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Peter Benes, Meetinghouses of Early New England

Appendixes B–G, with Source Notes

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Appendix B

Chronological checklist of meetinghouses in New England and Long Island, 1622–1830

Entry date indicates year of the raising of the frame or completion of the exterior covering.

Town name in capital letters indicates the meetinghouse is still standing.

Sinnott types 2, 3, and 4 refer, respectively, to second-period (2), Federal-period (3), and Greek-revival-

period (4) structures as outlined in Edmund W. Sinnott’s Meetinghouse and Church in Early New

England.

Roman numerals indicate sequence within a town or parish.

Dimensions are given in feet.

A “Separate church” identifies a religious society, usually Congregational or Baptist, formed without

legislative, municipal, or parish permission.

1622

Plymouth, Mass. Fort “fitted . . . for . . . use as a meeting house.” Bradford, History of Plymouth

Plantation, 1:275–76.

1630

Charlestown, Mass. John Winthrop’s house used as meetinghouse. “Great House.” Frothingham, History

of Charlestown, 95; Budington, History of the First Church, 11.

1631

Dorchester, Mass., I. Palisade. Log tradition. Thatched. Loft. Fireplace? “Beating the drum.” Clapp,

History of Dorchester, 32 (citing Winthrop, Journal, 144); Blake, Annals of Dorchester, 78;

Harris, Valedictory Sermon, 25.

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1632

Boston, Mass. I (First Church). Stone, plastered with clay, thatched roof. Cost: £120. Donnelly, New

England Meeting Houses, 110; Winthrop, Journal, 309–10, 344.

Cambridge, Mass., I. Bell. Repaired with “four-square roof” 1649. Bailey, The Beginning of the First

Church, 1.

Lynn, Mass., I. About 20 x 20. Turret 1662. Moved to common 1682. Dismantled 1827. “Historical

Sketch,” 151.

Roxbury, Mass., I. Repaired 1646, 1656. Gallery, plaster, turret “pinakles” 1658. Bell 1660. Thwing,

History of the First Church, 5; Drake, Town of Roxbury, 284; Donnelly, New England Meeting

Houses, 121.

1634

Dover, N.H., I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 121; Hurd, History of Rockingham and

Strafford Counties, 837.

Ipswich, Mass., I. Gallery 1643. Sold for 50s 1647. Waters, Ipswich, 422.

Salem, Mass., I. 20 x 17, 12 posts. 25-ft. addition to 20 x 45? Gallery, chimney 1639. Upham,

Rededication, 38–39; Winslow, Meetinghouse Hill, 34; Case No. 26 in Thirty Important Cases

Resolved with Evidence of Scripture and Reason. Boston, 1699, 64–66.

Watertown, Mass., I. “Bellrope” 1647. Gallery 1649. Watertown Records, 1.

1635

Concord, Mass., I. Shattuck, History of Concord, 206.

Hartford, Conn., I. 40 x 40? Remembered as square. Replaced 1638. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 1:193; Winslow, Meetinghouse Hill, 54, says 40 x 40.

Hingham, Mass., I. Private gallery 6 ft. wide. Posts and pillars turned. Lincoln, Discourse, First Parish in

Hingham, 20.

Weymouth, Mass., I. 3 galleries, bell 1667. Nash, Historical Sketch of Weymouth, 96, 100. Donnelly, New

England Meeting Houses, 122.

1636

Charlestown, Mass., I. Temporary “between the town and the neck.” Budington, History of the First

Church, 115; Winthrop, Journal (Hosmer), 183.

Scituate, Mass., I. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 425.

York, Maine, I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 119; Banks, History of York, 102–9.

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1637

Hampton, N.H., I. Log tradition. Bell. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 113; Hurd, History of

Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 325; Hazlett, History of Rockingham County, 451,

Plymouth, Mass., I. Bell. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 175; Plymouth Church Records

(introduction).

Sandwich, Mass., I. Thatched roof tradition. Notes on the History, 3.

1638

Dedham, Mass., I. 36 x 20, 12 posts. Daubed, thatched; pyramid, bell 1651. Early Records of the Town,

3:48; two men, Joseph Kingsbury and Anthony Fisher, were a committee to “contrive the Fabrick

of a meeting house.” Winslow, Meetinghouse Hill, 42.

Duxbury, Mass., I. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 362.

Exeter, N.H., I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 112.

Hartford, Conn., II. 50 x 50? Porch with stairs to “Chambers.” Galleries 1644, 1660, 1664. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1: 205; Winslow, Meetinghouse Hill, says 1640, 54.

Providence, R.I. (Baptist), I. Roger Williams. Met in homes for 60 years. Reformed Reader, chap. 13.

Johnson, Rhode Island Baptists, 123.

1639

Braintree, Mass., I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 110, 122.

Charlestown, Mass., II. “Very comely built and large.” Galleries rebuilt 1675. Frothingham, History of

Charlestown, 95. Budington, History of the First Church, n. 30.

Marblehead, Mass., I. 40 x 20? Gallery 1662, 2nd gallery and bell 1669. Enlarged to 40 x 40, lean-to

added 1672. Roads, History and Traditions, 14.

Marshfield, Mass., I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 114.

New Haven, Conn., I. 50 x 50. Gallery. Banisters. Rails. Platform. Turrets. Builder: William Andrews.

Cost: £500. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:3; Donnelly, New England Meeting

Houses, 122; Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, 25.

Rowley, Mass., I. Framed (not log). Repaired 1671. Bell mounted on unattached tower 1673. Jewett and

Jewett, Rowley, 104.

Southold, L.I., I. Log tradition. Used as jail after 1683, to 1725. Thompson, History of Long Island, 253.

1640

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Boston, Mass., II. (First Church, “Old Meeting House”). Clapboards, shingles. Cost: £1,000. Gallery. 2nd

gallery 1675? Platform 1699. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 110, 128; Winthrop,

Journal, 309–10, 344; Wisner, History of Old South Church, 78.

Fairfield, Conn., I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 112.

Hampton, N.H., II. 40 x 22, 13 posts. Builder: Richard Knight. Bell. West gallery 1649. Donnelly, New

England Meeting Houses, 113, 122; Dow, History of Hampton, 351.

Portsmouth, N.H. (Anglican), I. Parsonage house and chapel. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford

Counties, 49.

Salisbury, Mass., I. Bell 1644. Enlarged 12 ft. 1652. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 116.

Saybrook, Conn., I (before 1640). 40 x 30. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 116, 123.

Stamford, Conn., I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 117.

Windsor, Conn., I. Thatched? Drum. Finish carpenter: William Buell. 2-gable roof, “Lanthorn” 1658.

Enlarged to 70 x 30? Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:303–4; Quarter Millennial

Anniversary, 57.

1641

Milford, Conn., I. 30 x 30. Gallery by 1696. Turret covered with lead 1718. Ford, Historical Sketches, 51;

Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 123; Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:306;

Lambert, History of the Colony of New Haven, 104 (who says 40 x 40).

1642

Gloucester, Mass., I. Bell. 2 galleries 1686. Babson, History of Gloucester, 188 ff.

Sudbury, Mass. (First Parish or Wayland), I. 30 x 20, 8 posts. Framed. Builder: John Rutter. Hudson,

Annals of Sudbury, 40.

Wenham, Mass., I. Rectangular. Plastered 1662. Galleries 1674. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses,

118.

Woburn, Mass., I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 118.

1643

Guilford, Conn., I. 24 x 24. Stone, clay mortar. 4-sq. roof, thatched. Gallery. Porch. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:171; Smith, History of Guilford, 86.

Newbury, Mass., I. History of the First Parish, Newbury, 31–32.

1644

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Branford, Conn., I. Log tradition. Enlarged 1679. Simonds, History of Branford, 13–15, 41–42.

Eastham, Mass., I. 20 x 20. Thatched. Ports in the side. Freeman, History of Cape Cod, 2:356.

Newport, R.I. (Baptist), I. Reformed Reader, chap. 13; Benedict, A General History, 364–65; Bicknell,

History of Rhode Island, 581.

Reading, Mass., I. Log tradition? Rectangular. Galleries 1657. Proceedings of the 250th Anniversary,

Redding, 234; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 116, 123.

1645

Dorchester, Mass., II. Daubed 1661. Shutters 1662. Gallery 1645, 1667. Detached bell frame. Moved

1671. Sold 1678. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 123; Harris, Valedictory Sermon, 25–

27.

Hempstead, L.I., I. 24 x 24. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 125, says 1661; Prime, History of

Long Island, 280. Prime says 1645, 24 x 24.

Scituate, Mass. (Second or South Parish), I. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 427.

Southampton, L.I., I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 117; Thompson, History of Long Island,

says 1641, 214; Prime, History of Long Island, 192, says 1640.

Springfield, Mass., I. 40 x 25, 9 posts. Shingled roof. Double studs. 2-turret “watch house.” Builder:

Thomas Cooper, J. Burr. Green, Springfield, 75; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 123;

Vermilye, An Account, 131; Shurtleff, Log Cabin Myth, 98.

1646

Rehoboth, Mass., I. Enlarged 1659. Newman, Rehoboth in the Past, 17; Bliss, History of Rehoboth, 41.

1647

Haverhill, Mass., I. 26 x 20. Builder: Thomas Davis. Enlarged 1659. Gallery 1667. Earle, Sabbath, 3;

Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 113; Noyes, Memorial, 2:6.

Ipswich, Mass., II. Bell. “Sheet” for the turret window. Used as fort. Builder: George Norton. Waters,

Ipswich, 422–23.

Wethersfield, Conn., I. 50 x 50? Galleries 1683. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:287–89;

Stiles and Adams, History of Ancient Wethersfield, 220 and ff.; Donnelly, New England Meeting

Houses, 123.

1649

Malden, Mass. (Bailey’s Hill), I. Randall, History of the First Church in Malden; Donnelly, New England

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Meeting Houses, 114, 123.

1650

Boston, Mass. (Second Church or North), I. Burned 1676. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 110;

Ware, Two Discourses, 45.

Flatbush, L.I. (Midwont) (Dutch Reformed). 60 x 28, 14 posts. Painted 1659. Thompson, History of Long

Island, 2:202.

1651

Amesbury, Mass., I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 109; Merrill, History of Amesbury, 45.

Cambridge, Mass., II. “about 40 x 40 square.” “4-square roof.” Galleries 1670. Paige, History of

Cambridge, 259.

Natick, Mass., I. Bacon, History of Natick, 108.

Southampton, L.I., II. 30 x 24, 8½ posts. Builder: Ellis Post, Richard Post. Galleries 1652. Donnelly, New

England Meeting Houses, 124. Thompson, History of Long Island, 214.

1652

East Hampton, L.I., I. 26 x 20 (or 26 x 26), 8 posts. Thatched. Gallery 1682. Donnelly, New England

Meeting Houses, 124; Thompson, History of Long Island, 191.

Exeter, N.H., II. 20 x 20. Lean-to with chimney 1664. Gallery 1678. Hurd, History of Rockingham and

Stafford Counties, 266.

New London, Conn., I. 30 x 30, 12 posts. 6 windows. 4 gables. Shingled. Turret. Builder: John Elderkin.

Gallery 1671. Donnelly, “Seventeenth-Century Meeting House Turrets,” 10–11.

1653

Dover, N.H., II. 40 x 26, 16 posts. Plank construction? Builder: Richard Waldern. Turret 1665. Fortified

1667. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 827; Donnelly, New England

Meeting Houses, 124.

Edgartown, Mass. Banks, History of Martha’s Vineyard, 2:144.

Middletown, Conn., I. 30 x 20, 10 posts. Gallery 1665. Adams, Middletown Upper Houses, 17; Donnelly,

New England Meeting Houses, 51, 114, 124.

Sudbury, Mass., II. 40 x 24, 12 posts. Thatched. Clapboard. “Pinakles.” 2 front gables. Builder: Peter

King, Thomas Plympton. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 117, 124.

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1654

Medfield, Mass., I. Pulpit purchased 1655 from “John Hatton [Houghton].” Donnelly, New England

Meeting Houses, 114.

1655

Chelmsford, Mass., I. Seated 1678. Repaired 1708. Waters, History of Chelmsford, 20, 47.

Chilmark, Mass. One-room meetinghouse. Builder: Thomas Mayhew. Turned into a dwelling house.

Scott, “Early Houses of Martha’s Vineyard.”

Northampton, Mass., I. Sawn timber, 26 x 18, 9 posts. History of the Connecticut Valley, 1:194.

1656

Durham, N.H. (Oyster River), I. Builder: Valentine Hill. Stackpole and Thompson, History of Durham,

169; Fitts, History of Newfields, 70.

Newport, R.I. (Second Baptist Church). 21 seceders. Benedict, A General History, 364–65.

Sandwich, Mass., II. Notes on the History, 4.

Taunton, Mass., I. Turret and vane. Builder: Harry Andrews. Emery, History of Taunton, 203; Hurd,

History of Bristol County, 789. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 117, says before 1656.

Watertown, Mass., II. 40 x 40. Builder: John Sherman. Cost: £400. “Cambridge . . . pattern.” Platform,

galleries 1679. Watertown Records, 37–38, 52; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 118.

1657

Berwick, Maine. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 109; Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families,

194; Discourse Delivered, 18.

Marshfield, Mass., II. Builder: Ensign Eames, William Macomber. Donnelly, New England Meeting

Houses, 114.

Portsmouth, N.H., II. 40 x 40, 16 posts. 9-in. logs. “flat Roof.” Builder: John Huchinson. Hurd, History of

Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 50.

1658

Lancaster, Mass., I. Willard, Sketches of the Town of Lancaster, 31.

Malden, Mass., II. 33 x 33, 16 posts. Turret and rails 6 ft. sq. Builder: Job Lane. Galleries by 1684.

Bicentennial Book of Malden, 124–25, Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 125; Watkins,

“Malden’s Old Meeting Houses,” 34–36.

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1659

Billerica, Mass., I. 30 x 24, 12 posts. “3' asunder.” Thatched. Galleries 1679. Hurd, History of Essex

County, 1:256.

Norwalk, Conn., I. 30 x 18. “Set upon posts in the ground, 12 foot in length.” Donnelly, New England

Meeting Houses, 124; Hall, Ancient Historical Records, 49.

1660

Newton, Mass., I. First Church, Newton, Commemorative Services, 157.

Rumney Marsh, Mass. (formerly Chelsea, now Revere). “Chapel of Ease” reported by Samuel Maverick

about 1660. Chamberlain, Documentary History of Chelsea, 2:180; Shurtleff, History of the Town

of Revere, 418.

Saco, Maine (Winter Harbor Congregation). Ridlon, Saco Valley Settlements, 223.

Swansea, Mass. (Baptist), I. Bicknell, History of Barrington, 200.

1661

Andover, Mass., I. Temporary. Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover, 410.

Newbury, Mass., II. Builder: Henry Jaques. Porch for stairs and gallery by 1669. History of First Parish,

Newbury, 31–32.

Northampton, Mass., II. 42 x 42. Hipped roof. Turret and bell 1682. Galleries 1670. Dismantled 1738.

First Parish, Northampton, 7–10. History of the Connecticut Valley, 1:194.

Stonington, Conn., I. Builder: Thomas Minor, Thomas Park. Wheeler, History of the First

Congregational Church, 42.

Stratford, Conn., I. (Meetinghouse before 1661). Bell. Gallery added. Wilcoxson, History of Stratford,

139; Orcutt, History of Stratford and Bridgeport, 165.

1662

Hadley, Mass., I. 45 x 24. 6-ft. lean-tos “on both sides . . . 36 breadth.” Galleries 1698. Judd, History of

Hadley, 42.

Marlborough, Mass., I. 36 x 18, 12½ posts. Burned 1675. Allen, Topographical and Historical Sketches,

9.

1663

Barnstable, Mass., I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 109. Freeman, History of Cape Cod,

2:260, says by 1648.

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Jamaica, L.I., I. 26 x 26. Replaced before 1700. MacDonald, History of the Presbyterian Church, 18;

Thompson, History of Long Island, 2:101.

Topsfield, Mass., I. Rectangular. Stone wall 1675. Galleries 1681–94. Dismantled, sold for £5. Historical

Manual, 7; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 125.

Wenham, Mass., II. 24 x 24, 12 posts. Enlarged. Hurd, History of Essex Co., 1234; Allen, History of

Wenham, 195.

1664

Milton, Mass., I. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 749; Teele, History of Milton, 277.

Salisbury, Mass., II. 46 x 30. Hurd, History of Essex County, 1447.

Wells, Maine, I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 118.

1665

Amesbury, Mass., II. 30 x 25, 16 posts. Family pew 1696. Galleries 1699. Hurd, History of Essex County,

1499; Merrill, History of Amesbury, 167; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 109, 125.

Edgartown, Mass., II. 33 x 19, 8 posts. Banks, History of Martha’s Vineyard, 2:146.

Groton, Mass., I. Thatched. Daubed. Gallery and 2 stairs. Burned 1676. Butler, History of Groton, 138–

40.

Huntington, L.I., I. Rectangular. Enlarged 1686. Galleries 1707. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses,

113, Thompson, History of Long Island, 3, 15.

North Kingstown, R.I. (Baptist). Benedict, A General History, 364–65.

1666

Brooklyn, L.I. (Dutch Reformed). Dismantled 1810. Furman, Notes, 76.

