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The Rev. Ezra Stiles, S.T.D., LL.D.

President Yale College, 1777-1795-
Son of the Rev. Isaac Stiles.
Born in North Haven Nov. 29, 1727.
Died in New Haven May 12, 1795.

NORTH HAVEN

IN THE

NINETEENTH CENTURY.

H Memorial.

PUBLISHED BY THE

TWENTIETH CENTURY COMMITTEE.

COMPILED BY

SHELDON B. THORPE.

|UNE i, 1901.

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INTRODUCTION.

The Town of North Haven, at its annual meeting, in October,
1897, appointed a committee to consider the advisability of recog-
nizing in a public manner the arrival of the twentieth century.
This committee was chosen as follows:

Robert O. Eaton.

Chairman Twentieth Century Committee.

Ex-Member General Assembly.

Assistant Dairy Commissioner State of Connecticut.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

District

No.

— Joseph E. Bishop (Resigned).
— Robert N. Barnes.
— Robert O. Eaton.
—Sheldon B. Thorpe.

Jared B. Bassett.

Frederic E. Jacobs.

Joseph Pierpont.

George B. Todd.

The following year they reported that no special interest was
being felt anywhere. The report was accepted, and the com-
mittee continued.

During the summer of 1900 the members organized tempo-
rarily, adding others to their number, until a working force of
thirty had been secured. Permanent organization was then
effected, and the sub-committees arranged as follows :

Robert O. Eaton, President.
L. P. Tuttle, Secretary.
Joseph Pierpont, Treasurer.
Sheldon B. Thorpe, Historian.

SUB-COMMI
On Literary Exercises.
1 Edward L. Linsley,
Edgar A. Hemmingway,
L. P. Tuttle,
Hobart Blakeslee,
George J. Merz.

On Printing and Publication.
Sheldon B. Thorpe,
Romanta T. Linsley,
George H. Cooper,
Michael E. Burke,
Robert N. Barnes.

On Finance.
Joseph Pierpont,
Henry D. Todd,
Frank L. Stiles,
A. B. Brockett,
D. Walter Patten.

W. E. Dickerman,

TTEES.

On Reception of Guests.
Hubert F. Potter,
Clarence N. Frost,
Herbert P. Smith,
Dr. R. B. Goodyear,
George B. Todd.

On Music.
Anson B. Clinton,
Frederic H. Stiles,
C. D. Robinson,
Isaac E. Mansfield,
David L. Clinton.

On Amusements and Parade.
2 Solomon F. Linsley,
Frederic E. Jacobs,
Jared B. Bassett,
N. H. Marks,
W. B. Roberts.

On Collation.

Staff of Ladies and Assistants.

1 Died October 18, 1900. Succeeded by the Rev. William Lusk.

Died March 13, igci.

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A plan was proposed which provided for a commemoration of
the opening of the century, and also for the observance of an
"Old Home Week," in which the town conld call home from
abroad her sons and daughters for a reunion which should be
notable. This project was adopted by the town at its annual
meeting in 1900, and an appropriation made to be used, if
necessary, into carrying its provisions into effect. The following
general outline was agreed upon :

Twentieth Century.

Sunday, December 30, 1900. — Special service in the Congrega-
tional, Episcopal and Baptist Churches at 1 1 o'clock a. m.
Sermons to be published in the Town Souvenir.

Sunday Evening, December 30, 1900. — Praise Service of Old
Time Music in Congregational Church.

3 Monday Evening, December 31, 1900. — Musical or Dramatic
Entertainment in Memorial Hall. Admission.

Monday Evening, December 31, 1900. — 12 o'clock m. Cannon
salute and ringing of bells.

Old Home Week.

Tuesday, June 4, 1901. — Dramatic or Musical Entertainment in

Memorial Hall, in evening. Admission.
Thursday, June 6, 1901. — Public Celebration.

Sunrise — Salute.

9 a. m. — Civic Procession.

11 a. m. — Historical Address in Congregational Church and
issue of Souvenir Volume.

12.30 p. m. — Dinner in Memorial Hall.

2 p. m. — Public meeting in Congregational Church.

Sunset — Salute.

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The preparation of this volume was early determined upon
as a brief memorial of the town at the close of the 19th century.

3 Postponed to February 15, 1901

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It is dedicated to the coming- generations in North Haven. If
at the opening of the next century some of its copies should still
be found in the homes of this people, it will not have been issued
in vain. It is by no means the ideal century record, but space
and expense have forbidden a more extended work, and much
has necessarily been omitted of equal value with that published.

Its preparation has been a work of pleasure, because of the
hearty co-operation of all concerned. Its illustrations of scenes
and buildings are mainly taken from photographs by Sheldon
B. Thorpe, Edward Heaton and Herbert Smith. The portrait
work is that of New Haven artists.

It is due to the Hartford Engraving Co., which has done the
entire engraving work of the volume, to say that in strong com-
petition with New York and Boston parties, it secured the con-
tract.

The printing and binding have been entrusted to The Price,
Lee & Adkins Co., of New Haven, who have acquitted them-
selves most creditably.

May this volume prove the first of a "century series."

Twentieth Century Committee.
North Haven, Conn., June i, 1901.

Note.— The following changes not otherwise noted on page 4, were
made during the sessions of the general committee:

Mr. George J. Merz, transferred to Committee on Reception.
Mr. D. Walter Patten, transferred to Committee on Reception.
Mr. Herbert P. Smith, transferred to Committee on Parade to fill
vacancy occasioned by death of S. F. Linsley.

Mr. Marcus D. Marks, appointed to Committee on Finance.

THE GOVERNMENT

OH THE

TOWN OF NORTH HAVEN

OFFICERS ELECTED BY BALLOT OCTOBER 1, 1900.

TOWN CLERK.

L. PEET TUTTLE.

SELECTMEN.

D. WALTER PATTEN,
CLARENCE N. FROST,
ERNEST R. BROCKETT.

BOARD OF RELIEF.

CHARLES H. THORPE,
NATHAN H. MARKS,
HOBART BLAKESLEE.

ASSESSORS.

LEWIS I. FOWLER,
FREDERIC E. JACOBS.

REGISTRARS.

E. D. S. GOODYEAR,
LUZERNE A. BROCKETT.

CONSTABLES.

REUBEN HARRISON,
HENRY F. CORF,
SAMUEL BANNELL,
WILBUR E. BEACH,
CHARLES L. ROSE,
ANDREW HALLORAN,
ALPHEUS J. LARKINS.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

D. Walter Patten.

[See page 133.]

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William E. Dickerman.

Ex-Chairman Republican Town Committee.
Member General Assembly, igot.

L. Peet Tuttle.

Town Clerk.

Clarence N. Frost.

Selectman.

Ernest R. Brocket t,

Selectman.

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BOARD OF EDUCATION.

JULIAN W. TUTTLE,
GEORGE H. COOPER,
O. SHERWOOD TODD.

AGENTS TOWN DEPOSIT FUND.

ROBERT W. SMITH,
JOSEPH PIERPONT,
SHELDON B. THORPE.

TREASURER.

ROMANTA T. LINSLEY.

AUDITORS.

SHELDON B. THORPE,
ISAAC E. MANSEIELD.

COLLECTOR OF TAXES.

LEWIS I. FOWLER.

GRAND JURORS.

GEORGE J. MERZ,
PER A. OLSEN,
WILLIAM B. ROBERTS,
WILBUR A. LANE,
LUZERNE A. BROCKETT,
FREDERIC E. JACOBS.

OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE SELECTMEN.

MEASURERS OF WOOD.

JOSEPH PIERPONT,
WILLIAM P. LEETE,
SHELDON B. THORPE,
ANDREW F. AUSTIN.

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Nathan H. Marks.

Veteran of the Civil War.
Member of Board of Relief.

Lewis I. Fowlek.

Tax Collector.
Assessor.

HOBART BLAKESLEE.

Ex-Selectman.

Member of Board of Relief.

Frederic E. Jacobs.

Ex-Selectman.
Assessor.

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WEIGHERS.

MARCUS S. DOOLITTLE.
DAVID L. CLINTON,
GEORGE W. DAINS,
FRANK L. STILES

POUND KEEPER.

WILLIAM H. TODD.

SEALER.

FREDERIC L. MANSFIELD.

GAUGERS.

MARCUS S. DOOLITTLE,
FRANK R. CLINTON,
WILLARD A. ROBINSON.

HAYWARDS.

CHARLES M. BARNES,
C. H. THORPE,
WILSON E. GOODSELL.

PACKERS.

JARED B. BASSETT.
HENRY H. ROBINSON.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

R.OMANTA T. LlNSLEV.
Ex-Town Agent and Selectman.
Town Treasurer.

George J. Mirz.

W. M. Corinthian Lodge, F. & A. M.

Grand Juror.

Station Agent N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R.

Isaac E. Mansfield.

Ex-Seiectman.

Auditor.

William B. Roberts.

Grand Juror.

THE PRAISE SERVICE.

The following" order of exercises for the Union Praise Service
was listened to by one of the largest audiences ever assembled in
the Congregational Church. The other places of worship were
closed that evening.

UNION PRAISE SERVICE

in the

Congregational Church

by the

CONG., EPISCOPAL AND BAPTIST SOCIETIES,

Sunday Evening, December 30, 1900, at 7.30 o'clock.

Frederic H. Stiles, Director.
A. B. Clinton, Organist.

PROGRAMME.

Voluntary. — Instrumental.

Invocation, . . . The Rev. Charles W. Jackson.

Hymn 142.— "Old Hundred."

Devotional Services, . . The Rev. Louis A. Parsons.

Gregorian Chant. — "Bonum Est." Hymnary, Page 501.

Introductory, . . . The Rev. William G. Lathrop.

Hymn 515. — "Ortonville," (lined out). Hymnary, Page 256.

Hymn 324. — "China."

Hymn 125. — "Geneva."

Hymn 129. — "Dundee." Hymnary, Page 65.

Hymn 597. — "Balerma." Hymnary, Page 65.

Hymn 320. — "Coronation." Hymnary, Page 162.

Gloria in Excelsis. — Buck.

Hymn 377.- — "Lenox." Hymnary, Page 189.

Hymn 770. — "Boylston."

Anthem (Modern). — "Praise Ye The Father."- —Gounod.

The Church will be open at 6.30 o'clock p. m. The public
made welcome. Seats free.

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It would be difficult to say which selection pleased the audi-
ence best. Each number was chosen after careful consideration,
and stood out distinct in the progress of church music. The
listeners were carried along, step by step, from the simple
Gregorian chant of our fathers to the florid music of the present
day.

The earlier named hymns on the programme — "China,"
"Dundee," "Geneva," "Ortonville" — were sung without accom-

Frederic H. Stiles.

.Musical Director and Organist
Congregational Church.

paniment. The latter tune attracted special attention because of
its novelty, it being "lined out," as in the days when hymn and
tune books were scarce ; that is, the Rev. Mr. Lathrop first read
a line, which was sung by the choir, then another line read and
sung until the hymn was finished. The words used were the well
known lines, beginning:

"Majestic sweetness sits enthroned
Upon the Saviour's brow."

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The singing of the hymn "Coronation" aroused the audience
to the highest fervor. Along' the gallery-front of the church were
displayed in groups the flags of the leading nations of the world,
and as the volume of sound swelled up

"Let every kindred, every tribe
On this terrestrial ball,
To Him all majesty ascribe,
And crown Him Lord of all,"

these colors seemed to ripple in the breeze as if echoing assent
to the homage of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

The drilling of the large chorus was done by Frederic H.
Stiles, to whose taste and efficiency the service owed its wonderful
success.

Anson B Clinton.

Ex-Member General Assembly.

Organist, and dealer in musical instruments.

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The following- persons assisted :

Anson B. Clinton, Organist.

Tenors.
David L. Clinton,
Edgar Stiles,
Le Roy Stiles,
Frank C. Squires.

Basses.
Theophilus Eaton,
Edward Heaton,
Eugene Prisley,
Leslie Munson,
Ellsworth Smith,
Mr. Sperry.

Sopranos.
Miss Bessie Ives,
Miss Glenna Bigelow,
Mrs. Anson B. Clinton,

Mrs. Frank North.
Mrs. Florence Blakslee,
Mrs. A. E. Swift.

Altos.

Miss Charlotte Barnes,
Airs. Theophilus Eaton,
Miss Emily Pierce,
Miss Martha Smith,
Miss Ruth Smith,
Miss Leila Stiles.

Orchestra.

H. Wilson Clinton,
Isaac E. Mansfield,
Dwight Rohinson,
Irving Mansfield.

SERMON

PREACHED IN THE

NORTH HAVEN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,

The Rev. William G. Lathrop,
December 30, 1900, at 11 a. m.

Text. Psalm 145:4. "One generation shall laud thy
works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts."

One hundred years ago day after to-morrow, the Rev. Ben-
jamin Trumbull, D.D., then pastor of this Church, delivered in
the old meeting house upon the green what he was pleased to call
a century sermon. To-day we are summoned to enter into the
inheritance of the saints, here to recount the blessings of God,
here to declare his mighty acts for the generation following. So
let us review briefly the century which is closing, a task altogether
too large to be adequately accomplished in the time at our dis-
posal.

First let me speak of the Church : and fittingly so of the oldest
organization in town (First Ecclesiastical Society, organized
1716. First action recorded, November 2, 1716. Congregational
Church organized. April or May, 1718. Incorporated, November
29, 1897), an organization which precedes by 68 years the incor-
poration of the town, and with only one companion, the Epis-
copal Church, of course with the Ecclesiastical Societies
connected with them, the only local organization of any kind that
spans the entire century. Dr. Trumbull preached his century
sermon in the second building owned by the Society. It meas-
ured 65 feet by 45^ and stood about half way between the flag
staff and the south line of the old burying ground, or a hundred
and fifty feet south and half as much west of the center of the
green ; about in front of the road which runs at the north of this
building. The century has seen the erection and extension of the

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Photo by Heaton. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (THIRD BUILDING).

Erected 1835.

brick edifice in which we are now assembled, used for the first
time, July 1, 1835. Its dimensions were 62 feet by 45, extended
in 1871, 16 feet, with an addition of 18 feet for organ and choir.
At this time, too, the basement was fitted for the use of the Sun-
day School. The chapel formerly used for a schoolhouse, 70 feet
south of this building, has been owned by the Ecclesiastical
Society since it was transferred to it by Mr. Reynolds, November
26, 1892. In the Spring of 1894 the commodious parsonage was
erected at a cost with the land of $5,000. This meeting house is
the third which has been owned by the Society ; the first serving
as a place of worship for 21 years. This stood 10 rods to the
north of the second edifice, being located near the southwest
corner of the old burying ground. The second building, the loca-
tion of which has been given, was in use from May, 1742, til!
June 28, 1835 — 93 years. Undoubtedly the opening century will
see the erection of a fourth meeting house, more commodious, if
no larger, than our present one, this having served us for 65 and
a half vears.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEPNTH CENTURY.

The membership of the Church lias fluctuated between quite
wide limits. Ir was 137 in 1760, at the beginning of Dr. Trum-
bull's pastorate, probably falling materially below one hundred
in 1820, when he closed his work. Under Mr. Boardman and
Dr. Griggs the Church revived and gained the strength which it
has since never lost. Of the four years of largest accessions, three
fall within this period. 63 in 1821, 159 in 1831, and 130 in 1840.

The Rev. William G. Lathrop.

Pastor Congregational Church, 1893-1901.
Resigned April 1, 1901.
Installed Pastor Congregational Church in
Shelton, Conn., April 4, 1901.

To the quickening of the life of the Church under these able
leaders we owe this meeting house. Of the army, 354 strong,
received in the decade 1831-40, only 12 remain upon our roll.
As far as is known 5 others are living. These alone can tell the
story of those stirring years. After the large additions in 1840
probably the membership of the Church reached the highest
figure in its history, approaching, if not exceeding. 400. We may

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not conclude, however, that its work is complete, for except the
decade mentioned, 1831-40, no other has seen a larger number
received into the Church than the decade just closing ; two of the
ten years during which the additions have exceeded 35 having
fallen within this period. Of the years of special blessing, Mr.
Reynolds wrote toward the close of his ministry: "Few
Churches, it is believed, have experienced more or greater sea-
sons of refreshing than have been enjoyed by this Church since
the beginning of the century." The years when more than 35
were received are, 1821, 1831, 1840, 1837 — 39 received, 1858 — 52,
1868 — 65, 1876 — 51, 1880 — 38, 1895 — 36, 1896 — 36. Altogether
there have been 1240 entries of those received since 1800, of whom
669 were added in the ten years just referred to. The present
membership is 302. Of the 16 names mentioned by Dr. Trum-
bull as the earliest settlers of the town, 1 1 are still found upon our
roll ; Barnes, Bishop, Blakeslee, Bradley, Brockett, Cooper,
Eaton, Jacobs, Thorpe, Todd, Tuttle. Of the 38 family names
mentioned by him as constituting the Church in 1760, 18 still are
found upon our roll ; those already mentioned and Bassett, Frost,
Goodyear, Mansfield, Pierpont, Sackett, Smith.

During the first five decades the number received varied from
28 in 181 1-20 to 354 in 1831-40. In the last five decades the
extremes have been 100 in 1861-70, and 136 in 1851-60, and the
same number 1891-1900. The number received in the two half
centuries is nearly the same, 629 the first half, 611 the second.
This steady, persistent, regular growth of the later years is far
more healthful and desirable than the spasmodic action of the
earlier time. The same healthy condition appears to prevail in
the varied activity of the Church, no abnormal growth, nor fatal
losses. The Church has had an active and an honorable part in
the development of the Sunday School, one being formed here
in 1825, and since maintaining its activity. Undoubtedly much
is due the Sunday School for the more healthful conditions pre-
vailing in these later years. The Church has had since 182 1 for-
mal connection with the missionary movement of the century.
There are now connected with the Church a Ladies' Benevolent
Society, a Sunday School, a Society of Christian Endeavor, a
Circle of King's Daughters, and among the younger members of
the cone'resration a Circle of King's Daughters and Sons.

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In the words of the able historian of the town, Mr. S. B.
Thorpe: "One will search in vain for anything startling or sen-
sational in the history of this ancient Church. Its record appears
singularly free from those internal dissensions wont to harass the
early Churches. It has sought rather to keep quietly the faith
of its founders, than to found new faiths for its followers. The
last quarter century has brought about more changes in its policy
than occurred in all its former historv. Among: the more radical
of these may be mentioned the recommendation that its constitu-
ency as well as applicants for membership abstain from the use
of intoxicating liquors ; the privilege granted its female members
to vote in the Church meetings ; the use of unfermented wine at
the Lord's Supper; the restriction to a five years official term of
its deacons (unless re-elected) ; and the abolition of the afternoon
service." (North Haven Annals, pp. 376, 377.) To this catalogue
of Mr. Thorpe's, written in 1892, we may add : the election of
two additional deacons, making four in all, May 15, 1895; the
revision of the covenant and confession of faith, January 21,
1897, neither having been materially changed since the organiza-
tion of the Church ; the incorporation of the Church, November
29, 1897, together with its more complete organization by the
adoption of a full set of rules for its government, December 15,
1897; the adoption of a new and more complete hymnal, first
used, September 4, 1898 ; and finally in this closing year of the
century the payment of the debt incurred at the building of the
parsonage.

Thus has God blessed his servants as they have endeavored to
let their light shine. Well has been maintained the succession of
the saints ; the family of God has been full of prevailing life and
power. With a membership nearly or quite three times as large
as at the beginning of the century, although the population of the
town is less than twice as large, with a plant worth $20,000, four
times as much as was that of 1800, the Church may surely face
courageously the opening years assured that the Lord Jehovah
our Guide in the past will still lead us in green pastures and by
still waters. God grant it !

This is the good seed of the kingdom taking root in this com-
munity, bearing fruit for the blessing of the town and for the re-

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demption of the world. What of the surrounding vineyard ? Of
the town itself little need here be said. It lias remained through
the century much as it was at the beginning, largely a settlement
of farmers. Until recently the stream of immigration from
Europe had touched the town but lightly: the stream that has
poured nearly ten millions upon the land in the last twenty years ;
the stream which has made half of New Haven, three-fourths of
New Britain of foreign birth or parentage. Now, however, in
increasing numbers those who understand how to live more
economically are displacing the native stock upon the farms
This change is likely to continue, immigrants occupying the
farms in the outlying districts, with the residential portions of the
town more thickly built.

The changes which the nation at large has seen in these stir-
ring years of growth and of activity have affected the life of the
quieter towns. Many pioneers have gone from here to other
States. The quota sent to the War of '6i-'65, the veterans still
remaining among us, the knowledge that so soon we have repre-
sentatives in the Philippines show that North Haven has been in
close touch with national movements.

The people have ever been here whom we could help and save.
They will be here. North Haven is not a dying town. For the
sake of those who are coming among us, for the sake of those
who will come, we must gird up our loins, be faithful and strong.
We may ponder and pray how best to bring to the light, how
most effectively to save from ignorance, sin and death, those who
come to dwell among us from other lands, of other tongues. This
problem pressing hard upon some communities will appeal to us
more and more imperatively in the coming days. Our fathers
in the name of God entered in and possessed the land. We must
lead to the Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world,
for our own salvation as well as for theirs, those whom we have
invited to enter with us into this goodly heritage.

This goodly heritage ! We cultivate our bit of a larger vine-
yard. The line of settlements along the Atlantic Coast of a hun-
dred years ago has become a mighty empire girdling half the
globe. Dr. Trumbull remarked that the population of the
United States in 1800 was six millions, a liberal estimate; more

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nearly 5,300,000. Philadelphia with 66,000, and New York With
60,000 were the largest and richest cities on the Western hemi-
sphere, lie ventured a prediction, basing his calculation upon
the fact that the population had doubled once in 25 years, that in
1900 the population would be - 96,000,000. The increase has not
been at the rate accepted by Dr. Trumbull, for we are but 75,000,-
000. But whatever may have been prophesied as to our growth
in numbers, the extension of territory over which the stars and
stripes should wave could not have been dreamed of. Beginning
the century with Vermont, Kentucky and Tennessee added to the
original 13 states, embracing only the territory east of the Missis-
sippi and north of Florida, about 825,000 square miles, the
national domain has expanded to our present 45 states, with the
territories of Xew Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Indian Ter-
ritory, with the District of Columbia, together with Alaska,
Hawaii, the Philippines and Porto Rico, over 3,600,000 square
miles ; one-fourteenth of the land surface of the globe ; four times
as large territorially, and including our island possessions, 15
times as many people, as a hundred years ago.

In these days of debate and conflict over the latest addition
to our opportunity and responsibility we may not forget that it
was urged that Jefferson exceeded his authority in the purchase
of Louisiana, that Texas was at first refused admission into the
Union, that Daniel Webster is reported to have said, apropos of
the claim to Washington and Oregon, that if it would cost one
penny or the raising of his right hand to retain this territory he
would not authorize the expenditure nor make the exertion.
There have been ever those who shrank from the enlarged duty
and the increased responsibility incurred in these successive ad-
ditions to our domain. But argue as we may, the fact remains
that thus has the territory extended over which our flag now
flies : over the fairest land the sun shines upon, over a realm the
most extended and best fitted to sustain a large and wealthy pop-
ulation of any now owning one government.

And with this growth in territory and in population has come,
too, an increase in wealth, the most marvellous the world has ever
seen, until now we are the richest nation on the face of the globe.
In 1800 our national wealth was estimated at two thousand mil-

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lions ; now it is a hundred thousand millions, a gain of fifty-fold.
And the increment is continuing at a rate which is beyond all
precedent. Our manufacturers and our traders are levying tri-
bute in growing measure upon all the nations of the earth.

Thus has God enlarged our borders and filled the land with
the finest of the wheat. But with these additions to our posses-
sions comes increased obligation. To whomsoever much is
given, of him shall much be required. In accepting the gift we
declare our duty. And men, other nations, are calling us to
account, and even as God, will hold us responsible. To hide our
talent in a napkin means shame and loss.

I say other nations are holding us to an account. When the
century opened the colonies were struggling to their feet. The
experiment of a people governing themselves was looked upon
with fear and with suspicion. It took the second defeat of
1 812-15 to bring England to some reasonably adequate idea of
what the Revolutionary War meant. It was only after the Mexi-
can War of 1846-47 that the Republic came to be honored on its
own continent. The Civil War of 1861-65 revealed to the world
power and resource of which there had been little thought.
While the Spanish War of 1898 showed all the nations of earth
that the United States had a sufficient reason for its existence
and possessed ability of which no one had dreamed. From
being of such little consequence among the nations as to be
reckoned hardly worthy of a place among them at the beginning
of the century we have come to occupy a position among the very
foremost powers, to take a place in the world's action worthy of
the most exalted and strongest peoples.

Into the life of the world we have entered, for better or for
worse, for the blessing of the world by means of the power God
has given us, or for the condemnation of ourselves, our loss and
overthrow. And into such a world at such a time ! Well has
Bishop A. C. Coxe, of the Episcopal communion, written :

"We are living, we are dwelling
In a grand and awful time ;
In an age on ages telling,
To be living is sublime.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 27

Worlds are charging — heaven beholding ;

Thou hast but an hour to fight ;
Love's pure banner now unfolding,

On — right onward for the right.

From the crimes that men are crushing,
War's dire curse and slavery's wrong.

To deliver him, now rushing,

Arm thee well — be strong — be strong.

Fear not ! spurn the wordling's laughter ;

Friendship's favor trample thou ;
Thou shalt find a long hereafter

To be more than tempts thee now.

Oh ! let all the soul within you,

For the truth's sake go abroad !
Strike ! let every nerve and sinew

Tell on ages — tell for God."

The sun has never shone upon a century more full of promise
than that which begins the day after to-morrow. Never before
have the forces of the kingdom had such momentum or such
power. No century can show such triumphs of the cross as the
one just closing. It has seen the foreign mission movement
starting with perhaps 7 societies, 170 missionaries, with an in-
come of $250,000, reach a maximum of 200 organizations, 13,000
laborers, with 71,000 native helpers and an income of seventeen
millions ; with a record of a larger number rescued from the dark-
ness of idolatry, paganism or savagery (1,300,000) than the dis-
ciples could count as converts at the close of the first century of
Christianity. Under the auspices of these consecrated and able
workers it has come about that the Bible, which in 1800 had been
translated into 34 languages and dialects, is now available in 411
different tongues. At the beginning of the century two historic
missionary meetings were held: "One with an attendance of 12
in Widow Wallis' back parlor, the other with an attendance of 5
under the haystack at Williams' College." Last year 15,000
crowded day after day for eleven days, one of New York's finest
halls that they might hear the latest news from the front. At the

28 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

beginning of the century an honorable Senator in Massachusetts'
upper house opposed the granting ot a charter to a foreign mis-
sionary society on the ground that we did not have enough
religion at home to justify the exportation of any. At the close
of the century our most honorable statesmen, William McKinley,
Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Benjamin Harrison,
offer convincing testimony to the value of missionary work, and
in the strongest terms urge its wider extension.

And this wonderful expansion in mission effort has been
backed by a still more wonderful growth at home. In 1800,
365,000 Protestant evangelical communicants were enrolled in
the United States; now the number is 17,800,000. Besides these
there are 10,000,000 Romanists and 1,000,000 Jews and others.
Here is an increase of fifty-fold in evangelical membership, while
the population has increased but fourteen times. The ratio of
communicants to population has increased from 1 in 14^ in 1800
to 1 in 4:} in 1900 — this of the evangelical Protestants alone.

This gain has been well sustained even to the century's close.
The number of additions to the various Churches the last decade
is the largest of any of our history, approximating 4,000,000.
And this increase, too, has been faster than the increase of popu-
lation ; the ratio having increased from 100 communicants in 453
in 1890, to 100 communicants in 428 in 1900. In the last two
decades the number of Protestant Churches has increased from
97,000 to 172,000, the number of ministers from 70,000 to 126,-
000, the number of communicants from 10,000,000 to nearly
18,000,000.

And this is no empty array of figures. The gain on the part
of the Church is more than nominal. The story of the religious
movements of the century, of the development of the Sunday
School, of the Young Men's and Young Women's Christian As-
sociations, of the Christian Endeavor Society, Epworth League
and kindred organizations of the young people, the planting and
the strengthening of our magnificent educational institutions, our
rescue agencies, hospitals and asylums, the widening and the
deepening of the temperance movement — these all derive their
strength from and prove the vitality of the Christian faith. It is
admitted to-day by many of those best fitted to judge, that while

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 29

cleanliness of body, mind and of estate may be next to godliness,
it comes next after, not necessarily leading up to it. When a
man is redeemed he is reformed. Individual salvation must pre-
cede effective and enduring - social betterment.

Looking again, it may be noted that the amounts contributed
for educational and benevolent purposes surpass all precedent.
The total for '97 was $42,000,000 ; for 98, $38,000,000 ; for '99,
$63,000,000 ; and for 1900 the figures of last year will be ex-
ceeded, and the total will reach the highest sum ever recorded.
This increase in gifts has far outrun the increase in wealth. In-
cluding the home expenses of the Protestant Churches alone,
$90,000,000, the total offerings for charitable, educational and
benevolent purposes will approximate $200,000,000, an increase
of a hundred-fold over the offerings of a century ago ; while the
national wealth has increased but fifty-fold.

Dr. Daniel Dorchester, our widely known and reliable relig-
ious statistician, has recently said : "There has never been so much
conscience, on so many subjects and among so many people as
now. Public conscience prohibits more evils and enforces more
obligations than ever before. No intelligent person standing in
the light of the nineteenth century and beholding the great relig-
ious movements of the age can doubt that Christianity is advanc-
ing. Every year it is robing itself with more effulgence and
pressing its blessed illumination upon new millions of earth's
population."

At the beginning of the century science and religion pursued
parallel ways, mutually suspicious of each other. Then came a
period of attack and conflict, each against the other, criticism and
opposition. Now the end is near, the day of synthesis, of con-
struction, of positive upbuilding and advance to a larger, saner,
truer conception of God and of the universe. It is seen more and
more clearly that God's revelation of himself in act and in word
go hand in hand ; only as science and religion work together can
a complete or a satisfactory conception of the universe be ob-
tained. Men have learned that in picking a flower to pieces the
flower itself is destroyed and its beauty and fragrance disappear.
Criticism, negation, never can reach the stars or understand a
universe. Aftei the stupendous achievements of the century
men are returning: or thev must return to the thought of old

30 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

when painters and sculptors prayed as they worked, when the
monks were chemists and mathematicians and astronomers, when
it was known and confessed of all that only the pure in heart
could read God's thoughts after him.

