. Connecticut historical collections, containing a general collection of interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c. relating to the history and antiquities of every town in Connecticut, with geographical descriptions . died in lliis town April lOth, 1796, aged 57 years. Their fourth NEW M I I, F 0 H D , 479 and now olTiciating elder, is Mr. Daniel Iline. lie has been ordained over ihem 1years. [This society continued to maintain a sepaiate woishi)) till about llie year1812, when liavmg become very .small, the niembeis, un the lecommendatinn ( it isunderstood) of el
. Connecticut historical collections, containing a general collection of interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c. relating to the history and antiquities of every town in Connecticut, with geographical descriptions . died in lliis town April lOth, 1796, aged 57 years. Their fourth NEW M I I, F 0 H D , 479 and now olTiciating elder, is Mr. Daniel Iline. lie has been ordained over ihem 1years. [This society continued to maintain a sepaiate woishi)) till about llie year1812, when liavmg become very .small, the niembeis, un the lecommendatinn ( it isunderstood) of elder Iline, dissolved the society, and the juineipal part of them joinedeither the Presbyterian society or the Baptisis.]—The next reii^ious denominationthat may be mentioned are the Baptists. It is but quite lately that communion as-sumed the appearance of a regular society here. A small eluirch was loimed, and ahouse of worship built in the lower end of the town, called the INeek, [now Bndge-valer society,] about 11 or 12 years ago; but they never had an elder settled overthem, and within a few years past they sold their house and chielly removed out otthe town. A few scattered individuals remain, but no stated worship is South view of Neiv Miljhrd, {central part.) incwhidi iseis, Jheviison. Betwthe town, Jul iuctfiouilhe town,ihv Jricu they sold their house and pi and moved away m u body uilh iluir leader, into the western part ol the New York, called the Genesee, in Ontario County. Their settlement was un ornear the western shore of the Geneva Lake, about 20 miles south ol the town ot Ge-neva where though occasionally abandoned by some of her followers, Jemima con-tinued for many years to maintain her ascendancy over her remaining loloweis, amieven it is said until her death, since which nothing has liere been heard ol them, andit is that the society as such
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