invective against Joseph Dudley, then Governor of Massachusetts, and
praying for his removal, which was presented and read to Queen Anne in
council. Gov. Dudley, in his answer to the charges contained in this
petition, notices several of the petitioners, and thus speaks of Mr.
H. "Mr. Higginson is a gentleman of good value, born in New England,
but has been absent in the East Indies six and twenty years, and so may
be presumed to know nothing of the country. To be sure, his father,
that has been a minister in the country near sixty years, yet living,
and his brother, a member of her Majesty's Council, must know more,
his brother having been always assisting the Governor, and consenting
in Col. Dudley's justification at this time with the Council, where
no man has dissented from the vote sent herewith." The allegations
against Gov. Dudley in this petition, were voted by the General Court,
or Council and House, to be a "wicked and scandalous accusation;" but
some persons of note, considering the high character of Mr. Higginson
and his good interest at court, "signified by their letters, that they
thought the two Houses impolitic in the severity of their expressions,
which, from being their friend, might, at least, cause him to become
cool and indifferent." We know not the effect of the language of the
General Court on the mind of Mr. Higginson, but we cannot suppose it
alienated his affections from his native country. He lived but two
years after, to serve the interests of his friends in New England. He
died in London of the small pox, in November, 1708, aged 56 years. He
had been for several years a member of the Corporation for Propagating
the Gospel among the Indians of New England. Judge Sewall says, he had
been acquainted with him for forty years, and seems to have had a high
opinion of his character and public services. _Felt, Annals of Salem_,
350. _Hutchinson, Hist. Mass._ ii. 146, 147. _Gov. Dudley's MS. Answer
to Mr. H.'s petition_ (the _original_, which escaped, in part, the fury
of the mob, when they destroyed Gov. Hutchinson's house.)
AMMI RUHAMAH CORLET.
1670. AMMI RUHAMAH CORLET was son of the celebrated schoolmaster,
Elijah Corlet, of whom an early poet sang,
"'Tis Corlet's pains, and Cheever's, we must own,
That thou, New England, art not Scythia grown."
The father was educated at Lincoln College in the University of Oxford,
and the son had all the advantages of early preparation, which could
be derived from so distinguished a scholar. Having been graduated, he
appears to have followed the business of his father, and in 1672 we
find him at Plymouth, as the Master of the principal school in that
place. After taking his second degree, or about that time, he was a
Fellow of the College, in which office, it is presumed, he continued
till his death, which occurred Feb. 1, 1679.
THOMAS CLARK.
1670. THOMAS CLARK, son of Jonas Clarke, of Cambridge, a surveyor of
some note, was born, March 2, 1653. Rev. Mr. Allen, in his History
of Chelmsford, says in relation to Mr. Clark, "We have neither church
records, manuscript sermons, cotemporary notices, nor any other
materials, from which a bare memento can be erected, excepting the
following sentence in the 9th volume of the Hist. Coll. of Mass.,
page 195. 'Dorchester, 1704, Dec. 10. The death of Rev. Thomas Clark
of Chelmsford was lamented in a sermon from Acts xx: 25, &c.' A great
loss to all our towns, and especially to our frontier towns on that
side of the country, who are greatly weakened with the loss of such a
man." Besides the above extract from Mr. Allen, we find a fact in Dr.
Cotton Mather's "Wonders of the Invisible World," which is creditable
to the character of Mr. Clark. In the time of the witchcraft delusion,
"there was at Chelmsford an afflicted person, that in her fits cried
out against a woman, a neighbor, which Mr. Clark, the minister of
the gospel there, could not believe to be guilty of such a crime,
[witchcraft.] And it happened while that woman milked her cow, the
cow struck her with one horn upon the forehead and fetched blood. And
while she was bleeding, a spectre of her likeness appeared to the party
afflicted, who pointing at the spectre, one struck at the place, and
the afflicted said, _You have made her forehead bleed!_ Hereupon some
went to the woman and found her forehead bloody, and acquainted Mr.
Clark with it, who forthwith went to the woman and asked her, _How her
forehead became bloody?_ and she answered, _By a blow of the cow's
horn_, as abovesaid; whereby he was satisfied that it was a design
of Satan to render an innocent person suspected." The conduct of Mr.
