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HISTORICAL MANUAL

SOUTH CHURCH IN ANDOYER, MASS.

AUGUST, 1859.

ANDOVER:
PRINTED BY WARREN F. DRAPER.
1859.

PREFATORY NOTE.

The first printed Manual of the South Church in Andover
bears the date of December, 1812. It contained the Form
of Admission, and the names of 268 members. A second
Manual was issued May 12, 1834. It contained the names
of 528 members, two pages of Historical Items, some account
of the Church Order, the Answer of Rev. S. Phillips to the
question, " What shall we do that we may keep in mind our
Covenant?" and the Questions for Self-Examination. The
Manual published in 1848 included nearly the, same matter ;
its Catalogue numbered 447 names.
The present enlarged Manual has been prepared after pro
tracted labor. The records of the church, and parish, and
town have been painfully searched. Free use has been made
of the memories of old and young inhabitants, and of former
residents. Abbott's History of Andover, and the Genealogi
cal Register of the Abbott Family, have been of constant

4 PREFATORY NOTE.
service. For the notices of the first three pastors, The An
nals of the American Pulpit, Alden's Epitaphs, Hallock's Life
of Dr. Edwards, Taylor's Memoir of Judge Phillips, and the
Memorial of the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the Found
ing of the Theological Seminary, have furnished largely both
facts and language. The Deacons of the church have, from
the beginning, been often consulted, and have fully cooper
ated, as far as possible, in the work. ¦
The compiler, not presuming that there are no mistakes,
suspicious of numberless ways in which mistakes may creep
in, does yet put the work to press in the belief that some
useful facts have been rescued from oblivion, and in the hope
also that some new interest may be excited in the not unim
portant matter of order in the Lord's House.
G. M.
Andover, August 1, 1859.

FORM OF ADMISSION.

ADDRESS.
Beloved Friends, —
You have presented yourselves before God, and his people,
and the world, to make a solemn profession of your religious
faith, and to take upon you the bonds of the everlasting Cove
nant. r We trust you have well considered the nature of this
transaction — the most solemn and momentous in which a mortal
can ever engage, and that you are prepared, by divine grace, to
give yourselves away, as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable
to God through Jesus Christ.
You wiU now attend to the

CONFESSION OF FAITH.
1. Tou believe in one only living and true God — the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost; and that it is the duty of all intelligent
creatures to love and obey Him.
2. Tou believe that the Bible is the Word of God ; that it was
given by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost; and is the sufficient
and only rule of faith and practice.
3. Tou believe that God created man upright ; you believe
the fall of man, the depravity of humarf nature, and that men,
unless they are born again, can never see the kingdom of God.
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6 FORM OF ADMISSION.
4. Tou believe in the incarnation, obedience, suffering, and
death of Christ ; his resurrection and ascension ; that he alone,
by his suffering and death', hath made atonement for sin ; and
that he ever liveth to make intercession for us.
5. Tou believe that Christ hath appointed two special ordi
nances — Baptism and tbe Lord's Supper.
6. Tjou believe in the future existence of the soul ; that there
will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked — a
day of final judgment ; that all will receive according to their
works ; that the wicked will go away into everlasting punish
ment, and the righteous into life eternal.
Thus, you profess to believe.
[Those who have not been baptized, here receive the ordinance of Baptism.]
You will now enter into solemn Covenant with God and with
this Church.

COVENANT.
Tou now, humbly and penitently asking the forgiveness of all
your sins, through the blood of the great Redeemer, give up
'yourselves to God, in an everlasting Covenant, in our Lord
Jesus Christ ; and as in the presence of God, angels, and men,
you solemnly promise, that, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit,
you will forsake the vanities of this present evil world, and
approve yourselves true disciples of Jesus Christ, in all good
carriage toward God, and toward man.
And you likewise promise, so long as God shall continue you
among us, to walk in communion with the Church of Christ in
this place ; to watch over other professing Christians among us ;
to submit to the power and discipline of Christ in his Church, and
duly to attend the seals and the censures, or whatever ordinance
I Christ has commanded to be observed by his people, so far as
the Lord, by his Word and Spirit, has revealed, or shall reveal

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FORM OF ADMISSION. 7
to% you to be your duty ; adorning the doctrine of God our
Saviour in all things, and avoiding the appearance of evil ; and
by daily prayer tcAlmighty God, in the name of his Son Jesus
Christ, you will seek for grace to keep this Covenant.
Thus, you covenant and promise.
We, therefore, the members of this Church {all the members
of the Church here rise), affectionately receive you to our com
munion and fellowship ; and on our part, engage to watch over
your spiritual interests, and walk with you, in all the ordinances
of the gospel as becometh saints. And may God of his infinite
mercy give us grace to be faithful to him, and faithful to each
other, while we live ; that we may be admitted, at last, through
the merits of Christ, to the everlasting fellowship of saints and '
angels, in the presence of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Amen.

PRINCIPLES AND RULES OF CHURCH ORDER.

1. A Christian Church is an association of professed followers
of Christ, organized for the purposes of mutual watchfulness, the
observance of the Christian Sacraments, the maintenance of
Christian worship and instruction, and the extension of the king
dom of Christ in the world : such a body under Christ is fully
competent to choose its officers, admit its members, administer
discipline, and do all other acts necessary to the attainment of
these purposes.
2. A Church, though thus independent of external authority,
is bound in relations of mutual care and communion with other
churches : and this Church will, in all ordinary cases, conform to
the usages of fellowship as established among the Congregational
Churches. 3. The permanent officers of a Church are a Pastor or Pas
tors, and Deacons. This Church also appoints a Church Com
mittee, to examine candidates for admission and to secure a
faithful attention to discipline.
4. The Church Committee consists of the Pastor, the Dea
cons, and four other brethren. The last are chosen for four
years, and their terms of office are so fixed that one vacancy
occurs every year. No One of these is to be elected two imme
diately successive terms. The Committee choose annually, from
their own number, the Clerk and Treasurer of the Church.
5. Persons applying for membership are approved by the
Church Committee, and having been propounded for at least
two Sabbaths, are admitted by vote taken on the afternoon of

PRINCIPLES AND RULES OF CHURCH ORDER. 9
the Preparatory Lecture : and become members on publicly con
senting to the confession of faith and covenant.
6. Those who bring letters of recommendation from other
churches, submit their letters to the Church Committee: if
approved, they are propounded two weeks and received to fellow
ship by vote taken on the afternoon of the Preparatory Lecture.
7. All members of this Church, removed to other towns or
attendant at other places of worship in this town, are expected
to ask for a recommendation and dismission to the church with
which they are worshipping, within one year after their removal,
unless excused by the Church Committee.
8. Members of other churches, wishing to commune with this
Church for more than one year, are desired to request a dismis
sion and recommendation to this Church, unless there be special
reasons for delay.
9. The occasions of discipline are of two kinds — Private, as
wrong done to an individual; Public, as wrong done to the
Church by immoral conduct, and cherished disbelief of the fun
damental doctrines of the Bible.
10. The rules of Christ, as enjoined Matt. 18 : 15 — 17, are to
be literally followed by members of this Church in all cases of
private offence ; and the spirit of these rules is to govern all disci
plinary processes in relation to members guilty of other offences.
11. This Church has had and still has occasion to specify
and condemn long-continued absence from its communion and
worship, failure to share the support of its religious institu
tions, neglect of family prayer, the sale or use of ardent spirits,
except for mechanical, medicinal and sacramental purposes, the
holding of men in slavery, and the defence of the system of
American slavery. '
12. The censures of the Church are admonition and excom
munication : Admonition may be administered privately or pub
licly, according to the circumstances of the case. Excommuni
cation "is simply the withdrawal of fellowship, and should be as
severe as the particular instance may demand.

10 PRINCIPLES AND RULES OF CHURCH ORDER.
13. The Annual Meeting of the Church is on the second Mon
day of January.
14. The weekly prayer meeting of the Church is on Wednes
day evening.
15. The Lord's Supper is administered in the afternoon of the
first Sabbath in January, March, May, July, September and
November. 1 6. The Preparatory Lecture is on the Friday afternoon next
preceding each communion Sabbath.
17. The Church, whenever they come to the table of the
Lord, cordially invite those who are in regular standing as
members of other churches, of whatever name or denomination,
to unite with them in celebrating his love.
18. Baptism is administered to adults at the time of their
profession of faith, and to the children of the Church on the
afternoon of communion, and at such other times as parents find
more convenient for presenting them.
The above Principles and Rules were adopted at the~ Annual
Meeting, Jan. 17, 1859.
a. The Church also elect annually a Sabbath School Commit
tee, who provide for the superintendence of the School, and
attend to all its other interests, which may be presented to them.
A Sabbath School Librarian is annually elected by the Church.
b. The Church likewise, each year, pass a vote specifying the
chief objects of benevolence for which collections shall be*taken,
and the times of taking them. Collectors are appointed by the
Pastor, in different sections of the Parish.
c. A small fund, the donation pf Rev. Samuel Phillips, and
Samuel Abbott, Esq., is held in trust, by the Pastor and Dea
cons of the Church, the avails of which, together with such a
number of the collections taken up after the celebration of the
Lord's Supper as the Church direct, are distributed among the
poor, especially the poor of the Church, according to their ne
cessities.

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QUESTIONS FOR SELF-EXAMINATION. 15
with what spirit ? Is my enjoyment in these seasons so great,
that I can truly say, My soul thirstethfor God, for the living God
— when shall I come "and appear before God ? <
9. How do I spend the Sabbath ? Is it, to me, a day holy to
the Lord, and honorable ? How much of its time do I waste in
indolence — how much devote to business — how much to dress
— how much to my soul ?
10. Do I strive, at all times, to act from a fixed regard to the
glory of God — to resist and overcome sin ? And am I willing,
when I pray for knowledge, zeal, self-denial and holiness, that
my prayers should be answered ? And do I prove that I am
thus willing, by a diligent use of means for the attainment of
these blessings ?
11. What are the feelings that I cherish towards the Church?
How do I speak of its officers, its members, its proceedings, its
plans of doing good, and its covenant obligations ? Had I rather
suffer, if need be, than be the occasion of injuring its influence
and of bringing it into reproach ?
12. Do I, in my dependence on the Holy Spirit, govern my
temper, subdue my passions, and quell a spirit of complaining of
those around me, and of fault finding with my brethren ? Am I
of a meek, a forgiving, and forbearing temper ? And is there,
in my tongue, the law of kindness ?
13. If a parent, are my children baptized — instructed in the
truth — commended to God in prayer, and educated for eter
nity? 14. What proportion of my worldly property do I sanctify to
. the Lord ? In what do I deny myself, for the purpose of doing
good? 15. What poor child of God have I ever made comfortable
and happy ? To how many widows and orphans — to how
many perishing heathen, will the Saviour point, in the last day,
and say unto me, Inasmuch as ye did that deed of charity unto
one of the least of these, ye did it unto me ?
16. Do I love the souls of sinners ? Do I feel for them, as did

16 QUESTIONS FOR SELF-EXAMINATION.
the Man of Sorrows, when he looked upon the city abandoned
of its God ? Is there one to whom I am faithful, and for whose
conversion I feel intense anxiety ?
1-7. Am I interested in the weekly Prayer Meetings — the
Monthly Concert — the Sabbath School? And do I sustain
them, by my presence, my influence, and my heavenly minded-
ness ?
18. Is my zeal periodical, or constant? Is it for self, or for
Christ ? Do I realize my infinite ill desert as a rebel against
God, and humble myself at the foot of the cross ; pleading, what
ever be my petition, Do thou it, for thy name's sake?
19. Do I realize that I am to live but once ? That the char
acter I form here, whether holy or sinful, will be mine forever ?
that the influence I am exerting will be felt when I am dead ?
20. Do I live as though I was bought with blood; and had
given myself to Jesus Christ ? Is it my prayer, in sickness or
health, joy or sorrow, life or death, Thy will, 0 God, be done ?

HISTORICAL SKETCHES

PARISH AND CHUECH.

i.
ORGANIZATION OF THE SOUTH PARISH.
The town of Andover, embracing the present towns of Andover
and North Andover, and the south portion of the city of Law
rence, was settled as early as 1643. " The Church of Andover "
was organized Oct. 24, 1645. The first meeting-house was built
near the old burying ground in North Andover, and stood till
1711. The larger portion of the inhabitants, for several years
after the settlement, resided in that part of the town. When,
however, in 1707, it was thought necessary to build a new meet
ing-house, the votes of the town show that the bulk of population
was in the southerly part. For, " Sept. 9, 1707, voted to set the
meeting-house on the spot of ground near the wood called Holt's
wood, where the cross-paths meet at the south-west corner of
George Abbot's ground." Forty-five residents and proprietors
immediately petitioned to the General Court against this vote, al
leging that the spot was not central, that the consent of the pro
prietors had not been obtained, and that such a distance would
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18 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
greatly incommode the Rev. Mr. Barnard, who lived near the
old meeting-house. Dec. 29, 1707, tbe town appointed a com
mittee " to attend the gentlemen of the General Court's Com
mittee, to view the places, and reply to allegations of the peti
tioners." Feb. 27, 1708, commissioners were chosen to take the
valuation. of the state of the town, in obedience to an act of the
General Court. On taking a vote, the same day, to see if the
town would set the meeting-house differently, the same spot was
chosen as before. Another attempt was made to reverse the
decision Oct. 12, 1708, but it was " voted to build in the same
place : 88 votes, casting vote was number 24." After another
hearing before the General Court, that body ordered, Nov. 2,
1 708, that the town be " forthwith divided into two distinct pre
cincts, and that Col. [Francis] Wainwright, Maj. [Stephen]
Sewall, Maj. [Henry] Somersby, and Nehemiah Jewett, Esq.,
be a committee to perform that division and make it equal for
north and south precincts, within the space of two months, next
coining, unless in the interim the town agree thereon and make
it themselves, and that thereupon the north division take the
present meeting-house and repair and add to it as they please.
" That there be forthwith laid out for the minister of the south
precinct fourteen acres of land for a house lot, and forty acres
at a further distance, part of it lowland, to make meadow, of the
common land in said precinct, which will make them equal to the
other division, to be for the use of the ministry forever.
" That the inhabitants and proprietors of the south division
build a convenient meeting-house for their own use, and a minis
try house.
" Upon all which Mr. Barnard, the present minister, shall
declare Ms choice of which congregation he will officiate in, and
that precinct, north or south, shall fully and wholly perform the
past contract of the town with him, and the other precinct or
division of the town shall call and settle another minister for
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ORGANIZATION OF THE SOUTH PARISH. 19
are hereby impowered to make choice of some discreet persons
among themselves, as committees, to manage and govern their
affairs with respect to building a meeting-house and ministry
house, the making assessments to defray the charge thereof, and
for the support of the ministry, and to appoint collectors to gather
the same ; — and are advised and directed to proceed in these
several articles with that peace and friendship, one towards
another, that they may honor religion and the government, and
themselves." The committee thus appointed ran the following boundary
line, as reported to the General Court, April 12, 1709 : " Begin
ning at a great pitch pine tree, near Merrimack River, marked
with stones about it, and the west corner of Richard Barker's
land, and is said to be the bounds between his land and John Gut-
terson's land, so called, from said pine tree on a straight line to
a stake and heap of stones about it at the corner bounds between
Walter Wright and Hooker Osgood, and from thence on a straight
line to a white oak tree marked A and R, being a bound tree be
tween said town of Andover and Reading, with stones about it,
standing on a hill known as Osgood's Hill."
A protracted controversy ensued with regard to six or seven
persons whose dwelling-houses were near this line. The points
in contention were settled by mutual agreement Nov. 7, 1711.
The line was renewed by a mutual committee of the parishes,
Oct. 7, 1754.
The town delaying, if not refusing, to lay out the land and
lot ordered by the General Court, that body, on petition of the
south precinct, appointed, Feb. 16, 1710, the committee above
mentioned to do it. Nov. 7, 1710, the south precinct petitioned
also that Mr. Barnard might be directed to choose his precinct,
and the General Court desired him " to do so before the eleventh
of December, or that then the south precinct provide for them
selves." Mr. Barnard remained in the north precinct.
The first meeting of the new precinct was warned by John
Abbot, Joseph Ballard, George Abbot, Francis Dane, John

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HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

Russ and William Lovejoy, and was held June 20, 1709.
Henry Holt was its Moderator, and George Abbot was chosen
the Clerk.

OFFICERS OF THE PARISH.
The following is a list of the successive Moderators of the An
nual Meeting, Clerks, Treasurers, and Assessors, of the Parish,
to the present date : .MODERATORS.

1709 Francis Dane.
1710 Ens. William Lovejoy.
1711 Capt. Joseph Chandler.
1713 Ens. Francis Dane.
1714 Lieut. William Lovejoy.
1715 Dea. John Abbot.
1716 " "
1717 Lieut. Francis Dane.
1718 Sergt. William Chandler.
1719 Dea. John Abbot.
1 720 Lieut. Francis Dane.
1721 Dea. Nehemiah Abbot.
1722 Stephen Osgood.
1723 Dea. Nehemiah Abbot.
1724 "
1725 Ens. John Chandler.
1726 " "
1727 Dea. Nehemiah Abbot.
1728 " "
1729 Ens. John Chandler.
1730 " "
1731 " "
1732 " "
1733 Capt. John Chandler.

1 734 Dea. Nehemiah Abbot.
1735 Lieut. William Lovejoy.
1736 Stephen Osgood.
1737 Capt. John Chandler.
1738 " "
1739 Dea. Nehemiah Abbot.
1749 Ens. George Abbot.
1741 Zebadiah Chandler.
1742 Lieut. George Abbot.
1 743 Capt. William Lovejoy.
1 744 Capt. Joseph Sibson.
1 745 Zebadiah Chandler.
1 746 Capt. George Abbot.
1747 Ens. John Foster.
1748 " "
1749 Ens. Ebenezer Abbot.
1 750 Ens. John Foster.
1751 Mr. Isaac Abbot.
1752 Ens. John Foster.
1 753 Mr. John Foster.
1754 Capt. George Abbot
1755 Timothy Ballard.
1756 Capt. George Abbot.
1757 Dea. Isaac Abbot.

OFFICERS OF THE PARISH.

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1758 Mr. William Chandler.
1 759 Capt. John Foster.
1760 " "
1761 " «
1762 Mr. Timothy BaUard.
1763 Capt. John Foster.
1764 Capt. George Abbot.
1765 Capt. John Foster.
1766 George Abbot, Esq.
1767 "
1768 " "
1769 " "
1770 "
1771 Mr. Joshua Holt.
1772 " "
1773 Col. George Abbot.
1774 Mr. Joshua Holt.
1775 Col. George Abbot.
1776 Capt. Joshua Holt.
1777 " »•
1778 " "
1779 Capt. Henry Abbot.
1 780 Capt. Joshua Holt.
1781 Mr. Nehemiah Abbot.
1782 Mr. Philemon Chandler.
1 783 Capt. Henry Abbot.
1784 Mr. Philemon Chandler.
1785 Joshua Holt, Esq.
1786 Mr. Nehemiah Abbot.
1787 Joshua Holt, Esq.
1788 " "
1 789 Mr. Philemon Chandler.
1 790 Mr. Nehemiah Abbot.
1791 Capt. Daniel Poor.
1792 Mr. Philemon Chandler.
1 793 Capt. John L. Abbot.
1 794 Mr. Nehemiah Abbot.
1795 Joshua Holt, Esq.
1796 Mr. Nehemiah Abbot.
1797 Lieut. Zebadiah Holt.
1798 Mr. Nehemiah Abbot.
1799 Joshua Holt, Esq.
1800 Capt. Zebadiah Holt.
1801 " "

1802 Mr. Nehemiah Abbot.
1803 Capt. Zebadiah Holt
1804 " "
1805 " "
1806 Dea. Daniel Poor.
1807 " "
1808 Col. David Wood.
1809 Mr. Joseph Phelps.
1810 Mr. Amos Blanchard.
1811 John Kneeland, Esq.
1812 Mr. Amos Blanchard.
1813 Capt. Solomon Holt.
1814 Mr. Joseph Phelps.
1815 Mr. Amos Blanchard.
1816 Mark Newman, Esq.
1817 Amos Blanchard, Esq.
1818 Dea. Mark Newman.
1819 Mark Newman, Esq.
1820 " "
1821 " "
1822 " "
1823 Maj. Nathaniel Poor.
1824 Mr. Enoch Frye.
1825 Mr. Amos Abbott.
1826 Capt. Benjamin Jenkins.
1827 Capt. Timothy Flagg.
1828 " "
1829 . "
1830 " "
1831 " "
1832 Capt. Thomas C. Foster.
1833 Dea. Mark Newman.
1834 Dea. Paschal Abbot.
1835 " "
1836 Joseph Rice.
1837 Capt. Thomas C. Foster.
1838 Albert Abbott.
1839 Maj. Joseph Rit-e.
1840 Capt. Thomas C. Foster.
1841 Capt. Joshua Ballard.
1842 Nathan W. Hazen, Esq.
1843 Maj. Joseph Rice.
1844 N. W. Hazen, Esq.
1845 Thomas C. Foster.

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HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

1846 Asa A. Abbot.
1847 Capt. Thomas C. Foster.
1848 " "
1849 Dea. Joseph Cummings.
1850 WiUiam Pierce.
1851 Hon. Amos Abbott.
1852 " "

1853 Joseph Rice.
1854 Albert Abbott.
1855 C. G. McNeil.
1856 Johh H. Manning.
1857 Hon. Amos Abbott.
1858 Capt. Thomas C. Foster.
1859 "

CLERKS.

George Abbot, -

1709-1726.

Ezra Abbot,

1803-1810,

John Abbot,

1727-1731.

Amos Abbott,

1811-1820.

Ebenezer Abbot,

1732-1741.

Abraham J. Gould,

1821-1827.

Thomas Abbot,

1742-1762.

John Flint,

1828-1831.

George Abbot,

1763-1765.

Mark H. Newman,

1832-1836.

Joshua Holt,

1766-1767.

Nathaniel Swift, Jr.,

, 1837-1843,

Henry Abbot, Jr.,

1768-1777.

Henry W. Abbot,

1844-1845.

Isaac Abbot, Jr.,

1778-1793.

William Pierce,

1846-1848.

John L. Abbot,

1794-1802.

Edward Taylor,

1849-1859.

TREASURERS.

Nehemiah Abbot,

1710-1729.

Samuel Abbot,

1 780-1 788.

George Abbot,

1730-1735.

Zebadiah Abbot,

1789-1790.

Josiah Chandler,

1736-1740.

Ephraim Abbot,

1791-1802.

George Abbot,

1741-1754.

Samuel A. Kneeland, 1803-1804.

Isaac Abbot,

1755.

William Foster,

1805-1810.

Henry Abbot,

1756-1757.

Mark Newman,

1811-1827.

Barachias Abbot,

1758-1760.

Timothy Flagg,

1828-1832.

John Abbot,

1761-1764.

Joseph Richardson,

1833-1834.

Henry Abbot, Jr.,

1765-1769.

Aaron Green,

1835-1844,

Nehemiah Abbot,

1770-1773.

Joseph Rice,

1845-1859.

John Abbot, 4th,

1774-1779.

OFFICERS OF THE PARISH. 23

ASSESSORS.

TR3.

1709

John Abbot, 1710,

2

1709

Henry Holt, 1710-15,

7

1709

George Abbot, 1710-26,

18

1709

Francis Dane, 1711, 16,

3

1709

William Foster, 1710, 11, 20,

4

1709

Nehemiah Abbot, 1710-13, 25, 26,

7

1709

John Chandler, 1710, 12, 17-23, 33, 35, 40,

13

1712

Jonathan Blanchard,

1

1713

William Chandler,

1

1713

John Johnson, 1723,

2

1714

Thomas Chandler, Sr., 1715, 16,

3

1714

Nathaniel Abbot, 1715, 16, 19,

4

1714

James Johnson, 1715, 18,

3

1716

John Abbot, Jr., 1717, 18, 21, 22, 28,

6

1717

Thomas Chandler, Jr., 1722, 24, 29,

4

1717

William Lovejoy, Jr., 1718, 26, 27,34,

5

1719

Thomas Blanchard, 1720, 21, 25,

4

1719

Hezekiah Ballard, 1724, 30, 36, 37,

5

1722

George Holt, 1723-25,

4

1723

Ephraim Abbot, 1724, 25, 32, 36,

5

1726

Ebenezer Abbot, 1727-30, 33, 40, 44, 45,48, 51.

,55, 12

1726

Josiah Chandler, 1727, 28, 30-34, 43,

9

1727

Abraham Foster,

1

1727

Samuel Blanchard,

1

1728

Stephen Abbot,

1

1728

Barachias Farnum, 1734,

2

1729

Nicholas Holt,

1

1729

Sherebiah Ballard, 1731, 39, 43,

4

1730

Jonathan Abbot, 1734,

2

1730

Zebadiah Chandler, 1732,

2

1731

Timothy Holt,

1

1731

George Abbot, Jr., 1732, 33, 35, 39, 52,

6

1731

Samuel Phelps, Jr., 1737, 38,

3

1732

Timothy Mooar,

1

1733

Henry Lovejoy,

1

1734

Zebadiah Abbot, 1735-39, 41, 48, 50, 53, 54,

11

1735

Timothy Abbot, 1736-38, 41,

5

1735

John Foster, 1741-46, 51, 52,

9

1736

William Wardwell,

1

1737

Thomas Abbot, 1738-46, 50-54,

15

1738

John Lovejoy,

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1739 David Abbot,
1740 John Holt,
1740 David Blunt, 1744,
1741 Thomas Holt,
1742 Philemon Chandler,
1742 John Dane, 1 744, 59, 64,
1742 Isaac Abbot,
1743 Timothy Ballard, 1748, 50, 57,
1745 Joseph Foster,
1 745 Henry Phelps,
1746 John Russell,
1746 Samuel Abbot,
1746 Barachias Abbot, 1756, 58, 60-63,
1747 Humphrey Holt,
1747 Timothy Chandler,
1747 James Russell,
1747 Henry Abbot, 1749, 56,
1748 Josiah Ballard,
1748 Nathan Chandler, 1750, 52,
1749 Samuel Lovejoy,
1749 Isaac Blunt, 1755, 59r 64,
1749 John Abbott, Jr.,
1749 Obadiah Johnson, 1751, 53, 55,
1750 Joseph Bigsby,
1751 Ebenezer Lovejoy, Jr.,
1 75 1 Joseph Russell,
1752 Daniel -Mooar,
1753 John Abbot, 3d,
1754 Thomas Phelps,
1754 Samuel Ames,
1754 Isaac Osgood, 1 758,
1755 John Holt, Jr.,
1 755 John Lovejoy,
1756 Stephen Blanchard,
1756 George Abbot, Jr., 1757,
1756 Thomas Holt, Jr., 1758, 59,
1757 Joseph Blanchard,
1757 Asa Abbot, 1765, 67-71,
1757 Nathan Abbot,
1757 Hezekiah Stiles,
1 758 Samuel Phelps, 1 763, 64,
1758 Joshua Holt, Sr., 1759, Gl, 74-76,
1759 Zebadiah Johnson,
1760 Benjamin Holt,

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1760 Timothy Mooar, Jr., 1
1760 Philemon Chandler, Jr., 62, 63, 3
1761 Jonathan Holt, 1
1761 Thomas Abbot, Jr., 1
1761 Hezekiah Ballard, 1
1 762 Nehemiah Abbot, Jr., 1763, 64, 68-70, 75, 7
1762 Josiah Blanchard, 1
1762 Henry Abbot, Jr., 1763, 64, 66, 4
1765 Benjamin Ames, 1766, 67, 3
1767 John Abbot, 5th, 1766, 67, 3
1768 William Abbot, 1772-74, 77, 5
1769 Moses Abbot, 1770-74, 76-80, 11
1771 Zebadiah Abbot, 1
1773 William Foster, 1774, 75, 3
1776 Daniel Poor, 1777-79, 4
1 7 78 Ephraim Abbot, 1 779, 80, 3
1780 Benjamin Mooar, 1
1781 Barachias Abbot, Jr., 1782-4, 4
1781 Isaac Abbot, Jr., 1782, 2
1781 Jonathan Abbot, 1783-4, 4
1783 Jacob Osgood, 1784, 2
1785 John L. Abbot, 1786-94, 96, 11
1785 Timothy Abbot, 1 786-88, 4
1785 Zebadiah Holt, 1786— 90, 96, 97, 8
1789 Nehemiah Abbot, Jr., 1790— 94, 6
1791 Ezra Abbot, 1792, 94, 96-1802. 10
1793 Jonathan Cummings, 1
1.795 Zebadiah Chandler, 1
1.795 David Gray, 1798-1804, 8
1795 Moses Abbot, Jr., 1
1797 Joshua Chandler, Jr., 1
1798 Zebadiah Abbot, 1799-1802, 4
1803 David Abbot, 1804-6, 4
1803 Solomon Holt, 1804--7, 5
1805 Joseph Stevens, 1
1806 Joseph Phelps, 1807-9, 4
1807 Job Abbot, 1808-17, 29-32, 15
1808 Hermon Abbot, 1809-21, 14
1810 Enoch Frye, 1
1811 Stephen Abbot, 1812-22, 12
1818 Benjamin Jenkins, Jr., 1819-23, f 6
1822 James Abbot, 1823-25, 4
1823 Amos Abbott, 1724, 25, 4
1824 Joshua Ballard, 1825-27, 49, 5
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1826 John Flint, 1827-31, 6
1826 Elijah L. Herrick, 1
1827 Paschal Abbot, 1828, 2
1828 Abraham J. Gould, 1829, 30, 3
1831 Joseph Holt, Jr., 1832-34, 4
1832 Nathaniel Whittier, 1833, 34, 3
1833 Asa A. Abbot, 1834-36, 42-44, 50-59, 17
1836 Joseph Rice, 1837, • 2
1836 Albert Abbott, 1837-41, 6
1.837 Jonas Holt, 1838-41, 5
1838 Abel Blanchard, 1839-41, 4
1842 Jacob Chickering, 1843, 2
1842 John Abbot, 1843, 44, 3
1844 Nathan B. Abbott, 1845, 2
1845 Eben P. Higgins, 1846-48, 4
1845 David Baker, 1846, 2
1846 Sylvester Abbot, 1
1847 Mencies C. Andrews, 1
1847 HartwellB. Abbot, 1848, 2
1848 John H. Manning, 1849, 2
1849 Samuel Cogswell, 1
1850 David I. C. Hidden, 1851, 52, 3
1850 John L. Abbot, 1851, 52, 3
1853 Dean Holt, 1
1853 Nathan W. Hazen, 1854-56, . 4
1854 William H. Foster, 1855-56, 3
1857 Jonathan Taylor, 1
1857 Timothy Abbot, 1858-59, 3
1858 William Abbot, 1859, 2

MEETING-HOUSES. 27
II.
MEETING-HOUSES.
The first business of tbe precinct was " to see whether we can
agree where to set our new Meeting-House." Some action had
doubtless been taken concerning its erection previously to the
incorporation of the Parish. It was accepted Oct. 18, 1709,
" where it now is raised and stands, viz. : at y° Rock on the west
side of Roger brook."1 £108 were levied to defray the charges
of building. It was occupied for worship, January 1710. No
account of its size and style is preserved. " Young men and
maids had liberty to build seats round in the galleries on their
own charge." In "seating the meeting-house" the committee
appointed for the purpose were to act " according to their best
and soundest judgment, having respect to money and age."
May 12, 1734, was the last Sabbath of worship in the old house.
Mr. Phillips preached from John 14 : 31 1. c. "Arise, let us go
hence." A vote was obtained in 1731, to "make an addition of room
within the present meeting-house." April 1732, it was decided
to make the addition on the outside of the house. This decision
was reconsidered June 6, 1732, and it was "voted and passed,
that the precinct will build a new meeting-house upon the school-
house hill: known and commonly called Roger's hill."1 An
attempt was made in March of the following year to set the
1 The rock here mentioned was near the site of the present Centre School
House, and was removed in the year 1844.
It should seem that this brook took its name from an Indian, in whose favor,
in the original grant of the town, the following reservation was made: "Pro
vided, that the Indian called Rogek, and his company, may have liberty to
take alewives in Cochichewick River, for their own eating: but if they either
spoil or steal any corn or other fruit, to any considerable value, of the inhabi
tants, the liberty of taking fish shall forever cease; and the said Roger is still
to^enjoy four acres of ground, where now he plants." — Col. Records.

28 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
house in the centre of the precinct, and the spot proposed was
"the westerly end of Dea. Jno. Abbot's lot." Twenty-four
votes were cast for this spot, and sixty-five against it. The
committee for carrying on the work of this house were Barachias
Farnum, Benjamin Abbot, Zebadiah Chandler, Timothy Holt,
Henry Holt, Dea. John Abbot, Timothy Mooar, Dea. Nehemiah
Abbot, and John Chandler. Five members of the committee
were made a quorum. They seem not to have troubled them
selves or the precinct with a comparison of many plans. It was
simply determined to build the new house " after the same form
and fashion " as the old. Its size was fixed by a second vote at
" thirty feet between plate and sill, and forty-four feet wide,
and fifty-six feet in length." Mr. Phillips preached the first
sermon in it May 19, 1734, -from 1 Chron. 29:13, 14. The
delicate matter of " seating the meeting-house " was the occasion
of several parish meetings during the whole year following.
The proposition to sell pews was decisively dismissed. The
lease of seats was once voted, but afterwards refused. It was
proposed to seat " altogether by age," but it " passed on the
negative." The privilege that the tax-payers should take their
seats " according as the money was cast up by one head and rate
of personal estate," was denied. Finally, the matter was ad
justed by appointing one committee " to dignify seats and pews,"
and another committee to seat them " by their judgment, having
respect to money and age." The report of this committee was ac
cepted, with but eight dissentients. This mode was adopted sub
stantially till 1757.^ That year, permission was given to tax-pay
ers to choose their own pews, according to their rates, but this
significant qualification was ordered : " to take off the money that
is paid for negroes, and not allow their masters that money to
seat upon." In 1761 several changes were made in the arrange
ment and number of pews. The next year pews were sold and
the highest tax-payers were given the choice ; thirty-three were
sold, and the following persons were the purchasers, in the order
of their assessments " in the last province rate :" John Foster

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Thomas Holt, George Abbot, Zeb. Abbot, Henry Abbot, Samuel
Abbot, James Parker, Timothy Ballard, Timothy Chandler, John
Abbot, Isaac Blunt, Timothy Holt, Nathan Chandler, Samuel
Jenkins, Timothy Mooar, Samuel Osgood, Ebenezer Lovejoy,
Jonathan Abbot, Jr., Zebadiah Chandler, Isaac Abbot, Jr., Isaac
Lovejoy, John Holt, Jr., Joseph Russel, Samuel Blanchard, John
Fisk, William Abbot, Jonathan Abbot, 3d, Joseph Sibson, Sam
uel Phelps, Isaac Osgood, Nehemiah Abbot, heirs of William
Lovejoy, deceased, Joshua Holt, Jr. The other seats in the
house continued to be chosen by the highest tax-payers as
before. The scholars in Phillips Academy were allowed, in
1781, " the three back seats in the lower front gallery.''
The following graphic description of this house, as it appeared
to one of these scholars, is taken from a letter of Hon. Josiah
Quincy to Mrs. H. B. Stowe :
" It was surrounded by horse-blocks innumerable, with a dis
proportionate number of sheds ; — for the pillion was the ladies'
travelling delight, and alone or in pairs, with their husbands or
fathers, they seldom failed to come trooping to their devotions.
The church itself was a shingled mass, lofty, and, I should think,
containing twice the area of its successor. This, however, may.
be the exaggeration pf my boyish fancy, but it had three lofty
stories, with three galleries in the interior, always densely filled
with apparently pious zeal, and earnest listeners. In the left
hand gallery sat the ladies, in the right the gentlemen, in the
midst of whom and in front sat the tything man, with his white
pole three or four cubits in length, the emblem of his dignity
and power, and in his right hand a short hazel rod, which, ever
and anon, in the midst of the sermon, to the awakening and alarm
of the whole congregation, he would, with the whole force of his
arm, bring down with a ringing slap on the front of tlie gallery,
shaking it, at the same time, with a terrific menace, at two or
three frightened urchins who were whispering or playing in a
corner. In a square box in front of the pulpit sat the Deacons,
one of whom had pen, ink and paper, and was carefully taking
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»
the heads of the preacher's discourse, preparing documentary
evidence, either that the sermon was old, or its doctrines new, or
consonant with the orthodox platform. In the front gallery sat
Precenter Ames, or Eames, with a pitch-pipe, the token of his
authority, with which, as soon as the first line of the Psalm was
read, he gave the note to the choir of both sexes, — twenty or
thirty of each, — following the Deacon, reading line by line in an
ecstasy of harmony which none but the lovers of music realize :
" How pleased and blest was I
To hear the people cry
Come let us worship God to-day, —
Yes, with a cheerful zeal
We '11 haste to Zion's hill,
And there our vows and homage pay.
Zion, thrice happy place, etc., etc.
And the mighty congregation seemed to realize their felicity, for
they joined the choir with a will, realizing or exemplifying the
happiness of which they sung. It is true, as Washington Irving
relates, concerning a hke assembly in an English country parish,
sometimes when they began —
" Come, let us sing with one accord,"
it was a signal for parting company, and" every one setting up
for himself. Yet, upon the whole, it was an exciting scene,
elevating and solemnizing the mind, by the multitude that took
part in it.
" The windows of the vast building were of diamond-shaped
glass panes, of rhomboid form, in length about three or four
inches, in breadth perhaps two or three. Opening like doors
outward, these windows were loose and shackling. In the win
ter, when the north wind shook the vast building with unmistak
able power, their rattling was often a match, and sometimes an
overmatch, for the voice of the clergyman, while the pious fe
males in the pews, sitting, for the most part, on hard benches,
with small muffs, and their feet only comforted with small stoves

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or stockings over shoes, or heated bricks, had much ado through
their sufferings to keep their attention fixed, or the text in
memory, and register the infinitesimal heads into which it was
divided." The last time of meeting in the second house was April 20,
1788. The last sermon was from Hag. 1 : 7, 8. For thirty-
two Sabbaths afterwards the congregation worshipped at the hall
of Phillips Academy.
As early as September 1771, the parish began to be agitated
concerning a new meeting-house. A portion of the inhabitants
were " burthened with length of travel to the public worship."
Several proposals concerning the division of the parish on this
account " were passed in the negative."- April 14, 1772, "voted
to build a new meeting-house sufficient to accommodate the whole
parish, and to set it on the eastwardly side of Shawshin river, as
near the bridge called Holt's bridge as a convenient place may
be found, and to build said house in ten years from this time."
The year before, it had been voted to set the house on the west-
wardly side of the bridge, " northwest of Mr. Jas. Holt's house."
After twelve years had passed, it was decided to build " within six
or eight rods where the meeting-house now stands." At the -
same time, March 4, 1784, money was raised and a committee
appointed to provide the materials. A committee was chosen
the next year -to prepare a plan for the house. The meeting,
however, which chose this committee, was adjourned from time
to time for almost three years, and it was not till Dec. 1787
that the decisive votes were passed accepting the plan and the
proposals made to the Parish for building the present meeting
house. The dimensions were to be seventy feet in length and
fifty-four feet in width, " with a porch at each end and one in
front of the house." The house was modelled after that in the
North Parish. The plan was revised and completed by Hon.
Samuel Phillips, Jr., Mr. Joshua Chandler, Mr. Nehemiah Ab
bot, Mr. Jonathan Cummings, Capt. Jonathan Abbot, Capt. Dan
iel Poor, Mr. Joseph Stevens, Jr., Mr. Joseph Holt, and Capt.

32 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
Benjamin Ames. The proposals for building were made by the
same persons, adding Mr. Isaac Abbot, and excepting Mr. Ste
vens and Capt. Ames, and were accepted as follows : " The
abovesaid undertakers to build said house shall have fhe old
meeting-house, £100 in money, and the pews in the new meet
ing-house." They " agree that the work and stuff .... shall be
good, nothing superfluous, but plain and neat, not have any
medallions, dentals or carved work, but to have the window
frames and sashes painted, and the ground pinning as good as
that of the North Parish." The frame was raised May 2Gth
and 27th, 1788. The congregation met in it for worship for the
first time Dec. 7, 1788. The sermon was preached by Mr.
French, from John 10 : 22, 23. It should seem that the steeple
of the house was built by subscription. The Parish voted to
allow this to be done. The cupola was built by tax, in the
spring of 1792. June 11, 1792, Samuel Abbot, Esq., communi
cated the fact that from regard to this his native place, and out
of respect to them, among whom he hoped, by leave of Provi
dence, to spend the remainder of his days, he had procured a
bell of about 1100 pounds weight, and begged their acceptance
of the same. Samuel Phillips, Nehemiah Abbot and Joshua
Holt were appointed to convey to him the thanks of the Parish.
March 5, 1812, the same person presented and placed in the tower
of the church a clock. In his letter he says, " May it prove a
convenience to you and your children in the business of life, and
a salutary monitor of a careful improvement of that time which is
continually passing away, and can never be recalled." This
bell cracked not long afterwards, and the present one was bought
in the year 1813. A stove was procured for the first time in
1821. A building had been erected on the site of the present
school-house several years before, in which the people were
accustomed to warm themselves at noon before the open fire.
In the first arrangement of this house the pulpit was on the
north side. Over it hung a plain sounding-board. The inscrip
tion, Holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, forever Fs. xciii. 5,

MEETING-HOUSE ERECTED 1788.

MEETING-HOUSES. 33
was conspicuous above upon the wall, and the three letters,
I. H. S., were written upon the pulpit below. At the base of
the pulpit were the Deacons' seats, and near by were a few
seats where the aged gathered near to the minister. The rest
of the lower floor was covered by square pews. Of these there
were in 1833 seventy-one. The gallery was on three sides, and
a tier of square pews, twenty-six in number, extended its entire
length. Ten of these, in the east and west galleries, were
erected in place of long pews in 1823. The rest of the space
in the gallery was occupied with the long pews, which were
free. The square pews were owned as private property.
In the fall of 1832 the Parish appointed Thomas C. Foster,
Abraham J. Gould, Job Abbot, Joseph Holt, Jr., and Nathaniel
Whittier, to obtain a correct plan and estimate of the expense of
altering the meeting-house. The plan which they presented was
adopted, and in Sept. 1 833 they reported the actual cost of the
changes made as $2971.63. A committee consisting of William
Blanchard, of Wilmington, Benjamin Osgood, of Methuen, and
Jesse Kimball, of Bradford, appraised the ninety-seven old pews
at $9956, and the 136 new pews, ninety below and forty-six
above, at $12,978. Seats, besides these, were reserved for the
singers. The organ now in use was purchased by the Parish in
1836. The clock within the house was presented in 1832 by
Mrs. Mary Ballard. Various attempts have been made, from
1845 to the present time, to remove, reconstruct the old, as also
to build a new church, but the old building still stands. The
front porch was removed during the changes of 1833. The
pulpit, also, was transferred to the west end, the galleries
changed to correspond, and the square pews gave place to
the modern ones.
The vestry was built by individuals, in 1815, at the sugges
tion of Rev. Mr. Edwards, and under the direction of the stand
ing committee of the Church. The Church appropriated towards
finishing it $300. In 1855 it was relinquished by the Church to
the Parish. During the autumn of that year it was repaired.

34 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
III.
THE PARSONAGE AND THE MINISTERIAL FUND.
The committee, appointed by the General Court for the pur
pose, laid out, May 24, 1710, fifty-four acres of land for the use
of the ministry : one piece of fourteen acres, for a homestead,
whose west corner bound was a great rock, now forming part
of the wall at the north corner of School and Central Streets —
a parcel of eight acres, adjoining the south end of the first — a
piece of swamp and upland, of twelve acres, tp make a meadow
ground, about half a mile south-east of the second — a piece, one
mile distant from the ministry house, of twenty acres, " on a ris
ing ground where a smith's shop stood formerly." The ministry
house had been raised already, and had been voted to be " forty-
three feet long, twenty feet wide, and fourteen feet stud." Taxes
were levied, from time to time, to' clear the land and break it up,
to plant an orchard, to dig the well and make the fences. Va
rious changes, were made in the house and its outbuildings by
the Parish. A committee was annually appointed to have the
care of it, together with that of the other property. ' A stone
chimney was built in it in 1754. The same year sash-glass
took the place of the " diamond-glass, set in lead." It was first
painted in 1757. Thorough repairs were made in 1773. As
early as 1803 the Parish consulted with Mr. French to see if he
was " willing that any part of the parsonage land should be sold
for house-lots." That year it was twice voted not to sell, if Mr.
French was willing. But Dec. 25, 1809, five months after his
death, a committee was authorized to petition the Legislature for
liberty to sell. Samuel Farrar, Esq., was the chairman of this
committee, and was appointed to present the petition to the Leg
islature. That body passed, Feb. 16, 1810, the following act, in
the" form drafted by the parish committee.
" An act to authorize the- sale of parsonage lands, in the South

THE PARSONAGE AND THE MINISTERIAL FUND. 35
Parish, in the town of Andover, in the County of Essex, to
raise a fund for the support of the gospel ministry, in said
Parish, and to appoint Trustees for the management thereof.
Whereas, the inhabitants of the South Parish, in the town of
Andover, have petitioned this Court for liberty to sell their par
sonage or ministerial lands for the purpose of raising a fund for
the support of the gospel ministry :
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen
tatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the
same, that Samuel Farrar, Joshua Chandler, Benjamin Jenkins,
Daniel Cummings, Jacob Osgood, David Abbot and Simeon
Furbush, be, and they hereby are, appointed Trustees to man
age- such funds as shall be raised and appropriated to the use
aforesaid, in and for the said Parish , and for that purpose they
,. are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name
of The Trustees of the Ministerial Fund in the South Parish in
Andover ; and they and their successors, to be appointed in the
manner hereinafter prescribed, shall be and continue a body
politic and corporate, by that name forever : and shall have a
common seal, and may alter the same at their pleasure : and by
that name may sue and be sued in all actions, real, personal and
mixed, and prosecute and defend the same to final judgment and
execution. And the said Trustees and their successors may and
shall annually elect a Clerk, who shall be sworn to the faithful
performance of the duties of his office : and a Treasurer, who
shall give bond in such sum as the said Trustees shall deem ade
quate, with sufficient surety or sureties, faithfully to account for
the moneys and all other property he may receive by virtue of
the act.
Sec 2. Be it further enacted, that the real estate belonging
to said Parish appropriated to the support of the ministry
thereof, and the proceeds of the sale of any bark or timber, and
money now in the hands of the Treasurer of said Parish, re
ceived as damages awarded by the Court of Sessions, on account
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36 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
are, vested in said Trustees and their successors : and the said
Trustees be, and hereby are, authorized to sell and convey
the whole or any part of said real estate, and to make, execute
and acknowledge a good and sufficient deed or deeds thereof:
which deed or deeds, subscribed by their Treasurer, by direc
tion of said Trustees, with their seal thereto affixed, and by
him duly acknowledged, shall be good and effectual in law, to
pass and convey all the right of said Parish, in and to said real
estate, to the purchaser thereof, to all intents and purposes what
soever : Provided, however, that, in any sale as aforesaid, the
approbation pf the said Parish shall be -first expressed at a legal
meeting, duly convened for that purpose, or by a committee for
that purpose by the said Parish appointed.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, that the number of Trustees
shall not at any time be more than seven nor less than five, a
major part of whom shall constitute a quorum for transacting
business : and the inhabitants of said Parish may, at any lawful
meeting, duly warned and called for that purpose, remove any
of said Trustees from their said office : and whenever any va
cancy shall happen in said Board of Trustees, either by death,
resignation or removal, the said Parish, at any Parish Meeting
legally warned for that purpose, shall fill said vacancy within
one year after it shall happen; and if the Parish neglect so to
do, within that time, then the said Trustees, by a major vote,
shall have power to fill such vacancy, and the said Trustees shall
annually hold a meeting in March or April, and as much oftener
as necessary, to transact their business.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, that any gift, grant, bequest
or devise, hereafter made to the said Trustees, shall be valid and
effectual to all intents and purposes whatsoever, and they and
their successors as aforesaid, are hereby empowered to take,
have, hold, purchase and exchange, use and improve any estate,
real or personal, the annual income whereof shall not exceed the
sum of two thousand dollars, in trust, for "Ihe support and main
tenance of the Gospel Ministry, in said Parish : and one-sixth

THE PARSONAGE AND THE MINISTERIAL FUND. 37
part of the net yearly income of said fund or estate shall by said
Trustees be annually added to the principal fund, to increase the
same forever : Provided, it shall not increase beyond the limits
above prescribed : and the remaining five-sixths of the said inter
est or annual income be annually paid to the regularly ordained
minister or ministers of said Parish, in such manner as said
Parish may direct: unless the said Parish, at a legal meeting,
for that purpose duly assembled, shall direct the whole of said
income, or any part thereof, more than one-sixth, to be put at
interest for the increase of the fund ; and such proceeds of said
fund, whenever the same shall be so paid to said minister or
ministers, shall be deemed to be in satisfaction of his or their
salary, for the time being, so far as the same will apply to the
discharge thereof: and during any vacancy in the said Parish of
a regularly ordained and settled minister, such part of the said
income or interest, as would by the provision of this act be
applied to his use, shall be appropriated to the increase of the
principal fund, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, that the said fund shall always
be holden and claimed to be inalienable, and shall never be used
or applied to any other purpose than the payment of a settled
minister or ministers in said Parish, and the principal thereof
shall never in any part be expended, but always kept entire, and
one-sixth of the income shall be annually added to the princi
pal in manner aforesaid : and the said Trustees, or their officers,
agents or attorneys, for the services they may perform, shall be
entitled to no compensation out of any moneys arising from the
fund aforesaid : but, if entitled to any, shall have and receive
the same of said Parish, as may be annually agreed upon.
Sec 6. Be it further enacted, that the said Trustees shall
cause to be recorded and kept, in their book of record, by their
Clerk or Treasurer, a statement of the fund and estate in their
hands, wherein shall be particularly designated the amount arisr
ing from the sale of the' parsonage lands, the nature and amount
of every grant or donation, the period when made, the design
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thereof, and the donor's or grantor's name and place of abode at
large, with such other circumstances as 'they may think useful
and proper to distinguish the same, and perpetuate the remem
brance thereof: and they shall make report of such statements
to the inhabitants of said Parish, at their meeting in the month
of March or April annually, where the same shall be publicly
read : or to a select committee, if said Parish shall choose one
for that purpose ; together with a specific estimate of what estate
they actually- hold, and by what tenure : what money and effects
are due to them, and how the same are secured ; what receipts
have been obtained, and what payments made by them the pre
ceding year.
Sec 7. Be it further enacted, that the said Trustees shall
always loan upon interest all the money belonging to said fund,
in sums of not less than two hundred dollars each, except from
necessity, when they have not so large a sum at their disposal,
and for the term of one year, upon the bond or note of the bor
rower, with a mortgage of real estate, situated either in the
county of Essex, Suffolk or Middlesex, of three times the value
of the sum loaned, as collateral security for the repayment of the
principal sum, with interest annually till paid : Provided, how*
ever, that when any of the aforesaid parsonage land shall be sold
upon a credit, and with the expectation that improvements will
be immediately made upon it, it shall be sufficient to have a
mortgage of the estate sold, with an approved surety with the
principal: and if any debtor to said corporation shall fail to
pay the interest due on his bond or note for the space of thirty
days after the same shall become due, it shall be the duty of said
Treasurer to cause such bond or mortgage to be put in suit, and
prosecuted till it shall be obtained.
Sec 8. Be it further enacted, that it shall be the duty of
said Trustees to use and improve such fund or estate as shall be
vested in them, by virtue of this act, with care and vigilance, so
as best to promote the design thereof: and they shall be amena
ble to the inhabitants of said Parish for negligence or misconduct

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in the management or disposition thereof, whereby the same
shall be impaired or suffer loss, waste or diminution : and the
inhabitants of said Parish may have and maintain a special
action of the case against the proper persons of said Trustees
and their goods and estate, for such negligence or misconduct,
and recover adequate damages therefor : and any sum, so recov
ered, shall be for the benefit of said fund, and shall be paid ac
cordingly. Sec 9. Be it further enacted, that Joshua Chandler,
Esquire, be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint the time
and place of the first meeting of said Trustees, and to notify
them accordingly: and said meetings, after the first, shall be
called in such a way and manner as the said Trustees shall
direct. At the time of incorporating these Trustees there were, ac
cording to a committee's report, six pieces of land, making in all
over ninety-eight acres. This landed property was soon sold,
and the fund arising from the sale was yearly, till 1833, in
creased by one-sixth of the income from it. In that year the
Parish obtained an act from the Legislature authorizing the use
of the whole income for the support of the gospel. When the
West Parish was formed, in 1827, the income of the fund was
divided between the Parishes, the West Parish receiving three-
eighths. The whole amount of the fund at the present time,
1859, is $16,627.26.
The successive Members and Treasurers of the Board of
Trustees of this fund, with the dates of their election and of their
resignation or decease, are given in the following tables.
MEMBERS.
Samuel Farrar, March 12, 1810, March 19, 1812. Res.
Joshua Chandler, March 12, 1810, Dec.
Benjamin Jenkins, March 12, 1810, Sept. 12, 1834. Dec.
Daniel Cummings, March 12, 1810, March 8, 1827. Res.

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Jacob Osgood,

March 12, 1810,

March 4, 1813.

Res.

David Abbot,

March 12, 1810,

March 4, 1813.

Res.

Simeon Furbush,

March 12, 1810,

March 9, 1815.

Res.

Amos "Blanchard,

March 19, 1812,

August 17, 1847.

Dec.

Peter French,

March 22, 1813,

May 26, 1831.

Dec.

Moses Bailey,

March 22, 1813,

March 5, 1818.

Res.

William Bailey,

April 6, 1815,

April.23, 1827.

Res.

Solomon Holt,

March 5, 1818,

April 23, 1827,

Res.

Joseph Chandler,

March 5, 1818,

April 23, 1827.

Res,

Job Abbot,

March 8, 1827,

March 8, 1855.

Res.

Amos Abbott,

April 23, 1827.

Asa Abbot,

April 23, 1827,

Oct. 4, 1847.

Res.

Samuel Merrill,

April 23, 1827,

March 10, 1836.

Res.

Thomas C. Foster,

March 10, 1836.