1667

Concord, Mass., II. 34 x 26, 14 posts. “Square roof.” Turret and bell. Vane 1673. Tucker, “The Meeting

Houses of the First Parish,” 308.

Killingworth, Conn. (First Parish or Clinton), I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 125.

York, Maine, II. 28 (x 28), 16 posts. Turret with balusters. Builder: Henry Sayward. Galleries 1680.

Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 119, 125; Banks, History of York, 102–9.

1668

Fairfield, Conn., II. Bell 1685. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 112; Schenck, History of

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Fairfield, 1:229.

Hatfield, Mass., I. 30 x 30. Galleries. Turret 1675. Bell 1682. Dormers 1688. Wells and Wells, History of

Hatfield, 60; Tucker, “Hope Atherton,” 388.

Lyme, Conn. (Johnny Cake Hill), I. Log tradition. Cary, Memorial Discourse, 4.

New Haven, Conn., II. 55 x 35. Turret. Dormers. Builder: Nathan Andrews. Enlarged 25 ft. 1698.

Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 126. Stiles, Itineraries, says, “New Haven old Meeting

House 40 x 60,” 134.

Norwich, Conn., I. Lean-tos added. Caulkins, History of Norwich, 126; Donnelly, New England Meeting

Houses, 126 (before 1668).

1669

Andover, Mass., II. Bell 1675. “upper and lower galleries” 1696. Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover,

411; Abbot, History, 74.

Boston, Mass., I (Third Church, “Old Cedar”). 75 x 51. 3 porches. Cupola. Pinnacles. “sheete lead.”

Builder: Robert Tweld. Ayer, South Meeting-House, 4.

Mendon, Mass., I. 22 x 22, 12 posts. “the Ruffes gathered to A 7 foote square wth a Turrett.” Marlowe,

Churches of Old New England, 91.

1670

Beverly, Mass., I. Gallery, turret 1671. Stone, History of Beverly, 246; Donnelly, New England Meeting

Houses, 124; Daniel R. Campbell to Stephen M. Straight, 26 February 1974.

Bradford, Mass., I. Galleries 1690. Kingsbury, Memorial History, 16.

Hartford, Conn. (Second Parish), I. 50 x 50. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:205.

Middletown, Conn., II. 32 x 32, 15 posts. Builder: John Hull. Gallery 1676. Donnelly, New England

Meeting Houses, 114.

Salem, Mass., II (“The Great Meeting House”). 60 x 50, 20 posts. Turret. Chimney. Galleries. Upham,

Rededication, 42; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 126; Goodell, First Meeting House,

45.

1671

Bridgehampton, L.I., I. Thompson, History of Long Island, 214.

Brookhaven, L.I., I. 28 x 28 (or 26 x 30), 10 posts. Builder: Nathaniel Morton (or Nortens). Donnelly,

New England Meeting Houses, 110; Records of the Town of Brookhaven, 26–27.

Kittery, Maine (The Point), I. Stackpole, Old Kittery; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 113.

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Newport, R.I. (Seventh-Day Baptist). Benedict, A General History, 364–65.

Stamford, Conn., II. 30 x 30 (stone) to 38 x 38, 12 posts. Framed. Gallery platform. Turret. Huntington,

History of Stamford, 123.

1672

Farmington, Conn., I (before 1672). Gallery. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 112.

Manchester, Mass., I. “Shall be builded 18 foot——cepting stud with too Gabell ends.” Town Records of

Manchester, 11.

Milton, Mass., II. “Nearly square” gallery. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 749; Teele, History of

Milton, 280.

Newport, R.I. (Quaker), I. Dismantled. Rose, Colonial Houses of Worship, 408–9.

Oyster Bay, L.I. (Quaker), I. Builder: Samuel Andrews, John Feake. Cost: £20. Oyster Bay Town

Records, 687.

Salem Village, Mass. (Danvers), I. 34 x 28, 16 posts. 2 galleries 1684. Hurd, History of Essex County,

453; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 126.

Westfield, Mass., I. 36 x 36, 14 posts. Galleries 1703. Copeland, History of Hampden County, 384;

Lockwood, Westfield, 139.

Woburn, Mass., II. 40 x 40. Turret. Galleries 1678. Upper gallery 1694. Enlarged 20 ft. 1709. Dismantled

1752. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 118; Sewall, History of Woburn, 79–87.

1673

Brookfield, Mass. (Quabaug), I. Burned 4 August 1675. Dunham, Historical Discourse, 53–54. Donnelly,

New England Meeting Houses, 116, says ca.1664. Walsh, Anniversary Exercises, 23.

Dedham, Mass., II. 38 x 24, 26 posts. Turret and bell. Builder: John Baker, Daniel Pond. Enlarged to 38 x

38 1702. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 126; measured 38 x 38 in Stiles, Itineraries,

98.

Deerfield, Mass., I. Log tradition. Thatched. “To ye little house for a Meeting House.” Donnelly, New

England Meeting Houses, 126; Sheldon, History of Deerfield, 1:200–201; History of the

Connecticut Valley, 2:613.

Haddam, Conn., I. 28 x 24, 13 posts. 8 windows. “tooe pramedyes.” Builder: John Clarke. Manual, First

Congregational Church, Haddam, 4–6; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 127.

Norwich, Conn., II. Builder: John Elderkin. Enlarged 1689. Pyramids mended 1705. Caulkins, History of

Norwich, 216; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 127.

Stonington, Conn., II. 40 x 22, 14 posts. Gallery. Builder: Thomas Minor, Thomas Park. Dismantled

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1729. Wheeler, History of the First Congregational Church, 42; Wheeler, History of Stonington,

20.

1674

Bridgewater, Mass. (West Bridgewater), II. 40 x 26, 14 posts. Galleries. Hurd, History of Plymouth

County, 889; Winslow, Meetinghouse Hill, 62.

Dunstable, N.H., I. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 111.

Rehoboth, Mass., II. Rectangular. Galleries lengthened 1701. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses,

127. Bliss, History of Rehoboth, 72.

Roxbury, Mass., II. Galleries, porches 1708. Drake, Town of Roxbury, 284–85.

1675

Hampton, N.H., III. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 113.

1676

Eastham, Mass., II. “Steeple” (turret?) 1695. Freeman, History of Cape Cod, 2:373.

Saybrook, Conn., II. 60 x 30, 16 posts. Cedar clapboards. Builder: William Bushnell. Chapman, First

Church of Christ, 23; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 116, 127.

1677

Boston, Mass., II (Second Church or “Old North”). Tower 1720? Dismantled for firewood by English

1776. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 110; Booth, Story of the Second Church, 17;

Robbins, History of the Old North, 296–97.

Dorchester, Mass., III. 50 x 45. Gallery. Pyramidal roof. Bell. Builder: Isaac Royal. Clapp, History of

Dorchester, 230; Harris, Valedictory Sermon, 27.

Marlborough, Mass., II. Thatched. Allen, Topographical and Historical Sketches, 11.

Springfield, Mass., II. 50 x 40, posts for galleries. Turret. Canopy. Slitwork. Builder: John Allis.

Springfield Records, 2:121; Green, Springfield, 178–79.

1678

Boston, Mass., I (First Baptist). Salem and Stillman Streets. Frothingham, History of Charlestown, 172.

Hempstead, L.I., II. 30 x 24, 12 posts. Lean-to on each side. Builder: Joseph Carpenter. Donnelly, New

England Meeting Houses, 127.

Norwalk, Conn., II. 40 x 40, 16 posts. Roof like that in Fairfield. Hall, Ancient Historical Records, 71.

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1679

Ipswich, Mass. (Second Parish, Chebacco, or Essex), I. 42 x 36. Voted for turret like that in Andover.

Crowell, History of Essex, 84.

New London, Conn., II. 40 x 40, 20 posts. 4 gables with pyramids. Turret. 2 galleries. Builder: John

Elderkin, Samuel Lothrop. Burned 1694. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 115, 127;

Caulkins, History of New London, 191.

Sherburne, Mass. (Sherborn), I. Biglow, History of Sherburne, 36–42.

Swansea, Mass. (Baptist), II. 40 x 22, 16 posts. Moved to north Swansea in 1700. Wright, History of

Swansea, 103; Bicknell, History of Barrington, 201; Hurd History of Bristol County, 667; Tustin,

Discourse, 98, 99.

1680

Edgartown, Mass., III. 20 x 20, 10 posts. “four cross galleries.” Banks, History of Martha’s Vineyard,

2:140.

Groton, Mass., II. Butler, History of Groton, 143.

Mendon, Mass., II. 26 x 24, 14 (or 16) posts. “a girt house.” Builder: Samuel Hayward. Enlarged 10 ft.

1709. Hurd, History of Worcester County, 1:381–82; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses,

127.

Middleborough, Mass., I. First Church in Middleborough, 5.

Scituate, Mass. (Second or South Parish), II. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 427; Deane, History of

Scituate, 36.

South Kingstown, R.I. (Baptist). Benedict, A General History, 364–65.

Stratford, Conn., II. 48 x 42, 16 posts. Galleries and porch added. Wilcoxson, History of Stratford, 145;

Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 127.

Suffield, Conn., I. Trumbull, Memorial History of Hartford County, 2:390–91; Sheldon, Documentary

History of Suffield, 18.

Westerly, R.I. (Seventh-Day Baptist). Best, The Town That Saved a State, 130; Denison, Westerly, 60.

1681

Barnstable, Mass., II. Freeman, History of Cape Cod, 2: 275.

Derby, Conn., I. 28 x 20, 10 posts. Transom windows. Bannisters on seats. Drummer. Builder: John Hull.

Enlarged 14 ft. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 193–94; Donnelly, New England

Meeting Houses, 128.

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East Hampton, L.I., II. 2 tiers of galleries. Builder: Joshua Garlick. Donnelly, New England Meeting

Houses, 128. Thompson, History of Long Island, 191; Prime, History of Long Island, 174.

HINGHAM, MASS., II (“Old Ship”). 55 x 45, 21 posts. Gallery. Undated single porch. Builder: Charles

Stockbridge. Cost: £437. Enlarged 1730, 1755. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 128;

Coolidge, “Hingham Builds a Meetinghouse”; Corse, “The Old Ship Meeting-house in

Hingham”; Lincoln, Discourse, 23–41.

Wallingford, Conn., I. 28 x 24, 10 posts. Enlarged 16 ft. 1690, 20 ft. 1698. Galleries. Perkins, Historical

Sketches, Meriden, 37; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 118.

Woodbury, Conn., I. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:319–20; Cothren, History of Ancient

Woodbury, 69–70.

1682

Beverly, Mass., II. 50 x 40. Galleries. Belfry in center of roof. Cost: £375. Stone, History of Beverly, 246;

Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 128. Hurd, History of Essex County, 695.

Lynn, Mass., II (“Old Tunnel”). 50 x 44. Galleries. 4 pediments. Center bell tower. Porches 1716.

Dismantled and moved 1827. “Historical Sketch,” 153.

Scituate, Mass., II. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 425.

Weymouth, Mass., II. 45 x 40, 20 posts. 4 gables. 2 tiers of galleries. Builder: Jacob Nash. Burned 1751.

Nash, Historical Sketch of Weymouth, 100.

1683

Bristol, R.I., I. Square. Double galleries. Cap roof. Cupola and bell. Lane, Historical Sketches, 21.

Plymouth, Mass., II. 45 x 22?, 16 posts. Enlarged 18 ft. to 45 x 40 1712. Cupola and bell. Lightning 1715.

Plymouth, Records of the Town of Plymouth, 2:56: Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 177;

Plymouth Church Records (introduction); Thacher, History of Plymouth, 305; Donnelly, New

England Meeting Houses, 69–71.

Simsbury, Conn., I. 28 x 24, 14 posts. “piramides.” Builder: Thomas Barber. Donnelly, New England

Meeting Houses, 50, 128.

Southold, L.I., II. Gallery on east end. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 117; Prime, History of

Long Island, 132.

Wrentham, Mass., I. 36 x 26, 16 posts. Gallery. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 635.

Yarmouth, Mass., II. 40 x 30, 13½ posts. Swift, History of Old Yarmouth, 25, 148–49; Donnelly, New

England Meeting Houses, 123.

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1684

Enfield, Conn. Manual, Enfield, 302.

Greenwich, Conn. I. Mead, History of the Town of Greenwich, 69.

MASHPEE, MASS. (Indian Meeting House). Moved 1717. Now a tribal hall. Boston Globe, 3 August

2005; Lovell, Sandwich, a Cape Cod Town, 180–81.

1685

Dartmouth, Mass. (Baptist). Removed to Tiverton, R.I. Benedict, A General History, 364–65.

Dunstable, N.H., II. Log tradition. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 115; Fox, History of

Dunstable, 39.

Isle of Shoals, N.H. 48 x 28. Belfry and bell. Jeness, Isle of Shoals, 146.

Stow, Mass., I. 4 windows, 3 lights each. 2 double doors. Clay filled. Drake, History of Middlesex

County, 2:354.

1686

Wethersfield, Conn., II. 50 x 50. “Dorman wind.” Turret and bell. Galleries 1702. Pews 1715. Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:287–89.

Windsor, Conn., II. 50 x 40. 2 tiers of galleries. Dormer windows. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:304; Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, 360.

1687

Lyme, Conn., II. 40 x 26, 14½ posts. Cary, Memorial Discourse, 4; Lyme Records, 19–46.

1688

Boston, Mass. (Anglican), I (King’s Chapel). 54 x 36, 20 posts. Belfry 10 ft. sq. Architect: P. Wells.

Dorsey, Early English Churches, 166; Isham, Trinity Church in Newport, 8; Watkins, “Three

Contracts,”31‒32.

Marlborough, Mass., III. Lasted 121 years until replaced 1809. Builder: John Newton, Moses Newton.

Allen, Topographical and Historical Sketches, 11; Hurd, History of Essex County, 3:826–27.

Sudbury, Mass. (Wayland), III. Builder: Daniel Pond. Hudson, Annals of Sudbury, 47.

1689

Jericho, L.I. (Quaker). Prime, History of Long Island, 273.

Newbury, Mass. (Second or West Parish), I. 30 x 30. Coffin, History of Newbury, 152; Currier, History of

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Newbury, 347.

Reading, Mass. (Wakefield), II. Dormers 3 sides. Turret. Enlarged 1701. Proceedings of the 250th

Anniversary, Redding, 235; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 119; Inaugural Exercises,

16.

1690

Chilmark, Mass. (Abel’s Hill), I. Date approximate. Sold ca. 1724. Scott, Early Houses of Martha’s

Vineyard, fig. 56.

Jamaica, L.I., II. 40 x 40. Stone. Pyramidal roof (date in iron vane). Prime, History of Long Island, 308;

Thompson, History of Long Island, 2:105.

Mendon, Mass., III. 30 x 30, 16 posts. Enlarged 10 ft. on each end 1709. Builder: John Andruse. Metcalf,

Annals of the Town of Mendon, 111.

1691

Greenwich, Conn., II. 32 x 26, 15 (or 16) posts. Clapboards and shingles. Mead, History of Greenwich,

75; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 112.

1692

Lexington, Mass., I. Hudson, History of Lexington, 49.

Manchester, Mass., II. 30 x 25, 16 posts. Belfry on top. Galleries. Town Records of Manchester, 44–45.

Waterbury, Conn., I. Anderson, First Church, 39.

Woodstock, Conn., I. 30 x 26, 14 posts. Gable on each side. Builder: John Holmes. Larned, History of

Windham County, 1:34.

1693

Glastonbury, Conn., I. Enlarged with galleries or lean-tos 1706. Burned 1734. Chapin, Glastenbury, 58;

Trumbull, Memorial History, 209.

Oyster Bay, L.I. (Quaker), II. Oyster Bay Town Records, 687.

Preston, Conn., I. 35 x 25, 16 posts. Gallery. First Congregational Church, 15; Donnelly, New England

Meeting Houses, 130.

1694

Billerica, Mass., II. 2 days and 45 residents to assemble frame. Hazen, History of Billerica, 168–69.

Deerfield, Mass., II. 30 x 30, “About 30 feet square.” Turret. Gallery. Dismantled 1729. History of the

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Connecticut Valley, 2:613; Dudley Woodbridge, Journal, 3, illustration.

Flushing, L.I. (Quaker), I. Waller, History of the Town of Flushing, 84.

New London, Conn., III. Enlarged 10 ft. on each end ca. 1740. Caulkins, History of New London, 488;

Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 115.

West Tisbury, Mass. I. Sold 1702. Banks, History of Martha’s Vineyard, 2:75.

1695

Danbury, Conn., I. 40 x 30. Bicentennial, First Congregational Church, Danbury, 19.

East Windsor, Conn., I. Dismantled 1714. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, 230; Stoughton, “Windsor

Farmes,” 25.

Marblehead, Mass., II. Demolished 1824. Roads, History and Traditions, 360.

Medford, Mass., I. 27 x 24, 15 posts. Walls limed. Galleries. Usher, History of Medford, 391; Brooks,

History of Medford, 325–26. Donnelly: 30 x 27.

Plympton, Mass., I. “Each side with a gable end.” Sold as a barn 1716. Underhill, Descendants of Edward

Small, 745.

Stratfield, Conn. (Bridgeport), I. Orcutt, History of Stratford and Bridgeport, 475.

