First Congregational
Church
Church Records
Original records located at the Vedder Library. Retyped by Arlene Goodwin from a transcription of the original records by unknown individual.
List of Officers,
Deacons, Ruling Elders, Trustees
And Members.
Deacons
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1834 Jairus Munson |
1837 Argulus White |
Ruling
Elders
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1826 Argulus White |
1876 George Lent |
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1833 Abner Berry |
1895 George
W. Clark |
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1843 Lawrence Winnie |
1897 M.
Watson Richmond |
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1856 Anson Bela Brisack |
1859 John Munson |
Trustees
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1841 Albert Steele |
1862 Jesse Ingraham |
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1842 E.
S. White |
1863 Romayne L. Parsons |
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1843
Daniel B. Strong |
1867 James
Stambridge |
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1844 Allen Smith |
1871 Hiram B. Clark |
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1845 Henry Hart |
1874 Reuben Powell |
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1849 Lawrence Winnie |
1876 Walston Ferris |
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18__ Peter I. Stanley |
1878 George Sylvester Lewis |
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1859 Jerome
Smith |
1881 Daniel L. Lewis |
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1884 Francis L. Dodge |
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Communicant Members
Note: For some of the names that belong here, _of those who were members at the time of the removal, -the reader is referred to the First Congregational Church of Windham (list of members)
United under Rev. Josiah Hawes
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1842 |
1843 |
1844 |
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Mrs. Benjamin Kinsley |
Benjamin B. Hosford |
Miss Helen White |
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Mrs. Josiah Hawes |
Mrs. Abraham Parker |
Elihue Smith |
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Mrs. Henry Hart |
Mrs. Abigail Ives |
Everts Decker |
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Miss Mary Ann Coles |
Mrs. Matilda Winnie |
Lamira Decker |
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Miss Mary Ann Hawes |
James Frayer |
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Miss Susannah Tuttle |
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Under Rev. S. S. Potter
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1845 |
1846 |
1847 |
1849 |
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Mrs. Phoebe Potter |
Abraham Parker |
Mrs. Harrison O. Howland |
Clark A. Beebe |
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Miss Lucina P. Tuttle |
Mrs. Eunice Kinsley |
Mrs. Sarah Beebe |
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Miss Adaline White |
William Littabrandt |
Mrs. Elizabeth Bennet |
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Mrs. William Littabrandt |
Mrs. Nathaniel Ormsbee |
Under Rev. E. S. Hammond
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1852 |
1854 |
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Sandford Tuttle |
Alvin V. Vroman |
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Anson Bela Brisack |
Mrs. Alvin Vroman |
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John J. L. Brandow |
Peter I. Stanley, M. D. |
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Mrs. Sarah Staley |
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John L. Cammer |
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Mrs. Cynthia Cammer |
Under Rev. Edward
Stratton
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1856 |
1858 |
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Mrs. Edward Stratton |
James Stambridge |
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Sylvanus Parker |
Mrs. James Stambridge |
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J. Buel Parker |
Jesse Ingraham |
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Mrs. J. Buel Parker |
Albert H. Ormsbee |
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Mrs. Margaret E. Stratton |
George Lent |
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John Munson |
Mrs. Sarah Belinda Lent |
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James Brandow |
Mrs. Rebecca P. Hallmay |
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Jerome Smith |
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Mrs. Melvin Smith |
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Mrs. Susan Parsons |
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Mrs. Eliz. Bushnell |
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Mrs. Almira Morris |
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Mrs. Eliz. B. Jaynes |
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Miss Dennie Anable |
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Miss Caroline Tuttle |
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Miss Lydia Parker |
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Mrs. Alanson Mallory |
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Miss Antoinette Hyatt |
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Albert Steele |
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Romayne L. Parsons |
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Under Rev. A. F. Gilbert
1866
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Charles E. White |
Howard A. Clark |
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Mrs. Lisandra White |
Irving E. White |
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Mrs. A. Z. Allen |
Frances Bennett |
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Reuben Powell |
Miss Jennie D. White |
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Miss Eva Brandow |
Mrs. Reuben Powell |
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William Smith |
Miss Hannah Brainard |
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Hiram B. Clark |
Miss Ellen L. Tuttle |
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Miss Lucinda Ives |
Mrs. Hiram B. Clark |
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Miss Fidelia Smalling |
Miss Martha Winghart |
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Miss Emily E. Romayne |
Miss Cynthia Waterman |
Under Rev.