In the larger movements of the life and thought of the cen-
tury we may find signs of largest promise. Man has drawn
nearer his fellow. Space has been annihilated. In 1800 it took
8 weeks to cross the Atlantic in a sailing vessel. Now one can
go from New York to Liverpool in 6 days. It took five months,
from October 3, 1842, to March 3, 1843, f° r Marcus Whitman
to ride from the Columbia River to Washington to save the
Pacific Northwest to the Union. Now one can go from Boston
to Seattle in 5 days. San Francisco is nearer New York than
Boston was to Philadelphia. It took three days at utmost speed
in 1 81 5 to carry the news of Waterloo to London. The guns
of Dewey's fleet in the harbor of Manila were hardly cool before
the result of the battle was known all over our land. Thus have
the people of China, thus have the savages of the islands of the
sea become our near neighbors.

And as we have looked into the face even of savage and of
barbarian we have discovered there the marks of a common
humanity, the image of a common Father. From this recogni-
tion has come the end of slavery generally countenanced a hun-
dred years ago ; from this has dawned a larger liberty between
man and man. We have come to think of other men even as
they are as brothers, and to treat them so. The standing wrong
of all the past centuries has been overcome and it is seen that
governments exist for the sake of the governed, that rulers can-
not safely oppress their subjects, that one nation cannot right-
fully oppress another. But it remained for the closing years of
the century to witness the largest fulfillment the world has yet
known of the prophetic song of the angels at our Saviour's birth
— Peace, peace, peace on the earth. A movement has now
fairly begun which contains the promise of the day when nation
shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn
war any more. When the leading peoples of earth met at The
Hague, May 18, 1899, to devise ways and means of bringing in a
reign of equity and peace, the movement began which shall see
the swords beaten into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks.

NORTH HAVEN IN THK NINETEENTH CENTURY.

For the privilege of seeing the words of Psalmist reversed and
the kings of the earth setting themselves, the rulers taking coun-
sel together that our daily prayer may he answered, that his king-
dom may come, that his will may be done on earth even as it is
done in heaven ; for this we may well lift up our hearts and voices
in gratitude and praise. This the crowning act of the century,
its most spectacular and momentous achievement, is the most
realistic and impressive action since Jesus was horn in Bethlehem
of Judea, certifying to the brotherhood of man and the supremacy
of the law of love.

It is for us to note in this and in the other events of the cen-
tury the way the Lord directs, the path in which He would have
us go, and like Israel of old it is for us to follow the pillar of
cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night, His manifest provi-
dence, assured that even though the way leads through the wil-
derness, the end of faithful following, of consecrated service is the
promised land, is an open and an abundant entrance into the rest
and iov of our Lord.

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MEMBERSHIP

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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH;

JANUARY i, 1901.

Pastor.
William G. Lathrop.

Deacons.

Albert A. Hyde, 1895-1903
Robert N. Barnes, 1895-1904

F. H. Brockett,
Aaron Bassett.

1895-1902
1900-1905

Clerk and Treasurer.
F. H. Brockett, 1900-1902.

Names included within brace are those of husband and wife.
Names in italics indicate maiden name of woman.

Augur, Margaret E. Barnes
Austin, Andrew F. /

Austin, Charlotte P. Stiles \

Bailey, Sarah Elizabeth Smith
Barnard, Bertha J.
Barnes, Charlotte L.
Barnes, Lina Genevieve
Barnes, Lucia M. Bower
Barnes, Ella J. Shares
Barrett, John B. )

Barrett, Adella A. Clough \
Bassett, Adeline J. Blakeslee
Bassett, Elizabeth A. Brockett
Bassett, George Eli |

Bassett, Mary Louise Bradley )
Bassett, Jared B.

Bassett, Joel E. |

Bassett, Julia C. Thorpe >
Bassett, Lorenzo N.
Bassett, Lyman
Bassett, Lyman F. )

Bassett, Emily J. Pierpont )
Bassett, Mary E.
Beach, Caroline C. Jones
Beach, Celona E.
Beach, Joel E. W. >

Beach, Elsie D. Bawm )
Beach, Wilbur E. >

Beach, Kate Maria Hillyer )
Bishop, Ann E. Childs
Bishop, Charlotte Thorpe.
Blakeslee, Henry Merwin )

Blakeslee, Cornelia A. Andrews )
Blakeslee, Theodore M.
Blakeslee, Wilbur D. >

Blakeslee, Mary Alice Maynard )

♦Manual issued February, 1901.
3

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Albert A. Hyde.

Veteran of the Civil War.
Deacon, Congregational Church.

Frederic H. Brockett.

Cleric and Treasurer Congregational Church.
Deacon, Congregational Church.

Robert N, Barnes.

Undertaker.

Deacon Congregational Church.

Aaron Bassett.

Descendant of William Bassett,

New Haven Colony, 1642.
Deacon, Congregational Church.

NORTH HAVKN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Blakeslee, Zerah T. |

Blakeslee, Eliza A Tattle S
Bower, Stephen II. \

Bower. Caroline Osman \
Bradley, Anna Rowe
Bradley, Clara Edith
Bradlev, Frederic C. )

Bradley, Ellen A. Marks )
Brockett, Albert B.
Brockett, Emma J.
Brockett, Charlotte T. Bishop
Brockett, Jennie Louise
Brockett, Susan C. Heaton
Bruce, Annie B.
Bruce, Christine
Bruce, Edward B.
Bruce, Christine Kilgi
Bruce, Jennie Maud
Bruce, Sarah J. Lounsbury

srard B. )

"istine Kilgour )

Clinton, Burton D.
Clinton, David L. )

Clinton, Fannie M. Vibbert)
Clinton. Lucy A. Bishop
Connley, John )

Connley, Martha Saunders \
Connley. Sarah M
Cooper, George H. >
Cooper, Bessie L. Coe)
Cooper, Homer L. \

Cooper, Alice E. Monson \
Cooper, Marilla M.
Cooper, Sarah J. White
Cooper, Warren
Crowell, Franklin N. \

Crowell, Maria A. Beers )

Desmond, Charles A.
Desmond, Mary H.
Desmond, Ralph O. )

Desmond, K. E. Marihugh )
Dickerman, Robert E.
Dickerman, Sarah E. B.
Dickerman, William E. j
Dickerman, Lillian Snow \

Doolittle, Isaac L. )

Doolittle, Emily A. Smith S
Doolittle, Nellie P. Clark
Dunham, John J. /

Dunham, Grace Mae Thomas S

Eaton, Robert O. )

Eaton, Alice Granniss )
Eaton, Jesse O
Eaton, Theophilus
Eliot, Mary Wyllys
Elliott, Whitney |

Elliott, Emma Benton )

Foote, Cullen B. )

Foote, Nancy M. Adams I
Fowler, Bessie T.
Fowler, Delia E. Clinton
Fowler, Edward D.
Fowler, Herbert I.
Fowler, Lewis I. )

Fowler, Marthena A. Thorpe S
Frost, Elinor A. Crowell.
Frost, Fannie E Robinson
Frost, Grace I. Scranton
Frost, J. Henry )

Frost, Adeline Pierpont f

Gillette, Mary E. Brockett
Goodsell, Jesse B. /

Goodsell, Charry E. Tucker i
Goodsell, Wilson E. )
Goodsell, Fannie Beach)
Goodyear, Julia Marks
Goodyear, Robert B.

Heaton, Julius W. |

Heaton, Olivia Tins lev >
Hemingway, Edward M. j

Hemingway, Lucy A. Brockett S
Hemingway, Frank W. \

Hemingway, Elfrida B. Heaton f
Hemingway, Genevieve

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Hemingway, Laura J.
Hemingway, Willis B.
Hemingway, Betsey B Huntley
Howarth, Ellen C. Bradley
Howarth, Gertrude L.
Hyde, Ella R Hall
Hyde, Lyman Munson )
Hyde, Elizabeth G. Hyde )
Hyde, William Albert

Jacobs, Dora E.
Jacobs, Jesse B.
Jacobs, Maria E. Mansfield

Lane, Wilbur A.
Lathrop, William G. |
Lathrop, Helen Sfiicer )
Leete, Mary E. Isbell

Lehane, Jeremiah
Linsley, Solomon F. J

Linsley, Lucy A. Tracy )
Lloyd, Mary Jane

Maginnes, Caroline Tuttle
Mansfield, Fannie A. Birch
Mansfield, Frederick L.
Mansfield, Robert S.
Mansfield, Zenas W.
Mansfield, Mary P. Bradley
Marihugh, Emma G.
Marks, Julia A. Eaton
Marks, Martha A. Cooper
Merrick, Adeline R. Brocket 7
Merz, George J. \

Merz, Adelaide Hartley S
Miller, August B
Mix, Sarah Glover

Photo in 189i.

Residence of L. Peet Tuttle and Kate L. Tuttle.

Built in 1837 as a Parsonage for the Rev. Leverett Griggs, Pastor of the Congregational Church.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Morse, Grace E.

Morse, Herbert H. \

Morse, Josephine M. Sturges \

Morse, May H. Mix

Man son, Ezra G. )

Munson, Lilla B Andrews S

Munson, James F. )

Munson, Hattie Bishop \

N
Nettleton, Edwin )

Nettleton, Mary Ann Leete )
Nichols, Ellen H. Smith
North, Frank B. )

North, Meta E. Unger )

Orcutt, Payson B. )

Orcutt, Ellen A. Linsley S

l. Pag-e )

Page. Sophronia Leete

Painter, Henry W. )

Painter, Alice F. Lord)

Palmer, Elizur H.

Palmer, Emma A. +

Pardee, George W. \

Pardee, Emeline Jane BlakesleeS

Patten, Mary B. Hyde

Patten, Marion T.

Patten, D. Walter \

Patten, Erminie I. Emley)

Redfield, Charles
Reynolds. Annie M.
Reynolds, Carrie E. Butterworth
Richardson, Ervin H.
Richardson, Mary I
Richardson, Sarah M. Smith
Riker, Emma B. Smith
Roberts, Benjamin H. \

Roberts, Eliza H. Douglass f
Roberts, Eva J.
Roberts, William B. )

Roberts, Emma N. Butler S
Rose, Lettie A. Doolittle

Sackett, Delia M. Young
Scott, Frances A. Todd
Sexton, Walter M.
Shepherd, Roswell J. >

Shepherd, Louise M. Linsley \
Sherwood, Clarence B. \

Sherwood, Grace L. Vibbert \
Smith, Ada I. Goodyear
Smith, Catharine A.
Smith, Charles B.
Smith, Edith B.
Smith, Emanuel )

Smith, Alice V. Warner \
Smith, Frances E. Brockett
Smith, Frank L. \

Smith, Martha L. Culver )
Smith, Grace A. Todd
Smith, Hattie M.
Smith, James Elton
Smith, Oscar L.
Smith, Robert W. )

Smith, Elizabeth H. B. Stiles >
Smith, Ruth
Smith, Sarah Atwater
Smith, Sarah Maria Neat
Smith, William Hart )
Smith, Edith C. Vibbert \
Squires, Bertha J. Bannell
Squires, Cornelia M. Thorpe
Stevens, Edwin B. )

Stevens, Gertrude L. Clinton )
Stevens, Mariett Richards
Stevens, William W. \

Stevens, Blanche L. Clinton )

Thorpe, Arthur B. )

Thorpe, Mabel A Howarth S
Thorpe, Charles H.
Thorpe, Hannah C. Lewis
Thorpe, Elmina Bassett
Thorpe, Franklin S. i

Thorpe, Catharine A Hovey f
Thorpe, Georgiana L. Robitison
Thorpe, Gertrude L.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Thorpe, Harriette L.
Thorpe, Martha Smith
Thorpe, Mary Ann
Thorpe, Ruby V.
Thorpe, Sheldon B. )

Thorpe, Isabel J. Barnes )
Thorpe, Walter F
Todd, Elizabeth M. Gill
Todd, George B. j

Todd, Lillian W. Patten S
Todd, George H.
Todd, George Henry }
Todd, Lydia Chapman )
Todd, Henry D.
Todd, John Hay den )

Todd, Josephine C. Cheney S
Todd, Louisa Jacobs
Todd, Sereno B. J

Todd, Letitia N. Wiley I
Todd, William H.
Turner, Charles N. \

Turner, Ellen A. Barnes )
Tuttle, Ella

Tuttle, Emerett L.

Tuttle, Emma J.

Tuttle, Esther E.

Tuttle, Harriet Basselt

Tuttle, Ina Gertrude

Tuttle, Julian W. >

Tuttle, Charlotte E. BlakesleeS

Tuttle, Kate L.

Tuttle, Leander Peet )

Tuttle, Emma G. Hurlburt )

Tuttle, Louisa Maginnes

Tuttle, Martha A. Judson

Tyler. Jane E. Hull

Van Doren, William J.
Vibbert, Margaret L. Clinton
Vibbert, Stephen S. \

Vibbert, Mary Louise Smith)

Warner, May J. Tuttle
Welch, May

Parsonage of the First Ecclesiastical Society.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

NON RESIDENT.

Alger, Edith Goodyear

Barnes, John F.

Barnes, Grace A. Blakeslee

Barrett, Leon J. \

Barrett, Martha S. Hyde )

Burnham, Harriette A.

Davis, Esther Jacobs

Dowd, Merritt C.

Hill, Mary Clarissa Hyde

Jacobs. Harriet Ann Lincoln

Lawrence, Harriet D. Andrews

Maynard, Nellie M.

Owen, William M.

Pierpont, Byard A. \

Pierpont, Sarah A. Fresco tf \

Robinson. H. Burdette
Smith, Fannie B. Richardson
Smith, Mary A. Rogers
Thorpe, Clifford B."
Thorpe, Henry L. )

Thorpe, Minnie E. ToddS
Tuttle, Frances C.
Van Doren, Emily M. Roberts
Wright, Harriet A. Palmer

SUMMARY

Males,
Females,

Total,

114
190

304

YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETY CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR.

Organized April 7, 1885.
The Rev. William G. Lathrop, President.
Miss In a Gertrude Tuttle, Sccrctarv and Treasurer.

Actiz'c Members.

Barnard, Miss Bertha J.
Bassett, Mrs. George E.
Bormann, Miss Ottillie M.
Bradley, Miss Clara E.
Brnce, Miss Christine
Bruce, Miss Jennie M.
Eliot, Miss Mary W.
Gunn, Edward
Howarth, Miss Gertrude
Hyde, Mrs. Albert A.
Hyde, William A.
Jacobs, Miss Dora C.
Lane, Edmund
Leete, Miss Harriet L.
Marihugh, Miss Emma G.
Maynard, Miss Nellie M.
Morse, Miss Grace E.
Roberts, William B.
Roberts, Mrs. William B.

Roberts, Miss Eva J.
Smith, Miss Edith B.
Smith, Miss Ruth
Smith, George
Squires, Mrs. Frank C.
Stiles, Miss Clifford R.
Thorpe, Arthur B.
Thorpe, Mrs. Arthur B.
Thorpe, Miss Harriette L.
Thorpe, Miss Ruby V.

Associate Members.

Blakeslee, George D.
Howarth, Raymond
Hyde, Everett H.
Lane, Walter
Leete, George H.
Roberts, Miss Carrie
Smith, Cullen
Smith, Mrs. Alex. B.

4°

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

LADIES' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF THE CONGRE-

TIONAL CHURCH.

Organized 1821.

Mrs. Henry M. Blakeslee, President.

Miss Mary Wyllys Eliot, Secretary and Treasurer.

Barrett, Mrs. John H.
Barnes, Mrs. Robert N.
Bassett, Mrs. Aaron
Bassett, Mrs. George E.
Bassett, Mrs. Joel E.
Bishop, Mrs. Ann E.
Blakeslee, Mrs. Zera T.
Bower, Mrs. Stephen H.
Bradley, Mrs. Frederic C.
Brockett, Mrs. Frederic H.
Clinton, Mrs. David L.
Cooper, Mrs. George H.
Doolittle, Mrs. Isaac L.
Elliott, Mrs. Whitney
Foote, Mrs. Cullen B.
Fowler, Mrs. Lewis I.
Fowler, Mrs. Willoughby E.
Heaton, Mrs. Julius W.
Hemingway, Mrs. Edward M.
Lathrop, Mrs. William G.
Lawrence, Mrs. Orrin
Linsley, Mrs. Solomon F.
Maginnis, Mrs. George B.

Merz, Mrs. George J.
Mnnson, Mrs. Ezra G.
Nichols, Mrs. Ellen H.
Orcutt, Mrs. Payson B.
Reynolds, Mrs. John F.
Scott, Mrs. Frances
Shepherd, Mrs. Roswell J.
Smith, Miss Catherine
Smith, Mrs. Grace T.
Smith, Mrs. Robert W.
Smith, Mrs. Sarah N.
Stevens, Mrs. Mariette
Squires, Mrs. Cornelia
Thorpe, Mrs. Elmina
Thorpe. Mrs. Martha L.
Thorpe, Mrs. Georgianna L.
Thorpe, Mrs. Sheldon B.
Todd, Mrs. Elizabeth
Turner, Mrs. Charles N.
Tuttle, Mrs. Harriett
Tuttle, Miss Emerette L.
Tuttle, Miss Kate L.

KING'S DAUGHTERS, MIZPAH CIRCLE.
Organized 1893.
Mrs. William G. Lathrop, Leader.
Miss Clara E. Bradley, Secretary.
Mrs. Georgianna L. Thorpe, Treasurer.

Augur, Mrs. Margaret E.
Barnes, Miss Charlotte
Barnes, Miss Genevieve
Barnes, Mrs. Robert N.
Bassett, Mrs. Benjamin S.
Bidwell, Mrs. E. H.

Bishop, Mrs. Ann E.
Blakeslee, Miss Elizabeth
Blakeslee, Mrs. Frederic W.
Blakeslee, Mrs. Henry M.
Cooper, Mrs. Homer L.
Dickerman, Mrs. William E.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Dickerman, Miss Sarah E. B.
Doolittle, Mrs. Isaac L.
Eaton, Miss Cora A.
Eaton, Airs. Robert O.
Fowler. Miss Bessie
Frost, Mrs. Clarence N.
Gillette. Mrs. Merton
Goodsell, Mrs. Wilson E.
Heaton, Mrs. Julius W.
Hemingway, Mrs. Edgar
Hemingway, Mrs. Frank W.
Hemingway. Miss Genevieve
Howarth, Miss Gertrude L.
Jacobs. Miss Jane A.
Lawrence. Mrs. Orrin C.
Linsley. Mrs. Grace M.
Mansfield. Mrs. Zenas W.
Marks, Mrs. Nathan H.
Merz, Mrs. George J.
Morse. Mrs. Herbert H.
Munson, Mrs. Ezra G.
Munson, Mrs. James F.
Nichols, Mrs. Ellen H.
Orcutt, Mrs. Payson B.
Reynolds, Mrs. John F.
Richardson, Miss Minnie I.
Shepherd, Miss Esther
Shepherd. Miss Marguerite
Shepherd. Mrs. Roswell J.
Sherwood, Airs. Clarence B.
Smith, Miss Edith B.
Smith, Mrs. Frank L.
Smith, Miss Catherine
Stevens, Mrs. William W.

Squires, Mrs. Cornelia
Squires, Mrs. Frank C.
Thorpe, Mrs. Arthur B.
Thorpe, Miss Harriette
Thorpe, Mrs. Sheldon B.
Turner, Mrs. Charles N.
Tuttle, Miss Ina G.
Tuttle. Mrs. Julian W.
Tuttle. Miss May

Mrs. William G. Lathrop.

HAPPY HOUR CIRCLE OF KING'S DAUGHTERS

AND SONS.

Marguerite Shepherd, Leader.

Grace A. Dickerman, Secretary.

Borghia, Ernest Munson, Charlotte

Borghia, Joseph Nichols, Ralph

Hyde, Florence North, Elsie

Lathrop, Henry Reynolds. Marion

Mansfield. Ethel Shepherd, Esther

Mansfield, Genevieve Sweet, Archie

ORDER OF SERVICE AND SERMON

UNION BAPTIST CHURCH

MONTOWESE, DECEMBER 50, 1900.

ORDER OF SERVICE.

Orchestra Music.

Invocation.

Responsive Reading. — Ps. 45.

Anthem. — "Our Nation, O Lord."

Scripture Reading. — Mk. IV.

Prayer.

Hymn 502. — "How firm a foundation."

Announcements.

Sermon.

Hymn 517. — "The Church's one foundation.'

Benediction.

Sermon preached in Union Baptist Church, Montowese, De-
cember 30, 1900, by the Rev. Charles W. Jackson.

So is the Kingdom of God, as if a man should cast
seed upon the earth; and should sleep and rise night and
day and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth
not how. The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade,
then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. — Mk. IV. 26 28.

In uttering a parable like this, Jesus did not mean to teach
that men have nothing whatever to do in the way of promoting
growth in themselves and others. He would not so encourage
men in the vices of indolence, indifference and thoughtless
security to which they are prone. But why speak a parable which
even seems to look that wav? It would seem that it was to check

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vices of a different description to which some men are prone.
Active, devoted laborers are tempted to exaggerate their own
importance as instruments. They are apt in a busy-body spirit
to interfere when it were wiser to stand still and see God work ;
they are prone, too, to despondency if they see not immediate
results ; and to impatience when they discover how slowly growth
in the Kingdom goes on toward its final consummation.

The Rev. Charles W. Jackson.

_ Pastor Union Baptist Church.

This despondence and impatience are decidedly present
to-day, and I am glad of the occasion which the opening of the
twentieth century affords for emphasizing the growth of Chris-
tianity or the Kingdom of God during the last one hundred years.
And I am also grateful to the Celebration Committee for the
prominence which they are giving to the religious element in the
development of the century.

It is our purpose this morning to touch but superficially and
of necessity in so short a time, most briefly some of these features
of Christian development.

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I cannot see how it could ever be doubted that it has been a
century of spiritual and religious growth. To become confirmed
in this opinion one has only to step back into the chilly atmos-
phere of the eighteenth century and view its stagnant life. The
warmth and fervor of the Reformation had departed, and religion
had sunk into the icy lifelessness of mere human prudence. "The
Anglican church had conquered Romanism. Puritanism had
sunk deep into- the hearts of the ignored people. The church
had won the day and held the field, and the first thing it did was
to repudiate its old relationships. It sought no wedlock with
poverty such as Francis sought and Giotto painted in his great
fresco. The church had become a vast machine for the patronage
of morality and the promotion of her own officers. How admir-
able an investment is religion ! Such is the burden of their plead-
ing. Sure gauge of respectability here and comfort hereafter."

An extract from one of Clarke's sermons may show the type
of pulpit appeal to the people :

"The principal point of wisdom in the conduct of human life
is so to use the enjoyments of this present world as that they may
not themselves shorten the period wherein 'tis allowed us to enjoy
them. * * * * We are not obliged to seek the Kingdom of
God ivJiolly or only in a total and absolute exclusion of all other
desires (as some melancholy, well disposed persons may be apt to
imagine), but only that we are to seek it chiefly and in the first
place. * * * * We are required only to retrench our vain
and foolish expenses ; not to sell all and give to the poor, but to
be charitable out of the superfluity of our plenty, not to lay down
our lives, or even the comfortable enjoyments of life, but to for-
sake the unreasonable and unfruitful pleasures of sin."

A sleek, comfortable, prudent, kind of piety this, such as had
not been baptized in the sacrificial spirit of the Cross, and which
would have given a very poor account of itself if it had been
exposed to the fires of martyrdom.

But not only had the church forgotten its spiritual function,
the whole social fabric of life was saturated with the licentiousness
of a degraded existence. The Sabbath day was neglected, espe-
cially in the cities, and by the upper classes. Irreverence in God's
house was a common fault. Cabinet councils were publicly held

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on the Lord's day, as were theatrical shows (though not called
"sacred concerts"). Card parties and other social functions were
common on that day. Society seems to have been a sink of all
vices and a sewer for all the haser passions. What can he said
for the morality of communities where one hundred and sixty
different crimes were punishable with death, and where capital
punishment was indicted as plays are presented in theatres pub-
licly and for money?

In spite of this extreme stagnation and apparent death, the
seed of the Kingdom of God was secure, and its germinal power
was still vigorous. Again it asserted itself and demonstrated how
little Christianity is dependent on earthly governments and
human machines. The eighteenth century was saved from utter
moral ruin and decay by a great revival of religion. The
"Wesleyan movement" it was called in England, and contempo-
raneous with it the "Great Awakening," under Jonathan
Edwards, in this country.

Much has been said against revivals of religion in these later
years. And they have been termed religious frenzies, but far
better does it seem to incur the danger of the nervous phe-
nomena of a revival than to experience that religious lethargy
and moral death of whole communities, so common in the early
years of the eighteenth century.

The religious change in the closing years of the eighteenth
century was not the only thing for which these years were
remarkable. It was accompanied by a great intellectual resusci-
tation. Goethe was its herald in Germany, Wordsworth and
Southey in English poetry, Coleridge was reviving interest in
philosophy, while Burns had sung his songs of love and nature,
and Walter Scott had already appeared. While I have no doubt
that this awakening was in the main due to causes outside the
domain of organized Christianity, the most discerning historians
would not exclude altogether the revival spirit from its origins.
A writer in the London Spectator, July 15, 1899, insists that:
"Wesley and his co-workers produced not only a great moral, but
also a great intellectual change in England."

This period was also notable for its political agitation. The
war of independence had wrought wonderful changes everywhere.

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It had kindled the fires of liberty and created longings for free-
dom, which first found expression in France, and would have
spread all over Europe but for the Reign of Terror. This revolu-
tionary movement, though it seemed to come from the disabilities
of oppressed colonists and the unmatched wretchedness of the
masses of Europe, had its distinctly religious element. For when
cries of the masses for bread and the thunders of contending
parties came before the true spirit of Christianity, Schleiermacher,
one of its most discerning interpreters, unfolded more of its true
meaning than had yet been seen, and proclaimed the true message
of the revolution — that Christianity was essentially social, and the
church the brotherhood of man. Under the stimulus of these
changes the Christianity of this century was born, and immedi-
ately addressed itself to the task of reorganizing its resources.
In 1800 the Church Missionary Society was founded ; in 1803, the
Sunday School Union; in 1804, the British and Foreign Bible
Society. In 1812 the same spirit manifested itself in America in
the organization of the American Board; in 1814, the General
Missionary Convention of the Baptists; in 1815. the Tract
Society; and in 181 7, the Colonization Society. Nor should we
overlook in these organizing movements those societies for the
abolition of slavery, which have been of such immense moment
in the history of this country and are so distinctively religious in
their origin. To the Friends of Pennsylvania belongs the honor
of the first society, founded 1774. But to Methodists we owe the
strongest and greatest of these societies. In their conference of
1780 they declared that "slavery is contrary to the laws of God
and man and nature, and hurtful to society ; contrary to the dic-
tates of conscience and pure religion."

Taking all these things into account, it seems as if Christi-
anity, with prophetic foresight, was at the very beginning of the
century anticipating the needs and development of the coming
hundred years.

At this period also there were signs that Christianity would
have to return to its primitive Apostolic condition and depend
on her own resources for the success of her projected undertak-
ings, and come to rely less and less on the support of the State
and patronage of princes. The church began to appeal to her

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own constituency, poor as well as rich, for voluntary offerings.
In this country the great Protestant bodies had to provide means
for the building of churches, for schools and other benefactions,
as well as to defray current expenses of worship. And when it
is remembered that most of these institutions have been estab-
lished during the past century, the amount of money freely con-
tributed indicates what can be achieved in the future. In the
earlier ages the expenses of religion had been borne as an exact-
ing imposition, from which there was no relief. But there now
began the development of true benevolence. Now the people
gave to the support of Christianity instead of paying for its
ministrations. The voluntary system cultivates the spirit of
benevolence and makes every contributor conscious that he has a
real part to play in the advancement of Christianity.

Co-ordinate with these other evidences of the growth of the
Kingdom of God was the consciousness of a mission to uplift man
in his social condition. Some would ascribe the beginnings of
this to the High Church movement and Cardinal Newman's self-
sacrificing spirit. But I cannot see how a careful study of the
question could fail to place it at an earlier date. The work of
Robert Raikes for the dirty urchins of Sooty Alley was not simply
to instruct them in the Scriptures, but to improve their social
condition. Raikes was followed in his work of social redemption
by the seventh Earl of Shaftsbury in his grand struggle in behalf
of the poor, and especially in shortening the hours of child labor.
Then came John Howard, Clarkson and YVilberforce, and other
names of equal lustre. The work of these men was not under the
patronage of the church ; indeed, it was often opposed by the
church or treated with indifference ; but who will say that they
were not inspired by the spirit of Christianity ?

Great advance has been made since these early days by the
church toward a grander social ideal. But still how far does she
feel herself from the beatific vision of modern theology and of
the wisest and best of her thinkers of every shade of faith. This
feeling of imperfection and struggle toward the ideal is a true
sign of the life of the seed and warrants a deeper hope than ever
before that some day the kingdoms of the earth will be the King-
dom of Our Lord, and that their politics will be the politics of
the Sermon on the Mount.

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The church has not, however, contented herself with dreaming
of a time when society should be relieved of all her present ills.
She has lent herself to the succor of poor and needy who are suf-
fering under defective systems of present social life. London,
Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, Vienna, New York, Boston, and
other great communities are distinguished for their abundant
philanthropies in the forms of hospitals, infirmaries, dispensaries,
asylums, homes for the aged, lodging houses for the poor, shelters
for waifs and neglected children, societies for inebriates, for the
protection of animals, for the redemption of fallen women, and
for other worthy purposes. In London five hundred charitable
organizations spend $5,000,000 annually ; in New York the amount
expended exceeds $4,000,000, and similar sums are devoted to
benevolence in other communities, making in all a bewildering
total. These benefactions call for extraordinary outlays in
money, and must prove a serious drain on the resources of the
people. Doubtless all of them, whether originating in the Old
World or in the New, whether originating within the church or
without, are indebted to Christianity for their existence. These
are all significant signs of the growing strength of Christian
feeling. But they pathetically demonstrate the sad failure of our
political economy. They show us most plainly that our industrial
system is not what it should be ; for if it were, much that is now
lavished on chanty would be spent on wages and the recipients
would become more self-reliant by the change. Likewise they
are signs of a troubled conscience, of an uneasy feeling that the
evils of our age are largely the outgrowth of bungling methods
and of a desire, if possible, to make atonement for the wrongs
inflicted, and for the remedy of which neither within the church
nor without has an adequate antidote yet been provided.

