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Identifier: oldnewenglandchu00bacouoft (find matches)
Title: Old New England churches and their children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bacon, Mary Schell (Hoke), 1870-
Subjects: New England -- Church history
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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words of a member of the family, if Connecticut couldnt remember the Wyllysestheir memory might rot. The first womanburied in the ground without was Martha Town-send. In death the members of the colony seemedto seek proximity to each other even as in life theyhad pressed together for mutual protection andhelp. The record gives sixteen bodies to sixteensquare feet. In 1784 much that was unseemly for so fair aspot was removed, in time the Green being clearedof pound and jail and almshouse and the stocks.When those reminders of misfortune were gonethe beautiful Common became sacred to the threechurches now occupying its middle space. It was Mrs. Tuttle who first gave the name Cityof Elms to New Haven, and her poetic thoughthad its inception in the gift of elm trees fromWilliam Cooper to James Pierpont, the preacher.Then, too, there was the Franklin Elm, ac-quired from Jerry Allen by Thaddeus Beecherfor a pint of rum and some trifles. It wasplanted on the day of Benjamin Franklins death.
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CENTRE CHURCH. NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUTThe Memorial which allegorically tells the story of the churchs beginning Centre Church, New Haven, Conn. 311 Few places are so rich in tradition as this placeof the Green. It was there that BenedictArnold assembled the Governors Guard to leadthem to Cambridge to swell the patriot army.Here Lafayette reviewed troops and Washingtonpassed to church at Trinity. To tell half itslegends would require much space. Those namesfirmest linked with New Haven history are foundfor the most part chronicled upon the churchwalls. They are Davenport, Eaton, Hooke, Pier-pont, Hayes, Street, Whittelsey, Taylor, Bacon,Stewart, Dana, Trowbridge, Hillhouse, Austin,and many more. The symbolic window above the pulpit tells ingorgeous colour the whole splendid story—Daven-port preaching beneath the oak, the seven menwho planned the future of the church symbolisedby the seven-branched candlestick, the armedmen, listening women, and awe-smitten children;the story of the wi

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