The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . ease was over forty per cent,a much greater gain than in any former decade, and a gain equalled byvery few towns in the State. The history of the Congregational and Baptist churches has beensketched, and that of the early Episcopal Church. After the long sus-pension of Episcopal services which followed the removal to EastChurch, the society reorganized in 1834. They immediately built asmall church building on Maple Street, north of Daniel S. Lardnershouse. The Rev. George C. V. Eastman was their first rector, andthey continued
The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . ease was over forty per cent,a much greater gain than in any former decade, and a gain equalled byvery few towns in the State. The history of the Congregational and Baptist churches has beensketched, and that of the early Episcopal Church. After the long sus-pension of Episcopal services which followed the removal to EastChurch, the society reorganized in 1834. They immediately built asmall church building on Maple Street, north of Daniel S. Lardnershouse. The Rev. George C. V. Eastman was their first rector, andthey continued to hold services there till 1862. In that year they builtthe church building which they have since occupied on Main Street,and soon after sold their old liuildiiig to the Forestville Methodistsociety. During the great Methodist revival period in the early part of thiscentury several itinerant preachers came here and taught the doc-trines of that then novel sect. A few converts to their preachingorganized the Methodist Church iu 1834. A • class had already been. t *? u-f /; r? Cy
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