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HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 OF THE 
 
 : CONGEEGATIONAL CHURCH 
 
 IN BELCHERTOWN, MASS., 
 FROM ITS ORGANIZATION, 114 YEARS. 
 
 WITH NOTICES OF 
 
 THE PASTORS AT^D OFFICERS, 
 
 ^ ^ OP COMMUNICANTS CHRONOLOGICALLY AEKANGBD, 
 
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 aBNBA^OGIBS,INTBBMA«UIAGESAKI,riM:iTKBLAX^ES. 
 iMBEACINGKUMEKOUSriOTSANi-INOIBENISEELAIINa 
 
 TO THE FIRST SETTLERS AND 
 
 §.Y HISTORY OF THE PLACE. 
 [fHONTMAiFpOOLITTLE. 
 
 NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY HOPKINS. BKIDGMAN & CO. 
 
 1852. 
 

 
 Entered according to an Act of Congress, in tlie year 1852, 
 
 By Hopkins, Beidgm^ & Co., 
 In the Clerk's Office of the Distifect Cociik of the District of Mass. 
 
 H. 8, TAYLOR, PEINTBR. 
 BPEINGFIELD, MASS. 
 
PEEFACE. 
 
 In giving the following pages to the pub- 
 lic through the press, a few introductory re- 
 marks seem to me appropriate. In the un- 
 dertaking and progress of collecting materials 
 comprised in this little volume, the thought 
 of giving them to the public in this way never 
 entered my mind. The labor was begun, in 
 a limited way, many years since, and attend- 
 ed to only when other things did not press, 
 as a paramount claim upon my time, and 
 pursued to gratify my own curiosity, having a 
 desire to learn who, in by-gone days, occu- 
 pied the places we now occupy; whence they 
 were, and what they were in condition, char- 
 acter and pursuits, in life's short pilgrimaga 
 The more I gathered relating to them the 
 greater was my desire to gather more, and 
 extend it to their whole history, political, civil, 
 religious, and social; and this, from all the 
 sources within my reach, records, writings 
 and orally, carefully preserving all that seem- 
 ed to aid me in attaining my object. Some 
 six years since, in looking over my loose 
 
IV PREFACE. 
 
 sheets, I found them more voluminous than 
 I had supposed, and not a Uttle chaotic. I 
 saw that if they were ever to be of any use to 
 anybody they must be arranged in a more 
 systematic manner. This I did, by giving 
 them the form of connected historical narra- 
 tive. Some of the inhabitants here, knowing 
 that I had such manuscripts, desired me to 
 give them in the form of Lectures, to the peo- 
 ple. This I did during the winter of 1846-7, 
 taking such portions of them as were suited 
 to such a course. After these lectures were 
 closed, desires were repeatedly expressed to 
 me to let them go to the public through the 
 press, or particular parts of them, if the whole 
 could not be given. Such requests were 
 made by those connected with some of the 
 public periodical journals of the day, as well 
 as by others. I declined giving them, imag- 
 ining that if the results of my labors would 
 give interest or edification at any period of 
 time, it could be so only in future years, to 
 those that will live after us ; that the present 
 generation would take little or no interest in 
 the matter, more especially, as the settlement 
 in this place was some seventy years later 
 than that in some other towns in the County. 
 Nothing has gone out from them through the 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 press, except a short extract published in the 
 ''Historical and Genealogical Register," the 
 April number, 1848, and that was furnished 
 at the request of Rev. Dr. Coggswell, editor 
 of that journal. A few months since, the 
 Congregational Church in this place, whose 
 history is sketched in these pages, took action 
 on the subject, which appears from their vote 
 in the following extract from the church rec- 
 ords, which has been communicated to me. 
 " It being known that the Hon. Mark Doo- 
 Httle has at much expense of time and labor 
 been gathering facts respecting the early his- 
 tory of the town, with notices of the first set- 
 tlers, and a sketch of the Congregational 
 Church from its organization to the present 
 time, the publication of which might be de- 
 sirable, the church appointed a committee of 
 seven, including the pastor, to confer with Mr. 
 Doolittle on this subject The committee, re- 
 ported, that conferring with Mr. Doolittle he 
 expressed a readiness to make any disposal 
 of his work which would meet the wishes of 
 the community, and freely submitted his pa- 
 pers to their inspection. From a partial ex- 
 amination of them, they were satisfied that he 
 had prosecuted his researches with great in- 
 dustry and fidelity, and had prepared a work 
 of much interest and value, and in accord- 
 ance with their recommendation, the church 
 unanimously voted that Mr. Doolittle be re- 
 
▼1 PKEFACE. 
 
 spectfully requested to permit the results of 
 his labors to be given to the public through 
 the press ; it being understood, that as the 
 author of the work, he alone is responsible 
 for its statements and contents. 
 
 A true copy of the records of the church. 
 Attest, Sam'l Wolcott." 
 
 Belchertown, Oct 4, 1851. 
 
 This request of the Church, " unanimously" 
 expressed, I cheerfully comply with. That 
 portion of my collections contained in this 
 volume relate, to a considerable extent, to the 
 church, and the early religious interests of the 
 place, though not exclusively to these. There 
 is a tribute of respect due to the memory of 
 those who established and sustained the or- 
 dinances of religion here, in the early settle- 
 ment of the place, and we of this day should 
 acknowledge it. In prosecuting my labors, 
 I have found records and writings very few 
 and scanty. I have derived assistance* by 
 communications with many individuals, both 
 written and oral; I would express my ac- 
 knowledgments to them for the aid received. 
 To none am I under greater obligations than 
 to Sylvester Judd, Esq., of Northampton, in 
 permitting me access to his very extensive 
 collection of antique things. In the course 
 of my inquiry, for facts relating to the past, I 
 
PEEFACE. ra 
 
 have been forcibly reminded of the truth of 
 the common remark^ that ^^we live in a 
 day of progress.^^ Truly it is so, and the pro- 
 gress is so rapid that it gives but a moment to 
 witness passing events, and no time to turn a 
 thought to the past. A considerate mind 
 would seem to require some knowledge of 
 the past, that it may the better direct its future 
 movements ; especially so, as we deriveall the 
 materials we can use as directories for the 
 future from the store-house of the past It is 
 but by a careful survey of the past that we ob- 
 tain a knowledge of the reality of things — 
 things as they have existed — the truth of his- 
 tory. Truth is all that ever has or ever can 
 benefit men in their existence, or their acts in 
 any thing. There is the same connection be- 
 tween cause and effect now that there ever 
 was. The laws of God's Providence govern- 
 ing the affairs of this world are uniform in 
 their operations, equally so in the moral as in 
 the physical world. The results of lii^moral 
 influences in the formation of mind and char- 
 acter, are as uniform, and as well established, 
 as any laws governing the movements of the 
 heavenly bodies, or the changing seasons^ 
 and can be traced in their effects as surely as 
 rain, sunshine, and genial summer breezes 
 
nil PEEFACE. 
 
 can be, in giving life and verdure to the veg- 
 etable kingdom. 
 
 A view of the past is both instructing and 
 delightful. Ancient fashions, customs, usages 
 of any sort, are not only objects of curiosity, 
 but furnish substantial assistance to the mind 
 in reasoning from the past to the future. He 
 who would live usefully in the world, to any 
 good purpose, must deal with principles, with 
 facts and with men. There has been no pe- 
 riod of the world's history more richly furnish- 
 ed with all these, and suited to our instruc- 
 tion, than that of the New England Fathers. 
 The single, stern, unyielding puritanic trait 
 that shone conspicuously in their character, 
 regarding the claims of private judgment, the 
 dictates of conscience, and the requirements of 
 God's Laws, in defiance of all arbitrary des- 
 potic power, however marshalled and impos- 
 ing, is to be the touch-stone for testing the 
 moral and religious character of men in all 
 future^jjfie, and like the stone cut out of the 
 mountain without hands, destined to fill the 
 whole earth, to achieve the final triumphs of 
 the millennial year. 
 
 Mark Doolittle, 
 
 Belchertown, Nov., 1851. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Alphabetical List of Communicants in the Church, and 
 
 numbers identifying persons 237 to 249 
 
 Belchertotn'n. Topography 13 
 
 Equivalent land ; Cold Spring ; First settlers ; 
 
 when and whence 16 
 
 First Precinct meeting by Legislative authority 84 
 
 Town Lacorporation 43 
 
 Billing, Eev. Edward. First settled minister 18 
 
 His ministry, marriage, dismission, sketch of. . .25 — 30 
 
 Bbainebd Church. (See Church). 
 
 Catechumen System 35 — 37 
 
 Church. First Congregational organized 19 
 
 Vote of 38 
 
 Faith of 38—54 
 
 Brainerd organized 68 
 
 The two united 70 
 
 Alphabetical list of members 237 
 
 Chronological list of, with notices 84 
 
 Clancy, Rev. John. His call, installation and dismission 74 
 
 Cold Spring. Township first so called 15 
 
 Coleman, Hey. Lyman. His call, ordination, marriage, minis- 
 try, dismission, foreign travels, publications, &C...61-66 
 
X INDEX. 
 
 Communicants in tlie Cliurcli. (See Cliurch). 
 
 Clironological list of members 84 
 
 Covenant. Half way system noticed 30 — 37 
 
 Controversy relating to it 28 
 
 CuERENCY. Variation of 25 — 26 
 
 Deacons 80 
 
 Enfield, Church in organized. (See marginal number 206). 
 
 Explanations of marginal numbers, &c 81 
 
 Family Instruction, Religious, &c., its effects 44 
 
 Forward, Rev. Justus. His call, settlement, marriage, 
 ministry, death ; sketch of Hfe, character and 
 lineage 38, 54, 66 
 
 Mrs. Forward's death noticed 55 
 
 Genealogies of Families, Early Settlers and others. 
 
 The John Smith family, (See Appendix A.) 251 
 
 « Lyman " " B 253 
 
 " Bridgman " " C 255 
 
 « Stebbins " '* D 256 
 
 " Towne « " E 258 
 
 '« Dwight " " F 260 
 
 « Phelps " " G 263 
 
 « Warner « " H 264 
 
 " Bard well " " 1 266 
 
 «< Hannvim " " K 267 
 
 " Graves « " L 268 
 
 «« Cowles « ♦• M 270 
 
 « Henry Smith, Rev. " N 271 
 
 (See marginal numbers (554,) {555), and (565). 
 
INDEX . Xl 
 
 The Doolittle family, (See Appendix P.) ^ 273 
 
 " Filer " (See marginal numbersj^^j^lft' 380 
 
 " Root « " " ,^j^....^..r.^.l05 
 
 « Walker " " «' ^ 'X ^^....^..99 
 
 "Montague " « « ..f. .'!^..|..^a:022 
 
 Law, the higher, regarded as obligatory . .. .- /.>». . f. ...... 46 
 
 Meeting House, the first built .".... .c^9 — 27 
 
 Second .'J^ 50 
 
 The Brainerd meeting house built .%, 70 
 
 Missionary Spirit manifested '. 46 
 
 Mortality, ratio of 45 
 
 Northampton, First Congregational Church in, organized 
 
 (See marginal number) 105 
 
 OViatt, Rev. George A. His call, ordination over the 
 
 Brainerd Church and Society 68 
 
 His marriage, ministry, installation over the 
 
 united Church, dismission 70 — 72 
 
 Mrs. Oviatt's death noticed 73 
 
 Pastors of the Church, periods of their official tenures. . . .78, 7^ 
 
 Petitions to the General Court 17, 27, 46 
 
 Porter, Rev. Experience. His call, installation, mar- 
 riage, dismission, death, sketch of his life and 
 character 56 — GO 
 
 Mes. Porter's death noticed 59 
 
 Also see Appendix N 271 
 
 Peecinci Meeting, the first called in the place by or- 
 der from General Court, See marginal figure 
 (1), John Smith 84 
 
Xll INDEX. 
 
 Peoprietoes, original, of the township 15 
 
 Religion and Religious Institutions, importance of, in 
 
 the estimation of the early settlers 20 
 
 Their vigilance to sustain them 28 
 
 Revivals of Religion. 47, 48, 57, 63, 75 
 
 Reid, Rev. Jared. His caU, installation, ministry, 
 
 dismission, &c 66 
 
 Me8. Reid's death noticed 67 
 
 Revivals op Religion. (See Religion and Religious Institutions.) 
 
 Revolution, war of, 45 
 
 French war, (see marginal figures) 42, 87 
 
 Also Note B, at the end of the volume, refer- 
 red to from page 29. 
 
 Schools, first in the place 45 
 
 Settlement, the first in the place 16 
 
 Smith, Rev. Ethan, sketch of 48 
 
 Stipend connected with ministerial call and settlement 25 
 
 Wolcott, Rev. Samuel. His ordination as foreign mission- 
 ary, marriage, travel in foreign lands, death of 
 his wife, return, second marriage, installation 
 and ministry here 75 — 77 
 
HISTORICAL SKETCHES 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Cnngrfgntinnal C|jurrli nt 38drljfrtninn. 
 
 The territory, now Belcliertown, is situated in the 
 easterly pirt of the county of Hampshire, Massachusetts, 
 twelve miles easterly of Connecticut river, and fifteen 
 from North'^.mpton, and was never included in any grant 
 made to proprietors of any other township. It was early 
 known and designated as a part of the " equivalent 
 lands," and so known many years before any permanent 
 settlements were made within its limits. This appella- 
 tion was given in consequence of the following histori- 
 cal incidents. The first grant made of lands in Con- 
 necticut by the Plymouth Council to the Earl of War- 
 wick in 1630, and which the Earl soon assigned to Lord 
 Say or Seal, Lord Brook and others, was very indefinite ; the 
 territory conveyed was very imperfectly known. John 
 Mason, as agent for the Colony of Connecticut, in 1661, 
 bought of the Indians all lands which had not been be- 
 fore purchased by particular towns, and made a surrender 
 of them to the Colony. The Colonists then petitioned 
 the crown for a charter confirming their rights to the 
 2 
 
14 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 tand. In 1662, Charles II. issued his letters patent in 
 compliance with their request, and fixed the boundaries as 
 follows : " All that part of his Majesty's Dominions in 
 New England, in America, bounded east by Narraganset 
 river, commonly called Narraganset Bay, where the river 
 falleth into the sea ; and on the north by the line of 
 Massachusetts plantation, and on the south by the sea, 
 and in longitude as the line of the Massachusetts Colony, 
 running from east to west, that is to say, from the said 
 Narraganset Bay on the east to the south sea on the west 
 part, with the Islands thereunto belonging." The north 
 line of this grant, (as well as others) was still undefined ; 
 settlements were beginning in Enfield, Somers, Wood- 
 stock and Suffield, on the line between the two govern- 
 ments ; these towns were supposed to lie within the limits 
 of Massachusetts ; the government of Massachusetts ex- 
 tended its jurisdiction over them, and protected them in the 
 Indian Avars. This state of things continued for years, 
 till Indian hostilities had subsided, English settlements 
 multiplied, and lands attained to some value, when it be- 
 came necessary to ascertain the true line between the two 
 governments, with more accuracy than it had been done 
 in the original grants. A survey was had, and it was 
 found that the true line between the two governments was 
 north of these towns ; they were within the Connecticut 
 line. In 1648, Enfield was granted by the General Court 
 of Massachusetts to Springfield; in 1670, a grant was 
 made by the same authority, of the town of Suffield to 
 Maj. John Pyncheon. Lines corresponding with these 
 grants included Somers and Woodstock within Massa- 
 chusetts, and Massachusetts claimed the jurisdiction over 
 them; Connecticut consented to that jurisdiction, upon 
 condition that Massachusetts should grant a jurisdiction 
 
CONGKEGATIONAL CnUKCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 15 
 
 within its limits to Connecticut, of equal extent, as an 
 equivalent ; such a treaty between the two governments 
 was carried into effect. Ware, Belchertown, and Pelham, 
 comprised the equivalent territory. At that time no 
 grants had been made to any individuals or proprietary 
 within these territories ; they were a part of the public 
 domain. Connecticut continued to hold such jurisdiction 
 within the Massachusetts lines till 1727, when they sold 
 their right to the territory now Belchertown, to seven in- 
 dividuals residing in and near Boston, in six equal- 
 divisions ; the first division to Paul Dudley two thirds, 
 and Col. John Wainright one third; second division one 
 sixth to John Caswell ; third division one sixth to CoL 
 Thomas Fitch ; fourth division one sixth to Adington 
 Devenport ; fifth division one sixth to Jonathan Belcher, 
 Esq. ; sixth division one sixth to William Clark's heirs. 
 During the months of Octoher and Novemher of that 
 year, the territory was surveyed, delineated, and plotted 
 on a chart by Col. Timothy Divight of Northampton, 
 This chart is now in my possession. It is evidently drawn 
 with great accuiacy by the hand ot a master. Col. D wight 
 was much employed in his day in surveying and plotting 
 towns in this section of the country. He was the grand- 
 father of Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D., late President 
 of Yale College. Upon the sale of this territory to these 
 proprietors, the jurisdiction was transferred to Massachu- 
 setts, and the aforesaid towns within the Connecticut lines 
 taken under the Connecticut jurisdiction. The territory 
 now called Belchertown was called Cold Spring. The 
 lines in Col. Dwight's survey to the above mentioned 
 purchases, contain 27,390 acres. At the time the town 
 was incorporated, in June 1761, by the name of Belcher- 
 town, it included an additional territory on the nortn, not 
 
16 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 embraced in Col. D wight's survey, of about 12,000 acres, 
 a part since incorporated with Enfield, No sooner had 
 these purchasers obtained the Connecticut title to this 
 territory, than an attempt was made to bring forward a 
 settlement ; to that time no permanent settlements had 
 been made within its limits. The earlier settlers in 
 the towns on Connecticut river, from Northampton, 
 Hadley and Hatfield, had ranged over these hills and 
 through these valleys for gain ; it was a fine hunting 
 ground — game in abundance ; cattle were driven in herds 
 from these places, during the summer season, to browse 
 through these forests ; temporary settlements were made for 
 the purpose of boxing the pines, and gathering the turpen- 
 tine, and perhaps for securing a competent supply of candle- 
 wood. An order had passed the town of Northampton in 
 
 1699, that no more candle-wood should be collected for use 
 within seven miles of the meeting-house, on forfeiture of 
 the same ; and another order by the same authority in 
 
 1700, saying, pine trees were not to be boxed for turpentine 
 within three miles ; these sources of gain must be sought 
 beyond these limits, if sought at all. As a means for 
 bringing forward a settlement here, the Proprietors pro- 
 posed to make gratuitous grants to the settlers in the older 
 towns on the river, of lands, upon condition of re- 
 moval, and permanent settlement upon them. The propo- 
 sals were acceded to, and several families from North- 
 ampton, Hatfield and Hadley removed here in July 1731. 
 The first pioneers w^cre Samuel Bascom, Benjamin 
 Stebbins, and Aaron Lyman, from Northampton, and 
 John Bard well and Jonathan Graves, of Haljield. We 
 have no local records of their transactions anterior to 
 1739. From a Petition on the files of the General Court, 
 in the State Archives, dated December 1737, signed by 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 17 
 
 the settlers, we learn that settlers were here, and 
 something as to their numbers and names. They say, 
 *' they had twenty families, and more expected soon." 
 They pray the General Court to grant them a land tax to 
 aid them, " for they are about settling a minister and build- 
 ing a meeting house." In another Petition presented to 
 the General Court, dated November 1738, the petitioners 
 QBay, " we have agreed with Mr. Noah Merrick to settle 
 with us in the gospel ministry, and pray for the privileges 
 of a township." Mr. Merrick did not settle here. In 
 January 1739, another petition was presented to the Gen- 
 eral Court, praying for the same privileges. In another 
 petition to the General Court, dated November 1740, the 
 petitioners say, they " arc greatly in debt for building a 
 meeting house, outside covered and glazed, and a minister 
 settled ; we are hut tioenty families, and owe Judge Dud- 
 ley and others over two hundred pounds for lands for our 
 minister's settlement, and to our minister between two and 
 three hundred pounds for salary and settlement. We 
 have sustained preaching ^ye or six years, and have ad- 
 vanced the estates of the proprietors more than our own 
 by settling Cold Spring," and pray for permission to tax 
 non-resident land to aid them. The names appended to 
 these petitions were substantially the same ; in addition 
 to the pioneers already named, they were John Smith, Eh- 
 enezer Bridgman, Moses Hannum, Eliakim Phelps, Joseph 
 Bar dwell, Nathaniel D wight, Ahner Smith, Joseph Bridg- 
 tttan, Benjamin Billings, Stepthen Craiofoot, Thomas 
 Graves, Joseph King, and Robert Brown. From the Pe- 
 titions above referred to, and from others presented about 
 the same period from the same source, we obtain thesfe 
 facts : that these settlers began to bring forward a per- 
 manent settlement here in July 1731 ; that between that 
 2* 
 
18 HISTOEICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 period and 1736, inclusive, they had increased to twenty 
 families; that in November 1740, they were but twenty 
 families, and greatly embarrassed with debt ; that they 
 had sustained preaching five or six years with that number 
 and under very severe trials. The first records to be 
 found remaining of the doings here by these settlers, are 
 under date February 1739, and relate to the settlement of 
 the Rev. Edward Billing, the first settled minister in the 
 place. Time or accident has removed a part of the record ; 
 what remains is a part of Mr. Billing's answer to the call 
 of the people to settle with them in the gospel ministry. 
 He says, 
 
 *' The two hundred acres of land which cost two 
 
 hundred and pounds, and one hundred and sixty 
 
 pounds to be paid in work towards building, at present, 
 and forty pounds more to be paid in eight years, viz. five 
 pounds a year, all which is reckoned as settlement. Af- 
 ter a consideration of the call and invitation which the 
 people of Cold-spring have given me to settle in the min- 
 istry among them, I have, I hope, determined with a 
 sense of my insufficiency for so great a work without di- 
 vine conduct and assistance, and with a dependence upon 
 the Lord Jesus in that work in this place, and do declarg 
 my acceptance of your call. Edwaed Billing. 
 
 Cold Spring, February 22d, 1739. 
 
 This answer was made to a precinct meeting held the 
 same date ; a vote followed appointing John Smith, Sa?nu- 
 el Bascom, Stephen Crawjoot, Aaron Lyman and Jonathan 
 Graves, a committee to agree with Mr. Billing about the 
 time of ordination, and to send letters to the several 
 churches to require their assistance. No record remains of 
 the precise time of Mr. Billing's ordination, but from 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHUKCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 19 
 
 sundry entries on the precinct records relating to him, it 
 is pretty certain that he was ordained in April 17^9. 
 A church had been organized here previously, but the ex- 
 actness of that date no record tells us when. From sun- 
 dry acts in their precinct meetings, their provisions for a 
 place of public worship, the necessity they felt resting 
 upon them to sustain the ordinances of the gospel, which 
 appears fully in their doings, as well as the traditionary 
 account of the matter, the evidence is quite satisfactory to 
 my own mind that the church was organized in the spring 
 of 1737. No church records are remaining of any thing 
 anterior to February 26th 1756 ; what we have relating to 
 the church, before that date is gathered from other sources. 
 Connected with the establishment of the church, 
 early in the year of 1737, was brought up the subject 
 of erecting a meeting house ; preparations were made, 
 in 1738 it was raised, covered, and used as a place 
 of worship, though not finished till 1 746, and then done 
 in a manner suited to the embarrassed circumstances of 
 the settlement. A prominent principle that seemed to 
 govern all their doings, was to sustain the ordinances of 
 religion, the ministry, and the stated public worship of 
 God. To sustain these institutions was not a question of 
 policy or expediency to be settled as freak or fancy might 
 lead the way. In their estimation, they constituted the 
 moral aliment of their lives, and were indispensable for 
 their prosperity in all things temporal as well as spiritual. 
 By examining the records of the doings of the inhabit- 
 ants of Cold Spring for twenty years, in the precinct 
 meetings, next following 1741, it will be found they had 
 about seventy meetings, under warrants containing over 
 seven hundred distinct articles to be acted upon ; more 
 than one half, exclusive of the organizing the meetings, 
 
80 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OP THE 
 
 telated to their ecclesiastical concerns. A prompt, per- 
 severing and ever wakeful vigilance to sustain the great 
 truths of the Bible, in doctrine and duty, and to give 
 them efficiency in life, was, in their view, the only con- 
 dition on which blessings could be expected. This was 
 not an original thought with them. It was the Puri- 
 ian doctrine, derived from higher than even Puritan 
 authority. It was taught by Patriarchs, Prophets, and 
 Apostles, and holy men in all ages of the world. It took 
 deep root in the hearts of the great Heformers in the 14th, 
 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. It was the spirit-moving 
 power which brought the Fathers of New England here, 
 and sustained them here, in defiance of all opposition. 
 It is this doctrine, in its results, that has given prosperity 
 and success to the land beyond a parallel in the history 
 of the world. I am not aware that the experiment has 
 ever been made by any government in any age of the 
 world, till it was made by the Fathers of New England, 
 to require its subjects, by legal enactments, to sustain re- 
 ligious institutions and the public worship of God, and at 
 the same time extend equal governmental protection and 
 toleration to all classes and religious denominations. In 
 New England the experiment has been made, and has 
 succeeded to a charm. The necessity of supporting the 
 institutions of religion, and toleration to those of all re- 
 ligious sects alike by government, was an article of the 
 faith of the New England Fathers and of the Patriots 
 of the Revolution. The people of this state in the very 
 outset — in the compact on which hang our civil and reli- 
 gious privileges, so far as governmental agency is concern- 
 ed, recorded this article of their Faith. They say, " As 
 the happiness of a people and the good order and preser- 
 vation 6i civil government, essentially depend on piety. 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 21 
 
 religion and moralit)^ and as these cannot be generally 
 diffused through community but by the institutions of the 
 public worship of God and public instructions in piety, 
 religion and morality, therefore to promote their hap- 
 piness, and to secure the good order and preservation of 
 their government, the people of this Commonwealth have 
 a right to invest their Legislature with power to authorize 
 and require the several towns, parishes, precincts and other 
 bodies politic or religious societies, to make suitable pro- 
 vision at their own expense for the institution of the pub- 
 lic worship of God, and for the support and maintenance 
 of public, protestant teachers of piety, religion and mo- 
 rality in all cases where such provision shall not be made 
 voluntarily." The requirements of the constitution above 
 are that the towns and parishes etc., s/mZZ make provision, 
 at their own expense, for the institution of the public 
 worship of G«d, and for the support and maintenance of 
 public protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality. 
 The reason for the requirement is that the happiness of 
 the people and the good order and preservation of civil 
 government essentially depend upon it. The truth asserted 
 as the reason for the requirement no one will deny ; that 
 being so, the requirement is just and indispensable. The 
 interpolation into the Constitution of the Commonwealth 
 of a later date, adds a new article not found in the faith 
 of those who originally framed it, and adopted it. The 
 new article ratified November 11th, 1833, admits the fact 
 that, '"'piety, religion and morality promote the h^ipipinesa, 
 and prosperity of a people and the security of a Republi- 
 can Government," but does not recognize the truth that 
 the happiness and prosperity of the people, or the securi- 
 ty of the government essentially depend upon them, and 
 therefore they do not require their support by the people, 
 
22 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Should the day arrive when there shall not b^ one organi- 
 zed Religious Society within this Commonwealth, nor a 
 public teacher of piety, religion and morality maintained 
 or supported within its limits, no provision of the Con- 
 stitution would be violated, or in the least degree infring- 
 ed upon by it. He Avho stretches his faith to such an ex- 
 tent as to believe that a Republican Government can be 
 sustained, or the prosperity and happiness of any people 
 secured or perpetuated in any other way, than by a general 
 diffusion of religious tiuih and mamtiximng public teahcers 
 ofpieti/, religion and mortally in the community, is in 
 great danger of falling into the same condemnation which 
 Baileau said the Jesuits fell into — " that in proportion as 
 they le7igthened their creeds they shortened the command- 
 ments.'' 
 
 Whatever human governments may ordain on this sub- 
 ject can never change the laws^of God, nor relieve man 
 from an imperative duty to obey wTThe great truth written 
 in the frame-work of the Constitution by those who orig- 
 inally framed it, is but a transcript of God's requirements 
 written upon the records of all His providential dealings 
 with men ; neither time, nor circumstance, nor the ingenui- 
 ty of man, nor the constitutions and laws of aU human 
 governmsnts combined, can ever change or mitigate their 
 claims. They will remain in all their stern demands 
 while the moral government of God is exercised over the 
 affairs of this world. 
 
 The relaxation in the requirements of government, ab- 
 solving men from the duty of sustaining the institutions 
 of religion, is predicated upon false premises ; either that 
 men will vo/untariJy give to these institutions all needful 
 support, or that they are not essential to be supported as 
 necessary means of prosperity and happiness to a people. 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 23 
 
 It is an attribute of governmental power, acknowledged by 
 all, to require of the subject his aid and assistance in 
 doing that which is essential to the mainlenance of the 
 government. It is upon this principle that governments 
 levy their demands upon the labors and the property of 
 the subject for the support of other institutions^ the means 
 of education, support of public schools, public roads, 
 and even the public guide posts, are deemed so essential 
 to the public weal that each individual is required to con- 
 tribute his share for their support ; men are as ready to 
 support these voluntarily as they are religious institutionSy 
 which are as essential to the public welfare, as any other, 
 to say the least of them. Without legal exactions men 
 will not sustain these institutions, essential for the pros- 
 perity and happiness of a people, as they ought to be sus- 
 tained : merely voluntary support to any of them would 
 be inadequate, unequal, and bring unjust burdens on a 
 portion of the community, and can never be safely relied 
 upon. Another argument resorted to for doing away all 
 legal requirements upon men to sustain religious itisti'u- 
 tions is, that by such requirements men cannot be made to he 
 religious^ and therefore all legal requirements on men, on 
 this point, are useless. Here, from a self-evident truth, 
 false reasoning and erroneous conclusions are drawn. It 
 does not follow that because one cannot be made to love 
 religious truth by legal enactments, th-it such legal enact- 
 ments as require men to act in conformity to the principle 
 of truth and righteousness are useless. If men were not re- 
 quired by law to sustain any institution, or to aid any ob- 
 ject, only such as they loved, or could be made to love, 
 it is feared that the messengers of mercy, truth and right- 
 eousness would beg in vain at the doois of multitudes for 
 aid in any thing good. Men cannot be made by law to 
 
24 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OP THE 
 
 love honest dealing, yet men are required by law to deal 
 honestly. A law requiring men to support schools, does 
 not necessarily make men love the object they are requir- 
 ed by law to support. Men may be required by law to 
 perform duties, both to themselves and others, without 
 loving the cUities the law requires of them. The require- 
 ment does imply or expect a change of character in men 
 as the result of the enactment. 
 
 The prevalent faith of the New England Fathers was, 
 that government should require its subjects to support 
 the institutions of Religion and the stated public worship 
 of God, and at the same time each and all left to the free 
 exercise of their own will and directions of conscience in 
 all matters of faith and practice. Whatever we know of 
 them, deviating from this, were exceptions to the general 
 rule. These Fathers had witnessed the struggles in the 
 old world to cramp and subdue the faith and conscience of 
 men by the iron rule of despotic power, and saw that it 
 was all in vain. They had learned the extent of govern- 
 mental power in this matter, as seen in " corporation acts, 
 acts of uniformity and conventicle acts,'' in cruel per- 
 secutions, in tragedies of Bartholomew days, in tortures 
 of the rack, the wheel, the cross upon faith unconqucredy 
 till a world has wept, the sun and the moon darkened, 
 and the stars withdrew their shining, without advancing 
 one step towards accomplishing the fated undertaking. 
 
 Another principle in the faith of the New England 
 Fathers was, that the rtlation existing between minister 
 and people, and the duties resulting from that relation, 
 were mutual and reciprocal ; extending to all and to he re- 
 ciprocated hy all. There were no wild fowls, in that 
 day, claiming the courtesies, the sympathies, the atten- 
 tions, and the varied labors of the minister, while they 
 
CONGKEGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 25 
 
 loathed his ministration, to such an extent as to forbid 
 their aid in his support and maintenance. Such a class 
 should not claim legitimacy from Puritanic lineage ; they 
 belong to a different origin. A care and concern were 
 manifested by all for each, and each felt bound to lend his 
 aid for good to the whole. 
 
 In 1 744, at a precinct meeting, they appointed a com- 
 mittee to settle with Mr. Billing concerning the 4Us for 
 
 EACH FAMILY THAT COMES INTO THE PLACE, there be- 
 ing some difficulty that arose by reason of some fami- 
 lies going out of the place. Mr. Billing's salary was one 
 hundred pounds a year and his wood, but varied, as the 
 value of money varied. In 1745 a vote passed in pre- 
 cinct meeting, that Mr. Billing's salary should be paid as 
 to rising and falling of money as near to what Hatfield 
 and Hadley pay to their minister (as may be,) Mr. Bil- 
 ling being present and agreeing to the same. The sala- 
 ry also varied according to the number of the families ; 
 one hundred pounds was predicated on twenty families ; 
 if more came into the place, an addition oi forty shillings 
 was made to the salary for each family. This was upon the 
 principle that all were to be partakers in the support, as 
 well as the benefits of these institutions — held as indispen- 
 sable, not to a part only, but to all — and if so, the infer- 
 ence was irresistible that all should bear a share in their 
 support. When the salary had risen to one hundred and 
 sixty pounds, it was deemed sufficient. It was never to 
 extend beyond that sum, and to be varied, as to the num- 
 ber of families, only when that number should be between 
 twenty and fifty. It was a general practice in New Eng- 
 land, from its earliest settlement till about the commence- 
 ment of the present century, to connect with the call of a 
 minister a stipend called a settlement^ in addition to his 
 3 
 
26 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 annual salary. Siicli a stipend was deemed needful to 
 enable him to sustain the expenses of living till the sala- 
 ry became due at the end of the year ; this settlement, in 
 amount, was ordinarily about the same as one year's sala- 
 ry. It is evident that the settlement connected with the 
 call to Mr. Billing, was estimated at a much greater 
 amount. As the lands and labor in building a house were 
 estimated, they were about 400 pounds ; the lands were 
 unproductive and nearly useless. At the close of the 
 first year after the settlement of Mr. Billing, May 1st, 
 1740, a vote pissed, "to pay up Mr. Billing's salary an- 
 nually to the first of May, and it is to be remembered that 
 silver goes at twenty -nine shillings per ounce, and we pro- 
 pose to pay equal to that.'' This was called oM tenor. In 
 October, 1741, at a precinct meeting, a vote passed "that 
 money should be raised in the next rate to pay the cost of 
 Rev. Mr. Billing's wedding. At another meeting held 
 soon after, a vote passed to pay Deacon John Smith one 
 pound eleven shillings and four pence, for Veal had for 
 Mr. Billing s icedding.'' Better, far better would be a 
 dinner of herbs on such an occasion, with the feelings that 
 prompted these acts towards their minister, than a stalled 
 ox and contention therewith. Such a vote, to pay for a 
 leg of veal, for such an occasion, at this day, might lead 
 some '"'- to sign off,'' or cast a grimace-look at goodness 
 such as this ; for modish vice, with ease, can dart a sneer 
 at virtues obsolete. Another vote passed at the same 
 meeting, to pay Thomas Brown thirteen shillings for can- 
 dle loood got for Mr. Billing. These acts, though tri- 
 fling in themselves, spoke a language full of import ; the 
 spirit that prompted them, gave life and energy and mar- 
 tyr zeal and faith to persevere under trials most severe 
 and discouraging. While voluntarily assuming on them- 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 27 
 
 selves these expenses, for the benefit of their minister, 
 even to minute items, they had but scanty means ; they were 
 burdened with heavy taxes, and compelled to make great 
 sacrifices for the support of themselves and their families. 
 I give their own story in the case. In a petition to the 
 General Court, they say, " Three quarters of the township 
 is in the hands of five or six or a few more proprietors, 
 who have drawn us into difficulties ; and now seem to cut 
 us off. Some of us who own 150 acres of land only, have 
 been rated in a single rate over twenty pounds. Some 
 proprietors (non-resident) own thousands of acres around 
 us, and pay not a penny." They pray the government to 
 allow - them to raise a tax on lands of non-resident pro- 
 prietors ; this petition was dated 1741, drawn by Col. 
 Timothy Dwight, of Northampton, who was the first 
 signer ; the petition was not at that time granted, but they 
 persevered in their requests. In May, 1742, they petition 
 again to the General Court for the same power, to tax 
 non-resident lands. They say, "this township is a part 
 of the equivalent land, so called ; the whole was owned 
 by a few gentlemen who bought it of Connecticut, and 
 four fifths of it or more is now in the hands of these gen- 
 tlemen, or others that hold under them, and live at a dis- 
 tance. About twenty of us have actually removed to this 
 place with our families, and have settled a minister, raised, 
 covered and glazed a meeting house. The minister's 
 settlement is but half accomplished, nor has the cost of 
 finishing the meeting house been yet expended (paid). 
 The minister's house which we undertook, is neglected, 
 and may rot doAvn half finished ; this is all discouraging." 
 " Our minister must leave us if we cannot have aid.^^ 
 This petition prevailed, and leave was given to tax " all 
 lands in the townshij), one penny an acre, to fulfil the 
 
28 HISTOKICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 contract with the minister and finish the meeting housed 
 The embarrassed condition of the settlers referred to in 
 these petitions, retarded the growth of the settlement. 
 There was very little, if any, increase of population, from 
 1736 to 1742. After the power was granted to tax the 
 property in just and equal proportions, to sustain their 
 Religious institutions, which were indispensable to their 
 prosperity, the settlement advanced, and success attended 
 them. Some of the means which they took to secure and 
 perpetuate success, appear in their votes. One was an 
 increase of the minister's salary, that his labors may not 
 be lost. Another vote was taken to appoint a committee 
 to see that there should be no disorderly conduct upon 
 the Sabhath. With such a vigilance, success attended 
 them. The population, for ten years next following 
 1742, more than doubled. At Mr. Billing's dismission, 
 April 1752, there were 50 families oro^cr. 
 
 The causes which lead to the dismission of Mr. Billing 
 arose from a difference between him and the church, as 
 to the qualifications for church membership. A major- 
 ity of the church had adopted the system of faith, known 
 at the day, as *' the half tvay covenant.'' More than forty 
 years previously, a controversy had arisen on this subject 
 between Rev. Increase Mather, of Boston, and Rev. 
 SoLOMOisr Stoddard, of Northampton. This controver- 
 sy had been carried on through the press ; many of the 
 New England churches were divided in opinion on the 
 subject, Mr. Stoddard maintaining the " half way cove- 
 nant " doctrine, Mr. Mather rejecting it. The occasion 
 which raised the difficulty between Mr. Billing and the 
 church at that time was the calling the council at North- 
 ampton for the dismission of President Edwards. 
 That council convened, by letters missive, June 22d, 1750 ; 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 29 
 
 this church received a letter requesting their attendance 
 to sit in council, by pastor and delegate. A majority of 
 the church refused a compliance, alleging as a reason, 
 that they did not agree with Mr. Edwards on this point, 
 (the half way covenant), and voted their unwillingness 
 that Mr. Billing should attend the council. He did how- 
 ever attend, and sat in that council, as appears by their 
 doings, contained in the life of President Edwards. In 
 naming the members of that ever-memorable council, it is 
 said, "The Rev. Mr. Billing, from Cold Spring, was 
 present, without a Delegate." Mr. Edwards was or- 
 dained at Northampton as colleague pastor with Mr. 
 Stoddard, Feb. 15, 1727. Soon after his dismission, dif- 
 ficulties arose here between Mr. Billing and the church. 
 Several councils were called. This appears by records, 
 though the nature of the difficulties does not appear by 
 records ; yet they do by other writings still remaining. 
 These councils were called between June 1750 and April 
 1752, when he was dismissed. See note B. at end of the 
 volume. He preached here a few Sabbaths after his dis- 
 mission the same year. Afterwards, 28th March, 1754, 
 he was installed as the first Pastor of the Church in 
 Greenfield, where he died soon after. He was a native of 
 Sunderland. At the time of his birth, Sunderland was a 
 part of Hadley. He was a graduate of Harvard College 
 in 1731 — settled here in 1739 — married Miss Lucy Par- 
 sons of Amherst, a sister of Rev. David Parsons, the first 
 minister of Amherst, in 1741. Rev. Mr. Billing died 
 at Greenfield, about 1757 ; no record can be found of the 
 exact time of his death. His estate was settled in the 
 Probate Office, in this County ; closed August 1 760, 
 when his widow Lucy was appointed Guardian to four 
 minor sons, Edward, Ebenezer, Jonathan and Ethan, 
 
30 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 all under fourteen jears of age. It is to be regretted 
 that so little can be found, from which even a sketch can 
 be drawn of his life and character. I have never found 
 a person that knew him, and have sought in vain the 
 monument to tell me where his body lies. Traditionary 
 history imputes to him unusual energy of character, ar- 
 dent zeal and devotedness to the work in which he was 
 engaged. As this church once embraced the doctrine of 
 the " halfway covenant,'" even a sketch, historical, of the 
 church would seem to require a passing notice of that 
 system of Faith ; especially so, as various and erroneous 
 imputations have been made upon those who embraced 
 it. In " Fessenden's Encyclopedia of Religious Know- 
 ledge,'' published in 1838, under the article "Rev. Solo- 
 mon Stoddard, minister of Northampton," I find the 
 following. " Mr. Stoddard was a learned man, well 
 versed in religious controversies, and himself an acute 
 disputant. He engaged in a controversy with Increase 
 Mather, respecting the Lord's Supper, unfortunately 
 maintaining that the sacrament was a convertirig ordi- 
 nance, and that all baptized persons not scandalous in 
 life, may lawfully approach the table, though they 
 know themselves to be unconverted and destitute of 
 true religion." In Barber's History of Massachusetts, 
 published in 1844, in a sketch of Northampton, a similar 
 statement is made as to Mr. Stoddard. Other writers 
 have imputed to him and the divines and churches of his 
 day, embracing his faith, the same doctrinal belief. 
 
 So far as I know, it is the prevalent opinion at this day 
 that the great errors which these men and churches em- 
 braced and taught, were that the sacrament was a con- 
 verting ordinance, and that such unregenerate baptized 
 persons as were described might come to the communion 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 31 
 
 table. The " half-way covenant " system, has become a 
 part of New England church history ; a system very prev- 
 alent in the churches, at the beginning of the last cen- 
 tury, and should be rightly understood. In the exami- 
 nations that I have been able to make, I can find no evi- 
 dence that Mr. Stoddard, or the divines and churches 
 that embraced his faith, held either of the doctrines im- 
 puted to them. I have searched without effect to find 
 any profession of faith left by them of such import, and 
 am constrained to believe it exists only in historical error. 
 I find summaries of their faith, penned and left by them- 
 selves, and at different times, which I have no doubt 
 comprises the compendium of their faith, as to the ordi- 
 nances of the church. From the doings of those promi- 
 nent in teaching the doctrine of the " half-way covenant,'' 
 under date 1666, I find the following. " It is voted and 
 agreed by the church, that such among us, being settled 
 inhabitants, that give no ground to hope, in charity there 
 may be some good thing in them towards the Lord though 
 but in the lowest degree, and sustaining and believing 
 the doctrines of faith, publicly, sincerely and freely pro- 
 fessing their assent thereunto, not scandalous in life, sol- 
 emnly taking hold of the covenant, wherein they give up 
 themselves and their children to the Lord, and his church, 
 subjecting themselves with fear and humbleness of mind 
 to the government of Christ therein, sincerely engaging 
 to rest content with that share and portion of privileges 
 belonging to them that are only in a state of education, 
 in (Ihrist's house, during the time of their continuance in 
 that state, and not essay of the breaking in u^ion the 
 privilege of the Lord's Supper, and resting until they 
 shall be adjudged upon due examination, to hold forth 
 such an experimental work of faith, and seriously discov- 
 
32 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 ering and exercise thereof as may fit them for the enjoy- 
 ment and improvement of the aforesaid privileges with 
 comfort to themselves and others, and therefore be order- 
 ly admitted thereunto by those of the church to whom 
 that power is given by Christ — such persons thus qual- 
 ified, upon their desire, upon due order observed, may 
 themselves be entertained into a state of membership, 
 and have their children baptized and admitted to com- 
 munion in the church, so far as they are fit for the same. 
 Also the adult children hitherto un-baptized, of consid- 
 erate behavior, without selves coming up to the afore- 
 said qualifications, may be accepted members, and them- 
 selves baptized — E.om. ch. 14, v. 1 ; Matt. ch. 16, v. 16, 
 18 ; Acts ch. 8, v. 12, and ch. 18, v. 8 ; Deut. ch. 26, v. 
 17, 18, and ch. 29, v. 12, 13 ; John ch. 24, v, 18 ; 2d 
 Cor. ch. 8, V. 5 ; John ch. 9, v. 21." I also find a dec- 
 laration of the faith of those who embraced " the half-way 
 covenant" doctrine drawn by themselves, minister and 
 church, and adopted under date of Nov. 5, 1672, as fol- 
 lows : " Voted and consented to by the Elders and 
 Brethren of the Church, that from year to year, such as 
 grow up to adult age in the cliurch, shall present them- 
 selves to the Elders, and if they be found to understand 
 and assent unto the doctrine of faith, not to be scanda- 
 lous in life, and willing to subject themselves to the gov- 
 ernment of Christ in this church, shall publicly own the 
 covenant, be acknowledged members of this church. 
 Heb. ch. 10, v. 28, 29 ; Isaiah ch. 44, v. 5. A form of 
 words expressing the sum of the covenant to be used in 
 the admission of members into a state oj education : You 
 do here publicly take hold of the covenant of the Lord 
 as a grace-bestowing covenant, subjecting yourself to the 
 teachings and government of Jesus Christ, in this church, 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 33 
 
 and engage according to your place and power to promote 
 the welfare of it ; and we do here publicly acknowledge 
 you a member of this chuich of Christ in a state of educa- 
 tion, promising to watch over you for the good of your 
 soul, and take care of your instruction and government 
 in the Lord, and to make you partaker of such privileges 
 as by the rules of Christ belong unto you. A form of 
 words to be used in the admission of members to full 
 communion : You do here publicly take hold of the cove- 
 nant of the Lord, giving up yourself to him to be one of 
 His, subjecting yourself to the teaching and government 
 of Jesus Christ in this church, and engage according to 
 your place and power to promote the welfare thereof. 
 And we do here publicly acknowledge you a member of 
 the church in ftill communion, promising to walk towards 
 you in brotherly love, to watch over you for the good of 
 your soul, to take care of your instruction and govern- 
 ment in the Lord, and make you partaker of all such 
 privileges as by the rules of Christ belong to you." 
 
 The compendium of faith as given in the above ex- 
 tracts, from the writings of those that embraced it, is the 
 most definite and full of any thing that I have been able 
 to find on this subject. From these it is most manifest 
 that they did not hold the sacrament, one or more, as a 
 converting ordinance. Baptism was administered to such 
 as did not profess to have experienced religion; such 
 were considered church members, as under the watch and 
 care, and subject to the discipline of the church, but were 
 in "a state of education,'' not considered by themselves 
 or the church as regenerated persons. Hence baptism 
 was not held as a converting ordinance to them. They 
 were not admitted to the Lord's table. They must " not 
 essay of the breaking in upon the privilege of the Lord's 
 
34 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Supper." It is equally clear that a further qualification 
 of christian character was needful before they could be 
 admitted to the Lord's table " to full communion," and 
 that character must be judged of upon due examination, 
 and the question settled upon " their holding forth such 
 an experimental work of faith and exercise thereof as 
 would fit them for admission," and this work of faith 
 wrought in them before coming to the Table. They fur- 
 thermore say in explicit language, " the Lord's Supper, 
 as to the subjects thereof, is not of equal extent with 
 Baptism, therefore ought not to be administered to all 
 the members of the church, but to those among them only 
 as are endued with such measure of divine knowledge, 
 spiritual afi'ection, and lively exercise of repentance, faith, 
 love, and new obedience, as they may feed on Christ 
 spiritually in the eating his flesh, and drinking his blood 
 for their spiritual nourishment, and furtherance of com- 
 fort and growth in grace." In this summary it is most 
 clearly proved that they did not hold Baptism or the 
 Lord's Supper, one or both, as converting ordinances ; 
 neither did they admit persons to the communion table 
 known to be destitute of religion. It will be found more- 
 over, in examining the controversy between Mr. Stod- 
 dard and Mr. Mather, before alluded to, that Mr. Stod- 
 dard did not attempt to maintain either of these articles 
 of faith as they are imputed to him. The position which 
 he assumed for claiming jurisdiction over baptized per- 
 sons, bringing them under the watch, care and discipline 
 of the church, placing them in "a state of education," 
 and admitting them as members of the church, while they 
 were unregenerate and destitute of religion, was upon a 
 supposed strong and close analogy between the constitu- 
 tion of the Jewish and Christian Church. The masterly 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTO^YN. 35 
 
 argument of President Edwards, in his review of Mr. 
 Stoddard's theory on the subject, was mainly directed to 
 obviate arguments drawn from that source, and to show 
 that (whatever analogy there might have been in the 
 constitution of the church under the former and latter 
 dispensation) none were admitted as members of the 
 Christian Church, by authority of Christ or his Apostles, 
 but such as professed their faith in Christ. 
 
 Those who held the doctrine of " the half-v/ay cove- 
 nant," claimed the right to exercise jurisdiction over all 
 baptized persons on the same ground, that is, church gov- 
 ernment under the Hebrew Theocracy. 
 
 I find under date August 1714, at a meeting of an 
 association of ministers in Hampshire County, who had 
 adopted the "half-way covenant'* system, a protestation 
 of their faith on this point as follows : 
 
 " If any baptized person living in our towns shall fall 
 into any scandalous transgression, though he hath not 
 actually owned the covenant, we will proceed with such 
 person as if he had actually owned the covenant," 
 assigning their reasons for so doing and predicating their 
 acts upon the following Bible authorities, Deut. ch. 17, 
 v. 2, 3; 2d Chron. ch. 19, v. 10; Exodus ch. 24, and 
 Deut. ch. 27. 
 
 This whole system of doctrine and practice denominated 
 "the half-way covenant," very much resembled the an- 
 cient "catechumen" system of doctrine and practice 
 introduced into the christian church at a very early period 
 of its history, about the close of the first, and beginning 
 of the second century. The Rev. Dr. Coleman, in his 
 learned treatise " Christian Antiquities," says Catechu- 
 mens, in the ancient church, were candidates for baptism, 
 under instruction for admission into the christian church. 
 
86 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Those who were entitled to partake of the Lord's Supper 
 were exclusively denominated the faithful ; they occupied 
 the rank of approved christians, as the " half-way cove- 
 nant" would express it "in full communion." There were 
 several other classes of persons, who, though connected 
 with the church, and forming constituent parts of it, were 
 separated from, and inferior to, the former, being in vari- 
 ous stages of advancement toAvards a qualification for the 
 holy rights of the gospel ; these were called cafechumens. 
 The "half way-covenant" would consider them in "a 
 state of education," and in process of qualification for 
 "full communion." In the catechumen system, reading 
 the scriptures, fasting, prayer, and various modes of cate- 
 chetical and doctrinal instruction were resorted to as 
 means for the station of " believers," or " approved chris- 
 tians." They were kept in this state of pupilage for 
 different periods of time. Mr. Coleman says, " in general 
 it lasted two or three years, sometimes much longer." 
 When duly prepared by this instruction they were admit- 
 ted into the church, as the catechumens expressed it, as 
 "believers," "enlightened," "initiated." As those who 
 belonged to the half-way covenant express it, " to full 
 communion." We learn from " Christian Antiquities," 
 as well as from other ecclesiastical history, that the Cate- 
 chumens were not permitted to partake of the Eucharist, 
 though they were members of the church ; in the language 
 -of the half-way covenant believers, " they must not 
 essay of the breaking in on the privilege of the Lord's 
 Table." 
 
 The instruction given to the Catechumens, was such as 
 Was suited to their age and capacity, and an indispensa- 
 ble preliminary to their admission into the church. Cat- 
 echumens were divided into several classes ; these varied 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 37 
 
 in different churches. The object of all the churches was 
 to prepare the candidate for admission by instructing him 
 in the doctrines and duties of religion, and was deemed a 
 great safe-guard to the church against unworthy mem- 
 bers, by hasty admissions. It is quite manifest that 
 those professing the half-way covenant system re- 
 quired more knowledge of religious truth of those they 
 admitted to a state of education, than the primitive 
 church required of the Catechumen. The reason for ad- 
 mitting these classes of persons members of the church, 
 was because without such admission the church would not 
 have that jurisdiction over them in instruction and disci- 
 pline which was supposed to be essential for their right 
 training to become members of the church in full com- 
 munion. The catechumen system was not introduced till 
 after the age of the Apostles. To detail more fully the 
 two systems of the half-way covenant and the catechu- 
 men, would not be in accordance with my design in this 
 sketch. By a comparison of the compendium of the half- 
 way covenant, and that of the catechumen, the analogy 
 between them will appear clear and conclusive. I cannot 
 learn that any written summary of the faith, or covenant, 
 or rules of action of this church, contained the half-way 
 covenant doctrine. It is certain that none since 1756, 
 has ever embraced any such compendium, yet there is no 
 doubt the half-way covenant practice prevailed in this 
 church, from its earliest existence till after Mr. Forward!* 
 settlement. The first articles of faith and church cove- 
 nant adopted by this church, at its organization, are not 
 in existence. Not many years after Mr. Forward's settle- 
 ment here I find a vote of this church as follows : 
 
 *' Voted, that we will not admit in future any person 
 into the church as a member, but such as give preponder- 
 4 
 
38 HISTOKICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 ating evidence, or such evidence as the circumstances of 
 the case will admit, that they are really such as they 
 profess to be ; that is christians, and by christians we 
 mean regenerated persons." 
 
 The date of this vote is a little uncertain, probably as 
 late or later than 1770 ; but the practice in the church had 
 prevailed, as expressed in the vote, before the vote was 
 taken. The church articles of faith since 1756, have 
 been those known as orthodox. From the dismission of 
 Mr. Billing, the people remained destitute of a settled 
 ministry about three years and ten months ; they, how- 
 ever, sustained preaching and maintained the ordinances. 
 Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Pierce, and others, ministered to 
 them. Mr. Forward came amo^g them for a supply, by 
 invitation, in the fall of 1755. On the 8th of December, 
 at a precinct meeting, a committee was appointed to see 
 him in relation to the continuing his labors among them. 
 Mr. Forward had been engaged to sujiply for a time, and 
 had fulfilled the engagement. The committee were au- 
 thorized to call a meeting to consider the subject of 
 giving him a call to settle among them. A meeting was 
 called and holden on the ninth day of January 1756; 
 the subject considered and a call given by a universal 
 vote, and a committee chosen to treat with Mr. Forward, 
 on the subject of his settlement. Various jn'oposals were 
 made as to terms, which were not satisfactory ; the diffi- 
 culty attending the negotiation seemed to arise from the 
 fluctuation of the currency, or how to estimate the real 
 value of nominal sums. Nominal sums were continually 
 varying as to their intrinsic worth. It was finally pro- 
 posed to offer Mr. Forward one hundred acres of land, 
 and eighty pounds in lawful money, to be paid in labor 
 towards building Mr. Forward a house, for settlement. 
 
CONGKEGATIONAL CHUKCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 39 
 
 And for salary, to give him forty-six pounds thirteen 
 shillings and four pence, lawful money the first year, and 
 raise one pound six shillings and eight pence a year, for 
 ten years to come, which will make it sixty pounds, and 
 then after ten years, to pay him sixty pounds lawful 
 money a year, so long as he continues jDastor of this 
 church, and cut and draw his fire-wood, off from Mr. 
 Forward's own land. To the call of the people to settle 
 with them and the proposals offered him, Mr. Forward 
 returned the following answer. 
 