Joshua Ballard,
March 10, 1836,
Oct. 4, 1847.
Res.
James Abbot,
August 29, 1838,
March 8, 1855.
Res.
Joseph Rice,
Oct. 4, 1847,
March 10, 1859.
Res.
John Abbot,
Oct. 4, 1847.
Edward Taylor,
Oct. 4, 1847.
Nathan B. Abbott,
March 26, 1855.
Hartwell. B. Abbot,
March 26, 1855.
Nathaniel Swift,
March 10, 1859.
Samuel Farrar,
Amos Blanchard,
Amos Abbott,
Edward Taylor,
TREASURERS.
1810^-1812. 1812—1832,1832—1843.
1847—1859.
1844—1847.
Besides this ministerial fund, and divided to the Parishes, so
that the South Parish receives two-thirds, is the fund for the
poor, arising from the legacy of Rev. S. Phillips, of £100, and
from the gift, March 18, 1812, by Samuel Abbot, Esq., of $500.
This fund yields yearly $50, and is distributed in January of
each year by the minister and deacons of each Parish.
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IV.
SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY.
For a few months after the employment of a minister he was
supported by voluntary contribution. "Nov. 20, 1710, voted
and passed, that the precinct would raise sixty pounds for to pay
a minister for the year ensuing, or else one-third part of our
country tax instead of the sixty pounds, and to pay it quarterly."
On the choice of Mr. Phillips as settled minister a month later,
it was voted to pay him " sixty pounds in money a year while he
carries on the work of the ministry among us in an unmarried
state, and when he shall see reason to marry, then to add to his
salary ten pounds a year." The Parish pledged itself besides
" to build and maintain the parsonage houses, and make good
and sufficient fence upon the parsonage land, and the minister is
to maintain it as long as he improves it." In the event of Mr.
Phillips's death, leaving a widow and children, the promise was
made of fifty pounds and half the parsonage house for one year.
When his death took place, however, this agreement was some
what modified, and the modification may not have been any real
' abatement from the generosity of the Parish. The widow was
allowed the use of the lands and buildings for somewhat less than
a year, " provided she entertain ministers and their horses 
and also that she cut the bushes well in the pasture and spend
the hay on the place." It is added, " She manifested her accep
tance of said vote."
It will throw some light on the real value of this provision for
Mr. P.'s support, as compared with salaries of the present time)
if it is known that those persons who chose to work out their tax
for the clearing of the parsonage land, were allowed " one shilling
' and six pence a day." Besides, then, the use of a large par
sonage house and farm, Mr. Phillips received money enough
yearly to pay for 933£ days' work on a farm.
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Twenty pounds were added to his salary in 1719 and 1720,
" because bills of credit ran low." His salary was £80 in the
years 1723-25. " Salary and contributions" in 1726 were £102
10s. 1727-30 he received £100. By contribution, in 1731, he
received £119 9s. He acknowledges the receipt, 1732-36,
of £120 ; 1737, of £130, and 1738, of £140. The Parish voted
him, 1740-42, £160,1743-46, £200, 1747, £220, 1748, £300,
1749, £400. These sums were in what was called "old Tenor,"
and were not equivalent to "lawful money." From 1750 to his
death he received £70 lawful money, except in 1764, when he
received £76.
In his Election Sermon, preached in 1750, Mr. Phillips sug
gests, as " a tender point " to the " honoured Fathers " of the
Commonwealth, that " they consider at their leisure whether
the generality of the people do not live in the sin of detaining
from their ministers a part of their just due," adding, what is
a rather doubtful compliment to his own people, " not that I
am under suffering circumstances myself, having, through the
mercy of God, some other small means." He understood the
art of living in the world, for we read, " he was so economical
as to blow out his candle when he began his evening prayer,
and yet punctilious in distributing among the poor a full tenth
of his income, of which he kept account." That " he kept ac
count " we have from many sources the fullest evidence. The
Parish were almost annually made aware of his rigor and skill
in this matter. He was accustomed to memorialize them on
the subject of their arrearages, and several of these memorials
are preserved among the Parish papers, written in the neatest
and most beautiful hand, and punctilious to the jot and tittle.
The following specimen may well be given here.
" To the Inhabitants of f South Parish, in Andover, assembled, this 8th
day of June, A. Dom. 1762.
" Beloved Brethren : — With respect to ye Business, W", I per
ceive, you are now met together upon, I shall say, The Parish can wit-

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ness for me, y' in years past I sent in one Memorial after another,
frequently entreating that Justice might be done me with regard to my
Salary. But yet they went on to Vote as they pleased, and so have
bro't hemselves into Difficulty ; and I am exceeding Sorry for your
Sakes, as well as for the Damage woh I have Sustained thereby.
" And Whereas, Brethren, you have, it Seems, at your Meeting in
March last, without any Motion from me, made choice of a Committee
to compute the Arrears of my Salary, and to make Report of y" same
to you : — Which they having done at another Meeting, youthen pro
ceeded to choose another Committee to lay y" Same before me, in
order to see on What Terms I would Settle with y° Parish. And ac
cordingly the Gentlemen have been with me, and laid your Account
before me ; By w* it evidently appears, that after the Deduction is
made of y° Sum, w°h you have in late years over-paid my Original Sal
ary, there Remains Due to me, viz. . in Old Ten', the sum of £3954
3s. 9d. 2q. I then Enquired of y" Committee Whether the sa Sum
was to be looked upon as Exclusive of Interest ? The Answer was
given in the Affirmative : I then Enquired whether any objection had
been made in their Meeting, against the Whole, or any Part of the sd
Computation ? The Answer given was, that they knew not of any.
" So then, it appears, Brethren, from your own Proceedings, that you
do, in effect, acknowledge, that the said Sum is justly and honestly my.
Due, and I might reasonably expect that therefore you would willingly
pay me the same.
" But, however, Seeing you are pleased to Enquire, On What Terms
I will Settle with you f I Reply, That provided you Now come to a
peaceable Settlement of y° sd Principal, I consent, for Peace Sake, to
foregoe the Interest of sa Sum, wch I compute, after your Interest is
taken out, to be £5300 (Errors Excepted). — If you say, you don't
look on this as any Favour : In Answer to it, let me Say, I am much
Mistaken, if, in the Civil Law, Damages will not come into Considera
tion, Seeing I have not been Wanting, in years past, to put y" Parish
in mind of fulfilling their Contract : — But, however, I can't but think
if you will, as it becomes Christians, Reason calmly upon the matter,
and without any Byass upon your Minds, you will then judge, that y8
Interest of ye Deficient parts of my Salary, is, in the Court of Con
science, or by the natural Law of Equity, my Due, as well as the
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called upon, yet thro' their Neglecjt, has, as I conceive, had y" Im
provement of so much of my Pioperty. You can't but know, that it
had been much better for me, to have had my Salary paid me, from
year to year, according to y' honest an*d true Intent of y° Contract,
than to take it now wtt_ Simple Interest, because then I might have Im
proved the Interest as well as the Principal.
•' And now, Brethren, as to the Principal : If you will now Vote to
continue my Salary at Seventy Pounds Lawfull money annually, dur
ing my Continuance in the Ministry among you, then I'will abate on
y' Consideration out of said sum (how short soever my Life may be)
Seven hundred pounds in Old Tenor.
" And as to my Fire-wood, altho' I have all along looked upon it as
properly belonging to the Parish to provide y" Same, because I de
clared my Expectation of, -and Dependence upon it before my Settle
ment ; but was told y' there was no need of having a meeting about it,
for the People would bring it Gratis ; and I was not so critical in y'
Day as to insist on a Vote for it : But if you will now pass a vote to
provide at the Parsonage House a Sufficiency of Fire-wood annually,
during my Continuance in the Ministry among you, then, notwith
standing the aforesd encouragement, I will abate, on y' consideration,
tfie Sum of Three hundred Pounds, in Old Ten'.
" So then, there will remain, if you now Comply w"" sa Proposals,
the Sum of £2954 in O. T. And if you now vote me the sa Sum,
or in case of my Decease, to be paid to my Heirs, I will oblige my
self and them to give you a full Discharge at the Payment of the
Same : And this will Disable both me and them from Demanding any
more of sa Arrearages in time to come.
" I am not ignorant, Brethren, of y* Ability of y" Parish to pay their
just Debts.; And therefore what I purpose to give as a\free Donation
out of sd Principal, I think it most proper, and I hope you are of y"
Same mind, that I give it to the Poorer Sort, viz. : to off-set y° whole
or Some part of their Share in y* sd Arrears : — But as for Such who
plead y' they are not in Debt on y" Account of y" sa Arrears, if they
have anything material to offer, I think it proper that they make Ap
plication to the Parish, and not to me.
" And finally, my dear Brethren, If after all y' has been said, you
do rather incline to Defer ye sa Settlement, and shall choose to go on
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money, and my Fire-wood annually, I Shall Submit to your Pleasure
in that matter.
" And to conclude, Study, I beseech you, the things w°u make for
peace, and whereby one may Edifie another.
" W* is y" unfeigned Desire of your Friend and Serv',
" S. PHILLIPS.
" Andover, Dated as above.
" P. Scr. If you have any Proposal to make, consistent with Honour
and Equity, I am willing to hear and consider it. Idem, S. P."
The Parish chose " to go on still in love" and " to defer the
said settlement," for, after adjourning ..their meeting till the next
spring, they simply chose a committee " to reckon up the over
plus that hath been paid to the Rev. Mr. Samuel Phillips
over and above his stated salary, and to take a receipt of him
for the same." But justice came at last, though tardily indeed,
for fifteen days before his death he dictated the following letter.
" To the South Parish in Andover, convened this 21st day of May, Anno
Bom. 1771.
" My Dear Brethren : — I am informed by your Committee that
you have this day voted to pay me the sum of four hundred and ten
pounds, seven shillings and ten pence, two farthings, as in full the
arrears of my Salary due to me in the former years of my Ministry
among you. I thank you for this fresh instance of your regard to me :
And as a token of my gratitude, I consent that the sum of one hun
dred pounds, lawful money, be abated of said sum, to be improved for
such purposes as the Parish shall please to direct.
" And now, heartily entreating your prayers for me,
" I remain, Brethren, your afflicted Friend and Serv',
"SAMUEL PHILLIPS."
The salary offered to Mr. French at his settlement was £80,
to be paid semi-annually. £100 and half of a year's produce
from the parsonage farm was paid within four months " as a
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46 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
of firewood, to be delivered at the parsonage house." Mr.
Quincy tells the following anecdote concerning this firewood :
One winter " they had neglected to furnish it. Experience had
taught Mr. French that a direct complaint of such neglect was
not always well received, nor always brought a ready compli
ance. He waited, therefore, until the proclamation for Thanks
giving came, and, after reading it to the congregation, he said,
with great apparent simplicity, ' My brethren, you perceive that
his Excellency has appointed next Thursday as the day of
Thanksgiving : and, according to custom, it is my purpose to
prepare two discourses for that occasion, provided I can write
them without a fire.' The hint took effect, and before
twelve o'clock on the succeeding Monday his whole winter's
wood was in his wood-yard."
During the years of the War of Independence, as might be
supposed, the payment of Mr. French's salary became difficult.
The following letter, though long, has both an historical and a
biographical value, separate from the matter to which it -spe
cially refers.
" To the South Parish in Andover, now assembled in a Parish Meeting.
" Gentlemen : — As you have now under consideration the matter
relating to my salary for the year past, I beg leave to lay before you
what I have to offer upon this affair in writing, for the following
reasons :
" 1 . That there may no mistake or dispute arise about what I shall
say. " 2. That I may leave it with you for your, perusal in the present
meeting, if vou desire it.
"3. Thaftwhat I shall offer may not be forgotten.
"In order to express my sentiments clearly and fully upon this
occasion, I would revert back to the true intent and design of the
original contract between us, so far as it relates to the money part,
which is all that is to be considered. Ths other parts remain just as
they were when the contract was made. When the sum specified in
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SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY. 47
under serious consideration, and, comparing it with the then prices of
the necessaries of life, supposed it would afford me, with the other
things specified in the contract, a comfortable and decent support;
which was all I wanted. Being confident it was your intention,
as it was undoubtedly in your- power, to make that value good to
me annually, and I expected this from you, and supposing the
necessaries of hfe would continue nearly as they were then, upon
an average, one year with another, I imagined, this would render
it unnecessary for me to encumber myself with the entanglements
of the world, and enable me, according to the Apostolic direction,
to give myself wholly to the work of the ministry, the great object
in view. On these prospects I formed my future expectations
for a support among you in this great work. I think I may with
safety, and in justice to myself, declare, I did not come among you
with a view to lay up a worldly inheritance. A comfortable, decent
support for myself and family was all I desired. Experience showed
me that the provisions you made were adequate to this purpose, and
yet were not too much to enable me to afford that time and care for
this flock, which the great duties of my calling required. I was well
contented, and had things remained in that channel you never
would have heard any complaints from me. But circumstances are
greatly altered. In 1775, the first year of the War, the articles necis-
sary for clothing were raised in their prices twenty-five per cent.,
which diminished my salary, so far as thfee articles were necessary,
one-quarter part. With the decrease of my salary my expenses
increased. Soldiers almost daily fell in upon us, and such entertain
ment as we could we gave them, and they were wulcome. In the next
year, 1776, not only. clothing, but provisions, increased in their prices
— some things doubled, and some things more. But during these
years many of the Parish, though not all, with an eye of justice and
generosity, considered these things. Some let me have the necessaries
of life at the former prices, others considered me in their private
kindnesses (of which I kept a true account), so that, on the whole, I
•was so far from complaining that I gave you a generous and public
credit for the same, though I then thought, and still do think, that I sus
tained my full proportion, or more, of the public burthen, which I was
willing to do: Soon after this, in the beginning of the year 1777, a
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48 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
Many articles, by that time, particularly clothing, had arisen thribble,
and some things, even necessaries, five or six fold. But this act was
never complied with by some, and strongly opposed by many, and in
a few months was wholly set aside. And by a rapid increase of the
prices of things, by the next spring, 1778, the necessaries of life, upon
an average, upon a moderate computation, had arisen five or six fold in
their demands. My salary decreased in its value in proportion. I
found the burden then increasing upon me, and threatening to become
insupportable ; and with the best oeconomy I could use, my salary fell
far short of procuring the real necessaries of life for my family. As I
kept an accurate account of my expenses, I acquainted some of my
neighbors with the true situation of my affairs, and would as readily
have mentioned them to others had convenient opportunity offered,
and I had supposed it necessary. In the fall of the year 1777 the
people began to talk of making me some consideration more than they
had done. A contribution for that purpose was proposed on the pub-
He Thanksgiving, but somehow or other it failed, and was not brought
forward as was talked of. The matter being delayed, several came in
private and made me an equitable consideration ; but nothing general
was done till the public Fast in the following spring, when a collection
was made for that purpose, which, with what had been done in a more
private way, — together with the kind and seasonable assistance of the
ladies in their generous labors — not passing by the kind help afforded
me the preceding summer in getting in my hay, and otherwise, in the
whole raised my salary in its nominal sum, in proportion to about three
for one, falling a little short ; with which I was fully satisfied, and felt
grateful to my people for their marks of justice and generosity toward
me. And I gave a receipt to the Parish, in full, to the first of April,
1 778, still supposing that the part I bore in the public burden was very
large, as the necessaries of life had then arisen at least five double.
" What now lies before you, gentlemen, is to determine what consid
eration to make me in addition to the nominal sum of my salary, from
that time to the first day of April next ensuing. And I beg leave to
say what I have to offer upon the matter now under consideration
with the same freedom and openness of heart as I have done respect
ing what has past, desiring nothing but what is just, what is reasona
ble, what my circumstances require, and you are able, 'and, I trust,
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" But I need not say much respecting the prices of things at present ;
you are all sensible that grain of every kind has arisen, considered in
their lowest prices, at least from fifteen to twenty fold higher than
when my contract was made. Meat perhaps about seven and a half,
and labor eight or nine — every necessary article full as high, — sugar,
and every West India article, as much, — every kind of necessary
drink, simple water excepted, of which, blessed be God, we are not
deprived, have arisen as high as grain. But suppose we take a few
articles, and compute the difference, allowing the former prices as
high as they would bear, and the present as low. Let us, for instance,
take a bushel of rye, call the former price 4s., a bushel of Indian
Corn, and call it 3s., 20 w'. of Pork, at 5d. per pound, 20 weight of
beef, at 3d. per pound, and the whole of these several articles amount
to £l. 0s. 4d. Now take the same articles, and call the bushel of Rye
$12,00, the Indian Corn $8,00, the Pork 2s. 6d. per pound, and the
Beef Is. 6d., and they will all amount to exactly£l0. So that, com
paring them with the former prices, which I have set very high, and
the present, which I have set full low, and, indeed, lower than they
- are actually sold by some, and the difference is nearly ten for one.
And this, any of you, who will give yourselves the trouble to calcu
late, you will find to be the case, upon a low computation, with all the
necessaries of Ufe, as they rise one with another. Upon this cal
culation, my .salary, which is in the contract £80, is in its value to
me now no more than £8. And I presume no one present would
engage, for the nominal sum of £80 now, to procure so much by con
siderable as £8 would have procured when this contract was made.
" Now suppose you make the nominal sum of my salary equal in law
ful money to what it was formerly in Old Tenor, — and some Parishes
have done this, and some more, — and even then I shall sink one quar
ter part of my annual income, so far as that is paid in money, which is
a greater proportion, I presume, than any farmer pays in his rate, be
his farm large or small — and much greater than is paid to the sup
port of the public by any day labourer whatever. So that, upon this
valuation, a minister sustains a much greater proportion of the public
burthen even than if he were rated, and his salary made good.
" The objection, therefore, against paying to ministers their equitable
dues because they are not rated, I hope I shall be excused if I cannot
consider either as just or reasonable. But suppose a minister's salary
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be made up six for one, which is no more than what is done, as I am
informed, by Government, for the Judges of the Court, and what is
done for the President, Professors, and Tutors of the College, who are
excused from rates in the same manner that the ministers of the gos
pel are. And then a minister's salary, so far as it is paid in nfoney,
will be sunk in its value more than one-third part. From these things
you may easily discern what consideration in reason and justice ought
now to be made me.
" But should it be said the prices have not been so high through the
year, — I would observe, if you take a mean proportion between the
prices of things in April last, when my year began, and now, you will
find they do not fall very much, if anything, short of what I have pro
portioned them at. But admit they have not been so high ; yet, when
ever a consideration is made me, the money can be no better to me
than its real value at the time of receiving it, unless the money, before
I may have occasion to spend it, should grow better. And should any
considerable alteration take place in the money for the better, in the
ensuing season, I now declare that I am willing to make a proper
allowance to the Parish therefor.
" But should any object against making me an equitable considera
tion, according to the present prices of things, because you may have
a large debt to pay hereafter to the public when I may be excused, I
would answer : As I desire nothing of you but what is perfectly right
and just, and perfectly reasonable, and should be unworthy the sacred
character I sustain among you if I were not willing to sympathize with
you, and participate of all your burthens and afflictions as well as
rejoice in all your prosperity ; I am willing, in these public calamities
and burthens, to rise and fall with you ; nor could I be happy to be
freed from them myself, and see you burthened, and groaning under
them. I am therefore willing to have this matter duly considered. I
am willing to have a consideration made me annually or semi-annually,
according to the then present circumstances. But if an abatement
ought to be made now on account of what may be made hereafter,
then justice will require that something be done to secure me from
bearing more than my proportion hereafter. If you choose to look
forward with respect to the debt hereafter to be paid, though we none
of us know who may live to be concerned in that, I say, if you choose
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to come into it, and to bind myself to let my salary every year, so long
as it shall please God to eontinue me among you, be regulated in
proportion to the prices of the necessaries of life, and to your rates to
the public till the debt that has been, or may be, contracted by the
present War, shall be discharged. But unless something of this nature
is done, I cannot see but that strict justice will allow me to expect a
consideration annually, or semi-annually, in some proportion to the
necessaries of life, making proper and reasonable abatement for my
proportion of the annual public charge. — And an equitable pro
portion, while I live among you (which I hope will be while I live in
the world), I am freely willing to bear. In proof of this, if you will
pay me my salary in due proportion, in the necessaries of life, for the
past year, I will relinquish one third part ; and instead of £80, for
£53 6s. 8d. paid in this, way, will jeceipt the Parish in full for the past
year. I cannot promise to relinquish so much in future years, —
my circumstances, perhaps, will not admit it, — but for the last year I
will do it. Can justice to myself and family, can reason, from one
under my circumstances, to a large and able Parish, offer more ?
When a sum shall be agreed upon, the manner of raising it is entirely
with you. But in case you conclude to do it by a rate — that the poor
may not be oppressed by one who is their professed advocate — when
the rate shall be made, let it be shown me, and I will cross out of the
rates of those whom the assessors shall think most needy, a sum equal
to the six lowest rates in the bill ; and if the Parish think this not
enough, I will do more.
" Further, where any, from justice or generosity, have made me
any consideration in a more private way, for the past year, it is my
desire they would call upon me for that purpose, and I will refund it
to them again, or give them an order upon the collector therefor ; for
it would be unjust and unreasonable to require any who have done
anything in this way to pay it again in a rate. And further, as I
would remove every color of complaint that I can think of, when the
rate shall be made, if done in that way, whoever will pay their propor
tion, of the £80 only, in labour or necessaries of life, as I may stand in
need of them, estimating them at the former prices, for two-thirds the
quantity they must formerly have paid in such proportion, I will cross
their whole rate, be its nominal sum more or less.
" Having thus laid before you, in the most honest and open manner,

03 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
my mind on this affair, if I have offered any one thing unjust or
unreasonable, or bearing upon the Parish, or any one in it, more than
upon myself, I hope you will show it to me, and I will immediately
retract. I hope you will give everything its due weight, and act upon _
it agreeabljr,to reason and equity, and in so doing you will not only
discover an act of justice and generosity toward me,-but a regard
to the gospel, in affording it a ready and cheerful support among you,
and relieve me from many cares and perplexities, and give me abund
antly the better opportunity to discharge the great duties of my office
among you, in endeavouring to promote the honor of Christ's kingdom
and the spiritual welfare of you, your children, and this whole flock.
" That we may always be enabled and disposed to discharge our
respective duties to God and each other, five in mutual peace and
love here, and finally be admitted together into a better country,
to the enjoyment, not of a worldly, but heavenly, incorruptible inheri
tance, is the hearty desire of your,
" Though unworthy, " Yet very affectionate Pastor,
"JONA. FRENCH.
"Andover, February 19, 1779."
The Parish responded substantially to the proposals of this
letter. During the year 1779-80 two corn-rates were assessed,
amounting to 346 bushels. Quite a number also paid their
money-rates in corn. These money rates were, in the depre
ciated currency, largely increased.
Mr. Quincy, who boarded in Mr. French's family during this
time, says, in a letter to Rev. Dr. Sprague, published in the
Annals of the American Pulpit :
" Frugality was the necessity of the time and the law of his
household. The only bread we tasted was Indian or Rye, or a
mixture of both. Mr. French, on the Sabbath, had the special
privilege of white or flour bread, because, as he said, the Rye or
Indian gave him the heart-burn. As he took, on that day, no
other dinner, he justified himself in indulging in that enviable
luxury. Chocolate was the breakfast — our dinners pork and

SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY. 53
beef, with a plentiful allowance of cabbage and all the usual
vegetables farmers cultivate. In the winter frozen cod came
along from the sea-coast. Bohea, a tea to modern luxury almost
' unknown, was our table resort, with a qualification of milk at
supper time." The people did not confine their support to the
payment of rates. " When winter approached and farmers
began to collect the produce of their farms  he had often
to suspend as many spare-ribs in his cellar as it had nails to
hang them on, besides chickens, now and then a turkey, and
wild pigepns without number." From 1796 till his death, the
sum voted yearly for his support was $266.67. The Parish
bore the expense of his funeral, continued the salary and fire
wood to Mrs. French, and allowed her the use of the parsonage
buildings from August to the April following, and the crops of
that year ; and, while requesting her to entertain preachers,
requested her also " to exhibit her bill to the Parish for pay
ment." It should be added, that, previous to his decease, March
1806, the Deacons were authorized to draw from the Treasury
the money necessary " to procure preachers at such times when
the Rev. Jona. French is unable to perform himself."
The salary of Mr. Edwards was $900, with the use of the
Parish Pew. 'Mr. Badger was settled on a salary of $730.
March 8, 1832, voted to add $170, for the term of five years.
The Parish voted to Mr. Langstroth $900. Mr. Taylor was
settled on the same terms. Mr. Smith's salary was $1000, with
the privilege of four weeks' vacation. This was raised, in Octo
ber, 1853, to $1200, from the date of his settlement, as an induce
ment for him to remain. But the inducement did not avail.
The salary of the present minister is $1200. An annual vaca
tion of four weeks is given. All the ministers, since the build
ing of the present meeting-house, have had the use of a Parish
pew. The following letter, with reference to this part of minis
terial support, is a pleasant memento of the past.
5*

54 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
" To Deacon Zebadiah Abbot, Moderator of the Parish Meeting ; — to be
communicated to the Parish.
" Sir : — The Clerk having presented me with the votes of the
Parish for purchasing a pew in the new meeting-house, for a par
sonage pew, giving me the privilege of choosing one for that purpose :
I return them my sincere thanks for this renewed mark of their
respect, and the polite manner in which they have shown it; — and
have chosen as a parsonage pew that which joins to the broad He,
next to the women's seats — and hope the choice will be agreeable to
the Parish. And as a small token of my respect and affection for the
Parish, beg their acceptance of the inscription over the pulpit window,
and on the front of the pulpit, done in gold-leaf. Wishing the bless
ing of God on this house, and on this Parish and their posterity to the
latest generation, I subscribe their very
" Affectionate Pastor,
"JONA. FRENCH.
" Andover, December 8, 1788."
The money for the expenses of the Parish has been raised,
from the first unto the present time, by taxation. The expenses,
except for occasional repair or erection of buildings, were, in the
early years, only a few pounds more than the pastor's salary.
Even as late as 1770, but £72 and a few shillings covered the
yearly expenditure. The rate made for the year 1785, which
included the amount needed for providing materials for the
present meeting-house, was £224 3s. Id. 3Jqr. The additional
cost of the house was £100, levied in 1788. The tax of the
year 1795, the last made in the Royal currency^ was £121 6s.
lOd. 3qr. The average rate till 1810, the year when the sale
of the parsonage lands commenced, was $482. From 1810
till 1826, the year of the formation of the West Parish,, it was
$546. The table which follows will show, errors excepted, the
number of polls, the amount paid by each poll, the valuation
of real and personal estate, the yearly assessment, and the per
centage on' each hundred dollars, from 1830 to 1859 inclusive.

SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY.

55

Years.

No. of Polls.

Poll-Tox.

Valuation,

Total AsseBsm'fc.

On »100.

1830

311

$ ,32

$181,560

$620,45

.28,8

1831

348

,29

180,872

613,11

.28,2

1832 ¦

318

,42

371,550

804,07

.18,

1833

277

,35

360,412

621,31

.15,4

1834

275

,43

360,508

727,05

.17,4

1835

203

,62

287,452

775,56

.19,2

1836

172

1,00

284,335

1041,68

.33,

1837

154

1,12

252,787

1036,93

.34,2

1838

140

1,12

248,431

1043,87

.36,

1839

141

1,00

241,393

837,52

.28,8

1840

136

1,08

258,310

890,99

.28,8

1841

152

1,00

162,192

1043,44

.54,

1842

138

1,10

145,656

938,34

.54,

1843

97

1,50

135,327

943,99

.53,4

1844

122

1,00

131,038

704,71

.44,4

1845

111

1,20

128,766

843,22

.54,6

1846

111

1,10

126,058 129,149

704,26

' .46,2

1847

106

1,00

636,17

.40,8

1848

100

1,36

135,1'32

828,03

.51,

1849

97

1,44

120,316

832,61

.54,

1850

100

1,25

126,738

753,65

.46,8

1851

99

1.20

318,811

751,62

.19,8

1852

97

1,40

405,505

797,32

.20,4

1853

97

1,50

348,417

904,05

.21,6

1854

91

1,50'

326,993

943,03

.22,8

1855

86

1,50

342,667

1402,62

.37,2

1856

87

1,50

338,988

1084,96

.28,2

1857

93

1,50

353,900

1178,96

.29,4

1858

90

1,50

353,663

1089,40

.27,

1859

80

1,50

326,999 ,

1090,

.30,

By the above Table it will be seen that there has, within the
last twenty-nine years, been considerable fluctuation in the num
ber of tax-payers. It appears that in 1831, the year containing
the largest number of polls, the valuation was less by more than
$146,000 than in 1859, with the number of polls less by 268 ;
and that the assessment on the hundred dollars, in 1859, with
eighty polls, only exceeds, by less than two cents, that of 1831,
with 348 polls. In later years, too, quite a large number of
men, though connected with the congregation, either worship
ping with it or whose families worship with it, have neglected
to join the Parish. Some of these have been accustomed to
pay what has been named a " voluntary tax."

56 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
V.
MUSIC IN PUBLIC WORSHIP.
The first notice in regard to singing, which we have found in
the Parish records, dates as lately as 1769. At the Annual
Meeting of that year it was " put to vote to see if the Parish
will sing Tate & Brady or Dr. Watts's Psalms, and it passed on
the negative." The Psalm-book used at this time was probably
the New England version. In a church-meeting three years
afterwards it was voted to sing Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns,
three months. For eighty-seven years, then, the people have
sung, for the most part, these songs of Zion, the only changes
since being the gradual introduction, in addition, of the Select
Hymns of Dr. Worcester.
" The common method of reading the Psalm line by line " at
the communion, was " dropped " April 21, 1794. It went out
of use in the congregation a short time before this.
In 1779 it was voted by the Parish to consent to the building
of a seat in the meeting-house to accommodate singing. This
seat was to be " before the seat the Deacons sit in." It is
uncertain whether the seat was built. For we find a petition
for a Parish Meeting, 1780, to see if the Parish would allow
seats for the singing school. No action seems to have been
taken on this petition. Another petition of the same kind was
presented in 1782, for the use of the three hindmost seats.
This petition was refused. At about this time, it is said, a part
of the singers sat in the gallery and a part below. When the
new house was building, the same question came up again. At
one meeting the privilege of sitting together was denied : at a
subsequent meeting it was granted. The seats allowed were in
the front gallery.
A Society called the South Parish Musical Society, was in
existence in 1809. A committee of this society petitioned the

MUSIC IN PUBLIC WORSHIP. 57
Parish for aid. Aid was promised, but, after adjourning five
times, the Parish left the subject to a committee to make a
report. What that report was, perhaps was never known. An
other request was made for assistance in 1811 : the Parish
" regret their inability at the present time to assist."
A Bass- Viol was in use as early as 1800; since that year
the Pnrish appointed "Hermon Abbot to use" it. We find
notices of a small viol in 1828, of a flute in 1829, and of two
flutes, bass and small viol, in 1830. The organ, purchased by
subscription in 1835, for $800, was the following year bought
by the Parish. This caused a good deal of unpleasant feeling
for several years, and some persons declined being taxed for any
share in its cost.
The first appropriation of money by the Parish for music was
in 1805. A small sum was then given for the expenses of the
bass-viol. In 1818 the ' assessors were authorized to draw for
the singers, not to exceed thirty dollars. The next year, fifteen
dollars was voted. Difficulty arising about this time, the sum
of five dollars, the next year, was scarcely voted, to save the
danger that the singers would leave their seats. In 1826'the
money drawn for them was not to exceed twenty dollars. In
1829 fifty dollars was appropriated. Since 1837, $100 has been
annually voted.
In regard to the leaders of the singing the account is imperfect.
We read concerning Dea. Joseph Abbot, who removed to Wil
ton in 1776, at that time in his seventy-second year, that "he
for many years tuned the Psalm, and Dea. Isaac Abbot, his
cousin, read it line by line." This would carry us back quite
early. At the time of Mr. Quincy's residence, 1778-86, the
leader's name was Ames. Somewhat later, Mr. Ballard was the
leader. In 1800 the Parish ' dismissed the persons who led the
singing, and chose Henry Dane, with Benjamin Abbot as his
assistant.' Between this date and 1820 the following persons
are remembered as leaders of the singing : Asa Abbot, Ezra
Ingalls(?), Enoch Frye and Ralph H. Chandler.

58

HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

The singers' seats were at this time filled with many persons
who were not considered suitable members of a choir. As a
remedy of this evil, the Andover South Parish Union Singing
Society was formed, Oct. 16, 1820. This society, receiving its
members by vote, soon became the only occupants of the seats,
and has continued to be the choir to the present time. Its
President for the time is the chorister. The following persons
have been Presidents, from 1820 to 1859.

1820-1825 A. J. Gould.
1826 John Derby.
1827 A. J. Gould.
1828-1829 Hermon Griffin.

1830-1831 Sylvester Abbott.
1832-1839 A. J. Gould.
1840-1842 Sylvester Abbott.
1843-1859 Albert Abbott.

VI.

BURIAL-GROUNDS AND BURIALS.
The first person buried in the burial-ground of this Parish
was Robert Russell. He died in December, 1710. The oldest
inscription there is, is on the grave-stone of Mrs. Ann Blanchard,
wife of Mr. Jonathan Blanchard, who died Feb. .29, 1723. A
second burial-place was laid out in the West part of the Parish
in 1791. The first one was enlarged in 1792, the Parish
then accepting a gift of • land for this purpose from Samuel
Abbot, Esq., and Mrs. Sarah Barker. In 1820 the Parish
authorized the purchase of land to enlarge it, for the sum of
$140. It was a third time enlarged, in 1847, by purchase from
Dea. Newman. In this last year, happy changes were com
menced in the location of the front wall, of the hearse-house and
of the horse-sheds. New lots were laid out in the yard, and a
very decided improvement has since gone forward in the whole

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BURIAL-GROUNDS AND BURIALS. 59
appearance of the burial-ground. The nakedness of the hill
side began to be covered by trees and shrubs, and utter irregu
larity gave place to some, even though a defective, order.
A hearse was procured first in 1798, and a hearse-house was
built the next year. A new hearse was obtained in 1833.
The small cemetery connected with the Theological Seminary
received its first dead in 1810. The burial-yard of the Parish
of Christ Church was consecrated in 1840. A few persons
have, since 1855, been interred in the Catholic cemetery. But
the larger portion of those who die here are buried still in the
old ground, where their fathers sleep.
During the successive Pastorates of this Parish, the number
of burials or deaths registered is given below. This register
includes, of course, merely those who were considered, at the
time of their death, to belong to the congregation worshipping
at the old church, and whose funerals were attended by its min
ister. The whole number is 2454.

Registered by Mr. Phillips,

892,

in 61 years.

" " Mr. Frenchj

811,

in 37 years.

" " Mr. Edwards,

91,

in 3 3-4 years (only in part)

¦' " Mr. Badger,

321,

in 8 years.

" " Mr. Langstroth,

13,

in 1 year (only in part).

" " Mr. Taylor,

257,

in 13 years.

" " Mr. Smith,

7,

in 1 year (only in part).

" " Mr. Mooar,

62,

in 3 5-6 years.

Funeral sermons have not usually been preached in this
Parish. In early times the body was carried, often several
miles, by the bearers, to the grave. The friends returned to the
house of the deceased for supper. Ardent spirits were drunk on
such occasions. Mr. Phillips, as early as 1720, testified against
it as an unfit practice. It was customary to give gloves and
rings at funerals. The bearers received white gloves. The
gloves were laid upon the coffin, and taken by the bearers before
proceeding to the grave. Purple gloves were presented at a

60 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
later time. The Parish voted, on the death of Mr. Phillips,
1771, that the bearers should have rings, and that all the or
dained ministers attending the funeral, and the ministers that
preached, gratis in the time of Mr. P.'s sickness, should have
gloves. This practice was discontinued during the Revolution
ary War. For the funeral of Mr. French, the Parish procured
the mourning of the family, and draped the pulpit with black.
On the death of Madam French, the Parish appointed a com
mittee to solicit subscriptions for the payment of the expenses of
her funeral. Two plain slate tablets were erected in their mem
ory, and still stand, quite undistinguished and neglected, among
the other grave-stones.

VII.
ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH.
" October 17, 1711, a church was gathered in the South Pre
cinct of Andover." Thirty-five persons, thirty-two of whom
were from the church in the North Precinct, entered into cove
nant with each other and " were thereupon declared to be a
church." The " messengers " of the churches are not mentioned .
in the records, but the " elders " who recognized this new church
were Mr. Thomas Barnard, of Andover, Mr. Edward Payson,
of Rowley, Mr. Joseph Green, of Salem Village, and Mr. Thos.
Symmes, of Bradford. The nearest churches, at that time or
ganized, were the North Church, Andover, now Unitarian, the
churches in North Danvers, South Reading and Woburn, the
present Unitarian Church in Billerica, the First Church of
Chelmsford, and the church in Londonderry, N. H. At least
twenty-five Congregational churches are now planted within
these limits.

COVENANTS AND ARTICLES OF FAITH. 61
VIII.
COVENANTS AND ARTICLES OF FAITH
The Covenant, which formed the basis of organization, was in
the following words.
" We, whose Names are hereunto subscribed, apprehending our
selves called of God to join together in chh. communion : (acknowledg
ing our unworthiness of Such a Privilege, and our inability to keep
Covenant with God unless Christ shall enable us thereunto:) In
humble dependence on free grace for divine assistance and acceptance ;
We do, in the name of Christ Jesus our Lord, freely Covenant and
bind ourselves, solemnly, in the presence of God himself, his holy
angels, and all his Servants here present, to Serve the only living and
true God — Father, Son and Holy Ghost, whose name alone is Jeho
vah, cleaving to him as our chief good, and unto our Lord Jesus Christ
as our only Saviour, y» Prophet, Priest and King of our Souls, in a
way of gospel obedience : Avouching the Lord to.be our God and the
God of our children, whom we give unto him ; and resolve that we and
our houses will serve the Lord, counting it as an high favor, that the
Lord will accept of us, and our children with us, to be his people.
We do also give ourselves one to another in the Lord, covenanting
to walk together as a Church of Christ, in all the ways of his worship,
according to the holy Rules of his Word : promising in brotherly love
faithfully to watch over one another's Souls, and to submit ourselves
to the discipline and power of Christ in his Church : and duly to at
tend the Seals and Censures, or whatever ordinances Christ has com
manded to be observed by his people, so far as the Lord by his Word
and Spirit has [revealed] or shall reveal unto us to be our duty,
adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things, avoiding the
very appearance of evil. And that we may keep our covenants with
God we desire to deny ourselves and to depend wholly on the free
mercy of God, and upon the merits of Jesus Christ : and wherein we
shall fail, to wait on him for pardon thro' his name : Beseeching the
Lord to own' us as a Church of Christ, and to delight to dwell in the
midst of us." 6

62 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
The church records do not mention any other creed or cove
nant, for sixty-two years. But it is probable that another was
soon brought into use, for in„a.JijaJ&jeoliime, published by Mr.
Phillips in 1728, which ' contains three discourses preached by
himself neafTne^mie*^''The~gTe"at"e,aii;hquake, an account is also
given of the solemnrenewal of Covenant made by the church.
The Covenant, which was taken by the communicants, is as
folio wsj 1
" We, the Pastor and all other the communicants of this Parish, now
assembled, apprehending ourselves called of God to Renew our Cove
nant — : do each one of us for ourselves respectively profess a Serious
Belief of the Christian Religion, as expressed in the Assembly's Cate
chism : and do now, in an Everlasting Covenant, give up ourselves to
God in Jesus Christ: Humbly asking of God forgiveness thro' the
Blood of Christ for our Original Sin, as also for all our Actual Trans
gressions : And solemnly Promising before God Himself and the Holy
Angels, and in the Presence of this Assembly, that by the Assistance
of the Divine Spirit, we will forsake the Vanities of this Evil World
and approve ourselves the true Disciples of Jesus Christ, in all good
carriage towards God and man : and that both we and our Houses will
Serve the Lokd.
" And particularly we promise to walk in Communion together, as
becomes a Church of the Lord Jesus Christ : that is to say ; we will, as
we have opportunity, watch over one another and all such as may
hereafter Join with us in Love : And will submit our selves to the
Discipline and Power of Christ in His Church : and duly attend the
Seals and Censures, or whatever Ordinances Chist has commanded to
be observed by his People, so far as the Lokd by his Word and Spirit
has revealed or shall reveal unto us to be our Duty : adorning the
Doctrine of God our Saviour in all Things, and avoiding the very
Appearance of Evil : Earnestly praying that the Lord would take
Delight to dwell among us, that His Blessing may be upon us and His
Glorious Kingdom advanced among us."
The church adopted from its organization the then prevalent
practice of allow-ing-persons -who had been^ baptized, and who

COVENANTS AND ARTICLES OF FAITH. 63
were not of scandalous life, the privilege of taking what was
called the Baptismal Covenant. This entitled them to the watch
of the church, and, if parents, to The baptism of their children.
The Covenant in use for this purpose is hkewise not mentioned
in the records, but on the same occasion it was renewed in the
following form, as given in the above-mentioned volume.
" We, who have pubhcly recognized our Baptismal Covenant,
apprehending ourselves "called of God"to renew the same : do now
each of us for ourselves respectivSry7™AcEnowledge the One True
and Living God to be our God. And, Professing a serious Belief of
the Christian Religion, as it is expressed in the Assembly's Catechism,
do give up ourselves and ours : what we are and what we have and
what we shall have unto God in the Lord Jesus Christ: heartily resolv
ing, by the Help of his Grace, to Conform our Lives to the Rule of
that Holy Religion, so long as we live : repenting of all our Sins
against' those Rules of Holiness. We give ourselves to the Lord
Jehovah, who is Father, Son and Holy Ghost, as unto our Best
Good and our Last End : And unto our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the
Lord Jehovah, as to our Prophet, Priest and King for Ever. We
Submit unto the Laws of His Kingdom, and as they are Administered
among this His people : And will diligently labour for those clearer
Evidences of our good Estates, which may encourage our approaches
to the table of the Lord. And, finally, we will give a Christian
Education to all such as are, or may be, providentially committed to
our Care and Charge." , .
Wi»^ '
The first pastor earnestly urged this practice. In a foot-note
to one of his discourses, 1727, he says, " Neither do I remember
one Native of the Parish that is Unbaptized." The last instance
of- "m^^g^eT^h^^T^Trre'wrSM Dec. 30, 1770. After
the accession of Mr. French, those persons who wiSKed to enter
into _Covenant~withJ-.hg church and enjoy its privileges, were
allowed^to^^oon^adr^assejting to a common declaration
of faifcb— Those, who were admitted to full communion had been
accustomed to.gimJ.'a relation" of their experience and of their

64 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
belief. This relation was often a written one. It was voted,
March~2^Tj7^unanimously, " That, instead of the usual prac
tice oTIexhibiting relations previous to the admission into the
church, the following form of a Confession of Faith be pro-
3edin public to each candidate, viz. :

" You, A. B., do professedly beheve there is one God, Father, Son
and Holy Ghost — that the Bible is the Word of God, which was
! written by the Prophets and Apostles, under the Inspiration of the
f Holy Spirit : you also believe the fall of man, the depravity of human
;nature, and the Redemption, through the Mediation, Intercession and
|Atonement of Christ: that Christ has appointed two special ordinan
ces under the Gospel Dispensation, to be observed by every true
j believer in his name, viz. : Baptism and the Lord's Supper : that the
| qualifications for these ordinances are true repentance toward God
j and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ : you beheve, also, that the soul
\will exist after the dissolution of the body, and that there will be a day
(of final judgment, in which every one shall receive a reward according
to his works."
The covenant at this time was nearly the same as was taken
m the time of Mr. Phillips, by those who were admitted to full
communion. It significantly omitted, however, the declaration
of belief in " the Christian Religion as expressed in the Assem
bly's (Secfflgm," and the asking"of forgiveness- for sin was not
accompanied'with the ancient specification, "for our Original
Sin^asjilso for_alLpuj;.aptuaL_traaagressions." Excepting these
two omissions, and a few verbal differences, the covenant was
the old one already given.
In 1783, a person in covenant with the church proposed the
following question : " Whether the church would admit him to
full communion, provided there_ should, be no objection against
his moral^char^cjer^without requiring him to take the Covenant
again." This person jjad^ simpry^owned" the"B"aptismal Cove
nant." The church replied to his question in the negative.
This person then offered to refer the matter to the Association

COVENANTS AND ARTICLES OF FAITH. 65
of Ministers, or to a mutual council. This offer was declined.
He was asked if the present form of Covenant could be altered
so that he would be willing to take it. He answered " that he
did not doubt but that it might." A committee was accordingly
chosen " to revise the Covenant and see if they could so alter it,
at the same time retaining the essentials, as might be agreeable
to Bro. A. and the church." Such alterations were proposed
as were acceptable to the committee and Mr. A., and Sept. 4,
1786, the alterations were adopted by the church. These changes
were only verbal, and brought the Covenant to the form in
which it now stands.
But, for some reason, Mr. A. did not take the Covenant, even
as amended : for his claim was that he had a right to the privi
lege of the Lord's Supper, on the ground that he had " owned
the Covenant" already. He sent in a paper, in 1788, " request
ing that the church would declare whether he is a member of
the church or not." The brethren refused to take up the matter
again. In 1791, the matter would come up, for this persistent
man now kept his wife from coming to the Supper, alleging that
he treated her as the church treated him. The church debarred
him, on this account, from all special privileges, and placed him
under censure. The difficulty was brought before the church
repeatedly till 1795, when the church declined to entertain it
any longer. We hear nothing more of it till 1811, when, at the
request of Mr. A., the church appointed a committee to devise
some method of removing the censure. They reported, that, in
consideration of the fact that Mr. A. had offered to leave the
matter to a council, which the church had refused to do, and that
he was now willing to acknowledge that he was wrong in detain
ing his wife from the Communion, the censure should be re
moved. The church accordingly removed its censure.
The narrative of this case is important, as it occupied more
attention than any other case of Discipline. It shows that per
sons under the half-way Covenant were urRTer the discipline of
the church, and were actually disciplined ; and it throws light

68 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
upon the character of the Covenant itself. It is worthy of re
mark that this -is the only instance in the history of this church
in which there appears to have been even the suggestion of call
ing in a council to settle difficulties. This church has given one
proof, at least, of the power of a church to govern itself.
The Confession of Faith and Covenant, in their present form,
were formally adopted April 2, 1813. The following words,
however, then includ^d^n^tliejSftiuarticle, were by vote, Sept.
17, 1830, omitted : " Baptism is to be administered to unbaptized
adults, wEo* profess their faith in Uhrist, and to the infant chil
dren of members of the church." The short address, which, in
the present form of admission, precedes the confession, and the
words of fellowship, which the church use after the reading of
the Covenant, were accepted in 1834.
The Cambridge Platform, though never explicitly accepted by
the church, has often been recognized as of standard value.
References to it are made several times in the records. It 1776
it was voted " that the platform of our churches should be read
in public, a part at a time, at the discretion of the pastor."
But while, for the most part, in sympathy with the Puritan
Theology and Polity, this church did doubtless feel, to some
extent, the Arminianizing influence, which infected the churches
pf this region during the latter half of the last century. This
influence is easily discernible in the articles of faith. The Con
fession, adopted in the time of Mr. French, is especially defec
tive in thorough statement of doctrine. The changes made in
1813 were in the right direction. But a creed, which should
express in natural connection and sequence of thought all the fun
damental facts of Christian doctrine, is still greatly to be desired.

BAPTISMS. 67
IX.
BAPTISMS.
The early Baptisms were almost all of infants. The adults
baptized were not usually natives. The whole population were
in covenant with the church during the first half-century.
Seven huW<rrea~feTsOTS " " recognized~Their covenant " in this
time. Probably half of them were afterwards " admitted to
full communion." A frequent time of assuming these vows was
just before or after marriage. Some of the more serious young
people assumed them at an earlier age. But to the close of
Mr. French's ministry, a public profession, it is to be feared, had
its chief importance, in the view of many, as entitling their chil
dren to baptism. In later years, the number of adult baptisms
has greatly increased. The baptisms under each pastor have
been as follows :
Mr. Phillips baptized 2143, adults 30.

Mr. French "

1449,

' 10

Mr. Edwards "

508,

' 58

Mr. Badger

303,

" 70

Mr. Langstroth "

39,

' 4

Mr. Taylor "

174,

" 37

Mr. Smith "

4,

Mr. Mooar "

53,

» 27

The whole number of baptisms is 4673, of which number 236
were adult baptisms. It will be seen that about nineteen-twen-
tieths have been infant baptisms. During the first two pastor
ates, eighty-nine-ninetieths were infant baptisms. During the
last six pastorates, four children have been baptized for one
adult.

68 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
X.
DISCIPLINE.
The chief causes of Discipline for 125 years were fornication
and drunkenness. He who investigates the records of this or
any other church for the same period will be astonished at the
comparative prevalence of these vices as compared with the
present time. Numerous confessions of these sins are pre
served. Many of them, especially of the former class, are from
those who belonged at least to the middle class of the commu
nity. During the ministry of the first two pastors, persons who
had owned the covenant were disciplined. Mr. Phillips was
strenuous, also, upon the point that the baptized children should
receive, not only the watch and care, but the discipline of the
church. In case of any scandalous conduct they were expected
to make confession before they were allowed to own their cove- ,
nant. For many years after the organization of the church, a
case of final exclusion seldom occurred. The chief censures
were the requirement of confession and the suspension from
church privileges. Final excommunication was resorted to
frequently after Mr. Edwards was settled, and has been fre
quent since. The term employed in Mr. Taylor's ministry was
withdrawal of fellowship. The term seems to have been em
ployed to convey a distinction between the cases tried at that
time and those grosser ones of former days. Several members
at that time absented themselves from worship and communion
because of the wrong position taken, as they thought, by the
church, upon the subject of slavery. Persisting in walking out
of communion with the church, they were at length declared to
be no longer members of it. More recently the same kind of
action has been taken concerning a large number of persons who
had been long absent. Some of these were known, and efforts
have been made to restore them. Others, unknown for many

PRAYER-MEETINGS. 69
years, were excluded by summary vote, all efforts to discover
them having proved unavailing. The number of excommunica
tions has, within these four years, been greater than ever before
for the same length of time. It is doubtful whether any thor
ough attempt had been made to restore the ancient Puritan con
ception of the church, — a local church, — and to enforce the
covenant obligation assumed by each member, " to walk in com
munion with this church."
A noticeable change has taken place, apparently, in the pro
cesses of discipline. These are far more summary than once.
In early days there were formal trials. The church sat as a
court, heard witnesses and took affidavits. The documents were
preserved, and are of the true legal minuteness. The witnesses
were of the world, as well as of the church. The persons tried,
as has been seen before, were also of the world, or, at least, only
held in the church by the tenure of baptism and the baptismal
covenant. Thus we have the detailed trial, before the church, of
an Inn-keeper, who was not a communicant, for allowing men to
play cards in his house, and for furnishing them liquor. The
result was an humble confession of his fault, and his consequent
restoration to the charity of the Brethreri. This took place after
the discontinuance of the half-way covenant. In many ways is
disclosed the wider and in some respects closer watch which the
church once exercised over the piety and morals of the people.

XI.
PRAYER-MEETINGS.

The first notice of any other than the stated services of public
worship on the forenoon and afternoon of Sunday, is a notice of
a meeting held by young men on Sabbath evenings. They were

70 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
accustomed, as early as 1729, to " meet in several societies for
religious exercises." At this time the people did not "•look upon
Sunday evening as a part pf the Sabbath." But Mr. Phillips
exhorts the young men " to shew Respects to the day, and in
point of Prudence to spend it in reading good books, in holy
meditation, Prayer and Rehgious Conference." This meeting is
mentioned ten years after in a way which makes probable its, at
least, recent suspension, perhaps its continued existence.
At this latter date, 1739, a Wednesday lecture was preached.
A funeral sermon, preached for Mr. Phillips^ at such a lecture,
by Mr. Barnard, the younger, of the North Parish, in memory
of Abiel Abbot, B. A., was printed. The author of the History
of Andover says a monthly lecture in the town, preached alter
nately in each Parish, was commenced in this ministry, which
was continued more than sixty years. It appears, however,
from one of the memorials of Mr. Phillips to the Parish, on
the subject of his salary, 1742, that for a few years, certainly,
this lecture was held only in the North Parish. He avows his
own willingness to have the lecture continued alternately, as had
been the custom.
No devotional meetings, save those of the Lord's day, are
known to have existed in the Parish during the ministry of Mr.
French. He was accustomed, sometimes, to lecture in the west
part of the town. Baptisms are twice recorded as solemnized
" at a lecture at Widow Furbush's," and once each " at John
Malcoys," and " at the house of Widow Lucy Bailey." These
families were beyond Haggit's Pond. It is stated, also, that " on
the evening before Mr. French's death, he agreed with Pro
fessor Woods that the conference meetings of the young gen
tlemen of the Theological Seminary and those among his parish
ioners should be united." "Those among his Parishioners" had
doubtless but recently been called into existence, as, at this
-time, the preaching of Dr. Griffin had begun to excite a quite
unwonted interest in many hearts. Several persons in the
church, at that time, were greatly revived. Some, it is said,

PRAYER-MEETINOS. 71
gave up their religious hopes. On the part of others, these
devotional meetings were viewed with suspicion, if not with
positive displeasure. They thought them innovations full of
danger. They considered Sunday services sufficient. Night
meetings, especially, were regarded as evil omens.
On the settlement of Mr. Edwards, in 1812, family and neigh
borhood prayer meetings became frequent in all parts of the Par
ish. His own participation in a conference meeting, held at the
Centre School House, previous to his settlement, had recom
mended him to the people. His interest in these meetings led him
to start them in the farthest portions of his Parish. We hear
of them especially in the Bailey and Scotland Districts. The
one held in the former district was on the first Tuesday of every
month. In the latter district, meetings, in his ministry, were
held sometimes on Thursday and sometimes on Saturday even
ings. In accounts preserved of some of these meetings, those
who took charge of them, and who took part in them, are spoken
of as " scholars " or " students." Members of the Academy, and
especially of the Seminary, have ever since participated largely
in the conduct of meetings for conference and prayer. Of late
years, the stated church meetings in the vestry have not been so
dependent upon them, and now are not at all dependent. But
for several years the young men of the Seminary have sustained
a meeting in the Scotland and Holt Districts, on Sabbath eve
nings. A meeting of the same character and conduct was held,
for a long time, with occasional interruptions, in the families of
the Phillips District, on Saturday evenings. On the same eve
ning another meeting has been held, statedly, by members of the
Academy and Seminary, in connection with the Abbot Village
Mission School.
At seasons of especial interest, all these meetings have been
revived and special ones commenced. At the time of the series
of meetings, called protracted and four days' meetings, in the
years 1831 and 1833, morning gatherings for prayer were main
tained. At about sunrise the people assembled in large num-

72

HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

bers. During the recent religious revival of 1858, a Union
Daily meeting was held, at eight o'clock in the morning, from
March to August. At some of the first meetings as many as
two hundred and fifty were present. The average attendance
for the last month was about forty.
Of the origin of the stated prayer'meetings, in the vestry or
church, it is difficult to speak with certainty. The monthly
concert was commenced, without doubt, as early as 1815. Mr.
Edwards wrote his circular, that year, in behalf of its general
observance throughout the United States. It was held at first
on Monday afternoon, afterwards on Monday evening ; but for
a number of years it has been held on Sabbath evening. At
one time during Mr. Taylor's pastorate, committees on various
missionary fields were appointed, to report at the concert, but
this method did not long succeed. It has been always under the
care of the pastor.
The Sunday evening meeting was not held statedly at the
vestry during Mr. Edwards's pastorate. Thft date of its com
mencement is not known. Preaching, on this evening, was fre
quent after 1828. Since 1840 this meeting has been conducted
by the Deacons of the church.
Whether a church prayer meeting was held regularly, on a
week-day, in the vestry, before 1828, is in some doubt. It does
not seem likely that, if it existed, it had acquired the fixed char
acter which now belongs to the meeting of Wednesday evening.
It is known that, in 1823, Mr. Edwards had a female Bible
class, numbering, at one time, 160 members. This was on a
week-day afternoon. He also had, in 1824, a Bible class of
males. This numbered 150. These classes awakened a very
deep interest; even the students in Theology were eager to
attend them. Mr. Badger, at the opening of his ministry, con
tinued this Bible class, with less of questioning and answering,
and more in the manner of an expository lecture. It was called,
indeed, the Biblical lecture. This class was held in the eve
ning. A weekly prayer meeting was held at this time, but not

PRAYER-MEETINGS. ' 73
on Wednesday. As nearly as can be learned, the Wednesday
evening meeting became fixed in the ministry of Mr. Langs
troth. It has since gained the character of an institution, blessed
in its memories and its influence. It has been almost always
conducted by the Pastor. At one time, Mr. Taylor left it,
except once a month, in charge of the brethren of the church,
while he held a meeting in some distant portion of the Parish.
But its interest did not increase by this course. Mr. Smith held it
once a month, in the afternoon, for the benefit of those who could
not enjoy its privileges in the evening. The average attend
ance, for the past three years, has been from sixty to eighty.
A young people's meeting was commenced in 1840, by the
suggestion of Mr. Taylor, for the benefit of those young men of
the church who felt reluctant to participate in the more public
meeting on Wednesday evening. This was continued the larger
part of two seasons. In 1856 a few young men met four eve
nings for prayer, but their number was so' small that the meet
ing was not continued. March 5, 1858, the present young
men's prayer meeting was commenced in the vestry. Sixteen
young men attended it. On several subsequent evenings the
number varied from twenty-five to fifty. It has been uniformly
continued since, generally on Monday evening, with an average
attendance of twelve.
A Maternal Association was formed early in Mr. Edwards's
ministry. It held monthly meetings. Once in three months the
Pastor was accustomed to meet the mothers and children. At
such a meeting, in 1821, a collection is reported in the Mis
sionary Herald to have been taken. This association seems to
have lost interest after a few years. Its meetings were sus
pended, probably, for a season, previous to the ordination of Mr
Langstroth. In May, 1838, it was revived. A constitution
was adopted, and signed by thirty-two mothers. Its meetings
were again suspended, some time previously to the ordination of
the present pastor. In March, 1856, a new constitution was
adopted. Since that time the meetings have been attended on
7

74 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
Thursday afternoons, at first usually with Wid. Rhoda Gleason;
since her death, with Mrs. H. B. Taylor.
A female prayer meeting was in existence in 1817. It was
held at the house of Wid. Henry Abbot, and was conducted by
her. Only a few ladies met there. One of them, Mrs. Caleb
Abbot, used to walk three miles. A female prayer meeting was
commenced, a little later, on Sabbath evenings, by Mrs. Edwards.
There was, at this time, no other stated Sabbath evening ser
vice. Mrs. E.'s room was crowded. Subsequently a prayer
meeting was held, for many years, with Mrs. Zeruiah Griffin, in
Abbot village. Through the efforts of Mrs. A. D. New-man a
meeting was established, in the early part of Mr. Taylor's min
istry, at Dea. Blanchard's. One was held, just before his dis
mission, at his house. Mrs. Newman invited one at her house,
during the vacancy of the ministerial office. This soon was
omitted for various causes. In 1854, Mrs. H. B. Taylor
established a meeting, which has been sustained on Thursday
of each week, to the present time. Circles of prayer have
been formed, also, in other parts of the Parish,' at different times,
but have not become institutions. In the spring of 1858 a young
ladies' meeting was commenced at the Pastor's house, and is still
attended by ten or twelve persons. This is held on Monday
evening.

XII.
SABBATH SCHOOLS.

During the interval of public worship on Sundays, it was cus
tomary for the people who remained at noon to come together to
hear the reading of a sermon and to sing. How ancient a prac
tice this was in this Parish is not known. Judge Phillips was
accustomed to read. He testified his interest in this service

SABBATH SCHOOLS. 75
by bequeathing, at his death, in 1802, a flagon to the church, on
which was the following inscription : " By the direction of the
late Samuel Phillips, Esq., Lieut.-Gov., this flagon is respect
fully presented to the South Church in Andover, as a memorial
of his sincere affection and esteem, and of his earnest request
that the laudable practice of reading in the house of pubhc wor
ship between services may be continued, so long as even a small
number shall be disposed to attend the exercise." The same
day another flagon was presented by Samuel Abbot, Esq., bear
ing a similar inscription. The church voted each year, after
ward, at its annual meeting, to continue this practice. A com
mittee was usually appointed to invite the cooperation of the
Parish in this service. Readers were appointed by this com
mittee, or, still more frequently, the Parish itself appointed
several persons to secure readers. The last vote in the church
to continue this reading was passed in 1828.
Ten years before this last date the Sabbath School was
formed. A preparatory movement had commenced in the spring
of 1816, by the organization of a Juvenile Bible Society. Every
child, who daily read the Bible himself, or, if not old enough to
read, who heard it read by others, and endeavored to understand
and obey it, and who annually contributed to send it to the
heathen, was a member.
"At the opening of the [common] schools, in 1816, each teacher
was furnished with a blank book ruled with eight columns. On
the first column was to be written the name of each scholar : on
the second, his age : on the third, the number of times he had
been at the head of his class at the last spelling for the day : on
the fourth, the number of books which he had taken from the
library : on the fifth, the number of verses of hymns and divine
songs which he had learned: on the sixth, the number of
answers 'which he had learned, of the shorter Catechism: on
the seventh, the number of verses which he had learned of the
Bible : and, on the eighth, the number of cents which, in the
course of one year, he had given to the Bible Society."

76 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
A committee, at the close of the schools, examined the schol
ars and inspected these books. A great deal of interest was thus
excited, not only in behalf of the benevolent object of sending
bibles to the heathen, but in the study of the Bible and Cate
chism, and the committing of hymns. Of the 415 scholars then
in the schools, " 127 learned through the Catechism ; 241, all
taken together, learned- more than 7000 verses of hymns and
divine songs, and 121 more than 5000 verses of the Bible."
The Sabbath School was opened in the vestry in the spring
of 1818. It was held, as since, during the intermission of public
worship. The number of children the first year was 138. In
the following summers, district Sabbath Schools were held at
various points in the Parish, probably in the afternoon. Of
these there were at one time seven. They continued in session
from fourteen to eighteen weeks. July 22, 1827, owing to the
large increase of scholars in the* vestry, the school kept there *
was removed to the meeting house, and the following winter the
experiment of continuing the school through the year was tried
with complete succsss.
Up to this date the scholars had been nearly all under twenty
years of age. Of 330 pupils in the summer of 1827, only eight
had passed this age. The religious interest of 1831 and the
years following largely increased the school. At this time the
first adult classes were formed. So large a number as 640 were
then reported as members of the school. The number reported
each year to 1838 was httle less than 600. In the spring of
1842 a report was made to the Sunday School Union of 384
teachers and scholars. The above numbers seem to be the
largest numbers on any one Sabbath. The following is the
average attendance in the school, from 1842 to 1859, inclusive :

1842 ..

. 253.

1848 . .

. 206.

1854 . . . 147.

1843 . ,

, . .241.

1849 . ,

. . 196.

1855 . . . 126.

1844 . ,

, . 263.

1850 . ,

, . 184.

1856 . . . 166.

1845 .

. . 213.

1851 .

. . 182.

1857 . . . 205.

1846 .

. . 209.

1852 .

. . 152.

1858 . . . 197.

1847 .

. . 194.

1853 .

. . 167.

1859 (8 mos) 190.

SABBATH SCHOOLS. 77
The teachers of the school were at first very largely from the
Seminary. It was found difficult to induce the male members
of the church to take classes. Of thirty-five male teachers, in
1827, all but four»or flve were from the Seminary. This evil
has been somewhat corrected since. Yet at the Teachers' meet
ing, held at Dea. Blanchard's since 1840, only two male teachers
are remembered as attending. At the present time there are
ten female teachers and eighteen male, of whom eleven are from
the Seminary. „
The prevailing impression is, that during the first five years
of the school it had no Superintendent, formally recognized as
such. The record books do not commence till 1823, and the one
kept of the years 1829-1841 has been lost. The following table
of Superintendents has been compiled, during those years, from
the memories of different individuals.
1823 Orramel S. Hinckley, Prof. Tenn. College: died at Natchez,
Miss., 1837.
1824 John Maltby, Pastor at Sutton, and of Hammond St. Church,
Bangor.
1825 David Greene, formerly one of the Secretaries A. B. C. F. M.
1826 John Crosby, Castine, Maine ; died 1833.
1827 Alvan Nash, Pastor at Sandusky City, Ohio, Ravenna, Ohio,
Chester, Ohio, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, and at Willoughby,
Ohio, where he now is a Teacher of a Female Seminary.
H. G. O. Dwight, D. D., Missionary at Constantinople.
1828 George W. Perkins, Pastor at Montreal, Meriden, Ct., and
Chicago, 111. ; died 1856. .
Seth H. Keeler, Pastor at Calais, Me. '
1829-1841. Thomas Brainerd, D. D., Pastor of the Third Pres. Church,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Benjamin Labaree, D. D., Home Missionary in Tenn., Pres.
Jackson College, Tenn., Sec. Centr. Ed. Soc, now Pres.
of Middlebury" College, Middlebury, Vt.
Justin Perkins, D. D., lately of the Mission to the Nestorians.
Buell W. Smith, Pastor at Montpelier, Vt., and since Teacher
at Burlington, Vt. •
Solomon B. Ingram ; died 1840.
Plin B. Day, Pastor at Deny and Hollis, N. H.

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Amos Bullard, Pastor at Barre ; died 1850.
Samuel Beane, Pastor at Little Compton, R. I., now Teacher
of a Female Seminary at Beloit, Wisconsin.
James Boutwell, Pastor at Brentwood and Sanbornton, N H.
Eliphalet Y. Swift, Agent of Am. Tract Soc, Pastor at North
ampton, South Hadley, and Clinton, N. Y.
1842 Luther H. Sheldon, Pastor at Townsend and at Westboro'.
Joseph M. R. Eaton, Pastor at Henniker, N. H.
1843 JojI S. Everett, Missionary at Constantinople; died 1856.
1844 David Torrey, Pastor at Delhi, N. Y.
Daniel T. Fiske, Pastor of the Belleville Church, Newburyport.
1815 Thomas E. Foster, Teacher in Phillips Academy ; afterwards a
Preacher for a short time ; died 1851.
Timothy Lyman, Lansing, Georgia.
1846-1847 Dea. Albert Abbott.
1847-1848 John H. Manning.
1848-1855 Dea. A. J. Gould.
1855-1839 Dea. Edward Taylor.

The Superintendents previous to 1846, except Buell W.
Smith, James Boutwell and Thomas E. Foster, were not mem
bers of this church. The latter was a native of the Parish.
During several years Dea. Amos Abbott acted as Superin
tendent in the Seminary vacations. Dea. Newman, still ear
lier, was a helper in this and many other ways. Since 1846,
the Superintendents have all been of members of the church.
Previous to the establishment of the Sabbath School, there
had existed a social Library, owned by share-holders, but usually
called the Parish Library. It was composed chiefly of rehgious
books. It was replenished about the time of Mr. Edwards's set
tlement. In 1834 ninety volumes remained, and were incorpo
rated with the Sabbath School Library. '' A Circulating Li
brary of Moral and Religious Tracts " was established, in 1815.
A large number of books suitable for children were procured,
divided into as many parcels as there were [common] schools in
the place, and one parcel, enclosed in a trunk, was left at each
school. All children, whose conduct and improvement met the
approbation of the teacher, were allowed to take a book from the

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Library every Saturday. This was part of the arrangement of
the Bible Society already mentioned.
Books were procured for the Sabbath School in 1820. From
1829 through several years a part of the collections made at the
communion table were appropriated for the increase of the
Library. On the catalogue of the Library, in 1834, were 387
volumes. After a revision had been made, and about thirty
volumes added, the whole number actually in the Library was
275. Revisions and additions were made, also, in 1842, 1847
and 1851. In 1851 the catalogue contained the titles of 351
books. A new revision was made in 1858, and a small collec
tion was taken for the benefit of the Library. There were then
found 180 old books remaining. This number was increased to
239, by the purchase of new bopks.
The Sabbath School Concert has been observed, statedly, for
at least twenty years. Teachers' meetings have been held at
various times, but have been frequently suspended. During the
summer of 1858 a Sabbath School prayer meeting was held in
the vestry, on Saturday evening of each week.
In 1847, this Sabbath School formed, in connection with the
other Sabbath Schools of the town, a Union Concert, holding its
meetings quarterly. At the annual meeting in April, which was
held in the South Church, a sermon was preached. At all the
meetings reports were made of the attendance in each school,
and of any other facts of interest. This Concert was continued
with harmony and profit till 1858.