What adds to the pathos of it all, is that there is an ever
deepening consciousness of the relative failure of charity. There
is no appreciable narrowing of the domain of poverty or material
reduction of the number of beneficiaries or removal of the causes
of want. There seems to be a consensus of opinion among
philanthropists that the machine consumes too much fuel for the
work it does.

Mr. Carnegie, on being asked why he gave so much money
to libraries, replied: "I undertake to help the swimmers, not the

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submerged tenth," and there is sound philosophy in that. While
the church must never forget the submerged elements of society,
and must go out in as tender love to them as to any others, she
must strive to help them swim, not "attempt the impossible —
swim for them." It seems at present as though no schemes of
beneficence would fully counteract the evils of the present indus-
trial system. Only a complete regeneration of all the avenues of
life would effect such a reform. But the Christian spirit should
net and will not neglect her duty of benevolence to the masses
of humanity, and in the coming years must address herself to the
task of reorganizing- her institutions, so as to insure a greater
amount of work from the amount expended. The great denom-
inations should come together and agree on some principle of
co-operation in their benevolent work so that none of the worthy
should be neglected and none of the needy be pauperized by
unwise lavishness. This should be the direct work of the church,
and not treated as an obligation which the commonwealth owes
the citizen. 'When such an impression as this gets abroad, as in
imperial Rome, the number of indigents, who are shameless,
increase, and the more imperious their demands become.

Any sketch of the Christianity of the century, however imper-
fect, can never pass over the wondrous change which has taken
place in understanding of the church with regard to the material
sources of her faith. The Bible at the beginning of the century
was regarded by the Protestant church as received from God
almost without error, and inspired from cover to cover. But the
unfolding of the Christian spirit has revealed the human element
in its production. Worthy men had been moved to tell of their
feelings, desires and ideals. And as they were human and erring,
had imparted to this wondrous book their own characteristics.
In fact, inspiration has entirely lost its former significance, and
is now merely a way of saying that the Bible is a revelation of
God. At the beginning of the century the Bible was believed to
be true because it was inspired. To-day it is believed to be
inspired because of its inherent worth. It is Truth that proves
the inspiration, not inspiration the Truth.

I know that there are many devout souls that feel afraid of
the criticism of the Bible which has been so characteristic of the
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later years of this century. But I believe it to be but the unfold-
ing of that Christian spirit which the book itself contains. We
find in it sundry exhortations and divers explicit warnings, which
are somewhat irrelevant if we are not to test the credentials of an
alleged inspired man or book by the character of the teachings
published. We read: "When a prophet speaketh in the name
of the Lord, if the thing follows not nor comes to pass, that is the
thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath
spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him." Here,
then, we have one claiming to be sent of God to be inspired, and
yet he can be set aside if his testimony is false. When St. John
writes : "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits,
whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone
out into the world," and when St. Paul adds: "Prove all things,"
we have sufficient warrant for subjecting every alleged revelation
to close and thorough scrutiny.

It is interesting to note that St. John, in closing his Gospel,
does not ground its claim to be accepted on its inspiration, but
on its truth, and that St. Luke, when he takes in hand to set forth
in order a declaration of these things, reminds Theophilus of his
eminent qualifications for the task, but inspiration is not men-
tioned among them. Our Saviour likewise, in His controversies
with the Jews, never assumes that whatever He says should be
believed because He said it, but only and always because it is
true. He challenges investigation, and expects that He will be
finallv judged by the same rule that He employs in judging
others. This same principle is evolved from the findings of
Higher Criticism. While it concedes that there is an inspired
revelation in the word of God, it impresses on us the necessity of
search, of inquiry, that the divine may be discriminated from the
human ; the true from the erroneous ; the essential from the
adventitious ; the permanent from the evanescent. In pursuing
these investigations critics may think they have reached some
absurd conclusions and may lay down for themselves canons of
criticism distinctive of the supernatural : but, while these ex-
tremes are to be deplored, the}' do not invalidate or discredit
the obligation "to prove all things."

We are told that this individual enquiry will unsettle faith and
lead to alienation and divisions in the Christian world. Is it not

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fair to ask : I las any other theory saved the world from this? Has
verbal inspiration saved the spectacle of sect and schisms, wrang-
ling- parties and hostile camps? Has it protected the Scripture
from reckless, irreverent, ridiculous and contradictory interpreta-
tions? If it has not, where is its practical advantage? An infal-
lible word which forbids serious search into the real truth of its
position, calls for an infallible interpreter of that word, and the
Church of Rome is the only place where one who has this for his
foundation stone will be at rest.

But how shall we know what is from God, and what from
man, and what is binding- on us, and what is not? How know?
Set the imprecatory Psalms over against the Sermon on the
.Mount, and is it conceivable that the feeblest intellect should fail
to detect the immeasurable distance between them or for one
moment doubt which was authoritative in human conduct ? Dis-
crimination is not a difficult task ; and under either hypothesis it
is unavoidable. Though we may believe every word in the Bible
has been dictated, that does not commend to us the conduct of
Samson, Ahab, Judas and other kindred souls, we set these
men aside just as we do some hasty and violent expressions which
have fallen from the lips of some Bible saints, as not being for
our imitation. Whether we like to do so or not, we must dis-
criminate if we are to be helped by the Scriptures.

I believe it, then, to be one of the evidences of wondrous
growth of Christianity during the past century that the Bible is
no longer left as an unquestioned book, but by careful and
thoughtful research has been found filled to the brim with warm
human interest and with a life superior to the life of contempo-
raries because of a unique presence and immanence of a distinctly
divine element. It will matter little what the critics lay aside of
low ethical worth or to whom they ascribe it as author, so long
as they get at the Truth and give us something that will be of
practical value for Christian living. For Truth is far better than
fiction, and true living than any ecclesiastical theory of inspira-
tion.

Unavoidably under such changing life outward expressions
of man's religion have materially changed. A recent writer sums
this change up entirely in the tendency toward humanism. Xot

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strictly speaking, the humanism of the Reformation, but the
humanism of Christ. This humanism is essentially evangelical.
While it regrets the hard, rigid and arid features of Augustinian-
ism and its offspring Calvinism, it cherishes the fundamental
doctrines of Grace and finds the key to their meaning in the
Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. It talks not
at all about predestinations and reprobations. It does not dwell
on Divine wrath ; feels that such preaching has been overdone ;
it has no confidence in limited atonements or in anything
"limited" that represents the Almighty, except His anger ; it has
little patience with the "schemes of redemption," presumptuously
attributed to His wisdom, and which not infrequently have fur-
nished evidence of man's folly ; but instead, it magnifies the love
of God, beholds that love in the sacrifice of Christ, believes that
through that love humanity is begotten again to love.

While I am not oblivious to the fact that numbers still adhere
to the cold rigidity of Calvinism and think more of God's wrath
as a power for good than of His all-conquering love, still I
believe the tide has turned and men are coming surely, if slowly,
to believe in the Divine humanism of the Christ.

Equipped as it is for the coming years, Christianity cannot
stand still ; she must progress. Gradually she is approximating
toward the sublime ideal. There is a power in the Divine seed ;
it shall grow and spread until it shall become a kingdom on
whose boundaries the sun shall never set, and against whose
power the gates of Hell shall nevermore prevail. Yes, it is com-
ing! All signs point to its approach, and however the hearts of
men may falter and fear, and however they may construe diffi-
culties into prophesies of dire disaster, the instructed ear cannot
be deaf to the sweet promises sounding in the closing hours of
the nineteenth century concerning the spiritual unfolding of
Christianity in the twentieth.

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North Haven, Conn., December 30, 1900,

The Rev. Louis A. Parsons. Rector.

" And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord
thy God hath led thee." — Deut viii:2.

This command of Moses, the man of God, comes at a time
when it is needful that Israel remember the past.

The forty years of probation in the wilderness have drawn to
a close — years, designed, as Aloses tells them, to humble them, to
prove them, to know what was in their heart, whether they would
keep God's commandments or no. These years have been
marked by much suffering and sore trial, as indeed all periods of
probation must necessarily be. Many a dreadful experience has
seemed at the time of its happening to signal the destruction of
God's chosen people, but out of every such apparent disaster has
come a mighty and marvelous deliverance. Each perilous ex-
perience has but served to manifest "the mighty hand and the
stretched out arm," whereby the Lord their God has protected
and preserved them that have trusted in Him and kept His Com-
mandments.

And so these years have served in the first place as a great
test by which God has proven the hearts of those whose loyalty
and obedience has fitted them for participation in a wider fulfil-
ment of His purposes in the Promised Land.

But the years have served yet another purpose — they have
served to reveal the nature and the will of God. "And thou
shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God hast led
thee," — remember it as a God-given opportunity of proving
your fitness to share the privileges and responsibilities of a larger,

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happier life, — remember it, too, as the blessed disclosure of
God's love and mighty purpose for His people — "and He hum-
bled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna,
which tliQU knowest not, neither did thy fathers know ; that He
might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but
by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth
man live."

It is well to remember the past — profitable to look back
over the years that have gone for the lessons they teach us.

St. Iuhn's Church and Rectory.

"Distance," we say, "lends enchantment to the view." Yes,
it lends enchantment because it lends perspective. To see the
beauty of a landscape we must see it from a distance. At close
quarters we lose the effect, because we lose the proportions. But
once let the distance of a mile or more intervene, and we begin
to see things in their true perspective.

Just so the distance of years is necessary to a true estimate of
life. Its events are then seen in their relative importance and

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true meaning - . Each experience, at the time so painful, and
seemingly disastrous, now assumes a widely different aspect, be-
cause seen in its relations to the whole. Life's perspective is
gained and its troubles become blessings. "It is good," says the
Psalmist, as he looks back over his life, "it is good that I have
been afflicted" — good, because, as he reviews his life, and sees it
in its true perspective, he perceives a school of discipline whose
long succession of apparent disasters and misfortunes are seen

The Rev. Louis A. Parsons.

Rector St. John's Church.

to have been blessed opportunities of spiritual growth. "It is
good that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes?"

The true object of life is Character. And all life's various
vicissitudes, when seen in their continuity, become stepping
stones to nobler spiritual achievements and the Christlike Char-
acter.

The all important thing, however, is that we regard and ac-
cept them as such — that we bear our prosperities with Christlike

64 NORTH HAVF.N IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

humility, our adversities with Christlike patience and faith. And
so whate'er may be our earthly lot, we may each succeeding
year look back upon the man}- that are gone with the deepest
sense of gratitude, not because they have brought us wealth, but
because they have brought us character ; not because they have
brought us fame, but because they have brought us peace ; not
because they have brought us nearer the attainment of some
earthly ambition, but because they have brought us nearer Jesus.

"I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road ;
I do not ask that thou wouldst take from me aught of its load.
I do not ask that flowers should always spring beneath my feet ;
I know too well the poison of the sting of things too sweet.
For one thing only, Lord, dear Lord, I plead ; Lead me aright,
Though strength should falter, and though Heart should bleed,
Through peace to light.
I do not ask, O Lord, that Thou shouldst shed full radiance

here ;
Give but a ray of peace, that I may tread without a fear.
I do not ask my cross to understand my way to see ;
Better in darkness just to feci Thy Hand and follow Thee.
Joy is like restless day ; but peace divine, like quiet night.
Lead me, O Lord, till perfect dav shalt shine, through peace

to light."

And then, if the years reveal to us the meaning and purpose of
life — they just as truly reveal to us the nature and designs of
God. Through all the years there shines that continual mani-
festation of God's love and purpose for His children. Whether
it be time of peace or time of war ; long stretches of prosperity, or
decades of disaster ; great epochs of progress, or sad epochs of
retrogression — through all alike the divine purpose unceasingly
unfolds itself. Time was when men took a partialistic view of
God's government of the world — when they thought that He
cared and legislated for some and not for others. But that day
is past, thank God, and to-day such partialistic view is impossible
- — impossible, because to-day anything like a partialistic
view of His love is incredible. To-day, we are certain that He
loves all men, irrespective of race, generation, color or conditions
— loves them with an affection divine and impartial. And we
know, too, to-day, that all things come from God, and because
we know this, we are confident that He is present in our sorrows

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 65

just as truly as in our joys, in time of adversity just as really as
in season of prosperity.

Even the sins of mankind serve to manifest the inexorable
righteousness of God, and the punishments which they entail are
but the evidence of His infinite love. Men are making history
whenever they think, feel, and act ; and history is the revelation
of God's purpose, because it is the manifestation of man's nature
and destiny. Human life in all its phases and conditions is the
disclosure of human character and its issues. And so the years
are all consecutive chapters in that great and glorious Book of
Revelation, which all mankind is unconsciously writing by
thought and deed — the great spiritual history of the race in
which we see the key to all other histories, and without whose
light they are all delusive and insufficient.

It is God's great purpose shining through the years which
imparts to them the unity of one sublime movement of life and
love, and the fathomless significance of the working out of a will
which overlooks no detail however slight, and forgets no life
however obscure and insignificant.

Surely the years are all divine because they come from God.
As a poet has said : —

A mighty Hand from an exhaustless urn
Pours forth the never-ending flood of years
Among the Nations. How the rushing waves
Bears all before them, on their foremost edge,
And there alone is life. The present there
Tosses and foams, and fills the air with roar
Of mingled noises * * * *

* * * Beyond
That belt of darkness, still the years roll on
More gently, but with not less mighty sweep,
They gather up again and softly bear
All the sweet lives that late w r ere overwhelmed
And lost to sight, all that is there was good.
Noble and truly great, and worthy of love —
The lives of infants and ingenious youths.
Sages and saintly women who have made
Their households happy ; all are raised and borne
By that great current in its onward sweep,
Wandering and rippling with caressing waves
Around green islands with its breath
Of flowers that never wither."

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"And thou shall remember all the way which the Lord thy
God hath led thee."

When these words were first spoken the Children of Israel
stood on the brink of Jordan — upon the very threshold of the
Promised Land. One era in their progress has closed, another
is opening up before them. Behind them lie the forty years of
trial in the wilderness, before them stretches the future of glori-
ous promise. And it is at this very point of transition that Moses
bids them remember the past — remember all the way which the
Lord thus has led them.

In their eagerness to enter upon this new period of their
career — to acquire its privileges and taste its blessings — their dis-
position, doubtless, was to forget the past and the lessons which
its experience had brought them, and rush blindly into the future.

But no, there must be a pause — a recollection of the past — a
summing up of its lessons. Experience is a good teacher, and
the past with its experiences must ever be the storehouse of
principles which shall guide the future of these men of Israel.

We find ourselves to-day, my friends, in a somewhat similar
situation. We are standing upon the threshold, not only of a
new year, but of a new century. Behind us lie one hundred
years of mighty achievement in every department of human life
and thought.

For the world at large it has been a century of remarkable
progress. For our nation in particular it has been a period of
most rapid development. But it is not my purpose this morn-
ing to go back over these years and review in detail the events,
discoveries and products that have marked its progress and made
it great. The newspapers and magazines have done all this with
a thoroughness which leaves nothing to be said. Nor do I pro-
pose to prognosticate the future that lies wrapped in the century
before us. My purpose is simply to apply to the years of this
passing century what I have already said of the years in general
— that their significance lies, not in their record of great achieve-
ments and material progress, but in their disclosure of life's
meaning and purpose, and their manifestation of the nature and
design of God. It is this, indeed, which gives to the years their
true value and significance. Then let us profit by it. And as

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we stand ready to enter upon another century's career let us
pause a moment — remember the past — recall its lessons. Let us
see in each event and crisis, in every prosperity and adversity of
the past — a stepping- stone to greater spiritual attainment.
And in every such experience, let us note, where men have been
true to their highest ideals, and governed by the best and noblest
motives, the inevitable outcome has been an acquisition of char-
acter which is always the greatest strength and power that we can
possess.

And let us perceive, too, as we review the years, the light of
God's love and purpose shining through them. It is this ever-
growing manifestation of the all-embracing love of God and the
gradual fulfilment of His mighty purpose that give to the years
a unity and significance truly divine.

God is the Father of every human life, however insignificant
or obscure, and His desire and purpose is that every human life
shall know His love, and come to the knowledge and like-
ness of Jesus Christ. May these facts and principles guide us
as we enter upon this Twentieth Century which is opening before
us. May it be a century of spiritual perception and progress,
and may its years witness to all ever widening and deepening
sense of the Fatherhood of God, and the brotherhood of men —
and so to the hastening of that day when the kingdoms of this
world are become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ.

70 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

ST. JOHNS (EPISCOPAL) CHURCH.

Officers of the Parish, January i, 1901.
The Rev. Louis A. Parsons, Rector.
Hubert F. Potter, Senior Warden.
Frank L. Stiles, Junior Warden.

Vestrymen.
Hobart Blakeslee, Joseph Pierpont,

Edwin H. Pardee, Herbert P. Smith,

Charles W. Dudley.

Harry C. Beers, Clerk.

Romanta T. Linsley, Treasurer.

Compiled by R. T. Linsley.

St. John's Church was one hundred forty-two years old April
24, 1 901. It was organized as a parish church of the Church of
England, in 1759. A society, in some form, had existed from
1722 to 1759.

The first confirmation, one of the earliest in this country, was
in 1786, by Bishop Seabury, the first Bishop of Connecticut and
of the Protestant Episcopal Church. The next was by the same
Bishop in 1795. Thirty-two persons were confirmed by him. In
181 1 thirty-seven persons were confirmed by Bishop Jarvis, the
second Bishop of Connecticut. Between 1821 and 1845, during
the Episcopate of Bishop Brownell, the third Bishop of Con-
necticut, sixty-three were confirmed. Between 1852 and 1897.
under the Episcopate of Bishop Williams, the fourth Bishop of
Connecticut, two hundred forty-one were confirmed. Between
1898 and 1901, during the present Episcopate of Bishop Brew-
ster, twenty-one have been confirmed. Total number confirmed,
three hundred ninety-four.

The number of Episcopal families in 1801 was forty-one. The
Grand List of the Episcopal Society in 1801 was $4>54<3- In 1817

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there were forty-two families and thirty registered communicants.
In 1830 thirty families and forty registered communicants. In
1840 forty-four families and forty registered communicants. In
1859 St. John's Church celehrated its one hundredth anniversary.
In that year there were fifty-five families and seventy-two regis-
tered communicants. In 1870 there were sixty-two families and
one hundred registered communicants. In 1880 seventy-six
families and one hundred twenty-eight registered communicants.
In 1901 there are one hundred four families, and parts of families,
and two hundred eighteen registered communicants.

Hubert F. Potter.

Ex-Selectman.

Chairman State Dairymen's Association.

Warden St. John's Church.

Joseph Pierpont.

Ex-Member General Assembly.
Treasurer riradley Library.
Vestryman St. John's Church.

Between 1759 and 1857 thirty Episcopal clergymen officiated
here, at different times, and each only part of the time. No
clergyman resided here before 1833 ; and no one was elected
rector of the parish, with residence here and services every Sun-
day, before 1857. Between that date and 1899 there were nine

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

rectorships. They were short, except two — the rectorship of the
Rev. E. L. Whitcombe, seven years and four months, between
1869 and 1877, during which thirty-five persons were baptized,
forty were confirmed, and the offerings greatly increased ; and
the rectorship of the Rev. William Lusk, nineteen years, between

The Rev. William Lusk.

Rector St. John's Church 1880-1899.

1880 and 1899, during which one hundred six persons were
baptized, one hundred thirty confirmed, and a number were wait-
ing for confirmation at the close of the rectorship. This period,
between 1880 and 1899, is the period of greatest advance in the
history of St. John's Church, in the number of families, baptisms,

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

confirmations and registered communicants; and in church
music, organized work, and in the offerings and wealth of the
people. During this period the endowment fund of the parish
reached the sum of $18,000. The present rectorship, beginning
in 1899, is the tenth.

Herbert P. Smith.

Vestryman St. John's Church.

Evelyn Blakeslee.

Warden St. John's Church fifty years.
Trial Justice Local Town Court.
Member General Assembly, 1851.
Ex-Selectman and Town Agent.
Died 1888.

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REGISTERED COMMUNICANTS, 1901.

Resident.

Allen, Franklin
Allen, Hobart B.
Allen, David F.
Allen, Hiram
Allen, Margaret
Bailey, Samuel
Bailey, Marina S.
Bailey, Frederic E.
Bassctt, Flerbert I.
Bassett, Frances S.
Beach, M. Elizabeth,
Beach, Nettie A.
Beers, Harry C.
Bigelow, Lucy A.
Bigelow, Glenna M.
Bishop, Joseph E.
Bishop, Margaret S.
Bishop, Walter H.
Bishop, Kitty L.
Bishop, Lucy M.
Bishop, Edwin S.
Bishop, Mary A.
Bishop, Clarissa M.
Blakeslee, Hobart
Blakeslee, Elnora M.
Blakeslee, Arthur A.
Blakeslee, George N.
Blakeslee, John H.
Blakeslee, Etta A.
Blakeslee, Ruby A.
Blakeslee, Florence G.
Blakeslee, Philip C.
Blakeslee, Donald G.
Blakeslee, Lucy L.
Blakeslee, Minnie A.
Blakeslee, Sina
Bradley, Elizabeth L.
Bradley, Eva S.
Brockett, S. Roena
Brockett, Edith L.
Buckingham, Henry W.
Buckingham, Henrietta A.

Butler, Margaret J.

Cade, Charles T.

Cade, Fannie

Clinton, George W.

Clinton, Frances A.

Clinton, Grace A.

Clinton, Friend

Clinton, Helen G.

Clinton, Evelyn B.

Clinton, Florence A.

Clinton, Elbert G.

Clinton, Ella J.

Clinton, Robert J.

Clinton, H. Matilda

Clinton, Bessie E.

Clinton, Anson B.

Clinton, Mary C.

Clinton, H. Wilson

Clinton, Emily B.

Clinton, Eliza J.

Crampton, Hannah E.

Davis, Emma J.

Divine, Hervey O.

Divine, Eliza A.
Doolittle, Mary A.
DuBois, Catherine L.
Dudley, Charles W.
Dudley, Flora E.
Dudley, Edmund J.
Dudley, Phcebe J.
Fowler, Maltby
Gabaree, Julia A.
Gilbert, Stephen G.
Gilbert, Celia L.
Goodyear, Ellen M.
Goodyear, Anna L.
Goodyear, Robert W.
Goodyear, Sarah A.
Goodyear, Mary B.
Harrison, Reuben
Harrison, Jennie A.
Harrison, Burdett

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Heaton, Charles L.
Heaton, Edward L. L.
Hipelius, Ida E.
Hitchcock, Sarah E.
Hull, John W.
Hull. John S.
Hull, Martha J.
Hull, Minnie D.
Hull, Marietta R.
Hull, Edward P.
Hull, Carry E.
Hull, Harriet A.
Keigwin, Henry C.
Keigwin, Clara E.
Keigwin, Herbert A.
Keigwin, Clarence H.
Keigwin, Flora
Laverty, Isabella
Laverty, Birdie M.
Leete, William P.
Leete, Mary E.
Leete. Cynthia M.
Linsley, Romanta T.
Linsley, Angeline B.
Lord, Austin B.
Lusk, The Rev. William
Lusk, Clara H.
McCabe, Howard E.
Maginness, Carrie E.
Mansfield, Polly C.
Mansfield, Isaac E.
Mansfield, Mary D.
Mansfield, Josephine M.
Marks, Marcus D.
Marks, S. Elizabeth
Moulton, Mabel B.
Munson, George O.
Munson, Ellen F.
Munson, Lucy T.
Parsons, The Rev. Louis A.
Parsons, Edwin A.
Parsons, Mary I.
Pardee, Edwin H.
Pardee, Elizabeth M.
Pardee, Louisa L.
Pierpont, Joseph

Pierpont, Hattie B.
Pierpont, Richards B.
Pierpont, Harriet R.
Potter, Hubert F.
Potter, Catharine A.
Potter, Walter F.
Potter, Martha E.
Potter, Emma A.
Potter, Mattie E.
Pratt, Charles C.
Priesley, Leonard
Redfield, Ida L.
Redfield, Fannie M.
Redfield, Ethel F.
Rice, Walter W.
Rice, Esther S.
Sexton, Margaret E.
Shepherd, Sarah M.
Smith, Herbert P.
Smith, Mary J.
Smith, M. Grace
Smith, Ellsworth J.
Smith, Herbert W.
Smith, Martha J.
Smith, Susan A.
Smith, Walter E.
Stiles, Frances E.
Stiles, Ezra L.
Stiles, Ellen M.
Stiles, Frank L.
Stiles, Mary A.
Stiles, William L.
Stiles, Lizzie E.
Stiles. Frederic H.
Stiles. Ellen G.
Stiles. Leila B.
Stiles. Alice M.
Stiles. Edgar H.
Stiles, Leroy I.
Stiles, George W.
Stiles, Mary E.
Stiles, Flora E.
Stiles, Rosabelle C.
Thomlinson, John A.
Thomlinson, Fanny M.
Thomlinson, Matthew H.

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Thorpe, Rufus
Thorpe, Emily L.
Todd, Martha A.
Todd, Oliver S.
Todd, Emma L.
Todd, Anna E.
Todd, Lina F.
Todd, Amanda F.
Tuttle, H. Louise
Tuttle, Angelina M.

Non-resident.
Austin, Mary E.
Brockett, Grace C.
Brockett, Walter D.
Brockett, Frank L.
Brockett, Grace G.
Brockett, Melissa
Blakeslee, Catharine A.
Blakeslee, Fannie J.
Cheney, Susan B.
Clark, Herman D.
Clark, Ida F.
Divine, John H.
Divine, Alice E.
Devine, Lucy A.
Forbes, Nathaniel D., Jr.
Forbes, Edwin L.

Forbes, Rubert W.
Hoadley, Alice E.
Johnson, Anna C.
Laverty, John J.
Laverty, William
Lucas, Le Etta J.
Mansfield, Caroline M.
Marks, Mabel S.
Mansfield, Celia A.
Palmer, Mary B.
Pierpont, George R.
Pierpont, Anna B.
Pierpont, Anna I.
Terrell, Harriet A.
Trowbridge, May C.
Warner, Helen S.

Summary.

Total number of
communicants, 218
Resident, 75 males.

in females.

registered

Total, 186
Non-resident, 10 males.
22 females.

Total, 32

THE LADIES' GUILD OF ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.
Organized October 11, 1877.
Mrs. Reuben Harrison, President.
Mrs. Harriett R. Pierpont, Secretary and Treasurer.

Bailey, Mrs. Samuel
Bassett, Mrs. Herbert I.
Bigelow, Miss Lucy A.
Blakslee, Mrs. Hobart
Bradley, Mrs. Charles
Brockett, Mrs. Albert
Clinton, Mrs. Isaac
DuBois, Mrs. W. R.
Dudley, Mrs. Charles
Gilbert, Mrs. Stephen G
Goodyear, Mrs. E. D. S.

Goodyear, Miss Mary
Hull, Mrs. John
Mansfield, Mrs. Isaac E.
Mansfield, Mrs. Irving
Pardee, Mrs. Louisa
Pierpont, Mrs. Joseph
Shepherd, Mrs. Sarah
Smith, Mrs. Herbert P.
Stiles, Mrs. Frances
Stiles, Mrs. Ellen M.
Thomlinson, Mrs. John A.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

MEMBERSHIP OF DAUGHTERS OF THE KING.

St. John's Church.
Organized May 17, 1892.
Mrs. William S. Stiles, President.
Mrs. William P. Leete, Secretary.
Mrs. Herbert I. Bassett, Treasurer.

Austin, Mrs. Ellsworth A.
Bigelow, Miss Lucy A.
Blakeslee, Mrs. Florence
Blakeslee, Mrs. John H.
Blakeslee, Mrs. Whitney
Bradley, Mrs. Charles W.
Cheney, Miss Susan B.
Clinton, Mrs. Anson B.
Doolittle, Mrs. Mary A. B.
Dudley, Mrs. Charles
Dudley, Mrs., Edward J.
Gabaree, Mrs. Joseph
Goodyear, Miss Anna L.
Gilbert, Mrs. Stephen G.
Harrison, Mrs. Reuben
Hull, Mrs. John S.

Laverty, Miss
Lucas, Mrs. Willis
Lusk, Mrs. William
Mansfield, Mrs. Isaac E.
Maginnis, Miss Caroline
Pardee, Mrs. Edwin H.
Pierpont, Mrs. Joseph
Potter, Mrs. Hubert F.
Redfield, Mrs. Ida L.
Rice, Mrs. Wallace W.
Smith, Mrs. Herbert P.
Stiles, Mrs. Ellen M.
Stiles, Mrs. Frank L.
Thomlinson, Mrs. John A.
Todd, Mrs. O. Sherwood

CHAPTER 1251, BROTHERHOOD OF SAINT

ANDREW.

The Rev. Louis A. Parsons, Ex-oMcio.
Herbert William Smith, Director.
Harry Croswell Beers, Secretary.
Edward Lee Heaton, Treasurer.

Smith, Walter
Devine, Hervey O.

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Tomlinson, Matthew Henry

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PARISHIONERS OF ST. MARY'S (CATHOLIC)
CHURCH, HAMDEN.

Organized 1854.
The Rev. William J. Dullard, Pastor.

RESIDENT IN NORTH HAVEN.

Barber, Joseph
Barber, Mrs. Joseph
Barber, Miss Alice
Barber, Miss Ellen
Barber, Frederic
Barber, Miss Julia

Beauchamp, Joseph
Beauchamp, Mrs. Joseph
Beauchamp, Miss Edna
Beauchamp, Frederic
Beauchamp, George
Beauchamp, Isaac

Catholic Church, Hamden, Conn.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Burke, Michael E.
Burke, Mrs. Michael E.
Burke, Mrs. Michael
Burke, Miss Florence
Cummings, Mrs. Dennis
Cummings, John
Cummings, Miss Mary
Drinkwine, Arthur
Drinkwine, William
Drinkwine, Mrs. William
Drinkwine, Michael E.
Drinkwine, Mrs. Michael E.
Drinkwine, Eli
Drinkwine, Mrs. Eli
Drinkwine, Miss Laura
Drinkwine, Luke
Drinkwine, Michael
Drinkwine, Mrs. Michael
Dumond, Mrs. Ellen
Dumond, Miss Emma
Dumond, Frederic
Dumond, Joseph
Flalligan, James
Halligan, John
Halligan, Mrs. John
Halligan, Patrick
Halligan, Mrs. Patrick
Halligan, William
Halligan, Mrs. William
Halloran, Andrew
Halloran, Mrs. Andrew
Higgins, James

Higgins, Mrs. James
Higgins, Miss Annie
Kennedy, Daniel
Kennedy, Miss Annie
Kennedy, Miss Margaret
Lehane, Mrs. Jeremiah
Lehane, Miss Nora
Leonard, Thomas
Leonard. Mrs. Thomas
Lynch, Thomas
Lynch, Mrs. Thomas
Moran, Miss Mary
Moran, Thomas
Moran, Mrs. Thomas
Moran, Thomas
Monahan, Philip
Monahan, Mrs. Philip
Nielson, Walford
Neilson, Mrs. Walford
Rice, Edward
Rice, Mrs. Edward
Rice, Miss Margaret
Rowan, Mrs. Joseph
Roarke, Peter
Roarke, Mrs. Peter
Roarke, John
Roarke, Peta
Roarke, Miss Kate
Roarke, Eliza
Roarke, Agnes
Ward, Mrs. Ann
Ward, Thomas

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

BUILDING STATISTICS.