 " To the church of Christ, in the township of Cold- 
 Spring, and to the inhabitants of said town, greeting : 
 
 Beloved and Friends. — I have taken into consideration 
 your invitation to me, to settle among you, in the work 
 of the gospel ministry, as manifested to me by your com- 
 mittee, on the evenings succeeding the 9th and the 19th 
 of January, as also the offers of the town to induce me so 
 to do, and proposals respecting provision for my mainten- 
 ance, and outward support, in case I should settle in that 
 work among you as manifested to me by the same com- 
 mittee, on the evening last mentioned, and for your good 
 will towards me hereby manifested, I can but render you 
 my grateful acknowledgments. I have taken the advice 
 of those of my friends whom I had opportunity to consult 
 respecting this affair, and I hope seriously considered, 
 and diligently weighed and pondered the case before 
 me, in all the apparent circumstances of it, and begged 
 direction of Almighty God, in this important case, con- 
 cern and affair, both for myself, and for you, that each 
 might be taught and guided in the way of our duty, and 
 in the way that might be for our best interests. I must 
 confess that the greatness of the work and the difficulties 
 
40 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 that attend it, have lain with no small weight upon my 
 spirits, and at times been matter of great discouragement 
 to me, concerning undertaking it at present, especially- 
 considering my youth and the little time and opportunity 
 I have had to pursue the study of Divinity, so that on 
 that account I should not have chosen to have engaged 
 in the work of the ministry so soon. But God, who 
 knows what is best and fittest for us infinitely better than 
 we do what is so for our ownselves, has in the way of his 
 Providence as we have good reason to think, all circum- 
 stances duly considered, united your hearts together to 
 make choice of me to be your minister, which I cannot 
 but look upon as a speaking thing in Providence ; it is 
 what has greatly engaged my afi'ections towards you, and 
 seemed to make duty plain before me, and also to lay 
 open a glorious and lovely prospect of my usefulness 
 among you, which thing I hope and trust are with me 
 higher and more weighty and powerful motives and 
 inducements, to engage me to settle in the work of the 
 ministry among you, than the prospect of any temporal 
 reward or accommodations whatever. Not that I would 
 be thought to speak or think lightly, or diminutively of 
 the proffered proposal you have made me respecting my 
 outward accommodations and maintenance among you. 
 Indeed I cannot say that what you have offered me will 
 be sufficient for my comfortable support and subsistence, 
 nor can I say to the contrary, because I know not the 
 cost of building or maintaining a family, nor what family 
 I shall have if I should live, nor under what circumstan- 
 ces they or I may be. But however, I take it that the 
 people of this town, have all along, since I first preached 
 with you, shown a generous and good disposition towards 
 me, and considering the fewness of their numbers, and 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 41 
 
 the circumstances of the times, made me an offer as good 
 perhaps as was reasonable to expect, and as I desire only 
 a comfortable support and maintenance from you, should 
 I settle with you, so I doubt not should my necessities 
 require more, and your circumstances admit of giving it, 
 you would freely give it ; a sufficient maintenance being 
 the thing, and that only which is desired or proposed by 
 each party, I must therefore, as is my duty, notwithstand- 
 ing all difficulties and discouragements comply with and 
 be obedient to, what appears to me to be the Heavenly 
 call, and I hope, I do it cheerfully and for the sake of 
 God, and the interests of religion. At present therefore 
 I know of nothing, upon supposition that the neighboring 
 ministers advise to it, may hinder my settling among you 
 and think' to accept your invitation and offers, hoping 
 that we may be blessings to, and blessed in and with 
 each other, so wishing and praying that grace, mercy and 
 peace may be multiplied unto you abundantly, 
 I remain your assured friend, 
 
 Justus Forward." 
 Dated at my Lodgings, in Cold- Springy Jan. 29, Anno Do?7iini, 17o6. 
 
 No sooner was this answer given than measures were 
 taken for Mr. Forward's ordination, which took place on 
 the twenty-fifth day of February, 1756. He was then 
 in the 26th year of his age. To this time the number 
 of inabitants had increased to sixty families — three hun- 
 dred souls ; there were sixty-eight communicants, thirty- 
 three males thirty-five females. These were, with the ex- 
 ception of a very few, members of this church ; some 
 very few, who had came into the place while the people 
 were destitute of a minister, had deferred connecting 
 themselves with this church, who were professors of re- 
 ligion, but did not transfer their church relation to this 
 4* 
 
42 HISTOBICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 church till after Mr. Forward's ordination ; this accounts 
 for the fact that a few names stand as members of the 
 church, on the church records at the time of his ordina- 
 tion, whose names are found as uniting with this church 
 after his settlement. 
 
 As early as the year 1757 measures were taken to obtain 
 an act of incorporation with town privileges. The settlers 
 had no power to tax nonresident lands for parochial charges, 
 to pay a minister or build a meeting house ; that could 
 be done only by special authority from the General Court ; 
 this had embarrassed them from their first settlement. 
 There was a conflicting interest between resident and 
 non-resident proprietors on this subject. Resident pro- 
 prietors, in a petition dated December 1754, to the Gene- 
 ral Court, say they are destitute of a minister tind unable 
 to go through with the expense of settling one, and pray 
 for leave to assess a small tax on all lands. This was op- 
 posed by non-resident proprietors. By way of remonstrance 
 February 26th 1755, they say, " this tract was equivalent 
 land and purchased without any conditions or limitations. 
 One third was sold to persons to bring forward a set- 
 tlement, but they culled out the best ; their one third is 
 in fact equal in value to all the rest ; yet proprietors (non- 
 resident) agreed to be taxed for meeting-house and min- 
 ister. A meeting-house was built, and Mr. Billing settled. 
 After a long controversy and debate Mr. Billing was dis- 
 missed. And now the inhabitants petition for a tax to 
 settle another. We think this unreasonable, as we were not 
 obliged originally to pay any thing, and pray that no pow- 
 er be given to raise a tax." The remonstrance prevailed ; 
 no tax was then granted. In 1756 another petition of simi- 
 lar import was made to the General Court. In Jan. 1 757, 
 the power was given by the Legislature, and a tax of one 
 
CONGKEGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 43 
 
 half a penny an acre was assessed ; this greatly relieved 
 and encouraged the people. The greatest obstacle in the 
 way of the prosperity of the place, and which was most 
 embarrassing to the settlers, was their inability to tax the 
 property here for the support of their religious institutions, 
 making that support unequal and troublesome. So long 
 as that inability existed they were not successful ; lands 
 were not taken, population was stationary and the people 
 were discouraged ; when the difficulty was removed, and 
 power given for a general tax, the people prospered. 
 
 At a precinct meeting, held December 29th 1760, a 
 committee was appointed to present a j)etition to the Gen- 
 eral Coiu't for an act of incorporation as a town. In 
 March 1761, it was presented, and on the 23d day of June 
 1761, an act passed incorporating the town by the name 
 of BeJcherstown, in honor of Jonathan Belcher, for- 
 merly a large land proprietor here. lie was Governor of the 
 Province of Massachusetts, from 1730 to 1740. A war- 
 rant was issued by the General Court for calling the first 
 meeting, directed to Eicazer Porter, Esq. one of his Maj- 
 esty's Justices for the County of Hampshire, to call the 
 inhabitants together to organize and choose town officers, 
 and a town meeting was held in pursuance of it, Sept. 
 30th 1761. I have not been able to find any data from 
 which we can learn the population of the town, at the 
 time of its incorporation. From the ratio of increase for 
 several years before and several years after, we may infer 
 that there were five hundred and sixty, or about that num- 
 ber. Soon after the act of incorporation, their attention 
 was called to the subject of public schools. Nothing 
 thus far in their history shows that any thing had ever 
 been raised by tax and assessed upon the inhabitants for 
 the support of schools. They have, however, left evi- 
 
44 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OP THE 
 
 dence, from their acts and doings and records, of intelli- 
 gence, and capacity to do business, and that correctly and 
 efficiently. The youth were instructed, in that day, so as 
 to prepare them for usefulness ; they were taught in the 
 family, with diligence ; parents had qualified themselves 
 to instruct their children ; they were taught to read and 
 write, and the use of figures, and the modes of doing 
 business ; multitudes who never attended a district school 
 a day in their life gained the requisite knowledge. Chil- 
 dren were, under parental discipline, required to improve 
 their time usefully ; stated periods were set apart to in- 
 struct the children of the family by the parents, and they 
 were trained to regular, sober and industrious habits. 
 There was a moral and religious training, exceedingly use- 
 ful for every department of life ; children were restrained 
 from going where temptations assail. It was not deemed 
 evidence of high promise in children of puritan stock, to 
 disrespect parental authority, or for the young to assume 
 ihe airs of rudeness and insolence to age and superior 
 "worth. Children and youth, in those days, were not wiser 
 than their fathers while they were yet children in age and 
 knowledge, and before they had learned obedience to 
 parental authority. The more carefully we examine the 
 usages of that day in family discipline, family instruction, 
 and a religious influence imparted to the minds of chil- 
 dren, in forming right habits, the more we shall find to 
 admire and to reverence. A single recorded instance in 
 "this matter illustrates a general practice, among religious 
 families to a greater or less extent, and the effects. It is 
 'recorded, that " Joshua Dickinson Forward, only son of 
 Rev. Justus Forward, was drowned at Hatfield, June 
 'i28th 1765, aged seven years and seven months. lie was 
 "a pious child. lie had read his Bible through twice in 
 
CONGKEGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 45 
 
 course." It is doubtful whether this child had ever at- 
 tended the district school or any other, out of the family, 
 a day in his life ; at that day the people of this place, pre- 
 cinct and town, had raised by a tax and assessment 
 for public schools only twenty-six dollars and sixty-six 
 cents. A common prosperity attended the people ; the ratio 
 of increase in j)opulation was slow. For the first thirteen 
 years after the settlement of Mr. Billing, the population 
 doubled ; and again doubled in the next thirteen years, or 
 nearly that. For the next succeeding seventy years, the 
 population doubled once in about twenty-seven years. The 
 ratio of increase was larger in the earlier part of this 
 period than in the latter part of it. The average number 
 of deaths annually for fifty-six years next following 1756, 
 was about fifteen; total eight hundred and forty -five. Under 
 one year of age, one hundred and seventy-five ; between 
 one and ten years, two hnndred and seven ; between ten 
 and twenty, seventy-nine ; between twenty and thirty, 
 seventy-seven ; between thirty and forty, sixty-four ; be- 
 tween forty and fifty, thirty ; between fifty and sixty, 
 forty-seven ; between sixty and seventy, fifty-seven ; be- 
 tween seventy and eighty, fifty-five ; between eighty and 
 ninety, forty-three ; between ninety and one hundred, 
 nine ; and two over one hundred years. During the same 
 period there were nine hundred sixty-nine baptisms and 
 four hundred and fifty marriages. 
 
 In common with their countrymen, they were brought 
 to feel the embarrassments and the deprivations by reason 
 of British aggressions as early as 1768. Their religion 
 as well as their views of civil liberty and individual rights, 
 forbade their acquiesence under them. Through the whole 
 period of the revolutionary struggle, with great and en- 
 ire unanimity, they maintained the cause of freed romand 
 
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 bore their share of the burdens with heroic fortitude and 
 christian faithfulness. They held it a christian duty to op- 
 pose oppression in all its approaches ; no arbitrary power 
 trifling with human rights, however attired by forms of 
 law, could gain their respect, or approval, or support ; 
 edicts of terror, whether fulminated from the throne or 
 Vatican, were alike disobeyed and disregarded. They 
 obeyed a higher law than despots ever forged, from higher 
 authority, with higher motives, and to execute higher 
 purposes. On a day that tried men's souls they declared it, 
 under date September 1774, when the regular forms of 
 law and justice were suspended and the evils of anarchy 
 and insubordination sorely felt ; in public meeting as- 
 sembled affixing their signatures to the following solemn 
 compact ; " We declare that we will take no unreasona- 
 ble liberties or advantage from the suspension of the 
 course of law, but we engage to conduct ourselves agree- 
 able to the Laws of God, of reason, of humanity, and 
 we hereby engage to use all prudent and justifiable and 
 necessary measures to secure and defend each other's per- 
 sons and families, their lives, rights, and properties, 
 against all who shall attempt to hurt, injure or invade 
 them, and to secure and defend to ourselves and our pos- 
 terity our just and constitutional rights and privileges." 
 Such a declaration is worthy of those who framed it ; it 
 bears the stamp of puritanic faithfulness and decision ; it 
 breathes the spirit of Moses, of Daniel, of Paul, and of 
 the faithful in all ages. 
 
 Our fathers did not forget to entertain strangers ; they 
 also possessed the spirit of imparting religious instruc- 
 tion to the poor and the wanderer. Under date of Sep- 
 tember 23d 1774, at a town meeting, a vote passed, " to 
 pay Lieut. Joseph Smith and Lieut. Joseph Graves twenty 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 47 
 
 four shillings each for going to Brookfield to carry the 
 Missionary Interpreter and six Oneida Indians." Wheth- 
 er a vote could be now (1851) carried in a town meeting 
 in Belchertown, to pay twenty-four shillings for the ad- 
 vancement of any missionary enterprise, demands a doubt. 
 Amidst all their trials and embarrassments, the war of 
 the revolution and its attendant deprivations, they sus- 
 tained their religious institutions Avith constancy and 
 promptitude. They were not forsaken by Him " that 
 keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love Him and 
 keep his commandments to a thousand generations." 
 Near the close of the year 1784, and beginning of 1785, 
 the people were favored with a memorable revival of re- 
 ligion ; the most signal, by far, of any the church had 
 experienced during the first seventy years of its existence. 
 From the testimony of persons then there, and from those 
 who were subjects of the work, we are led to believe it 
 was very genuine in its character, and attended with the 
 gentle and powerful influeJices of the spirit, without spu- 
 rious or fanatical movements. It has uniformly been 
 so represented. It continued about one year and nine 
 months, during which time, that is, between February 2d, 
 1785, and November 5th, 1786, inclusive, fifty-eight per- 
 sons united with the church by profession ; about as 
 many as united with it for the next succeeding nineteen 
 years. I have known several of those persons who were 
 admitted to the church during that season. They view the 
 subject in the same light ; the impression given to their 
 minds and hearts by it, was evidently made by the same 
 impress, and was indelible. In the course of my inquiry for 
 materials for this narrative, of aged ones once here, and 
 conversant with the history of the place many years ago, 
 I had an interview with a venerable aged man, once living 
 
48 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 here, and who united with this church during this revival in 
 1785, now nearly ninety years of age, and residing in an- 
 other place, where he has resided more than sixty years. 
 During the conversation, casting his thoughts back to the 
 days of other years, now gone, and when a resident here, 
 he adverted to this revival with a feeling of interest and 
 fervor of expression, which description can but feebly give. 
 The events and scenes of that revival seemed to awaken 
 every power of his soul ; those things, said he, " I well 
 remember; during that year, from February 1785 to Feb- 
 ruary 1786, forty-four united with that church. There I 
 stood, with many by me, in solemn assembly, embracing 
 my covenant vows. Of that forty -four, said he, two be- 
 came preachers of the gospel, and six became deacons of 
 churches, and all are now dead, as I suppose, but three 
 of us." The interview was an instructing one. There was 
 the venerable saint, strengthened and animated by the spirit 
 that breathed upon him sixty-five years before, now 
 seeming to hover over him, and renew the promise, " he 
 that hath begun a good work in you, will perform it un- 
 til the day of Jesus Christ." The Rev. Amasa Smith and 
 the Rev. John Smith, D. D., were the two then uniting 
 with the church, that became ministers of the gospel. 
 These men will be noticed in the chronological columns, 
 in numbers, representing names, (229) and (248). Also, 
 the Rev. Eli Smith experienced religion during the same 
 period, though he did not unite with the church till 1788. 
 (No. 279). These three ministers were brothers — sons of 
 deacon Joseph Smith (No. 9). Also, the Rev. Ethan 
 Smith, son of Dea. Elijah Smith, (No. 11), was I suppose, 
 among the number that experienced religion during that 
 revival here, though he did not unite with this church, 
 He immediately commenced a course of classical study 
 
CONGHEGATIONAL CHUKCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 49 
 
 with a view to the gospel ministry, entered Dartmouth 
 College, and graduated in 1790 ; studied theology, and 
 was first settled in the ministry in Haverhill, New Hamp- 
 shire. He was there ordained, January 25th, 1792, re- 
 mained in the ministry there till June 23d, 1799, when he 
 was dismissed, and received a call from the church and 
 society in Hopkinton, same state, to settle there, and was 
 installed in that place March 12th, 1800 ; remained in 
 the ministry there till December 16th, 1817, when he was 
 dismissed ; was again installed over a church in Hebron, 
 state of New York, February 26th, 1818; dismissed Au- 
 gust 29th, 1821 ; again installed in Poultney, Vermont, 
 November 21st, 1821; and dismissed December 29th,l 826 ; 
 again installed in Hanover, Massachusetts, May 16th, 
 1827 ; dismissed about 1832. After this period he acted 
 as city missionary in Boston, and as an agent for various 
 Bible societies, continuing his active labors in the ministry 
 till his death. He died at the residence of his son-in-law, 
 Rev. William H. Sanford, of Boylston, Massachusetts, 
 August 29th, 1849, in the 87th year of his age. Mr. 
 Smith was an exceeding active and laborious minister, al- 
 ways striving to advance the spiritual interests of his fellow 
 men. Several of the dismissions that occurred in his min- 
 istry, arose solely from the inability of his people to give 
 him an adequate support. 
 
 In doctrine and in life he was a genuine representative 
 of the puritanic stock, in the stern and reliable elements 
 of his character. The Bible was his text book. He 
 studied it. He preached it, and experienced the con- 
 solations of its promises. He published several works. 
 One " On the Prophecies," one " A key to tha Revela- 
 tions." His publications show diligent investigation 
 and biblical knowledge. His religious affections were 
 
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 ardent and constant, his hope of a blessed immortality 
 firm and unshaken. 
 
 The house occupied now as a place of public worship 
 was erected in 1789, and dedicated to the solemn worship 
 of God, September 12th, 1792. It was built by individual 
 enterprise. The old house had became useless ; it stood 
 about seventy-five rods south of the present house ; a new 
 one was needed. The question of location arose ; some per- 
 sons in the extreme parts of the town, proposed a division 
 of the town into two, north and south, by an east and west 
 line through what is now the center ; this measure had its 
 advocates. The necessity of a place for public worship, and 
 a desire to reconcile all discordant feelings on this point, 
 induced sundry of the inhabitants to make personal and 
 pecuniary sacrifices to accomplish these desired ends. 
 Col. Elijah D wight, was a very prominent actor in erect- 
 ing this house. He was a deacon in the church ; see (215). 
 He made a liberal donation to the town, and sufi'ered pe- 
 cuniary losses in the work. He was a benefactor to the 
 town. In about four years after they began to worship 
 in the new house, the subject was brought before the peo- 
 ple of settling a colleague with Eev. Mr. Forward. He 
 had then been the settled minister here about 40 years. 
 I should infer from the proceedings, that it was his desire 
 to have a colleague. At a church meeting held for the 
 purpose of considering this subject, September 29th, 1796, 
 a vote was taken by the church, " that it is expedient to 
 settle a colleague with Rev. Mr. Forward." This vote was 
 brought before the society ; and after some discussion met 
 with an indefinite postponement ; and no colleague was 
 settled with him till March, 1812, about two years before 
 Mr. Forward's death. He continued in the faithful and 
 prompt discharge of the duties of the pastoral ofiice be- 
 
CONGREGATIOIN'AL CHUKCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 51 
 
 yond the age of four score years. He died March 8th, 
 1814, in the 59th year of his ministry, and in the 84th 
 year of his age. He was married December 8th, 1756, 
 to Violet, daughter and only child of Mr. Joshua Dickin- 
 son, of Hatfield ; they had eleven children. Two only sur- 
 vived him, one son and one daughter. He lived to fol- 
 low to the grave more than nine hundred of his people, 
 and more than three times the number of his whole con- 
 gregation at the time of his settlement. It Avould seem 
 but a tribute justly due to him, who was the adviser, the 
 spiritual guide and teacher of this church, for half of the 
 one hundred and fourteen years since they have had a 
 church existence, to turn a passing thought to his memo- 
 ry and his character. A very short sketch is all that such 
 a summary as this would justify. I am aware of the dif- 
 ficulty of doing this as it should be. It is easy to give a 
 common-place eulogy to a character, and no more than is 
 justly due, and yet it may be far from a life-picture of the 
 original. Such is the almost infinite variety of character 
 — the nice and subtle shades of distinction by which it is 
 marked, that to give it the stamp of truth, requires the 
 touch of a master's hand. All men have something in 
 common, yet each has his distinctive identity, that must 
 be drawn ; for that alone makes the difi'erence between 
 him of whom it is predicable and every other person ; 
 this is as true in the personal, intellectual and moral traits 
 forming character, as it is in features and in countenance, 
 by which men are distinguished. Mr. Forward's character 
 was strongly marked by the stern, faithful, unassuming, 
 considerate traits, showing his puritanic lineage. He 
 was born in Suffield, Connecticut, May 11th, 1730, old 
 style. His ancestors were from Devonshire, England. 
 Samuel Forward, his great grandfather, left England dur- 
 
52 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 ing the corrupt, profligate and licentious reign of Charles 
 2d, came to New England among the pilgrim fathers, 
 about the year 1666, settled at Windsor, Connecticut, be- 
 fore that town was incorporated, died there in 1684, as 
 appears by the records of that town ; (his name is there 
 written Foward). He left two sons, Samuel and Joseph. 
 Samuel, the grandfather of Mr. Forward, was born in 
 Windsor, in 1671 ; married and settled in Simsbury, had 
 four sons and two daughters. Joseph, the father of Mr. 
 Forward, was born at Simsbury, November, 1707, married 
 Mary Lawton, of Suffield, and removed there where he re- 
 sided several years, and removed to a parish in Simsbury, 
 (now Granby, Connecticut), where he carried on his busi- 
 ness, a tanner, saddler, and a large farming concern. Jus- 
 tus was the eldest child ; under the faithful and pious 
 training of his parents, he hopefully experienced religion 
 at about fourteen years of age. It will be seen by a com- 
 parison of dates, that Mr. Forward experienced religion 
 during the great revival in New England in the days of 
 President Edwards, a very important period in the his- 
 tory of the New England churches, and will continue to 
 be so regarded as long as New England churches exist. 
 In 1740, powerful revivals existed in one hundred and fif- 
 ty congregations in New England. In 1735, there were 
 two hundred hopeful converts in six months in Northamp- 
 ton, and ten of them about ninety years of age. Soon 
 after Mr. Forward experienced religion, he became desir- 
 ous of entering on a course of study, preparatory to the 
 gospel ministry. His father's consent was obtained, 
 he began a course of classical study, and was fitted 
 to enter college at Commencement, September, 1748. 
 At that time a sore sickness visited his father's family, of 
 which four out of seven children died, in the course of 
 
CONGREGATIOlSrAL CHUUCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 53 
 
 about three weeks. This deep family affliction, seemed 
 for a time to hedge up the way for pursuing his studies* 
 The afflicted parents felt that Justus must not leave the 
 paternal roof, even for the high and laudable purpose of 
 preparation for the gospel ministry. Yielding to these 
 wishes of his parents, he suspended his studies for two 
 years, and remained at home in the active duties of his 
 father's business. Not relinquishing his chosen purpose, 
 he again sought and obtained his father's consent to the re- 
 newal of his studies, and entered Yale College September 
 1750, and passed the four years in college with reputation 
 to himself and the esteem and confidence of the college 
 faculty. He was a correct classical scholar, and so dis- 
 tinguished himself in the languages, that at the close of 
 senior year, the faculty conferred on him the " Dean's 
 Bounty," (sometimes called the Berklian prize), as their 
 testimony of his scholarship. He did not remain at New 
 Haven after his graduation to receive the pecuniary benefit 
 which the prize offered. He left there, went to Hatfield, 
 and engaged in teaching a school, and at the same time 
 pursued a course of theological study with the Rev. 
 Timothy Woodbridge, then the minister of Hatfield. He 
 was licensed to preach in the fall of 1755, and soon after 
 license, by invitation, came to supply the people here. He 
 never preached elsewhere as a candidate ; his whole min- 
 isterial life was here. The powers and the faculties of 
 his long and useful life, were consecrated to the best good 
 of this people, and he was diligent in well doing. He pos- 
 sessed a well balanced mind ; if it did not take so wide a- 
 range, or so high a flight as that of some other men, it 
 moved in sure, safe and well directed courses. He pos- 
 sessed much of what is sometimes called forecast of 
 thought in drawing just conclusions from a given course 
 5* 
 
54 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 of measures. He was preeminently a matter-of-fact man ; 
 no one could hear him converse but must feel that he was 
 instructed by his conversation ; even in old age, he possess- 
 ed the rare faculty of interesting the young, by his con- 
 Tersation. He was useful to his people in many ways. 
 In his early ministry, the people few, there was no practis- 
 ing physician in the place and none near ; he became very 
 useful to his people in sickness ; by reading and practising 
 he obtained considerable knowledge of medicine, and turn- 
 ed his knowledge to the best practical account. This gave 
 him a two -fold advantage for doing good ; while adminis- 
 tering to their physical M'ants, he gained a knowledge of 
 their spiritual wants, and was always ready to meet them. 
 He was decided in his views of duty in the days of the 
 Revolution. He was opposed to British aggressions on 
 American rights. He wrote for the periodical press in 
 those times and his labors were well received. 
 
 As a sermonizer, clearness, simplicity, and solemnity 
 characterized his performances ; no attempts at display or 
 embellishment ; with single-heartedness convincing all 
 that heard him that he was " honest in the sacred cause." 
 He studied the works of God, and read useful instruction 
 from the passing events around him. If he was not so 
 learned, as some men count learning, as others that 
 might be found, he was truly a wise man. In his theo- 
 logy, he was strictly evangelical. I use this term as it is 
 used by the orthodox in New England, rather than as it 
 is now used in the German schools. The doctrines of the 
 reformation preached by Calvin, John Knox, Owen, John 
 Howe, and Baxter, and transplanted by the pilgrim fathers 
 to New England and here taught by the Mayhews, the 
 Mathers, and Edwards of New England, were his doc- 
 trines and the doctrines of this church, ever after his set- 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHEKTOAVN. 55 
 
 tlement. In his public discourses, lie dwelt much on the 
 practical influences of these doctrines on the heart and 
 life. He did not fail to preach the doctrines, but did not 
 make them the exclusive theme of his discourses to so 
 great an extent as some did. 
 
 In all his intercourse with his people, pastoral visits, 
 schools, the sick room, and elsewhere, he was kind, 
 affectionate, faithful, striving to advance the highest 
 interest of all. Such was the life of this aged, venerable 
 servant of Christ ; such a life tends to a peaceful and hap- 
 py death ; such was his. I well remember a short inter- 
 view I had with him a day or two before his death. His 
 last sickness was short. I called to see him ; he was sit- 
 ting in his chair, very feeble, but could converse, and did 
 so freely. He said he did not expect to live but a very 
 short time. Death said he, is very near ; soon I must stand 
 before God in judgment, I have not those transporting 
 views that some express in the near prosj)ect of death, 
 and when I think of my short-comings in what God has 
 required of me, it seems as if I ought not to hope in his 
 mercy, and I may be self-deceived ; but Christ is my hope, 
 and I think I know in whom I have trusted, and that he 
 will keep that I have entrusted to him to the day of my 
 redemption. He died as he lived, humble, patient, sub- 
 missive, relying upon the promises, and resting his all 
 upon the rock of ages. The memory of such men is 
 peaceful and their immortality blessed. Mrs. Forward 
 survived her husband twenty years ; she died March 27th, 
 1834, at the advanced age of ninety-five years four months 
 and twelve days. She was active and useful in the sta- 
 tions she occupied, cheerful, with a great flow of the 
 kindest feelings, benevolent, hospitable, and her whole 
 character adorned by the graces of the spirit. She outlived 
 
56 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 her faculties, mental and physical. Her mind became so 
 impaired that she did not know her own family, for some 
 two years before her death. 
 
 About two years before the death of Mr. Forward, 
 the Rev. Experience Porter was installed as colleague 
 pastor with him. He was installed the 11th of March, 
 1812. Mr. Porter was a native of Lebanon, New Hamp- 
 shire, son of deacon Nathaniel Porter, of that place. He 
 graduated at Dartmouth College in 1803. Upon leav- 
 ing college, he was appointed a tutor in the college at 
 Middlebury, Vermont, that college being then in its in- 
 fancy. He officiated as tutor one year, during which 
 time his attention was given to theological studies, so far 
 as was consistent with his college duties. At the close of 
 the year, he entered the Divinity school of the Rev. Asa- 
 hel Hooker, in Goshen, Connecticut, where he finished 
 his theological course and was licensed to preach. While a 
 licentiate he supplied in various places. In September 
 1807, he received a call to settle in Winchester, New 
 Hampshire. To this call he gave a favorable answer, and 
 was ordained over the church and people at Winchester, 
 November 12th, 1807. He remained in the faithful dis- 
 charge of his pastoral duties at Winchester, until the 20th 
 of February, 1810, when he was dismissed, at his own re- 
 quest, by a mutual council convened for that purpose. 
 After his dismission he preached in various places till 
 January, 1812, when by invitation he came for a supply 
 to this place ; and after preaching several Sabbaths, receiv- 
 ed a unanimous call from the church and society to settle 
 with them in the gospel ministry, as colleague pastor, with 
 Rev. Mr. Forward. During Mr. Porter's connection with 
 this people there were two revivals of religion. The first 
 commenced in 1812, and continued about one year, and 
 
CONGREGATIONAIi CHURCH IN BELCHEETOWN. 57 
 
 was general in all parts of the town. During the year 1813, 
 there were one hundred and seven persons united with 
 the church upon a public profession of their faith. The 
 next commenced in the fall of 1818, and continued 
 about the same length of time. Before the close of 1819, 
 there were two hundred and eight persons added to 
 the church by a profession of religion, as the fruit of this 
 revival. It was a season of great anxiety and most intense 
 feeling upon the public mind ; religious meetings were very 
 frequent, and attended in crowds ; the labors of the pas- 
 tor, were exceedingly arduous ; ministerial assistance was 
 sought from abroad ; many inquiring the way to Zion, and 
 her gates seemed to be pressed by those who were entering 
 the Kingdom ; many will doubtless remember those days 
 with joy so long as memory endures, and even in eternity 
 will look back to th at season as the day of their espousal to 
 the Lord Jesus Christ. The church was greatly increased, 
 strengthened and refreshed ; the friends of Zion will ever 
 rejoice in the blessed fruits of that religious revival. Mr. 
 Porter, in his farewell sermon, preached March 6th, 1825, 
 says, " among the hundreds to whom I have opened the 
 door of this church, some have as we trust, already sat 
 down to the marriage supper of the Lamb, and very many 
 more as we may reasonably hope are prepared to join that 
 blessed society ; but of some I might say with the apostle, 
 " I am afraid of you lest I have bestowed upon you labor 
 in vain." Faithful narrative requires me to say, in the 
 subsequent history of some, lamentable evidence has been 
 given of great delinquency in christian character ; some 
 who seemed for a time to run well fell away ; their religion 
 seemed to be, " as the morning cloud and the early dew 
 that goeth away." There is great reason to fear that the 
 caution and circumspection of the church and the pastor 
 
58 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 did not furnish sufficient safe-guards against accessions of 
 some unworthy members to the church. It is hoped that 
 at the great and final trial, if any such must be found, the 
 number will be few ; whatever the number may be, the 
 revelations of that day will disclose. Th^ pastoral relation 
 between Mr. Porter and this people continued till March 
 9th, 1825, when he was dismissed by a council mutually 
 chosen by him and his people for the purpose. His health 
 had become impaired, for several months before his dis- 
 mission, so much so that he had been able to preach only 
 a portion of the time. After his dismission he preached 
 but little ; he lingered under the disease which gradually 
 w^asted his strength, and which proved to lie beyond the 
 reach of all means resorted to for arresting its progress, 
 and terminated fatally. He died at Lebanon, New Hamp- 
 shire, on the 25th day of August, 1828, aged forty-six. 
 Mr. Porter possessed strong powers of mind, and was gift- 
 ed with very ready faculties ; he wrote with great rapidi- 
 ty ; his style of writing was more characterized by bold- 
 ness and strength than by a highly cultivated taste, or 
 classical accuracy. He spoke with ease ; in his presentation 
 of truth to his congregation, his appeals were cogent and 
 effectual. In his public discourses, the general features of 
 his subject were apprehended with great facility. If there 
 was any failure in doing ample justice to it in the discus- 
 sion, it arose from want of discrimination in the analyzing 
 and presentation, in its varried parts and aspects. His the- 
 ology was strictly Calvinistic, and in his pulpit exercises, 
 he dwelt much on the leading doctrines ; this created, to a 
 considerable extent, uniformity in his discourses. His 
 voice was full and deep toned, his manner in the desk self- 
 possessed, easy and deliberate, making a deep impression 
 on the hearer. The church was greatly increased during 
 
CONGREGATIOI^AL CHURCH TN BELCHERTOWJT . 59 
 
 his ministry. " When I was installed," says Mr. Porter 
 in his sermon, " the church consisted of one hundred and 
 ninety members ; since that time four hundred and twenty 
 five have been received ; of whom three hundred and 
 forty-five were received by profession, and eighty by let- 
 ters from other churches." It may be added that during 
 the thirteen years of his ministry here, about as many per- 
 sons united with this church by profession as had united 
 with it in the same way during the whole eighty years of 
 its existence previous to that period. He labored to im- 
 press upon the hearts of others the great truths of the 
 gospel, which his own heart bore witness were impressed 
 upon his. During the long and wasting disease that was 
 preying upon him, he had seasons of darkness and des- 
 pondency ; at times doubts and fears assailed him ; these 
 were but temporary, and as he gradually drew near the 
 close they were removed ; his prospect brightened and his 
 hopes were steadfast. He died in faith, sustained in an 
 unshaken trust of a blessed immortality. In October 1806, 
 he married Miss Sarah Smith, a daughter of Dr. Phineas 
 Smith, formerly of Sharon, Connecticut. Dr. Smith was 
 a near relative of the Hon. John Cotton Smith, for several 
 years Governor of Connecticut. At about sixteen years 
 of age, Mrs. Porter lost her parents ; from that period, she 
 resided in the family of an uncle, her father's brother, 
 Dan Smith, Esq., of West Haven, Vermont, for about six 
 years before her marriage, in the reciprocal interchanges 
 of those acts of kindness and mutual attachments that 
 belong to the endearing relation of parents and child. 
 The traits of her character were such as secured the respect 
 and esteem of all those acquainted with her. She had 
 a mind well furnished with fruits of various and well se- 
 lected reading. During the whole period of Mr. Porter's 
 
60 HiSTOBICAIi SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 ministry here, her health was feeble ; this necessarily for- 
 bade, to a great extent, those active labors and exercises 
 for the benefit of those around her, which were the 
 promptings of her heart ; what health and strength she 
 had were consecrated to the best of purposes. In the ser- 
 mon, at her funeral, by the Rev. Dr. Woodbridge, he 
 says, " in her intellectual character she possessed a vigor 
 and a decision which would have fitted her for no ordina-f 
 ry attainments in science ; her judgment was clear, her 
 reasoning faculty active and acute, and her imagination 
 tempered and subdued by sound discretion. Her remarks 
 on every subject, of which she professed to have any 
 knowledge, indicated the habit of thought, and of becom- 
 ing independence in forming her opinions. She early 
 made a public profession of religion ; she was strict and 
 conscientious in the duties of religion. She took a deep 
 interest in the prosperity of the Redeemer's kingdom." 
 The christian graces were seen in her whole character, 
 and in constant exercise ; they sustained her in the last 
 great trying conflict. She died April 18th, 1825, aged 
 forty-four. 
 
 In the spring of 1818, a Sabbath school was first 
 introduced as a Sabbath exercise in this church and 
 society, and has been continued ever since. Those who 
 then comprised the classes were children and youth. The 
 exercises, the committing to memory texts of scripture, 
 and verses from the hymn books, and rehearsing them. 
 The minister appointed the superintendent and the con- 
 ductors of the school. The same year Sabbath schools 
 were opened in many of the churches and religious socie- 
 ties in this community, for the first time. The utility of 
 these schools has been fully tested, and the improvements 
 by experience realized ; in no one thing perhaps more than 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHXJIICH IN BELCHERTOWN. 61 
 
 ill bringing those of all ages and conditions in life, into 
 them for Bible instruction. 
 
 After the dismission of Rev, Mr. Porter, the people 
 remained without a settled ministry about seven months. 
 The Rev. Lyman Coleman had supplied the desk several 
 Sabbaths, by invitation, during the year 1824, while ill 
 health suspended the labors of Mr. Porter ; soon after 
 Mr. Porter's dismission, (May following), Mr. Coleman 
 was again invited to supply the desk. He preached a 
 succession of Sabbaths and remained several weeks among 
 us. On the 8th of August, a vote passed in the church 
 expressing a desire to extend a call to him, which was 
 responded to by the society, and a unanimous call was 
 given him ; in due time he signified his acceptence. A 
 Council vv^as called, and the following clergymen partici- 
 pated in his ordination : 
 
 Rev. Artemas Boies, of South Hadley, made the in- 
 troductory prayer. Rev. Dr. Joel- Hawes, of Hartford, 
 preached the sermon, from 2d Thess. 2, 8th ; Rev. Nathan 
 Perkins, of Amherst, made the consecrating prayer ; Rev. 
 Dr. Ely, of Monson, gave the charge ; and Rev. William 
 C. Fowler, then of Greenfield, and since a Professor in the 
 College at Middlebury and at Amherst, gave the right 
 hand of fellowship ; and the Rev. Ebenezer B. Wright, of 
 Ludlow, offered the concluding prayer. Mr. Coleman 
 remained here in the ministry nearly seven years. He 
 was settled October 19th, 1825. A kind providence smiled 
 on his labors ; the society increased and the church enlarg- 
 ed ; some of the advances, showing a prosperous state of 
 things among us, may be seen by a few extracts from Mr. 
 Coleman's farewell sermon, preached on the 9th Septem- 
 ber 1832, the Sabbath next after his dismission, from 2d 
 Cor. 13th and 1 1th, " Finally brethren, farewell." After the 
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62 HISTOKICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 introduction in this discourse, Mr. Coleman speaks of his 
 own discouragements, and says " God grant that my lack of 
 service may be supplied by the communications of his 
 grace to you." " Some portion of good, I must believe, has 
 been done, and in this I rejoice, and will rejoice to my la- 
 test breath." In the progress of the sermon, he recapitu- 
 lates as follows : "on my coming among you, the Sabbath 
 school was composed of a limited number of children and 
 youth, with scarce a single individual of adult age. The 
 system of organization has since been entirely changed. 
 A more thorough and efficient system of instruction has 
 been introduced, and the school has been increased by a 
 large portion of the congregation, who by their age and 
 influence give character to ths institution." " Soon after 
 my settlement, a Sabbath school library was commenced, 
 which now contains more than seven hundred bound 
 volumes." " In this connection, the alteration and enlarge- 
 ment of this house of public worship ought to be mention- 
 ed." The alteration and enlargement here alluded to was 
 made in 1828 ; the house was enlarged and the inside en- 
 tirely constructed anew, at an expense of over thr-^e thous- 
 and dollars. He continues and says, " of scarcely le.^s impor- 
 tance was the fitting up of a neat and commodious place 
 for social worship." In 1830, this place (vestry) was pro- 
 vided for social religious meetings, principally by individ- 
 ual enterprise. He further says, " a spirit of christian 
 benevolence has also been considerably excited, and the 
 public charities of the people increased since the commence- 
 ment of my ministry." He then refers to the teinperance 
 reformation; the first efficient efforts on this subject 
 here were in 1827. He says, " the results have been most 
 important to the interests of this community ; our numbers 
 kave gradually increased from eleven up to more than seven 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 63 
 
 hundred, comprising a large portion of the influence and 
 character of the place." " At the lowest calculation, the 
 temperance reformation must be an annual saving to the 
 town of several thousand dollars, and yet this is really the 
 least of all considerations connected with this reformation ; 
 il is the salvation of life, of happiness, of the soul itself." 
 After alluding to various other things showing similar re- 
 sults, he says, " whilst I have sustained the pastoral office 
 in this church, one hundred seventy-eight have been ad- 
 ded to its body, forty-five by recommendation from other 
 churches, and one hundred thirty-three by a public profes- 
 sion of their faith in Christ ; the church at the time of my 
 settlement, consisted of three hundred sixty-four members ; 
 it now consists of four hundred fifty-seven, showing an in- 
 crease of almost one hundred." There was an unusual re- 
 ligious interest among this people in 1831. It is not the 
 object of tin's narrative to detail the causes that led to Mr. 
 Coleman's dismission ; they are now matters of history, 
 and will be recollected by many still among us ; if from 
 them are drawn useful lessons of instruction for the fu- 
 ture, they may thus far be beneficial. In alluding to them, 
 in drawing his discourse to a close, Mr. Coleman says, 
 *'we are all hastening to the judgment seat of Christ 
 where our motives will be fully known, and where these 
 our relations will be severely scrutinized. That meeting 
 at the judgment seat of Christ! Oh! it is enough to hush 
 every unhallowed feeling of the heart. There we shall 
 meet no more to judge one another, but to be judged of Him 
 on whose dread decision our character and our destiny de- 
 pend. There all my official conduct towards you will be 
 justly estimated, and there too all your treatment of me, 
 and of my gospel Avill be laid open." Mr. Coleman asked 
 and took a dismission against the wishes of a large majori- 
 
64 HISTOKICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 ty of the people. This fact was fully tested by votes in 
 parish meeting and in various other ways ; probably three 
 fourths of the parish were desirous that he should not 
 leave them ; yet a minority, and that not numerous, but 
 active and unyielding, sought a separation ; at a society 
 meeting held SejDtember 4th, 1832, for the purpose of con- 
 sidering the subject of Mr. Coleman's request for a dis- 
 mission, the following votes passed : 
 
 Voted, "That this society accord with the request 
 made by Rev. Lyman Coleman, that the pastoral relation 
 between him and this people be dissolved." 
 
 Voted, " That while this society expresses by vote 
 their accordance with the wishes of Mr. Coleman, ex- 
 pressed in his request, they would say that it is with the 
 deepest feelings of regret that such an event must take 
 place ; nearly seven years has elapsed since his settle- 
 ment here as the minister of this people. The ability, 
 the assiduity, the faithfulness, and untiring devotion 
 with which the duties of the sacred office have been 
 discharged by him during his labors among us, have 
 associated him in our feelings with our fairest prospects 
 and brightest hopes. We had cherished the pleasing 
 expectation that a beneficent Providence would continue 
 him as the minister of this people for a great while yet to 
 come ; though we are cut short in this, we would express 
 our grateful acknowledgment to the great Head of the 
 church, for continuing him so long the minister of this 
 people." The church passed a vote expressive of the 
 same feelings with the society. There was no opposition 
 expressed in the church or society in the passing of these 
 votes. He was dismissed on the 4th of September, 1832. 
 immediately upon his dismission he received an invita- 
 tion to take charge as Principal of the " Burr Seminary," 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 65 
 
 a literary institution, established at Manchester, Vermont. 
 He remained at the head of that institution till 1837, 
 when he was invited to take charge of the " Teachers* 
 Seminary," at Andover, Massachusetts ; he entered on 
 the duties there, and remained at that Seminary till 
 September, 1842. Resigning his office there, he made 
 arrangements for a voyage to Europe ; sailed from New 
 York, November 29th, same year, in a vessel bound to 
 Hamburgh ; passed the winter in the city of Berlin. A 
 leading object with Mr. Coleman, in visiting Europe, 
 was to obtain materials for a revised edition of his work, 
 " Christian Antiquities," and in preparation for another 
 v/ork, " The Primitive Church," or " Church without a 
 Bishop." At Berlin, he had great facilities, in aiding 
 him in the object of his inquiries. He was in habitual 
 conference with Dr. Neander, the great historian ; spent 
 the winter and spring, in close application at Berlin, in 
 gathering materials to perfect his object in his contem- 
 plated works above mentioned. He visited various parts 
 of Germany, France, Belgium, England, Scotland and 
 Wales. On his return home the next year he was 
 engaged in instruction at Amherst, Massachusetts, and 
 at Auburn, New York. These two works above named, 
 have been published, and very favorably received by the 
 public, as valuable standard works. They have recently 
 been reprinted in London. He has published another 
 work " Historical Geography ;" five editions of this work 
 have gone from the press. Mr. Coleman has published 
 some other works of a more limited extent, " Historical 
 Sketch, and the Christian Sabbath," and others, giving 
 evidence of laborious study and extensive research. Mr. 
 Coleman was a native of Middlefield, Hampshire County, 
 Massachusetts, born June, 1796, son of Dr. William. 
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 Coleman, then a practising physician of that place, and 
 now residing in Pittsfield, Massachusetts ; and grand-son 
 of Dr. Seth Coleman, formerly of Amherst, Massachusetts, 
 who died there, September 9th, 1816, aged 76, — a man 
 well known in his day as a skilful physician, and of dis- 
 tinguished piety. Mr. Coleman was a graduate of Yale 
 College in 1817 ; held the office of tutor in that College 
 five years ; studied theology at the Divinity School at 
 Yale; settled in the ministry here, October 19, 1825. 
 In September, 1826, he married Miss Maria Flynt, 
 daughter of Rufus Flynt, Esq., of Monson, Massachu- 
 setts. He received the Honorary Degree of D. D., from 
 Nassau Hall College, in 1848; is now engaged in clas- 
 sical instruction in the city of Philadelphia. 
 
 After Mr. Coleman's dismission, the people remained 
 without a settled minister, about one year. In June, 
 1833, an invitation was given to Rev. Jared Reid, to 
 supply the desk. Mr. Reid had been settled at Reading, 
 Massachusetts, and dismissed. He came among us and 
 supplied the desk for several Sabbaths. On the 22d of 
 July, at a meeting of the church, a vote was taken to give 
 him a call to settle, if the society acceded to the vote. 
 This they did, and a unanimous call was given him to 
 settle with us in the gospel ministry. In due time he 
 returned an affirmative answer, and he was installed to 
 the pastoral office September 4, 1833. Mr. Reid is son 
 of Mr. Samuel Reid, a native of Fall River, Massachu- 
 setts. He moved to Preston, Connecticut, where Rev. 
 Mr. Reid was born, February 1788 ; graduated at Yale 
 College 1817, (a class-mate with Rev. Mr. Coleman); 
 studied Theology at Andover; was licensed to preach 
 April 1822 ; settled in the ministry at Reading, Novem- 
 ber 20, 1823; dismissed 1833. November 27, 1823, he 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHtJECH IN BELCHERTOWN. 67 
 
 married Miss Sarah Bigelow, from Colchester, Connect- 
 icut. Mrs. Reid was exceedingly active and devoted in 
 her labors in advancing the religious interests of the com- 
 munity where she was. She was sympathetic in affliction, 
 faithful in her admonitions to the careless and indifferent, 
 and constant in her appeals to all to attend to the one 
 thing needful. No suitable opportunity was left unim- 
 proved by her, of communicating spiritual benefits to 
 those within the reach of her influence. In her last sick- 
 ness, she gave abundant evidence that her hope of a 
 blessed immortality was as an anchor to her soul, sure 
 and steadfast. She died at Tiverton, Rhode Island, 
 where Mr. Reid was stationed, on the 11th of February, 
 1845, aged fifty-eight. 
 
 During the ministry of Mr. Reid here the church was 
 divided, another church oaganized, and a society formed 
 in connection with it, known as the Brainerd Church 
 and Society. The causes of this division did not arise 
 from dissatisfaction with Mr. Reid, but from causes 
 entirely distinct from his ministry. It is no part of the 
 object of this narrative to detail them. They are well 
 known to many now in this community. They were not 
 occasioned by a difference in faith, or doctrine. The two 
 churches were in christian fellowship, each sustaining 
 stated, constant worship. Mr. Reid continued his labors 
 in the first church, which were attended with prosperity 
 to the church and people, till January, 1841, when he 
 requested a dismission from his church and people. A 
 mutual council was called for the purpose, and he was 
 dismissed January 6, 1841. 
 
 The Brainerd Church was organized on the 30th Sep- 
 tember, 1834. Sixty-eight members of the first church 
 had obtained certificates of their church standing, with a 
 
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 view of calling an ecclesiastical council, to consider the 
 subject of forming another church. This was done with 
 the consent of the first church. The council convened by 
 letters missive, and the subject was presented. The fol- 
 lowing Churches, Pastors and Delegates, composed that 
 Council. From the first church in Northampton, Rev. 
 Joseph Penny, D. D., and Br. Asaliel Lyman, Delegate ; 
 from the Edwards Church, Northampton, Rev. John Todd, 
 and Br. Thomas Napier, delegate ; from the first church 
 in Hadley, Rev. John Brown, D. D., Pastor, and Dea. 
 Jacob Smith, delegate ; from the first Church in South 
 Hadley, Rev. Artemas Boies, pastor, and Rev. B. R. 
 Woodbridge, delegate ; from the East Church in Amherst, 
 Rev. Nathan Perkins, pastor, and Gen. Ebenezer Mat- 
 toon, delegate ; from the church in Enfield, Rev. Joshua 
 Crosby and Rev. Sumner G. Clapp, pastors, and Br. 
 Eliphaz Jones, delegate ; from the church in Monson, 
 Rev. Alfred Ely, D. D., pastor, and Dea. S. Shaw, dele- 
 gate ; from the church in Brimfield, Rev. Joseph Vaill ; 
 from the First Church in Belchertown, Rev. Jared Reid, 
 pastor, and Dea. Phelps, delegate. Upon a full hearing 
 of the subject, the council came to a unanimous result in 
 favor of a new church organization, and constituted the 
 certificated members into a church, and extended to it 
 the fellowship of the churches, under the name of the 
 " Brainerd Church." Between twenty and thirty more 
 from the First Church united with it within a few weeks. 
 The ordinances of the gospel were continually sustained 
 in it from the first, though there was no settled ministry 
 till 1838. In June of that year an invitation was given 
 to Rev. George A. Oviatt to supply the desk. He came 
 among us and labored a few weeks. On the 16th of 
 July, 1838, the church records show the following acts 
 
CONGKEGATIONAL CIIUKCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 69 
 
 and doings. " The church held a meeting, duly notified, 
 on the subject of giving a call to the Rev. George A. 
 Oviatt to settle with us in the gospel ministry." And 
 the records also say, " Whereas, he has labored among us 
 for a time, to our acceptance and edification, and from his 
 known character and standing entitled to our entire con- 
 fidence as an able and faithful minister of the gospel ; if 
 the Brainerd Society, to which this church ap23er tains, 
 think proper to extend to him an invitation to settle with 
 us, we do hereby express our unanimous and cordial con- 
 currence in such invitation." This vote was communi- 
 cated to the society, and they voted unanimously to give 
 the call, which was communicated to Mr. Oviatt. He 
 returned in due time an affirmative reply. A council was 
 invited for the ordination, and convened on the 28th of 
 August, 1838. The council was composed of the follow- 
 ing pastors and delegates from the churches. Second 
 Church in Amherst, Rev. Nathan Perkins, pastor ; First 
 Church in Amherst, Rev. Josiah Bent, pastor, and Gen. 
 David Mack, delegate ; church in Enfield, Rev. John 
 Whiton, Pastor, and Br. Tcrtius "Walker, delegate ; from 
 the church in South Hadley, Rev. Joseph D. Condit, 
 pastor, and Dca. Moses Montague, delegate ; from the 
 church in Granby, Dea. Asa Pease, delegate ; from the 
 church in Monson, Dea. A. W. Porter, delegate ; from 
 the church in Boylston, Rev. William H. Sanford, 
 pastor, and Br. Henry H. Brigham, delegate ; from Park 
 Street Church in Boston, Rev. Silas Aikin, pastor, and 
 Br. William T. Eustis, delegate ; from the church in 
 Belchertown, Rev. Jared Reid, pastor, and Dea. Israel 
 Towne, delegate ; and Rev. Roswell Hawkes, without 
 pastoral charge. The council organized as follows : 
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 Sanford, scribe ; Rev. Mr. Whiton made the introductory 
 prayer ; Rev. Mr. Aikin preached the sermon ; Rev. Mr. 
 Raid made the ordaining prayer ; Rev. Mr. Perkins gave 
 the charge to the pastor ; Rev. Mr. Condit gave the right 
 hand of fellowship ; Rev. Mr. Bent gave the charge to 
 the people, and Rev. Mr. Sanford made the concluding 
 prayer. 
 
 Mr. Oviatt continued his labors as pastor of the Brain- 
 erd Church and Society till the churches and societies 
 were again united, 1841. His labors were blessed, and 
 the church and society prosperous. The church to Jan- 
 uary 1841, had increased to about one hundred and 
 eighty members. The society built a house in 1836, for 
 their accommodation at an expense of five thousand dol- 
 lars. After the dismission of Mr. Reid, January 6, 1841, 
 (leaving the First Church destitute of a pastor), a desire 
 was manifested by many in each society for a reunion of 
 the churches and societies, with the cherished hope that 
 Mr. Oviatt might become the pastor of the united church. 
 In public worship the two societies united immediately 
 upon Mr. Reid's leaving, and Mr. Oviatt discharged the 
 pastoral duties to both. Such had been his labors and 
 intercourse among the people, ever since his ministerial 
 labors commenced here, that all feelings seemed to con- 
 centrate in the desire of efiecting a union, and of extend- 
 ing a call to him to settle over the united church and 
 society. Measures were taken to accomplish that object. 
 Meetings of each church and each society were called, 
 and votes passed expressing a desire of reunion, and of 
 extending a call to Mr. Oviatt to take the pastoral charge 
 of them. The causes which seven years before had led 
 to a division of the church, seem to have melted away, 
 and a state of united feeling, favorable to the prosperity 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 71 
 
 of the church by a union succeeded. An ecclesiastical 
 council was invited, to consider the subject of a union of 
 the churches, and of installing Mr. Oviatt over the united 
 church and society. That council convened August 31, 
 1841. From Second Church in Amherst, Rev. Nuthan 
 Perkins, and Br. Ithamer Conkey, delegate ; church in 
 Enfield, Rev. John Whiton, and Dea. Alvan Smith, del- 
 egate ; church in Granby, Rev. James Bates, pastor, and 
 Rev, Eli Moody, delegate ; church in South Hadley, Rev. 
 Joseph D. Condit, pastor, and Br. Samuel Judd, delegate; 
 First Church in Amherst, Rev. John Sanford, delegate ; 
 from South Church in Amherst, Rev. Dana Goodsell, and 
 Br. Nathan E. Dickinson, delegate ; from the church in 
 Amherst College, Rev. Professor William C. Fowler. 
 Votes of the two churches were laid before the council, 
 expressing a mutual desire of reunion, and no opposition 
 appeared. The council decided that a union formed 
 by two churches, by the unanimous votes of both, was in 
 accordance with ecclesiastical usage ; wherefore the 
 council voted " that in view of all the circumstances 
 before them, they are satisfied with these proceedings, 
 and do recognize the Brainerd Church and the First 
 Church in Belchertown, as one church ; and to carry out 
 the object of all the parties concerned, that the relation 
 of Rev. Mr. Oviatt as pastor of the Brainerd Church be 
 dissolved." And on due proceedings had, the council 
 proceeded to install Rev. Mr. Oviatt pastor of the united 
 church and society, in pursuance of an unanimous call by 
 them given him and his acceptance. The parts in the 
 exercises of the installation were as follows : Rev. Mr. 
 Bates made the introductory prayer ; Rev. Professor 
 Fowler preached the sermon ; Rev. Mr. Moody made the 
 installing prayer ; Rev. Mr. Perkins gave the charge to 
 
72 HISTOEICAL SKETCHES ©F THE 
 
 the pastor ; Rev. Mr. Condit gave the right hand of 
 fellowship ; Rev. Mr. Whiton made the address to the 
 people ; Rev. Mr. Goodsell made the concluding prayer- 
 At the time of the union of these churches, August 31, 
 1841, the First Church included probably two hundred 
 and fifty members, perhaps three hundred including 
 those that resided elsewhere, but had not removed their 
 church relation. The exact number is not known. The 
 Brainerd Church included about one hundred and eighty 
 members. Most of these were from the First Church. 
 Mr. Oviatt remained in the faithful and efficient dis- 
 charge of his ministerial duties till July, 1845, and had 
 the satisfaction of seeing the union of the churches suc- 
 cessful under his administration. In June, 1845, he 
 requested a dismission from the church and society. Mr. 
 Oviatt's health was not firm, and the duties of his pastoral 
 labors were arduous. The church and society complied 
 with Mr. Oviatt's urgent request, in inviting a council to 
 advise in the matter. It was called and the subject con- 
 sidered. A unanimous desire was expressed to the coun- 
 cil that the pastoral relation between Mr. Oviatt and 
 them might not be dissolved. In view of the whole 
 matter, knowing the state of Mr. Oviatt's health, the 
 extent of his labors here, and the fact that a new field of 
 labor opened before him to which he was at the same 
 time invited, of taking the pastoral charge of a church 
 and society about forming in Boston, (the Suff'olk street 
 Church), and his own desire, and expressed opinion that 
 his health was not adequate to the labors of the pastor 
 here, the council proceeded to dissolve the pastoral 
 relation between him and this people. He immediately 
 proceeded to take charge of the newly formed society in 
 Boston, and was soon after installed as the pastor of that 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 73 
 
 church and people. In February, 1839, Mr. Oviatt was 
 married to Miss Martha Ann Whittlesey, of New Haven, 
 Connecticut. From the period of his dismission from 
 this place, her health became impaired. She went to 
 Boston, but disease had fastened upon her, and she 
 lingered under its fearful progress, at the hospitable 
 residence of her brother in law and sister, Hon. William 
 T. Eustis and lady, till its final termination. She died 
 April 6, 1846, in the full and cheering hope of a blessed 
 immortality. 
 
