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A MEMORIAL DISCOURSE, -DELIVERED IN THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, NEW MILFORD, CONN., SUNDAY, JULY 9, -1876 *** - - - - - -NEW MILFORD. - -A MEMORIAL DISCOURSE. - -1876. - - - - - NEW MILFORD. - - A - Memorial Discourse, - - DELIVERED IN THE - CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, - NEW MILFORD, CONN., - - Sunday, July 9, 1876. - - BY - JAMES B. BONAR, PASTOR. - - PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. - - 1876. - M. L. DELAVAN, PRINTER. - NEW MILFORD, CT. - - - - -HISTORY - -Town and Church of New Milford, Conn. - -MEMORIAL SERMON. - - “One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall - declare thy mighty acts.”—Ps. 145: 4. - - -The past is full of interest and instruction, so that all concede the -value of history. Its importance is manifest from the fact that about -two-thirds of God’s Holy Word is historical. - -The history of any and every part of the earth is interesting; but our -own Country and State, the town in which we reside, the Church to which -we belong, and the family whose name we bear, are to us of the greatest -interest. To-day, therefore, we turn our attention to the history of this -Church, Society and town. - -The sources of information on these subjects, though bulky, are meagre -and imperfect. We have - -1. Minutes of the Proprietor’s Meetings from 1706 to 1801. - -2. Records of Town Meetings from 1713. - -3. Minutes of the meetings of the First Ecclesiastical Society, from -December, 1753. - -4. Ecclesiastical Society’s Treasurer’s books from 1802. - -5. Church Records from December 27th, 1727. These are not complete; the -book kept by Mr. Rood is missing. - -6. MSS. Notes of Rev. W. H. Moore. - -7. Records of Baptist and Methodist Churches. - -8. Memoir of Mrs. Mary A. Boardman, by Rev. Dr. Schroeder. - -9. And the memory of persons still living. - -In 1703, Col. Robert Treat and others representing 111 persons, all -of Milford, obtained a patent to a certain tract of land in New Haven -County, formerly called Weantinogue. This tract contained 84 square -miles, embracing what is now known as the towns of New Milford, and -Bridgewater, with parts of Brookfield and New Preston. It cost the -Proprietors about 8 mills an acre. The first settler, though not a -Proprietor, was John Noble, who came here from Massachusetts, in 1707. -The Indians were then and long afterwards numerous, but seem always to -have been on friendly terms with the settlers. The Proprietors held their -meetings at Milford until 1715. The first Town Meeting seems to have been -held in 1713. The town was first represented in the Legislature in 1725. -The first record of freemen was made in 1744. The town belonged to New -Haven Colony until the incorporation of Litchfield County, in 1751. The -first bridge over the Housatonic, between the sea and its source, was -built here in 1737. The first school in the town was opened in 1721, and -was taught 4 months in the year, the town paying half the expense. - -In 1707 two persons came into New Milford. - -In 1712 there were here 12 families or between 60 and 70 persons. A -census, taken in 1756, reports 1137 in the town; another taken in 1774, -reported 2776, while in 1800, after parts of the town had been ceded -to Brookfield and Washington, the population was 3198. The census of -1870, gives the population of the present New Milford, as 3586, while -Bridgewater, formerly a part of this town, has 877 inhabitants. - -New Milford has always been loyal to the cause of freedom. In 1779 the -town voted 4 bushels of wheat a month to every man who volunteered for -six months, and three bushels a month to the militia men who marched when -ordered; but, if they failed to report within eight days after marching -orders, they forfeited this premium. The town also supported the families -of men while absent in the Continental army. In 1778 the Articles of -Confederacy proposed by Congress, styled “The United States of North -America,” were adopted in town meeting, except part of the 5th article, -which respects the mode of choosing Delegates to Congress. It was “Voted -that the Freemen will always hold the prerogative and sole power of -choosing our Delegates in Congress by vote.” Subsequently, “said Articles -of Confederacy were adopted in full by the meeting without a dissenting -voice.” In 1783 it was voted, and a Committee was appointed to enforce -the resolution, that all refugees, or “skedaddlers,” as they would now -be termed, as well as all who had voluntarily gone over to the enemy -during the war, should be prohibited from returning and settling in the -town. The Adjutant-General of Connecticut, reports the names of 222 men -from the town of New Milford as having served in the armies of the United -States during the Civil War of 1861-65. This does not include the 37 who -deserted nor the _one_ who was _dishonorably_ discharged. - -The town, as such, has always upheld the cause of morality and good -order. In 1787 certain persons were fined “for bringing into the town -and entertaining unwholesome inhabitants.” So early as 1729 it was voted -in town meeting that “James Hine have oversight of the female sex during -exercises” in Church. And so late as 1821 a certain person was fined -$1.67 for “breach of the Sabbath,” but this fine was remitted. - -The way in which they cared for the poor and guarded the interests of the -town, appears from the vote of 1771—“That a black bonnet, a red woman’s -cloak, and a worsted gown be kept for the daughter of Hannah Beeman; if -she die under age, the town to have them.” - -The first sermon was preached here by Col. John Reid, who had studied for -the ministry in his youth. Mr. Daniel Boardman, a preacher of the Gospel, -came here in 1712. The next year it was voted that the inhabitants should -pay all the expense that had been incurred in obtaining a minister, also -to lay out a pastor’s lot, to dig and stone up a well for Mr. Daniel -Boardman, if he became a settled minister in New Milford. Meanwhile, -the town allowed 5s. 6d. a week for the minister’s board. In 1715 the -town agreed to petition the General Court to “attain liberty for the -settlement of the worship and ordinances of God among us.” This was the -subject that then came up at every meeting of the inhabitants. It was not -until 1716 that they made arrangements for laying out a burying ground -of two acres; but for four years before that they had been contriving -and planning for the religious instruction of themselves and families. -The poverty of the people appears in the resolution adopted as to Mr. -Boardman’s salary, one third of which was to be paid in grain, two-thirds -in labor, linen, or pork; the established price of wheat was then 4s. a -bushel, rye, 2s. 8d., corn 2s. and oats 1s.; part of the agreement being -that Mr. Boardman should sell the grain which he had to spare at the same -prices to the inhabitants. In accordance with a vote of the town, Mr. -Boardman was ordained November 21st, 1716. - -So far as the records show, there was then entire unanimity of religious -belief and opinion among the people. The Ecclesiastical Society and the -Town were practically one and the same. Everything regarding the building -and finances of the Society was determined in Town Meeting. The first -division occurred in 1731-2, when 20 persons withdrew to form a Quaker -Society. They built a house in 1742 and have continued their worship from -that time until the present, though at this date there is but one family -of them residing in the town. - -In 1743 the inhabitants of “Newbury” were set off for a separate -religious Society, and in the division of the Parsonage lands in 1755, -£98 3s. 6½d., was given to this Society, £13 14s. 6½d. to Newbury, and £5 -12s. 7½d. to New Preston. Newbury was the ancient name of Brookfield, and -was formed into a town in 1788, from parts of New Milford, Danbury, and -Newtown. The Church at Brookfield was therefore organized, not in 1757, -as heretofore reported, but in 1743-4. The inhabitants of the “Neck,” as -Bridgewater, was originally called, early made representations to this -Society of the inconvenience of attending worship here during Winter -months. Part of their tax was remitted on condition that they provided -preaching for themselves during the Winter; and for a number of years Mr. -Taylor and Mr. Griswold spent one Sabbath in each of the three Winter -months at the Neck. The Church at Bridgewater was organized in 1809. -Bridgewater was set off as a town in 1856. - -There must have been Episcopalians in town earlier, but the first -allusion to them occurs in the record of a town Meeting in 1744, just -previous to the death of Mr. Boardman: “Voted, That those of us who are -of the Church of England shall be free from paying any charge for a -minister for one year, if circumstances remain as they now are; but, if -in the providence of God our Reverend Pastor should be taken away, then -the said Church men to be under the same regulation as the rest.” The -Rev. James Beach, of Newtown, visited New Milford occasionally between -1740 and 1745, and a lay reader read service for some time. The first -Episcopal clergyman who resided here was Rev. Solomon Palmer, who came -in 1754. This Society continued feeble for many years; but under the 20 -years pastorate of the Rev. Charles G. Acly, just closed, it has grown -strong and healthy. It has now 132 families and 265 communicants. - -The Separatists, or Strict Congregationalists as they were called, -built a meeting house, in what is now the old cemetery, in 1761. They -disbanded in 1812, uniting some with this Society and some with the -Episcopalians. - -Between 1780 and 1785 the followers of Jemima Wilkenson, who is described -as a remarkably comely woman, with dark hair and sparkling black eyes, -built a house in what is now the old cemetery, on the hill on the road -towards New Preston. They soon sold this building to the Episcopalians -and moved to Genesee, New York, where Jemima resided. - -The Baptists formed a small Church and erected a house of worship in the -lower end of the town called the Neck (Bridgewater) in 1788-90, “but -never had a pastor, and soon moved elsewhere.” - -The Baptist Church at Northville was organized February 9th, 1814, with 7 -males and 16 female members, most of whom had previously been connected -with a Baptist Church in Roxbury. Its present membership is 46. The -Baptist Church at Gaylordsville was formed about 1830 and has always been -small. Its present membership is 33. Somewhere about 1830 a Union Church -was built at Merryall, which was used chiefly, but not wholly, by the -Baptists. No Society was ever formed, and no service has been held in the -house for 20 years. - -The Rev. Elijah Hebard, from Stratford circuit, seems to have been the -first Methodist Episcopal minister who visited New Milford. In 1815 he -preached at John Warner’s in Pleasant Valley. Others followed, and in -1825 a Society was formed in Gaylordsville; that Society still exists -and has now 66 members. In 1826 the Methodists erected a Church at -Northville; and in 1828-9 they erected another on the Plains at a cost of -$3,000. It is to be regretted that these organizations at Northville and -on the Plains are both extinct and have been so for twenty-five years. -The Methodist Church in the Village was erected in 1849 and dedicated -by Bishop Janes in May, 1850—the Rev. Wm. M’Allister, then being the -Preacher in charge. Its present membership is 130. - -The Roman Catholics opened a place for worship in 1860-61, but had no -resident priest until 1872. They have now a large congregation, composed -almost exclusively of persons of foreign birth. - -These are all the Religious Societies that have existed in the town. Out -of a population of 3,586 there is to-day a Church membership, exclusive -of the Roman Catholics of 807. - -In 1871-2, this Church thoroughly canvassed the town, exclusive of New -Preston Society, distributing Bibles and