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COMMKMORATIO 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CENTENNIA 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Congregational Church, 
 
 HINSDALE, MASS., 
 
 IZED DECEMBER 17th, 1795-. 
 
 T 28th, 1895. 
 
 PITTSFIELD, MASS. 
 
 PRESS OF THE SUN PRINTING COMPANY. 
 
 1896. 
 
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 By transfer 
 
 OCT 25 1915 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 Addkesses : 
 
 Address of Welcome, by Rev. Mr. Laird, . 
 
 Address, by Rev. Edward Taylor, D. D.. 
 
 Address, by Rev. Kinsley Twining, D. D., L. H. D 
 
 Address, by Rev. Chauncey Goodrich, D. D.. 
 
 Address, by Rev. Daniel Merrinian, D. D., 
 
 Address, by Rev. Rufus Apthorp, 
 
 Address, by Judge James M. Barker. 
 
 Address, by Rev. Dr. Judson Smith. 
 
 Address, by Rev. G. H. Flint, 
 Alphabetical Index op Members, 
 A Woman's Recollections, by Mrs. Elizabeth Hinsdale Hall. 
 
 Closing Remarks, ....... 
 
 Centennial Committees, ..... 
 
 Copies of Original Papers, ..... 
 
 Centennial List of Members, ..... 
 
 Early History of the Church, by Hon. C. J. Kittredge, 
 Extracts from Letters, . 
 
 Finances and Benevolences, by James Hosmer, 
 
 Former Pastors Deceased : 
 
 Rev. John Leland and Caleb Knight, by Miss Sarah Bo wen. 
 Rev. William A. Hawley, by Hon. C. J. Kittredge, 
 Rev. S. W. Banister and Rev. P. K. Clark; by Rev. Edson L. C 
 Rev. Ephraim Flint, D. D., by William J. Bartlett. 
 
 Invitation. ... 
 
 Manual : 
 
 Historical Sketch, 
 Pastors, 
 Deacons, . 
 Church Clerks, 
 Si anding Rules. . 
 
 Original Members of the Present Parish, 
 
 Parishes and Church Buildings, by George T. Plunkett, 
 
 Poem, by Miss Phebe A. Holder. . 
 
 Prayer, ...... 
 
 Present Officers and Members. 
 Programme, ...... 
 
 Reminiscences, by Mrs. Laura Emmons FrisselL, 
 
 The Original Twenty-three Members of the Church, by Pev 
 The Centennial List of Members 
 
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1795. 
 
 1895. 
 
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 The Congregational Church and Society of Hinsdale, Berkshire County, 
 Massachusetts, will celebrate their centennial year on Wednesday, August 
 twenty-eighth, commencing at 9.30 a. m., and closing at 4.30 p. m. 
 
 The exercises of the day will consist of historical papers, reminiscences, 
 biographical sketches, poem, addresses and letters. Among those who are 
 expected to be present and give addresses are Rev. Edward Taylor, D. D., 
 Rev. Kinsley Twining, D. D.,. former pastors, and Rev. Chauncey Good- 
 rich, D. D., Missionary to China. 
 
 A collation will be served at noon. 
 
 You are cordially invited to be present. Please reply bj inclosedjpostal 
 card. 
 
 Rev. James H. Laird, Pastor. 
 
 Milo M. Wentworth, ) Standing Com- 
 W. Ambrose Taylor, >■ mittee of 
 George T. Plunkett, ) the Church. 
 
 James Hosmer, Clerk. 
 Hinsdale, Mass., August 1st, 1895. 
 
 E. Htjbbard Goodrich, ) Prudential Com- 
 Edwin Tremain, >■ mittee of 
 
 Thomas A. Frissell, ) the Society. 
 
 Alden H. Peiroe. Clerk. 
 
CENTENNIAL EXERCISES 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Congregational Church and Society, 
 
 HINSDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, 
 
 Wednesday, August 28th, 1895-, 
 
 Commencing at 10 o'clock. \. M. 
 
 A. M. 
 
 10.00. AMTHEM— ** -Joy and Gladness.'* By Choir. 
 
 Scripture— Ps. 84 and 122 *Rev. G. H. Flint. Boston. 
 
 Prayer, Rev. J. C. Seagrave. 
 
 Welcome Rev. J. H. Laird. 
 
 10.1.*). Early History of Church Hon. C. J. Kittredge. 
 
 10.45. The Original Twenty-three Members, Rev. J. H. Laird. 
 
 11.05. Parish and Buildings, George T. Plunkett. 
 
 11.25. Finances and Benevolences. James Hosmer. 
 
 11.35. Singing— Hymn 471, Coronation By Choir. 
 
 11.40. Poem, written by Miss Phebe A. Holder, and Letters from friends. 
 11.55. Biographical Sketches of Deceased Pastors. 
 
 Rev. John Leland and Rev. Caleb Knight Miss Sarah Boweu 
 
 Rev. William A. Hawley Hon. C. J. Kittredgr. 
 
 Rev. Seth W. Banister and Rev. P. K. Clark Rev. E. L. Clark. 
 
 Rev. Ephraim Flint, D. D Rev. W. J. Bartlett. Lee. 
 
 Luncheon. Collection of Portraits. 
 
 Singing— Montgomery, By Choir. 
 
 Addresses by Former Pastors. 
 
 Rev. Edward Taylor, D. J) Binghamton. N. Y. 
 
 Rev. Kinsley Twining, D. D Morristown, N. J. 
 
 Address, Rev. Chauncey Goodrich. China. 
 
 RETROSPECT OF THE YEARS. 
 3.05. A Woman's Recollections, written by Mrs. Elizabeth Hinsdale Hall. 
 
 8.15. Reminiscences, Mrs. Laura Emmons Frissell. 
 
 3.20. Short Addresses : tMr. A. D. Matthews, Brooklyn. N. Y.. Judge J. M. Barker 
 
 Pittstield. and others. 
 1.10. Singing— Hymn 041. 
 4.15. Benediction. 
 
 12.30. 
 
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 2.05. 
 
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 2.45. 
 
 DEPARTURE OF TRAINS. 
 East: t.85, 7.16, 11.14 p. a: West: 3.48, 5.58, 7.28, 9.00 p. m. 
 
 Not present, place Blled by Rev. Rul'us Apthorpe. 
 1 a l). Biatl hews aol present. 
 
PRAYER. 
 
 BY REV. J. C. SEAGRAVE. 
 
 Oh God, Thou art our God and Thou wast the God of our 
 fathers. Thou broughtest them hither; Thou didst sow this 
 soil with a goodly seed and here is the ripening of that seed, 
 and we come together to-day, Oh God, to celebrate Thy good- 
 ness, Thy loving kindness; to celebrate Thy dealings with Thy 
 church and people. We come, O Lord, to make mention of all 
 Thy loving kindness in sending Thy children hither, in peopling 
 these hills and valleys with Thine own beloved flock, and when 
 they came, they brought intelligence, refinement, education 
 and the love of Christ. We thank our Heavenly Father that 
 when their habitations were few and mean and when their op- 
 portunities were few, they yet planted the church of Christ ; 
 they built the house of God ; they met together for Thy wor- 
 ship; Jesus Christ was preached to them in the infancy of 
 these colonies, and now, Father, as we come to celebrate this 
 centennial, the Lord meet with us here, the Lord give us a 
 proper view of the history of Thy church and people in this 
 place. We desire, O God, to thank Thee for these goodly men 
 and women who planted this soil, who founded this church, 
 who for a hundred years now have cultivated this soil, have 
 done Thy work in this community. We thank our Father in 
 Heaven for that Godly ministry, for that goodly fellowship of 
 believers who, during all this century, have served their gener- 
 ations, and most of whom have now fallen asleep. O God, the 
 past and the future are both alike to them, but to us, O God, 
 to us how full of interest this time, how full of interest the 
 
retrospection, how full of interest the history of this church. 
 O God, we thank Thee that we have lived to behold this day, 
 that now we come together to enjoy this celebration. Direct, 
 O God, in all these exercises. May those who furnish an his- 
 torical record for our improvement and benefit, may all who in- 
 dulge in reminiscences, may we all here together be able to say, 
 " It is the Lord's doing, it is marvelous in our eyes." It is the 
 Lord Jesus Christ walking in the midst of the seven golden 
 candlesticks; it is the Lord Jesus Christ dwelling with his own 
 chosen flock; it is the Holy Spirit coming down into the 
 churches. It is Thy work they have tried to do; it may have 
 been very feeble, very imperfect. Thy people, O God, have 
 been full of errors and mistakes and sins, and yet, O God, have 
 they tried to serve thee? Did not Thy children long ago 
 endeavor to do Thy will when they planted this church, when 
 they established the preaching of the Gospel here? O Father, 
 it must have been Thy work. In all their weakness, Thou 
 madest them strong, in all their ignorance, Thou didst give 
 them wisdom and knowledge and the fear of the Lord. We 
 thank God that we have this Gospel, this ministry of th,e past. 
 We thank Thee, our Father, that we can trace the stream of 
 time, we can see how God has dealt with us and with our fath- 
 ers. We desire once more, O Lord, to praise Thee, to thank 
 Thee that we are in this line of glorious fellowship, that we 
 belong to that race of believers whose one hundredth anniver- 
 sary we to-day celebrate. Our Father, may our hearts be filled 
 with Heavenly light and blessing and may the Holy Spirit 
 come down and rest upon us here. We ask it in Jesus' name. 
 Amen. 
 
ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 
 
 33 Y MR. LAIRD. 
 
 Dear Friends : We expect that this day will be too full of 
 thrilling exercises to make it suitable to spend much time in 
 words of welcome. We can only say that we who share the 
 present responsibilities and privileges of this one hundred 
 years old church and society are glad to see you here. We 
 look upon the faces of these men who were once pastors of 
 this church with feelings too deep for expression. We have a 
 warm welcome for you who once shared the labors and joys of 
 this church in times past. We have a word of greeting for 
 the churches by which we are surrounded which may be repre- 
 sented here to-day, who share with us the Lord's work in our 
 common field. We wish to recall with you all tender memo- 
 ries of the sainted dead; to remind ourselves with you of the 
 constant presence of the unseen One through all these years, 
 and we wish above all things to lift our prayers together with 
 yours that His presence may be continued with us in the years 
 to come; that we may have a higher conception of what He 
 is, may see more clearly the character, the nature and the work 
 of our Lord Jesus Christ, may have a deeper conviction of the 
 value of souls, may be helped of God to do a better, nobler 
 work in the years to come; with truer consecration, with truer 
 love for the Saviour and for our fellow men. We welcome 
 you all to share in these exercises to-day. 
 
 You will readily understand that it was necessary to commit 
 to those who were upon the ground the preparation of the his- 
 torical record, since they were within reach of the sources from 
 which it could be gathered. We begin with the "Early His- 
 tory " by the Hon. C. J. Kittredge. 
 
EARLY HISTORY. 
 
 BY HON. C. J. KITTREDGE. 
 
 The Congregational church in Hinsdale, was originally 
 formed in the town of Partridgeiield, by inhabitants of that 
 and the adjoining town of Dalton. In reviewing some of the 
 events and circumstances connected with its formation, brief 
 reference will be made to the early settlement of those towns. 
 The boundary line between them commenced at the south-west 
 coiner of Windsor, near Wahconah Falls, extending southerly 
 in a direct line to the north line of Washington, near the pres- 
 ent dwelling house of Mr. Charles Cole. It went through 
 about the center of what was afterwards known as Water street 
 in Hinsdale, crossing the Housatonic river near Mr. Peirce's 
 mill. The settlement of Partridgeiield, now Pern, commenced 
 about 1764: it was incorporated as a. town in 1771. It com- 
 prised sixty-three lots. A proviso in its charter forever set 
 apart three lots for religious and educational purposes, and re- 
 quired the building of a meeting house to accommodate all the 
 inhabitants. These three lots have since been owned by the 
 towns of Peru and Hinsdale, and the annual rent of them ap- 
 propriated as required. That a meeting house was built ap- 
 pears from the following copy of the record of a town meeting 
 held in August, 1774: 
 
 "Whereas the Proprietors in Partridgefield have given bond to build a 
 meeting house in said town : the town taking into consideration that the 
 Proprietors building a meeting house as large as would be reasonable for 
 them to build : would not be sufficient for the town any long termof time. 
 the Proprietors hiiving agreed to set up a frame 50x40, and of sufficient 
 height for galleries, and cover it aud lay the lower floor, which we judge 
 will be sufficient to answer their bond : therefore voted that when the Pro- 
 
prietors have completed the same according to their vote, all that remains 
 to be done in finishing said house, shall be done by the towns in equal 
 proportion as other town rates." 
 
 The house was built and located on what is now known as 
 Peru hill. It appears that in previous years the town bad 
 raised money to pay for preaching : that meetings were regu- 
 larly held on Sundays in barns and private houses in different 
 parts of the town, and a Congregational church formed. 
 
 In the spring of 1772, Rev. Mr. Tracy, after preaching sev- 
 eral Sundays, was called, ordained and settled as their minister, 
 on a salary of thirty pounds a year. The low lands in the west 
 part of the town adjoining Dal ton attracted many settlers. 
 Around what was long known as the Flat, but now as Maple 
 street, there gradually grew up a village, containing hotels, 
 stores, mechanic shops, etc., making it a center of trade and 
 business for the vicinity. There were grain and lumber mills 
 on the south, near the present brick school house, also on the 
 north where the foundations and "Mill Stones" now add to the 
 attractions which make " Wahconah Falls" a popular resort for 
 pleasure seekers in these later times. 
 
 Many of the settlers coming from the eastern part of this 
 state and Connecticut brought their Puritan principles and 
 habits with them. To rest from secular labor, and attend pub- 
 lic-worship on Sunday was their conscientious purpose. The 
 long, hilly road — the hills in the original road being much 
 worse than the present one— from the west part to the meeting 
 house, was a serious discouragement to many, Peru hill being 
 three miles distant and more than 500 feet higher than the 
 Flat. For this reason meetings were often held on Sundays in 
 barns, school houses or private dwellings on or near the Flat, 
 with or without preaching, as it could be secured. After re- 
 peated requests to the town to supply them with preaching part 
 of the time, in March, 1783, the town voted to have their min- 
 ister, Rev. John Leland, preach one-fifth of the time in the 
 west part. This arrangement seems to have been satisfactory, 
 and to have continued in force several years. 
 
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 The permanent settlement of Dalton, originally known as 
 the "Plantation of Ashuelot Equivalent," commenced about 
 1760. As the records previous to its incorporation in 1784, 
 have not been preserved, its very early history is not fully 
 known. The situation of the town was somewhat peculiar, it 
 being made up of scattered settlements or villages, with con- 
 liicting interests, having no well defined center. 
 
 The general laws of the state positively required the building 
 of a meeting house in all incorporated towns, but left the loca- 
 tion to the decision of the inhabitants. This question divided 
 communities into hostile sections and created many feuds. It 
 caused much controversy in this town. Frequent meetings 
 were held to consider it, with the general result of increasing 
 the unpleasantness, and lessening the chances for harmony. 
 The outcome of this long wrangle was a small, plain house of 
 worship, finished in the winter of 1795, in a disagreeable loca- 
 tion, where services were held for a few years. But it did not 
 bring peace. 
 
 After its incorporation, the town voted each year to raise 
 twenty pounds to "hire preaching," except in some years dis- 
 turbed by the Shay's rebellion or otherwise, when it was voted 
 not to raise money for such purposes. 
 
 The Congregational church in Dalton was organized February 
 16, 1785. In March, 1795, the first pastor, Rev. James 
 Thomson, was installed, on a salary of twenty pounds a year, 
 with firewood and pew rent added. 
 
 One of the settlements in the south-east part of the town, 
 adjoining Partridgefield, where the meeting house question 
 caused much dissatisfaction, called school ward No. 2, held an 
 extraordinary town meeting in June, 1791, not upon the call 
 of the selectmen or in the usual place, but in school ward No. 
 2, and by order of Eli Eoot, Esq., of Pittsfield, Justice of the 
 Peace and Quoram. 
 
 John Wiley was moderator and James Wing, clerk pro tern. 
 Mr. Williams the town clerk being conspicuously absent. It 
 
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 does not appear that Mr. Wiley lived in this ward, but was 
 prominent in the town, being a leader and officer in the Shay's 
 rebellion which had many supporters in Dalton. Mr. Wing 
 was a farmer in this ward living south of what is now known 
 as Warner hill. The meeting voted that that part of the town 
 south of a line drawn from Israel Peck's house on the west 
 side, and Timothy Burt's house on the east side, shall be at 
 liberty to go off and unite with other towns in ecclesiastical 
 privileges, and that a meeting house be set on the hill opposite 
 Mr. William Buckley's to accommodate the rest of the inhabi- 
 tants. 
 
 Israel Peck's house is now occupied by Peter Tully as a 
 dwelling, on the former Anson Curtis farm. The Burt house 
 stood near the entrance of the railroad into the ledge cut at 
 Lower Valley, which was built directly over its foundation. It 
 will be remembered by some here as the home of Frederick 
 Bestow in later years. At a regular town meeting January 2, 
 1792, the town refused to join with Nathaniel Kellogg, Nathan 
 Warner, James Wing, Caleb Goff, Nathan Webb, James Foot, 
 Charles Babcock, Amasa Frost and Nathaniel Frost in a peti- 
 tion to the legislature for a committee to locate the meeting 
 house, and determine whether any part of the inhabitants 
 ought to be set off to other towns. The population and dis- 
 satisfaction in this ward increased, and resulted in a practical 
 union with the inhabitants in the west part of Partridgelield 
 in sustaining meetings on the Flat on Sundays. Evidently 
 many of the early settlers had strong religious convictions, 
 which they desired to manifest in a practical way for their own 
 good and that of the community. 
 
 In reality it was in the hearts of these praying, God-fearing 
 men and women, that this church first took root. Among the 
 settlers in this ward came Rev. Theodore Hinsdale with a large 
 family from Windsor, Connecticut, in April, 1795, on to the 
 farm now owned by Mr. Robinson. A graduate of YaJe Col- 
 lege in 1762, pastor of a Congregational church in Windsor 
 
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 twenty-eight years, a man of marked ability and strong will, 
 also an active man of affairs: he was well fitted to have a large 
 and good influence in such a community, especially in forming 
 the Congregational church, long desired by many. 
 
 For a long time the question of forming a parish or new 
 town had been much agitated, which culminated in a petition 
 to the legislature of the inhabitants of the east part of Dalton, 
 with those in the west part of Partridgefield, to be incorpor- 
 ated as a parish or town. The form of this petition will be 
 given in full by another. In answer to this petition a com- 
 mittee, consisting of Judge Bacon of Stockbridge, Nathaniel 
 Bishop of Richmond, and Eugene Taylor of Buckland, went 
 to Dalton to enquire into the propriety of granting the peti- 
 tion. They were met by a committee from the petitioners, 
 also by committees from the town of Dalton and Partridge- 
 field in opposition. In accordance with the report of the com- 
 mittee, the west Parish of Partridgefield was incorporated in 
 June, 1795, on the lines designated and expected. The meagre 
 official records during this period, give public interest to the 
 private diary of Mr. Hinsdale, largely copied into " Beers' his- 
 tory of Berkshire County," from which is here quoted some 
 entries relating to the religious character of the community 
 and the influence which led to the formation of this church. 
 
 The diary commenced May 18, 1795. "May 29, Sunday. 
 At meeting the three last Sabbaths in Mr. Tyler's barn. Heard 
 one Haskell preach both parts of the day. He has not a liberal 
 education: aims at being an orator without a good understand- 
 ing of his mother tongue: without clear ideas, or other knowl- 
 edge of the Gospels, than a system of morals." 
 
 Oct. 4. " About two weeks past the new society had their 
 first meeting and organized itself, voted not to raise any money 
 to supply them with preaching for this winter, but voted, by 
 one in majority, to contribute to Mr. Leland's supportin case 
 he would preach with them one Sunday in five as usual. 1 
 fear there is such a wain of spirit and wisdom in tHe new par 
 
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 ish, that it will be a long time, if ever, before they will come 
 to any order in religion. I can have no dependence on them. 
 May God succeed them beyond my apprehension." 
 
 Friday, Nov. 6. "Last evening was visited by Messrs. 
 Fletcher, Haskell and Skinner, parish committee, requesting 
 me to preach with them in the school house for four Sabbaths, 
 to which 1 gave my consent." The 8th and 15th he preached. 
 ''Wednesday, the 19th, being the anniversary Thanksgiving, 1 
 offered the people of the new parish a sermon gratis, and 
 preached from these words, * Who maketh thee to differ.' ' 
 
 "On the third Sunday had a conference about forming a 
 church. Found ten or twelve favoring it, and appointed 
 another conference for December 7." 
 
 "Monday, 7th, had the appointed conference. Ten persons 
 present, and unanimous in a desire to have the thing accom- 
 plished. A confession and covenant which I had prepared was 
 read and seemed to be agreeable. Resolved to invite Messrs. 
 Allen, Leland and Thompson to attend a lecture on Thursday 
 of next week to solemnize the union, and expressed their dis- 
 approbation of ,the discontinuance of our Sabbath worship, and 
 requested me to preach the next Sabbath at Mr. Babcock's at 
 their expense. I returned from the conference in high spirits 
 and with better prospects that God has some important good 
 in reserve for this place than I have felt before. The next 
 Sunday he preached, and after obtaining liberty o± the house, 
 notified the people that in case the committee had made no 
 provision for preaching, 1 would preach to them gratis the next 
 Sabbath. Thursday, the 17th, the lecture was attended. Mr. 
 Leland preached and Mr. Thomson was present. A Hartford 
 confession of faith was read, but chose Mr. Hinsdale's, as read 
 previously, and thirteen men and ten women solemnly gave 
 their consent to the confession and covenant, and then sub- 
 scribed it with their hands. Following are the names of the 
 twenty-three founders of this church : 
 
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 Theodore Hinsdale, Anne Hinsdale, 
 
 Richard Starr, Sarah Sawyer, 
 
 Ephraim Hubbard, Elizabeth Babcock, 
 
 Elizur Burnliam, Anne Goodrich, 
 
 Nathan Hibbard, Rebecca Frost, 
 
 Joseph Skinner, Priscilla Parks, 
 
 Jonathan Skinner, Jerusha Skinner, 
 
 Gideon Peck, Hulda Wing, 
 
 Seth Wing, Hannah Hubbard, 
 
 Asa Goodrich, Elizabeth Frost. 
 
 JSTeheiniah Frost, 
 Benjamin Sawyer, 
 Asa Parks. 
 As showing their intelligent christian faith, it is in evidence, 
 that the creed adopted and signed by them continued in force 
 ever after in this church, until recently it has been slightly 
 modified to more nearly conform to that of the Congregational 
 National Council of 1883. Its Calvanistic doctrines were 
 faithfully and emphatically preached by the early ministers 
 for more than forty years and with more or less emphasis by 
 later ones: which may largely account for the religious intelli- 
 gence, the conservative stability and liberal charities, which 
 have characterized this church during its century of life. The 
 memory of these pious ancestors, so filled with the spirit of the 
 gospel, that under severe trials and discouragements, they per- 
 severed in establishing a church on so firm and enduring a 
 basis, should be most kindly and gratefully cherished by all 
 who ever enjoy the blessings resulting from their labors. May 
 these blessings be transmitted, unimpaired by their successors, 
 through many future generations. 
 
 Referring again to the diary. "Mr. Hinsdale preached on 
 the 27th, gratis, but after meeting, was told that a paper had 
 been circulated for subscription among the people to send into 
 the Jersies tor one Lathrop, a Baptist minister, who had 
 pirached here one Sabbath some months ago, and that most 
 
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 of the people east of here had subscribed, and two of the parish 
 committee among the rest. Struck with this strange extraor- 
 dinary measure, not only as an indication of dissatisfaction 
 with my services, but of great capreciousness and want of prin- 
 ciple, also as suggesting a presage of disputes and divisions to 
 follow, as well as an appearance of jealously that I w r as intrud- 
 ing my labors upon them w x ith some sinister design, I thought 
 it not prudent to continue them, or propose to preach to them 
 any more at present." 
 
 Three weeks later he wrote : 
 
 u A doubt has lately been on my mind whether I do well, in 
 not offering my services to this young and giddy people for a 
 season gratis, and more especially since I have learned their 
 project for sending for another is dying away." 
 
 On the 7th of February, 1796, "he offered to serve them for 
 the present gratis, and was accepted." 
 
 On the 19th, "Richard Starr was chosen deacon, and on the 
 21st, Mr. Hinsdale administered the Lord's Supper for the 
 first time to this infant church, now well started on its course 
 of christian influence in this town." 
 
 "April 17th, by request of deacon Starr, with promise of 
 compensation, and hope of a call suggested, he preached in a 
 school house and expects to preach again if Providence per- 
 mits." 
 
 "May 5th, preached in Mr. Watkin's barn to the fullest as- 
 sembly since I have been in the place, and for the second time 
 administered the communion. I have now preached twenty- 
 nine Sabbaths, one fast, one Thanksgiving and three lectures 
 in the district. Fifteen were gratis, a free will offering, four 
 by engagement of committee, and ten with expectation given 
 by individuals of a compensation." 
 
 "Monday, May 6, the meeting appointed to see about build- 
 ing a meeting house, instead of that, 'voted to see if the society 
 would call me to preach and raise money .therefor.' I went out 
 and soon learned that on the question of inviting me to preach 
 
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 for one year, there were thirty-three yeas and twenty-seven 
 nays, and the former were so confounded by so unexpected an 
 opposition they suffered the meeting to be dissolved." 
 
 A stormy month in church matters and some hail stones on 
 both sides, till June 27, at a business meeting, a vote was car- 
 ried to spend the remainder of the twenty pounds for preach- 
 ing. A committee was appointed, who applied to Mr. Hins- 
 dale to preach for three months. He accepted conditionally, 
 and July 30 preached to a very decent congregation. For three 
 or four Sundays he preached to decreasing numbers, and learned 
 they were finding fault because he had four dollars a Sunday. 
 
 He exchanged one day with Mr. Leland, of East Parish. 
 Mr. Leland had a crowded house. Mr. Hinsdale was troubled. 
 " But I have done expecting consistency or decorum here. On 
 the whole, we are in great confusion. If I were not an inhab- 
 itant should think it my duty not to preach another Sabbath ; 
 but if I desist there will be no stated regular worship; the 
 enemy will flourish." He held on, but questioned, " Is it duty 
 for me to continue for three months?" The people said yes, 
 and he preached. 
 
 September 18 completed his three months, and he wrote: 
 "When I recall the violent opposition my person and preach- 
 ing have met with here, I cannot but consider it as pointed at 
 religion and the Gospel and its institutions and immediately at 
 myself, chiefly, if not altogether as a promoter of them. Nev- 
 ertheless, he agreed to preach three Sundays gratis, k 'and then, 
 unless I shall see cause to alter my determination, shall desist, 
 unless Providence shall please to open a door for me to serve 
 them with better prospects than I have at present." 
 
 October 9th. "This day finished my engagement to the 
 committee." In November a subscription was started, he was 
 invited, and December 3, said, " preached this day in the school 
 house on the Flat. Malice and opposition are not dead. The 
 house, unlocked for several weeks, was locked, and the key could 
 not be found. Some young men got in at the window, and 
 
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 opened the door so that we had a meeting. But few persons 
 on that poor, devoted Flat attended. From other parts of the 
 place the house was decently full." 
 
 A few days, later he had a letter from Phineas Watkins, 
 charging him and his sons with breaking into the school house 
 and forcing the lock, and demanding satisfaction. He sent 
 back an answer and " submitted the matter to Providence and 
 the laws of my country." JN T ext day the proprietors forbid the 
 use of the school house for meetings. 
 
 "Sometimes I think it all arises from an unaccountable dis- 
 satisfaction to myself, but since it militates against religion as 
 well, I cannot see what I have done since I have been here to 
 draw down so much enmity upon myself, unless it be the hon- 
 est attempt I have made to build up religion among them." 
 
 By invitation he preached on the 11th, at the house of Mr. 
 Hibbard. On the 18th he was to preach at Deacon Starr's, but 
 a storm prevented, and he preached there the 25th. During 
 these house preachings, Mr. Haskell set up a meeting in oppo- 
 sition, and read sermons without prayer. 
 
 "January 1, 1797. This day for the first time they have 
 called in Billy Hibbard, a disciple of the Methodist church, to 
 preach to them. This day I preached at Mr. Hibbard's to a 
 considerable collection of people, and am appointed to preach 
 at the same place next Sabbath." Here the diary ends. The 
 public records, commencing about this time, show that Mr. 
 Hinsdale's interest and usefulness in the new church and par- 
 ish, which he had been so instrumental in forming, continued 
 to the day of his death, December 29th, 1818, aged 81 years. 
 
 During this period, the raising of the money to pay for the 
 new meeting house, some dissentions and withdrawals from 
 the Parish, and being without a settled pastor, together with 
 the organization of a Baptist church, the increasing influence 
 of Methodism, and other similar events, were a great hindrance 
 to the peace and prosperity of the new church. 
 
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 However it slowly gained in numbers, — four additions in 
 1796, four in 1797, five in 1800, four in 1801, making the en- 
 tire membership to 1802, forty, — nineteen males, twenty-one 
 females. At a church meeting January 25th, 1802, Elijah H. 
 Goodrich was chosen deacon. The meeting house was finished 
 and dedicated in October, 1799. 
 
 In May, 1799, the Parish petitioned the General Court to be 
 incorporated as a town, with the name of Green, or Russia, 
 but the petition was not granted. In 1803, another petition 
 for the incorporation with the name of Hinsdale was granted, 
 and in 1804, Hinsdale became a recognized town. 
 
 Thus the Congregational church in the west Parish of Par.- 
 tridgefield became the First Congregational church in Hins- 
 dale. 
 
 With this imperfect introduction of my subject, I leave it 
 for others to present additional historical facts, reminiscences 
 and personal sketches, of great interest to all present. 
 
REV. J. H. LAIRD. 
 
 The Original Twenty-Three Members 
 of the Church. 
 
 BY REV. J. H. LATRD. 
 
 I am to speak of the original members of the church. It is useless for 
 me to say that they are all dead, and yet there is one among us to-day 
 whose life reaches over nearly the whole length of the hundred years, lack- 
 ing only two years of it. I want to say that she is present with us to-day 
 and she has been with us as regularly as any other worshipper through 
 the years. She was at church last Sabbath and was in her Sabbath school 
 class as she usually is. I speak of Mrs. Amanda Wentworth Clark, the 
 wife of Deacon William Clark. 
 
 One hundred years ago is more than twice as far back as 
 fifty years. The times, when our original twenty-three mem- 
 bers were the living men and women of Hinsdale, are at a far 
 remove from us, if we count by the changes which the years 
 
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 bring. The days of the flax hatchel, the spinning wheel, the 
 hand loom and homespun garments stand easily linked with 
 the times of Solomon's model housewife "seeking wool and 
 flax and laying her hand to the spindle;' but they are cut off 
 by a sharp divide from our time. 
 * When we think of people who never saw a railroad or steam 
 force of any sort, a telegraph pole, a daily paper or a stove or 
 parlor match; who lighted their houses with pine knots and 
 tallow dips, who reckoned in pounds and shillings, and were 
 imprisoned for debt, we are impressed that by the record that 
 events make they lived a long time ago. 
 
 There is said to be an old Dutch map at Albany, in which 
 Berkshire county with the larger part of Vermont is a blank 
 with the frigid name Winterberge written across it. 
 
 It may have been this map, with the unsettled line between 
 .Massachusetts and New York, together with our hill barrier to 
 the east that left Berkshire county with a sparse population as 
 late as 1770. So it chanced that our one score and three foun- 
 dation church members were new-comers. For the most parr 
 they had been citizens of the "fat valley of the Connecticut." 
 A little over-crowded down there in the regions of Hartford, 
 Norwich, Wethersfleld, Windsor and other old communities, 
 they had found that by the way of Westfield, Tyringham and 
 Otis they could come upon new lands. So they came, in their 
 rude wagons, bringing their household goods and their puri- 
 tanism with them, up to the new town of Partridgefield. 
 
 Would that the phonograph and kinnetoscope had preserved 
 for us the sights and sounds and movements of those two 
 hours, on that Thursday afternoon one hundred years ago in 
 the house of John Babcock. Primitive sleighs or horses, pil- 
 lioned tor "carrying double," are about the door. Within, a 
 Are of logs blazes upon the andirons, and licks its flames about 
 the overhanging crane. The Windsor chairs support plank- 
 seats for the thirty or more present. The old wooden clock, 
 with its naked, dangling weights and pendulum, slowly beats, 
 
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 There was no "tick of time" to begin upon; no bell, no Dal- 
 ton steam whistle, few clocks and fewer watches were there ii) 
 town ; so they straggled in assembling and group to talk. 
 
 Mr. Leland, their Partridgefield pastor, then in his prime of 
 forty or thereabout, greets the friends as they come in. Deacon 
 Richard Starr, of seventy -seven, the only old man, is grouped 
 perhaps with Rev. Theodore Hinsdale, who was then fifty- 
 eight; and Ephraim Hubbard of sixty-eight; and with them 
 perhaps was James Thomson, the young pastor at Dalton, 
 talking over the proposed proceedings of the day. Nathan 
 Plibbard, fifty-eight years old, and Seth Wing, near the same 
 age, with Benjamin Sawyer, the stalwart blacksmith, and 
 the grave [Nehemiah Frost, lacking two years of thirty, and 
 Asa Goodrich, twenty-nine, may have talked in low tones 
 together of current things ; of dissatisfaction about the newly 
 run lines of the West Parish, or of the Whisky Insurrection, 
 then in progress in Western Pennsylvania, or how Massachu- 
 setts was to pay its $10,000,000 of war debt, or the proceedings 
 of Washington's presidency, with a word about the new and 
 better lands beyond the Hudson. Anne, the wife of Mr. 
 Hinsdale, then only forty-seven, w 7 ould readily consort with 
 Phebe Hibbard of forty, Hannah Hubbard, one year older, 
 Huldah, Seth Wing's wife, of thirty-five, and the tw T o young 
 Frost wives, of whom Rebecca was only twenty-three. Of the 
 ages of the newly married Asa and Priscilla Parks, Joseph, 
 Jonathan and Jerusha Skinner, Gideon Peck, Sarah Sawyer, 
 we are not informed. Elizur Eurnham may have been older 
 than these, since his name goes down next to the elders at the 
 top. 
 
 There is a hush as Parson Leland rises and, with proper 
 introductory words, reads the Confession of Faith and Cove- 
 nant. Testimonials of good standing are in order. Ten of 
 the number, the Hinsdales, Deacon Starr, the Hibbards, the 
 Wings, the Goodriches, the Frosts and Ephraim Hubbard were 
 members of the church at Peru, and can be vouched for by the 
 
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 pastor present. Whether the others came b}^ letters or upon 
 profession we cannot say. 
 
 The young Dalton minister offers prayer. Mr. Leland 
 preaches a sermon from the text : " The King's daughter is all 
 glorious within. Her clothing is of wrought gold." At the 
 close of the discourse the twenty-three arise, solemnly assent 
 and, led by Mr. Hinsdale and the venerable Deacon Starr, 
 affix their names and become, for the centuries, the original 
 members of the Hinsdale Congregational church. 
 
 It was, all things considered, a brave and most significant 
 thing those men and women did. We think them worthy to 
 be remembered by those who have reaped the seed of their 
 sowing. Some of them, in spite of record and research, have, 
 much to our regret, passed into the obscurity which will sooner 
 or later be the fate of us all. 
 
 One will not soon be forgotten. His name heads the list. 
 The name of the town, the recorded history of Berkshire and 
 the worthy names among his descendants will speak of him for 
 generations to come. His history and his characteristics cannot 
 well be left out of other papers presented here to-day, and can 
 be readily drawn from other sources, so that brief space only 
 need be given to him. 
 
 Rev. Theodore Hinsdale was born in Berlin, ConnecticuT. 
 November 25, 1738, O. S.; entered Yale at twenty, was a good 
 scholar and a Christian. He taught while he prepared for the 
 ministry, became pastor of a church in Windsor, Connecticut, 
 at twenty-nine and served there twenty-eight years. He came 
 to Hinsdale the same year in which this church was formed 
 and remained an active and devoted member of it for twenty- 
 three years. Near the gate of our cemetery upon the left as 
 you enter is a handsome monument to his memory. The in- 
 scription upon it was doubtless a sincere tribute. 
 
 " A lover of hospitality ; a lover of good men. Sober, just, 
 holy, temperate; holding fast the faithful word as he hath 
 been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to 
 exhort and to convince the erainsayers." 
 
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 His wife Anne, eleven years younger than himself, preceded 
 him by a year into the home beyond. 
 
 It seems fitting, on account of family relationships, to in- 
 clude in this sketch the few, who were added to the original 
 number in the two or three years while the church was form- 
 ing, and before a pastor was settled. 
 
 Among these was Nancy Hinsdale, daughter of Theodore, 
 who came in some months after the church was formed, upon 
 profession of faith. She was then but sixteen years old. She 
 established the first young ladies 1 school in Pittsfield and was 
 for a long time a teacher in connection with her cousin Miss 
 Emma Willard, in the Willard Female Seminary at Troy, N. 
 Y. She died in 1851, at eighty-two years of age. An excel- 
 lent picture of her hangs in the Pittsfield Athenaeum. The 
 home of the Hinsdales was upon the farm now owned by Mr. 
 0. G. Robinson. 
 
 Next to Mr. Hinsdale, Dea. Richard Starr was most active 
 in organizing the church. He came to this town from Groton, 
 Connecticut, fourteen years before the church was formed. He 
 was our first deacon, and held the office until his death ten 
 years later. The testimonials of the time are a " pious* and 
 godly man," "of great service to the religious interests of the 
 people." Dea. Starr's house was upon Maple street. His 
 grave is not far from that of Mr. Hinsdale in our cemetery. 
 
 Near the same place are ^the graves of tiie Hubbards, — 
 Ephraim A., and his wife Hannah. Their house was just 
 north of the Phinkett reservoir. Traces of the foundation 
 may still be seen upon the north side of the road. Mr. Hub- 
 bard was doubtless of Connecticut, possibly a son of Daniel 
 Hubbard of Pittsfield. He died in 1810, but his wife, who 
 was much younger, occupied the old home until 1843, and is 
 remembered by several who worship with us still. 
 
 Elizur Burnham, whose name comes next, lived a little south 
 of the Plunkett reservoir. He died in Hinsdale in 1811, at 
 seventy-eight. His son William, another of the early members. 
 
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 was well known by some who are here to-day. Of the origin 
 of the family we are not informed except that William's wife, 
 Asenath, brought a letter from Williamsburg. The foundation 
 of their house, fifty years abandoned, is in the pasture field 
 among the old fruit trees of their planting. 
 
 Another of the men from Connecticut was Nathan Hibbard, 
 who came to Hinsdale from Norwich in 1780, and was a well 
 known citizen at the time the church was formed. He was a 
 man of substance and business. A few words from one who 
 knew him gives us a man " upright, respected and trusted." 
 "a tanner and shoemaker," a Christian man, too, who had the 
 good sense to marry Mehitable Crosby, "a very pious woman." 
 who was the mother of his ten children, the last two twins, 
 with whom the mother departed this life, seven years before he 
 came to Massachusetts. He maintained the home and the 
 family altar by marrying Phebe Fitch, "the best of women." 
 One of the home says, " She taught me my prayers and to fear 
 God and keep His commandments." In Hinsdale, Mr. Hib- 
 bard bought a farm and set his boys at work. The few hints 
 we have give us a brusque, jovial, business-like man ; in his 
 prime when he stood up to take the familiar vows of our 
 church. He was not unaffected by the spiritual coldness and 
 worldliness of the time, yet "choked with grief when a son had 
 learned to swear." Possibly we owe more to his wife Phebe 
 than to himself. It was she that was " much grieved when the 
 family prayers were omitted because many workmen were em- 
 ployed in the house building." It was she who gently rebuked 
 the profanity of the laborers and could not feel they were ex- 
 cused because "they had been in the army where men must 
 
 -wear." 
 
 Possibly there was in that gathering at the house of John 
 Babcock one of their sons, christened "Billy;' then twenty- 
 four, but sobered by wrestling with doctrines of election and 
 predestination. He became the pioneer of Methodism in these 
 parts. His pious eccentricities are well remembered, and there 
 
are those here who have seen him. His autobiography, though 
 a rare book, is still extant. He died in Chatham, N. Y., where 
 he had a home for thirty-one years. His first sermon was 
 preached in the house of one Haskell, an inn-keeper on Maple 
 street. For many years he was a citizen of Hinsdale, and 
 Rufus, his son, commenced the tanning business, which fell to 
 Asher Ivnight. He dwelt in the old Knight home now occu- 
 pied by Mr. Wesley Clark. Rev. Rufus P. Hibbard, a son of 
 Rufus, now pastor of the Congregational church at Gloucester, 
 worshipped 'with us two Sabbaths last month. We cannot 
 definitely fix upon the residence of Nathan and Phebe Hib- 
 bard one hundred years ago. They removed from Hinsdale 
 and Nathan died at eighty-eight, in 1825, at Pompey, Onon- 
 daga Co., N. Y. 
 
 Of Joseph, Jonathan and Jerusha Skinner we know little. 
 One of the men owned land and lived probably on the west side 
 of the road between Henry Curtiss and Milo Stowell. Jonathan 
 was a member of the first parish committee and was active in 
 the early history of the town. Of Gideon Peck and his wife 
 whose first name even is not given, we only know that Mrs. 
 Peck came with a letter from Franklin, Connecticut. No sub- 
 sequent records give us any account of Asa and Priscilla Parky. 
 
 l?eth and Hulclah Wing lived in the south part of the town. 
 Wingtown that part of the parish was called. A century ago 
 this year, Seth bought of Charles Goodrich the land lying 
 north of the house of O. C. Loveland in the south part of the 
 town. He came to Hinsdale in 1774, and, with several other 
 Wing families, had a membership in the Partridgefield (now 
 Peru) church. The manner of his death, in 1812, was one of 
 the tragical stories of the olden time. A cow had been well 
 sold for cash. The good bargain was talked over one evening 
 at a little inn on the then Pontoosuc turnpike down the hill 
 towards Pittsfield. Mr. Wing started home late and was found 
 robbed and dead in the snow upon the following morning. 
 His son, Dea. Samuel Wing, one of our early members, who 
 
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 spent most of his life in West Pittsfield, was a man of prayer. 
 A friend of his, still living, once shared devotions with him in 
 a grove which he confessed he had visited thousands of times. 
 It was ohserved that by the board on which he knelt, the toes 
 of his shoes had cut down through the sod into the earth. 
 
 The Good riches were pioneers in Berkshire. Charles, a 
 distant relative of those among us here, was the first to intro- 
 duce the cart and plow into Pittsfield. At the first Agricul- 
 tural Fair in 1816, he, in his ninety-fifth year, stood upon a 
 stone drag holding a plow, and was thus drawn through the 
 streets by fifty yoke of oxen. It was a nephew of his, Josiah 
 by name, that followed him to Pittsfield and brought with him 
 the Good riches of Hinsdale. Three of Josiah's sons came to 
 "this town, Elijah Hubbard, with his wife Mabel, Asa, and 
 Jesse, who was an active man in our town affairs a hundred 
 vears ago. Asa and his wife were original members and Elijah 
 Hubbard came in soon after. Asa lived, we think, near the 
 place where the road to Belmont reservoir enters the field just 
 south of Milo Stowell's. He soon removed to Connecticut, 
 the old home of the Good riches. 
 
