townsend, 1858^0; Middleboro, 
 Third, 1860—63. 
 
 Baumes, John Ross. Westfield, Central, 1859 — 61. 
 
 Beach, Augustus. Lanesboro and Pittsfield, 1822 — 26; Pitts- 
 field, 1827—37. 
 
 Beaman, Herbert Henry. West Bridgewater, 1876 — 80; 
 North Oxford, 1880—81. 
 
 Beckley, John T. Boston, First (associate pastor), 1871 — 76; 
 Newburyport, 1877 — 83. 
 
 Beecher, George Fletcher. Middleboro, First, 1897 — 99; 
 Gloucester, Chapel Street, 1900 — 
 
 Beecher, Luther F. Charlestown, Bunker Hill, 1867 — 68' 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1 43 
 
 Belcher, James. Boston, Baldwin Place (now Warren Ave.), 
 
 1858—61. 
 Belknap, Appleton. Holden, 1832 — 34. 
 Belknap, Arthur Train. Andover, 1900 — 
 Bellamy, Francis J. Boston, Bethany, 1885 — 90. 
 Bellamy, Rufus King. Chicopee, First, 1848—81. 
 Bender, J. F. Sandisfield, 1878—81. 
 Benedict, A. N. New INIarlboro, 1847 — 50; Southfield, 
 
 1879—84; New Marlboro, 1884—96. 
 Benedict, Thomas. West Stockbridge (extinct), 1849 — 60. 
 Bennett, Albert Arnold. Holliston, 1875 — 79; Maplewood, 
 
 1893 — 1901. 
 Bennett, Alvin. Wilbraham and Monson (extinct), 1824 — 35; 
 
 East Longmeadow, 1842 ; Monson, 1845 — 46. 
 Bennett, George Steadman. North Easton, 1900 — 01. 
 Bennett, Jonas G. Warwick, 1856. 
 Bennett, Robert. Needham, 1868—70; Egremont, 1870 — J2, 
 
 1877 — 84; East Granville, 1884 — 86; Ashland, 1894 — 9^; 
 
 Beverly Farms, 1896 — 97 ; Hyannis, 1899 — 1900. 
 Benson, A. F. Weston. 1870 — 72,. 
 Benson, Caleb. Dartmouth (extinct), 1832 — 2>7'> Sandwich 
 
 (extinct), 1838; Halifax (extinct), 1841, 1849 — 52; West 
 
 Bridgewater, 1842 — 44; Goshen (extinct), 1846 — 47; 
 
 Hanover, 1853. 
 Bentley, Henry Dugwell. Northboro, 1893 — 95 ; Monroe 
 
 (acting), 1898. 
 Bentley, William. Maiden, First, 1808; Worcester, First, 
 
 1812 — 15. 
 Benton, G. W. Sutton, First, 1849 — 50. 
 Berry, Philip. Sutton, Second, 1873 — 75 ; Belchertown, 
 
 1875 — 77 'y Palmer and Three Rivers, 1877. 
 Bessey, O. Parker. Brewster. 1873 — 75; Rehoboth, 1875 — 77; 
 
 West Dedham (now Westwood), 1885 — 90. 
 Bestor, Foronda. Westfield. Central, 1841 ; Westfield and 
 
 Russell, 1842; Middlefield, 1843—48; Chesterfield, 
 
 1848^—53; East Longmeadow, 1853 — 56; Cheshire, 
 
 1858 — 64; Egremont, 1864 — 70. 
 Betts, Platt. Williamstown, 1839 — 42; Hancock, 1842 — 43. 
 Bezanson, William Byron. South Yarmouth, 1897 — 98. 
 Bickford, Augustus Alvan. Chelmsford, First, 1887 — 99. 
 BiCKFORD, Francis Sargent. West Townsend, 1881—84. 
 Bickford, ]Martin Luther. Waltham, First. 1852 — 62, ; Chico- 
 pee, Central, 1863 — 65. 
 Bigelow, John F. Three Rivers, 1834—38; Middleboro, 
 
 Central, 1856—58. 
 Bigger, John H. Florida, 1892 — 96; Sandisfield, 1896; 
 
 Sandisfield and Tyringham. 1897 — 99; Russell and Fair- 
 field, 1900 — 
 Biggs, Louis Carl Huestis. Rochdale (Greenville), 1899 — 
 
144 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Bills, G. B. Deerfield (extinct), 1846; Whateley (extinct), 
 1847 ; Warwick, 1861. 
 
 Bingham, Adoniram Judson. Holyoke, Second, i860. 
 
 BiNNEY, Joseph Getchell. West Boylston, 1832 — 34; South- 
 bridge, 1836 — 37. 
 
 Bird, Warren. Foxboro, 1820 — 28. 
 
 Bishop, Norman North. North Easton (acting), 1896 — 98; 
 Beverly Farms, 1898 — 99; Chicopee, First, 1900 — 
 
 Bixby, Dudley Cotton. East Dedham, 1879—80; Rehoboth, 
 1880 — 83; Osterville, 1883 — 84; Haverhill, Second, 1894 
 (with Merrimacport. 1896) — 1902. 
 
 BixBY, Fred E. Swansea, 1892 — 98. 
 
 Bixby, George W. Swansea, 1882 — 91. 
 
 BjoRK, John. Quincy, Swede, 1901 — 
 
 Black, George H. Boston, African (now St. Paul's), 
 
 1839—41- 
 Black^ Walter Seward. Russell, 1892 — 93. 
 Blackburn, Alexander. Lowell, First, 1887 — 93 ; Cambridge, 
 
 First, 1893 — 98. 
 Blackman, Virgil W. West Townsend, 1901 — 
 Blain, John. Charlestown, High Street (extinct), 1846 — 50: 
 
 Charlestown, Bethesda (now Bunker Hill), 1850 — 53; 
 
 Mansfield, 1859 — 62; Raynham, 1862 — 63. 
 Blake, Frederic Dana. Attleboro, First, 1896 — 1901. 
 Blake, Samuel Andrew. Florida, 1866 — 67; Mashpee, 
 
 1873—77; North Tisbury, 1877—78; Pondville, 1882. 
 Blakeslee, Frederic Wallace. North Easton (acting), 
 
 1899; Methuen, 1902 — 
 Bland, Frederick D. Waltham, First, 1875 — 78. 
 Blood. Caleb. Jr. Boston, Charles Street (extinct), 1807 — 09; 
 
 Rehoboth, 1841 — 42; Townsend, 1847 — 48. 
 Bloss, Samuel. Cheshire, First, 1816— -18. 
 Bogart, William. New Marlboro, 1850 — 52; Florida, 
 
 1852—55- 
 Bolles, Charlton Burgess. Rockport, 1895 — 1902 ; Brockton, 
 
 North, 1902 — 
 Bolles, David C. Southbridge, 1833 — 35- 
 BoLLES, Lucius. Salem, First. 1805 — 27. 
 Bolles, Lucius Stillman. Lynn, First, 1833 — 37. 
 Bolles, Matthew. Marblehead, 1824; West Bridgewater, 
 
 1828. 
 Bond, E. P. Agawam, 1870 — 72. 
 Bond, Phineas. Brewster, 1846. 
 BoNHAM, James William. Allston, Brighton avenue, 
 
 1856—57; Lowell, Worthen Street, 1857—60. 
 BoNNEY, Ira. Savoy, 1869 — 70; Sandisfield (acting), 1882. 
 BooDY, Frederick Samuel. Agawam, 1899 — 
 Boomer, James. Charlton (extinct), 1807 — 2>7- 
 Boomer, James Cushman. Vineyard Haven, 1837 — 42! 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1 45 
 
 Tisbury, First, 1846 — 47; Chelmsford, First, 1847 — 56; 
 Sutton, Second, 1859—60; South Yarmouth, 1867 — 70; 
 Dighton, 1870 — 7i; West Acton, 1873—78; Manchaug 
 and Sutton, Second, 1878 — 91. 
 
 Boomer, Job Borden. Sutton, Second, 1819 — 43; East Brook- 
 field, 1843 — 44. 
 
 Boone, William Rufus. Springfield, Third. 1897 — 99. 
 
 BooTHE, John William Thomas. Holyoke, Second, 1890 — 99. 
 
 Borden, Job. Freetown (extinct), 1803. 
 
 BoswoRTH, George Whitefield. Medford, First, 1841 — 46; 
 Boston, South, 1846 — 55; Lawrence. First, 1865 — 69; 
 Haverhill, First, 1869 — 79; Secretary Massachusetts Bap- 
 tist Convention, 1852—56, 1879 — 88. 
 
 Bowen, Everett Anthony. Still River, 1896 — 99. 
 
 Bowen, J. G. Norton, 184.9. 
 
 BowEN, William. Haverhill, Second, 1825 — 27; Edgartown, 
 1828 — 30; West Harwich, 1830 — 31; Westboro, 1832 — 2ii', 
 West Medway, 1833 — 34; Chatham, 1842 — 43; Hancock, 
 185 1 — 52. 
 
 BowEN, W. H. Middleboro, 1884—87. 
 
 Bowerman, Louis Scharl. Medfield, 1889 — 91 ; Randolph, 
 1 89 1 — 96. 
 
 Bowers, Charles Manning. Lexington, 1841 — 45; Clinton, 
 1845 — 86; Spencer, 1886 — 95. 
 
 Bowers, Edwin D. Rockport, 1878 — 80; North Bellingham, 
 1881—84; Holliston, 1884—89; Sharon, 1889—91; Chelms- 
 ford, First, 1891 — 94; Southwick, 1894 — 97; Norton, 
 1897- 
 
 Bowles, Ralph Hart. Lee, 1858 — 61 ; Allston, Brighton 
 Avenue, 1861 — 67; West Newton, 1866—68; Lee, 
 1868—70. 
 
 Boyd, Willard William. Charlestown, First, 1873 — 77. 
 
 Boynton, George Edward. Everett, Glendale, 1897 — 99. 
 
 Brackett, John Billings. Lynn. First, 1873 — 78; Charles- 
 town, First, 1878—80; Brookline, 1880—87. 
 
 Bradbury, Woodman. Worcester, Pleasant Street, 1897 — 01 ; 
 Cambridge, Old, 1901 — 
 
 Bradford, J. C. Lee. 1900 — 01. 
 
 Brady, Herman Edgar. Dalton, 1893 — 97 ; Mendon, 1897 — 99 ; 
 Boston, Bethel. 1902 — 
 
 Bbady, William A. Quincy, Calvary, 1901 — 
 
 Brainard, a. Southfield 1881—82; Savoy, 1882—83, 1890; 
 Charlemont, 1883 — 84. 
 
 Braislin, Edward. Newton Centre. 1881 — 85. 
 
 Braker, James Scovel. Waltham, Beth-Eden. 1899 — 
 
 Braman, Bartemas. Cheshire. First. 181 1 — 12. 
 
 Branch, Nicholas. Shrewsbury (extinct), and West Boylston. 
 1820 — 23; Springfield, First, 1828 — 30; Springfield and 
 
146 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 South Hadley, 1830; East Longmeadow, 1830; Shutes- 
 bury, 1846 — 47; Orleans (extinct), 1847 — 48. 
 
 Bray, C. Gay Head, 1852 — 53; New Bedford, Second, 
 1853 — 54; Swansea, 1871 — T2>- 
 
 Breaker, John Carl. Northampton, 1899 — 
 
 Breed, Joseph Blaner. East Dedham, 1858 — 62. 
 
 Bridgman, Charles DeWitt. Jamaica Plain, i860 — 62. 
 
 Bridges, Jeremiah F. Enfield (extinct), 1825; Southwick, 
 
 1830—39. 
 Brierly, Benj. Salem, Central, 1846 — 47. 
 Briggs, Avery. Maiden, First, 1830 — 31; Marblehead, 1832—35; 
 
 Carver, 1842. 
 Briggs, Ebenezer. Middleboro, Fourth (extinct),. 1810 — 41; 
 
 Middleboro, Fourth, and Raynham, 1841 — ^43 ; Middleboro, 
 
 Fourth, 1844 — 50. 
 Briggs, Frank Clayton. Boston, Tabernacle (assistant 
 
 pastor), 1896 — 99; jNIanchester, 1899 — 1902. 
 Briggs, Isaac. Athol, 1824 — ZZ- 
 Briggs, Joel. Randolph, — 1802 — 28. 
 Briggs, Thomas Pearl. Charlemont, 1869 — 71 ; Stoneham, 
 
 1871 ; Petersham, 1876^77; Revere, 1880; Cliftondale 
 
 (acting), 1902. 
 Briggs, William A. Adams, 1863 — 71. 
 
 Brigham, Joseph Webb. West Boylston, 1884 — 85; Dorches- 
 ter, Temple, 1888 — 96; Cambridge, Inman Square, 
 
 1896 — 1900; Dorchester, Immanuel, 1900 — 01. 
 Brockett, J. A. New Bedford, Second (extinct), 1887 — 88. 
 Brockett, Pierpont. Springfield, Third (now Chicopee 
 
 Central), 1837—38. 
 Bromley, Edwin. Tyringham, 1864 — 65; West Boylston, 
 
 1866—67; Dedham, 1869—72; Norwood, 1872—75. 
 Bronson, Asa. New Bedford, First, 1831 — 33; Fall River, 
 
 Second, 1834—56. 
 Bronson, Asa Clarke. South Hanson, 1S49 — 51; North 
 
 Reading, 1851 — 54; Leominster, 1854 — 57. 
 Bronson, Asahel. Williamstown, 1853—55; Russell, 1858—59; 
 
 Lee, 1863 — 64. 
 Bronson, Benjamin Franklin. Ashland, 1847 — 50; Me- 
 
 thuen, 1851—56; Woburn, First, 1858 — 61; Roxbury, 
 
 Tremont Street (extinct), 1862 — 66; Southbridge, Central, 
 
 1867—71 ; Andover, 1881—86. 
 Bronson, John Jennings. West Harwich, 1861 — 62; Barn- 
 stable, Third, 1866—68; Nantucket, 1868—69; West 
 
 Newbury, 1873 — 74. 
 Bronson, Samuel Jennings. Millbury, 1846 — 53, 1870 — 74; 
 
 Hyannis, 1854 — 67; Winchester, 1867 — 69. 
 Brooks, Charles. Rowe and Charlemont, 1864 — 67; West 
 
 Royalston, 1867 — 69. 
 Brooks, Kendall. Fitchburg, First, 1855 — 65. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1^7 
 
 Brooks, Samuel. Beverly Farms, 1857—60; South Fra- 
 
 mingham, 1862—64; West Medway, 1866 — 69. 
 Brown, Abel. Northampton, 1840. 
 Brown, Amasa. South Gardner, 1849—53. . 
 
 Brown, ARCiiiBALD S. Granville, 1887—89; Clmton, 1897— 
 
 Brown Caleb. West Townsend, 1832—33; West Royalston 
 and Warwick, 1834—36; Barre, 1836—37; Westmmster, 
 1837—38; Scituate, 1839—41- „ „ 
 
 Brown, Dana. Ashfield, 1837; Chesterfield, 1838. 
 
 Brown, E. C. Springfield, Third, 1900—02. 
 
 Brown Freeman Greenwood. Dorchester, North (now 
 Stoughton Street), 1848-50; West Townsend, i85(^53- 
 
 Brown, Horace Franklin. Athol, 1887-93- 
 
 Brown, Jonathan E. South Dartmouth (extmct),i852— 54; 
 iMillbury, 1864—66. 
 
 Brown, J. Newton. JNIalden, First, 1827—28. 
 
 Brown, J. W. Raynham, 1890—92. 
 
 Brown, R. H. Springfield, Berean, 1880. 
 
 Brown, R. W. E. North Randolph, 1848. 
 
 Brown, S. Henrl Springfield, Third, 1890—96- 
 
 Brown, Theron. South Frammgham, 1859—61; Canton, 
 
 Brown, Thomas C. Taunton, Second (now Winthrop 
 
 Street), 1820. . r, u u .u 
 
 Bkown, William. New Salem (extmct), 1836; Rehoboth, 
 
 Brown, William Lawton. West Springfield (Ireland Par- 
 ish, now Holyoke, First), 1842—46; Westboro, 1847— 
 51- Watertown, 1854—60; North Readmg, 1877— 79- 
 
 Browne, Addison. Haverhill, Second, 1850—54; Tyrmgham, 
 1858—61; ]Manchaug, 1867—68. 
 
 Brownville. J. Woodville, 1884—90; Avon, 1890—92; Har- 
 vard, 1895—96. 
 
 BucKBEE, Charles Alvah. Conway, i»4»— 51- 
 
 BuEL, Abel P. Amherst, 1872. 
 
 BuFFUM, Herbert Edward. Rowe and Charlemont, 1899 — 
 1901 ; Sterling, 1901 — 
 
 Buis, Fred W. Somerset (acting), 1901— 
 
 BuLLARD, Dexter. Upton (extinct). 1824—26. 
 
 Bullard, Edwin Buxton. Foxboro, 1843- , „ 
 
 BuLLARD, J. A. Lowell, First, 1838—39; Townsend, 1849—50; 
 Ware (extinct), 1850—51. ,,, , . ,,. .. ^^. 
 
 Bullen, George. South Readmg (now Wakefield), 1864—66, 
 Allston, Brighton Avenue (actmg), 1867—68. 
 
 Bullock, A. D. Palmer, 1855—58. „ ^, ^ o 
 
 Burbank, Aaron. West Townsend, 1828; Shutesbury 1830 ; 
 Westminster, 1832; Bernardston, 1838—40; Whately 
 (extinct), 1841 ; Wendell, 1843-44- 
 
148 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 BuRBANK, John Felch. Taunton 1840 — 41 ; Webster, 
 
 1843 — 46; Woodville, 1848 — 52; Leicester, 1852 — 53. 
 BuRBANK, Joseph Perry. Sutton, Second, 1861 — 73. 
 BuRBANK, Nelson Sinclair. Revere, 1891 — 99; Revere and 
 
 Franklin Park, 1899 — 
 Burch, William A. Boston, Ebenezer, 1882 — 83; West 
 
 Newton, Myrtle, 1899 — 1900. 
 Burden, John. Rowley, 1836 — 38; Georgetown, 1839. 
 Burdette, Charles. Shirley (acting), 1882. 
 BuRDiCK, D. M. Rehoboth, 1842 — 44; Mashpee, 1844 — 46. 
 Burditt, John Frederick. Kingston, 1880 — 81. 
 Burgess, Carleton Ashbubg. Cheshire, 1900 — 
 Burgess, Isaac Julian. West Dedhani (now Westwood), 
 
 1867—71 ; Middleboro, Third, 1871—75. 
 BuRHOE, John T. Marlboro, 1872 — 78. 
 Burhoe, Theophilus Havelock. Rochdale (Greenville), 
 
 1896—98. 
 BuRKE, John B. Middleboro, Central, 1854 — 55; Middlefield, 
 
 1856-57. 
 Burl, Jacob. West Newton, Myrtle, 1886 — 94. 
 Burlingame, Waterman. Hingham, 1836 — 39. 
 Burlingham, Aaron Hale. Boston, Harvard Street, 1852 — 56. 
 Burnett, Joseph. Gardner, 1868 — 70. 
 BuRNHAM, Edward. Holyoke, Second, 1868 — 69; Lowell, 
 
 Worthen Street, 1873 — 74. 
 BuRNHAM, E. M. Warwick, 1844 — 45, 1854, 
 Burnham, G. W. Russell, 1888 — 91. 
 BuRNHAM, Sylvester. Amherst, 1873 — 74. 
 Burns, William Treat. Haverhill, Portland Street, 
 
 1876—81; Lynn, 1881—83. 
 Burr, Everett Doughty. Boston, Ruggles Street, 1892 — 1900; 
 
 Newton, First, 1900 — 
 Burr, John Ezra. West Newbury, 1878 — 83. 
 Burrell, Jacob. West Newton, Myrtle, 1884 — 85. 
 Burroughs, Daniel. Tewksbury, 1846 — 48; Northampton, 
 
 1859. 
 Burrows, Arthur Salter. Charlestown, First, 1892 — 1900; 
 
 Worcester, South, 1901 — 
 Burrows, Christopher Columbus. Lynn, Third, 1874 — 7^; 
 
 Swampscott, 1876 — 80. 
 Bursell, David. (Tarver, 1806 — 09. 
 
 Burt, Ebenezer. Rochdale (Greenville) and Hardwick (ex- 
 tinct), 1824; Hardwick, 1825 — 26; Hardwick and Ware, 
 
 1828, 1842. 
 Burton, Nathan Smith. Needham, 1887 — 93. 
 BuRTT, Edw^in Palmer. Groton, 1891 — 94; West Newton, 
 
 First, 1894 — 98. 
 Burtt, Joseph M. Georgetown, 1863 — 70; Chelmsford, 
 
 1877—78; Georgetown, 1880—81. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1 49 
 
 Bush, Alexander. Lee and Tyringham, 1838 — 43. 
 Bush, W. A. New Bedford, Second (extinct), 1874—75. 
 BusHNELL, Noah Y. Cheshire, First, 1826—30, 1837—41; 
 
 Florida, 1832—41. 
 Bustard, William Walter. Amesbury, 1898— 1900; Boston, 
 
 Dudley Street, 1900 — 
 Butler, George W. Tyngsboro (extinct), 1852—54; Shirley, 
 
 1854—55. 
 Butler, John. Hanover, 181 1 — 24. 
 Butler, Thomas Melvin. Somerset, 1874—76; North Ux- 
 
 bridge, 1882—88; Canton, 1890—98. 
 Buzzell, Anson S. Westminster, 1900—1902; Spencer, 
 
 1902 — 1903. 
 Byram, B. p. Salisbury and Amesbury, 1850—60; Plymouth, 
 
 1874—76. 
 Byrne, Martin. Westminster, 1850—51 ; Conway, 1851—52. 
 
 Cady, E. Savoy, Second, 1847—49; Spencer, 1849—50. 
 Cahill, Joseph Allison. Winchendon. 1882. 
 Caldicott, Thomas Ford. Roxbury, Tremont Church (ex- 
 tinct), 1839—48; Charlestown, First, 1850—53; Boston, 
 
 Baldwin Place (now Warren Avenue), 1853—58. 
 Calley, Walter. Cambridge, Charles River (now Immanuel), 
 
 1892—93; Boston, Tabernacle, 1893 — 1902. 
 Cambridge, Archie Adams. North Billerica, 1891—96; West 
 
 Medford, 1896 — 98. 
 Cameron, John. Hampden, 1898 — 
 Cameron, Robert. Chelsea, Carey Avenue, 1893—96. 
 Campbell. K. H. East Dedham, 1872—73. 
 Cann, F. L. Middleboro, First, 1900— 1901. 
 Capen, Edward Augustus. Watertown, 1877— 1900. 
 Carey, Robert H. Greenfield, First, 1896—98; East Long- 
 meadow, 1899 — 1902; Chicopee, Central, 1902 — 
 Carleton, Cyrus Henry. Foxboro, 1867 — 68. 
 Carleton, George Jonathan. Andover, 1836—38; West 
 
 Cambridge (now Arlington), 1846 — 60. 
 Carpenter, George. Westminster, 1848—50; Rowe, 1851—53, 
 
 1872; North Scituate, 1854—56; Middleboro, Third, 
 
 1863; Pondville, 1867—69; Lanesboro, 1869—70. 
 Carpenter, Isaiah Cady. Templeton (now Baldwinville), 
 
 1837—43; Leominster, 1845—46; Russell, 1853—54; 
 
 Sterling, 1873—75. 
 Carpenter, Mark. Holyoke, First, 1851— 61. 
 Carpenter, William. Westfield, Central, 1855—59; Sterling, 
 
 1859—62. 
 Carpenter, William. Gay Head, 1901 — 
 Carr. Alex Waterman. Rowley. 1851—62; Framingham, 
 
 First, 1862—65; Medfield, 1866—71; Norfolk, 1872—74; 
 
 Dighton, 1874—85. 
 
150 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Carr, Samuel J. Norton, 1845; South Hanson, 1846 — 48; 
 Mansfield, 1849 — 51; Somerset, 1858 — 60; South Dart- 
 mouth (extinct), 1861—66; Chatham, 1866—68; Milford, 
 1868—69. 
 
 Carter, J. Horatio. Cambridge, Union, 1879 — 86; Boston, 
 Ebenezer, 1886 — 93. 
 
 Carter, Lyman Eugene. Rowley, 1874 — 95. ' 
 
 Case, Anthony. Shelburne, First (extinct), 1832. 
 
 Cass, T. G. Maplewood, 1878—82. 
 
 Caswell, Lewis E. Georgetown, 1844. 
 
 Gate, George Washington. Barre, 1844 — 48. 
 
 Cederberg, John S. Brockton, Swede, 1886. 
 
 Chaffin, Aaron Wheeler. Danvers, 1850 — 62. 
 
 Chamberlain, Andrew. New Bedford, Salem (extinct), 
 1885—90. 
 
 Chamberlain, Simeon. Rowley, 1824 — 25. 
 
 Chamberlin, Carey W. Hudson, 1894—96; Dorchester 
 Temple, 1896 — 1901. 
 
 Chamberlin, Harry Willard. Monroe, 1895 — 97; South- 
 wick, 1897 — 99; Petersham, 1899 — 
 
 Chandler, Edward K. Cambridge, Broadway, 1882 — 89. 
 
 Chandler, Samuel C. Heath, 1840 — 41 ; Needham and Dover 
 (Dover extinct), 1842; Granville, 1872 — 72,; West 
 Dedham (now Westwood), 1874 — 77. 
 
 Chapin, Asahel. West Springfield, Second (now Holyoke, 
 First), 1848—49; Holyoke, Second, 1850—52. 
 
 Chapin, Joel Parker. Sutton, First, 1877 — 80. 
 
 Chaplin, Adoniram Judson. Conway, 1858 — 59, 1869 — 72 ; 
 Colerain, First, 1887—88. 
 
 Chaplin, Jeremiah. Danvers, 1802 — 16; Rowley, Second, 
 
 1834- 
 Chaplin, Jeremiah, Jr. West Dedham (now Westwood), 
 
 1851 — 58; East Abington (now Rockland), 1859 — 62; 
 
 Newton, Immanuel, 1862 — 65. 
 Chapman, Hamilton Edgar. Haverhill, Mt. Washington 
 
 1896— 
 Chapman, Nathan. Norton, 1839 — 40; Pocasset, 1841 — 46; 
 
 Hanover, 1846; Mashpee, 1850 — 52; Manchaug, 1856; 
 
 North Marshfield, 1859 — 60; Charlemont, 1862; Heath, 
 
 1863—64; Deerfield (extinct), 1864; Norton, 1866 — 68; 
 
 Barnstable, Third, 1868—76. 
 Charlton, Frederick. Webster, 1850—53. 
 Chase, Enoch Eldridge. Orleans (extinct), 1833 — 34; Brew- 
 ster, 1845 — 46. 
 Chase, Ernest A. Raynham, 1895 — 98; West Harwich, 
 
 1898 — 1901 ; Brewster (acting), 1902 — 
 Chase, Isaac. New Bedford, First, 1823 — 24. 
 Chase, J. C. Pocasset, 1894. 
 Chase, John. East Brookfield, 1824 — 32. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 15I 
 
 Chase, John Kelley. East Stoughton (now Avon), 1870 — 72,; 
 Holden, 1874 — 78; Rowley, 1879—81; West Newbury, 
 1884—85. 
 
 Chase, L. North Attleboro, 1871—72; Methuen, 1872—75. 
 
 Chase, Peter. Watertown, 1830. 
 
 Chase, Simeon Lovell Bearce. Methuen, 1883 — 87. 
 
 Chase, Wallace Fairbanks. Tyringham (acting), 1902 — 
 
 Chase, William. Tyringham, 1872 — 76; Mashpee, 1877 — 80; 
 Stamford, Vt., 1881—86. 
 
 Chase, William Thomas. Cambridge, First, 1879 — 84; Bos- 
 ton, Ruggles Street, 1889 — 91. 
 
 Cheever, Samuel. Rehoboth, 1865 — 67; Carver, 1871. 
 
 Cheney, David Batchelder. East Boston, Central Square, 
 
 1868—74- 
 Chessman, Daniel. Warren, 1819; Lynn, First, 1829 — 33; 
 
 Barnstable, 1833 — 38. 
 Chick, John Maxwell. South Groton (extinct), 1855 — 60; 
 
 Fiskdale (Sturbridge), 1862—63; Woodville, 1872. 
 Child, Isaac. Middlefield, 1818 — 26; Westfield, Second 
 
 (extinct), 1828 — 34; Chesterfield, 1832; Hinsdale, 
 
 1837 — 41; Goshen (extinct), 1841 — 43. 
 Child. Jonathan Bush. Amherst, 1884 — 92; East Brook- 
 field. 1893 — 1901. 
 Child, William Chauncy. Charlestown, First, 1844 — 50; 
 
 Framingham, First, 185 1 — 59. 
 Chipman, Homes. North Oxford, 1859 — 60. 
 Chipman, William Pendleton. Peabody, 1883 — 85. 
 Choules, John Overton. New Bedford, First, 1833 — 38; 
 
 Jamaica Plain, 1843 — 47. 
 Christian, W. Boston, Independent (now St. Paul's), 
 
 1830—31. 
 Church, Pharcellus. Boston, Bowdoin Square, 1848 — 52. 
 Church, Volney. Wales, 1844—47; Middlefield, 1848. 
 Clapp, John. Gardner, 1838. 
 Clark, Albert Vinton. West Royalston, 1874 — 78 (with 
 
 Warwick, 1874—78). 
 Clark, Amasa. Russell, 1828 — 30. 
 Clark, Caleb. Haverhill, Second, 1828; New Bedford. First, 
 
 1830 — 32; Rowley, Second, 1832; Brewster, 1833 — 34; 
 
 Orleans (extinct), 1834 — 35. 
 Clark, David. Westfield, Central, 1837—41. 
 Clark, Henry. Seekonk (extinct), 1835 — 37; Taunton. 
 
 1838 — 40; Charleton, 1840—43; North Randolph, 1843—46; 
 
 Middlefield. 1849 — 50. 
 Clark, Ira D. Northampton, 1862 — 65. 
 
 Clark, James. Heath (extinct), 1852; Plainfield and Buck- 
 land (extinct), 1853 — 54. 
 Clark, John. Turner's Falls, 1893 — 95. 
 Clark, John L. Cambridge, Inman Square, 1894 — 95. 
 
152 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 ClarKj J. Ward Burt. Haverhill, Portland Street, 1881 — 86. 
 
 Clark, N. Taunton, 1837. Wendell, 1852 — 53. 
 
 Clark, N. Judson. South Abington (now Whitman), 
 
 i860 — 62. 
 Clark, Thomas Winthrop. Nantucket, Summer Street, 
 
 1851—53; Lexington, 1858; West Harwich, i860; Brain- 
 tree, 1870 — 71 ; Norfolk, 1876. 
 Clark, William Herman. Needham, 1884 — 87. 
 Clarke, Charles F. Weymouth, 1895 — 97; North Reading, 
 
 1902 — 
 Clarke, Miner Grant. North Grafton, 1839 — 40; Springfield, 
 
 First, 1846 — 50. 
 Clarke, William Newton. Newton Centre, 1869 — 80. 
 Clay, Joseph. Boston, First, 1807 — 09. 
 Cleaveland, George Aaron. Rockport, 1881 — 83 ; Melrose, 
 
 First, 1886 — 93, Fells, 1893 — 94. 
 Cleaves, Arthur Wordsworth. Scituate, First, 1901 — 
 Cleaves, Francis Elliott. Woodville, 1846; North Reading, 
 
 1848—50; Littleton, 1852—56; Osterville, 1875—76. 
 Clements, William. Rockport, 1902 — 
 Cleveland, Daniel M. South Hanson, 1900 — 
 Cleveland, Frederick Louis. Hanover, 1901 — 
 Clift, B. H. Littleton, 1847; Gardner, 1848; Leominster, 
 
 1849. 
 Cloues, William Jacob. Littleton, 1888—99. 
 Clough, George Wesley. Andover, 1890 — 92. 
 Coats, Albert B. Beverly, First, 1891 — 98. 
 Coats, Orville. Pittsfield, First, 1887 — 93; East Somerville, 
 
 1893 — 1902; Lowell, Fifth Street, 1902 — 
 Cobb, Davis. Chatham, 1846 — 47. 
 Cobbett, R. Colerain, Second, 1859. 
 Coburn, Alfred. Westfield, Central, 1843 — 44. 
 Coburn, Fred Eugene. Florida, 1896 — 98. 
 Coburn, W. L. Charlemont, 1866—67; Norton, 1868. 
 Codding, Elijah. Wales, 1824 — 29. 
 Coe, Henry Dingee. Edgartown, 1898 — 1901. 
 Coffin, Henry W. Merrimac, 1877 — 79; Plymouth, 1880 — 84. 
 CoKER, Jesse. Chatham, 1874 — 76 ; Vineyard Haven, 1879 — 82 
 
 (with Oak Blufifs, 1881) ; Rockport, 1892—94; Dalton, 
 
 1898 — 1901. 
 CoLBURN, Alfred. Adams, 1856; Chelmsford, Central, 1867; 
 
 Raynham, 1870—73; Woodville. 1873—76; Conway, 1876. 
 Colby, Lewis. Melrose, First (acting). 1862 — 6},. 
 Colby, Nathaniel Lord. North Billerica, 1872 — 79. 
 Coldwell, S. a. Charlemont, 1896 — 97. 
 Cole, C. H. Lvnn, Third (extinct), 1862—64, 1870—73; East 
 
 Dedham, 1875 — J"]. 
 Cole, Gideon. Weymouth. 1863—70; Somerset, 1876 — 84; 
 
 Danvers, 1884—88; Salem, Calvary, 1888—^2. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 153 
 
 CoLESWORTHY ^^o'^^'^- , ^reentield ^ lr^t io59^ 'Boylston, 
 
 ie7Q_8^ ; Tyringham, 1890—95. 
 roTEY tImes M. North Randolph, 1833— 35- 
 
 sirs ^rr,r"--'.^"Bs^- -™i!^:^; f... 
 
 1861—64. ^ 
 
 r™' NfxlAmEl" JR l^t'on, Union Baptist Church (now 
 ^™emont'' Temple), 1839-52; South Abu.gton (now 
 
 Whitman), 1852— 53. ,o^o_o, 
 
 CoLWELL, T. M. Lowell, First ^%^\^^^_^^. Plymouth. 
 
