New Haven · Printed church death lists
Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871 · scan page 115
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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Fonrv Whitinc,
Thomas Howell,
Stephen Ball,
Samuel Darling,
fuHN Hub BARD,
Stephf.n Twining,
Nathan Whiting,
SCOVIL Hi N.MAN,
Samuel J. Hitchcock,
Charles Bryan Whittelsey,
Henry White,
Lewis Hotchkiss,
Alfred Walker,
Joseph Wood,
Francis Bradley,
Edward E. Salisbury,
Alexander C. Twining,
Chester S. Lyman,
Charles Barnes Whittlesey,
Chauncey Goodrich,
Leonard Jacob Sankorp,
Chosen.
Died.
1756
1786
1771
1797
1771
1799
1786
1842
1797 (resigned 1628)
1839?
1809
1832
1819
J 848
1826
1860
1833
1845
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1849
1833
1845
J 859
1845
1848
1856
1848
(resigned 1857)
1849 (resigned 1862)
1856
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1857
1857
18(-2
1868
1862
STANDI N G
C O M M
I T T E E
At the institution of this Cliurch. the office of
Rulinir Elder was
considered
;i stated othce. having duties distinct from those devolv-
ing on the
{):istor and te;icher.
It w;is tlie chief work of the} Rulini:
Elder, with the advice and aid of tlie otfier overseers of the Church,
to
pre[)are
all
matters
of business
for
the hearinor
•'vnd action
ot
the brotherhood.
In the declensions and
chan^fcs
which
tbllowed
the death of th^^
first fath^^rs of New Ennrhmd, this office was grad-
ually disused.
In this Church, Robert Newman seeuis to have been ruling elder
in 1644, and for some time afterwards.
No person appears to have
sustained the office after the removal of Mr. Davenport.
The
reirulations
respectinir the Standing Committee, assigningCite this page
Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P008-0115. Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871, printed page not verified, PDF page 115. New Haven (Conn.). First Church of Christ; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/manualoffirstchu00newh_0/page/n115/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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