This web site is composed of scanned images from a book titled
GENEALOGY and ECCLESIASTICAL
HISTORY
written by Alfred Andrews and published by
him in 1867.
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The images on these pages can be very slow
loading. I had to make a choice between slow loading pages and readable
ones for those who wished to make copies.
The Membership section lists 1465 church members, as well as spouses,
children and, frequently, spouse's parents and children's spouses.
Please, check both indexes because there are
different names in each as well as some people listed in both.
I have found references to the same person
in each index with different page numbers.
It seems to me that there are very few women indexed
for the first 124 pages.
There are lots of women
mentioned so you might want to do some reading.
The site is arranged as follows:
PICTURE
OF JOHN SMALLEY - the first pastor of the first Church of New Britain
TITLE
PAGE
PREFACE
( iii through vii) tells why Mr. Andrews undertook the writing of this
book.
INTRODUCTION
(9 through 61) covers the time period from the founding of "fframington"
in 1645 through the founding of the Great Swamp and Kensington Parishes.
NEW
BRITAIN (62 through 124) provide general information about
the founding of New Britain
" OWNED THE COVENANT"(125
through 131)
CONFESSION OF
FAITH AND THE COVENANT(132)
MEMBERS OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF NEW BRITAIN;
(133 through 486) "The following list comprises the names, with their
chronological numbers, of those who have been communicants of the first
Church of Christ in New Britain, from it's organization April 19th, 1758,
to 1867, a period of one hundred and nine years." This section
lists births, marriages and deaths of members, spouses and children.
MISCELLANEOUS--A PAGE FOR THE CURIOUS
(487 and 488)
APPENDIX Sabbath Schools, Common
Schools, Normal Schools, Evangelical and Protestant Churches are addressed
in this section. (489 through 507)
"INDEX OF THOSE WHO
OWNED THE COVENANT CALLED 'HALF-WAY COVENANT,' REPRESENTED BY ROMAN NUMBERS,
FROM PAGE 125 TO 131" (page 508 )
ALPHABETICAL
INDEX (509 through 523), a listing
of the church members in alphabetical order with reference numbers to pages
133 through 486.
GENERAL
INDEX"alphabetically arranged, showing the page where such names
occur in this work as are not directly or indirectly represented by numbers."
(524
through 538)
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