 Conrad, J. R. ^^°"^°^'oi!f FirW i82'^— 14; Westboro, 
 
 ^°^r8?A38°"&orth''^t;ilph "183^41 ; '>nton. First 
 
 ;84?-46; Athol, 1854; Wendell (extmct), 1867; Heath 
 
 CoNWATHiRAM.'Vorcester, John Strej=t, 1889- 
 CoNWELL, Russell H. Lexmgton, 1881-82. 
 
 Cook^SSrv ALLEN, Lawrence. Second, .865-<9; Boston, 
 
 CooK'/of jo-H^n^aMen, Fir... .844-5. .844_-47 ; Lowe,,, 
 First 1826; Reading, Salem Street. 1849—51. 
 
 COOMBS Hhnrv Clark Sn°"K'''VRf8'- Pois^^^^^^^ sfe^; i 
 Rehoboth, 1844-46; Shutesbury, 1848, Pocasset i»o^7^ 
 
 Pondville and Carver, 1872; Carver, i873-74. 
 r n^S'l w''ctXnr?876; MTddleboro, First, 3889. 
 CoombI: Jo^N. ^Retboth! 1B68-70; Bernardston, 1870-71. 
 
154 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Coombs, Simeon. Middleboro, Second, 1805 — 16; Barnstable, 
 1817. 
 
 Coombs, Stephen. Middleboro, Second, 1825 ; Mashpee, 
 1853—58; South Yarmouth, 1859; Pondville, 1873—74. 
 
 CooNEY, Lorenzo Augustus. Fells, 1901 — 
 
 Cooper, Clayton Sedgwick. Lynn, Washington Street, 
 1898 — 1902. 
 
 Cooper, Fennimore H. Edgartown, 1892 — 94. 
 
 Cooper, George. North Attleboro, 1866—70. 
 
 Cooper, H. Scituate, 1838. 
 
 Cooper, James. Melrose, First, 1859 — 62. 
 
 Cooper, John. Northbridge, 1802 — 17. 
 
 Cooper, Warren. West Royalston and Winchendon, 1836 — 37 ; 
 Billerica, First, 1839 — 40; Wales, 1843 — 44; West Royals- 
 ton and Winchendon, 1849 — 52. 
 
 CoPELAND, L. H. Hampden and East Longmeadow, 1881 — 86. 
 
 Corbett, Benjamin Smith. Andover, 1841 — 48. 
 
 Corbett, Isaac Allen. Pondville (supply), 1899. 
 
 Cordo, Henry A. Boston, South, 1875 — 78; Whitman, 
 
 1895—98- 
 Cornell, Henry Allen. Chelmsford, Central, 1893 — 96; 
 
 Merrimac, 1896 — 98 (with West Newbury, 1896; with 
 
 Merrimacport, 1897). 
 Cornish, Clark. Falmouth Village (extinct), 1825. 
 Couch, Charles. Sandisfield, 1892. 
 CovELL, Lemuel. Cheshire, Third, 1806; North Adams, 
 
 1836-38. 
 Cox, John Hosmer. Athol, 1881 — 87; Merrimac, 1892 — 95; 
 
 Lexington, 1895 — 1902 ; West Harwich, 1902 — 
 Cox, Obadiah Erastus. South Amesbury (Merrimacport, 
 
 extinct), 1870 — 71; New Bedford, North, 1873 — 75; North 
 
 Easton, 1893 — 94. 
 Coy, E. Royalston Centre (extinct), 1848. 
 Craft, George Gilbert, Worcester, JFirst, 1888 — 93. 
 Crafts, Daniel Lord. Lynn, 1876 — TJ) New Bedford, 
 
 1879—31; Somerset, 1887—88. • 
 Crandall, B. C. Egremont, 1844 — 47 ; Hinsdale, 1847 — 48. 
 Crane, Alvin Millin. Medfield, 1872 — 78; West Boylston, 
 
 1878—83; Shelburne Falls, 1883—89; Millbury, 1889—91; 
 
 Medfield, 1891 — 97; Groton, 1897 — 
 Crane, Cephas Bennett. Boston, First, 1878 — 84; Woburn, 
 
 First (acting), 1898 — 
 Crane, Denzel Mansfield. Boston, Union (now Tremont 
 
 Temple), 1861 — 62,; North Dorchester (now Stoughton 
 
 Street), 1864—66; Greenfield, First, 1867—69; Winthrop, 
 
 1876—78; Northampton, 1878—79. 
 Crane, Eben. Salisbury and Amesbury, 1834. 
 Crane, Origen. Newton, Second, 1836--39; Weston, 
 
 1839—53. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 155 
 
 Crankshaw, Burton. Cambridge, Second, i88^3- 
 Crawford, James Edward. Nantucket, Pleasant btreet, 
 
 CRAw't^THOMirWiLLXAM. Reading, Salem Street. 1868-70; 
 
 Kingston, 1872—74- , . 
 
 grsfv:«K?R'''Kra;.'.''.?7.-34; Boston. South, 
 
 Crocker, T. C. Edgartown, 1890. 
 Crocker, Wallace. Sandisfield, i8«4— «o- 
 Croft, Delmar E. South Framnigham, 1 893-94- 
 Crosby, Charles C. P. West Boylston. 1825. 
 Crowell, Simeon. South Yarmouth, 1825—47- 
 Crowell, W. B. Ro^vley- ^89^\90i. Charlemont. 
 
 Crowley, Harvey. Stamford, Vt 1848—52, L.nariemom, 
 tQ,c2 — zLc- Bernardston, 1855 — 50. r\i^,\ 
 
 ^-S-|. So«hl^ever J'S?«h<sS™deS^d^^8,£^l: 
 gS 20S^N."wa?:t*'r863; Winchendon and Royals- 
 
 CuMMiNof E^eIezer E. Springfield Fj--^'. -85.-52. 
 CuMMisos. Elkanah Andrews. Amherst, 1850-57 , Maple 
 
 C.Z°iL'^ulkTo. Somervllle, ,887-^2; Rockland, 
 
 CuNS7„r,- OR.AN»0 Princeton (extinct), .842-43 i 
 Sterlino- 1845—50; Middlefield, i»50— 54- 
 
 Curtis, ChIndler Westminster, i84|-52__ Bedford. 
 
 Curtis David. West Harwich, 1824—25. \xt\:^u^^„\ 
 
 Rrst 1825-26; South Abington (now Whitman), 
 1828^32: Carver, 1832-33; Medway, 1845-46- 
 
 CuRTis L. B. North Grafton, 1901— T«^a_-J2- 
 
 SSI: . Moses. Canton .8.^30 ;M.ddefieW,.830^^3|^. 
 
 ?ISr"su,;d!Sd' anrionta"r(Mon.igue^ extinct), 
 Cuetk^'reuben. Gloucester First .828. 
 
 Boston, Thirteenth (extinct), 1856, Chariestown, 
 
 (acting), 1857—60. Scituate, First, 
 
 C„.eer,^_Stephe.^ spencer,^ .843-_47.._ Sc^t, ^.^^,3.„„, 
 
 CuTON^TsiwALi. S. West Boylston, .836; Southbridge, 
 
 First (extinct), 1838—46. 
 
156 PASTOKS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Dahlin, Carl O. Brockton, Swede, 1901 — 
 
 Daland, George. New Salem (extinct), 1838 — 42; New 
 Salem and Prescott (extinct), 1843 — 44; Sutton, First, 
 1844—45; Manchaug, 1846—47; Middleboro, Third, 
 1847 — 48; Pocasset, 1848 — 49; South Braintree, 1849—58; 
 Somerset, 1861 — 62. 
 
 Dalton, H. W. West Newbury, 1869, 1879 — 80. 
 
 Dalrymple, William Henry. South Abington (now Whit- 
 man), 1835 — 27', Northboro, 1837 — 40; Gardner, 1840 — 42; 
 Manchaug. 1844; Woodville. 1844 — 46; Barnstable, 
 1849 — 50; Haverhill, Second, 1862—66. 
 
 Dame, Jonathan E. Swampscott. 1880 — 82. 
 
 Damon, Franklin. Brewster, 1848 — 51. 
 
 Damon, Joseph Brooks. West Dedham (now Westwood), 
 1841—43. 
 
 Danforth, George F. Medford, First, 1847 — 48; South Dart- 
 mouth (extinct), 1849 — 51; North Tisbury, 1852 — 53; 
 Manchester, 1853 — 54. 
 
 Daniels, E. D. Colerain, First, 1868 — 69; North Leverett and 
 Montague, 1869 — 70; Palmer, 1870 — 71. 
 
 Darby, Otis H. Rowe and Charlemont, 1901 — 
 
 Darrow, George R. West Bojdston, 1856-— 58; Dorchester, 
 Fairmount (now Hyde Park), 1863 — 64; South Abington 
 (now Whitman), 1864 — 67; Chicopee, Central, 1870 — 71; 
 West Boylston, 1873 — 74. 1886; South Framingham, 
 1874 — 75; Woodville, 1876 — 77. 
 
 Dary, Albert Nelson. Everett, 1881 — 83 ; Dighton, 1885 — 88. 
 
 Davenport, Edward. Colerain, Second, 1824 — 2ii ! Rowe, 
 1836 — 41; Colerain, Second, 1841 — 50 (with Bernards- 
 ton, 1842). 
 
 Davenport, William H. Everett, Glendale, 1891 — 92. 
 
 Davey, William Kemp. Reading, Salem Street, i860 — 62; 
 North Reading, 1864—67; West Acton, 1868—72; North- 
 boro, 1873 — 77 \ Fayville, 1877 — 79; Fayville, 1880 — 82; 
 South Hanson, 1883. 
 
 Davies, Samuel. South Boston, Fourth Street, 1858 — 60. 
 
 Davis, Alonzo A. Bernardston, 1891 — 95 ; Lanesboro, 
 1896 — 97. 
 
 Davis, Francis Howard. Foxboro, 1892 — 95. 
 
 Davis, George Weston. South Amesbury (now Merrimac- 
 port, extinct), 1871 — 75; Rowley, 1875 — 76; Orange, 
 1876 — 80; Chicopee Central, 1880 — 90; Wales, 1894 — 98. 
 
 Davis, Gustavus Fellowes. South Reading (now Wake- 
 field), 1818—29. 
 
 Davis, Henry Stanton. Wendell, 1878; Hancock, 1901 — 
 
 Davis, Jacob. North Marshfield, 1861 — 69; Florida, 1869 — 77; 
 Rowe, 1878—89. 
 
 Davis, John Henry. Newton, Second, 1896 — 98; George- 
 town, 1898 — 
 
 Davis, Joseph. Nottingham, West, 1824 — 25; Reading, 1828; 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES I 57 
 
 Brookline, 1830; North Randolph, 1832; Sharon, 1834; 
 
 Maiden, First, 1840,' Plymouth, 1841 — 42. 
 Davis^ Ulysses Sherman. Marlboro, 1896—99. 
 Day, Ambrose, Jr. Chesterfield, First, 1830 — 42; Westfield, 
 
 Second (extinct), 1843, 1846 — 51, 1855 — 59, 1865 — 66; 
 
 Chesterfield, 1844; VVilliamstown, 1881 — 82. 
 Day, George F. Savoy, First, 1861 — 62. 
 Day, Henry. Ashland, 1851. 
 
 Day, William J. Somerville, Winter Hill, 1892 — 
 Dealtry, C. W. South Hanson, 1897 — 98. 
 Dean, Henry Martyn. Hingham, 1878 — 87; Dorchester, 
 
 First (acting), 1887 — 88; Cambridge, First (assistant 
 
 pastor), 1890 — 91. 
 Dean, Leonard John. Randolph, 1882 — 84. 
 Dean, Myron Munson. Marblehead, 1840 — 47. 
 Dean, William Kendrick. Russell, 1867 — 68; Southwick, 
 
 1879—81. 
 Dearborn, Danville Augustine. Leveritt and Montague, 
 
 1863—^34; Southwick, 1865 — 70; Manchaug, 1870 — 74; 
 
 Granville. 1874—80; Russell, 1885—87. 
 DeGruchy, Thomas. Newton, Second, 1885 — 86; Revere 
 
 and Franklin Park, 1886 — 89; Chicopee, Central, 1891 — 94. 
 Deming, Amos. Savoy, First and Second, 1836 — 67. 
 Deming, Miner Rudd. Marlboro, 1868 — 71 ; Boston, Taber- 
 nacle, 1887 — 92; Boston, Tremont Temple (associate 
 
 pastor), 1897 — 99. 
 Denison, Erastus. West Tisbury, 1852 — 53. 
 Dennett, Erwin. Franklin, 1887 — 89; Roslindale, 1889 — 93. 
 Dennis, W. C. Boston, Twelfth, 1876—79. 
 Dennis, William L. Barnstable and Orleans (Orleans ex- 
 tinct), 1838 — 40. 
 Dennison, Charles W. Newton, Second, 1842 — 44. 
 Denno, J. W. West Royalston, 1890. 
 Depew, W. a. Chelmsford, First, 1873—75. 
 Dewhurst, Ell Baldwinville, 1862—65; Hinsdale, 1868 — 76. 
 Dewhurst, Frederick Ell Wollaston, 1882 — 87. 
 DeWolfe, Henry Todd. Foxboro, 1895 — 1901. 
 Dexter, Henry Vaughan. Baldwinville, 1871 — 75. 
 Dick, J. W. North Uxbridge. 1869; Still River, 1871—72; 
 
 West Bridgewater, 1880 — 82. 
 Dickenson, E. W. Danvcrs, 1839. 
 Dickerson, James Stokes. Boston, South, 1870 — 75. 
 Dickie, Robert B. Hanover, 1834—37; Middleboro, Third, 
 
 1837—40. 
 Dickinson, Fenner Bush. Cambridge, Charles River (now 
 
 Immanuel), 1871 — 78; Boston, Bowdoin Square, 1878 — 80. 
 Dill, John S. Gay Head, 1832—33; Dartmouth (extinct), 
 
 1838 — 40. 
 
158 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 DiLTS, Asa Read. Northampton, 1892 — 98; Lowell, Branch 
 
 Street, 1898— 
 DiMOCK, A. V. Colerain, First, 1848 — 51 ; Templeton (now 
 
 Baldwmville), 1851—56. 
 DiMOCK, Arthur Vilroy. Winthrop, 1900 — 
 DiNSMORE, Joseph Edward. Merrimacport (extinct), 1887 — 88; 
 
 Huntington, 1888 — 89; Chelmsford, First, 1890 — 91; Cot- 
 tage City, 1892 — 93 ; North Sunderland and North Lev- 
 
 erett, 1893 — 95; Fayville, 1895 — 97; New Bedford, 
 
 Immanuel, 1900 — 02; Nantucket, People's, 1902 — 
 Dixon, Amzi Clarence. Boston, Ruggles Street, 1901 — 
 Dixon, Joseph Kossuth. Boston, Warren Avenue, 1898 — 99. 
 Dixon, Thomas, Jr. Boston, Dudley Street, 1887 — 88. 
 DocKRELL, Henry Grattan. Allston, Mill Memorial, 1900 — 
 Dodge, Oliver Augustus. Lexington, 1835 — 40. 
 Dolan, Edwin Bailey. Wales, 1902 — 
 Donovan, Dennis. Belchertown, 1867 — 69. 
 Donovan, James Dean. Sutton. First, i860 — 61 ; New 
 
 Salem and Prescott (extinct), 1868; Shutesbury, 1871 — 72; 
 
 Sunderland and Montague, 1873. 
 Doolittle, Horace D. West Springfield, Second (now Hol- 
 
 yoke. First), 1839 — 42; Northampton, 1842 — 46; Will- 
 
 iamstown, 1850 — 53. 
 Dorrance, George W. Fiskdale (Sturbridge), 1849 — 52; 
 
 Webster, 1853— 55-. 
 Doty, Erastus. Williamstown, 1819 — 20. 
 Dougherty, M. Angelo. Boston, Stoughton Street, 1872 — 77. 
 Douglass, Charles T. Reading, 1885 — 87; Turner's Falls, 
 
 1889 — 91 ; North Brockton, 1891 — 95. 
 Dow, B. R. West Medway, 1884—86. 
 Dow, Ernest Wentworth. Cottage City, 1898 — 99. 
 DowLiNG, Thomas. West Springfield, 1852 — 54. 
 Downs, W. W. Boston, Bowdoin Square, 1881 — 85. 
 Drew, John. Carver, 1803. 
 
 Drew, Simon P. W. Boston, St. Paul's, 1901 — 02. 
 Drinkwater, Arthur. Danvers, 1824 — 28. 
 Driver, Joseph M. Reading, 1828 — 30; Brookline, 1830 — 31; 
 
 North Randolph, 1832 — Z2,'> Sharon, 1833 — 34; Maiden, 
 
 First, 1839 — 40; Plymouth, 1841 — 42; Northampton, 
 
 1843; Rockport, 1858. 
 Driver, Thomas. West Dedham (now Westwood), 1830 — 38; 
 
 Boston, South, 1829 — 30, 1839 — 43; Lynn, First, 1844 — 46; 
 
 Sturbridge, 1848 — 49. 
 Drury, Lucian. Winchendon, 1870 — 72; Swampscott, 
 
 1872 — 76; Danvers, 1876 — 83; Bellingham and North 
 
 Bellingham, 1892 — 98; Swansea, 1898 — 
 Duer, John. Lowell, Third (extinct), 1856. 
 Dugdale, William. Nantucket, Summer Street, 1887. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES I 59 
 
 Dunbar, Darius. Hanover, 1833 — 345 Pembroke (extinct) 
 and Hanson, 1835 — 2>7. 
 
 Dunbar, Duncan. Boston, South, 1843 — 46. 
 
 Duncan, John. Lowell, Third (extinct), 1847 — 51; Boston, 
 South, 1858 — 63; West Cambridge (now Arlington), 
 1863 — 64; Fall River, Second, 1865 — 70; Mansfield, 
 1880—83. 
 
 Dunn, Albert Teele. West Harwich, 1877 — 79'> Boston, 
 Stoughton Street, 1879 — 85. 
 
 Dunn, Andrew. Royalston and Winchendon, 1843 — 47; 
 Winchendon, 1848 — 52 ; Holden, 1853 ; West Bridgewater, 
 1854; Weymouth, 1855—58; Chatham, 1858 — 60; Still 
 River, i860 — 63 ; East Gloucester, 1863 — 67 ; Haverhill, 
 Second, 1867 — 71; Rowley, 1871 — 74; West Newbury, 
 1874 — 78 (with Amesbury, 1876) ; East Brookfield, 
 1878—81; West Royalston, 1887—91. 
 
 Dutcher, E. Williamstown, 1845. 
 
 Dwyer. Ransom O. Stamford, Vt, 1838 — 39. 
 
 Dyke, Samuel A. Cottage City, 1902 — 
 
 Earle, Charles Clifton. Boston, Harvard Street, 1892 — 1901; 
 Lawrence, Second, 1902 — 
 
 Easterbrook, Gorham. Hyde Park, 1881 — 84; Southbridge, 
 Central, 1884 — 92; East Somcrville, 1892; Leicester, 
 1894 — 96; West Acton, 1896 — 
 
 Easton, Daniel Charles. Brewster. 1873 — 74 ; Orange, 1875 ; 
 Wendell, 1876 — yy, Fells, igoo — 01. 
 
 Eaton, Charles Aubrey. Natick, 1893 — 95. 
 
 Eaton, Horace. North Reading, 1862 — 62,. 
 
 Eaton, Joseph Warren. Lowell, First, 1836 — 27 '< Spring- 
 field, First, 1840 — 43; Danvers, 1843 — 51. 
 
 Eaton, William Hadley. Salem, Central, 1849 — 54. 
 
 Eaton, William Harrison. Salisbury and Amesbury, 
 1868 — 72,; Westfield, 1873 — 88; Secretary Massachusetts 
 Baptist Convention, 1888— 
 
 Eddy, Daniel C. Lowell, First, 1846 — 57 ; Boston, Harvard 
 Street, 1856 — 62; Boston, Baldwin Place (now Warren 
 Avenue), 1865 — 71; Fall River, First. 1871 — 73; Boston, 
 Tabernacle, 1873 — 77 'y Hyde Park, 1878—80. 
 
 Eddy, Edwin Barnard. Beverly, First. 1852 — 55 ; Winchester, 
 1855 — 60; Waltham, First, 1862 — 67. 
 
 Edson, a. Raynham, 1867 — 70; East Dedham, 1870; Fall 
 River, Mechanicsville (extinct), 1872. 
 
 Edwards, Benjamin Alexander. Grafton, First, 1845 — 49; 
 Watertown, 1850 — 54; Newton, First, 1854 — 56; Plym- 
 outh, 1856—60; Holliston, i860 — 65; Sharon, 1865 — 72; 
 Bolton, 1872 — 79. 
 
 Edwards, Ephraim Andrews. Gay Head, 1857 — 58; Mash- 
 pee, 1 86 1 — 65. 
 
l6o PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Eggleston, a. B. Plainfield (extinct), 1842 — 43; Buckland 
 (extinct), 1844 — 46; Ashfield, 1847 — 48; New Salem and 
 Paris (extinct), 1849 — 51; Winchendon and Royalston, 
 1861—63. 
 
 Elliot, Joseph. Roxbury, Tremont Church (extinct), 
 1822 — 24. 
 
 Ellis, Alexander. Boston, Independent (now St. Paul's), 
 1868—76; Boston, Day Star (extinct), 1876—81. 
 
 Ellis, Charles Haigh. Chelmsford, Central, 1897 — 
 
 Ellis, Ferdinand. Marblehead, 181 1 — 17. 
 
 Ellis, Frank M. Boston, Union (now Tremont Temple), 
 188(^-83. 
 
 Ellis, Harmon. Egremont, 1836; Hancock, 1837 — 38. 
 
 Ellis, Robert Fulton. Springfield, Second (Chicopee, First), 
 
 1838-45. 
 
 Ellison, Joseph. Carver, 1894—^9. 
 
 Elmore, David W. Barre (acting), 1832. 
 
 Elsdon, William P. Brewster, 1869 — "JZ', Hyannis, 1873—79. 
 
 Ely, R. M. Barnstable, Third, 1844—47. 
 
 Emerson, Forest Fayette. Gloucester, First, 1868 — 73. 
 
 Emerson, Howard Malcolm. Methuen, 1861 — 62. 
 
 Emerson, Oliver. North Reading, 1845 — 46. 
 
 Emery, E. J. Warwick, 1858—60; Barre, 1865—70. 
 
 Emery, Ira. Chatham, 1888—89. 
 
 Emery, John C. Haverhill, Fourth (extinct), 1872 — 74; 
 Athol, 1874—76; Lowell, Worthen Street, 1880—84. 
 
 Emery, Samuel Harvey. Salem, Calvary, 1883 — 88. 
 
 English, John Mahan. Gloucester, First, 1875 — 82; Rox- 
 bury, Dudley Street, 1882. 
 
 Englund, Peter August. Quincy, Swede, 1889 — 1901. 
 
 Engstrom, Charles John. Marshfield, 1894; Gay Head, 
 1895 — 96; Florida, 1898. 
 
 Enslin, Francis Raymond, Jr. Littleton, 1899 — 
 
 Ergus, J. Three Rivers, 1889 — 90. 
 
 Esten, Richard Bartlett. Amesbury, 1886 — 91 ; Westfield, 
 1891— 1900; Roslindale, 1900 — 
 
 EsTES, David Foster. Holden, 1886 — 91. 
 
 EsTES, Hiram Cushman. Rochdale (Greenville), i860 — 61, 
 
 1886—93. 
 EsTEY, Aaron H. Westboro, 1874 — 75. 
 
 Evans, Charles. South Reading (now Wakefield), 1843 — 44. 
 Evans, Philip Saffrey. Boston, Thirteenth (extinct), 
 
 1857—58; Shelburne Falls, 1872—79; Salisbury and 
 
 Amesbury, 1879—86. 
 Evans, Thomas Phillips. Billerica, First, 1897 — 
 Evans, William Henry. Hyannis, 1867—72; Holyoke, First, 
 
 1872—79; Littleton, 1880—83; North Oxford, 1883—85; 
 
 Still River, 1887—95. 
 EvELETH, Joshua. Dudley (extinct), 1828. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES l6l 
 
 Everett, Samuel. Milford, 1825; Leverett and Montague, 
 
 1840—43; Sunderland and Montague, 1844—45- 
 Everett, Samuel P. Colerain, First, 1872—81; Ayer, 
 
 1889—97; Bernardston, 1897— 1901. 
 Everett, Willl^m P. East Abington (Rockland), 1856; 
 
 Chelsea, Carey Avenue, 1865 — 67. 
 Everitt, Harry L. Williamstown (acting), 1901— 
 Everts, Noah Rudd. Wakefield, 1888— 1900; Plymouth, 
 
 1902 — 
 Ev'erts, William Wallace, Jr. Haverhill, First, 1887—95; 
 
 Tremont Temple, Boston, assistant pastor. 1900— 
 Ewer, James Kendall. Reading, Salem Street, 1874—85; 
 
 Maplewood, 1902 — ^t , / • \ 
 
 Ewer Seth. Taunton Second, 1830; Holmes Hole (extinct), 
 
 1832—33; West Harwich, 1834—37; South Hanson, 
 
 1861—62; Norton, 1864; Halifax (extinct), 1866. 
 Eyers, John. Three Rivers, 1887—92 ; Brewster, 1892—95. 
 
 Fairbanks, George Greenwood. Medfield, 1851-55; S9mer- 
 ville, First, 1855—66; East Dedham, 1866—69; Middle- 
 boro. Central, 1869— 1883. ^^ „. , 
 
 Fairbrother, Alfred. Cottage City, 1889—90; Vineyard 
 Haven, 1894— 1901 ; Hudson, 1901— 00 qa 
 
 Fairfax Robert Newton. Haverhill, Calvary, i{5»4— 00; 
 Boston, Twelfth, 1886—89. . , „^ ^ 
 
 Fairman, J. Charlemont, 1861 ; Florida, 1862—65; New 
 Marlboro, 1866. 
 
 Farley, R. G. Rowley, 1870; Georgetown, 1871— 73; Savoy, 
 
 Farnham, Edwin Pickett. Salem, First, 1888— 
 
 Farr, Frederic William. Milford, 1888—91. 
 
 F^rrar, Charles. Bernardston, 1843—45; Southwick and 
 East Longmeadow, 1846; East Longmeadow, 1847; 
 Northboro, 1848—56; Warwick, 1871—73; North Sun- 
 derland, 1874—75- , , x^- o^ ^ T 
 
 Farrar, John Perkins. Chelmsford, First, 1863—65; Lynn 
 Third (extinct), 1865—67; Fiskdale, 1867—69; Vineyard 
 
 Haven, 1883—85- , _.„ . o 00 xt .u 
 
 Farren, William Albert. North Billenca, 1879—88; North 
 Attleboro, 1899— 
 
 Farris, Benjamin Willis. Boston, St. Pauls, 1896— 1901, 
 (acting) 1902 — 
 
 Faunce Daniel Worcester. Somerville, tirst, 1853—54; 
 Worcester, Pleasant Street, 1854—60; Maiden, First, 
 1860—66; Lynn, Washington Street, 1875—81; West 
 Newton, First, 1889—93- ^ . , , , ^ e. . 
 
 Faunce, William Herbert Perry. Springfield, State Street, 
 
 1884—89- ^ . , O o 
 
 Fwor M. P. New Marlboro, 1871—73 ; Tynngham, 1877—78- 
 
1 62 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Fay, Lysander. Erving's Grant and South Orange (extinct), 
 
 1836 — 42; Royalston, 1843 — 44; Petersham Branch, 1845; 
 
 Wendell (extinct), 1845; South Orange and Warwick, 
 
 1846—47; South Orange, 1847 — 48; Warwick, 1849 — 50; 
 
 Winchendon and Royalston, 1853 — 68. 
 Fay, William Newell. Belchertown, 1856 — 68. 
 Feeman, William E. Hudson, 1897 — 98. 
 Felton, George Deland. Westminster, 1841 — 43; Chatham, 
 
 1844 — 45; East Granville, 1845 — 65. 
 Ferguson, Robert Henry. Boston, Dorchester Temple, 
 
 1887—88. 
 Field, Samuel Wheeler. Methuen, 1840 — 46. 
 Fielden, Joseph Flanders. Winchester, 1881 — 92; Win- 
 chendon, 1896 — 
 FiLLiNGHAM, C. Brewstcr, 1890. 
 FiLMER, Thomas Tiesdell. South Framingham, 1867 — 73 ; 
 
 Webster, 1873 — 
 Fish, Alanson. Chelsea, First, 1837 — 40. 
 Fish, E. D. New Salem and Prescott (extinct), 1853 — 54; 
 
 Rowe, 1854 — 64. 
 Fish, Joseph Leroy Atwell. Webster, 1856 — 63; North 
 
 Tisbury, 1863—65; HoUiston, 1865—68; Holyoke, First, 
 
 1868—72. 
 Fish, Milton E. Vineyard Haven, 1901 — 
 Fish, R. D. Nantucket, First, 1874—75; Cheshire, 1875—80; 
 
 Merrimac, 1880 — 82. 
 Fish, William Henry. Billerica, First, 1875 — TJ\ Brewster, 
 
 1878—80; North Oxford, 1882 — 83; Newton, Second 
 
 (acting), 1893. 
 Fisher, Abiel. Bellingham, 1816 — 26; West Boylston, 
 
 1828 — 30; Webster, 1832 — 34; Swansea, 1838 — 40; South 
 
 Milford, 1846—48; Manchaug, 1849 — 53; Sutton, Second, 
 
 1856—59- 
 
 Fisher, R. Ward. Middleboro, Third, 1894 — 95; East Long- 
 meadow, 1895—97; North Attleboro, 1897 — 98. 
 
 FisK, Oliver Johnson. Swansea, 1836 — 2>7- 
 
 Fisk, p. B. Heath (extinct), 1836—38. 
 
 FrrcHETT, Wilson. West Medford, Shiloh, 1900 — 
 
 FiTTz, George Boardman. South Yarmouth, 1874 — 75 ; Savoy, 
 1876—80; Bolton. 1880—82; Gay Head, 1887—88; Hali- 
 fax (extinct), 1888. 
 
 FiTTZ, Hervey. Middleboro, Central, 1832 — 36; Marblehead, 
 1839 — 41 ; Millbury, 1841 — 43, 1846 ; Missionary Massachu- 
 setts Baptist Convention, 1843 — 78. 
 
 FiTTZ, Lonzo Lyon. South Wilbraham (extinct), 1865 — (£; 
 Somerset, 1869 — 74; Rockland, 1875 — 78; Ashland (act- 
 ing), 1879—81; Salem, Calvary, 1881—83; Halifax (ex- 
 tinct), 1890. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 163 
 
 FiTz, William. Haverhill, First, 1865 — 68; North Attleboro, 
 
 1872—73- 
 Flanders, Charles Woethen. Beverly, First, 1840 — 50; 
 
 Westboro, 1868—70; Beverly Farms, 1871 — 74. 
 Flanders, Clifton Kimball. Cliftondale, 1891 — 95; Chico- 
 
 pee. Central, 1895 — 97. 
 Fletcher, Clifton. North Tewksbury, 1856 — 69; Billerica, 
 
 First, 1869 — 75; Canton, 1875 — 77; Brookville, 1878 — 86. 
 Fletcher, Joseph Hamilton. West Newbury (acting), 
 
 1886—87; South Hanson, 1887—91; Woodville, 1891—96. 
 Foljambe, Samuel W. South Framingham, 1856—58; East 
 
 Boston, Central Square, 1859 — 67 ; Boston, Harvard 
 
 Street, 1867—70; Maiden, 1870 — 86. 
 FoLLETT, J. M. West Boylston, i860. 
 
 Folsom, Frank Greenleaf. Merrimacport (extinct), 1891 — 92. 
 Forbes, C. F. Colerain, First, 1862 — 64. 
 FoRBUSH, Jonathan E. Fayville, 1825 — 30; Westboro, 
 
 1830 — 32; Attleboro, 1832 — 2>7 \ Billerica, First, 1837 — 38; 
 
 Westminster, 1846 — 47; South Danvers (now Peabody), 
 
 1848—49; Gay Head, 1854—55. 
 Ford, David Barnes. Canton, 1851 — 54; Marshfield, First, 
 
 1864—68. 
 Ford, L. B. Turner's Falls, 1875—76 ; Becket, 1877 — 79. 
 Ford, Smith Thomas. Lowell, First, 1896 — 
 Forshee, Archibald Alexander. Hingham, 1901 — 
 Foskett, Harvey Bartlett. Adams, 1893 — 1900; Williams- 
 town, 1900 — 1901. 
 Foskett, Horace Barnes. Fayville, 1855 — 56. 
 Foster, Elijah. Salisbury and Amesbury, 1832 — 34. 
 Foster, Joseph Coggin. Beverly, First, 1856 — 7Z ', Randolph, 
 
 1873—82. 
 Foster, N. P. East Stoughton (now Avon), 1855 — 56. 
 Fowler, H. Colerain, Second, 1884 — 88. 
 Fox, James Butler. Canton, 1899 — 1901. 
 Francis, James A. Boston, Clarendon Street, 1902 — 
 Francis, John. Pittsfield, First, 1807 — 13. 
 Francis, William L. Haverhill, Calvary, 1880 — 82. 
 Frary, Milo. Heath (extinct), 1843 — 44; Colerain, First, 
 
 1845 — 46; Deerfield (extinct), 1847 — 48. 
 Fraser, a. L. North Bellingham (acting), 1899. 
 Frasy. William. East Tisbury (now Vineyard Haven), 
 
 1863—64. 
 Free, Alfred. Charlemont, 1868. 
 Freeman, Enoch W. Lowell, First, 1828 — 34. 
 Freeman, James. Mashpee (formerly Marshpee), 1803 — 06. 
 Freeman, Leonard Alfred. Leominster, 1883 — 86; Haverhill, 
 
 Mt. Washington (formerly Messiah), 1886 — 94; Orange, 
 
 1894- 
 Freeman, Sebra Crocker. Shirley (acting), 1901 — 02. 
 