Watertown, Mass., III. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 118; Watertown Records, 4 February

1696.

Weston, Mass. (most westerly Watertown), I. 30 x 30. Farmers’ meetinghouse. Lamson, History of

Weston, 9.

1696

Braintree, Mass., II. Stone. Records of the Town of Braintree, 31; Donnelly, New England Meeting

Houses, 118; Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 279, 284; Hurd says weathervane dated 1666.

1697

Exeter, N.H., III. Gallery. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 267.

Gloucester, Mass., II. 40 x 40, 16 posts. Plastered. Hurd, History of Essex County, 1306.

Haverhill, Mass., II. 50 x 42, 18 posts. Galleries. Builder: John Haseltine. Bell taken down and put on hill.

Hurd, History of Essex County, 1947–48; Wallace, History of Haverhill, 552.

Newton, Mass., II. Builder: John Brewer. Sold to West Watertown 1721. Jackson, History of Early

Settlement, 125; First Church, Newton, 157.

Rowley, Mass., II. 50 x 40, 18 posts. Gallery. 4 gables and turret. Jewett and Jewett, Rowley, 105–7.

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1698

Fairfield, Conn., III. 50 x 55? Hamilton 1744 says “octagonal” in Itinerarium. Donnelly, New England

Meeting Houses, 112, 130; Hamilton, Itinerarium, 167: “like that of Jamaica upon Long Island.”

Framingham, Mass., I. 40 x 30. Enlarged to 40 x 40 1715. Temple, History of Framingham, 144–45;

Manual, Framingham Church, 21.

Gay Head, Mass. (Aquinnah). “Account of an Indian Visitation, A.D. 1698,” Collections of the

Massachusetts Historical Society 10 (1809), 132.

Little Compton, R.I. One Hundred Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, 12.

Windham, Conn., I. 35 x 24, 12 posts. Gable on each side. Galleries. Larned, History of Windham County,

1:92.

1699

Boston, Mass., I (Brattle Square or “Manifesto” Church). 72 x 52. Upper gallery. “Flat” roof. Steeple

1717. Lothrop, History of the Church in Brattle Street, 45; Records of the Church in Brattle

Square, 1–10; Stiles, Itineraries, 97.

Branford, Conn., II. Voted “long brick house” but 40 x 40 framed. Builder: Daniel Clark. Turret.

Pyramidal roof. Galleries 1706. Simonds, First Church and Society, Branford, 48.

Dartmouth, Mass. (Apponegansett) (Quaker). 35 x 30, 14 posts. Hurd, History of Bristol County, 203;

Lowry, “Quakers and Their Meeting House at Apponegansett.”

East Greenwich, R.I. (Quaker). Cole, History of Washington and Kent Counties, 1056; McPartland,

History of East Greenwich, 78.

East Hartford, Conn., I. Goodwin, History of East Hartford, 129–30; Trumbull, Memorial History of

Hartford County, 2:91.

Kittery, Maine (Second or North Parish or Long Reach). 35 x 20, 16 posts. Made into a school. Stackpole,

Old Kittery, 187.

Kittery, Maine (The Point). Stackpole, Old Kittery, 187.

Ipswich, Mass., III. 66 x 60, 26 posts. “with 2 [or] 3 gables on every side.” Galleries. Turret. Builder:

Abraham Tilton, Abraham Perkins. Bell 1700. Clock 1702. Belfry 1712. Waters, Ipswich, 424.

Newport, R.I. (Anglican), I (Trinity). 54 x 28 (probably). Isham, Trinity Church, 6–7; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 186.

Newport, R.I. (Baptist), II. Repaired 1783. Johnson, Rhode Island Baptists, 121.

NEWPORT, R.I. (Quaker), II. 46 x 45. 2 tiers of galleries. 4-sq. roof. Auditorium called “Old Ship

Room.” Builder: John Jones. Additions 1808, 1857. Rose, The Colonial Houses of Worship, 408–

9.

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Rochester, Mass., I. 26 x 24, 10 posts. Galleries on 3 sides. Builder: Peter Blackmer. Mattapoisett and

Old Rochester, 73.

Suffield, Conn., II. 40 x 40. 2 tiers of galleries. Trumbull, Memorial History of Hartford County, 2:390–

91; One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, Ruggles, 102; Sheldon, Documentary History of

Suffield, 18.

Wells, Maine, II. Tower on roof. Enlarged 25 ft. 1735. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 118;

Bourne, History of Wells and Kennebunk, 345.

1700

Boxford, Mass., I. 34 x 34, 18 posts, to 34 x 30. Turret. Hipped roof. Perley, History of Boxford, 126;

Boxford Town Records, 53, 63, 73.

Chatham, Mass., I. 22 x 22 (or 22 x 32), 13 posts. Smith, History of Chatham, 268–69.

East Greenwich, R.I. (Six-Principle Baptist). Upset by wind 1725. Cole, History of Washington and Kent

Counties, 1002.

LITTLE COMPTON, R.I. (Quaker). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 235.

Middleborough, Mass., II. 36 x 30, 16 posts. 2 ridge poles, 4 gables. 1½ tiers. Pitched roof 1745. First

Church in Middleborough, 5.

Newbury, Mass., III. 60 x 50. 24 posts. 4 gables. Builder: Stephen Jaques. Center turret and bell 1772.

Coffin, History of Newbury, 240; History of the First Parish, 32.

New Utrecht, L.I. (Independent). Stone. “usual octagon form.” Prime, History of Long Island, 341.

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (Quaker). Double door. Similar to East Sandwich (1810). Rose, The Colonial

Houses of Worship, 418.

Providence, R.I. (Baptist). 20 x 20. “Hay cap” shape, hole in roof for chimney. Builder: Pardon

Tillinghast. Staples, Annals of Providence, 414; Johnson, Rhode Island Baptists, 123; Tillinghast

and Tillinghast, A Little Journey, 13.

1701

Haddam, Conn. (Second or East Parish), I. 32 x 32. Turret shingled on all sides. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 1:119.

Hatfield, Mass., II. 45 x 45. Gables on 4 sides. Wells and Wells, History of Hatfield, 137.

Salem Village, Mass. (Danvers), II. 48 x 42. Builder: Thomas Flint. Bell 1725. Hurd, History of Essex

County, 453; Rice, Proceedings at the Celebration, 56.

1702

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Berwick, Maine, II. 40 x 30. Stackpole, Old Kittery, 197; Berwick Register, 49.

Byfield, Mass., I. Gage, History of Rowley, 34–36.

Groton, Conn., I. 35 x 35. Stiles: 34 x 33. Galleries 1715. Stark, Groton, Connecticut, 115; Stiles,

Itineraries, 128.

Plainfield, Conn., I. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:132.

Stamford, Conn., III. 50 x 50. “ferrate” (turret?). Drum. Dismantled 1857. Huntington, History of

Stamford, 134.

West Springfield, Mass., I. 42 x 42. Turret 92 ft. 3 roofs, each one smaller. Builder: John Allys.

Copeland, History of Hampden County, 242; History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:907; Sprague,

Historical Discourse, 54‒55.

West Tisbury, Mass., II. Banks, History of Martha’s Vineyard, 2:78.

1703

Sandwich, Mass., III. Turret. Enlarged 15 ft. 1756, 1804. Notes on the History, 5.

SAYLESVILLE, R.I. (Lincoln) (Quaker). Enlarged 1745. Horse block. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 236.

Topsfield, Mass., II. 44 x 42. Historical Manual, 7.

1704

Falmouth, Mass., I. Freeman, History of Cape Cod, 2: 434–40.

Providence, R.I. (Quaker), I. Staples, Annals of Providence, 415; Rose, Colonial Houses of Worship, 405.

1705

Cambridge, Mass., III. Galleries. Paige, History of Cambridge, 286–87, 290.

Guilford, Conn. (Second or Madison), I. 35 x 35. Drum. Galleries 1712. Evarts, History, 11; Donnelly,

New England Meeting Houses, 130.

1706

Bradford, Mass., II. 48 x 40, 20 posts (seats copied by Andover). Kingsbury, Memorial History of

Bradford, 19; Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover, 430.

Colchester, Conn., I. 40 x 40. Galleries. Drum. Colchester Town Records, 55.

Duxbury, Mass., II. 40 x 33, 17 posts. Postholes? Gallery. Builder: Samuel Sprague. Cost: £180. Enlarged

1754. Duxbury, Old Records, 202; Chartier, “Duxbury Second Meeting House Dig 2008.”

East Haven, Conn., I. 26 x 16, 17 posts; or 20 x 16, 7 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses,

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1:135; Havens, Stone Meeting House, 17; Mitchell, History of New Haven County, 748.

Enfield, Conn., II. 40 x 40 or 38 x 38. Turret and belfry. Manual, Enfield, 302.

Greenland, N.H., I. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 303.

Lancaster, Mass., II. Willard, Sketches of the Town of Lancaster, 65.

Lebanon, Conn., I. 36 x 26 to 36 x 36, 16 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:263; Nichols,

Historical Sermon, 10.

Mansfield, Conn., I. 24 x 24, 14 posts. Enlarged 20 ft., roof set “contrary way” 1726. Centennial

Discourse, 12–13.

Marshfield, Mass., III. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 114.

Medfield, Mass., II. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 443.

NORTH PEMBROKE, MASS. (Quaker). 28 x 28. Built in Scituate. Large single porch with 2 doors.

Rose, Colonial Houses of Worship, 208; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 201.

1707

Freetown, Mass., I. 36 x 36, 18 posts. Hurd, History of Bristol County, 295–96.

Kingston, N.H., I. Hazlett, History of Rockingham County, 492.

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. (Anglican) (St. Paul’s). Moved from Narragansett to Wickford 1800. Dorsey,

Early English Churches, 166–67; Rose, Colonial Houses of Worship, 408.

Scituate, Mass. (Second or South Parish), III. 50 x 40, 20 posts. “flat roof of about ten feet rise.” Enlarged

13 ft. 1745. Old Scituate, 165, 171.

Southampton, L.I., III. Remodeled 1820. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 117; Thompson,

History of Long Island, 214.

1708

Dighton, Mass., I. Hurd, History of Bristol County, 218.

Dorchester, Mass. (Second Parish or Canton), I. 30 x 30. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 932–33.

Pembroke, Mass., I. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 236–37.

1709

Acushnet, Mass., I. Potter, First Congregational Society in New Bedford, 19.

Andover, Mass. (South Parish), I. 56 x 50, 22 posts, “square roofe without dormans.” Bailey, Historical

Sketches of Andover, 428, 442.

Barrington, R.I., I. 60 x 40? Gallery. Moved 1837. Bicknell, History of Barrington, 210.

Durham, Conn., I. 40 x 40, 20 posts. “Flat” roof, turret. Fowler, History of Durham, 92–93.

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Farmington, Conn., II. 50 x 50. Turret and clock. “Court chamber” above gallery. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:157–58.

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (Six-Principle Baptist). 33 x 25. 1 story. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

235; Stiles, Itineraries, 71.

1710

Attleborough, Mass., I. 30 x 30, 16 posts. Galleries. Dagget, History of Attleborough, 228–29.

Brookhaven, L.I., II. Thompson, History of Long Island, 270.

CHELSEA, MASS. (Rumney Marsh, now Revere), II. 34 x 30. “Flat” roof? Frame extant. Chamberlain,

Documentary History of Chelsea, 185; Forrey, “The Meeting House at Rumney Marsh”;

Shurtleff, History of the Town of Revere, 421.

New London, Conn. (Waterford). Baptists formed church. 1710. Davis, History of Wallingford, 267.

Norton, Mass., I. Clark, History of Norton, 237–38; Hurd, History of Bristol County, 613.

Southold, L.I., III. 60 x 32. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 117.

Truro, Mass., I. Rich, Truro, 147.

1711

Andover, Mass. (North Parish), III. 50 x 45, 24 posts. “Roofe like Salem-village.” Builder: Samuel Snow.

Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover, 428‒30; Abbot, History of Andover, 76.

Bushwick, L.I. (Brooklyn). Octagonal. Turret with bell. Demolished 1840. Prime, History of Long Island,

346–47.

Chelmsford, Mass., II. 52 x 42, 24 posts. “spar” 25 ft. “Terit to hang bell in.” Unattached belltower.

Waters, History of Chelmsford, 677.

Concord, Mass., III. 60 x 50, 28 posts. “English” or “flat” roof. 2 galleries. Builder: Charles Underhill.

Tower 1791. Tucker, “The Meeting Houses of the First Parish,” 310–21.

Coventry, Conn., I. Peterson, Historical Sketch, 14.

Hampton Falls, N.H., I. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 496.

Kensington, Conn., I. Galleries 1720. North, History of Berlin, 152; Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 1:243; Two Hundredth Anniversary, 36–37.

NANTUCKET, MASS. (“Old North Vestry”). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 225.

Newbury, Mass. (became Queen Anne’s Chapel). 50 x 30. Coffin, History of Newbury, 184, 254.

Norwich, Conn., III. 50 x 50 or 50 x 45. Builder: John Elderkin II. Caulkins, History of Norwich, 282–83;

Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:111.

Salem, Mass. (Middle Parish or Peabody), I. 51 x 38, 24 posts. Turret. 2 tiers of galleries. Enlarged twice

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by cutting by Daniel Spofford. Bell tower 1774. Demolished 1836. Wells, Peabody Story, 197;

Hurd, History of Essex County, 989–1007; Spofford, Genealogical Record, 47.

1712

Boston, Mass. III (First Church, “Old Brick”). 72 x 54, 34 ft. high. 3 decker. Turret. Belfry. Single porch.

Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 110; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 21.

Guilford, Conn., II. 68 x 46, 24 posts. 2 tiers of galleries. 3 tiers of windows. Steeple 1726. Smith, History

of Guilford, 87; Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:172.

Hamilton, Mass., I. 50 x 38, 20 posts. Hurd, History of Essex County, 1212–13.

Needham, Mass., I. Burned 1773. Clarke, History of Needham, 195.

NEWINGTON, N.H. 38 x 30. Sinnott: type 2. Bell added before 1744. Donnell, Newington, 5–6.; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 41, 232.

Portsmouth, N.H., III. 3 decker. Single porch. Belfry 1720. Spire 150 ft. 1730. Dismantled 1854. Hurd,

History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 73.

West Hartford, Conn. (Fourth Parish in Hartford). Hall, History of West Hartford, 75.

1713

BEVERLY, MASS. (North Parish). 50 x 40. Steeple 1751. Remodeled “Grecian style” 1838. Stone,

History of Beverly, 256–57.

Dover, N.H. (Pine Hill), III. Builder: John Thompson Sr. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford

Counties, 827.

Hadley, Mass., II. 50 x 40. “Flattish” roof. “Balcony at one end” (standing belfry?). Judd, History of

Hadley, 310; History of the Connecticut Valley, 1:335.

Harwich, Mass., I. Paine, History of Harwich, 147.

Stow, Mass., II. 40 x 32, 20 posts. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 2:354.

Windham, Conn., II. Larned, History of Windham County, 1:93.

York, Maine, III. 50 x 50. “every way proportionable.” Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 119;

Banks, History of York, 102–9; Moody, Handbook, 90.

1714

Abington, Mass., I. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 483.

Boston, Mass., I (“New North”). 65 x 48, 35 posts. “flat roof & battlements.” Enlarged 18 ft. north side.

Steeple 1714? Replaced 1763. Demolished 1802. Fuller, Historical Discourse, 5, 49; Eliot,

Sermon Delivered . . . New North, 23.

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Dracut, Mass., I. 30 x 25. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 1:407.

East Windsor, Conn., II. 40 x 40. Roof “as this is.” Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, 232; Stoughton,

“Windsor Farmes,” 44.

Groton, Mass., III. 50 x 40, to 40 x 35. Enlarged 1731. Belfry. Butler, History of Groton, 143; Drake,

History of Middlesex County, 1:464.

Killingly, Conn., I. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:145–46; Bayles, History of Windham

County, 938–40; Larned, History of Windham County, 1:335.

Lexington, Mass., II. 50 x 40, 28? posts. Like Concord. 2 tiers of galleries. Unattached belltower. Cost:

£500. Hudson, History of Lexington, 57; Staples, “History of Lexington Common,” 16–25, 129–

37.

Longmeadow, Mass., I. 38 x 38. Plastered. Gallery. Bell chamber. Copeland, History of Hampden

County, 413; History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1044.

MARBLEHEAD, MASS. (Anglican) (St. Michael’s). 48 x 48, 23 posts. 17 sq. ft. Tower 50 ft. Spire 53 ft.

Howie, Architecture and Liturgy, 202–3.

Oxford, Mass., I. 30 x 30, 18 posts. Daniels, History of Oxford, 82; History of Worcester County, 173–74.

Plympton, Mass., II. Underhill, Descendants of Edward Small, 746.

Pomfret, Conn. (White’s Plain), I. Larned, History of Windham County, 1:200.

Salisbury, Mass. (West Parish), I. 52 x 38, 24 posts. Pettingell, “West Parish of Salisbury,” 32; First

Parish Church, Salisbury, 21.

1715

Amesbury, Mass., III. 45 x 35, 20 posts. Builder: S. Lunt. Removed to Sandy Hill 1761. Hurd, History of

Essex County, 1506; Merrill, History of Amesbury, 167, 232; Donnelly, New England Meeting

Houses, 109.

