The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . nd peace gained for this society, this meeting by theirmajor vote do declare their full satisfaction with the former Avay of singing ofpsalms in this society and do earnestly desire to continue therein, and do withthe church manifest their dislike of singing according to the said methodendeavored to be introduced aforesaid. In 1757 the tables were turned, for the society voted and agreedthat they would introduce Mr. Wattss Version of the Psalms to besung on the Sabbath and other solemn meetings in the room of theversion that ha
The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . nd peace gained for this society, this meeting by theirmajor vote do declare their full satisfaction with the former Avay of singing ofpsalms in this society and do earnestly desire to continue therein, and do withthe church manifest their dislike of singing according to the said methodendeavored to be introduced aforesaid. In 1757 the tables were turned, for the society voted and agreedthat they would introduce Mr. Wattss Version of the Psalms to besung on the Sabbath and other solemn meetings in the room of theversion that hath been previously used. At the same meeting ElijahCowles was requested to tune the Psalm, and that he shall sit in thefifth pew. In 1762 Mr. Fisher Gay was chosen to assist Elijah Cowlesin setting the psalm, and he should sit in the ninth pew on the northside the alley, and Stephen Dorchester was chosen to assist the choris-ters in reading the psalm. In April, 1773, the spring after the presenthouse was first occupied, a choir was allowed by the following vote:. 176 MEMORIAL HISTORY OF HARTFORD COUNTY. Voted, That the people who have learned the rule of singing, have libertyto sit near together in the scnne position as they sat this day at their singing meetingand they have liberty to assist in carrying on that part of divine worship. In 1752 the Rev. Timothy Pitkin was installed the fourth pastorof the church. He was graduated at Yale College in 1747, was theson of William Pitkin, Governor of the State, was a member of the cor-poration of Yale College from 1777 till 1804, was dismissed at his own request, and diedJune 8,1811, in theeighty-fifth year ofhis aoe. He mar-ried the daughterof President Clap,and by his own re-sources and thoseof his wife did muchfor the refinementof his parish. How rude was its condition in some particulars at leastmay be judged by this oft-repeated story. When he brought home hiswife, they rode in an open four-wiieeled carriage. The older and morer
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