80 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
XIII.
CHARITABLE AND MISSIONARY EFFORTS.
It seems strange to one tracing backward the records of the
church from the present time, when so much of its effort is
expended on missions and other benevolent movements, to come
so soon to a period, when comparatively, if not absolutely, no
such effort was in existence. The benevolent history of this
church begins with 1814. A few individuals of its membership,
had, previously, contributed to missionary societies. Some col
lections also may have been taken before this date. But the
first general interest in associated and systematic efforts for
doing good was awakened by the formation of " The Andover
South Parish Society for the Reformation of Morals." In a
discourse before this society, Mr. Edwards gives the following
account of " the views and feelings, which on the 20th of April,
1814, led tp its formation." "A number of praying fathers," ot
whom he mentions one in particular, Dea. Daniel Poor, who
died the same year, " seeing the prevalence of immorality, par
ticularly Sabbath-breaking, intemperance, and profanity, and
their destructive consequences to this, and future generations,
not only for this life, but the life to come, looking with a tender
concern on the children and rising generation, and feeling that
their departure was at hand, expressed a desire to form a society,
or do something, which might be the means of benefiting the
children, of doing good, when they should be no more. . . . Often
in the fulness of his soul, said the venerable father, who sleeps
in yonder grave-yard, 0, that there would be something done for
the children.''
The object of this society was, as we shall see, a wide one.
" It may be expressed," says the 'same discourse, " in two words,
doing good." It met quarterly, and the Pastor, who was
chairman of the standing committee, presented at each annual

CHARITABLE AND MISSIONARY EFFORTS. 81
meeting a full report. Eleven of these reports were made, and
most of them are still among the church papers. Two of Mr.
Edwards's discourses before the society are likewise preserved.
Dr. Porter preached before it also his discourse, " Great effects
result from little causes," afterwards printed as No. 74, of the
series of tracts issued by the American Tract Society. We hear
nothing of this society after 1825.
Attention was first paid to the evils of intemperance, profanity,
and Sabbath-breaking. It was proposed to remedy these evils
in three ways ; first, by personal influence and example of the
members of the society ; secondly, by conversation in the fami
lies and neighborhoods ; thirdly, by the support of Tithingmen ;
and fourthly, by attention to the children. In the course of two
years much was done in these vfUys. The report for 1815,
gives the following results. With reference to profanity : " This
enormous evil, which a few years ago was so prevalent, has
almost ceased, except it be with a few of the most degraded."
" The alarming profanation of the Sabbath, which two years
ago threatened to sweep everything before it, and was thought
to be incurable, has not only been arrested and greatly checked,
but almost entirely done away. . . . There is not probably one
twentieth as much travelling on the Sabbath now as there was
two years ago."
" As to intemperance, although some individuals are still reeling
to and fro, and some families clothed in woe by this iniquity,
yet the evil has been greatly lessened. A few years ago $15,-
000 were expended in this town for ardent spirits in one year.
$8,000 more than was paid for the support of the gospel, and of
all the schools, highways, state and county taxes, and all other
town expenses. The people the last year did not probably
expend one third of that sum. Ardent spirits in the respectable
part of the community are becoming unfashionable and dispensed
with in s6cial visits. Many workmen are employed on condi
tion of refraining from ardent spirits, and it is found that better
men are secured, and that they do more business and in a better

82 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
manner than before. The practice of taking wine at funerals is
almost entirely abolished ; and it begins to be understood that
ardent spirits, except in special cases as a medicine, are not only
entirely useless,- but ruinous to the bodies and souls of men."
After 1815 the reports of the society make little mention of
the subjects named above. But these subjects were not neglected
in subsequent years. In 1824 a man intoxicated was suddenly
killed by falling from his wagon near the house of the late Dea
con Poor. This called forth two sermons from Mr. Edwards,
which are said to have made a strong impression on the people.
Meanwhile, considerable attention had been given to those
church members who were intemperate. Several had been
excluded. In the years immediately following 1828, a still
larger number of persons we're excluded for this cause. The
sentiments of the church were finally expressed by these resolu
tions : —
1. Jan. 3, 1832. Resolved, That we, the members of this church, in
the present enlightened state of the public mind in regard to the evils
and the remedies of intemperance, feel ourselves required, by the
spirit of the gospel, to refrain entirely from the manufacture, sale, or
use of ardent spirits, except as an article of medicine.
2. Jan. 3, 1832. Resolved, That no person shall hereafter he con
sidered as a candidate for admission to this church, who may be con
cerned in the manufacture, sale, or use of ardent spirits; unless, in the
judgment of the committee for examining candidates, there may be
special reasons sufficient to justify an exception to this rule.
3. Feb. 5, 1833. Resolved, That the retailing of ardent spirits, at
the present day, except as an article of medicine by an apothecary, is
inconsistent with a profession of the Christian religion ; and that this
church will regard it, if practised by any of their members, as a public
scandal, subjecting such member or members to the discipline of the
church. As the society now paid less attention to the improvement of
morals in the Parish, its name was changed. In the report of
1818 it is designated The Andover S. P. Missionary and Char-

CHARITABLE AND MISSIONARY EFFORTS. 83
itable Society. It had in 1815 received an auxiliary society of
150 ladies, called The Female Charitable Society, and in 1816,
another auxiliary, called The Juvenile Bible Society, which, we
have seen, was preparatory to the Sabbath School. In 1818, a
Sewing Society was formed for clothing the poor children and
relieving the sick in the Parish. In 1819, "the little girls ope
rated together, and by working one half a day in a fortnight,
obtained enough to support in the family of a missionary, one
heathen child." The name of this child was Justin Edwards.
This little society supported him about six years. Two other
heathen children were supported by associated individuals in
other parts of the Parish. Their names were Jonathan French
and John Adams. We learn, too, from the Missionary Herald
for 1821, that there was a society called the Western Missionary
Society, of which Miss Sarah Abbot was Treasurer for that year.
In 1823, three other associations are mentioned, which may have
been the same with those in existence before, except that their
names were changed. The same year a subscription was made
by twenty-two men, seventy-one women, and fifty children, pledg
ing sufficient money to support a school of forty Jewish children,
to be called The Andover Jewish School.
The other objects for which these societies labored, were prin
cipally the Translation of the Scriptures, the Distribution of
Tracts, and the purchase of school-books for the poor children
of the Parish. During the first seven years of the society, the
sums collected amounted to $800, or a little over $100 a year.
In 1821 and 1822, the sum reported is $207. In 1823, the
amount collected for all purposes was $336.61.
In 1833, committees were for the first time appointed at the
annual church meeting, to take charge of the several departments
of Christian Benevolence to which the church were accustomed
to contribute, it being understood that these committees should
do all for the promotion of the respective objects assigned them,
that is usually done by the executive officers of benevolent asso
ciations. The four leading committees at that time appointed,

84 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
were on Foreign Missions, Home Missions, the Tract Society,
and the Education Society. At some time since 1840 it became
the custom for the church to specify at its annual meeting the
principal objects for which collections should be solicited, and
some committee, ¦ or more commonly the pastor, appointed col
lectors in different districts. To the four c bjects just now men
tioned, the American Bible Society has for ten or twelve years
been added. For other objects, contributions have been received
in the meeting-house at the discretion of the pastor and deacons.
The contribution made at communjon, has been i i large measure
distributed to the poor. That made at monthly concerts, has
been equally divided between the American Board and the
American Home Missionary Society. The collection for the Sab
bath School cause, has been usually made in the Sabbath School.
The following table exhibits the amounts raised for the prin
cipal objects of benevolence, so far as it has been possible to
ascertain them, from January 1840 to August 1859. If the
total amount is given for any year, the blank spaces would indi
cate that no contribution was made for the particular cause that
year. If the total amount is not given, it is uncertain whether
the blanks should be filled. It is not probable that all the sums
are given with perfect correctness. Some of them have been
supplied from the acknowledgments contained in missionary
publications. Those from 1840 tp 1851, inclusive, except those
for the years 1842 and 1847, were taken from the annual ser
mons of Rev. J. L. Taylor, kindly furnished for the purpose.
The large sums given for the years 1840 and 1841 were oc
casioned by special collections in behalf of the Am. Abolition
and Am. Anti-Slavery Societies. In the column designated as
that of the Am. and For. Chr. Union the two first sums were
given to the For. Evang. Society. In reference to the sums
reported for the present year, it should be said that the donations
to the A. B. C. F. M. and the Am. Home Miss. Society will be
increased by Monthly Concert collections during the remaining
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86 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
In May 1836, thirty-five, ladies associated themselves together
as a society, under the name of the Canadian Missionary Society.
Their special object at that time was the support of teachers
among the French Canadian population. Two teachers belong
ing to the Parish, Miss Mary Abbot, since deceased, and Miss
Phebe Foster, now Mrs. Dea. Jos. Cummings, were sustained
there for two years, the former by the Sabbath School, and the
latter by this Society, with the cooperation of the Juvenile Mis
sionary Society.
At the close of the two years, in November 1838, the society
took the name of the Female Charitable Society, which it still
retains. It has been a social Sewing Society, meeting once a
fortnight, working for different objects in different years. Among
these objects may be mentioned, in the order in which the society
worked for them : Foreign Missions, For. Evangelical Society,
Western Reserve College, Home Missions, Seamen, and the
support of a colporteur. For several of these objects, the society
has worked two or three years. During other years some local
object of benevolence has enlisted its sympathies and efforts.
The amount of money annually received from the work, taxes,
and subscriptions of this society, has varied from fifty to two
hundred and fifty dollars. Probably one hundred and fifty is
nearly the average amount. During its existence it has contri
buted not far from $2,000 to benevolent purposes. It has had a
social value to the Parish also, of itself sufficient, it is believed,
to justify its continuance.
The Juvenile Missionary Society was probably formed at
about the same time with the Canadian Missionary Society, with
which it cooperated. It owed much in the first years to Miss
Mary Abbot, just now mentioned. Mrs. Mehitabel G. Abbot,
Mrs. Phebe Cummings, Miss Mary E. Hidden, and Miss Han
nah E. Whittier, have successively directed and upheld it. In
the year 1851, it contributed to Foreign Missions $98. Not .
long after this the effort to continue it was deemed discouraging,
and before 1855 it was given up. During the years 1857-8

ORGANIZATION OF OTHER CHURCHES. 87
Miss Anstice Abbot gathered a few girls into a society. A
more vigorous and hopeful attempt to revive and sustain this
department of missionary effort has been made within a few
months by Miss C. H. Swift and Miss S. M. Sweetser. It is
pleasant thus, to be able to close the account of charitable and
missionary efforts, with the thought, that what was well begun in
1814 (the effort to interest the young in doing good), has not, for
any long time, been wholly overlooked.

XIV.
ORGANIZATION OF OTHER CHURCHES.
October 26, 1729, " Such of the inhabitants of Methuen as
had been, at one time and another, admitted to communion here,
were dismissed." Fourteen were then dismissed, and the church
in Methuen was organized Nov. 5 th of the same year.
The settlement of Concord, N. H., in 1727, was commenced,
to a large extent, by citizens of Andover. Almost a fourth of
the settlers were from this town. Rev. Mr. Phillips was one
of the first proprietors. He, with two delegates ' from this
church, were of the council, which assembled Nov. 18, 1730,
" to constitute a church in the said plantation," and to ordain its
first pastor. One of the eight members then constituted a
church was of his flock. But for several years that church was
strengthened by numerous dismissions from this.
In 1738, the year of the organization of the church in Pem
broke, N. H., seven members of the South Church were dis
missed to be incorporated with that enterprise.
The church in Hollis, N. H., was formed in 1743. Three of
its first members were from this church.
Two members of this church, with six persons from other

00 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
churches, constituted the church at Wilton, N. H, which was
gathered Dec. 14, 1763. Six more were recommended to join
them in 1765. During the remaining years of the century this
number was greatly increased.
Several other churches of New Hampshire, as will be seen by
the catalogue, were either partly formed or strengthened from
this church. Among them may be especially mentioned those
in Pelham, Amherst, Loudon, Hancock, Weare, Deering, Green
field and Peterboro'.
The churches in Bethel and Norway, Maine, were in some
measure nourished, in early years, by this church. The church
in the neighboring town of Albany received hence, at its forma
tion, in 1803, ten of its members;
In the year 1816 the church connected with the Theological
Seminary was formed. Five members of this church connected
themselves with it.
November 28, 1826, fifty-six members of this church received
dismission, and, on the fifth of December following, were organ
ized as the West church in Andover, adopting the same Con
fession of Faith and Covenant as are used by this church. Their
meeting-house was dedicated Dec. 26, 1826. «. The successive
pastors of the West Church have been
Rev. Samuel C. Jackson, D. D., Ordained June 6, 1827, Dismissed
Sept. 25, 1850.
Rev. Charles H. Pierce, Ordained Oct. 9, 1850, Dismissed June
1, 1855.
Rev. James H. Merrill, Installed April 30, 1856.
The Methodists began to preach, it is beheved, in the Bank
Hall, as early as 1830. A church was apparently in existence
at the close of 1831. Within about two years from this date six
members were dismissed from this to the Methodist Church. A
large number of tax-payers left the parish and connected them
selves with the new Society. A meeting-house was soon built,

ORGANIZATION OF OTHER CHURCHES. 89
and, at times, the church was flourishing. It grew feeble after a
few years. Its last minister left before, or during, the year
1840. Its organization was kept several years after this, but
the meeting-house at, length passed into other hands, and only
the foundation stones remain on the old site.
In the fall of 1832, the Baptist Church of this town was
formed. No person, at the time a member of the South Church,
was engaged in its formation. Quite a number of persons be
longing to the Parish, however, connected themselves with the
Baptist Society. The Baptist Church was Recognized Oct. 3,
1832. The meeting-house was dedicated August 28, 1834.
The public services of Recognition were held in the South meet
ing house, by invitation. The ministers of this people were
Rev. James Huckins, Inst. August 28, 1834, Res. Oct. 25, 1835.
Rev. George J. Carleton, Inst. June 15, 1836, Res. Oct. 5, 1838.
Rev. Nathaniel Hervey, Invited August 13 , 1839, Left 1841.
Rev. Benjamin S. Cobbett, Ord. Feb. 8, 1842, Res. Oct. 5, 1847.
Rev. Silas B. Randall, Came Oct. 1, 1848, Left Oct. 1849.
From this latter date, for ten years, this church did not sus
tain stated services. The church dissolved itself Dec. 8, 1857.
Sixteen members united, as a branch, with the church in Law
rence, under the care of Rev. Frank Remington. During Mr.
R.'s preaching, continued here for several weeks following, a
large number of persons were baptized, and, on the 28th of July,
1858, a Baptist Church of 156 members was Recognized. Rev.
Wm. S. McKenzie was the same day Recognized as its pastor.
The Evangelical Church at North Andover received fourteen
of its thirty-one original members from the South Church. The
church was organized and its meeting-house dedicated Sept. 3,
1834. It has had three pastors :
Rev. Jesse Page, Ord. Sept. 9, 1835, Dis. June 7, 1843.
Rev. William T. Briggs, Ord. Nov. 4, 1846, Dis. 1855.
Rev. L. H. Cobb, Ord. Oct. 28, 1857.
8*

90 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
The first time the services of the Protestant Episcopal Church
were performed in Andover, was in the summer of 1835, when
Rt. Rev. B. B. Smith, of Kentucky, officiated, on Sunday, three
times, in the Bank Hall. The first meeting relative to the for
mation of a religious society was held in the same place July
28th of the same summer. The first Parish meeting was held
August 6th. The first communion was on April 3, 1836. Dur
ing the years 1837 and 1838 fourteen members of the South
Church were dismissed and became communicants with this new
church, which had taken the name of Christ Church. The
church edifice was consecrated Oct. 31, 1837. Its ministers
have been
Rev. James H. Tyng, 1836.
Rev. Joseph H. Clinch, 1837.
Rev. Samuel Fuller, D. D., Oct. 1, 1837 — June 26, 1843.
Rev. George Packard, 1843 — 1845.
Rev. Henry Waterman, Dec. 1845 — June 5, 1849.
Rev. Samuel Fuller, D. D., Oct. 1, 1849 — Oct. 1, 1859.
A Universalist Society was formed here in the fall of 1837, and
a meeting-house built in the year 1838. A church was formed
later. Public worship has been irregularly sustained ; for seve
ral years, after 1846, it was entirely suspended. At present it
is supported but half the time.
The Free Christian Church of Andover was organized in
1846. Of its forty-four original members, fourteen were dis
missed from the South Church. It was organized, through a
council of churches, May 7, 1846. Sabbath services had com
menced some months before this date. For a few years the ser
vices were held in the Universalist Church. But in 1849 the
Methodist Church was purchased and removed, and from it the
present meeting house of this society was built. The pastors of
the Free Church have been
Rev. Elijah C. Winchester, Feb. 1846 — Sept. 1848.
Rev. Sherlock Bristol, Oct. 1848— Oct. 1849.

CONTRIBUTION TO THE MINISTRY. 91
Rev. William B. Brown, August 1850 — April 1855.
Rev. Caleb E. Fisher, June 1855— May 1859.
Rev. S. C. Leonard, Sept. 1859.
Some time before 1847 a Sabbath School was opened in
Ballard Vale, and Sabbath evening services conducted there by
persons connected with this and the neighboring churches. At
a meeting of citizens in the village, in 1847, it was thought most
proper that the stated services should be those of the Episcopal
Church. Accordingly, such services were continued in the
Depot Hall till August 1849. Worship in that form not receiv
ing sufficient support, a Union Society was formed, and a
preacher employed for six months. At the end of this time
he joined the New England Conference, and gathered a Metho
dist Church. This was in the early part, probably, of 1850.
The Methodist Society, in 1851, built a meeting-house. They
have not been able to support, except at short intervals, a resi
dent preacher.
Immediately on the formation of the Methodist Church the
Union Society repaired to the Union Hall, where they have
since maintained public worship. Rev. Henry S. Greene began
to preach for them in Sept., 1850. A Congregational Church of
eleven members, nine of whom were from the South Church, was
organized Dec. 31, 1854. Mr. Greene was installed their pas
tor, by a council of Congregational Churches, April 1, 1855.

XV.
CONTRIBUTION TO THE MINISTRY.
The following persons, who have either become preachers of
the gospel, or were in process of education for that end, were
mostly born and baptized in this Parish ; all, when children, re-

92 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
sided here with parents who belonged to the church or Parish.
The date before each name is the date of their birth.
1706 John Blunt, son of William, H. U. 1727, ordained the third
minister of Newcastle, N. H., Dec. 20, 1732: died August
7, 1748.
1 706 James Chandler, son of Thomas, H. U. 1 728, ordained minister
of the second parish in Rowley, Oct. 18, 1732 : died 1788.
1713 Samuel Chandler, son of Josiah, H. U. 1735, ordained pastor
of the second church in York, Me., Jan. 20, 1 742 : installed in
the first church in Gloucester, Nov. 13, 1751 : died 1775.
1716 Abiel Abbot, son of Dea. John, H. U. 1737, designed for the
ministry : died May 29, 1739.
1723 John Chandler, son of Thomas, H. U. 1743, ordained minister
of Billerica Oct. 21, 1747: removed June 5,1760: died
Nov. 10, 1762.
1725 Nathan Holt, son of Nicholas, H. U. 1757, ordained pastor
of the second church in Danvers, Jan. 3, 1759 : died Aug. 1,
1792.
1735 Abiel Foster, son of Capt. Asa, H. U. 1756, ordained minister
of Canterbury, N. H., Jan. 1761 : dismissed 1779 : was after
wards Representative in the General Court, President of the
State Senate, Chief Justice of the C. C. P. Rockingham
County, Representative in the old Congress, and for ten
years under the present Constitution: died Feb. 1806.
1747 David Osgood, D. D., son of Capt. Isaac, H. U. 1771, ordained
pastor of the church in Medford, Sept. 14, 1 774 : died Dec. 12,
1822.
1759 John Abbot, son of Capt. John, H. IT. 1784, Instructor in Phil
lips Academy, Tutor in H. U. five years: studied divinity,
and was approbated to preach; his health not permitting
him to preach, engaged in mercantile business in Portland,
Professor of the Latin and Greek Languages in Bowdoin
College 1802-1816, Treasurer of the College 1816-1829 :
died at Andover July 2, 1843.
1761 Robert Gray, son of Robert, H. U. 1786, ordained minister at
Dover, N. H., Feb. 1787 : dismissed May 1805 : died August
> 1822.

CONTRIBUTION TO THE MINISTRY. 93
1763 Peter Holt, son of Dea. Joshua, H. U. 1790, ordained minister
of Epping, N. H, Feb. 27, 1793: moved to Exeter, N. H,
1821 : installed in the Presbyterian church, Peterboro', N. H,
March 7, 1827 : stated supply atDeering, N. II. , from 1835-
1841 : died March 23, 1851. "
1770 Abiel Abbot, D. D., son of Capt. John, H. U. 1792, Instructor
in Philhps Academy, at Exeter and Andover two years :
Ordained, June 1 795, minister of the first church in Haverhill :
installed, Dec. 1803, in the first church in Beverly: died at
sea, near Staten Island, June 7, 1828.
1778 Jonathan French, D. D., son of Rev. Jonathan, H. U. 1798,
Teacher in Phillips Academy, ordained at Northampton, N.
H., Nov. 18, 1801 : died Dec. 13, 1856.
John Dane, son of Daniel, D. C. 1800, ordained minister of
Newfield, Me., Feb. 15, 1802, dismissed in about a year.
1 780 Thomas Abbot Merrill, D. D., son of Dea. Thomas, afterwards
of Deering, N. H., D. C. 1801, Tutor in D. C, afterwards
Tutor in Middlebury College, ordained pastor of the church in
Middlebury, Vt., dismissed Oct. 19, 1842, Treasurer of Mid
dlebury College till 1852: supplied the pulpit in Weybridge,
Vt., for about ten years, previous to 1854: died April 25,
1855.
1780 Jacob Holt, son of Dane, D. C. 1813, teacher of school and
preacher in Brookline, N. H: ordained pastor there Jan. 30,
1827 : resigned in 1831 : resided in Ipswich afterwards, where
he died.
1783 John Lovejoy Abbot, son of John Lovejoy, H. U. 1805, Libra
rian in H. U., ordained minister of the first chureh, Boston,
July 14, 1813: died Oct. 17, 1814.
1785 Joshua Chandler, Jr., son of Maj. Abiel, H. U. 1807, ordained
minister of Swanzey, N. H., 1819, installed in Orange, Dec.
1822, also at Bedford and Pembroke : died at Boston 1854.
1 797 Samuel Phillips Newman, son of Dea. Mark, H. U. 1816, Tutor
in Bowdoin College 1818, Professor of the Greek and Latin
Languages 1820, Professor of Rhetoric 1824-1839 : died in
Andover Feb. 10, 1842.
1802 John R. Adams, son of John (who became Principal of Philhps
Academy in 1 8 1 0, and was a member of the South church and
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ordained in Londonderry, N. H., Oct. 5, 1831 : dismissed in
Oct. 1838 : installed afterwards at Brighton, and at Gorham,
Me.: recently dismissed from the pastorate at the latter
place.
1805 Sereno Timothy Abbot, son of Asa, A. C. 1833, A. T. S. 1836,
ordained, July 12, 1836, minister at Seabrook and Hampton
Falls, N. H. : died March 28, 1855.
1807 WiUiam Adams, D. D., son of John, born at Colchester, Ct. ;
Y. C. 1827, A. T. S. 1830, ordained at Brighton: installed
in the Broome Street Presbyterian church, N. Y. City., and
in the Madison Square Pres. church, N. Y. City.
1807 Amos Blanchard, D. D., son of Dea. Amos, Y. C. 1826, Tutor
in Yale College : studied theology at New Haven : ordained
pastor of the first church, Lowell, Dec. 25, 1829 ; installed in
Kirk Street church, Lowell, May 21, 1845.
Joshua Emery, son of Joshua, born in Newburyport : A. C.
1831, A. T. S. 1840 : ordained May 13, 1835 : installed in
the first church at North Weymouth Jan. 25, 1838.
Samuel Hopkins Emery, son of Joshua, born in Boxford : A.
C. 1834, A. T. S. 1837, ordained pastor of Winslow church,
Taunton : installed at Bedford : reinstalled in Taunton : in
1855 installed at Quincy, Bl.
1809 Wilson Ingalls, son of Ezra, U. C. 1836, Tutor in Union Col
lege the following year, pastor in connection with the Re
formed Dutch church in the State of New York : in 1854 at
Glenville, N. Y.
1811 ' Henry Callahan, son of Robert, born at North Andover: U. C.
1836, A. T. S. 1840 : ordained pastor of the Pres. church in
Niagara, N. Y. : now pastor of Pres. church Oxford, N. Y.
1811 William John Newman, son of Dea. Mark, pursued theological
study at Bangor and New Haven : ordained at Stratham, N.
IL, Nov. 2, 1836 : dismissed May 20, 1849, afterwards min
ister in York, Me. : died March 5, 1850.
1814 Edward Blanchard, son of Dea. Amos, entered Yale College,
but died, before completing his course, June 2, 1884.
1816 Edward F. Abbot, son of Dea. Zebadiah, pursued theological
study at Gilmanton, N. II., ordained minister at Milton, N.
H., August 19, 1846, dismissed May 10, 1848 : stated supply
at Loudon, N. H., 1849-1854 ; installed at Dublin, N. H., in

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Dec. 1855, but has recently supplied one year in the West
Parish of Ipswich.
1820 Jonathan Edwards, son of Rev. Justin, Y. C. 1840, A. T. S.
1847, ordained at Woburn, Sept. 7, 1848 : installed, 1856, in
the Plymouth chureh, Rochester, N. Y.
1821 Thomas E. Foster, son of Capt. Thomas C, Y. C. 1840, In
structor in Phillips Academy, A. T. S. 1848; preached in
various places for two years : died March 17, 1851.
Besides the above ministers, this church has contributed a
much larger number of ministers' wives. The attentive obser
ver of the catalogue of the church will be led to mark how fre
quently the names of such occur. " Our position," says the Rev.
Mr. Taylor, in his half-century sermon, 1851, " lays us under
contribution often in this respect. . . . Even within the period
now in question, we have supplied at least twenty-five such wit
nesses to our character, as the wives of clergymen alone." It
would have been pleasant to have been able to supply the names
of all these, with some brief notices of them. It has also been
difficult to forego the pleasure of presenting some notices of
prominent lay-members of the church and Parish, whose names
are intimately connected with the reputation of the town and
especially with the prosperity of the literary institutions here,
but the labor has seemed too great to be consistent with other
duties.

XVI.
PASTORS.
The first Pastor was the Rev. Samuel Phillips. He was
born in Salem, February 17, 1690. His father, Samuel, was a
son of the Rev. Samuel Phillips, of Rowley, and a grandson of
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mother, Sarah, was a daughter of the Rev. .John Emerson, of
Gloucester. He was received to the church in Salem, October 5,
1707, then a member of Harvard College, and in his eighteenth
year. He was graduated in 1708. For one year he was occu
pied with teaching at Chebacco, now Essex, and then devoted
himself more exclusively to preparation for the ministry. He
preached at Norton with great acceptance, and received a call
to settle with the new church in that town ; but the influence of
the minister of the old Parish of Taunton was unfavorable, and
though he "gave a favorable answer," he was not ordained.
He commenced preaching in this Parish April 30, 1710. At a
meeting, November 2d, " it being put to vote whether the Pre
cinct do desire the Continuance of the Rev. Mr. Phillips with us,
it passed clearly on ye affirmative." December 12, 1710, the
Parish voted unanimously that he should be their " Settled Min
ister." Because he was linwilling to assume such a charge while
so young, his ordination was deferred nearly a year, and took place
on the same day with the organization of the church, October
17, 1711. He preached the Sermon himself, from Ezek. 3 : 17.
His ministry continued here till his death, June 5, 1771, and he
supplied the pulpit till the first part of April previous, a period
of active service for one people of sixty-one years.
In one of the petitions presented by his people to the General
Court shortly after his settlement, they describe themselves as
" being now provided with a worthy, learned, and pious minister."
They continued of the same mind during his whole ministry.
They "were remarkably united," and "free from sectaries."
Every memorial remaining of him, assures us that the epithets
" worthy, learned, and pious,'' were deserved by the man, as well
as in current courtesy due to the' minister. " He was," says the
late Dr. Abiel Abbot, " endowed with good powers of mind, and
was a diligent, faithful, and useful minister. ... As a preacher
he was highly respectable, was zealous, and endeavored not only
to indoctrinate his people in sentiments which he deemed correct
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virtues." The numerous sermons which he has left in print and
manuscript, more than confirm this description. They are plain,
direct, and earnest letters to his people. He rebuked in homely
and literal terms the prevalent vices of his day and parish. The
duties which he urged upon them were specific and definite. He
did not aim at novelty in the illustration or arrangement of his
themes. Adhering to the somewhat cumbersome formality of
various and minute division, characteristic of early puritan
preaching, he nevertheless was thus able to repeat and impress
the oftener the truth he was discussing. If there was slower
progress in thought, there was the steady repetition of the same
important views. What characterized in this regard one ser
mon, characterized his whole preaching — the steady and earnest
enforcement, week after week and year after year, in a well-
known method, of well-known doctrines and duties. " His labors
in the pulpit were protracted beyond what is usual at the present
day. His hour-glass was turned at the commencement of his
sermon, and the last sands ran out before its conclusion." He
must have been highly esteemed as a preacher, for he not only
preached an Artillery Election, a General Election, and a Con
vention Sermon, but, as it would appear, several times, on ex
change with other ministers, his sermons were solicited for pub
lication. In this manner, " at the desire of many who heard "
them, were the discourses on Justification and Living Water
printed, after having been preached, the one at the Old South
Church, and the other at the Church in Brattle Square, Boston.
As early as 1729, his friend and classmate, John Webb, pastor of
New North Church, Boston, says of him, in the preface of Ad
vice to a Child : " The discourses he has published heretofore,
have given him this testimony in the consciences of all good
Christians who have read them, That he is a well-qualified and
faithful minister of Jesus Christ."
In his Theological position he was a decided and zealous Cal
vinist, in strictest conformity to the Westminster Catechism. He
d'd not enter directly into any of .the stirring public controver-
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sies of the time. He was one, however, of the five Pastors who
wrote " a highly commendatory preface " to a pamphlet in defence
of the doctrine of Original Sin, written by Mr. Clark, of Dan-
vers, in answer to the author of " A Winter Evening's Conver
sation." This latter work was the occasion of a long and eminent
controversy. His name appears also in the list of subscribers
for the publication of Edwards's Treatise on Original Sin. But,
though he did not engage directly in controversy; his published
discourses and books never give forth an uncertain sound.  He
takes pains to declare his doctrinal views, and to express his
fears with respect to Arminianism. To his own people he ex-
pressed hirnielTTelfj^lainlyrT'or their benefit he wrote " Sea
sonable Advice to a Neighbor," in which he holds fast, as on
other public occasions he had exhorted others to do, " in partic
ular the doctrine of Original Sin, and that of the Nature and
Necessity of the New-Birth, and that of Justification by Faith
without the works of ihe Law, and that of the Divine Decrees,
as also that of the Saints' Perseverance." Thgugh. Jie " would
not be understood to intend absolutely to confine real Christianity
to those who are fully in the scheme of principles called Calvin-
istic," yet he is moved'Jfhns to^reggT^Benig fully persuaded
that those truths are most consonant, not only to antiquity, but
also to the true standard, the Word of Inspiration." He heart
ily wishes, he is not ashamed to say, that the number of those
who bear the name of Calvinist " may be abundantly increased;"
and for myself, Ut sit Anima mea cum Puritanis." This little
treatise, reprinted in 1811 and distributed through the town
under "the legacy of Judge Phillips, was written in 1761, and
dedicated to the South Parish, with the prayer of their pastor
that they might always hold fast the, form of sound words, and
especially might not settle any succeeding minister of opposite
faith. Yet, with these strong doctrinal opinions, he was able to
unite his own people, and to maintain fellowship with neighbor
ing clergymen of a looser and dangerous creed, Some of these
ministers, during the great awakening, sent in a remonstrance

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against Whitefield. Mr. Phillips, though his own congregation
was entirely unaffected by that movement, did not join them.
The pastors with whom his name is most frequently mentioned,
were the warm friends and promoters of that revival. Preaching
in Boston in the Spring of 1741, after the first visit of Whitefield to
New England, he stops in his discourse to say : " Thanks be given
to Zion's King, that there are so many at this day, more espe
cially in this town, who are asking the way to ;Zion, with their
faces thitherward." The introduction of unlearned men into the
ministry, and the practice of intrusion by Evangelists or other
ministers into parishes not their own, without the approbation of
the pastors of those parishes, were two results of the revival
with which he did not sympathize, but publicly deprecated them.
Mr. Phillips's publications were numerous. The following is
a complete list : Elegy upon the death of Nicholas Noyes and
George Curwen, 1718._ A word in Season, 17"27. Three plain,
practical Discourses, 1728. Advice to a Child, 1729. The His
tory of the Saviour, 1738. The Orthodox Christian, 1738. A
Minister's Address to his People, 1739. A Preface to Mr. Bar
nard's funeral sermon for Mr. Abiel Abbot, 1739. Artillery
Election Sermon, 1741. Living Water to be had for Asking,
1750. A Sermon at the General Election, 1750. A Sermon
at the Installation of Rev. Samuel Chandler, 1751. Sinner's
Refusal to come to Christ Reproved, 1753. The Necessity of
God's drawing in order to men's coming unto Christ, 1753. Con
vention Sermon, 1753. Sermon at the Ordination of Nathan
Holt, 1759. Seasonable Advice to a Neighbor, 1761. Address
to Young People, 1763. Discourse on Justification, 1766. A
Sermon on Suicide, 1767.
A large number of these works were composed for his own
people, and, in these he frequently expresses his warm pastoral
interest for them. He identified himself closely with them. He
was eminently kind and faithful in discipline. His care for the
young was specially great. " It was his practice to call at every
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Madam with him in these parochial visits. They usually rode
together on the same horse, according to the fashion of the
times. He had much influence in persuading parents to attend
to parental duties and household worship. Though a man of
considerable humor, yet there was an apparent sternness, which
caused undue fear in many of his people, and especially among
the young."
" He early acquired the habit of order, industry, and economy
in the management of all his affairs, by which he was enabled to
accomplish much and attain his object. Though he sacredly
devoted a tenth part of his income to pious and charitable pur
poses, and his salary was small, yet he educated his family lib
erally, and accumulated a large estate." At his death he left
£100 as an abiding fund for the relief of indigent persons in
the South Parish of Andover, namely : " Proper objects of char
ity, and such as receive no help from the town, more especially
those of the church in the said parish standing in need of relief."
He gave " the like sum of £100 for the pious and charitable use
of propagating Christian knowledge among the Indians of North
America." A still fuller legacy did this pastor leave to his parish and the
world in the lives of his children. Their mother was Hannah,
daughter of John White, Esq., of Haverhill. She was married
to Mr. Phillips, January 17, 1711-12, and died January 7, 1773,
in the eighty-second year of her age. The records of the church
do not contain her name, but a manuscript catalogue, commenced
in 1765, shows that she was a communicant. The children

1. Mary, born Nov. 30, 1712, married Samuel Appleton, of Haver
hill, died  1737.
2. Samuel, born February 13, 1715; H. U. 1734; Teacher and
Merchant at North Andover ; Deacon of the Church ; Representa'iive
of the town ; Member of Executive Council ; for many years a civil
magistrate; Founder, in connection with his brother John, and espe
cially his son, Judge Samuel Phillips, of Philhps Academy, Andover,

REV. JONATHAN FRENCH. 101
17781 His donations to that Institution were $6000. He died August/
21,1790. 3. Lydia, born June 10, 1717, married Dr. Parker Clark, died No
vember 4, 1'749.
4. John, born December 17, 1719; H. U. 1735; LL.D. D.C.I 777;
Teacher at Andover, and Exeter, N. H. ; Received invitation to be
come Pastor of Church at Exeter in 1747 ; Merchant; Justice of the
Peace, and authorized, in some singular cases, to be one of the Judges
of the Superior Court ; Trustee of Dartmouth College, and founded
in it Phillips Professorship of Theology ; Joint Founder, and Trustee,
of Phillips Academy Andover, to which he gave $31,000 ; Sole Foun
der of Philhps Academy, Exeter, N. H. ; contributed liberally to the
College at Princeton; died April 21, 1795.
5. William, born June 25, 1722; an active and successful Merchant
at Boston ; active in the proceedings which preceded and attended the
Revolution ; Representative and Senator, and Member of the Consti
tutional Convention ; Deacon of Old South Church ; Trustee of Phil
lips Academy, Andover, to which he gave $6000. His son, Lieutenant
Governor William, gave to the Academy and Seminary $42,000.
The father died January 15, 1804.

During nearly a year after the. death of Mr. Phillips, the
Parish was much agitated on the question of the division ; but
May 5th, the church made an unanimous choice of Mr. Jona
than French as its pastor. The Parish unanimously con
curred in the choice May 20th. He was ordained September
23, 1772.
Mr. French was born at Braintree, Mass., January 30, 1740.
He was the youngest son of Moses French. His mother, Esther
Thayer, a great granddaughter of John Alden, was the ninth
of fourteen children, all of whom lived to "enter a family
state, and to make the noble resolution of Joshua : as for me
and my house, we will serve the Lord." His youngest sister,
Deliverance, was the first wife of Dr. Emmons, of Franklin.
Mr. French, lived with his father, a farmer, till his seventeenth
year. In March, 1757, he enlisted as a private soldier, and re-
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paired to Fort Edward. Disabled for active service by sickness,
he obtained a discharge, and returned home in October. Soon
after, he was stationed as sergeant at Castle William, had also
charge of the Sutler's store, and, in the frequent absence of the
superior officers, sustained the care of the whole garrison. Dur
ing his residence there, he enjoyed the acquaintance of many
literary characters from Boston and its vicinity. He diligently
improved these advantages and his opportunities for reading. He
had a natural fondness for mathematical studies ; but his atten
tion was now turned chiefly to medicine and surgery. He
made so great proficiency in these, that the care of the sick at
the garrison was often entrusted to him ; and the physicians
there, who had assisted him in his studies, advised him to pursue
this profession. He was at one time on the point of yielding to
this advice ; but the prospect of greater usefulness, and the en
couragement offered by other friends, induced him to resolve
upon a collegiate education.
The chaplains of the castle aided him in his preparatory
studies. He used to study his classics, while rowed back and
forth between Boston and the castle by the crew under his com
mand. In 1767, resigning his sword to his successor, he entered
Harvard College. He was graduated in 1771. Among his
classmates were two natives of Andover, Samuel Phillips, Jr.,
and David Osgood. He possessed, owing, perhaps, in some de
gree to his age and experience, in an uncommon degree, the con
fidence of his instructors. His collegiate life was characterized
by conformity to law, and by diligent attention to study. He
associated much with persons of piety, and especially for pur
poses of devotion and religious improvement. After his gradu
ation he continued at Cambridge in the study of Divinity, resid
ing in the family of the widow of President Holyoke.
It had -been his purpose to spend his life as* a Missionary to
the Indians. But he was induced to accept an invitation to
preach as a candidate at Andover, which led to his settlement,
in his 33d year. He continued pastor till his death, July 28,
1809 — a ministry of thirty-seven years.

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" Mr. French was rather short in stature, and inclined to be
corpulent; and, as might be expected, was not remarkable for
bodily activity. In his natural disposition he was cheerful and
social, ancl in his manners easy and familiar. He was uncom
monly accessible and unceremonious ; was much at home amongst
the memorabilia of the past; had much interesting and useful
anecdote at his command ; and conversed intelligently and agree
ably upon the passing events and ordinary topics of the day.
There was so much of friendliness and kindness expressed in
his manner, that those with whom he conversed were quite sure
to feel altogether at their ease. Though he possessed a good
share of sensitiveness, he generally kept his feelings under good
control, and if at any time they became suddenly too much ex
cited, he would not unfrequently retire into his study and remain
until he had regained full self-possession." 1
",He loved children, and was beloved by them in return. . . .
His manners and language to the young were of the most win
ning and appropriate kind ; nothing studied, nothing forced or
far-fetched." 2 . . . " He annually catechized the children in the
seven school districts into which the parish was divided  t
His discourse to the lambs of his flock on such occasions, was
remarkably appropriate and impressive  Twice a year he
formally visited all the schools in his parish." 3
" His house was a seat of hospitality. To every brother in
the ministry, and to a large circle of acquaintance, his doors
were always open, and every one who came, met with a cordial
welcome. His hospitality kept him even on the lookout for
visitors ; and many a nice dinner have I seen set aside for a
friend who might chance to call after the regular dining hour
was past." 4
" Seldom was any minister more beloved, esteemed, and ven
erated by his parishioners. They constantly applied to him for

' Eev. Mipah Stone; Sprague's Annals. 3 Rev. Time Alden.
2 Hon. Josiah Quinoy; Sprague's Annals. 4 Rev. Micah Stone.

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counsel in all their difficulties, temporal as well as spiritual." 1
In the early part of his ministry he was serviceable to them as
a physician. His attentions in this respect, and his medicines,
were gratuitous. On the Sabbath morning when the news
reached Andover of the battle of Bunker Hill, he set off, with
his gun and surgical instruments, immediately for the army.
Four persons belonging to his parish were killed in that battle,
and several wounded. He was of much assistance in ministering
to the necessities of the wounded. His sympathies with the
distressed and suffering were very quick. On all occasions in
which his feelings were called forth, his words and manner were
specially appropriate.
"Mr. French was characterized by substantial good sense,
rather than by brilliant or showy qualities. He was a careful
observer of men and things, and knew well how to retain the
confidence and good-will of his fellow men, especially of his pwn
charge, without in the least compromitting any of his obligations.
"As a preacher, he maintained a highly respectable rank. His
preaching was rather practical than doctrinaL^_T£orthough he
.cordially received the Calvinistic doctrines, he very rarely went
igjoa JBSifenfer expositicmofjthem — much less attempted any
thing like a formal defence. He dwelt upon the principles and
rules of Christian duty." 1 His sermons were usually written,

though somitimeFextemporaneous. His great object was to be
useful rather than elegant, to offer the plain and momentous
truths of the Gospel in a language which all might understand.
His manner of preaching was serious, solemn and impressive.
His voice was strong, pleasing, and piercing. "In the latter
part of his hfe his delivery was ¦ exceedingly deliberate — too
much so for the natural current of men's thoughts. It was a
habit into which he fell from his efforts to avoid the opposite ex
treme. He told me that, in the early part of his ministry, he
was inclined to a very rapid utterance ; and that, in order to
1 Rev. Micah Stone.

REV. JONATHAN FRENCH. 105
acquire greater moderation, he used occasionally to write upon
the top of some pages of his manuscript : ' a little slower.' " l
As a Theologian, it seems evident that Mr. French not only
did not make very sharp fecriminations. but was rather averse
t0 naving tnem ™g£e- He was> beyond all dispute, no friend to
the Hopkinsian theories of his day. Yet, as between such Ar
minians ns Dr. Symmes, of the North Parish, and Dr. Cum
mings, of Billerica, and the Calvinists as a class, he undoubtedly
sided with the latter. He was nearly the only one of his Asso
ciation whose sympathies were Calvinistic. The remark of Rev.
Reuben Emerson, of South Reading, in a recent note, is : " He
was reputed a Calvinist, though hying in the atmosphere of Ar-
mjnianism." An impression prevailed among some, at least, of
the common hear^rTofTWsjermons, that he felt this atmosphere
so much as not fully to utter his own convictions. I have heard
it said, that af£er~preaching sound and solemn doctrine, he was
in the habit of adding a remark or two, which mitigated very
much the severity of his statements. He exchanged freely with
ministers of the right and left wing.
He was one of the Trustees of Philhps Academy from the
beginning. After 1792, he preached occasionally in the Acad
emy, and gave Theological instruction to its members, for which
a small salary was given him — £10 the first year, and $80 in
1807. He was especially consulted by Samuel Abbot, Esq., in
the disposal of the property which Mr. Abbot gave for the estab
lishment of the Theological Seminary. He viewed with some
distrust the union of the two Calvinistic parties in the establish
ment of the Seminary within his Parish, but finally voted for it.
He had himself kept a Divinity School in his own family.
Among those educated by him, were, probably, the following :
Eev. Amos Clark, of Dedham, Rev. Samuel Gile, D. D., of Mil
ton, Prof. John Farrar, of Cambridge, James Thompson, Daniel
Bates, Rev. James Kendall, D. D., Jonathan Huse, Rev. Micah
Stone, of Brookfield, and Rev. Samuel Stearns, of Bedford.
1 Rev. Micah Stone.

1C6 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
The following is a list of Mr. French's publications : A Ser
mon against Extortion, 1777. A Sermon at the Ordination of
Daniel Oliver, 1787. A Sermon at the Ordination of Abiel
Abbot, 1795. A Sermon at the General Election, 1796. A
Sermon at the Anniversary Thanksgiving, 1798. A Sermon at
the Ordination of James Kendall, 1800. A Sermon at the Or
dination of his Son, 1801. An Evening Lecture at Portsmouth,
1805. A Charge at the Ordination of Prof. Pearson, 1808.
Mr. French was married, in 1773, to Abigail Richards, of
Weymouth. She died August 1821, aged 79. Their children
were: Sarah, born November 18, 1774, died young.
Abigail, born May 29, 1776, married Rev. Samuel Stearns, of Bed
ford. Jonathan, born August 16, 1777, Pastor at Northampton, N. H. (see
page 93).
Mary Holyoke, born August 6, 1781, married Rev. Ebenezer P.
Sperry, of Wenham.
Sarah, born December 13, 1784, died April 12, 1788.
According to the ancient custom, the Parish, soon after the
death of Mr. French, concurred with the church in appointing a
day of Fasting and Prayer, with reference to " the re-settlement
of the Gospel ministry." For three years, sufficient unanimity
was not secured to induce any one to become pastor. May 2d,
1810, Mr. Gardiner Spring [D. D. ; long pastor of the Brick
Pres. Church, N. Y. City] was chosen by the church in a full
meeting, and received a small majority of the vote in the Par
ish. September 18th, Mr. Worthington Wright [since pastor at
Charlestown, N. H.] was also chosen by the church in a small
meeting, and a communication from him prevented any vote in the
Parish. April 2d, 1811, Mr* Gamaliel S. Olds [afterwards
Prof. Wms. College, Pastor at Greenfield, Prof, at U. Vt. and
at A. C, died 1848] received 47 of 62 votes in the church, and
of 186 voters at the Parish meeting which followed, 128 voted
for him. But three weeks afterward, on an amendment being

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offered that his salary be paid semi-annually, while 88 were in
favor, 45 ballots were cast in opposition, and 15 persons did not
vote. In August following, a majority of the church and Parish
united in calling Rev. Asahel Hooker [afterwards settled at
Norwich, Ct. ; died 1813], but on a second vote in the Parish,
the number of votes against him was largely increased. In the
Spring of 1812, the attention of the people, was turned toward
Mr. Justin Edwards, then a member of the Middle Class in
the Theological Seminary^ Overtures were made to him by the
Committee for Supply of the Pulpit. He wrote a letter, ex
pressing his views of the necessity of thorough preparation on
his part before he should undertake so responsible a charge, and
requested that nothing be done towards calling him to settle in
this Parish. But July 24th, the church gave him a call, by a
vote of 49, and 3 neuter, and on the 10th of August the Parish
concurred by the large vote of " 163 and 19 in the negative."
Mr. Edwards was born in Westhampton, April 25, 1787. He
was the third child of Justin and Elizabeth (Clark) Edwards.
The first American ancestor of the family, Alexander Edwards,
came from Wales in 1640. The grandfather of the late cher
ished Prof. Bela B. Edwards, and the grandfather of the sub
ject of this notice, were brothers.
The mother of Mr. Edwards was a devoted, active Christian ;
his father, " a quiet farmer that minded his own business, a man
of few words, and perfectly honest." The -church at Westhamp
ton, like the one at Andover, was essentially evangelical in
doctrine, but without revivals, and without social meetings for
prayer. In his eighteenth year, Mr. Edwards had the privilege
of seeing an aged Christian woman, mentioned by Pres. Edwards
as converted in her fifth year, sicken and die, sustained by the
Saviour in whom she had trusted nearly seventy years. He
said to himself, "here is a religion that I have not, and must
have." After calm but thorough reflection, he cast his all upon
Christ as his Saviour, and soon engaged actively for the salva
tion of others. While teaching in his native town, his school

108 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
was a scene of deep religious" interest. Oct. 8, 1807, he was
admitted a Sophomore at Williams College. He was graduated
there, the Valedictorian of his class, in 1810. Dependent on
his own resources, he often saved expense, aid preserved a ro
bust health, by walking from his 'father's house to College, a
distance of forty miles. His, winter vacations were spent in
teaching. After his graduation, he continued teaching for a few months,
at Athens, N. Y., and in March, 1811, joined the Theological
Seminary in this town. At College he had been associated with
Samuel J. Mills, Gordon Hall, and James Richards. He found
them here, and joined in their counsels and prayers in the
Seminary. He became ardently attached to the Missionary
enterprise. His piety, wisdom and activity, won for him the
confidence of all his acquaintance. The Professors were con
strained to allow him to leave the Seminary and enter upon the
pastoral work among them. He was ordained December 2, 1812.
His pastorate continued in Andover till October 1, 1827. An
agency for the American Temperance Society engaged his la
bors till his installation as pastor of Salem street Church, Bos
ton, January 1, 1828. His health failing, he resigned that
charge, and was dismissed August 20, 1829. He then resumed
his labors as the Corresponding Secretary of the American
Temperance Society. In the discharge of this office, he visited
large portions of the United States, forming societies, delivering
addresses, using his personal influence in private counsels, and
producing a series of papers, the '' Permanent Temperance
Documents," which continue to have great power in this cause.
On the 7th of September, 1836, Mr. Edwards was inaugu
rated President of the Theological Seminary in Andover. His
connection with the Seminary, as President, ceased on the 19th
of April, 1842.
For one year afterwards, he was employed again in the ser
vice of the Temperance Society. On the formation of the
American and Foreign Sabbath Union, he was chosen Secre-

REV. JUSTIN EDWARDS. 109
tary ; for seven years he travelled 48,000 miles, and through
twenty-four states, addressed public assemblies, and prepared
" The Permanent Sabbath Documents," the ablest and most
condensed plea for the Sabbath wliich the language furnishes.
From 1849 to his death, he was chiefly employed, by request
of the American Tract Society, in writing a brief Commentary
on the Scriptures. He completed the New Testament, and car
ried his work on the Old to the end of the ninetieth Psalm. The
last year of his life, from April 1852, was a year of sickness, com
mencing with fever, and followed by inflammation of the brain and
great nervous exhaustion. On the 8th of June, 1853, he left
Andover for the Virginia Springs. In company with his young
est' daughter and Gen. Cocke, he proceeded to the Rockbridge
Alum Springs. After remaining four days, his daughter accom
panied him alone to the Bath Alum Springs, where they arrived
July 13th. He was immediately taken severely ill, and after
lingering a few days in great debility, died calmly on Saturday
morning, July 24, aged 66 years. His remains were deposited
in the burial ground of the Theological Seminary at Andover,
August 2, 1853.
In addition to these varied public services in which Mr. Ed
wards was a foremost actor, very numerous were the services
for the pubhc good in which he cooperated with others. He
was elected a Trustee of the Theological Seminary in 1820, and
remained such for thirty-three years, the three last of which he
was President of the Board. From 1817 he was a member of
the Executive Committee of the New England Tract Society,
and in 1821 was elected Corresponding Secretary. On the
formation of the American Tract Society of New York, he was
chosen a member oi the Publishing Committee, and, with a
short interval, labored in this connection till his death. He was
likewise a Director of the American Home Missionary Society,
and a corporate member ' of the American Board of Commis
sioners for Foreign Missions. He received the Honorary De
gree of Doctor of Divinity from Yale College, 1827.
10

1,10 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
As indications, also, of his unusual capacity for public service, .
the various calls, pressed upon his attention from various other
fields of labor and honor, may be adduced. In 1826 he received an
urgent invitation from Park Street Church, in Boston, to become
its pastor. He was requested, shortly after, to allow himself to
be chosen Secretary of the American Home Missionary Society.
The position of a Professor of Divinity in Hamilton College was ,
also proposed to him. The year 1829 brought an invitation to a
, Professorship in a New England College, and overtures for the
Professorship of Sacred Rhetoric in Auburn Theological Semi
nary. In 1836 he was chosen Professor of Theology in the
Theological Seminary at New York.
Before this capacity for pubhc service, in connection with
Educational and Benevolent institutions, had been thus mani
fested and coveted abroad, it had been shown conspicuously in
his pastoral life. What he became before the nation and world
he began to be in the first years after his ordination before his
own Parish. The interest which he afterwards exhibited in
behalf of the higher education in colleges and seminaries, he at
once exhibited in behalf of the district schools of this town. The
men and women here, who have passed their middle age, well
remember that interest, and often speak of it. In the establish
ment, especially, as early as 1814, of " The Andover South
Parish Society for Doing Good," and, a little later, of its two
branches, " The Female Charitable Society," and" The Juvenile
Missionary Society," he planted the germ of the several great
national enterprises which occupied his later life. For, in con
nection with this society, he commenced, among his own people,
the Temperance and Sabbath reformations. " To discounte
nance particularly intemperance and Sabbath-breaking " was a
specified object in forming this organization. To accomplish
r these results, with all others which make up the total of salva
tion from sin, he organized, also, his Sabbath Schools and Bible
classes, and circulated largely tracts and books. Feeling the
need and finding the utility of these organized forms of action in

REV. JUSTIN EDWARDS. Ill
. this community, he was anxious to induce others to unite with
him, and to unite with others, in founding those national societies
which have done, and are doing, so much to enlighten and purify
the world. Out of his preparation for his Bible classes, which
excited so remarkable an interest, grew that body of notes upon
the Bible, the last and loved labor of his life. When his anno
tated Testament was first read by one of the members of these
Bible classes, she remarked, " They read just as if he was speak
ing in the vestry." To the fact that his various plans of
doing good on a large scale were thus conceived and tried in a
pastoral experience of fifteen years, and, though largely ex
tended, carried out always in the spirit of a wise and loving
pastor, may we attribute his wonderful and permanent success as
a public man and reformer. " His habits as a pastor had been a
series of rehearsals preparatory to his career as a lecturer on
temperance, Sabbath-keeping and the study of the sacred Scrip
tures."1 In person, Dr. Edwards was more than ordinarily impressive :
muscular, erect, tall and stately ; he might seem, to one slightly
acquainted with him, distant and inaccessible. The stately man
ner never forsook him, on pubhc occasions or in the social con
verse of the family. But in this was no tinge of austerity or
gloom. His reserve was allied with a quiet and constant kindli
ness of soul. In his silence he was not unsocial.
" The prominent characteristics of Dr. Edwards were wisdom,
" simplicity and godly sincerity," sustained by a strong intellect
and a large heart. He had great self-control, practicalness,
quick discernment of the best means to attain a good end, energy
of purpose, and an ever-active, far-reaching benevolence. He
was wise in devising and equally wise in executing : progressive
and yet cautious : signally successful, and as signally modest :
grave and serious in manner, and yet uniformly kind and cour
teous. He kept his own counsels, uttered his opinions care-
l Dr. Amos Blanchard in Sprague's Annals.

112 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
fully, always evincing moderation, calmness of spirit and a pro
found knowledge of men. His power of persuasion, though
unpreteriding, was often effective. What inimitable simplicity
of speech! 'Sound speech, that cannot be condemned,' and
'always with grace.'"1
He is said to have possessed superior ability in profound
speculation. He could analyze and discriminate acutely on
abstrusest points. But the majority of his hearers did not think
of this, for his habits of mind were intensely practical. This
quality gave the peculiarity of his preaching. It was nakedly
direct. The arrangement of discourse and the illustration were
natural and strangely obvious. His manner was that of serious,
plain, earnest conversation. His whole style and matter were
Biblical. He thought and spoke, it has been said, in the words
of Inspiration. " He gave, even to casual observers, the impres
sion of being a kind of speaking and walking Bible .... His
prayers were sometimes composed almost wholly of inspired
passages, applied with striking felicity to the instant occasion." 2
The doctrinal quality of his preaching was determined by this
practical and Biblical lipniC ""His Calvinism was beyond dis
pute : though it war^f^btFilCielJ^rrwaT known: and it became
a power among the people. ~He never preached on dividing
points of orthodoxy.
He had few of what are popularly considered graces of ora
tory. His language, turns of expression, and illustrations, were
homely. His gestures were few, and not easy. But there was,
especially in his earlier years, a depth of earnestness and honesty
of conviction, which would speak out through his whole person
and "keep the strict attention of his audience. These qualities
sometimes seemed to kindle within him the power of imagina
tion, imparting an unusual glow to his person, so that many men
describe the effect of certain of his sermons in language which
i Rev. Dr. S. C. Jackson in Memorial of the Semi-Centennial Anniversary
' of the Theological Seminary.
2 Dr. A. Blanchard.

REV. JUSTIN EDWARDS. 113
no reader of the written sermons would be prompted to em
ploy. •
"The last six of the fifteen years of his ministry here, were.the
culminating period of his pulpit abihty. He had then become a
recognized force : a living power felt by men, women and chil
dren throughout the extended Parish. With an undisputed
ascendency among his own people, he was known far and near
as a powerful preacher and a man of eminent practical wisdom :
.... yet even then he had neither attractiveness nor popularity.
He had, however, what is so much better, influence, an influence
growing out of his personal qualities, and accumulating with
every year of his pastoral Ufe."1
Dr. Edwards's publications are as follows : A Sermon at the
Installation of the Rev. Thaddeus Pomeroy, 1822. The Ser
mon : "Doing a great Work," 1823, An Address before the
Porter Rhetorical Society, 1824. A Sermon at the Installation
of Rev. Frederick Freeman, 1824. A Sermon before the Peni
tent ' Females' Refuge Society, 1825. A Sermon on Bible
Classes, 1826. A Sermon on the Way to be Saved, 1826.
An Address on the laying of the Corner Stone of the West
Meeting-House, 1826. A Sermon on the Inspiration of the
Scriptures, 1827. The Sermon, "The great Change," 1827.
A Sermon on the Preparation for Eternity, 1829. A Sermon
on the Unction from the Holy One, 1830. A Letter to the
friends of Temperance in Massachusetts, 1836. A Sermon
before the A. B. C. F. M., 1841. He is the author of the fol
lowing Tracts, published by the American Tract Society : No.
167, Well conditioned Farm. No. 177, Joy in Heaven over one
Sinner that Repenteth. No. 179, The way to be Saved. No.
125, On the Traffic in Ardent Spirits. No. 582, The Unction
from the Holy One. To these are to be added the Permanent
Temperance Documents, compressed into the Temperance Man
ual, and the Permanent Sabbath Documents, five of which are
in his Sabbath Manual, and the Commentary upon the Bible.
1 Dr. A. Blanchard.
10*

114

HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

It is stated, on the authority of a Secretary of the American
Tract Society that that Society has circulated more pages ^from
bis pen than from the pen of any other writer, living or dead.
On the 17th of September, 1817, Mr. Edwards was married
to Lydia, daughter of Asa Bigelow, of Colchester, Ct. Their
children are
Justin Asa, born Jan. 20, 1819.
Jonathan, born July 17, 1820 (see page 95),
Newton, born March 11, 1822, died May 7, 1855.
Elizabeth,;born Nov. 9, 1824.
Lydia, born March 6, 1826.
Ann Eliza, born Sept. 29, 1828 : married Rev. Thomas N. Haskell,
East Boston.
On Nov. 2, 1827, the church unanimously invited Mr. Mil
ton Badger to become their pastor. The concurrence of the
Parish was Hkewise unanimous. He was ordained Jan. 3, 1828.
Mr. Badger was born in Coventry, Ct., May 6, 1800 : united
with the church in Andover, Conn., Sept. 1, 1816. He was
graduated at Yale College in 1823. During 1823-24 he was
Principal of the Academy in New Canaan, Conn. The three
succeeding years he spent mostly in Andover Theological Semi
nary, with the class which graduated in 1827. He was Tutor
in Yale College 1826-27. He received his approbation to
preach from the New Haven East Association in August, 1827.
He resigned his pastorate in 1835, in order that he might accept
the appointment of Secretary of the American Home Missionary
Society. The date of his dismission is Oct. 4, 1835. His min
istry was a continuous revival. During the seven and a half
years of its continuance, 330 persons were added to the church,
nearly all of whom joined by Profession. The memories of the
pastor under whom these results were reached are still fresh and
very precious in many families.
The usual day of Fasting was observed in December, and
Jan. 18, 1836, Mr. Lorenzo L. Langstroth was unanimously
invited by the church to assume the pastoral charge. This invi-

PASTORS. 115
tation was, with the same unanimity, confirmed by the Parish
Feb. 2. Mr. L. was ordained May 11, 1836. Finding his
health inadequate to the discharge of his duties, at the close of a
ministry of three years he resigned, and was dismissed March
30, 1839.-
He was born in Philadelphia, Penn., Dec. 25, 1810: was
graduated at Yale College in 1831. He received his Theologi
cal education at New Haven. On the resignation of his pastoral
office, he became Principal of the Abbot Female Academy for
one year. From Andover he removed to Greenfield, where he
taught a High School for Young Ladies four years. During
the last two or three of these years he preached as a stated sup
ply for the Second Congregational Church in Greenfield. A
call from that church was then accepted by him, and his instal
lation was on Dec. 20, 1843. He was dismissed Feb. 15, 1848.
After his dismission he established a Young Ladies' School in
Philadelphia, which he taught four years, relinquishing it at last,
as he has so many other cherished plans and hopes, on account of
ill health. For about two years subsequently he was stated sup
ply at Coleraine His present residence is Oxford, Ohio. He
is the author of an approved treatise on the Honey Bee.
The choice by the church of the next pastor was made May
13, 1839. Mr. John L. Taylor received forty-nine votes,
nine persons at the meeting remaining neutral. At the Parish
meeting he received forty-two votes, and twelve were cast in the
negative. He accepted the call, and was ordained July 18,
1839. May 16, 1852, he communicated to the people his elec
tion to the office of Treasurer of the Trustees of Phillips Acad
emy, and requested a dismission. In yielding to his wishes the
church deemed it but just to record their conviction that he had
" performed the duties of his high office with great abihty, fidelity
and discretion," and to assure him that he carried with him their
" confidence, respect, warm personal attachment and Christian
sympathy." He was dismissed July 19, 1852, having completed
a ministry of thirteen years.