Tracts, and carefully reporting -the Church attendance and preferences of the people by families. Of the -707 _families_ reported, there were Congregational, 218; Episcopal, 156; -Methodists, 88; Roman Catholics, 46; 2d Advent, (colored) 18; Baptists, -15; Jews, 3; Lutherans, 2; Friends, 2; Reformed Dutch, 1; and not -attending any Church, 158. - -With this general review of the Ecclesiastical history of the town, we -turn now to consider more minutely the history of this, the oldest and -always largest Church and Society—the oldest but one and the largest in -the County. - -There was no Ecclesiastical Society until after 1750. Until then, the -town was the Society. It was the town that provided for the supply of -the pulpit, for the installation of ministers, the erection and care of -buildings, and all expenses connected with public worship. The Church -held meetings for the election of Deacons, the discipline of members, and -the spiritual interests of the people. But the town managed everything -that now belongs to the Society. It was the town that invited Mr. Daniel -Boardman to labor here, and that settled him as a pastor, making all the -arrangements for his installation. The town did the same in the case -of Mr. Taylor. So far as the records show, the Church took no separate -action in calling its pastors until the invitation to Mr. Griswold, in -1790, when it formally voted, as has been the custom ever since, to -concur in the Society’s action. From 1713 to 1750 a large part of the -business in Town Meeting was in regard to Ecclesiastical affairs. - -The first Meeting House, “40 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 24 feet between -“gists,” with suitable proportions,” was built in 1718-19, but not opened -for worship until 1720, and then it was in a very unfinished condition. -In 1720 it was voted to wall up the gists before Winter and fill in -between the lathe and studs with timber and mortar. The floor was not -laid until 1723. This building stood on the highway on Town Hill, a few -rods North of the present residence of Mrs. J. P. Treadwell. The second -house of worship, “64 feet long, 44 feet wide, and 27 fee posts,” nearly -twice the size of the first, was erected in 1754, the town applying to -the General Assembly for power to sell the old Meeting House, and to -tax non-resident land holders for building the new one. This building -stood on the Village Green, nearly opposite the present residence of Mr. -Solomon E. Bostwick. The present edifice was erected in 1833, and though -much larger than the former, for several years persons wishing slips have -been unable to obtain them. It would be a good Centennial work to enlarge -the building. - -The Sabbath Day House was an institution that is unknown to the present -generation. In 1745 the town voted “that any farmers, inhabitants, have -leave to build a small house to repair to on Sabbath day on the common -land, provided the public is not damnified thereby.” This building was -located “North of the Meeting House on the side of the hill.” After the -erection of the Church on the Green, the Sabbath Day House was built on -the spot where now stands the house so long occupied by the Rev. Mr. -Acly. It is described to me by a lady still with us (Mrs. Eli Mygatt) who -went through it more than 70 years ago, as a long, low building, with -four large rooms, regarding which frightful stories were told of the -ghosts that inhabited it. In this building, farmers, whose homes were -distant, stored loads of wood, and barrels of cider, and here they warmed -their bean soup, replenished their foot-stoves and regaled themselves in -the hour between services. Until 1870 the services were held morning and -afternoon; since 1870, the second service has been held in the evening. - -The Chapel was built by individuals, with permission of the Society in -1838-9. The Meeting Houses were not heated until 1823-5, when two box -stoves were put into the second Meeting House. In November, 1833, the -Society voted to obtain “2 of Dr. Nott’s stoves and one ton of anthracite -coal for the Winter.” Furnaces were put in in 1860, when the Church was -improved at a cost of $5,225, and land for sheds was bought. The organ -was obtained in 1860, at a cost of $1,200. - -The Parsonage was bought in August, 1870, at a cost of $6,000, paid for -by subscription, and presented, with certain conditions attached, to the -Society. Originally, the people were called to worship, as to all public -meetings, by the beat of a drum, for which an appropriation was made in -1716. For many years after the first Church building was occupied, the -town annually appointed a person to beat the drum and voted him pay for -his services. I have been unable to discover when the first bell was -obtained. A Church clock which hung in the steeple of the second Meeting -House must have been bought about a century ago. In 1780 the liabilities -of the Society are thus stated: “Arrears yet due on account of clock £7 -3s. 5d. and due Widow Prudence Collins, for sweeping the Meeting House £1 -10s. 0d.” - -Until 1745 this was the only Society and every person in town was taxed -for its support. From 1750 to 1790 persons who aided in supporting other -Societies were by vote, relieved from the tax for the support of this -Society. There is no instance on record in which a request for relief on -this plea was refused. From 1800, though this Society had the legal right -up to 1819, to tax all, only the members of the Society were, in fact, -taxed for its benefit. The proposal to meet necessary expenses by the -sale of slips was first made in 1851 and rejected by a large majority. -This plan was adopted in 1854 and has continued until the present. -Previous to that, committees had from time to time “seated and dignified -the Meeting House.” The resolutions of 1756, were, that “all persons of -the age of 56 years and upwards should be seated in the first rank of -seats, and all other persons according to the rates and taxes they have -paid towards building said Meeting House.” But for special reasons of -honor or infirmity, persons were often, by vote, placed in the highest -rank. In subsequent seatings, it was usually voted that “no person should -be placed lower than he had previously been.” - -This Society does not seem ever to have received pecuniary aid from -sister Churches, or from individuals outside of its own membership. -In 1719 an agent was sent to Milford “to see what they would do for -the support of the Gospel here.” That application was probably to the -Proprietors, and there is no record of its result. The Proprietors set -apart what were called “Donation” or “Parsonage Lands for the support -of the Gospel according to the Presbyterian Congregational order, in -the town.” From these lands a 24s. lot was given to Mr. Boardman as -part of his settlement, and probably a similar lot to Mr. Taylor at his -ordination. The remainder of this land was sold at different times before -1790, and the proceeds given to the various Societies within the town in -proportion to the “List” of their members. And in 1790 the Proprietors -appointed a Committee to examine the roads belonging to them, to narrow -them and sell the land thus obtained. This Committee completed its work -in 1810. Part of the proceeds of the land thus sold from the highways, -was donated to this Society, and carefully invested in Hartford Bank -Stock, which it holds to this day. - -In 1792 Col. Josiah Starr, who had long been Treasurer, purchased some -Hartford Bank Stock, for the Society, and to complete the payment -advanced out of his own funds $192 24. Mr. Comstock, a later Treasurer, -has recorded that this was never repaid. Col. Starr, doubtless, intended -this as a gift to the Society. - -September 13th, 1860, a vote of thanks was passed to John P. Treadwell, -Esq., then of New York, for the gift of $500 toward the purchase of an -organ. - -September 19th, 1834, a vote of thinks to Miss Gratia M. Merwin for the -donation of $100. - -March 3d, 1870, a vote of thanks to Royal I. Canfield, for $500, given -for a permanent fund, the avails to be used for the support of the -Gospel. Mr. Canfield had previously (1861) given additional land for -sheds, which cost him $100. - -Mr. Homer Beard, who died February, 1871, bequeathed to the Society land -which was sold for $1,030. - -And Mrs. Phebe Beard, his widow, who died September, 1874, left to the -Society property which netted $832. - -This Society has always shown a characteristic New England thrift and -prudence in regard to its finances. So early as 1755, it appointed -a committee to “take care of the money, coming from the sale of the -Parsonage lands, to loan out said money on good and sufficient security.” -From that time to this, the Society has always had money loaned, invested -in Government securities or in Bank stock. And in 1787, it was voted -that only the interest over _six_ per cent., should be used for current -expenses. But this rule has not been observed or the Society would now be -rich. - -From 1752 until 1796, all the educational and religious affairs of the -town were under the control of this Society. It located the Schools, -fixed the tax, collected it, and superintended the Schools through -committees annually appointed. It was, in fact, the School Society for -the Town, and as such received Benoni Stebbins’ legacy. It fixed and -collected the tax for the salary of the ministers, “for the sweeping out -of the Meeting House.” It also, in some measure, managed the financial -affairs of the Episcopal Society; for in 1771, after appointing Ichabod -Bostwick to gather the minister’s rate, it appointed “Solomon Hodkiss -to gather a rate for Mr. Clark.” And in 1772 this Society issued a -notice “to warn all the Church people to meet together on Monday, the -13th day of instant, April, at St. John’s Church at 8 of the clock in -the morning, then and there to consult such measures as they shall -think proper to procure a Glebe house for the Rev. Mr. Clark, and to -do such other business as shall be thought proper.” The minutes of the -meeting thus warned are recorded as “a meeting of the inhabitants of the -1st Ecclesiastical Society—holden by the Church of England.” This was -doubtless done, in a fraternal spirit, to give legal efficacy to the -action of the Episcopal Society in disposing of one Glebe and purchasing -another. This shows the kindly feeling that then, as now and always, has -governed the members of this Society. The Church Review (vol. ii, p. -317,—See Hollister’s Hist. of Conn. vol. ii, p. 545—Note) states that -“certain Churchmen in New Milford were fined for refusing to attend the -meetings of the established Church. These fines were, by recommendation -of Mr. Beach, paid, and copies of the proceedings taken to be forwarded -to the King and council. The fact becoming known, the authorities -refunded the money and granted permission to build a church, which before -had been refused.” I do not know the authority of the Church Review for -this statement; but I do know that there is no warrant for it in Town or -Society’s books. There is no record of any refusal to permit Churchmen -to build, nor of the remittance of a fine upon any person for being -absent from the worship of this Church; yet the books contain records of -scores of votes remitting fines for breach of the Sabbath and other minor -offences. From 1752 to 1819 this Society had all the legal rights in its -own hand. But, in all the records there is no instance of anything like -intolerance, or a disposition to throw obstacles in the way of others; -while there are numerous instances of its generosity, and readiness to -aid those who entertained a faith different from its own. - -This Society has uniformly treated its ministers honorably and kindly. -It has always acted with a good degree of unanimity. In every instance, -except the first, the Society has found it difficult to unite in the -calling of a pastor. At such times feeling has often run high, and when -a call