History of the town of Plainfield, Hampshire County, Mass : from its settlement to 1891, including a genealogical history of twenty three of the original settlers and their descendants, with anecdotes and sketches . ed Oct. (5, 1851. Rev. D. B. Bradford was installedJune 10, 1852, and dismissed May 17, 185-4. From thistime until January, 1858. the church had no permanentpastor. At this time the Rev. Solomon Clark commencedhis labors and continued acting pastor until April, 1886,a period of over 28 years. His ministry was greatlyblessed, he having received into the church during hispastorate he
History of the town of Plainfield, Hampshire County, Mass : from its settlement to 1891, including a genealogical history of twenty three of the original settlers and their descendants, with anecdotes and sketches . ed Oct. (5, 1851. Rev. D. B. Bradford was installedJune 10, 1852, and dismissed May 17, 185-4. From thistime until January, 1858. the church had no permanentpastor. At this time the Rev. Solomon Clark commencedhis labors and continued acting pastor until April, 1886,a period of over 28 years. His ministry was greatlyblessed, he having received into the church during hispastorate here upwards of 150 members. Mr. Clark wasnever formally settled, but was hired from year to church having had some trouble with previous pastorsthought it a better policy not to settle another. FromApril, lS8ti, to April, 1888, the pulpit was supplied byRev. F. G. Webster, who also preached at the same timeat Cummington, where he resided. From May, 1888, toMarch, 1889, Rev. Geo. E. Spaulding supplied. At thelatter date he was obliged to resign on account of ill June, 1889, Rev. John A. Woodhull, by invitation,assumed the duties of acting pastor, and has continued in HISTOKY ok PLAIXFIEJ,I)r. 5 DEACONS—PRESENT MEETING HOUSE. 30 that position until the present time, to the general satisfac-tion of church and parish. He has quite recently receivedand accepted a call to become our settled pastor, DEACONS. The first deacons chosen were John Packard and JamesRichards, Nov. 15, 1792. Joseph Beals, April 29, was the Mountain Miller, the subject of a tract writ-ten by Rev. Wm. A. Hallock, which has had a world-wide circulation. Robert Beals, Sept. 23, 1813; ErastusBates, June 27, 1828; John Carr, Sept. 0. 1834; Wm. , Nov. 11, 1841; Freeman Hamlen, Aug. 30, 1844; Je-rijah Barber, May 5, 1855; Wm. A. Bates, Nov. 10, 1807;Seth W. Clark and James A. Winslow, March 3, last two named still hold the office. PRESENT MEETING-HOUSE. The first meeting-hou
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