Compiled by Solomon F. Linsley, Contractor.

The following list comprises residences which have
erected m the town during the last half century.

been

District No. i

Clinton, Merrit,

• 1853

Patten. D. Walter.

• 1855

Bassett, Lyman,

. i860

Clinton, Robert J.,

. 1861

Blakslee, Zera T.. .

. 1866

Fowler, Lewis I.. .

. 1867

Beman, Wesley,

. 1867

Smith, Alonzo G., .

. 1869

Blakeslee, Hobart,

. 1871

Redrield, Charles,

. 1872

Hyde. L. Munson,

• 1875

Orcutt. Payson B..

• 1875

Vibbert, George S..

1877

Clinton, Andrew G.,

. 1886

Smith, Stephen,

. 1888

Fallert Brewing Co..

. 1884

Sherwood, Clarence,

1898

Distrct No.

Corf, Henry P.,

• 1851

McGann, Edward, .

1852

Austin, Andrew F.,

1857

Brockett, John E.,

1858

Palmer, George, .

1859

Readings, George, .

1859

Condon, Edward, .

i860

Olsen, Per A..

1863

Delamater, Louis, .

1867

Jacobs, C. M., . .

1869

Marks, Nathan H..

1872

Barnes. Robert N..

1876

Ball, Edwin. . . .

1876

Bailey, Sarah, . . .

1879

Barnes, Lucia B.. .

1882

Gerwig, George, . .

1882

Kehoe, Maria, . . .

1889

Olson, John A

Munson, George, . . .
Brockett, Albert B., . .
Robinson, George, . .

District No. 3.

Sackett, Samuel Mrs., .
Hemingway, Merwin,
Brockett. Luzerne A., .
Foote, Henry, ....

1893
1894
1897
1898

1857
1857
1857
i860

Lieut. Solomon F. Linsley.

Veteran of the Civil War.
Member Post 17, G. A. R.
Builder and Contractor.
Died March 13, 1901.

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Saxton, Charles, .
Culver, John, . .
Frost, J. Henry, .
Robinson, Julia,
Shea, James O., .
Robinson, Willard,
Brocksieper, F. W..
Potter, Hubert F.,
Foote, Frank, . .
Babb, Frederic,
Cody, Mrs. (2),
Hemingway, Louis,
Barnes, George,
Tucker, Dennis W..
Uhl, Louis, . . .
Palmer, John F.,
Bigelow, Irving,
Talmadge, George H
Hoadley, John, . .
Moulthrop, Sherman (heirs),
Eaton Brothers,
Davis, Richard,

1861

Lehr, Gottfried,

1873

1861

Schmidt, Caroline,

1873

1861

Barnes, Mary R., .

1874

1866

Payne, Charles,

1875

1867

Scott, Frances, .

1875

1867

Feldstein, Abram,

1876

1868

Kober, George,

1876

1869

Feldstein, Morris,

1876

1869

Frost, Irving, .

1876

1869

Scherb, Adam, .

1876

1870

Uhl, Adam, . .

1877

1870

Bigelow, Irving,

1877

1870

Brown, Phebe, .

1878

1871

Schneider, Edwarc

1879

1872

Schultz, Julius, .

1880

1872

Foote, Judson, .

1882

1872

Fitch, Mrs., . .

1883

1872

Larkins, A. J., .

1885

1872

Schauer, Frederic,

1887

1872

Post Office Building,

1888

1872

"The Hermitage," .

1889

1873

Frost, John, . .

1889

Residence of Robekt N. Barnes.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Residence of Charles H. Thorpe.

Residence of Romanta T. Linslev,

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Brocksieper, F. W.. . .

1889

Robinson, Nellie, . . .

1890

Brockett, Maria L., . .

1892

Hemingway, Edgar,

1894

Hemingway, Robert, . .

1894

"The Summerdale," . .

189S

Wisner, Henry, . . .

189S

Shea, James O., . . .

1895

Frost, Clarence N., . .

1896

Potter, H. R, . . . .

1896

Judd, Benise F., . . .

1896

Pardee, Edwin H., . .

1897

Hemingway, Frank, . .

1898

Beach, Wilbur E

1898

Anderson, J. P., . . .

1898

Foote, Sybil A

1898

Montowese Brick Co., .

1900

Storrs, Hector W., . .

1900

District No. 4.

Lord, Dr. Austin, . . .

1851

Dickerman, William E.,

1851

Munson, James

St. John's Church Rectory,
Blakeslee, Henry M.,
Hine, Nelson W., .
Bradley, Rowe S. (heirs)
Carlson, Alfred,
Spencer, E. A., .
Smith, Herbert P.
Bailey, Samuel,
Barnard, James F
Heaton, Julius W
Frost, Alva, . .
Duraond, Mrs. Ellen,
Linsley, Romanta T.,
Stiles, Frank L., . .
Goodyear, Dr. R. B., .
Robinson, Henry H.,
Thorpe, Sheldon B., .
Brockett, Frederic H.,
Thorpe, Rufus, . . .
Stiles, George W., . .
Higgins, James, . .

1853

18.

1856

1858

i860

1866

1869

1870

187 1

1871

1872

Photo by Thorpe.

Residence of Sheldon B. Thorpe.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

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Photo by Heaton. RESIDENCE OF SOLOMON F. LlNSLEY.

Residence of Gen. E. D. S. Goodyear.

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NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Todd, Mrs. Louisa, .
Page, Mrs. Augustus,
Burke, Michael, .
Fowler, Maltby,
Smith, H. P., . .
Smith, Mrs. Caroline
Bradley, Charles W.,
Forent, Joseph, . .
Blakeslee, Julius, .
Munson, L. M., .
Thorpe, Frank S., .
Thorpe, Charles H.,
Keigwin, Henry C,
Pardee, George W..
Halligan, Patrick,
Linsley, Solomon F
Hyde, Albert A., .
Dumond, Mrs. Ellen,
Avigni, Andrew, .
Drinkwine, Eli, . .
Burke, Michael E.,
Rice, Edward, . .

1872 Blakeslee, Arthur E., . . 1890

1872 Avigni, Paolo, .... 1890

1873 Leete, William P., . . . 1892

1873 Leete, Mrs. Mary, . . . 1892

1874 Todd, Mrs. Amanda, . . 1892

1875 Thorpe, Henry L., ... 1893

1875 Goodyear, Gen. E. D. S., . 1893

1876 Stiles, William S., ... 1893
1876 Cong. Church Parsonage, . 1894
1876 Vibbert, Albert N., . . 1895
1876 Beauchamp, Joseph, . . . 1896
1878 Neilson, Walford, . . . 1896
1878 Squires, Frank N., . . . 1896

1883 Reise, Caroline, .... 1897
1885 Gabarre, Joseph 1897

1884 Beers, Harry C 1898

1888 Munson, Ezra G 1898

1885 Halligan, William, . . . 1898

1888 Dickerman, William E., . 1900

1889 Stiles, Frank L., . . . . 1900
1889 Stiles Brick Co., The (10),

1889 1874- 1900

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NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Photo by Heatoii.

Residence ok William P. Leete.

Photo by Gillette.

Residence of Merton Gillette.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

District No. 6.

Howarth, Alfred A., . .

1872

Foster, Emanuel P., . .

1851

Lynch, Thomas, . . .

1872

Bradley, Andrew, . . .

1868

Mansfield, Isaac E., . .

1875

Jacobs, Frederic E., . .

1S70

Smith, Charles B., . .

1876

Hitchcock, A. H., . .

1870

Bassett, Herbert I., . .

1879

Monahan, Philip, . .

1872

Mansfield, Edwin L.,

1882

Anderson, Mr

1870

Brockett, Frederic H., .

1885

Buckingham, Henry.

1889

Lehane, Jeremiah, . .

1887

Barker, David O., . .

1899

Brockett, Ernest R., . .

1889

Goodsell, Wilson E., . .

1890

District No. 7.

Shepherd, Mrs. Sarah, .

1890

Smith, James E., . .

1S56

Thomlinson, J. A., . .

1891

Kennedy, Daniel, . . .

i860

Mansfield, William L., .

1893

Smith, George W. (estate)

, 1861

Whitehead, Levi, . . .

1894

Tuttle, Amos (estate), .

1863

Blakeslee, Frederic W., .

1895

Stiles, Frank L

1807

Dudley, Edward J., . .

1896

Gillette, Merton, . . .

1867

Dudley, Charles W., . .

1896

Smith Brothers, . . .

1868

Stiles, Frank L

1897

Lane, Alfred A

1869

Marks, Marcus D., . .

1898

Residence of Mrs. Sarah Shepherd.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

District No

. 8

Terrell, W

l890

Cooper. Levi J., .

. . . r8si

Bruce, James,

. 1891

Beach. Joel P.. . .

■ 1854

Reis, Crevye, . .

• 1893

Van Doran, William

• 185/

Jephson, L

. 1894

Vittorio, James,

1857

Oberlin, Gustave, .

. 1895

Downs, A. L., . .

• 1857

Bassett, Charles,

I896

Shares. Daniel W.,

1 86 1

Spencer, B. F., . .

1896

Shares, Horace P..

1865

Neilson, Milo, . .

1896

Bailey. Charles,

1869

Vogel, William,

I896

Todd, Sereno, . .

1 87 1

Buell, C

1897

Stiles, Frank L., .

1872

Gnernot, A., . .

I898

Ives. George W. & !

5oi

1872

Benedict, ,

I898

Abell, Oliver, . .

1880

Peterson, Christine,

1898

Coon, William,

1 88 1

Iberson, Jeno C, .

I89S

Collett, Thomas, .

188 1

Gibbard, T

1898

Austin, F. E., . .

1882

Downs, George T.,

1899

Wooding, Milo,

1882

Thompson. Soren,

1899

Jensen, J. C, . .

1883

Duckert, Antons, .

1899

Bedell, S

1884

Cooper, Mary F., . .

1899

Hurlburt, E. L., . .

1885

Mastrorio, Dominick,

1900

Wright, Charles, . .

1887

Peterson, Caroline,

1900

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THE BRADLEY LIBRARY.

Catalogue, 3,000 volumes.

The Rev. William G. Lathrop, President.

Mrs. Herbert P. Smith, Secretary.

Joseph Pierpont, Treasurer.

Miss Clara Bradley, Librarian.

This institution was incorporated by the General Assembly
of Connecticut at the January session, 1884. It derived its exist-
ence from the munificence of the Hon. Silas Leverius Bradley,
a citizen of Auburn, N. Y., who devised the sum of one thousand
dollars "to be used in the founding of a library association in my
native town of North Haven, Conn." Mr. Bradley died April 17,
1883. A public meeting of the citizens was called September 5,
same year, to take action upon this bequest, at which time the

Photo by Thorpe.

Memorial Hall.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

following' gentlemen were chosen to become the incorporators of
the Bradley Library Association:

The Rev. William Lusk, Jr. Maltby Fowler.

The Rev. William T. Reynolds. Sheldon B. Thorpe.
The Rev. Emerson S. Hill. Dr. Benjamin M. Page.

Edward L. LinsLey.

The work of organization began immediately, and the library
was opened to the public at the residence of Dr. Austin Lord, on

Miss Clara E. Bradley.

Librarian of the Bradley Library.

October 2, 1884. It remained at that place until January 1, 1887,
when it was transferred to quarters provided free by the town in
Memorial Hall.

Upon the death of Mrs. Jane L. Bradley, in 1891 (widow cf
the Hon. Silas L. Bradley), the library received a second legacy
of one thousand dollars, and a valuable donation of books. Dur-
ing all the above period and up to October, 1893, this institution
had been mainly supported by membership fees, but at the annual
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town meeting, in the latter year, it was voted that upon condition
of its being made free to the public, a grant of one hundred
fifty dollars would be given it, with the implied understanding
that so long as it continued free, the town would contribute to

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Isaac L. Stiles.

Warden St. John's Church.

Selectman.

Member General Assembly.

Died July i, 1895.

its support. This provision, so much desired, the directors has-
tened to comply with, and on October 6, 1893, it was to all intents
and purposes declared a free public library. So satisfactory did
this change prove, that at the annual town meeting, in 1894, the
grant was raised to two hundred dollars.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

The library has received further bequests of one thousand
dollars each from the Hon. Isaac L. Stiles, of North Haven,
Conn., and Dr. Judson B. Andrews, of Buffalo, N. Y.

Dr. Judson B. Andrews.

Born North Haven April 25, 1834.

Graduated from Yale College 1855.

Member of Col. Ellsworth's Zouaves 1861.

Enlisted 77th New York Vols, and made Cap-
tain 1861.

Fought under McClellan in the Peninsular
Campaign.

Resigned Commission 1862.

Completed Medical studies, Yale College, 1863.

Enlisted 19th Connecticut Vols, and made As-
sistant Surgeon 1863.

Mustered out of Service 1865.

Superintendent Buffalo, N. Y., State Hospital
1880.

33 Mason.

Died at Buffalo, N. Y., August 3, 1894.

(See 24th Report Buffalo Hospital, and Ameri-
can Journal of Insanity, July, 1892.

The patronage is good. It is open Tuesday and Saturday,

afternoon and evening.

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NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

MONTOWESE LITERARY SOCIETY

Organized September 20, 1883,

Mrs. Theophilus Eaton, President.
Miss Cora Eaton, Secretary.
Albert H. Zuber, Treasurer.

Barnes, Miss Flora
Beach, Harry W.
Beach, Howard
Beach, Miss Ada
Beach, Miss Eva
Bottome, Frank W.
Bottome, Mark S.
Button, Arthur
Cooper, George H.
Cooper, Mrs. George H.
Cooper, Miss Marilla
Eaton, Robert O.
Eaton, Mrs. Robert O.
Eaton, Theophilus
Edwards, Oliver
Hemingway, Miss Genevieve
Jackson, The Rev. Charles W.
Judd, Nelson
Judd, Ross B.
Meyer, Fulbert G.

Pardee, Mrs. Edwin H.
Payne, Herbert
Payne, Miss Mary
Robinson, Miss Nellie
Schneider, Alex.
Schneider, Miss Martha
Shea, J. Edmond
Shea, Mrs. J. Edmond
Smith, Miss Ruth
Storrs, Mrs. Irving H.
Talmadge, Miss Bertha D.
Talmadge, Miss Edith
Uhl, Miss Aurora
Uhl, Miss Edith
Uhl, Miss Augusta
Uhl, Miss Elizabeth
Uhl, Louis
Zuber, Miss Amanda
Zuber, Ernest
Zuber, Frank

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101

WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.

Mrs. Charles N. Turner, President.
Mrs. Payson B. Orcutt, Secretary.
Mrs. Frederic H. Brockett, Treasurer.

Baldwin, Miss Adella
Bannell, Miss Anna
Bannell, Mrs. Samuel
Bassett, Mrs. Aaron
Blakeslee, Mrs. Frederic W.
Blakeslee, Mrs. Zera T.
Bower, Mrs. Stephen H.
Bradley, Mrs. Frederic C.
Doolittle, Mrs. Mary A. B.
Dunham, Mrs. John J.
Eliot, Miss Mary W.
Elliott, Mrs. Whitney
Fowler, Mrs. Willoughby
Howarth, Mrs. Alfred A.
Howarth, Miss Gertrude L.
Ives, Mrs. Sylvia A.
Lathrop, Mrs. William G.
Mansfield, Mrs. Frederic L.

Maynard. Miss Nellie
Morse, Mrs. Henry H.
Shepherd, Mrs. Roswell J.
Squires, Mrs. Cornelia
Stevens, Mrs. Mariette
Stevens, Mrs. William W.
Sweet, Mrs. Herbert G.
Thorpe, Mrs. Franklin S.
Thorpe, Miss Harriett
Todd, Mrs. George B.
Todd, Mrs. Elizabeth
Tuttle, Miss Kate L.
Vibbert, Mrs. Albert N.
Vibbert, Mrs. George S.
Warner, Mrs. Edmund C.
Warner, Miss L. Jane
West, Miss Cornelia B.

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QUINNIPIAC COUNCIL, No. 77, O. U. A. M.

M ember ship, January I, ipoi.

Charles W. Dudley, Councillor.
Roswell J. Shepherd, Secretary.
Joseph Pierpont, Treasurer.
Marcus D. Marks, Inductor.
Edmund J. Dudley, Examiner.

Abel, E. Stiles
Bassett, Lorenzo N.
Bradley, Charles W.
Blakeslee, Wilbur D.
Blakeslee, Zerah T.
Brownell, Charles A.
Clinton, Edwin J.
Crowell, Franklin N.
Cheney, Harry P.
Cade, Charles T.
Dickerman, William E.
Fowler, Lewis I.
Gabaree, Joseph
Hull, John S.
Hull, Henry A.
Keigwin, Henry C.
Laverty, J. J.

Laverty, William
Linsley, Solomon F.
Leete, William P.
Leete, George H.
Palmer, Elizur H.
Robinson, Henry H.
Rose, Charles L.
Smith, Herbert P.
Stiles, Vernon C.
Stiles, William S.
Stevens, Charles T.
Thorpe, Rufus
Todd, O. Sherwood
Vandoran, Benjamin S.
Vining, Frank A.
Terrell, Henry C.
Munson, Willard L.

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103

NORTH HAVEN LODGE, No. 6i, A. O. U. W.

Organized 1893.

Membership, January 1, igoi.

Michael E. Burke, Past Master Workman.

Walter M. Sexton, Master Workman.

Oscar L Smith, Foreman.

John S. Hull, Overseer.

Marcus D. Marks, Recorder.

Frederic H. Brockett. Receiver.

Henry C. Ketgwin, Financier.

Ailing, Charles E.
Avigne, Andrew
Barber, Joseph
Barcella, Baptisto
Barnes, George F.
Bartek, John
Beauchamp, Joseph
Blakeslee, Fred W.
Blakeslee, John H.
Blakeslee, Whitney T.
Blakeslee, Wilbur D.
Brewster, William J.
Bruce, Edward
Bruce, James
Bruce, Lawrence
Burns, David
Case, George C.
Cheney, Harry P.
Clinton, Anson B.
Clinton, David L.
Clinton, Evelyn B.
Clinton, Frederick L.
Cook, Patrick
Condon, Michael
Conklin, Frank L.

Michael E. Bukke.

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NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Connley, John H.
Corf, Henry F.
Cummings, John P.
Daggett, Henry C.
Darrigan, Patrick H.
Davis. Frank L.
Deary, Lewis N.
Decarli, Lewis
Dickerman, William E.
Drinkwine, Michael
Dudley, Charles W.
Dudley, Edmund J.
Dumond, William H.
Eaton, Robert O.
Eaton, Theophilus
Ehle, Ernest E.
Gabaree, Joseph J.
Gallivan, Daniel P.
Gerwig, George H.
Gillette, Merton A.
Harrison, George N.
Harrison, Reuben
Hotchkiss, Delano S.
Hyde, Albert A.
Hyde, Lyman M.
Jiuliani, John
Kanningiesser, Jacob
Keane, John
Larkins, William O.
Lathrop, William G.
Leete, William P.
Maltby, Benjamin J.
Mansfield, Frederick L.
Mansfield, Zenas W.
McCabe, Patrick

McGinnis, John J.
McKinnon, Norman
Merz, George J.
Moran, Thomas
Morse, Herbert H.
Murray, Edward
Nelson, Walfrid
Orcutt, Payson B.
O'Shea, James E.
Palmer, Elizur H.
Patten, D. Walter
Plumley, William H.
Potter, Hubert F.
Pritchard, William
Redfield, Walter M.
Richards, Eugene
Rowan, Joseph
Roberge, George
Smith, Charles B.
Smith, Frank L.
Stevens, Ellsworth
Schoepfer, Christian G.
Thomlinson, John A.
Thorpe, Henry L.
Todd, John H.
Todd, George H.
Tucker, William H.
Vibbert, Albert N.
Vibbert, George S.
Vining, Frank A.
Weinburg, Fritz
White, George
Wilson, Joseph
Wilson, William
Wustrock, Herman

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MEMBERSHIP OF THE CITIZENS' BENEFIT

ASSOCIATION.

Organized March 18, 1899.

Marcus D. Marks, President
Arthur B. Thorpe, Secretary.
Charles W. Dudley, Treasurer.

Barcella, Battisto
Bassett, Benjamin S.
Bassett, Herbert I.
Beers, Harry C.
Blakeslee, Arthur A.
Blakeslee, Frederic W.
Blakeslee. John H.
Blakeslee, Wilbur D.
Bradley, Homer S.
Brockett, Frederic H.
Cade, Charles F.
Clinton, Evelyn B.
Clinton, Robert J.
Dickerman, William E.

Dudley, Edmund J.
Fowler, Willoughby E.
Gabaree, Joseph J.
Halloran, Andrew
Hyde, Albert A.
Hyde, Everett B.
Harrison. Reuben
Harrison, Elizur H.
Keigwin, Henry C.
Eeete, William P.
Leete, George H.
Leonard, Thomas
Mansfield, Zenas W.
McGinnis, John J.

Arthur D. Thorpe.

Electrician New England Engineering Co.

Marcus D. Marks.

Chairman Republican Town Committee.

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John F. Reynolds.

McKinnon, Norman
Merz, George J.
North, Frank B.
Pierpont, Joseph
Reynolds, John F.
Roarke, John F.
Rose, Willis E.
Rowan, Joseph
Shepherd, Roswell J.
Sherwood, Clarence B.
Smith, Alex. B.
Smith, Charles B.
Smith, Oscar L.
Stevens, Edwin B.
Stevens, William W.
Stiles, William S.
Squires, Frank C.
Sweet, Herbert G.
Thomlinson, John A.
Todd, George H.
Todd, John H.
Todd, William H.
Vibbert, Stephen S.

Cemetery.

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107

PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.

Grange No. 35.

Organized 1885.

Charles N. Turner, Master. Mrs. L. Peet Tuttle, Lecturer.
Charles H. Thorpe, Secretary. Henry D. Todd, Treasurer.

Names included within brace are those of husband and wife.
Names in italics indicate maiden name of woman.

Charles N. Turner.

Master Grange No 35, P. of H.

Allen, D. Frederick

Allen, Hobart B.

Bailey, Walter M. \

Bailey, Sarah Smith )

Ball, Edwin L. I

Ball, Catherine J. Chipmcui \

Bannell, Miss Anna M.

Barker, Mrs David O.
Barnard, Miss Bertha J.
Barnard, James F. |
Barnard, Alice Cark )
Barnard, James H.

Henry D. Todd.

Veteran of the Civil War.
Member G. A. R.
Ex-Selectman and Town Agent.

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Barnes, Miss L. Genevieve
Barnes, Robert N. )
Barnes, Ella Shares )
Bassett, Benjamin S. |

Bassett, Harriett Bannell)
Bassett, Jared B.
Beach. Miss Bessie L.
Beach, John H.
Beers, Harry C.
Bigelow, Miss Glenna M.
Bigelow, Miss Grace L.
Bishop, Edwin
Bishop, Erus

Bishop, Joseph E. |

Bishop, Margaret Stuart S
Bishop, Miss Lucy M.
Bishop, Walter H. |

Bishop, Kittie Sturges)
Blakeslee, Arthur A. )
Blakeslee, Flora Foot S
Blakeslee, Arthur C.
Blakeslee, George D.
Blakeslee, George N.
Blakeslee, Hobart )

Blakeslee, Elenora Allen )
Blakeslee, Mrs. John H.
Blakeslee, Miss Ruby A.
Blakeslee, Wilbur D. |

Blakeslee, Alice MaynardS
Blakeslee, Zera T. )

Blakeslee, Eliza Tuttle )
Bormann, Miss Ottillie M.
Bradley, Mrs. Charles W.
Brockett, Albert B. }

Brockett, Edith Mansfield)
Brockett, Ernest R. )

Brockett, Elizabeth Sanford )
Brockett, Frederic H |

Brockett, Charlotte Bishop )
Brockett, Hobart J.
Brockett, Mrs. John E.
Brockett, Luzerne A,
Brockett, Miss G. May
Brockett, Myron R.
Brooker, Alfred W. )
Brooker, Inez Clinton )
Bruce, Edward B.

\ur )

Bruce. Lawrence W.
Bunnell, Russell R.
Button, Arthur
Carlson, Alfred J

Carlson, Georgianna 01 sen )
Carlson, A. Herbert
Carlson, Harold
Clark, Mrs. Charles
Clinton, Andrew D. )
Clinton, Lucy Bishop )
Clinton, Anson B. )
Clinton, Mary Stiles )
Clinton, Bessie E.
Clinton, Burton D.
Clinton, D. Lawrence )
Clinton, Frances VibbertS
Clinton, Edwin J.
Clinton, Eliza Art hi
Clinton, Elbert
Clinton, Elizur Z. )

Clinton, Ella Palmer )
Clinton, Evelyn B. )

Clinton, Florence Redfield )
Clinton, Friend )

Clinton, Helen Clark )
Clinton, H. Wilson
Clinton, Isaac B. [

Clinton, Grace Allen)
Clinton, Lovell E.
Clinton, Robert J. )

Clinton, Mathilda Olsen f
Corf, Henry F. )

Corf, Stella Crowell S
Cook, George S.
Culver, Benjamin A.
Culver, Vivian W.
Cummings, John T.
Dickerman, Miss Grace L.
Dickerman, Mrs. William E
Eaton, Miss Cora A.
Eaton, Robert O. /

Eaton, Carrie Granniss S
Eaton, Theophilus )

Eaton, Bertha Robinson )
Frost, Mrs. Clarence N.
Frost, G. Irving

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IO9

Frost, John P. |

Frost, Julia Gra/inissS
Goodsell, Wilson E. |

Goodsell, Fannie Beach S
Goodyear, Miss Ethel A.
Goodyear, Dr. Robert B. /
Goodyear, Ellen Hotchkiss S
Harrison, Burdette
Harrison, Elizur H.
Harrison, Harold S.
Harrison, John C.
Heaton, Edward L.
Heaton, James

Hemingway, Frank W. )

Hemingway, Elfrida Heaton )
Hemingway, Miss Genevieve
Hemingway, Miss Laura J.
Hull, Edward P. )
Hull, Carrie Rolf \
Hull, Henry A.
Hull, Miss Minnie Delight
Humiston, Myron W. )
Humiston, Jessie Lane )
Jacobs, Frederic E.
Jacobs, Miss Jane A.
Jacobs, Miss Susan C.
Jones, Daniel A.
Keigwin, Clarence H.
Keigwin, Henry C.
Keigwin, Herbert A.
Kennedy, Daniel
Lane, Alfred A.
Lane, Wilbur A. }
Lane, Belle Tut tie S
Larkins, William O. )

Larkins, Emma Hubbell )
Leete, Miss Harriett L.
Mansfield, Edwin S.
Mansfield, Wilford B.
Marks, Marcus D. i

Marks, Sylvia Shepherd \
Marks, Nathan H. )

Marks, Martha Cooper )
Marks, William H.
Morse, Henry C.

Munson, Frederic B. /
Munson, Sarah Mills S
North, Frank B. )

North, Meta Unger S
Olson, John W.
Olson, Per. A. /

Olson, Hannah Anderson »
Orcutt, Payson B.
Palmer, Elizur H. /

Palmer, Sarah Robinson »
Pardee, William E.
Patten, D. Walter |

Patten, Erminie Emley )
Potter, Hubert F. )

Potter, Catherine Brockett >
Potter, Walter F.
Richardson, Ernest S.
Richardson, Ervin H.
Roarke, John F.
Roarke, Miss Agnes B.
Schneider, Miss Martha
Sexton, Mrs. Walter M.
Shepherd, Mrs. Franklin J.
Sherman, Charles G. )

Sherman, Adelia Excanbrock \
Sherman, Guy A.
Smith, Alexander B. )
Smith, Ada Goodyear J
Smith, Mrs. Emanuel
Smith, Frank L. )

Smith, Martha Culver )
Smith, Herbert P. J
Smith, Mary Johnson )
Smith, Herbert W.
Smith, Miss M Grace
Smith, Miss Martha J.
Smith, Robert W. >

Smith, Elizabeth Stiles)
Smith, Stephen A. »
Smith, Susan Bishop \
Spencer, Mrs. Elizur A.
Stevens, William W. )

Stevens, Blanche Clinton \
Stiles, Mrs. George W.
Stiles, Miss Clifford R.
Stiles, Vernon C.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Thorpe, Alfred L.
Thorpe, Mrs. Franklin S.
Thorpe, Miss Harriet L.
Thorpe, Miss Ruby V.
Thorpe, Walter F.
Todd, Mrs. Elizabeth Gill
Todd, George H.
Todd, Mrs. Henry D.
Todd, John H.
Todd, Mrs. Mary Wiley
Todd, William H.
Tucker, George
Turner, Mrs. Charles N.
Tuttle, Burdette R.

Tuttle. Edwin

Tuttle, Miss Ina G.

Tuttle, Julian W. \

Tuttle, Charlotte Blakeslee )

Tuttle, Miss Kate L.

Tuttle, L Peet

Warner, Edmund C. j

Warner, Vestina Wooding )

Warner, Frederic A.

Warner, Miss Jane

Warner, Wilson H

Wiley, John

Wooding, Leonard B.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Ill

Herbert Barnes.

Fair Haven, Conn.

E. Henry Barnes.

New Haven, Conn.

Louis R. Hemingway.

Dr. E. H. Bidwell.

Practicing Physician.

112

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS.

Resident.

January I, 1901.

Compiled by Gen. E. D. S. Goodyear.