1 64 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Freeman, Timothy Giles. West Dedham (now Westwood), 
 
 1839 — 40; Southbridge, Central, 1845. 
 French, Charles Valentine. Brookville (acting), 1890. 
 French, James. Holyoke, Second, 1849 — 54. 
 Frink, Lemuel Williams. Marlboro, 1883 — 85; Sharon, 
 
 1886—88; West Boylston, 1888—91; North Tewksbury, 
 
 1892 — 94. 
 Frohock, Sylvanus Everett. North Reading (acting), 1884; 
 
 Hingham (acting), 1891 ; Springfield, Carew Street, 
 
 1892 — 98. 
 Frost, C. L. Littleton, 1868. 
 Frost, Samuel Tuttle. Lexington, 1865; West Dedham 
 
 (now Westwood), 1872—73; North Attleboro, 1874—75; 
 
 Gardner, 1875 — 76; Ashland, 1888 — 91; Palmer, 1893 — 94; 
 
 Long Plain, 1895 — 96. 
 Fuhrmann, Jacob Winfried. Vineyard Haven, 1874 — 76. 
 Fuller, Edward K. Somerset, 1846 — 49; Medford, First, 
 
 1849 — 53; Reading, Salem Street, 1854 — 57- 
 Fuller, Edward Milo. Salem, Central, assistant pastor, 1892 ; 
 
 Gardner, 1892 — 97. 
 Fuller, George E. Adams, 1847 — 49; Bernardston, 1849 — 53; 
 
 Ware (extinct), 1853—55- 
 Fuller, George Washburn. Chicopee, Central, 1877 — 80; 
 
 Hyannis, 1880—88; Winthrop, 1888—95; Cottage City, 
 
 1895 — 97; East Boston, Trinity (acting), 1899 — 1900; 
 
 Cottage City, 1900—02. 
 Fuller, O. P. Chatham, 1881—84. 
 
 FuLLERTON, NoAH. Ostervillc, 1871 — 74; Carver, 1875 — 79. 
 Fulton, H. Pocasset, 1863 — 64. 
 Fulton, Justin Dewey. Boston, Union (now Tremont 
 
 Temple), 1863 — 72,', Somerville, First, 1894 — 97. 
 
 Gaines, J. H. Boston, Ebenezer, 1876 — 77; Lynn, Union, 
 1884—85. 
 
 Gale, Amory. Ware (extinct), 1846 — 50; Lee, 1850—57. 
 
 Gale, S. North Oxford, 1847. 
 
 Galliher, Paul. Rowley, 1876—78; Littleton, 1878—80; 
 Revere, First, 1885—86; Baldwinville, 1886—87; South 
 Yarmouth, 1895 — 96. 
 
 Gammell, William. Medfield, 1810 — 22. 
 
 Gannett, Joseph Henry. East Gloucester (now Chapel 
 Street), 1867—74; Fiskdale, 1876—82; Rowley, 1882—84. 
 
 Ga-Nun, General Jackson, Savoy, 1887. 
 
 Gardiner, Eugene S., Medfield, 1886 — 88. 
 
 Gardner, Benjamin West. Mansfield, 1855 — 58; West Ded- 
 ham (now Westwood), 1858—67; North Marshfield, 
 1869—74. 
 
 Gardner, Frederick Mack. Winthrop, 1883 — 84; Lawrence, 
 
PASTOKS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1 65 
 
 Second, 1884 — Qi ; East Boston, Central Square, 1892 — 
 
 98; Boston, South, 1899 — 
 Gardner, George W. Charlestown, First, 1861 — 72; Marble- 
 head, 1879—80; Fitchburg, First, 1885—86; Waltham, 
 
 Beth-Eden, 1888—90. 
 Garner, William V., Boston, Charles Street (extinct), 
 
 1866-75. 
 Garrett, W. H., Lawrence, Olive, 1873 — 77. 
 Garton, Joseph Vanor, Cambridge, Old, 1891 — 99; West 
 
 Somerville, 1900 — 
 Gates, Alfred. Southwick, 1849 — 51. 
 Gates, Edwin Lewis. Fiskdale, 1890 — 93. 
 Gates, G. W. East Brookfield, 1866—67. 
 Gay, Henry Gordon. Hudson, 1866 — 70; East Longmeadow, 
 
 1873—76; Southwick, 1876—78; Woodville, 1878—83; 
 
 Fayville, 1887 — 90; North Reading, 1890 — 93, 1897 — 1901. 
 Gay, Walter. New Bedford, Salem Street (extinct), 
 
 1891 — 93; Haverhill, Calvary, 1895—97; Woburn, St. 
 
 John, 1897—99. 
 Gear, Hiram. Canton, 1831 — ^2. 
 Genung, George Frederick. Amherst, 1881 — 84. 
 GiBBS, B. B. Wales, 1885—86. 
 Gibson, John B. Sharon, 1816; Pembroke (extinct) and 
 
 Hanson, 1828 — 30. 
 Gifford, Orrin Phillip. Pittsfield, First, 1877 — 79; Boston, 
 
 Warren Avenue, 1879 — 90; Brookline, 1890 — 91. 
 Gilbert, Asahel S. Boston, Bethel, 1896 — 99; Newton, 
 
 Second, 1902 — ■ 
 Gilbert, Isaac Hawley. Hyde Park, 1870 — 75; Norwood, 
 
 1876; Newton, Second, 1877—78; Medfield, 1878—86; 
 
 Chicopee, First, 1886 — 89. 
 Gilbert, Samuel C. Beverly Farms, 1836; Rockport, 
 
 1846-47. 
 GiLE, George Warren. Lawrence, Second, 1873 — 79; Pitts- 
 field, First, 1879 — 84; Fall River, Second, 1884 — 92. 
 Giles, F. H. Hudson, 1892 — 93. 
 
 Giles, J. Henry. Bolton, 1858—59; Stamford, Vt., i860 — 62. 
 Giles, William Leese. East Longmeadow, 1897 — 98; Cum- 
 
 mington, 1901 — 
 GiRDwooD, John. New Bedford, First, 1850 — 64. 
 Given, John. Boston, Independent, 1836. 
 Glazier, Joseph. Hardwick and Ware (extinct), 1832 — 36, 
 
 1843—46; Athol, 1836—38; Holland (extinct), 1839—43. 
 Glazier, Nelson Newton. South Abington (now Whitman), 
 
 1880—84; Westboro (acting), 1884—86; Greenfield, First, 
 
 1887—96. 
 Glover, Samuel. Kingston, 1810 — 25; Randolph, 1828—29: 
 
 Leominster, 1833 — 34; Carver, 1838 — 40; Marshfield, 
 
 1842 — 45; Halifax (extinct), 1846. 
 
1 66 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Glover, W. Spencer, 1837 — 39; Heath (extinct), 1839 — 40. 
 
 GoDDARD, David. Wendell, 1824 — 41 ; Leominster, 1841—43. 
 
 GoDDARD, Edward A. Stamford, Vt., 1865 — 67; Huntington, 
 1868—73; Palmer, 1874—77; Northboro, 1877—78; Reho- 
 both, 1885—89. 
 
 GoDDARD, Luther. Rochdale (Greenville), 1820 — 23; Boltoris 
 1833—34- 
 
 GoFF, A. E. North Tisbury, 1887 — 89; Manchaug and Sutton, 
 Second, 1891 — 92; Hancock and Williamstown, 1893 — 94; 
 Hancock, 1894 — 95- 
 
 Going, Jonathan. Worcester, First, 1815 — 2i'2- 
 
 Goodhue, Joseph Addison. Boston, South. 1855 — 57; Fra- 
 mingham. First, 1859 — 62; North Cambridge, 1862 — 64; 
 Westboro, 1864—67; Shelburne Falls, 1867 — 68; Danvers, 
 1870—71. 
 
 GooDNouGH, John R. Whately (extinct), 1824 — 30. 
 
 Goodnow, Augustus W. Colerain, Second, 1851; Royalston, 
 Centre, 1852; Stamford, Vt., 1855—59; North Sunder- 
 land, 1876; Shutesbury, 1878 — 81. 
 
 GooDSPEED, George S. Springfield, Highland, 1887 — 88. 
 
 Goodwin, Edwin Clark. Revere, 1882 — 84. 
 
 Goodwin, Thomas H. Ashfield, 1871 ; Winthrop, 1879; Win- 
 chendon, 1880 — 83 ; Hanover, 1885 — 87 ; Hanover and 
 North Marshfield, 1887—89; North Marshfield, 1889— 
 
 Goodwin, William. Hinsdale, 1853 — 55; Huntington, 
 1855—58; New Marlboro, 1858 — 65; Tyringham, 1869—72. 
 
 Gordon, Adoniram Judson. Jamaica Plain, 1863 — 69; Boston, 
 Clarendon Street, 1869 — 95. 
 
 Gordon, Arthur Hale. Ipswich, 1898 — 1901 ; Cambridge, 
 Immanuel, 1901 — 
 
 Gordon, John. Lowell, First, 1886. 
 
 GoRHAM, Abner Davis. Nantucket, Summer Street, 1855 — 57; 
 Edgartown, 1857 — 60; Long Plain, i860 — 63; Wenham, 
 1863 — 92. 
 
 GoRHAM, G. W. Holyoke, Second, 1856 — 63. 
 
 GoucHER, W. G. Southwick, 1884 — 85. 
 
 Gould, George D. Huntington, 1891 — 95. 
 
 Gow, George Boardman. South Groton (extinct), 1858 — 61; 
 Gloucester, 1864 — 67; Worcester, First, 1867 — 72; Mill- 
 bury, 1874 — 80. 
 
 Gow, John Russell. Somerville, Perkins Street, 1895 — 
 
 Grabiel, Moses Allen. West Medway, 1899 — 1901. 
 
 Graffam, Asa Davis. Pocasset, 1900 — 1902; North Easton, 
 1902 — 
 
 Grafton, Benjamin C. Plymouth. 1824 — 29; Seekonk (ex- 
 tinct), 1830 — 31; Taunton, Second, 1832 — 34; Rowley, 
 1839 — 41; Somerset, 1845 — 46; Medford, First. 1846 — 47. 
 
 Grafton, Joseph. Newton, First, 1802—36. 
 
 Grant, D. H, Shutesbury, 1836 — 40; Egremont, 1842 — 44. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 167 
 
 Grant, James. Springfield, State Street, 1890 — 93; Pittsfield, 
 
 Morningside, 1895 — 1900; Watertown, 1900 — 
 Grant, John. West Springfield, First, 1819 — 22,. 
 Grant, Roland Dwight. Wakefield. 1883^88; Beverly, 
 
 First, 1888 — 90; Boston, Harvard Street, 1890. 
 Grant, Stillman Bailey. Adams, 1849 — 52; Fitchburg, 
 
 First, 1867 — 72>- 
 Grant, William Francis. Stoneham, 1894 — 99! Mansfield, 
 
 1899— 
 Graves, Henry Clinton. Charlestown, Bunker Hill, 1858 — 63; 
 
 Fall River, Second, 1874—80; Haverhill, First, 1880—86; 
 
 New Bedford, North, 1886 — 95. 
 Graves, Hir.\m Atwell. Springfield, First, 1837 — 40; Lynn, 
 
 First, 1840 — 41. 
 Graves, Joseph Muzzy. West Royalston and Warwick, 
 
 1824; Webster, 1839 — 40; Tewksbury, 1844 — 45; East 
 
 Boston, Central Square, 1845 — 47 ; Methuen, 1847 — 49 ; 
 
 Allston, Brighton Avenue, 1854 — 56; Newton, First, 
 
 1856-57. 
 Gray, Edgar Harkness. Shelburne Falls, 1844 — 46, 1850 — 63, 
 
 1869—73. 
 Gray, Jeduthan. Egremont, 1802 — 05. 
 Gray, Walter Vreeland. Shirley. 1890. 
 Green, A. E. Pelham (extinct), 1844. 
 Green, Bowley. Lowell, Worthen Street, 1895 — 99. 
 Green, George F. Lawrence, First, 1900 — 
 Green, H. R. Cambridge, Second. 1879 — 82. 
 Green, John. Rochdale (Greenville), 1830 — 2i7\ Shutesbury. 
 
 1841 — 46; Bernardston, 1846 — 48; Florida, 1848 — 52; 
 
 Chester (now Huntington), 1852 — 54. 
 Green, J. M. Springfield, Second (now Chicopee, First), 
 
 1837-38. 
 Greene, Albert. Sutton, First, 1885 — 88. 
 Greene, Benjamin Allen. Westboro, 1875 — 82; Lynn, 
 
 Washington Street, 1882 — 97. 
 Greene, Caleb. Dighton, 1828—30 ; Sharon. 1832. 
 Greene, Henry K. Charlestown. First, 1842 — 44. 
 Greene, John. Leicester, 1837 — 40; Leverett and Montague, 
 
 1861—62. 
 Greul, Frederick B. Waltham, First, 1895 — 
 Griffin, Richard. Granville, 1836. 
 Grimes, Isaac W. West Springfield. 1884 — 89; Stoneham, 
 
 1891 — 94 ; Cambridge, Immanuel, 1894 — 1901 ; Fitchburg, 
 
 Highland, 1902 — 
 Grimes, Leonard A. Boston, Twelfth, 1848 — 72. 
 Grose, Howard Benjamin. Lynn. Washington Street (act- 
 ing), 1897 — 98; Jamaica Plain, 1900 — 
 Grosvenor, Cyrus P. Boston, First, 1827 — 30; Salem, Cen- 
 
1 68 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 tral, 1830 — 34; Billerica, First, 1834 — 35; Southbridge, 
 
 Central, 1844 — 47. 
 Grow, James. Webster, 1834 — 35 5 Sutton, Second, 1851 — 52. 
 Grytzell, Daniel. Gardner, Swede, 1898--99. 
 Guild, H. A. Hancock, 1865—66. 
 Guild, J. E. South Groton (extinct), 1852; West Tisbury, 
 
 1853—54; Chatham, 1855. 
 Guilford, H. P. Reading, Salem Street, 1865 — 66. 
 Guilford, W. M. Sterling, 1852 — 53; Roxbury, Tremont 
 
 (extinct), 1854—55. 
 Gumbart, Adolph Samuel. Boston, Dudley Street, 1890 — 99. 
 Gunn, David Brainerd. Kingston, 1883; Sterling, 1885 — 87; 
 
 Ipswich, 1894. 
 Gunning, J. H. Boston, Harvard Street, 1884 — 88. 
 Gunnison, George W. Athol, 1852 — 53. 
 GuRNEY, L. P. South Hanson, 1856. 
 GuRNEY, Preston. Chelsea, Carey Avenue, 1869 — y^ ; Wollas- 
 
 ton, 1888 — 1902. 
 GusHEE, Wallace Wadsworth. North Egremont, 1902 — 
 Gussman, William. Cheshire and Lanesboro, 1890 — 93; 
 
 Westminster, 1893 — 99. 
 
 Hackett, William W. Pocasset, 1887—88; Fells, 1889—90, 
 1897 — 1900; Wales, 1891 — 92; Ayer, 1896 — 97; South 
 Medford, 1900 — 
 
 Hafer, Nathaniel Thomas. North Oxford, 1902 — 
 
 Hague, William. Boston, First, 1831 — 2>7\ Boston, Federal 
 Street (afterwards Rowe Street, now Clarendon Street), 
 1840 — 48; Jamaica Plain, 1848 — 50; Boston, Charles 
 Street (extinct), 1862 — 64; Boston, Shawmut Avenue 
 (extinct), 1865 — 69; Wollaston, 1877 — 87. 
 
 Hainer, E. a. Lynn, East, 1894 — 98. 
 
 Haines, Charles Witcraft. Palmer, 1899 — 1901. 
 
 Hahn, Benjamin Daviese. Springfield, State Street, 1893 — 
 
 Hale, E. Ashfield, 1840 — 42. 
 
 Hale, Sumner. Beverly Farms, 1842 — 48. 
 
 Hall, A. Boston, Ebenezer, 1875, 1880. 
 
 Hall, Abijah. Chatham, 1861 — 62; North Attleboro, 
 1863 — 66; Leominster, 1866 — 68. 
 
 Hall, Arad. Heath (extinct), 1824; Rowe, 1825 — 35; Ash- 
 field, 1839 — 40; Chatham, 1857 — 60. 
 
 Hall, Ira. Tyringham, 1828 — 29; Lee and Tyringham, 
 1830 — 2>^; West Springfield, Second (now Holyoke, 
 First), 1836 — 2)7- 
 
 Hall, King S. Methuen, 1862 — 66. 
 
 Hall, Lamartine Adelbert. East Gloucester (now Chapel 
 Street), 1881—84. 
 
 Hall, Silas. Warren (extinct), 1815 — 16; New Bedford, 
 First, 1817; Middleboro, First, 1819—22, 1839 — 46, 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES l6g 
 
 1850-51; Attleboro, 1823-26 1838; Taunton, Second 
 (now Winthrop Street), 1828 ; Abington (now Whit- 
 man), 1830-34; Sharon, 1836-37; Raynham, 1852, 
 
 HAL?''w?LUAM'VmTE. Edgartown, 183^40, i860; pastor 
 ^ Marlifidd Bar?e, Gloucester, East Haverhill, Hardwick, 
 Heath. Rowe. 
 
 ^^J^- ,tT%f.f'- East Ablngon (Roc|U^d), 
 
 1868—72; Winchendon, 1872—80; Holden, iS«o— 85. 
 
 Petersham, 1886. T»a^^L_f^n 
 
 Hamilton, James Eugene. Vineyard Haven, 1886-^0. 
 Handy, Nymphas. Middleboro, Second (extinct), 1834-41. 
 Hanson, Chakles Veranus Peabody 1868-79. 
 Hapgood, Ephraim. South Hanson, i««4— »5. ,o^,_a7 • 
 
 Haradon, John S Manchaug, 1859-64; Holden 1865-67, 
 
 South Groton (extinct), 1870— 71 ; Ayer, 1871—72. 
 Harding Christopher James. Rowe and Charlemont, 
 ^™7^9^; Stamford, Vt., 1898-1900; Three Rivers, 
 
 Hard?nVk"n. Cheshire and Lanesboro, 1893-94; Cheshire, 
 
 HarJ)?ng, John Aberdien. North Easton (acting), 1898-99; 
 Xndville (acting), 1900; Charlestown, First (assistant 
 
 pastor), 1901—02. 
 Hardy, Irad. Canton, 1902— 
 
 Harlow, Robert Henry. Osterville, i859- , 
 
 hIrlow Truman Oscar. . Somerset, 1897-99; West Med- 
 
 ford 1900-01; Cambridge, Second (acting), 1902- 
 Harrell, Jesse. Cambridge, Union, 188^ Manchester 
 
 Harriman, Arthur Ernest. Sterling, 1895, Manchester, 
 
 %7; Leominster, 1 897-1901 ; East Lynn, 1901- 
 Harriman N. H. Maiden, First. 1890—91. 
 
 Randolph (acting), 1897—98. ^ , 
 
 Harris Benjamin N. Rochdale (Greenville), 182b, Kock 
 ^ort, 1845-46; Hanover, 1846; Halifax (extinct), 
 
 HAR^fs^ Benjamin R. Kingston, First, 1893-94; Charles- 
 town Bunte Hill, 1896-1902; Boston, Immanuel, 1902- 
 ■Rabrts Edward N. Barnstable, 1832. ^. , , o „.-. 
 
 HaS s EuTah Edgar. Savoy, 1893-^4; Hmsdalei894-95; 
 Ips'wich 1895-96; West Medway, 1896-^7; Still River, 
 
 Har^^s^^^enry Howell. Boston, Twelfth, 188^-92. 
 
I/O PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Harris, J. M. Haverhill, Second, 1843 — 46. 
 
 Harris, Norman. Chesterfield (extinct). 1846. 
 
 Harris, Spencer B. Springfield, Pilgrim (Third), 1873; 
 Lynn, Union, 1887 — 91. 
 
 Hart, John D. Southwick, 1825 — 26. 
 
 Hartman, John Harrison. Canton,. 1870 — 74; Salisbury 
 and Amesbury, 1874 — 78. 
 
 Hartshorn, Joseph Charles. Georgetown, 1844 — 48. 
 
 Hartwell, Jesse. Sandisfield, 1802 — 28. 
 
 Harvey, Adiel. Westboro, 1838 — 45 ; Plymouth, 1845 — 58. 
 
 Hascall, William Hosmer Shailer. Fall River, First (as- 
 sistant pastor), 1890 — 94, pastor, 1895 — 96. 
 
 Haskell, Elihu Burritt. Worcester, South, 1890 — 93 ; 
 Andover (acting pastor), 1893 — 94. 
 
 Haskell, Joseph. Shutesbury, 1858 — 59; Hinsdale, 1861 — 62. 
 
 Haskell, S. H. Egremont, 1884 — 85. 
 
 Haskins, John R. Shutesbury, 1861 ; West Somerville, 
 1876—78; West Acton, 1878—83; Merrimac, 1883; 
 Belchertown, 1894 — 95. 
 
 Hastings, Stephen Goodwin. Belchertown, 1880 — 85. 
 
 Hatch, Charles G. Edgartown, 1849 — 50; Brewster, 
 1854 — 55; South Dartmouth (extinct), 1856 — 58. 
 
 Hatch, C. J. Gay Head. 1861 — 64. 
 
 Hatch, Leonard Bradford. Manchester, 1863 — 67 ; Edgar- 
 town, 1868 — -74; South Abington (now Whitman), 
 1875 — 77; East Stoughton (now Avon), 1878 — 83; Lex- 
 ington, 1887 — 91 ; Braintree, 1894 — 98 ; Mattapan, 1899 — 
 
 Hatch, Salmon. Egremont, 1838 — 40. 
 
 Hatfield, Byron Ulric. Georgetown, 1891 — 95. 
 
 Hatfield, Edgar. North Leverett, 1895 — 99; North and West 
 Tisbury, 1899 — 
 
 Hathorne, Benjamin Herbert. Harvard. 1834. 
 
 Haughwort, p. B. Fall River, First, 1856 — 69. 
 
 Hawkins, George W. Fiskdale, 1900 — 01. 
 
 Hawley, D. S. West Tisbury, 1857 — 59; Mashpee, 1859 — 61; 
 Pocasset, 1861. 
 
 Hayden, E. H. Chelmsford, First. 1886—87. 
 
 Hayden, Lucius. Shutesbury, 1885 — 87. 
 
 Haynes, Aaron. Stamford, Vt., 1814; Medway, 1836 — 39; 
 Southboro, 1841 — 44; Littleton. 1846 — 47; Braintree, 
 1847—48. 
 
 Haynes, Dudley Cammet. Marblehead. 1837 — 39; Hyannis, 
 1848-52. 
 
 Haynes, Emory J. Boston, Union (now Tremont Temple), 
 1885—90. 
 
 Haynes, E. M. Leverett and Montague, 1859 — 60; Palmer, 
 1865—68. 
 
 Haynes, Myrun Wilbur. Marblehead, 1882 — 84. 
 
 Hazelton, Henry Hubbard. Wales, 1849 — 51. 
 
PAS Tons OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 171 
 
 Hazlewood, Francis Tomlinson. Lynn, First, 1884 — QO- 
 
 Heath, Frank Arthur. West Acton, 1888—91. 
 
 Heath, Fred Elbridge. Sterling, 1895 — 97; Spencer, 1897 — 98; 
 
 Weston, 1900 — 
 Heath, Hugh A. Wakefield, 1901 — 
 Heath, William. North Reading, 1837 — 41 ; Shelburne Falls, 
 
 1842 — 44. 
 Hebard, Asa. Leyden (extinct), 1824 — 28. 
 Hedden, Benjamin Franklin. Holmes Hole (extinct), 
 
 1844—47. 
 Henry, Foster. Tyringham, 1852 — 57; Danvers, 1862 — 65. 
 Henson, Thomas. Boston, Independent (now St. Paul's), 
 
 1855—58; Springfield, Third. 1882—83. 
 Herman, Neil Edward. North Bellingham and West Med- 
 
 way, 1898 — 99. 
 Herrick, Everett Carleton. Charlestown, First, 1901 — 
 Herrick, J. S. Tyngsboro (extinct). 1845 — 46. 
 Herring, Charles ]\1acomber. North Oxford, 1858 — 59. 
 Hersey, Simeon. Westfield, Central, 1837 — 38. 
 Hervey, G. W. Canton ,1858—61. 
 Hervey, Nathaniel. Marblehead, 1836; Cambridge, Second, 
 
 1837 — 40; Andover, 1840 — 41; Jamaica Plain, 1841 — 42; 
 
 Westboro, 1852 — 53. 
 Heywood, Henry j\I. Florida, 1879 — 81; Granville, 1882 — 84; 
 
 Agawam, 1884 — 89. 
 Hibbard, George Leonard. Fiskdale, 1894 — 97! Grafton, 
 
 First, 1897 — 
 Hibbard, Lewis Baker. Somerville, First, 1867 — 68 ; Adams, 
 
 1872-74- 
 
 Hickok, Charles Henry. New Marlboro, i86g — 71 ; Sterling, 
 1871 — 72; Pocasset (acting), 1873 — 75; Quincy Point 
 (extinct), 1878—80; West Harwich, 1880—84; Sterling, 
 1890 — 94. 
 
 HiDEN, James Conway. New Bedford. First, 1887 — 88. 
 
 Higby, John. Granville, 1838; Sandisfield, 1841 — 45. 
 
 Higgins, Alexander i\L\RTiN. Leominster, 1859—61 ; South 
 Framingham, 1865 — 66; Chicopee, Central, 1867 — 69; East 
 Gloucester, 1874 — jy ; Lee, 1877 — 79 ; Lee and Tyringham, 
 1880—81; Ashfield, 1881—83; Swampscott, 1884—86; 
 Cliftondale (acting), 1900 — 01. 
 
 Hill, Alfred S. New Marlboro, 1897—98; North Middle- 
 boro, 1901 — 
 
 Hill, E. S. North Belchertown (extinct), 1855 — 56; Wood- 
 ville, 1856—62; Brewster, 1862 — 64; Middleboro, Third, 
 1864—68; Becket, 1868—71; South Wilbraham (extinct), 
 
 1871-73- 
 
 Hill, Johnson Washington. Boston, Twelfth, 1898; Ever- 
 ett, Zion, 1899 — 190T. 
 
 Hill, Luther Dana. Reading, Salem Street, 1870 — 74. 
 
172 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Hill, Samuel. Groveland (extinct), 1876 — "/T, Somerville, 
 Broadway, 1883 — 84. 
 
 Hill, Stephen Prescott. Haverhill, First, 1832 — 34. 
 
 HiLLARD, Oscar A. Salem, Calvary, 1892 — 95; South Boston, 
 Fourth Street (extinct), 1895 — 97. 
 
 HiMES, Paul. Stamford, Vt., 1811 — 12; Chesterfield, Second 
 (extinct), 1822 — 24. 
 
 Hinckley, Henry. Winchester, 1862 — 66; Groveland (ex- 
 tinct), 1866 — 70; Cambridge, Broadway, 1870 — 78; East 
 Lynn, 1878^3; Roslindale, 1893 — 99; Boston, Ruggles 
 Street (assistant pastor), 1899 — 1901. 
 
 HiNKLEY, Harry E. Brewster, 1899 — 1902; New Marlboro 
 and Sandisfield, 1902 — 
 
 Hiscox, Edwin T. Northampton, 1873 — 74. 
 
 Hiscox, Henry Orrie. Maiden, 1892 — 1902. 
 
 HjELM, R. A. Worcester. First Swede. 1881—82, 1887. 
 
 Hjertstrom, J. W. Worcester, First Swede, 1891 — 95. 
 
 Hobart, I. N. North Oxford, 1849 — 51. 
 
 HoBBS, L. L. Chicopee, First, 1890 — 92. 
 
 Hodge, Henry C. Winchester, 1899 — 
 
 Hodges, Joseph, Jr. Weston, 1835 — 4° ; Amherst, 1840 — 41 ; 
 Colerain, First, 1841 — 43; Three Rivers, 1843 — 47; East 
 Brookfield, 1847 — 52; North Oxford, 1852 — 55. 
 
 HoLBROOK, Charles Francis. West Boylston, 1862 — 65; 
 Dan vers, 1865 — 70, 1889 — 98. 
 
 HoLBROOK, John. Scituate, First, 1837; North Reading, 
 1842 — 43; Norton, 1846 — 48. 
 
 Holland, Theodore B. Orange, 1872 — 74; West Newton, 
 First, 1875 — 78. 
 
 Hollingsworth, James Harvey. Rowley, 1890 — 94. 
 
 Holloway, Edwin S. Shelburne Falls, 1889 — 90- 
 
 Holm, A. G. Brockton, Swede, 1885. 
 
 Holman, George W. Holliston, 1869 — 70; Cambridge, Sec- 
 ond, 1875 — 78; Newton, Second, 1889 — 90; Amherst, 
 1892 — 96. 
 
 Holman, John Wesley. Three Rivers, 1875 — 76; West Har- 
 wich, 1882— S5. 
 
 Holman Sullivan L. Worcester, Pleasant Street, 1875 — 82. 
 
 Holman, William O. Charlestown, Bunker Hill, 1874 — 81. 
 
 Holmes, John S. East Lynn, 1867 — yj; Worcester, Adams 
 Square, 1898 — 1902. 
 
 Holmes, Lewis M. Edgartown, 1843; Canton, 1844 — 46; 
 Groton, 1846—49; Barre, 1849—58; Middlefield, 1858—64; 
 Scituate, First. 1864 — 66 ; Rockport, 1867 ; Rochdale 
 (Greenville), 1869 — 76. 
 
 HoLROYD, John. Danvers, 1832 — 37. 
 
 Holt, Charles Thomas. Manchester, 1879 — 81 ; East Brook- 
 field, 1881— 91. 
 
 Holt, Frank Milton. Lynn, Essex Street, 1894— 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1 73 
 
 Holt, Kilbourn. Ashland, 1856 — 60 ; Kingston, i860 — 6^ ; 
 
 Bolton, 1863—68; Long Plain, 1868—70; Barre, 1877—82; 
 
 Petersham, 1882 — 85. 
 HoLYOKE, Edward O. Pittsfield, First, 1884 — 87. 
 HoNiGH, Jacob Cornelius. Belchertown, 1890 — 91 ; Cam- 
 bridge, First, assistant pastor, 1891 — 93. 
 Hooper, Noah, Jr. Woburn, First, 1837 — 40; Newburyport, 
 
 1855—60. 
 Hopkins, Adoniram Judson. Georgetown, 1887 — 91 ; North 
 
 Uxbridge, 1891 — 
 Hopkins, Fr.\nk Leslie. Fayville, 1891 — 94 ; Baldwinville, 
 
 1899— 
 Hopper, A. M. Charlestown, First, 1855 — 57. 
 HoPWOOD, W. Huntington, 1862^-63. 
 
 HORR, George Edwin. Chicopee, Central, 1858 — 61 ; Wor- 
 cester, Main Street, 1877 — 81 ; Cambridge, Charles Street 
 
 (now Immanuel), 1882 — 83. 
 HoRR, George Edwin, Jr. Charlestown, First, 1884 — 91. 
 HoRTON, JoTHAM W. Swansea, 1861 — 63, 1876 — 81 ; Long Plain, 
 
 1864— 68; Dighton, 1868 — 70; South Hanson, 1870—72; 
 
 Franklin, 1872—73. 
 Hotaling, S. p. Hinsdale, 1895; Stamford, Vt., 1897 — 99. 
 HoTCHKiss, V. R. Fall River, First, 1846 — 48. 
 Hough, Alling. Springfield, First, 1822; West Boylston, 
 
 1823. 
 Hough, George H. New Bedford, First, 1814 — 15. 
 Hough, Joseph. Springfield, First, 1825. 
 Houghton, Josiah. Newbury and Newburyport, 1824 — 28. 
 House, Thomas Jefferson Bradner. Boston, Harvard Street, 
 
 1870 — 72; Lowell, Fifth Street, 1873 — y6; Methuen, 
 
 1877 — 83; Everett, Glendale (acting), 1900 — 1902. 
 Hovey, Arthur Judson. Stoneham, 1872 — 87 ; Raynham, 
 
 1893 — 94; Groton, 1894--98. 
 Howard, Johnson. Woodville, 1840 — 41, 1863 — 66. 
 Howard, Thompson Archibald. Chelmsford, Central, 
 
 18S9 — 92. 
 Howe, Phineas. Heath, 1832—35. 
 Howe, Phineas, Jr. Somerville, First, 1852. 
 Howe, Sereno. Hingham, 1842 — 49; Lowell, Third, 1849 — 56; 
 
 Marshfield, First, 1856 — 62; Rockland, 1862—67. 
 Howe, William. Boston, Union (now Tremont Temple), 
 
 1845 — 59 ; Cambridge, Broadway, 1863 — 70. 
 Howell, George R. Nantucket, Summer Street, 1859. 
 Howes, Martin Stillman. Colerain, First and Second, 
 
 1890 — 91 ; Greenfield, First, 1899 — 1901. 
 HoYT, Daniel Webster. Amherst, 1874 — 80; Millbury, 
 
 1880^—89; Worcester, Adams Square, 1889 — 98. 
 Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. Beverly Farms, 1890 — 95. 
 