116 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
Mr. Taylor was born at Warren, Ct., May 20, 1811. He
was graduated at Yale C°Uege in 1835. During the years
1835-37, he was teacher of a High School at Ellington, Ct.
He remained as Tutor and student of Divinity at Yale College
from 1837 to 1839. Since June 1, 1852, he has been the
Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Phillips Academy. He
published, 1851, a New Year's' Sermon, and has since published
a Memoir of Judge Samuel Phillips.
The day following the dismission of Mr. Taylor, the church
chose Rev. Charles Smith as its pastor. Thirty-four votes
were in his favor : one negative and one blank vote were cast.
The Parish yielded its concurrence.
Mr. Smith was born at Hatfield, August 9, 1818. He was
graduated at Amherst College in 1842, and at Andover Theo
logical Seminary in 1845. His ordination and first settlement
was at Warren, Oct. 12, 1847. His dismission from that charge
took place April 13, 1852. He was installed here Oct. 28,
1852. Receiving, the next year, a call from the Shawmut
Church, Boston, he accepted it, and was dismissed, against the
earnest wishes of a large portion of this people, Nov. 28, 1853.
His ordination at Boston took place on the eighth day of December,
1853. After a prolonged contest before a council, he was dismis
sed from that church, Nov. 8, 1858. He now resides in Hatfield.
For nearly two years the Parish remained without a stated
minister. An invitation, with imperfect unanimity, was ex
tended to Mr. Jotham B. Sewall [since pastor of the Central
Church, Lynn], which was declined. A large number of dif
ferent candidates were heard.
June 4, 1855, the church unanimously invited Mr. George
Mooar. In this invitation the Parish concurred. The ordina
tion was on the tenth of October, 1855.
Mr. Mooar was born in Andover, West Parish, May 27,
1830. He was fitted for college in Phillips Academy, and was
graduated at Williams College in 1851. After teaching one
year at Falmouth and Brookline, he pursued his theological
studies at Andover, and was graduated in 1855.

The following table exliibits, at one view, some prominent facts connected with the life and ministry
of the different pastors.

05
oHCO

Names.

Birth-place.

Birth-day.

Graduation.

Installation. -

Dismission.

Death and Age.

-«*
Length of Pas
torate.

Com
muni-
cantsadded

Samuel Philhps,

Salem,

Feb.l 7,1689-90,

H. U. 1708,

Oct. 17, 1711,

June 5,1771-81,

59,7

574

Jonathan French,

Braintree,

Jan. 30, 1740,

H. U. 1771,

Sep. 23, 1772,

July28,1809-69,

36,10

575

Justin Edwards,D.D.,

Westhampt'n,

April 25, 1787,

W. C. 1810,

Dec. 2, 1812,

Oct. 1, 1827,

July24,1853-66,

14,10

267

Milton Badger, D.D.,

Coventry, Ct.

May 6, 1800,

Y. C. 1823,

Jan. 3, 1828,

Oct. 4, 1835,

7,9

330

Lor. L. Langstroth,

Phila., Penn.,

Dec. 25, 1810,

Y, C. 1831,

May 11, 1836,

Mar. 30,1839,

¦2,10
47
John L. Taylor,
Warren, Ct.
May 20, 1811,
Y. C. 1835,
July 18, 1839,
July 19, 1852,
13
221
Charles Smith,
Hatfield,
August 9, 1818,
A. C. 1842,
Oct. 28, 1852,
Nov. 28, 1853,
1,1
14
George Mooar,
Andover,
May 27, 1830,
W. C. 1851,
Oct. 10> 1855,
3,10
122
118 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
During the 14.8 years of the existence of the church, the pas
toral office has been vacant 7 years 11 months 10 days. The
longest interval, 3£ years, occurred after the death of Mr.
French. The next longest, of nearly two years, after the resig
nation of Mr. Smith. During these intervals, of almost eight
years, only twenty-six persons were added to communion. For
the whole time the average annual addition has been nearly
fifteen. The average length of pastorates, thus far, has been seventeen
years and a half. If we add to the years of Mr. Phillips's pas
torate the eighteen months during which he preached before his
ordination, which would make his whole ministry sixty-one
years, it will be seen that the first two pastorates completed all
but two years of a century. The six last pastorates have not
yet completed a half century. The permanency of the pastoral
relation has not been thus impaired, however, by any action of
the church or Parish. The initiative, in almost every instance,
has been taken wholly by the retiring pastor.

XVH.
DEACONS.
November 8, 1711, it was "voted to choose two Deacons."
Sept. 22, 1720, on account of the age of those in office, it was
deemed necessary to- elect two others. In the year 1744 a simi
lar reason induced the church to add two to the three then living.
Since that time the usual number in active service has been four.
The following table shows the succession of these officers to the
present time. The nineteen, who have completed their terms

DEACONS. ¦

¦CHURCH COMMITTEE.

119

of office, averaged nearly twenty-six years of service. The
eighteen, who have died, reached the average age of seventy-
six years.

Names.

Deceased.

John Abbot,
William Lovejoy,
Nehemiah Abbot,
John Abbot, Jr.,
Isaac Abbot,
Joseph -Abbot, Jr.,
John Dane, Jr.,
Hezekiah Ballard,
Joshua Holt,
Zebadiah Abbot,
Daniel Poor,
Isaac Abbot,
Nathan Abbot,
Abiel Pearson,
Mark Newman,
Zebadiah Abbot, Jr.
Amos Blanchard,
Amos Abbott,
Paschal Abbot,
Abraham J. Gould,
Albert Abbott,
Joseph Cummings,
Edward Taylor,

Nov.Nov. Sept.Sept.
Mar.Mar.Feb.Feb. Apr.
May Apr.
Apr.Apr.
May Apr.Apr.
Apr. Dec.
Aug.Feb.Feb.
Feb.Jan.

8, 1711,
8, 1711,
22,1720,
22,172020,174420,1744
4, 1755,
4, 1755,
16,1766,
30,1785 21,1794,
21,1794,
21, 1794,
21, 1801
2, 1811,
2, 1813,
30, 1825,
1, 1826,
31,1827,
3, 1845,
3, 1845,
27, 1846,
2, 1857

Sept. 22,1720,
Sept. 22,1720,

R.Wiltonl776Mar. 25, 1794,
Mar. 25, 1794,

Mar. 22, 1813,
Apr, 30, 1825,

Jan. 3, 1845,
Nov. 28, 1826,
Jan. 3, 1845,
Oct. 31, 1856,
Sept. 23,1845,

March 1721,
July 20, 1 748
Oct. 8, 1750,
Jan. 1, 1754,
Aug. 9, 1784,
Aug. 23,1787
July 1801,
Dec. 31, 1801,
July 24, 1810,
Nov. 24,1793,
June 20, 1814,
June 1836,
March 5, 1801,
May 22, 1827,
June 15, 1859,
May 31, 1836,
Aug. 17,1847,
March 1859,

XVIII.
CHURCH COMMITTEE.
This board of officers originated from the request of Rev. Mr.
French, made to the church in 1781. April 9th, of that year,
" the motiou was made to choose a committee, in conjunction
with the Deacons, to assist the pastor in the government of the
church, whose business it shall be to hear all complaints regularly-
coming before them, and to settle, differences, if it may be done

120

HISTORICAL SKETCHES.

consistently with the honor of religion, and to inquire into the
J grounds of scandalous reports, if any may arise, etc., — and keep
a more particular watch over persons, etc., — and to endeavor to
'promote peace and good order among us, — the church at all
times reserving to themselves the right to inspect their doings,
and that the said committee continue till the next annual meeting,
and no longer." This committee, continued afterwards by vote,
from year to year, obtained the [name of Standing Committee.
In the records of the annual meeting of 1815, appears the first
account of what, for many years, was called the Examining
Committee. Except in a few instances, this committee consisted
of the pastor and deacons. January 1859, the two committees
were reduced to one, and their duties and terms of office defined,
as may be seen in Articles 4-7 of Church Order. The succession
of the members of this committee appears in the following table.

Barachias Abbot,
Isaac Osgood,
John Abbot, Jr., .
Zebadiah Abbot, Dea.,
Jonathan Cummings,
James Holt,
Nehemiah Abbot,
Jeduthun Abbot,
Samuel Farrar [Dea.],
Ezra Abbot,
Zebadiah Abbot, Jr., Dea.,
Peter French,
Isaac Blunt,
Amos Blanchard, Dea.,
Solomon Holt [Dea.],
Ebenezer Lovejoy [Dea.],
Amos Abbott Dea.,
Ebenezer Jones, Jr. [Dea.],
Joseph Holt, Jr.,
James Abbot,
Joel Russell,
Thomas C. Foster,
Rev. Aaron Green,
Abraham J. Gould, Dea.,

1781- 1781-
1781- 1781-
1783- 1786- 1788- 1794- 1806-
1809- 1809- 1811-
1814-
1817-1817-1825- 1825-
1826-
1828- 1832-
1832-1834- 1839-
1839-

-178a=2-1788= 7
-1809 = 8
-1785 = 4
-1806 = 3
-1794 = 8
-1809 = 21
-1811 = 17
-1817=11-1832 = 13.
-1814 = 5
-1817 = 6
-1834 = 20
-1823 = 8
-1825 = 8
-1826 = 1
-1827 = 2
-1839=13
-1832 = 4
-1839 = 7
-1839 = 7
-1859 = 25
-1849 = 10
1846 = 7

CATALOGUE OE MEMBERS.

121

Benjamin Turner,
William Waters,
John C. Allen, .
Ebenezer Jones [Dea.],
Ephraim Everson [Dea.],
James Abbot
Joseph Cummings, Dea.,
William Pierce,
Mencies C. Andrews,
Nathan B. Abbott,
Enoch Abbot,
Nathan Clark,
Ebenezer N. Easton,
WiUiam Abbot,
Edward Taylor, Dea.,
Jacob Chickering,
Stephen Tracy,
John H. Manning,
Hartwell B. Abbot,
Hezekiah Jones,
Dea. Holbrook Chandler,
Charles Tufts,
Nathan B. Abbott,

1839-

-1842 =

= 3

1842-

-1844 =

2

1844-
-1847 =
3
1844-
-1848 =
4
1844-
-1847 =
3
1844-
-1846 =
2
1846-
-1847 =
1
1846-
-1848 =
2
1847-
-1849 =
2
1847-
-1859 =
12
1847-
-1854 =
7
1748-
-1857 =
9
.
1848-
-1852 =
4
1849-
-1859 =
10
1849-
-1856 =
7
1852-
-1859 =
7
.
1854-
-1859 =
5
1857-
-1859 =
2
1857-
-1859 =
2
1859-
-1860
1859-
-1861
1859-
-1862
.
1859-
-1863
XIX.
CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS.
The following Catalogue of Members comprises, it is supposed,
all the names that are recorded on the successive record-books
of the church. The first and last column is a register of the
number of church members, down to any given date. In the
second column the names of the members are given. The spel
ling is chiefly according to the record. In case of variations in
spelling a preference has been shown for the usual mode. The
variations will be found especially in the names of those belong
ing to the Abbot family. A preference has been shown through-
11
122 HISTORICAL SKETCHES.
out the work for the spelling with one t : but this is not uniform.
To the names of some prominent persons, certain facts pertaining
to them have been added in brackets or parentheses ; as, for in
stance, the year and place of Collegiate or Theological gradua
tion and the year of ordination, if ministers. With reference to
the female names, the following rule has been followed. If the
person was a maiden at the time of joining the church, and was
afterwards married, the maiden name is placed in parentheses :
if the person was married before joining the church, the maiden
name is placed in brackets : if the woman was a widow when
she joined the church, the husband's name is placed in brackets :
otherwise in parentheses. These maiden names and husbands'
names have been mostly supplied by the compiler. A httle
thought will show how easily a mistake might be made in them.
It should be remembered, too, that from 1812 to 1828 it
was not stated in the record of a female name whether it was
the name of a married or unmarried person. It is hoped that
they have been given in almost all cases correctly. The third
column shows the date of admission to the church. Column fourth
shows the manner of admission, whether by letter or profession.
During the ministry of Mr. Edwards this was not indicated in the
records. Column fifth gives the date of removal, so far as known.
Column sixth gives the manner of removal, whether by death,
dismission or exclusion. With regard to the latter method of re
moval, it should be said that Exc. means simply that the person
so designated at any given time was declared to be no longer a
member of the church. The reason for such action can be
learned from the church records of the specified date.
In the alphabetical indexes, which follow the Catalogue, the
number to the left hand of the name refers to the register column
in the full catalogue. The female name, given in the first index,
is the name of the person at the time she united with the church.
Any subsequent name is not indexed. In the second index,
which contains the names of the present members, the name in
dexed is the present name, in all cases.

CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS.

CATALOGUE OF MEMBERS,

FEOM THE FOBMATION OP THE OHUBCH, IN 1711, TO 1859.

Keg.

' NAME.

Date of Reception.

Manner of Reception.

Date of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

1

Samuel Phillips (H. U. 1708 Rev. 1711),

Oct. 17, 1711,

From First Ch. in Salem.

June 5, 1771,

*
By death, aged 81 years.

1

2

Christopher Osgood,
John Abbot (Dea. 1711),

From ch. N. P. Andover.
May 9, 1723,
By death, aged 80 years.
2
3
it
March 19. 1721,
Feb. 26, 1736,
By death, aged 73 years.
3
4
George Abbot,
it
By death, aged 81 years. .
4
6
William Lovejoy (Dea, 1711),
Unknown.
July 9, 1748,
Nov. 8, 1738,
By death, aged 92 years.
5
5
Francis Dane,
From ch. N. P. Andover.
By death, aged 82 years.
6
7
John Russ,
tt
Probably by death.
By death, aged 75 years.
7
8
William Johnson,
tt
April 16, 1727,
8
9
Ralph Farnum, x
it
Probably by death.
9
10
Thomas Chandler,
tt
Jan. 26, 1737,
Sept. 16, 1750,
By death, aged 73 years.
10
11.
Nehemiah Abbot (Dea. 1720),
It
By death, aged 83 years.
11
12
John Johnson,
II
May 26, 1741,
Aug. 29, 1755,.
By death, aged 74 years.
12
13
William Foster,
It
By death, aged 86 years.
13
14
William Chandler,
It
Oct. 27, 1727,
By death, aged 67 years.
14
15
Mary [Marshall] Russell [Eob't],
It
Jan. 14, 1716,
By death, aged 74 years.
15
16
Sarah [Barker] Abbot (Dea. John),
II
Feb. 10, 1729,
By death, aged 82 years.
16
17
Dorcas [Graves] Abbot (Geo.),
It
Feb. 19, 1740,
By death.
17
18
Deborah Russ (John),
II
Probably by death.
By death.
18
19
Hannah [Chandler] Bigsby(Dan'l),
Sarah [Farnum] Abbot (Benj.),
It
Nov. 20, 1730,
19
20
tl
By death.
20
21
Hannah [Poor] Dane (Francis),
It
Feb. 17, 1745-6,
By death, aged 85 years.
21
22
Sarah [Buckmmster] Chandler ( Wm.),
It
Oct. 9, 1735,
By death, aged 74 years.
22
23
Rebecca [Hooper] Ballard (John),
Hannah [Hooper] Ballard ( Wm.)!
Mary [Farnum] Lovejoy (Dea. Wm.),
II
Dec. 1, 1715,
By death.
23
24
II
By death.
24
25
Unknown.
Deo. 25, 1789,
By death.
25
26
Elizabeth [Peters] Johnson (Jas.),
From ch. N. P. Andover.
Jan. 31, 1716,
By death, aged 54 years.
26
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67

Mary [Peters] Chandler (Thos.),
Phebe Russell (Thos.),
Sarah Preston (John),
Mary [Farnum] Johnson (John),
Sarah [Sterling] Farnum (Ralph),
Anne [Lovejoyi Blanchard (Jona.),
Hannah Holt (Sam'l),
Abigail [Lovejoy] Abbot (Dea. Neh.),
Mary [FosterTLovejoy (Eben.),
Sarah Blunt (Wm.),
Sarah [Bridges] Preston (Sam'l),
Mary [Stevens] Chandler (Thos. jr.),
William Lovejoy, jr.,
Sarah [Frye] Lovejoy (Wm. jr.),
Alice Lovejoy (dau. of Wm.),
Joseph Ballard,
Rebecca [Horn] Ballard (Jos.),
Thomas Chandler, jr.,
Elizabeth (White) Bolton (Wm.),
William Abbot,
Mary [Preston] Russell (Benj.),
Thomas Russell,
John Chandler, jr.,
Hannah [Frye] Chandler (Jno. jr.),
Moses Holt,
Dorcas [Hibbert] Abbot (Nath'l),
Rebecca [Johnson] Ballard (Jos. jr.),
Elizabeth [Harndinl Abbot (Jno. jr.),
Sarah [Chandler] Phelps (Sam'l sr.),
Hannah Blanchard [Sam'l],
Zebediah Chandler,
Sarah [Abbot] Chandler (Zeb.),
Samuel Phelps, sr.,
Hannah [Graves] Abbot (Timo.),
Henry Lovejoy,
Sarah [Farnum] Lovejoy (Henry),
Sarah (Foster) Abbot (Nehem.),
Elizabeth (Lovejoy) Barker (Zeb.),
Rose [Holmes] Blanchard (Thos.),
Sarah [Ingalls] Chandler (Josiah),
Mary [Johnson] Foster (Abraham), '
Rebecca [Wardwell] Osgood (Ezekiel),

Oct. 17, 1711,

Dec. 2, 1711,
March 23, 1712,
March 30, 1712,
it
April 6, 1712,
June 1, 1712,
June 22, 1712,
tt
July 13, 1712,
it
Aug. 31, 1712,
Sept. 21, 1712,
Jan. 4, 1713,
Jan. 11, 1713,
Jan. 25, 1713,
Feb. 1,1713, ii
May 10, 1713,
May 31, 1713,

June 7, 1713,
11
July 12, 1713,

From ch. N. P. Andover.

Profession of faith.

July 21, 1753,

By death, aged 85 years.

27

Feb. 4, 1738,

By death.

28

Probably by death.

29

May 17, 1723,

By death.

30

April 13, 1732,

By death.

31

Feb. 29, 1724,

By death, aged 65 years.

32

Jan. 30, 1758,

By death, aged 91 years.

83

May 21, 1747

By death.

34

Oct. 5, 1763,

By death, aged 84 years.

35

Dec. 6, 1760,

By death, aged 84 years.

36

Mar. 1, 1738-9,

By death.

37

Oct. 4, 1751,

By death.

38

March 8, 1762,

By death.

39

1772,

By death.

40

July 25, 1741,
Sept. 29, 1722,
Feh. 11, 1740,

By death.

41

By death.

42

By death.

43

Nov. 7, 1751,

By death, aged 75 years.
Rem., probab. to Reading.

44

45

Oct. 24, 1713,

By death, aged 56 years.

46

By death . u
By death, ag&d 68 years.

47

Aug. 30, 1731,

48

May 3, 1741,

By death, aged 62 years.

49

Aug. 1, 1727,

By death. s;

50

April 6, 1743,

By death. - ^

51

Feb. 16, 1743,

By death. 1
By death, ageu 62 years.

52

Jan. 2, 1T54,

53

Aug. 9. 1756,

By death. J
By death, aged 96 years.

54

April 5, 1757,

55

July 10, 1725,

By deatgf, aged 79 years.

56

June 20, 1766,

By deajp, aged 84 years.

57

March 6, 1754,

By death, aged 73 years.

58

Jan. 26, 1746,

By death, aged 95 years.

59

Nov. 16, 1726,

By death.

60

Feb. 2, 1776.
August 23, 1766.

By death, aged 92 years.

61

By death .

62

Prob. rem. to Lexington.
63
Oct. 26, 1729,
Dis. to form ch. in Methuen.
64
Aug. 27, 1714,
By death, aged 40 years.
65
Feb. 13, 1754,
By death, aged 69 years.
66
Feb. 21, 1750,
By death, aged 71 years.
67
March 2, 1737,
By death, aged 46 years.
68
87

90
91
92 93 94
9596
97

100 101102
103 104
105106

Nathaniel Abbot,
Sarah [Stevens] Abbot (Stephen),
Nicholas Holt, sr.,
Mary [Russell] Holt (Nich.),
Thomas Carrier, sr.,
Henry Farnum,
Phebe [Russell] Farnum (Henry),
Hannah [Russell] Holt (Oliver),
Hannah [Gray] Abbot (Thomas),
Mary (Russell) Osgood (Time),
Oliver Holt,
John Preston, sr.,
Samuel Preston, jr.,
Christopher Lovejoy, sr.,
Henry Gray,
Mary Gray (Henry),
Mary Chandler (d. of Thomas),
William Wardwell,
Daniel Bigsby, sr.,
Stephen Abbot,
Ezekiel Osgood,
John Ballard, sr.,
Nicholas Nichols,
Elizabeth Nichols (Nich.),
Rebecca Preston [Jos.],
John Dane,
Sarah [Chandler] Dane (John),
Hannah [Dane] Phelps (Sam'l jr.),
Elizabeth [Farnum] Holt (Geo.),
Timothy Holt,
Jonathan Abbot,
Zerviah [Holt] Abbot (Jena.),
Abigail [Holt] Holt (Paul),
Benjamin Russell,
James Abbot,
Thomas Abbot,
Thomas Blanchard,
Abraham Foster,

Date of Reception.

Aug. 2, 1713,
Aug. 23, 1713,
Sept. 13, 1713,
Sept. 20, 1713,
it
Oct. 4, 1713,

Nov. 22, 1713,
Dec. 6, 1713,
Jan. 3, 1714,
Feb. 7, 1714,

April 4, 1714.
June 27. 1714,

July 18, 1714,

August 1, 1714,

August 22, 1714,
Nov. 14, 1714,
Dec. 5, 1714,

Jan. 16, 1715,
Jan. 30, 1715,
Feb. 6, 1715,

Manner of Rece ption .

Profession of faith.

Date of Removal.

Dec. 12, 1749,
Jan. 1751,
Oct. 8, 1715,
April 1, 1717,
May 16, 1735,

May 16, 1715,
Jan. 25, 1763,
Dec. 24, 1747,
May 29, 1717,
March 17, 1737,
July 1, 1741,
Aug. 7, 1733,
April 22, 1751,
May 7, 1717,
May 27, 1766,
Dec. 4, 1740,
Nov. 18, 1715,
Feb. 14, 1720,
Jan. 28, 1745,
Jan. 10t 1763,
June 17, 1747,
May 26. 1746,
Sept. 28, 1714,
March 4, 1758,
March 21, 1770,
March 26, 1768,

May 25, 1735,
April 28, 1728,
March 17, 1759,
Oct. 9, 1723,

Manner of Removal.

By death, aged 78 years.
By death, aged 69 years.
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 109 years.
Probably by death.
Probably by death.
By death, aged 37 years.
By death, aged 89 years.
Probably by death.
By death, aged 76 years.
Probably by death.
By death, aged 45 years.
By death, aged 76 years.
By death.
By death.
Unknown.By death, aged 72 years.
By death, aged 66 years.
By death, aged 88 years.
By death, aged 61 years.
By death, aged 62 years.
By death.
By death. >
Probably by death.
By death, aged 71 years.
By death.
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 75 years.
By death, aged 83 years.
By death, aged 80 years.
By death.
By death. [N. H.]
Dis to ch. Rumford [Concord,
By death, aged 62 years.
By death, aged 85 years.
By death.

8485 8687888090 91 929391 9596

100101102103104 105 106

107108109110 111112113114 115116
117118 119
120 121 122
123124125126 127128129 130131132133134135136 137138139140141142143 144 145146
147 148

Francis Dane,
Hannah [Turner] Dane (Francis),
Eleazar Graves,
Braviter Gray,
Dorothy [Abbot] Gray (Braviter),
James Russel,
Josiah Holt,
Mary [Lovejoy] Holt (Josiah),
David Abbot,
Timothy Abbot, sr.,
Lydia(Lovejoyj Johnson (Caleb),
Joseph Phelps,
Elizabeth [Abbot] Phelps (Jos ),
Abigail [Lovejoy] Phelps (Henry),
Elizabeth (Phelps) Lovejoy (Jona.),
Mary (Blanchard) Phelps (Thos.),
Henry Holt, sr.,
Sarah [Ballard] Holt (Henry, sr.),
John Phelps,
Sarah [Andrew] Phelps (John),
Anne (Blanchard) Mooar (Timo.),
Zebadiah Barker,
John Harnden,
Sarah Harnden (John),
Josiah Chandler,
Elizabeth [Russell] Holt (Moses),
James Johnson,
Sarah [Lovejoy] Clark (Jos.),
Caleb Johnson,
Mary [Turner] Johnson (Caleb),
John Gutterson,
Sarah [Lovejoy] Austin (Thomas),
Benjamin Abbot,
Elizabeth [Abbot] Abbot (Benj.),
Jacob Preston, \
Timothy Abbot, jr.,
Mary [Foster] Abbot (Timo. jr.),
Joseph Dane,
Lydia [Johnson] Dane (Jos.),
Samuel Blanchard,
Sarah [Johnson] Blanchard (Sam'l),
Philemon Chandler,

March 6, 1715,
tt
March 20, 1715,
July 10, 1715,
August 7, 1715,
Sept. 25, 1715,
Oct. 30, 1715,
Dec. 4, 1715,
Jan. 22, 1716,
Feb. 6, 1716,

April 1, 1716,
May 6, 1716,
June 8, 1716,

Aug. 5, 1716,
Sept. 23, 1716,
t;
Sept. 30, 1716,
Oct. 7, 1716,
June 2, 1717,
Sept. 8, 1717,
Oct. 6, 1717,
March 30. 1718,
May 18, 1718,
July 6, 1718,
August 31, 1718,

Oct 26,1718,
May 31, 1719,
June 7, 1719,

Profession of faith.

March 28, 1745,
Nov. 10, 1724,
March 7, 1717,
Oct. 23, 1754,
July 5, 1724,
Nov. 14, 1763,
Sept. 9, 1730,

1718,
Sept. 5, 1759,
March 30, 1725,
May 10, 1727,
Jan. 17, 1719,
Nov. 25, 1733,
April 23, 1739,
Dec. 15, 1729,
Oct. 26, 1729.
June 26, 1720,
August 12, 1752,
Oct. 14, 1748,
Oct. 1, 1749,
Dec. 3, 1717,
Oct. 26, 1729,
a
Dec. 8, 1748,
Sept. 3, 1718,
July 10, 1766,

Nov. 16, 1718,
June 17, 1754,
Aug. 10, 1769,
July 22, 1760,

Unknown. 107
Unknown. 108
By death. 109
By death. HO
By death. IH
By death. 112
By death, aged 75 years. 113
By death. 114
By death, aged 63 years. 115
By death, aged 67 years. 116
Unknown. . 117
Probably by death. 118
By death, aged 35 years. 119
By death! 120
By death. 121
By death. 122
By death, aged 75 years. 123
By death! 124
By death. 125
Probably by death. 126
Probably by death. 127
Dis. to form ch. in Methuen. 128
Dis. to ch. N. P. Reading. 129
Dis. to ch. N. P. Reading. 130
By death, aged 69 years. 131
By death. 132
By death. 133
Dis. to ch. Souhegan. 134
Unknown. 135
By death, aged 19 years. 136
Dis. to form ch. in Methuen. 137
Dis. to form ch. in Methuen. 338
By death, aged 62 years. 139
By death, aged 28 years. 140
Unknown. 141
By death, aged 73 years. 142
By death. 143
By death. 144
By death. 145
By death, aged 74 years. 146
By death. 147
By death, aged 71 years. 148

Reg.

¦ NAME.

Date of Reception.

149

Hannah [Danforth] Abbot (David),

June 7. 1719,

150

Richard Downing,

Sept. 13, 1719,

161

Benjamin Blanchard,

Sept. 27, 1719,

152

Mary [Abbot] Blanchard (Benj.),

u

153

Hezekiah Ballard,

Oct. 4, 1719,

154

James Holt,

"

155

Susanna [Preston] Holt (James),

it

156

Abigail (Abbot) Abbot (Benj.),

Oct. 26, 1719,

157

Sherebiah Ballard,

Nov. 29, 1719,

158

Lydia [Osgood] Ballard (Sherebiah),
Ebenezer Lovejoy,

it

159

Dec. 6, 1719,

160

Nicholas Holt,

"

161

Dorcas [Abbot] Holt (Nicholas),

it

162

John Abbot (Dea. 1711),

Feb. 7, 1720,

163

John Abbot (son of Dea. Nehemiah),

tt

164

Mary [Huse] Holt (Oliver),

March 20, 1720,

165

Lydia Barker,

166

Sarah Osgood (Christopher),
Joseph Chandler,
Mehitabel [Russell] Chandler (Joseph),

May 15, 1720,

167

June 5,-1720,

168

tt

169

Stephen Barker,

Aug. 21, 1720,

170

iMary (Abbot) Bridges (James),

Nov. 6, 1720,

171

Mary [Harnden] Dane (Joseph),

Feb. 5, 1721,

172

Sarah White (John),

March 18. 1722,

173

George Abbot,

Jan. 27, 1723,

174

Henry Abbot,

tt -

175

Mary [.Platts] Abbot (Henry),

tt

176

Thomas Holt,
Alice [Peabody] Holt (Thomas),

July 7, 1723,

177

tt

178

Mary [Carlton] Abbot (BenJO,

Sept. 1,1723,

179

John Lovejoy,

Oct. 6, 1723,

180

Hannah [Foster] Lovejoy (John),

it

181

Samuel Lovejoy,

Dee. 1, 1723,

182

Hannah [Stevens] Lovejoy (Sam'l),

tt

183

Hannah Holt (dau. of Sam'l),

Jan. 26, 1724,

184

Joseph Abbot,

May 24, 1724,

185

John Barnard, jr.,

tt

186

Sarah [Osgood] Barnard (John jr.),

tt

Manner of Reception,

Profession of faith.

Date of Removal.

Jan. 10, 1788,
April 3, 1743,
Nov. 4, 1751,
Feb. 20, 1741-2,
Dec. 8, 1753,
May 19, 1751,
May 15, 1760,
Dec. 1, 1756,
Oct. 25, 1758,
Jan. 1, 1754,
Nov. 25, 1779,
August 1778,
Oct. 26, 1729,
July 8, 1738,
April 22, 1734,
Oct. 26, 1729,
August 5, 1739,
March 17, 1768,
Feb. 3, 1776,
August, 1784,
Jan. 12, 1767,
July 29, 1726,
Jan. 19,1726,
May 10, 1758,
July 7, 1774,
Dec. 3, 1749,
May 11, 1767,
Jan. 9, 1757,
Jan 81, 1756,
March 31, 1732,

Manner of Removal.

By death, aged 91 vears. .
Unknown. [Hollis, N. H.]
Dis. to form church Nisetisset,
By death, aged 70 years.
Probably by death.
By death.
By death,, aged 54 years.
Dis. to ch. Willington, Ct.
Dis. to ch. Willington, Ct.
By death, aged 86 years.
By death, aged 73 years.
By death, aged 60 years.
By death, aged 80 years.
By death, aged 82 years.
By death, aged 88 years.
Dis. to formch. in Methuen.
By death.
By death.
By death.
Dis. to form ch. Methuen.
Dis. to ch. N. P. Andover.
By death.
Unknown.By death, aged 76 years.
By death, aged 80 years.
By death, aged 84 years.
By death, aged 81 years.
Bv death.
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 70 years.
By death, aged 67 years.
By death.
Unknown.By death, aged 81 years.
By death.
By death;

149150151152153154165156157158159' 160161162
163164165166 167
168169 170 171
172173 174175 176 177 178
179 180181 182183184 185186

187188189190191 192193194195196197 198199200201202203204 205206207 208209210211212 213214215216 217218219220221222223224225226227228

Ebenezer Lovejoy, Jr.,
Mary [Barnard] Lovejoy (Eben. jr.),
Susanna [Wright] Holt (Oliver jr ),
Sarah Lovejoy (dau. of Dea. Wm.),
Christopher Lovejoy, jr.,
Abigail [Wilson] Barnard (James),
Catherine Gray,
Thomas Abbot, jr. ,
Elizabeth [Ballard] Abbot (Thos. jr.),
Timothy Chandler,
Experience [Frost] Bigsby (Joseph),
Joseph Blanchard,
Sarah [Abbot] Blanchard (Joseph),
William Chandler,
Elizabeth [Blanchard] Chandlerf Wm.),
Isaac Abbot (H. U. 1723 : Dea. 1744),
Mehitabel Barker.
Moriah (Bigsby) Barker (James),
MehitabeI(Johnson)Huntington(Thos.)John Foster,
Mary [Osgood] Foster (John),
Hannah [bobbins] Johnson (Zeb.),
Hannah Abbot (dau. of Thomas),
Joseph West,
Bethiah [West] West (Joseph),
Israel How (Doct.),
James Barker, •
Sarah [Smith] Johnson (James),
Ephraim Abbot,
Ebenezer Barker,
Mehitabel (Smith) Lasell (Thomas),
Stephen Osgood, sr.,
Barachias Farnum,
Hepzibah [Harnden] Farnum (Barac),
Hannah [Osgood] Johnson (Obadiah),
Priscilla Abbot (dau. of Dea. John),
Deborah (Abbot) Hall (Dea. Jos.),
Abraham Graves,
Timothy Mooar,
Henry Phelps,
John Abbot,
John Russ,

Dec. 6, 1724,
March 21, 1725,
May 2, 1725,
May 30, 1725,
Oct. 3, 1725, tt
April 3, 1726,
Maji 29, 1726,
June 26. 1726,
August 28, 1726,
April 2, 1727,

May 28, 1727,

June 4, 1727,

July 30, 1727,
Oct. 1, 1727,
Nov. 26jl727, k
Dec. 3, 1727,
Dec. 31, 1727,

Jan. 28, 1728,

Profession of faith.

From the ch. at Bradford.

From the ch. at Ipswich.
Profession of faith.

Sept. 20. 1773,
July, 1795,
Dec. 1. 1760,
July 13, 1775.
March 21, 1732,
April 29, 1752,
Sept. 28, 1751,
July 11, 1774,
July 31, 1782,
Sept. 9, 1757,
May 13, 1759,
Nov. 11, 1757,
April 15, 1741,
July 1, 1735,
August 9, 1784,
Oct. 26, 1729,
May 13, 1733,
June 17, 1 773,
April 6, 1772,
July 22, 1764,
Nov. 26, 1739,
Feb. 8, 1740,
July 15, 1740,
Oct. 26, 1729,
Oct. 14, 1745,
June 8, 1748,
Oct. 26, 1729,
Oct. 2i, 1734,
Jan. 10, 1749-50,
May 21, 1738,
March 11, 1729,
May 24, 1791,
May 18, 1740,
June 16, 1729,
March 6, 1762,
Oct. 18, 1766,
Nov. 10, 1793,
Nov. 8, 1730,

By death, aged 77 years.
By death, aged 98 years.
By death.
By death, aged 75 years
By death, aged 45 years.
By death.
By death, aged 82 years.
By death, aged 76 years.
By death, aged 82 years.
By death, after 1777.
By death, aged 60 years.
Dis. to ch. Tewksbury.
By death, aged 56 years.
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 95 years.
Dis. to form ch. Methuen.
Dis. to form ch. Methuen.
Dis. to ch. Mansfield, Ct.
By death.
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 46 years.
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 49 years.
Dis. to form ch. Methuen.
By death.
By death, aged 64 years.
Dis. to form ch. Methuen.
Dis. to ch. Candia, N. H.
By death, aged 80 years.
Dis.ch.Rumford[ConcordN.H]
By death.
By death, aged .100 years.
Dis.ch.Rumford[ConcordN.H.]By death, aged 80 years.
By death, aged 74 years.
By death, aged 74 years.
By death, aged 89 years.
Dis.to fonuch. Penny cook N.H.

187 188189
190 191192
193 194
195 196
197198199200201202203204205206207

210211212213214215216217
218219220221222223224225226227

Reg.

229230231232 233
234 235236237238239 240241242243244245246247248249250251252253
254255256257258
259260261262263
264265

Thomas Astin,
Joseph Gutterson,
Dorothy [Wright] Wardwell (Wm.),
Massey How (Israel),
Atta Downing (Richard),
Mary [Stevens] Astin (Benj.),
Mary [Dane] Ballard (Jeremiah),
Hannah [Chandler] Johnson (Andrew),
Mary Dunten,
Hannah (Abbot) Holt (Abiel),
Rhoda (Holt) Whittemore (Elias?),
Prisoilla (Holt) Chandler (Nathan1),
Hannah (Holt) Abbot (Barachias),
Mehitabel (Lovejoy) Mooar (Timothy)
French (Wm.), ¦
Mehitabel (Chandler) Crosby (Rob't),
Mary (Gray) Foster (Moses),
Sarah (Chandler) Chandler (Joshua),
Joanna (Chandler) Shattuck (Jos),
Stephen Blanchard,
Elizabeth[Rogers]Chandler (Philemon)
Stephen Barnard,
Ebenezer Abbot,
Zebadiah Abbot,
David Holt,
Sarah (Blunt) Oakes (Thomas),
Hannah (Chandler) Ballard (Timo.),
Hannah (Blanchard) Rust (Richard),
Anna (Lovejoy) Abbot (Zeb.),
Margery (Gray) Wardwell (Wm),
Sarah [Frost] Graves (Abraham),
Judith [Hill] Blanchard (Thos.),
Hannah Osgood (Stephen),
Benjamin Stevens,
Annis [Phelps] Stevens (Benjamin),
Joseph Shattuck,
Barachias Abbot,
Sarah (Foster) Preston (Jacob),

Date of Reception.

Jan. 28, 17!

Feb. 4, 1728, it
March 31, 1728,

July 28, 1728,

Manner of Reception.

Profession of faith.

Date of Removal.

Oct. 26, 1729,
Nov. 19, 1773,
Oct. 20, 1765,
Nov. 23, 1735,
Feb. 17, 1743-4,
Feb. 11, 1751,
May 21, 1738,
August 2, 1775,
Jan. 17. 1786,
Dec. 8, 1734,
Aug. 10, 1740,
March 28, 1768,
Sept. 1791, ¦
Jan. 18, 1769,
Sept. 1775,
July 31, 1758,
Jan. 14, 176L
Sept. 9, 1767,
April 4, 1731,
Jan. 13, 1745,
Sept. 5, 1769,
Oct. 1795,
March 1787,
Dec. 1, 1767,
March 1774,
Oct. 26, 1729,

Oct. 2, 1784,

Manner of Removal.

Dis. to form ch. in Methuen.
Dis. to form ch. in Methuen.
By death, aged 87 years.
By death, aged 79 years.
Unknown.Unknown.Dis. toch. Lunenburg.
Probably by death.
By death.-
By death, aged 55 years. [N.H.]
Dis. to ch. Sunce.uk [Pembroke,
By death.
By death, aged 66 years.
By death, aged 78 years,
Dis. to ch. Townsend.
Dis. to 2d oh. Boxford.
By death, aged 61 years.
By death, aged 81 years.
By death, aged 67 years.
By death, aged 80 years.
By death.
By death, aged 71 years.
By death, aged 72 years.
By death, after 1783.
Dis. to ch. Medford.
By death.
Dis. to Old South ch., Boston.
By death, aged 59 years.
By death, aged 88 years.
By death, aged 80 years.
By death, aged 90 years.
By death, aged 93 years.
Dis. to form ch. in Methuen.
Dis. to form ch. in Methuen.
By death, after 1774.
By death, aged 77 years.
Unknown.

230231 232233234235236237

2402U
242243 244245246247248249 250251 252253254255256257258 259260 261

264
265

Hannah (White) Nichols (James),
Massey Foster,
William Russ,
Benjamin Ballard,
Mary (Holt) Chandler (Wm.),
Lydia Osgood,
Deborah (Blanchard) Abbot (Dea.Jos.),
Sarah (Abbot) Abbot (Geo.),
Mehitabel (Foster) Lovejoy (Jos ),
Benjamin Chandler,
Mary (Clark) Bevins (Edw.),
MiriamJGray) Fitch (Benj.),
Mary [Haggit] Granger (Geo.),
Rebecca [Frost] Blanchard (David),
Hepzibah [Eaton] Russell (Jos.),
Joshua Stevens,
Thomas Wardwell,
Martha [Stevens] Stevens (Joshua),
Priscilla (Chandler) Phelps (Samuel),
Phebe [Fiske] Abbot (John jr.),
Timothy Ballard,
Mary [Chandler] Ballard (Josiah),
Abiel [Chandler] Chandler (David),
Nathaniel Barnard,
Ruth [Preston] Barnard (Nath'l),
Lydia [Poor] Osgood (Jeremiah),
Catherine Abbot(dau. of Thomas),
Mary (Phillips) Appleton (Sam'l),
Samuel Phillips (H. U. 1774 ; Dea.),
Sarah Barnard (dau. of John),
Thomas Holt, jr.,
Hannah [Kimball] Holt (Thomas jr.),
Stephen Osgood, jr.,
Dorcas [Ballard] Osgood (Stephen jr.),
Ephraim Abbot, jr.,
Hannah [Phelps] Abbot (Ephraim jr.),
Jonathan Blanchard, jr.,
Jonathan Holt,
Lydia [Blanchard] Holt (Jona),
Keturah(How) Chandler (Phil.),
Samuel Chandler [H.U. 1735 ; Rev. '42],
John Phillips [H. U. 1735; LL. D.],

July 28, 1728,
Sept. 29, 1728,
Nov. 24, 1728,
Jan. 16, 1729,
March 30, 1729,

May 25, 1729,
Oct. 5, 1729,
Jan. 4, 1730,
Jan. 25, 1730,
March 22, 1730,
Feb. 3, 1734,
Feb 24, 1734,
March 31, 1734,
May 12, 1734,
June 23, 1734,

July 28, 1734,
Sept. 8, 1734,

Oct. 20, 1734,
June 22. 1735,
August 3, 1735,

Nov. 2, 1735,
Jan. 11, 1736,
it
Feb. 22, 1736.
March 28, 1736,

Profession of faith.

From ch. N P. Reading.
Profession of faith.

May 17, 1741,
Oct. 9, 1731,
April 6, 1755,
Feb. 1, 1736,
June 17, 1750,
July 23, 1773,
Nov. 13, 1737,
June 26, 1737,
Feb. 19, 1738,
Oct. 29, 1769,
May 13, 1733,

March 14. 1743,
Feb. 5, 1753,
March 2, 1776,
Jan. 13, 1753,
Jan. 5, 1778,
Dec. 1802,
Oct. 30, 1773,
April 3, 1779,
May 21, 17-38,
May 11, 1752,
Dec. 18, 1744,
Sept. 25, 1744,
Dec 26, 1736,
April 1, 1739,
Jan. 1802,
Nov. 21, 1776,
June 12, 1748-,
Jan. 29, 1738,
April 25, 1745,
Feb. 21, 1749,
Oct. 14, 1791,
Dec. 1787,
July 2, 17S6,
Nov. 1, 1741,

Dis. to ch. N. P. Andover.
By death, aged 58 years.
Dis. to ch. Methuen.
Dis. to ch. Lancaster.
By death.
By death.
By death. [N. H.]
Dis. to ch. Rumford [Concord,
Dis. to ch. N. P. Andover.
Dis. to form ch. Suncook.
Dis. to ch. Lyndeboro', N. H.
Dis. to ch. Bedford.
Probably by death.
Probably by death.
By death.
By death, aged 55 years.
By death, aged 66 years.
By death, aged 52 years.
By death, aged 65 years.
By death, aged 90 years.
By death.
By death, aged 75 years.
Dis. to ch. Suncook.
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 40 years.
By death, aged 34 years.
Dis. to 1st cn. Haverhill.
Dis. to ch. N. P. Andover.
By death, aged 85 years.
By death, aged 66 years.
By death.
Dis. to ch. Tewksbury.
Dis. to ch. Tewksbury.
By death, aged 35 years.
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 80 yearB.
By death, aged 74 years.
By death, aged 69 years.
Dis. to 2d ch. York. Me.
Died Apr. 21, 1795, Exeter,N.H.

267
268 269270 271272273274275276277278279280281282 283
284285286 287

290 291292
293 294
295296297298 299
300301302303304305
306 307

Reg.

310311312813
314 315316
317 31S
319320321322
323324 325
326327
328329330
331332333334335336
337

340341342343
344 345

Lydia (Phillips) Clark (Dr. Parker),
Isaac Osgood,
Dorothy (Gray) Haggit (Thomas),
Dorothy! Wardwell) Osgood (Sam'l jr.),
Asa Foster,
Elizabeth [Abbot] Foster (Asa),
Joseph Abbot, jr. (Dea. 1744),
Mary (Osgood) Holt (Jacob),
Hannah (Foster) Russell (John jr.),
Hannah (Lovejoy) Stiles (Hezekiah),
Stephen Holt,
Daniel Mooar,
Martha [Osgood]- Mooar (Daniel),
Ezekiel Osgood, jr.,
Hannah (Osgood) Holt (Nicholas jr.),
Mary (Abbot) Holt (Jos.),
David Lovejoy,
Abigail [Gray] Wardwell (Thomas),
Nicholas Holt, jr.,
Samuel Osgood,
Susanna [Nuss] Holt (James jr.),
Joshua Tompson,
Mehitabel [Stiles] Barnard (John jr.),
Mary (Lovejoy) Eastman (Richard),
Mehitabel (Chandler) Lovejoy (Caleb),
Hezekiah Stiles,
Lydia (Clark) Wilkins,
Sarah Chandler (dau. of Josiah),
Martha (Lovejoy) Abbot (Jona. jr.),
Moses Scales,
Rebecca [Barnard] Scales (Moses),
Mehitabel Stevens,
Hannah (Abbot) Abbot (Benj.),
Elizabeth (Lovejoy) Baxter ( Wm.),
Mehitabel Holt (dau. of John),
Elizabeth (Holt) Holt (Timo. 3d),
Lydia(ChandIer)Ballard(Dea.Heze.jr.),
Elizabeth Chandler,

Date of Reception.

March 28, 1736,
May 9, 1736,
May 16, 1736,
June 27, 1736,
Sept. 12, 1736,

Sept. 19, 1736,
Oct. 24, 1736,

Oct. 31, 1736,
Jan. 23, 1737,
Aug. 7, 1737,
Sept. 4, 1737,
Sept. 18, 1737,
Oct. 30, 1737,
tt
April 2, 1738,
Dec. 3, 1738,
Feb. 11, 1739,
March 18, 1739,
May 6, 1739,

June 10, 1739,
tt
Sept. 9, 1739,

Manner of Reception.

Profession of faith.

From First ch. York, Me.
From ch. N. P. Andover.
Profession of faith.
it
From 2d ch. Reading.
Profession of faith.
From 1st ch. Boxford.
Profession of faith.
it
From ch. Middleton.
Profession of faith.

Date of Removal.

Nov. 4, 1749,
Oct. 8, 1792,
April 10, 1779,
August 25, 1751,
June 26, 1743,
u
August 23, 1787,
Nov. 4, 1745,
March 1776,
Feb. 19, 1738,
Oct. 26, 1770,
Feb. 7, 1770,
Aug. 22, 1744,
Dec. 9, 1744,
Feb. 19, 1738,
Oct. 18, 1778,
April 4, 1756,
March 16, 1774,
Feb. 20, 1742,
April 4, 1742,
June 27, 1739,
May 21, 1738,

Nov. 12, 1752,
Feb, 10. 1740,
Oct. 29,1769,,
April 29, 1771,
Sept. 18, 1743,
Feb. 27, 1754,
About 1769,
Nov. 9, 1803,

Manner of Removal.

By death, aged 32 years.
By death, aged 78 years.
By death, aged 67 years .
By death.
Dis. to ch. N. P. Andover.
Dis. to ch. N. P. Andover.
By death, aged 82 years.
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 59 years.
Dis. to form ch. Suncook.
By death, aged 74 years.
By death, aged 72 years.
By death.
By death.
Dis. to ch. Lunenburg.
Dis. to form ch. Suncook.
By death.
Dis. to ch. N. P. Andover.
By death, aged 60 years.
By death.
Dis. to ch. Wilmington.
By death. N. H.]
Dis. ch. Suncook [Pembroke,
tt
By death, after 1783.
Dis.ch.Souhegan[MilfordN.H.] By death.
Dis. to ch. Lunenburg.
Dis. to ch. Concord, N. H.
Dis. to ch. Concord, N-. H.
By death.
Dis.ch.Rumford[ConcordN.H.] Suspended from Communion.
By death.
Rem. to Wilton, N. H.
By death, aged 83 years.
Unknown.

308309310311
312 313314
315316317318 319
320321
322

327328 329330831

337

340341

346347348
349 350351352

355356357358359360361362

fcOS

367368369370 371
372 373374375376377 378
379880 331
382383 384
385 386 387

Deborah (Lovejoy) Phelps (John),
Sarah (Phelps) Muzzey (Reuben),
John Dane, jr. (Dea. 1755),
Elizabeth [Chandler] Dane (John jr.),
Mary (Astin) Lovejoy (Jona.),
Phebe [Lovejoy] Abbot (Isaac),
Elizabeth' Chandler,
Lucy [Farrar] Russel (Jas.),
Josiah Blanchard,
Sarah [Blanchard] Blanchard (Josiah),
Josiah Foster,
Deliverance [Dane] Foster (Jos. ),
Benjamin Holt, jr.,
Lydia [Holt] Holt (Benj. jr.),
James Brown,
Rhebe [Blanchard] Brown (Jas),
Rachel (Osgood) Felt (Joshua),
Elizabeth (Lovejoy) Boynton,
Jacob Foster,
Hannah Barnard,
James Holt, 3d,
Stephen Abbot, jr.,
John Chandler (H. U. 1743 : Rev. 1747),
Anne Blanchard,
Sarah [Stevens] Fields (Sam'l),
Mary [Chandler] Holt (James sr.),
Eliakim Wardwell,
Joseph Bigsby,
Abigail Foster (Jaoob),
Joshua Lovejoy,
Sarah [Foster] Foster [Andrew],
Mary [Abbot] Abbot (Stephen jr.),
Henry Lovejoy,
Phebe [Chandler] Lovejoy (Henry),
William Hunt,
Mary Chandler,
Elizabeth [Lovejoy] Holt (Benj.),
Mehitabel [Barker] Ballard (Uriah),
Hannah (Lovejoy) Abbot (Geo. jr.),
•Hepzibah (Chandler) Ames (Benj.),
Sarah Avery (Thomas),
Hannah [Johnson] Thurston (Moses),

Oct. 14, 1739,
March 16, 1740,
May 11, 1740,
August 3. 1740,
April 5, 1741,
Dec. 6, 1741,
Dee. 20, 1741,
March 28, 1742,
it tt
May 9, 1742',
June 20, 1742,
Aug. 1, 1742,
Sept. 12, 1742,
Oct. 24, 1742,
March 27, 1743,
May 15, 1743,
June 19, 1.743,
Oct. 30, 1743,
March 25. 1744,
April 1, 1744,
May 6, 1745,
Sept. 16, 1744,
Nov. 18, 1744,
May 12, 1745,
June 30, 1745,
Sept 22,1745,
Feb. 23, 1746,
March 23, 1746,
March 30, 1746,
May 11, 1746,

Profession of faith.

From 2d ch. Reading.
tt
Profession of faith.

From 2d ch. Methuen.
Profession of faith.

From ch. Tewksbury.
Profession of faith.

From ch. N. P. Andover.
Profession of faith,

Oct. 9, 1743,
June 1801,
Nov. 1800,
June 29, 1746,
Dec. 17, 1751,
Oct. 30, 1748,
April 10. 1783,
Sept. 11, 1778,
July 13, 1751,
Aug. 4, 1754,
July 19, 1784,
Sept. 11, 1783,
Dec. 4, 1748,
Dec. 7, 1743,
Oct. 28. 1753,
May 1806,
August 1783,
Aug. 22, 1812,
Nov. 8, 1768,
Sept. 20, 1747,
May 15, 1743,
April 28, 1771,
Feb. 10, 1751,
June 30, 1754,
Aug. 28, 1761,
March 1802,
Feb. 2, 1813,
Aug. 10, 1760,
Aug. 8, 1798,
June 30, 1745,
August 16, 1766,

August 29, 1749,
Sept. 7, 1813.
Jan. 19, 1768,
Aug. 5, 1759.
April 12, 1752,

Probably bv death.
Dis. to 2d ch. Kingston.
By death, aged 85 years.
By death, aged 83 years.
Dis.ch.Nisetisset [HolIis,N.H]
By death, aged 36 years.
Unknown.Dis. to eh. Ashford.
By death, aged 79 years.
By death, aged 67 years.
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 76 years.
By death.
Dis.ch.Nisetisset [Hollis; N.H.]
Dis.ch.Nisetisset [Hollis, N.H.]
Dis. to ch. Attleboro'.
Dis. to ch. Lunenburg.
By death, aged 88 years.
By death.
By death, aged 90 years.
By death, aged 59 years.
Dis. to ch. Billerica.
Dis.ch.Nisetisset [Hollis, N.H.]
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 32 years.
By death, aged 66 years.
By death, aged 83yrears.
By death, aged 93 years.
Dis. to ch. N. P. Andover.
By death, aged 75 years.
Dis.ch.Rumford[ConcordN.H.] Dis. to ch. Dunstable.
Probably by death.
Probably by death.
By death, aged 34 years.
By death, aged 89 years.
By death.
Dis. to ch. Souhegan.
Dis. td ch. HoUis.N. H.

347348
349350 351352
353354355 356
357358359360361362
363364

370371372
373374375376377378379380
381

385 386387

Reg.

388

392

397

400
401 402
403404405406
407408409
410411412
413
414415416417
418419
420421422423424425

Sabina (maid-servant to Jos. Sibson).
Fyfleld Holt, '
Abigail [Taylor] Holt (Fyfleld),
Joshua Johnson,
Elizabeth [Kimball] Holt (Humphrey),
Elizabeth Abbot (dau. of Stephen),
Zeruiah [Abbot] Blunt (Eph.),
Hezekiah Ballard, jr. (Dea. 1765),
Experience [Bigsby] Abbot (Win.),
Priscilla (Abbot) Fowle (Jacob),
Nehemiah Abbot (Doctor),
Elizabeth[Johnson] BlanchardfThos jr. )
Rebecca (Lovejoy) Chandler ( Wm.),
Joseph Russel,
Hannah [Perkins] Russel (Joseph),
Nathan Holt(H. U. 1757; Rev. 1759),
Miriam [Gray] Nutting [Richard],
Elizabeth Abbot (dau. of David),
Mary (Osgood) Dane (Wm.),
Stephen Holt,
Mary [Farnum] Holt (Stephen),
William Chandler,
Robert Gray,
Nathan Ames,
Elizabeth Chandler,
Abigail Chandler,
Mary [Barker] Osgood (Ezek ),
Ruth [Burnap] Holt (Joshua),
Hannah Abbot (dau. of David),
Sarah Gray,
Sarah (Abbot) Holt (Rev. Nathan),.
David Chandler, jr.,
Mary [Ballard] Chandler (David jr.),
Abraham Graves,
George Abbot, jr.,
Lydia (Blunt) Abbot (Thomas),
Susanna (Farnum) Abbot (Isaac),
Deborah [Sheldon] Lovejoy (Isaac),

Date of Reception.

July 20, 1746,
March 29, 1747,
ttit
April 5, 1747,
May 10, 1747,
August 9, 1747,
March 20, 1748,
April 10, 1748,
May 8, 1748,
June 26, 1748,
April 2, 1749,
May 7, 1749,
March 25, 1750,
it
May 6, 1750, tt
May 13, 1760,
July 1, 1750,
July 29. 1750,
'it it
March 31, 1751,
tt
Sept. 22, 1751,
April 5, 1752,
May 17,^752,
June 28, 1752,
Aug. 9, 1752,
Oct. 1, 1752,

Manner of Reception

Profession of faith

From 2d ch. Boxford.
Profession of faith.

From ch. Lexington.
From ch. N. P. Andover.
Profession of faith.

From ch. Suncook. tt
Profession of faith.

From ch. Billerica.

Date of Removal.

June 8, 1761,
May 13, 1779,

Jan. 30, 1749,
About 1786,
Dec. 31, 1801,
Sept. 3, 1815,
Dec. 1796,
July 13, 1785,
April 22, 1783,
1814,
Aug. 31, 1783,
Dec. 24, 1758,
April 21, 1770,
Oct. 21, 1753,
Dec. 31, 1764,
April 4, 1756,
tt
June 29, 1800,
Dec. 19, 1806,
Sept. 19, 1762,

March 4, 1818,
Dec. 24, 1758,
Feb. 1776, -

Dec. 26, 1775,
Nov. 10, 1798,
Oct. 23, 1785,
May 25, 1813,

Manner of Removal.

By death. 888
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N. H. 389390
By death. . 391
By death. 392
By death, aged 64 years. 393
Rem. to Pembroke, N. H. 394
By death, aged 8S years. 395
By death, aged 93 years. 396
By death, aged 77 years. 397
By death. 398
By death, aged 71 years. 399
By death, aged 88 years. 400
By death, aged 64 years. 401
By death. 402
Dis. to 2d ch Danvers. 403
By death, aged 84 years. 404
By death, aged 20 years. 405
By death, aged 35 years. 406
Dis. to ch. N P. Andover. 407
Dis. to ch. N. P. Andover. 408
By death, aged 77 years. 409
By death, aged 78 years! 410
Dis. to ch. Groton. 411
Unknown. 412
Unknown . 413
Probably by death. 414
Probably by death. 415
By death, aged 90 years. 416
Unknown. 417
Dis. to 2d ch. Danvers. 418
By death. 419
By death. 420
By death, before 1770. 421
By death, aged 51-years. 422
By death. 423
Dis. to ch. Fryeburg, Me. 424
By death, aged 89 years. 425

Martha Holt, wid.,
Rebecca [Gray] Holt (Henry),
Samuel Abbot, jr.,
Joshua. Holt, jr. (Dea. ; Esq.),
Hannah Hunt,
Jonathan Abbot, jr..
Martha [Lovejoy] Abbot (Jona. jr.),
Joseph Abbot, 3d,
Elizabeth [Abbot] Osgood (Sam'l),
Esther (Foster) Daby (Simon),
Joanna [Parker] Abbot (Dr. Neh.),
Hannah (Blanchard) Fox (Isaac),
Abigail Holt [Humphrey],
Dorcas [Abbot] Butler (Rev. Benj.),
Uriah Ballard,.
Obadiah Johnson,
Timothy Gray [Dea.],
Eleanor [Best] Gray (Timo.),
Zebadiah Johnson,
Lydia [Abbot] Lovejoy (Joshua),
Nathan Blanchard,
Bathsheba [Abbot] Blanchard (Nath.),
Mehitabel Lovejoy, <~-
Thomas Phelps,
Moses Haggit,
Sarah Haggit (Moses),
Samuel Phelps,
Timothy Mooar, jr.,
Elizabeth [Abbot] Mooar (Timo. jr.),
William Abbot,
Hannah Lovejoy (Wm. jr.),
William Foster,
Hannah [Abbot] Foster (Wm.),
Benjamin Ames,
Deborah Blanchard (Stephen),
Mary Blunt, wid.,
Benjamin Mooar,
Abiah [Hill] Mooar (Benj.),
Deborah Holt (John 3d),
Elizabeth [Gilbert] Russell (Isaac),
John Chaudler,
Dorcas [Holt] Holt (Thomas jr.),

April 1, 1753,
May 13, 1753,
August 5, 1753,
tt
April 7, 1754,
May 12, 1754,
May 19, 1754,
August 11, 1754,
Feb. 9, 1755,
July 18, 1755,
Jan. 18, 1756,

Feb. 15, 1756,

Feb. 29, 1756,

March 7, 1756,

March 14, 1756,
March 21, 1756,
March 28, 1756,
April 4, 1766,

April 25, 1756,
May 9, 1756,

Profession of faith.

From ch. Lunenburg.
Profession of faith.