Abell, Oliver,
Bailey, Samuel,
Ball, Edwin L.,
Bassett, Jared B.,
Blakeslee, John H.,
Blakeslee, Whitney T.,
Blakeslee, Frederic W.,
Bradley Homer S.,
Clinton, Anson B.,
Clinton, David L.,
Clinton, Frederic L.,
Collett, Thomas,
Dickerman, William E.,
Eaton, Robert O.,
Eaton, Theophilus,
Foote, Frank W.,
Gillette, Merton,
Goodyear, Ellsworth D.
Goodyear, Robert B.,
Harrison, Reuben,
Heaton, Charles,
Heaton, Julius W.,
Hemingway, Louis R.,
Hull, Porter G.,
Kipp, William,
Lathrop, William G.,
Lord, Austin,
Lusk, William,
Marks, Nathan H.,
Merz, George J.,
Miller, August B.,

Wooster Lodge, No. 79

Corinthian Lodge, No. 103

Adelphi Lodge, No. 63

Meridian Lodge

Corinthian Lodge

Dayspring Lodge, No. 30

Corinthian Lodge

Day Spring Lodge

Hiram Lodge, No. 1

Adelphi Lodge

Corinthian Lodge

St. Mark's Lodge, Xo. 91

S., Hiram Lodge

Corinthian Lodge

Dayspring Lodge

Adelphi Lodge

Hiram Lodge

Conn. Rock Lodge

Corinthian Lodge

Compass Lodge, No. 9

Princeton Lodge, No. 3

Corinthian Lodge

Adelphi Lodge

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

I 1

Patton, D. Walter,

Corinthian Lodge

Pierpont, Joseph,

Dayspring Lodge

Potter, Hubert F.,

Corinthian Lodge

Redfield, Walter M.,

Corinthian Lodge

Reynolds, John F.,

Harmony Lodge, No. 21

Riggs, Horace,

Corinthian Lodge

Robinson, Willard A.,

Adelphi Lodge

Rowan, Joseph,

Dayspring Lodge

Smith, Herbert P.,

Corinthian Lodge

Squires, Frank C,

Corinthian Lodge

Stiles, Edgar H.,

Corinthian Lodge

Stiles Ezra L.,

Corinthian Lodge

Stiles, Frank L.,

Corinthian Lodge

Stiles, George W.,

Corinthian Lodge

Thomlinson, John A.,

Dayspring Lodge

Thorpe, Gardiner E.,

Corinthian Lodge

Thorpe, Rufus,

Hiram Lodge

Thorpe, Sheldon B.,

Trumbull Lodge, No. 22

Tucker, Dennis W.,

Adelphi Lodge

Turner, Charles N.,
Turtle, L. Peet,
Uhl, John A.,
Wooding, Leonard B.,

Corinthian Lodge

Conn. Rock Lodge, No. 92

Olive Branch Lodge

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

A COMPLETE ROSTER OF THE VOLUNTEERS
IN THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865.

Who were either born in North Haven, or at any time resided in
the town previous to enlistment.

1. Andrews, Judson B.,

2. Barnes, Charles M.,

3. Barnes, Luzerne S.,

4. Barnes, Stuart.

5. Bassett, Hobart A.,

6. Bassett, Seth B.,

7. Blair, Joseph O.,

8. Blakeslee, Julius,

9. Bradley, Edgar S.,

10. Bradley, Ellsworth H.,

11. Bradley, Henry E.,

12. Bradley, Theodore,

13. Brockett, Charles A.,

14. Brockett, Eli I.,

15. Brocket, George E.,

16. Brockett, Horace W.,

17. Brockett, James H.,

18. Brockett, William,

19. Brockett, William E.,

20. Burke, Edmund,

21. Clarke, Elbert C,

22. Cleary, Thomas J.,

23. Cooper, Harvey E.,

24. Cowles, Edward O.,

25. Cowles, Henry F.,

26. Culver, Henry,

27. Doolittle, Isaac L.,

28. Doolittle, Jesse T.,

29. Eaton, Frederic G.,

30. Frost, Alva,

31. Goodyear, Edward L.,

77th N. Y. Inf.
27th Conn.

6th Conn.

15th Conn.

1st Conn. Heavy Art.

5th Conn.

1st Conn. Heavy Art.

15th Conn.

3d U. S. Regulars

15th Conn.

7th Conn.
15th Conn.
15th Conn.
27th Conn.
27th Conn.
15th Conn.
15th Conn.
15th Conn.
15th Conn.
Naval Service
15th Conn.
15th Conn.
15th Conn.
1 8th Conn.
15th Conn.
15th Conn.
15th Conn.

7th Conn.
15th Conn.
10th Conn.

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32.

Goodyear, Ellsworth D. S.,

10th Conn.

33-

Goodyear, Robert B.,

27th Conn.

34-

Goodyear, Walstein,

1 st Conn. Heavy Art.

35-

Goodyear, F. Wilbur,

71I1 Conn.

36.

Gilbert, John P.,

99th N. Y.

37-

Gill, Henry B.,

7th Conn,

38.

Gill, George T.,

15th Conn.

39-

Gill. William H.,

27th Conn.

40.

Hart, Henry C.,

15th Conn.

41-

Hartley, Henry B.,

15th Conn.

42.

Higgins, James,

15th Conn.

43-

Hills, Russell,

15th Conn.

44-

Hoadley, Harvey S.,

10th Conn.

45-

Hotchkiss, Amos S.,

1st Conn.

46.

Hovey, William B.,

10th Conn.

47-

Hovey, Walter P.,

10th Conn.

48.

Howarth, Alfred H.,

6th Conn.

49-

Hunie, Adolph P.,

15th Conn.

5o.

Jacobs, Charles AW,

1st Conn. Heavy Art.

5i-

Jacobs, John T.,

27th Conn.

52.

Jacobs, Egbert,

15th Conn.

53-

Jacobs, Marcus A.,

10th Conn.

54-

Judd, Truman O.,

27th Conn.

55-

Lamm, Adam,

27th Conn.

56.

Linsley, Jacob P.,

15th Conn.

57-

Linsley, Samuel M.,

15th Conn.

58.

Mansfield, William L.,

14th N. Y.

59-

Marks, Nathan H.,

15th Conn.

60.

McCormick, John,

5th Conn.

61.

Morgan, George,

15th Conn.

62.

Morse, Augustus G.,

15th Conn.

63-

Morse, William J.,

15th Conn.

64.

O'Brien, Thomas,

27th Conn.

65-

Palmer, Merwin E.,

15th Conn.

66.

Palmer, Nathan A.,

27th Conn.

67.

Pardee, Milton B.,

15th Conn.

68.

Phelps, William P.,

15th Conn.

69.

Riggs, Horace,

1st Conn. Heavv Art.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

70. Robinson, Riley A.,

71. Rogers, Leverett M.,

72. Rogers, William A.,
J$. Smith, Elbert J.,

74. Smith, George W.,

75. Smith, Henry E.,

76. Smith, James E.,
yy. Smith, Merton L.,

78. Smith, Oliver T.,

79. Smith, Sanford B.,

80. Stiles, Ezra L.,

81. Stiles, Henry H.,

82. Thorpe, Edwin A.,

83. Thorpe, Rums,

84. Thorpe, Sheldon B.,

85. Todd, Beri,

86. Todd, Henry D.,

87. Todd, Kirtland,

88. Tucker, Dennis W.,

89. Tuttle, Henry F.,

90. Tuttle, Merwin W.,

91. Voght, Justus,

92. Waters, Horace,

93. Ford, Roger M.,

27th Conn.
1st Conn. Heavy Art.
15th Conn.
27th Conn.
15th Conn.
15th Conn.

7th Conn.
15th Conn.
10th Conn.
15th Conn.
13th N. Y.
15th Conn.
15th Conn.
15th Conn.
15th Conn.
27th Conn.
27th Conn.
27th Conn.
27th Conn.
15th Conn.
U. S. Navy
27th Conn.
U. S. Regulars

8th Conn.

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II 9

VETERAN SOLDIERS OF THE CIVIL WAR,

1 861-1865.

Residing in North Haven, January 1, 1901.

Barnes, Charles M., Musician,
Beach, Joel E. W.,
Beaumont, Francis, Private,
Blakeslee, Julius,
Brockett, George E.,
Brown, William H.,
Dains, George W.,
4th N. Y. Cavalry — 23d Conn. Inf. — 3d Light Battery
Doolittle, Isaac L., Private, 15th Conn. Inf.

Goodyear, Ellsworth D. S., General, 10th Conn.

27th Conn. Inf.

1st U. S. Cavalry

12th Conn. Inf.

1st Conn. Heavy Art.

27th Conn.

4th U. S. (colored)

Goodyear, Robert B., Sergeant,
Higgins, James, Private,
Howarth, Alfred H., Corporal,
Hyde, Albert A., Corporal,
Jacobs, John T., Private,
Jacobs, Collis M., Private,
Judd, Truman O., Private,
Lehane, Jeremiah,
Linsley Solomon F., Lieut.,
Marks, Nathan H., Musician,
Palmer, Merwin E., Private,
Riggs, Horace, Private,
Smith, James E., Private,
Spencer, A. H.,
Stiles, Ezra L., Private,
Storrs, Hector W.,
Thorpe, Rufus, Private,
Thorpe, Sheldon B., Sergeant,
Todd, Henry D., Private,
Tucker, Dennis W., Private,
Uhle, John A.,
Vibbert, Albert N.,
Vibbert, George S.,
Wilcox, Charles C,
Yale, Edward C,

27th Conn.
15th Conn.
6th Conn.
6th Conn.
27th Conn.
8th Conn.
27th Conn.
3d N. Y. Cavalry
15th Conn.
15th Conn.
15th Conn.
1st Conn. Heavy Art.
7th Conn. Inf.
24th Conn.
13th N. Y. Cavalry
22d Conn.
15th Conn.
15th Conn.
27th Conn.
27th Conn.
6th Conn.
7th Vermont
15th Conn.
1st Mich. Cav.

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THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

1898. Elected for 3 years.
1898.

George J. Merz,
Frank W. Foote,

Isaac E. Mansfield, 1898.

Dr. R. B. Goodyear, 1899.

John A. Thomlinson, 1899.

Walter H. Bishop, 1899.

Julian W. Turtle, 1900.

George H. Cooper, 1900,

O. Sherwood Todd, 1900.

John A. Thomlinson, Chairman of Board.

Dr. R. B. Goodyear, Secretary and Acting Visitor

Dr. Robert B. Goodyear.

Veteran of the Civil War.

Member New Haven County Medical Societv.

Superintendent of Public Schools.

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District No. i.
Committee — W. W. Stevens, Collector and Treasurer.
Clerk — Lewis I. Fowler.

Teacher — January session — Miss Clara L. Munson. $9,00 per
week.

Enumeration in 1900, 2J.

District No. 2.

Committee — R. N. Barnes, Collector and Treasurer.

Clerk — Charles X. Turner

Teacher — January session — Charlotte Barnes, $9.00 per week.

Enumeration in 1900, 21.

District No. 3.

Committee — Edwin H. Pardee, Collector and Treasurer.
Clerk — George L. Barnes.

Teachers — January session — Miss Edith Cook, room 2, $10.00;

Miss Ruth Smith, room 1, $9.00.
Enumeration in 1900, 95.

District No. 4.
Committee — George J. Merz.
Clerk— L. Peet Tuttle.
Teachers — January session — Miss Adella Baldwin, room 1,

$11.00; Miss Anna Bannell, room 2, $9.00; Miss Anna L.

Goodyear, room 3, $11.00.

Enumeration in 1900, no.

District No. 5.
No School. Enumeration in 1900, 8.

District No. 6.

Committee — Lewis G. Tuttle, Collector and Treasurer.

Clerk — Jesse B. Jacobs.

Teacher — January session — Mrs. Florence Tuttle Baldwin, $9.00.

Enumeration in 1900, 24.

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District No. 7.

Committee — Andrew Halloran.

Clerk — Robert E. Dickerman.

Teacher — January session — Miss Florence Landon, $9.00 per
week.

Enumeration in 1900, 34.

District No. 8.
Committee — Joel E. W. Beach. ■

Clerk — Oliver Abel, Treasurer and Collector.
Teacher — January session — Barbara Kuebler, $10.00 per week.
Enumeration in 1900, 71.

The Rev. James B. Reynolds.

Graduate of Yale Divinity School, 1888.

Head Worker University Settlement, N. Y. City.

Chairman Citizens' Union, New York, 1897.

Member New York Bar.

Member New York Tenement House Commission.

Miss Annie M. Reynolds.

Graduate Wellesley College.
Ex-Secretary Brooklyn Young Women's

Christian Association.
Ex-Secretary Iowa Y. W. C. A.
The World's Secretary of the Y. W. C. A.

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123

POST OFFICES.

Post Office at North Haven Centre.

Location, Clinton's Block.
Third Class — Salary, $1,500.00.
William P. Leete, Postmaster.
Elizur C. Harrison, Assistant.
John H. Blakeslee, Carrier, Rural Delivery.

Mails close.

Mails arrive.
6.56 a. m. South and West.

8.15 a. m. South and West. 8.00 a. m.

9.16 a. m. North and East. 9.00 a. m.
1 1. 17 a. m. South and West. 1.00 p. m.
1. 14 p. m. North and East. 3.10 p. m.
3.26 p. rri. South and West. 8.00 p. m.
6.30 p. m. New Haven, Conn.

Office Hours Holidays — 7.30 to 9.30 a. m. ; 1.00 to 2.00, 6.30
to 7.30 p. in.

North and East.
South and West.
South and West.
North and East.
South and West.

William P. Leete.

Postmaster.

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John H. Blakeslee.

Mail Carrier, Rural Delivery.

Ei.izuk C. Harrison.

Assistant Postmaster.

David L. Clinton.

Postmaster.

George H. Cooper.

Postmaster.

north haven in the nineteenth century. 1 25

Post Office at Clintonville.

Established 1871.

Location, Medicine Co. Building.
Third Class — Salary, $1,400.00.
Gross receipts year 1900, $3,200.00.

David L. Clinton, Postmaster.

Mails arrive. Mails close.

8.05 a. in. 9.08 a. m.

1. 1 5 p.m. 6.24 p. 111.

Post Office at Montowese.

Established 1871.

Location, Cooper's Block.

Fourth Class.

George H. Cooper, Postmaster.

George W. Dains, Assistant.

Mails arrive. Mails close.

9.42 a. in. 7.54 a. m.

5.30 p.m. 7.54 a.m.

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THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CONCERT.

The concert planned by the Committee for the evening of
December 31, 1900, was found to be impracticable. A postpone-
ment was therefore made to February 15, 1901, and the former
evening was given up to a public meeting in Memorial Hall,
watch-night services in the Congregational Church Chapel, and
the arranged-for salute and bell ringing at 12 o'clock midnight.

The latter event began promptly on time under the direction
of S. F. Linsley, Chairman of the Amusement Committee, with
Arthur B. Thorpe, Chief Gunner. Forty-two rounds were dis-
charged. The night was mild and moonlight. Sounds of can-
non were heard in various directions, and it was an ideal time in
which to welcome the advent of the new century. Dwellings were
illuminated, and most of the townspeople were abroad enjoying
the novel scene.

Rehearsals for the contemplated concert began at once under
the direction of F. H. Stiles and A. B. Clinton. These were
prosecuted with vigor, and on the evening of February 15,
Memorial Hall was rilled with a large audience. The range of
music was wide, and gave great satisfaction.

PROGRAM.

OLD FOLKS.

t. March, Orchestra

2.. Old Lang Syne.

3. Invitation.

4. Sons of Zion.

5. Shelbourne.

6. Suwanee River, . . Solo by Miss Genevieve Barnes

7. Strike the Cymbals.

S. All Bound Round H. E. Woodford

9. A Country Dance.

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SECULAR.

10. Orchestra (Crushed Violets)

11. Dream, ... . .

12. On High the Stars.

13. Selected, ......

14. Ringgold, E. H. & L. I. Stiles, F. Squires

15. Slumber Boat, .....

17. The Lost Chord.

MINSTRELS.

18. Orchestra (Coontown Capers).

19. Once More, ......

20. Pliney, ......

21. Cindy, . ....

22. Mandy Lee, .....

23. My Jersey Lilly, ...

24. Dixie Kidd, F. Squires, E. H. Stiles, L. I.

25. I've Waited, Honey, ....

26. Every Nation has a Flag but a Coon, .'

Miss May Elcock

James Pierce. Jr.

& H. W. Clinton

W. Sperry

J. Pierce, Jr.

E. H. Stiles

Frank Squires

W. Sperry

H. E. Woodford

Stiles, W. Sperry

J. Pierce, Jr.

E. H. Stiles

R. O. Eaton, Interlocutor.

Bones.

H. E. Woodford,

E. H. Stiles,
F. Squires,
L. Munson,
W. Stevens.

F. H. Stiles, Director.

Tambos.

W. Sperry,
J. Pearce,
L. I. Stiles,
J. H. Tomlinson,
H. W. Smith.

A. B. Clinton, Accompanist.

H. Wilson Clinton, Leader of Orchestra.

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THE CALIFORNIA GOLD HUNTERS.

Of the twelve men who visited California in search of gold
1 849- 1 852, but a single survivor exists — John E. Brockett. His
companions were Henry B. Fowler, Franklin Shepherd, Charles
Heaton, Frederic Shepherd, George Mix, Daniel Barnes, Chaun-
cey Barnes, William Mansfield, Anson Button, Burritt Brockett,
Alexander Robison, and Samuel Hale.

Fowler, the two Shepherds, Heaton and Mix, started about
April 1, 1849, v ' a the "Overland Route." They left Independ-
ence, Mo., April 15, in a wagon drawn by several pairs of un-
broken Texan steers, guided with ropes tied to their horns.
These animals were not unyoked till after three weeks of hard
service. The journey lasted four months, the little company
reaching Sacramento the middle of August. Heaton died soon
after arrival. The others separated for the mines.

Henry B. Fowler.

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hi the same year — [849 — Button, John E. and Burritt
Brockett, sailed in the schooner Emma Packer from Fair Haven,
Conn., by the way of Cape Horn for the gold coast. The voy-
age was long' and tedious, but they reached their port safely.
Later, the two Barnes', Robison, Mansfield, and George W.
Brockett, made the journey by water around the Cape. On their
arrival the country was found flooded with adventurers who had
poured in from every quarter of the globe. Mining was at a
discount, and they with thousands of others turned their atten-
tion to trade. Most were successful.

The return of these men was mainly by way of the Isthmus
of Panama. Fowler became sick within a year after his arrival
in Sacramento and started for home. He was carried on a litter
by the natives across the isthmus and placed on board a steamer.
Recovering, he made a second trip there in 1852. Chauncey
Barnes died on the return voyage and was buried at sea on the
Pacific side.

THE CLAY INDUSTRY.

In one form and another, clay has been a factor in the com-
mercial world since the dawn of history. It will probably con-
tinue to be so while man exists. During the past century its
manufactured products reached a higher stage than in all the
preceding years combined, and because it is certain that the pres-
ent century will see its development in forms and ways unknown
at present, allusion is made to it at this time.

Its manufacture in this town dates from 1725, and the honors
of proprietorship are equally divided between one Seeley and
Nathaniel Thorpe, Jr. They made building brick, and building
brick have continued to be made in increasing quantity every
decade since that year. The output of The I. L. Stiles & Son
Brick Co., for the year 1900, was not far from 18,000,000. This
product for the most part found a ready market in Connecticut,
though heavy orders were shipped to Rhode Island and Eastern
Massachusetts.

These brick were made by what is known in Xew England
as "the soft mud process,*' : and burned with wood in the old

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style open kilns. Attempts have been made to use coal and oil
in firing, but without success. From five to six thousand cords
of wood are used annually by the above firm at prices ranging
from three to four dollars per cord. Two hundred hands and
more are employed in the busy season, and from fifty to seventy-
five the entire year. Most of the brick used in the construction
of the large buildings of Yale University are the products of this
yard.

A branch at Taunton, Mass., has recently been established —
a corporation — with a capacity of from ten to twelve millions
annually. These find a market in Boston, Providence, and
vicinity.

Frank L Stiles.

President of The I. L. Stiles & Son Brick Co.
President of The Stiles & Hart Brick Co.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

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CLOVER DAIRY FARM.

Clover Dairy Farm is the name which Air. D. W. Patten has
bestowed upon 225 acres of as fair soil as lies in New Haven
County. This tract was once a part of the Rev. James Pier-
pont's possessions. It fell to his son, Lieut. Joseph, then to his
son Giles — then to Giles, Jr., father of Munson Edward Pierpont,
the distinguished jurist and diplomat. Hence the grounds are
historic. Not only this, but they are charming in scenery.
What with hill, river, meadow, and the commodious dairy and
farm buildings dotting the landscape, it presents the picture of
an ideal country home.

Mr. Patten is a graduate of Yale S. S., '87 — Ex-Member
General Assembly 1899 — Member State Board of Agriculture —
State Pomological Society — State Dairymen's Association, and
present first selectman and town agent.

Birthplace Hon. Edwards Pierpont.

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THE VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.

The Village Improvement Association was organized in
April, 1892. It grew out of the needs of the people in the more
immediate center of the town, for street lamps and sidewalks.
The Hon. Isaac L. Stiles was elected its first president. Funds
were freely contributed by the citizens, and the principal streets
were lighted by naphtha lamps in July of the same ye,ar.

Since then the Association has been annually increasing in
value to the community. By the death of Mr. Stiles in 1895 a
trust fund of $500.00 was established for its benefit. It operates
at present about fifty public lamps within a radius of half a mile
from the post office, and has recently laid, with the assistance
of property owners, not far from three thousand yards of substan-
tial concrete sidewalk. Its present officers are :

The Rev. Louis A. Parsons, President.

Marcus D. Marks, Secretary.

Joseph Pierpont, Treasurer.

Residence of William E. Dickerman.

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137

GENERAL E. D. S. GOODYEAR.'

Member General Assembly, 1868.

Registrar of Voters since 1886.

Ellsworth D. S. Goodyear is the eldest of seven sons of Bela
and Delia A. (Gill) Goodyear. He was born in North Haven,
April 28, 1827.

General E. D. S. Goodyear.

In 1846 he became associated with Charles, Henry, and Nel-
son Goodyear in the manufacture of India rubber articles, where
he participated in many of the experiments resulting in discov-
eries which have since made the name of Goodyear famous in
connection with the development of the rubber industries. Mr.
Goodyear thus describes the discovery of the process of making
hard rubber:

"Manufacturers of rubber had long been trying to devise
some means by which rubber could be hardened sufficiently to

1 It was early determined by the committee that this volume should be neither a biographical
or advertising medium. If departure is charged in this instance, it is because the matter of
hard rubber is of worldwide importance, and the military record that of a brave soldier.

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be made useful as a substitute for whalebone. While studying
in Liebig's chemistry the subject of the preparation of sulphur, I
found that sulphur melted a second time at 310 of heat, and
cooled in shellac form. It occurred to me that here might be
the solution of the hard rubber problem, and upon making the
suggestion to Henry B. Goodyear, he arranged with the engineer
to have the steam pressure high enough during the night to
reach 310 . I prepared six one-pound packages of gum, adding
to the first 2 ounces of sulphur, to the second 4 ounces, and to
the others in succession 6, 8, and 10 ounces. These mixtures
were rolled into sheets about an eighth of an inch thick, placed
between sheets of tin, wrapped in rubber cloth, the whole put into
a small steam boiler and subjected to 310 of heat, at which point
it was kept for eight hours. When the package was eagerly
opened, the sheets were found to be of varying degrees of hard-
ness ; those of the lesser amounts of sulphur were flexible, while
the sheet composed of 1 pound of gum and 8 ounces of sulphur
was the best of the lot. Because of the brittleness of the material
it failed to take the place of whalebone, but it formed the basis
of the rubber button business as well as of the thousand and one
other uses to which hard rubber is now applied the world over."
On the breaking out of the war in 1861 Mr. Goodyear entered
the service as Captain of the C Company, 10th Regiment of Con-
necticut Volunteers, and served continuously, except for one inter-
val of six weeks, to the end of the war. His regiment served in
the Departments of North Carolina, 1862, and South Carolina in
1863, and was in the siege of Morris Island and Fort Sumter.
The night after the evacuation of the Island by the Confederates
a night attack was planned on Fort Sumter. The duty was
assigned to the 24th Massachusetts and the 10th Connecticut
Regiments. Captain Goodyear was selected to lead the forlorn
hope of opening the attack on the city face of the fort, and, if
successful, to remain in the fort with one hundred men until
relieved. This expedition, in boats and barges, with 1,200 pounds
of powder with which to blow down the gate of the fort, was
within 300 yards of its destination when the Navy commenced
an attack on the fort. As it had been previously arranged be-
tween the commanding Admiral and General that whichever
party arrived first should not be interfered with by the other, the
Army had to abandon the project.

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>39

In [864 Captain Goodyear was promoted to Lieutenant-
Colonel of the same regiment. At the breaking up of the war, the
Colonel being absent on leave, he was in command of the regi-
ment at Hatcher's Run, when they were ordered to assault Fort
Greo"«", the last fort of the inner line of defenses south of Peters-
burg. With 180 men and 12 officers he made a lodgment on the
south angle of the fort and held on for forty-five minutes until
other troops in sufficient numbers were brought up to carry the
works. This was one of the most strongly contested points in
the whole line. There were 23 stands of colors on the fort before
the enemy surrendered. Out of the 180 men and 12 officers
under Lieut. -Col. Goodyear's command, 118 men and 8 officers
were either killed or wounded. He himself was here shot
through the right shoulder, sustaining severe and permanent
injuries. 2

He was brevetted Colonel for "Meritorious services during
the war," and Brevet Brigadier-General for "Especial gallantry in
the assault on Fort Gregg, April 2, 1865."

Frederic C. Bradley.

Lineal descendant of Major William Bradley,
New Haven Colony.

George B. Todd.

Lineal descendant of Christopher Todd,
New Haven Colony.

2 See History ioth Conn. Vols.

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Edward L. Linsley, Attorney.

Born North Haven March 21, 1858.

Died October 18, 1900.

Was graduated Yale Law School 1878.

Assistant Clerk New Haven City Court
1883-1893.

Ex-State President Young Men's Repub-
lican Club.

Ex-Town Clerk.

Trial Justice Local Court.

Prosecuting Attorney New Haven County.

Chairman Twentieth Century Committee
on Literary Exercises.

O. H. D. Fowler, Attorney.

Born North Haven January 17, 1857.
Was graduated Yale S. S. 1878
Was graduated Yale Law School 18S1.
Member of New Haven County I'ar.
Ex-Judge Probate Court, District of Wal-

lingford.
Practicing Attorney, Wallingford, Conn.

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141

C. A. Brockett.

President C. A. brocket! Cement Co., Kansas City, Mo.

Gardiner E. Thorpe.

The Bradstrect Co., Boston.

Frank E. Hall

Agent Pass. Drp't N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R.
Grand Central Station, N. Y. City.

Edgar A. Hemingway,

Ex-Selectman.

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143

PETER'S ROCK.

This eminence near the southeastern border of the town, has
recently come into public notice as affording- one of the most
pleasing landscape views seen from its summit. It rises abruptly
from a somewhat rocky ridge and owes its formation to volcanic
agency. Doubtless its elevation was once much greater than at
present, indeed, if as asserted. East and West Rocks in past ages
had an altitude of one thousand feet or more, then Peter's Rock
may lay claim to an equal height. Its present elevation above
tide water is about 400 feet.

The appearance of this bluff bears evidence of untold cen-
turies of denudation. Its boldest face is upon the western side
where singular columnar formations are seen, not common to
other trap rock upheavals in the county. They resemble in form
somewhat the basaltic pillars of the Giant's Causeway in the old
world.

The Hermitage. (Peter's Rock.)

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145

In the early days of the New Haven Colony it was a noted
Indian outlook. Later it became known as "Great Rock" —
"Rabbit Hill"' or "Rabbit Rock." So far as ascertained, one
Joseph Granniss was an early owner. He gave the settlers of
"Muddy River" privilege to quarry stone for their buildings, and
cut firewood for their use without expense. A rude highway
was opened on the eastern side, the southern extremity of which
reached the shore in East Haven, while the other end, eupho-
niously known as "Pig Lane," extended up into North Haven.

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Whitney Elliott.

Ex-Selectman and Town Agent.
State Senati r Sixth District, 1867.
Chairman Centennial Committee, 1887.

Henry M. Blakeslee.
Born 1813.

Among the farmers who settled along this thoroughfare, was
Peter Brockett, who claimed to own the rock, and from whom
it gained its present name. Brockett was a Revolutionary sol-
dier, and a severe wound had so deformed his spine as to render
him a cripple. He was something of a hermit besides, and lived
in a rude hut, the ruins of which are still to be found at the
northern base of the more rocky bluff. The late Jesse O. Eaton
recalled having seen him on manv occasions.

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On or about the year 1873, the town ordered a general assess-
ment. Messrs. Whitney Elliott, Willis B. Hemingway and
Henry M. Blakeslee were appointed to do the work. They
reported "Peter's Rock" as being in the possession of Jude
Cooper's heirs, and placed a valuation upon it. In due time a
tax was laid, but no one could be found to pay it. Accordingly the
tax collector, L. Peet Tuttle, ordered the property sold at auction,
and it was bid off by George W. Jones, August 31, 1874.

Soon after, the citizens of Muddy River not relishing the dis-
posal of the real estate in that manner, and particularly of the
Granniss franchise which they claimed, came into the annual
town meeting in October, 1874, and voted to redeem the property
for the benefit of the town. This was accomplished in 1875, Mr.
Jones receiving $31.78 as reimbursement.

Such in brief is the town's alleged claim to this now valuable
possession. A portion of the summit has been leased for several
years to a number of New Haven gentlemen who have erected
an elegant club house on its summit styled "The Hermitage."
The view from this point is of surpassing beauty. Neither East
nor West Rocks furnish anything like it.

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147

Theophilus Eaton.

Ex-Selectman.

Ex-Member Genera] Assembly, two terms.

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OLD HOME WEEK.

The following general observance of "Old Home Week" is

planned :

Sunday, June 2d — Children's Day.

Tuesday Evening, June 4th.

Dramatic Entertainment in Memorial Hall by P. of H., No.
35. At this time the Drama "Our Folks" will be produced under
the direction of Miss M. Grace Smith, by the following cast:

Capt. Sleeper, Mr. L. Peet Tuttle.

Capt. Thompson, Mr. Edwin S. Mansfield.

Harry Thompson, Mr. Herbert W. Smith.

Teddy Sleeper, Master Harold Harrison.

Hiram Small, Mr. Frank B. North.

Phil, Mr. Ellsworth J. Smith.