was voted, there has often been a few votes in the negative But -the call once given and the pastor settled, parties have disappeared -and all united in treating the man with the respect due to his office. -Of the 8 pastors who have preceded the present, 3—Boardman, Taylor, and -Elliot—died in office. Mr. Griswold left voluntarily, without any action -on the part of the Church or Society. Mr. Porter resigned because of -his “physical inability to perform the duties belonging to so large and -scattered a parish.” Mr. Murdoch resigned to accept the invitation of the -Third Church in New Haven. In regard to Mr. Rood, the Church and Society -both voted unanimously that a change was needful for their well being; -but even then, it voted him a gift of $400 and borrowed the money to give -it to him. In the only other instance in which a change was desired, it -was solely because of the physical infirmity of the pastor, who was as -universally admired for his talents, as he was revered for his character. -On his resignation, the Society voted him a donation of $500. The Society -has always cared for the comfort of its pastors and been faithful to its -promises to them. In the times of Messrs. Boardman and Taylor it was very -poor and did not always pay promptly; but then it allowed interest on -all arrearages. It gave Mr. Boardman a settlement in land and increased -his salary from £50 and 40 cords of wood, “good and suitable for the -fire,” to £125. It gave Mr. Taylor a settlement of £1,000, payable in -installments within three years, and increased his salary from time to -time at his request. But in 1779—“the time that tried men’s souls”—Mr. -Taylor, “trusting to the generosity of the members of the Society,” -relinquished his salary of £150, lawful money, from May 1st, 1778, to May -1st, 1779. And in 1782, Mr. Taylor, “taking into consideration the great -burden and heavy taxes now lying on the people by reason of the present -war, and he, being free and willing to bear a proportionate part of the -cost and burden with others of the Society,” did “abate and discharge to -said Society, the sum of £30, lawful money” from what was then due to -him. And the Society, in its vote of thanks, “allowed that £30 was his -full equal part, according to his interest or estate.” On the ordination -of Mr. Griswold the Society voted Mr. Taylor “a gratuity of £80, in -addition to all arrears then due to him.” Mr. Griswold’s settlement was -£200, with a salary of £100, “payable in gold or silver, or produce at -such prices as he would accept, with interest on all arrears.” £15 was -afterwards added to his salary “because he did not receive so much wood -as he expected.” And from 1794 to 1801 the Society annually voted him, -usually £30 “in view of the high price of provisions the current year.” -Mr. Elliot’s salary was $550: but from 1819 to his death $50 additional -was annually voted to him except in 1826. Mr. Rood’s salary was $600, -while Messrs. Porter and Greenwood had $700; Mr. Murdoch accepted the -call of the Church and Society at a salary of $800, which, on his -application, was gradually increased to $2,000. And in 1868 members of -the Society presented him $1,750. - -This statement of facts shows that this Society has aimed to do well by -its pastors, and that these pastors were men who were worthy of good -treatment. - -These pastors were:— - -1. Daniel Boardman—Graduated at Yale College, 1709, was ordained here -November 21st, 1716, and died August, 25th, 1744. - -2. Nathaniel Taylor was born in Danbury, August 27th, 1722; graduated at -Yale College, in 1745; was ordained pastor here June 29th, 1748, and died -here December 9th, 1800. He fitted many boys for College and married the -daughter of his predecessor. - -3. Stanley Griswold was born in Torringford, November 14th, 1763; -graduated at Yale College, in 1786; was ordained pastor here June 20th, -1790; became a Unitarian, threw open the sacraments to all, and was -censured by Consociation. He left town in 1802, and edited a political -paper in New Hampshire. In 1805 he was appointed Secretary of Michigan -Territory. In 1809 he was sent to the U. S. Senate, was afterwards Chief -Judge of the N. W. Territory, and died at Shawneetown, Ill., August 25th, -1815, aged 52. - -This Church and Society united in forming the Litchfield South -Consociation, on July 7th, 1752. But feeling aggrieved by the action -of the Association and Consociation in relation to Mr. Griswold, -the Society, September 1805, by a unanimous vote withdrew from said -Consociation, for intermeddling in the private affairs of this Society -and excommunicating the pastor unheard in his own defence. It stood -unconsociated until the installation of Mr. Elliot, when dropping the -half-way covenant, which was adopted here in 1769, it was received -into the Fairfield Consociation, February 24th, 1808. It returned to -Litchfield South Consociation, April 27th, 1836. - -4. Andrew Elliot, son of Rev. Andrew Elliot, of Fairfield; graduated at -Yale College, in 1790; was ordained pastor here February 24th, 1808, and -labored most successfully until his death, May 9th, 1829. No pastor of -this Church has exerted a more powerful and healthy influence upon the -town than Mr. Elliot. The most extensive and genuine revival that ever -blessed this community, was under his ministry. - -5. Heman Rood was born in Vermont; graduated at Middlebury College in -1819, and Seminary in 1825; was ordained pastor at Gilmanton, N. H., June -12th, 1826-30; was pastor in New Milford from 1830 to 1835. Mr. Rood’s -pastorate was the briefest this Church has ever had. He was afterwards -professor in the Theological Seminary, at Gilmanton, N. H., 7 years. - -6. Noah Porter, son of Rev. Noah Porter, D. D., of Farmington, was -born December 14th, 1811; graduated at Yale College, in 1831; at -Yale Seminary, in 1836; was ordained pastor here April 27th, 1836, -and resigned December 31st, 1842; after serving the South Church, -Springfield, Mass., 4 years, he then became a professor in Yale -University of which institution he was elected President, and inaugurated -October 11th, 1871. - -7. John Greenwood was born in Berwick, Yorkshire, England, June -5th, 1794, and was ordained pastor at Royston, Cambridgeshire, June -20th, 1822-July 17th, 1836; installed pastor at Bethel, April 18th, -1838-February 1842; after serving this Church as settled pastor for one -year, he was installed pastor April 24th, 1844, and resigned May 19th, -1849. In 1843 he received the honorable degree of A. M. from Yale College. - -8. David Murdoch, was born in Glasgow, Scotland; graduated at Union -College, in 1845; Union Theological Seminary, 1848; ordained pastor here -September 18th, 1850, and remained until September 28th, 1869. He was -installed pastor of the New Haven Third Church, October 1st, 1869, and -remained until May 15th, 1874. - -9. James B. Bonar graduated at Wabash College, 1853; at Union Theological -Seminary, New York, 1856; ordained —— by the Third Presbyterian Church, -New York, March 18th, 1857; installed pastor American Presbyterian -Church, Montreal, Canada, June 6th, 1857, and left in 1869. He was -installed pastor at New Milford, June 30th, 1870. - -The Church connected with this Society was organized November 21st, -1716, with 8 male and 5 female members. During the first pastorate 225 -more were added by profession and letter. During Mr. Taylor’s ministry -of 42 years, 301 names were added to the roll. Mr. Griswold kept a full -record of Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths during his entire ministry. -His list of admissions to the Church is only to January 1st, 1797. From -that date he seems to have invited all persons to the Sacraments. Under -his ministry only 34 persons united with the Church. At his ordination -Mr. Elliott found only 43 members—showing how the Church had been -broken up in the 8 years preceding. Nine years later, after the Church -at Bridgewater had been formed, Mr. Elliott reports a membership of -118; but this was before the revival that moved the town. Three hundred -and nineteen members were added to the Church during Mr. Elliot’s -ministry—most of them on profession of faith. There were added to the -Church under Mr. Rood, 153, Mr. Porter, 116, and Mr. Greenwood, 46. After -the retirement of Mr. Greenwood, Rev. E. W. Andrews was acting pastor -for 6 or 8 months, and received 63 persons to Church fellowship. In -the 19 years of Mr. Murdoch’s ministry there were added to the Church, -243 persons; and under the present pastorate of 6 years 80 have been -received. The number of names on the Church roll up to this date is 1593. -In 1861 there was a reported membership of 476; but the roll had not been -revised and corrected since 1836. A careful sifting of the list in the -Fall of 1870, showed a Church membership of 310 at the beginning of the -present pastorate. The actual membership to-day is 332—27 of them over -75 years of age, and one of them over 100 years. At the head of the list -is Mrs. Polly Canfield who united in 1812. Two persons are said to have -died in this town over 100 years of age—Harry Carpenter, a colored man, -and Noah Nodine, who was born in the 17th century and died in the 19th. -Miss Sally Northrop, who celebrated the anniversary of her 100th birthday -on the 29th of June is still living. - -During the last century, the Church was sensitive as to the character -of its Deacons. Instead of electing brethren at once to the office, -it choose them to serve during the Church’s pleasure. If acceptable -after one or two years trial, they were, by vote, “established as -Deacons.” And in 1750 the Church voted that one brother, who had thus -been on trial for two years, “should not be established in the office -of Deacon.” Twenty-one persons have so far served the Church in this -office, viz:—Samuel Brownson, James Prime, John Bostwick, Job Terrill, -Samuel Canfield, Bushnell Bostwick, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Gaylord, -John Hitchcock, Sherman Boardman, Elizur Warner, Joseph Merwin, Dobson -W. M’Mahon, John Beecher, Nicanor Stilson, Geo. W. Whittelsey, Geradus -Roberts, Seymour B. Green, William Hine, John J. Conklin, and Ethiel S. -Green. From 1716 to 1803, the Lord’s Supper was administered 4 times a -year; since 1808, every two months. - -Nineteen men from this Church have entered the Gospel ministry, viz:— - -1. David Bostwick, born here January 8th, 1721; was ordained pastor at -Jamaica, L. I., October 9th, 1745, where he stayed until 1746. He was -installed pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, in New York City, in -1756, and died in 1763. His work on Infant Baptism was published here and -in England, and republished in 1837. - -2. Joseph Treat; graduated at Princeton College, in 1757. He was ordained -pastor colleague of Rev. Dr. Bostwick, First Presbyterian Church, N. Y. -City, in 1762, where he remained until 1784. - -3. David Brownson; graduated at Yale College, in 1762, and was ordained -pastor at Oxford in 1764, staying until 1779. He died in 1806. - -4. Benjamin Wildman; graduated at Yale College, in 1758; was ordained -pastor at Southbury, in 1766 and died in 1812. - -5. Whitmon Welch; graduated at Yale College in 1762, and died in 1776. - -6. Gideon Bostwick was born here in 1742; graduated at Yale College in -1762. He was a teacher of the Classical School established in Great -Barrington, Mass., by Dr. Whiting, Col. Dwight and other members of the -Episcopal Church, in 1766. Invited to act as Lay reader, he went to -England and received orders from the Bishop of London, and was Rector at -Great Barrington, from 1767 to 1793. He died here while on a visit to -Mrs. Boardman, who was Dr. Whiting’s daughter. [See Schroeder’s Memorial -of Mrs. M. A. Boardman.] - -7. David Sandford was born in Milford, December 11th, 1737; graduated at -Yale College in 1755; was ordained pastor at Medway, Mass., April 14th, -1763, and continued there until April 7th, 1810. - -8. John Stevens; graduated at Yale College, in 