Clark in this decision, made at the time when the spectral evidence
was so generally received, probably prevented the infatuation from
extending to Chelmsford. Happy would it have been had all ministers and
magistrates exercised a like discrimination in rejecting all evidence
against persons whose characters had been previously good. By the
magistrates at Salem, the coincidence of the imaginary wound inflicted
on the spectre, and the real wound from the cow's horn on the woman,
would have been sufficient for the condemnation of the latter.
Mr. Clark was the minister of Chelmsford twenty-seven years, having
been ordained, in 1677, as the successor of Rev. John Fiske. His labors
were suddenly terminated, being seized, according to Judge Sewall's
Diary, with a fever, on Friday the 2nd, which caused his death on the
following Wednesday, December 7, 1704, in the 52nd year of his age.
Mr. Clark was twice married. The name of his first wife was Mary, who
died Dec. 2, 1700. His second was Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Samuel
Whiting, whom he married, Oct. 2, 1702. His children, who lived to
mature years, all by his first wife, were Lucy, who married Major John
Tyng, father of Judge John Tyng, Sept. 19, 1700. She died April 25,
1708; Elizabeth, who married John Hancock of West Cambridge; Jonas,
born Dec. 2, 1684, who resided on the farm, known by the name of
the Cragie farm. There he kept a public house and ferry which have
ever since borne his name. His house was the general resort for
all fashionable people. He was honored with many civil and military
offices; was a very popular man, and esteemed as a good Christian. He
died April 8, 1770, aged 86. Thomas, the youngest son, was born Sept.
28, 1694.
GEORGE BURROUGH.
1670. GEORGE BURROUGH, or as the name is usually spelt, Burroughs, was,
perhaps, a son of Jeremiah Burroughs, an inhabitant of Scituate, Ms.,
as early as 1647; but we have no certain information of his parentage
or the time of his birth. He was admitted a member of the church in
Roxbury, April 12, 1674, and his son George was baptized in the church
there, Nov. 28, 1675. He became a preacher within a few years after he
left College, and, as early as 1675 or 1676, he was the minister at
Casco, in Maine, and was there when that town suffered the loss of so
many lives by an attack of the Indians. The war which soon followed,
drove Mr. Burroughs from Maine, and he returned to Massachusetts.
In November, 1680, he was employed to preach at Salem Village, now
Salem. He continued there probably until 1683, when, in May, Mr.
Lawson was invited to preach to the people. Mr. Burroughs returned
to his ministry in Casco the same year. A work entitled "European
Settlements in America," in speaking of Mr. Burroughs as a victim of
the Salem Witchcraft, says, "that he was a gentleman who had formerly
been minister of Salem; but upon some of the religious disputes which
divided the country he differed from his flock, and left them." Mather,
in his "Wonders of the Invisible World," countenances this idea, saying
"he had removed from Salem Village in ill terms some years before."
Mr. Willis, in his History of Portland, says, "The first notice of his
return to Casco is in June, 1683, when, at the request of the town, he
relinquished 150 acres of land, which had been granted to him previous
to the war. In their application to him for this purpose, they offered
to give him 100 acres 'further off,' for the quantity relinquished, but
Burroughs replied, 'as for the land already taken away, we were welcome
to it, and, if 20 acres of the 50 above expressed would pleasure us,
he freely gave it to us, not desiring any land anywhere else, nor any
thing else in consideration thereof.'"
His disinterestedness places the character of Mr. Burroughs in an
amiable light, which nothing can be found, during the whole course of
his ministry at Casco, to impair. The large quantity of land which he
relinquished was situated upon the Neck, which was then daily becoming
more valuable, by the location of the town upon it. All this, excepting
thirty acres, he freely returned, without accepting the consideration
offered by the town.
The unhappy catastrophe which terminated the life and usefulness of Mr.
Burroughs, has cast a shade upon many facts relating to him which would
be interesting to us to know. We have no means of ascertaining whether
he was regularly settled and had gathered a church at Casco or not.
There is, however, sufficient authority for asserting, that he preached
to the people there a longer period than any Congregational minister
prior to Rev. Thomas Smith.
"There has nothing," says Mr. Willis, "survived Mr. Burroughs, either
in his living or dying, that casts any reproach upon his character;
and, although he died a victim of a fanaticism, as wicked and stupid as
any which has been countenanced in civilized society, and which for a
time prejudiced his memory, yet his character stands redeemed in a more
enlightened age from any blemish."
