. Old New England churches and their children. home in the New World thatinduced him to leave to the church his homelot to be a standing maintenance either towarda teaching officer, a schoolmaster, or the benefitof the poor in fellowship. It was upon this** home lot that all the rectors and presidentsof Yale College, from Cutler to the elder Dwight,lived. It is hardly possible to discuss the New Havenchurch history without including much of Yalesearly history. The first pastor of Centre Churchbom on American soil was Mr. Pierpont, andhis best claim to fame was the foundation of was one
. Old New England churches and their children. home in the New World thatinduced him to leave to the church his homelot to be a standing maintenance either towarda teaching officer, a schoolmaster, or the benefitof the poor in fellowship. It was upon this** home lot that all the rectors and presidentsof Yale College, from Cutler to the elder Dwight,lived. It is hardly possible to discuss the New Havenchurch history without including much of Yalesearly history. The first pastor of Centre Churchbom on American soil was Mr. Pierpont, andhis best claim to fame was the foundation of was one of the ten ministers whose contri-butions from their own meagre libraries beganthe college library, and it was through the per-suasion of Mr. Pierpont that Elihu Yale by hissplendid gift made the college at that time pos-sible. As the founder of a great line JamesPierpont was a success. It was his daughter whomarried Jonathan Edwards, and he may reckonamong his descendants the elder President Dwight,the younger President Woolsey, the present. c-a « i w s rj C. •a Centre Church, New Haven, Conn. 305 President Dwight, Theodore Winthrop, and otherswho have, almost in unbroken Hne, contributedto the splendid fortunes of the New World. TheReverend Mr. Pierpont had his romances, and ithas been said by a clever writer that he wasearly and often a widower. It was to CentreChurch that his young wife went on the first Sun-day after her marriage, dressed, according to cus-tom, in her wedding gown. This pretty vanitycost her her life; she caught cold and died threemonths later. The Reverend Mr. Pierpont mar-ried in turn Sarah Haynes, granddaughter of theGovernor, and then a granddaughter of Hooker, who was famous as pastor andleader of the colony. It was to this preacherthat the famous Pierpont Elms were broughtas a gift from Hamden. In his time the clergy-man was to be maintained by free-will house was to be the most stately in the in 1697 after long
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