Brookfield, Mass. (Quabaug), II. 45 x 35. Gallery. Dunham, Historical Discourse, 53–54.

Brookline, Mass., I. 44 x 35. “diamond glass.” Steeple, porch 1771–72. Muddy River and Brookline

Records, 104.

Falmouth, Mass., II. 34 x 30, 18 posts. “with a flat roof as convenient.” Galleries. Freeman, History of

Cape Cod, 2: 434; Jenkins, Three Lectures, 65–66.

Hampton, N.H., IV. 60 x 40, 28 posts. 3 decker. Steeple or turret “from the beame upward.” Donnelly,

New England Meeting Houses, 113; Dow, History, 381.

Huntington, L.I., II. Thompson, History of Long Island, 315.

Jamaica, L.I. (Dutch Reformed), I. Diameter 34 ft. Wooden. “octagonal.” “8 [ft.] square.” Hamilton,

Itinerarium, 167, also n. 192; Hempstead, Diary, 519; Prime, History of Long Island, 308.

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LYNNFIELD, MASS. (Second Parish or Lynn). 30 x 25, 25 posts. Enlarged 14 ft. 1782. Town house

1836. Wellman, History of the Town of Lynnfield, chap. 3; Bentley, Diary, 24 May 1813;

MacKenzie, “First Parish,” 104.

Medway, Mass., I. 34 x 28, 16 posts. “Roof to rise 4 feet from center of beam.” Builder: John Richardson.

Mason, Handbook of Medway History, 13; Jameson, History of Medway, 99.

Middletown, Conn. (“Upper Houses,” North, or Cromwell Parish), I. Adams, Middletown Upper Houses,

31.

Middletown, Conn., III. 60 x 40. Galleries. Enlarged 18 ft. 1740. Hildreth, First Church in Cromwell, 28;

Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 114; Hazen, Brief History, 41.

Southold, L.I. (Mattitick), I. Gallery. Builder: Nathaniel Warner. Used as sail loft after 1830. Craven,

History of Mattituck, 86–88.

1716

Boston, Mass. (“French” meetinghouse). Brick. Snow, History of Boston, 201.

Boston, Mass. (“New South”). 60 x 55. Wood. Spire and steeple. “Ionic order.” Ellis, Commemorative

Discourse, 7; Stiles, Itineraries, 97.

Charlestown, Mass., III. 72 x 52. 2 tiers of galleries. Steeple? Burned 1775. Frothingham, History of

Charlestown, 248.

Dover, N.H. (Oyster River Parish). Scales, History of Dover, 178; Wadleigh, Notable Events, 120.

Gloucester, Mass. (Second Parish or Annisquam West). Dismantled 1846. Babson, History of Gloucester,

262 ff.

Greenwich, Conn. (Second Parish), I. Pulpit “bluish color.” Linsley, Commemorative Discourse, 10.

Kittery, Maine (Leighton’s Point). 50 x 40, 25 posts. Single porch added. Demolished 1837. Stackpole,

Old Kittery, 199–200.

Marblehead, Mass. (Second Parish), I (Holyoke’s church). Dismantled 1832. Roads, History and

Traditions, 42, 379.

Middletown, Conn. (East Parish or Portland), I. 40 x 26. “on hill.” Field, Centennial Address, 254.

Newington, Conn. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:45–46; Stiles, History of Ancient

Wethersfield, 161–71.

Stratham, N.H., I. 48 x 36, 20 posts. Bell 1730. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties,

544.

Yarmouth, Mass., III. Enlarged 15 ft. 1768. Turret removed. Single porch added. Steeple. Donnelly New

England Meeting Houses, 119; Swift, History of Old Yarmouth; Freeman, History of Cape Cod,

2:210–11.

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1717

Dartmouth, Mass. (Acoaxet) (Quaker). Lowry, “Quakers and Their Meeting House at Apponegansett.”

East Hampton, L.I., III (Buell’s church). Gallery. Pulpit rebuilt 1756. Thompson, History of Long Island,

192; Rattray, Discovering the Past, 204; Hedges, History of the Town of East-Hampton, 80–83.

Kingston, Mass., I. 43 x 36, 20 posts. Steeple, bell, and porch 1764. Hurd, History of Plymouth County,

255–61.

Littleton, Mass., I. Entrances on 3 sides. No gallery. Harwood, “Littleton,” 9–10.

North Haven, Conn., I. 40 x 30. Thorpe, North Haven Annals, 145; Stiles, Itineraries, 149.

Norwich, Conn. (Franklin or West Farms), I. Builder: J. Elderkin II. One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary,

Franklin, 25–26; Caulkins, History of Norwich, 284.

Plainfield, Conn., II. 50 x 40, 20 posts. Planked ends and sides. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses,

1:132.

Rochester, Mass. (Quaker). Lowry, “Quakers and Their Meeting House at Apponegansett,” 14.

Rochester, Mass., II. 40 x 35, 20 posts. Pews on beams above the galleries 1733. Mattapoisett and Old

Rochester, 76.

Salem, Mass. (Second or East Parish), I. 60 x 40. Central belfry. Enlarged 14 ft., steeple, porch added

1770. Hurd, History of Essex County, 42; Bentley, Diary, xli.

Stratfield, Conn. (Bridgeport), II. 48 x 38, 24 posts. “Long roof.” Gallery. Steeple 1769. Orcutt, History

of Stratford and Bridgeport, 480–82.

Sunderland, Mass. (Swampfield), I. 45 x 35 or 45 x 30, 18 posts. Galleries. Conch. Smith, History of

Sunderland, 52; History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:685.

North Swansea, Mass. (Baptist). Single porch added probably after 1770. Proceedings and Addresses at

the Dedication of the Town Hall in Swansea, 31.

Wallingford, Conn., II. 68 x 52. 2 tiers of galleries. Steeple voted 1716, built 1728. Perkins, Historical

Sketches, Meriden, 34–36; Davis, History of Wallingford, 121; Stiles, Itineraries, 136.

1718

Ashford, Conn., I. 40 x 35, 18 posts. Enlarged 1795. Larned, History of Windham County, 1:219.

Bridgewater, Mass. (Second Parish or Bridgewater), I. 43 x 38, 18 posts. Hurd, History of Plymouth

County, 775.

Durham, N.H. (Durham Falls), II. 40 x 36, 20 posts. Belfry like that in Hampton. Stackpole and

Thompson, History of Durham, 173.

Eastham, Mass., III. Freeman, History of Cape Cod, 2:383.

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East Haven, Conn., II. 40 x 30, 20 posts. Straight roof “barn fasyon.” Jetted. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 1:135; Havens, Stone Meeting House, 18–21.

Easton, Mass., I. Glazed 1726. Chaffin, History of Easton, 90–91.

Groton, Conn. (Baptist), I. Stark, Groton, 137.

Northfield, Mass., I. 45 x 30, 18 posts. Temple and Sheldon, History of Northfield, 147.

Orleans, Mass. (Eastham), II. Single stairwell porch replaced stairs 1800. Freeman, History of Cape Cod,

2:726.

Rehoboth, Mass., III. 2 sets of galleries (one above the other). Dismantled 1814. Newman, Rehoboth in

the Past, 17; Abernathy and Horvath, Meeting House at Palmer’s River, 11.

Salem, Mass., III. 72 x 50. 2 tiers of galleries. Center belfry. Porch, steeple ca. 1770. Upham,

Rededication, 43; Stiles, Diary, 1:229, where cites 71 x 49.

Westborough, Mass., I. 40 x 30, 18 posts. Bates, History of Westborough, 48.

1719

BARNSTABLE, MASS. (West Parish), I. Enlarged by 2 bays, tower, single porch added 1723? Trayser,

Barnstable, 46; History of the West Parish; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 229; Samuel,

“West Barnstable Congregational Church”; Goodell, “Meetinghouse at West Barnstable.”

Barnstable, Mass. (Second or East Parish; Cobb’s Hill), I. Enlarged 15 ft., belfry, single porch added

1756. Trayser, Barnstable, 57.

Brunswick, Maine (Presbyterian), I. Single porch. Abandoned 1806. Clayton, History of Cumberland

County, 245–46.

Canterbury, Conn., I. Larned, History of Windham County, 1:155.

Danbury, Conn., II. 50 x 35. Enlarged 1745. Bicentennial, First Congregational Church, 13l.

Derby, Conn., II. 40 x 32, 20 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:93.

Durham, N.H. (Durham Point). Stackpole and Thompson, History of Durham, 173.

FLUSHING, L.I. (Queens, N.Y.C.) (Quaker), II. Waller, Town of Flushing, 84–85.

Ipswich, Mass. (Second Parish, Chebacco, or Essex), II. 52 x 42, 21 posts. Center turret, bell rope.

Crowell, History of Essex, 84, 126.

Leicester, Mass., I. Galleries. Washburn, Historical Sketches, 71–74.

Manchester, Mass., III. 49 x 35, 20 posts. “Planket and not studed.” Steeple 1753. Town Records of

Manchester, 146, 58–59.

New Milford, Conn., I. 40 x 30, 20 posts. Orcutt, History of New Milford, 89.

Rehoboth, Mass. (West Parish or Palmer’s River or Seekonk). Vertical plank construction. Bliss, History

of Rehoboth, 174.

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Saco, Maine (Biddeford). 35 x 30. Ridlon, Saco Valley Settlements, 223; Folsom, History of Saco and

Biddeford, 228.

Sutton, Mass., I. 40 x 36. Gallery. Hurd, History of Worcester County, 1:957.

Woonsocket, R.I. (Quaker). 20 x 20. Builder: John Arnold. “Small meeting-house” built adjoining in

1727. Richardson, History of Woonsocket, 77.

Worcester, Mass., I. Builder: Mr. Constable. Spire 1743. Worcester, First Church, 7; Smalley, The

Worcester Pulpit, 26.

1720

Bellingham, Mass., I. 40 x 30, 18 posts. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 145.

Edgartown, Mass., IV. 40 x 30. Banks, History of Martha’s Vineyard, 2:153.

Fairfield, Conn. (Machamux) (Green’s Farms or West Parish), I. 36 x 36, 16 posts. Schenck, History of

Fairfield, 2:54.

Griswold, Conn., I. 45 x 35. Gallery. Phillips, Griswold, 24.

Hebron, Conn., I. 30 x 24, 18 posts. Burned 1747. Hebron, Bicentennial, 45.

Huntington, Conn. (Ripton), I. 50 x 40. Stiles, Itineraries, 128; Orcutt, History of the Old Town of

Stratford, 958–62, 996.

Newport, R.I. (Congregational), I. Rose, The Colonial Houses of Worship, 412–13.

Newtown, Conn. 30 x 36, 20 posts. Enlarged to 50 x 36 1720. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses,

2:62.

Rutland, Mass., I. 41½ x 30. Gallery. Reed, History of Rutland, 67.

Truro, Mass. (Hill of Storms), II. 40 x 36, 22 posts. Enlarged and single porch added 1765. Demolished

1840. Smith, History of Chatham, 270; Rich, Truro, 143–50; Freeman, History of Cape Cod,

2:552.

Warwick, R.I. (Quaker). Fuller, History of Warwick, 362.

Westfield, Mass., II. 52 x 41. “Barn fashion with bell coney [on] middle.” Burned 1803. Copeland,

History of Hampden County, 385; Lockwood, Westfield, 310–14.

Woodstock, Conn., II. 46 x 37, 22 posts. Stiles: 50 x 40. Turret but no steeple. Larned, History of

Windham County, 1:53; Stiles, Itineraries, 80. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:329.

1721

Amesbury, Mass. (East or Jamaco Parish), I. 45 x 35, 20 posts. Merrill, History of Amesbury, 175.

Boston, Mass. (“New Brick”). 3 porches, triple decker. Tower. Designer: Edward Pell. Demolished 1844.

Booth, Second Church in Boston, 22–23.

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Cohasset, Mass., I. Bigelow, Narrative History, 357.

Falmouth, Maine. 36 x 28, 20 posts. Became town house. Burned 1775. Willis, History of Portland, 358;

King, First Church, 155.

Haddam, Conn., II. 44 x 36, 20 posts. Manual, First Congregational Church, Haddam, 4–6.

Londonderry, N.H. (Presbyterian). 50 x 45. Gallery. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford

Counties, 177.

Natick, Mass., II. Gable over the door. Bacon, History of Natick, 109; Dudley Woodbridge drawing 1728.

Newton, Mass., III. 57 x 45, 25 posts. First Church, Newton, Commemorative Services, 157; Smith,

History of Newton, 222.

Shrewsbury, Mass., I. 40 x 32, 18 posts. History of Worcester County, 2:277; Harlow, “The Shrewsbury

Meeting-House.”

Stafford, Conn., I. 40 x 35, 20 posts. Grobel, First Church of Stafford, 8.

Tolland, Conn., I. 30 x 30 to 45 x 35, 20 posts. Waldo, Early History of Tolland, 21–22.

Watertown, Mass. (West Parish or Waltham), I. Purchased 1697 Newton meetinghouse for £80. Hurd,

History of Middlesex County, 3:326, 3:730–31; Sanderson, Waltham as a Precinct of Watertown,

37–43; Records of the West Precinct, 26–35.

Weston, Mass., II. Single porch 1755. Steeple, 2 porches 1800. Dismantled 1840. Lamson, History of

Town of Weston, 9, 11.

Windham, Conn. (Second or Canada Society), I. Larned, History of Windham County, 1:98.

Wrentham, Mass., II. 40 x 38, posts for 2 tiers. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 646.

Yarmouth, Mass. (Second or East Parish or Dennis), I. Enlarged to 65 x 50 1761. 2-story single porch on

south side. Celebration of 250th Anniversary, 41; Freeman, History of Cape Cod, 2:212.

1722

Bolton, Conn. Sketch of Bolton, 4:4.

Brimfield, Mass., I. 45 x 40. Framed. Women seated on west side. Hyde, Historical Celebration, 116–23.

New London, Conn. (North Parish or Montville), I. 45 x 35, 20 posts. Baker, History of Montville, 637;

Hurd, History of New London County, 576.

Providence, R.I. (Anglican) (King’s Church). 62 x 41. Tower added. Staples, Annals of Providence, 451;

Clark, Historical Discourse, 18, 31.

1723

BOSTON, MASS. (Anglican) (Christ Church). 70 x 51. Capped spire. Steeple by John Indicott 1740,

rebuilt 1806. Babcock, Christ Church, 32, 81, 183; Duane, Historical Sermon; Shurcliff, “English

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Bells.”

Cheshire, Conn., I. 40 x 30, 18 posts. Builder: Henry Caner. Beach, History of Cheshire, 98; Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:85–86.

Eastham, Mass. (Wellfleet), I. 20 x 20. Freeman, History of Cape Cod, 2:388.

Guilford, Conn. (Third Parish or North Guilford), I. Steiner, History of Menunkatuck, 293; Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:87.

Harwich, Mass., II. Single porch 1760. Steeple 1760. Enlarged by opening frame to 72 x 45. Paine,

History of Harwich, 147, 157.

Lisbon, Conn. (Third Parish in Norwich or Newent), I. Bishop, Historical Sketch, 20.

Litchfield, Conn., I. 45 x 35, 20 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:275.

Lynn, Mass. (Quaker). Lewis, History of Lynn, 320.

North Branford, Conn. 40 x 30. Galleries. History of the North Branford Congregational Church.

Norwalk, Conn., III. Colored 1771. Burned by British 1779. Hall, Ancient Historical Records, 111, 162;

Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:297.

Providence, R.I. (Congregational). Tower added. Staples, Annals of Providence, 451.

Ridgefield, Conn., I. 40 x 34, 28 posts. Teller, History of Ridgefield, 103.

Sherburne, Mass., II. 40 x 32, 20 posts. Enlarged 20 ft. 1769. Biglow, History of Sherburne, 37–42.

Swansea, Mass. (Baptist). 41 x 33, 22 posts. Hurd, History of Bristol County, 667.

Wallingford, Conn. (New Cheshire Parish). 40 x 30. Galleries 1726. Mitchell, History of New Haven

County, 289.

Watertown, Mass., IV. Steeple before 1728. Enlarged before 1775. Donnelly, New England Meeting

Houses, 118.

Weymouth, Mass. (Second Parish). Nash, Historical Sketch of Weymouth, 108.

1724

Bridgewater, Mass. (Third Parish or East Bridgewater), I. Wilson, East Bridgewater Sesquicentennial, 15.

Centerbrook, Conn., I. 40 x 30, 20 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:75.

Chilmark, Mass., II. 40 x 35, 20 posts. Cost: £448. Banks, History of Martha’s Vineyard, 2:48–50.

Fairfield, Conn (Anglican) (Trinity Church). Woodframe. Burned by British 1779. Schenck, History of

Fairfield, 2:75, 80, 389.

Little Compton, R.I., II. 42 x 38, 20 posts. One Hundred Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, 12.

Oyster Bay, L.I. (Baptist), I. 20 x 20. “Quadrangular pointed roof.” Thompson, History of Long Island,

230.

Southington, Conn., I. 26 x 16. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:217.

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Stratford, Conn. (Anglican), I (Christ Church). Orcutt, History of the Town of Stratford and Bridgeport,

318.

Sudbury, Mass. (West Precinct or Sudbury), I. Hudson, History of Sudbury, 294.

