Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West .. . second churchedifice was built in 1706. The outlines of its foundation, aboutforty feet square, may be seen opposite the post-office. RachelKibbe, 1688-1786, who married first Jonathan Bush, 1681-1746,and secondly Lieutenant John Meacham, remembered the raisingof this second meeting house when she was eighteen years old,and said there was a great frolick which lasted three days. Shewas the grandmother
Memorial of Captain Thomas Abbey, his ancestors and descendants of the Abbey family, pathfinders, soldiers and pioneer settlers of Connecticut, its Western Reserve in Ohio and the great West .. . second churchedifice was built in 1706. The outlines of its foundation, aboutforty feet square, may be seen opposite the post-office. RachelKibbe, 1688-1786, who married first Jonathan Bush, 1681-1746,and secondly Lieutenant John Meacham, remembered the raisingof this second meeting house when she was eighteen years old,and said there was a great frolick which lasted three days. Shewas the grandmother of Hannah Bush, 1744-1801, wife of ColonelAmos Alden, and died in her 100th year. JONATHAN EDWARDSS FAMOUS ENFIELD SERMON. The second church building has an honorable place in thereligious history of America. It was there, on July 8, 1741, thatJonathan Edwards preached his famous Enfield sermon, Sinnersin the Hands of an Angry God. This sermon was the high-tidein a revival known as The Great Awakening, commenced inhis own church at Northampton, Mass., which swept over thewhole of New England. The great preacher was born in EastWindsor, about nine miles from Enfield Church, on October 5,. THE BIRTHPLACE OF JONATHAN very expensive house, decorated with many elegant ornaments,it took a year to build, was completed about January 1, 1697, and1 stood until 1813.—Stiless Ancient Windsor. 27
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