 Her traits of character were most estimable. Educated 
 for usefulness, a mind of superior order, well disciplined 
 and highly cultivated, with a discretion and judgment 
 ever faithful and safe, sympathising with the afflicted, 
 active in works of beneficence to all within the sphere of 
 her action, she lived the religion she professed ; it gave 
 lustre to her whole character. Those who best knew her 
 covild most justly appreciate her worth. Mr. Oviatt is a 
 native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, son of Daniel B. 
 Oviatt Esq. ; he graduated at Yale College in 1835, and 
 studied theology at the divinity school at Yale College. 
 His father was a native of Milford, Connecticut ; son of 
 
 Oviatt. Daniel B. Oviatt married Mary Roberts, 
 
 daughter of William Roberts, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, 
 who came from England during the Revolutionary war ; 
 after the close of the war he settled and spent his life in 
 Bridgeport. Rev. G. A. Oviatt is now (1851) settled in 
 the ministry in Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachu- 
 setts. 
 
 After the dismission of Mr. Oviatt, the desk was con- 
 stantly supplied, without a settled ministry for seven 
 months. In January, 1846, the Rev. John Clancey, hj 
 invitation came among us for a supply ; he preached four 
 
74 HISTOEICAL SKETCHES OP TfiE 
 
 Sabbaths. An invitation was extended to him to settle 
 in the ministry, which was accepted. He was installed 
 February 25, 1846, by a council convened for the pur- 
 pose. Mr. Clancey, is a graduate of Middlebury College, 
 of the class of 1818, studied theology at Andover, was 
 settled in the ministry at Charlton, (N. Y.) where he 
 remained about twenty years in the ministry ; had been 
 dismissed from his pastoral labors with that people, 
 before he came to this place. He remained here as the 
 pastor of this people till March 27th, 1849, when he was 
 dismissed by an Ecclesiastical council, mutually called to 
 take into consideration " the difhculties that have arisen 
 in respect to the pastoral relation existing between Rev. 
 John Clancey and the church and society here, and to give 
 such judgment and advice in regard to the continuance 
 or dissolution thereof as they may deem proper, and to 
 dissolve the said relation, if, in their judgment it shall 
 be deemed advisable." In pursuance of this call, a 
 council was convened and the subject considered. No 
 difficulties were stated to exist between Mr. Clancey and 
 the people, and no allegations against his character in 
 any respect. Votes of the society, and of the church, had 
 been taken at meetings of these bodies, expressive of their 
 views as to the expediency of a continuance of Mr. 
 Clancey's labors among this people ; their doings were laid 
 before the council, and their judgment was unanimous in 
 favor of a dissolution of the pastoral relation, giving him 
 plenary testimonials that he sustained a fair christian and 
 ministerial character. Mr. Clancey returned to Charlton ; 
 is still laboring in the ministry, in supplying destitute 
 churches. 
 
 In May, 1849, Rev. Samuel Wolcott was invited to 
 supply the desk. He came and preached the first Sabbath 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 75 
 
 in June, and the three next succeeding Sabbaths. Such 
 was the impression made on the public mind by the 
 labors of Mr. Wolcott, that a meeting of the church and 
 of the society, Avas duly notified and held on the 9th of 
 July, and votes passed unanimously in each of these 
 bodies, extending a call to Mr. Wolcott, to settle with us 
 in the gospel ministry, and immediately communicated to 
 him. He returned an answer under date of July 26, 
 accepting the invitation, reserving a few weeks to close 
 some engagements then occupying his attention. In due 
 time preparations were made for convening a council for 
 his installation. The council convened on the second 
 day of October. The gentlemen of the council officiating 
 in the exercises were, reading the Scriptures by Rev. Mr. 
 Cross, late of Palmer, at the time without pastoral 
 charge. Introductory prayer by Rev. Mr. Oviatt, a for- 
 mer pastor of the church. Sermon by Rev. Professor 
 Smith, of Amherst College. Installing prayer, by Rev. 
 Mr. Bates, of Granby. Charge to the pastor, by Rev. 
 Dr. Woodbridge, of Hadley. Fellowship of the churches, 
 by Rev. Mr. Laury, of South Hadley. Address to the 
 people, by Rev. Mr. Colton of Amherst. Concluding 
 prayer, by Rev. Mr. McEwen, of Enfield. Benediction 
 by the pastor. The exercises were appropriate and well 
 received by a large and attentive auditory. Mr. Wolcott 
 immediately entered upon the duties of his station, 
 moving his family here a few days previous to his instal- 
 lation. Some of the results of his labors were soon seen 
 in an increased attention to religious concerns. It be- 
 came general in diff'erent parts of the town, and among 
 all ages, continuing for several months. The fruit of that 
 revival, has been eighty-seven members added to the 
 church by profession, since Mr. Wolcott's installation, 
 
76 HISTOmCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 and sixteen by letter from other chnrchcs. The congre* 
 gation has increased, and blessings multiplied under his 
 ministrations. 
 
 Mr. Wolcott, is a native of East Windsor, Ct., son of 
 Elihu Wolcott, Esq., now residing in Jacksonville, 111., 
 born July, 1813. His mother, a daughter of Rev. David 
 McClure, D. D., of East Windsor. He is a lineal 
 descendant from Henry Wolcott, born in Tolland, Eng- 
 land, and removed to this country -with his wife and six 
 children in 1630; they belonged to the company of 
 emigrants, that removed from Dorchester to Windsor, in 
 1635. Their descendants were numerous, and distin- 
 guished as prominent in the ajffairs of church and state, 
 from the earliest history of Connecticut. Rev. Samuel 
 Wolcott, was a graduate of Yale College, in 1833 ; he 
 passed the first year after his graduation at Yale, in the- 
 ological study. In 1835, he entered upon a course of 
 study at Andover, completing his course preparatory to 
 his license in 1837. The two next years he was engaged 
 in assisting the Secretary of the Board of Commissioners 
 for Foreign Missions, at the Mission House in Boston. 
 In September 1839, he married Miss Catherine E. Wood, 
 daughter of Ezra Wood, Esq., of Westminster, Massachu- 
 setts. November 13, he was ordained, at the Bowdoin 
 street Church, in Boston, as a foreign missionary, and 
 embarked for Syria, under the direction of the Board of 
 Commissioners for Foreign Missions, with his wife, Janu- 
 ary following, and arrived at Beyrout the next April. 
 Soon removed to Areiyah, a village in Mount Lebanon. 
 The rising of the mountaineers against the Pasha of 
 Egypt, who held the country, compelled him to return 
 to Beyrout, with loss of a portion of his eff'ects ; soon 
 after he went to El Abadiyeh, another village of Mount 
 
CO:^fGKEGATIONAL CHUKCII IN belchehtown. 77 
 
 Lebanon, but the arrival of the allied English, Austrian 
 and Turkish fleets, off the Coast, in August, obliged him 
 to return to Beyrout, receiving notice from the British 
 Admiral, of his intention to bombard the town. He 
 removed with his family, to the Island of Cyprus, for a 
 little season, returning alone to the place from which he 
 had recently been driven ; he arrived on the morning the 
 town capitulated, and was able to preserve the missionary 
 property. In the spring of 1841, he visited Damascus, 
 and spent the summer with his family, at Deir El Kamr, 
 the capital town of Mount Lebanon. Here he opened a 
 school for the sons of the Druze Sheiks. His labors, 
 and his residence in the mountains were suddenly inter- 
 rupted by a sanguinary civil war, in which his effects 
 were pillaged by the ruthless robbers, and he compelled 
 to leave the place. At Beyrout, on the 26th of October, 
 1841, his wife died, of a short and very distressing 
 illness. He passed the following winter in Jerusalem, 
 making investigations, visiting various parts of that city 
 of renown, and places contiguous, rendered sacred by a 
 thousand hallowed associations. In the spring of 1842, 
 he returned to Beyrout, spending the summer at Bham- 
 down, a village in Mount Lebanon, remaining there till 
 his labors were again interrupted by a civil war. Amid 
 the most severe family afflictions, Mr. Wolcott expe- 
 rienced peculiar trials in his missionary labors, by reason 
 of the unsettled condition of the affairs of governments, 
 and the war-moving elements with which he was almost 
 continually surrounded, breaking in upon his labors and 
 interrupting his plans of operation. In January, 1843, 
 he embarked at Beyrout for his native land, returning 
 by way of England, arrived in Boston, April 21, 1843. 
 Extended accounts have been given of Mr. Wolcott's 
 
78 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THil 
 
 labors and travels, during his residence in Syria and 
 Palestine, and at the East, in several American Journals. 
 Some of them may be found in the Missionary Herald, 
 February number, 1841, and the March number, 1842; 
 and in the first number of " Bibliotheca Sacra," edited 
 by Professor Robinson, and published February, 1843. 
 It will be perceived, says Dr. Robinson in his " Biblio- 
 theca Sacra," that most of the communications from Pal- 
 estine, are from Rev. Mr. Wolcott, who has traversed 
 the country and explored Jerusalem, with an eye of a 
 keen and intelligent observer, and whose remarks have 
 furnished several important corrections in the Biblical 
 researches in that country, published by the editor." In 
 August 1843, Mr. Wolcott was installed as pastor, over 
 the Congregational church and society, in Longmeadow. 
 November 1st, 1843, he married Miss. Harriet A. Pope, 
 daughter of Jonathan A. Pope, Esq., of Millbury, Mas- 
 sachusetts. He was dismissed from the church and people 
 of Longmeadow, December 27, 1847, by a mutual council 
 called for the purpose. He subsequently spent some time 
 in preparing a geneological history of the Wolcott family, 
 which is yet in manuscript. 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHUECH IN BELCHERTOWN. 79 
 
 PASTORS 
 
 OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN, 
 FROM ITS ORGANIZATION FOR ONE HUND- 
 RED AND FOURTEEN YEARS. 
 
 Rev. Edward Billing, settled 1739, dismissed 1752, died about 
 1757. 
 « Justus Forward, settled 1756, died 1814, aged 84. 
 " Experience Porter, installed 1812, dismissed 1825, died 1828, 
 
 aged 46. 
 " Lyman Coleman, ordained 1825, dismissed 1832. 
 «« Jared Reid, installed 1833, dismissed, 1841. 
 " George A. Oviatt, 1841, dismissed 1845. 
 " John Clancey, installed 1846, dismissed 1849. 
 « Samuel Wolcott, iliwiiii n.1 1849. 
 
 Interims between the dismission of one pastor 
 and the settlement of his successor. 
 
 Between Mr. Billing and Mr. Forward, about 3 years and 10 mo. 
 
 Mr. Porter and Mr. Coleman, about 7 months. 
 
 Mr. Coleman and Mr. Reid, about 1 year. 
 
 Mr. Reid and Oviatt, about 8 months. 
 
 Mr. Oviatt and Mr. Clancey, about 8 months. 
 
 Mr. Clancey and Mr. Wolcott, about 7 months. 
 Fractions of time in days not computed ; making an aggregate of 
 eight years and two months without a settled ministry, in one 
 hundred and fourteen years. The desk has been statedly supplied 
 when there has been no settled ministry. 
 
80 HISTOmCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 The following list comprises the names of those 
 
 WHO HAVE sustained THE OFFICE OF DEACON IN THIS 
 CHURCH. 
 
 See their numbers for additional notices of their office. 
 
 John Smith, 
 
 No. 1. 
 
 Aaron Lyman, 
 
 " 3. 
 
 Elijah Smith, 
 
 *' 11. 
 
 Joseph Smith, 
 
 " 16. 
 
 Edward Smith, 
 
 " 163. 
 
 Elijah D wight, 
 
 " 215. 
 
 Amasa Smith, 
 
 " 229. 
 
 Eliakim Phelps, 
 
 " 222. 
 
 James Walker, 
 
 " 256. 
 
 Oliver S. Taylor, 
 
 _ ." 584. 
 
 Daniel Phelps, 
 
 " 462. 
 • •*''879. 
 
 Anson Moody, 
 
 John M. Spooner, 
 
 " 863. 
 
 Henry A. Bridgman, 
 
 " 460. 
 
 Israel Towne, 
 
 " 878. 
 
 William Phelps, 
 
 " 463. 
 
 At the time of the union of the two churches, in 1841, 
 Daniel Phelps, John M. Spooner, Israel Towne, and Will- 
 iam Phelps, were the officiating deacons in the first church, 
 and Henry A. Bridgman, (460) Elijah Amadon, (1156) and 
 Elisha Abbey, (655) were the officiating deacons in the 
 Brainerd Church. After that union they all officiated as 
 deacons in the united church till 1850, when they all 
 resigned their office. The church then chose Daniel 
 Phelps, Israel Towne, Elisha Abbey and Ephraim Monta- 
 gue for deacons. These four now sustain that office in 
 the church. 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 81 
 
 LIST OF COMMUNICANTS 
 
 In the CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN, 
 FROM ITS ORGANIZATION IN 1837, TO 1851. 
 
 EXPLANATIONS. 
 
 The names of the church members are represented by 
 numbers standing in columns on the left margin of the 
 page, against the name represented. When these num- 
 bers are used elsewhere in these pages, corresponding 
 with the column numbers, and representing names, they 
 are inclosed in parenthesis. Sometimes I trace lineage 
 by numbers ; for example ; take No. (958), it represents 
 Phineas C. Walker, son of (412); turn to No. (412); 
 you find that number represents Aaron Walker, son of 
 (243) ; turn to No. (243), you find that number represents 
 Hezkiah Walker, son of (99) ; turn to No. (99), you find 
 that number represents Capt. James Walker, and there 
 find his birth place, parentage, marriage, when he came to 
 this place, and from whence, time of his death and age. 
 Sometimes the name is used with the number representing 
 it. Numbers are never used representing names except 
 when representing church members. The family names 
 of married women are always given when known, and 
 
82 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 represented as follows: in No. (131), 'Eunice {Dwight) 
 wife of Joseph Graves ; her family name before marriage 
 being enclosed in parenthesis and printed in italics. Frac- 
 tions in years, or in age, are not noticed. Periods of death 
 may in some cases be inaccurately stated. When I could 
 have access to record-evidence, I have in all cases given 
 it. When I could not, I have taken dates of deaths and 
 other facts from the memory of the living ; when this 
 source' of information has seemed to be in a good degree 
 accurate, I have taken it as giving the facts sought. I am 
 aware that memory cannot always be relied on for accu- 
 racy in dates. It would be strange if errors should not be 
 found in these as well as other things, in these pages. 
 Facts resting on traditionary history, are so stated. Facts 
 stated from memory have been obtained, so far as practi- 
 cable, from those best prepared to give them correctly. 
 
 When removals of church members to other churches 
 have taken place, and knoimi, the facts are stated, with the 
 time of removal and place removed to. In many cases, 
 where members of the church are gone from us, no trace 
 of record or any other evidence can be found, noticing the 
 removal. All that is known of them, is they are gone. 
 In some cases a general certificate of membership has been 
 taken by persons going away, and whether they have 
 united with any other church is not known. I have added 
 against the names of several individuals the word " i?e- 
 moved,'^ showing that they are gone from us, but not 
 known where or whether living. Our church records are 
 very imperfect, short, and inaccurate. Names are some- 
 times represented by the initials only ; and in removals 
 and deaths, and in other events relating to an individual, 
 the record is, Mr. A. removed or died &c., when the desig- 
 nation would apply to several persons with equal accura- 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHUECH IN BELCHERTOWN. 83 
 
 cy. I have, with much labor, sought facts to guide me, 
 and from all means within my reach, and from the most 
 correct sources. No record of a death can be found on 
 our church records from the year 1833 to 1841. Many 
 omissions of other things and at other periods are found 
 in church records, of what they should contain, and usu- 
 ally do contain. 
 
 Names of some who have been communicants, are not 
 to be found on the church records. In some instances the 
 first notice of their names in church documents, is when 
 they have asked a letter of recommendation from the 
 church. When by any satisfactory evidence, I have ascer- 
 tained the membership of individuals, I have inserted 
 their names as communicants. After all, probably some 
 may find their names omitted on both chronological and 
 alphabetical lists. In numbering the list of names as first 
 drawn, some names were not found ; they either Avere not 
 on the records, or overlooked. In designating these as 
 taken in a new draft, I add a fraction to the number. 
 Take number (319), " Mary, the wife of Giles Lyman." 
 The three names next following are designated (3 19 J) 
 (319J) and (SIQJ). The arrangement was begun by num- 
 bers indicating persons, and I have found it difficult to 
 change the numbers after going through with them, with 
 the various references they bear in designating persons ; 
 therefore I used fractions. 
 
84 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 The following list comprises the names, with their num- 
 bers, of those w^ho have been communicants in the con- 
 gregational Church in Belchertown, from its organization 
 in 1737 to 1851. There are no church records remaining 
 anterior to February 25th, 1756. The names of those who 
 were communicants, and were removed from the church 
 by death, or otherwise, before that time, are not to be 
 found. The names corresponding with the first 68 num- 
 bers, stand on the church records as communicants at that 
 date, being the date of Rev. Mr. Forward's settlement, 
 February 25th, 1756. A very few of these 68 communi- 
 cants did not unite with this church till after Mr. For- 
 ward's settlement, though they were communicants. These 
 few names are found among the 68, and also registered as 
 uniting with this church afterwards, when they removed 
 their church relations. 
 
 Numbers. 
 1. 
 
 Names. Deaths. 
 
 John Smith, a native of Hadley, son 
 of Joseph Smith, born 1687, married 
 Elizabeth Hovey, of Hadley, in 1709, 
 removed to Hatfield 1711 ; was chosen 
 a Deacon of the church in Hatfield, 
 remained in Hatfield till 1736, raised a 
 family there ; came to Cold Spring in 
 1736, was chosen the first deacon in 
 this church at its organization in 1737. 
 A prominent actor in the civil and re- 
 ligious affairs of this place. He w^as 
 authorized by the general court, to call 
 the first meeting ever called by Legis- 
 lative authority, of the settlers in Cold 
 Spring for police purposes, for choosing 
 precinct officers, and raising money to 
 support the gospel, and for other pru- 
 dential affairs. It was held April 28, ^ 
 
 Age. 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 85 
 
 Nambers. NamcH. Deaths. Ago. 
 
 1740. The church records say of him, 
 
 " A valuable man in his day." He died 1777 91 
 
 Elizabeth (Hovey,) wife of No. 1, 
 she died, 
 
 See Genealogy, Appendix A, 
 
 Aaron Lyman, a native of North- 
 ampton, son of Benjamin Lyman, came 
 to Cold Spring in 1731 ; married 
 Eunice Dwight, was chosen deacon in 
 this church at its organization, lived 
 here through life, raised a family here. 
 He died, 
 
 See Ajjpendix B. 
 
 Eunice (Dwight), wife of (3). 
 was sister to (42) ; died, 
 
 She 
 
 Ahner Smith, son of (1), born in 
 Hatfield, 1712 ; came to Cold Spring 
 in 1733, married Polly Lyman,, daugh- 
 ter of (3), removed from this place to 
 Springfield, where he kept a public 
 house and the county jail for several 
 years. He died with the small pox, 
 about the year, 
 
 Polly {Lyman) wife of (5). 
 
 Daniel Smith, a native of Hatfield, 
 son of (1), born 1716 ; came to Cold 
 Spring, with his brother (5), married 
 Abigail Sacket, of Westfield. He died. 
 
 Abigail {Sacket) wife of (7). 
 died. 
 
 She 
 
 1758 
 
 1780 
 
 1760 
 
 1777 
 
 1800 
 
 1797 
 
 70 
 
 75 
 
 52 
 
 65 
 
 84 
 
 75 
 
86 
 
 HISTOmCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Nombera. 
 
 9. 
 
 10. 
 
 11. 
 
 12. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Joseph Smith, a native of Hatfield, 
 born 1720 ; son of (1), was deacon of 
 this church, chosen in 1770, was 
 father of Rev, Amasa, Eli, and John 
 Smith; see (229), (279), and (248); 
 was the first Representative to the 
 General Court, under the present State 
 Constitution, a prominent and iiseful 
 man ; he married Eunice Bascom, and 
 died at the residence of his son Solo- 
 man Smith, in Lyme, N. H. 
 
 Eunice [Bascom) wife of (9). 
 
 See Appendix A. 
 
 Elijah Smith, a native of Hatfield, 
 son of (1), born 1723 ; came to Cold 
 Spring with his father in 1736; mar- 
 ried Sybel Worthington, of Colchester, 
 Connecticut, in 1751 ; was deacon of 
 this church, chosen in 1761, was father 
 of Rev. Ethan Smith. The church 
 records say of him, " His natural parts 
 were very great. He had a quick turn 
 of thought, depth of penetration, a 
 solid reason and judgment, a tenacious 
 memory, a handsome utterance and an 
 agreeable deportment, and was on 
 good ground, esteemed a man of true 
 piety, and universally beloved and 
 greatly lamented." He died, 
 
 His widow died in Hadley, May 26, 
 1828, aged 101 years. 
 
 See Appendix A. 
 
 Jonathan Graves, a native of Hat- 
 field, son of Jonathan Graves, born 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1803 
 
 1770 
 
 83 
 
 47 
 
CONGEEGATIONAL CIIUKCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 
 
 87 
 
 !*^unibers. Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 1701, and remained here during life ; 
 he died, 
 
 13. 
 
 14. 
 
 15. 
 
 16. 
 
 17. 
 
 18. 
 
 19. 
 
 Wife of (12); born 1711 ; died, 
 
 See Appendix L. 
 
 Ebenezer Bridgman^ a native of 
 Northampton, son of John Bridgman, 
 born 1686, married Mary Parsons, 
 1710; came to Cold Spring with his 
 family about 1 732 ; remained here 
 during life. He died, 
 
 Mary {Parsons), wife of (14), born 
 1680; died, 
 
 See Appendix C. 
 
 Joseph Bridgman, son of (14), born 
 ill Xorthampton, 1712 ; was deacon 
 here, chosen 1770. He died, 
 
 Elizabeth, wife of (16), born 1706. 
 She died, 
 
 See Appendix C. 
 
 Benjamin Stehhins, a native of 
 Northampton, son of Samuel Stebbins, 
 born 1711 ; came to Cold Spring in 
 July, 1731 ; one of the first families 
 that made permanent settlement here ; 
 tradition says, the first family ; he 
 remained here th ough life ; raised a 
 family, several families of his descend 
 ants are now here. He died. 
 
 Wife of (18), born 1709. She died, 
 
 See Appendix D. 
 
 1787 
 1769 
 
 1760 
 1770 
 
 1773 
 1789 
 
 1789 
 1769 
 
8« 
 
 HISTOmCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 JTurabers. Names. 
 
 21. f Walter Fairfield, a native of Lex- 
 ington or Ipswich, an early settler 
 here, and from Northampton, but not 
 among the first. He came here about 
 the year 1742. He died, 
 
 22. Judith, wife and widow of (21). 
 She died. 
 
 23. 
 
 24. 
 
 26. 
 
 27. 
 
 28. 
 
 29. 
 
 Stephen Fairfield, son of (21), born 
 1711. He died, 
 
 Abigail, wife of (23), 
 She died, 
 
 born 1708. 
 
 Mary (Hutchinson), wife of William 
 Hannum, a native of Northampton, 
 born 1692. She died. 
 
 Her husband born 1690, and died 
 in this town 1756, aged 66. 
 
 William Hannum, came to this 
 place in 1732 ; lived here till his death. 
 
 Samuel Hannum, a native of North- 
 ampton, brother of William, born 
 1692 ; they came to this place togeth- 
 er ; he married Mercy Hutchinson sis- 
 ter of (26) before he came here ; came 
 with a family. He had two sons, Sam- 
 uel and Phineas. He died. 
 
 His wife Mercy, died suddenly Sept. 
 28 th, 
 
 Moses Hannum, a native of North- 
 ampton, son of William Hannum, born 
 1718; came here with his father in 
 1 732 ; he had four sons, Moses, Wil- 
 liam, Joshua and David. He died. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1756 
 
 1770 
 
 1785 
 
 1793 
 
 1785 
 
 1780 
 
 1796 
 
 1802 
 
CONGREGATIOiSrAL CHURCH IN BELCHEKTOWN 
 Pfutnl>ers. 
 
 89 
 
 Names. 
 
 At this time, 1802, there were but five 
 men and four women living that were 
 householders when Mr. Forward was 
 settled, February, 1756. 
 
 Lydia, wife of (29), born 1719. She 
 died, 
 
 Aaron Hannum, a native of North- 
 ampton, born 1722; son of William 
 Hannum and Mary (26), brother of 
 (29) ; came to this place with his fath- 
 er. He died, 
 
 Rachel {Smith), wife of (31), daugh- 
 ter of (1), sister of (9). She died in 
 her widowhood, 
 
 Gideon Hannum, son of William and 
 brother of (29) and (31). His moth- 
 er was (26). He died. 
 
 His wife and widow, Abia, died Feb- 
 ruary, 1796. 
 
 See Apjiendix K. 
 
 Joseph Phelps, a native of North- 
 ampton, son of William Phelps, born 
 1699. He was uncle to (36) ; became 
 here in 1731 or 1732. He died, 
 
 Hannah, wife of (34.) She died, 
 
 Eliakim Phelps, a native of North- 
 ampton, son of William Phelps, and 
 grandson of William, born 1709 ; came 
 here very early in the settlement. He 
 died here, 
 
 *8 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1796 
 
 1776 
 
 1811 
 
 1786 
 
 1782 
 
 1779 
 
 1777 
 
m 
 
 HISTOmCAI, SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 NutnberB. 
 
 37. 
 
 38. 
 
 39. 
 
 40. 
 
 41, 
 
 42. 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age 
 
 Church records say of him, " he was 
 esteemed a pious man." 
 
 Elizahetli {Rust), wife of (36). She 
 died, 
 
 See Ai^jDendix G. 
 
 Nathan Parsons, came to this place 
 about the year 1746. He was brother 
 of Rev. David Parsons, the first min- 
 ister settled in Amherst, settled there 
 in 1739. Nathan was father of Eldad 
 Parsons, Esq., (223) and (250) ; he 
 raised a family here. He died, 
 
 Moses Warner, a native of Hatfield, 
 son of Ebenezer Warner, born 1717; 
 married Sarah Porter in 1739; came 
 to this town about 1747. He died, 
 
 Sarah {Porter), wife of (39), native 
 of Hadley. She died, 
 
 Ebenezer Warner, a native of Hat- 
 field, son of Ebenezer, brother of (39), 
 born 1 729 ; came to this town about 
 1752; married Dinah Phelps, daugh- 
 ter of (34); raised a family here. He 
 died, 
 
 See Ajjpendix H. 
 
 Nathaniel Dwight, son of Nathaniel 
 D wight of Northampton, born 1712; 
 came here among the first settlers ; 
 married Hannah Lyman, sister of (3), 
 was a prominent man here in all civil 
 and religious affairs ; went into the 
 French war with a Caj^tain's commis- 
 sion, August 9th, 1757. He received an 
 
 1752 
 
 1806 
 
 1759 
 
 1757 
 
 1812 
 
 40 
 
 86 
 
 42 
 
 35 
 
 83 
 
CONGKEGATIOISrAL CHUECII IN BELCHEETOWN. 
 
 N'umhera. Names. 
 
 order from Col. Williams, of Hatfield, 
 then a militia Captain, to muster and 
 march his company, without delay, 
 for the relief of Fort William Henry, 
 near Lake George ; that fort was at- 
 tacked by a party of French and Indi- 
 ans, of 11,000. The same day the 
 company was under marching orders, 
 met the Regiment at AYestfield, pro- 
 ceeded to Kinderhook, received intelli- 
 gence that the Fort had capitulated ; 
 they were discharged, and returned 
 home. Capt. Dwiglit was active and 
 useful in the struggle in the Revolu- 
 tionary war, and in promoting the best 
 interests of the early settlers ; and did 
 much to advance the settlement. He 
 spent his days here ; raised a family. 
 He died, 
 
 Hannah {Lyman), wife of (42), sis- 
 ter of (3). ISiiC died, 
 
 See Ajjpendix F. 
 
 Hezekiah Root, a native of North- 
 ampton, son of Hezekiah Root, of that 
 place, born 1714; came here among 
 the early settlers, before 1736. He 
 was brother of Orlando (105). He 
 married and raised a family here. He 
 died, 
 
 Marij wife of (44). She died. 
 They had three children, Elisha, 
 
 (124) Hezekiah and Miriam (108). 
 
 See Orlando (105) for lineage. 
 
 Thomas Broion ; his name is very 
 
 1 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1784 
 
 1792 
 
 1792 
 
 1800 
 
 72 
 
 84 
 
 78 
 
 85 
 
92 HISTOEICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 early here, and remained here through 
 a long life in usefulness. He died, 
 
 Mahitahcl, wife of Thomas Brown. 
 She died, 
 
 Thomas Chapin, early here, though 
 liis name is not among the first settlers, 
 came here about 1748. He died, 
 
 Jerusha, wife of (48); she was from 
 Sunderland. She died, 
 
 Thankful Chapin, daughter of (48). 
 
 Lyclia, wife of Thomas Chapin, Jr. 
 Thomas Jr. was son of (48). He died, 
 in 1758, aged 26; left a son (244) ; 
 widow Lydia (51), married John Ams- 
 den, of Deerfield, in 1760, and re- 
 moved. 
 
 Benjamin Morgan ; he came here 
 early but not among the first, probably 
 in 1750 ; spent his days here ; he had 
 three sons, Benjamin, Titus, and Gad, 
 and one daughter, Sarah. She mar- 
 ried Benjamin Billings. See (275). 
 Benjamin Morgan was the last survi- 
 vor of those who acted here in 1756, 
 when Mr. Forward was settled. He 
 died August 21st, 1812; about one 
 and a half years before Mr. Forward, 
 aged 93 years. 
 
 Mary Cowlcs, widow of John Cowlcs, 
 of Hatfield, mother of (50) and (85). 
 She died, 
 
 1796 
 1811 
 
 1781 
 1773 
 
 1812 
 
 1795 
 
 100 
 76 
 
 86 
 
 77 
 
 93 
 
 89 
 
COXGKEGATIOls^AL CHUECII IN BELCHERTOWN. 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 54. 
 
 55. 
 
 56. 
 
 57. 
 
 59. 
 
 60. 
 
 61. 
 62. 
 63. 
 
 Names. Deaths, 
 
 Nathan Coichs, a native of Hatfield, 
 ho was the brother of John, who was 
 father to (56) and (85). 
 
 Wife of Nathan Cowles ; they re- 
 sided here for several years and moved 
 away. 
 
 93 
 
 Ag« . 
 
 Israel Coivles, a native of Hatfield, 
 son of Jolin Cowles, born 1727 ; came 
 here in the early settlement. Died, 
 
 Lydia BardwcU, wife of (5G), daugh- 
 ter of (66), sister of (86), born 1735. 
 She died, 
 
 See Appendix M. 
 
 Ebenezer Slear7is, ) 
 Mary, wife of (58) / 
 Tliey were from the Church in Sut- 
 ton ; Rev. Mr. Hall was pastor. Died, 
 
 Tfiomas Graves, a native of Hatfield. 
 The family of Graves came here early, 
 before 1735 ; he was son of Samuel 
 Graves, who was father of John Graves, 
 (62) and uncle to Jonathan (12); he 
 married Lydia Graves, a daughter of 
 Isaac, a cousin. Died, 
 
 Lydia {Graves), wife of (60). Died, 
 
 Jolm Graves. Died, 
 
 Lydia Graves, daughter of (60). 
 Died, 
 
 See Appendix L. 
 
 Bmjamin Billings, a native of Hat- 
 
 1797 
 
 1802 
 
 1759 
 
 1757 
 
 1784 
 
 1777 
 1798 
 
 1779 
 
 70 
 
 67 
 
 69 
 
 60 
 
 92 
 
 85 
 80 
 
 53 
 
94 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Nuinbert. 
 
 field, 
 
 Names. 
 
 born 1 704 ; a cousin of 
 
 Deatlig. Agtt 
 
 Rev 
 
 Edward Billing, the first minister set- 
 tled here ; Ids name is uniformly 
 written without the 5, final, but is the 
 same name as Billings. Benjamin was 
 among the first settlers here ; he mar- 
 ried Mary Hastings, of Hatfield, a 
 daughter of Joshua Hastings, lived 
 here through life and raised a family. 
 He died, . 
 
 Mary [Hastings), wife of (64). 
 died. 
 
 She 
 
 Joseph BardweU, a native of Hat- 
 field, son of John Bardwell ; came here 
 with his father among the first settlers. 
 He died, 
 
 See Appendix I. 
 
 Lydia, wife of (66). She died, 
 
 Violet Bardwell, wife of Capt. Jona- 
 than Bardwell ; her husband was the 
 youngest son of John Bardwell, born in 
 Hatfield, brother of {QQ) ; he died here 
 in the year 1781, aged 57. His widoAV 
 Violet remained here through life. 
 She died, 
 
 See Appendix I. 
 
 ADMITTED 17oG. 
 
 Amy, wife of (38). She died, 
 
 Dinah {Phelps), wife of (41), daugh- 
 ter of (34). She died, 
 
 1788 
 
 1791 78 
 
 1800 
 
 1790 64 
 
 1798 96 
 
 1812 
 
CONGEEGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHErvTOWN. 95 
 
 Namea. 
 
 Stephen Crowfoot, son of Joseph 
 Crawfoot, of Northampton, who died 
 there in 1726, and grandson to Joseph 
 Crawfoot who died in Northampton in 
 1678. Stephen was an early settler 
 here, before 1737. He was a soldier 
 in the French war from this place. 
 His son Elijah, was the first child 
 baptized by Rev. Mr. Forward, after 
 his settlement here ; it was May 16th, 
 1756; Stephen died about, 
 
 Martha, wife of (71), removed from 
 here. 
 
 James Toume, died at Greenbush, 
 New York, returning from service in 
 the French war, upon northern fron- 
 tiers, in the year. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 Aline, wife of (73), 
 removed. 
 
 after his death 
 
 Syhel {Worthington), wife of (11), 
 daughter of Daniel Worthington of 
 Colchester, Connecticut ; born April, 
 1726, married 1751 ; was mother of 
 Rev. Ethan Smith. Sheied in Had- 
 ley, May, 
 
 Received from other Churches, 
 
 Rehekah Thopping, from the church 
 in Beverly, by letter from Rev. Mr. 
 Champney, pastor ; she married Oliver 
 Newton, in 1762. She died. 
 
 1765 
 
 175( 
 
 1827 
 
 1793 
 
 55 
 
 36 
 
 101 
 
 93 
 
96 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 79. 
 80. 
 
 81. 
 
 HISTOmCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 Names. 
 
 1757. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 Noah Boivker, 
 
 Wife of Noah Bowker 
 
 ver, j a 
 
 Moved 
 away. 
 
 82. 
 
 83. 
 84. 
 
 85. 
 
 86. 
 
 87. 
 
 Judith, wife of Martin Domer ; she 
 was left a widow, and married Jede- 
 diah Ayres, of Ware, in 1761, and 
 moved to that place. 
 
 Received from other Churches. 
 
 Wife of Thomas Chapin, Jr., from 
 the church in Sunderland, Rev. Joseph 
 Ashley, pastor. She died. 
 
 Ehenezer Stearns, 2d, ) 
 
 Jane, wife of (83), ) 
 
 From 2d, church in Sutton, Rev. 
 James Willman, pastor. They remov- 
 ed from here. 
 
 1758. 
 
 Capt. John Coiules, a native of Hat- 
 field, son of John, brother of (56), 
 born 1731. He died, 
 
 See Appendix M. 
 
 Hannah {Bar dwell), wife of (85) 
 daughter of (G6), sister of (57). She 
 died, 
 
 Daniel Worthington, a native of 
 Colchester, Connecticut, son of Daniel 
 Worthington, born August, 1732 ; he 
 was brother of widow Amy Sexton, 
 2d, wife of (99). See (287J) ; he came 
 
 1812 
 
 93 
 
 1811 
 
 1813 
 
 80 
 
 76 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 97 
 
 Natnea. 
 
 to this place in 1753 ; was a soldier 
 in the French war, went out in Capt. 
 Nathaniel Dwight's company, for the 
 relief of Fort William Henry in 1757, 
 and in other service. He died in 
 Woodstock, Vermont, in 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Wife of John Lumbard, from the 
 church in Brimfield. She died, 
 
 John Lumbard and wife were the 
 parejits of John, Mary and David. 
 
 1759. 
 
 Abigail Phelps^ removed. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Sarah ( Worthington), wife of Major 
 Josiah Lyman, (221) ; she was a native 
 of Colchester, Connecticut, daughter 
 of Dauiel Worthington and sister of 
 (87), born November, 1734. She died, 
 
 Deaths. Ag«. 
 
 Samuel Worthington, a native of 
 Colchester, Connecticut, son of Daniel 
 Worthington, and brother of (87), 
 born February 1728. He died in Shel- 
 burne, in. 
 
 From the church in Colchester. 
 
 EUzaheth, wife of (91), from the 
 same. See (308) and (309). 
 
 Joshua Wilder, from the church in 
 Lancaster, and removed from here. 
 9 
 
 1830 
 
 1764 
 
 1799 
 
 1790 
 
 98 
 
 35 
 
 65 
 
 62 
 
98 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 94. 
 
 95. 
 
 97. 
 
 98. 
 
 99. 
 
 Names. 
 
 1761. 
 
 Samuel Belknap, was a soldier in the 
 Revolutionary war. He died in service 
 at Cambridge, 
 
 Mary his wife, 
 death. 
 
 removed after his 
 
 Francis Newton, removed. 
 
 Wife of Francis Newton ; she was 
 Elizabeth Fairfield, daughter of (23). 
 
 Capt. James Walker, a native of 
 Weston, born November, 1732, son 
 of Nathaniel Walker. He early moved 
 to Sturbridge ; there he married Esther 
 Shumway, sister of (174) in 1754. 
 He moved to this place in 1755. His 
 wife Esther died in 1786, aged 50. 
 For a 2d wife, he married (287^) in 
 1787. He was father of Dea. James 
 Walker (256), Hezekiah Walker (243), 
 Silas Walker (317), Jason Walker 
 (427), and Nathaniel Walker (410). 
 These five sons of his, with the excep- 
 tion of Hezekiah are now (June 1851) 
 living in this town. The united ages 
 of these four brothers now living here 
 is 344 years. Hezekiah died in 1845, 
 aged 84. James Walker had three oth- 
 er sons besides the above five, Elijah, 
 David and Samuel ; he had one daugh- 
 ter, Patty; she married Timothy Gold- 
 smith, 1794. James Walker served as 
 a soldier in the French war, in 1757 ; 
 he spent his days here, and died in 
 1806, aged 74. Nathaniel Walker, 
 
 1775 
 
CONGREGATIOJSTAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 99 
 
 Namei. 
 
 the father of James Walker (99), mar- 
 ried Submit Brewer, and moved from 
 Weston to Sturbridge, with his family 
 in 1748. This Nathaniel was son of 
 John Walker, who lived and died in 
 Weston. John Walker was son of 
 Samuel Walker, who lived at Woburn, 
 and was a representative to the gener- 
 al court from that town in 1689. Sam- 
 uel was son of Augustine Walker, 
 who was admitted as a Freeman in 
 Charlestown, in 1641. He was from 
 England, and was the ancestor of Rev. 
 Timothy Walker, of Concord, New 
 Hampshire. Rev. Timothy was father 
 of Hon. Timothy Walker of Concord, 
 New Hampshire. The Hon. Amasa 
 Walker, of North Brookfield, and Sec- 
 retary of State for the Commonwealth 
 of Massachusetts, is a lineal descendant, 
 a great grandson, of John Walker, who 
 lived and died in Weston. 
 
 Esther {Shwrnvay), wife of (99), sis- 
 ter of (174). She died, 
 
 Mary Fairjield, daughter of (23), 
 married Samuel Cook, of Hadley, in 
 1761, and removed there. 
 
 Joseph Billings, a native of Hat- 
 field, son of Benjamin Billings (64), 
 he died 1809, aged 77. He was fath- 
 er or Joseph Billings, who died in this 
 town 1828, aged 66, and was grand- 
 father of Joel Billings, who died in 
 this town, April 1845, aged 56 ; Joel 
 was son to Joseph, who died in 1828. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1786 
 
 50 
 
100 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 104. 
 
 Numbers. Names. 
 
 103. Abigail (Crawfoot), his wife ; she 
 was daughter of (71). She died, 
 
 Joseph Billings, and Abigail Craw- 
 foot were married November, 1756, 
 the first marriage attended and record- 
 ed by Rev. Mr. Forward after his set- 
 tlement here. 
 
 Naomi (Stehhins), wife of Israel 
 Towne, daughter of (18), sister of 
 (129). Israel Towne, her husband, 
 was the son of Israel Towne of Oxford, 
 who died there in 1771, aged 87. His 
 Avidow Susanna died at her son Israel's 
 house in this place, in 1787, aged 97, 
 of whom the church record says, " she 
 was of the Haven family, a woman of 
 great knowledge and memory, and 
 hopefully pious." For farther parti- 
 culars of the Towne family. See Ap- 
 pendix E. Naomi died February 21, 
 
 1762. 
 
 Orlando Root, a native of North- 
 ampton, born 1733, son of Hezekiah 
 Root, of Northampton, and brother of 
 (44). Hezekiah of Northampton, was 
 the son of Thomas Root of North- 
 ampton, who was grandson of Thomas 
 Root, one of the first settlers in North- 
 ampton, and one of the eight compris- 
 ing the male members of the church, 
 in its first formation in Northampton, 
 April 18, 1661. Thomas died in 
 Northampton in 1694, at an advanced 
 age. He had two sons (or more) John 
 and Joseph. John moved to Westfield 
 
 DeatliB. Age, 
 
 105. 
 
 1813 
 
 1827 
 
 80 
 
 91 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHUECH IN BELCHEETOWN. 101 
 
 Names. 
 
 and died tliere in 1687, aged 44. 
 Joseph, son of Thomas, had a son 
 Thomas, who was father of Hezekiah, 
 and grand-father of Hezekiah (44), and 
 of Orlando (105). Orlando died in 
 this town 1805, aged 72 ; leaving two 
 sons Orlando (438), and Elihu (511). 
 Orlando (105), had several daughters; 
 Asenath (252), married William 
 Towne, brother of (241), in 1788, and 
 moved to Granville, New York. Julia 
 (293), Molly (276), Hannah, Dimmis, 
 (295), Rhoda (320) ; Amanda married 
 Amos Washburn, of Williamsburg, in 
 1800, and removed to that place. 
 
 1763. 
 
 SaraJi, wife of Joseph Phelps, Jr. 
 her husband was son of (34). 
 
 1764. 
 
 Mary, wife of (105). 
 
 Miriam Root, daughter of (44). 
 
 Rehekah, 1st wife of Oliver Newton. 
 She died January, 
 
 In May, 1771, he married widow 
 Elizabeth Marsh. 
 
 1765. 
 
 Elizaheth Crawfoot, widow of Eben- 
 ezer Crawfoot ; her husband was son 
 of (71) ; he was killed by the falling 
 of a barn in Pittsfield, in 1764, aged 
 
 •^^9 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1771 
 
 35 
 
102 
 
 Numbera. 
 111. 
 
 112. 
 113. 
 
 114. 
 
 115. 
 116. 
 117. 
 
 118. 
 
 119. 
 120. 
 
 HISTOKICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. 
 
 27. She was Elizabeth Billings, daugh- 
 ter of (64). She died, 
 
 JosiaJi Carrier, removed. 
 
 Pliilip Carrier, removed. 
 
 1766. 
 
 Asa Shumway, born 1739. He died, 
 
 He was father of Alfred and Abi- 
 
 jah Shumway, who recently have been 
 
 or are residing in this place, and 
 
 raised families here. 
 
 Eunice {Bar dwell), wife of Asa 
 Shumway, daughter of (66), sister of 
 (233). She died, 
 
 Aaron Phelps, son of (34). 
 
 Mary {Amsden), wife of (115). 
 
 Joanna Moody, daughter of (120), 
 married David Warriner, Jr., of Wil- 
 braham, in 1771, and removed. 
 
 Jerusha Moody, daughter of (120), 
 She died. 
 
 From other Churches, 
 
 Elizaheth, wife of Benjamin Carrier 
 from the church in Colchester, Rev. 
 Mr. Robbins, pastor. She died, 
 
 Ehenezer Moody, from the church 
 
 Deaths. Ag*. 
 
 1783 42 
 
 1811 
 
 72 
 
 1831 
 
 87 
 
 1776 
 
 22 
 
 1774 
 
 63 
 
CONGKEGATIOlSrAIi CnUUCH IN EELCHERTOWN. 103 
 
 Nombers. Names. Deaths. Age 
 
 in Hadley, Rev. Mr. Hopkins, pastor. 
 He died. 
 
 121. 
 
 122. 
 
 122J. 
 
 122S. 
 1225. 
 
 123. 
 
 124. 
 125. 
 
 JerusJia, wife of (120), from the 
 same church. She died, 
 
 Violet {Dickinson), wife of the Rev. 
 Justus Forward, daughter of Mr. Josh- 
 ua Dickinson, of Hatfield, from that 
 church, Rev. Timothy Woodbridge, 
 pastor. See notice of her in histori- 
 cal sketch, page 55. She died, 
 
 Mary, wife of Abner Sikes, from the 
 church in Springfield, Rev. Mr. Breck, 
 pastor. 
 
 Martha, wife of Jonathan Lumbard, 
 from the same church. 
 
 Sarah, Avife of Benjamin Carrier, 
 from the church in Middletown, Rev. 
 John Newton, pastor. 
 
 Betliia (Stearns), wife of Salmon 
 Kentfield, daughter of (53), born 1733. 
 She died, 
 
 Salmon Kentfield, was father of Eb- 
 enezer, Salmon, Joel, Erastus, Josiah 
 and Shubcl Kentfield. Salmon the 
 father, died July, 
 
 Elisha Root, son of (44). He died, 
 
 Mary (Cowles), wife of (124), sister 
 of (56) and of (85). 
 
 1789 
 
 83 
 
 1772 63 
 
 1834 
 
 1807 
 
 1787 
 1817 
 
 1822 
 
 95 
 
 74 
 
 82 
 79 
 
104 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 126. 
 
 127. 
 
 128. 
 
 129. 
 
 130. 
 131. 
 
 132. 
 133. 
 134. 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Syhel(Sikes),v^^\ie of (41 8), from the 
 4th church in Springfield, Rev. Mr. 
 McKinstry, pastor. She died, 
 
 Joseph Sikes, ) 
 
 Eunice {Smith), ^vife oi (127), ) 
 Removed from us. 
 
 1770. 
 
 Gideon Stehbins, son of (18), mar- 
 ried Mary Hinsdale, of Deerfield, in 
 1768 ; they had four sons. He died. 
 
 See Appendix D. 
 
 Mari/ (Hinsdale), wife of (129). 
 She died, 
 
 Eunice (Dwight), wife of Joseph 
 Graves, she was daughter of (42). 
 She died, 
 
 Ahigail ( Thopping), wife of Moses 
 
 Prentiss. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Elijah Parker, on a certificate with- 
 out mentioning the place, signed by 
 Mr. Hinsdale, pastor, and again re- 
 moved. 
 
 Wife of Stephen Newton, from the 
 church in Ellington. 
 
 Deaths. Ago. 
 
 1831 
 
 1829 
 
 1831 
 
 1807 
 1818 
 
 1783 
 
 87 
 
 89 
 
 85 
 
 66 
 
 70 
 
 68 
 
COIS'GREGATIOXAL CHURCH IN BELCHEETOWN. 105 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Aje 
 
 1771. 
 
 Elijah Hoioe, brother of Col. Sam- 
 uel Plowe, and uncle to Dr. Estes 
 Howe, who died in this town, March 
 
 Elijah married for his first wife, 
 Philothela "Warner, sister of (41). She 
 died, 
 
 He again married Martha Parker in 
 1773. See (170). 
 
 Moses Coicles, son of John Cowles, 
 of Hatfield, brother of (56) and (85). 
 
 Moses married Amy Parsons, in 
 1770. She was the daughter of (38), 
 and his wife (69), and sister of (223). 
 She died, 
 
 Moses Cowles' house was burned in 
 October, 1 776, and three children burn- 
 ed to death in it ; the eldest 5 years 
 old. The father was abroad in the 
 army, in the Revolutionary war. The 
 mother was never well after this sor- 
 rowful event ; she lingered till Janua- 
 ry 22d, 1777 and died. The father 
 moved away. 
 
 Joseph Smith, Jr., son of (9), grand- 
 son of ( 1 ), married Mary Clark, daugh- 
 ter of (154) in 1776. He died, 
 
 William Kent field, son of Ebenezer, 
 who died in the army, near Lake 
 George, in the French war in 1756. 
 
 Sarah, wife of "William Kentfield. 
 William and Sarah vv'ere the parents of 
 
 1826 
 
 1771 
 
 1777 
 
 1786 
 
 79 
 28 
 
 30 
 
 37 
 
106 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 142. 
 
 143. 
 144. 
 
 145. 
 
 146. 
 147. 
 148. 
 
 149. 
 151. 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. 
 
 Rufus, Jonathan, David, Heman and 
 Asaph Kentfield. William, the father, 
 died. 
 His wife, Sarah, died 1790, aged 66. 
 
 Asa Newton, son of Oliver and Re- 
 bekah Newton. He died, 
 
 Sylel {Witt), his wife. 
 
 Elijah Moody. He died. 
 He left five sons, Elijah, Hezekiah, 
 Silas, Ezra, and Benjamin. 
 
 Sarah, his wife, left a widow, and 
 again married in 1778, to Bildad 
 Wright, of Northampton, and removed 
 there. 
 
 1772. 
 
 David Towne. 
 
 Kersiah, yNiie of (146). She died, 
 
 Thaddeus Fairfield, son of Stephen 
 Fairfield, (23). 
 
 Kersiah ( Witt), his wife, 
 
 1773. 
 
 Martha {Warner), wife of Sylvanus 
 Howe. He Avas brother of Dr. Estes 
 Howe, the first practising physician in 
 this place, and died in 1826, aged 79. 
 Was father of Judge Samuel Howe, 
 and of William and Estes. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1791 
 
 1783 
 1773 
 1773 
 
 1790 
 
 1833 
 1813 
 
CONGKEGATIONAIi CHUKCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Jedediah Ay res, ) 
 Wife of J, Ayres. j 
 They were from the church in Ware, 
 residing here for a time and again re- 
 moved. See (81). 
 
 Col. Caleb Clark ; he was from 
 Northampton. He was the father of 
 Samuel, Phineas B., Joshua and Caleb, 
 (and Eleazer Clark, Esq., who died 
 1808.) The father died, 
 
 107 
 
 Age 
 
 Hannah, wife of (154). 
 
 Ruth ( Wright), wife of Joseph 
 Bridgman (200). She was from North- 
 ampton. She died, 
 
 See Appendix C. 
 
 Wife of Wareham Warner, from the 
 church in Northampton. 
 
 Elizabeth (Davis), wife of Eliakim 
 Phelps (36)," from the 4th church 
 in Springfield. (She was a 2d wife, 
 see (37). She died, 
 
 1774. 
 
 Jonathan Warner, son of Moses, 
 (39), and brother of (180). He died, 
 
 Wife of Jonathan Warner, Mary. 
 
 Eleanor (Chapin,) wife of Benja- 
 min Morgan. 
 
 1792 
 1811 
 
 1823 
 
 1778 
 
 1782 
 
 1791 
 
108 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 162. 
 
 163. 
 
 164. 
 
 165. 
 
 167. 
 
 168. 
 
 169. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Syh el [Smith), wife of Dea. Joseph 
 Bard well, (233), daughter of Elijah 
 Smith (11). She died in South Had- 
 ley, at the residence of her son, Dea. 
 Alonzo Bardwell, 
 
 1775. 
 
 Edward Smith, son of John Smith, 
 and grandson of John, (1). John the 
 father of Edward, was the eldest son 
 of John, No. (1) ; he lived here sever- 
 al years, and moved away. Edward 
 was born here in 1747; was chosen 
 Dea. in 1781, moved to Shelburne 
 with his family about the year 1793. 
 
 Bulah, wife of Edward Smith. 
 
 Abigail S?nith. 
 
 William Phelps, son of (36), eldest 
 brother of Dea. Eliakim (222). Will- 
 iam died in Northampton about, 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1776. 
 
 Abiah Smith. 
 
 Catherine, wife of Reuben Barton. 
 Reuben and Catherine Barton were 
 the parents of William, Sarah, Josiah, 
 Daniel, Lucy and Reuben. 
 
 Fro7n other churches. 
 
 Anna, 2d wife of Ebenezer Moody. 
 She was from the 3d church in Spring- 
 field. See (121). 
 
 1829 
 
 1786 
 
 75 
 
 33 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHEKTOWN. 109 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 1777. 
 
 170. 
 171. 
 172. 
 173. 
 
 174. 
 
 175. 
 
 176. 
 
 177. 
 
 178. 
 179. 
 
 Martha {Parker), 2d wife of Elijah 
 Howe. (See 135). 
 
 Mary (Clark), wife of (139). She 
 was the daughter of (154). She died, 
 
 Josiali Warner, son of (41). He 
 died, 
 
 Eleanor (Sikes), wife of William 
 Bliss, married February, 1775. He 
 died 1782, aged 36. She died, 
 
 David Shumway, (father of Eddy 
 and Zebina,) married Rhoda Eddy, in 
 1770. He died, 
 
 Rhoda (Eddy), wife of (174). She 
 died many years ago. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Elizabeth, widow of Marson Eaton, 
 from the church in Killingly, Connec- 
 ticut, Rev. Mr. Russell, pastor. 
 
 1778. 
 
 Prudence, wife of Stephen Darling, 
 removed. 
 
 Jacob Willson, 
 
 Amy, wife of (178). 
 
 11 
 
 1842 
 
 1782 
 
 1814 
 1818 
 
 89 
 28 
 
 70 
 
 75 
 
 1793 
 
 57 
 
 1789 
 1807 
 
 68 
 80 
 
110 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 180. 
 
 181. 
 
 182. 
 183, 
 
 HISTOKICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. 
 
 1779. 
 
 Seth Warner i son of (39), father of 
 Titus Warner, who died in Amherst, 
 April 12th, 1818, aged 50 ; leaving 
 four sons, Alonzo, Park, Seth and 
 George. Seth (180) died. 
 
 Deaths* Age. 
 
 Mary (Clark), wife of (180). 
 was from Northampton, 
 
 She 
 
 Capt. Elijah Bar dwell, son of (66) ; 
 he married in 1777, Sarah W. Smith, 
 daughter of (11). 
 
 They removed from here to Goshen, 
 about the year 1800, and died there. 
 
 Rev. Horatio Bar dwell, is a son of 
 Elijah and Sarah W. 
 
