Glass. Book THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSAEY OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF HADDAM, CONNECTICUT r ^h. ^^ •-^' .-^^ THE TWO HUNDEEDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE I FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF HADDAM, CONNECTICUT October 14th and 17th, 1900 church organized 1696 pastor installed 1700 HADDAM 1902 c^n^; CONTENTS PAGE Peogram of the Anniversary vii Pastors of the Church xiv The Anniversart xv The Early History 1 THE pastor. Sunday-schools of Haddam 20 mrs. frank h. arnold. The Early Settlers and their Homes 33 rollin u. tyler. Address 53 rev. WILLIAM A. BRONSON. The Day we Celebrate 56 cephas brainerd. Our Daughters: East Haddam, 1704 59 rev. francis parker. Our Daughters: Haddam Neck, 1740 64 henry m. selden. Our Daughters: Higganum, 1844 67 rev. william j. tate. Our Longest Pastorate— That of Eev. Eleazer May ... 69 kev. theodore t. munger, d.d. The Eevival Era 81 rev. everett e. lewis. The Half-century to 1850 96 rev. amos s. chesebrough, d.d The Pastorate of the Kev. James L. Wright 101 rev. silas w. robbins. The Deacons of the Chxxrch 109 miner c. hazen, m.d. The Early Missionaries 119 rev. david b. hubbard. The Homes of the Pastors 128 eveline warner brainerd. Address 137 edward w. hazen. CONTENTS PAGE Address 140 rev. "william c. knowles. Greeting from The Oldest Churches 145 REV. AZEL W. HAZEN, D.D. Greeting from the Middlesex County Conference . . . 148 rev. ENOCH F. BURR, D.D. Address 151 james n. wright Address 168 charles mat. Letters benjamin kelsey 179 david b. ventres 180 hon. grover cleveland 184 rev. henry m. field, d.d 184 hon. david j. brewer 185 lady musgrave 185 rev. william h. gilbert 185 rev. elisha w. cook 186 mrs. lucy a. wright 187 FKOM THE CHUECH EECOEDS. Explanatory Note 191 Historical Catalogue of Members 193 Index to the Historical Catalogue 238 Note on Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths 254 Baptisms 255 Marriages 301 Deaths 323 The Old Meeting House 357 XT wo IbunbreDtb Hnntversat^ ot Zbc JflvQt Congregational Cburcb ot IbaD&am Connecticut ©ctobet I4tb ant) I7tl> 1700-1900 " These first settlers of New England were eminently pious men. * * * Now, although we have departed from the faith and piety of our ances- tors, and we are a crooked and perverse generation, yet since God has so highly prospered our nation, is it not a duty incumbent on us to honor Him with our substance and with the first fruits of our increase ? » * * Come forth, ye friends of virtue and society, and put away all your vices, and honor the Lord in all your ways." — [From a sermon prea32— "Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken." JlbC IDavj WiC Celebrate — November Fourteenth, Seventeen Hundred. Mr. Ckvhas Brainerd. TRetH'onaetJ : ^iir riaushrtriJ, lEaat •^.\H^^;^m. i704 — riio Kov. FKANCI8 Parker, Pastor. f^a^^am flcch, 1740 — Oeaooii IlKNRY M. Selden. tJiiKianum, IS44 - The Rov. W. J. Tate, Pastor. Bntbem— "Guide Mo, O Thou Great Jehovah" .... Leslie ®ur XOlUiei^t lp;lt!«tOrate — That of the Kev. Eleazer May. Tlio Kov. T. r. MiNUKR, 1>.P., Pastor Uuitoii Churcb, New Haveu. Cbe t>alt Centurv to IS50 : Cbo IRcvival Era — TUK Pastor. IRemiiuflcent paper — Tbo Kov. A. S. Cheskbrough, D.D. JTbc ipaiUorate of tbe "Kev. James X. TlClrlgbt— The Kev. S. W. Kobbins. ■fcvjmn 033 — "The Chuvoh's One Foundation." JBcneMetion. LUNCHEON. X AFTERNOON, TWO O'CLOCK. ©rgan ipreluDc. Ibsmn 749— "Oh, God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand." Ipragcr. (Blorla ipatrf. Zbc Deacons of tbe Cburcb — Miner C. Hazkn, M.D. Zbc lEarlB /iBlsslonariee — Tlie Rev. D. B. Hubbard, Pastor Tliud Church, Middletown. Tlbe 1bome6 of tbe ipastors — Miss Eveline W. Bkainbkd. Bntbeni — "in Heavenly Love Abiding" Thomas Mrs. Wallace Porter and Mr. Elwtn T. Clark. SDDresses : Mr. Edward W. Hazen. The Rev. W. C. Knowles, Rector St. James' Church. Ibgmn 630— " A Mighty Fortress is Our God." Greetings: Ube ©l^cst Cburcbea — The Rev. A. W. Hazen, D.D., Pastor First Church, Middletown. Ube iID(6Mc8er Conference — The Rev. E. P. Burr, D.D., Pastor First Church, Lyme. Ib^mn 630 — "I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord." aSeneOlction. EVENING, SEVEN O'CLOCK /nbusical iprogrammc. aODrcsses ; Mr. James N. Wright. Mr. Charles Mat. Cyprian Strong Brainerd, for thirty-three years, from his appoint- ment till his death in 1880, a most worthy and devoted deacon of the Church, and for many years its enthusiastic and faithful chorister, with his beloved wife, Florilla Hull Brainerd, are affectionately and grate- fully honored at this time by their son, Cyprian 8. Brainerd, Jr., in a memorial gift of an organ, with the desire in this way to promote and enrich the worship of the Sanctuary. The young men recently associated with us, but now residing in other places, helpfully remind the Church on this occasion of their friendly re- membrance and abiding interest In its welfare by uniting in the present of the revised edition of " In Excelsis," as an appropriate accompaniment to the gift of Mr. Brainerd. "Sing unto tbe lore, sing praises unto Ibis "fflame." OEGAN RECITAL. jf irst Congregational Cburcb, IbaDDam, Conn. Wednesday Evening, October 17, 1900, at 7 o'clock. Miss Grace Tucker, Soprano Mrs. F. Carroll, Contralto Mr. a. B. Payne, Basso Miss Gertrude Payne, Organist PROGRAMME— Part i. /llbarCbC SoIenncUC, Lemaigre Miss Payne. /IBs IReDecmcr, Dudley Buck Miss Tucker. Q;beJ8ugler, ........ CiroPinsuu Mr. Payne. tTbe DeVOtcO Bpple, J- Soeckel Mrs. Carroll. Communion in 3f, Grism Miss Payne. 'S)\xCt Selected Miss Tucker and Mrs. Carroll, Part ii. ©ffcrtoire De St. Cecilia, Batiste Miss Payne, gtai^g Frances Leoni Miss Tucker. Storm iminD, CarlEvers Mr. Payne. ^bere'6 a JSeautlful XanD on Ibigb . . a.h. Taylor Mrs. Carroll. II TRaaiteD tor G;bB Salvation, Trio. lprocc00ional, ^•^- '^"*^*^* Miss Payne, xiii pastors ot tbe Cburcb. "Jeremiah Hobabt, 1700-1715. 15 years. *Phineas Fiske, 1714-1738. 24 Aaron Cleveland, 1739-1746. 7 Joshua Elderkin, 1749-1753. SJ^ *Eleazer May, 1756-1803. 47 David Dudley Field, D.D., 1804-1818. 14 John Marsh, D.D., 1818-1834. 16 Tertius Strong Clarke, D.D., .... 1834-1837. 3 David Dudley Field, D.D., 1837-1844. 7 Elisha Woodbridge Cook, 1846-1852. 5% * J AMES LOCKWOOD Wright, 1855-1871. 16 Everett Edward Lewis, 1871- * Died in ofiaee. acting pastors* Jonathan Willoughby, 1666-1667 Nicholas Noyes, 1668-1682 John James, 1683-1690 Jeremiah Hobart, 1691-1700 Theodore M. Dwight, 1844-1845 William H. Gilbert, 1845-1846 Erastus Colton, 1852-1854 THE ANNIVERSARY AT the annual meeting of the church, December 20, J\. 1899, the proposal to observe this anniversary re- ceived cordial and unanimous approval. Later, commit- tees were appointed whose untiring interest guaranteed from the first the success of the celebration. To their call the response with ser\dce was universal and con- stant. Especially gratifying was the helpful interest and generous aid volunteered by many of the Higga- num people whose church relations from 1696 to 1844 were identified with the mother organization. After much thought it was deemed wise, for the con- venience of friends who wished to be present, and also for the larger anticipation of pleasanter weather earlier in the autumn, to have the exercises in October. The week beginning October 14 was chosen, the day of the month agreeing with that in November when, in 1700, Jeremiah Hobart was installed as the first settled pastor of the church. His settlement completed the organiza- tion, which now appears, for reasons given in the opening address, to have been first formed four years earlier. The year 1696 is the date of the earliest entering by the church into covenant relations, while November 14, 1700, marks the beginning of the regular pastorate. Sunday, the fourteenth, and the following Wednesday were the great days of the anniversary; the first was cloudy with a light rain, but Wednesday was all that THE ANNIVERSAEY had been hoped for in weather and in attendance. The social feature of the day was peculiarly happy and ex- hilarating. Especially did the many joyful greetings of old friends remind us of the ties that bind the past to the present and give inspiration for the future. To many the anniversary was a delightful Home Week cele- bration. Visitors were taken to places of historic in- terest. At the old cemetery the graves of former pas- tors and deacons were decorated with flags and flowers. The "old pewter," polished anew, which once served at the observance of the sacraments, was in its place on the communion-table. Particularly did the Gerrard Spencer ''flaggon" delight the lovers of the antique. The unique feature of the celebration, coming as a great and delightful surprise, was the presentation to the church by Cyprian S. Brainerd, Jr., of a pipe-organ as a memorial of his beloved father and mother, Deacon Cyprian Strong Brainerd and his wife Florilla Hull Brainerd. Deacon Brainerd died in 1880 at the age of seventy-five, greatly respected and beloved, having worthily filled the office of deacon since his election in 1846, and for long years being the enthusiastic and faith- ful leader of the praises of the sanctuary. Mrs. Brain- erd was the joy of her home and circle, and ardently attached to this church. By her will five hundred dol- lars were donated to the church to become a part of its permanent funds. Five years since, in 1897, at ninety years of age, and after sixty-six years of fellowship in the earthly communion, she passed to the reunions of the heavenly home. The church placed upon its records a resolution ex- pressing its grateful appreciation of this memorial gift by the use of which its worship will be greatly enriched. THE ANNIVERSARY Mr. Brainerd also arranged for the organ recital whicli was a most enjoyable feature of the exercises on Wed- nesday evening. The welcome service rendered by Mr. Wallace Porter at the organ, on Sunday and again on Wednesday, and also by Mrs. Porter and Mr. Elwyn T. Clark in the choir, was appreciated. The generous gifts from the young men of the new hymn-books, "In Excelsis," for the church, and from Mr. Cephas Brainerd of the edition for the Sunday-school, were a greatly needed provision for the services of praise. The arrangement of the program divided the history of the church into four sections of about half a century each. As far as possible, speakers were secured who, in some special way, were interested and qualified to represent the different periods. The first half-century was assigned to the pastor for the opening address on Sunday, with particular reference to the origin and early growth of the church. For the next period, speakers in whose veins runs the May blood were easily found. How happily Dr. Munger and Mr. Charles May filled the re- quirements of the occasion, who runs may read in these pages. The May half-century ended in 1803. The only serious disappointment was the inability to find some descendant to represent the Field and Marsh period; however, a letter from Dr. Henry M. Field was read on Sunday evening. Dr. Chesebrough, the nearest neighbor of Dr. Field during his second pastorate, also kindly furnished a reminiscent paper of peculiar interest. Ad- ditionally, and with special reference to the pastorates of Drs. Field and Marsh, a paper on the revival era was prepared, which for lack of time was not read, yet is included in this volume. THE ANNIVERSARY The last half-century was as fortunate as the second in its speakers. It was gratifying to welcome Mr. Rob- bins, whose memorial sermon at the death of Rev. James L. Wright was printed at the time, to speak again of the beloved pastor whose fruitful ministry of sixteen years closed suddenly by his entering into rest in 1871. No guest or speaker received heartier welcome than Mr. Wright, whose reminiscent paper refreshed the mem- ories of the living, and records some of the choicest im- pressions of his father's ministry. At the opening of his address, he read the message, given in this record, from his aged mother to the church for this anniversary. Coming from the only pastor's wife now living, and from one greatly beloved and respected, it touched the tenderest emotions of hallowed memories. By her re- quest the choir and audience sang, ' ' Love divine, all love excelling," using an old and familiar tune. Mr. Wright was asked by the chairman, in behalf of the church and of all the friends of former years, to bear to her the most affectionate greetings of esteem and re- membrance. Special papers, too, were read relating to the first settlers, the deacons, the missionaries, the homes of the pastors, and the Sunday-school. The letters from Mr. Cook and Mr. Gilbert, both living in their eighties, re- minded us that they alone survived the pastors of other days. The opening address was by Mr. Cephas Brainerd, the chairman. He introduced the speakers, and gave some account of Hadham of old England, visited during the summer. Greetings came from Mr. Justice Brewer, whose mo- ther was the Emilia Field of the parsonage in 1807; THE ANNIVEESAEY from Lady Musgrave, whose father, Honorable David Dudley Field, was the first-born of a most illustrious family; from ex-President Cleveland of the fourth gen- eration from our pastor, Aaron Cleveland; from Dr. John Fiske, the historian, whose ancestor was a brother of Kev. Phineas Fiske, and was the first clerk of the Ecclesiastical Society, formed in 1739, and a member of this church till he was dismissed to Portland in 1745. These, and letters from others, deepened our interest in the fathers. Particularly entertaining were the reminiscences of boyhood's experience written by Benjamin Kelsey of Indianapolis and David B. Ventres. Graceful and generous words of congratulation were spoken by the pastors of neighboring churches. Two relics of the May pastorate were shown— the May Bible and a sermon by Mr. May in two parts, one used in the morning and the conclusion in the afternoon, from the words, "There is forgiveness with Thee that Thou mayest be feared." A few weeks later, the pastor read the sermon to an interested audience, thus preaching again the gospel of forgiving grace in the very words of the address which was first delivered one hundred and thirty- four years earlier, in November, 1766, to the great- grandfathers from the pulpit of the second meeting- house. The recollection of the anniversary will linger long and cheeringly in the minds of all present, and its in- fluence will be the satisfying reward of those who wisely and faithfully labored to pay generous tribute of honor to the fathers, whose toil and prayer and sacrifice in behalf of the church is the priceless legacy of their children's children. THE ANNIVERSARY The last part of this volume gives a full list of the mem- bers of the church from the begirming of the records in 1756. In its preparation extended researches have been made, chiefly by Rollin U. Tyler, the clerk of the church, for the purpose of furnishing, as far as possible, a complete and trustworthy record. A careful tran- script from the record is also added of the baptisms, marriages, and deaths till about 1850, after which date the town records are complete in these matters. It is believed that the increased historical value of the book from making these additions justifies the unex- pected delay in printing. Its publication is made pos- sible by the generous contribution of friends supple- menting what has been pledged by subscriptions for the volume. May, 1902 THE EARLY HISTORY THE PASTOR Eemember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations.— Moses. IN the spirit of reverent thankfulness for the past we purpose this present week to recite the story of the early struggles and listen to the inspiring messages from the annals of this our beloved ancient church. Two hundred years since, the fourteenth day of the month of November, the Rev. Jeremiah Hobart, accord- ing to the testimony of his colleague and successor, Mr. Fiske, was installed the first settled pastor of the church. This information is preserved in a brief sketch of the ori- gin of the church prepared by Mr. Fiske in 1729, and sent to Rev. Thomas Prince of Boston for use in prepar- ing a history of New England. Other evidence clearly indicates that, though Mr. Hobart received a formal call from the town August 24, 1691, *'in some hopes to settle him as our pastor," and began preaching here late in the autumn of that year, it was not till the summer of 1700 that final action regarding his settlement was taken. At a town meeting, held June 5, 1700, the West Side says, "we cannot accept of Mr. Hobart as our minister until he be settled as pastor by the consent and advice of some Reverend Elders that shall be chosen and sent for. ' ' The Reverends Thomas Buckingham of the second church and Timothy Woodbridge of the first church, 1 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVERSARY Hartford, Noadiah Russell of Middletown, Stephen Mix of Wethei-sfield, and Timothy Stevens of Glastonbury were nominated, and doubtless became the installing council of November 14; "the charges," it is added, "of the above settlement to be at the cost of the west side town." Mr, Hobart was never the installed pastor of the entire town, though the East Side contributed to his support till his death. The question of "imbodying in church way and order" had been under consideration for many years. Many votes are on record encouraging Mr. Noyes to settle with the people as their pastor. Gerrard Spencer, in his will, dated September, 1683, when probably Mr. James was occupying the pulpit, says, "A pewter flaggon and a rim bason I give unto ye church att Haddam if there be one within five years after ye date hereoff." More than twice five years passed before a church could claim this gift of love. Trustworthy tradition, however, affirms that the heirs respected the wish of the donor, and that, after the formation of the church, the "flaggon and a rim bason ' ' were the first of such gifts to be used in the administration of the ordinances. The "flaggon" is still preserved, and is our oldest relic of the past. The exact date, however, of the organization of the church is not known. Mr. Fiske, who, without question, was well acquainted with the facts, expressly says in the letter referred to : " The church was first gathered No- vember 14, 1700 ; the number of males fourteen. ' ' Trumbull, in his History of Connecticut, also marks this church as known to have been gathered at the date named, and states that "as far as can be found the forming of churches was universally on the day of ordination." Naturally, and therefore ordinarily, this 2 THE EARLY HISTORY would have been the usual method of procedure: the church, professing "the faith and order of the gospel," would enter into covenant, officers would be chosen, and a pastor settled on one and the same occasion, this being done with the approbation and assistance of a council called for the purpose. In the historical sketch of the church, printed in 1879, these reasons were accepted as conclusive, and the ar- rangements for this celebration were based on that de- cision. What is here presented in revision of the accep- tance of Mr. Fiske's opinion, and in favor of dating the origin of the church at least four years earlier, is the result of considerable further investigation,^ since the anniversary, as to the theory and practice of the fathers in the gathering of churches ; and also of finding, in old records, and especially among the baptisms in the records of the First Church at Middletown, unmistakable ref- erences to a church as in existence earlier than No- vember 14, 1700. The most probable explanation of the variation as to dates seems to be that two views were current at the time of Mr. Hobart's settlement: the first, represented by Mr. Fiske's statement, that a church was not organ- ized, or at least not fully, so as to give date to its origin, till its officers were chosen and a pastor installed; the other, that the vital constituting act was the entering by the proposed members into covenant, which might take place months and even years, as seems now to be true of this church, in advance of the settlement of a pastor. J Special acknowledgment of help is tive ; and also to Mr. Rollin U. Tyler, due to Professor WiUiston Walker, now the church clerk, for his careful ex- (1903) of Yale University, whose expert aminatiou of many old documents and acquaintance with early New England copying of the records of baptisms from ecclesiastical history renders his aid in- Haddam at Middletown, prior to the set- valuable, for many helpful suggestions, tlement of Mr. Hobart. of which free use is made in this narra- HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY In the latter case, the origin of the church would date from its entering into covenant rather than from the time of its being fully officered; though its organization would be incomplete, and, as the 1698 committee of arbitration lamented had been the case here, the church would be "prevented from enjoying God in all his or- dinances ' ' till a pastor was inducted into office. Early Congregational thought and usage as to the central, vitalizing act in the forming of a church is clearly stated. The Cambridge Platform carefully dis- tinguishes between the essential act in the gathering of a church and the subsequent appointment of its officers by saying, **A church being a company of peo- ple combined together by covenant for the worship of God, it appears thereby that there may be the essence and being of a church without any officer." Thomas Hooker, the first pastor at Hartford, whose successor, Timothy Woodbridge, was present at the installation of Mr. Hobart, and most probably when the church was organized, affirms that ' ' mutual covenanting and confed- erating of the saints is that which gives constitution and being to the visible church." John Davenport, the leader of the New Haven colony, also teaches that * ' That whereby the church is as a city compacted together is the covenant. ' ' The application of this principle in giv- ing existence to the visible church appears in the record of the gathering of the church at Middletown, which begins with the words, "The profession of the faith and order of the gospel by those that first entered into cove- nant." Modern thought also agrees with this early and clear consensus of opinion as to the supreme place of the covenant in giving organized existence to a church. The first gathering, therefore, should date from the time of 4 THE EARLY HISTORY entering into covenant, even if a pastor's induction into office is delayed. Was the officering of a church invariably synchronous with its gathering; or, for sufficient reasons and by the intervention of serious difficulties, were exceptions to the prevailing custom occasionally recognized and allowed ? Trumbull knew of no variation from the rule. Professor Walker, however, cites two instances, with possibly a third, in which the officering of a church oc- curred later than the entering into covenant, the churches first gathered at Boston and Hartford, and, for the third, at Salem, Massachusetts. Mr. Hobart became the settled pastor of this church in 1700. April 22, 1695, nearly four years later than he received his call to settle and evidently after pro- longed discussion of existing difficulties, the town votes that they do not "esteem and account themselves under his charge as their pastor," but at the same meeting it "was voted with the consent of the General Court and the approbation of neighboring churches to imbody in church way and order." The colonial records of May say, "This Court upon the motion of the deputies of Haddam do countenance and encourage the good people of Haddam to imbody themselves in church estate, pro- vided they attend that good work according to law and with the consent of neighboring churches." Further action looking to the immediate gathering of the church is taken August 19, by two votes of the town. The first gives Mr. Hobart full possession and title to the house which, in accordance with the agreement of 1691, had been built for him and he was occupying at the time. The other vote declares "that those persons that made presintment of entering into church way, and as many 5 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSAEY more as will join with them, have full consent to go on in that work." At this last date the probability is strong that a movement under such headway, already too long delayed, would be pressed as early as possible to some definite issue, even in the face of serious hindrances. Especially is it noteworthy that after this the town records are wholly silent as to any further effort to imbody in church estate; while June 5, 1700, when the members of the installing council were chosen, the primary question, were a church not in existence, would have related to its formation. Three incidental references among the ecclesiastical papers on file at the State library witness, also, to the gathering of a church earlier than the installation of 1700. A committee from the General Court, appointed at the request of both parties, had endeavored to secure a reconciliation between Mr. Hobart and the people. Their advice, dated at Haddam, November 25, 1698, closes with the hope that "a mutual endeavor to walk in love may happily issue in the cordial and unanimous desire of the church to call Mr, Hobart to the full exe- cution of the office of a pastor among them," The com- mittee understands that the town has a church. Still more positive are two allusions to a church in the petition of George Gates and others, who, far from being satisfied with the advice of 1698, ask the court the following May for a differently constituted committee on the ground that, **as the honorable committee (1698) was then in- formed, there never was by the church or major part of the inhabitants "— church and inhabitants being care- fully distinguished— ''intended any such reconciliation as to accept of Mr, Hobart as our pastor for divers rea- sons which then did and stiU do seem to us weighty, 6 THE EARLY HISTORY Resolved to desire the help of the Reverend Elders concerned in our first imhodying in conjunction with the Reverend Elders appointed as a part of the honorable conunittee, and to submit our thoughts to their judg- ment." The allusion to the first imbodying is in itself conclusive that the people believed a church had been regularly organized at an earlier date, though there is no indication whatever as to the time when it was done. There are, in the Middletown records, twenty-three entries of baptisms of persons from Haddam for the years 1691 to 1700, that is, from the coming of Mr. Ho- bart to his installation. The first distinct reference to a church is found under date of January 17, 1696 or 1697, new style, when "John Ventres, a member of ye church of Christ in Haddam, by virtue of communion of churches was baptized ac- cording to ye advice of ye elders and messengers yt were present at ye gathering of ye church ye being no officer to yt church." Later in the year, July 25, "Joseph Gates, a member in full communion with ye church at Haddam, ' ' had two children baptized. * * June 9, 1700, Daniel Braynard in full communion with ye church of Christ at Haddam had his son Stephen bap- tized by communion of churches." These three bap- tisms, two of children and one of an adult, are the only instances in which the parties interested are stated to be in any way connected with a church at Haddam. In the other cases, the parents of the children baptized either own the covenant, under the ' ' half way covenant ' ' plan of allowing baptized persons of orthodox belief and moral life to have, on their public acceptance of the covenant, their children baptized, or their relation to other churches is definitely implied, and usually it is 7 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVEESARY stated. Daniel Brainerd owned the covenant at the baptism of two children in 1691, and in June, 1696, his daughter Hannah is baptized, probably by virtue of his previous owning of the covenant, but without any state- ment to that effect. The inference from these records is imperative that by some well-known action, and with the approbation of other churches, Haddam was known to have a church earlier than and probably but a few months before the Ventres baptism. The pastor of the Middletown church, Mr. Russell, was, as we have noted, a member of the council of installation, and probably, if not certainly, he was present when the church was organized. His testimony, therefore, in these carefully worded records, regarding a church here, in the essential feature that gives "constitution and being" to a church, represents his own and also the opinion of the elders and messen- gers taking part in the council of formation. Further, the record indicates that conservative usage at least followed the early New England conception that baptism was to be administered only by an officer of the church in which the rite was performed. Accordingly, Mr. Hobart, though previously a pastor in other churches, and acting as the minister of this church, would be ujiable to administer the ordinances. It is possible, however, inasmuch as a freer practice as to baptism was beginning to prevail, that Mr. Hobart may have performed the rite among a portion of his people. Otherwise it is difficult to explain why only a small minority of the twenty-three baptisms at Middletown are from the west side, where the number of families largely exceeded those east of the river. As to the precise year of the organization between 8 THE EARLY HISTOEY August, 1695, and January, 1697, the evidence seems to favor the latter part of 1696, But for the persistent hindrances that barred progress, notably those which forbade the settlement of Mr. Hobart when at last the church entered into covenant relations, the action of the town from April to August, 1695, would indicate that the imbod5dng occurred before the end of that year. There is no reference, however, to a church among the Middle- town baptisms during 1695 and 1696, and in one in- stance, that of Daniel Brainerd referred to above, this omission may suggest, without proving, that it was not formed as late as June, 1696. On the other hand, while it is possible that the council was convened between the first and the seventeenth of January, 1697, it seems far more likely that its meeting occurred before the close of the previous year. This decision also agrees with Dr. Field's opinion, who, though quoting from the Prince Letters in another connection, makes no reference to Mr. Fiske's testimony, an omission as inexplicable, under the circumstances, as, in the light of what is here recited, is the statement that the church was first gathered at the settlement of Mr. Hobart. The more probable inferences, therefore, unite in mak- ing 1696, without giving month or day, the memorable year in which this church, resolute in faith and courage, coming to its high privilege through long years of dis- appointing efforts, and not even then extricated from its perplexities in choosing a pastor, first entered, by mu- tual covenanting, with the approval of other churches, into the Congregational fellowship; and November 14, 1700, marks the completion of its organization and the beginning of its settled pastorates. The date 1696 makes this church the thirty-first in the colony. 9 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Of the eventful years that, from the settlenient of the town, preceded the imbodying in church estate, only a brief account can be given. The earliest settlers came from the vicinity of Hart- ford in 1662, the very year that John Winthrop procured from Charles II the famous royal charter, with its ex- tremely liberal provisions, under which New Haven was incorporated with Connecticut only three years later. Charles and his successor, James, however, made a de- termined effort to rob all the colonies of their charters and establish the supremacy of the crown. Andros was sent over as governor, and instituted drastic measures to reduce the colonies to subjection. Permanent relief, however, from the threatened calamity came unex- pectedly by the accession, in 1688, of "William and Mary. Connecticut, in common with the other colonies, received the news with great rejoicings and immediately rein- stated the charter government. "Again," says Palfrey, ''Englishmen were free and self -governed in the settle- ments of New England." The door was wide open for the sure unfoldings, civil and religious, of the principles preached by John Robinson, and transferred in 1636 by Thomas Hooker across the wilderness from Massa- chusetts to the fruitful valley of the Connecticut. These political agitations and changes, even if they did not seriously disturb our Haddam ancestry during those first twenty-five years of resolute endeavor to establish homes for their families at Thirty Mile Island, were at least the victorious pledge to them of their complete success. It was during this period that the first meeting-house was built, located at the front of the minister's lot in the Little Meadow, "its dimensions being twenty-eight 10 THE EAELY HISTORY by twenty-four feet with eight places for windows, ' ' but no windows for a few years, and used for worship, in an unfinished state, as early, probably, as 1674. The names of three ministers are found in the town records. Jonathan Willoughby, son of Francis, deputy governor of Massachusetts from 1665 to 1667, preached first at Wethersfield from 1664 to May, 1666, when, with his wife and two children, he came to Haddam for a brief service of about a year. The people gave him land and began to build him a house. He seems to have been of a roving disposition, and not very efficient in the management of his financial affairs. His father's will, written four years after Jonathan left Haddam, states that he had already spent thrice his rightful inheritance, and is for that and other sufficient reasons debarred from receiving any further assistance. The town, also, had occasion to reserve a part of the money due him to pay certain of his debts, and was not disposed to make arrangements for his permanent settlement. Nicholas Noyes, a graduate of Harvard in 1667,— three of the Hobarts, brothers of our Jeremiah, belonging to the same class, — was the second minister and the first to gain any permanent hold upon the people. Probably he came to Haddam the year of his graduation, for, Febru- ary, 1669, the year after the town was incorporated, tak- ing its name from Hadham of the mother-land, the town offered him a salary of forty pounds and the use of the minister's lot. The same year, he was made a freeman. The house begun for Mr, Willoughby, shingled and clap- boarded for the use of the town and undoubtedly used for the few years before the meeting-house was erected as the place of worship, including the lot on which it stood, was offered to him on condition that he accepted 11 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY their proposals to settle as their pastor. As late as 1681, the town emphasized its desire to have him remain by adding to his salary and promising, " If he stand in need of more maintenance we shall be willing to do our ut- most, if it shall please God in his good providence to enable us to give it to him." No satisfactory explanation is found for his persistent refusal to become the ordained pastor of a church which naturally and urgently should have been gathered the very year he came as a candidate. His action cost the people thirty-one years of deprivation of the full priv- ileges of the gospel. He removed to Salem, Massachu- setts, where he became influential and, unfortunately, one of the most unrelenting persecutors of those ac- cused of witchcraft. He was never married, and died at seventy in 1717. His temperament was sanguine, his scholarship abreast of his times, and his reputation most worthy. Daniel Brainerd and George Gates were sent to New London early in 1683, to engage Mr. John James to take the place vacated by Mr. Noyes. When he came or how long he stayed is not known. The house, orchard, and pasture which belonged to Mr. Noyes were rented to him for a year free of charge. But as early as 1691 the town votes to encourage a minister to settle with them by offering "fifty pounds in provision pay by the year." Mr. James may have stayed till 1690. Three years later, he appears in Derby, where he was settled and remained till his resignation, on account of increas- ing disability, in 1706, was accepted with reluctance and a generous vote of appreciation of his faithful services. He was the first teacher of a public school in Derby, and for several years its town clerk. He removed to Wethers- 12 THE EARLY HISTORY field, where he died August 9, 1729, at the age of sev- enty-two. The story of Mr. Hobart's long probation prior to his settlement in 1700 has already been told. From one point of view the date seems far away. Volumes of human history are crowded into two full centuries. Yet at that date our King James version of the Bible had been in use eighty-nine years. Shakspere had been read for fully as long a period. Milton's "Paradise Lost" was fast becoming an old book. But even more vividly is the time caused to seem short when we recall that Miss Larissa Shailer, the venerable and greatly esteemed mother in Israel, who joined the church in 1824, under the ministry of Dr. Marsh, and as a child probably saw Mr. May and has known and cheered all the pastors for a full century, is still with us and deeply interested in this anniversary. The answers to some inquiries from England in 1680 are full of interest as to the state of affairs, civil and religious, during these formative years of our history. "Our people in this colony," says the report, "are, some strict Congregational men, others more large Con- gregational men, and some moderate Presbyterians ; and take the Congregational men of both sorts, they are the greatest part of the people of the colony. There are four or five Seven- day men in our colony, and about as many more Quakers." The reply to the twenty-sev- enth and last question indicates how closely the civil government watched over the religious interests of the people: "Great care is taken for the instruction of the people in the Christian religion, by ministers cate- chising of them and preaching to them twice every Sab- bath day, and sometimes on Lecture days; and so by 13 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY masters of families instructing and catechising their children and servants, being so required to do by law." Nor can we fail to observe that the emphasis of pas- toral obligation rested on religious teacliing and train- ing. The fathers enthroned religion in the family, the town, and the state. ' ' In our corporation are twenty-six towns and there are one and twenty churches in them." Passing to the first half-century of the settled pas- torates, a natural division occurs at the coming of Mr. May in 1756. The successors of Mr. Hobart are Phineas Fiske, Aaron Cleveland, and Joshua Elderkin, each of whom in his own way, but notably Mr. Fiske, will wor- thily maintain the reputation of the New England churches for having "a scholar for their minister in every town and village." The day of small beginnings and of almost doubtful struggle for existence yields to that of steady and prosperous growth. Mr. Fiske received a call to the pastorate November 15, 1712, but was not settled as Mr. Hobart 's colleague till January 27, 1714. Not since the period of Mr. Noyes's service had the people manifested so much en- thusiasm in securing a pastor. A movement to provide seats in the galleries is at once started, and more fre- quently than before do we find votes directing that the drum shall be sounded every Sabbath day, and appoint- ing a committee to seat the meeting-house. Mr. Fiske was a man of solid worth. His fat! ' r. Dr. John Fiske, married Hannah Baldwin of Milford, and later became a resident of the place. Phineas was born there, December 2, 1682; and largely through the influence of his pastor, Samuel Andrews, a warm friend of the Collegiate School at Saybrook, became '^rst a stu- dent in the class of 1704, and two years after graduation 14 THE EARLY HISTOEY returned to serve as tutor till he came to Haddam. He may have studied medicine under his father's super- vision. Dr. Field tells us that his talents were solid rather than brilliant. It was just this quality of strength that the church needed. The tutor who had trained students in logic, metaphysics, and ethics with enviable success would not fail as the teacher of the church to lay broad and deep the foundations of its growth and stability. He had in his parish such men as Hezekiah Brainerd, the father of the widely known and honored mission- aries, David and John, who was himself a man of re- pute and influence in the colony. For ten years he represented the town in the General Court, was Speaker of the House, and for the four years preceding his death was a member of the Council. His death at the early age of forty-six was a serious loss to the town and to the colony. His wife was Dorothy, the daughter of Mr. Hobart. Their first child was the Deacon Hezekiah Brainerd of our records, who married Mary, daughter of E.ev. Mr. Fiske, and was a man of much influence in the church and town. The third child, Nehemiah, also married into the Fiske family, but after a brief pas- torate at Eastbury he died and his widow returned to Haddam. Their only child, a graduate of Yale Univer- sity in 1763, was the tenth deacon of the church. ■"he most prominent external sign of prosperity dur- ing the quarter of a century closing with Mr. Fiske 's death was the erection of the second meeting-house, located near the old cemetery, and having a seating capacity twice that of the old house. At first "com- fortable se'^ts" were ordered for the first floor only, and all were to oe pews. The congregation grew, and pews 15 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY in the great alley and galleries were added. Quietly these years of slow growth passed away. The loss of Mr. Fiske's records forbids any careful study of the work he accomplished. But the few suggestions from the traditions connected with his pastorate, and the steady growth in material things, fully assure us that he was a thoughtful and effective preacher, a friendly and helpful pastor, strong and wise in the administration of the affairs of the church, and emphatically loyal to his calling. As a medical adviser, his skill in the treat- ment of insanity and epilepsy is specially mentioned. His grave, with those of the other pastors buried in yon- der cemetery, may well be visited this anniversary week and decorated with flags and flowers in silent and grate- ful tribute of respect to the men whose religious influence was so impressive during the first century of our settled pastorates. This address, as most fitting to the opening service of our anniversary, and in accordance with the plan for these exercises, has dwelt at length on the earliest years of our history. The era of beginnings is absorbingly attractive. A few words only are added regarding the three remaining pastorates of the first century. The two following Mr. Fiske's were short. Aaron Cleveland was ordained the third settled pas- tor of the church July 5, 1739. He remained seven years, when, on account of serious financial difficulties caused by the influence of the war upon the currency, he resigned his office, much to the regret of a large part of the parish. Eight years later than his dismission in 1746, he was again invited, though declining the offer, to accept the pastorate. After leaving Haddam he en- tered the English church, and, having received ordina- 16 THE EARLY HISTORY tion in London from Bishop Sherlock, returned to this country as a missionary of the Society for the Propaga- tion of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, He died, "greatly lamented by all who knew him," August 11, 1757. His successor, Joshua Elderkin, served the church but four years, being constrained by failing health to give up preaching. At Windham, whither he removed after his dismission, April 18, 1753, he became promi- nent, and in the Revolution "took an active and honor- able part in the movement, sacrificing loyally of his re- sources in the public cause." With the coming of Mr. May, at the opening of the second half-century, our church records begin. Declining a call from Coventry in the latter part of 1754, he received in February of 1756, on the recommendation of the Hartford South Associa- tion, an invitation from this church to preach as a can- didate for settlement. In May proposals were made for his acceptance of the pastorate on the basis of £160 set- tlement and £70 annual salary, which later, at his re- quest, was increased with the limitations that the salary should never fall below £70 or exceed £100. Mr, May's records are highly prized not only as being the first that are preserved, but also for their detailed account of his official actions. They open with an account of the or- dination services, June 30, 1756, and a list of the mem- bership of the church. Just one hundred names are enrolled and three are added before the year closes. Rebecca Selden Wells, widow of James, the son of James of the first settlement in 1662, stands first on the list, being at that time seventy-seven years of age, and dying eight years later. Other names of special interest are Lydia Pratt Fiske, widow of the second pastor, and his daughter, Elizabeth, the widow of Rev. Nehemiah Brain- 2 17 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY erd, also her sister Mary, the wife of Hezekiah Brainerd, who, in 1764, became a deacon in the church; Sarah Brainerd, the widow of James, the fourth in the list of deacons; Thomas Brooks and Elisha Cone, whom Dr. Field marks as known to have been ordained as deacons, and both serving from 1742, the latter for sixty-seven years, till his death in 1809 at the advanced age of nine- ty-nine ; Elijah Brainerd and Joseph Smith, who became deacons, the first in 1759, and the second in 1771 ; Dr. Hopestill Crittenden, and others not as easily identified. These and their associates welcomed the youthful pastor, then in his twenty-fourth year, to a long and useful ministry. The population of the town steadily increased from twelve hundred and forty-one in 1756 till at Mr. May's death it had reached twenty-three hundred. The erection of our third house of worship occurred under Mr. May's pastorate. The attention of the people im- mediately following its dedication in 1771 was directed to the struggle for independence, in which the town shared with commendable devotion. By a fearless and faithful ministry, Mr. May was making large preparation for the deeper religious awak- ening that was already, as his ministry drew to its close, beginning to be felt in parts of New England; but for the full influence of which this church will wait till the opening of the new century and the coming of young men to make the new brighter than the old. As we close, anticipating the larger gathering on "Wed- nesday, our thoughts turn again with grateful emotion to the fathers. They are not here. They toiled and prayed and preached. They made our history fragrant with the breath of spring and joyous with autumn's harvests. But the past of the church is the prophecy 18 THE EARLY HISTORY of its future. We recite the story of the church mili- tant, and the centuries already passed bid us look for- ward with exultant confidence and say, with the twelve hundred saints of our enrolment already gathered in,— Come, thou Church Triumphant, come, Raise the song of Harvest-home! All are safely gathered in. Free from sorrow, free from sin; Come to God's own temple, come; Raise the song of Harvest-home. 19 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS OF HADDAM Mrs. frank H. ARNOLD THE first Sunday-school of which we have any record was held over two thousand years ago, in the streets of Jerusalem ; and though it lasted from daybreak until the noontide, the pupils were so interested that they gathered together the second day, and the third, and for seven days, "and there was great gladness." The superintendent was one Ezra, with a corps of teachers whose names I will not attempt to pronounce. In at least four respects this Sabbath-school was a model for all to come: in attendance— "all the people gath- ered as one man," in attention— "the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law," in reverence — "when he opened the book all the people stood up," and in efficient teaching— "they read in the book of the law of God distinctly and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." The present system of Sabbath-schools probably origi- nated with Robert Raikes in Gloucester, England, one hundred years later than the organization of the Had- dam church. Although since the sixteenth century children have been gathered together for religious in- struction on the Sabbath, and in the summer of 1781, the same year which marked the beginning of the Glou- cester Sunday-school, some of the fathers of the church in "Washington, this State, gathered the children around 20 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS OF HADDAM them, iinder the trees, during the intermission, and taught them in the Bible and catechism. The Sunday-school organized by Mr, Eaikes differed greatly from those of the present day. Business leading him into the suburbs of the town inhabited by the lowest class of the people, he was struck with concern at seeing a group of ragged children at play. He was informed that "on Sunday the street was filled with a multitude of wretches, who, having no employment on that day, spent their time in noise and riot, playing at chuck, and cursing and swearing." To check this deplorable pro- fanation of the Lord's Day, he engaged four women to instruct as many children as he should send them on the Sabbath, in reading and the church catechism. In a short time a visible improvement was effected both in the manners and morals of the children, who attended in considerable numbers. Ten years later Sunday-schools were established in Philadelphia, and the system soon extended to New York and the New England States. At first those who taught were hired to do the work, and the common rudiments of learning were taught as well as Scripture texts and the catechism. A picture of the earliest Sunday-school in Haddam is given in Rev. E. E. Lewis's historical sketch of the church. It was opened the second Sabbath in May, 1819, dur- ing Dr. Marsh's ministry, and continued until the close of August. It was discontinued during the winter months, as there was no provision for warming the meet- ing-house; each family had an old-fashioned foot-stove, which was supplied with coals from the home hearth in the morning, and supplemented at noon from some neigh- 21 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY boring house, or at the "Sabbath Day House," a small house near the church, where the people gathered after morning service for warmth and social intercourse. The Sunday-school numbered at that time sixty boys and one hundred girls between the ages of seven and sixteen. They were separated into classes of five, each of which, with its teacher, was located in a pew in the meeting-house. The school opened at 12 :30 by a hymn sung by the teachers, entitled "The Teacher's Prayer"; the superintendent, accompanied by the scholars, then offered the Lord 's Prayer ; after this the teachers devoted themselves to their classes for fifty minutes, hearing the children recite the lessons they had learned, and convers- ing with them. The children then advanced into the aisle and sang to the tune of "Bath" this hymn : Oh, what a privilege is this That we obtain so rich a grace! We 're taught the path to endless day, We 're taught to read, to sing, and pray! They then went in regular procession out of the house for some relaxation before the afternoon services. During the preaching, the children sat together in the gallery, with a male and a female teacher with them to watch over them and mark such as behaved disorderly. Good-behavior tickets were given to all who had not for- feited them by bad conduct, and at the end of each month the tickets were redeemed by small religious books. During the four months of this first summer there were recited by each scholar an average of over three 22 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS OF HADDAM hundred and fifty verses of the Bible, over one hundred and twenty hymns, and three hundred and sixty an- swers to the catechism. Can the children of 1900 surpass that record ! Deacon Jonathan Huntington was the first superin- tendent of the school. In a letter written in 1862 to Kev. Charles Nichols, pastor of the Higganum church, Dr. Marsh speaks of the pleasure it gives liim that "you hold in recollection the old minister who forty-three years ago gathered around him, with great delight, the boys and girls of Haddam, to teach them the ways of Zion, then a more beautiful sight than the most beautiful flower-garden." Some of the scholars [he continues] would learn so many verses that the teachers would not have time to hear them all. The sum- mer was very happy with the teachers and the scholars, and for several summers the school was very prosperous. About two or three years after, it was blessed with a powerful revival of religion, and several of the children were hopefully converted. And to that school we might well look for the stability of the young peo- ple of Haddam, and much of the strength of the church, of which a good proportion of the school became members. Tell the teachers and scholars to be faithful, to remember that life is short, and a glorious crown is for those who overcome. Here is the program which was probably used during the first summer: EULES AND EeGULATIONS FOR THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL ESTABLISHED IN HADDAM 1. The children are to attend meeting every Sabbath morning, with hair combed, hands, face, and clothes clean, and sit together. 2. To be at the School Eoom at half past 12 o 'clock. 23 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY 3. To take their seats immediately on entering the School. 4. To say, together, the Lord's Prayer, after the superintendent. 5. To have some lesson learnt, to say to their Teachers, and to say it in a low voice. 6. To behave weU in School, and neither laugh nor whisper. 7. To be grateful and attentive to their Teachers. 8. To love one another, and avoid contention and quarrelling. 9. Never to swear, or tell a lie, or call names. 10. To go to meeting in the afternoon in procession, and be- have with solemnity. Punctuality, Good Behavior, and Proficiency in learning, will be rewarded by Tickets and Premiums. Good reasons must be given for absence from School. Then follow four stanzas of a hymn to be learnt by all the Children, and sung each Sabbath, in Bath. The following resolutions were adopted at a Church meeting held on May 5, 1822 : I. The male members of this Church shall constitute a Sabbath School Society. II. The object of this Society shall be to encourage an atten- dance on the Sabbath School and promote its interest. III. Every member of this Society shall pledge himself to send punctually, as far as convenient, his children to the Sabbath School, and other children committed to his care, and shall en- courage other parents to do the same. IV. This Society shall appoint a Committee, annually, of one, at least, in every school district, whose business it shall be to visit all the families in such district, and to take the names of the Parents, and the children between the ages of seven and sixteen, and the ages of the children, and transmit them to the Pastor of the Church in three weeks from their appointment, and who shall induce and encourage, by conversation from time to time with the parents and children, the attendance of the children on the Sabbath School. V. As rewards are absolutely necessary for the encouragement of children, every member shall pay annually ten cents for the 24 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS OF HADDAM purchase of them, which sum shall be collected hj the Deacons at the Communion in July and expended according to the direc- tion of the Pastor or Deacons. Brethren Fiske Brainerd, Simon Hazelton, Comfort Cone, James Gladwin, Selden Huntington, Eliot Brainerd, Joseph Scovil, Mar- quis D. Thomas, Thomas C. Smith, Stephen Tibbals, Archelaus Tyler, Daniel C. Dickinson, Henry Smith, Selden Tyler, Edward Kutty, were appointed a committee for this year. Attest, John Marsh, Pastor. It seems strange to think of the Sunday-school as a modern institution, but this is impressed upon us by the fact that there are now living three members of that first Sunday-school in Haddam: Miss Larissa Shailer of Tylerville, born in 1800 ; the Rev. Daniel Clark Tyler (son of Moses Tyler) of Oneida, N. Y., born in 1808, who supplied the pulpit of this ehiirch for a short time in 1844; and Nathan T. Dickinson of Burlington, Perm., who was born in 1805. No doubt you will be glad to hear what Mr. Dickinson— now a veteran of ninety-five— has to say of the first Sunday-school. He writes : I was a member of one of the very first Sabbath Schools in the United States. That school was organized by the Kev. John Marsh in the summer of 1819; there were a very few other Sab- bath Schools organized in the year 1818, in other parts of Con- necticut and in Massachusetts. My teacher was John May. My classmates were John Smith, George Childs, Alfred Carter, and others that I will not mention. There were two early superintendents whom I remember. Their names were. Marquis Thomas of Ponsett, and Comfort Cone of Walkley HiU School District. There were so many influential young men in the school as teachers and officers, that it is impossible for me to be positive about the superintendents. Of the male teachers there were George Brainerd, Alva Shailer, Ezekiel Clark, Watson Boardman; 25 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVERSARY females: Orpha Clark, Huldah Smith, and my sister Eliza. Clark and Ashbel Tyler were in the class, but not teachers. I could have given you more names of scholars, but I vrill make it a general thing. The scholars vi^ho came from Candlewood Hill School District, were the Scovils, Baileys, and Burrs; from Hig- ganompus School District were the Brainerds, Boardmans, Glad- wins, Childs, and Huntingtons; from WalJdey Hill were the Walkleys, Brooks, and Cones; from Cockey Ponsett the Hub- bards, Thomases, Spencers, Tibbals, and Bonfoeys; from Beaver Meadow were the Smiths, Knowles, and Brainerds; from Turkey Hill District were the Dickinsons, Tylers, Arnolds, and Rays; from Middle or Red School House District were the Shailers, Ventreses, Elys, and Shermans; Lower District, Tylerville, the Shailers, Tylers, Arnolds; from Haddam Neck District, Arnolds, Dudleys, Clarks, Brooks, and Brainerds. So you see they came from all over the town. I can recaU the acts and faces of my classmates as plainly as though it were but yesterday that I was among them. It is a great pleasure and pastime to think of their familiar faces. The picture presented by Mr. Dickinson is a very pleasant one — of the boys and girls flocking from all parts of the town to the meeting-house on the morning of each Lord's Day. Think of the distances traveled! From Candlewood HUl, "Higganompos," Tylerville, and Ponsett! Yet doubtless the weekly gathering was anticipated with pleasure. Possibly some present to-day may remember the bands of children trooping over the beautiful hills and valleys to the meeting-house, bearing in their hands shoes and stockings which were put on just before reaching their destination. Some time during the next decade a Sunday-school was established in Candlewood Hill auxiliary to the Had- dam school. The list of teachers between 1834 and 1841 will recall 26 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS OF HADDAM to some of the older members many interesting remi- niscences of their labors. Cyprian S. Brainerd was elected superintendent in 1839, and served most acceptably for many years. Ben- jamin H. Catlin was the assistant superintendent. The same year, Mrs. Submit Field taught a class of boys. We can give but the names of the remaining teachers between 1834 and 1841 : Mary Arnold Cyprian S. Brainerd Charles Brainerd James A. Brainerd George S. Brainerd Eliot Brainerd Ansel Brainerd Emma Brainerd Fanny Brainerd Ursula Brainerd Miss A. Bonfoey Hiram Brooks Ellen Boyce Mrs. Lucy Buell Eev. T. S. Clark Mrs. Huldah Clark Cynthia Child Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Child Mrs. H. Child Asa Mitchel John May James Noyes Ikliss Peck Edward Rutty EUzabeth Eutty Mrs. E. Scovil Alva Shailer Mary Ann Shailer Larissa Shailer Hurlbert Swan David A. Strong Miss Catlin Comfort Cone Mariah Chapman WiUard Cook Ebenezer Cook Chauncey Dickinson Charles Dickinson Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Catlin Mary L. Dibble Selden Huntington Sarah Huntington Elizabeth Huntington Armenia Hubbard Miss Hazleton Ezra Kelsey Daniel Kelsey Mrs. Davis Kelsey Sally Kelsey Rev. D. D. Field Mr. Fiske Miss Gould Gilbert S. Gladwin Russell Gladwin Marietta Gladwin Alexander W. Hall Theodore D. Hayes Ira Hutchinson 27 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Lorinda Hull Chauncey D. Skinner Mrs. Spencer Miss M. C. Snow Mrs. Willard OUver P. Smith Henry Smith Linus B. Smith James Smith Betsey Smith Emily Smith * * These rest from their labors, and their works do follow them. ' ' Sophia Smith Eowena Smith Marinda Ann Smith Daniel Clark Tyler EUzabeth Tyler Mrs. S, Tyler David B. Ventres Mary Ann Walkley Mary Ann Warren Miss Warner During the pastorate of Mr. James L. Wright, we find the following names on the roll of teachers : John A. Brainerd S. Worthington Shailer Fanny Ventres Nancy Williams Mary Brainerd Martha E. Brainerd Mary Enuna Brainerd Hattie Brainerd Hattie Wright Hattie Clark Mrs. James N. Russell Mrs. Elihu B. Rogers Emily Smith Memories of faithful and efficient laborers will be re- called by the following list of the superintendents and their assistants during the last thirty years : Superintendents John A. Brainerd Arnold H. Hayden Marvin W. Brainerd Miner C. Hazen John H. Odber Shailer B. Walkley Frank H. Arnold Ezekiel Shailer EoUin U. Tyler 28 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS OF HADDAM Assistant Superintendents S. W. Shailer Helen Eussell Charles A. Dickinson Mary Hazen Edward C. Arnold Mrs. James N. Eussell Edward W. Hazen Hattie Clark Eoger E. Dickinson Mrs. G. A. Dickinson Mary E. Brainerd Mrs. E. B. Eogers Kate E. Kelsey Mrs. A. H. Hayden Mrs. E. E. Lewis Mrs. A. E. Shailer Martha E. Brainerd Mrs. Samuel Arnold The advancement of the school during this period is more largely due to the pastor than to any other one person. His Bible class has been a source of profit and enjoyment to its members, and his constant interest in the school has added greatly to its prosperity. In addition to the officers of the last thirty years might be mentioned the following teachers : Mr. Cephas Brainerd, Sr. Mrs. Ellen Brainerd Mr. Cephas Brainerd, Jr. Mrs. Miner C. Hazen Mrs. Eleanor Boylston Mrs. S. W. Shailer Mrs. A. W. Tyler Mrs. J. H. Odber together with a score of others who are at present car- rying forward the good work. In the death of John A. Brainerd in 1875, the school lost one of its most able and willing workers. Ten years later Miss Martha E. Brainerd, who for more than half a century had labored with untiring devotion and sympathy in the interests of the school, was taken home. Memories linger with us of Mrs. E. E. Lewis. The 29 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESARY results of her influence upon the boys whom she had under her care will not be known here ; but her earnest prayers, the personal notes, the word fitly spoken, and her unfeigned interest, have borne fruit, and many rise up and call her blessed. Many now growm to manhood and womanhood re- member their first happy days in Sabbath-school with their gentle teacher. Miss Mary Brainerd. She had for years a large class of little folk, and used often, after the opening exercises were over, to take them to her own home, where they spent a bright hour, then sped home- ward bearing a tiny red book from the little library kept there. But time would fail me to make mention of the many who have been instrumental in the upbuilding of Chris- tian character here. It is uncertain when the school first availed itself of the inspiration of a varied service of song. For a long time it seemed content with simply the opening hymn by the teachers and that sung in closing by the children. Probably about 1853 a little song-book— " The Sab- bath-school Hosanna"— was adopted; some years later this was replaced by the "Happy Voices." This was used until 1880, when Mr. Cephas Brainerd, always a warm supporter of the school, provided the song-book in use until this occasion— "Spiritual Songs for the Sunday-school" — which he to-day replaces by the gift of " In Excelsis for School and Chapel. ' ' A library has been connected with the school since 1830, possibly longer, and has been a source of enjoy- ment and helpfulness. Mr. D. C. Hubbard was one of the earliest librarians. In 1889, Mr. Owen B. Arnold presented fifty dollars 30 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS OF HADDAM to be expended for new books, and at various times tbe funds of the school have been used for its replenishing. At present, access to the excellent town library lessens the importance of this part of the school's equipment. Liberal contributions have been regularly made by the school to the work of foreign missions, and to Sun- day-school work in the "West and in our own State. It is of interest to note that the school at its Ijegin- ning had a teachers' meeting, held throughout the year at the house of Mr. Marsh, the pastor. The teachers' meeting, which has been held weekly during the last twenty-seven years, has been of untold benefit to those who have availed themselves of its priv- ileges. We recall the animated discussions, the flashes of wit, at some of these gatherings, when our pastor was surrounded by a group including Mrs. Rogers, Miss Martha E. Brainerd, Mrs. Ellen Brainerd, Mrs. Fannie Clark, Miss Mary E. Brainerd, and others, all intent on reaching the heart of the next Sabbath's lesson. In 1870, ''The Child's Scripture Question Book," "embellished with twenty-one engravings," was in use; the answers, as far as possible, were printed in the words of the Bible. Lesson II opens as follows : Who were Cain and Abel? The Sons of Adam. — Genesis iv: 1, 2. Of what did Cain make an offering to the Lord? Of the fruits of the ground, etc., etc. In 1873 the International Lessons were adopted, and have been followed since that time. What a marvelous gain this course has been to the school! The surroundings of the sacred story, the cus- toms of the people, the geographical and historical set- 31 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY tings, the multiplicity of illustrations, the thoughts of greatest minds, and an almost bewildering array of helps, serve to make the Bible a living book to the pupils of to- day. How much greater the responsibility of the youth of 1900 than ever before ! * ' For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shaU be much required." Our oldest member, — Miss Larissa Shailer, — who bears with her an atmosphere of sunshine and serenity, and has just passed the hundredth milestone of her journey, looks back upon a century of wonderful progress and achievement. Our youngest member,— Lucy Kelsey,— aged four, stands upon the threshold of a century full of possibil- ities. What will it bring to the Sabbath-school of Haddam? What will the Haddam Sabbath-school give to it? 32 THE EARLY SETTLERS AND THEIR HOMES ROLLIN U. TYLER IN 1614, Captain Adrian Blok and his crew of Dutch- men, in the ship Onrest, sailed up the Connecticut for fifty miles, and named the stream, in distinction from the saltish Hudson, "Fresh River." Then they sailed down the Sound and discovered Block Island, which to this day retains the old skipper's name. These were doubt- less the first white men to set eyes upon the rugged hills of Haddam. Their discovery was twenty years before the settlements at Saybrook and about Hartford, six years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, and only seven years after the first permanent English settle- ment in America was planted at Jamestown, Virginia. The present territory of Haddam and East Haddam was purchased from the Indians for a trifling amount by a committee of the Connecticut Colonial Legislature in May, 1662, or about one month after the signing by Charles II of the Charter of Connecticut. At that day, there were only about a dozen settlements along the Sound shore from Stonington to Greenwich, and about half as many more along the river above us to the Massa- chusetts line. Norwich had just been settled by a mi- gration from Saybrook. All the rest of Connecticut was a wilderness, uninhabited by the white man. The new plantation of Thirty Mile Island was to form the con- 3 33 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY necting link between the settlements on the river and those on the Sound. There were twenty-eight proprietors who took up the purchase and, with their wives and families, began to arrive here from Hartford and vicinity, in the summer of 1662, or soon after. They were (1) James Bates, Samuel Butler, William Corbee, Abraham Dibble, Sam- uel Gaines, John Hannison, Richard Jones, Stephen Luxford, John Parents, Richard Piper, Thomas Smith, Joseph Stannard, John Webb, and John Wiatt, four- teen of them, whose names and families were practically extinct in Haddam before 1700; and (2) Nicholas Ack- ley, Joseph Arnold, John Bailey, Daniel Brainerd, Thomas Brooks, William Clarke, Daniel Cone, George Gates, Thomas Shaylor, Gerrard Spencer and his son John Spencer, Simon Smith, William Ventres, and James Wells, fourteen of these last, all of whom now have descendants of their names in the original town- ship, except James Wells, who has descendants, but not of the Wells name, that name having become extinct in Haddam with the death of Oliver Wells, Esq., in 1820. Two settlements were formed, the larger, known as the Town Plot, extending along the old road from the southeastern end of Walkley Hill to the neighborhood of this church; the other, called the Lower Plantation, along the back road in what is now Shailerville, from Mill Creek nearly to the Baptist church. Wiatt, Jones, Ventres, Corbee, Shaylor, Bates, Hannison, Parents, Dibble, and Ackley settled at the Lower Plantation, in the order named, from Mill Creek south. The other pro- prietors, except Gaines and Webb, settled on the Town Plot. At first all the land was owned in common. Soon after 34 THE EARLY SETTLEES AND THEIR HOMES the settlement, each proprietor was assigned a home lot, the record of which, in the town book, was evidence of his individual ownership in the property, and constituted his certificate of stock in the common enterprise. By successive allotments and grants during the next hun- dred and fifty years, most of the remaining lands passed into the hands of the individual inhabitants. Desirable persons were admitted by vote of the town to the privileges of inhabitants, and were granted, ac- cordingly, shares in the common proprietorship and allotments of land to their individual use. Undesirable persons were not allowed in town, as witness the fol- lowing : April 10th, 1673, "it was agreed by voate that John Sled and his wief should not be entertained in the towne as inhabitants or resedence and also Goodman Corbee was forewarned not to reseave him into his hows becose they weare not persones quali- fied according to Law." January 1st, 1683; the townsmen [selectmen] were ordered "to warne frederick Elies and his wief to depart the towne by next march insueing. " A few enduring landmarks, like "Wells Brook, the old burying-ground, the roads to the woods, "the parsonage lot forever," and Mill Creek, enable us, with the aid of the early records, to locate the first homes of the settlers with some degree of accuracy, and to say some- thing about the occupants. I think we must assume that there was a thoroughfare through the town before the settlement (only a cart-path, or perhaps a bridle-path, following an Indian trail), as otherwise Saybrook would have been for many years 35 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY without overland communication with the up-river towns. And this was probably the origin of the old "country road" through the Town Plot along which the proprietors built their first rude cabins. On the Ephraim Pierson place, about where George W. Parraalee's house is, was the home of Samuel But- ler, son of Deacon Richard Butler of Hartford, formerly of Cambridge. In 1667, Samuel was one of the impor- tant committee of three from Haddam appointed by the town ''to treate with Sea Brooke men about ye bounds." The next year, he sold out his interests at Haddam to Richard Walkley of Hartford, and moved to Wethersfield, where he became a deacon of the church. The Walkley name has ever since been associated with that part of Haddam. John Spencer, eldest son of Gerrard, dwelt next south of Butler, his lot extending to the brink of the hill over- hanging the brook. Each of these two home lots ex- tended from the highway to the river, and contained eight acres. John Spencer died young, before his father, and left what is known as a ''narrative" or "nuncu- pative" will, probated at Hartford, then our county seat. A seven-acre lot on the east side of the road, in the ravine where the brook runs, was laid out to James Wells, after whom the brook was named ; but his house was half a mile away, near the present Academy lane. Before coming to Haddam (1650), he had lived with William Pynchon, the founder of Springfield. He was captain of militia in 1694. He died four years later, full of years and honors. His descendants were very prominent in this community for one and a half cen- turies, after which the family name became extinct within our borders. 