Westford, Mass., I. Hodgman, History of Westford, 17–18.

1725

Freetown, Mass. (Quaker). Hurd, History of Bristol County, 297.

Hempstead, L.I. (Anglican), I. Prime, History of Long Island, 284.

Holliston, Mass. 40 x 32, 20 posts. Enlarged 14 ft., single porch added, colored orange 1787. Drake,

History of Middlesex County, 1:470–71; Hurd, History of Middlesex County, 3:439.

Hopkinton, Mass. 48 x 38, 20 posts. Howe, Century Sermon, Hopkinton, 26.

Newburyport, Mass., I. 45 x 60. Enlarged to 80 x 60 1737. Steeple. Atkinson, First Religious Society, 9,

17.

NEWPORT, R.I. (Anglican), II (Trinity). 70 x 46. Entry through tower. Architect: Richard Munday.

Tower replaced 1762. Isham, Trinity Church, 31; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 186; Rose,

Colonial Houses of Worship, 410; Stiles, Itineraries, 29; Mason, Annals of Trinity Church, 40–

41.

Portsmouth, N.H. (Plains). Blown down 1748. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 82.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Quaker), II. 30 x 70? Made a residence in 1844. Staples, Annals of Providence,

415; Stiles, Itineraries, 80. Rose, Colonial Houses of Worship, 405.

Rye, N.H., I. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 463.

Scituate, R.I. (Baptist). Beaman, Historical Sketch, 47.

Southport, Conn. (Anglican), I. Guilbert, Annals of an Old Parish, 40.

Sudbury, Mass. (Wayland), IV. Hudson, History of Sudbury, 294.

1726

Braintree, Mass. (Third Parish or Randolph), I. 44 x 32. Pattee, History of Old Braintree, 60.

Fairfield, Conn. (Greenfield Hill or Northwest Parish), I. 52 x 46, 24 posts. Builder: Benjamin Darling,

Samuel Thorp. Schenck, History of Fairfield, 2:83.

Medford, Mass., II. 52 x 38, 33 posts. Gathered roof, central turret? Usher, History of Medford, 397;

Brooks, History of the Town of Medford, 333.

Methuen, Mass., I. 40 x 35, 20 posts. Hurd, History of Essex County, 775; Howe, Historical Sketch, 14.

Preston, Conn. (Second Parish or Long Society), I. 43 x 35? Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses,

1:139; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 69.

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Providence, R.I. (Baptist), II. 40 x 40. Stiles: 30 x 40. Benches. Sold 1775. Staples, Annals of Providence,

414; Stiles, Itineraries, 80; Isham, A History of the Fabric, 1; Tillinghast and Tillinghast, A Little

Journey, 15.

Saybrook, Conn., III. 48 x 38. Steeple 1793. Dismantled 1838. Chapman, First Church of Christ, 31–33;

First Church, Saybrook, Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, 33.

Stoneham, Mass., I. 40 x 36, 20 posts. Builder: Timothy Wright. Drake, History of Middlesex County,

342; Stevens and Whittier, History of Stoneham, 38.

Walpole, Mass., I. 38 x 32. 3 decker: 2nd tier of galleries 1743. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 712–13.

Westbrook, Conn., I. 40 x 32, 10 posts. Sky color 1763. Steeple 1795. Demolished 1828. First Church,

Saybrook, Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, 123.

Wilton, Conn. (Norwalk Second Parish), I. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:297.

1727

Columbia, Conn. (Second Parish in Lebanon or Lebanon Crank), I. Galleries. One Hundred and Fiftieth

Anniversary, 31.

Concord, N.H. (Rumford or Penny Cook), I. 40 x 25. “block house” (log tradition). Hurd, History of

Merrimack County, 65; Walker, Our Four Meeting Houses, viii.

Groveland, Mass. (Bradford East Parish), I. Hurd, History of Essex County, 2094.

Kittery, Maine (The Point), II. Burned 1730. Stackpole, Old Kittery, 184–86.

Ledyard, Conn. (North or Groton Second Parish). Avery, History of Ledyard, 30.

North Yarmouth, Maine, I. 50 x 40, 22 posts. Single porch, steeple, and vane added when enlarged 40 ft.

in 1762. Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 412; Rowe, Ancient North Yarmouth, 120, says

it was 54 x 45, 26 posts. Cut in half, each piece moved 14 feet.

Plymouth, Mass. (Second Parish or Manomet). Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 178.

Uxbridge, Mass., I. 45 x 35, 19 posts. History of Worcester County, 2:423–24.

Warwick, R.I. (Anglican) (Cowessett). 2 stories. Steeple and spire. Demolished 1764. Cole, History of

Washington and Kent Counties, 925; Updike, History of the Episcopal Church of Narragansett,

273; Fuller, History of Warwick, 363.

Windsor, Conn. (Poquonnock, north of Windsor), I. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, 367.

1728

Attleborough, Mass., II. 50 x 40. 1-tier gallery. Dagget, History of Attleborough, 235.

Gloucester, Mass. (Third or North Parish). Babson, History of Gloucester, 290 ff.

Haddam, Conn. (Second or East Parish), II. 55 x 44. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:120.

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Hanover, Mass., I (Central Meeting House). 48 x 38, 19 posts. Cost: £300. Barry, Hanover, 57; Hurd,

History of Plymouth County, 373–75.

Haverhill, Mass. (North Parish or Plaistow, N.H.), I. 36 x 48. No tower. Card, “Small N.E. Church.”

Killingly, Conn. (Second, North, or Thompson Parish), I. 50 x 40, 24 posts. Builder: John Comings.

Enlarged 1769. Larned, History of Windham County, 1:307.

Meriden, Conn., I, 30 x 30. “Dog’s Misery” considered but rejected as a location. Perkins, Historical

Sketches, 52–53.

Middleton, Mass., I. 40 x 40, 22 posts. Hurd, History of Essex County, 933.

Milford, Conn., II. 85 x 54. 2 tiers of galleries; 3 tiers of windows. Steeple 95 ft. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 1:309; Mitchell, History of New Haven County, 289, says 80 x 65; Lambert,

History of the Colony of New Haven, 105 who says 80 x 65). First Church, Proceedings at the

Celebration, 105, 163.

Milton, Mass., III. 50 x 40, 28 posts. Belfry and bell, “3½ cwt. grose.” Hurd, History of Norfolk County,

751; Teele, History of Milton, 282.

Pembroke, Mass., II. 50 x 40, 22 posts. Enlarged 1764. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 236.

Southborough, Mass., I. 50 x 40, 20 posts. Dismantled 1807. Parker, Sermon Delivered, 24–25.

1729

Acushnet, Mass. (Quaker). Lowry, “Quakers and Their Meeting House at Apponegansett,” 14.

Bedford, Mass., I. Bell 1752. Hurd, History of Middlesex County, 1:242.

BOSTON (Third Church), II (“Old South”). 95 x 68. Tower. Brick. Pulpit faced long side. Designer:

Robert Twelves. Mason: Joshua Blanchard. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 222.

Boston, Mass. (Irish or Presbyterian), I. Converted barn. Drake, History and Antiquities, 576.

Cranston, R.I. (Quaker). Enlarged 20 ft. 1819. Torn down 1955. Rose, The Colonial Houses of Worship,

406.

Deerfield, Mass., III. 50 x 40. Steeple in center of roof. Gallery. New steeple at north end, porch 1768.

Stone color, chocolate doors 1769. Later yellow. Demolished 1824. History of the Connecticut

Valley, 2:613; Sheldon, History of Deerfield, 1:474.

Malden, Mass., III. 55 x 44, 33 posts. Steeple. Builder: Aaron Cleveland. Cost: £1,040. Randall, History

of the First Church in Malden, 18.

Newbury, Mass. (Second or West Parish; Pipe Stave Hill), II. 50 x 38, 20 posts. Hurd, History of Essex

County, 1862.

New London, Conn. (Fort Hill) (Baptist). Square. Small, “high beyond a due proportion.” Caulkins,

History of New London, 436.

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NEWPORT, R.I. (Congregational), II. 60 x 45. Steeple. Designer: Cotton Palmer. Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 235; Rose, Colonial Houses of Worship, 412–13. Stiles, Itineraries, 112.

NEWPORT, R.I. (Seventh-Day Baptist). 2 stories. Architect: Richard Munday. Moved; now part of

Newport Historical Society. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 235; Rose, Colonial Houses of

Worship, 412; Sanford, “Entering into Covenant: The History of Seventh Day Baptists in

Newport,” 1–47.

Rocky Hill, Conn. (Stepney), I. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:163.

Rowley, Mass. (Second Parish or Georgetown), I. Enlarged 13 ft. 1742. “Redded” 1744. Gage, History of

Rowley, 92–93.

Stonington, Conn. (Agreement Hill), III. Dismantled 1829. Wheeler, History of the First Congregational

Church, 42.

Taunton, Mass., II. 56 x 46, 27 posts. Emery, History of Taunton, 203–4.

Voluntown, Conn. 30 x 26, 16 posts. Larned, History of Windham County, 1:300.

Waterbury, Conn., II. 50 x 40. “rude carved work on the interior.” Anderson, First Church, 40; Mitchell,

History of New Haven County, 289.

1730

Chatham, Mass., II. 20 x 20. Single porch. Turret repaired 1741. Galleries. Enlarged 17 ft. and 9 x 10

porch added 1773. Smith, History of Chatham, 337.

Colchester, Conn. (Second Parish or Westchester), I. 40 x 32, 20 posts. Manual, Westchester

Congregational Church, 6–7.

Exeter, N.H., IV. 60 x 45. 60 x 45. 2 tiers of galleries. Builder: John Folsom. Bell tower 1731. Bell,

History of Exeter, 179–80; Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 269.

Grafton, Mass. 50 x 40, 22 posts. Porches 3 sides. Pierce, History of Grafton, 165–66.

Greenwich, Conn., III. Mead, History of Greenwich, 112.

Killingworth, Conn. (Clinton), II. Miller, Historical Discourse, 30.

KITTERY, MAINE (The Point), III. Sinnott: type 2 made 3, 1840. Stackpole, Old Kittery, 184–86;

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 156.

Mendon, Mass., IV. 50 x 45, 24 posts. Opponents tried to cut down the frame. Hurd, History of Worcester

County, 1:382.

Newmarket, N.H. (North Parish in Exeter), I. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 397;

Fitts, History of Newfields, 208.

Redding, Conn., I. 30 x 28, 2 stories. Todd, History of Redding, 77.

Rochester, N.H., I. 40 x 35, 18 posts. McDuffee, History of Rochester, 75.

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Rollinsford, N.H., I. Enlarged 16 ft. 1735. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 668.

Townsend, Mass., I. Builder: Henry Parker, Henry Jackson. Sawtelle, History of Townsend, 71–72, 135.

Trumbull, Conn., I. Manual, Congregational Church, Trumbull, 5.

WESTWOOD, MASS. (Baptist) (Clapboardtrees Meeting House). Remodeled 1834. Rose, The Colonial

Houses of Worship, 223; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 229.

Wilmington, Mass., I. 46 x 30, 20 posts. Simmons, History, unpaginated.

1731

Boston, Mass., I (Hollis Street). 60 x 40. Bell tower (base 11 x 11); spire. Burned 1787. Chaney, Hollis

Street Church, 7; Drake, Old Landmarks, 415–16; Hollis Street Church Records, 4.

Canterbury, Conn., II. 50 x 45, 22 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:61; Larned, History

of Windham County, 1:292.

Chester, N.H., I. 50 x 38, 20 posts. Builder: Peter and Thomas Cochran of Londonderry. Bell, Facts

Relating, 11–13; Forsaith, Auburn, 196.

Chichester, N.H. 35 x 25 to 35 x 16, 9 posts. Log: 6 in. thick. Hurd, History Merrimack and Belknap

Counties, 237.

JAMESPORT, L.I. Wines and Roberts, Jamesport Meetinghouse.

Lebanon, Conn., II. 60 x 46, 26 posts. Steeple. Enlarged 1758. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses,

1:263; Nichols, Historical Sermon, 10.

Lunenburg, Mass., I. 45 x 35. Sawtelle, History of Townsend, 133; Greenman, “An Interlude,

261.

New London, Conn. (Anglican) (St. James’s). 50 x 50, 32 posts. Caulkins, History of New London, 442.

Newtown, L.I. (Jamaica) (Dutch Reformed). 50 x 40. Garretson, Discourse Delivered in the Reformed

Dutch Church.

Portsmouth, N.H. (South Parish). Enlarged 24 ft. 1792. Single porch; bell tower before 1794. Church until

1826. Demolished 1863. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 73.

Raynham, Mass., I. Hurd, History of Bristol Co., 713.

Scarborough, Maine (Black Point Society). 40 x 35, 20 posts. Clayton, History of Cumberland County,

367.

Scituate, Mass. (Anglican) (St. Andrew’s). Bell tower and bell. Enlarged 1753. Old Scituate, 178.

Stonington, Conn., III (Center meetinghouse). 2 tiers of galleries. Moved to Stonington Point 1786.

Wheeler, History of the First Congregational Church, 59.

Sturbridge, Mass., I. 50 x 40, 21 posts. History of Worcester County, 2:364.

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1732

Braintree, Mass. (now Quincy), III. 61 x 41. Attached bell tower. Enlarged 1805. Pattee, History of Old

Braintree, 232–35.

BURLINGTON, MASS. 50 x 40, 23 posts. Redesigned 1847, 1888. Drake, History of Middlesex County,

1:297–98. Photo in Rose, Colonial Houses of Worship, 220; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

222.

Glastonbury, Conn. (Second or East Parish), I. 45 x 35, 18 posts. Trumbull, Memorial History, 2:210.

Harvard, Mass., I. 47 x 35, 20 posts. Square glass set in lead. Builder: John and Thomas Dick. Nourse,

History of Harvard, 188; Reed, Sermon, 6.

Kensington, Conn., II. 60 x 45. North, History of Berlin, 153; Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses,

1:243.

Kingston, N.H., II. 55 x 45. 2 tiers of galleries. 100-ft. tower added. Hurd, History of Rockingham and

Strafford Counties, 371.

Kingstown, R.I. (South Parish) (Presbyterian) (Tower Hill meetinghouse). Sold at auction after 1791;

materials converted to house. Cole, History of Washington and Kent Counties, 486, 551–53.

Mansfield, Mass., I. History and Directory, 10; Hurd, History of Bristol County, 436.

NANTUCKET, MASS. (Presbyterian). Now a vestry. Rose, The Colonial Houses of Worship, 211.

Plympton, Mass. (Second or South Parish or Carver), I. Cut in half, 15 ft. added 1768. South Plympton

Precinct Book, 92.

Rehoboth, Mass. (Baptist) (Comer’s or Oak Swamp Meeting House). Dismantled after 1834. Timbers for

barn. Bliss, History of Rehoboth, 184.

South Hadley, Mass. (Second Parish in Hadley), I. 40 x 30. No steeple. Johnson, Historic Hampshire,

159.

Stamford, Conn. (Stanwich Society). 40 x 30. Huntington, History of Stamford, 146.

1733

Falmouth, Maine (Second or Cape Elizabeth Parish). Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 253.

Hampstead, N.H., I. Log tradition. Noyes, Memorial of Hampstead, 2:14.

Hull, Mass., II. 30 x 36½. Bell. Goss, “Early Bells,” 45.

Londonderry, N.H. (Second or West Parish). Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 580.

NEWPORT, R.I. (Second Congregational Church). 60 x 40. Tower and steeple. Designer: Cotton Palmer.

Rose, The Colonial Houses of Worship, 412–13; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 235.

Pembroke, N.H., I (Suncook). 30 x 24, 10 or 11 posts. “Hewn logs.” Builder: Timothy Richardson. Hurd,

History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, 563; Carter, History of Pembroke, 297.

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Pomfret, Conn. (Second Parish or Mortlake). Larned, History of Windham County, 1:346–51.

Redding, Conn. (Anglican), I. Todd, History of Redding, 80.

Roxbury, Conn., I. Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, 276.

Salem, Mass. (Anglican) (St. Peter’s). 46 x 35, 25 posts. 12-ft.-sq. tower. Tapley, St. Peter’s Church in

Salem, 11–22.

Southbridge, Mass., I. Plimpton, History of Southbridge, 15.

West Tisbury, Mass., III. 35 x 30, 18 posts. 14 pews. Builder: Samuel Cobb. Enlarged 15 ft. 1768. Banks,

History of Martha’s Vineyard, 2:85.

Woodbury, Conn. (Second Parish or Southbury), I. 46 x 35, 23 posts. Cothren, History of Ancient

Woodbury, 221; Warren, “Southbury Meeting Houses.”

1734

Andover, Mass. (South Parish), II. 56 x 44, 30 posts. Cost: £108. “After the same form and fashion of the

present one.” Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover, 442, Hurd, History of Essex County, 1593;

Mooar, Historical Manual, 32. Abbot, History of Andover, 86, reports 55 x 45, 28 posts and 60 x

40, 30 posts.

Arlington, Mass., I. 50 x 40, 24 posts. “Suitable” belfry. Sold at auction 1804 and made into a dwelling.

Cutter and Cutter, History of Arlington, 22–23; Drake, History of Middlesex County, 1:209.