 He was ordained a missionary to 
 the heathen in India, in 1815, and 
 that year sailed in company with 
 Messrs. Richards, Warren, Meigs and 
 Poor, imder the patronage of the 
 American Board of Commissioners 
 for Foreign Missions, for the Island 
 of Ceylon. After remaining at Cey- 
 lon a short time, by direction of the 
 Board, he joined the mission at Bom- 
 bay, where he labored as a missionary of 
 the Board till 1821, when by repeat- 
 ed attacks of disease, from a climate 
 uncongenial to his constitution, his 
 health was so impaired as made it ne 
 cessary for him to resign the work, and 
 return to his native land. In 1823, 
 having so far recovered his health, as 
 to be able to resume his ministerial la- 
 bors, he received a call to settle in 
 
 1822 
 
 1819 
 
 83 
 
 79 
 
CONGEEGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 Ill 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age 
 
 Holden, (Mass.) ; where he was install- 
 ed in the work of the gospel ministry 
 in October that year. In 1831, he re- 
 ceived and accepted aji appointment of 
 general agent of the same Board. In 
 1836, he was invited to settle again in 
 the ministry in Oxford, Mass., where 
 he now is in the discharge of ministe- 
 rial duties to that people. 
 
 Mary (5eZ^?i«_p), widow Kentfield. 
 
 Roxana Parker. 
 
 Temperance Worthington. She mar- 
 ried Adonijah Atherton, of Shelburne, 
 in 1798, and removed to that place. 
 
 Oliver Bridgman, son of (16.) He 
 
 di-a, 
 
 Church records say of him "a good 
 man and respectable citizen." 
 
 Irene Smith, daughter of Dea. Ed- 
 ward Smith, (163). She died in Chel- 
 sey, Vermont. 
 
 1779. 
 
 Eiyerience Smith. She married John 
 Strong, of Westhampton, in 1798, and 
 removed there. 
 
 Tahitha Parker. 
 
 John Cowles, Jr., son of (85). 
 
 Elizabeth {Smith), wife of (191), 
 daughter of (11). She died, 
 
 1781 
 
 1816 
 
 1832 
 
 1830 
 
 1827 
 
 88 
 
 77 
 
 73 
 
 66 
 
112 
 
 HISTOKICAIi SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 193. 
 
 194. 
 195. 
 
 196. 
 
 197. 
 198. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Margaret, wife of Eliakim Phelps 
 (222). She was from Warren ; came 
 here from that church by letter. She 
 died, 
 
 1780. 
 
 David Worthington, son of (91), ) 
 
 Appliia his wife. } 
 
 Removed to Shelburne about 1787, 
 and came back to this place and again 
 united with this church in 1794, and 
 moved again to Peru and died there in 
 a few years. 
 
 Martha {Forward), wife of Pliny 
 Dwight ; she was daughter of Rev. Jus- 
 tus Forward, and married P. Dwight, 
 June, 1777. He was son to (42). He 
 died in March, 
 
 She died, (leaving one child, a 
 daughter). That daughter, Nancy, mar- 
 ried Rev. Asa McFarland, D. D., of 
 Concord, New Hampshire, in June, 
 1801. Dr. McFarland married Claris- 
 sa Dwight, daughter of Justus Dwight, 
 who was son of (42), in January 1799. 
 She died in about one year from her 
 marriage. Nancy was his 2d wife. 
 
 Col. Henry Dwight, ) 
 
 Ruth (Rich), his wife, ) 
 Were from Western, (now Warren). 
 Came here about 1775. They had 
 six sons and two daughters. The 
 sons were Henry, Simeon, Charles, 
 Solomon, Thomas and Peregrine. Col. 
 Dwight died, 
 
 His wife Ruth died, 
 
 See Appendix F. 
 
 Deaths. A?<^. 
 
 1846 
 
 94 
 
 1783 
 1782 
 
 30 
 23 
 
 1819 
 1837 
 
 68 
 81 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 113 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 1781. 
 
 203. 
 
 204: 
 
 Susanna (Dwight), wife of Dr. Estes 
 Howe. She was daughter of (42). She 
 died, _ 1785 
 
 Dr. Howe was the first practising 
 physician that settled in the place. 
 He remained here through life, died in 
 1825, aged 79. 
 
 Joseph Bridgman, son of (16), mar- 
 ried Ruth Wright of Northampton, 
 June, 1770. They had four sons and 
 two daughters ; their sons were Wright 
 (302), Joseph, see (440), Theodore 
 (550), and Jonathan (411), Mary and 
 Sarah. Joseph, (200), Church records 
 say, " an eminent saint who has long 
 been waiting for his departure ; ear- 
 nestly desiring to depart and be with 
 Christ." He died, 
 
 See Appendix C. 
 
 Hulda Warner, daughter of (41). 
 She married Simeon Bardwell, son of 
 Capt. Jonathan Bardwell and Violet 
 his wife (68) in 1781. She died, 
 
 Esther Warner, daughter of Ebene- 
 zer Warner. She died, 
 
 Fro7n other Churches. 
 
 David Converse, ) 
 
 Wife of D. Converse, ( 
 From the church in Stafford, and re- 
 moved from here. 
 11* 
 
 1826 
 
 40 
 
 80 
 
 1782 
 
 1784 
 
 25 
 
 28 
 
114 HISTOmCAIi SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. 
 
 1782. 
 
 Submit Warner, daughter of Moses 
 Warner ; she married Samuel Clark, 
 son of (154), in 1783. Their sons, 
 Samuel and Caleb, removed to Pelham. 
 
 Barnabas Fay. He married Cloe 
 Packard, of Pelham, in September, 
 1783, and removed to Greenwich, 
 South Parish, now Enfield. Their 
 daughter Rhoda was baptized there by 
 Rev. Mr. Forward, July, 13th, 1789, 
 the day the church in Enfield was or- 
 ganized. 
 
 Eunice Hannum. She married 
 Ephraim Danks, Jr., of Northampton, 
 in 1783, and removed there. 
 
 1783. 
 
 Amasa Clough. 
 
 Thriphena {Cowles), wife of (208). 
 
 Throop Chapman. Throop Chapman 
 and wife were the parents of Esther, 
 Susanna, Jonathan W., Throop, 
 Deborah, Sybel, and Isaac C. 
 
 Deborah ( Wilson), wife of (210). 
 
 Widow of Israel Cowles, Jr. 
 
 Irene (Dickinson), wife of Joel 
 Green ; she was from Granby. 
 
 Afe. 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 116 
 Numben. Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Mercy, wife of John Thayer, from the 
 church in Mendon. She died, 
 
 Wife of Nathaniel Goodale, from 
 the church in Woodstock. 
 
 1784. 
 
 Col. Elijah Dwight, son of (42). 
 He was a deacon in this church, chosen 
 in 1793 ; was an active and useful man 
 in advancing the interests of the town 
 and church, and a benefactor of both. 
 He made great pecuniary sacrifices 
 in the erection and completing the 
 present meeting house, in 1791. He 
 gave by deed, dated April 1st, 1791, 
 three acres of land, comprising the 
 ground on which the house stands, and 
 the common in front of it, to the in- 
 habitants of Belchertown, including 
 the house, as a place of public wor- 
 ship for the congregational church and 
 society, so long as the same shall be 
 used for that purpose, reserving the 
 pews in said house that had been sold 
 to individuals and the singers-seats 
 belong to pew proprietors ; the seats 
 7iot sold to individual proprietors, 
 walls of the house and pulpit, belong 
 to the society. The church records 
 say of him, " he was public spirited 
 and a benefactor to the town." He 
 died, September, 
 
 Diana (Hinsdale) , wife of Elijah 
 Dwight; after the death of Col. 
 
 1783 
 
 1811 
 
 64 
 
 1795 
 
 47 
 
116 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 217. 
 218. 
 
 219. 
 
 220. 
 
 221 . 
 
 222. 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. Deaths- 
 
 D wight, she married Dr. Estes Howe 
 in 1797. She died January, 
 
 Solomon Hannum, son of (33), broth- 
 er of (757). 
 
 Jerusha {Morgan), \vife of Solomon 
 Hannum. 
 
 1785. 
 
 Mary Hannum. She married Chester 
 Bardwell, of Shelburne in 1 789, and re- 
 moved to that place. 
 
 Reheckah ( Whitney), wife of Reu- 
 ben Coates, removed. 
 
 Maj. Josiali Lyman, son of (3). 
 Tradition says, he was the first male 
 child born in this place that lived to 
 adult years ; he Avas baptized at North- 
 ampton, March 24th, 1736, by Presi- 
 dent Edwards. He lived here and 
 raised a family ; he removed to Go- 
 shen, this county, several years before 
 his death ; he died there, at a very ad- 
 vanced age, about, 
 
 See Appendix B. 
 
 1785. 
 
 Eliakim Phelps, son of (36), was 
 deacon, chosen in 1803, and a promi- 
 nent man in the place, a magistrate, 
 and many years a representative in the 
 general court from this town, and the 
 church records say, " a pillar in the 
 church." He died, 
 
 1833 
 1810 
 
 1824 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CUUKCH IN BELCHERTOAVN. 117 
 
 Names. 
 
 Eldad Parsons^ son of (38), and 
 (69), a magistrate, an active man. The 
 church records say of him, " a soldier 
 of the llevoliition, a man of vigorous 
 and active mind, of a warm tempera- 
 ment, and an ardent friend of the gos- 
 pel, and kingdom of Christ." He died, 
 
 Experience {Bardicell), wife of (223). 
 She was daughter of Martin Bardwell, 
 and sister of (418.) She died, 
 
 3Iahel, wife of H. Bardwell. 
 
 Samuel Davis. 
 
 Jonas N. Belknap, son of (94). 
 
 Esther {Parker), wife of (227). 
 
 Amasa Smith, son of (9), was chosen 
 deacon in this church, in 1795 ; mar- 
 ried Sophia Lyman (231) in 1787; 
 was Major in the militia, carried on the 
 business of farming till 1802; then 
 left town, turned his attention to 
 study, in preparation for the gospel min- 
 istry ; he was licensed to preach and 
 settled in North Yarmouth, now state 
 of Maine, in 1804; dismissed from 
 there, and afterwards settled in Cum- 
 berland, same state, where he spent the 
 remnant of his days in usefulness, 
 laboring in his calling for the good of 
 his fellow men ; there he died, at an 
 advanced age, in the year 
 
 Aaron Lyman, son of (221), deacon, 
 married Electa Graves, (243), daugh- 
 ter of Joseph Graves, removed. 
 
 Deaths. Ag« 
 
 1823 
 
 1800 
 
 1823 81 
 
 68 
 
 40 
 
 1847 
 
 91 
 
118 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 231. 
 
 232. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Deaths. Agp 
 
 233. 
 
 234. 
 235. 
 
 236. 
 237. 
 
 Sophia Lyman, daughtei' of (221), 
 married (229). 
 
 Margaret {Dwight),wiie of Thomas 
 A. Gates. She was the daughter of 
 Elihu D wight, who was the eldest son 
 of (42). Elihu died in 1760, aged 
 23. Margaret died, 
 
 1785. 
 
 Joseph Bardwell, Jr., son of (66), 
 married Sybil Smith, in 1774; resided 
 in Belchertown, till 1800; moved to 
 Worthington, where he resided eight 
 years, and then moved to Goshen, 
 where he resided eight years, then to 
 South Hadley, to reside w^ith his sons, 
 Josiah Bardwell, Esq. and Dea. Alon- 
 zo Bardwell, where he spent the re- 
 mainder of his days. He held the office 
 of deacon in churches with vv^hich he 
 was connected. His standard of re- 
 ligious character was high ; his love 
 of religious truth, and its fruits Avere 
 seen most conspicuously in his life. 
 He died at his son's, Dea. A. Bardwell, 
 of South Hadley, 
 
 Joseph Fisher, 
 
 Phineas Warner, son of (41), 
 
 See Appendix H. 
 
 Siibmit Lewis, married (234) in 1785. 
 She was a second wife, and died, 
 
 Cloe Shumioay, daughter of Asa and 
 
 1841 
 
 1838 
 1829 
 1849 
 
 1829 
 
 83 
 
 88 
 76 
 86 
 
 55 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 
 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. 
 
 Eunice Shiimway. She married Samuel 
 Cowles of Hatfield, in 1790 ; removed 
 to Hatfield, left a widow, and returned 
 here and died, 
 
 119 
 
 Age 
 
 238. 
 239. 
 
 240. 
 241. 
 
 242. 
 
 243. 
 244. 
 
 245. 
 
 246. 
 247. 
 
 Daniel Smith, Jr., son of (7), 
 
 Katherine (Bardicell), wife of (238), 
 daughter of Martin Bardwell, and sis- 
 ter of (224) ; removed after the death 
 of her husband. 
 
 Stephen Warner, son of (41), 
 
 Amasa Toivne, son of Israel and Na- 
 omi Towne, (104). See that No. He 
 died, 
 
 See Ajjpendix E. 
 
 Margaret {Smith), wife of (241), 
 daughter of No. (9), and sister of (229), 
 (248), and (279). She died. 
 
 See Appendix A. and E. 
 
 Hezekiah Walker, son of (99), 
 
 Thomas Chapin, grand-son of (48), 
 son of Thomas Chapin, Jr. 
 
 Pliny Sikes, son of Abner Sikes, 
 of Ludlow, removed by letter to 
 Westhampton, where he lived to an ad- 
 vanced age. 
 
 Noah Sexton, from West Spring- 
 field, was brother of (318). 
 
 Jacob Smith, son of (11), removed 
 
 1826 
 1817 
 
 1798 
 
 1820 
 
 1821 
 
 1845 
 
120 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OE THE 
 
 Nambers. 
 
 248. 
 
 249. 
 
 Names. 
 
 to Hadley, in 1788, where lie now 
 lives ; has sustained the office of deacon 
 in the church there for many years ; 
 brother to the Rev. Ethan Smith, well 
 known as the writer on the Prophecies 
 and on the Revelations. 
 
 1785. 
 
 John Smith, son of (9), graduated 
 at Dartmouth College, in 1794, stud- 
 ied Theology, and was settled in the 
 ministry in Salem, Ncav Hampshire, 
 January 4th, 1797, continued there in 
 the ministry till November, 21st, 1816, 
 when he was dismissed ; he was again 
 installed in the ministry in Wenham, 
 Massachusetts, in 1817, and in 1819, 
 he received the appointment of Profes- 
 sor of Sacred Literature and Theology 
 in the Divinity School at Bangor, 
 Maine, which office he accepted, and 
 where he remained in the faithful dis- 
 charge of his duties till his death. He 
 possessed good powers of mind, was 
 dilligent in his calling, successful in 
 his ministerial labors. His Alma- 
 Mater conferred on him the degree of 
 D. D. several years before his death. 
 He attained a distinction in classical 
 and Theological Science, and for years 
 held a prominent standing among the 
 Divines of New England. He died 
 April 14th, 
 
 Giles Lyman, son of (221), removed 
 to Goshen, in 1803; he married his 
 wife from Middletown ; she removed 
 her church relation here in 1798, and 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1831 
 
cONQfiEGATIONAL CHURCH IN iJEtCHlSETOWK. l2t 
 
 Nambers. Names. Doaths. Age. 
 
 removed to Goshen in 1803, with his 
 father Josiah Lyman. 
 
 Oliver Parsons, son of (69), broth- 
 er of (223), removed to Granby, and 
 died there, (killed by blowing rocks 
 in a well), about the year, 
 
 Phebe Smith, daughter of (9), mar- 
 ried Israel Russell, of Sunderland, in 
 1788, and removed there. 
 
 Asenath Root, daughter of (105), 
 married William Towne, in 1788, and 
 removed to Granville, New Nork. 
 
 Electa Graves, daughter of Joseph 
 and Eunice Graves, married (230), in 
 1788. 
 
 Amy Sexton, daughter of Noah Sex- 
 ton, of West Springfield, and sister of 
 (318), married (260), in 1787. 
 
 1786. 
 
 Rufus Kentjield, the son of (140) 
 and (141), married Mary Belknap, 
 November, 1773. He died, 
 
 James Walker, Jr., son of (99), 
 was chosen deacon 1804. 
 
 Deborah (Sikes), wife of James 
 Walker, Jr., (Deacon). 
 
 Capt. Jonathan Towne, son of Israel 
 and Naomi Towne, (104) ; he married 
 for his first wife Mary Holbrook, in 
 12 
 
 1804 
 
 1787 
 
 1839 
 
 38 
 
 37 
 
 78 
 
122 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Nurabora. Names, Deaths. Agi 
 
 1795 ; she died in 1796 ; he then mar- 
 ried in 1801, Miriam Warner, daugh- 
 ter of (41). He died, 1824 66 
 
 259. 
 
 260. 
 
 261. 
 
 262. 
 263. 
 
 264. 
 265. 
 
 266. 
 
 267. 
 
 Perez Graves, son of Joseph and 
 Eunice Graves, (131), and brother of 
 (459), removed to the church in Orono, 
 Maine, in 1826. 
 
 Enos Smith, son of (9), born 1761, 
 married (264), in 1787, and removed. 
 
 Jonathan Ly^nan, son of (221), born 
 1767, married for his first wife, Electa 
 Bard well, daughter of (223) ; she died 
 in Goshen, where he resided, March, 
 1824, aged 47. He then married Ly- 
 dia Towne, daughter of (241). He 
 was deacon of the church in Goshen. 
 He removed to Granby, where he died 
 September, 27th, 1846. 
 
 Benjamin Stehhins, 2d, removed. 
 
 Sarah (Scott), wife of Capt. Elisha 
 Warner, (722). 
 
 Abel Clough. 
 
 Hannah Melvin, married John Al- 
 len McElwain, of Palmer, in 1793, 
 and removed there. 
 
 Lyclia Sexton, daughter of Noah 
 Sexton of West Springfield, sister of 
 (318). She died, 
 
 Susanna Graves, daughter of Joseph 
 and Eunice Graves, (131); she married 
 
 1846 
 
 1812 
 
 1784 
 
 79 
 
 62 
 
 19 
 
CONGEEGATIOXAL CHUECH IN BELCHERTOWN. 123 
 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 Nathan Parsons, Jr., in the year 1787, ■ 
 and removed to Bangor, Maine. Na- j 
 than, Jr., was son of (38). i 
 
 Cloe Malmlan. ' 
 
 Tahitha Sikes. 
 
 Oliver Wright. He married for his 
 first wife, Lydia Cowles, daughter of 
 {5Q), in 1779. She died in 1790, 
 aged 34. He then married Elizabeth 
 Brown, in 1792, and removed. He 
 was uncle to Jonathan Wright, (his 
 father's brother), No. (446J). 
 
 1786. 
 
 Lydia {Coioles), wife of (270). 
 
 Josiah Cowles, son of (56), born 
 1761. He died, 
 
 Clarissa D wight, daughter of Jus- 
 tus Dwight, grand-daughter of (42). 
 She married Rev. Asa McFarland, D. 
 D., of Concord, New Hampshire, in 
 1799, and died. 
 
 He again married Nancy Dwight, a 
 daughter of Pliny Dwight, and 
 grand-daughter of (42). See (196), 
 explanation. 
 
 Joseph Reed. 
 
 Sarah {Morgan), wife of Benjamin 
 Billings, daughter of (52) ; her hus- 
 band died in 1826, aged 85. She died 
 
 1790 
 
 1822 
 
 1800 
 
 1818 
 
 1839 
 
 34 
 
 61 
 
 30 
 
 68 
 
 88 
 
124 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Nufflbere. 
 
 ^76. 
 
 ;277. 
 
 278. 
 
 ^79. 
 
 .280» 
 
 2SL 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 Molly Root, daughter of (105) ; she 
 married (436), in 1816, 2d wife; see 
 (439). She died, 1835 69 
 
 Phehe (Baggs), daughter of Noble 
 Baggs; she married (757), in 1789. 
 
 1787. 
 
 First wife of Joseph Reed, 
 1789> 
 
 EU Smith, son of (9), brother of 
 (229) and (248). 
 
 He pursued a course of classical 
 study, entered Brown University in 
 1788; graduated in 1792; studied 
 Theology and settled in the ministry, 
 in Hollis, New Hampshire, November 
 27th, 1793, continued there in the dil- 
 ligent and useful discharge of his miU" 
 isterial duties, till June, 1830, when 
 he was dismissed. He remained in 
 that place till his death. 
 
 Susa7ma, wife of James Smith, and 
 himself a communicant. Church re- 
 cords say of him, a " venerable saint." 
 He died, 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Second wife of Stephen Newton, 
 from the church in East Bridgwater ; 
 she was widow Lydia Gary, recommen- 
 ded to this church by letter from Rev- 
 erends John and Samuel Angin, dated 
 1784» These were colleague pastors, 
 
 1802 
 
 1848 
 
 1831 
 1828 
 
 46 
 
 90 
 
 64 
 
 84 
 
CONGKEGATIONAL CHUKCH IN BELCHERTOWK. 125 
 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 father and son. Mr. Newton's first 
 wife, Mary, died in 1783, aged 68. 
 
 1789. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Robert Emmons, from the church in 
 Amherst, by letter, he resided in 
 Granby ; came to this town, in 1784, 
 and here remained till his death, left 1790 55 
 one son Eli, a graduate of Dartmouth 
 College, in 1795, physician, (became 
 deranged) and died in Amherst about 
 1828. 
 
 Timothy Rice, father of Horatio 
 Rice. 
 
 Elizabeth {Howe), wife of (286). 
 
 They came from church in Western, 
 (now Warren), by letter. (She was 
 sister to Dr. Estes Howe). He died, 1813 78 
 
 Widow Amy Sexton, from the church 
 in Springfield. She married (99), in 
 1787 ; her letter from that church da- 
 ted before marriage, not presented till 
 after. She was mother to (318). She 
 died January 9th, 1835 94 
 
 1790. 
 
 Jonathan Smith, born 1742. He 
 died, 1824 82 
 
 Phebe (Squier), wife of (288). 1797 25 
 
 12* 
 
X2e 
 
 Nnmbettt. 
 290. 
 20L 
 
 292. 
 
 ^3. 
 
 $94, 
 295. 
 
 HISTOBIQAi SKETCHES 0? TH$ 
 
 Kames. 
 
 1792. 
 
 David Kentfield, son of William and 
 Sarah Kentfield, (141) ^nd (142). 
 
 Mary (Smith), wife of (290), daugh- 
 ter of (167). The children of David 
 and Mary, were Jonathan, William, 
 Rebekah, Samuel, Rhoda, Rufus, Tri- 
 phenee, Triphosa, and Smith. She died 
 
 1793. 
 
 Mark Stacp^ son of Capt. Isaac 
 Stacy, who came to this place, from 
 Sturbridge, in 1773. Mark married 
 Julia Root, daughter of (105), in 1788. 
 
 Julia (Root), wife of Mark Stacy. 
 They had three sons, Ira, (475), Arba, 
 (530), Alanson, (909), and three 
 daughters, Hannah, (541), married 
 (878), Dimmis, (629) and Julia (630). 
 Mrs. Mark Stacy died, 
 
 Ahner Hunt. 
 
 Dimmis (Root), his wife, daughter 
 of (105). They were married in 1797, 
 their sons were John, and William W. 
 (465) ; the latter was a graduate of 
 Williams College, in 1820, studied 
 Theology and settled in the ministry, 
 in North Amherst, in 1827 ; continu- 
 ing in the ministerial office there till 
 his death. 
 
 Abner Hunt and wife removed their 
 church relation, to the church in Wil- 
 liamsburg, in 1833. He died, 
 
 Deaths. Ags. 
 
 1802 
 
 44 
 
 1850 
 
 86 
 
 1837 
 
 1847 
 
 41 
 
 79 
 
CONGKEGATIOKAL caUECK 11^ BELCHEBTOWK. 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 296. 
 
 297. 
 298. 
 
 299. 
 
 800. 
 
 301 
 
 802. 
 
 803. 
 
 804. 
 
 805. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Freeman Burr. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Joseph Colelurn^ ) 
 Elizabeth, his wife, | removed. 
 
 William Bickwall, from the church 
 in Ashford, Connecticut. 
 
 Anna, wife of (298), from the same. 
 
 They were recommended by this 
 church to the church in Westford, 
 Massachusetts, in 1808, and removed 
 there. 
 
 Hannah, wife of Elihu Sanford, from 
 the church in Medway. She died, 
 
 1794. 
 
 Wright Bridgman, son of (200). 
 He died, 
 
 Haddassah Bardwell, daughter of 
 (233) ; she married Spencer Clark, 
 removed to Huntington, Ohio, and 
 died there, February 19th, 1843, aged 
 69. 
 
 Electa Bardwell, daughter of (233); 
 she married Dea. Jonathan Lyman, 
 (261) which see. She died, 
 
 Susanna {Willard), wife of Jonas 
 Holland, from the church in Peters- 
 ham. She died at Amherst. Her 
 husband had been a prominent man in 
 
 DeatbB. 
 
 127 
 
 Agn. 
 
 1789 
 
 1839 
 
 1843 
 
 1824 
 
 31 
 
 67 
 
 6^ 
 
 47 
 
128 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 308. 
 309. 
 
 810. 
 
 311. 
 312. 
 
 813. 
 
 814. 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age 
 
 town business here for many years. 
 He died July, 1837 
 
 1795. 
 
 From other Churches, 
 
 Samuel Worthington, ) 
 
 Elizabeth^ his wife, ) 
 
 From the church in Shelburne, they 
 were formerly here, came from Colches- 
 ter, see (91) and (92), removed to Shel- 
 burne about the year 1787, and came 
 back in 1795. Samuel Worthington, 
 was brother to widow Amy Sexton, 
 (287i). 
 
 1796. 
 
 Polly, wife of Benjamin Haynes. 
 
 From other Churches, 
 
 William Worthington^ ) 
 
 Wife of Wm. Worthington, ) 
 From the church in Colchester, to 
 
 this church, and recommended from 
 
 this church to Bolton, Connecticut. 
 
 1796. 
 
 From other Churches, 
 
 Israel Trask, to this Church from 
 Brimfield, and then from this church 
 back there. 
 
 Capt, Fhineas Strongs from the 
 Church, in Hebron, Connecticut. He 
 died, 1827 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHUECH IN BELCHEETOW?r. l29 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 315. 
 
 Names. DoaUi&. Age. 
 
 Anna (Filer), wife of (314). She 
 died, 1815 56 
 
 1797. 
 
 Bulah Smith, daughter of (163), re- 
 moved. 
 
 1798. 
 
 Silas Walker, son of (99), married 
 Dimmis Sexton, in 1792. Their chil- 
 dren are five sons and four daughters. 
 Sons Horace, Tertius, Samuel, Charles, 
 and Lyman. Charles was a graduate 
 of Yale College, in 1823; studied 
 physic and settled in Northampton ; 
 Horace (474), Tertius (477), Charles 
 (624), Lyman (954). They had four 
 daughters, Amy (490), married John 
 Marshall (585), Lucy (639), Almira 
 (991), married Salem Towne, Philura 
 C. (1059), married (1034), in 1840. 
 
 Dimmis (Sexton), wife of Silas 
 Walker, daughter of Noah Sexton, of 
 AYest Springfield. 
 
 Fro7n other Churches. 
 
 Mary, the wife of Giles Lyman, 
 from the first church in Middletown. -" 
 
 Maj. John Gilbert, from the church 
 in Hebron, Connecticut. He was fa- 
 ther of (558). He died, 
 
 Amelia, his wife, received January, 
 7th, 1799. She died 
 
 1817 
 
 1825 
 
 68 
 
 74 
 
130 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 319J. 
 
 320. 
 321. 
 
 322. 
 323. 
 
 324. 
 325. 
 
 326. 
 
 327. 
 
 HISTOKICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. Deaths. Aje 
 
 Deborah, wife of Samuel Ingalls, 
 from the church in Abbington. 
 
 Abigail, wife of Joseph Tucker, from 
 Walpole ; letter by Rev. Mr. Morey. 
 
 1800. 
 
 Rhoda (Root), wife of (635), daugh- 
 ter of (105). 
 
 Nancy Dtvight, daughter of Pliny 
 Dwight and grand-daughter of (42), 
 married Dr. McFarland, of Concord, 
 in 1801, and removed. See (196). 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Daniel Porter, \ They came from 
 Wife of (322), ] the church in He- 
 bron, Rev. Mr. Bassett. 
 
 1801. 
 
 Jemima, wife of Oliver Bridgman. 1825 70 
 
 Lydia {Merrick), wife of (731), she 
 was from Wilbraham, daughter of 
 Noah Merrick, and grand-daughter of 
 Rev. Noah Merrick, the first minister 
 of Wilbraham. 
 
 Lucretia {Warner), wife of (550), 1814 40 
 she was the daughter of Jonathan 
 Warner, and grand-daughter of (39). 
 She died, 
 
 Celena Worthington, daughter of 
 William Worthington. 
 
CONGKEGATIOXAL CHURCH IN BELCHEKTOWN. 
 
 Names. Deaths, 
 
 Temperance Worthington, daughter 
 of David Worthington, removed to 
 Norwich. 
 
 Eli Wood, from Ludlow, married 
 Hannah Cowles, daughter of (191). 
 
 131 
 
 Age. 
 
 Hannah {Cowles) wife of (329). 
 She died, 
 
 Thankful (Morse), wife of (410), she 
 was daughter of Asa Morse. She 
 died, 
 
 Jemima, wife of Abner Cowles, he 
 was brother of (191), her husband died 
 May, 1837, aged 76. She died, 
 
 EUzaheth Morse, daughter of Asa 
 Morse, and sister of (33 1 ) ; she mar- 
 ried Lemuel Paine, in 1806. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 William Holland, physician, from 
 the church in Chester, Rev. Aaron 
 Bascom, pastor. See (442). 
 
 Clarissa (Moseley), from Westfield, 
 
 (daughter of Col. John Moseley), wife 
 
 of Dr. William Holland. She died, 
 
 ■ Col. Moseley died, about the year 
 
 1788, at Westfield. 
 
 Susanna, wife of Robert Ames, 
 from the church in Jaffery, N. H. 
 
 1813 
 
 846 
 
 1821 
 
 1808 
 
 1809 
 
 33 
 
 69 
 
 51 
 
 37 
 
 67 
 
Nnmberi. 
 
 337. 
 
 HISTORICAL SltETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. Deatba. Age. 
 
 33a. 
 
 139. 
 
 340. 
 
 341. 
 
 342. 
 
 343. 
 
 1802. 
 
 Miriam ( Warner) y second wife of 
 (258), daughter of (41), married in 
 1801, left a widow in 1824. She again 
 married in 1826 to James Whitcomb, 
 of Williamsburgh, and removed there. 
 
 Abigail {Pomeroy)^ wife of (459), 
 she was from Granville ; she with her 
 husband removed from here to Man- 
 chester, near the Falls of 
 New York, in 1828. 
 
 1829 
 
 Niagara, 
 
 Sally Bridgman, daughter of (200). 
 
 Ahner Phelps^ son of (222). He 
 was a graduate of Williams College, 
 in 1806, studied theology — was licen- 
 sed to preach ; then turned his course 
 of study to medicine, and in 1815, 
 commenced the practice in Boston, 
 where he has since resided. In 1814, 
 he received the degree of M. D., from 
 Brown University, and from Yale Col- 
 lege. 
 
 Joshua Cowlcs, son of (86). He 
 died, March, 
 
 EUzaheth {Rice), wife of (341). 
 She was daughter of (286). She died, 
 
 Anna Rice, daughter of (286), mar- 
 ried Chester Allen, in 1805, and re- 
 moved to a church in Springfield, in 
 1829. 
 
CONGEEGATIONAL CHURCH IN EELCHEETOWN. 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 344. 
 
 345. 
 
 3ia. 
 
 347. 
 
 348. 
 349. 
 350. 
 
 351. 
 
 352. 
 353. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Elijah NicJiolSf son of Mitchel 
 Nichols, and Lydia his wife of Brook- 
 field, Lydia died in this town in 1811, 
 aged 75 ; her son Elijah died, 
 
 Mary Giddings, wife of (344), 
 daughter of James Giddings of South 
 Hadley ; James Giddings, married 
 Hannah Fairfield, daughter of (23), 
 in 1766. Mary died, 
 
 Zerviah Rice, daughter of (286). 
 She married (384), in 1803. They 
 removed to Chicopee, in 1835. She 
 died May, 
 
 1802. 
 
 Sarah Worthington, removed to a 
 chui-ch in North Bolton, 1803. 
 
 Nathan Barnahy, removed in 1834. 
 
 Anna, wife of (348). She died, 
 
 Elizaheth, second wife of (288). 
 See 289. 
 
 1803. 
 
 Remembrance Root, son of (124), 
 married Truelove Fisher, daughter of 
 (234). He died while on a journey in 
 Ohio, June, 
 
 Truelove (Fisher), wife of (351), 
 daughter of (234). 
 
 Ahner Towne, son of Israel and 
 Naomi Towne, No. (104). He re- 
 moved his church relation to Granby 
 13 
 
 Deaths. 
 
 1848 
 
 1846 
 
 1845 
 
 1829 
 
 1836 
 
 133 
 
 Age. 
 81 
 
 77 
 
 70 
 
 63 
 
 65 
 
134 
 
 HISTOmCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. 
 
 churcli, in 1823, continuing his resi- 
 dence in this town and remained so 
 till death. 
 
 354. 
 
 355. 
 
 356. 
 
 357. 
 
 358. 
 
 359. 
 
 360. 
 
 1828 
 
 Kersiah {Fairfield), wife of (353), 
 daughter of (148), removed her church 
 relation to Granby, with her husband 
 in 1823 ; after his death, she removed 
 her church relation back to this church 
 in 1829. 
 
 Wife of Benjamin Morgan ; her hus- 
 band was son of (52). 
 
 Mary ( Wilkinson), wife of Aaron 
 Rhoades ; she was a native of Sharon, 
 Massachusetts. He was a native of 
 Walpole, Massachusetts ; they came 
 to this town in 1789. He died in 1843, 
 aged 79. He was son of Stephen 
 Rhoades, formerly of Walpole. 
 
 Elizabeth {Fisher), second wife of 
 Elihu Sanford, daughter of (234), re- 
 moved to a church in Albany, in 1827, 
 and changed their residence. Her 
 husband died in 1839, aged 79. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Solomon Toivne, from the church in 
 Greenwich, Rev. Joseph Blodget, pas- 
 tor. 
 
 1804. 
 
 Joseph Angier, church records say, 
 " A good man." 
 
 Fanny, wife of (359), removed. 
 
 1849 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 135 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 361. 
 
 362. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Deaths. Ag« 
 
 363. 
 
 364. 
 
 365. 
 366. 
 
 367. 
 
 368. 
 369. 
 370. 
 
 371. 
 
 Darius Root, son of (124), brother 
 of (351), died in Ludlow. 
 
 Dorcas {Sikes), wife of (361), they 
 removed to Ludlow. 
 
 Deborah Phelps , daughter of (34). 
 She died, 
 
 Wife of Joseph Reid, 2d wife. See 
 
 (278). 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Samuel Chapman, ) From the 
 
 Wife of S. Chapman. } church in 
 
 Bolton, Rev. E. Kellogg, pastor, re- 
 moved. 
 
 Nancy, second wife of William 
 Bickwell, from the church in Ashford, 
 to this church ; and again recommend- 
 ed by this church to that in Westford, 
 in 1808, and removed. 
 
 1805. 
 
 Nahhy, wife of Jedediah Green. 
 
 Jonathan Randall. 
 
 Rhoda {Shumway), wife of Jonathan 
 Randall, daughter of (174). 
 
 Nancy {Hoive), wife of Ichabod 
 Sanford, she was daughter of Dr. 
 Estes Howe, see (199), the mother of 
 Rev. William H. Sanford, of Boylston. 
 She died, 
 
 1816 
 
 1828 
 
 73 
 
 60 
 
 1840 65 
 
136 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 372. 
 
 373. 
 374. 
 
 375. 
 
 376. 
 
 377. 
 
 378. 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 John M. Pearl, from the cliurcli in 
 Bolton, Connecticut, Rev. E. Kellogg, 
 pastor. 
 
 Wife of (372), from Bolton, 
 
 John Marshall. Cliurcli records say, 
 " A man of much good sense which 
 was rendered exceedingly valuable to 
 the world, and consecrated to the best 
 use by faith, hope, and prayer, a warm 
 active christian, greatly lamented. He 
 died, 
 
 Betsey, wife of (374). Church re- 
 cords say, " She was distinguished f[:)r 
 good sense, kind, affectionate, amiable 
 manners, and heavenly-mindedness. 
 She died November, 
 
 They were from the church in Bol- 
 ton, Connecticut. 
 
 Susan Dwight, daughter of Col. 
 Elijah Dwight (215). In 1812, she 
 married Mason Shaw, Esq. and re- 
 moved to Castine, Maine. In 1821, 
 they removed to this place. 
 
 Cynthia, wife of Dudley Phelps, he 
 died in 1820, aged 48. She married 
 (223), in 1821, her second husband 
 died in 1823, and she removed to 
 Groton. 
 
 Enos Lincoln. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1815 
 
 1816 
 
 52 
 
 51 
 
CONGREGATIOIS-AL CHTJECH IN BELCHERTOWN. 137 
 
 380. 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 Ruth {Shumway), wife of (378), 
 daughter of (730). She died, 1851 77 
 
 Hannah {Barber), wife of Gurdon 
 Filer. She died, 
 
 Her husband Gurdon Filer, died in 
 this town in 1840, aged 79. He was 
 son of Samuel Filer, who died in 
 Granby, in 1798, aged 68; his wife 
 and widow died in this town January, 
 1827, aged 89. He was son of Sam- 
 uel Filer, who was born in Hebron, 
 Connecticut, in the year 1700. This 
 Samuel born in 1700, was son of Sam- 
 uel Filer, who died in Windsor in 1710, 
 and was the son of Zerubabell Filer, 
 who was born in Windsor in 1644. 
 He was son of Walter Filer, who set- 
 tled in AVindsor in 1636, came from 
 Dorchester England, with Rev. Mr. 
 Wareham and Henry Wolcott ; Walter 
 was a Deputy to the General Court, 
 in 1647; he died in Windsor, in 1683. 
 Samuel Filer, who died in Granby, in 
 1799, was father of Gurdon Filer, and 
 John Filer, and a daughter Anna, who 
 married (314), which see. Gur- 
 don Filer was father of George 
 Filer, now a merchant in this place. 
 John his brother was father of Hum- 
 phrey T. Filer, now extensively enga- 
 ged in the carriage business in this 
 place. John his father died here 1850, 
 aged 81 ; leaving two sons, Humphrey 
 T. and Samuel. 
 
 Gurdon Filer and John Filer had a 
 brother by the name of Samuel. He 
 died in the Ilevolutionary war in the 
 year 1779, aged 25. 
 13-- 
 
 1841 
 
 74 
 
138 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 1806. 
 
 381. 
 382. 
 
 383. 
 
 384. 
 
 385. 
 
 386. 
 387. 
 
 388. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Harris Hatch, ) They were from 
 Deborah, his wife. } the church in 
 Pelham, to this place, Rev. Mr. Brain- 
 ard, pastor, and recommended by this 
 church to that in Chesterfield, in 1812, 
 and removed there. 
 
 Grace ( Warriner), first wife of (724). 
 From the north church in Wilbraham, 
 Rev. E. Witter, pastor. The church 
 records say of her, " A most valuable 
 woman." She died, 
 
 Ahner Blodget, from the church in 
 Palmer, Rev. Mr. Baldwin, pastor, re- 
 moved. See (346). 
 
 Sally, wife of Samuel Smith, from 
 the church in south parish, Greenwich, 
 (now Enfield), Rev. Mr. Crosby, pas- 
 tor. 
 
 Leavett Hewins, ) From the 
 Wife of L. Hewins. ) church in 
 Sharon, and again removed. 
 
 1807. 
 
 Betsey, wife of Robert Dunbar, her 
 husband died in 1807, aged 62, he was 
 the father of (801). In 1809, she 
 married Rev. John Emerson, of Con- 
 way and removed there. 
 
 1821 
 
 39 
 
CONGREGATrONAL CIIUHCII IN UELCIIEKTOWX. 139 
 
 Stimhem. Namog. Death*. Age. 
 
 [ Eunice Forward, daughter of Rev. 
 
 389. JuHtus Forward; nhe married TJHOj, 
 in 1808 ; she was the fifth daughter of 
 Rev. Mr. Forward, that died of con- ; 
 Humption. Died 1809 29 
 
 390. Sarah, wife of 'J'imothy Chase. 
 From other Churches. 
 
 391. Ahifrail ^Wi/.lardj, wife of (408), 
 from the church in Peterwham. 
 
 }92. Joshua Clark, son of 
 
 from 
 
 the church in Granby, Rev. Elijah 
 Gridley, pastor ; he resided in Granby, 
 and again became connected with that 
 i church. 
 
 /j3, I Olive, wife of Reuben Prentice, 
 from the church in Somers, Rev. Wm. 
 L. Strong, pastor, and returned to that 
 church by certificate in 1812. 
 
 1808. 
 
 394. Susanna Rice, daugliter of C287), 
 she married Edward Frink, of Ashford, 
 in 1813 and removed. She died, 
 
 395, Luther Holland, he died in the State 
 of New York. 
 
 39G. Charissa, wife of (395). She died, 
 He again married (416j. 
 
 397. Amasa Fairfield, son of (148;. 
 
 398. ' Lydia, f Whitney), wife ^397). 
 
 1822 
 
 1851 
 1817 
 
 42 
 
 74 
 
140 
 
 HISTOHICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 399. 
 
 400. 
 
 401. 
 
 402. 
 
 403. 
 
 404. 
 
 405. 
 406. 
 
 407. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Samuel Gilbert, son to Maj. John 
 Gilbert, removed with his wife (401), 
 to the church in Medway, in 1827. 
 
 Lucretia Toivne, daughter of (241), 
 she married John Witt, Jr., of Gran- 
 by, in 1812, removed her church re- 
 lation there in 1826. 
 
 Polly Hatch, daughter, of (381), 
 married (399), in 1810), and removed 
 with her husband to Medway. 
 
 Elizaheth {Pearl}, wife of Eli Mil- 
 lard, sister of (372). She died, 
 
 From oiher Churches. 
 
 Clarissa, wife of Erasmus Shum- 
 way, from the church in Greenwich, 
 Rev. Mr. Blodget, pastor, and again 
 returned there with her husband. He 
 died there. Erasmus was son of (730). 
 
 Deaths. 
 
 Olive Hyde, widow of John Hyde, 
 from the church in Sturbridge. Rev. 
 Otis Lane, pastor. Her husband died 
 April 1808, aged 58. 
 
 the 
 
 Benjamin Kilbourn, \ From 
 Elizabeth, his wife, i church in 
 
 Bolton, Rev. E. Kellogg, pastor. 
 
 Benjamin died, 
 
 Lucindia {Fairfield), wife of Pliny 
 Witt. She was from the church in 
 Plainficld, Rev. Mr. Hallock, pastor. 
 Pliny Witt, Avas son of (747). 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHEETOWN. 
 
 141 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 408. 
 409. 
 410. 
 
 411. 
 
 412. 
 
 413. 
 
 414. 
 
 415. 
 
 416. 
 
 417. 
 
 Names. 
 
 1809. 
 
 Ehenezer Bridgman, son of (187). 
 
 Elihu Smead, adopted son of (238). 
 
 Nathaniel Walker, son of (99), 
 which see. 
 
 Jonathan Bridgman, son of (200), 
 removed by letter to south church in 
 Amherst, at its formation in 1824; 
 letter certifying to the council his 
 standing in this church, had resided in 
 the south part of Amherst many years. 
 
 Aaron Walker, son of (243), re- 
 moved to Ware. 
 
 Esther Clark, daughter of (154), 
 married Isaiah Wing, of Conway, in 
 1809, and removed there. 
 
 Jane Clark, daughter of Samuel 
 Clark, and grand-daughter of (154) ; 
 she married Abijah Harding, in 1819, 
 and moved to Illinois. 
 
 Suhmit Clark, daughter of Samuel 
 Clark, and grand-daughter of (154), 
 married (412), in 1812, and removed. 
 
 3Iercy Smith, dsmghtei of (139), 
 married (395), in 1818. 
 
 Polly [Steward), wife of Martin 
 Bardwell, Jr. He was son to Martin 
 (418), who died in this town, in 1824, 
 aged 84. He was son to Martin, who 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1851 
 
 70 
 
142 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 418. 
 419. 
 
 420. 
 
 421. 
 
 422. 
 
 423. 
 
 424. 
 425. 
 
 426. 
 427. 
 
 HISTOKICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. 
 
 was son to John Bardwell. See Ap- 
 pendix I. Martin, the husband of Pol- 
 ly (417), died in 1814, aged 43..Polly 
 was daughter of Rev. Antipas Steward, 
 who was the first congregational min- 
 ister settled in Ludlow, settled there 
 in 1793, dismissed 1803, died in this 
 town January, 1814, aged 81. Polly 
 was admitted to the church June 11th, 
 1809, at her residence, she being dan- 
 gerously sick. 
 
 Martin Bardwell, see (417). 
 
 Widow Sarah Graves, widow of 
 John, who was son of (62). 
 
 Sally {Rich), wife of (235) sister of 
 (198). 
 
 Martha {Rice), ^Yife oi (636). She 
 was from Shrewsbury. She died, 
 
 Judith Hatch, daughter of (381), 
 married (409), in 1812, and removed. 
 
 Elizabeth (Steward), wife of Alfred 
 Shumway, removed to the church in 
 North Adams, in 1833. 
 
 Eliza Dodge. 
 
 Samuel Lemon, son of James Lemon 
 of Ware. 
 
 Jane, wife of (425). 
 
 Jason Walker, son of (99). He 
 died July 6th, in the 84th year of his 
 age. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1809 
 
 1824 
 
 1831 
 
 1840 
 
 1831 
 
 1813 
 
 1851 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 428. 
 
 429. 
 
 430. 
 
 431. 
 
 432. 
 433. 
 434. 
 
 435. 
 
 436. 
 437. 
 
 438. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Elizabeth (Mcintosh), wife (427). 
 She died, 
 
 Elizabeth Buxton, married (530), in 
 1811, and moved with her husband to 
 the church in Granby, 1832. She was 
 the daughter of William Buxton who 
 came to this town from Union, Con- 
 necticut, with a family in 1794. 
 
 1810. 
 
 Samuel Hinsdale Stebbins, son of 
 (129). 
 
 Benjamin Howe, son of Benjamin 
 Howe, and Margaret his wife. 
 
 Enos Chase. 
 
 Samuel Shumway, son of (174). 
 
 Capt. James Whitman, son of John 
 Whitman, of Bridgwater, came to this 
 town in 1797, from Bridgwater. 
 
 Kata {Smith)y his wife, she was 
 daughter of Samuel and Susan Smith 
 (280). She died, 
 
 Amasa Cowles, son of (56). He 
 died 
 
 Lydia {Mahurin), his mfe. (the 1st 
 wife). See (276). She died, 
 
 Orlando Root, son of (105). He 
 died, 
 
 Deaths. 
 
 1849 
 
 1844 
 
 1845 
 
 1842 
 
 1813 
 
 1823 
 
 143 
 
 Age. 
 
 73 
 
 50 
 
 74 
 73 
 44 
 46 
 
144 
 
 HISTOKICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 439. 
 
 440. 
 
 441. 
 
 442. 
 
 443. 
 
 444. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Elizabeth {Ramsdell,) wife of (438). 
 She was the daughter of Joseph Rams- 
 dell. 
 
 Ruth (Hawkes), wife of Joseph Bridg- 
 man, Esq. She was from Charlemont, 
 sister of Rev. Roswell Hawkes, who 
 was settled minister in Cummington, for 
 several years. Her husband, Joseph 
 was son of (200), he died in 1836, 
 aged 63 ; he was a graduate of Dart- 
 mouth College 1795, was a prominent 
 man in the town, a magistrate, lawyer 
 by profession, representative to the 
 general court, and justly possessed the 
 confidence of the community. She 
 died, 
 
 Polly (Bardwell), wife of (481). 
 She was the daughter of (418). 
 
 Betlisina (Foivler), second wife of 
 Wm. Holland, physician (334). She 
 was the daughter of Medad Fowler, for- 
 merly of Westfield ; she came to this 
 church from the church in Blandford, 
 Rev. John Keep, pastor. In 1813, she 
 with her husband removed to Westfield, 
 and returned to this church and place 
 in 1819, and in 1832, removed to Can- 
 andagia, New York. 
 
 1811. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 Lydia Dwight, 
 uel Dwight. 
 
 the daughter of Sam - 
 
 Henrietta Warner, daughter of (235), 
 married (720), in 1821, second wife. 
 She died, 
 
 1850 
 
 72 
 
 1831 
 
 38 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 145 
 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 445. 
 446. 
 
 446.J. 
 
 446|. 
 
 447. 
 
 448. 
 449. 
 
 450. 
 451. 
 
 Mary, wife of William Buxton, 
 from the cliiircli in Sturbridge. 
 
 Lucy, wife of Asa Woods, from the 
 church in New-Braintrec, Rev. John 
 Fisk, pastor. 
 
 1812. 
 
 Hannah, wife of Paul Pettingill. 
 
 Jonathan Wright, son of Cyprian 
 Wright, formerly of Ludlow ; who mar- 
 ried Lucy Sikes of Ludlow, in October, 
 1784. 
 
 Sally (D wight), wife of Moses Kil- 
 bourn. She was the dauj^-hter of Sam'l 
 D wight; was d. 'owned in Swift River, 
 the horse she rode with took fright and 
 ran into the pond at Swift river mills. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Azariah Willis, from the church in 
 Brookfiold. 
 
 Malissant, wife of (448), from the 
 church in New-Braintree. She died 
 about, 
 
 Hannah, first wife of (720). From 
 the church in Poultney, Vermont. 
 She died, 
 
 1813. 
 
 Thomas Brown. 
 14 
 
 1827 
 
 1822 
 
 1815 
 
 1820 
 
 1813 
 
146 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 452. 
 453. 
 
 454. 
 
 455. 
 
 456. 
 
 457. 
 
 458. 
 
 459. 
 
 Names. Deaths. A5« 
 
 Mary, wife of (451). 
 
 Herman Hawes, son of John Hawes, 
 and brother of (4(38). He died, 
 
 MaUtilel {Feeso), first wife of (453 
 She was the daughter of John Peeso. 
 
 Jonathan Divight, son of Justus 
 Dwight and grandson of (42). He 
 died in Amsterdam, N. Y. 
 
 Ami/ (Parsons), wdfe of Jonathan 
 Dwight; she was the daughter of 
 (22 3^ After the death of her hus- 
 band she removed her church relation 
 and went from here. 
 
 William Bridgman, Physician, son 
 of (187). He removed to Spring- 
 field in 1835. 
 
 1841 
 1835 
 
 1834 
 
 459J. 
 
 460. 
 
 Marilla (Parsons), 
 She was the daughter 
 died 
 
 wife of (457). 
 of (223). She 
 
 58 
 39 
 
 64 
 
 1850 
 
 Josiah Dwight Graves, son of Jo- 
 seph and Eunice Graves, (131) ; re- 
 moved to the Church at Manchester, 
 near the falls of Niagara, State of New 
 York, in 1828. 
 
 Joseph Graves, son of Joseph and 
 Eunice (131) and brother of (459), 
 and removed with him. 
 
 Henry A. Bi^idgman, son of (550). 
 Deacon; chosen 1828. 
 
 63 
 
CONGKEGATIOXAL CIIUKCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 147 
 
 Names. 
 
 Elijah Coleman Bridgman, son of 
 (550) ; a graduate of Amherst College 
 in 1826, Studied Theology ; licensed 
 to preach ; became a Foreign Mission- 
 ary ; was ordained in this town, Octo- 
 ber 6, 1829, and sent out under the 
 direction of the Board of Commission- 
 ers for Foreign Missions, to China, 
 He sailed from New York the 10th of 
 October, and arrived in Canton, China, 
 in February 1830. His labors have 
 been constant and successful. By per- 
 severing industry he has become one 
 of the best scholars in the Chinese lan- 
 guage, of the age. The honorary de- 
 gree of D. D. has been conferred on 
 him by an American College. Much 
 of his labor for years has been direct- 
 ed to the translation of the Bible into 
 the Chinese Language. He has done 
 much in giving to the many millions 
 of China, the sacred volume in their 
 own tongue, and is still engaged, un- 
 remittingly, in that great christian 
 enterprise. 
 
 Daniel Phelps^ chosen Deacon, 
 1816; son of (222). 
 
 William Phelps, chosen Deacon, 
 1838; son of (222). 
 
 Samuel Strong, son of (314.) 
 
 Deatlig. Age. 
 
 William W. Hunt, son of (294) and 
 (295). He was a graduate of Wil- 
 liams College in 1820, and settled in 
 the ministry in North Amherst. Re- 
 moved his church relation from here to 
 
148 
 
 Numbera. 
 
 466. 
 
 467. 
 
 468. 
 
 469. 
 
 470. 
 471. 
 
 472. 
 
 473. 
 474„ 
 475. 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. Deaths. Agt 
 
 the Church connected with the Ando- 
 ver Seminary, in 1823. Was the first 
 settl:;d minister in North Amherst. 
 
 Ahia Hannum, daughter of Solomon 
 and Jerusha Hannum, born 1 786. Died 
 
 Learned Scott. 
 
 John Halves, son of John, brother 
 of (453). 
 
 Chester Allen, son of Edmund Al- 
 len, He took a certificate of his mem- 
 bership, to be laid before a Council 
 convened to form a new Church, in a 
 factory village in Springfield, in 1829, 
 and removed there with his wife (343). 
 
 Dudley Phelps, from Hebron, Conn. 
 
 Dudley Phelps, nephew of (470), 
 graduated at Yale College in 1823, 
 studied Theology, settled in the min- 
 istry in Haverhill, and also in Groton, 
 Mass., where he labored faithfully in 
 the ministerial office till his death. 
 
 Rock Parsons, son of (223) remov- 
 ed to the state of Alabama in 1820, 
 and died there soon after. 
 
 Hezekiah Walker, Jr., son of (243). 
 
 Horace Walker, son of (317). 
 
 Ira Stacy, son of (292), removed 
 from this church by letter to Ludlow 
 in 1825. Died May 
 
 1837 
 
 182( 
 
 41 
 43 
 
 1820 
 
 1847 
 
 1838 
 
 48 
 
 51 
 
 49 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOAVN. 140 
 
 Names. Deaths, 
 
 Roxana (Glover), wife of (475), was 
 from Wilbraham ; removed to Lud- 
 low w^ith her husband. After the 
 death of her husband (475) she mar- 
 ried Jason Miller of Williamsburgh, 
 and removed there in 1843. 
 
 Terlius Walker, son of (317), re- 
 moved his church relation from here 
 to Enfield in 1824; returned to this 
 place in 1842. Died December 
 
 A,e. 
 
 Daniel Rider, removed to the 
 church in Holliston, January, 1845. 
 
 Harrison Holland, brother of (395) . 
 
 Anna Gilbert, wife of (479), the 
 daughter of Maj. John Gilbert (319^), 
 sister of (558). 
 
 Enos Coicles, son of (85), removed 
 to South Hadley. 
 
 Nehemiah Buglet. 
 
 Remember Joshua Cowles, son of 
 (191). 
 
 John Hunt, Sd. 
 
 John Marshall, Jr., son of (374), 
 removed to the state of New York. 
 
 Catherine Bardwell, daughter of 
 (418). She was second wife of (482). 
 He married Hannah Bardwell, sister 
 of Catherine, in 1801. Hannah died 
 in 1812. In 1813, he married Cath- 
 14* 
 
 1846 
 
 1848 
 
 48 
 
 70 
 
150 
 
 HISTOmCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Nwnbcrs. 
 
 487. 
 
 488. 
 
 489. 
 
 490. 
 
 491. 
 492. 
 
 493. 
 
 494. 
 495. 
 
 Names. 
 
 erine ; she died May, 1819. In 1820, 
 he (Nehemiah Bugbee), married widow 
 Abigail Thayer. 
 
 Mary Nichols, daughter of (344). 
 She married Clark Stone of Enfield, 
 and removed there. 
 
 Polly Rhoades, daughter of Aaron 
 Rhoades and Mary his wife (356). 
 She married (473), November, 1815, 
 and died January, 
 
 Harriet Howe, daughter of Benja- 
 min Howe. (lie married Margaret 
 Graves, daughter of Joseph and Eunice 
 Graves, in 1785.) Harriet married 
 Joseph W. Edson, of New Braintree, 
 in 1819, and removed there. 
 
 Amy Walker, daughter of (317). 
 She married (485), son of (374), in 
 1817. She died April 25, 
 
 OsJiea Walker, son of (243). Died 
 
 EstJier S. Walker^ daughter of 
 (243). 
 