1779; was licensed by -Litchfield South Association, 1780, and died in 1799. - -9. David Baldwin. - -10. Daniel Marsh was born in 1762; graduated at Williams College; was -pastor of Bennington, Vt., from 1806 to 1820; died at Janesville, New -York, in 1843. - -11. Nathaniel W. Taylor, grandson of the second pastor of this Church, -was born here, June 13, 1786; graduated at Yale College, in 1807; -converted in College; was ordained pastor at New Haven, on the first of -April, 1812, and retained the position until December 1822. He was then -Professor in Yale College Theological Seminary, and died in 1858. He -trained nearly 700 young men for the ministry. - -12. Charles A. Boardman; was pastor at New Preston from June 1818, until -March 1830; was installed pastor at New Haven, on the third of March, -1830, remaining until September 1832. He was also installed pastor at -Westport, February 1833, and stayed until December 1836. He died in 1860. - -13. Orlo D. Hine was born here, October 28, 1815; graduated at Yale -College, in 1837; was ordained pastor at Clinton, April 14th, 1841, -laboring there until October 25th, 1842. He was also acting pastor at -Fair Haven, Vt., from 1843 to 1845; acting pastor at Pontiac, Mich., from -1846 to 1851; installed pastor at North Woodstock, January 6th, 1852, and -stayed until November 5th, 1855; and was installed pastor at Lebanon the -first of May 1856. - -14. Merrit S. Platt was born in 1805; graduated at Hamilton College; was -ordained pastor at Madison, N.Y., September 1837, remaining until 1855; -was acting pastor at Hamilton, N. Y., 1855, staying until 1864; was also -acting pastor at Glassboro, New Field, Franklin, New Jersey, in 1864. He -is still living. - -15. Eliezur Beecher, ordained by the Baptists about 1814; was never -settled; preached mainly in this town. - -16. Asahel Bronson was ordained about 1820 or 1825; supposed to be dead. - -17. John Treat Baldwin; graduated at Princeton College; was ordained -about 1820. He is still living. - -18. George Todd; graduated at Yale College about 1820 or 1825; supposed -to be living. - -19. George Sterling was ordained pastor at Wayland, Mich., December, 1874. - -At least four men in this town have been active in National affairs. The -most distinguished was Roger Sherman, a native of Mass., who came here -in 1743. He was clerk to this Ecclesiastical Society, from 1753 to 1761, -and established in the office of Deacon in 1757. Here he wrought as a -shoemaker, aided his brother in the store, and in 1745 was appointed -land surveyor for the County. Removing to New Haven in 1761, he became -judge of the court of Common Pleas, a member of the upper House in the -Legislature, and judge of the Superior Court. In 1774 he was appointed -a member of the first Congress, in which he continued until his death, -at which time he was in the Senate, to which he was elected in 1791. -He was a member of the Governor’s Council of safety, and Mayor of New -Haven from 1784 to his death, July 23d, 1793. In the Congress of 1776 -he was a member of the Committee appointed to draft the Declaration of -Independence, as well as of many of the other most important Committees, -and he was also a member of the board of war, and of the board of -treasury. His services to the Country were invaluable, and few of his -contemporaries left their impress more clearly upon American institutions. - -Elijah Boardman, third son of Deacon Sherman Boardman, and grandson of -the first pastor of this Church, was born March 7, 1760. In 1821 he was -elected to the U. S. Senate; he died August 18th, 1823. Mr. Boardman’s -earlier years were in connection with this Society; but having married -a daughter of the aforementioned Dr. Whiting, a zealous Episcopalian -who engaged in a pamphlet controversy with Dr. Billamy, he afterwards -identified himself with the Episcopal Church and died in its communion. - -Perry Smith, who died in 1852, was elected to the United States Senate in -1836, and served one term. He was connected with the Episcopal Society. - -Orange Merwin, born here July 3, 1776, was in Congress in 1826-7, during -the administration of John Quincy Adams. He died September 5th, 1854. He -was a member of this Society. - -The Sabbath School was begun in 1812 or 14 by Rev. Mr. Elliott, who for -some time was the only teacher. The first appropriation of money for its -benefit by the Church was in 1821. The present membership of the Sabbath -School is 300. The Infant Class in the Chapel was begun, under its -present teacher, Miss Isabella Wilson, in 1872. - -Under Mr. Elliott’s ministry, prayer meetings became common in the town. -They were held on Sundays between services, in the Town House and in the -school houses of the outlying districts. In times of religious interest -many week day meetings were held in various places. A Saturday evening -prayer meeting was held for years in the parlors of Mr. and Mrs. Eli -Mygatt, when they lived on the spot now occupied by the residence of Mrs. -Sanford and afterwards in the Town house. But no regular mid-week Church -afternoon service was established until during Mr. Rood’s pastorate, when -the Friday afternoon meeting was begun. The Tuesday evening meeting was -commenced in 1865 or 66. The Mother’s Monthly Prayer Meeting began in -1869. - -The gifts to the Church, so far, are these: July 14th, 1815, Deacon -Dobson, and W. M’Mahon gave the Church $100, the interest to be used for -relief of poor members, or for books. February 20th, 1820, Deacon M’Mahon -gave $400 to be used for the same purposes. - -In 1844 Miss Lois Wells gave the Church $200 for the relief of the poor, -sick and destitute female members. - -Mrs. Anna Hine, widow of Stephen, who died in 1851 or 2 bequeathed $200 -to the Church. - -And in January 6th, 1860, Miss Sully Northrop, who completed her 100th -year a few days ago, gave $200 to be added to the Church Fund. - -The Benevolent Library originated in the gifts of Deacon M’Mahon, Col. -Samuel Canfield and Philo N. Heacock, who took great interest in it. No -additions have been made to it for some years. It consists of about 600 -volumes of standard works, and merits more attention than it has lately -received. - -It is impossible to form any estimate of the amount of money contributed -by this Church and Society, to religious and benevolent objects. Until -after the installation of Mr. Porter there was no system or regularity -in its charities. Collections were taken up as the town was visited -by agents, or as necessity seemed to require. It is thought that -contributions have been made regularly to the A. B. C. F. M., and the -Am. H. M. S., ever since these societies were formed. The oldest record -of any contribution by this Congregation is the receipt of the County -Treasurer for £94 16s. 0d. which this Society gave “for the suffering and -distressed inhabitants of the towns of New Haven, Fairfield and Norwalk.” -This receipt is dated September 1779, three months after the towns named -had been sacked by Major General Tryon. - -From 1836 to 1871 the Congregation contributed regularly to the Am. Ed., -the Bible, the A. H. M., the Seamen’s F. & S. S. Union, the A. B. C. F. -M., and the A. Tract Societies. Since 1871 we have contributed annually -to the Bible S., Congregational Union, A. H. M. S., Fund for Disabled -Ministers and their widows, the A. B. C. F. M., and the A. M. Association. - -The Rev. W. H. Moore states that, in the 17 years from 1859 to 1875, this -Congregation contributed $18,876.53. Dividing this into two periods, he -finds that in the first nine years you gave $3,765.90, and in the last -eight years $11,810.63, a gratifying increase, which, it is hoped we -shall fully maintain. - -The Ladies’ Mite Society was formed in 1817 as a Dorcas Society. For 50 -years it has annually contributed about $75, divided between A. H. M. S., -Seamen’s F. and A. Ed. Societies. - -The Auxiliary to the Woman’s B. of Missions was formed in May 1872, “The -Golden Links,” and “Star Circle” a year later. These organizations last -year, together, contributed $389. - -Such, in brief, brethren, is the story of your Church, Society and town. -It is one of which you need not be ashamed. A careful study of these -old records has increased my respect and reverence for the men of the -past. Their courage in facing difficulties, their heroic endurance of -privation, their sturdy independence, their delight in the ordinances of -the Gospel, their readiness to assist each other, and their generosity -towards those who differed from them in opinion, are worthy not only of -warm praise, but of careful imitation. - -And yet these men of the past were not all saints and patriots. In 1776 -there were some bitter tories here: One of these was compelled by a -company of riflemen to walk before them from New Milford to Litchfield -carrying one of his own geese the entire distance At Litchfield they -tarred him, made him pluck his own goose, bestowed the feathers upon him, -and drummed him out of the place, after obliging him to kneel down and -thank them for their leniency. And in 1757 David Ferriss was paid 11s. -out of the Society’s treasury, to reimburse him for counterfeit money -which he had received as Collector. This nest of counterfeiters was not -broken up until 1768, when a dozen of them were arrested. The old Church -books show that immorality was not unknown among Church members. The -pastoral letter which was issued to the Churches by the Litchfield South -Consociation in 1752, reveals a state of things in these Churches worse -than any known to-day. Sixty years ago (1816) there was a distillery in -every town—169 in Litchfield County,—26 of them in New Milford. To-day -there are three distilleries in town, and soon it is hoped these will -disappear and the nine places licensed to sell liquors. - -There is abundant cause for gratitude. There has been progress in every -direction. In our beautiful village—than which there is not now a -lovelier or a healthier in New England—with our system of concrete walks, -lamps and water works, our substantial Town Hall and enlarged school -privileges—we may here spend life as pleasantly and profitably, doing -the will of God from the heart—as was could anywhere on the face of the -globe. With all these blessings and privileges there is, of course, an -increased responsibility. It becomes us to conserve and improve all that -the fathers have left us, and hand down an unimpaired inheritance to the -generations that are to follow. - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NEW MILFORD. 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A MEMORIAL DISCOURSE, DELIVERED IN THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, NEW MILFORD, CONN., SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1876 ***</div> - -<h1><span class="smcap">New Milford.</span><br /> -<br /> -A<br /> -<br /> -<span class="smcap">Memorial Discourse</span>.<br /> -<br /> -1876.</h1> - -<hr /> - -<p class="titlepage larger">NEW MILFORD.</p> - -<p class="titlepage larger">A<br /> -Memorial Discourse,</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/title.jpg" width="500" height="150" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="titlepage"><span class="smaller">DELIVERED IN THE</span><br /> -<br /> -CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,<br /> -<br /> -<span class="smaller">NEW MILFORD, CONN.,</span></p> - -<p class="center larger">Sunday, July 9, 1876.</p> - -<p class="titlepage"><span class="smaller">BY</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">JAMES B. BONAR, Pastor.</span></p> - -<p class="titlepage">PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY.</p> - -<p class="titlepage smaller"><span class="smcap">1876.<br /> -M. L. DELAVAN, Printer.<br /> -New Milford, Ct.</span></p> - -<hr /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[1]</span></p> - -<h2>HISTORY<br /> -<span class="smaller"><b>Town and Church of New Milford, Conn.</b><br /> -MEMORIAL SERMON.