 Elijah Hubbard Goodrich was chosen deacon of the church 
 in 1802 and died twenty-four years later in the sixty-eighth 
 year of his age. His wife Mabel survived him by twenty -four 
 years, attaining to ninety-two. Their home was upon what is 
 now the Goodrich farm. The Goodrich family has been rich 
 in the leaders of business enterprise and literature. In the 
 latter field the product ranges from the famous ''Peter Parley's 
 Stories" up to the profoundest writings in science, jurispru- 
 dence and theology. This church is honored to have always 
 had a Goodrich name upon its roll; and has been specially 
 honored by Chauncey Goodrich, one of its members, who has 
 been for thirty-one years a missionary in China. 
 
 The Frosts brought a strong element into the young church. 
 Nehemiah and Amasa came to Hinsdale in 1772. They, with 
 their wives, were from Williamsburg. Deacon's sons they 
 
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 were, who married Deacon Nash's daughters, Elizabeth and 
 Rebecca. Their home was upon the road between Charles 
 Cole's and the Plunkett reservoir, near the latter. The cellar 
 wall only remains. Their removal was in early time, twelve 
 years after the church was formed, but not until after Nehe- 
 miah had served as a deacon four years in Hinsdale. The Frosts 
 went from this church as pioneers to Riga, N. Y., near Roch- 
 ester. They were among the eleven members who formed a 
 church there, of which Eehemiah became a deacon. Nehemiah 
 died there in 1847, eighty-three years old. A grandson bears 
 testimony that he was " full of good works in the Master's ser- 
 vice," "found among the foremost in church work," a desirous 
 for the advancement of the Gospel of Christ." Society and the 
 church have been enriched by the descendants of these families. 
 
 On a Sabbath last April, from this pulpit, we were charmed 
 and thrilled by the eloquence of President William Goodell 
 Frost, of Eerea college, Kentucky, a direct descendant of this 
 same Rebecca Frost, who, a young wife, took her vows to Christ 
 here one hundred years ago. It proved no misfortune, in the 
 case of these households, to be deacon's sons or to marry deacon's 
 daughters. 
 
 We wish more was known of Benjamin and Sarah Sawyer. 
 Sawyers there have been among us of honorable citizenship 
 and descent, but up to date we can only presume Benjamin 
 was their ancestor. In some legal papers he is spoken of as a 
 blacksmith. In his tax list to build the church, a shop is men- 
 tioned and land also to considerable extent. Recorded deeds 
 show frequent transactions in real estate by him. Some of 
 these holdings were upon the street which runs front of Mr. 
 Milo Stowell's house— the aristocratic street, it w T ould seem, of 
 the times. There he and Sarah may have lived. 
 
 Time has also obscured the history of the Babcock family. 
 Our record is that the church was formed in the house of John 
 Babcock. Later, Eunice Babcock is spoken of as his wife. 
 Elizabeth, who put down her name among the twenty-three, 
 
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 we can trace no farther. It would gratify us to-day to put our 
 feet upon the spot where the confession and covenant were 
 accepted. We hope yet to know just where John Bahcock 
 lived in 1795. He and Eunice must have left descendants, for 
 six of their children were baptized ninety-seven years ago. 
 
 There were several families of Loomers in Hinsdale in the 
 early times. Lucy is spoken of as the "Widow Loonier," 
 though but thirty-five when the church was formed. When 
 the meeting house was seated she was assigned an honorable 
 place, in the "first tier west of the broad alley." She died at 
 sixty, in 1820, at the house of Nathaniel Tracy in this town. 
 Lucy Pease was the wife of James Tease. We seem war- 
 ranted in locating the family upon the farm once owned by the 
 late Charles D. Smith, in the north-east part of the town. It 
 is possible that a Lorenzo Warriner Pease of Hinsdale, who 
 went as a missionary to Cyprus in 1834, and died there in 
 1 839, was a son of theirs, 
 
 Moses Yeomans married a daughter of Nathaniel Tracy, one 
 of Hinsdale's most honored early citizens. Their home was in 
 a house, which has disappeared, not far south of the residence 
 of Mrs. Warren Knight. To them was born Nathaniel Tracy 
 Yeomans. 
 
 Another son was John W. Yeomans, upon whom the world's 
 honors have come most thickly. He was apprenticed to a 
 blacksmith, probably upon Maple street here; but had a thirst 
 for learning too strong to be repressed. He bought his time 
 from his master, earned his own support in study and gradu- 
 ated at Williams College only one rank below his classmate, 
 Mark Hopkins. He studied at Andover; organized the Con- 
 gregational church at North Adams; was pastor of Pittsfield 
 First church; became president of Lafayette College in Penn- 
 sylvania; and, to crown all honors, the degree of Doctor of 
 Divinity was conferred upon him three times during one year, 
 by Williams and Princeton Colleges and Marion University, 
 in Ohio. He died in 1863. 
 
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 Azubah Jones was the wife of Eli Jones. Their home was 
 about half a mile this side of the Pern line, on the road to 
 Cole hill. Azubah united with the church when she was 
 twenty-six, bringing a letter from Summers, Connecticut, and 
 remained a member until she died in 1810. 
 
 Of the family of a brother of Eli, was Sally L. Jones, who 
 was for a long time in the family of Rev. William A. Hawley. 
 She became the wife of Mr. Hoel, and is still living in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio. Her large wealth is generously used for the benefit of 
 her friends. We had hoped she would be with us to-day. 
 
 The Bassetts were another Connecticut family, bringing let- 
 ters, from Hartland, just over the line south of Westfield. 
 Their home in Hinsdale was a little beyond the Creamery, 
 upon the right as you go south. Little remains of a dwelling 
 are there. Azubah, the wife, died in 1802, at thirty-one. Mr. 
 JBassett's second wife was Mary Knight, sister of pastor Caleb 
 Knight. -Polly, their daughter, married Mr. Obadiah Brown 
 and became the mother of William Brown, who died two 
 years ago at the old homestead south of the Tracy farm. Isaac 
 Bassett w T as chosen deacon of the church in 1807, about three 
 years after his second marriage. He subsequently removed 
 from the place. We have no record of the latter part of the 
 life of Dea. Bassett, or of the place and time of his death. 
 
 We, who are a century removed from those who laid the 
 foundation of the First Congregational church in Hinsdale, have 
 been trying to make them live before us for a little time to-day. 
 
 We are persuaded that, if we could really get before us the 
 obstacles that faced them, in the poverty of the times, the dis- 
 organized condition of society, and the prevalent religious in- 
 difference of the period, we could scarcely feel ourselves wor- 
 thy to be their successors. Yet, thanks to God's grace, we do 
 not feel that those men and women have occasion to be ashamed 
 of the church that has grown upon the foundation they laid, a 
 church that in membership, in congregation, in giving, in Sunday 
 school, in Ladies' societies, in Endeavor society, cannot in the 
 one hundred years now past, look back upon a period of decline. 
 
Parishes, and Church Buildings. 
 
 BY G. T. PLUNKETT. 
 
 The following is the copy of a document which was sent to 
 the General Court, one hundred years ago : 
 
 To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court 
 assembled 
 
 The Petition of a Number of the Inhabitants of the West part of Par- 
 tridgefield and the South East part of Dalton, Each in the County of 
 Berkshire and Commonwelth of Masserchusetts, Humbly Sheweth— that 
 it is their request on Account of the Situation of their Towns respectively 
 to be Set of from their Towns and Enexed to Each other, and be formed 
 into a Town or Parish as Shall be Thought most for the good of the 
 Towns and the Petitioners Respectively and for that purpose your Peti- 
 tioners Humbly Pray that your Honours would take the matter into your 
 Dilaberate Consideration and Grant a Committee at the Expence of the 
 Petitioners, to Vew the Premises and give their opinion whether or not it 
 is reasonable that the Petitioners Should have their Prayer granted, and if 
 granted, to say how much of the Towns Shall be So Set together, and 
 Whether in their opinion it will be most for the good of the Towns and 
 the Petitioners Respectively to have Said Society formed into a Town or 
 Parish— and your Petitioners as in duty bound Shall Ever Pray. 
 
 Parttudgefield, Jan'y 5th, 1795. 
 
 Elias Bardwell 
 A /el Park 
 Seth Wing 
 Samuel Wing 
 Thomas Prcntis 
 Samuel Bruce 
 Moses Preson 
 Elizur Burnham 
 Ralph Wheelock 
 Rufus Tyler 
 Nathan Hall 
 James Wing 
 Nathan Warner 
 
 Joshua Jackson 
 Amasa Watkins 
 Joshua Sherwin 
 Jeremiah Stand ley 
 Samuel Hascall 
 Abel Kittredge 
 Oliver Watkins 
 F.benezer Witter 
 Oliver Miller 
 Jothen Bruse 
 Charles Loomis 
 Simson Watkins 
 Nathaniel Ballon 
 
 Eleazer Loomis 
 Samuel Jones 
 Aaron Byxbc 
 Lemuel Bullard 
 Abraham Washburn 
 Lewis Miller 
 Joseph Witter, Jr 
 Septimius Witter 
 Abner Bvxby 
 Elias Parker 
 Eleazer Bachman 
 John Wells 
 John Wells, Jr 
 
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 Amasa Frost 
 Samuel Lyman 
 Stephen Bartelet 
 Benjamin Sawyer 
 Jonathan Skinner 
 Nathan Hibbard 
 Frederick Curtiss 
 Epaphras Curtiss 
 John Putnam 
 Timothy Russ 
 Jedediah Russ 
 Gideon Peck 
 Nehemiah Frost 
 Isaac Lyman 
 William Fletcher Jr 
 Jesse Goodrich 
 Timothy Olds 
 Parker Hall 
 Isaiah Babcock 
 
 Roger Watkins 
 David Miller 
 John Babcock 
 Noah Benson 
 Stephen Bruce 
 Thomas Prentis Jr 
 Ephrahum Wing 
 Ephraim Hubbard 
 Nathan Nicholson 
 Elisha Wing 
 Asa Goodrich 
 Oliver Tenney 
 Thomas Adams 
 Isaac Dresser 
 Eben'r Payn 
 Amariah Woods 
 Zechariah Watkins 
 Samuel Watkins 
 John Watson 
 
 Abel Coy 
 Asa Chamberlain 
 Samuel Watkins Jr 
 Joseph Wells 
 Freeman Stanley 
 Abner Mason 
 Simeon Gennings 
 Richard Starr Jr 
 Philips Cady 
 Isaac Cady 
 Joseph Bailey 
 William Fletcher 
 Asa Whitney 
 Phinehas Watkins Jr 
 Hugh Smith 
 Edmund Bridges 
 Frederick Follet 
 Abiather Seckell 
 Theodore Hinsdale Jr 
 Amos Barret 
 
 In answer to the foregoing petition, a committee was duly 
 sent, and "the West Parish in Par fridge field " became incorpor- 
 ated. It had a legal existence of two days less than nine years, 
 when it was merged and lost in the present town of Hinsdale. 
 The General Court which granted the request was assembled 
 in the historic old state house, still preserved at the head of State 
 street in Boston. Neither the town of Partridgefield or Dalton 
 was represented that year, a local option law allowing small 
 towns to send a representative or not as they chose. The Act 
 was signed by Governor Samuel Adams, fourth governor under 
 the constitution of 1780. 
 
 His customary dress on public occasions, we are informed, 
 was a tie wig, cocked hat, knee breeches, silver shoe buckles 
 and a red cloak. The act was signed on the 23d of June, 1795, 
 and the news of its passage travelled from Boston to Berkshire 
 by stage but arrived forty-six years ahead of cars and sixty-six 
 before a telegram. It was received in the midst of the busy 
 season, for they were farmers in those days. A copy of it is on 
 exhibition here to-day. The territory of the new parish was 
 
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 the same as the present town of Hinsdale, and the "immunities 
 and duties" were to be the same as other parishes in the Com- 
 monwealth were entitled and subjected to. The church and 
 state were constitutionally one, and each town and parish was 
 obliged to build a meeting house and support a minister, as well 
 as build school houses and support school masters, both require- 
 ments being equally binding. The churches must be orthodox, 
 which was construed to mean Congregational, it being the 
 "standing order" in the State. The people were also obliged 
 to attend public worship or be fined, and the tything-man, who 
 was none other than church truant officer, must look after them. 
 The State gave towns and parishes the same power to tax for 
 the support of churches as for schools, roads and paupers, but 
 the Congregational denomination w T as more highly favored than 
 others. The income of ministerial lands was almost solely ap- 
 plied for its benefit, and this naturally made controversies among 
 the denominations, notwithstanding a proviso in the law to 
 avoid them, and this parish had one. The act contains a sec- 
 tion confirming as legal the sale of a certain lot No. 3. This was 
 a ministerial lot the minister, for reason of its remote situation, 
 had declined to accept, and the town of Partridgefield sold it 
 and applied, or rather, as this shows, misapplied the proceeds 
 towards building its first meeting house, not the one recently 
 burned in Peru. The lot lies on the north side of the road lead- 
 ing to Maple street, east and west of Mr. Lysander M. Francis's 
 house. 
 
 No exact information of the population of the parish in 1795 
 can be obtained. The earliest reliable basis for estimate is the 
 assessors' tax book for the year 1798. That shows one hundred 
 and fifty-one resident tax payers and six non-resident; one 
 hundred and twenty paying on property and thirty-one paying 
 only a poll tax. There were probably one hundred to one hun- 
 dred and twenty-five families. If the same ratio of polls to 
 population prevailed then as by the new census of L895, there 
 would have been six hundred' and four persons, but from other 
 
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 data that number seems too high; a happy medium is five hun- 
 dred and fifty souls. The valuation of the parish was £17,322 
 ISTew England currency, or $57,740. The valuation now of the 
 same territory is $700,000. Three times the population and 
 twelve times the valuation. There were — 
 
 66 Houses, 112 Horses, 
 
 1 Inn, 58 Colts, 
 
 1 Store, 231 Cows, 
 
 7 ^Faculty, 80 Oxen — 40 pairs, 
 
 1 Grist Mill, 343 Stock other than cows, 
 
 5 Saw Mills, 239 Swine. 
 
 6 Shops, 
 
 1 Potash Works. 
 
 To give a better idea of individual wealth there was no money 
 at interest, bank stock or other investments assessed. Of 
 seventy-five owners of horses but five had more than two. 
 Of ninety-six owners of cow t s but one had more than nine, and 
 but two more than seven. Of thirty eight owners of oxen but 
 two had more than one pair. There were no sheep. Farm 
 crops were taxed (an unusual thing) and the quantities pro- 
 duced were small per individual producer. Of wheat the aver- 
 age per producer was 8 1-2 bushels; of rye per producer, 14 
 bushels; of corn, 11 bushels; oats, 12 1-3 bushels; hay, 5 tons; 
 flax, 78 pounds. They were possessed of moderate means but 
 nearly all owned homes. Of the one hundred and fifty-one 
 men in the parish twenty years old and upwards, all but thirty 
 owned a home. But they showed great liberality of spirit in 
 building a meeting house. It was built by taxation, but they 
 voluntarily placed themselves in line for the purpose, and it is 
 the voluntary actions of a people which shows their character. 
 The tax rate for building this house was $43.60 on a thousand, 
 and a poll tax of $9.04; the town taxes being additional. A 
 
 *Trade or profession. 
 
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 similar tax to-day would yield enough to build a church costing 
 over $55,000. 
 
 According to church records, there were on January 1, 1708, 
 thirty-one Congregational ists and seventeen Baptists. 
 
 Allowing twelve as a liberal proportion for other denomina- 
 tions, there were sixty church members, male and female, in a 
 possible population of six hundred souls, or one in ten at the 
 outside. 
 
 The parish was organized Monday, September 21, 1795, at 
 one o'clock, p. m., in the school house near Mr. Andrew Belcher's. 
 Squire Ebenezer Peirce was Moderator. Abiathar Seckell, a 
 fair penman, Clerk. Nathaniel Tracy, " Capt. Nat.", Treasurer. 
 Jonathan Skinner, Nathaniel Tracy and Joshua Jackson, As- 
 sessors, and Parish Committee. 
 
 CHURCH BUILDINGS. 
 
 The parish being organized, the history of church building 
 commences with the record of a vote passed at its first annual 
 meeting, held March 14, 1796, in the school house near Mr. 
 Andrew Belcher's, and reads as follows: "Voted that we will 
 build a meeting house for Public Worship," and as substantial 
 evidence of the good faith behind that vote, we have the pleas- 
 ure of introducing "this venerable church our fathers built to 
 God," this edifice which for ninet} 7 -six years has withstood the 
 elements, and if spared a few months longer, will have rounded 
 out a period of five thousand Sundays; and as still further 
 proof that that faith has been well kept, it can be said that ex- 
 cept for reason of repairs or removal, its doors have always 
 been open to worshippers on the Lord's day, and that within 
 these walls no less than ten thousand services must have been 
 held. 
 
 The main question being promptly settled, (March 14, '96) 
 others of minor importance, and there were many of them, 
 took much longer to decide. It was twenty-five months (April 
 2d, '98), after voting to build a meeting house before the con- 
 
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 tract was signed. The first question to follow was that of loca- 
 tion. Four sites were viewed and reviewed and all on Maple 
 street or near by. First (March 14, '96), a committee of five 
 was instructed to view a lot a on the south side of the road near 
 Mr. Rufus Tyler's dwelling house," and report three months 
 later, (or June 6th). This spot appears to be not far from the 
 present parsonage. At the meeting June 6th to hear the report 
 of the committee of five, they voted for some reason not given, 
 " to adjourn down to the barn now occupied for preaching." The 
 committee of five were then directed to review this proposed 
 site and also one, (]STo. 2) " on the north side of the road between 
 Messrs. Hawse and Crary's store and their potash works." 
 This spot may have been where Mr. William C. Smith's house 
 now stands near road leading past the cemetery. 
 
 The next, (No. 3) was land "owned by Mr. Roger Watkins," 
 and was probably the hill west of the creamery on opposite side 
 of the road. After considering these various locations and the 
 price for the same, they settled the question (December 4, '97), 
 by choosing (No. 4), a more commanding site than either, it 
 being "on the school-house hill near Mr. Andrew Belcher's." 
 This land was bought of Mr. Belcher by deed of April 7th, 
 1798, for $70, and "contained by estimation one aeor more or 
 less," and is deeded "to a committee duly qualified for Pro- 
 fixing a spot for building a meeting house." The lot lies in 
 the south-east corner of what was known as lot No. 5. of Par- 
 tridgefield survey. 
 
 Size was the next question to follow. It was first (October 
 3, 1796), voted to build 50x40; next, (October 2, 1797) "to 
 enlarge to 44x52 square," and no other vote is recorded, but 
 the contract and present size is " 50 and 2x45, with posts 26 
 feet long" or high. 
 
 Then came style. The first plan was for a plain house 
 but later (October 3, 1797) voted that "there be a convening 
 porch annexed to said house," and still later (December 17, 
 
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 1797), voted that a belfry be added, and the committee added 
 a steeple. 
 
 Apparently no architect was employed as (December 17, 
 1797), voted "to finish the outside of the above house ac- 
 cording to Mr. Nathan Warner's Motions," (Mr. Warner of 
 Warner Hill). What Mr. Warner's motions were does not 
 appear by the records, but he was not without experience, as 
 we learn he had been on the church building committee in 
 Dalton. Two weeks later, Christmas day, (1797) "Voted the 
 above house be built according to the fashions of the pres- 
 ent day." The old South church in Boston is said to have 
 been a model for more churches in the State than any other, 
 but the contract refers only to the meeting house in Chester for 
 certain exterior features, and to that in Pittsfield for interior 
 arrangement and workmanship. 
 
 The raising of the frame was first fixed to take place June, 
 1797, but later changed to June, 1798. No record is made of 
 the event itself, usually celebrated as a great occasion in former 
 days. 
 
 Several different building committees were chosen, but the 
 honor fell on Nathan Warner, Nathaniel Tracy, Col. William 
 Richards, Rev. Theodore Hinsdale and Epaphras Curtiss. 
 
 The only question which led to much difference of opinion 
 was how the money should be raised, and this raised quite a 
 breeze. The first plan (October 3, 1796) voted "to raise and 
 finish the outside of said meeting house by direct tax," and 
 we may suppose by some other plan to finish the inside. 
 
 When this vote was being discussed, protests were made by 
 persons calling themselves Baptists, who objected to being 
 taxed for building a Congregational meeting house, and they 
 were joined by a few others from economical reasons, and made 
 a stir quite out of proportion to their real numbers and kept it 
 up until the following year (October 2, 1797) when the direct 
 tax plan was abandoned. The new one adopted, was u to 
 sell the Pews of the intended meeting house finished to 
 
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 defray the expense of building said house." A few weeks 
 later (November 2, 1797), " voted to sell the Pews of intended 
 meeting house the first Mondav in December next, and that 
 three notices be set up in said parish previous to the sale, one 
 on the sign post, one at Mr. Rufus Tyler's and the other at 
 Mr. Daniel Arms'." The day arrived and the meeting was 
 held "at Mr. Rufus Tyler's dwelling. Inn-keeper." Voted 
 " to reserve five pews on the lower floor for the use of the pub- 
 lic," — one probably for the minister's family. Voted "that 
 Samuel Hascall be vendue master in venduing the above pews," 
 and voted "that there be liquors provided for the use of the 
 vendue at the expense of the parish." This was a parish, not 
 a church meeting. They then proceeded with the sale. We 
 may imagine the scene which happened on our quiet Maple 
 street, then called the Flat. The tavern was on the site of 
 or near Mr. Eugene Day's house. A cold December day; 
 probably a hundred New England farmers in homespun were 
 gathered, among their number a few Revolutionary soldiers, 
 a merchant and a miller; wood blazing in open fire-places; de- 
 canters, mugs and flip irons in sight ; a sturdy auctioneer. The 
 cheers for the highest bidders, the mingled air of seriousness 
 and excitement over the announcement of the result, which 
 was a sale of all pews on the lower floor for the sum of 
 $3,528.25, ranging from $136 for the highest down to $20.25, 
 and averaging $83.39. The gallery pews were sold in the same 
 manner three weeks later, on Christmas day, making the total 
 amount of the sales $4,209.50, and enough to pay for the in- 
 tended meeting house. But all was not settled ; a something 
 is discernible between the lines of the record. 
 
 By comparing the list of names of those who bought pews 
 with the names on the church roll, we find only two of the latter 
 among them. Out of the then fifteen men church members, 
 thirteen had stayed away from the occasion. The church mem- 
 bers may have secured pews indirectly and probably did so, 
 as six persons who were present bid off several pews apiece, 
 
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 just enough extra ones to make an even pew for each absent 
 church member. The church had entered its protest, however, 
 against either the plan or the liquor ; at all events the plan fell 
 through, as we shall see. Encouraged for the time being by 
 the sale of pews, the committee, substantial men of the parish, 
 agreed with one Ithamar Pelton to build this house for the sum 
 of £1,230 lawful money, or $4,100. Extras were afterwards 
 added, making total cost $4,373. 70. The contract, a curious 
 mixture of old Testament and modern expressions, was signed 
 April 2d, 1798, four months after the sale of pews, and the 
 house was to be completed twenty months later, or December 
 1, 1799. The contractor was to take his pay in lumber, and 
 beef, and pork, butter and flax, at steelyard weight, all at the 
 market price. Work on the house was commenced and pro- 
 gressed during the summer of '98 and all appears prosperous 
 in the West Parish. But when the first payment became due 
 in the fall, some who bid off pews had left for unknown parts, 
 and others being unable to pay, a deficiency stared them in the 
 face. Unpleasant as it was for the young parish, they rallied 
 heroically to the situation, and after relieving the remaining 
 pew owners of their obligation (December 24, 1798), pro- 
 ceeded to raise all the money for building and finishing the 
 house by direct tax and appropriated the meeting house in all 
 respects to the use of the parish at large. An attempt was 
 made (February 14, 1799) to reconsider, but was quickly voted 
 down. Twelve or fourteen tax-payers resisted the payment 
 of this tax for denominational reasons and it resulted in 
 bringing about one of the famous Baptist controversies of the 
 day. Two test suits were taken to the courts and the Baptists 
 won the day. An appeal w T as taken to the higher court and 
 the decision was reversed. Two of the contestants were con- 
 fined two days in jail. But after two years of contest in which 
 the parish was successful, it showed its magnanimity by voting 
 to rebate one-half his tax to each Baptist, with a total" loss of 
 $178 by the controversy. On October 4, 1799, two months 
 
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 ahead of contract time, tlie house was accepted as completed, 
 and October 17, 1799, appointed as the day for dedication. 
 Rev. Mr. Pomeroy, of Worthington, was invited to preach the 
 sermon, Rev. Dr. Shepard, of Lenox, if Mr. Pomeroy could not 
 be had. 
 
 The exterior of the house was in general the same as now. 
 The steeple was one story higher, and the angel Gabriel sound- 
 ing his trumpet served as a weather vane instead of the 
 present arrow. There were no blinds or bell ; the glass were 
 7x9 and there were four windows on the north end. There 
 were no horse sheds. The interior was all different. A high 
 pulpit, with entrance gates at top of stairs ; old-fashioned square 
 pews with seats on three sides; no carpet, no cushions, no stove. 
 The first sexton was Tristram Browning. Salary $3.00 per 
 year. The first committee to seat the meeting house was (cho- 
 sen March 31, 1800) Nathaniel Tracy, James Wing and Henry 
 Howard, but no plan of the seating can be found until 1809, a 
 copy of which is on exhibition here to-day. 
 
 After the town of Hinsdale was incorporated, (June 21, 
 1804,) the affairs of the parish passed to its management and so 
 continued until the present parish or society was organized, 
 January 30, 1834. For thirty or forty years public gatherings 
 and town meetings were held in this house. 
 
 There have been four bells. In 1805, (March 4th) the 
 town voted not to raise money for buying a bell, but two 
 years later, or 1807, it voted "to raise $200 for the purpose of 
 buying a bell and that Henry Howard be a committee to pro- 
 cure a bell ; also that the said Henry Howard have liberty to 
 call on Theodore Hinsdale, Jr., for the sum of $100 as an offer 
 made the town heretofore for the purpose in part of procuring 
 a bell."* Three months later (June 2, 1807), voted that 
 Nathaniel Tracy be a committee in place of Henry Howard, 
 deceased, to procure a bell for the meeting house agreeable to 
 
 *This is the only record throwing any light on who the town was named 
 for. 
 
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 votes heretofore passed by the town on the subject. Nathaniel 
 Tracy was paid $14.07 for going after the bell and Ichabod 
 Emmons $13.00 for irons for the bell. Two years later (May 
 11," 1809) they voted "to take out the light, loose, gi?igling 
 tongue and replace it with one weighing twenty-eight pounds," 
 and that the bell be rung from September 20th to March next 
 at twelve o'clock at noon and nine o'clock at night. The new 
 tongue proved disastrous, for, three years later, 1812, it was 
 voted to replace the bell by getting a new one or repairing the 
 old one, the money to be raised by subscription. And again, 
 in 1851, a new bell had to be bought and this in turn exchanged 
 the same year for a better sounding one which is now doing 
 service. The committee in charge of the last were E. B. Tracy, 
 Noadiah Emmons and Henry Merriman. 
 
 For twenty or more winters the house was not warmed, but 
 in 1820, (March 6th) it was "voted that the town approve of 
 the doings of citizens who have erected a stove in the Congre- 
 gational meeting house and do exonerate them from all lia- 
 bility to pay damages which said stove may occasion/' 
 
 In 1812, (March 12th) this vote was recorded: "Voted to 
 deposit the town stock of ammunition in the meeting house 
 above the plastering under the roof of said house." 
 
 In 1834, (January 30th) the First Congregational society 
 was organized. Charles H. Plunkett was Moderator; Ambrose 
 Nicholson was Clerk; Daniel N. Warner, Treasurer; William 
 Hinsdale, Robert Milliken and Lemuel Parsons, Parish Com- 
 mittee. In 1846, the high pulpit and old square pews were 
 taken out and the present pews substituted and other repairs 
 and alterations made at an expense of $1,650, and two years 
 later (April 3, 1848), blinds were put on at a cost "not ex- 
 ceeding $300." The committee on repairs were Nodadiah 
 Emmons, Henry Merriman, Charles K. Tracy. 
 
 After the railroad was built and "Water street" sprang 
 up, the question of removal or a new building agitated the 
 parish eleven years. In 1846, (August 22d) the question of 
 
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 moving the house to a site north of the road opposite Doctor 
 Abel Kittridge's, now Mr. E. W. Clark's, was voted down ; in 
 1851, to move to the ground where the Library now stands met 
 the same fate. The same year it was proposed to build a new 
 house 86x50, and more than half enough money was pledged, 
 but this was abandoned. In 1857, after many a forensic strug- 
 gle, this house was taken up bodily and brought three-quarters 
 of a mile to this spot. 
 
 In 1890 the chapel and ladies' rooms were built at a cost of 
 about $2,500, the funds all being collected by the ladies, to 
 whom the parish owes a lasting debt of gratitude. 
 
Finances and Benevolence. 
 
 BY JAMES HOSMER. 
 
 The old saying that "figures never lie" does not always hold 
 in the present age, as they are often made to lie for a purpose; 
 but in the case of the following report, any person interested 
 can easily prove the statements by reference to the records of 
 the church and society from their formation. 
 
 I will not burden you with details, but give the total amounts 
 which are more easily remembered. 
 
 The church and society have raised for the supply of the 
 pulpit and for current expenses, also church repairs and altera- 
 tions since 1802, when Rev. Caleb Knight, the first pastor, was 
 installed, the sum of $98,187.34, or an average of over $1,055 
 per year for the last ninety-three years. 
 
 In the matter of benevolences, the first record is in August, 
 1821, when the church voted that six dollars be appropriated 
 to the Eliot Mission for Indians. 
 
 Up to the year 1847 about $1,750 was raised for benevolence, 
 most of which was given to the Berkshire County Branch of 
 the American Bible Society. In that .year, under the pastorate 
 of Rev. Edward Taylor, was commenced a system of giving to 
 various causes, and again renewed with more life and vigor 
 than ever during the pastorate of Rev. Ephraiin Flint, which 
 has continued until the present time. 
 
 The total amount contributed, including that given previous 
 to 1847, is $49,406.78, or an average of over $1,02!) each year 
 for the past forty-eight years. 
 
 This does not include money taken from the Sunday school 
 penny collection and appropriated to our own Sunday school 
 
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 library, or other purposes connected with the school ; but the 
 amount stated as benevolences has all been given to the various 
 missionary organizations of our denomination and for benevo- 
 lent causes outside of this town. In justice to the Ladies' Be- 
 nevolent, the Foreign Missionary and the younger missionary 
 societies connected with the church, I would say that I only 
 regret that the ladies did not raise between nine and ten dollars 
 more, and then they would have had an even $10,000 as their 
 share in the total amount of benevolence. They should also 
 have the credit in addition of raising about $2,500 for the 
 chapel. . 
 
 The report does not include any of the expenses or benevo- 
 lences of this year. 
 
 TEARS. 
 
 1827 to 1894. 
 Inclusive 
 
 1836 to 1894. 
 Inclusive 
 
 1847 to 1894. 
 
 1847 to 1894. 
 
 1869 to 
 1847 to 
 1847 to 
 
 1870 to 
 1858 to 
 1873 to 
 1870 to 
 1880 to 
 
 1894. 
 1894. 
 1894. 
 1894. 
 1894. 
 1889. 
 1894. 
 1883. 
 
 BENEVOLENCES. 
 
 Berkshire Branch of the American Bible Society, $7,922.97 
 
 Church Treasurer's record, (home use), 589.64 
 
 American Home Missionary Society, 7,734.64 
 
 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 
 
 Missions, 10,257. 14 
 
 American Missionary Association, 2,043 17 
 
 Seamen's Friend Society, 2,310.53 
 
 General causes, 7,115.82 
 
 Given by the Sabbath School, 1,905.06 
 
 Ladies' Benevolent Society, 5,456.47 
 
 Mountain Rill Society 1,263.60 
 
 Ladies' Foreign Missionary Society, 2,915.45 
 
 Golden Links Society, $218.95 
 
 Eigoramatba Society, 136.41 
 
 Y. P. S. C. E....... 126.57 
 
 481.93 
 
 $49,406.78 
 
POEM. 
 
 BY MISS PHEBE A. HOLDER, OF BERLIN, MASS. 
 
 FOR THE HINSDALE CHURCH CENTENNIAL. 
 
 "GO FORWARD." 
 
 " Sing pagans over the Past, 
 
 We bury the dead years tenderly, 
 To find them again in Eternity, 
 Safe in its cycles vast, 
 Sing paeans over the Past." 
 
 Church of our love, all hail ! all hail ! 
 
 On this glad day we bring 
 The choicest gifts of grateful hearts, 
 
 Our sweetest songs we sing. 
 
 Lifting its head amid the years 
 
 Rises a lofty height, 
 All beautiful with sunrise gold, 
 
 Bathed in the Century's light. 
 We pause upon this sunny crest, 
 
 The place is hallowed ground, 
 "The angel of the Lord conies down 
 
 And glory shines around." 
 
 Ours is a goodly heritage 
 
 Of godly ancestry, 
 And still their virtues live with us, 
 
 In holy memory. 
 And surely there is joy to-day 
 
 In the fair Church above, 
 They join our holy anthems sweet 
 
 Unto our Lord of love. 
 
 'Mid the green and golden glory 
 Of this Eden of the year, 
 
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 Berkshire's robes of glorious beauty- 
 Fitting for the day appear. 
 Everlasting hallelujahs 
 
 Let us raise in grateful praise, 
 As we stand beneath the arching 
 
 Of our Century's crowning days. 
 List the oratorio glorious, 
 
 From the hills that round us stand, 
 God has led us through the Century, 
 
 Still He holds us by His hand. 
 Henceforth, evermore, forever, 
 
 God around His people waits, 
 Cares for this, His chosen temple, 
 
 Watches His own Zion's gates. 
 
 Our God, our Fathers' God we wait 
 
 Within Thy courts to-day, 
 To consecrate our lives anew, 
 
 And for Thy presence pray. 
 We love the Church, this dear old Church, 
 
 Whose aisles our fathers trod, 
 All full of sacred memories 
 
 Of loved ones with the Lord. 
 We love the hymns, the dear old hymns 
 
 We learned in childhood days, 
 The hymns we sung in the old Church, 
 
 With voice of prayer and praise. 
 
 "Thus far the Lord has led me on," 
 
 " There is a land of pure delight," 
 "All hail the power of Jesus' Name," 
 
 "While shepherds watch their flocks by night." 
 
 Full oft from out His Church below, 
 
 Unto His Church in Heaven 
 The Master comes to take His own, 
 
 The treasures He has given. 
 So many dear ones gone before 
 
 Who gathered with us here, 
 They live with us again to-day, 
 
 We feel their presence near. 
 The sainted Pastor's tender face 
 
 Seems smiling from above 
 Over the Church for which he toiled 
 
 With great, exceeding love. 
 
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 His presence still seems o'er us brooding 
 
 Amid these scenes so sweet and fair, 
 Filled with his life and holy service, 
 
 His cheerful spirit, love and prayer. 
 Still upward, round by round his life-work, 
 
 Waiting to hear the Master's word, 
 Till on the shining golden stairway 
 
 He met the angel of the Lord. 
 Like the fair stream, pure, silent, flowing, 
 
 Marking its path with living green, 
 Was the true life whose loving service 
 
 Is still in lives he served oft seen. 
 His living monument is builded, 
 
 We look around us and behold 
 Where he has wrought his work so noble, 
 
 More lasting than in lines of gold. 
 As shrubs cut down in dew of morning 
 
 Long after keep their fragrance sweet, 
 So deeds of love in living essence, 
 
 With rare perfume the years repeat. 
 The beauty of his life still lingers, 
 
 A pure light o'er his name to shed, 
 His works do follow — deeds of blessing, 
 
 A crown for the beloved dead. 
 
 Still from the Past so tender we love to linger o'er, 
 
 We turn to face the Future rising for us before. 
 
 All wondrous is the vision our eyes behold to-day, 
 
 'Tis glorious to be living, to walk the King's highway. 
 
 The pulsing air seems vibrant, with inspiration rife, 
 
 We feel its holy impulse, the more abundant life. 
 
 The Lord of Life has risen, His glory fills the earth, 
 
 The world's bright Easter morning now shows His glory forth. 
 
 With light the heavens are flooded, new worlds of thought are found, 
 
 Wide open doors of knowledge o'er all the earth abound. 
 
 Behold the Orient glowing, the King of Day comes forth, 
 
 The sunrise gold is flooding the newly wakened earth ; 
 
 It shines upon wide prairies, gilds lofty mountain height, 
 
 The Orient is radiant, Pacific shores are bright. 
 
 Nearing the Century's summit we mount from height to height, 
 
 Facing its open vision, its full electric light, 
 
 We hail with joy the coming, we children of the King, 
 
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 We go to meet the morning, our hearts glad tribute bring. 
 Onward, still onward pressing with ever upward trend, 
 Till dawns the morn of glory, whose day shall have no end. 
 
 With every step we take we higher rise, 
 The slope is upward, whither lies our way. 
 
 The line of vision a new level strikes 
 As pace by pace we mount each new-born day. 
 
 On everything the dew of morning hangs, 
 Each breath we draw with sweetest fragrance rife, 
 
 The thrill of inspiration fills our souls 
 
 With bounding pulse of new upspringing life. 
 
 Heart answers heart and soul to soul responds 
 .As we keep step with joyful upward trend, 
 Our eyes are fixed on sunlit mountain tops 
 Of aspiration, which enchantment lend. 
 
 A summit gained, a smooth green table-land, 
 Which this glad day our feet with joy have trod 
 
 Grand reaches still before with sunset gold — 
 Beyond the sunset are the Hills of God. 
 
 O'er them the everlasting morn shall rise, 
 The gates will open, we shall enter in, 
 
 To the dear presence of our Master, Lord, 
 To grow in love with Him we loved unseen. 
 
 And may this goodly heritage 
 
 We have received from God's own hand 
 Transmitted still by us, be left 
 
 For those who in our places stand. 
 Ne'er may the candlestick remove 
 
 Of this dear Church from out its place, 
 Its light ne'er dim, but still shine on, 
 
 Fed by God's never-failing grace. 
 
 With growing radiance year by year, 
 
 From century to century still, 
 May its pure shining show to souls 
 
 The way to Heaven, the Father's will. 
 The love of God, the Father, 
 
 The grace of Christ, the Son, 
 Communion of the Spirit 
 
 Be yours till life is done. 
 
Extracts from Letters. 
 
 READ BY MR. HOSMER, CLERK OF THE CHURCH. 
 
 Mrs. Keziah Payne Barrett, 86 years old, of Belleville, Ohio. 
 
 I don't know as I can contribute one item that would be of 
 interest to your coming centennial, but can well remember 
 much of the history of the dear old church on the hill, which 
 my father and others selected as a suitable location, it being a 
 sightly place. I can't tell the dates. 
 
 I was born in April, 1809, and my earliest recollections of a 
 preacher was that of Rev. Caleb Knight. He was a favorite 
 preacher with many, and in particular of my mother, and she, 
 being a member, had us children baptized. We were brought 
 up to go to church and reverence the preacher, and he was 
 called a sweet preacher, but moderate in all his movements, 
 celebrated for long prayers and sermons. I well remember 
 many a winter our team was harnessed and the family went to 
 church in the morning, carried a little lunch for dinner, also 
 a little tin foot, stove, encased in a wooden frame, and in it a 
 pan of wood coals and ashes to warm our feet, and during the 
 one hour intermission at noon, sent some one to the hotel to 
 recruit the pan of coals, and then was ready for the afternoon 
 service, and many a time did not reach home till the sun was 
 setting, but we had heard two excellent sermons and two Ions: 
 prayers in a church with no fire, standing on a hill that took 
 the wind from every quarter. The church then was divided 
 into pews and ours was located in the north-west corner, with 
 old Mr. Wentworth as seat-mate. I presume Mrs. Dea. Clark 
 can tell you how she and I sat there shivering all day, times 
 innumerable. After Mr. Knight, they had no settled -preacher 
 till the Rev. William Jlawley was settled, lie was a well edu- 
 
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 cated, active business man. During his administration the 
 church underwent repairs, and, though opposed by some, stoves 
 were put in, which made it more comfortable. He preached 
 many an evening at my father's house (instead of the school 
 house), as I had a brother that was an invalid from rheuma- 
 tism,— name, Daniel Payne, who was a member of the church. 
 He died in January, *26. The funeral was attended at our 
 home, Mr. Hawley preaching a sermon, as he also did at the 
 funeral of my father, in December, '34. He was a very bigoted, 
 rigid man in the Calvanistic doctrine and did not fail to preach 
 it, and I was brought by mother to take the pill. 
 
 I will here quote a little of my own history : In the fall of 
 '24, I think, Charles G. Finney, an evangelist from Oberlin, 
 preached three evenings in succession in the old church, and I 
 went to hear him. Mr. Hawley discarded him then as preach- 
 ing "New Measure" doctrine, and told me, while in conversa- 
 tion on the subject, that he did not want a Finney, Burchard 
 or Stone of Oberlin to make revivals for him. Well, he was 
 our pastor in December, '28. He officiated at my marriage to 
 Haskell Barrett, and in July, '30, buried our only child at seven 
 months old. 
 
 Early in the fall of '33, a Mr. Stone, an evangelist from 
 Oberlin, came to Dalton, held a meeting there, and a great 
 revival followed, and they hired him to preach six months, and 
 my husband attended some of the meetings in Dalton, and the 
 first of November, '33, we were both, by God's grace, brought 
 into the full liberty of the gospel, and could see a fullness in 
 Christ to save all that would come to him on the terms of the 
 gospel. Mr. Hawley preached, talked and expostulated with 
 us but we could not see as he did, though supported him for 
 three years later, and in '36 took up our cross and united with 
 the Methodist church in Dalton. 
 
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 Mrs. Myra Hinsdale Brewer, of Le Roy, N. Y. 
 
 Memory extends to my early childhood. There was a com- 
 mittee appointed annually to reseat the congregation that wor- 
 shipped there. Such men as Mr. Huntington, Mr. James 
 Wing, Mr. Tyler, Mr. Adams, Mr. Merriman, Dr. Abel Kit- 
 tredge, Mr. Oliver Colt. The elderly people were given seats 
 near the pulpit. Major Emmons, Deacon Bassett, Deacon 
 Clarke, and many others I could mention, with their families, 
 occupied the square pews in the meeting house, as it was then 
 called. Mr. Hawley was then our minister. He carefully 
 tended his flock. Elder Jackson, who was the Baptist minister, 
 wished feo exchange pulpits and Mr. Hawley said, "No, we 
 must not let the bars down," so there w T as no exchange. The 
 bars are down — we are partial to our own home church, the 
 Congregational, yet we can worship with those who love our 
 Saviour truly and sincerely, of whatever denomination, who 
 take the word of God as their guide in all the varied duties of 
 life. 
 
 I am truly interested in the review of the life of the Con- 
 gregational church in Hinsdale. 
 
 Mrs. Flora Hawley Putnam, of Rosamond, 111. 
 
 The memories of my childhood, that I passed with mv father 
 at the old parsonage and farm in Hinsdale, are very clear, and 
 many of them very precious. 
 
 Seventy years ago father depended somewhat upon the farm, 
 as well as the salary he had from the parish and church. He 
 kept sheep and cows, and raised wool, and made butter, more 
 than was used in the family. He did not labor very much 
 himself upon the farm. The study was his place first; the 
 farm was secondary. The wool and flax that came into the 
 house to be spun and wove, and made into cloth, is very clear 
 to my mind now; but this was soon changed, and the loom and 
 the spinning wheels stood idle in the garret of the parsonage. 
 