NOV. 15, 1754,
August 1775,
April 12, 1812,
July 24, 1810,
May 21, 1794,
Dec. 10,1766,
Sept. 27, 1792,

May 19, 1771,
April 1, 1808,
Nov. 8, 1761,
Sept. 22, 1765,
July 1780,
Sept. 22, 1765,
Nov. 20, 1769,
Sept. 1807,
Dec. 4, 1763, it
April 14, 1761,
May 17, 1760,
Sept. 8, 1763,
Jan. 3, 1771.
April 1795,
Jan. 1787,
July 1799,
Jan. 2, 1798,
Aug. 1803.
March 26, 1820,
Jan. 10, 1809,
June 1773,
Nov. 1777,
Jan. 1809,
April 6, 1760,
May 11, 1759,

By death, aged 76 years.
By death.
By death, aged 80 years.
By death, aged 80 years.
Unknown. ~
By death, aged 79 years.
By death.
By death, aged 43 years.
By death, aged 66 years.
By death.
Rem. to Chelmsford, 1770.
Dis. to ch. Dracut.
By death, aged 81 years.
Dis. to ch. Nottingham, N.H.
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N.H.
By death, aged 81 years.
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N.H.
it
By death, aged 67 years.
By death, aged 84 years.
Dis. totorm ch. Wilton, N.H.
By death, aged 24 years.
By death.
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death.
By death,
By. death.
By death,
By death.
By death.
By death.
By death,
By death,
Dis to ch
By death,
By death,

i. , aged 60 years.
, aged 61 years.
i, aged 82 years.
t, aged 74 years.
i, aged 86 years.
, aged 74 years.
, aged 73 years.
, aged 86 years.

aged 62 vears.
after 1770.
aged 88 years. N.H.]
Rumford [Concord,
aged 38 vears.
after 177"0.

427428429 430431432433434435436437438439 440441442443444445446447 448
449450451452453454 455
456457458459460461462463464465466467

OS

Reg.

NAME.

Date of Reception.

Manner of Reception.

Date of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

468

Solomon Abbot (son of David),

May 16, 1756,

Profession of faith.

Dec. 17, 1797,

Died at Dracut.

468

469

Joseph Burt,

May 30, 1756,

>t

Dec. 29, 1810,

By death, aged 80 years.

469

470

Henry Abbot, jr. ,

June 27, 1756,

tt

Feb. 21,1805,

By death, aged 80 years.

470

471

Thomas Abbot, jr.,

it

tt

March 29, 1775,

By death, aged 46 years.

471

472

Hannah [Dane] Holt (Timothy jr.),

u

tt

Feb. 6, 1802,
Sept. 22, 1765,

By death, aged 83 years.
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N. H.

472

473

Lydia [Danforth] Ballard ( Uriah jr.),
Hannah Foster (dau. of Joseph),

tt

n

473

474

Sept. 19, 1756,

ti

By death.

474

475

Samuel Blanchard,

Oct. 31, 1756,

*'

By death, after 1770.

475

476

Ruth [Tenney] Blanchard (Sam'l),
Nehemiah Abbot, jr.,

tt '

tt

By death, after 1770.
476
477
Jan. 16, 1757,
ti
Oct. 13, 1808,
Sept. 27, 1778,
By death, aged 77 years.
477
478
Hannah [Ballard] Abbot (Neb., jr.),
tt
it
By death, aged 42 years.
Rem. to Dracut.
478
479
Hannah [Colby] Abbot (Solomon),
Sarah Smith (Benj.),
March 27, 1757,
it
479
480
July 31, 1757,
n
August 11, 1767,
By death.
480
481
Abraham Mooar,
Oct. 29, 1768,
it
Oct. 10, 1780,
By death, aged 62 years.
481
482483
Lydia [Abbot] Mooar (Abraham),
Dinah [Blanchard] Blanchard (Jos.)
'ti '
tt
Sept. 20, 1763,
By death.
482
Abbot (Reuben),
April 1, 1759,
"
Sept. 1810,
Dis. to ch,. Concord, N. H.
483
484
Priscilla [Russ] Blanchard [Thomas 3d]
Rand (Eben.),
Oct. 28, 1759,
u
August 1, 1818,
By death.
484
485
Lydia [Hardy] Wardwell (John),
April 6, 1760,
From 2d ch. Bradford.
Nov. 1774,
By death.
485
486
Cornelius Johnson,
June 29, 1760,
From ch. Plaistow, N. H.
June 26, 1763,
Dis ch.Rumford[ConcordN.H.]
486
487
Eleanor Johnson (Cornelius),
It
tt '
it '
Dis.ch.Rumford[ConcordN.H.]
487
488
Susanna [Kittredge] Phelps (Henry),
Kidder (Thomas),
August 10, 1760,
From ch. Tewksbury.
Sept. 20, 1767,
Dis. to ch. Billerica.
488
489
Ebenezer Rand, .
Sept. 21, 1760,
Nov. 2, 1760,
April 5, 1761,
f*
1813,
By death.
489
490
Phebe [Farnum] Holt (Dea. Joshua),
From ch. N. P. Andover.
Jan. 1806,
By death, aged 75 years.
490
491
Anna [Johnson] Shattuck (Jos. jr.),
Profession of faith.
By death.
491
492
Samuel Holt,
August 9, 1761,
tt
By death, after 1770.
492
493
Abigail [Blanchard] Holt (Sam'l),
B it
tt
Nov. 1, 1814,
By death,: aged 80 years.
493
494
Haun ah[ Blanchard ] B lanchard( S teph. )
April 4, 1762,
tt
By death.
494
495
Ruth [Kimbal] Holt (Jonathan 2d),
May 16, 1762,
From ch. N. P. Andover.
June 26, 1763,
Dis. to ch. N. P. Andover.
495
496
Jonathan Holt, 3d [Dea.],
June 6, 1762,
June 20, 1762,
Profession of faith.
it
Dis. to ch. N. P. Andover.
496
497
Jemima [Gray] Holt (Sam'l),
Elizabeth Abbot [wid.] Dane (Jos.),
tt
August 1776,
By death, aged 74 years.
497
498
June 27, 1762,
From ch. Pelham, N. H.
Sept. 1778,
By death, aged 47 years.
498
499
Rhoda'Holt [Timo.],
Hepzibah [Barker] Holt [Josiah], „
July 11, 1762,
August 8, 1762,
Profession of faith.
August 14, 1765,
By death.
499
500
tt
Rem. after 1770.
500
501
John Abbot, jr.,
Abigail [Abbot] Abbot (John jr.),
Nov. 28, 1762,
tt
April 24, 1818,
By death, aged 83 years.
601
602
602
it
n
Feb. 1, 1807,
By death, aged 73 years.
503504505506607608509510611612513614615616517 61S519
»M520 LO *521 522 523524
625 526
527628529530 531532533534 535
536 537538539540 641
642 543

Anna [Peabody] Abbot (Joseph jr.),
Sarah Holt, wid.,
Mary [Russel] Holt (Jos.),
Lydia [Peabody] Gray (Robert),
Zebadiah Chandler, jr.,
Deborah [Blanchard ]Chandler(Zeb.jr. ),
Joseph Dane,
William Dane,
John Russel,
Timothy Ballard, jr.,
Sarah [Abbot] Ballard (Timothy jr.),
John Fisk,
John Holt, sr.,
Isaac Lovejoy, •
Abigail [Chandler] Gray (Robert),
Hannah Holt,
Bethiah Holt,
Mary [KimballT Herrick [Edw ] Blunt
(Isaac),
Elizabeth [Danforth] Dow (Ebenezer),
David Gray,
Rebecca [Holt] Gray (David),
Jemima Holt,
Damaris Wardwell,
Samuel Pettengall,
Mary [Holt] Pettengall (Sam'l),
Ebenezer Hathorn,
Mary Hathorn (Ebenezer),
Sarah (Scales) Abbot (Jesse),
Mary [Barker] Abbot (Jos. 3d),
Nathaniel Holt,
Elizabeth [Stevens] Holt (Nath'l),
Thomas Stevens,
Sarah [Gray] Stevens (Thomas),
Hepzibah [Russel] Russel (Joseph jr.),
Hannah Russel (s. of Mrs. Joseph),
Hannah (Clark) Russel (Dr. Edw.),
Dorcas (Abbot) Abbot (Dea. Abiel),
Hannah [Ford] Foster (Job),
Nathan Bailey,
Deborah [Johnson] Bailey (Nathan),
Anna Osgood,

Dec. 19, 1762,
Jan. 9, 1763,
Jan. 30, 1763,
Feb. 26, 1763,
March 27, 1763,
ti
April 3, 1763,

May 1, 1763,
May 15, 1763,

June 26, 1763,
July 24, 1763,
Sept. 11, 1763,

April 1, 1764,
June 17, 1764,
June 24, 1764,
July 29, 1764,
Sept. 9, 1764,
Oct. 7, 1764,
Oct. 21, 1764,

Oct. 28, 1764,
Nov. 18, 1764,
Dec. 23, 1764,
April 7, 1765,
May 19, 1765,

Profession of faith.

From ch. Wenham.
Profession of faith.

From 2d ch. Reading.
Profession of faith.

From 2d ch. Bradford.
Profession of faith.

May 20, 1766,
Sept. 1780,
August 1775,
July 30, 1775,
May 1799,
Sept. 1807,
Sept. 1788,
July 12, 1768,
May 1809,
August 1811,
May 10, 1794,
Dec. 3, 1799,
Jan. 1784,
Jan. 1805,
March 1801,
Jan. 7, 1767,
July 1800,
Jan. 31, 1829,

June 25, 1780,
Nov. 15, 1767,
March 25, 1776,
Feb. 1806,
Dec. 1807,
Dec. 29, 1777,

March 1775, 1768,
Sept. 22, 1765,
Jan. 18,1775,
Dec. 1778,

By death.
By death,
By death.
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death.
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death,

aged 69 years.
aged 73 years.
aged 45 years.
aged 74 years.
aged 84 years.
aged 71 years.
aged 39 years.
aged 76 years.
aged 98 years.
aged 81 years.
aged 76 years.
after 1770.
aged 64 years.
aged 84 years.

By death, aged 71 years.
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 76 years.
By death, aged 90 years.
By death.
By death.
By death.
Dis. to ch. Jaffrey, N. H.
Dis. to ch. Jaffrey, N. H.
Dis.ch.Rumford[ConcordN.H]Dis. to ch. Wilton, N. H.
By death, aged 80 years.
By death, aged 77 years.
By death.
By death, after 1785.
By death.
By death, aged 55 years.
Dis. to ch. Yarmouth. Me.
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N.' H.
By death.
By death, aged 67 years.
By death.
By death, aged 84 years.

503
504 505
506507508509510511612
513614 515
516517 518
519

521
522
523 524

529
530 531
532533534535 536
537 538
539540541
542 543

544
545546547548549 550551552553 554
555556557 558
559560561
562
563564565566567
568
569570571572
573574 575576
577578

Huldah [Chandler] Wardwell (Nathan)
Stiles (Stephen),
Jerusha [Eaton] Blanchard (Daniel),
Elizabeth Stevens (dau. of Isaac),
Rachel [Varnum] Holt (John 4th)
Brown,
Phebe [Abbot] Sbbot (Henry),
Joshua Osgood,
David Abbot,
Mary Osgood (John),
Rebecca (Ballard) Abbot (Dea. Zeb. jr.),
Mary Osgood (Joshua),
Prudence [Sheldon] Abbot (David),
Tabitha Goldsmith (dau. of Wm.),
Nathan Chandler,
Jonathan Stevens,
Chloe (Abbot) Abbot (Jeremiah),
James Barnard,
Sarah ["Holt] Barnard (James),
Zebadiah Abbot, jr. (Dea.),
Sarah [Stevens] Mooar (Abraham),
Lydia (Clark) Abbot [Neh. jr.),
Elizabeth Clark (dau. of Dr. Parker),
David Osgood (H. U. 1771; Rev. 1774:
D. D ),
Jefterd Goldsmith,
Hannah [Holt] Holt (Daniel),
Rose Holt (dau. of Jona.),
Hannah Holt,
Benjamin Holt, sr.,
Barachias Abbot,
Stephen Stiles,
Barnard Stiles (bro. of Stephen),
Phebe Abbot wid.,
Jonathan Cummings, jr.,
Priscilla [Phelps] Dane (Philemon),
Daniel Dane,
Prudence [Phelps] Dane (Daniel),

Date of Reception.

Manner of Reception.

May 19, 1765,
June 23, 1765,
July 28, 1765,

Profession of faith.
CC

Sept. 15, 1765,

CC

Oct. 27, 1765,

CC
CC

tt

CC

. ti

It

Nov. 3, 1765,

c<

March 23, 1766,
Sept. 7, 1766,

CC

tt

CC

Sept. 21, 1766,

CC

Oct. 26, 1766,
April 19, 1767,
May 10, 1767,

it CICC

July 26, 1767,
Aug. 9, 1767,
May 7, 1769,

it
•c4C
CC

March 25, 1770,
May 6, 1770,

<CIt
CC

July 29, 1770,
Nov. 1, 1772,

CCCC

11

From ch. Tewkshury. CC

Date of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

By death.

544

By death.

545

Unknown.
546
Oct. 28, 1770,
June 29, 1833,
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N.H.
647
By death, aged 87 years.
548
Rem. after 1770.
549
Nov. 1799.
By death.
550
Sept. 16, 1804,
Dis. to ch. Weare, N. H.
551
Sept. 15, 1821,
By death, aged 77 years.
552
Rem. after 1770.
553
By death.
554
Rem. alter 1770.
655
July 31, 1784,
By death, aged 77 years.
656
1777,
By death, in military service.
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N.H.
657
Sept. 20, 1767,
658
By death.
559
Sept. 20, 1769,
By death, aged 30 years.
560
Nov. 24, 1793,
By death, aged 54 years.
661
Feb. 19, 1768,
By death.
562
1814)
By death, aged 69 years.
563
Jan. 1791,
By death, aged 45 years.
564
August 28, 1772,
Dis. to ch. Medford.
565
Sept. 16, 1798,
Dis. to ch. Manchester.
566
By death.
567
May 1784,
By death, aged 43 years.
568
Unknown.
569
March 17, 1779,
By death, aged 75 years.
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N;H.
670
April 10, 1788,
571
By death, after 1784.
572
By death.
573
By death.
574
May 1S05,,
By death, aged. 67 years.
By death.
Dis. to ch. Francestown,N.H.
575576577
Dec. 19, 1790,
it
Dis. to ch. Francestown, N. H.
678
'579 580581 682 583'584685586 587588589590591

594
,595

697

600601 602
603 604
605606 607

610611
612613 614
615616 617618619

James Annis,
Beulah Annis (James),
Hannah Abbot (dau. of Wm.),
Deborah (Haggit) Crosby (Simon),
Sarah [Holt] Abbot (Barachias),
Phebe [Chandler] Ames (Benjamin),
Philemon Dane,
Abigail (Abbot) Johnson (John),
Elizabeth Martin,
Sarah Abbot (dau. wid. H. Chandler),
Hannah Boynton (Thomas),
Elizabeth Cogswell (Samuel),
Isaac "Blunt,
Joshua Lovejoy, jr.,
Ezekiel Hardy,
Sarah [Mooar] Hardy [Ezekiel),
Joseph Abbot, jr..
Lois [Mooar] Stanley (Jonathan),
Pomp Phelps,
Cate Bhelps (Pomp),
Benjamin Buxton,
Abigail Buxton (Benj.),
Dorothy Holbrook.wid.,
Solomon Wardwell,
Bethiah [Holt] Wardwell (Solomon),
Dorcas Ames (Benjamin),
Mary [Shepherd] Turner (James),
Shemuel Griffin,
Abigail Griffin (Shemuel),
Sarah Mace (Isaac),
Thomas Astin,
Sarah [Lovejoyf Astin (Thomas),
Ralph Holbrook,
Sarah [Chandler] Holbrook (Ralph)
Shattuck (Zeb.),
Jeduthan Abbot,
Isaac Abbot, ir.,
Phebe [Chandler] Abbot (Isaac jr.),
Samuel Osgood, jr.,
Hannah [Phelps] Osgood (Samuel jr.),
Uriah Russell,
Lydia [Abbot] Russell (Uriah),

Nov. 29. 1772,

Dec. 13, 1772,
Dec. 27,1772,
Jan. 3, 1773,
Jan. 17, 1773,
Jan. 31, 1773,
Feb. 21, 1773,
April 4, 1773,
May 2, 1773,

May 16, 1773,

May 30, 1773,
June 13, 1773,
June 27, 1773,

July 11, 1773,
ittt
August 22, 1778,
Sept. 12, 1773,

Profession of faith.

From 4th ch. Ipswich.
Profession of faith.

From ch. Wilton, N. H.
From 1st ch. Roxbury.
Profession of faith.

From ch. Tewksbury. tt
Profession of faith.

June 1792,
August 27, 1818,
April 10, 1787,
June 19, 1798,
May 18, 1816,
1841,
Dec. 1773, 1827,
May 8, 1814,
Jan. 6, 1798,
March 19, 1781,
Nov. 10, 1814,
Sept. 7, 1801,
March 25, 1776,
April 1774,
Before 1805,
May 19, 1805,
Nov- 19, 1780,
Nov. 28, 1826,
Sept. 1775,

March 7, 1802,
Feb. 1785,
March 1775, 1824,
July 5, 1810,
June 1836,
July 6, 1800,
Dec. 6. 1816,
June 2, 1822.
Nov. 19, 1822,
July 10, 1829,

Unknown.Unknown.
By death, aged 39 years.
By death.
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N. H.
By death, aged 44 years.
By death.
Died out of town, aged 90 yrs.
By death.
Unknown.Dis. to West ch. Andover.
By death, aged 69 years.
By death, aged 85 years.
Dis. to ch. Amherst, N. H.
By death, aged 75 years.
By death, aged 63 years.
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N. H.
Probably rem. to Rindge, N. H.
By death, aged 38 years.
By death.
Probably by death.
Dis. to ch. Milford, N. H.
By death.
Dis. to ch. Hollis, N.H.
Dis. to ch. Hollis. N. H.
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
By death, aged 44 years.
Died in Tewksbury.
Died in Tewksbury.
By death, aged 71 years.
By death.
By death, aged 61 years.
By death, aged 27 years.
By death.
By death, aged 61 years..
By death, aged 91 years.
By death, aged 58 years.
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 80 years.
By death, aged 81 years.

579680
581582583584685 586687588589590 691

594695.

699600601602603 604
605 606 607

610 611
61261361-1615
61(5 617
618619

Reg.

NAME.

Date of Reception.

Manner of Reception.

Date of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

620

Elijah Fatten, (Asa),

Sept. 12, 1773,

Profession of faith.

Oct. 1774.

By death, aged 23 years.

620

621

Lydia [Stevens] Patten (Elijah) Holt

tt \

tt

By death.

621

622

Hannah [Poor] Abbot (Jeduthan),

Sept. 19, 1773,

tt

Sept. 3, 1823,

By death.

622

623

Abigail [Richards] French (Rev. Jona.),

"

From ch. Braintree.

Aug. 28, 1821,

By death, aged 79 years.

624

Humphrey Holt,

tt

From ch". Tewksbury.

April 1785,

By death, aged 63 years.

623

625

Hepzibah [Fisk wid.] Pearson (Moses),

Oct. 17,1773,

Profession of faith.

By death.
624
626
Sarah [Perkins] Lovejoy (Joshua jr.),
Oct. 31, 1773,
Fromch. Middleton.
March 19, 1781,
Dis. to ch. Amherst, N. H.
625
627
Thomas Stevens, jr.,
Dec. 5, 1773,
Profession of faith.
By death.
626
628
Sarah [Ingalls] Stevens (Thomas jr.),
'f
"
Oct. 30, 1824,
By death, aged 70 years.
627
629
David Blunt,
Dec. 26, 1773,
ti
May 11, 1820,
By death.
628
630
Ruth [Tay] Blunt (David),
tt
it
Dec. 8, 1802, •
By death, aged 54 years.
Dis. to ch. Temple, N. H.
629
631
John Patten,
Feb. 6, 1774,
it
March 28, 1782,
630
632
Molly Patten (John).
' it '
it
it
Dis. to ch. Temple, N H.
631
683
Elizabeth Ballard,
it
it
1804.
Aug. 20, 1818,
By death, aged 64 years.
632
634
Elizabeth Patten,
March, 13, 1774,
tt
By death.
633
635
Richard Wood,
April 3, 1774,
ii
By death, after 1783.
634
636
Jonathan Holt, jr. (Dea.),
»
From ch. N. P. Andover.
Sept. 4, 1803,
Dis. to form ch. Albany, Me.
635
637
Ruth [Kimbal] Holt (Jona, jr.),
tt
tt
it
Dis. to form ch. Albany, Me.
636
638
Bigsby Abbot,
May 8, 1774,
Profession of faith.
1813,
By death, aged 63 years.
637
639
Hepzibah [Ames] Abbot (Bigsby),
J ' tt '
"
May 1796,
By death, aged 41 years.
638
640
Joseph Lovejoy,
May 15, 1774,
From ch. N. P. Andover.
Feb. 7. 1803,
By death, aged 69 years.
639
641
Mary [Gordon] Lovejoy (Joseph),
u
tt
Aug. IT, 1808,
By death, aged 63 years.
640
642
Mary Lovejoy (Daniel),
Abigail [Ames] Abbot (Nathan),
Flora (servant of Nathan Chandler),
tt
ti
Unknown.
641
643
ti
"
Aug. 27, 1812,
By death, aged 89 years.
642
644
May 22, 1774, '
Profession of faith.
By death, after 1839.
643
645
Nathaniel Abbot,
June 12, 1774,
tt
May 18, 1783,
Dis. to ch. Pelham, N. H.
644
646
Sarah [Stevens] Abbot (Nath'l),
tt '
tt
J 'it '
Dis. to ch. Pelham, N. H.
645
647
Mary [Mclntire?] Holt (James),
June 26, 1774,
From ch. N. P. Andover.
By death.
646
648
Mary [Eastman] Cummings (Jona.),
tt
From ch. Pembroke, N. H.
JuIy-1801,
By death, aged 59 years.
647
649
Daniel Chandler,
July 10, 1774,
Profession of faith.
By death.
648
650
Joanna Chandler (Daniel),
J tt
tt
By death.
649
651
John Russell, 3d-,
Sept. 18, 1774,
tt
Aug. 12, 1830,
By death, aged 84 years.
650
652
653654
Phe"be [Abbot] Russell (John 3d),
Joseph Ballard,
Abiel [Chandler] Chandler [David],
itti
tttt
April 1809, *
By death, aged 60 years.
By death.
By death, aged 69 years.
651652
lt
From ch. Pembroke, N. H.
June 1780,
653
655
Mary Chandler (Timothy),
Hannah [Abbot] Ballard [Joseph),
Oct. 9, 1774,
Nov. 13, 1774,
Profession of faith.
By death.
654
656
"
May 27, 1784,
By death, aged 35 years.
655
657
Susanna Marshall (Benjamin),
Nov. IS, 1774,
From 2d ch. Ipswich.
Jan. 6, 1805,
By death, aged 89 years.
656
658659

661662

667

670671672673 674
675 676677678679 680681682683 684685 686687

Margaret Goldsmith,
Daniel Ord way,
Zebadiah Chandler, jr.,
Lucy [Chandler] Chandler (Zeb. jr.),
Daniel Poor (Dea. 1794),
Hannah [Frye] Poor (Dea. Daniel),
Oliver Whiting,
Martha [Abbot] Whiting (Oliver),
John Wardwell,
Zela Holt,
Priscilla [Abbot] Holt (Zela),
Dinah Parker [wid.],
Timothy Holt, 3d,
Hannah [Johnson] Holt (Timo. 3d),
Daniel Wardwell,
Damaris [Faulkner] Wardwell (Daniel)
(Ezekiel),
Mary Abbot (dau. of Stephen),
Deborah Ordway (Daniel),
Lucy Mclntire,
James Holt, jr.,
Dorcas Holt (s. of James jr.),
Jonathan Wardwell,
Rachel [Pevey] Wardwell (Jona.),
Lydia Wardwell (dau. of John),
Dorothy Wardwell (dau. of John),
Jacob Austin,
Mary [Barker] Austin (Jacob),
Peter Wardwell,
Dorcas [Foster] Wardwell (Peter),
Lydia Holt (Thomas jr.),
Simon Crosby,
Susanna [Adams] Haggit (Thomas),
Zaccheus Goldsmith,
Mehitabel Goldsmith (Zaccheus),
Benjamin Goldsmith,
William Goldsmith,
Israel Wood,
Sarah [Stevens] Wood (Israel),
Mary [Stevens] Merrill (John),
Mary [Lovejov] Parker (James) Cum
mings (Jona.),

Jan. 8. 1775,
Jan. 22, 1775,
Feb IS), 1775,
March 26, 1775,
April 2, 1775,

Aug. 6, 1775,tttttt
Aug. 27, 1775,

Sept. 10, 1775,
Sept. 17, 1775,
Oct. 8, 1775.
Oct. 15, 1775,
Oct. 29, 1775,

Nov. 19, 1775,
ti
March 3, 1776,
May 19, 1776,

June 30, 1776,
July 14, 1776.
July 21, 1776,

Aug. 11, 1776,

Profession of faith.

From ch. Wilton, N. H.
From ch. N. P. Andover.
Profession of faith.

From ch. Billerica.
From ch. Chelmsford.
From ch. Wenham.
Profession of faith.

Oct. 18, 1789,
Feb. 5, 1835,
Jan. 16. 1826,
June 20, 1814,
Jan. 16. 1824,
March 31, 1784,
Aug. 1799,

Feb. 17, 1792,
June 25,, 1780,
March 7, 1/82,
1826,
Sept. 15, 1820,
Oct. 18, 1789,
Nov. 26, 1800,
April 16, 1778,
Jan. 31, 1788,
Oct. 4, 1781,

Sept. 9, 1786,
Sept. 17, 1783,
May 12, 1812,

April 5, 1817,
Feb. 21, 1812,
April 10, 1788,
June 1807, 1820,

Rem. before 1812. 657
Dis. to ch. Loudon, N. H. 658
By death, aged 82 years. 659,
By death. 660
By death, aged 74 years. 661
By death. 662
Dis. to ch. Temple, N.H. 663
Dis. to ch. Temple, N. H. 664
By death, aged 80 years. 665
Rem. to Bethel, Me., after 1789. 666
Rem. to Bethel, lie., alter 1789. 667
By death, aged 90 years. 668
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N. H. 669
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N. H. 670
By death, aged 28 years. 671
672
By death.
By death, aged 76 years. 673
Dis. to ch. Loudon, N. H. 674
Rem. before 1H12. 675
By death, aged 51 years. 676
By death, aged 22 years. 677
By death, aged 76 years. 678
By death, aged 56 years. 679
Hem. before 1812. 680
Rem. before 1812. 681
Rem. before 1812. 682
Rem before 1812. 683
By death, before 1812. 684
By death, aged 37 years. 685
Dis. to oh. Amherst, N. H. 686
By death, before 1812. 687
By death, aged 94 years. 688
By death, before 1812. 6P9
By death, before 1812. 690
By death, aged 62 years. 691
By death, aged 87 years. 692
Dis. to ch. Thetfbrd, Vt. 693
Dis. to ch Thetford, Vt. 694
By death, aged 68 years. 695

By death.

Reg.

NAME.

Date of Reception.

Manner of Reception.

Date of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

698

Lucy [Lovejoy] Frye (Theopli.),

August 11, 1776,

Profession of faith.

April 2, 1844,

By death, aged 89 years.

698

699

Abigail Fowler,

"

tt

Rem. beiore 1812.

699

700

Joshua Phelps,
Lois [Ballard] Phelps (Joshua),

August 25, 1776,

it

Dec. 22, 1798,

By death, aged 60 years.

700

701

tt

it

Dec. 21, 1836,

By death.

701

702

Edy Holt (Timothy jr.),

tt

tt

Rem. before 1812.

702

703

Susanna [Holt] Parker (Carlton),

ti

tt

Rem. before 1812.
703
704
Mary Merrill,
Sept. 22, 1776,
tt
June 1801,
By death, aged 53 years.
704
705
Elizabeth (Merrill) Hardy (John),
tt
tt
Sept. 1822,
By death.
705
706
John Stevens,
Oct. 13, 1776,
tt
By death, before 1792.
706
707
Lydia Stevens (John),
tt
March 20, 1792,
Dis. to ch. Thetford, Vt.
707
708
Mary [Boynton] Lovejoy (Nathan),
11
tt
Rem. before 1812.
708
709
Samuel Bailey,
Nov. 3, 1776,
From 2d ch. Bradford.
Rem. before 1812.
709
710
Elinor Webb (John),
tt
Rem. before 1812.
710
711
Judith (Holt) Bachelder (Jos.),
April 13, 1777,
Profession of faith.
By death.
711
712
Ednah [Platts] Abbot [Jos.],
April 27, 1777,
ii.
Rem. before 1812. ,
712
713
Joshua Mooar,
June 1, 1777,
ti
Oct. 29, 1786,
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N. H.
713
714
Deborah [Chandler] Mooar (Joshua),
tt '
tt
'it
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N.H.
Dis. to 2d ch. Reading.
714
715
John Swain,
June 29, 1777,
From 1st ch. Reading.
March 16, 1780,
715
716
Jacob Foster, jr.,
August 10, 1777,
Profession of faith.
Rem. before 1812.
716
717
Phebe [Phelps] Foster (Jacob jr.),
tt
Rem. before 1812.
717
718
Abiel Faulkner,
Hannah [Abbot] Faulkner (Abiel),'
Nov. 16, 1777,
tt
Nov. 26, 1818,
By death, aged 63 years.
718
719
ii '
tt
Nov. 16, 1789,
By death; aged 31 years.
719
720
Lucy [Abbot] Brown (John),
March 19, 1778,
tt
Lived in Hopkinton, N. H.
720
721
Jane (servant of James Osgood),
Mary [Osgood] Boynton (Moses),
Abijah Clark,
May 3, 1778,
tt
August 20, 1781,
By death, aged 28 years.
Dis. to ch. Weare, N. H.
721
722
June 21, 1778,
tt
Sept. 16, 1804,
722
723
July 12, 1778,
tt
May 24, 1818,
By death.
723
724
Hannah [Abbot] Clark (Abijah),
' ft '
tt
July 24, 1816,
By death, aged 64 years.
724
725
Nathan Abbot, jr. (Dea. 1794),
August 2. 1778,
tt
March 5, 1801,
By death, aged 48 years.
725
726
Sarah [Ballard] Abbot (Nathan jr.).
"
ti
August 20, 1825,
By death.
726
727
Samuel Blanchard, jr.,
Sept. 4, 1778,
it
Rem. before 1812.
727
728
Lucy [Ballard] Blanchard (Sam'l jr.),
* 'tt '
tt
Rem. before 1812.
728
729
Jacob Holt,
May 16, 1779,
tt
Sept. 4, 1803,
Dis. to form ch. Albany, Me.
729
730
Rhoda [Abbot] Holt (Jacob),
' ti
tt
"
Dis. to form ch. Albany, Me.
730
731
Robert Day,
it
tt
June 25, 1780,
Dis. to ch. Lyndeboro', N. H.
731
732
Mary Day (Robert),
Lydia Johnson (Obadiah jr.),
1 it
ti
ti
Dis. to ch. Lyndeboro', N. H.
732
733
tt
tt
July 1779,
June 29, 1794,
By death, aged 52 years.
Dis. to ch. jaffrey, N. H.
733
731
Mehitabel [Holt] Lufkin [Sam'l] Wil
it
ti
734
kins (Abner),
735736737738739 740
741742 743744
745746747748749750751752753754755756757758759760761762763 764

767768769 770
771
772 773774
775

Mary Holt, sr.,
Temperance Downing (Richard),
Abiel Stevens.
Elizabeth [Holt] Stevens (Abiel),
Sarah Barker (wid.),
Thomas Merrill [Dea.],
Lydia [Abbot] Merrill (Dea. Thomas),
Peter Holt,
Hepzibah [Stevens] Holt (Peter),
Caleb Abbot,
Lucy [Lovejoy] Abbot (Caleb),
Hannah [Stevens] Holt (Isaac),
Isaac Lovejoy .jr.,
Mary [Morse] Lovejoy (Isaac jr.),
Peggy [Moultou] Morrison (Jos.),
Alice [Holt] Holt (Daniel),
Alice (Barnard) Boynton,
Esther (Wardwell) Osgood (Aaron),
Martha [Allen] Mooar [Abraham],
Hannah [Ballard] Foster. [Obadiah]
Chandler (Joshua),
Job Abbot,
Anna [Ballard] Abbot (Job),
Henry Phelps,
Mary [Ballard] Phelps (Henry),
Abigail [Haggit] Cummings (Peter),
Susanna [Burt] Dane (Wm. jr.),
Paul Hunt,
Elizabeth [Shattuck] Hunt (Paul),
Enoch Merrill,
Patty [Wood] Merrill (Enoch),
Eunice [Blanchard] Johnson (Peter),
Isaac Chandler, 2d,
Abigail [Holt] Chandler (Isaac 2d),
Francis Dane,
Abiah [Burt] Dane (Francis),
Elizabeth [Dane] Foster (Timothy),
.Joseph Dane, jr.,
Ellen Dane (Joseph jr.), .
Ephraim Abbot,
Lydia [Poor] Abbot (Eph.),
Sarah [Frye] Dennis (Moses),

May 16, 1779,
June 10, 1779,
Sept. 19, 1779,
tt
Oct. 17, 1779,

April 2, 1780,
June 18, 1780,
July 9, 1780,
August 20, 1780,
Oct. 29, 1780,

Dec. 24, 1780,
April 1, 1781,
May 13, 1781,
June 17, 1781,
June 24, 1781,
August 19, 1781,
Sept. 16, 1781,
Oct. 7, 1781, '
tt
Oct. 21, 1781,
Oct. 28, 1781,
March 31, 1782,
Sept. 15, 1782,
Sept. 22, 1782,
Nov. 17, 1782-,
April 6, 1783,

Profession of faith.

Oct. 1779,
Oct. 18, 1789,
Jan. 31, 1803,
Feb. 19, 1793,
u
Jan. 9, 1830,
Jan. 15, 1837,
Feb. 21, 1802,
1814,
Nov. 28, 1826,

Feb. 24, 1788,
June 22, 1791,
March 12, 1825,
Sept. 22, 1821,
Oct. 7, 1827,
Sept. 27, 1786,

Nov. 28, 1826,
Nov. 28, 1826,
June 25, 1809,

Jan. 12, 1832,
Oct. 2, 1824,
Feb. 9, 1794,
Sept 22.1793,
April 1794,

April 23, 1809,
July 3, 1788,
March 16, 1789,

By death, before 1812.
By death, aged 63 years.
Dis. to form ch. Loudon, N. H.
Dis. to form ch. Loudon, N. H.
By death, aged 86 years.
Dis. to ch. Deering, N.H.
Dis to ch. Deering, N. H.
By death, aged 80 years.
By death, before 1812,
By death, aged 86 years.
By death, aged 44 years.
By death.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
Rem. before 1812.
Dis. to ch.
Dis. to ch. Hancock, N.H.
By death, aged 70 years.
By death, aged 82 years.
Dis. to W. ch. Andover.
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N. H.
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N.H.
By death, before 1812.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
Rem. before 1812.
Rem. before 1812.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
Dis. to ch. Norway, Me.
Dis. to ch. Norway, Me.
Rem. before 1812.
By death, aged 78 years.
By death, aged 66 years.
Dis. to ch. Danville, (Vt?).
Dis. to ch. DaWille, (Vt?).
By death, aged 37 years.
Rem. before 1812.
Rem. before 1812.
By death, aged 67 years.
By death, aged 37 years.
Dis. to ch. Hancock, N. H.

735
736 737

740741742743744
745 746747748749
750751 752753
754755756757758759760
761
762763764765 766
767

770771772773
774775

Reg.

776777778779780781782
783784 785
786787788789790
791 792793794
795796797798799
800801
802803804805
806807

810811812

Mary [Lawrence] Herrick (John),
Sally (Massey) Holt (Samuel jr.),
Mary (Goldsmith) Burnham (Nathan),
James Chandler,
Phebe [Dane] Chandler (James),
John Abbot, 4th (H.U.1784; Prof.B.C.),
Lois [Burt] Blanchard (Thomas),
Elizabeth [Abbot] Jones (Eben.j,
Elizabeth [Poor] Coburn (Peter),
Anna [Phelps] Parker ( liencher),
John L. Abbot,
Phebe [Abbot] Abbot (John L.),
John Chandler,
Dorothy [Ballard] Chandler (John),
Dorcas [Abbot] Abbot (Jona. 3d),
Mary [Ballard] Mooar [John] Boynton
(Jona),
Jedediah Russell, *
Rhoda Russell (Jed.),
Mary [Holt] Gray (Thos. jr.),
Daniel Kimball [Dea.],
Elizabeth [Osarood] Kimball (Dan'l),
Mary Blunt (John),
Mary Foster (dau. of Jacob),
Phebe (Stevens) Wardwell (Nathan),
Mary (Holt) Foster (Isaac),
Hannah Abbot,
Joseph Chandler,
Mary [King] Chandler (Joseph),
Hezekiah Stiles, jr.,
Phebe [Austin] Stiles (Hezekiah jr.),
Mehitabel Stiles,
George Smith,
Asa French,
Mary [Lovejoy] French (Asa),
Nathan Chandler, 3d,
Lucy [Ballard] Chandler (Nathan 3d),
Lydia [Osgood]- Faulkner (Abiel),

Date of Reception..

Manner of Reception,

April 6, 1783.
June 29, 1783,
July 20,' 1783,
Aug. 3, 1783,

Profession of faith.
CC

Aug. 10jl783,

CC

Sept. 7, 1783,

CC

Sept. 14, 1783,
Sept. 21,1783,

(C (C(C(t

tt it

,<c CC

Sept. 28, 1783,

CC

Oct. 26, 1783,
tt

tc
CC tcCC

tt
Nov. 2, 1783.
Nov. 16, 1783,
tt

CC uCCCiCC

Feb. 15, 1784,

CCCC

tt
May 16, 1784,
June 27, 1784,

CCCC CC

July 11, 1784,

CC CC

CC

CC

Date of Removal.

June 26, 1785,
Deo. 5, 1784,

Sept. 22, 1793,
Oct..26, 1815,

Nov. 1, 1837,
Oct. 1, 1825,

March 3, 1844,

Oct. 81, 1828,
March 16, 1789,
May 19, 1799,
Dec. 1783,
Aug. 13, 1843,
March 20, 1792,
Nov. 4, 1815,
May 2, 1834,

Aug. 29, 1802,
June 29, 1794,
tt
Oct. 23, 1816,

Manner of Removal.

Dis. to oh. Reading. 776
Rem.after 1785 antfbefdre 1812. 777
Dis. to 4th ch. Ipswich. 778
Died Dec. 1.1835, aged 74 years. 779
Died Dec. 10, 1843, aged 81 yrs. 780
Died at Andover, July 2, 1843. 781
Dis. to ch. Danville, Vt. ; 782
By death, aged 60 years. 783
Rem. before 1812. 784
Rem. before 1812. 785
By death, aged 81 years. 786
By death, aged 62 years. 787
Rem. before 1812. 788
Rem. before 1812. 789
By death, aged 86 years. 790
Rem. before 1812. 791
Rem. before 1812. 792
Rem. before 1812. 793
Dis., having joined a Bap. ch. 794
Dis. to ch. Hancock, N. H. 795
Dis. to ch . Hancock, N.H. 796
Dis. to ch. Amherst, N.H. ! 797
By death, aged 37 years. j 798
By death, aged 85 years. 799
Dis. to ch. Greenfield, N. H. j 800
By death, after 1812. j 801
By death, aged 57 yearsi 802
Dis. to West ch. Andover. 803
Rem. before 1812. 804
Rem. before 1812. 805
Rem. before 1812. 806
Rem. before 1812. 807
Dis. to ch. Weare, N. H. i 808
Dis. to ch. Weare, N. H. 1 809
Dis. to ch. Concord, N. H. 810
Dis. to ch. Concord, N. H. 1 811
By death. 1812

813 814
815 816817 818819820821 822823824825 826827
M828
C0829 830 831832833834835836

840841842 843844845846847848849850851852

Timothy Foster,
Josiah Blanchard,
Lydia [Jenkins] Blanchard (Josiah)
Bailey (Luther),
Emery Chase,
Mehitabel [Mooar] Chase (Emery)
Blanchard "(Aaron),
Mary [Abbot] Chandler (Abiel),
Hezekiah Ballard, jr.,
Mary [Chandler] Ballard (Hezek. jr.),
Hannah [Abbot] Goldsmith (Benj),
Joseph Shattuck,
Hannah [Chandler] Shattuck (Joseph),
Mary Fisk (dau. of John),
Sarah (Goldsmith) Lovering (Joseph),
Asa Holt,
Abner Abbot,
Ruth [Holt] Abbot (Abner),
Mary Dane (dau. of Wm.),
Hannah Dane (dau. of Jos.),
Joseph Holt, jr.,
Elizabeth Chandler (dau. of Nathan),
Nathaniel Johnson,
Moses Abbot,
Elizabeth THolt] Abbot (Moses),
Silence [White] Swift (Jona.),
Jonathan Swift,
Abigail [Blunt] Allen (Asa),
William Ballard,
Mary [Chandler] Ballard (Wm.),
Hannah [Howl Ballard [Wm.,]
Joseph Osgood,
Hannah [Bailey] Osgood (Jos.),
Rebecca [Ingalls] Shattuck (Isaac jr.),
Phebe [AbbotlChandler [Nathan],
Chloe [Holt] Holt (Darius),
Elizabeth [Burt] Clark (Samuel),
Mary (Jones) Holt (Dan'l jr.),
Jacob Jones,
Mary [Winn] Jones (Jacob),
Hannah Foster (John),

Aug. 1, 1784,
Oct. 10, 1784,

March 6. 1785,
March 27, 1785,
May 22, 1785,

June 19, 1785,
June 25. 1^85,

July 17. 1785,
July 24; 1785,
Aug. 7, 1785,
Sept. 11, 1785,
u
Oct. 23, 17S5,
Nov. 27, 1785,
Dec. 11, 1785,
Jan. 29, 1786,
April 9, 1786,
April 30, 1786,
June 11, 1786,
June 25, 1786,
Aug. 20, 1786,
Sept. 3, 1786,
Sept 17,1786,
Oct. 29, 1786,'
Nov. 19, 1786,

Profession of faith.

From ch. Milton.
From ch. Barfington, R. I.
Profession of faith.

Aug. 1796,
May 1790,
May 21, 1819,
Aug. 1788,

Nov. 28, 1826,
Oct. 4, 1847,
March 30. 1834, .
Dec. 31, 1837,
Nov. 28, 1826,
Aug. 1785,
June 29, 1810,
Aug. 1795,
Feb. 1793,
March 19, 1805,

June 1791,
Nov. 28, 1826,
Feb. 23, 1826,
Sept. 23, 1838,
Feb 17, 1817.
March 4. 1808,
Aug. 2, 1825,
Before 1812,
Sept. 12, 1819,
April 7, 1793,

May 29, 1824,
July 26. 1812,

March 21. 1791,
Jan. 11, 1814,
Jan. 25, 1812,
Sept. 24, 1811,

By death, aged 42 years. 813
By death^ aged 50 years. 814
By death, aged 72 years. 815
By death, aged 41 years. 816
Rem. before 1812. 817
Di6. to form W. ch. Andover. 818
By death, aged 85 3'ears. 819
By death, aged 70 years. 820
By death, aged 82 years. 821
Dis. to form W- ch. Andover. 822
By death, aged 21 years. 823
By death, aged 55 years. 824
Dis. to ch. Hamilton. 825
By death, aged 51 years. 826
Dis. to ch. Albany, Me. 827
Dis . to eh . Albany, Me. 828
Rem. before 1812. 829
Rem. before 1812. 830
By death, aged 25 years. 831
Dis. triform W. ch. Andover. 832
Rem. before 1812. 833
By death, aged 91 years. 834
By death, aged 95 years. 835
By death, aged 60 years. 836
By death, aged 49 years. 837
By death. 838
Rem. to Peterboro', N. H. 839
Died at Peterboro', N. H. 840
Rem. before 1812. 841
Dis. to ch. Bluehill, Me. 842
Dis. to ch. Bluehill, Me. 843
Rem. before 1812. 844
By death. 845
By death, aged 79 years. 846
By death, since 1834. 847
Rem. before 1812. 848
Dis. to ch. Fitchburg. 849
By death, aged 78 years. 850
By death, aged 73 years. 851
By death, aged 61 years. 852

Keg.

853

854855

85S

861

867

870
871872873874
875876
877878

879

881882

884

Abigail [Boutwell] Chandler (Isaac
3d),
Abner Wilkins.
Phebe [Shattuck] Shattuck (Abiel),
Abigail [Holt] Holt (Jacob),
Anna (Abbot) Osgood (Christopher),
John Dane, jr.,
Deborah [Bailey] Dane (John jr.),
Anna (Blunt) Holt (Henry),
Hannah [Abbot] Hawley (Samuel),
Jeremiah Lovejoy,
Hannah [Johnson] Lovejoy (Jerem.),
Deborah [Ames] Baker (H. G.) Abbot
(Caleb),
Zebadiah Holt,
Sarah [Lewis] Holt [Zeb.] Blanchard
(Jotham),
Eunice [Russ] Ames (Prince),
Timothy Ames,
Sally [Kneeland] Ames (Time),
Benjamin Abbot (H. U. 1788: LL.D.),
Abigail [Holt] Holt (Jos. jr.), .
Betty [Brooks] Frye (Timo.),
Isaac Blunt, jr.,
Zebadiah Abbot, jr. (Dea.),
Hermon Abbot,
Betty (Holt) Griffin (Wm. jr ),
Lydia (Holt) Town (Samuel),
Hannah [Gilson] Furbush [Charles]
Winchester (Lemuel) Griffin
(Uriah),
Sarah Russell(wicf.),
Rachel [Wardwell] Edes (Thomas),
Abigail (French) Stearns (Rev. Sam'l),
Samuel Downing, jr.,
Elizabeth [Bailey] Downing] Sam'l jr.),
Chloe [Holt] Holt [John] Wiley (Da
vid),

Date of Reception.

April -1,1787,
May 18, 1788,
it
Oct. 5, 1788,
Nov. 2, 1788,

Nov. 16, 1788.
Dec. 7, 1788, "

Dec. 28, 1788,

March 15, 1789,
April 5, 1789,
May 3, 1789,
May 24, 1789,
June 28. 1789,
July 19, 1789,

Aug 9, 178!
Oct. 4, 1789
Nov. 1, 178!
Jan. 24, 179

Feb. 28, 1790,

Manner of Reception.

Date of Removal.

From ch. "Wilmington,
From ch. Middleton.
Profession of faith.
CCCCCC

Feb. 24,1788,
June 2D, 1794,
Oct. 30, 1790,
May 13, 1821,
June 22, 1811,
Aug. 21, 1791,

CCCCCCCC

June 13, 1840,
Jan. 25, 1801,
Nov. 29, J7U2,

CC CC CC

Dec. 7, 1819,
May 13, 1814,

CCCC

Before 1812, ¦

CC
CC CCCC
CC

Dec. 6, 1813.
Nov. 1,1814?
Feb. 1790,
Oct. 17, 1833,
Nov. 28, 1826,

CCu

Feb. 7, 1827,
Sept. 4, 1803,

CCCC CClC

Feb. 4, 1798,
April 4, 1802,

tc

Manner of Removal.

Dis. to ch
Dis. to ch.
Dis. to ch
By death,
Dis. to ch.
Dis. form
Dis. form
By death,
Dis. to ch
Dis. to ch
Dis. to ch

.Hillsboro', N.H.
Jaffrey, N. H.
. Hillsboro', N. H.
aged 54 years.
Pembroke, N. H.
oh. Greenfield, N. H.
ch. Greenfield, N. H.
aged 77 years.
Danville, Me.
. Danville, Me.
. Danville, Me.

By death, aged 52 years.
Exc. See ch. Records.
By death, before 1812.
Rem. to Peterboro' ,-N. H.
Rem. to Peterboro', N. H.
Dis. to form ch. Exeter, N. H,
By death.
By death, aged 28 years.
By death, aged 67 years.
Dis: to form W. ch. Andover.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
By death.
Dis. to form ch. Albany, Me.

Rem. before 1812.
Rem. before 1812.
Rem. before 1812.
Dis. to ch. Bedford.
Dis. to ch. Poland, Me.
Dis. to ch. Poland, Me.
By death,

853 854
855856857858 859
860 8618G2863864

878879880881
882883
884

885886 887888889890 891892893 894
895896 897

900901

904 905
906907 908909 910
911 912913914 915
916
?917 918919 920

Hannah Holt,
Elizabeth (Abbot) Abbot (Rev. Dr.
Abiel),
Priscilla [Chandler] Abbot (David),
Isaac Holt, jr.,
Tabitha [Blunt] Holt (Isaac jr.),
Abiel Pearson (D. C. 1799 : Doct. ; Dea.
1801),
Mary [Adams] Pearson (Dr. Abiel),
Dorothy Stiles,
Rhoda [Blanchard] Abbot (Sam'l jr.),
Sarah [Jackson] Duntlin (Nath'l),
Palfrey Downing,
Lydia [Lovejov] Downing (Palf.),
Sarah [Dean] Dobbin (John),
Mary [Carlton] Burt (Jos. jr.).
Lydia [Blanchard] Shed (Ben] ),
Peter Holt (H. U. 1790; Rev. 1793),
Samuel Kittredge,
Sarah [Kidder] Kittredge (Samuel),
Henry Holt,
Mehitabel [Blunt] Holt (Henry),
Philemon Chandler,
David Gray,
Sarai) [Cummings] Gray (David),
Mary (Bartlett) Reed,
Timothy Ballard,
Mary [Foster] Ballard (Timo),
Lydia [Cowley] Mooar (Isaac),
Abiah (Holt) Kimball (Dea. Daniel),
Jonathan Holt, jr.,
Mary Stevens (Joshua),
Ruth [Church] Wardwell (Simon),
Samuel Phillips (H. U. 1771; LL. D.:
Lieut. Gov.),
Samuel Abbot (Esq.),
Sarah Kneeland [Barthol] Abbot (Sam
uel),
Ezekiel Wardwell,
Phebe [Griffin] Butler (Benj.),

Feb. 28, 1790,
April 18, 1790,
May 16, 1790,
May 23, 1790,

June 6, 1790,
July 11, 1790,
Aug. 8, 1790,
Aug. 15, 1790,
Sept. 6, 1790,
Sept. 26, 1790,
Oct. 17, 1790,
Oct. 31, 1790,
Dec. 26, 1790,
Feb. 6, 1791,

Feb. 27,1791,
April 3, 1791,
May 1, 1791,

May 15, 1791,
May 29, 1791,
June 12, 1791,

August 7, 1791,

Oct. 30, 1791,

Profession of faith.

From ch. N. P. Andover.
From Brattle st .ch. Boston.

Profession of faith.

June 10, 1835,

Nov. 28, 1826,
July 26, 1843,
June 25, 1840,
May 22, 1827,
Feb. 6,1800,

Nov. 28, 1826,
Jan. 31, 1805,
March 30, 1825,
March 11. 1804,
Feb. 17, 1793,

Feb. 24, 1821,
Sept. 1, 1802,
Dec. 18, 1798,
April 30, 1830,
March 15, 1793,
June 1813,
Feb. 29, 1828,
March 30, 1834,
March 29, 1824,
March 20, 1792,

Feb. 12, 1819,
Feb. 10, 1802,
April 12, 1812,
Feb. 12, 1816,
Dec. 16, 1834,

By death, aged 72 years. 885
Prob. dis. Coventry, Ct. 1796. 886
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover. 887
By death. 8S8
By death, aged 73 years. 889
By death, aged 71 years. 890
By death, aged-41 years. 891
Rem. before 1812. 892
Died at Soc. Land, N. H. 893
Rem. before 1X12. 894
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover. 895
By death, aged 40 years. 896
Rem before 1812. 897
By death, aged 70 years. 898
Dis. to ch. Milford. N. H. 899
Dis. to ch. Epping, N.H. 900
" About to move to new town- 90l
ship," 1791.
" About to move to new town- 902
Ship," 1791.
By death, aged 57 years. 903
By death, aged 34 years. 904
By death, aged 81 years. 905
Exc. See ch. Records. 906
By death, aged 26 years. 907
Dis. to 1st Baptist ch., Boston. 908
By death, aged 70 years. 909
By death, aged 70 years. 910
By death, aged 70 years. 9ll
Dis. to ch. Hancock, N. H. 912
Rem. before 1812. 913
Rem. before 1812. 914
By death, aged 66 years. 915
By death, aged 50 years. 916
By death, aged 80 years. 917
By death, aged 89 years. 918
By death, aged .84 years. 919
Prob.rem.to Nottingham, N.H. 920

Beg.

NAME.

Date of Reception.

Manner of Reception.

Date of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

%21

Mehitabel [Foster] Holt (Nath'l),

Oct. 30, 1791,

Profession of faith.

Rem. before 1812.

921

922

Sarah [Herrick] Lacer(w.)Abbot(Eph.)

u

From oh. Salem.

Oct. 29, 1812,

By death, aged 65 years.

922

923

Lois [Phelps] Blunt (Isaac),
Jonathan Huse (D. C. 1788; Rev. 1795),

ti

Profession of faith.

Feb. 17, 1849,

By death, aged 82 years.
Dis. to ch. Warren.

923

92+

March 25, 1792,

.'

Oct. 18, 1795.

924

925

William Griffin, jr.,

April 1, 1792,

ii

March 6, 1830,

Exc. See ch. Records.

925

926

Hannah [Hoit] Haggit (Jesse),
Anna [Furbush] Abbot (Josiah),

July 15, 1792,

"

Rem. before 1812,

926'

927

July 29, 1792,

|'

May 15, 1803,

Dis. to ch. Bath, N.H.

927

928

John Crosby,
Dorcas Wardwell (dau. of Jona.),

V.

ii

Rem. before 1812.
928
929
August 26, 1792,
From eh. N. P. Andover.
Rem. before 1812.
929
930
Joseph Martin,
Sept. 16, 1792,
"
Rem. before 1812.
930
931
Phebe [Chandler] Martin (Joseph),
"
Profession of faith.
Rem. before 1812.
931
932
William Griffin,
u
'•
1826,
By death, aged 84 years.
932
933
Mary [Howard] Griffin (Wm),
n
it
May 8, 1823, 1849,
By death.
933
934
Mehitabel [Chase] Bailey (Moses),
Oct. 7, 1792.
u
By death.
934
935
Benjamin Jenkins,
Oct. 28, 1792,
From 2d ch. Reading.
Sept. 12, 1834,
By death, aged 78 years.
935
936
Pegg-y [Flint] Jenkins (Benj J,
Elizabeth [Martin] Shattuck(Zebadiah),
n
it a
March 1804,
By death, aged 44 years.
Dis. to ch. Sillsboro', N. H.
936
937
Dec. 9, 1792,
Profession of faith.
Oct. 30, 1796,
937
938939
Sarah [Abbot] Stiekney (Jona.),
Simeon Ames,
Jan. 27, 1793,
April 7, 1793,
uu
Sept. 29, 1849,
Joined Ep.ch.St.Armauds,L.C.
By death, aged 78 years.
938 939
940
Sarah [Bailey] Ames (Simeon),
'« '
u
Nov. 28,1826,
Dis. to form W. oh. Andover.
940
941
Jedediah Burt,
Sarah [Manning] Burt (Jed.),
Mary[Martin] McLaughlin(Lawrence),
May 5, 1793,
u
July 10, 1818,
Exc. See ch. Records.
941
942
u
u
Feb. 16, 1828,
By death, aged 53 years.
942
943
n
it
Rem. before 1812.
943
944
Daniel Poor, jr.,
Hannah [Frye] Poor (Daniel jr.),
June 9, 1793,
"
Rem. before 1812.
944
945
it
'«
Rem. before 1812.
945
946
Sarah (Farriniton) Abbot (Dea. Zeb.),
Sarah [Reed] Holt (Simeon),
Abiel Abbot (H. U. 1792; Rev. 1795;
June 30, 1793,
it
Nov. 28, 1826,
Dis- to form W. ch. Andover.
946
947
August 11, 1793,
it
August 20, 1827,
By death.
947
94S
D. D.)
Dorothy Holt (James jr.),
Ruth [Davis] Lovejoy (Isaac 4th),
August 25, 1793,
ii
May 3, 1795,
Dis. to 1st ch. Haverhill.
948
949
Sept. 22, 1793,
u
Rem. before 1812.
949
950
- ii
ti
March 6. 1830,
Exc. See ch. Records.
950
951
Mercy (Lovejoy) Davis (James),
u
it
Feb. 25, 1851,
By death, aged 86 years.
951
952
Lucy Foster,
"
tt
Nov. 1, 1845,
By death, aged 78 years.
952
953
Elizabeth [Jones] Holt ( Wm.),
Oct. 13, 1793.
ti
1829,
By death.
953
954
Sarah [Ballard] Durant (Amos),
Nov. 17, 1793,
u
Sept. 22, 1819,
By death.
954
955
Thomas Osgood,
April 6, 1794,
ii
May 13, 1804,
Dis. to ch. Charlestown.
955
956
Hannah [Stevens] Osgood (Thomas),
u
u
"
Dis. to ch. Charlestown.
956
957
John Ervinff,
n
Fr.2dch.LondonderryN.H.
Rem. before 1812.
957
Mary Erving (John),
Hannah [Foster] Holt (James 3d),
Simon Crosby; jr.,
William Chandler, jr,,
Elizabeth [Chandler] Chandler (Wm.),
Jonathan Griffin,
Zeruiah [Vicker] Griffin (Jona.),
Phebe (Jones) Holt (Abiel),
Rhoda [Chandler] Abbot (Benj.),
Asa Town,
Dorothy [Lovejoy] Town (Asa),
Chloe [Manning] Hawley (Wm. ) Abbot
(Abiel),
Ezra Holt,
Dorcas [Dane] Holt(Ezra);
James Barnard, jr.,
Hannah [Hawley] Barnard (Jas. jr.),
Esther [Nickerson] Wood (John),
Caleb Richardson,
Abigail [Kneeland] Richardson(Caleb),
Joshua Bailey,
Hepzibah [Abbot] Bailey (Joshua),
John Phillips (H. U. 1795),
John Flint,
Ruth [Upton] Flint (John),
Mary H. (French) Speriv (Rev. E. P.),
James Kendall (H. 0.1791; Rev. 1800;
"D. D.),
Lydia [Holt] Hall [David] To™ (Na
than), ^
Samuel Cogswell, jr.,
Mary [Eaton] Cogswell (Sam'l jr.),
Lydia [Holt] Cummings (Dea. Asa),
Lucy [Chandler] Shattuck (Sam'l),
Jonathan French, jr. (H. U. 1798 ; Rev.
1801; D. D.),
William Tucker,
Hannah [Holt] Tucker (Wm.),
David Johnson,
Abigail [Ames] Johnson (David),
Hannah [Lowder] Goldsmith (John),
Persis [Frye] Frye (Timo.),

April 6, 1794,
August 1, 1794,*
Sept. 7, 1794,
Nov. 2, 1794,

Deo. 21, 1794,
Jan. 4, 1795,

April 26, 1795,
July 12, 1795,

August 2, 1795,
August 9, 1795,
Oct. 13, 1795,
* n
April 3, 1796,
May 1, 1796,
April 2, 1797,
April 16, 1797,

April 23, 1797,
May 21, 1797,
June 25, 1797,
July 6, 1797,
July 17, 1797,

Oct. 8, 1797,

Fr.2dch.LondonderryN.H.Profession of faith.

From 3d ch. Roxbnry.
Profession of faith.

Oct. 24, 1794,
Feb. 26, 1819,
July 11, 1797,
July 13, 1813,
Nov. 1, 1845,
Feb. 20, 1798,
August 6, 1804,

Feb. 18, 1847,

Dec. 10, 1811,

Jan. 7, 1849,
March 14, 1845,
Oct. 13, 1820,
August 7, 1813,
Nov. 10, 1799,
Sept. 4, 1824,
May 23, 1843,
' 1815,
Dec. 15, 1799,
May 19, 1800,
Feb. 23, 1839,
June 1, 1845,
Sept. 4, 1803,

Nov. 8, 1801,
August 29, 1848,
March 3, 1852,

Nov. 28, 1826,

Rem. before 1812. 958
By death, aged 40 years. 959
Exc. See ch. Records. 960
By death, aged 50 years. 961
By death. 962
By death, aged 41 years. 963
By death, aged 72 years. 964
By death, aged 27 years. 965
Rem. after 1812. 966
Dis. to ch. Charlestown. 967
Dis. to ch. Charlestown. 968
By death, aged 75 years. 969
Rem. before 1812. 970
Rem. before 1812. 971
By death, aged 44 years. 972
Rem. before 1812. 973
By death, before 1812. 974
Dis. to West ch. Andover. 975 ,
By death, aged 75 years. 976
By death. 977
By death, aged 43 years. 978
Rec. by ch. N. P. Andover. 979
By death, aged 57 years. 980
By death, aged 70 years. 981
Dis. to ch. Dunstable, N. H. 982
Dis. to 1st ch. Plymouth. 983
Dis. to ch. N. P. Andover. 984
By death, aged 71 years. 985
By death, aged 70 years. 986
Dis. to form ch. Albany, Me. 987
By death. 988
Dis. to ch. Northampton, N. H. 989
By death, aged 87 years. 990
By death, aged 85 years. 991
Rem. before 1812. 992
Rem. before 1812. 993
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover. 994
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover. 995

997

1000 1001
100210031004 100510061007
10081009 1010
101110121013
101410151016
10171018
1019 1020
10211022102310241025102610271028102910301031 10321033

Hannah (Shattuck) Clark (Samuel),
Rebecca Chandler (dau. of Wm.),
Elizabeth Houghton (Euclid),
Jeremiah Goldsmith,
Sarah [Convers] Goldsmith (Jorem.),
Eunice (Goldsmith) Smith (John),
Elizabeth (Goldsmith) Lee (Jacob),
Peter French,
Elizabeth [Jaquith] French (Feton),
Samuel Clark, *
Sarah Clark (Samuel),
Rachel (Jones) Woodbridge (Joshua),
Abigail Jones (dau. of Jacob),
Elizabeth Abbot, wid.,
Eunice Cummings, wid.,
Elizabeth [Burn ii am] Goldsmith (Zac),
Daniel Foster,
Polly [Chandler] Foster (Daniel),
Ezra Abbot,
Hannah [Poor] Abbot (Ezra),
Dorcas [Farnhaml Jones (Nathan),
Daniel Bates (H. U. 1797),
Jonathan Abbot, 4th,
Sarah (Holt) Baker (Eppes),
Sarah (Poor) Kendall (Rev. Jas. D.D.),
Ezekiel Hardy, jr.,
Hannah [Clark] Hardy (Ezekiel),
Molly Lovejoy (dau. of Jos.),
Nathan Abbot, jr.,
Hannah [Phelps] Abbot (Nathan jr.),
Joseph Phelps, jr.,
Rebecca [Abbot] Phelps (Jos. jr.),
John Wardwell, jr.,
Sarah [Trussell] Wardwell (John jr.),
Joshua Phelps,
Mary [Gilson] Phelps (Joshua),
Lydia [Farrington] Abbot (Herman),
Asa Abbot,

Date of Reception.