Mr. Burroughs was driven from Casco by the Indians in 1690, and went to
Wells, where he resided when he was accused of the crime of witchcraft.
The indictment against him is given in the second volume of Hutchinson.
He was examined on May 8, 1692, and committed to prison in Boston until
his trial, which took place in August following. He was condemned on
testimony, which nothing but the most highly wrought infatuation could
for a moment have endured. His great strength and activity, for which
he had been remarkable from his youth, were enlisted against him,
as having been derived from the Prince of evil. It was in evidence,
that he had lifted a barrel of molasses by putting his finger in the
bunghole, and carried it round him; that he held a gun more than
seven feet long at arm's length with one hand, and performed other
surprising feats above the power of humanity. Some evidence was also
exhibited against his moral character, in relation to his treatment of
his wives and children, but we can attach but very little credit to it
considering the great perversion of truth at that time.
He was executed August 19, 1692, on Gallows hill, in Salem. At his
execution, he made a most solemn, pertinent, and affecting prayer,
which drew the remark from Cotton Mather, who was present, as I was
informed by the late Dr. Bentley, "that no man could have made such a
prayer unless the devil helped him." He concluded his dying petition
with the Lord's prayer, probably to convince some of the spectators of
his innocence; for it was the received opinion, that a true witch or
wizard could not say the Lord's prayer without blundering.
The age of Mr. Burroughs is represented by Dr. Bentley, in his Hist. of
Salem, published in 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. vi., to have been _about
fourscore years_; but that writer undoubtedly transferred the age of
Giles Cory, who wanted only three years of being _fourscore_, to Mr.
Burroughs. It can by no means be admitted, that Mr. B. was nearly 60
years old when he graduated, which must have been the case if he was 80
years old at the time he was executed.
Mr. Burroughs had been three times married. The names of his first and
second wives are not known. His last was daughter of Thomas Ruck, and
she survived him. His children were George, baptized 1675, who lived
in Ipswich; Jeremiah, who was insane; Rebecca, who married a Tolman of
Boston; Hannah, who married a Fox, and lived near Barton's Point in
Boston; Elizabeth, who married Peter Thomas of Boston, the ancestor
of the late Isaiah Thomas, LL. D., of Worcester. George and Thomas
Burroughs of Newburyport, the former a tanner, conveyed to N. Winslow,
in 1774, the right of George Burroughs in proprietary land in Falmouth.
These were probably descendants of the minister.--_Hutchinson, Hist.
Mass._ ii. 57-59. _Felt, Annals of Salem._ _Neal's Hist. N. E._ ii.
130-134, 144. _Willis, Hist. Portland in Coll. Maine Hist. Soc._ i.
144, 174-176. _Upham, Lectures on Witchcraft._ _Allen, Biog. Dict. art.
Burroughs._
ISAAC FOSTER.
1671. ISAAC FOSTER, according to the late William Winthrop, Esq.,
was from Charlestown, and might have been brother of John Foster,
who was graduated in 1667; but this is uncertain, as the latter was
from Dorchester. [We find him to have been admitted freeman in 1679,
about which time, he probably went to Connecticut.] Mr. Winthrop may
have considered him as belonging to Charlestown from the circumstance
of his being called to preach there. When a committee of the town of
Charlestown was about selecting a successor to Rev. Thomas Shepard,
in 1678, the opinions of Rev. John Sherman, Rev. Increase Mather,
and Rev. President Oakes were requested as to the "fittest person"
for their minister, and these gentlemen recommended Mr. Foster as
"the fittest and suitablest person" for that place. While remaining
at Charlestown he was admitted freeman, in 1679. Soon after this, he
went to Connecticut and preached in Hartford, and, from his name being
printed in italics, it has been inferred that he was settled there, but
this does not clearly appear from Dr. Trumbull.
SAMUEL PHIPPS.