174 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 HoYT, Wayland. Pittsfield, First, 1863 — 64; Boston, Shaw- 
 
 mut Avenue (extinct), 1874 — 76. 
 Hubbard, H. G. Chatham, 1864 — 65. 
 Hubbard, John, Jr. Lowell, Third (extinct), 1859 — 60. 
 Hubbard, William. Gay Head, 1824 — 26; Middleboro, Third, 
 
 1826 — 30; Goshen (extinct), 1832 — 2)1 (with Whately, 
 
 1833). 
 HuBBELL, E. D. Egremont, 1834 — 36. 
 HuBBELL, William N. Springfield, First, 1900 — 
 HucKiNGS, James. South Reading (now Wakefield), 1832 — 33; 
 
 Andover, 1833—35. 
 Hudson, Birney Stillman. Easton, First, 1894 — 95. 
 Hughes, Adoniram Judson. North Grafton, 1890 — 93 ; East 
 
 Boston, Central Square, 1899 — 
 Hughes, J. H. Franklin Park, 1887—88; Cliftondale, 
 
 1888-^0. 
 Hull, John Mervin. Kingston, 1886 — 93; Weston, 1893 — 99. 
 Humphrey, Edward. Haverhill, Second, 1857 — 61 ; Plymouth, 
 
 1863 — 67; East Granville, 1869—71. 
 HuMPSTONE, William. Williamstown, 1879 — 80. 
 Hungate, Jesse A. Shelburne Falls, 1899 — 
 Hunt, Ebenezer Warren. Fall River, Second, 1880 — 83. 
 Hunt, Edward T. Adams, 1858 — 62; Cheshire, 1867 — 68. 
 Hunt, Emory William. Boston, Clarendon Street, 1900 — 01, 
 Hunt, George Langford. Barre, 1863 — 64; Athol, 1864 — 67; 
 
 Northampton, 1867 — 70. 
 Hunt, John M. Holland (extinct), 1824 — 28; Wales, 1830; 
 
 East Longmeadow, 1836 — 40; Wilbraham and Monson 
 
 (extinct), 1841 — 42, 1848; Westfield, Second, (extinct), 
 
 1852 — 53 ; Wendell, 1856 — 61. 
 Hunt, Nathan. Dorchester, Blaney Memorial, 1882 — 90; 
 
 Quincy, Calvary, and East Milton, 1890 — 94. 
 Hunt, Orrin Robbins. West Townsend, 1874 — T] ; South 
 
 Wilbraham (extinct), and East Longmeadow, 1877 — 78; 
 
 Hampden and East Longmeadow, 1878 — 81 ; Palmer, 
 
 1882—85. 
 Hunt, Ralph Melbourne. Jamaica Plain, 1888 — 1900. 
 Hunter, James Pinkerton. Chicopee, First, 1883 — 88; 
 
 Conway, 1889 — 91. 
 HuRD, James Christie. Medford, First, 1869 — 70. 
 Hurlbut, Benjamin Franklin. Granville, 1896 — 
 Hurst, William. West Tisbury, 1870 — 72; South Yarmouth, 
 
 1872—73; Mashpee, 1881—85. 
 Hussey, a. C. Grafton, First, 1872 — 79; Northampton, 
 
 1879 — 92; West Boylston, 1892 — 95. 
 HuTCHiNS, Almon J. Holliston, 1899 — 1902. 
 Hutchins, Hiram. Charlestown, High Street (extinct), 
 
 1850—57; Roxbury, Tremont (extinct), 1857 — 58. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES I/S 
 
 HuTCHixsoN, Charles S. Weston, 1891—92; Beverly Farms, 
 
 1900 — 
 Hutchinson, Enoch. Framingham, First, 1840 — 41- 
 Hutchinson, Franklin. Framingham, First, 1882 — 
 Hutchinson, Joseph. South Hanson, 1858—60; Russell and 
 
 Blandford, 1862—63; Russell, 1864—65; Middleboro, 
 
 First, 1865—74- 
 Hyde, Edgar Rhuel. Turner's Falls, 1900—02 ; Clmton, 1902— 
 Hylan, Albert Edward. Westboro, 1895— 1901. 
 
 Ide, George Barton. Boston, Federal Street (now Clarendon 
 
 Street), 1836—38; Springfield, First, 1853—71. 
 Illsley, James William. Wenham, 1895—97. 
 Ingersoll, R. p. Cheshire, 1900. 
 Ives, Dwight. Springfield, First, 1836—37. 
 
 Jackson, Abraham. Hinsdale, 1811—37. 
 Jackson, Charles L. Whitman, 1901— 
 Jackson, E. Lynn, Union, 1886. _ ^ >t r, j 
 
 Jackson, Henry. Charlestown, First, 1822—36; New Bed- 
 ford. First, 1838—45; Somerset, 1846. 
 Jackson, W^illiam. New Bedford, Second, 1855—59; New 
 
 Bedford, Salem Street, 1859—70. 
 Jacobs, Bela. Somerset, 1809—10; Cambridge, First, 1824—30. 
 Jacobs, William Bela. Newburyport, 1836—39; Hyanms, 
 
 1839 — 44. 
 Jean-Jacques, Condillac. Woburn, St. John, 1893—96; 
 
 Boston, Calvary, 1896—97. 
 James, Richard S. West Newton, 1869—70. _ 
 Jameson, T. C. Boston, Tremont Street (extinct), 1853—54; 
 
 :\Ielrose, First, 1856—57. 
 Jansen, O. W. Dalton and Hinsdale, 1892. 
 Jefferson, Arthur Willis. Northampton, 1875— 77 1 l^rank- 
 
 lin, 1882—83. 
 Jeffrey, Reuben. Nantucket, 1847—48. ., , 
 
 Jencks, Erasmus Norcross. Ashfield, 1868—70; Leverett and 
 
 Alontague, 1870 — 72. 
 Jenks, Thomas T. Florida, 1857—61. ^^ . ^ , r^ . -n 
 
 Jfnner, John Hugh. Barnstable, Third, and Osterville, 
 
 1892—95 ; West Springfield. 1895— iQOi. 
 Jennings, John. Beverly, 1834—36; Grafton, 1836—42; 
 
 Worcester, Pleasant Street, 1842—49; Fitchburg, l^irst, 
 
 1851—55; Westfield, Central, 1862—71. 
 Jennings, Russell. Billerica, First, 1833— 34- 
 Jerome, Edward Miles. Northampton, 1860-61; Westfield, 
 
 Central, 1869—70. „ _ . . „ 
 
 Johnson, Elias. Sunderland and Montague, 1825 ; Princeton 
 
 and Leominster. 1828. ^,,0 qq 
 
 Johnson, Franklin. Cambridge, Old, 1874— »b. 
 
1/6 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Johnson, Gove Griffith. Pittsfield, First, 1900 — 02. 
 
 Johnson, H. H. New Bedford, Second (extinct), 1876 — yy. 
 
 Johnson, Herbert S. Pittsfield, First, 1893 — 99! Boston, 
 Warren Avenue, 1899 — 
 
 Johnson, J. O. Haverhill, Calvary, 1889 — 90. 
 
 Johnson, J. S. Brewster, 1889. 
 
 Johnson, Millard Fillmore. Foxboro, 1879 — 89; Middle- 
 boro, Central, 1889 — 98; Medford, First, 1898-— 1900. 
 
 Johnson, Robert Gray. Westminster, 1867 — 71 ; Holliston, 
 1871—75; Littleton, 1883—88; Dighton, 1888--91 ; West 
 Medway, 1891 — 96. 
 
 Johnson, Tillman Bowden. Lynn, First, 1891 — 1902; Dor- 
 chester Temple, 1902 — 
 
 Johnson, Wakeman G. Stamford, Vt., 1830; Williamstown 
 and Lanesboro, 183 1 — 36. 
 
 Johnson, William Henry. Billerica, First, 1892 — 94. 
 
 Johnston, James. Framingham, 1842 — 46. 
 
 Johnston, James Arthur. Boston, Centre Street, 1898 — 
 
 Jones, Charles J. Jr. New Bedford, North, 1901 — 
 
 Jones, Daniel. Pocasset, 1876 — 77. 
 
 Jones, Frank John. West Springfield, 1893 — 94, 
 
 Jones, Henry H. Brockton, Messiah, 1897 — 
 
 Jones, Henry Martyn. New Marlboro, 1856 — 60. 
 
 Jones, Howard Malcolm. Shelburne Falls, 1879—83. 
 
 Jones, John Davis Edmands. Worcester, First, 1855 — 59; 
 Grafton, Second, 1864 — 75. 
 
 Jones, Josiah Frederick. Sandisfield, 1856 — 59; Ware 
 (extinct), 1859 — 60. 
 
 Jones, Nelson Bishop. Leverett and Montague, 1833 — 27 '< 
 Hardwick and Ware (extinct), 1839 — 42; Three Rivers, 
 1842 — 43; Manchaug. 1843 — 45; Sutton, Second, 1846; 
 Shutesbury, 1849 — 50; New Salem and Prescott (extinct), 
 1864 — 67; North Leverett and Montague, 1867 — 68. 
 
 Jones, Nelson Bishop, Jr. Canton, 1879 — 81 ; East Boston, 
 Trinity, 1881 — 90; Reading, 1890 — 93; Mattapan, 1896 — 99. 
 
 Jones, William Green. Boston, Centre Street, 1892 — 98. 
 
 Joy, Frederick B. Leverett and Montague, 1865 ; South 
 Yarmouth, 1881 — 82; Three Rivers, 1882 — 87; East Long- 
 meadow, 1887—88. 
 
 Judd, T. O. East Longmeadow, 1867 — 72. 
 
 Jutten, David Benjamin. Boston, South, 1884 — 93; Fall 
 River, Second, 1893 — 
 
 Kallgren, Andrew. Norwood, Swede, 1900 — 
 
 Kalloch, L S. Boston, Tremont Street (extinct), 1855 — 59. 
 
 Keach, Israel. Sandisfield, 1816 — 24. 
 
 Keely, George. Haverhill, First, 1824 — 30. 
 
 Keely, Josiah. Wenham, 1845 — 52. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1 77 
 
 Keely, Thomas Ebenezer. Kingston, 1842 — 53; Medford, 
 
 First, 1854 — 57; Danvers, 1857 — 61. 
 Keese, William Amasa. Salem, Calvary, 1877 — 83; Chelsea, 
 
 Carey Avenue, 1883 — 88. 
 Kelley, Jeremiah. Middleboro, First and Third, 1830; 
 
 Pembroke (extinct) and Hanson, 1831 — 22i'> Nantucket, 
 
 Summer Street, 1836 — 2)7 'y Halifax (extinct), 1847 — 48. 
 Kellogg, Benoni Francis. West Townsend, 1884 — 187 ; East 
 
 Stoughton (Avon), 1887 — 90. 
 Kellogg, H. F. West Townsend, 1885. 
 Kellogg, N. J\I. Plainfield (extinct), 1841. 
 Kelly, Edmund. New Bedford, Second (extinct), 1849 — 50, 
 
 1859 — 62; Lawrence, Olive, 1871 — 72; West Newton, 
 
 Myrtle, 1875—76. 
 Kelton, William H. Scituate, First, 1868 — 70. 
 Kemp, Richard. Sterling, 1900. 
 
 Kemp, Z. W. Stamford, Vt., 1869; West Royalston, 1871—72. 
 Kempton, Austin Tremaize. Sharon, 1893 — 95 ; Dorchester, 
 
 Stoughton Street, assistant pastor, 1895—96; Fitchburg, 
 
 Highland, 1897 — 1901. 
 Kendall, Ezra. Kingston, 1805 — 07; Dunstable (extinct), 
 
 1809. 
 Kennard, Joseph Spencer. Woburn, 1862 — 64; East Boston, 
 
 Central Square, 1878 — 82. 
 Kenney, Ira E. East Tisbury (now Vineyard Haven), 1849; 
 
 Sterling, 1850. 
 Kenney, Joel. Wenham, 1838 — 39; Fiskdale (Sturbridge), 
 
 1841 — 43; Conway, 1845 — 46; West Springfield, Second 
 
 (now Holyoke, First), 1846 — 47. 
 Kenney, Silas. Spencer. 1830; Littleton, 1832—34; West 
 
 Royalston and Warwick, 1838—46; West Royalston, 
 
 1847—56. 
 Kent, Charles Henry. Gay Head, 1877—81, 1888—89; 
 
 Sandisfield, 1890; Gay Head, 1892—93. 
 Kent, J. H. Egremont, 1860—64; Holyoke, First, 1864 — 65. 
 Kenyon, Frederick Thompkins. Huntington, 1901 — 
 Kerr, Archibald. Middleboro, Third, 1897 — 99. 
 Kerr. David. Quincy, Calvary. 1898— 1900. 
 Keyes, Calvin. Conway, 1824—26, 1832—35; Westfield 
 
 Farms (extinct), 1841. 
 Keyes, Charles B. North Adams, 1829 — 36. 
 Keyser, Charles. Wakefield, 1875 — 76. 
 Keyser, Frederick Henry. Fayville (acting), 1899 — 1901 ; 
 
 North Oxford, 1901 — 02. 
 Kimball, C. FL Holyoke. Second, 1886—88. 
 Kimball, Charles O. Methuen, 1824 — 34. 
 Kimball, Daniel Webster. Manchester, 1897 — 98. 
 Kimball, Isaac. Middleboro, Third, 1821 — 23. 
 
178 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Kimball, Oliver Dennett. Leominster, 1876 — 83 ; West 
 Newton, First, 1883—88. 
 
 Kimball, O. Wilson. Oak Blufifs (now Cottage City), 
 1884—88. 
 
 Kimball, Willard. Abington (now Whitman), 1824 — 25. 
 
 King, Alonzo. Northboro, 1832 — 35. 
 
 King, George Mellen Prentiss. Seekonk (extinct), 
 1861—62; Natick, 1865—66. 
 
 King, Henry Melville. Boston, Dudley Street, 1863 — 81. 
 
 King, Lyman Winslow. West Roxbury, 1895 — 97. 
 
 King, Walter A. Boston, Elm Hill, 1896. 
 
 Kingsbury, A. Pittsfield, 1843 — 46. 
 
 Ktngsley, Amos. Becket, 1809 — 13. 
 
 Kingsley, Samuel S. Plainfield (extinct), 1845 — 46; War- 
 wick, 1847 — 48. 
 
 Kingsley, Silas. Chester (now Huntington), 1812 — 47. 
 
 Kinne, Manuel. Three Rivers, 1862. 
 
 Kinney, George W. Holden, 1869 — 70; Petersham, 1896 — 97. 
 
 Kinney, Luman. Dighton, 1861 — 63 ; Raynham, 1863 — 64. 
 
 Kirk, John A. Boston, Twelfth, 1893; Boston, Ebenezer, 
 1894 — 96. 
 
 KiRKHAM, Orville Clark. Cheshire, 1865 — 66. 
 
 Klein, Friedrich Wilhelm. Wenham, 1892 — 95 ; Andover, 
 
 1895—99. 
 Kling, William H. West Amesbnry (now Merrimac), 
 
 1868—70; North Attleboro, 1876—81. 
 Knight, Benjamin. Beverly, Second, 1834 — 39; Gloucester, 
 
 Sandy Bay (now Rockport), 1839 — 40; Billerica, 1843 — 45; 
 
 North Reading, 1846; Tyngsboro (extinct), 1847 — 48; 
 
 Billerica, 1858 — 59; Lynn, Third (extinct), 1868. 
 Knowles, James D. Boston, Second (now Warren Avenue), 
 
 1825—32. 
 Knowles, Samuel. North Attleboro, 1892 — 96; North Biller- 
 ica, 1896^99 ; Whitman. 1899 — 1901 ; Adams, 1901 — 
 Knox, George. Lawrence, First, 1863 — 65. 
 
 Lamb, Amherst. Charlemont and Buckland, 1837 — 42; 
 Charlemont, 1843 — 45; Heath (extinct), 1858 — 60; Cole- 
 rain, Second, i860 — 61. 
 
 Lamb, A. T. Sandisfield, 1894. 
 
 Lamb, J. C. Brewster, 1884—88. 
 
 Lamb, Frank M. Salem, Calvary, 1898 — 
 
 Lamb, R. G. Sutton, Second, 1852. 
 
 Lamson, Darius Francis. Littleton. 1858 — 61 ; Ashland, 
 1861 — 65; Northboro, 186=; — TZ'^ Worcester, Dewey Street, 
 1873—81; Marblehead, 1883; Manchester, 1884—96. 
 
 Lamson, William. Gloucester, First, 1838 — 48; Brookline, 
 1859—75. 
 
 Lane, A. W. Hinsdale (acting), 1896. 
 
PASTOHS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1 79 
 
 Lane, Benjamin I. Cambridge, Old, 1847 — 48; Nevvburyport, 
 1851—53; Randolph, 1868. 
 
 Lane, Benjamin Humphrey. North Uxbridge, 1877 — 82; 
 Worcester, Dewey Street, 1882 — 84; Holden, 1892 — 94; 
 Rockland, 1902 — 
 
 Lane, Henry Fayette. Dorchester, Second (now Stoughton 
 Street), 1857 — 60; Lawrence, First, i860— -63; Kingston, 
 1881—83; Worcester, Pleasant Street, 1883—88. 
 
 Lasher, George William. Haverhill, Portland Street, 
 1864—68. 
 
 Latham, Sumner. Dighton, 1864; Fayville, 1870 — 71; 
 Bernardston, 1889 — QO. 
 
 Lathrop, James Walcott. Dorchester, Second (now Stough- 
 ton Street), 1850 — 56; Medfield, 1856—63; Rowley, 
 1863 — 67; Beverly Farms, 1867 — 70; North Oxford, 
 1870 — 72)', Raynham, 1873 — 75. 
 
 Lawrence, A. A. Charlemont, 1887; North Leverett and 
 North Sunderland, 1901 — 
 
 Lawrence, Antone O. New Bedford, Elim (Swede), 
 1900 — 1902. 
 
 Lawrence, Benjamin Franklin. Groton, 1874 — 80; Shutes- 
 bury, 1897 — 98; Mendon (acting), 1900 — 01. 
 
 Lawrence, J. Reynard. Egremont, 1896 — 97 ; Lanesboro, 
 1898— 
 
 La wton, George B. Quincy Point (extinct), 1879 — 84; Biller- 
 ica, First, 1884 — 87; Brockton, Warren Avenue, 1887 — 93; 
 West Bridgewater, 1893 — 94. 
 
 Lazell, J. E. Harvard, 1832. 
 
 Leach, Albert. Carver, 1902 — 
 
 Leach, Sanford. Three Rivers, 1846 — 48; Templeton (now 
 Baldwinsville), 1848 — 51. 
 
 Leach, William. Wendell, 1846 — 50; South Hanson, 
 1852 — 54; East Stoughton (now Avon), 1857 — 59; Tis- 
 bury, 1859 — 61; South Yarmouth, 1861 — ^4; Carver, 
 1864 — 69; Harvard (Still River), 1869 — 70. 
 
 Learned, J. H. Sterling, 1855 — 56; Harvard (Still River), 
 1858—60. 1868; Bolton, 1860—62; Westminster, 1862—64; 
 Sterling, 1866—68; Long Plain, 1871. 
 
 LeCompte, Edwin Augustus. Boston, Fourth Street (ex- 
 tinct), 1862—68; Lowell, Worthen Street, 1874—79. 
 
 Lee, James H. New Bedford, Salem Street (extinct), 
 1872—84. 
 
 Leeson, George Edwin. Framingham, First, 1877 — 81. 
 
 LeFavor, Amos. Spencer, 1822 — 24; Scituate, 1825 — 26; Han- 
 over, 1826 — 28. 
 
 Leighton, Samuel Stillman. Newton, Second, 1846 — 47; 
 Orleans (extinct), 1856 — 59. 
 
 Leland, Ira. Long Plain, 1838, 1846 — 47; Barnstable, 
 1841 — 43; Lexington, 1847 — 56. 
 
l80 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Leland, John. Cheshire, Third, — 1802 — 08; Cheshire, Sec- 
 ond, 1826 — 34, 1837 — 40; Long Plain, 1845. 
 
 Lent, Frederic. Salem, Calvary, 1896 — 98. 
 
 Lentell, Jesse Valentine. Spencer, 1855 — 57; Sandisfield, 
 1859—63; Conway, 1863 — 66; Shutesbury, 1866—67; 
 Deerfield (extinct), 1867—68; Stamford, Vt., 1870 — 72. 
 
 Leonard, George. Salem, Central. 1826 — 29. 
 
 Leonard, Lewis. Plymouth, 1809 — 10. 
 
 Leonard, Loomis George. Webster, 1836 — ^43. 
 
 Leonard, O. L. Rockport, 1869 — 7^, 1876. 
 
 Leonard, Zenas L. Sturbridge, 1824 — 30. 
 
 Lester, Lewis. West Springfield, First (now Agawam), 
 1842 — 46. 
 
 Leverett, Ebenezer. West Cambridge (now Arlington), 1828. 
 
 Leverett, William. Boston, Dudley Street, 1825 — 39; Cam- 
 bridge, Second, 1841 — 49; Grafton, Second, 1850 — 54. 
 
 Levy, Maurice Ambrose. Hingham, 1898— 1901 ; Medford, 
 First, 1901 — 
 
 Lewis, Abner. West Harwich, 1802 — 09. 
 
 Lewis, Charles Casson. North Tisbury, 1845. 
 
 Lewis, Evan. South Boston, Fourth Street, 1869 — 71. 
 
 Lewis, George L. West Tisbury, 1871 ; Vineyard Haven, 
 1876—78; Canton, 1884—85. 
 
 Lewis, J. Nelson. Maiden, First, 1887 — 90. 
 
 Lewis, Welcome. Mansfield, 1852 — 55, 1862 — y^. 
 
 Lewy, S. p. Long Plain, 1872. 
 
 Libbey, William. Ashfield, 1885 — 91. 
 
 Light, Frederick Augustus. Braintree, 1881 — 82; Boston, 
 First German, 1882 — 83. 
 
 Lincoln, Bradford Heman. South Framingham, 1854 — 56. 
 
 Lincoln, Heman. Jamaica Plain, 1853^-59. 
 
 Lincoln, Warren. Chicopee, Central, 1853 — 56. 
 
 Lindberg, Alfred E. Boston, First Swede, 1899 — 
 
 LiNDH, Eric Isadore. West Acton, 1893 — 95; Holliston, 
 1896—98. 
 
 Linsley, Vivian H. Tyringham (acting), 1901 — 02. 
 
 LiNTELL, R. South Yarmouth, 1848. 
 
 Lisle, William McIntire. West Newton, 1870 — 74; West 
 Somerville, 1877 — 82. 
 
 Litchfield, Daniel Clapp. Andover, 1864 — 68. 
 
 Litchfield, George A. Winchendon, 1862—65. 
 
 LiTORiN, Herman. Gardner, Swede, 1901 — 
 
 Littlefield, James H. North Abin.eton, 1895. 
 
 Livingston, Benjamin T. Osterville, 1898—99. 
 
 Locke, Arthur. Vineyard Haven, 1890. 
 
 Locke, J. E. Vineyard Haven. 1892. 
 
 Lockrow, David Mount. Pondville (acting), 1894; Rowley, 
 1895—98; Melrose Highlands, 1898— 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES l8l 
 
 LocKROW, F. A. Winthrop, 1872 — 74; Fall River, Third, 
 
 1874—75. 
 LocKwooD, Frederick W. Pittsfield, First, 1902 — 
 Lombard, George Edward. ]\Iillbury, 1898 — 1901. 
 Long, David. Shelburne, First (extinct), 1824 — 28; Deerfield 
 
 (extinct) and Shelburne, First, 1830. 
 Long, Joseph AL Dorchester, First, 1901 — 
 LooMis, William I. Adams, 1844 — 46; Braintree, 1875 — 76. 
 LoRiMER, A. Seekonk (extinct), 1853. 
 Lorimer, Albert William. Arlington Heights, 1900 — 1902. 
 LoRiMER, George C. Boston, Shawmut Avenue (extinct), 
 
 1870 — JT,; Boston, Tremont Temple, 1873 — 79, 1891 — 1901. 
 LoRiNG, G. N. Plymouth, 1838. 
 
 LoRiNG, Horatio N. Aledfield, 1836 — 2>7'y Plymouth, 1839 — 40. 
 LoTHROP, Davis. Chatham, 1830; West Harwich, 1832 — 33; 
 
 Chatham, 1834 — 2>7 ', Orleans (extinct), 1838 — 44; West 
 
 Harwich, 1846—47; Orleans, 1851 — 54; South Yarmouth, 
 
 1857-58. 
 Love, Horace T. North Adams, 1846 — 51 ; South Abington 
 
 (now Whitman), 1853 — 55. 
 Love, John, Jr. Chelsea, First, 1875 — 83; Boston, Warren 
 
 Avenue (acting), 1898 — 99. 
 LovELL, Andrew Sprague. East Longmeadow, 1857 — 60. 
 Lovell, Lorenzo O. Fitchburg, First, 1836; Sutton, First, 
 
 1852 — 56; Rochdale (Greenville), 1856 — 58. 
 LovELL, Nehemiah Gorham. Princeton (extinct), 1834 — 36; 
 
 Amherst, 1836 — 40; Bellingham, 1840 — 47; North Attle- 
 
 boro, 1847 — 51. 
 LovELL, Shubael. Rowley, 1802 — 07; Taunton, 1816 — 20; 
 
 Middleboro, First, 1826; Cambridge, First, 1834. 
 Lowe, John E. Randolph, 1839 — 40. 
 Lundgren, Carl. Gardner, Swede, 1896. 
 LuNT, T. H. Littleton, 1845. 
 Lyford, Edward T. Rowley, 1868 — 70; Georgetown, 
 
 1874—78; Billerica, First, 1879—83. 
 Lyle, George. Williamstown, 1845 — 50; Rockport, 1850 — 52. 
 Lyman, Dan W. Athol, 1900 — 
 
 Lyon, Albert Jonathan. Greenfield, First, 1873 — 75 ; Rock- 
 port, 1875—76. 
 Lyon. A. Smith. North Oxford, 1838 — ^46; Chatham, 
 
 1849 — 52; Natick, 1854 — 56. 
 Lyon, Elwood P. Egremont, 1898 — 1901. 
 Lyon, John S. Holyoke, Second, 1901 — 
 Lyons, Thomas G. Chelmsford, First, 1895 — 97. 
 
 Mabie, Harry S. New ^Marlboro, 1899, with Sandisfield, 
 
 1900 — 01 ; Fitchburg, Beth-Eden, 1901 — 
 Mabie, Henry Clay. Brookline, 1875 — 79. 
 Macdonald, E. H. New Bedford, Union, 1896 — 1900. 
 
1 82 PAS Tons OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Macdonald, Forrester Alexander. East Boston, Central 
 Square (assistant pastor), 1893 — 94; Fitchburg, Beth- 
 Eden, 1894 — 1901 ; Lexington, 1902 — 
 
 MacDonald, Robert. Georgetown, 1885 — 87; Methuen, 
 1887 — 91 ; Boston, Warren Avenue, 1891 — 97. 
 
 Macdougall, Arthur R. Chelmsford, First, 1900 — 01 ; South- 
 wick, 1902 — 
 
 Mace, Jeremiah Moulton. Carver, 1852 — 55 ; Pocasset, 
 1855—56; Hanover, 1856—57; Florida, 1861 ; Rehoboth, 
 1870 — yz. 
 
 MacKinnon, William Dennis. Sutton, First, 1892—97. 
 
 Macomber, Francis Greene. Beverly, First, 1825 — 27. 
 
 Macomber, Sylvanus Boardman. Sterling, 1872 — y2>- 
 
 Magill, David Tristam. Milford, 1897 — 1901 ; Milford and 
 Mendon, 1902 — 
 
 Maine, R. H. Sandisfield, 1863 — 71; Savoy, 1871 — 72; Stam- 
 ford, Vt., 1872—75. 
 
 Malcolm, Howard. Boston, Federal Street (now Clarendon 
 Street), 1827 — 35. 
 
 Mallory, Norman Clark. Lowell, First, 1870 — j^; Lynn, 
 First, 1878—80; Boston, Fifth Street, 1881—85. 
 
 Mallory, O. E. Lowell, First, 1875 — 78; Lowell, Branch 
 Street, 1878 — 98; Worcester, Dewey Street, 1898 — 
 
 Mallory, Samuel S. Woburn, 1826 — 28. 
 
 Manee, a. H. Egremont, 1894 — 95 ; Belchertown, 1895 — 1900. 
 
 Manley, Herbert Sweetser. North Leverett, 1899 — 1901. 
 
 Manning, Berwick. Brookfield, 1834. 
 
 Manser, Henry Harrison. Barre, 1884—88; Wales, 1888 — 89. 
 
 Manton, Joseph R. Gloucester, First, 1849. 
 
 Marable, J. L. Haverhill, Calvary, 1901 — 
 
 Marble, Fred E. Cambridge, North Avenue, 1902 — 
 
 Marchant, Henry. Brewster, 1832 — 33; Edgartown, 1833 — 34. 
 
 Mariott, N. a. Haverhill, Calvary, 1892. 
 
 Marsh, W. H. H. Salem, Central, 1873—80. 
 
 Marshall, Benjamin De Forest. Worcester, First, 1873 — 87; 
 Westboro, 1887; Leominster, 1888 — 97. 
 
 Marshall, Enos, Jr. Egremont, 1824 — 35. 
 
 Marshall, Horace Barrows. Vineyard Haven, 1868 — 71 ; 
 West Tisbury (acting), 1871 — 7^; Chelmsford, Central, 
 1873—75; Kingston, 1875—80. 
 
 Marshall, Thomas. Holden, 1814 — 16; West Royalston and 
 Warwick, 1832 — 34; Colerain, Second, 1837 — 38. 
 
 Marshall, W. H. East Boston, Trinity, 1892 — 99. 
 
 Marston, S. W. East Brookfield, 1852 — 54. 
 
 Martell, George Arthur. Brewster, 1896; Turner's Falls, 
 1898^1901 ; Willimansett, 1901 — 
 
 Martin, J. Sella. Boston, Independent (now St. Paul's), 
 i860 — 62. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES I 83 
 
 Martin, Orra. Goshen (extinct), 1824 — 28; Ashfield, Sec- 
 ond, 1830; Deerfield (extinct), 1840. 
 
 Martin, Robert M. Salem, Central, 1896 — 98. 
 
 Maryott, Charles A. Baldwinville (acting), 1870. 
 
 Mason, A. Francke. Barnstable, Third, 1861 ; Leominster, 
 1874—76. 
 
 Mason, Alanson Porter. Fall River, First, 1850 — 53; Chel- 
 sea, 1853 — 66. 
 
 Mason, Archibald. Medway, 1847 — 48; Pocasset, 1853. 
 
 Mason, Archibald E. South Yarmouth, 1899 — 1901. 
 
 Mason, Edward Doran. Somerville, Winter Hill, 1888 — 91 ; 
 Cottage City, 1892 — 95 ; Georgetown, 1895 — 98. 
 
 Mason, George Lamartine. Fall River, Third, 1876 — 80. 
 
 Mason, Sumner R. Cambridge, First, 1855 — 70. 
 
 Massey, Joseph Tinsley. Bellingham, 1834 — 40, 1847 — 80. 
 
 IMatthews, Frank B. Newton, Immanuel, 1899 — 
 
 Matthews, George. North Reading, 1830 — 34; West Har- 
 wich, 1847 — 48; Littleton, 1848—50; Athol, 185 1 ; See- 
 konk (extinct), 1855 — 56; Chatham, 1862 — 63; New 
 Marlboro, 1867; South Dartmouth (extinct), 1869—70; 
 New Bedford, Second, 1871 — 72. 
 
 Matthews, J. W. Boston, Independent (now St. Paul's), 
 1876—78; Springfield, Pilgrim (now Third), i88ch-8i. 
 
 Maul, Webster R. Ashland, 1871 — 72,. 
 
 McAllester, William Charles. Randolph, 1899— 
 
 McCoMBE, George William. Boston, Berean (acting), 1901 ; 
 Arlington Heights, 1902 — 
 
 McCuLLOUCH, Nathaniel. Florida, 1830; Savoy, First, 
 1832 — 7,6; Chesterfield, 1836 — 2i7 \ Plainfield (extinct), 
 1837 — 40; Savoy, Second, 1840 — 46. 
 
 McCuLLOUGH, George Washington. Danvers, First, 1873 — y6 ; 
 Edgartown, 1876 — 77; East Gloucester (now Chapel 
 Street). 1877—80. 
 
 McCurdy, Selden Rufus. Hudson (acting), 1899 — 1900. 
 
 McDonald, Donald Gordon. Ashland, 1886—87. 
 
 McDonald, J. W. West Springfield, First (now Agawam), 
 1832—35- 
 
 McElwain, John A. Boston, Clarendon Street (assistant 
 pastor), 1878 — 1900. 
 
 McGear, D. L. Grafton, First, 1850 — 51. 
 
 McGregor, James Wells. Stoneham, 1888 — 91 ; Hyannis, 
 1891 — 95, with Barnstable, Third, 1896—98. 
 
 McJanet, Robert. Sterling, 1893. 
 
 McKean, Joseph. Winchendon, 1891 — 96; Fall River, Third, 
 1902 — 
 
 McKenna, E. J. Somerville, Union Square, 1893 — 94. 
 
 McKenzie, William Scott. East Abington (Rockland), 
 1857—58; Andover, 1858—60. 
 
 McKillop, William Anderson. Roslindale (acting), 1882 — 83. 
 
1 84 FAS TORS OF BAFTIST CHURCHES 
 
 McLean, A. S. Hingham, 1877. 
 
