New Haven · Printed church death lists
Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871 · scan page 13
Uncorrected OCR. Name spellings, dates, symbols and column order may be wrong. Verify against the original scan. Bound volume includes named death lists for 1869 and 1870: 16 and 11 deaths, plus an Eliza Allen correction. These 28 references are separately transcribed. Church member deaths do not establish burial location.
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1 8 Cho8Gn. Died • John Whiting, 1786 Thomas Ho wKr.u 1771 1797 Stephen Ball, 1771 - - 1799 Samuel Darling, 1786 184'> JuHN HrBBARD, 1707 (resijrned 18'28) I8;il>' Stephkn Twining, 1809 - Nathan Whiting, 1819 1848 ScoviL IIinman, 1826 i8(;o SaML el J. HiCHCOCK, 1833 1845 Charles Bryan Whittelsef, 183:] 1849 Henrv White, 1833 Lewis Hotchkiss, 1845 1859 Alfred Walker, 1845 - Joseph Wood, 1848 1856 Francis Bradley 1848 (resigned 1857) Edward E. Salisbury, 1849 (resigned 18t)2) Alexander C. Twining, 1856 Chester S. Lyman, 1857 Charles Barnes Whittlesey, J 857 Chauncey Goodrich, I8r^2 . - 18()8 Leonard Jacob Sanford, 18()2 STANDING COMMITTEE. At the institution of this Cliurcli, the office of Rulincr Ehier was j considered a stated office, having duties distinct from those devolv- i ing on the pastor and teacher. It was the chief work of the Ruling j Elder, with the advice and aid of the other overseers of the Church, I to prepare all niattors of business for the hearing and action of j the brotherhood. In the declensions and chanf::cs which followed : the death of the first fathers of New England, this office was grad- ually disused. In this Church, Robert Newman seems to have been ruling elder in 1()44, and for some time alter wards. No person appears to have sustained the office after the removal of Mr. Davpuport. , The regulations respecting tlie Standing Committee, assigning
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P008-0013. Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871, printed page not verified, PDF page 13. New Haven (Conn.). First Church of Christ; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/manualoffirstchu00newh_0/page/n13/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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