</span></h2> - -<div class="blockquote"> - -<p>“One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare -thy mighty acts.”—Ps. 145: 4.</p> - -</div> - -<p>The past is full of interest and instruction, so that all -concede the value of history. Its importance is manifest -from the fact that about two-thirds of God’s Holy Word -is historical.</p> - -<p>The history of any and every part of the earth is interesting; -but our own Country and State, the town in which -we reside, the Church to which we belong, and the family -whose name we bear, are to us of the greatest interest. -To-day, therefore, we turn our attention to the history of -this Church, Society and town.</p> - -<p>The sources of information on these subjects, though -bulky, are meagre and imperfect. We have</p> - -<p>1. Minutes of the Proprietor’s Meetings from 1706 to -1801.</p> - -<p>2. Records of Town Meetings from 1713.</p> - -<p>3. Minutes of the meetings of the First Ecclesiastical -Society, from December, 1753.</p> - -<p>4. Ecclesiastical Society’s Treasurer’s books from 1802.</p> - -<p>5. Church Records from December 27th, 1727. These -are not complete; the book kept by Mr. Rood is missing.</p> - -<p>6. MSS. Notes of Rev. W. H. Moore.</p> - -<p>7. Records of Baptist and Methodist Churches.</p> - -<p>8. Memoir of Mrs. Mary A. Boardman, by Rev. Dr. -Schroeder.</p> - -<p>9. And the memory of persons still living.</p> - -<p>In 1703, Col. Robert Treat and others representing 111 -persons, all of Milford, obtained a patent to a certain tract -of land in New Haven County, formerly called Weantinogue. -This tract contained 84 square miles, embracing -what is now known as the towns of New Milford, and -Bridgewater, with parts of Brookfield and New Preston. -It cost the Proprietors about 8 mills an acre. The first -settler, though not a Proprietor, was John Noble, who -came here from Massachusetts, in 1707. The Indians -were then and long afterwards numerous, but seem always -to have been on friendly terms with the settlers. -The Proprietors held their meetings at Milford until 1715. -The first Town Meeting seems to have been held in 1713.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span> -The town was first represented in the Legislature in 1725. -The first record of freemen was made in 1744. The town -belonged to New Haven Colony until the incorporation of -Litchfield County, in 1751. The first bridge over the -Housatonic, between the sea and its source, was built here -in 1737. The first school in the town was opened in 1721, -and was taught 4 months in the year, the town paying -half the expense.</p> - -<p>In 1707 two persons came into New Milford.</p> - -<p>In 1712 there were here 12 families or between 60 and -70 persons. A census, taken in 1756, reports 1137 in the -town; another taken in 1774, reported 2776, while in -1800, after parts of the town had been ceded to Brookfield -and Washington, the population was 3198. The census of -1870, gives the population of the present New Milford, -as 3586, while Bridgewater, formerly a part of this town, -has 877 inhabitants.</p> - -<p>New Milford has always been loyal to the cause of freedom. -In 1779 the town voted 4 bushels of wheat a month -to every man who volunteered for six months, and three -bushels a month to the militia men who marched when -ordered; but, if they failed to report within eight days -after marching orders, they forfeited this premium. The -town also supported the families of men while absent in -the Continental army. In 1778 the Articles of Confederacy -proposed by Congress, styled “The United States of -North America,” were adopted in town meeting, except -part of the 5th article, which respects the mode of choosing -Delegates to Congress. It was “Voted that the Freemen -will always hold the prerogative and sole power of -choosing our Delegates in Congress by vote.” Subsequently, -“said Articles of Confederacy were adopted in full by -the meeting without a dissenting voice.” In 1783 it was -voted, and a Committee was appointed to enforce the resolution, -that all refugees, or “skedaddlers,” as they would -now be termed, as well as all who had voluntarily gone -over to the enemy during the war, should be prohibited -from returning and settling in the town. The Adjutant-General -of Connecticut, reports the names of 222 men -from the town of New Milford as having served in the -armies of the United States during the Civil War of 1861-65. -This does not include the 37 who deserted nor the -<i>one</i> who was <i>dishonorably</i> discharged.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span></p> - -<p>The town, as such, has always upheld the cause of morality -and good order. In 1787 certain persons were -fined “for bringing into the town and entertaining unwholesome -inhabitants.” So early as 1729 it was voted in -town meeting that “James Hine have oversight of the female -sex during exercises” in Church. And so late as -1821 a certain person was fined $1.67 for “breach of the -Sabbath,” but this fine was remitted.</p> - -<p>The way in which they cared for the poor and guarded -the interests of the town, appears from the vote of 1771—“That -a black bonnet, a red woman’s cloak, and a worsted -gown be kept for the daughter of Hannah Beeman; if -she die under age, the town to have them.”</p> - -<p>The first sermon was preached here by Col. John Reid, -who had studied for the ministry in his youth. Mr. Daniel -Boardman, a preacher of the Gospel, came here in 1712. -The next year it was voted that the inhabitants should -pay all the expense that had been incurred in obtaining a -minister, also to lay out a pastor’s lot, to dig and stone up -a well for Mr. Daniel Boardman, if he became a settled -minister in New Milford. Meanwhile, the town allowed -5s. 6d. a week for the minister’s board. In 1715 the town -agreed to petition the General Court to “attain liberty for -the settlement of the worship and ordinances of God -among us.” This was the subject that then came up at -every meeting of the inhabitants. It was not until 1716 -that they made arrangements for laying out a burying -ground of two acres; but for four years before that they -had been contriving and planning for the religious instruction -of themselves and families. The poverty of the -people appears in the resolution adopted as to Mr. Boardman’s -salary, one third of which was to be paid in grain, -two-thirds in labor, linen, or pork; the established price -of wheat was then 4s. a bushel, rye, 2s. 8d., corn 2s. and -oats 1s.; part of the agreement being that Mr. Boardman -should sell the grain which he had to spare at the same -prices to the inhabitants. In accordance with a vote of -the town, Mr. Boardman was ordained November 21st, -1716.</p> - -<p>So far as the records show, there was then entire unanimity -of religious belief and opinion among the people. The -Ecclesiastical Society and the Town were practically one -and the same. Everything regarding the building and finances<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span> -of the Society was determined in Town Meeting. -The first division occurred in 1731-2, when 20 persons -withdrew to form a Quaker Society. They built a house -in 1742 and have continued their worship from that time -until the present, though at this date there is but one family -of them residing in the town.</p> - -<p>In 1743 the inhabitants of “Newbury” were set off for -a separate religious Society, and in the division of the -Parsonage lands in 1755, £98 3s. 6½d., was given to this Society, -£13 14s. 6½d. to Newbury, and £5 12s. 7½d. to New -Preston. Newbury was the ancient name of Brookfield, -and was formed into a town in 1788, from parts of New -Milford, Danbury, and Newtown. The Church at Brookfield -was therefore organized, not in 1757, as heretofore -reported, but in 1743-4. The inhabitants of the “Neck,” -as Bridgewater, was originally called, early made representations -to this Society of the inconvenience of attending -worship here during Winter months. Part of their -tax was remitted on condition that they provided preaching -for themselves during the Winter; and for a number -of years Mr. Taylor and Mr. Griswold spent one Sabbath -in each of the three Winter months at the Neck. The -Church at Bridgewater was organized in 1809. Bridgewater -was set off as a town in 1856.</p> - -<p>There must have been Episcopalians in town earlier, but -the first allusion to them occurs in the record of a town -Meeting in 1744, just previous to the death of Mr. Boardman: -“Voted, That those of us who are of the Church of -England shall be free from paying any charge for a minister -for one year, if circumstances remain as they now -are; but, if in the providence of God our Reverend Pastor -should be taken away, then the said Church men to -be under the same regulation as the rest.” The Rev. James -Beach, of Newtown, visited New Milford occasionally between -1740 and 1745, and a lay reader read service for some -time. The first Episcopal clergyman who resided here -was Rev. Solomon Palmer, who came in 1754. This Society -continued feeble for many years; but under the 20 -years pastorate of the Rev. Charles G. Acly, just closed, -it has grown strong and healthy. It has now 132 families -and 265 communicants.</p> - -<p>The Separatists, or Strict Congregationalists as they were -called, built a meeting house, in what is now the old cemetery,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span> -in 1761. They disbanded in 1812, uniting some -with this Society and some with the Episcopalians.</p> - -<p>Between 1780 and 1785 the followers of Jemima Wilkenson, -who is described as a remarkably comely woman, -with dark hair and sparkling black eyes, built a house in -what is now the old cemetery, on the hill on the road towards -New Preston. They soon sold this building to the -Episcopalians and moved to Genesee, New York, where -Jemima resided.</p> - -<p>The Baptists formed a small Church and erected a house -of worship in the lower end of the town called the Neck -(Bridgewater) in 1788-90, “but never had a pastor, and soon -moved elsewhere.”</p> - -<p>The Baptist Church at Northville was organized February -9th, 1814, with 7 males and 16 female members, most -of whom had previously been connected with a Baptist -Church in Roxbury. Its present membership is 46. The -Baptist Church at Gaylordsville was formed about 1830 -and has always been small. Its present membership is 33. -Somewhere about 1830 a Union Church was built at Merryall, -which was used chiefly, but not wholly, by the Baptists. -No Society was ever formed, and no service has -been held in the house for 20 years.</p> - -<p>The Rev. Elijah Hebard, from Stratford circuit, seems -to have been the first Methodist Episcopal minister who -visited New Milford. In 1815 he preached at John Warner’s -in Pleasant Valley. Others followed, and in 1825 a -Society was formed in Gaylordsville; that Society still exists -and has now 66 members. In 1826 the Methodists -erected a Church at Northville; and in 1828-9 they erected -another on the Plains at a cost of $3,000. It is to be -regretted that these organizations at Northville and on the -Plains are both extinct and have been so for twenty-five -years. The Methodist Church in the Village was erected -in 1849 and dedicated by Bishop Janes in May, 1850—the -Rev. Wm. M’Allister, then being the Preacher in charge. -Its present membership is 130.</p> - -<p>The Roman Catholics opened a place for worship in -1860-61, but had no resident priest until 1872. They -have now a large congregation, composed almost exclusively -of persons of foreign birth.</p> - -<p>These are all the Religious Societies that have existed -in the town. Out of a population of 3,586 there is to-day<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span> -a Church membership, exclusive of the Roman Catholics -of 807.