Pawlet For One Hundred Years

Excerpt from Pawlet for One Hundred Years The sentiment that inspired the poet who wrote This is my own my native land, lies deep in every human breast, and he is an exception, wherever his lot may be cast, whose inmost soul does not thrill at the thoughts of home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... the town. In 1831 the "Disciples" church wasorganized near the same place. In 1832 the Methodist Protestant church was formed on the mountain, in the southwest part. About 1855 an "independent" society was formed at the village. Besides these, there have been within our limits TJniversalists, Friends, Mormons, Second Adventists, and perhaps others. We propose, now, to give a brief history of each. one in the order of their organization, including an account of the various church edifices which have, from time to time, been erected. First Congregational Church. This church was organized August 8, 1781, . under the auspices of Rev. David Perry, of Harwinton, Conn. Its first members were Samuel* Butt, Jonathan Brace, Joel Harmon, Daniel Welchr Elisha Fitch and Jedediah Reed. Joel Harmon was appointed first church clerk. A sermon was> preached on the occasion' by Rev. Mr. Perry, from 1 John, ii, 6. For the first three or four years it does not appear that they had any stated supply, though in the records of baptisms the names of Rev. Messrs. Murdock, Sill, Swift, Haynes, Kent, and Perry appear as officiating in that ordinance. We .find it recorded that, in 1784, the Rev. James Thompson, of Wortjhington, was invited toreturn and preach on probation, which impliesthat he had preached to ithem before. And, in 1785, the Rev. Zephaniara Hollister Smith, of Glastenburg, Vt., received a call from the church, which call was not accepted, though we have it from tradition that Mr. Sinith preached here for some time. We have no date to determine when the first church was erected DEGREES but we believe it was about 1785. It stood about 60 rods south of Henry Allen's, and was a plain, small, frame building. Many of its timbers are in the wood house connected...

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Thomas Welles (ca. 1590-1660), son of Robert and Alice Welles, was born in Stourton, Whichford, Warwickshire, England, and died in Wethersfield, Connecticut. He married (1) Alice Tomes (b. before 1593), daughter of John Tomes and Ellen (Gunne) Phelps, 1615 in Long Marston, Gloucestershire. She was born in Long Marston, and died before 1646 in Hartford, Connecticut. They had eight children. He married (2) Elizabeth (Deming) Foote (ca. 1595-1683) ca. 1646. She was the widow of Nathaniel Foote and the sister of John Deming. She had seven children from her previous marriage.