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Center Church historical catalogue, 1639–1914 · scan page 178

Uncorrected OCR. Name spellings, dates, symbols and column order may be wrong. Verify against the original scan. Membership catalogue with death dates and family notes. Entries before 1685 are partly reconstructed; admission dates are not death dates. It does not establish cemetery of burial.

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1 66  FIRST    CHURCH,    NEW    HAVEN
21 12.  c    Samuel  Finley  Breese  Morse  Dism.   1836
Son    of    21 11;     born    in    Charlestown,    Mass.,    Apr.,    1791.      Yale
Coll.    1810.      Husband    of    21 13.      Admitted    from    the    church    in
Charlestown.     Dismissed  to  a  church  in  N.  Y.  City.     *Apr.,  1872.
21 13.  c    Lucretia  Pickering  Walker  (Samuel  Finley  Breese)
Morse  *Feb.,   1825
Daughter  of  Charles  and  Hannah,  of  Concord,  N.  H. ;  born
1799;    wife  of  21 12.     Admitted   from  the  church  in  Concord.
July  I.    2114.  c    Benjamin  L.  Hamlen  *May,  1864
Born  in  Lenox,  Mass.,  1790;  husband  of  21 15.  Admitted  from
the  1st  Church,  Hartford.
2115.  c    Abigail  Goff  (Benjamin  L.)  Hamlen      *Apr.,  1876
Born  1787;    wife  of  21 14.
21 16.  c    Mabel   (Samuel)   Hitchcock        *  Dism.  ?
Mother  of  2058,  2254  and  2267.     Admitted   from  the  church  in
Hamden.    *i8 — .
September  2.    2117.  c    Elizabeth  B asset t  (Jared)  Atwater
*Sept.,  1825
Daughter  of  Amos;    born   1796;    wife  of   1987.     Admitted   from
the  church  in  Hamden.
2 1 18.  c    Cornelia  Whiting  (Rodney)   Burton
Care  withdrawn,  Dec,  1827
Born  1797.     Admitted  from  the  church  in  Stratford.     United  with
the  Baptist  Church  in  Stratford.     *Nov.,  1880.
September  16.    21 19.  c    Sally  Cowels  Dism.  1831
Admitted  from  the  ist  Methodist  Church.  Married  John  Hemp-
sted.  Dismissed  to  the  3d  Church.  Removed  to  Edinburg,  O.,
1839.     *i8— .
September  30.    2120.    Daniel  S.  Barnes  *March,  1883
Son  of  George  and  Sarah;  born  in  Middletown,  Apr.,  1798;
husband  of  2263.
2121.  Harriet  Brigden  Dism.  June,  1839
Dismissed  to  the  church  in  Painesville,  O.    Married  Henry  Pitner.
*i87-.
2122.  Augustus  Buckingham  Dism.  July,  1823
Dismissed  to  the  church  in  Exeter,  N.  Y.     *i8 — .
2123.  Mason  A.  Durand  *May,  1832
Born  1796;    husband  of  1993.

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P001-0178. Center Church historical catalogue, 1639–1914, printed page not verified, PDF page 178. Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 1842-1920. cn; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/historicalcatalo00dext/page/n178/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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