Manner of Reception.

Date of Bemoval.

Manner of Removal.

996

I-*cno

Oct. 8, 1797,
Oct. 29, 1797,

Profession of faith.

August 5, 1798,

Dis. to 1st ch. Randolph.

May 25, 1826,

By death.

997

Feb. 25, 1798,

Rem. helore 1812.
998
June 24, 1798,
July 15, 1842,
By death.
999
U
1828,
Dis. to Baptist ch.
1000
CC
Rem. to Hamilton.
Rem. to Manchester. .
1001 1002
July 15, 1798,
July 3, 1829, *
Exc. . See ch. Records.
1003
«
Dec. 9, 1838,
By death, aged 66 years.
1004
a
August 5, 1798,
Nov. 6, 1824,
By death, aged 77 years.
1005
W
° l£ '
1824,
By death.
1006
1-3O
Sept. 9, 1798,
Jan. 1850,
By death, aged 79 years.
1007
n
Dec. 16, 1806,
By death, aged 30 years.
1008
CC
By death.
1009
»
Oct. 28, 1798,
Rem. before 1812.
1010
a
Dec. 1805,
By death.
1011
H
• "
Oct. 15, 1811,
By death, aged 44 years.
1012
O
"
Oct. 11, 1826,
By death, aged 54 years.
1013
tc
Jan. 22, 1844,
By death, aged 83 years.
10141015
g
«*
May 6, 1856,
By death, aged 88 years.
1016
H
March 17, 1799, ,
1799,
By death.
Unknown.
1017
s
April 25, 1799,
1018
td
June 9, 1799,
1019
K
June 23, 1799,
August 10, 1300,
Dis. to 1st ch. Plymouth.
1020
CO.
June 30, 1799,
Rem. before 1812.
1021
''
Rem. before 1812.
1022
July 7. 1799.
Rem. before 1812.
1023
July 14, 1799,
Nov. 28, 1826,
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1024
¦'
it
Dis. to form W- ch Andover.
1025
August 4, 1799,
Sept. 10, 1835,
By death, aged 79 years.
1026
u
Jan. 21. 1844,
By death, aged 81 years.
1027
CC
Nov. 28, 1826,
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1028
"
ti '
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1029
Sept. 8, 1799,
August 1807,
By death, aged 33 years>
1030
u
Nov. 28, 1826,
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1C31
"
Dis. to form W. ch, Andover.
1033
Sept, 22, 1799, *
July 6, 1850,
By death, aged 80 years.
1033
Judith [.Taquith] Abbot (Asa),
Davis Foster,
Anne [Holt] Foster (Davis),
Betty B. [Stickney] Foster(Jno.)Clark
(Benj.),
Nancy (Holt) Newell (Chas.),
Dudley Trow,
Annis [Johnson] Trow (Dudley),
Sarah (Pinkham) Rogers (Wm.),
William Foster, jr.,
Sarah Upton,
Hannah Foster (dau. of Obadiah),
Mercy (Griffin) Johnson (Phineas),
Mary H. Griffin (dau. of Wm.),
Jen-miah Lovejoy,
Dorothy [Ballard] Lovejoy (Jerem.),
Dorcas [Foster] Chandler (Joshua jr.),
Edy Holt (dau. of Timbthy),
Mary A. Houghton,
Charlotte (Houghton) Abbot (Isaac),
Deborah Savage,
Prissey (Abbot) Kneeland (John),
Elizabeth K. Abbot (dau. of Henry),
Elizabeth [Pritch] Bolman (John),
Anna Foster (dau. of Jacob),
Ruthy Foster (dau. of Jacob),
Anna Peabody, wid.,
Sarah [Houghton] Harding (John),
Dorcas [Ames] Phelps (Isaac). ¦
Rebecca [Austin] Kneeland (John),
Samuel Cogswell,
Simonds Baker (Doct.),
Timothy Abbot,
Sarah [Abbot] Abbot (Timo.),
Thomas Manning,
Mehitabel [Kidder] Manning (Thos.),
Christina Barbara Hall,
Timothy Crosby.
Mary [Frye] Crosby (Timo.),
William Abbot,
Rebekah [Bailey] Abbot (Wm.),
Sarah (Corey) Crosby (John),

Sept. 22, 1799,
un
Oct. 13,1799, it
Nov. 3, 1799,
a
Deo. 22, 1799,
it
June 29. 1800,
August 17, 1800,
Sept. 7, 1800,
it
Sept. 21, 1800,
Oct. 26, 1800,
Nov. 2, 1800, .
Dec. 28. 1800,
Feb. 1,1801,
Juue 21, 1801,
June 28, 1801,
July 26, 1S01,

August 16. 1801,
Oct. 18,1801, U
Jan. 17, 1802,
n
March 7, 1802,

Profession of faith.

July 16, 1843,
Dec. 14, 1855,
Sept. 1803,
Sept. 4, 1803,
Sept. 17, 1815,

August 30, 1843,
1819,

Oct. 4, 1806,
Oct. 19, 1813,
Oct: 7, 1827,
Oct. 9, 1842,
August 21, 1821,
Feb. 17, 1830,
August 20, 1812,
1823,
March 1807,
Feb. 12, 1845,
August 12, 1819,
Dee. 9, 1834,
July 3, 1815,
March 1826,
April 2, 1835,
Feb. 20, 1832,
August 15, 1824,
May 13, 1804,
June 14, 1807,
March 12, 1836,
April 18, 1815,

By death, aged 67 years.
Died, aged 84 years.
By death, aged 27 years.
Dis. to form ch. Albany, Me.
Dis. to form ch. Albany, Me.
Dis. to ch. Hopkinton,N. H.
Dis. to ch. Hopkinton, N. H.
Rem. to Tewksbury before 1812
By death, aged 85 years.
By death.
By death, befor^.1812.
Dis. to ch. Pelham, N. H.
By death, aged 69 years.
By death, aged 72 years.
Dis. to W. ch. Andover.
By death, before 1812.
By death, aged 75 years.
By death.
Rem. before 1812.
By death, aged 60 years.
By death, aged 25 years.
Rem. before 1812.
By death.
By death, aged 46 years.
Rem. before 1812.
By death, aged 76 years.
By death.
By death, aged 93 years.
By death.
By death, aged 81 years.
By death, aged 85 years.
By death, aged 84 years.
By death, aged 74 years.
Dis. to ch. Montreal, L. C.
Dis. to ch. Peterboro', N. H.
Dis. to ch. Peterboro', N. H.
Died, aged 88 years.
Died, aged 63 years.
By death.

10341085

10371038 1089
1040
10411042104310441045104610471048
1049105010511052
10531054
10551056 1057
1058105910601061106210631064 1065
1066 10671068
1069
10701071 1072 1073
1074

Keg.

10751076
10771078107910801081
1082
1083 1084
1085108610871088
108910901091
1092109310941095
10961097 1098
10991100
11011102
110311041105
1106 1107 HOS1109

James Thompson (Rev. 1804),
Phebe [Foxcroft] Phillips(Hon.Sam'l),
John S. Abbot (H. U.1801),
Aaron Osgood,
Hannah [Johnson] Luscomb (Henry),
Abigail ( Judkins) Cummings (Amos),
Ezra Ingalls,
Dolly [Wilson] Ingalls (Ezra),
Hannah [Boynton] Crosby (John),
Elijah Patten,
Elsie [O'Neal] Patten (Elijah),
Enoch Abbot,
Nancy [Flint] Abbot (Enoch),
Mark Newman (D. C. 1793: Princ. P.
A. ; Dea. 1811),
Amos Blanchard, jr. (Dea. 1825),
Elizabeth [Jenkins] Blanchard (Amos
jr.),
Dorcas [Abbot] Bailey [Samuel],
Nathaniel Swift (Dr.),
Enoch Frye,
Mary [Shattuck] Frye (Enoch),
Osgood Johnson,
Fanny [Abbot] Johnson (Osgood),
Joseph Holt,
Lydia [Jones] Holt (Jos.),
Jacob Johnson,
Sarah Johnson (Jacob),
Samuel Greele (H. U. 1802),
Phebe [Abbot] Shattuck (Jos.),
Abiel Upton,
Molly [Jenkins] Upton (Abiel),
Rebecca [Lovejoy] Dunklee (Andrew
W.),
Samuel Farrar (H. U. 1797 ; Esq. ; Dea.),
Lydia (Johnson) Farnum (Benj.),
Mary [Johnson] Abbot (Bixby),
Isaac Lovejoy,

Date of Reception.

Manner of Reception.

Date of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

1075

I-1- Oi to

March 28, 1802,

Profession of faith.

Dec. 5, 1803,

Dis, to ch.. Barre.

May 10, 1802,

From 1st ch. Cambridge.

Oct. 31, 1812,

By death, aged 69 years.

1076

July 11, 1802,

Profession of faith.

June 1809,

By death, aged 30 years.

1077

August 1, 1802,
ti

it
ti

Jan. 24, 1839,

By death, aged 81 years.
Rem. before 1812.

1078
1079

n
tt
Feb. 3, 1805,
Dis. to ch. Norway, Me.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1080
August 20, 1802,
tt
Nov. 28, 1826,
1081
u
tt
1827,
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1082
"
ti
By death, before 1812.
1083
o
Oct. 24, 1802,
ti
Rem. before 1812.
1084
!>
CC
it
Rem. before 1812.
1085
t-lo Q
CC
u
Sept. 27, 1842,
Feb. 1, 1851,
By death, aged 68 years.
1086
CC
tt
By death, aged 73 years.
1087
Nov. 7, 1802,
From 1st ch. Ipswich.
June 15, 1859,
By death, aged 87 years.
1088
Dec. 26, 1802,
Profession tlf faith.
August 17, 1847,
By death, aged 74 years.
1089
M
u
tt
Jan. 3, 1849,
By death, aged 71 years.
1090
O
Jan. 2, 1803,
tt
By death, before 1812.
1091
Jan. 9, 1803,
it
Dec. 7, 1840,
By death, aged 63 years.
Dis. to W. ch. Andover.
1092
g
Jan. 30, 1803,
it
August 31, 1845,
1093
H
n
ti
August 20, 1837,
Dis. to W. ch. Andover.
1094
g
Feb. 13, 1803,
ii
Dec. 1808,
By death, aged 32 years.
1095
td
it
it
July 19, 1829,
By death, aged 50 years.
Dis. to form ch. Albany, Me.
1096
6=1
CC
ti
Sept. 4, 1803,
1097
CC
tt
it
Dis. to form ch. Albany, Me.
1098
March 29, 1803,
it
May 1803,
By death, aged 76 years.
1099
"
it
April 1807,
By death, aged 68 years.
Dis. to ch. Boston.
1100
April 3. 1803,
it
1813,
Nov. 28, 1826,
1101
tt
it ^
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1102
May 1,1803,
tt
August 15, 1831,
By death.
1103
CC
it
Jan. 22, 1853,
Bjs death.
1104
May 15, 1803,
it
Feb. 27, 1849,
By death, aged 85 years.
1105
it
From 1st ch. Cambridge.
1817
Dis. f. ch.Theol. Sem. Andover.
1106
June 26, 1803,
Profession of faith
March 19, 1805,
March 1805,
Dis. to ch. Concord, N. H.
1107
tt
it
By death, aged 48 years.
1108
July 24, 1803,
it
Nov. 28, 1826,
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1109
Anna^Poor) Bates (Rev. Dr. Joshua),
Pamela (Poor) Clarke (Rev. Amos),
Sarah [Abbot] Stevens [Jos.],
Dane Holt,
Lydia [Ballard] Holt (Dane),
John Farrar (H.U. 1803 : Prof. ; LL.D.),
Samuel Gile (D. C. 1804; Rev. 1807;
D. D.),
Molly [Dunlap] Blunt (David),
Simeon Furbush,
Rachel [Harnden] Furbush (Simeon),
Elizabeth Abbot (dau. of Moses),
Hannah Abbot (dau. of Moses),
Rhoda Abbot (dau. of Moses),
Anna Abbot (dau. of Moses),
Hannah Osgood (dau. of Samuel),
Abraham Bodwell (Rev.)
Daniel Cummings,
Hannah [Ames] Cummings (Dan'l),
Elizabeth (Abbot) Cogswell (Rev. Jona.
D. D.),
Hannah [Osgood] Lee(John),
Amos Lovejoy,
Elizabeth [Wardwell] Lovejoy (Amos)
Lummus (Samuel),
Amos Clarke (H. U 1804; Rev.),
Abigail [Barnard] Downing (Palfrey),
Jabez Hayward,
Abigail [Graves] Hayward (Jabez),
William Bailey,
John Lee,
Mary [Moulton] Abbot [Isaac],
Elizabeth [Dilloway] Hardy (Ezekiel),
Rebekah Holt,
Joshua Chandler, jr. (H.U. 1807; Rev.
1819),
Hannah [Dodge] Trow [John],
Lucy [Brown] Bailey [James],
Sarah [Abbot] Swift (Dr. Nath'I),
Charles Abbot,
Dorcas [Hart] Abbot (Chas),
Hannah [Duiant] Frye (Amos),

April 1, 1804,
August 5. 1804,
Sept. 16; 1804,
Oct. 28, 1804,
March 31, 1805,
April 21, 1805,
April 28, 1805,

Sept. 2, 1805,
Oct. 27, 1806,

Nov. 3, 1805,
April 10, 1806,
tt
May 18, 1806,
June 1, 1806,
June 29, 1806,
Sept. 14, 1806,
Nov. 6, 1806,
June 14, 1807,
July 19. 1807,
August 23, 1807,
Sept. 27, 1807,
Oct. 11, 1807,
May 8, 1808,
July 10, 1808,
July 17, 1808,
it
August 7, 1808,

Profession of faith.

From 2d ch, Danvers.
Profession of faith.

From No. ch. Reading.
Profession of faith.

June 22, 1811,
Oct. 29, 1809,
July 8, 1824,
Dec. 15, 1818,
Nov. 28, 1818,
Sept. 11,1807,
Feb. 8, 1807,
Since 1848,
July 10, 1835,
• 1853,
Feb, 12, 1829,
April 13, 1840,
Feb. 6, 1850,
July 27, 1834, 1826,
Oct. 19, 1806, 1827,
Jan. 29, 1832,
Sept. 21, 1811,
April 1806,

Oct. 29, 1809,
Nov. 28, 1826,
Nov. 24, 1835,
August 12, 1811,
Nov. 28, 1826,
March 26. 1812,
August 19, 1851,
Sept. 21, 1821,
Dec. 5, 1837,
1819,
Feb. 21, 1843,
Sept. 11, 1858,
March 6. 1856,
March 31, 1847,

Dis. to ch. Dedham.
Dis. to ch. Dedham.
By death, aged. 77 years.
By death, aged 79 years.
By death.
Dis. to ch. Cambridge.

Dis. to ch
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death,
By death.
By death
Dis. to ch
By death.
Dis. form

. Milton.
at Milford. N. H.
aged 75 years.
aged 88 years.
aged 61 years.
aged 68 years.
aged 73 years.
aged 58 years.
. Sanbornton, N. H.
ch. Springfield, Vt.

Dis. to ch. Saco, Me.
By death, after 1812.
By death, aged 26 years.
Rem. after 1812.
Dis. to 1st eli Dedham.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
By death, aged 83 years.
By death, aged 60 years.
Dis. to form W ch. Andover.
By death, aged 74 years.
By death, aged 76 years.
By death.
By death, aged 83 years.
Ord. at Swanzey, N. H.
By death,atMethuen,aged 95y .
By death.
By death, aged 75 years.
Died, aged 70 years.
Died, aged 59 years.

1110 11111112
1113
1114111511161117111811191120112111221123
1124
1125 1126
1127
1128112911301131113211331134
11351136 1137113811391140
1141 1142
1143,11441145 1146
1147

Reg.

11481149115011511152
1153 1154
11551156115711581159
1160116111621163
1164116511661167
116811691170
11711172
1173
1174117511761177
1178

Hannah [Russell] Abbot (Stephen),
David Rice,
Hannah [Tucker] Berry (Benj.),
Dorothy [Holt] Riggs (Asa),
Fanny Blanchard,
Deborah [Baker] Poor (Daniel),
Rachel (Furbush) Bardwell (Rev. Ho
ratio),
Sarah ( Herrick) Peet (Rev. Josiah),
Abigail (Abbot) Foster (Thos. O),
Elizabeth A. Pearson,
Mary (Pearson) 01iphant(Rev. David),
Susanna [Clark] Shattuck (Peter),
Hannah [Beverly] Beverly (Daniel),
Betsy Jones (dau. of Eben),
Mary (Jones) Abbot (Abel),
John Adams (Y. C. 1795; LL. D),
Elizabeth [Ripley] Adams (John),
Betsy Cleveland,
David'S. Pearson,
Warren Abbot,
Dolly [Foster] Burnham (Zaccheus),
Ednah ( Griffin) Wood (Thos. C),
Hannah Ballard,
Betsy (Abbot) Valpey (Sam'l S),
Alice Chandler,
Jonathan Gleason,
Isaac Carlton,
Mary [Boynton] Carlton (Isaac)ji
Stevens Chandler,
Isaac Mooar,
Dorcas [Barker] Faulkner (Lovel),
U79 i Susanna P. [Marshall] Kendall (Isaac)
Gould (Mark).
1180 Mary (Abbot) Parker (Carlton),
1181 Phebe F. (Abbot) Sanders (Daniel),
1182 | Hannah (Tucker) Hall (Zech.),
1183 ; Sarah A. Mooar,

Date of Reception.

Sept. 18, 1808,
Oct. 23, 1808,
May 17, 1812,
June 1812,

June 28, 1812,
(Ctt
Jan, 3, 1813, it
Oct. 31, 1813,

April 3, 1814,
May 15, 1814,

Manner of Reception.

Profession of faith.

From ch. Colchester, Ct.

Profession of faith.

From South ch. Reading.
Profession of faith.

Date of Removal.

Jan. 3, 1840,
April 11, 1820,
1824,
Oct. 24, 1844,1816,
Nov. 28, 1826,

1817,
May 1817,
August 23, 1835,
Deo. 10, 1838,1825,
Feb. 18, 1849,
Jan. 9, 1833,
Dec. 17, 1838,
Oct. 1833,
Nov. 28, 1826,
May 27, 1816,
' 1824,
Dec. 19, 1814,
Nov. 28, 1826,
June 6, 1825,

April 5, 1846,
Jan. 15, 1832,

Manner of Removal.

By death, aged 61 years.
By death.
By death, since 1848.
By death, since 1848.
By death.

Dis. Resides at Oxford.
Dis. to ch. Norridgewock, Me.
By death, aged 54 years.
Dis. to ch. Wells, Me.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
By death.

Dis. form ch.Th.Sem.Andover.
Dis. form ch . Th. Sem, Andover.
Dis. to 2d ch. West Newbury.
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.
By death.
By death, aged 83 years.
By death, aged 59 years.
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.
By death.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
By death, aged 65 years.
Dismissed.By death, aged 66 years.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
Exc. See ch. Records.
Lives at Hudson, N. H.
Dis. to form Free ch. Andover.
Dis. to form Meth.ch.Andover,
By death.

Oi

 ,

rt^

1148

1149

1150

1151
1152
1153
1154
1155
o
1166
>
1157
H
1158
>¦
1159
1160
ffi
1161
ei
1162
IS
1163
1164
|=d
1165
1166
F^
1167
tel
1168
F?
1169
td
1170
W
1171
Sd
1172
1173
1174
1175
1176
1177
1178
1179
1180
1181
1182
1183
1184 Abigail (Chandler) Daland (Geo,),
1185 Lucy P. [Merwin] Porter (Prof. Eben.,
D. D.),
1186 Sarah French [Jacob] Dane (Phil.),
1187 Susan Lines,
1188 Lydia Bachelder, mi.',
1189 James B. Lovejoy,
1190 Sally Johnson,
1191 Sarah (Putnam) Gulliver,
1192 Mary Upton,
1193 Mary [Woodbury] Eaton (John),
1194 Lydia [Noyes] Osgood (Samuel),
1195 Jerusha [Trow] Liiscomb (Samuel),
1196 Solomon Holt [Dea.],
1197 Ebenezer Lovejoy [Dea.],
1198 James Abbot,
1199 Mary [Foster] Abbot (James),
1200 Sarah Jackson,
1201 John Clark,
1202 William R. Lovejoy,
1203 Sarah [Frye] Hincholiff(John),
1204 Nehemiah Abbot,
1205 Susan [Abbot] Abbot (Neh.), .
1206 Rachel [Cochran] Abbot (Jos. B.)Abbot
(Wm.),
1207 Dorcas (Dane) Jones (Eben.),
1208 Caroline Weld,
1209 Joel Russell,
1210 Sally [Curtis] Russell (Joel),
1211 Sarah Boynton,
1212 Mary Abbot,
1213 Sally [Russell] Loring (Thos.),
1214 Phebe [Edwards] Hooker [Rev. Asa
hel] Farra*r (Samuel),
1215 Mary Bailey,
1216 MaTy (Chandler) Hidden (David),
1217 Sarah Woodbridge,
1218 Phebe (Phelps) Thurlow (Samuel),
1219 Jonathan Phelps,
1220 Abigail (Abbot) Phelps (Jona.),
1221 Mary St. Clair,
1222 Hannah [Russell] Abbot (Nathan),

May 15, 1814,
June 24, 1814,
it
June 26, 1814,

August 5, 1814,
Sept. 18, 1814,

Oct. 30, 1814
CC CCCC tt
April 2. 1815,
(<
May 14, 1815,
(C
July 2, 1815,
August 13, 1815,
ti
Not. 5, 1815,
CCCI((
May 19, 1816,
August 11, 1816,
Sept. 22, 1816,
tt1!
Jan. 6, 1817,

Profession of faith.
From ch. Washington, Ct.
From ch. Billerica.
Profession of faith.

From 1st ch. Reading.
Profession of faith.

From ch. Norwich, Ct.
Profession of -faith.

June 10, 1825,
May 1817,
Oct. 14, 1826,
1820,
Nov. 28, 1856,
May 6, 1826,
Jan. 16, 1820,
July 18, 1841,
Sept. 14, 1816,
Oct. 30, 1829,
Nov. 28, 1826,
ti
Oct. 4, 1858,

August 23, 1835, 1824,
August 10, 1834,
Dec. 13, 1823,
March 2, 1848,
Nov. 2, 1849,
Oct. 6, 1854,

Feb. 6, 1857,1827,
June 10, 1848,
May 1817, 1817,
Sept. 9, 1855,
May 2, 1834,1831.
August 19, 1833,
August 9, 1827,
1820,
Nov. 16, 1832,

By death, aged 31 years.
Dis. form ch.Th .Sem. Andover.
By death, aged 83 years.
By death.
By death.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
By death.
Dis. to 014 South ch. Boston.
Dis. to 1st ch. Nashua, N. H.

Dis. to W. ch. Andover.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
By death, aged 77 years.
By death.
Dis. to oh. Carlisle.
Dis. to oh. Boston.
Dis. form Ev. ch.N.P Andover.
By death, aged 67 years.
By death, aged 85 years.
Dis. to 1st ch. Lowell.
By death, aged 85 years.
Frob. rem. to Boston.
By death, aged 74 years.
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
By death.
By death, aged 64 years.
Dis. form ch.Th. Sem. Andover,
By death.
By death.
Dis. to Meth. ch. Andover.
Dis. to 2d ch. West Newbury.
Exc. See eh. Records.
By death, aged 44 years.
Dis. to ch. Lowell.
By death.

1184
1185 118611871188
1189 1190
11911192119311941195
11961197119311991200
1201 120212031204
1205 1206
12071208120912101211
1212
1213
1214 12151216 1217
121812191520
12211222

Beg.

NAME.

Date of Reception.

Manner of Reception.

Date of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

1223

Sarah (Wilds) Pearson (David S.),

Jan. 5, 1817,

Profession of faith.

Dec. 10, 1838,

Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.

1223

1224

Ralph H Chandler [Dea.],

May 4, 1817,

Nov. 4, 1839,

Dis. form Ev. ch.N.P Andover.

1224

1225

Joseph Griffin,

ii

April 24, 1821,
Dis. to ch. Brunswick, Me.
1225
1226
Thomas Manning,
July 6, 1817,-
Feb. 26, 1849,
By death, aged 67 years.
1226
1227
Sarah [Hart] Manning (Thos.),
Sarah Lummis (Joseph ),
u
Oct. 19, 1839,
By death, aged 55 years.
1227
1228
Nov. 7, 1817,
Oct. 16, 1831,
Dis. to ch. Springville, N. T.
1228
1229
Betsy Stevens,
it
1821,
Dismissed.
1229
1230
Persis (Frye) Edson (Elijah),
it
Nov. 28, 1826,
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1230
1231
Mary (Frye) Putnam (John),
tt
August 20, 1837,
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
1231
1232
Lydia [Bigelow] Edwards (Rev. Justiu
D. D.),
-
•
"
From ch. ColGhester, Ct.
Jan. 16, 1829,
Dis. to Salem St. ch. Boston.
1232
1233
Deborah [Sparhawk] Pearson (Dea.
. Abiel),
it
u
Oct. 12, 1838,
By death, aged 78 years.
1233
1234
Sarah (Abbot) Holt (David),
"
Profession of faith.
1234
1235
Sarah Shed,
ti
1820,
By death.
1235
1236
Phebe Foster,
Jan. 4, 1818,
July 10, 1820,
By death.
1236
1237
Nancy (Bridges) Herbert (Samuel),
"
1825
Dismissed.
1237
1238
Abigail Richardson,
tt
Jan. 22, 1833,
Dis. to Meth. ch. Andover.
1238
1239
Elizabeth Frye,
March 1, 1818,
Unknown.
1239
1240
Rebekah (Abbot) Knights (Robert),
44
1827,
Dis. to W. ch. Andover. .
1240
1241
Anna (Abbot) Stanyon (John),
44
Nov. 28, 1826,
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1241
1242
Lydia Abbot (dau. of Herman),
44
"
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1242
ia43
Joshua Abbot,
CC
1826,
Dismissed.
1243
1244
Dolly (Ingalls) Edson (Nath'l),
CC
Removed.
1244
1245
Simeon Flint,
May 3, 1818,
1827,
Rem. to W.'ch. Andover.
1245
1246
Martha [Furbush] Flint (Simeon),
Daniel Wardwell,
CC
1827,
Rem. to W. ch. Andover.
1246
1247
CC
Nov. 30, 1830,
Exc. See ch. Records.
1247
1248
Hannah Holt,
July 6, 1818,
August 2, 1831,
Died, aged 93 years.
1248
1249
Amos Abbott (Dea ; M. CO,
t(
1249
1250
Esther M. [West] Abbott (Dea. Amos),
it
Sept. 23, 1850,
By death, aged 57 years.
Dismissed.
1250
1251
Abigail Kendall,
it
Oct. 18, 1827,
1261
1252
Elizabeth (Whittier) Ewens (Chas.),
ii
Dis. to ch. Salem, N. H.
1252
1253
Mary [Dane] Humphrey (John),
it
March 2, 1853,
August 1, 1834,
Dis. Lawrence st.ch. Lawrence.
1253
1254
Rebecca Dane,
"
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
1254
1255
Abigail [Mason] Dodge [Larkin] New
man (Dea M-),
it
From ch. Tamworth, N. H.
1255
1256
Rhoda [Noyes] Luscomb (Richard),
tt
Profession qf faith.
Nov. 28, 1826,
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1256
1257 125S
1259 12601261 126212631264 1265
1266 1267
12681269 1270
1271 1272 1273
i_il274 i£.1275 1276 1277
1278 127912801281 1282
128312841285 1286128712881239 1290
12911292 1293

Samuel P. Newman (H. U. 1816; Prof.
B C), •
Abbot Jones,
Betsy [Frve] Jones,
Rhoda [Gleason] Gleason (Benj),
Phebe [Goldsmith] Jaquith (Jas.j,
Ruth C. (Wardwell) Ware (Altred)
Bullard (Daniel S),
Elizabeth! Stickney)Barnard(Hermon),
James Shipman,
DeGrass Shipman,
Lydia Shipman (DeGrass),
John Shipman,
Charlotte Shipman,
William Durant,
Sarah [Abbot] Russell (Abiel),
Mary H. (Greenleaf) Fuller (Sumner),
Elizabeth [Welch] Emery (Joshua),
Hannah (Boardman) Davis,
Margaret W. Newman,
Sarah P.Newman,
Abiel Russell.
Mary [Blunt] Durant (Wm),
Sarah Davis,
Sarah K. (Abbot) Hull (Rev. Hezekiah)
Mary K. (Holt) Jones (Dea. Eben.),
John Kneeland (Esq.),
Priscilla Russell,
Mary Stickney,
Ann (Whittier) Johnson (Rev. Sam'l),
Clarissa (Abbot) Poor (Rev. Eben.),
Eliza (Frye) Blanchard (Abel),
Osgood Johnson (D. C. 1828; Principal
Ph. Academy),
Cyrus Griffin,
George Daland (Dea. ; Rev.),
Joseph Cummings (Dea. 1846),
Mary [Plummer] Poor [Stephen] Cum
mings (Dea. Joseph),
Tamsen G. Buntin,
Mary Greenleaf (Josiah),

Jan. 17, 1819,
May 2, 1819,

July 4, 1819, It ttIt
ft
Nov. 7, 1819, tt
March 5, 1820,
Ct
May 7, 1820,

July 2,1820,
Sept. 1820,
Jan. 1821,

March 3, 1822,
May 5, 1822,

Profession of-faith.

From 1st ch. Saybrook, Ct.

Profession of faith.

By Letter.

1821, 1821;
. 1821,
Nov. 2, 1857,
Jan. 5, 1846,
Dec. 25, 1831,
Nov. 28, 1826,
July 12, 1821,
Jan. 22, 1833,
May 25, 1834,
March 15, 1821,
Sept. 21, 1846,
1835,
Feb. 7, 1829,
Nov. 22, 1827,

July 4, 1830,
June 1823,
'Sept. 4, 1831,
March 27, 1842, 1824,
Sept. 9, 1832,

May 9, 1837, 1837.
Sept. 16, 1832,
August 10, 1834,

1828,
May 10 1840,

Dis. to ch. Brunswick, Me.
Dis. to ch. Weld, Me.
Dis. toch. Weld, Me.
By death, aged 80 years
By death, aged 53 years.
Dis. to Meth. ch. Andover.
Dis. to form W. eb. -Andover.
By death, aged 66 years.
Dis. to Chatham st. ch., N. Y.
Dis. to Chatham st. ch.. N. Y.
Dis, to 1st ch. Saybrook, Ct.
Dis. to 1st ch. Saybrook, Ct.
By death.
By death, aged 54 years.
Dis. to ch. a. Boston.
Dismissed. Dis. A general letter.
By death, aged 25 years.

Removed. 5
Dis. to ch. New Haven, Conn.
Dis. to ch. Weld, Me.
By death.
By death, aged 88 years.
By death. .
Dis. to ch. Saco, Me.

By death, aged 34 years.
By'death, near Vicksburg,Miss.
Dis. to Baptist ch. Methuen.
Dis. form Ev.ch.N.P.Andover.
Dis. form Ev.ch . N.P.Andover.
Dis. to Salem st. ch. Boston.
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover. -

1257

1258

1259

1260

1261
1262
1263
1264
1265
1266
1267
a
1268
>
1269
H
1270
>t"1o
1271
1272
a
1273
a
1274
K
1275
1276
O
1277
1278
g
H
1279
g
1280
W
1281
M
1282
W
1283
Cfl
1284
1285
1286
1287
1288
1289
1290
12911292
t-*OI
1293
<I
1294
12951296 129712981299
130013011302
1303 1304
1305 130613071308
13091310
.1311 13121313
1314131513161317131813191320
132113221323132413251326132713281329

Abigail A. (Carlton) Upton (Abiel),
Appliia Parker,
Eliza Johnson,
Deborah L. Foster,
Mary F. (Abbot) Shattuck (Nathan),
Daniel Poor,
Oliver F. Daland,
Joshua Emery,
Sarah [Day] Mayo (Aaron D.),
John Chase,
Pascal Abbot (Dea. 1827),
Susan (Shattuck) Bradley (Geo.),
Abigail [Wood] Abbot (Jona.),
Charley Hadley,
Judith Hadley (Chas.),
Sarah Cummings,
Elizabeth Abbot,
Jane [Cochran] Merrill (John),
Sophia [Cochran] Bailey (Dau'l) Blood
(Rogers),
Stephen V. Mooar,
Elizabeth S. [Chase] Mooar (Steph.C),
Samuel G. Woodbridge,
Hannah [Blanchard] Woodbridge
(Samuel G.),
Edwin Farnham,
Doroas [Holt] Abbot (Henry jr.),
Anna Upton,
Elizabeth A. (Phelps) Moore (Richard),
Sarah S. (Abbot) Warner (Rev. A. B.),
Orphan Lovejoy,
Susanna McAlpm,
Eliza J. Abbot (dau. of Henry),
Mary Gray,
John Brown,
Cynthia Brown (John),
Robert Knights.
Elizabeth H. (Abbot) Russell (Chas),

Date of Beception.

Manner of Reception.

Dute of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

May 5, 1822,

Profession of faith.

May 22, 1834,

By death, aged 43 years.

14

ti

1834,

By death.

CC

it

1827,

Dismissed.

Sept. 1, 1822,

"

By death.

{i

"

April 25, 1829,

Dis. to ch. Billerica.

Nov. 3, 1822,

> ii

July 4. 1846,

By death, aged 64 yeais.
Dis. to ch. Boston.

"

it

July 25, 1830,

Jan. 5, 1823,

tt

Jan. 28, 1854,

By death, aged 80 years.

May 4, 1823,

'*

Jan. 24, 1839,

Dis. to ch. Roxbury.

June 6, 1823,

11

Nov. 28, 1826,

Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.

if

tt

Sept. 22, 1845,

Dis. to ch. Norwich, Ct.

Sept. 7, 1823,
Sept. 28, 1823,

ti

1827,

Dis. to W. ch. Andover.

tf

By death.

Nov. 2, 1823,

From ch. Lyndeboro'.

Sept. 22, 1825,

By death.

41

•i

1827,

Dismissed.

Dec. 7, 1823,

Profession of faith.

tt
it
April 28, 1831,
Dis. to ch. Wilton, N. H.
Jan. 4, 1824,
it
Sept. 1, 1825,
By death.
tt
it
Nov. 28, 1826,
Dis. to form W ch. Andover.
Feb. 1, 1824,
it
Oct. 14, 1839,
Dis. to Christ ch Andover.
ti
"
April 25, 1854,
By death, aged 72 years.
Dis. to 1st ch. Bangor, Me.
it
tt
Sept. 9, 1842,
it
tt
Feb. 22, 1832,
By death.
t(
From oh. N.Yarmouth,Me.
April 25, 1828,
Dis. to W. ch. Andover.
March 7, 1824,
Profession Of faith.
March 24, 1842,
By death, aged 60 years.
-tt
March 24, 1834,
Dis. form Ev.ch.N. P. Andover.
tt
it
May 3, 1840,
Dis. to ch. Milford, N. H.
t(
tt
August 31, 1845,
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
tt
tt
1827,
Dismissed.
"
((
Sept. 16. 1858,
Feb. 8, 1853.
By death, aged 50 years.
Dis. ch. Jamaica PI., Roxbury..
tt
f'
it
ti
Sept. 7,1828,
Dis. to 1st ch. Bangor, Me.
tt
it
. it
Dis. to 1st ch. Bangor, Me.
tt
tt
1827,
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
tt
it
Sept. 16, 1832,
Dis. to ch. Westiord.
1294 1295
1296 12971298
1299 1300
1301 1302
1303 130413051306 1307 13081309
13101311 13121313 13141315 131613171318 131913201321 1322132313241325 1326
13371328
11329
Ann E. Evans, [wid.]
Francis Butters (Dea.),
Betsy Butters (Francis),
Joshua Chandler,
Mary [Phelps] Chandler (Jos.),
William Abbot,
Peter Young,
Deborah [Ingalls] Lee [David] Young
(Peter),
Judith Picket,
Rebecca [Bailey] Boynton (Thos.),
Phebe [Lovejoy] Fox (Daniel),
Sarah [Bailey] Stevens (Daniel),
Lucy [Abbot] Cummings (Sam'l),
Jeremiah Hurd,
Martha [Chandler] Hurd (Jere.),
Hannah [Holt] Faulkner(John),
Bethiah [Hayward] Foster (Daniel),
Sarah- [Houghton] Frye (Zach.) Sam
ple (James),
James Smiley,
Clarissa Whiton (Benj.),
Ann Wood,
Henry Abbot (H. U. 1796),
Judith [Follansbee] Abbot (Henry),
Palfrey W. Downing,
Hannah [Stevens] Downing (Palf.W.),
Homan Hallock,
Sally [Poor] Lovejoy (Bodwell),
Abigail (Holt) Chamberlain (Eph.),
Priscilla [Baker] Frye (Nath'l),
Martha F. (Abbot) Bullard (Timo.),
Adeline A. (Abbot) Manning (Thos.),
Eliza J. (Abbot) Berry (Eben. G.).
Hannah (Burt) Fiske (Rev. Chas. R.),
Hannah (Cummings) Williams,
Hannah (Luscombj Trow (Daniel),
Abigail Frye,
Hannah [Bailey] Lovejoy (Jas. B.),
Sarah Jenkins,
Lydia [Jenkins] Gould (Cornel.),
Caleb P. Flint,

June,July 3, 1824,

Sept. 5, 1824,

Profession of faith.

By death.

1330

Joined Wintej st.ch Haverhill.

1331

Jan. 1835,

Dis. to Winter st ch. Haverhill.

1332

Nov. 28, 1826,

Dis. to form W. ch. Andover:

1833

tt

Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.

1334

Dec. 1827,

By death, aged 29 years.

1335

Feb. 28, 1828,

By death, aged 36 years.

13361337

By death, since 1834.

1338

1827,

Dis. to West ch. Andover.

1339

1827,

Dis. to West ch. Andover.

1340

1827,

Dis. to West ch. Andover.

13411342

Jan. 22, 1833,

Dis. to 1st ch. Lowell.

1343

tt

Dis. to 1st ch. Lowell.

1344

Living at Lawrence.
1345
Living at Boston.
1346
Nov. 15, 1840,
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.
1347
1827,
Dismissed.
1348
April 30, 1828,
Fellowship withdrawn,
1349
Feb. 28, 1853,
By death, aged 45 years.
1350
1351 1352
June 5, 1830,
Dis. to ch. Dover, N. H.
1353
By death.
1354
Proh. dis. Missionary Printer.
1355
Nov. 28, 1826,
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1356
Sept: 27, 1829, ¦
Dis. ch. Albany, Me.
By death, aged 49 years.
Dismissed.
1357
Nov. 2, 1838,
1358
1828,
1359
1360
July 1, 1832,
Dis. to 1st ch. Danvers.
1361
Oct. 16, 1831,
Dis. to ch. Brewer, Me.
Dis. to ch. Springfield, Vt.
Dis. to form w. ch. Andover.
1362
Jan. 29, 1832,
1363
Nov. 28, 1826,
1364
1828, "
Dis. to ch. Woburn.
1365
Nov. 28, 1826,
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
1366
April 21, 1847,
Oct. 1834,
By death, aged 76 years.
Dis. to Metn. ch, Reading.
1367
1368
Nov. 28, 1826,
Dis. to form W ch. Andover.
1369
Re».

13701371 1372
137313741375137613771378
1379
1380 1381
13821383
1384 1385
13861387
138813891390
13911392
13931394
13951396
13971398
1399
14001401
1402140314041405

Sarah [Merrill] Flint (Caleb P.),
Elizabeth [Jaquith] Smith (Dusfin K.)
Rhoda Stevens,
Lydia (Callahan) Burrill (Jabez),
Ruth [Beard] Holt (Thomas).
Hannah [Hawley] Whittier (Nath'l),
Abel Blanchard,
Hannah [Nowell] Shed (Jacob),
Sally [Stickney] Dalton Locke (Jas.),
Caroline Flint,
Peggy [Lemon] Esty (Wm.),
Elizabeth [Wilds] Hitchings (Benj.),
Eliza (Holt) Easton (Eben. N.),
James Dane,
Rebecca [Pilsbury] Dane (James),
Joseph Holt, jr.,
Elizabeth [Braddock] Holt (Jos. jr.),
Phebe [Kimball] Chandler (Ralph H.)
Eliza Moar,
Ebenezer Jones [Dea.],
Mary K. [Holt] Jones (Eben.),
Peter Smith [Dea.],
Rebecca [Bartlett] Smith (Peter),
Betsy [Russell] Smith (Thomas),
Elizabeth [Walker] Gowing (Jos.),
George B. Swift [Doct.],
Thomas Smith,
Sarah E. [Wakefield] Trull (Fred.),
Susan [Carter] Chandler (Joshua),
Sarah [Poor] Mooar (Isaac),
Jonathan Leavitt,
Louisa [Adams] Leavitt (Jona.),
John C. Smith,
Elizabeth (Barker) Dwight (Rev. H. G.
0.,D. D.),
Elijah Edson,
Maria Noyes,

Date of Reception.

Sept. 5, 1824,

Jan. 2, 1825,

Feb. 27, 1825,
March 6, 1825,

May 1, 1825, ttCC
CC CC
CC
July 3, 1825, CCft
C(
Sept. 4, 1825,
(C
March 6, 1826,
ii it
'*
April SO, 1826,

Manner of Reception.

Profession of faith.

From ch.Th Sem.Andover
Profession of faith.

From ch. Weld, Me.
From ch. Plymouth. ti
Profession of faith.

From ch.Th.Sem.Andover.

Profession of faith.

Date of Removal.

Nov. 28, 1826, ,
Dec. 25, 1831,
Feb. 28, 1851,
Sept. 1, 1858,

Sept. 17, 1835, 1827,
July 6, 1853,
Nov. 28, 1826,
tt
Jan. 18, 1836,

Oct. 14, 1845;
Oct. 31, 1828,

Sept. 13, 1840,
Jan. 1835,
Sept. 18, 1832,
March 21, 1834,
Nov. 28, 1826,
1828,

Nov. 28, 1826,
| March 3, 1829,

Manner of Removal.

Dis. to form W. eh. Andover.
Removed from town.
Rem. to ch. Amesbnry.
Dis. to Free ch. Andover.
By death, aged 69 years.
Living in New York.City.
By death, aged 66 years.
Dismissed.
Fellowship withdrawn.
Dis. to form W- ch. Andover.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.

By death, aged 41 years.

By death, aged 43 years.
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
Dis. to ch. Amherst, N. H.
Dis. to ch. Milton.
By death, aged 51 years.
Dis. to Meth. ch. Andover.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
Dis. to oh. New York City.
-Dis. to oh. New Y.ork.City.
Dis. to oh. New York City.
Died.Dis. to form W. ch. Andover.
By death, aged SO years.

1370
1371 13721373
1374137513761377
1378 137913801381
1382 138313841385 13S6
1387 13881389139013911392 13931394
13951396 1397
1398 1399140014011402
1403
1404 1405

1406
1407 1408140914101411 1412141314141415141614171418 1419
1420 1421
1422
>^1423 *"1424 *1425 14261427 1428
1429 143014311432 14331434 14351436 1437 14381439
14401441
1442 1443
1444

Catherine (Richardson) Brown (Rev.
Isaac Wardwell,
Nathaniel Morrill,
Mary [Buck] Morrill (Nath'l),
Mary [Sikes] Marland (Abraham),
Sally [Wood] Low (J. LX
Eliza T. Bond,
Betsy [Hawley] Cooper (Samuel),
Fanny [Abbot] DownB (Benj. R.),
Ann Abbot,
Sarah Cogswell,
Mary Spofford,
John Derby,
Rebecca [Punchard] Derby (John),
Jewett Jones,
Susan [Lovejoy] Jones (Jewett),
Sarah [Osgood] Wardwell (Dr. Dan'l),
Fanny [Peabody] Needham (Samuel),
Abigail [Buck] Carter (Richard),
Elizabeth [Swallow] Cogswell (ThoB.)
Needham,
Rebecca [Manser] Smiley (James),
Harriet Dole,
Daniel Wardwell, jr.'(Dr.),
Henrietta [Wilkins] Cheever (James),
Mary H. (Adams) Lord (Hon. Nath'l),
Sarah [Brock] Woodbridge (Dudley),
Abigail Whitcomb, wid.,
Eunice R. [Amos] Davis (John),
Martha J. (Abbot) Hull (Sidney),
Hannah Brown,
Sarah W. (Poor) Reed (Henry),
Lucretia [Ward] Richardson (Warren),
Hannah [Manser] Shattuck (Samuel),
Mary P. (Abbot) Boutwell (Kev. Jas.),
Mary (Cogswell) Mason (Fred.),
Charlotte (Upton) Trow (Dudley jr.),
Jane McKean,
Mary Shattuck,
Henry Callahan (U. C. 1836; A. T. S.
1840; Rev.),

July 2, 1826,
Sept. 3, 1826,
Nov. 6, 1826,

May 6, 1827,

July 1, 1827,

Dec. 16, 1827,
March 2, 1828.

April 27, 1828,
July 6, 1828,

Nov. 4, 1828,
/

Profession of faith.

From ch. Billerica.
From ch. N. P. Andover.
Profession of faith.

From ch. Middleton.
Profession of faith.

1833,
Feb. 17, 1858,
April 25, 1828,
Jan. 14, 1838, 1828,
July 10, 1840,
May 9, 1828,
August 24, 1835,
April 6, 1831,1837,

July 8, 1857,1856,

August 7, 1836,
Dec. 16, 1839,
April 14, 1851,
August 10, 1834,
April 12, 1845,
July 30, 1837,
Oct. 1834,

1835,
Sept. 16. 1847,
May 29, 1842,
April 21, 1850,
August 12, 1857,

By death.
Dis. to 1st ch. Danvers.
Dis. to W. ch. Andover.
Dis. to W. ch. Andover.
Dis. to Christ ch.. Andover.
Dis. to ch. New York.
By death, aged 49 years.
Lives at Bradford.
By death, aged 43 years.
By death.
By death.
Dis. to Christch. Andover.
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.

Dis. to Ev. ch. N. P. Andover.
By death.

Dis. to ch. Nashua, N. H.
By death.
By death.
By death, aged 67 years.
Dis. form Ev.ch.N.P.Andover
By death, aged 86 years.
Dis. to Essex st. ch. Boston.
Dis. to Col. Bapt. ch. Boston.
By death.
Dis. to ch. South Danvers.
By death, aged 46 years.
Dis. to ch. Brentwood, N. H.
Dis. to ch. Middleton.
Removed from town.
Dis. ch, of tbe Unity, S.Boston.

Presbyterian Min.Oxford,N.Y. 1444 i-1

14061407
1408 14091410-
1411
14121413 14141415
1416
14171418
1419 14201421
142214231424
1425142614271428
14291430
14311432143314341435143614371438
14391440144114421443

Reg.

NAME.

Date of Reception.

Manner of Beception.

D;ite of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

1445

Hannah [Frye] Jones (Nathan),

May 3,' 1829,

Profession of faith.

Oct. 7, 1347,

By death, aged 65 years.

1445

1446

Hannah D. Frye,
Rebecca H. (Abbot) Higgins(Eben.P.),
Hannah F. (Abbot) Mansfield (Rev.

Ct

"

April 14, 1845,

By death.

1446

1447

CC

"

1447

I44S

Daniel),
CC
CC
Dec. 17, 1838,
Dis. to ch. Wenham.
1448
1449
Sarah F. (Swift) Hall (Rev. Jeffries),
ct
July 5, 1829,
<c
March 21, 1834,
Dis. to ch. Hopkinton.
1449
14501451
Lucinda (Favour) Phelps (Joel),
Martha (Goldsmith) Greene (Joshua),
"
Jan. 24, 1839,
Dis. to 2d ch. Medford.
14501451
1452
Hannah (Foster) Abbot (Dea. Pascal),
It
From ch. Greenfield, N. H.
Sept. 25, 1845,
Dis. to 1st ch. Norwich. Ct.
1452
1453
Clarissa [Munger] Badger (Rev. Mil
Dis. to Pres. ch. (Dr. Patten's)
ton D. D.),
¦c
From ch. New Haven,.Ct.
Sept. 4, 1842,
New York City.
1453
1454
Ruth [Dixon] Abbot [George],
Mary [Wood] Griffin (Eldad),
July 12, 1829.
Profession of faith.
1454
1455
August 30, 1829,
.it
By death.
1455
1456
Alice [Saunders] French (Berij.),
44
"
August 20, 1837,
Dis. to ch. Saxonville.
1456
1457
Dolly [Farnham] Abbot (Isaac jr.),
ct
"
Dec. 20, 1840,
By death, aged 32 years.
1457
1458
Caroline M. (Green) Blanchard ( Wm.),
CC
tt
April 14, 1853,
Dis. A general letter. *
1458
1459
Aaron Green (H. U. 1789; Rev.),
CC
From ch. Maiden.
Dec. 23, 1853,
By death, aged 89 years.
1459
1460
Eunice [Orn ;] Green (Eev. Aaron),
"
, •>
Jan. 22, 1858,
By death, aged 87 years.
1460
1461
Mehitabel M. (Hawley) Winiield (Jos.),
Nov. 1, 1829,
Profession of faith.
1461
1462
Ruth [Bradley] Barker [Joshua],
"
From ch. Boxtord.
August 10, 1834,
Dis. form Ev.ch.N. P. Andover.
1462
1463
Elizabeth Blanchard,
U
From ch. Wilton.
Nov. 20, 1857,
By death, aged 83 years.
1463
1464
Rhoda Blanchard,
(C
u
June 30, 1857, •
By death, aged 72 years.
1464
1465
Juliett C. [Bailey] Newman (Mark 2d),
Jan. 3, 1830,
Profession of faith.
Sept. 25, 1842,
By death, aged 38 years.
Dis. to ChrisPch. Andover.
1465
1466
Eliza A. (Frye) Abbot (Henry W.),
Martha Poor (dau. of Daniel),
t(
"
Dec. 10,1838,
1466
1467
(C
"
1834,
By death.
1467
1468
Elizabeth [Upton] Chandler (Isaac),
CC
From ch. N. Danvers.
..
P.y death.
1468
1469
Mary Abbot (dau. of James),
William Jenkins,
July 4, 1830,
Profession of faith.
August 3, 1857,
By death, aged 46 years.
1469
1470
Nov. 7, 1830,
ft
May 20, 1844,
Fellowship withdrawn.
1470
1471
Mary S. [Farnham] Jenkins (Wm.),,
«
ti
July 5, 1853,
Fellowship withdrawn.
1471
1472
Jonas Holt,
CC
tt
May 20, 1844,
Fellowship withdrawn.
1472
1473
Pamelia P. [Frye] Holt (Jonas),
CC
"
April 5, 1846,
Dis. to form Free ch. Andover.
1473
1474
Anna [Harnden] Trull (Levi),
CC
tt
Nov. 5, 1844,
By death, aged 67 years.
,1474
1475
Mary Coffin [wid.],
CC
tt
Rem. Probably dismissed.
1475
1476
Sarah [Wood] Mears (Zeb.),
CC
"
1476
1477
Mary Lord,
CC
it
Jan. 22, 1833,
Dis. to Chatham St. ch. N. Y.
1477
1478
Harriet [Richardson] Roberts (James)
Sylvester (Nath'l),
Lydia (Richardson) Sylvester (Nath'l),
CC
it
Sept. 2, 1849,
Dis. to Ev. ch. N. P. Andover.
1478
1479
Nov. 7, 1830,
it
Nov. 6, 1844,
Dis. to form ch. Danvers Plain.
1479
1480
14811482148314841485
I486 14871488
1489 1490
1491 1492
1493
1494 14951496149714981499150015011502 15031504
1505 15081507 150S150915101511 15121513151415151516 1517
1518 151915201521

Phebe Abbot (dau. of Moses),
Persis Holt (dau. of Isaac),
Sophronia (Abbot) Gray (David),
Rebecca H. (Abbot) Foster (George),
Esther H. (Ward) Smith (Dea. Peterj,
Sarah (Peters) Gray (David),
Elizabeth (Osgood) Johnson (Nathan),
Louisa C. (Payson) White,
Losina C. (Goldsmith) Waldo (Jona.),
Sophronia W. (Flint) Temple,
Lucy Cogswell (dau. of Samuel),
Betsy (Bodwell) Gray (Cornelius),
Joseph S. Holt,
Joseph H. Farnham,
Israel C. Russell,
George Packard,
Joseph Holt,
Lydia [Jones] Holt (Jos.),
Moses Wood,
Betsy [Abbot] Wood (Moses),
Moses Wood, jr.,
Elizabeth Stevens,
Benjamin Jenkins, jr.,
Betsy [Berry] Jenkins (Benj. jr.),
Abraham J. Gould (Dea. 1845),
Mary B. [Brown] Gould (Dea. A. J.),
Daniel Abbot,
Sally [Foster] Abbot (Daniel),
Reuben Jones,
Rachel S. [Woodbridge] Jones (Reub.),
Mark H. Newman IB. C. 1825,)
Mary [Dickinson] Newman (Mark H.),
Hannah [Trow] Flagg (Timothy),
Abby C [ Williams] Elles (Kelita S.),
Phebe H. [Osgood] Higgins (Sol. H.),
Mary M. (Frye) Morrison (Chas. G),
Mary M (Wardwell) Tyler (Eben B.),
Anna M. Shipman,
Hannah (Newman ) Fay Rev.fSam'lA.),
Catharine F. (Swift) Trow (John F.),
Martha A. (Jones) Day (Wm. L.), .
Mary J. (Jones) Rice (Edw.),

Nov. 7, 1830,

Jan. 2, 1831,

Profession of faith.

From ch. Albany, Me.
Fr. ch. Norridgewock,Me.

From ch. N. P. Andover.
Profession of faith.

April 5, 1846,
Sept. 22, 1850,
Jan. 22, 1833,
Sept. 6, 1835,
August 10, 1834,
August 1, 1834,
Jan. 22, 1833,
Maroh 4, 1832,
April 25, 1847,
May 3,1840,
Jan. 22, 1833,
July 14, 1858,
July 13, 1835,
July 2, 1835,
August 10, 1834,
May 2, 1835,
June 25, 1853,

Dec. 4, 1842,

April 16, 1837,
Feb. 7, 1838,
Sept. 1, 1858,
Jan.-22, 1833,
March 4, 1838,
Oct. 1834,
March 21, 1834,
May 1, 1848,

Eiving at Middlebury, Vt.
Dis. tofbrmTTrcech. Andover.
Dis. to Free ch. Andover.
Dis. to Meth. ch. Andover.
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
Dis. form Ev.ch.N.P.Andover.
Dis. to ch. Woodstock, Vt.
Dis. to ch. Southampton.
Dis. to ch. Reading.
Dis.to Spring st.Presb, ch.N.Y.
Dis. to 1st ch.'Bidtleford, Me.
Dis. to ch. W. Bloomfieia,N.J.
By death, aged 78 years.
Removed from town.
By death, aged 56 years.
Dis. to Essex st. ch. Boston.
Dis. form Ev.ch.N.P.Andover.
By death, aged 49 years.
By death, aged 56 years.

Dis.to Spring st. Presb.eh. N.Y.
Dis.to Spring St. Presb.ch.N.Y.
Dis. to Brainerd Presb.ch.N.Y.
Dis.lst Pres. ch.Brooklyn,N.Y.
By death, aged 49 years.
Dis. Chatham st. Presb.ch.N.Y.
Dis. to ch. Barre.
Dis. to Presb. ch. New York.
Dis. to 2d ch. Lowell.
Dis. to Kirk st. ch. Lowell.

148014811482 1483
148414851486 1487
14881489
1490 14911492
1493149414951496
1497 1498
1499
1500 15011502
150315041505 1506
150715081509151015111512
15131514 1515
1516 15171518
1519 1520
1521

Bes;.

NAME.

Date of Reception.

Manner of Reception.

Date of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

1522

Elizabeth H. Phelps (dau. of Jona.).
Phebe G. (Jatjuith) James (Rev ^V.L.),
Hannah A. Jaquith (dau. of James),

Jan. 2, 1831,

Profession of faith. •

March 10, 1858,
August 12, 1857,

Dis. to ch. Th. Sem. Andover.

1522

15231524

ti

tt tt

Die. Ref.D.ch. Woodstock,N. Y.

15231524

1525

Amos Holt,

tt

tt

1525

1526

Eunice [Evans] Holt (Amos),

tt

From ch. South Reading.

1626
1527
1528
Eldad Griffin,
Enoch Abbot, jr.,
ttit
Profession of faith.
it
March 5, 1858,
Exc. See ch. Records.
15271528
1529
Charles G. Morrison,
it
"
Feb. 7, 1838,
Dis.lst Pres. ch.Brook)yn,N.Y.
1529
1530
John F. Trow,
tt
it
Oct. 1834,
Dis. to Presb. ch. New York.
1530
1531
James I. Shipman,
u
tt
Jan. 22, 1833,
Dis. to 1st ch. Saybrook, Ct.
1531
1532
William Waters,
tt
it
Dec. 10, 1843,
Dis. to Essex st. ch. Boston.
1632
1533
William Swift,
tt
tt
Nov. 20, 1833,
By death, aged 24 years.
1533
1534
William J. Newman (B. T. S.,- Rev.),
tt
it
March 5, 185tl,
By death, aged 38 years.
Dis. to 2d ch. Medford.
1534
1535
Susan V. (Jones) Eeles (Fred. S.),
tt
it
March 1, 1857,
1535
1536
Isaac Abbot, jr.,
March 6, 1831,
tt
June 10, 1844,
Fellowship withdrawn.
1536
1537
Henry B. Frye,
tt
tt
Sept. 20, 1835,
Dis. to ch. New York.
1637
1538 1539
Diana [Bray] Russell (John),
Rhoda E. Braddock,
tttt
titt
March 4, 1858,
By death, aged 82 years.
15381539
1540
Henry Abbot, 3d,
May 1, 1831,
tt
1540
1541
Albert Hervey (Dea.),
"
tt
August 10, 1834,
Dis. form Ev.ch.N.P.Andover.
1541
1542
Abigail Anderson [wid.],
tt
tt
1847
By death.
1542
1543
Patty Peters,
tt
ii
July 1845,
By death.
Living in W. P. Andover.
Rem, before 1848. '
1543
1544
Mary A. (Clement) Lovejoy (Wm. B.),
tt
tt
1544
1545
Phebe R. (Woodbridge) Perkins,
tt
tt
1545
1546
Lydia [Frost] Upton (Samuel) Clark
r
(John),
it
From ch. Tewksbury.
August 23, 1835,
Dis. to ch. Carlisle.
1546
1547
Asa L. Shipman,
Charles E. Morse,
Mary P. [Blunt] Shed (Peter),
July 3, 1831,
Profession of faith.
1835|
Dis. to ch. New York.
1547
1548
tt
tt
April 29, 1859,
Exc. See ch. Records.
1548
1549
tc
it
June 8, 1853,
Dis. to ch. Milford, N. H.
1549
1550
Lydia (Keyes) Gordon (Earl C.),
CC
From ch. Princeton.
Rem. before 1848.
1550
1551
1552
Levi Trull,
Nathaniel Whittier,
Sept, 4, 1831, .
Profession of faith.
tt .
Sept. 29, 1849,
By death, aged 76 years.
1651
1552
1553
Samuel S. Valpey,
tt
tt
Jan. 21, 1838,
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.
1653
1554
Joseph Brown,
tt
it
Jan. 3, 1845,
Exc. See ch. Records.
1554
1555
Martha (Hawley) Phillips (Nathaniel),
tt
it "
May 2, 1834,
Dis. to ch. Taunton.
1555
1556
Sarah A. Abbot (dau. of Asa), ,
tt
it
1556
1557
Margaret W. Abbot (dau. of George), ,
tt
tt
March 31, 1856,
By death, aged 39 years.
1557
1558
Elizabeth Abbot (dau. of George),
tt
it
March 29, 1835,
By death, aged 17 years.
1558
>o o
a
og tdXIX
1559 Ebenezer Jones, sr.,
1560 Samuel Jenkins,
1561 Lydia [Damon] Jenkins (Samuel),
1562 Job Abbot,
1563 Lucy [Chandler] Abbot (Job),
1564 Henry Abbot, jr.,
1565 Joseph G owing,
1566 Ruth Curtis,
1567 Hannah Brown,
1568 Clarissa (Stone) Brown (Joseph),
1569 Susan B. (Farnham) Abbot (Samuel),
1570 Catharine Wood (dau. of Moses),
1571 Samuel S. Snow,
1572 Samuel R. Sargeant,
1573 David W. Lord,
1574 John C. Farnham,
1575 Alford Jones,
1576 KelitaS.Elles,
1577 Thomas C. Foster,
1578 Timothy Flagg,
1579 Samuel Needham,
1580 James Jaguith,
1581 Joseph Richardson,
1582 Aaron D. Mayo,
1583 Isaac Blunt, jr.,
1584 Nathan Johnson,
1585 Samuel Osgood,
1586 Martha [Fox] Osgood (Samuel),
1587 Jedediah Burtt,
1588 Mary [Needham] Burtt (Jedediah),
1589 Samuel Morrill,
1590 Hannah [Abbot] Morrill (Samuel),
1591 George K. W. Gallishan,
1592 Elizabeth E. [Atkinson] Gallishan (G.
K. W.),
1593 Sarah W. [Kimball] Foster (Wm.),
1594 Sarah [White] Trulan (Hugh),
1595 Lydia A. [Thompson] Phelps (Joel),
1596 Eliza [Blunt] Jaquith (Henry),
1597 Lucy F. [Mann] Baker (David),
1598 Hannah P. Osgood,
1599 Mary 0. (Locke) Capewell (Wm.P.),

Nov. 6, 1831,

Jan. 1,

Profession of faith.