Mrs. Capt. Thompson, Miss Ina G. Tuttle.

Mrs. Capt. Sleeper, Mrs. E. A. Spencer.

Becky Sleeper, Miss Cora A. Eaton.

Hulda Prime, Miss Susan C. Jacobs.

Silly York, Miss Rosa C. Stiles.
Music by the North Flaven Orchestra.

Wednesday, June 5th — Outing Day.

This day is designed to afford an opportunity for visiting,,
sight seeing, and social enjoyment.

Thursday, June 6th — General Holiday.

Order of the Day.

Sunrise — Salute on Pierpont Park.

8 a. m. — Assembling of Parade on Broadway.

9 a. m. — Parade.

10.30 a. m. — Exercises in Congregational Church.

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149

1. Music,

2. Invocation,

3. Music,

4. Welcome,

5. Music.

Program.

Band.

The Rev. William G. Lathrop.

Public School Children.

Robert O. Eaton, Chairman.

Band.

Sheldon B. Thorpe.
Public School Children.

6. Historical Address,

7. Music,

8. Miscellaneous.

9. Hymn, America, Audience.
10. Issue of Memorial Volume, Price $1.00.

12 m. — Collation in Memorial Hall.

2 p. m. — Public meeting in Congregational Church, at which
the Rev. William Lusk will preside. Eminent speakers from
abroad will make addresses.

Edmund C. Warner.

Ex-Seleclman.

Fruit Grower and Pomologist.

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NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY THE CHAIRMAN
OF THE GENERAL COMMITTEE.

Robert O. Eaton.

North Haven at this "Twentieth Century and Old Home

Week Celebration" is proud of and congratulates itself on its

past History. Many of its sons aided England against the

Hon. Hobart B. Bigelow.

Born North Haven May 16, 1834.

Member General Assembly for New Haven 1875.

Mayor of New Haven 1879-1880.

Governor of Connecticut 1881.

Died

French, and later the colonies in their struggle for independence.
From the 17th day of June, 1775, to the present time, the people
of this town have been patriotic, enterprising and progressive,
ever ready to do their duty to their God, their Country, their
family and their fellow-man.

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151

During the dark clays of 1 861- 1865, when the safety and
honor of the Nation was threatened, nearly one hundred of our
sons laid aside business pursuits, abandoned financial prospects,
severed social relations, and assumed the uniform and duties of
a soldier's life, — to protect and preserve the government our
fathers had provided for us. Some of those boys who wore the
blue are here to-day at this celebration, no longer boys as in
"61," for their heads are fast becoming sprinkled with gray hairs,
yet honored in their declining years for the sacrifice they made

Birthplace of Governor H. B. Bigelow.

for us and those who are to come after us. Many of them have
gone on that journey whence none can return, but though their
names may become dimmed, their deeds and their achievements
grow brighter and richer with each advancing year. In their
honor, the citizens of North Haven have erected the beautiful
hall that will stand for the years to come, — an appropriate
memorial.

North Haven has furnished to the country men of promi-
nence in business enterprises, advanced leaders in scientific in-
vestigation, and its quota to the literary world. To the church

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it has given some of its profound thinkers, pulpit orators and
religious workers. From those born within its borders, have
been drawn men who have served the State in offices of trust and
responsibility, in various positions from the bottom of the ladder
to the office of chief executive of this Commonwealth. It has
been represented in the legislative halls of this State one hun-
dred and fourteen years, and by its descendants, in many other
states of the Union, more than a century. It has furnished a
president of Yale College, an ambassador to the Court of St.
James, a financier of high order, and a banker, the founder of
our public library. But this list by no means covers the citizens
of the town who have gained eminence in other directions, and
who are as proud of their nativity as we are of their record.

While we rejoice in our history as a town, and the success
of her sons and daughters, we feel that we are living, not in the
past, but in the present, with our faces turned toward the future,
and never were times and opportunities more encouraging nor
our outlook more promising. We look forward to the future
with the brightest anticipation. Her citizens to-day are keep-
ing step with the progress of the times, loyally supporting
churches and schools, preserving the old ancestral land-marks,
beautifying their homes and enriching their farms, building
macadam roads, laying sidewalks, maintaining a free public
library and street lamps, also Free Rural Mail delivery.

Electric roads run into the town as well as steam roads
through several sections of it. Her inhabitants are energetic and
happy, ever remembering the fact that they are a part of this
grand old Commonwealth, which was one of the thirteen original
States of the Union.

We rejoice that we are American citizens, a part of the grand-
est and most progressive republic on the face of this earth, and
with such sentiments and under the favorable circumstances that
have been enumerated, I welcome you all here to-day on behalf
of the citizens of the Town of North Haven, to our Twentieth
Century and Old Home Week Celebration. W r e extend to you
a sincere and cordial reception. May your visit among us be
pleasant and enjoyable, believing that when the day's exercises
shall have closed and we shall once more separate to our several
homes, we shall each appreciate more that ever the glorious
privileges we now enjoy and the successes attained.

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15.

Ancient Mill on the Muddy River Near the Old Bigelow Homestead

Michael Burke

Veteran Baggage Master North Haven R. R.
Station. (Retired )

(Ry permission from Xorth Haven Annals.)

The Old Meeting House of 1742.

HISTORICAL ADDRESS

SHELDON B. THORPE.

DELIVERED IN THE

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,

NORTH HAVEN, CONN., JUNE, 1901,

As part of the Public Services held in Commemoration of the
opening of the Twentieth Century.

.Sheldon B. Thorpe.

Veteran of the Civil War.
Author North Haven Annals.
Author History 15th Reg't Conn. Vols.
Ex-Member General Assembly.
Member Post 17, G. A. R.

When Jonathan Ralph — "Dr. Ralph" as he was more com-
monly called, though without warrant for the title — walked from

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his house at the northwest corner of the Green 1 down to the old
meeting house of 1742, to ring the nine o'clock bell on the even-
ing of December 31, 1800, he was but following a custom which
had prevailed in the parish fifty years, possibly longer. On that
night we are assured by one- who kept a private weather bureau
of "aftercasts," that "it was clear and moderately cold — a light
snow lay on the ground." But Mr. Ralph had on his "pea-
jacket" and woolen mittens, and having once undergone the
rigors of a campaign in the Revolutionary war, doubtless paid
little attention to the weather. The "new stepel" of the meeting
house rose white and cold in the starlight, and our bell-ringer
carefully setting down an old battered tin lantern, drew from his
pocket a long iron key and unlocked the creaking door in the
steeple tower. The bell rope dangled just inside and Mr. Ralph
knew exactly how far to advance in the darkness, how to clutch
it, and with a few vigorous strokes ring the "curfew bell." On
some summer nights, it is said, the near-by children would cau-
tiously steal around the corner to watch the old veteran sway the
clanging bell, and then go scudding home on nimble feet, for not
only must the household fire be covered at that signal, but the
children must be in bed.

Who heard the tones of that curfew bell one hundred years
ago? According to the Grand List there were in the year 1800,
one hundred eighty-three men who paid a poll tax in the town,
one hundred fifty-nine of whom were enrolled in the First
Ecclesiastical Society and twenty-four in the Episcopal Society.
These persons owned about two hundred houses, all apparently
having more or less dwellers in them — generally more ! Per-
haps if the atmospheric conditions were suitable, all this people
were within reach of the tones of the curfew. Those who did
not hear it, probably dwelt at Muddy River and walked by faith.

And yet the parish was not wholly dependent on this system
of chronology, for there were five clocks of the first-class and six
of the second-class in 1800 ; besides, there were twenty-three
watches. But the possession of these timepieces gave our cur-
few ringer no concern whatever. Although owning neither

1 Site of the Reynolds Estate.

2 Jeremiah Ailing.

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clock nor watch himself, he rose superior to all such frail mechan-
isms and rang- the hour by "intuition" (?), as it is related that either
he or "Granny Ralph" — his wife — would run nightly across the
street to Dr. Joseph Foote's house to "bony the time," and then
at such an interval as seemed suitable to him, the nine-o'clock
bell would be rung. The service finally became so erratic that
the people headed by Dr. Trumbull arose in their wrath and de-
posed Dr. Ralph from his position.

This custom of an evening bell continued till about 1830. The
increased number of timepieces in the community, and the grow-
ing tendency of the citizen to regulate his own down-sittings and
up-risings, swept it away. A few 3 are still living who remember
hearing the well known peals as they rang out on the stillness of
a summer night.

My townsmen ! the curfew announcing the close of the nine-
teenth century rang but a little time since. The echoes of can-
non and bell, as they gave notice at midnight in De-
cember last that a new century was born, may be still sounding
in the ears of these children. A new Century ! Who compre-
hends it ? What issues are concealed within it ! what revelations
to be made by it ! what beneficence to flow from it ! for that it
will be beneficent poet and prophet are agreed.

Happy America ! whose people entered upon the Golden Age
one hundred years ago ! Happy America ! whose sons have seen
in the century just closed a period more significant than any in
historic time. Happy America ! and O happy children who have
now entered upon a cycle of years which will as far outshine the
last century, as the last outshines all the preceding. Life is
worth living now, — has been worth living in the past — and is to
be doubly enjoyable in the future. Who before me regrets the
providence that has placed us where the centuries meet ! None !
For this hour were we born ! for the next hour others shall rise,
more competent, larger souled, holier purposed, and better able
to wing on the world from sin to grace, and grace to glory.

In the year 1700 the population of this parish was estimated

3 Mrs. Elmina Thorpe, Henry M. Blakslee, Erus Bishop, and others.

158 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

as one hundred. 4 In the year 1800 it was given as eleven hun-
dred fifty-seven, and in the year 1900 as two thousand, one
hundred sixty-four. 5 This increase is much less than should
be expected in two hundred years. Indeed, it may be said, that
with the advantage of locality, nearness to tidewater, varied sur-
face, and close proximity to city privileges, the population should
be double the present census, and even more.

Two causes have operated to retard our growth. First, a large
emigration to northwestern Connecticut ; and second, the natural
conservatism of the settlers and their descendants. An emigra-
tion began about 1740, which continued up to 1800-1810. Dur-
ing this period many of the most respected families 6 removed to
other localities. They were people whom the town could illy
afford to lose, because they added wealth and character to the
parishes where they settled.

Probablv of these emigrants none had greater influence in the
community whither they went than Thomas Blakeslee and
Thomas Ives. The former was the son of Ebenezer Blakeslee, at
whose house 7 both the Congregational and the Church of Eng-
land 8 people early worshipped.

4 In 1790 — 1st census— there were 595 males, 626 females, 7 slaves, and 8 " others "

6 Census report.

6 Caleb Humaston, removed to Plymouth, Conn., soon after 173S

Lieut. John Humaston,

" "

1736

Dea. Moses Blakslee,

II 1 1

•'

1739

Rev. Samuel Todd,

1740

William Luddington,

l( 1.

1738

Jonathan Frost,

It II <

1735

Ebenezer Frost,

11 It

'744

Hezekiah Todd,

" Wolcott, '

' about

1754

Jehiel Tuttle,

" Torrington,

11 11

1770

Major Isaiah Tuttle,

" "

It II

1773

Ezra Pierpont,

" Waterbury, '

,1 11

1780

Giles Brockett,

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1803

James Bishop,

" Farmington,

" before

1780

John Seeley,

" Gt. Barrington,

Mass ,

1701

Isaac Seeley,

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1799

Abraham Seeley,

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1798

William Crane,

11 11

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1794

Samuel Ives,

11 11

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1793

Joel Thorpe removed in an ox cart to Ashtabula County, Ohio,
about 1800. He was killed in the war of 1812.

' Eccl. Soc. Records, page 3.

* North Haven Annals, page 130.

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He was born in the year 1700 and went to Plymouth in 173 1 .
He married Mar\' Scott of Sunderland, Mass. They had nine
children. He received the title of Captain in the State Militia in
1740, and his house was palisaded as a defence against the
Indians. He was one of "nineteen proprietors" who built the
first meeting house in Plymouth 1 ' and called the Rev. Samuel
Todd of Xorth Haven to preach in it. When an Ecclesiastical
Society was organized there later, its members desired a meeting
house in a different location. The proprietors objected, but were
outvoted, and Captain Blakeslee with eleven others withdrew and
formed a Society of the Church of England. In 1811-1812
descendants of his founded Plymouth, Ohio, and organized an
Episcopal Church there. He died in 1778.

Thomas Ives was the son of Thomas and Anna (Heaton),
born in Xorth Haven, 1753. He was graduated from Yale Col-
lege 1//7', served in the Revolutionary war; studied law in
Litchfield, and was admitted to the bar in that county. In 1782
he settled in his profession in Great Barrington, Mass. 1 " He
married Ruth Foster, a lady of high birth and much influence in
Massachusetts politics. He became a member of the General
Assembly and served in both houses. He also was identified
with the militia and rose to the rank of major-general of the
Xinth Division. In other ways he received honor from town,
state, and nation.

The record of emigrant families given falls much short of the
actual number. Dr. Trumbull wrote 11 that about 150 families
left the parish between 1760 and 1800. It is difficult to account
for this shrinkage. We can imagine how different our surround-
ings would be to-day had they remained, but the human tide was
destined to ever flow outward from Xew England, and so our
fathers arose, almost as by divine impulse, and gat them to lands,
in one sense, they knew not of.

It will be material at this time to note, for a moment, the
administrative element in the early part of the last century. Ec-
clesiastical influence in home affairs did not wholly cease at our
incorporation (1787). The spell of authority which the Xew

9 Atwater's Plymouth, pages 29 and 31.

10 History Gt. Barrington.
1 ] Century sermon.

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NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

England divine exercised, particularly in the country villages,
remained potent until well along in the century. The intent of
the New Haven colonists that the Church should furnish the
foundation for all civil government, found a supporter in Dr.
Benjamin Trumbull. He was something of a dictator — probably
less autocratic than his predecessor, the Rev. Isaac Stiles, yet by
virtue of birth — war record — literary ability, and pulpit prestige,
was able to dominate largely in secular matters. And this he did
almost single handed. His church in 1800 was at a low ebb and

gradually declining. The First Ecclesiastical Society organized
in 1716 and the Church of England Society organized in 1759,
were apparently more engaged in swapping members to avoid
taxation, than promoting the spread of the gospel. The Grand
Eists of the town are complete from 1787 to the present year.
Originally every adult male was compelled to identify himself
with one or the other of the societies for purposes of taxation, and
as there were two tax collectors for some years, and apparently a
difference of a farthing or two in the amounts to be gathered, we

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161

have surprising evidence of the nimbleness of some of our fathers
in jumping from one society to the other and then back again,
as it appeared best for their interest. This athletic exercise
ceased about the year 1814.

With the death of Dr. Trumbull in 1820 the ecclesiastical
hand in town government was still further withdrawn, only to
wholly vanish during the great revival under the Rev. William
J. Boardman. The separation of Church and State became com-
plete when the town voted in 1834 "it would no longer pay for
ringing the Presbyterian church bell."

A second view^ of the evolution of the town may be had from
manuscripts unexpectedly discovered. In the year 1800 the
population was 1,157, as said. There was received by the select-
men from taxation, and from the sale of old highways, $856.80.

The expenses for twelve paupers were, . . $264.79

For highways,
For sundries.
Balance in treasury,

In 1803 the receipts were,
The expenses were,
Balance in treasurv,

17346

23 1. 38 12
187.17

$586.72
218.26

$804.98

In 1805 the Town Treasurer was paid $5.00 for services and
the Town Collector $13.00.

In 1806 the authorities pared taxation so close that but
$527.91 was received. The expenses were $538.75, leaving the
first deficit the town incurred. The following year this was re-
covered and a surplus established. Xo other audits are discov-
ered until the year 1867, when the town issued its first printed
report.

In the year 1900, with a population less than twice that of
1800, there was received from all sources 13 . $33,369.09
The liabilities were, .... 54,580.98

Debt of the town,

. $21,211.89

'- Includes S19.50 paid Dr. Ralph for ringing church bell.
13 Town Report, 1900.
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NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

The above indebtedness stands mainly for seven and a half
miles of rock ballasted, stone bridged highways, constructed at an
average cost of $5,000.00 per mile, and second to none in the State.
The first attempt at road paving on any considerable scale was
begun in 1871. Oyster shells were used on the main highway
in the third school district under the direction of A. F. Austin,
Selectman. In the year 1872, 7,395 bushels were so applied at

Lawrence Bruce.

Highway Contractor.

Andrew F. Austin.

Member General Assembly, 1882.
Selectman and Town Agent 15 years.
Ex-Superintendent Public Schools.
Present Trial Justice, with 42 years' record.

an average cost of one cent per bushel. This amount was in-
creased year by year until in 1876 it reached 15,185 bushels. In
1878, 13,735 bushels, and in lesser amounts until 1881, when the
roads were let by separate contract in each district. This plan
proved more economical than satisfactory, and in 1888 Lawrence
Bruce was employed to take entire charge. Macadamizing with
crushed stone began in 1889. Since then at intervals, with and

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without State aid, the town has constructed most durable road
bed where before only sand or slough existed.

The early roads of the parish were not much more than bridle
paths. Even in 1800 they were in deplorable condition. The
original survey of Xew Haven Colony contemplated a system of
"squares" 80 rods by 160 rods with broad highways between.
Rivers and ledges offered no objection. The routes were plotted
whether the settler followed them or not, and that he did not, is
in evidence by the frequent changes the selectmen of the towns
made. This left considerable areas which the thrifty authorities
turned to account by leasing portions temporarily or selling the
grass thereon. Just when the first highway tax was laid is un-
certain. In 1830 one mill on the dollar was ordered "worked
out" under the direction of district surveyors. This plan con-
tinned twenty years, but was little more than a farce. The aged
residents leaned on their shovels, chewed tobacco and guessed
where the work ought to be done. The younger men sat on
their ploughs and bragged how much their oxen could draw.
This "meet" was usually held twice a year, spring and fall. In
1801, however, if a heavy snowfall occurred, the farmers gathered
with their teams, broke out the roads and donated their labor.
In 1901, if snow T falls, whoever removes any from the highway,
seeks the selectmen the first opportunity and demands payment.

COMMON SCHOOLS.

It is to be hoped the present century will devise some system
of common school management, productive of results commen-
surate with the funds employed. More money has been ex-
pended in teaching "the infant mind to shoot" in country district
schools, — with less returns. — than in any other public undertak-
ing. The First Ecclesiastical Society opened four schools in
1720. It conducted educational matters until 170,6, when a
School Society 14 was formed and entrusted with the management.
This bod}- appointed the school committees until 1838, when the
privilege was given to the districts. In other respects it
remained the governing power until 1855, when the Society was

14 Record complete.

164 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

abolished and the town assumed charge through a Board of
School Visitors. Whether our condition is more regrettable
than that of neighboring towns, the fact remains, that according
to population, we have had, and have to-day, a less percentage of
collegiate scholars than we should have a right to expect. Our
children cannot atone for the defect, but they can make the com-
ing years illustrious through the pulpit, the bar, the counting
room. "North Haven is not a dying town!" 13 The blood of
the old colonists still lives ! God grant it may find higher expres-
sion than ever to the honor and renown of the Twentieth Century.

MILITIA.

In the year 1800 we had a militia company then nearly a cen-
tury old. It was formed in 1718 1G and had furnished an innu-
merable quantity of military titles to citizens of the parish. The
great army of captains, lieutenants, ensigns who aired their
honors on all possible occasions, owed their rank to this com-
mand. Many an old commission is now proudly exhibited as
evidence of "Special trust and confidence" reposed by the State
in the appointee. This militia company provided volunteers for
the French War, the Revolutionary War, the 181 2 War, and the
Civil War. Its parade ground was the west half of the Green.
Here the doughty warriors drilled under the colors of England,
or stacked their "Queen's Arms" on the sward, while they read
royal proclamations nailed to the meeting house door.

Then came the "days that tried men's souls," and by and by
there broke out at the head of that stalwart company one muster
day, the gladdest sight Xorth Haven eyes had ever beheld — the
Stars and Stripes of the new Republic ! and under that flag
marched Trumbull and Pierpont and Bassett and Thorpe and
Barnes and Blakslee and Brockett, and more than fourscore
others whose names deserve to be cut in enduring cranke and
set as a memorial on yonder market place where they once con-
gregated.

We have no accurate roster of this old company until 1828.
\n that year Eliada Sanford was captain, David T. Bishop lieu-

15 Century Sermon — Rev. W. G. Lathrop, page 19.

16 Records First Ecel. Soc.

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1 65

tenant, and Alfred Thorpe ensign. It is designated at that date
as the 4th Company, ioth Regiment, Connecticut Militia. Then
follows a muster roll of one hundred fifteen names. 17 In
1838 a petition signed by ninety-three citizens was presented to
the Adjutant-General of the State to allow the formation of
another company. The prayer was granted and they organized as
the 2d Light Infantry, ioth Regiment, Connecticut Militia. Then
was seen what, perhaps, no town in the county — possibly in the
State — could parallel, a community with a population of 1,340
furnishing two militia companies of over one hundred men each.
The parade ground of the new command was designated in 1839
as "The Public Land near and in front of the Episcopal

17 Sergeant Josiah Todd
Stephen Cook
George Tuttle
" Jared Bassett

Corporal Lyman Thorpe
" Jacob Dooiittie
" Wm. Garry Bassett
Musician Amasa Thorpe
" Asahel Pierpont

" Sidney Smith

Bassett, Anson
" Isaac

Philanso
" John

" Sharon
Willis
" Zenas

Beach, William
Hubbard
" Sharon V.
" Cyrus
Barnes, Daniel
"' Jesse
" Levi
" Chauncy
Blakslee, Philemon
" Abraham
" Evelyn
" William
" Benjamin

David
Bradley, Miles
" Henry

Eri
" Merlin
" Barzillai
Bates, Lewis
Brockett, Luman
Levi

Bishop, Justus
Button, John
Bigelow, Levi
Cooper, Martin
Cooke, Homer
Clarke, Ararai
Dayton, Jonathan, 2d

Lewis
Dickerman, Merit
Ford, Roger W.
Finch, Daniel N.
Frost, Leverett
" John, 2d
Goodsell, John
Goodyear, Bela
Hotchkiss, Francis
Hough, Alonzo B.
Heaton, Julius
Hull, Jar vis
Ives, Harvey
Johnson, Henry
Jacobs, Russell
" Joseph
" Ammi
Roswell
Lincoln, Edward
Marks, Riley
Mansfield, Liverius
Ebenezer
John L.
Jared
Mix, Benjamin

" Samuel
McCoy, William
Moulthrop, Albert E.
" Merit

Alva
Munson, George

Pardee. John, Jr.
Pierpont, David
Elias
" Asahel

" Jared

Miles
Sala
Phelps, Ira Bryan
Riggs, Joshua
Robinson, Jesse
Sackelt, Milo
Butler
" Joseph, 2d
Smith, Ebenezer
Henry P.
" Lyman, 2d
" Hiram
" Jude B.
Sampson, John
Stiles, Harvey
Thorpe, George L.
" Harvey
" Cyrus

James H.
Anson C.
William D.
Todd, George
Beri M.
Orrin
" Samuel B.
Tuttle, Enos T.
" Ithimar
Zera P.
Willis
Thompson, William S.

Walter
Warner, Orrin
Wolfe, Henry D.

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Photo by Thorpe.

Penn Phelps Place.

Photo by Thorpe.

John Smith House.

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Church." 18 The senior company dressed in black and scarlet, the
junior in blue and white, hence the "North Haven Blues." They
strove to outdo their rivals in drill and maneuvre, and the story
goes, so efficient did they become that at a General Training held
on the "Wallingford Plains" in 1843, the battalion became so
hopelessly entangled in a complicated movement, that the com-
manding officer, Colonel Bishop, losing his military dignity and
patience, shouted, "Tenth Regiment halt ! do as the North
Haven Blues do," whereupon Captain Justin Marks gallantly
marched his company out of the snarl and shortly had the entire
regiment lined up in magnificent order.

In these years, 1S35-1845, military "pomp and circumstance"
reached high water mark. With the advent of the younger com-
pany, the older had nothing from which to recruit its ranks, and
disbanded about 1848 after one hundred thirty years of existence.
Its rival also declined and gave up the ghost in 185 1. Its local
color is deposited in the rooms of the Memorial Library.

To-day's review of the nineteenth century would be incom-
plete did we fail to briefly contrast its beginning with its closing
days. In 1801 the farm houses for the most part were of large
frame. A portion had the lean-to roof, while others rose up
square, gaunt and unpainted, perhaps like the integrity of their
owners. Again, under the shelter of some friendly hill stood low,
rambling buildings, painted red by man, brown by the storms,
and green by the drapery of summer, the whole betokening an
ancient strain Of blood in the master, who all unwittingly had
reproduced some lowly home of old England. The chimneys —
"smokes" — of these houses appear to us unduly large. Many
had a stone base twelve feet or more square. Sometimes this
material formed the entire structure, but I have seen but a
single instance 10 in this town. Outside blinds to windows were
unknown then, and the faded green paper shade hung in its glory.
A narrow "hood" over the door, or sometimes an inconvenient
"front stoop," were the external ornamentations. Now we have
the elegant lace curtain, and the light lattice behind which at any
angle, our women may safely view their neighbors. We have the

18 See Order Book.

19 House of John Smith, now demolished.

l68 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

capacious piazza and the overhanging balcony. Turret, tower,
gable, finial, rise in unexpected places, sometimes harmonious
and sometimes — otherwise. In the beginning of the nineteenth
century the people dwelt in rear rooms and cold unfurnished
chambers. There was lack of chairs, lack of tables, lack of
closets. The front door of the dwelling rarely opened except
at the summons of wedding or funeral. Now how changed.
Carpets, draperies, cushions, sunlight, heat, music, flowers and a
thousand luxuries adorn our homes and give life a charm the
"good old times" never knew.

In the beginning of the nineteenth century the farm barns
were ill-conditioned, unpainted and usually placed on a hill.
To-day, many excel in convenience and finish the dwelling of a
century ago. Then, the farmer did not dehorn his cattle, use
patent fertilizers, plant market gardens, run milk routes, or attend
Pomona Granges — but he does now ! His wife did not have a
"separator" in the dairy, a "sweeper"' in the closet, a "wringer"
in the kitchen, or a chance to vote ; but she docs now !

In the beginning of the nineteenth century the farmer killed
his pork in the "new moon" — shaved himself Saturday afternoon
— sued his neighbors — and slept in the meeting house Sundays !
but he does not in 1900. In 1801 his wife wore a "poke" bonnet
— took snuff — made her own yeast — weaned her own children —
and reared a large family ! but she does not now !

In many essentials the old order of things has changed. The
lightning rod (common enough down to 1850) has disappeared
from our roofs and the insurance sign from above our doors.
Man has not secured entire immunity from the destructive forces
of nature, it is true, but enormously wealthy corporations stand
ready, with monetary consideration, to assuage the woes caused
by their ravages. The attacks of "the world, the flesh and the
devil" need have no more fears for him who is willing to pay
insurance premium.

In 1801 the farmer wrought out his fence rails in the woods
and built "zig-zag" barriers about his domain at great waste of
time and material. The cost in most cases exceeded one dollar
per rod. Now, with posts at fifteen cents each, and wire at two
cents per pound, he runs long lines of protection about his farm
at one-quarter the former cost.

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In the beginning of the nineteenth century the maiden had
her ears pierced with a needle some summer day and a thread
drawn in the puncture. Then "to-rights" 20 she hung rings or
other emblems thereon, and was happy. In 1845 sne P ut on a
cameo breast-pin of heroic size, dressed her hair low on her fore-
head, and had her "daguerreotype" taken.

Then, they slept on "feather beds" spread on a heavy wooden
frame with "tester" above and valance below. In 1901 we have
the sanitary mattress and its glittering metal support. Then, they
did their marketing on foot with bag and basket. In 1901 the
grocery, the laundry, the bakery, the market wagon, halts at our
door and makes life worth living — if we pay the bills.

In 1 So 1 personal events had small circulation, except as the
tongue of gossip wagged. In 1901 no household is sacred from
the intrusion of the amateur press reporter, who frequently lines
the way with the carcasses of distorted statements.

Then, the citizen who would write a letter used either a
pointed piece of lead or a quill pen. (He could not buy a steel
pen until after 1830.) His paper was unruled and his ink of home
manufacture. Usually he chose a stormy Sunday for the task,
and it took all day. He folded the paper in most inconvenient
form, and sealed it with a red wafer. If the "writee" lived ninety
miles distant the postage was ten cents ; if one hundred fifty miles,
twelve and a half cents ; if five hundred miles and more, twenty-
five cents. As late as 1850 we paid no less than five cents, and no
more than ten cents postage. Our first post office was established
in 1839, m the dwelling now owned by Frederic H. Stiles. The
mails were flung from stages on the Xew Haven and Hartford
turnpike at the point where the road to Mt. Carmel now crosses
that thoroughfare. Capt. Seba Thorpe was there to receive and
transfer them, and Erus Bishop was his bondsman. Later, the
office was located in the brick house, also used as a depot, when
the Xew Haven and Hartford railroad was opened. The news-
papers were called for at their offices in New Haven, by various
individuals, and distributed on Sunday. Now, with writing
papers of the finest texture, — pens of all metals, — pencils so cheap
we never husband them, — envelopes for the merest fraction of

20 An expression for soon.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 1 7 1

cost, — stamps (used about [847) of all denominations, — recep-
tion and delivery of mail bags by flying trains, — free suburban
delivery,'-' 1 — newspapers containing the condensed events of the
world laid twice daily at our doors, we seem to have reached the
summit of swiftness and convenience in dealing with kingdom,
empire and republic. And yet time and space are to be further
annihilated as the years roll on.

The older portion of the community has witnessed some
remarkable transformations of ways and customs of their ances-
tors. The old uncouth pestle and mortar for crushing rock salt
has gone. The hand-mill in which grains of coffee, pepper and
the spices were ground, is silent. The wheels on which wool or
flax was spun, — the looms in which the yarn was woven, are
broken up. The rough trencher, the pewter plate, the wooden
bottle, the iron snuffers, and I might almost add, the family
cradle, have disappeared, except as relics of the past. The doctor,
with his small fees and large prescriptions, has yielded place to
the physician, with his large fees and small prescriptions. We
have seen the heavy booted male watcher thrust out of the sick
room, and the gentle, trained female nurse, enter to soothe our
nerves and assuage our ailments.