 McLearn, Alexander. Halifax (extinct), i860 — 61; ]\Iiddle- 
 
 boro, First, 1863 — 65; Granville, 1865 — 69. 
 McLellan, Bryant. Osterville, 1889 — 91 ; West Acton, 
 
 1891 — 92; Milford, 1894 — 96. 
 McLeod, Alexander. Waverly (acting), 1902 — 
 McMillan, Henry J. Savoy, 1895 — 97! Mashpee, 1897 — 
 McNally, Charles Remington. Lowell, Worthen Street, 
 
 1900 — 
 McPhail, Duncan Martin Luther. Long Plain (acting), 
 
 1899; Groton, 1902 — 
 McWhinnie, James. Cambridge, First, 1884 — 92- 
 Meacham, Cola De Rienzi. Barre. 1870 — 74; North Scituate, 
 
 1874—79; Chatham (acting), 1880—81; Ashland, 1883—85; 
 
 Canton, 1886—88. 
 Meader, Wilfred J. Cliftondale, 1901 — 02 ; Ayer, 1902 — 
 Medbery, Nicholas. Middleboro, Central, 1828 — 30; Water- 
 town, 1832 — 44; Newburyport, 1845 — 51; Ashland, 1853. 
 Meech, William W. Long Plain, 1858 — 60. 
 Meeser, Spencer Byron. Worcester, First, 1896 — 1901. 
 Meeson, J. D. Winchester. 1861 — 62; Ashland, 1873 — 75- 
 Megregory, Elias. Shrewsbury (extinct) and Boylston, 
 
 1819 — 22; Ward (extinct), 1822 — 26; Leverett and Mon- 
 tague, 1828. 
 Melleny, C. p. Haverhill, Second, 1871 — ^2. 
 Merriam, Asaph. Royalston and Warwick, 1825 — 30; Canton, 
 
 1837—40; Athol, 1840 — 46; Bolton, 1848—55. 
 Merriam, Edmund Franklin. Winthrop (acting), 1880 — 81. 
 Merriam, Mylon. Sharon, 1853 — 58; Colerain, First, 1881 — 86; 
 
 Hampden, 1886—88. 
 Merrifield, Elliot Plympton. Cummington, 1894 — 1900. 
 Merrill, George Edmands. Springfield, First, 1872 — 'JT, 
 
 Salem, First, 1877 — 85; Newton, Immanuel, 1890 — 99. 
 Merrill, Joseph Wiggin. Barre, 1875 — 76; Middleboro, 
 
 Third, 1884—85; Stamford. Vt., 1887—88. 
 Merriman, T. M. Beverly, Second. 1865 — 66; Kingston, 
 
 1867 — 70; Petersham, 1872 — "JZ', Fiskdale, 1873 — 75; East 
 
 Stoughton, 1875; West Dedham (now Westwood), 
 
 1879—82. 
 Merry, William B. C. Fitchburg, Highland, 1891 — 96; 
 
 Somerville, Union Square, 1896 — 
 Messenger, E. C. Middleboro, Third, 1834 — 37; Abington, 
 
 1837 — 45; East Brookfield, 1846 — 47; West Medway, 
 
 1849—65. 
 Metcalf, J. K. Osterville, 1868—71 ; Lanesboro, 1871—78. 
 Mick, William Marcellus. Waltham, First, 1888 — 91. 
 Millard, William A. A. Norton, 1869; Rowe, 1870. 
 Miller, D. Henry. Lowell, Worthen Street, 1872 — "jt,. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1 85 
 
 Miller, Charles. Wenham, 1832—35; Boston, North Bap- 
 tist, 1836—37; South Reading (now Wakefield), 1838. 
 Miller, Henry F. H. Norton, 1859—61; South Hanson, 
 1868—70; Manchester, 1870; North Belhngham, 1874—76. 
 Miller, Joel D. West Royalston, 1866—67. 
 Miller, J. Judson. Somerville, Perkins Street, 1861— 81 ; 
 Worcester, Lincoln Square, 1881—92; Waltham, Beth- 
 Eden, 1893—98. . 
 MiLLiNGTON, Henry William Oldknow. Pocasset (acting), 
 
 1890 — 92; Lowell, Fifth Street, 1892— 1902. 
 Mills, Albert R. Turner's Falls, 1902— 
 Mills, Edward. Westminster, 1865—66; Woburn, First, 
 
 1875—80; Franklin, 1890—94. 
 Mills, Robert Curtis. Springfield, Second (Chicopee Falls), 
 
 1845—48; Salem, First, 1848—76. 
 Milne, Alexander. Pocasset, 1839—40; Middleboro, Third, 
 1842—44; Halifax (branch of Central, Middleboro), 
 1844 — 45. 
 Milton, C. West Cambridge (now Arlington), 1837. 
 Minard, Clarence Reginald. Palmer, 1895—98; Springfield, 
 Carew Street, 1898— 1900. ^- r ,, 
 
 Miner, Bradley. Dorchester, ^ First, 1838—46 ; Pittsfield, 
 
 First, 1846 — 50. 
 Miner, Cyrus. North Tisbury, 1843—47. 
 Miner, George H. Cambridge, Second, 1869—72; Newbury- 
 
 port, 1872—75, 1901— 
 Miner, J. B. Monroe, 1885—91 ; Brewster, 1891. 
 Miner, Johnson Levi. Plymouth, 1898— 1901. 
 Miner, Noyes William. East Longmeadow, 1848 — 51. 
 Mitchell, Edwin Foster. Bellingham and North Belhng- 
 ham, 1890—92; Pocasset, 1892—94. 
 Mitchell, E. S. Middleboro, Third (acting), 1896. 
 Mitchell. H. H. New Bedford, Second (extinct), 1879—82. 
 Mitchell, Howard Rogers. Conway, 1880—85; Huntington, 
 
 1885—88; North Uxbridge, 1888—91. 
 Mitchell, Joseph B. Halifax (extinct), 1864. 
 Mitchell, Richard Samuel. East Longmeadow, 1891—95; 
 
 Fiskdale, 1897—98; Barre, 1901— 
 Mitchell, Seth K. Cambridge, Second, 1894—96. 
 MixTER, George. Wales, 1837—42- „ . ^, 
 
 Montague, Elijah. Leverett and :Montague, 1824—26; Mon- 
 tague, 1826—28; Sunderland and ]Montague, 1830. 
 Montague, Leroy Johnson. Boston, Ebenezer, 1897— 
 Montague, Richard. Lawrence, First, 1879—81; Newton 
 
 Centre, 1893—95. ^ . o^ ^^ a ui ^ 
 
 Moody Reuel B. South Braintree, 1863—66; Ashland, 
 
 1866—68; Plymouth, 1868—71; Lawrence, Second, 
 
 1880—83; Charlestown, Bunker Hill, 1884—92; South- 
 
1 86 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 bridge, Central, 1892 — 93; Peabody, 1898 — 1902; Frank- 
 lin, 1902 — 
 
 Moore, A. R. Somerville, Perkins Street, 1890 — 93. 
 
 Moore, Ferris. Canton, 1824; Lee (supply), 1846^57. 
 
 Moore, John Ward. Charlestown, Bunker Hill, 1902 — 
 
 Moore, William. Baldwinsville, 1890 — 92. 
 
 MoREY, Reuben. Attleboro, 1841 — 46. 
 
 Morgan, Charles T. Haverhill, First, 1896 — 
 
 Morgan, Dura Pratt. Jamaica Plain, 1872 — 75; Beverly, 
 First, 1875—88. 
 
 Morgan, Hiram Almeron. Russell, 1854 — 56; Becket, 
 1856 — 62; Lee, 1863 — 69; Cheshire, 1870 — 76. 
 
 Morrill, Jonathan C. Somerset, 1852 — 54. 
 
 Morris, Charles David. Gloucester, First, 1882 — 87. 
 
 Morris, Charles Satchell. West Newton, Myrtle, 1896 — 98. 
 
 Morse, Appleton. Princeton (extinct), 1830 — 34; Fitchburg, 
 First, 1834 — 35. i837 — 38; West Cambridge (now Arling- 
 ton), 1835—37. 
 
 Morse, B. S. South Wilbraham (extinct), 1862 — 64; Grafton, 
 First, 1890 — 96. 
 
 Morse, Frank Rogers. South Grafton, 1862; Cambridge, 
 Second, 1865 — 67; Lowell, Worthen Street, 1867 — 71; Fall 
 River, Second, 1871 — 72. 
 
 Morse, J. B. Charlestown, Bunker Hill, 1863—66. 
 
 Morse, Silas Livingstone. Bethel (assistant pastor), 1892; 
 Plymouth, 1892 — 97; Medfield, 1899 — 1901 ; Merrimac, 
 1901 — 
 
 Morse, Winthrop. Orleans (extinct), 1830; Templeton 
 (now Baldwinville), 1832 — 34; East Brookfield, 1837 — 39; 
 Chelmsford, First, 1846 — 47; North Marshfield, 1847. 
 
 Morten, Nels N. Brockton, Swede, 1895 — 1900; Worcester, 
 Harlem Street, Swede, 1900 — 
 
 Morton, James Ferdinand. Littleton, 1869 — 72; Dorchester, 
 First, 1873 — 76. 
 
 Moss, Lemuel. Worcester, First, i860 — 64. 
 
 Mower, Irving Bemis. Sharon, 1883 — 86. 
 
 Mowrey, T. B. North and West Tisbury, 1893 — 94; Mash- 
 pee, 1894 — 96; Monroe, 1897 — 98. 
 
 MoxoM, Philip S. Boston, First, 1885 — 93. 
 
 MuLLiNS, Edgar Young. Newton Centre, 1896 — 98. 
 
 Munger, Dexter. Monson (extinct), 1840 — 45. 
 
 Munger, Washington. Holland (extinct), 1832 — 38. 
 
 MuNRO, James. Charlemcnt, 1872 — y^)- 
 
 Munroe, Calvin. Fgremont, 1837 — 38. 
 
 Murch, Charles Henry. Osterville, 1895. 
 
 Murdoch, John Nelson. Boston, Bowdoin Square, 1858 — 62. 
 
 Murphy, Joseph. New Bedford, Second (extinct), 1891. 
 
 Murray, A. H. Pocasset, 1878—82, 1885; Pondville, 1883— 
 86; Long Plain, 1886—89. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 18/ 
 
 Myers, Charles Frederic. North Reading, 1872 — 74; Sutton, 
 
 First, 1874—75. 
 Myhrman, D. W. Cambridge, Swede, 1897. 
 
 Narber, Franklin P. Cambridge, Second, 1898 — 1900; East 
 Brookfield, 1902 — 
 
 Naylor, John George. Lowell, Third (extinct), 1841 — ^45. 
 
 Nead, George Walter. Norwood, 1892 — 
 
 Neale, Rollin Heber. Boston, South, 1832 — 34; Boston, 
 First, 1837—79. 
 
 Neill, R. ]\I. Billerica, First, — 
 
 Nelson, Ebenezer. Woburn, 1803 — 11. 
 
 Nelson, Ebenezer, Jr. Lynn, 1824 — 25 ; West Cambridge 
 (now Arlington), 1828 — 2>2>'j Middleboro, Central, 1837 — 51. 
 
 Nelson, N. E. Brockton, Swede, 1890 — 95. 
 
 Nelson, Samuel. ]\Iiddleboro, Third, 1802 — 21. 
 
 Nelson, Stephen S. Bellingham, 1814; Attleboro, First, 
 1815 — 21; Plymouth, 1821 — 23; Belchertown, 1825 — 26; 
 Athol, 1832 — 33; Amherst, 1833 — 34. 
 
 Nelson, William Francis. Greenfield, 1852 — 56. 
 
 Newhall, Charles. Sutton, First, 1880 — 84. 
 
 Newhall, George Frederick. Stamford, Vt., 1900 — 
 
 Newton, Baxter. North Leverett and Montague, 1845 — 54, 
 1873; North Leverett, 1874 — 85; North Sunderland, 
 1887—89. 
 
 Newton, Calvin. Bellingham, 1828 — 31 ; Grafton, First, 
 1841—44. 
 
 NiBUKER, F. H. Lawrence, First, 1882 — 84. 
 
 Nichols, Charles Nelson. North Tisbury, 1884 — 86; Chat- 
 ham, 1886—87. 
 
 Nichols, G. E. West Medway, 1889 — 90; Willimansett (act- 
 ing), 1892—93. 
 
 Nichols, John. Egremont, 1808 — 11. 
 
 Nichols, John. Great Barrington (extinct), 1808 — 11. 
 
 Nicholson, C. F. Conway, 1861 — 62; Millbury, 1862 — 63; 
 Norton, 1880; New Bedford, North, 1882—83; Charles- 
 town, Bunker Hill, 1883—84. 
 
 Nightengale, Charles Spurgeon. Danvers, 1898 — 
 
 Niles, Asa. Greenwich, 1806 ; New Salem, 1824 — 25 ; Scit- 
 uate, 1828; Middleboro, First, 1832, 1838; Marshfield, 
 First, 1832 — 33; Taunton, 1833 — 34. 
 
 NoBBS, James. Russell. 1893 — 94; Marshfield, First, 1899 — 
 
 NoBBS, Samuel Bastin. Groton, 1889 — 91 ; Salem, Central, 
 1891 — 94; Gloucester, Chapel Street, 1894 — 1900; Salem, 
 Central, 1900 — • 
 
 NoBBS, William Horatio. West Townsend, 1895 — 98; Rayn- 
 ham, 1898 — 
 
 NoRCROss, James Edward. Marblehead, 1897 — 1900; Ames- 
 bury, 1900 — 
 
1 88 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 NoRDELL, Philip A. Lee, 1874 — "jt, Weymouth, 1877 — 82. 
 
 NoRRis, William. Ashfield, 1843 — 46. 
 
 NoRTHRUP, G. R. North Tisbury, 1855 — 56. 
 
 Norton, N. J. Adams, 1853 — 55. 
 
 NoTT, Handel G. Boston, Federal Street (now Clarendon 
 
 Street), 1839 — 40. 
 NoTT, Richard Means. Wakefield, 1872 — ^y, Brookville, 
 
 1877—80. 
 No YES, William Emery. North Reading, 1893 — 94. 
 
 Olmstead, Jephtha Montrose. West Townsend, 1893 — 95; 
 
 Avon, 1895 — 99. 
 Olm stead, John Wesley. Chelsea, First, 1842 — 46. 
 Orcutt, Josiah. New Salem (extinct), 1802. 
 Ordway, Otis Osgood. Haverhill, Second, 1887 — 94; Middle- 
 
 boro, First, 1895 — 97. 
 Ormsby, John. West Cambridge (now Arlington), 1824 — 26. 
 OsBORN, Abraham Coles. North Adams, 1877 — 84. 
 OsBORN, CoRRA. East Dedham, 1864 — 66. 
 Osterhout, John Van Buren. Webster, 1869 — T^- 
 OsTROM, Peter. Worcester, First Swede, 1883—87. 
 Otis, Nathaniel. West Stockbridge (extinct), 1816. 
 Owen, Alfred. Lynn, High Street, 1858 — 67. 
 OwERS, Edward. North Leverett, 1895. 
 
 Packard, Joshua Forbes. Carver, 1884 — 87; Swampscott, 
 
 1887—89; East Dedham, 1889—97; West Roxbury, 
 
 1898 — 99. 
 Packard, Willard. Carver, 1S87 — 90; North and West Tis- 
 bury, 1894 — 98 ; Manchaug and Sutton, Second, 1898 — 
 
 1902 ; East Haverhill, 1902 — 
 Packard, W. S. Southwick, 1892 — 94. 
 Padelford, Adoniram Judson. Amherst, 1866 — 68; Haverhill, 
 
 Portland Street, 1868—76. 
 Padelford, Frank W. Haverhill, Portland Street, 1897 — 
 Page, Charles L. Boston, Dudley Street, assistant pastor, 
 
 1892 — 
 Page, E. H. Charlestown, Bethesda (now Bunker Hill), 
 
 1853—57; Feltonville, 1865— 66; Milford, 1866— 68; South 
 
 Groton (extinct), 1868 — 69. 
 Paine, John. Ward (extinct), 1828 — z^. 
 Palmer, Albert DeForrest. North Tewksbury, 1869 — y2\ 
 
 Chicopee, Central, 1872 — 75. 
 Palmer, A. H. North Adams. 1834 — 35. 
 Palmer, Leander A. Swampscott, 1892 — 99; Pittsfield, Morn- 
 
 ingside, 1900 — 
 Papenhausen, William. Boston, First German, 1884 — 96. 
 Park, Charles W. Millbury, 1901 — 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1 89 
 
 Parke, F. S. Hancock, 1808, 1834; Cheshire, Third, 1852 — 54; 
 Hinsdale, 1855 — 56. 
 
 Parker, Addison. Southbridge, 1828 — 30; Sturbridge, 
 1832 — 34; Methiien, 1837 — 38, 1866; Three Rivers, 
 1848 — 52; Sturbridge, 1852 — 56; Agawam, 1856 — ()Z- 
 
 Parker, Addison, Jr. Natick, 1866—69; Charlestown, Bunker 
 Hill, 1869—73. 
 
 Parker, Charles A. Quincy, Calvary, 1895 — 98. 
 
 Parker, D. V. Wales, 1870 — 71. 
 
 Parker, Frank. Marshfield, First, 1894 — 98. 
 
 Parker, F. S. Hancock, 1833 — 35 ; Cheshire, 1852 — 55 ; Hins- 
 dale, 1855—57. 
 
 Parker, Harvey George. Cambridge, North Avenue, 1895 — 96. 
 
 Parker, James W. Tyngsboro and Dunstable (extinct), 
 1833 — 34; Whately (extinct), 1846; Rowe, 1848 — 50; 
 Charlemont, 1850. 
 
 Parker, Joseph Whiting. Cambridge, First, 1836 — 55; Alls- 
 ton, Brighton Avenue, 1857 — 59 ; Boston, Shawmut Avenue 
 (extinct), 1859 — 64. 
 
 Parker, S. S. Southbridge, Central, 1855 — 66. 
 
 Parkhurst, Jabez W. Tyngsboro and Dunstable (extinct), 
 1837. 
 
 Parkhurst, John W. Chelmsford, First, 1824 — 38; Chelms- 
 ford and Tyngsboro, 1838 — 45; West Dedham (now 
 Westwood), 1845 — 49; Chelmsford, Central, 1849 — 67. 
 
 Parmelee, James Harvey. Charlemont, 1877 — 78; Bernards- 
 ton, 1878—79; Erving (extinct), 1883—86. 
 
 Parmly, Wheelock H. Shelburne Falls, 1848 — 50. 
 
 Parris, John B. Carver, 1844; Pocasset, 1845. 
 
 Parshley, John Howard. Westboro, 1883 — 84; Lawrence, 
 First, 1897 — 99. 
 
 Parshley, Wilbur Brown. Cambridge, Second, 1888 — 89. 
 
 Parsons, James. Carver, 1821 — 22,\ Colerain, First, 1824; 
 Templeton (now Baldwinsville), 1825. 
 
 Parsons, N. D. East Longmeadow, 1888 — 90; Hampden, 
 1890 — 97; Ayer, 1899 — 1902. 
 
 Partridge, Lyman. Wales. 1866 — 69; Sharon, 1872 — 82; 
 Westminster, 1883 — 92 ; Westwood, 1892 — 
 
 Pasco, Cephas. Needham and Dover (Dover, extinct), 
 1841 — 42; Rowley, 1842 — 48; Egremont, 1849 — 59; West 
 Bridgewatcr, 1859 — 71. 
 
 Patch, George Whitney. Wenham, 1841 — 43 ; Sharon, 
 1S43— 48; Marblehead, 1848—74. 
 
 Paterson, James. Jamaica Plain, 1870 — 71. 
 
 Paterson, William C. East Dedham, 1850 — 6},. 
 
 Patterson, James Robert. Nantucket, 1889 — 97. 
 
 Patterson, R. A. Chelsea, Carey Avenue, i860 — 61 ; Plym- 
 outh, 1862 — 63; Newburyport, 1863 — 65. 
 
IQO PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Patton, Alfred S. Boston, Tremont Street (extinct), 
 1859 — 61 ; Watertown, 1861 — 64. 
 
 Paul, Thomas. Boston, Independent (now St. Paul's), 
 1806 — 29. 
 
 Pauling, E. C. Marblehead, 1900 — 1902. 
 
 Pay, George F. Savoy, First, 1862 — 63. 
 
 Peabody, Charles H. Sutton, First, 1837 — 4°; North Ran- 
 dolph, 1840 — 42. 
 
 Peak, John. Barnstable, 1802 — 05, 1819 — 26; Newbury and 
 Newburyport, 1807 — 11. 
 
 Peakes, Fred William. Ashland, 1899 — 
 
 Pearce, Philip. Savoy, First, 181 1 — 17. 
 
 Pearson, Laurence. Woodville, 1855. 
 
 Pease, Bartj^ett. Seekonk (extinct), 1824 — 25; New- 
 bury and Newburyport, 1830; Gloucester, 1832; West 
 Bridgewater, 1839 — 42; Northboro, 1842 — 43; West Tis- 
 bury, 1861. 
 
 Pease^ Charles Stanley. Ashfield and Conway, 1896 — 
 
 Pease, David. Conway, 1828 — 30; Goshen (extinct). 1830; 
 Charlemont, 1832 — 2>y, Three Rivers, 1833 — 34; Williams- 
 town, 1834 — 35; Holmes Hole (extinct), 1836-— 37; North 
 Tisbury, 1838; Conway, 1854 — 57; Sunderland and Mon- 
 tague, 1858 — 65; Savoy, 1868. 
 
 Pease, Jesse. North Tisbury, 1841 — 42; Gay Head, 1844. 
 
 Pease, William A. Blandford, 1846; Plainfield (extinct), 
 1848 — 49; Cummington, 1849 — 50; Deerfield (extinct), 
 1850 — 52; Shutesbury, 1852—55; Leverett and Montague, 
 1855—56. 
 
 Pease, W. H. Somerset, 1884—86. 
 
 Peck, Arthur Cole. Shelburne Falls, 1891 — 95. 
 
 Peck, J. J. South Amesbury (Merrimacport, extinct), 
 1865—66; Melrose, First, 1869—70. 
 
 Peckens, John. Chelmsford, Second, 1802 — 10. 
 
 Peede, T. Richard. Haverhill, Second, 1885 — 86; Beverly 
 Farms, 1886—88; Scituate, 1888—92; Worcester, South, 
 1893 — 1901 ; Everett, First, 1901 — 
 
 Pendleton, Charles H. Worcester, Main Street, 1886 — 95. 
 
 Pendleton, Silas Porter. North Marshfield, 1884 — 85. 
 
 Penney, Frank Dee. North Adams, 1893—97; Worcester, 
 Lincoln Square, 1897 — 1902. 
 
 Pentecost, George Frederick. Boston, Warren Avenue. 
 1872—78. 
 
 Pepper, Elbridge. Palmer (acting), 1863—64; Groveland 
 (extinct), 1871 — 72. 
 
 Perkins, Aaron. South Hanson, 1864 — 65. 
 
 Perkins, Barnabas. Marshfield, First, 1803—06; Hanover, 
 1806. 
 
 Perkins, N. M. Westfield, Central, 1846—49; Brooklme, 
 1855-58. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 191 
 
 Perry, E. G. IMashpee (formerly Marshpee), 1838 — 40. 
 
 Perry, Gideon B. New Bedford, First, 1826^28. 
 
 Perry, Gideon Howland. Chatham, 1878—80. 
 
 Perry, H. Francis. Hudson, 1888 — 90; Hyde Park, 1890 — 96. 
 
 Perry, Joseph E. Allston, Brighton Avenue, 1900 — 
 
 Perry, Philander. East Brookfield, 1867—68; Barre, 
 
 1882—83; Middleboro, Third, 1886—88; Hinsdale, 1888. 
 Person, Ira. Plymouth, 1844; Lowell, Third (extinct), 
 
 1845—46. 
 Pervear, Hir.'\m Kalloch. Cambridge, Second, 1857 — 65 ; 
 
 Worcester, First, 1865 — yz; Cambridge, First, 1873 — 79; 
 
 New Bedford, First, 1880—86; Clinton, 1886—91. 
 Phelan, E. B. Monroe (acting), 1900. 
 Phillips, Daniel William. Medfield, 1838 — 50; South 
 
 Reading (now Wakefield), 1850—62. 
 Phillips, James M. Russell, 1846. 
 Philips, William. Attleboro, 1828; Charlestown, First, 
 
 1836—41. 
 Phillips, William Albert. Chatham, 1890. 
 Phillips, William Solomon. Chesterfield, 1854 — 56; Wales, 
 
 1856—59; East Longmeadow, 1875 — 76; Wales, 1878 — 79; 
 
 Chelmsford, First, 1879 — 80. 
 Phippin, George. Templeton (now Baldwinville), 1821 — 24; 
 
 Spencer, 1824 — 25 ; Lee and Tyringham, 1845 — 50. 
 PiDDOCK, Charles Albert. West Springfield, 1879 — 81. 
 PiDGE, John Bartholomew Gough. Lawrence, First, 1869 — 79- 
 Pierce, Charles Clark. Chelsea, Gary Avenue, 1896 — 99. 
 Pierce, Charles Lincoln. Kingston, First, 1895 — 98; North 
 
 Tewksbury, 1900 — 
 Pierce, Ebenezer Nelson. Colerain, First and Second, 
 
 1889 — 90 ; Avon, 1894 — 95 ; Gay Head, 1895 — 96. 
 Pierce, Preserved. Rehoboth, 1824 — 34. 
 Pierce, Samuel E. Gloucester, First, 1853 — 59. 
 Pillsbury, Stephen, Jr. Lee, 187 1 — 74. 
 Finkham, N. J. West Amesbury (now Merrimac), 1850 — 51; 
 
 Manchaug, 1866 — 67. 
 PiNNEY, A. Groton, 1844; North Grafton, 1846. 
 Piper, A. M. Sunderland and ^Montague (^lontague extinct), 
 
 1843 — 44; Northboro, 1844 — 45; Royalston Centre (ex- 
 tinct), 1845 — 46. 
 Pistor, Otto F. Boston, First German, 1897 — 
 Pitman, John. Rehoboth, — 1802 — 21. 
 Platts, Harvey Adams. Pocasset, 1896 — 98. 
 Plumer, L. B. Somerville, First, 1893. 
 Plummer. Morton N. Cambridge, Broadway, 1900 — 
 Poland, J. W. Orleans (extinct), 1867 — 69. 
 Pollard, Andrew. Gardner, 1839—41; Holden, 1841 — 44; 
 
 Barnstable, First (now Hyannis), 1844 — 49; Taunton, 
 
192 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 1849 — 71; South Boston, Fourth Street (extinct), 
 
 1871—74- 
 PoMEROY, S. Egremont, 1847 — 48. 
 
 Pond, Clarence Strong. Pocasset (acting), 1902 — 
 
 Pope, John Deming. Lee and Tyringham, 1881 — 86; Lee, 
 
 1887—99. 
 Pope, Louis Atherton. Mansfield, 1877 — 79; Newburyport, 
 
 1889 — 1900. 
 Porter, Lemuel, Jr. Lowell, Worthen Street, 1835 — 51; 
 
 Pittsfield, First, 1851—61. 
 Potter, Albert Knight. Springfield, State Street, 1864 — 83; 
 
 Boston, Dudley Street, 1883—87. 
 Potter, Charles W. West Otis, i860 — 61 ; Lee, 1862 — 63 ; 
 
 Fiskdale, 1871 — 72- 
 Potter, George B. Ashland, 1868 — 69. 
 Potter, Lester Lewis. Everett, 1879 — 80; West Newton, 
 
 First, 1880—82; Springfield, First, 1882—84. 
 Potter, T. T. Grafton, First, 1881. 
 
 Pottle, Henry. ]\Ialden, First, 1804 — 06; Ipswich, 1807 — 09. 
 Powell, Absalom Lewis. Stamford, Vt., 1889 — 95; Hancock, 
 
 189s — 99; North Sunderland (acting), 1900 — 1901. 
 Powell, J. M. Calvary, Haverhill, 1876 — 78; Lawrence, 
 
 Olive (extinct), 1882. 
 Powell, Prosper. Three Rivers, 1840 — 42. 
 Powers, Charles Ransom. Marlboro, 1886 — 92 ; Boston, 
 
 Immanuel, 1895 — 1900; Dorchester, Berean Temple, 
 
 1902 — 
 Powers, Levi M. Bolton, 1837 — 43. 
 Pratt, Samuel Hartwell. Huntington, 1866 — 67; Salem, 
 
 Calvary, 1867 — 69, 1872 — jT) ; Lowell, Branch Street, 
 
 1875—76. 
 Pray, Edward Willard. North Reading, 1855 — 57; East 
 
 Brookfield, 1864 — 66; Tyringham, 1866—68. 
 Preston, George Marshall. Sturbridge. 1855 — 58; Med- 
 
 ford, First, 1858 — 68; Lanesboro, 1878^0; Cheshire 
 
 and Lanesboro, 1880 — 90; East Granville, 1890 — 96. 
 Price, James A. Sharon, 1899 — 
 Price, J. R. Buckland, 1839 — 40. 
 Pride, Edward William. Boston, Dearborn Street (now 
 
 Bethany), 1870 — 79; North Tewksbury, 1878 — 91. 
 Pride, Frank A. Dalton, 1902 — 
 
 Probert, H. West Dedham (now Westwood), 1890 — 91. 
 Pryor, John. Old Cambridge, 1850 — 62; North Randolph 
 
 (acting), 1868 — 69: Lexington, 1869 — 80. 
 PuLis, J. D. Russell, 1860—62. 
 
 Purmont, Lewis B. Gay Head, 1896 — 1901 ; Florida, 1901 — 
 PuRiNTON, Jesse M. Colerain, First, 1837 — 41. 
 Purvis, Francis. Brewster, 1881 — 82; Rehoboth. 1883—84. 
 Putnam, Alanson Harris. Boston. Elm Hill, 1888 — 95. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1 93 
 
 Putnam, Benjamin. Marshficld, 1823 — 30; Springfield, 
 First, 1830 — 35; Billerica, First, 1846--51. 
 
 Quick, George W. Springfield, Highland, 1888 — 
 
 Raboteau, Claude. Lowell, Worthen Street, 1892 — 94. 
 Rand, Thomas. West Springfield, Second (now Holyoke, 
 First), 1803 — 28, 1843 — 47; New Salem (extinct), 
 
 1830—35- 
 
 Randall, C. Raynham, 1848 — 49; Somerset, 1850 — 52. 
 
 Randall, George W. Billerica, First, 1841 — 42. 
 
 Randall, R. C. Somerset, 1849. 
 
 Randall, Silas Burrows. Woburn, First, 1841 — 47; Andover, 
 1847—48. 
 
 Randolph, J. R. jNIalden, St. Luke's (now Centre Street), 
 1896 — 1900. 
 
 Randolph, Peter. Boston, Ebenezer, 1872 — 73; West New- 
 ton, Myrtle, 1877—78. 
 
 Randolph, Warren. Boston, Harvard Street, 1863 — 67. 
 
 Rankin, Henry Boas. Turner's Falls, 1891 — 92. 
 
 Rapson, James Fred. Whitman, 1888 — 90. 
 
 Rathbun, Valentine. W. Bridgewater, 1802 — 11. 
 
 Raymond, George Theron. North Tewksbury, 1876 — 78; 
 Boston, Bethany, 1891 — 94; Gloucester, First, 1894 — 97- 
 
 Raymond, J. T. Boston, Independent, 1845 — 46. 
 
 Rea, James. Boston, Bethel, 1900 — 1902. 
 
 Read, Andrew. Sturbridge, 1858 — 61; Hanover, 1862 — 82; 
 Bolton, 1883—89. 
 
 Read, Edward Andrew. Needham, 1881 — 83. 
 
 Read, James. Attleboro, First, 1802 — 14. 
 
 Read, John. Wrentham (extinct), 1830; Dighton, 1833 — 36. 
 
 Read, Joseph B. Brewster, 1867 — 69 ; Belchertown, 1869 — yz ; 
 South Hanson, 1872 — 83, 1898 — 1900; Shutesbury, 1891 — 94, 
 1889; Chatham, 1894 — 95. 
 
 Read, Samuel Austin. Fiskdale, 1885 — 89; Agawam, 
 1889 — 98; Springfield, Carlisle Mission, 1899 — 
 
 Read, William. Norton, 1850 — 52; Barnstable, Third, 
 1852—55; Georgetown, 1855—57; Raynham, 1857—59; 
 Somerset, 1861 ; Fiskdale, 1866 — ^7; South Wilbraham 
 (extinct), 1867 — 70; Gardner, 1870 — 75; Littleton, 
 1875—78; Leominster, 1878; Still River, 1879—85; 
 Belchertown, 1885—88; Barre, 1888— 1900. 
 
 Reader, J. J. Marblehead, 1884—86; Lowell, Fifth Street, 
 1886—87. 
 
 Rector, Frank. Fitchburg, First, 1886 — 1900. 
 
 Reding, Charles William. West Townsend, 1841 — 44; Bev- 
 erly Farms, 1848 — 56, 1861 — 63 ; Manchester, 1856 — 61 ; 
 Webster, 1863—69; Milford, 1869—70. 
 
 Reed, N. A. Winchester, First, 1852 — 53. 
 
194 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Reed, IMiles Newton. Winthrop, 1874 — 75 ; Maplewood, 
 1875 — T] ; Baldwinsville, 1878 — 81 ; Holliston, 1889 — 95 ; 
 Greenfield, Second, 1899 — 1901 ; Lee, 1902 — 
 
 Reed, S. R. Beverly Farms, 1887. 
 
 Reese^ Charles Abraham. Boston, Dearborn Street (now 
 Bethany), 1878 — 83; Lawrence, First, 1895 — 96. 
 
 Reeves^ D. M. Boston, Bowdoin Square, 1871. 
 
 Reid, George Darius. Edgartown, 1877 — 80; Orange, 
 1 88 1 — 90. 
 
 Reid, James D. Athol, 1858—60. 
 
 Remington, Benj. F. Savoy, First, 1825 — 28; Leyden, 1830; 
 Bernardston, 1832 — 2>Z\ Bernardston and Shelburne, First 
 (extinct), 1833 — 36; Buckland and Charlemont, 1836; 
 North Leverett and Montague, 1838 — 40; Rowe and 
 Charlemont, 1846 — 47; Charlemont, 1847 — 48; Bernards- 
 ton, 1848 — 49. 
 
 Remington, Frank. Lawrence, Second, 1856 — 58, 1861 — 62. 
 
 Remington, Stephen. Fitchburg, First, 1846; Boston, Bald- 
 win Place (now Warren Avenue), 1862 — 64; Greenfield, 
 First, 1864—67. 
 
 Reynolds, Asa Edward. Natick, 1869 — 83 ; Cambridge, 
 Broadway, 1890 — 95; North Tewksbury, 1895 — 99. 
 
 Reynolds, L. J. Peru (extinct) and Hinsdale, 1833 — 34. 
 
 Reynolds, William Job, Jr. Peabody, 1891 — 92. 
 
 Rhees, H. H. Southbridge, Central, 1872 — 76. 
 
 Rhoades, Charles Lyman. Lexington, 1883; West Acton, 
 1883—87; Boston, Fourth Street (extinct), 1888—89; 
 Somerville, Perkins Street, 1889 — 90; East Somerville, 
 1890 — 92. 
 
 Rice, Lorenzo. Whately (extinct), 1837 — 38; Sunderland 
 and Montague, 1839 — 42. 
 
 Rice, Nathaniel. Charlemont, 1824 — 25. 
 
 Rice, Walter. West Acton, 1865 — 67; Agawam, 1891 — 92. 
 
 Rice, W. H. Conway, 1836 — yj- 
 
 Rice, Wilbur Taylor. Edgartown, 1895 — 98. 
 
 Richards, Humphrey. Springfield, First, 1844 — 46; Dorches- 
 ter, First, 1846 — 54. 
 