 Lydia Graves, daughter of (459.) 
 In 1822 she married Asahel Clark of 
 Granby and removed there. 
 
 Mary Bridgm an , daughter of ( 5 5 ) . 
 In 1817 she married (431). She died 
 
 T^'ipheiia KentJiehL daughter of Da- 
 vid and Mary Kentfield. 
 
 Deaths, Ag» 
 
 18161 20 
 
 1838 
 1817 
 
 1829 
 
 42 
 28 
 
 30 
 
CONGREGATIOXAL CHURCH IN BELCHEHTOWX. 151 
 
 Nimc3. 
 
 Lois Dimton, daughter of (r582). 
 In 1816 she married (727). She died 
 
 Marilla Du7iton, daughter of (582). 
 Removed her church relation in 1825 
 to the church at Smyrna, N. Y. 
 
 Diana Phdps, daughter of (222). 
 She married Cornelius Delano of 
 Northampton, and removed there. 
 
 ReJjccIcah Hunt, daughter of (294). 
 In 1814 she married Jason Miller of 
 Williamsburgh and removed there. 
 She died about 1841. In 1843, Jason 
 iSIiller married (476), widow of (475), 
 and removed. 
 
 Francis Willson, son of John Will- 
 son, who died in this town in 1818, 
 aged 67. Francis removed to En- 
 field. 
 
 Nancy Bardwcll, daughter of (753), 
 and grand-daughter of Capt. Jonathan 
 Bard well, and Violet his wife (68). 
 In 1821 she married William Cush- 
 man. She died 
 
 Nancy (Strong), wife of Charles 
 D wight, son of (197). She was daugh- 
 ter of (314). Charles D wight died 
 1815, aged 34. In 1820 she married 
 (550), a third wife. She died 
 
 Melissa Parsons, daughter of (223). 
 In 1821 she married Warren Isham, 
 then of Wilbraham. In 1822 she re- 
 
 DeatliH. Ag«» 
 
 I 
 
 1822! 27 
 
 I 
 
 1823 
 
 1839 
 
 27 
 
 52 
 
505. 
 506. 
 
 507. 
 
 508. 
 
 509. 
 
 510. 
 
 511. 
 512. 
 513. 
 514. 
 515. 
 
 152 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. Niimes, 
 
 moved her church relation to the Free 
 Coinmunion. Church in Tennessee. 
 
 504. Ahigail Strong, daughter of (314). 
 In 1815 she married (550), a second 
 wife. She died 
 
 PaUij Walker, daughter of (256), 
 married Mr. Miller of Ludlow. 
 
 Betsey Marshall, daughter of (374). 
 Married (464) in 1815. Died the same 
 year. The Church Records say of her, 
 " a woman of high promise." 
 
 Biana Howard, daughter of Silas 
 Howard. 
 
 Sally Howard, daughter of Silas 
 Howard. She married John W. Peeso. 
 
 Samuel Baugherty, removed to Il- 
 linois. 
 
 Aiina (Woods), wife of (509), 
 daughter of Jonathan Woods. 
 
 Elihii Root, son of (105). 
 
 Levinah, wife of (511). 
 
 Samuel Ingalls, 
 
 Clarissa Ingalls, daughter of (513). 
 
 Nathaniel Dwiglit, son of Justus 
 D wight, Esq., and grand-son of (42). 
 
 D.?atli.<i. Afe. 
 
 1820i 38 
 
 1815 19 
 
 1824 
 
 38 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CIIUKCH IN BELCHERTOWN. IS-*? 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 516. 
 
 517. 
 
 518. 
 
 519. 
 520. 
 521. 
 522. 
 
 S22J. 
 
 523. 
 524. 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age 
 
 Elizaheih (Dimhar), wife of (515), 
 the daughter of Robert Dunbar and 
 Betsey his M^fe (388), which sec. 
 
 Justus Dwight, Jr., Esq., son of 
 Justus Dwight, Esq., and grand-son 
 of (42). He died 
 
 Sophia {Dwight), his 1st wife; she 
 was the daughter of (197). She died 
 
 In 1817, Justus Dwight, Jr. mar- 
 ried Eliza Marshall, daughter of (374), 
 a second wife; see (542). 
 
 Olive Washburn, daughter of (790). 
 She married (681), in 1821. 
 
 Oliver Hannum, son of Phineas 
 Hannum. 
 
 Gamaliel Hannum, son of Phineas, 
 brother of (520). 
 
 Mercy M. Hannum, daughter of 
 Phineas Hannum, and sister of (737), 
 (520) and of (521). 
 
 Sally Nichols, daughter of (344). 
 She married Alvin Woods of Brook- 
 field in 1817, and removed. 
 
 Drusilla Rhoades, sister of Thad- 
 deus Rhoades. 
 
 Lucinda Pheljis, removed by letter 
 of recommendation to a Council call- 
 ed to form a Church at Lowell. 
 
 1835 
 
 1814 
 
 54 
 
 28 
 
154 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 525. 
 
 526. 
 527. 
 
 528. 
 
 529. 
 
 530. 
 
 531. 
 532. 
 
 533. 
 
 534. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Joel Walker, son of (256), moved 
 away. 
 
 Dehor ah Walker, daugliter of (243). 
 
 Silence Walker, daugliter of (243). 
 She died 
 
 Bar a Walker, son of (243). He 
 died 
 
 Henry Alley, son of Mason Abbey. 
 Drowned 
 
 Arly Stacy, son of (292), removed 
 to Church in Granby in 1832, with 
 his wife (429). 
 
 Joel Randall, son of (369), died 
 
 Alner Towne 2d., son of (241.^ He 
 studied Theology, was licensed to 
 preach, married Eliza Vinton, daugh- 
 ter of Capt. Abiather Vinton of Am- 
 herst, and sister of the Hon. Samuel 
 F. Vinton, a leading member of Con- 
 gress from Ohio. llev. Abncr Towne 
 early in his ministry moved to Ohio, 
 and died young, in that state. 
 
 Asa B. Woods, son of (585), re- 
 moved by letter to Church in Hart- 
 ford, Conn., in 1824. 
 
 Joseph Woods, son of Jonathan 
 Woods (58j), and brother of (533). 
 
 Djalha. Ag«, 
 
 1821 
 
 1838 
 1813 
 
 1815 
 
 23 
 
 40 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 
COXGEEGATIONAL CHUHCII IN BELCHERTOAV^N. 155 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 Lydia Woods, daughter of Jona- 
 than \Vocds, (585). 8hc married 
 Joseph Henshaw. 
 
 Susan Woods, daughter of Jona- 
 than Woods (585). She married Geo. 
 Viuing of Plainfield, and removed 
 there. 
 
 Apphia (Preston), wife of (4463), 
 daughter of Jabez Preston of Granby, 
 deceased. 
 
 Salem Fisher, son of (234). 
 
 Aldana Fisher, daughter of (234). 
 She married David Liddle and remov- 
 ed to state of New York. 
 
 Thcodotia Strong, daughter of (314). 
 She married Mr. Stephen Hill of Sliel- 
 by, Orleans County, New York, and 
 removed there. 
 
 1813. 
 
 541. Hannah Stacy, daughter of (292) 
 She married (878), son of (241), in 
 October 1818. 
 
 See Apjmndix E. 
 
 542. Eliza Marshall, daughter of (374), 
 married (517) in 1818, removed to 
 Church in South Hadley in 1838, and 
 removed back to this Church in 1851. 
 
 543. Lucy Hamillon, married (679), son 
 of (197), in 1820, and they removed 
 
156 
 
 Naniliers. 
 
 544. 
 
 545. 
 546. 
 
 547. 
 548. 
 
 549. 
 
 549J. 
 549|. 
 
 550. 
 
 551, 
 
 HISTOKICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. 
 
 in 1828 to the churcli in Niagara, 
 New York. 
 
 Lucy, wife of Ephraim Converse, 
 removed her church relation to North- 
 ampton in 1823. 
 
 Anna Angier, daughter of (359), 
 died 
 
 Palty Angier, daughter of (359). 
 She married Frederick Griswold of 
 Longmeadow in 1821 and removed. 
 
 Prudence Marsh, removed. 
 
 Clarissa Dwight, daughter of (197), 
 married (1266) m 1824. 
 
 Mary Br'.dgraan, daughter of (302). 
 She married Samuel P. Hopkins in 
 1819. 
 
 Moses Hanniwi, son of (29). He 
 
 died ahout 
 
 Jeruslia Ilanninn, wife of (549}). 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Theodore Bridgman, son of (200). 
 In 1800 he joined the Church in 
 Greenwich South Parish, (now En- 
 field) while he continued his residence 
 here, and removed his church relation 
 here. Died 
 
 Vcster Willson from church in Pel- 
 ham. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1814 
 
 1836 
 
 22 
 
 79 
 
 1836 
 
 61 
 
CONGREGATIOXAL CnUKCII IN" BELCHERTOWN. 157 
 
 Names. Deaths. Agtt. 
 
 Widoio Hannah Cleveland, from 
 church in Windham. 
 
 Varneij Fellows, from church in Wil- 
 lington, Rev. Hubbel Loomis pastor. 
 
 Sarah (Smith), wife of Rev. Expe- 
 rience Porter, (See notice of her in the 
 historical sketch, connected with that 
 of Mr. Porter,) from the church in 
 Fair Haven, Vt. She died April 19, 
 
 See also Appendix N. 
 
 Betsey Matilda {S?nith), wife of 
 (647) the daughter of Dan Smith Esq., 
 West Haven, Vt., from church in 
 South Hadley, Rev. Joel Hayes, pas- 
 tor. The church records say of her : 
 " A lovely woman, the delight of her 
 numerous friends ; a friend to the poor 
 and an ornament to her sex ; she died 
 as she had for ten years lived, in the 
 exercise of the liveliest hope of the 
 resurrection of the just. In her last 
 sickness, which was 54 days, and fluc- 
 tuating, she tasted an earnest of the 
 blessedness of those that die in the 
 Lord. She will for a long time be re- 
 membered as a distinguished orna- 
 ment of this Church and Society" She 
 died Nov. 13. 
 
 See Appendix N. and P. 
 
 Josiah Fox. 
 
 Wife of (556). 
 
 15 
 
 1825 
 
 1814 
 
 44 
 
 28 
 
158 
 
 Nuinbors. 
 
 558. 
 
 559. 
 560. 
 
 561. 
 562. 
 
 563. 
 
 564. 
 565. 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. 
 
 By Profession, 
 
 George Gilbert, son of Major 
 John Gilbert (3 19 J) formerly from 
 Hebron, Conn. 
 
 Deaths* Age. 
 
 Sylvia [Colton), bis wife, 
 from Longmeadow. 
 
 She was 
 
 566. 
 
 Betsey Pearl, daughter of (372), 
 married Marcus Wbitman, son of (434), 
 second wife, about 1822. 
 
 Lydia Lemon, daughter of (425), 
 married (814). 
 
 Lucy Nichols, daughter of (344), 
 married Levi Brown of Norwich, and 
 removed there in 1822. 
 
 Nancy (Colton) wife of (723), sister 
 of (559). She died 
 
 Eli Strong. 
 
 Betsey Smith, sister of Rev. Mrs. 
 Porter (554). She married (464) in 
 1816. Daughter of Dr. Phineas 
 Smith, formerly of Sharon, Conn. 
 
 See Appendix N. 
 
 1814. 
 
 Abigail (Day), wife of Henry Mel- 
 len. Her husband died 1836. She 
 died, November, 
 
 1815 
 
 1841 
 
 30 
 
 68 
 
CONGEEGATIONAIi CHUKCH IN UELCHERTOWN. 159 
 
 1847 
 
 62 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age 
 
 Delphia Washhiirn, from the church 
 in Hard wick, Rev. William B. Wes- 
 son, Pastor. She married (720), Au- 
 gust, 1831. He died in 1834. She 
 again married Mr. Allen, of Stur- 
 bridge. 
 
 1815. 
 
 Susan ( Gates), wife of (801 ), daugh- 
 ter of Thomas A. Gates and Margaret 
 his wife (232). She died 
 
 Willis Ingalls. 
 
 Horatio Parsons, son of (250), 
 graduated at Williams College in 1820, 
 studied Theology, and was settled for 
 a time in the ministry at Manchester, 
 Vt. ; dismissed and stationed again in 
 the ministry near the Falls of Niagara, 
 New York ; removed his relation from 
 this church years ago. 
 
 Eliakim Phelps, Jr., son of (222), 
 graduate of Union College in 1814. 
 Settled in the ministry in West Brook- 
 field in 1818 ; dismissed in 1824, and 
 afterwards settled at Geneva, New 
 York, and dismissed from there ; re- 
 ceived the degree of D. D. ; is now 
 residing in Stratford, Conn, without 
 ministerial charge. 
 
 Susan (Moody), wife of Enos Chase, 
 the daughter of Joseph Moody of 
 South Hadley. 
 
 Wife of (637). 
 
ICO 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 573. 
 
 674. 
 575. 
 
 576. 
 
 577. 
 578. 
 
 579. 
 
 579J. 
 580. 
 
 581. 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Enoch Burnett, from the churcli in 
 Granby, Rev. Mr. Gridley, Pastor. He 
 was brother of Jonathan, Stephen, and 
 Arza Burnett. Arza was father of 
 (1243). Enoch died 
 
 Sophia (Chajnn), wife of (573). 
 
 Sarah (Hall), wife of Elkanah At- 
 wood, from Sutton, died 
 
 Thomas Sahln, from church in 
 North Wilbraham, died 
 
 Ahigail, wife of (576), from church 
 in North Wilbraham, died 
 
 Sally, first wife of Alpheus Winter, 
 from North Wilbraham. Church re- 
 cords say, " A woman of superior 
 worth, a most animated, exemplary 
 believer, full of the spirit of Heaven." 
 She died 
 
 Augustine Payne, physician, from 
 church in Granby, Rev. Mr. Gridley, 
 Pastor. Dr. Payne died 
 
 Abigail {Mason), wife of (579). 
 
 Olive, wife of Jonathan S. Tucker, 
 from the church in Vernon, Conn. 
 
 Margaret (Warrincr), wife of Giles 
 Smith, from church in North Wilbra- 
 ham, Rev. Mr. Witter, Pastor. She 
 
 1850 
 
 1842 
 1829 
 
 1821 
 
 1817 
 
 1814 
 
CONGKEGATIONAL CHUECH IN BELCHEETOWN. 161 
 
 lumbers. Names. Deaths. Age* 
 
 is the sister of (383). Giles Smith 
 died in Wilbraham. 
 
 582. Amasa Dimton, ) From the church in 
 
 583. Wife of (582.) ] Cambridge, N. Y., 
 and removed to the church in Smyrna, 
 New York, 1825. 
 
 584. Oliver S. Taylor, physician, from 
 the church in Dartmouth College, Rev. 
 Roswell Shurtleff, Pastor. Removed 
 to Old South Church, Boston. Dr. 
 Taylor was a graduate of Dartmouth 
 College in 1809; studied medicine, 
 and entered upon the practice in this 
 town in 1814 ; chosen deacon of this 
 church in 1816; left here in 1817, and 
 has since been much of the time in 
 business of Classical instruction, prin- 
 cipally in the State of New York. 
 
 585. Jonathan Woods, a native of New 
 Braintree, son of Jonathan Woods, 
 formerly of that place. This Jona- 
 than was brother of David Woods, the 
 father of Asa, who was father of Geo. 
 B. Woods. The family were from 
 Marlboro', and moved to New Brain- 
 tree early in the settlement of that 
 place. He died 
 
 586. Lydia, wife of (585). 
 August, 
 
 She died 
 
 587. 
 
 588. 
 
 Sally (Deering), 
 She died 
 
 wife of (726). 
 
 Lucinda ( Whitney), wife of Sylves- 
 ter Willson. 
 15*' 
 
 1830 
 
 1843 
 
 1850 
 
 68 
 
 81 
 
 68 
 
162 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 589. 
 
 590. 
 
 590J. 
 
 591. 
 
 592. 
 
 593. 
 
 S94. 
 
 595. 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 Sally (Fobes), wife of Nathan 
 Weeks. 
 
 Thomas Sahin, Jr., son of (576), 
 from the church in Wilbraham. 
 
 A I iga i I ( Durfy ) , 
 She died 
 
 first wife of (590). 
 
 Sophia Holland, daughter of Jonas 
 liolhind and Susanna his wife (305). 
 She married Aaron Arms, Esq., of 
 South Decrfiekl in 1821, and removed 
 her church relation there. She died 
 about 
 
 Maria Holland, sister of (591), 
 daughter of Jonas and Susanna (305j. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Jemima Preston, from the church in 
 Ashford, has resided here twelve 
 years and commuTied with this church. 
 She brings no letter from that church 
 but is received here as a member, upon 
 a former profession at Ashford, assent- 
 ing to the Articles of this church. 
 
 Sahra Willson, wife of John Will- 
 son, from the church in Ludlow. 
 
 Nancy {Flint), wife of Philo Par- 
 sons, from Monson. They removed 
 from here to Monson, and he soon 
 went to Alabama, and both died years 
 
CONGIIEGATIONAL CllUlXCn IN BELCIIEIITOWN. 163 
 Numbors. Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 1816. 
 Dm. Jonathan doughy ) 
 
 mycof(596). i 
 
 Tliey were from the cluircli in North 
 Wilbraham, and removed from hero. 
 Was not deacon in this church. 
 
 Stephen Burnett, brother of (-'jTo), 
 from tlic churcli in South liadley, llcv. 
 Joel Hayes, Pastor. 
 
 Ahigiiil {Witt,) wife of Steplicn 
 Ijiirnett. She is the dau;^-]iter of (747). 
 Thoy soon removed back to South liad- 
 ley. 
 
 Electa (DicJcinson), second wife of 
 Horace Gates, and dairj;bter of Perez 
 Dickinson, formerly of Amherst. Pe- 
 rez was brother of Hon. Samuel F. 
 Dickinson, formerly of Amlierst, a 
 graduate of Dartmouth College in 
 1795. 
 
 Mary, wife of Col. A. Jones, from 
 the church in Phillipston, and went to 
 the church in Ware Villa^rc in 1827. 
 
 Cyrus Bartlctt, 
 Stafford. 
 
 from the church in 
 
 Aniia Sahin, wife of (601), daugh- 
 ter of (576). 
 
 Prudence {Foote), wife of Eneas 
 Clark, from the church in Wilbraham, 
 daughter of Joseph Foote, formerly of 
 
164 
 
 HISTOEICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 604. 
 605. 
 
 606. 
 
 607. 
 
 608. 
 
 609. 
 610. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Colchester, Conn., and sister of Rev. 
 Calvin Foote, a graduate of Middle- 
 bury College in 1814, and settled in 
 the ministry in East Longmeadow, 
 and in Southwick, and in Granville, 
 Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Clark removed 
 from this place to Colchester, Conn., 
 in 1846. He died there in March, 
 1848, aged 77. 
 
 Sylvanus Stehhins, ) 
 
 Wife of (604). j 
 
 They were from the church in Gran- 
 by to this, and removed from here by 
 a general recommendation of their 
 standing, in 1823, to the State of New 
 York. 
 
 1817. 
 
 Amanda Hunt, daughter of (294). 
 She married Francis Willson, son of 
 John Willson, in 1818. 
 
 Darius H. Rice, removed to Can- 
 ada. 
 
 Sally, wife of Ethan S. Cowles, re- 
 moved by letter to the church at St. 
 Charles, Illinois, in 1848, with her 
 husband. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Clarissa Howard, from the church 
 in Blandford, Rev. John Keep, Pastor. 
 
 Cynthia, wife of (976), from the 
 church in Stafford, Rev. Jos. Knight, 
 pastor. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
CONGEEGATIOXAL CIIUHCII IN TJELCirEIlTOWX. 165 
 
 Numbers. Xumes Deaths. Age. 
 
 611. Mary Colton, from the chnrcK in' 
 Monson, Ilev. Alfred ]^ly, D. D., pas- | 
 tor. She married Mr. Fellows, teacher 
 in Mount Pleasant Seminary, Amherst. 
 
 612. 
 
 613. 
 
 61-1. 
 615. 
 
 616. 
 
 Dnisilla Day, from the church in 
 West Springfield, Dv Lathrop, pastor. 
 
 Second Wife of Captain Phineas 
 Strong (314), widow Barnard from | 
 Xorthampton. After the death ofj 
 Capt Strong (314), she married Deac. \ 
 Isaac Clark of Xorthampton, in 182S, | 
 and returned there. 
 
 1818. 
 
 Jemima Broicn. 
 
 Sally Phelps, daughter of (726). 
 She married Abner Hill of Shutes- 
 bury, Sept. 29, 1825, and removed 
 there. 
 
 Rosina Phelps, daughter of (726) ; 
 married Joel Fairfield in 1820; re- 
 commended to a Council convened to | 
 organize a Church at Factory "Milage, I 
 Springfield, in 1829, and remoA-ed I 
 there and to that church. 
 
 617. Cynthia Phelps, sister of (615) and 
 (616), removed to Factory Village, in ' 
 Springfield, in 1829. 
 
 618. 
 
 Mary Abbey, daughter of Mason 
 Abbey, married (235) in 1832. 
 
166 
 
 HISTORICAT. SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 620. 
 
 621. 
 
 622. 
 
 623. 
 
 624. 
 
 625. 
 
 626. 
 
 Names. 
 
 William Holland, son of Jonas Hol- 
 land and Susanna his Avife (305). In 
 the year 1824 he married Electa Hop- 
 kins, and both went as teachers under 
 the direction of the American Board of 
 Commissioners for Foreign Missions, 
 to Alabama, and then to Tennessee, 
 where they labored in teaching among 
 the natives for about 13 years, and 
 then removed to Jacksonville, Illinois, 
 and left the employment of the Board. 
 
 Cliauncy Dimton, son of (582), re- 
 moved to the church at Smyrna, New 
 York, by letter, in 1826. 
 
 Nathaniel Freeman Dunton, son of 
 (582), removed to Smyrna with his 
 brother (621), in 1826, with his wife 
 (764.) 
 
 Charles Reed, son of (274), remov- 
 ed to the church in Greenwich, by let- 
 ter, in 1824. 
 
 Charles Walker, physician, son of 
 (317), a graduate of Yale College in 
 1823; studied the medical jDrofession 
 and gettled in Northampton in medi- 
 cal practice. See (317). 
 
 Harry Knapp, removed by letter to 
 Park Street church in Boston, in 1823. 
 
 Emily Walker, daughter of (427), 
 married Alva Sikes, of Ludlow, in 
 1819, and removed there. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHTJIICH IN BELCHERTOWN. 167 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 627. 
 
 628. 
 
 629. 
 
 630. 
 
 631. 
 
 632. 
 
 633. 
 634. 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age 
 
 Eliza Walker, daughter of (427), 
 married Obed Newton of Hadley in 
 1822, and removed there. 
 
 Almira Fisher, daughter of (234), 
 married Leonard Barrett, Esq., in 
 1826. 
 
 Bimmis Stacy, daughter of (292), 
 married Mark Hinckley. 
 
 Julia Stacy, daughter of (292), mar- 
 ried Luther Morse, Jr. of Boston, in 
 1826, and removed her church relation 
 to the Old South Church in Boston ; 
 returned to reside here again in 1829. 
 Her husband died in 1850. 
 
 635. 
 
 Clarissa Howard, daughter of An- 
 drew Howard, married (969). She 
 died 
 
 He married Irene Howard, her sis- 
 ter, and she died March, 1841, aged 
 39. 
 
 Polly Walker, daughter of (243). 
 She died 
 
 Ahram Allen, son of Edmund Allen. 
 
 Heman Moody, son of Josiah Moody 
 formerly of South Hadley. For a few 
 of the last years of his life he resided 
 here with this son. See (848). He- 
 man died 
 
 Josiah Walker, removed to Illinois 
 and died there 
 
 1838 
 
 1838 
 
 1826 
 
 1847 
 
 40 
 
 36 
 
 48 
 
 76 
 
168 
 
 niSTOrtlCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. Names. 
 
 636. Simeon Dioight, son of (197). 
 
 637. David Fairhanks, 
 
 638. Elizabeth Sexton, daughter of Noah 
 Sexton, formerly of West Springfield. 
 He died in Virginia. She married 
 (468) in 1821. 
 
 639. Lucij Walker, daughter of (317). 
 
 640. Moses Goodale. 
 
 641. Charlotte Elixaheth {Crittenden), 
 wife of Elihu Shiimway. She was the 
 daughter of Mr. Samuel Crittenden of 
 Conway, 
 
 642. Deborah (Gleason), second wife of 
 (243). She died 
 
 643. Mary ( Whitman,) second wife of 
 (473), and daughter of (434). 
 
 644. Reheckah {Vining), wife of (534), 
 and daughter of George Vining, for- 
 merly of Plainfield. 
 
 645. Nancij {Reed), wife of (430), and 
 daughter of (274). 
 
 646. Mehitahle { Ward), wife of (728). 
 
 647. Mark DooUttle, son of Titus Doo- 
 little, Esq., formerly of llussell, Hamp- 
 den County, Mass., a graduate of Yale 
 College in 1804, by profession a law- 
 yer. The author of this Historical 
 Sketch. 
 
 Deaths. Ag«. 
 
 1843 63 
 1837 61 
 
 1846 
 
 88 
 
CONGEEGATIONAL CHXJKCH IN BELCHERTOWN". 169 
 
 [umbers. 
 
 648. 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 Sarah T. R. (Rahoteau,) second 
 wife of (647). She was the daughter 
 of Charles C. Raboteau, Esq., former- 
 ly of Newburyport. He died in Phil- 
 adelj^hia in 1816. 
 
 Timothy Pearl, brother of (372). 
 He died 
 
 Sally {Perry), wife of (649). She 
 died 
 
 This family was from Vernon, Conn. 
 
 Ralph Owen, son of Capt. Eleazer 
 Owen, who died in this town about 
 1840. 
 
 Fanny {Bissell), wife of (651). 
 
 Sarah {Smith), wife of (718), daugh- 
 ter of James Smith and Susanna his 
 wife (280). 
 
 Roxana, wife of John Lemon, re- 
 moved to the church in Ludlow, in 
 1825. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Eleazer Pomeroy and his wife, from 
 the church in Granville, Mass., Rev. 
 Joel Baker, pastor. Removed from 
 here to Enfield, Mass., and there died 
 near each other, about 1833. 
 
 Samuel H. Peckham, from the church 
 at Northampton. He afterwards stud- 
 ied Theology and settled in the min- 
 istry in Gray, 6 years, and in Haverhill 
 16 
 
 1837 
 
 1837 
 
 62 
 
 63 
 
170 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 654J. 
 654|. 
 
 654|. 
 
 655. 
 
 656. 
 657. 
 
 658. 
 659. 
 660, 
 661 
 662, 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. Deaths. 
 
 8 years, in the State of Maine, He 
 was dismissed and now resides in Lu- 
 nenbiirgh, Mass. Took a dismission 
 from this church to that in 1 851 . Is now 
 an agent for the American Missionary 
 Association. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Baker, wife of Nathan- 
 iel Baker, from the church in Enfiekl, 
 R,ev. J. Crosby, pastor. 
 
 Delpliia Washhurn, from the church 
 in Hard wick, Hev. William B. Wes- 
 son, pastor, 
 
 Mrs. Exjyerience (Sikes), second 
 wife of Azariah Willis, from the church 
 in Ludlow. 
 
 1819. 
 
 Elisha Ahhey, deacon, son of Ma- 
 son Abbey. 
 
 George Ahheij, son of Mason Abbey. 
 
 Tlieron Warner, physician, son of 
 
 (235). 
 
 Ebenezer Warner, son of (235). 
 
 William B. Warner, 
 
 George Washhurn, son of (790). 1850 
 
 John Whitman 2d, brother of (434). 1822 
 
 Fanney {Ahhey), Avife of Thomas 
 Goodale, daughter of Mason Abbey, 
 
 Age. 
 
CONGEEGATIOlSrAL CHUKCH IN" BELCHERTOWN. 
 
 Numbers. Names, Deaths 
 
 and sister of (656) and (657) ; moved 
 to Amherst. 
 
 171 
 
 Aje. 
 
 663. 
 
 664. 
 
 665. 
 666. 
 667. 
 
 668. 
 669. 
 
 671. 
 672. 
 
 672J. 
 
 673. 
 
 674. 
 675. 
 
 William Alhro, removed to a cliurch 
 in Boston, 1824. 
 
 Clark Albro, removed to a cliurch 
 in Chicopee. 
 
 Noah Clark. 
 
 AdoljjJius Strong, son of (314). 
 
 Theodore Bridgman, Jr., son of 
 (550), moved to Michigan. 
 
 Lee Sprague, removed to the church 
 in Ware, in 1824 ; from there remov- 
 ed to Worcester. 
 
 Si/Ivester Cook, son of David S. 
 Cook, studied Theology, was licensed 
 to preach, and became a settled minis- 
 ter in New Jersey. 
 
 Cyrus Slehhins, removed to Ware. 
 
 Roderick Sheiohrooks. 
 
 Liter etia Witt, removed to the 
 church in Granby, in 1824. 
 
 Samuel Walker, son of (317), re- 
 moved his church relation to a church 
 in Springfield, in 1824. 
 
 Zephaniah Wood. 
 
 Silas Farrinston. 
 
 1849 
 
 46 
 
172 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 676. 
 
 677. 
 
 678. 
 
 679. 
 
 680. 
 
 681. 
 682. 
 683. 
 
 684. 
 
 685. 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 Estes Marsh, son of Timothy P. 
 Marsh. 
 
 Samuel Broivn, recommended to a 
 Council called to form a new church 
 at Ware Village, in 1826. He be- 
 came a member of the church formed 
 there, and removed back here in 1828, 
 and removed to Illinois in 1831. 
 
 Oramel Bardwell, son of Martin 
 Bardwell, and grand-son of (418). 
 
 Peregrine Dtvight, son of (197), re- 
 moved from this church in 1828, with 
 his wife (543), to the church at Ni- 
 agara, State of New York, where he 
 died 
 
 Williams H. Whittemore, adopted 
 son of (649). He graduated at Yale 
 College in 1825; studied Theology, 
 Avas licensed to preach, and settled in 
 the ministry in Charlton, Mass., and 
 in Southbury, Conn. 
 
 Alvan Morse, son of Daniel Morse. 
 
 Lydia NicJiols, daughter of (344). 
 
 Elizabeth Whitman, daughter of 
 (434), married William Mason, Jr., of 
 Palmer, in 1822, and removed. 
 
 Catherine Whitman, daughter of 
 (434), married Earl Sherman of Ware, 
 in 1843, and removed. Died 
 
 Polly WJiitman. 
 
 1842 
 
 48 
 
 1845 
 
 42 
 
CONGEEGATIONAL CHITECH IN EELCHEHTOWN. 
 ers. Names. Deaths. 
 
 Ahhey Whitman. 
 
 Lydia Towne, daughter of (241), 
 married Deacon Jonathan Lyman 
 (261); a second wife. Removed to 
 Goshen in 1828, then removed to 
 Granby, Avhere he died in 1846. 
 
 Esther Shwmoay, daughter of (730), 
 married Horace Cook of Granby, in 
 1833. 
 
 Sarah Tainter, removed. 
 
 Electa Walker. 
 
 Mary Ford, removed by letter to 
 the church in Monson, in 1827. 
 
 Andrew Howard, father of (870), 
 and moved away with hini. 
 
 Nancy Dwight, daughter of Samuel 
 Dwight, married Mr. Bullard of Oak- 
 ham, in 1824. 
 
 Amy Willson, married Mr. Hark- 
 ness of Pelham, and removed. 
 
 Olive Willson, 
 
 Mary Ward. 
 
 Clarinda Bar dwell, daughter of 
 (753). She died 1826 
 
 Mary Bardwell, daughter of Martin 
 Bardwell, who died in this town in 
 1814, aged 43, and grand-daughter of 
 16^' 
 
 173 
 
 27 
 
174 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers 
 
 697. 
 
 698. 
 699. 
 700. 
 
 701. 
 
 702. 
 
 703. 
 
 704. 
 
 705. 
 
 Names. Death?, 
 
 (418). She manied Fridas Preston, 
 of Ashford, Conn., in 1828, and re- 
 moved. 
 
 Laura Toicne, daughter of (353), 
 married (1054), son of (369), in 1822. 
 
 Joanna Kimhall. 
 
 Susanna Church. 
 
 Eunice Leach, daughter of Peter 
 Leach. She married Melatiah B. 
 Hinckley in 1830, and removed to 
 Vernon, State of New York. She died 1843 
 
 Martha D. Rhoades, daughter of 
 Aaron Rhoades and Mary his wife 
 (356). She married Albert Atwood, 
 son of Elkanah Atwood and Sarah his 
 wife (575). 
 
 Betsey Atiuood, daughter of Elka- 
 nah Atwood. 
 
 Zina Stacy, wife of Moses Stacy. 
 She was daughter of Martin Bardwell. 
 
 Exjjerience Parsons, daughter of 
 (233). She married Mr. Livingston 
 of Amsterdam, State of New York, 
 and removed there in 1825. 
 
 Densy Lincoln, daughter of (378). 
 She married Moses Young in 1819, 
 and removed her church relation to 
 Athol, in 1822. 
 
 Age. 
 
 42 
 
I 
 
 CONGEEGATIONAL CHUKCH IN BELCHEKTOWN. 175 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 706. 
 
 707. 
 
 708. 
 709. 
 
 710. 
 710J. 
 710J. 
 
 711. 
 
 712. 
 
 713. 
 714. 
 715. 
 
 716. 
 717. 
 
 Names. Deaths. Ago. 
 
 Hannah (Rice), wife of John At- 
 wood, and daughter of (286). 
 
 Betsey ( Whitman), wife of Hazo 
 Parsons, the daughter of Rev. Samuel 
 Whitman, the first settled minister in 
 Goshen. Huzo was son of (223). He 
 moved to the South. 
 
 Esther, wife of John Hunt. 
 
 Phehe (Smith), wife of (633), daugh- 
 ter of (288). 
 
 Wife of John Church. 
 
 Y/ife of Elihu Chapman (Sylvia). 
 
 Lydia J. Clark, removed to the 
 church in Granby, in 1823. 
 
 Wife of Eliab Washburn. 1832 54 
 
 Maria (Foinvard), wife of (463), 
 daughter of Justus Forward, Esq. 
 (731). She died 1840 40 
 
 Wife of Timothy Bliss, removed. 
 
 Ahigail, wife of (607). 
 
 Widoio Betsey Bardwell, widow of 
 Martin Bardwell. Her husband died 
 April 2, 1814, aged 43. 
 
 Widow Mary Hannum. 
 
 Charity Clark, widow of Eleazer 
 Clark, Esq. She was (Childs) from 
 
176 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 718. 
 719. 
 
 720. 
 722. 
 
 723. 
 724. 
 725. 
 726. 
 
 727. 
 728. 
 729. 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. 
 
 Woodstock, Conn. Her husband died 
 1808; a prominent man in town; a 
 magistrate, representative, and in oth- 
 er offices. Was son of (154). She 
 died in May 
 
 Ahel Ames, son of Robert Ames and 
 Susanna his wife (336). 
 
 Gould Parso7is, son of (223), re- 
 moved his church relation to Troy, 
 New York, in 1831. 
 
 Joseph Kenneday, died 
 
 Capt. Elislia Warner, son of (41), 
 and brother of (235), died 
 
 Oliver Bridgnian, son of (187). 
 
 Col. Zerias Stehhins, son of (129). 
 
 Lehheus Cliapin. He died 
 
 Noah Phelps, son of Simeon Phelps, 
 and grand-son of (36). Simeon died 
 at Pittsfield in 1776, returning from 
 service in the northern army, aged 34. 
 
 Israel Coioles, son of (272), and 
 grand-son of (56). 
 
 Gideon Ames, son of Robert Ames, 
 and nephew of (718). 
 
 Chauncey Hotvard, son of Joseph 
 Howard. 
 
 Deaths. Age 
 
 1832 
 
 58 
 
 1834 
 1829 
 
 54 
 
 1820 
 
 32 
 
CONGHEGATIONAL CKUECII IN EELCHEUTOWN. 177 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 81 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 730. 
 
 Names. 
 
 731. 
 
 732. 
 
 733. 
 
 734. 
 734J. 
 
 735. 
 736. 
 
 737. 
 
 738. 
 739. 
 740. 
 
 741. 
 742. 
 
 743. 
 
 Solomon Shumway, brother of (174). 
 He died 
 
 Justus Foricard, Esq., son of Rev. 
 Justus Forward. 
 
 SaJly Dorman, daughter of Daniel 
 Dorman, deceased, and sister of (976). 
 
 Polly Farrington, removed to the 
 church in Monson, by letter, in 1825. 
 
 Wife of Nathan Bascom. 
 
 Delilah C. Ward, removed to the 
 church in Bolton, in 1822. 
 
 A?nos Farrington, \ Removed from 
 
 ) Rei 
 
 j thif 
 
 Wife of (735). | this place. 
 
 Pliineas Hanmim, son of Phineas 
 Hannum, and grand-son of Samuel 
 Hannum, one of the early settlers here, 
 who died in 1780, aged 88. See (27). 
 
 31ary {Reckards), wife of (737). 
 
 Simeon Pepper. 
 
 ( Woods), first wife of (739). 
 
 She died. 
 
 Jairus Ahhot, » 
 Wife of (741). ) 
 
 Removed their church relation to 
 Warren, in 1822. 
 
 Levi Davis. 
 
 1826 
 
 1828 
 
 1826 
 
 41 
 
 33 
 
178 
 
 KISTOmCAL SKETCHES OP THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 744. 
 
 745. 
 
 746. 
 
 747. 
 
 748. 
 
 749. 
 750. 
 
 751. 
 
 753. 
 
 754. 
 755. 
 756. 
 
 757. 
 
 758. 
 
 Names. 
 
 (Jackson), wife of (743). 
 
 Dcnlhs. Age 
 
 Henry Sl.ehdins, son of (129). 
 Anna [Jones), wife of (745). 
 Ivory Wilt. 
 Wife of (747). 
 
 Samuel H. Preston. \ 
 
 Wife of (749). j 
 
 Tliey removed llieir cliurch relation 
 to the cliiircli in Otisco, New York, in 
 1824. 
 
 Benjamin PJieljJS, son of Simeon 
 Phelps, and grand-son of (36). He 
 died, December 
 
 Jonathan Barclioell, son of Capt. 
 Jonathan Bardwell and his wife Vio- 
 let (68). He died 
 
 His first wife Anna, died 1803, 
 aged 41. 
 
 Caleh Clark, son of (154). He died 
 
 Ahel Fuller. He died 
 
 Samuel Smith, son of James Smith 
 and Susanna his wife (280). 
 
 Daniel Hannum, son of (33). He 
 died 
 
 Susanna Blodget, daughter of (384). 
 She married Horace Stacy in 1824. 
 She died 
 
 1820 
 
 1842 
 
 1828 
 
 1820 
 1846 
 
 1842 
 
 1841 
 
CONGEEGATIONA.L CHUUCH IX BELCHEETOWN-. 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 759. 
 
 760. 
 761. 
 
 762. 
 
 763. 
 764. 
 
 765. 
 
 766. 
 
 767. 
 768. 
 769. 
 770. 
 771. 
 
 Names. Deatlis 
 
 Harriet Walker, daughter of (427). 
 She married (1116), son of (635) in 
 1824. She died 
 
 Diana Biirge, removed to a church 
 in Hartford, in 1824. 
 
 Susan Buxton, dangliter of William 
 Buxton, married Noble B. Hannum. 
 She was sister of (429). 
 
 Wealthy Root, dniighler of (351). 
 She married Josiah Witt, son of (747), 
 in 1819. She died 
 
 Reheckah P. Taylor. 
 
 Sophia Smith, daughter of (756). 
 She married Nathaniel F. Dunton, son 
 of (582), in 1824, and removed her 
 church relation, with, her husband 
 (622), to Smyrna, Nov; York. 
 
 Eleanor Billings, daughter of Ben- 
 jamin Billings and his wife Sarah 
 (275). 
 
 Joseph H. Dwight, son of (636), and 
 grand-son of (197). He died 
 
 James Nichols, son of (344). 
 
 Horace Barnahy, son of (348). 
 
 Solomon Lincoln, son of (378). 
 
 Selden Borden. 
 
 Joel Davis. 
 
 1842 
 
 1850 
 
 1849 
 
 179 
 
 Ago. 
 
 40 
 
 51 
 
 43 
 
180 
 
 HISTOKICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. 
 
 John Hyde, son of John Hyde, re- 
 moved to the State of New York in 
 1825. He died about 
 
 Lewis Sahin, son of (590), a grad- 
 uate from the College at Amherst, in 
 1831. He studied Theology, and is 
 settled in the ministry in Templeton, 
 Worcester County, Mass. 
 
 Eleazer Oiuen, Jr., son of Captain 
 Eleazer Owen, and brother of (651). 
 He removed his church relation to the 
 church at South Hadley Canal, in 
 1824, and died in Granby a few years 
 afterwards. 
 
 Daniel Marsh, son of Timothy P. 
 Marsh. Timothy P. Marsh died Oc- 
 tober 1829, aged 62. 
 
 David K. Angier, son of (359), re- 
 moved to Amherst in 1831, and died 
 there soon after. 
 
 Mahitihel {Keith), wife of Elisha 
 Billings. 
 
 Louisa, wife of Vespatian Randall, 
 removed. 
 
 Elizabeth (Allen), wife of Horatio 
 Rice, and daughter of Edmund Allen. 
 She died 
 
 Mar ilia {Francis), wife of James 
 H. Clapp, and daughter of Rev. John 
 Francis, formerly of Pittsfield, Mass. 
 
 Deaths. Age 
 
 1830 
 
 1823 
 
 34 
 
 33 
 
CONGKEGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHEETOWN. 
 
 Names. Deaths 
 
 Esther {Bridgman), wife of Park 
 Holland, and daughter of (187). Park, 
 was a brother of (395). He died June 
 12, 1832, aged 51. 
 
 Oramel Walker, son of (410), re- 
 moved to Enfield. 
 
 Silas W. Hoioe. 
 
 Charles W. Parker, son of Thad- 
 deus Parker, removed to the South 
 Church in Amherst, in 1825. 
 
 Joseph Davenport, ) -r, , 
 
 ■\TT'/ er>^o^\ ? Removed. 
 
 Wife of (78o). ) 
 
 Sally Ramsdell, daughter of Joseph 
 Ramsdell. She married (790) ; a 
 second wife. 
 
 Wife of Reuben Blackmer. 
 
 Mary A. Thayer. 
 
 Col. Eliah Washburn, removed his 
 church relation to the chureh in Gran- 
 by, in 1823. He died, April 1838 
 
 Charles Washburn, son of (790). 
 He died 1825 
 
 Diana Morse, wife of (791), and 
 daughter of Daniel Morse. 
 
 Benjamin Billings, Jr., son of Ben- 
 jamin Billings and his wife Sarah 
 (275). 
 
 17 
 
 181 
 
 60 
 30 
 
182 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OE THE 
 
 Vambers. Names. 
 
 Fanny Ramsdell^ wife of (793), and 
 daughter of Joseph .Uamsdell ; sister 
 of (787). 
 
 Elijah Hannum, son of (33), and 
 brother of (757). 
 
 Wife of (794). 
 
 Hannah {Gates), wife of Dexter 
 Mellen, and daughter of Thomas A. 
 Gates and Margaret his wife (232). 
 
 Ahnira Toione, daughter of (353). 
 She married He v. Erastiis Benton, of 
 Tolland, (now in Norwich, Conn.) 
 in 1827. In 1823 she removed her 
 church relation from this church to 
 that in Granby. 
 
 Hadassa Howard, daughter of Silns 
 Howard. She morriecl Nathaniel 
 Hanks, son of James Hanks, in 1819, 
 and removed to Enfield. 
 
 George B. Woods, a native of Now 
 Braintree, son of Asa Woods, formerly 
 of that place, who died in Brookfield ; 
 was son of David Woods, formerly of 
 Marlboro' ; movod to New Braintree 
 early in life, and died there. 
 
 Asahel Dwight. 
 
 Charles Dunhar, son of Robert Dun- 
 bar and Betsey his wife (388). He 
 died 
 
 Deaths. Ago. 
 
 1832 
 
 73 
 
 1842 
 
 63 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHEETOWN. 183 
 
 Names. 
 
 Deaths. Ag« 
 
 Delia (Coicles), wife of Ezra "^S&wwi, 
 and daughter of (191). Removed by 
 letter to the church in Bolton, Conn., 
 in 1822. 
 
 Timothy Dimick. 
 
 Edward Morris, brother of Hon. 
 Oliver B. Morris, of Springfield. He 
 was from Wilbraham to this place. 
 Drowned 
 
 Mercy {Flint), wife of (804), and 
 sister of the late Rufus Flint, Esq., of 
 Monson. After the death of her hus- 
 band in 1824, she returned to Monson, 
 and died there in a few years. 
 
 Chester Gray, removed to Hadley. 
 
 Widow of Aaron Davis. 
 
 Samuel Dunton, son of (582), re- 
 moved to the church in Amherst Col- 
 lege, in 1825. 
 
 Widow EHzaheth Willson, 
 
 Wife of (751), died 
 
 Permelia Cook. 
 
 Laura Chapin, daughter of second 
 
 wife of (223.) She was Widow Cha- 
 pin when she married (223). Laura 
 died years since. 
 
 %-y 
 
 1825 
 
 1824 
 
 Wo^ 
 
 85 
 
 40 
 
 1846 
 
 73 
 
184 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 If umbers. 
 
 814. 
 815. 
 
 816. 
 
 817. 
 
 818. 
 819. 
 820. 
 821. 
 
 822. 
 822J. 
 823.' 
 824. 
 825. 
 
 826. 
 
 Names. Deaths. 
 
 Adelici Stowington, removed her 
 cliiircli relation to a church in Provi- 
 idence, E. I., in 1832. 
 
 Age. 
 
 . ) Brc 
 . } mo 
 
 Jacob Willis. } moved. 
 
 Sally Warner^ daughter of (235). 
 She married Lucius F. Newton, of 
 Monson, in 1826, and removed. She 
 died 
 
 Laura Alley, daughter of Mason 
 Abbey, married Zenas Warner, of Do- 
 ver, Vt., in 1827, and removed. 
 
 Hannah Bakeman, 
 
 Dorcas Freeman. 
 
 Jeremiah Gray. 
 
 (Peeso), wife of Harvey 
 
 Hawes, and daughter of John Peeso, 
 and sister of (454). 
 
 Wife of John Freeman. 
 
 A. Whitman, removed. 
 
 Releckah, wife of Aaron Davis. 
 
 Semantha Coivles, daughter of (191). 
 
 Isaac Pheljjs, removed his church 
 relation to New York, in 1823. 
 
 Ransom Howard, son of Silas How- 
 ard. 
 
 1828 
 
 24 
 
CONGREGATIOlSrAL CHTJECH IN BELCHEETOWlSr. 185 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Ago 
 
 From otJier Churches. 
 
 Electa {Moody), wife of (634), and 
 daughter of Ebenezer Moody, formerly 
 of South Hadley ; from the church at 
 South Hadley, Rev. Joel Hayes, 
 pastor. 
 
 Martin Woods, son of 
 
 the church in Whately, 
 moved there. 
 
 Electa, wife of (828). 
 
 White, wife of 
 
 (585), from 
 and again re- 
 
 White, and daughter of 
 
 formerly of Hadley ; sister 
 White ; from the church in 
 Hadley. 
 
 Reuben 
 -White, 
 of Jereb 
 South 
 
 Liicy (Merrick), wife of George For- 
 ward, and daughter of Samuel F. Mer- 
 rick, Esq., of Wilbraham; from the 
 church in Wilbraham to this ; the 
 grand-daughter of Rev. Noah Merrick, 
 the first settled minister of Wilbra- 
 ham. 
 
 Stephen Chandler, ) 
 
 Lydia his wife. / 
 
 They were from the church in Troy, 
 Rev. Jonas Coe, pastor. Removed to 
 a church in Northampton, in 1829. 
 
 Sally Nichols, from church in Troy. 
 
 17« 
 
186 
 
 HISTOmCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Nambers 
 834. 
 835. 
 
 836. 
 
 837. 
 838. 
 
 841. 
 
 842. 
 
 843. 
 
 844. 
 
 845. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Samuel Knight, > 
 Mehitihel his wife. } 
 From the church in South Hadley, 
 Rev. J. Hayes, pastor. 
 
 Nancy (Forbes), wife of (462), from 
 the first church in Brookfield, Rev. 
 Eliakim Phelps, pastor. She died 
 
 Amos C. Morse, ) 
 
 Wife of (837). / 
 
 From the church in Paxton to this 
 church, and were united to the Colony 
 church formed at Northampton, in 
 1831, and removed to Illinois. 
 
 Benjamin E. White, from the church 
 in Chester to this church, and remov- 
 ed to the church in Granby, in 1831. 
 
 Margaret, wife of Jeremiah Gray, 
 from the church in Greenwich, again 
 removed. 
 
 Elizabeth {Thompson), wife of Sol- 
 omon Shumway (730), from the church 
 in Brimfield. 
 
 1820. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Olive Hyde, wife of Clark Albro, from 
 the church in Monson, Rev. Alfred 
 Ely, D. D., pastor. 
 
 Betsey (Cornwall), second wife of 
 (723), from the church in Granville, 
 Rev. Joel Baker, pastor. 
 
 Deaths. Ag« 
 
 1843 
 
CONGKEGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 
 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. 
 
 1821. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Samuel. Clark, son of Samuel Clark, 
 and grand-son of (154), from the 
 church in Pelham. 
 
 Wife of (846), from the church in 
 Pelham, with her husband. 
 
 Josiah Moody, father of (634), from 
 the church in South Hadley, Rev. Joel 
 Hayes, pastor. He died 1828 
 
 Sarah {Clark), his wife, mother of 
 (634). 
 
 Capt. Ephraim Scott, from the 
 church in Ware. 1841 
 
 Wife of (850), died soon after her 
 husband. 
 
 Harriet Eveleth, wife of Frederick 
 Kilner, from the church in Enfield, 
 and in 1830, removed with her hus- 
 band (916), to the church in Barre. 
 
 Ann, wife of Eliphas Reed, from the 
 Baptist church in Leyden, and remov- 
 ed to the church in Enfield in 1824. 
 
 1822. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Stephen Andrews, from the church 
 in Pelham, and again removed from 
 
 187 
 
 Age. 
 
 80 
 
 83 
 
188 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 «56. 
 
 857. 
 
 858. 
 
 859. 
 
 860. 
 
 861. 
 
 862. 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. 
 
 this place, in 1827. His wife Bridget 
 died here in 1826, aged 63. ' 
 
 Lydia, {Ely), second wife of (724), 
 from the church in Wilbraham, Rev. 
 Ebenezer Brown, pastor. 
 
 1823. 
 
 Sybil {Billings), wife of David 
 Bartlett. She died 
 
 Sophia Briclgman, daughter of (550), 
 married George Filer, son of Gurdon 
 Filer and Hannah his wife (380), in 
 1824 and removed to Albany, to the 
 first Presbyterian church ; returned 
 back to this place in 1832. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Aurelia, wife of (459J), from the 
 church in Westhampton, Kev. Enoch 
 Hale, pastor. 
 
 1824. 
 
 Patty {Hannum), wife of Timothy 
 Works, and daughter of (757). 
 
 Sally Ingalls. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 John C. Marsh, from the church in 
 Montague, Rev. A. Gates, pastor ; re- 
 moved to the church in Lcverett, in 
 1826, from this church. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1843 
 
 66 
 
COXGEEGATIOXAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 189 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 John Spooner, chosen deacon in 
 1829 ; from the church in Heath, Rev. 
 M. Miller, pastor, and removed from 
 this to the church m Ludlow, Factory 
 Village, in 1846. 
 
 1825. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Ehenezer Barhour, from the church 
 in Ludlow, Rev. p]. B. Wright, pastor. 
 
 Thcoda, wife of (864), from the 
 same church. She died :1829 
 
 After the death of his wife, he re- 
 moved back to Ludlow. 
 
 Suhmit ( Wldo2v Rohinson), second 
 wife of Nathan Shumway, from the 
 church in AVilliamsburgh, Rev. H. 
 Lord, Pastor. Her husband, Nathan 
 Shumway, was suddenly killed by 
 falling on a mill wheel in rapid mo- 
 tion, in February, 1827, aged 52. 
 After his death his widow removed to 
 Ware Village in 1836. Nathan Shum- 
 way was son of Nathan Shumway, 
 who died in this town, December 30, 
 1818, aged 88. 
 
 Sally (Burden)^ widow of Josiah 
 Kenthcld, from the church in Enfield. 
 
 Nancy Forward, daughter of Justus 
 Forward, Esq. (731). 
 
 Caroline Forward, daughter of 
 (731). These sisters died within three 
 days of each other, in March, 1835. 
 
 1835 
 
 1835 
 
 66 
 
 32 
 
 30 
 
190 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 870. 
 
 871. 
 872. 
 873. 
 874. 
 
 875. 
 
 876. 
 
 877. 
 878. 
 879. 
 
 HISTOGTC.VL SKETCHES OP THE 
 
 Names. 
 
 Deaths. Age* ■■ 
 
 1826. 
 
 Solomon B. Hoivard, son of (691 J), 
 removed to Oakfield, lliinois, in 1848. 
 His wife was a member of the church, 
 and removed with him. 
 
 Luther Coivles. 
 
 Dexter Chase, son of (432). 
 
 Wife of James Went worth. 
 
 Mary (Strong), wdfe of Henry A. 
 Bridgman (460), daughter of (314). 
 
 Louisa Kellogg, died in South Had- 
 ley, in 
 
 Anna Nichols,, daughter of (344). 
 She married Daniel Giddings, of Nor- 
 wich, in 1827, and removed there. 
 
 Patty Phelps, daughter of (726), 
 married Alfred W. Hill. 
 
 Israel Towne, chosen deacon in 
 1829, son of (241). See Appendix E. 
 
 Anson Moody, deacon, physician, 
 son of Capt. Daniel Moody, formerly 
 of South Hadley ; a graduate of Yale 
 College in 1814; studied medicine 
 and entered upon the practice, and 
 had a successful practice in this town ; 
 removed to Ware Village in 1829; 
 removed from there to Connecticut, 
 
 1835 
 
CONGr.EGATIO>?-AL CHURCH IN EELCHERTOWN. 191 
 
 Names. Deaths. 
 
 and is now in practice in tlie city of 
 New Haven. He was chosen deacon 
 of this church in 1829. 
 
 Clarissa (Collins), wife of (879), 
 and daughter of Ebenezer Collins, for- 
 merly of South Hadlcy. 
 
 Maria {Filer) Avife of (666), avd 
 daughter of Gurdon Filer and Hannah 
 his wife (380). 
 
 Delia (Kelly), wife of (909). 
 
 Mary Ann Graves, daughter of 
 (459), married George Holland, son 
 of (395), in 1828, and removed to Ni- 
 agara, State of New York. 
 
 Penelope D. Graves, daughter of 
 (459), married Ashley Holland, son of 
 (395), and removed with her sister 
 (883), to Niagara, in 1828. (See 
 1 040) . Moved away, and moved back, 
 and again went away. 
 
 Esther Bliss, daughter of Timothy 
 Bliss and wife (713). She married 
 Almond Fisk, and removed from this 
 place to Shutesbury, in 1849. 
 
 Harriet Parker, daughter of Thad- 
 deus Parker, and sister of (784). She 
 married Mr. Whiting of Plainfield, 
 and removed there. 
 
 Louisa Dunhar, daughter of Azel 
 Dunbar, and grand-daughter of Rob- 
 ert Dunbar and wife (388). She died 1833 
 
 Age 
 
192 
 
 HISTOmCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 888. 
 
 889. 
 
 890. 
 
 891. 
 
 892. 
 
 893. 
 
 894. 
 
 895. 
 
 Names. Deaths 
 
 Lucretia Abbey, daughter of Mason 
 Abbey. She married Eli Barrows of 
 Brimfield, in 1833, and removed there. 
 
 Lucretia Bridgman, daughter of 
 (550). She died 
 
 Julia Ann Stebbins, daughter of (724). 
 She married Rev. David Perry, of Hol- 
 lis, New Hampshire, in 1837, and re- 
 moved her church relation to that 
 church. 
 