1671. SAMUEL PHIPPS, son, it is presumed, of Solomon Phipps of
Charlestown, who died in that town, July 25, 1671, was born about the
year 1649. The most of his life was passed in civil offices, having
been Register of Deeds for the county of Middlesex, Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas for the same county, and representative for the town
of Charlestown, where he resided. To the last office he was elected
in 1692, being one of the first representatives under the charter of
William and Mary. In 1700, he was one of the Commissioners of claims
for receiving and examining all titles and claims to land in the
eastern province of Maine. Mr. Phipps died in August, 1725, aged 76,
and was buried in the tomb of his son-in-law Lemmon. His wife was Mary
Danforth, daughter of Dep. Gov. Thomas Danforth. She was born July 28,
1650. [We find the name of Danforth associated with Phipps in the class
of 1781.] Thomas Phipps, who graduated in 1695, was his son.
(To be continued.)
COMPLETE LIST OF CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS IN THE EASTERN PART OF
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, NEW HAMPSHIRE, FROM ITS SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT
TIME; TOGETHER WITH NOTES ON THE MINISTERS AND CHURCHES.
BY THE REV. JONATHAN FRENCH OF NORTH HAMPTON.
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_Towns._ | _Ministers._ | _Native | _Born._ | _Graduated._
| | Place._ | |
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Brentwood|Nathaniel Trask |Lexington, Ms.|Mar. 18, 1723|Harv. 1742
| | | |
|Ebenezer Flint |Methuen, Ms. | 1769|Dart. 1798
|Chester Colton |Hartford, Ct. | |Yale, 1804
|Luke A. Spofford |Jaffrey |Nov. 5, 1785|Mid. 1815
|Jonathan Ward, s.s.|Plymouth |Aug. 24, 1769|Dart. 1792
|Francis Welch |Hampstead | |Union, 1832
|John Gunnison |Hampton |April 15, 1798|---- ----
|James Boutwell |Lyndeborough |Dart. 1836|Nov. 4, 1841
Deerfield|Timothy Upham |Malden, Ms. |Dec. 20, 1748|Harv. 1768
|Nathaniel Wells |Wells, Me. |July 13, 1774|Dart. 1795
|Ephraim N. Hidden |Tamworth |Aug. 28, 1811|Dart. 1836
Epping |Robert Cutler |Cambridge, Ms.| 1718|Harv. 1741
|Josiah Stearns |Billerica, Ms.|Jan. 20, 1732|Harv. 1751
|Peter Holt |Andover, Ms. |June 12, 1763|Harv. 1790
|Forest Jefferds |Wells, Me. |Aug. 4, 1794|
|Calvin Chapman |Bethel, Me. |Nov. 13, 1814|Bowd. 1839
|Enoch Corser, s.s. |Boscawen |Jan. 2, 1787|Mid. 1811
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_Towns._ | _Ministers._ | _Settled._ | _Dismissed_
| | | _or died._
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Brentwood|Nathaniel Trask |ord. 1748} |Dec. 12, 1789
| |inst. 1756} |
|Ebenezer Flint |May 27, 1801|Oct. 12, 1811
|Chester Colton |Jan. 25, 1815|Mar. 16, 1825
|Luke A. Spofford |Feb. 22, 1826|April 1, 1829
|Jonathan Ward, s.s.| |
|Francis Welch |Dec. 4, 1833|Oct. 4, 1837
|John Gunnison |June 12, 1839|June, 1841
|James Boutwell | |
Deerfield|Timothy Upham |Dec. 9, 1772|Feb. 21, 1811
|Nathaniel Wells |July 1, 1812|Sept. 1, 1841
|Ephraim N. Hidden |Sept. 1, 1841|
Epping |Robert Cutler |Dec. 9, 1747|Dec. 9, 1755
|Josiah Stearns |March 8, 1758|July 25, 1788
|Peter Holt |Feb. 27, 1793|April 25, 1821
|Forest Jefferds |Oct. 26, 1826|Oct. 31, 1831
|Calvin Chapman |Dec. 8, 1842|April 10, 1845
|Enoch Corser, s.s. |
NOTES.
BRENTWOOD. In Dec. 12, 1748, according to Farmer's Statistics of New
Hampshire ministers, _Rev. Nathaniel Trask_ was settled in this place.
"Jan. 18, 1756, this church [Hampton church] was sent for to install
the Rev. Mr. Trask at Brentwood. They chose Deacons Tuck and Lane, who
went. And the affair was completed with love and peace, decency and
good order. Mr. Odlin and Flagg prayed. I preached, Col. iv: 17. Mr.
Whipple gave the charge. Attest, W. Cotton, Pastor."