 Richards, Samuel. Sutton, First, 1842—43; Edgartown, 
 1844—47. ^ . o ^ 
 
 Richards, William Coolidge. Grafton, Second, 1841 — 46; 
 West Townsend, 1846—47; Lynn, First, 1849—64; Pitts- 
 field, First. 1865—67; Newton, Second, 1870—76. 
 
 Richards, Zalmon. Chesterfield. 1847 — 48. 
 
 Richardson, Charles Carrol. Brewster, 1897. 
 
 Richardson, E. D. Edgartown, 1902 — 
 
 Richardson, Horace. West Acton, 1846 — 53. 
 
 Richardson, John Gano. South Danvers, 1845 — 47; Law- 
 rence, First, 1847 — 53; Newburyport, 1853—56; Milford, 
 1871—77. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1 95 
 
 Richardson, Justin Kent. Maplewood, 1871 — 75; East 
 
 Boston, Central Square, 1883 — 86; Brockton, First, 
 
 1886 — 1900. 
 Richardson, Samuel. Middleboro, First, 1858 — 62. 
 Richmond, Willis C. Cambridge, Charles River (now 
 
 Immanuel, 1884 — 92; Southbridge, Central, 1893 — 95- 
 RiCKER, Joseph. Woburn, First, 1852 — 58; Milford, Central, 
 
 1861—65. 
 RiCKETT, J. H. East Brookfield, 1840 — 41. 
 Riddle, J. W. Charlestown, First, 1881 — 83. 
 RiDDELL, Rudolph R. Palmer, 1872 — jt, ; Wakefield, 1878 — 82. 
 Rider, Wilson C. Northboro, 1837. 
 RiGLER, G. W. Maplewood, 1889 — 91. 
 Ripley, Nathaniel. Colerain, Second, 1838 — 41 ; Rowe, 
 
 1841^46. 
 Ripley, Silas. North Marshfield, 1833 — 43 I Foxboro, 1839 — 41, 
 
 1844 — 54; Northboro, 1855 — 65; Nantucket, First, 1866. 
 Ripley, Thomas Baldwin. Woburn, First. 1834 — 35. 
 Rising, M. H. Russell, 1849 — 50; Southwick, 1858 — 59. 
 Ritchie, T. Boston, Independent (now St. Paul's), 1832 — 33. 
 Robbins, Austin. North Uxbridge, 1844 — 48; Southboro, 
 
 1859—65. 
 Robbins, Eleazer. Shirley, 1855. 
 Robbins, Gilbert. Sterling, 1858; Newton Corner (now 
 
 Immanuel), i860; Grafton, First, 1862 — 67. 
 Roberts, John Dwight. Huntington, 1897 — 1900. 
 Robinson, Amos. Raynham, 1883 — 89. 
 Robinson, Asa Aspinwall. West Springfield, First (now 
 
 Agawam), 1849 — 52; Wales, 1852 — 56; Russell, 1872 — 78; 
 
 North Sunderland, 1878 — 79. 
 Robinson, Daniel. Conway, 1862. 
 Robinson, E. E. Cambridge, Old. 1846 — 47. 
 Robinson, Fred Arthur. Dighton (acting), 1896—97. 
 Robinson, George. Harvard, 1802 — 11; Colerain, First, 
 
 1826 — 2,7- 
 Robinson, G. G. Lawrence, Olive (extinct), 1887. 
 Robinson, Julius Brown. Milford, 1873 — 79'. West Spring- 
 field, First, 1881—84; Leominster, 1886—88; North Biller- 
 
 ica, 1888—91 ; West Boylston, 1896— 
 RocKwooD, Joseph Monroe. Belchertown, 1849 — 55; North 
 
 Grafton, 1857—64; Middlefield, 1865—90. 
 Rogers, Clark. Hancock, 1802 — 04. 
 Rogers, Daniel. Huntington, 1873 — 75. 
 Rogers, Henry Aaron. Worcester, Main Street, 1883 — 86; 
 
 Worcester, South, 1886—89. 
 Rogers, Joseph D. Hancock, 1835 — 36, 1839. 
 Rogers, Thomas Lucindus. North Scituate, 1871 — 74. 
 Rogers, Thomas S. North Adams, 1838 — 40. 
 Rogers, W. H. East Milton, 1896 — 1902; Ipswich, 1902 — 
 
196 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 RoHNSTROM, A. Brockton, Swede, 1887 — 88. 
 
 Rood, Ellsworth Craig. Shirley (acting), 1895. 
 
 Roos, John A. Gardner, Swede, 1900. 
 
 Root, Silas. Granville, 1824 — 44. 
 
 Ropes, Timothy P. Weston, 1830 — 2)2; Lexington, 1846. 
 
 Rose, O. J. Williamstown, 1895 — 98. 
 
 Ross, William Milton. North Billerica, 1868 — 71. 
 
 Round, Daniel. Nantucket, First, 1840 — 44; North Wren- 
 
 tham (extinct), 1864 — 68; Baldwinville, 1868 — 69; Frank- 
 lin, 1870 — 72; Still River, 1874—79; Nantucket, 1879 — 81; 
 
 Norfolk, 1885—99- 
 Rounds, John. Chelmsford, Central, 1868 — 72; Holden, 
 
 1872—74. 
 Rouse, H. H. Conway, 1842 — 45. 
 RowE, Charles Henry. Dorchester, Stoughton Street, 
 
 1866—71; Weymouth, 1871 — 74; Wollaston, 1874 — 78; 
 
 Cambridge, Charles River (now Immanuel), 1878 — 81; 
 
 Randolph, 1884, 1888—90; Whitman. 1885—88. 
 Rowe, George Edwin. Spencer, 1895 — 96. 
 Rowley, Francis H. North Adams, 1884 — 92; Fall River, 
 
 First, 1896— 1900; Boston, First, 1900 — 
 Rowley, William Franklin. North Grafton, 1895 — 1900. 
 RowsE, William Allen Chipman. Pocasset, 1889-^2. 
 RuBERG, George L. Bernardston, 1861 — 65 ; Colerain, First, 
 
 1865—67; Hancock, 1867 — 74; Sandisfield, 1874 — 76; 
 
 Middleboro, First, 1876 — 79; Hinsdale, 1879 — 82; Florida, 
 
 1883 — 87; Egremont, 1887 — 93; West Royalston, 1893 — 96. 
 Russell, A. A. West Stockbridge (extinct), 1847 — 48. 
 Russell, James W. Milford, Central, 1853 — 55 ; North 
 
 Uxbridge, 1855—63. 
 Russell, P. R. Manchester, 1850 — 51; Georgetown, 1852 — 53; 
 
 Canton, 1854—57; Middleboro, Third (Rock), 1858—59. 
 Russell, R. Southwick, 1847 — 48. 
 Russell, Thomas Clarkson. Barnstable. 1858 — 60; Billerica, 
 
 1860--63 ; South Braintree, 1866 — 68 ; Leominster, 
 
 1868 — 74 ; Mansfield, 1874 — 77 ; Palmer and Three Rivers, 
 
 1878—81; Swampscott, 1883—85; Wenham, 1897 — 1902; 
 
 Shutesbury, 1902 — 
 Ryan, George Washington. Shutesbury, 1855 — 56; West 
 
 Townsend, i860 — 64; Gardner, 1864 — 66; Chatham, 
 
 1867—71 ; Franklin, 1873 — 77. 
 Ryan, William Wade. Haverhill, Calvary, 1897 — 1901 ; New 
 
 Bedford, Union, 1901 — 
 Ryder, Francis Wayland. East Boston, Central Square, 
 
 1887 — 91 ; Lawrence, First, 1891 — 95. 
 
 Safford, De Forest. Grafton, First, 1869 — 70. 
 Safford, Henry Gilbert. Salisbury and Amesbury, 1861 — 68; 
 South Framingham, 1875 — 84; Winthrop (acting), 1885. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1 97 
 
 Sage, Adoniram Judson. Shelburne Falls, 1863 — 67. 
 SamsoNj Abisha. Harvard, 1819 — 30; Fayville, 1832 — 40. 
 Samson, George Whitefield. Jamaica Plain, 1850—52. 
 Samson, Thomas Smallwood. Newton, Immanuel, 1873 — 80. 
 Sanders, George Dana. East Gloucester (now Chapel 
 
 Street), i885-93. 
 Sanderson, Amasa. Littleton, 1824 — 30; Groton, 1833 — 34, 
 
 1838-43. 
 Sanderson, G. W. Ashhfield, 1872 — y2>', Haverhill, Calvary, 
 
 1875-76. 
 Sanderson, Pearley Pritchard. Beverly Farms, 1840 — 42; 
 
 Mansfield, 1842 — 44; Conway, 1846 — 47; Buckland, 
 
 1847—52. 
 Sandys, Edwin. Cummington, 1837 — 38; Pittsfield, 1838 — 41; 
 
 Williamstown, 1842 — 43. 
 Sanford, Miles. East Boston, Central Square, 1848 — 51 ; 
 
 Gloucester, 1851 — 53; North Adams, 1853 — 71. 
 Sargent, H. S. Huntington, 1865 — 66. 
 Sargent, Jedediah W. Billerica, 1835 — 2>7- 
 Sargent, Lucius Manlius. Worcester, Dewey Street, 
 
 1872 — 72,; North Grafton, 1875 — 86. 
 Sargent, Orison Clark. Randolph, 1884 — 88. 
 Sargent, Sylvanus Gilman. Barnstable, 1850 — 52. 
 Saunders, Nathan Crosby. Chelmsford, Central, 1880 — 89. 
 Savage, Eleazer. Fitchburg, First, 1847 — 52. 
 Savage, John Wesley. North Tisbury (acting), 1866 — 67. 
 Savery, Samuel. North Adams, 1822 — 25. 
 Sawtelle, Henry Allen. Chelsea, Carey Avenue, 1877 — 82. 
 Sawyer, Artemus Wyman. Lawrence, First, 1853 — 56. 
 Sawyer, Conant. Maiden, First, 1833 — 34; North Randolph, 
 
 1836 — 38; Warwick, 1850. 
 Sawyer, Isaac. South Reading (nov.^ Wakefield), 1836 — 37; 
 
 Salisbury and Amesbury, 1844 — 48; Nantucket, Summer 
 
 Street, 1850; West Boylston, 1875 — 76. 
 Sawyer, J. Fayville, 1866—67; Gay Head, 1867—68; North 
 
 Tisbury, 1874 — 76; Rochdale (Greenville), 1876. 
 Sayer, Thomas S., Jr. Lowell, Immanuel, 1896— 1900; Nan- 
 tucket, People's, 1900 — 01. 
 Scarritt, James J. Becket. 1845 — 47. 
 ScATES, Elmer Eugene. North Billerica, 1899 — 
 ScHARF, Leopold E. Bolton, 1891 — 
 
 Schlieman, William Emil. Maplewood, 1891 — 93; Winches- 
 ter, 1894 — 98. 
 Schurman, George W. Manchester, First, 1902 — 
 Schwab, Henry. Becket, 1896 — 
 Schweikert, Charles. Long Plain (acting), 1897. 
 Scott, Charles Seaver. Somerville, Union Square, 1887—92; 
 
 Marlboro, 1893 — 96; Waverley, First, 1896—98. 
 
198 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Scott, D. J. South Yarmouth, 1883 — 85; Barnstable, Third, 
 1885. 
 
 Scott, Ernest L. Osterville, 1880 — 82; Holliston, 1882 — 84, 
 
 Scott, Jacob Richardson. Fall River, First, 1853 — 55. 
 
 Scott, W. H. Lawrence, Olive (extinct), 1880; Boston, Cal- 
 vary, 1893 — 95 ; Woburn, St. John, 1900 — 
 
 ScoviLLE, Augustus Erving. Melrose, First, 1900 — 
 
 Seagrave, Edward. Scituate, 1830 — 35. 
 
 Seamon, James N. Woburn, First, 1824 — 25. 
 
 Searll, James Warner. Greenville, 1877 — 81 ; Cummington, 
 1890—93. 
 
 Sears, Edward G. Marshfield, First and North, 1839 — 41 ; 
 Sharon, 1842 — 43; North Wrentham (extinct), 1844 — 47. 
 
 SeaveRj Horace. Hanover, 1837. 
 
 Seaver, Joseph Hamden. Marshfield, First, 1855 — 56, 
 1868 — 69; Brewster, 1857 — 58; Georgetown, 1858--62; 
 Barnstable, Third, 1863—65; Lee, 1870 — 71; South Yar- 
 mouth, 1875 — 77; Merrimacport (extinct), 1878 — 82; 
 Cummington, 1882 — 83; Charlemont (acting), 1885. 
 
 Selleck, Lewis. West Stockbridge (extinct), 1844 — 46. 
 
 Serrington, W. B. Boston, Independent (now St. Paul's), 
 
 1847—49. 
 
 Severance, Samuel Augustus. Maplewood, 1883 — 89. 
 
 Seymour, Robert G. Boston, Ruggles Street, 1870 — 88; 
 Lowell, First, 1893 — 95. 
 
 Shailer, Davis Tyler. Dorchester, North (now Stoughton 
 Street), 1844—47; Becket, 1848—57. 
 
 Shailer, Julius Smith. Roxbury, Tremont (extinct), 
 1845—54. 
 
 Shailer, William Hosmer. Brookline, 1837 — 54. 
 
 Sharp, Daniel. Boston, Third (afterwards Charles Street, 
 extinct), 1812 — 53. 
 
 Shaw, Avery A. Brookline, 1900 — 
 
 Shaw, Edward Bayard. Amherst, 1902 — 
 
 Shaw, Erastus Melville. Beverly Farms, 1881 — 84. 
 
 Shaw, John Abisha. Hyannis, 1889 — 91. 
 
 Shaw, M. A. N. Boston, Twelfth, 1900 — 
 
 Shedd, William Henry. North Oxford, 1867 — 70; Waltham, 
 First, 1870 — 72. 
 
 Shepard, Nathan. Boston, Tremont Street (extinct), 
 1860—61. 
 
 Shepardson, Daniel. Hancock, 1874 — 82. 
 
 Shepardson, John, 2d. Petersham, 1843 — 44; New Salem 
 (extinct), 1844 — 45; New Salem and Prescott (extinct), 
 1845 — 49; Petersham, 1849 — 72; Wales, 1872 — 76; Green- 
 field and Turner's Falls, 1876 — 80; Greenfield and Ber- 
 nardston. 1880—81; Greenfield, 1881—86. 
 
 Shepardson, Lucius Franklin. Stamford, Vt., 1862; War- 
 wick, 1865 — 69; Three Rivers, 1869 — 72; Rehoboth, 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 1 99 
 
 1875—77 ; Bernardston, 1883 ; Barnstable, Third, 1887—88 ; 
 
 Norton, 1890. 
 Shepardson, S. T. Stamford, Vt., 1863. 
 Shepherd, G. Ashfield, 1884—85; Baldwinsville, 1887—88. 
 Sheppard, T. W. Scituate, First, 1883 — 87. 
 Sherwin, E. H. Greenfield, 1901 — 
 Sherwood, Daniel. Egremont, 181 1 — 19. 
 Sherwood, Richard Otis. North Abington, 1886 — 90; Adams, 
 
 1890 — 93 ; Somerville, First, 1898— 
 Shields, Augustus P. Ashfield, 1881 — 82; Gay Head, 
 
 1882—84; Hinsdale. 1886—87. 
 Shipman, John N. Peabody, 1885 — 90; Dorchester, Blaney 
 
 Memorial, 1890 — 95; Athol, 1895 — 1900; Brookville, 
 
 1901 — 
 Shuh, Manford W. Westboro, 1902 — 
 Shumway, Walter Bradley. Swampscott, 1900 — 
 Shurtleff, Flavel. Bridgewater, 1819; Warren, 1820 — 21; 
 
 North Tisbury, 1833 — 34; Pembroke (extinct), and 
 
 Hanson, 1837 — 45. 
 Sibley, Clark. Manslield, 1841 — 43 ; Harvard, 1843 — 50. 
 Sibley, George F. Shutesbury, 1901 — 02. 
 Simmons, Charles E. Southwick, 1871 — 74; Springfield, 
 
 First. 1874-75. 
 Simmons, Charles Gilbert. Rowe and Charlemont, 1890 — 92; 
 
 Northboro, 1898^1902. 
 Simons, A. H. Lanesboro, 1857 — 58; Agawam, 1874 — 82. 
 SiMONsoN, George Allen. Woburn, 1882 — 84. 
 Simonds, Samuel. West Royalston and Winchendon, 
 
 1824—35. 
 Simpson, Douglas Haszard. Middleboro, First, 1892 — 94. 
 Skinner, Benjamin R. Ware (extinct), 1828. 
 Skinner, Henry C. Sandisfield, First and Second, 1830. 
 Skinner, Courtland Addison. South Groton (extinct), 
 
 1864 — 65; Dorchester, Fairmount (now Hyde Park), 
 
 1865—66; Millbury. 1867—68. 
 Skinner, Henry C. Sandisfield, 1830 — 31. 
 Slade, Elisha, Jr. Somerset, 1830 — 44. 
 Season, William N. Hanover, 1849 — 53. 
 Sleeper, Frank B. Braintree, 1873—74; Everett, 1874—77; 
 
 Gardner, 1877 — 86; Plymouth. 1886 — 92; iMarblehead, 
 
 1892 — 96; Franklin, 1899 — 1901 ; Rowley, 1901 — 
 Slocum, Henry Truman. Petersham, 1892 — 93; West Royal- 
 ston and Warwick, 1900 — 
 Slocum, William Franklin. Orange, 1890 — 94. 
 Small, A. K. P. Fall River, First, 1874-83- 
 Smalledge, Joseph. Shutesbury, 1824 — 28. 
 Smallman, William Murray. Winthrop, 1896 — 99. 
 Smith, Amasa. West Bridgewater, 1815 — 16. 
 
200 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Smith, A. M. Westfield, First and Central, 1832 — 34. 
 
 Smith, Arvin Augustus. Boston, Bethel, 1886 — 88; Peter- 
 sham, 1888 — 90; North Sunderland, 1899. 
 
 Smith, Arthur Warren. Kingston, 1899 — 
 
 Smith, Brown Esek. Long Plain, 189a — 94; Becket, 1894 — 96; 
 North Sunderland, 1896 — 97; Turner's Falls, 1897 — 98; 
 New Bedford, Immanuel, 1898 — 1900; Lowell, Immanuel, 
 1900 — 01. 
 
 Smith, C. Billings. Maiden, First, 1848 — 51 ; Chicopee, Cen- 
 tral, 1851 — 52; Nantucket, 1854 — 55. 
 
 Smith, Charles M. East Stoughton (now Avon), 1862 — 69; 
 Greenfield, 1869 — 70; Somerville, First, 1870 — S5; Somer- 
 ville, Union Square, 1885 — 86. 
 
 Smith, Ebenezer. Ashfield and Hinsdale, 1802 — xi. 
 
 Smith, Edward Presbury. Stoneham, 1899 — 
 
 Smith, Eli Noyes. Springfield, Third, 1885 — 89. 
 
 Smith, Enos. Ashfield, 1824 — 35. 
 
 Smith, Francis. Colerain, First, 1844. 
 
 Smith, Harlan Page. Wales, 1879 — 80; Westfield, 1888 — 91; 
 Waltham, Beth-Eden, 1891—94; Wales (acting), 1893 — 94; 
 Worcester, Dewey Street, 1894 — 97; Waverly, 1900 — 1902. 
 
 Smith, Hezekiah. Haverhill, First, — 1802 — 04. 
 
 Smith, Isaac. East Stoughton (now Avon), 1832 — 53; Fox- 
 boro, 1854 — ^7; Norton, 1875. 
 
 Smith, James Wheaton. Lowell, Worthen Street, 1851 — 53. 
 
 Smith, Jonathan. Carver, 1819. 
 
 Smith, Joseph. Grafton, First, 1851 — 57; North Oxford, 
 1861—66. 
 
 Smith, Josiah Torrey. Lanesboro, 1845 — 46; Sandisfield, 
 1846 — 51; Hinsdale, 1851 — 53; Sandisfield, 1853 — 54; 
 Amherst, 1856—65; West Royalston, 1883—88. 
 
 Smith, Lucius Edwin. Groton, First, 1858 — 65. 
 
 Smith, L. W. Fayville, 1890. 
 
 Smith, N. W. Fitchburg, First, 1839 — 40. 
 
 Smith, Peter. Springfield, Pilgrim (now Third), 1874 — 80; 
 Boston, Independent (now St. Paul's), 1882 — 95. 
 
 Smith, Samuel Francis. Newton Centre, 1842 — 54; Need- 
 ham, 1878—80. 
 
 Smith, S. H. West Newton, Myrtle, 1902 — 
 
 Smith, Sherman Gibson. Palmer, i860 — 61. 
 
 Smith, T. D. Beverly Farms, 1885 — 86. 
 
 Smith, Wesley Lorenzo. Weymouth, 1888 — 94; Fells, 1894 — 
 97 ; First and West Bridgewater, 1897 — 
 
 Smith, William, Jr. Chelsea, 1840 — 41. 
 
 Smith, William A. West Springfield, 1841 ; West Farms, 
 Westfield, 1844—46; Chesterfield, 1846. 
 
 Smith, W. A. Somerville, Perkins Street. 1881 — 89. 
 
 Smith, William B. Everett, Fir-st, 1872 — Tz; Rockport, 
 1887 — 92; Colerain, First, 1892 — 96. 
 
FASTOKS OF BAFTIST CHURCHES 201 
 
 Snell, Amos. Monson (extinct), 1836 — iT, Wilbraham 
 
 (extinct) and Monson, 1838 — 40; Belchertown, 1849 — 51. 
 Snell, Arthur Lincoln. Foxboro, 1889 — 91 ; West Somer- 
 
 ville, 1891 — 1900; Fitchburg, First, 1900 — 
 Snell, Edwin Fitzson. West Newton, First, 1900 — 
 Snow, Charles Andrew. Fall River, Second, 1858 — 64; South 
 
 Abington (now Whitman), 1870 — 74; New Bedford, 
 
 North, 1875—81; Fall River, Third, 1882— S3; West 
 
 Harwich, 1886 — 98. 
 Sowerby, Albert T. Boston, South, 1894 — 98. 
 Spalding, Charles Hubbard. Pittsfield, 1871 — 75; Arlington, 
 
 First, 1875 — 80; South Boston, Fourth Street, 1880 — 86. 
 Spalding, George Edwin. Cummington, 1886 — 89. 
 Spaulding, Albert Day. Rochdale (Greenville), 1882 — 86; 
 
 Somerset, 1889 — 93; Scituate, First, 1893 — 1900. 
 Spaulding, Amos Fletcher. Cambridge, Second, 1852 — 57. 
 Spear, Charles Clarence. Baldwinsville, 1884 — 86. 
 Spencer, Hezekiah Albert. Milford, 1882 — 87. 
 Spencer, James H. North Adams, 1897 — 
 Spencer, Orson. West Stockbridge (extinct), 1830; Middle- 
 field, 1837 — 42. 
 Spencer, W. Quincy Point (extinct), 1888. 
 Spencer, William Henry. Foxboro, 1869 — 79. 
 Sperrey, B. N. Littleton, 1872 — 75. 
 Spidell, Wilbert Freeman. Shirley (acting), 1897 — 98; 
 
 West Townsend, 1899 — 1901. 
 Spinney, William Almor. Scituate, First, 1880 — 82. 
 Squire, James. Sandisfield, 1839 — 4i- 
 Stackpole, Stephen Henry. Westboro, 187 1 — t:>). 
 Stanton, John Giles. North Oxford, 1894 — 1901; Wood- 
 
 ville, 1901 — 
 Stanton, William E. Lowell, First, 1865 — 69. 
 Stark, Dyer. Williamstown, — 1802 — 04. 
 Stearns, A. H. Ashfield, 1849 — 50; Charlemont, 1858—59; 
 
 Westfield, Second (extinct), i860. 
 Stearns, E. D. Conway, 1878^—79. 
 Stearns, Oakman Sprague. Southbridge, Central, 1847 — 54; 
 
 Newton, First, 1855—68. 
 Stearns, Orrin O. Sturbridge (now Fiskdale), 1838 — 39. 
 Steenstra, p. H. Dorchester, North (now Stoughton Street), 
 
 1860—63. 
 Stetson, H. Orleans, 1855; West Newbury and Haverhill, 
 
 Second, 1880 — 84. 
 Stetson, Nathan. Hanover, 1839 — 41 ; Chatham, 1841. 
 Stevens, Edwin J. Sutton, First, 1872, 1876. 
 Stevens, George E. Boston, Calvary, 1899 — 
 Stevens, Henry S. Wilbraham and Monson (extinct), 
 
 1856—57. 
 Stevens, L. C. East Brookfield, 1870 — 78. 
 
202 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 StewarTj Henry Greene. Seekonk (extinct), 1850 — 52. 
 
 Stewart, John. New Bedford, North, 1895 — 1901. 
 
 Stewart, William H. Orleans (extinct), 1859 — 61; Hanover, 
 
 1861—63; Norfolk, 1874; Swampscott, 1889 — 91; North 
 
 Easton, 1892; Becket, 1892 — 93. 
 Stewart, William J. Boston, Harvard Street, 1901. 
 Stickney, William. Deerfield (extinct), 1854 — 55. 
 Stillman, E. Dighton, 1847 — 50. 
 Stillman, Samuel. Boston, First, — 1802 — 07. 
 Stimpson, Samuel M. Allston, Brighton Avenue, 1859 — 61. 
 Stith, G. L. Haverhill, Calvary, 1893 — 94. 
 Stockbridge, John Calvin. Woburn, 1847 — 52; Boston, 
 
 Charles Street (extinct), 1853 — 61; Boston, Baldwin 
 
 Place (now Warren Avenue), 1861 — 62; Chelsea, Carey 
 
 Avenue, 1863 — 65. 
 Stockwell, G. S. Amherst, 1855 — 56; Colerain, First, 
 
 1856 — 57; Bernardston, 1858 — 60. 
 Stoddard, Darius Hicks. Athol, 1867 — y2i ! Worcester. 
 
 Dewey Street, 1884 — 93; Chicopee, First, 1893 — 98; 
 
 Greendale (acting), 1901 — 
 Stone, D. J. Quincy Point (extinct), 1868. 
 Stone, Gilman. Sutton, First, 1866. 
 Stone, J. A. B. Gloucester Harbor (First), 1841 — 42. 
 Stone, Walter Lincoln. Sterling, 1897 — 98. 
 Storer, J. Haverhill, Second, 1873 — 79. 
 Stover, Eben Colby. Franklin, 1884 — 87; Chicopee, Central, 
 
 1897 — 1901 ; Palmer, 1901 — 
 Stow, Baron. Boston. Second (afterward Baldwin Place, 
 
 now Warren Avenue), 1832 — 48; Boston, Rowe Street 
 
 (now Clarendon Street), 1848 — 67. 
 Stow, Ebenezer. Becket, 181 1 — 17; Chester, 1818. 
 Stow, William. Charlestown and Somerville. 1845 — 50; 
 
 North Tisbury, 1850 — 52; Colerain, First, 1852 — 55. 
 Stowe, Phineas. South Danvers (now Peabody), 1844 — 45; 
 
 Boston, Bethel, 1850—68. 
 Stowell, Austin H. Seekonk (extinct), 1858 — 59; South 
 
 Boston, Fourth Street (extinct), i860 — 62. 
 Stratton, J. V. Waltham, First, 1880 — 87 ; Andover, 
 
 1888—89. 
 Strong, Augustus H. Haverhill, First, 1861 — 65. 
 Stubbert, John Roman. South Framingham, 1891 — 93. 
 Stubbert, William F. Abington (now Whitman), 1846 — 51; 
 
 Maiden, First, 1851—59; North Randolph, 1859—65; 
 
 Watertown, 1865—67; Everett, First, 1878 — 79. 
 Studley, James Nash. Marshfield, First, 1881—86; Graf- 
 ton, First, 1889 — 91. 
 Stumm, C. C. Boston, Ebenezer, 1884 — 86. 
 Sullivan, Frank Louis. Holliston, 1880 — 82. 
 SuNDMARK, C. W. Worcester, Harlem Street, Swede, 1897 — 99. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 203 
 
 Sutherland, F. P. Natick, 1884 — 86. 
 
 SwAFFiELD, Walter James. Boston, Bethel, 1888 — 96. 
 
 SwAiM, Joseph S. New Bedford, First. 1890 — 
 
 Swaim, Samuel Budd. Worcester, First, 1838 — 54; West 
 
 Cambridge (now Arlington), 1854 — 62; Lexington (act- 
 ing), 1864. 
 Swain, A. M. Georgetown, 1849 — 50; Leominster, 1850 — 54. 
 Swan, Charles Y. Northampton, 1870 — 72; Boston, Bow- 
 
 doin Square, 1872 — 76. 
 Sward, A. P. Worcester, First Swede, 1889. 
 Sweat, A. R. Plainfield (extinct), 1850 — 52. 
 Sweet, Alexander H. Hinsdale, 1841 — 43 ; Chester (now 
 
 Huntington), 1844; Blandford (extinct), 1848—49; 
 
 Savoy, First, 1853—54- 
 Sweet, Elnathan. Cheshire, Third, 1825 — 32 ; Adams, 
 
 1832 — 39 (with Cheshire, Third, 1833 ; with Williamstown, 
 
 1836) ; Hancock, 1840. 
 Sweet, Enoch Hants. Ayer and Shirley, 1886 — 87; North 
 
 Brockton and Brookville, 1888—90; Mansfield, 1895 — 98. 
 Sweet, John Davis. Billerica, First, 1863 — 68; Somerville, 
 
 First, 1868—69. 
 SwETT, Charles Darius. Manchester, 1873 — 74; Middleboro, 
 
 Third, 1876—82; Hanover, 1882—84; Northboro, 1884—90; 
 
 Fells, 1890 — 93. 
 SwETT, Lyman R. Catpbridge, Broadway, 1895 — 99; Dorches- 
 ter, Blaney Memorial, 1899 — 
 Sykes, James Noble. North Reading, 1843 — 45; Chelsea, 
 
 First, 1851 — 58; Newburyport, 1859 — 70. 
 Symonds, James Munroe. Salisbury and Amesbury, 1849. 
 
 Taggart, Richmond. Beverly, First, 1829 — 30; West Spring- 
 field, Second, 1828 — 29. 
 
 Tandy, Lorenzo. Tewksbury, 1850 — 51 ; Middleboro, First, 
 1852—57; Barre, 1858—59; Montague, 1859—61; West 
 Royalston, 1861 — 66; Mashpee, 1870 — 72; Savoy, 1872—75. 
 
 T.\TE, J. Bradford (extinct), 1872. 
 
 Taylor, Chase. Marshfield, First (acting), 1863. 
 
 Taylor, D. Leominster, 1847 ; East Brookfield, 1854 — 55. 
 
 Taylor, D. H. Salem, Calvary, 1874— 77; Jamaica Plain, 
 1877—86. 
 
 Taylor, Ellwyn Osmer. Billerica. First, 1888 — 91 ; Tremont 
 Temple (assistant pastor), 1891 — 92; Charlestown. Bunker 
 Hill, 1892—95 ; West Royalston and Warwick, 1897— 1901. 
 
 Taylor, Ora James. Shutesbury. 1888 — 91. 
 
 Taylor, William H. South Dartmouth (extinct), 1844—46. 
 
 Tedford, C. E. Granville, 1902 — 
 
 Temple, J. F. Southwick, 1859 — 66. 
 
 Terry, Thomas. Southwick, 1886 — 90, 1899 — 1902. 
 
 Terry, W. O. Belchertown, 1902 — 
 
204 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Terry, Wilson R. North Tisbury and West Tisbury, 
 
 1890 — 92; Colerain, First and Second, 1898 — 
 Thatcher, James J. Swansea, 1846 — 54; Rehoboth, 1854 — 57 » 
 
 Orleans (extinct), 1862 — 64; Gay Head, 1869 — ^2. 
 Thatcher, S. T. West Amesbury (now Merrimac), 1854 — 57. 
 Thayer, Fred Forest. Belchertown (acting), 1892; Ayer, 
 
 1897 — 99; Cottage City, 1899 — 1900; Sutton, First, 
 
 1900 — 02. 
 Thayer, J. Sutton, Second, 1848 — 49; Webster, 1849 — 50; 
 
 Sutton, First, 1850 — 52. 
 Thomas, B. H. Athol, 1893 — 95. 
 Thomas, Ernest Alonzo. Three Rivers (acting), 1899 — 
 
 1900; Spencer, 1900 — 02. 
 Thomas, Eugene Ellis. North Tewksbury, 1873 — 76; New- 
 
 buryport, 1884 — 88. 
 Thomas, George William. Roslindale, 1879—81. 
 Thomas, Henry P. Springfield, Berean (extinct), i88r. 
 Thomas, Leo Boone. Worcester, Main Street, 1896 — 1901 ; 
 
 Dorchester, Stoughton Street, 1901 — 
 Thomas, Oscar Dwight. West Springfield. 1876 — 78; 
 
 Brockton, First, 1878 — 86; Brookville (acting), 1900. 
 Thomas, S. A. North Tisbury, 1854—58; Millbury, 1858—60; 
 
 West Tisbury, 1862 — 69. 
 Thomas, William Nelson. Glendale, 1893 — 94. 
 Thombs, Arthur Benjamin. Winthrop, 1886—88. 
 Thompson, Charles L. Osterville, 1865 — 67 ; Gardner, 
 
 1867—68; Manchaug, 1868—70, 1876—77; Granville, 1881. 
 Thompson, Hiram. Spencer, i860. 
 Thompson, N. B. Melrose, First, 1875 — "jy. 
 Thompson, Thomas Harrison. Woburn, St. John's, 1889. 
 Thompson, William. Boston, Independent (now St. Paul's), 
 
 1851—54- 
 Thompson, William J. Ipswich, 1897. 
 Thompson, William Ricker. Allstcn, Brighton Avenue, 
 
 1868—71; Fayville, 1874—77; West Townsend, 1877 — 80. 
 Thwing, Melville Cox. Lowell, Fifth Street, 1877 — 81 ; 
 
 Brockton, North (acting), 1884—86. 
 TiLDEN, Chester. Belchertown, 1838 — 43; Three Rivers, 
 
 1843 — 44; Blandford (extinct), 1856—57; Huntington, 
 
 1858-59. 
 TiLDEN, Horace Wayland Hyde Park. 1884 — 89. 
 TiLDEN, Howard Benjamin. Edgartown, 1885 — 88. 
 TiLDEN, Nathan F. Fiskdale. 1902 — 
 Tilley, Charles Coffin. Hyde Park, 1898 — 
 TiLSON, Jno. Hingham, 1851—76; Northboro, 1878 — 82; 
 
 Rowley, 1884 — 91 ; West Newbury, 1894 — 95- 
 TiLTON, John Freeman. Dedham, Second, 1898 — 
 Tilton, Josiah H. Gardner. 1845 — 48; Holden, 1848 — 52; 
 
 West Amesbury (now Merrimac), 1852 — 54; Lynn, 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 205 
 
 Second (now Washington Street), 1854 — 56; Holden, 
 1858 — 59; East Brookfield, 1859 — 63; Kingston, 1863—66; 
 Palmer, 1869—70; Orange, 1870 — 71; North Uxbridge, 
 1871—76; Chelmsford, First, 1881—85; North Reading, 
 1885—89. 
 