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 The ministers and agents for various causes of benevolence, 
 who were entertained at the parsonage during those early years, 
 felt that they got a little inspiration from the bottle ; and there 
 was one that stood there for a short time, but it soon disap- 
 peared, never to be replaced, for father was, even in early days, 
 a strong temperance man. 
 
 I call to mind many of the ministers with whom my father 
 exchanged. There was Mr. Jennings of Dal ton, who had a 
 long pastorate there, and was often at the parsonage. 1 learned 
 to know him very well. Indeed, to know him once, was always 
 to know him, and to remember his eccentricities. Then, there 
 w T as Dr. Dorrance of Windsor, Brewster of Peru, Dr. Sheppard 
 of Lenox, who, after seeing, and hearing him pray, we would 
 remember, for he was a man " mighty in prayer." Then there 
 was Nash of Middlelield and Balentine of Washington. The 
 ministers settled over those Berkshire churches were mostly 
 there for life. 
 
 I call to mind many young men who studied with father, 
 and fitted for college : — John Buss, John Bisbee, Eli Adams, 
 and many others at different times. 
 
 He was very much interested in the public schools of Hins- 
 dale, for the many years he was there, and he did all he could, 
 which was much, to promote their interests. 
 
 He loved the church and people of Hinsdale very much 
 from the start; and when the revival of 1827 commenced 
 (which I well remember), and brought so many heads of fami- 
 lies into the church, it seemed to bind them in a bond that 
 could not be broken. He loved them to the last, and when 
 the time came for separation, he went away sad and sorrowing. 
 He lived but a few years after, in poor health, and died in 
 Sunderland, having given up the ministry in 1854. 
 
 I, and my older children, remember with a good deal of sat- 
 isfaction the church and people of Hinsdale (my native place) 
 and may the next century of its existence have within it as 
 
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 many noble and Christian people as it lias had in the past one 
 hundred years. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Hume, of Manteno, Illinois. 
 
 We most sincerely regret our inability to be with your people 
 and enjoy the exercises of the day. Here permit me to say 
 that my wife and myself have always been most interested in 
 the affairs of your church and people since leaving them many 
 years ago. 
 
 We have, from time to time, taken notice through reports, 
 etc., of the growth, prosperity and liberality of your congrega- 
 tion and people, with pleasure. 
 
 We assure you that we shall be with you in thought and 
 sympathy. 
 
 Mr. Eugene H. Paddock, of New York City. 
 
 My recollections of the church date from the year 1854. 
 The edifice was then located on the hill, and as a child I was a 
 regular attendant for one year, and very distinct are my mem- 
 ories of the interior as it appeared at service Sunday morning, 
 — the reverent spirit of the worshippers, the choir, the preacher, 
 — I remember them all, and I should esteem it a great privi- 
 lege if I could be present August 28th. 
 
 The Hinsdale Congregational church, like many another 
 church of New England, has been the means of building up 
 Christian character in the family and in social life. Its influ- 
 ence was strongly felt in the little household at Hamilton, 
 where my mother watched over her little flock of six children, 
 faithfully endeavoring to instill into their minds the principles 
 of faith and doctrine that she herself had been taught in the 
 Hinsdale church. 
 
 I acknowledge with dee}) gratitude my obligations to that 
 church. May it continue to prosper and may those who bear 
 the burdens of caring for it be richly blessed in their work and 
 labor of love. 
 
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 Rgy. Fr. D. F. Cronin, of Hinsdale, Mass. 
 
 You have reason to rejoice and celebrate with all pomp and 
 ceremony the ripe and vigorous age of your church in this 
 town. I rejoice heartily with you on this interesting occasion, 
 and although I may not be present with you, I wish you every 
 prosperity and good fortune. 
 
 Rev. H. C. Haskell, Missionary at SamokOY, Bulgaria. 
 
 It would indeed give me very great pleasure to be with you 
 at the celebration, but as that may not be, I shall be much 
 pleased to be represented by a brief letter. I say " brief," be- 
 cause however long I make it, it will still be short considering 
 the interest I feel in Hinsdale and the rush of recollections I 
 would like to give in it. 
 
 I went to Hinsdale a boy of seventeen, in April, 1853, to "fit 
 for college" at the Academy. My uncle, P. K. Clark, had been 
 called to the pastorate there I think the year before. At the 
 head of the Academy was Prof. I. N. Lincoln, whom I esteem 
 as one of my best teachers and friend — a rare man, of blessed 
 memory. 
 
 At the end of freshman year at Williams our class gave him 
 an ebony, gold-headed cane with the motto, "Serves in coelum 
 vedeas," but alas, this was not the will of the Heavenly Father, 
 for, as you know, he died quite young, I think in the summer of 
 1862. He was a thorough and enthusiastic teacher. 1 have very 
 pleasant memories, too, of his successors, Mr. Goodrich and Mr. 
 Lombard. A good number of my fellow students were fine 
 fellows, whose friendship I love to recall, — "Charley" Peirce, 
 Apthorpe, Elmore, Parsons, Barrows, William A. Lloyd, (not 
 to be forgotten) and my special friend of those days, George 
 Wright. There were others with whom my acquaintance was 
 shorter. Some of the young ladies of the school, too, I remem- 
 ber with much interest, as those of Dr. Kittredge's family, of 
 Marshall Peirce's and others. 
 
 But my memories of the place are not altogether of the 
 
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 Academy, (thankful as I am for the years of sound Christian 
 education it gave me). How I love to think of the Christian 
 privileges I enjoyed in the old church there on the hill and in 
 the prayer meeting in Emmons' Hall. There I got the use of 
 my tongue in public prayer and "remarks." What a line 
 neighborhood that was, too, "on the flat" where we lived, — 
 the Emmons families, Dr. Kittredge's, Mr. Colt's, Deacon Mc- 
 Elwaine's, Mr. Barrows, Deacon White and Deacon Prince in 
 the stone house, some whose names have gone from me, and 
 dear Mrs. Charles Wright's, whom I can't forget. Then Abel 
 Kittredge's and others on the road to school. Two winters I 
 taught school in Hinsdale, one in the "North woods," and how 
 I did enjoy my acquaintances there — Mr. Lysander Francis and 
 his good father and mother, Deacon Clark and his two sons and 
 families, Marshall and Erastus Peirce and their families, Elijah 
 Wentworth and family, where it was a delight to board, or 
 even spend a night on returning from singing school. That 
 singing school too, I have always been thankful to the Hins- 
 dale church for. My second winter I taught in the Depot dis- 
 trict, and there I found some choice families: — Mr. Plunkett's 
 (whose son George I am gratified to find hasn't forgotten me 
 yet), C. J. Kittredge's, Mr. Putnam's over on the hill, some of 
 the factory hands, and Deacon Nash, Mr. Davis, and a good 
 number whose names in these few summers have escaped from 
 me, though I trust they are written in the "Book of Life." 
 
 As my uncle was pastor, he introduced me to families I 
 might not otherwise have known. I recall several in the 
 "Cheeseman" neighborhood: Deacon Hinsdale's, the Parsons, 
 Mr. Goodrich's, (who was a Methodist, if I remember rightly) 
 whose son Chauncey was a school and college friend — -and who 
 made maple sugar to make our mouths water. There were 
 others over that way, too, whom I can't now recall. Well, niv 
 memories of old Hinsdale are very pleasant, though I suppose 
 but few of the men and women of forty years ago "ire there 
 now. How I would like to thank them for the school privi- 
 
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 leges I there enjoyed, (but for that academy I would never 
 have known Hinsdale), and for the church privileges, and the 
 personal friendships. I trust they will be renewed in the bet- 
 ter land where 
 
 "Those who meet shall part no more 
 And those long parted, meet again." 
 
 I was then in my youth and everything was fresh. How I 
 enjoyed those hills and seeing the cars glide through the valley 
 from my study window; and picking the blackberries! More 
 blackberries and larger, sweeter, more luscious ones I never 
 found. 
 
 Of course my situation in the family of my dear uncle, of 
 blessed memory, was a sort of indispensable condition of the 
 profit and pleasure of my Hinsdale life. Some of my friends 
 here say I am a " Puritan of the Puritans," — and such seemed 
 our Hinsdale church to me in the days of yore. Not that I 
 esteem Puritanism perfect — (see how my Puritanism comes 
 out, right in this letter of friendship !) but we Puritans must 
 strive without ceasing to attain to the meekness and gentleness, 
 and loving kindness and tenderness and sympathy which were 
 shown so perfectly in Christ. 
 
 It may not be out of place in closing to say a word of my 
 family and work. We were in America fifteen years, (1872- 
 1887) and since the last date have been here, — i. e., my wife 
 and I. Our son, Edward B., (twenty-nine years old) took his 
 course of study at Marietta and Oberlin; was married nearly 
 four years ago and came out here ; is located in Salonica, and 
 has one child. Mary (some four years younger) studied at 
 Oberlin, came out here in 1890, and is a teacher in the Girls' 
 Boarding School in Samokov. Harry (twenty-one) is about to 
 enter senior year at Oberlin. I have been teaching and preach- 
 ing since coming back here, and since 1890, have been "Di- 
 rector of the College and Theological Institute" here. It gives 
 a seven years' course, and fits men for the ministry. 
 
 There are agitations and commotions in the political world 
 
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 here. Stambouloff, their greatest statesman, was brutally fallen 
 upon in his carriage, in Sophia, and murdered, (or so badly 
 wounded he died on Thursday) we hear on last Monday, near 
 evening. But, "The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice." 
 And now in saying good-bye, I assure you, Hinsdale friends, 
 of my warm interest in the welfare of your town and church, 
 and of my prayers for God's special presence on your festal 
 day, and His continued blessing for the hundred years to come. 
 In the bonds of Christian love. 
 
 Hon. James "White, of Williamstown, Mass. 
 
 I regret exceedingly that, on account of ill health, I am un- 
 able to accept your very kind invitation to be present at the 
 Centennial of the Hinsdale Congregational church. I have 
 very vivid recollections of the deep interest my parents and 
 grandparents had in constantly attending upon its ministrations. 
 For myself, I cannot forget the doctrinal preaching of Rev. 
 Mr. Hawley; the Calvanism I heard from him wrenched my 
 soul and caused me great suffering in my early youth. I do 
 not cease to bless the Lord that my children did not hear it. 
 
 I remember Mr. Banister as a gentleman and Mrs. Banister 
 as an ideal minister's wife. 
 
 To Dr. Edward Taylor I am ever grateful, as the human 
 instrumentality in leading me into the kingdom, lie also en- 
 couraged me to unite with the church my first term in college, 
 which was of great help to me. 
 
 Rev. Perkins K. Clark had the misfortune to come to the 
 church when the question of removing the meeting-house was 
 under discussion. Many who lived in the West village took 
 no interest in his coming because they wanted the question of 
 removal to be settled first. He was an exceedingly fine scholar, 
 had. been a tutor in Yale college, and was the intimate friend 
 of Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D. D., LL. D., then pastor of 
 the Broadway Tabernacle, New York city, and for many years 
 one of the most eminent men in our denomination. I have 
 
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 occasion personally to remember Mr. Clark because he married 
 me to the very best woman ever raised in the Hinsdale church. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Twining brought to the pastorate great intel- 
 lectual ability and a fund of good humor. He contributed 
 very greatly to my father's enjoyment by loaning him such 
 books as " The Sermons of Dr. Buslmell." 
 
 Dr. Flint was my classmate and for three years my room- 
 mate in college, and always my intimate friend. He came 
 from a godly family, was a good preacher, and an eminently 
 spiritual man. 
 
 As for its present pastor, the church never had a better man 
 for its minister. 
 
 With such a line of pastors, it would be expected that the 
 membership would include, as for the most part it surely has, 
 the financial, intellectual and social strength of the town. Cer- 
 tainly, for the last fifty years, the church has not ceased to have 
 men of uncommon ability and Christian character. 
 
 My hope and prayer for the church is that in the century to 
 come its high standard may ever be maintained. 
 
 Mr. Ralph H. White, of Boston. 
 
 Received your kind invitation to attend the Centennial An- 
 niversary of the Congregational church at Hinsdale, and while 
 there is. great doubt of my being able to attend, (which I very 
 much regret) I extend to the good people of Hinsdale, and 
 particularly to those accustomed to worship in this historic 
 church, my hearty congratulations. At such a time my 
 thoughts naturally revert to my boyhood days, and the pleasant 
 years I lived in this beautiful hill-town pass before me as a 
 panorama, full of the beauties of nature and the exquisite love- 
 liness which the Almighty so generously bestowed upon this 
 section of the Berkshire Hills. 
 
 To me it seems almost as yesterday, when on every Sabbath 
 morning I was required by my good father and mother (who 
 now rest peacefully in your burying ground) to put on my 
 
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 Sunday clothes and usually walk to this ancient church, then 
 situated on what was called the flat, but singular enough our 
 forefathers were particular to build their churches upon what 
 seemed to me the highest hill they could find. I have no 
 doubt they reasoned that exercise was good for the body if not 
 for the soul. 
 
 No one who has not baffled with the storms and adversity of 
 an active business life in a great city can realize the pictures 
 that come to one's memory when he looks back to his boyhood 
 days passed as mine were among the Berkshire Hills. I seem 
 to see the sparkling and pure water of my favorite trout brook 
 where I have strolled many a mile in peace and happiness even 
 if I didn't catch a fish, and the still and quiet meadow stream 
 where I caught my first mink. All these things and many 
 more remind me most forcibly of those happy days never to 
 return to me again. 
 
 It seems almost incredible to me that this good old meeting 
 house has lived to be one hundred years old, yet such is the 
 fact, and while many of those who knew me in my childhood 
 have passed on to a higher and better life, I cannot close this 
 letter without wishing all those who take part in this Centen- 
 nial my best wishes and God's blessing. 
 
 It has occurred to me that a church one hundred years old 
 ought to have a new coat — of paint. I therefore take great 
 pleasure in enclosing my check for $300 for that express pur- 
 pose. 
 
 GIFT OF MKS. ZENAS CRANE, OF DALTON. 
 
 The officers of this church, in behalf of the church and so- 
 ciety, desire to express their thanks to Mrs. Ellen Kittredge 
 Crane, a former member of the church, for the beautiful mar- 
 ble clock recently given and placed upon the front of gallery. 
 
Former Pastors Deceased. 
 
 REV. JOHN LELAND AND REV. CALEB KNIGHT. 
 
 BY MISS SARAH BOWEN. 
 
 Without observation, without the 'presence of the great or 
 honored, or the voice of choir or harp, with only vows and 
 simple faith, this church was formed, one autumn day, a hun- 
 dred years ago, yet a mighty power for good was set in motion. 
 
 We, their successors, have kept the faith of our fathers and 
 
 still as members of this now ancient church, serve 
 
 " Our father's God 
 
 From out whose hand 
 
 The centuries fall like grains of sand." 
 
 This prosperity has been due, in a large measure, to the conse- 
 cration of the pastors, who, one after another, have ministered 
 to this people in holy things. While it is true that "in the 
 long succession from first to last, every life speaks and is heard " 
 these good men have, in a peculiar manner, impressed them- 
 selves and their uplifting faith upon their hearers. 
 
 The shepherd who first felt responsible for the little Hock 
 was the Rev. John Leland, who had then for thirteen years 
 faithfully served the mother church upon the hill, afterward, 
 at his suggestion, called Peru. 
 
 In the beginning, every fifth, and at other times every third 
 or fourth Sabbath, he came to this distant part of his field and 
 for four years he preached in private houses, in the school 
 house, and for some months in a barn. 
 
 In 1799 the present church edifice was completed, and for 
 two years more Mr. Leland, oftener than any other, sowed the 
 precious seed by the wayside and from this pulpit. 
 
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 And the good parson was, in Iris sphere, a notable man. He 
 descended from an old English family, with an heraldic coat of 
 arms and the significant motto, "cui debeo fidus." To what I 
 am indebted, I am faithful. But his ancestors came early to 
 America, and he was born into the household of a Massachu- 
 setts farmer and enjoyed an early education only sufficient to 
 enable him to succeed as a schoolmaster. 
 
 When thirty years of age, at the beginning of the Itevolu- 
 tiou, he held a captain's commission and led his company at 
 the battle of Bunker Hill. Before the close of the war, how- 
 ever, he was deeply impressed with a desire to become a gospel 
 minister, and after many delays while trying to make amends 
 for a lack of classical training, he was ready for his work. 
 
 When he came to his first and only pastorate in Partridge- 
 field he was nearly forty years of age, and for nearly another 
 forty years he labored with efficiency and success. 
 
 Although a man of humble life and influenced by the temp- 
 tations and discouragements of his lot, his biographer has left 
 this testimony. "He soon became one of the most successful 
 preachers and his church one of the largest, most united, and 
 useful in the vicinity. As a guide to immortal souls, as an ex- 
 ample of kindness and fidelity, as a vigilant watchman on the 
 walls of Zion and as a most useful member of civil society, his 
 praise was in all the churches." 
 
 Mr. Leland's stated salary was $200, and he had, beside, a 
 small farm, but he was so engrossed in ministerial work that 
 from it he derived only a scanty income. Surely he received 
 the promised " needful things" while seeking/?'/\s^ the kingdom 
 of God, for he lived comfortably, trained seven children, giving 
 to each a common education and to the youngest a college 
 course, dispensed liberal hospitality, wore fine silk stockings 
 and silver knee-buckles on important occasions and owed no 
 man anything. Yet he must not be allowed to bear off all the 
 honors, for his wife, Hepzibah, "was of price above rubies and 
 the heart of her husband safely trusted in her." 
 
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 Mr. Leland's special responsibility for the church at West 
 Parish ceased when in 1802, it was ready to welcome a pastor 
 of its own. The original membership had doubled and, with 
 its new meeting house, success seemed assured. 
 
 REV. CALEB KNIGHT. 
 
 The pastor-elect, Rev. Caleb Knight, was a native of Lisbon, 
 Connecticut, was graduated from Williams College, and had 
 just completed his theological course with Rev. Dr. Backus of 
 Somers, Connecticut, when, with his bride, he came to cast in 
 his lot with this people. 
 
 The names of the neighboring clergymen who were invited 
 in council to ordain and install the young candidate are still 
 familiar in our homes. They were the Rev. Messrs. Collins of 
 Lanesborough, Dorrance of Windsor, Pomeroy of Worthing- 
 ton, Ballantine of Washington, Nash of Middlefield, Leland of 
 Partridgefield and Allen of Pittstield. Thus being set apart, 
 the new minister hopefully commenced his labors. 
 
 Instead of the training of the Sunday school and the Chris- 
 tian Endeavor Society, the youth of those times were taught 
 
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 the Westminster Catechism and recited it on Sunday evenings, 
 or when the minister called, either at home or at school. 
 
 Mr. Knight enjoyed this feature of his work. On the occa- 
 sions of his frequent visits to the school on Maple street, after 
 receiving the respectful salutation of the pupils, he was accus- 
 tomed to continue the exercises by asking the trembling occu- 
 pants of the nearest bench "The chief end of man," or to de- 
 fine "sin" or "sanctification." The answers were sure to be 
 promptly and correctly given. 
 
 At church, the pastor proclaimed his message to old and 
 young. Although the gem of truth had sometimes a cumbrous 
 setting and the ninthly of the sermon coincided with the ninety 
 minutes by the clock, yet the message thus presented was 
 gladly received except, perhaps, on a sultry August afternoon, 
 or when the Thanksgiving turkey was growing cold at home. 
 
 So, during the opening years of this, wonderful century, 
 through a period of religious declension fostered by French in- 
 fidelity, through a second war with England, when the camp 
 nurtured vice, when party feeling ran high and times were 
 hard, this godly man served his people and his country by 
 keeping his faith intelligent and bright and preaching the 
 simple gospel to needy souls. 
 
 Mr. Knight's salary was $366.66 2-3, but it appears that 
 when his expenses grew larger, this sum was insufficient, and, 
 becoming financially embarrassed, he asked for an increase. 
 As the town did not vote to do this, he resigned his charge in 
 1816; however, as a token of friendship, he was afterwards pre- 
 sented with $200. 
 
 During his fourteen years of faithful labor, the membership 
 of the Hinsdale church had increased to one hundred and ten. 
 Mr. Knight spent several years in Home Missionary work and 
 had afterward three pastorates, one of which was in Washing- 
 ton, in this county, from 1826-1836, when he sometimes re- 
 visited his first charge and preached again in this pulpit. 
 
 At last his work on earth was done, and, like Parson Lelaud, 
 
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 he received the loving care of his children and was gathered 
 to his fathers in a good old age. 
 
 These pastors long ago dead still speak to lis. Their influ- 
 ence has been constantly repeated during the two succeeding 
 generations and is felt in the lives of many who are here to-day. 
 
 We rejoice in the good they were enabled to accomplish and 
 in the assurance that to each was vouchsafed the reward which 
 only consecrated souls can win. " An honored life, a peaceful 
 end, and Heaven to crown it all." 
 
REV. W. A. HAWLEY. 
 
 REV. WILLIAM A. HAWLEY 
 
 BY HON. C. J. KITTREDGE. 
 
 Rev. William Augur Hawley, the second pastor of the Con- 
 gregational church in Hinsdale, Massachusetts, was horn in 
 Huntington, Connecticut, April 23, 1788. It is recorded of 
 him that "In early life he was uncommonly fond of study and 
 consecrated himself to the service of his Master. This circum- 
 stance, in connection with others, induced him to enter upon a 
 course of study with reference to the ministry." 
 
 After graduating at Williams College, in 1816, he studied 
 theology with the Rev. Dr. Catlin of New Marlboro, Massa- 
 chusetts. He was ordained and installed pastor of this church 
 July 16, 1817. 
 
 He was to receive an annual salary of $450, besides a settle- 
 
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 ment of $400, to be paid in four annual installments, counting 
 from bis ordination ; tbe last installment being due in July, 
 1821. 
 
 In March, 1821, he addressed a communication to the town, 
 which has been preserved. Although somewhat lengthy, it so 
 clearly shows his unselfish regard for, and appreciation of his 
 people, also something of the contrast between the condition of 
 minister and people then and now, it may not be inappropriate 
 to present it on this occasion. 
 
 COPY OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENT NOW ON FILE. 
 
 "To the Inhabitants of Hinsdale, 
 
 Respected Gentlemen : — In the good providence of God four years have 
 nearly revolved since we entered into the interesting relation of minister 
 and people. In reviewing the past, I am constrained to acknowledge the 
 goodness of Him who rules over all, in preserving to us so good a degree 
 of peace and mutual friendship ; at the same time I feel myself bound to 
 acknowledge with gratitude the kindness and liberality of the people, and 
 also their punctuality in meeting their engagements. Considering the 
 change of the times, in the fall of the price of produce, and the embarrass- 
 ments which this has imposed in business and calculations made previously 
 to the change, these have exceeded my most sanguine expectations. I 
 also consider that this has been done when the people have been subject 
 to an unusual burden in supporting the unfortunate poor. This with the 
 change of times has caused a great disproportion compared with former 
 years, between the amount of taxes to be paid and the means of paying 
 them. Whilst it has been more difficult to raise money, the amount to be 
 raised, instead of diminishing, has rather increased. Though I have every 
 reason to believe that the inhabitants of this town are cheerful to bear their 
 part in the public burdens, and will ever be forward to support the public 
 institutions and defray the public expense incurred by objects that are the 
 praise of an enlightened country : though I have every reason to believe 
 this : yet my own judgment teaches me that it is highly important to ac- 
 commodate the public burdens, as much as may be, to the ability of bear- 
 ing them. If money has become more valuable, it is reasonable that a less 
 sum should be required to answer the same object. 
 
 Indeed it is apparent that when the means of subsistence are cheaper, 
 the expense of living must be diminished. These considerations have led 
 me to think it expedient to embrace this opportunity, w r hen the inhabitants 
 of this town are convened to provide for the public expense of the current 
 year, and submit the following statement respecting my own circumstances. 
 
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 Most or all the gentlemen present here, doubtless know, that when I set- 
 tled here, I was destitute of property. The expenses of my education had 
 consumed my small patrimony and the small earnings saved to that time, 
 except what was in my horse. 
 
 I had therefore to commence the support of my family on the provision 
 made by the town. It has ever been an object with me to live as prudently 
 as possible in my station. It will not be necessary for me to go into a de- 
 tailed statement of my expenses from that time to the present. I would 
 however, observe that the expenses of the first year fell but a trifle short of 
 the whole amount of my salary. Since that time, I have kept no particu- 
 lar account. Two ) 7 ears ago this present spring I purchased my place, for 
 which I bound myself to pay fourteen hundred dollars. Of this sum, 
 aided by the settlement, subscribed by individuals, and raised by the town, 
 I have been able to pay seven hundred and fifty dollars, and the interest ; 
 six hundred and fifty dollars therefore remain to be paid in the following 
 installments, two hundred next fall, two hundred the fall after, and two 
 hundred and fifty one year from that. I should also observe that these 
 notes are so circumstanced that I shall be obliged to pay them at the time, 
 that is, it will not be practicable, owing to circumstances, to negotiate a 
 delay of payment for any length of time. Besides these debts, I find my- 
 self now involved in smaller debts due to individuals, to amount of one 
 hundred and twenty-five dollars or thereabouts, perhaps a trifle over this. 
 
 These small debts, accordiug to the expectation of my creditors, must be 
 paid wdthin the current year. Gentlemen will understand then, that the 
 amount of my debt now is seven hundred and seventy-five dollars, exclu- 
 sive of the interest, which is to be paid annually, and that I am under ob- 
 ligations to pay three hundred and twenty-five dollars of this debt, with 
 the interest on the six hundred and fifty dollars, this year making the. 
 amount to be paid next fall three hundred and sixty-four dollars. It per- 
 haps ought to be stated that there are other little debts now due, which 
 are not brought iuto the account, because I have money due me to an 
 amount sufficient to balance them. 
 
 It will be perceived that the demands against me, taking into considera- 
 tion the support of my family, are sufficient to consume all the monies due 
 from the town at the expiration of the year closing next July. But trust- 
 ing that with the blessing of God, I may be able to make a shift in some 
 way without specially injuring my creditors, 1 have judged it expedient 
 to relinquish the remaining installment of my settlement, and do hereby 
 relinquish to the town of Hinsdale the installment of one hundred dollars, 
 due next July, it being a part of the settlement then to be paid, and this 
 shall be a certificate of the same. 
 
 In justice to myself and the people of the town, I would say that I am 
 not induced to make this relinquishment by any complaints made to me, 
 
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 but from a deliberate consideration of the circumstances of the times. So 
 far as I know myself, I wish to live with the people of my charge and not 
 upon them. 
 
 If they suffer by unavoidable changes, I would bear my part with them, 
 and judging from the past, I am persuaded that they would wish no 
 more. Still it must be acknowledged difficult to manage with salaries in 
 such a manner, that they shall always be equally light to those who pay, 
 and sufficient for those who receive. But on this subject I need not dwell. 
 
 Wishing you peace and prosperity I remain your obedient servant in the 
 gospel. 
 
 William A. Hawley. 
 
 March 12, 1821." 
 
 He was endowed with good powers of mind and body, which 
 he assiduously cultivated for enlarging his influence and use- 
 fulness. Many young men prepared for college or the ministry 
 in his study : some of them are well remembered, particularly 
 that excellent man, the late Rev. J. H. Bisbee, who often in 
 later years preached from this pulpit, and was always heartily 
 welcomed, and highly esteemed by church and people. 
 
 He preached two written sermons, on Sundays, besides others 
 at lectures and funerals. His sermons were Biblical and showed 
 he had intense faith in the Word of God. His interpretation 
 of scripture, and earnest exhortations at the w r eekly conference 
 meetings, are remembered as instructive and impressive. He 
 aimed to secure the intelligent assent of his hearers to the 
 truths of Christianity and their complete consecration to its 
 service. / 
 
 He heartily embraced and emphatically preached the faith 
 adopted by this church at its formation. 
 
 His preaching and life contributed much to the prosperity, 
 stability and liberal character, which have marked the history 
 of this church and people. 
 
 From published records made by himself about 1828, it ap- 
 pears that in the winter of 1818, a revival of religion was ex- 
 perienced pretty generally through the town, which resulted 
 in the addition of about thirty to the Congregational church 
 and several to the Baptist. In 1821, a second revival was ex- 
 
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 perienced which brought into the Congregational church about 
 twenty-five. 
 
 These revivals produced a very visible and important change 
 in the state of society. The refining influence of religion was 
 spread very generally through the town ; many of the most re- 
 spectable and influential youth were brought into the church, 
 and hopefully under the sanctifying power of divine truth; a 
 new impulse was given to charitable exertions for the spread 
 of the gospel. In 1827, there was a third revival more general 
 and powerful than either of the others, which resulted in the 
 addition of fifty to the Congregational church and a few to the 
 Baptist and Methodist. 
 
 Efforts to spread the gospel have kept pace with the advance- 
 ment of religion, and societies are systematically patronized for 
 the great object of sending the gospel to the destitute. 
 
 While the record gives no light as to the human means used 
 to secure these revivals, it is safe to assume that they resulted 
 from his faithful preaching and labors, rather than from the 
 introduction of "New Measure" methods — so called — which 
 were popular with some in those times, but which he was too 
 conservative to regard with entire confidence. 
 
 Other revivals were doubtless experienced during the later 
 years of his ministry of which there is no special record, but 
 the large additions to the church in 1831-'36 and '37, testify 
 to the presence of the revival spirit. 
 
 It was during his ministry that the first Sunday school in 
 the town was organized. The "Hinsdale Branch Bible So- 
 ciety," the present system of monthly and annual collections 
 for benevolent purposes, and the present "Ladies Benevolent 
 Society," which has carried comfort and happiness into many 
 missionary homes in the west, had their origin in these early 
 days, all being earnestly and ably advocated and sustained by 
 the pastor and his excellent wife, who was sympathetic with, 
 and greatly aided him in his labors and trials, in advancing the 
 temporal and spiritual interests of this church and people. 
 
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 He was actively interested in all public matters pertaining 
 to the improvement of the town, especially in education and 
 temperance, being chairman of the school committee many 
 years, and doing much to raise the standard of education, 
 general intelligence and good morals. 
 
 But few are present, who personally knew him, to testify 
 from observation to his character and usefulness here, but I 
 am sure that many, especially the like faithful pastors, his suc- 
 cessors, who honor this occasion with their presence, have seen 
 and appreciated its value, and will gladly unite in honoring 
 him and praising the Lord Jesus Christ, his Lord and ours, for 
 his faithful service here. 
 
 A lady now living in Ohio, eighty-seven years old, who was 
 in Mr. Hawley's family many years — not a relative — replied to 
 our invitation by an interesting letter to a friend here in which 
 she refers to him in these words : — 
 
 "I wish to add my testimony to the goodness of one of the 
 pastors, for there never was a better man — or a truer heart beat 
 in human breast — than Mr. Hawley. He may have erred, but 
 I cannot look back upon the time I spent in his family and re- 
 call anything I can censure him for or wish to have otherwise." 
 
 There were two hundred and thirty-eight additions to the 
 church during his ministry, seventy-four by letters and one 
 hundred and sixty- four by profession. There were also several 
 cases of church discipline, some of them causing serious aliena- 
 tions and dissentions, which ultimately led to his requesting 
 dismission, which, to the regret of many, was granted in Janu- 
 ary, 1841, after a pastorate of more than twenty-three years. 
 
 In July of the same year, he was installed at Plainfield, 
 Massachusetts, and after a ministry of a little more than six 
 years, was dismissed in October, 1847. 
 
 He subsequently supplied for a few years in East Hawley, 
 and other places, as his health permitted. 
 
 A few weeks before his death, he removed to Sunderland, to 
 spend his remaining days in the family of his son-in-law, Mr. 
 
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 JBrainard Smith, where lie died May 20, 1854, aged sixty-six 
 years, in the confident hope of a blessed immortality, and the 
 reward promised to that servant who was "faithful over a few 
 things." 
 
 He had seven children ; the first born died in infancy. Six, 
 two sons and four daughters, with his wife, survived him. 
 
 REV. S. W. BANISTER. 
 
 REV. S. W. BANISTER AND REV. P. K. CLARK. 
 
 BY REV. EDSON L. CLARK. 
 
 Rev. Seth Warririer Banister was born at Brookfield, Massa- 
 chusetts, January 15, 1811. He fitted for college at Amherst 
 Academy, graduated at Amherst in 1835, at Andover in 1839, 
 and was ordained and installed pastor of this church June 2, 
 1841. Mr. Banister came to Hinsdale, bringing with him his 
 young wife, Elizabeth Emory Hurd, daughter of Hon. Roswell 
 Stevens, of Pomfret, Conn. Mrs. Banister is still remembered 
 
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 in Hinsdale with loving admiration as one of the most brilliant 
 and admirable women who have ever filled the office of pastor's 
 wife in this church. Mr. Banister was a man of fine personal 
 appearance, of very pleasing manners and address, and endowed 
 with social gifts which qualified him well for a pastor's work, 
 and made him a welcome visitor in the homes of his people. 
 His gifts and excellencies, however, were rather of the pastor 
 than of the preacher, and, perhaps, coming after the strong 
 man who had filled his pulpit for so many years, he did not 
 find it easy to satisfy the expectations of his people. His pas- 
 torate here continued for four years. He was dismissed April 
 29, 1846. 
 
 After leaving Hinsdale, Mr. Banister filled short pastorates 
 at Carlisle, Mass., Smyrna, N. Y., and Lyndon, Yt. He was 
 installed over the First church, Ware, Mass., his last pastoral 
 charge, May 23, 1855, and was dismissed June 1, 1-857. He 
 died suddenly at Newton, Mass., October 5, 1861. 
 
 Mr. Banister was three times married and had five children, 
 some or all of whom are still living. 
 
REV. P. K. CLARK. 
 
 Rev. Perkins Kirkland Clark was a man of marked ability 
 and high scholarship, and his memory is still green throughout 
 a wide region of Western Massachusetts. I can speak of him 
 with the interest of personal knowledge, as he died my prede- 
 cessor in the pastorate of the Congregational church at Charle- 
 mont. 
 
 Mr. Clark was born at Westfield, Massachusetts, December 
 10, 1811, but his father belonged to that famous circle of West- 
 hampton Clarks, from which was sent forth so large and so able 
 a company of ministers of the Word ; among them Dr. Dorus 
 Clark, so long connected with the Puritan Recorder, and who 
 is not likely to be soon forgotten by the Congregational churches 
 of Massachusetts. These Westhampton Clarks cannot be better 
 characterized than by the fact that they established among 
 themselves a neighborhood prayer meeting, which endured for 
 a hundred and fifty years. Of this race Perkins Kirkland 
 Clark was a true and thoroughbred son. He graduated at Yale 
 College in 1838, spent one year at Andover, a year and a half 
 
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 teaching at Savannah, Georgia, and was then called to a tutor- 
 ship in Yale College. There he remained four years, improv- 
 ing the opportunity to complete his theological course. At the 
 close of his tutorship he was married to Miss Hannah G. Avery 
 of Springfield, who still survives him. He spent one year 
 teaching in the Normal school at Westfield, when he was called 
 to the united pastorate of the church at Chester Factories, now 
 Chester, and Chester Tillage, now Huntington. He minis- 
 tered to both churches for three years, and to the church in 
 Huntington alone for three years longer, when he was called to 
 the pastorate of this church, over which he was installed June 
 15, 1852. His ministry here, in co-operation with that prince 
 of Christian teachers, Prof. I. N. Lincoln, was exceedingly 
 fruitful. In the year 1853, thirty-seven persons were received 
 into the church on profession of their faith. Through all the 
 years of his ministry Mr. Clark was in very feeble health. 
 This was especiall}* true of him during his residence here. It 
 would seem that he could hardly have maintained himself un- 
 der the burden of his pastoral work without the faithful assist- 
 ance of his excellent wife. 
 
 He remained here four years, and was dismissed October 22, 
 1855. After this he filled a pastorate of ten years at South 
 Deerfield, and of six years at Mittineague, when, already upon 
 the brink of the grave, he accepted a call to the Congregational 
 church at Charlemont. He was the victim of an aggravated 
 form of dyspepsia, which almost wholly prevented the nour- 
 ishment of his system, and he died of sheer exhaustion and 
 starvation January 4, 1872. His iron will held him up to the 
 very last, and some of the last sermons which he preached are 
 still remembered in Charlemont for their fervor and force. 
 
 Mr. Clark had four children, three of whom are now living: 
 Edward Perkins Clark, now on the editorial staff of the New 
 York Evening Post, Prof. Emma Kirkland Clark, of Elmira 
 Female College, and Martha, wife of Kev. J. O. Rankin, of 
 Peekskill, New York. 
 
REV. EPHRAIM FLINT, D. D. 
 
 REV. EPHRAIM FLINT, D. D. 
 
 BY WILLIAM J. BARTLETT, OF LEE. 
 
 Fathers and mothers in Israel, brethren, sisters and friends! 
 
 We stand to-day upon the century's mount of vision, but we 
 cannot look beyond (as Moses saw the promised land from Pis- 
 gah's top) ; we can only take a retrospective view of the way 
 through which our Father has led us. 
 
 As I look back over seven decades of the last century, and 
 call to mind the hosts of men of all shades of temperament and 
 demeanor, of belief and unbelief, with whom I have passed an 
 intensely active life, I call it one of my chief felicities, that I 
 was privileged with an intimate and personal companionship 
 with him, who was for fifteen years the beloved pastor-of those 
 of you who worshipped upon this historic hill of Zion. Those 
 
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 of you who possess that glowing and complete memorial of 
 Dr. Flint, presented to every family in this parish soon after 
 his decease, will hardly expect me to add any thing of interest 
 thereto, since I must necessarily traverse the same ground. 
 
 Please let me remind you that, while others all around the 
 world may be thinking of our gathering here to-day, there is 
 one that I am sure is with us in thought and sympathy and 
 deepest interest. I refer to Mrs. Flint, the beloved com- 
 panion of and faithful co-worker with your late pastor, during 
 his ministry among you. Remember her in your prayers ! 
 
 I met Mr. Flint first at the railway station in Lee, in the 
 summer of 1856, when he came to take charge of our High 
 school, and remember well the quiet reserve of manner with 
 which he returned my greeting. Though slightly disappoint- 
 ing at first, 1 soon learned that it was habitual, and totally de- 
 void of any assumption of superiority or pride, or even cold- 
 ness and want of feeling. 
 
 It was an index that he carried continually with him a con- 
 scious sense of his personal relations to God, and his responsi- 
 bility to demonstrate in each and every vocation to which, 
 under the leadership of the Holy Spirit he might be called 
 the highest type of Christian living. 
 
 In all my long and intimate relations with him, I cannot re- 
 call a single instance where he forgot his duty, his right, or his 
 privilege to be a Christian gentleman. 
 
 Of his work among us as a teacher, I can only speak from 
 observation, and the expressed testimony of his pupils. From 
 these sources I learn that he carried into his teaching an en- 
 thusiastic love for the labor, together with that thoroughness 
 of research so characteristic of him in all that he undertook. 
 
 He followed no lazy routine along the line of thread-bare 
 truths, but delved indefatigably into the depths of things to be 
 taught, particularly into the more abstruse mathematics. He 
 seemed to revel there. One of his brightest pupils says he 
 
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 never left on their hands any problem within their course of 
 study, until it was as luminous to them as to himself. 
 
 While discharging with singular fidelity his trust as a secular 
 teacher, he never lost sight of the other and higher moral needs 
 of his beloved pupils, and so great was his success in both de- 
 partments of labor, that our old Academy Hill might properly, 
 at that time, have been designated both as the Hill of Science 
 and the Hill of Zion. 
 
 His whole life of six years among us, civil, social and relig- 
 ious, was of that well-rounded and symmetrical type that always 
 carries with it a power for good : a power that silences the 
 words of gainsaying and cavil. 
 
 During that time, with others of lis like minded who were 
 resident there, he assisted in the establishment of a young peo- 
 ple's prayer meeting, which soon took the place of the week- 
 day afternoon church meeting, and which continues to this day 
 as the regular mid-week prayer meeting of the church, now so 
 old as to be immemorial to the majority of our residents. 
 
 Our friend's character was the legitimate development of 
 what I call the five points of practical Calvinism, which he had 
 settled irrevocably long before he came to Lee. They were, 
 
 1st. The Bible ; the Word of God, to be believed and studied 
 and obeyed. 
 
 2d. Prayer ; in its highest sense, communion with our Heav- 
 enly Father. 
 
 3d. The Sabbath; an actively holy day, absolutely needed 
 for man's spiritual uplift. 
 
 4th. Giving; a cheerful return to God, according to that 
 which he had received. 
 
 5th. Temperance; total abstinence in its most rigid per- 
 sonal application. 
 
 It was a sad and tearful day when, in 1862, he left us to ac- 
 cept a more important call to teach the High school at Lynn. 
 That call came to him so unexpectedly, and backed by such 
 
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 powerful appeals, that he felt as though it was the call of God, 
 and obeyed it as such. 
 
 I made him a short visit, with my wife, when there in June, 
 1863, and found him just as vitally interested and enthusiastic 
 in school, Sabbath school, and general church work as had 
 been his constant habit while in Lee. 
 
 But the ultimate goal of his life-long desire was not yet 
 reached. From the time when, at thirteen years of age, he 
 heard the voice of the Spirit saying to him in more urgent 
 tones than heretofore, " This is the way, walk ye in it," and 
 his heart had responded with complete consecration, "Here am 
 I, send me," he had set his face toward the ministry of the 
 cross. Hence, in 1865, he left Lynn and entered Andover 
 Theological Seminary. It was there that another specific call 
 from the Holy Spirit which had been in the Divine mind for 
 years, so occult as to be beneath his own consciousness, came 
 to him so imperatively and impressively as to be unmistakable. 
 This he hailed with joy. 
 
 Just at that time, on board a vessel in the port of Boston, 
 lay a lone boy, a poor "stowaway" who had come from the 
 Orient, led by the same Spirit, seeking celestial light. In the 
 spirit of the convicted French infidel who cried out in agony, 
 "O God, if there be a God, save my soul if I have a soul!" so 
 this sad waif, waiting and watching wearily day by day to 
 know what would become of him, cried out in this precise 
 language, "O God, if thou have eyes, please look on me, O 
 God, if thou have ears, please hear for me — I want to learn to 
 read the Bible." 
 
 The Holy Spirit never makes mistakes ! It is easy to trace 
 the connection now, with the request made bj Mr. Flint 
 twenty-five years before, to the gracious Spirit, "Here am I, 
 send me," and its complete answer in the pleadings of Neesima 
 for spiritual light. God led this thirsty soul to just the place 
 He had prepared for it. It came under the care of one whose 
 spiritual discernment was so keen as to see at once his need, 
 
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 and whose whole soul went out in earnest desire to supply the 
 want. 
 
 This is one of those special conjunctions more wonderful 
 than those in the natural world, and more common probably 
 in the spiritual world, than we are wont to think. They have 
 come to many thus consecrated souls ! Possibly to every one ! 
 
 The first verse of scripture that Mr. Flint taught Neesima 
 was John 3 : 16, and it opened up the way for him into the 
 " Holy of Holies." 
 
 In after life, Neesima distinctly stated that he was more in- 
 debted to Mr. Flint for his Christian teaching than to any 
 other living man. It is hard to leave this chapter of Mr. 
 Flint's history with this bare mention, but since I am under 
 bonds to the inexorable time limit of fifteen minutes, prescribed 
 for me on this occasion, I must do so. 
 