</p> - -<p>In 1871-2, this Church thoroughly canvassed the town, -exclusive of New Preston Society, distributing Bibles and -Tracts, and carefully reporting the Church attendance and -preferences of the people by families. Of the 707 <i>families</i> -reported, there were Congregational, 218; Episcopal, 156; -Methodists, 88; Roman Catholics, 46; 2d Advent, (colored) -18; Baptists, 15; Jews, 3; Lutherans, 2; Friends, 2; -Reformed Dutch, 1; and not attending any Church, 158.</p> - -<p>With this general review of the Ecclesiastical history of -the town, we turn now to consider more minutely the -history of this, the oldest and always largest Church and -Society—the oldest but one and the largest in the County.</p> - -<p>There was no Ecclesiastical Society until after 1750. -Until then, the town was the Society. It was the town -that provided for the supply of the pulpit, for the installation -of ministers, the erection and care of buildings, and -all expenses connected with public worship. The Church -held meetings for the election of Deacons, the discipline -of members, and the spiritual interests of the people. But -the town managed everything that now belongs to the Society. -It was the town that invited Mr. Daniel Boardman -to labor here, and that settled him as a pastor, making all -the arrangements for his installation. The town did the -same in the case of Mr. Taylor. So far as the records -show, the Church took no separate action in calling its -pastors until the invitation to Mr. Griswold, in 1790, when -it formally voted, as has been the custom ever since, to -concur in the Society’s action. From 1713 to 1750 a large -part of the business in Town Meeting was in regard to -Ecclesiastical affairs.</p> - -<p>The first Meeting House, “40 feet long, 30 feet wide, -and 24 feet between “gists,” with suitable proportions,” -was built in 1718-19, but not opened for worship until -1720, and then it was in a very unfinished condition. In -1720 it was voted to wall up the gists before Winter and -fill in between the lathe and studs with timber and mortar. -The floor was not laid until 1723. This building -stood on the highway on Town Hill, a few rods North of -the present residence of Mrs. J. P. Treadwell. The second -house of worship, “64 feet long, 44 feet wide, and 27 fee -posts,” nearly twice the size of the first, was erected in<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span> -1754, the town applying to the General Assembly for power -to sell the old Meeting House, and to tax non-resident -land holders for building the new one. This building -stood on the Village Green, nearly opposite the present residence -of Mr. Solomon E. Bostwick. The present edifice -was erected in 1833, and though much larger than the former, -for several years persons wishing slips have been -unable to obtain them. It would be a good Centennial -work to enlarge the building.</p> - -<p>The Sabbath Day House was an institution that is unknown -to the present generation. In 1745 the town voted -“that any farmers, inhabitants, have leave to build a -small house to repair to on Sabbath day on the common -land, provided the public is not damnified thereby.” This -building was located “North of the Meeting House on the -side of the hill.” After the erection of the Church on the -Green, the Sabbath Day House was built on the spot where -now stands the house so long occupied by the Rev. Mr. -Acly. It is described to me by a lady still with us (Mrs. Eli -Mygatt) who went through it more than 70 years ago, as -a long, low building, with four large rooms, regarding -which frightful stories were told of the ghosts that inhabited -it. In this building, farmers, whose homes were distant, -stored loads of wood, and barrels of cider, and here -they warmed their bean soup, replenished their foot-stoves -and regaled themselves in the hour between services. Until -1870 the services were held morning and afternoon; -since 1870, the second service has been held in the evening.</p> - -<p>The Chapel was built by individuals, with permission -of the Society in 1838-9. The Meeting Houses were not -heated until 1823-5, when two box stoves were put into -the second Meeting House. In November, 1833, the Society -voted to obtain “2 of Dr. Nott’s stoves and one ton -of anthracite coal for the Winter.” Furnaces were put in -in 1860, when the Church was improved at a cost of $5,225, -and land for sheds was bought. The organ was obtained -in 1860, at a cost of $1,200.</p> - -<p>The Parsonage was bought in August, 1870, at a cost of -$6,000, paid for by subscription, and presented, with certain -conditions attached, to the Society. Originally, the -people were called to worship, as to all public meetings, -by the beat of a drum, for which an appropriation was -made in 1716. For many years after the first Church<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span> -building was occupied, the town annually appointed a -person to beat the drum and voted him pay for his services. -I have been unable to discover when the first bell -was obtained. A Church clock which hung in the steeple -of the second Meeting House must have been bought about -a century ago. In 1780 the liabilities of the Society are -thus stated: “Arrears yet due on account of clock £7 3s. -5d. and due Widow Prudence Collins, for sweeping the -Meeting House £1 10s. 0d.”</p> - -<p>Until 1745 this was the only Society and every person -in town was taxed for its support. From 1750 to 1790 -persons who aided in supporting other Societies were by -vote, relieved from the tax for the support of this Society. -There is no instance on record in which a request for relief -on this plea was refused. From 1800, though this Society -had the legal right up to 1819, to tax all, only the -members of the Society were, in fact, taxed for its benefit. -The proposal to meet necessary expenses by the sale of -slips was first made in 1851 and rejected by a large majority. -This plan was adopted in 1854 and has continued until -the present. Previous to that, committees had from -time to time “seated and dignified the Meeting House.” -The resolutions of 1756, were, that “all persons of the -age of 56 years and upwards should be seated in the first -rank of seats, and all other persons according to the rates -and taxes they have paid towards building said Meeting -House.” But for special reasons of honor or infirmity, -persons were often, by vote, placed in the highest rank. -In subsequent seatings, it was usually voted that “no person -should be placed lower than he had previously been.”</p> - -<p>This Society does not seem ever to have received pecuniary -aid from sister Churches, or from individuals outside -of its own membership. In 1719 an agent was sent -to Milford “to see what they would do for the support of -the Gospel here.” That application was probably to the -Proprietors, and there is no record of its result. The Proprietors -set apart what were called “Donation” or “Parsonage -Lands for the support of the Gospel according to -the Presbyterian Congregational order, in the town.” -From these lands a 24s. lot was given to Mr. Boardman -as part of his settlement, and probably a similar lot to Mr. -Taylor at his ordination. The remainder of this land was -sold at different times before 1790, and the proceeds given<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span> -to the various Societies within the town in proportion to -the “List” of their members. And in 1790 the Proprietors -appointed a Committee to examine the roads belonging to -them, to narrow them and sell the land thus obtained. -This Committee completed its work in 1810. Part of the -proceeds of the land thus sold from the highways, was donated -to this Society, and carefully invested in Hartford -Bank Stock, which it holds to this day.</p> - -<p>In 1792 Col. Josiah Starr, who had long been Treasurer, -purchased some Hartford Bank Stock, for the Society, and -to complete the payment advanced out of his own funds -$192 24. Mr. Comstock, a later Treasurer, has recorded -that this was never repaid. Col. Starr, doubtless, intended -this as a gift to the Society.</p> - -<p>September 13th, 1860, a vote of thanks was passed to -John P. Treadwell, Esq., then of New York, for the gift -of $500 toward the purchase of an organ.</p> - -<p>September 19th, 1834, a vote of thinks to Miss Gratia -M. Merwin for the donation of $100.</p> - -<p>March 3d, 1870, a vote of thanks to Royal I. Canfield, for -$500, given for a permanent fund, the avails to be used for -the support of the Gospel. Mr. Canfield had previously -(1861) given additional land for sheds, which cost him $100.</p> - -<p>Mr. Homer Beard, who died February, 1871, bequeathed -to the Society land which was sold for $1,030.</p> - -<p>And Mrs. Phebe Beard, his widow, who died September, -1874, left to the Society property which netted $832.</p> - -<p>This Society has always shown a characteristic New England -thrift and prudence in regard to its finances. So -early as 1755, it appointed a committee to “take care of -the money, coming from the sale of the Parsonage lands, -to loan out said money on good and sufficient security.” -From that time to this, the Society has always had money -loaned, invested in Government securities or in Bank -stock. And in 1787, it was voted that only the interest -over <i>six</i> per cent., should be used for current expenses. -But this rule has not been observed or the Society would -now be rich.</p> - -<p>From 1752 until 1796, all the educational and religious -affairs of the town were under the control of this Society. -It located the Schools, fixed the tax, collected it, and superintended -the Schools through committees annually appointed. -It was, in fact, the School Society for the Town,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span> -and as such received Benoni Stebbins’ legacy. It fixed -and collected the tax for the salary of the ministers, “for -the sweeping out of the Meeting House.” It also, in some -measure, managed the financial affairs of the Episcopal -Society; for in 1771, after appointing Ichabod Bostwick -to gather the minister’s rate, it appointed “Solomon Hodkiss -to gather a rate for Mr. Clark.” And in 1772 this Society -issued a notice “to warn all the Church people to -meet together on Monday, the 13th day of instant, April, -at St. John’s Church at 8 of the clock in the morning, -then and there to consult such measures as they shall -think proper to procure a Glebe house for the Rev. Mr. -Clark, and to do such other business as shall be thought -proper.” The minutes of the meeting thus warned are recorded -as “a meeting of the inhabitants of the 1st Ecclesiastical -Society—holden by the Church of England.” -This was doubtless done, in a fraternal spirit, to give legal -efficacy to the action of the Episcopal Society in disposing -of one Glebe and purchasing another. This shows -the kindly feeling that then, as now and always, has governed -the members of this Society. The Church Review -(vol. ii, p. 317,—See Hollister’s Hist. of Conn. vol. ii, p. -545—Note) states that “certain Churchmen in New Milford -were fined for refusing to attend the meetings of the -established Church. These fines were, by recommendation -of Mr. Beach, paid, and copies of the proceedings -taken to be forwarded to the King and council. The fact -becoming known, the authorities refunded the money and -granted permission to build a church, which before had -been refused.” I do not know the authority of the Church -Review for this statement; but I do know that there is no -warrant for it in Town or Society’s books. There is no -record of any refusal to permit Churchmen to build, nor -of the remittance of a fine upon any person for being absent -from the worship of this Church; yet the books contain -records of scores of votes remitting fines for breach -of the Sabbath and other minor offences. From 1752 to -1819 this Society had all the legal rights in its own hand. -But, in all the records there is no instance of anything -like intolerance, or a disposition to throw obstacles in -the way of others; while there are numerous instances of -its generosity, and readiness to aid those who entertained -a faith different from its own.