36 THE EABLY SETTLERS AND THEIR HOMES As the ''country roati" reaches the summit of the ridge a few rods south of Wells Brook, we have a com- manding view of the Town Plot as far south as the bury- ing ground. Before us the ancient thoroughfare mean- ders along by the edge of the rising ground and up the hill to the court-house, as if it were following an Indian trail rather than a survey of the white man. On the left of it were the four-acre "home lots" of the settlers, fronting seven or eight rods on the road, and stretching northeasterly to the Great River. Opposite, on the rising ground to the right, were the three-acre "additional lots," corresponding. On the next lot south of Wells's ravine, and opposite where we are now supposed to be standing, was the home of Thomas Brooks the blacksmith. Tradition says that his forge was opposite Harry Arnold's house, near the corner of the road which leads up the hill to the new watering-trough. Thomas is thought to have come over in the Susan and Ellen in 1635. He kept a hotel at New London in 1659. By his second wife, Alice Spencer, he became the father of Thomas Brooks the second deacon, and the grandfather of Thomas Brooks the fifth deacon, of this church. He died in 1668. The probate court ordered Mistress Alice to teach her son (the future deacon) how to read and write; his sisters how to read only. The homestead was inventoried at £35; the iron and brass in the smithy at £3 ; the guns and sword at £3. Five years later, the widow had become the second wife of Thomas Shaylor. Stephen Luxford lived next south of Brooks, on the summit of the ridge. He died in 1676, fourteen years after the settlement, leaving a widow, but no children. His homestead, measuring eight rods in front and eighty rods deep, was inventoried at £18, and sold to William 37 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Spencer. The high knoll in Ms additional lot, west of the road, land now owned by Mr. Cephas Brainerd, was called "Luxford Hill" within the memory of the oldest inhabitants of former years. The next home lot to Luxford's, reserved at first for the blacksmith, was given by the town in 1667 to John Elderkin of Norwich, upon his agreement to build a grist-mill, as the town was in "greate nasesity" for the same, and was too poor to build one. Elderkin sold this lot next year to Peter Blatchford of New London, after whose early death it became the property of Daniel Cone. John Elderkin was a celebrated master-builder and contractor in his day. He was great-grandfather of Rev. Dr. Joshua Elderkin, pastor of the church from 1749 to 1753. Just south of the "blacksmith lot," and next to the old highway which leads down to the "White House Landing, ' ' was the lot reserved for the first minister who should settle here. Our second minister, Rev. Nicholas Noyes, was admitted to the privileges of an inhabitant (1669), and was granted the rights appurtenant to this lot. It is uncertain whether a house was ever erected upon it. In the southwest corner of the fence, where the road turns toward the river, may still be seen the top stones of an ancient well. Who dug it, or how many generations have used it, we do not know. On the south side of the river road was ' ' the parsonage lot forever." It remained in the control of the town, and of its successor, the first ecclesiastical society, for nearly two centuries, when, in 1859, it was leased by the society for nine hundred and ninety-nine years to the father and brother of the late Mr. Zechariah Brainerd. The fine old parsonage was burned a few years ago. 38 THE EARLY SETTLEES AND THEIR HOMES Gerrard Spencer, the patriarch of the community, had his dwelling just opposite the site of the present house of Captain Parmalee. He was at Cambridge in 1634 ; later at Lynn, where he was granted a ferry in 1639 ; six times a member for Haddam in the General Court, and ensign of the Haddam "trayne band" in King Philip's war. The descendants of his six sons and as many daughters are numbered by the tens of thousands. From his daughter Hannah are descended all the Brain- erds ; from Mehitable, all the Cones ; from Alice, all the Brookses and some of the Shailers; from Elizabeth, the numerous Stannard family of Westbrook ; and from Ruth, who married Joseph Clarke, many of that name. Ensign Spencer died in 1685. In his will, dated September, 1683, we read: "A pewter flaggon and a rim bason, I give unto the church at Haddam, if there be one within five years after the date hereof." Although the church was not formally organized within the time limited by this bequest, it is believed that the ancient flagon now owned by the church is the Gerrard Spencer gift, and is probably the only visible possession of ours which links the present occasion with the very begin- nings of our history. The homestead of Goodman Thomas Smith was bounded northwesterly by that of Gerrard Spencer, and on the opposite side by that of John Bailey, so that it reached southwesterly to the line of Harry Arnold's present house lot. Thomas was evidently without wife or near relatives in his last days, and so he remembered his friends and neighbors. An extract from his will, dated September 22, 1674, the year of his death, will make more real to us the fact that these men and women once lived, and passed up and down these streets : 39 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY As for my estate that God hath given me, I dispose of it as fol- loweth: I give my home lot, orchard, and fence about it to the wife of John Baley, and to her children after her. ... I give to the wdfe of Daniel Brainvi^ood all my household stuffe and mov- ables that by this will are not othervtise disposed of, and my hay to Daniel Brainwood. I give my tobacco to James Wells. I give my steers to Nicholas Noyes. I give ray corn and my grain to John Smith. I give my hog to John Baley, sr. I give my turnips equally amongst James Wells, Daniel Cone, Joseph Stan- nard and John Baley. I give what Timothy Spencer oweth me to Daniel Cone. I also make John Baley, sr. and Daniel Brainwood my executors to see this my will fulfilled and to take care of my burial on which I would have forty shillings expended, thirty of which I would have John Baley allow out of what is given him, and Daniel Brainwood the other ten shillings. I give my cloathcs to Steven Luxford. One of the witnesses was Rev. Nicholas Noyes. He probably drafted the will, as in those days the ministers frequently performed such services. John Bailey's house-lot included the land now occu- pied by the houses of Harry Arnold and O. S. Bailey, He had been constable at Hartford in 1656. Two of his sons, John and Nathaniel, settled in the Town Plot, or near by. Benjamin, the other son, settled and had a mill near the falls on Higganum River. Descendants had located at Ponset as early as 1690, and the Bailey name has been found most frequently since that time in the northerly and westerly parts of the township. Deacon Daniel Brainerd's home lot was opposite the road which leads westerly up the hill, and extended southerly to the line of fence which now indicates 0. S. Bi^iley's southern boundary. His additional lot across the way reached up the hill and included the land where Mrs. Zechariah Brainerd's house is situated, and a portion of Dr. Hazen's homestead. 40 THE EARLY SETTLERS AND THEIR HOMES Deacon Brainerd was ancestor of so many of us, and was so closely identified with the formation and early history of this church, that a few words about his fam- ily will not be out of place. Of his seven sons, Deacon Daniel, Jr., and Joshua were among the first settlers from the west side in East Haddam. This was about 1685. Settlers from Saybrook and elsewhere were living on the east side some ten or fifteen years earlier. Creek Row, where the settlement began, is the locality on the hill back of the old Cove burying ground, or, generally speaking, that portion of East Haddam which can be seen from Haddam Street. Of the deacon's other sons, James settled in Haddam near the center, Elijah in Candlewood Hill district, Hezekiah between "Walkley Hill and Higganum, and Caleb somewhere on the west side of the river. William settled on the Neck between the foot of Quarry Hill and the house of Mr. Cyprian S. Brainerd ; his son Samuel, at Brainerd Hill, beyond Higganum. Hannah, the dea- con's only daughter, was wife of Deacon Thomas Gates of East Haddam, and had a large family. There were about seventy-five grandchildren of Deacon Daniel, of whom more than sixty were of the Brainerd name, and the large majority of them were boys. It is recorded by Rev. Elijah Brainerd (1757-1828), a grandson of our Deacon Elijah, that, April 6, 1786, there were com- puted to have been twenty-two hundred descendants of Deacon Daniel Brainerd; and that was only seventy- one years after Deacon Daniel's death. Although Deacon Brainerd lived more than fifty years after the settlement, his headstone inscription in the old burying ground is the earliest of any inhabitant, and the only one of an original proprietor which has come 41 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY down to our day. Rev. Jeremiah Hobart, who died a few months later than the deacon, also has a monument to his memory. The earliest inscription is that of Edward Shipman, a resident of Chester, near "Ship- man's Pond," who died in 1711, and was brought here for burial, apparently for the reason that our burying- ground was nearer his home than was the one at Say- brook Point, For eighty years this was the only burying- place in Haddam on this side of the river. The yard at Higganum was laid out in 1741 ; the one at Ponset in 1761 ; and the one at Tylerville in 1782. Daniel Cone's "home lot," next south of Deacon Brainerd's, was too uneven near the highway for build- ing purposes, and so at an early date we find his house located on the lot laid out for the blacksmith, next to Luxford's. He died, probably at East Haddam, in 1706, aged eighty years. Of his four sons, three moved to East Haddam, the eldest having married a daughter of George Gates. Joseph Stannard at first built on his ' ' additional lot, ' ' opposite his "home lot," about where the little red cot- tage stands near the foot of Pound Hill. Later, he had a house farther down the street near the first meeting- house, and another near Mill Creek. About 1683, he moved with his family to Westbrook, where his de- scendants have been numerous. Simon Smith's house was on the ridge to the east of the road, about twenty-five rods north of the burying- ground, the land being next to Stannard 's. He was grandfather of Joseph Smith, ninth deacon of this church, and was ancestor of all the Haddam Smiths who trace their lineage to the settlement of the town. William Clarke was Simon Smith's southerly neigh- 42 THE EARLY SETTLEES AND THEIR HOMES bor. His ''home lot" and first dwelling-place was on the east side of the highway, just north of the burying- ground. His home at the time of his death in 1681 was probably on his lot back of the court-house, about where the C. T. Russell homestead is. In 1669, William Clarke was the special commissioner of Haddam to the General Court as to the boundary dispute with Say- brook, with power to employ counsel if necessary. He was also one of the building committee of our first meeting-house. He was the ancestor of the Clarks now living in the central, western, and northern parts of Haddam, and on Haddam Neck. His sons Thomas and Joseph remained in Haddam, John settled in Middle- town, and William in Wethersfield. The Clarks of Tur- key Hill and the neighborhood of Clark's Creek in Ty- lerville are descended from Major John Clark, of Hart- ford, Saybrook, and Milford, who is named as one of the patentees in the Charter of Charles II to Connec- ticut, in 1662. George Gates, the magistrate, had his house-lot op- posite Captain Russell's and in front of the burying- ground, the northeast corner being about where the court-house stands. The main street now cuts across the corner and takes the whole front of the lot for high- way purposes. The front part of Gates's four-acre lot on the east side of the country road and next to William Clarke's was given up to the town for an enlargement of the burying-ground. George Gates was the leading public man of the town, having been captain of the train- band, first selectman for many years, the first town clerk, twenty-two times representative, and a leader of the movement to have East Haddam set off as a separate society. Many of the early land conveyances were drawn 43 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY and witnessed by him. Having spent Ms active life here, he went in his old age to live with his sons, all of whom had moved to Creek Row in East Haddam, and there he died about 1725, in his ninetieth year, being the last sur- vivor of the twenty-eight original proprietors. Joseph Arnold, son of John and Susannah Arnold of Hartford, and father of Joseph Arnold the third deacon of this church, came to Haddam at the beginning, but subsequently resided in Hartford for a few years. The front of his original home lot was given back to the town for a burying-ground, in exchange for another home lot taken out of the common land and located, it is believed, a few rods southerly of the present county jail. His first dwelling seems to have been on his addi- tional lot, near the Field Park entrance. He was proba- bly settled on the second lot at the date of the following town vote, December 7, 1667 : It was agreed and voted by the inhabitants that the settled place where the meeting house shall be built is at the front of the minister's lot in the little meadow lying against the end of the home lot of Joseph Arnold that now he dwells in. As late as 1690, both Joseph Arnold and his wife, Elizabeth Wakeman, were members of the church in Hartford. He died at Haddam in 1691, and his widow became the second wife of Deacon Daniel Brainerd. Richard Piper 's home lot was about opposite the pres- ent stone store, and his ' ' home meadow ' ' included the lot where the post-office stands. James "Wells dwelt oppo- site Piper's home meadow. Piper was a man of action, dealt in real estate, was constable, on the committee for laying out highways (about 1671) and establishing the town bounds, and representative in 1674. He was in 44 THE EARLY SETTLERS AND THEIR HOMES litigation with Thomas Dunk of Saybrook in 1675. At his death, April 3, 1678, he left a will, but mentioned no wife or children. The territory between the Town Plot and Mill Creek was occupied very soon after the settlement by the homes of the newly arriving inhabitants and of the children of the proprietors. Among the earliest residents in this section may be mentioned Joseph Arnold, Joseph Stan- nard, Rev. Nicholas Noyes, some of the younger genera- tion of Clarkes, and sons of Gerrard Spencer. Here our first meeting-house was built about 1674, which was for nearly half a century the only house of public worship between Middletown and Saybrook Point. Its location was near the two large maple-trees now standing near the southwest corner of the dooryard of Mrs. Austin S. Clark. The first grist-mill in town, built by Elderkin of Nor- wich about 1668, was located on Mill River, and gave the stream its name. The same year, Elderkin sold to Peter Blatchford **my corne mill that is now built." Blatchford had previously lived at New London, and had been granted land there for his valuable services in the Pequot War. George Gates and he were Had- dam's first two representatives to the General Court, 1670. At his death in 1671, the mill passed into the hands of James Bates. June 13, 1671, Mr. Bates was given permission by the town to make a dam on Mill River for "penning the water." July 28, 1677, James Bates, yeoman, of Had- dam, and Hannah his wife, for £60 sell to Simon Lynde, merchant, of Boston, "our corne mill standing upon the riveret or mill river in Haddam." May 16, 1690, Ben- jamin Lynde, student at Harvard College, sells his mill 45 H ADD AM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY and mill rights, "including the implements in the ruins of said mill," on JVIill River in Haddam, to Samuel Hough of Saybrook, millwright. In 1695, the town gave Joseph Rogers the privilege of putting up a saw-mill at the end of his grist-mill. In 1669, the town voted that every Monday shall be the day for every one to carry his com to mill to grind. All these records doubtless refer to the same mill site. In 1678, a saw-mill privilege in Higganum was granted by the town. In studying the map of the Lower Plantation, it must be borne in mind that the turnpike road from Shailer- ville school-house northerly by the railroad station to the County Home was not opened until about 1802, and that the earliest dwellings were built along the "old road," which continued to be the only thoroughfare through that settlement for about one hundred and forty years. John Wiatt's homestead comprised a tract of thirty acres extending from Mill River southeasterly to a line about half-way between the houses of Martha and Ezekiel Shailer, and from the Country Road to the Great River. Wiatt had previously lived at Windsor and at Farmington. After his death in 1668, the homestead was sold to James Bates and "William Ventres. The widow and her children moved to Hartford. The young- est son, Israel Wiatt, afterward settled in Colchester. The earliest landing-place of record in Haddam was established by vote of the town, April 9, 1667, at the mouth of the creek, then called "Beaver Brooke" (no mill having yet been established on the stream) ; and a convenient highway was to lead from the landing through the land of John W^iatt to the common highway. The home of Richard Jones, formerly of Farmington, 46 THE EAELY SETTLERS AND THEIR HOMES was next to Wiatt's. His home lot and others south of it were long strips of land containing eight acres, fronting about twenty to thirty rods on the highway, and extending to the Great River. Jones died in 1670, leaving a son, who died young, and two daughters, who married elsewhere. Haddam's earliest tax abatement of record dates from 1671, when it was voted "that the town will forgive the widow Jones her towne rate that is behind of last yeare. ' ' John Chappell bought the Jones home lot, but soon sold it to Thomas Spencer, a son of Gerrard, who afterward moved to Saybrook and was the ancestor of the Saybrook and Westbrook Spencers. Chappell returned to Lyme. The portion of the Jones homestead now owned by Ezekiel Shailer has been in the Shailer name continuously since 1689. William Ventres, from Farmington, sergeant of the Haddam train-band in King Philip's war, owned the next homestead, which has continued in the Ventres name until recent years, and is now occupied by Mrs. Behn, except the small portion owned by Carlos J. Ventres, and a small piece of land on which the black- smith shop is located. William Ventres died July 2, 1701, aged seventy-eight years. The dwelling-houses of Chester Case, Orrin Shailer, and Israel Shailer are on land which was originally the homestead of Goodman William Corbee, the innkeeper. Corbee died in 1674, leaving a family of small children, of whom Samuel afterward married Mary Crippen and settled in East Haddam; the rest moved away. On the hillside near the woods, a few rods southwest- erly of John 0. Brainerd's dwelling, may be seen the remains of an ancient cellar. It is pointed out as the location of the house of the emigrant Thomas Shaylor, 47 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESAEY from whom all the Shailers in America are supposed to have descended. The second Shailer house was on the east side of the road, a little below the first, and within a stone's throw of the old chestnut-tree under which Grandma Susannah Cone Shailer spread a luncheon for the soldiers in the time of the Revolution. The well of the second house, across the road from it, is still visible. Thomas was a sea captain, and there is good authority for the statement that he came from Stratford-on-Avon, the home of Shakspere, although the Shailer name has been a common one in the Hadhams of Hertfordshire for centuries. He lived here for a few years after the settlement, and then moved to Killingworth, now Clinton, for a few years more, after which he returned to Had- dam. In 1692, he sailed away for the West Indies, never to return. Twenty years afterward, administra- tion was granted to his sons Thomas and Timothy upon the estate of their father, "supposed to be deceased." Another son, Abel, moved to Bolton in this State and had a large family. James Bates's homestead was the land occupied in our day by the homes of Elders Simon and Davis and Deacon Russell Shailer. He formerly lived at Dor- chester, and at Hempstead, L. I. The records refer to him as "Mr. Bate." He had crossed the ocean re- peatedly, and was evidently a man of considerable prop- erty, of large experience, and highly respected. He was chairman of the committee for building our first meet- ing-house, and represented Haddam eight times in the General Court. His daughter Hannah was the first Haddam child whose record of baptism has come down to us. It reads as follows : 48 THE EARLY SETTLERS AND THEIR HOMES First Church, Middletown, March 7, 1669. Being the Lord's Day, Hannah Bate daughter to Mr. Bate of Thirty Mile Island (al[i]as Haddum) Mrs. Bate being a member of and in full Communion with the Church of Christ at Dorchester received the Initiatory Seale of ye Covenant by virtue of Communion of Churches. Mr. Bates died about 1692, and his family moved to other places. The homestead right of John Hannison was next south of the Elder Davis Shailer place, and included land now covered by the dwellings of Captain Franklin O. Tyler and Mrs. Smith Gilbert. Hannison was in Springfield in 1661, before coming to Haddam. In 1686, he sold his homestead to John Scovil of Waterbury, and moved to Hartford. There are pasture lots on the hill to the westward, which descended from Hannison to his son- in-law James Hadlock, which are known as "Hadlock" in Shailerville to this day. The family name of Han- nison has also been preserved, in the shortened form of "Hanson," in the Bates family, with whom the Han- nisons intermarried. John Parents 's home lot extended from the brook of Mrs. Asa Shailer 's to the north line of William Ely's. Parents died July 8, 1686, his only children being two daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, who married Abel and Timothy Shailer. Distinguished among their descend- ants are John Fitch the inventor, and Professor Nathan- iel Southgate Shaler of Harvard University. Abraham Dibble was a man of prominence in the new settlement. He represented Haddam on the com- mittees for settlement of the boundary disputes with Saybrook and Lyme. It is supposed that he moved to Suffield, and died there in 1690. The Westbrook Dib- 4 49 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVERSARY bles are said to be his descendants, probably through a son Jonah, who, Dr. Field says, was a settler in Ches- ter from Haddam in 1692. From the record, at Mid- dletown, of a Dibble child baptized while the family was living in Haddam in 1671-72, it appears that Mrs. Dibble was then a member of the church at Farmington. Richard Piper bought Dibble's homestead, 1673, and lived there till he died. By Piper's will, the place was given to John Kinard, a son-in-law of Gerrard Spencer. The houses of William Ely and Charles Scovil are on the same land. Nicholas Ackley of Hartford is named as one of the original proprietors, but did not come to Haddam till about 1667, when he was assigned about fourteen acres at the southern end of the Lower Plantation, part of which is now occupied by the home of Captain Adrian Shaler. Ackley died there in 1695, leaving several sons, all of whom moved to the east side of the river. The homestead was bought by James Ray of Narragansett, in 1698. John Bates, of Stratford in 1669, possibly a brother of James, moved to Haddam about 1672, and bought of Thomas Shailer a six-acre lot adjoining the lower side of the Ackley homestead. At a later date he set- tled near Roaring Brook, where his descendants lived in considerable numbers for a century and a half. August 14, 1693, for thirty-five shillings and six pence, Nicholas Noyes, "minister of the gospel at Salem," sells to John Bates of Haddam fifteen acres of up- land, abutting east on lands of Edward Purple, south on Roaring Brook, west on Country Road, and north on common land— that is, land in front of the Tylerville school-house. 50 THE EARLY SETTLERS AND THEIR HOMES There were a saw-mill and grist-mill on this land a century ago, and there is an old house there now which was built by the Bateses. The locality was known as ''Bates's Mills" as late as 1800. The Bates family and name have now wholly disappeared from the neigh- borhood. We have now located the home lots of all the twenty- eight proprietors except two, Samuel Gaines and John Webb. If either of them ever lived in Haddam, it was very early and for only a brief period. Webb was as- signed land which he sold early to Richard Piper. He may have been the progenitor of the Webbs of Chester. The home lot next south of Corbee's, opposite the site of the first Shailer house already referred to, first appears of record in the name of Thomas Richeson. A man of this name left Farmington about the same time with Wiatt, Jones, and Ventres, and afterward settled and died in Waterbury. The same land is referred to in the will of the second Thomas Shailer, 1753, as his ' ' Gaines lot. ' ' The supposition is that the land was first allotted to Gaines, and by him sold to Richeson, who sold it to Shailer. Gaines died in Glastonbury in 1700. Among the other residents on the west side of the river whose names appear of record within the first forty years after the settlement, may be mentioned: Rev. Jonathan Willoughby and Rev. John James; Wil- liam Porter ; John Blackleach ; Peter Miles the tailor ; Ed- ward Scovil, yeoman ; Andrew Benton ; Benjamin Scovil, tailor, who moved to East Haddam about 1715 ; Edward Purple, who lived near Rutty 's Creek and owned large tracts of land in the lower end of the town ; and Samuel Ingham and John Conners, whose homes were between Clark's Creek and Saybrook (now Chester) line. 51 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY The only churches in what is now Middlesex County, organized prior to our own, were Old Saybrook, 1646; Killingworth (now Clinton), 1667; and Middletown, 1668. From the organization of the church at Middle- town, in 1668, to the installation of Mr. Hobart as pastor of the Haddam church, November 14, 1700, a period of thirty-two years, about twenty-five Haddam families had about fifty of their children baptized at Middletown, which appear of record. The records indicate that the parents were connected with different churches, as fol- lows: Eight with the church at Lynn, being of the Gerrard Spencer family ; seven with the first church of Hartford ; six with the first church at Middletown ; three with the church at Haddam ; two with the church at Dorchester ; and one each with the churches at Farmington, Strat- ford, Saybrook, New London, and Hadley. Dr. Field estimates the number of families in Haddam at the date of its incorporation, in 1668, at about thirty, all living on the west side of the river. At the time our church was organized, about 1696, there may have been sixty families on the west side of the river, and half as many more in East Haddam. 52 ADDRESS Rev. WILLIAM A. BRONSON I DESIRE to express my thanks for the honor shown me by the pastor of this church in extending an in- vitation to unite with you on this anniversary occasion, — the bicentennial celebration of this church. I had expected an invitation to my church, and had there been none, I had planned to present a form of reso- lutions to our people and to send greetings. But it was unnecessary, for the pastor's letter ran thus: "Will you bring greeting from your church? You seem so thor- oughly one of us that the occasion would be incomplete without your address." The kindness thus expressed laid upon me an obliga- tion — and not only so, gives me great pleasure — to bring my own greetings and that of my church; indeed, I should have done my church great injustice had I re- fused, which I could not have done. Then I said how can I better express our greeting than in the words of the grand old Apostle John in sending greeting to the elders,— "Unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not only I, but also all they that have known the truth." To this elect lady, now two hundred years old, with- out a wrinkle on her brow, and with undimmed vision, I bring greeting from a sister church. We present our congratulations to her children for her health, vigor, 53 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY influence, and power; for her history of helpfulness and long-continued service to her exalted head; for her sacrifices and benevolence during the two centuries of her life. We are reminded at this period of her life, and on this occasion, of the words of the prophet : ' ' The fathers, where are they, and the prophets, do they live forever ? ' ' and the answer is: "Though dead, they yet speak to us; they live in their influence and the work they wrought — in the mission fields of the past. They builded better than they knew, and have bequeathed to their children the inestimable heritage of a Christian church." They were strong in their faith, in prayer and conse- cration, and in their sacrifices. You have a monument that has defied the tooth of time and the wear of cen- turies,— the Church of God, the pillar and the ground of the truth. It has been often said, and sometimes in sarcasm, that religion is declining, and that the church is losing its power; but no greater mistake was ever made, for at no period in the history of the church has Christianity had a greater influence or the church greater power than now at this period, and the beginning of the third cen- tury of this church's life. We do well to remember that power exhibits itself under two distinct forms— strength and force — each possessing qualities and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the tempest, the cataract, and the thunderbolt. It is under the former we find the power of the church and Christianity. The oak, its roots buried in the centuries ; the oak, with its branches spreading out, giving shelter and shade. The rock, im- 54 ADDRESS movable, solid. The mountain towering aloft as the landmark through the ages. This illustrates this church. Two centuries of Christian and social life; her influ- ence, like rootlets, going forth : her mission to give hope and shelter and salvation. We congratulate the distinguished lady on account of the ministry, and for the long service of her present pastor, and pray he may long continue to break with you the Bread of Life. And last, we bring you greeting and congratulate you on the receipt of so magnificent a gift, from one who not only is a friend to this church, but a distinguished member of this faith, in memory of his father, who in the long ago led the choir, — a fitting memorial gift. It will be a source of great pleasure to the giver, in the days to come, to listen to this king of instruments, while the voice of his father will seem to speak to him through these pipes, as the skilful fingers of the organist sweep the keys. Permit me, then, in closing to present once more our greetings on this happy anniversary, thanking you for the honor bestowed on me, and assuring you that the prayers of myself and the church I represent will ascend to God for your peace and prosperity. 55 THE DAY WE CELEBRATE CEPHAS BRAINERD LADIES AND Gentlemen: Yielding, as I do, to the i too kind invitation of the committee having this anniversary in charge, I undertake the duty of pre- siding. I tliink you will readily understand why these services anticipate by a few weeks the actual date of the instal- ling of our first pastor, November 14, 1700. It would not be becoming for me to occupy your time with extended observations, when we consider the pro- gram which we have before us. What has been accomplished in these two hundred years will appear with some fullness in what you are to hear from those named on the program, and did to some extent appear in the addresses which were delivered on Sunday last. We all know, I am sure, what the church is, and many have a realizing sense of what it has accomplished. There is, however, much to be told and much to make our hearts glad and fill them with gratitude, and we have a right to hope much for the future. In June, 1851, Dr. Horace Bushnell delivered at New Britain, at the opening of a State Normal School, a most interesting and powerful address entitled "His- torical Estimate" of Connecticut. It attracted great attention at the time, and it contained, among other 56 THE DAY WE CELEBRATE tilings, the following charming forecast for the State of which we are a part : How beautiful is the attitude of our little State, when seen through the medium of facts like these. Unable to carry weight by numbers, she is seen marching out her sons to conquer other posts of influence and represent her honor in other fields of action. Which, if she continues to do, if she takes the past simply as a beginning, and returns to that beginning with a fixed deter- mination to make it simply the germ of a higher and more per- fect culture, there need scarcely be a limit to the power she may exert as a member of the republic. The smaUness of our ter- ritory is an advantage even, as regards the highest form of social development and the most abundant fruits of genius. Our State, under a skilful and sufficient agriculture, with a proper improvement of our waterfalls, is capable of sustaining a million of people in a condition of competence and social ornament; and that is a number as large as any State government can manage with the highest effect. No part of our country between the two oceans is susceptible of greater external beauty. What now looks rough and forbidding in our jagged hillsides and our raw begin- nings of culture, vsill be softened, in the future landscape, to an ornamental rock-work, skirted by fertility, pressing out in the cheeks of the green dells where the farm-houses are nested, burst- ing up through the waving slopes of the meadows, and walling the horizon about with wooded hills of rock and pastured summits. We have pure, transparent waters, a clear, bell-toned atmosphere, and, withal, a robust, healthy-minded stock of people, uncor- rupted by luxury, unhumiliated by superstition, sharpened by good necessities, industrious in their habits, simple in their man- ners and tastes, rigid in their morals and principles; combining, in short, all the higher possibilities of character and genius in a degree that will seldom be exceeded in any people of the world. These are the mines, the golden placers of Connecticut. Turning now to these as our principal hope for the future, let us endeavor, with a fixed and resolute concentration of our pubUc aim, to keep the creative school-house in action, and raise our institutions of learning to the highest pitch of excellence. 57 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY I could not think, as a young man reading this at the time of its publication, that it ever could be realized, and that I was to live to see the prophecj'^ and the picture realized ; but to-day we live in the midst of the prophecy accomplished. The late census returns show that the State has practically reached its million inhabitants as foretold by Dr. Bushnell. I am sure you will agree that in its beauty, in its scenery, in the prosperity of its people, it realizes substantially what then seemed to me to be a wild dream. Now when you have heard all that will be said to-day in regard to the part which our State and our town have borne in this advance, I shall wish to ask you if you do not believe, as I do, that the prophecy is realized, and that our town and our church have alike borne their part in procuring this realization. I shall also want to put to you this single practical question, what are you going to do in the future to main- tain the standard reached to-day? The first in order upon the program will be some re- sponses from the pastors of the churches which have grown out of our own; and the first is the church at East Haddam, which was founded only eight years later than ours. One of the earlier pastors I have a distinct recollection of, the Rev. Isaac Parsons, for he preached in the old church in this town the first sermon to which I ever listened, upon the text : ''And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness. . . ." I take great pleasure in presenting to you the Rev. Francis Parker, the present pastor of that church. 58 OUR DAUGHTERS : EAST HADDAM, 1704 Rev. FRANCIS PARKER I RESPOND in behalf of a daughter and two grand- daughters of this the mother church upon "ye east side of ye brode river." The daughter, the first church in East Haddam, was organized in 1704, and is now one hundred and ninety- six years old. The two granddaughters are the church in Millington, organized in 1736, now one hundred and sixty-four years old ; and the church in Hadlyme, organ- ized in 1745, and now one hundred and fifty-five years old. They have returned to the old home, to assist in wip- ing the dust from the earlier picture of the dear mother church, to retouch and reframe it, and to hold it up to view, that all may love and admire her ability, her faith- fulness, and her work. They feel it to be a precious experience when those who have been fostered here can come home to rejoice with the faithful ones whose lot it has been to ' ' stay by the stuff. ' ' There seems to be a special blessing when the reunion is held in behalf of an ancient church of God. The very walls are baptized, and the atmosphere beats with the hovering love of a mother over those who are inheriting the prayers of the past. Think of the prayers which have been offered by this church in the quaint phrase of the fathers, that God would bless his own Zion. Is it not clear that there 59 HADDAM CHURCH ANNTVEESARY is an accumulation of spiritual energy in a churcli that has been permitted to testify for her Lord and Saviour for two hundred years ? We honor the noble men and women who laid the foun- dations of our sacred heritage. They were animated with high purposes. They adorned their lives with the eternal principles of truth and righteousness. We can look back with pride to the rock whence we were hewn. We are fortunate that these ancestors of ours were men and women who believed in God and his sacred Word, in freedom and in knowledge. They were peo- ple of so strong a conviction, so determined a purpose that their influence has come down to our time, has been the germinal principle of our American institu- tions, leavening the great mass of the nation. These ancestors in the beloved mother church had faith in God, and they showed it not only by words, but by deeds. It was like that of Abraham, ' ' who was called to go out to a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, and went not knowing whither he went, and he sojourned there as in a strange country," Let us never forget that these devoted men and women left happy homes in Old England, ancestral fields lying fair among the hills and valleys of that land of comfort. They left them for an unknown country, hard and cold ; for an ungrateful soil, for hunger and privation; and this they did that they might build up a purer and better form of religion than was permitted them to have at home. They believed the humblest Christian was equal to the highest, because for each one Christ had died ; be- cause each one was loved of God; because each one was heir, through faith in Christ Jesus, to an eternal sal- 60 OUR DAUGHTERS: EAST HADDAM, 1704 vation. They wished to establish this ideal brotherhood and make it real. They saw before them the vision of a divine church, full of peace and truth, wherein every one should draw near to God without fear, as his own heart, guided by the Holy Spirit, prompted him. This faith was capable of sacrifices; it was no luxury of de- votion wrapped in soft Elysian airs. They were fellow- workers with God, carrying out his high designs for the redemption of humanity. These noble men and women believed also in freedom. But they did not seek freedom for its own end, but for the sake of something beyond. Freedom is not an end, but a means. He alone can become really free who has an aim, a conviction, a purpose, and who puts aside all obstacles and barriers in order to reach it. Our fathers sought freedom, and put the Atlantic between themselves and oppression. The free institutions of this country in which we rejoice were established that we might have honest government, justice for all, equal rights and opportunities for life and happiness. They also believed in knowledge. The wonderful sys- tem of common and public schools which has spread from New England over the whole Union, taking in all ranks and classes, all races and sects, is one of those vast phenomena which make less impression upon us, be- cause so constant and so universal. There are two great forces in this country which work at the roots of society ; one is the free church, the other the free school. This voluntary system has covered the land with churches and schools freely supported by the people. The spirit of these men and women was also con- structive. They came here to build. They had faith in a better future. They desired to lay at least the cor- 61 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY ner-stone of better institutions. This constructive spirit has passed into the national mind and heart. It shows itself in the remarkable spirit of invention and discovery which is a peculiar characteristic of the American mind. It appears in the innumerable societies founded to carry out all sorts of reforms— political, social, educational, philanthropic, religious. What a great blessing it is to have a good ancestry— godly, just, honorable; men and women whom we can look back to with love and respect, and feel proud when we think of them. Those who belong to a noble race are bound bj^ stronger obligations than others to live noble lives themselves. In this spirit thy children and grandchildren come to thee, dear venerable mother church. No one can esti- mate too highly thy value. For such an ancient country church we will ever have a reverence that increases with the passing years. Thou hast been a fountain of blessing bej'ond human compu- tation for our land. The simple and strong and massive faith in God and his redeeming Christ, in which thou wast gathered in the beginning, has made thee to stand as a tower in Zion, a fortress of spiritual strength, supplying direction and protection to the whole civil and social life around thee. Every virtue which gives stabilitj^ and true grandeur to the nation, has been fostered by thee from generation to generation. Established chiefly that thou mightest lift up before men the Christ in whom stands our salvation and hope of eternal life, and that thou mightest draw men unto 62 OUR DAUGHTEES: EAST HADDAM, 1704 him, thou hast been blest of God in being made to many the gate of heaven. We cherish these hallowed memories, and hold in honor those who, having faithfully served God in his earthly church, have now passed on into the far larger and more glorious church gathered around the Christ enthroned on high. God bless thee, dear mother church, in thy renewed beauty and all the loyal and loving hearts that gather around thee to-day to rejoice in that beauty. May the new century yield larger and better results than the two that are past. "The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace." 63 OUR DAUGHTERS: HADDAM NECK, 1740 HENRY M. SELDEN THE Church of Middle Haddam, organized in 1740, greets the parent church: for the growth temporal and spiritual, for the good accomplished, for the sowing and ingathering of many harvests, for the long-con- tinued and the present life, we congratulate you. The first pastor of the ^fiddle Haddam church was Benjamin Bowers, a man of God and greatly beloved by his charge. His successor was Benjamin Boardman, who, considering the causes that culminated in the Revo- lution, was just the man for the times. He early re- sponded to the call to arms, and doubtless led others to go with him, for seventeen men from the single street leading northward from the church entered the Revolu- tionary service. He was chaplain of a cavalry troop at Roxbury during the occupancy of Boston by the British, and was called by the enemy, on account of his powerful voice, the "Great Gun of the Gospel." David Selden, born on my home farm, was the third pastor, and an exception to the proverb as to a prophet in his own country, for he had the unwavering affection of his people during the entire period of his long pastor- ate of over thirty-nine years. His wife was Cynthia May, a daughter of your pastor Eleazer May, whose grandson, Rev. Dr. Munger, wlQ soon address you. As the beloved pastor was about to enter the pulpit, his hand 64 OUR DAUGHTERS: HADDAM NECK, 1740 rested habitually for a moment, as if in blessing, upon the head of the boy sitting nearest on a long bench in front of the pulpit, and consequently a strife among the little fellows for the coveted seat was settled by their taking turns. To the poor he was a loving father, in- viting them often to his table, and in their need they received from his house and farm. At funerals he began his discourse by saying, "I wish to put myself in sympathy with the afflicted family." In this he was successful, and his services on such occasions were in frequent demand outside of his parish. He died sud- denly, in full health, apparently; each household throughout the parish feeling as if one from their own home had been taken. To illustrate the general grief, I need only allude to yours when your beloved pastor, James L. Wright, was also called home. The fourth pastor was Charles Bentley, whose impet- uous delivery was described as "like the dumping of stone from a cart, carrying all before it." In his pas- torate occurred the greatest revival in the history of the church. He was succeeded by Stephen A. Loper, later the pastor of the church at Higganum. Other pastors following were William Case, Samuel Moseley, Philo Judson, and James C. Houghton. At the retirement of the last named, a division in the church resulted in the formation of the Second Church of Middle Haddam, in 1855, at Cobalt. The tenth pastor was William S. Wright, a worthy brother of your James. Next came James Kilbourne, and last at the second house of wor- ship, Benjamin B. Hopkinson, our third Benjamin. After the retirement of Mr. Hopkinson, the church was long without a pastor, and only occasional meetings were held. 5 65 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY The first house of worship, erected in 1744, was located near the old cemetery at the southern end of Hog Hill. It was abandoned in 1811, The second structure was dedicated in 1813, and continued in use until the erection of the present church on Haddam Neck in 1874. In conclusion, we have numbered many noble and good men and women, among whom were Deacons Ezra Brainerd and Edward Root, and Almira P. Brainerd. If you have any like the last named, thank God for it, and aid such for good. 66 OUR DAUGHTERS: HIGaANUM, 1844 Rev. WILLIAM J. TATE SOMEWHERE we have read of a little village nest- ling among the hills of Switzerland, which had no special charm nor beauty of its own. But once in each day, for a few minutes in every twenty-four hours, the little town was transfigured, and kirk and manse and humble cottage alike were bathed in the sunglow. So we come to-day to this loved church and see her aglow in radiant beauty. These two hundred years of her life, how glorious in spiritual significance, each filled with fragrance of sacrifice, as the alabaster box of old, very precious ; each also of these silent years speaking to us of the change- less Christ, who was present at the founding of this church, and who is with her on this bicentennial day. It gives me very great pleasure, in behalf of the Higganum church, which, about two miles away, as a city which cannot be hid, rises up, mother, to call thee blessed; to extend her felicitations and gratulations to the Had- dam church, now completing two hundred years of life and service for our common Master. We congratulate you for your past; for the noble cloud of witnesses to the faith in Jesus, who compass us about as we with patience run the race that is set before us ; for your past achievements ; for mighty deeds wrought for God and with God; for souls regenerated, sanctified, edified, transformed by the Holy Spirit's 67 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY presence here. "We congratulate you on your present. The past is glorious. We are reaping what others have sown, and gathering what others have strewn. We are building on foundations others have laid, but the build- ing is still growing unto God. Jesus once said, ''Other men labored, and ye are entered into their labors," and when the day of final reward shall come, every one in his place — men and women, young men and maidens, and little children, too all who have helped to make this church what it is — not one of them shall fail to receive his own reward and crown ; and this day will mean little for us, unless we see that it is our present duty to gather up all the wealth and wisdom of the experience of the past and adapt it to the needs and emergencies of the present. Then there is the joy of the future, when the reaper and the sower shall alike rejoice together; to this joy we all look forward. There is coming an even more joyous jubilee, a more beautiful Harvest Home, a more notable feast, through the mercy of our Lord; and may this historic church, in the spirit of increasing religious interest, in present strength, in glowing anticipations and hopes for the future, move forward till all sit down at Jesus' feet. For the sake and in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and King, tlje great Head of the church, for the sake and in memory of the loved ones who have gone before, let us each consecrate himself to the service of our King. God guide and help you ; God bring us all at last to the eternal joy of those who sow and those who reap. 68 OUE LONGEST PASTORATE— THAT OF EEV. ELEAZEE MAY Rev. THEODORE T. HUNGER, D.D. I HAVE been asked to speak on this occasion because my lineage connects me with the May period in your church history. I am the great-grandson of Eleazer May, who was the pastor of this church from 1756 untU his death in 1803. But I have a closer relation to this town and church than any of you are aware of. My great- grandfather ministered to the souls of the people in Haddam for forty-seven years, but my father did what he could for their bodies during a few years as a phy- sician. I confess to a keener interest in this period of your history than in the May period, which is farther off and less stirs my heart. I hope I shall not be regarded as trespassing on the Marsh period if I say a few words about my own connection with it through my parents. My father graduated from Yale in 1814, studied medicine and walked the hospital in New York for two years, was tutor in a private family on the Hudson for a year or two either before or after his medical studies, and then betook himself to Haddam. It is uncertain what led him to this place. I have in my possession a letter written by my grandfather, Rev. David Selden of Middle Haddam, to my father in 1818, in reply to one asking his advice as to settling in this place. My grandfather advised waiting and further search for an 69 HADDAM CHURCH ANNR^ERSARY opening. It was not quite a fatherly letter, but it read as though it might become such. My father did not take the ad^'ice, but came to Haddam. I suspect that a stronger influence emanated from the parsonage in Mid- dle Haddam than that of its head, and that my father was better content to take the risks of Haddam than go farther afield and lose the easy chances of extending his rides across the river to ^Middle Haddam And so love had its way then as now, and soon CjTithia Selden herself crossed the river, and the young doctor had no occasion to brave the floods and floating ice of the Con- necticut. It was but fair that my mother should come to live in Haddam. Her father had crossed the river and taken away as his wife Cynthia, the daughter of Mr. ]\Iay, — an exchange that brought me into existence, and, after seventy years, has brought me to Haddam, Immediately after my parents began housekeeping, Kev. Mr. Marsh, who succeeded Dr. Field in 1818, be- came a member of their family ; and thus the young minister and the young doctor were under one roof. In my boyhood, in central New York, where my father emigrated a few years later, I used to hear from my mother many stories— chiefly humorous— of Dr. Field and Mr. Marsh. My grandfather and Dr. Field were intimate friends, and little went on in one household that was not known in the other. Besides these reminiscences that fell into my child- ish ears and are now somewhat faintly remembered, I have little knowledge of the life of my parents here beyond the fact that a daughter was born to them, and that the physician was himself seized with a fever for which neither his medicines nor the tears of his wife availed. It was a contagious and widely spread disease, 70 OUR LONGEST PASTOEATE and "was known as the Western fever. Its symptoms were great restlessness and discontent, which increased until the patient emigrated toward the setting sun. Hence, though descended on both sides from seven gen- erations of Connecticut people, and probably connected with half the families in tliis part of the State, I was born in central New York, where, in a region that yielded three tons of hay to the acre, and all crops in proportion, and there is not a stone that a stout boy could not lift, I was taught by my mother that IMiddle Haddam was a paradise,— and so I believed until I saw it. But it is a paradise, and so is Haddam, but not for farmers. My mother used to quote a saying of some one of the Darts or Strongs or Brainerds of the parish, that "Middle Had- dam land was like self-righteousness : the more you have of it the poorer you are." But my grandfather was not a respecter of proverbs, except those of Solomon, and he added land to land until his farm stretched from the road a mile away to the river. He died rich in quarries —unworked— sufficient to rebuild Nineveh. And there they are still, adorning a landscape that is indeed a paradise, but not a garden. I must linger a little longer on this period of your history, in order to bring out a phase of it that may escape other speakers. It seems that in 1820 there ex- isted in Haddam a "Young Men's Bible and Missionary Society." A full history of this society is given in the thorough and able "Historical Sketch" of this church (pages 45, 46) by Mr. Lewis. It appears that it was first formed as "The Haddam Bible Society," Feb- ruary 15, 1819, at the house of General John Brainerd. Mr. Selden Huntington, a double cousin of my mother, was chosen president, and my father secretary. At the 71 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY first annual meeting, a month later, "it was voted that when twenty members shall add to their subscriptions fifty cents each, this society shall become a Bible and Missionary Society." Eighty years ago, my father delivered the annual ad- dress on its second anniversary. To show how he could rise above the physician (for Haddam seems to have been a provokingly healthy place), he began his ad- dress by saying that since the establishment of the society (two years), *'a holy Providence has not per- mitted its ranks to be broken by death," Think of a physician saying that, unless he had been remarkably fortunate in his cases ! The address was one that Mr. Lewis would find appropriate if he should read it to- day, the only question being: Is there in Haddam a Young Men's Bible and Missionary Society? The ad- dress is profoundly religious, and breathes the utmost sincerity, and yet neither he nor my mother was yet a member of the church. I have with me another address delivered by him at a meeting of ' ' The Literary Society of Haddam ' * on the evening of January 1, 1819. It appears that at this time there existed in Haddam **A Young Men's Bible and Missionary Society" and a "Literary Society." The town was rich indeed in what is best. How much of it was due to Mr. Marsh I do not know; but as the pastor and the doctor were under the same roof, and one had unbounded energy, and the other probably con- siderable leisure, they cooperated in creating these soci- eties. This address is most significant. It is a simple and graphic unfolding of the brevity and uncertainty of human life, closing with a solemn appeal to pre- pare for death and the judgment. And yet my father 72 OUR LONGEST PASTORATE was not a member of the church. What renders this still more strange is that he speaks of ''the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon us, the stately goings of the Al- mighty have been seen in these streets, the stubborn and rebellious heart has been subdued, the voice of joy and praise has been heard from the mouth of new-born souls. ' ' He, however, was not one of them. Such a fact as this discloses a not infrequent condition at that time. My father had undergone a soul-searching experience in Yale College, but had not come out into the light. I think it probable that, not feeling the joy, he doubted the reality of his experience. Perhaps he doubted his election. Dr. Field, in his "History of the Towns of Haddam and East Haddam" (page 40), says that in these towns "God has usually taken his elect here and brought them singly into Zion," and that the great revival "produced no extensive effects." Hence, many questioned their election and stayed without the church who were, perhaps, as conscientious and devout as those within it. However it may be, my parents, notwith- standing their training and the usual influences about them, deemed themselves unconverted until, in a new country where their responsibilities were more weighty, and with children about them, they saw and felt duty in a new way. But I pass to the May period, which is the subject assigned to me. It would help me greatly if I could find something more to say of my ancestor than is to be found in the history of the town by Dr. Field, and by Mr. Lewis in his sketch of the church. I once asked Professor Park how he could find enough in the life of Dr. Emmons to make so large a book upon him. The professor laughed 73 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVERSARY and said, "When Dr. Pierce of Brookline was returning from the funeral of Dr. Emmons, his horse ran away and the chaise was broken by collision with a tree. If I had found anything equally exciting in the life of Emmons I would have hailed it with delight." But Professor Park, in lack of interesting features in Dr. Emmons 's history, made much of the ' ' Moodus Noises, ' ' near which, if not into which, Emmons was born, and ascribed something of his theology to their effect on the mind of the growing boy,— not a wholly wrong conclu- sion when we consider the nature of the theology. I have not even the ''Moodus Noises" to help me out in describing the life of my ancestor. I feel sure that he was a man of good character and respectable ability, or Dr. Field would have stated it; for when a pastor who came under his notice was lacking in these qualities, it was set down with great plainness of speech, I see no way to make a history of him except to build it out of his lineage and some slight traditions, — as exegetes do when they can find nothing else to say about a Bible character. Fortunately, there is a May Book, of a very superior order. It begins with John May, born in Sussex in 1590, and traces his lineage and their affiliations down to 1878, through so many thousand persons and families that they embrace a large proportion of the population of New England. John May, a shipmaster, having made several voyages between London and Boston, finally settled in Roxbury in 1640. Eliot, the Apostle, in whose lineage I am proud to count myself, says of his (May's) wife, ''Sister Mayes died a very gracious and savory Christian," A grandson, Hezekiah, came to Wethersfield in 1696, 74 OUR LONGEST PASTOEATE and was made deacon of the clmrch there. His grandson was the father of Eleazer May, who was born in 1733. And now legend and conjecture must take the place of history. It is necessary to connect young Eleazer in some way with Lebanon. TrumbuU the artist, in his autobiography, speaks of a school kept in that place as the best in New England, and that it drew pupils from the West India Islands and the South and New Eng- land and other northern colonies. It is possible that Eleazer was sent there to prepare for college. A more romantic and better founded way of getting him to Lebanon— the home of Sibyl Huntington— is through the family tradition that in the romantic period of his youth he chanced to see on sale— in Hartford, probably —some paintings by this young woman. They were so beautiful that he vowed his willingness to fall in love with the artist, if he should ever meet her. Either before or after his graduation at Yale in 1752, he ap- pears in Lebanon— perhaps preached in the pulpit there, when painter and preacher met and yielded to mutual charms and in due time were married. I confess to a deeper interest in my feminine ancestor than in her husband, notwithstanding the fact that he carried his parish through the Revolution, and built a meeting-house and— greatest achievement of all— in- troduced a new hymn-book into the service of the church. I am of the opinion that the wife should share his honors. When a pastor serves a church for forty-seven years, and weathers all the storms, and keeps the love and respect of the parish all through, it is safe to set down three quarters of it to the wife. Tradition is not at fault in presenting her as a highly educated and accom- plished lady, with a very special talent for painting. 75 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY It is handed down in our families that she gave early lessons to young Trumhull, and taught him how to mix his colors and prepare his canvas. There is some doubt as to this tradition, though it was repeated to me by my mother. Sibyl Huntington was born in 1734, and Trumbull in 1756, when Sibyl was twenty-two years of age. She was married in 1754— two years before Trum- bull was born. It is possible, however, that in her visits to Lebanon during Trumbull's youthhood, she may have inducted him into his art. I confess that probability inclines in this direction, especially as there was intimacy between the families of Jonathan Trumbull and Cap- tain Samuel Huntington. Besides, the tradition hardly could exist without some fact behind it. I am not aware that any specimens of her art are stUl in existence. There is, however, a tradition that in the old red parsonage there was a painted panel in the "keeping-room" on which was depicted a hunting-scene by the hand of the young mistress. But house and panel have disappeared, the hunting-scene is long since gone, and there is no record or sign of Sibyl Huntington, wife of Eleazer May, save the ever increasing descendants of their ten children, who soon began to fill the red par- sonage.^ The best token of their bringing up is the fact that the shortest-lived died at forty, and their ages aver- aged seventy-four years. The four boys and six girls all married, and how many Mays and Arnolds and Dwights and Seldens and Fullers and Townsends and "Wellses and Robinsons and Houses and Sages and Brain- erds and Whites sprang from them is partially indicated by Mr. John May's book. It is not to be expected that I should enter into the 1 Since reading this paper I have learned that the panel is stUl preserved by Mrs. Huntington in Higganum. 