 Mr. Flint's return to Berkshire and ordination on September 
 19, 1867, was hailed with delight by all his Lee friends. It 
 seemed good to have a man with such scholarly and spiritual 
 acquirements settle again within our borders. Though not a 
 member of the ordaining council, I was present on the occa- 
 sion, and was not at all surprised to hear his clear and sharp 
 cut answers to the questions propounded to him, revealing his 
 positive convictions of the vital truths of our evangelical faith. 
 He had no negations or doubts to parade, but held to the faith 
 so happily illustrated by the many "I know" declarations of 
 St. Paul. 
 
 I well remember his request that I should preach for him 
 when he was ill, in July, 1869, and the trepidation with which 
 I faced that especially intelligent and cultivated audience to 
 which I was to speak in his place. I hardly knew whether to 
 censure him for his temerity in taking the risk, or thank him 
 for paying me so high a compliment. That he sought my ad- 
 vice more than once in the perplexities of life and followed it, 
 is, however, a sufficient compliment to me. 
 
 Pardon a moment's digression, dear friends, if I pause here 
 
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 just to say that I thank you profoundly for your forbearance 
 and patience with me on that occasion, as well as on more than 
 thirty subsequent ones during Mr. Flint's residence among you. 
 The treatment (as physicians say) was heroic, but (with one or 
 two exceptions) you bore it bravely ! You could hardly have 
 given any stronger proof of your love and loyalty to your pas- 
 tor than this affords. 
 
 It is not at all strange that one with a constitution not espe- 
 cially robust, who had been under such severe mental tension 
 for over twenty-five years, should have needed occasional as- 
 sistance, for he could almost say, "The zeal of Thine house 
 hath eaten me up." It was so much my province to preach 
 for him that 1 seldom heard him. The last sermon that I as- 
 sociate with him was on the text, " The glorious gospel of the 
 blessed God," a theme that filled his soul. 
 
 As far as I had opportunity to judge of his sermons, they 
 were logical, perspicuous and spiritual— the highest style of 
 preaching. 
 
 It would be doing violence to the memory of my beloved 
 friend to represent him as perfect. His careful introspection 
 of his inner life, however, "clothed him with humility." Still, 
 "by the grace of God" he followed closely in the footstej>s of 
 that "guileless Israelite" whom Christ loved. He preached 
 the gospel in no perfunctory spirit, nor from mercenary motives, 
 but because he was constrained thereto, as was the great apostle 
 when he said, "woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel." 
 
 How much he loved you ; how much he longed for your 
 growth in grace and the salvation of precious souls among you, 
 you will never know till in the open vision of future revela- 
 tion. But I do certainly know that his burden for souls in- 
 creased with each advancing year, and with such intensity, 
 that it became a consuming fire. 
 
 In closing, I will confide to you a secret or two. Upon Mr. 
 Flint's return from his last vacation he said, "I am going to 
 put my soul into my work as I never have before." So in- 
 
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 tensely did he redeem his pledge, that a Christian gentleman 
 who chanced to hear him not long before his decease, said, as 
 he came from the church, " Such preaching places Hinsdale 
 people under tremendous obligation, and I should say some- 
 thing decided is going to happen here ; either there will be a 
 great revival, or Dr. Flint is going to die." An unconscious 
 prophecy ! 
 
 Thus towering above every other purpose in his service for 
 the Master, was the saving of souls. It was the old cry of 
 John Knox, "Give me Scotland or I die!" So he said, give 
 me souls or I die. That desire has already been fulfilled. They 
 have already, and will hereafter come from Lee and Lynn, 
 from Japan and Hinsdale, and sit down with him at the "mar- 
 riage supper of the Lamb." Who can doubt that he has joined 
 the company of that prophetic throng who shall shine " as the 
 stars forever and ever." 
 
 Ah, friends! In the light of our theme, how paltry and in- 
 significant are all those ambitions and strivings for worldly 
 fame and fortune, compared with the one divine purpose 
 which moved your beloved pastor through every obstacle 
 straight to the gate of Celestial City that opened to him on 
 your own Majple hill. 
 
 And how strongly it certifies the eternal outreach of those 
 spiritual possibilities within the grasp of every child of God. 
 
 Oh, people of the living God! When the time shall come, 
 that not only the ministry, but all of God's children shall be 
 actuated by the same burning zeal for souls, then shall the 
 Church shine forth "fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and 
 terrible as an army with banners." 
 
REV. EDWARD TAYLOR, D. D. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 BY KEY. EDWARD TAYLOR, D. D., OF BINGHAMTON, N. Y. 
 
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 With Divine beauty this century plant of God blossoms here 
 to-day. The senior of the two surviving ex-pastors of this 
 dear church, after many long years of absence, I have returned 
 to unite with you in loving commemoration of its existence for 
 one hundred years! With gratitude we note that this honored 
 mother has age without decrepitude, that time has scored its 
 tally upon her venerable form with a gentle hand, and that the 
 years have garlanded her with purity and grace. 
 
 Sacred as is this occasion to you all, it is peculiarly so to me 
 from the fact that in this very month of August, forty -nine 
 
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 years ago, I here began my ministerial career. Some ex- 
 periences are for the once only; the events may be repeated, 
 but there will be no repetition of the peculiar feelings attend- 
 ing the first. The first ride upon a locomotive brings thrills 
 and throbs incapable of renewal. Here were beginnings of 
 the important events in both my public and household life. 
 At the outset neither side anticipated a permanent relation, 
 but our hearts were gradually drawn together and in a few 
 weeks 1 received a call to the pastorate, the more surprising 
 that there had been in the parish a chronic division. At that 
 call I still wonder. The congregation was composed of sturdy 
 thinkers, of artesian characters, of people broad both in the 
 brain and in the breast. And I am perhaps not quite in such 
 an unfortunate condition as my brother in ebony, whose dea- 
 con, having been asked why his pastor left the church, replied, 
 " We sent him his resignation, because his head was bald in- 
 side." My head was not quite " bald inside," perhaps, yet I 
 was young, boyish, having the usual academic preparation, but 
 absolutely without experience, and not over-stocked with 
 gumption and piety. The parish took a great risk, but He 
 "Who builds the blind bird's nest," was all the more tender of 
 His flock. As for me, I accepted the trust and have ever been 
 glad. God looked out for us all, guiding my apprentice hand 
 to His glory and graciously inclining the congregation to turn 
 a patient and charitable side to my many defects. Their con- 
 siderate regard has followed me, in grateful memories, to this 
 day as a sweet psalm. 
 
 Because the meeting house was being internally transfigured, 
 our services were held in Emmons' hall, which was packed with 
 people every time. Knowing my inability to do smart things, 
 I followed the fixed purpose to do no long things, with the 
 natural result that, being dismissed before they had time to 
 get very weary, folks came again. My ordination and installa- 
 tion occurred February 3, 1847, having been deferred until the 
 completion of our temple renewal. The day was one of almost 
 
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 unparalleled rain and wind, jet the liouse was thronged. At 
 the dedication in the forenoon Dr. Todd preached ; at the or- 
 dination and installation in the afternoon the sermon was by 
 Rev. Ralph Smith of Lee. Father Hawley offered the prayer, 
 and, with his hands, were placed upon my head those of Mr. 
 Smith and Rev. Joseph Knight of Peru, my nearest neighbor 
 and my wise counselor and faithful friend. Others who par- 
 ticipated were Messrs. Clarke of Middlefield, Norwood of 
 Washington, Hall of Dalton and Entler of Windsor. Time's 
 inaudible file works ceaselessly, and all these are beyond the 
 scope of mortal vision. The meeting, houses were all on the 
 Flat, ours on its crown. Hinsdale had a church going popula- 
 tion and our sheds were generally insufficient for the convey- 
 ances ; the second preaching was at one o'clock, and averaged 
 a larger attendance than in the morning, and, at its close, the 
 crowd of home goers on foot and in wagons was by far the 
 most in spiring spectacle of the week. The galleries were well 
 filled. After an exchange with Brother Clark of Richmond, 
 he expressed much surprise at the number of young men and 
 boys in just their gallery. "Why, I actually counted seventy- 
 two!" And that was no more than ordinary. Merely from the 
 love of it, I at once began to visit all the schools, leaving mot- 
 toes, such as, "What you do, do well," "Vim," "Think," etc. 
 These visits brought me into intimate relations with the young 
 folks of the entire town and proved fruitful of spiritual as w r ell 
 as secular good. The town soon made me chairman of its 
 school committee, associating me with excellent men, of whom 
 I served longest with my much esteemed friends, Charles J. 
 Kittredge and Lysander M. Francis. 
 
 During this period the Academy was built by private sub- 
 scription. At its opening the golden mouthed Dr. Sprague of 
 Albany, gave the principal address. This was followed by 
 several short talks, in one of which Lieutenant Governor 
 Plunkett of Adams, expressed a hope that the institution would 
 train its students to be common, sense rather than learned. He 
 
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 defined common sense to be the "knack of doing things." That 
 thought proved germinal with me, as it has to multitudes to 
 whom I have conveyed it, and to the school. 
 
 The first marriage at which I ever officiated was that of Mr. 
 Cyril Spring to widow Anna Post; it was in Mr. Noadiah Em- 
 mons' tenant house on the Flat. When Mr. Spring came from 
 his farm just beyond the Washington town line, it w r as not with 
 the expectation of marriage that day, but his need of a house- 
 keeper was urgent and the marriage was consummated. Some 
 red tape preliminaries were lacking, but the knot held. The 
 first baptism w r as of Isabelle Augusta Emmons, then a child ; 
 and in connection I baptized children of Mr. and Mrs. John 
 Putnam and Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Parish. This was at prepar- 
 atory lecture; on the following Sabbath I first administered the 
 Lord's supper, at which Milo Wentworth and Mr. and Mrs. 
 Otis Jones were received into the church, all on confession. 
 Mr. Jones and his children were baptized. The first person 
 whose death I witnessed was Henry Hinsdale. Only three 
 weeks previously he called on me after his return from Cin- 
 cinnati, where fever had brought him to death's door, and to 
 my saying that I had never seen one die, he replied, " In such 
 a large parish as this, you will not long say that." I hear now 
 the rap on the window by Deacon William Hinsdale, which 
 summoned me in the night to Henry's bedside. Then and 
 there I first met death. At my coming the roll of the church 
 contained one hundred and twenty-five names. Some of its 
 members w r ere absent, the majority were on the evening slope 
 of life, and in the ranks was not one unmarried young man. 
 At the Lord's supper the assembly was numerous, but the 
 communicants were relatively and painfully few. There had 
 been no special religious interest for many years. In addition 
 to the ordinary means of grace, we had a mid-week school house 
 meeting, in routine. On a given da}', preceded by a day of 
 fasting and prayer, the brethren religiously visited all the. fam- 
 ilies, going uncouples. My part that day was to speak in the 
 
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 Academy and in the mills, whose wheels were stopped for the 
 hour and whose operatives were gathered for the solemn pur- 
 pose. During the autumn and winter I had been favored with 
 a home in the kind family of Henry Putnam, on the West hill. 
 In Marcli Dr. Abel Kittredge admitted me to the privileges of 
 his equally hospitable home. Here were called together every 
 Monday evening the young people, and the boundaries of my 
 spacious room were soon too limited for the lovely group. 
 Ignorance is the mother of audacity. I ventured to ask mar- 
 ried men who were not Christians to meet at my room to talk 
 together upon religion as they did upon secular topics elsewhere. 
 Our Saviour mercifully accepted the prayerful intent, and on 
 the first Friday evening seven such men were divinely drawn 
 to the place. At the close one of them followed me in prayer. 
 After that the number increased to twenty-five. As one result 
 seventeen family altars were erected. We also had weekly in- 
 quiry meetings, much frequented. I had, too, a "helping 
 hour," when those who desired to be Christians came singly 
 and were taught the how of it. The Holy Ghost has used me 
 for hand-picking rather than tree-shaking, and the hour has 
 proved valuable in all my ministry for bringing people to an 
 intelligent, saving decision. Thus, all by ourselves, there was 
 a healthy, general spiritual interest. 
 
 Upon the assurance of a medical expert that continued resi- 
 dence in this bracing climate would be fatal to my wife, my 
 pastorate here ended, November 3, 1850. Following a sermon, 
 whose tearful text syllabled our sorrow,- Jer. 4:19 — "lam 
 pained at my very heart," we parted at the Sacramental table. 
 For the first time, the church roll that day contained two 
 hundred and one names. This is to me an occasion of both 
 gladness and sadness; of sadness, because I am a stranger to 
 most who are here, because it is so lonely. To find what earth 
 holds of my own dear flock I must resort to " God's Acre " on 
 yonder holy hill. Of gladness, because, though its personali- 
 ties change, the beloved church continues "fair as the moon 
 
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 and clear as the sun," its faithful pastor abides, and Christ's 
 glorious kingdom is by both advanced. Why not another cen- 
 tury? Let us pour oil upon the pillar, vitalizing commemora- 
 tion with a consecration, not fractional but integral. With 
 bared brow and foot, let us be an "Here am I" to the "Great 
 I Am." Let the ".Rock of Ages" be bedded into our being 
 and the blood of the atonement beat in our arteries; let us be 
 nerved with Bible affirmatives; let the pedigree be of Christly 
 grace, which is better than any pedigree of imperial blood, and 
 the brow of this church will be diademed with immortality. 
 
REV. KINSLEY TWINING, D. D., L. H. D- 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 BY REV. KINSLEY TWINING, D. D., L. H. D., OF MORRISTOWN, N. J. 
 LITERARY EDITOR OF THE INDEPENDENT, NEW YORK. 
 
 My dear brethren and friends: 
 
 If I had addressed the audience which I see before me now 
 when I first stood in this pulpit, I should have had to address 
 them as brethren and fathers. I fear I cannot do that now. 
 That is no longer the relation between us, and yet as I look 
 back to the time when I first came here, it seems right before 
 me. It does not seem one year away — no, not one day. All 
 these long years have passed so swiftly. Those were the sweet 
 
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 summer days of life when I first came here, each one as long 
 as twenty days are now. 
 
 1 noticed that my brother who preceded me was ordained 
 here in August; so was I. He was ordained, I believe, on the 
 21st; I was ordained here on the 26th of August. It was his 
 first pastorate ; so it was mine. He says that yon had a great 
 deal to bear with in his work, that he made a great many mis- 
 takes; I suppose I did. At any rate if any one asks me 
 whether I did or not, I shall have to reply to him as, according 
 to the story, Daniel Webster replied to the medium w r ho was 
 consulting him as to whether he had made any mistakes in his 
 political career. " Well," said he, u I did not make any in my 
 fourth of March speech ; that was all right, but I did make a 
 few mistakes in my dictionary." Now I am afraid I shall 
 have to admit that although in the general run of the ministry, 
 I did my work with good intention and good heart, loving the 
 people and loving the Master, yet I am afraid that in my dic- 
 tionary I made a good many mistakes. 
 
 As I stand here now, I suppose that the great thing that 
 comes before me is the men and the women who were here 
 and founded this church, who worked in it and worked around 
 it. I have often said that I never knew a more impressive 
 congregation than that which was gathered here, row on row, 
 in those times; the church was full; the galleries were full; 
 there were young men and women and they were grandly de- 
 voted, I think, to the work that they had to do. I remember 
 the men now gone ; I remember the ministry of the county, 
 and it seems to me that I ought to refer to some of the names 
 that have not been mentioned to-day. For instance, there was 
 that noble, beautiful man of God, Dr. Humphrey, President 
 Humphrey of Pittsfield. I remember this of him as showing 
 the broad humanity of the man. Once during the years I was 
 here there occurred one of those brutal prize fights which have 
 since unhappily become common. It was the fight between 
 the American Ilenaii and the Englishman Savers. The public 
 
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 were excited and roused about it, especially the brutal exhibi- 
 tion of cruelty and insensibility that went with it. Yet there 
 was something in it that roused the national feeling of the 
 American people and they sided with their man. The last man 
 in this world that I should have picked out to have the slightest 
 sympathy with things of that nature was that gentle, lovely, 
 refined, beautiful spirit, Dr. Humphrey, but I recollect at the 
 meeting of the Association in Dalton, Dr. Humphrey said that 
 although he repudiated the whole thing and agreed with the 
 others that it was brutal, still he could not help being drawn 
 on by his feelings as a man and as an American to sympathize 
 with the American champion in this case. Such was the 
 strength of the human side of that man's character, beautiful 
 spirit that he was. 
 
 Then there stood Dr. Todd. Dr. Todd was a phenomenal 
 man. I don't suppose that the majority of the persons here to- 
 day ever knew him ; perhaps they never saw him. Dr. Todd 
 was a strong-featured man. He represented the old type of 
 force — strong, rugged, influential, and his influence penetrated 
 every one of these parishes and gave steadiness and strength to 
 them. He was an immensely entertaining man in the pulpit 
 and yet there was a certain seriousness about him in all that he 
 said. It was not only that he made people laugh or that he 
 knew how to act out what he had to say, but along with it all 
 he infused the elements of sense and of sobriety into what he 
 had to say, and he seized people with a strong grip. Old Dr. 
 Pond, the head of the Theological Seminary at Brunswick, 
 Maine, used to say, as I am reminded by seeing in the audience 
 a gentleman who told me the story, — Dr. Pond used to say to 
 his pupils: "Young men, cultivate prongs, so that when you 
 speak, what you have got to say won't slip off, but will grip 
 people, take hold of them, hold on to them." That is what Dr. 
 Todd did. He cultivated prongs and his influence went all 
 through the country everywhere. It was felt here, a mighty 
 cohesive, attracting influence, and was so way up on the moun- 
 
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 tain top at Windsor, Washington, everywhere. And yet Dr. 
 Todd was a great man for an emergency, and I am tempted at 
 this moment to tell a story of one of his performances in New 
 York. It was in the midst of a great temperance agitation in 
 the State of New York and a meeting had been called in the 
 old Tabernacle. A number of very leading men had been ad- 
 vertised to speak, but nn fortunately they were detained. Well, 
 the managers of the meeting did what they always do on such 
 an occasion, they brought forward their lesser lights. The 
 audience began to run away and it looked as if the whole thing 
 would fall through, when, right in the midst of that discour- 
 aging condition of things, some one came up to the President 
 and said, " There is John Todd down there in the meeting and 
 I'll venture if you will bring him up here, he will fill this house 
 up again, and make a success of the meeting." So Dr. Todd 
 came up to the platform. Pie buttoned up his coat and stood 
 there and bent out his arms akimbo, in a way very characteristic 
 with him, and thundered out in the midst of the confusion in 
 a voice that sounded and resounded through the hall : " Way 
 down in that beautiful valley — ." The people stopped a little 
 and looked around to see what had happened ; there w r as a pause 
 for a moment which Dr. Todd took advantage of, and then 
 added in the same tone, " Where I got my w T ife — ." The re- 
 treating crowd turned and began to push back a little, when 
 the Doctor took advantage of the next pause to raise his arm 
 and shout at the top of his voice "God bless her." That 
 brought the crowd back with a rush. In the first silence, the 
 Doctor went on: "And 1 don't mean any disrespect to any of 
 the refined and cultivated ladies of this audience when I say 
 that she was prettier than any of them." Well, that ended 
 the business. The hall was filled and the address was a great 
 success. Now that was Dr. John Todd. He possessed that 
 kind of power and along with it he possessed a great deal of 
 pathos, a great deal of imaginative power and a great deal of 
 personal power. 
 
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 And how shall 1 speak of the greatest of them all, the Presi- 
 dent of Williams College, Dr. Hopkins, whose influence went 
 right through the county, a sweet, deep, refreshing, fertilizing 
 stream, encouraging every young pastor, strengthening every 
 weak pastor, building up the church everywhere, a great and 
 mighty force for good ? 
 
 Yes, and there were lesser men, other men whose influence 
 was great and good in the county, who ought not to be for- 
 gotten. There was John Tatlock, Professor Tatlock, who 
 often preached here. There was that blessed man, that noble 
 teacher, Professor Lincoln ; and among them other pastors in 
 the county. They all were men who did a great and good 
 work here. If the churches have achieved nothing more, they 
 have clone enough for Berkshire in calling these men into the 
 county; in placing them here and sustaining them here, as ex- 
 amples of power and influence and fruitfnlness, to show the 
 world what a Christian training can do for a man. 
 
 I have had occasion many times in my life to observe the 
 influence of the theological training and teaching which men 
 have received, on their type of character. I was settled once 
 in Providence and had in my church a large company of men 
 who were trained under the preaching and tuition of Dr. Fin- 
 ney. Now the mark of Dr. Finney was strong on them, but it 
 was not half as strong as the mark of the theology that Dr. 
 Finney preached. And this was because in that theology he 
 gave them a sound philosophy of life. 
 
 Now, my friends, I want to say here that the best thing you 
 can do for a man is to give him a philosophy of life, to lay 
 dowm for him a method of life, to show him what the objects 
 of life are and what things are worth living for, and how to at- 
 tain them and how to reach them. That is what Mr. Ilawley 
 did for this parish. When I came here, the working men and 
 the working women here were pupils of Mr. Hawley. Now I 
 don't care one cent whether his theology makes a cold chill run 
 down your back or not, if that theology built up character, if 
 
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 it made men, men; if it made women, women; if it fitted them 
 to bear the burdens of life ; if it fitted them to confront the 
 great world and to win the victory which the apostle says is the 
 one great victory which man can win in the world, the victory 
 of faith — if it does this what does all this talk amount to? This 
 is what that good man did. That good man trained men. He 
 trained them to be honest when they were tempted to be dis- 
 honest; he trained them to tell the truth when the world was 
 whispering to them to cut it down a little; he trained them to 
 bear with patience the great burdens of life ; to front the world 
 and to meet death, and at last to die prepared for the great 
 demands and responsibilities of the world to come — in short, he 
 gave them a good philosophy of life and built on it the great- 
 est of all constructions, a solid character. 
 
 Now, dear friends, if another theology is coming that can do 
 that thing any better, then God be thanked fur it; but if we 
 only have a theology that sounds pleasant and sweet to men's 
 ears, then let us fight shy of it. Let us ask the question, what 
 is it going to do for us, for these young men and women i 
 What are these churches going to be? Are they going to be- 
 come nurseries of heroic piety or sentimental theatres where 
 people will be delighted and have the way of life gilded with 
 sentimentalities and fripperies and nothings? Let us go back 
 to the theology that will make men, men. 
 
 I want to say some things about this parish. Pardon me, 
 then, for putting it in a little more personal form. When I 
 came to this parish I was a y T oung man making my first essays, 
 taking my first steps, and it was just after the great revivals 
 of '57 and '58. Now those of you who have marked the re- 
 ligious history of the churches, know that with '57 and '58 and 
 their wave of religious emotion and revival, there came a cer- 
 tain change in the religious life of the whole community. The 
 churches from that time have been organized a little differently. 
 Organization in a measure, has taken the place of inner: disci- 
 pline. Now let us not say a word against organization. Let 
 
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 us oot find any fault with enterprise. Let us not criticise in 
 any way this active type of Christianity. Nevertheless we 
 want to recognize the fact that it has made a mighty difference 
 in our churches. At the time when I came to. this church, that 
 great wave of religious feeling, of revivalistic influence which 
 resulted in bringing in this new era into the church, was just 
 in a measure dying out in the centres. It was just coming 
 here and in a measure this community as yet, was unaffected 
 by it. The changes of commerce had, however, been so great, 
 that they had brought this large structure down from the top of 
 yon hill, in the midst of a great deal of opposition, and planted 
 it here. The town center had moved and that had been the 
 result of the changed conditions of life, of industry, and of 
 trade, and of population. They found a community here 
 which at that time w T as living on the old basis. The very first 
 evening after I came here, I walked along the street and went 
 by the post office and saw there in one of those rooms a man 
 who was selling a new kind of light. The lamp was nothing 
 more than this now perfectly familiar ordinary flat wick kero- 
 sene burner, but it was a thing I had never seen yet; at that 
 time we had had no kerosene. That wonderful contribution to 
 the comfort of our homes had not yet been made, and the first 
 one that I ever saw, I saw down there. It didn't occur to me 
 that it was going to make a great change in the world or in so- 
 ciety and in the life of families and in the work that we were 
 going to do here in this town, but it did make a tremendous 
 difference. That little lamp lengthened out the working day, 
 the social day in all these homes and houses, and it made a tre- 
 mendous difference in the w r ay our meetings w T ere conducted. 
 The meetings had been conducted before by the light of the 
 dip candle. I recollect the prayer meetings that we used to 
 hold around in different parts of the town. I don't quite like 
 to hear the Flat called Maple street; I do not quite like to 
 hear what we knew by one name now called by another. I 
 remember there was a little red school house, which I under- 
 
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 stand has disappeared from the face of the earth, where we 
 used to have prayer meetings. Mr. Francis, who is here, will 
 remember those meetings very, well, and other people will re- 
 member those meetings, and they will remember that the peo- 
 ple who came to them brought their own lights, — their dip 
 candles to make the lights. There was a great deal of spiritual 
 fervor and spiritual profit and delight in those meetings. Un- 
 der the old system we had a good deal of trouble in lighting 
 our rooms, but when these new lamps came in, the rooms were 
 lighted easily and the evening meetings took the place of the 
 afternoon meetings. 
 
 I could go on and talk in this way all the afternoon, but 
 there are others whom we want to hear and I must stop. I 
 want to express my great delight at being here ; my pleasure 
 that it has furnished material for thought, food that you ought 
 to live on, and that from this day you should gird up your 
 loins and go forward in the strength of the past. And I feel 
 that while you have had noble men and women here in the 
 past, you can raise the same here now. In the list of pastors 
 that you have had, one of the latest on the list was perhaps the 
 most saintly of any. I refer to Dr. Flint. Let us not forget 
 then that Christianity as we have it now may produce its 
 saintly characters and that God by His grace is producing them 
 now in our churches and homes as He did in the generations 
 to which we arc looking back to-day. 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 Home again ! And all the way I have dreamed of this glad 
 anniversary. What a joy to meet my dear young pastor — 
 always young to me — of almost fifty years agone. I have won- 
 dered if he would still remember me as one of his boys. My 
 other pastor, young, too, of my college years. Other dear pas- 
 tors have gone to a sunnier land. We shall meet them by and 
 by in a better trysting place. And I am glad to be here in 
 this church. Next to China, which holds my heart, I love this 
 church. Here I was born. Here I was given to the Lord in 
 baptism. Here I was born a second time, a little lad of ten. 
 Here I was received to the Christian family. In this church 
 hands of blessing were laid on my head, and I was sent forth, 
 a glad hearted missionary, to my life work. And now after a 
 third term of hard and happy service I come to meet you dear 
 friends once more. And I bring to you a greeting, as I was 
 bidden, from your Chinese brothers and sisters over the sea. 
 God bless you all. 
 
 What do I remember? I remember when a very little boy 
 being penned up in one of the old box pews, the top of which 
 was much higher than my head. Was it Parson Hawley that 
 sprinkled the baby's head with holy water? I do not remember 
 him. But I remember Mr. Banister. As I recall him he was 
 tall, good-looking, rather quiet and a gentleman. That is all 
 I remember. And then came my dear, dear pastor, the pastor 
 of my childhood. How I used to follow his face, such a sweet, 
 boyish, happy, loving face, that had in it a benediction for a 
 child. And he had such hearty and such winsome ways. Dear 
 Mr. Taylor, I remember his ordination. A boy of ten I sat in 
 
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 the church on the hill through it all. As for the words spoken 
 I only remember the allusion by one of the solemn ministers to 
 the spectacles, and the great satisfaction of the preacher that 
 the church had prepared a green curtain in the rear of the pul- 
 pit ! It would be " so restful to the eyes of your pastor." 
 
 The following winter came the great revival which swept 
 through the town, taking in old men and little children and 
 heads of families. Meetings everywhere, and a spiritual influ- 
 ence filled the air. What an impression it made on me, then 
 a little child, and how I have longed in these after years to be 
 engaged in just such work, a desire partially gratified, but 
 chiefly in China. 
 
 I remember a funeral of an old man, much loved by Mr. 
 Taylor, and how, as he entered the church walking up the 
 aisle in front of the coffin, the pastor in a loud, clear voice re- 
 peated, " I am the resurrection and the life ; he that believeth 
 in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." I remember, 
 oh ! how well the pastor's words of triumph, and the pastor's 
 tears. Since the good Doctor left us, he chanced to come once 
 again, — was it a chance? — just in time to be present at my 
 grandfather's funeral, an old man of ninety-seven. The only 
 preacher then in town, a good Methodist brother, had been 
 asked to conduct the services. I think they had already com- 
 menced when Dr. Taylor appeared. When the other preacher 
 had finished his solemn remarks, Dr. Taylor arose, and in a 
 clear, ringing voice began, U J am glad to be here. I always 
 wanted to be at Father Washburn 's funeral" and went on in 
 a glad strain, turning our eyes upward and setting the service 
 to music. And ever since I have understood how death to the 
 Christian is the crowning of life, the portal through which he 
 enters into a new, and strong, and blessed, and everlasting life. 
 
 To the Rev. P. K. Clark, of blessed memory, many of as 
 owe a debt for illuminating the Catechism, which he did in a 
 -<rics of weekly meetings for the young people. Until th-en I 
 did not know that I could be a Calvinist. and had never dared 
 
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 to knock at the church door. For eight years, at each sacra- 
 mental season, I had looked down from the gallery with great 
 longing. 
 
 Since his time, I have received but little shepherding at 
 home, having been in college or seminary, or in the land where 
 our heads point toward the nadir now anearing forty years. 
 
 But I cannot forget Dr. Twining, the pastor of my college 
 days. What a joy it was to receive a welcome to his study on 
 my home-coming, and listen to his conversations as he allowed 
 his mind to roam for me anywhither. How frank and true 
 and fearless and kindly sympathetic he was, a valued friend in 
 those days. 
 
 How greatly blessed has this church been in its pastors down 
 to our beloved pastor, who now shepherds the flock with such 
 loving faithfulness and winning power. 
 
 One other revival I well remember, — was it in '52, '53? — 
 when many young people especially turned their feet toward 
 the better country. There were three of us all in a single 
 room, and one night it was suggested that we all lead in prayer. 
 One of the prayers began thus: "O, Lord, we are all sinners." 
 After a long pause he said, " I am done." But that night, in 
 the small hours, he fought out the battle, and ever since my 
 heart has carried a thanksgiving psalm for my brother's victory. 
 
 Some of the members of this church made a lasting impres- 
 sion on me. First among them was Deacon Nash. To me he 
 seemed to have a solemn face, solemn manner and solemn 
 speech, and it made me afraid to be a Christian. I was not 
 prepared for a gloomy life. But fortunately I heard him in a 
 lighter mood, and learned that he was a very happy man. I 
 knew that, like Barnabas, he was a good man. 
 
 Then there was Deacon Pitt. Somewhere in the seventies 
 he gave up the use of tobacco. I saw T even then that it cost a 
 struggle and revealed character. 
 
 And there was our grandfather who was an octogenarian 
 when the grace of God wrought effectually in him. What a 
 
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 miracle of grace to take a moral man of eighty, and reveal to 
 him his sin and need of salvation. But I only knew how good 
 he was, how he loved his Bible and loved to pray. Day by 
 day, far into the nineties, lie toiled up the steep staircase, and 
 poured out his heart in prayer. And sometimes I stood below 
 and listened. 
 
 Among those nearer to our time it would be difficult not to 
 mention Mr. Lyman Payne, a man of clear head, firm convic- 
 tions, sterling character, and warm heart. These were some of 
 the men who left their mark on me. How many good men 
 and saintly women from this church look down upon us to-day 
 from their home above the stars. 
 
 But many remain to bear the burdens, men and women as 
 good and true as any that have gone before, and I greet you 
 to-day. For all your faith and love, and work for the dear 
 Master, I give you joy. 
 
 I am thankful to have been born among these hills. I am 
 thankful for a godly ancestry. I am thankful for all the friend- 
 ships here of past and present years. I am thankful for the 
 help and, training of this church. I am thankful for all the 
 missionary history of this church, your work, your gifts and 
 your prayers. I am thankful that for three decades you have 
 followed your missionary with love and prayers and benedic- 
 tions. I am thankful that you still believe in the regeneration 
 of China, poor China, dear China. 
 
 We look back to-day, but so also we look forward. The 
 aeon of this church is not filled out in a century, but only well 
 begun. We must gird ourselves anew for work, joyful that 
 ours is the unspeakable privilege to be witnesses for Him whom 
 having not seen we love. In a little while, "such a little 
 while" the Greek hath it, (Heb. 10:37), and one by one wo 
 shall hear the Master's "Well done," and our faces will shine 
 with a supernal light as we enter that celestial country where 
 our hearts have been so long. 
 
A Woman's Recollections, 
 
 BY MRS. ELIZABETH HINSDALE HALL, OF WARE, MASS. 
 
 "When I was a boy," writes Lowell, "all JSTew England was 
 a pulpit." The meeting house was so much the community 
 centre that no better picture of the village life can be found 
 than the Sunday gathering at the church. Certainly no more 
 devout worshippers ever assembled than those who gathered at 
 the Congregational church in Hinsdale fifty years ago. 
 
 The church then stood on the hill opposite the Major Em- 
 mons homestead and in its simple, dignified architecture our 
 fathers may have expressed their own religion, a religion which 
 like the church on the hill top was something above their every- 
 day life. 
 
 Long before the solemn Sabbath bell had stopped tolling the 
 steady family horses had brought their loads, decorous New 
 England farmers with their wives, and the solemn-eyed chil- 
 dren. Occasionally comes a deacon on horseback with his wife 
 behind him. The stepping stone or horse block is an imposing 
 affair, over six feet long and four wide, with steps descending 
 to the ground. 
 
 In winter the elder members of the family carry up the 
 church aisle little footstoves, filled with coals which diffuse a 
 mild and short-lived heat through the square pew in which the 
 family is grouped. 
 
 In the pulpit sits the pastor, Mr. Hawley, tall and dark, who 
 reads in his well-remembered deep tones the scripture lesson to 
 the end. 
 
 Then the keen ears of the children catch the sharp little ring 
 of the tuning fork in the choir, the humming of the note by 
 the different parts, treble, second, tenor and bass; then the con- 
 
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 gregation rise noisily, let down the seats in their square, un- 
 painted pews, and turn to face the choir while they sing the 
 solemn hymn or nimble fuguing tune. 
 
 The congregation still stands through, the long prayer, quite 
 the length of a sermon of to-day. How familiar the petition 
 " May the time speedily come when the swords shall be beaten 
 into plowshares and the spears into pruning-hooks." And this, 
 " Bring us together, O Lord, in the after part of the day, better 
 fitted and prepared for divine service than ever yet we have 
 been." 
 
 Occasionally Mr. Hawley exchanged pulpits with some one 
 of his neighbors, Parson Jennings of Dalton, Dr. Humphrey 
 or Dr. Todd of Pittstield, Mr. Hyde of Lee > Mr - Bisbee of 
 Worthington or Mr. Knight of Peru. 
 
 When there is an approaching marriage the clerk of the par- 
 ish publishes the bans from the gallery as follows: "Oh .yes, 
 oh yes, Marriage intended," and then follow the names of the 
 young man and maiden. And this notice must be repeated for 
 three successive public gatherings. 
 
 The sermon occupies an hour or more and is listened to most 
 attentively. 
 
 Perhaps it may be interesting to look about this quiet, re- 
 spectful audience and study the Hinsdale parishioners of fifty 
 years ago. 
 
 The men are clad in coats of homespun, which, like their 
 wives' gowns and the children's garments, were spun and woven 
 in the family homestead, carefully cut and made by Miss Sally 
 Pierce, to whom belongs much credit for the thrifty neatness 
 of the Peru and Hinsdale worshippers. 
 
 Before the last garment was ready for Sunday wearing, the 
 travelling shoemaker had equipped the family with stout boots 
 and shoes made from hide raised upon the farm and tanned by 
 Mr. Knight. 
 
 A travelling barber trimmed the locks of the men and boys 
 spring and fall, and in Peru one spring great excitement was 
 
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 aroused among the little boys on the side roads by the announce- 
 ment that the "turnpike boys" had adopted an entirely new 
 style of hair cutting. low the boys who lived at the crossing 
 of the highways or the turnpike, were of course leaders of fash- 
 ion among the side road boys, and no woman of to-day could 
 adopt a Parisian fashion more quickly than the little boys seized 
 upon their mothers' stone china bowls, and thereafter they ap- 
 peared in a stubby thatch gauged entirely by the limitations of 
 a quart bowl. 
 
 At the heads of the pews sit such men as E. H. Goodrich, 
 Lemuel Parsons, Charles Plumkett, Simon Huntington, Joseph 
 White, William W. Adams, Dr. Kittredge, Kobert Milliken, 
 Oliver Colt, Levi and William Hinsdale,. and many other noble 
 men. 
 
 To-day science, art and travel have come to us, and have 
 said "I give you much, in return give me of your individ- 
 uality, 1 ' but fifty years ago these sturdy, upright New England 
 men heard little of the thought and achievements of the out- 
 side world. They thought and acted for themselves, and so 
 formed character as clearly outlined as their own Greylock 
 against the sky. 
 
 Perhaps no man enters more closely into the life of the com- 
 munity than the village doctor, the slightly built, energetic 
 man, Dr. Kittredge, commonly and affectionately known as 
 "Dr. Frank." He fought disease alone, for only the kind- 
 hearted neighbor stood in the place of the white capped nurse 
 of to-day, and in the absence of clocks the clear stars at night 
 sometimes served as time keepers. 
 
 It was more difficult to locate in the Hinsdale church the 
 village schoolmaster, for the young man who was preparing 
 for a professional career "boarded around," and so sat with the 
 family in which the Sabbath found him. 
 
 One teacher whose influence has reached the lives of many. 
 Miss Elvira Payne, kept at the house of Mr. William Lyman a 
 private school, which a few fortunate children attended. 
 
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 White the collection is being taken a tall man wearing a long 
 brown coat, with a saddle girth as a belt, slowly arises, unfas- 
 tens the belt and from his hip pocket draws out a few pennies 
 which he offers as his contribution. This is one of Hinsdale's 
 best known characters, William Burnham, whose quaint, origi- 
 nal sayings are still quoted. No one took a deeper interest in 
 the Hinsdale church and the spiritual welfare Of each member 
 than did William Burnham. 
 
 It was his habit to chalk upon the dark red door of his own 
 room the names of those whom he wished to remember in his 
 prayers morning and evening. From time to time his neigh- 
 bors sent him much needed gifts of supplies. His return was 
 characteristic and perhaps more touching than any other could 
 have been; a carefully worded blessing written in a quaint 
 hand upon a slip of paper, and personally presented as a token 
 of his gratitude. Perhaps nothing in connection with William 
 Burnham was more pathetic than his will. 
 
 The neighbors who shared the expenses of his burial found 
 that he had afforded himself the satisfaction of a last will and 
 testament, in which he named one of the deacons as executor 
 of his imaginary estate, left several legacies and finally made 
 the Missionary society his legatee, with a heartfelt prayer for 
 the continuance of its work. 
 
 But the sermon is ended, the benediction is pronounced and 
 after a few moments the classes quickly arrange themselves for 
 Sunday school. After the Sunday school session those living 
 near hurry home to dinner that they may be ready for the next 
 service at half past one, while those who live at a distance 
 eat their basket lunches, and in winter refill their footstoves 
 at Mr. Emmons' or Mr. Post's, on the opposite corner. Then 
 ' it was that the men discussed town affairs, the new railroad 
 which was to run from Boston to Albany, and the foolhardy 
 schemes of the men who imagined they could cut through 
 Washington mountain ; the wives exchanged notes on their 
 carding and spinning, the number of Thanksgiving pies and 
 
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 cakes ; whether these new fangled matches were as good as the 
 old-fashioned flint lock and tow. 
 
 One good wife who is planning the extravagance of a letter 
 to an absent neighbor bustles about collecting news and mes- 
 sages that this important letter may carry its twenty-five cents 
 worth of information. 
 
 The children cluster together and in a subdued state of ex- 
 citement tell their own bits of news: how Dr. Frank had been 
 at their house to set an arm, and how this cold morning the 
 family had awakened to find that the fire in the great fireplace 
 had died out, and a trip of two miles must be made across the 
 snow-covered meadows to the nearest neighbors for the coals 
 with which to start the family fire. 
 
 The young men and maidens make their plans for the singing 
 school in the evening and for the sugaring off party during the 
 week, for in those days the hostess sent each young lady's invi- 
 tation to the young man supposed to be most interested in her 
 presence at the entertainment, and so whether the supposition 
 was true or false he delivered the invitation and secured a 
 partner. 
 
 With such entertaining topics the time passes rapidly, and 
 the congregation assembles for the second service at half past 
 one. With an interval for rest this is followed by a third ser- 
 vice at early candle light, after which comes that which is par- 
 ticularly devoted to the young people — the singing school. 
 The singers are arranged about the room according to their 
 parts, and with the help of a leader, a bass viol and a flute, 
 played acceptably so many years by Frank Knight, they sing 
 with much zest the hymns, fugues and psalms. 
 
 It is fitting that we should close this Hinsdale Sabbath of 
 fifty years ago with a song of praise, for these young people 
 who sing are the men and women of a later day, who have 
 shown to the world by their lives, the strength and influence 
 of the Hinsdale church. 
 
REMINISCENCES. 
 
 BY MRS. LAURA EMMONS FRISSELL, (iN HER EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR), 
 OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS., AND READ BY HER. 
 
 At the request of the honorable committee to contribute 
 reminiscences of the early school days, will comply. 
 
 At the age of five years was one of the scholars assembled 
 in the small brown school house located at the end of the west 
 corner of the common, where the church formerly stood, oppo- 
 site Mr. Jackson's dwelling. It was minus any modern im- 
 provements; seats for the little ones were made of split logs 
 supported by two sticks at each end to keep them in their posi- 
 tion. The next year we occupied the present school house on 
 Maple street. The seats in that house were arranged amphi- 
 theatre-like. Pleased were the children when they arrived at 
 the age to go up higher. Our book to get knowledge from 
 was Webster's spelling book. It contained the first rudiments 
 of learning from A, B, C, to punctuation. Scholars must learn 
 the multiplication table thoroughly before they could cipher. 
 With slate and pencil in hand, they took the first lesson in 
 addition. The teachers were clothed with authority to make 
 rules and have them obeyed. Not so much moral suasion as 
 legal suasion was used, as the rod and ferule were often used. 
 Every other Saturday, Rev. Mr. Knight spent Saturday after- 
 noon in teaching the catechism. Silence reigned in the room 
 while he remained explaining to us the great truths. The exer- 
 cises were closed by his long prayer. The scholars arose, made 
 their obeisance and he made his exit to our great relief. He 
 had a habit of carrying his horsewhip everywhere he went. 
 
 The Sabbath school was organized not far from 1819. The 
 sessions were Saturday afternoon. Mr. Hawley, the pastor, 
 said for every ten verses we learned we should receive a penny. 
 
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 I earned twelve cents. How to spend it was the question. 
 The pastor settled it by telling the wants of the foreign mis- 
 sions. Two young lads, David and Henry Hinsdale, one had 
 earned thirteen cents, the other fourteen ; one gave one penny, 
 the other two, saving the silver piece to dispose of themselves. 
 No Sabbath school libraries to read from ; other reading small. 
 The family Bible, the life of some noted person, the Planopist, 
 a small Dictionary, Robert Thomas' Almanac, constituted the 
 family library. Children as well as the parents attended church. 
 Many families possessed the luxury of a footstove. As my 
 home then was near the church, mother would say Sabbath 
 morning to my father, "Be sure to build up the fire with hard 
 wood so as to have coals to replenish the footstoves." The 
 general result was a huge pile of ashes deposited in the corner 
 of the fireplace in exchange for coals. The minister sometimes 
 would make mistakes in quoting Scripture as Rev. Mr. Ballan- 
 tine did in exchange with our pastor. He told of faithful 
 Abraham, Jacob selling his birthright, the wisdom of Solomon, 
 but Moses built the ark. Parson Hinsdale from his pew spoke 
 up loud and said " Noah." 
 