 Elizabeth Millard, daughter of Eli 
 Millard and Elizabeth hisNvife (402). 
 She married Ruel Thompson, of Fair 
 Haven, Conn., in 1837, and removed 
 there. 
 
 From other Churches, 
 
 Elisha Woods, from the church in 
 East Hampton, Rev. Payson Willis- 
 ton, pastor. He united with the 
 church formed at Northampton in 
 1831, to remove as a colony to Illinois. 
 
 Wife of (892), from the church in 
 Easthampton, removed with him. 
 
 Wife of Cotton Smith, from the first 
 church in Amherst, the daughter of 
 Samuel Smith of Amherst. She soon 
 returned to that place. 
 
 Widow Ephraijii Marsh, from the 
 church in Montague, and removed to 
 the first church in Hadley, by letter, 
 in 1827. 
 
 Age. 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 193 
 Numberi. Names. Deaths. Aj«. 
 
 896. 
 
 897. 
 898. 
 
 899. 
 900. 
 
 901. 
 
 902. 
 
 903. 
 904. 
 
 905. 
 
 1827. 
 
 Stephen Dunbar, removed to the 
 north church in Amherst, in 1831. 
 
 James Whitman, Jr., son of (434). 
 
 Polly {Pearl), wife of (727), and 
 sister of (649) and (372). 
 
 Lucy, wife of George Nye. 
 
 Emily S. Moore, daughter of Wil- 
 liam N. Moore. She married Joab 
 N. Squier, in 1827. 
 
 Dolly IV. Stthhins, daughter of 
 (724), married Luther Holland, Jr., 
 son of (395), in 1835. 
 
 Mary Fairbanks, daughter of (637), 
 married William Reed, son of (274), 
 in 1828. She died 
 
 He married again. See (932). 
 
 Minerva Randall, daughter of (369). 
 
 Caroline Daugherty, daughter of 
 of (509). She married Rev. William 
 M. Richards, settled in the ministry 
 for a few years at Bloody Brook, 
 (Deerfield). 
 
 Minerva Cowles, daughter of (272), 
 married Daniel Marsh, son of Timothy 
 P. Marsh, in 1833. 
 
 18 
 
 1835 
 
 27 
 
194 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 906. 
 
 907. 
 908. 
 
 909. 
 910. 
 911. 
 
 912. 
 914. 
 
 915. 
 
 916^ 
 917. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Deaths. Age- 
 
 Laura Sahin, daughter of (590), 
 married (1022) in 1829. 
 
 Rhoda Root, daughter of (351). 
 She died 
 
 Lydia WJiitman, daughter of (434), 
 married Amos L. Mason of Palmer, in 
 1837. 
 
 Alanson Stacy, son of (292). 
 
 Elijah Broion, removed. 
 
 Elijah Whitney, removed to the 
 Baptist church in Belcher town, in 
 1828. 
 
 George Holland, son of (395). 
 
 Emily Dwight, daughter of Samuel 
 D wight, married Horatio Brown of 
 Heath, in 1837; now (1851) resides 
 in Hatfield. 
 
 Melintha Leach, daughter of Peter 
 Leach, She married Henry Canter- 
 bury, and removed to Ware. 
 
 Frederick Kilner, removed in 1830 
 to the church in Barre, with his wife 
 (852). 
 
 Sophronia Bardwell, daughter of 
 Jonathan Bardwell, and grand-daugh- 
 ter of Capt. Jonathan Bardwell and 
 Violet his wife, removed. 
 
 1845 
 
 36 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHEETOWN. 195 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Ago. 
 
 From Other Churches. 
 
 Phehe (Chapin), wife of (863), from 
 the church in Heath, and removed 
 with her husband (863), to Ludlow 
 Factory Village, in 1847. 
 
 Maria [Flint), wife of Rev. Lyman 
 Coleman, and daughter of Rufus Flint, 
 Esq., of Monson, from the church in 
 Monson, Rev. Alfred Ely, D. D., 
 pastor. 
 
 Salome ( Thayer), wife of Zebulon 
 from the second church in Am- 
 herst, Rev. Nathan Perkins, pastor, 
 removed to the state of New York. 
 
 Dodge 
 
 Mary (Sikes), Avife of (1284), from 
 the church in Ludlow, Rev. E. B. 
 Wright, pastor. (1284), son of (256). 
 
 Wife of David Ruggles, from the 
 church in Enfield, Rev. Joshua Crosby, 
 pastor. 
 
 Martha Hamilton, mother of (836), 
 from the church in Brookfield, Rev. 
 Micah Stone, pastor. She is the 
 widow of Joseph Hamilton, formerly 
 of Brookfield. 
 
 Mary (SteUins), wife of (1121J), 
 from the church in Granby. 
 
 George Nye, from the church in 
 Roxbury, New Hampshire. 
 
196 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 926. 
 
 927. 
 
 929. 
 
 930. 
 
 931. 
 
 932. 
 
 933. 
 
 934. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Abigail (Phelps), third wife of Hor- 
 ace Gates. Mr. Gates died in 1840. 
 In 1847, she married (590). She was 
 from the church in Hebron, Conn., 
 Rev. L. Strong, pastor. 
 
 Mary Ann Bughee, from the church 
 in Granby, Rev. C. Chapin, pastor. 
 
 1828. 
 
 Mary (Kendall), wife of Nehemiah 
 Smith. She was from Ludlow, and 
 was daughter of Ruel Kendall, deceas- 
 ed, formerly of Ludlow. 
 
 Angeline (Dougherty), wife of Sam- 
 uel Brown, and daughter of (509). 
 She married Samuel Brown, in 1826, 
 and removed to the church at Ware 
 Village. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 Nelson Holland, son of (395). 
 died 
 
 He 
 
 William Reed, son of (274), (See 
 1098), second wife. They removed to 
 Crystal Lake, Illinois, in 1846. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Ansel Hotvard, from the church in 
 Bridgwater, Rev. Mr. Sanford, pastor. 
 He removed to Perrington, New York, 
 in 1839. 
 
 Hulda (Allen), wife of (933). She 
 died 1832 
 
 1829 
 
 25 
 
 45 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHUECH IN BELCHERTOWN. 197 
 
 Nambera, 
 
 935. 
 
 936. 
 
 937. 
 938. 
 
 939. 
 940. 
 
 941. 
 
 942. 
 
 943. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Ansel A. Howard, son of (933), re- 
 moved with his father to Perrington, 
 in 1839. 
 
 Harriet A. Howard, daughter of 
 (933), married Francis Dunbar, son of 
 (801), and removed to Perrington, 
 New York, in 1837, with her husband. 
 
 Samuel Brovm, from the church in 
 Ware Village, Rev. P. Cook, pastor. 
 
 Calvin A. Warren, from the church 
 in Hebron, State of New York> a prin- 
 ter by trade ; left here in 1829. 
 
 Caleb Walker, from the church in 
 Westford, Conn. 
 
 Mariam Foivers, from the church 
 in Westboro', Ilev. Mr. Rock wood, 
 pastor. Removed soon from here. 
 
 1829. 
 
 Lemira Ann Chapin, sister o{ (918), 
 married David S. Ames, son of (718), 
 in 1837. 
 
 Almira Ward, daughter of Ezra 
 Ward and Delia his wife (802). 
 
 Joseph Powers, removed his church 
 relation to Enfield, in 1831, by letter, 
 and his wife (945) also, and removed 
 their residence to that place. 
 
 18* 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
945. 
 
 946. 
 
 947. 
 
 948. 
 
 949. 
 
 1833 
 
 198 HISTOmCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Ag«. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 944. Sophronia (Tarhel), first wife of 
 (655), from the church in Brimfield. 
 She (lied. 
 
 Nancij, wife of (943), from the 
 church in Sturbridge. Removed Avith 
 her husband to Enfield, in 1831. 
 
 Elijah Chajyin, from the church in 
 Granby, Rev. C. Chapin, pastor. 
 
 Kersiah Toivne. See (353) and 
 (354). 
 
 Joseph Tonme, son of (353), from 
 the church in Granby. 
 
 Lucy, second wife of (530), from 
 the church in Northampton, Rev. S. 
 Williams, pastor, and removed with 
 her husband to Granby, in 1832. 
 
 1830. 
 
 Sarah Divight, daughter of (455), 
 married Dr. John Taylor, of New York, 
 in 1831, and removed there. She died 
 within a few years, in Michigan, where 
 she and her husband had removed. 
 
 950. 
 
 951. 
 
 Salome T. Dodge, daughter of Zeb- 
 ulon Dodge and Salome his wife 
 (920). She married Elii^halet Strong, 
 of Stafi"ord, Conn., in 1830, and re- 
 moved to that place. 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CIIURCII IN BELCHERTOAYN 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 952. 
 
 953. 
 
 954. 
 955. 
 
 956. 
 957. 
 
 958. 
 
 959. 
 960. 
 961. 
 
 962. 
 963. 
 964. 
 
 Names. Deaths 
 
 Daniel B^^oicn, removed to Illinois 
 with the colony church formed at 
 Northampton in 1831, united with 
 that church, and went with it. 
 
 Alfred R. Winter , son of Alpheus 
 Winter. 
 
 Lyman Walker^ son of (317). 
 
 Newel Upham^ son of Roger F. Up- 
 ham. 
 
 Jesse Randall, son of (369). 
 
 Jotham Randall, Jr., son of (369), 
 removed by letter to the church in 
 Spencer, in 1842. 
 
 Phincas C. Walker, son of (412). 
 He died. 1834 
 
 Aaron Walker^ Jr., son of (412). 
 
 Atlierton Ralph Owen, son of (651). 
 
 Elvira Owen, daughter of (651). 
 She married Henry A. Dwight, son of 
 Charles Dwight, deceased, and grand- 
 son of (197), in 1833. 
 
 Frances Owen, daughter of (651). 
 She died 1833 
 
 Electa Winter, daughter of Alpheus 
 Winter, died 1850 
 
 Harriet Millard, daughter of Eli 
 Millard. 
 
 199 
 
 Age. 
 
 21 
 
 17 
 
 35 
 
200 
 
 HISTOKICAIi SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. 
 
 Lyclia M. Keith, daughter of Jona- 
 than Keith. She married Edwin Ad- 
 ams, of Grass Lake, Michigan, in 1839, 
 and removed there. 
 
 Ann E. Bartlett, daughter of (601). 
 She died 
 
 Louisa Bartlett, daughter of (601). 
 She married Jonathan W. Beers of 
 Ware, in 1839, and removed there. 
 
 Cyrus S. Bartlett, son of (601). 
 
 Jacob Finley, married Clarissa How- 
 ard, daughter of (69U), (See 631), 
 first wife of (969). She died in 1838. 
 He again married her sister (1179); 
 she died in 1841. He again married 
 (1149). 
 
 Sherman Sahin, son of (590). 
 
 Theodosia Hoivard, daughter of An- 
 drew Howard. She married Mr. Bos- 
 worth of Westfield, about 1835, and 
 removed there. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Philetus W. Burnett, son of (573), 
 from the Green Street church, Boston, 
 Rev. William Jenks, D. D., pastor. 
 
 Abigail (Burr), wife of (972), and 
 daughter of Ansel Burr of Ludlow. 
 They were dismissed and removed 
 their church relation to the church in 
 Palmer, in 1841. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 1833 
 
CONGKEGATIONAL CHUKCH IN BELCHEHTOWN. 
 
 Names. Deaths 
 
 Solomon Marshy from the church in 
 Montague, and removed to the church 
 in Ludlow, (Jenksville), in May, 1847. 
 
 1831. 
 
 Hervey Hawes, son of John Hawes, 
 and brother of (453), removed with 
 his wife (821), to the church in En- 
 field, in 1833. 
 
 Roderick Dorman, son of Daniel 
 Dorman. 
 
 Orrich Willis, physician, son of 
 844, removed to Hardwick, procured a 
 change in his name to William H. Wil- 
 lis ; now (1851) a practising physician 
 in South Reading. 
 
 Anderson Wris^Ju. 
 
 201 
 
 Age. 
 
 Henry Stehhins, Jr., son of (745). 
 He died 
 
 S. Streeter. 
 
 David Rohhins. 
 
 Lucy M. Doolittle, daughter of 
 (647), by his first wife {555). She 
 married (992) in 1834; a second wife. 
 
 Lucy Stehhins, daughter of (430), 
 married (1100), son of (590), in 1837. 
 
 Caroline Stehhins^ daughter of 
 (430). 
 
 1837 
 
 19 
 
202 
 
 HISTOmCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 985. 
 
 986. 
 
 987. 
 
 988. 
 
 989. 
 990. 
 
 991. 
 
 992. 
 
 993. 
 
 1840 
 
 24 
 
 Names. Deaths, Age. 
 
 Emily Stehhins, daugliter of (430), 
 married (968), son of (601). 
 
 Lavinia Stehhins, daughter of (745), 
 married 0. M. Kendall of Palmer, in 
 1849, and removed there. 
 
 Harriet Stehhins, daughter of (724). 
 She married Rev. Ervin Carpenter, of 
 Littleton, New Hampshire, in 1846, 
 and removed her church relation there. 
 
 Ann E. Bridgman, daughter of 
 (550), married John S. Gould, of Al- 
 bany, in 1838, and removed there. 
 She died 
 
 Nancy Briclgman, daughter of (723). 
 
 Eliza Kenneday, daughter of (720), 
 removed her church relation to Os- 
 wego, Illinois, in 1848. 
 
 1831. 
 
 Almira Walker, daughter of (317), 
 married Salem Towne of Granville, 
 New York, in 1845, and removed her 
 church relation there. 
 
 Horatio Thomson, physician, son of 
 Dr. Gurdon Thomson, formerly of 
 Tolland, Conn. 
 
 Cordelia (Chapman,) first wife of 
 (992), and daughter of Col. Eliakim 
 Chapman, formerly of Tolland, Conn. 
 She died 
 
 1833 
 
 29 
 
CONGREGATIONA.L CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 995. 
 
 996. 
 998. 
 
 1000. 
 1001. 
 
 1002. 
 1003. 
 
 1004. 
 1005. 
 
 1006. 
 
 Names. 
 
 JosejyJi Bridgman, Jr., son of Jo- 
 seph Bridgman, Esq., and grand-son 
 of (200), removed to Iowa. 
 
 George Haives, son of (453). He 
 died 
 
 Susaii (Holland), wife of (799), and 
 daughter of Jonas Holland and Susan 
 his Avife (305). 
 
 Nancy Oiucn, daughter of Capt. 
 Eleazer Owen. 
 
 Mary Bridgman, daughter of (723), 
 married Samuel Kingsley, of West- 
 hampton, in 1832, and removed there. 
 
 Caroline Holland, daughter of Park 
 HoHand and Esther his wife (781). 
 She married (1030), son of (511), in 
 1842. 
 
 Mary Holland, daughter of Park 
 Holland and Esther his wife (781). 
 She married Mr. Fenn, of Lacon, Illi- 
 nois, in 1848, and removed her church 
 relation there. 
 
 Nancy Haices, daughter of (453), 
 married Franklin Dickinson, in 1832. 
 
 MaryM. Gilhert, daughter of (558), 
 married (954), October 16, 1839. She 
 died October 31, 
 
 Horace Stacy, son of Moses Stacy 
 and wife (703). 
 
 Deaths. 
 
 203 
 
 Age. 
 
 1835 
 
 1846 
 
 21 
 
 28 
 
204 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. Names. 
 
 1007. Francis Dunhar, son of (801), re- 
 moved his church relation to P erring - 
 ton, State of New York, in 1837. 
 
 1008. Philander Marsh, removed to Mon- 
 
 1009. Elijah Pratt, son of Capt. David 
 Pratt, who died in this town in 1806, 
 aged 66. 
 
 1010. Eldad Parsons Dwight, son of 
 (455), removed to Mississippi. 
 
 1011. Widow Esther Marsh, widow of 
 Timothy P. Marsh. 
 
 1012. An7i Livermore. 
 
 1013. Catherine Bughee, daughter of (482), 
 married Obed Newton, of Hadley, in 
 1836, a second wife; his first wife 
 (627). She died in 1835, aged 34. 
 
 1014. EUzahcth Root, daughter of (351), 
 married James M. Alden of Green- 
 wich, in 1834, and removed there. 
 
 1015. Elizabeth Strong, daughter of (464), 
 married Henry Shepherd of North- 
 ampton, son of Thomas Shepherd, 
 Esq., and removed there. She died 
 
 1016. Harriet Coioles, daughter of (341). 
 
 1017. Eliza Dwight, daughter of (515), 
 married Elihu Root, Jr. son of (511), 
 in 1841. Her husband, Elihu Root, 
 Jr., died in 1844, aged 34. 
 
 Deaths. Age 
 
 1847 
 
 30 
 
 I 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHUECII IN BELCHERTOWN. 205 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1018. 
 
 1019. 
 
 1020. 
 
 1021. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Mary Dwight, daughter of (515), 
 married Henry Mellen, in 1837. She 
 died 
 
 Mary R. Dioight, daughter of (636), 
 married Edwin P. Tucker, in 1835. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Asenath {Smith), wife of David 
 Lewis, from the church in Palmer, 
 Rev. T, H. Ware, pastor. They soon 
 removed to the State of Illinois. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 Second Wife of Ebenezer 
 from the church in Monson. 
 
 Barber. 
 
 1023. 
 
 1024. 
 
 1022. Ephraim Montague, fiom the church 
 
 I in Hadley, Rev. John Brown, D. D., 
 
 I pastor ; son of Jedediah Montague, 
 
 I formerly of Hadley, and died there 
 
 : August 19, 1824, aged 58. Jedediah 
 
 Montague was a lineal descendant of 
 
 Richard Montague, who came from 
 
 England to this country in 1640. His 
 
 son John had a son John, who had a 
 
 son by the same name, who was the 
 
 father of Jedediah. All of the name 
 
 of Montague in New England are sujd- 
 
 posed to be descendants of Richard as 
 
 their common ancestor. This family 
 
 early settled in Hadley, and were 
 
 among the first settlers of the place. 
 
 Laura (Sabin), wife of (1022), 
 daughter of (590). 
 
 and 
 
 Louisa (Towue), wife of Humphrey 
 T. Filer, and daughter of (353). 
 19 
 
 1847 
 
 32 
 
206 
 
 HISTOmCAli SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1025. 
 
 1026. 
 1027. 
 
 1027J. 
 
 1028. 
 1028J. 
 
 1029. 
 
 1030. 
 1031. 
 
 1032. 
 1033. 
 
 1845 
 
 37 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 Joab Bartlett, from the cliiircli in 
 Enfield, Rev. S. G. Clapp, pastor. 
 
 Charlotte, wife of (1025) from the 
 church in Enfield. 
 
 Warren A. Reed, from the church 
 in Chester ; resided here till 1842; 
 removed his church relation that year, 
 to the Edwards church in Northamp- 
 ton, and resided there till his death, 
 September, 
 
 Louisa {Lyman), his wife, daughter 
 of Col. Timothy Lyman of Chester. 
 She removed with her husband. 
 
 1832. 
 
 Eddy Shumway, son of (174). He 
 died 
 
 Betsey (Russell), wife of (1028), 
 and daughter of Jonathan Russell, for- 
 merly of Enfield. 
 
 Sylvia Chapin, sister of (918), from 
 Heath. 
 
 Harrison Root, son of (511). 
 
 Festus Moody, son of (634). He 
 died 
 
 John Davis. 
 
 Eliza Tucker, daughter of Jonathan 
 Tucker. She married Ezra Cary of 
 Enfield, and removed there. 
 
 1850 
 
 1832 
 
 65 
 
 24 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHUECII IN BELCIIEETOWN. 207 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1034. 
 
 1035. 
 
 1036. 
 
 1037. 
 
 1038. 
 
 Ntimcs. Deaths. Age 
 
 Ware ham C. Gilbert, son of (558). 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Ara Wright, from the church in 
 Ludlow, Rev. E. B. Wright, pastor. 
 Ara was brother of (446|), and son of 
 Cyprian Wright, formerly of Ludlow. 
 
 Wife of (1035), from the church in 
 Ludlow, removed with her husband to 
 Chicopee. 
 
 1039. 
 
 1040. 
 
 1041, 
 
 Hannah (Gay), first wife of (656), 
 from the church in Dedham, Rev. Dr. 
 Burgess, pastor. She died 
 
 1833. 
 
 Sarah Bridgman, daughter of Jo- 
 seph Bridgman, Esq., and grand- 
 daughter of (200). She married Mr. 
 Dixon of Delaware, and removed to 
 that State. 
 
 From other Churches. 
 
 Naomi T. ( Towne), wife of Silas 
 Howard, and daughter of (353), from 
 the church in Granby. 
 
 Penelope D. (Graves), wife of 
 (884J), and daughter of (459), from 
 the church at Niagara, New York ; 
 they removed back there soon. She 
 died there about 
 
 Louisa, wife of William Atwood, 
 from the church in Palmer ; remained 
 
 1849 
 
 1838 
 
 42 
 
 30 
 
208 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1042. 
 1043. 
 
 1044. 
 
 1045. 
 1046. 
 1047. 
 
 1048. 
 
 1049. 
 
 1050. 
 1051. 
 
 1052. 
 
 HISTOKICAL SKETCHES OE THE 
 
 Nmes. 
 
 here but a sliort time ; moved from 
 here, and died soon after, 
 
 Cynthia Nichols, wife of (767). 
 
 Margaret M. Blodget, daughter of 
 (384). 
 
 Mary Haniium, daghter of (757), 
 married Ward Woodbury, in 1844 ; a 
 second Avife. He married Amanda 
 Hannum, daughter of (757), for his 
 first wife. She died in 1843. 
 
 Adaline Hannum, daughter of (757). 
 She died 
 
 Deallis. Ag« 
 
 Polly, wife of Theodore Bridgman, 
 
 Jr. 
 
 Eliza {Clark), wife of Joseph Kel- 
 logg, and daughter of Eleazer Clark, 
 Esq., who died in this town in 1808, 
 aged 45. 
 
 Mary C. Root, daughter of (351), 
 married Thomas Marshall, in 1845. 
 She died 
 
 Oshea Walker, son of (412), remov- 
 ed to the church in Northampton, in 
 1842. 
 
 Anna Sahin. 
 
 Betsey ( Wright), first wife of Arte- 
 mas Owen. She died in February, 
 
 Wilmoth Phillips. 
 
 1843 
 
 1850 
 
 1838 
 
 33 
 
 45 
 
 32 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IX BELCHERTOWN. 
 
 Numbers. Names. 
 
 1053. Mary Ann (Kilner), wife of (1052). 
 
 1054. Chester Randall, son of (369). 
 
 1055. Jefferson Leach,soii of Peter Leach, 
 who died in 1851. 
 
 1056. Luther Holland, Jr., son of (395). 
 
 1057. Sarah S. Ames, daughter of (718). 
 
 1058. Martha Ann Walker, daughter of 
 (410). She died 
 
 1059. Philura C. Walker, daughter of 
 (317), married (1034), October, 1840. 
 
 1834. 
 
 1060. Lydia Gray, daughter of Jeremiah 
 Gray, married Jabez Preston of Gran- 
 by, and removed there. 
 
 1061. Elizabeth (Goodale), wife of (521), 
 and daughter of Moses Goodale. 
 
 1062. Betsey Howe, sister of (431), re- 
 moved. 
 
 1063. Emily A. Phelps, daughter of (462), 
 married Cordial Crane, in 1842. 
 
 1063 J. Stiles Hannum, son of (549J). 
 
 1063|. Wife of Stiles Hannum. She died 
 
 1064. Betsey L. Marshall, daughter of 
 
 19* 
 
 Deaths. 
 
 209 
 
 Age. 
 
 1840 
 
 1847 
 
 21 
 
 58 
 
210 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OP THE 
 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 (485). She married Albert C. Nasli, 
 of Canton. 
 
 1065. 
 
 1066. 
 
 1066^. 
 
 1067. 
 
 1068, 
 
 1069. 
 
 1070. 
 
 Julia Lucretia Toitme, daughter of 
 (878), married (1091), son of (727), 
 in 1844. 
 
 John G. Walker, son of (412), re- 
 moved in 1843. 
 
 Clarissa Morse, daughter of Daniel 
 Morse. 
 
 1835. 
 
 of Rev. Ja- 
 — Bigelow, 
 Conn. She died 
 
 Sarah (Bigeloiv), wife 
 
 red Pteid, daughter of 
 
 Esq., of Colchester, 
 at Tiverton, Rhode Island, where she 
 and her husband were residing, on the 
 11th of February, 
 
 She came recommended to this 
 church from the church in Reading, 
 where Mr. Reid had been settled in 
 the ministry before he came to this 
 place. (See notice of her historical 
 sketch, page 44). 
 
 Maria Gillett, daughter of Harvey 
 Gillett. 
 
 Luke Leach, son of Peter Leach. He 
 removed from here to Wendell, and 
 united with the church there, 
 
 Mary Walker, daughter of (427), 
 married Stephen J. Miller of Ludlow, 
 and removed there, in 1844. 
 
 1845 
 
 57 
 
CONGKEGATIOXAL CHUUCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 211 
 
 Numbers. Names. 
 
 1071. Esther Marsh, daughter of Timo- 
 thy P. Marsh, married Samuel F. 
 Ames, son of (718), in 1836. 
 
 1 072. Amanda Hannum, daughter of (757), 
 first wife of Ward Woodbury of Am- 
 herst; married in 1840. She died 
 
 (See 1044). 
 
 10 72 J. Mary {Barroios), second wife of 
 Elisha Abbey, from Brimfield. 
 
 1073. Henry P. Allen, son of (633). 
 
 1074. Henri/ J^- TF^^^'^^, son of (474), re- 
 moved to the church in Ashfield, in 
 1848. 
 
 1075. Edward Marshall, son of (485). 
 
 1076. Elon Walker, son of (412). 
 
 1077. David Lewis, son of Jesse Lewis of 
 Ware. He resided here several years. 
 Removed to Illinois in 1837. 
 
 1078. Abigail A. Sahin, daughter of (590), 
 married Dr. Willis. (See 977). 
 
 1079. Joan M. Allen, daughter of (633), 
 married Festus Currier, and removed. 
 
 1080. Cornelia Dorman, daughter of 
 (976). 
 
 1080 J. Betsey M. DooUttle, daughter of 
 (647), by his first wife {66^). She 
 married John Stacy, in 1838, a gradu- 
 ate of Yale College, son of (475). 
 
 Deaths. Age 
 
 1843 
 
 36 
 
212 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1081. 
 1082. 
 
 1083. 
 
 1084. 
 1085. 
 
 1086. 
 
 1087. 
 
 1088. 
 
 1089. 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 1835. 
 
 Harriet Gillett, daughter of Harvey 
 Gillett, removed. 
 
 Enieline Walker, daughter of (410), 
 married Theodore Chapman, of Hano- 
 ver, N. H., in 1835, and removed 
 there. 
 
 Malissa Toivne, daughter of (353), 
 married Ransom Howard, son of Silas 
 Howard. 
 
 Armina Cowles, daughter of (436). 
 
 Hiram Gilhert, from the church in 
 Ware, and soon removed. 
 
 Grace Stehhins, daughter of (745), 
 married Albert Moody of Granby, in 
 1849. Albert is son of Quartus 
 Moody and wife Mary ; she was the 
 daughter of (241). 
 
 Laura B. Stehbins, daughter of 
 (745). 
 
 Harriet M. Ames, daughter of (718), 
 married Francis Taylor of GranlDy, in 
 1843, and removed to the church in 
 Springfield, under the care of Rev. 
 Mr. Porter, in 1843. 
 
 George W. Gilbert, son of (558), 
 removed to the church at Plymouth 
 Hollow, Conn. 
 
Numbers. 
 
 1090. 
 
 1091. 
 1092. 
 1093. 
 
 1094. 
 
 1095. 
 
 1096. 
 1097. 
 1098. 
 
 CONGKEGATIOXAL CHUECH IN BELCHEKTOWN. 213 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 1099. 
 1100. 
 1101. 
 
 Daniel F. Phelps, son of (462), has i 
 connected himself with the United 
 States Navy ; has gone from us. 
 
 Tertius Cowles, son of (727). 
 
 John R. Shuimvay, son of (1028). 
 
 Emory B. Foster, dismissed and re- 
 moved. 
 
 Mary {Ames), daughter of (718), 
 married Estes Marsh, son of Timothy 
 P. Marsh, in 1832. He removed to 
 Tennessee. 
 
 Susan Ames, daughter of ( 7 1 8 ) . She 
 married Chas. W. Chapman, Esq., of N. 
 York, in 1838. He was son to A. Chap- 
 man, Esq., formerly of Southampton. 
 
 Benjamin F. Ames, son of (718). 
 
 Samuel F. Ames, son of (718). 
 
 Wife of William Reed, originally 
 from North Brookiicld — from Amherst 
 here. She with her husband (932), 
 moved to Illinois, in 1845. William 
 Reed's first wife, Mary F., died Nov., 
 1834, aged 27 ; his second wife, Eme- 
 line F., died April 1838, aged 20. 
 
 Sarah E. Walker, daughter of (473). 
 
 Lyman Sahin, son of (590). 
 
 John Bowdoin, son of William Bow- 
 doin, Esq., formerly of Ware. 
 
214 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1102. 
 
 11 02 J. 
 
 1103. 
 
 1104. 
 
 1105. 
 
 1106. 
 
 1108. 
 
 1110. 
 
 nil, 
 
 1112, 
 
 Names, Deaths. Age. 
 
 Ruth Warner, widow of Alonzo 
 Warner. 
 
 Elizabeth, wife of Elijah Hannum. 
 This Elijah Hannum is son of (794). 
 
 1836. 
 
 Sarah Donnan, daughter of (976). 
 She died 
 
 1837. 
 
 Fro7?i other Churches. 
 
 Mrs. Cowles, from the church in 
 Granby. 
 
 Catherine (Smith), wife of Thomas 
 M. Ferry, from the church in Granby. 
 
 Emily Holland, daughter of (395). 
 She married George Vining, Jr., of 
 Plainfield, and removed to New Bed- 
 ford, in 1845. 
 
 Wife of Andrew Howard, removed 
 to Oakfield, Illinois, with her son 
 (870). 
 
 Mary C. Holland, daughter of (395), 
 married (1092), in 1840. 
 
 Clarissa StehMns, daughter of (430), 
 married Henry Mather of Suffield, in 
 1851, and removed. 
 
 Mary Howe, daughter of (431), mar- 
 
 1837 
 
CONGREGATIOIS'AL CHTJRCH IX BELCHEETOWX. 215 
 
 Numbers. Namos. Deaths. Age. 
 
 ried Mr. Wells of Hartford, in 1845, 
 and removed. 
 
 1113. 
 
 1114. 
 1115. 
 
 1116. 
 
 1117. 
 
 1118. 
 
 1119. 
 1120. 
 1121. 
 
 11214. 
 1123. 
 1124. 
 
 Mary Ann Thayer, daughter of Job 
 Thayer, married Ambrose Dorman, son 
 of (976). 
 
 Eliza Burnett, daughter of (573). 
 
 Almira Randall, daughter of (1054), 
 married Philetus Kent. 
 
 Seth Walker, son of (635), removed 
 to Illinois in 1845. 
 
 Henry Hoioe, son of (431), removed 
 to New Haven, Conn., in 1847. 
 
 Charles Holland, son of Park Hol- 
 land and Esther his wife (781). 
 
 Ahier F. Toivne, son of (353). 
 
 Solomon H. Linnell. He died 
 
 Margaret B. Smith, daughter of 
 Giles Smith and Margaret his wife 
 (581). 
 
 Wright Bridgman, Jr., son of 
 (302). 
 
 Divight Bascom, son of Nathan Bas- 
 com and his wife (734). He died 
 
 Wife of George W. Kellogg. He 
 died in 1847, and she returned to Col- 
 chester, Conn. 
 
 1843 
 
 38 
 
216 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OP THE 
 
 NumWers Names. 
 
 1125. James S. Ames, son of (718). 
 
 1126. Malissa {Woods), wife of Moses 
 Goodale, daughter of Jonathan Woods, 
 and sister of (533). 
 
 1127. Caroline Kentjield, widow of Joel 
 Kentfield. 
 
 1128. Dianthy Stehhins, sister of (924), 
 married Mr. Thatcher, of Lee, in 1845, 
 and removed there. 
 
 1129. Clarissa Wasliburn, wife Henry 
 Bridgman, and daughter of (790). 
 
 11 29 J. Rox anna (Dunham), second wife of 
 (462). Her first husband was (431). 
 
 1839. 
 
 1130. Mary G. (Bliss), second wife of 
 Obed Smith ; her family name was 
 Gunn, from Montague. 
 
 1131. Mary (Raynolds), wife of Dara 
 Walker, from Hadley. 
 
 1132. /. Addison Joy, \ 
 
 1133. His wife, ] 
 Came here by letter from New York 
 
 City ; soon removed to Amherst, and 
 from there removed back to New York. 
 
 1134. Anna Reid, sister of Rev. Jared 
 Reid, removed. 
 
 1135. Etizaheth, wife of Josiah W. Priest, 
 from Erving. She died 
 
 Deaths. Age 
 
 1847 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 217 
 
 Deaths. Ag«. 
 
 Numbera. 
 
 1136. 
 
 1137. 
 
 1138. 
 1139. 
 1140. 
 1141. 
 1142. 
 
 1143. 
 
 1144. 
 1145. 
 
 1146. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Dorcas Montague, widow of Jede- 
 diah Montague, from the church in 
 Hadley. Her husband died in Had- 
 ley in 1824. She is the mother of 
 Deacon Ephraim Montague (1022). 
 
 Nancy (Bughee), wife of Lyman 
 Rice, and daughter of (482). She 
 died 
 
 Louisa, wife of Josiah Walker, Jr., 
 from the church in Palmer. 
 
 Aaron Davis, died soon after unit- 
 ing with the church. 
 
 Clarissa, widow of Whipple Bishop, 
 married Austin Billings. 
 
 Sarah Montague, daughter of (1136), 
 from the church in Hadley. 
 
 Mary {Hunt), second wife of (463), 
 from the church in Bridgwater, State 
 of New York. 
 
 Ruth A., wife of Luther Shaw, from 
 the church in Palmer. 
 
 Ebenezer W. Towne, son of (258). 
 
 Sophia (Haivkes), wife of (1144). 
 They were from the church in Enfield 
 to this church, and removed in 1842, 
 to the Presbyterian church, in Batavia, 
 Illinois. 
 
 Cloe {Hawkes), mother of (1145), 
 came and went with them. 
 20 
 
 1847 
 
 33 
 
218 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1147. 
 
 1148. 
 1149. 
 
 1150. 
 1151. 
 1152. 
 1153. 
 
 1154. 
 
 1155. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Jesse Williams, from the church in 
 East Douglass. 
 
 Eunice, wife of Jesse Williams, 
 from the same. She died 
 
 Esther Williams, daughter of 
 (1147), married (969), in 1843, third 
 wife, see (631). 
 
 Sarah D. Nichols, daughter of Ja- 
 cob Nichols. 
 
 Elizaleth H. (Reed), second wife of 
 (636). 
 
 Arahella, wife of Asher Towne, 
 and daughter of William N. Moore. 
 
 Emily {White), second wife of 
 (739), and daughter of Reuben White, 
 married Simeon Pepper, Nov. 9, 1826. 
 Admitted to the Brainerd Church, 
 October 4, 1838, at her house, being 
 unable to go abroad. The church 
 voted her admission. She died Jan- 
 uary 6, 
 
 Asahel Blodget, from the East 
 church in Amherst to the Brainerd 
 church, and with that church became 
 a member of the united church, in 
 1841. He died, October, 
 
 Wife of (1154), came with her hus- 
 band. Died 
 
 Deaths. Age 
 
 1845 
 
 1840 
 
 1846 
 
 1845 
 
 49 
 
 68 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOAVN. 219 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1156. 
 1157. 
 
 The foUoiving list of persons, fr 0711 Numbers 1156 to 
 1213 inclusive, united with the Brainerd Church, by 
 profession or by letter from other Churches than the 
 First Church in Belchertoion, luhile the Brainerd 
 Church had a separate existence, between August, 
 1834, and September 1841. Most of the members of 
 the Brainerd Church were from the First Church ; 
 their names are on that list. All the folloiving list, 
 living among us at the time of the union of the two 
 churches, August 31, 1841, became members of the 
 united church. 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 Beacon Elijah Amidon, > 
 Wife of (1156). ] 
 
 Deacon Amidon came from Hard- 
 wick to this place, in 1834. He was 
 a deacon in the church at Hardwick, 
 and after his removal here was chosen 
 a deacon in the Brainerd church, and 
 officiated in that church till the union 
 of the two churches, in 1841, and then 
 in the united church till he resigned 
 his office in 1850. 
 
 Mercy Amidon, daughter of (1156), 
 married Luther W. Burt, of Long- 
 meadow, November 10, 1842, and 
 moved to that place and died soon 
 after. 
 
 Martlia Amidon, daughter of (1156), 
 died in this town, of consumption, Ju- 
 
 John A. Amidon, son of (1156) 
 moved to Chicopee. 
 
 Ann Bridgman, daughter of (550). 
 
 Lemuel G. Bennett. 
 
 1158. 
 
 1159. 
 
 1160. 
 
 1161. 
 1162. 
 
 1851 
 
 30 
 
220 
 
 HISTOEICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1163. 
 1164. 
 1165. 
 
 1167. 
 
 1168. 
 
 1169. 
 
 1170. 
 
 1171 
 
 1172. 
 
 1173. 
 
 1843 
 
 23 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 First wife of Levi Burt, died 1838 
 
 Julia A. Bigelow. 
 
 Wife of John M. Bartlett, from the 
 churcli in Granby, moved away. 
 
 Charles W. Carter, son of Jacob 
 Carter. 
 
 Harriet Neivell Chamherlin, daugh- 
 ter of William Chamberlin, died 
 September 4, 
 
 William Chamberlin was son of 
 Walter Chamberlin. 
 
 Frances Jane Clark, daughter of 
 Eneas Clark and Prudence his wife 
 (603). Frances Jane married Dwight 
 Graves, Esq., in 1837, and removed 
 her church relation to Sunderland, in 
 1848. 
 
 Betsey B, Dwight, daughter of 
 (517) by his second wife (542). She 
 married Simeon R. Dwight, son of 
 (636), in 1840. 
 
 Susan Dwight, daughter of (517). 
 She died in South Hadley, of con- 
 sumption, in 
 
 Wife of Francis Dunbar, daughter 
 of (933), moved to Perrington, State 
 of New York, in 1839. 
 
 Wife of Charles Dunbar, from the 
 church in Perrington. 
 
 1844 
 
 22 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHUECII IN BELCHEllTOWN. 
 
 jers. Names. Deatha. 
 
 Clara Dwight, daughter of (515). 
 
 Delia Dwight, daughter of (515), 
 married Estes Sanford, son of Ichabod 
 Sanford and wife (371), moved to 
 Worcester. 
 
 Sarah Lorane Doolittle, daughter 
 of (647) and wife (648). Sarah Lo- 
 rane died of consumption, July 29, 
 
 221 
 
 Age. 
 
 David Fisk. 
 
 Irene {Howard,) second wife of 
 (969), died 
 
 She was daughter of Andrew How- 
 ard and wife, and sister of (631). 
 
 Second wife of John Filer, died in 
 April, 
 
 Electa D. Gates, daughter of Hor- 
 ace Gates by his second wife (599 J). 
 Electa D., married Pliny PI. White, 
 Esq., of Wardsboro', Vt., May 11, 
 1847, and removed there. They now 
 (1851) reside in Brattleboro', Vt. He 
 is in the practice of Law. 
 
 Wife of Nath'l D. Goodale, daugh- 
 ter of Asa Pease of Granby, and sister 
 of Deacon Asa Pease of Granby. 
 
 Charles H. Gilbert, son of (558), 
 removed to the church in Plymouth 
 Hollow, Conn., in April, 1843. 
 
 20* 
 
 1842 
 
 1841 
 
 1849 
 
 39 
 
 53 
 
222 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1184. 
 
 1185. 
 
 1188. 
 
 1190. 
 
 1191. 
 1192. 
 
 1193. 
 
 1194. 
 1196. 
 
 1197. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Deaths. Age. 
 
 Lorenzo T. Hoivard, son of (933), j 
 removed to Perrington, State of New 
 York. 
 
 Sally Kendall, second wife of (453), 
 from the church in Enfield. Her hus- 
 band (453) died in 1841. She re- 
 moved to Amherst in 1848. 
 
 Moseley J. Kendall, son of Kuel 
 Kendall, formerly of Ludlow. 
 
 Maria Kendrick, removed to the 
 church in Enfield, in April, 1842. 
 
 Heman E. Moody, son of (634). 
 
 Betsey G. Manly, married Mr. 
 Bates of Southampton, and removed 
 there in 1846. 
 
 Juliann P. Moore, daughter of Wm. 
 N. and Hannah Moore. Juliann died 
 September 12, 
 
 Mary Jane Maloy, died in August 
 
 Reed J. Oiven, son of Leonard Owen, 
 deceased, and grand-son of Capt. Elea- 
 zer Owen. 
 
 Martha Ann ( Whittlesey), wife of 
 Rev. George A. Oviatt. She was 
 from New Haven, Conn. She was a 
 lineal descendant of Rev. Chauncey 
 Whittlesey, formerly of New Haven, 
 a graduate of Yale College in 1738. 
 She died April 6, 
 
 See sketch of her, page 50. 
 
 1843 
 1842 
 
 1846 
 
 26 
 
 35 
 
CONGBEGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1198. 
 
 1199. 
 1200. 
 
 1201. 
 1202. 
 
 1203. 
 
 1204. 
 1205. 
 
 1206. 
 
 1207. 
 1208. 
 
 Names. Deaths 
 
 Second wife of Artemas Owen. She 
 was Susan Wright, sister of (1051). 
 She was widow Scott when she mar- 
 ried A. Owen. 
 
 Almira Pepper, daughter of (739). 
 
 Charlotte Pepj^er, daughter of (739). 
 She married (1184), and removed to 
 Perrington, State of New York, in 
 1839. 
 
 Sally Preston. 
 
 Sophia Richardson, wife of Nathan- 
 iel Richardson, moved to Windsor, 
 Mass., in May, 1847. 
 
 Louisa Richardson, daughter of 
 Nathan Richardson and wife (1202), 
 removed with her parents. 
 
 Warren Reed, from the church in 
 Chester, died 1840 
 
 Wife of (1204). She died in North- 
 ampton in 1844. (1204) and (1205) 
 were parents of (1027.) 
 
 Lucretia Shumway, daughter of 
 Elihu Shumway and wife (041). Lu- 
 cretia married Thomas H. Moody and 
 moved to Bernardston ; they now 
 (1851) reside in Granby. 
 
 Lydia Towne. 
 
 Lucy A. Wright, daughter of 
 (446|). She married Randal B. 
 
 223 
 
 Age. 
 
 59 
 
224 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1210. 
 1211. 
 
 1212. 
 1212J. 
 
 1213. 
 
 HISTOmCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 Blazedell, Nov., 1841, and removed to 
 Newton, Mass. 
 
 1214. 
 
 1215. 
 
 1216. 
 
 1217. 
 1218. 
 1219. 
 
 Mary Washburn, daughter of (790), 
 died in May, 
 
 Martha L. Washburn, daughter of 
 Charles Washburn, deceased. Charles 
 was son of (790). Martha L., mar- 
 ried (1221), January 22, 1845. 
 
 Henry A, Wright, son of (446f ). 
 
 Christiana [Haives), wife of (1212), 
 daughter of (453), and wife of (454). 
 
 Mrs, James Whitman, Jr,, wife of 
 (897). 
 
 1842. 
 
 George T. Goodale, from the church 
 in Amherst. 
 
 Lemuel G. Lloyd, removed to the 
 church in Pittsfield, in 1851. 
 
 Lydia {Baggs), wife of (1231), and 
 daughter of Henry Baggs. 
 
 William G. Ruggles. 
 
 Alanson D. Pcj)per, son of (739). 
 
 Henry St arks. 
 
 1835 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 225 
 
 ers. Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 Charles L. Washhurn, son of Chas. 
 Washburn, deceased, and grand-son of 
 (790). 
 
 Jonathan R. Keith, son of Jonathan 
 Keith. 
 
 James S. JVliitman, son of Marcus 
 Whitman, and grand-son of (434). 
 
 Delia {Chandler), wife of Calvin 
 Hitchcock, and daughter of Lemuel 
 Chandler, from the church in Brim- 
 field. 
 
 Eusehia H., wife of Jonas Melville, 
 from the church in Chicopee. 
 
 Susan H. {Barloiu), Avife of G. W. 
 Aldrich, and daughter of Wyatt Bar- 
 low. 
 
 1843. 
 
 Clarissa A. {King), wife of Solo- 
 mon C. Shumway, and daughter of 
 Dr. Rufus King, late of Ware, de- 
 ceased. 
 
 Pamelia {King), third yvite of (739), 
 and sister of (1226). 
 
 31ala Coioles, son of (272). 
 
 Hannah {Dorman), wife of (1228), 
 and sister of (976). 
 
 Elizabeth Bardwell. 
 
226 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1231. 
 1232. 
 1233. 
 1234. 
 
 1235. 
 1236. 
 
 1237. 
 
 1238. 
 
 1239. 
 
 1240. 
 
 1241. 
 1242. 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 Rufus S. Lincoln, son of (378). 
 
 Amasa Toivne, son of (878). 
 
 Christopher C, Simons. 
 
 Amos L. Mason, from the church in 
 Palmer. 
 
 Asahel H. Dorman, son of (976). 
 
 Elizabeth Montague, daughter of 
 (1136). 
 
 Sophia {Burnett), wife of George C. 
 Sanford, and daughter of (573). 
 
 Bathsheha {Sanford), wife of (1243), 
 and daughter of Ichabod Sanford and 
 wife (371). 
 
 Jane A. {Moody), wife of Harvey- 
 Montague. 
 
 1844. 
 
 Emily D. {Fuller), wife of A. L. 
 Gates. She was from the church in 
 Hebron, Conn. ; daughter of Erastus 
 Fuller. Esq., of Hebron. 
 
 Mary, wife of George Chandler. 
 She was from the church in Brimfield. 
 
 Sarah A. (King), second wife of 
 (1191), from the church in Suffield, 
 Conn. ; daughter of Mr. Seth King, of 
 Suffield, Conn. 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHTJECH IN BELCHERTOWN. 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths 
 
 1845. 
 
 Addison Burnett, from the chiircli 
 in South Hadley ; son of Arza Bur- 
 nett, of South Hadley ; his mother 
 was Polly Moody, daughter of Seth 
 Moody, formerly of South Hadley. 
 
 William Freeman. 
 
 Sophia A. (Cook), wife of Harrison 
 D. Dwight. She was from Hadley; 
 daughter of David Cook. 
 
 Moses Ames, son of (718). 
 
 1846. 
 
 Pamelia, widow of Warren Smith, 
 from the church in Storrsville. 
 
 Allen M. Mather, from the church 
 in South Deerfield. 
 
 Alonzo C. Blodget, from the church 
 in South Hadley ; son of (11 54). 
 
 Maria {Smith), wife of (1287), and 
 daughter of Sereno Smith, of Hadley. 
 
 Martha A. Clanci/, wife of Rev. 
 John Clancy, from the church in 
 Charlton, N. Y., and removed back 
 there in 1849. 
 
 Clarissa (Sikes), wife of Arba 
 Cleveland, from the church in Chic- 
 opee. 
 
 227 
 
 Asa. 
 
228 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1252. 
 
 1253. 
 
 1254. 
 1255. 
 
 1256. 
 
 1257. 
 1258. 
 
 1259. 
 
 1260. 
 
 1261. 
 1262. 
 
 1262J. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Achsali, wife of (1285), from the 
 church in Palmer. 
 
 Bulah, wife of (1283), from the 
 church in Prescott. 
 
 Lor en S. Allen, \ 
 
 Sarah [Mather), his wife, } 
 From the church in Whately. 
 
 1849. 
 
 Delia [Dwight), wife of Lyman L. 
 Smith. She was the daughter of 
 Henry Dwight, who died in this town 
 in 1841 ; he was son to 197. 
 
 William L. Montague, son of 
 (1022). 
 
 Mary J. Han7ium, daughter of 
 (1063 J). She married John Reynolds, 
 of Hadley, in 1851. 
 
 Julia A. Randall, daughter of 
 (1054). 
 
 Rosetta, wife of Caleb Walker, Jr., 
 from the church in Stafford, Conn. 
 
 Jonathan B. Woods, son of (534). 
 
 Harriet N. {Robinson), wife of 
 (1261). She was from Plainfield. 
 
 Edwin Co%des, son of (1228), re- 
 moved to Prescott, in 1849. 
 
 Deaths. Age 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 229 
 Hamberf. Names. Deatlis. Ag». 
 
 1849. 
 
 Maria, wife of Renselaer W. Walk- 
 er, from the church in Northampton. 
 He is son of (410). 
 
 Dorothy P., second wife of (1147), 
 from the church in Chicopee. 
 
 Harriet A. (Pope), wife of Rev. 
 Samuel Wolcott, from the church in 
 Longmeadow ; daughter of Jonathan 
 A. Pope, Esq., of Norwich, Conn. 
 
 1850. 
 
 Myron Laivrence, son of William 
 Lawrence, of Middlebury, Vt., and a 
 graduate of Middlebury College in 
 1820 ; a lawyer by profession. 
 
 Charles L. Warner^ son of Alonzo 
 Warner, deceased, grand-son of Titus 
 Warner, and great-grand-son, of (180), 
 which sec. 
 
 Phila A., wife of (1074). He is 
 son of (474). 
 
 tt,) 
 
 Fanny M. Pratt, 
 Caroline Pratt, 
 Mary S. Pratt, 
 Daughters of Elihu Pratt, and sis- 
 ters of (1276). 
 
 Emily S. Towne, daughter of (878). 
 She married Samuel D. Cowlcs, son 
 (727), Sept. 10, 1851. 
 21 
 
230 
 
 HISTOmCAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1273. 
 
 1274. 
 1275. 
 
 1276. 
 
 1277. 
 
 1278. 
 1279. 
 
 1280. 
 
 1281. 
 
 1282. 
 
 1283. 
 1284. 
 1285. 
 
 Names. Deaths. Ag« 
 
 Sarah T. B. Lawrence, daughter of 
 (1266). 
 
 Sarah Walker, daughter of (474). 
 
 Sophia D. Lawrence, daughter of 
 (1266). 
 
 James H. Pratt, son of Elihu Pratt. 
 Elihu is the son of Capt. David Pratt, 
 who died in this town, Sept., 1806, 
 aged 66. 
 
 Edward P. Blodgett, son of (1249). 
 
 Mary E. Allen, daughter of (633). 
 
 Esther H. Allen, second wife of 
 (954), from the church in Heath. 
 
 Josiah Cowles, son of (272), died 
 
 See Appendix M, 
 
 Betsey Smith, wife of (1280). 
 
 Jerusha (Bivight), wife of Lemuel 
 Randall. She was the daughter of Sam- 
 uel D wight, who was brother of (197). 
 
 Roswell Allen. 
 
 Orren Walker, son of (256). 
 
 A7nos Shaic, son of Solomon Shaw, 
 formerly of Palmer. 
 
 1851 
 
 58 
 
CO:fTGIlEGATIONA.L CHURCH IN BELCHEETOWN. 231 
 
 1850 
 
 M 
 
 Numbers. Names. Deaths. Ag: 
 
 1286. Mary C. {Stehbins), wife of Jonas 
 Holland, and daughter of (724). 
 Jonas Holland is son of Jonas and Su- 
 sanna (305). 
 
 1287. Francis Fonoard, son of (731). 
 
 1288. Freeman Alden, son of Daniel Al- 
 den. 
 
 1289. Harriet (Root), wife of (1288), 
 daughter of (511), and sister of (1030). 
 She died 
 
 1290. Marcia {Jepson), wife of (1055). 
 
 1291- Elhabeth, widow of Asahel Shum- 
 way. 
 
 1292. Alfred II. Hill. 
 
 1293. Ely W. Stebbins, son of (724) and 
 wife ^856). 
 
 1294. Ardelia {Cmvles), wife of (1293), 
 and daughter of (1280). 
 
 1295. Sophronia (Thomson) wife of War- 
 ner Pratt. 
 
 1298. £Zt2;a, widow of James Howe. 
 
 1297. Sarah J (Shumioay), wife of Albert 
 A. Atsvood, and daughter of Solomon 
 C. Shumway. 
 
 1298. Thomas Alden, son of Daniel Alden. 
 
232 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1299. 
 
 1300. 
 
 1301. 
 
 1302. 
 1303. 
 
 1304. 
 
 1305. 
 
 1306. 
 
 1307. 
 1308. 
 
 1309. 
 
 1310. 
 1311. 
 
 1312. 
 
 Namos. Deaths. As* 
 
 Juliann (Walker), wife of (1298), 
 and daughter of (427). 
 
 Caroline (Alden), daughter of Dan- 
 iel Alden. 
 
 Alonzo D. Randall, son of Lemuel 
 Randall. 
 
 Sophia Halves, daughter of (468). 
 
 Julia A, M. Bartlett, daughter of 
 (1025). 
 
 Kate E. Kellogg, dauojhter of Jo- 
 seph Kellogg and wife (1047). 
 
 Mary J. Sliumioay, daughter o: 
 (1028). 
 
 David B. Dwiglit, son of John 
 D wight. 
 
 Piatt T. Slaughter, 
 
 Charles L. Randall. 
 
 Russell S. Underwood, son of Rus- 
 sell Underwood and wife, Flavia S., 
 (1356). 
 
 Juliett Stehbins, daughter of (745). 
 
 Eliza C. King, daughter of Rufus 
 King. 
 
 Cordelia S. Shumway, daughter of 
 (1028). 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHUKCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 233 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1313. 
 1314. 
 1315. 
 1316. 
 
 1317. 
 1318. 
 
 1319. 
 1320. 
 1321. 
 
 1322. 
 1323. 
 1324. 
 1325. 
 
 1326. 
 1327. 
 
 Names. Deaths. Age, 
 
 Williams IV. Cowles, son of (727). 
 
 Edward F. Towne, son of (878). 
 
 Edson M. Walker, son of (1284). 
 
 Solomon Shumway^ son of Solomon 
 C. Shumway. Solomon C. was son of 
 Solomon Shumway, who died in this 
 town in April, 1819, aged 39. He 
 was son of (730). 
 
 Gilbert E. Walker, son of (1284). 
 
 William J. Holland, son of Jonas 
 Holland and wife (1286). 
 
 Chester Randall, Jr., son of (1054). 
 
 Emery P. Walker, son of (474). 
 
 Clara A. Dwiglit, daughtsr of Hen- 
 ry D wight, deceased, and grand- 
 daughter of ^197). 
 
 Sarah E. Towne, daughter of (878). 
 
 George M. Abbey, son of (656). 
 
 Eliza M. Woods, daughter of (534). 
 
 Mary J. Lincoln, daughter of Enos 
 Lincoln, Jr., and grand-daughter of 
 (378). 
 
 Mary E. Leach, daughter of (1055). 
 
 Juliette E. Walker, daughter of 
 (1284). 
 
 21* 
 
HH 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OE THE 
 
 Numbers. 
 
 1328. 
 
 1329. 
 
 1330. 
 
 1331. 
 1332. 
 
 1333. 
 
 1334. 
 1335. 
 
 1336. 
 1337. 
 1338. 
 1339. 
 1340. 
 
 Names. Deaths 
 
 Harriet A. Ahhey, daughter of 
 (656). 
 
 Emeline Randall , daughter of 
 (1054). 
 
 Af», 
 
 Mary R. 
 (1284). 
 
 Walker, daughter of 
 
 Edwin J. Nichols, son of (767). 
 
 Dtcight P. Clapp, son of James H. 
 Clapp, and his wife (780). 
 
 Phebe (Parsons), second wife of 
 (656). She was from Northampton ; 
 daughter of Elisha Parsons, deceased. 
 
 Lncinda M., w^ife of Rufas King, 
 from the church in Ware. 
 
 Elisha Pratt, son of Capt. David 
 Pratt, formerly of this town. He 
 died here in 1806, aged 66. 
 
