New Haven · Membership and death references
Davenport Church manual, 1863 · scan page 19
Uncorrected OCR. Name spellings, dates, symbols and column order may be wrong. Verify against the original scan. Small membership and officer catalogue, including a death notation for James C. Brown. Most entries are living members; this is not a burial register.
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3 COVENANT. You do now enter into covenant with God, confiding in and thankfully accepting liia offer to bo your God, your Father, Redeemer and Sanctifler. You promise that with the help which he covenants to give to his people, you will endeavor to lead a life of Bobriety, righteousness and godliness, bringing into sub- jection your natural appetites and desires, cultivating a Spirit of justice and kindness toward your fellow-men, seek- ing to have daily communion with God in secret, honoring him witli filial confidence and obedience, giving up your- self and all that you have to him and his service. You promise that you will diligently attend on the wor- ship and BacramentS of the Church of Christ, that you will faithfully employ and meekly receive its discipline, and that BO long a.- you continue a member of this particular Church, you will endeavor to promote its purity, peace and usefulness. Thus you promise? Then do we, the members of this Church, likewise promise that with the help of the great Head of the Church, we will walk with you in love and helpfulness, endeav- oring to aid you in the Christian life by our prayers and fraternal watchfulness, expecting the Same offices in return. May (lod enable us to be mutually faithful in this cove- nant through Jesus Christ our Lord ; to whom be glory forever. — Amln.
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P006-0019. Davenport Church manual, 1863, printed page not verified, PDF page 19. New Haven (Conn.). Davenport Congregational Church; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/manualofchurchin00newh/page/n19/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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