Boston, Mass. (Anglican) (Trinity). 90 x 60. Bell, but no tower? Builder: John Indicott. Trinity Church,

32. Stiles, Itineraries, 98, says 74 x 58.

Boxford, Mass. (Second Parish), I. Gallery and stairs. Perley, History of Boxford, 161.

Brooklyn, Conn., I. Galleries. Builder: Daniel Tyler. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:37, 39.

Dudley, Mass. Hurd, History of Worcester County, 2:1364; Holmes, Historical Collections, 440.

Eastham, Mass. (North Parish or Wellfleet), II. Galleries. Single porch added in front 1792. Freeman,

History of Cape Cod, 2:388,:677.

Haverhill, Mass. (Third or West Parish). Exercises Commemorative of the West Congregational Church.

Hopkington, Mass. (Presbyterian). Hurd, History of Middlesex County, 3:795.

Hudson, N.H., I. 40 x 35, 20 posts. Hurd, History of Hillsborough County, 462.

Jamestown, R.I. (Quaker), II. Watson, History of Jamestown, 74.

Kittery, Maine (Middle Parish or Spruce Creek). Candee, “Land Surveys,” 41–42; Benes, New England

Prospect, 84.

Litchfield, N.H. 45 x 35, 25 posts. Hurd, History of Hillsborough County, 488.

Lyme, Conn., III. 60 x 40, 24 posts. Tower. Bell. Steeple. Burned 1815. Cary, Memorial Discourse, 4.

Malden, Mass. (South Parish or Everett). Hurd, History of Essex County, 3:579; Drake, History of

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Middlesex County, 1:428.

Newton, N.H. 40 x 30. Framed for galleries. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 408.

1735

Acton, Mass., I. 46 x 36, 21 posts. No steeple. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 1:200; Brief History

of Acton, 13; Phalen, History of Acton, 34.

Berkley, Mass., I. 40 x 34, 18 posts. Hurd, History of Bristol County, 175.

Dedham, Mass. (West Parish). Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 48.

East Hartford, Conn., II. 66 x 46, 27 posts. Goodwin, History of East Hartford, 129–30.

Framingham, Mass., II. 55 x 42, 30 posts. 2 tiers of galleries. Temple, History of Framingham, 197;

Manual, Framingham Church, 23–24.

Glastonbury, Conn., II. 56 x 44, 24 posts. Trumbull, Memorial History, 209.

Hebron, Conn. (Anglican) (St. Peter’s). 58 x 30. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:231.

Hempstead, L.I. (Anglican), II (St. George’s). Prime, History of Long Island, 284.

Palmer, Mass. (Presbyterian), I. 30 x 36. Emblematic design in gable. Copeland, History of Hampden

County, 3:132.

Petersham, Mass., I. 50 x 40, 21 posts. Colored in 1738 by Thomas Dick. Willson, Address, 25.

Sheffield, Mass., I. 54 x 35. History of Berkshire County, 543.

Tewksbury, Mass., I. 48 x 36, 14 posts (23 posts?). South Andover frame? Galleries. No steeple. Hurd,

History of Essex County, 3:287; Drake, History of Middlesex County, 2:378; Patten, History of

Tewksbury, 5; Pride, Tewksbury, 17.

Upton, Mass., I. 40 x 30. Pulpit installed 1747. History of Worcester County, 2:412–13.

Wallingford, Conn. (New Cheshire Parish). 64 x 45. Painted “few years later.” Mitchell, History of New

Haven County, 289.

Winchester, N.H., I. 40 x 32, 18 posts. Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, 548.

1736

Boston, Mass., I (Lynde Street or West Church). Steeple. Barracks 1775. Dismantled 1806. Drake,

History and Antiquities, 602.

Boxford, Mass., II. 48 x 38, 24 posts. Finished 1745. Perley, History of Boxford, 168.

Cheshire, Conn., II. 64 x 45, 24 posts. Turret. Replaced by steeple 1790. Exercises, 250th Anniversary,

23; Beach, History of Cheshire, 110.

Dedham, Mass. (South Parish or Norwood), I. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 496.

Holden, Mass., I. 50 x 40, 22 posts. Damon, History of Holden, 28.

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Middletown, Conn. (North Parish or Cromwell), II. 55 x 30, 23 posts. Adams, Middletown Upper Houses,

31, 36; Hildreth, History of First Church, 29; Field, Centennial Address, 239.

Northampton, Mass., III. 70 x 46. “Steeple or balcony at the end.” Builder: Joseph Wright. First Parish,

10–11.

Salem, Mass. (Third or South Parish). Burned 1774. Predecessor of “Tabernacle.” Emerson, Anniversary

Sermon; Worcester, Memorial of the Old and New Tabernacle, 18–23.

1737

Billerica, Mass., III. 60 x 40, 26 posts. Hazen, History of Billerica, 175.

Bridgehampton, L.I., II. 54 x 38. Thompson, History of Long Island, 214; Prime, History of Long Island,

199.

Durham, Conn., II. 64 x 44, 25 posts. Fowler, History of Durham, 94.

East Granby, Conn. 40 x 35, 20 posts. Steeple 1796. Records, 9; Bates, Sketch, 11.

Guilford, Conn. (Second Parish or Madison), II. 60 x 40. Lead color. Steeple 1799. Steiner, History of

Menunkatuck, 349; Evarts, History, 17–18.

Hartford, Conn., III. 66 x 46. Steeple. Designer-builder: Cotton Palmer. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 1:197; Wadsworth, Diary, 13, 28.

Keene, N.H., I. 40 x 35, 20 posts. Griffen, History of Keene, 36–37.

Kensington, N.H., I. Galleries. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 356; Sawyer,

History of Kensington, 156.

Londonderry, N.H. (Second or West Parish). Low in post. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford

Counties, 580.

Lynn, Mass. (Third Parish or Saugus). 44 x 36, 20 posts. Single porch, 3 doors. Hurd, History of Essex

County, 400.

Scituate, Mass., IV. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 425.

Stoughton, Mass. (Second Parish or Sharon). Cooke, First Parish, Sharon, 16.

Westminster, Mass., I. 45 x 35, 21 posts. Heywood, History of Westminster, 69.

Wintonbury, Conn. (Bloomfield), I. 45 x 35. Manual, Bloomfield; Trumbull, Memorial History, 2:31.

1738

Amherst, Mass. (Hadley East or Third Precinct), I. 45 x 35. Historical Review, First Church of Amherst,

50–51; Judd, History of Hadley, 405–6.

Boscawen, N.H., I. 40 x 26. Built of logs. Price, Chronological Register, 30; Walker, Our Four Meeting

Houses, viii.

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Dunstable, N.H., III. Fox, History of Dunstable, 148.

East Kingston, N.H. (Kingston Second Parish). Hazlett, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties,

306.

Ellington, Conn., I. 35 x 45, 20 posts. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, 270.

Fairfield, Conn. (Green’s Farms or West Parish), II. Burned by British 1779. Schenck, History of

Fairfield, 2:141.

Gloucester, Mass., III. 75 x 60, 30 posts. Bell tower 75 ft. high. Steeple. Babson, History of Gloucester,

224 ff., 497–98.

Granby, Conn. (East Parish or Turkey Hills or Simsbury). Trumbull, Memorial History of Hartford

County, 2:78.

Hampton, N.H. (Fourth Parish or North Hampton), I. 40 x 30. French, Half-Century Discourse, 8.

Hardwick, Mass., I. 50 x 40, 22 posts. Paige, History of Hardwick, 179.

Marshfield, Mass. (Second or North Parish). Richards, History of Marshfield, 1:93.

New Boston, N.H., I. 30 x 45, 20 posts. Hurd, History of Hillsborough County, 589.

SALEM, N.H. 48 x 38, 22 posts. Became town house, moved. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 64;

Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 470; Gilbert, History of Salem, 78–79.

Southport, Conn. (Anglican), II. 55 x 35, 20 posts. Steeple. Guilbert, Annals of an Old Parish, 41.

Swanzey, N.H., I. 50 x 40, 22 posts. Steeple 1738. Reed, History of Swanzey, 168.

Tyngstown, Mass. (later Derryfield), I. 42 x 30, 20 posts. Abandoned. Burned 1751. Chalmers, Town

Church of Manchester, 25–26.

Wallingford, Conn. (Baptist). Began church 1735. Davis, History of Wallingford, 269.

Wilton, Conn. (Norwalk Second Parish), II. 48 x 35, 22 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses,

2:298.

1739

Amherst, N.H., I. 45 x 22, 22 posts. Secomb, History of Amherst, 285.

Bridgewater, Mass. (West Bridgewater), III. 50 x 38, 22 posts. Spire and bell 1767. Hurd, History of

Plymouth County, 889.

Bridgewater, Mass. (Fourth or North Parish or Brockton), I. Kingman, History of North Bridgewater, 92.

Chester, N.H. (Presbyterian). 40 x 35 or 38 x 33, 20 posts. Dismantled 1793. Materials used in 1793 Long

Meadow meetinghouse. Bell, Facts Relating, 19; Forsaith, Auburn, 196, 200; Chase, History of

Old Chester, 157–59.

Franklin, Mass., I. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 162.

Harwinton, Conn., I. 50 x 35, 24 posts. Chipman, History of Harwinton, 47–51; Kelly, Early Connecticut

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Meetinghouses, 1:223–25.

Kent, Conn., I. 50 x 40, 23 posts. Atwater, History of Kent, 50.

Killingworth, Conn. (Second Society or Killingworth Farms), I. 58 x 38, posts 2 ft. shorter than those of

the First Society. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:149; Miller, Historical Discourse,

29–31.

Mattapoisett, Mass., I. Mattapoisett and Old Rochester, 77.

New Canaan, Conn., I. 30 x 30. Gallery. Readings in New Canaan History, 22.

New Hartford, Conn., I. 50 x 40, 55 x 40. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:323.

New Salem, Mass., I. 45 x 35, 20 posts. Packard, History of the Churches and Ministers in Franklin

County; 275; History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:669; New Salem Sesqui-centennial, 17.

North Haven, Conn., II. 65 x 44. Steeple (square cap) 1798. Thorpe, North Haven Annals, 72, 80; Stiles,

Itineraries, 149.

Stockbridge, Mass., I. 40 x 30. Conch (gift from Boston). Frame used for barn 1854. Jones, Stockbridge

Past and Present, 59.

Union, Conn., I. 45 x 35. Lawson, History of Union, 61.

Wareham, Mass., I. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 200–201.

1740

Bernardston, Mass., I. 50 x 40, 23 posts. Re-pewed 1773. Colored yellow 1794. History of Connecticut

Valley, 2:692; Kellogg, History of Bernardston, 101.

Blandford, Mass. Pulpit 1759. Plastered 1786. Completed 1805. History of the Connecticut Valley,

2:1079.

Bolton, Mass., I. Builder: Thomas Dick. History of Bolton, 63.

Chester, Conn., I. “Chester Meeting House.”

Cumberland, R.I. (Six-Principle Baptist). 30 x 25. 2 stories. Burned 1962. Rose, The Colonial Houses of

Worship, 407; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 197.

New Fairfield, Conn. Schenck, History of Fairfield, 2:134.

Falmouth, Maine, II (“Old Jerusalem”). Enlarged 1759. Unattached belltower 1758. 120-ft. tower 1760.

Goold, Portland in the Past, 286–90; Willis, History of Portland, 358; King, First Church,

appendix.

Goshen, Conn., I. 46 x 34, 20 posts. 2 galleries, one above the other. Powers, Address, 21; Hibbard,

Historical Address, 8.

Littleton, Mass., II. 50 x 40, 23 posts. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 47.

Plymouth, Conn. (Anglican). Atwater, History of Plymouth, 35–39.

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Preston, Conn., II. 48 x 38, 22 posts. First Congregational Church, 15.

Roxbury, Mass., III. 62 x 42, 26 posts. Steeple. Burned 1744. Drake, Town of Roxbury, 285; Thwing,

History, 80–81.

Shutesbury, Mass., I. 40 x 30, 20 posts. Builder: “D. Dix.” History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:761.

Simsbury, Conn., II. 50 x 40. Painted white 1782. Demolished 1830. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:193; Phelps, History of Simsbury, 71.

Windham, Maine, I. 40 x 30, 10 posts. Dole, Windham in the Past, 19; Clayton, History of Cumberland

County, 401.

1741

Athol, Mass., I. Log tradition. Caswell, Athol, 46.

Branford, Conn., III. 64 x 44, 26 posts. Steeple 1803. Simonds, History of Branford, 75–77.

Canaan, Conn. (South Parish). 40 x 35, 20 posts, to 35 x 30, 18 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:210.

Cornwall, Conn., I. 48 x 38, 24 posts. Starr, History of North Cornwall, 84.

Epping, N.H. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 223.

Gorham, Maine. 36 x 26, 20 posts. “shed.” Log tradition? Pierce, History of Gorham, 58; McLellan,

History of Gorham, 169.

Hollis, N.H., I. 22 x 20, 9 posts. Worcester, History of Hollis, 42.

Lyndeborough, N.H., I. 35 x 30, 20 posts. Builder: Cornelius Tarbell. Donovan and Woodward, History

of Lyndeborough, 277; Clark, Historical Address, 39–40.

Mendon, Mass. (Second or East Parish or Milford), I. 40 x 35. Colored 1748. Enlarged 14 ft., single porch

added 1792. Hurd, History of Worcester County, 2:1263; Ballou, History of Milford, 67–95.

Milford, Conn. (Second Parish, “Opposers”). Ford, Historical Sketches, 13.

Newburyport, Mass. (Anglican), I (St. Paul’s). Benes, Old-Town and the Waterside, entry 197.

Oxford, Conn., I. 38 x 32, 19 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:125–26.

Watertown, Conn. (Westbury), I. History of Ancient Westbury, 16.

1742

Barrington, N.H., I. 44 x 36. Town hall 1840. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 610.

Boston, Mass. (Bennett Street). Snow, History of Boston, 229.

Brentwood, N.H., I. Hazlett, History of Rockingham County, 226.

Buxton, Maine, I. Log tradition. 30 x 25, “9 feet stud of hune timber.” One Hundred and Fiftieth

Anniversary, Buxton, 104; Marshall, A Report on the Centennial Anniversary, 34.

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Colrain, Mass. Painted blue 1764. Packard, History of the Churches and Ministers in Franklin County,

81.

Hadlyme, Conn. 46 x 35, 20 posts. Manual, Congregational Church, Hadlyme, 10.

HINGHAM, MASS. (Second or South Parish). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227.

Ledyard, Conn. (Separate church). Avery, History of Ledyard, 30.

Leicester, Mass. (Quaker). 20 x 22. Made into a dwelling house 1791. Washburn, Topographical and

Historical Sketch, 31; Washburn, Historical Sketches, 116.

Leominster, Mass., I. 50 x 40, 23 posts, to 54 x 35, 22 posts. Painted 1753. Emerson, Leominster, 42;

Hurd, History of Worcester County, 2:1203; Stebbins, Centennial Discourse, 8–9.

New Milford, Conn. (Quaker), I. Orcutt, History of New Milford, 177.

Sharon, Conn., I. 45 x 35, 20 posts (turned down a log house). Belfry 1743. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:187; McLaughlin, Discourse, 6.

South Hampton, N.H. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 519–20.

Stratford, Conn., III. 60 x 40, 26 posts. Steeple 130 ft. high. Burned 1785. Wilcoxson, History of

Stratford, 147.

Washington, Conn., I. Log. 30 x 26. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:255.

West Hartford, Conn. (Fourth Parish in Hartford), II. Hall, History of West Hartford, 75.

1743

Attleborough, Mass. (Second or East Parish), I. 45 x 35. 1-tier gallery. Daggett, History of Attleborough,

264.

Bethlem, Conn. (Bethlehem Society or Woodbury East), I. Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, 241.

Bloomfield, Conn. (Anglican) (St. Andrew’s). Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:28.

Boylston, Mass. (North Shrewsbury). 45 x 35, 20 posts. Hurd, History of Worcester County, 2:892–93;

Davenport, Historical Sketch, Boylston, 22.

Dorchester, Mass., IV. 68 x 46. Steeple and porch, 14 ft. sq. 114 ft. high. Cost: £3,567. Enlarged 1795.

Blake, Annals of Dorchester, 58–59; Harris, Valedictory Sermon, 28; Barrows, Proceedings, 115.

Exeter, N.H. (Second Parish, “seceders”). Steeple, gallery. Builder: Nathaniel Conner. Dismantled and

parts divided 1824. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 270; Street, Second

Church, Exeter, 16.

Great Barrington, Mass. 45 x 35. Belfry 1745. Conn, Congregational Church of Great Barrington, 4–5.

Ipswich, Mass. (West or Linebrook Parish). 60 x 40, 22 posts. 1-tier gallery. No steeple. Moved and

rebuilt 1828. Waters, Ipswich, 2:452; Hurd, History of Essex County, 591; Bentley, Diary, 30 Oct.

1811 (4:62).

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Lancaster, Mass., III. Willard, Sketches of the Town of Lancaster, 66.

Newburyport, Mass. (Separatist became Presbyterian), I. Hovey, Historical Discourse, 5.

Norwalk, Conn. (Anglican). 55 x 42. Hall, Ancient Historical Records, 168.