 Lyman Rice, son of Horatio Rice, 
 and gand-son of (286). 
 
 Sophronia D. Bartlett, daughter of 
 (1025). 
 
 Maria Alden, daughter of Daniel 
 Alden. 
 
 Fanny E. Randall, daughter of 
 Lemuel Randall. 
 
 Pol.'y R. Walker, daughter of (473), 
 
Numl)ors. 
 
 1341. 
 1342. 
 1343. 
 
 1344. 
 
 1345. 
 
 1346. 
 
 1347. 
 
 1348. 
 
 1349. 
 1350. 
 1351. 
 
 1352. 
 1353. 
 
 1354. 
 
 CONGEEGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHEKTOWN. 235 
 Names. Deaths. Age. 
 
 Elizaleth Owen, daughter of (651). 
 
 Martha A. Shaw, daughter of (1285). 
 
 Mary M. Blodgett, daughter of 
 (1249;. 
 
 Martha M. Dickinson, daughter of 
 Franklin Dickinson. 
 
 Horatio Hol/anrf, son of Jonas Hol- 
 land and wife (1286). 
 
 Clarissa F. Woods, daughter of 
 (534). 
 
 Cynthia C, wife of Howard Up- 
 ham. 
 
 Sophia (Rice), wife (1336). She 
 was from Springfield, daughter of 
 Rice. 
 
 Sarah A., wife of (1267). 
 
 Ellen M. Marsh, daughter of (775). 
 
 Ecerett W. Walhr, son of Samuel 
 Walker of Springfield, and grand-son 
 of (317). 
 
 Mary Warner, \ 
 
 Ellen Warner, ) 
 
 Daughters of Alonzo Warner, de- 
 ceased, and great-grand-daughters of 
 (180). 
 
 Fanny W, {Pease), wife of Asa M. 
 
236 HISTORICAL SKETCHES, &C. 
 
 Numbers. Names. 
 
 Walker, daughter of Asa Pease of 
 Granby, and sister of (1182). 
 
 Doatbg. Age. 
 
 1355. 
 1356. 
 
 1357. 
 1358. 
 
 1359. 
 1360. 
 1361. 
 
 1362. 
 
 1363. 
 1364. 
 
 1365. 
 
 1366. 
 ]367. 
 
 Silence S. Walker, daughter of 
 (473). 
 
 Flavia S., widow of Russell Under- 
 wood, late of Granby. She was 
 daughter of Benjamin Stebbins, and 
 grand- daughter of (129). 
 
 Eiiza M. Willei/, from Granby. 
 
 Ephraim B. Hitchcock, from Wil- 
 braham. 
 
 Jesse 31. Williams, son of (1147). 
 
 Emily J., wife of (1359). 
 
 Rehecca JV., widow of Solomon 
 Shaw, late of Palmer. 
 
 Lucinda, third wife of Ashley Hol- 
 land, from Whately. 
 
 Eunice Smith, from Uxbridge. 
 
 Jason S. D wight, from So. Had- 
 ley, son of John D wight. 
 
 Margaret 0., wife of (1364). 
 
 Susan M. Woods, ) 
 Lucy C. Woods, f 
 Daughters of (799) and wife (998). 
 
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES 
 
 OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN COMMUNICANTS IN THB 
 
 CONGREGATIONxVL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN, 
 
 EKOM 1737 TO 1851, WITH THEIR NUMBERS. 
 
 Henry Abbey, 529 
 
 Mary" Abbey, 618 
 
 Elisha Abbey and wife, 6 55 944 
 
 1072^ 
 George Abbey & wives, 656 1037 
 
 1333 
 Laura Abbey, 817 
 Lucretia Abbey, 888 
 Jairus Abbott and wife 741 742 
 Chester Allen and wiie, 469 343 
 Abram Allen and wife, 633 709 
 Henry P. Allen, 1073 
 Joan M. Allen, 1079 
 Robert Ames' wiie, 333 
 Gideon Ames and wife, 728 646 
 Abel Ames and wife, 718 653 
 Sarah 8. Ames, 1057 
 Harriet M. Ames, 1088 
 Mary Ames, 10!''4 
 James Ames, 1125 
 Benjamin F Ames, 1096 
 Samuel F. Ames, 1097 
 Susan Ames 1095 
 Stephen Andrews, 855 
 Jos ;ph Angier &, wife, 359 360 
 Anna Angle.-, 545 
 Patty Angle , 543 
 David K. Angier, 776 
 John Atwood's wife, 706 
 Ekanah Atwood's wife, 575 
 Betsey Atwood, 702 
 William Atwood's wife, 1041 
 
 Jedediah Ayres & wife, 152 153 
 George M. Abbev, 1323 
 Harriet A. Abbev, 1328 
 Maria Alden, 1338 
 Thomas Alden & wife, 1298 1299 
 Freeman Alden and wife 1288 
 
 1289 
 Caroline Alden, 1300 
 Roswell Allen, 1283 
 William Albro, 663 
 Clark Albro and wife, 664 844 
 Loren S. Allen and wife, 1264 
 
 1255 
 Mary E. Allen, 1278 
 Eofcher 11. Allen, 1279 
 Elijah Amidon & wife, 1 156 1157 
 Mercy Amidon, 1158 
 Martha Amidon, 1 159 
 John A. Amidon, 1160 
 Moses Ames, 1246 
 G. W. Aldrich's wife, 1225 
 Albert A. Atwood's wife, 1297 
 
 Hannah Bakeman, 818 
 
 Phebe Baggs, 277 
 
 Sarah Baker, 654^ 
 
 Ebenezer Barber and wives, 864 
 
 865 10i!l 
 Joseph Bardwell, and wife, 66 67 
 Violet Bardwell, widow, 68 
 Martin Bardwell & wife, 418 126 
 J. Bardwell, Jr., & wife 233 162 
 
238 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Elijah BardTvell and wife 182 183 
 H. Bardwell's wife, 225 
 Haddassa Bardwell, 303 
 Electa Bardwell, 304 
 Martin Bardwell, Jr.'s wife, 417 
 Catlierine Bardwell, 486 
 Nancy Bardwell, 501 
 Oromal Bardwell, 678 
 Clarinda Bardwell, 6^5 
 Mary Bardwell, 696 
 Betsey Bardwell, AvidoAV, 715 
 Jonathan Bardwell, 753 
 Sophronia Bardwell, 917 
 Elizabeth Bardwell, 1230 
 Nathan Barnaby and wife 348 
 
 349 
 Horace Barnaby, 768 
 Sophronia D. Bartlett, 1337 
 Julia A. M. Bartlett, 1303 
 Cyrus Bartlett and wife, 601 602 
 David Bartlett's wife, 857 
 Cyrus S. Bartlett, 968 
 Joab Bartlett and wife, 1025 1026 
 Louisa Bartlett, 967 
 AnnE. Bartlett, 966 
 Nathan Bascom's wife, 734 
 D wight Bascom, 1123 
 Reuben Barton's wife, 168 
 Samuel Belknap and wife, 94 95 
 Jonas N. Belknap & wile 227 228 
 Benjamin Billings & wife, 64 65 
 Joseph Billings & wife, 102 103 
 Benjamin Billings' wife, 275 
 Elenear killings, 765 
 Elisha Billings' wife, 777 
 Benj. Billings & wife, 793 793^ 
 VV. Bicknell & wives 299 300 367 
 Whipple Bishop's widow, 1140 
 Reuben Blackmer's wile, 786 
 William Bliss' wife, 173 
 Esther Bliss, 885 
 Timothy Bliss' wife, 713 
 Asahel Blodget& wife, 1154 1155 
 Abner Blodgct & wife, 384 346 
 Mary M. Bloclget, 1343 
 Susan Blodget, 758 
 Alonzo C. LJlodgct, 1249 
 Margaret M. Blodget, 1013 
 Edward P. Blodget, 1277 
 
 Selden Borden, 770 
 JohnBowdoin, 1101 
 Noah Bowker and wife, 79 80 
 EbenezerBridgman& wife, 14 15 
 Joseph Bridgman & wife, 16 17 
 Jos. Bridgman & wife, 200 156 
 Oliver Bridgman & wife, 187 324 
 O. Bridgman & wives,723 563 845 
 Jos. Bridgman, Jr.'s wife, 440 
 Wright Bridgman, 302 
 Theodore Bridgman & wives, 550 
 
 3'i6 504 502 
 Sally Bridgman, 339 
 Ebenezer Bridgman & wife, 408 
 
 391 
 Jonathan Bridgman, 411 
 Wm. Bridgman & wif©, 457 458 
 Henry A. Bridgman ii wile, 460 
 
 874 
 Elijah C. Bridgman, 461 
 Mary Bridgman, 494 
 Sarah Bridgman, 1038 
 Lucretia Bridgman, 889 
 Theodore Bridgman, Jr., & wife, 
 
 667 1046 
 Sophia Bridgman, 858 
 Mary Bridgman, 549 
 Wright Bridgman, Jr., & wife, 
 
 112U 024 
 AnnE. Bridgman, 988 
 Nancy Bridgman, 989 
 Joseph Bridgman, Jr., 995 
 Mary Bridgman, 1001 
 Henry Bridgman's wife, 1129 
 Thomas Brown and wife, 46 47 
 Jemima Brown, 014 
 Elijah Brow^n, 9i0 
 Thomas Brown and wife, 451 452 
 Samuel Brown and wife, 937 930 
 Daniel Brown, 952 
 Nancy Bugbee, 1137 
 Nehemiah Bugbee, 482 wife 486 
 Mary Ann Bugbee, 927 
 Diana Burge, 760 
 Enoch Burnett and wife, 573 574 
 Stephen Burnett & wife, 598 599 
 Philetvis VV. Burnett and wife, 
 
 972 973 
 Eliza Burnett, 1114 
 
CONGEEGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHErvTOWN. 239 
 
 Addison Burnett and wife, 1243 
 
 1238 
 Freeman Burr, 296 
 Elizabeth Buxton, 429 
 Wm Buxton's wife, 445 
 Susan Buxton, 761 
 Ann Bridgman, 1161 
 Lemuel G. Bennett, 1162 
 Mrs. Levi Burt, 1163 
 Julia A. Bigelow, 1164 
 Mrs. John M. Bartlett, 1165 
 Catherine Bugbee, 1013 
 
 Josiah Carrier, 111 
 
 Philip Carrier, 112 
 
 Benj. Carrier's wife, 119 
 
 Thomas Chapin and wife, 48 49 
 
 Thankful Chapin, 50 
 
 Lydia Chapin, 51 
 
 Thomas Chapin, Jr.'s wife 82 
 
 Thomas Chapin, 244 
 
 Lebbeus Chapin, 7-5 
 
 Laura Chapin, 812 
 
 Lemira Ann Chapin, 941 
 
 Sylva Chapin, 1029 
 
 Elijah Chapin, 946 
 
 Stephen Chandler & wife,S31 832 
 
 Thi'oop Chapman & wife 210 211 
 
 Samuel Chapman 6c wiie, 365 366 
 
 George Chandler's wife, 1241 
 
 Elihu Chapman's wife, TlOi^ 
 
 Enos Chase and wife, 432 571 
 
 Timothy Chase's wife, 390 
 
 Dexter Chase, 872 
 
 Susanna Church, 699 
 
 Martha A. Clanccy, 1250^ 
 
 John Church's wife, 710 
 I James H. Clapp's wife, 780 
 [ Esther Clark, 413 
 I Caleb Clark and wife, 154 155 
 I Lydia J. Clark, 710| 
 I Joshua Clark, 392 
 
 Jane Clark, 414 
 
 Charity Clark, widow, 717 
 
 Caleb Clark, 754 
 
 Samuel Clark and wife, 846 847 
 
 Submit Clark, 415 
 
 Enea? Clark's wife, 603 
 
 Mala Cowies & wife, 1228 1229 
 
 Josiah Cowies, & wife, 1280 1281 
 Ardelia Cowies, 1294 
 Abel Clough, 264 
 Amasa Clough and wife, 208 209 
 Noah Clark, 6G5 
 Hannah Cleveland, widow, 552 
 Joseph Colburn & wife, 297 298 
 John Clough & wife, 596 597 
 K,ev. L. Coleman's wife, 919 
 Mary Colton, 611 
 David Converse & wife, 203 204 
 Ephraim Converse's wife, 544 
 Reuben Coats' wife, 220 
 Sylvester Cook, 669 
 Permelia Cook, 811 
 Mary Cowies widow, 53 
 Nathan Cowies and wife, 54 55 
 Israel Cowies and wife, 56 57 
 Moses Cowies and wife, 137 138. 
 John Cowies and wife, 85 86 
 Israel Cowies, Jr.'s widow, 212 
 John Cowies, Jr., & wife, 191 192 
 Josiah Cowies, 272 
 Abner Cowies' wife, 332 
 Joshua Cowies and wife, 341 342 
 Amasa Cowies and wife, 436 437 
 Enos Cowies and wife, 481 441 
 Kemember J. Cowies, 483 
 Ethan S. Cowies' wife, 608 
 Israel Cowies and wife, 727 898 
 Semantha Cowies, 824 
 Lvither Cowies, 871 
 Minerva Cowies, y05 
 Edwin Cowies, 1262J^ 
 Harriet Cowies, 1016 
 Arraina Cowies, 1084 
 Tertius Cowies, 1091 
 Williams W. Cowies, 1313 
 Mrs. Cowies, 1104 
 Stephen Crowfoot & wife, 71 72 
 Ebenezer Crowfoot's widow, 110 
 Cliarles W. Carter, 1167 
 Harriet N. Chamberlin 1168 
 Frances J. Clark, 1169 
 Dwight P. Clapp, 1332 
 
 Stephen Darling's wife, 177 
 
 Samuel Davis, 226 
 
 Levi David and wife, 743 744 
 
240 
 
 HISTOKICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Joel Davis, 771 
 
 Aaron Davis' widow, 807 
 
 Aaron Davis' wile, 823 
 
 John Divis, 1032 
 
 Aaron Davis, 1139 
 
 Joseph Davenport and wife, 785 
 
 786 
 Timothy Dimmick, 803 
 DrucUla Day, «U2 
 Samuel Daugherty and wife, 
 
 509 510 
 Caroline Daugherty, 904 
 Eliza Dodge, 424 
 Zebulon Dodge's wife, 920 
 Salome T. Dodge, 951 
 Mark Doolittle and wives, 647 
 
 555 648 
 Lucv M. Doolittle, 982 
 Betsey M. Doolittle, 1080^ 
 Martin Domer's wiie, 81 
 Roderick Dorman & wife 976 610 
 Sally Dorman, 732 
 Cornelia Dorman, 108 
 Sarah Dorman, 1103 
 Robert Dunbar's Avife, 388 
 Charles Dunbar & wife, 801 567 
 AmasaDunton and wife, 582 583 
 Lois Dunton, 496 
 Stephen Dunbar, 896 
 Francis Dunbar, 1007 
 Louisa Dunbar, 887 
 Roxana Dunham 1129^ 
 Marilla Dunton, 497 
 Chauncey Dunton, &21 
 Nathaniel F. Dunton, 622 
 Samuel Dunton, 808 
 Martha M. Dickinson 1344 
 Sarah Lorane Doolittle, 1176 
 As ah el H. Dorman, 1235 
 Francis Dunbar's wife, 1172 
 Charles Dunbar's wife, 1173 
 Betsey B. D wight, 1170 
 Susan D wight, 1171 
 Clara D wight, 1174 
 Delia Dwight, 1175 
 Nathaniel Dwight, and wife 42 43 
 Pliny Dwights wife, 196 j 
 
 Hcnrv Dwight and wile, 197 198 : 
 Elijah Dwight and wife, 215 216 \ 
 
 Clairssa Dwight, 273 
 
 Nancy Dwight, 321 
 
 Susan Dwight, 376 
 
 Simeon Dwight and wives, 636 
 
 421 1151 
 Lydia Dwight, 443 
 Jonathan Dwight and wife, 455 
 
 456 
 Nath'l Dwight & wife, 515 516 
 Justus Dwight Jr. & wives 517 
 
 518 542 
 Clarissa Dwight, 548 
 Peregrine DAvight, 679 
 Nancy Dwight, 692 
 Joseph II. U wight, 766 
 Emily Dwight, 914 
 Asahel Dwight, 800 
 Harrison D. Dwight's wife, 1245 
 Sarah Dwight, 950 
 EldadP. Dwight, 1010 
 Eliza DAvight, 1017 
 Mary Dwight, 1018 
 Mary Rice DAvight, 1019 
 Delia DAvight 1256 
 DaA'id B. DAvight, 1306 
 Clara A. DAvight, 1321 
 Jason L. Dwight, & wife 1364 
 
 1235 
 
 Mars on Eaton's AA'idoAV, 176 
 Robert Emmons 285 
 
 David Fairbanks & wife, 637 572 
 
 Mary Fairbanks, 902 
 
 Walter Fairfield and wife, 21 22 
 
 Stephen Fairtield and Avife, 23 24 
 
 Mary FairHeld, 101 
 
 Thaddeus Fairfield and Avife, 148 
 
 149 
 Amasa Fairfield, & wife, 397 398 
 Silas Farrington, t)75 
 Poliy Farrington, 733 
 Amos Farrington & Avife, 735 736 
 Varney FelloAvs, 553 
 Gurdon File 's AvLfe, 380 
 John Filer's Avife 1180 
 Humphrey T. Filer's Avife, 1024 
 Barnabas Fay, 206 
 Thomas M. Ferry's wife, 1106 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 241 
 
 Jacob Finlev and wives, 969 631 
 
 1149 1179 
 Almira Fisher, 628 
 David Fisk, 1178 
 Joseph Fisher, 234 
 Salem Fisher, 53S 
 Aldana Fisher, 539 
 Rev. Justus Forward's wife, 122 
 Justus Forward Jr. and wile, 
 
 731 325 
 Eunice Forward, 389 
 George Forward's wife, 830 
 Nancy Forward, 867 
 Caroline Forward, 868 
 Mary Ford, 69 1 
 Emery B. Foster, 1093 
 Dorcas Freeman, 819 
 John Freeman's wife, 822 
 Abel Fuller, 755 
 Josiah Fox and wife, 556 557 
 William Freeman, 1244 
 Francis Forward & wife, 1287 
 
 1250 
 
 Emily D. Gates, 1240 
 Electa D. Gates, 1181 
 Nathaniel D . Goodale' s wife, 1182 
 Thomas A. Gates' wife, 232 
 Horace Gates' wives, 5994 926 
 John Gilbert and wife, 319;^ 319| 
 Samuel Gilbert 399 
 George Gilbert & wife, 558 559 
 Mary M. Gilbert, 1005 
 Wareham C. Gilbert, 1034 
 Hiram Gilbert, 1085 
 George W. Gilbert, 1089 
 Charles H. Gilbert, 1183 
 Maria Gillett, lOOa 
 Harriet Gillett 1081 
 Nathaniel Goodell's wife, 214 
 Moses Goodale & wife, 640 1126 
 George T. Goodale 1214 
 Thomas Goodale's wife, 602 
 Elizabeth Goodale, 1061 
 Jonathan Graves and wife, 12 13 
 Thomas Graves & wife, 60 61 
 Jolm Graves, 62 
 Lydia Graves 63 493 
 Joseph Graves' wife, 131 
 
 22 
 
 Electa Graves, 253 
 
 Perez Graves, 259 
 
 Susanna Graves, 267 
 
 Josiah D. Graves & wife, 459 338 
 
 Sarah Graves, widow, 419 
 
 Joseph Graves & wife,459i 859 
 
 Mary Ann Graves, 883 
 
 Penelope Graves, 884 
 
 Chester Gray, 806 
 
 Jeremiah Gray and wife, 820 842 
 
 Lydia Gray, I 060 
 
 Joel Green's wife, 213 
 
 Jedediah Green's wife, 368 
 
 Lucy Hamilton, 543 
 Martha Hamilton, widow, 923 
 Mary Ilannum, widow, 26 
 Samuel Hannum and wife, 27 28 
 Moses Ilannum and wife, 29 30 
 
 and 5494 549:1 
 Aaron Hannum and wife, 31 32 
 Gideon Hannum, 33 
 Eunice Hannum, 207 
 Solomon Hannum & wife,217 218 
 Mary Hannum, 219 
 Abia Hannum, 466 
 Oliver Hannum, 520 
 Gamaliel Hannum, 521 
 Mercy M. Hannum, 522 
 Stiles Hannum and wife, 1083^ 
 
 1063^ 
 Mary Hannum, widow, 716 
 Phineas Hannum & wife, 737 738 
 Daiiie' Hannum, 757 
 Elijah Hannum and wife, 794 
 
 795, 1102.^ wife of Elijah 
 
 Hannum, 2d. 
 Mary Hannum, 1044 
 Adaline Hannum 1045 
 Mary J. Hannum, 1 258 
 Amanda Hannum, 1072 
 Judith Hatch, 422 
 Harris Hatch and wife, 381 382 
 Polly Hatch, 401 
 Herman llawes & wives, 453 454 
 
 1185 
 John Hawes and wife, 468 638 
 Harvey Hawes and wile 975 821 
 George Hawes, 996 
 
242 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Sophia Hawes, 1802 1 
 
 Nancy Hawes, 1604 I 
 
 Leavett Havens & wife, 386 3f 7 
 Cloe Hawkes, 1146 
 Benjamin Haynes' wife, 310 
 Luther Holland and wives, 395 
 
 396 416 
 Alfred H. Hill, 1292 
 Calvin Hitchcock's Avife, 1223 
 Ephraim Plitchcock, 1358 
 HarrisonHolland ^S:wi^e, 4T9 480 
 Jonas Holland's wife, 305 
 Jonas Holland's wife, 1286 
 Dr William Holland and wives, 
 
 334 335 442 
 Nelson Holland,9 31 
 Sophia Holland, 591 
 Maria Holland, 592 
 
 William Holland, 620 
 Park H'. Hand's wife, 781 
 
 Ge.rge Holland, 912 
 
 Caroline Holland, 1002 
 
 Mary Holland, 1003 
 
 Ashlev Holland and wives, 884.^ 
 1362 1040 
 
 Luther Holland, Jr , 1056 
 
 Emily Holland, IK '6 
 
 Mary C. Holland, 1110 
 
 William J Holland, 1318 
 
 Charles Holland 1118 
 
 Horatio Holland, 1345 
 
 Diana Howard, 507 
 
 Sally Howard, 508 
 
 Clarissa Howard (609) also (631) 
 
 And'w Howard &: wife 69 1^ 1108 
 
 Chauncey Howard, 729 
 
 Haddassa Howard, 798 
 
 Lorenzo T. Howard, 1184 
 
 Ransom Howard and wife, 826 
 1083 
 
 Solomon B. Howard, 870 & wife 
 
 Ansel Howard & wife 933 934 
 
 Ansel H. Howard, 935 
 
 Harriet A. Howard, 936 
 
 Theodotia HoAvard, 971 
 
 Naomi T. H ward, 1039 
 
 Elijah Howe and wives, 135 130 
 170 
 
 Mary Howe, 1112, 
 
 Henry Howe, 1117 
 Eliza^Howe 1296 
 Sylvanus Howe's wife, 151 
 Dr. Estes Howe's wife, 199 
 Benj. Howe and Avife, 431 494 
 Harriett Howe, 489 
 Silas W. Howe, 783 
 Betsey HoAve, 1062 
 John Hunt's Avife, 708 
 Amanda Hunt, 606 
 Abner Hunt and Avifc, 294 295 
 William VV. Hunt, 465 
 John Hunt 3d, 484 
 Ilebeckah Hunt, 499 
 John Hvdes Avidow, 404 
 John Hyde, 772 
 
 Samuel Lagalls, 513 
 Clarissa Ingalls, 514 
 Willis Ingalls, 568 
 Sally Ingalls, 861 
 
 Col. Jones' AAife, 600 
 
 J. Addison Joy and wife, 1132 
 
 1133 
 Mercia Jepson, 1^90 
 
 Moseley J. Kendall, 1188 
 
 Maria Kendrick 1190 
 
 Lydia M. Keith, 965 
 
 Louisa Kellogg, 875 
 
 Eliza Kellogg, 1047 
 
 Joseph Kenneday and Avi\'es, 720 
 
 4o0 444 
 Eliza Kenneday, 990 
 Salmon Kenttield's wife 123 
 VVm. Kenttield and Avife, 140 14 
 Kufus Kenttield, 255 
 Widow Mary Kenttield, 184 
 David Kenttield and Avife, 29 
 
 291 
 Josiah Kentfield's AA^dow, 
 Eliza C. King, 1311 
 Jonathan 11. Keith and Avife, 1221 
 
 1211 
 Triphena Kentfield, 495 
 Caroline Kentfield, 1127 
 Benj. Kilbourn & Avife, 405 406 
 Moses KUbourn's Avife, 447 
 
 i 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 243 
 
 Frederick Kilner & wife 916 852 
 
 Joanna Kimball, 698 
 
 Henry K. Knapp, 62o 
 
 Samuel Knight & wife, 834 835 
 
 Kate E. Kellogg, 1304 
 
 Rufus King's wife, 1334 
 
 G. W. Kellogg's wife, 1124 
 
 Melintha Leach, 915 
 
 JeiFerson Leach, 1055 
 
 Luke Leach, 1069 
 
 Mary E. Leach, 1326 
 
 Eunice Leach, 700 
 
 Submit Lewis, 236 
 
 DaAdd Lewis & wife, 1077 1020 
 
 Enos Lincoln and wife, 378 379 
 
 Densey Lincoln, 705 
 
 Solomon Lincoln, 768i 
 
 Solomon H. Linnell, 1120 
 
 Lemviel G Lloyd, 1215 
 
 Ann Livermore, 1012 
 
 Jonathan Lumbard's wife, 122^ 
 
 John Lombard's wife, 8rt 
 
 Aaron Ln-'u.v;! and wife, 3 4 
 
 Josiah Lymi:i and wife, 12190 
 
 Aaron Lyman, 230 
 
 Sophia Lyman, 231 
 
 Giles Lyman and Avife 249 319 
 
 Jonathan Lyman, 261 
 
 John Lemon's Avife, 654 
 
 Samuel Lemon and wife, 425 426 
 
 Lydia Lemon, 561 
 
 llufus S. Lincoln and wife 1231 
 
 1216 
 Mary J. Lincoln, 1325 
 Mvron Lawrence, 1236 Avife 548 
 Sarah T U. Lawrence, 1273 
 Sophia D. LaAvrence, 1275 
 
 Allen M. Mather, 1248 
 
 Chloe .viahulan, 268 
 
 Daniel Marsh, 775 
 
 Estes Marsh, 676 
 
 Prudence Marsh, 547 
 
 John C. Marsh, 862 
 
 Solomon Marsh, 074 
 
 Esther Marsh, Avid. 1011 & 1071 
 
 Ellen M. Marsh, 1350 
 
 Philander Marsh, 1008 
 
 Esther Marsh, 1071 
 
 John Marshall and Avife 374, 375 
 Jno. Marshall, Jr., 435, wile, 490 
 Betsey Marshall, 506 
 Eliza Marshall, 542 
 Betsey L. Marshall, 1064 
 Edward Marshall, 1075 
 Henry Mellen's Avife, 566 
 Dexter Mellen's wife, 796 
 Hannah Melvin, 265 
 Eli Millard's wife, 402 
 Elizabeth Millard, 891 
 Harriet Millard, 964 
 Ephraim Montague and wife, 
 
 1022, 1023 
 Dorcas Montague, 1136 
 Sarah Montague, 1141 
 Elizabeth Montague, 1236 
 Joanna Moody, 117 
 Jerusha Moody, 118 
 Ebenezer Moody and ATives, 120, 
 
 121, 169 
 Elijah Moody and wife, 144, 145 
 Heman Moody and wife, 634, 827 
 Festus Moody, 1031 
 Josiah Moody and wife, 848, 849 
 Anson Moody and wife, 879, 880 
 Emily S. Moore, 900 
 Benjamin Morgan, 52, Avife, 161, 
 
 son's AA'ife, 355 
 EdAvard Morris and Avife, 804, 805 
 Heman E. Moody and wile, 1191, 
 
 2dAAd1e,1242 
 Juliann Moore, 1193 
 Mary Jane Maloy, 1194 
 Elizabeth Morse, 333 
 Alvan Morse and Avife, 681, 519 
 Amos C. Morse and wife, 837, 838 
 Clarissa Morse, lOGb.^ 
 Kphraim Marssh's AvidoA\', 895 
 Jonas Melvill's AA'iJe, 1224 
 Am.os L. Mason, 1234 
 Harvey Montague's wife, 1239 
 William L. Montague, 1257 
 Betsey G. Manly, 1192 
 
 Francis NeAvton and wife, 97, 98 
 Stephen Newton's wives, 134,281 
 Asa Newton and wife, 142, 143 
 KUjah Nichols and Aviie, 344, 345 
 Mary Nichols, 4«7 
 
244 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Sally Nichols, 522^ and also 833 
 Lucy Nichols, 562 
 Lydia Nichols, 682 
 James Nichols and wife, 767,1012 
 Anna Nichols, 876 
 Sarah D. Nichols, 1150 
 Edwin J. Nichols, 1331 
 George Nye and wife, 925, 899 
 
 Elizabeth Owen, 1341 
 
 Ralph Owen and wife, 651, 652 
 
 Eleazer Owen, Jr. 774 
 
 A. Ralph Owen, 980 
 
 Elvira Owen, 961 
 
 Prances Owen, 962 
 
 Artemas Owen's wives, 1051, 2d 
 
 wife 1198 
 Nancy Owen, 1000 
 Reed J. Owen, 1196 
 Mrs. M. A. Onatt, 1197 
 
 EHjah Parker, 133 
 
 Roxana Parker, 185 
 
 Tabitha Parker, 190 
 
 Charles W. Parker, 784 
 
 Philo Parsons' wife, 595 
 
 Nathan Parsons and wife, 38, 69 
 
 Eldad Parsons and wife, 223, 224 
 
 Oliver Parsons, 250 
 
 Rock Parsons, 472 
 
 Malissa Parsons, 503 
 
 Horatio A. Parsons, 569 
 
 John M. Pearl and wife, 372, 373 
 
 Betsey Pearl, 560 
 
 Augustine Payne and wife, 579, 
 
 579i 
 Lemuel Payne's wife, 333 
 Harriet Parker, 886 
 Experience Parsons, 704 
 Hazo Parsons' wife, 707 
 Gould Parsons, 719 
 Timothy Pearl and wife, 649, 650 
 Samuel H. Peckham, 65 4 J 
 Almira Pepper, 1199 
 Simeon Pepper & wives, 739, 740, 
 
 1153, 1227 
 Charlotte Pepper, 1200 
 Paul Pettingale's wife, 446i 
 
 Jemima Preston, 593, 
 
 Samuel K. Prebton and wife, 749 
 
 750 
 Sally Preston, 1201 
 Alanson U Pepper, 1218 
 Josei)h Phelps and wife, 34, 35 
 EHakim Phelps and wife, 36, 37 
 Abigail Phelps, 89 
 Joseph Phelps, Jr.'s wife, 106 
 Aaron Phelps and wile, 115, 116 
 William Phelps, 166 
 Eliakim Phelps and wife, 222,193 
 Abner Fhelps, 340 
 Deborah Phelps, 363 
 Dudley Phelps and wife, 470, 377 
 Dudley Phelps, 2d, 471 
 Daniel Phelps and wife, 462, 836 
 
 2d wife, 1129i 
 William Phelps and wife, 463, 
 
 712, 2d wife, 1142 
 Diana Phelps, 498 
 Lucinda Phelps, 524 
 Eliakim Phelps, Jr., 570 
 Noah Phelps and wife, 726, 587 
 Sally Phelps, 'U5 
 Cynthia Pheli.s, 617 
 Rosina Phelps, 616 
 Benj. Phelps and wife, 751, 810 
 Isaac Phelps, 825 
 Patty Phelps, 877 
 Emily A. Phelps, 1063 
 Daniel P. Phelps, 1090 
 Wilmoth PhilHps and wife, 1052, 
 
 1053 
 Rev. Exp. Porter's wife, 554 
 Daniel Porter and wife, 322, 323 
 Warner Pratt's wife, 1295 
 Mariam Powers, 940 
 Joseph Powers and wife, 943,945 
 Elijah Pratt, 1009 
 James H. Pratt, 1276 
 Eleazer Pomeroy, 654j 
 Elisha Pratt, 1335 
 Moses Prentiss' wife, 132 
 Reuben Prentiss' wife, 393 
 Josiah W. Priest's wife, 1135 
 Fanny M. Pratt, 1269 
 Caroline Pratt, 1270 
 Mary S. Pratt, 1271 
 
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 245 
 
 Sallv Ramsdell, 787 
 Fanny E. Riindall, 1339 
 Lemuel Randall's wife, 1282 
 Julia A. Randall, 1259 
 Jotham Randall and wife, 369,370 
 Joel Randall, 531 
 Emeline Randall, 1329 
 Vespatian Randall's wife, 778 
 Jotham Randall, Jr., 957 
 Minerva Randall, 903 
 Alonzo D. Randall, 1301 
 Jesse Randall, 956 
 Chester Randall, 1054 
 Charles L Randall, 1308 
 Almira Randall, 1115 
 Chester Randall, Jr., 1319 
 Joseph Reed and wives, 274, 278, 
 
 364 
 Charles Reed, 623 
 Eliphas Reed's wife, 854 
 William Reed and wife, 932, 2d 
 
 wife, 1098 
 Warren A. Reed and wife, 1027, 
 
 10274 
 Warren Reed and wife, 1 204,1205 
 Rev. Jared Reid's wife, 1067 
 Ann Reid, 1134 
 Aaron Rhoads' wife, 353 
 Polly Rhoads, 488 
 Drusilla Rhoads, 523 
 Martha D. Rhoads, 701 
 Timothy Rice and wife, 286, 287 
 Zerviah Rice, 340 
 Lyman Rice, 1333, and wife,1348 
 Susanna Rice, 304 
 Darius H. Rice and wife, 607,714 
 Sophia Richardson, 1202 
 Horatio Rice's wite, 779 
 Louisa Richardson, 1203 
 Daniel Rider, 478 
 Hezekiah Root and wife, 44, 45 
 Orlando Root and wife, 105, 107 
 Miriam Root, 108 
 Elisha Root and wife, 124, 125 
 Asenuth Root, 252 
 Molly Root, 276 
 Kemcmbrauce Root and wife, 
 
 351 352 
 Darius Root and wife, 301 362 
 
 22^^ 
 
 Elihu Root and wife, 511 512 
 Orlando Root and wife, 438 439 
 Wealthy Root, 762 
 Rhoda Root, 907 
 Elizabeth Root, 1014 
 Harrison Root, 1030 
 Mary C. Root, 1048 
 David Robbins, 981 
 David Ruggles' wife, 922 
 William G. Ruggles, 1217 
 
 Thomas Sabin and wife, 576 577 
 Thomas Sabin, Jr. and wife, 590 
 
 590^ 
 Lewis Sabin, 773 
 Laura Sabin, 906 
 Sherman Sabin 970 
 Anna Sabin, 1050 
 Abigail A. Sabin, 1078 
 Lyman Sabin, 1100 
 Eiihu Sanford's wives, 301 357 
 Ichabod Sanford's wife, 371 
 Learned Scott, 467 
 Ephraim Scott and wife, 850 851 
 Amy Sexton, widow, 287^ 
 George C. Sanford's wife, 1237 
 Lydia Sexton, 266 
 Elizabeth Sexton, 638 
 Mason Shaw's wife, 376 
 Luther Shaw's wife, 1143 
 Noah Sexton, 246 
 Amy Sexton, 254 
 Christopher Simons, 1233 
 Martha A Shaw, 1342 
 Asa Shumway and wife, 113 114 
 David !" hum way & wife, 174 175 
 CIoc Shumway, 237 
 Erasmus Shumway's wdfe, 403 
 Alfred Shumway's wife, 423 
 Samuel Shumway, 433 
 Elihu Shumway's wife, 641 
 Esther Shumway, 688 
 Solomon Shumway and wife, 720 
 
 843 
 Nathan Shumway's wife, 866 
 Eddy Shumway and wife, 1028 
 
 1028.^ 
 John R. Shumway, 1092 
 Solomon C. Shumway's wife, 1225 
 
246 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Joseph Sikes and wife 127 128 
 
 Plinv S.kes, 245 
 
 Tabitha JSikes, 230 
 
 Roderick Shew brooks, 672 
 
 Abner Sikes' wife, 122^ 
 
 Elihu Smead, 409. 
 
 John Smith, and wife, 1 2 
 
 Abner Smith and wife, 5 6 
 
 Daniel Smith and wife, 7 8 
 
 Joseph Smith and wife, 9 10 
 
 Elijah Smith and wife, 11 75 
 
 Joseph Smith, Jr. &wife 139 171 
 
 Edward Sm;th and wife, 163 164 
 
 Abigail Sm th, 165 
 
 Abia Smith, 167 
 
 Irene Smith, 188 
 
 Experience Smith, 189 
 
 Amasa Smith, 229 
 
 Daniel Smith, Jr. & wife, 238 239 
 
 Jacob Smith 247 
 
 John Smith, 248 
 
 Phebe Sm th, 2ol 
 
 Enos Smith, 260 
 
 Eli Smith, 279 
 
 Amos Shaw and wife, 1285 1252 
 
 Lncretia Shumway, 1206 
 
 Asahael Shumwa^y's wife, 1191 
 
 Mary J. Shumway, 1305 
 
 Clarissa Sikes, 1_51 
 
 Permelia Smith, 1 247 
 
 James Smith's wii'e, 280 
 
 Jonathan Sm:th and wives 288 
 
 289 350 
 Piatt Slaughter, 1307 
 Bui ah Smith 316 
 Samuel Smith's Avife, 385 
 Mercy Smith, 41(i 
 Betsey Smith 5 35 
 Margaret 13. Smith, 1121 
 Cotton Smith's wile, 894 
 Sophia Smith 764 
 Giles Smith's wife 581 
 Samuel Suiith, 756 
 Nehemiali Smith's wife, 929 
 Eunice Smith, 1363 
 Obed Smith's wiie, 1130 
 John Spooncr and wile, 863 918 
 Lee Sprague, 668 
 Ebenezer Stearns & wife, 58 59 
 
 Ebenezer Stearns 2d & wife, 83 84 
 Benj. Stebbins and wife, 18 19 
 Gideon Stebbins and wife 129 130 
 Benj. Stebbins 2d, 262 
 Zenas Stebbins and wives, 724 
 
 383 856 
 Sam'l II. Stebbins and wife, 430 
 
 645 
 Sylvanus Stebbins and wife, 604 
 
 605 
 Cyius Stebbins, 671 
 Henry Stebbins and wife, 745 746 
 Juliann Stebbins, 890 
 Dolly Stebbins, 901 
 Henry Stebbins, Jr., 979 
 Caroline Stebbins, 984 
 LucA Stebbins, 983 
 Emily Stebbins, 985 
 Lavmia Stebbins, 988 
 L lura B. Stebbins, 1087 
 Heury Slarks, 1219 
 Cordelia S. Shumway, 1312 
 Grace Stebbins, 1086 
 Harriet Stebbins, 967 
 Clarissa Stebbins, 1111 
 Diantha Stebbins, 1128 
 Ely W. Stebbins and wife, 1293 
 
 1294 
 Juliett Stebbins, 1310 
 Mark Siacy and wife, 292 293 
 Ira Stacy and wife, 475 476 
 Arba Stacy and wife, 530 949 
 Hannah Stacy, 541 
 Dimmis Stacy, 629 
 Julia Stacy, 630 
 Zina Stacy, 703 
 
 Alansou Siacy and wife, 909 882 
 Horace Stacy, 1006 
 Phineas Strong and wives, 314 
 
 315 613 
 Samuel Strong and wives, 464 
 
 506 565 
 Abigail Strong, 504 
 Elizabe'ih Strong, 1015 
 N; iicy Strono-, 502 
 Tlu-odotia Strong, 540 
 Eli Strong, 564 
 Adolphus Strong and wife, 666 
 
 881 
 
 I 
 
CONGREGATIOXAL CHURCH IN BELCHERTOWN. 247 
 
 Adelia Swinington, 813 
 S. Streeter, 980 
 Solcinon Shum^vav, 1316 
 Rebekah N. Shaw^ 1361 
 
 Sarah Tainter, 689 
 Oliver S. Tavlor, 584 
 Kebekah P. Taylor, 763 
 John Thayer's wile, 213^ 
 Mary A. Thayer, 789 
 Mary Ann Thayer, 1113 
 Horatio Thomson and wives, 992 
 
 993 982 
 Rebekah Thopping, 76 
 James Towne, and Avife, 73 74 
 Israel Towne' s wife, 104 
 David Towne and wife, 146 147 
 Amasa Towne and wife, 241 242 
 Jonathan Towne and wife, 258 
 
 337 
 Abner Towne and wife, 353 354 
 Solomon Towne, 358 
 Lueretia Towne, 400 
 Emily S. Towne, 1272 
 Lydia Tow.ie, 687 
 Lydia Towne, 1207 
 Laura Towne, 697 
 Edward F. ToAvne, 1314 
 Almira Towne, 797 
 Israel Towne, 878 
 Abner Towne, 2d, 532 
 Joseph Towne, 948 
 Asher Towne's wife, 1152 
 Amasa Towne, 1232 
 Julia L. Towne, 1065 
 Sarah E. Towne, 1322 
 Malissa Tow^ne, 1083 
 Abner F. Towne, 1119 
 Ebenezi-r VV. Towne, and wife, 
 
 1144 1145 
 Israel Trask, 313 
 Joseph Tu.-ker's wife, 3 19 J 
 Jonathan S. Tucker's wile, 580 
 Eliza Tucker, 1033 
 
 Newell Upham, 955 
 Howard Upham's wife, 1347 
 Flavia S Underwood, 1356 
 Russell S. Underwood, 1309 
 
 James Walker and wives, 99 100 
 
 2S7.i 
 James Walker, Jr. & wife, 256 
 
 257 
 Ilezekiah Walker & wife, 243 642 
 Silas Walker and wife, 317 318 
 Josiah Walker and wife, 635 320 
 Nath'l Walker & wife, 410 331 
 Aaron Walker, 412 
 Jason Walker and wife, 427 428 
 Hezekiah Walker, Jr. and wives, 
 
 473 488 643 
 Horace Walker, 474 
 'J'ertius Walker, 477 
 Amy Walker, 490 
 Oshea Walker, 491 
 Mary Walker, 1070 
 Elmira Walker, 991 
 I Esthers. Walker, 492 
 i Polly Walker, 505 
 Joel' Walker, 525 
 Deborah Walker, 526 
 Silence W'alkcr, 527 
 Sarah Walker, 1274 
 Dara W^alker, 528 
 Edson M. Walker, 1315 
 Charles Walker, 624 
 (iilbert E Walker 1317 
 Emily Walker, 626 
 Eliza Walker, 627 
 AsaM. Walker's wife, 1354 
 Henry J. Walker and wife, 1074 
 
 12:38 
 Aaro',1 Walker, Jr., 959 
 Emery P. Walker, 1320 
 Polly Walker, 632 
 Everett W. Walker, 1351 
 Lu -y Walker, 639 
 JuliettE. Walker, 1327 
 Samuel Walker, lw3 
 Mary K. Walker, 1330 
 Electa W^alker, 690 
 Polly K. W^ilker, 1340 
 Harriet Walker, 759 
 Silence S W^alker, 1355 
 Oromal Walker, 7&2 
 John (i. W^ilker, 1036 
 Phineas C Walke.-, 958 
 Caleb Walker, 939 
 
248 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 
 Seth Walker, lUG 
 
 Kenselaer ^v alker's wife, 1263 
 
 Orren Walker and wife, 1281 921 
 
 Caleb Walker, Jr.'s wife, 1260 
 
 Lyman Walker and wife,954 1005 
 
 Almira Ward, 942 
 
 Oshea Walker, 1049 
 
 Martha Ann Walker, 1058 
 
 Philura C Walker, 1059 
 
 Ezra Ward's wife, 802 
 
 Mary Ward, 694 
 
 Sally Warner, 816 
 
 William B. Warner, 659 
 
 Dara Walker's wife, 1131 
 
 Josiah Walker, Jr 's wife, 1138 
 
 Sarah E. Walker, 1099 
 
 Elon Walker, 1076 
 
 Emeline Walker, 1082 
 
 Calvin A Warren, 938 
 
 Delilah C. Ward, 734^ 
 
 Moses Warner and wife, 39 40 
 
 Ebcnczcr Warner and wife, 41 
 
 70 
 Wareham Warner's wife, 157 
 Jonathan Warner and wife, 159 
 
 160 
 Josiah Warner, 172 
 Mary Warner, 1352 
 Seth Warner and wife, 180 181 
 Ellen Warner, 1353 
 Hulda Warner, 201 
 Esther Warner, 202 
 Submit Warner, 205 
 Phineas Warner and wives, 235 
 
 420 618 
 Stephen Warner, 240 
 Elisha Warner and wife, 722 263 
 Henrietta Warner, 444 
 Charles L. Warner and wife, 1267 
 
 1349 
 Theron Warner, 657 
 Ebenezcr Warner, 658 
 Olive Washburn, 519 
 George Washburn, 660 
 Mary Washburn, 1210 
 Charles L. Washburn, 1220 
 Charles Washburn and wife, 791 
 
 792 
 
 Eliab Washburn and wife, 790 
 
 711 
 Sophia Washburn, 654^ 
 Delphia Washburn 566.^ 
 Nathan Weeks' wife, 589 
 James Went worth's wife, 873 
 Williams II. Whittemore, 680 
 John Whitman, 2d, 661 
 Elizabeth Whitman, 683 
 Catherine Whitman 684 
 Polly Whitman, 685 
 Abby Whitman, 686 
 James Whitman, Jr. and wife, 
 
 897 1213 
 Lydia Whitman, 908 
 A. Whitman, 822^ 
 Reuben White's wife, 829 
 B enj amin E W hite, 8 4 1 
 Vester Willson, 551 
 Sylvester Wilson's wife, 588 
 Amy Willson, 693 
 James Whitman and wife 434 
 
 435 
 John Willson' s wife, 594 
 Francis Willson, 500 
 lluth Warner, 1102 
 Pliny Witt's wife, 407 
 Oliver Willson, 693^ 
 Elizabeth Willson, widow, 809 
 Isaac Willis, 814 
 Jacob Willis, 815 
 Orric Willis 977 
 Elijah Whitney, 911 
 Jesse Williams and wives, 1147 
 
 1148 1264 
 Esther Williams, 1149 
 Lucretia Witt, 672^ 
 James S. Whitman, 1222 
 Jesse M. Williams and wife, 1359 
 
 1360 
 Eliza M. Willey, 1357 
 Allred 11. Winter, 953 
 Electa Winter, 963 
 Timothy Work's wife, 860 
 Rev. S. Woolcott's Avife, 1265 
 Ivory Witt and wife, 747 748 
 Alphcus Winter's wife, 578 
 Joshua Wilder, 93 
 
COXGttEOATrOXAL CIIUKCII IN BELCHEETOWN. 249 
 
 Jacob Willson and wife, 178 179 
 Azariali Will in and wiven, 448 
 
 449 G54^ 
 Jonathan ii. WooddJ and wife, 
 
 1201 12'52 
 Danif'l VV()rthin^ton,87 
 Samuel Worthington and wife, 
 
 91 92 
 Temperance Worthington, 18G 
 
 also 328 
 DavidWorthington& wifel94 19/} 
 Wm. W(>rthingtou and wife, 311 
 
 3 1 2 
 Celina W.,rthington, 327 
 Sarah Worthington, 347 
 Eli WoodH and wife, 329 330 
 Eliza M. Woods, 1324 
 Asa JJ Woods, 533 
 Joseph Woods and wife, 534 644 
 L}'dia Woods, 535 
 
 Clarissa F. Woods, 1346 
 
 Susan Woods, 536 
 
 Asa Woods' wife, 446 
 
 Jonathan Woods & wife, 685 686 
 
 Zepheniah Woods, 674 
 
 (ieorge B. Woods and wife, 799 
 
 998 
 Martin Woods and wife, 828 828i 
 Eliwha Woods and and wife, 892 
 
 893 
 Oliver Wright and wife, 270 271 
 Jonathan Wriglit and wife, 446| 
 
 537 
 Anderson Wright, 978 
 Ara Wright and wife 1035 1036 
 Lucy Wright, 1209 
 Henry A. Wright and wife, 1212 
 
 1212^ 
 Susan M. Woods, 1366 
 Lucy C. Woods, 1367 
 
 Those who were removed from the churh by death or otherwise, 
 previous to February 25th, 1756, are not found in the foregoing 
 list ; no record is to be found of them. Names are doubtless omit- 
 ted of some who have been communicants, and members of the 
 church ; since that time,our records are defective. Some names who 
 were known to be communicants are not on the church records ; 
 when known their names were inj<erted in this list, that the list 
 may be as accurate and full aw practicable, yet I presume in some 
 measure deticient. 
 
GENEALOGIES 
 
 OF SOME OF THE FIRST FAMILIES THAT SETTLED IN 
 COLD SPRING, NOW BELCHERTOWN, HAMPSHIRE 
 
 COUNTY, 3IA8SACKU3ETTTS. 
 
 APPEXDIX A. 
 
 T H E S M I T II FAMILY. 
 
 John Smith, (No. 1) in the colinnn of fig-ures repre- 
 senting names, was the son of Joseph Smith, who was son 
 of Joseph Smith, who came from England and settled at 
 Hartford, Conn., about 1651. He married Lydia Huit, 
 or Hewitt, daughter of Rev. Ephraim Huit, the second 
 minister of Windsor, April, 1656. They had fifteen 
 children. Their eldest son, Joseph, father of John (No. 
 1), moved to Hadley in 1679 ; married Rebecca Dickin- 
 son in 1680. They had five sons and three daughters — 
 Joseph, born 1682 ; John, born 1634, died under two 
 years of age ; John, born 1687 (No. 1); Jonathan, born 
 1691, and Benjamin, born 1696. Three daughters, Re- 
 becca, Lydia, and Elizabeth, John, the third son, mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Hovey, of Hadley, in 1709. He moved to 
 Hatfield in 1711, and was chosen a deacon in the church 
 there. He moved to Cold Spring in 1736. They 
 had six sons and five daughters. Their sons were John, 
 born in Hadley in 1710 ; Abner (No. 5), born in Hat- 
 field, in 1712 ; Samuel ; Daniel (No. 7j, born 1716 ; Jo- 
 seph (No. 9), born 1720 ; Elijah (No. 11), born 1723. 
 Their daughters were Elizabeth, married Walter Fair- 
 
252 APPENDIX. 
 
 field, son of (21) ; Mirriam, married Jesse Warner ; Ra- 
 chel, married Aaron Hannum (No. 32) ; Sarah, married 
 Abner Dickinson, and Rebekah, married Oliver Graves. 
 All the children, except John, were born in Hatfield. 
 John, the eldest son, resided some years with his family 
 here, and removed. His son Edward was born here and 
 resided here for years ; was chosen deacon of this church 
 (See No. 163). Abner and Daniel came here in 1733. 
 Elijah (No. 11), came with his father in 1736. Daniel 
 and Elijah spent their lives here. Abner (5), moved 
 away. Joseph (9, see his number), married Eunice Bas- 
 com ; they had five sons — Joseph (139), Amasa (229), 
 Eli, (279), John (248) and Solomon. (See these num- 
 bers in column of figures). Margaret, a daughter of (9), 
 married (241. Elijah (11) married Sybil Worthington, 
 of Colchester, Conn, in 1751 ; they had six sons and 
 three daughters. Elijah served as a Captain in the 
 French war, in 1757 and 1758. His sons were Asa, 
 born in 1752, died at Halifax, Vermont, in 1835. He 
 Was father of Rev. Theophilus Smith, now the settled 
 minister of New Canaan, Conn. Elijah, born 1758, lived 
 in Greenfield, and died there in 1843. Rev. Ethan 
 Smith, born in Belchertown, December 19, 1762. He 
 married Miss Bathsheba Sanford, daughter of Rev. David 
 Sanford, minister of Medway, February 4, 1793. (See a 
 notice of him in Historical Sketch, page 29). They had 
 ten children — Myron, born in Haverhill, 1794, died in 
 Hebron, N. Y., in 1818; Lyndon Arnold, born 1795, 
 graduated at Dartmouth College in 1817, studied the 
 medical profession, married Frances L., daughter of Rev. 
 Edward D. Griffin, D. D., President of Williams College, 
 in 1823, and is now a practising physician in Newark, 
 New Jersey. Stephen Sanford, born 1797, studied The- 
 ology, was settled in the ministry in Westminster, Mass., 
 now without pastoral charge. Carlos, born 1799, gradu- 
 ated at Union College, N. Y., in 1822, studied Theology, 
 is now located in the ministry in Talmadge, Ohio. Grace 
 Fletcher, born 1803, married Rev. Job H. Martin, and 
 died in 1840. Sarah Towne, born in 1805, married Rev. 
 Job H. Martin, in 1841. He is now settled in the min- 
 
APPENDIX. 25$ 
 
 istry in Wisconsin. Harriet, born 1807, married Rev. 
 William H. Sanford, the settled minister in Boylston, 
 Mass. Ellen Chase, born in 1812, iriarried Charles B. 
 Sedgwick, Esq., of Pompey Hill, N. Y., in 1837, and 
 died in 1846. The other children died early in life. 
 
 Jacob Smith, the next younger brother of Rev. Ethan, 
 and 4th son of Deacon Elijah Smith (11), was born in 
 1764, united with this church in 1785, (See 247), re- 
 moved to Hadley in 1788, has been a deacon in that 
 church for many years, and is now living in the enjoy- 
 ment of his mental and moral powers, to a degree un- 
 usual for one of his years, sustained by the consolations 
 of that religion, which has been his support and his so- 
 lace for almost three score years and ten. William, the 
 next son of Deacon Elijah (11), was born in 1766, now 
 lives in Scipio, Seneca County, Ohio. Josiah, the next 
 son, was born in 1768 ; died in Scipio, Ohio, in 1828. 
 Sibyl (162), daughter of Deacon Elijah Smith, married 
 Deacon Joseph Bardwell (233), in January, 1774. Sa- 
 rah W., another daughter, married Capt. Elijah Bard- 
 well (182), in December, 1777. Rev. Horatio Bardwell, 
 missionary to India, is son to these parents, Elijah and 
 Sarah W. (See their numbers, 182 and 183). Joseph 
 and Elijah Bardwell Avere brothers. Elizabeth, another 
 daughter of Deacon Elijah (11), married John Cowles, Jr. 
 (191), in April, 1778. 
 
 AF^PENDIX B. 
 
 THE LYMAN FA5IILT. 
 
 In the earaest records that I have found containing this 
 family name, it is writen Limon. It is so writen gener- 
 ally in church and town records at Northampton, for 
 fifty or more years from the first settlement in that 
 place. Since about 1720 it has generally been writen 
 Lyman. 
 
 23 
 
254 APPENDIX. 
 
 Deacon Aaron Lyman (No. 3), in the column of figures 
 representing names, was a grand-son of John Lyman of 
 Northampton. The name of John Limon is found there 
 at the organizing of the church in 1661, or about that 
 time, as a prominant actor in the affairs of the place. He 
 had several sons. Benjamin, his son, was father of 
 Aaron (3). Caleb, was another son of John. Some of 
 that branch of the family moved to Northfield. Joseph 
 was another son of John ; he died in Northampton, Feb- 
 ruary, 1691, aged 21. John, the father, died there Au- 
 gust 20, 1690, aged 66. Deacon Aaron Lyman was one 
 of the first settlers in Cold Spring, in 1731. He wa? 
 born in Northampton, 1705; married Eunice Dwight, a 
 sister of Capt. Nathaniel Dwight (42), about 1732. Jo- 
 eiah Lyman (221), was a son of Aaron, born in 1736 ; he 
 married Sarah Worthington, of Colchester, Conn., and 
 raised a family here. Aaron (230), his oldest son, resid- 
 ed here many years ; married Electa Graves ; was a dea- 
 con in this church. Josiah, moved late in life, to Go- 
 shen, in this County, and died at an advanced age. Jo- 
 siah had other sons — Giles (249), and Jonathan (261 ). 
 (See these numbers in column of figures). A brother of 
 Aaron (3), moved to Southampton; his name Avas Ben- 
 jamin ; he died there in 1762, aged 60. The Lyman 
 family have all removed from this place. I am not aware 
 that a branch of it remains with us. They were highly 
 respected and useful in their day here, and decided pat- 
 rons of the religious interests in the place. It is suppos- 
 ed that John Lyman was the progenitor of all by the nama 
 of Lyman, in this part of the country. 
 
