. Powers-Banks ancestry, traced in all lines to the remotest date obtainable, Charles Powers, 1819-1871, and his wife Lydia Ann Banks, 1829-1919. not original. A picture is givenin G. H. Merwins Old Church and Parish of Greenfield, a read-able volume. Soon after the completion of the new building — theparish was perhaps in a generous mood — Samuel Bradley, prob-ably the elder, a cousin of Davids, gave a beautiful silver tankardto the church, still in use; the date is 1768. Samuel died in died 13 May, 1772. The inventory of his estate is 125i. David Bradley had eleven children: Eunic
. Powers-Banks ancestry, traced in all lines to the remotest date obtainable, Charles Powers, 1819-1871, and his wife Lydia Ann Banks, 1829-1919. not original. A picture is givenin G. H. Merwins Old Church and Parish of Greenfield, a read-able volume. Soon after the completion of the new building — theparish was perhaps in a generous mood — Samuel Bradley, prob-ably the elder, a cousin of Davids, gave a beautiful silver tankardto the church, still in use; the date is 1768. Samuel died in died 13 May, 1772. The inventory of his estate is 125i. David Bradley had eleven children: Eunice, 1732; Justus,1734; Ellen, 1736; Olive, baptized 24 September, 1738; David,\7AQ; Damaris, 1742; Justus. 1745; Nathan, 1748; Mary, 1750;Bettie, 1753; Peter, 1756. The younger boys who worked on thechurch must have been Justus and Nathan. Olive Bradley married Thaddeus Banks 1 November, children are listed under the name of her husband. It is tobe noted that three of the names of the boys are from her family. A word more regarding the church in Greenfield. Its mostfamous pastor was Timothy Dwight, later president of Yale. His. Church Bradley Banks THE BANKS LINE 239 pastorate covered twelve years, 1783 to 1795. During much ofthe time he conducted also an academy of his own eyesight was poor and he had to save himself as much as hecould. The church records for those years are altogether want-ing. While he was in Greenfield he composed the larger part ofhis literary, as compared with his more theological work, excepthis Travels, the work of his late years and not published untilafter his death. He published in Greenfield The Conquest ofCanaan, his most ambitious poem. The Bradleys of Fairfield seem to have been rather prom-inent in church affairs but not, like the Golds and the Burrs, inColony matters; probably not in town politics either. DAVISES OF FAIRFIELD The wife of David Bradley was Damaris Davis. The originof the Fairfield Davises i
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