. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. ir places. The clmrch over which Mr. installed in lOOi was formed before, in 1(152, bv his brother-in-law, Rev, Roger Newton, and six oth(;rpious nun, known as the Seven Pil-lars of the church. On the first , iO,So, llu- church record shows anu-mliersliip of ilfty-seviii. Some oflluse, no doulil, were attracted hitherby our , fertile meadows, but nian\had lui-n numbers of the church of theRev. TIioiiKis ;.iker in Hartford. .\f-tcr liis dealli. when differences arose,some of llu- clinrch had go

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. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. ir places. The clmrch over which Mr. installed in lOOi was formed before, in 1(152, bv his brother-in-law, Rev, Roger Newton, and six oth(;rpious nun, known as the Seven Pil-lars of the church. On the first , iO,So, llu- church record shows anu-mliersliip of ilfty-seviii. Some oflluse, no doulil, were attracted hitherby our , fertile meadows, but nian\had lui-n numbers of the church of theRev. TIioiiKis ;.iker in Hartford. .\f-tcr liis dealli. when differences arose,some of llu- clinrch had gone with El-der William (loodwin to Hadley. and atlength had followed him to this townlo sit under the ministry of the son ofIheir beloved Here died bolderGoodwin; and here, after a pastorateof ihirty-six years, died the Rev. Sam-uel Hooker, as the record reads, on thesixth day of November about one ofthe clock in the morning, A. D. 1697,at the age of about sixty-four years, buried in the ancient burial ground. 88 FARMINGTON, .t^:::^^ ?nii: uii II \i;ii i; \\ i:

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