76 OUR LONGEST PASTORATE details of Mr. May's ministry. They are, at the best, meager; and, such as they are, they have been set down in the very thorough ''Historical Sketch" by Mr. Lewis. There you will find how many children were baptized in the long ministry — almost a thousand; how many were received into the church, two hundred and thirty- nine, or about five a year. If the rate seems small, the times must be taken into account. There were years, during the Revolution and long after, when a pastor did well if he could keep together those already in the church. Of the preaching of Mr. May I can say nothing au- thoritatively. If his sermons were of the length of those of his son-in-law, Rev. David Selden— my grand- father — I can give you ocular proof that they were short, for here are three of them. I have all my life been faithfully urged (but without effect) to preach shorter sermons. Evidently, heredity in this matter does not cover one descendant. These sermons would require about twenty minutes, if moderately delivered. If the writer was well up in his theology, as I think he was, an hour was about all that would be required for their writing, to shift the kaleidoscope and bring out the proper doctrinal result under the text. I have no reason to think that Mr. May's sermons were longer or differ- ently constructed. I wish to speak with all respect of my revered ancestors, but I am inclined to think that so far as the writing of sermons was concerned, they had a very easy time of it. I am also disposed to think that in this brevity they were shrewder than we have been apt to think. They preached short sermons, they were orthodox, and why should they not have lived on in peace for nigh half a century, dying where they were 77 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY ordained? What fault could be found with ministers so considerate of their flocks, and so careful of the doctrines as to refrain from saying too much about them? I would not intimate that they were idle. On the contrary, I think they were quite as busy as their modern successors who live in their studies, and take ten news- papers and six magazines, and read a new book every week, and go to the city or into the country on Monday, and lecture as often as they are asked, and belong to three or four clubs, and take the lead in all the organ- izations of their parishes, besides doing a good deal of outside work. It was not this kind of work that kept our forefathers in the ministry busy. They stayed at home and took care of their parishes ; that is, they shep- herded them, watched over them as a flock, looked after them singly, as need required. I doubt if there was man, woman, or child in Haddam that Mr. May did not know through and through ; nor a household that did not frequently receive him, and undergo or enjoy his inqui- ries into their spiritual condition, and receive his advice or benediction. And what he was to the family, he was to the schools, and to the town in all its public affairs. That he kept his parish forty-seven years, and died honored and loved by all, is a testimony that allows no blemish to rest on his memory, and that certifies to a life of laborious fidelity to his high calling. This thing is to be said about the ministers of those days : they were pastors of the Standing Order, and they knew it,— knew its dignities and its duties. If I were to summarize the life of Mr. May, I should say that its chief work lay in the fact that he carried his parish safely, not to say stroiigly, through the Revo- 78 OUE LONGEST PASTORATE lution. The pastors who stayed at home and kept their flocks together and shared their poverty, as Mr, May did, rendered quite as great service to the country as those who went to the war. The churches were not only de- pleted in membership and resources, but during the war and long after they suffered a defection from the faith and a low state of religion, due to the wave of French infidelity that swept over the country. Mr. May, it ap- pears, held up his church and carried it through with- out other loss than financial weakness. Another achievement was in building a new church, and another in revolutionizing the service of song by in- troducing Watts 's Hymns and dropping the lining off the Psalms. To live through building a church and avoid the darts of disturbed musical sensibility are triumphs for a minister then and now. We look at the career of Mr. May at a hundred years' distance. It is like looking at a mountain twenty miles away. There is much that we cannot see, rough places and smooth, hidden ravines and bold projections. We cannot see these features of it, but we see the whole mountain, its majestic height, its place in the broad general landscape, the soft and blended lights that in- fold it, its dignity and its solemn beauty. So, I think, we look upon this venerable man we have been con- sidering. There is not a great deal we know about him ; he is too far off; but we see in him the unquestioned figure of a Puritan minister of the Colonial period; well-born, well-educated in the humanities and in his profession, wed to a beautiful and accomplished wife, the father of ten children who bore in life the impress of their training ; a clerical citizen, who put the strength of his life— a sacred and uplifting influence— into a 79 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY half-century of the history of this town, unambitious, contented, magnifying his office, satisfied to do the work committed to him, and leaving a memory which no written or printed line and tradition left in the air touches with blame or disrespect. On a funeral piece wrought in silk by his granddaughter, my mother, is the inscription : The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when they sleep in dust. To-day, we fulfil the tender words, and pay honor and gratitude and love and reverence to the memory of Eleazer May. 80 THE REVIVAL ERA Rev. EVERETT E. LEWIS THE first great revivals in the history of the church occurred during the third half-century, especially in connection with the ministry of Dr. Marsh, which began in 1818. "We therefore designate this period as the revival era. Spiritual awakenings preceded and have followed this earliest, powerful, and wide-spread work of grace, but, measured by the extent of its influence, by the manifold increase of the membership of the church, and by the potent impulse given to religious activities, no other half-century is as interesting and fruitful. Dr. Fisk, in his ** Handbook of Eevivals, " divides the modern era into five periods. The first and second of his divisions precede the birth of this church. The third period, 1730-1750, covers the labors of John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, who were both born in 1703, and also of Charles "Wesley and George "Whitefield. In 1734, the revival first manifested its power in North- ampton, where Edwards estimated that during six months three hundred were hopefully converted. The interest spread rapidly to other towns. Rev. Phineas Fiske and Rev, Aaron Cleveland were the pastors here during those years. Mr. Fiske died while the movement was yet in its infancy; yet, from the fact that the two following pastorates were short and broken, we have some reason for thinking that the 6 81 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVERSARY growth of the church in the first fifty years was chiefly under his leadership, as it certainly was in the third half-century under Dr. Marsh, whose pastorate was also followed by frequent changes. The membership in 1700 did not probably exceed thirty-five, while in 1756 it had risen to one hundred. So marked a change points to the existence of the evangelistic spirit and to special seasons of religious interest. Mr, Cleveland sympathized heart- ily with the revival spirit and movement. He is one of the twenty-three, including the famous preacher and evangelist Joseph Bellamy, who earnestly protest against legislation hostile to revivals. During Mr, May's long ministry we reach the fourth, according to Dr. Fisk, of the revival eras, extending from 1792 to 1842, GrifSn, Backus, Dwight, Emmons, and especially Nettleton and Lyman Beecher, two mighty champions in the battles of the Lord, are upon the stage, Dr, Griffin says: "In 1792 began the unbroken series of American revivals ; in November, the first that I had the privilege of witnessing showed itself on the borders of East Haddam and Lyme, which apparently brought one hundred souls to Christ," At this date, Mr, May was approaching the end of his extended and able min- istry. His health was feeble. Other causes also united to delay any decisive revival movement for a score of years. Six, however, of the forty-seven years of his un- tiring service are noted as specially fruitful. In 1804, the first year of Dr. Field's ministry, there is a steady inflow of communicants on fourteen different occasions, amounting in all to forty-five, of whom all but five came on confession. It was a good year and prophetic of larger harvests. One of the number was Stephen Tibbals, from whose generous interest in the 82 THE REVIVAL ERA church came, July 3, 1836, "a silver tankard, costing one hundred dollars, for sacramental use," which still, on each returning communion, bears silent witness to "his attachment to the ordinances of Christ." Again, in 1809, twenty-four names are added to the roll, and in 1810 thirty-one, the additions being gradual and revealing a healthful spiritual condition, but not giving promise of any wide-spread revival awakening either in the church or in the community. Among these additions are the names of Deacon Ezra Kelsey and his wife Sally Hubbard, whose son kindly sends us for this occasion a letter replete with pleasant reminiscence, of Rev. David Pratt, of Rev. Eleazer Brainerd, and of many others whose memory our older people delight to recall. For a general quickening, pervading the town, we wait for the coming of Rev. John Marsh, son of Dr. Marsh of Wethersfield, a graduate of Yale at sixteen years of age, and a teacher for several years, who came here in 1818, at the age of thirty, well equipped for a ministry of great evangelical power. He was excep- tionally persuasive in address, earnest, aggressive, hop- ing great things and daring the same. From one hun- dred members in 1756, to one hundred and nine at the coming of Dr. Field in 1804, and to one hundred and sixty-five at his dismissal in 1818, the revivals of the following ten years swelled the enrolment to over three hundred and sixty, and gave enduring impulse to every form of Christian activity. Dr. Marsh's ministry opened auspiciously. The first of June he was in the pulpit. By the fifteenth of De- cember, the date of his ordination, very great results had already been accomplished. Isaac Parsons of East Had- 83 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSAEY dam, just beginning his forty years' pastorate, and under whose leadership eight revivals enriched the sis- ter church in numbers and in devotion, in giving to Mr. Marsh the right hand of fellowship, earnestly con- gratulated him on the bright outlook for the immediate future. Mr. Marsh himself was aflame with expecta- tion, from what he had already witnessed of the "won- derful operations of the Word and the Spirit." The following extracts from a long letter,^ written by him to Dr. Field soon after the awakening appeared with marvelous power, are of exceeding interest, both as giv- ing a vivid account of the origin and development of the revival, and especially as indicating the methods em- ployed for increasing its influence. It seemed to start of itself, heaven-sent and sustained, at a time when the church was listening to candidates, of whom Mr. Marsh chanced to be one. In preaching, the most alarm- ing truths were presented and yielded the best re- sults. The use made of neighboring pastors and of district gatherings is also noteworthy. A strong point, always emphasized by Mr. Moody, is equally ac- centuated in the intense solicitude of Christians for the conversion of their friends. The recent conversion of two "important young men in the street" is spoken of with great satisfaction, and illustrates a type of ex- perience far more common at that time than now. One was "at rest under inability and election, but the Lord showed him his sinfulness and took away all his excuses, so that he was a very distressed man for the three days before he became, we trust, a new one." 1 This letter was copied from the origc- Hartford. Special acknowledgment is inal, which was found among the manu- here made of many favors received script papers of Dr. Field preserved in through the kindness of Mr. Bates, the the library of the Historical Society at librarian. 84 THE REVIVAL ERA A sister's great solicitude for his conversion had much exercised the other, "He has scarcely eaten a full meal for six weeks, and worked exceeding hard to make him- self better, and, to use his own expression, meant to get religion without letting people know it. But his distress was so great on our day of Fasting and Prayer that he could not sing. It broke the pride of his heart and he gave himself up to Christ." The royal tribute of the young preacher to the pastor so recently dismissed is as complimentary to the writer as to his honored prede- cessor. Few ministers, indeed, have an opportunity to write such a letter, reporting one hundred conversions only two months later than their first appearance in a pulpit as candidates for settlement. Its date is August 10, 1818. I believe I came to Haddam soon after you left. My first Sab- bath was 7 of June, but I did not remain here that week. The next Sabbath I perceived what was unknown to me before (for I was as ignorant of Haddam as of Chilicothe), the revival be- coming deep & indeed bursting out in almost aU parts of the place. Since that period to the present time, it has been uniformly great. The number who have obtained hope is about 100. Many cases have been deeply interesting. Some families have been as distressed as at the loss of a relative. Esteeming it important, our meetings have been abundant & I believe to the satisfaction of the people, so that they have felt no disposition to go after other teachers. In 58 days I have preached 56 times. Besides, we have had preaching from Mess. Hotchkiss, Parsons, Jun. & sr., Hovey, Beardslee, Vail, Selden, sen. & jun.. Smith & Talcott. This might appear at first too much. It would be to the same people. But you know the extent of this town, that a man may preach every day and not go to the same school house once a fortnight. We have 3 meetings on the Sabbath & two on Wed- nesday in the meeting house. Our other meetings are at Hig- ganum, Candlewood Hill, Ponset, Turkey HiU & lower district school houses. They are always crowded & solemn. There has HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY been no enthusiasm and, but in one instance, such distress as to make me stop preaching, when a young woman was carried out. Deep seriousness, solemnity & anxiety have always been manifest. I have found the most alarming truths the most useful. Sinners have been told with plainness that they are vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, that it is nothing but the pleasure of an offended God that keeps them out of hell, that they must immediately repent, yield to Christ and become holy. And against the Son of God & doctrines of grace there is but little cavilling. On Sat. afternoons the young Converts assemble together in Gen. Brainerd's Ballroom & I address myself to them in their new character. These have been very solemn and useful meetings. Such as are anxious come in & some members of the church. They love to sing "Blessed be the tie that binds our hearts in Chris- tian love. ' ' And often do they say, O, that Mr. Field could look upon us in this room & this character,— how it would rejoice his heart. And here, Brother Field, is the blessed fruit of your labour. O, had the people been poorly indoctrinated, what evils would have accompanied the blessed work. You sowed a great deal of good seed, which is now springing up & will bear I trust an hun- dred fold. You laid a broad & strong foundation to a building which is now agoing up with shoutings, "Grace, grace unto it." The people probably estimate your labours tenfold more than they ever did before; speak of them constantly; your faithful- ness & their inattention, your plain exhibition of truth & their blindness, stupidity, madness, folly. And I am persuaded it would cheer your heart much, while wandering through the wil- derness, did you know the affection they bear you, and the uni- form manner in which they all now criminate themselves for loving you no more and profiting so little under your faithful ministrations. Strange are the events of Providence, but God 's will be done. On Friday last we had a day of Fasting & Prayer, and a solemn season it was. But little work was done. The meeting house was full, and we had a most solemn assembly. Old Mr, Parsons preached in the morning, I in the afternoon & evening. You were then specially remembered & often are, in our addresses at the throne of grace. There has been but little opposition. What has existed has 86 THE REVIVAL ERA nearly subsided. There has been on the minds of many an un- common solicitude for relatives and sinners. There is a prayer meeting every Sunday noon. The Females are about forming a Missionary Society. You must pray for your old people. They will give you such a welcome when you come back as you little expected when you left. Yours Sincerely in the bonds of Christ, John Marsh, Jr. The interest deepened as the weeks went on, and just a month from his ordination, on January 17, the church welcomed to its fellowship, chiefly from the young, seventy- four communicants. Each following month of the year, except September and November, the number was enlarged; and January 1, 1820, the membership was more than seventy per cent, larger than it was when the pastor was inducted into office. Dr. Marsh always acted on the assurance that it was not he and his people who were waiting for the Lord to convert men in his own good time and way, but that the Lord was waiting for them to put in the sickle of an abundant harvest. Four more revival years followed before Dr. Marsh listened to the urgent call to become the agent of the American Temperance Union, and his people with great reluctance acceded to his request, April 1, 1833. He writes to the church, "Our union for fourteen years has been to me exceedingly pleasant, ' ' and is able to add, "On most of you I am permitted to look as the seals of my ministry." Five revivals had greatly changed the community. In 1821, beginning with February, there were confessions of faith for eight successive months, making a total of forty-seven for the year. Three years later, this experience was again repeated, with fifty-three accessions, giving an increase in four years of an even 87 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY one hundred. In 1831, likewise, not less than a score of precious souls were added to the church. But three years earlier, in 1828, the most remarkable of this fruitful series of revivals swept through the town, add- ing one hundred and four names to this church, and many to the other communions. Rev. Simon Shailer, the pastor of the Baptist church, estimated the number of genuine converts through the town to be between two and three hundred. Dr. Marsh wrote exultingly of this extended triumph of the truth, "Within ten years three hundred and twenty-nine have dedicated their service to the Lord," a yearly average of thirty- three, adding, ' ' These revivals have been still and solemn, and have in each case more and more impressed us with the truth that revivals of religion are the foundation of Zion's prosperity." Victoriously, indeed, was this the revival era of our history. To those marvelous spiritual awakenings we trace the most potent and holiest influ- ences that have wrought for righteousness, sobriety, and peace. The Sunday-school and the Bible Society, both started in immediate connection with the large ingathering to the church in 1819 ; the foreign missionary interest, which first appeared in 1812, when the Middlesex Aux- iliary to the American Board was organized, but was greatly increased during the revival years; the temper- ance movement, in which service the young pastor was to become an influential actor; these, and other social and spiritual blessings of lasting advantage to the church, are all greatly indebted to the revival spirit. One lingers lovingly over the pages of names in the records of Dr. Marsh, so suggestive of youthful conse- cration to the Master, and of self-denying, enduring ser- 88 THE EEVIVAL ERA vice for the welfare of his church; names of the young they were, but to us they are the names with family histories woven into the fabric of social development, and also, for the majority, names of the redeemed tri- imiphant who have passed one by one into the solemn silence beyond which are the joyful reunions. At the opening of the present pastorate on January 1, 1872, only four names of 1819 remained on the roll, and of the nearly four hundred received into the fellowship of the church in connection with the five large revivals under Dr. Marsh, all but twenty-eight had either taken letters to other churches or joined the church above. The latest to unite with the church of these twenty-eight was Rev. Daniel Clark Tyler, who is now living at the advanced age of ninety-two, too feeble to send either reminiscences or greetings for this occasion, and who supplied the pulpit in the old meeting house for a few months after Dr. Field departed to Higganum; whose father was Moses Tyler, first on the records of additions by Dr. Marsh, as the son was the last by confession; the Moses Tyler of the grist-mill at the creek, and em- phatically of prayer-meetings at Turkey Hill, Shailer- ville, Tylerville, and every place, private or public, near or far, where one could be found or created; a humble man of the revival spirit, and leaving to his son Daniel Clark, and to his church a priceless inheritance of Christian consecration and zeal. Next before Mr. Tyler on the 1872 list of members stand the names of two others, whose memory is very precious to the church by reason of long and faithful services, united with a charming Christian fellowship and friendsliip. Their son bears the father's name, Cy- prian Strong Brainerd, and in grateful and generous 89 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY tribute of love to the memory of the beloved father and mother, desiring also to make the worship of the sanctu- ary of his parents' praises and prayers richer and more inspiring, donates to the church on its two hundredth anniversary this beautifully finished and sweet-toned organ. Mr. Brainerd, with characteristic modesty, denies us the privilege of acknowledging, with formal address, this gift of love; but his filial affection encourages us, I am confident, to speak with appreciative recollection the name Cyprian Strong Brainerd, Deacon, enrolled for that office and filling it worthily till his death in 1880, for thirty- four full years of loyal service, and also serv- ing for a long term as the successful leader of the choir, and the name also of his faithful wife, Florilla Hull,— 1831 names they both are. How we should enjoy hav- ing the deacon stand up here to-day, with his choir, and sing, as of old, with strong, resonant voice and reverent, joyful face! We trust he is invisibly present, and— to our ears inaudibly — joining in these anniversary hymns of victory. Three names earlier on the list of twenty-eight is that of Rev. Davis S. Brainerd, thirty-four years the honored pastor at Old Lyme, whose brother Samuel made just one exception to regularly taking a long church nap, and that was when Davis, his pride and favorite, occupied the pulpit by exchange. Mr. Brainerd was present at my ordination with fatherly greeting and benediction of blessing. Four years later, the senior brother, then in his eightieth year, was welcomed to the fellowship of the church. Then, too, these other honored names deserve more than simply repeating : Deacon George S. Brainerd, Deacon Oliver P. Smith, Ansel Brainerd and wife, Eze- kiel Clark, Mrs. Hannah Emmons, Mrs. Smith Ventres, 90 THE EEVIVAL EEA who, if now living, would be just one hundred years of age, and, most wonderful to relate, our beloved "Aunt Larissa" Shailer, who is praying to witness one more revival before her translation, already seventy-six years and a half confessing Jesus on earth in the communion of this church ; bright, serene, contented, happy, radiant with spiritual sunshine in face, words, and spirit, whose one hundredth birthday we celebrated September 21, with religious services at her home, recalling her en- thusiastic affirmation that prayer-meetings tired her never. Such are a few of the choice treasures of the third decade of the revival era. There are other songs of revival rejoicings as the half-century draws to a close. One name from the forty additions of 1841 still remains on the roll, two from the revival of 1846, and one entered in 1847. These five- Miss Shailer, Mrs. Rogers, Miss Mary E. Brainerd, Miss Mary Kelsey, and Miss Catharine Cook — are our present members of more than half a century. Miss Cook 's name is the last on the list of those uniting with the church prior to the removal to this house of worship in Novem- ber, 1847. The old meeting house justly claims recognition in speaking of these great revivals. It stood a few rods to the north of the present parsonage, and gives its name to the adjoining park, Meeting-House Green, the smaller of the two parks generously given to the town by four of the eminent sons of Dr. Field on the seventy-fifth anni- versary, in 1878, of his marriage to Submit Dickinson of Somers, as a memorial of the honored father and mother whose influence is so vitally and enduringly a part of our history. For more than three fourths of a century it sheltered this church. From its pulpit, 91 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVEESAEY four of the most eminent of its pastors fed the flock: Mr. May for thirty-two years ; Dr. Field for twenty-one ; Dr. Marsh for fourteen; and Dr. Clark for three years. Mr. Cook was the pastor when the farewell sermon was preached and this house welcomed the church to its at- tractive and convenient arrangements for Christian wor- ship. Mr. May had preached the dedicatory sermon at the old church, October 24, 1771, taking as his theme the prophetic message, ''The spiritual presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in his house of worship its greatest glory, and what ought most earnestly to be sought after." Sixteen revivals hallow its memory with ingatherings of grace. The records show that more than one half, or fifty-eight per cent, of the entire enrolment of the church, on confession of faith, since 1756, with peni- tent spirit and consecrating vows entered through its aisles into fellowship with the saved. It was a plain building, having no tower, no bell, no carpets, no stoves for many years, and very little interior adornment. "I remember it well," said Rev. Charles Nichols, eight years a pastor at Higgauum, in a remi- niscent letter, ''with its square pews, its spacious gal- leries, its two rows of windows, and its high pulpit. How homely to modern taste, and yet what glory of the grace of God was at times seen there in making lost sinners see the adorable wonders of the love of God in Christ." What exultant experiences swelled the hearts of pastor and people, of young and old, on those mem- orable occasions, "days never to be forgotten," of larg- est revival ingatherings, the recitals of heaven alone can portray. Mrs. Hemans's lines on an old English church, with the change of only a name, vividly utter our thought by repeating the cherished impressions ever 92 THE REVIVAL ERA associated with the meeting house at whose altar for two generations the fathers dedicated themselves and their children to the Lord. It stood alone In gracious sanctity. The air was fraught With noble memories, whispering many a thought Of Saddam's fathers: lofty and serene, They that had toiled, watched, struggled, to secure Within such fabrics, worship, free and pure. Reigned there, the o 'ershadowing spirits of the scene. Victoriously the fathers, lofty and serene, reign here on this day of days, ''the o 'ershadowing spirits" of this scene, where children, themselves venerable, and chil- dren's children, gather to pay exultant tribute to noble memories and renew the pledge that worship, free and pure, shall ceaselessly remain the priceless boon of cen- turies yet unborn. Our present house of worship has inherited the bless- ing of the past, and been the home of gracious revivals. Its erection was closely connected with the organization of the Higganum church. May 14, 1844. From that date the religious influence flowing from the Congrega- tional fellowship west of the river divides into two streams, nearly equal at the first, but changes in the pop- ulation have greatly favored, during recent years, the much larger increase of the daughter church. Plans for the new house were considered in 1845, but final action as to the site was not taken till 1847, the corner-stone being laid June 21. At its dedication, November 3, 1847, Dr. Marsh preached on the theme, ''The dedication of a house of God an occasion of great joy," and Mr. Cook ofi^ered the prayer of consecration. A brief report of 93 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSAEY the exercises closed by saying, "Several anthems were sung by a large choir in superior style. The house is one of much beauty and the prospects of the church are now of an encouraging character," Three settled pastors have occupied the pulpit for fifty of the fifty-three years since the removal from the old house: Mr. Cook continuing five years, Mr. "Wright doing royal service for the sixteen years that closed with his translation, January 18, 1871, and the present pas- torate commencing with December of that year. Six revivals have awakened glad songs of praise within these walls. In 1853, during Mr. Colton's short acting pastorate of less than two years, thirty-five were added to our communion. Mr. Wright rejoiced to welcome in 1858, a memorable year of revivals, thirteen, and again in 1866 nineteen, and in 1870, the last year of his min- istry, ten more were enrolled. The revival of 1876 added forty on confession of their faith, the membership of the church reaching, January 1, 1877, one hundred and fifty, its highest enrolment since the division of the church in 1844. Again, in 1897, the community was un- usually moved and twenty names were added to the list of communicants. "We crave no larger blessing for the coming years than the continuance of the revival spirit in this house of prayer, with an ever-deepening and expanding influence. A few remain who in early youth worshipped in the older sanctuary ; but to most of us this house is an inheritance from the fathers, the scene of our deepest religious experiences, the place of uplifting Christian fellowship, where thoughts of truth and love have banished doubts and fears, where heaven has seemed very near and we have had visions of the exalted Christ,— the house 94 THE REVIVAL ERA Our fathers built to God,— Here holy thoughts a light have shed From many a radiant face, And prayers of tender hope have spread A perfume through the place. They live with God, their homes are dust, But here their children pray, And in this lifetime trust To find the narrow way. From the mountain peak of two centuries we look back for an hour, and then, wiser and stronger for what we have learned of achievement, we face the new, those greater, grander centuries of the final triumph of the kingdom of God, with the prayer that he will make us faithful and grant to our beloved church the yet larger and more rewarding spiritual harvests of the millen- nial day. 95 THE HALF-CENTURY TO 1850 Rev. AMOS S. CHESEBROUGH, D. D. New Hartford, Conn., October 10, 1900. Eev. E. E. Lewis. My dear Brother: It is with deep regret that I feel obliged to decline your invitation to participate personally in the ap- proaching bicentenary of the First Church of Haddam. The best I can do is to send you a few REMINISCENCES which, if your Committee deem them worthy of the occasion, you are at liberty to make use of at your discretion. My acquaintance with this church dates back to the year 1841, the first year of my ministry in the adjacent parish of Chester. Coming, as I did, directly from the theological school, a young man, a stranger in these parts, it was very gratifying to receive marked attention from Dr. David D. Field, who was then the Pastor. He made an early call upon me, invited me to his house, requested my assistance in reading the proof of a publication which he was then editing, and proposed an exchange of pulpits. At my ordination he gave the charge, and from him I learned many lessons of great value to me in my ministerial life. Dr. Field was a strong man, both in body and mind, — about sixty years old when I first knew him. In person he was of me- dium height, squarely and solidly built. He was not mincing or hesitating in his gait or action, but moved as if he had important business in hand, — some purpose to accomplish; and in speaking he was clean cut and positive, seldom appealing to the feelings. He was a graduate of Yale College in the class of 1802, and was ordained and installed as the Pastor of this church in 1804, which office he held for fourteen years. During the succeeding eighteen years, he ministered to the Congregational Church of Stockbridge, 96 THE HALF-CENTURY TO 1850 Mass., and then sought and obtained a resettlement in this his for- mer sphere of labor. Here he filled out seven more years in the pastorate, at the expiration of which, in 1844, he received his dis- mission. Dr. Field was a scholarly man in his tastes and attainments, and was the father of more brains in his children than any man I ever knew, except, possibly. Dr. Lyman Beecher. As an au- thority on questions of Congregational polity, in his day, he had few equals. In theology he may be classed as a moderate New England Calvinist, with a large charity for aU disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was the author of a very valuable history of Middlesex County, in gathering material for which he made the acquaintance of the leading families in the several towns, among which he always met with cordial entertainment in his excursions. The education of the young ever elicited from him an active interest, and, if I am not mistaken, it was owing largely to his influence and counsel that the fund was given for the establishment of the Brainerd Academy. It was a noble purpose which prompted the Brainerd brothers to contribute so generously for this object. In its early history there was a promise that the institution would prove to be an invaluable success in furnishing to the young people of Haddam the opportunity for the pursuit of more advanced courses of study than were afforded by the common school. It happened during the first or second year of my ministry in Chester, that an urgent request came to me to take charge of the school for a week or two, as Mr. Snow, the principal, was necessarily absent, by reason of sickness, at his home in Massachusetts. Com- plying with the request, I found the school well filled and in ex- cellent condition; and I greatly enjoyed my brief pedagogical experience. Several years afterward, the attendance began to dwindle by reason of the suspension of work in the quarries and shipyards and the growth of Higganum as a new and flourishing center of population and business. Thus, unfortunately, Brainerd Academy, like many other academies in the country towns, has been superseded by a few more heavily funded institutions, and by the high schools of the cities, to which our recent railroad fa- cilities afford cheap and ready access. Notwithstanding this decline, however, the founders of Brainerd Academy deserve to be remembered with gratitude and honor for their generous purpose. 7 97 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY During the interval which elapsed between the dismission of Dr. Field and the settlement of another Pastor, there was a revival, in which I was called to assist the minister who was in temporary charge. There were some cases of awakening of con- siderable interest. In 1846, Mr. Elisha W. Cook, who graduated at Yale in the class of 1837, two years after my own graduation, received and accepted a caU to the pastorate of this church. In his ordination and installation it was my privilege to take part. Having had some previous acquaintance with Mr. Cook in New Haven, I anticipated for him an efficient and successful ministry; and, so far as I know, my anticipations were realized. I am sure that he enjoyed the confidence and respect of his ministerial brethren. In the second year of Mr. Cook 's ministry, if I am not mistaken, this house of worship was erected and consecrated. It was a memorable event, the change from the old sanctuary to the new. The former was an antiquated structure, in shape nearly square, and of dimensions large enough to accommodate the town at the time when there were no other places of worship. Doubtless, when built, it was consecrated to God and the town, and like most of the old meeting-houses, it was designed, in part, for town meetings. The building had little of architectural ornament without and within, one of those buildings which irreverent persons were ac- customed to designate ''the Lord's barns." When first erected, I was told the pews in the audience-room were all square, so that a portion of the congregation sat with their backs to the preacher, and some sideways. But at the time I first preached in the house, none of the square pews remained, excepting those adjoining the sides of the building. On first entering the high pulpit, and looking up to the lofty gallery, and down upon the sparse con- gregation, I found it difficult to adjust myself to the peculiarity of the situation. But, as the service proceeded, I found myself agreeably affected by the serious and venerable look of things; and ever afterward, on learning the history of the house— how many scenes of spiritual quickening it had vdtnessed, and how many souls had within its walls recorded their vows of consecra- tion to Christ, I felt it to be a privilege to stand in the sacred pulpit and echo the teachings of the good men who in the past had there held forth the Word of Ufe. 98 THE HALF-CENTUEY TO 1850 But the days of the old structure were numbered. It was be- coming dilapidated and beyond repair. The dying out and re- n.oval of the old fa m ilies, and the opening of other places of worship was reducing the congregation, so that the house was disproportionately large for the need. The proprieties and ne- cessities of the case demanded a new and more compact and more attractive house of worship. Nothing else and nothing less was to be thought of; for the people had a mind to work, and rose resolutely and unitedly to the occasion. I cannot, at the distance of more than fifty years, recall the particulars of the service of the Dedication. But I remember that it was a feast of gladness, that the seats were filled to their capacity by the people of this community and delegations from the neighboring parishes. And a hush of deep and tender seriousness fell upon the assembly Avhen this pulpit, this communion-table, these seats, and these walls were solemnly dedicated to Almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. As my intercourse with the members of this church was limited to pulpifc exchanges with your minister, and to occasional public meetings, I had small opportunity for forming familiar acquain- tance with individuals, though I was on speaking terms with many. Permit me, however, to specify three or four who occupy a choice place in my memory. One of these is Deacon George S. Brainerd, who seemed to me to be a man of soUd worth — a pillar in the church, giving to it his steadfast and generous support. Another, worthy of special mention, is Deacon Cyprian S. Brainerd, who, although he resided on the east side of the river, was seldom deterred by storm or ice from filling his place in the choir and the Sunday-school. The last time I saw him, he was a mourner over the sudden death by pulmonary hemorrhage of a promising son. I might name also Samuel R. Brainerd, in whose Christian home I was most pleasantly entertained with bed and board dur- ing my brief term of teaching in the Academy. Not to yield to the temptation to extend this specification further, I only name Doctor Hutchinson, whom I counted as an intimate friend, both while he was a resident here and in Cromwell. I always had a high regard for him and for members of his family as intelligent and zealous supporters of the Church of Christ. And now, my brother, in bringing these reminiscences to a close, permit me to congratulate you, that you have had the honor and 99 iLofC. HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY the privilege of ministering to this venerable church so happily for more than a quarter of a century. And, through you, I would congratulate the church, so dear to me by reason of the memories which it revives, on reaching its two hundredth birthday, in a condition of vigorous health and unshrinking courage. When Methusaleh was two hundred years old, he was yet in his young manhood. But before he arrived at his thousandth year, he died of old age. But this church, so long as it continues to be a true church of Jesus Christ, is instinct with a divine life which for- bids it to grow old, and annuls its subjection to death, as long as there are human beings inhabiting these hills and valleys who are to be saved. From aU I know of this church or learn about it, it was never younger than it is to-day. Though by reason of unavoidable causes, it is weaker as to numbers than formerly, that furnishes no proof of weakness in spiritual power and fruitfulness. It is often the ease that our larger and wealthier churches are the feebler ones. Where God works in and with a church, units count for hundreds. And it deserves to be remem- bered, that, though six or seven generations have succeeded one an- other in the membership, this is the same church that was founded by the fathers and mothers who here first took upon themselves vows of loyalty to Christ, and it inherits the fullness of the ances- tral blessing. If this inheritance shall be handed down to the suc- ceeding generations, then the promise will be fulfilled that "they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength." Their youth will be continually renewed like the eagles. Yours in the Fellowship of the Church, Amos S. Chesebrough. 100 THE PASTORATE OF THE REV. JAMES L. WRIGHT Rev. SILAS W. ROBBINS Pastor of the Congregational Chnrcli, North Haven, 1852-1856 First Congregational Church, East Haddam, 1856-1871 First Congregational Church, Manchester, 1871-1891 DEAR Brethren and Friends : It is not possible for me fully to express the pleasure I have in sharing with you the common interest of this great occasion while we are living for a little time in the light of other days, I may be permitted to say that whenever I look back upon the past with a disposition to magnify my record, to persuade myself that, after all, I have been somewhat of a man in the world, I love to recall the fact that at one time in my life I was the minister of this historic and honored church. Your records may not show it; never- theless, it is true that for some four or five months in 1852, I was privileged to occupy this pulpit, having my Sabbath home in the family of Dr, Ira Hutchinson, that noble man who might have been a grand minister after the type of Dr. Field, if he had not been a grand physician— a man of large intelligence, quick and ac- curate judgment of men and things, who could read human character as clearly as he could read the con- dition of the human body, and withal kindly, sympa- thetic, and communicative— just the man for a young minister to be acquainted with. And to have had such 101 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY acquaintance was a valuable supplement to a theological course. I feel, therefore, that I owe much to this church. First, because of the inspiration, the impulses that I here gathered in the early days, so that when, after the four years of my pastorate in North Haven, I came to be a pastor in East Haddam, I had only to look across the river to be assured that I had friends near by. Again, I owe much to this church because, if there had been no church in Haddam there would have been no church in East Haddam, and I should have missed fif- teen years of delightful service there— this according to the principle of Father Gavazzi, who, when visiting this country thirty years ago, was accustomed to say to his audiences, speaking of Italy and Columbus, ''Had it not been for Colmnbus I might now be addressing an assembly of wild Indians." And again, I owe a debt to this church, because it brought to me the knowledge of such men as David Dud- ley Field, John Marsh, and James L. Wright, as well as my beloved brother, who so long and so worthily has stood in this royal line. I shall never forget one red-let- ter day, the Sabbath which Dr. Field spent with me in 1857. He was on one of those visits he so delighted to make to the scenes of his early labors. He preached three times to my people, and during his stay entertained me richly from his abundant knowledge of men and events which have distinguished this locality. Especially did he never seem to tire of speaking of the great ability and high character of David Brainerd. But the one man with whom I entered into closest relationship was Mr. Wright. He came in 1855, I in 1856 ; and we were side by side in labor, sympathy, and 102 THE PASTORATE OF THE REV. JAMES L. WRIGHT growing friendship till his work was done. The last service which I conducted in this church was in mem- ory of him. And when, a few weeks later, I left my parish for another, it was easier to go because he had gone. There were noble men in the Middlesex Association, whose names are honored and whose works live after them— Nichols, Beach, Bell, Doolittle, Wickes, Baird, Gallup, McCall, Hillard, Brainerd, Burr ^— Burr who was, who is, and long may his "sun be hanging in the west," while the people rejoice in its light. In Middle- town, not then annexed, were Jeremiah Taylor and John L. Dudley, whose ability and fraternal sympathy were greatly prized. We were then in the first decade of this great half- century so soon to close. And though the elements abroad are astir to-day and we stand paralyzed before events that are transpiring, hardly realizing that the things are so, yet fifty years ago opposing elements were astir in this home-land, stupendous issues waiting their de- cision, and a mighty conflict impending, compared with which in duration, in magnitude, in cost, and in results, the recent war with Spain was hardly more than a sham fight. Probably there has never been a period in the coun- try's history when its intellect and heart were brought into more strenuous exercise than during the years be- tween 1850 and 1865. Mr. Wright came just as the fires of the Fremont campaign were kindling. Then followed the four years of agitation during Mr. Buchanan's ad- ministration, and then the four dark, terrible years of the Civil War. 1 Dr. E. F. Burr celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his settlement at Lyme, October 3, 1900 103 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY And it is not to be forgotten that the sentiment in favor of temperance reform had never been more thor- oughly aroused than at the opening of this half-century. The Maine prohibitory law had been hailed as a rising star of hope. Other States followed its course till the great State of New York gave the indorsement of its example. And we cannot tell how much would have been permanently accomplished for this cause had not the greater agitation for the saving of the Union absorbed the attention and effort of the people. Now it may be remembered by some that the elements of opposition were nowhere in the State stronger than in the communities along this valley. Not that many were opposed to temperance, not that anybody advocated slavery. But it is hard for the ardent members of a dom- inant political party to surrender the conditions needful to its ascendancy. Now these were times when it was fortunate for this church to have in its pulpit a man — a man of strong in- tellect and great heart, of quick discernment and accu- rate judgment; a man gentle, patient, determined, true to his own ideas of right, yet respectful toward other people's ideas ; a man who could deal with opposers with- out bitterness, and hold the respect even of those whom he did not win. I am safe in saying, I think, that in those years of agitation there was no failure of spiritual life in the churches. At least I know how the ministers felt. The political questions might even be called religious. The earnest preliminary discussions were such as to quicken the moral sense. And in the stern stress of the war, the anguish of the bitter years, men were crying, "How long, Lord, how long ! ' ' 104 THE PASTORATE OF THE REV. JAMES L. WRIGHT The year 1858 was a year of memorable revival. The work began in East Haddam the year preceding. The whole town was moved by the Spirit's influence as it had not been since 1824. Seventy-nine members were added to the Congregational church. The following year, the churches this side the river were visited and the re- viving power was felt far and wide in the land. Other occasions of rejoicing in spiritual growth came with succeeding years. The pastor of this church was made glad by these visitations, and the demands they made upon him were his opportunity. For every department of parish work he was indeed abundantly fitted. He was an adminis- trator, a counselor, a comforter. In all perplexing con- ditions that arose, he carried a warm heart, a clear head, a steady hand. And yet, I always think of him first as a preacher of the truth — not in the sense of being a light in a great city drawing the crowd, but as one thoroughly grasping the truth and so presenting it to others that they would see it and be made better by it. He had been a teacher for a time before taldng up the du- ties of a parish, and he was skilled in the art of imparting knowledge. When I knew him once preparing a hand- book in mental philosophy for the instruction of his children, I was sure he could prepare one in natural science, in language, or in history as well. But I knew that the study of the human mind was his peculiar de- light ; and so, when he stood in the pulpit, his great joy was to reach men with the truth of God. He himself had been instructed, as most of the min- isters in the Association at the time had been, by that eminent teacher. Dr. Nathaniel W. Taylor. And Tay- lorism, to use a term once somewhat in vogue, has been 105 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSAEY well characterized as common sense applied to theology. The day had gone by when the attention of the people was taken up by the efforts of the pulpit to reconcile the inconsistencies of the so-called Calvinistic teaching. If such inconsistencies had been accepted on the plea that there must be mysteries in theology, Dr. Taylor said, "Yes, mysteries, but must there be nonsense in theology?" And he protested that the cry of mystery should never be raised as a cloak for absurdity. Verily, it was the clearness of his own thought, the just application of the specific truths in specific cases, which his hearers needed to know and feel and practise, that made Mr. Wright so edifying a preacher. The truth, vital in his own experience, became vital in other souls. Thus he called men to repentance. Thus he fed the flock of God, If any among his hearers were bowed under the weight of sin, perplexed over questions of doctrine and duty, troubled to understand their spir- itual condition, like Bunyan grievously * ' tumbled up and down in their minds," he was a teacher to clarify their views of truth, to lead them to the simplicity of faith, the joy of an immortal hope. Some matters are discussed in these days, with refer- ence to our Christian faith, which had little attention forty years ago. Mr. "Wright, were he now here, would doubtless treat these discussions with due respect, for he was a progressive man, while nothing would deter him from the present imperative duty to proclaim the truth as it is in Jesus. Even then he was accustomed to say, "We must leave some things to the scholars; we have not time for everything. We must take results from those who have time and facilities for complete investigation." Yet one thing is sure: no discussion or 106 THE PASTORATE OF THE REV. JAMES L. WRIGHT speculation about the Scriptures would lead him to miss the priceless treasures they contain. We take the grain from the fields, the timber from the forests, the granite and marble from the quarries, the gold and the silver from the mines, regardless of the question how old the earth is, by what long and varied processes it has come to its present state, how deep down we must penetrate to reach the molten mass within, or whether or not it be solid all the way through. The theories of the geologists can never make the earth other than it is. So with the sacred Book. It is here, it is ours. All the studies of the critics cannot make the Bible other than it is. They may tell us something about its origin which we have not known. They may help us to a clearer understanding and a more profitable use of its contents. But the more we know, the more shall we be sure that the Word of God abideth forever. And so we say to the honest investigator, go on with your re- searches; tell us what you know, and what you do not know keep to yourself, while the church goes on praying and singing as our fathers sang : How precious is the Book divine By inspiration given, Bright as a lamp its doctrines shine To guide our souls to Heaven. The time permits me not to say more. WTien all is said that one might say, still one feels that all is not said. To know Mr. Wright was to know him as his people knew him who heard the word from his lips, who welcomed him to their homes, who saw his devotion to all that made for the prosperity of the community, and who in the manifold experiences of daily life received 107 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVERSARY his benediction. It was to know him as his brethren knew him when they met to counsel together and to pray for the welfare of the churches. Even now I seem to hear his voice as I recall the sermon he preached at the Consociation in Essex in 1857, from the text (Phil, iv: 3), "Help those women which laboured with me in the gospel ' ' — a sermon on true cooperation in Christian ser- vice which went to all our hearts. It remains for me only to congratulate this church yet once more on his efficient ministry — that he came when he did, that he stayed as long as he did, and that ''being dead he yet speaketh." Allow me to repeat the closing paragraph of the discourse given in this church a few weeks after his decease: "With our tribute to this devoted pastor we record an expression of sympathy for the people whom he served so faithfully, giving to them the strength of his best days. May this ancient church be early blessed with another as worthy of a place in the succession of its honored ministry as was he who has now finished his course." And now, dear friends, looking back along the years which have passed since that day, I rejoice with you in the signal proof they have given that God answers prayer. 108 THE DEACONS OF THE CHURCH MINER C. HAZEN, M.D. EMERSON says, there is no history, it is all biog- raphy. Carlyle says, the history of the world is the biography of its great men. So the history of Had- dam for two hundred and thirty-eight years is not so much the record of the changes that have come over the face of the township; for, aside from the clearing of the forests and cultivating the soil, there is not so much of change to note, and little we would wish to change. The same majestic river winds through this picturesque valley among these beautiful hills, but all these were here before the white man took possession, and were a source of pleasure and inspiration to The poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds and hears him in the wind. It is not the river that flows on forever, but the men who have come and gone— it is what they have ac- complished, especially their religious work, that we would commemorate to-day. The history of the town is the history of the church, and the history of the church is the biographies of the twenty-eight men and their descendants and successors who settled here in 1662, and honored God's law in establishing and maintaining the religious worship in the plantation. 109 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY My pleasant duty it is to speak of the deacons who for the past two centuries have served this church. Of these twenty-seven deacons, five are living: twenty-two have passed to the other side. The oldest of these was Dea- con Elisha Cone, who died at the age of ninety and nine years and six months; the youngest, Deacon Fiske Brainerd, who died at the age of forty-three, after a service of four months. Their average age was about seventy-four years. This would seem to indicate that the deacon lives beyond the average of human life. The ninety-first Psalm is the deacon's Psalm. "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation." These Hurs, who sustain the hands of the weary pastor ; these armor-bearers, like the first patriarch, are also blessed in their families. Of Abraham it was said, * ' For I know him that he will teach his household and his children after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment." Please note the quality of the deacon's sons in this list. The date of appointment of the first four deacons of this church is not known. The first was Deacon Daniel Brainerd, the proprietor. He was the ancestor of all the large family of this name in this country. He came to Hartford from England when he was eight years old, and from there to Haddam when he was about twenty-one years old, and became a prosperous and in- fluential citizen. He was the largest landholder in the plantation, owning, besides other properties, nearly all of what is now the thriving village of Higganum. He married Hannah Spencer of Lynn, Mass., by whom he had eight children, seven sons and one daughter. He 110 THE DEACONS OF THE CHURCH died April 1, 1715, at the age of seventy-four. His monument, a plain, brown-stone slab, is in the old bury- ing-ground, and is the oldest in town, save one, that of a man from Chester who died in 1711. Dr. Field, early in this century, estimated the Brainerd family at three thousand. By this time they must be like the sands of the sea, and among them, living and dead, are many emi- nent names from all walks of life. Of the twenty-seven deacons of the church, nine have been Brainerds. Dea- con James, the fourth deacon, was the second son of Deacon Daniel; Deacon Elijah was the seventh deacon, and a grandson of Deacon Daniel ; and Deacon Hezekiah was a son of Hezekiah, the seventh son of Daniel Brain- erd, and the eighth deacon of the church. Nor is this all : Deacon Daniel Brainerd 's first son, Daniel junior, was deacon of the East Haddam church, besides which, Oliver P. Smith, the twenty-first deacon, was half Brainerd. We now have the Brainerd blood in the wives of Deacon Rogers and Deacon Odber, and in the veins of our junior deacon is the same blue blood. Deacon Joseph Arnold was the son of Joseph, an original settler. Deacon Thomas Brooks, the son of Thomas, an original settler, a blacksmith, had an only son Thomas, who was the fifth deacon, and he lived in the old red house which used to stand near the present house of Cephas Brainerd. Deacon Brooks sold this property to Rev. Eleazer May. Elisha Cone was ordained as deacon in 1742. He lived to the great age of ninety-nine and a half years, and served the church sixty-seven years— ''and he died." Rev. Thomas Robbins of Norfolk supplied the pulpit in Haddam about 1802-1803, and after the death of Rev. Mr. May received an urgent invitation to become their pastor, which he declined. He kept a diary which 111 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY has been published, of which a copy is in the State Li- brary. Under date August 3, 1803, he notes: "Saw Deacon Cone of this town mowing. He is nearly ninety- four years old, and has been an ordained deacon sixty years. Visited a school. Read the Bible. " Deacon Elijah Brainerd, son of Elijah, son of Deacon Daniel the first, was in office from July 12, 1759, until his death. May 9, 1764, at the age of fifty-eight. Colonel Hezekiah Brainerd was the son of Hon. Hezekiah, who was a prominent public man (Colonel Hezekiah was also brother of David and John Brainerd, the eminent missionaries to the Indians). He was Town Clerk, Justice of the Peace, and a colonel of militia. His wife was Mary Fiske, the daughter of Rev. Phineas Fiske. A son of Hezekiah was a noted physician, emi- nent as an inoculator for smallpox. He had a "pock- house" a mile west of his residence, by the woods near Niggertown. He was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. The widow of Dr. Hezekiah Brainerd left a be- quest of $500 to the church. Deacon Hezekiah died De- cember 14, 1774, aged sixty-seven. Deacon Joseph Smith was the grandson of Simon, a first settler, and served eighteen years. Deacon Nehemiah Brainerd, second, was a graduate of Yale. He was a grandson of Hon. Hezekiah, and son of Rev. Nehemiah, and was prominent in public afllairs, Clerk of the Town, Justice of the Peace, and representa- tive to the General Assembly of the State. He was dea- con sixteen years, and died in 1807, at the age of sixty- six. Eliakim Brainerd was a captain of militia, and in ser- vice of the government in the Revolutionary War. He was deacon from 1784 until 1806. His death, at eighty- 112 THE DEACONS OF THE CHURCH three, occurred in 1815. He was the great-grandfather of Cephas Brainerd, our presiding officer to-day. Jonathan Huntington was ordained deacon in April, 1806, and served in the old church thirty-eight years un- til the church at Higganum was organized in 1844. He was appointed deacon in the new church and served until his death, September 2, 1848, at the age of seventy-eight. Deacon Huntington was a man of medium height, erect and stout. He was a graduate of Yale, engaged in mer- cantile business as well as agriculture. He was an im- portant man in matters of the town, and repeatedly representative to the legislature. He was a member of the convention that formed the State Constitution in 1818. He was a specimen Puritan, grave and severe in demeanor, a man of dignity and character. He was first, last, and all the time a warm friend of his pastors, Drs. Marsh and Field. The latter, though of the same general make up, dignified and severe, enjoyed humor, and would indulge in a hearty laugh when occasion compelled it. On one occasion, at an after-dinner interview at the house of Deacon Huntington, David and Jonathan were communing together, and at some remark made by the deacon, the doctor laughed very loudly. The deacon said to him, ' ' Dr. Field, it is undignified for you to laugh so loudly." Dr. Field then laughed louder than before, in which the good Deacon Jonathan was obliged to join — but David exceeded. Deacon Huntington was the first superintendent of the first Sabbath-school, organized by Dr. Marsh in 1819. Deacon David Hubbard lived in the Ponset district. From 1806 to 1836 he was associated with Deacon Hunt- ington. He died at the age of eighty-seven. Deacon James Walkley of Walkley Hill was in service 8 113 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY from 1819 to 1839— twenty years. He was a diligent, prosperous business man, a man of peace. He was the father of Selden and James C. Walkley, two well-known and useful business men. His only daughter was the wife of Rev. James Noyes, of blessed memory. Deacon Fiske Brainerd served from February 5 to June 5, 1826, a period of four months. He died at the age of forty-three. He was a son of Deacon Nehemiah, and a brother of General John and Nehemiah, who es- tablished "Brainerd Academy" and gave a large sum for the support of the church. Asa Young was the successor of Deacon Fiske Brain- erd, and was deacon from 1826 to 1836, when he removed to Michigan, or, as records say, to Munson, 0. He lived by the river in a white house where may still be seen an old cellar. A building used as a dwelling later and recently torn down, called the "White House," was formerly Deacon Young's shop, where he made blocks and other articles of furniture for vessels that were built near by. Deacon Young was a genial, social man, and, though diligent in business, never so hurried that he could not stop to listen to or tell a story. He died at the age of eighty. Deacon George Smith Brainerd was ordained to office March 5, 1841, together with Benjamin Hopkins Catlin, M.D., and Comfort Cone. Deacon Catlin served one year and four months, when he removed to Meriden, where he continued to fill the office of deacon in the First Congregational church of that place until his death in 1875 in his seventy-ninth year. Deacon Comfort Cone served this church three years, 114 THE DEACONS OF THE CHURCH until he removed to Higganum, where he was deacon until his death in 1875. I remember him as an amiable, courteous old gentleman, always inclined to charity. George S. Brainerd, or Deacon George, as he was called, was a quiet man, positive in his convictions, of sterling integrity and excellent judgment. He was a loyal supporter of the church in its financial and spir- itual concerns. He was always present at public Sab- bath worship, prayer-meetings, and in Sabbath-school as superintendent or teacher, ready to serve in any place. I remember his large class of young ladies in the north- west corner. Steadily he worked at it; — to a looker-on it seemed as if it must be rather dull, but the interest was steady and continuous. He told me not long before his death that he had reason to believe his whole class had become Christians. Besides farming. Deacon Brainerd was in early life engaged in quarrying, and was the first to refuse to furnish his men intoxicating liquors. When I first came to Haddam, forty years ago, the two deacons were Deacon George and Deacon Cyprian S. Brainerd. This noble pair were faithful and strong men, not alike at all, but one seemed to supply what the other might lack, and in their long service together everything was harmonious. Deacon George S. Brainerd died suddenly, January 27, 1872, aged eighty. Cyprian Strong Brainerd was a tall man of graceful presence and pleasing address. In early years he was a teacher in the public schools, having taught in Higga- num, Portland, and other places. Later he was engaged in quarrying with his brothers, furnishing stone for New York, New Orleans, and other cities, and for heavy masonry at Fort Schuyler, Fort Hamilton, Governor's 115 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Island, Fort Pulaski, and other fortifications. This brought him into contact with prominent army men. Among them he used to mention General (then Colonel) J. K. F. Mansfield, and General (then Major) Robert E. Lee, as being gentlemen with whom it was pleasant to do business. Deacon Brainerd was quite an enthusi- ast in the practical study of astronomy, and was familiar with the constellations, the fixed stars, the planets and their motions. He was one of the original trustees of Brainerd Acad- emy, and the last survivor of the old board. He was for many years the efficient superintendent of the Sabbath- school, in which he took a great interest. For more than forty years he was the leader of the choir, and a most efficient chorister. He was a sweet singer and a general favorite with the choir, and the old gallery used to be filled with fine singers. Prompt and punctual, Mary Brainerd always presided at the instrument, performing with such grace, devotion, and with such skilful touch, as to make music that lifted the heart to sublime and devout praise. Deacon Brainerd only wanted a pipe- organ to make him content. How much he knows now of what is transpiring among us we do not say, we do not know, but if he is aware of this fine instru- ment, the gift of his son, Cyprian S. Brainerd, Jr., as a memorial of the father and mother, he must regard this act of filial piety with the greatest satisfaction and delight. However that may be, it will bring to the mind of this appreciative people these old, tried friends, and will cause the name of parents and son to be remem- bered by coming generations. Deacon Brainerd died at the house of a son in Brook- lyn, July 18, 1880, at the age of seventy-five. His 116 THE DEACONS OF THE CHURCH modest, faithful wife survived him and died in 1896, at the age of ninety. She bequeathed to the church $500. Oliver Phelps Smith, who died March 14, 1877, had the office of deacon thrust upon him. He was a modest, diffident man, an able, honest merchant, and universally esteemed. He was devout, sober, grave, temperate, sound in the faith, charitable, patient. At our social meetings he made short prayers and brief exhortations, and they are remembered. Elihu Bigelow Rogers served as deacon from 1879 to 1881, when he resigned. He had a great affection for the young converts of the revival of 1876, attended their meetings, and afforded them much comfort and encour- agement. By reason of infirmities he has been con- fined to his house for several years past. He is eighty years of age. Arnold Hazleton Hayden was chosen deacon March 24, 1881, and served until his resignation, May 21, 1885. His mother was a granddaughter of Deacon Eliakim Brainerd. Deacon John Henry Odber was appointed in 1881, and has earned a good degree by a faithful service of nineteen years. Miner C. Hazen, M.D., was a deacon for a total of about thirteen years between his first election, August 20, 1885, and his retirement from office in 1899. Alpheus Williams Tyler has served the church as a deacon since December 20, 1893. Ephraim Pierson Arnold, our junior deacon, was ap- pointed December 20, 1899. Three of the deceased pastors and several deacons are buried in the old yard east of the court-house. I viewed the ground yesterday, and read these inscriptions. On 117 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY the monument to the second pastor, Rev. Mr. Fiske, the scholar and teacher, the gentle, faithful, zealous min- ister, and the beloved physician : Here lyeth the body of ye Rev. Phinehas Fiske. A learned faithful and zealoua minister of Jesus Christ and pastor of ye first Church in Haddam who Departed this Life October ye 17th 1738 Etatis suae 56 Adjoining is the stone of Deacon Hezekiah Brainerd, Dr. Fiske 's son-in-law, the brother of the great mis- sionary : In memory of Colonel Hezekiah Brainerd who departed this Life Dec. 14, a.d. 1774 in the 67th year of his Age Death conquers all. Longfellow has better said: There is no death. What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call Death. 118 THE EARLY MISSIONARIES Rev. DAVID B. HUBBARD MOSES said, "The secret things belong unto the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever." I suppose Moses was right. But I find myself wondering where the fathers are, and how much they know of what is taking place in Haddam to-day. My grandfather and grandmother Brainerd, my grandfather and grand- mother Hubbard, my father and mother, all of them, I think, at one time members of this church; have they moved so far out into the other world, or become so ab- sorbed with the joys thereof as to have lost sight of the ups and downs, the joys and sorrows of this church, and of the boy who has come on this anniversary occasion to stand in their place? I know not; but this I know, that if we are in truth the children of God, somewhere and somehow, in the no very distant future, we shall meet, and "We '11 know each other there." Among the very first things I learned, after I was so kindly invited to come to the old homestead to-day and speak of the early missionaries of this church, was the fact that a niece of David Brainerd, who was the wife of the Rev. Thomas Minor, the ficrst and for over fifty years pastor of the church I am now serving, lived in the same house I have occupied for the last fifteen years. The dust of their bodies lies in the cemetery only a few rods from my door. 119 HA DP AM CHUECH AXN'I\T:ESARY I think a very general impression, among our Congre- gational people at least, has been that the missionary spirit began to be felt and manifest itself about the time of the organization of the American Board, viz., in the early part of the present century; but this is a mistake. This work began when Christ was on earth. He said to his disciples, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." And Christians have never wholly forgotten this command, and it is very clear that in the early part of Haddam's history it had unusual force in the minds of some of its inhabitants. Just above where we now are. perhaps a mile and a half, on the right-hand side of the road, stood a house, back at the first of the eighteenth century, and how long before I know not, in which Hezekiah Brainerd and his wife, formerly Mrs. Daniel Mason, of Lebanon, and a daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Hobart. pastor of this church, began housekeeping, October 1. 1707. Mr. Brainerd was a man of more education than those around him, honored and trusted in political life, and died in the Capitol while attending in his place as sena- tor, May 24. 1727. To this Hezekiah and Dorothy, his wife, nine children were bom — five boys and four girls : the first, October 26, 1708, the last, June 7. 1725. Of those five boys it may be said, all were honored, noble men. The oldest, Hezekiah, became prominent in town and State matters, a deacon in this church, and died at the age of sixty-seven. The second. Xehemiah. gradu- ated at Tale College, settled in the ministry at Glaston- bury in 1740, and died in 1742. The fifth son and youngest child. Israel, entered Yale College, evidently with the purpose of fitting himself for the ministry, but was not permitted to complete his course of study, 120 THE EAKLY MISSIONARIES dying of a nervous fever, January 6, 1748. The third and fourth sons, Da\'id and John, are the ones with whom I have principally to do on this occasion. Da^-id was born April 20, 1718. Nine years later, his father died, and his mother died when he was but four- teen years old. Thus orphaned, he was cared for by Christian friends in East Haddam until he was nine- teen. Then for about a year he seems to have labored on a farm in Durham, his portion or a part of his portion of his father's large estate. In April. 