Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . nal for town and colony, as a roomin the south church did in later times. The windowswere small and the glass set in lead. Stairs from theinterior led up to galleries on the south and east sides. By the time of the ordination of the Rev. DanielWadsworth as pastor of the church in 1732 the oldhouse of worship had become inadequate and wasconstantly in need of repairs. A movement was begunfor building a new meeting house. However, elevenyears were required to determine the site of the newedifice, and work on the structure did not begin unt
Some old time meeting houses of the Connecticut Valley . nal for town and colony, as a roomin the south church did in later times. The windowswere small and the glass set in lead. Stairs from theinterior led up to galleries on the south and east sides. By the time of the ordination of the Rev. DanielWadsworth as pastor of the church in 1732 the oldhouse of worship had become inadequate and wasconstantly in need of repairs. A movement was begunfor building a new meeting house. However, elevenyears were required to determine the site of the newedifice, and work on the structure did not begin untilJune 20,1737. The General Assembly fixed the situa-tion of the house on the south east part of theburying lot in Hartford, with part of Capt. NathanielHookers lot adjoining thereto. The plan of thehouse was made by Cotton Palmer, of Warwick, RhodeIsland. About a week was required for the raising ofthe frame of the new house. Considerable quantitiesof cider and rum were consumed by those employedin the raising. The house, including the steeple, was 46. Fii;sr ciUKcii ok ciiiiisi. iiahtfoud practically finished by the end of 1739. It stoodsidewise to the street. The steeple, which was sur-mounted by a gilded cock and ball, stood on the northend. The pulpit, which was on the west side, aroseto an altitude easily commanding every foot of thesurrounding galleries, and was furnished with animposing canopy or sounding board and the handsomewindow hangings behind. The house was dedicated December 30, 1739, Wadsworth preaching the sermon from Haggai2 : 9;—The glory of this latter house shall be greaterthan of the former, saith the Lord of Hosts. Whitefield visited Hartford in 1740 andpreached to a vast throng of people in the new houseof worship. Near the close of 1804 a committee was appointedby the society to consider the matter of building a newedifice, the house dedicated in 1739 having becomescanty and dilapidated. March 22, 1805, this com-mittee made a fa
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