PELHAM, MASS. 46 x 36. Painted “Askie Coler.” Builder: Thomas and John Dick. Undated single

porch. Parmenter, History of Pelham, 38; Building contract fragment, 1741.

Rehoboth, Mass. (Six-Principle Baptist) (Round’s church). Bliss, History of Rehoboth, 185.

Spencer, Mass., I. 45 x 35. Stairs within. Draper, History of Spencer, 82.

Stonington, Conn. (Baptist). 40 x 30. First Baptist Church, 30.

Stratford, Conn. (Anglican), II. Decorated door. 3 decker. 9 days to raise frame. 130 ft. bell tower.

Architect: Henry Dudley. Orcutt, History of Stratford and Bridgeport, 307; Jarvis, Sketches of

Church Life, “Christ Church, Stratford”; Miller, Connecticut Valley Doorways, 37–38; “Historic

Buildings of Connecticut,” historicbuildings.com.

Suffield, Conn. (Second Parish or Ireland Plaine), I. Trumbull, Memorial History of Hartford County,

2:391–92.

Tyringham, Mass., I. 40 x 35. History of Berkshire County, 610.

Warren, Mass. (Western), I. 40 x 40 to 45 x 35, 20½ posts. History of Worcester County, 2:442–46; Hurd,

History of Worcester County, 2:1186.

Waterbury, Conn. (Anglican), I (St. James’s). Anderson, Town and City of Waterbury, 2:57;

historicbuildingsct.com.

Woodstock, Conn. (West Parish). 48 x 38. Foreseats like those in First Parish. Bowen, History of

Woodstock, 279; Larned, History of Windham County, 1:379.

1744

Acushnet, Mass., II. Palladian window put in above door. Potter, First Congregational Society in New

Bedford, 30; Howland, History of Acushnet, 203.

Bellingham, Mass. (Baptist), I. 35 x 30, 19 posts. (4th in Mass.). Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 101.

Boston, Mass. (Irish or Presbyterian), II. Tower and spire. Gannett, Memorial of the Federal Street

Meeting-house; Drake, History and Antiquities, 576.

Cambridge, Mass. (South Parish or Brighton). Tower and porch 1794. Drake, History of Middlesex

County, 1:280–81.

Chatham, Conn. (Middle Haddam). 44 x 36. Field, Centennial Address, 269.

Coventry, Conn. (North Parish). Peterson, Historical Sketch, 14.

Dorchester, Mass. (Third Parish or Stoughton), I. 45 x 35. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 394–5.

Greenwich, Mass. 40 x 30, 20 posts. History of the Connecticut Valley, 1:539.

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Killingly, Conn. (South Parish or Breakneck Hill), II. Moved 1757. Became town house. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:145; Bayles, History of Windham County, 938–40; Manual of

Westfield Congregational Church, 16, 19–22.

Mansfield, Conn. (North Parish). Southwick, History, 9–10.

Millbury, Mass., I. (“The Lord’s Barn”). 40 x 35. Hurd, History of Worcester County, 2:1103; History of

Worcester County, 103–4; Centennial History of Millbury, 308.

New Haven, Conn. (White Haven Society or Separate church) (the “Blue”). 60 x 44. Painted blue 1751.

Bell tower 1764. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:33–34.

Plymouth, Mass., III. 72 x 68. Hipped roof with tower later moved to front. Demolished 1831. Hurd,

History of Plymouth County, 178; Plymouth Church Records, 29 July 1744.

Plymouth, Mass. (Third Parish or Old Light Separate church). Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 178.

Providence, R.I. (Beneficent Congregational). 40 x 36. Spire 100 ft. Staples, Annals of Providence, 451.

Scarborough, Maine (Dunstan Society). Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 367.

Westerly, R.I. (Quaker). Cole, History of Washington and Kent Counties, 288.

1745

Dracut, Mass. (Second Parish or Lowell), I. 45 x 35, 23 posts. Coburn, History of Lowell, 68.

HAMPSTEAD, N.H., II. 50 x 40, 28 posts. Steeple, porch 1793. Town house 1852. Builder: Josiah Clark,

Ethan Barker. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 65; Noyes, Memorial of Hampstead, 1:22–25,

2:14–19.

Killingly, Conn. (First or Middle Parish or Putnam Heights), III. Bayles, History of Windham County,

938–48; Manual of the Westfield Congregational Church, 16–17; Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:147–48.

Marshfield, Mass. (Anglican) (Trinity). Richards, History of Marshfield, 43.

Middlefield, Conn. 40 x 40. Field, Centennial Address, 187.

Northborough, Mass., I. 46 x 36, 20 posts. Framer: Daniel Hemminway. Kent, Northborough History, 14.

Norwich, Conn. (Franklin or West Farms), II. One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary, Franklin, 31.

Pepperell, Mass., I. 42 x 30, 20 posts. Andrews, Centennial Discourse, 22; Drake, History of Middlesex

County, 261; Hurd, History of Essex County, 3:221.

Roxbury, Conn., II. Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, 276.

Sterling, Mass. (West Lancaster), I. History of Worcester County, 2:344–45; Crane, Brief History of

Sterling, 10.

Waterbury, Conn. (Plymouth Church). 45 x 35, 20 posts. Anderson, Churches of Mattatuck, 127.

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1746

Belchertown, Mass., I. Doolittle, Historical Sketch of Belchertown, 19.

Boston, Mass., I (Second Baptist Church). 45 x 33. Gallery. Stowe, Discourse, 171; History and

Catalogue, 23.

Byfield, Mass., II. 56 x 45. Steeple 12-ft. sq. Enlarged to 70 x 45 ca. 1764. Burned 1833. Hurd, History of

Essex County, 827; Gage, History of Rowley, 34–36, 330; Ewell, Story of Byfield, 108–9.

Hollis, N.H., II. 50 x 44, 23 posts. Worcester, History of Hollis, 64.

New Milford, Conn. (Anglican), I. Orcutt, History of New Milford, 177.

Pelham, N.H. 28 x 24. Hurd, History of Hillsborough County, 637.

Pembroke, Mass. (Second Parish, now Hanson). Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 343.

Plymouth, Conn. Atwater, History of Plymouth, 39.

Roxbury, Mass., IV. 62 x 42, 26 posts. Spire added to steeple. Cost: £2,905. Enlarged 1774. Drake, Town

of Roxbury, 285; Thwing, History of the First Church, 80–81.

Torrington, Conn., I (“Hemlock” meetinghouse). 30 x 30, 18 posts. Orcutt, History of Torrington, 21.

1747

COHASSET, MASS., II. 45 x 60. 2-story single porch 1767. Bell tower 1799. Bigelow, Narrative

History, 359.

Columbia, Conn. (Second Parish in Lebanon or Lebanon Crank), II. 64 x 46, 26 posts. Steeple 1792. One

Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, 34, 35.

Concord, Mass. (Second Parish or Lincoln). Belfry and porches on 3 sides. Account of Celebration, 36.

DUNSTABLE, N.H. (South Parish or Nashua) (“Bird’s meetinghouse”). 40 x 38. Gallery. Fox, History of

Dunstable, 149; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 232.

Harwich, Mass. (Second or South Parish), I. Paine, History of Harwich, 228.

Hudson, N.H., II. 40 x 26. Hurd, History of Hillsborough County, 464.

Ipswich, Mass. (Third or South Parish). 60 x 40, 25 posts. No porch or tower. Hurd, History of Essex

County, 581; Waters, Ipswich, 2:440.

North Guilford, Conn. (Anglican), I. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:95.

Sturbridge, Mass. (Separatist became Baptist), I. History of Worcester County, 2:364.

Windham, Conn. (Third Parish or Scotland), I. 43 x 33, 20 posts. “with a handsome jeyht.” Larned,

History of Windham County, 1:277, 553; Bayles, History of Windham, 400.

Woodbury, Conn., II. “Transcendantly Magnificent.” Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:319–20;

Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, 71, 139.

YORK, MAINE, IV. 70 x 50, 25 posts. Remodeled 1839. Made Victorian later. Sinnott, Meetinghouse

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and Church, 220; Moody, Handbook, 90; Banks, History of York, 107–8.

1748

Canterbury, Conn. (Separate church). Bayles, History of Windham County: “Canterbury Connecticut

Church History.”

Dorchester, Mass. (Second Parish or Canton), II. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 937.

Douglas, Mass. Glazed 1751. Plastered 1771. Colored 1793. Single porch. Emerson, History of Douglas,

48, 51, 65, 93.

Dracut, Mass., II. 45 x 35, 23 posts. Pine shingles. Gallery. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 1:412;

Coburn, History of Lowell, 68.

Gilead, Conn. (Second Parish or Hebron), I. 46 x 36, 22 posts. Mack, Historical Sketch, 10.

Hebron, Conn., II. 60 x 48, 25 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:231.

New Ipswich, N.H., I. Framed? Demolished 1748. Gould and Kidder, History of New Ipswich, 142.

Oxford, Mass., II. Builder: David Baldwin. Cost: £640. Daniels, History of Oxford, 84–87.

Rochester, Mass. (North Parish), I. Mattapoisett and Old Rochester, 80.

Sutton, Mass., II. 50 x 40, 22 posts. Tower and bell 1792. Benedict, History of Sutton, 73.

Wenham, Mass., III. 52 x 42, 24 posts. Steeple pulled down 1759, replaced 1765. Allen, History of

Wenham, 198–99.

Wilbraham, Mass., I. 45 x 35. Gallery. Moved 1794. Stebbins, Historical Address, 58.

Woburn, Mass., III. 58 x 42, 24 posts. Builder: Joshua Thornton. Steeple? Enlarged, bell replaced 1772.

Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 118; Sewall, History of Woburn, 314.

1749

Athol, Mass., II. Clarke, Centennial Discourse, 63.

Berwick, Maine (North Parish), I. Berwick Register, 50.

BOSTON, MASS. (Anglican), II (King’s Chapel). 71 x 60. Stone. Architect: Peter Harrison. Babcock,

Christ Church, 33; Stiles, Itineraries, 98; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 222.(Stiles says 77

x 55.)

Bristol, Conn., I. 40 x 30. Peck, History of Bristol, 49.

Brookfield, Mass. (Second or North Parish), I. Twin porches added. Sold 1832. Temple, History of North

Brookfield, 223.

Chester, N.H. (Long Meadow, later Auburn), I (“Little Meeting-house”). Dismantled 1793. Materials

used in 1793 meetinghouse. Forsaith, Auburn, 201; Chase, History of Old Chester, 157–59.

Easton, Mass., II. Porch and belfry 1794. Town hall 1816. Hurd, History of Bristol County, 424–25.

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Hartford, Conn. (Second Parish), II. 66 x 46. Bell tower 16 x 16. Builder: Isaac Seymour. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:205.

Ipswich, Mass., IV. 63 x 47, 26 posts. Steeple. Builder: Daniel Heard. Finish carpenter: Abraham

Knowlton. Waters, Ipswich, 2:424.

Lunenburg, Mass., II. Greenman, “An Interlude” 261.

Marlborough, Conn. 48 x 36. Gallery. Demolished 1841. Hall, Report of the Celebration, 17; Trumbull,

Memorial History, 2:269.

Medway, Mass., II. 42 x 33, 20 posts. Main alley. Doors to pulpit. Jameson, History of Medway, 108–9.

Middleborough, Mass. (Titicut), I. Emery, Church of North Middleborough, 22–24.

Rowley, Mass., III. 60 x 42. Steeple and spire 12 x 12. Porch on other end. Jewett and Jewett, Rowley,

Mass., 108–9.

Salisbury, Conn., I. 45 x 35, 20 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:175–76.

Springfield, Mass., III. 60 x 46 (or 56 x 45), 25 posts. Bell tower. Copeland, History of Hampden County,

283; Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 117; McIntyre, Old First Church, unpaginated;

Wight, Some Old Time Meeting Houses, 34.

Springfield, Mass. (Fifth Parish or Chicopee), I. 42 x 33. Entrances for men and women. Green,

Springfield, 259; Wight, Some Old Time Meeting Houses, 108; Copeland, History of Hampden

County, 3:513.

Suffield, Conn., III. 57 x 47. Gallery. Roof steeple. Builder: Joseph Howard. Replaced 130-ft. spire 1786.

One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, Ruggles, 102.

Westborough, Mass., II. 50 x 40, 23 posts. 3 porches. Enlarged 14 ft. 1773. Steeple 1800. Bates, History

of Westborough, 133, 154–55.

1750

Berwick, Maine, III. 70 x 47. Belfry and tall spire. Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families, 197.

Brentwood, N.H., II. Hazlett, History of Rockingham County, 226.

Canterbury, N.H. 45 x 35. Twin porch added 1789. Hurd, History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties,

223; Lyford, History of the Town of Canterbury, 169–70.

Chelsea, Mass., II. Steeple mentioned 1749. Chamberlain, Documentary History of Chelsea, 185, 268–69.

Dover, Mass., I. 42 x 34, 20 posts. No steeple. Gallery. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 241; Smith,

History of Dover, 38.

East Hampton, Conn. 46 x 36, 22 posts. Burned 1854. Ives, Historical Sermon, 5.

Fairfield, Conn., IV. Replaced octagonal one, 60 x 44, 26 posts. 120-ft. steeple. Burned by British 1779.

Schenck, History of Fairfield, 1:72.

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Falmouth, Mass., III. 42 x 42. Enlarged, single porch added 1791. Freeman, History of Cape Cod, 2:463.

Granville, Mass., I. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1086; Wilson, History of Granville, 171.

Hatfield, Mass., III. 56 x 45. “Belfry and tower with Gothic Points.” Wells and Wells, History of Hatfield,

168; author’s 1979 conversation with David Brennan; Wight, Some Old Time Meetinghouses, 65.

Medway, Mass. (Second or West Parish), I. 40 x 34, 20 posts. Jameson, History of Medway, 123.

Middletown, Conn. (Anglican). 50 x 36. Steeple. Bell 1759. Field, Centennial Address, 174; Connecticut

Magazine 7 (1901): 475.

Middletown, Conn. (East Parish or Portland), II. 56 x 42. Field, Centennial Address, 256.

Northford, Conn. 50 x 40. Simonds, History of Branford, 79.

Redding, Conn., II. 46 x 37. Todd, History of Redding, 81.

Redding, Conn. (Anglican), II. 50 x 46. Todd, History of Redding, 80.

Riverhead, L.I. (Wading River). 28 x 26. Prime, History of Long Island, 158.

Shelter Island, L.I. Builder: Brindley Sylvester. Prime, History of Long Island, 162.

Smithtown, L.I. Prime, History of Long Island, 241.

Sutton, Mass. (Baptist). History of Worcester County, 2:381.

Ware, Mass., I. 40 x 35 to 30 x 25, 15 posts. History of the Connecticut Valley, 1:368; Hyde, Address, 19–

20; Chase, History of Ware, 67.

Warwick, R.I. (Baptist) (ca. 1750). 40 x 40, 2 stories. Fuller, History of Warwick, 309.

Wells, Maine (Second Parish or Kennebunk). 30 ft. long. Enlarged 12 ft. 1752. Single porch 1755.

Architect: James Hubbard. Murphy, Landing, 5; Remich, History of Kennebunk, 309; Bourne,

History of Wells and Kennebunk, 393–94, 438.

Westerly, R.I. Indian church. Denison, Westerly, 79.

West Greenwich, R.I. (Baptist). Cole, History of Washington and Kent Counties, 1172; Johnson, Rhode

Island Baptists, 127.

1751

ABINGTON, CONN. 48 x 39. Remodeled 1802, 1834. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 169; Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:3; Larned, History of Windham County, 1:513; Hill,

“Architectural Investigation,” 44.

Abington, Mass., II. 70 x 50, 26 posts. Side tower by 1796. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 483;

Hobart, History of Abington, 89.

Bradford, Mass., III. Undated single porch. Kingsbury, Memorial History, 19.

Concord, N.H., II (“Old North”). 60 x 46, 28 posts. Spire 1783. Semicircle 1802. Burned 1870. Hurd,

History of Merrimack County, 65; Reed and Thorne, First Congregational Church, 22; Walker,

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Our Four Meeting Houses, 6–7.

Ipswich, Mass. (Second Parish, Chebacco, or Essex), III. Crowell, History of Essex, 171.

Mansfield, Conn., II. 64 x 44, 25 posts. Steeple 1792. Turned 1839. Centennial Discourse, 20.

Norwich, Conn., IV. 70 x 48, 26 posts. Steeple on the beams. Burned 1801. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:112; Caulkins, History of Norwich, 340.

Washington, Conn., II. Steeple erected 1786. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:255.

Weymouth, Mass., III. Bell tower and steeple. Nash, Historical Sketch of Weymouth, 103.

1752

Ashburnham, Mass., I. Stearns, History of Ashburnham, 285.

Bridgehampton, L.I. (Separate church). Adams, History of the Town of Southampton, 138.

Falmouth, Maine (Quaker), I. Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 274.

Gloucester, Mass. (Fourth or breakaway North Parish). Gallery 3 sides. Belfry. Babson, History of

Gloucester, 309 ff.

New Braintree, Mass., I. 50 x 40. Twin porch addition 1772. Colored “dingy yellow.” History of

Worcester County, 120; Account of the Observance, 27.

New Canaan, Conn., II. 50 x 40. Bell tower 1797. Hurd, History of Fairfield County, 437; One Hundred

Fiftieth Anniversary, 26; Readings in New Canaan History, 24.