1738, he came to the house of Rev. Phineas Fiske, pastor of this church, evidently for the purpose of fitting for college. In the October following, Mr. Fiske died. He then studied with his brother Nehemiah. His training here with 'Mr. Fiske was of an ascetic nature, he being advised "wholly to abandon young company and associate himself wholly with grave, elderly people," which counsel he followed, in my judgment greatly to his detriment physically and spiritually. David Brainerd did not need that kind of counsel. Weak physically, naturally inclined to seclu- sion and gloomy forebodings, he should have had the brightest pictures and the richest promises of God's love continually before him. As it was, we find him from the first to the very last of his religious life wearing himself out with cares and burdens he ought to have cast upon the Lord. His manner of life while with Mr. Fiske, and some months after, he says, "was now wholly regu- lar and full of religion, such as it was; for I read my Bible twice thi'ough in less than a year, spent much time every day in prayer and other sacred duties, gave great attention to the preached word, and endeavored to my utmost to retain it; in short, I had a very good outside and rested entirely on my duties, though I was insensi- 121 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY ble of it. ' ' But with these exercises he was not content. Who could be? He experienced nothing from which he could venture to hope that he was a child of God, until Sabbath evening, July 12, 1739. Then, a little more than twenty-one years old, he was attempting to pray in a discouraged state of mind, as if there was nothing in heaven or earth that could make him happy, when ''The glory of the Lord shone," not so much "round him" as within him. He saw "light in God's light," and marvelled that he had not done so before. He says, ' ' I felt myself in a new world, and everything about me appeared with a different aspect from what it was wont todo. " Surely he was a "new creature." But here the wonder begins. Read his diary and you will have the blues from the start almost to the finish, "A consecrated man," you will say, with purpose firm to serve the Lord; "hungering and thirsting after righteousness," while all the time looking backward and inward as though God remembered everything and laid it up against him. Sweet glimpses he had now and then of love and brighter things beyond, and these always strengthened him for greater strides in the heavenly race. After he had begun his work among the Indians, ex- tracts from a letter to his brother John, who was at Yale College, will, I think, give a fair index to his experience. Dear Brother: I long to see you, and to know how you fare in your journey through a world of inexpressible sorrow, where we are compassed about with vanity, confusion, and vexation of spirit. I am weary of life, more so, I think, than I ever was. The world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable or at least satisfactory can possibly be derived, and I long daily to die more and more to it, even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things 122 THE EARLY MISSIONARIES which I earnestly desire. Let us faithfully perform that busi- ness which is allotted to us by divine Providence, to the utmost of our bodily strength, and mental vigor. Death and Eternity are just before us; a few tossing billows more will waft us into the world of spirits, and, we hope, through infinite grace into endless pleasures and uninterrupted rest and peace. Brainerd gave himself wholly to convincing men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment to come, and to show- ing them the way of life. It mattered not whether he was traveling by day or stopping by night, whether there were few or many, he seized the opportunity to converse with his fellow-creatures on the subject of religion. His principal business, however, was with the Indians. He began laboring at Kaunaumeek, about twenty miles from Stockbridge, April 1, 1743, and stayed there a year. Afterward, he labored at Crossweeksung, eight miles southeast of Trenton; then at Cranbury, about fifteen miles distant, until the spring of 1747. Then, a feeble man always, his little strength completely failed, and he bade farewell to the church he had formed and the In- dian people who had learned to love him for his works' sake. Slowly and painfully he made his way home, thence to Northampton to the house of President Edwards, thence to Boston, where for a time he hovered between life and death, finally rallying and doing much work. Afterward he returned to Northampton and breathed his life out sweetly in the home of President Edwards, October 9, 1747, at the age of twenty-nine. So young! and yet so old ! To read his diary, learn where he went, how he labored in weakness and in pain, and not read the date, you would surely say, "He must have been three score years and ten." But did he do the Indians any good ? Oh, yes ! Many 123 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY of them were converted; there was a powerful revival among them, and such as were not converted were brought into a much better condition for future work among them. John Brainerd, two years younger than David, gradu- ated at Yale in 1746. He took his brother's place among the Indians while his brother was sick, and after his brother's death, was commissioned to go on with the work. He continued as a missionary to the Indians until 1777, covering a period of about thirty-one years. The last three years of his life he spent as pastor of the church in Deerfield, N. J. It is said he would have died with his Indian people, but war came, and a British army, recldess and cruel, broke in upon the field of his labors, and, to mark their special vengeance on the out- spoken and active patriotism of the pastor, burned down his church, and also, it is said, his dwelling. Expecting no mercy at the hands of British or Tories, he felt justi- fied in retiring until the storm was past. He died March 18, 1781, and his ashes rest beneath the aisle of the same old church in which he preached the gospel. He is said to have been his brother's equal in piety. I should say his piety was of a more cheerful kind, and yet even here he was evidently David's brother. He shared, we fear, in the feeble constitution that carried his brother David to the grave at twenty-nine, Nehemiah at thirty-two, Israel at twenty-three, and his sister Je- rusha Spencer at thirty-four. Though he himself reached sixty, his whole life seems to have been a strug- gle with physical infirmity. Neither John nor David became a missionary to the Indians because there was nothing else for him to do. Both had urgent calls to prominent churches. Theo- 124 THE EAELY MISSIONARIES logical dandies would have said they were the ''calls of God." These consecrated brothers gave themselves and their substance to God and the red man, and at the time of John's death the Indian church at Brotherton em- braced by one account one seventh, by another one third, of the entire population. This is probably as large a proportion as is found to-day in our New England vil- lages. The manner of work, or style of preaching among the Indians, according to David's language, was "To lead them into a farther view of their utter undoneness in themselves ; the total depravity and corruption of their hearts; that there was no manner of goodness in them; no good dispositions or desires; no love to God nor de- light in his commands; but on the contrary, hatred, en- mity, and aU manner of wickedness reigned in them. And at the same time to open to them the glorious and complete remedy provided in Christ for helpless perish- ing sinners, and offered freely to those who have no goodness of their own, no works of righteousness which they have done, to recommend them to God." I doubt if there has been any improvement since upon this gen- eral plan for the salvation of either Indians or white men. From the position of trust John Brainerd occupied in connection with Princeton College, from his writings, such as I have been able to read, and from the testimony of eminent men concerning him, I judge him equal, if not superior, in intellect and good common sense to his brother David. Of both of them it should be written, ' ' Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from hence- forth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours ; and their works do follow them. ' ' The biographer says, "Crossweeks, Bethel, and Bro- 125 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY therton, like Ephesus, Antioch, and Thyatira, have lost the praying men and women who once dwelt there; but these places still constitute sacred shrines in the memory of the church, and by the recorded history of the holy men who labored in them, will to the end of time radiate light upon the world. Henry Martin, Carey, and many other missionaries, Robert Hall, Thomas Chalmers, and other great minds of earth, have borrowed inspiration and models of holy living from the lives and labors of the Brainerds among the pines of New Jersey." Here in the Haddams they speak yet. I was surprised to learn that they head the list of thirty-two ministers, possibly more, who have been raised up on the original territory of this town. The record is a good one, for it includes such names as Henry M. Field, D.D., Joseph Harvey, D.D., Elihu Spencer, D.D., H. M. Parsons, D.D., Nathaniel Emmons, D.D., and Edward Dorr Griffin, D.D. But this is not all, neither is it half. The thousands of Christians who have lived and are still living have had breathed into them a little more of the "Breath of Life," and have gone in the strength thereof with a little more zeal than would have been the case had David and John never lived. These men sleep, and, no one doubts, "the sleep of the just." White men praise and magnify their names. Old Haddam is glad to call them her sons, and would do herself honor to mark the place of their birth with some lasting memorial. Indians many have died who were taught by those apostles that there was something better than chasing the deer and scalping the foe, and who for many a long year have been having greater delight in the heavenly fields than they ever dreamed of having in their "Happy hunting-ground." No good 126 THE EARLY MISSIONARIES Indian except a dead Indian! The Brainerds did n't think so, and we would n't think so had the Indian al- ways been treated as he should have been, I sympathize with the Indian, I am told there is Indian blood in my veins, I don't doubt it, for I feel the blood boil, Indian fashion, within me when I think of the wrongs done that people. Had there been more Davids and Johns, there would have been more praying and laboring and saving, and less cheating and shooting and driving the poor red man and his squaw from the land to which they had the jirst and 6esi claim. 127 THE HOMES OF THE PASTORS EVELINE WARNEE BRAINERD MUCH has 15een said of those who laid out the home lots of Haddam; little is known of those who car- ried on the homes. Much is told of those who preached on Sunday ; little of the wives who criticized the sermons on Saturday. Elizabeth Hobart, Mrs. Fiske, Sybil Huntington May, Submit Dickinson Field, Mrs. Marsh: these were names that in their own times meant to the people of our town what the names Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Lewis are in the memory of those here to-day. So usual has church ownership of the manse become that it seems as though this had been always the cus- tom, and it is a surprise to find that here at least the possession of a minister's house by the church or eccle- siastical society dates back but about sixty years. This is the latest of three methods of providing the minister's home. The others, that of giving a house and lot, or giving settlement money wherewith the clergyman might purchase his home, were the arrangements belonging to the days of long pastorates, when the settlement was the commencement of a life work. Of the land marked off for "the minister," "the first minister," "the parsonage," "the parsonage forever," it is unlikely that any ever served for home lot. It is a curious and pleasant coincidence that the recent be- quest to this church comes from a descendant of the 128 THE HOMES OF THE PASTOES man, Joseph Arnold, who gave part of his own home lot for the home of the first minister. This dwelling, built by the town, is the only case, till this century, of the public ownership of the parsonage. Mr. Willoughby used it probably less than two years, and the only sug- gestion of the home, save the fact that two little chil- dren, Mary and Jonathan, Jr., were therein, is gathered from an order in the year following his departure, that out of money still due Mr. Willoughby be deducted Goodman Whitmore's bill for "fearidge," which one fancies to mean the moving of the few household goods across the "great river." Mr, Willoughby 's house became the town meeting- place and, probably, the church for the succeeding six years; for, with the coming of Mr. Noyes, the town promised him the house and lot in case "he should see cause to settle with us six years from this time forward in the worke of the gospell," and it was ordered that "in case Mr. Noyes see cause to make use of the house or lote ... he give the town convenient warning before taking the house holy to himself." Mr. Noyes gave two years' warning, and in the meantime, perhaps, it was that he dwelt on a "highway on the way to the great hill where persons dig stones." This certainly sounds like the road running from the school-house to the quarries, and on this high land, doubtless lay Aaron Cleveland's lot, described eighty years later as on Noyes 's Hill. What was cooked in the wide fireplaces of the Willoughby house and the house "on the hill" can readily be imagined when it is known that Mr. Noyes 's salary came in the four forms of wheat, pease, pork, and Indian corn. From the records one learns of the land fever that curiously possessed this bachelor 9 129 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY parson, Mr. Noyes had uncleared acres given him as ' ' freeman ' ' of the town, but he also bought, and we read of a home lot on the first town road and another, with a house upon it, lying a little north of Benjamin Kelsey's. The history of one piece tells with what affection he re- garded his parish. It was the town's gift to the first minister. On leaving, Mr. Noyes said he should present it to the first young man settled over the Haddam church. Thirty-two years did he hold it, till the coming of young Phineas Fiske. Kumor says that the Rev. John James was bookish, a statement not contradicted by the negative testimony, that of absence of deeds, suggesting that his tastes did not run with his predecessor's into real estate. The town offered him the house of the former minister, "the horshard," and pasture for one year, and the house was to be fitted up, and the pasture fenced as high as "the horshard," while he was to have the pasture-land or let the town improve it for him. In the spring he was to have twenty-two pounds and the firewood for the next year. This first parsonage had disappeared before the com- ing of Mr. Hobart, and the year following his arrival a house was built for him. The frame was to be ready in March, the nails in May, and three years later the house and land were given outright to the pastor. If study has not led far astray, this house stood on the corner lot across the turnpike from the church, now the Clark place. Mr. Hobart 's widow sold it to her "be- loved son Hezekiah Brainerd, ' ' and when he in turn sold it to Benjamin Smith there was reserved on the north- ernmost corner a place for a Sabbath house for him and his family and heirs forever. Fifty pounds a year in 130 THE HOMES OP THE PASTORS provision pay had been offered as an inducement to set- tle, and Mr, Hobart had also what seemed to cause much trouble, eighty loads of wood delivered at his house by November tenth each year. He was an elderly man when he came to Haddam. One son was grown and away, but the little girl, Dorothy, wandered among the "fruit trees, fences, herbage, and waters" that the old deed records. In time she, a young widow, brought to the parsonage the little Jeremiah Mason, the grandfather of the renowned lawyer Jeremiah Mason, and by and by, when she had gone to her new home on the bend of the river below Higganum, the children of Hezekiah Brainerd must have brightened what one can but fancy was a sober home. With the church and the Hobart house together, it was natural that the next parsonage — that for Mr. Ho- bart 's assistant, Phineas Fiske— should be near. Its well, allowed by a town vote "provided it be kept well curbed, ' ' known, till recent years, as the Fiske well, lies on the highway, north of Mr. Rogers's place. Oppo- site stood the dwelling, near that of Mrs. Williams. Nine acres constituted the original property, but Parson Fiske 's orchard and barn were across the road, and there stood the three rows of apple trees especially men- tioned in the deed. The plans for the house were care- fully made and carried out. One town meeting was called "chiefly for the methodizing the building and finishing of Mr. Fiske 's house." Mrs. Fiske is the only one of the parsonage mistresses whose share in its management is visible to the public, but it is easy to imagine hers in the changes in the house plans that the young minister asked. The lean-to became not a mere lean-to, but a shed running up square as liigh as the 131 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY main house and a peaked roof, and an attic or loft were requested, all of which the town fathers "freely al- lowed." From the dimensions one guesses the house to have been of the typical style, two square front rooms, a small hall and stairway, with the lean-to forming the kitchen and pantry in the rear. There were six children at the parsonage, and near lived John Fiske, the clergy- man's brother, and a house full of cousins. There is no happier picture in our annals than this of the parsonage from 1714 to 1738. The pastor found time for tutoring, and two of the ministers raised by Haddam were trained in this study. They gained not only wisdom but wives, Abigail Fiske marrying Chiliab, and Elizabeth, Nehe- miah Brainerd. Mary, the baby who came to Haddam in 1712, married Nehemiah's brother Hezekiah, and that other son of Dorothy Hobart, their brother David, came, in his turn, from what we call Riverside Farm, to be taught by that scholar and gentleman. Parson Fiske. He lived at the parsonage during the last year of Mr. Fiske 's life, and the life there, as described by his jour- nal, is fitly summed in that advice of the teacher to his pupil, "Wholly to abandon young company and asso- ciate himself with grave and elderly people." To us the further history of this house after that sad October 14, 1738, is interesting. At first Mrs. Fiske still dwelt there, and the town records, with pathetic meaning underlying the bare words, "Paid Mrs. Fiske two pounds for en- tertaining Sunday ministers." The one son, Samuel, but recently back from Yale, lived only four years. Then the ownership was divided between the four daughters. But Elizabeth's husband died and she and the little Nehemiah, Jr., returned to the old home. Ne- hemiah in time bought the right of his aunts, and his 132 THE HOMES OF THE PASTORS sons, whom we all know as Nehemiah and General John Brainerd, gave their great-grandfather's home to their only brother, Deacon Fiske Brainerd. About the time of Mr. Cleveland's settlement it was decided to sell the parsonage lands, as they were called. So Mr. Cleveland's arrangement has no mention of land, or house, or firewood, but only of money, of which, owing to the dearth of that article, he enjoyed little. He pur- chased several "parcells" of land, two of them having houses upon them, but that which legend has always called his dwelling stood in the **01d House Lot" at the top of Jail, or better, Noyes's Hill, where the roads from the school-house and the Red Store intersect. Gnarled apple trees tell that the pasture was once a home lot. The cellar hole is still visible, while the timbers of the old house now form the frame of a red barn, standing on what became the homestead of Parson May. The windows of the Cleveland house must have looked on a winding length of river and long wooded slopes encircling the village in the valley. It is one of the love- liest views in the region, and one would naturally draw an inference as to the effect of nature on the childish mind if dates did not, with indifference to the best the- ories, state that Aaron, Jr., one of Connecticut's poets, left Haddam at the age of two. Joshua Elderkin rented much of what still remained of the parsonage land and built a "Mansion House" on the east of the street, about a quarter of a mile southeast of the church, or near the present cemetery. It is pos- sible that the name, "the parsonage," which long clung to the lot above the "Home" where General Brainerd cut his stone, refers to this ownership, and research has verified this supposition. Mr. Elderkin 's health giving 133 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY way, he was forced to leave, and the sale of the dwelling to Samuel Clark refunded the town for its settlement money. Parson May came in two or three years, bought the place to the east of the Church Green of his day, and there built for his bride what is known in one family at least as the "Old Red House," It stood on the crest of the hill close to the present turnpike. This road was laid out in its later days, and Parson May's maples were set close against the new fence; but when the house was built the road ran much on a line with that to the present parsonage, and the red door with its white deco- rations looked out on a wide yard. It was a large house, arranged as we take it was Parson Fiske's. A house so full of children it proved, that one is glad for Mrs. Sybil when the church was built on the green before her door. Even with it so near, it must have been a task to marshal that flock at the proper moment into the pew that the ecclesiastical society asked her hus- band to choose for his family. On the death of Parson May came Mr. Field, with his young wife to the little house, torn down in recent years, opposite the school-house. Most of us know how it looked, a tiny yard separating it from the street, a hea\'y stone chimney peering above the short front roof, and within, one of the finest corner cupboards. The second home, the square white house, burned some years ago, that stood on the site of Zechariah Brainerd's dwelling, was built by Dr. Field. David Dudley helped in the moving, and later Timothy, Stephen, Jonathan, and Matthew ran about the street barefoot, on errands for their mother, just as do our boys to-day. The rows of 134 THE HOMES OF THE PASTORS elms that make the spot, though shut from sight of the river, one of the prettiest in the street, were set by Mr. Field. Dr. Marsh bought the place that to the last generation bore his name, that opposite the May house, behind the old meeting-house, and to him we owe the beautiful elms of the green. The story of the cold water raisin' is too well known to be here repeated, but it seems par- ticularly appropriate that on Dr. Marsh's place, near the upper ''Sabba' day house," a spring, still famed for its water, was considered on Sundays the especial prop- erty of Dr. Marsh's flock, and the day's program had not been carried out till its water had been tasted. The ecclesiastical society hired this place for Dr. Marsh's successor. Dr. Clark, and also for Dr. Field on his return in 1837. Here those who had been children in the homes farther down the street, returned as men and women, and one of the younger. Rev. Henry M. Field, came to preach in his father's pulpit. Before this time the brothers Nehemiah and General John Brainerd had offered the Marsh place to the church, and the gift was now made. It was a large house, and Mr. Cook, who came here a bachelor, preferred to bring his bride to what was then a smaller house, now that of Mr. Charles T. Russell. Mr. and Mrs. Colton boarded in the home of the village doctor. When Mr. "Wright came it was decided to make a sale of all church property. Mr. Wright hired for a time the house then standing beside the court-house, before the old burying- yard; then the stone house; and then the ecclesiastical society bought the present parsonage, built by Chauncey Clark. There were children in this home also, one going 135 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY forth in '61, never to return. And in those years, under Mr. and Mrs. Wright, the parish learned to look on their new parsonage with affection ; and in the years that have since passed, it has been known as to-day we know it as the house of the beautiful flowers, the home where willing help and wise counsel may be had for the asking. 136 ADDEESS EDWARD W. HAZEN MR. Chairman, Brothers and Sisters: Our presi- dent has introduced me in connection with the subject "Our Young Men." As full discretion was given me to choose my own subject, my remarks may not closely follow the subject suggested. Most of your faces are familiar to me, and for your encouragement I wish to say that I am limited to about five or six minutes. Have you ever tried to recall your actions for the previous day? How fully have you succeeded in bring- ing back all the details? If you are able to remember one day, try to recall two, then one week, then one year. How much can you recall of your daily life ten years ago? Only the merest skeleton. But how about two hundred years ? All the history that we have from every source is only a suggestion of a very few prominent points — the milestones of the influence of this church covering over seventy-three thousand days. Think of the prayers, the sacrifices, and the struggles put forth during this time— the only record of which is on high — each influence still operating and reaching all over this country. Our present pastor first came here by boat (or stage) in September, 1871, and in January, 1872, was ordained in this edifice. This was just about the time the Con- 137 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY neetieut Valley Railroad was constructed. He came here in the full vigor of young manhood, and has given this people his love and devoted service for twenty-nin« years. His training and abilities fitted him for positions in the commercial world that command many times the remuneration received here, but remuneration for life's work does not all come upon this earth. That man is richest who has the greatest number of jewels in the crown awaiting him. The church membership January 1, 1872, was one hundred and twenty. Thirty-two of them still remain on the roll. During these twenty-nine years one hundred and ten persons have been added to the church, of which only fifty-nine remain, thus making the present member- ship ninety-one; and twenty-five of these are actually absentees who prefer to keep their connection here rather than unite with the churches where they are ac- tively interested. Those who are familiar with the history of the com- munity during this period will note that the member- ship of the church is larger to-day in proportion to the church-going population than in 1872. During the win- ter of 1875 and 1876 a revival of great power manifested itself, and stirred every person of mature years in the community. This was preceded by months of earnest prayer and intelligent effort by the pastor and his de- voted wife ; also by the handful of active workers in the church and Sunday-school. I remember that I person- ally received two very touching letters from Mrs. Lewis urging me to become a Christian. As a result of this awakening, forty-seven persons were added to the church roll during 1876. Of these forty-seven persons, I think, thirty-seven are 138 ADDRESS living to-day, and yet only nine are left in this commu- nity. Thus you see most of them are actively interested in church work elsewhere. Following this revival, by the exercise of the faculty for organization, and the won- derful ability to teach possessed by our pastor, the foundation for many useful Christian lives was laid. This was some time before Mr. Clark started the Chris- tian Endeavor movement; but, seeing the need of the hour, our pastor established a weekly Young People's Meeting for Saturday night. These meetings were so well sustained by the young people that often time was not sufficient to give all an opportunity to take part. This movement did not in the least interfere with the attendance and support of the regular Thursday night meeting. As time passed on, one after another left town, leav- ing the active work to a few, I have purposely avoided personal references, but can- not close my remarks without paying tribute to our noble departed brother, Cephas Brainerd, Jr. He was with us during only a part of each week in the summer, but his presence always brought strength and encouragement to the church work here. In the great city of New York he was loved and respected by all who knew him, and few men of his years had so large a circle of acquain- tances. He was active not only in his profession, but in church and Y. M. C. A. work in that city. He has gone to his reward, but his influence still lives. 139 ADDRESS Rev. WILLIAM C. KNOWLES MY Friends: In the language of the Book of Com- mon Prayer, I greet you as "dearly beloved brethren. ' ' Having been kindly invited to make a few remarks on this occasion, what few words may be said will relate more particularly to the people of Ponsett. The exterior of the old meeting-house, which remained standing some years after its abandonment as a place of worship, I can well remember; of the interior, how- ever, I have no remembrance. My earliest recollection of going to meeting was with my parents at the white school-house in Higganum, after that society was set off from the old parish. In this church— not this building, but in those that preceded it— all the inhabitants of Ponsett attended service for many generations ; and their dead were brought to Iladdam for burial until 1761. A little more than a century ago, a Methodist society was organized in the western part of the town. The Methodist church in Ponsett supplied a long-felt want. Many families availed themselves of its privileges, and did well in doing so. It was no small undertaking for the inhabitants of that portion of the town to go of a Sunday morning six or seven miles for worship. But many families still continued to attend this church ; and even at as late a date as the setting off of the Higga- 140 ADDEESS niim Society, a few individuals refused to sever their connection with the old parish. Again we find the times have changed. We are not taking the long walks, or rides even, to attend divine service that our ancestors did, and St. James's Church, Ponsett, supplies another means of grace to those who prefer the Liturgy of the Mother Church. On the road running west from the old meeting-house stood the Ponsett "Sabba' day house," where the wor- shipers resorted for warmth and luncheon. Churches were poorly heated, if heated at all, in those days. I once heard my great-grandmother say that our old meeting-house was the first place of worship in which she ever saw a stove, and she came to Haddam in 1793. Hence the necessity of the "Sabba' day house," in which a fire was kindled on the hearth before morning service, where the people warmed themselves, and, when the la- dies had filled their tin foot-stoves with coals, they were ready to go into the church. Something over one hundred years ago. Miss Susan- nah and Miss Catharine Hubbard, the blind daughters of Jeremiah and Alice Shailer Hubbard, were members of the choir. They were very remarkable women. Dr. Field says of them, "They were singers and conversant with the Scriptures and Dr. "Watts 's Psalms." I have been told these women could, on returning from church, repeat the sermon entire. I never believed that story until to-day, for I had sup- posed Mr. May's sermons were of unusual length; but Dr. Munger told us this morning that they were very short— so short, in fact, that I can now readily believe that these blind women, not being disturbed by vision (for they never saw daylight), might so imprint them 141 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY upon their memories as to be able to repeat them. These sisters lived to be very aged, Miss Susannah dying in 1827, at the age of ninety. The first death recorded on the parish register in 1804, the year Dr. Field was ordained, was that of my grand- mother, Mrs. Judith Knowles. She was buried in a blinding snowstorm, with no minister to perform the last sad rites. Mr. May was dead and Dr. Field had not entered upon his duties as pastor. The first person to call on Dr. Field for the purpose of conversing on the subject of personal religion, was Miss Mary Hubbard of Ponsett. She was one of the few who refused to unite with the Higganum Society, pre- ferring to live and die in the old church. In her old age she used to ride to church in an ox-cart. On Sunday morning, her husband, for she had married, would take off the cart body, putting on a plain box instead, and in it the old couple would ride from Ponsett to Haddam, to attend divine service. One incident I have never for- gotten. My mother was called one Sunday evening to watch with a sick neighbor and left me, then a small boy, in care of this aged couple. After I had been snugly put in bed, I heard the old lady say to her husband, — and oh, how hard it was for her to say it!— "We shall have to give up going to meeting; there is no place for the oxen, and we are getting old." There was still another trouble— the boys bothered them. There were boys in Haddam then, as there are now, and the un- usual sight of an ox-team on Sunday aroused their curi- osity and excited merriment. She died at my father's house in 1850. The Rev. Mr. Cook officiated at the funeral. Stephen Tibbals, Esq., who gave the solid silver tan- 142 ADDRESS kard for the communion service, was from Ponsett, So also was Deacon David Hubbard, who for many years faithfully performed the duties pertaining to his office, and whose grave is with us. As a native of Ponsett and a descendant of the early members of this church, I feel a deep interest in its wel- fare. The fervent piety and sincere devotion of many of its members give us cause for thankfulness. The dying words of Mrs. Susannah Hubbard, who died in 1719, have been handed down to her posterity. She was said to have been very pious, and on the night in which she died, taking notice that the watchers looked for the dawning of the day, she observed, in the language of the Psalmist, ' ' My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they who watch for the morning." Such is one in- stance of the piety brought forth by this church in the days long gone by. The like I trust has been exhibited in all the intervening years down to the present day. It was my privilege a few days ago to converse with the oldest member of this church, a woman who has seen one hundred years and been well on to fourscore years a member of this church. Her long walk in close com- munion with her God, her long continuous growth in grace and in the knowledge of Christ, made me feel like a child who would gladly sit at her feet as a learner. Here my own ancestors worshiped for many genera- tions. Here they "heard of heaven and learned the way." They were Congregationalists. I became a Churchman. The Prayer Book declares the church to be "the mystical body of Christ, which is the blessed company of all faithful people." Such is the language of the Liturgy, and I came here to-day to rejoice with you and to wish you prosperity ; and (in the words of the 143 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSAEY Collect) I pray that God will visit you with his love and favor ; that he will enlighten your minds more and more with the light of his everlasting Gospel; that he will graft in your hearts the love of his name, increase in you true religion, nourish you with all goodness, and bring you to everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 144 GREETING FROM "THE OLDEST CHURCHES" Rev. AZEL W. HAZEN, D.D. IN bringing to you the salutations of "the oldest churches," it is my painful duty to remind you that there are twenty-nine churches in our Commonwealth which were born before you saw the light of day. Thus, let us hope that my few words may be salutary, as well as salutatory, inasmuch as they may guard you against too high exaltation in view of your venerable age. However, candor requires me to say that there are only three churches in this county older than you, and biTt four in our Conference. These are Old Saybrook, on whose historic Platform we all stand, going back to 1646 ; Clinton, which by some strategy got itself dated 1667, a year earlier than the First Church in Middletown, 1668, and Old Lyme, 1693. The church of which I have the honor to be the pastor, is just as old as your township. When Middletown cele- brated its two hundredth anniversary in 1850, it fell to one who had been for many years a pastor of this church to give the able historical address. Not a little of the value of that occasion and of its fruits was due to Dr. Field. Middletown has been closely connected with Haddam in a variety of ways. The highway which joins the towns used to be called the "Haddam Turnpike," and that is still its title among persons of intelligence. Many of 10 145 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY our citizens have made frequent pilgrimages to this town for legal purposes, while others have passed weeks and months as involuntary occupants of your renowned health resort. Again, this towTi has furnished to ours for more than a century solid building material, both in the form of granite, and of men. Hence it is with peculiar pleasure that I, in behalf of its older sisters, congratulate this church upon its bicen- tennial. I congratulate you upon the long, self-denying, faithful labors of your present pastor. I do this with unusual pleasure, since it is now well-nigh thirty years ago that I chanced to call your attention to him as a clergyman suited to your needs. I congratulate you upon the strong men and women you have here raised up and sent forth to render effec- tive service in other fields. How rich you are in these to-day. (In a whisper, I am moved to rejoice with you that you have had the name of ' ' Hazen ' ' on your records so many years. That title is always not *'an evident token of perdition," but a badge of respectability.) It is inspiring to think of the influence this church has exerted here and elsewhere since it was planted. What other force in this town has borne any comparison with it? It has been on the side of all agencies which have furthered the prosperity of the community. It was a ''Cyprian," doubtless a remote ancestor of the Cyprian who so loyally served this church for a generation in its deaconate, and then of the other Cy- prian whose noble memorial of his parents gladdens your hearts on this occasion, who said, "He cannot have God for his Father, who has not the church for his mother." So high an estimate did this martyr of Car- thage place upon the church of Christ in the third cen- 146 GEEETING FEOM "THE OLDEST CHURCHES" tury of our era. What a fountain of benediction has this ancient church ever been, in its noiseless yet most potent witness for the truth of the gospel of the grace of God ! May it so long abide here that its present age, hoary as it seems to us mortals, shall be merely its childhood : Came north, and south, and east, and west, Pour sages, to a mountain crest, Each pledged to search the wide world round Until the wondrous well be found. Before a crag they took their seat. Pure, bubbling waters at their feet. Said one: "This weU is small and mean, Too petty for a village green." Another said: "So small and dumb. From earth's deep center can it come?" The third: "This water is not rare; Not even bright, but pale as air." The fourth: "Thick crowds I looked to see; Where the true well is, these must be." They rose and left the mountain crest. One north, one south, one east, one west; O'er many seas and deserts wide. They wandered, thirsting, till they died. The simple shepherds by the mountain dwell. And dip their pitchers in the wondrous well. 147 GREETING FROM THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY CONFERENCE Rev. ENOCH F. BURR, D.D. MR. Chairman, and Members of the Congrega- tional Church in Haddam : Two centuries do not seem as long to me as tliey once did. Once they seemed a very considerable part of the Everlasting. Of late, they have sensibly dwindled ; but they still continue to appear to me a very respectable period — a period cov- ering some six average human generations and vast chapters of human history. During this very respectable period the church of Haddam has successfully withstood the attacks of Time and— Satan. I say Satan; for the roaring lion that goes about seeking whom he may devour is ever seeking to devour churches as well as individuals ; and sometimes he succeeds. But, thank God, he has not succeeded in de- vouring this church. Nor has that other waster who, under the venerable name of Time, makes way with so many old things and deluges the world with change. During the last two hundred years empires have risen and fallen, great wars have come and gone, hosts of in- ventions and discoveries have largely swept away old things in favor of the new or of nothing. But the old Haddam church has not been swept away. It has defied all enemies, supernal and infernal. It has firmly held its ground until now; witnessing to successive genera- tions the saving Gospel of Christ. No wonder that you of this generation take a warm in- 148 GREETING FEOM THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY CONFERENCE terest in such a fact as this. Of course you are glad that the ship in which you are embarked has weathered the storms of two centuries. Of course you are glad to publicly thank the helpful Providence without whose help all ships must founder and go to the bottom; glad to publicly honor the fathers whose faith and sacrifices made this anniversary possible. Of course you wish to retouch the fading pictures of memory; to gather into a sheaf and transmit to future times the profitable les- sons taught by the past ; to set up, as did men of old, in their Bethels and Jordans, stones of commemoration to say, "Hitherto has the Lord helped us." In short, you wish to celebrate; and have invited the sister churches of the Middlesex Conference to join you in the celebration. We accept the invitation. It is fitting. You have a right to our fellowship in this matter. It would be nei- ther natural, nor expedient, nor Christian, nor decent to withhold a fellow-feeling and intelligible expression of it at such a time as this. "When "birds of a feather flock together ' ' ; when all nature, from oysters to stars, appears to us in sympathetic groups, it were something monstrous if neighboring churches having a common Master, a common faith, a common polity, a common object, and largely a common history, should stand aloof from you this day in frigid isolation and indifference. We will not do it. Independency, pure and simple, is a hateful thing. Our fathers did not contemplate it in the Congregational polity. They meant independency qualified and softened and illumined by fellowship. The trees should stand together as a grove, interlocking branches and helping one another defy storms and shel- ter travelers. 149 HADDAM CHURCH AJSTNIVERSARY Accordingly, we, the other Congregational churches of ]\iiddlesex, come to-day, bringing to you our salu- tations, congratulations, and felicitations. We shake hands with you. We shake them long and well. We express the hope that you are in excellent health, and that you will be better to-morrow than you are to-day, and better at the end of the next century than you are at the end of this. Allow us to assist in ringing your bells and blowing your trumpets. May your shadow greatly enlarge from century to century! And, from century to century, may sister churches come up to help you celebrate ever brighter anniversaries ! 150 ADDRESS JAMES N. WRIGHT IT was near the beginning of the last half-century of the time we celebrate that my father commenced his pastorate of this church. It must have been in the spring or summer of the year 1855, unless my memory is at fault, that he became your minister. As I remember it, we drove here, I think, from Glaston- bury: most of the family coming together in some sort of a two-seated carryall. Myself a youth at that time, I confess that I had some misgivings, lest in leaving the barren, rugged hills of Burlington, we should fail to find in the new parish, anything quite so pleasant and at- tractive as they. And I shall never forget, as we came to the summit of the hill which overlooks the town, — "Dickinson Hill," I believe, though I am not sure now as to the name,— and the little hamlet nestled amid the trees, with the silvery river flowing peacefully by, burst upon our view, what a thrill of delight it gave me. I had found the hills again, even more lovely than those I had left, and, in addition, I had gained the river,— the beautiful river, with its ceaseless, unending flow, and its never failing power to attract and charm. I speak of my own feelings at that time, because I know them to have been the feelings of all. My father had been born and reared on the banks of this same river, but his home had been on the rich, rolling 151 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY meadows, and he must look far away, if he would see the spot where the hill tops touched the distant horizon. But he loved the hills too : and here the hills and the river met, and he at once took them all, as it were, into his great, loving heart. From the very first, I think, he loved Haddam ; and until the day of his death he never ceased to love it and its people, more, I believe, than any place in which, or any people among whom, his lot had been cast before. And it was a happy, delighted little family that drew rein, on that bright, sunny day, at the steps of the old "Hutchinson House," which stood hard by the little "green" where the court-house still stands to-day. It always seemed to me almost a sacrilege to pull that dear old house down. To be sure, it stood very near to the old burying- ground ; and at times when I had been out late of nights, and was obliged to seek an entrance through its back door, my steps would seem to ring very loud on the hard flag-stones, and a chill and "creepy" feeling would come over me, lest the sound should disturb the slumbers of those who had rested so long there, and their ghosts should appear, to chide me. I have shuddered as I opened the door of the old kitchen and let myself in quickly, barring it behind me and hastening to my chamber to pull down the window shades before the moonbeams should throw those phan- tom shadows athwart the pane ! But yet the days were sunny and bright there. I can never think of them otherwise. Indeed, about all my recollections of Haddam are of sunshine and summer. I can hardly picture it in winter. It seems to me as though there was but little winter. 152 ADDRESS Once I remember to have driven down from Hartford to Haddam in a "cutter"; but the sun shone brightly, and there was no chill in the air. Once, too, I recollect being one of a sleighing party that drove to East Had- dam on the frozen river; but on the next day the ice broke, and the vexed river swept it on to the sea, and then rippled along as placidly as on a summer day. Once, and only once, do I recall that a great snow- storm fell on the town, and the oxen, and the carts, and the plows were all brought out to clear the road and make a pathway for sleighs and pedestrians. So I always think, as I prefer to think, of Haddam as a place where the air is soft, and the skies are bright, and the birds sing ceaselessly in the branches of its grand old trees. I doubt not that you who live here, smile at a state- ment you deem so absurd, and shiver as you think of the days that count the time from December to March ! But do not rob me of my memory. Let it pass. It cannot harm you, and it is a very pleasant dream for me. The period at which my father began his ministry in Haddam, might be termed, I think, one of transition : a time when there was a mellowing down of the stern theology, and the rigid rites of a religion which had been handed on from the centuries that had passed. Thought- ful people were beginning to discriminate between the "traditions of the Elders," and the precepts and com- mands of Jesus Christ himself. Henry Ward Beecher had already risen to fame and influence, and the plat- form of Plymouth Church was attracting more attention than the pulpits of New England. It was setting a pat- tern, and a pace, which many of the younger ministers were seeking to follow. 153 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY My father was a progressive man. He was always conscious that the world moved, and he welcomed the knowledge which men of learning and of science were daily adding to the world's store. He never had a fear that scientific research would overthrow the truths of the Bible, and if old notions, and time-honored beliefs were set aside by it, he was ready to accept it, if only the demonstration could be shown to be correct. Yet, he was conservative, and he moved very cautiously, when matters of religion or of grave import were concerned. And amid all questionings, and through all the changes of the years, I do not think his orthodoxy could ever be doubted. The changes which the "Beecherian" era— if it is proper to use that term to designate the condition— in- troduced to the worship of the churches were many and important. It brought about shorter sermons, and led to a more familiar and conversational style of preaching, bringing the preacher and his hearers into closer sympathy. It cut away the high pulpit and brought the stately parson down from the cold pedestal which separated him from his listening people. It encouraged and made easier extemporaneous preaching, where the eye and the hand could assist the voice in riveting the attention of the listener. It short- ened, too, the long prayer, making it more earnest and less perfunctory. It led to the introduction of lighter and more cheerful hymns. Some of them, it is true, were very light in- deed: so light that they soared high, and soon were wafted out of the doors and windows to be heard no more by the long-suffering congregation. But there were 154 ADDRESS others, full of sweetness and tender feeling, that were sung then, and are sung to-day, and bring delight and refreshment to the souls of believers. Such changes as these were welcomed by my father as helps to the people, and as aiding his ministrations to them. During but a small portion of his pastorate did I re- main at home, but from an intimate knowledge, and a strong and sympathetic affection, I think I am able to estimate his character, and to speak of his labors here, with a reasonable degree of accuracy. And if I were to name the characteristics of his life, and the motives which actuated it, I think I should place chief est among them the following : First. An ever present and burdening sense of the responsibilities of his sacred office, coupled with an ar- dent and longing desire to meet and discharge them all to the full extent of his ability. Second. A tender, sympathetic, and loving nature, which was ever reaching out to comfort and help those around him, and which made the preaching of "the ter- rors of the law" always a painful and dreaded duty. Third. A high sense of honor and justice, which stirred him vehemently, with a ' ' righteous indignation, ' ' when he saw those principles ruthlessly violated. To a conscientious New England minister of the olden type, the "burden of souls," as he was wont to express it, was a load that hung about him with almost crushing weight. He could not shake it off, nor shift it on to the shoulders of others. Constantly in his mind was that saying of our Lord: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the king- dom of God." And by divine authority he had been placed a watch- 155 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESARY man upon one of the walls of Zion to warn the people of their sins, and to lead them into the way of life. Should he fail in the doing of this, he had failed in his great and sacred mission, and possibly made "ship- wreck" of his own soul. As one generation succeeded to another, and as the children of his flock advanced from childhood to youth, and from youth to maturity, if they had not been con- verted, and united themselves with the church, he felt that he had not accomplished that whereto he had been sent; and the minister's heart was heavy, and his head was bowed. That my father during much of his ministry was perplexed and troubled, at the small visible results that followed his labors, I know full well. "Revivals" of religion were reported from other towns, and other churches were increasing largely their membership, while the additions to his own church were few, and its condition often best described by that dreaded word, lukewarmness. At times I think all that saved him from utter discouragement were the leaves of Holy Writ, from which he would quote for his comfort such passages as these: "I have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase"; and this he felt assured God would do, in his own good time, if only he himself should prove himself faithful. "And let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not ' ' ; and many times he was well nigh to fainting. To preach to men of the punishment which he believed awaited the unrepentant sinner, in a future life, was, as I have said, always painful. His affection and sym- pathy were so great that it was very difficult for him 156 ADDRESS to do this ; and he preached upon this subject only so often as he felt that duty compelled it. I am sure he would never have done so, had he been able in any way to satisfy his conscience in the omission. I may not be altogether correct in my recollection, but the impression remains with me that only about once a year did he allow himself to preach to his people a sermon, the subject of which was "hell," or "eternal punishment, ' ' as the final destiny of the wicked ; and the effect of this on himself, was that of great depression, if not of real illness. He was greatly pained by the injustice of men, and endeavored, by example and preaching, to instil into their hearts a lively sense of justice, and a keen and manly sense of honor. Generosity was with him a cardinal virtue ; and he ever urged it upon his people, not in the sense of large or extravagant giving, but that every one should give according to his ability to do, and that the ability should be faithfully and conscientiously estimated. He was deeply interested in all that affected not only the religious, but the moral and material welfare of the people: in education; in everything that would beau- tify and enrich the place ; that would make homes more comfortable and pleasant; that would facilitate travel and increase prosperity. In evidence of this, I wish to quote to you some open- ing sentences of a sermon or address which he delivered to you at the time of the proposed building of the Val- ley Railroad. He said: It is the all comprehensive duty of the minister of the gospel to labor to promote the moral and spiritual interests of his fel- 157 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY low men. He is consecrated to that work. Nevertheless, he may, and others for him, take a narrow and mistaken view of his field of activity. He, like other people, is to take the world as it is, and to use whatever wisdom he has in endeavoring to influence men, directly and indirectly, to secure their best, their spiritual good. He is not forbidden, but obliged to discourse on whatever habits, practices, institutions, stand in the way of his efforts to save men. . . . He is not forbidden, but obliged to advocate and en- courage whatever improvements or enterprises tend, though in- directly, to advance the moral welfare of the community. Such was his belief, and in that belief he was led to take a vital interest in all that affected the welfare of the people, in all that concerned the welfare of the town or of the State. It led him to be deeply interested in the affairs of the nation, and to have decided opinions as to the right and wrong side of questions upon which political parties were divided. These opinions on ques- tions of national policy, or matters which concerned the State and town, he would at times express to his peo- ple. I doubt not, he even laid himself open to the charge of preaching "political sermons." But at all such times, his stern sense of justice, of honor, and of right, was forced to triumph over his affectionate and loving heart. And if those who may have been wounded by his words could have known of half the suffering it caused him to utter them, they would never have laid them up against him. In any attempt to estimate or to gage a minister's in- fluence, or to compute the results which have followed his labors, I feel that failure is so nearly certain, that it had best never be made. The influence is so far- reaching, so subtle, and works so sUently to its end, that much of it may never be known. The results of such 158 ADDRESS labors, too, appear perhaps oftenest in ways which elude the public eye, and at times when the connection between the cause and effect has been lost sight of or forgotten, ''In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good." This oft-quoted passage promises not definite or visible results, and so the minister must for the most part wait for this knowledge, until the time shall come when ** every man's work shall be made manifest." In this connection, I am reminded of the words of a clergyman of my acquaintance, which he said to me not long ago, as he was commenting upon his own labors in a church of which he had been the minister for the past decade. He said : If we cannot see the results which we had hoped to see, if the church is not as prosperous now as we had expected it to be, or as it was perhaps three or four years ago, it is not a reason for great discouragement. I am comforted by the fact that twice every Sabbath, during all these years, there has been drawn together here a large and attentive congregation, to whom the Word has been preached, and the services of the church admin- istered; that on every Sunday sermons have been preached; and the regular and orderly services and offices of the church, both Sundays and week-days, have not failed to be held: and no man can estimate the amount of good that has been accomplished thereby. In the main, I think my father relied on the ' ' regular ' ' and ''orderly" services of the church, in the ways or- dained by it, to carry on his work here. He was in no 159 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY way a sensational preacher, and never sought for strange or startling effects. His methods were those of the ''regular" and "or- derly" kind, and he multiplied ''means" and opportuni- ties only when conditions especially favorable seemed to warrant and justify them. In the matter of "revivals," so called, I think his soul was at times distressed, by reason of his distaste for the unusual means often thought necessary to promote them ; and his ardent, long- ing desire that his own church might experience them. During my own stay here, I do not recall any such radi- cal uplifting of spiritual life in the church as could be properly termed a powerful religious revival, I do remember, that in the winter of 1857, I think it was, when a general religious awakening prevailed throughout a large portion of New England, that the Haddam church shared in it with others, and that a goodly number was added to its membership. Though absent from home during the most of that winter, I recall a Sunday spent here, and especially the evening meeting, which was one of unusual interest and solemnity. After a season of exhortation and prayer, the pastor gave the customary invitation to anxious ones to come forward to the front pew. I sat in one of the center pews, on the north aisle, about two thirds of the way down to the door. Directly opposite me, across the aisle, sat my brother. He sat perfectly still after the invita- tion was given, making no move toward the front. A few had gone forward, and the pastor repeated the invitation. I knew of the great longing he felt that my brother should on that night take the great step that should seal him an heir of heaven. Still he moved not. 160 ADDRESS I began to feel a great sympathy for my father, and a rising indignation for my brother. I looked toward him. Then, I looked at him long and sharply. But he gazed straight ahead, avoiding me, or not heeding. I could stand this perversity — this dis- regard of all our wishes — no longer. I stepped across the aisle, and asked him why he did not go up. He made no answer. He moved not a muscle, but continued to gaze past me as before. I think I had forgotten now my sympathy for my father, and my indignation for my brother had burned into wrath. I drew nearer to him, placing myself so that my right arm was concealed as much as possible from the congregation. Then, bending over him, I hissed in his ear, ^^ Don't you want to be saved ? ' ' while, at the same time, wdth my fist I delivered him a blow full in the ribs. He heard the venomous words, and he felt the mean, contemptible blow, but he answered not, and he moved not. He was no hypocrite, and he had not reached the condition of a convicted, peni- tent sinner ready to throw himself at the foot of the cross and cry for mercy; therefore, no feeling of affection for a father, whom he dearly loved, could persuade him to take a step, which for him would have been a fraud and a lie ; neither was he to be hammered into the king- dom by the rude fist of a belligerent brother. I do not know that he ever went forward to the "inquirers' " seat, or that he ever rose in his place, a sup- pliant for special prayers ; but I know this : that on a dis- tant battle-field he did his duty well ; that in the hos- pital he died, with full faith in his father's God; and that his last message to him was, "I shall meet you all in heaven." This old, familiar place brings vividly to my mind's 11 161 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY eye, that little company of men: the leaders and "pil- lars" of the church, who, year in and year out, assisted my father in the conduct of those "regular" and "or- derly ' ' means of grace. Among these was Deacon George Brainerd, the senior deacon of the church. At the evening meetings, he was always the first to "rise" in "prayer," and he could usually be depended upon to supplement with a few words the remarks of the minister. He led the singing at these meetings, and though, as I remember, his range of tunes was not wide, usually beginning with "Peterboro," and ending with "Silver- street," or beginning with "Silverstreet" and ending with "Peterboro," they were all familiar to the peo- ple. Of a kind and genial nature, he yet read me a lesson once, that, as long as I live, I shall never forget. I had been taught, as was so common then, that young Christians should "take up their cross" on all occa- sions, and cross-bearing was very generally interpreted to mean, "bearing testimony," or speaking and praying in meeting. Now, as my ancestors for some generations back, had been given to speaking and praying in meet- ing, it came about that, by some sort of inlieritance, I possessed a trait which made "speaking in meeting" to me no cross at all. Consequently, my voice was heard in meeting much too often for the edification of the elect. It happened at one of the neighborhood meetings, which was held at the deacon's own house. After the opening exercises, when the meeting had been thrown open to all, I rose and made some remarks. I have not now the least idea of what I said, or how long I spoke. I only know that when I sat down, it 162 ADDEESS J was with a feeling of great self-satisfaction,— a con- sciousness that I had made a very nice little speech. I had no sooner resumed my seat than the good dea- con slowly rose to his feet; with closed eyes and folded hands, his usual attitude for speaking and praying, he said, "The Apostle says, Let all things be done decently and in order." I know not what more he said, it does not matter, but from that text he flayed me alive, and left no doubt in the minds of his hearers, as to who and what he meant. I have often wondered since, whether, if young converts were urged less persistently to take up their cross in meeting, but more earnestly to bear it in labors of love and good works, and to pray more in secret, to their Father who both heareth and seeth in secret, it might not be better for their own souls, and more edifying to the souls of those who attend the prayer-meetings. Deacon Cyprian Brainerd was another conspicuous ''pillar" of the church, as the leader of the choir for many, many years, contributing so prominently and sub- stantially to the "regular" and "orderly" service. With what difficulty and labor he performed those services, so punctually and so continuously, year after year. How many times he rowed his boat back and forth across the river, and climbed up the liill to the church, it would be hard to compute ; but I think that only ab- sence inevitable or illness ever made his place vacant. As that choir rises before me, I see on one side a long line of fair young women, and behind them are older ones. On the other side, there is a shorter line of men, of various ages, and a few are sitting behind. As they rise and sing, I can see that the lips of the women are parted, but I cannot see that their lips move. 163 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVEESAKY Of the men, I cannot see that their lips are parted even ; and yet somewhere and somehow the sound gets out, and much of it is fresh and sweet and mellow; and Deacon Cyprian's choir in the old Haddam church is accounted one of the best in the towns around. The erect figure of Major Hayden rises before me. His place was well forward, under the very "droppings" of the sanctuary itself. I hear his clarion voice, which age had failed to weaken, ring out, as he "raised" the "tune" to the closing hymn on communion Sundays. It was always "Coronation," I believe; and his enthusiasm in singing lent itself to the congregation, and men, women, and children joined together in rolling out the notes of that grand old choral. "Brother" Oliver Smith, Mr. David Ventres, and there were many others whose names I might recall, but others whose names have passed from my memory, who were my father's supporters and helpers in his work. But any allusion to the personnel of the Haddam church in the early years of this closing half-century, would be conspicuously lacking, if no mention were made of the name of Uncle Moses Tyler. ' ' Uncle Moses, ' ' as he was familiarly called by young and old, was a unique and picturesque character. My remembrance of him, is that of a man who believed in his religion, and lived it. To his minister, he was a good friend and counselor; and his life of faith and cheerful hope was ever a source of encouragement and inspiration to him. The services of the church were his delight. He was "powerful" in prayer and exhortation, and his earnest- ness and sincerity were so unmistakable that they lent 164 ADDRESS conviction to his words; while his quaintness and origi- nality held the attention of his hearers. To Uncle IVIoses, praise as well as prayer was a part of his spiritual food. He was fond of hymns, and loved to hear them sung on any occasion. It occurred once to the younger members of this congregation to visit Uncle Moses's home at night, and, under his chamber window, sing some of those familiar hymns in which his soul delighted. They called it "serenading him." And there they gathered as the hours drew on to mid- night, down by the old mill, under the leafy trees, and where the gurgling brook wandered on, until it fell into the lazy wheel, which it forced to labor for the old patriarch, who was so much older, even, than itself. They sang, "Shall we gather at the river," and "There '11 be no more sorrow there," "Beyond the sigh- ing and the weeping," and the like. Then they listened ; listened for Uncle Moses. But Uncle Moses's window was dark, and Uncle Moses himself gave forth no sign. He, too, was listening, I suppose; listening, perhaps, to the music of his own little brook as it dashed over the pebbles in its rocky bed below. But he was listening, I am sure he was listening, for he said afterward that he heard it all, and that it was heavenly. And the young couples waiting there, in the chilly night, with one shawl wrapped round the shoulders of two persons, a boy and a girl, and drawing them closely together, for the autumn nip was in the air— they, too, thought it was heavenly! Every New Englander knows how large a part of the social life of these country towns is centered around the church. At the time we speak of, church parlors and kitchens 165 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESARY were not common, and yet the church was the rallying- point for much of the social activity of the place. Its meetings were meetings not only for prayer and praise, but they were looked forward to, as times for a friendly chat, and a little harmless gossip when the service was over. And every Sunday night, from out the shadows of the two pillars which dignify the porch of this edifice, there came a line of ardent swains; and from out these doors there went another line of expectant maidens. And in the darkness these two lines met, and became one; and that meant much, very much to those young hearts, for it was Sunday night, in New England, and in the days when the chaperon was not, and when conven- tionalities were not a burden. I cannot tell, but it may be that some of you can, if that line forms and re-forms still, on the holy Sabbath nights, in the dim light of the twinkling stars ! Those were peaceful, happy, good old days ; but they have passed forever for those of us who lived them then. I cannot say but that the present ones are better ; I trust they may be. But so long as the rallying-place of the people shall be the house of God and his Christ, the days cannot be very bad. This church stands here to-day, hoary and venerable with age. The two centuries of its life stretch back away beyond the infancy of this nation. And during that time, the generations have come and gone, and other generations have succeeded them. But its mission is not ended yet; for when compared with the everlasting hills which rise round about it, and the river which flows peacefully by, it is but an infant 166 ADDRESS in years ; and to be old, it must live on and on, far into tlie centuries yet to be. Other generations must come and go ; and still others must follow them, and the light of God's word, from his holy church must shed its radiance on all peoples. And while the green hills stand, and until the rocks shall melt, and so long as the beautiful river rolls on to the sea, God grant that the Haddam church may hold up the cross of Jesus to the sin-sick souls of men. 167 ADDRESS CHARLES MAT MR. Chairman and Fellow-Descendants: I come at the end of a long line of speakers, and as I have an address to deliver to you which I am afraid you will consider as long in proportion as my great-grandfather's pastorate, I am in danger of suffering the experience of a certain excellent divine, who had, so far as I know, only one serious fault, viz. : that of preaching exceed- ingly long sermons. On one occasion his theme was, ' ' The Prophets. ' ' He had preached upon it for about an hour and a half and his audience were beginning to get pretty tired. At last he reached what seemed to be his peroration, and they were in hopes that the end was near; but as he finished his burst of eloquence, he proceeded to remark with fresh vigor, "My Brethren, we have thus considered all of the major prophets, and now we come to the minor prophets. And first JNIalachi; what place shall we give to Malachi?" whereupon a tall countryman, who had been fidgeting in his seat for some time, rose to his feet, strode down the aisle, and as he went out of the door shouted out, ' ' Well, Malachi may have my place. I have had it long enough. ' ' Now it may be that before I shall have finished my address some one of you may think that "a very little prophet" is coming to him, and that he would like to give his place to IMalachi, in which event I shall not feel 168 ADDRESS seriously offended if my weary hearer shall leave the church as did the countryman. We have been fighting a nation which worships the past ; a nation which moves forward, it is true, but only as fast as would the racer with his back to the goal and his eyes ever intent upon the course he has traversed; a nation so wedded to its ancient institutions that the mere thought of innovation arouses a frenzy which threatens to plunge the world into war. Our nation, on the other hand, is one which rarely looks backward. Change, if it be improvement, is welcome, and experi- ment, even, in hope of betterment, is deemed sufficient justification for the overthrow of long-established cus- toms and the introduction of ncAV ones. It is question- able, however, whether it would not be better for us as a nation, to give more attention to the study and preser- vation of old institutions. Granting that the lines of the poet are true : We ranging down this lower track, The path we came by, thorn and flower. Is shadowed by the growing hour, Lest life should fail in looking back ; and granting that these lines apply as well to the nation as the individual, nevertheless it is well for us occasion- ally, and more often perhaps than we are wont, to pause in our onward march, glance back over the course run by our forefathers, and study the institutions and the customs established by them, that we may reap the fruits of their wisdom, and catch something of the noble and self-sacrificing spirit which inspired them in their pio- neer work. It is not my purpose, however, I hardly need say, in 169 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY the few words wliicli I am to speak to you to-night, to at- tempt to be your guide in. this review of the past, or the historian of any portion of the history of your church, or the biographer of your pastor from whom I am de- scended. For that work, neither my natural disposition nor my experience has qualified me. It is enough for me to have had the honor to suggest to your committee the name of another descendant of Rev. Eleazer May, Rev. Dr. Hun- ger, as the most appropriate person to act as his biogra- pher for this occasion; and the interesting address from him, to which we have listened, is enough to prove that my suggestion was a most happy one. Nor would I have felt myself equal to the task, even if there had been no distinguished cousin for me to suggest as the proper person for it ; for the fact is, I never knew I had a great- grandfather, much less that he was a minister of the gospel in this town, until I was a man grown. My father, Edward Selden May, was one who illustrated, to my mind, most forcibly the characteristic to which I have alluded, viz.: the disposition to devote one's self to the present and the future rather than to dwell upon the past. Most intensely interested in the vital questions of the day, he led the discussions in our family home upon polities, science, history, etc., with a zeal which left little opportunity for what was of a private nature, and I do not remember that in my boyhood I ever heard him mention the fact that his grandfather was a min- ister. There was, perhaps, another excuse for his not entering upon the family history in our home talks, for the fact was that he had fourteen brothers and sisters, nineteen uncles and aunts, and at least seventy-eight first cousins. No wonder, therefore, that he hesitated 170 ADDRESS to enter with his boys upon a field the paths of which were so complicated that he could not thread them him- self without a guide. How I came finally to the know- ledge that we had a family history arose from the fol- lowing incident. In the year 1875 my father was sent as a representative to the Massachusetts legislature, and while there he met Rev. Samuel May, also a representa- tive, from Leicester, Mass., a man of national reputa- tion, deservedly earned by his philanthropic and effi- cient labors as secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society. In a conversation with my father, naturally suggested by the identity of their family names, Mr. May dis- closed the fact that he was then and had been for a number of years engaged in an attempt to trace the genealogy of the May family, from the original an- cestor, John May, who came to this country in 1640, down through the various branches descended from him. He said that he had been remarkably successful in his work as a whole, but that with regard to one branch he had entirely failed. He had found that there was a certain Hezekiah May, who left the family home in Boston, and who settled in "Wethersfield, and that Heze- kiah had a son, Eleazer, who became a minister, but that was all he knew about him. If he could only find his family Bible, he had no doubt it would give him the information which he needed. My father heard him through, and then replied, "Well, Mr. May, if you will come with me to my home in Lee and make me a visit, I will show you the Bible you speak of, for Eleazer May was my grandfather, and his family Bible is in a trunk in the garret of my house, where it has been stored for a good many years." 