. Bethany sketches and records . Jones was triedbefore the association, and his connec-tion with that body was severed. Hewas later restored upon a public con-fession assented to before a three-days session of the two consociationsof New Haven county, but in 1807 theNew Haven West association declaredthat Mr. Jones had not withthe advice of the previous session andhe was therefore without ministerialauthority. His farewell sermon waspreached in the hall of the Wheelerhouse in 1808. His text was from Jere-miah, Many pastors have destroyedmy vineyard. Mr. Jones became anEpiscopalion and
. Bethany sketches and records . Jones was triedbefore the association, and his connec-tion with that body was severed. Hewas later restored upon a public con-fession assented to before a three-days session of the two consociationsof New Haven county, but in 1807 theNew Haven West association declaredthat Mr. Jones had not withthe advice of the previous session andhe was therefore without ministerialauthority. His farewell sermon waspreached in the hall of the Wheelerhouse in 1808. His text was from Jere-miah, Many pastors have destroyedmy vineyard. Mr. Jones became anEpiscopalion and many of his congre-gation followed his example. He wasthe first rector of Christ church, Beth-any for two years. Most of his subse-quent life was spent in Litchfieldwhere he died in 1850. The third pastor of this church wasNathaniel G. Huntington, of RockyHill, Connecticut. He was born in1785 and was graduated from Yale in1806. He came to Bethany in 1809 andwas ordained and installed on Aug. 22of the following year. About two. i8o BETHANY. years after his ordination Mr. Hunt-ington had a hemmorhage and duringthe remainder of his pastorate hishealth was poor. As it continued togrow worse he asked to be dismissedin 1823. He remained in Bethany fora year or two, then he moved to Ox-ford and finally to Orange where hedied Feb. 10, 1848. The old meeting-house on the hillwas torn down early in 1831 and thegreen was sold. The present house of worship wasbuilt during the summer and much ofthe material of the old meeting housewas incorporated into the new, so thatmuch of this present structure datesfrom 1769. The dedication services oc-curred Oct. 13, 1831. Dr. NathanielTaylor, for years a noted professor inYale Divinity school, was then theacting pastor of this church. Hepreached the dedication sermon fromthe text, This is none other than theHouse of G-od and this is the Gate ofHeaven. It has come to us a heritage fromthe past, a good example of colonialarchitecture. there
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