APPENDIX. 255 
 
 APPENDIX C. 
 
 THE BKIDGMAN FAMILY. 
 
 Ehenezer Bridgman (No. 14) in column of figures rep- 
 resenting names, was a native of Northampton, and came 
 to this place in 1732. He was son of John Bridgman, 
 of Northampton, John was son of James Bridgman, one 
 of the Pilgrim Fathers ; he came from England and set- 
 tled in Hartford in 1640 ; soon after moved from Hart- 
 ford to Springfield, where he resided a few years. John, 
 his only son, was born in Springfield, July, 1645. The 
 same year, James, the father, moved to Northampton 
 with his family. John married Mary Shelden of North- 
 ampton, December, 1670. They had six sons and seven 
 daughters. Their sons were John, born 1674; James, 
 born 1677; Isaac, born 1680; Ehenezer, born 1686; 
 Thomas, l>orn 1688, and Orlando, born 1701. The namea 
 of the dpui-liters were Mary, Deliverance, Sarah, Ruth, 
 Martha, li.;ir:i.;h, and Dorothy. Ehenezer, the fourth 
 son of John, niJirried Mary Parsons of Northampton, 
 daughter of Capt. John Parsons. They had one son, Jo- 
 seph (16), born at Northampton, 1712. He came here 
 with his father, soon after married, had two sons, Oliver 
 (187), born December 28, 1738; Joseph (200), born 
 June 4, 1745. Joseph married Paith Wright of North- 
 ampton, June 21, 1770; Oliver married and had three 
 sons — Ehenezer, (408), Oliver (723), and William (457). 
 Ehenezer and Oliver are farmers, now residing in this 
 place. William is a physician, residing in Springfield. 
 Esther (781), a daughter of Oliver (187), married Park 
 Holland; he died June 19, 1832, aged 51. Joseph 
 (200), had four sons and two daughters; Wright (302), 
 was a merchant in this town, married Irene Smith of 
 Granby, daughter of Phineas Smith, formerly of that 
 town. They had six sons — Henry, John B., Wright, 
 Porter, Phineas S., and Calvin ; they had two daugh- 
 ters — Mary, married Samuel P. Hopkins, Helen died un- 
 married. Joseph, the second son of Joseph (200), was a 
 
256 APPENDIX. 
 
 graduate of Dartmouth College, in 1795; studied the 
 legal profession, and settled in this town ; married Ruth 
 Hawkes (440), of Charlemont; they had four sons and 
 three daughters. Their sons were Frederick, a graduate 
 of Yale College, in 1826, and a practising physician in 
 Georgia, Arthur, Joseph, and Francis ; their daughters 
 were Eliza, Sarah, and Clara. Joseph Bridgman, Esq. 
 died in this town, December, 1836, aged 63. Theodore 
 Bridgman (550), the third son of (200), married for his 
 first wife (326), for his second wife (504), for his third 
 wife (502), (See these numbers) ; by his first wife he had 
 three sons — (^460), (461), (667), and three daughters — 
 1(494), (858), and (889) ; by his second wife he had 
 (988), and by his third wife, Abigail S. (See these num- 
 bers for further facts). Theodore died in December, 
 1836, aged 61. Jonathan, the fourth son of (200), was 
 born in 1781, and now resides in Amherst. (See 411). 
 He had two daughters, Sarah (339), and Mary. 
 
 I 
 
 APPENDIX D. 
 
 THE STEBBINS FAJIILY. 
 
 Benjamin Stehhins (No. 18), in the column of figures 
 representing names, was a native of Northampton. He 
 "was born 1711, and was son of Samuel Stebbins, born at 
 Northampton, 1658, who was a son of John Stebbins. 
 John died at Northampton, 1678, aged 60. He was the 
 son of Rowland Stebbins. In the geneological memoir 
 of the Stebbins family, by Dr. Daniel Stebbins of North- 
 ampton, published in the fifth volume of the Historical 
 and Geneological Register, 1851, we learn that Rowland 
 Stebbins arrived in America in 1634, with his family, con- 
 sisting of his wife and two sons and two daughters, pas- 
 sengers in the ship Francis, from Ipswich, County of 
 Suffolk, England. He was forty years old at his arrival ; 
 
APPENDIX. 257 
 
 his wife Sarah forty-three ; his son Thomas, 14 years of 
 age ; his daughter Sarah, 1 1 years of age ; his son John, 
 8 years of age ; and his daughter Elizabeth six years of 
 age. They settled at Springfield. After remaining a 
 time at Springfield, Rowland and his son John went to 
 Northampton ; John remained there through life. Row- 
 land returned back to Springfield, where he died, Sep- 
 tember, 1683. John married Abigail Bartlett; they had 
 nine children — Samuel, Abigail, Thomas, Hannah, Mary, 
 Sarah, Joseph, Deborah, and Thankful. Joseph went to 
 Deerfield. Samuel was father of Benjamin (18), who is 
 said to be the first that made a permanent residence in 
 in this place. He remained here through life, raised a 
 family here, and died 1789, aged 78 ; his wife died 
 1769, aged 60. Captain Gideon Stebbins (No. 129), 
 was son of Benjamin; he was born in this town in 
 1740. In November, 1768, he married Mary Hins- 
 dale of Deerfield. They had four sons that lived 
 to adult age. Benjamin, the eldest, was a physician, 
 went to the South, where he spent most of his life — 
 he died many years since ; Zenas Stebbins (724), Sam- 
 uel H. Stebbins (430), and Henry Stebbins (745), are 
 farmers, all now residing in this town. (See these num- 
 bers). Darius, another son of Gideon, died in infancy. 
 The Stebbins family were very early settlers in Western 
 Massachusetts, at Springfield, Northampton, Deerfield, 
 and other places. The given names of Samuel, Benja- 
 min, and Joseph, were common names in several branches 
 of the family. This family can trace their lineage to a 
 very remote antiquity and to a very reputable ancestry. 
 A compiler of the genealogy of this family says, " A 
 glance at the names of the principal settlers in New Eng- 
 land, should satisfy the most prejudiced Virginian, that 
 there are many eastern Families that have as good a 
 claim to ' gentle blood' as any boastful Lee, Randolph, or 
 Fairfax. In this country, none can boast of an older de- 
 cent than this family, if we except a few settlers in JameS" 
 town, and the Pilgrims of the Mayflower." 
 
 23* 
 
258 APPENDIX. 
 
 APPENDIX E. 
 
 THE TOWNE TAMILT. 
 
 William Towne, Anglo-American, born about the year 
 1 600 ; came to this country and settled at Salem, about 
 1640. He had six children — Edmund, born 1629 ; Ja- 
 cob, born 1631; Joseph, born 1639; three daughters, 
 Rebeckah, Sarah, and Mary. William moved to Tops- 
 field in 1652, and remained there during life. He died 
 at the age of 72. Jacob married Catherine Simons ; he 
 died in 1704, aged 73. He had six children — John, born 
 1658; Jacob, born 1660; Catherine, born 1662; Deliv- 
 erance and Ruth, twins, born 1664 ; and Edmund, born 
 1666. John, son of Jacob, married Mary Smith, settled 
 in Topsfield, and removed from there to Framingham in 
 1700, and from there to Oxford in 1712 ; he died there 
 in 1740, aged 82. They had ten children — Mary, born 
 1681 ; John, died in childhood ; Israel, born 1684 ; Est- 
 her, born 1686; Ephraim, born 1688; Jonathan, born 
 1691; David, born 1693 ; Samuel, born 1695 ; Edmund, 
 born 1699; and John, 1702. Israel, son of John, mar- 
 ried Susanna Haven, and removed to Oxford in 1712; 
 he died there in 1771, nearly 87 years of age. His 
 widow, Susanna, died in this tovv^n, at her son's residence, 
 in 1787, aged nearly 97. (See No. 104). They had ten 
 children — Mary, born 1709; Susanna, born 1711, and 
 died young ; Joseph, died in his minority ; Susanna, born 
 1717; Elijah, born 1719; Moses, born 1721; Esther, 
 born 1724; Israel, born 1727; Lois, born 1729; Mahit- 
 ibel, born 1731. Israel, son of Israel, purchased a farm 
 in Belchertown, in 1749, and came to this place, then 
 22 years of age ; married Naomi Stebbins, daughter of 
 Benjamin Stebbins (18\ in 1754. He died in 1805, 
 aged 78. His wife, Naomi (104), died in 1827, aged 92. 
 They had 10 children — Ama:ia, born 1755; Jonathan, 
 born 1756; "William, born 1758; Joseph, born 1761; 
 Benjamin, born 1765 ; Abner, born 1767; Naomi, born 
 1770; Rachel, born 1772; Susanna, born 1774; Salem, 
 
APPENDIX. 269 
 
 born 1779. Amasa (241), died in Belchertown in 1820, 
 aged 65. Jonathan (258), died in Belchertown in 1824, 
 aged 68. William died in Granville, State of New York, 
 in 1842, aged 84. Joseph died in Pennsylvania in 1825, 
 aged 64. Abner (353), died in this town in 1828, aged 
 60. Naomi married Nathaniel Talmadge, of Ludlow, 
 and died there in 1835, aged 66. llebeckah married 
 Willson White, and died in Granville, State of New York, 
 in 1800, aged 28. Susanna married Job Holbrook, and 
 lived in Moscow, State of New York. Salem was a grad- 
 uate of Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1805 ; has been 
 extensively engaged in Classical Instruction, at Granville 
 and Aurora, State of New York, and elsewhere. He has 
 published several works as Text Books to the English 
 language, Avhich had an extensive circulation, and were 
 well approved by the literary public. He has received 
 the honorary degree of LL. D. Amasa (241), son of Is- 
 rael, married Margaret Smith, daughter of Deacon Jo- 
 seph Smith (9) ; they had seven children — Lucretia 
 (400), married John Witt ; Josiah was a graduate of 
 Middlebury College, in 1812, studied Theology, was li- 
 censed to preach, and settled in the miiiibtry in Hanover, 
 New Hampshire, married Eunice Penniield, removed to 
 Ohio, and continues his ministerial labors in that State. 
 Lydia (687), married Deacon Jonathan Lyman (201). 
 Israel (878), married Plannah Stacy (541). Abner mar- 
 ried Eliza Vinton, daughter of Capt. Abiathar Vinton, 
 formerly of South Hadley, and during a few of the last 
 years of his life, of Amherst. She is sister of the Hon. 
 Samuel Finley Vinton, a leading member in Conr.u'ess 
 from Ohio. Mr. Towne studied Theology, was licensed 
 to preach, moved to Ohio, and died early in life in that 
 State. Mary married Quartus Moody of Granby, and 
 John S. married Rachel Warner. Jonathan (258), son 
 of Israel, married for his first wife, Polly Holbrook ; by 
 her he had one son, Jonathan, who married Delia Rurnrill. 
 Jonathan (258), married for his second wife, Miriam 
 Warner, daughter of Ebenezer Warner (41); his children 
 by his second wife are Ebenezer W., Charles E., (died), 
 William E., and Mary S. Abner Towne (353), married 
 
260 ^ APPENDIX. 
 
 Kersiah Fairfield, daugliter of (148). They had nine 
 children — Laura, married Chester Randall ; Almira, mar- 
 ried Rev. Erastus Benton, of Providence, R. I. ; Jose^Dh 
 (948), (which see); Naomi S. married Silas Howard; 
 Louisa married H. T. Filer, of Belchertown ; Josiah, 
 deceased ; Elizabeth R. married Nathan Willson ; Ma- 
 lissa married Ransom Howard. 
 
 APPENDIX F. 
 
 THE D WIGHT FA MILT. 
 
 Nathaniel Dwight, whose name is represented by 
 (No. 42), in the column of figures, was a native of North- 
 ampton, and son of Nathaniel Dwight, who early located 
 at Northampton, about 1689. He was son of Timothy 
 Dwight, who was son of John Dwight, who came from 
 England and settled in Dedham, Mass., in 1636. His 
 name is found of that date, acting as a freeman in that 
 town. The name is writen Dwite at first, but was soon 
 changed in the orthography and writen Divight. John 
 had one son, Timothy, v\diose name is found in the records 
 of Dedham, as an acting freeman, as early as 1637. Tim- 
 othy, the son of John, had three sons — Henry, Josiah, 
 and Nathaniel. Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel, and grand- 
 son of Timothy, came to this town in 1732. He was 
 brother of Timothy Dwight, Esq., of Northampton, who 
 was father of the Hon. Timothy Dwight of Northampton, 
 who was father of Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D., Presi- 
 dent of Yale College. Nathaniel (42), the brother of 
 Timothy, Esq., married Eunice Lyman, sister of Deacon 
 Aaron Lyman. They had four sons — Elihu, Justus, Eli- 
 jah, and Pliny. The eldest son, Elihu, married Pene- 
 lope Graves in 1757, and died in 1760, leaving one daugh- 
 ter, Margaret. She married Thomas A. Gates, (See 232). 
 
APPENDIX. 261 
 
 Justus married Sarah Lamb ; he died in July, 1824, aged 
 85. He had six sons — Elihu, a graduate of Dartmouth 
 College in 1790, studied the medical profession and set- 
 tled in South Hadley ; "William, died young ; Jonathan, 
 a farmer settled m Belchertown, died in 1834, (See 455), 
 aged 64 ; Nathaniel, a farmer, settled in Belchertown, 
 (See 515); Daniel, a graduate of Dartmouth College in 
 1796, studied Law and settled in Westmoreland, N. H., 
 and is now at the South; Justus (517), settled in this 
 town, a farmer, died in this town in 1835, aged 54. Jus- 
 tus, senior, had one daughter, Clarissa, (See 273). 
 
 Col. Elijah Dwight (215), third son of (42), married 
 Diana Hinsdale of Deerfield, (See 216). They had seven 
 sons — Josiah, a graduate of Yale College in 1794, studied 
 the medical profession, and settled in Portsmouth, N. H. ; 
 Gamaliel, a merchant, sometime a resident in Boston, died 
 many years since ; Lyman died young ; Elijah, a mer- 
 chant, settled in Amherst, and died there October, 1819, 
 aged 40 ; John, Pliny, and Leonard. He had two daugh- 
 ters — Martha, married Hezekiah W^right Strong, a law- 
 yer, settled in Amherst; Susanna D., married Mason 
 Shaw, Esq., a lawyer, formerly of Castine, Maine, now 
 residing in this town. Pliny, the fourth son of Nathan- 
 iel (42), had one child, a daughter, Nancy, (See 321). 
 Col. Elijah Dwight died in 1795, aged 47. 
 
 Another family of D wights, a different branch, came 
 into this town about the time of the commencement of the 
 Revolutionary War, from Western, (now Warren). Hen- 
 ry Dwight, (See 197). He was son of Col. Simeon 
 Dwight ; Col. Simeon was son of Henry, who was son 
 of Timothy, who was son of John, the common ancestor 
 of all the name in this country. Col. Henry Dwight (197), 
 had six sons — Henry, a farmer, died in this town in 
 1841, aged 64 ; Simeon, (636), a mechanic, died in this 
 town in 1842, aged 63 ; Charles, a farmer, died in this 
 town in 1815, aged 34; Solomon died years since ; Thom- 
 as is at the South, if living ; Peregrine died in the State 
 of New York in 1842, aged 48, (See 679). Henry 
 Dwight (197), had two daughters — Sophia (518), the 
 eldest, married Justus Dwight, Jr. (517); she died in 
 
262 APPENDIX. 
 
 1814, aged 28; Clarissa, the youngest daughter (548), 
 married Myron Lawrence, Esq., and resides in this town. 
 Col. Henry Dwight (197) had another son not named 
 above, Joseph Hawley ; he died in the army in 1801, at 
 Niagara, aged 26. He was the eldest son of Col. Dwight. 
 Samuel Dwight, who died in this town, April 10, 1817, 
 aged 52, was brother of Col. Henry Dwight (197). Sam- 
 uel left two sons, John and Samuel. John died in 1851, 
 aged 56. 
 
 LOCATION AND RESIDENCE OF SOME OF THE DECEND- 
 ENTS OF JOHN DWIGHT, THE COMMON ANCESTOR. 
 
 John Dwight settled at Dedham, 1636. 
 
 Second Generation. 
 One son, Timothy, settled at Dedham. 
 
 Third Generation. — Sons of Timothy. 
 
 Nathaniel, settled at Northampton, Mass. 
 
 Josiah, settled at Woodstock, Conn. 
 
 Henry, settled at Hatfield, Mass. ; died 1732. 
 
 Fourth Generation. 
 
 Samuel, settled at Enfield, Conn. 
 
 Daniel, settled at Charleston, South Carolina. 
 
 Nathaniel, settled at Belchertown, Mass. 
 
 John and Theodore, settled in New Haven, Conn. 
 
 Joseph, settled at Great Barrington, Mass. 
 
 Josiah, settled at Springfield, Mass. ; died 1768. 
 
 Edmund, settled at Halifax, Nova Scotia; died 1755. 
 
 William, settled in Sturbridge, Mass. 
 
 Locations of some of the 5th and succeeding Gcnerati 
 
 Joseph, settled at Cincinnatus, New York, 
 Henry W., settled at Stockbridge, Mass. 
 Jonathan, settled at Springfield, Mass. 
 Henry, settled at Belchertown, Mass, 
 
 ions. 
 
APPENDIX. 26t 
 
 Rev. Timothy, D. D., settled at New Haven, Conn. 
 
 Jonathan E., settled at Canajoharrie, N. Y. 
 
 Daniel, settled at Dudley, Mass. 
 
 Solomon, settled at Hatwick, N. Y. 
 
 Israel R. " 
 
 Rev. Lewis, settled at Boston, Mass. 
 
 Rev. Henry, settled at Geneva, N. Y. 
 
 APPENDIX G. 
 
 THE r HELPS FAMILY. 
 
 Lineage traced from Eliakim Phelps (36) hoth icays. 
 
 FMakim Phelvs fNo. 36), was a native of Northamp- 
 ton, born 1709, and was son of V/illi^.m Pholps, and 
 jj^fand-son of William Phelps, William, the grandfather 
 of Eliakim, was son of Nath.;]\iol Phelps one of the first 
 settlers in Northampton. Nathaniel, was son of William 
 Phelps, who first settled in Dorchester, Mass. ; he went 
 Irom there to Windsor, Conn, and Wiis many years? mag- 
 istrate in that Colony ; his name is found among the first 
 settlers of Windsor, as early as 1040. Eliakim (36), 
 came to this place in 1731 or 1732, when there v/ere but 
 five families in the place. He married for his first wife^ 
 Elizabeth Rust of Northampton ; she died in 1752, aged 
 40 ; by her he had six children. His eldest son, Simeon, 
 died at Pittsfield in 1776, returning from service in th& 
 Northern Army, aged 34. Simeon was father of Benja- 
 min (751), and Noah (726). Eliakim, for his second 
 wife, married Elizabeth Davis from Springfield ; she died 
 in 1778, aged 64. His eldest son by his second wife, was 
 William; he died in Northampton, (See 166); his sec- 
 ond son by his second wife was Eliakim, (See 222). This 
 Eliakim (222), had four sons— Abner (340), Daniel (462), 
 William (463), and Eliakim (570). (See these several 
 
264 APPENDIX. 
 
 numbers). Eliakim, the father of these four sons, died 
 in this town in 1824, aged 69. He had two daughters — 
 the eldest, Asenath, married Thomas Bliss of Brimfield, 
 in 1813; the other daughter, Diana, married Cornelius 
 Delano of Northampton. 
 
 Joseph Phelps (No. 34), was a native of Northampton, 
 and a brother of William the father of Eliakim (36), son. 
 to William, and grand-son to Nathaniel. He came here 
 among the early settlers, and before the year 1736, prob- 
 ably in 1732. He had a son Joseph, whose wife, Sarah, 
 (106), was a member of this church. He had two daugh- 
 ters — the eldest Dinah (P/ie/^:>s) '70), married Ebenezer 
 Warner (41). She was the mother of Capt. Elisha War- 
 ner (722), and of Phineas Warner (235). She died in 
 1812, aged 80. Her husband, Ebenezer Warner, died 
 within twenty-four hours of the same time ; also the 
 same day died the wife of Elisha Warner, her son, with 
 whom these parents lived, in the same dwelling. The 
 other daughter of Joseph Phelps, Deborah, remained un- 
 married through life. She died in 1816, aged 74. 
 
 APPENDIX H. 
 
 THE WARNER FAMILY. 
 
 Traced from Ebenezer Warner (41) hoth toays. 
 
 Ebenezer Warner (No. 41), a native Hatfield, and 
 son of Ebenezer Warner of Hatfield, was born 1729. 
 Ebenezer Warner of Hatfield, was son of Daniel Warner 
 of Hatfield, born 1681. Daniel Warner of Hatfield, was 
 one of the first settlers in that place, in 1661 ; died there 
 April 30, 1692. He was son of Andrew Warner, who 
 was one of the first settlers of Hartford, Conn., and died 
 there December 18, 1684. Ebenezer Warner, the son of 
 Daniel, and grand-son of Andrew, married Ruth Ely in 
 
APPENDIX. 265 
 
 1709. They had several children — Ruth, born 1712 
 died 1730; Martha, born 1715 ; Moses (39), born 1717 
 Lydia, born 1719; Eli, born 1722; John, born 1727 
 and Ebenezer, born 1729. Moses Warner (39), married 
 Sarah Porter in 1739. Their children were Seth (180), 
 born 1740. Seth was father of Titus Warner who died 
 in Amherst, April 12, 1818, aged 50. Titus was father 
 of the late Alonzo Warner, Park, Seth and George. Park 
 resides in Granby ; Seth and George have moved away. 
 The second son of Moses Warner, and brother of (180), 
 was Jonathan Warner; he died in this place in 1782, 
 aged 31. He was father of the first wife of Theodore 
 Bridgman, (See 326). The other sons of Moses (39), 
 were Moses, resided in Hatfield, and Eli, who went to 
 Granby. Moses, the father, died in this town in 1759, 
 aged 42 ; his wife died here in 1757, aged 36. Ebene- 
 zer (41), brother of Moses (39), married Dinah Phelps 
 (70). They had four sons — Elisha, (722) ; he died in 
 this town in 1829, aged 77; Josiah, who died in 1782, 
 aged 28 ; Elihu, who died in 1798, aged 40 ; and Phin- 
 eas Warner (235), who died in 1848, aged 85. The 
 daughters of Ebenezer (41), and Dinah (70), were Philo- 
 theta (136) : she married Elijah Howe (135), in 1770, 
 and died in 1771, aged 28 ; Hulda (201) : she married 
 Capt. Simeon Bardwell, in 1781, and died in 1782, aged 
 25 ; Esther, married Artemas Green of Granby, in 1788 ; 
 Molly, or Miriam: she married for her first husband 
 Capt. Jonathan Towne (258), in 1801 : he died in 1824 ; 
 she afterwards married James Whitcomb of Williams- 
 burgh, in 1826. Elisha (722), married Sarah Scott 
 (263), February, 1776, for his his first wife ; she died in 
 1812, aged 62. He again married, but left no children 
 by either marriage. Phineas (235), married Sally Rich: 
 she died in 1831, aged 62. He again married in 1832 
 (618). Their sons are Theron, Ebenezer, and Jairus; 
 their daughters — Henrietta (444), married (720, which 
 see) ; Sally, married Lucius F. Newton of Monson : died 
 in 1828, aged 24. These sons and daughters were all 
 children of the first marriage ; Phineas Warner left no 
 children by the second marriage. 
 24 
 
266 APPENDIX* 
 
 APPENDIX I. 
 
 THE BABDWELL FAMILY. 
 
 Joseph Bardwell (No. 66), was a native of Hatfield, 
 born 1713, and son of John Bardwell. John was son of 
 ^'Rohert Bardwell who came from London to Boston about 
 the year 1670. He was a hatter by trade. Between 
 1670 and 1680 he removed to Hatfield; there he raised 
 a family. His son John was an early settler in Cold 
 Spring; he came here about the year 1732. He had 
 three sons — Martin, Joseph and Jonathan. Martin was 
 of adult age, Joseph about 19 years old, and Jonathan 
 about 8 years old when the father came to this place. I 
 can find no record from Church or Precinct, stating the 
 death of either John Bardwell or of his eldest son, Martin. 
 We have no Church or Parish records of any deaths for 
 twenty-five years from the first settlement of the place. 
 Martin married and had a family. One son, Martin, born 
 1740, died in 1824 ; a daughter, Experience, married 
 Eldad Parsons (223), in 1780; a daughter, Katherine, 
 married Daniel Smith, Jr. (238), in 1776. Martin, who 
 died in 1824, aged 84, had a son, Martin, who died in 
 this place in 1814, aged 43 ; he was father of Oromal 
 Bardwell and Antipas S. Bardwell, now residing in this 
 place. Joseph (66), the second son of John, had three 
 sons — Joseph (233), born 1750; Elijah (182), born 
 1753 ; Obadiah, born 1757. Joseph (233), married Sybil 
 Smith, daughter of (11), and sister of Rev. Ethan Smith, 
 in 1774 ; they had eleven children — Haddassa (303), 
 Electa (304), (See these numbers) ; Theodotia, married 
 Ira Parsons, moved to Rutland, Vt., and died there July 
 1842, aged 51 ; Josiah Bardwell, Esq., for many years a 
 merchant and prominent man in South Hadley : he died 
 there March 22, 1845, aged 67 ; two of the children 
 died in early life ; Deacon Alonzo Bardwell, of South 
 
 * This name is written Robhert in the ancient recordg. 
 
APPENDIX. 267 
 
 Hadley ; one daughter married Col. Timothy Lyman, 
 late of Chester, deceased ; several of the children are still 
 living, not herein named. 
 
 Capt. Elijah Bardwell, the second son of Joseph (66), 
 married Sarah W. Smith, daughter of (11), and sister of 
 his brother Joseph's wife, in 1777. Rev. Horatio liard- 
 well, missionary to Syria and Palestine, is son of these 
 parents. (See Nos. 182 and 183). 
 
 Jonathan Bardwell, third son of John, had two sons — 
 Simeon and Jonathan. Simeon married Hulda Warner, 
 daughter of (41), in 1781: she died in 1782, aged 25. 
 Simeon moved from this place to the South, about the 
 year 1794. His brother Jonathan married Anna Eddy in 
 1781 ; he remained here through life. (See his number, 
 753). He had two sons — Simeon and Jonathan. Sim- 
 eon died in Virginia in 1835, aged 50 ; his brother Jona- 
 than is at the South, if living. Their father, Jonathan 
 (753), died in this town in 1828, aged 76. 
 
 Obadiah Bardwell, third son of Joseph (66), married 
 Mahitibel .Smith in 1782. Dr. Chester Bardwell, now a 
 practising phyoi jian in Whately, is their son. 
 
 APPENDIX K. 
 
 THE H A X N U M r A M I L Y . 
 
 Samuel Hannum No. (27), was a native of Northamp- 
 ton, born in the year 1692, and was son of John Han- 
 num. John was son of William Hannum, from England, 
 one of the earliest settlers in Northampton. He died in 
 1677. His will was proved in the Probate Court, Au- 
 gust 23d, 1677. His son John died in 1710. His will 
 was proved in the Probate Court, February, 1711. John 
 left two sons that came to Cold Spring with families, in 
 1732. William, the eldest, born in 1690, and died in 
 this town in 1756, leaving three sons, Moses, the eldest 
 son of William, born 1718, died 1802. (See 20). He 
 
268 APPENDIX. 
 
 left four sons — William, who moved to the State of New 
 York ; Moses (549J) ; Joshua, who died in this town un- 
 married, in 1824, aged 65 ; David, born 1763, and mov- 
 ed from this place many years since. Moses (549^) died 
 in 1836, aged 79, leaving two sons — Pliny, who moved 
 to Pelham, and died there in 1845, aged 63, and Stiles 
 (1063 J), now residing in this town. Aaron, the second 
 son of William, and brother of (29), born 1722, and died 
 in this town in 1776 ; he left one son, Caleb, who died 
 in Greenwich, in 1833, aged 83. Josiah Hannum, a 
 blacksmith by trade, and moved from this place years 
 since, was a son of Caleb. Gideon Hannum, the third 
 son of William, and brother of (29) and (31), born 1726, 
 and died in 1786 ; he left four sons — Justus, born 1756 ; 
 Solomon (217) ; Elijah (794) ; Daniel (757), (See these 
 numbers). Descendants of Elijah and Daniel, are now re- 
 siding in this place. Samuel Hannum (27), the younger 
 brother of William, came with him to Cold Spring, and 
 died in 1780, aged 88, leaving two sons — Samuel, born 
 1732, and died in 1809, unmarried; PhJ'.K\iS, second son 
 of Samuel 27), born 1743, and died 1809, leaving three 
 sons — Phineas (737), Gamaliel (521), Oliver (520), and a 
 daughter (522). (See these numbers). 
 
 APPENDIX L. 
 
 THE GRATES FAMILY. 
 
 Jonathan Graves (No. 12), was a native of Hatfield, 
 born 1702, son of Jonathan Graves, grandson of Isaac 
 Graves, and great-grand-son of Thomas Graves, one of 
 the first settlers in Hatfield. Thomas had two sons, John 
 and Isaac. Thomas settled in Hatfield, before Platfield was 
 incorporated : when it was included within the limits of 
 Hadley. John Graves had one son, Samuel, born in 
 1657. He died in 1694. He left three sons, Jonathan, 
 
APPENDIX. 269 
 
 Joiin, and Thomas. In 1695, John was appointed guard- 
 ian to Nathan Graves, a minor. Thomas Graves (No. 60), 
 son of Samuel, married Lydia Graves, a daughter of Isaac 
 Graves. John Graves (62), was born in Hatfield, in 
 1719; Jonathan Graves (12), had three sons — Perez, 
 Jonathan, and Joseph. These families came from Hat- 
 field to this place very early in the settlement here, be- 
 tween 1731 and 1735. Perez, the eldest son, went into 
 the French War, in 1758 ; he made his Will in May that 
 year, went immediately into the service, and died in the 
 army in September or October the same fall. His Will 
 was proved in October the same year, by which he gave 
 to his brother Joseph his Tan Yard and some other prop- 
 erty, to his brother Jonathan forty shillings, and to his sis- 
 ter, Penelope Dwight, 65 acres of land. This sister had 
 married Elihu Dwight, the eldest son of Capt. Nathaniel 
 Dwight, in 1757 ; he also gave a handsome suit of clothes 
 to Miss Susan7ia Lyman, (his bethrothed as is supposed). 
 She was the daughter of Deacon Aaron Lyman (3). She 
 afterwards, in 1763, married Capt. Elihu Kent, of SufHeld, 
 Conn. Joseph Graves, son of Jonathan, died in this town 
 in 1796, aged 62, leaving a large family — Perez, born 
 1762; Josiah D. (459), born 1772; Jonathan, born 
 1774; Elijah, born 1776: died at two years of age; 
 Elijah, born 1779: died 1790; Joseph (459.^), born 
 1783. The daughters were Margaret, married Benjamin 
 Howe, a brother of Dr Estes Howe, in 1785; Susanna 
 (207) ; Electa (253), married Deacon Aaron Lyman 
 (230), son of (221), and grand-son of (3), in 1788. The 
 (jraves family have all removed from this place ; many of 
 them were communicants in this church, and notices of 
 them will be found by turning to their respective num- 
 bers. 
 
 24* 
 
270 APPENDIX. 
 
 APPENDIX M. 
 
 THE COWLES FAMILY. 
 
 Traced from Israel Cowles (56), both ways. 
 
 Israel Cowles (56), was a native of Hatfield, son of 
 John Cowles of Hatfield, born in 1726. John the father 
 moved to Amherst, about 1729. His son John (85), was 
 born at Amherst in 1731. John, the father, was son of 
 Jonathan Cowles of Hatfield ; Jonathan was son of John 
 Cowles who went from Hartford, Conn, to Hatfield, 
 among the first settlers of that place. He had two sons — 
 Jonathan and Samuel ; Samuel had two sons — Samuel 
 and Ebenezer. Samuel, son of Samuel and brother of 
 Ebenezer, early went to Coventry, Conn. ; his father, 
 Samuel, died at Hatfield in 1 744 ; by his Will he gave to 
 his son Samuel, living in Coventry, his lands in Coventry ; 
 to his son Ebenezer, his debts due to him and his house- 
 hold furniture. Ebenezer lived in Hatfield. A branch 
 of this family from John, the common ancester, early 
 went to Farmington, Conn. The tvv^o brothers, Israel 
 (56), and John (85), were among the early settlers here, 
 though not among the first ; they probably came here in 
 1752. They both engaged in service in the French War, 
 and went from this place for the relief of Fort William 
 Henry, in 1757. Israel died in this town in 1797, aged 
 nearly 71. He left two sons — Josiah (272), born 1760, 
 and Amasa (436), born 1768. Josiah died in 1822, leav- 
 ing three sons — Israel (727), Mala, (1228), and Josiah 
 (1280). Josiah died in 1851, aged 58. Descendants 
 from these branches of the family are residing among us. 
 Amasa (436), left one son, Ariel, and a daughter (1084). 
 John Cowles (85), died in 1811, aged 80. He left sons- 
 John (191), born 1758 : he died in 1830; Abner, born 
 1761 : he died in May, 1837 ; Joshua (341), born 1775 : 
 died in 1842; Enos, (481,) born 1777; Vester, born 
 1779. Descendants from these branches of the family 
 are residing here. 
 
APPENDIX. 271 
 
 APPENDIX N. 
 
 THE ANCESTRY AND LINEAGE OF MRS. SARAH PORTER, 
 WIFE OF REV. EXPERIENCE PORTER. 
 
 Mrs. Porter was the eldest daughter of Dr. Phineas 
 ^mith, formerly of Sharon, Conn. Dr. Smith was a lin- 
 eal descendant of from Rev. Henry Smith, the first set- 
 tled minister of Weathersfield, Conn., Avho came to this 
 country from England, in 1630, and landed at Plymouth. 
 He had been ordained a protestant minister in England. 
 There is a record in family descendants, stating that the 
 Rev. Henry Smith was installed in the ministry in 
 Weathersfield, in 1637. (See Note A). 
 
 In a very valuable recent publication of the " Foote 
 Family," by Nathaniel Goodwin, Esq., of Hartford, 
 there is the following notice of Rev. Henry Smith : 
 " The first notice we have of him, is on the records of the 
 first church in Charlestown, Mass., where, according to 
 an entry therein, himself and Dorothy his wife, were ad» 
 mitted to full communion of the church, on the 5th of 
 the 10th month, 1637. As near as can be ascertained, he 
 was installed in Weathersfield, in the spring of IG-il, at 
 which time the church was regularly organized. Mr. 
 Smith died in 1648. Eat little is known of his ministry, 
 as not a vestage of a church record is to be found during 
 his life." 
 
 He left a widow, who married John Russell, senior, 
 the father of Rev. John Russell, who was his immediate 
 successor in the ministry at Weathersfield, and who 
 moved from there with a majority of his church, to Had- 
 ley, Mass., in 1659. Mrs. Smith was again left a widow 
 by the death of Mr. Russell, and moved to Hadley with 
 Rev. John Russell, in 1659. Rev. John Russell died in 
 Hadley, December 10, 1692, in the 66th year of his age. 
 Rev. Henry Smith left one son, Joseph ; he married, had 
 a family, and died leaving one son, Ichabod ; he married, 
 had a family, and died leaving four sons — Samuel, James, 
 Ichabod, and Joseph. These four brothers were farmers 
 and resided in Suffield, Conn. Samuel was born in 1697. 
 
272 APPENDIX. 
 
 At 23 years of age lie married a daughter of Rev. Cot- 
 ton Mather, of Boston. Rev. Cotton Mather was son 
 of Rev. Increase Mather, President of Harvard Col- 
 lege from 1685 to 1701. He was son to Rev. Rich- 
 ard Mather, who was chosen teacher in the first church 
 gathered in Dorchester, Mass., in 1636. Rev. Richard 
 Mather was father of Rev. Eleazer Mather, the first min- 
 ister of Northampton, ordained there in 1661. 
 
 Samuel Smith, the eldest son of Ichabod, (and grand- 
 son of Rev. Henry), had four sons and one daughter, 
 Elizabeth ; she married Graves Loomis, of Suffield, Conn., 
 and had a large family of children. His sons were Dan, 
 Cotton Mather, Simeon, and Paul. The eldest son, Dan, 
 was born in Suffield in 1731 ; he married Kersiah Devo- 
 tion in 1752; she was daughter of Rev, Ebenezer Devo- 
 tion ; they had one daughter, Lucy ; she married Wil- 
 liam Goodrich, of Sharon, Conn. 
 
 The eldest son, Dr. Phineas Smith, was born in Suf- 
 field, Conn., January, 1755. He married Abigail Lay, 
 of Lyme ; they had five sons and two daughters. Rich- 
 ard, the eldest son, born 1779, was a graduate of Yale 
 C^dloge in 1797, studied the profession of law, settled in 
 practicG in Batiivia, Nev/ York, has been Surrogate of the 
 County, and is still residing in f\ .: place. 
 
 Frederick, the second son, born 17c>2, educated a mer- 
 chant, died unmarried, at Natchez, Mississippi, in 1817. 
 
 Phineas, the third son, born 1 785, educated a merchant ; 
 after arriving at the age of manhood he turned his atten- 
 tion to the study of Theology, was licensed to preach, 
 settled in the ministry, and is now in the State of Michi- 
 gan in professional labors. He married Miss Sophia 
 Tryon, daughter of Hon. John Tryon, of New Lebanon. 
 
 John L., the fourth son, born 1787, resides in the State 
 of New York. George, the youngest son of Dr. Phineas 
 Smith, born 1793, was a graduate of Yale College in 
 1812, went to the South, and died early in life. Sarah 
 (55-1), the eldest daughter, married Rev. Experience Por- 
 ter, in 1806; she died in 1825. (See Historical Sketch 
 of her, page 59). Elizabeth, the youngest daughter 
 (565), married Samuel Strong, Esq., and resides in this 
 
APPENDIX. 273 
 
 place. Dan Smith, Esq., the youngest brother of Dr. 
 Phineas Smith, of whom mention is made in the sketch of 
 Mrs. Porter, married Betsey Hunter in 1780, and remov- 
 ed from Sharon, Conn., to West Haven, Vt., in 1788. 
 They had two sons and three daughters. Their eldest 
 son, John Devotion, was educated a merchant, went to 
 the South, and died in early life ; William Hunter, the 
 youngest son, was a farmer, resided in Vergennes, Vt, 
 married Electa, daughter of Hon. Samuel Strong, of Ver- 
 gennes, and died in 1843, aged 53 ; Lucy Maria, their 
 eldest daughter, married Hon Moses Strong, of Rutland, 
 V^t., a lawyer by profession, in 1801 : she died there in 
 1823, aged 40 ; Betsey Matilda, the second daughter, 
 married Mark Doolittle, the author of these sketches, in 
 1807; she died in 1814, aged 28; Lorane, the third 
 daughter, married Rev. Nathan S. S. Beman, D. D., of 
 Troy, New York, in 1811, his first wife ; she died in the 
 State of Georgia in 1818, aged 30. 
 
 Rev. Cotton Mather Smith, the second son of Samuel 
 Smith, and uncle of Dr. Phineas Smith, was many years 
 a settled minister in Sharon, Conn. He had one son, 
 Hon. John Cotton Smith, Governor of Connecticut 
 from 1813 to 1817. He was also a member of Congress 
 and a judge of the Supreme Court of Conn. 
 
 APPENDIX P. 
 
 the doolittle family. 
 
 • • • 
 
 Abraham Doolittle, supposed to be the progenitor of 
 all by the name of Doolittle in this country, came from 
 England and settled in New Haven, Conn., about the 
 year 1640 or 1642. In 1644 he took the oath of fidelity 
 in the Colony, and acted as Executive County Officer in 
 New Haven. He was one of the three appointed by the 
 New Haven Committee, to superintend the affairs of the 
 
274 APPENDIX. 
 
 New Settlement. This "New Settlement" was after- 
 wards, in 1670, incorporated into a town by the name of 
 Wallingford. He was one of the first settlers in that 
 town, and before its incorporation. He was one of the 
 village Vigilence Committee in the time of King Phillip's 
 war ; his house was protected by a picket fort, against 
 an attack by the Indians. He married, and by his first 
 wife he had two sons and two daughters. Abraham, his 
 eldest son, was born February 12, 1649 ; John, his sec- 
 ond son, was born June 14, 1655; Elizabeth and Mary 
 were the names of his daughters. After the death of his 
 first wife, he married Elizabeth Mosse, July 2, 1663. By 
 his second wife he h<ad seven children. Samuel, his eld- 
 est son by his second wife, was born July 7, 1665 ; the 
 other sons by the second marriage were, Joseph, Ebene- 
 zer, Daniel, and Theophilus. Abraham Doolittle died in 
 1690. Joseph, his son, married Sarah Brown, daughter 
 of Samuel Brown ; he died in May 1733, aged 66. Eb- 
 enezer married Sarah Hall, daughter of Samuel Hail ; 
 he died in December, 1711, aged 39. Daniel married 
 Hannah Cornwall ; he resided in Middletown. Theoph- 
 ilus married Thankful Hall, daughter of David Hall. 
 John, the second son of Abraham by his first wife, mar- 
 ried for his first wife, Mary Peck, February 13, 1682. 
 His second wife was Grace Blakesley. Benjamin, a son 
 of John, born July 10, 1695, was a graduate of Yale Col- 
 lege in 1716, studied Theology, and was settled in the 
 ministry in Northfield, Mass., in 1718: the first settled 
 minister in that place ; he married Lydia Todd, October 
 14, 1717; he died suddenly in Northfield, January 9, 
 1748. Samuel, a brother of Rev. Benjamin, moved from 
 Wallingford to Northfield, and died there in 1736, leav- 
 ing two sons, Ephraiifl" "and Moses. Daniel, son of the 
 first Abraham, died in Wallingford in 1755, aged 80: 
 he left a son by the name of David. An only daughter 
 of David, Elizabeth, married David Brooks, a graduate of 
 Yale College in 1768. 
 
 Abraham Doolittle, 2d, married for his first v.ife, 
 Mercy Holt, daug"jjter of William Holt of New Haven, 
 Nov. 9, 1680; by her ho had two sons and two daugh- 
 
"i; -Se<v, 5</c^. t3<^, W^^T^. 
 
APPENDIX. 275 
 
 ters. John, the eldest son, born August 13, 1681 ; Abra- 
 ham, born March 27, 1684; Sarah, born February, 1686, 
 and Susanna, born April 15, 1688. His second wife was 
 Ruth Lathrop, from New London, a sister of John and 
 Joseph Lathrop ; she died leaving no children. Abra- 
 ham, 2d, married for a ^^cond wife Elizabeth Thorp, 
 daughter of Samuel ThorplT^rier he had three sons — 
 Samuel, Joseph, and Thomas, born between the years 
 1698 and 1705 inclusive. John Doolittle, the eldest son 
 of Abraham, 2d, married for his first wife, Mary Freder- 
 ick, daughter of William Frederick of New Haven, Feb- 
 ruary 28, 1705 ; after her death he married Mary Lewis. 
 By these two wives he had ten children : four sons 
 and six daughters. His sons were, John, Frederick, 
 Obed, and Nathan ; his daughters, Susanna, Eunice, 
 Phebe, Mary, Kersiah, and Patience. These children 
 were born between the years 1707 and 1732 inclusive. 
 He died at Wallingford in in 1745. 
 
 John, the eldest son of John, and grand-son of Abra- 
 ham, 2d, born February 6, 1712, married in 1734, had 
 two sons and two daughters ; his sons were Philemon 
 and Titus ; his daughters, Eunice and Hannah. He 
 died at Wallingford in 1746. Philemon, his eldest son, 
 married Lydia Hall, January 5, 1757. He had four sons 
 and five daughters. His sons were John Frederick, Rice, 
 Jared, and Jesse ; his daughters, Phebe, Kersiah, Lydia, 
 Patience, and Hannah. Philemon moved from Walling- 
 ford, Conn., to Blandford, Mass., in 1771, and again 
 moved to Western New York in 1795. 
 
 Titus Doolittle, Esq., the youngest son of John, and 
 great-grand-son of Abraham, 2d, was born at Walling- 
 ford, June 12, 1745; married Mary Lewis, daughter of 
 Dr. Lewis of Wallingford. IaviiMiBl#iioved from Wal- 
 lingford to Westfield, Mass., with a young family. The 
 part of "Westfield where he settled was incorporated into 
 a town by the name of Russell, in 1792. He was a 
 farmer by occupation. He had five sons and three daugh- 
 ters. His eldest son, John, died in early life, unmarried ; 
 his second son, Titus, a farmer by occupation, married 
 
 
276 APPENDIX. 
 
 Mary Tracy, daughter of Rev. Stephen Tracy, of Norwich, 
 Mass., in 1794 ; she died in 1843. He is living in Pains- 
 ville, Ohio. He has had a family of ten children, most 
 of whom have died ; has no son living. Joel, the third 
 son, was a graduate of Yale College in 1799, was a Tutor 
 in the College at Middlebjy^jj^^t., studied the profession 
 of law, settled in business at Middlebury ; married Sa- 
 rah P. Fitch, daughter of Ephraim Fitch, Esq., of Paw- 
 let, Vt. He was at sundry times a member of the State 
 Legislature, of the Governor's Council, and many years a 
 Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont. He 
 was a member of the Corporation of Middlebury College. 
 The last State office that he held, was that of member of the 
 Board of the Council of State Censors ; he was chosen 
 President of the Board. He died at Middlebury, March 
 9, 1841, aged 67. lie left four sons and two daughters. 
 His sons were, John Titus, Charles Hubbard, Joel, and 
 Mark Raboteau. These sons are in Ohio ; three of them 
 in Painsville. His daughters were, Sarah and Elizabeth. 
 The fourth son, Amasa, a farmer by occupation, resided 
 in Cheshire, Conn. ; he married Mary Hitchcock, daugh- 
 ter of Amasa Hitchcock, of Cheshire ; he died in 1825, 
 aged 49, leaving one son, Amasa Lewis, now residing in 
 Cheshire, and one daughter, Mary ; she married Reuben 
 Palmer, Esq., and now resides in West Springfield, Mass. 
 Mark, the fifth and youngest son, was a graduate of Yale 
 College in 1804, studied the legal profession, settled in 
 Belchertown, and is the author of these Sketches. For 
 his first wife he married Betsey Matilda Smith, daughter 
 of Dan Smith, Esq., of West Haven, Vt ; she died Nov. 
 13, 1814, aged 28. (See Appendix N, page 271). She 
 left two daughters — Lucy Maria, born August, 1809, mar- 
 ried Dr. Horatio iPKMpiiipn. of Belchertown, in 1834, , 
 and now resides in this place ; Betsey Matilda, born in 
 May 1814, married John Stacy, a graduate in 1837 of 
 Yale College, in 1838. They now reside in Addison, 
 State of New York. He is Principal in an Institution 
 for Classical Instruction. August 10, 1817, Mark Doo- 
 little married for his second wife, Sarah T. Raboteau, 
 daughter of Charles C. Raboteau, Esq., formerly of 
 
 y A ^M. m^. 
 
APPENDIX. 277 
 
 Newburyport. By this marriage lie had two children: 
 William C, who died in early childhood, and Sarah Lo- 
 rane, who died July 29, 1842, aged 18 years. The 
 daughters of Titus Doolittle, Esq., were, Elizabeth, 
 married Abraham Bradley of Bussell ; she died April 
 28, 1831, aged 64, leaving sons and daughters. Mary, 
 married Noble Fowler of Southwick, Mass. ; she died 
 March 11, 1847, aged 78, leaving four sons. Martha, 
 married Solomon Gillett of Colchester, Conn., and now 
 resides in that place. Titus Doolittle, Esq., died Nov, 
 23, 1818, 
 
 1st Generation, Abraham Doohttle, died Aug. 11, 1690, aged 70. 
 2d ** Abraham Doolittle, 2d, died Nov. 10, 1732, aged 83. 
 
 3d « John Doolittle, died Nov. 1746, aged 65. 
 
 4th " John Doolittle, 2d, died Nov. 1747, aged 35. 
 
 5th « Titus Doolittle. 
 
 6tli " Mark Doolittle. 
 
 25 
 
NOTES. 
 
 NOTE A. 
 
 I am inclined to ttink that there is an error in date of 
 the record stating that Rev. Henry Smith was installed 
 at Wethersfield, in 1637. It was probably in 1641. 
 It is stated by Mr. Goodwin, in his work before alluded 
 to, that previous to the installation of Rev. Henry Smith 
 as the first pastor of the church at Wethersfield, Rev. 
 Richard Denton and Rev. Mr. Pruden labored with the 
 people, until the former left in 1641, for Rippowams, and 
 the latter joined his own church at Milford. Previous to 
 1641, unhappy di^-isions arose in that church; the con- 
 tention was carried before the General Court, at Hart- 
 ford, in 1640. In these contentions several names are 
 given, of those prominent in that controversy. Mr. 
 Smith's name is not used or adverted to in these conten- 
 tions, till 1643, when he became the object of censure 
 and severe accusation. These charges were finally brought 
 before the Governor and Magistrates, and fully heard, 
 and Mr. Smith cleared from all imputation of blame or 
 wrong, by the unanimous decision of the whole Court, 
 and an order passed, to be read in the several towns, for 
 clearing Mr. Smith from all accusations against him; 
 and another order passed, that whosoever should be con- 
 victed, under two witnesses, of renewing or continuing 
 the former complaints against him, shall forfeit to the 
 County ten pounds. In 1644 a part of the church seced- 
 ed and made a settlement in Totocket, (now Branford), 
 and the contentions ceased. 
 
280 NOTES. 
 
 NOTE B. {From page 14). 
 
 There is nothing to be found on our church or precinct 
 records, stating the nature of the difficulties that existed 
 between Mr. Billing and the church, which lead to his 
 dismission. I have in my possession, manuscripts one 
 hundred years old, handed down from father to son, cast- 
 ing some light on this subject. A presentation of it is in 
 the following document, under date of 1750 : 
 
 " In as much as many are endeavouring to destroy y* 
 Rev. Mr. Edward Billing's character, and prevent his be- 
 ing useful and serviceable to y* souls of our fellow men, 
 we think ourselves obliged to let y® world know y* follow- 
 ing things, namely : that y* rise and ground of y' fierce 
 contention at Cold Spring with Mr. Billing, was his dif- 
 fering sentiments from most of y^ church with respect to 
 y® qualifications for y® enjoyment of y° two sacraments, 
 upon y* account of his holding that none but visible 
 christians or saints were to be admitted to y" special or- 
 dinance. A great clamour was raised in this part of the 
 country, and church meetings were frequently called to 
 prepare y® way for Mr. Billing's dismission ; and at last 
 y° church and pastor agreed in passing y® following vote : 
 * The pastor and church at Cold Spring, being divided in 
 their sentiments with regard to y^ qualifications which 
 give a right to ^full communion' in y® church, when con- 
 vened at y^ meeting house, y^ 2d Tuesday of September, 
 1750j voted to call a Council, in a convenient time, to 
 consider and give advice with regard to their difficult 
 circumstances, resulting from y® above mentioned differ- 
 ent sentiments. Voted, at a church meeting, 9th of Oc- 
 tober, 1750, y' y® business of y* Council, whenever called, 
 shall be this, viz : to endeavour to accommodate the dif- 
 ference between pastor and church, and if the endeavours 
 prove ineffectual, then proceed to determine whether pas- 
 tor and church, being of different sentiments as above 
 mentioned, be a reasonable ground for separating them'." 
 
 The Council convened, but I can find no result speci- 
 fied of their doings. The differences of opinion as to 
 
KOTES. 281 
 
 qualifications for the enjoyment of the two sacraments 
 were not reconciled. I can find nowhere the point of dif- 
 ference between Mr. Billing and a majority of the church 
 specifically stated, or the thing claimed by one party, and 
 denied by the other. We have seen (page 16 and 17), 
 that those embracing the half-way covenants, admitted 
 persons to baptism and to the church, as being in " a 
 state of education," and upon a moral sincerity; yet did 
 not admit them to "/w// communion'' — that in form the 
 church had distinct covenants, one for those thus admit- 
 ted, and one for such as were admitted to full commun- 
 ion. From all the sources of information that have come 
 within my reach, I infer that Mr. Billing did not fellow- 
 ship this practice, or believe it to be scriptural. It is 
 clear to my own mind, that Mr. Billing maintained that 
 none should be admitted into covenant relation to the 
 church, or entertained as members in any sense, but such 
 as professed experimental religion. Such a faith as the 
 half-way covenant churches required of those that were 
 admitted to ^^full communion'' — that none but such had 
 any right, on their own account, to participate in the or- 
 dinances of the church. This question did not touch the 
 right of infant baptism upon the faith of parents, but ap- 
 plied to those only who on their own account sought the 
 privileges of the church, without any profession of exper- 
 imental religion. 
 
 I have found no evidence that this question which dis- 
 turbed the peace of the church in Mr. Billing's day, and 
 caused his dismission, was ever a disturbing subject after 
 the settlement of Mr. Forward. The Articles of Faith 
 adopted at his settlement, were those of the Reformation, 
 and such as have ever been held by the church since. 
 Other trials, however, were visited upon the settlers. The 
 war between England and France, in which the Colonies 
 were involved, was severe in demands on their time, ser- 
 vice, and means of living ; heavy drafts for money and 
 men were made repeatedly. In 1757 a draft was made 
 for forty one effective militia men to go into that service 
 as soldiers. The order was complied with. It embraced 
 no small portion of the heads of families in the place. 
 
282 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 and on whom their prosperity in civil and religions af- 
 fairs depended. Thirty- two of this number that went 
 out were church members ; they were out different lengths 
 of time ; it proved a sore calamity to the settlers, and 
 would have been such if their pay had been more. Their 
 remuneration was very small. At a session of the Gen- 
 eral Court, held in June, 1758, an order passed for pay- 
 ment of those of the militia who had been out in that 
 campaign, as follows : 
 
 For each Colonel, 10' 
 
 " Lt. Colonel, 8' 
 
 " Major, V 
 
 " Chaplain, 5" 
 
 " Captain, 5" 
 
 " Surgeon, 4* 
 
 '* Lieutenant, 3' 
 
 " Ensign, 3' 
 
 " Adjutant, 3" 
 
 " Serjeant, 2' 
 
 " Corporal, 2' 
 
 " Soldier, 2' 8" 
 
 9^^ 
 
 $1,67 per day. 
 1,33 " 
 1,17 " 
 
 83 « 
 
 83 " 
 
 75 " 
 
 62 J" 
 
 50 " 
 
 50 " 
 
 47 " 
 
 46 " 
 
 44 " 
 
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 Page. 
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 81 
 103 
 
 117 
 122 
 122 
 127 
 129 
 135 
 171 
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 275 
 276 
 
 17th line from top read, " obey them" for "obey 
 
 it." 
 14th line from bottom, read "Rev. Sam'l Wol- 
 
 00 tt installed" for dismissed. 
 3d line from top, read " 1737" for " 1837." 
 Against marginal No. (123), read daughter of 
 
 (58) for (53). 
 Against marginal No. (230), read (253) for 
 
 (243.) 
 Against marginal No. (260), read (254) for 
 
 (264.) 
 Against marginal No. (261), read daughter of 
 
 (233) for (223.) 
 Against marginal No (300), read Anna wife of 
 
 (299) for (298.) 
 Against marginal No. (316), read John Marshall 
 
 (485) for (585.) 
 x\gainst marginal Nu. (370), read Jot/iam for 
 
 Jonathan Randall. 
 Top of the page, read sister of (655) and (656) 
 
 for (656) and (657) 
 Against marginal No. (704), read daughter of 
 
 (223) for (233.) 
 Against marginal No. (802), read '' Ezra Ward' 
 
 for "Ezra Wood/' 
 Against marginal No. (813), read " Swinington" 
 
 for " Stowington." 
 6th line from top, read " married for a third 
 
 wife,"" instead of *' 6-eco«{Z wife." 
 8th line from bottom, read "Dr. Horatio Thom- 
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