Fr.Ep.ch.PortsraouthN.H.
Profession of faith.

August 25, 1832,
May 20, 1844,
Sept. 14, 1856,

Sept. 24, 1845,
Sept. 13, 1840,
May 25, 1855,
April 16, 1857,
Feb. 22, 1847,
Dec. 26, 1841,1831,
Dec. 25, 1836,
May 1. 1835,
April 14, 1853,
Oct. 1, 1837,
April 16, 1837,
June 15, 1833,

August 13, 1859,
August 1,1834,

May 1, 1857,
Oct. 30, 1857,
May 4, 1856, 1837,1838
March 16, 1850,
Jan. 12, 1843,
Nov. 1, 1841,
March 29, 1857,
August 10. 1834,
Sept. 22, 1850,

By death, aged 73 years.
Fellowship withdrawn.
By death, aged 77 years.

By death, aged 67 years.
Dis. to ch. Amherst, N. H.
By death, aged 56 years.
Dis. Lawrence st.ch. Lawrence,
By death, aged 34 years.
Dis. to Garden st. ch. Boston.
Dis. A general letter.
Dis. to Pres. ch. Roxbury ,N.Y.
Dis. to 1st ch. Ipswich.
Dis. to 1st ch. Cambridge.
Dis. to ch. Amherst, N. H.
Dis. Brainerd Presb. ch. N. Y.
By death, aged 40 years.
By death.

By death.
By death, aged 64 years.
Dis. to ch. Woodstock, Vt.
Living at Lowell.
Living at Lowell.
Exc. See ch. Records.
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
Dis. to ch. South Dedham.
Dis. to ch. South Dedham.
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.
By death, aged 62 years.
By death, aged 42 years.
By death.
By death, aged 53 years.
Dis.form Ev. ch. N.P Andover.
By death, aged 58 years:

10591560 1561
1562156315641565
15061567 156815691570
15711572 1573
157415751576
157715781579158015811582
15831584158515861587
1588 1589
15901591
1592 159315941E95
15961597
1598

Reg.

NAME.

Date of Reception.

Manner of Reception.

Date of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

1600

Rhoda Townsend,

Jan. 1, 1832,

Profession of faith.

1600

1601

Sarah [Loring] Stickney (Jacob 3d),

"

tt

July 6, 1853,

Dis. to 1st ch. Newburyport.

1601

1602

Sarah H. Harding,
Sarah A. (Osgood) Clark (Thomas),
Mary A. (Poor) Sherman (Seth),

it

tt

April 5, 1846,

Dis. to form Free ch. Andover.

1602

1603

it

tt

ti ¦

Dis. to form Free ch.. Andover.

1603

1604

tt

tt

May 6. 1852,

Dis. fo Free ch. Andover.

1604

1605

Mary E. ( Cummings) Abbot ( Nath.5th),

tt

tt

Sept. 10, 1843.
April 25, 1847,

Dis. to 1st ch. Lowell.

1605

1606

Lucy (Abbot) Holt (Joseph S.),

ti

it

Dis. to Spring st. Pres. ch.N.Y.
Dis. Richmond st.ch Prov.R.l.

1606

1607

Elizabeth (Abbot) Ware (Albert),

tt

it

July 1, 1842,

1607

1608

Phebe A. Abbot (dau. of Henry),

tt

ti

1608
1609
Ann B. (Marland) Peirce (Thomas),
ti
it
Oct. 18. 1840,
Nov. 29, 1843,
Dis. to ch. Haverhill.
1609
1610
Martha J. (Kidder) Swift (Nath'l),
Elizabeth M. (Kidder)Cobb (Sam'IP.),
tt
te
By death, aged 81 years.
1610
1611
tt
tl
Sept. 30, 1836,
By death, aged 21 years.
1611
1612
Lydia S- Manning,
it
il
July 28, 1834,
By death, aged 19 years.
Dis. to 1st ch. Lowell.
1612
1613
Catharine W. Swain,
tt
if
June 14, 1835,
1613
1614
ElizabethT.(Houghton)Dow(MosesA.),
it
ft
Dec. 10, 1838,
March 29, 1835,
Dis. to Salem st. ch. Boston.
1614
1615
Anstress Abbot,
Samuel Cogswell, 3d,
Richard Merrill,
ti
ft
By death.
1615
1616
tt
ft
1616
1617
ti
tt
Oct. 5, 1837,
By death, aged 40 years.
1617
1618
Sylvester Abbott,
Nathaniel Swift, jr.,
it
ft
1618
1619
it
ft
1619
1620
Thomas Clark,
tt
"
April 5, 1846,
Dis. to form Free ch. Andover.
1620
1621
Ephraim Everson [Dea.],
tt
tl
it
Dis. to form Free ch. Andover.
1621
1622
Nathan Abbot, 5th,
tt
it
Sept. 10, 1843,
Dis. to 1st ch. Lowell.
1622
1623
Nathan P. Boynton,
tt
it
Jan. 17, 1859,
Exc. as long absent and unk'n.
1623
1624
Israel Curtis,
tt
tf
July 1, 1859,
August 10, 1834,
Fellowship withdrawn.
1624
1625
Warren Holt,
tt
it
Dis. to ch. Bloomfield, N. J.
1625
1626
Samuel P. Cobb,
tt
ft
By .death.
1626
1627
Hermon Abbot, jr.,
tt
tt
1627
1628
Joseph Abbot,
Benjamin F. Abbot,
it
it
A;pril 5, 1846,
March 24, 1841,
Dis. to form Free ch. Andover.
1628
1629
tt
it
Dis. to Park st. ch. Boston.
1629
1630
James H. Abbot,
it
tt
Oct. 28, 1835,
By death, aged 23 years.
Dis. to Tabernacle ch. Salem.
1630
1631
Ebenezer M. Buswell [Dea.],
n
From ch.Th. Sem.Andover.
April 30, 1837,
1631
1632
Catharine M. [Driver] Buswell (Eben.),
tt
"
"
Dis. to Tabernacle ch. Salem.
1632
1633
Dudley Woodbridge,
March 4, 1832,
Profession of faith.
August 6, 1846,
By death, aged 86 years.
Exc. See on. Records.
1633
1634
Joseph Pearson,
Sarah [Foster] Pearson (Joseph),
Roxana [Tyler] Abbot (Enoch jr.),
Almira Peabody,
u
tt
March 24, 1841,
1634
1635
tt
it
Feb. 11, 1863,
By death, aged 64 years.
1635
1636
"
it
1636
1637
it
it
April 20, 1839,
Dis. to ch. Topsfield.
1637
163816391640 1641
16421643 1644164516461647 1648
1649
'1650 1651 165216531654 165516561657
-1658 1659
1660 1661

1663 166416651666 1667
1668 166916701671 16721673

Hannah (Stevens) Moar (Stephen),
Mary J. Holt (dau. of Joseph),
Harriet F. (Marland) Young (Rev.
Jer. S.),
Hannah J. (Marland) Washburn (Rev.
Samuel),
Anna D. Newman (dau. of Dea.Mark)
John Mann,
Nathaniel Sylvester,
William F. Flagg,
Joshua Ballard,
Phebe [Abbot] Ballard (Joshua),
George Upton,
Elizabeth [Hardy] Upton (George),
Samuel Upton,
Ann [Blunt] Stanley (Sylvester),
Lydia (Favour) Goldsmith (Isaac jr.).
Lydia (Barnard) Frye (Enoch 3d),
Harriet (Tyler) Rowley^
Mary W. (Griffin) Holt,
Dorcas S. (Abbot) Farnham (John C),
Paschal Abbot, 2d,
William P. Millett, .
Albert Abbott (Dea. 1845),
Sarah B. (Abbott) Abbott (Dea. Alb't),
Elizabeth W. (Abbott) Blackmer (Rev
Joel),
Samuel A. Fay (A. C. 1828; A. T. S
1832: Rev.),
Nathaniel D. Fisher,
Elizabeth (Upton) Chessmore(Reu. G.),
Alanson Flint,
Hannah [Griffin] Flint (Alanson),
Sarah [Tucker] Farnham (Seth),
Mary A Merrill,
Jacob Chickering,
Sarah [Hagar] Moore (Richard),
Martha Burns (Elias),
Zeruiah E. (Gould) Colton (Rev. Aaron
M.),
Mary A. (Durant) Bullard (Rev
Amos),

March 4, 1832,

Profession of faith.

May 6, 1832,

July 1,1832, ti
August 5, 1832,
Sept. 2, 1832,
Nov. 4, 1832, nit
Jan. 6, 1833,

From ch. Mt. Vernon, N.H
Profession of faith.

From 1st ch. Charlestown
Profession of iait h .

Sept. 3, 1841,
Jan. 14, 1838,
July 23, 1837,
March 19, 1840,
July 21, 1846,
Nov. 6, 1844,

Jan. 24, 1839,
April 24, 1834,
Dec. 31, 1854.
August 20, 1837,
Jan. ,20, 1857,
July 14, 1845,
Oct. 30, 1857;
Oct. 1, 1837,
August 10, 1834,
August 5, 1852,
Feb. 24, 1841,
Jan. 14, 1838,
July 6, 1853,
Jan. 24, 1839,
Oct. 1834,
Dec. 10, 1838,
Nov. 29, 1840, 1839,

Dis. to 1st ch . Lowell.

Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.
Dis. to 2d ch. Greenfield.
By death, aged 24 years.
By death, aged 51 years.
Dis. to form ch. Danvers Plain.
Removed.

Dis. to West ch. Andover.
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
By death, aged 38 years.
Dis. to ch. Ballard Vale.
Dis. to W. ch. Andover.
By death, out of town.
By death, at Wilton, N. H.
By death, aged 32 years.
Dis. to Central ch. Lawrence.
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.
By death, aged 20 years.
Dis. ch. of the Puritans, N. Y.
Dis. to ch. Monson.
Dis. to ch. Windham, Ct
Dis. to ch. Fitchburg.
Dis. to W. ch. Andover.
Dis. to W. ch. Andover.
Dis. to ch. West Newbury.
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.
Dis. to 1st ch. Amherst.
Dis to ch. Barre.

1638

1639

1640

1641

1642
1643
1644
1645
1646
1647
1648
O
1649
t>
1650
1-3
1651
>
1652
¦rt o
1653
ffl
1654
«
1665
H
1656
1657
ofed
1658
1659
ts
1660
g
1661
w
H
1662
to
1663
Ul
1664
1665
1666
1667
1668
1669
1670
1671
1672
M
1673
cr
-3
Reg.

NAME.

Date of Reception.

Manner of Beception. j Date of Bemoval.

Manner of Removal. f

1674

Lydia [Bigelow] Edwards (Rev. Justin
D: D.),

Jan. 6, 1833,
From Salem st. ch. Boston.
Nov. 1836,
Dis. to ch. Th. Sem. Andover.
1674
1675
Buell W. Smith (M. C. 1831; A. T. S.
1834: Rev.),
Henrietta Briggs (Rev. Isaac),
tt
March 22, 1857,
Dis. to ch. Burlington, Vt.
1675
1676
Oct. 21, 1833,
From ch. Boxford.
About 1854,
By death.
1676
1677
David Gray, jr.,
Kov. 3,1833,
Profession of faith.
August 10, 1834,
Dis. form Ev.ch.N. P.Andover.
1677
1678
Susan [Simonds] Curtis (Putnam),
4t
"
1078
1679
Lucinda [Butters] Caldwell (Samuel),
Jan. 3, 1S34,
From ch. Medford.
1679
1680
Polly [Wood] Abbot (Benjamin),
4-
From ch. Windham, N. H.
1680
1681
Nancy W. Everett (Thomas),
ct
From Brattle st .ch. BoBton.
Feb. 3, 1858,
Connex. dissolved. Mem.Bowd.
St. ch. Boston.
1681
1682
Samuel Lamson (B. C. 1828; Rev.),
Feb. 28, 1834,
From ch. Lynn.
August 7, 1836,
Sept. 11, 1836,
July 30, 1837,
Dis. to ch. Boston,
1682
1683
Sumner Fuller,
CC
From Westch. Andover.
Dis.3dPresb.ch.CharlestonS.C.
1683
1684
Mary H. [Greenleaf] Fuller (Sumner),
44
"
Dis.3dPresb .ch. Charleston S .C .
1684
1685
Benjamin Turner,
It
FromOld South ch. Boston.
Oct. 27, 1844,
Dis. to form ch. Danvers Plain.
1685
1686
Charlotte [Hamilton] Turner (Benj.),
tt
From ch. .Lyme, N. H.
«
Dis. to from ch. Danvers Plain.
1686
1687
Polly S. (Curtis) Havward (Henry E.),"
Edward Blanchard ("Y. C),
44
From 1st ch. Lowell.
1687
1688
44
Fr. ch.Y. C. NewliavenCt.
June 2, 1834,'
By death, aged 19 years.
1688
1689
Nathan Clark,
March 2, 1834,
l'roiession of faith.
16S9
1690
Persia- [Farnum] Clark (Nathan),
kt
tk
1690
1691
Hermon P. Chandler,
CC
tc
Jan. 24, 1839;
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
1601
1692
Phebe A. [Ballard] Chandler (H. P.),
ct
tt
\, '
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
1692
1693
John Rolie,
tt
ct
June 14, 1835,
Dis. to 3d ch. Lowell.
1693
1694
Lydia D. Rolfe (John),
CC
*»
h '
Dis. to 3d ch. Lowell.
1694
1595
Susanna [Baker] Frye (Joseph),
Experience [Morse] Nichols (Nath'l),
ct
44
July 12, 1856,
By death, aged 88 years.
Living in Lawrenee.
1696
1696
14
CC
1696
1697
Lucy [Cummings] Richardson (Jos.),
Sally [Russell] Jenkins (Ebenezer),
44
CC
1697
1698
tc
ct
1
1698
1699
Rhoda [Gleason] Everson (Ephraim),
CC
CC
April 5, 1846,
Dis. to form Free ch. Andover.
1699
1700
Jacob B- Gage,
CC
tc
Living in Fisherville, N. H.
1700
1701
Richard Moore,
CC
tt
Dec. 10, 1838,
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.
1701
1702
Augustus H. Allen,
tc
tt
Jan. 17, 1859,
Fellowship withdrawn.
1702
1703
Mary Clark,
ct
CC
1703
1704
Sarah (Abbot) Holt (Joshua),
tc
CC
Sept. 1, 1849,
Dis. to ch. Bradford.
1704
1705
Maria Griffin,
44
CC
Living in Lawrence.
1705
1706
Martha (Griffin) Andrews (M. C),
Phebe A. (Smith) Abbott (Paschal),
tc
44
July 6, 1856,
Dis. Lawrence st. ch. Lawrence.
1706
1707
CC
tc
Oct. 30, 1857,
Dis. to Central ch. Lawrence.
1707
170S
Margaret W. Smith,
CC
tt
1708
1709
171017111712
17131714171517161717171817191720 1721
17221723 1724
.,1725Wl1727 172817291730 1731173217331734 1735 173617371738 173917401741174217431744 174517461747 17481749

Sarah B# (Russell) Ballard (Stephen),
Phebe (Russell) Chandler (John),
Martha M. (Mason) Sawin (Rev. T. P.),
Sarah J.. (Abbott) Abbott (Wm.),
Sarah F.(Marland)Clarke (Dr.Francis),
Louisa J. Faulkner,
Rhoda A. (Abbot) Richardson (Sam
uel S.),
Hannah J. (Abbot) Ingalls (Chas. N-),
Polly Blanchard,
Mary A. (Francis) Bean,
Charles Ballard,
Reuben G. Chessmore,
Timothy Hall,
Alpheus Hardy,
Nathaniel W. Coffin,
Samuel Swift,
Charles Swift,
John Chandler,
Nathan B. Abbott,
Edward C. Upton,
Henry Holt,
George H. Gilbert,
Abigail [Bailey] Smith (John),
Hannah [Goldsmith] Dane (Hermon),
Sarah H. (Flagg) Sheldon (Rev. L. H.),
Catharine H. (Foster) Cutter (Benj.),
Joseph Clisby,
Jacob Shed,
Hannah [Bailey] Abbott (Asa),
Ebenezer N. Easton,
Martha L, [Marland] Punchard (B.H.),
James Flint,
Henry H. George,
Elizabeth B. [Caldwell] George (H.H.),
Mary E. Brown,
Olive (Johnson) Gould (George W.),
Sarah J. (Pearson) Pearson (George),
Hannah T. (Pearson) Bancroft (Alb't),
Alice S. French,
Hannah (Shattuck) Midgely (James),
Asa H. Brown,

March 2, 1834,

May 2, 1834,
May 4, 15.34,

Sept. 5, 1834,
Sept. 7, 1834,
Oct. 31, 1834,
Nov. 2, 1834,

Jan. 2, 1835,

Profession of faith.

From Calv. ch. Worcester.
Profession of faith.

From West ch. Andover.
From ch. Nineveh, N. Y.
Profession of faith.
From 1st ch. Lowell.ti
Profession of faith.

From West ch. Andover.

Dec. 20, 1846,
June 1838,
Feb. 28, 1841,
Jan. 14, 1838,
April 21, 1839,
May 4, 1849,
Oct. 21, 1849,
Jan. 17, 1859,
May 16, 1853,
July 5, 1853,
May 1, 1835,
May 1836,
Nov. 30, 1835,

April 19. 1846,
Feb. 16,1840,
Jan. 18, 1858,
April 15, 1842,
Sept. 9, 1844,
April 29, 1859,
March 4, 1859,
Aug. 9, 1860,
Dec. 21, 1845,
Jan. 16, 1838,
Jan. 26, 1845,1853,
1853,
Oct. 24, 1841,
Feb. 23, 1840,

August 20, 1837,
May 29, 1841,
April 6, 1846,

Dis. to ch. Hookset, N. H.
Dis. to ch. Lynn.
Dis.to 1st ch. Manchester, N. H.
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.
Living in Lawrence.
Dis. to Bapt. ch. Andover.
Dis. to form ch. Ireland Depot.
Dis. to Tabernacle ch. Salem.
Fellowship withdrawn.
Dis. to ch. Tewksbury. •
Dis. to ch. Fitchburg.
Dis. to ch. Hartland, Vt.
Rec. by Central ch., Boston,
Dis. to ch. Boston.
Dis. to ch. New York.
Living in Boston.

Dis.to Bap.ch.ManchesterN.H.
Dis. to Ev. ch. N. P. Andover.
Dis. to' 1st ch. Exeter, N. H.
Dis. to 2d ch. Medio rd.
Dis. to ch. Townsend.
Fellowship withdrawn.
Fellowship withdrawn.
By death, aged 71 years.
Dis. to 1st ch. Lowell.
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.
Dis. to ch. North Reading.

Dis. to ch. Hanover, N. H.
Dis. toEv. ch. N. P. Andover.

Dis. to ch. Saxonville.
Dis. to Christ ch. Andover.
Dis. to form Free ch. Andover.

1709 1710
1711 17121713
1714
1715 171617171718 171917201721
1722
17231724 17251726
172717281729
1730 1731
173217331734 1735
173617371738
17391740
1741 1742
1743 1744
1745 174617471748
1749

Beg.

1760
17511752
17531754 17551766
1767175817691T601T6117621763
1764176517661767
17681769
17701771
17721773
177417761778
17771778 17791780 1781

Samuel G. Brown (D. C. 1831: A. T. S.
1887; Profij D.D),
Elizabeth [Gilman] Brown [Rev. Fran
cis D. D.],
Frederic A. Barton (D. C. 1832; Rev.),
Sophia [Hoyt] Barton [wid.],
David N. Rodgers,
Simon Barrows,
Deborah M. (Jenkins) Clark (Jotham
Hannah M. (Abbott) Abbott (J. Al
fred), ¦ 7
Samuel Rodgers,
Jesse Haven,
Philander Bradley,
Eliza (Mason ) Brown,
Adeline Whittemore (Harold),
Thomas E. Foster ( Y. C. 1840; A. T. S.
¦ 1848U
Arthur J. G. Lalanne,
Mary Wenzel,
Henry Wenzel,
Joseph H. Adams,
Jonathan Swift,
Sarah [McMurphy] Chickering ( Jaoob),
Mary [Clark] Cornell (James),
William H. Wardwell,
Lydia A. Russell,! ;
Anne [Tucker]Langstroth (Rev. L. L.),
Oliver D. Cooke,
RebeccaA.[Dunn] LangstrotlifJolmG.),
Sereno T. Abbot (A. 0. 1833; A. T. S.
1836: Rev.),
Henry N. Wyman (A. C. 1845; L.L.B.),
Sarah Smith [wid.],
Sarah E.( Smith ] Eastman (Ee v , David ),
Nathan Hadlock,
Ann Hadlock (Nathan),

Date of Beception.

May 1, 1835,

July 12, 1835,

Sept. 4, 1835,

Nov. 23, 1885,
July 3, 1836,

Nov. 6,1836,
Jan. 1, 1837,

March 5, 1837,
tt
May 7, 1837, tt
July 2, 1887, tt
Sept. 3, 1837,

Manner of Reception.

Fr. ch. D.C. Hanover ,N.H,

Profession of faith.

Fr. ch. Moultonboro', N.H,
From ch. Holliston.
From Bapt. ch. Andover:
Profession of faith.

From ch.W.R.C.HudsonO,
From Laight St. ch. N. Y.
Fr. ch. Londonderry, N.H.
From ch. Tewksbury.
Profession of faith.
it
From Istch.NewHaven.Ct.
Profession of faith.
From 1st Pres. ch. Phila.
From ch .Th. Sem. Andover.
Profession of faith .
From 1st ch. Exeter, N. H.
it
From ch. Deering, N. H.

Date of Bemoval

Oct. 24, 1841,

Feb. 23, 1848,
Sept. 13, 1840,
Nov. 2, 1842,
Jan. 23, 1848,
Dec. 21, 1845,
Jan. 17, 1859,
March 5, 1868,
March 1839,
May 13, 1857,
Deo,, 26, 183%-
Nov. 6, 1836,

May 13, 1838,

April 1. 1855,
Nov. 10, 1839,1839,
Nov. 4, 1839,
March 6, 1841',
March 1. 1840,
Jan: 17, 1859;
Feb. 16, 1840,
April 22, 1838,

Manner of Bemoval,

Dis. to ch. Hanover, N. H.
Dis. to oh. Hanover, N. H.
Dis. to a new ch. Springfield.
Dis. -to a new ch. Springfield.
Dis. to Appleton st. ch. Lowell.
Dis. to Bro. Tab. ch. N. Y.
Dis. to oh. Granby.
Dis. to 1st ch. Lowell.
Exc. as lone absent and unk'n.
Bxc. See ch. Records.
is. to ch. CollinsviUe, IU.
Exc. See ch. Records.
Dis. to. Ev. ch. N. P. Andover,
Dis. to eh.Y.C.New Haven, Ct.
Removed.
By death, before 1838.
Dis. to Bowdoin st. ch. Boston.

By death, aged 57 years.
Dis.lstPres.ch. Brooklyn,N.Y.
Dis. to 2d ch. Greenfield.
Dis to ch. South Dennis.
Dis.toPres.ch.Pennington,N.J.
Dis. to ch. Seabrook, N. H.
Exc as long absent and unk'n.
Dis. to oh. Leverett.
pis. to ch. Leverett.
Dis. to Ham. St. ch. Bangor.
pis. to Ham. st. ch. Baugor.

17501751 1752
175317541755
17561757 17681759
1760 1761

1763 1764176517661767 1768
176917701771 1772 1773
1774 177517761777
17781779 17801781

1782 Dinah Shattuck,
1788 Mary E. Hidden,
1784 Martha S. (Flagg) Randall (Rev. Silas
1785 Esther M. Gould,
1786' Elizabeth [Simonds] French (Joseph),
17871 Betsey (Carter) Richardson (Sam'l T.),
1788 Susan [Carter] Chandler (Joshua),
1789 Fanny [Noyes] Chickering(Wm.),
1790 Martha Peters [wid.],
1791' Charles C. P. Moody,
1792' Frances [Evans] Moody (C. C. P.),
1793 Hermon Abbot,
1794 Lydia [Farrington] Abbot (Hermon),
1795 Lydia Abbot (dan. of Hermon),
1796 Enoch Pearson,
1797 Phebe T. [Dole] Pearson (Enoch),
1798 Jane [Frost] Ballard (Charles),
1799 Justin Carter,
1800 Ezra Chandler,
1801 Benjamin F. Jaquith,
1802 Leonard B. Smith,
1803 Elizabeth (Cowing) Sheldon (Henry),
1804 Mary (Jaquith) Abbott (J. Alfred),
1805 Abigail T. Phelps,
1806 Mary Clement. ,
1807 James Boutwell (D. C. 1836; A. T. S.
1840; Rev.),
1808 Clarissa P. Sweet,
1809 Mary R. (Manning) Carter (Justin),
1810 Sarah W.(Mears)Tucker (Wm. P.),
1811 Bushrod W. Abbot,
1812 Mary (Cornell) Blood (Marshall),
1813 Charlotte (Cornell) Smith (James M.),
1814 Clarissa A. (Abbot) Holt (Edward B.),
1815 Amos Abbot,
1816 Caleb Richardson, jr.,
1317 Lydia Blaban,
1818 Abby H. [Cutler] Abbott (Dea.Alb't),
1819 Thaddeus P. Allen,
1820 Timna [Evans] Allen (Thaddeus P.),
1821 {^Elizabeth A.Eaton (Rev. Peter S.),

Sept. 3, 1837,

Jan. 7, 1838,

March 4, 1838,

May 6, 1838,

Jan. 6, 1839,
Feb. 11, 1839,
March 3. 1839,
July 7, 1839,

Sept. 1, 1839,
it
Nov. 3, 1839,

Profession of faith.

From ch. Tewksbury.
From ch. Burlington.
From West ch. Andover.
From ch. South Reading.
From ch.Westboro'. it".
From West ch. Andover.

From ch.Th. Sem.Andover. ti
From ch. Tewksbury.
Profession of faith.

Fr. Howard st. ch. Salem.

Fromch.Th.Sem.Andover.Profession of faith.

From ch. Ashbnrnham.
From ch. South Reading.
From ch. Amesbury.

Dec. 16, 1839,

1852,
Jan. 25, 1847,
April 14, 1858,
April 28, 1853,
June 27, 1859,
June 5, 1845,
April 14, 1839,
Feb. 2, 1858.
April 27, 1838,
Feb. 14, 1847,

Sept. 29, 1849,
July 4, 1845,
Dec. 8, 1852,
August 3, 1842,
June 29, 1846,
June 8, 1842,
April 16, 1842,
March 5, 1858,
Dec, 10, 1851,

Jan. 1, 1858,
Jan. 7, 1849,
Jan.17, 1859,

Dec. 10, 1813,

By death, aged 78 years.

By death.
By death, aged 27 years.
Dis. to ch. Tewksbury.
Dis. to ch. South Reading.
By death, aged 67 years.
By death, aged 84 years.
Dis. to ch. Atkinson, N.H.
Dis. to ch. Atkinson, N. H
By death, aged 87 years.
By death, aged 62 years.
Dis. to ch. Epping, N.H.
Dis. to ch. Epping, N.H.
By death.
Living in E. Sanbornton,N.H,
Dis. w Pilgrim ch. Boston.
Dis. to ch. Newmarket, N.H'.
By death.
By death, aged 33 years.
By death, aged 30 years.
Dis. to Howard St. ch. Salem.
Dis. to ch. Brentwood, N.H.
Dis. to ch. North Marshfield.
Exc. See ch. Records.
Dis. Lawrence st.ch. Lawrence.

Dis. to Mystic ch. Medford.
Dis. to West ch. Andover.
Exc. as long absent and unk'n.

Dis. to Winn. ch. Chelsea.

1782 17831784
1785 17861787
1788178917901791
1792179317941795
17961797
1798179918001801
18021803180418051806
1807 1808 .
180918101811
1812 18131814
18151816181718181819
1820 1821

Beg.

NAME.

Date of Reception.

Manner of Reception.

Date of Bemoval.

Manner of Removal.

1822

Sarah F. [Swift] Hall (Rev. Jeffries),

Nov. 3, 1839,

From ch. Hopkinton.
From ch. Wilton, N. H.

1822

1823

Elizabeth Abbot,

it

April 5, 1854,

By death.

1823

1824

Mary J. (Abbott) Greenough (Eben.),

tt

From ch. Chester, N. H.

Oct. 29, 1848,

Dis.ch.E.Bradford[Groveland]

1824

1825

Andrew Patten,

it

Fr. Pres. ch. Londonderry,

Ireland.
May 18, 1859,
Dis. to ch. Rochester, N. H.
1825
1826
Jane [Miller] Fatten (Andrew),
it
"
it
Dis. to ch. Rochester, N. H.
1826
1827
Lydia Dodge (Enos),
Edward West,
Deo. 17, 1839,
Profession of faith.
Jan. 4, 1840,
By death, aged 58 years.
1827
1828
Jan. 5, 1840,
it
Jan. 5, 1851,
By death, aged 91 years.
1828
1829
Stephen Ballard,
Mehitabel G. [Foster] Abbott (Daniel
P-)»
Isabella (WhiteJ Stickney (Wm.),
Phebe L. (Frost) Shed (Horsley),
it
it
Dec. 20, 1846,
Dis. to ch. Hookset, N. H.
1629
1830
tt
u
18301831
1831
tt
it
Dec. 26, 1852,
Dis. to 1st ch. Reading.
Dis. to ch. Norway, Me.
1832
it
"
Dec. 13, 1846,
1832
1833
Joseph Cummings (Dea. 1846),
it
From Ev.ch.N.P. Andover.
1833
1834
Mary [Plummer] Poor [Stephen] Cum
mings (Dea. Joseph),
Abigail Morris,
tt
it
Dec. 2, 1845,
By death, aged 63. years.
Dis. to 1st ch. Colchester, Ct.
1834
1835
11
From ch. Kent, Ct.
Deo. 4, 1842,
1835
1836
Jonathan G. Callahan,
March 1, 1840,
Profession of-faith.
April 13, 1845,
Dis. to Presb. ch. Niagara,N.Y.
Dis. to a new ch. Cambridge.
1836
1837
William Pierce,
May 3, 1840,
From Park st. ch. Boston.
Sept. 21^1857,
1837
1838
Ellen [Prentiss] Pierce (Wm.),
tt
tt
Dis. to a new ch. Cambridge.
1838
1839
Caroline [Phelps] Taylor (Rev. J. L.),
Hannah [Chandler] Griffin [Joshua],
Sarah A.( Jones) Abbott (Hartwell B.),
ti
From 2d ch.E. Windsor.Ct.
March 2, 1853,
Dis. to ch. Th. Sem. Andover.
1839
1840
"
From West ch. Andover.
Living in Lawrence.
1840
1841
it
Fr. Appleton st.ch. Lowell.
1841
1842
Charlotte 0.(Abbott)Van Ever (Alex.),
it
Profession of faith.
Nov. 22, 1843,
Dis. to Mt. Vernon ch. Boston.
1842
1843
John H. Manning,
ti
tt
1843
1844
Josiah H. Currier,
Henry F. Barnard,
it
tt
July 1. 1859,
Exc See ch. Records.
1844
1815
July 6, 1840,
Fr. South ch.ConcordN.H.
April 6, 1846,
Dis. to form Free ch. Andover.
1845
1846
Stephen A. Holt (B. C. 1846: A. T. S.
1849; Dea.),
tt
Profession of faith.
May 6, 1852,
Dis. to ch. Winchester.
1846
1847
Edward B. Holt,
tt
tt
Jan. 1, 1858,
Dis. to Mystic ch. Medford.
1847
1848
Asa A . Abbot,
Sept. 13, 1840,
it
1848
1849
Derby McGarry,
Lydia [Holt] Holt (Moses),
Jane B. Phelps,
it
tt
Feb. 28, 1845,
Exc. See ch. Records.
1849
1850
1851
ittt
it it
18501851
1852
Priscilla F.JPhelps) Gutterson (Geo.),
Susan H. (Hatch) Searles (Joshua H.),
Eunice (Higgins) Abbott (John L ),
Octavia S. Wardwell,
u
it
Sept. 28, 1847,
By death, aged 26 years.
Living in Phillipston.
1852
1853
it
"
1853
1851
it
tt
1854
1855
it
ti
July 8, 1857,
Dis-to Ev. ch. N. Andover.
1855
IO
ai*oeiho*4
867

1864186518661867

1870 18711872
r-l1873OV1874 *1876 1876 187718781879 1880 18811882
1883 18841885188618871888188918901891 18921893

Elizabeth L. (Noyes) Abbott (Nath.B.),
Martha F. [Case] Flint (James),
John C. Allen.
Hannah [Blunt] Allen (John C),
Henry E. Hayward,
Theresa [Miller] Lewis (John),
Maria (Berry) Green bank,
Elizabeth K. (Russell) Morse (William
B),
Elizabeth Dickmson,
Mary B.( Gould) Safford (Rev. Geo.B.),
Lydia E. (Holt) Russell (Samuel),
John Merrill,
Joel Phelps,
Sylvester Stanley,
Jonathan Towle,
Mary A. (Manning) Barnard (H. FA
Rebecca J. (Manning) Barnard (H.F.),
Ann E. Whittier,
Esther G. Brown,
Thomas E. Foster (Y. C. 1840 ; A. T. S.
1848),
George L. Abbott,
Dorcas Abbot,
Hannah Abbot,
Mary B. Hunt, ~
Hannah J. Hunt,
Phebe N. (Abbot) Palmer (Dan'I W-).
Eliza M. [Bodie] Upton (Edward C),
Walter Murray,
Christian [Morrison] Murray (Walter),
John Hall,
Mary B. Hall (John),
Janet Hall,
William Britton,
Jane [Patten] Britton (William),
Edward Taylor (Dea. 1857),
Nathaniel R. Strong,
Anna Upton,
Charlotte M. (Newman) Boody (Prof.
 - -HenrjrH.),

Sept. 13, 1840,

Profession of faith.

a-

1856

*t

From ch. North Beading.

Jan. 26, 1846,

Dis. to ch. North Reading.
Dis. to Shep. ch. Cambridge.

1857

Nov. 1, 1840,

Profession of faith.

Feb. 7, 1858,

1858

it
"
Dis.to Shep. oh. Cambridge.
1859 1860
tt
tt
May 1. 1842,
By death, aged 25 years.
Dis. to Ev. ch. N. P. Andover.
1861
tt
tt
Jan. 21, 1844,
1862
»
It
July 3, 1857,
Dis. to Win. ch. Charlestown.
1863
tt
it
Jan. 13, 1855.
Dis.to ch.of the Puritans, N.Y.
1864
it
a
Living in Northbridge.
1865
ti
ti
Nov. 19, 1852,
By death, aged 28 years.
1866
k
it
June 8, 1844,
Dis. to form Leyden Chap. ch.
o
Boston.
1867
>
Jan. 3, 1841,
it
1868
1869
H
([
<t
April 30, 1854,
Dis. (0 ch. South Reading.
Dis. to form Free ch. Andover.
1870
ic
tt
April 6, 1846,
1871
Q
ti
tt
Feb. 7, 1858,
Dis. to Free ch. Andover.
1872
«
(«
«
1873
B
tt
it
May 16, 1853,
Dis. to eh. Tewksbury.
1874
©
u
Fr. eh.Y. CNew Haven, Ct.
March 17, 1851,
By death, aged 30 years.
1875
m
March 7, 1841,
Profession of faith.
1876
g
it
it
1877
m
it
it
1878
a
(t
"
1879
b)
(1
ti
1880
K
May 1, 1841,
((
Living in Kansas.
1881
w
July 4, 1841,
From ch. Amherst.
1882
Vx
* «
Fr.Reliefch.Harwick,Scot.
Oct. 19, 1851,
Dis. to ch. Salisbury.
1883
k
Fr U.S.ch.Harwick, Scot.
it
Dis. to ch. Salisbury.
1884
tt
FrKeliefch.Har wick,, Scot.
Jan. 17, 1859,
Exc. as long absent and unk'n.
1885
K
"
ti
Exc. as long absent and unk'n.
1886
((
Fr.Pres. ch. "Wilton, 'Scot.
tt
Exc. as long absent and nnk'n.
Dis. to ch. Saugus.
1887
«
Fr.Pr.ch.Knorrhead.Ireld.
Sept. 22, 1850,
1888
It
«
it
Dis. to ch. Saugug.
1889
March 6. 1842,
Ft om Bowd. St. ch. Boston.
1890
May 1,1842,
FromPres.ch.LaPorte.Ind.
Sept. 6, 1846,
Dis. Laf.st.Pr.ch.Buffalo,N.Y.
1891
»
From 1st ch. Amherst.
May 1, 1852,
Dis. to Central ch. Lawrence.
1892
M
k
Profession of faith.
April 18, 1847,
Dis. to ch. Brunswick.
1893
—J
OS
Esther A. (Ward) Hilton (Wm. H),
Eliza B. (Farnham) Cummings (Henry ),
Esther J. D. Abbot,
Catharine Wilkins,
Samuel Marshall,
Henry W. Abbott,
Mencies C. Andrews,
Mary (Davis) Marshall (Samuel),
Almira [Emery] Towle (Jonathan),
Leonard Wheeler,
Persia [Sa'rgentl Wheeler (Leonard),
Herman F. Tewksbury,
Eliza A. [Frye] Abbott (Henry W.),
James E. New,
Anna Ames,
Sarah C. New,
William H. Wardwell,
Sophia M. [Eames] Wardwell (W.H.),
Benjamin Gleason,
Persis [Frye] Edson (Elijah),
Zoa [Clark] Mann (John),
Hannah [Newman] Fay (Rev. Samuel
A.),
Sarah P. Newman,
Helen Morrison (Alexander),
Mary Morrison,
Helen Winthrop (Thomas),
Sarah B. [Bailey] Merrill (Laban),
Emily T. [Gould] Merchant (Crowell),
Sophia (Kimball) Tufts ( Charles),
Oal-oline Flagg,
Caroline (Abbott) Gage (Gawin R),
Charlotte M. (Holt) Bronson (Rev.
' George F,),
Phebe E. Abbot,
Julia A. (Faulkner) Clay (Henry),
Eliza (Kittredge) Manning (James M.),

Date of Reception.

Manner of Reception.

Date of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

May 1, 1842,

Profession of faith.

Living in Boston.

1894

July 3, 1842,

it

Living in Gloucester.

18951896
1897

July 17, 1842,

From ch. Norway, Me.

Rem. before 1848.
Nov, 6, 1842,
Profession of faith.
Sept. 4, 1846,
Dis. to South ch. Salem.
189S
Jan. 1, 1843,
it
1899
St
it
July 6, 1856,
Dis. Lawrence St. ch. Lawrence.
1900
ti
it
Sept. 4, 1846,
Dis. to South ch. Salem.
1901
"
From ch. Loudon, N. H.
April 30, 1854,
Dis. to ch. South Reading.
1902
May 7, 1843,
From ch. Methuen. '
Nov. 2, 1851,
Dis.Lawrence st.ch.Lawrence.
1903
H
tt
H
Dis. Lawrence st. ch. Lawrence.
1904
tt ti
From ch.Hampstead,N.H.
Fr. Christ ch. Andover.
Nov. 8, 1848,
Exc. See ch. Records.
19051906
July 9, 1843,
Profession of faith.
Oct. 23, 1847,
Dis. to Pres. ch. Staunton, Va.
1907
*.
it
Oct. 25, 1855,
By death, aged 74 years.
Dis. to oh. Brighton.
1908
it
From Grace ch. Boston.
Oct. 22, 1848,
1909
u
From 1st Presb. ch. Brook
lyn, N. Y.
Oct. 19, 1851,
Dis. to Eliot ch. Roxbury.
1910
ti
"
Oct. 30, 1848,
By death, aged 28 years.
1911
Sept. 3, 1843,
Profession of faith.
Feb. 18, 1852,
By death, aged 71 years.
1912
tt
From ch. South Reading.
Sept. 21, 1857,
Dis. to form ch. N. Cambridge.
1913
Nov. 3, 1843,
From ch. Tewksbury.
Dec. 31, 1854,
Dis. to ch. Ballard Tale.
1914
Jan. 6, 1844,
From ch.Monson.
April 22, 1857,
Dis. to 1st oh. Amherst.
1915
tt
tt
April 18, 1847,
Dis. to ch. Brunswick, Me.
1916
May 5, 1844,
From U. Sec. ch. Scotland.
tt
Deo. 31, 1854,
Dis. to form ch. Ballard Yale.
Dis.to form ch. Ballard Yale.
19171918
it
tt
Dec. 16, 1844,
By death, aged 25 years.
1919
Sept. 1, 1844,
Profession of faith.
1920
it
it
tt
Nov. 8, 1846,
By death, aged 35 years.
1921 1922
tt
tttt
July 1, 1849,
Dis. to 1st ch. Woburn.
19231924
it
tt
tt
May 2, 1851,
Dis. to ch. Shelburne Falls.
192519261927
ti
tt
Before 1855,
Dis. to Meth. ch. Lawrence.
it
tt
March 25, 1849,
Dis. to ch. Tewksbury.
1928
1930
1931 19321933 19341935 1936 19371938
19391940
1941 1942194319441945194619471948 194919501951 19521953 195419551956 19571958 19591960
1961 1962 19631964196519661967
1968

Frances M. (Sherman) Jones (A. B.),
Hannah S. (Yan Ingen) Armsby (Rev.
Lauren),
Gertrude Van Ingen,
Mark Newman, 2d,
Charles N. Ingalls,
Hartwell B. Abbott,
Ammi R. Mitchell (B. C. 1849: B.T.S. :
Rev.), '
Israel Berry,
Serena [Town] Berry (Israel),
Sarah Gould,
Jonathan L. Noyes (Y. C. 1851),
I. Octavius Blunt,
Persis M. Blunt,
Caroline M. Abbott,
Luoy C. (Abbot) Holt (Samuel B.),
Abby A. Jaquith,
Dorcas J. Jaquith,
Abigail B. Carter,
Caroline (Trull) Abbot (Samuel),
Mary W. (Noble) Munroe (Isaac),
Hannah A. (Holt) Cummings (Daniel),
Lucy J. (Chandler) Furber (Henry),
Mary K. Chandler,
Nathan Chandler,
Dorcas Chandler,
William C. Donald,
Agnes [Smart] Donald (William C),
CEarles Scott,
Janet [Murray] Scott (Charles),
Dudley Trow, jr.,
D. Maria Chaffin,
Jeremiah S.Young(A.T. s:i839; Rev.),
Harriet F.[Marland]Young(Rev.J.S.),
Hannah [Kimball] Bowers [Luke],
-Luke K. Bowers,
Charlotte R. Becket, fwid.]
Caroline T. [Webber] DolIoff(John),
Eliza R. [Hayward] Howard (JohnB.),
Sarah M. [Stevens] Abbot (Geo. L.),
William Stickney,

Sept. 1, 1844,

Nov. 3, 1844,

Jan. 5, 1845,

March 2, 1845,

Jan. 4,
March
May 3,
July 5,

1846.
1, 1846,
1846, 1846,

Profession of faith.

From ch. Middleton.

From ch. Vermont.
Profession of faith.

From lstch. Concord ,M.H.
From Pres. ch. Scotland.
ti
From Relief ch. Scotland,
it
Profession of faith.
From ch. Dover, N. H.
From ch. Hancock, N. H.
From ch. N. P. Andover.
From Pres. ch. Scotland.
From ch. Hopkinton, N.H.
From ch. North Reading.
From ch. Nashua, N. H.
Profession of faith.

April 27, 1651,
Sept. 6, 1846,
April 27, 1851,
May 4, 1849,
Feb. 25,1846,
Sept. 29, 1849,

Oct. 26, 1845,
Nov. 29, 1845,
May 16, 1853,

April 22, 1857,
May 11, 1851,
Dec. 31, 1854,
April 5, 1846,
Jan. 17, 1859,
April 21, 1850,
Feb. 20, 1848,
Nov. 22, 1845,
August 4, 1850,
Jan. 18, 1846,
April 2, 1854,
Feb. 9, 1851,
Deo. 26, 1852,

Dis. to ch. Manchester, Ct.
Dis. to ch. Chester, N. B.
Dis. to oh. E. Hartford, Of.
Dis. to new ch. Ireland Depot.
Dis. High st. ch. Portland, Me.

Dis. to ch.Y.C. New Haven, Ct.
Living in Ballard Vale.

By death, aged 21 years.
By death, aged 19 years.
Dis.to Free ch. Andover.
Dismissed.Dis. to Ev. ch. N. P. Andover.
By death, aged 23 years.
Dis. to form ch. Ballard Vale.
Dis. to form ch. Ballard Vale.
Dis. to form Free ch. Andover.
Dis. to form Free cb. Andover.
Exc. as long absent and unk'n.
Exc. as long absent and unk'n.
Dis. to ch. Middleton.
Dis. to Winter st. ch. Boston.
Dis.toN. ch. Portsmouth, N.H.
Dis.to N. ch.Portsmouth, N.H.
Dis. to Essex st. ch. Boston.
Dis. to Essex st. ch. Boston.
Dis. to 4th, ch. Lowell. '

By death, aged l
By death, aged 80 years.
Dis. to 1st ch. Reading.

192919301931 1932
1933193419351936193719381939 1940194119421943
1944 194519461947
194819491950
1951195219531954 1955
195619571958
1959196019611962 196319641965196019671968

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1969197019711972
197319741975197619771978 19791980
198119821983198419851986 1987
19881989
19901991
1992
199319941995199619971998
199920002001

Martha A. (Jones) Grout (Rev. Sam
uel N.),
Sarah [Tufts] Farnham (John C'.),
Asa Farwell (M. C. 1838; A. T.S.1842;
Rev. 1853),
Hannah [Sexton] Farwell (Rev. Asa),
Rhoda [Bachelder] Abbot (Sylvester),
Elizabeth C. Holt,
Martha A. (Holt) McNeil (CI'G:),
Phebe [Foster] Cummings (Dea. Jos.),
Mary A. [Murray] Winning (Alex.),
Mary E. Jones,
William Abbott,
Sarah J. [Abbot] Abbott (William),
Daniel H. Temple (A. C. ; Rev.),
Almena [Jacobs] Swift (Nath'l),
Hannah F.[Abbott] Mansfleld(Rev.D.),
Lucy C. [Mooar] Shattuck [Peter] Fos
ter (Thomas C),
Ziba Parkhurst,
Sophronia Parkhurst (Ziba),
Sarah A. Parkhurst,
Francinia (Parkhurst) Garrette (Rev.
E. Y.).
Austin Parkhurst,
John C. Gilman,
Lovina M. Gilman (John C),
Sarah A. Holt,
Sarah E. (Foster) Culver (Howard G.),
Charlotte A. (Foster) Wheaton (Rev.
Levi),
Ann Wilkins,
Eliza [Mooar] Russell (Abiel),
Joseph Winfield,
Henry B. Holmes (Rev.),
Harriet Holmes (Rev. H. B,),
Elizabeth A. Holmes,
Hannah I. Holmes,

Date of Reception.

Nov. 1, 1846,
Jan. 3, 1847, itit
March 7, 1847,
July 4, 1847,
Nov. 7, 1847,
it
Jan. 2, 1848, ttttti
May 7, 1848,

July 2, 1848,
Sept. 3, 1848,
Nov. 5, 1848,
Jan. 7,1849,

Manner of Reception.

Profession of faith.
Fr. ch.Charlestown,N. H.
From ch. Dorset, Vt.
From 1st ch. Springfield.
From ch, Seabrook, N. H.
Profession of faith.
it
From ch. Greenfield, N. H.
Profession of faith.
Fr.lst ch.Manchester, N.H.
From Ham. st. ch. Bangor.
From 1st ch . Milton.
From ch. Wenham.
From West oh. Andover.
From 6th st. ch. New York.

From ch. Tuftonboro' N.H.
Profession of faith.

From West ch. Andover.
From ch. Blinfield, Mich.
From West ch. Andover.
From 5th Asb , Ref . ch . N. Y.
From ch. Auburn. ti
Profession of faith.

Date of Removal.

March 21, 1852,
April 14, 1853,.
July 6, 1853,
Sept. 4, 1848,

Jan. 2; 1857,
Dec. 31, 1854,
Jan. 7, 1849,
Feb. 22, 1852,
tt
it
Feb. 15, 1852,
Jan. 10, 1850,
Jan. 25, 1851,
March 21, 1852
July 6, 1856,
Sept. 1852,

Manner of Removal.

Dis. to Pres.ch. Franklin,Tenn.
Dis. to 1st ch. Cambridge.
Dis. to ch. West Haverhill.
By death, aged 32 years.

Dis. to ch. Tipton, Iowa.
Dis. to form ch. Ballard Vale.
Dis.to 2d Pres. ch, Chicago, 111.

Dis. to ch. Milford.
Dis. to ch. Milford.
Dis. to ch. Milford.
Dis. to ch. Milford.
Dis. to Winth.ch . Charlestown.
Dis. to Central ch. Lawrence.
Dis. to Central ch. Lawrence.
By death, aged 26 years.
Dis.to Pres. ch.Hopkinton,N,Y
Dis. to West ch. Gloucester,
Living at Concord. -A#v«,
Dig. to ch.Th. SenV.
Dis. to Ch. TH. Sei
Dis. to ch. Th. Se:
Dis. toch. Th. Seu,.

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1969 1970
197119721973197419751976197719781979 1980
19811982 1983
1984 1985
1986 1987

19901991 1992 19931994,1995199619971998

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20032004200520062007200820092010 20112012 201320142015 201620172018 201920202021 202220232024

2027

20292030

2035

20402041

Elizabeth[Wilkins]Newman(Mark2d),;
Mehitabel H.[Ingalls] Abbott (Asa A.),
Warren F. Draper (A. C. 1847),
Irene P. [Rowley] Draper (W. F.),
Elizabeth P. Russell,
J". Alfred Abbott,,
G; Grenville McNeil,
Jane G. (Abbott) Dodge (William A.),
Anna E. (Jones) Jones (Hezekiah),
Hannah M. (Jones) Manning (Sol.),
Sarah A. (Noyes) Doyle (Dr. John),
John Aiken (D. C; Hon.; Dea.),
Mary M, [Appleton] Aiken (John),
Mary P. [Abbott] Greene (Rev. H. S.),
Eliza McMurphy,
Margaret F. MoGinty (James),
Miner G. Pratt [M. C. 1823; A. T. S.
1826; Rev.),
Caroline [Drury] Pratt (Rev. M. G.),
John D. Flags,
Caroline W. [Lothrop] FlaggJJ. D).

1 March 4, 1849,
!July 1,1849,
Nov. 4, 1849,

Jan. 6, 1850,
March 8, 1850,
May 6, 1850,
July 7, 1850,

May 4, 1851,
July 6, 1851,
Nov. 2, 1851,

Rhoda J. [Luscomb] Foster (Wm. H),
Julia A. Gould,
Sarah S. (Lovejoy) Sawyer (Fred.),
Caroline E. (Pratt) Maxwell (Thomp
son G),
Thomas Mann,
Harrison Douglas,
-Sarah J. Jones,
Mary A. [Sexton] Farwell (Rev. Asa),
Elizabeth Conklin.
Beorge Badger (Yl C),
William Badger [Y. C],
Fitz William Rogers,
Mary [Coombs] Rogers (Fitz William),
Harriet B.(Holmes)Windsor (Rev.W.),
Rebecca L. Allen,
Elizabeth S. Holt,
Lois A.[Bachelder] Manning ( JohnH. ),
Caroline L.[Sprague]Smith(Rev.Chas.)
Emma F. Abbot,
Mary Arnold [Mrs ],

Jan. 4, 1852, it
March 7, 1852,
tt tt tl
May 2, 1852, tt
July 4, 1852,
Nov. 7, 1852,
Jan. 2, 1853,
March 6, 1853,

From ch. Middleton.
From lBt ch. N. P. Andover.
From ch. Dedham.
Fr. Meth. ch. Andover.
Profession of fafth.
Fr Pr.ch.NewBoston,N.H.
Profession of faith.

From Kirk st. ch. Lowell.
it
From ch. in Lynnfield.
From 1st ch. Derry, N. H.
Profession of faith.
From ch. Auburn. tt
Fr. Brainerd Pres.ch. N.Y.
Profession of faith.

From oh.Great Falls, N.H.
From Cent. ch. Lawrence.
Profession of faith.
FromSouth ch.Springfield .
Fr.ch.Hamptonboro',N.Y.Profession of faith.
tt
From ch. Grantville. it
Profession of faith.

From ch. Warren.
Profession of faith.

May 2, 1856, \

Jan. 20, 1856,
Jan. 2, 1857,
March 2, 1853,1855,
March 2, 1856,

Dec. 31, 1854,
Sept. 4, 1856,
Dec. 31, 1854,
Oct. 25, 1852,
August 12, 1857,

Deo. 16, 1857,
March 1, 1854,
Oct. 19, 1853,
July 6, 1853,
April 28, 1853,
April 30, 1851,

Sept. 1852,
Feb. 1, 1854

Dis. to ch. Th. Sem. Andover.
Dis. to ch. Th. Sem. Andover.
Dis. to ch. Great Falls, N. H.
Dis. to ch. Tipton, Iowa.
Dis. toch. Barre, Vt.
Dis. to ch. Bloomfield. Me.
Dis. toPresb. ch. Bedford,N.H.

Dis. to form ch. Ballard Vale.
By death, aged 35 years.
Dis.to form ch. Ballard Vale.
Dis. to ch. Th. Sem. Andover.
Dis. to ch. Th. Sem. Andover.
I lis. form ch. of the UnityS.Bos.
Dis. form ch.of the UnityS.Bos.

Dis. to ch. Milford, N. H.
Dis. to Pres. ch. Geneva, N. Y.
Dis. to 1st ch. Cambridgeport.
Dis. to ch. West Haverhill.
Dis. to Central ch. Lawrence.
Dis. to ch. Y.C. New Haven, Ct.
Dis. to ch.Y.C. New Haven Ct.
Dis. to ch. Th. Sem. Andover.
Dis. to Shawmut ch. Boston.

2002200320042005 2006
2007 2008
2009 201020H20122013
2014201520162017
2018201920202021

20242025

20282029

2031

2035203620372038 ¦
2039
2040 2041

Beg.

NAME.

Date of Reception.

Manner of Beception.

Date of Removal.

Manner of Removal.

2042

Clara A. (Woodbridge) Dean (Amos),

March 30. 1853,

From ch. Middleton.

Jan. 27, 1858,

Dis. to Bapt. ch. Lawrence.

2042

2043

Martha J. Upton,

April 13, 1853,

From West ch. Andover.

2043

2044

Mary [Pingree] Hazen (Hon. N. W.),

From ch. Georgetown.

2044
2045
John F. Stearns
July 3, 1853,
Profession of faith.
Dec. 16, 1857,
Dis. to 2d ch. Biddeford, Me.
2045
2046
John F. Aiken (D. C. 1858),
" tt ,
r 4t
,
2046
2047
Stephen Tracy (M. D.),
August 24, 1853,
From Calv. oh. Worcester.
2047
2048
A*ce H. [Dana] Tracy (Dr. Stephen),
tt
"
2048
2049
Sophia Carlton,
tt'
From ch. N. P. Andover.
2049
2050
Sarah J. Carlton,
ti
t.
2050
2051
Samuel Peabody [D. C. 1803; Esq.],
Abigail [Wood] Peabody (Samuel),
Nov. 2, 1853,
From ch. Tam worth, N. H.
2051
2052
tt
it
2052
2953
AJ>by H. Peabody, '
it
tt
2053
2054
Sarah J. Peabody,
it
it
2054
2055
Martha E. Tracy,
April 19, 1854,
From ch. Windsor, Vt.
2055
2056
Henry P. Sweetser (Dea.),
Nov. 3, 1855,
From 1st ch. Charlestown.
205S
2057
Sarah M. [Sweetser] Sweetser (H. P.),
;t
it
2057
205S
Charles C. Blunt,
Jan. 20, 1856,
Profession of faith.
2058
2059
Thaddeus H. Brown Y. C),
,kt
2059
2060
Adolf M. LevefH.U.),
Elsie E. (FryelMiles (Rev. Edw. C),
Josephine H. Frye,
<t
it
2060
20612062
tt
t«
it
tt
20612062
2063
'Mary E. Johnson.
Lucinda J. Russell,
u
it
2063
2064
(t
it
2064
2065
Sarah M. Sweetser,
tt
it
2065
2066
Elmira Jones,
(C
it
2066
2067
Mary S. Manning,
(C
ti
2067
2068
'Harmony [Brewster] Taylor (Jona.),
. tt
From ch. Westfield.
2068
2069
Sarah A.[Comstook] Mooar (Rev.Geo),
' ((
From ch. Centrebrook, Ct.
2069
2070
Josiah W. Turner (E. W. T. S. 1836;
Rev. 1837),
March 2, 1856,
Fr. High st. oh. Portland.
2070
2071
Almena W. [Grant] Turner (Rev .J. W.>,
it
tn
2071
2072
Frances M. Grant,
Sophia [Cochran] Bailey [Dan'I] Blood
tt
it
2072
2073
f
(Rogers),
Susanna [Barker] Johnson [Samuel],
May 2,1856,
From Westch. Andover.
2073
2074
*' .
From 1st ch. N .P Andover.
2074
2075
Mary A. [Billings] Abbot (Geo. L.),
Daniel H. Atwood,
May 4, 1856,
Profession of faith.
2075
2076
tc
.. ' it
April 28, 1858,
Dis. to Wint. st. ch. Haverhill.
2076
29771
Elsie [Houston] Frye [James],
July 6, 1856,
From West ch. Andover.
2077
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td H,
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20782079

20852086
2087 20882089
20902091 2092
20932094

2097209820992100 210121022103 2104
2105 21062107 2108210921102111211221132114 2115
2116 2117

Elizabeth GifHolt] Mooar (Herman), | July 6, 1856,
Abigail [Holt] Chamberlain[Epbraim],
George Mooar (W. C. 1851; A. T. S.
1855; Rev. 1855),
James Means [B. C. 1883; A. T. S.
1838 ; Rev. 1840), August 13, 1856,
Elizabeth P.fJohnsoni Means (Rev J. ), "
Harriet [Belknap] Willard [Geo. W.], Jan. 2, 1857,
Lydia M. Northey, u
Rebecca D. Tracy, Jan: 4, 1857,
Amos W. Abbot. "
Susanna [Cummings] Mooar [Ben].], March 1 , 1857,
Hannah [Kelsey] Jones (Willard), April 16, 1857,
Ralph H. Chandler [Dea.], May 3, 1857,
Mary [Kimball] Chandler (Dea. R.H.),
Holbrook Chandler [Dea.].
Margaret [Burro ws](Jliandier(Dea.H.),
George N. White,
John C. Heymer,
Caroline M. [Stevens] Heymer (J. C),
Sarah C. Mason,
Matilda M. (Radclitf ) Gould (Ansel),
Lydia A. Tucker,
Mary R. Tucker, ¦-
Margaret E. Wardwell,
Eliza P. [Williams] Corse (William), July 6, 1857,
Hezekiah Jones,
Anna E. [Jones] Jones (Hezekiah),
Hannah M. [Morse] Gleason(Gamaliel),
Emily [Noyes] Shannon (Daniel),
Mary M. (Aiken) Ripley (George),
Edward Carter,.; -
Hannah M. Chiokering, ,
Horace P. Beard,
Ellen F. (Manning) Allen (Wm. A.),
John N. Voorhes,
Sarah C. Waldo,
Myra J. [Day] Bodwell (Henry A.), Sept. 6, 1857,
Sarah J. (Chaney) Bixby (Johu), Nov. 1, 1857,
Anstice Abbot, Jan. 1, 1858,
Lucy J. [Holt] Blunt (Charles C), ] "
Charles Tufts, 1 "

From 1st ch . Marblehead.
From ch. Albany, Me.
Fr. ch. Th. Sem. Andover.
From Union ch. Grot on.
From ch. Indian Orchard.
From 1st Bant. ch. Salem.
Profession of faith.
ft
From West ch. Andover.
From ch. Methuen.
From Ev. ch. N. Andover.
tt
Fr.lst ch. Manchester,N.H.
From Ev. ch. N. Andover.
Profession of faith.