 TiMESON, W. Roy. Greenfield, Second, 1902 — 
 
 TiNGLEY, James William. Middleboro, First, 1887 — 92. 
 
 TiNGLEY, S. L. Rehoboth (acting), 1893. 
 
 TiNGLEY, Timothy Cheever. Foxboro, 1831 — 2>7\ West Cam- 
 bridge (now Arlington), 1838 — 45; Canton, 1845 — 48; 
 West Boylston, 1851—54; Holden, 1854—57; Scituate, 
 1857 — 63;' Somerset, 1863 — 69; Raynham, 1877 — 83. 
 
 Titus, George Boice. Northboro (acting), 1883; Everett, 
 First, 1890 — 1900; Brockton, First, 1900 — 
 
 Titus, H. F. Newton, Immanuel, 1881-^8. 
 
 TjERNLUND, Axel. Boston, First Swede, 1880—85, 1888 — 97; 
 Worcester, First Swede, 1897 — 98. 
 
 ToBEY, James J. Carver, First, 1890 — 93; Hanover, 1893—99. 
 
 ToBEY, Zalmon. Rehoboth, 1852 — 53. 
 
 Todd, Asa. Chesterfield, Second, 1803 — 19, 1827, 1843 ; Savoy, 
 First, 1820 — 21 ; Russell, 1822. 
 
 ToLMAN, C. F. Lawrence, Second, 1862 — 64. 
 
 Tolman, Robert Francis, Jr. Melrose, First, 1878 — 86; 
 Gardner, 1886 — 92. 
 
 Tonkin, Henry. East Longmeadow, 1833 — 34; Barre, 
 1834—35; Warwick, 1836—37. 
 
 ToPLiFF, Calvin Howe. Charlestown and Somerville, 1850 — 52 ; 
 Weston, 1853—67. 
 
 Torrey, Joseph. Pembroke (extinct), 1816 — 20, with Hanson, 
 1821 — 25. 
 
 Tower, Francis Emory. Amherst, 1868—72; Allston, Brigh- 
 ton Avenue, 1872 — 83. 
 
 TowLE, Francis Warren. North Attleboro, 1883—86. 
 
 Towne, Charles A. Salem, Central, 1881—90; Gardner, 
 First, 1898— 
 
 TowNLEY, H. C. Woburn, First, 1866 — 72; Cambridge, Sec- 
 ond, 1873 — 75; Boston, Charles Street (extinct), 1875 — 76. 
 
 TowNSEND, CuLLEN. Middlcfield, 1832—33. 
 
 TowNSEND, George Nelson. Woodville, 1842 — 44; Reading, 
 Second, 1845—48; South Milford (acting), 1851-55. 
 
 Townsend, James J. Conway, 1867 — 68. 
 
 TozER, Robert H. Sharon, 1864 — 65. 
 
 ToziER, Jared IMiller. North Leverett, 1888 — 90; Mashpee, 
 1890 — 92. 
 
 Tracy, Leonard. West Boylston, 1838—48; Still River, 
 1863—68. 
 
 Tracy, Oren. Randolph, 1825 ; Townsend, 1838—41 ; Fitch- 
 burg, First, 1841—47; Athol, 1849 — 51; Greenfield, First, 
 1862—63. 
 
2o6 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Train, Arthur Savage. Haverhill, First, 1837 — 59; Framing- 
 ham, First, 1866 — 72. 
 
 Train, Charles. Weston and Framingham, 1811 — 26', Fram- 
 ingham, First, 1826 — 39. 
 
 TrasKj William G. Taunton, 1834 — ^7. 
 
 Tripp, S. G. Cummington, 1839 — 42; Hinsdale, 1842 — 45. 
 
 True, Robert Fowle. Newton, Second (acting), 1901 ; 
 Lowell, Immanuel, 1901 — 
 
 Trumbull, Hosea. Cummington and Plainfield (extinct), 
 1824 — 26. . 
 
 Tuck, Benjamin F. Bernardston, 1871 — 77; Belchertown, 
 1877—80; Sutton, First, 1888—91. 
 
 Tuck, Edward Arthur. Nantucket, 1896 — 97. 
 
 Tuck, Jacob. Hanover, 1858 — 61 ; West Acton, 1861 — 63. 
 
 Tucker, C. T. North Marshfield, 1849 — 54; Millbury, 
 1854—56. 
 
 Tucker, George Everett. Groton, 1854 — 57. 
 
 Tucker, James Judson. Worcester, Pleasant Street, i860 — 62; 
 Dedham, Second, 1862 — 64; Newton Corner (now Im- 
 manuel), 1865 — 69. 
 
 Tucker, Levi. Boston, Baldwin Place (now Warren Ave- 
 nue), 1848 — 52. 
 
 TuLLAR, Clarence Ell Whitman, 1892 — 94; Melrose High- 
 lands, 1896—98. 
 
 TuLLER, Edward Pratt. Lawrence, Second, 1892 — 1901. 
 
 Tunnell, Spencer. Mansfield, 1890 — 94. 
 
 TuppER, Miles G. Savoy (acting), 1902 — 
 
 TuRNBULL, Robert. Boston, Harvard Street, 1840 — 45. 
 
 Turner, Benjamin Francis. Middleboro, First, 1886—87. 
 
 Turner, Charles Benton. Allston, Brighton Avenue, 
 1890 — 99; Holyoke, Second, 1899 — 1900. 
 
 Turner, Charles William. Osterville, 1900 — 01 ; Worcester, 
 Quinsigamond, 1901 — 02; West Medway, 1902 — 
 
 Turner, John Francis. Everett, Zion, 1895 — 96. 
 
 Tyler, Payson. Barre, 1854 — 56. 
 
 Ufford, Edward Smith. Canton, 1882 — 83; West Dedham 
 
 (now Westwood), 1883—86; Hingham, 1887—89; Willi- 
 
 mansett, 1893 — 1901. 
 Underwood, Urijah. Spencer, 1841 — 42; Sutton, Second, 
 
 1842 — 46; Wilbraham and Monson (extinct), 1846 — 47; 
 
 Westfield, Second (extinct), 1847 — 49. 
 Upham, Albert George. Southbridge, Central, 1877 — 83; 
 
 Boston, Stoughton Street, 1898 — 1902; Fall River, First, 
 
 1902 — 
 Upham, James. Millbury, 1843 — 45. 
 Upham, William Peale. South Groton (extinct), 1866 — 67; 
 
 West Townsend, 1867 — 72; Framingham, First, 1872 — 76. 
 Upton. James. Reading. 1844 — 45. 
 Usher, I. E. Hingham, 1892 — 95. 
 
PASTOJ^S OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 20/ 
 
 Valentine, T. New Bedford, Second (extinct), 1867 — 68. 
 Van Allen, C. E. Egremont, 1873 — 76; New Marlboro, 
 
 1876 — 79; Three Rivers, 1895 — 96; Russell and Fairfield, 
 
 1896—98. 
 Van Loon, Charles. Westfield, Central, 1839 — 42. 
 Vary, Willett. North Randolph, 1866—67. 
 Vassar, John E. Chelsea, Carey Avenue, 1899 — 
 Vassar, Thomas E. Lynn, First, 1865 — 72. 
 Ventres, William Hosmer Shailer. Hyde Park, 1866 — 70; 
 
 Hudson, 1871 — 78. 
 Verry, J. R. Somerset, 1893 — 97. 
 Very, Edward D. Watertown, 1845 — 46. 
 ViETS, Apollos Phelps. Hancock, 1853 — 65. 
 ViLLERS, Thomas Jefferson. Gloucester, First, 1888 — 93. 
 Vinal, Henry Y. Carver, 1900 — 01. 
 Vincent, John. Hancock, 1828 — 2>^. 
 ViNiNG, Ebenezer. Chesterfield, — 1802. 
 Vosburgh, George B. Boston, Stoughton Street, 1893 — 97. 
 VosE, Riley A, Cambridge, North Avenue, 1896-^98. 
 
 Wade, Benjamin Cliffofd. Woburn, First, 1829 — 34. 
 
 Wade, Daniel Arnold. Bellingham, 1881^-84; Bellingham 
 and North Bellingham, 1885 — 90; Norwood, 1891 — 93. 
 
 Wadsworth, Arthur Leonard. Rockland, 1892 — 96. 
 
 Wait, Samuel. Sharon, 1819. 
 
 Waitt, George N. Sharon, 1837 — 42; Braintree, 184:^ — 47. 
 
 Wakefield, Leander E. Barnstable, Second, 1849 — 50; Oster- 
 ville, 1850 — 52; Feltonville (now Hudson), 1852 — 64. 
 
 Wakefield, Tubal. Belchertown and Palmer, 1830 — 31 ; 
 Belchertown, 1832 — 3.1; Wales, 1834 — 27 '> Northboro, 
 1846 — 47; Barnstable, Second, 1847 — 49; Orleans (ex- 
 tinct), 1850 — 51. 
 
 Wakeman, Levi H. Three Rivers, 1853 — 55 ; East Long- 
 meadow, 1862 — 67. 
 
 Wakeman, William Walter. South Medford, 1897 — 1900; 
 Reading, 1900 — 
 
 Waldren, L. G. Boston, Twelfth, 1881—86; Woburn, St. 
 John, 1890 — 94. 
 
 Walker, Ahoniram Judson. Erving and Warwick, 1880 — 83 ; 
 Savoy, 1 884^-87. 
 
 Walker, George. Holden, 1836 — 37. 
 
 V/alker, John. Holden, 1817 — 32; Sutton, First, 1832 — 35; 
 Barre, 1837 — 44; Bolton and Princeton (extinct), 1846 — 47; 
 Spencer, 1848 — 49. 
 
 Walker, Levl West Harwich, 1819. 
 
 Walker, Orrin T. Orleans ("extinct), 1846 — 47; North Tis- 
 bury, 1847 — 50; Boston, Bowdoin Square, 1863 — 68; Bos- 
 ton, Harvard Street, 1876—83 ; Reading, 1888—90. 
 
208 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Walker, Sandy. Lynn, Union, 1882 — 83; Boston, Day 
 
 Star (extinct), 1883—84. 
 Walker, William Henry. Westboro, 1855 — 58; Natick, 
 
 1858—60; Gardner, i860 — 65; Edgartown, 1880 — 84; 
 
 North Leverett, 1885—87. 
 Walker, William S. Pondville, 1875 — 78; Barnstable, Third, 
 
 1878—82 ; Norton, 1882—83 ; West Bridgewater, 1883-85 ; 
 
 Bernardston, 1885—88. 
 Wallace, Oates Charles Symonds. Lawrence, First, 
 
 1885—90. 
 Wallace, Orvin H. Peabody, 1892 — 97 ; Dighton, 1898 — 1902. 
 Wallen, Joseph Kinsbury. Pocasset, 1858—59. 
 Walther, Joseph. Holden, 1895 — 1902. 
 Walton, T. Orleans (extinct), 1857—58. 
 Waltze, O. F. South Yarmouth, 1888—89. 
 Ward, Ephraim. Raynham, 1844 — 47. 
 Warne, Joseph A. South Reading (now Wakefield), 1830 — 31 ; 
 
 Brookline, 1832 — 2>7- 
 Warner, William Rogers. Belchertown, 1872 — y:^. 
 Warren, George F. West Harwich, 1856 — 58; North Attle- 
 
 boro, 1858 — 60; Lowell, Worthen Street, i860 — 67; 
 
 Maiden, First, 1867 — 68; Boston, Bowdoin Square, 1869; 
 
 East Boston, Central Square, 1869 — 71 ; Lowell, 13ranch 
 
 Street, 1871 — 75; East Boston, Central Square, 1875 — 78; 
 
 East Boston, Trinity, 1878 — 81. 
 Warren, Harry M. Salem, Central, 1894—96. 
 Warren, Jonah Goulding. Springfield, Third (now Chicopec 
 
 Central), 1838 — ^49. 
 Wassall, Joseph. Brewster, 1865 — 66; Newburyport, 
 
 1866—68. 
 Waterbury, Willard E. Springfield, Carew Street, 1887 — 91 ; 
 
 Clinton, 1892 — 96; Springfield, Belmont Avenue, 1896 — 99; 
 
 Springfield, Park Avenue, 1899 — 
 Waterman, Thomas. Charlestown, First, — 1802. 
 Waters, George. Holden, 1834 — 38; Sterling, 1838 — 41; 
 
 Amherst, 1842 — 46. 
 Waters, Samuel. Sutton, First, 1819 — 25. 
 Watrous, E. Hayden. Three Rivers, 1858—62 ; Shirley, 
 
 1872 — 74; Warwick, 1877 — 79; North Tisbury, 1879 — 83. 
 Watson, Charles H. Arlington, 1881 — 
 Watson, D. S. Pittsfield, First, 1868—71. 
 Watson, Woodman Harrison. Holden, 1844 — 47; Natick, 
 
 1849 — 53; West Acton, 1853 — 60; Leominster and Gard- 
 ner, 1861 — 64; Leominster, 1864 — 65; South Hanson, 
 
 1865 — 67; Southboro, 1867 — 69. 
 Wayland, Francis, Jr. Boston, First, 1821 — 26. 
 Wayland, Heman Lincoln. Worcester, Third (afterward 
 
 Main Street, extinct), 1854 — 61. 
 Wayland, John. Salem, First, 1834 — 42. 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 209 
 
 Webb, F. E. Somerset (acting), 1900 — 01. 
 
 Webb, Robert Lee. Needham, 1893 — 
 
 Webber, Edmund David. Wollaston, 1902 — 
 
 Webster, Amos. Newton, Second, 1849 — 54. 
 
 Webster, Wallace. Boston, Ebenezer, 1878 — 80. 
 
 Wedge, Arthur P. Springfield, Carew Street, 1900 — 
 
 Weeks, Albert Walter. Palmer, 1885 — 92; Worcester, 
 
 Dewey Street, 1893 — 95. 
 Weeks, Edwin C. Three Rivers, 1893 — 95 ; Cliftondale and 
 
 Franklin Park, 1895 — QS- 
 Weeks, William Marston. Charlestown, Bunker Hill, 
 
 1882—83; Middleboro, Third, 1883—84; Cambridge, 
 
 Second, 1884—87. 
 Wells, J. H. Stamford, Vt., 1843—45. 
 Wells, Job H. Marshfield, First, 1879 — 81 ; East Dedham, 
 
 1881 — 88; Baldwinsville. 1889 — 90; Northboro, 1891 — 92. 
 Welsh, John C. Warren, 1823 — 25; Seekonk (extinct), 
 
 1841—50. 
 Weston, David. Worcester, Pleasant Street, 1862 — 70; Salem, 
 
 Central, 1872 — 72,. 
 Weston, Frank S. Conway, 1885 — 89; West Springfield, 
 
 First (now Agawam), 1889 — 92; Worcester, Lincoln 
 
 Square, 1892 — 96; Natick, 1896— 
 Weston, John Equality. Cambridge, Second, 1827 — 31. 
 Wheeler, Benjamin. North Randolph, 1852 — 59; Haverhill, 
 
 Third, 1859 — 64; Randolph, 1872 — y^; Brookville, 1873 — 76. 
 Wheeler, Charles Horace. North Attleboro, 1886 — 92; 
 
 Winchester, 1892 — 94. 
 Wheeler, Edwin S. South Framingham, 1884 — 90; South 
 
 Boston, Fourth Street (extinct), 1890 — 95; Dorchester, 
 
 Blaney Memorial, 1895 — 98. 
 Wheeler, Guy F. Worcester, First (assistant pastor), 
 
 1895 — 97; Worcester, Greendale, 1897 — 1901. 
 Wheeler, L. Williams. West Otis, 1858 — 59; Huntington, 
 
 1859--61 ; West Royalston, 1869 — 71 ; Sunderland and 
 
 Montague (extinct), 1871 — 72. 
 Wheelock, Isaac Robinson. Worcester, Pleasant Street, 
 
 1872 — 75; Fitchburg, First, 1875 — 85. 
 Whipple, A. B. Adams, 1871 — 72; Nantucket, First, 1876— 
 
 78; Cummington, 1880 — 82; Hancock and Williamstown, 
 
 1883—92. 
 Whipple, James M. Russell and Blandford (extinct), 1843 — 
 
 45; Chesterfield (extinct) and Blandford, 1845 — 46; Wind- 
 sor, 1846 — 47; Hinsdale, 1846 — 49; Savoy, Second, and 
 
 Hinsdale, 1849 — 51. 
 Whipple, R. P. Savoy, First, 1835 — 38; Hinsdale, 1838 — 39. 
 Whitaker, William Carey. Conway, 1892 — 96. 
 Whitcomb, Charles F. Canton, 1889 — 90. 
 White, Charles Lincoln. North Oxford (acting), 1888. 
 
2IO PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 White, Frederick McKee. Hingham (acting), 1895 — 97; 
 
 Amherst, 1897 — 1901 ; Hingham, 1901 — 
 White, H. H. Boston, Independent (now St. Paul's), 
 
 1864 — 67. 
 White, Herbert Judson. Boston, Bethany, 1895 — 99; Beverly, 
 
 First, 1899 — 
 White, Horace Jerome. Worcester, Pleasant Street, 1888 — 95 ; 
 
 Southbridge, 1896 — 
 White, John S. West Wrentham (extinct), 1834 — 2i7 'y 
 
 Kingston, 1838 — 42. 
 White, Obed Jacob. Taunton, 1894 — 
 Whitehouse, George Ellsworth. Cheshire and Lanesboro, 
 
 1897 — 98; Cheshire, 1898 — 1900; Braintree, 1900— 
 Whitemore, Elias John. North Reading, 1881 — 82. 
 Whitman, Benaiah Longley. Newton, Second, 1887 — 88; 
 
 North Grafton, 1888—90. 
 Whitman, Freeman Tupper. Newton, Second, 1879 — 82; 
 
 Allston, Brighton Avenue, 1883 — 90; .South Framingham, 
 
 1896 — 1901. 
 Whitney, Frank Curtis. Groton, 1884 — 89. 
 Whitney, S. W. Sterling, 1888—89 ; Raynham, 1889 — 91 ; 
 
 Ashfield, 1892 — 96. 
 Whitney, William Bradley. Boston, Bethany, 1900 — 
 Whittemore, George F. Shutesbury, 1895 — 96. 
 Whittemore, Joshua L. Dighton, 1837 — 40; Brewster, 
 
 1842 — ^43; Middleboro, Third, 1843 — ^48; Long Plain, 
 
 1848—56. 
 Whittier, Edward Asa. Lowell, Branch Street, 1868 — 70. 
 Wiggin, James E. Chelmsford, First, 1858—63. 
 Wightman, Jesse. West Springfield, First (now Agawam), 
 
 181 1— 17. 
 Wightman, Joseph Colver. Cambridge, North Avenue, 
 
 1866—68; Taunton, 1873—82. 
 Wilbur, Henry Ripley. Andover, 1872 — 76. 
 Wilcox, James Franklin. Salisbury and Amesbury, 
 
 1836 — 42; Taunton, 1842 — 48. 
 Wilcox, Monson Alva. Holyoke, First, 1892 — 1902. 
 Wild, Zenas P. Unionville (now Ashland), 1846; Marble- 
 head, 1846 — 48; Rowley, 1848 — 51; Billerica, 1851 — 53; 
 
 Southwick, 1853 — 54; West Royalston, 1854 — 55. 
 Wilder, John. Becket, 1831-^32; Sandisfield, 1833 — 38. 
 Wiley, Elijah F. North Adams, 1816. 
 WiLiE, J. H. Maiden, Centre Street, 1902 — 
 WiLKiNS, Frank L. Gloucester, First, 1898 — 
 Willard, Benjamin. Russell, 1825 — 26; Northampton, 
 
 1826 — 30; Northampton and Middlefield, 1830 — 31; 
 
 Northampton, 1832 — 2i7- 
 Willard, Charles M. Harvard, 1850 — 57 ; Littleton, 1861 — 67. 
 Willard, Frederick Augustus. Worcester, First, 1832 — 35; 
 
PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 211 
 
 Newton Centre, 1835—39; Danvers, 1851—54; South 
 
 Abington (now Whitman), 1854—56; Needham, 1856 — 66. 
 
 WiLLARD, George A. Cummington, 1844—47; Ashfield, 
 
 1874—80. 
 WiLLDRiDGE, H. A. Chicopec, Central, 1871 — ^2. 
 WiLLET, Charles. Southwick, 1840 — 46. 
 Williams, A. C. Cambridge, Broadway, 1879 — 82. 
 Williams, Calvik Caleb. Plymouth, 1861—62. 
 Williams, Charles Burditt. Sutton, First, 1897 — 1900; 
 
 Cambridge, Inman Square, 1901 — 
 Williams, Charles F. Waltham, First, 1893—95; Cam- 
 bridge, North Avenue, 1900 — 1902. 
 Williams, Charles H. Medfield, 1902 — _ 
 Williams, Charles Walter. Quincy Point (extinct), 1884 — 
 87 ; West Townsend, 1887 — 91 ; South Hanson, 1891 — 97 ; 
 Barnstable, Third, and Hyannis, 1898—99; Barnstable, 
 Third, 1899 — 1901 ; Chelmsford, First, 1901 — 
 Williams, Elisha Scott. Beverly, First, 1803 — 12. 
 Williams, Elmer E. Middleboro, Central, 1899 — 
 Williams, George A. Merrimac, 1899 — 1900. 
 Williams, George B. Gloucester, Sandy Bay (now Rock- 
 port), 1837—38; Kingston, 1854—60; Braintree, 1869 — 70. 
 Williams, G. C. East Boston, Trinity, 1890—91. 
 Williams, George Washington. Boston, Twelfth, 1874 — 75. 
 Williams, Lester. Russell, 1851—53; West Townsend, 
 
 1853—55. 
 .Williams, Lester, Jr. Holden, 1859 — 65. 
 Williams, Nathaniel Marshman. Charlestown and Som- 
 
 erville, 1852; Somerville, Perkins Street, 1853—59; South 
 
 Danvers, 1865—67; JNIethuen, 1868—70; Andover, 1879; 
 
 Marshfield, First. 1887—92. 
 Williams, Nathaniel West. Beverly, First, 1816 — 24; 
 
 1836 — 40; Newbury and Newburyport, 1832 — 33; New- 
 
 buryport, 1834—37; Maiden, 1841—43. 
 Williams, William. Wrentham, — 1802 — 23. 
 Willmarth, Isaac IMason. Winchendon, 1850 — 53; Rowe, 
 
 1867—70. 
 Willmarth, James W. South Reading (now Wakefield), 
 
 1867 — 69. 
 Wilmarth, Ezra. Rowley, 1828 — 34. 
 Wilson, Cornelius Judson. Stamford, Vt, 1875 — 78; Charle- 
 
 mont, 1879 — 81. 
 Wilson, E. M. Long Plain, 1874—86. 
 Wilson, James E. South Abington (now Whitman), 
 
 1868—69; North Randolph (extinct), 1869—72. 
 Wilson, John Brainerd. Dorchester, First, 1892 — 1901. 
 Wilson, Jonathan. Russell, 1832 — 33. 
 Wilson, Joseph Kennard. Taunton, 1883 — 94; Melrose, 
 First, 1894 — 99. 
 
212 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 
 
 Wilson, Norman Bayard. Rehoboth, 1873 — 75 ; Ashland, 
 1875—78; Baldwinville, 1881—84; Rockport, 1885—86. 
 
 Wilson, William Frederick. Fall River, Third, 1897 — 98; 
 North Abington, 1898 — 
 
 Winchell, James Manning. Boston, First, 1814 — 20. 
 
 Wines, William H. Boston, Bowdoin Square, 1853 — 57. 
 
 Wing, Otis. Chatham, 1825 — 26 ; Brewster, 1826 — 27 ; Haver- 
 hill, Second, 1830 — 34; Gloucester, First, 1834 — 2>^; Bev- 
 erly Farms, 1837; West Newbury, 1871 — 72; Groveland 
 (extinct), 1878. 
 
 Winn, Daniel Damon. Lowell, Worthen Street, 1853 — 55; 
 Salem, Central, 1855 — 67; New Bedford, First, 1867 — 80; 
 Woburn, First, 1880 — 91. 
 
 WiTHERELL, George. North Adams, 1809 — 12. 
 
 Womersley, Thomas. Wenham, 1856 — 62; Three Rivers, 
 1862 — 66; Deerfield (extinct), 1866 — 71. 
 
 Wood, A. E. Edgartown, 1864 — 65. 
 
 Wood, Hervey. New Bedford, North, 1885 — 86. 
 
 Wood, John E. North Tewksbury, 1853 — 55; North Oxford, 
 1855 — 57; Edgartown, 1863—64; Mashpee, 1865 — 68; 
 Middleboro, Third, 1868—71. 
 
 Wood, L. L. Lawrence, Second, 1870 — 'J2) \ Boston, Harvard 
 Street, 1873 — 74; South Boston, Fourth Street (extinct "I, 
 1874—79; Peabody, 1880—82. 
 
 Wood, Nathan E. Brookline, 1892 — 94; Boston, First, 
 1894 — 1900. 
 
 Wood, Nathan Robinson. West Medford, 1901 — 
 
 Wood, Newal A. Chatham, 1891 — 92. 
 
 Wood, Whitman Lillibridge. Newton, Second (acting), 
 1883—84. 
 
 Woodbury, David. Savoy, First, 1823 — 26. 
 
 Woodbury, H. B. Bernardston, 1869 — 70; Warwick, 1870 — 71. 
 
 Woodbury, Isaac. Haverhill, First, 1839 — 41 ; Reading, Sec- 
 ond, 1843; Sturbridge (Fiskdale), 1845 — 46; Wenham, 
 1853—55; Mashpee, 1868—69. 
 
 Woodbury, John. Northboro, 1829 — 31 ; Templeton (now 
 Baldwinsville), 1844 — 47. 
 
 Woodbury, Samuel. Orleans, 1864 — 66; Shutesbury, 1888; 
 Tyringham, 1890. 
 
 Woodland, J. B. Franklin, 1895 — 98. 
 
 Woodruff, A. N. Wales, 1881—83; Shutesbury, 1883—85. 
 
 Woodruff, L. M. Gloucester, First, 1861 — 64. 
 
 Woods, Henry. New Bedford, North, 1883 — 85. 
 
 Woodsum, Ansley Ezra. Milford, 1879 — 82; Rockland, 
 1882--87; Chelsea, Carey Avenue, 1890 — 92; Lexington, 
 1892—95. 
 
 WooDSUM, Jonas H. Hyannis and South Yarmouth, 1901^ 
 
 Worden, Peter. Cheshire, First, — 1802 — 07. 
 
 Worral, T. D. Lowell, Worthen Street, 1856—57. 
 
I 
 
 PASTORS OF BAPTIST CHURCHES 21 3 
 
 WoRTHiNGTON, Watson A. Hinsdalc, 1858 — 59; New Salem 
 and Prescott (extinct), 1859 — 61; Woodville, 1869 — 71; 
 Westminster, 1871 — 75; Chelmsford, First, 1876 — 79; 
 Bernardston, 1881 — 83. 
 
 Wren, G. L. Cambridge, Second, 1887 — 88. 
 
 Wright, David. Westfield, Second (extinct), 1820 — 26; 
 Cummington and Plainfield, 1828; Cummington, 1830 — 36; 
 Westfield, Central, 1836 — 38; Gay Head, 1839 — 40; Con- 
 way, 1840. 
 
 Wright, Stephen. Williamstown, 1837 — 38; Three Rivers, 
 
 1874—75- 
 Wright, Thomas Goddard. Sandisfield, 1852 — 53. 
 Wright, W. C. Weymouth, 1874—77. 
 Wrinkle, T. Bernardston, 1866-— 68. 
 Wyman, Drew Thompson. Spencer, 1879 — 81 ; West Somer- 
 
 ville, 1882 — 91 ; North Brockton, 1895 — 1901 (with Brook- 
 
 ville, 1895—98). 
 Wyman, Edwin Allen. Turner's Falls, 1872 — 75. 
 Wyman, John Monroe. Roslindale, 1884—89; Marlboro, 
 
 1900 — 
 Wyman, Windsor Herbert. Winchendon, 1886 — 90; North 
 
 Abington, 1890 — 95. 
 Wyndown, Samuel. Woburn, First, 1809. 
 
 Young, Joshua. Beverly, First, — 1802. 
 
 Young, William McIntosh. Woburn, First, 1872 — 74. 
 
 York, Daniel C. Barnstable, Third, 1901 — 
 
 Zell, William F. Hancock, 1899 — 1901, 
 
 I 
 
Appendix A 
 
 CHARTER 
 
 The Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society formed 
 in Boston, May 26, 1802, in the meeting-house of the First 
 Baotist Church -and the oldest Missionary Society of the 
 denomination -was incorporated by act of the Legislature, 
 Feb 28, 1808, as follows: 
 
 Section i. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 
 Representatives in General Court assembled and by authority 
 the same, That Thomas Baldwin, Doctor in Divinity, the 
 Rev Joseph Clay, Deacon John Waitt, of Boston; the Rev^ 
 William Collier, Deacon David Goodwm and Deacon John 
 Car r of Charlestown; the Rev. Joseph Gra ton and ohn 
 Kendrlck, Esq., of Newton; the Rev. Lucius Bolles^of Sdem 
 the Rev. William Williams, of Wrentham; the R^^ /hsha 
 Williams, of Beverly; the Rev. William Batchelder, o 
 Haverhil ; the Rev. Valentine W. Rathbun, of Bndgewater 
 fnd the Rev. John Peak, of Newburyport; together with such 
 others as may hereafter associate with them, and their sue 
 c sso s, be and they are hereby made a body politic and 
 corporate, by the name of the Baptist M-ionary Society in 
 Massachusetts, and by that name may stie ^^^ bej"^^ f 
 law, in any action, real, personal, or mixed; and may prose 
 cute and defend such actions to final judgment and execution, 
 and may do and suffer all other things which corporations 
 of aTimilar nature may or ought to do and suffer; and the 
 said Society shall have continuance and succession for the 
 em of fifteen years from the passing of this act; but the 
 Legislature of this Commonwealth may at any time alter 
 amend or repeal the same, if they shall see cause therefor. 
 
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2l6 APPENDIX A 
 
 reserving, however, to the said corporation the property 
 thereto belonging; and nothing contained in this act shall 
 be construed to change or divert the use and expenditure 
 of the funds or other property from the purpose for which 
 they are or may be raised; and the Legislature of this 
 Commonwealth shall always have a right to examine into the 
 doings, funds and expenditures of the said corporation, and 
 for that purpose shall have access to all their books and papers. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation shall 
 have power to receive and hold real estate of any kind, in 
 fee simple, or other less estate not exceeding fifteen thousand 
 dollars, and of receiving and holding personal estate by 
 donation, bequest, legacy, or otherwise, not exceeding ten 
 thousand dollars, the annual income of all which real and 
 personal estate shall be applied to the sole use and purpose 
 of diffusing Christian knowledge, in such manner as the 
 said corporation shall judge will best promote and answer 
 the design of their incorporation : Provided, however, that 
 each and every of the missionaries, or other instructors, or 
 teachers employed by the said corporation shall be of the 
 Protestant religion, of competent learning, of reputed piety and 
 prudence, and of exemplary morals. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation 
 may annually elect by ballot, by a majority of the members 
 present, at a meeting regularly notified and held in the manner 
 as directed in the sixth section of this act, a President, Vice- 
 President, Secretary, Treasurer, and such number of Trustees 
 as they may think proper (not less than seven), and such other 
 officers as may by them be considered necessary; and all such 
 officers when chosen may hold their offices until others are 
 chosen in their stead; and in case of death, resignation, or 
 disability of either of the said officers, the said corporation 
 shall have a right in like manner, at any meeting held by 
 adjournment, as may be most convenient to fill any vacancy 
 which may so happen : Provided, however, the present offi- 
 cers of the said Society may continue to hold their places 
 until the next annual meeting, or unless others are chosen in 
 their stead, conformably to the provisions of this act. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation be. 
 
APPENDIX A 
 
 217 
 
 and hereby is authorized, at their first meeting to be holden 
 under this act, by vote of the majority of the members present, 
 to make and estabhsh such by-laws, rules and orders as they 
 may think necessary for the prudent and regular management 
 of their afifairs, subject, however, to revisions, additions or 
 alterations from time to time at any regular meeting, and 
 may also annex reasonable penalties for the breach of either 
 said by-laws, rules or orders: Provided the same are not 
 in any case repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this 
 Commonwealth. 
 
 And in order that the members of the said Society, and all 
 the contributors to the said design, may know the state of 
 the funds and of all the donations made to the same and the 
 disposal thereof: 
 
 Sec. s. Be it further enacted. That particular accounts of 
 such funds, and the expenditures thereof, shall be exhibited 
 by the Treasurer or in case of his absence, by the Secretary, 
 at the annual stated meetings of said Society, and a committee 
 of said Society having first examined and certified the same 
 to be true; and fair entries shall be made in books to be 
 provided for that purpose, of all donations made to the 
 Society and of all the estate, real or personal, belonging to 
 the same; and the said books shall be brought to the general, 
 stated and annual meetings, and be there open for the exam- 
 ination of the members. 
 
 Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That Thomas Baldwin, 
 Doctor in Divinity, be, and he is hereby authorized to ap- 
 point the first meeting of said Society, and to publish a 
 notification of the time and place in two of the newspapers 
 printed in Boston, at least fifteen days before the meeting. 
 
 In February, 1822, the Legislature passed the following 
 Act, renewing and enlarging the charter of the Society. 
 
 Section i. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 
 Representatives in General Court assembled, and by author- 
 ity of the same, That so much of the first section of the 
 act entitled, "An Act to incorporate the members of a So- 
 ciety by the name of the Baptist Missionary Society in Mas- 
 sachusetts," as limits the continuance of the said Society to 
 fifteen years, be, and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
21 8 APPENDIX A 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That so much of the second 
 section of said act as authorizes and limits the Society to 
 receive and hold real estate to an amount not exceeding fifteen 
 thousand dollars, and personal estate by donation, bequest, 
 legacy or otherwise, not exceeding ten thousand, be so far 
 altered and amended as to allow said corporation to receive 
 and hold real and personal estate to the amount of fifty 
 thousand dollars, the annual income of which shall be applied 
 agreeably to the provisions of said act, and not otherwise : 
 Provided that the Legislature shall have a right to repeal this 
 act whenever they shall deem it expedient. 
 
 In 183s, the Legislature passed an act altering the name of 
 the Society as follows : 
 
 Section i. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 
 Representatives in General Court assembled, and by authority 
 of the same, That from and after the passing of this act the 
 Baptist Missionary Society in Massachusetts shall be known 
 and called by the name of the Massachusetts Baptist 
 Convention, and that it retains under said new name, all 
 its existing powers, privileges, rights and property, and re- 
 mains subject to all its present duties, obligations and lia- 
 bilities. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted. That so much of the Act of 
 Incorporation of said Society as relates to the number, duties, 
 and time and place of choosing the officers of said corporation, 
 be, and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 In February, 1870, the Legislature passed an additional Act, 
 authorizing the Convention to hold more property, as follows : 
 
 Section i. Be it enacted, etc. The Massachusetts Baptist 
 Convention is hereby authorized to hold real estate to the 
 amount of two hundred thousand dollars, and all income 
 arising from such real estate shall be applied exclusively to 
 the purpose of said corporation. 
 
 Sec. 2. This act shall take efTect upon its passage. 
 
 In 1879, the Legislature passed the following Act respecting 
 the officers of the Convention: 
 
 Section i. Be it enacted, etc. So much of chapter sixty- 
 one of the acts of the year one thousand eight hundred and 
 eight, entitled, " An act to incorporate the members of a 
 
APPENDIX A 219 
 
 Society by the name of the Baptist Missionary Society in 
 Massachusetts," as restricts said Society, now known as 
 the " Massachusetts Baptist Convention," as to the names and 
 manner of electing its ofificers, is hereby repealed. 
 Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 
 
 THE LEGISLATURE OF 1886 PASSED THE FOLLOW- 
 ING ADDITIONAL ACT. 
 
 Be it enacted as follows: 
 
 Section i. The Massachusetts Baptist Convention is 
 hereby authorized to hold real and personal estate to the 
 amount of five hundred thousand dollars, and all income 
 arising therefrom shall be applied exclusively to the purposes 
 of said corporation. 
 
 Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 
 Approved March 5, 1885. 
 
Appendix B 
 
 CONSTITUTION 
 
 Of the Baptist Convention of the State of Massachusetts. 
 (Adopted November lo, 1824.) 
 
 PREAMBLE. 
 
 The great object of this Convention being to promote the 
 cause of Christ, by means of affording greater facilities for 
 concert and cooperation among the Baptist Churches in 
 Massachusetts, and other Churches associated with them, it 
 m.ay be proper to state that we utterly disclaim all power and 
 all intention to interfere in any respect with the internal 
 concerns of any Church or Association, or in any question 
 which may arise between different Churches or Associations : 
 And it is to be understood that no recommendation of this 
 Convention, which shall in any manner infringe this funda- 
 mental principle, shall be in the smallest degree obligatory. 
 This Convention being a Voluntary compact, any Association 
 has liberty to withdraw from it at pleasure without assigning 
 
 its reasons. 
 
 Article I. Name. 
 
 This Convention shall be known by the name of the Baptist 
 Convention of the State of Massachusetts. 
 
 Article II. Members. 
 
 1. This Convention shall be composed of Delegates chosen 
 by the several Associations in Massachusetts, in such manner 
 as each Association shall prescribe. 
 
 2. The number of Delegates which each Association may 
 
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222 APPENDIX B 
 
 send to the Convention shall be in proportion of one Delegate 
 to every five Churches. 
 
 3. Every delegate, before taking his seat, shall produce to 
 the Recording Secretary a copy of the Minutes of the Asso- 
 ciation containing his appointment, or a certificate of his 
 election signed by the Clerk of the Association. 
 
 Article III. OMcers and their Duties. 
 
 1. The officers of this Convention shall be a President, 
 Vice-President, Corresponding Secretary, Recording Secretary, 
 and Treasurer, together with such others as the future business 
 shall render necessary, who shall be chosen annually by ballot. 
 
 2. The President shall preside in all meetings of the Con- 
 vention ; nominate all committees ; and have power to call 
 special meetings upon the request of ten members. 
 
 3. The Vice-President shall, in the absence of the President, 
 have power to discharge all his duties. 
 
 4. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the corre- 
 spondence under the direction of the Convention. 
 
 5. The Recording Secretary shall keep a record of all the 
 doings of the Convention in a book provided for that purpose ; 
 have the custody of all papers belonging to the Convention ; 
 notify all meetings; and superintend the printing and distri- 
 bution of the Minutes. 
 
 6. The Treasurer shall be a member in full standing in 
 some Baptist Church belonging to an Association united with 
 this Convention. He shall keep in trust all moneys belonging 
 to the Convention, and shall pay none of them out but upon 
 an order signed by persons hereinafter to be named ; and 
 shall, when required, give bonds in the amount of one 
 thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of his duty. He 
 shall also make a report of the state of the funds to the 
 Convention, at each Annual Meeting. 
 
 Article IV. Annual Meeting. 
 
 There shall be an Annual Meeting of this Convention on the 
 last Wednesday of October, at 10 o'clock, a. m., at such place 
 as shall be appointed at a preceding meeting; and during 
 
APPENDIX B 223 
 
 each session there shall be a Sermon preached by a person 
 previously appointed for that purpose. 
 
 Article V. Statistics. 
 
 1. It shall be the duty of the Delegates from each Asso- 
 ciation to present to the Convention a full and correct List 
 of the Churches belonging to the Association which they repre- 
 sent. — This List shall specify the number of Churches and 
 Members at present; the number added, dismissed, excluded, 
 and deceased, since the last meeting; the number of ordained 
 jNlinisters and Licentiates; and the number of destitute 
 Churches belonging to the Association — together with such 
 other information as the Convention may from time to time 
 require. 
 
 2. The whole, or- such part as the Convention shall direct, 
 of the information thus communicated, shall be printed in the 
 Minutes of its annual proceedings, and a copy sent to every 
 Baptist Church in the State, and such others as are connected 
 with the Convention. 
 
 3. The expense of printing the Minutes shall be taken 
 from the Treasury, upon an order signed by the President. 
 
 4. During each session there shall be a free public Con- 
 ference in which the Delegates from each Association shall 
 give an account of the state of religion in the Association to 
 which they belong, together with any other information they 
 may possess relating to the prosperity of the Church of Christ. 
 
 Article VL Religious Charities. 
 
 1. The Religious Charities, patronized by this Convention, 
 shall consist of Missionary, Education, and such other Reli- 
 gious Charities as the Convention may in future approve. 
 
 2. Every Church or Society, desirous to contribute towards 
 the extension of the religion of Jesus Christ, by means of this 
 Convention, may forward its funds directly to the Treasurer, 
 or to the Treasurer of its own Association, stating what 
 proportion is to be devoted to each particular object. 
 
 3. The Treasurer of each Association and Society will, 
 at such times as the Convention may direct, forward these 
 
224 APPENDIX B 
 
 several contributions to the Treasurer of the Convention, 
 specifying the sums received from each Church or Society, and 
 the objects to which they are to be appropriated. 
 
 4. The Treasurer shall keep the accounts of each Charity 
 in a separate and distinct book; and all his books shall at all 
 times be open to the inspection of any member of any Church 
 connected with the Convention. 
 
 5. For conducting the business of these several Charities, 
 the Convention shall have power to appoint distinct Boards of 
 Directors, or to make such arrangements with the Boards al- 
 ready existing, as may best subserve the designs of the con- 
 tributors. 
 
 6. No moneys shall be paid out of the Treasury for any of 
 these objects of Charity, unless by a vote of the Board to 
 whose direction such object shall have been committed by the 
 Convention, and signed by the Chairman of that Board. 
 
 7. A report of the doings in full of each Board, the persons 
 employed, and the persons assisted, shall be presented to the 
 Convention at each Annual Meeting. 
 
 Article VII. Miscellaneous Business. 
 
 1. It shall be in the power of this Convention to correspond 
 by letter, or Delegates, or both, with similar Conventions in 
 other States, and with other religious bodies. 
 
 2. It shall be in the power of this Convention to send Dele- 
 gates to the General Convention of the Baptist denomination 
 in the United States, or to a General Convention formed, or 
 designed to be formed, from State Conventions, and to in- 
 struct them to enter into any arrangements to promote the 
 interests of religion, not inconsistent with this Constitution, 
 nor with the general declaration on which it is founded. 
 
 3. If any amendment, addition, or alteration to this Con- 
 stitution be proposed, it shall first be presented to the Con- 
 vention, in writing, at an Annual Meeting, and be printed in 
 the Minutes for that year, and sent to every Association for 
 consideration; and it shall not be adopted, unless approved 
 by two-thirds of the Associations composing this Convention. 
 
Appendix C 
 
 MISSIONARIES 
 
 EMPLOYED BY THE MASSACHUSETTS BAPTIST 
 MISSIONARY SOCIETY, 1802-1835 
 
 Abbott, Squire. Hason Region, N. Y. 
 
 Alford, Oliver. Undesignated. 
 
 Allen, Amos. Eastport, ]\Iaine, and elsewhere. 
 
 Ambrose, Samuel. Vermont and Canada. 
 
 Andrews, Cyrus. Holland Purchase and New Connecticut, 
 
 vicinity of Lake Erie. 
 Andrews, Elisha. Clinton County, Upper part of Worcester 
 
 County, Hinsdale and Chesterfield, N. H. 
 Arnold, Joseph. Undesignated. 
 Averill, Asa. Richland, N. Y. 
 
 Balcom, D. a. Undesignated. 
 
 Ball, Harvey. Cape Cod. 
 
 Ball, Reuben. New Hampshire. 
 
 Barton, William. Vicinity of Taunton River. 
 
 Bassett, Thomas. Western Massachusetts. 
 
 Batchelder, William. Rhode Island and New Hampshire. 
 
 Benedict, David. Undesignated. 
 
 Benjamin, Isaac. The New Purchase. 
 
 Bentley, William. Scituate, Bristol, R. I., West Cambridge, 
 Billerica, Lexington, IMass. 
 
 Blake, Jonathan. New York. 
 
 Bolles, Augustus. Salisbury, Mass., Deerfield, N. H., Rhode 
 Island, Western New York, Canada. 
 
 Bolles, Matthew. New Hampshire, Peterboro and Dun- 
 stable. 
 
 Bond, Phineas. Cherryfield, Maine. 
 
 Boswell, James D. Sandy Bay and Gloucester. 
 
 Boynton, David. St. Lawrence County, New York. 
 
 Bradley, Joshua. New Hampshire, Vermont, Islands adja- 
 cent to Newport, Louisiana. 
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226 APPENDIX C 
 
 Brooks, Charles. Vermont. 
 
 Brown, Allen. Bufifalo, N. Y., and vicinity. 
 
 Buck, . Washington County, Maine. 
 
 Butler, Ephraim. Hanover. 
 Butler, John. Hanover. 
 
 Case, Isaac. New Brunswick, British Provinces, New Eng- 
 land, New York, East of Penobscot River, Cuba. 
 
 Chadbourne, John. District of Maine. 
 
 Chamberlain, S. New Hampshire. 
 
 Chapin, Pelatiah. Orleans County, Vermont, Westward. 
 
 Chase, Amos. Steuben, Cattaraugus, and Allegany Counties, 
 New York. 
 
 Chase, Ira. Undesignated. 
 
 Chase, Peter. Western Vermont. 
 
 Churchill, Samuel. Westward. 
 
 Clark, William. New Jersey. 
 
 Coburn, Jesse. Western part of Windsor, Washington, and 
 Orange Counties, Vermont. 
 
 Collier, William. Rhode Island. 
 
 Cook, Gideon. New Hampshire. 
 
 Conant, Thomas. Marshfield and vicinity. 
 
 Coombs, Simon. Susquehanna, New Connecticut Country. 
 
 Cornell, Joseph. Western Mission. 
 
 Cornish, E. Plymouth and Barnstable. 
 
 CovELL, Leonard. Undesignated. 
 
 Crosby, C. C. P. Danvers Factory and Reading. 
 
 Crowell, Simeon. Cape Cod. 
 
 Cummings, Abraham. Islands of Passamaquoddy Bay. 
 
 Curtis, David. East Greenwich, R. I., Gloucester, Squam, 
 Cape Cod. 
 
 Curtis, . Gloucester, Squam, Cape Cod. 
 
 Cushman, Robert W. Plymouth. 
 
 Davenport, E. Westward, Counties of Potter and Keene. 
 
 Davis, . Louisiana, Detroit, Mich. 
 
 Dean, . Townsend. 
 
 Dimask, David. Undesignated. 
 Drake, Jacob. Ohio and elsewhere. 
 Dunbar, Darius. Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Ellis, Ferdinand. Undesignated. 
 
 Elton, James. Kentucky. 
 
 Evans, George. Western States, District of Gove, Upper 
 
 Canada. 
 Everett, Joshua. Eastport and vicinity, Maine. 
 
 FairfielDj . Ohio. 
 
APPENDIX C 227 
 
 Gano, Stephen. State of Rhode Island. 
 
 Gates, Abram. Northern New Hampshire. 
 
 Gibson, John B. Rhode Island and Cumberland, Smithfield, 
 
 Gloucester, New Hampshire. 
 Glover, Samuel. Hingham. 
 GoFF, John. Allegany County, New York. 
 Going, Eliab. Undesignated. 
 Going, Ezra. Holland Purchase. 
 
 Going, Jonathan. Vicinity of Green Mountains, Vermont. 
 GooDALE, Solomon. New York. 
 Grafton, Benjamin C. Martha's Vineyard. 
 
 Hale, Henry. Chandler River, Maine. 
 
 Halch, . Ripley and towns adjacent. 
 
 Hall, Henry I. Indiana. 
 
 Hall, William W. Blackstone River, R. I. 
 
 Handy, Joy. Undesignated. 
 
 Harrington, Moses. Machias, Maine. 
 
 Hartwell, Jesse. On and near Susquehanna River. 
 
 Hatch, Jacob. Cold Stream, Olammon Plantations, Penob- 
 scot River. 
 
 HoDSON, . Bangor and Hampden, Maine, 
 
 Holmes, G. Illinois. 
 
 Hooper, Noah. Undesignated. 
 
 Houghton, Josiah. Between Androscoggin and Penobscot 
 Rivers, Maine. 
 
 Houghton, Josiah. Maine. 
 
 Hubbard, William. Martha's Vineyard. 
 
 HuBBELL, LooMis. Rock Spring, Illinois. 
 
 Hudson, Henry, M. D. Ohio. 
 
 Hunting, Enoch. Undesignated. 
 
 Ide, John. Vermont, Eaton and vicinity. Lower Canada. 
 Irish, David. New Connecticut, Black River County, Upper 
 Canada. 
 
 James, David. New Brunswick. 
 
 Johnson, Wakeman G. Undesignated. 
 
 JuDSON, Adoniram. Plymouth and vicinity. Scituate. 
 
 Kendall, Henry. Maine — Machias, Hartwell Neck, Gardner, 
 
 Little River. 
 Kendrick, Clark. Canada and Holland Purchase. 
 Kimball, Isaac. Claremont and Plainfield, N. H. 
 
 Kinner. . Lead Mines on Fever River. 
 
 Kipp, John. Eastern Mission. 
 
 Lamb, Nehemiah. Oneida County, New York, and Ridge 
 Road. 
 
228 APPENDIX C 
 
 Lathrop, Paul. Undesignated. 
 Ledoit, Biel. Undesignated. 
 
 LeFavor, Amos. Hingham, Scituate, Hanover, Mass. 
 Leland, Aaron. Concord and neighboring towns in Middle- 
 sex County, Mass. 
 Lemen, Moses. Illinois. 
 
 LiVERMORE, Jason. Interior of Maine and Rhode Island. 
 Low, Robert. Hallowell, Maine. 
 
 Marshall, Thomas. Petersham. 
 
 Martin, Edw. W. To the West. 
 
 Mason, Francis. Undesignated. 
 
 McCoy, James. Illinois and neighborhood of Fort Wayne. 
 
 Merriam, Asaph. Undesignated. 
 
 Metcalf, Whitman. Holland Purchase, Sardinia, and vicinity. 
 
 Mitchell, Robert. Maine. 
 
 Miles, . Coventry and Springfield, Conn. 
 
 Murphy, James. Undesignated. 
 
 Nelson, Ebenezer. Nantucket. 
 
 Nelson, Samuel. Chenango County, New York. 
 
 NiLES, Asa. Rhode Island, Springfield, Coventry, Dana, and 
 
 Peterboro, N. H., Black River, Connecticut Reserve, 
 
 Scituate, Mass. 
 
 Osgood, Emory. Country of St. Lawrence, Sackett's Harbor. 
 Otis, Nathaniel. Undesignated. 
 OviATT, . Pennsylvania. 
 
 Parsons, James. Carver. 
 
 Parsons, Stephen. Upper Canada, Western New York. 
 
 Paul, Thomas. Nantucket, Hayti, West Indies. 
 
 Peak, John. New Hampshire, Cape Cod. 
 
 Pease, David. Undesignated. 
 
 Pettet, Hezekiah. Susquehanna and Channing Rivers. 
 
 Peck, John M. St. Louis and St. Charles, Mo., Illinois. 
 
 Peck, Solomon. New Hampshire. 
 
 Perkins, Barnabas. Coos County, N. H., Lower Canada, 
 
 Orleans County, Vermont. 
 Pillsbury, Phineas. Westward, Upper Canada. 
 Plumb, Samuel. Undesignated. 
 Powers, Walter. Lower Canada, Maine, New Hampshire, 
 
 Vermont. 
 
 Rand, Thomas. West Farms, Westfield. 
 
 Rathbun, Valentine W. Genesee County and Tuscarora 
 
 Indians, New York. 
 Read, James. Rhode Island. 
 Rich, . Machias, Maine. 
 
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APPENDIX C 229 
 
 Richardson, Phineas. New Hampshire. 
 
 Riis, . New Orleans, Louisiana. 
 
 Ring, John. Maine. 
 
 Ripley, T. B. Easton, Maine. 
 
 Ripley, Henry. Eastport and adjoining plantations, Maine. 
 
 Robinson, George. Grafton, Vermont, and vicinity. 
 
 Robinson, Nathaniel. Undesignated. 
 
 Roots, Peter P. Holland Purchase and Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 Ross, Arthur A. Bristol, R. I. 
 
 Rowley, Samuel. 
 
 Sabin, a. Northern Vermont. 
 
 Sawyer, Joseph. Montreal, Canada. 
 
 Scott, Richard. New Brunswick. 
 
 Seaman, James N. Undesignated. 
 
 Sedgewick, William. Ohio. 
 
 Sherburne, Andrew. Maine, New Hampshire, New York. 
 
 Shurtleff, Flavel. Wickford and Warwick Counties, Rhode 
 
 Island. 
 Spaulding, John. Northern Vermont. 
 Spencer, W. Ohio. 
 Spooner, Thomas. Undesignated. 
 Starkweather, Elisha. Undesignated. 
 
 Starr, Robert C. Penobscot, or Washington County, Maine. 
 Stearns, Silas. Undesignated. 
 
 Stone, Isaiah. Rhode Island, Meredith and Guilford, Conn. 
 Stone, Jonathan. Smithfield, Pa. 
 
 Taylor, William. Ipswich. 
 
 TiBBETTS, Nathaniel. Alleghany River. 
 
 Todd, Asa. Westward. 
 
 ToRREY, Joseph. Hanson. 
 
 Throop, William. Undesignated. 
 
 Tripp, John. Eastward. 
 
 Tucker, . Fredonia, N. Y. 
 
 Wait, Samuel. North Carolina. 
 
 Wayland, Francis. Bristol, R. I., Saratoga Association, New 
 
 York. 
 West, Samuel. Richmond, Va., Rhode Island. 
 Weston, John E. Lechmere Point. 
 Whiting, N. N. Schenectady, N. Y. 
 WiLLARD, Benjamin. New Hampshire and Maine. 
 Williams, Elisha. Sandy Bay, Mass., New Hampshire, 
 
 Maine. 
 Wilson, Adams. Machias and vicinity, and Wiscasset, Maine. 
 Wilson, Jonathan. Hanover and Guilford. 
 Witherel, George. Essex and Clinton Counties, New York, 
 
 Canada. 
 
Appendix D 
 Declaration and Protest 
 
 of Baptist Ministers 
 
 W ^^ ^^^ UNDERSIGNED, Citizeas of tht Unfted States ot America, aod Mtmsters of the Gospel of Jesus 
 V Y Christ, consider the positions which we occupy, and the relations which we sustain to God and our Country, as 
 requiring of us, at the present time, a public and explicit declaration of our views vitb respect to the subject 
 of Slavery. 
 
 The duty is by oo means agreeable to our castes or feelings. In yielding to its claima, we have no private ends to 
 answer , we are impelled by no pressure of public soitiment around ua» We are FajuuisN ; and use our liberty under 
 the direction of enlightened consciences. 
 
 Many of us have loqg waited, with the cherished hope that some reformatory movement, commenced and prose^ 
 cuted by those to whom the whole matter more appropriately pertains, would render all action, oo our part, unnecessary. 
 But we are admonished by most affecting disclosures, that such hope is viin, and that the time has arrived wben we caa 
 eeither decline nor postpone this service, without incurringv before God and man. a fearful responsibility. 
 
 Instead of a quickened conscience, and a deepened spirit of humanity, in the bosoms sof slaveholders, we have wit- 
 nessed, with pamful surprise, a growing disposition to justify, extend, and perpetuate their iniquitous system. . Not a 
 few who once professed to regard it a:i a vicious and censurable institution, are now among its warmest aod boldest' 
 defenders. Religious men, both in the ministry and the laity, with limited exceptions, not only give their personal- 
 influence in favor of the system, but even pervert the Word of God and all the institutions of Christianity to its support. 
 
 Under these circumstances we can no longer be silent. We .owe something to the oppressed as well as to the 
 oppressor, and justice demands the fulfilment of the obligation. Truth, and Humanity, and Public Virtue have claims 
 upon us which we cannot dishonor Whatever may be the value of our testimony, we must, as honest men, employ it 
 to vindicate the Right, and promote the Good. 
 
 We do. therefore, in the fear of God, declare, «7erally and jointly, that we^^disapptove and abhor 4he system of 
 American Slavery. Among the facts which render it to us peculiarly odious, are the following: 
 
 n recognizes immortal beings as property, aod treats them as commodities of commerce. 
 
 It extends over them a separate and oppressive code of laws that bereaves them of their civiT agd social rights, and 
 holds them liable to the most crue) abuses of irresponsible power. 
 
 It deprives both sexes of control over their own persons, their offspring, and the fruits of their labor. 
 
 It denies to them inteHectuaJ culture, and withholds from them the Gift of their Heavenly Father — the precious 
 Bible. 
 
 The agfat thus to degrade and oppress a particular race of men. is defended ufJon principles that would apply, wiQi' 
 equal justice, to any other portion of the human family. 
 
 With such 3 system we can have no sympathy. After a careful observattonof its character and effects, and making 
 every deduction which the largest charity can require, we are constrained to regard it as an outrage upon the rights and 
 happiness of our fellow men, for which there is no valid justification or apology. We can therefore sustain no relation, 
 and perform no act, that will countenance the" system, or imply indifference to its multiplied enormities. Against it, as 
 a mass of complicated and flagrant wrong, we must record and proclaim out solemn protect And especially^must we, 
 as Ministers of the Son of God, protest against those perversions of the Sacred Oracles, by which it i^attempted to 
 make their Divine Author the patron and protector of a aystem 'which is so entirety repugnant to theu;.' principles and 
 spirit. 
 
 But. while we have these convictions and feelingi, and' ulter them without equivocation or reserve, we should most 
 heartily rejoice, could we leam that oar fellow citizeas at the South were deliberating on their <iutieS and obligations to 
 the enslaved, and were determined wisely, speedily, equitably, and forever to release them from^^eit unrighteous bond- 
 age. We are confident that, in so doing, they would honor themselves, promote their own ^ppiness, and receive the 
 applause of the wise and good throughout the world and. what is infinitely more irQportaayj^at God would bless them 
 with the providential and gracious tokens of his approbation. 
 
 Adopted^ March z, 1847 
 
 
 
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Appendix E 
 
 THq following men have served as President and Secretary 
 of the Society, respectively, for the periods indicated below : 
 
 PRESIDENTS. 
 
 Samuel Stillman, D. D 1802 — 03. 
 
 Thomas Baldwin, D. D 1804 — 06. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Grafton 1807 — 25. 
 
 Rev. Bela Jacobs 1826 — 31. 
 
 Rev. Ebenezer Nelson 1832 — ^;i. 
 
 Deacon Levi Farwell 1841 — 43. 
 
 Deacon Asa Wilbur 1844 — 49. 
 
 A. J. Bellows, M. D 1850—51. 
 
 Deacon Daniel Sanderson 1852 — 53. 
 
 Deacon Asa Wilbur 1854 
 
 Hon. J. W. Merrill 1855—56. 
 
 George B. Ide, D. D 1857—58. 
 
 Baron Stow, D. D 1859 — 62. 
 
 Daniel C. Eddy, D. D 1865—68. 
 
 William Lamson, D. D 1869 — 70. 
 
 Mr. D. H. Brigham 1871 
 
 Daniel C. Eddy, D. D 1872 
 
 Hon. J. H. Walker 1873—74. 
 
 Robert C. Mills, D. D 1875—79. 
 
 Hon. Eustace C. Fitz 1880 — 84. 
 
 Robert G. Seymour, D. D 1884—86. 
 
 Hon. Edward S. Wilkinson 1887 — QO. 
 
 Mr. H. H. Bowman 1891 — 93. 
 
 Hon. E. Nelson Blake 1894 — 97. 
 
 James P. Abbott, D. D 1898 
 
 Rev. Edwin P. Farnham 1899 — 1901. 
 
 Mr. George C. Whitney 1902 — 
 
 SECRETARIES. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Waterman 1802 
 
 Thomas Baldwin, D. D 1803 
 
 23s 
 
236 APPENDIX E 
 
 Rev. William Collier 1804 — 06. 
 
 Daniel Sharp, D. D 1807 — 08. 
 
 Rev. William Collier 1809 — 11. 
 
 Daniel Sharp, D. D 1812—28. 
 
 Howard Malcom, LL. D 1829 
 
 Rev. William Leverett 1830 — 33. 
 
 Rev. Jonathan Aldrich 1834 
 
 Rev. Alonzo King 1835 
 
 Rev. Charles O. Kimball 1836 — 39. 
 
 Rev. Charles Train 1840 — 41. 
 
 Rev. William H. Shailer 1842 — 51. 
 
 George W. Bosworth, D. D 1852 — 54. 
 
 Rev. A. F. Spalding 1855 — 56. 
 
 Rev. Nehemiah M. Perkins 1857 
 
 Joseph Ricker, D. D 1858 — 64. 
 
 C. M. Bowers, D. D 1865 
 
 Rev. B. F. Bronson 1866 
 
 C. M. Bowers, D. D 1867—78. 
 
 George W. Bosworth, D. D 1879 — 87. 
 
 Rev. William H. Eaton 1888— 
 
 Officers of the Convention which was merged into the 
 original Society in 1835 : 
 
 PRESIDENTS. 
 
 Lucius Bolles, D. D 1824 — 27. 
 
 Daniel Sharp, D. D 1828—29. 
 
 Rev. Abisha Sampson 1830 — 34. 
 
 SECRETARIES. 
 
 Francis Wayland, Jr., LL. D 1824 — 25. 
 
 Daniel Sharp, D. D 1826 
 
 Jonathan Going, D. D 1827 — 31. 
 
 Rev. Abial Fisher 1832 — 33, 
 
 Rev. Alonzo King 1834 
 
Index 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Abbott, James P 119 
 
 Anti-slavery 83 
 
 Apportionment from Churches 75 
 
 Ashtabula, Ohio 35 
 
 Augusta, Maine 66 
 
 Backus, Isaac 17 
 
 Baldwin, Thomas 38 
 
 Barnstable Association, Domestic Missionary Society of the. 75 
 
 Baxter, Thomas 80 
 
 Baptist Education Society 20 
 
 Baptist Education Fund 29 
 
 Bellows, A. J 84 
 
 Blake, E. Nelson 119 
 
 Bolles, Lucius 27 
 
 Boston, South 48 
 
 Boston, Swede 103 
 
 Bowers, Charles M 93 
 
 Bosworth, George W 107 
 
 Bowman, H. H 1 19 
 
 Brown, J. Newton 44 
 
 Building Fund 108, 109 
 
 Bumstead Estate 95 
 
 Case, Isaac 13 
 
 Chaplin, Jeremiah 27 
 
 Chessman, Daniel 47 
 
 Chester, Dwight 115 
 
 Chipman, George W 104 
 
 Church Edifice Department 105 
 
 Civil Rule 89 
 
 Claremont, N. H 32 
 
 Collier, William 23 
 
 Concord, N. H 32, 47 
 
 Detroit, Mich 48 
 
 237 
 
238 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 East Greenwich, R. 1 29 
 
 Evans, P. S 104 
 
 JExpenditures 125 
 
 Fall River, First Baptist Church 48 
 
 Farwell, Levi 79 
 
 Female Societies 28 
 
 Finances • 120 
 
 Financial Secretary 95 
 
 Financial Stringency "j^i 
 
 Fittz, Hervey 78, loi 
 
 Fitz, Eustace C 108, 118 
 
 Ford, Daniel S 123 
 
 French Missions 97, 115 
 
 Fund, Permanent 80, 109 
 
 Going, Jonathan 50 
 
 Grafton, Joseph 52 
 
 Gordon, A. J 117 
 
 Hamilton Missionary Society ^2> 
 
 Holland Purchase 23 
 
 Holyoke, Second 83, 95 
 
 Home Missions 26, 106, no 
 
 Home Mission Magazine 42 
 
 Home Mission Society 51, 52, 60 
 
 Immigration 124 
 
 Irish, David 6 
 
 Jacobs, Bela 55 
 
 Judson, Adoniram, Sr 35 
 
 Judson, Adoniram, Jr 32 
 
 Keely, John 33 
 
 Kennebunk, Maine 66 
 
 Kimball, Charles 67 
 
 King, Alonzo 66 
 
 Leland, John 13 
 
 Life Directors 103 
 
 Lincoln, Ensign 48, 53 
 
 Lincoln, Heman 48 
 
 Love, H. T 84 
 
 Main, W. W 113 
 
 Maine Liquor Law 37 
 
 Magazine, Missionary 17, 18, 32, 88 
 
 Malcom, Howard 42 
 
INDEX 239 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Manley, Basil 44 
 
 Massachusetts Baptist Convention 39, 56, 57, 60 
 
 Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society: 
 
 Charter 21, 22 
 
 Consolidation with Convention 61 
 
 Constitution 9 
 
 Incorporation 21, 31 
 
 Organization 7 
 
 Massachusetts Baptist Sunday School Association 112 
 
 Medfield and Dover 18 
 
 Mercer, Jesse 44 
 
 Missouri 47 
 
 Montreal 35 
 
 Mt. Holly, N. J 44 
 
 Munroe, William A 115 
 
 Myles, John 3 
 
 New Hampshire Missionary Society 30 
 
 New York Missionary Society 20 
 
 Northampton Church 78 
 
 Ohio Missionary Society 42 
 
 Outlook 126 
 
 Paul, Thomas 22, 33 
 
 Peck, John M , 34 
 
 Pennsylvania Missionary Society 44 
 
 Permanent Fund 80, 109 
 
 Philadelphia Association i 
 
 Pittsfield, First Church 78 
 
 Portsmouth, N. H 33 
 
 Presbyterian General Assembly 18 
 
 Publication Discourses 81 
 
 Publications, Statistics of 98 
 
 Religious Liberty 55 
 
 Rhode Island 44 
 
 Ricker, Joseph 91 
 
 Sandy Creek 2 
 
 Seymour, Robert G 112 
 
 Shaftesbury Association 6 
 
 Sharp, Daniel 25, 31, Z2, 88 
 
 Springfield, First 95 
 
 Statistical Secretary 88 
 
 Statistics 87 
 
 Stow, Baron 48 
 
 Sunday School Association 112 
 
 Swaim, Samuel B • 92 
 
240 INDEX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Swansea 3 
 
 Swede Missions 102, 103 
 
 Thomas, O. D 116 
 
 Ticknor, William D 92 
 
 Tilson, Jonathan 103 
 
 Train, Charles 48, 76 
 
 Tripp, John. 13 
 
 Tuscarora Indians 20, 23 
 
 Watchman, The Christian 39 
 
 Watertown, Mass 41, 47 
 
 Waterville, Maine 43 
 
 Wayland, Francis 35 
 
 Weare, N. H 26 
 
 Western Baptist Education Association S^i 
 
 Western Theological Seminary 37 
 
 Whitney, George C 119 
 
 Wilbur, Asa 79, 106 
 
 Wilkinson, E. S 117, 1 19 
 
 Williams, Nathaniel M 34, 56 
 
 Winchell, James M _ 30 
 
 Women's Foreign Mission Society 100 
 
 Wrentham 13 
 
 Wright, David 75 
 
 Young Men's Societies 25 
 
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