The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . e enough to roast anentire ox ; and it is the tradition that Captain Churchill once entertainedWashington and Lafayette there, and that all four ovens were in fullblast at the same time. One of its chambers is said to have beenpapered with the depreciated currency received by Captain Churchill forsupplies which he furnished to the army. In 1797, after a controversy of nearly eighteen years over the site,the erection of a new meeting-house was begun a few rods northwest ofthe first one. It was practically finished the next year.
The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . e enough to roast anentire ox ; and it is the tradition that Captain Churchill once entertainedWashington and Lafayette there, and that all four ovens were in fullblast at the same time. One of its chambers is said to have beenpapered with the depreciated currency received by Captain Churchill forsupplies which he furnished to the army. In 1797, after a controversy of nearly eighteen years over the site,the erection of a new meeting-house was begun a few rods northwest ofthe first one. It was practically finished the next year. It has beenmuch modernized by frequent repairs, and is now a very pleasant houseof worship. During the Revolutionary War Mr. Belden took the patri-otic side, and a sermon of his, preached Juno 30, 1776, is full of vigor-ous exhortation to his people to both pray and fight in defence of theircountry; and they responded by sending one hundred men into thewar,— one fifth part of the population of the parish, equivalent to 328 MEMORIAL HISTORY OF HARTFORD THE CHURCHILL HOUSE.
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