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Center Church historical catalogue, 1639–1914 · scan page 228

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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2l6  FIRST   CHURCH,    NEW    HAVEN
0000.  c    Catharine  Wales  (Seth  Perkins)   Staples
See  1896.
2688.  c    Frances  Ann  Staples  Dism.   1844
Daughter  of  Seth  Perkins  and  Catharine  (1896)  ;    married  David
A.    Comstock.     Admitted    from    the    Bleecker    Street    Presbyterian
Church,  N.  Y.  City.     Dismissed  to  a  church  in  N.  Y.  City.    *Aug.,
1850.
0000.  c    Mary  Chapman  Truman
See  22,'J2,.
December  30.    2689.    Edward  Lucas  Hart        Dism.  May,  1847
Son  of   Rev.   Lucas  and   Harriet  Morris    (2669)  ;   born   in  East
Haven,  Dec,  1813.     Yale  Coll.  1836.     Husband  of  2690.     Dismissed
to  the  church  in  Berlin,  1840.     Re-admitted  from  that  church,  Apr.,   j
1844.     Dismissed  to  the  church  in  Farmington.     *May,   1876.  1
2690.    Nancy  Champion  Hooker  (Edward  Lucas)  Hart
Dism.  May,  1847
Daughter  of  2694  and  2695;    born  in  Middlebury,  Vt.,  Oct.,  1813;
wife     of     2689.       Dismissed     to     the     church     in     Berlin,     1840.
Re-admitted,  Apr.,    1844.     Dismissed  to  the  church  in  Farmington.
*July,   1880.
1839
January  6.    0000.  c    Thaddeus  Sherman
See   1928.
February  3.    2691.  c    Mary  Ann  Hull  (Thomas)   Bennett
*Jan.,  1902
Daughter  of   Elisha  and  Huldah ;    born   Apr.,    1818;    mother  of
3230,  3405,  3406,  3571  and  ZIZZ-     Admitted  from  the  United  Church.
2692.  c    Eliza  Sidell  (Thomas  Leonard)  Chester
Dism.  Dec,  1849
Born    Sept.,    1796;    wife    of   2937.     Admitted    from   the    Broome
Street    Reformed    Dutch    Church,    N.    Y.    City.     Dismissed    to   the
Bleecker  Street  Presbyterian  Church,  N.  Y.  City.     *i8 — .
2693.  c    Flora  Dixon  (colored)  Dism.  June,  i860
Married     Henry     Freeman.        Admitted     from     the     church     in
Cheshire.     Dismissed    to    the    same    church.     *i8 — .
March  3.    2694.  c    William  Griswold  Hooker  *Sept.,  1850
Son  of  Noadiah  and  Rebekah,  of  Farmington;  born  Sept.,  1782;
husband  of  2695;  father  of  2518,  2676,  and  2690.  Admitted  from
the  Free,  now  Plymouth  Church.

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P001-0228. Center Church historical catalogue, 1639–1914, printed page not verified, PDF page 228. Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, 1842-1920. cn; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/historicalcatalo00dext/page/n228/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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