171 H ADD AM CHUBCH AN~SiVKKSAET It is to that chance conversation that I owe the plea- sure of being with you to-day. and of being able to show you. as I now do. the Bible that belonged to the former pastor of your church. Mr. May gladly accepted my father's invitation, came to our house and spent several days there in gathering the information which he afterward published in the May f amil y book, and it was from the conversation which I heard while he was there, and from the perusal of that book, that I learned that my great-grandfather was a minister of the gospel, and the revered pastor of this church. Xor must I fail to mention another little incident which has led to my being present on this occa- sion. I happened not long ago to meet at the Bar Asso- ciation in Xew York, a man well known to you all, and as well known in that great city as one of the leaders in his profession, my generous host. ^Mr. Cephas Brain- erd: and. meeting him again a short time afterward, where there was opportunity. I ventured to commend myself to his favorable interest by telling him that my grandmother was Clarissa Brainerd. that she was bom in his native town, and there married my grandfather. Huntington May. Mr. Brainerd met my advances with the greatest cordiality, and informed me that his country home was built upon the site of the house where Kev. Eleazer May lived, and where my grandfather was bom. If I had not thus met Mr. Brainerd. it may be that I would never have learned that this celebration was to take place, and certainly I could never have expected to have been invited to attend it with my family. I need not say that it gives me an additional pleasure to be here as his guest in the house btult upon the land where my ancestors lived. 172 ADDRESS I have said that I am in no sense fitted to be a his- torian ; but, at the risk of wearying you, and without any claim that what I am to attempt to describe is his- tory, I am going, with your kind permission, to essay an imaginative description of a wedding which I suppose may have taken place in what you designate as the old church over one hundred years ago, and because I, my- self, am more vitally interested in the wedding of my grandfather and grandmother in 1795, than in any other wedding that might have taken place about that time, I have selfishly chosen that one as the one upon which my imagination may have free play. I suppose that it was a church wedding, for, as you will see, there certainly would not have been room in any private dwelling-house for the number of guests which I propose to have in- vited for the festive occasion. The bride is Clarissa Brainerd, eighteen years of age. She must have been beautiful, for the lovely aged face which looks forth from the canvas of a portrait taken by Pease, and preserved in my old home, shows, in spite of line and wrinkle, traces of the beauty which rejoiced the bride- groom's heart as he led her to the altar. I wish for the sake of the feminine portion of the audience that I could describe her dress; but at that task my imagination falters. I can, however, show you a piece of Sybil Hunt- ington's wedding-dress, worn forty-one years before, when she married Rev. Eleazer in her old home in Leb- anon ; and here it is. The bridegroom, Huntington May, was the next to the youngest son and child of Rev. Eleazer. He was then twenty-three years of age, and, I doubt not, bore him- self through the ordeal of the ceremony with a martial air befitting the title of major, which both the com- 173 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESAEY piler of the Brainerd and the Huntington family books bestowed upon him, though for what reason I have never been able to discover. I suppose that the Rev. Eleazer May, the pastor of the church, and the father of the bridegroom, then a hale and hearty man sixty-two years of age, performed the ceremony. For almost forty years he had been pastor of this church. His ten children had all grown to manhood and womanhood (no one of them missing), and had all married and gone from his home to homes of their own, except Huntington, now about to go, and Hezekiah, the youngest, who had just graduated from Yale, and was studying to be a missionary among the Indians. The families of his children were all there before him. His parishioners, with their kindly, interested faces, had filled the seats in the meeting-house to overflowing, and as his gaze rested upon the large congregation and his thoughts turned to the rich blessings which heaven had bestowed upon him and his, we can well imagine that the tears came to his eyes, and his voice faltered as he asked the questions, ''Huntington, wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife?" and "Clarissa, wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband?" Nor can we think that his wife, Sybil Hiintington, who had shared his joys and sorrows for those forty years, sat there in the front pew, unmoved. Well may we ima- gine that in her stirred precious memories, not only of her life here in Haddam, of her children and her children's children, but also of her own marriage in Lebanon, and the kindred still there who had remem- bered her boy on this day of his rejoicing, and had sent messages and gifts to his chosen bride. By her sat 174 ADDRESS the bride's mother, Harriet Hubbard Brainerd, gladly welcoming with her the union of the two large families in this marriage bond. Captain John Brainerd, the bride's father, who had earned his title in the Revolutionary War, fighting at "White Plains for his country, gave the bride away, surely an occupation more congenial to his taste than the bloody conflict from which he had won his title. I imagine that the rest of the bridal procession was composed entirely of the bride's brothers and sisters. Huldah and Hannah, sixteen and fourteen years of age, came first; John and Dolly, twelve and ten, next; then Anne and Prudence, eight and six ; and last, Frances and Jabez, four and three. Ursula, the two-year-old, and the baby, Hezekiah, about three months, were almost too young to take an active part. I suppose, as I have said, that the children of Eleazer and Sybil were all there. I am disposed, while I am about it, to have it a universal family affair, especially as my imagination does not worry itself at all about the expense. "What does it matter a hundred years ago?" is just as effective about past extravagance, as ''What does it matter a hundred years hence ? " is about present expenditure. And so, regardless of cost, the whole fam- ily has gathered together to grace the occasion, and delight the hearts of parents and grandparents. There was John May, the oldest son, who had gradu- ated from Yale in 1777, and become a sea captain. There were Dorothy Arnold, his wife, and his little ones, Janet, Jolm, and Edwin, aged five, three, and one respectively. There were Edward Selden and Sybil May Selden, his wife, Eleazer 's oldest daughter, with their seven chil- dren, Mary, Sybil, Nancy, Clarissa, Delia, Edward, and 175 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Charlotte, aged fifteen, thirteen, eleven, nine, seven, five, and three respectively : Edward a little bit harassed with his six sisters, but relieving a little the monotony of the feminine arithmetical series. There was Rev. David Selden (Yale, 1782), thirty-four years of age, the minister at Middle Haddam, destined to be there for almost as long a period as was his father- in-law in this church ; there were his wife, Cynthia May Selden, Eleazer's second daughter, with another arith- metical series, this one a little irregular: David, ten; Sylvester, nine; John, seven; Huntington, six; Cynthia, four; Elizabeth, three; and Hezekiah, one. Note that the little Cynthia was to be the happy wife of Dr. Ebenezer Munger, and mother of the boy, Theodore T. Munger, to whom we have this day listened with so much pleasure, and who now, after a long life of use- fulness, is contemplating a well-earned rest from active pastoral labors. There were Rev. Jesse Townsend, and Annie May Townsend, his wife, the third daughter, with their little two-year old boy, Eleazer. They had come all the way from Madison, Vt. There was Colonel John Wells of Rowe, Mass., with his wife, Elizabeth May Wells, the fourth daughter. There were also Eleazer May, the second son, with his wife, Cynthia, from Westminster, Vt. ; William Wells, from Shelburne, Mass., with his wife, Prudence May, the fourth daughter; Rev. Sylvester Sage, also from West- minster, Vt., with his wife, Clarissa, the fifth daughter, and perhaps their infant child, Huldah Robinson; and there, finally, was the youngest son, Hezekiah, to whom I have already alluded, who afterward married a di- rect descendant of Peregrine White, the first white 176 ADDRESS child born in New England, and became the father of stalwart children, one of them being six feet five inches in height. Truly the missionary work among the In- dians must have given him great vigor, whatever may have been the result to the Indians. I am sorry that I cannot give you the names of all the parishioners who were present at that wedding ; but that is something for a descendant of some parishioner to do, and not for a descendant of the pastor. Nor can I follow the wedding party from the church to the house. Time forbids that I should tell of the presents and the collation, and all the other interesting things that weddings entail, but I cannot close this attempt to describe something about the family of your pastor without alluding to the remarkable fact that those ten children all lived to old age, and their average age at death was seventy-nine. The corollaries which I would draw are these: First. What an enormous salary, for those days, this church must have paid its minister to have enabled him to feed, clothe, and educate so large a family, to send two of his sons to Yale College, and to have married off so many daughters to ministers, who are proverbially looking for rich wives. Second. What a heritage of rich blessing has come down to us, the descendants of your pastor. The older brothers of his father, Hezekiah, remained at home on the farm, which afterward became a part of Boston, and was cut up into city lots, which their de- scendants inherited, much to their material advantage. I have never heard that the farm of Hezekiah at Weth- ersfield was cut up into city lots. But the heritage that we, the descendants of Eleazer, the son of Hezekiah, have 12 177 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY received, is the rich memory of a life of usefulness spent in the Master's service in this church, and the right to participate in the mercies promised to thousands of those that love him and keep his commandments. I thank you all in behalf of myself and my wife and little daughter, whose name is that of her great-grand- mother, Sybil Huntington May, for the pleasure which this occasion has afforded us, and, for myself, for the honor of addressing you. 178 LETTERS Indianapolis, October 9, 1900. Dear Sir: It woiild afford me great pleasure to attend the cele- bration were I located nearer the scenes of my childhood; but, under the circumstances, I must send my regrets. I claim to be a son of the old church which I attended in my boyhood, and v/here I listened first — if my memory serves me right — to the ministry of Eev. John Marsh, and received from Mr. Alva Shailer, and other teachers, instruction in the Sabbath school. WeU do I recall when the "slips" succeeded the square pews in the body of the church, which change afforded aU worshippers the opportunity to face the pulpit, with its high and elaborate sounding-board above it, giving a majestic and rather awe-inspir- ing appearance to the interior of the building dedicated to the service of the God our fathers worshipped with so much sincere reverence and humility. As I left my home in 1842 for "other pastures," I was not present when it was decided to tear down the old church building, to which I presume no objection was made; but, at this late day, who is left of the old attendants who would not rejoice to see the old building as it stood, with all its sacred memories, and much more, the seats intact which were occupied by the fathers and mothers of three-quarters of a century ago? Why not pre- serve and inclose the site with an honorable memorial of some sort, that succeeding generations may know that on this hallowed spot the fathers and mothers worshipped, who have long since been gathered to the great church beyond, where pastor and people meet ' ' in mansions not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. ' ' I recall the importance of the choir, whose members were the en- dowed sons and daughters of the realm, as they occupied the high-graded seats in the choir gallery, where soprano and alto voices harmonized vdth the bass and tenor divisions, all led, dur- ing my recollection, by Mr. Chauncey Skinner and Mr. James Swan, on violins, and Mr. Hurlburt Swan, on bass viol occasion- 179 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY ally, the flute and comet were added, as the importance of the occasion or the inclination of the performers prompted them. Much may be said in favor of modern church music, but when this choir was in good condition, I don't think God's worshippers ever listened to so sweet and impressive music as came from that gallery when they sang: "Before Jehovah's awful throne. Ye nations bow with sacred joy, " and many other anthems so popular in that day. On you who meet to celebrate the ancient day and give your personal efforts to have it successful, an obligation rests to pro- long the memorable history of this church for future generations, and preserve the names and memory of the saintly men who there declared the word of God. To make my declaration more interesting, "the partner of my joys and sorrows" remembers with pleasure that when she was nine years old she attended the old church. The services were conducted by Dr. Field, the only man of that time who wrote D.D. before and after his name. The incidents are stiU vivid in her memory, and it is a lasting delight to recall the time when she kept the * ' Sabbath day holy ' ' under Connecticut regulations. Wishing you all a great day of rejoicing, Very sincerely yours, Benj. Kelsey. Dear Sir: You asked me some time ago to give you some reminis- cences of old times in Haddam, and to-day I am turning Time backward to a Sunday morning when I was being dressed up in a suit of clothes made by "Aunt Manda, " and about two years too large, so they would not be outgrown before they were worn out, and trudging along holding my father's hand, and carrying an elbow-stool for my mother. Then we walked a mile to the old church on the green by Mr. Cephas Brainerd's, and listened to the long prayer and the many-headed sermon of the Eev. David D. Field. How plainly I can see our pew under the stairs at the south- eastern corner of the church, where I had to stand on tiptoe in order to see out! And how well I remember reciting my Sunday- 180 LETTERS school lesson to Deacon Comfort Cone, holding on to his big thumb with my little hand! And then at noon, after the lesson, how we went up the lane back of the church to some famous rocks, where was plenty of birch of the best kind — and somewhere in the par- sonage lot was a wonderful boiling spring — what a delight that was, and how cool and refreshing the water from it! Since then, 1 have looked down on water coming up from an opening thirty feet below the surface, but it was as nothing to that little spring surrounded by a barrel set in the ground. While we were in the pew under the stairs, we could only hear the wonderful singing of the choir in the gallery overhead, with the notes of the different instruments that were then in use; for in those days they praised the Lord with all their might, on stringed, wind, and reed instruments. It was not until later, when father had taken a seat on the left side of the broad aisle, that I could feast my eyes on a sight of the choir, as we rose in our seats and turned around to face the music. There was Orrin Shailer with his violin, occasionally using his bow as a baton, and stamping his foot as a reminder to keep in time. There were the Swans, father and two sons, with bass viol and violins, Arnold Hayden with a clarinet, Daniel Dickinson with his flute, and, if I remember rightly, David Church with a tremendous-sound- ing French horn. I would walk many a mile to-day if I could again hear ' ' Old Denmark, ' ' the ' ' Judgment, ' ' and ' ' Easter ' ' anthems, as well as "Delight," "Invitation," "Mortality," "Vital spark of heavenly flame," and the "Ode on Science," as that choir could sing them in those days — the days of my child- hood. There were the "Sunday-houses," too, of which I remem- ber one south of the church and near Mr. Skinner's land, where in the winter was always a good fire on the hearth, from which the ladies' foot-stoves were filled with live coals, for use and comfort in the afternoon. On Saturday nights every one of us must be in the house, and the quiet of Sunday begun. Bibles and Testaments, with ' * Barnes ' Notes," were gotten out, and we had to learn our Sunday-school lessons — very often reciting them to father before going to bed; and then Sunday morning at work on them again. So that by the time they were recited Sunday noon, we knew them well. In that way all the Bible stories were learned, and later, Jewish history, and the life and times of our Saviour. I may say for 181 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESARY myself that about all I know of the Bible I learned in that way; and I wish that those who made me learn in that way could know how grateful I am to them, and how I appreciate their love and kindness, though I did not in those days. Those were the days of the "Cold Water Army," when thou- sands of boys and girls all over New England were taking the pledge, and going in processions, wearing their badges, carrying their banners, and singing temperance songs. It may be that the influence of the Eev. John Marsh, who preached in the old church just before my day, was felt in all this. I do not know, but think it was probably the beginning of that temperance movement that soon extended all over this land. There were addresses in the church, a brass band down from Middletown, and singing by the children, and a picnic of gingerbread and water. The old school-house which stood in the road just north of Deacon George Brainerd's, becoming untenable, was torn down, and efforts were being made to have a larger and better school- building, such as were being put up in other towns — one that should be a high-school where boys could be prepared for college. Of course, there were the usual differences of opinion and con- tentions that seem to be a necessary part of such enterprises, and the final outcome was the building of "Brainerd Academy." I believe the work was begun in the spring of 1839. Though I was present at the laying of the corner-stone, I cannot be sure of the date. The school, however, was begun, before the building was completed, in the fall of that year in the house of Samuel Brainerd, Mr. Dudley of Yale College being the first principal. Then followed, perhaps not in this order. Porter H. Snow, Benton, Kelley, Eoot, Schenck, Dwight, Shaw, Bowden; and among them was Charles W. Bradley, whom I well remember as my instructor in Latin and Greek, and who filled me with a love for good books. Many a time did he read and explain to me the choicest bits of literature from many languages — for he was one of the greatest linguists of this country, reading and writing every language on the Continent, and later acquiring many Eastern languages. It has ever since seemed to me that we boys and girls who attended the Academy in the earlier years acquired and retained a more practical education than ever I knew any other school to give. I wonder if any one in the old town has preserved any copies of the "Stepstone" and "Miscellany"— -papers that were written by the 182 LETTERS pupils, and read every Wednesday afternoon. Any one writing a contribution for them accepted by the editors was excused from reading a "composition." For a number of years a good school, in opposition to the Academy, was maintained by Mr. Samuel Arnold, the first teacher of the same being a Mr. Langdon. Exhibitions and examinations by each school were regularly held, the Academy using the Con- gregational church, and Mr. Arnold's the Methodist. A large stage was built in the former church in front and on each side of the pulpit, with dressing-rooms on each side. No girls were permitted to take part in the plays, so their parts were taken by young men who masqueraded in their dresses. At the first exhi- bition, I, with other boys, went through our little recitations, such as, " 'T was midnight— in his guarded tent," "Lochiel, Lochiel, beware of the day," "The boy stood on the burning deck," and many others; while North's band from Middletown discoursed sweetly from the gallery. Perhaps a few lines might be given to the old-time singing- school, that every winter was held either in "Brainerd HaU" or in the chapel at the Academy. These were the days when we learned to sing * ' by note, ' ' to pronounce all the words plainly and correctly, to keep correct time, and give proper expression to the sentiments of the hymn, in the endeavor to sing vtith the spirit and the understanding. And such tenor voices as were heard then ! Who nowadays hears such sweet, clear, strong voices as those of Deacon John Shailer, "Uncle" Moses Tyler, Heman Clark, Arnold Hayden, and many others! Were there no bass singers in those days? you ask. Hardly any. I cannot recall one, except Oliver Smith, and he had a rich, deep, sympathetic voice, but not of great power. No doubt some of the older people present can remember Deacon Shailer singing ' ' I would not live alway, ' ' to the tune of "Prescott. " Do we have such singing now? As I write, I can see all the old choir in their places, the leader in front, the different instruments in position, each one intent on the time being given, and I hear the first notes of that grand old "Hallelujah Chorus," as it burst, full and strong, from near a hundred voices. As I think of those long-gone days, and those who enjoyed them, a feeling of sadness comes over me. Who is left of those singers? I cannot think of one. Where are they who gathered once a fort- 183 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY eight in the Sewing Society that met around in the different bouses, and later in the winter held the church fair and festival? Where are the boys and girls of "sixty years ago"? Is there base-ball on the green in the summer, or skating on the "Dollar" in the winter? Does the speckled trout come to the beck and call of boys now as then? What has become of the "Clam Bay Set- tlement," with its towns and villages on the Beaver Brook? Is "I spy" still played around the Court-house? and "Horn-away" on the swamp when it is frozen over? Are the boy sports of that day— and the boy pranks, too — gone forever? Yours very truly, David B, Ventres. Buzzard 's Bay, August 26, 1900. My dear Sir: I have received your letter of the 20th instant in- viting me to be present at the two-hundredth anniversary of the organization of the First Congregational Church of Haddam. I am very sorry to say that it will be impossible for me to be present on this interesting occasion, though I fully appreciate your kind invitation, and the appropriateness of the participation of a descendant of one of the early pastors of the church. I doubt if I could give you any additional information concern- ing Eev. Aaron Cleveland. Any sources of such information I may have are not available to me here, as anything of that kind remains at our home in Princeton. Yours very truly, Grover Cleveland. Stockbridge, October 15, 1900. My dear Mr. Lewis: I am sorry that I cannot be with you in the celebration of dear old Haddam. But I find by experience that prudence should keep me away. Not that I should not enjoy the meeting, but that is the very danger: the more I should enter into it the more I should be exhausted by it. As to any sketch of my father, if I were to attempt to draw the features of that old saint, I should write on and on tiU I should lay down my pen from very exhaustion. You will therefore excuse me. Yours faithfully, Henry M. Field. 184 LETTERS Thompson's Point, Charlotte, Vt., August 10, 1900. Dear Sir: Yours of 7th instant was forwarded from WasMngton, and is just received. It would give me pleasure to accept your invitation, but my engagements are such that it will be impossible. The occasion will doubtless be a memorable one, and I trust it may be full of blessing to all who are privileged to be present. Very truly yours, D. J. Brewer. Hurst on Clays, East Grinstead, October 13, 1900. Lady Musgrave would express her sincere thanks for having been included in the list of guests invited to the anniversary ser- vices of the First Congregational Church in Haddam, and regrets that it will be impossible for her to participate in them. She hopes that many, descendants like herself of those who loved and cherished Haddam and its church, will join in the very in- teresting ceremony of the seventeenth. San Francisco, Cal., September 24, 1900. Dear Brother: I thank you for the invitation to participate in celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the church in Haddam. Although my connection with that church was merely as a stated supply for less than a year, beginning in the spring of 1845, be- fore I had completed my course in the Theological Seminary, it was a part of my ministry which I have ever held in warm and grateful remembrance. A spirit of kind and generous sympathy for the young minister was soon disclosed, which greatly encouraged him, and he has ever held in grateful and loving honor those noble souls, now long since gone to their reward, who so charitably overlooked his faults and aided his endeavors. After some months it pleased the great Head of the church to revive his work in the community. A very decided religious in- terest was developed. Several persons prominent in the church, but until then reticent in the prayer-meeting, found their hearts burning and their tongues loosed. Many of the young people 185 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY decided upon a Christian life. A brighter day had dawned. The despondent took heart. The subscription for a new church was started, and without long delay the erection of the present edifice was assured. When the spring of 1846 opened, the outlook had so much im- proved that I could not avoid a feeling of serious regret that I had, some months before, committed myself to another field of labor. But I have never ceased, through fifty-five years of min- isterial labor, to cherish a warm and grateful interest in the old church in Haddam. It would give me great pleasure to participate in the approaching anniversary. But a wide continent intervenes, and I cannot come. Please give my hearty benediction to the church on that most interesting occasion. With sincere regard, Your brother in the Lord, William H. Gilbert. Hartford, Conn., April 20, 1900. Dear Brother: It would give me very great pleasure to be pres- ent at the two-hundredth anniversary of the Congregational church in Haddam, and to meet once more — I was going to say — the mem- bers of my former flock: but I remember how few I should find living. Fifty years make great changes in a community, and those to whom I ministered in my first pastorate must nearly all have passed away. At the same time it would be very pleasant to visit Haddam once more, especially on so peculiar an occasion, and extend a hearty hand-shake to the few who might remember me. I know I should greatly enjoy visiting the familiar scenes of years ago, and thus bring back to remembrance the delightful associations of those times. For though I have had several fields of labor in the past fifty years, there is not one upon which I look back with greater satisfaction than upon the one in Haddam. But much as I would enjoy the occasion, I feel too heavily the pressure of years to venture on the unavoidable excitement at- tending it. So I send herewith my very affectionate regards to all who may remember me, and to all who may feel a personal interest in me on account of my former relations to the church. 186 LETTEES I hope the occasion may be a delightful one, and that all who may be present will gather new strength, from the memory of the past, to meet the remaining responsibilities of the coming years. Very affectionately yours, E. W. Cook. Oberlin, Ohio, September 14, 1900. To THE DEAR PEOPLE AND FRIENDS IN HaDDAM, CONNECTICUT: Z have just received a letter from my son James N. Wright, of Detroit, Mich. He says your pastor, Eev. Mr. Lewis, has written him that you expect to celebrate the two-hundredth anniversary of the organization of your church some time next month, and urges him to be present with them on that occasion. I hope he will go. 1 would like to celebrate with you, but I cannot. I am aged, weak, and feeble — too feeble to think of taking such a journey. If I live till the 18th of next month I shall be eighty- seven years old. If I were to be there, I would miss the faces of many dear ones, with whom I once mingled, and whom I loved. My husband was your pastor for about sixteen years. His min- istration among his people was one of loving tenderness. He died with you, and numbers of you followed me to his old home at Glastonbury, and to his grave. His last words, as I remember them, were "Have mercy on this poor people." I hope I have written nothing to make you sad. Let the day of celebration be a joyful one to all. I will be with you in spirit, and perhaps you will sing together for me the hymn from the old Plymouth Collection commencing with these words: "Oh, could I speak the matchless worth, Oh, could I sound the glories forth Which in my Saviour shine"; or the hymn commencing thus: "Love divine, all love excelling." Either one wiU do. They are precious hymns to me. Am I asking too much? If so, forgive me. Let it be a happy day for all, and may God bless you all. Sincerely yours, Lucy A. Wright. 187 FROM THE CHURCH RECORDS Present headnote explaining how catalogue was compiled and some abbreviations. The original records, whicli begin with Mr. May's pastorate in 1756, were closely followed in compiling this list of members. A few names, however, twenty-three from the sixty years previous to 1756, and others not found in our books, but given in the records of other churches as received by letter from this church, were recovered and added to the number. Much information, some of it very difficult to obtain, as to the removal of members to other places, the changes in names by marriage, the dates of death and ages, has been secured for the purpose of filling out and verifying the record. Those who can supply any additional facts, or correct any errors, are particularly requested to inform the clerk or pastor. Members received by letter are indicated by giving after the name in brackets, [ ], the place and, if from another denomina- tion, the church from which they came; I following the name sig- nifies dismission by letter, and the year and place, if known, are afiixed. H follows the names of those who became members of the Higganum church at its formation. May 14, 1844, or soon after; w. indicates withdrawal of fellowship for either long ab- sence without being heard from, or joining other churches without receiving a letter or certificate from this church, and also in some instances for other causes which are specified in votes on record; exclusion from membership is indicated by ex. The maiden name of married women is given in italics; also, in parenthesis, ( ), the husband's Christian name, or, if a member of tliis church, his catalogue number, but marriage subsequent to joining the church is indicated by m. followed by the husband's name, or his number when he is a member of the church. Names are indexed by their catalogue number, females by their name when they joined this church, and, if married later, by that name also. Places and churches are designated by their present rather than by earlier names. Eem. indicates that it is not known that the person took a letter on removing from the place. * is affixed to names of members marked by Mr. May as having died before his ministry closed, in cases where dates of death have not been obtained. Died Age 1715 74 1734 79 1737 79 1752 86 1742 73 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH AS FAR AS KNOWN SINCE ITS ORGANIZATION IN 1G96 1 Daniel Brainerd, Dea. — to 1715 2 Thomas Brooks, Dea. — to 1734 3 John Ventres, "A member of ye Church of Christ in Haddam, ' ' bapt. at Midtn. Jan. 17, 1697 4 Joseph Arnold, Dea. — to 1752 5 James Brainerd, Dea. — to 1742 The ' ' seven brethren from the church in Haddam ' ' referred to by Dr. Field, Statistical Account, p. 79, as among the constituent members of the East Haddam church, 1704, are probably the following seven, vrho resided earlier on tliis side of the river. 6 George Gates 1724 S9 7 Daniel Cone 1706 HO 8 William Spencer 9 Joseph Gates, ''in full communion" here, 1697 1712 49 10 Thomas Gates, Dea. E. Had. 1704- 1734 1734 69 11 Daniel Cone, Jr., Dea. E. Had. 1704- 1725 . 1725 60 12 Daniel Brainerd, Jr., "in full com- munion" at Haddam, June 9, 1700, Dea. E. Had. 1725-1743 1743 76 13 Benjamin Scovil, I E. Had. 1715 14 Amy Scovil (13), Z E. Had. 1715 Of the fourteen constituent mem- bers of the Middle Haddam Congre- gational Church, 1740, the following seven resided in or near Haddam Neck, and are believed to have been members of this church. 15 Ebenezer Smith, Dea. M. Had. 1740- 1752 1752 SI 13 193 ]6 17 IS 19 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 Died Age 1753 66 1776 79 Had. 1740- 1772 1792 81 1776 62 ev. Pliineas, 1761 65 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Dr. Joshua Arnold James Braiuerd, Jr. Gideon Arnold, Dea. M. 1772 Josiah Brainerd Ebenezer Smith, Jr. Nathan Brainerd Capt. John Fiske, bro. ] I Portland 1745 Sarah Fiske (22), I Portland 1745 The following one hundred names were recorded by Mr. May, without giving the dates of admission, as the roll of members when he was or- dained, June 30, 1756. Rebecca Selden Wells (James), wid. Benjamin Smith Hannah Benton Scovil (Edward) Smith (25) Deborah Spencer, wid. Catharine Shailer (Thomas^), wid. Solomon Bates Elizabeth Brainerd, wid., prob. Fishe (Rev. Neh.) Ebenezer Ventres Abiel Ventres (31) Joseph Smith, Dea. 1771-1790 Elizabeth Cone Smith (33) William Scovil, b. 1706 Hannah Shailer Scovil (35) Mary Shailer (Joseph), wid. James Ray abt. Elizabeth Wells Smith (Simon), wid. Abraham Tyler Sarah Tyler Arnold (David), wid. Azariah Dickinson Nehemiah Dickinson Esther Bailey Dickinson (43) Joseph Cone Susanna Wells Cone (45) Elisha Cone, Dea. 1742-1809 Thomas Brooks, Dea. 1742-1781 Mehitable Clark, wid. Col. Hezekiah Brainerd, Dea. 1764- 1774 Mary Fislce Brainerd (50) John Bailey Esther Bailey (52) Elijah Brainerd, Dea. 1759-1764 194 1764 85 1763 99 1771 95 1785 80 1793 71 * 1759 55 1790 79 1786 107 * 1776 70 * 1798 89 1787 74 1792 76 1779 74 1809 99 1781 83 1774 67 1798 85 1767 78 1764 58 HISTOKICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 Phebe Davies Brainerd (54) abt. Benjamin Bailey abt. Judith Sutlief Clark (William), wid. Thankful Brainerd Brainerd (Jacob), wid. Michael Clark Elizabeth Arnold Clark (59) Jeremiah Hubbard Alice Shailer Hubbard (61) Samuel Brainerd Phineas Spencer, I 1760 Lydia Pratt Fiske (Eev. Phineas), wid. Esther Brainerd Sarah Arnold Benjamin Smith Hepzibah Smith (68) Martha Smith (Ens. Danl.) Mary Ventres Wells (166) abt. Sarah Daniels Brainerd (5), wid. Caleb Cone Sarah Smith, m. Ezekiel Bailey Elizabeth Lewis Shailer (Hez.) Smith (Lt. David), wid. Mary Smith Susanna Clark Thankful Clark (David) Abigail Porter (William) Martha Wells Shailer (Thomas*) Ehoda Arnold Scovil (John), Ailing (Thomas), I New Haven 1757 Mehitable Clark (88) Charles Hazleton Mary Smith Shailer (Samuel), m. Gid- eon Dudley Euth Ventres Lewis (Zeb., Jr.), wid. Experience Arnold Hoyt (Stephen), wid. Christopher, colored Jacob Clark abt. Samuel Ellis Elizabeth Brainerd Susanna Arnold Hazleton (Jas.) Sarah Smith Smith (171); m. (169) Martha Arnold (Samuel) Stephen Smith Deborah Spencer Smith (94) Cornelius Higgins, Esq. Sarah Saiues Higgins (96) Joseph Brooks abt. 195 Died 1791 1778 1764 Age 1806 1763 * 97 49 1803 1760 1787 * 87 47 80 1765 83 * 1778 78 1775 1761 1770 1790 60 56 88 86 1761 * 56 * 1783 1758 1796 75 54 86 * * 1796 75 1795 79 1761 1774 70 1778 55 1817 98 1792 77 1812 100 1803 81 1788 68 1796 80 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESARY Died Age 99 Jeremiah Spencer 100 Martha Bartlett Thomas (Evan) 1806 81 101 Martha Ray (James, Jr.), md. * 102 Silence Fuller Selden (Joseph) 1801 80 103 David Spencer, I Meriden 1759 * 104 Phineas Brainerd 1803 83 105 Jerusha Towner Brainerd (104) 1797 73 106 Elizabeth Clark * 107 Sarah Arnold Lewis (Nathan) 1814 90 108 Stephen Smith 1768 82 109 Martha Williams Smith (108) 110 Temperance /S7tatier Hubbard (Daniel), wid. * 111 Abigail Spencer ( ) * 112 Sarah Clark Walkley (Ebenezer), m. Thos. Hubbard * 113 Samuel Smith 114 Anna Smith (113) 1799 72 115 Susanna Clark * 116 Dr. Hopestill Crittenden * 117 Capt. James Hazleton 1788 64 118 Richard Johnson abt. 1780 119 Williams Smith, 80 yrs. a member 1816 96 120 Abigail Smith (119) * 121 Robert Cogswell, I Midtn. 1st 1761 122 Sarah Bailey Cogswell (121), I Midtn. 1st 1761 123 Rebecca Bates Spencer (Ephraim), wid. ELEAZER MAY, PASTOR 1756-1803 ; 1756 Susanna Boyd, wid. * Hannah Shailer (Abel), wid. [Gilead] 1770 Mary Dickinson (42) [Hadlyme] 1757 Thomas Church 1768 Samuel Scovil Elisha Brainerd 1790 57 Jabez Brainerd 1778 64 Hannah Clark Brainerd (130) 1806 93 Anna Bailey (James), rem. Farm- ington * 196 124 Nov. 125 126 Dec. 127 Jan. 128 129 130 Mar. 131 132 1819 88 1803 76 * rt- * 1787 67 1769 39 m. 1823 89 1802 74 1811 78 1770 36 i 1825 88 1806 71 1826 87 1 1813 95 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS Died Age 133 Hannah Crook (Shubael) 134 Apr. Martha Scovil * 135 Ithiel Dean * 136 Nathaniel Sutlief 137 May Stephen Bailey 138 Eunice Croolc Bailey (137) 139 Silence Wilcox Eanney (175) [I land] 140 July Daniel Clark 141 Daniel Spencer 142 Elizabeth ClarJc Spencer (141), (137) 143 Joel Hubbard 144 Ann Clark Hubbard (143) 145 David Smith 2d 146 Lydia Cogswell Smith (145), m. Wm. Brainerd, (c) Wm. Bradford 147 Elijah Brainerd, Jr. 148 Lucy Smith Brainerd (147) 149 Sept. Esther Brainerd Brainerd (Samuel) 150 Nov. Mary Smith Johnson (210) 151 Isaac Bartlett, yr. of adm. unkn., Durham 1758 1758 152 Feb, Ephraim Pratt [Centerbrook] 153 Beulah WHUamson Pratt (152) [Cen- terbrook] 154 Nathaniel Whitmore * 155 John Smith 1808 79 156 Catharine Smith (155) 1767 157 July Abigail Easleton Spencer (Elizur) 1759 158 Mar. John Lewis, I Chester 1767 159 Deborah l^evds (158), I Chester 1767 160 Oct. Abner Porter * 161 Ann Porter (160) 162 Patience Ellis * 163 Nov. John Ventres 1818 88 164 Elizabeth Anwld Ventres (163) * 165 Dec. Thomas Hubbard 1795 82 166 Joseph Wells, Esq. 1777 69 197 Died Age 178 179 Apr. 180 181 May 182 Oct. 183 184 185 June 186 187 188 July 189 190 191 192 Mar. 193 194 195 Apr. July Sept. 1777 75 1790 65 1763 1760- - 1767 # 67 abt. 1769 63 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVERSARY 1760 167 Joel or Jared Spencer, year of adm unknown, I 1760 167a Elizabeth Spencer, year of adm. un- known, I Spencertown 1761 168 Mar. Joseph Bradford [Westbrook] 169 May Jonathan Boardman 170 Zeruiah ElderMn Boardman (169) 171 July John Smith 172 Nov. Capt. Gideon Brainerd 173 Sarah Selden Brainerd (172) 174 Dec. Samuel Arnold, Yale 1724 1761 175 Apr. Ephraim Ranney 1762 37 176 June Benjamin Spencer * 177 July Ruth Cone 1762 Nathan Smith 1783 53 Mary Thomas Smith (178), m. (96) 1819 84 Eunice Ciarfc Smith (643) 1823 83 Sarah \Snow?] Porter (Wm.) [Cen- terbrook] Rachel Porter Tyler (191) 1806 71 Hannah Johnson (Amos) Elizabeth Pelton Johnson (Stephen) 1827 88 1763 Josiah Scovil, I Westfield, Mass., 1807 Frances Scovil (185) 1806 72 John Wilcox 1808 76 Anne Stevens "Wilcox (187) 1821 88 James Arnold Mary Arnold (189) Timothy Tyler 1813 77 1764 Joshua Brooks Charles Sears Martha Hubbard Brainerd (129) John Bailey, Jr. 198 1824 82 1793 63 1813 76 1777 65 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS Died Age 196 Wakemau Brooks 1809 G8 197 Mary WalMey Brooks (196) 198 Nov. Abigail Broolcs Thomas (279) 1802 70 1765 199 May Else Pratt Spencer (John) 200 Sept. Jedidah Thomas Tyler (Col. Abraham) 1828 201 Nov. Hepzibah Spencer Brainerd (Increase) 1766 202 May Mary Euldard Smith (James), rem. 1S32 91 203 Aug. Gideon Brainerd, Jr. 1801 72 204 Sarah Eichardson Brainerd (203) 1812 79 205 Abigail Diclinson Tyler (Samuel) 1835 90 206 Sept. Timothy Towner 207 Oct. Jerusha Brainerd Shailer (Ezra) * 208 Nov. Nehemiah Brainerd, Dea. 1784-1807 1807 66 209 Sarah Brainerd Brainerd (208) 1819 78 1767 Richard Johnson, Jr. Sarah Tyler Smith (John) 1768 27 EUakim Brainerd, Dea. 1784-1815 1815 83 Charles Smith, Rev. 1800 55 Mary Williams Smith (213) 1805 62 Benjamin Spencer [Sjiencertown] Dorothy Spencer Spencer [Spencer- town] Ruth Bailey Thomas (Aaron), I W. Spfd., Mass., 1806 1768 218 Sept. Susanna Bonfoey 1771 35 1769 219 Jan. Lydia Cone Tyler (Joseph), rem. Ley- den, N. Y. 1823 87 220 Nov. Abigail Smith Smith (John) 199 210 211 May June 212 213 Aug. 214 215 216 Sept. 217 Get. IIADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY 221 222 July 223 224 225 226 227 1770 jMarthn Brown J'l/.ni Tylor I'rudoiu-o IHt'htirdson Tyler (222), m. Jos. Arnold Dorothy Brainerd, ni. Rev. Thomas Miner Esther Brainerd Brooks (John), wid., m. Ozias Bidwell Thonnis Bates | Coutorbrook] ]\lrs. Thomas Bates [Centerbrook] Died Age 17S5 52 1S04 GO 1828 88 ISOl 52 228 229 Apr. Juno 230 231 232 233 July 234 235 236 237 Aug. 238 Nov. 239 240 241 Dec. 242 1771 Deborah Leiris Clark (140) 1775 56 Zaehariah Brainerd 1826 84 RIehitable Chirl: Brainerd (229) 1834 89 Richard Knowles 1814 88 .lames Hubbard 1808 75 Hepzibah .Smith Hubbard (232), rem. Harpersfield, N. Y. Solomon Walkley 1824 79 Rebeeca Ilazleto'n Walkley (234) 1806 56 Samuel Hubbard 1813 81 Sarah Smith Hubbard (236) 1818 85 Abner Smith, rem. Cromwell 1828 84 Mehitable Knowles Smith (238) David Bates Samuel Riiy, w. 1780 Esther Smi'th, m. (490) 1813 57 1772 243 Jan. Josiah Huntinf^ton, rem., ret. 1815 244 Rhoda Luomis lluntinytou (243), rem. 245 June I'hebe Rav (241 ) 246 July IMary MUils Hubbard (61) 247 Sept. Abigail Tyler Ijewis (Elcazer), m. Jo- siah Brainerd, rem. Windham, N. Y., 1806 1835 90 ISIO 95 1773 248 Apr. Mary Smith Arnold (Joseph, Jr.) 1781 38 249 Eleanor Bazleton Hiijgins (370) 1775 32 250 June Hannah Wells Bates^ (Elihu) 1830 89 200 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS Died Age 251 Martha Smith Smith (Jonathan) Mer- win (James) 1808 70 Sarah Ely Margaret Smith (Benj.) [Hamburg] * Abigail Eiggins Eay (Theodore), vdd. Sarah Brainerd, dau. of Samuel Nathaniel Eay [by letter] 1804 79 James Young, rem. Lee, Mass. Hannah Fuller Young (257) 1774 Capt. Nathan Lewis prob. bef. 1782 Samuel Church [Hadlyme] Sarah Eiggins Church (260) [Had- lyme] Ambrose Arnold 1817 71 Temperance Bailey Elizabeth Clark (William) Eunice ClarJc Hubbard (290), rem. Hannah Scovil Bailey (Oliver) Susanna Cone Shailer (Asa) 1826 90 Sarah Board ))m» Hubbard (Thos., Jr.) 1829 77 Hawes Higgins, to Bapt. w. 1834 82 Lucinda Bushnell Higgins (269), to Bapt. w. 1834 80 271 Mary Eosmer Bidwell Brainerd (Hen- ry), rem, O. 1839 87 1775 272 Jan. Eunice Augur, m. Stephen Spencer 1820 80 273 May Abner Spencer 1802 67 274 Deborah Clark Spencer (273) 1826 84 275 Mary White Clark (James, Jr.) 276 Martha Ar7iold Doane (Phineas) * 277 Sarah Clarh Sears (193), m. Benj. Pickett 1828 87 278 Sept. Damaris WalTcley Hubbard (Aaron), rem. Batavia, N. Y. 1818 279 Nov. 20. Lt. Ebenezer Thomas 1805 77 1776 252 253 254 255 Aug. Sept. 256 Oct. 257 Nov. 258 259 Mar. 260 261 Apr. 262 263 June 264 265 July 266 267 Aug. 268 269 Sept. Oct. 270 280 Feb. 18. Dr. Hezekiah Brainerd 1805 63 281 Elizabeth Johnson Brainerd (280) 1813 63 282 Martha Cone Clark (Stephen) 1828 83 283 Mar. John Sutlief 284 Lydia Stevens (James) 201 285 28G Apr. 287 288 289 290 May 291 292 June 293 294 295 296 Oct. 297 Nov. 297a 298 Jan. 299 June 300 Sept. 301 302 303 304 Oct. 305 306 307 Nov. 308 Nov. 309 Oct. 310 Died Afje 1809 63 1808 90 1812 83 1823 81 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Eunice Co7ie Spencer (Joseph) Isaac Augur Eunice 'Tyler Augur (286) Sarah Bailey Hubbard (Timothy) Abner Tibbals, Jr. Daniel Hubbard, rem. New Durham, N. Y., 1792 Lydia Sj^em-er Bailey (Gideon, Jr.), I Millington, 1781, and ret. See 503 1827 Daniel Brainerd 1809 57 Susanna Clarh Brainerd (292) 1799 48 Lewis Smith, Dea. Leyden, N. Y. 1841 88 Ann Hubbard Smith (294) Euth Johnson Pelton (James) 1829 93 Eunice Hi ff (fins Bates (Amos) Capt. Jeremiah Hubbard, yr. of adm, unkn., I Cromwell, 1794 1808 62 297b Flora Ilasleton Hubbard (297a), yr. of adni. unkn., I Cromwell, 1794 1833 86 1777 Eber Tibbals 1818 67 Mehi table Knoioles Dickinson (Amos), wid. 1841 89 Helen Stillman Simmons (Joshua) Hannah Dickinson Shailer (Hez.) 1828 78 Mary Enowles Burr (Joseph) 1835 84 Judith Clarl: Clark (Aaron) 1820 74 Bezalecl Shailer, ex. 1804 1810 74 Susanna Bailey Shailer (304) 1830 81 Hannah StocMng Bates (Eleazcr) 1827 71 Martha Bates Cone (Elisha, Jr.) 1823 1778 Hannah Bradford Russell ( ), wid. 1779 Heman Brainerd 1803 49 David Higgins, Rev., Yale 1785 1842 81 1780 311 Mar. Dorothy Scovil, m. John Dickinson 312 Dee. Susanna Tyler White (Timothy) Smith (155) 1819 93 202 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS 313 Sept. 1781 Elizabeth Taylor (Joseph) Died Age 314 Oct. 315 316 Jan. 317 318 June 1782 Sarah Arnold (Joel) 1818 84 Mary Tyler, rem. Leyden, N. Y. 1785 Charles Sears, Jr., I Jericho, N. Y., 1806 Diana Stevens Sears (316), I Jericho, N. Y., 1806 Christiana Bailey Clark (Wm.) 1820 1786 Mary Church Ventres (Stephen) Scovil (Saml.) William Clark Anne Johnson Clark (320) 1787 Oliver Brainerd 1834 76 Capt. John Brainerd 1820 66 Hannah Hubbard Brainerd (323) 1795 39 Anne Smith Thomas (Evan, Jr.) Sarah Hubbard Spencer (Abraham), wid. Rebecca Bates Hubbard (Aurunah), rem. New Durham, N. Y., 1792 Abigail Clark Smith Boardman (Jon., Jr.) 1823 66 Capt. David Brainerd, rem. French Grant, O. 1828 80 Hannah Willard Brainerd (329) 1840 90 Joseph Scovil, Esq. 1839 82 Sarah Spencer Scovil (331) 1825 66 1788 John Kelly Martha Freeman Bailey (Jer.), Tvid. John Scovil, I Leyden, N. Y., 1810 203 1788 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVERSARY Died 336 Elizabeth Spencer Scovil (335), I Leyden, N. Y., 1810 337 Hezekiah Clark 1799 338 Oliver Wells, Esq. 1820 1789 339 Mar, Joseph Augur, I Chester 1806 1847 340 Jeremiah Brainerd 1822 341 Aug. Hezekiah Spencer 1830 342 Mary Bevin (Wm.), yr. of adm. unkn., I E. Hampton 1790 1791 343 July Amni SoutJiworth Arnold (Jos., Jr.) 1846 344 Catharine Scovil 1829 345 Widow Clark 346 Esther Clarlc Crook (Joseph) 347 Phebe Clarlc Crook (Whitmore) 348 Mary Spencer Treadwell (James), wid. 349 Oct. Edward Selden, I Windsor 1805 350 Sibyl May Selden (349), I Windsor 1805 1793 351 Jan. Lois Smith, m. Reuben Brainerd, I Dur- ham 1824 1794 352 Sept. 27. Esther Brainerd Clark (Chipman) 353 — — Jonathan Burr 354 — — Lydia Bailey Burr (353) 1795 355 Oct. Gideon Brainerd, Jr. 1797 356 Nathaniel Burr, w. 1810 357 Esther BicTcinson Tyler (James), wid., I Chester 1824 358 Sarah Scovil 204 HISTOEICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS 1798 Died Age Shailer Hubbard 1832 Miriam Hubbard (Giles) 1798 or previous to 1804 Stephen Smith 1834 85 Jonathan Huntington, Dea. 1806- 1844, H 1848 73 Cynthia Huntington, m, Daniel Sayre, I Canton, N. Y., 1807 Sibyl Selden, I Windsor 1805 DAVID D. FIELD, PASTOE 1804-1818 1804 June 3. Anna Chase (James), I Windham, N. Y., 1807 Submit DicJcinson Field (Eev. D. D.) [Somers], I Stockbridge, Mass., 1819, ret. 1837 1861 78 17. Susanna Arnold Eay (Levi), wid. 1831 65 Hannah Child Cone (John), m. Israel Smith, H 1852 73 Naomi Chambers (James), I Pro v., E. I., 1810 24. Cornelius Higgins 1834 90 Esther Kelsey Higgins (370) 1836 85 July 8. Dr. Levi Ward, I prob. Eochester Mehitable Band Ward (372), I Hubbel Stevens [Killingworth], I Che- shire 1808 >75 Anne Stevens (374) [Killingworth], I Cheshire 1808 !76 Elisha Stevens [Killingworth], I Che- shire 1808 177 Anne Stevens (376) [Killingworth], I Cheshire 1808 15. Stephen Tibbals, Esq. 1838 79 Martha Burr Tibbals (378) 1835 76 James Walkley, Dea. 1819-1839 1839 66 Lydia Spencer Walkley (380) 1861 78 David Walkley, I W. Spf d., Mass., 1809, ret. 1810 29. Joseph Brooks, I W. Spfd., Mass., 1806 205 Died Age 1850 74 1849 69 1864 S3 1834 79 1827 72 1845 66 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY 384 Mary Hubiard Hubbard (Morris), H 385 Aaron Brainerd 386 Benjamin Parmalee 387 John Whittlesey, Eev. 388 Aug. 5, John Smith, Jr. 389 Anna Clark Smith (388) 390 Sarah Arnold, m. Ezra I3rainerd, H 391 Dolly Clark, I Durham 1805 392 28. Curtis Smith, I Otis, Mass. 1846 84 393 Asenath Brainerd Smith (392), I Otis, Mass. 1855 87 394 Olive Smith (Amos), I Durham 1822 395 Susan Brooks, rem. Bergen, N. Y. 396 Hannah Brooks, m. (613), H 1863 84 397 Sept. 2. Simon Walkley, I W. Spfd., Mass., 1809 398 Drusilla Smith Walkley (397), I W. Spfd., Mass., 1809 399 Rebecca Walkley 400 Hannah Walkley 401 23. Sylvanus Clark, I Guilford 1827 402 Dolly Smith Clark (401) 403 Jemima Brainerd, m. (a) Whitmore Crook, (b) Stephen Dickinson, H 404 30. Eliakim Brainerd 405 Lucy Smith Brainerd (404) 406 Oct. 2. Sarah Smith Hazleton (Nathl.), I Deep River 407 14. Concurrence Smith Bonfoey (Bena- nuel), H 408 Dolly Brainerd, m. (709), H 409 Dec. 2. Hannah Hazleton (117), wid, 1805 410 Mar. 31. Anna Clark 411 Aug. 25. Mary Gratrax ( ),l Prov., R. I., 1807 412 Oct. 6. Elizabeth Arnold (Ambrose) 413 Dec. 1. Dolly Thomas Brainerd (Zach.) Church (John), wid. 1806 414 July 6. Lucy Sinith Brainerd (212) 1821 82 1807 415 Mar. 22. Eunice Eodglin Crover (Geo.) Skin- ner (461), H 1854 S9 206 1838 1856 69 81 1823 63 1851 1815 1862 84 55 101 1849 1867 1812 89 88 81 1809 32 1814 67 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS Died Age 416 May 3. Dan Carter [Killingworth], rem. Lisle, N. Y. 417 June 7. Timothy Gladwin 1807 30 1808 418 June 5. Mary Smith Bailey (John), m. (b) (262), (c) Chas. Brainerd 419 July 21. Susanna Smith (Henry), I Ellsworth 1813 420 Oct. 30. David Dickinson 1822 65 421 Lois Clarlc Dickinson (420), m. Na- thaniel Griswold, I Killingworth 1850 90 422 Nov. 27. Zeruiah Falmer Bailey (Reuben) 1835 75 1809 June 5. Anna Spencer 1809 27 July 16. Henry Nichols, I Colchester 1810 Ezra Kelsey, H 1881 92 Rebecca Brooks Brainerd (Neh.), I Madison 1850 Aug. 6. Nathaniel Hull Sally Tibbals Hull (427) Catharine Hubbard, blind Eli Hubbard Ebenezer Thomas Clark Selden, I Middletown 1814 Elizabeth Wilcox Selden (432), I Midtn. 1814 Esther Brainerd Fanny Hazleton, m. (385) Dr. Chauncey Andrews, I Mt. Carmel 1815 15. Elizabeth Brainerd, m. Saml. W. Pratt, I Centerbrook 1811 22. Elizabeth Spencer (Jas.), I Clinton 1813 Martha Tibbals Spencer (Jos.), H 1865 84 Larissa Ray, m. Orrin Lane, rem. Mt. Vernon, O. 1874 81 29. Heber Brainerd 1846 76 Seth Arnold 1826 42 Submit Bailey Arnold (442), I Midtn. South 1840 1841 54 PoUy Smith, m. Jehiel Hull, I Durham 1810, ret. 1811 207 429 13. 430 20. 431 Sept. 3. 432 433 434 435 10. 436 Oct. 8. 1844 67 1844 64 1825 81 1817 46 1811 46 1848 72 1860 67 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY 445 Cynthia Clark, m. James Parmalee, rem. Durham 446 Nov. 19, Jesse Higgins Died Age 447 Feb. 11. 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 Mar, 4. 457 458 459 18. 460 25. 461 June 3, 462 July 22, 463 Aug, 5. 464 465 466 467 19. 468 Sept. 23. 469 470 471 30. 472 473 474 Oct. 28. 475 Nov. 4. 476 477 478 479 18. 1810 David Pratt, Eev, 1824 36 Hazael Smith, H 1866 91 Jemima Hubbard Smith (448), H 1851 73 Miriam Hubbard, H 1851 65 Sally Hubbard, m. Ezra Kelsey, H 1865 75 Hancy Hubbard, m. Saml. Simons, I Manchester 1814 Ehoda Hubbard, H 1877 89 Julia Hubbard, m. (768), H Esther Spencer, m. Geo. Burr 1867 77 Fiske Brainerd, Dea. 1826 1826 43 Prudah Smith Arnold (Josiah), m. John Arnold, ex. 1813 David Walkley [W, Spfd.], see 382, ex. 1840 James Brooks, Jr. Eleazer Brainerd, Rev. Thomas Skinner Betsey Clark, H Margaret DeWitt Dwight May (John), m. Reuben Cone, I Brick Pres., N. Y., 1814 Richard Skinner Martha Bailey Skinner (464) Clarissa Thomas, rem., ret, 1835 Sabra Brainerd Bailey (Russell) Gladwin (Willard) Priscilla Parmalee (Linus), rem. N. Y. State Susanna Arnold, I Brooklyn, O. Dorothy May, ae. 13 [New Durham, N. Y.], H 1888 91 Hannah Smith Brooks (Joslma) 1819 79 Desire Bailey Spencer (Elizur) 1839 81 Susanna Siuith Kelsey (George) 1828 68 Abigail Thomas, 2d Hannah Say Ventres (163) 1837 84 Anna Shailer Shailer (598) 1842 74 Candace Arnold Clark (Jas.), m. John Clark, I Lydia Brooks (James), I at large 1819 Fanny Andrews (436), I Mt, Carmel 1815 208 1854 61 1825 54 1845 75 1842 77 1840 70 1844 63 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS 1811 Died Age 480 Mar. 28. Sally Nancy Parmalee Church (Thos., Jr.) [Killingworth], rem. LeEoy, N. Y., 1817 481 Sept. 24. Jerusha Brainerd Kelsey (Jas.), rem. N. Y. State 482 Dec. 22. Polly Smith Hull [Durham], see 444 483 Chauncey Stevens [Durham], I Durham 1818 1812 484 June 21. Lucinthia Smitli Higgins (446) [E. Hampton] 1813 485 June 2. William Knowles 1820 88 486 Nov. 21. Anna Bushnell Dickinson (Aaron) 1809 85 1814 487 Mar. 3. William Scranton [Guilford], I 1818 488 Apr. 24. Jeremiah Gates [M. Had. 1st], rem. Watertown, N. Y. 489 May 29. Sarah Elliot Boardman (490) [Clin- ton], H 1846 70 490 Sept. 18. Luther Boardman 1829 79 491 Nov. 6. Sibyl Brainerd Smith (Sylvester), m. Calvin Thomas, H 1866 87 1815 492 Mar, 26. Jesse Dorastus Wright [Westbrook], rem. South 493 Apr. 30. Josiah Huntington [Htfd. 2d], see 243, I Rome, N. Y. 1835 90 494 Abigail Gilbert Huntington (493) [Htfd. 2d], I Rome, N. Y. 495 Abigail Huntington [Htfd. 2d], I Rome, N. Y. 1816 496 July 9. James Clark, H 1864 90 14 209 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESARY 1817 Died Age 497 Feb. 6. Job Hubbard 1822 82 498 Mar. 2. Lowly Grannis (556) [Durham], I Ge- neva, N. Y. 499 June 1. Polly Exihhard Smith (Eliab), rem. Bergen, N. Y. 1S33 53 500 Mary Anna Smith, m. Ansel Goff, I at large 501 Sept. 7. Eliza Smith Brainerd 1820 19 502 Nov. 2. William Kuowles 1821 23 Of the nineteen names following, which are not found in the regular records, seventeen are on lists of mem- bers in 1804, and also in 1818— all but one on both lists; and the last two are among the dismissions. 503 Lydia Spencer Bailey (Gideon), by letter, see 291, m. (b) E Tibbals, (c) Josiah Peltou, (d) Constant Webb, I Chester 1824 1827 504 Mary Bailey 505 Elizabeth Brainerd (David) 506 Prosper Brainerd 1821 85 507 Mary Bailey Brainerd (506) 1824 81 508 Euth Siocl-iny Brainerd (Shubael) Brainerd (309), rem. Bergen, O. 509 Sarah Brainerd Brainerd (340) 1809 72 510 Huldah Spencer Cone (Silas) 511 Eunice Crook 512 Eunice Parker Doane (Phineas), wid. 1824 84 513 David Hubbard, Dea. 1806-1836 1836 87 514 Hannah CUirl Hubbard (513) 1832 75 515 Euth Hubbard 516 Susanna Hubbard, blind 1827 90 517 Lydia Brainerd Porter (Abner) Knowles (Walker) 1836 77 518 Eebecca Brainerd Smith (690) 1818 72 519 Ann Brainerd Wells (338) 1826 78 520 Abigail Brainerd, I Windham, N. Y., 1807 521 Azuba Arnold Brainerd (Seth) Thomas (431), m. S. Penfield, I E. Hampton 1814 210 HISTOEICAL CATALOaUE OF MEMBEES JOHN MAESH, PASTOE 1818-1834 1819 Died Age 522 Jan. 3. Moses Tyler [Leyden, N. Y.] 1880 77 523 Deborah DicMnson Tyler (522) [Ley- den, N. Y.] 1860 77 524 17. Daniel Brainerd, H 1857 88 525 Fanny Smith Brainerd (524) 1835 56 526 David Clark Hubbard 1841 56 527 Temperance Biggins Hubbard (526), m. Seth Bartlett, H 528 Stephen Brooks, H 1860 83 529 Wealthy Smith Brooks (528), H 1852 71 530 Orin Smith, rem. West 531 Ehoda Brainerd Smith (530), rem. West 532 Samuel Smith, H 1880 91 533 Lucy Ann Smith Smith (532) 1843 50 534 Archelaus Tyler 1848 67 535 Hannah Spencer Tyler (534) 1830 50 536 Daniel Thomas, ex. 1836 537 Lydia Bailey Thomas (536) 1875 92 538 Solomon Walkley 1854 83 539 Prudence Hubbard Walkley (538) 1828 54 540 Sarah Smith Cone (Jos.) Church (Thos.) 1847 87 541 Abigail ClarTc Brooks (Abraham) 1838 79 542 Jane Spencer Brainerd (323), m. (708) 1826 58 543 Hepzibah Hubbard Brainerd (355) 1825 60 544 Martha Tyler Brainerd (441) 1855 79 545 Dorothy Thomas Brainerd (Phineas) 1859 79 546 Sally Thomas Child (624), H 1851 64 547 Alice Smith Arnold (Simon) 548 Eebecca Spencer Smith (Chas.), H 1861 81 549 Mary Brainerd Thomas (Israel) 1868 80 550 Mary Hart Walkley (David) 551 Sarah Young (616), I 552 Orpha Clark Brainerd (851) 1849 52 553 Huldah Brainerd Smith (Simon), wid. 1844 65 554 Sarah Tyler Eay (James), wid. 1859 89 555 James Brooks 1838 54 556 David Grannis, I Geneva, N. Y. 557 George Eoberts Bailey, I Centerbrook 1829 558 Oliver West, I M. Haddam 1st 559 Alfred Skinner 1824 560 Joseph Shailer, ex. 1834 1851 65 211 1877 90 1879 86 1876 73 1862 78 1853 61 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Died Age 561 Jolin May, H 1859 67 562 Arnold Hazleton Hayden 1869 80 563 Comfort Cone, Dea. 1841-1844, H 1876 79 564 Watson Lutber Boardman, rem. Mich. 565 Samuel Barry, I E. Haddam 1824 566 Benjamin Kelsey 1876 80 567 George Gilbert Child, I 568 Justin Sabin 569 Marquis De LaFayette Thomas, I Bloomfield, N. J. 570 Daniel Morgan, ex. 1823 571 Oliver Phelps Smith, Dea. 1872-1877 1877 74 572 Hezekiah Brainerd Smith, I New Lon- don 573 Zeruiah Brainerd, H 574 Martha Brooks, m. Reuben Bates, H 575 Wealthy Ann Brooks, m. (563), H 576 Dolly Brainerd, I Htfd. 1st 577 Roxanna Hayden, m. Jos. Chittenden 578 Nancy Clark, m. (784), I Fremont, 111., 1845 1853 579 Dolly Clark, m. Rev. James Kapple 580 Clarissa Button, m. (821), I E. Had- dam 1835 581 Florilla Smith 1819 17 582 Catharine Brooks, m. (717) 583 Harriet Clark, m. Heman Tyler, I Madi- son 1843 1876 80 584 Jedidah Hazleton 1836 44 585 Pliilinda Brainerd, ra. Davis Kelsey 1827 24 586 Elizabeth Dickinson, m. (564), rem. Mich. 587 Mary Dickinson, m. David Phelps 1826 588 Clarissa Cone, m. Isaac Loveland, I Durham 1830 589 Thankful Smith, H 590 Ana Hubbard Brainerd, m. (631) 591 Miriam Brainerd 592 Hepzibah Brainerd, m. Benj. Hubbard, I New Durham, N. Y. 1843 48 593 DrusiUa Brainerd, m. Sylvester Aus- tin, I New Durham, N. Y. 594 Clarissa Brainerd, m. Smith Ventres 595 Ursula Brainerd, m. (562) 596 Elizabeth Ann Clark, m. (561) 597 Rebecca Smith, m. (566) 598 Mar. 7. Ira Shailer 599 Nathan Tyler 212 1830 35 1872 88 1869 66 1825 33 1887 87 1869 72 1833 33 1846 53 1840 77 1863 95 Died Age 1854 84 1864 66 1827 42 1868 75 1883 88 1850 55 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS 600 Esther Sliailer Tyler (599) 601 Esther Tyler 602 Henry Smith 603 Sylvia Stevens Smith (602) 604 Selden Gladwin, H 605 Lydia Lane Gladwin (604), H 606 Esther Eiggins Tyler (Rufus), wid. 607 Hannah Burr Scovil (Hez.), H 1859 65 608 Dolly Smith, m. (759), I Portland 1823 ret. 1825 609 Wells knowles, to M, E. 1832, w. 1861 74 610 ElUot Brainerd, H 1862 69 611 Gideon Gladwin 612 Maria Foote Clark (716) [Northford] 1875 76 613 Apr. 4. Job Hubbard, Jr., H 1853 80 614 Winslow Higgins, rem. 1828 615 Lydia Smith Higgins (614), I M. Had- dam 1st 616 Asa Young, Dea. 1827-1836, I Mun- son, O., 1836 617 Anna Arnold, m. Elder Dickinson 618 May 2. Selden Tyler, I E. Haddam 1848 1871 88 619 Sarah Baiidall Tyler (618), I E. Had. 1848 1879 88 620 Willard Gladwin, ex. 1832 1837 54 621 Amzi Lee, I E. Haddam 1823 622 Selden Huntington, H 1846 60 623 Sylvanus Clark, Jr., I Guilford 624 June 6. Heman Child 1830 625 Lydia Brainerd, m. Simon Arnold, I Brooklyn, O., 1835 626 Fanny Bowdridge Shailer, m. Jas. Brainerd 1842 50 627 Jonathan Huntington [E. Haddam] 1832 90 628 Abigail Smith (Davis) [Rocky Hill] 629 July 4. Daniel Clark Dickinson, Jr., I Penn. 630 Christiana Clark Dickinson (629), I Penn, 631 Aug. 1. Edward Rutty 1847 48 632 Anna Clarlc Ely (WilUam) 1859 88 633 Hannah Wheeler Brooks (Jas., 2d) 1837 53 634 Abigail Brainerd 635 8. Calvin Brainerd [M. Had. 1st], to M. E., w. 1820 636 Oct. 3. James Gladwin, to M. E. 1859 76 637 Margaret Tripp Gladwin (636), H 1865 85 638 Ursula Brainerd, to M. E., w. 1821 639 Dec. 5. Ediatha Arnold 1831 213 HA DP AM CHUECH AXNT^TIKSAET 640 Mav 6, 641 Oct. 1. 642 Nov. 16. 643 Dec. 3. 644 645 646 647 1820 ZiUah Cone Kelsev (Benj.) Catharine Shailer Clark (Xoah) John Elv Aaron Smith James Thomas Susannah ClorJ: Cone (Xoah) Lucy Wheeler ( ), wid., m. Jon. Par- sons, rem. Experience Smith Bailey (Harris), wii Died Age ISoo 70 lSo2 SO 1S21 40 IS 25 ss 1S42 S9 1S30 IS: 1821 64S Feb. 649 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 Mar. 66S 669 670 671 672 Apr. 673 674 Simon Hazleton Brittania Curtis Hazleton (64S) Susan Brainerd Arnold (Jared) Jennette Mau Parmalee (Linus), 1 M. Had. 1st 1S46 WealthT Smith Hubbard (Matthew), / E. Had. 1S2S Laura Knowles, dl, (676), / E. Had. 1S26 Lorinda HulL H Filiofeete Higgins, w. Susan Dickinson, ni. (S53), H Ursula Smith, m. Jonathan Arnold Eveline Butler, m. (752), 1 Burlington Xancy Gladwin Martha Stevens. 7 Durham 1S26 Eliza Burr, m. Benanuel Bonfoey. H Mariam Smith. H Louisa D. Smith, m. Dickinson, 1 at large Beulah Smith, I at large Orpha I. Smith, ? at large Mary Ann Clark, m. and rem. West Thomas Clark Smith Hannah Brainerd Butler (John), / Htfd. Elizabeth Hark ( ). wid. Cynthia Tibbals, m. Bela Burr Harriet Smith, m. Leonard Towner, / Midtn. South 1S42 Cvnthia Child. H Phebe Tihh^iU Tibbals (^'athan^, H Jemima Tibbals, m. Porter Brooks, ? Xortliford 1S70 74 1S71 73 1S67 S6 1S7S 7S 1S92 SS 1S93 90 1S3S 34 1SS6 >,■•> 1>7S S6 1S24 1S36 35 IS 75 1S63 S2 81 214 1884 88 1881 87 1867 86 1858 56 1834 88 1849 74 1840 71 1885 88 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS Died Age 675 May 5. Lueinthia Cone Warner (Dr. A. F.) [Westchester], m. (852) 1846 50 676 June 3. James Gladwin, Jr., I E. Haddam 1826 1880 82 677 Orrin Skinner, H 1878 80 678 Ansel Smith, I Cromwell 1832 679 Dyer Cowdrv, schoolmaster 680 Sydney Smith Hazleton, Z LeEoy, X. Y., 1846 681 Sabra Clarh Tyler (734) 1848 51 682 Mary Scovil Higgins (683), I 683 July 8. Asa Higgins, I Covington 684 Horace Arnold 685 Sylvia White Arnold (684) 686 Susanna Dickinson 687 Maria Tyler, m. D. Chapman Emmons 688 Almira Skinner (Austin) 689 Sibvl Skinner, m. (678), I Cromwell 1832 690 Aug. 5. J'onathan Smith 691 Martha Mencin Clark (496), H 692 Jemima Brainerd Bailey (Saml.), wid. 693 Sept. 2. Ezekiel Shailer Clark 694 Julia Brooks, m. Danl. Barker, I Ches- ter 1827 1822 695 May 5. Huldah Smith, m. (693) 1846 46 696 Aug. 4. Abigail BushneU Brainerd (Jacob), H 1854 63 697 Ulvsses Butler [Rocky Hill], I Port- land 1823 1823 28 698 Mrs. Ulysses Butler (697) [Rocky Hill], I Portland 1823 699 jSTov. 3. Thalia Norion Hayden (John) [He- bron], I Hebron 1844 1823 700 Aug. 3. Elizur Spencer 1828 72 701 Hannah Dart Brainerd (770) 1848 82 702 Sept. 7. Margaret BaiJey Brainerd (Giles) 1835 69 703 Jerusha Brooks Brainerd (Cornelius), H 1852 71 704 Ann Lord Johnson Huntington (622) 1823 36 1824 705 Apr. 4. Timothy Walkley [Midtn.]. rem. "West 706 Sarah Parmalee Walkley (705) [Midtn.] 215 HADDAM CHUKCH ANNIVERSARY Died Age 707 Alva Shailer, rem. Saugerties, N. Y., 1845 1852 58 . 