Over a church newly organized, Mr. Trask was installed, as stated in
the records of Rev. W. Cotton, Jan. 21, 1756.
Mr. Trask retained the pastoral office in Brentwood, 41 years; though
he ceased from his pulpit labors, about two years before his death,
which occurred Dec. 12, 1789, at the age of 67. He married Parnel
Thing, June 15, 1749. Their children were Elizabeth, born July 30,
1750, died in Brentwood, Parnel, born July 2, 1752, died Sept. 8, 1756.
Nathaniel, born Sept. 8. 1754, died Sept. 5, 1756; Mary, born Sept.
14, 1756. Parnel, born Aug. 27, 1759, died July 21, 1762. Samuel,
born Sept. 10, 1762, settled and died in Brentwood, where his son and
daughter now live. Jonathan, born Dec. 12, 1764, settled in Mount
Vernon, Me.
From the decease of Mr. Trask, the church was without a pastor eleven
years and a half. During that period, _more than a hundred individuals_
were employed as candidates for settlement, or as supplies. Eight or
ten, successively, received and declined invitations to settle.
At the ordination of the _Rev. Ebenezer Flint_, the church had become
reduced to six male and thirteen female members. Mr. Flint died
suddenly, Oct. 12, 1811, aged 42, leaving a widow, who died at the age
of 72 years.
He studied theology with the Rev. Dr. Emmons. He married Mary, daughter
of Deacon Kendall of Tewksbury, Ms. Two of his children were Mary
K., who married Ebenezer Orne, and Abigail J., who married Jonathan
Robinson, 3rd. The youngest son of Mr. Flint, Ezra M., married Louisa
P. Haynes of Charlestown, Ms., and now lives there. The eldest,
Ebenezer, resides in Brentwood, unmarried.
From the time of Mr. Flint's death, the church was destitute of a
pastor more than four years.
_Rev. Chester Colton_ preached at Brentwood, July 21, 1813. He proved
to be the Barnabas they needed; and the friends of religious order,
being encouraged and strengthened, settled him. Rev. Mr. Rowland of
Exeter preached the ordination sermon, from 1 Cor. i: 21, and Rev. Dr.
Pearson of Andover, Ms., gave the charge.
The people became ardently attached to Mr. Colton, and his labors
were blessed. He was dismissed at his own urgent request, on account
of an inflammation of his eyes which forbade application to study.
Mr. Colton's vision was, in a few years, so far restored, by rest and
medical treatment, that he resumed the labors of a pastor, and was
installed at Lyme, Ct., Feb. 12, 1829. Recently he has labored under
the direction of the Connecticut Missionary Society, in North Goshen,
Ct.
_Rev. Luke Ainsworth Spofford_ was installed in Brentwood, and, after
laboring about three years, and not finding his hopes of usefulness
realized, he requested and received a dismission. The number of church
members reported, June, 1828, was 53. Subsequently to his ministry
at Brentwood, Mr. Spofford was installed at Lancaster, N. H., 1829;
Atkinson, N. H., 1832; Scituate, Ms., 1835; Chilmark, on Martha's
Vineyard, Ms., 1842; from which place he removed to Newburg, N. Y.,
where his family resides. Mr. Spofford, before he came to Brentwood,
had been ordained at Gilmanton, N. H., where he enjoyed a successful
ministry of six years; but, on account of the state of his health, and
the extent of the field, resigned June 9, 1825. For more particular
notices, see Rev. Mr. Lancaster's History of Gilmanton, and Notes
respecting the ministers in Gilmanton, in the first number of the New
Hampshire Repository, Vol. I.
After Mr. Spofford's resignation, the people in Brentwood enjoyed the
labors of _Rev. Jonathan Ward_ about three and a half years.
Mr. Ward studied theology with Rev. Dr. Emmons, and was ordained in
New Milford, now Alna, Me., in 1796, and resigned in 1818. Although
Mr. Ward has never been installed in New Hampshire, he has, in many
respects, performed the services of a pastor to some of the churches
in a very acceptable and useful manner. Mr. Ward labored twelve years,
most of the time statedly, in Plymouth, his native place, and the place
of his father's ministry, for more than thirty-two years.
