. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. MM I \l;\ll\., \ ,s \\ jNc:.s THE ,\GE OF BEAUTIFUL HOMES. 15. clnircli. consociation, bisho]). priest, oreartlily hicrarcb, bnt deriving theirpowers from tlie Word of God alone,as lliey understood it, declared them-selves to he the First Church of Christin Iarmington. Probably during thepastorale of Mr. Xewton there was nomeeting-house. The Fast Day serviceof December, 1666, ws know w-as heldat the house of Sergeant John Hart, twodays before the fire, and there is a care-fully transmitted tradition that the serv-ices of
. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. MM I \l;\ll\., \ ,s \\ jNc:.s THE ,\GE OF BEAUTIFUL HOMES. 15. clnircli. consociation, bisho]). priest, oreartlily hicrarcb, bnt deriving theirpowers from tlie Word of God alone,as lliey understood it, declared them-selves to he the First Church of Christin Iarmington. Probably during thepastorale of Mr. Xewton there was nomeeting-house. The Fast Day serviceof December, 1666, ws know w-as heldat the house of Sergeant John Hart, twodays before the fire, and there is a care-fully transmitted tradition that the serv-ices of the Salibatb were held on the. west side of the main street a littlesouth of the Meadow Lane, and, there-fore, probably at the house owned byMrs. Sarah Wilson, sister of Rev. Sam-uel Hooker, where now stands the houseof T. H. and L. C. Root (30). We hearof no meeting-house until 167J, when therecord called the Xew Book begins, theould book having been worn out and I i;t;siiii;.\(.i; ot .it lils i;.\v. that time and perhaps of any time, issaid to have been designed by an officerof Burgoynes army sent here as a pris-oner of war. Th
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