T. S. Dusinberre
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1867 |
1869 |
1860 |
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Mrs. Rosanna Tompkins |
Walston Ferris |
Daniel B. Strong |
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Mrs. Emelissa Rogers |
Mrs. Phoebe Ferris |
Egbert B. Dodge |
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Miss Mary Williston |
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Under Rev. C. O. Day
1876
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Mrs. Sophronia Lee |
Miss Lizzie Clark |
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Mrs. Arevesta Smith |
Mrs. Helen Brainard |
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Miss Jerusha Martin |
Mrs. Sarah White |
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Miss Ella Burroughs |
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Under Rev. Timothy Williston
1877
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Georgia Sylvester |
Lewis Maitland Rogers |
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Miss Nettie Smith |
Charles Parsons |
Under Rev. E. N. Sebring
1878 Francis L. Dodge
Under Charles E. Herbert
1889 Miss Carrie Thorpe, Miss Frances Brainard, Miss Harriet Lewis
Under Rev. D. I. Morrison
1890 David Brainard, Miss Helen C. Brainard, Mrs. Albert B. Steele
Under Rev. James Bain
1892, Mrs. Eliz Wiltse, 1893 Mrs. Caroline Weeks
Under Rev. George Bergen
1895
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George W. Clark |
John Wesley Steele |
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Albert B. Steele |
George Thorpe |
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Mrs. Eunice German |
William H. Lewis |
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Miss Lettie Brezee |
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Under Rev. H. M.
Dodd
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1896 |
1897 |
1898 |
1903 |
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James A. Campbell |
Miss Ella A. Dodd |
David Henry Conine |
Daniel L. Lewis |
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Mrs. Ada Campbell |
Mrs. Mary E. Richmond |
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Miss Etta May Payne |
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Mrs. Maria W. Dodd |
Mrs. Rose Ding |
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Frank A. Munson |
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M. Watson Richmond |
Lynn S. Munson |
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Harry A. Steele |
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Miss Lucy Hayward |
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Mrs. Eliza Clark |
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Miss Florence C. Dodge |
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William Thorpe |
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Sherman Munger |
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Miss Mildred E. Brandow |
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John Thomas Ding |
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Augustus B. Munson |
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Addington Brandow |
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Mrs. Catharine Brandow |
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Sam. Chauncey Clark |
Baptisms
Note: Only a few of them have been recorded, with are given below:
Mar. 31, 1847, Harriet Augustus Hart
Sept. 5, 1847, Charles Bissel Hart
Sept. 5, 1847, Isadore Newell
Parker
Dec. 31, 1847, Addison Tuttle Brandow
Aug. 31, 1849, Wm Bailey Howland
Sept. 2, 1849, Amy Ann Augusta Hart
June 10, 1856, George White Stratton
Clara Jane Parsons
Edward Doane Parker
Vernon Covell Stanley
Mary Ella Stanley
Belle Stanley
Josephine Stanley
Sidney Smith
Dwight Smith
Eldora Smith
Nelson Smith
E---- Smith
Addie Smith
Aug. 10, 1869, Egbert B. Dodge
Apr. 20, 1890, Helen Clark Brainard
--- --, 1892 Mrs. Elizabeth Wiltse
Mar. 17, 1895, Lettie Brezee
May 16, 1895, William Henry Lewis
May 16, 1895, Mrs. Eunice German
Nov. 7, 1897, Harry Addison Steele
Nov. 7, 1897, Florence Clark Dodge
May 3, 1903, Daniel Lennon Lewis
Samuel Chauncey Clark
Eliz. Buel Clark
John Thomas Ding
William Thorp
Mildred Eunice Brandow
Sherman Munger
Marriages by Rev. S. S. Potter
1846
June 14, Seymour A. Whitcomb and Miss Catharine Jones
June 30, Sandford Tuttle and Miss Lucina P. Tuttle
July 6, Elisha P. Strong and Miss Caroline Peck
Sept. 16, John J. Brandow and Miss Susannah P. Tuttle
The following is found in the Old Church Record book. It is copied as nearly
exact as possible. Its publication will make accessible a valuable record, one
not only of interest to the families named, but to the general public. The dates
opposite each name are dates of birth. The parent’s names are in italics.