Fr. Mt Vernon ch. Boston.
From ch. Bloomheld, Me.
From Baptist ch. Andover.
Profession of faith.

From ch. Methuen.
Profession of faith.
Fr. N.ch.Portsmouth.N.H.
From 18th st. Pr. ch. N. Y.
Fr. Mt. Vernon ch. Boston.

March 2, 1859,
Nov. 5, 1858,

March 17, 1858.
July 6, 1859,
March 10, 1858,

May 20, 1859,
Nov. 6, 1858,

Dis. to ch. W. Lebanon, N. H.
Dis. to ch. W. Lebanon, N. H,
Dis. to 1st Baptist ch. Salem.

Dis. to ch. Francestown, N. H,

Dis. to ch, Topsfleld.

Dis.to Pearl st.ch.Hartford,Ct.

By death, aged 37 years.
Dis. to ch. West Newton.

20782079

2081

20842085

20872088

20902091

209520962097

2100
21012102 2103210421052106
2107
2108 210921102111
21122113 2114
211521162117

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Reg.

NAME.

Date of Reception,

Manner of Reception.

Date of RemovaL

Manner of Removal.

2118

Nathan Ellis,

March 3, 1858,

From ch. Bluehill, Me.

2118

2119

Susan L. [Gardner] Ellis (Nathan),

tt

tt

2119
2120
James A. Treat [H. U. 1832],
"
From ch. Pittsfield, N. H.
2120
2121
James H. Treat (H, U.),
tt
tt
2121
2122
Emily Carter, ,
tt
Profession of faith.
2122
2123
Maria H. Ellis,
tt
"
2123
2124
Hannah [Bailey] Abbot [Asa],
May 2, 1858,
From 2d ch. Gt.Falls.N.H.
2124
2125
J. Alfred Abbot,
"
it
2125
2126
Joseph Chandler, jr.,
tt
From West ch. Andover.
2126
2127
Almena [Jacobs] Swift (Jonathan),
tt
Profession of faith.
2127
2128
Charlotte H. Swift,
it
tt
2128
2129
Martha H. Chandler,
ti
ti
2129
2130
Lucretia W- Richardson,
it
it
2130
2131
Mary P. Hazen,
it
it
2131
2132
Clarissa W. Waldo,
tt
tt
2132
2133
Abby F. Clement,
tt
tt
2133
2134
Betsey L. [Gardner] Cheever [John],
July 4, 1S58,
From ch. Bluehill, Me.
2134
2135
Timothy F. Allen,
tt
Profession of faith.
2135
2136
Alonzo P. Berry,
it
tt
2136
2137
Joshua M. Blunt,
tc
tt
2137
2138
William H. Jenks,
tt
tt
2138
2139
Mary T. [Abbot] Jenks ( Wm. H.),
Jane C. [Kimball] Foster (Wm. P.),
Abigail Abbot,
tt
tt
2139
2140
2141
ttft
tttt
May 20, 1859,
By death, aged 28 years.
21402141
2142
Hannah E. Whittier,
tt
ti
2142
2143
Elizabeth G- Kenison,
ti
it
2143
2144
Elizabeth P. Ellis
tt
tt
2144
2145
Anna A. Fay,
tt
tt
2145
2146
Mary F. Turner,
tt
tt
2146
2147
Luke Worthley,
Sept 12, 1858,
Fr. Appleton st. ch. Lowell .
2147
2148
Elizabeth [Poor] Worthley (Luke),
»t
it
2148
2149
Eliza H. [Hall] Tucker (Samuel),
*'
Profession of faith.
2149
2150
John H. Dean,
tt
tt
2150
2151
Caroline L. [Clement] Dean (John H.),
»
tt
2151
2152
Angeline E. [Abbot] Blackman(H.R.),
tt
tt
2152
2153
Sarah L. Abbott,
ti
it
2153
2154
Abby E. Abbott,
tt
it
2154
2155
Lewis L. Abbott,
it
it
2155
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21612162
21632164 2165
216621672168
2169217021712172 2173
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Ellen A. Holt,
Edward F. Abbot [Rev.],
Charlotte [Cushing] Abbot (Rev.E.F.),
Hannah [Newman] Fay[Rev.Sam'l A.]
William B. Gallisou,
Sarah L. [Endicott] Abbot (Timothy),
Emily Chickering,
Hermon P. Chandler,
Phebe A. [Ballardfchandler (H. P.),
Ann [Greenough] Hervey [Dea. Alb't],
Sarah C Hervey,
Abbie S. Hervey,
Annie G. Hervey,
Ellen G. Ellis,
Susan M. Johnson,
Delia L. Holt,
Frances E. Chandler,
Laura M. Chandler,
Sarah A. Dole, 
Sarah [Davidson] Dole [William]
Wardwell [Simon],
Esther A. Abbot,
Isaac E. Giddings,

Nov. Jan.

7, 1858,
2, 1859,

May 1, 1859,

July 8, 1859,

Profession of faith.
From ch.Gilmanton, N. H.
From ch. Milton, N. H.
From ch. Amherst.
Profession of faith.

From West ch. Andover.
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From Ev. ch. N. Andover.
ittt
Profession of faith.

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2168 216921702171
2172 2173
2174 217521762177

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ALPHABETICAL INDEX

NAMES OF PAST MEMBERS.

Abbot
3 John
4 George
11 Nehemiah
16 Sarah
17 Dorcas
20 Sarah
34 Abigail
46 William
52.. Dorcas
54 Elizabeth
60 Hannah
69 Nathaniel
70" Sarah
77 Hannah
88 Stephen
99 Jonathan
100 Zerviah
103 James
104 Thomas
115 David
116 Timothy sr.
139 Benjamin
140 Elizabeth
142 Timothy jr.
143 Mary
149 Hannah
156 Abigail
182 John
163 John
170 Mary
173 George
174 Henry
175 Mary
178 Mary
184 Joseph
194 Thomas jr.
195 Elizabeth
202 Isaac
209 Hannah
215 Ephraim
222 Priscilla
223 Deborah -
227 John
238 Hannah
250 Ebenezer
251 Zebadiah
264 Barachias
273 Sarah
285 Phebe

292 Catharine
300 Ephraim jr.
301 Hannah
314 Joseph jr.
323 Mary
340 Hannah
351 Phebe
357 Stephen jr.
Mary >
Elizabeth
396 Experience
397 Priscilla
398 Nehemiah
405 Elizabeth
416 Hannah
418 Sarah
422 George jr.
428 Samuel.jr.
431 Jonathan jr.
432 Martha*
433 Joseph 3d
436 Joanna
455 William
468 Solomon
470 Henry jr.
471 Thomasjr.
477 Nehemiah
473 Hannah
i Hannah-
i Elizabeth
501 John jr.
502 Abigail
503 Anna
531 Mary ..
539 Dorcas .
548 Phebe;
550 David
654 Prudence
558 Chloe> t ,
561 Zebajijitth jr.
571 Barachias
574 Phebe
581 Hannah
683 Sarah
586 Abigail
588 Sarah .
595 Joseph jr.
613 Jeduthun
614 Isaac
615 Phebe

622

Hannah

638639

Bigsby,,
HepzibahAbigail "
Nathaniel

643

645

646

Sarah

674

Mary

712

Ednah

725

Nathanjr.

726

Sarah

744

Caleb

745

Lucy

755

Job

756

Anna

773

Ephraim

774

Lydia

781

John

786

John L.

787

Phebe

790

Dorcas

801

Hannah

827

Abner

828

Ruth

834

Moses

835

Elizabeth,

857

Anna :

870

Benjamin

874

Zebadiahjr.

878

Herman 1794

886

Elizabeth

887

Priscilla

893

Rhoda

917

Samuel "

918

Sarah

922

Sarah

927

Anna

938

Sarah' . ~ -

948

Abiel- '

966

Rhoda

1009

Elizabeth

1014

Ezra

1018

Jonathan 4th

1024

Nathan jr.

1025

Hannah

1033

Asa

1034

Judith

1054

Prissey

1055

Elizabeth K.

1065

Timothy

1066

Sarah ..

184

INDEX OF PAST MEMBERS.

1072 10731077108810871108112011211122 1123112811381145 11461148
1156 1167
1171 118011811198120412051206 1212
1220 1222 1240
1241124312501279 129813041306 13101318 1321
1324 132913351359 1361
14151434
1439 1452 1457
1471
1482 1483
1536 15571558
15641606 1607
1615
1622162816291630 1656
16571660 16611704
17151716175717761811
1814

William
Rebecca
John S.
EnochNancy Mary
Elizabeth Hannah
RhodaAnna ElizabethMary
Charles DorcasHannahAbigail -
Warren
Betsy MaryPhebe F.
James NehemiahSarahRachelMary Abigail Hannah
RebekahAnna
Joshua Esther M.
Sarah K.
Mary F.
PaschalAbigail Elizabeth Dorcas
Sarah S.
Eliza J.
Elizabeth H.
William
Martha F.
Eliza J.
AnnMartha J.
Mary P.
Hannah
Dolly
Mary S.
SophroniaRebecca H.
Isaac jr.
Margaret W.
Elizabeth Henry jr.
Lucy
Elizabeth Anstress
Nathan 5th
Joseph Benjamin F.
James H.
Dorcas S.
Paschal 2d
Sarah B.
Elizabeth W.
Sarah
Rhoda A.
Hannah J.
Hannah M.
Sereno T.
Bushrod W.'
Clarissa A.

1823 Elizabeth
1824 Mary J.
1842 Charlotte O.
1967 Sarah M.
2009 JaneG.
2015 Mary P.
Adams
1163 John
1164 Elizabeth
1430 MaryH.
1767 Joseph H.
Aiken
2106 MaryM. Allen
838 Abigail
1702 Augustus H.
1858 JohnC.
1859 Hannah

411 Nathan
459 Benjamin
534 Phebe
604 Dorcas
868 Timothy
869 Sally
939 Simeon
940 Sally
1908 Anna Anderson
1542 Abigail Andrews
1900 Mencies C.
Annis
679 James
580 Beulah Astin
138 Sarah
229 Thomas
234 Mary
350 Mary
609 Thomas
610 Sarah
683 Jacob
684 Mary Atwood
2076 Daniel H.
Avert
386 Sarah Badger
1453 Clarissa
2031 George
2032 William Bachelder
1188 Lydia Bailey
541 Nathan
542 Deborah
709 Samuel
934 Mehitabel
977 Joshua
978 Hepzibah
1091 Dorcas -
1136 William
1143 Lucy
1215 Maiy Ballard
23 Rebecca
24 Hannah
42 Joseph
43 Rebecca
53 Rebeoca
90 John sr.
153 Hezekiah

157 Sherebiah
158 Lydia
235 Mary
269 Benjamin
286 Timothy
287 Mary
383 Mehitabel
395 Hezekiah
440 Uriah
573 Lydia
512 Timothy jr.
513 Sarah
552 Rebecca
633 Elizabeth
653 Joseph
656 Hannah
819 Hezekiah jr.
820 Mary
839 William
840 Mary
841 Hannah
909 Timothy
910 Mary
1170 Hannah
1719 Charles
1798 Jane
1829 Stephen Baker.
864 Deborah
1064 Simonds Barker
128 Zebadiah
165 Elizabeth
169 Stephen
213 James
216 Ebenezer
203 Mehitabel
739 Sarah
1403 Elizabeth
1462 Ruth Barnard
185 John jr.
186 Sarah
192 Abigail
249 Stephen
289 Nathaniel
290 Ruth
295 Sarah
330 Mehitabel
865 Hannah
559 James
560 Sarah
751 Alice
972 James jr.
973 Hannah
1653 Lydia
1845 Henry F.
Barrows
1750 Simon Bartlett
908 Mary Barton
1752 Frederick A.
1753 Sophia Bates
1017 Daniel Becket
1964 Charlotte R.
Berry
1150 Hannah
1863 Maria Beverly
1160 Hannah

INDEX OS PAST MEMBERS.

185

Bigsby

BOLMAN

Chandler

19

Hannah

1056

Elizabeth

10

Thomas

67

Daniel sr.

Bond
14
William
197
Experience
1412
Eliza T.
22
Sarah
204
Maria
Boutwell
27
Mary
373
Joseph
1807
James
38
Mary
Blaban
Bowers
44
Thomas jr.
1817
Lydia
1962
Hannah
49
John jr.
Blanchard
1963
Luke K.
50
Hannah
32
Anna
Boynton
67
Zebadiah
66
Hannah
589
Hannah
58
Sarah
65
Rose
722
MarySarah
66
Sarah
105
Thomas
1211
85
Mary
122
Mary
1339
Rebecca
131
Josiah
146
Samuel
1623
Nathan P.
148
Philemon
147
"Sarah
Bh&dley
167
Joseph
Mehitabel
151
Benjamin
1760
Philander
168
152
Mary
Bridges
196
Timothy
198
Joseph Sarah
1237
Nancy
200
William
199
Briggs
201
Elizabeth
247
Stephen
1676
Henrietta
243
Mehitabel
255
Hannah
Britton .
245
Sarah
259
Judith
1888
William
246
Joanna
272
Deborah
1889
Jane
248
Elizabeth
279
Rebecca
Brown
254
Hannah
302
Jonathan jr.
360
James
275
Benjamin
854
Josiah
361
Phebe
284
Priscilla
355
Sarah
720
Lucy
288
Abiel
859
Anne
1327
John
306
Samuel
399
Elizabeth
1328
Cynthia
a32
Mehitabel
437
Hannah
1554
Joseph
335
Sarah
446
Nathan
1743
Mary E-.
844
LydiaElizabeth
447
Bathsheba
1749
AsaH.
345
460
Deborah
1750
Samuel G.
352
Elizabeth
475
Samuel
1751
Elizabeth
368
John
476
Ruth
1874
Esther G.
881
Mary
483
Dinah
Buntin
385
HepzibahWilliam
484
Priscilla
1292
Tamsen G-
409
494
Hannah
Burt
412
Elizabeth
645
Jerusha
469
Joseph
413
Abigail
727
Samuel jr.
848
Elizabeth
419
David jr.
728
Lucy
898
Mary
420
Mary
782
Lois
911
Jedediah
466
John
814
Josiah
942
Sarah
607
Zebadiah
815
Lydia
1362
Hannah
508
Deborah
1089
Amos jr.
1587
Jedediah
556
Nathan
1090
Elizabeth
1588
Mary
644
Flora"
1152
Fanny
Buswell
649
Daniel
1464
Rhoda
1631
Ebenezer M.
650
Joanna
1688
Edward
1632
Catharine M.
654
Abiel
1717
Polly
Butler
655
Mary
Blunt
439
Dorcas
660
Zebadiah jr.
36
Sarah
920
Phebe
661
Lucy
253
Sarah
Butters
766
Isaac 2d
894
Zerniah
1331
Francis
767
Abigail
461
Mary
1332
Betsy
779
James
520
Mary
Buxton
780
Phehe
591
Isaac
599
Benjamin
788
John
629
David
600
Abigail
789
Dorothy
630
Ruth
Callahan
802
Joseph
423
LydiaMary
1373
Lydia
803
Mary
797
1444
Henry
810
Nathan 3d
860
Anna
1836
Jonathan G.
811
Lucy
873
Isaac jr.
Carleton
818
Mary-
923
Lois
1174
Isaac
832
Elizabeth
1117
Molly
1175
Mary
846
Phebe
1583
Isaac jr.
1294
Abigail A.
Carrier
853
AbigailPhilemon
Boardman
905
1223
Hannah
73
Thomas
961
William jr.
Bod well
Carter
962
Elizabeth
1125
Abraham
1787
Betsy
997
Rebecca
2113
Myra J.
Chaitin
1049
Dorcas
1959
D. Maria
1141
Joshua jr.
16*
186

INDEX OF PAST MEMBERS.

1172

Alice

Cummings

1176

Stevens

675

Jonathan jr.

1184

Abigail

648

Mary

1216

Mary

759

Abigail

1333

Joshua

1010

Eunice

1334

MaryPhebe

1126

Daniel

1387

1127

Hannah

1398

Susan 1789

1291

Mary 1835

1468

Elizabeth

1362

Hannah

1950

Lucy J..

1605

Mary E.

1951

Mary K.

Currier

1952

Nathan

1844

Josiah H.

1953

Dorcas

Curtis

Chaney
1566
Ruth
2114
Sarah J. <•
1624
Israel :
Chase
Daland
816
Emery .. - ,
1289
George
817
Mehitabel
1300
Oliver F.
1303
John
Dane
Chessmore
6
Francis
1720
Reuben G.
21
Hannah
Clark
94
John
134
Sarah
95
Sarah
276
Mary.
Lydia
107
Francis
334
108
Hannah
538
Hannah
144
Joseph
563
Lydia
Elizabeth
145
Lydia Mary
564
171
723
Abijah
348
John jr.
724
Hannah
349
Elizabeth
996
Hannah
609
Joseph William
1005
Samuel
510
1006
Sarah
576
Priscilla
1132
Amos
577
Daniel .
1201
John
578
Prudence
1620
Thomas
585
Philemon
Cleaveland
760
Susanna: ,
1165
Betsy •»•<...
768
Francis -
¦' Clement
769
Abiah
1806
Mary ¦ -
"•Clisby
771
Joseph
"772
Ellen„ ...
1735
Joseph
829
Mary
.- Cobb
830
Hannah -
1626
Samuel P. ...
858
John •
-¦ Coburn
859
1 Deborah
784
Elizabeth -
1186
Susan - -
Copmn
1207
Dorcas
1475
Mary
1253
Mary
1723
Nathaniel W.
1254
Rebecca
Cogswell
1383
James
590
Elizabeth
1384
Rebecca
985
Samuel jr.
1732
Hannah
986
Mary
Davis
1063
Samuel
1277
Sarah
1416
Sarah
1432
Eunice R.
1426
Elizabeth ...
1901
Mary -^ ,
-Day .
CONOKLIN i
2030
Elizabeth'-.'. '¦
731
Robert
•¦» Cooke
732
Mary t Dennis
1774
Oliver'D. ¦<
- Cooper
775
Sarah . ¦
1413
-i, Corey .
.„
Derby
1418
Jqhn;;..,
1074
Sally^.. t : . '
1419
Rebecca: > >
* Cornell
-.Dickinson
1770
Mary',, «¦: •
-Crosby
1864
Eliz'Sbgrh~_.
,- -
- -^Dobbin i
688
Simon
897
Sarah,:: . ¦¦>
928
John -
¦¦* Dodge
960
Simon jr.
1827
Lydia-^ -
1070
Timothy
— • -Dole
ion
Mary
1427
Harriet
1083
Hannah
Donald
1954 William C.
1955 Agnes Douglas
2027 Harrison Dow
521 Elizabeth Downing
150 Richard
233 Atta
736 Temperance
882 Samuel jr.
883 Elizabeth
895 Palfrey
896 Lydia
1133 Abigail .„
1353 Palfrey W.
1354 Hannah Draper
2004 Warren F.
2005 Irene P.
DUNKLEE
1105 Rebecca Dunten
237 Mary DUNTLIN
894 Sarah Durant
954 Sarah
1269 William Eaton
1821 Elizabeth A.
Edes
880 Rachel . .
. Edson
1404 Elijah • -
Edwards
1232 Lydia -.1674
,.. - Elles
1513 Abby C. - - "
1576 KelitaS. ..,
- Emery
1272 Elizabeth
1301 Joshua Erving
957 John
958 Mary Evans
1330 AnnE. Everett
1681 Nancy W.
EVERSON
1620 Ephraim
1699 Rhoda Farnum
9 Ralph
SI Sarah
74 Henry
75 Phebe ,
219 Barachias
220 Hepzibah
424 Susanna
1317 - Edwin ,
1493 Joseph H.
1569 Susan'B. ¦.- i
1574 'johnC-
1970 Sarah v Farrar
1106 Samuel
1116 John
1214 Phebe
.t.-' FARBnrGTON
946 Sarah
INDEX OF PAST MEMBERS.

187

1032

Lydia 1795

1012

Farwell

1013

1971

Asa

1035

1972

Hannah

1086

2029

Mary A.

1037

Faulkner

1042

718

Abiel

1044

719

Hannah

1057

1178

Dorcas

1058

1927

Julia A.

1236

Favour

1297

1652

Lydia

1593

Fay
1734
1662
Samuel A. .
1763
Fields
1993
370
Sarah
1994
- Fisher
2140
1663
Nathaniel D.
i -Fisk
' 699
614
John
625
Hepzibah
1340
824
Mary - -
Flagg
1718
1579
Timothy
1645
William F.
623
1733
Sarah H.
808
1784
Martha S.
809
2020
John D.
881
2021
Caroline W.
982
Flint
989
980
John
1003
931
Ruth
1004
1245
Simeon
1456
1246
Martha
1747
1369
Caleb P.
1786
1370
Sarah
1379
.Caroline .
1832
1489
Sophronia W.
1665
Alanson
698
1666
Hannah
872
1740
James ',
995
1857
Martha F.
1093
Foster
1094
13
William
1230
63
Sarah
1231
67
Mary
1239
106
Abraham
1286
206
John
1347
207
Mary-
1358
265
Sarah
1365
267
Massey
1446
274
Mehitabel
1515
312
Asa
1540
313
Elizabeth
1695
316
Hannah
356
Joseph
1683
357
Deliverance
1684
364
Jacob
374
Abigail
878
376
Sarah
1118
435
Esther
1119
457
William
1154
458
Hannah -
474
Hannah- . ,
1591
540
Hanhafi'
1592
716
Jacob'jr.
717
Phebe
1741
754.
Hannah -
1742
770
Elizabeth
798
Mary
1730
813
TimothyHannah
852
1116
952
Lucy
Daniel
Gilman
Jolly
1990
John C.
Davis
1991
Lovina M.
Anne
Gleason
Betty B.
1173
Jonathan
William jr.
1260
Rhoda
Hannah
1912
Benjamin
Anna
Goldsmith
Ruthy
655
Tabitha
Phebe
666
Jefferd
Deborah L.
658
Margaret
Sarah W.
690
Zaccheus
Catharine H.
691
Mehitabel
Thomas E. 1876
692
BenjaminWilliam
Sarah E.
693
Charlotte A.
778
Mary
Jane C.- ¦
821
Hannah
Fowler
825
Sarah
Abigail
994
Hannah
Fox
999
Jeremiah
Phebe .
1000
Sarah
Francis
1001
Eunice
Mary A.
French
1002
Elizabeth
1011
Elizabeth
Abigail
1451
Martha
Asa
Gould
Mary
1672
Zeruiah E.
Abigail
1785
Esther M.
Mary H.
Gowing
Jonathan jr.
1394
Elizabeth
Peter
1565
Joseph
Elizabeth
1803
Elizabeth
Alice
Granger
Alice S.
278
Mary GRAVES
Elizabeth
Frost
109
Eleazer
Phebe L.
224
Abraham
Frye
258
Sarah
Lucy
421
Abraham
Betty
Gray
Persis
83
Henry
Enoch
84
Mary
Mary
110
Braviter
Persis 1913
111
Dorothy
Mary
193
Catharine
Elizabeth
244
Mary
Eliza
257
Margery
Sarah
277
Miriam
Priscilla
310
Dorothy
Abigail
410
Robert
Hannah D.
417
Sarah
Mary M.
442
Timothy Eleanor
Henry B.
443
Susanna
606
Lydia
Fuller
517
Abigail
Sumner
622
David
Mary H.
523
Rebecca
Furbush
794
Mary
Hannah
906
David
Simeon
907
Sarah
Rachel
1325
Mary .
Rachel
1677
David jr.
- Gallishan
Greele
George K.' W.
Elizabeth. E. .
1101
Samuel
- Green
- George
1458
Caroline M.
Henry-H. Elizabeth B.
1459
Aaron
1460
Eunice
Gilbert
Greenleaf
George H.
GlLE
1271
Mary H.
1293
Mary
Samuel
Grippin
606
Shemuel
188

INDEX OF PAST MEMBERS.

607 Abigail
925 William jr.
932 William
933 Mary
963 Jonathan
964 Zeruiah
1045 Mercy
1169 Ednah
1225 Joseph
1288 Cyrus
1455 Mary
1527 Eldad
1655 Mary W.
1706 Martha Gutterson
137 John
230 Joseph Hadley
1307 Charley
1308 Judith Hadlock
1780 Nathan
1781 Ann Haggit
450 Moses
451 Sarah
582 Deborah
689 Susanna
Hall
984 Lydia
1721 Timothy
1885 John
1886 MaryB.
1887 Janet .
Hallock
1355 Homan Harding
1060 Sarah
1602 Sarah H.
Hardy
693 Ezekiel
594 Sarah
1021 Ezekiel jr.
1022 Hannah
1139 Elizabeth
1722 Alpheus Harnden
129 John
130 Sarah Hathorn
628 Ebenezer
629 Mary Haven
1759 Jesse Hawley
861 Hannah
969 Chloe
1555 Martha Hayward
1134 Jabez
1135 Abigail IlLEItICK
776 Mary
1155 Sarah Hervey
1541 Albert Hilton
1894 Esther A.
Hinchcliff
1203 Susan Hitchings
1381 Elizabeth

Holbrook
601 Dorothy
611 Ralph
612 Sarah Holmes
1998 Henry B.
1999 Harriett
2000 Elizabeth A,
2001 Hannah T.
2035 Harrietts. Holt
33 Hannah
51 Moses
71 Nicholas sr.
72 Mary
76 Hannah
79 Oliver
97 Elizabeth
98 Timothy
101 Abigail
113 Josiah
114 Mary
123 Henry sr:
124 Sarah
132 Elizabeth
154 James
155 Susanna
160 Nicholas
161 Dorcas
164 Mary
176 Thomas
177 Alice
183 Hannah
189 Susanna
239 Rhoda
240 Priscilla
241 Hannah
252 David
270 Mary
296 Thomas jr.
297 Hannah
303 Jonathan
304 Lydia
318 Stephen 407
326 Nicholas jr.
328 Susanna
342 Mehitabel
343 Elizabeth
358 Benjamin jr.
359 Lydia
366 James 3d
371 Mary
382 Elizabeth
389 Fifield
390 Abigail
392 Elizabeth
403 Nathan
408 Mary
415 Ruth
426 Martha
427 Rebecca
429 Joshua jr.
438 Abigail
464 Deborah
467 Dorcas
472 Hannah
490 Phebe
492 Samuel
493 Abigail
495 Ruth 637
496 Jonathan 3d 636
497 Jemima
499 Rhoda

500 Hepzibah
504 Sarah
505 Mary
515 John sr.
518 Hannah
519 Bethiah
524 Jemima
-632 Nathaniel
533 Elizabeth
547 Rachel
667 Hannah
568 Rose
669 Hannah
570 Benjamin
624 Humphrey
647 Mary
667 Zela,
668 Priscilla
670 Timothy 3d
671 Hannah
677 James jr.
678 Dorcas
687 Lydia
702 Edy
711 Judith
729 Jacob
730 Rhoda
735 Mary „
742 Peter
743 Hepzibah
746 Hannah
750 Alice
800 Mary
826 Asa
831 Joseph jr.
847 Chloe
856 Abigail
865 Zebadiah
866 Sarah
871 Abigail
876 Betty
877 Lydia
884 Chloe
885 Hannah
888 Isaac jr.
889 Tabitha
900 Peter
903 Henry
904 Mehitabel
912 Abiah
913 Jonathan jr.
921 Mehitabel
949 Dorothy
953 Elizabeth
959 Hannah
970 Ezra
971 Dorcas
987 Lydia
1019 Sarah
1038 Nancy
1050 'Edy ¦
1088 Lydia 1497
1113 Dane
1114 Lydia
1140 Rebekah
1196 Solomon
1248 Hannah
1280 MaryK. 1391
1374 Ruth
1472 Jonas
1473 PameliaP.
1481 Persis
1492 Josephs.

INDEX OF PAST MEMBERS.

189

1625

Warren

487

Eleanor

Locke

1729

Henry

733

Lydia

1378

Sally

1846

Stephen A.

765

Eunice

1599

Mary O.

1847

¦Edward B.

833

Nathaniel

Lord

1866

Lydia E.
Charlotte M.

992

David

1477

Mary David W.

1925

993

Abigail

1573

1975

Martha A.

1095

Osgood

I.ORING

1992

Sarah A.

1096

Fanny

1213

Sally

Houghton
1099
Jacob
1601
Sarah
998
Elizabeth
1100
Sarah
Lovejoy
1051
Mary A.
1107
Lydia
5
William
1052
Charlotte
1190
Sally
25
Mary
1614
Elizabeth T.
1287
Osgood
35
Mary Williamjr.
How
1296
Eliza
39
212
Israel
1584
Nathan
40
Sarah
232
Massey
1744
Olive
41
Alice
305
Keturah
Jones
61
Henry
Howard
783
Elizabeth
62
Sarah
1966
Eliza R.
849
Mary
64
Elizabeth
Hunt
850
Jacob
82
Christopher sr
380
William
851
Mary
Phebe
117
LydiaAbigail
430
Hannah
965
120
761
Paul
1007
Rachel
159
Ebenezer
762
Elizabeth
1008
Abigail
179
John
Hurd
1016
Dorcas ~
180
Hannah '
1343
Jeremiah
1258
Abbot
181
Samuel
1344
Martha
1259
Betsy
182
Hannah
Hush
1445
Hannah
187
Ebenezer jr.
924
Jonathan
1520
Martha A.
188
Mary ,
Ingalls
1521
Mary J.
190
Sarah
1081
Ezra
1535
Susan
191
Christopher
1082
Dolly
1559
Ebenezer sr.
242
Mehitabel
1244
Dolly
1575
Alford
256
Anna
1933
Charles N.
1969
Martha A.
317
Hannah
Jackson
2011
Hannah M.
324
David
1200
Sarah
Judkins
331
Mary
Jaquith
1080
Abigail
336
Martha
1261
Phebe
Kendall
341
Elizabeth
1523
Phebe G.
983
James
346
Deborah
1596
Eliza
1251
Abigail
363
Elizabeth
1801
Benjamin F.
Keyes
375
Joshua
1804
Mary
1549
Lydia
378
Henry
1944
Abby A.
Kidder
379
Phebe
1945
Dorcas J.
1609
Martha J.
384
Hannah.
Jenkins
1610
Elizabeth M.
400
Rebecca
935
Benjamin
Kimball
425
Deborah
935
reggy
795
Daniel
445
LydiaMehitabel
1387
Sarah
796
Elizabeth
448
1368
LydiaWilliam
Kittredge
456
Hannah
1470
901
Samuel
516
Isaac
1471
Mary S.
902
Sarah
592
JoBhua jr.
1502
Benjamin
1928
Eliza
626
Sarah
1503
Betsy
Kneeland
640
Joseph
1560
Samuel
1062
Rebecca
641
Mary
1561
Lydia
1281
John
642
Mary
1756
Deborah M.
Knights
708
Mary
Johnson
1328
Robert
747
Isaac jr.
8
William
Lalanne
748
Mary
12
John
1764
Arthur J. G.
862
Jeremiah
26
Elizabeth
Lamson
863
Hannah
39
Mary
16S2
Samuel
950
Ruth
133
James
LangstSoth
951
Mercy
135
Caleb
1773
Anne T.
1023
Molly
136
Mary
1774
Rebecca,
1047
Jeremiah
205
Mehitatiel
Leavitt
1048
Dorothy
208
Hannah
1400
Jonathan
1109
Isaac
214
Sarah
1401
Louisa
1130
Amos
221
Hannah
Lee
1131
Elizabeth
236
Hannah
1129
Hannah
1189
James B.
391
Joshua
1137
John
1197
Ebenezer
441
Obadiah
Lines
1202
William R.
444
Zebadiah
1187
Susan
1322
Orphah
486
Cornelius
1
'1354
Sally
190

INDEX OF PAST MEMBERS.

1366 Hannah
2024 SarahS. Lupkin
734 Mehitabel LUMMUS-
1228 Sarah Luscomb
1079 Hannah
1195 Jerusha
1256 Rhoda
1364 Hannah Mace
608 Sarah
845 Isaae Mann
1914 Zoa Manning
1067 Thomas -
1068 Mehitabel
1226 Thomas*
1227 Sarah"
1612 Lydia S.
1871 Mary-A.
1872 Rebecca J.
Manser
1426 Rebecca Marland
1410 Mary
1610 AnnB.
1640 Harriet F. 1961
1641 Hannah J.
1713 Sarah F.
Marshall
657 Susanna
1898 Samuel Martin
587 Elizabeth
930 Joseph
931 Phebe Mason
1711 Martha M.
1761 Eliza Massey
777 Sally,
Mayo
1302 Sarah.
1582 Aaron D.
MoAlpin
1323 Susanna -
McGarry
1849 Derby McGinty
2017 Margaret F.
McIntire
676 Lucy McKean
1442 Jane .
McLaughlin
943 Mary MoMurphy
2016 Eliza McNeil .
2008 C. Grenville Means
2081 James .
2082 Elizabeth P.
Mears
1809 Sarah Wi
Merchant
1921 Emily T.
Merrill
696 Mary
704 Mary
705 Elizabeth

740 Thomas
741 Lydia
761 Enoch
761 Patty
1317 Jane
1613 Richard
1668 Mary A.
1867 John Mll'.LKTT
1658 William P.
Mitchell
1935 AmmiR. Mooar
127 Anne
225 Timothy -
319 Daniel
320 Martha
453 Timothyjr.
454 Elizabeth
462 Benjamin
463 Abiah ¦
481 Abraham
482 Lydia :
562 Sarah
596 Lois
713 Joshua
714 Deborah
753 Martha
791 Mary
911 Lydia
1177 Isaac
1313 Stephen C.
1314 Elizabeths.
1399 Sarah Moody
1791 Charles C- P.
1792 Frances Moore
1670 Sarah
1703 Richard Morrill
1408 Nathaniel
1409 Mary
1589 Samuel
1590 Hannah Morris
1835 Abigail Morrison
749 Peggy
1529 Charles G.
1917 Helen
1918 Mary Morse
1548 Charles E.
Murray
1883 Walter
1884 Christian Needham
1423 Fanny.
1579 Samuel
New
1907 James E.
1909 Sarah C. -
Newman
1088 Mark
1257 Samuel P.
1275 Sarah P.
1466 Juliett
1510 MarkH.
1511 Mary
1534 William J.
1642 AnnaD.
1893 Charlotte M.
1916 Sarah P.

Nichols
91 Nicholas
92 Elizabeth Noble
1948 MaryW. Nokthey
2084 Lydia Noyes
1405 Maria
1939 Jonathan L.
Nutting
404 Miriam '-
Ordway
659 Daniel .
675 Deborah . .
Osgood
2 Christopher
68 Rebecca
89 Ezekiel
166 Sarah
218 Stephen sr.
260 Hannah
271 Lydia
291 Lydia'
298 Stephen jr.
299 Dorcas
309 Isaac
315 Mary
321 Ezekiel
322 Hannah
327 Samuel
362 Rachel •
406 Mary
4l4 Mary
434 Elizabeth
543 Anna
549 Joshua
551 Mary
553 Mary
565 David
616 Samuel jr.
617 Hannah
721 Jane
812 Lydia
842 Joseph
843 Hannah
955 Thomas
956 Hannah
1078 Aaron
1124 Hannah
1194 Lydia
1486 Elizabeth
1598 Hannah P.
1603 Sarah A.
Packard
1495 George Parker
669 Dinah
697 Mary
703 Susanna
785 Anna
1295 Apphia Parkhurst
1985 Ziba
1986 Sophronia
1987 Sarah A.
1988 Francinia
1989 Austin- Patten
620 Elijah'
621 Lydia
631 John
632 Molly
634 Elizabeth

INDEX OF PAST MEMBERS.

191

1084

Elijah

663

1085

Elsie

944

1825

Andrew

945

1826

Jane

1020

Payson

1110

1487

Louisa C.

Illi

Peabody

1299

1059

Anna

1436

1637

Almira

1467

Pearson

1604

890

Abiel

891
Mary
1185
1158
Mary
David S.
1166
2018
1233
Deborah
2019
1634
Joseph Sarah
2026
1635
1795
Enoch
29
1796
Phebe T.
37
Peters
80
1484
Sarah
81
1542
Patty
93
1789
Martha Pettengall
141
526
Samuel
1739
527
Mary Phelps
1191
65
Sarah
59
Samuel sr.
2097
96
Hannah
118
Joseph
489
119
Elizabeth
121
Elizabeth
975
125
John
976
126
Sarah
1238
226
Henry
1406
347
Sarah :
1479
449
Thomas
1816
452
Samuel
488
Susanna
1149
697
Pomp
598
Cate-
1151
700
Joshua
701
Lois
1478
767
Henry
758
-Mary-
1754
1026
Joseph jr.
1758
1027
Rebecca
1030
Joshua
1693
1031
MaryPhebe
1694
1218
1219
Jonathan
7
1522
Elizabeth H.
18
1595
Lydia A.
Abigail F.
228
1805
268
1852
Priscilla F.
Phillips
15
1
Samuel Rev-
28
293
Mary
.47
294
Samuel
48
807
John
78
308
Lydia
102
916
Samuel
112
979
John .
280
1076
Phebe
353
Picket
401
1338
Judith - -
402
Pierce
465
1837
William
611
1838
Ellen
536
Pinkham
637
1041
Sarah -
618
Poor
619
662
Daniel
651
Hannah
652
Daniel jr.
792
Hannah
793
Sarah
879
Anna
1210
Pamela
1270
Daniel
1282
Sarah W.
1494
Martha
1538
Mary A.
1709
Porter
1863
LucyP. Pratt
1572
Minor G.
Caroline
1058
Caroline B.
Preston
837
Sarah.
338
Sarah
530
John sr.
Samuel jr.
1956
Rebecca
1957
Jacob
Punohard
263
Martha L.
491
Putnam
822
Sarah
823
Radoliff
844
Matilda M.
855
Rand
937
Ebenezer
988
Richardson
1102
Caleb
1159
Abigail
1305
Abigail Catharine
1438
1443
Lydia :
1748
Caleb jr.
1782
Rice
David ,
899
RlGGS
1235
Dorothy -
1549
Roberts
1736
Harriet
-Rogers
1929
David N.
Samuel
1264
ROLFE
1265
John
1266
Lydia D.
1267
Russ
1268
John
1516
Deborah
1531
John
1547
William
Russell
388
Mary Phebe
1348
Mary-
Thomas
217
Mary - .
480
Benjamin
807
James — - •
1391
Hepzibah
1392
Lucy .
1396
Joseph
1402
Hannah
1675
Elizabeth
1707
John
1731
Hepzibah
1778
Hannah
1779
Uriah
1802
Lydia
2038
John 3d
PhebeJedediah RhodaSarahSally
SarahPriscillaIsrael C.
Diana
Sarah B.
Elizabeth K.
Sargent
Samuel R.
Savage
Deborah Scales
RebeccaSarah Scott
Charles
Janet. Shattuck
JosephAnnaJosephHannahRebeccaPhebe ElizabethLucyPhebe
Susanna Susan
Hannah
Mary Hannah
Dinah Shed
Lydia- Sarah .
Mary P.
Jacob -
Sherman
Frances M.
Shipman
James DeGrassLydia
John Charlotte
Anna M.
James I.
Asa L.
SlBSON
Sabina Smiley
James Smith
MehitabelSarahGeorgePeterRebecca Thomas
John C.
Buell W.
Phebe A.
Abigail Sarah Sarah E.
Leonard B.
Caroline L.
192

INDEX OF PAST MEMBERS.

Snow

Towlb

1247

1571

Samuel S.

1870

Jonathan

1262

Spoppobd

1902

Almira

1407

1417

Mary

Town
1422
Stearns
967
Asa
1428
2045
John F.
968
Dorothy
1516
Stevens1
1
TroW
1771
261
Benjamin
1039
Dudley
1855
262
Annis
1040
Annis
1911
281
Joshua
1142
Hannah
283
Martha
1530
John F.
1532
339
Mehitabel'
1958
Dudley jr.
534
Thomas
Trulan
710
535
Sarah
1594
Sarah
646
Elizabeth
Tkull
1208
557
Jonathan
1397
Sarah E.
627
Thomas jr.
1474
Anna
1765
628
Sarah
1551
Levi
1766
706
John
1947
Caroline
707
LydiaAbiel
Tucker
210
737
990
William
211
738
Elizabeth,PBebe
991
Hannah
1828
799
1182
Hannah
914
Mary
Turner
1903
1112
Sarah
1685
Benjamin
1904
1229
Betsy
1686
Charlotte
1341
Sarah
Tyler
1432
1372
Rhoda
1654
Harriet
1501
Elizabeth
¦ETpton
45
1638
Hannah
1043
Sarah
172
St. Clair
1103
Abiel
266
1221
Mary
1101
Molly
1831
Stickney
1192
Mary
2093
1263
Elizabeth
1319
Anna
1283
Mary
1441
Charlotte
664
1968
William
1546
Lydia
665
Stiles
1648
George
Elizabeth-
333
Hezekiah
1649
1349
572
Stephen
1650
Samuel
673
Barnard
1664
Elizabeth
1762
804
Hezekiah jr.
1892
Anna
805
Phebe
Valpey
1252
806
Mehitabel
1553
Samuel S.
1284
892
Dorothy
Van Ingen
Stone
1930
Hannah S.
1223
1568
Clarissa
1931
Gertrude
Strong
Ward
854
1891
Nathaniel R.
Swain
1484
Esther H.
Wardwell
1897
715
John
86
William
1977
1613
Catharine W.
231
Dorothy
Sweet
282
Thomas
1919
1808
Clarissa P.
311
Dorothy
Swift
325
Abigail Eliakim
635
836
Silence
372
694
837
Jonathan
485
Lydia
695
1092
Nathaniel
525
Demaris
974
1144
Sarah
544
Huldah
1350
1395
George B.
602
Solomon
1498
1529
Catharine F.
603
Bethiah
1499
1533
William
666
John
1500
1724
Samuel
672
Daniel
1570
Sylvester
673
Demaris
1641
Nathaniel
679
Jonathan
1217
Taylor
680
Rachel
1316
1839
Caroline
681
Lydia
1316
Temple
682
Dorothy
1431
1981
Daniel M.
685
Peter
1545
Tewksbury
686
Dorcas
1633
1905
Herman F.
752
Esther
2042
Thompson1
915
Ruth
329
Joshua
919
Ezekiel
1777
1076
James
929
Dorcas
Thurston
1028
John jr.
1336
387
Hannah
1029
Sarah
1960
DanielRuth C.
IsaacSarahDaniel jr.
Mary M.
William H
Octavia S.
Sophia M.
Watebs
William Webb
Elinor Weld!
Caroline Wenzel
MaryHenry West-
JosephBethiahEdward Wheeler
Leonard
Persis Whitcomb
Abigail White
ElizabethSarahHannah
Isabella George N.
Whiting
Oliver
Martha Whiton
Clarissa Whittemore
Adeline Whittier
ElizabethAnn Wilds
Sarah Wilkins
Abner Catharine Winning
Mary A.
Winthrof
Helen Wood
RichardIsrael
Sarah
Esther
Ann MosesBetsy
Moses-jr. Catharine Woodbridge
Sarah Samuel G.
HannahSarah
Phebe R.
DudleyClara A.
Wyman
Henry N.
IOUNG
PeterJeremiah S.
1911
NAMES OF THE PRESENT OFFICERS

ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF THE NAMES OF

PRESENT MEMBERS.

[* Designates non-resident members. See page 9, Eule 7.]

PASTOR,
REV. GEOEGE MOOAR.
DEACONS,
A. J. GOULD, -*? JOSEPH CUMMINGS,-^
ALBERT, ABBOTT, , EDWARD TAYLOR. , , .
CHURCH committee:
GEORGE MOOAR, Clerk, EDWARD TAYLOR, Sup. S. S.
A. J. GOULD, NATHAN B. ABBOTT,
ALBERT ABBOTT, Treas., CHARLES TUFTS,
JOSEPH CUMMINGS, HOLBROOK CHANDLER,
HEZEKIAH JONES.

MEMBERS:
*-
, • 1015 Wid. Hannah Abbot,fersL 2086 Amos W. Abbot, - . ^ ^
ia.830 Mrs. Mehitabel G. AbWt^ 1480 PTiP.be Abbot* '

2141 Abigail Abbot,
2115 Anstice Abbot, 17

1480 Phebe Abbot,'
1540 Henry Abbot 3d,- *
1528 Enoch Abbot, -

194

INDEX OF PRESENT MEMBERS.

-1636 Mrs. Roxana Abbot, -
,4815 Amos Abbot, -i? facet' .&>t
1199 Wid. Mary Abbot,^.
1934 Hartwell B. Abbot, -
1841 Mrs. Sarah A. Abbot, -
¦1877 Dorcas Abbot,^-'-
1926 Phebe E.Abbot, -
1878 Hannah Abbot, -
2161 Mrs. Sarah L. Abbot, -#
-1454 Wid. Ruth Abbot, *4fc
-1854 Mrs. Eunice E. Abbot, -
1351 Henry Abbot, $£- cj~wU.±
1352 Mrs. Judith Abbot, '&-
1899 Henry W. Abbot, -
-1466 Mrs. Eliza A. Abbot,' 1906
1 608 Phebe A. Abbot, —
1562 Job Abbot, y&
1563 Mrs. Lucy Abbot, -
.1727 Nathan B. Abbott, -
1856 Mrs. Elizabeth L. Abbott, _
.4162 • Mrs. Mary Abbot,^
2007 James Alfred Abbot,- 2125
1848 Asa A. Abbot, -
2003 Mrs. Mehitabel H. Abbot^f
1618 Sylvester Abbot, -
1973 Mrs.. Rhoda B. Abbot, -
«1556 Sarah A. Abbot, —
1506 DanieJ Abbotj •#-
1507 Mrs. Sally Abbot,~. '
1680 Wid. Polly Abbot, S)r»&LJ
1896 Esther J. D. Abbot, - -
1 249 Dea. Amos Abbott,^
1942 Caroline M. Abbott,-'
2176 Esther A. Abbott, -?-
A'2040 Emma F. Abbott,'?-
1737 Wid. Hannah Abbot,
1659 Dea. Albert Abbott, -
1818 Mrs. Abby H. Abbott, -
2153 Sarah L. Abbott, _
2154 Abby E. Abbott, -
2155 Lewis L. Abbottj#tf At fr.^,i
1979 William Abbott, S"
1712 ffMrs. Sarah J. Abbot$l980
2157 Rev. Edward F. Abbot*
2158 Mrs. Charlotte Abbot,-
1242 Lydia Abbot,- 1795
1627 Hermon Abbot, —
1876 George X. Abbot, -
. 2075 MJ|||!jary A. Abbot, -
2013 (jg^pJohn Aiken, \& -
201#./,$pi?Mary M. Aiken, _
2046, Join F. Aiken,

1519
1820 2036
2135 2110 867
2041
10191597 1646
16471746
2109 19361937
213621521376 128613121812
1940194120582116 213715391435 1567
20591168
1671
1679
20492050 1424179918091946
2107
2122 13571691
16922129 1726 1710
1800

Thaddeus P. Allen, -
Mrs. Timna Allen, 3
Rebecca L. Allen, -
T. Fletcher Allen, -
Mrs. Ellen F. Allen, ? '/9£\
Wid. Eunice Ames,*
"Mrs. Mary Arnold,* ?
Wid. Sarah Baker, f&r
Mrs. Lucy F. Baker, &a.t^c<*
Joshua Ballard,— .
Mrs. Phebe Ballard, -fs-t-'L. *
Mrs. Hannah T. Bancroft, -
Horace P. Beard,, _
Israel Berry,^? j
Mrs. Serena Berry, JUi «-c-tL
Alonzo P. Berry, !&-
Mrs. Angeline E. Blackman,
Abel Blanchard,* ,
Mrs. Eliza Blanchard;* -W-c£
Mrs. Sophia Blood,-- 2073 /
Mrs. Mary Blood, -Q/ui.^y'iia
I. Octavius Blunt,*
Persis M. Blunt, '}) I &A C
Charles C. Blunt, —
Mrs. Lucy J. Blunt, CZ f&
J. Milton Blunt, ^
Rhoda E. Braddock,—
Hannah Brown,-#-
Hannah Brown, -
Thaddeus H. Brown, w
Wid. Dolly Burnham, y
Wid. Martha Burns, c^S Jj-
Widow Lucinda Caldwell, Ja-t
Sophia Carleton, -
Sarah J. Carleton,—
Wid. Abigail Carter,-^
Justin Carter, -ft ;
Mrs. Mary R. Carter, f;t-}t,\
Abigail B. Carter, „
Edward Carter,,
Emily Carter, -
Wid. Abigail Chamberlaii^)
2070 * '
Hermon P. Chandler, 42163 '**
Mrs. Phebe A. Chandler, -
2164
Martha H. Chandler,^
John Chandler, -*-
Mrs. Phebe Chandler, h- !, «.
Ezra Chandler,*

INDEX OF PRESENT MEMBERS.

195

1224 JiDea.) Ralph H. Chandler. 2145

209021722173209120922126 14292134 166917692162
1789 2108
11689 16901703 2133
1616 149021011342 13091290
.1976
N1895".1949 16782150 2151217419651414201,21277 1738
1382 11932118 2119
21442123 2169
1380 166713451714 1518

2089,*=- 1512
Mrs. Mary Chandlef, A' * 1923
Frances E. Chandler, - 1577
Laura M. Chandler, - 1984
(Dea.) Holbrook Chandler,- 13462022114720772062

Mrs. Margaret Chandler,-
Joseph Chandler, jr.,^
Wid: Henrietta Cheever,*
Wid. Betsy L. Cheever, -
Jacob Chickering,—
Mrs. Sarah J. Chickering, _
Emily Chickering, —
Mrs. Fanny Chickering,—
Hannah M. Chickering, -
Nathan Clark,-* "?
Mrs. Persis Clark, j* <
Mary Clark, J
Abby F. Clement, —
Samuel Cogswell, —
Lucy Cogswell, —
Mrs. Eliza P. Corse, -
Wid. Lucy Cummings,
Sarah Cummings,*
Dea Joseph Cummings*t833
Mrs. Phebe Cummings,—
Mrs. Eliza B. Cummines,*
Mrs. Hannah A. Cummings,
Wid. Susan Curtis, /
John H. Dean, •"
Mrs. Caroline L. Dean, -
Sarah A. Dole, —
Mrs. Caroline T. Dofloff,-
Wid. Fanny Downs,*
Mrs. Sarah A. Doyle,*
Wid. Mary Durant,*
Ebenezer N. Easton, >#
Mrs. Eliza Easton, -*•
Wid. Mary Eaton*
Nathan Ellis, -
Mrs. Susan L. Ellis, -
Elizabeth P. Ellis,-
Maria H. Ellis, »
Ellen G. Effigy
Wid. Peggy Esty,*^
Wid. Sarah Farnham,*
Wid. Hannah Faulkner,*
Louisa J. Faulkner,*
Wid. Hannah Fay, -1915,
2159,

1700216021772104 1504
1505 2023117919382072149110461840 1705 14491860 1687
2044 213121652166
216821672094 2095 17831514144715251526 10971639 1850
2156 2171123.413851386 1974 19432037

Anna A. Fay, "¥ I^ls*^
Wid. Hannah Flagg, -
Caroline Flagg, —
Thomas C. Foster, —
Mis. Lucy C. Foster, —
Wid. Bethiah Foster,
Mrs. Rhoda J. Foster, 4tM'
Wid. Hannah Frye, J^r-
Wid. Elsie Frye, fa. .
Josephine H. Frye, -
Jacob B. Gage,*
William B. Gaffison,*
Isaac E. Giddings,.^^-" « ",;
Mrs. Hannah M. Gleason,-^
Dea. Abraham J. Gould, ±l
Mrs. Mary B. Gould, _ A
Julia A. Gould, —
Wid. Susanna P. Gould* #
Sarah Gould, At
Frances M. Grant, y?
Mrs. Betsy Gray, _ ,*,-> ;-¦•
Mary H. Griffin-, S&
Wid. Hannah Griffin,*
Maria Griffin,*
Mrs. Sarah F. Hall * 1822
Henry E. Hayward, -
Mrs. Polly S. Hayward, _
Mrs. Mary Hazen, .
Mary P. Hazen, ,_
Wid. Ann Hervey, _C'-,v<
Sarah C. Hervey, —
Annie G. Hervey, —
Abbie S. Hervey,
John C. Heymer,^
Mrs. Caroline M. Heymer, y.
Mary E. Hidden,—
Mrs. Phebe H. Higgins, tf„
Mrs. Rebecca H. Higgins, —
Amos Holt, ^c-
Mrs. Eunice Holt, *fc
Joseph Holt, 1496 .«•
Mary J. Holt, a-././, i
"Wid. Lydia Holt, - .
Ellen A. Holt, -- ^ " f '
Delia L. Holt, _ .h ,->}<
"Wid. Sarah Holt, *
Joseph Holt 2d, $
Mrs. Elizabeth^ Holt, — -
Elizabeth C. Holt, ~- ,.
Mrs. Lucy C. Holt, — ": «T.
Elizabeth S. Holt, 7

196

INDEX OF PRESENT MEMBERS.

1879 Mary B. Hunt, -
1880 Hannah J. Hunt, -
1580 James Jaquith^
1524 Hannah A. Jaquith, —
1698 Mrs. Sally W. Jenkins, -
2138 William H. Jenks*
2139 Mrs. Mary T. Jenks*
2074 Wid. Susanna Johnson, —
2063 Mary E. Johnson, -
2170 Susan M. Johnson, „
1420 Jewett Jones, \s?-
1421 Mrs. Susan Jones, —
12088- Mrs. Hannah K. Jones,-
1389 (Dea.) Ebenezer Jones,^
1161 Elizabeth Jones,#
2102 Hezekiah Jones, -
2010 Mrs. Anna E. Jones, -2104
•1978 Mary E. Jones, _
2028 Sarah J. Jones,jL.
2066 Elmira Jones, •#?" ,
1508 Reuben Jones,—
1509 Mrs. Rachel S.Jones, -
2143 Elizabeth G. Kenison,*
2060 Adolf M. Leve, %
1544 Mrs. Mary A. Lovejoy,*
1411 Wid. Sally Low,—
2026 Thomas Mann,^
1360 Wid. Adeline A. Manningf
1843 John H. Manning, =*/&*-.
2038 Mrs. Lois A. Manning, -~
2067 Mary 8. Manning, -
1448 Wid. Hannah F. Mans
field^ 1983
1440 Mrs. Mary Mason,
2096 Sarah C. Mason, ?
1476 Wid. Sarah Mears*
1920 Wid. Sarah B. Merrill, -"'
2061 Mrs. Elsie E. Miles*
1388 Eliza A. Moar, —
1183 Sarah A. Mooar, &-
2087 Wid. Susanna Mooar, ^
.2078 Mrs. Elizabeth C. Mooar^
2080 Rev. George Mooar, ¦¥¦
2069 Mrs. Sarah A. Mooar, -^
1 1320 Mrs. Elizabeth A. Moore, -
1 255 Wid. Abigail D. Newman^
1274 Margaret W. Newman,

1932 Mark Newman, —
2002 Mrs. Elizabeth Newman, —
1696 Wid. Experience Nichols,*
1585 Samuel Osgood*
1586 Mrs. Martha Osgood,*
1881 Mrs. Phebe N. Palmer,*—-
2051 Samuel Peabody, -&
2052 Mrs. Abigail Peabody, —
2053 Abby H. Peabody, — .
2054 Sarah J. Peabody, -
1157 Elizabeth A. Pearson, 3jfcc
1745 Mrs. Sarah J. Pearson, &eo.
1061 Wid. Dorcas Phelps, >Sf
1851 Jane B. Phelps, -
1868 Joel Phelps, ^
1450 Mrs. Lucinda Phelps, 4£
1153 Wid. Deborah Poor*
1 285 Wid. Clarissa Poor*
1437 Wid. Lucretia Richardson, -
2130 Lucretia W. Richardson, _
1581 Joseph Richardson, —
1697 Mrs. Lucy Richardson, —
2033 Fitz William Rogers, —
2034 Mrs. Mary Rogers,^
1209 Joel Russell,—
2006 Elizabeth P. Russell, >&- ,-:
1276 Abiel Russell, -
1996 Mrs. Eliza Russell, -
1772 Lydia A. Russell, --
2064 Lucinda J. Russell,
1865 Mrs. Mary B. SafFord*
1853 Mrs. Susan H. Searles,*
2105 Mrs. Emily Shannon,—
1377 Wid. Hannah Shed,
1393 Wid. Betsy Smith,-*?
1 708 Margaret W. Smith, —
1371 Wid. Elizabeth Smith,* ,
1813 Mrs. Charlotte Smith, fai,,.
1869 Sylvester S. Stanley,
1651 Mrs. Ann Stanley, 4t
2056 (Dea.) Henry P. Sweetser, -
2057 Mrs. Sarah M. Sweetser, vi
2065 Sarah M. Sweetser, i '
1619 Nathaniel Swift, - ^
1982 Mrs. Almena Swift, -
2128 Charlotte H. Swift, -
1725 Charles Swift,*
1768 Jonathan Swift, -

INDEX OF PRESENT MEMBERS.

197

2127 Mrs. Almena Swift, -
2068 Mrs. Harmony B. Taylor, -
1890 Dea. Edward Taylor, -
1600 Rhoda Townsend,
2047 Dr. Stephen Tracy, -
2048 Mrs. Alice H. Tracy, _
2055 Martha E. Tracy, %
2085 Rebecca D. Tracy, -J
2120 James A. Treat*
2121 J. Harvey Treat*
2149 Mrs. Eliza H. Tucker,
2098 Lydia A. Tucker, -
2099 Mary R. Tucker, _
2117 Charles Tufts, -
1922 Mrs. Sophia Tufts, -
2070 Rev. Josiah W. Turner, f~
2071 Mrs. Almena W. Turner^
2146 Mary F. Turner,-^
1 728 Edward C. Upton, -
1882 Mrs. Eliza M. Upton, -

2043 Martha J. Upton,
2111 John N. Voorhes *

fo

1488 Mrs. Lozina C. Waldo,
2112 Sarah C. Waldo, -
2132 Clarissa W. Waldo, -
2175 Wid. Sarah Wardwell, *
2100 Margaret E. Wardwell, -r/i
1552 Nathaniel Whittier, -
1375 Mrs. Hannah Whittier, _
1873 Ann E. Whittier, -
2142 Hannah E. Whittier, _
1995 Ann Wilkins* /6JZiAArro
2083 Wid. Harriet Willard, If
1997 Joseph Winfield*
1461 Mrs. Mehitabel M. Winfield,>
2147 Luke Worthley, -
2148 Mrs. Elizabeth P. Worthley, -
1337 Wid. Deborah Young. -

t/V.

(i

Whole No. of Present Members,
No. of Female Members, .
No. of Male Members,
No. of Non-Resident Members, 17*

336 247 8943

GENERAL INDEX.

PAGE
Prefatory Note, . . . . .3
Form of Admission, *"* 5
Principles and Rules of Church Order, . . 8
Rev. Mr. Phillips's Answer to the question, What shall we do
that we may keep in mind our Covenant ? . .11
Questions for self-examination, ... 14
Historical Sketches of the Parish and Church.
I. Organization of the South Parish, . . . 17
Officers of the Parish :
Moderators, . . . . 20
Clerks, . . . . .22
Treasurers, ...» 22
Assessors, . . . . -. .23
II. MeetingrHouses, . . . . 27
HI. The Parsonage and the Ministerial Fund, , . 34
Members of the Board of Trustees of the Fund, 39
Treasurers of the Fund, . . .40
l IV. Support of the Ministry, . . . 41
Letters of Rev.- Mr. Phillips to the Parish, . 42
Letter of Rev. Mr. French to the Parish, . 46
V. Music in Public Worship, . '$&, • 56
Vl3*Burial Grounds and Burials, ... 58

200' GENERAL INDEX. PAGE
VH. Organization of the Church, . • .60
Vm. Covenants and Articles of Faith, . . .61
IX. Baptisms, . . . • 67
X. Discipline, . . . ¦ .68
XI. Prayer Meetings, . . . ¦ 69
XII. Sabbath Schools, . . . .74*
-Superintendents, . . • 77
XDJ. Charitable and Missionary Efforts, . . 80
Table, showing the amount raised for benevolent
objects, from 1840 to 1859, . . 85
XIV. Organization of other Churches, . . 87
XV. Contribution to the Ministry, , . . .91
XVI. Pastors. Rev. Samuel Phillips, . . * .95
w «
Rev. Jonathan French, . . . 101
Rev. Justin Edwards, . . .107
Rev. Milton Badger, . . . 114
Rev. Lorenzo L. Langstroth, . . .114
Rev. John L. Taylor, . . . 115
Rev. Charles Smith, . . .116
Rev. George Mooar, . . . 116
Table, containing interesting facts in the life and
» ministry of the different Pastors, . 117
XVH. Deacons, . . . . .118
XV1TI. Church Committee, . . . 119
XIX. Catalogue of Members, . . 1 21