70S May 2. James Kelly Child 1837 73 709 David Bonfoey, H 1863 85 710 Darius Dickinson, H 1880 95 711 Anna Euhbard Dickinson (710) 1850 65 712 Sallv Maria Dickinson, m. (855) 1894 86 713 David Dickinson, H 1852 66 714 Timothy Tvler, w. 1865 1876 86 715 Harriet Smith Tyler (714) 1835 37 716 Dudley Clark 1872 82 717 William Ely Mather, I West 718 Fiske Shailer 1829 31 719 Susanna Tyler Dickinson (Stephen) 1835 62 720 Mary Ely Dickinson (749) 721 Bethia Eandall Tyler (Capt. Samuel) 1833 36 722 Beulah Child, H 1886 90 723 Larissa Shailer 724 Nancy Shailer, m. Austin Lay, I Center- brook 1834 1865 63 725 Fanny Tyler, m. (a) G. J. Holt, (b) Rev. Matthias Gossett, I Chester 1827 1896 92 726 Dorothy Tyler, m. Fred. Cooper, I Ches- ter 1827 1896 90 727 Delia Brainerd, m. J. A. Ackley, I 728 Susan Brainerd, m. (a) Jno. P. Elton, (b) Anson Hancock, rem. Fla. 1827 729 Olive Bulldey Chapman (Revillo) [Rocky Hill], I Rocky Hill 1866 730 June 6. Luther Freeman, ex. 1832 731 Hester Buslinell Freeman (730), H 1858 84 732 George Clark, rem. Somonauk, 111. 1857 65 733 Emily Smith Clark (732) 1845 50 734 Samuel Tyler, 2d 1863 68 735 George Edgar Bailey, to Bapt., w., 1828 736 Asa Brainerd, rem. Oquawka, 111. 1840 737 Henry Lyman Shailer, rem. jNIadison 1875 73 738 Chauucey Allen Dickinson, H 1889 83 739 Lydia Sherman (Benj.), wid. 1841 85 740 Elizabeth Croolc Ely (642), wdd. 1828 48 741 Jemima Brainerd 1851 71 742 Orpha Ann Carter, m. Nathan Pratt, I E. Had. 743 Hannah Dickinson, m, (735), I Deep River, 1837 744 INIary Ann Shailer, I Madison 1867 1894 88 745 Hannah Ely, m. William Emmons 1897 91 746 Martha Maria Arnold, m. Dr. Hill 747 Mary Ann Clark, m. (a) Ansel Warner, (b) (566) 1866 59 21G Died Age 1844 64 1841 66 1831 50 1863 62 1855 70 1862 70 1834 44 HISTOEICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS 748 July 4. Joseph Burr 749 John Dickinson 750 Lucy Smith Brainerd (385) 751 Mehitable Dickinson Williams (Elijah) 752 Chester Hamlin, M.D. [Farmiugton], I Burlington 753 Esther Thomas Brainerd (967) [Ley- den, N. Y.], H 754 Aug. 1. Alvin Brainerd, H 755 Elizabeth Pelton Brainerd (754) 756 Sept. 5. Concurrence Wilcox Child (Hez.) [Kill- ingworth], H 1875 74 757 Polly Lewis [Southampton, Mass.], m. (a) Leander Bailey, (b) (534), I Midtn. 1854 1876 76 1825 758 July 3. Frances Fowler Tallmadge Marsh (Rev. John) [Warren], I Brooklyn, N. Y., Pres., 1840 1852 57 759 Sept. 4. Howell Bowers [Portland], I Midtn. South 1842 760 Dolly Smith Bowers (759) [Portland], see 608, I Midtn, South 1842 1826 761 Nov. Ansel Brainerd, 2d 1885 91 1827 762 Feb. 3. Maritta Gladwin [Centerbrook], m. Olmsted Brainerd, I Middlefield 1838 763 Mar. 3. Martha Harding Ackley (Danl.) Brain- erd (355), m. Dea. Asa Goslee, I Buckingham 1839 764 765 766 767 Sept. Dee. 3. 2. Ann Gladwin (997) Chauncey Deming Skinner [Midtn.], H Jonathan Eandall [Norwich] Eunice Eandall (766) [Norwich] 1828 1831 1888 1828 50 86 83 768 769 770 Feb. Mar. 3. Elisha Clark, H Lucy W. Swan Clark (693) [MiUing- ton] Ansel Brainerd 1847 1832 1840 59 30 76 217 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY 771 Esther Knowles Smith (Sylvanus) Brainerd (322) 772 Laura Brainerd Shailer (707), I Sau- gerties, N, Y., Dutch Ref., 1858 773 Apr. Seklen Skinner 774 Elizabeth Eandall Skinner (773) 775 Hiram Brooks, H 776 Gideon Brainerd 777 May 4. Josiah Flagg [Berlin], I Mtn. So. 1835 778 Sally Flagg (777) [BerUn], I Mtn. So. 1835 779 Clarissa May Kelsey (Davis) [Putney, Vt.] 780 Caleb Brainerd 781 Asahel Bonfoey, H 782 Jonathan Burr, ex. 1834 783 Benjamin Hopkins Catlin, M. D., I Meriden 1842 784 Hurlburt Swan, I Fremont, 111., 1845 785 Asa Mitchell, I Midtn. South 786 Davis Smith 787 Joseph Brooks Hubbard, H 788 Almorin Young, I Chagrin Falls, O. 789 Nathaniel Matthew, I M. Haddam 1st 790 Nathan Emery Stannard 791 Benjamin Smith, H 792 Lydia Burr Smith (791) 793 Rowena Porter Smith, m. A. Spencer, H 794 Miranda Ann Smith, m. (943), H 795 Alanson Porter Brainerd, I M. E. 1840 796 Elijah Brainerd 797 Sally Parthena Brainerd, m. E. South- mayd, / Durham 798 George Kelsey 799 Eunice Tully Kelsey (798) 800 Lavinia Smith, m. (776) 801 Hope Randall Lord, rem. West 802 Nathan Tyler Dickinson, rem. Penn., to M. E. 803 Jemima Cone, H 804 Esther Irene Walkley, m. Rev. James Noyes, /, Westfield 1834, ret. 1840 805 Eunice Thomas Brooks (Geo.), wid., m. (538) 806 Hannah Brooks, m. Gilbert Crook, H 807 Lucy Alma Brooks, m. John Briggs, I Midtn. South 1836 808 Mary G. Brooks, I Cromwell 1839 809 Elizabeth Ann Clark 218 Died Age 1843 84 1870 79 1847 58 1894 87 1843 42 1874 78 1846 70 1845 60 1834 1880 78 1878 1872 62 1865 80 1844 54 1875 64 1866 53 1833 22 1863 76 1809 75 1835 27 1901 95 1849 82 1896 87 1848 57 1890 78 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS Died Age 810 Elizabeth Leeds Comstock Hunting- ton (362), H 1849 62 811 Sarah Huntington, H 1873 62 812 Fanny Cotton Child (Samuel), wid. 1843 52 813 Margery Maria Dickinson, m. C. Scran- ton 814 Fanny Smith Brainerd, H 1846 40 815 Caroline Mehitable Usher, m. Roswell Reed, H 1885 75 816 Mary Elizabeth Dickinson, m. Wm. Sel- kirk, I Gt. Barrington, Mass., 1837 817 Dolly Skinner, H 1878 78 818 Mary Smith Skinner (Sylvester), H 1883 91 819 Martha Smith Clark, m Dye, I Chi- cago, 1835 820 Mary Rebecca Brooks, m. Orrin At- water, I Southington 1836 821 Edmund Hubbard, I E. Had, 1835 822 Marietta Hull, H 1899 89 823 Armenia Maritta Hubbard, m. J. N. Patten, I Rahway, N. J., 1st Pres., 1837 824 John Ogden Hubbard, ex. 1836 825 Willard Post 826 Bela Burr, H 827 Ruel Knowles, H 828 Achsah Hubbard Knowles (827), H 829 Irena Hubbard, m. Joseph Burr, H 830 Chauncey Bonfoey, I Spfd., Pa., 1842 831 Irwin W. Smith, I B. Smithfield, Pa. 832 Lucy Ann Smith, m. Benj. S. Bailey, H 833 Esther Wheeler Hubbard (Simeon) 834 Esther Maria Hubbard, m. Heber Brainerd 835 Anthea Hubbard, m. McKane 836 Dolly Hubbard (430), wid. 837 Harriet Hubbard, m. Enos Smith, H 838 Laura Dwight Smith, H 839 Mary Ann Smith, m. A. C. Hubbard, H 840 Huldah Spencer, m. Gustavus IST. Wil- cox, I Middletown 1st 1835 841 Electa Burr, m. Asahel Pelton, to M. E. 842 Hannah Burr, m. Darius Skinner, H 843 Nancy Tibbals, m. David Bailey, H 844 Desire Spencer Spencer (Felix), H 845 James Ray 846 Hancy Smith Ray (845) 847 Arza Dickinson, H 219 1848 33 1838 25 1857 52 1883 80 1888 79 1873 61 1832 51 1892 84 1845 34 1837 59 1893 1861 49 1896 82 1846 36 1888 76 1867 73 1874 75 1883 80 1858 66 Died Age 1866 73 1846 65 1887 87 1872 80 1881 81 1874 74 1846 40 1892 86 1880 70 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESARY 848 Phebe Croolc Dickinson (847) 849 Dinimis Dickinson Ray (Benj.) 850 June 1. Sarah Bay Brainerd (761) [West- chester] 851 George Smith Brainerd, Dea. 1841-1872 852 Ira Hutchinson, M. D., I Cromwell 1854 853 Russell Gladwin, H 854 Tyrus Brainerd 855 Deantheum Hubbard Brainerd 856 Simeon Hamilton Hubbard 857 Jonathan Huntington, 3d, I Newark, N. J. 858 Thomas H. Clark, I Madison 1837 859 Hezekiah C. Brooks 860 David Tyler, I Deep River 1839 1888 82 861 Polly Bossiter Cone (Noadiah), H 1868 86 862 Sylvia Lewis Bailey (557), I Center- brook 1829 863 Melantha Gladwin, to Higganum 1866 1900 88 864 July 6. Edwin Almon Smith 865 Sophia Gladwin Smith (864), H 1888 85 866 Joshua Brainerd, to Bapt., w. 867 Davis Smith Brainerd, Rev., Pastor Lyme 1841-1875 1875 67 868 Martha Eugenia Brainerd, m. Silas Smith, i! Htfd. North 1848 869 Lucinda Ann Clark, m. E. Rockwell, w. 870 Aug. 3. WilUam White, ex. 1871 72 871 Laura Dickinson White (870) 1895 90 1829 872 Sept. 6. Amelia Crane ( ) Child (708) [Clin- ton], I Clinton 1837 1830 873 Feb. 7. John B. Augur [Stillwater, N. Y.], I 1841 874 Mar. 7. Charles Dickinson, Rev. [E, Had.] 1854 43 1831 875 Mar. Amelia Brainerd 1854 53 876 Apr. 3. Esther Smith Brainerd (Alfred) 1835 40 877 July 3. Wealthy Child Smith (Geo. W.) 878 Betsey Clark Child (Chauncey), H 1860 67 220 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS Died Age 879 Lucinthia BurTce Smith (914), m. Daniel Smith 1887 87 880 Mary Young Smith (881), rem. Ohio 881 Sept. 3. Edwin Smith, rem. Ohio 882 Cyprian Strong Brainerd, Dea. 1846- 1880 1880 75 883 Florilla Bull Brainerd (882) 1897 90 884 Willard Cook, I Fremont, 111., 1846 885 Abigail Brainerd Cook (884), I Fre- mont, 111., 1846 1854 886 Nancy Shailer, m. R. Cunningham, I JoUet, lU., Pres., 1840 887 Mary Ann Walkley, m. A. C. Hall, I Westerly, R. I., 1846 888 Mary Ann Williams, m. (a) Atwood Spencer, (b) Hiram Brooks, to M. E. 1871 57 889 Sarah Ann Brainerd, m. (928), I Madi- son 1850 890 Abigail Bay Smith (Justin), I M. Had. 1st, 1848 891 Abigail Andrus Arnold (Jas. C.) [Westfield], I Berlin 1839 892 Nov. 6. Alexander Whittlesey Hall, I Water- bury 1839 893 David B. Knowles, I Centerbrook 1850 1900 894 Charlotte Hubbard Skinner (765), H 1873 73 895 Dec. Mary Parmalee, to M. E., w. 896 Rebecca Brainerd, m. Eleazer Burr, I W. Had. M. E., 1843 1833 897 Jan. Mary Brackett (Reuben) [Trenton, N. J.] 898 Mar. 31. Orrin Olcott Wickham, I Sag Harbor, N. Y., 1836 899 Daniel Clark Tyler, Rev., I Wamps- ville, N. Y., Pres., 1885 900 Matilda W. Hall (892) [Madison], I Waterbury 1839 901 Oct. 29. Jennette McCurdy Stewart Huntington (622) [N. Y.], to M. E., w. 1847 221 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESARY TERTIUS S. CLARKE, PASTOR 1834-1837 1834 Died Age 902 Aug. Harriet Clark [Lyme], m. J. O. Rich, H 1852 46 903 Nov. Lucy Catlin Bull (Dr. Bull) [Water- town], i! Meriden 1842 1835 Roxanna BlatcJiley Brooks (775) [Kill- ingworth] 1836 29 Louisa P. Emmons Cook (915) [E. Had.], H 1888 88 William Hubbard, I Two Ridge Pres., O., 1842 Sarah Maria Smith, m. J. A. Brown, H Almira A. Marshall Clark (Rev. T. S.) [So. Deerfield, Mass.], I Stockbridge, Mass., 1837 1856 Gould Campbell 1867 Sarah Campbell (909) [Wallingford] 1874 Elizabeth Tamzon Burr, m. G. W. Guy, I Midtn. South 1839 Dolly Flagg (George), wid. 1840 37 Ann Clark, m. Dea. Parmalee, I Dur- ham 1842 Eliphalet Smith 1836 37 Ebenezer Cook, H 1844 45 Clarissa Thomas Brainerd (Alvin) [Midtn. South], H 1866 75 Felix Miner Spencer 1897 80 John Kelsey 1853 36 Mary Ann Strong Cone (John), wid., m. (775), H 1863 54 Emma Brainerd, m. G. Hubbard, I Col- linsville 1838, ret. 1843 1849 37 Nancy Smith Brainerd, m. G. W. Guy, H 1836 Amelia Deborah Spencer Catlin (783) [Hadlyme], I Meriden 1842 1883 71 222 904 Jan. yuD 906 907 908 Mar. 909 910 911 912 913 May 914 915 916 917 918 919 July Sept. 920 921 Nov. 922 Jan. Died Age 1853 45 1875 81 1837 45 1879 73 1861 78 1876 84 1854 36 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS DAVID D. FIELD, PASTOR 1837-1844 1837 923 Jan. Emma Elliot May (561) [Georgetown, D. C], H 924 Danforth Turner [Mid. Haddam 1st] 925 Apr. 16. Huldah B. Brainerd (Linus), wid. [Killingworth] 926 23. Jedidah Denison Ventres (951) [Cen- terbrook] 927 May 14. Submit Dicldnson Field (Rev. D. D.), see 366 [Stockbridge], H 928 Milton Brooks, ex. 929 Nathaniel Cook 930 Linus Burr Smith, H 931 Betsey Ann Brainerd, m. J. W. Glad- ding, I Midtn. 1846 932 Elizabeth Huntington, m. (851), H 1895 79 933 Cynthia Huntington, m. R. W. New- ton, I Durham 1841 934 July 2. Phebe Holden Child Smith (571) 935 Emily Smith 936 EUzabeth Smith, m. (776) 1838 937 Apr. 1. Elizabeth Gladwin (Silas) [Midtn. 1st], H 1869 90 938 Elizabeth ri/?er Scovil (Whitney), wid., m. Abel W. Reed, I No. Brookfleld, Mass., 1848 1892 74 939 Amelia Brittania Hazleton, m. Rev. O. F. Parker, I Wapping 1844 1879 59 940 Frances Maria Hazleton, m. Rev. Thos. Tallman, I Scotland 1844 941 May 6. Mary Razleton Cook (929) 1862 75 942 Jemima Eill Hazleton (680), I LeRoy, N. Y. 1846 943 June 10. Theodore Dwight Hayes [Granby], H 1882 79 1840 944 July 5. Eliza Ann Gaylord Burr (Nathan D.) [Killingworth], I Meriden 1855 945 Sept. 6. Esther I. Walkley Noyes (Rev. Jas.) 223 1893 75 1874 62 1874 59 1871 55 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Died Age [Middlefield], see 804, I Burlington 1843 1896 87 27, Heniy Martyn Field, Rev. [Wms. Coll. Ch.], entered Pres. ministry 1841 947 July 4. Sylvester Davis Brainerd, H 948 Michael Hubbard, H 1889 73 949 James Hurlburt Swan, I Fremont, 111., 1845 950 Christopher Tyler, I Stamford 1852 1898 76 951 David Brainerd Ventres 1889 94 952 Joseph Whiting 953 Nancy Dickinson Ayres (Aaron L.), I Chester 1865 954 Maria Shailer Bonfoey, m. Chas. Bab- cock, H 955 Jerusha Thomas Bonfoey, H 956 Amelia Melissa Bonfoey, m. Noah Burr, H 957 Cornelia Brainerd, m. (1039) 958 Clarissa Hubbard Dickinson (Jonah), wid. 1861 83 959 Sarah Elizabeth Gladwin, m. Jesse Spencer, H 1888 61 960 Jennette May Parmalee, m. S. Stilwell, I M. Had. 1st 1845 961 Elizabeth Rutty 1846 24 962 Esther Brainerd Rutty 963 Hannah Scovil, m. (950), I Stamford 1852 1859 36 964 Esther Miranda Tyler, m. W. W. Dick- inson, I Chester 1873 1900 80 965 Sept. 5. Jerusha Abigail Arnold, m. Sylvester Dickinson 1862 41 966 Sylvia Arnold, m. (a) (968), (b) War- ren W. Pardee 1853 31 967 Sylvester Brainerd, 2d, H 1862 79 968 Charles Smith Brainerd 1849 28 969 Ezra Brainerd, rem. Durham 970 Lois Brainerd, H 1848 25 971 Elizabeth Ann Cone, m. S. D. Clark, H 1883 57 972 Ansel Brainerd Cook, I Fremont, 111., 1846 973 Martha Ely, m. Storrs L. Hubbard, H 1S90 63 974 Orpha Matilda Gladwin, m. Willis North, H 224 Died Age 1887 66 1859 37 1857 58 1898 94 1859 1855 59 1880 78 1893 70 1857 32 HISTOKICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS 975 Gilbert Selden Gladwin, H 976 Tamzon Elizabeth Gladwin, m. Danl. Scovil, H 977 Electa Kelsey 978 Julia Kelsey, m. D. C. Emmons 979 Amy Ann Spencer, H, m. Sanderson 980 Albert Scranton, I Midtn. South 1842 981 Albert Oscar Swan, I Fremont, 111., 1845 982 Drusilla Brainerd Turner (924) 983 Nancy Tyler 984 Sabra Denison Tyler, m. Henry M. Wat- rous, I Chester 1850 985 Ursula Tyler, m. (1045) 986 EUen Tyler, m. W. H. Chapman, I E. Had. 1848 987 Nov. 7. Margaret Denison Burr (Jonathan H.) [Deep Eiver], H 1842 988 Apr. 3. Freelove Beers (Josiah) [No. Guil- ford], H 1849 48 989 24, Florilla Bonfoey [Midtn. So.], m. Geo. A. Freeman, H 1887 73 990 Amelia Bonfoey [Midtn. So.], m. Cor- nelius Brainerd, H 991 Sept. 4. Almira M. Clark Brainerd (Abraham) [Westfield, Mass.], H 1843 992 June 8. Eunice Sutlief, H 1844 40 993 Aug. 20. Mary Ann JVinchel Thomas (H. At- wood) [Cheshire], I Chesliire 1878 994 Sept. 3. Amelia Sophronia Barry, H 995 Antoinette Maria Hubbard, m. S. H. Burr, H 996 Emma Brainerd Hubbard (Gilbert), wid. [Asylum, Pa.], H, m. (787), see 920 1849 37 Year of admission unknown 997 Silas Gladwin, H 1854 80 998 Abigail Thomas Brainerd (Alfred), H 1861 15 225 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Died Age 999 Tamzon Bushnell Mer\^in (Daniel), H 1868 85 999a Clarissa Thomas (James), I Madison 18-43 1848 WILLIAM H. GILBERT, ACTING PASTOR 1846 1000 Jan. 11. George W. Graham [Buffalo, N. Y., Park Pres.], I E. Had. 1846 1894 84 1001 Mary E. Dibble Graham (1000) [Buf- falo, Park Pres.], I E. Had. 1846 1901 83 ISRAEL P. WARREN, ACTING PASTOR 1002 May 10. Elizabeth Jemima Hazleton, m. E. F. Ensign, I LeRoy, N. Y., 1846 1003 LucintMa Hutchinson, m. Geo. H. But- ler, I Cromwell 1854 1004 Mary Kelsey 1005 Harriet Kirtland, m. S. Lynde Hart, I Saybrook 1846 1006 Mary Emma Brainerd 1007 Ann Lord Hayden, m. Jos. W. Brackett 1892 67 1008 Mary Brainerd 1896 64 1009 Ursula Brainerd 1849 27 1010 Huldah Ann Kelsey, m. Orrin Shailer 1899 70 1011 Elizabeth Ann Barry, m. (a) Benj. Day, (b) Abner Hurd, I Mid. Had. 1st 1878 1012 Mary Lavinia Brainerd, m. H. P. Brainerd, I Enfield 1013 Elizabeth Skinner, m. Sylvester C. Dunham, I 1867 1014 Adelaide Kirtland, m. Geo, L. Stevens, I Saybrook 1846 ELISHA W. COOK, PASTOR 1846-1852 1847 1015 May 2. Caroline Skinner 1847 20 1016 Caroline Cornelia Cook, m. Ashbel P. Willard, I New Albany, Ind., Pres. 1847 1017 Catharine Cordelia Cook 226 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS 1848 Died Age 1018 Jan. 2. Asenath B. Leonard [Baltimore 6th Pres.], I So. Hadley Falls, Mass., 1852 1019 Asenath F. Snow (Rev. P. H.) [Balti- more 6tli Pres.], I Syracuse, N. Y., 1850 1020 Laura Parmalee Smith (Rev. Noah) [Killingworth] 1021 May 7. Laura Ann Dart Hutchinson (852) [Mid. Had. 1st], I CromweU 1854 1883 70 1022 Henry Austin Ventres, I BelleviUe, N. J., Dutch Ref., 1850 1898 72 1023 Eveline Hutchinson, m. Cephas Brain- erd, I Cromwell 1854 1024 Nancy Maria Bailey Treat (Jos.) 1862 50 1025 Flora Matilda Fuller Ray (Eber) [E. Haddam], to Bapt., w. 1850 1849 1026 Mar. 4. Marvin Smith [Madison] 1880 84 1027 Eleanor Mehitable Williams [Chester], m. John Boylston, I Deep River 1855, ret. 1870 1880 50 1028 Sarah Amelia Ventres, m. (1045) 1867 35 1029 Jennette Tyler Ventres, m. (1101), I Florence, Col. Pres,, 1898 1850 1030 May 5. Nancy Amelia Williams, m. (1060) 1901 70 1031 Sept. 1. Sarah Louisa Brainerd, I Portland 1889 1893 61 1032 CorneUa Ann Brainerd 1852 17 1851 1033 Jan. 5. Amanda Brainerd 1881 88 1034 Nancy Tyler, m. D. Nelson Arnold 1035 Ann Maria Brainerd, m. G. W. Wal- lace, I Htfd. South, 1865 1852 1036 May 1. Susan Kelsey 1853 63 1037 2. Lamira Dickinson, m. Danl. Brooks, I Midtn, So. 1878 227 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY 1038 Martha Miranda Smith Cook (Eev. E. W.) [Danbury 1st], yr. of adm. uiJai., I Haydenville, Mass., 1854 Died Age EEASTUS COLTON, ACTING PASTOR 1852-1854 1853 1039 May 1. Elihu Bigelow Rogers 1040 Mary Ann Child Clark (693) 1041 Cynthia Virginia Brainerd, m. H. H. Brainerd 1042 Martha Elizabeth Brainerd 1043 Cynthia Sophia Cook Stanton (Dr. A. S.), I La Porte, Ind,, Pres., 1853 1044 Ira Shailer Brainerd, I St. Louis, Mo., 1859 1045 Harvey Dickinson 1046 Ellen Jedidah Ventres, m. (1061) 1047 Erastus Shailer Dickinson 1048 Esther Maria Bailey Dickinson (1047) 1049 John Ferguson 1050 Eugene Burtis Brainerd, I Ch. of Pil- grims, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1870 1051 July 3. Frances Jennette Dickinson, m. (1102) 1052 Clarinda Almanza Brainerd, m. F. Prior, I Higganum 1864, ret. 1869 1053 Ellen Elizabeth Wilcox, m. A. O. Smith, to Epis. 1054 Samuel Maverick Kelsey 1055 George Edward Kelsey 1056 James Tully Kelsey, ex. 1886 1057 Simon Gardiner Smith 1058 Ezra Leander Brainerd, I Chicago 1860 1059 Augustus Cone Hutchinson, I Cromwell 1854 1060 Arnold Hazleton Hayden, Dea, 1881- 1885 1061 John Austin Brainerd 1062 David Brainerd Emmons 1063 Hannah Maria Emmons, m. (1141) 1064 Anna Colton Brainerd, m. (1057) 1065 Frances Marsh Hutchinson, m. Rev. E. Baldwin, I Cromwell 1854 1066 Frances Amelia Smith, m. Tyrus Ventres, I Puritan N. Y., 1869 228 B. Ch., Brooklyn, 1902 80 1876 61 1886 60 1888 74 1896 59 1870 56 1892 71 1897 65 1875 51 1891 64 1875 41 1866 31 1869 31 1890 52 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS Died Age 1067 Clarissa May Kelsey, m. (1054) 1888 49 1068 Eliza Whitmore Dickinson (738) 1875 70 1069 Lydia Manila Tyler, m. Chas. A. T. Dickinson 1070 WilUam Hollis Burr 1876 58 1071 Mary Louisa Hubbard, m. C. J. Treat 1072 Leander Clark Lewis, w. 1073 Sept. 4. Ursula Brainerd Hayden, m. (1094), I Hancock, Mich., 1865 1870 31 1854 1074 July 2. Edwin Bidwell, M. D. [Westbrook], I Deep River 1861 1075 Maria Chloe Lee Bidwell (1074) [West- brook], I Deep River 1861 JAMES L. WRIGHT, PASTOR 1855-1871 1857 1076 May 3. Lucy A. North Wright (Rev. James L.) [Burlington], I Glastonbury abt. 1871 1077 Nov. 1. Henry Marvin Smith, to Deep River Bapt. 1865 1858 1078 May 2. Ezra Higgins Williams [M. E.], I Htfd. South Park M. E. 1885 57 1079 Mary Emma DicMnson WiUiams (1078) [M. E.], I 1890 1080 JuUa Sabiii Dickinson (Neh.) [M.E.] 1873 83 1081 Parmelia Brainerd Smith (1087) [M. E.] 1880 64 1082 George Parmalee [M. E.] 1083 Lydia Broolcs Dickinson (Selden) [M. E.] 1885 61 1084 Elizabeth Amelia Dickinson Dickinson (David O.) 1085 Lucretia Day Brainerd, m. Silas Payne, I Portland 1862 1086 Jonathan Hamilton Lee, I 1859 1881 44 1087 Diodate Smith 1891 82 1088 SeUna Ann Tyler 1887 74 229 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Died Age 1089 Rosabel Brainerd, m. Wm. Page, I Stony Creek 1876 1090 Sylvester Erza Brainerd, to Bapt., New Haven, w. 1868 1091 Frances Selden Ventres, m. (1154), I BerUn 2d 1887 1092 Mary Elizabeth Holt Tyler (734) [Chester], I Chester 1868 1898 87 1093 Harriet Hayden Clark 1094 James North Wright, I Hancock, Mich., 1865 1095 Margaret Love Spencer, m. Hiram Patterson 18S6 44 1096 July 4. Nancy Maria Ayres, I Chester 1865 1097 Esther Miranda Dickinson, m. J. F. Hopkins, to Jeff ersonville, Ind., M. E. abt. 1864 1861 1098 Sept. 15. Adelaide Augusta Richards, I Meriden M. E. 1863 1894 50 1862 (probably) 1099 Marion Jerusha Porter Treat (Jos.) [Manchester] 1887 65 1100 Lucy Miranda Balcer Parmalee (1082) [Brattleboro, Vt., M. E.] 1866 1101 May 6. Cyrus Wilson Brainerd, I Florence, Col. Pres. 1898 1102 Nathaniel Tyler 1901 71 1103 Josephine Cordelia Clarlc Russell (1168) 1104 Sophia Dickinson Tyler (Ashbel) 1895 78 1105 Harriet Dickinson, m. Robt. Kerneghen, I 1869 1106 July 1. Margaret Rebecca Smith Smith (Chas. W.) 1894 69 1107 Andrew Jackson Hubbard, to Moodus M. E., w. 1878 1108 Marvin Newton Brainerd, I Southing- ton 1899 1109 Clarence Wilmot Dickinson, I Fairport, Kans., Pres. 1887 230 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS 1110 1111 1112 1113 1114 1115 1116 1117 1118 1119 Died Age Sarah Jane Smith, m. Geo. H. Yale, I Wallingford Epis. 1883 Almira Loiiisa Rogers, m. (1157) Alice Ventres Harriet Newel Wright, m. Howard H. Carter, I Glastonbury 1871 Esther Maria Bliss 1895 63 Sept. 9. Alnora Dickinson, m. (1185), I Mid- dlefield 1888 Josephine Cornelia Walkley, m. H. M. Moore Chauucey Dickinson Alida jane Dickinson, m. Jos. B. Crook, I Chester 1890 Fanny Louisa Hubbard, I Moodus M. E. 1878 1867 1120 May 5. Darius Lugene Dickinson, to Bapt., Meriden, 1868 1869 1120a May 2. Clarinda B. Prior (Fred.), wid. [Hig- ganum], m. E. F. Scranton, I Meriden 1st 1878, ret. 1892, see 1052 1121 Catharine Anna Ventres [Htfd. North] 1871 1122 Eosanna Fidelia Nettleton 41 1870 1123 July 3. Eleanor M. Williams Boylston (John) [Deep River], see 1027 1880 50 1124 Harriet Maria Brainerd, m. Leonard D. Skinner 1125 Joseph John Arnold 1872 22 1126 Gideon Franklin Brainerd, I Htfd. Farm. Av. 1873 1127 Judson Wells Clark 1873 21 1128 Denison WiUiams Clark, I Midtn. 1st 1885 1129 Eva Estella Dickinson, m. (1117) 1130 Sept. 4. Louisa Fidelia Brainerd Clark (H. S.) 1898 55 1131 Davis Tyler Arnold 231 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSAEY Died Age 1132 Alvena Isavene Arnold, m. D. C. Par- malee, I Killing-worth 1876 1133 Oct. 30, Melissa Usher Tyler (1172) [Higga- num] EVEEETT E. LEWIS, PASTOE 1871- 1872 1134 July 5. Everett Edward Lewis, Eev. [E. W. Hill, Theo. Sem.] 1135 Ellen Eurcl Lewis (1134) [Bristol] 1877 37 1873 1136 Mar. 2. Harriet Kelsey Chapman (Jas. A.), wid. [Westbrook] 1879 59 1137 Harriet E. Chapman Smith (Jos.) [Westbrook] 1898 56 1138 Nov. 2. Emily Sophia Diclinson Bass (Newton A.), wid. [Jefifersonville, Ind., M. E.], I same 1881 1899 68 1874 1139 Jan. 4. Catharine Eebecca Kelsey 1875 1140 Jan. 3. Belle Kinner Clark (Edgar E.) [M. Had. 2d] 1141 May 2. Osmer Levi Smith 1883 50 1142 Abbie A. Emmons Smith (1141) [Man- chester M. E.], m. Jos. S. Dickinson 1876 1143 Jan, 2. John Henry Odber, Dea. 1881- 1144 Catharine Elizabeth Burr Odber (1143) 1145 May 7, Edward Clark Arnold 1146 Frank Hubbard Arnold, I Waterbury 2d 1895 1147 Harriet Tyler Arnold, m. (1149), I Broadway Tabernacle, N. Y., 1888 232 HISTORICAL CATALOaUE OF MEMBERS Died Age 1148 William Perkinson Arnold, I Portland 1886 1149 Cephas Brainerd, Jr., I B 'way Taber- nacle, N. Y., 1888 1898 38 1150 Jennette Maria Brainerd, m. Jos. H. Walker 1898 42 1151 Jessie Jedidah Brainerd, m. W. C. Clark 1152 Samuel Richardson Brainerd 1879 82 1153 Susan Buell 1902 58 1154 Henry Hobart Clark, I Berlin 2d 1887 1900 81 1155 Charles Austin Dickinson, I Fairport, Kans., Pres. 1887 1156 Cynthia Ophelia Diclcinson Dickinson (1155), I Fairport, Kans., Pres. 1887 1157 George Albert Dickinson 1158 Hattie Ursula Dickinson, m. (1108), I Southington 1899 1159 Leora Gertrude Dickinson, m. Oscar A. Higgins, I Mich. City, Ind., 1883 3100 Robert Smith Dickinson, I Fairport, Kans., Pres., 1887 1161 Carrile Annabel Dickinson Dickinson (1160) 1880 29 1162 Ella Arnold Hayes (Emlin), wid., m. Rev, W. A. Luce, I Killingly M, E. 1881 1163 George L. Hubbell, I 14th St. Pres., K Y., 1878 1164 Joseph Oliver Perry, I Guilford 3d 1879 1165 Clara Tyler Russell 1901 51 1166 John Chatfield Russell, I Fairport, Kans., Pres., 1887 1167 Helen Augusta Russell, m. (1179), I Waterbury 2d 1895 1168 James Norman Russell 1896 56 1169 Hannah Elizabeth Arnold Russell (John H.) 1878 57 1170 George Z. Skaats, I Guilford 3d 1877 1171 Huldah Ursula Smith 1172 Alpheus WilUams Tyler 1173 Frances Eva Tyler, m. H. W. Slocum 1174 Shailer Brooks Walkley 1175 John Martin IngersoU [Olivet Ch., Spfd., Mass.] 1885 40 1176 Abraham Skaats [Bridgeport 2d], I Guilford 3d 1877 1177 Eliza V. Skaats (1176) [Bridgeport 2d], I Guilford 3d 1877 233 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Died Age 1178 Caroline Cornelia Willard [1st Pres., Po'k'psie, N. Y.], m. S. A, Russell 1179 July 2. Edward Warriner Hazen, I Waterbury 2d 1895 1180 Anna Dickinson, m. W. L. Parmalee, I Killingworth 1877 1181 William Wallace Lawton, w. 1182 Ann Eliza Spencer Spencer (Wm.), I Whitneyville 1895 1183 Henrietta Alice Palmer Spencer (Alvin B.),IW. Had. M. E. 1879 1184 Henry Hubert Brainerd, I Midtn. M. E. 1886 1185 Franklin Wilson Brainerd, I Middle- field 1888 1186 Samuel Tyler 1894 56 1187 Sarah Louisa Arnold Tyler (1186), I Meriden Center Ch. 1897 1188 Allston Wentworth Treat 1877 19 1189 Maria Lavinia Morgan Spencer (Nor- man W.) [E. Hampton], I Whitney- ville 1892 1877 1190 May 6. Ella Spencer Talmadge, I Guilford 3d 1880 1191 Mary Catharine Mutter, m. Wm. H. Kelsey 1879 1192 Feb. 27. Miner Comstock Hazen, M. D. [Bapt.] 1193 Lemira Rachel Judson Hazen (1192) [Bapt.] 1194 Mar. 2. Ann Augusta Smith 1880 1195 May 2. Mary Eliza Hazen, m, (1146), I Water- bury 2d 1895 1196 Warren Tyler, I Bartow, Fla., Pres., 1892 1197 Martha Maria Ventres Shailer (S. W.) 1882 1198 July 2. Sarah A. Hall Graves (Geo. L.) Sel- lew (Sidney), wid. [Platteville, Wis.] 1901 74 234 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS 1883 Died Age 1199 May 6. Armenia Maritta Brainerd [Higga- numj, m. Henry Spencer 1884 1200 July 6. Mary Noyes Tyler, m. Frederick H. Jones, I Wakefield, Mass., 1895 1201 Martha Milner, I Limespring, la., M. E. 1886 1202 John Denison Brainerd, I New Britain South 1893 1203 Irving Tyler Shailer 1204 Ezekiel Shailer 1205 Sept. 7. Rollin Usher Tyler 1885 1206 Jan. 11. William Augustus Kinner [M. Had. 2d], I Univ. PI. Pres., N. Y. 1889, ret. 1899 1207 Aug. 2. Willard Eddy [Hartford 1st] 1208 Sept. 6. Lucy Abigail Hazen 1209 13. Lelia Emma BucTcingham Clark (Dud- ley [Essex] 1897 64 1886 1210 May 2. Ellen Maria Arnold, m. Elwyn T. Clark, I Higganum 1891 1211 George Clark Walkley 1212 Charles Stanton Church 1213 Nov, 7. Sylvia Ann Clark, m. (1206), I Midtn. South 1895, ret. 1899 1887 1214 Jan. 2. Sarah Elma Arnold, m. Wilton A, Taylor 1888 1215 Johanna Schmidt [St. James Ch., Jo- seph Park, Liverpool, Eng.], I Epis. Ch. Ascension, New Haven, 1891 235 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY 1889 Died Age 1216 Jan. 6. Winifred May Lewis 1217 Feb. 28. Martha Harmer [No. N. Y. M. E.], I Trinity M. E., Harlem, 1891 1898 47 1218 May 5. Inez C. Arnold Walkley (1211) [Deep River] 1890 1219 Jan. 5. Justina Bussell Shailer (A. R.) [Had- dam Neck M. E.] 1220 May 4. Sophia Smith Shailer 1898 88 1892 1221 July 3. Clarinda B. Wallace (E. B.) [Mt. Car- mel], see 1052 and 1120a 1893 1222 Nov. 5. Annie Wearing Groves Kelsey (Benj. W.) [Central M. E., Brooklyn, N. Y.] 1895 1223 May 12. Selden WiUiams Tyler [Andover, Mass., Theo. Sem. Ch.] 1224 July 7. Ella Maude Lawrence Hayden (Ran- dolph) 1897 1225 Jan. 3. Ada Maria Stebbins, m. Edw. L. Ferree, I Midtn. 1st 1898 1226 Myrtle Tryon Arnold (H. W.) [Cen- terbrook] 1227 May 2. Ephraim Pierson Arnold 1228 Sarah Hettie Arnold Arnold (1227) [Had. Neck M. E.] 1229 Mary Alena Eussell Arnold (Phil. C.) 1230 Samuel Arnold 1231 Harriet Baldwin Brainerd Arnold (1230) [Had. Neck M. E.] 1232 John Austin Brainerd 1233 Frederic Augustus Tiffany Qark 1234 Belle Dickinson 236 HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS Died Age 1235 Elsie Hadassah Dickinson, m. (1204) 1236 Ella Jane Kelsey 1237 Frederick William Kelsey 1238 Catharine Cook Russell 1239 Carrie Elizabeth Shailer 1240 Frederick Freeman Smith 1241 Lida Amelia Stebbins, m. J. D. Kelsey 1242 Clara Jedidah Brainerd Tyler (E. C.) 1243 July 4. Minnie Laura Shailer 1244 Bertha Elsie Moore, I BerHn 2d 1902 1899 1245 Sept. 10. WilUam A. Kinner [Midtn. South], see 1206 1246 Sylvia A. ClarJc Kinner (1245) [Midtn. South], see 1213 237 ALPHABETICAL INDEX The number after each name refers to the number prefixed to that name in the Catalogue. Aekley, Delia B., 727 Ailing, Rhoda A., 81 Andrews, Chauncey, 436 Fanny, 479 Arnold, Abigail A., 891 Alice S., 547 Alvena I., 1132 Ambrose, 262 Amni S., 343 Anna, 617 Davis T., 1131 Ediatha, 639 Edward C, 1145 EUzabeth, 412 Ellen M., 1210 Ephraim P., 1227 Frank H., 1146 Gideon, 18 Harriet T., 1147 Harriet B., 1231 Horace, 684 James, 189 Jerusha A., 965 Joseph, 4 Joseph J., 1125 Joshua, 16 Lydia B., 625 Martha, 93 Martha M., 746 Mary, 190 Mary S., 248 Mary S., 418 Mary H., 1195 Mary Alena R., 1229 Myrtle T., 1226 Nancy T., 1034 Arnold, Prudah S., 457 Prudence R., 223 Samuel, 174 Samuel, 1230 Sarah T., 41 Sarah, 67 Sarah, 314 Sarah, 390 Sarah E., 1214 Sarah H., 1228 Seth, 442 Submit B., 443 Susan B., 650 Susanna, 469 Sylvia W., 685 Sylvia, 966 Ursula S., 657 William P., 1148 Atwater, Mary B., 820 Augur, Eunice, 272 Eunice T., 287 Isaac, 286 John B., 873 Joseph, 339 Austin, Drusilla B., 593 Ayres, Nancy D., 953 Nancy M., 1096 B Babcock, Maria B., 954 Bailey, Anna, 132 Benjamin, 56 EUzabeth C, 142 Esther, 53 Eunice C, 138 Experience S., 647 238 ALPHABETICAL INDEX jsaiiey, ueorge li., 'oo7 George E., 735 Hannah S., 266 Hannah D., 743 Jemima B., 692 John, 52 John, 195 Lucy S., 832 Lydia S., 291, 503 Martha ±\, 334 Mary S., 418 Mary, 504 Nancy T., 843 Polly L., 757 Sarah S., 74 Stephen, 137 Sylvia L., 862 Temperance, 263 Zeruiah P., 422 Baldwin, Frances H., 1065 Barker, JuKa B., 694 Barry, Amelia S., 994 Elizabeth Ann, 1011 Samuel, 565 Bartlett, Isaac, 151 Temperance H., 527 Bass, Emily D., 1138 Bates, David, 240 Eunice H., 297 Hannah W., 250 Hannah S., 306 Martha B., 574 Solomon, 29 Thomas, 226 Mrs. Thomas, 227 Beers, Freelove, 988 Bevin, Mary, 342 Bidwell, Edwin, 1074 Esther B., 225 Maria L., 1075 Bliss, Esther M., 1114 Boardman, Abigail S., 328 EUzabeth D., 586 Esther S., 242 Jonathan, 169 Luther, 490 Sarah S., 92 Sarah E., 489 Watson L., 564 Zeruiah, 170 lionfoey, Amelia M., 956 Amelia, 990 Asahel, 781 Chauncey, 830 Concurrence S., 407 David, 709 DoUy B., 408 Eliza, 661 Elorilla, 989 Jerusha T., 955 Maria S., 954 Susanna, 218 Bowers, Dolly S., 608, 760 HoweU, 759 Boyd, Susanna, 124 Boylston, Eleanor W., 1027, 1123 Brackett, Ann H., 1007 Mary, 897 Bradford, Joseph, 168 Lydia C, 146 Brainerd, Aaron, 385 Abigail T., 247 Abigail, 520 Abigail, 634 Abigail B., 696 Abigail T., 998 Alanson P., 795 Almira C, 991 Alnora D., 1115 Alvin, 754 Amanda, 1033 Amelia, 875 AmeUa B., 990 Ana H., 590 Ann M., 1035 Anna C, 1064 Ansel, 761 Ansel, 770 Armenia M., 1199 Asa, 736 Betsey A., 931 Caleb, 780 Calvin, 635 Cephas, 1149 Charles S., 968 Clarinda A., 1052 Clarissa, 594 Clarissa T., 916 Cornelia, 957 239 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Brainerd, Cornelia A., 1032 Cynthia V., 1041 Cyprian S., 882 Cyrus W,, 1101 Daniel, 1 Daniel, 12 Daniel, 292 Daniel, 524 David, 329 Davis S., 867 Deantheum H., 855 Delia, 727 Dolly, 408 Dolly, 576 Dorothy, 224 Dorothy T., 545 Drusilla, 593 E. Burtis, 1050 Eleazer, 460 Eliakim, 212 Eliakim, 404 Elijah, 54 Elijah, 147 Elijah, 796 Elisha, 129 Eliza S., 501 Elizabeth F., 30 Elizabeth, 90 Elizabeth J., 281 Elizabeth, 437 Elizabeth, 505 Elizabeth P., 755 Elizabeth H., 932 Elizabeth S., 936 Ellen v., 1046 Elliot, 610 Emma, 920 Esther, 66 Esther B., 149 Esther, 434 Esther T., 753 Esther K., 771 Esther H., 834 Esther S., 876 Eveline H., 1023 Ezra, 969 Ezra L., 1058 Fanny H., 435 Fanny S., 525 Fanny S., 626 Brainerd, Fanny S., 814 Fiske, 456 Florilla H., 883 Franklin W., 1185 George S., 851 Gideon, 172 Gideon, 203 Gideon, 355 Gideon, 776 Gideon F., 1126 Hannah C, 131 Hannah H., 324 Hannah W., 330 Hannah D., 701 Harriet M., 1124 Harriet A., 1147 Hattie U., 1158 Heber, 441 Heman, 309 Henry H., 1184 Hepzibah S., 201 Hepzibah H., 543 Hepzibah, 592 Hezekiah, 50 Hezekiah, 280 Huldah B., 925 Ira S., 1044 Jabez, 130 James, 5 James, 17 Jane S., 542 Jemima, 403 Jemima, 741 Jennette V., 1029 Jennette M., 1150 Jeremiah, 340 Jerusha T., 105 Jerusha B., 703 Jessie J., 1151 John, 323 John A., 1061 John D., 1202 John A., 1232 Joshua, 866 Josiah, 19 Lavinia S., 800 Lois S., 351 Lois, 970 Lucretia D., 1085 Lucy S., 148 240 ALPHABETICAL INDEX Brainerd, Lney S., 405 Lucy S., 414 Lucy S., 750 Lyclia C, 146 Lydia, 625 Margaret B., 702 Maritta, 762 Martha H., 194 Martha T., 544 Martha H., 763 Martha E., 868 Martha E., 1042 Marvin N., 1108 — Mary F., 51 Mary H., 271 Mary S., 418 Mary B., 507 Mary Emma, 1006 Mary, 1008 - Mary L., 1012 Mehitable C, 230 Miriam, 591 Nancy S., 921 Nathan, 21 Nehemiah, 208 Oliver, 322 Orpha C, 552 Phebe D., 55 Philinda, 585 Phineas, 104 Prosper, 506 Eebecca B., 426 Kebecca, 896 Eosabel, 1089 Euth S., 508 SaUy D,, 712 Sally P., 797 Samuel, 63 Samuel E., 1152 Sarah D., 72 Sarah S., 173 Sarah E., 204 Sarah B., 209 Sarah, 255 Sarah A., 390 Sarah B., 509 Sarah D., 850 Sarah A., 88& Sarah L., 1031 Susan, 728 16 Brainerd, Susanna C, 293 Sylvester D.. 947 Sylvester, 967 Sylvester E., 1090 Sylvia A., 966 Thankful B., 58 Tyrus, 854 Ursula, 595 Ursula, 638 Ursula, 1009 Zachariah, 229 Zeruiah, 573 Briggs, Lucy B., 807 Brooks, Abigail C, 541 Catharine, 582 Esther B., 225 Eunice T., 805 Hannah, 396 Hannah S., 471 Hannah W., 633 Hannah, 806 Hezekiah C, 859 Hiram, 775 James, 459 James, 555 Jemima T., 674 Joseph, 98 Joseph, 383 Joshua, 192 JuUa, 694 Lamira D., 1037 Lucy A., 807 Lydia, 478 Martha, 574 Mary W., 197 Mary G., 808 Mary E,, 820 Mary W., 888 Mary S., 919 Milton, 928 Eosanna B., 904 Sarah B., 889 Stephen, 528 Susan, 395 Thomas, 2 Thomas, 48 Wakeman, 196 ' Wealthy S., 529 "Wealthy A., 575 Brown, Martha, 221 241 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVERSARY Brofni, Sarah S.. 907 Buell, Susan, 1153 BuU, Lucy C, 903 Burr, Amelia B., 956 Antoinette H., 995 Bela, 826 Cyntliia T., 670 Electa, 841 Eliza B., 661 Eliza G., 944 Elizabeth T., 911' Esther S., 455 Hannah, 842 Irena H., 829 Jonathan, 353 Jonathan, 782 Joseph, 748 Lydia B., 354 Margaret D., 987 Mary K., 302 Nathaniel, 356 Rebecca B., 896 William H., 1070 Butler, Eveline, 658 Hannah B., 668 Lueinthia, 1003 Ulysses, 697 Mrs. Ulysses, 698 Button, Clarissa, 580 Campbell, Gould, 909 Sarah, 910 Carter, Dan, 416 Orpha A., 742 Harriet W., 1113 Catlin, Amelia S., 922 Benjamin H., 783 Chambers, Naomi, 369 Chapman, Ellen T., 986 Harriet K., 1136 Olive B., 729 Chase, Anna, 365 Child, AmeUa, 872 Betsey C, 878 Beulah, 722 Concurrence W., 756 Cynthia, 672 Child, Fanny C, 812 George G., 567 Heman, 624 James K., 708 Jane S., 542 Sally T., 546 Chittenden, Eoxanna H., 577 Christopher, 87 Church, Charles S., 1212 Dolly T., 413 Sally P., 480 Samuel, 260 Sarah H., 261 Sarah S., 540 Thomas, 127 Clark, Almira M., 908 Ann, 913 Anna, 410 Anne J., 321 BeUe K., 1140 Betsey, 462 Candace A., 477 Catharine S., 641 Christiana B., 318 Cynthia, 445 Daniel, 140 Deborah L., 228 Denison W., 1128 Dolly, 391 DoUy S., 402 DoUy, 579 Dudley, 716 Elisha, 768 Elizabeth A., 60 Elizabeth, 106 Elizabeth, 264 EUzabeth A., 596 Elizabeth, 669 Elizabeth A., 809 EUzabeth C, 971 EUen A., 1210 Emily S., 733 Esther B., 352 Ezekiel S., 693 Frances V., 1091 Frederic A., 1233 George, 732 Harriet, 583 Harriet, 902 Harriet H., 1093 242 ALPHABETICAL INDEX Clark, Henry H., 1154 Hezekiah, 337 Huldah S., 695 Jacob, 88 James, 496 Jessie B., 1151 Judith S., 57 Judith C, 303 Judson W., 1127 Julia H., 454 Lelia B., 1209 Louisa B., 1130 Lucinda A., 869 Lucy S., 769 Maria F., 612 Martha C, 282 Martha M., 691 Martha S., 819 Mary W., 275 Mary A., 666 Mary A., 747 Mary C, 1040 Mehitable, 49 Mehitable, 82 Michael, 59 Nancy, 578 Susanna, 77 Susanna, 115 Sylvanus, 401 Sylvanus, 623 Sylvia A., 1213 Thankful, 78 Thomas H., 858 Widow, 345 "William, 320 Cogswell, Eobert, 121 Sarah B., 122 Cone, Caleb, 73 Clarissa, 588 Comfort, 563 Daniel, 7 Daniel, 11 Elisha, 47 EUzabeth A., 971 Hannah C, 368 Huldah S., 510 Jemima, 803 Joseph, 45 Margaret D., 463 Martha B,, 307 Cone, Mary A., 919 Polly E., 861 Euth, 177 Susanna W., 46 Susanna C, 645 Wealthy B., 575 Cook, Abigail B., 885 Ansel B., 972 Caroline C, 1016 Catharine C, 1017 Ebeuezer, 915 Louisa E., 905 Martha S., 1038 Mary H., 941 Nathaniel, 929 Willard, 884 Cooper, Dorothy T., 726 Cowdry, Dyer, 679 Crittenden, HopestiU, 116 Crook, Alida D., 1118 Esther C, 346 Eunice, 511 Hannah, 133 Hannah B., 806 Jemima B., 403 Phebe C, 347 Cunningham, Nancy S., 886 D Day, Elizabeth B., 1011 Dean, Ithiel, 135 Dickinson, Abbie E., 1142 Alida J., 1118 Almira E., 1111 Alnora, 1115 Anna B., 486 Anna A., 617 Anna H., 711 Anna, 1180 Arza, 847 Azariah, 42 Belle, 1234 Carrile A., 1161 Charles, 874 Charles A., 1155 Chauncey A., 738 Chauncey, 1117 Christiana C, 630 Clarence W., 1109 243 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Dickinson, Clarissa H., 958 Cynthia O., 1156 Daniel C, 629 Darius, 710 Darius L., 1120 David, 420 David, 713 Dorothy S., 311 EUza W., 1068 Elizabeth, 586 EUzabeth D., 1084 Elsie H., 1235 Erastus S., 1047 Esther B., 44 Esther T., 964 Esther B., 1048 Esther M., 1097 Eva E., 1129 Frances J., 1051 George A., 1157 Hannah, 743 Harriet, 1105 Harvey, 1045 Hattie U., 1158 Jemima B., 403 Jerusha A., 965 John, 749 JuUa S., 1080 Lamira, 1037 Leora G., 1159 Lois C, 421 Louisa S., 663 Lydia T., 1069 Lydia B., 1083 Margery M., 813 Mary, 126 Mary, 587 Mary E., 720 Mary E., 816 Mehitable K., 299 Nathan T., 802 Nehemiah, 43 Phebe C, 848 Robert S., 1160 Sally M., 712 Sarah V., 1028 Susan, 656 Susanna, 686 Susanna T., 719 Ursula T., 985 Doane, Eunice P., 512 Martha A., 276 Dudley, Mary S., 84 Dunham, Elizabeth S., 1013 Dye, Martha C, 819 E Eddy, Willard, 1207 Ellis, Patience, 162 Samuel, 89 Elton, Susan B., 728 Ely, Anna C, 632 EUzabeth C, 740 Hannah, 745 John, 642 Martha, 973 Sarah, 252 Emmons, Da\id B., 1062 Hannah E., 745 Hannah M., 1063 Julia K., 978 Maria T., 687 Ensign, Elizabeth H., 1002 F Ferguson, John, 1049 Ferree, Ada S., 1225 Field, Henry M., 946 Submit D., 366, 927 Fiske, John, 22 Lydia P., 65 Sarah, 23 Flagg, Dolly, 912 Josiah, 777 SaUy, 778 Freeman, Florilla B., 989 Hester B., 731 Luther, 730 G Gates, George, 6 Jeremiah, 488 Joseph, 9 Thomas, 10 244 ALPHABETICAL INDEX Gladding, Betsey B., 931 Gladwin, Ann, 764 Elizabeth, 937 Gideon, 611 Gilbert S., 975 James, 636 James, 676 Laura K., 653 Lydia L., 605 Maritta, 762 Margaret T., 637 Melantha, 863 Nancy, 659 EusseU, 853 Orpha M., 974 Sabra B., 467 Sarah E., 959 Selden, 604 Silas, 997 Susan D., 656 Tamzon E., 976 Timothy, 417 Willard, 620 Goff, Mary S., 500 Goslee, Martha H., 763 Gossett, Fanny T., 725 Graham, George W., 1000 Mary D,, 1001 Grannis, David, 556 Lowly, 498 Gratrax, Mary, 411 Guy, Elizabeth B., 911 Nancy B., 921 Griswold, Lois C, 421 H Hall, Alexander W., 892 Mary W., 887 Matilda, 900 Hamlin, Chester, 752 Eveline B., 658 Hancock, Susan B., 728 Harmer, Martha, 1217 Hart, Harriet K., 1005 Hayden, Ann L., 1007 Arnold H., 562 Arnold H., 1060 Ella L., 1224 Hayden, Nancy W., 1030 Eoxanna, 577 Thalia N., 699 Ursula B., 595 Ursula B., 1073 Hayes, Ella A., 1162 Miranda S., 794 Theodore D., 943 Hazen, Edward W., 1179 Helen E., 1167 Lemira J., 1193 Lucy A., 1208 Mary E., 1195 Miner C, 1192 Hazleton, Amelia B., 939 Brittania C, 649 Charles, 83 Elizabeth J,, 1002 Fanny, 435 Frances M., 940 James, 117 Jedidah, 584 Jemima H., 942 Hannah, 409 Sarah S., 406 Simon, 648 Susanna A., 91 Sydney S., 680 Higgins, Asa, 683 Cornelius, 96 Cornelius, 370 David, 310 Eleanor H., 249 Esther K., 371 FiUofeete, 655 Hawes, 269 Jesse, 446 Leora D., 1159 Lucinda B., 270 Lucinthia S., 484 Lydia S,, 615 Mary T., 179 Mary S., 682 Sarah H., 97 Winslow, 614 Hill, Martha A., 746 Holt, Fanny T., 725 Hopkins, Esther D., 1097 Hoyt, Experience A., 86 Hubbard, Alice (or Else) S. 62 245 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVEESARY Hubbard, Andrew J., 1107 Ann C, 144 Anthea, 835 Antoinette M., 995 Armenia M., 823 Catharine, 429 Clarissa B., 580 Damaris W., 278 Daniel, 290 David, 513 David C, 526 Dolly, 836 Edmund, 821 EU, 430 Emma B., 920, 996 Esther W., 833 Esther M., 834 Eunice C, 265 Fanny L., 1119 Flora H., 297b Hancy, 452 Hannah B., 396 Hannah C, 514 Harriet, 837 Hepzibah S., 233 Hepzibah B., 592 Irena, 829 James, 232 Jeremiah, 61 Jeremiah, 297a Job, 497 Job, 613 Joel, 143 John O., 824 Joseph B,, 787 Julia, 45-^ Martha E., 973 Michael, 948 Miriam, 360 Miriam, 450 Mary W., 246 Mary H., 384 Mary S., 839 Mary L., 1071 Eebecca B., 327 Ehoda, 453 Euth, 515 Sally, 451 Samuel, 236 Sarah C, 112 Hubbard, Sarah S., 237 Sarah B., 268 Sarah B., 288 Shailer, 359 Simeon H., 856 Susanna, 516 Temperance S., 110 Temperance H., 527 Thomas, 165 Wealthy S., 652 William, 906 Hubbell, George L., 1163 Hull, Lorinda, 654 Marietta, 822 Nathaniel, 427 Polly S., 444, 482 Sally T., 428 Huntington, Abigail G., 494 Abigail, 495 Ann J., 704 Cynthia, 363 Cynthia, 933 Elizabeth C, 810 Elizabeth, 932 Jennette M., 901 Jonathan, 362 Jonathan, 627 Jonathan, 857 Josiah, 243, 493 Ehoda L., 244 Selden, 622 Sarah, 811 Hurd, Elizabeth B., 1011 Hutchinson, Augustus C, 1059 Eveline, 1023 Frances M., 1065 Ira, 852 Laura D., 1021 Lucinthia C, 675 Lucinthia, 1003 Ingersoll, John M., 1175 J Jones, Mary T., 1200 Johnson, Elizabeth P., 184 246 ALPHABETICAL INDEX Johnson, Hannah, 183 ■^ Mary S., 150 Eichard, 118 Eichard, 210 Knowles, William, 485 William, 502 K Kapple, Dolly C, 579 Kelly, John, 333 Kelsey, Annie G., 1222 Benjamin, 566 Catharine E., 1139 Clarissa M., 779 Clarissa M., 1067 Electa, 977 Ella J., 1236 Eunice T., 799 Ezra, 425 Frederick W., 1237 George, 798 George E., 1055 Iluldah A., 1010 James T., 1056 Jerusha B., 481 John, 918 Julia, 978 Lida S., 1241 Mary C, 747 Mary, 1004 Mary M., 1191 Philinda B., 585 Eebecca S., 597 Sally H., 451 Samuel M., 1054 Susan, 1036 Susanna S., 473 Zillah C, 640 Kerneghen, Harriet D., 1105 Ivinner, Sylvia C, 1213, 1246 William A., 1206, 1245 Kirtland, Adelaide, 1014 Harriet, 1005 Knowles, Achsah H., 828 David B., 893 Laura, 653 Lydia B., 517 Eichard, 231 Euel, 827 Wells, 609 Lane, Larissa E., 440 Lawton, William W., 1181 Lay, Nancy S., 724 Lee, Amzi, 621 Jonathan H., 1086 Leonard, Asenath B., 1018 Lewis, Abigail T., 247 Deborah, 159 Ellen H., 1135 Everett E., 1134 John, 158 Leander C, 1072 Nathan, 259 Polly, 757 Euth v., 85 Sarah A., 107 Winifred M., 1216 Lord, Hope E., 801 Loveland, Clarissa C, 588 Luce, Ella A,, 1162 M Marsh, Frances T., 758 Mather, Catharine B., 582 William E., 717 Matthew, Nathaniel, 789 May, Dorothy, 470 EUzabeth C, 596 Emma E., 923 John, 561 Margaret D., 463 McKane, Anthea H., 835 Merwin, Martha S., 251 Tamzon B., 999 Milner, Martha, 1201 Miner, Dorothy B., 224 Mitchell, Asa, 785 Moore, Bertha E., 1244 Josephine W., 1116 Morgan, Daniel, 570 Mutter, Mary C, 1191 247 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY N Nettleton, Rosanna F., 1122 Newton, Cynthia H., 933 Nichols, Henry, 424 North, Orpha G., 974 Noyes, Esther W., 804, 945 Odber, Catharine B., 1144 John H., 1143 Page, Rosabel B., 1089 Pardee, Sylvia A., 966 Parker, Amelia H., 939 Parmalee, Alvena A., 1132 Ann C, 913 Anna D., 1180 Benjamin, 386 Cynthia C, 445 George, 1082 Jennette M., 651 Jennette M., 960 Lucy B., 1100 Mary, 895 Priscilla, 468 Parsons, Lucy W., 646 Patten, Armenia H., 823 Patterson, Margaret S., 1095 Payne, Lucretia B., 1085 Pelton, Electa B., 841 Lydia S., 503 Ruth J., 296 Penfield, Azuba A., 521 Perry, Joseph O., 1164 Phelps, Mary D., 587 Pickett, Sarah C, 277 Porter, Abigail, 79 Abner, 160 Ann, 161 Sarah, 181 Post, Willard, 823 Pratt, Beulah W., 153 David, 447 Elizabeth B., 437 Pratt, Ephraim, 152 Orpha C, 742 Prior, Clarinda B., 1052, 1120a B Randall, Eunice, 767 Jonathan, 766 Ranney, Ephraim, 175 Silence W., 139 Ray, Abigail H., 254 Dimmis D., 849 Flora F., 1025 Hancy S., 846 James, 38 James, 845 Larissa, 440 Martha, 101 Nathaniel, 256 Phebe, 245 Samuel, 241 Sarah T., 554 Susanna A., 367 Reed, Caroline U., 815 Elizabeth T., 938 Rich, Harriet C, 902 Richards, Adelaide A., 1098 Rockwell, Lueinda C, 869 Rogers, Alniira L., 1111 Cornelia B., 957 Elihu B., 1039 Russell, Caroline W., 1178 Catherine C, 1238 Clara T., 1163 Hannah B., 308 Hannah A., 1169 Helen A., 1167 James N., 1168 John C, 1166 Josephine C, 1103 Rutty, Ana B., 590 Edward, 631 Elizabeth, 961 Esther B., 962 S Sabin, Justin, 568 Sayre, Cynthia H., 363 248 ALPHABETICAL INDEX Sclimidt, Johanna, 1215 Scovil, Amy, 14 Benjamin, 13 Catharine, 344 Dorothy, 311 Elizabeth S., 336 Elizabeth T., 938 Frances, 186 Hannah S., 36 Hannah B., 607 Hannah, 963 John, 335 Joseph, 331 Josiah, 185 Martha, 134 Mary C, 319 Samuel, 128 Sarah S., 332 Sarah, 358 Tamzon G., 976 ■WilUam, 35 Scranton, Albert, 980 Jlargeryv-D., 813 William, 487 Sears, Charles, 193 Charles, 316 Diana S., 317 Sarah. C, 277 Selden, Clark, 432 Edward, 349 Elizabeth W., 433 Sibyl M., 350 Sibyl, 364 Silence F., 102 Selkirk, Mary D., 816 Sellew, Sarah H., 1198 Shailer, Alva, 707 Anna S., 476 Bezaleel, 304 Carrie E., 1239 Catharine, 28 Elsie D., 1235 Ezekiel, 1204 Fanny B., 626 Fiske, 718 Hannah, 125 Hannah D., 301 Henry L., 737 Huldah K., 1010 Ira, 598 ohailer, Irving T., 1203 Jerusha B., 207 Joseph, 560 Justina E., 1219 Larissa, 723 Laura B., 772 Martha W., 80 Martha V., 1197 Mary, 37 Mary S., 84 Mary A., 744 Minnie L., 1243 Nancy, 724 Nancy, 886 Sophia S., 1220 Susanna C, 267 Susanna B., 305 Sherman, Lydia, 739 Simmons, Helen S., 300 Simons, Hancy H., 452 Skaats, Abraham, 1176 Eliza v., 1177 George Z., 1170 Skinner, Alfred, 559 Almira, 688 Caroline, 1015 Charlotte H., 894 Chauncey D., 765 - Dolly, 817 - Elizabeth E., 774 - Elizabeth, 1013-- Eunice H., 415- Hannah B., 842 - Harriet B., 1124 ~ Martha B., 465 - Mary S., 818 - Orrin, 677 Eichard, 464 -^ Selden, 773 - Sibyl, 689 - Thomas, 461- Slocum, Frances T., 1173 Smith, Aaron, 643 Abbie E., 1142 Abigail, 120 Abigail S., 220 Abigail, 628 Abigail D., 890 Abner, 238 Ann H., 295 249 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSAEY Smith, Ann A., 1194 Anna, 114 Anna C, 389 Anna B., 1064 Ansel, 678 Asenath B., 393 Benjamin, 25 Benjamin, 68 Benjamin, 791 Beulah, 664 Charles, 213 Catharine, 156 Curtis, 392 David, 145 Davis, 786 Deborah S.. 95 Diodate, 1087 Dolly, 608 Ebenezer, 15 Ebenezer, 20 Edwin A., 864 Edwin, 881 Eliphalet, 914 Elizabeth C, 34 Elizabeth W., 39 Elizabeth L., 75 Elizabeth, 936 Ellen W., 1053 Emily, 935 Esther, 242 Eunice C, 180 Florilla, 581 Frances A., 1066 Frederick F., 1240 Hannah B., 26 Hannah C, 368 Hannah E., 1063 Harriet, 671 Harriet H., 837 Harriet C, 1137 Hazael, 448 Henry, 602 Henry M., 1077 Hepzibah, 69 Hezekiah B., 572 Huldah B., 553 Huldah, 695 Huldah U., 1171 Irwin W., 831 Jemima H., 449 Smith, John, 155 John, 171 John, 388 Jonathan, 690 Joseph, 33 Laura D., 838 Laura P., 1020 Lavinia, 800 Lewis, 294 Linus B., 930 Lois, 351 Louisa D., 663 Lucinthia B., 879 Lucy S., 533 Lucy A., 832 Lydia C, 146 Lydia B., 792 Margaret, 253 Margaret S., 1106 Mariam, 662 Martha, 70 Martha W,, 109 Martha B., 868 Marvin, 1026 Mary, 76 Mary T., 179 Mary H., 202 Mary W., 214 Mary A., 500 Mary A., 839 Mary Y., 880 Mehitable K., 239 Miranda A., 794 Nathan, 178 Olive, 394 Oliver P., 571 Orpha I., 665 Orriu, 530 Osnier L., 1141 Parmelia B., 1081 Phebe C, 934 Polly, 444 Polly H., 499 Rebecca B., 518 Rebecca S., 548 Rebecca, 597 Rhoda B., 531 Rowena P., 793 Samuel, 113 Samuel, 532 250 ALPHABETICAL INDEX Smith, Sarah, 74 Sarah S., 92 Sarah T., 211 Sarah M., 907 Sarah J., 1110 Sibyl B., 491 Sibyl S., 689 Simon G., 1057 Sophia G., 865 Stephen, 94 Stephen, 108 Stephen, 361 Susanna T., 312 Susanna, 419 Sylvia S., 603 Thankful, 589 Thomas C, 667 Ursula, 657 "Wealthy C, 877 Williams, 119 Snow, Asenath F., 1019 Southmayd, Sally B., 797 Spencer, Abigail, 111 Abigail H., 157 ^Abner, 273 Amy Ann, 979 Ann E., 1182 Anna, 423 Armenia B., 1199 Benjamin, 176 Benjamin, 215 Daniel, 141 David, 103 Deborah, 27 Deborah C, 274 ^' Desire B., 472 Desire S., 844 Dorothy S., 216 Else P., 199 Elizabeth C, 142 Elizabeth, 167a Elizabeth, 438 Elizur, 700 Esther, 455 Eunice A., 272 Eunice C, 285 Felix M., 917 Henrietta P., 1183 Hezekiah, 341 Huldah, 840 Spencer, Jeremiah, 99 Joel (or Jared), 167 Margaret L., 1095 Maria M., 1189 Martha T., 439 Mary W., 888 Phineas, 64 Eebecea B., 123 Eowena S., 793 Sarah, 326 Sarah G., 959 William, 8 Stannard, Nathan E., 790 Stanton, Cynthia C, 1043 Stebbins, Ada M., 1225 Lida A., 1241 Stevens, Adelaide K., 1014 Anne, 375 Anne, 377 Chauncey, 483 Elisha, 376 Hubbell, 374 Lydia, 284 Martha, 660 Stilwell, Jennette P., 960 Sutlief, Eunice, 992 John, 283 Nathaniel, 136 Swan, Albert O., 981 Hurlburt, 784 James H., 949 Nancy C, 578 T Tallman, Frances H., 940 Talmadge, Ella S., 1190 Taylor, Elizabeth, 313 Sarah A., 1214 Thomas, Abigail B., 198 Abigail, 474 Anne S., 325 Azuba A., 521 Clarissa, 466 Clarissa, 999a Daniel, 536 Ebenezer, 279 Ebenezer, 431 James, 644 251 IIADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEliSAKY Thomap, LyalH, Abm-r, 289 Cyntliia, (570 Kbcr, 298 Jc'inirna, G74 Lydia S., 503 Martha B., 379 Nancy, 843 Phebe T., (573 Stephen, 378 Towner, Harriet S., 671 Timothy, 206 Treadwell, Mary S., 348 Treat, Allnton W., 1188 Marion P., 1099 Mary H., 1071 Nancy B., 1024 Turner, Danfortli, 924 Drusilhi B., 982 Tyler, Abif^ail D,, 205 Abraham, 40 AlpheuH VV., 1172 ArclielauH, 534 Bethia \i., 721 Christopher, 950 Clara B., 1242 Daniel C, 899 David, 860 Deborah D., 523 Dorothy, 726 Ellen, 986 Esther 1)., 357 Esther S., 600 Esther, 601 Esther II., 606 Esther M., 964 Ezra, 222 Eanny, 725 Frances D., 1051 Frances E., 1173 Hannah S., 535 Hannah S., 963 Harriet C, 583 Harriet S., 715 Tyler, Jedidah T., 200 Lydia C, 219 Lydia M., 1069 Maria, 687 Mary, 315 Mary H., 1092 Mary N., 1200 Melissa U., 1133 Moses, 522 Nancy, 983 Nancy, 1();{4 Nathan, 599 Nathaniel, 1102 Polly L., 757 Prudence R., 223 Rachel P., 182 Rollin U., 1205 Sabra C, 681 Sal^ra U., 984 Samuel, 734 Samuel, 1186 Sarah R., 619 Sarah A., 1187 Selden, 618 Selden W., 1223 Selina A., 1(J88 Sophia D., 1104 Timotliy, 191 Timothy, 714 Ursula, 985 Warren, 1196 U Usher, Caroline M., 815 Ventres, Abiel, 32 Alice, 1112 Catharine A., 1121 Clarissa B., 594 David B., 951 Ebenezer, 31 Elizabeth A., 164 Ellen J., 1 046 Frances S., 1066 Frances S., 1091 262 ALPHABETICAL INDEX Ventres, Hannali E., 475 Henry A., 1022 Jedidah D., 926 Jennette T., 1029 John, 3 John, 163 Sarah A., 1028 W Walker, Jennette B., 1150 Walkley, David, 382, 458 Drnsilla S., 398 Esther I., 804, 945 Eunice T., 805 George C, 1211 Hannah, 400 Inez A., 1218 James, 380 Josephine C, 1116 Lydia S., 381 Mary H., 550 Mary A., 887 Prudence H., 539 Eebecca H., 235 Eebecca, 399 Sarah C, 112 Sarah P., 706 Shailer B., 1174 Simon, 397 Solomon, 234 Solomon, 538 Timothy, 705 Wallace, Ann B., 1035 Clarinda B., 1221 Ward, Levi, 372 Mehitable H., 373 Warner, Lucinthia C, 675 Mary C, 747 Watrous, Sabra T., 984 Webb, Lydia S., 503 Wells, Ann B., 519 Joseph, 166 Alary, 71 Oliver, 338 Eebecca, 24 West, Oliver, 558 Wheeler, Lucy, 646 White, Laura D., 871 William, 870 Whiting, Joseph, 952 Whitmore, Nathaniel, 154 Whittlesey, John, 387 Wickham, Orrin O., 898 Wilcox, Anne S., 188 Ellen E., 1053 Iluldah S., 840 John, 187 Willard, Caroline C, 1016 Caroline C, 1178 Williams, Eleanor M., 1027, 1123 Ezra H., 1078 Mary A., 888 Mary E., 1079 Mehitable D., 751 Nancy A., 1030 Wright, Harriet N., 1113 James N., 1094 Jesse D., 492 Lucy N., 1076 Ursula H., 1073 Yale, Sarah S., 1110 Young, Almorin, 788 Asa, 616 Hannah F., 258 James, 257 Sarah, 551 253 BAPTISMS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS A CAREFULLY prepared copy of the Vjaptisms, marriages and deaths till about 1850, taken from the existing records of the church, is given in the following pages. No attempt is made to preserve the form of the records or theii* arrangement on the page. For convenience of reference the dates are uniformly arranged, present abhreviutiona and ])unctuation being used. Speciid care is given to making tlie names a literal transcript of the original entries. Brackets [ ] inclose information not found in the records and, occasionally, corrections of manifest errors. A few bap- tisms of persons from Haddam previous to 1756, copied from tlie records of neighboring churches, are prefixed to the list. BAPTISMS From the Becords of the First Church of Christ at Middletown, organized on the 4th of the 9th month (Nov. 4, 0. S.), 166S. Mch. 1, 1669: Being the Lord's Day, Hannah Bate daughter to Mr. Bate of Thirty Mile Island (alas Haddum) Mrs. Bate being a member of and in full communion with the Church of Christ at Dorchester received the Innitiatory Seale of ye Covenant by virtue of Communion of Churches. 14, 11th: 71. Being the Lord's Day Abraham Diball sonne of Goodman Dibiall of Haddam received ye Initiatory seal of ye covenant by virtue of Communion of Churches ye mother being a member in full communion with the Church of Christ at Farm- ington. 2-4-72 Being the Lord 's Day, Rebeckah Coan daughter of goodwife Coan of Haddam, received ye initiatory seale of ye covenant Baptisme by virtue of Communion of Churches ye mother being a member of the church of Christ at Lynn, in ye State of Innitiation. 7br-8-72 Being ye Lord's Day Joshua Braynard and John Stan- ard children of two of ye daughters of Ensign Spencer Children of ye Church of Christ at Lyn, received ye Initiatory seal of ye covenant baptism, by virtue of Communion of Churches. 25-3-73. Being ye Lord's Day, Ebenezer Coan son of Good^nfe Coan of Hadum, a member of ye church of Christ at Lyn, by virtue of communion of churches received ye Initiatory seal of ye covenant Baptisme. 5-5m (1674). Wm. son of Daniel Braynard (on his wife's her account) by virtue of communion of churches, and Gerhard son of Thomas Spencer by virtue of communion of chiarches, being children of ye church of Christ at Lyn received ye Initiatory Seal of ye Covenant. 6-4- (1675) Nathaniel son of Goodwife Coan, with WiUiam son of Goodwife Stanard received ye Initiatory seal of ye covenant Baptisme, ye mothers members of ye Ch of Xt at Lynn in ye State of Innitiation. 7br-24-1676. Grace daughter of John & Hannah daughter of Thomas Spencer (members of ye Ch. of Xt at Lyn) received ye Initiatory Seal of ye Covenant. 255 11.\1>1>.\M CliriaMI ANNIVKICSAK'Y i;0_nmo-(U)7S) i:iij!i1i llrsiiKJird & Hlovcn OtKUio cliil.lr.'ii of Two of yo (l;iun'li)(>i-s i>i' l']iisi^ii Si>(Miri>r of II:ultlMm wln>si> |i;irt'tils :\ro oliildi'iMi of vo cli of x1 ;i( l.yiin wcrt' li.'iplizctl. Ubr 'J ( 1()7!M 'riinm.'is n.mi of 'I'Iioiums Spciu'cr of lliicMnni n (.MiiM «'(' \ o Cli !>)' M Ml 1,VM . . . W.MS Ii;ipli7,t>d. Juno ID. ^l()Sn .Ion;i11i;m .son of Jos<>ph Arnold of llMtl.lnin !i inon\bor of yo Hist I'liuroh of llo:ir(foiil w.mh l>!ii)ti7,(>tl. ir>SL\ Moll. 10. ('!il<>l» son of IX'iniol Co;\\\ of ll;i>lil:nn his wife a inonihor of y(> clHiroh !i( livn (wjis bniilizod). ,'<-7(h (lOS^) .losoph (son of Wni.) Sponcor :iiul llo/.oUinli ^^son of U.'tnniih') l^niyiiMnl woro briplizod, •hino S. \l\S\, I.ytli.'i (iljui^litor of N.'Ulninion Sponoor \v;is hnp- li/t'd, (Iw fMtlior ownin^f yo oovon;\nt, hoin^ !i oliild of yo ('lunch of n>iis( .'\l I,yii. (l)onoo rooommondod with lior f.-illior. l(ii>l>, .lnn(> ITi. I'li/.'iboth (ye tl.'JUjjlUor of .los<>pli & Kliz) Arnold of ll.)dd:tn\ l>;ipli7.od, yo Paronla nuMnbora in full Oonin !vt llarlford. 1600, Aufinsl 1(1, ll<",:tli7.od. 1001, May HI, Smsmiuim I'v l>:nuol »'hililron of P.'inioli vS: SusiinuM Unni.'ird of 1l!idd;nii \\(>n> b;ipli/,(>d (ho fiitlior Ihon iMiMicly o\vnin)j yo Oovon.-uK. lOOl, IM.'vy "JO, Tho ssnno )nn(> Tlionins Oalos of H.-iddjini a mom- bor yo lirst clniroh .-il H.-ulford & his wifi> Uiinnah l>;ilos (for- niorly Urainard") rolatod (o yo olnnvh at S.'iybrook both in yo Hlalo of lniti;\tion t.'ikinjj hold of thoir jiaronts oovonani li.'.d Ihoir son Thoin.Ms b.-ipti/od. !is liko\vis(< Mary (^ono (Soino (s') yo wifo of l>!inl Cowo s(;indin^ in yo lik(» n>I:\tiot\ to tlrst Clnirch at Hartford h.ad lior son n.'inll bapti/.od bolli by \irtno of Com nniniiin of Churohos. lOO.'i, Nov. ;i, Mic.aiah son of Willni Sponcor of ll.idiiani .'ind his wifo IMarjjarot Sponcor was b.-iptizod. KiO.'i, Nov. 10. l'>ai\ioI son of Tlunnas \ Uannali C..il(>s of Ihiild.'un was bapti/.od. 1005, .lany .'i, 8arah tlu^ wifo of .lolin Smith (fonnorly \Vhi(<<) owninjj; yc oovonant had hor son Nathaniol baptizod. 1000, .Tnno 21, Hannah yo danjjhtor of Panll Braynard of ll.id- dam was baj>ti7.od. 1000. .Inly 10. .lolin yo son of .lohn \ ll:nin;ih Hato of ll!idil.\n> was b;ipti7,od by virtue of oomniuniou of ohurohos, yo father rolatod to ye ( huroh of Ohrist in Oorchestor yo mother to liie lirst church of \l in ll.-irtforil in yo S(;ito of 1 i\nitia(ion. •j:.o HAPTIHMR 2(')'.)<'>, ./;i.riy 17, Jolin Y<:rii.r<:H :i. rtx-.ttifii-.r of yf; (l]iuri:]i of Chrifit in Jlu'J'iarn hy virf.uo of f-ornrnuniori of Chur(:h<;H wan \>:i]ii\ •/.<:<[ :t.<:- cordiri}^ to yo u.i\v\<:TI)AM ("IlliliCll ANN1\'KU"SAUV Hiiiioti Miiiilli (if lliiililiMM IiikI a cliild luipti/.tMl iiiiiiiimI I'lliiiH. Hiuali vti wil'ii (>r .loliii iSiiiilli Ix^ldii^iii^' lo IhuldMiii liiul ti child tin|>li/.tid ii|>(iii Ikm' own iicil iiiiitKHl I liiiu^iv. Oonitiliim lli^^iiiH III' lladdam had n Cliihl |iM|ili'/(Ml iiaimil Jtolhia. hauiol Clark ol' lladdant had a ciiild lia{>li/,(Hl aaaiod .I()HO|>Ii. Niiv. 1(5, I75fi. 'riiti widtiu liichardrtou tit' lladdaiu had Iut child lia|>ti^(ul uaiaiHl iSlanlda. lit^coul kt hij tho li'dv. Kleaser Mdij. 1750 .Inly 7. 1 l>M|>li/.tid (ViUiH lUo huh uI' Maiidl Miaincnl. II. tliihn Iho Hdit ol' Mandl Ariadd. Itich.'ii'd Iho Hon of John Itaihn', Jr. KliMaliolh lh(i han^htor of I'lvaii 'riioinuH. Hannah Iho haiighlt^r of John ('lark. iSaiidl Iho Son of Jonalhaii Hoardnian. IS. Martha Ihc Pannhlcr of ()ihanj;htorH of Mpiiraini Sliayl(. Nalhanaol Iho Son of Charlos Ua/.olloii. Oct. lit. K'olicrt llio Son of h'oliorl Sliattnck of M. Hampton. 17. l>aniol Son of l>anll (JriMwonld l>ocoaHfd. ;!l. Aaron Son of Mr. I'ickoll of lladdam C^)uarlor. Nov, 14. Sinuui Son of .lanu'H Ihu.ollon, .1 r. ; and l''rancin Son of wiilo Uoyd. 22, Ooor^'o Son oi' iHraol lli^>^inH Jr of Middle lladdam. Doc. Dunitil Son to l>anll Smith. 1767 Jan, 2. UtMibcn Hon of Jcrinninh Sponcor, and Nathan Hon of JoHth Scldon, i\i. Ann Arnold Iho |)anj;h- tor of Nathan LovvIh, At Middloli.ihl JoHHO tlui Son of Jo: Miller, Jr.; Stophon Son of I'ldwanl Tiirnor; LoiH Uaftor tif \\ ni. Miller, 260 BAPTISMS Mar. Zebulon Lewis the Son of Jacob Clark; Ebenezer, Son of Cornelius Higgins; Mary Daughter of Daniel Spencer the first. Whetmore & Joseph the Sons of Shubael Crook. Apr. Jabez, Daniel, Caleb, John, Hannah, Ann, the Chil- dren of Jabez Brainerd and his wife Hannah. Joseph Son of Wm. Scovil Deborah, Williams, James, the Children of James Baley and his wife Anna. May David Son of Lieut. Neh. Dickinson. Eunice the wife of Stephen Baley; and Prudence the Daughter of Stephen Baley and his wife Eunice. Silence the Daughter of Ephraim Eaney. James Son of John Smith; Dorothy the Daughter of Williams Smith, Jr.; Kosewell the Son of Thomas Frances. June Isaack halsey Son of Simon Ely. Samuell, Eunicee, Children of Nathll Surtlife. July Daniel Son of Danll Spencer and his wife Elisabeth; and also Thomas there Son. Abigail Clark the Daughter of David Smith the 2d. Benjamin, Sarah, Samuell, Children of Ithel Dean. Joel, Sarah, Children of Joel Hubbard. Aug. David Son of Richard Johnson, Jr. Sept. John Sterns Son of Thomas Church. At Eastberry Mindwell Daughter of John Hill. Ezekiel Baley Son of Caleb Cone. Phebe Eice & Mary Worsen Daughters of Samuel forguson. Oct. At Midle Haddam Vienna the Daughter of Doctr Bradford. At Midle Haddam Susannanh the Daughter of Benjm Brainerd. Hannah the Daughter of Solomon Bates; Elisabeth the Daughter of Danll Spencer. Jerusha Daughter of Evan Thomas. Nov. Anna the Daughter of Edward Church of Hadlime. Ebenezer Son of Doer Cruttenden. Dec. Elijah Son of Elijah Brainerd Jr. 1758 Jan. Zechariah Son of Heber Brainerd. Feb. At Chester Abigail Daughter of Peter Bebee. Elisabeth Daughter of Justus Buck. Mary Daughter of Jared Avery, Sarah Daughter of Charles Deming. Mar. Hezekiah Son of James Clark. Lois Daughter of Isaack Augur. 261 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Apr. Jeheu Son of Phinehas Brainerd. Martha Daughter of Elisha Brainerd. May Mary the Daughter of Alexr Lynn. Sarah Daughter of Elihu Johnson. Thankfull Daughter of Daniel Clarke. June At Stepny Ehoda the Daughter of Asa Belding. At Chester Jerusha the daughter of Joseph Clark. Naoma Daughter of Giles Porter. July Lois the Daughter of Nathll. Spencer, Anner, Diana, Daughters of Benjm. Baley. Solomon, Jerusha, Children of Samll Baley. At Hebron Sibbil Daghter of Elezr Strong. Else the Daughter of Jeremiah Spencer. Mary, Elizur, Children of Elizur Spencer. Aug. Ruth Daughter of Shubel Crook. 27. John the Son of Eleazer and Sibbil May an Infant. Sept. James the Son of Jonathan Boardman. ThankfuU Daughter of Samel. Brainerd. Phebe Daughter of Lemuel Pratt. Oct. Anne Daughter of James Baley was Baptized by Mr. Fowler. Sussannah Daughter of Elizur Spencer. Nov. James Son of Nathll. Surtliff. Dec. David Son of David Smith 2d. 1759 Feb. Henry son of Samuel Smith. Enoss the Son of John Smith Jr. Mar. Joseph, Simon, Samuel, and Mary, Children of John Lewis. Elias Son of Richard Johnson Jr. Apr. Marther Daughter of Nathll, Burr. Jonathan Son of Thomas Church. May Lydia the Daughter of Ephraim Raney. Lydia Daughter of Elijah Brainerd jr. July Samuell Son of Hopestill Cruttenden. abigail Daughter of John Clarke. Sept. Edward son of Joseph Selden. Theodore Son of Benjm. Stillman Esqr. Oct. Andrew Son of John Lewis. Abigail, Amos, Abner, Anne, Children of Abner Porter. Nov. Timothy Son of Wm. Scovil. Elias, Mary, Children of John Ventrous. Dec. Jerusha, Elisabeth, Thomas, Ann, Hannah, Children of Thomas Hubbard. Phebe Daughter of Elisha Brainerd. 262 BAPTISMS 1760 Feb. 17. Sibbil the Daughter of Eleazer & Sibbil May an Infant. Mar. Lettice Daught of Samll Ferguson. Sarah Daughter of Danll Spencer 2d. Apr. Aner the Daughter of Caleb Cone. Ezra the Son of Jeremiah Spencer. Elisabeth the Daughter of Joseph Clark; Stephen Son of Stephen Baley. June Lois Daughter of Williams Smith jr. July Lemuel Son of Lemuel Pratt. Felix Son of Isach Augur. Bathsheba Daughter of Giles Porter. Aaron Son of Abner Porter. John Smith an adult Person. Aug. Sarah Daughter of John Smith disceasd. Sept. Hannah the Daughr of Shubael Crook. Oct. Phebe the Daughter of Ithel Dean and Alexander the Son of Alexandr Lynn. Zeruiah Daughter of Jonthn Boardman at His House. Dec. Sarah Arnold Daughter of John Ventrous. Mary the Daughter of Saml Arnold; Sibbil the Daughter of Elihu Johnson. 1761 Feb. Susanna Daughter of Charles Hazelton. Apr. Hepsibah Daughter of James Clark And Benjm. Son of John Smith. Cornelius Son of Samuel Brainerd. Lucy Daughter of Elijah Brainerd Jr. Mar. James Son of Elizur Spencer at his own house. Apr. Concurrence Daughter of David Smith 2d. DoUey Daughter of Thomas Hubbard. May Elijah Son of James Baley. June Esther the Daughter of Othniel Brainerd of Mid. Had- dam. Edmond the Son of Joel Hubbard. Stephen Son of Nathll Burr. Mar. Seth Son of Nathll Spencer. June Jesse the Son of Benjm Spencer. Lydia Daughter of Joseph Clark. July Abigail ye Daughter of Eichard Johnson Jr. 26. Cynthia the Daughter of Eleazer and Sibbil May. Kobert the Son of Samll Smith. Aug. At Middletown Jabez Son of Widdow Cook. Samuel son of Jeremiah Spencer. 263 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Sept. David son of Cornelius Higgins. Elisabeth Daugter of Elisha Brainerd. Oct. Moses Son of Jacob Ely. 1762 Jan. Cloe Daughter of Doct Hopestill Cruttenden. May ]\Iary & Sarah Daughters of Nathan Smith. Elisabeth the Daughter of Thomas Francis, Jonathan Son of Aaron Smith. June Susannah Daughter of Abner Porter. John Son of Giles Porter. Eunice the Daughter of Stephen Baley. July Danl Son of Jonathan Boardman. Sarah Daughter of John Lewis, and Hannah alias Anner Dauglitr of Benjm Spencer. Aug. At Midle Haddam Bethiah Daughter of Ezra Smith, & Abigail Daughter of Mr. Carry. William the Son of Heber Brainerd. Dorothy Daughter of Charles Hazelton. Sept. Elisabeth Bradley Daughter of Isaack Augur And Eac-hel Daughter of Nathll Surtliff. Oct. Jemima Daughter of Lemuel Smith. Stephen Son of Stephen Johnson and Mary Olmsted Daughter of Williams Smith. Dec. Israel Son of Nathan Smith. 1763 Mar. 13. Anne the Daughter of Eleazer & Sibbil May. Lewis Son of Jeremiah Spencer. Daniel the Son of Joseph Clarke And Judith the Daughter of Joel Hubbard. Apr. Lydia the Daughter of Elisabeth Bates on Esqr Brain- erd 's account She being bound to Him. Thomas the Son of Shubael Crook. Curtis tlie Son of John Smith. Samuel the Son of Elihu Johnson. Mary the Daughter of John Ventrous & Samuel the Son of Elijah Brainerd jr. May Abigail if I mistake not the Name Daughter of Elizur Spencer. June Dorothy & Rhoda Daughters of Josiah Scovil. John the Son of William Knowles. July Sarah Levi & James the Children of James Arnold And Ebenezer & John the Children of John Wilcocks. Nov. Ebenezer the Son of James Baley. Dec. Hannah Daughter of Doer Cruttenden. 2G4 BAPTISMS 1764 Jan, Lydia the Daughter of Lt. Cornelius Higgina And Deborah Daughter of Samll forguson. Chipman Son of James Clark. John Son of John Clark was baptized by INIr, Bordnian. Feb. Elisha Son of Elisha Brainerd. Mar. Elisabeth Brainerd Daughter of Joshua Brooks. Taphena Child of Jacob Ely. William Child of Wd Harris of IMiddletown. Apr. James Son of John Wilcocks. Elisabeth Daughter of Stephen Johnson. an Brooks Daughter of Eiehard Johnson. May Phinehas Son of Samll Smith. Joseph son of Joseph Farnam of N, Killingworth. Lydia Daughter of Daniel Clarke. Daniel Charles Sarah and Lueretia Children of Charles Sears. July Zil[pah] Daughter of Stephen Baley, Eebeekah Daughter of Joseph Wells Esqr. Lucy Daughter of John Surtlif. Oct. James & Joseph Children of Wakeman Brooks. Zerviah the Daughter of Jonathan Bordman. James the Son of Abner Porter. Nov. Phebe the Daughter of Elihu Johnson. James & Henry & Mary & Abigail the Children of Ebenezer Thomas. Dec. ann the Daughter of Joel Hubbard. 1765 Jan. Ehoda the Daughter of Josiah Scovil. Feb. DoUey the Daughter of Jer"*" Spencer. Sarah the Daughter of Isaack Augur. Mar. Simon Son of Lemuel Smith and Jedidah Daughter of Nathan Smith. Apr. 14. Elisabeth Daughter of Eleazer & Sibbil May. Else the Daughter of Elijah Brainerd. May Joseph the Son of Joseph Clark Jr. Sarah the Daughter of Shubael Crook. huldah the Daughter of Amos Johnson and Phebe the Daughter of James Arnold. June Enos & Thomas & Sarah the Children of John Spencer. Aug. William the Son of William Knowles. Elias the Son of John Ventrous. Sept. Abiel the Daughter of James Baley. Dorothy the Daughter of EKzur Spencer. Ebenezer the Son of Ebenezer Thomas & Thomas the Son of John Smith. 265 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Oct. Rachel & Timothy the Children of Nathaniel Ray. Abraham & Susanah the Children of Lt. Abraham Tyler. Susannah the Daughter of Ensign Samuel Arnold. Henrietta the Daughter of William Bradford. Nov. Stephen the Son of Increase Brainerd. Dec. Ruth the Daughter of Lemuel Pratt. Esther the Daughter of Charles Hazelton. 1766 Mar. Jemima the Daughter of Stephen Johnson. Apr. Edatha the Daughter of Jared Hubbard. Williams the Son of Williams Smith. David the Son of Daniel Spencer. James Smith the Son of Ensign John Clarke, & William the Son of John Willcox. May Elisabeth the Daughter of Jos Wells Esqr. Frederick James & Else the Children of James Smith And Jesse the Son of Richard Johnson. Nathaniel the Son of Nathll SurtUf. Aug. Concurrence the Daughter of Abner Porter. Damaris the Daughter of Heber Brainerd and Drusilla Mary Lovisa Sarah Joseph Gideon the Children of Gideon Brainerd and Nehemiah & Nathaniel the Children of Samuel Tylor and Timothy the Son of Wakeman Brooks. July Content the Daughter of Samll Forguson at his house it being sick. Sept. Noah Son of Samll Smith at his house. Anne Timothy David Dorothy Susannah Children of Timothy Towner. Timothy the Son of Abraham Tyler Jr. Oct. Eleazer the Son of Eleazer & Sibbil May. Nov. Rufus & Jerusha the Children of Ezra Shailor and Phebe the Daughter of John Spencer & David the Son of Aaron Smith. Anne and Elisabeth the Daughters of Nehemiah Brain- erd. Dec. Rhoda the Daughter of EHhu Johnson. 1767 Feb. Samuel the Son of Samuel Smith. Mary the Daughter of Jeremiah Spencer. Mar. Nathan the Son of Samuell Tyler. Deborah Daughter of Josiah Scovil. Apr. at Milington, a Child of one Mr. Fox. Joseph and Mary the Children of Isaack Augur. 266 BAPTISMS y / May Anne the Daughter of Nathan Smith. Jemima Daughter of Elijah Brainerd. June Israel the Son of Samll Bur & Mary Daughter of James Arnold. Sarah the Daughter of Joseph Clark. July Deborah the Daughter of Jacob Ely. Mary Wells & John the Children of John & Sarah Smith. Aug. AUyn the Son of Thomas Bates. Jesse Oliver Eliakim Phinehas & John the Children of Eliakim Brainerd. Prudence Daughter of Gideon Brainerd. Sept. Zilpah & Joseph the Children of Charles Smith, Oct. Eunice the Daughter of Ebenezr Thomas. Hubbard the Son of James Smith. Susannah Dolly Euth Lydia David & Aaron the Chil- dren of Aaron Thomas & Euth Thomas his wife. Nov. Margaret the Daughter of Shubael Crook. Dec. Abiather the Son of Joel Hubbard. 1768 Apr. Abigail the Daughter of Elisha Brainerd. May Ann the Daughter of John Willcox. / Samuel the Son of Samll Ferguson. Didimus the Son of Stephen Johnson. June Amelia the Daughter of Nehemiah Brainerd. Charles the Son of Nathaniel Surtlife. July Jane the Daughter of Daniel Spencer & Eebeckah the Daughter of Ithel Dean. Charles the Son of Jacob Povirers of Midletovra. Ste- phen Smith & his wife offered sd Child in Baptism. Israel the Son of Joshua Brooks. Sept. Susannah the Daughter of James Baley. Prudence the Daughter of Eleazer & Sibbil May. David the Son of Nathll Burr. Lucretia the Daughter of Abner Porter and Elisabeth the Daughter of Ezra Shailor. Oct. Hannah the Daughter of William Knowles. Sept. Susannah Bonfoye an Adult Person at her father's house. Nov. Lucy the Daughter of Eichard Johnson. at N Eallingsworth Olive the Daughter of Eosewell Ste- phens. 1769 Feb. Anne the wife of Samll Spencer an adult Person at his House. Ezra the Son of Lt Abraham Tylr. 267 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSAEY Mar. Eebeckah Williams Daughter of Charles Smith. Mindwell the Daughter of Increase Brainerd and also Mary Dorothy Joseph James Partrik & David & Aaron the Children of Joseph Tyler. Apr. Eleazer the Son of Isaack Augur. Sarah Daughter of Samuel Smith. May Hannah Snow the Daughter of Aaron Thomas. Samuel the Son of Alexander Lynn. Deborah the Daughter of Joseph Clarke. June Caroline the Daughter of Aaron Smith & Asael the Son of Elijah Brainerd. Henry the Son of Elizur Spencer. Damaris the Daughter of Ebenezr Thomas and Mercy the Daughter of William Bradford. July Orin the Son of Josiah Kedfield of North KilKngworth. Sept. Elisabeth the Daughter of John Spencer. Amos & Phebe Hubbard the Children of Elisha Brain- erd. Oct. Elias the Son of Jacob Ely. Esther the Daughter of Samll Tyler. Nov. Heber the Son of Gideon Brainerd. Jonathan the Son of John Smith. Dec. Elisabeth the Daughter of Wakeman Brooks. Dan the Son of Eliakim Brainerd. 