 I think ministers will bear much watching. Mr. Hawley 
 was a good teacher, as is known. Rev. Mr. Bisbee, Rev. John 
 Russ, who was a home missionary in Ohio, John Richards, a 
 native of this place, a lawyer in Milwaukee, John Frissell of 
 Peru, a noted surgeon and physician, all studied here at one 
 time, others afterwards. 
 
 Another incident I remember, when Mr. William Burnham 
 was married. Mr. Hawley charged him to remember his cov- 
 enant and to read the Bible daily and keep the commandments, 
 to which Burnham replied in a loud voice: "All these things 
 have I kept from my youth up." 
 
REMARKS. 
 
 BY JUDGE JAMES M. BARKER, OF PITTSFIELD, MASS. 
 
 My -friends, when the committee asked me to come here I 
 was glad, because I knew it would wake again the recollections 
 of early days, and those recollections it is pleasant to revive. 
 When they asked me also, having had my acceptance first, if I 
 would speak to them of those recollections, I knew not whether 
 I ought, because they are the recollections of one who was then 
 a very little boy? 
 
 In the early autumn of 1849, I came to Hinsdale. It was 
 not then the Hinsdale of to-day. The river road to Dalton was 
 not built. We came by what now seems a little by-way, under 
 the railroad, winding around through a quiet dale. We did 
 not even, in going to the place where I was to dwell, come 
 through this street or this village at all; and there was no more 
 quiet or happy valley than the little one in which dwelt the old 
 gentleman and his wife with whom I was to live. Next above 
 him Mr. Archie Barrett, then over to the right, in the field, 
 Mr. Amos Barrett. Farther up the hill, "Cady Hill," Mr. 
 Noah Barrett. And so in the afternoon, with my father and 
 my mother, we drove up to a little brown house, a one story 
 house, with a wide flat stone jutting out into the street before 
 its open door: a little window on either side; at the east end, 
 the great chimney with its fireplace, and its old-fashioned oven ; 
 a door in the corner of the room and a winding staircase around 
 the chimney up to the attic, where, with its west window, and 
 its low, sloping roof of rough, unpainted beams and boards, 
 and the bare floor, was my room. In the main room below 
 there was besides the fireplace in the east end, a bed in the 
 northwest corner, curtained from the room ; in the center the 
 table at which we ate; between the door and the window the 
 
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 clock which told the time ; under the clock, a small square 
 stand on which rested the family Bible ; a little lean-to in the 
 rear and partitioned from that a little bedroom; and in the 
 west end of the house, the pantry with its trap door to the cel- 
 lar. Now the old brown house is gone; all that I see there is 
 the acre of land with the little brook running through it; the 
 tall trees are gone ; the white rose that blosso'med in the spring 
 time is gone ; the little bit of asparagus plant, with its delicate 
 sprays and red berries, strange plant to me, which grew by the 
 well, is gone. The memories are here. They are very precious 
 for they include, those memories of a year, something which 
 was new and peculiarly pleasant to me, in my life, when for 
 the first time, I was away from home. 
 
 That first year I studied in the white building with the 
 Grecian columns, under the tuition of the gentleman who has 
 been so generously and so well spoken of, Professor Lincoln. 
 When my father brought me to him, and he said, "What is 
 the boy to do?" and the reply was that I was to go to college, 
 I remember that he said, "Well, what does he know?" Of 
 course, he knew nothing, or next to nothing ; and so this Pro- 
 fessor said in a tongue which was strange to me, "Well, then, 
 we will let him grub on Latin." Latin — I didn't know what 
 it was, and "grub" was a word I had never heard; but I found 
 what it was to " grub on Latin," for with a set of men, some 
 of whom were your boys, Dr. Taylor, and who were then be- 
 ginning to fit for their college course, I was set to learn the 
 Latin Grammar by heart. I went to-day into the boys' study- 
 room, and there was the place where my desk stood, and there 
 was my friend, Mack Payne, and he certainly was occupying 
 that room just as thoroughly as Professor Lincoln used to 
 occupy it. I could not forget the very place where, when 
 school had been going perhaps a week, I sat and heard read the 
 list of boys who were to declaim in the hall on the next decla- 
 mation day ; and I heard in that list the word Barker, but I 
 supposed there were plenty of Barkers in the school. The an- 
 
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 nouncement was made that those who were to speak on the next 
 declamation day would stop and rehearse at a certain time. Not 
 wishing to understand that I was one of them, I took my way 
 carelessly, no, I won't say carelessly, but I took my way through 
 the woods and watched the sunshine go through the leaves and 
 happily got home. The next morning, after school opened, 
 Professor Lincoln called me to his desk and said, "Did you not 
 hear me read off the names of those who were to declaim?" 
 "Yes, sir." "Why did you not stay to rehearse?" "I did 
 not know that you called my name." Then he said, " You are 
 pretty young. You will come on the next declamation day and 
 you will see how it is done, and then you must speak the week 
 after." And I remember that I declaimed regularly after that. 
 Oh ! there were many things which I learned there for the 
 first time. I remember standing on those steps, near one of the 
 Grecian columns, on the first morning of school, when a tall 
 and handsome boy, now gone, was talking with some pretty 
 girls, who are gone, too; and I, in the innocence of my heart, 
 thought I would mix in that conversation, and accordingly 
 made some remark to them, whereupon the tall and handsome 
 boy turned his wondering eyes upon me and said, "Who are 
 
 vou 
 
 0" 
 
 Then I remember, also, how I learned the lesson that pun- 
 ishment quickly follows sin. That was one Fast day. I was 
 up at Mr. Emmons'. I think we did everything that we ought 
 to do on Fast day ; but we did more, we had a jumping match, 
 and the result was a sprained ankle for myself. 
 
 There were many, many things that I remember. This 
 church I know stood on the Flat. And I like to call it the 
 " Flat." The Methodist church stood on the Flat, too, but I 
 attended this church habitually, although my grandmother 
 with whom I lived was a Methodist, and so sometimes I went 
 to that church. And I know that I learned in the course 
 of that year that when the communion service was held in this 
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 church, all might partake. I remember one who is now a pas- 
 tor and what he did for me. I was walking one day from the 
 little valley through the woods to the Academy, when I met 
 this man, then a fellow student in the Academy. I remember 
 the scene when he got me in a clearing, a solemn place that 
 always is for me, and he said to me, "Madison, how about your 
 soul? " Well, that brought the question home ; and so once in 
 the little Methodist conference room on the Flat, one winter 
 night, when the room was full and the box stove glowed red, the 
 same question was brought home to me again. There was in 
 Hinsdale a strong and earnest religious feeling, and it was a 
 feeling which has borne its fruit. 1 thank you for having al- 
 lowed me to give in this broken way some of my recollections, 
 and will detain you no longer. 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 BY REV. DANIEL MERRIMAN, D. D., OF WORCESTER, MASS 
 
 As I was partaking of the very bountiful lunch which has 
 been so exquisitely prepared and served, I was reminded of a 
 scene which is attributed to the prophet Daniel, whose name I 
 happen to bear. Do you know what remark he is said to have 
 made when he was brought face to face with the lions in the 
 lions' den? He said, as he surveyed the hungry, snarling faces 
 before him, "Well, there is one comfort to be had out of this. 
 There will be no after dinner speaking so far as I am con- 
 cerned." Your pastor marred my pleasure in the lunch a little 
 by telling me that this would not be the case with me. 
 
 However, it is very sweet and honorable to be here and to 
 take part in this commemoration. I deem it a special privilege 
 that I can have the opportunity of returning and paying my af- 
 fection and loyal devotion on the altars and at the graves of my 
 forbears. My grandfathers on both sides, so far as their mortal 
 remains are concerned, lie buried in this cemetery. My parents, 
 and my four older brothers were born here. My parents were 
 members of this church. I am not myself, as you know, a 
 Hinsdale boy, but I came here when I was a lad with my 
 father. I came here frequently when my older brothers were 
 in college, and spent some of my vacations here when in col- 
 lege myself. I came here with my father before we went to 
 the West to assist him in placing the stone at the grave of in v 
 paternal grandfather whose name I have the honor to bear. 
 So that I feel that I belong to Hinsdale. 
 
 It is a thrilling thing to hear the story, as we have heard it 
 so admirably told this morning, of the high, strenuous, intel- 
 lectual and moral life of those men and women of a hundred - 
 
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 years ago, who lived and wrought here. Between all the lines 
 of the dry record there is a pathos arid a poetry to which none 
 but a vivid and strong historical imagination can give suitable 
 expression. I think, however, that the people of Hinsdale have 
 reason to be as proud of this day and of the commemoration 
 which they have been able to give to those who have gone 
 before, as they are proud of the days and deeds of 1795. They 
 have as much reason to be proud of the men and women who 
 still keep alive the fire on the old altar, as they have of those 
 who first started the flame ; and I know not which to be most 
 grateful for, those who laid the first foundation here, or those 
 who have come after them in all these long years and who still 
 maintain the ancient faith. 
 
 I have been told by your accomplished and indefatigable 
 clerk, whom I may call my friend, that one of my grand- 
 fathers, who was a Revolutionary soldier, was among the 
 "kickers" against the assessment which was laid on the people 
 of the town for the building of this church. "But he had to 
 pay just the same." I confess that I rather rejoice that he w r as 
 a kicker, because the capacity to kick against a fancied in- 
 justice is one of the attributes of a Christian manhood. Crom- 
 well was a kicker. You might go back of him and say Paul 
 was a kicker; Luther was a kicker; the Puritans all were 
 kickers. I don't mean to say that this man was right, but I 
 cannot help feeling glad for him and for others who had their 
 own opinions, yet -submitted to the law. I believe that the 
 strength which the men of Hinsdale and of this church have, 
 in a great variety of occupations and stations, exhibited, not 
 only here, but the round world over, has been due very largely 
 to their independence, yet respect for law. 
 
 It is a glorious thing that with all the changes that are go- 
 ing on, this ancient church has not changed except for the 
 better ; that in all the sweep of these hundred years, it has held 
 up and still holds up the- ancient truth, the ancient doctrine, 
 modifying it only so far as has been necessary to keep it in 
 
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 sympathetic touch with the movement of the generations. I 
 doubt if there can be found in any town of the size a more 
 admirable representation of the growing power of the Puritan 
 faith, the Puritan thought, the Puritan intelligence than is ex- 
 hibited here to-day. 
 
 It has been a most thrilling and a most delightful sight 
 which we have seen to-day, and it has been a most gracious 
 thing to be here; and I for one, though not Hinsdale born, am 
 glad to bring my tribute of thankfulness and admiration to 
 those who so many years ago laid these foundations, and to 
 those also who have kept them strong and have built upon 
 them down to this day. 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 ADDRESS BY KEY. EUFUS APTHOKP, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO. 
 
 I was glad to come here to-day, and although I had promised 
 the pastor of a church of which I am a member that I would 
 take care of things during his vacation, yet when the invitation 
 came from this church to spend to-day at this centennial, I 
 wrote him telling him about it and he said, "Go, all right, go." 
 So I came. As soon as I received this invitation to come my 
 mind went right back to my boyhood — of course, to my joining 
 the church and to my life in connection with the church here, 
 particularly during the years that I was in the Academy, the 
 four years that I studied there, or the year before that perhaps, 
 one year or two years after I gave my heart to Christ. I 
 thought, if they ask me to say anything down there, I will just 
 talk about the grand men that lived in Hinsdale in those years. 
 My mind goes back sixty years since I began to go to Sunday 
 school in this house when I was six years old. And I have 
 been thinking of these grand men and noble women. We 
 have hardly said enough about the women to-day. Last week 
 a lady from Illinois was at my house for a day or two, and I 
 wanted to show her all that I could about Cleveland, and so we 
 went out Euclid avenue by the electric cars to Garfield's mon- 
 ument, and we went up and looked at that, and she said, "I 
 am glad I came to Cleveland if I don't see anything more than 
 this monument." 
 
 As we came through Pennsylvania on our way here, they 
 were holding a political meeting at Harrisburg, and there was 
 intense excitement on the part of the men that came into the 
 cars. They talked earnestly of patriotism and the duty of cit- 
 izens to their countrv. 
 
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 Then coming by way of New York, they pointed out, as we 
 came up the Hudson yesterday, Grant's tomb; arid as we came 
 past Newburgh, the large house where Washington had his 
 headquarters was shown us; and then I thought of Garfield 
 and of Grant, of Washington and of Lincoln. I thought of 
 these men as finishing the life which God gave them, as doing 
 the work which God gave them to do, and then my mind came 
 right over here to old Hinsdale and I said, " Hinsdale forty 
 years ago was just full of such men and such women, men and 
 women having the spirit of these leaders, the intention^ the 
 desire, the purpose to do just what God wanted them to do." I 
 believe that, and so I am just glad to come and look into your 
 faces and to take your hands and to tell you this afternoon that 
 I believe that, and that it has been a great help to me through 
 my life. I rejoice that honorable mention is made here to-day 
 of Mr. Hawley's work. I recall some of his prayers and other 
 things which that good man did. I used to take off ray hat in 
 the street to him. We school boys were taught to do that. I 
 remember I used to run away when he came over to our house. 
 I didn't know about going where the minister was. I didn't 
 love Christ then and I didn't want to see his servant. At a 
 later day we had some good meetings up in Emmons' hall. I 
 remember one night after I had become interested, I said, 
 "Now I am going to that meeting and I am going to give my 
 heart to Christ." And that night I couldn't find the cows in 
 time to go to the meeting. The next night when the next 
 meeting would be, I said, "I will try to go," and the next time 
 I did find the cows and I did go, and I remember that when 
 this good brother Taylor called upon us to stand op, those who 
 wanted to be Christians, I felt as though I could answer that I 
 wanted to be, and when he came round and asked me, " Rufus, 
 will you serve the Lord as long as you live?" I said, " Yes, I 
 will." And he said, "Give us your hand on that," and so I 
 did. And I have never forgotten that. I cannot forget it. 
 There was a promise and I was pledged. I was committed, 
 and it was a great help to me in those days to be committed. 
 
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 Then after one or two years I came down to this Academy. 
 You have spoken of Professor Lincoln here to-day ; I am glad. 
 I think his influence here did more for me than the influence 
 of any other man except Mr. Taylor. There were not many 
 Christians in the school when I first came. I remember one 
 winter we were going to have a day of prayer for colleges. 
 Professor Lincoln said to me, u The day of prayer for colleges 
 comes soon and so we must be ready for it. Only three or 
 four professing Christians in the school ; we must be ready for 
 that day." We tried to be ready for it. We began to hold 
 meetings and when the day came, it was planned that we 
 should have a meeting in the church at the usual hour, at eleven 
 o'clock, and a meeting for the school was called in the Academy 
 for nine o'clock. We went up to the Academy at nine as 
 usual, and some of the young men had become interested. I 
 recall the first boy who spoke in the meeting that morning. 
 He had been one of my Sunday school boys, Chauncey Good- 
 rich, and he said, "I have decided to serve the Lord Jesus 
 Christ." And then his brother said, " Chauncey was not go- 
 ing alone," and he came; and then another over there, and 
 another over there, so that when we went up an hour and a 
 half afterwards to meet with the older people of this church 
 and township, we were not surprised to see this house almost 
 crowded that day ; in one sense we were prepared for it. I re- 
 call with great interest those meetings, and those who came 
 into the church, and our efforts there. One thing strikes me 
 which I recall just now. We prayed for some who had gone 
 out to Williams before, — Rockwell, Lincoln, and Adams. 
 And, do you know that in a few days, Lincoln came down here 
 to see his brother, and he fell on his neckband they kissed each 
 other, and we found that he had given his heart to Christ, and 
 he said that Rockwell and Adams were going with him. I 
 learned the next year that there was no general feeling in col- 
 lege at that time, but the influence here in Hinsdale seemed to 
 single them out. So to-day I am reminded of some of those 
 things and I am grateful for the opportunity to speak of them. 
 
REMARKS. 
 
 BY REV. DR. JUDSON SMITH, OF BOSTON, MASS., 
 SECRETARY OF THE A. B. C. F. M. 
 
 Each household knows its own joy, and a stranger intermed- 
 dletli not therewith. That joy belongs this day to you, the 
 honored pastor of this church, to all the present members of 
 the church, and to those gathered here from other parts who 
 have at some time had connection with the church. But we 
 who are here by your courtesy understand your rejoicings; we 
 too are men, we have had godly homes and a godly ancestry 
 like these of which you speak ; we also are connected with 
 churches that have a history; and w T e bring you our congratu- 
 lations, hearty and sincere, on this memorable anniversary. 
 
 This has been a marked day to us all. I think those of you 
 who have known the history of the church these many years 
 past must have heard the review of the century with a sense of 
 surprise that so much life has been centered here, that so much 
 of power and high endowment from other quarters have been 
 brought here to the service of this church, that influences so 
 wholesome and so far-reaching have from generation to gener- 
 ation gone out from this center. In reality, it is a brief review 
 of the history of our land for a hundred years that we have 
 been considering to-day ; for Hinsdale is part of a far wider 
 community. The towns about have shared in a degree your 
 life, and you have communicated of your life to them. The 
 influences of the nation at large have been felt here, and you 
 in your turn have given forth influences that have been shap- 
 ing the nation. Institutions of learning have fed, refreshed 
 and inspired you here ; you have contributed also to the 
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 thus we have learned afresh what we sometimes forget, that in 
 a real sense every individual is the center of history; all the 
 past flows in upon him ; all the future is in some way affected 
 by him. The heavens arch above us in the perfect hemisphere 
 wherever we are, and to-day we stand here in Hinsdale vitally 
 connected with this century of wonderful history, so rich in 
 fruit and richer still in promise. 
 
 Here is my friend, Dr. Goodrich, one of your sons, an 
 honored missionary of the American Board in China. Through 
 him, this third of a century, you have been vitally connected 
 with a problem of the greatest significance on the other side 
 of the globe, — the evangelization of the most populous and in- 
 fluential nation in the Oriental world. He is there at the head 
 ©f the Gordon Theological Seminary, charged with the duty of 
 training young men for preachers and teachers and influential 
 leaders in the Christian communities connected with his own 
 mission and other missions. One of the most prominent in- 
 fluences that are to-day operating upon China to turn her away 
 from her steadfast gaze upon the past, and to lift up her eyes, 
 to the bright future and to the Son of God that is to light that 
 future for her and for the world, in this school where Dr. 
 Goodrich has his home and his labors. And through him your 
 hand is upon that glorious work. 
 
 Another of your sons that has been spoken of to-day, Dr. 
 Haskell, is in Bulgaria, engaged in Christian labors that lie very 
 close to the center of the evangelization of that most interesting 
 people; and your hand, through him, is upon that problem. 
 Thus in many lines your influence is reaching far and wide, 
 and reinforcing all the nobler movements of the times. 
 
 The recital of the names of your pastors and the churches 
 they have served, including my honored brother, the last in the 
 succession, enables us to see in a fresh light how homogeneous 
 is the society to which we belong; how impossible it is for a 
 man of power and of consecration to live out his life and do his 
 work and not leave an impress upon his times. Here on this 
 
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 platform we have listened to men in the midst of their powers 
 tracing out the beginnings of their life, speaking with bated 
 breath and swelling heart of the impulse here given, the new 
 light cast upon life and the world for them. 
 
 It is a great history which you contemplate and a great inher- 
 itance, brothers and sisters of to-day in Hinsdale, that has come 
 to you ; but it is a greater future toward which you move and 
 it is to that our eyes turn with hope and expectation. The 
 church as a whole is strong when its parts are strong; and the 
 sane, healing, uplifting influences that, from hill towns like this, 
 have gone out into the wider and more active scenes of the 
 church life, the civic life and the educational life of the country 
 and the world, are a real and inseparable part of the things we 
 love and upon which we build our hopes for the coming days. 
 Though at the time they may have seemed insignificant, their 
 outcome has been sure and great beyond all speech. Our own 
 Lowell speaks this truth well: 
 
 "O small beginnings, ye are great and strong, 
 Based on a faithful heart and weariless brain ; 
 
 Ye build the future fair, ye conquer wrong, 
 Ye earn the crown and wear it not in vain." 
 
 The Scriptures give it in nobler form : " There shall be an 
 handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains ; 
 the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon." 
 
REMARKS. 
 
 BY REV. G. H. FLINT, OF SOUTH BOSTON, MASS. 
 
 It is unfortunate for a young man of a young generation 
 to become the representative of a family or a generation which 
 has been famous in years gone by. Perhaps 1 could not 
 feel more unworthy in coming before any gathering of peo- 
 ple than in coining before this people, who knew my uncle 
 so well. We sometimes ask, "What is in a name?" There 
 may be a great deal. A person told me this morning on the 
 train that a certain grandmother very earnestly requested 
 her son to bestow upon his infant son the striking name of his 
 grandfather, and if he would do that, she would give him a 
 thousand dollars; but for some reason the father wouldn't do 
 it. He evidently feared he would fail to sustain the reputa- 
 tion of the famous name. And so as we come representing 
 those who have gone before us, it brings a large responsibility 
 to the younger generation. I remember hearing it said of the 
 Rev. Henry Hopkins that he wanted to go West so that he 
 should not henceforth be known as the son of his father ; and 
 thus standing here and representing my uncle, I do so with a 
 keen sense of very great un worthiness. It seems to me a more 
 profoundly sincere man never lived. I believe that he was 
 one of the saintliest and most godly men that I have come to 
 know, and that the formative influence of his life upon my 
 own should have been terminated just at my entrance upon 
 college life has always been a source of deep regret. I have 
 very often repented of many short comings in my own life, but 
 of the name of my family I have never been ashamed. 
 
 As we go over the one hundred years we now celebrate, a 
 thought is suggested to me by a principle in physical science. 
 
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 Science teaches us that there is absolutely no loss of force what- 
 ever. Exactly the power and the heat that the sun stored up 
 in itself originally is present to-day. Invention has unlocked 
 these stores of power and we have learned that one kind of en- 
 ergy is changed into another, but there has never been one 
 single atom lost from the beginning of time. Strike an 
 anvil heavily with a mighty hammer and the mechanical 
 motion is converted into heat with no particle of loss. How 
 much more is it true in the realm of the spiritual. When a 
 godly man, a saintly woman has left an impress upon a com- 
 munity and it has become stamped indelibly there, is not the 
 force and power of that life as absolutely true and permanent 
 as any mental or physical force which we know? We must 
 believe that there is not one single thought which has ever gone 
 out from a soul, which bears the image of God upon it, but 
 that that thought is eternal. I think of the lives of all those 
 who have been mentioned here, as sending out a certain current 
 of influence in this town and community, so that every one 
 who has come under has become broadened. As the streams, 
 rivulets and brooks find their way down the hill-side ulti- 
 mately to the ocean and truly yet inappreciably enlarge its 
 enormous contents, so the little rills of holy influence just as 
 certainly swell the spiritual atmosphere, which encircles the 
 earth. And if physical force is never lost, is it therefore possi- 
 ble that spiritual force can be lost? Thus friends we come 
 here as the inheritors of this influence to-day. Surely yours 
 is a goodly heritage. We come into the possession of the 
 influence of those lives as it instills its gracious blessing into 
 our own lives. Surely, then, those who represent the present 
 generation here, having received such an heritage as this, can 
 never be in doubt in respect to your future because such in- 
 fluences as these can never die. 
 
 Take a little plant and surround it with sunshine, earth and 
 moisture, and it is forced to grow. Take people here who have 
 inherited such influence as this and been trained in Christian 
 
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 nurture, and their future is assured. I am very glad to know 
 that the modern truth of child nature and nurture has been so 
 beautifully illustrated here ; that the boys and girls in their ex- 
 tremest youth are gradually growing up and developing into 
 the fullness of the Christian experience. The soul is naturally 
 Christian from its birth. The man stained in sin is a mon- 
 strosity of nature, infinitely greater than physical deformity. 
 The normal process is that all the germinal elements of char- 
 acter should develop into Christ precisely similar to the growth 
 of the tiny bud into the complete, beautiful flower. Boys are 
 spoiled at two years of age. The boys in this community have 
 never been spoiled because of the heritage which is theirs. 
 Surely you will go forth from the inspiration of this day with 
 a faith which will be as strong and true and lasting as we can 
 possibly find anywhere. The rugged strength of these hill 
 towns is the life of our country. It sends forth its stream of 
 influence to purify and uplift wherever it goes. Let us all 
 then be true to our sacred trust solemnly committed to our 
 stewardship, and our own future and the future of those for 
 whom we labor will never be in doubt. 
 
CLOSING REMARKS. 
 
 BY REV. MR. LAIRD. 
 
 We have felt ourselves straightened through all the day by 
 the manner in which our railroad accommodations have limited 
 the hours we can spend together here. We had desired to 
 continue these exercises longer and to hear from some others, 
 but the time for closing has arrived and it does not seem best 
 to continue, because some may be late to the trains. 
 
 We thank you, friends, that you have regarded our invita- 
 tion so kindly, and that you have been with us to-day. Now 
 as you go to your homes, will you not remember us in your 
 prayers that God's abundant blessing may rest upon the church 
 and society as we enter upon the second century of their ex- 
 istence. We thank those who have so kindly contributed to 
 the exercises, and deep in our hearts we say, God bless you all. 
 We will sing our closing hymn, and the benediction will be 
 given by Rev. Dr. Taylor. 
 
 The Centennial was favored with a beautiful day. A large 
 number of friends were present both from a distance and from 
 adjacent towns. The pews and aisles below were packed with 
 auditors, and the galleries were well filled. Former citizens 
 held delightful reunions during the recess interval. The mid- 
 day lunch, provided by Barr of Springfield, was served in the 
 open air. 
 
 A gallery of likenesses of former friends of the society, 
 upon the walls of the chapel, consisted of over two hundred 
 pictures. It was a highly gratifying feature of the Centen- 
 nial, and was visited by large numbers. 
 
CENTENNIAL COMMITTEES. 
 
 PROGRAMME. 
 J. H. LAIRD, JAMES HOSMER, G. T. PLUNKETT. 
 
 GENERAL. 
 
 J. H. LAIRD, A. S. STORM, 
 
 M. M. WENTWORTH, . E. H. GOODRICH, 
 
 W. A. TAYLOR, J. B. WOODBURN, 
 
 JAMES HOSMER, M. C. STOWELL, 
 
 E. W. CLARK, F. B. COOK, 
 
 G. T. PLUNKETT. 
 
 PICTURE GALLERY. 
 
 MRS. L. M. PAYNE, MRS. ABBIE T. PLUNKETT, 
 
 MRS. J. E. SHATTUCK, MRS. G. T. PLUNKETT, 
 
 C. W. GOODRICH. 
 
 FINANCES. 
 J. B. WOODBURN, M. C. STOWELL, C. P. TAYLOR. 
 
 COLL A TION. 
 
 MRS. C. C. ROBINSON, MRS. J. S. COLE, 
 
 MRS. L. M. PAYNE, MRS. T. A. FRISSELL. 
 
COPIES OF ORIGINAL PAPERS. 
 
 A rate made by us, the subscribers of Partridgefield West 
 Society, on the polls and estate of the inhabitants, and the estate 
 of the non-resident proprietors of the said Society for raising 
 the sum of forty-one hundred dollars for the purpose of build- 
 ing and finishing a meeting house in said Society which was 
 granted at Society meeting on the 24th day of December last, 
 with the further sum of two hundred three dollars and ninety- 
 seven cents produced by a convenient fractional division in the 
 apportionment of the first mentioned sum. 
 
 Richard Starr, Sr., 
 
 $111 40 
 
 Oliver Watkins, 
 
 S27 90 
 
 Samuel Matthews, 
 
 9 19 
 
 Benjamin Sawyer, 
 
 55 80 
 
 Joseph Witter, 
 
 18 17 
 
 Jonathan Phillip, 
 
 12 84 
 
 Stephen Dunwell, 
 
 11 78 
 
 Salmon Byxbee, 
 
 9 04 
 
 Joseph Davenport, 
 
 9 04 
 
 Ichabod Post, 
 
 26 69 
 
 Septimeus Witter, 
 
 30 50 
 
 William Avery, 
 
 9 04 
 
 Samuel Jones, 
 
 9 50 
 
 Chester Cady, 
 
 1 37 
 
 Moses Yeomans, 
 
 20 76 
 
 Elisha Carrier, 
 
 14 66 
 
 John Frary, 
 
 9 04 
 
 Nehemiah Frost, 
 
 21 51 
 
 William Richards, 
 
 167 45 
 
 Philip Witherell, 
 
 4 26 
 
 Land lately owned by James 
 
 Samuel Sibley, 
 
 38 08 
 
 Pease, 
 
 8 68 
 
 Richard Church, 
 
 12 24 
 
 Eleazer Blackman, 
 
 17 11 
 
 Artemas Howard, 
 
 14 73 
 
 Parker Hall, 
 
 38 17 
 
 Abiel Hovey, 
 
 43 88 
 
 Lawson Watkins, 
 
 9 04 
 
 Aaron Bixbee, 
 
 50 42 
 
 David Miller, 
 
 38 78 
 
 Joseph Witter, Jr., 
 
 53 91 
 
 Joseph Wells, 
 
 9 04 
 
 Joseph Sprague, 
 
 13 60 
 
 Nathan Torrey, Jr., 
 
 11 17 
 
 Christopher Crary, 
 
 24 10 
 
 John Cole, 
 
 11 17 
 
 Eleazer Loomis, 
 
 33 53 
 
 John Adams, 
 
 29 43 
 
 Abraham Washburn, 
 
 32 78 
 
 Ebenezer Payne, 
 
 36 58 
 
 Lemuel Bullard, 
 
 25 33 
 
 Jesse Booth, 
 
 15 90 
 
 James Tracey, 
 
 32 16 
 
 Isaac Dresser, 
 
 21 06 
 
 Nathaniel Tracey, 
 
 134 92 
 
 Andrew Belcher, 
 
 58 33 
 
 John Watson, 
 
 32 73 
 
 Thomas Gold, 
 
 9 59 
 
 Zebulan Richmond, 
 
 23 05 
 
 Samuel Bacon, 
 
 16 73 
 
 Thomas Adams, 
 
 14 68 
 
 Eleazer Burnham, 
 
 33 83 
 
 Elisha Watkins, 
 
 26 51 
 
 Theodore Hinsdale, 
 
 90 19 
 
 James Pease, 
 
 34 97 
 
 Roger Watkins, 
 
 48 90 
 
 Nathan Torrey, 
 
 18 78 
 
 Phinehas Watkins, 
 
 25 52 
 
 Samuel Watkins, 
 
 
 Estate of Phinehas Watkins, 
 
 21 00 
 
 Jeremiah Haskell, 
 
 44 86 
 
 William Fletcher, Jr., 
 
 12 39 
 
 Nathan Barrett, 
 
 20 11 
 
 Charles Loomer, 
 
 24 87 
 
 Jacob Booth, 
 
 18 02 
 
123 
 
 David Moseley, 
 
 $41 45 
 
 Asa Parks, 
 
 20 29 
 
 Stephen Payne, 
 
 16 80 
 
 Elisha Curtiss, 
 
 17 78 
 
 Calvin Belcher, 
 
 13 76 
 
 Nathaniel Ballou, 
 
 16 26 
 
 David Brown, 
 
 43 58 
 
 Eleazer Cady, 
 
 26 71 
 
 Samuel Haskell, 
 
 9 04 
 
 Noah Benson, 
 
 22 14 
 
 Job Bestow, 
 
 32 01 
 
 Alford Curtiss, 
 
 9 80 
 
 Isaac Lyman, 
 
 14 36 
 
 Samuel Lyman, 
 
 33 29 
 
 Ebenezer Russ, 
 
 20 98 
 
 John Peirce, 
 
 20 15 
 
 Simpson Watkins, 
 
 42 20 
 
 Hubbard Goodrich, 
 
 48 59 
 
 Ralph Wheelock, 
 
 66 31 
 
 Abraham Blackman, 
 
 15 74 
 
 William Fletcher, 
 
 36 49 
 
 Houses, buildings and garden 
 
 i 
 
 Joshua Jackson, 
 
 79 59 
 
 occupied by Roger Watkins 
 
 ,30 88 
 
 Benjamin Sawyer, Jr., 
 
 11 63 
 
 James Wing, 
 
 40 90 
 
 Lemuel Fuller, 
 
 9 04 
 
 Samuel Wing, 
 
 30 80 
 
 Bazeliel Hinkley, 
 
 11 17 
 
 Zebadiah Williams, 
 
 21 98 
 
 Oliver Staples, 
 
 10 87 
 
 Riley Williams, 
 
 10 40 
 
 Joseph Gasbee, 
 
 35 21 
 
 Abel Coye, 
 
 6 99 
 
 John Babcock, 
 
 39 17 
 
 Jedediah Russ, 
 
 14 36 
 
 Amasa Watkins, 
 
 31 71 
 
 Nathan Hibbard, 
 
 111 25 
 
 Asa Chamberlain, 
 
 57 41 
 
 Samuel Pitt, 
 
 10 77 
 
 Artemas Thompson, 
 
 51 64 
 
 Ephraim Hubbard, 
 
 30 29 
 
 Uzziel Gallup, 
 
 24 56 
 
 Benjamin Russ, 
 
 9 04 
 
 Stephen Bartlett, 
 
 9 65 
 
 Timothy Russ, 
 
 24 27 
 
 Ephraim Wing, 
 
 11 99 
 
 Archibald Olds, 
 
 14 22 
 
 Elias Babcock, 
 
 16 26 
 
 Theodore Hinsdate, Jr., 
 
 27 61 
 
 Seth Wing, 
 
 36 34 
 
 Granger, 
 
 2 89 
 
 Nathan Warner, 
 
 78 72 
 
 Samuel Wright, 
 
 61 29 
 
 Samuel Church, 
 
 3 50 
 
 John Wells, 
 
 31 01 
 
 Abiathar Seckell, 
 
 14 67 
 
 Asa Goodrich, 
 
 14 01 
 
 Nathan Nickerson, 
 
 5 52 
 
 Walter Sackett, 
 
 22 93 
 
 John Printer, 
 
 9 04 
 
 William Pierce, 
 
 43 49 
 
 Thomas Hibbard, 
 
 9 04 
 
 Ebenezer Curtiss, 
 
 35 14 
 
 Elisha Wing, 
 
 21 83 
 
 Isaiah Farnham, 
 
 5 18 
 
 Jesse Goodrich, 
 
 41 38 
 
 Amos Barrett, 
 
 33 00 
 
 Elkanah Jones, 
 
 17 40 
 
 Royal Noble, 
 
 15 29 
 
 John Hulburt, 
 
 14 98 
 
 Dan Haws, 
 
 30 04 
 
 Amasa Frost, 
 
 27 45 
 
 Rufus Tyler, 
 
 60 31 
 
 Epaphras Curtiss, 
 
 51 63 
 
 Amariah Wood, 
 
 26 69 
 
 John Hersey, 
 
 9 04 
 
 Joshua My rick, 
 
 4 26 
 
 John Putnam, 
 
 39 48 
 
 Howard & Colt, 
 
 72 08 
 
 Nicholas Bartlett, 
 
 26 29 
 
 — Byxbee, 
 
 27 74 
 
 Edmond Bridges, 
 
 18 63 
 
 
 
 NON-RESIDENTS, 
 
 LOTS, AND NAMES OF OWNERS. 
 
 
 No. 26, Mather, 110 acres, 
 
 $5 03 
 
 Brewster &Ladd, 30 acres, 
 
 1 83 
 
 Oliver Partridge, 600 acres, 
 
 26 38 
 
 Gideon Deming, 25 acres, 
 
 1 52 
 
 Chas. Goodrich, 400 acres, 
 
 18 25 
 
 Amos Haskins, 20 acres; 
 
 1 52 
 
 Watkins & Bacon, 150 acres, 
 
 6 85 
 
 
 
 The amount is $4230.97. 
 
 
 Jxmes Wing, ) 
 
 
 
 
 Job Bestow, > Assessors. 
 
 
 
 Artemas Thompson, ) 
 
 
 Partridgefield West Society, Feb. 21, 1799. 
 
Original Members of the Present Parish. 
 
 January 13, 1834. 
 
 Voted — That said Society do now hereby 
 Parish, to be known as and called in all times to come, The First Congre 
 gational Society in Hinsdale. 
 
 organize themselves into a 
 
 Allen, Thomas 
 Adams, John 
 Allen, James 
 Allen, Charles 
 Bixbee, Solomon 
 Barker, Thomas 
 Brown, Obadiah 
 Barrett, Archie 
 Barrett, Amos 
 Bestow, Frederick 
 Bullard, Lemuel 
 Barrows, Theodore 
 Barker, Asahel 
 Barrett, Haskell 
 Baker, James H. 
 Bodurthy, Harvey L. 
 Cady, Abial 
 Colt, Oliver P. 
 Crossett, Chester 
 Curtiss, Anson 
 Clark, William 
 Clark, Watson 
 Curtiss, Epaphras 
 Curtiss, Frederick 
 Chapin, Festus 
 Dole, Beniamin 
 Deming, Cephas 
 Eames, Daniel 
 Emmons, Monroe 
 Emmons, Noadiah 
 Francis, Festus 
 Francis, John 
 Goodrich, Elijah H. 
 Holland William 
 
 Huntington, Simon 
 Hinsdale, William 
 Hawley, William A. 
 Holland, Stephen 
 Hinsdale, David M. 
 Hinsdale, Henry 
 Haskins, James 
 Kittredge, Abel 
 Kittredge, Benjamin 
 Knight, Asher 
 Loomis, Salmon 
 Lemley, Solomon 
 Ladd, Lathrop 
 Lyman, Isaac 
 Lewis, Albert 
 Leland, Moses 
 Merriman, Daniel 
 Morgan, Julius 
 Milliken, Robert 
 Merrill, John 
 Moody, Cotton 
 Merriman, Addison 
 Merriman, Hiram 
 Merriman, Henry 
 Morgan, Adams 
 Morgan, Edwin 
 Morgan, Sylvester 
 Mack, William 
 Nicholson, Ambrose 
 Payne, Ebenezer L. 
 Post, Ichabod 
 Parsons. Lemuel 
 Pierce, John 
 
 Putnam, Henry 
 Plunkett, Charles H. 
 Pierce, Erastus 
 Pierce, Ashley 
 Pierce, Warren 
 Payne, Lyman 
 Post, Jeremiah H. 
 "Richards, Hiram 
 F. Reynolds, Hezekiah L. 
 Robinson, Alva 
 Street, Caleb M. 
 Street, Horace 
 Snow, Charles 
 Spencer, Seldon 
 Tyler, Amos 
 Tinker, Russell 
 Tracy, Walter 
 Tracy, Charles K. 
 Wing, Elisha 
 Wing, James 
 Wentworth, Daniel 
 Wright, Samuel 
 Watkins, Luther 
 Washburn, Abraham 
 White, Joseph 
 Watkins, Francis 
 Warner, Daniel N. 
 Wentworth, Elijah 
 Wentworth, David 
 Watkins, Riley 
 Wright, Samuel S. 
 Warner, Benjamin E. 
 Watkins, Samuel 
 
MANUAL 
 
 -OF THE- 
 
 Congregational Church, 
 
 -OF- 
 
 HINSDALE. MASS. 
 
 1895. 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCH. 
 
 The first settlement in what is now Hinsdale was commenced 
 in 1763. Originally this town belonged to Partridgefleld, now 
 Peru, and to Dalton. The inhabitants were connected with 
 these two towns in their religious privileges. In 1795 the set- 
 tlers were incorporated as a parish by the name of the West 
 Parish of Partridgefleld. During that year Rev. Theodore 
 Hinsdale became a citizen of the place and was instrumental, 
 in connection with Deacon Richard Starr, in organizing the 
 Congregational church, which was formed December 17, 1795. 
 
 The number of original members was twenty-three — thirteen 
 males and ten females. 
 
 During the first seven years the church was without a settled 
 pastor and was supplied with preaching by Mr. Hinsdale and" 
 Rev. John Leland, then pastor in Peru. 
 
 The services were at first held in private houses, in the school 
 house and occasionally in barns. In March, 1796, steps were 
 taken toward building the present meeting house, which was 
 dedicated on October 17th. 1799. 
 
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 PASTORS, 
 
 SETTLED SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OP THE CHURCH. 
 
 Caleb Knight. 
 Ordained April 28, 1802. Dismissed April 9, 1816. 
 
 William A. Hawley. 
 Ordained July 1.6, 1817. Dismissed January 12, 1841. 
 
 Seth W. Banister. 
 Ordained June 2, 1841. Dismissed April 29, 1846. 
 
 Edward Taylor. 
 Ordained February 2, 1847. Dismissed October 29, 1850. 
 
 Perkins K. Clark. 
 
 Installed June 15, 1852. Dismissed October 22, 1855. 
 
 Kinsley Twining. 
 Ordained August 25, 1858. Dismissed Febuary 1, 1864. 
 
 Ephraim Flint, Jr. 
 Ordained September 19, 1867. Died November 28, 1882. 
 
 James H. Laird. 
 Installed July 10, 1883. 
 
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 DEACONS. 
 
 Richard Starr, 
 Elijah H. Goodrich, 
 Nehemiah Frost, 
 Isaac Bassett. 
 William Hinsdale, 
 James Porter, 
 William Clark, 
 Russell Tinker, 
 Edward T. Nash, 
 Lyman White, 
 Clark Prince, 
 
 Charles J. Kittredge, 
 
 Milo M. Wentworth, 
 George T. Plunkett, 
 
 j Chosen February 19, 1796. 
 
 ( Died, 1805. 
 
 j Chosen January 26, 1802. 
 
 ( Died December 15, 1826. 
 
 j Chosen April 28, 1803. 
 
 I Removed from town February, 1806. 
 
 j Chosen January 19, 1807. 
 
 } Removed from town, Feb'y 10, 1833. 
 
 j Chosen April 28, 1827. 
 
 ( Resigned April 29, 1836. 
 
 j Chosen April 28, 1827. 
 
 { Removed from town April 13, 1834. 
 
 j Chosen October 17, 1832. 
 ( Resigned January 10, 1856. 
 
 j Chosen May 4, 1836. 
 
 1 Died November 13, 1844. 
 
 j Chosen January 22, 1845. 
 
 ( Died November 4, 1860. 
 
 j Chosen January 10, 1856. 
 
 I Removed from town March 13, 1859. 
 
 j Chosen May 4, 1860. 
 
 ( Resigned January 1, 1870. 
 
 j Chosen May 4, 1860. 
 
 ( Resigned January 3, 1895. 
 
 Chosen January 1, 1870. 
 
 Chosen January 10, 1895. 
 
 CHURCH CLERKS. 
 
 Deacon E. H. Goodrich, 
 
 Oliver P. Colt, 
 
 Rev. S. W. Banister, 
 Rev. Edward Taylor, 
 W. W. Adams, 
 Rev. P. K. Clark, 
 
 Theodore Barrows, 
 
 Rev. Kinsley Twining, 
 Rev. Ephraim Flint, Jr., 
 
 William A. Taylor, 
 
 James Hosmer. 
 
 Chosen July 3, 1816. 
 
 j Chosen January 12, 1841. 
 I Resigned September 5, 1841. 
 
 Acting while pastor. 
 
 Acting while pastor. 
 
