Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871 · scan page 7

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HISTORICAL
NOTICE.
The
First Cliiirch of Christ
in New Haven
is?
c.oev.il with the
town.
On the
l.")th of April (Old Style)
IdriS,
the
first
settlers of
the town, hivinir jn>t
landtM]
;it
the
phire which they
rhosen
for their home, assembled for public worship under the anidnnce of
their chosen minister
:
anvl from
that
time onward, tliey continued
to worship God as a Christian assembly.
For about fourteen months, the ecclesiastical and
civil
atlairs
of
the community were
conducted
under
a
provisional
arranLfement
or
plantation covenant."
On
the
Ith of .fune lO.
S.),
atter
much
deliberation and
pr;iyer
concernin'i"
t!ie
tonus
in which
a
permanent
or'j:inization should
be
instituted,
" all
tlie
free
plant-
ers" ai^reed
in the choice of twelve men who were
to
select
tVoni
ainoniT themselves seven
: and
to those seven was
Cfjmmitted
the
trust of institutin'j,
in
coutbnuity with
liie word
of (iod,
tirst
the
ecclesiastical
order,
and
afterwards
th;.'
civil
orixanizatioii
and
'overnment of their commonwealth.
Theophilus Katon, Jolm Da-
V(Miport, Robert New-n m, M ittiiew Gilberv, Tho'uas
Fuciil!, John
Punderson,
and
Jeremiaii
Dixon.
havi»i'r
been
selecl'.'d
for
that
trust, were the
original members of
t!ie ('hurrh.
It has been
received by tradition, thou jh no
autlieutic record of
the
date
remains,
that
the
orijanization
of
tJie Church
w,-,^ com-
pleteil on the
>Jl.st of Auifust
( O. S.
i
in th«
s.ime yoar.
Dr. (.'ottou
M itlier, in his M iL^nalia
ipubli:5hiMl
ITOOi, says of this Church and
tli*^ First (>hurc!i
in Mihbrd, that
tiiey w.^x- b(;th
•T:a}iered at New
Haven, and were
LTii'^hered in two
(iay-j, .jue
f.
i'o'.vinir upon the
other, ami with this one smjxnlar circumsrance, that
a n:iirhty barn
was the place wherein the duties of that
sol.Mnnlty were p'-rf Truerl.
The records of
tlie
Miltord
('liuroii
- ly.
*''l'iie (Jimrdi
(d' C.ir:>t at
Miltord was
first frathere.! at
X«-'w Haven upon Aui^ust
'j'i,
lii-^l).*'
o

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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P008-0007. Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871, printed page not verified, PDF page 7. New Haven (Conn.). First Church of Christ; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/manualoffirstchu00newh_0/page/n7/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.

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