1770 Jan. Joseph the Son of Joseph Wells Esqr. Mar. David the son of John Willcoks. Damaris the Daughter of Samll Burr. ^,,,^ Apr. Elijah the Son of James Arnold. ^^ Nathan the Son of Nathan Smith. ■ Abraham the Son of Joel Hubbard. May 6. Clarissa the Daughter of Eleazer & Sibbil May. June Shubael the Son of Shubael Crook. July Martha Brown an Adult Person. Anne the Daughter of Joshua Brooks. Nehemiah the Son of Mr. Nehemiah Brainerd. Eachel the Daughter of Abner Porter. John the Son of John Brooks Disceast. Aug. Samuell the Son of John Ventrous. Sept. Caleb Brainerd the Son of Stephen Johnson. Samuel the Son of Samll Scovil. Oct. at Middletown John the Son of John Foster. Miranda the Daughter of Thomas Bates And Esther the Daughter of Ezra Shailor. Dec. Calvin the Son of Eichard Johnson. 268 BAPTISMS 1771 Jan. Ehoda the Daughter of Stephen Baley. Feb. Sarah the Daughter of Aaron Thomas. Mar. Jonathan the Son of Joseph Tyler and Sarah the Daughter of John Smith Jr. Apr. Jedida the Daughter of Lt Abraham Tyler. May Huldah the Daughter of Heber Brainerd. June Daniel Esther & James, the Children of Zechariah Brainerd. Mary the Daughter of James Smith. Bethiah Esther Simon Walker Kichard Euel & Daniel the Children of Eichard Knowles. Euth the Daughter of Wm Knowles. Aug. at Middletown William the Son of Samll Atkins. Mabel the Daughter of Ebenezer Eoberts. Eeuben the Son of Increase Brainerd. SamueU Moses Eosewell & Smith the Sons of Samll Hub- bard. Sept. Dinah the Daughter of EUzur Spencer. John the Son of Elisha Brainerd and David the Son of Zacheriah Brainerd. Oct. Asahel & Sarah the Children of Elijah Brainerd And Eliab the Son of Aaron Smith. Nov. Ebenezer the Son of James Baley. Dorothy Mehitabel Sarah Jerusha Elisabeth Hepsibah John Willard Benjamin Abner the Children of Abner Smith. Dec. Susanah Daughter of Eichard Knowles. Solomon Samuel John David and Submit the Children of David Bates. 1772 Jan. Davis Huldah and George the Children of William Smith. Feb. Clarinda the Daughter of Josiah Huntington. 16. Huntington the Son of Eleazer and Sibbil May. Levi the Son of John WiUcox. Apr. Nathan the Son of John Spencer And Mary the Daughter of Charles Smith. Edwin the Son of Thomas Bates. May Tryphena the Daughter of Josiah Scovil. at East Haddam Jeremiah the Son of Shubael Fuller Joseph Johnson the Son of Charles WiUiams Joseph Otis the Son of Cornelius Anibal. June Thomas the Son of Samll Scovil 269 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY June Nathaniel the Son of Shubael Crook John the Son of Joel Hubbard. Feb. Saniuell Betsey Molley Eebeckah Susannah Nathan Phebe Children of Samll Kay. July Susannah the Daughter of Joseph Wells Esqr. John the Son of Joshua Brooks and Rebeckah the Daughter of Wakenian Brooks. Aug. Amos the Son of Nathan Smith. Sylvester the Son of Joiin Smith, Sarah the Daughter of Samll Tyler. Oct. Abraham & Sarah the Children of Samll Hubbard. Nov. Lydia Daughter of David Bates. Sarah Arnold the Daughter of John Ventrouse. Dec. Eunice the Daughter of Eliakim Brainerd. 1773 Jan, Parthena the Daughter of Josiah Huntington. James Son of Solomon Wakely. Feb. Submit Daughter of Abner Porter. Mar. John the Son of Nehemiah Brainerd. Apr. Joshua the Son of Stephen Johnson. Anne the Daughter of Samll iiay. May at Middle hadam William son of Mr. Simons Jonathan Son of Lemuel Smith Sibbil Daughter of Ebenezer Smith Lucy the Daughter of Abel Shepherd. John the Son of Eleanor Higgins. Cornelius James & Henry Sons of Cornelius Higgins Jr. June Calvin tlie Son of Ebenezr Thomas. Jabez the Son of Elisha Brainerd. July Jemima the Daughter of Richard Johnson Jr. and Esther the Daughter of James Hubbard. Aug. Sylvenus the Sou of Lieut Tyler. Sept. James Daniels Son of Heber Brainerd. Esther Susannah Jonathan Ezra Jeffery & Simon Chil- dren of Jonathan Smith disceast. Heman Elisabeth Rebeckah & Anne the Children of James Merwin. Dolly Elias James and Mary the Children of Elihu Bates. Eebeckah Theodore & Abigail the Children of the Wid- dow Abigail Ray. Zacheriah Son of Zacheriah Brainerd. Oct. Lydia the Daughter of Joseph Tyler, Nov. Eliphalet the Son of William Smith. Dec. James and Rebeckah Children of James Youngs. 270 BAPTISMS 1774 Jan. 2. Hezekiah the Son of Eleazer & Sibbil May. Feb. Lois the Daughter of Elijah Brainerd. Mar. Elisha the Son of Nathll Eay. Arnold the Son of Cornelius Higgins Jr. Apr. Hannah the Daughter of James Youngs And Sarah the Daughter of Samll Church. Ama Daughter of John Wilcox and Abigail Daughter of Joel Hubbard. Jared the Son of Joseph Arnold. Josiah Son of Josiah Seovil. Esther Daughter of Mr Dudley. Seth the Son of Eichard Knowles. May Elisabeth Abigail & Ann the Children of Ambrose Arnold. June Willard Son of William Knowles. July Oliver Son of John Smith, David Son of Nathan Smith and Temperance Zephira and Aaron Children of Nathan Baley. Aug. Amasa the Son of Samll Seovil. Sept. Olive SamueU James Ira Calvin Orin Phebe & Euah the Children of Asa Shailor. Dorcas the Daughter of Ensn Gideon Brainerd And Arunah Daniel Israel Solomon Aaron Matthew & Eosanna the Children of Daniel Hubbard. Oct. Zerviah the Daughter of Thomas Hubbard Jr. Oliver Thomas Martha Keturah Hannah Mary & Phebe the Cliildren of Oliver Baley. Lucinda the Daughter of Hawes Higgins. Catharine the Daughter of James Smith. Ephraim Son of Shubael Crook. Sael the Son of Aaron Smith. Nov. Adna and Elisabeth Children of Wm Clark. Lucy the Daughter of John Spencer. 1775 Jan. At Midlehaddam Joseph the Son of Thomas Stocking and a Son of Thomas Smith which I think was Called Ambrose. Charles the Son of Samll Tyler. Mar. Hannah Daughter of Solomon Wakely. at Middle haddam Son of Joseph Markam. Apr. Martha the Daughter of James Merwin. Anne the Daughter of Aaron Thomas. May Lucy the Daughter of Stephen Johnson. Sarah the wife of Cap Sears an adult Person. 271 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESARY May Esther Hezekiah & Lydia the Children of Abner Spencer. Samuel the Son of Samll Church & James the Son of James Clarke Jr. June Dinah the Daughter of John Wilcox. Samuell Eosewell & Eunice the Children of Phineas Doane. Lucy the Daughter of Cap: Eliakim Brainerd. Aug. Joshua the Son of Joshua Brooks. Damaris the Daughter of Lt Ebenezer Thomas. EUsabeth Daughter of Charles Smith. Sept. Amasa Son of Thomas Hubbard Jr. Aaron Elisabeth & Mary the Children of Aaron Hub- bard And Ruth the Daughter of Ambrose Arnold. Nov. Seaberry Child of Stephen Baley. Scovil the Son of Oliver Baley. Dec. Lydia the Daughter of Ezra Shailor. 1776 Jan. Clarke the Son of Daniel Hubbard. David Son of Capn Tyler. Feb. George Son of Henry Brainerd & Senah Daughter of Abner Spencer. Mar. Hezekiah Son of Doctr Hez : Brainerd. Sibbil Daughter of James Hubbard & Timothy Son of Zach Brainerd. Elisabeth Pelatiah & Hannah the Children of Stephen Clarke. Eunice Spencer an Adult was Baptized. Apr. Isaack Augur an Adult & Joseph the Son of Barzillai Dudley. Jesse Son of Abner Tibbels and Ruth the Daughter of Samll Scovil. Joseph the Son of Joseph Spencer & Gideon the Son of Joseph Spencers wife. Mary the Daughter of Joel Hubbard. Prudence Daughter of Isaack Augur. May Olive Daughter of Joseph Arnold and Thomas Brooks the Son of Richard Johnson. Prince Haws Son of Haws Higgins. June Jesse Heli Asa and Arsenah Children of Prosper Brain- erd. Prudence Daughter of Samll Ray. Israel Son of Elijah Brainerd. Danil & Caleb the Sons of Daniel Brainerd. Calvin Michael Timothy Asael and Abigail Children of Timothy Hubbard and Hannah the Daughter of Lewis Smith. 272 BAPTISMS Sept. Simon Son of William Smith. Eeuben Son of Increase Brainerd. Oct. Mary the Daughter of Lt John Ventrous. Nathaniel the Son of Nathaniel Ray. Simon Son of Asa Shailor. Nov. Josiah Samuell Anne & Sally the Children of James Pelton. Else and Eunice Children of Amos Bates. Dee. Eufus Jeremiah Simon and Else Children of Jeremiah Hubbard. 1777 Mar. Selden Asher and Jonathan Children of Jonathan Smith. May Prudence Daughter of Aaron Thomas. Timothy Son of Solomon Wakely. June Mehitable Dickinson an adult. Olive Daughter of Jonathan Smith. at Killingworth Mehitabel Daughter of Samuel Crane. Hannah Daughter of George Eliot. Daniel Son of Caleb Hvird. Betsey Daughter of Luke Stephens. Bettey Daughter of Samuell Hull. Aug. Amos John Mehitable and Abigail Children of Wid: Mehitable Dickinson. James Son of James Merwin and Anne Daughter of Joseph Tyler. Sept. Submit Daughter of Daniel Hubbard. Aaron Son of Aaron Smith. Susannah Daughter of Lt Ebenezer Thomas. Hanah wife of Hez: Shailor and Mary wife of Joseph Burr adults. Sarah Asher and Esther Children of Aaron Clarke and Hannah Daughter of Joshua Brooks & Abner Son of Abner Tibbils. Oct. Mary & Martha Children of Joseph Burr. Bezaleel Ezekiel Jemima & Catharine Children of Bazel Shailor And William Son of Joshua Simmons And Catharine Daughter of Lewis Smith And Eussel & Dimmis Children of Hez: Shailor And Sylvester Son of Eleazer Bates & Catharine Daughter of Neh: Brainerd Esqr. Sept. Susanah Daughter of Lt. Ebenezer Thomas. [See above.] Nov. Joshua Solomon Daniel Elisha Hannah & Lydia the Children of Elisha Cone. Mary the Daughter of Gideon Baley Jr. 18 273 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESARY Dec. John Son of John Smith and Eeuben Son of Aron Hubbard. Mary the Daughter of Bazel Shailor And James the Son of James Pelton. 1778 Feb. Blin the Son of Major Tyler. Timothy Son of Oliver Baley. Mar. Hope Daughter of Joseph Burr. Enos the Son of Zaeheriah Brainerd and Betsey Daughter of Daniel Brainerd. Apr. Elisabeth Daughter of .Capn Eliakim Brainerd. June Uzzel the Child of James Stephens. July Benjamin Son of Ashbel Stillman. Sept. Mary the Daughter of Barzillai Dudley & Ana the Daughter of James Hubbard. Oct. Anne Daughter of Charles Smith Theodore Son of Joshua Simmons & Polly Daughter of James Clarke. Nov. Nehemiah Son of Capt James Smith. Simon Son of Joseph Arnold. Dec. Dolly the Daughter of Prosper Brainerd. Gideon Son of Hawes Higgins. Sena Daughter of Eleazer Bates. Ehoda Daughter of Samll Scovil. 1779 Feb. Dolley the Daughter of Hez: Shailor. Mar. Smith Son of Asa Shailor. Porter Son of Lt Eichard Johnson. Stephen Son of Stephen Spencer. Apr. William Son of Joseph Spencer. John William & Esther the Children of Widdow Eussels. June James Phineas Elisabeth Esther & Jerusha Children of Phineas Brainerd Jr. July AUice Daughter of John Spencer. Oct. Deborah Hopson Daughter of Heman Brainerd. Moses Savage Son of Daniel Hubbard. Dec. Daniel Son of Solomon Wakely and Susannah Daughter of Bazel Shailor. 1780 Feb. Daniel Son of James Merwin. Mar. George Son of Joshua Brooks and Joseph Son of Joseph Burr. 274 BAPTISMS Apr. Euth the Daughter of James Pelton. May Seth the son of Zacheriah Brainerd. June Jerusha the Daughter of Thomas Hubbard Jr. Caleb the son of Stephen Johnson. Aug. Thankful! the Daughter of Ens Aaron Smith. Oct. Danil Son of Stephen Clarke. Jonathan Nathan Josiah Children of Augustus Lewis & his wife. Nov. Susannah Daughter of Daniel Brainerd. Dee. Arehelaus the Son of Col. Tyler and Isaach Son of Stephen Spencer. 1781 Feb. Samuel White Son of James Clarke Jr. Mar. George the Son of Jerh Hubbard Jr. Apr. Joshua Son of Lt Elijah Brainerd and Clara Daughter of Abner Tibbalds. May Seaberry the Child of Prosper Brainerd. July Huldah the Daughter of Phineas Brainerd Jr. Aug. Welthy Daughter of Jonathan Smith. Sept. Jonna Son of Joseph Taylor, Oct. Ezra & Aaron Sons of Nathan Bailey of farmington. Nov. Amne the Daughter of Bazel Shailor. Dec. Austin son of Lt John Smith. Lucinda Daughter of Cap James Smith. 1782 Jan. William son of Lt Wm Smith. Feb. Tempe Daughter of Eleazer Bates. Daniel Son of Thomas Hubbard. May Hannah Daughter of Lewis Smith. Daniel son of Joseph Taylor. Willis son of Ashbel Stillman. Oct. Ezra son of Oliver Bailey. Dec. Moses Son of Joseph Tyler and Joseph son of Zacheriah Brainerd. 1783 Apr. Anne Pierson Daughter of Joshua Simmons. Amne Daughter of Augustus Lewis. June Zilpah Daughter of Aaron Hubbard. Margere Daughter of Danil Hubbard. George son of Stephen Spencer. Joshua son of Stephen Johnson. 275 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY July I'^ink tlu; Hon of Ntjliciniah lirainerd Esqr & Lyilia liJH Diiiif^liter. J)riiHilla [);mgUt.vr of Ens Jonathan Smith. SuHannah tlie Daughter of lit John Smith. Nov. Rufus Hon of Col: Tyler. Hope Daughter of Hazel Shailor. HilveHter Bon of i'r(jH|(er Hraiuertl. a Child of Ahner TihbelH. Dee, Mary the Daugliter of Hez Brainerd Esqr. 1784 Jan. Samuel Hoiinliiiiin Son of Tlioinas Hubbard. — two twin ]>auglit(;rH of I'liineas Doane. — Daniel Hon of Solomon Wakely. — Joel Hon of Hber TibbalH. — Lydia Hmitli Daugliter of Lt Bailey. — A Cliil'l of I'liineas lirainerd Jr. 1785 Jan. Joshua son of JoHhua Simmons. Mar, Seth Son of Ambrose Arnold. 14. at PreHton Anne Loekwood Daughter of Mr. Jonathan Fuller my (irand Daughter, Apr. Jemima Daughter of James Pelton. Experience Daughter of Cap: John Smith. Matthew Charles & fanney the Children of Charles Sears Jr. June Catharine daughter of Jeremiah Hubbard Jr. Ebenezer & Hezekiah Sons of William Clarke. Chrintian the wife of William Clarke. Henry son of Jonathan Smith. I'rude Daughter of Oliver Baily. Nov. Son of William (Marke Jr, Abigail his Daugliter. Dec. JIuMiih Daughter of iiazil Shailor, 1786 Apr. John Son of John Dickinson. Rebeckah Mary &, Esther Children of Mis Scovil wife of Sandl Scovil, June a fihild of Barzillai Dudley Name forgot. Selden son of Jonathan Huntington. Abner & Aaron sons of Widdow Porter. 270 BAPTISMS July John and Anner Children of James Stephens. Elthan Child of Eleazer Bates. Oct. Catharine Daughter of Joshua Simmons. Sarah Daughter of Eber Tibbals. 1787 Jan. Zeruiah Daughter of Danll Brainerd. Oliver son of Cap. John Smith and Dimmis Daughter of Thomas Hubbard Jr. Apr. William son of Samll Scovil and Mary Daughter of Phineas Brainerd. Deborah Olive Martha Isaack Sarah & Joshua the Chil- dren of Evan Thomas Jr. May Eebeckah the vrife of Arunah Hubbard and her Daugh- ter Betsey. Shebae Eosemond William & Henry Children of Heman Brainerd 's wife. Clarissa John Huldah Hannah Anne Children of John Brainerd. June Elisha the Son of Stephen Clarke and Sylvester Ehoda and Susannah Children of Oliver Brainerd. James Son of Ensn Jonathan Smith. July Polly Daughter of Zacheriah Brainerd. at Chester John Son of Jared Clarke, at Haddam Sally Daughter of Heman Brainerd. Aug. Isaach the son of Charles Sears. Elderkin Euey & Jonathan the Children of Jona : Bordman. a Child of Arunah Hubbard Name forgot. Sept. Sophia Hannah & Dolly Children of Cap David Brainerd. jMartha & Elizabeth Cliildren of James Pelton. Dolly Daughter of John Dickinson and Davis son of Prosper Brainerd. Oct. three Children of Joseph Scovil Names forgotten. Nov. Drusilla Abraham Sarah Eebeckah & Prudence Chil- dren of Abraham Spencer Disceast. 1788 May Jason son of Jonathn Bordman. Apr. John Kelley an Adult. June Mary Daughter of Eber Tibbalds. July Moses Freeman and a Daughter of Widdovr Martha Bailey. Sept. Drusilla Daughter of August Lewis. 277 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY 1789 June Jeremiah Son of Elihu Smith disceased. Aug. James & Mary Children of Wid: Treadwell. Dolly Daughter of John Scovil. 1791 Jan. Sylvester son of Eleazer Bates. David Son of Cap David Brainerd. — Lebeus son of Joseph Augur. July Justus Hanson & Laura Children of Joseph Arnold Jr. — Abigail Daughter of James Knowles. Oct. Mary, Sibbil, Clarissa, Anne Fuller, Edward the Chil- dren of Edward Selden. Polly Daughter of Charles Sears. 1793 Jan. Wealthy Daughter of John Scovil. 1794 Oct. Daniel and Esther Children of Chipman Clarke. 1795 May Hezekiah son of John Brainerd. Rufus son of Gideon Bailey. June Charlotte Child of Edward Selden. Oct. Sarilla Daughtr of Eleazr Bates. 1797 — the wife of Robert Smith adult. — three Children of Widdow Esther Tyler. — Nathanel son of Nathaniel Burr. 1798 — Elisabeth Thomas adult. — 5 Children of Shailor Hubbard. June Linus son of Capt Burr. Talcot the Child of Charles Sears. Joseph Carrier and Rebeckah Children of Giles Hub- bard. 278 BAPTISMS Record Tcept 'by the Bev. David D. Field. 1804 June 3. Abigail Brainard & Elisha Strong, children of James Chase. 17. Hannah Cone (widow), and Clarissa, Comfort & John, children of Hannah Cone; Susannah, Hannah, Mary, Arnold, Martha, Electa, and Levi, children of Susan- nah Eay (widow) ; and James, Joseph and Eeuben, children of Naomi Chambers: also, Naomi Chambers. 24. Esther, wife of Cornelius Higgins. July 8. Benjamin, son of Gideon Brainard. 17. Phebe, Stephen, Lucretia, Deusy, Esther, Jemima, and Cynthia, children of Stephen & Martha Tibbils. 22. James and Elizabeth, children of Eber Tibbils; and Irena Spenser, daughter of James & [Lydia] Walkley. 29. Eebecca, Catharine Shaylor, Wakeman, Jemima, Joseph, Mary, & David Hubbard, children of Joseph Brooks; and Benjamin Parmalee. Aug. 5. Dolly Clarke; and Benjamin, Fanna, Polly, Anna, Hep- zebah & John, children of John & Anne Smith. 28. Olive Smith & Susannah Brooks. Sept. 2. Elizabeth Mary, a dau. of Levi & Mehitibal Ward; and Edwin Smith, a son of Simon & Drusilla Walkley. 9. Prudy, Dolly, Phebe, Enos, and Ansyl, children of Cur- tis & Asenath Smith. 23. DoUy Clarke, \vite of Sylvanus. 30. Lucy Brainard (wife of Eliakim). Oct. 14. George Smith, Cephas, Ursula, Austin & Eliakim Sel- den, children of EUakim & Lucy Brainard. 28. David, Asahel, Anson, Lydia, Matilda, Horris, Lucinda, Clarinda & Benanuel, children of Concurrence Bonfi. 1805 Mar. 17. (per Mr. Andrews) Chauncey, a child of Joseph Brook's. Apr. 7. David Dudley, my own son. May 19. Erastus, a son of Giles Brainard 's. June 2. , a child of Brainard 's. Aug. 25. Mary Gratrax (wife of Gratrax) and Hannah, Mary, John & Wm. Johnson, her children; Sally Moriah, a child of James & Anna Chase. Dee. 1. Lucy, John, 279 Jan. 5. Mar. 23. 30. June 1. 15. Aug. 31. Oct. 19. Nov. 2. HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY 1806 Elizabeth Hannah, clau. of William Clarke. Selden Spenser, son of James Walkley, [bapt.] by Mr. Vail. Nancy Cone, dau. of Chambers. Richard, son of Beuanuel Bonfi. Mehitabel Eunice, dau. of Levi Ward. Mary Rebecca, a child of Simon Walkley (by Mr. Ly- man ) . Elijah, a child of Ezra Brainard 's. John, a child of Elisha Stevens. 1807 Feb. 5. Cyrus Hambleton, a child of Higgins. Apr. 6. David, a child of David Bonfoey. 12. Emilia Hancy-Anne, my own daughter. May 31. Worthy, a child of Dan Carter. June 7. Timothy Gladden. 25. Nancy & Eliza, children of T. Gladden, deceased. Dec. 13. Hezekiah Edwards, child of Wm. Clarke. 1808 Jan. 3. Dudley, child of Dan Carter. June 26. Per Mr. Andrews, Esther Maria & Harvey Edward, children of Gideon Brainard. July 21. Susannah, wife of Henry Smith, & Sarah, Barna Bon- foey, & Henry, her children. 31. Ansel, Clarissa, Samuel, & Halsey, children of Ebenezer Thomas. Oct. 30. Daniel Clarke, Arza & Charles Tyler, children of Da- vid Dickinson. Dec. 25. Achsah Manerva, infant of Job Hubbard (by Mr. Smith). 1809 Apr. 30. Lanson Porter, son of Ezra Brainard. May 7. Edwin Brainard, child of David Bonfi, June 5. Anna Spenser. July 2. Timothy Beals, an infant of mine. 16. Ezra Kelsey; and Esther Irena, an infant of James Walkley 's. 280 BAPTISMS Aug. 6. Sally, wife of Nathaniel Hull, & Hannah, Lorinda, & Florilla, his & her children. Sept. 3. Esther Brainard; and William Augustus, infant of Clark Selden. 10. Fanny Hazelton. Oct. 8. Chauncey Andrews; and Benjamin Hart, Erasmus Dar- win, & Chauncey Walter, his children. 22. Martha Spenser and Larassy Eay; and also Mary- Ann, Denison Arnold, James Hazelton, & Collings Clark, children of James Spenser; also Ursula, Almah Eliza, Alvah Whittlesey, Delia Ann, & Gilbert, children of Eli Hubbard. 29. Submit Arnold, wife of Seth Arnold; and James Clark & Mary Higgins, their children; and Simeon, William Pliilow, Martha, Joseph Dana, and Susannah, children of Joseph Spenser. Nov. 19. (By Mr. Vail) Samuel Kichardson, Clarissa, Heber, Tiras, & Davis Smith, children of Heber Brainard. — — . [1810?] Hancy Hubbard & Esther Spenser; Florilla and Edwin Almon, children of Asahel Smith; & Jonathan, child of Jonathan Huntington. 1810 Apr. 25. David Brooks, a grandchild of Eichard Knowles. — — . Josiah Curtis, a child of Ww. Prudah Arnold's. June 3. Thomas Skinner. — — . Joseph Brooks, an infant of Job Hubbard's. Aug. 5. Eichard Skinner, and Martha, wife of E. Skinner; Jen- net, John, Henry Edwin, Alexander & Catharine Pond, children of Margaret May. 19. Sylvester, Eichard, Selden, Martha, Orrin, Dolly, Sybbel, Darius & Nelson, children of Eichard Skinner; Phi- la tta Eussel & Sally Maria, children of Willard Glad- den, 23. Lewis, Zebed & Pruella, children of Eeuben Bailey. 26. by Mr. Eich, Unice a child of Joseph Spenser, Jr. — — . John Edwin, Mirta Monimia, & Frederick Edway, chil- dren of Linus Parmalee. Sept. 30. Desire Spenser, wife of Elizur Spenser; & David, Desire, Elizur, and Alanson his children; Susan, Davis, Electa, Esther Smith & Julia, children of George Kelsey. Oct. 28. Abigail Thomas 2d. Nov. 4. Hannah Ventres, wife of John Ventres; Anna Shayler, wife of Ira Shayler; & Alvah, Livah, Fisk, Henry Lyman, Mary Ann, & Ira Wells [her children] ; Nancy, dau. of Ww. Candice Clarke. 281 Apr. 5. 28. May 5. 19. July 5. 14. Aug, Sept. Oct. 25. 22. 27. Nov. 17. 24. HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Nov. 18. Lydia Brooks, wife of James Brooks. Dec. 2. Charlotte Griffin, dau. of Betsey Clarke. 3. Hannah, Hezekiah, Fanny, Stephen, David Smith, James, Elisha King, Calvin Usher & Heman, children of James Brooks. 1811 Teb. 3. Mary Rebekah, an infant of James Brook's; Nathan Willcox, an infant of Clark Selden 's. Emery, a child of Reuben Bailey. Marietta, an infant of Nathaniel Hull 's. Elijah, an infant of Ezra Brainard's. Parmenas, an infant of Richard Skinner's. Orren Griffin, a child of Betsey Clark's. Martha Eugenia, a child of Heber Brainard's, (by Dr. Lyman). Matthew Dickinson, my own child. James, a child of James Kelsey 's. Mary Anne, a child of David Walkley's; Thomas Hub- bard, a child of Elisha Clarke's. Reuben, a child of Ira Shayler's. by Mr. Hovey, Henry Leander, infant of Thomas Church 's. 1812 Eeb. 2. Albert Picket, a child of Jehiel Hulls. Mar. 22. Sarah, a child of Jonathan Huntington 's. May 24. Elizabeth Tamssin, a child of George Burr's. June 14. Davis Brainard, a child of David Bonfoey. Aug. 9. Thomas, a child of James Brook's, Jun. Sept. 13. by Mr. D, Selden, Cinthia, a child of James Kelsey 's. Oct. 1. Aaron Bushnell, a child of Aaron Dickinson's on ac- count of its grandmother Bushnell. 18. Ireua, an infant of Job Hubbard's. 1813 Edmund Clarke, a child of Clarke Seldens. Theron Hart, infant of Chauncey Andrews. Juliana, infant of Joseph Spenser's [Rev. Mr.] (Mills). Sally Parthena, a child of Elijah Brainard's, (by Mr. Selden). Charlotte, an infant of Seth Arnold's. Jonathan Edwards, my own child. Clarissa, an infant of Richard Skinner's. 282 Jan. 3. May 23. July 25. Aug. 8. 15. Oct. 3. 31. Mar. 6. 27. Apr. 17. June 12. July 10. 31. Aug. 14. Sept. 4. 25. BAPTISMS Nov. 7. William, an infant of Ezra Kelsey's. 30. Eufus, a child of Eufus Tyler's, on account of its grandfather Higgins. 1814 Calvin Edward, an infant of Nathl. HuU's. Epaphras, infant of Aaron Dickinson's (Huntington). David Brainerd, an infant of James Kelsey's. Florilla, an infant of David Bonfoey's. Mary Ann, an infant of Asahel Smith's. David Clark, an infant of James Brook's. Charles Parmalee, an infant of Thomas Church's, (by Dr. Lyman). William Hart, an infant of David Walkley's, (by Dr. Lyman). Cynthia Spencer, an infant of George Burr's. Harriet & Hannah Mariah, children of William Scran- ton. Nov. 6. Hezekiah Brainerd, Harriot Higgins, Jonathan Wells, Erwin White, Lucy Ann, children of Ww. Sybbyl Smith. 13. Lydia Maria, an infant of Jeremiah Gates'. 1815 May 14. Stephen, infant of Elisha Clark's. Sept. 17. Stephen Johnson, my own son. Oct. 15. Henry, infant of Ezra Kelsey's. Jan. 6. [1816?] Aaron, infant of the widow of Aaron Dickin- son. 1816 Mar. 17. Williams, infant of Job Hubbard's. Apr. 21. Elizabeth, infant of Dea. Huntington, (by Mr. King). May 19. Harriet Moriah, an infant of Seth Arnold's, (by Mr. Parsons). June 16. Permela, an infant of Ezra Brainerd 's. 30. Eussel, infant of Jeremiah Gates. Eussel Stevens, infant of Thomas Church, Junr. July 9. Elizabeth Ann, Albert Merwin, James, Harriet, George, Martha Smith, Chauncey, Nancy & Hezekiah, children of James Clark. Aug. 18. Amelia, an infant of Willard Gladding 's. Sept. 1. George Watson, infant of George Burr. 29. Andrew Galor, infant of Joseph Spencer's. 283 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Oct. 6. Jason, an infant of James Kelsey's. Nov. 24. Stephen Johnson, my own son. 1817 May 25. Sally Mariah, infant of Nathl. Hull's; Chauneey, in- fant of Ezra Kelsey's. June 1. Mary Anna Smith. 8. Ann, infant of Elisha Qark's, (by Mr. Seltlen). July 6. Louisa Delia, Orpah Irena, Bulah, Clarissa, Lucy Ann, Claudias Lysias, Caroline, Jonathan k Jarecl, chil- dren of Eliab Smith's; James Clark, infant of James Walkley's; Amelia, infant of David Bonfoey's. 27. Lydia Ann, infant of Wm. Scranton's. Sept. 7. EUza Brainerd. Oct. 19. Davis, infant of Asahel Smith's. Nov. 2. William Knowles. Eecord Icept by the Rev. John Marsh. 1819 Jan. 17. David Clarke Hubbard & Temperance his wife; Panny, "Wife of Daniel Brainard; Stephen Brooks; Dorothv, Wife of Phinehas Brainard; Sally, Wife of Heman Childs; Daniel Thomas; Joseph Shaler; Alfred Skinner; Orpha, Wife of George Brainard; Alice, Wife of Simon Arnold; James Brooks; Martha, Wife of Heber Brainard; Arnold Hazelton Hayden; Watson Luther Boardman; Samuel Berry ; Benjamin Kelsy; George Gilbert Childs; Daniel Mor- gan; Oliver P. Smith; Marquis De La Payette Thomas; Martha Brooks; Wealthy Atiti Brooks; Eoxana Hayden; DoUy Clarke; Clarissa Button; Harriet Clarke; Jedidah Hazelton; Elisabeth Dickinson; Marv' Dickinson; Philinda Brainard, — ^Adults received into the Church. Maria & Da-vid, children of Arehelaus Tyler; Harriet & Charlotte Cordelia, children of Widow Sally Ray; Sally Maria, dau. of Charles Smith, bapt. on the mother's account; 284 BAPTISMS Jan. 17. Martha Maria, Mary Smith, Jenette May, Simon, Susan Clarke, children of Simon Arnold, bapt. on the mother's account; Chauneey Hazelton & George Roberts, cliildren of George R. Baily. 24. Fanny, Daniel, Emma, Hezekiah Smith & Xancy Smith, children of Daniel Brainard; Armenia Maritta, John Ogden, children of David C. Hubbard ; George Alanson, Heman, Alexander, Mary Ann & Han- nah, children of Heman Childs, bap. on the mothers account ; William Wheeler & Sally Maria, children of Saml. Smith. 31. Sally Maria, Oliver, David Hubbard, Solomon, children of Solomon Walkley Jr. Feb. 21. William Ogden, Nancy Minerva, Gilbert, George Baily, Daniel Comstock, Lydia & Samuel, Children of Daniel Thomas. Mar. 7. Nathan Tyler; Wells Knowles; Eliott Brainard; Dolly Smith & Esther Tyler — Adults received into the church. Apr. 4. Job Hubbard Jr. & Winslow Higgins. — Adults ree. into the church. 26. Catharine, dau. of Henry Smith. May 2. Selden Tyler & Willard Gladwin — Adults rec. into the church ; Edward Higgins, son of Widow Esther Tyler. 9. Hepzibah, daughter of Joseph Spencer, bap. on Mother 's ace 't. 16. Orpha Matilda, dau. of Selden Gladwin ; Jerusha, d. of James Kelsy, bap. on Mother 's ace 't. 23. Lucinda, Stephen Elijah, Susannah, George Brainard, Leander, Children of Orin Smith; Almyrine, Martha Annah, Mary, Laura Brainard, Fanny & Harriet, Children of Asa Young; Fanny, Whitney, Daniel & Betsy, Children of Heze- kiah Sco\al bap. on Mothers account: — baptised by Rev. Mr. Vail of Hadlyme. June 6. Heman Childs; — Adult rec. into the ch. ; Ursula, John Brainard, La%'inia, Emily, Elisabeth, children of Wid. Huldah Smith; Sally Ann, Alpheus Wells & Tamzin Hart, children of Wells Knowles. Aug. 1. Edward Rutty; Hannah, W of James Brooks 2d; Anna W. of Wm. Ely; Abigail Brainard: — Adults Rec. into the Ch. Ruth Elisabeth, d. of Daniel Thomas; Sarah, d. of Ezra Kelsy ; Temperance Lauretta, d. of David C. Hubbard ; John Smith & Hepzibah Ann, children of Amzi Lee; 285 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Awg. 1. Jarod ITuntiiif;toii, Joseph Niloa, Electa Maroa, ehil- ilreii of .lose|ili Sluiler; Enos RraiiiHiil, Jemiiiui, Halsey, Mary Aim, IToinan Atwooil, children of Israel Thomas, bapt. ou Mothers account. 8. Aiulicw Wheeler, Enialine, Hezikiah Chuk, Mary Je- riLslia, .lamias William, Children of Jauies Brooka 2d; iVeheniiah, son of Calvin lirainard. 29. Alfred Denton, son of Alfred Skinuor; Carlos liola, son of Moses Tylor. Sept. 5. Georyci Washin^ti>n, IJachel & Samuel Evelyn, Ch. of Danit'l Pickinson Jr.; Mar}j;aret, dan. of Daniel Brain- anl ; Seth Slialer, son of Seth Arnold; Selden Henry & lOlisabeth h'andel, ch. of Selden Tyler. Oct. 10. Mary Ann, d. of Aaron Brainard. Bap by Mr Ilotch- kiss. Nov. 7. Asa, Philester, Phinelias, Diodate, Rebekah Brooka & Sarah Ann, Chihlreu of IMiineas Brainard, Bap ou mothers Acct. ; Rebekah Spencer d. of Orin Smith. 1820 Feb. 5. John, Son of Ileman Childs, bap. in private. Apr. 30. Angelino Maria d. of Amzi Lee; Cieorti;e Smith, son of George S Brainard, & Abigail driswold d. of Davis Smith, baj) on their mothers account. May 6. Zillah Kelsy, adult received into the Church. June 18. Ilezekiah son of Ilez. Scovil. 25. Leander Austin, Son of George R Baily. July 2. James, Rnssel, Erasmus, Sophia, Orlando, Henry Star- key, Malantha, William Jones & Julian, Children of Janu's Gladwin; Anah Maria, d. of David Grannis. 23. Ezra, son of Ezra Brainard, bap by Rev Mr Hotchkiss. Aug. 6. Gilbert Selden, sou of Selden Gladwin. 27. Job Edwards, son of James Brooks 2d. Sept. 10. Dolly (!larko, d. of David Walkly & Samuel Davis Son of Phinehas Brainard, baj) by Mr Field. Oct. 1. Jerusha, Maxamilla, Nathan, William Smith, Elisabeth, Tamzin & Chauucey Stephens, Children of Nathan Tyler. 11. Esther Maria & Susan Brainard, children of George Burr, and Jared, son of Elisha Clark, Bap in pri- vate. Nov. 16. John Ely, bap. & admitted into the Church in private, having the consumption; 286 BAPTISMS Nov. 16. Whitmore, Hannah, Charlotte Brooks, Harriet & Wil- liam, Cliildren of John Ely, bap in private. Dee. 3. Harris, Esther, Wilson, Titus, John & David Warner, Children of the Widow of Harris Baily. 1831 Feb. 3. Wealthy, Wife of Mathew Hubbard; Simon Hazelton; Laura Knowles; Susan Dickinson; Martha Stephens & Eliza Burr, — Adults received into the Church. Jared, Joseph, Owen Brainard, Children of Jared Ar- nold baptised on the Mothers acct. ; Mary Johnson & Henry Edwin, Chil. of Linus Parmele, Jr., bap. on Mothers account. Mar. 3. Thomas Clarke Smith & Harriet Smith,— Adults ; Worthington Chauncey, Maria Lyman & Mary Elisabeth, Chil. of John Butler Bap. on Mothers acct. Apr. 1. Cynthia Child, — adult rec. into the Church. 15. Emily, Talcot, Dolly, Lucy Ann, Nelson & Martha Maria, children of the Widow Lucy Wheeler. 22. Mary Eebekah, Timothy Brooks, Julian, Elisabeth & Katharine, Children of Matthew Hubbard bap. on Mothers account by Mr. Smith of Durham. May 12. Joseph Selden, son of Selden Huntington ; & Lucy Southmaid, d. of Widow Elizth. Clarke, bap. by Mr. Beardslee. 20. Andrew, son of Doctor A. F. Warner, bap. on Mothers acct. June 3. Sidney Smith Hazelton & Mary, Wife of Asa Higgins, —Adults; & Timothy Oskar, son of James Gladwin. July 8. Horace Arnold and Sylva his Wife; Susannah Dickin- son; Almira Skinner, — Adults; & Brittania Amelia d. of Simon Hazelton. 22. Joseph & Benjamin, Twin Children of Ezra Kelsy; & Sylvanus Smith, Abigail Higgins, Oliver & Ezra Brainard, — Children of Oliver West, — Baptized by Mr. Eobbins of Kensington. Aug. 26. Susan, Ezra & Marinda Ann,— Children of Asa Hig- gins; & Amelia, & Jerusha Abigail, — Children of Horace Arnold. Sept. 2. Ezekiel Clarke,— Adult. 9. Abigail Elisabeth & Esther Maranda, Children of Saml. Tyler, bap. by S. P. Williams. 30. Charles Smith, s. of Aaron Brainard, bap by Mr. Tenny. 287 HADDAM CHUKCH ANNIVERSARY 1822 Feb. 11. Julia Brooks, d of Asa Young, bap by Mr, Hotchkiss. Apr. 21. Rebekah Maria & Mary Florilla,— Children of Thomas C. Smith. May 5. Huldah Smith,— Adult. 12. David, son of Jonathan Huntington & Elisabeth, dau. of Daniel Brainard, bap by Mr. Wittemore. 19. Abigail Buckley, dau. of Davis Smith; Ursula, dau. of George Brainard; Mariet, ag. 12, d. of Susan Dick- inson; Chauncey Martin, son of David Grannis; Edmund Porter, s. of Samuel Smith; Anna Maria, d. of Simon Hazelton & Elisabeth Mary, d. of Moses Tyler. 26. Edwin son of Heman Child. June 30. Tamzin Elisabeth, d. of Selden Gladwin & son of Widow Jemima Baily. July 7. Solomon Everitt, s. of George R. Baily. 21. Matthew, s. of Matthew Hubbard, bap in private. Aug. 11. Daniel Ransom, s. of Joseph Shailer. Sept. 1. Ezra, Samuel, Esther, Persa & Titus, — Children of Ja- cob Brainard, bap on his Wifes account. 20. Elisabeth d. of Edward Rutty & Martha Jane, d. of James Brooks 3d, Bap by Mr. Crane. Nov. 10. Lydia Maria d. of Henry Smith. 1823 Christopher son of Selden Tyler. Susan White d. of Thomas Skinner. Lucinthia Cone, d. of Dr. Andrew Warner, m. ace. Elisha Bardwell, son of James Gladwin; & d of Oliver West. Sylva, d. of Horace Arnold; Sabra Denison d. of Saml. Tyler, m. ace. Nancy Clark d. of Hurlburt Swan, m. ace.; & Amelia d. of Bonfie, m. ace. Charlotte, d. of Jonathan Spencer, m. ace. Amos Gilbert Hubbard grandchild of Jemima Baily offered by her. Sept. 7. Jerusha, wife of Cornelius Brainard; & Nancy Maria, d. of Seth Arnold. 20. Jonathan Smith, son of Samuel Kelsy, on mother's account; & Jennette May, dau. of Linus Parmele, m. ace. Nov. 9. Drusilla Ann, d. of Comfort Cone; Lois d. of Ezra Brainard. ■ 288 ]\Iay June 4. 18. 25. 1. 22. July 3. Aug. 17. 31. BAPTISMS 1824 28. Sarah Waterman, d. of Hezekiah Brainard, bap. in pri- vate. , 14. Jared, s. of Ezra Kelsy, bap by Mr. Talcott, on m ac. 18. Martha Griswold & Mary Johnson, Twin children of Davis Smith on m. ace. 2. James Kelly Child ; Darius Dickinson ; David Dickinson ; Timothy Tyler & Harriet his vdfe; Dudley Clarke; Susannah, Wife of Stephen Dickinson; Mary, wife of John Dickinson; Beulah Child; Larissa Shailer; Nancy Shailer; Fanny Tyler; Dorothy Tyler; Delia Brainard; Susan Brainard & Sally Maria Dickinson, — Adults received into the Church. 23. Darius Leander, Warren Williams, Alfred Shailer & Aaron Ogden, — Children of Darius Dickinson; Sarah, daughter of Ansel Smith. 30. Sarah d. of Asa Youngs. i 6. Luther Freeman ; George Clarke & Emily his wife ; Samuel Tyler; George Edgar Baily; Chauncey Allen Dickinson; Wd. LycUa Sherman; Orpah Ann Carter; Hannah Dickinson & Mary Ann Clarke, — Adults re- ceived into the Church. 13. Charles, Jennet & Timothy, Three children of Timothy Tyler ; & Cynthia d. of bap. by Mr. King. 27. Samuel, son of Deac Jonathan Huntington; Edwdn, s. of Heman Child ; Newell Judson s of George E. Baily ; Maria d of Elisha Clarke; William Ely s. of William Mather; Julia Emely, Orpha Lois, Barsheba & David Ogden, 4 children of David Dickinson. 28. Joseph Spencer s of Saml. Smith bap in private. 27. Cynthia d. of Hezekiah Scovil. '• 4. Lucy, wife of Aaron Brainard & Mehitable w. of Elijah Williams, — Adults. 11. son of Linus Farm el e, m. ae. 18. , — of Sylvester Brainard. 25. Southworth, — of Daniel Dickinson; & John An- drew, Nancy, Sophia & Samuel 4 children of John Dickinson. f. 1. Alvan Brainard & Elisabeth his wife. 15. Luther Augustus, Esther Cordelia & Temperance Ke- bekah Three children of Luther Fteeman. 29. Hezekiah Smith, Israel Shailer & John, — Three children of George Clark; & Caroline, Hancey Maria & Betsy Ann — Three children of . t. 5. Julian d. of Daniel Thomas. r. 7. Margaret Julian d of James Gladwin; & Chatfield s of Elizur Spencer, m. ac. 12. Elisabeth Amanda d. of Skinner. 19 289 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVERSARY 1825 Feb. 20. Sarah Ann d. of Simon Hazelton. Apr. 24. Orpah Clark d of George Brainard, m. ae. May 15. Clarissa Cone d. of Ansel Smith. 22. Ann Lord d of Arnold H. Hayden. 29, Sylvester, s. of Darius Dickinson; Wells s. of Timothy Tyler; Henry Bulkley s. of Revitio Chapman, m. ac. ; , children of Alva Shailer; Silas, son of Gid- eon Gladwin; , [child of j Alvan Brainard. Aug. 28. Persia Maria d. of Jacob Brainard, m. ac. Sept. 3. of Howell Bowers. 18. John Brainard s. of Jonathan Arnold, m. ac; Ursula, d. of Samuel Tyler. Oct. 2. William Henry, son of Dr. Andrew F. Warner, deceased ; Lucinda, daughter of Horace Arnold; Ellen, d. of Selden Tyler; Sarah Elisabeth d. of Russel Gladwin, mothers account. Nov. 6. Esther Brainard d. of Edward Rutty; Samuel Church s. of Samuel Smith; DeWitt CUnton, s, of George Burr, ra. ac. 1826 Feb. 5. John Tallmadge, son of John Marsh, born Dec. 17, 1825. 19. Joseph , son of Asa Young, bap in private by Mr. Case; & Catharine, & , Twin children of Ezra Kelsy. June 11. James Hurlburt & Albert Oscar, children of Hurlburt Swan m. ac. ; Harriet Frances, d. of Abraham Hubbard, m. ac; & Sarah Jane, d. of Davis Smith, m. ac. 16. Joseph s. of Hezekiah Scovil. Aug. 6. Henry Smith s of Benjamin Kelsy; & Pamela d. of Skinner, m. ac. 10. James Curtiss s of Simon Hazelton bap in private. Sept. 3. Urban Eldrige son of George R Baily. 17. Catharine d. of Deacon Jonathan Huntington. Oct. 8. Amelia Melissa, d of Benanuel Bonfie m. ac. 15. Jared Smith, son of Seth Arnold deceased; & Sally Elisabeth, d. of Gideon Gladwin. 1827 Apr. 15. Ansel Davis, s of Ansel Goflf, m. ac. 22. Andrew Hosmer son of Selden Gladwin, June 24. Arnold Hazelton s. of Arnold H Hayden; Joseph Al- bers s of Deacon Asa Young; & Mary Brainard d. of William Mather, 290 BAPTISMS July — [Henry] Austin s of Smith Ventress, m. ac. 15. Lucinthia d of Dr. Ira Hutchinson m ac. 22. Lomsa d of Jonathan Arnold m ac. 29. Maroah d of David Dickinson. Aug. 6. Samuel son of Howel Bowers. 20. Octavia CeiUa d of David C. Hubbard; & Emily d of Abraham Hubbard, mothers account. 27. Ann d of Edward Eutty. Nov. 25. Lura d of Timothy Tyler; & Ursula d of Alvan Brain- ard. 1828 Feb. 4. Frances Ann daughter of John Marsh. 17. Henry Davis, son of Davis Smith. Mar. — Laura Wife of Alva Shailer. May 4. George Kelsy; Davis Smith; Edmund Hubbard; Bela Burr; Nathan Tyler Dickinson; Nathaniel Matthew; Chauncey Bonfiie ; James Eay & Hancy his wife ; Je- mima Cone aged 60; Esther, w of Simeon Hubbard; Esther Maria Hubbard; Anthea Hubbard; Mary, w. of Sylvester Skinner; Dimmis Eay; Hope Eandall Lord; Caroline Mehitable Usher; Mary Elisabeth Dickinson; Huldah Spencer; Laura Dwight; Har- riet Hubbard; Electa Burr; Hannah Burr; Eoana Porter Smith; Merinda Ann Smith; Nancy Tibbels; Elisabeth Ann Clarke; Hannah Brooks & Margery Maria Dickinson, — 28 [29] Adults received into the church. 11. Philo Ives, son of Ansel Warner, mothers ac. & Elisa- beth Jemima, d. of Smith Hazelton. 25. Charles Alia Tyler Dickinson, Achsah Ann, Elisabeth Amelia, Jared, Sidney Griswold & Oswin Smith, Six Children of Arza Dickinson; James Smith & Hannah, Children of James Eay. June 1. De Antheum Hubbard Brainard; Simeon Hamilton Hubbard; Sylva wife of George E. Baily, — Adults 3; Sylva , daughter of G. E. Baily. 8. Miriam Wells, d. of Euel Knowles. 15. John Austin s. of George Brainard. 22. Susan Clarke d. of Benanuel Bonfoey, m. ac. July 6. Joshua Brainard & Lucinda Ann Clark, — Adults; & Children of Widow Fanny Child. 19. John, Mary, Samuel Maverick & George Edward, Chil- dren of George Kelsy. 20. Maria, Martha, Harriet, Sylvester & Nelson, Children of Sylvester Skinner bap. on Mother's account. 27. Alva, Mary Lavinia, Addison, Ira Shailer & Liva, Chil- dren of Ansel Brainard Jr. 291 HADDAM CIIURCn ANNIVERSARY Aug. 3. William White & Laura his wife, Adults; & Hciuan & (Jeorge, children of Widow Hannah Jirooks. 17. Ezra, Shalor, AHahel Wheeler & Jared, children of Sim- eon Hubbard, m. ac. & Simon Adisou, s. of Simon Hazelton. 28. Leander Davis & Florella Ann, children of Edwin Smith, Sept. 7. Benjamin Willard, Linus Burr, JamoB Benison, Lusina JoiinHon, & Jonathan Edwards, Children of Benjamin Smith. 21. Olivia d of Alva Shailer. 27. Fanny Lovina, Borace Watson, Cynthia Sophrona, Cla- rissa Matilda, Maria Shailer, Jerusha Thomas, Rich- ard & Martha ATin, ("hildren of Asahel Bonfie; David Boardman Phelps adopted son, & Mary Frances daughter of Watson Jioardman. Oct. 12. Samuel Hobart, son of llurlburt Swan. 26. Lydia Manilla d of Samuel Tyler. Nov. 3. Sydney b. of Jacob Brainard. 1829 Apr. 7. Leveret, s. of Dr. Ira Hutchinson; & Emmons m ac. June 24. Huldah Ann d. of Davis Kclsy, m. ac. July 12. of Ruel Knowles. Aug. 16. Eliza d, of Howell Bowers. 23. James s of Smith Hazelton; Jerusha Ann, Cyn- thia Maria, Ada Eliza, Benjamin Franklin & Dwight Clinton, Children of Asa Mitchell. Sept. 13. Louisa Elisabeth d of Samuel Smith. 20. Josephine d of Hez. Scovil. 27. George Burr, s. of Benjamin Smith; Joseph, s. of Ansel Smith; & Esther Tyler d. of Arza Dickinson. Oct. 7. Mary Brimmer, d. of Rev. John Marsh, bap by Mr. Hotchkiss. Nov. 15. Randolph s. of Arnold H. Hayden; Davis Tyler s. of Horace Arnold; of Edward Rutty & Henry — of Davis Smith. 1830 May 2. , [George O, son] of Ansel Warner m ac. 9. Harrison son of Ansel Brainard. 23. S. Matilda — of Chauncey Skinner. 30. Maria Jane d of Watson Boardman. July 5. Leander, s of Eber Brainard 2d m. ac. 292 BAPTISMS Aug. 1. Theodore Frelingheuseii, s. of Hurlburt Swan; & Asahel Carlos s. of Asahel Bonfie. 22. Orret Lodisha d of Edwin Smith. 1831 Apr. 25. Stephen Nelson g. of Eussel Gladwin. May 23. Prancis Louisa d of Asahel Bonfie m ac & Eveline d of Dr. Ira Hutchinson & Mary Emma d of George S. Brainard. June 12. Laura Louisa d of Eev. John Marsh; & Clarissa Cone d of Clarissa Loveland deceased. 26. Julian, Hezekiah, John Spencer & Miriam Maria, Chil- dren of Alfred Brainard Mothers account. July 3. Wealthy wife of George W. Smith, Frances, Prudence Cornelia & George Child, Their children; Betsy Wife of Chauncey Child, Charles Chauncey & Cortez Clark, Their children; & Ezra s. of Ezra Kelsy. Sept. 2. George Eliphalet & Eobert, Children of Eliphalet Smith bap. in private, m. ac. 3. Cyprian Strong Brainard, adult, & Cyprian Strong his son; Willard Cook and Abigail his wife, Ansel Brainard & Abby Florilla, their children; Delia Elisabeth d. of Alanson Brainard; Edwin Smith & Nancy Shailer, Adults. 10. John s. of Jonathan Arnold, m. ac. 21. Sarah Philanda d of Asa Brainard bap. in private. 25. Hepzibah Lavinia d of Gideon Brainard. Oct. 2. Emily Sophia d of Darius Dickinson; Ezra Watrous s. of David Tyler; & Elisabeth Hannah & Harriet New- ell, ch of Daniel Dickinson. 23. s. of Chapman Emmons m. ac. 30. Orlow Wells s. of Comfort Cone; & Hannah FloriUa d of Alva Shailer. Nov. 6. Alexander Whittlesy Hall; David Knowles & Charlotte Wife of Chauncey Skinner; Andrew Curtis, s. of A. W. Hall; & Helen Fordham d of Watson Boardman. 20. Ursula Lucinda d of Smith Hazelton; & of Eliphalet Smith. 1832 Feb. 28. Jared Shailer, s. of Simon Hazelton bap in private. June 3. s. of Irwin Smith. 293 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY June 17. Cyrus Willison s. of De Antheum Brainard; & Nathan Porter s. of Bela Burr. July 1. Ansel Gardner s. of Ansel Warner; Orville Wlieeler s. of Hezekiah Brooks; & Elisabeth d of Horace Arnold. 22. of Ruel Knowles. 29. d. of Deacon Youngs. d of Ansel Brainard. d of Jacob Brainard. Aug. 26. Olive Alvira d. of Edwin Smith. Thomas Edward s. of Saml. Smith. Catharine Rebekah, d of Benjamin Kelsy. Sophia d of Alvan Brainard. Sept. 23. Ellen Harmonia d of Benj. Smith. Oct. 11. Eugene Burtis s. of Cyprian Brainard. 1833 Mar. 10. son of Howell Bowers in private. 24. John Ira s. of Dr Ira Hutchinson. 31. Theodore s. of Russel Gladwin; & Julian & Gamaliel Pratt, ch. of Daniel Thomas. Oct. 31. Cornelia Jane d of Mr. Reed m. ac. ; Rovira Judson d [s] of Selden Gladwin; & Mary Jane, d of Bonfie. 'Record Tcept ty the JRev. Tertius S. Clarice. 1834 — — B. Bonfoi. Aug. 25. J. C. Arnold. 31. Mary Elizabeth d. of Hoel Bowers. Sept. 21. Benja. Wilson, son of Benj. Kelsey. Oct. 11. Susan Palmer, daughter of Mr. Smth, Burr District. Nov. 20. Sarah Ann, d of Dr. Hutchinson. 23. Hezekiah Clark, son of D. C. Dickinson. 1835 Apr. 20. Almanza Murella, d of D. C. Hubbard. May 3. Mary Marshall, d of Rev T. S. Clarke; Susan, d of Mrs. Gorge Flagg; & Eliphalet Smith (adult). 24. Aristarchus, son of Deacn. J. Huntington; Emily Si- lence, d of S. Huntington; & Adrian Morrison, son of C. S. Brainard. 294 BAPTISMS May 31. Francis Ginett, son [dau.] of Darius Dickinson; & Wil- liam Wilson, son of Willard Knowles. June 7. John, son of George S. Brainard. July 11, Franklin, son of Eussell Gladwin. 18. Abba Maria, d of Mr. Eeed. Aug. 23. Sidney Smith son of S. Hazleton. Sept. 6. children of Wd. Mary Ann Cone. 13. Ansel Brainard. Samuel Smith. 27. John Whittlesey & Anna Maria, children of De Anthem Brainard. Oct. 18. Catharine Whittlesey, d of A. W. Hall. Harriet, d of Alva Shailer. Nov. — Cornelia Ann d of Ansel Brainard Jr. 1836 May — Jane OrmeUa, d of Joseph Burr 3d. July — Laura Louisa, d of H. Scovil. Lynde EUiot, son of John May. Sept Edgar Ezekiel Son of Ezekiel S. Clark, (by Mr. Mead), Oct. 23. OUver Smith Son of Alfred Brainerd 2d; & Mary Emily d of Hezekiah Child (Mr. Crosby). Nov. 6. Ezra Leander Son of Heber Brainerd Jr (Mr. Crosby). 1837 Jan. 1. Augustus Cone son of Ira Hutchinson, (Mr. Crosby). Mar. 19. Catharine, D. of Eev. Tertius S. Clarke, by Mr. Field. 21. Stephen, s. of Enos Smith & Harriet his wife, Do. Apr. 2. James TuUy, s. of George Kelsey, Do. Becord Tcept by the Bev. David D. Field, Nathaniel Cook. Clarinda Almanza, infant of Sylvester Brainerd. John Watson, infant of Watson L. Boardman. Joseph Brooks, infant of Gilbert Crook. Sarah Ellen, infant of Erwin White Smith, by Eev. Stephen A. Loper. Frances Jedidah, infant of Smith Hazelton. Cynthia Sophia, Catharine Cordelia, Caroline Cornelia & John Edwin, children of Nathaniel Cooke. Oct. 1. Caroline Ann, child of Benanuel Bonfoey. 8. Elizabeth Ann, infant of James C. Arnold; & Emiline, infant of Eoswell Eeed, by Eev. Mr. Shepard. 295 May 14. June 11. 18. July 30. Aug. 6. 27. Sept, 24. Apr. 15. 30. May 6. 17. 20. June 10. 17. Aug. 26. TTADDAM CHTECH AXNTTEESART Oct. 15. Elizabeth, ehild of Jotu May, & Ellen Jedidah, child of DaTid B. Tentres. 29. Xie-vi Hamilton, child of Bela Burr, by Eer. A HoveT. 1838 Benjamin Bpeneer, ehild of Dr. Catlin. IjTicena Ann, child of George Brainerd. Mary, -wife of Kathaniel Cook. John Austin, ehild of Ansel Warner. Theodore Eranklin. child of Eussel Glad-win. Annah Colton, child of Ansel Brainerd; Thomas Hubbard, child of Chauneey Deming Skinner; i Whitney Tyler, eMld of Wido-w Elizabeth Bco-dL Charles WeUs, child of Hiram Brooks. Prances Amelia, infant of Oliver P. Smith (by Mr. Parsons). Bept. 30. Susan Parmer, child of Enos Smith; George Bacon, child of Gould Campbell; & Mary PMlindia, child of Milton Brooks. Oct. 1-4. Sylvester Erzy, child of De Anthon Brainerd. Dec. 23. Alexander Curtis, infant of Alexander C. Hall. 25. Chauneey, ehild of Chaxmeey Dickinson. 1839 !Feb. 26. Aurelia Isdore, ehild of Arza Dickinson. Mar. 24. John Elbert & Philo Pranklin, children of Arza Dick- inson. June 30. Nancy Clarke, adopted child of Hurlbert B-wan; Henry Ed-win, child of John May; & Susan Louisa, child of Ebenezer Cooke. July 28. Clarissa May, infant of Davis Kelsey ; Kehemiah Brain- erd, infant of Da-vid B. A'entres; k Beujamin, infant of Daniel Smith. Aug. 18. rxanees Marsh, infant of Dr. Ira Hutchinson. Sept. 15. Caroline Mahitable, infant of Eos-wel Eeed. Oct. 6. Ursula Brainerd, infant of Arnold H. Hayden; & Simon Albert, infant of Sidney S. Hazelton, by Eev. JNIr. Loper. 13. A-nn Eliza, Lamira, & Alnora, children of Chauneey Dickinson. 1840 May 31. Ellen Calieta, infant of Bel den Glad-win. June 14. Edwin Mar\\in. infant of De Anthon Brainerd. Aug. 30. Francis Winslow, infant of Bela Burr. 296 May 16. 23. June 20. July 4, Sept. 5. 12. Oct. 31. Nov. 1. BAPTISMS 1841 Watson Eugene, infant of Benanuel & Eliza Bonfoey. Gusta%nis, child of Eussel Glach^in. Ellen Sophia, infant of Willard Cooke. Michael Hubbard; & Joseph Whiting. Martha Ely; Albert Scranton; Emily Arm Spencer; & Nancy Tyler. David Brainerd, Sarah Amelia & Jennet Tyler, children of David B. Ventres. Henry Strong, infant of Hiram Brooks. Mary Jane, daughter of Cyrus W. Field of New- York upon the faith of his wife, Mary B. Field. 1842 July 1. Maria Hill, infant of Sydney S. Hazelton. 24. Charles Newell, infant of De Anthon Brainerd. Aug. 14. Franklin Shaler, infant of Milton Brooks. Sept. 25. Mary Catharine, infant of Caroline Usher, wife of Eos- well Eeed; & George Hervey & Egbert Frisbie, children of Freelove Beers, wife of Josiah Beers, by Eev. Mr. Loper. 30. Oliver & Prudence Cornelia, children of Oliver P. Smith. Oct. 10. Statira Emma, child of John May. 1843 Jan. 17. Gideon & Lavinia Elizabeth, children of Gideon Brain- erd. Apr. 29. Wyllys, Hubart & Nancy Maria, children of Aaron L. & Nancy Ayres. July 9. Oliver Brainerd, infant of Enos Smith. 16. Eichard Edwards, infant of John May. Sept. 3. Amelia Sophronia Barry; & Antoinette Maria Hub- bard. Nov. 19. Gilbert Harrison, child of Ww. Emma Hubbard. Dec. 19. Daniel Benjamin, child of Mrs. Daniel Smith. 1844 Feb. 9. Esther Maranda, infant of Warren W. Dickinson, 25. James CorneUus, Louisa Martha, & Frederic Augustus, children of Joseph O. Eieh, on the faith of his wife Harriet Clark Eich. Mar. 8. Frederic Winchel, infant of Atwood Thomas, on the faith of his wife. 297 nADDAM OnUKOTT ANNIVERSARY Hecord lept hy Dea. George S. Brainenl, Clerk. Dee. 6. Eosabella, a child of Doantheuiu liraiiierd. 1849 Aug. — Josoph Warrpn Bracket, Child of Joseph W. Bracket & Ann Lord Bracket, by Rev. E. W. Cooke. 1850 July — Harriet W. Cooke, Child of Rev. E W Cooko & Martha Cooke. Aug. 31. Iluldah Ursula Smith, Child of O. P. Smith & Phebe H C Smith. 1851 Juno 1. Marvin Norton Brainerd; & William Belden Brain- erd Children of Deanthean & Mary Ann [Sally Maria] Brainerd. 1853 July 17. George Albert Dickinson, Cynthia Ophelia Dickinson, Carrile Annahbille Dickinson, & Erastus Colton Dick- inson, Children of Erastus & M. Dickinson; Alniira Louisa Rogers Chihl of Klihu & Cornelia Rogers; & Alice Ventres Child of David B & Jedidah Ventres. Sept. 4. Harriet Dickinson & ('liauncey Dickinson, Children of Chauncey & Eliza Dickinson. 1863 July 5. Edward IMarveric Kelsey, [child of] S M & Clarissa Kelsey; Daniel Brainerd & George Austin Brainerd, Children of Hubert & Cynthia Virginia Brainerd; Elizabeth Duella Dickinson & Edward Shailer Dickin- son, Children of Erastus S. & Esther Dickinson ; & George Brainerd, Child of John A & Ellen V. Brainerd. 1866 May 6. Everet Ogden Tyler, Walter G. Tyler, & Carlton El- drige Tyler, Children of Nathl. & Frances Dickinson Tyler; & Eva Augusta Brainerd, Child of Sylvester Brainerd. 298 BAPTISMS 1868 Oct. 4. Charles Child Ventres, Son of Tyrus Ventres & Frances Smith [Ventres] ; Ellen [Clara] Jedidah Brainerd, [Child of] J. A Brainerd & Ellen Brainerd; James Hayden Wright, [Son of] James N. Wright & Ursula Hayden Wright; & Maria Smith, [Child of] Osmer & Hannah Smith. Sept. 19. [1869 probably] Henry Owen Brainerd, & Martha Vir- ginia Brainerd, Children of Henry Hubert & [Cyn- thia] Virginia Brainerd. 299 MAERIAGES Record Tcept l>y the Bev. Eleazer May. (The words, "I married . . . together," which ahnost in- variably appear in the original entries, have been omitted in copying, except in the first instance.) , 1756 July 27. Then I Married David Smith and Martha Brooks to- gether. Sept. 4. Stephen Johnson of Middletown and Sarah Ellis of Haddam. 21. Solomon Bates and Wdo Hannah Spicer. Nov. 8. Jeremiah Eay of Haddam and Mehitable Hough or Huff. 1757 May 26. Eleazer Lewis and Abigail Tyler. 26. Elisha Cone and Martha Bates. 1758 Jan. William Barns of New Fairfield and Deborah Gris- would of Haddam. Daniel Bates and Lucy Spicer. 1760 July Joseph Dickenson and Lydia Brooks. June William Marcum and Abigail Willey. 1761 Oct. Frances Clark and Else Smith. 301 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESAEY 1762 Feb. 25, Jeremiah Hubbard and Mary "Wells. Nov. 11. Ezra Shailor and .Terusha Brainerd. 16. Joshua Brooks and Elisabeth Brainerd. 1763 June Joshua Strong of Middletown and Hope Smith of Had- dam. 30. Peter Bich of Middletown and Penelope Bonfoye of Haddam. Nov. 15. Nehemiah Brainerd and Sarah Brainerd both of Had- dam. 1764 Jan, 3, Jonathan Bordman and the Widdow Sarah Smith, 5. James Stephens and Lydia Hazelton. June Isaack Williams and Mary Arnold. Sept. 13. Jabez Brainerd Jr and Deborah Brainerd, Nov. 7. Samuel Lee of Guilford and Agnis Dickinson of Had- dam. Dec. 27. Ezra Tyler and Prudence Eichardson. 1765 Jan. 3. Samuel Shailor and Elisabeth Butler. Feb. 21. i)'d\id Smith and Hannah Brainerd. May 2. Oliver Welles and Ann Brainerd. June Otis Southworth of Saybrook and Nancy Eay of Had- dam. Sept. 3. David Halloburt of Middletown and D Arnold of Had- dam, Sept. Gershom Thairs of Middletown and Susannah Hazel- ton of Haddam. Nov. 2, Charles Sears and Sarah Clarke, Dec. 8. Joshua Brooks and Hannah Smith. 1766 Feb. 6. Ephrajm Baley and Mary Kelley. Oct. Samuel Hurlburt of Middletown and Jerusha Higgins of Haddam. Nov. Bryant Brown of Killingly and Mary Dunbar of Had- dam, Dec, Jacob Catling of Harwington and Dorothy Griswold of Haddam, 302 MAERIAGES 1767 May 30. Stephen Venters and Mary Church. Sept. 17. Jonathan Huntington of East Haddam and Silence Selden of Haddam. Oct. 1. Jonathan Brooks and Hope Baley. 13. William Smith and Esther Brainerd. Dec. Bezaleel Shailor and Susannah Baley. 1768 Feb. 14. David Clarke and Abigail Hazelton, May 11. Abner Ives of WaUingford and Anne Ferguson of Haddam. Sept. 1. Solomon Wakeley and Eebeckah Hazelton. Oct. 6. John Brooks and Esther Brainerd. Dec. 1. Samuell Lord of Lyme and Elisabeth Bates of Had- dam. 1769 Jan. 1. James Merwin and Martha Smith of Haddam. 10. Samuell Spencer and Anne Brooks. Mar. 18. Abner Spencer and Deborah Clarke. ■ Apr. 5. Capt Lemuel Hull of Killingsworth and Widdow Sarah Porter of Haddam. 13. Evan Thomas and Ann Smith. May 24. James Knowles and Martha Smith. June 5. Stephen Clarke and Martha Cone. 7. Aaron Hubbard and Damaris Wakely. Nov. Theodore Eay and Abigail Higgins. 1770 Jan. Samuell Scovil and Euth Chapman. Apr. Samuel Church of East Haddam and Sarah Higgins of Haddam. July John Smith and Widdow Susannah White. Dec. 20. Jepthah Brainerd and Anne Fisk. 1771 Mar. 14. Abraham Spencer and Drusilla Brainerd. May 30. James Arnold and Free Love Wellman. 303 June 3. 26. July 11. Sept. 4. Oct. 10. Nov. 6. 12. 14. HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY William Kelley and Catharine Stillman. Suinll Spencer and Al)iffail Porter both of Haddam. Reuben Brooks and Abigail Cone. OziaH Ridwell of Hartford and Wido Esther Brooks of Hadtlain. Shailor Ilubl^ird and Anno Wakely. Tliomas lliilibard Jr. and Sarah Boardman. JoHcph Seldcn Jr. and Susannah Smith. Capt. Abraham Brooks and the Widdow Elanor Smith. 1772 May John Seldcn of Middle Haddam and Jerusha Clarke of Haddam. Oct. John Mahans of Hartford and Huldah Braincrd of Haddam. Nov. 9. Solomon Tyler of Branford and Dorcas Fisk of Had- dam. 1773 Feb. 10. Nathaniel Brainerd of Haddam and Ann Johnson of Middletovi^n. 11. Joseph Post of Saybrook and Bethiah Higgins of Had- dam. 21. Necho Servant of Lt. Arnold and Tamar my Servant. Mar. Sylvanus Hull of Durham and Phebe Smith of Had- dam. May William Heskell and Martha Porter. James Clark and Marj' White. Justus Augur and Rhoda Allen. June Daniel Braincrd and Susannah Clarke. Aug. Asa Wakely and Elisabeth Thomas both of Haddam. Sept. G. Gideon Baley Jr and Lydia Spencer. Aug. Richardson of East Haddam and Sarah Towner of Haddam. Oct. Jonathan Clarke and Ruth Clarke. James Thomas and Jerusha Clarke. Roger Thomas and Sarah Comstock. Nov. Amos Baley of Haddam and Ruth Gibbs of Chatham. Dec. 9. Isaack Jolinson of Middletown and Anne Towner of Haddam. 14. Henry Rockwell of Middletown and Desire Cone of Haddam. 30. Jonathan Chapman and Mary Smith. y 31. William Gladden and Ama Hotchkiss. 304 MAREIAGES 1774 Jan. 4. Beriah Cone and Ann Thomas. Feb. Joshua Gates Jr of East Haddam and Eunice Fuller of Haddam. Apr. Joseph Burr and Mary Knowles. Joshua Smith and Abigail Knowles. May William Brainerd and Lydia Smith. Aug. Whitmore Crook and Phebe Clarke. Abijah Fuller and Hannah Spencer. Oct. Lewis Smith and Anne Hubbard. "^ Luther Boardman and Esther Smith. Obadiah Dickinson and Susannah Knowles. Nov. 17. Stephen Tryon of Middletown and Prudence Baley of Haddam. 17. Stephen Smith and Esther Church. 1775 May 25. David Hubbard and Hannah Clarke. July Abner Tibbels and Elisabeth Knowles. Nov. 16. Joshua Symons and Helen Stillman. Dec. 9. Benjamin Pelton of Guilford and Hannah Snow of Haddam. 21. Eiehard Bonfoye and the Widdow Eebeckah Treadwell. 21. Thomas Daniels of East Haddam and Lydia Kelsy. 1776 Feb. David Arnold and Jerusha Thomas. Samuel Clark and Susannah Thomas. May 23. Jesse Brainerd and Mary Thomas. July Sylvenus Smith and Eunice Baley. Sept. Porter Brooks and Elisabeth Clarke. Oct. Henry Thomas and Jemima Baley. Dec. 5. John Brainerd and Hanah Hubbard. 1777 Jan. 2. John Scovil and Elisabeth Spencer. Mar. Elias Cone and Euth Crook. May 6. Zacheriah Brainerd and Dorothy Thomas. May David Clarke and Patience Kelley. June 4. Josiah Brainerd and Abigail Lewis. ' Aug. Arnold Hazelton and Mindwell Brainerd. Sept. 23. Cornelius Higgins Jr and Esther Kelsey. Oct. 16. Stephen Spencer and Eunice Augur. Oct. John Smith Jr and Anne Clark of Haddam. 20 305 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY 1778 Jan. 8. Samuel Seo\'il and the Widdow Mary Venters. Jan. Nathan Chase of Yarmoth and Mary Treadwell of Had- dam. Feb. Joseph Crook and Esther Clarke. July Cesar Black and Peg Negro. 27. Doer Eleazer Woodruff and Widdow Abigail Spencer. Nov. 18. Daniel Chapman of East Haddam and Esther Shailor of Haddam. Dec. Danil Clark and Widow Martha Ray. Cephas Selden and Martha Brainerd. 30. EUas Spencer and Abigail Sexton. 1779 May 6. Sylvenus Clarke and Dorothy Smith. 19. Thomas Bailey and Ama Kelley. June 1. Joseph Taylor and Elisabeth Hotchkis. Aug. Stephen Tibbels and Martha Burr. Oct. Reuben Buel of KiUingworth and the Widdow Anne Porter. Dec. John Parmely of Eallingworth and Dorothy Scovil. 1780 Mar. 2. Charles Williams of East Haddam and Susanah Shailor of Haddam. Apr. James Treadwell and Mary Spencer. May 4. Abraham Brooks and Abigail Clarke. July Frederick Smith and Sarah Brainerd. Sept. Ebenezer Sage of Middletown and Diana Bailey. Oct. Eliphalet Clarke and Lydia Thomas. Nov. James Surtliff and Mehitable Clarke. William Clarke and Anne Johnson. Dec. David Thomas and Penelope Bonfoye. 1781 Jan. Johnson and Susannah Spencer. Mar. William Clarke and Christian Baley. May 1. Eliphalet Lester of Saybrook and Mary Smith of Had- dam. Sept. Joseph Stillman of Weathersfield and Huldah Mahans of Haddam. Nov. Thomas Shailor Jr and Widdow Ann Brainerd. Dec. Seth Hand [or Hurd] of KiUingworth and ThankfuU Ray of Haddam. 306 MARRIAGES 1782 Jan. John Hubbard of Middletown and Phebe Brainerd of Haddam. Mar. John Church and Wid. Dorothy Brainerd. William Brainerd and Susannah Tyler. Nov. John Dickinson and Dorothy Scovil. July Hezekiah Whitmore and Elisabeth Brooks. June William Bailey Jr and Euth Thomas. 1783 July John Bailey and Mary Smith. Aurunah Hubbard and Rebekah Bates. May David Brooks of Middletown and Lucretia Sears of Haddam. Oct. Josiah Carey of Middle Haddam and Lydia Clarke. Nov. Nathaniel Hazelton and Sarah Smith, Dec. Reuben Cone and Marger Childs. Abraham Spencer and Sarah Hubbard. 30. Jonathan Russel and Molly Ray. 1784 Jan. Calvin Hubbard and Sarah Knowles. Mr. Edward Selden and my Daughter Sibbil May. Feb. John Willcox and Lois Augur. July Simon Hazelton and Jedidah Smith. Aug. David Johnson of Middletown and Martha Pelton. And Calvin Brooks and Temperance Hubbard. And Walker Knowles and Elisabeth Wells. Sept. Abraham Tyler Jr and Hannah Stephens. (Eecord of next 12 entries imperfect, — leaf torn.) Mr. David Selden and [Cynthia] May. [Samuel Br]ainerd and Anner Burr. y and Martha Clarke. [Joh]n Ventrous and Hannah Ray. m Johnson Jr and Phebe Burr. [Ste]phen Bailey Jr and Lydiae Freeman. m Barns of Middletown and of Haddam. [Noadjiah Cone and Elisabeth Clarke. Sylvester Childs and Mary Cone. [Jona]than Fuller and my Daughter Anne. Calvin Shailor and Sarah Clarke. 307 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVERSARY 1785 June James Smith and Elisabeth [Shailor], Nov. Abijah Bailey and Widdow Cone. 1786 Jan. Joseph Arnold and Widdow Prudence Tyler. Richard Knowles and Hazibah [Bathsheba] Wells. Nathll Tyler Jr and Widdow Towner. Apr. James Childs Jr and Prudence Brainerd. William Nichols and Sarah Shailer. June Richard Skinner and Martha Bailey. Oct. Frederick Brainerd and Anne Brainerd. Dec. Adnah Clarke and ThankfuU Bailey. {Record from 1787 to 1804, defective and irregular ; in this transcript the entries are chronologically arranged.) 1787 Jan. Seymor Kelsey and Sarah Augur. Feb. Joseph Dickinson and Tammy Shailor. Apr. Levi Ray and Susanah Arnold. Amos Cook and Jane Bailey. Aaron C and Sarah Chapman of Haddam. May James Pe and of Haddam. Aug. Josiah Prior of and Sussanah Smith of Had- dam. Nov. -James Smith and Arnold Dec. Humphrey Treadwell and Hannah Thomas. and Timothy Hubbard Jr and Mis [Eunice] Thomas. 1788 Jan. Thomas Bailey and Smith . Lane of Killingworth and Elisabeth Porter of Haddam. Robert Smith and Susannah Kelley. Apr. Benjamin Johnson and Else Smith. May David Spencer and Damaris Brainerd. Sept. Cornelius Higgins Esqr and Widdow Mary Smith. Dec. James Tyler and Esther Dickinson. 1789 Jan. Curtis Smith and Arsenah Brainerd. Amasa Pettibone and Mary Augur. 308 MARRIAGES — — James Bates and Mary Ventrus. — — James Spencer and Mis Clarke the Daughter of Stephen Clarke. Aug. Benjamin Stocking and Dimmis Shailor. Oct. Aaron Thomas Jr and Martha Smith. Nov. Jonathan Hubbard and Sally Thomas. 8. My Son John May and Dolly Arnold. Dec. James Brooks and Caroline Smith, 1790 Jan. Joseph Augui and Samuel Tylers Daughter and Joseph Tyler Jr and AlUce Smith, Feb. Nathan Tyler Jr to one of Ezra Shailors Daughters, Cap: Edmond Porter and Widdow Mary Smith. — — James Brainerd and Edetha Hubbard. — — Ira Shailor and Anne Shailor. — — Joshua Knowles and Concurrence Porter. — — Gideon Brainerd Jr and Hepsibah Hubbard. Oct. Mr, Jesse Townsend of Andover and My Daughter Anne. 1791 Dan Dickinson and Pruda Augur. 1792 Shailer and Mis Ventres. 1793 Jan. Mr. Sears and Mis Knowles. 1794 Dec. 7. William Wells and Prudence May. 1795 Mar. Rich and Brooks. Apr. Eleazer Augur and Abigil Church. June 7. Huntington May and Clara Brainerd. Sept. Mr. Williams of Middletown and Clara Shailer. Russel Shailer and Anne Wells. 309 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESARY 1796 Nov. Heber Brainerd and Martha Tyler. 1797 [Simon] Shailor Son of Asa Shailor and Mis [Dolly] Shailor Daughter of Hez. Shailor. Robert Smith and Sarah Kelly. Asher Smith and Betsey Bidwell. Ephraim Sawyer and Jabith Church. Stephen Dickinson and Susanah Tyler. 1798 Feb. Robert Smith and Sally Kelly. Mar. Jonathan Tyler aod Rachel Porter. June David Smith and Jerusha Hubbard. Oct. Joseph [Warren] Clark and Ruae Shailor [year doubt- ful]. 1799 Jan. 13. Col. John "Wells of Row and my Daughter Elizabeth May. Mar. Simon Smith and Huldah Brainerd. 'Record Tcept ty the Mev. David D. Field. 1804 Sept. 5. Harry Serjeant of Boston to the Wid. Esther Sawyer. 20. Joseph Graves of Middletown to Anne Tyler. 26. James Serjeant of West Springfield, Mass. to Sabry Thomas. Oct. 11. Ephraim Shaylor to Anna Smith. Nov. 6. Simon Arnold to Allice Smith. 14. Heman Child to Sally Thomas. Dec. 21. John Hubbard Junr. of Middletown to Ruth Baily. 1805 Aug. 21. John Buel of Killingworth to Susan Ray. Do. Benjamin Smith to Mary Crane Heydon. Sept. 4. Elisha Stevens to Fanny Smith. Do. Nathan Douglass of Saybrook to Charlotte Tyler. 310 Jan. 1. Mar. 6. June 1. 21. 25. Aug. 14. Oct. 6. 23. Dee. 25. MARRIAGES Nov. 17. Seth Arnold to Submit Baily. Dec. 18 [?]. Asahel Hubbard to Susannah Thomas. 31. Solomon Walklej Jun. to Susannah Brainard. 1806 Eli Hall of New Haven to Martha Clarke, Ellas Bates to Lucinda Wells. David Bonfoey to Dolly Brainard. Asahel Wheeler to Lucy Church. Darius Dickinson to Anna Hubbard. David Dickinson to Bathsheba Dickinson. Parley Dickinson to Clarissa Clarke. Samuel Boardman to Salley Parmalee. Eobert McClester of Enfield to Nancy Cone. 1807 Jan. 1. Nehemiah Brainard Junr. to Eebecca Brooks. 7. Anson Bristol (of N. Elillingworth) to Mary Burr, Feb. 5. Thomas Church to Sarah Cone. 12. Roswel Doan and Heber Kirtling Ray. Mar. 14. David Arnold to Sally Smith. 25. Jonathan Burr to Eunice Hubbard. Aug. 20. Robert Hurd Jun. of E. Haddam to Mary Brainard. Oct. 15. Aaron Waterhous of Saybrook to Esther Dickinson. 19. David Smith Clarke to Huldah Brainard. 22. Hezekiah Knowles to Anna Smith. 25. Lyman Buel of Killingworth to Hannah Ray. Nov. 22. Samuel Kelsey to Fanny Bailey. 25. Macksfield Higgins to Wealthy Brooks. 26. Job Hubbard Junr. to Hannah Brooks. 26. Simeon Morgan, Junr of Middletown to Anna Bailey. Dec. 17. Benjamin Smith to Lydia Burr. 31. Asahel Bonfoey to Jerusha Thomas. 1808 David Shaylor to Anna Brainard. Samuel Church to Mary C. Smith. James Kelsey to Jerusha Brainard. Ezra Smith to Eunice Pettibone. Lemuel White of Hebron to Emily Brainard. Sylvester Hubbard to Clarissa Smith. Josiah Arnold to Prudah Smith. Ira Shayler, Jun. to Jerusha Arnold. Danll. Merwin to Anna Gladding. 311 Jan. 19. 19. Feb. 3. Apr. June 3. 4. July Sept. Oct. 28. 21. 2. 4. /■■ HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Nov. 3. David Tyler to Dolley Clarke. 5. Samuel Bridgam of JVIiddletown to Charlotte Clarke. 24. Jonathan Huntington, Junr. to Elizabeth L. Comstoek of Norwalk. Dec. 15. Stephen Burr to Cynthia Hubbard. 1809 David Douglas of Saybrook to Anne Smith. Wells Knowles and Esther Gladding. Abner Porter and Dolley Scovil. James Treadwell to Polly Clarke. Orren Smith to Ehoda Brainard. Hervey Clarke of Middletown to Betsey Clarke. John S. Sage of Middletown to Almira Sherman. Caleb Tryon of Middletown to Dolly Smith. Henry Nichols of Hartford to Prudence Brainard. Zeal Sherman to Charity Tyler. 1810 Ralph Smith (of Chatham) to Betsey Knowles. Daniel Scovil to Sally Burr. Sylvester Skinner to Polly Smith. ~ James Brooks 2d to Polly Thomas. Elisha Clark to Julia Ann Hubbard. Robert Henry of Middletown to Clarissa Bailey. Wells Rockwell to Anna Griswold of Middletown. Jeremiah Brainard to Esther Sawyer, Warren Ely to Phebe Clarke. WUliam Brainard to Betsey Tyler of New- York. Eoswell Brainard to Laura Sherman. Richard Loveland of Durham to Sally Dunham. Samuel Curtis of Durham to Lucretia Brooks. Selden Dickinson to Betsey Child. Nehemiah Dickinson to Julia Saben of Colchester. Denice Clarke to Prudence Spencer. Roswell Brockway of Saybrook to Catharine Tyler. George Burr to Esther Spenser. Samuel Simons of Hebron to Hancy Hubbard. Thomas Shayler, Junr. to Abigail Tyler. 1811 Jan. 16. Gideon Andrews to Huldah Shayler. 28. Rufus Tyler to Esther Higgins. Feb. 7. Stephen Tibbils, Junr. to Hannah Wright of Killing- worth. 312 Jan. 5. "Feb. 23. Mar. 15. 19. 21. 28. May Aug. Sept. Oct. 21. 3. 7. 22. Mar. 8. 15. Do. Do. Apr, May 17. 24. 30. June 17. 28. July 8. 29. Aug. Sept. Oct, 4. ,24. 3. 25. 28, Nov. 11. 17. 29. Do, Do. Dec, 13. MARRIAGES Apr. 18. Samuel W. Pratt of Saybrook to Elizabeth Brainard. May 18. Asahel Aruold to Euth Perry of Chatham. 25. David Hubbard, Junr. to Julia Dickinson. June 13. Hezekiah Scovil to Hannah Burr. Aug. 12. Calvin Thomas to Temperance Scovil. Sept. 8. Enos Bailey to Adah Burrit. Nov. 6. James Spenser to Soviah Bailey. Dec. 5. James Dickinson to Charlotte Cone. 14. Jonathan Spenser to Sarah Smith. 1812 James Tisdale of Hartford to Frances Brainard. Sylvanus Smith to Esther Knowles. Anson Bates to Sabria Ely. EosweU Brainard to Anna Smith. George W. Smith to Weltha Child. John Butler of Durham to Hannah Brainard. Daniel C. Dickinson to Christiana Clarke. Reuben Cone to Margaret May. Arza Dickinson to Phebe Crook. Ezra Kelsey to Sally Hubbard. WilUam Bradley of Massachusetts to Rachel Clarke. Silas Markham of Middletown to Betsey Brooks. Henry Trowbridge of Chatham to Mary Bailey. Simon Knowles to Susannah Brainard. Riley Smith to Hannah Brooks. Silas Clark to Hannah Higgins. Oliver West of Chatham to Abigail Smith. Samuel Cotton of Middletown to Mary Child. Joseph Clark 3d to Clarissa Dickinson. Lieut. — Pitch of N. Guilford to Mehitabel Willeox of Killingworth. Jacob Brainard to Nabby Bushnell. Joseph O. Ackley of East Haddam to Sally Brainard. Oliver Smith of Middletown to Sophronia Skinner. Richard Waterhous to Alvira Tyler. Samuel Smith to Ann Smith of Bristol. James Smith to Dorothy Sears of Middletown. Hezekiah Sutlift' to Fanny Hubbard. 1813 Jan. 27. Amos Ward of — Massachusetts to Sarah Smith. Mar. 19. William Treat of Middletown to Lydia Brainard, 22. EHas Selden Jun. of Middle Haddam to Clarissa Sears of Middletown. 313 Jan. 1. 5. 16. 23. Feb. 2. 10. 19. 23. 27. Mar. 12. Do. Do. Mar. 21. 26. Do. Do. Apr. 9. 23. May 13. 14. June 13. 15. Aug. Sept. Nov. 20. ,20. 26. 30. Dec. 17. 29. 31. HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Apr. 8. Sylvanus Bailey to Sally Bailey. May 30. Kussel Clarke of Chatham to Sally T. Chilcls. June 17. Sylvester Scovil to Phebe Burr. Sept. 11. Richard Skinner Junr. to Lydia Kelsey. Oct. 8. Jeremiah Gates of E. Haddam to Rebecca Boardman. Nov. 7. David C. Quinley of Petopaug to Lucretia Hubbard of Middletown. 1814 Feb. 1. James Parmalee Jun. of Durham to Cynthia Clark. 22. Solomon Walkley Jun. to Prudence Hubbard. Mar. 7. Asa Fowler of Guilford to Policy Willeox of Killing- worth. May 18. Henry Willeox of Killingworth to Hannah Turner. 26. Henry Clarke of Chester to Mary Tyler. June 23. Stephen Johnson to Lucina Burr. Oct. 10. Challenge Morgan to Mahetable Prior, both of JMid- dletown. Nov. 15. Stephen Hull of Durham to Fanny Brooks. Dec. 12. Smith Hubbard to Anna Bivens of Middletown. 29. Jeremiah Bailey to Maria Bulkley of Durham. 1815 Calvin Thomas to Ww. Sybbil Smith. Heman Brainerd to Maria Hubbard. Henry Williams of Saybrook to Tamzin Smith. George R. Bailey to Silva Lewis. Amzi Lee of East-Haddam to Hepzibah Smith. Felix Spencer to Desire Spencer. Philander Willard to Eunice Parker both of Chester. William Dickinson to Mary Dickinson. Whitmore Crook to Jemima Brainerd. John Smith to Mrs. Cynthia Brainerd. Job Brainerd to Mary Clark. Levi Southworth of Saybrook to Anna Ackley. Bartholomew Bailey to Sally Brainerd of Middletown. Ambrose Arnold to Ww. Mary Bailey. Asa Higgins to Mary Scovil. William Ely to Anna Clark. James Hickox of Durham to Hope Smith. Denison Morgan of Hartford to Ursula Brainerd. Thomas Smith to Anna Willeox. Joseph Rice Shayler to Ursula Shayler. Lyman Willeox to Emily Hubbard. Samuel Spencer of Saybrook to Adah Skinner. 314 Jan. 1. 12. Feb. 2. 9. Mar. 3. 23. Apr. May 13. 3. 4. 16. June 8. July Aug. 6. 28. 31. Do. Do. Sept, , 3. 30. Oct. 10. 26. Nov. 27. 30. Dec. 21. MARRIAGES 1816 Jan. 24. Feb. 1. 24. 25. Mar. 17. Aug. 5. Sept. 7. Oct. 14. 