The gallop of the heavy farm horse is not heard as of yore
in our streets, nor do we see the woman of 1800 riding on a
pillion, but rather, lifting our eyes from the old family Bible 22
we are reading on a Sunday evening, we behold automobile, and
locomobile and motor-cycle and tandem with piercing lamps and
noisy riders, threading our thoroughfares with incredible swift-,
ness. We do not have our "voices tried" by the old-fashioned
singing-school master, for that long cherished institution has
departed from the country schoolhouse, and the chorus choirs
which sprang from it and sung ''Mear" and "China" and
"Dundee" in the meeting house have become the "choir invisi-
ble."

Thev came into the nineteenth centurv with the tinder-box

21 Rural delivery began in North Haven December 15, 1900. Salary of carrier (John Blaksleel,
S500.00 per year. Iron let ter boxes, costing about one dollar each to patrons, are placed convenient
to the highway. Larger public boxes are placed at intersections of main highways No delivery is
made within one-half mile of main offices.

"Nahum 2:4.

172

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

and the tallow candle. We went out with the parlor match and
the electric light. They came into the century with petty law-
suits among neighbors, — with inflexible church discipline, — with
an iron heel to stamp out the erring and the frail ; we went out
of the century with kinder hearts, broader lives, and the forgive-
ness of the Master.

The woman tailor who made men's clothes and the man shoe-
maker who made women's shoes, no longer sit about our fire-

Photo by Heaton

The Leete Tavern. (Estate Henry F. Tuttle.)

sides drinking weak tea and chewing leaf tobacco. We have seen
the departure of the old-fashioned almanac, and the entrance of
the gorgeous calendar. The one gave us intervals of two weeks
in which to "look out for rain or snow," the other warns us to
seek immortality through proprietary medicine, or reminds us
that our grocers are doing business at the old stand.

We have witnessed the decline of the Fulling mill — the Grist
mill — the Saw mill — the Cider mill! but as compensation, we
have received ten millions of cotton spindles — patent prepara-

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 173

tions of the cereals — Lumber from the tropics — and whiskey from
the distiller, "four full quarts for three dollars and sixty-nine
cents." 1 ' 1 We know that from the incorporation of the town to
i860 the political atmosphere was democratic. Since the Civil
war the republican wing has had the majority. Once we wanted
men for office ; now we want office for men.

One hundred years ago Sabbath Day Houses fringed the
southern and part of the western border of our Green. The
venerable Dr. Trumbull's cider mill was in close proximity to the
eastermost of these buildings. The mill was a clumsy structure,
without covering, built upon the lines of the eighteenth century,
and stood opposite the small brick house by the brook.

The apples were crushed by a heavy wooden wheel traveling
in a narrow trough built in a circle, with a diameter of thirty or
more feet. This wheel turned upon a long axle, the opposite end
being pivoted in the center of the circle. Oxen furnished the
motive power, and it was the small boys' duty to ride on the long
arm and see that they kept moving. When the fruit was reduced
to the proper pulp, it was shoveled upon a platform, made into
a "cheese" with straw, and then subjected to all the pressure
huge wooden screws turned by arm power could give. The
present strained relations between cider and theology did not
exist in that day; indeed, in the quality of "hardness," some have
come to think they were quite akin in 1801.

We have witnessed the untimely end of the old-fashioned
school exhibition, the Lyceum, and the Debating Society, 24 but
in their place have come up the "Chautauqua Circle" — the "Uni-
versity Extension" and the "Whist Club."

We do not now patronize "Turkey shooting matches" at the
old Leete tavern on the Hartford turnpike, or attend "Balls" in

23 Magazine advertisements

24 The earliest Debating Society of which any record is found met in 1829-30, in Amasa
Thorpe's ball-room. Among the disputants were the Rev. William J. Boardman, pastor of the
Congregational Church, William Hartley, William Ives, Ward Peck. Eliada Sanford, Benjamin
Eastman, James H. Thorpe, David T. Bishop, Jesse Andrews, Jr , Willis Tuttle, and twenty
others, and more. Some of the questions discussed were:

'"Ought the poor to be supported by law" ?

"Is self-love the moving cause of all our actions" '

"Are the abilities of females equal to males" ?

"Ought slaves in the United States be immediately emancipated" ?

This society was revived in 1857, and had a run of three years, and again in 1872.

174 NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Jesse Andrews' once famous hostelry, 2 '"' but we do go to ball
games — promote euchre parties — and win booby prizes.

They, saw the citizen of 1800- 1840 carried in a white wood
coffin on a bier to the burying ground. Few or no words were
spoken, and the grave was closed while the concourse waited.
No tribute of regard was displayed, and the expense rarely
exceeded ten dollars. Now the deceased is placed in a casket
and carried in a hearse to the cemetery. Evergreens and drapery
make wretched attempts to soften the outlines of his narrow
home. There is no sound of falling clods. Expensive marks of
esteem abound ; the people gradually melt away and the under-
taker sends in a bill of one hundred dollars — or more !

When the old housekeepers in the nineteenth century related
to their grandchildren the story of the days in which they lived,
they spoke of "cranes" and "trammels" and "hooks" and "peels,"
and the child wot not what was meant. But these now obsolete
words stood then for the indispensable fixtures of the old-fash-
ioned fire-place. The junk man has carried them all away, with
the big iron kettles they supported, and the "skillets" that kept
them company.

In 1849-50 we were rocked from center to circumference of
tbe town by the discovery of gold on the Pacific coast. It was
a theme of more importance than was the Mexican War a year
or two earlier. No one wished any part in the latter — every one
wished a chance in the former. Twelve of our citizens 2 ' 5 became
"Argonauts" and sailed away for the "golden fleece," either
around Cape Horn, or by way of the Isthmus. All returned in
safety, some bringing wealth and some — experience.

They came into the nineteenth century with the scythe — the
sickle — the flail — the quill pen. We went out of it with the mow-
ing machine — the harvester — the thresher — the typewriter. Then,
they stored no ice, canned no meats, burned no coal, rode no
bicycle. Old things have passed away ! All things have become
new ! The shore house, the Sunday paper, the potato bug-, the
hammock, the electric car, the "bargain counter," the buffalo
beetle, the divorce court, the "new woman," have come into our

25 North Haven Annals, page 269.
2ft See page 130.

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horizon, some to bless and some to curse. Once, there was
expressed very little sentiment and less enthusiasm at the doings
of the outside world. Now, we wear badges at our collar, display
the national colors from our dwellings, keep Christmas, and shout
for Yale University. Once — 1837 — they warned all Irishmen out
of the town, fined our boys and girls for walking on Sunday,- 7
forbid dancing bears entering the parish, and posted the names
of drunkards in the tavern bar-rooms. Xow, we bring the alien
and the foreigner to onr doors — make cycle paths for our children
■ — go to the circus — and wink at the beer wagon.

In the early part of the last century they rode in an oxcart to
New Haven. In 1820 they went in a wagon. In 1839 they made
the journey by steam, paying fifteen cents to the Xew Haven and
Hartford railroad for second-class fare in the "Jim Crow car,"
and twenty-five cents for a first-class ticket in the passenger cars.
Thev could make but one trip daily. In 1901, for fifteen cents we
may be whisked down to the metropolis nine times each week
day.- s between the hours of 6.30 a. m. and 11 p. m.. and twice on
Sunday.

In 1800-1810 many of the principal men of the town borrowed
money, usually from Yale College.-'-' The town, also, and the
First Ecclesiastical Society made loans to parties, usually of small
amounts and for a limited time.

In 1850 there was a toll-gate on the Middletown turnpike near
the house of John Todd in the second district, and on the Hart-
ford turnpike near the house of Air. Hart in the sixth district.

In the besfinnine: of the last centurv a few varieties of the
apple and the pear were the fruits grown. Expansion along this
line has been truly wonderful. The berry, the cherry, the peach,
the plum, the grape, the melon, have climbed to royal heights as
luxuries and become great factors in the commercial world.

In the besfinnine: of the nineteenth centurv the thriftv mother
turned a bowl over her boy's head and snipped off all his locks
outside the rim. This was a "Xew England hair cut." The

27 Records Justice Courts.

28 A. M. 6.29; 7 34; 8 58; 11.26. P. M. 1 58; 4.46; 6.29; 8.39; 11 01.

29 1807. Samuel Moulthrop. . $ 556.50 1807 Philemon Plakslee, . S 619.11
1808. Abraham Bishop, . 850.00 1807. Philemon Pierpont, . 1,112.35
1807. Ezekiel Jacobs. . . 540.93

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remarks incident to the occasion were mainly made by the pro-
testing lad, and it is now supposed that this barbarous practice
caused more boys to run away to sea than all other causes com-
bined.

But with the waves of reform that have come rolling in upon
us for a hundred years to wash away the ancient landmarks, it is a
joy to find that the old Christian names of our ancestors have
been but little disturbed. The Johns and Williams and Henrys
of the past are the Johns and Williams and Henrys of the present.
Mary and Martha and Esther and Ruth are forever immortalized
in Hebrew story, but our Marys, and our Marthas are far dearer
to us. Their sweet names drift us back through the century, and
the years suddenly become peopled with the women who helped
make the town. We see their countenances duplicated in their
granddaughters' faces. Their tones are reproduced in their
grandsons' voices. Their worn Bibles are their biographies, and
the old-fashioned lilac is their monument. We are never far away
from the life they lived, for great influences never die.

Enough of these contrasts ! They are suggestive in the
highest degree. Whether the changes which have been wrought
shall redound to our glory, this new century is to decide. That
merciless jury "The survival of the Fittest" will try every plan
and theory as never before, whether it be good or whether it be
evil. But of one thing we may feel assured, that in spite of the
drawbacks earlier mentioned, emigration, unproductiveness, con-
servatism, this town from its settlement has ever been reaching
for higher levels. Though the course has been slow, yet it has
never retrograded. Perhaps the most comprehensive idea of its.
growth may be grained from a brief survev of our Grand Lists,
which are intact since 1787. Since it is impracticable to present
each year in detail, the last century has been divided in quarter
sections, hi 1800, the.n, the resources of the town were returned
as follows (omitting many details) :

183 Polls.
9362 Acres of land.

202 Oxen.

572 Cows and other cattle.

194 Horses.
Total appraised value, $30,675.31.

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In the year [825 the schedule summed up:

1 68 A Polls
1 [38] 7 Acres. ....

1 1 [6 Neat cattle.
[20 Horses, ....

243 Houses, ....
29 Wagons and carriages,
[62 Clocks, watches and timepieces,

5 Mills

3 Stores, ....

1 Distillery,
1 Carding mill,

Bank and turnpike stock, .
Money at interest.
Sundries,

$ 5,055.00

302,952.00

15,856.00

4,169.00

102,036.00

813.00

729.00

3,300.00

675.00

75.00

1,225.00

737.00

11,281.00

307.00

$449,210.00

Summary of the Grand List for 1850

254 Polls,
1 1258 Acres,
884 Neat cattle, .
201 Horses,

2J2 Houses.

223 Wagons and carriages,
29 Mills, stores and manufactories,

626 Sheep and swine,
Farming tools,
9 Musical instruments.

Household furniture and libraries
Bank stock,

Investment in trade, etc.,
Money at interest and deposit.
Other taxable properties,

$ 2,540.00

327,023.00

16,227.00

7,254.00

120,425.00

4,657.00

7,137.00

4,362.00

4,186.00

255-00

13,323.00

2,730.00

11,195.00

49,463.00

17.330.00

$588,107.00

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Summary of the Grand List for 1875 :

157 Polls ($1.00),
138 " (military) ($2.00),
1 1664 Acres,
722 Neat cattle,
413 Horses,
372 Houses,
7 Stores,
15 Manufactories,
163 Carriages,
346 Timepieces, .
57 Musical instruments,
112 Dogs,

Stocks, all kinds,

Investments, trade and manufacture,

Money at interest and deposit,

157.00

276.00

402,578.00

19,064.00

21,490.00

261,645.00

8,700.00

1 1,150.00

8,424.00

1,875.00

2,388.00

116.00

27,586.00

12,987.00

1 6,03 1 .00

Other taxable properties and additions, 15,009.00

$809,476.00

In the year 1900 30 the following' return was made by Lewis I.
Fowler and Frederic E. Jacobs, Assessors :
438 Dwelling houses, .
1 1904 Acres of land,

28 Mills and manufactories with their
investments,
490 Horses, ....

1263 Cattle, ....

Swine and poultry,
Farm utensils not exempted,
12 Gold watches (value over $50.00),
66 Pianos and other musical instruments,
218 Pleasure wagons and carriages,
Bank and insurance stock, .
8 Stores and investments,
Money at interest,
Other taxable property,

$339 5 985-00
347>935-oo

74,380.00

18,335.00

21,400.00

635.00

750.00

400.00

6,675.00

6,540.00

24,810.00

13,400.00

13,865.00

1,937.00

(115 taxable polls at $1.00 each).

5871,047.00

30 In 1890 the total valuation was $792,840.00.

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It must be remembered that the foregoing valuations are not
based on an absolute standard, but represent the judgments of
the different boards of assessors. Something like a two-thirds
appraisal of the actual value of the property is generally at-
tempted in this town.

But though there is apparently no bounds to history, there
should be to the recital of its events. It has been the endeavor
of the speaker to keep within local limits, reserving for others to
recount the deeds of State and nation. .Much has been left
unsaid of usage and custom, and perhaps much more ought to
have been. An hour in which to review a century's work is an
altogether too little point of time.

If it be asked in closing, what great events have been most
far-reaching in their influence in this town, I answer unhesita-
tingly, the great revivals of 1820-30, and the Civil War 1861-65.
The former in the first half of the century set squarely on their
feet a generation of young people, who made Jesus Christ the
guide of their youth. From that day began flowing a tide whose
waves have lapped all our homes with water from the River of
Life. The Civil War in the latter half of the century also called
a generation to its feet. There rose up those who made their
Country their guiding star and counted their lives as nothing
that freedom might live. From that hour the brotherhood of
man took on a new meaning and the world went "marching on."
So, then, with one generation for God, and one generation for
Country, our children are inheritors by blood and record of the
proudest birthright earth can bestow. The gray haired men of
1865, and the grayer headed men of 1825, are here to-day wit-
nesses to what God has wrought. They have fought the fight,
thev have finished their course. Henceforth thev commit to
the keeping of these children a trust handed down for more than
two hundred years from father to son, — the good name and the
unsullied reputation of the town of North Haven.

It will be vain to forecast the future. "Whether there be
prophecies they shall fail." It has been the unexpected that as-
tonished the world in all ages, and it will be the unexpected which
shall work the mighty changes of the hereafter. But for all this
we are not here to surrender our conviction that the Nineteenth

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NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Century has been the Golden Age of the world ! We know it ! we
helped make it ! Every century lias said the same, and the say-
ing- has been true ! Whatever the conditions of life, whatever the
level of civilization, man never stepped from one century into
another without his loins being better girded and his lamp
brighter trimmed. This, this, is Evolution! a law of God, un-
erring as the course of a star — a law which will at last dissolve
these elements and out of them evolve a "new heaven and a new
earth" where men will dwell in peace and centuries pass un-
heeded.

Photo by Thorpe.

Congregational Chl'rch in 1S95.

NORTH HAVF.N IN THK N 1 NF.TEKN I'H CENTURY

181

Estate of Dennis Thorpe.

The Eri Bradley Homestead. (Oldest House in the Town.)

182

NORTH HAVExN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

THE COLLATION.

The Collation as designed by Mr. William E. Dickerman,
will be laid in Linsley's hall for the children, and in Memorial
hall for the public at large. It is planned to provide for between
two thousand and three thousand people. A substantial dinner
will be furnished for a small compensation, it not being the in-
tention of the committee to provide this meal entirely free.
Further detail is necessarily omitted, as much modification of the
present plans may take place. The following corps of assistants
has been carefully selected and approved by the General Com-
mittee:

TABLE COMMITTEE.

Mrs. D. L. Clinton,
Mrs. D. W. Patten,
Mrs. N. H. Marks.
Mrs. Lucia B. Barnes,
Mrs. George H. Cooper,
Mrs. Hubert Potter,
Mrs. L. Peet Tuttle,
Mrs. R. J. Shepherd,

Mrs. John Hull.
Mrs. Henry Buckingham,
Mrs. Leonard Wooding,
Miss Sarah Dickerman,
Mrs. Marcus Marks,
Mrs. Charles Dudley,
Mrs. Frank L. Smith,
Mrs. Ernest R. Brockett.

SOLICITING COMMITTEE.

Mrs. Payson B. Orcutt,
Mrs. Andrew Clinton,
Mrs. William Stevens,
Mrs. Alex. Smith,
Mrs. Robert N. Barnes,
Mrs. Albert Brockett,
Mrs. Henry Corf,
Miss Janie Warner,
Mrs. Theo. Eaton,
Mrs. Louis R. Hemingway,
Mrs. Edgar Hemingway,
Mrs. Clarence Frost,
Mrs. Ezra G. Munson,
Mrs. John H. Blakeslee,

Miss Clara Bradley,

Mrs. William P. Leete,

Mrs. Julian W. Tuttle,

Mrs. Wilson Doolittle,

Mrs. Florence Baldwin,

Miss Edith Smith,
Miss Mary Eliot,

Mrs. Joseph Pierpont,

Miss Kate Smith,

Mrs. Homer Cooper,

Mrs. William B. Roberts,

Mrs. George B. Todd,
Miss Emma Brockett.

NORTH HAVEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

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ASSISTANTS.

M i>s Lucy Bishop,

Miss Genevieve Barnes,

Miss Charlotte Barnes,

Miss Genevieve Hemingway,

Miss Ina Tuttle,

Miss Anna Goodyear,

Miss Grace Smith,

.Mrs. Arthur Thorpe,

Miss Alice Stiles.

Miss Leila Stiles,

Miss Christiana Bruce,

Miss Jennie Bruce,

Miss Ruth Smith,

Miss Bessie Fowler,

Aliss Ethel Redfield,

Aliss Anna Todd,

Miss Lina Todd,

Miss Maud Riker,

Miss Bessie Clinton,

Miss Cora Eaton,

Miss Mabel Palmer,

Miss Glenna Bigelow,

Miss Eva Beach,

Miss Bertha Talmadge,

Miss Amanda Zuber,

Miss Millie Cooper,

Miss Mattie Schneider,

Miss May Brockett,

Miss Aurora Uhl,

Miss Flora Barnes,

Miss Martha Smith.

Miss Minnie Hull,

Miss Ethel Goodyear,

Miss Grace Morse,

Miss Hattie Leete,

Miss Mabel Moulton,
Miss Carrie Harris,
Miss Bertha Barnard,
Miss Ruby Blakeslee,
Miss Grace Dickerman,
Miss Lucy Blakeslee,
Miss Eva Doolittle,
Miss Anna Banned,
Miss Lucy Mansfield,
Miss Janet Yale,
Miss Carrie Roberts,
Miss Eva Roberts,
Aliss Mary Peterson,
Mr. Arthur Thorpe,
Mr. George E. Bassett,
Mr. Benjamin Bassett,
Mr. William Marks,
Mr. E. Stiles Abel,
Mr. William Todd,
Lovell Clinton,
Freddie Barnes,
Walter Potter,
Ross Judd,
Herbert Nichols,
Harold Dubois,
Elihu Dickerman,
Waldo Blakeslee,
Herbert Carlson,
Arthur Blakeslee,
Myron Brockett,
Wilfred Mansfield,
Harold Harrison,
Bert. Kegwin,
Ray Banned.

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CENTURY SERMON,

SKETCHES

The History of the Eighteenth Century

INTERSPERSED AND CLOSED WITH

SERIOUS PRACTICAL REMARKS.

DELIVERED AT NORTH-HAVEN,
JANUARY i. 1 80 1.

BY BENJAMIN TRUMBULL, D. D.

PASTOR

Of the Church of North-Haven.

new- haven:
printed by read and morse.

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The Rev. Benjamin Trumbull, D.D.

Pastor Congregational Church 1760-1820.
(See North Haven Annals, pages 184-222.)

A
A CENTURY SERMON.

I. CHRONICLES, XXIX. 29, 30, AND PSALM LXXVJI. II, 12.

Now the a els of David the king, first and last, behold they are
written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan
the prophet, and in the book of Gad the seer, with all his reign and
his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over
all the kingdoms of the countries.

I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remem-
ber thy wonders of old. Twill meditate also of all thy work, and
talk of thy doings.

[Note. — The first twenty pages of this discourse are
omitted, as not being of special interest to the reader.]

Having given this general view of the principal events
of the lall century, fuffer me to prefent you with a fketch
of the hiftory of this iociety and town.

The lands in the town were purchafed by the Rev.
John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton Efq. in behalf of
the firft planters of New Haven, of Momaugin fachem of
Quinepiack, and Montowefe, fon of an Indian fachem at
Mattabefeck, now Middletown. The agreement with the
firft of these, was made on the 24th of November, 1638; in
which he concedes all his right to all the lands, rivers,
ponds, and trees within the utmoft limits of the faid Quine-
piack, with all the liberties and appurtenances thereof, to
the faid Davenport and Eaton, and the other Engliih plant-
ers of New Haven, their heirs and aiiigns, for ever. The
other agreement and purchafe was made December 11,
1638, in which Montowefe confirms, in the fame ample
manner, a tract principally north of the other, thirteen
miles in breadth, extending eight miles eaft, toward Con-
necticut river, from the river Quinepiack, and five miles
weft, towards Hudfon's river, and ten miles in length,
north and fouth. Thefe two deeds conveyed a tract of
country about eighteen miles in length, and thirteen in
breadth, covering the whole tract within the towns of
New Haven, Woodbridge, Hamden, Eail Haven and North
Haven; the principal part of the towns of Wallingford and
Chefhire, and of the parifh of Northford. By the terms of
the agreements and purchafes, the Indians were to enjoy
lands to plant on, upon the eaft fide of the river, upon the

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trad finee called Eafl Haven; they had alfo the right of
hunting, fowling and fifliing upon the lands and rivers
fee u red to them. On their part, they bound themfelves
not to injure nor affright the Englifh, nor to enter into
any combinations againft them.

The lands having been thus purchafed, and Governor
Eaton owning a large tract on the weft fide of the river, it
feems, put one William Bradley, who had been an officer
in Cromwell's army, upon it, nearly an hundred and fifty
years ago. He, I fuppofe, was the fir ft perfon who came
into the town. Next to him, were Thomas and Nathaniel
Yale, who, it feems, came on to the land about the year
1660. In a deed of faid land, given by Theophilus and
Hannah Eaton, heirs of Governor Eaton, to Thomas Yale,
executed March 9, 1659, it appears that Thomas was then
upon the land. About the year 1670, a conliderable num-
ber of the inhabitants of New Haven moved to Walling-
ford, and began the fettlement of that town, formerly called
New Haven village. This encouraged the fettlement of
North Haven, and Jonathan Tuttle, about the fame time,
began a fettlement near the river, on the farm formerly
owned by Deacon Ifaiah Tuttle, who was his grandfon.
Nathaniel Thorpe, Ebenezer Blakflee, and John Humafton,
foon after fettled on the eaftern bank of the river near the
centre of the town. Daniel and Thomas Barns, Thomas
Jacobs, and Mofes Brockett, made fettlements near the
river, on the eaft fide of it, about a mile north of the fouth
line of the town. Thefe appear to have been fome of the
fir ft fettlers; and they began the fettlements in this fcat-
tering manner. Next to thefe families, were Stephen and
Mofes Clarke, Michael Todd, Ebenezer and Thomas Ives,
James Bifliop, John Cooper, John Grannis, John Brockett,
and Jofeph Ives. The two last of thefe, went firft from
New Haven to Wallingford, and afterwards moved into
North Haven. Jofeph Ives built on the road, about twenty
rods north of the houfe erected, at the corner, by Ifaac
Thorpe. In this the people met for public worfhip, until
they were able to build them a meeting houfe. Thefe were
generally defcendants from the firft planters of New
Haven. The names of a conliderable number of their
anceftors are among the firft freemen and church mem-
bers, who entered into the remarkable agreement, and fub-
fcribed the fundamental articles of government, adopted
at Quinepiack, June 4, 1639*.

The fettlement was very ilow, and it feems, that for
nearly forty years, fome of the firft planters attended pub-

* William Tuttle, John Cooper, William Thorpe, John Brockett,
William Ives, and James Clarke, are expreffed by name.

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lie worfhip, and buried their dead at New Haven. The
women ul'ually went on foot to New Haven, on the Lord's
clav, attended two long exercifes, and returned. In some
mllances they did this with a child in their arms*. The
inhabitants were not made a ditlinct ecclefiaftical fociety,
until the feffions of the general aflembly, in October 1716,
when they were veiled with all the privileges of fuch a
fociety. The honorable Nathan Gold, Efq, deputy governor,
and the Rev. Samuel Andrews, then paftor of the church,
at Milford, were appointed a committee to repair to North
Haven, and to aliifl the parifh in appointing a place in
which to ere6t their meeting houfe, and to advife them with
refpect to the fettlement of an orthodox and worthy min-
ifler. The Rev. Mr. James Pierpont had given them the
plat of ground, on which the meeting houfe now flands,
upon condition, that the people would ere6t their houfe of
worfhip upon it. This was thankfully accepted. A houfe
for public worfhip was erected about 1618; 38 or 40 by 28.
The polls were of a proper height for good galleries.

While the parifh were tranfacling thofe affairs, they
had invited Mr. James Wetmore to fettle with them in the
work of the gofpel minillry. At the feffion of the general
aflembly, in May 1718, the aflembly gave the inhabitants
liberty to form into a church. And the November follow-
in o- Mr. Wetmore was ordained.

■&

At the time when the parifh was formed, the limits of
it extended confiderably north and weft of the ground on
which the meeting houfe in Mount Carmel has fince been
erecled, and comprehended twelve families, which, before
1 7 16, were fettled upon that tract. The whole number of
families, at the time when they were made a parifh, was
about forty. Mr. Wetmore was greatly efleemed and
beloved by his people; but after he had laboured with them
for nearly four years, he altered his fentiments, and in
September 1722, declared for epifcopacyf. The conse-

* The tradition is, that Mrs. Blakilee, the great grand mother of the
prefent Captain Blakilee, would take her child in her arms, on fabbath
day morning, travel to New Haven and hear Mr. Pierpont preach, and
return again after meeting. The fame is reported concerning Mrs.
Thorpe, the wife of Nathaniel Thorpe. The people who fettled this
town were brought up in the ftrict puritanic religion of thofe excellent
men, Mr. Davenport and Mr. Pierpont, and were, numbers of them,
truly of the excellent in the earth.

f One or two families embraced epifcopacy with Mr. Wetmore,
which began the church in this town. In 1751, when Mr. Ichabod Camp
went for orders for Wallitrgford and Middletown, there were two fub-
fcribers for him at North Haven. He came back and officiated at Wal-
lingford, Middletown and North Haven, until 1760, when he removed to

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quence was, a difmiflion, foon after, from his pafloral rela-
tion. He went to England and took orders, in 1723. He
was rector of the church at Rye, where he finifhed his
courfe, May 14, 1760. He was educated at the collegiate
fchool at Saybrook, where he received the degree of Bach-
elor of Arts, in September, 17 14.

After a vacancy of a little more than two years, the
Rev. Ifaac Stiles fucceeded him in the pafloral office. He
was ordained on the nth of November, 1724. He was
graduated at Yale college, 1722, and died May 14, 1760, on the
fame day, and nearly at the same hour, in which his pre-
deceffor, Mr. Wetmore, died. He was well verfed in the
fcriptures, had a natural gift of elocution, and was a zeal-
ous, engaging preacher.

The bereaved congregation, after they had heard fev-
eral gentlemen, by the advice of the affociation, made
application to me. Upon their invitation, I paid them a
vilit, and preached to them, the fir ft time, on Lord's day,
Auguft 31, 1760. After preaching with them a little more
than two months, the church and fociety, with great
unanimity, gave me a call to fettle with them, in the
work of the miniftry. It appeared my duty to accept
their invitation, and I was ordained to the pafloral office,
by the confociation of the paflors and churches of the
whole county, December 24, 1760. Through help obtained
from God, I continue to this time. I am now just entering
on the forty-firft year of my miniftry. My locks have
whitened and my eyes grown dim in your fervice; but dur
ing this long period, through the wonderful patience and
goodnefs of the Great Father of mercies, 1 have never
been unable to perform the public worfhip, on both parts
of the day, but in one single inftance. I have been able
to meet you at every lecture, at every funeral, and upon all
occafions in which my minifterial fervice has been required.
Within a little lefs than a century you have had three
minifters, two of whom have ferved you about fevent)- fix
years.

Thf.re have been in the church, ten deacons, David
Yale and Samuel Ives, chofen 17 18. Deacon Ives died
November 25, 1726. Samuel Todd fucceeded him, chosen

Virginia. The Rev. Mr. Punderfon vifited them frequently, the latter
part of the fame time, and for a year or two afterwards. In 1760 they
built them a fmall houfe 40 by 30. From the year 1762, until about the
year 1783, they were under the pafloral care of the Rev. Mr. Andrews,
of Wallingford. The Rev. Mr. Hart preached to them for feveral years
fince, but they are now a plurality under the charge of the Rev. Reuben
Ives, of Chefhire, and have preaching once in three fabbaths.

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about 1727. Mofes Blakllee, about 1728, fueceeded Deacon
Yale*. Deacon Blakllee removed to Northbury, now Ply-
mouth, 1739, and Deacon Thomas Cooper fueceeded him,
chofen 1740. Upon the deceafe of Deacon Todd, Ifaiah
Tuttle was chofen Deacon, about the year 174.it. The
Deacons, by reafon of their advanced age, defiring afiift-
ance, Jeffe Todd was chosen Deacon, December 24, 1772,
and James Humafton, November 24, 1773. Upon the
refignation of Deacon Humafton, Solomon Tuttle was
chosen, November 2, 1780. Deacon Titus Todd was chofen
March 1, 1787, to fupply the vacancy made by the removal
of his brother, Jeffe Todd, to Springfield, in Maffachufetts.

The fir ft military officers chosen and commifiioned in
North Haven, were Capt. Jofeph Ives, Lieut. John Granis,
and Enfign Samuel Ives. They received their commiflions
at the feflion of the general affembly, October, 1718.

Your anceftors were few in number, but you are now
increafed to about fourteen hundred fouls. They were
clothed and fed coarfely, and fared hardly; but you are
generally dreffed with elegance, and have not only the
conveniences, but many of the delicacies of life. They
were compaffed with a wildernefs, with wild beafls and
favage menj. But you dwell amidfl cultivated and pleaf-
ant fields, orchards and gardens, and have nothing to fear
from either. In their times, the ways were unoccupied. A

* Deacon Yale died 1730; and fome years before his death refigned
his office.

f Deacon Ifaiah Tuttle died September n, 1776, aged 72. Deacon
Thomas Cooper died March 11, 17S4, aged So.