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span></p> - -<p>This Society has uniformly treated its ministers honorably -and kindly. It has always acted with a good degree -of unanimity. In every instance, except the first, the Society -has found it difficult to unite in the calling of a pastor. -At such times feeling has often run high, and when a call -was voted, there has often been a few votes in the negative -But the call once given and the pastor settled, parties -have disappeared and all united in treating the man -with the respect due to his office. Of the 8 pastors who -have preceded the present, 3—Boardman, Taylor, and -Elliot—died in office. Mr. Griswold left voluntarily, without -any action on the part of the Church or Society. Mr. -Porter resigned because of his “physical inability to perform -the duties belonging to so large and scattered a parish.” -Mr. Murdoch resigned to accept the invitation of -the Third Church in New Haven. In regard to Mr. Rood, -the Church and Society both voted unanimously that a -change was needful for their well being; but even then, -it voted him a gift of $400 and borrowed the money to give -it to him. In the only other instance in which a change -was desired, it was solely because of the physical infirmity -of the pastor, who was as universally admired for his -talents, as he was revered for his character. On his resignation, -the Society voted him a donation of $500. The -Society has always cared for the comfort of its pastors -and been faithful to its promises to them. In the times of -Messrs. Boardman and Taylor it was very poor and did not -always pay promptly; but then it allowed interest on all -arrearages. It gave Mr. Boardman a settlement in land -and increased his salary from £50 and 40 cords of wood, -“good and suitable for the fire,” to £125. It gave Mr. -Taylor a settlement of £1,000, payable in installments -within three years, and increased his salary from time to -time at his request. But in 1779—“the time that tried -men’s souls”—Mr. Taylor, “trusting to the generosity of -the members of the Society,” relinquished his salary of -£150, lawful money, from May 1st, 1778, to May 1st, 1779. -And in 1782, Mr. Taylor, “taking into consideration the -great burden and heavy taxes now lying on the people by -reason of the present war, and he, being free and willing -to bear a proportionate part of the cost and burden with -others of the Society,” did “abate and discharge to said -Society, the sum of £30, lawful money” from what was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span> -then due to him. And the Society, in its vote of thanks, -“allowed that £30 was his full equal part, according to -his interest or estate.” On the ordination of Mr. Griswold -the Society voted Mr. Taylor “a gratuity of £80, in -addition to all arrears then due to him.” Mr. Griswold’s -settlement was £200, with a salary of £100, “payable in -gold or silver, or produce at such prices as he would accept, -with interest on all arrears.” £15 was afterwards -added to his salary “because he did not receive so much -wood as he expected.” And from 1794 to 1801 the Society -annually voted him, usually £30 “in view of the high -price of provisions the current year.” Mr. Elliot’s salary -was $550: but from 1819 to his death $50 additional was -annually voted to him except in 1826. Mr. Rood’s salary -was $600, while Messrs. Porter and Greenwood had $700; -Mr. Murdoch accepted the call of the Church and Society -at a salary of $800, which, on his application, was gradually -increased to $2,000. And in 1868 members of the -Society presented him $1,750.</p> - -<p>This statement of facts shows that this Society has aimed -to do well by its pastors, and that these pastors were men -who were worthy of good treatment.</p> - -<p>These pastors were:—</p> - -<p>1. Daniel Boardman—Graduated at Yale College, 1709, -was ordained here November 21st, 1716, and died August, -25th, 1744.</p> - -<p>2. Nathaniel Taylor was born in Danbury, August 27th, -1722; graduated at Yale College, in 1745; was ordained -pastor here June 29th, 1748, and died here December 9th, -1800. He fitted many boys for College and married the -daughter of his predecessor.</p> - -<p>3. Stanley Griswold was born in Torringford, November -14th, 1763; graduated at Yale College, in 1786; was ordained -pastor here June 20th, 1790; became a Unitarian, -threw open the sacraments to all, and was censured by -Consociation. He left town in 1802, and edited a political -paper in New Hampshire. In 1805 he was appointed Secretary -of Michigan Territory. In 1809 he was sent to the -U. S. Senate, was afterwards Chief Judge of the N. W. -Territory, and died at Shawneetown, Ill., August 25th, 1815, -aged 52.</p> - -<p>This Church and Society united in forming the Litchfield -South Consociation, on July 7th, 1752. But feeling<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span> -aggrieved by the action of the Association and Consociation -in relation to Mr. Griswold, the Society, September -1805, by a unanimous vote withdrew from said Consociation, -for intermeddling in the private affairs of this Society -and excommunicating the pastor unheard in his own defence. -It stood unconsociated until the installation of Mr. -Elliot, when dropping the half-way covenant, which was -adopted here in 1769, it was received into the Fairfield -Consociation, February 24th, 1808. It returned to Litchfield -South Consociation, April 27th, 1836.</p> - -<p>4. Andrew Elliot, son of Rev. Andrew Elliot, of Fairfield; -graduated at Yale College, in 1790; was ordained -pastor here February 24th, 1808, and labored most successfully -until his death, May 9th, 1829. No pastor of this -Church has exerted a more powerful and healthy influence -upon the town than Mr. Elliot. The most extensive and -genuine revival that ever blessed this community, was under -his ministry.</p> - -<p>5. Heman Rood was born in Vermont; graduated at -Middlebury College in 1819, and Seminary in 1825; was -ordained pastor at Gilmanton, N. H., June 12th, 1826-30; -was pastor in New Milford from 1830 to 1835. Mr. Rood’s -pastorate was the briefest this Church has ever had. He -was afterwards professor in the Theological Seminary, at -Gilmanton, N. H., 7 years.</p> - -<p>6. Noah Porter, son of Rev. Noah Porter, D. D., of -Farmington, was born December 14th, 1811; graduated at -Yale College, in 1831; at Yale Seminary, in 1836; was ordained -pastor here April 27th, 1836, and resigned December -31st, 1842; after serving the South Church, Springfield, -Mass., 4 years, he then became a professor in Yale University -of which institution he was elected President, and inaugurated -October 11th, 1871.</p> - -<p>7. John Greenwood was born in Berwick, Yorkshire, -England, June 5th, 1794, and was ordained pastor at Royston, -Cambridgeshire, June 20th, 1822-July 17th, 1836; installed -pastor at Bethel, April 18th, 1838-February 1842; -after serving this Church as settled pastor for one year, he -was installed pastor April 24th, 1844, and resigned May 19th, -1849. In 1843 he received the honorable degree of A. M. -from Yale College.</p> - -<p>8. David Murdoch, was born in Glasgow, Scotland; graduated -at Union College, in 1845; Union Theological Seminary,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span> -1848; ordained pastor here September 18th, 1850, and -remained until September 28th, 1869. He was installed pastor -of the New Haven Third Church, October 1st, 1869, and -remained until May 15th, 1874.</p> - -<p>9. James B. Bonar graduated at Wabash College, 1853; -at Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1856; ordained -—— by the Third Presbyterian Church, New York, -March 18th, 1857; installed pastor American Presbyterian -Church, Montreal, Canada, June 6th, 1857, and left in 1869. -He was installed pastor at New Milford, June 30th, 1870.</p> - -<p>The Church connected with this Society was organized -November 21st, 1716, with 8 male and 5 female members. -During the first pastorate 225 more were added by profession -and letter. During Mr. Taylor’s ministry of 42 years, -301 names were added to the roll. Mr. Griswold kept a -full record of Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths during his -entire ministry. His list of admissions to the Church is -only to January 1st, 1797. From that date he seems to -have invited all persons to the Sacraments. Under his -ministry only 34 persons united with the Church. At his -ordination Mr. Elliott found only 43 members—showing -how the Church had been broken up in the 8 years preceding. -Nine years later, after the Church at Bridgewater -had been formed, Mr. Elliott reports a membership of -118; but this was before the revival that moved the town. -Three hundred and nineteen members were added to the -Church during Mr. Elliot’s ministry—most of them on -profession of faith. There were added to the Church under -Mr. Rood, 153, Mr. Porter, 116, and Mr. Greenwood, 46. -After the retirement of Mr. Greenwood, Rev. E. W. Andrews -was acting pastor for 6 or 8 months, and received -63 persons to Church fellowship. In the 19 years of Mr. -Murdoch’s ministry there were added to the Church, 243 -persons; and under the present pastorate of 6 years 80 have -been received. The number of names on the Church roll -up to this date is 1593. In 1861 there was a reported membership -of 476; but the roll had not been revised and corrected -since 1836. A careful sifting of the list in the Fall -of 1870, showed a Church membership of 310 at the beginning -of the present pastorate. The actual membership to-day -is 332—27 of them over 75 years of age, and one of -them over 100 years. At the head of the list is Mrs. Polly -Canfield who united in 1812. Two persons are said to have<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span> -died in this town over 100 years of age—Harry Carpenter, -a colored man, and Noah Nodine, who was born in the -17th century and died in the 19th. Miss Sally Northrop, -who celebrated the anniversary of her 100th birthday on -the 29th of June is still living.</p> - -<p>During the last century, the Church was sensitive as to -the character of its Deacons. Instead of electing brethren -at once to the office, it choose them to serve during the -Church’s pleasure. If acceptable after one or two years -trial, they were, by vote, “established as Deacons.” And -in 1750 the Church voted that one brother, who had thus -been on trial for two years, “should not be established in -the office of Deacon.” Twenty-one persons have so far -served the Church in this office, viz:—Samuel Brownson, -James Prime, John Bostwick, Job Terrill, Samuel Canfield, -Bushnell Bostwick, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Gaylord, -John Hitchcock, Sherman Boardman, Elizur Warner, -Joseph Merwin, Dobson W. M’Mahon, John Beecher, -Nicanor Stilson, Geo. W. Whittelsey, Geradus Roberts, -Seymour B. Green, William Hine, John J. Conklin, and -Ethiel S. Green. From 1716 to 1803, the Lord’s Supper -was administered 4 times a year; since 1808, every two -months.</p> - -<p>Nineteen men from this Church have entered the Gospel -ministry, viz:—</p> - -<p>1. David Bostwick, born here January 8th, 1721; was -ordained pastor at Jamaica, L. I., October 9th, 1745, where -he stayed until 1746. He was installed pastor of the First -Presbyterian Church, in New York City, in 1756, and died -in 1763. His work on Infant Baptism was published here -and in England, and republished in 1837.</p> - -<p>2. Joseph Treat; graduated at Princeton College, in -1757. He was ordained pastor colleague of Rev. Dr. -Bostwick, First Presbyterian Church, N. Y. City, in 1762, -where he remained until 1784.</p> - -<p>3. David Brownson; graduated at Yale College, in 1762, -and was ordained pastor at Oxford in 1764, staying until -1779. He died in 1806.</p> - -<p>4. Benjamin Wildman; graduated at Yale College, in -1758; was ordained pastor at Southbury, in 1766 and died -in 1812.</p> - -<p>5. Whitmon Welch; graduated at Yale College in 1762, -and died in 1776.