 Chosen October 24, 1850. 
 
 Acting while pastor. 
 j Chosen October 20, 1855. 
 ( Resigned November 4, 1870. 
 
 Acting while pastor. 
 Acting in 1868, '69, 70. 
 
 j Chosen November 4, 1870. 
 I Resigned May 5, 1883. 
 Chosen May 5, 1883. 
 
STANDING RULES. 
 
 MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 1. All persons wishing to unite with this church, either 
 upon profession or upon letter of recommendation from some 
 other church, shall make application to the standing committee. 
 Those approved by the committee are propounded at least two 
 weeks previously to admission (rejected candidates have the 
 privilege of appeal to the church). On their making a public 
 profession of their faith and recognizing covenant obligations 
 they are by vote of the church admitted to its fellowship. 
 Admissions ordinarily occur at communion seasons. 
 
 2. It is expected that members of other churches who may 
 wish to commune with this church for more than one year will 
 request a removal of their connection to us unless good and 
 sufficient reasons for delay are given to the church committee. 
 
 3. When members of this church request letters of dismis- 
 sion and recommendation to other churches, their request shall 
 be publicly propounded to the church at least two weeks before 
 the vote granting such requests is taken. 
 
 4. When members remove from this to other places, with 
 the expectation of residing there, it shall be their duty to re- 
 move their relation within one year; and if they do not, this 
 church will not be holden to give letters of dismission and 
 recommendation, unless good and sufficient reasons are given, 
 why it has not been done. 
 
 5. Any member so removing and failing to ask for such 
 letter, or having received one and failed to present it, as before 
 provided, shall be notified by the clerk of the church of his or 
 her duty under the rules, by written notice sent to his or her 
 last known place of residence, and requested to act in the mat- 
 
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 ter or give reasons for wishing to retain membership in this 
 church. 
 
 If the member does not comply with such request, and gives 
 no reasons satisfactory to the church for not complying, the 
 church may, at any regular meeting, withdraw from such mem- 
 ber watch and care, and suspend his or her name from the reg- 
 ister until satisfactory reasons are given for restoring it. But 
 no such action shall be taken unless written notice has been 
 sent as before to such member two weeks at least before the 
 meeting, that consideration is to be had thereat upon such 
 withdrawal and suspension. 
 
 A list of members so suspended shall be kept upon the reg- 
 ister of the church, but their names shall not be published in 
 the printed catalogues of the present members of the church. 
 
 In case an absent member fails to make any response accord- 
 ing to the above conditions, he shall, after two years, be no 
 longer considered as having a membership in this church and 
 his name shall be stricken from the roll. 
 
 6. The clerk shall give to every candidate for admission to 
 the church a printed copy of the Standing Rules of the Church, 
 and call special attention to the rules relating to change of 
 residence. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 1. The spiritual and more permanent officers of this church 
 are a pastor and two or more deacons. The deacons shall be 
 chosen for a term of five years. 
 
 2. The pastor shall be a member of this church and shall 
 preside, when present, at all the meetings of the church. 
 
 3. The deacons shall provide for and assist in the adminis- 
 tration of the Lord's supper ; shall inquire into the wants of 
 necessitous members and contribute of the charities of the 
 church to their relief, and shall assist the pastor in visiting the 
 sick. 
 
 4. One of the deacons shall be chosen treasurer, annually, 
 by the church. It is his duty to take charge of all funds be- 
 
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 longing to the church, and to dispose of the same according to 
 the votes of the church, and to make an annual report at the 
 annual meeting. 
 
 5. The standing committee shall consist of the pastor, the 
 deacons and one other member of the church, to be chosen each 
 year at the annual meeting. 
 
 It shall be the duty of this committee to examine all candi- 
 dates for membership, to make preliminary inquiries in cases 
 of discipline and generally to attend to such business as relates 
 to the welfare of the church. 
 
 6. A clerk shall be chosen at each annual meeting who 
 shall keep the records of the church and make an annual report 
 of the same. 
 
 MEETINGS. 
 
 1. The annual meeting of the church is held near the begin- 
 ning of the year on such day as the committee shall appoint. 
 
 2. Business may be done at any regular church service and 
 a special meeting may be called any time when the standing 
 committee may deem it expedient. A meeting may also be 
 called at the written application of five members to the officers 
 'of the church. Seven members shall constitute a quorum. 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 1. The sacrament of the Lord's supper is administered on 
 the first Sabbaths in January, March, May, July, September, 
 and November. 
 
 2. A contribution is taken at each communion season. 
 
 3. The church, through their pastor, cordially invite those 
 who are in good and regular standing as members of other 
 evangelical churches, to partake with them at the Lord's table. 
 
 4. Baptism is administered to those not previously baptized, 
 at the time of their admission to the church, and to children on 
 the Sabbath, or at the preparatory lecture, which is ordinarily 
 on Thursday evening preceding each communion season. 
 
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 CHURCH CHARITIES. 
 
 The church and society make annual collections for the 
 American Board of Foreign Missions, Congregational Home 
 Missionary Society, American Missionary Association, Seamen's 
 Friend Society, and the American Bible Society ; and a con- 
 tribution is made upon the first Sunday in each month, which 
 is divided among the various benevolent societies of the Con- 
 gregational body. 
 
 DISCIPLINE. 
 
 1. The church has at several times voted, that in all cases 
 of discipline, it will be governed by the directions in the 
 eighteenth chapter of Matthew. 
 
 2. They recommend that, before any steps are taken in the 
 regular course of discipline, the complaints be specifically made 
 out in writing. 
 
 3. This church considers immoral conduct, breach of express 
 covenant vows, and avowed disbelief of any of their articles of 
 faith, as offences subject to their censure. 
 
 4. ~No confession for an oifence shall be exhibited in public, 
 unless it has first been laid before the church for their appro- 
 bation; and if the offence be of a public nature, or has become 
 a matter of public notoriety, the confession shall be made before 
 the church and congregation. 
 
 THE CREED. 
 
 Being the creed prepared under the authority of the General 
 Congregational Council of 1883. 
 
 I. We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of 
 heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. 
 
 And in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord, who is of one 
 substance with the Father. 
 
 And in the Holy Spirit, who is sent from the Father and 
 Son, and who together with the Father and Son is worshipped 
 and glorified. 
 
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 II. We believe that the Providence of God, by which he 
 executes his eternal purposes in the government of the world, 
 is in and over all events ; yet so that the freedom and responsi- 
 bility of man are not impaired, and sin is the act of the crea- 
 ture alone. 
 
 . III. We believe that man was made in the image of God 
 that he might know, love, and obey God, and enjoy him for- 
 ever; that our first parents by disobedience fell under the right- 
 eous condemnation of God ; and that all men have sinned in 
 like manner, and that there is no salvation from the guilt and 
 power of sin except through God's redeeming grace. 
 
 IV. We believe that God would have all men return to 
 him ; that to this end he has made himself known, not only 
 through the works of nature, the course of his providence, and 
 the consciences of men, but also through supernatural revela- 
 tions made especially to a chosen people, and above all, when 
 the fullness of time was come, through Jesus Christ his Son. 
 
 V. We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New 
 Testaments are the record of God's revelations of himself in 
 the work of redemption ; that they were written by men under 
 the special guidance of the Holy Spirit ; that they are able to 
 make wise unto salvation ; and that they constitute the authori- 
 tative standard by which religious teaching and human con- 
 duct are to be regulated and judged. 
 
 "VI. We believe that the love of God to sinful men has 
 found its highest expression in the redemptive work of his 
 Son; who became man, uniting his divine nature with our 
 human nature in one person ; who was tempted like other men, 
 yet without sin; who, by his humiliation, his holy obedience, 
 his sufferings, his death on the cross, and his resurrection, be- 
 came a perfect Redeemer; whose sacrifice of himself for the 
 sins of the world declares the righteousness of God, and is the 
 sole and sufficient ground of forgiveness and of reconciliation 
 with him. 
 
 VII. We believe that Jesus Christ, after he had risen from 
 
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 the dead, ascended into heaven, where, as the one Mediator be- 
 tween God and man, he carries forward his work of saviug 
 men ; that he sends the Holy Spirit to convict them of sin, and 
 to lead them to repentance and faith ; and that those who 
 through renewing grace turn to righteousness, and trust in 
 Jesus Christ as their Redeemer, receive for his sake the for- 
 giveness of their sins, and are made the children of God. 
 
 VIII. We believe that those who are thus regenerated and 
 justified grow in sanctified character through fellowship with 
 Christ, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and obedience to the 
 truth ; that a holy life is the fruit and evidence of saving faith ; 
 and that the believer's hope of continuance in such a life is in 
 the preserving grace of God. 
 
 IX. We believe that Jesus Christ came to establish among 
 men the kingdom of God, the reign of truth and love, righteous- 
 ness and peace; that to Jesus Christ, the Head of this king- 
 dom, Christians are directly responsible in faith and conduct; 
 and that to him all have immediate access without mediatorial 
 or priestly intervention. 
 
 X. We believe that the Church of Christ, invisible and 
 spiritual, comprises all true believers, whose duty it is to asso- 
 ciate themselves in churches, for the maintenance of worship, 
 for the promotion of spiritual growth and fellowship, and for 
 the conversion of men ; that these churches, under the guidance 
 of the Holy Scriptures and in fellowship with one another, 
 may determine — each for itself — their organization, statements 
 of belief, and forms of worship; may appoint and set apart 
 their own ministers, and should co-operate in the work which 
 Christ has committed to them for the furtherance of the gospel 
 throughout the world. 
 
 XL We believe in the observance of the Lord's day as a 
 day of holy rest and worship; in the ministry of the Word ; and 
 in the two sacraments which Christ has appointed for his 
 church: Baptism, to be administered to believers and their 
 children, as the sign of cleansing from sin and of reception into 
 
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 the fold of Christ; and the Lord's supper, as a symbol of his 
 atoning death, a seal of its efficacy, and a means whereby he 
 confirms and strengthens the spiritual union and communion of 
 believers with himself. 
 
 XII. We believe in the ultimate prevalence of the king- 
 dom of Christ over all the earth ; in the glorious appearing of 
 the great God and our Saviour, Jesus Christ; in the resurrec- 
 tion of the dead; and in a final judgment, the issues of which 
 are everlasting punishment and everlasting life. 
 
 Do you thus profess and believe? Now then you are pre- 
 pared to enter into covenant with God and this church. 
 
 THE COVENANT. 
 
 What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward 
 me? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name 
 of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the 
 presence of all his people. 
 
 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will 
 I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But who- 
 soever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before 
 my Father which is in heaven. 
 
 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness ; and 
 with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 
 
 Dearly beloved, called of God to be his children through 
 Jesus Christ our Lord, you are here that, in the presence of 
 God and his people, you may enter into the fellowship and 
 communion of his church. You do truly repent of your sins; 
 you heartily receive Jesus Christ as your crucified Saviour and 
 risen Lord ; you consecrate yourselves unto God and your life 
 to his service; you accept his Word as your law, and his Spirit 
 as your comforter and guide ; and trusting in his grace to con- 
 firm and strengthen you in all goodness, you promise to do 
 God's holy will, and to walk with this church in the truth and 
 peace of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 Do you thus enter into covenant with God and this church ? 
 
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 (Then should baptism be administered to those who have not 
 been baptized. Then should those rise who would unite with 
 the church by letter. To them the minister should say:) 
 
 Confessing the Lord whom we unitedly worship, you do now 
 renew your self-consecration, and join with us cordially in this, 
 our Christian faith and covenant. 
 
 (The members of the church present should rise.) 
 
 We welcome you into our fellowship. We promise to 
 watch over you with Christian love. God grant that, loving 
 and being loved, serving and being served, blessing and being 
 blessed, we may be prepared, while we dwell together on earth, 
 for the perfect communion of the saints in heaven. 
 
 "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead 
 our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the 
 blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every 
 good work to do his will, working in you that which is well- 
 pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ ; to whom be glory 
 for ever and ever. Amen." 
 
Present Officers and Members. 
 
 Rev. James H. Laird, Pastor, 
 
 Milo M. Went worth, ) n 
 George T. Pltjnkett, \ 1Jeacon8 ' 
 
 W. A. Taylor, Church Committee. 
 
 James Hosmer, Clerk. 
 
 RESIDENT MEMBERS. 
 
 Abbott, John 
 Abbott, Mrs John 
 Ascha, Mrs. C. G. 
 Ascha, Mary Bell 
 Barker, Thomas F. 
 Barker, Mrs. Thomas F. 
 Barker, John B. 
 Barker, Mary E. 
 Barrows, Celestia 
 Bartlett, Mrs. Peter 
 Bartlett, Charles C. 
 Barnes, Mrs. Henry M. 
 Benson, Mrs. D. F. 
 Benson, Lillie A. 
 Beals, Martha R. 
 Beverly, Edwin C. 
 Beverly, Mrs. E. C. 
 Bill, Mrs. Orsemus 
 Bingham, Mrs. Silas 
 Birmingham, Mrs. Samuel G. 
 Bowen, Mrs. J. Clinton 
 Brague, Mrs. George W. 
 Bridges, Mrs. Luther W. 
 Bristol, Adaline L. 
 Brown, Mrs. John 
 Bull, Frank 
 Bull, Mrs. Frank 
 Bull, Ella L. 
 Burdick, Mrs. A. C. 
 Carr, Mrs. Henry 
 Carr, Celia E, 
 Cheeseman, Mrs. Edward 
 Clark, Mrs. William 
 Clark, Jane L. 
 Clark, Edward W. 
 
 Clark, Mrs. Eben C. 
 Clark, Rev. Edson L. 
 Clark, Mrs. Edson L. 
 Cole, J. Silas 
 Cole, Fred W. 
 Cole, Charles, Jr. 
 Converse, Ortensia L. 
 Converse, Mrs. Chapin 
 Crossett, John L. 
 Crossett, Mrs. John L. 
 Cook, Franklin B. 
 Davison, John R. 
 Dresser, Mrs. S. P. 
 Dresser, Arthur J. 
 Dresser, Angie M. 
 Eldredge, Henry B. 
 Eldredge, Mrs. H. B. 
 Emmons, Harris G. 
 Felton, Mrs. J. W. 
 Francis, Lysander M. 
 Franklin, Julia 
 Franklin, Emily J. 
 Franklin, Rose H. 
 Frissell, Thomas A. 
 Frissell, Mrs. T. A. 
 Goodrich, E. H. 
 Goodrich, Mrs. E. H. 
 Gray, William J. 
 Gray, Mrs. W. J. 
 Hillier, Mrs. A. N. 
 Hosmer, James 
 Hosmer, Mrs. James 
 Jackson, Mrs. Haven 
 Kittredge, Charles J. 
 Kittredge, Mrs. C. J, 
 
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 Kittredge, Elizabeth P. 
 Kittredge, Sarah M. 
 Kittredge, James B. 
 Knight, Mrs. Warren 
 Laird, Rev. James H. 
 Laird, Mrs. J. H. 
 Laird, Arthur T. 
 Laird. Fannie M. 
 Mack, Lyman 
 Morgan, Mrs. Edwin 
 Morgan, Charles A. 
 Morgan, Mrs. Charles A. 
 Parmelee, William J. 
 Parmelee, Mrs. W. J. 
 Parsons, Peter 
 Parsons, Mrs. Peter 
 Parsons, Lucy M. 
 Payne, L. M. 
 Payne, Mrs. L. M. 
 Pierce, Mrs. C. C. 
 Pierce, Aid en H. 
 Pierce, Mary Elmer 
 Pierce, Mrs. C. A. 
 Plunkett, Mrs. Thomas K. 
 Plunkett, George T. 
 Plunkett, Mrs. G. T. 
 Plummer, Mrs. George B. 
 Pye, Mrs. A. R. 
 Raymond. Mrs. D. G. 
 Robinson, Mrs. C. C. 
 Robinson, Irving 
 Robinson, Nellie R. 
 Rossiter, Mrs. Clarissa 
 Roth, Mrs. Harriet P. 
 Roth, Hattie A. P. 
 Sawyer, Oliver J. 
 Sayers, James L. 
 Seagrave, Mary C. 
 Seagrave, Rev. James C. 
 Sherman. Louie L. 
 Sherman, Mrs. Louie L. 
 Smith, John R. 
 Smith, Mrs. J. R. 
 Solomon, Etta M. 
 Solomon, Walter C. 
 Spring, Mrs. George E. 
 Spring, Charlotte 
 Stickney, Ella G. 
 Storm, Azariah S. 
 
 Storm, Mrs. A. S. 
 Storm, Mary Payne 
 Storm, Emily Z. 
 Storm, Katie K. 
 Stowell, Milo 
 Stowell, Marion 
 Stowell, Myron C. 
 Stowell, Mrs. M.C. 
 Stowell, Melvern H. 
 Taylor, William A. 
 Taylor, Mrs. W. A. 
 Taylor, Hannah D. 
 Taylor, Charles P. 
 Taylor, Sarah P. 
 Taylor, Mabel E. 
 Tolman, Sarah A. 
 Tolman, Mary 
 Tremain, Mrs. Edwin 
 Tuttle, Charlotte E. 
 Tucker, Mrs. W. L. 
 Warriner, Mrs. Francis 
 Watkins, Mrs. Samuel 
 Watkins, Henry W. 
 Watkins, George M. 
 Watkins, Mrs. G. M. 
 Watkins, Mrs. Eugene C. 
 Watkins, Lucelia M. 
 Watkins, Mrs. John 
 Watkins, Mrs. Monroe 
 Watkins, Mrs. Alonzo 
 Watkins, Mrs. W. D. 
 Watkins, Welcome H. 
 Wentworth, Milo M. 
 Wentworth, Mrs. M. M. 
 Wentworth, Edward F. 
 Wentworth, Mrs. E. F. 
 Wentworth, Arthur M. 
 Wentworth, Ada L. 
 West, Charles W. 
 West, Herbert 
 White, Simon H. 
 White, Mrs. S. H. 
 Whitman, Mrs. N. B. 
 Whitman, Levi L. 
 Whitman, Mrs. Levi L. 
 Wheeler, Arthur S. 
 Wilson, Minnie B. 
 Winslow, Mrs. H. L. 
 Woodburn, John B. 
 
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 NON-RESIDENT MEMBERS. 
 
 Abraham, George 
 Archibald, Mrs. Alice M. 
 Barker, Mrs. Thomas 
 Barrett, Charles D. 
 Barrett, Mrs. James 
 Benson, William H. 
 Bullis, George P. 
 Curtis, Sarah 
 Curtiss, Mrs. Edwin 
 Crane, Mrs. George 
 Crosier, Mrs. Julia 
 Davison, Walter F. 
 Day, William I. 
 Edson, Minnie R. 
 Edson, Franklin W. 
 Emmons, Mrs. Noadiah 
 Fay, Edward E. 
 Fay, Mrs. E. E. 
 Griswold, Mrs. George 
 Goodrich, Mrs. D. M. 
 Gaunt, John 
 Gaunt, Mrs. J. 
 Gloyd, Mahlon 
 
 Gloyd, Mrs. Mahlon 
 Goodrich, Rev. Chauncey 
 Goodrich, Washburn A. 
 Goodrich, Mrs. W. A. 
 Houston, Mrs. Emerson 
 Johnson, Mrs. Baxter 
 Lyman, Mrs. C. T. 
 Mason, Mrs. H. A. 
 Mecum, Albert R. 
 Mecum,. Charles R. 
 Mecum, Mrs. C. R. 
 Parsons, Henry C. 
 Parish, Mrs. E. H. 
 Pierce, Elizabeth A. 
 Pye, Thomas F. 
 Richards, Mrs. Albertus 
 Smith, Mrs. Martha E. 
 Stowell, Sidney S. 
 Tower, Charles B. 
 Tower, Mrs. C. B. 
 Tracy, Mrs. Charles K. 
 Wentworth, Clara E, 
 Wood, Mrs. George E. 
 
 Residents — men, 
 Residents — women, 
 
 Non-residents — men, 
 Non-residents — women, 
 
 Total, 
 Hinsdale, Dec. 31st, 1895. 
 
 SUMMARY. 
 
 58 
 111 
 
 1RQ 
 
 
 19 
 
 28 
 
 J.U57 
 
 47 
 
 
 
 216 
 
The Centennial List of Members. 
 
 WITH TEAR OF ADMISSION, DISMISSION, DEATH AND AGE. 
 
 Note.— The Clerk of the Church desires information that will assist in completing 
 the record of dismissions, death and age of former members. 
 
 "A," denotes that the member was dropped from the roll by his or her request, or 
 for other reasons ; " L," admitted by letter from another church ; "W," withdrew to 
 some other denomination without taking a letter. Numbers out of the regular suc- 
 cession refer to admission a second time, and also to married name. Cases of disci- 
 pline are on the church records only. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Approximate Date 
 
 
 No. 
 
 1795. 
 
 Dismissed. 
 
 op Death and 
 
 Age. 
 
 L 
 
 1. 
 
 Rev. Theodore Hinsdale, 
 
 
 
 Dec. 1818. 
 
 80 
 
 L 
 
 2. 
 
 Richard Starr, 
 
 
 
 Feb. 1805. 
 
 87 
 
 L 
 
 3. 
 
 Ephraim Hubbard, 
 
 
 
 May 1810. 
 
 63 
 
 L 
 
 4. 
 
 Elizur Burnham, 
 
 
 
 Mch. 1811. 
 
 78" 
 
 L 
 
 5. 
 6. 
 
 7. 
 8. 
 
 Nathan Hibbard, 
 Joseph Skinner, 
 Jonathan Skinner, 
 Giddeon Peck, 
 
 
 
 1825. 
 
 88 
 
 L 
 
 9. 
 
 Seth Wing, 
 
 
 
 Feb. 1812. 
 
 67 
 
 L 
 
 10. 
 
 Asa Goodrich, 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 11. 
 12. 
 13. 
 
 Nehemiah Frost, 
 Benjamin Sawyer. 
 Asa Parks. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1806. 
 
 June 1850. 
 
 83 
 
 
 14. 
 
 Mrs. Anne Hinsdale-Theodore, 
 
 
 
 Mch. 1817. 
 
 69 
 
 
 15. 
 
 Sarah Sawyer. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 16. 
 
 Elizabeth Babcock. 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 17. 
 
 Mrs. Anne Goodrich-Asa. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 18. 
 
 Mrs. Rebecca Frost- Amasa, 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1806. 
 
 Oct. 1823. 
 
 55 
 
 
 19. 
 
 Priscilla Parks. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 20. 
 
 Jerusha Skinner. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 21. 
 
 Hulda Wing-Seth, 
 
 
 
 Oct. 1824. 
 
 78 
 
 L 
 
 22. 
 
 Mrs. Hannah Hubbard-Ephraim, 
 
 
 
 Jan. 1843. 
 
 89 
 
 L 
 
 23. 
 24. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Frost-Nehemiah. 
 
 1796. 
 
 Mrs. Pheobe Hibbard-Nathan. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1806. 
 
 Sept. 1840. 
 
 * 
 
 72 
 
 L 
 
 25. 
 
 Mrs. Peck-Giddeon. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 26. 
 
 Widow Lucy Loonier, 
 
 
 
 July 1820. 
 
 60 
 
 
 27. 
 
 Nancy Hinsdale, 
 1797. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1834. 
 
 May 1851. 
 
 82 
 
 
 28. 
 
 William Burnham, 
 
 
 
 Sept. 1850. 
 
 83 
 
 
 29. 
 
 Moses Yeomans, 
 
 
 
 1814. 
 
 - 
 
 
 30. 
 
 Mrs. Eunice Babcock-John. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 31. 
 
 Mrs. Lucy Pease-James. 
 
 
 
 
 
Sept. 1807. 
 
 79 
 
 Sept. 1823. 
 
 61 
 
 Jan. 1835. 
 
 78 
 
 Oct. 1825. 
 
 69 
 
 Jan. 1810. 
 
 40 
 
 Dec. 1826. 
 
 69 
 
 Mch. 1840. 
 
 72 
 
 Feb. 1833. Aug. 1849. 
 
 84 
 
 Nov. 1802. 
 
 31 
 
 141 
 
 Approximate Date 
 No. 1800. Dismissed, of Age and Death. 
 
 L 32. Benajah Jones, 
 
 L 33. Mrs. Tabitha Meacham-John, 
 
 L 34. Elisha Wing, 
 
 L 35. Mrs. Anna Wing-Elisha, 
 
 1801. 
 
 L 36. Mrs. Azubah Jones-Eli, 
 
 L 37. Deacon Elijah H. Goodrich, 
 
 L 38. Mrs. Mabel Goodrich-E. H., 
 
 L 39. Isaac Bassett, 
 
 L 40. Mrs. Azubah Bassett-Isaac, 
 
 1802. 
 
 L 41. Rev. Caleb Knight, Apr. 1816. Oct. 1854. 83 
 
 L 42. Elizabeth Hurd. 
 
 43. Mrs. Mary Wood-Amariah, Apr. 1816. 
 
 L 44. Mrs. Jemima Jones-Benajah, Feb. 1805. 74 
 
 L 45. Mrs. Anna Knight-Caleb, Oct. 1817. Feb. 1858. 79 
 
 L 46. Daniel Wentworth, Jan. 1840. 83 
 
 L 47. Mrs. Susanna Wentworth-Daniel, May 1827. 70 
 
 L 48. Mrs. Hannah Witter- Joseph, Jr. 
 
 49. Elisha Carrier. 
 
 50. Mrs. Mary Carrier-Elisha. 
 
 51. John Halbert. 
 
 52. Mrs. Asenath Halbert-John. 
 
 53. Mrs. Adosha Post-Ichabod, 
 
 54. Mrs. Prudence Adams-John, 
 L 55. Deacon Rufus Marsh, 
 L 56. Mrs. Mary Marsh-Rufus, 
 L 57. Jabez Whitney, 
 L 58. Mrs. Experience Whitney-Jabez, 
 L 59. Mrs. Hephzibah Thompson-Artemas, 
 
 1803. 
 
 L 60. Asa Cady, 
 
 L 61. Mrs. Martha Cady- Asa, 
 
 L 62. Miss Esther Cady. 
 
 L 63. Mrs. Mary Frost-Amasa, Sr., 
 
 L 64. Simon Huntington, 
 
 L 65. Mrs. Priscilla Huntington-Simon, 
 
 L 66. John Meeker, 
 
 L 67. Mrs. Mary Bassett-Isaac, 
 
 68. Job Bestow, 
 
 69. Mrs. Lydia Wing-James, 
 
 70. Mrs. Philura Putnam-John, 
 
 71. Lucy Starr, 
 
 1804. 
 
 72. Sarah Matthews, 
 L 73. Elnathan Sanderson, 
 L 74. Mrs. Sarah Sanderson-Elnathan, 
 L 75. Caleb N. Street, 
 L 76. Mrs. Bathsheba Street-Caleb N., 
 L 77. Mrs. Hannah Wing-Elnathan. 
 
 78. David Moseley, 
 
 79. Mrs. Rebecca Moseley-David. 
 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1808.- 
 
 36 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1853. 
 1813. 
 
 82 
 55 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1825. 
 
 
 1833. 
 
 71 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1819. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1825. 
 
 74 
 
 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1805. 
 
 51 
 
 3, 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1826. 
 
 54 
 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1826. 
 
 72 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1823. 
 
 63 
 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1815. 
 
 86 
 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1836. 
 
 74 
 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1846. 
 
 85 
 
 
 1805. 
 
 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1833. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1839. 
 
 64 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1813. 
 
 52 
 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1840. 
 
 79 
 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1836. 
 1803. 
 
 66 
 
 
 1806. 
 
 
 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1825. 
 
 
 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1825. 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1836. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 May 
 
 1818. 
 
 47 
 
 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1804. 
 
 42 
 
142 
 
 Approximate Date 
 
 
 No. 
 
 1804. 
 
 Dismissed. 
 
 of Age and Death. 
 
 
 80. 
 
 Mrs. Kesiah Payne-Ebenezer, 
 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1854. 
 
 88 
 
 
 81. 
 
 Mrs. Susanna Dresser-Isaac, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 82. 
 
 Mrs. Polly Holland- William, 
 
 1805. 
 
 Septimeus Witter. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1836. 
 
 
 
 
 
 83. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 84. 
 
 Mrs. Anna Witter-Septimeus. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 85. 
 
 Eunice Geere. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 86. 
 
 Mrs. Abigail Parsons-Lemuel, 
 
 1806. 
 
 Chester Moody, 
 
 
 
 May 
 
 1858. 
 
 94 
 
 L 
 
 87. 
 
 
 
 June 1826. 
 
 46 
 
 L 
 
 88. 
 
 Mrs. Nancy B. Moody-Chester, 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1830. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1855. 
 
 74 
 
 
 89. 
 
 Thomas Matthews, 
 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1824. 
 
 56 
 
 W 
 
 90. 
 
 Samuel Wing, 
 
 July 
 
 1813. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1863. 
 
 90 
 
 W 
 
 91. 
 
 Mrs. Abigail Wing-Samuel, 
 
 1807. 
 Mrs. Caroline Pierce-Asa, 
 
 1808. 
 Elisha Leonard, 
 
 July 
 
 1813. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1824. 
 
 47 
 
 L 
 
 92. 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1862. 
 
 83 
 
 L 
 
 93. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1821. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 94. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Leonard-Elisha. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 95. 
 
 Lemuel Parsons, Jr., 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1867. 
 
 82 
 
 
 96. 
 
 Walter Tracy, 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1843. 
 
 June 1870. 
 
 85 
 
 
 97. 
 
 Ebenezer Payne, Jr., 
 
 
 1815. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1868. 
 
 84 
 
 
 98. 
 
 Leonard Dresser. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 99. 
 
 Samuel Matthews, 
 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1814. 
 
 44 
 
 
 100. 
 
 Mrs. Lydia Matthews-Samuel, 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1823. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1857. 
 
 78 
 
 
 101. 
 
 Salmon Bixbee, 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1844. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1864. 
 
 89 
 
 
 102. 
 
 Mrs. Betsy R. Bixbee-Salmon, 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1844. 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1856. 
 
 75 
 
 
 103. 
 
 Asa Pierce, 
 
 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1819. 
 
 40 
 
 
 104. 
 
 Joseph Knight. 
 
 1809. 
 
 Widow Mary Benson, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 105. 
 
 
 
 May 
 
 1820. 
 
 72 
 
 
 106. 
 
 Mrs. Susanna Watson-John, 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1820. 
 
 
 
 
 
 107. 
 
 Joseph Bellows, 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1816. 
 
 51 
 
 
 108. 
 
 Philena Francis, 
 
 
 1815. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1848. 
 
 
 L 
 
 109. 
 
 Mrs. Delight Payne-Ebenezer, Jr. 
 
 1810. 
 Mrs. Polly Crary-Christopher, 
 
 > 
 
 1815. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 110. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1819. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 111. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Colt-Oliver P, , 
 1811. 
 , Mrs. Josiah Pomeroy, 
 
 
 
 
 1864. 
 
 77 
 
 WL112, 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1823. 
 
 
 
 
 WL 113, 
 
 , Mrs. Ruth Pomeroy-Josiah, 
 
 
 1823. 
 
 
 
 
 
 114. 
 
 William Peirce, 
 
 1812. 
 
 Samuel Watkins, 
 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1824. 
 
 70 
 
 
 115. 
 
 
 
 May 
 
 1813. 
 
 66 
 
 
 116. 
 
 Widow Monika Richards, 
 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1831. 
 
 64 
 
 
 117. 
 
 Mrs. Mercy Tracy-Walter, 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1831. 
 
 48 
 
 
 118. 
 
 Mrs. Phimelia Otis-Shubal, 
 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1819. 
 
 39 
 
 
 119. 
 
 Lucy Warren. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 120. 
 
 Polly Parsons, 
 
 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1871. 
 
 79 
 
 
 121. 
 
 Mrs. Eunice Kittredge-Dr. Abel, 
 
 
 
 May 
 
 1852. 
 
 76- 
 
143 
 
 No. 1814. Dismissed. 
 
 L 122. William Worthington, July 1819. 
 
 L 123. Mrs. Sarah Worthington- William, July 1819. 
 1816. 
 
 Approximate Date 
 op Death and Age. 
 
 L 124. 
 
 125. 
 126. 
 127. 
 128. 
 129. 
 
 L 
 
 L 
 L 
 L 
 
 130. 
 131. 
 132. 
 133. 
 134. 
 135. 
 
 136. 
 
 137. 
 
 138. 
 
 139. 
 
 140. 
 
 141. 
 
 142. 
 L 143. 
 L 144. 
 
 145. 
 
 146. 
 
 147. 
 
 148. 
 
 149. 
 
 150. 
 
 151. 
 
 152. 
 
 153. 
 
 154. 
 
 155. 
 
 156. 
 
 157. 
 
 158. 
 
 159. 
 W160. 
 L 161. 
 
 W162. 
 W163. 
 L 164. 
 
 165. 
 
 166. 
 
 167. 
 
 168. 
 
 Dec. 1818. 
 
 L 
 L 
 
 Rev. William A. Hawley, 
 
 1817. 
 Julius Bartlett, 
 William Clark, 
 Timothy McElwain, 
 Mrs. Zilpha McElwain-Timothy, 
 Daniel Merriman, 
 
 1817. 
 
 Mrs. Sally T. Merriman-Daniel, 
 Mrs. Rebecca Payne-Daniel, Sep. 1834. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Post-Ichabod, Mar. 1827. 
 
 Mrs. Debby A. Hawley-Rev. W. A., Aug. 1841. 
 Samuel Wales, May 1829. 
 
 Mrs. Esther Wales-Samuel, May 1829. 
 
 1818. 
 
 Selden Spencer, 
 
 Mrs. Lucy Spencer-Selden, 
 
 Abner Wing, 
 
 Lucinda Wentworth, 
 
 Mrs. Abigail Francis-Festus, 
 
 Zeri Wing, 
 
 John Adams, Jr., 
 
 Andrew Phelps. 
 
 Mrs. Nancy Phelps-Andrew. 
 
 Abigail Loomis, 
 
 Eli Adams, 
 
 Addison Merriman, 
 
 Miss Martha Merriman, 
 
 Rebecca Wright, 
 
 Electa Babcock. 
 
 Sally Peirce, 
 
 Roxanna Loomis, 
 
 Prudence Adams, 
 
 Lucy Huntington, 
 
 Elizabeth Curtiss-Epaphras, 
 
 Sophia Putnam, 
 
 Dolly Hathaway, 
 
 Fanny Huntington, 
 
 Malinda McElwain, 
 
 Obadiah McElwain, 
 
 Mrs. Nancy McElwain-David, 
 
 1819. 
 
 Samuel Spencer, 
 
 Eliza Parkis, 
 
 Mrs. Asenath Burnham- William, 
 
 William Hinsdale, 
 
 Widow Mary Loomis, 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Porter, 
 
 James Porter, 
 
 Jan. 1841. May 1854. 66 
 
 Oct. 1829. 
 
 Mar. 1870. 82 
 
 Nov. 1825. 53 
 
 June 1832. 
 
 July 1835. Jan. 1850. 73 
 
 Nov. 1823. 52 
 
 Sep. 
 Apr. 
 
 1838. 
 1858. 
 
 Mar. 1827. 
 Dec. 1841. 
 
 Nov. 1853 
 
 . May 1875. 
 
 Aug. 1834. Mar. 1858. 
 
 June 1824. Jan. 1839. 
 
 68 
 69 
 
 37 
 52 
 
 58 
 87 
 65 
 44 
 
 Jan. 1819. 28 
 
 1834. 1876. 79 
 
 Mar. 1835. Aug. 1863. 62 
 
 Apr. 1856. Dec. 1861. 58 
 
 Nov. 1832. 
 
 July 1824. 34 
 
 May 1827. 31 
 
 Mar. 1835. Apr. 1853. 83 
 
 Aug. 1828. 27 
 
 Mar. 1825. 58 
 
 Sep. 1820. Apr. 1871. 73 
 
 1825. 1884. 84 
 
 Oct. 1828. Aug. 1840. 41 
 
 Dec. 1822. 
 
 Dec. 1842. 
 
 June 1824. 
 
 Mar. 1832. 
 
 Mar. 1822. 
 
 Nov. 1851. 77 
 
 Oct-. 1860. 70 
 
 Dec. 1840. 80 
 
 Apr. 1834. July 1851. 91 
 
 Apr. 1834. Oct. 1864. 72 
 
144 
 
 Approximate Date 
 No. 1819. Dismissed, of Death and Age. 
 
 L 169. Mrs. Lurinda Porter- James, Apr. 1834. May 1874. 80 
 
 L 170. Harvey White, Mar. 1832. Dec. 1868. 74 
 
 171. Mrs. Sally White-Harvey, Mar. 1832. Jan. 1861. 64 
 
 1820. 
 John H. Russ. 
 
 Mirinda Kittredge, Apr. 1880. 82 
 
 Mrs. Ruth Street. 
 
 Widow Abigail Haskins, May 1835. 
 
 Mrs. Judith Hinsdale- William, Oct. 1840. 50 
 
 Thomas Pixley, June 1824. 
 
 Mrs. Patty Pixley-Thomas, June 1824. 
 
 1821. 
 
 Hephizabah Nash, June 1844. Feb. 1875. 81 
 
 Mary Russ, July 1843. 
 
 Mrs. Persis Tyler, Aug. 1853. 89 
 
 David McElwain, June 1824. 
 
 Mrs. Eunice Smith, Jan. 1833. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Hathaway, June 1824. 
 
 Mrs. Sally Gillett, Jan. 1832. 1865. 
 
 1822. 
 
 Mrs. Phebe Ely Allen. Oct. 1833. 57 
 
 Mrs. Rebecca Elizabeth Peirce, 1831. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Cady, Aug. 1826. Mar. 1835. 48 
 
 Mrs. Abigail Briggs, July 1827. 
 
 Minerva Adams, June 1831. Aug. 1888. 83 
 
 Lucy A. Wing, Aug. 1833. Mar. 1842. 36 
 
 Amanda Wentworth. 
 
 Elisha Jones, Sep. 1826. July 1855. 81 
 
 David Porter Robinson, Mar. 1831. Jan. 1880. 75 
 
 Jonathan Huntington, 1830. 1869. 65 
 
 David Wentworth, Aug. 1853. 50 
 
 Charles Thompson Smith, May 1831. 
 
 Elijah Nash, July 1829. 73 
 
 Mrs. Marv Nash-Elijah, Jan. 1828. 62 
 
 Mrs. Olive Barrett-Amos, May 1837. 80 
 
 Louisa Phelps. 
 
 Nathaniel T. Yeomans. 
 
 Mrs. Sylvia Lyman-Isaac, Mar. 1841. 70 
 
 Abial Cady, Apr. 1868. 78 
 
 Mrs. Abigail Cady, June 1866. 72 
 
 Sophia Goodrich, Nov. 1857. 52 
 
 Amanda Frissell, May 1831. 
 
 Lucy Yeomans, Jan. 1825. 
 
 1S24. 
 
 Mrs. Lucy Lathrop-Erastus, Nov. 1846. 67 
 
 Mrs. MerindaHubbard-JolmR., May 1826. 
 
 1825. 
 
 Julia Nash, July 1840. 
 
 Julius Morgan, Apr. 1842. 74 
 
 Epaphras Curtis, May 1878. 76 
 
 Mrs. Louisa Fay-N. W., Feb. 1828. 46 
 
 Rufus Butts, Feb. 1838. 
 
 Mrs. Charlotte Butts-Rufus, Dec. 1833. 
 
 
 172. 
 
 
 173. 
 
 L 
 
 174. 
 
 
 175. 
 
 
 176. 
 
 L 
 
 177. 
 
 L 
 
 178. 
 
 L 
 
 179. 
 
 L 
 
 180. 
 
 
 181. 
 
 
 182. 
 
 
 183. 
 
 
 184. 
 
 
 185. 
 
 
 186. 
 
 W 1 
 
 
 188. 
 
 
 189. 
 
 
 190. 
 
 
 191. 
 
 
 192. 
 
 
 193. 
 
 
 194. 
 
 
 195. 
 
 
 196. 
 
 
 197. 
 
 L 
 
 198. 
 
 L 
 
 199. 
 
 
 200. 
 
 
 201. 
 
 
 202. 
 
 L 
 
 203. 
 
 L 
 
 204. 
 
 L 
 
 205. 
 
 
 206. 
 
 
 207. 
 
 L 
 
 208. 
 
 
 209. 
 
 L 
 
 210. 
 
 
 211. 
 
 
 212. 
 
 
 213. 
 
 
 214. 
 
 L 
 
 215. 
 
 L 
 
 216. 
 
145 
 
 No. 
 
 217. 
 
 218. 
 
 L 219. 
 
 L 220 
 
 221. 
 
 340. 
 L 222. 
 
 223. 
 
 224. 
 
 225. 
 
 226. 
 
 227. 
 
 228. 
 
 229. 
 W230. 
 
 231. 
 
 232. 
 W 233. 
 
 234. 
 
 235. 
 
 236. 
 L 237. 
 
 239. 
 240. 
 241. 
 242. 
 243. 
 244. 
 427. 
 245. 
 246. 
 247. 
 248. 
 249. 
 250. 
 251. 
 252. 
 253. 
 254. 
 255. 
 256. 
 257. 
 
 258. 
 259. 
 260. 
 261. 
 262. 
 263. 
 264. 
 265. 
 
 1826. 
 Mrs. Triphena Wing-Zeri, 
 Sarah Louisa Johnson, 
 Mrs. Martha Putnam-Henry, 
 
 1827. 
 Thomas F. Barker, 
 
 (■ Marshall Peirce, 
 
 Theodore Barrows, 
 
 Rufus Barrett, 
 
 Nathan Wing Fay, 
 
 Frederick Curtiss, 
 
 William W. Adams, 
 
 Stephen Holland, 
 
 Asahel Barker, 
 
 Susan Wisner or Warren, 
 
 Clarissa Lyman, 
 
 Olive Barrett, 2d, 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Bartlett-Julius, 
 
 Clementine M. Bartlett, 
 
 Polly Brown-Obadiah, 
 
 Mrs. Orra W. Mosely-Henry, 
 
 Mrs. Harriet Parsons- Jason, 
 
 Mrs. Caroline Wentworth-E. A., 
 
 Samuel Wright, 
 
 Mrs. Betsey Wright-Samuel, 
 
 David Moseley Hinsdale, 
 
 Luther Watkins, 
 
 Mrs. Lovisa Watkins-Luther, 
 
 Sally Louisa Jones, 
 
 Judith Shedd Kittredge, 
 
 Mary Worthington Kittredge, 
 
 Maria Wright, 
 
 Mrs. Martha Merriman-Daniel, 
 
 Rufus Marsh Wright, 
 
 Charles Snow, 
 
 Oliver Partridge Colt, 
 
 Benjamin Dole, 
 
 Mrs. Betsey Dole-Benjamin, 
 
 James Haskins, 
 
 Clarissa Leland, 
 
 Julia Ann Adams, 
 
 Mrs. Achsah Parsons-Lemuel, 
 
 Mrs. Mary Kittredge- John, 
 
 1828. 
 
 Robert Milliken, 
 
 Mrs. Sally Milliken-Robert, 
 
 Asa Cady, 
 
 Mrs. Teresa Cady-Asa, 
 
 Miller Ames Wright, 
 
 Mrs. Abigail Wright-M. A., 
 
 Mrs. Azubah Morgan, 
 
 Mrs. Orpha Curtiss-Epaphras, 
 
 Dismissed. 
 Aug. 1834. 
 
 Dec. 1833. 
 
 Dec. 1835. 
 
 Apr. 1836. 
 
 Approximate Date 
 of Death and Age. 
 