17. 28. 31. Nov. 1. Noah Clarke to Charity Tyler, George Clark to Emily Smith. W [John]. Chatfield Eussel to Clarissa Tyler. Diodate Shayler to Elizabeth Eutty. Leonard F. Waters of Saybrook to Mary Ray. Uriel Andrus to Laura White, both of Coventry. Charles Hurlburt of Chatham to Lucinda Bonfoey. Wm. C. Mather to Martha Ray. Enos Pring to Almira Allen, the former of Durham (blacks). Wm. Edwards of N. York to Amy Arnold of M. Had- dam. James Brainerd 2d to Lydia Knowles. John Phillips of N. York and Clarissa Banks of Mid- dletown, blacks. 1817 Benjamin Bailey to Laurana Tryon of Middletown. Horace Bonfoey to Susannah Smith. Isaac Loomis of M. Haddam to Hannah Smith. Nathaniel Cooke of M. Haddam to Mary Hazelton. Timothy Tyler to Harriet Smith. David Griswold to Polly Lord both of N. KiUingth. Samuel Tyler to Sabra Clark. Alvan Bailey to Julia Smith. Benjamin Bradley of Guilford to Fanny Lynde of Chester. Hervey Hubbard to Ww. Sally Bailey. David Kelsey, Jun. of Killingworth to Elizabeth Will- cox. Stephen Bushnel of Lisbon to Amanda Dickinson. Obadiah Dickinson, Jun. to Martha Smith. Alfred Brainerd Jun. to Esther Smith. 1818 Jan. 1. Elon Willcox to Sarah Cunningham of Glastenbury. Feb. 14. Emera Bailey to Harriet Knowles. Mar. 1. Sylvester Brainerd to Esther Thomas. 11. Gurdon Walkley to Martha Skinner. Apr. 5. William Bartlet of Guilford to Temperance Dickinson. [Oct. 8]. Aaron Brainard and Lucy Smith. Dec. John Shaler and Betsy Ventress by Esq. Shaler. 7. George S. Brainard and Orpha Clark by Rev. David Selden. 315 Jan. 23. Feb. 5. Mar. 11. 23. 26. Apr. 24. May 3. June 12. Aug. 4. Nov. 26. 27. Dec. 8. 13. 30. HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSAEY Becord Icpt &j/ the Scv. John Marsh. 1819 Jan. 4. Isaac E. Sherman of Haddam and Hannah Tyler. 31. Charles Post of Haddam and Sally Bird of New Haven. Feb. 17. Jonathan Brainard and Lydia Brooks. 25. George Cone and Sophia Tyler. May 13. David "Williams and Nancy Aby — people of colour. Oct. 21. Jabez Brainard and Ann Smith. Dec. 1. Oliver Brainard and Esther Smith. 1820 Feb. 17. Elihu Spencer and Hubbard. Aug. 26. Joseph Smith and Abigail Eay. Oct. 2. James Kay and Hancy Smith. 25. Watson Luther Boardman and Elisabeth Dickinson. Nov. 9. Ebeuezer Wilcox and Maria Smith. 1821 Feb. 3. Koswell Baily and Betsy Collins. 14. Cephas Brainard and Cynthia Spencer. Mar. — John Knowles and Widow Landfier. Apr. 12. Edward Eutty and Amy H. Brainard. Oct. 4. Israel Smith and Hannah Cone. 8. Joseph Arnold and Clarinda Hubbard, 18. Howel Bowers of Chatham and Dolly Smith of Had- dam. Dec. 5. Leonard Towner and Harriet Smith. 1822 Mar. 7. James K. Child and Jane Brainard. 7. William White and Laura Dickinson. Aug. 22. Benjamin Kelsy and Ecbccca Smith. Sept. 17. Epaphroditus Parmele and Experience Dickinson. Oct. 3. Eufus Brewster and Eliza Ann Hill, people of color. 31. Davis Kelsy and Philinda Brainard. Nov. 13. Comfort Cone and Wealthy Ann Brooks. Dec. 12. Ansel Smith and Sybbil Skinner. 1823 Jan. 29. John Berry and Hannah Hull. Mar. 6. Freeman Collins and Esther Kelsy. 316 MAREIAGES May 14. Chauncey Skinner and Charlotte D. Hubbard. Oct. 13. Arnold H. Hayden and Ursula Brainard. 21. Theodore Watrous of Colchester and Hansey Shailer. Nov. 26. Gideon Gladwin and Diana Brainard. Dec. 24. Komantha Mack of E. Haddam and Mehitable Knowles. 1824 Feb. 19. Eussel Gladwin and Susan Dickinson. 26. Nathanil Griswold of N. Killingworth and Widow Lois Dickinson. Apr. 21. Daniel Ventress and Mary Ann Dickinson, 21. Chapin and Jemima Smith. July 15. Austin Skinner of Hebron and Almira Skinner. Sept. 30. George E. Baily and Hannah Dickinson. Nov. 7. Sylvester Austin of New Durham and Drusilla Brain- ard. Dec. 9. of Kensington and Eliza Gladwin. 18. Phinehas Baily of Middletown and Pamela Skinner. 1825 Smith Ventress and Clarissa Brainard. Simon Smith of IVIiddletown and Eunice Brainard. Chester Hamlin and Eveline Butler. Edmund L. Lane of N. Killingworth and Nancy Thomas. William E. Mather and Catharine S. Brooks. Benanuel Bonfie and Eliza Burr. Leander Baily and Mary Lewis. Henry D. Baily and Eliza Johnson. Edwin E. Smith and Sophia Gladwin. Ansel GofE and Mary Ann Smith. Grove Strong and Harriet Eay. David Phelps and Mary Dickinson. James Clark and Lovina T. Baily. Daniel Barker and Julia Brooks. 1826 Ira Hutchinson and Lucinthia C. Warner. Porter Brooks and Jemima Tibbils. Francis Burroughs and Abby Ann Lord, Eeuben Bates and Martha Brooks. Merrit MiUer of Middletown and Eveline Brooks, [Nathan] Pratt and Orpha Carter. 317 Jan. 6. 23. Feb. 1. Mar. 8. 12. Jan. 18. Mar. 27. Apr. 7. June 9, 12. Nov. 20. Dec. 4. 18. 29. Mar. 16. 30. 30. Aug. 13. Oct. 23. Nov. 4. Feb. 4. Oct. 3. Jan. 20. Mar. 16. May 25. Sept. ,22. 25. Oct. 14. 16. Nov. 19. 26. Feb. 22. Apr. 6. 7. 16. 24. Sept. 29. 30. 30. 30. Oct. 25. 25. 25. Jan. 21. Feb. 14. May Sept, 27. , 6. Feb. 13. Aug. Sept. 21. ,19. 23. Oct. 7. Nov. 16. HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVERSARY 1827 Benjamin Merwin and Lucy Clapsattle. Cyprian S. Brainard and Florilla Hull. 1828 Christopher E. Hill and Martha M. Arnold. Davis Kelsy and Clarissa May. Gustavus V. Wilcox and Huldah Spencer. "William Selkirk and Mary Elisabeth Dickinson. Eliphalet Smith and Lucinda Burke. George Flagg and Dolly Smith. Heber Brainard Jr. and Esther Maria Hubbard. Asa Brainard and Almira Linn. Chauncey Rogers and Susannah BaUy. 1829 Gideon Brainard Jr. and Lavinia Smith. Harvey E. Brainard and Harriet Williams. Whitmore Ely and Prudence Tyler. Isaac Loveland and Clarissa Cone. David Hill and Delia Smith. Solomon Walkly and Eunice Brooks. Chauncey Dickinson and Eliza Davison. DeAntheum Brainard and Sally Maria Dickinson. Amasa Hubbard and Hannah Hubbard. Heman Clark and Harriet C. Hayden. Orlando Gladwin and Tamzin S. Church. Ebeneser Brainard and Esther Smith. 1830 Joseph Clark and Rhoda Swan. Henry Ames and Mary Smith Arnold. Joseph Smith and Almira Prim. Irwin W. Smith and Calistha A. Arnold. 1831 Edwin Smith and Mary Young. Willard Post and Mary Ann Child. Aaron Brainard and Fanny Hazelton. Heman Tyler and Harriet Clark. Nehemiah Tyler and Marietta Hubbard. Eoswell Reed and Coroline M. Usher. 318 MAERIAGES 1832 July 4. Daniel Merwin and [Julia] Spencer. Oct. 1. George Belden and Sophia Baily. 1. Hiram Brooks and [Eoxanna Blatchley]. Nov. 28. EveUn Hubbard and Mariette Brockway. 1833 Jan. 16. , [Austin] Lay and Nancy Shayler. 20. Ezekiel S. Clarke and Huldah Smith. Feb. 5. Selden Usher and [Sarah J.] Hubbard. 11. Eowland Chapman and Harriet H. Smith. 'Record Tcept ly the Eev. Tertius S. Clarice. 1834 Sept. 14. Alvan Brainard and Miss Clarissa Thomas by Mr. Crocker. Nov. 27. Anson L. Ayres of E. Haddam to Miss Nancy Dickin- son. Do. Eansom Perkins of Marlborough to Laura Young of Haddam. Do. Sylvester Clark of Middletown to Lydia Thomas of Haddam. Nov. 30. John Briggs of Middletown to Lucy E. Brooks. 1835 Mar. 28. Dr. Epaphras Arnold to Miss Ehoda Ann Warner both of Haddam. Apr. — Epaphras Hubbard to Achsa Dickinson both of Had- dam. May 6. Chauncey S. Bonfoey to Henrietta Hubbard both of Haddam. Aug. 30. Simon Arnold of Haddam to Lydia Arnold [BrainerdJ of Haddam. 1836 Jan. 1. Orson Baily to Eachel Dickinson both of Haddam. Mar. 31. Stephen Dickinson to Mrs. Jemima Crook both of Had- dam. May 22. Alfred Brainard 2d to Abigail Thomas both of Haddam. 319 May 14. Sept. 5. 20. 26. Nov. 30. Dec, 10. 27. HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Eecord Jcept hy the Eev. David D. Field. 1837 Jan. 18. Whitney Scovil to Elizabeth Tyler. 29. Milton Brooks of Pennsylvania to Sarah Ann Brain- erd. Feb. 26. Deforest Canfield of Humphreysville to Hannah M. Child. Mar. 2. Sherman Fowler of Meriden to Prudence Spencer Doug- lass. Apr. 19. Benjamin Sage of Middletown (U. H.) to Elizabeth A. Brooks. George W. Guy of Middletown to Elizabeth T. Burr. John F. Parker of East-Haddam to Emily M. Cliitten- den. Asher Burr to Maria Skinner. William Arnold to Almira Cole. Aaron Brainerd 2d to Elizabeth H. Bailey. Waterman Rich of Middle-Haddam to Lucretia Child. Daniel Smith to Ww. Lucinthia Smith. 1838 Phinehas Edwards of Lyme to Elizabeth Kelsey. John H. Knowles to Tamzon M. Clark. Joseph O. Rich of Chatham to Harriet Clark. Gideon Brainerd to Elizabeth Smith. Ebenezer Wilcox to Alma Eliza Hubbard. Noah Cone to Sarah Crawford. Gilbert Hubbard to Emma Brainerd. William Lucas of Durham to Ruth Thomas. William Scovil to Phebe Spencer. Diodate Smith to Pamalia Brainerd. Horace Chase of Winchester to Samantha Dickinson. Silas Smith of Harpersfield, N. Y. to Martha E. Brain- erd. Daniel S. Dickinson to Sauphronah S. Brainerd. Solomon Walkley Jun. to Phebe Ann Church. Isaac Arnold to Mary-Ann Thomas. Luther Sanborn of Meredith, N. H. to Florilla Loomis. 1839 Mar. 7. Charles A. T. Dickinson to Mary Ann Brainerd. 26. William B. Tibballs to Jennet Tyler. 28. Samuel W. Tibbals to Roxanna Hubbard. 320 Jan. 9. Feb. 8. 26. 28. Jan. 15. Mar. 19. Apr. 1. 25. June 28. Aug. Sept. 1. 2. 6. Nov. 4. 18. Dec. 13. 30. Apr. 9. 25. May 15. July 3. Oct. 17. Nov. 24. Dec 25. MAKRIAGES Joseph A. Comstock of Saybrook to Parmelia Freeman. Sylvanus Bailey to Emiline Stevens of N. Guilford. J. N. Ashley of Rochester, N. Y. to Elizabeth B. Hub- bard. WilUam Ely to Abigail E. Tyler. Harvey Dickinson to Lydia M. Smith. Felix M. Spencer to Jerusha Smith. David Wm. Arnold to Mary Ann Cooke. 1840 Jan. 1. Roger W. Newton of Durham to Cynthia Huntington. Feb. 5. Samuel H. Arnold to J\Iary L. Dibble. July 22. Francis Swan of East-Haddam to Aurelia A. Church. 29. William C. Ives of Durham to Caroline Brainerd. Dec. 2. Cyrus West Field, of New York City, to Mary Bryan Stone of Guilford. Do. Oscar F. Parker, of Saeket's Harbor, N. Y., candidate for the ministry, to Amelia B. Hazelton. 1841 Mar. 14. Shubal D. Clark of Chester to Ann M. Webb of the same place in the Cong. Church in said Town. 18. Edward Hall of Guilford to Elizabeth M. Fowler of Killingworth in Killingworth. May 19. Ashbel Tyler to Sophia Dickinson. 26. George Brooks to Abigail Turner. Nov. 25. Winslys [Willis] North of Middletown to Orpha M. Gladwin. Dec. 22. Albert Carter of Middletown to Elizabeth H. Burr. 26. Dan P. Lane to Cynthia S. Burr. 30. Ansel Spencer to Rowena P. Smith. 1842 Apr. 8. Amasa Wood of Southbridge, Mass. to Harriet Skinner. 10. Charles Babcock to Maria F. Bonfoey. 12. Theodore D. Hayes to Marinda Smith. May 15. William E. Darer of Wallingford to Florilla S Brain- erd. 17. Luther A. Freeman to Emiline Hubbard of Middle- town. 24. Rev. Davis Smith Brainerd to Miss Ann Maria Chad- wick at the house of her father, Capt. Daniel Chad- wick, in Lyme. 30. Ellsworth Walkley to Euphrasia M. Treadwell. 21 321 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Sept. 22. Nelson Burr to Rebecca S. Willcox. Oct. 18. Carlos B. Tyler to Cynthia A. Shaler. 30. Warren W. Dickinson to Esther M. Tyler. Nov. 2. Charles S. Brainerd to Silva Arnold. Dec. 4. Levi S. Allen of Wallingford to Philinda SutlLff. 1843 Jan. 16. Calvin Havcley of North Guilford to Maria Ely, Avidow of Albert Ely. Feb. 28. William Burr to Elizabeth Brainerd. May 3. E. Porter Smith to Lydia M. Bailey. 31. Samuel Dickinson to Polly E. Burr. Aug. 7. Henry Potter of Enfield to Ww. Emmiline E. Hart of Saybrook. Nov. 29, Nelson T. Wolcott of Hartford to Sarah Kelsey. Dec. 26. John Wesley Crittenton to Harriet Eliza Pratt of Essex. 1844 Oct. 9. Elihu B. Rodgers of Colchester to Cornelia Brainerd. 322 DEATHS Record Icept by the Eev. Eleaser May. 1756 July Zebulon Lewis in old age. Aug. Esther the Daughter of Hez: Clark infant. Jeremiah of Doctor Cruttenden the Son infant. James the Son of Wdo Kay a Lad. 1757 Apr. Thankfull the Daughter of Wdo ThankfuU Brainerd aged about 16 years. Mar. an Infant of Elisabeth Homan. Apr. an Infant Child of Danll Clark. May Lydia the Daughter of Wdo ThankfuU Brainerd aged about 18 years. June Captain James Welles aged 50 od years. Sept. an Infant of Elisha Knowles. Bartholomew the Son of Wido Free Love Brooks aged about Six years. Oct. Zachariah Son of Heber Brainerd aged two years. 1758 Jan. Thomas Ellis aged about 70 years. Feb. Eichard Skinner aged about 70 years. Ezekiel Baley One Bonfoye & Simon Cone died in the Army A.D. 1756 or 1757. Mar. David Clark was unfortunately Drowned Crossing Con- necticut Kiver aged about 50 years. May The Wife of Serj : Wm Porter aged about 54 years. July A Young Woman at Joseph Seldens aged 13 years. Sept. Jonathan Arnold in the Army. Oct. Samll Brainerd in the army. Capt. Bradfords Wife John Lewis' Child Jabez Baley 's Child all Died. James Brooks agdl 18 years died Returning from the army. John Lewis Lost two Children. 323 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY July Lieut. Howland Died being Shot by the enemy over the Lake. Dee. Samll Clarke Lost an Infant Child. Cap: Crook died at Sea aged about 60 years. 1759 Apr. Mis: Bates Wife of Jonathan Bates aged about 82 years. July Solomon Bates of the Small pox aged about 20 years. Sept. Nehemiah Dinyson in the army aged 20 years. Nov. Ebenezer Ventrous' Wife aged about 55. Dec. a Child of Nathan Tyler. 1760 Jan. a Child of Jacob Ely. Nathll Spencers Son Amos was killed by the falling of a tree aged 11 years. Apr. Joseph Smiths Child aged about 8 months. 1791 Jan. The Widdow Slade died. a Child of Elihu Smith died. The Widow Keley died. a Child of James Knowles died. 1798 Jan. a Child of Joseph Dickinson -Jr died aged four years and Some Months of the Ratles. Feb. a Child of Cap Dickinson with Convulsion fitts eight months old. The Wife of Ebenezer Thomas died with a fever in Child baring aged about 30 years. Mar. Mis Brainerd Widdow of Col Brainerd died aged 85 with the infirmity of old age. Record Tcept "by the Bev. David D. Field. 1804 Age Jan. 1. Judith, wife Ox .John Knowles 41 28. Dorothy, wife of John May 31 J — Daniel Spencer 72 324 DEATHS Age Feb. 10. Jonathan Burr 48 — Ww, EUzabith Bailey 92 — Mary Brainerd abt. 34 Mar. 3. Edwin, c. of John Child 1 29. Lucinda Brainerd 18 Apr. 5. Kuel Knowles 36 26. Ansel, e. of Ansel Shaler 2^ — A male infant of Ira Shaler 3 ws. May 14. Thankful, c. of Ansel Shaler 7 ms. June 23. Eunice, d. of Linus Parmalee 14 July 23. A male child of Da\-id Smith 3 ms. 25. Prudence, Prudence, w. of Joseph Arnold 60 Aug. 24. Shubael Crook 79 Sept. 14. Anna, c. of James Burr 8 ms. Oct. 1. Nathaniel Bay 79 Nov. 4. A child of Joseph Burr 3 ws. 10. Joseph Arnold 64 12. Abraham Tyler 71 _ Ww. Elizabeth Pelton 86 Dec. 18. Stephen Nelson 14 1805 Jan. 2. Minerva, daughter of Josiah Stannard 4 10. Samuel B., child of Amasa Hubbard 2^ Feb. 19. Clarinda, d. of Benanuel Bonfoey 5 Mar. 7. Morris, child of Moses Stevens 1\ 25. Experience, wdfe of Nathan Tyler 63 Apr. 15. Fanny, d. of Joseph Scovil 21 28. Ebenezer Thomas 77 May 19. Asa Hubbard (blind) 66 June — Burge (a foreigner) abt. 40 24. Ezra Euttee 33 July 1. Female infant of Joseph Arnold 1 m. 11. James Bates (died in Boston) 39 15. Russel Bailey (died in the W. Indies) 26 16. Dr. Hezekiah Brainerd 63 29. Anna Bates 66 Aug. 8. Peggy, wife of Asher Clarke 37 — Abram, c. of Abram Simons (Indian) 8 25. James Child 22 30. Mehetaball, wife of James Sutliff 39 ■ Sept. 8. John Church 48 11. Irena Spencer, e. of James Walkley 1 14. A daughter of James Burr 7 21. Diodate, s. of Ww. Hannah Smith 8 28. Abigail, child of David Rich 4 28. A male child of Sherman Everest Es,q. 29. Benjamin Smith o S.^:., ' ''' '' ' ^ '' 22 HADDAM CHUECH ANNI\T:RSARY Age Oct. 1. Samuel, c. of Noah Clark 5 2. Charles, c. of Eichard Johnson 9 3, A female infant of Ezekiel Spencer 2 Ds. 6. Mary, widow of Charles Smith 63 7. Elizabeth, d. of Benjamin Kelsey 6 8. Samuel Arnold 59 13. Nathan Tyler 67 — Mary, d. of Eichard Johnson 11 18. A female child, twin infant of Ezekl Spencer 2 [17] Ds. 19. Deantha, a child of Smith Hubbard 3 — Henry Thomas 49 Nov. 4. Samuel, s. of Samuel Hubbard 11 6. Elizabeth, wife of Stephen Dickinson 78 12. Benjamin Parmalee 19 19. Electa, c. of Samuel Hubbard 14 Ms. Dee. 2. Elizabeth, c. of Asa Ruttee 1 ' — Sarah, wife of Eoger Thomas 61 12. Eliee, relict of Francis Clarke 83 13. Asa Shaler 69 22. Hannah, c. of William Clarke 3 1806 Jan, 27. Eebecca, wife of Edward Bailey 36 — Elijah Brainerd 71 28. Isaac Eay 39 _ Ww. Mary Smith 42 Mary Ann, child of James Eamey [or Eanney] 1 Frances, wife of Josiah Scovil 72 William Scovil 62 Two infants, twin sons of Nathanl. Hull A few Hs. Mary Brainerd 22 Eebecca, wife of Solomon Walkley 56 Susannah, daughter of Joseph Spencer 22 Ww. Thankful Brainard 97 Eichard Johnson 32 Eachel Tyler, wife of Timothy Tyler 71 Gideon Bailey 54 Zachariah Church 16 Edwards, a child of Abijah Baily 1 Sally, a child of William Brainard 4 ms. Martha Thomas (widow) 81 Henry Shaylor, in the West Indies 16 Betsey Shaylor (widow) 59 William Bailey 74 Mary Tinker (widow) 75 John Clarke (at sea) 42 Sarah Tibbils, wife of Eber TibbUs 56 326 Feb. 6. Mar. 2. 15. 16. Apr. 12. 13. 28. 29. 28. May 10. 24. 26. June 25. 27. July Aug. 18. 28. 29. Sept, , 1. 12. Oct. 5. 5. 6. 21. Nov. 15. Dec. 19. DEATHS Age An infant son of Jacob Brainard's One day Hannah Brainard (widow) 93 A male infant of Hiram Dickinson 's A few min. A male child of Jabez Spencer 2 Jerusha Cole (of West-Chester) 38 Joseph Dickinson 70 1807 Jan. 3. Lucy Ann Mc'Nary 2 11. Jerusha, daughter of Eichard Skinner 13 Feb. 13. Cyrus Hambleton, child of Jesse Higgina 4 ds. 14. Sarah Scovil. 60 14. Deantha, child of Smith Hubbard's 2i . Mar. 1. Charlotte, daughter of Elisha White 7 23. Mary Anne, a child of Daniel Knowles 4 ms. Apr. 3. A male child of Jonathan Brooks (still born) 7. David, a child of David Bonfoey 15 das. 22. Ruth Knowles 36 24. John, an infant son of Sylvester Smith 's 1 m. 4 ds. 29. Susannah Brainard, wife of Wm. Brainard 42 May 2. Hezekiah, son of Sylvanus Clarke (at Windsor) 16 8. Thomas, child of Amasa Hubbard 9 ms. 10. A female child of Nathaniel Eays a few wks. June 9. Nancy, child of Stephen Eussel Junr. 4J 24. Timothy Gladding 30 25. A male infant of Ebenezer Clarke's 3 hrs. Aug. 14. Lister, a child of Eussel Shayler 1 19. [at Dominico] Hezekiah Clarke 24 Sept. 19. Mary Smith, wife of Eobert Smith 52 19. A male child of Ansel Shayler 's (still-born) Oct. 17. Ehoda, wife of Danll. Merwin 27 21. Sylvanus, child of Abraham Simons 12 21. Ephraim Sawyer 67 Nov. 3. James Brainard abt. 39 6. Esther Sawyer 42 8. Dea. Nehemiah Brainard 65 Dec. 30. A male infant of Eliakim Brainard Jr. (still-born) 1808 Jan. 6. A female child of James Gladding 1 day 14. A female child of Eoswel Doan (still-born) 20. Eobert Bradford 77 27. Ebenezer Skinner 79 30. John Smith 79 Feb. 11. Samll. Higgins (at Tobago) 34 327 Feb. 20. 21. 27. Mar. 21. May 15. 31. June 17. July 9. 18. 30. Aug. 2. 5. 25. 28. Sept. Oct. ,13. 3. Nov, 2. 10. 29. Dec. 10. Jan. 11. Feb. 7. 16. Mar. 6. 14. 17. Apr. 12. 15. 18. 16. May 9. 11. 15. 21. July 22. 26. Aug. 4. Oct. 17. 23. Nov. 5. HADDAM CHUKCH ANNIVEESARY Age Edward, child of Simon Hazelton 9 ms. SaUey, wife of Jonathan Huntington 27 Lucinda Brainard 24 Stephen Dickinson 81 Elizabeth, widow of Jonathan Cone 73 Ww. Lydia Eay, relict of Nathaniel Eay Abt. 73 Owen, a child of Danll. Brainard Jr. 4 Ww. Lucy Church 93 Ww. Naomi Waterhouse 75 John Willcox 76 James Hubbard 75 Isaac Auger 88 Martha, widow of James Merwin 70 A female infant of Leman Scofield Lived less than an hour Sarah Williams 97 George, child of David Dickinson 4 A female infant of Ezra Smith's, still-born A female infant of Timothy Chapman, still-born Eunice Smith, wife of Ezra Smith 19, 4 ms. Jacob Ely 95 A male infant of Adnah Clarke's 4 or 5 wks. Mirriam Knowles, wife of Danll. Knowles 33 Welman Arnold, son of James Arnold 22 1809 Martha, d. of Simeon Dickinson [interlined] 3 w. Eebecca Arnold 65 A male infant of Danll. Knowles 4 ms. Dea. Silas [EUsha] Cone ■ 99^ Joseph Smith 83 Martha, child of Simeon Dickinson [See Jan. 11, above] 3 w. & 3 d. Eunice Spenser, wife of Joseph Spenser 63 Anne Clarke 32 Ezra Brainard 26 A female infant of Joseph Shayler's (still-born) Sarah, wife of Jeremiah Brainard 72 Gideon Bailey 87 Timothy Hubbard 74 Owen, son of Daniel Brainerd [interlined, see 1808] 5 Wakeman Brooks 68 Ben j amen Kelsey 46 Ww. Elizabeth Bailey 96 Nathaniel Tyler Junr. 47 Davis Brainard (at St. Bartholomew's) 22 Josiah Arnold 23 Anna Spenser 27 328 DEATHS Age Dec. 2. Danll, Brainard Esq. 58 3. Danll. Towner 58 13. Sally, child of Asa Kuttee's 4 11. Martin McNary 80 17. Elizabeth Wetmore, wife of N. Wetmore 39 1810 Jan. 14. Caroline, the wife of James Brooks 41 24. Esther Brainard 19 26. Jedidah Brainard 22 27. Eussel Bailey, a child of W. Gladden 1 Feb. 28. Hannah Arnold 21 Mar. 16. Ansel Sawyer 32 May 1. David Brooks, a child of Lydia Knowles 7 24. BezaUel Shayler 74 28. -Joel Arnold, a child of Jacob Brainards 10 ms. June — A male infant of Smith Hubbards, on day of birth. July 21. Mary, widow of Jeremiah Hubbard 95 Aug. 10. A female infant of James K. Child (still-born) Sept. — Male infant of James Burr (lived for a few minutes) 5. Sylvester Smith 38 Oct. 6. Elijah, a child of Ezra Brainard 's 4 23. Abigail Smith, wife of Sylvanus Smith 64 1811 Feb. 12. Eichard Walkley 72 17. Ww. Hannah Eay, relict of Isaac Eay 86 Mar. 17. A male twin-infant of Abraham Hubbard, lived a little time. 21. A male infant of Azahel Bonfoey 4 hs. 26. Persean, a child of Hiram Dickinson 3. 4ms. 28. Asenath Hubbard, the wife of Abraham Hubbard 38 29. Sylvanus Smith Junr. 23 Apr. 3. Lewis Bailey 30-f- 14. A male child of James Brooks 3d (still-born) 17. Margery, wife of Eeuben Cone 48 June 13. Benjamin Sherman 50 18. Ww. Anna Hubbard 78 26. Charles Tyler, son of David Dickinson 11 July 3. Cynthia, a child of James Kelsey 1 6. "Ww. Sarah Bailey 87 31. John May, on a passage from Cuba to N. Y. 52 Aug. 20. Joel Arnold 74 Sept. 3. A male infant of Simon Shayler 's 6 ms. 22. Alnora, a child of Edward Bailey 2 329 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Oct. 19. Parsa Brainard, -wife of Jacob Brainard 28. Mary Anna, wife of Andrew Southworth Nov. 9. M. infant of Winsloe Higgins (still-born) 27. Ebenezer Thomas Age 28 73 46 Feb. 22. Mar. 5. 5. 25. Apr. 5. 18. 22. May 5. 13. 27. July 18. Aug. 13. 15. 20. Sept. 1. 15. 24. 29. Oct. 1. 22. 25. 1. 12. 5. 12. Nov, Dec. 1812 Joseph, an infant of Joseph Dickinson's 7 ms. Lucretia, a child of Obadiah Dickinson Jun, 3 J Halsey Thomas 15 Elisha Spenser 76 Ww. Margaret Ray 68 David Arnold 62 Aaron Clarke 75 Ww. Deborah Smith, widow of Stephen 100. 2 ms. A female infant of James Clarke's (a twin) 13 Days Tamzim, a child of Eliab Smith's 1 A male infant of Dennis Clarke's (still-born) Benjamin Smith, a child of Samll. Church's 1, 7 ms. Jonathan Smith Jun. 51 Ww. Sarah Brainard 79 Phebe, a child of Samll. Bailey's 4 -f- Joshua, a son of Oliver Brainard 's 22 A male infant of Cornelius Brainard 's Few hours Christiana, wife of Nathaniel Sutliff 83 Aaron Bushnel, child of Aaron Dickinson 's 1, 6 ms. Abram Simons 63 Beulah, a child of Elizabeth Arnold's 11 A male infant of Ansel Shayler's (still-born) Joseph Ray 94 Joseph Arnold, Senior 49 Joseph Brainard 76, 11 ms. + Ww. Hazelton 81, 6 ms. 1813 Jan. 5. 7. 12. 30. Mar. 8. 13. 3. 2. 4.' 1. 3. Apr. May June Sarah Brainard 64 A male infant of Joseph Cone Jun. 2 ms. Ww. Esther Brainard 95 + Nelson, a child of Asahel Wheeler's 1, 10 ms. A male infant of Jonathan Burr's 2 wks. James Arnold 60 Timothy Tyler 77 Brainard, infant of Jared Arnold's 2 wks + Edward Fields, a negro man 24 Susannah Scofield, daughter of John Scovil 16 Reuben Cone 57 Charlotte Child, wife of Samuel Child 27 Horace Alvan, an infant of David Arnolds 9 ms. 330 DEATHS Age June 4. Sally, wife of Smith Hubbard 39 9. Smith Clarke Esq. 47 Esther, wife of Luther Boardman 57 10. Temperance, wife of CaMn Thomas 47 A female babe of Samll. Childs at Northford 1 wk. 14. Jacob Bailey 37 15. Susannah, wife of Solomon Walkley Jun. 31, 11 ms. 18. A male infant of John Ventres Junr. 3 ms. 20. Samll. Hubbard 81 21. Samll. Bailey 40. 10 ms. July 1. Lois, wife of Simon Bailey 23 25. Simon Tyler 68, 11 ras. 26. Sylvanus Bailey 20, 10 ms. Aug. 15. Jemima, a child of the widow of S. Bailey 8 25. Betsey, wife of John Smith Jun. 34 28. Sophronia Ann, infant of Darius Dickinson 1, 3 30. Jonathan, son of Jonathan Cone 13 Sept. 12. A female infant of John Smith 's 2 ms. Oct. 22. Thomas Shayler 70, 8 ms. 25. Patience, a child of Heman Cliilds 6 Nov. 5. A female infant of Jonathan Huntingtons, a few hours. 29. Sylvester Spencer 19 Dec. 4. Rufus, a child of Eufus Tyler 's 8 ms. 11. Ww. Martha Brainard 76 + 12. "Ww. Elizabeth Brainard 63 1814 Ww. Sarah Lewis 91 Sally, wife of Oliver Brainerd 54 Ww. Naomi Gladding 73 David, child of Jonathan Cone's 3, 1 mo. Ww. Deborah Walkley 69 A male infant of Noah P. Burr 3 ms. Aaron, a child of Aaron Dickinson 's 1, 6 ms. Doratha, wife of Samll. Brooks 82, 6 ms. Eichard Knowles 88, 8 ms. Infant daughter of James Clarke 14 Days Widow Lydia Dickinson 72 Elizabeth, wife of Ambrose Arnold 67, 7 ms. Sylvanus Smith 66 Francis Lewis 64. 11 ms. Stephen Spencer 61, 3 ms. Chauncy B., son of Nathan Wetmore 3 George Edgar, child of Linus Parmalee Jun. 1, 7, ms. Elisha H., son of E ' '■ ■ ■■ Harvey 5 Deborah, vrife of James Cone 82, 8 ms. JaTnes Cone 85 331 Jan. 22. 25. 30. Feb. 12. 18. 16. Mar. 10. 13. Apr. 9. May 14. June 10. 15. July Aug. 3. 10. 19. Sept 4. 16. Oct. 31. HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Age Nov. 10. Joseph Spencer 72 30. Mary Clarke 87 Dec. 1. Phebe, wife of Whitman Crook 60 4. Simon Hazelton 58 10. Daniel Scovil 32 1815 Jan. 9. Jared Arnold, son of Joseph Arnold Sen. ID 14. Jemima, wife of Nathaniel Burr 63 + 17. Nathaniel Brainerd 73 + 18. Dea. Eliakim Brainerd 33, 10 ms. 21. Almira, daughter of Josiah Stannard 12 22. Artemesia, daughter of " " 3 30. William Bailey 53, 11 ms. Feb. 3. A male infant of Solomon Walkley Jun. (Still-born) 19. Rachel Brainerd 83 27. Sarah, widow of Daniel Scovil 29, 7 ms. Mar. 12. Solomon Skinner 40, 10 ms. 31. A female infant of Amasa Hubbard's 1 wk. May 5. Rufus Tyler (The first buried in the yard at Turkey Hill) 31, 11 ms. 27. Lydia, wife of Wm. Ely 58 June 1. John Bailey 62 24. A male infant of Winslow Higgins 2 Days July 22. Eliakim Brainerd 55, 11 ms. 19. Warren Shayler at New Orleans 29 Aug. 29. Epaphras, a child of Aaron Dickinson's 1, 7 ms. Sept. 8. Arnold Hazelton 74, 7 ms. 9. Aaron Dickinson 36, 8 ms. Oct. 16. Anna, wife of Sylvester Brainerd Jun. 26 Nov. 2. A female infant of Ebenezer Skinner's 2 wks. Dec. 1. A male infant of Wm. Dickinson, still-born 3. Rufus, a child of the widow of R. Tyler 's 1 + 6. Temperance Scovil 16 + 13. at Sea, Samuel Thomas 21, 10 ms. 25. Stephen Johnson, my infant son 5 ms. 14 ds. 1816 Mariah, child of Sylvester Skinner's 1, 10 ms. WilUams Smith, (born Apr. 25, 1720.) 95, 8 ms. Abigail, wife of Wm. Smith 68, 6 ms. Smith Clarke, son of Warren Clarke 15, 11 ms. James Hazelton 26, 6 ms. Sally, wife of Philemon Scovil 37, 6 ms. Samuel Brooks 85, 10 ms. 332 Jan. 5. 14. Feb. 10. Mar. 15. 17. 18. 22. 9. 13. 20. 25. May June 19. 1. 26. 25. Aug. 18, 29. Sept. Oct. 9. 15. Dec. 31. DEATHS Age Apr. 8. Samuel Burr 33 Concurrence Burr, widow of Samuel 25 + Ww. Temperance Shayler 83 Ww. Ann Spencer 88 + A female infant of Caleb Brainerd's 1 m. Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Dickinson 47 Cynthia, wife of Obadiah Dickinson Jun. 28, 9 ms. Mercy, wife of Elias Ely 48 Deborah Bates 46 Lyman Buel (drowned oft" Sandy Light-House) 29 Samll. Tyler 82, 11 ms. Davis, a child of Sylvester Brainerd 2d 3, 10 ms. Anna, an infant of Sylvester Brainerd 2d. 1 Ww. Esther Hazelton 92, 6 ms. Elizabeth wife of John Knowles 30, 8 ms. 1817 Jan. 12. Maria Melissa, a child of Jonathan Ushers 8 ms. Dinah, Ww. of Barzillai Dudley 71 Sabra, child of Solomon Skinner's widow 3, 3 ms. Elizabeth, child of Linus Brainerds 2 y 5 w. A male infant of Nathaniel Hulls (still-born) r 8. Achsa, a child of Nelson Fords Caleb Bailey Job Wheeler Ww. Hannah Child Eli Hubbard Ww. Martha Arnold, (relict of Saml. A.) Michael, child of Joshua Brainerd's Nancy, wife of Jonathan Crook Two female infants (twins) of Nelson Ford 's Amelia, child of Willard Gladding 's Benjn. Eay George Brooks Ambrose Arnold Elihu Bates David Thomas (at H. Houses) A male infant of John Turner 's, lived a few minutes. Betsey, wife of Amasa Hubbard 36, 6 ms. Eunice, wife of Josiah Pelton, whose death was occasioned by a fall from a waggon at Farminton 47 Jemima, infant of Caleb Brainerd 's 3 ms. Anna, widow of Timothy Towner 81, 9 ms. Martin, son of Timothy Shayler 2, 4 ms. 333 Feb. 3. Jan. 20. 24. 27 Feb. 9. 14. Mar. 3. 10. Apr. May 16. 9. 31. 6. June 8. 18. 2L July 18. 20. 22. Aug. 23. Sept. 6. 11. Oct. 8. 10. 23. 11, 9 ms. 86 72 77, 3 ms. 46, 8 ms. 98, 2 ms. 1 7 5 ms. 32 not a day 1, 4 ms. 33 37 71, 8 ms. 77, 9 ms. 57 Oct. Nov. 30. 24. Dec. 6. 12. 15. Jan. 3. 12. Feb. 12. 2. 6. 7. 26. HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSAEY Age Ww. Jeruslia Arnold (relict of David A.) 58 Simon Smith hung himself (according to the verdict of the jury in a state of in- sanity) 42 Daniel Gladwin 72 Charles, child of James Ray 1, 7^/^ ms. Tyler, son of James Ray 10, 8 ms. 1818 Esther Ray, daughter of James Ray 16, 3 ms. Dinah, relict of Barzillai Dudley [See same date in 1817]. 70 Sarah, wife of Simon Tyler 36, 11 ms. Sarah, relict of Samuel Hubbard 85, 5 ms. Christian Arnold, a native of Saxony 77, 4 ms. Stephen Clarke 71, 4 ms. James Ray 46, 8 ms. Elizabeth, wife of Noadiah Cone 57, 3 ms. Note. — For tmicli of the time between April 11, 1818, and April 11, 1887, the rec- ord of deaths in this society was very imperfect. The Rev. Mr. Marsh omitted very many deaths among other denominations; and his successor, Mr. Clark, re- corded only a part of the deaths. The leaves on which they made their records have been removed, and others inserted on which a fuller record is made, though doubtles.s the record now is incomplete. David D. Field. April 11, 1844. Apr. 12. Sarah, widow of Joel Arnold 84 24. William Spencer May 25. Hannah, relict of Nathaniel Tyler 53 June 30. John Ventres 89 Aug. 5. Rebecca, wife of Jonathan Smith 75 11. Aaron Smith Jun. 41 Oct. 11. Harriet INIaria, daughter of Seth Arnold 2 Nov, 29. Eber Tibballs 67 30. Phinehas Doane 75 Dec. 6. DoUy Chapman 23 1819 Jan. 12. A female infant of Samuel Child ) m • 1 H. 14. Two female infants of Samuel Child 5 ^^^^ 2 Ds. Mar. 16. Hannah, wife of Joshua Brooks 79 Apr. 3. Mary Smith 88 10. Mindwell, widow of Arnold Hazelton 71 13. David Rich 55 25. Deborah, wife of Richard Knowles May 13. Andrew Southworth (near Chester) 86 July — Ww. Dolly Smith Aug. 7. Laura, daughter of Silas Gladwin 9| 334 Aug. 12. Sept, , 1. 3. 4. 17. 18. 21. 25. 26. Oct. 5. 15. Nov. 27. Dee. 30. DEATHS Age Josiah Pelton 49 Hosea, son of Benanuel Bonfoey 6 ms. Timothy Chapman 53 Mary, relict of Cornelius Higgins Esq. 84 Susannah, widow of John Smith 93 A child of Asa Mitchell Another child of Asa Mitchell Florilla, daughter of Hazael Smith 17 Sarah, widow of Dea. Nehemiah Brainerd 78 A coloured child 2 Infant son of Horace Arnold 6 Hs. Israel Clarke 26 Amos Bailey 79 Nathaniel Sutliff 88 Plorilla, daughter of David Wilcox 15 Augustus licwis' wife 63 1820 Jan. Christiana, wife of William Clarke Feb. 1. Samuel Davis, son of Noah Clark 1-^ — Eunice, widow of Stephen Spencer 80 26. Eachel, widow of Ebenezer Skinner 88 28. Martha, vdfe of 23 Mar. 30. Infant son of George Cone Apr. 4. Asaneth, daughter of Samuel Lewis 24 — The wife of Jeduthan Shaler 18. Ephraim Shaler 38 May 5. Amos, child of Harris Bailey 4 or 5 6. Child of Sylvester Skinner. June 3. Harris Bailey abt. 45 14. Nancy, daughter of Harris Bailey 16 29. Anah Maria, child of David Grannis 2 — Calvin Hubbard. July 24. OUver Wells Esq. 75 29. Betsey Maria, daughter of Jonah Dickinson 16 Aug. 23. Sarah Jane, daughter of Davis Smith 6 ms. — Mary, wife of John Heyden 55 1. Jonathan, child of Ely Warner Esq. 1-J-^ Sept. 6. Clarissa, daughter of Sylvanus Clarke 39 Oct. 3. John Brainerd 66 28. Hezekiah, son of Daniel Brainerd 9 Nov. 19. Margaret, child of Daniel Brainerd 1 28. Amelia, daughter of David Bonfoey 4 30. Eliza, daughter of Daniel Brainerd 20 Dec. 1. William Knowles 89 7. Zeruiah, daughter of John Knowles 20 14. Male infant of Deacon Jonathan Huntington 10 Hrs. 335 HADDAM CHUECH ANNIVERSARY 1821 Age Henry Towner 29 John Ely 40 Martha, wife of Israel Smith 59 William Knowles 23 Two children. Infant son of Selden Tyler 9 ms. Julia Ann, child of James Gladwin 5 Electa Maria, child of Joseph Shaler 5 Ebenezer Skinner. Abigail, child of Davis Smith 1\ Olive, wife of James Shaler 58 Ann, widow of John Wilcox 88 Lucy, widow of Dea. Eliakim Brainerd , 8t Matilda, daughter of Elias Bates 7 Prudence, wife of James K. Child 57 An infant child of Jabez Brainerd 6 Hs. Cornelia, daughter of Willard Smith 6^ Mary Dudley 38 Prosper Brainerd 85 1822 Samuel Woodruff. Polly, wife of Silas Gladwin 50 Nancy, daughter of Abram Simons [coloured], Edward, son of Thomas C. Smith 5 Job Hubbard 83 Jeremiah Brainerd 82 Phinehas, son of Phinehas Brainerd 14 A child of Jacob Brainerd. Joel TibbaUs 37 Matthew, son of Matthew Hubbard 10 Ds. Elizabeth Spencer 74 Mary, wife of Abishai Smith 67 Susannah, wife of Nathan Wetmore 35 A child of Frisbie 3 Samuel Stannard 73 David Dickinson 64 Jared, a child of Elisha Clarke 2^ . — Nancy Eliza, daughter of Silas Clark 1| 26. Abraham Hubbard 52 28. Esther Brainerd, widow of Jeremiah Brainerd previously widow of Sawyer 82 Oct. 6. Edwin, infant of Heman Child 8 ms. 10. Sarah, widow of Timothy Hubbard 80 12. Susan, daughter of Noadiah Brainerd 10 22. Hannah, wife of Comfort Eay 65 336 Jan. 9. 15. 16. 18. Feb. 18. Mar. 3. 11. Apr. May 25. 19. 23. 29. June 6. 10. Sept. 3. 26. Dee. 30. Jan. Feb. 14. Mar. — Apr. May o 8. 9. July 22. 30. Aug. 3. 21. 22. 24. Sept. 9. 16. DEATHS Age — Elizabeth, sister of Amos Bailey. Nov. 30. Sylvester Johnson [First person buried in the Little City yard. The child of Silas Clarke, which died before, was taken up from the Punset yard and buried there] 22 Fidelia Dickinson 11 1823 David Rich, a son of David Rich 17 Manilla M., child of Felix Spencer 1 Joseph Arnold 49 Hannah, daughter of Joseph Arnold 12 A male child of Alanson Spencer 5 Ds. Samuel B. Whitmore 81 Martha, wife of William E. Mather 25 Sally, daughter of Ww. Lydia Brooks 18 Lydia, wife of Sylvanus Brooks 21 Dorothy, wife of Sylvanus Clark 63 Jerusha Parker, daughter of Ww. Eunice Doane, by her first husband 48 Jane, infant of Cephas Brainerd 1^ Experience, widow of Harris Bailey. Rosetta, wife of Richard McNary 23 f Thomas Barry 59 Female infant of Selden Skinner. Eunice, vsdfe of Aaron Smith 83 Ann, wife of Selden Huntington 36^ Sarah, widow of Timothy Hubbard 81-j^ Male child of Jonathan Burr 2 Wks. George Edwin, son of George Clarke 9 ms. Mary Ann, daughter of Jonn. Burr 1 m. Perse, daughter of Jacob Brainerd 7 Jerusha, wife of James Thomas 73 1824 Seth Tinker abt. 63 Abraham Brooks, by falling from a ladder 73 Heman Brainerd 36 infant of Moses Tyler. Deborah, daughter of Jacob Ely deceased 56 Israel Thomas 36 John Smith 78 Ogden, son of David Shaler 28 Esther, widow of Job Wheeler abt. 80 Infant, son of Damon TibbaUs 2 Ds. William Smith 76 Lucintha Cone, infant of Dr. A. F. Warner. 22 337 Dec. 17. Jan. 7. 11. 12. 15. 30. Mar. 18. Apr. May 1. 6. June 13. July 27. Aug. Sept. Oct. 28. 15. 2. 7. 10. Nov. 15. 21. 30. Dec. 2. 28. Jan. 14. Mar. 27. Apr. May 8. 1. 8. 9. 16. 20. 26. July 1. 15. Aug. 30. Oct. — 8. 20. 30. Nov. 2. 12. 21. HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Age June 5. Jane, infant of Cephas Brainerd 5 Wks. John Spencer, infant of Saml. Smith 7 ms. Dorothy, wife of Samuel Clarke 91 Ann, widow of Nathaniel Brainerd 78 Eunice, widow of Phinehas Doane 84 Mary, widow of Prosper Brainerd 81 Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel Cooke 7 Wks. Israel Brainerd (a mute) 75 Benjamin, son of Ezra Kelsey S^ Joshua Brooks ' 82 Solomon Walkley 79 Thomas C. Smith 33 Mary, daughter of Seth Arnold 16 1825 Feb. 4. Susannah, wife of Asahel Hubbard 39 15. Francis, infant of Mary, Ww. of Israel Thomas 5^ Mar. 26. Phinehas Brainerd 46 Apr. 11. Female infant of WiUiam Burr 11 Ds. 29. Chauncey, infant of Chauncey D. Skinner 1 D. May 18. , daughter of Hurlburt Swan 2^^ — , child of John Buel. June 23. Dr. Andrew F. Warner 34 July 13. Abigail Thomas 63 Aug. 14. Benanuel Bonfoey 70 31. Richard, son of Benanuel Bonfoey 20 Sept. 1. Susannah, daughter of James Brainerd 1 m. Rosette, child of Stephen Burr If 15. Curtis Graham 42 21. Martha, daughter of Dea. Asa Young 15 22. Naomi, wife of Christopher Bailey 61 Oct. 7. Polly Elizabeth, child of David Burr 2d 2 10. Infant daughter of James Brainerd. 16. Male infant of Ruth Clarke 9 Wks. — Female infant of Noadiah Cone 1 D. 22. Drusilla Ann, daughter of Comfort Cone 2 25. Ann, wife of Shaler Hubbard 70 29. Liva, wife of Ansel Brainerd 2d. 31. Miriam, daughter of Gideon Brainerd 33 Nov. 1. Benjamin, son of Gideon Brainerd 22 17. Esther, daughter of Gideon Brainerd 20 19. Julia Ann, daughter of Daniel Thomas 2 + 20. Elizabeth [Lydia?], viidow successively of David Smith, William Brainerd & Wil- liam Bradford, last husband belonging to Middle Haddam 88 22. Mehetabel, wife of Jonathan Usher Esq. 47 338 DEATHS Age Nov. 24. infant of Cooke. 25. Aaron Smith 88 28. Ezra Brainerd 47 29. Sarah, wife of Joseph Scovil 66 Dec. 5. Edwin Marble, (ran over by a cart; a young man in the family of John Hay- den) 19 7. Mary, daughter of Charles Bailey 17 11. Trial, wife of Asher Clarke 51 12. Susannah, wife of James Brainerd 46 14. Hepzibah, wife of Gideon Brainerd. 16. Catharine, sister of Dea. David Hubbard 81 17. Thomas Skinner 54 25. Orren Shaler 56 ^ Abigail, wife of Nathaniel Bailey 57 1826 Jan. — Elizabeth widow of Samuel Arnold 77 23. Seth Arnold 42 24. Henry Smith, son of Benjn. Kelsey 2J- Feb. 6. Judith, widow of Aaron Clarke 75 25. infant of Asa Youngs. 28. Andrew W. son of James Brooks 2d 23 Mar. 1. Philo Clarke, son of Noah Clarke 16 2. Jane, wife of James K. Child 58 — Charles Brainerd 79 25. Abigail, wife of Eeuben Bates 58 29. Martha, wife of James Clarke 74 Apr. 2. Sally, daughter of Silas Gladwin 19 10. Eaehel, vdfe of Elisha Harvey 49 16. Susannah, widow of Asa Shaler 90 22. Ann, widow of Oliver "Wells Esq, 83 May 2. William Brainerd 64 17. Samuel Child 39 — Sarah Clarke, sister of Joseph Clarke of Tylerville 70 28. Joan, daughter of Joseph Cone 5 31. Nathaniel Hazelton 69 June 2. Eeuben Bailey 71 5. Dea. Fiske Brainerd 43 7. Ann, vdfe of Daniel Merwin 45 July 4. Mary Lucina, child of Saml. Smith 7 15. Caroline, child of Ezra Kelsey (drowned) 1 26. Pelatiah, son of Pelatiah 26 28. Philo Ives, son of Noah & Charity Clarke 16 Aug. 4. Andrew Dickinson, son of 16 10. Nelson, son of Eichard Skinner 18 11. James Curtis, eon of Simon Hazelton 1 23. Infant of Davis Smith. 339 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Age Sept. 4, Samuel Hubbard 65 5. Jured, son of Noadiah Brainerd 19 6. Deborah, wife of Amasa Hubbard 34 20. Charlotte, dauf^hter of Samuel Child 9 2. Martha G., daughter of Davis Smith 2\^ 28. James Shaler ' 62 Oct. — Polly, daughter of David Burr 2 26. Mary, wife of David Phelps (Died at Chester) 26 — Mehetabal, daughter of John Warner 18 Nov. 24. Lucy, widow of Elijah Brainerd 87 Dec. 7. Thomas H., son of Thomas Skinner 30 21. Mary S., daughter of James Brainerd 17 — Henry D., son of Jabez Bailey 24 24, Euhamah, wife of Didymus Johnson 58 26. Zechariah Brainerd 85 1827 Jan. 29. Elizabeth, widow of Stephen Johnson 90 30. Silas Cone 78 Feb. 9. Whitmore Crook (ran over by a loaded sled) 74 24. Sally Tryon (at Gurdon Walkley's, native of Ver.) 22 Mar. 4. Israel Comstock (the year doubtful) 74 14. James Clark 76 Apr. 27. Noah Clark 63 May 28. Susannah Hubbard, sister of Dea. D. Hubbard 90 June 28. George Kelsey 68 — Elizabeth, widow of Abner Tibballs 87 July 2. Philinda, wife of Davis Kelsey 24 3. Antoinette, daughter of George Cone 4 ms. 26. Mary, wife of Charles Bailey 46 29. Mary Ann, daughter of Noah & Charity Clark 2 Aug. 11. Ann, wife of John Smith (of a cancer) 72 Sept. 2. Obadiah Dickinson 74 — William Landfear 20 Oct. 5. George Lord 63 Nov. — Infant daughter of Alvan Brainerd 3 Hs. 17. Henry Smith 42 21. Roswel Bailey (perhaps his death was in 1826) 21 Dec. 7. Noah Cone 87 1828 Jan. 1. Octava Cecilia, child of David C. Hubbard 1 18. Martha, wife of Nathaniel Burr 2d (The first buried in the Burr Grave Yard.) 50 Feb. 1 7. Ursula, wife of Alanson Spencer 38 19. A coloured boy. 340 DEATHS Age Feb. 23. George B., son of Benjamin Smith (poi- soned by corrosive sublimate) 19 27. Jane, widow of Daniel Clark 47 Mar. 1. Jonah Dickinson 52 7. Lucinda, wife of Kichard Southworth, a daughter of Elias Ely 30 — Anna, wife of Russell Shaler. Apr. 20. Shaler, son of James Brainerd 21 28. Mary Ann, child of Asa Burr 10 ins. May 20. Jonathan Randall 83 31. Elizur Spencer (the first in Punset G. Yard) 73 June 9. Mary Susan, child of Hezekiah Brainerd 14 ms. 29. Martha, widow of Stephen Clarke 83 Aug. 14. Andrew, son of John Dickinson 16 Sept. 24. Elias Spencer 78 ' 25. Abigail, widow of Charles Brooks 86 30. Hannah, wife of Hezekiah Shaler 78 — Elizabeth, widow of John Ely 48 Oct. 25. David B., son of David B. Ventres 1 27. Gideon, son of Elias Gladwin ■ 27^ Kov. — Infant daughter of Alvan Bailey 1 D. 6. Amelia, child of David B. Ventres 2f Dec. 1. Henry, child of Davis Smith 1 4. Prudence, wife of Solomon Walkley 54 26. Leonidas, infant of Cephas Brainerd 7 ma. 27. Ww. Sarah Picket, before Ww. Seers, (drowned) 88 1829 Jan. Samuel Clarke 96 — Catharine, sister of Joseph Scovil. 29. Infant son of Isaac Loomis 1 H. — Laura, daughter of Selden Bailey IJ Apr. 20. Elizabeth Cone. 25. Male child of Roraantha Mack 7 Wks. 28. Mary Ann, child of Asa Burr 10 ms. 30. Epaphroditus Parmalee 34 June 14. Sarah, widow of Thomas Hubbard 77 July 11. Fisk Shaler (by explosion in the Quarries) 31 18. Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel Tyler 20j-i Aug. 15. A child of Moses Tyler 2 Sept. 14. Luther Boardman 79 — Edward, infant of Dr. Christopher Hill 10 Wks. — A coloured woman. Oct. 24. Asa Ruttee 61 Dec. 17. Ezra Shaler 91 27. Daniel Chapman Knowles 25 29. Martha, widow of George Smith 91 341 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESARY Age Dec. 31. George L. child of James Clarke Jun. 11 ms. — Asa Clarke, is supposed to have died this year while at sea [45] 1830 Hannah, widow of Elihu Bates 89 Hannah, wife of Archelaus Tyler 50 Giles Brainerd 76 Catharine S. daughter of Noah Clark 17 Frederic Smith, son of Isaac Loomis 12 Israel Comstock, father of Mrs. Jonn. Usher John B. child of Jonathan Arnold 5 Hezekiah Spencer (long deranged) 58 Mary M., child of Asa Burr 10 or 11 ms. Simon Addison, child of Simon Hazelton 2 Ephraim Shaler Cec[i]lla Octava, infant of David C. Hubbard Maria, wife of Ira H. Payne David Clark Joseph, son of Hez. Scovil, drowned Noah Cone Susannah, widow of Bezaliel Shaler Adonijah, son of Diodate Shaler Joseph Brainerd Anna, widow of Samuel B. Wetmore Heman Child. John Hayden Lester, son of David Shaler Elizabeth, D. of Saml. Child deceased Eebecca, widow of Jonathan Kelley Carlos, child of Jeremey Bailey Leonidas, child of Cephas Brainerd Anna, wife of David Shaler Lucretia, wife of Asa Shaler Edward, child of Dr. Christopher Hill Lovisa Maria, child of Deantheun Brainerd 1831 A child of Ebenezer Wilcox Maria, child of Charlotte Griffin 3 Lucy, wife of Aaron Brainerd 50 Ann Lovinia, child of Edward Ruttee 2 Anna, wife of Silas Gladwin, previously widow of Thomas Barry 50 22. Ann, child of Edward Ruttee 4-L — Jesse Tinker 72 Apr. 1. Elizabeth, daughter of Noah Cone 64 842 Jan. 8. 12. Feb. 9. 13. Mar. 11. 17. 20. 24. Apr. IL 18. May 20. 21. June 7. 14. 29. Aug. 9. Sept. Oct. ,16. 1. 13. 17. 19. 20. 27. Nov. 3. 23. Dee. 16. 17. Jan. 17. 29. Feb. 9. Mar. 5. 10. 38 6 ms. 24 40 4 88 81 17 ms. abt, . 70 84 66 24 18 94 7 ms. 9 ms. 47 22 10 ms. 1 m. DEATHS Age May 21. Maria Tyler, wife of Ira H. Payne [Error, see 1830] 24 Joseph Clarke 78 Keuben, son of Ezra Eay 3f Ezra Eay 43 Alanson, son of Ezra Eay 21 Susanna, widow of Levi Eay 65 Eobert, child of Eliphalet Smith 11 ms. Joseph C, son of Joseph S. Hubbard 2^ Selden Bailey, child of Asa Brainerd. Lydia, wife of Constant "Webb, previously widow successively of Gideon Bailey, Eber Tibballs & Josiah Pelton 77 Jonathan Smith [Error, see 1834] 88 Elizabeth A. daughter of Horace Arnold 13 Mary E. daughter of Hoel Bowers 3 ms. Arnold, son of Seth Wetmore (drovraed) 10^ Edmund P. son of Daniel Merwin 19 1832 Ursula, child of Jonathan Arnold 2 Wks. Daniel Burr 40 Aurelius, son of Zabud Bailey 10 ms. Jared Shaler, child of Simon Hazelton 8 ms. Jonathan Huntington 91 Shaler Hubbard 83 Julia, wife of Didymus Johnson 32 Hannah, vrife of Dea. David Hubbard 75 George Spencer 49 Aurelia E. child of Joseph S. Hubbard 6 ms. Tamzon, wife of Daniel Smith 75 Daniel Smith 75 Jerusha A, infant of George Cone 3 Wks. Darius Hervey, infant of Darius Dickinson 5 ms. Cynthia, child of Hezekiah Scovil 8 Mary, wife of Eliakim Bailey 73 Ealph, child of Arnold H. Hayden 3 ms. Lucy W,, wife of Ezekiel S. Clark 30 Clarissa, daughter of Chatfield Eussel 13|- EUas Ely 62 Infant son of Dudley Clarke 2 Ds. James Porter, child of James Brainerd 2 Esther, vvife of Simeon Hubbard 51 Henry Catlin, child of Nathan T. Dickinson 14 ms. Didymus Johnson 65 Esther, wife of Stephen Smith [See 1833] 80 Hetta A,, daughter of John Crawford 16 John H son of John Crawford 1^ 343 29. June 23. Aug. 5. 14. Sept. 5. 10. 18. 26. Oct. 14. Nov. 7. 22. 24. Dee. 1. 16. Jan. 6. 9. Feb. 7. Mar. 1. 2. 10. 13. 16. 19. 23. 30. 31. Apr. 5. 2L May 11. 22. June 10. July 18. 19. 25. Aug. Sept, Oct. 4. ,24. 1. Nov. 8. 11. 26. HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY 1833 Age Ursula, child of Jonathan Arnold 2 Susan, daughter of Hezekiah Brainerd 14 ms. Infant son of Ira H. Payne 3 Wks. Maxanilla, daughter of Nathan Tyler 27 John Scovil 76 Abbey, daughter of William Brainerd 38 Nathaniel Bailey (killed by a falling limb). Sally Maria, child of William Emmons 9 Wks. George W., child of Howel Bowers 4 ms. Female infant of Daniel P. Lane 5 Wks. Infant son of Alvan Bailey 18 Ds. Benjamin Burr 86 Elizabeth Ann, wife of John May 33 William Burr 40 Ezra Bay 43 John Burr (ran over by a cart wheel & killed) 53 Elizabeth, daughter of John C. Russel 14 John, son of David Church 4 Male infant of Asa Burr 2 or 3 Wks. Susan S. child of James Brainerd 2 Marilla, daughter of Elihu Spencer 3 ms. Jemima, daughter of Israel Thomas 21 Maria Brainerd, daughter of Elisha Clark 9^ Elijah, son of Ezra Brainerd deceased 21^ William Henry, son of Timothy Shaler 27 Nathaniel Burr 2d 54 Minerva, daughter of Orren Pardee 1 f Orren Pardee 33 Nov. 8. Esther, wife of Stephen Smith 80 — Andrew C, child of Alexander C. Hall 2 20. Wells Shaler 47 Dee. 8. Elizabeth [Bethia], wife of Samuel Tyler 36 13. EUhu [Elias] Bates 60 1834 Jan. 2. Mehetabal, wife of Peter Ray 87 8. Leander, child of Heber Brainerd 2d 4 Feb. 2. Peter Ray. 12. Elisha White Jun. 24 14. [?] Mary, widow of Augustus Lewis 82 — Israel Smith 71 Mar. 6. Sarah, 2d vpife of James Sutliff 68 17. Susannah, widow of Obadiah Dickinson 79 24. Noah Clark 42 Apr. 8. Daniel, child of Dudley Clarke 8 ms. 16. Stephen Smith 85 344: Jan. 6. 9. Feb. 6. 8. 15. 2L 28. Mar. 4. 8. 10. 16. Apr. 6. 16. May 3. 4. June 7. 10. July 13. Aug. 10. 26. Sept. 8. 14. 19. 27. Oct. 5. 10. 12. DEATHS Age May 3. John Smith 79 6. David Smith 66 — Haus Higgins 82 12 [Mar. 13?]. Hezekiah, child of George S. Brainerd 6 ms. — Betsey, wife of Alvan Brainerd 44 — Emory Hubbard 23 or 24 17. Oliver Brainerd 76 31. EUsha White 73 June 2. Orret Lovisha, child of Edwin A. Smith 4 9. Jonathan Burr 52 30. Diodate Shaler 42 July 3. Livinia E. child of James Clarke Jun. 10 ms. 12. Sarah Elizabeth, child of Alvan Brainerd 3 14. Mehetabal, widow of Zechariah Brainerd 89 22. Male child of Ebenezer Wilcox 3 Wks. — Gustavus, child of Hezekiah Child 14 ms. 25. Charlotte Ann, daughter of Ezekiel Shaler 22 Sept. 3. Mary, wife of Joseph Burr 83 8. Henry Marwin, son of Zabud Bailey 19 10. Hervey Eldridge, son of Hervey Brainerd 4 18. Harriet Brainerd (from Moromos) 35 22. Hannah, widow of Amos Bailey. Oct. 3. Julia, daughter of David Dickinson 23 Nov. — Ad so a Bristol 58 7. Jonathan Smith 88 20. Amasa Hubbard, son of Jonathan Burr 14| ' — Sarah Ann, daughter of Dr. Ira Hutchinson 3 Ds. 22. Damaris, wife of David Spencer 67 26. Lucinda, widow of Haus Higgins 80 Dec. 6. Hezekiah Shaler 87 12. Female infant of Daniel C. Emmons 5 Wks. 23. Molly, widow of Elihu [?] Bates 73 1835 Jan. 6 or 7. John Whitmore, child of Whitmore Ely 6 8. George Flagg 35 10. Asher Clark 69 16. Zillah, widow of Benjamin Kelsey 70 Feb. 12. George M., child of James Clarke Jun 4 16. Hannah, child of Eliphalet Smith 11 ms. 17. Zeruiah, widow of Eeuben Bailey 75 23. Emiline, cliild of Joseph Clarke 2^ — Eoswell Bailey. Mar. 5. Charlotte Griffin, daughter of Betsey Clarke 40 — John Cone 35 — — Eoxanna, wife of Coleman Clarke Mar. 17. Josiah P. son of Coleman Clarke 10 J 23 345 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVEESARY Age Mar. 13. John Austin, son of George S. Brainerd 7 — Diana, wdfe of Gideon Gladwin 35 20. A male infant of David Hill 2 Wks. 23. Thankful, widow of Job Hubbard 90 31. James Sutliflf 76 Apr. 9. Thomas Church 87 19. Luzerne Foote, son of Dudley Clarke 5 20. Mary Cone 83 22. Hannah, widow of John Lane 66 — Jerusha, widow of Buel, before of Samuel Burr 93^ 27. Abigail, widow of Samuel Tyler 90 May 6. Irena [Lucy], widow of Simon Tyler [86] 80 7. Wilson, son of Joseph S. Hubbard 11 ms. 14. Eachel B. D. of James Treadwell (by small pox at N. Haven) 16^ — Sarah, widow of Calvin Hubbard. June 2. Harriet, wife of Timothy Tyler 37 Anna, daughter of Jonathan Crook 18 Sarah Jane, infant of Jeremy Bailey 11 ms. Simon Bailey of small pox 46 Elizabetli, widow of William Brainerd 56 Byron, child of Dudley Clarke 4^ Martha, wife of Stephen Tibbals Esq. 76 Dorcas, widow of Samuel Lewis 84 Dolly Ann, daughter of Ebenezer Brainerd 3 Nancy, child of Diodate Smith 1 Flora, daughter of Pelatiah Clark 20 Fanny, wife of Hezekiah Sutliff 50 Huldah, widow of Silas Cone 73 Esther, wife of Alfred Brainerd 40 Sylvester, son of Samuel Child deceased 20 Fanny, wife of Capt. Daniel Brainerd 56 Didymus Johnson 65 Theodore W. son of Eussel Gladwin 3 William, son of George Cone 2 Susanna, wife of Stephen Dickinson 62 Ealph Kirk, child of Arnold H. Hazelton [Hayden] 2 John, son of Jonathan Arnold 4 Margaret, wdfe of Giles Brainerd 69 Jeremiah Brown 35 Gideon Brainerd 80 Elihu Spencer 42 Ezra, infant of GriflSth Jones 9 ms. Lavinia, wife of Gideon Brainerd 27 346 15. July 2. 4. 7. 10. Aug. 9. 28. Sept. 1. 3. 15. 18. Oct. 1. 5. 17. 19. 20. Nov. 7. 11. Dec. 13. 16. 18. 19. DEATHS 1836 Age Jan. 20. Jennet, wife of David B. Ventres 39 — Leander, child of Heber Braiuerd 2d 4 Mercy, wife of Jabez Bailey. Eoxanna Eedfield, wife of Hiram Brooks 29 Lydia, wife of Walker Knowles 77 Cynthia, wife of Bela Burr 35 Hannah, wife of Nathaniel Burr 64 Maria, wife of Ebenezer Wilcox 30 Eunice, daughter of Joseph Spencer 24 Louisa Josephine, child of Atwood Spencer 2 John Knowles 73 Jedidah, daughter of Simon Hazelton 44 Daniel, son of Daniel Brainerd at JMendon, N. Carolina 27 Sylvester Ezra, son of Sylvester Brainerd 21 Sarah Jane, child of Heman Tyler 1-^ Adah Jane, daughter of Enos Bailey 5 EHphalet Smith 37 Mercy B, child of Jesse Smith 3 ms. Jane Augusta, child of Eussel B. Skinner 2^ Nathaniel Burr 8i Nancy, wife of Diodate Smith 23 Hannah Lane 39 Prudence, widow of Abram Simons, (Indian) abt. 80 Phinehas B, son of Linus Brainerd 17 Daniel Merwin 57 Daniel Spencer 84, Dea. David Hubbard 87 Clarissa, wife of William Cone 49 Eichard Skinner 2d 48 Mary Olmsted, widow of Wm. Spencer 73 Esther, widow of Cornelius Higgius 85 1837 Jan. 6. Lydia, wife of Jonathan Burr, sen. 77 13. Stephen Burr 53 17. Sarah M, daughter of Nathaniel Hull 20 Feb. 25. Lovisa Bates. 27. Jesse Smith 38 Mar. 1. Jonathan A, son of Joseph S. Hubbard 10 ms. 5. Margaret, wife of Joseph Brainerd 48 21. Stephen, infant of Enos Smith 4 Wks. 22. James K. Child 73 28. Ann E, child of Bailey Marble 5 Wks, 347 31. Feb. 7. Mar. 9. oo 31." Apr. 5. 10. May 14. 24. June 5. 9. July 11. 28. 30. Aug. Sept. 9. 4. 30. Oct. 18. 19. 29. Nov. 9. 24. Dee. 1. 24. 27. HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSAEY Age Mar. 30. Fanny E, child of Nathan Smith 13 ms. 29. Huldah, wife of Joseph Burr 53 31. Charlotte, wife of Timothy Jackson (nigra) 50 Eecord Icept hy the Bev. David D. Field. Arnold Eay 44 Eliezer Bailey 67 Esther Simons (Indian woman, burnt to death) 35 Willard Gladwin 54 Hannah, widow of Capt. Daniel Ventres 89 Jonathan Brainerd 85 Hannah Francis, child of Dea. Russel Shailer 4 ms, Hannah, wife of James Brooks 53 Mary Eveline, wife of Chauncey Crook 22 Davis, son of Lyman Burr 8 Hannah Eliza d. of Isaac Loomis 7 ms. Female infant of Aaron L. Ayres 3 Ws. Robert Williams, child of David B. Cooke. Amelia Ann, child of Allen Way (nigra) 3 Wks. Hannah, d. of John Lane deceased 39 James Spencer 50 Huldah, vddow of Linus Brainerd 45 Joseph Dickinson 73 Sarah Ann, daughter of Simon Hazelton 13 William Lester, child of Lester Arnold 3^ Whitney Scovil 24 — Samuel, son of Ira H. Payne (drowned) 9^ 24. DoUy, widow of Eli Hubbard 59 1838 Jan. 1. Abigail, widow of Abraham Brooks 79 2. A female infant of Sylvanus Brooks 10 D. 11. Elijah Williams 45 Feb. 13. Heman, son of Heman Clarke 7 18. James Brooks 2d 54 20. Stephen Tibballs Esq. 79 22. John Ogden Hubbard 25 — A child of Alvan Bailey. Mar. 3. Lydia, wife of Ephraim Crook 77 — Amna Burr, daughter of the late Jona- than Burr 20 — — Orpha Burr daughter of the late Jonathan Burr 5 16. Daniel Chapman, son of the late Daniel Chapman Knowles 7 Apr. 6. WiUiam Ely 85 348 Apr. 13. 17. May 13. June 21. July 6. 8. Aug. 1. 16. 20. 29. Sept. ,16. 23. Oct. 3. 14. 25. Nov. 18. Dec. 1. 2. 23. DEATHS Age Apr. 30. Lucy Ann, child of Geo. S. Brainerd 5 ms. May 1 or 2. Louisa, wife of Theodore Dwight Hayes 33 4. Eebecca Walkley 69 16. Abigail Bailey 18 17. Ansel Warner 37 19. George Burr 50 28. Bathsheba, daughter of David Dickinson 20 June 7. A male infant of Asher Burr 3 D. July 1. Lucina, wife of Stephen Johnson 42 12. Nathan Smith 44 31. Prudence, child of Nathan Dickinson 1^ m. Aug. 26. Firman Eldridge, child of Evelin Hubbard 3 Sept. 5. Orreu Kay, son of late Ezra Eay, drowned in Connecticut river 17 16. Susan Parmer, child of Enos Smith 4 16 or 17. Sarah Sutliff 84 19. Cynthia Ann Niles, daughter of Ww. Mar- garet Niles 19 30. Damon Andrews 36 Oct. 1. Laura Lovisa, child of Hezekiah Scovil 3 2. Susannah, child of Chauncey Whitmore 6 W. 18. Mary, widow of Daniel Smith (Nigra) 50 19. Cornelius Brainerd 77 30. Aaron Skinner 72 31. Eliakim Bailey 81 Nov. 5. Edward, child of Aaron Skinner 19 ms. 7. Oliver Smith, child of Alfred Brainerd 3 19. Levi Burr (at Cincinnati) 22 19. John W., child of Whitmore Ely 3 Dec. 25. Chauncey, child of Chauncey Dickinson 5 26. Arsula, wife of Jonathan Arnold 34 14. Lauraette, child of Levi Eay 3^ — Eemale infant of Gideon Bailey 2 H. 1839 Jan. 14. Daniel, infant of Eliezer Bailey 9 ms. 20. Elizabeth Brainerd 77 Feb. 4. Catharine Cordelia, infant of Abner B. Hinckley 7 ms. 16. Elizabeth, widow of Benjamin Burr 89 ^ 21. Julia, child of John Crook 2 24. Jonathan Clarke 63 27. Aurelia Isadore, child of Arza Dickinson 3 Mar. 1. Joseph Scovil Esq. 81{^ 9. Martin Luther, child of Isaac Loomis 4 Wks. 20. Noah Smith 53 24. Orlando, child of Joseph C. Hubbard 11 ms. 27. Ehoda, child of Ww. Emiline Andrews 2| 349 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Acre Apr. 2. Male infant of Russcl Bailey 6 W. May 2. Philo I. son of Joseph Rice Shailer (drowned) 17 7. Wm. Perry (Niger) ;;<) — Male-infant of Alvan Bailey 1 d. 25. Joseph Burr 9(J June 8. Eliza L. wife of Eliezer Bailey 34 Aug. 1. David Church (drowned) 46 12. Dea. James Walkley 66^ 26. Joseph Dudley 63 Sept. 7. Laura, wife of Benjamin Bailey 41 8. Wells Scovil 26 \^ 30. Huldah, wife of Bezaliel Shailer 70 Jarod Burr, murdered in Chester 24 Oct. G. Giles Brainerd 41 j^ IS. Female infant of Waterman Rich 2 ds. Nov, 5. William Brainerd 33 |^„- — Lavina, wife of Didymus Johnson 38 17. Desire, widow of Eiizur Spencer 81 — Ann Eliza, infant of Nathan D. Burr 3 W. Dee. 19. Male infant of Gideon Bailey 2 or 3 d. 26. Jonathan Usher Esq. 69 1840 Betsey Scovil, D. of Hez. Scovil Esq. 22 Huldah Maria, wife of Jehoshaphat Gladwin 39 Whitmore Ely 36 Albert Ely 27 Capt. Ansel Brainerd 76 Lovisa Tincker 72 Esther Maria, child of Joseph Treat 2 Benjamin, child of Daniel Smith 17 ms. Christopher Bailev 84 Sarah, relict of Joseph Clark 83 Harriet, infant of Albert Clark 7 ms, Ira Shaler 77 Drusilla, widow of Ezra Ruttee 68 Whitney Tyler, child of Ww. Elizabeth Scovil 2ilj Julia Cone, D. of Jonathan Cone 34 Esther, D, of Sylvester Scovil 21 Male child of Arza Dickinson, a trin, (the other two children also males, stillborn) 1 D, Isaac Buel 25 Nehemiah Tyler Slf^- Martha, wife of Richard Skinner 70 Currence Maria Johnson 18 Mary Brainerd, relict of Charles Brainerd 82 Jemima, relict of Samuel Bailey 71 350 Jan. 16. Feb. 19. 29, Mar. 7. 13. 27. 31. Apr. 16. 18. May 1. 2 10. 22. June 1. 11. 18. Aug, Sept. 11. 4. 23, 27. Oct, 1, 18, DEATHS Age Oct. 26. Jenisha, wife of Asahel Bonfoey • 52 27. Anna [Amna?] D. of Dan Lane 1^ Xov. 6. Hezekiah Brainerd 21 11. Comfort C. Kelsey 22 15. Dolly Flagg, relict of George Flagg 37 16. Jedidah Hazelton, widow of Simon Hazelton 76 24. Lydia, wife of Dan Lane 33 30. James Burr 61 Dec. 8. Benjamin Kelsey Skinner 24 J 20. DeUa Turner 17j^j 1841 Feb. 4. Philena, wife of Joseph S. Hubbard, pre- viously widow of Sylvester Johnson 39 Nelson I. Burnham, infant of Harriet D. Eay 3 ms. Female child of Lucinda Brainerd 3 Wks. Jane Maria, infant of James Mcintosh 4 Wks. Eliphalet Smith, infant of Felix Miner Spencer 7 ms. Lydia, Avidow of Benjamin Sherman 65 John Dickinson 66 Nathan Hervey Tibballs 30 Female infant of William Emmons 10 or 12 Ds. Ann P., widow of Aaron Clarke of Whites- town, for some time resident in the fam- ily of her son-in-law, Chauncey Child 83 Bezaliel Shaler 68 David C. Hubbard 56-/^ Huldah, widow of Gideon Cooke of East- Haddam, for years resident with chil- dren here 87 James Brooks at Southington 74 Ira Ely 54^ Eliza, daughter of Nathan Tyler 27^ Orren Dickinson (drowned in Mill Creek) 43 Jared Shaler 42^ Esther, wife of David Burr 73 Gen. John Brainerd SSt^y Julia Samantha, wife of John K. Burr 26 William Child, son of James Dickinson 4^ Alma, wife of William Smith. Cynthia, daughter of Jeremiah Bailey 21 Anna Sawyer 72 Nehemiah Dickinson 56 George Washington Dickinson 28 Julia E., infant of John Briggs 11 Ws. Mercy Smith (Nigra) viddow the fifth time, last of Cuff Smith 90 351 9. Mar. 17. 21. 24. 25. 28. Apr. 3. 13. 14. 18. May 7. 10. 15. 19. 21. June 21. July 9. 14. 20. Aug. Sept. 27. 2L 26. Oct. 7. 8. 19. 25. Nov. 15. Dec. 4. HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Ago Dec. 9. Mehitabal, widow of Amos Dickinson 89 11. Zeruiah, widow of Samuel Hubbard 77 24. Watson Horace Bonfoey, son of Asahel Bonfoey at Mobile 25^ 31. Mary, wife of Setli Wetmore 44 30. Sarah Snow, sister of the Preceptor of the Academy, from Ware, Ms. 19 1842 Laura Ann, child of Jabesh Spencer 5f Richard Skinner 77 Catharine, Avife of Samuel Ventres 67 Hannah Edithia Williams 20 Rachel, wife of Austin Bailey 26 Mercy Tincker, widow of Seth Tincker 81 Lucy Brainerd 67 Asahel Hubbard 70 Fanny Brainerd, wife of James Brainerd 50 ^ Jonathan Crook 65 Albert Tyler, son of David Tyler 33 Marwin Brooks, infant of Alva Bailey 9 Wks. Franklin, child of Heman Brooks 8 ms. James Thomas 89 Abishai Smith 87^ Hannah M. infant of John Barry 4 ms. Levi David, infant of Revillo Brainerd 6 ms. Edmund Williams 39 Hannah Maria, wife of Reuben Dickinson 28 Mary Ann, only child of Ww. Prudence Ely, vddow of Whitmore Ely 2f William Whitmore, son of William Ely 2 Anna Osborn, daughter of William Emmons 7^ Orren Crook 51 Harriet Elizabeth, child of Jabez Spencer 3 Female infant of Halsey Gladwin 2 Wks. Oliver, infant of Oliver P. Smith 5 Wks. Mary, daughter of the late Nathan Smith 17^ Anna, widow of Ira Shaler 74 Male infant of Harriet Smith (Niger) 7 Wks. Caroline Eliza, daughter of Dudley Clarke 6 George Smith (Niger) 55 Sally, widow of John Burr 74 Salena, infant of Ashbel Tyler 9 Wks. EUza Ann Young, wife of Asaph B. Youngs 25 Prudence Cornelia, child of Oliver P. Smith 2^ Edwin Augustus, child of Asaph B. Young 2 ^ Samuel Tinker 71 352 Jan. 20. Feb. 12. Mar. 5. 15. 19. Apr. 1. 5. IL / 29. May 3. 8. 30. June 1 4. July 19. 24. Aug. 6. 11. 12. 25. 27. 31. Sept. 11. 20. 21. 23. Oct. 1. 4. 23. 31. Nov. 6. 26. Dec. 5. 9. 17. 18. 26. 29. Jan. 2. 12. 16. Feb. 1. 2. 14. 16. 19. 22. 28. Mar. 3. 5. 6. 18. 21. 23. Apr. 28. 30. May 1. 5. 11. 21. 28. June 11. July 9. 17. Aug. 4. 29. Sept. , 3. 7. 25. Oct. 6. 7. 8. 11. 16. 28. Nov. 2. 3. 4. 18. 27. Dec. 8. DEATHS 1843 Age Gurdon Walkley 58 Caroline L. daughter of Edward Euttee 4 Asaph Brainerd, child of Asaph B. Young 4f Henry Brainerd, cMld of Silas Smith 4f Elizabeth Bates, D. of late Elihu Bates 31 Gideon, child of Gideon Brainerd 2^ Smith Hubbard 73 Jonathan Sabin 87 Sylvester Brainerd 64 Lavinia Elizabeth, child of Gideon Brainerd 6 ms. Cornelia Ann, child of David W. Arnold 19 ms. Lydia, widow of James Burr 58 Harriet E. Ventres, wife of Hubbard Ventres 26 Maria H, child of Sidney S. Hazelton If Simon A, child of Do. 3ig Lucretia, child of Eev. George Kettell 3 + Fanny, widow of Samuel Child 52 Sarah, wife of Caleb Brainerd 2d 19 Hubert, child of Aaron L. Ayres 4 Mary Elizabeth, child of Edwin E. Bonfoey 4 Lydia M. wife of Hervey [Harvey] Dickinson 20 f Benjamin F. Banning 43 Lucy Ann, wife of Samuel Smith 50 A female child of Eevillo Brainerd 1 W. Daniel, son of Joseph N. Shaler 9 Ws. Josephus Shaler 38 Caroline Amelia, child of Benj. F. Banning 3{i Prudence, widow of Nehemiah Tyler 76 Nehemiah Tyler 36 Esther, widow of Oliver Brainerd 84 Antoinette, child of Gideon Bailey 17 ms. Simeon Bates 75 H Orpha, child of Coleman Clarke 4 J Dorotha, wife of Lyman Bailey 55 Orpha Louisa, daughter of David Dickinson 28 Perse Maria, daughter of Jacob Brainerd 19 Elsworth Munroe, child of Ww. Adaline Blatchley 3 Jerusha, -wife of Jeremiah Shaler 75 Hepzibah Ann, D. of Hervey Brainerd 12 Seth Brainerd 64 Lydia Clarke, widow of Jonathan Clarke 70 Daniel Smith went away, supposed to have died. Elizabeth Hannah, wife of Alonson Brainerd 38 Luther Freeman, went away, supposed to have died, Shelumiel Minor 38 Gideon Brainerd 42 353 HADDAM CHTJECH ANNIVERSARY Age Dec. 23. Temperance Lauretta, daughter of the late David C. Hubbard 24 26. Bethiah, widow of Daniel Gladwin 92 1844 Jan, 16. Harriet, wife of Heman Clarke 35 25. Asa Brainerd 73 Feb. 5. Noadiah Cone 83 -,\ 8. Gideon Lisk Cook, at Waverly, Pike County, Ohio 26 15. Lydia, wife of Benjamin Smith 54^ 19. Sereno, child of Alonson Spencer 7 25. Orren Orilas, child of Ebenezer Sloeum 2 26. Charles Dayton, child of Nathan D. Burr 1§ Harriet Deantha, wife of David Buel 20 29. Zabra, mdow of Willard Gladwin, for- merly of Eussel Bailey 63 Mar. 2. James Porter, son of James Brainerd 2d lOJ 6. Huldah, -n-idow of Simon Smith 65 9. Frederic Winchel, child of Atwood Thomas 1^ 10. Henry, child of Isaac Arnold 2 Julia, child of Jonathan Spencer 4 13, Samuel W. child of Albert Clark 7^ Apr. 1. Enos, child of Hezekiah Brainerd (scalded) 1^ 9, Martha, daughter of Sylvester Skinner 23 Record 'kept hy Dea. George S. Brainerd, Cleric. Sabra Ann, daughter of Geo. & PhUetta Arnold 19 Isaac Loomis 49 Philetta widow of George Arnold 39 Leura Tyler, daughter of Timothy Tyler 17 Hannah Skinner 17 Henry Arnold 23 Daniel Knowles 70 George E. Smith, son of Eliphalet Smith & Lucynthia Smith 15 Jeremiah Shailer 78 Timothy Shailer 65 E. Marvin , a child of Deantheum Brainerd 5 George Tyler 34 Philliman Scovil 66 John Buel, Wm, W, infant of Chauncey Clark 12 wks. Orin Orilus Child of Sloeum 2 George Smith. 354 May June 4. 20. July Sept. 3, 3. 7. 18. Oct. 23. Aug. Nov. 24, 10. Dec. 5, May July Dec, 8. 7. 24. Aug. Sept, 15. 25. DEATHS 1845 Age May 6. Jane Brainerd Skinner. 3. Ursula Brainerd, daughter of Alvin Brd. Asahel Bonfoey. 18 Aug. 6. Capt. Jared Arnold 71 25. Mary Anne Shailer. 27. Sarah Dickinson. Oct. 5. Elizabeth Clark or Betty Clark 70 July 28. Eichard Knowles 80 Dec. 19. Perez Bradford 72 9. Hannah Barry 44 Sept. 19. Child of Wm. Arnold. June 2. Mary Tyler, Wd Xeh Tyler Jr. 30 May 31. John Odber Drowned 39 Oct. — Henry a colored man Drowned 31 Apr. 3. 3. Oct. 1. 18. Dec. 4. Xov. 20. Oct. 25. June 15. Dec. 15. [July 9.] 1846 Heber Brainerd 76 EUzabeth Eutty. Died in Ohio 22 Lueynthia C. Hutchinson 30 Eebecca Kelsey, wife of Benjn. Kelsey 53 Huldah Clark, wife of Ezekiel S Clark 45 Albertin Child of Ashbel Tyler 11 ms. Ephraim Crook 80 Tyrus Brainerd 40 Nehemiah Brainerd 76 Olivia Brainerd Daughter of Ansel & Sally Brainerd. [18J 1847 Feb. 14. Edward Eutty 48 Mar. 18. Martha Thomas wife of Halsey Thomas 32 21. Elizabeth Skinner, wife of Selden Skinner 58 Apr. 19. Hannah Smith wife of Wm. Smith 70 May 19. Harlow O. Welch Child of H W & Nancy Welch 3 Sept. 13. Caroline Skinner 20 Oct. — [18]. [Betsey] Tyler wife of Timothy Tyler 52 — George Emmons 17 1848 Feb. 7, Ellen J. Welch Child of Harlow & Nancy Welch 21 mg. 17. John E Ventres Child of David B Ventres & Jedidah Ventres 3 ms. 355 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY Age Mar. 28. Archalaus Tyler 68 30. Louisa Arnold 21 Apr. 20. Hannah Brainerd, relict of Ansel Brainerd 82 [Sept. 20]. Wd. [Jeniva] EandaU [87] Nov. 18. Eliakim S. Brainerd 45 Dec. 1. Sabra Tyler, wife of Saml. Tyler 2d 51 8. Jared Dickinson on his way to California 27 Oct. 1. Eunice WalMey Wife of Solomon Walkley 57 3B6 THE OLD MEETINa HOUSE The third house of worship, now known as the "Old Meeting-House," was dedicated October 24, 1771, con- tinued in use until the dedication of the fourth and present house of worship, November 3, 1847, and was taken down in March, 1861. Its dimensions were "sixty-five feet long and forty-five feet wide, and a proportionable height," with galleries on tlu'ee sides and two tiers of windows, but no steeple. The accompanying diagram is a copy, reduced in size, of a plan of the ground floor, prepared by Ely Warner, Esq., then treasurer of the Ecclesiastical Society, when pews were first rented in 1825. nmr 55 30 2 5i ■*5 •* 1 25 21 5 20 19 58 ■»+ 6 39 -U S 5 27 17 7 12 H J"L P indicates the pulpit; C, closet for the pewter, under the pulpit ; D, the deacons' seat; G S, "girls' stairs; " M S, "Men's stairs." 357 HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY The treasurer's memoranda for 1825, and the promissory notes given by the contributors, indicate that the pews for that year were charged to or paid for by the persons named below, the total assessment of each pew being noted. The names of a few of the contributors are probably missing, inasmuch as one person occupying only part of a pew would sometimes pay the treasurer cash for the whole, and himself collect from the others, so that the treasurer made no account of the other names. 1. Ely Warner, $30, 2. WilUam Ely, Aaron Smith, Stephen Smith, Luther Boardman, $27. 3. Daniel Brainerd, Gen. John Brainerd, James Clark, Jonathan Usher, Dea. James Walkley, $31. 4. James K. Child, $42. 5. Ansel Brainerd, Jun., Roswell Brainerd, $36. 6. Dudley Clark, Comfort Cone, David Shailer, Selden Tyler, Henry Smith, Edward Rutty, $32, 7. Dea, Jonathan Hunting- ton, $21. 8. Joseph Scovil, $15. 9. Nathan Tyler, Samuel Tyler, Daniel Brainerd, Solomon Walkley, Heber Brainerd, $24. 10, Dr. Andrew F. Warner, George S. Brainerd, $20, 11, Selden Huntington, $16. 12, David Walkley, Ansel Smith, Asa Mitchel, Selden Skinner, $10,50, 13, Hezekiah Scovil, 10, 14, Richard Lord, $4.25, 15, James Gladwin, $2, 16, (Colored pew) paid by Dea. James Walkley, 16. IS. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Ely Warner, Daniel Brainerd, Elisha Clark, Asahel Bonfoey, Hazael Smith, Dea. David Hubbard, Job Hubbard, $4. Job Hubbard, David Hubbard, Jr., $6.50, James Brooks, John Knowles, $9, Ezra Kelsey, $9.50. Hazael Smith, $14. Moses Stevens, Stephen Tibbals, Jr., Jacob Brainerd, Anson Bristol, $9.50. Ebenezer Cook, $14. Selden Huntington, $9. Timothy Walkley, Nathaniel Hull, Jabez Brainerd, $14. Daniel Thomas, Cornelius Higgins, $14.50. John Butler, $8. Selden Huntington, $10. Charles Smith, Daniel Merwin, $11. Minister 's pew. Oliver Brainerd, Ira Shailer, John Hayden, $18. James Thomas, Daniel Smith, Nehemiah Brainerd, Thomas Church, Noah Clark, Gideon Brainerd, $30. 358 THE OLD MEETING HOUSE 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. Nehemiah Dickinson, $30. Simon Hazleton, Fiske Brainerd, $10. Nehemiah Dickinson, $30. James Brainerd, Heman Clark, $6.75. Samuel Tyler, 2d, $10. Dea. Asa Young, $6.50. George E. Bailey, $9. Daniel Tyler, Timothy Tyler, Azra Dickinson, David Dickinson, $8. Eliphalet Smith, Heber Brainerd, 2d, $11. 41. Cephas Brainerd, Benjamin Kelsey, $17. 42. Jonathan Arnold, $16. 43. Thomas Shailer, $15. 44. Nathaniel Cook, George C. Arnold, $9. 45. Daniel C. Dickinson, $10. Gallery Pews. Hurlbut Swan, $2. John Brainerd, $2. James Clark, $3.50. Jeptha Brainerd, $5. Hezekiah Brainerd, $5. Arnold Eay, $10.25. Total assessment, $717.75. In 1832 the contributors whose names are preserved and the assessments of the several pews are as follows: Ezekiel Spencer, $6.-^^ Chauncey Child, $7. Solomon Walkley, $3. John Cone, $4. Colored pew. Widows' pew, $5. Job Hubbard, $5. Asahel Bonfoey, Benjamin Smith, Enos Smith, Samuel Smith, $14. Benanuel Bonfoey, James C. Arnold, $4. John May, Christopher E. Hill, Jonathan Usher, $10. Theodore Child, $16. Hurlbut Swan, Confort Cone, $22. James Clark, Chauncey D. Skinner, $10. David Bonfoey, Eichard Skinner, James Thomas, $15. David Hubbard, Jr., $9. Daniel Brainerd, $9. Minister 's pew, assessed at $40, and paid by 359 1. Cyprian S. Brainerd, 12. Nathaniel Hull, 13. Noadiah Cone, $28. 14. 2. $18. 15. 3.' Dea. James Walkley, 16. Gen. John Brainerd, 17. Daniel Brainerd, $30. 18. 4. $30. 19. 5. Dea. Jonathan Hunting- ton, Aaron Brainerd, $25. 20. 6. Selden Tyler, Edward Eutty, $25. 21. 7. Gideon Brainerd, Jr., $9. 8. Cephas Brainerd, David Walkley, Asa Mitchel, $8. 22. 9. Horace Smith, 23. Daniel Tyler, 24. Samuel Tyler, $18. 10. Jared Arnold, Dr. Benj. H. Catlin, 25. Smith Clark, $16. 26. 11. Eussel Gladding, David C. Hubbard, Selden Gladwin, $10. 27. 12. Daniel Merwin, 28. Sylvester Brainerd, 2d, 29. Cornelius Brainerd, 3d, HADDAM CHURCH ANNIVERSARY 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. Gen. John Brainerd, Hurlbut Swan, Orin O. Wickham, Jared H. Shailer, Edward H. Tyler, David B. TreadweD, Henry L. Shailer, •William S. Tyler. Ely Warner, Darius Dickinson, Nathaniel Cook, $15. Arnold H. Hayden, Dr. Ira Hutchinson, Thomas Shailer, George S. Brainerd, $30. Alva Shailer, Willard Cook, Ansel Brainerd, Jr., $15. Oliver Brainerd, $6. Nehemiah Brainerd, $18. Heber Brainerd, $8. Stephen Dickinson, Ira Shailer, $5. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. Samuel Tyler, 2d, $5. Nehemiah Brainerd, $4. Eliphalet Smith, Ezekiel S. Clark, David B. Ventres, Davis Kelsey, $9. Curtis Smith, Dea. Asa Young, Willard Gladwin, $6. George Kelsey, Nathan Tyler, Benjamin Kelsey, Richard Skinner, Jr., $9. Edwin A. Smith, Deantheum H. Brainerd, Hiram Brooks, $10. Archelaus Tyler, John Dickinson, Daniel C. Dickinson, Charles Smith, $10. 360 ^