Catecumens
The names of the children baptized and by that ordinance made members of the First Congregational Church of Christ in the town of Windham, State of New York.
Mar. 21,1803, Samuel Crocker (adult)
Sept. 18, 1803 (bapt.) Simon Pratt (adult)
George Stimson
Exp.Stone
May 6, 1791, Polly Hulzard
Danford
Jan. 10, 1793, Jeremy
Nancy
Mar. 10, 1795, Sally
Debby
Feb 5, 1799, Samuel
Jeremy
S.
Apr. 4, 1803, Nathaniel
George S.
Emily
All bapt. Sept. 18, 1803
All bapt. May 6, 1803 except Emily Bapt. Dec. 26, 1813.
Rice Abram
Dudley
Luman
Mary
Julia
Anson
John
Urban
Esther
Lemuel N.
Thankful
Joseph
T. May 4th, 1806
All bapt. May 8, 1803
All bapt. Sept. 18, 1803, Joseph
Bapt. June 22,1806.
B. Rice
E.
Strong
Ruth
James R.
Polly
Anna Eliza
Amos
Samuel
All bapt. May 8,1803
all bapt. Sept. 26, 1803, Samuel Jan. 18, 1807
M. Buel
Rice
Artamesia, bapt. May 8, 1803 Sally
Rice born 1785, bapt. Sept. 21, 1803.
Brown
Samuel
Crocker
---- --- --- Sarah
Oct. 22, 1792, Lucy
Dec. 17, 1789, Jedediah
Dec. 1, 1794, William
Jan. 31,1792, Sarah Jr.
Aug. 22, 1796, Abigail
Mar. 2, 1794, Harriet
Nov. 30, 1801, Betsey
Mar. 23, 1796, Uriah R.
May 3, 1806, Charlotte, bapt June 22, 1806
July 4, 1798, Lucretia F.
Feb. 1801, Caroline
Feb. 18, 1803, Henry
Aug. 3, 1805, Lorinda
All except firs and last bapt. July 10, 1803.
Joel Tuttle
James
Coe
Alvin, age 18
Mar. 13, 1799, Sylva
Anna Bierce, 17 yrs.
Apr. 12, 1801, Luman
Dumah, 15 yrs
Feb.
6, 1804, Norman
Julius, 13 yrs
all bapt. June 29, 1805
Sophia, 10 yrs.
All bapt. July 10, 1803
Amos Hubbard
Asahel Baldwin
June 15,1803, Justin
July 11, 1804, Sally
Sept. 1, 1807, Samuel D.
Oct. 7, 1806, Eliza
July 10, 1803, Justin bapt.
Sally bapt 1805, Eliza June 14,1807
July 27, 1807, Samuel
Increase Claflin
Luman Stanley
Names not given, bapt.
Oct. 22, 1807, Frederick
July 10, 1803
bapt. June 14, 1807 (So in record, Prob. Born 1806)
Timothy Hubbard
Joseph Hamilton
Nov. 29, 1789, Laura
July
12, 1803, Joseph A.
Nov. 11, 1792, Lusina
Jan. 12, 1ipu?, Axsah
June 26,1796, Alphred
Axsah bapt. June 21, 1807
May 7, 1799, Weltha
Sept. 6, 1802, Halsey
Laura bapt. And perhaps all the rest.
Samuel Baldwin
--------Holcomb
July 25,1788, Lydia
Jan. 6, 1793, Sally Orilla
Dec. 27,1790 Hilon
Oct.
18, 1794, Abi
Dec. 27,1790 Haerlem
Sept. 14, 1796, Alonson
Feb. 8, 1793, Wait Hill
Sept. 25, 1799, Diadamy
June 1, 1795, Ambrose
All
bapt. Oct. 18, 1807
June 17, 1797, Lucy
Apr. 11, 1802, Ira
Feb. 1, 1807, Polly Feb.
13, 1790, Clarracy
Apr.
28, 1792, Loly
Simon Pratt
Oct.