 Dec. 1852. 59 
 Jan. 1833. 22 
 Sep. 1837. 35 
 
 Jan. 1858. 83 
 
 July 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1835. 
 1830. 
 1835. 
 1829. 
 1830. 
 
 Nov. 1831. 
 
 Mar. 1850. 
 
 Apr. 1836. 
 Dec. 1829. 
 
 Sep. 
 Sep. 
 Apr. 
 Feb. 
 Sep. 
 Dec. 
 Apr. 
 
 Oct. 
 Mar. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 July 
 
 July 
 
 Feb. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1883. 
 1827. 
 1868. 
 1889. 
 1874. 
 1855. 
 1893. 
 
 1835. 
 1873. 
 
 1884. 
 1871. 
 1843. 
 1861. 
 1838. 
 1835. 
 
 Mar. 1871. 
 June 1864. 
 Feb. 1852. 
 
 Oct. 1841. 
 Feb. 1831. 
 
 July 1835. Nov. 1849. 
 Dec. 1832. 
 
 Apr. 1837. 
 
 June 1836. 
 June 1836. 
 
 Feb. 1837, 
 Jan. 1845. 
 
 Jan. 1890. 
 Oct. 1881. 
 
 1861. 
 Aug. 1875. 
 
 1868. 
 
 Mar. 1867. 
 
 Nov. 1882. 
 June 1830. June 1869. 
 June 1830. Mar. 1864. 
 Nov. 1830. 
 Nov. 1830. • 
 
 May 1863. 
 
 Aug. 1874, 
 
 81 
 46 
 84 
 91 
 
 72 
 58 
 86 
 
 39 
 76 
 
 79 
 78 
 46 
 59 
 33 
 73 
 
 63 
 
 78 
 63 
 
 34 
 60 
 
 May 1865. 82 
 
 84 
 76 
 50 
 
 74 
 85 
 77 
 67 
 
 88 
 72 
 
H6 
 
 No. 1828. 
 
 266. Charles Henry Plunkett, 
 
 267. Daniel Nichols Warner, 
 
 268. Almena Davis, 
 L 269. Laura McElwain, 
 
 270. Timothy Bacon, 
 
 271. Betsey Richards, 
 
 272. Lavina Goodrich, 
 
 273. Matilda Barrett, 
 WL 274. Asa B. Partridge, 
 WL 275. Mrs Julia P. Partridge, 
 
 1829. 
 
 L 276. Joseph White, 
 
 L 277. Ichabod Post, 
 
 L 278. Mrs. Elizabeth Post-Ichabod, 
 
 L 279. Mrs. Dorothy B. Warner, 
 
 L 280. Mrs. Phanleia Francis- John, 
 
 1830. 
 
 281. James Benton, 
 
 282. Mrs. Nancy Benton-James, 
 
 283. Mrs. Harriet M. Hinsdale-Levi, 
 
 284. Mrs. Sarah Allen Cooper-Porter, 
 L 285. Mrs. Harriet Marsh Kittredge-Dr. B. F., 
 
 1831. 
 
 L 286. Mrs. Alithea Street-Horace, 
 
 L 287. Mrs. Susan T. Butts-Rufus, 
 
 288. Thomas F. Barker, 
 
 289 Elijah Augustus Wentworth, 
 
 290. Isaac Austin Bassett, 
 
 291. Tryphena Merrill-John, 
 
 292. Mrs. Ruth L. Roberts-Samuel P 
 
 293. Mrs. Sophia H. White-Joseph, 
 294 Achsah Richards Holland-Stephen, Apr 
 
 295. Mrs. Lilly Lemlev-Solomon, 
 
 296. Clarissa Adams-W. W., 
 
 297. Lydia Pierce, 
 
 g^' I Mary Parks Francis, 
 
 299. Almira Bassett, 
 
 300.' Cynthia Loomis. 
 
 301. Elizabeth Bixbee, 
 
 3"2. Sophronia Kittredge, 
 
 L 303. Mrs. Fanny Buel, 
 
 304. Horace Street, 
 
 1832. 
 
 L 305. Cotton Moody, 
 
 L 306. Mrs. Lucy Moody-Cotton, 
 
 1833. 
 
 L 307. Mrs. Lucy M. Barrett-Thos. P., 
 
 L 308. Russell Tinker, 
 
 L 309. Benjamin E. Warner, 
 
 310. Myra Hinsdale, 
 
 
 
 Approximate Date 
 
 Dismissed. 
 
 or Death and 
 
 Age. 
 
 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1860. 
 
 59 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1838. 
 
 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1860. 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1884. 
 
 76 
 
 June 
 
 1832. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1834. 
 
 81 
 
 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1856. 
 
 54 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1832. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1881. 
 
 85 
 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 .1884. 
 
 86 
 
 July 
 
 1833. 
 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1833. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1860. 
 
 72 
 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1847. 
 
 78 
 
 
 
 Sept. 
 
 1837. 
 
 68 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1838. 
 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1852. 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1880. 
 
 74 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1831. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1869. 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1831. 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1877. 
 
 83 
 
 June 
 
 1839. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1869. 
 
 81 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1834. 
 
 
 
 
 5. F., 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1886. 
 
 76 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1836. 
 
 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1838. 
 
 
 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1841. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1892. 
 
 89 
 
 
 
 June 
 
 1858. 
 
 58 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1833. 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1886. 
 
 75 
 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1860. 
 
 68 
 
 
 
 May 
 
 1863 
 
 77 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1888. 
 
 92 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1836. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1880. 
 
 76 
 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1888. 
 
 91 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1888. 
 
 80 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1836. 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1888. 
 
 87 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1833. 
 
 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1833. 
 
 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1836. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1895. 
 
 80 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1860. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1895. 
 
 80 
 
 
 
 May 
 
 1840. 
 
 41 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1836. 
 
 1840. 
 1840. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1834. 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1844. 
 
 55 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1856. 
 
 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1853. 
 
 
 
 - 
 
147 
 
 . No. 1834. 
 
 311. Austin Wing, 
 
 312. Flora Minerva Hawley, 
 
 313. Margaret Stowell, 
 L 314. Mrs. Almira Watkins-Riley, 
 
 315. Lucretia Colt, 
 
 316. Susanna Annista Stowell, 
 
 317. Mrs. Mary Northrop Goodrich-E. H 
 W 318. Eunice Chamberlain Kittredge, 
 L 319. Elviza Goodrich, 
 
 1835. 
 
 L 320. Mrs. Semiramis Barker-Asahel, 
 
 L 321. Mrs. Lydia Meacham, 
 
 L 322. Julia Spencer, 
 
 1836. 
 
 323. Elbridge G. Pierce, 
 
 324. Francis Pierce, 
 
 325. Lewis Pierce. 
 
 326. Judith Mason Pierce, 
 
 327. Harriet Pierce, 
 
 328. Cynthia Parsons, 
 3^9. Rebecca Parsons, 
 
 330. Zilpha Parsons, 
 
 331. Maria P. Meacham. 
 
 332. Mary Peck Tinker, July 1853. 
 
 333. Widow Sophia P. Nichols, 
 
 334. Mrs. Roxana A. Tinker-Russell, 
 
 335. Belinda Barker, 
 
 336. Mrs. Seraph Emmons-Monroe, 
 
 g^" )■ Emily Emmons, May 1842. 
 
 338! Abigail Wright, 
 
 339. Martha Emeline Cady, 
 
 1837. 
 
 L 
 L 
 
 L 
 L 
 
 L 
 L 
 
 
 Approximate Date 
 
 Dismissed. 
 
 op Age and Death 
 
 Aug. 1834. 
 
 
 Aug. 1856. 
 
 
 Oct. 1836. 
 
 
 
 Sep. 1847. 35 
 
 
 July 1838. 23 
 
 Aug. 1838. 
 
 1843. 24 
 
 
 Nov. 1867. 59 
 
 Jan. 1839. 
 
 Apr. 1886. 75 
 
 
 Sep. 1856. 53 
 
 
 Nov. 1879. 72 
 
 
 Feb. 1857. 78 
 
 May 1846. 
 
 Nov. 1864. 43 
 
 Feb. 1847. Aug. 1862. 46 
 
 July 1844. Aug. 1883. 66 
 
 Dec. 1858. Apr. 1872. 58 
 Jan. 1852. 
 
 Mar. 1867. May 1872. 61 
 
 Sept. 1856. Sept. 1865. 49 
 
 Aug. 1868. 50 
 
 Apr. 1871. 73 
 
 July 1852. 58 
 
 July 1842. 29 
 
 Sep. 1836. 29 
 
 July 1845. July 1880. 67 
 July 1843. 
 
 Marshall Pierce, 
 
 Mrs. Mary Francis Pierce-Marshall, 
 
 340 
 341 
 
 576 " I Lyman Payne, 
 
 343. Sarah Jane Colt, 
 
 Mrs. Frances Wright- Asah el, 
 
 Mrs. Martha. Wright-Charles, 
 
 Solomon Ingham, 
 
 Mrs. Polly Ingham-Solomon, 
 
 Abner Wing, 
 
 Mrs. Mehitable Wing-Abner, 
 
 Henry Merriman, 
 
 John Putnam, 
 
 Eunice Clark, 
 
 344. 
 345. 
 521. 
 346. 
 347. 
 348. 
 349. 
 350. 
 351. 
 352. 
 
 L ^' I Henry Pitt, 
 
 L g^' I Mrs. Sophia Pitt-Henry, 
 
 L 355. Mrs. Martha C. Curtiss-Frederick, 
 
 J 
 
 May 
 June 
 
 1886. 
 1895. 
 
 77 
 84 
 
 May 1842. 
 
 
 
 
 July 1842. 
 Sep. 1844. 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1863. 
 
 76 
 
 Sep. 1844. 
 
 
 
 
 Sep. 1840. 
 Sep. 1840. 
 Sep. 1840. 
 Nov. 1849. 
 Aug. 1856. 
 Jan. 1846. 
 
 Nov. 
 Apr. 
 
 1837. 
 
 1867. 
 1866. 
 1885. 
 
 86 
 
 75 
 74 
 
 May 1861. 
 
 
 
 
 May 1861. 
 
 
 
 
 Apr. 1876 67 
 
148 
 
 Approximate Date 
 
 
 No. 
 
 1838. 
 
 Dismissed. 
 
 of Death and 
 
 Age. 
 
 
 356. 
 
 Warren W. Pierce, 
 
 July 
 
 1845. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1881. 
 
 69 
 
 
 357. 
 
 Elijah L. Little, 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1841. 
 
 
 
 
 
 358. 
 
 Lydia Morgan. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 359. 
 
 Mrs. Mary Cheeseman- Abel, 
 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1842. 
 
 80 
 
 L 
 
 360. 
 
 Anna Cheeseman, 
 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1888. 
 
 84 
 
 L 
 
 361. 
 
 1839. 
 Mrs. Sarah T. Merriman-Henry, 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1849. 
 
 May 
 
 1851. 
 
 34 
 
 L 
 
 362. 
 
 Mrs. Cynthia Stowell Wentworth- 
 
 1840. 
 
 Edward Cheeseman, 
 
 E. A. 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1893. 
 
 81 
 
 L 
 
 363. 
 
 
 
 May 
 
 1885. 
 
 84 
 
 
 364. 
 
 Mrs. Lucinda B. Cheeseman-Edward, 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1886. 
 
 84 
 
 L 
 
 365. 
 
 James Miller, 
 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1880. 
 
 82 
 
 L 
 
 366. 
 
 Mrs. Lucy Miller-James, 
 
 1 CM1 
 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1875. 
 
 79 
 
 L 
 
 367. 
 
 lo41. 
 
 Mrs. Susan Emmons-Noadiah, 
 
 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1877. 
 
 73 
 
 L 
 
 368. 
 
 Rev. Seth W. Banister, 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1846. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1861. 
 
 52 
 
 
 369. 
 
 Loran C. Clark, 
 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1863. 
 
 44 
 
 
 370. 
 
 Sarah H. White, 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1850. 
 
 
 
 
 
 371. 
 
 Mary Ann Hinsdale, 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1842. 
 
 23 
 
 
 372. 
 
 Eliza Cady, 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1847. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 373. 
 
 Mrs. Harriet Watk ins-Daniel, 
 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1883. 
 
 87 
 
 L 
 
 374. 
 
 Mrs. Keturah Phelps-Seth, 
 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1854. 
 
 74 
 
 L 
 
 375. 
 
 Servius Ellis. 
 
 July 
 
 1848. 
 
 
 1854. 
 
 
 L 
 
 376. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Ellis-Servius, 
 
 1 CMO 
 
 July 
 
 1848. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 377. 
 
 lo4!tf. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth E. H. Banister-S. W 
 
 ., June 
 
 1847. 
 
 July 
 
 1850. 
 
 32 
 
 L 
 
 378. 
 
 Mrs. Kesiah L. Blair, 
 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1852. 
 
 
 L 
 
 379. 
 
 Mrs. Nancy P. Loomis, 
 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1865. 
 
 69 
 
 
 380. 
 
 John Merrill, 
 
 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1869. 
 
 77 
 
 
 381. 
 
 Ira Torrey, 
 
 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1892. 
 
 78 
 
 
 382. 
 
 Charles J. Kittredge. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 383. 
 
 Silas B. Bottom, 
 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1876. 
 
 63 
 
 
 384. 
 
 Captain Abraham Washburn, 
 
 1843. 
 Mrs. Naomi Wentworth-David, 
 
 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1852. 
 
 97 
 
 L 
 
 385. 
 
 July 
 
 1855. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1863. 
 
 51 
 
 
 386. 
 
 Mrs. Phoebe M. Chapin, 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1847. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 387. 
 
 Charles Snow, 
 
 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1849. 
 
 42 
 
 L 
 
 388. 
 
 Henry Cady, 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1844. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 389. 
 
 Mrs. Maria Cady-Henry, 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1844. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 390. 
 
 Edward T. Nash, 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1860. 
 
 58 
 
 L 
 
 391. 
 
 Mrs. Charlotte Nash-E. T., 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1863. 
 
 51 
 
 L 
 
 392. 
 
 Mrs. Chloe B. Parish-Gordon, 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1865. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1892. 
 
 76 
 
 L 
 
 393. 
 
 Mrs. Marinda Kittredge Lombard, 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1844. 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1880. 
 
 82 
 
 L 
 
 394. 
 
 Horatio Everett, 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1875. 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1887. 
 
 78 
 
 L 
 
 395. 
 475. 
 
 I E.N. Colt, M. D., 
 
 July 
 
 1845. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 396. 
 476. 
 
 [Mrs. Lydia Col t-E. N., 
 
 July 
 
 1845. 
 
 
 
 
 
 397. 
 
 Christopher C. Pierce, 
 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1890. 
 
 71 
 
 
 398. 
 
 Elizabeth W. Hinsdale, 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1856. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 399. 
 
 Zeri Wing, 
 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1853. 
 
 59 
 
 L 
 
 400. 
 
 Mrs. Zeri Wing. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 No. 
 
 L 
 
 401. 
 
 L 
 
 402. 
 
 L 
 
 403. 
 
 AL404. 
 
 AL405. 
 
 L 
 
 406. 
 
 L 
 
 407. 
 
 L 
 
 408. 
 
 L 
 
 409. 
 
 L 
 
 410. 
 
 L 
 
 411. 
 
 L 
 
 412. 
 
 L 
 
 413. 
 
 L 
 
 . 414. 
 
 L 
 
 415. 
 
 Dismissed. 
 
 of Age and Death. 
 
 May 
 
 1853. 
 
 Nov. 1888. 
 
 68 
 
 Feb. 
 May 
 
 1852. 
 1853. 
 
 1886. 
 
 
 
 
 
 June 1864. 
 Feb. 1861. 
 
 50 
 65 
 
 July 
 June 
 May 
 
 1850. 
 
 1848. 
 1847. 
 
 Jan. 1862. 
 
 Dec. 1890. 
 Jan. 1849. 
 Oct. 1881. 
 
 47 
 
 69 
 63 
 90 
 
 149 
 
 Approximate Date 
 1843. 
 
 Milo Wing, 
 
 Mrs. Martha A. Wing-Milo. 
 
 Malvina Wing, 
 
 Corinth Wing, 
 
 Anna B. Wing, 
 
 1844. 
 Mrs. Sarah Tuttle-John M., 
 Mrs. Abigail Hinsdale-William, 
 
 1845. 
 Truman Crossett, 
 Chauncey A. Ferguson, 
 Ira B. Sampson, 
 Mrs. Mary E. Clark-Loran C, 
 Nathaniel Butts, 
 Mrs. Polly Butts-Nathaniel, 
 Mary Butts. 
 Mrs. Frances B. Kittredge-C. J. 
 
 L g^- I Mrs. Elvira Comstock Parish-E. H,, Feb. 1874. 
 
 1847. 
 
 L g^- i Lyman White, Mar. 1859. 
 
 L ggg J- Mrs. Annah White-Lyman, Mar. 1859. 
 
 L 419. Clarissa White, Dec. 1854. 24 
 
 L 420. Rev. Edward Taylor, Oct. 1850. 
 
 L 421. Selden R. Ferguson, June 1857. 40 
 
 L 422. Isaac Bassett. 
 
 L 423. Mrs. Margaret P. Ferguson-S. R. , Jan. 1854. 33 
 
 535' j- Milo M. Wentworth, June 1854. 
 
 425. Otis Jones, Mar. 1853. 
 
 426. Mrs. Susanna Jones-Otis. Mar. 1853. 
 
 L 427. Mrs. Judith Kittredge Wells, June 1850. Feb. 1882. 77 
 
 428. Erastus Pierce, July 1884. 79 
 
 429. Mrs. Sophia M. Pierce-Erastus, Mar. 1883. 73 
 
 430. Ira Day, May 1887. 75 
 
 431. Mrs. Frances F. Day-Ira, May 1884. 64 
 
 432. Lydia Tucker, Mar. 1876. 74 
 
 433. William Clark, Jr., Apr. 1886. 67 
 
 434. Mrs. Lucy E. Clark- William, Jr., Dec. 1890. 68 
 
 435. Henry Putnam, Feb. 1863. 62 
 
 436. John Francis, July 1852. Mar. 1885. 83 
 
 437. Abel Kittredge, Jr., June 1870. June 1886. 64 
 
 438. Orlen N. B. Pierce, 1853. 
 
 439. Mrs. Wancy Taylor Plunkett-C. H., Aug. 1869. 54 
 
 440. Mrs. Harriet Tracy-William, Mar. 1858. 42 
 
 441. Sarah Pierce, Nov. 1858. 58 
 
 442. Sarah L. Merrill, Jan. 1857. June 1879. 
 
 443. Julia A. Merrill, Sep. 1855. Sep. 1892. 72 
 
 444. Mary K. Roberts, Apr. 1853. Feb. 1878. 50 
 
 445. Elizabeth A. Cady, Feb. 1853. 
 
 446. Janette Blake, Jan. 1874. 
 
150 
 
 L 
 L 
 
 No. 
 
 447. 
 
 448. 
 
 449. 
 
 450. 
 
 451. 
 
 452. 
 
 453. 
 
 454. 
 
 455. 
 
 456. 
 
 457. 
 
 458. 
 
 459. 
 
 460. 
 
 461. 
 
 462. 
 
 463. 
 
 464. 
 
 465. 
 
 466. 
 
 467. 
 
 468. 
 
 469. 
 
 470. 
 
 471. 
 
 472. 
 
 473. 
 
 474. 
 
 475. 
 
 476. 
 
 Approximate Date 
 
 L 477. 
 L 478. 
 
 479. 
 
 480. 
 
 481. 
 AL482. 
 
 483. 
 
 484. 
 
 485. 
 
 486. 
 
 487. 
 
 488. 
 
 489. 
 
 490. 
 
 491. 
 
 L 
 L 
 L 
 L 
 L 
 L 
 
 492. 
 493. 
 494. 
 495. 
 496. 
 497. 
 
 1847. 
 
 Dismissed. 
 
 or Death and 
 
 Age. 
 
 Martha L. Tinker, 
 
 Dec. 1861. 
 
 June 
 
 1892 
 
 65 
 
 Olive Clark, 
 
 Jan. 1850. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1850. 
 
 22 
 
 Sophia M. White, 
 
 May 1854. 
 
 
 
 
 Riley Watkins, 
 
 
 July 
 
 1884. 
 
 80 
 
 Samuel Watkins, 
 
 
 Aug, 
 
 , 1886. 
 
 75 
 
 Gordon Parish, 
 
 Dec. 1865. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1877. 
 
 64 
 
 Elisha H. Parish, 
 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1871. 
 
 53 
 
 Peter Parsons. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lemuel Parsons, Jr., 
 
 May 1857. 
 
 
 
 
 George N. Cady, 
 
 1886. 
 
 
 
 
 Charles Chandler Thompson, 
 
 Jan. 1850. 
 
 
 
 
 Mrs. Kesiah W. Drowne, 
 
 Feb. 1852. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1895. 
 
 82 
 
 Genevra Richards, 
 
 Apr. 1854. 
 
 
 
 
 Mary Barrows, 
 
 
 July 
 
 1889. 
 
 58 
 
 Sarah Amelia Livermore, 
 
 June 1858. 
 
 
 
 
 Emerancy White, 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1847. 
 
 14 
 
 Eunice Pierce, 
 
 Apr. 1850. 
 
 
 
 
 Maria Cole, 
 
 May 1863. 
 
 
 
 
 Mrs. Jane G. Taylor-Rev. Edward 
 
 , Feb. 1851. 
 
 
 
 
 Festus Francis. 
 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1862. 
 
 87 
 
 Lysander M. Francis. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mrs. Mary Bird Francis-L. M. , 
 
 
 June 
 
 1891. 
 
 76 
 
 Austin M. Wentworth, 
 
 Dec. 1850. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1890. 
 
 64 
 
 Rufus Apthorpe, 
 
 Sep. 1861. 
 
 
 
 
 Harriet Cornelia Kittredge. 
 
 Apr. 1856. 
 
 
 
 
 Laura Nicholson. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cynthia Cole, 
 
 
 June 1855. 
 
 29 
 
 Harvey T. Spring, 
 
 
 May 
 
 1853. 
 
 27 
 
 E. N. Colt, M. D., 
 
 Aug. 1849. 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1893. 
 
 82 
 
 Mrs. Lydia B. Colt-E. N., 
 
 1848: 
 
 Caroline Fergueson, 
 
 Aug. 1849. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1893. 
 
 81 
 
 July 1852. 
 
 
 
 
 Philip H. Sears, 
 
 Dec. 1852. 
 
 
 
 
 Noadiah Emmons, 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1883. 
 
 81 
 
 Philander F. Booth, 
 
 Dec. 1860. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1895. 
 
 84 
 
 Jocob Booth, Jr., 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1871. 
 
 74 
 
 William P. Morehouse, 
 
 1886. 
 
 
 
 
 Nathan W. Fay, 
 
 Jan. 1859. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1886. 
 
 63 
 
 Henry Alexander Peirce, 
 
 Dec. 1852. 
 
 
 
 
 Mrs. Harriet Eames-A. D. 
 
 
 
 
 
 George W. McElwain, 
 
 
 July 
 
 1861. 
 
 78 
 
 Mrs. Frances McElwain-G. W., 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1875. 
 
 90 
 
 Thomas Stebbins, 
 
 'May 1851. 
 
 
 
 
 Julia Putnam, 
 
 Oct. 1853. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1869. 
 
 41 
 
 Mrs. Mary Loveland-Samuel, 
 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1851. 
 
 39 
 
 Sarah. M. Nash, 
 
 Nov. 1859. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1867. 
 
 37 
 
 1849. 
 
 Harvey S. Beals, 
 
 July 1854. 
 
 
 
 
 Sarah J. Beals-Harvey S., 
 
 
 
 1851. 
 
 
 Levi Alexander, 
 
 Mar 1850. 
 
 
 
 
 Mrs. Mary Alexander-Levi, 
 
 Mar. 1850. 
 
 
 
 
 Justin Smith, M. D., 
 
 June 1853. 
 
 
 
 
 Martha L. Smith, 
 
 June 1853. 
 
 
 
 
151 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Appro; 
 
 5IMATE 
 
 Date 
 
 
 No. 
 
 1850. 
 
 Dismissed. 
 
 of Death and 
 
 Age. 
 
 
 498. 
 
 Lucy M. Tucker. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 499. 
 
 Frederick Barstow, 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1854. 
 
 
 
 
 
 500. 
 
 Martin Livermore, 
 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1870. 
 
 65 
 
 
 501. 
 
 Lorenzo Davison Heath, 
 
 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1852. 
 
 
 
 502. 
 
 Baxter Ellis Johnson, 
 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1855. 
 
 34 
 
 
 503. 
 
 James Irwin, 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1868. 
 
 
 
 
 
 504. 
 
 Betsey Eliza Irwin, 
 
 Mar, 
 
 1868. 
 
 
 
 
 
 505. 
 
 Mrs. Hannah M. Johnson-Baxter. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 506. 
 
 Mary Morris, 
 
 
 
 
 1890. 
 
 
 
 507. 
 
 Mary Coope, 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1855. 
 
 
 
 
 
 508. 
 
 Mrs. Emmeline B. Lemley-Chas. D. 
 
 ,Mar. 
 
 1860. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1893. 
 
 63 
 
 
 509. 
 
 Elizabeth Richards, 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1854. 
 
 Oct. 
 
 18.78. 
 
 52 
 
 
 510. 
 
 Louisa Graves, 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1854. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 511. 
 
 Eunice Eames-Daniel, 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1864. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1890. 
 
 82 
 
 L 
 
 512. 
 
 Mrs. Hetta Livermore-Martin, 
 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1884. 
 
 
 L 
 
 518. 
 
 Amanda Gamwell, 
 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1870. 
 
 66 
 
 L 
 
 514. 
 
 William S. Davis, 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1857. 
 
 July 
 
 1881. 
 
 75 
 
 L 
 
 515. 
 
 Mrs. Clarissa V. Davis-Wm. S., 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1857. 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1879. 
 
 67 
 
 L 
 
 516. 
 
 Sarah Spring, 
 
 July 
 
 1855. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 517. 
 
 Mrs. Eliza McC. Peirce-C. C. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 518. 
 
 Estha Fish. 
 
 1851. 
 
 
 
 Aug 
 
 . 1859. 
 
 95 
 
 L 519. Harriet M. Beals-Harvey S. July 1854. 
 
 ggg I Charles Wright, Sep. 1855. 
 
 L 0Q4 | Mrs. Martha P. Wright-Charles, Sep. 1855. 
 
 522. Mrs. Hannah E. Curtiss-Henry, July 1873. 50 
 
 1852. 
 
 L 523. Mrs. Sarah Hooker Kittredge-Abel, June 1870. Oct. 18.77. 55 
 
 1853. 
 
 L 
 
 524. 
 
 Rev. P. K. Clark, 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1856. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1872. 
 
 60 
 
 L 
 
 525. 
 
 Mrs Hannah A. Clark-Rev. P. K. 
 
 , Aug. 
 
 1856. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 526. 
 
 Samuel Loveland, 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1872. 
 
 69 
 
 L 
 
 527. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah M. Loveland-Samuel, 
 
 June 
 
 1874. 
 
 June 
 
 1887. 
 
 71 
 
 
 528. 
 
 George M. Wright, 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1855. 
 
 July 
 
 1870. 
 
 33 
 
 
 529. 
 
 Myron Barrows, 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1858. 
 
 May 
 
 1874. 
 
 36 
 
 
 530. 
 
 Alvin F. Davis, 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1862. 
 
 
 
 
 
 531. 
 
 Charles M. Pierce, 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1865. 
 
 
 
 
 
 532. 
 
 A. Washburn Goodrich. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 533. 
 
 Chauncey Goodrich. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 534. 
 
 748. 
 
 t John Brewster Barker, 
 Elim B. Clark, 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1857. 
 
 
 
 
 
 535. 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1858. 
 
 
 
 
 
 '536. 
 
 Harlan A. Pierce, 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1878. 
 
 
 
 
 
 537. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Pierce, 
 
 
 
 May 
 
 1858. 
 
 80 
 
 
 538. 
 
 Mrs. Lucinda Booth, 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1870. 
 
 90 
 
 
 539. 
 
 Mrs. Nancy Clapp-R. J., 
 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1856. 
 
 30 
 
 
 540. 
 
 Eliza A. Miller, 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1876. 
 
 
 
 
 
 541. 
 
 Ellen M. Miller, 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1857. 
 
 
 
 
 
 542. 
 
 Martha A. Putnam, 
 
 June 
 
 1861. 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1866. 
 
 36 
 
 
 543. 
 
 Seraph E. Putnam, 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1861. 
 
 25 
 
152 
 
 No. 
 
 544. 
 545. 
 546. 
 547. 
 548. 
 661. 
 549. 
 550. 
 551. 
 552. 
 553. 
 554. 
 555. 
 556. 
 557. 
 558. 
 559. 
 560. 
 561. 
 562. 
 
 563. 
 564. 
 565. 
 566. 
 567. 
 568. 
 569. 
 570. 
 
 L 571. 
 
 L 572. 
 
 L 573. 
 
 L 574. 
 
 L 575. 
 
 L 576. 
 
 L 577. 
 
 L 
 L 
 L 
 L 
 L 
 L 
 L 
 L 
 
 578. 
 579. 
 580. 
 581. 
 582. 
 583. 
 584. 
 585. 
 
 Deming-L. J. 
 
 L 586. 
 
 L 587. 
 
 588. 
 
 1853. 
 Ophelia. M. Putnam, 
 Maria A. Clark, 
 Elizabeth P. Kittredge. 
 Julia R. Kittredge, 
 
 I Frances J. Kittredge, 
 
 Sarah Curtiss. 
 Mary R. Plunkett, 
 Clarissa B. Pierce. 
 Adeline M. Pierce. 
 Cliniena E. Morgan, 
 Phoebe Cady, 
 Emily C. Went worth, 
 Celestia Barrows. 
 Henry C. Haskell, 
 Mrs. Louisa R. Graves-Fortine, 
 Mrs. Maria Clark. 
 Mrs. Sarah A. 
 Sylvia L. Millikan. 
 Lorenzo J. Deming, 
 1854. 
 
 Sylvia L. Colt, 
 
 Elizabeth W. Fergueson, 
 
 Mrs. Laura Birmingham-Henry, 
 
 Deacon Clark Prince, 
 
 Mrs. Priscilla Prince-Clark, 
 
 Mrs. Phanelia Prince-William, 
 
 Harriet A. Prince, 
 
 Priscilla A. Prince, 
 
 1855. 
 
 James K. Lombard, 
 Ambrose Meacham, 
 Mrs. Electa Meacham-Anibrose, 
 Harriet Meacham, 
 
 1857. 
 Mrs. Mary C. Bingham-Silas. 
 Lyman Payne, 
 Mrs. Emily E. Payne-Lyman, 
 
 1858. 
 Milton Nash, 
 
 Mrs. Harmony D. Nash-Milton, 
 Willard Beals, 
 
 Mrs. Laura S. Beals-Willard, 
 Rev. Kinsley Twining, 
 John R. Davison, 
 Mrs. Betsey Davison-John R., 
 Milo M. Wentworth. 
 Mrs. Clara C. Wentworth-M. M. 
 J. T. Mack, 
 Sarah J. Mack, 
 
 Approximate Date 
 Dismissed, of Death and Age. 
 
 Aug 1856. 
 
 Apr. 1856. Oct. 1895. 59 
 
 Feb. 1868. Aug. 1893. 58 
 Dec. 1860. 
 
 July 1864. 28 
 
 Aug. 
 June 
 
 1866. 
 1867. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1863. 
 
 24 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1855. 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1865. 
 
 61 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1874. 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1874. 
 
 
 
 
 Nov. 
 Nov. 
 Sep. 
 June 
 
 Aug. 
 Oct. 
 
 1879. 
 1861. 
 1873. 
 1873. 
 
 1856. 
 
 1857. 
 
 May 
 
 Oct. 
 June 
 Jan. 
 
 1874. 
 1879. 
 
 1870. 
 1859. 
 
 40 
 75 
 67 
 85 
 
 Aug. 
 Sep. 
 Sep. 
 Aug. 
 
 1857. 
 1871. 
 1871. 
 1856. 
 
 Aug. 
 Nov. 
 Jan. 
 
 1889. 
 1887. 
 
 1889. 
 
 57 
 83 
 84 
 
 
 > 
 
 Dec. 
 Feb. 
 
 1888. 
 1885. 
 
 77 
 70 
 
 Aug. 
 Feb. 
 
 1868. 
 1864. 
 
 Apr. 
 Nov. 
 Mar. 
 Mar. 
 
 1879. 
 1861. 
 1872. 
 1863. 
 
 72 
 39 
 70 
 
 57 
 
 
 
 June 1892. 
 
 67 
 
 
 
 May 
 May 
 
 1861. 
 
 1859. 
 
 50 
 17 
 
153 
 
 
 No. 
 
 1859. 
 
 
 589. 
 
 Jane L. Clark. 
 
 
 590. 
 
 George W. Tracy, 
 
 
 591. 
 
 William Harrison Benson. 
 
 
 592. 
 
 Martha R. Beals. 
 
 L 
 
 593. 
 
 George W. Hathaway, 
 
 L 
 
 594. 
 
 Mrs. Betsey Hathaway-G. W., 
 
 
 595. 
 
 Emily Frances Booth, 
 
 
 596. 
 
 Eunice C. Kittredge, 
 
 
 597. 
 
 Sarah M. Kittredge. 
 
 
 598. 
 
 Thomas F. Barker. 
 
 L 
 
 599. 
 
 Stephen Bartlett, 
 
 L 
 
 600. 
 
 Royal D. Geer, 
 
 L 
 
 601. 
 
 Mrs. Lydia J. S. Geer-R. D., 
 
 L 
 
 602. 
 
 Mrs. Elmira Tucker, 
 I860. 
 
 L 
 
 603. 
 
 Mrs. Harriet R. Parks, 
 
 I, 
 
 604. 
 
 Mrs. Martha P. Wright-Charles, 
 
 L 
 
 605. 
 
 Mrs. Eliza Parsons-Peter. 
 
 L 
 
 606. 
 
 Mrs. Independence Bartlett, 
 
 L 
 
 607. 
 
 Harlow Spring, 
 
 L 
 
 608. 
 
 Monroe Gleason, 
 
 L 
 
 609. 
 
 William Braithwaite, 
 
 L 
 
 610. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Braithwaite-William, 
 
 L 
 
 611. 
 
 Mary Braithwaite, 
 
 L 
 
 612. 
 
 Anne Braithwaite, 
 
 1861. 
 
 L 
 
 613. 
 
 Noah Benson, 
 
 L 
 
 614. 
 
 Mrs. Tamma Benson-Noah, 
 
 L 
 
 615. 
 
 Mary E. Desencamper, 
 
 
 616. 
 
 William Ambrose Taylor. 
 1862. 
 
 L 
 
 617. 
 
 Abbie L. Taylor, 
 
 L 
 
 618. 
 
 Otis Taylor, 
 
 L 
 
 619. 
 
 Mrs. Pamelia Taylor-Otis, 
 
 L 
 
 620. 
 
 Henry C. Bennett, 
 
 L 
 
 621. 
 
 Lyman White, 
 
 L 
 
 622. 
 
 Mrs. Annah White-Lyman, 
 
 L 
 
 623. 
 
 Henry A. Pierce, 
 
 L 
 
 624. 
 
 Mrs. Mary E. Pierce-Henry A., 
 
 1863. 
 
 J, 
 
 625. 
 
 Mrs. Ella A. Granger, 
 
 L 
 
 626. 
 
 Mrs. Louisa H. Hatch, 
 
 L 
 
 627. 
 
 Jane M. Watkins, 
 
 L 
 
 628. 
 
 Charles Wright, 
 
 
 629. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah S. White-S. H. 
 
 
 630. 
 
 Henry W. Watkins. 
 
 
 631. 
 
 Miriam T. Watkins, 
 
 
 632. 
 
 Elizabeth A. Pierce. 
 
 1865. 
 
 
 633. 
 
 Dwight F. Benson, 
 
 
 634. 
 
 Mrs. Lavinia C. Benson-Dwight F, 
 
 
 635. 
 
 William Wood, 
 
 Dismissed. 
 Apr. 1866. 
 
 June 1866. 
 June 1866. 
 July 1862. 
 
 Nov. 1861. 
 Nov. 1861. 
 Apr. 1866. 
 
 Sep. 1871. 
 May 1872. 
 
 Apr. 1873. 
 
 June 1861. 
 Apr. 1866. 
 Apr. 1866. 
 Apr. 1866. 
 Apr. 1866. 
 
 Dec. 1862. 
 
 Approximate Date 
 op Death and Age. 
 
 Sep. 1861. 21 
 
 Jan. 1861. 
 Oct. 1892. 
 
 72 
 65 
 
 May 1884. 64 
 
 Nov. 1862. 
 Apr. 1867. 
 Apr. 1867. 
 Nov, 1864. 
 Nov. 1864. 
 
 Mar. 1870. 
 Apr. 1867. 
 Apr. 1882. 
 
 Jan. 1876. 
 
 Jan. 1878. 
 
 Apr. 1892. 
 Apr. 1864. 
 
 Feb. 1879. 
 Apr. 1880. 
 
 June 1868. 
 Aug. 1881. 
 
 Feb. 1881. 
 Mar. 1888. 
 
 Jan. 1882. 
 Aug. 1870. 
 Dec. 1882. 
 
 Oct. 1886. 
 Mar. 1867. 
 
 80 
 64 
 
 77 
 74 
 
 80 
 86 
 
 83 
 89 
 
 86 
 75 
 56 
 
 52 
 54 
 
 May 1892. 65 
 
 Aug. 1880. 59 
 
154 
 
 No. 1865. 
 
 636. Mrs. Elizabeth Wood-William, 
 
 637. Henry S. Wright, 
 
 638. Sarah S. Bottom. 
 
 639. Eleanor M. Granger, 
 
 640. Martha A. Prince, 
 
 641. Elizabeth N. Bingham, 
 
 642. Marian Deming, 
 
 643. Sarah Jane Loveland, 
 
 644. Edward F. Wentworth. 
 
 645. Rachel E. Livermore, 
 
 646. Henry A. Deming, 
 
 647. Mrs. Isabel Deming-H. A. . 
 
 648. Milo Stowell. 
 
 649. E. H. Goodrich, Jr. 
 
 650. Mrs. Louisa Emmons-Monroe, 
 
 651. Monroe Emmons, 
 
 1866. 
 
 652. Mrs. Mary H. Stowell-Milo, 
 
 653. Catherine W. Kittredge, 
 
 flf | Emily K. Payne, 
 
 Ellen J. Kittredge, 
 
 Samuel B. Dickinson, 
 
 Mrs Caroline Dickinson-Samuel, 
 
 Clark T. Lyman, Aug. 1885. 72 
 
 Mrs. Lydia R. Lyman-C. T. 
 
 1867. 
 
 James Hosmer. 
 
 Mrs. Frances K. Hosmer-James. 
 
 Mrs. Mary E. Clark-E. W., Sep. 1895. 53 
 
 Chester Clark, Mar. 1872. 67 
 
 Mrs. Helen H. Taylor-W. A. 
 
 Mrs. Harriet H. Baldwin-Chauncey, Nov. 1872. 55 
 
 Caroline M. Baldwin, Dec. 1875. 
 
 Lyman Mack Payne. 
 
 
 655. 
 
 L 
 
 656. 
 
 L 
 
 657. 
 
 L 
 
 658. 
 
 L 
 
 659. 
 
 L 
 
 660. 
 
 L 
 
 661. 
 
 L 
 
 662. 
 
 L 
 
 663. 
 
 L 
 
 664. 
 
 L 
 
 665. 
 
 L 
 
 666. 
 
 
 667. 
 
 
 668. 
 
 
 669. 
 
 
 858. 
 
 L 
 
 670. 
 
 L 
 
 671. 
 
 L 
 
 672. 
 
 L 
 
 673. 
 
 L 
 
 674. 
 
 
 675. 
 
 L 
 
 676. 
 
 L 
 
 677. 
 
 
 678. 
 
 L 
 
 679. 
 
 L 
 
 680. 
 
 L 
 
 681. 
 
 L 
 
 682. 
 
 Dismissed. 
 Jan. 1878. 
 June 1867. 
 
 Approximate Date 
 of Death and Age. 
 
 Mar. 1870. 
 June 1873. 
 Feb. 1889. 
 Apr. 1878. 
 June 1874. 
 
 July 1893. 
 
 45 
 
 Nov. 1876. 
 Mar. 1872. 
 Mar. 1872. 
 
 Jan. 1886. 
 
 59 
 
 
 Feb. 1892. 
 Dec. 1865. 
 
 79 
 66 
 
 
 Aug. 1889. 
 May 1882. 
 
 55 
 
 35 
 
 Dec. 1874. 
 
 
 
 Apr. 1874. 
 
 Nov. 1868. 
 Nov. 1868. 
 
 
 
 Susan H. Bingham. 
 
 Emma J. Parish, Feb. 1874. May 1886. 
 
 Mrs. F. A. Corson Goodrich-A. W. 
 
 Rev. Ephraim Flint, Jr., Nov. 1882. 54 
 
 Mrs. Orilla H. Flint-Rev. E., Jr., Dec. 1893. 
 
 1868. 
 Newton B. Whitman, Sep. 1882. 60 
 
 Mrs. Anna E. Whitman-N. B. 
 Clara E. Wentworth. 
 Henry Pitt, 
 
 Mrs. Sophia Pitt-Henry, 
 Catherine Baldwin, 
 Edwin Hume, 
 
 Mrs. Priscilla A. Hume-Edwin, 
 Deacon Ebenezcr Haskell, 
 Mrs. Lydia P. Haskell-Ebenezer, 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1882. 
 
 96 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1879. 
 
 91 
 
 Apr. 1885. 
 
 
 
 
 Apr. 1869. 
 
 
 
 
 Apr. 1869. 
 
 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1870. 
 
 76 
 
 
 July 
 
 1885. 
 
 38 
 
155 
 
 Approximate Date 
 
 Dismissed. 
 
 op Age and Death. 
 
 Apr. 1874. 
 Apr. 1874. 
 Sep. 1876. 
 May 1872. 
 
 July 1890. 52 
 
 
 July 1871. 69 
 Mar. 1890. 58 
 
 No. 1868. 
 
 L 683. Wilbur F. Wilder, 
 
 L 684. Mrs. Delia Wilder- W. F., 
 
 685. David Mack Emmons, 
 
 686. Martha Cornelia Wright, 
 
 1869. 
 
 L 687. Mrs. Louisa L. Hosmer-Zelotes, 
 
 L 688. Marjr Louisa Hosmer, 
 
 689. Mrs. Maria C. Ball. 
 
 690. Mrs. Harriet Post Roth. 
 
 1870. 
 
 L 691. Mrs. Fanny A. Seymour-C, Apr. 1875. 
 
 L 692. Mrs. Sarah A. Warriner-Rev. Francis. 
 
 L 693. Sophia M. Warriner, Oct. 1890. 
 
 694. Amory E. Taylor, Jan. 1875. Jan. 1875. 47 
 
 695. Mrs. Antoinette B. Taylor-A. E., Jan. 1875. 
 
 696. James B. Kittredge. 
 
 697. George T. Plunkett. 
 
 698. Clara Maria Johnson, Mar. 1885. 
 
 699. Mary Emma Birmingham, Sep. 1873. May 1874. 16 
 L 700. John Gaunt. 
 
 L 701. Mrs. Philomelia Gaunt-John. 
 
 AL702. Mrs. Julietta Rust, 1886. 
 