X The Indians were fometimes very numerous in this place, and
gave much alarm to the inhabitants, efpecially to the women and chil-
dren. When the towns of New Haven and Guilford fettled, the Indians
from both towns collected, principally to Branford and Eaft Haven. At
Eaft Haven was the grand Indian burying place, to which the Indians,
at times, had a kind of general refort. The Indians at Mattabefeck,
were connected with the Indians in this part of the State, and the extent
of the river into the Southern part of Farmington, and the fine fifhing
and fowling upon it, formed a connexion with the Farmington Indians.
The combination of thefe circumftances, fometimes filled the parifh with
Indians. At particular times they feemed to fwarm upon the river, and
the groves and fwamps appeared alive with them. Once after the fettle-
ment commenced they made a grand pawaw, on the road between the
corner of the Market place, and Mr. John Humafton's; people were in
great fear that their fields of corn would be ruined by them; but by the
influence of the chief fachem, they were reftrained from doing any
damage

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folitary path through a dreary fwamp or wood, led to their
humble cottages. But your roads are broad and fmooth.
and your houfes are large and elegant. They had every
thing to do, but their means were fmall. You have houfes
builded, wells digged, gardens planted, orchards and trees
of various fruit, prepared to your hands. They were under
great difadvantages for fchooling their children, not only
on account of their low circum fiances, but of their diftance
from each other, and of the danger of children's travel-
ling fo far through groves and swamps; but you have
diftinguifhing advantages to get wifdom yourfelves, and to
fchool your children. Your advantages, in these refpects,
are much greater now, than they were at the time of my
fettlement with you. There was then but one fchool houfe
within the limits of the parifh; Now you have eight fchool
diftricls, and the fame number of fchool houfes, generally
commodious and well built. Your progrefs in knowledge,
civilization, agriculture, and manufactures, has been very
conliderable. You have experienced no fuch diftrefling,
feafons of general ficknefs and mortality, as the inhabit-
ants had been vilited with in former years. Your popula
tion has been very great, though on the account of the
numerous emigrations, and the fetting off of a large number
of families to the parifh of Mount Carmel, you are not,
perhaps, more numerous than you were in 1759*. In Octo-
ber, 1786, you were made a diftin£t town, and veiled with
all the immunities of fuch a free corporation. You have a
large and convenient house for the public worship^, an
elegant lleeple, a large and excellent bell. You enjoy
peace among yourfelves, and the bleflings of uncommon
health pervade your habitations. Are not the lines fallen
to us in pleafant places ? Have we not a goodly heritage ?
What more is neceffary to complete our happinefs, than
thankful and obedient hearts, rendering unto the Lord
according to his benefits?

* Some time before my ordination, Mount Carmel was made a dif-
tincl parifh, and between twenty and thirty families were taken off from
this fociety; but they worfhipped with us until about the clofe of the
year 1760. The church in Mount Carmel, was embodied January 26,
1764, at which time about 18 members of the church in North Haven, by
mutual confent, were embodied with that church. They communed
with this church until that time, though they had been annexed to
another fociety.

About 150 families have emigrated from this town within the 40
years of my miniftry, befides a great number of young people; but few
have moved into it. Almoft all the inhabitants of the town are derived
from the firft planters.

% It is 60 feet by 45 and $-. It was erected 1739, and finifhed in
Auguft 1 74 1.

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I have now only one great and folemn event more, of
the lail century and year, to lay before yon; that is the
progrefs of death. A view of this is neceflary, that we
may clofe the lall, and begin the new year with proper
views and exercifes, and that we may form jull concep-
tions with refpeet to the century before us.

Every year is productive of events, folemn, vaft and
wonderful. A centuiy increafeth them an hundred fold.
From the moll accurate bills of mortality, it appears, that
half the human race, even in this healthful climate, die
under twenty years of age: And it is computed, that,
taking the world at large, one half die under feventeen.
Once in about twenty-feven years, it is fuppofed, that a
number dies equal to the whole number of inhabitants
upon the globe. Some ellimate this number at a thoufand
millions — and that there die annually, about thirty-feven
millions — feven hundred and twelve thoufand every week
— one hundred and one thoufand feven hundred and fifty
daily — four thoufand two hundred and thirty-nine every
hour — and about feventy every minute. Nine hundred and
fifty thoufand millions is the loweil computation of the
inhabitants of the earth. According to this ellimate,
thirty five millions one hundred and eighty-five thoufands
one hundred and eighty-five die every year — fix hundred
feventy-fix thousand fix hundred and thirty-eight each
week — every day, ninety-fix thoufand fix hundred and
lixty-two — every hour, four thoufands and twenty-feven —
and fixty-feven each palling minute. Wonderful, tremen-
dous mortality ! ! ! What an aflonifhing current of fouls
is rapidly borne on the tide of time, inceffantly (hooting
into the ocean of eternity, and appearing before God, in
judgment!

If this reprefentation be jull, the earth changes the
whole number of its inhabitants, at leail, three times and
an half each century, Three thoufand three hundred and
twenty-five millions have exchanged worlds the laft cen-
tury. During this period, four kings and one queen have
reigned on the throne of Great Britain. William and
Mary, Queen Anne, George the firll and fecond, with all
their courtiers, admirals, generals, and mighty men, reft
together in the dull. The Louis's, their courts and mighty
men are no more. Royalty has been abolished, conftitu-
tions and tyrants, in quick fucceiiion, have followed each
other, and vanilhed away. Kingdoms and republics have
been fhaken and demolilhed, the face of Europe, and of the
whole world hath been chano-ed.

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If we come nearer home, and review America, New
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the retrofpect be folemn, inftructive and affecting? All
the venerable fathers, who, at the commencement of the
laft hundred years, conducted the affairs of church and
Rate, with their children, and moll of their grand children,
are gone down to the fides of the pit. Their wifdom,
beauty, influence, and lives, have all been loll in the rav-
ages of time. In this State, which was fo fmall at that
period, there have died ten governors, with their councils
and officers, nine prefidents or chief infttructors of college.
The fellows who were their contemporaries, and the tutors
who affifted them, generally are gone down to the congre-
gation of the dead. About three hundred miniflers, who
fhone as lights in this part of the firmament of the church,
have been extinguifhed, and new liars and conftellations
have arifen, to illuminate her children, and guide them in
their fucccflive generations, to virtue and glory. The nu-
merous hearers, who once affembled with thofe preachers
of righteoufnefs, and hung upon their lips, have clofed
their eyes with them in death, and fpread their graves
around them. The paftors and the flocks have gone to
judgment, and are reaping in different worlds, accord-
ing to what they had fown. Your former paftors, their
churches and congregations red together in the places of
burial.

Duping the forty years of my miniftry, there have
died out of the town 570 perfons; 484 from among the peo-
ple of my paftoral charge; about 75 out of the epifcopalian
fociety*, and ten or twelve from among the feparates and
baptifts. I fuppofe, that the inhabitants of the whole town,
upon an average, during the term of forty years, have been
about 1,300, a little more than a thoufand have been under
my paftoral care. The deaths and ages, among thefe, have

* This confifts of 4+ families. The firft man in the fociety of this pro-
fefiion, was Mr. Ebenezer Blakflee He went off from the church in
North Haven with Mr. Wetmore. The church increafed confiderably, in
nearly 40 years, by the population of his own family; fome families of
the fame perfuafion moved into the parifh, and fome others joining them,
from among the people in the fociety, towards the latter part of Mr.
Stiles's miniftry, they, on the 24th of April, 1759 had attained to fuch
numbers, that they, in a folemn manner, formed into church ftate, and
for the firft time chofe wardens. At the commencement of the laft cen-
tury there were no fectaries in Connecticut, and there was but one epif-
copalian church in New England, which was in Bofton. In 1707, a small
epifcopalian church was eftabliflied at Stratford. At the fame time, when
Mr. Wetmore declared for epifcopacv, Mr. Cutler, the rector of College,
and Mr. Johnfton, minifter at Weft Haven, declared. They went to Eng-
land and took orders, and rector Cutler was fixed at Bofton, and Mr. John-
fon at Stratford. Thefe gentlemen, with one or two more, who declared
for epifcopacy, at, or about the fame time, were very much the fathers of
the epifcopal church in New England.

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been accurately kept. The deaths, upon an average, have
been about twelve and one-tenth annually, a little more than
one to an hundred. Of the 484, 79 have lived to 70 years of
age and upwards. Thirty-feven lived to between 70 and
80; thirty-five to between 80 and 90; and feven to 90, and
between 90 and 100 years of age. About 16 out of an hun-
dred have lived to 70 years and upwards; eight out of an
hundred to more than 80; and feven of the 484 have lived
to be 90; and between 90 and an hundred years of age. Of
the feven lafl mentioned, one was 91, one 92, one 93, one 95,
and the oldell 99 and 8 months. This is the greater!
degree of health and longevity, which, in modern times, I
have known for to long a period. Neverthelefs, how has
the face of this affembly been changed ? The fathers, where
are the}*? And how are the heads of their children
whitening with years ! One generation passeth away, and another
generation cometh.

<•>

What profitable reflections (hall we now make, on the
view we have taken of our fubjeef, and of the year and
century pail ? With what feelings and profpects fhould we
begin the new year, and the nineteenth century ? The
doctrine of divine providence, that the Lord governs nni-
verfally, uncontrolably, perfectly, and for ever, exhibits
him as a proper and glorious object of our entire truft, of
our prayers and praifes. What encouragement is there to
truft in, and pray to him, who governs all worlds, creatures
and events, and performeth all things for his people? —
What fupport and comfort mull it give to Zion and to all
who fear the Lord, when the earth is removed, and the
mountains carried into the midil of the fea, when the
waters of it roar, and the mountains tremble at the fwell-
ing of it, that he fits king for ever, and prefides in every
ftorm ? How calming and consolatory to hear him ipeak-
ing, in the dark day, and amidll the raging tempell, as he
did to the affrighted difciples upon the fea of Galilee, // is
f, be not afraid.

This, at the fame time, fhould beget in us entire ac-
quiefcence and fubmiflion, with refpect to all prefent and
future circumftances, relating to ourfelves, the church of
God, and all creatures and things. In view of the univer-
fal and perfect government of the Most High; this fhould
be the language of our hearts, // is the Lord, let him do what
seemeth him good.

The univerfal dominion of God, teacheth us to acknowl-
edge him in all the judgments and fearful defolations
which have been, or are made in the earth, and in all the
riches of goodnefs and mercy with which it is filled. It

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leads us to communion with him in all his providences, as
well as ordinances: To know him by the judgments which
he executeth, and to learn righteoufnefs, while they are in
the earth: To fee him in all his goodnefs, and to be led by
it to repentance and thankfgiving.

While we behold his mighty works, and conilder the
operation of his hands, how fhould we adore his greatnefs,
wifdom and power, and learn to fear him for ever? While
we behold how he bringeth the princes to nothing, and
maketh the judges of the earth as vanity; how he maketh
cities a ruinous heap, and plucketh up and planteth the
nations at his pleafure; how fhould we tremble before
him, and fly to his mercy in Christ Jesus?

While we fee him, in his inflexible juflice and veracity,
in all places and generations, executing that awful fen-
tence, Dust thou art, and unto dust shall thou return,
how fhould we learn, in this tremendous teftimony which
he bears againfl fin, how his foul abhors it? How inex-
prefiibly fhould we, and all men loathe and fear it ? How
mould God's inflexibility in the execution of this fentence,
eftablifh us, in the perfuafion, that he will execute all his
threatenings; and, that though hand join in hand, the
wicked fliall not be unpunifhed.

As we fee him in paft ages, and in the prefent age, exe-
cuting his threatenings, and fulfilling the promifes and
predictions of his word, how fhould it confirm out faith in
the fcriptures, our confidence in him, and affurance that he
will accomplish all the good which he hath fpoken concern-
ing Zion.

How does our fubject teach us to give all glory to God,
for the iignal deliverance which he hath granted to our
fathers, and to us their pofterity ? For his complicated
and mighty works in giving us this great and good land,
in protecting his church here, in every emergency, and in
the admirable increafe of it, the century paft ? With what
venerable and exalted ideas, fliculd we adore his provi-
dence in the American revolution, in the eflablifhment of
our independence, and in our prefent peace, diftinguifhed
priviledges and growing profperity ? How gracious has he
been to us, that while war hath hung out its bloody flag,
and raged beyond all former example, in aim oft ever}' part
of the world, we have enjoyed peace ? While the cities,
kingdoms, wealth, commerce and refources of other coun-
tries, are in a manner annihilated, their inhabitants llain,
by millions, and their habitations and pleafant tracts made

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defolate, we have not only rebuilt the towns and cities, re-
peopled and fertilized the tracts which war had ruined and
depopulated, but we have extended our fettlements, in-
creafed our numbers, navigation, commerce, fifheries,
wealth and refources beyond all parallel. The tracts where
war raged, where the clafhing and roar of arms, the thunder
of cannon and noife of battle fhook all the adjacent country,
where the wounded groaned, and the mighty fell, are now
covered with pleafant villages, walks, and gardens, and fields
wave with plenteous harvefts. There freemen lie down in
quiet, and mothers hufh their numerous babes to reft in
fafety. Extenfive regions, which for ages paft had been a
dreary wildernefs, filled with the hideous howlings of fav-
age beafts and men, are now peopled with chriftians, and
prayers and praifes are conftantly addreffed to the throne
of heaven. Are thefe my brethren, the works of the
Lord, and ihall not all America awake to praife him ? Can
we contemplate, that according to the common rate of mor-
tality, three or four minifters, and three or four thoufands
of people, upon the loweft computation, die annually in
this State*, and yet, that not one governor nor magiftrate,

* Life, in Connecticut, and New England in general, is one third, at
leaft, nearly one half longer and better than it is in the world in general.
According to the common eftimate, one half of mankind die under 17
years of age, and in the populous cities and fome parts of the world under
11 years of age; but in the bill of mortality for this town, but two more
than half have died under 20. In every thoufand people under 20, there-
fore, 3000 years of life are gained. Among 125 ooo, 375,000 years are
gained. Were all the people through this State as healthy as the people
in North Haven have been for forty years paft, the bill of mortality for
the whole State would be but about 3000. But the bills of mortality in
the more populous towns and cities are greater; fo that upon the belt
calculation which can be made, the annual bill, upon an average, is be-
tween four and five thoufands. This is but about one half of the num-
ber which die through the world, in general, according to the common
eftimate. This is not owing wholly to the healthinefs of the climate, but
to the manners and comfortable living of the people. In Great Britain
and in other parts of the world, where the climates are as healthy as in
New England, the bills of mortality are much greater. The luxury of
the great and opulent, fhortens their lives, and renders their children
lefs healthful and vigorous. The taking them off from the breafts of the
mother, and putting them unnaturally to others, to fuckle and nurfe, is.
doubtlefs, a further injury to life. The great poverty, low living, harcl-
fhips, and vices of the people of the lower claffes in life, fliorten their
days. But in New England, none are fo poor, or neceffarily fubject to
fuch hardfhips as to fliorten their days. Their general temperance,
regular and fober manner of living, their tender care and nurling of their
children, are, under God, the great means of their extraordinary popu-
lation, health, and longevity. The fear of the Lord prolongeth days.
Temperance, chaftity, a contented and quiet mind, and peaceful and
righteous conduct, a chearful confidence in God, and the reviving hope
of his everlafting mercy, all unite their influence to fecure and promote
the natural life and happinefs of man. Were there no world but this,
the human race, would, no doubt, be moft happy, in the belief and prac-
tice of all things which God hath revealed or commanded.

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not one member of congrefs, nor judge of our courts, has
died the year pah, and but one miniiler of the gofpelf, and
not be deeply affected with the divine patience and good-
nefs? Are we alive amidft all the ravages of time and
death, to celebrate the commencement of a New Year and
Century; and is the voice of health and peace heard in
our habitations, and (hall we not ferve the Lord with glad-
nefs? Shall we not enter into his gates with thankfgiving,
and into his courts with praife ? Should not every heart
expand with gratitude, and every tongue ling hallelujah?
Shall we not, like the pfalmift, remember God's wonders of old,
meditate of all his works, and talk of his doings ? Shall not this
be the univerfal ftudy, What skull J render unto the Lord for
all his benefits ?

While we weep over the graves of our anceftors, and
contemplate the revolutions of time and ravages of death,
fhall we not ferioully think of our own diffolution ? How
foon time may be with us no more? Shall we not learn
how frail we are ? How precious is every moment of time ?
And how necelTary to prepare for death without delay ? Do
we fee kings, counfellors and judges of the earth, the wife,
the ftrongfthe young and beautiful covered with duft and
worms? Do we' know that we fhall foon be like them, and
fhall we not be clothed with humility?

Now we have clofed another year and century, with
what ferioufnefs fhould we reflect, that fuch an important
portion of time, all its fabbaths and opportunities are part
never to be recalled ? That time has borne us on fo much
nearer to death, judgment, and our final doom ? How
ferioully fhould every one enquire, am I prepared for thefe
great events ? Do my preparations bear any proportion to
the rapid advances I am making towards them ? What if
this year fhould be my laft ? What would be my condition ?
What my company? Where fhould I make my everlaftmg
abode ?

We are now advanced to a new year and century. The
events of it will be vail and momentous. Old kingdoms
and hates will link, and new ones rife. Millions will die,
and millions be born, and the whole earth be peopled with
new inhabitants. States which are now fmall, may, by the
clofe of the prefent century, out-number the greatefl king-
doms in Europe. The inhabitants of the United States, at
their ufual rate of population, will in an hundred years,
amount to ninety-fix millions^. In the fame period, more

f The Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, of New Milford, who died December
9, 1800, in the 79th year of his age.

\ On fuppofition that the inhabitants of the United States now

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than twice the number of mankind now upon the face of
the earth will be ("wept away by the hand of death. Sol-
emn thought! All the intelligence, literature, wifdom.life
and beauty, now upon earth will be no more! ! ! If Xerxes,
when he took a view of his army of feventeen hundred
thoufand men, from a lofty eminence, wept at the reflection,
that in one age they would all be dead; how fliould our
hearts melt and our eyes run down with tears at the prof-
pect before us ? In this we fee our own funerals, the deaths
of our children, and of all our friends.

From pall and prefent appearances, and from a general
view of the prophcies, the prefent century will be one of
the moll eventful and interefting periods, in which God, in
rapid fucceflion, will be carrying into execution his judg-
ments againil his enemies, and effecting the great events
preparatory to the commencement of a new, more pure,
peaceful and glorious Hate of the church.

With refpect to ourselves, we know that we fhall never
fee another century, we may not fee another year. We know
not what a day, much lefs what a year may bring forth.
From the profpect which has been exhibited, you perceive
that thoufands will die in this State, before another year,
and numbers among ourfelves. Some of us — who, and how
man) 7 , God only knows, mull exchange worlds and go to
judgment. With refpect to fuch as fhall furvive, they may
be called to lay their dearell enjoyments in the grave, or
wounds, licknefs, or misfortunes, wearifome nights, and
days, and months of vanity may be appointed unto them.
How highly, therefore, does it concern us all to begin the
year with God; with an immediate preparation for the
events of it, whatever they may be ? With what an entire
fubmiflion to the divine will, with refpect to all the occur-
rences of the year, and of time itfelf, fliould we enter
upon fuch a period ? While we behold the rage of the
wicked, the tumult and confufion of the nations, how the
floods have lifted up themfelves, their voice and their
waves, how fliould we rejoice, that the Lord on high, is might-
ier than the noise of many waters; yea, than the mighty waves of the
sea ? That he reigneth and will reign for ever ? That alt the vast

amount to fix millions, and that they double once in 25 years, they will,
in 1S25, be 12 millions; in 1S50. 24 millions; in 1S75, 4S millions; and, at
the clofe of the prefent century, 96 millions.

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concerns of the universe are in his hands, and that he will govern

them for his own glory, and the good of his holy kingdom ?

As our conduct may have great influence on the count-
lefs millions of thoie who fhall be born, live and die after
us, and on the prefent and future happinefs of our country,
how pioufly, righteoufly, and circumspectly fhould we live ?
What great and united exertions fhould be made for the
instruction, pious and good education of young people, and
to make the generations to come, wife, ufeful and good ?
With what pains, prayerfulnefs and perfeverance fhould all
chriftians exert themfelves to diffufe chriftian knowledge,
and, as far as pofiible, to fpread the gofpel to the ends of
the earth ? The honor of God, his love to men, the falva-
tions he hath granted unto us and our fathers, the diftin-
guifhing privileges, and countlefs bleftings we now enjoy,
love to God, to our country, and to fuch an innumerable
multitude of human beings, combine all their energies, and
prefs us to thofe duties.

We are now, probably, under the pouring out of the laft
part of the iixth vial. The fpirit of devils is, doubtlefs,
gone forth, and is ftill going forth unto the kings of the
earth, and to the whole world, to gather them unto the bat-
tle of the great day of God Almighty. The battle is prob-
ably began, and will ftill be fought with greater fury and
wider deftruction. The ten kings will deftroy the Romifh
anti-chrifl, burn her with fire, and then, according to the
prophecies, go into perdition themfelves. The Turkifh em-
pire the other great oppofer of God, and perfecutor of the
faints, will fall with the harlot of Babylon. The judgments
of God in the century pad, and at prefent, are remarkably
upon it, and it is not lets rapidly declining than the papal
intereft. Conftantinople has been eighteen times on fire, the
laft century, in which, more than 120,000 thoufand houfes,
beiides other buildings, were burnt, with 8000 inhabitants.
In 1750, it was vifited with the plague, in which it loll 7000
people. The next year it was almoft deftroyed by an earth-
quake, in which 3000 more perifhed. Other principal cities
and extenfive countries have been overthrown, and in a
manner ruined, by earthquakes*. The plague at feveral

* Auguft 22, 1752, the city of Adrianople, the fecond in opulence and
population, in the empire, was. the greateit part of it, deftroyed by an
earthquake. September 2. 1754, Grand Cairo had two thirds of its build-
ings fhaken down, and 40000 people fwallowed up. In 1755, Fez, in
Morocco, was half deftroyed by an earthquake, and 12 000 Arabs were
buried in its ruins. A few years fince that part of the country was
almoft defolated by the plague. Tippoo Saib and his people, lately con-
quered by Great Britain, were Mahometans. Thefe judgments have all
been executed upon people of that denomination.

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times, in various parts of the empire, hath fwept away vafl
numbers of the inhabitants. Ruflia has made important
eonqueils within it, and greatly impoveriihed and weak-
ened the Turks. The French, in their invaiion and conqueft
of Egypt and the adjacent countries, have flain a prodig-
ious number of people, and feduced many others to rebel
and take arms againft the empire. They are progreiiing in
their conquefts, and threaten it with deftruction. At the
fame time, the rebellion and victories of PalTawan Oglou
are of an afpect no lefs menacing. In this tumult of the
nations and wreck of empires, it is reasonable to expect
that the church will experience days of perplexity and
danger. Fortitude, circumfpection, patience, zeal, prayer-
fulnei's and felf-denial, will, therefore, be of the higheft
neceliity. The language of the Saviour to his church, at
this period, is, Behold I come as a thief : Blessed is he that watch-
eth and keepeth his garments, test he walk naked, and they see his
shame.

To conclude, while I alk your acceptance of my grate-
ful acknowledgments, for all the refpect, kindnefs, and fup-
port which I have received from you, in the courfe of my
miniflry, with great paftoral affection, and delire for your
welfare, I wifli you a happy New Year. May it indeed, be
a year of the richeft bleiiings to you and your families.
Especially, may it be a year of fpiritual quickening, peace
and falvation to all this flock, to this town and State, to
the United States, and the whole Ifrael of God. That we
may enjoy the fmiles, and abide under the fhadow of the
Almighty, let us remember his wonders of old. Let us meditate also
of all his works, and talk of his doings. Let the end of years
and centuries remind us of the end of time, and of all
things; of the judgment of the great day, and the ineffa-
ble fcenes of eternity: and let us all be prepared for them.
Whoso is wise, and will observe those things, even they shall under-
stand the loving kindness of the Lord.

amen.

REPORT.

To the Town of North Haven:

Your committee appointed at the annual town meeting in
1897 to "consider the advisability of recognizing in a public man-
ner the arrival of the Twentieth Century," beg leave to report
that they have attended to the duty assigned them, and offer this

volume as evidence.

Robert X. Barnes,
Robert O. Eaton,
Sheldon P>. Thorpe,

Signed.

Jared B. Bassett,
Frederic E. Jacobs,
Joseph Pierpont,

George B. Todd.

CONTENTS.

Introduction,

Town Officials, .

The Praise Service, . . . .

Century Sermon. The Rev. William G. Lathrop,

Membership. Congregational Church, .

Y. P. S. C. E , .

Ladies' Benevolent Society,

King's Daughters, ..

" Happy Hour " Circle,
Century Sermon. The Rev. Charles W. Jackson,
Membership. Union Baptist Church,
" Ladies' Aid Society,

Workers' Mission Band, .
Union Mission Chapel. Clintonville,
Century Sermon The Rev. Louis A. Parsons
Communicants. St. John's (Episcopal) Church,
Membership. Ladies' Guild, ....

Daughters of the King,

Brotherhood St. Andrew,
Parishioners. St. Mary's Catholic Church,
Building Statistics, ....
The Bradley Library,
Montowese Literary Society, .
The W. C. T. U.,
O. U. A. M.,
A. O. U. W.,

Citizens' Benefit Association, .
Patrons of Husbandry,
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Veteran Soldiers of the Civil War.
Public Schools, ....

Post Offices,

Twentieth Century Concert,

California Gold Hunters, .

Clover Dairy Farm, .

Village Improvement Association,

Peter's Rock, ....

Old Home Week,
Address of Welcome. Hon. R. (). Eaton,
Historical Address. Sheldon \'>. Thorpe,
Collation, .......

Century Sermcn, Benjamin Trumbull D.D

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ILLUSTRATIONS.

PORTRAITS.

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Andrews, Dr. Judson B.,

Austin, Andrew F.,

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Barnes, Herbert, ....

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Bassett, Aaron,

Bidwell, Dr. E. H.,

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Bigelow, Hon. H. B.,

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Blakeslee, Evelyn, .

Henry M., . .

Hobart, ....

John H., .

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Bradley, Clara E , .

" Frederic C. , . . .

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Brockett, Charles A., . .

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Burke, Michael E, .

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Burke, Michael,

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Clinton, Anson B., ...

David L., ...

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Cooper, George H ,

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Dickerman, William E.,

Eaton, RobertO., ....

Theophilus

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Elliott, Whitney, . .

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Fowler, Henry B., . . .

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Oswin H. D., .

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Frost, Clarence N., . . . .

Goodyear, E. D. S., . . . .

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Robert B., . . .

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Hall, Frank E

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Harrison, ElizurC, .

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Hemingway, Edgar A

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Hemingway, L. R., . . . . 111

Hyde, Albert A., 34

Jackson, The Rev. C. W , . . 43

Jacobs, Frederic E , . . . . n

Lathrop, The Rev. W. G. . . 21

Mrs. W. G , . . . . 41

Leete, William P., 123

Linsley, Edward L., ... 140

Romanta T., . .

Solomon F

Lnsk, The Rev. William, .

Mansfield, Isaac E , . . .

Marks, Marcus D., ...

Nathan H., ...

Merz, George J., 13

Patton, D. Walter, .... 8

Parsons, The Rev. L. A., . . 63

Pierpont, Joseph, 71

Potter, Hubert F 71

Reynolds, Annie M., .... 122

The Rev. James B., 122

" John F 106

Roberts, William B., . . . . 13

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72

105

1 1

Smith, H. P. 73

Stiles, Pres. Ezra, . . Frontispiece

Frank L., 132

" Frederic H 16

" Isaac L., 9S

Thorpe, Arthur B., .... 105

" Gardiner E 142

Sheldon B 155

Todd, George B 139

" Henry D 107

Trumbull, The Rev. Benjamin, 1S6

Turner, Charles N. 107

Tuttle, L. Peet 9

Warner. E. C. 149

ILLUSTRATIONS.

207

RESIDENCES.

PAGE

Barnes, R. N S6

Birthplace Governor Bigelow, 151

Bishop, Mrs. Ann E 1S4

Bradley, Eri (homestead), . 1 - 1

F. C , S9

BrocksieperSisters (homestead), 56

Dickerman William E., . . . 136

Eaton Brothers (homestead), . 52

Gillette, Merton, 93

Goodyear, E. D. S., ... 91

Dr. R. B SS

Hemingway, L. R., S5

Hermitage, .... . . 143

Leete, William P., 93

Leete (old tavern), ... 172

Linsley, E. L. (estate), ... So

S. F., " ... 91

R. T 87

Parsonage. First Ecclesiasti-
cal Society, 3S

Patton, D. W 134

Pardee, Edwin H., .... 58

Phelps, Penn, est. (demolished), 166

Pierpont, Edwards (birthplace), 133

Joseph, 127

Potter, Hubert F., ..... . S4

Reynolds, Rev. W. T (estate), 68

Roberts, William B., . . . . 95

Shepherd, Mrs Sarah, ... 94

Smith, H. P., 31

•' John (demolished), . . 166

Stiles, Frank L., 92

Thorpe, Dennis (estate), . . 1S1

Charles H., .... 87

" Sheldon B., . . . . 90

Tuttle, L. Peet 36

CHURCHES, ETC.

PAGE

Baptist Church, .... 50

Catholic Church, Hamden, Si

Clintonville Union Chapel, . 59
Congregational Church (second

building), 154

Congregational Church (third

building) 20

Congregational Church (inter'r) 15

St. John's Church, .... 62

Congregational Church (1S95), 1S0

VIEWS, ETC.

STREET SCENES.

Trolley car. Montowese, . . 50
" Cowles' Corner," .... 75
Near Mansfield's bridge, . . 116
N. Y., N. H. & H. R R, cross-
ing 169

Broadway, 205

VIEWS.

South half old Green, ... 32
North half old Green and Cem-
etery 66

Old Cemetery, 66

Railroad and Highway bridge

over Muddy River, .... 55
Mill dam and scenery on the

Muddy River 60

Present Cemetery, .... 106

Memorial Hall, 96

The Green, 77

Quinnipiac River, 12S

Old Mill on Muddy River, . . 153

Peter's Rock, 144

Clover Dairy Farm, . . . . 135

Trumbull Monument, . . . 160

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