30, 1793, Chancey
Dec. 2, 1784, Fanny ?
Feb. 22, 1796, George
Apr. 28, 1787, Luther
May 6, 1798, Esther
Oct. 26, 1790, Experience
June 8, 1801, Philo
Mar. 6, 1792, Ruth
Aug. 4, 1802, Lucy
Nov. 12, 1794, Lucretia
Mar. 2, 1805, John
July 24, 1797, Ephrahim
Apr. 26, 1807, Susannah
Dec. 3, 1802, James
The last four and perhaps
all bapt. Sept. 1807.
May 3, 1804, Sally
Rockwell Strong George
Babcock
June 7, 1807, Meriam Rockwell
Sept. 30, 1807, Abel Simmons
Apr. 21,1809, Herman Briggs
Robert M. Turney
May 12, 1811, Hiram Steele
Nov. 27, 1806, Anne M.
June 10 1813, Horace Havens
Nov. 9, 1808, Lusina P.
Sept. 10, 1810, Sally
Samuel Baldwin
Henry DeGrasse
Fanny Caroline
Both bapt. June 1812
Luman Squires
Reuben Smith
Dec. 30, 1803, Cynthia
Jan. 19, 1800, Almira
July 16, 1806, Edward
Jan. 15, 1802, Philander Milton
June 3, 1808, William
Aug. 16, 1805, Betsey Allen
Dec. 4, 1810, Mary Burr
Almira, Philander and Betsey bapt. 1809.
Oct. 4, 1807, (bapt) Cynthia and Edward
Perez Steel Esq.
-----Squire
Catislta (?)
Dec. 30, 1803, Cynthia
July 1, 1799, Hannah July
16, 1806, Edward
Aug. 13, 1801, Harriet
Oct. 4, 1807, both bapt.
Julia (?)
Hannah and Harriet bapt. Sept. 17,1807.
Samuel Hanson
Harry Hosford
Jan. 29, 1793, Martha
Nov. 8, 1803, (bapt) Jane V. born 1812
Mar. 9, 1795, Sarah
Mar. 28, 1797, Samuel Jr.
Erastus Beach
June 9, 1799, Experience
Apr. 26, 1808, Charles
Lahatt
Aug. 17, 1801, Clarissa
Feb. 24, 1810, Edmond
Mar. 2, 1804, Maria
June 12, 1808, Charles bapt.
Dec. 24, 1808, Sylvester
Edmond bapt.
June 1810
Last three bapt. June 1809.
Benajah Tichnor
Timothy Parsons
May 22, 1788, Benajah
Eli
Mar. 9, 1790, Luther
Albert
Mar. 17, 1792, Heman
Timothy
Nov. 30, 1793, Norman
Joseph Porter
Mar. 17, 1796, Almon
Hiram
Feb. 12, 1798, Myron
Lucetta
Mar. 21, 1801, Hiram
Some bapt. 1809.
June 12, 1802, Sophia Bingham
Oct. 16, 1804, Caleb
Harry Johnson
Five youngest bapt. Sept. 5,1806
Sept. 16,
1806, Erastus
Apr. 18, 1808, Emely
David Arnold
Mar. 5, 1793, Betsey
Jarius Munson
Oct. 9, 1795, Ashbel
Nov. 1, 1790, Leverett
Jan. 15, 1802, Milo
July 15, 1795, Carisa
Feb. 13,1804, Clarissa
June 9, 1795, Alva
Feb. 6, 1808, Orinda
Apr. 25, 1802, Lemuel H.
George
Clarissa, Bapt. In 1807
W. Distin
Ransom
Wolcott
Joel Peck
Sept. 1812, Seth, bapt. Nov. 8, 1812
Elnathan J. Pond
June 22, 1800, Rebecca
Reuben Smith
Mar. 10, 1802, Jenet
Nov. 12, 1791, Louisa Hutchinson
Jan. 20, 1806, Edward J.
June 13, 1793, Jemima Hourd (?)
Apr. 10, 1808, Samuel W.
Aug. 18, 1795, Reuben Hendrick
June 30, 1810, Gideon W.
Jan. 7, 1813, Ruth
Abijah Stone
July 6, 1813, Noah S.
Burrit O. bapt. No date
last four bapt. Perhaps more
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