Mr. Ward's father, Rev. Nathan Ward, was born at Newton, Ms., April 11,
1721, died June 15, 1804, aged 83. He married Tamasin Ireland, who was
born Jan. 1, 1722, O. S., and died Aug. 16, 1777. Rev. Nathan Ward,
who was hopefully converted under the preaching of Mr. Whitefield, had
not a collegiate education, but received an honorary degree of M. A.
from Dartmouth College. His children, beside Jonathan the youngest,
were Nathan, born Jan. 9, 1748, O. S., died Nov. 3, 1776; Enoch, born
July 4, 1749, died July 31, 1825; Abraham, born Feb. 9, 1751, died
Dec. 6, 1776; Mary, born Sept. 18, 1752, died Dec. 6, 1776; Abigail,
born March 31, 1755, N. S., died Sept. 16, 1841; Samuel, born Aug. 26,
1756, died Nov. 8, 1776; Isaac, born March 16, 1758, died Feb. 27,
1816; Benjamin, born Sept. 21, 1761, died ----; Daniel, born Jan. 30,
1764; Esther, born Aug. 17, 1767, died Dec. 8, 1776. The submission
of the parents was painfully tested, by the death of five of their
children, with a putrid fever, within five weeks. Enoch, brother of
Rev. N. Ward, entered the ministry, but died young. He graduated at
Harvard University, 1736. The grandfather of Rev. J. Ward was Joseph,
whose father was John, who settled in Newton, Ms., and one of a large
family, brought by their father, William Ward, from England, about
1646, who settled in Sudbury, Ms. Rev. Jonathan Ward married Philenia
Gay Whitaker of Attleborough, Ms., who was born April 6, 1776, and
died April 25, 1825. Their children were Jonathan, born Nov. 30, 1800,
graduated at D. C., 1822, studied at the Theological Seminary, Andover,
ordained at Biddeford, Me., Oct. 26, 1825, died Feb. 8, 1826, aged 25;
James Wilson, born May 21, 1803, graduated at D. C., 1826, studied
at the Theological Seminary, Andover, and at New Haven, ordained at
Abington, Ms., May 31, 1834; Philenia, born Oct. 16, 1804, married
Frederick Robinson of Brentwood; Laura Elizabeth, born May 7, 1807,
married Lucius M. Perdy of Sharon, Ct.
_Rev. Francis Welch_ was the fourth settled minister in Brentwood. He
has labored since he left that place in Ipswich, Linebrook Parish, Ms.;
and in Perry, Washington County, Me.
_Rev. John Gunnison_, who had been previously ordained at Lyman,
Me., May 12, 1831, installed over the Union Society of Salisbury and
Amesbury, Ms., Dec 31, 1835, and at Newmarket, Lamprey River, Feb. 22,
1837, was installed at Brentwood. He was, after leaving Brentwood,
installed at West Falmouth, Me., in Jan., 1842. He now resides at
Portland, but at present supplies the pulpit of the first church
in Westbrook. He studied theology with the Rev. Charles Jenkins of
Portland, Me., and entered the ministry late in life. He married for
his first wife, Joanna Dow of Gilmanton, and for his second, a woman by
the name of Starboard.
_Rev. James Boutwell_, who was born May 14, 1814, graduated at the
Theological Seminary, Andover, in 1840. He was an Instructor at
Dunkirk, N. Y., one year. Mr. Boutwell has seven brothers and one
sister older, and two sisters younger, than himself. His paternal
grandfather was of Wilmington, Ms. His maternal grandfather was Dr.
Benjamin Jones, of Lyndeborough, a physician of some celebrity, whose
native place was Ipswich, Ms. Mr. Boutwell's brother, William Thurston
Boutwell, was several years a missionary among the Ojibwa Indians, in
Wisconsin. Mr. Boutwell married Mary P., daughter of Dea. Pascal Abbot
of Andover, Ms., April 10, 1837. Their children are Mary Lucelia, born
at Dunkirk, N. Y., March 8, 1838; James Pascal, born at Andover, Feb.
6, 1840, died Oct. 31, 1844; George Clark, born at Brentwood, Feb.
8, 1842; Charles Hawley, born at Brentwood, Oct. 29, 1843; Hannah
Elizabeth, born March 11, 1846.
DEERFIELD was a part of Nottingham, from which it was separated, and
incorporated Jan. 8, 1766. The Congregational Society was formed in
Dec., 1772.