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span></p> - -<p>6. Gideon Bostwick was born here in 1742; graduated -at Yale College in 1762. He was a teacher of the Classical -School established in Great Barrington, Mass., by Dr. -Whiting, Col. Dwight and other members of the Episcopal -Church, in 1766. Invited to act as Lay reader, he went -to England and received orders from the Bishop of London, -and was Rector at Great Barrington, from 1767 to -1793. He died here while on a visit to Mrs. Boardman, -who was Dr. Whiting’s daughter. [See Schroeder’s Memorial -of Mrs. M. A. Boardman.]</p> - -<p>7. David Sandford was born in Milford, December 11th, -1737; graduated at Yale College in 1755; was ordained -pastor at Medway, Mass., April 14th, 1763, and continued -there until April 7th, 1810.</p> - -<p>8. John Stevens; graduated at Yale College, in 1779; -was licensed by Litchfield South Association, 1780, and -died in 1799.</p> - -<p>9. David Baldwin.</p> - -<p>10. Daniel Marsh was born in 1762; graduated at Williams -College; was pastor of Bennington, Vt., from 1806 -to 1820; died at Janesville, New York, in 1843.</p> - -<p>11. Nathaniel W. Taylor, grandson of the second pastor of -this Church, was born here, June 13, 1786; graduated at -Yale College, in 1807; converted in College; was ordained -pastor at New Haven, on the first of April, 1812, and -retained the position until December 1822. He was then -Professor in Yale College Theological Seminary, and died -in 1858. He trained nearly 700 young men for the ministry.</p> - -<p>12. Charles A. Boardman; was pastor at New Preston -from June 1818, until March 1830; was installed pastor at -New Haven, on the third of March, 1830, remaining until -September 1832. He was also installed pastor at Westport, -February 1833, and stayed until December 1836. He -died in 1860.</p> - -<p>13. Orlo D. Hine was born here, October 28, 1815; -graduated at Yale College, in 1837; was ordained pastor -at Clinton, April 14th, 1841, laboring there until October -25th, 1842. He was also acting pastor at Fair Haven, Vt., -from 1843 to 1845; acting pastor at Pontiac, Mich., from -1846 to 1851; installed pastor at North Woodstock, January -6th, 1852, and stayed until November 5th, 1855; and -was installed pastor at Lebanon the first of May 1856.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span></p> - -<p>14. Merrit S. Platt was born in 1805; graduated at -Hamilton College; was ordained pastor at Madison, N.Y., -September 1837, remaining until 1855; was acting pastor -at Hamilton, N. Y., 1855, staying until 1864; was also -acting pastor at Glassboro, New Field, Franklin, New -Jersey, in 1864. He is still living.</p> - -<p>15. Eliezur Beecher, ordained by the Baptists about -1814; was never settled; preached mainly in this town.</p> - -<p>16. Asahel Bronson was ordained about 1820 or 1825; -supposed to be dead.</p> - -<p>17. John Treat Baldwin; graduated at Princeton College; -was ordained about 1820. He is still living.</p> - -<p>18. George Todd; graduated at Yale College about -1820 or 1825; supposed to be living.</p> - -<p>19. George Sterling was ordained pastor at Wayland, -Mich., December, 1874.</p> - -<p>At least four men in this town have been active in National -affairs. The most distinguished was Roger Sherman, -a native of Mass., who came here in 1743. He was -clerk to this Ecclesiastical Society, from 1753 to 1761, and -established in the office of Deacon in 1757. Here he -wrought as a shoemaker, aided his brother in the store, -and in 1745 was appointed land surveyor for the County. -Removing to New Haven in 1761, he became judge of the -court of Common Pleas, a member of the upper House in -the Legislature, and judge of the Superior Court. In 1774 -he was appointed a member of the first Congress, in which -he continued until his death, at which time he was in the -Senate, to which he was elected in 1791. He was a member -of the Governor’s Council of safety, and Mayor of -New Haven from 1784 to his death, July 23d, 1793. In -the Congress of 1776 he was a member of the Committee -appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence, as -well as of many of the other most important Committees, -and he was also a member of the board of war, and of the -board of treasury. His services to the Country were invaluable, -and few of his contemporaries left their impress -more clearly upon American institutions.</p> - -<p>Elijah Boardman, third son of Deacon Sherman Boardman, -and grandson of the first pastor of this Church, was -born March 7, 1760. In 1821 he was elected to the U. S. -Senate; he died August 18th, 1823. Mr. Boardman’s earlier -years were in connection with this Society; but having<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span> -married a daughter of the aforementioned Dr. Whiting, -a zealous Episcopalian who engaged in a pamphlet -controversy with Dr. Billamy, he afterwards identified -himself with the Episcopal Church and died in its communion.</p> - -<p>Perry Smith, who died in 1852, was elected to the United -States Senate in 1836, and served one term. He -was connected with the Episcopal Society.</p> - -<p>Orange Merwin, born here July 3, 1776, was in Congress -in 1826-7, during the administration of John Quincy -Adams. He died September 5th, 1854. He was a -member of this Society.</p> - -<p>The Sabbath School was begun in 1812 or 14 by Rev. -Mr. Elliott, who for some time was the only teacher. The -first appropriation of money for its benefit by the Church -was in 1821. The present membership of the Sabbath -School is 300. The Infant Class in the Chapel was begun, -under its present teacher, Miss Isabella Wilson, in 1872.</p> - -<p>Under Mr. Elliott’s ministry, prayer meetings became -common in the town. They were held on Sundays between -services, in the Town House and in the school -houses of the outlying districts. In times of religious interest -many week day meetings were held in various -places. A Saturday evening prayer meeting was held for -years in the parlors of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Mygatt, when -they lived on the spot now occupied by the residence of -Mrs. Sanford and afterwards in the Town house. But no -regular mid-week Church afternoon service was established -until during Mr. Rood’s pastorate, when the Friday afternoon -meeting was begun. The Tuesday evening meeting -was commenced in 1865 or 66. The Mother’s Monthly -Prayer Meeting began in 1869.</p> - -<p>The gifts to the Church, so far, are these: July 14th, -1815, Deacon Dobson, and W. M’Mahon gave the Church -$100, the interest to be used for relief of poor members, or -for books. February 20th, 1820, Deacon M’Mahon gave -$400 to be used for the same purposes.</p> - -<p>In 1844 Miss Lois Wells gave the Church $200 for the -relief of the poor, sick and destitute female members.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Anna Hine, widow of Stephen, who died in 1851 -or 2 bequeathed $200 to the Church.</p> - -<p>And in January 6th, 1860, Miss Sully Northrop, who -completed her 100th year a few days ago, gave $200 to -be added to the Church Fund.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span></p> - -<p>The Benevolent Library originated in the gifts of Deacon -M’Mahon, Col. Samuel Canfield and Philo N. Heacock, -who took great interest in it. No additions have -been made to it for some years. It consists of about 600 -volumes of standard works, and merits more attention -than it has lately received.</p> - -<p>It is impossible to form any estimate of the amount of -money contributed by this Church and Society, to religious -and benevolent objects. Until after the installation -of Mr. Porter there was no system or regularity in its -charities. Collections were taken up as the town was visited -by agents, or as necessity seemed to require. It is -thought that contributions have been made regularly to -the A. B. C. F. M., and the Am. H. M. S., ever since -these societies were formed. The oldest record of any -contribution by this Congregation is the receipt of the -County Treasurer for £94 16s. 0d. which this Society -gave “for the suffering and distressed inhabitants of the -towns of New Haven, Fairfield and Norwalk.” This receipt -is dated September 1779, three months after the -towns named had been sacked by Major General Tryon.</p> - -<p>From 1836 to 1871 the Congregation contributed regularly -to the Am. Ed., the Bible, the A. H. M., the Seamen’s -F. & S. S. Union, the A. B. C. F. M., and the A. -Tract Societies. Since 1871 we have contributed annually -to the Bible S., Congregational Union, A. H. M. S., -Fund for Disabled Ministers and their widows, the A. B. -C. F. M., and the A. M. Association.</p> - -<p>The Rev. W. H. Moore states that, in the 17 years from -1859 to 1875, this Congregation contributed $18,876.53. -Dividing this into two periods, he finds that in the first -nine years you gave $3,765.90, and in the last eight years -$11,810.63, a gratifying increase, which, it is hoped we -shall fully maintain.</p> - -<p>The Ladies’ Mite Society was formed in 1817 as a Dorcas -Society. For 50 years it has annually contributed -about $75, divided between A. H. M. S., Seamen’s F. and -A. Ed. Societies.</p> - -<p>The Auxiliary to the Woman’s B. of Missions was formed -in May 1872, “The Golden Links,” and “Star Circle” -a year later. These organizations last year, together, contributed -$389.</p> - -<p>Such, in brief, brethren, is the story of your Church,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span> -Society and town. It is one of which you need not be -ashamed. A careful study of these old records has increased -my respect and reverence for the men of the past. -Their courage in facing difficulties, their heroic endurance -of privation, their sturdy independence, their delight -in the ordinances of the Gospel, their readiness to assist -each other, and their generosity towards those who differed -from them in opinion, are worthy not only of warm -praise, but of careful imitation.</p> - -<p>And yet these men of the past were not all saints and -patriots. In 1776 there were some bitter tories here: One -of these was compelled by a company of riflemen to walk -before them from New Milford to Litchfield carrying one -of his own geese the entire distance At Litchfield they -tarred him, made him pluck his own goose, bestowed the -feathers upon him, and drummed him out of the place, -after obliging him to kneel down and thank them for their -leniency. And in 1757 David Ferriss was paid 11s. out of the -Society’s treasury, to reimburse him for counterfeit money -which he had received as Collector. This nest of counterfeiters -was not broken up until 1768, when a dozen of -them were arrested. The old Church books show that -immorality was not unknown among Church members. -The pastoral letter which was issued to the Churches by the -Litchfield South Consociation in 1752, reveals a state of -things in these Churches worse than any known to-day. -Sixty years ago (1816) there was a distillery in every town—169 -in Litchfield County,—26 of them in New Milford. -To-day there are three distilleries in town, and soon it is -hoped these will disappear and the nine places licensed to -sell liquors.</p> - -<p>There is abundant cause for gratitude. There has been -progress in every direction. In our beautiful village—than -which there is not now a lovelier or a healthier in -New England—with our system of concrete walks, lamps -and water works, our substantial Town Hall and enlarged -school privileges—we may here spend life as pleasantly -and profitably, doing the will of God from the heart—as -was could anywhere on the face of the globe. With all -these blessings and privileges there is, of course, an increased -responsibility. It becomes us to conserve and -improve all that the fathers have left us, and hand down -an unimpaired inheritance to the generations that are to -follow.</p> - -<div style='display:block;margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NEW MILFORD. 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