 703. Edward Wilson Clark. 
 
 704. John Randall Cole, Nov. 1894. June 1895. 84 
 
 705. Mrs. Sarah A. Cole-John R., Nov. 1894. 
 A 706. William F. Wood, 1887. 
 
 707. 
 859. f 
 
 708. Frederick N. Sears, June 1894. 
 
 709. John P. Mack, Dec. 1893. 
 
 710. Charles A. Morgan. 
 
 [ Philip Henry Sears, June 1876. 
 
 712. Edson J. Searle, July 1872. 
 
 713. Walter F. Davison. 
 
 714. Herbert M. Davison, Feb. 1884. Feb. 1885. 33 
 
 715. Harris G. Emmons. 
 
 716. Alden H. Pierce. 
 
 717. Almin F. Bartlett, Jan. 1887. 
 
 718. Edwin H. Clark, July 1892. 43 
 
 719. Chauncey Baldwin, May 1884. 83 
 
 720. Henry Birmingham, Sep. 1873. Mav 1874. 44 
 
 721. Mrs. Ellen M. Bartlett-Peter. 
 
 722. William I. Day. 
 
 A 723. Thomas H. Wood, 1887. 
 
 724 Mrs. Martha A. Pease, Nov. 1870. 40 
 
 725. Alice Maria Benson, Feb. 1884. 
 
 L 726. Mrs. Abigail Hume— Richard, Aug. 1872. 83 
 
 L 727. Hannah W. Carter, Feb. 1871. 
 
 728. Ellis Jones, Jan. 1889. 
 
 729. Mrs. Mary A. W. Jones— Ellis, Jan. 1889. 
 
 730. Mrs. Mary Jane Bowen — John C. 
 
 731. Julia Ella Francis, Oct. 1889. 37 
 
 Ella A. Parish, Feb. 1874. 
 
 711. 
 
 825. 
 
156 
 
 No. 1870. 
 
 732. Hannah D. Taylor. 
 
 733. Clara B. Kittredge, 
 
 734. Orissa W. Converse, 
 
 735. Mary Abbie Heustis, 
 
 736. Martha E. Stowell. 
 
 737. George Monroe Watkins. 
 
 738. Simon H. White. 
 
 739. Helen Tuttle. 
 
 740. Charlotte E. Tuttle. 
 
 741. Lelia E. Taylor, 
 
 1871. 
 
 742. William F. Wright, 
 L 743. Phineas L. Page, 
 
 L 744. Mrs. Lorrie A. Page-P. L. , 
 
 L 745. Mrs. Julia Crosier. 
 
 L 746. MahlonGloyd. 
 
 L 747. Mrs. Emily B. Gloyd-Mahlon. 
 
 1872. 
 
 L 748. John Brewster Barker. 
 
 749. Charles B. Tower. 
 
 L 750. Rufus Williams, 
 
 L 751. Mrs. Maria Williams-Rufus, 
 
 L 752. Mrs. Julia Ann Tower, 
 
 753. DeEtte Rogers. 
 
 754. Emma H. Emmons. 
 
 755. Lizzie Mary Clark. 
 
 1873. 
 
 756. Ortentia L. Converse. 
 
 757. Allie L. Bingham, 
 
 758. Annie C. Parish, 
 
 L 759. Mrs. A. W. Gleason-W. W., 
 
 A 760. William F. Tower, 
 
 761. Annie P. Day, 
 
 762. Minnie Louise Hall, 
 
 763. Henry P. Page, 
 
 764. Dwight B. Page, 
 
 1874. 
 
 765. Thomas W. Holmes, 
 
 766. Mrs. Sophia C. Holmes, 
 
 767. William P. Wentworth, 
 
 L 768. Mrs. Elizabeth Ramage-Adam, 
 
 769. Edward H. Taylor, 
 
 770. Mary Elmer Pierce. 
 
 771. Martha B. Gleason, 
 L 772. Mrs. Mary Knight, 
 
 L 773. Mrs. Sarah J. McGeoch, 
 
 774. Martha E. Stevenson, 
 
 775. Mary Jane Curtiss. 
 
 776. Mrs. Amarilla A. Barker-T. F. 
 
 187B. 
 
 777. John Clinton Bowen, 
 
 778. Albert E. Parish, 
 
 Approximate Date 
 Dismissed, of Death and Age. 
 
 Mar. 1884. 
 Apr. 1881. 
 Feb. 1873. 
 
 Jan. 1875. 
 
 Mar. 1873. 
 
 Feb. 1874. Dec. 1893. 
 
 Feb. 1874. 
 
 74 
 
 Mar. 1882. 
 
 July 1875. 60 
 Mar. 1881. 61 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1878. 
 
 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1874. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1875. 
 
 31 
 
 
 1895. 
 
 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1888. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1879. 
 
 19 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1874. 
 
 July 
 
 1895. 
 
 36 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1874. 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1874. 
 
 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1874. 
 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1894. 
 
 
 
 
 Nov. 
 
 1874. 
 
 
 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1875. 
 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1882. 
 
 Sep. 
 
 i--; 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1878. 
 
 
 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1885. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 is;;. 
 
 35 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1888. 
 
 
 
 
157 
 
 No. 1875. 
 
 779. Mrs. Alma S. Parish-A. E., 
 
 L 780. Mrs. MattieM. Sears-P. H., 
 
 L 781. Thomas A. Frissell. 
 
 782. Ellen Smart, 
 
 L 783. Rev. J. J. Dana, 
 
 L 784. Mrs. Sarah E. Dana-J. J., 
 
 785. Mrs. Amanda Roth- William, 
 
 786. Janette Ladd, 
 
 1876. 
 
 Approximate Bate 
 
 Dismissed, 
 
 op Death and 
 
 A<;e 
 
 Oct. 1888. 
 
 
 
 
 June 1876. 
 
 
 
 
 Apr. 1877. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1888. 
 
 29 
 
 Apr. 1877. 
 
 
 
 
 Apr. 1877. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1895. 
 
 74 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1876. 
 
 64 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1885. 
 
 46 
 
 787. 
 854. 
 
 - Samuel McAnnanny, Feb. 1878. 
 
 gi?|?- !• Mrs. Harriet McAnnanny, Feb. 1878. 
 
 789. Mrs. Ortentia J. Converse-Chapin. 
 
 790. Ira Herbert Scott, Oct. 1876. 21 
 
 791. George Abrahams. 
 
 792. Mrs. Helen J. Abrahams-George, Oct. 1876. 36 
 A 793. Mary Thompson, 1886. 
 
 794. Sarah Alice Pierce, June 1886. 
 
 795. Mrs. Helen E. Francis-Charles F., Sep. 1881. Sep. 1889. 38 
 
 796. Henry Benton Avery, Nov. 1878. 
 
 L 797. Mrs. Sophia Jackson-Richard, June 1885. 52 
 
 1877. 
 
 798. Lillie A. Benson. 
 
 L 799. Charles D. Barrett. 
 
 L 800. Mrs. Ann E. Barrett-C. D., 
 
 801. Lucelia M. Watkins. 
 
 802. Mrs. Sarah W. Watkins-Monroe F. 
 
 803. Mary Richard Watkins. 
 
 804. Fanny Amelia Loring, 
 
 805. Alice T. Nye. 
 A 806. Eli L. Carter, 
 A 807. Mrs. Martha A. Carter-E. L., 
 A 808. Eugene C. Johnson, 
 
 809. Arthur S. Wheeler. 
 
 810. Frank S. Watkins, 
 
 811. William B. Pitt, 
 
 812. Levi L. Whitman. 
 
 813. Henry Clarence Parsons. 
 L 814. Edward E. Fay. 
 
 L 815. Mrs. Julia H. Fay-E. E., 
 
 L 816. Milton Dixon, May 1878. 
 
 L 817. Mrs. Julia D. Brown-Lewis D., Dec. 1879. 
 
 L 818. Helen E. Brown. Dec. 1879. 
 
 L 819. Emma L. Brown, Dec. 1879. 
 
 L 820. Frederick W. Brown, Dec. 1879. Oct. 1887. 28 
 
 1878. 
 
 821. Albert R. Mecum. 
 
 822. Mrs. Harriet A. Watkins. 
 
 L 823. Mrs. Sophronia E. G. Birmingham-S. G. 
 
 L 824. Mrs. Mary Ella Tower-C. B. 
 
 L 825. Philip Henry Sears, Apr. 1886. 
 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1881. 
 
 46 
 
 June 1879. 
 
 
 
 
 1886. 
 
 June 1886. 
 
 1886. 
 
 
 r 
 
 
 
 July 
 Jan. 
 
 1877. 
 1879. 
 
 21 
 60 
 
158 
 
 Approximate Date 
 
 
 No. 
 
 
 1878. 
 
 Dismissed. 
 
 of Death and 
 
 Age. 
 
 L 
 
 826. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mattie M. Sears-P. H. , 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1886. 
 
 
 
 
 
 827. 
 
 Hattie A. P. Roth. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 828. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Mary E. Robinson-C. C. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 829. 
 
 Louise B. Stetson, 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1894. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1879. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 830. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Sarah Louisa Barrett-James. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 831. 
 
 Harriet R. Watkins. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 832. 
 
 Dennis J. Brown, 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1895. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 833. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Martha F. Haskell, 
 
 July 
 
 1882. 
 
 Aug. 
 
 1889. 
 
 
 L 
 
 834. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Margaret J. Evans-David, 
 
 1880. 
 
 
 
 June 
 
 1889. 
 
 34 
 
 L 
 
 835. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Fanny A. Peirce-C. A. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 836. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Kate C. Plunkett-G. T. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 837. 
 
 Annie M. Bond, 
 
 July 
 
 1883. 
 
 
 
 
 
 838. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Frances E. Stetson, 
 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1881. 
 
 52 
 
 L 
 
 839. 
 
 Will 
 
 iam H. Sherman, 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1884. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 840. 
 841. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Lym 
 
 S. W. L. Sherman-W. H., 
 
 1881. 
 an Mack. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1884. 
 
 
 
 
 
 842. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Maria P. Mack-Lyman, 
 
 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1894. 
 
 73 
 
 
 843. 
 
 Mary E. Mack. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 844. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Emily Watkins-Alonzo. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 845. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Eliza E. Jackson-Haven. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 846. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Julia Gleason-W. W., 
 
 1882. 
 
 Jan. 
 
 1885. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 847. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Louisa Merwin-Henry E., 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1882. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 848. 
 849. 
 
 Mrs. 
 Mrs. 
 
 Rachel Gloyd-Benjamin, 
 Anna B. Ascha-C. G. 
 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1889. 
 
 76 
 
 
 850. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 EllaC. Watkins-M. M., 
 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 1885. 
 
 38 
 
 
 851. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Eleanor T. W. Plummer-G. B 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 852. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Emma Collins-Dr. E. C, 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1893. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 853. 
 
 Sidn 
 
 ey S. Stowell. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 854. 
 
 Samuel McAnany, 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1886. 
 
 July 
 
 1893. 
 
 
 L 
 
 855. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Harriet McAnanny-Samuel, 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1886. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 856. 
 
 Hattie McAnanny, 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1886. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 857. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Elvira C. Parish-E. H. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 858. 
 
 Emma J. Parish, 
 
 
 
 May 
 
 1886. 
 
 34 
 
 L 
 
 859. 
 
 Ella 
 
 A. Parish, 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1884. 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 860. 
 861. 
 
 Hattie Parish, 
 Sarah D. Curtiss. 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1884. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1891. 
 
 29 
 
 
 862. 
 
 Virg 
 
 inia H. Watkins. 
 
 1883. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 863. 
 
 Rev. 
 
 James H. Laird. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 864. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Martha T. Laird-Rev. J. IL, 
 
 1884. 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1888. 
 
 50 
 
 
 865. 
 
 Marion Stowell. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 J, 
 
 866. 
 
 867. 
 
 Johr 
 Mrs. 
 
 i Brown, 
 Judith S. Brown-John. 
 
 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1888. 
 
 78 
 
 
 868. 
 
 Augusta J. Brown, 
 
 
 
 July 
 
 1892. 
 
 43 
 
 
 869. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Eunice A. B. Clark-E. H., 
 
 
 
 Sep'. 
 
 1888. 
 
 37- 
 
 
 870. 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Isabel D. Goodrich-E. H. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 871. 
 
 William H. Jandro, 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1889. 
 
 
 
 
159 
 
 
 No. 
 
 1884. 
 
 Dismissed. 
 
 L 
 
 872. 
 
 Mrs. Cornelia Jandro-W. H., 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1889. 
 
 L 
 
 873. 
 
 Mrs. Julia Clark-Enoch, 
 
 Mar. 
 
 1887. 
 
 L 
 
 874. 
 
 Fred G. Laird, 
 
 June 1885. 
 
 
 875. 
 
 Emily Sayers. 
 
 
 
 
 876. 
 
 Mary E. Barker. 
 
 
 
 
 877. 
 
 Ella M. Wentworth. 
 
 
 
 
 878. 
 
 Myron C. Stowell. 
 
 
 
 
 879. 
 
 Mrs. Janette Sayers-William, 
 
 1885. 
 
 
 
 
 880. 
 
 Henry P. Kittredge, 
 
 June 
 
 1893. 
 
 
 881. 
 
 Mrs. Mary L. Dresser-Dr. S. P. 
 
 
 
 
 882. 
 
 Minnie M. Rickheit, 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1894. 
 
 
 883. 
 
 Grace M. Brague. 
 
 
 
 
 884. 
 
 Louie L. Sherman. 
 
 
 
 
 885. 
 
 Mrs. Hattie L. Mack-John P., 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1893. 
 
 
 886. 
 
 Charlotte Spring. 
 
 
 
 
 887. 
 
 Alice M. Pease. 
 
 
 
 
 888. 
 
 Carrie A. Sherman. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 889. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah C. Barker-Thomas, Sr. 
 
 
 
 
 890. 
 
 Frank W Strong, 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1890. 
 
 
 891. 
 
 Mrs. Ida E. Strong-F. W., 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1890. 
 
 
 892. 
 
 Louise C. Richards, 
 
 Oct. 
 
 1889. 
 
 
 893. 
 
 Arthur M. Wentworth. 
 
 
 
 
 894. 
 
 Henry Rickheit, 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1894. 
 
 
 895. 
 
 John L. Crossett. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 896. 
 
 Mrs. Jennie A. Benson-W. H., 
 
 1886. 
 
 May 
 
 1889. 
 
 L 
 
 897. 
 
 George A. Bottom, 
 
 June 
 
 1888. 
 
 L 
 
 898. 
 899. 
 900. 
 901. 
 
 Mrs. Alma A. Bottom-G. A., 
 Charles P. Taylor. 
 Merwin L. Stowell, 
 Arthur T. Laird. 
 
 June 
 
 1888. 
 
 L 
 
 902. 
 
 Mrs. Alice Archibald. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 903. 
 
 Mrs. Charlotte S. Feiton-J. W. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 904. 
 
 Mrs. Ella M. Hillier-A. N. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 905. 
 
 Mary C. Seagrave. 
 
 
 
 
 906. 
 
 Hattie E. Ascha, 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1894. 
 
 
 907. 
 
 Mary B. Ascha. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 908. 
 
 Mrs. Angeline O. Palmer, 
 
 
 
 
 909. 
 
 Mary Graham, 
 
 July 
 
 1887. 
 
 
 910. 
 
 Mary W. Goodrich. 
 
 
 
 
 911. 
 
 Fanny M. Laird. 
 
 
 
 
 912. 
 
 Sarah P. Taylor. 
 
 
 
 
 913. 
 
 Mabel E. Taylor. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 914. 
 
 915. 
 916. 
 
 Mrs. Lucinda C. Kittredge-H. P. , 
 
 1887. 
 Mrs. Mary A. Clark-Eben C. 
 Mrs. Eliza Jane Brague-G. W. 
 
 June 
 
 1893. 
 
 L 
 
 917. 
 
 John Abbott. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 918. 
 
 Mrs. Anna E. Winslow-H. L. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 919. 
 920. 
 
 Winnifred Winslow, 
 Sarah A. Tallman. 
 
 
 
 Approximate Date 
 op Death and Age. 
 
 Dec. 1894. 58 
 
 Nov. 1890. 19 
 
 July 1887. 74 
 
 Mar. 1893. 23 
 
160 
 
 
 No. 
 
 1887. 
 
 Dismissed. 
 
 L 
 
 921. 
 
 Mrs. Harriet C. Bristol-Elim N., 
 
 Sep. 
 
 1890. 
 
 L 
 
 922. 
 
 923. 
 924. 
 
 Adeline L. Bristol. 
 
 1888. 
 John B. Woodburn. 
 Henry B. Eldridge. 
 
 
 
 
 925. 
 
 Mrs. Alice A. Wentworth-Edward F 
 
 
 
 926. 
 
 Clara E. Tracy. 
 
 
 
 
 927. 
 
 Ada L. Went worth. 
 
 
 
 
 928. 
 
 Laura S. Barker. 
 
 
 
 
 929. 
 
 Addie Bell Benson, 
 
 May 
 
 1889. 
 
 
 930. 
 
 Charles C. Bartlett. 
 
 
 
 
 931. 
 
 Irving Robinson. 
 
 1889. 
 
 
 
 
 932. 
 
 Julia Franklin. 
 
 
 
 
 933. 
 
 John R. Smith. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 934. 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Smith-John R. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 935. 
 
 936. 
 937. 
 
 George P. Bullis. 
 
 1890. 
 Arthur J. Dresser. 
 Clara M. Watkins. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 938. 
 
 Mrs. Isabella E. Wentworth-W. P., 
 
 Apr. 
 
 1894. 
 
 L 
 
 939. 
 
 Mrs. Helen H. Cheeseman-Edward 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 940. 
 
 Azariah S. Storm. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 941. 
 
 Mrs. Emily P. Storm-Azariah. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 942. 
 
 Mary P. Storm. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 943. 
 
 Emily Z. Storm. 
 
 
 
 L 
 
 944. 
 945. 
 946. 
 947. 
 
 948. 
 949. 
 
 Katie K. Storm. 
 Angie M. Dresser. 
 Alice W. Plummer, 
 Etta M. Solomon. 
 
 1891. 
 Luc}' M. Parsons. 
 Emily J. Franklin. 
 
 
 ■ 
 
 L 
 
 950. 
 951. 
 952. 
 953. 
 954. 
 
 William H. Eldridge, 
 Celia K. Carr. 
 Florence A. Burdick. 
 Lura A. Mecum. 
 Thomas F. Pye. 
 
 Dec. 
 
 1894 
 
 
 955. 
 
 Eli A. Deverell, 
 
 July 
 
 1893 
 
 L 
 
 956. 
 
 Mrs. Anna A. Deverell-E. A , 
 
 
 
 
 957. 
 
 Florence J. Deverell, 
 
 July 
 
 1893. 
 
 
 958. 
 
 Mrs. Mary A. Carr-Henry. 
 
 
 
 
 959. 
 
 Mrs. Rhoda M. White-Jacob, 
 
 1892. 
 
 Dee. 
 
 1S95 
 
 
 960. 
 
 Charles R. Mecum. 
 
 
 
 
 961. 
 
 Mrs. Emma I. Mecum-C. R. 
 
 
 
 
 962. 
 
 Franklin B. Cook. 
 
 
 
 
 963. 
 
 Edwin C. Beverly. 
 
 
 
 
 964. 
 
 James L. Savers. 
 
 
 
 
 965. 
 
 Mel vein II. Stowell. 
 
 
 
 
 966. 
 
 Harry Dresser, 
 
 
 
 Appkoximate Date 
 of Age and Death. 
 
 Nov. 1890. 15 
 
 Apr. 189;',. 38 
 
 Dee. 189;!. 15 
 
161 
 
 Approximate Date 
 1893. Dismissed, of Death and Age. 
 
 Rev. Edson L. Clark. 
 
 Mrs. Jane E. Clark-Rev. E. L. 
 
 Mrs. Anna L. H. Laird-Rev. J. H. t , 
 
 Frank Bull. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah A. Bull-Frank. 
 
 Charles W. West. 
 
 Nellie R. Robinson. 
 
 Andrew C. Burdick, May 1895. 63 
 
 Mrs. Cornelia T. Burdick-A. C. 
 
 Minnie R. Edson. 
 
 1894. 
 William J. Parmelee. 
 Mrs. Elizabeth B. Parmelee-W. J. 
 Minnie B. Wilson. 
 Rev. James C. Seagrave. 
 Franklin W. Edson. 
 EllaL Bull. 
 Mary Tallman. 
 John S. Cole. 
 Herbert West. 
 Welcome H. Watkins. 
 Fred W. Cole. 
 Walter C. Solomon. 
 Charles Cole, Jr. 
 
 1895. 
 Ella G. Stickney. 
 Rose H. Franklin. 
 Mrs. Jane P. Knight-Warren P. 
 Oliver J. Sawyer. 
 William J. Gray. 
 Mrs. Jennie Gray-W. J. 
 
 SUMMARY OF MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 Men admitted by profession, 222 
 
 Men admitted by letter, 136 
 
 Men removing residence and again returning, 10 
 
 368 
 
 Women admitted by profession, 362 
 
 Women admitted by letter, 252 
 
 Women removing residence and again returning, 13 
 
 — 627 
 
 Total 995 
 
 
 No. 
 
 L 
 
 967. 
 
 L 
 
 968. 
 
 L 
 
 969. 
 
 
 970. 
 
 
 971. 
 
 
 972. 
 
 
 973. 
 
 L 
 
 974. 
 
 L 
 
 975. 
 
 
 976. 
 
 L 
 
 977. 
 
 L 
 
 978. 
 
 L 
 
 979. 
 
 L 
 
 980. 
 
 
 981. 
 
 
 982. 
 
 
 983. 
 
 
 984. 
 
 
 985. 
 
 
 986. 
 
 
 987! 
 
 
 988. 
 
 L 
 
 989. 
 
 
 990. 
 
 
 991. 
 
 
 992. 
 
 
 993. 
 
 L 
 
 994 
 
 L 
 
 995. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
 Members who have been dismissed or have removed from town, 
 whose names correspond to the following numbers as far as can be 
 ascertained, were living at the time of the anniversary. The oldest 
 living member is No. 192 in her 98th year. Other duties prevented 
 this list being ready when the book was printed. The Clerk will be 
 thankful for corrections or additional information in regard to former 
 
 members. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 243 
 
 498 
 
 608 
 
 701 
 
 771 
 
 873 
 
 
 
 611 
 
 705 
 
 774 
 
 874 
 
 309 
 
 5o5 
 
 612 
 
 706 
 
 778 
 
 875 
 
 310 
 
 525 
 
 624 
 
 707 
 
 779 
 
 877 
 
 312 
 
 53i 
 
 625 
 
 708 
 
 780 
 
 880 
 
 325 
 
 532 
 
 631 
 
 709 
 
 783 
 
 882 
 
 327 
 
 533 
 
 632 
 
 711 
 
 788 
 
 885 
 
 332 
 
 534 
 
 636 
 
 713 
 
 791 
 
 887 
 
 343 
 
 535 
 
 637 
 
 722 
 
 794 
 
 888 
 
 345 
 
 536 
 
 639 
 
 723 
 
 799 
 
 890 
 
 35i 
 
 540 
 
 640 
 
 725 
 
 
 891 
 
 37o 
 
 54i 
 
 642 
 
 728 
 
 804 
 
 892 
 
 372 
 
 544 
 
 643 
 
 729 
 
 805 
 
 894 
 
 398 
 
 549 
 
 645 
 
 733 
 
 808 
 
 896 
 
 
 555 
 
 646 
 
 734 
 
 8i3 
 
 897 
 
 402 
 
 557 
 
 655 
 
 735 
 
 814 
 
 898 
 
 403 
 
 559 
 
 659 
 
 736 
 
 815 
 
 
 414 
 
 560 
 
 666 
 
 740 
 
 816 
 
 901 
 
 416 
 
 56i 
 
 670 
 
 74i 
 
 817 
 
 906 
 
 420 
 
 562 
 
 672 
 
 742 
 
 818 
 
 914 
 
 445 
 
 563 
 
 675 
 
 744 
 
 819 
 
 921 
 
 449 
 
 564 
 
 678 
 
 745 
 
 821 
 
 922 
 
 455 
 
 569 
 
 679 
 
 746 
 
 824 
 
 929 
 
 457 
 
 57o 
 
 680 
 
 75i 
 
 829 
 
 935 
 
 459 
 
 574 
 
 685 
 
 757 
 
 830 
 
 938 
 
 461 
 
 582 
 
 686 
 
 758 
 
 831 
 
 95o 
 
 464 
 
 59° 
 
 689 
 
 760 
 
 832 
 
 954 
 
 465 
 
 59i 
 
 691 
 
 761 
 
 846 
 
 955 
 
 470 
 
 593 
 
 693 
 
 765 
 
 852 
 
 957 
 
 47i 
 
 594 
 
 695 
 
 766 
 
 853 
 
 960 
 
 477 
 
 595 
 
 698 
 
 767 
 
 855 
 
 961 
 
 482 
 
 
 
 768 
 
 856 
 
 9 |6 
 
 485 
 
 601 
 
 700 
 
 769 
 
 861 
 
 981 
 
 JAMES HOSMER, Clerk. 
 Hinsdale, Mass., Feb. 15, 1896. 
 
Alphabetical Index of Members, 
 
 917. Abbott, John 
 
 753. Abbott, Mrs. J. 
 
 791. Abrahams, George 
 
 792. Abrahams, Mrs. George 
 54. Adams, Mrs. John 
 
 142. Adams, John Jr. 
 
 146. Adams, Eli 
 
 153. Adams, Prudence 
 
 190. Adams, Minerva 
 
 226. Adams, William W. 
 
 296, Adams, Mrs. W. W. 
 
 16. Babcock, Elizabeth 
 
 30. Babcock, Mrs John 
 
 150. Babcock, Electa 
 
 270. Bacon, Timothy 
 
 719. Baldwin, Chauncey 
 
 665. Baldwin, Mrs. Chauncey 
 
 666. Baldwin, Caroline M. 
 678. Baldwin, Catherine 
 689. Ball, Mrs. Maria C. 
 
 368. Bannister, Rev. Seth W. 
 
 377. Bannister, Mrs. B. W. 
 
 220. Barker, Thomas F. 
 
 228. Barker, Asahel 
 
 320. Barker, Mrs. Asahel 
 
 288. Barker, Thomas F. 
 
 889. Barker, Mrs. T. F. 
 
 335. Barker, Belinda 
 
 534. Barker, John B. 
 
 748. Barker, John B. 
 
 598. Barker, Thomas F. 
 
 776. Barker, Mrs. Thomas F. 
 
 876. Barker, Mary E 
 
 928. Barker. Laura S. 
 
 875. Barnes, Mrs. H. M. 
 
 222. Barrows, Theodore 
 460. Barrows, Mary 
 529. Barrows, Myron 
 556. Barrows, Celestia 
 200. Barrett, Mrs. Amos 
 
 223. Barrett, Rufus 
 
 307. Barrett, Mrs. Thomas P. 
 
 A 
 
 255. 
 494. 
 495. 
 
 186. 
 470. 
 902. 
 849. 
 906. 
 907. 
 796. 
 
 B 
 
 799. 
 800. 
 830. 
 231. 
 273. 
 125. 
 232. 
 133. 
 599. 
 606. 
 717. 
 721. 
 930. 
 499. 
 
 39. 
 
 40. 
 
 67. 
 422. 
 290. 
 299. 
 492. 
 493. 
 519. 
 580. 
 581. 
 592. 
 107. 
 620. 
 105. 
 613. 
 614. 
 
 Adams, Julia A. 
 Alexander, Levi 
 Alexander, Mrs. Levi 
 Allen, Mrs. Phoebe 
 Apthorpe, Rufus 
 Archibald, Mrs. Alice 
 Ascha, Mrs. C. G. 
 Ascha, Hattie E. 
 Ascha, Mary B. 
 Avery, Henry B. 
 
 Barrett, Charles D. 
 Barrett, Mrs. C D. 
 Barrett, Mrs. James 
 Barrett, Olive 2d 
 Barrett, Matilda 
 Bartlett, Julius 
 Bartlett, Mrs. Julius 
 Bartlett, Clementine M. 
 Bartlett, Stephen 
 Bartlett, Mrs Independence 
 Bartlett, Almin F. 
 Bartlett, Mrs. Peter 
 Bartlett, Charles C. 
 Barstow, Frederick 
 Bassett, Isaac 
 Bassett, Mrs Isaac 
 Bassett, Mrs. Isaac 
 Bassett, Isaac 
 Bassett, Isaac A. 
 Bassett, Almon 
 Beals, Harvey S. 
 Beals, Mrs. H. S. 
 Beals, Mrs. H. S. 
 Beals, Willard 
 Beals, Mrs. Willard 
 Beals, Martha R. 
 Beals, Joseph 
 Bennett, Henry C. 
 Benson, Widow Mary 
 Benson, Noah 
 Benson, Mrs. Noah 
 
164: 
 
 633. 
 
 Benson, Dwight F. 
 
 609: 
 
 634. 
 
 Benson, Mrs. D. F. 
 
 610. 
 
 591. 
 
 Benson, W. H. 
 
 611. 
 
 896. 
 
 Benson, Mrs. W. H. 
 
 612. 
 
 725. 
 
 Benson, Alice M. 
 
 883. 
 
 798. 
 
 Benson, Lily A. 
 
 916. 
 
 929. 
 
 Benson, Addie B. 
 
 877. 
 
 281. 
 
 Benton, James 
 
 189. 
 
 282. 
 
 Benton, Mrs. James 
 
 921. 
 
 68. 
 
 Bestow, Job 
 
 922. 
 
 963. 
 
 Beverly, Edward C. 
 
 234. 
 
 754. 
 
 Beverly, Mrs. E. C. 
 
 817. 
 
 383. 
 
 Bingham, Silas 
 
 818. 
 
 575. 
 
 Bingham, Mrs. Silas 
 
 819. 
 
 641. 
 
 Bingham, Elizabeth N. 
 
 820. 
 
 668. 
 
 Bingham, Susie H. 
 
 832. 
 
 757. 
 
 Bingham, Allie L. 
 
 866. 
 
 720. 
 
 Birmingham, Henry 
 
 867. 
 
 565. 
 
 Birmingham, Mrs. H. 
 
 868. 
 
 699. 
 
 Birmingham, Mary E. 
 
 303. 
 
 823. 
 
 Birmingham, Mrs. S. G. 
 
 970. 
 
 101. 
 
 Bixbee, Salmon 
 
 971. 
 
 102. 
 
 Bixbee, Mrs. S. 
 
 982. 
 
 301. 
 
 Bixbee, Elizabeth 
 
 935. 
 
 378. 
 
 Blair, Mrs. Keziah L. 
 
 974. 
 
 446. 
 
 Blake, Janette 
 
 975. 
 
 837. 
 
 Bond, Annie M. 
 
 982. 
 
 480. 
 
 Booth, Philander F. 
 
 4. 
 
 481. 
 
 Booth, Jacob Jr. 
 
 28. 
 
 333. 
 
 Booth, Mrs. Jacob Jr. 
 
 164. 
 
 538. 
 
 Booth, Mrs. Lucinda 
 
 215. 
 
 595. 
 
 Booth, Emily F. 
 
 216. 
 
 638. 
 
 Bottom, Sarah S. 
 
 287. 
 
 897. 
 
 Bottom, George A. 
 
 412. 
 
 898. 
 
 Bottom, Mrs, G. A. 
 
 413. 
 
 777. 
 
 Bowen, J. Clinton 
 
 414. 
 
 730. 
 
 Bowen, Mrs. J. C. 
 
 c 
 
 60. 
 
 Cady, Asa 
 
 958. 
 
 61. 
 
 Cady, Mrs. Asa 
 
 . 951. 
 
 62. 
 
 Cady, Esther 
 
 49. 
 
 188. 
 
 Cady, Mrs Mary 
 
 50. 
 
 204. 
 
 Cady, Abial 
 
 806. 
 
 205. 
 
 Cady, Mrs. A. 
 
 807. 
 
 260. 
 
 Cady, Asa 
 
 727. 
 
 261. 
 
 Cady, Mrs. Asa 
 
 386. 
 
 339. 
 
 Cady, Martha E. 
 
 359. 
 
 372. 
 
 Cady, Eliza 
 
 360. 
 
 388. 
 
 Cady, Henry 
 
 363. 
 
 389. 
 
 Cady, Mrs. H. 
 
 364. 
 
 445. 
 
 Cady, Elizabeth A. 
 
 <>:!<). 
 
 456. 
 
 Cady, George N. 
 
 539 
 
 554. 
 
 Cady, Phoebe 
 
 126. 
 
 Braithwaite, William 
 Braithwaite, Mrs. William 
 Braithwaite, Mary 
 Braithwaite, Anne 
 Brague, Grace M. 
 Brague, Mrs. G. W. 
 Bridges, Mrs. Luther W. 
 Briggs, Mrs. Abigail 
 Bristol. Mrs. Elim N. 
 Bristol, Adeline L. 
 Brown, Mrs. Obadiah 
 Brown, Mrs. Lewis D. 
 Brown, Helen E. 
 Brown, Emma L. 
 Brown, Frederick W. 
 Brown, Dennis J. 
 Brown, John 
 Brown, Mrs. John 
 Brown. Augusta J. 
 Buel, Mrs. Fanny 
 Bull, Frank 
 Bull, Mrs. F. 
 Bull, Ella L. 
 Bullis, George P. 
 Burdick, Andrew C. 
 Burdick, Mrs. A. C. 
 Burdick, Florence A. 
 Burnham, Elizur 
 Burnham, William 
 Burnham, Mrs. W. 
 Butts, Rufus 
 Butts, Mrs. Rufus 
 Butts, Mrs. Rufus 
 Butts, Nathaniel 
 Butts, Mrs. N. 
 Butts, Mary 
 
 Carr, Mrs. Henry 
 Carr, Celia E. 
 Carrier, Elisha 
 Carrier, Mrs. E. 
 Carter, Eli L. 
 Carter, Mrs. E. L. 
 Carter, Hannah W. 
 Chapin, Mrs. Phu'be M. 
 Cheeseman, Mrs. Abel 
 Cheeseman, Anna 
 Cheeseman, Edward 
 Cheeseman, Mrs. E. 
 Cheeseman, Mrs. E. 
 Clapp, Mrs. K. J. 
 (lark, William 
 
165 
 
 192. Clark, Mrs. W. 
 
 352. Clark, Eunice 
 
 369. Clark, Loran C. 
 
 411. Clark, Mrs. L. C. 
 
 433. Clark, William, Jr. 
 
 434. Clark, Mrs. W., Jr. 
 448. Clark, Olive 
 
 524. Clark, Rev. P. K. 
 
 525. Clark, Mrs. P. K. 
 535. Clark, Elim B. 
 545. Clark, Maria A. 
 559. Clark, Mrs. Maria 
 589. Clark, Jane L. 
 
 703. Clark, Edward W. 
 
 662. Clark, Mrs. E. W. 
 
 663. Clark, Chester 
 718. Clark, Edwin H. 
 869. Clark, Mrs. E. H. 
 755. Clark, Lizzie M. 
 873. Clark, Mrs. Enoch 
 915. Clark, Mrs. Eben C. 
 
 967. Clark, Rev. E. L. 
 
 968. Clark, Mrs. E. L. 
 464. Cole, Maria 
 
 473. Cole, Cynthia v 
 
 704. Cole, John R. 
 
 705. Cole, Mrs. J. R. 
 984. Cole, John Silas 
 987. Cole, Fred W. 
 989. Cole, Charles Jr. 
 250. Colt, Oliver P. 
 
 783. Dana, Rev. J. J. 
 
 784. Dana, Mrs. J. J. 
 
 514. Davis, William S. 
 
 515. Davis, Mrs. W. S. 
 530. Davis, Alvin F. 
 268. Davis, Almena 
 
 583. Davison, John R. 
 
 584. Davison, Mrs. J. R, 
 
 713. Davison, Walter F. 
 
 714. Davison, Herbert M. 
 
 430. Day, Ira 
 
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 910. 
 
 Tucker, Mrs. W. L. 
 
 308. 
 
 Tinker, Russell 
 
 406. 
 
 Tuttle, Mrs. John M. 
 
 334. 
 
 Tinker, Mrs. Russell 
 
 739. 
 
 Tuttle, Helen 
 
 332. 
 
 Tinker, Mary P. 
 
 740. 
 
 Tuttle, Charlotte E. 
 
 447. 
 
 Tinker, Martha L. 
 
 582. 
 
 Twining, Rev. Kinsley 
 
 381. 
 
 Torry, Ira 
 
 550. 
 
 Twining, Mrs. K. 
 
 749. 
 
 Tower, Charles B. 
 
 181. 
 
 Tyler, Mrs. Persis 
 
 824. 
 
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 134. 
 
 Wales, Samuel 
 
 937. 
 
 Watkins, Clara M. 
 
 135. 
 
 Wales, Mrs. Samuel 
 
 986. 
 
 Watkins, Welcome H. 
 
 267. 
 
 Warner, Daniel N. 
 
 926. 
 
 Watkins, Mrs. W. D. 
 
 279. 
 
 Warner, Mrs. Dorothy B. 
 
 106. 
 
 Watson, Mrs. John 
 
 309. 
 
 Warner, Benjamin E. 
 
 427. 
 
 Wells, Mrs Judith K. 
 
 328. 
 
 Warner, Mrs. Benjamin E. 
 
 46. 
 
 Went worth, Daniel 
 
 329. 
 
 Warner, Mrs. Benjamin E. 
 
 47. 
 
 Wentworth, Mrs. Daniel 
 
 119. 
 
 Warren, Lucy 
 
 139. 
 
 Wentworth, Lucinda 
 
 692. 
 
 Warriner, Mrs. Francis 
 
 192. 
 
 Wentworth, Amanda 
 
 693. 
 
 Warriner, Sophia M. 
 
 196. 
 
 Wentworth, David 
 
 384. 
 
 Washburne, Captain Abraham 385. 
 
 Wentworth, Mrs. David 
 
 115. 
 
 Watkins, Samuel 
 
 289. 
 
 Wentworth, Elijah A. 
 
 241. 
 
 Watkins, Luther 
 
 237. 
 
 Wentworth, Mrs. E. A. 
 
 242. 
 
 Watkins, Mrs. Luther 
 
 362. 
 
 Wentworth, Mrs. E. A. 
 
 450. 
 
 Watkins, Riley 
 
 424. 
 
 Wentworth, Milo M. 
 
 314. 
 
 Watkins, Mrs. Riley 
 
 585. 
 
 Wentworth, Milo M. 
 
 373. 
 
 Watkins, Mrs. Daniel 
 
 586. 
 
 Wentworth, Mrs. M. M. 
 
 451. 
 
 Watkins, Samuel 
 
 767. 
 
 Wentworth, William P. 
 
 331. 
 
 Watkins, Mrs. Samuel 
 
 938. 
 
 Wentworth, Mrs. W. P. 
 
 630. 
 
 Watkins, Henry W. 
 
 877. 
 
 Wentworth, Ella M. 
 
 631. 
 
 Watkins, Miriam T. 
 
 893. 
 
 Wentworth, Arthur M. 
 
 737. 
 
 Watkins, George M. 
 
 927. 
 
 Wentworth, Ada L. 
 
 638. 
 
 Watkins, Mrs. G. M. 
 
 469. 
 
 Wentworth, Austin M. 
 
 844. 
 
 Watkins, Mrs. Alonzo 
 
 555. 
 
 Wentworth, Emily C. 
 
 627. 
 
 Watkins, Jane M. 
 
 644. 
 
 Wentworth, Edward F. 
 
 850. 
 
 Watkins, Mrs. M. M. 
 
 925. 
 
 Wentworth, Mrs. E. F. 
 
 801. 
 
 Watkins, Lucelia M. 
 
 675. 
 
 Wentworth, Clara E. 
 
 802. 
 
 Watkins, Mrs. M. F. 
 
 972. 
 
 West, Charles W. 
 
 803. 
 
 Watkins, Mary R. 
 
 985. 
 
 West. Herbert 
 
 862. 
 
 Watkins, Virginia H. 
 
 809. 
 
 Wheeler, Arthur S. 
 
 810. 
 
 Watkins, Frank S. 
 
 170. 
 
 White, Harvey 
 
 822. 
 
 Watkins, Mrs. Harriet A. 
 
 171. 
 
 White, Mrs. Sally 
 
 831. 
 
 Watkins, Harriet R. 
 
 276. 
 
 White, Joseph 
 
173 
 
 293. White, Mrs. Joseph 
 
 449. White Sophia M. 
 
 738. White, Simon H. 
 
 629. White, Mrs. Simon H. 
 
 370. White, Sarah H. 
 
 417. White, Lyman 
 
 621. White, Lyman 
 
 418. White, Mrs. Lyman 
 
 622. White, Mrs. Lyman 
 
 419. White, Clarissa 
 462. White, Emerancy 
 959. White, Mrs. Jacob 
 
 673. Whitman, Newton B. 
 
 674. Whitman, Mrs N. B. 
 812. Whitman, Levi L 
 937. Whitman, Mrs. L. L. 
 
 57. Whitney, Jabez 
 
 58. Whitney, Mrs. Jabez 
 
 683. Wilder, Wilbur F. 
 
 684. Wilder, Mrs. W, F. 
 
 750. Williams, Rufus 
 
 751. Williams, Mrs. Rufus 
 979. Wilson, Minnie B. 
 
 9. Wing, Seth 
 
 21. Wing. Huldah 
 
 34. Wing, Elisha 
 
 35. Wing, Mrs. Elisha 
 69. Wing, Mrs. James 
 77. Wing, Mrs. Elnathan 
 
 90. Wing, Samuel 
 
 91. Wing, Mrs. Samuel 
 138. Wing, Abner 
 
 141. Wing. Zeri 
 
 217. Wing. Mrs. Zeri 
 
 191. Wing, Lucy A. 
 
 311. Wing, Austin 
 
 348. Wing, Abner 
 
 349. Wing, Mrs. Abner 
 
 29. Yeomans, Moses 
 202. Yeomans, Nathaniel T. 
 
 399. Wing, Zeri 
 
 400. Wing, Mrs. Zeri 
 
 401. Wing, Milo 
 
 402. Wing, Mrs. Milo 
 
 403. Wing, Melvina 
 404 Wing, Corinth 
 405. Wing, Anna B. 
 
 229. Wfsner or Warren, Susan 
 
 918. Winslow, Mrs. H. L. 
 
 919. Winslow, Winnifred 
 48. Witter, Mrs. Joseph Jr. 
 
 83. Witter, Septimeus 
 
 84. Witter, Mrs. S. 
 
 43. Wood, Mrs. Amariah 
 
 635. Wood, William 
 
 636. Wood, Mrs. William 
 706: Wood, William F. 
 723. Wood, Thomas H. 
 923. Woodburn, John B. 
 
 122. Worthington, William 
 
 123. Worthington, Mrs. W. 
 140. Wright, Rebecca 
 
 238. Wright, Samuel 
 
 239. Wright, Mrs. Samuel 
 246. Wright, Maria 
 
 248. Wright, Rufus M. 
 
 262. Wright, Miller A. 
 
 263. Wright, Mrs. M. A. 
 338. Wright, Abigail 
 
 344. Wright, Mrs. Francis 
 
 520. Wright, Charles 
 
 345. Wright, Mrs. Charles 
 
 521. Wright, Mrs. Charles 
 604. Wright, Mrs. Charles 
 528. Wright, George M. 
 
 637. Wright, Henry S. 
 686. Wright, Martha C. 
 747. Wright, William F. 
 
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