New Milford, Conn., II. 60 x 44, 27 posts. Steeple 1754. Orcutt, History of New Milford, 180–84.

Norton, Mass., II. 50 x 40, 20 posts, to 60 x 40, 25 posts. Steeple. Builder: William Coddington. Clark,

History of Norton, 228–38.

Peterborough, N.H., I. Repaired, enlarged 1761. Smith, History of Peterborough, 84–85.

Reading, Mass. (Second or North Parish or Reading), I. 48 x 36. Flint, Historical Address and Poem, 23;

Drake, Middlesex County, 2:259.

Saco, Maine. Ridlon, Saco Valley Settlements, 223.

Southampton, Mass., I. Wight, Some Old Time Meetinghouses, opp. 15.

Tiverton, R.I. (Baptist), I. Johnson, Rhode Island Baptists, 124.

1753

Andover, Mass. (North Parish), IV. Undated single porch. Dismantled 1835. Porch added to a dwelling

house. Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover, 434.

Barre, Mass., I. Thompson, Barre Centennial, 55.

Charlemont, Mass. 35 x 30, 18 posts. Only frame raised. Builder: Thomas Dick. History of the

Connecticut Valley, 2:715–16.

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Dunbarton, N.H., I. 30 x 30, 10 posts. Log tradition. Hurd, History of Merrimack County, 296; Stark,

History of Dunbarton, 20.

East Windsor, Conn. (Second Parish or Scantic). 47 x 35, 21 posts. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor,

296–98; Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:151.

Exeter, R.I. (Chestnut Hill) (Baptist, New Light). Fireplace near the center. Cole, History of Washington

and Kent Counties, 678; Johnson, Rhode Island Baptists, 119.

Falmouth, Maine (Third or New Casco Parish). Gallery. Goold, Portland in the Past, 285; Clayton,

History of Cumberland County, 273.

Keene, N.H., II. 45 x 35, 22 posts. Proper, History of First Congregational Church, 21.

Mason, N.H., I. 40 x 30. Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, Mason, 23; Hill, History of Mason, 39;

Hurd, History of Hillsborough County, 514.

New Haven, Conn. (Anglican) (Trinity). 58 x 38. 6-sided bell tower. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:24.

Shirley, Mass., I. Chandler, History of Shirley, 206.

Southington, Conn., II. 70 x 35. Steeple 1797. Timlow, Ecclesiastical and Other Sketches, 63; Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:217.

Stow, Mass., III. 50 x 40, 23 posts. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 2:354.

Templeton, Mass., I. 60 x 50. History of Worcester County, 2:394.

Windham, Conn. (First Parish in Windham County), III. Steeple. Larned, History of Windham County,

1:551.

Windham, Conn. (Second or Canada Society), II. Builder: Thomas Stedman (20 years old). Larned,

History of Windham County, 1:552‒53.

Windham, N.H. (Presbyterian), I. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 559.

1754

Avon, Conn. (North Farmington), I. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:263.

Bellingham, Mass., II. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 146.

Bridgewater, Mass. (Third Parish or East Bridgewater), II. 56 x 45, 22 posts. Hurd, History of Plymouth

County, 841.

BROOKFIELD, MASS. (Third or South Parish). 55 x 45, 23 posts. Moved, became Roman Catholic

church 1867. Temple, History of North Brookfield, 251; Walsh, Anniversary Exercises, 23.

Dunstable, N.H., IV. Used old materials. Fox, History of Dunstable, 158.

Gloucester, Mass. (Fifth Parish or Sandy Bay or Rockport). 36 x 36. 2 stories. No belfry. Single porch.

Babson, History of Gloucester, 331–43.

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HAMPTON, CONN. 55 x 45. Tower by 1794. Sinnott: type 2 made 4, turned 1838. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 171; Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:188.

Natick, Mass., III. Bacon, History of Natick, 109.

New Ipswich, N.H., II. 50 x 40, 24 posts, to 32 x 22, 9 posts. Gould and Kidder, History of New Ipswich,

142.

Tolland, Conn., II. 56 x 40. Steeple 1792. Dismantled 1838. Waldo, Early History of Tolland, 23.

1755

Bedford, N.H., I. 40 x 50. 2 stories. Unattached belltower. Builder: Warren. Finish carpenter: Thomas and

Josiah Warren. Painted 1762. History of Bedford, 328; Patten, Diary, 22 November 1758, 58.

Brookfield, Mass., III. 55 x 45, 23 posts. Moved as town house. Sold 1809. Dunham, Historical

Discourse, 57; Temple, History of North Brookfield, 221.

Brunswick, Maine (East Side). Wheeler and Wheeler, History of Brunswick, 360.

GROTON, MASS., IV. 65 x 50, 26 posts. Belfry 1795. Porch opposite. Turned 1839. Butler, History of

Groton, 147–51.

HAWKE, N.H. (Danville). 49 x 37. Gallery. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 56; National Register of

Historic Places, “Description.” J. L. Garvin to E. Marshall (1995).

Meriden, Conn., II. 60 x 50. Stiles: “about 64 x 44.” Steeple 1803. Perkins, Historical Sketches, 62; Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:291; Stiles, Itineraries, 79.

Montague, Mass., I. 2 windows behind pulpit. Conch. 2-story belfry 1801. Dismantled 1833. History of

Connecticut Valley, 2:628; Pressey, History of Montague, 24.

New Britain, Conn., I. 45 x 35, 22 posts; revised to 80 x 64. Camp, History of New Britain, 125–27.

Nottingham, N.H., I. Cogswell, History of Nottingham, Deerfield, and Northwood, 117.

Richmond, R.I. (Quaker). Irish, Historical Sketch, 13.

Tyngsborough, Mass. (First Parish of Dunstable). Undated steeple blown down 1815. Drake, History of

Middlesex County, 2:394; Hurd, History of Middlesex County, 748.

1756

Cambridge, Mass., IV. 66 x 52. Steeple. Paige, History of Cambridge, 291; Stiles, Itineraries, 98.

GREENLAND, N.H., II. Bell tower 1801. Remodeled 1834, 1881. Hurd, History of Rockingham and

Strafford Counties, 303; Bentley, Diary, 13 September 1801; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

231.

Hudson, Mass. Casement windows added. Coloring. Allen, History of Northborough, 131.

Merrimack, N.H., I. 50 x 34, galleries. History of Merrimack, 1:46–48.

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NEWBURYPORT, MASS. (Presbyterian), II. 100 x 60. Enlarged 1801. Currier, History of Newburyport,

268; Bentley, Diary, 12 September 1801. Hovey, Old South Meeting House in Newburyport, 8.

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 225, 198–99.

New Preston, Conn., I. 36 x 26, 10 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:54.

New Shoreham, R.I. (Block Island) (First Baptist Church), I. Johnson, Rhode Island Baptists, 118;

Livermore, History of Block Island, 208.

Provincetown, Mass., I. Freeman, History of Cape Cod, 2:633. Stiles, Diary, 1:80, says 83 x 58 feet.

Rye, N.H., II. 60 x 40 to 58 x 40. Dismantled and used as stable in Portsmouth 1840. Parsons, History of

Rye, 161.

Warren, R.I. (Baptist), I. 44 x 44. Hipped roof with small belfry “whose rope hung directly down in the

center of the middle aisle.” Gallery 1772. Spalding, Centennial Discourse, 16–17.

Warwick, Mass., I. 35 x 30, 19 posts. Torn down 1787. Builder: Mason and Perry. History of the

Connecticut Valley, 2:780.

1757

Coventry, R.I. (Baptist). 28 x 26, 2 stories. Builder: Elder Peter Worden. 1st of 3 similar ones. Fuller,

History of Warwick, 312.

East Windsor, Conn., III. 60 x 45, 27 posts. Bell 1765. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, 253; Record of

the Services, 68.

HARPSWELL, MAINE (North Yarmouth). 40 x 35, 17 posts. Builder: Elisha Eaton Jr. Single porch

1774. Now town house. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 67; Historic Churches and Homes,

198–202; Wheeler and Wheeler, History of Brunswick, 436; HABS drawings.

Killingly, Conn. (South Parish). History of Congregational Church, South Killingly, 25.

New Haven, Conn., III (“New Brick meeting house”). 70 x 50. Stiles: 76 x 54. Blake, Chronicles of New

Haven Green, 97; Stiles, Itineraries, 77; Stiles, Diary, 1:284, says “about 70 x 50.” Mitchell,

History of New Haven County, 289, says 72½ x 50 feet.

North Bristol, Conn. Steiner, History of Menunkatuck, 364.

Windsor, Conn., III. 60 x 45, 24 posts. Steeple (square cap). Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses,

2:303–4.

WOOLWICH, MAINE. Sinnott: type 2. Altered 1840s. No galleries. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

220.

1758

Bath, Maine. Single porch. Reed, History of Bath, 468–69.

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Carlisle, Mass., I. 40 x 30. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 1:361.

Dover, N.H., IV. 70 x 47. “belfry and tall spire.” Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties,

829; Stackpole, Old Kittery, 197.

Hinsdale, N.H. Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, 359.

Newcastle, Maine. Town Register.

Riverhead, L.I. (Aquebogue), I. 33 x 24. Prime, History of Long Island, 152.

Weston, Conn. (Norfield Parish). 40 x 30, 19 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:273.

Woodbridge, Conn. (Amity Society), I. 40 x 50. Mitchell, History of New Haven County, 289.

1759

Bethel, Conn. 48 x 36, 21 posts. Sides: shingles 3 ft. long. Steeple 1818. Burned 1842. Hurd, History of

Fairfield County, 867; Congregational Church, Bethel, 5.

Bridgewater, Mass. (Second Parish or Bridgewater), II. 64 x 50. Belfry. Hurd, History of Plymouth

County, 775.

Brookfield, Conn. 46 x 36, 20 posts. Steeple 1824. Hawley, Annals of Brookfield, 20, 66; Hurd, History of

Fairfield County, 171.

Charleton, Mass. 40 x 50. Builder: Jonathan Upham. Cost: £26. Ammidown, Historical Collections, 120.

Derryfield, N.H. (Manchester), I. 40 x 35. Hurd, History of Hillsborough County, 87; Chalmers, Town

Church of Manchester, frontispiece.

Lyndeborough, N.H., II. Single porch. Burned. Donovan and Woodward, History of Lyndeborough, 278;

Clark, Historical Address, 44–45.

Newbury, Mass. (Second or West Parish), III. 54 x 49, 24 posts. Currier, History of Newbury, 347.

Pembroke, N.H., II. Builder: Ephraim Barker. Dismantled 1806? Private survival? McClintock, History of

Pembroke, 247.

Rutland, Mass., II. 60 x 50, 24 posts. Burned 1830. Reed, History of Rutland, 67.

Topsfield, Mass., III. 54 x 42, 26 posts. Bell 1817. Historical Manual, 8.

1760

Agawam, Mass. (Springfield Sixth Parish, 1762; West Springfield Second Parish, 1774). “Never

finished.” History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1049.

Charlestown, N.H., I. 34 x 20, 8 posts. “log house.” Saunderson, History of Charlestown, 220–25.

Gloucester, R.I. (before 1760). 30 x 20. Stiles, Itineraries, 80.

Greenfield, Mass. 45 x 35 to 50 x 40. Conch. Thompson, History of Greenfield, 1:539; History of the

Connecticut Valley, 2:587.

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Norfolk, Conn., I. 50 x 40, 20 posts. Painted “peach-blow color.” Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:67–69; Potter, Church of Christ, 25.

Norwich Landing, Conn. (Anglican). 42 x 45. Stiles, Itineraries, 77.

Pomfret, Conn., II. 60 x 48, 24 or 25 posts. Builder: Thomas Stedman. Larned, History of Windham

County, 1:525, 2:3.

Providence, R.I. (Presbyterian) (before 1760). 53 x 35. Stiles, Itineraries, 80.

Providence, R.I. (Quaker) (before 1760). 28 x 39. Stiles, Itineraries, 80.

Providence, R.I. (Quaker, Warren Meeting) (before 1760). 28 x 38. Stiles, Itineraries, 80.

SHEFFIELD, MASS., II. 60 x 41. Turned 1819. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227; Centennial

Celebration, 45.

Wales, Mass. (Baptist). Sold to the town 1802. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1070.

Wallingford, Conn. (Anglican) (before 1760). 49 x 38. Stiles, Itineraries, 80.

Warwick, R.I. (Apponaug) (Baptist). 28 x 26. 1-tier gallery. Builder: Elder Peter Worden. 2nd of 3 similar

ones. Fuller, History of Warwick, 312.

Winchester, N.H., II. 44 x 34, 20 posts. Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, 564.

1761

Amesbury, Mass. (Sandy Hill), IV. Single porch. Rebuilt 1715 meetinghouse. Dismantled 1848. Merrill,

History of Amesbury, 232, 363.

Becket, Mass., I. 50 x 40, 22 posts. Steeple 1772. Archer, Bicentennial History, 35–44.

Buxton, Maine, II. 45 x 35. “Proper stud.” One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary, Buxton, 106; Marshall,

A Report on the Centennial Anniversary, 54.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (Anglican). 58 x 39. Bell. Architect: Peter Harrison. Ayres, Harvard Divided,

entry 79; Stiles, Itineraries, 98.

Dartmouth, Mass. (Quaker) (Allen’s Neck Meeting House). Allen’s Neck Friends Meeting.

DEDHAM, MASS., III. 60 x 46. Sinnott: type 2 made 3. Steeple, 2 porches. Enlarged 1819, 1857. Hurd,

History of Norfolk County, 51; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 222.

Hamden, Conn. (Carmel). 55 x 40. Turret by subscription. Blake, History of Hamden, 176.

Hampton, N.H. (Fourth Parish or North Hampton), II. French, Half-Century Discourse, 8.

Newton, N.H., II. 58 x 40. Galleries. Tower 1816. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties,

409.

Oakham, Mass., I. 46 x 36. Dismantled and moved West Rutland meetinghouse. Gallery. Hurd, History of

Worcester County, 2:1080–81.

South Hadley, Mass., II. 60 x 45. Conch. Steeple and belfry 1791. Johnson, Historic Hampshire, 160.

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Vernon, Conn. 50 x 40, 24 posts, to 46 x 36, 22 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:233.

Winchendon, Mass., I. 30 x 45, 20 posts. History of Worcester County, 2:537; Marvin, History of

Winchendon, 151.

Windsor, Conn. (North Parish), I. “Site” separatists. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, 367; Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:308.

1762

Bridgewater, Mass. (Fourth Parish), II. 64 x 50. Belfry (12 x 12, 85 ft. high). Porch 1789. Builder:

Simeon Cary. Kingman, History of North Bridgewater, 92–95.

Brimfield, Mass., II. 20 posts. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1000; Hyde, Historical Celebration,

121.

Charlemont, Mass., I. 35 x 30, 18 posts. Never completed. Sold 1769. Builder: Thomas Dick. History of

the Connecticut Valley, 2:715–16.

Fairfield, Conn. (Greenfield Hill or Northwest Parish), II. 60 x 42. Steeple. Schenck, History of Fairfield,

2:241.

Granby, Mass., I. History of the Connecticut Valley, 1:545; Wight, Some Old Time Meeting Houses, 87.

HAMILTON, MASS., II. 60 x 54, 26 posts. Turned. Greek Revival. Hurd, History of Essex County,

1212–13; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 167.

Litchfield, Conn., II. 60 x 45. Steeple. Carved tulips and vines on pulpit. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 1:275–78; White, History of Litchfield, 28.

Manchester, Conn. (Orford), I. Robbins and Dimock, 100th Anniversary, 54.

Monson, Mass., I. Copeland, History of Hampden County, 3:304.

New Boston, N.H., II. 50 x 40, 20 posts. Hurd, History of Hillsborough County, 590.

Newbury, Mass. (Fifth Parish) (Oliver Nobles’s meetinghouse). Coffin, History of Newbury, 371.

Northfield, Mass., II. 55 x 44. Builder: Hophni King. Steeple. Temple and Sheldon, History of Northfield,

312–13.

Princeton, Mass., I. 50 x 40. No steeple. Russell, History of Princeton, 36.

Woodstock, Conn. (North Parish or East Woodstock). Larned, History of Windham County, 2:99.

1763

Arrowsic, Maine. Single porch. Reed, History of Bath and Environs, 68.

Bennington, Vt., I. 50 x 40. Single porch. Jennings, Memorials of a Century, 26.

Bethel, Conn. (Anglican). 48 x 36. Bailey, History of Danbury, 36.

Braintree, Mass. (Third Parish or Randolph), II. 60 x 45. Twin porch 1796. Pattee, History of Old

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Braintree, 60; Proceedings of the First Congregational Church.

Canton, Conn., I. Dismantled 1814. Alvord and Gridley, Historical Sketch, 12.

Foxborough, Mass. Twin porch addition ca. 1780. Centennial Record, 65–72; Hurd, History of Norfolk

County, 697.

Hampton Falls, N.H. (Presbyterian). Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 503.

NEWPORT, R.I. (Touro Synagogue). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 235. Rose, Colonial Houses of

Worship, 414–15.

Suffield, Conn. (Separatist). Trumbull, Memorial History of Hartford County, 2:393.

Waldoboro, Maine, I. Log tradition. Miller, History of Waldoboro, 209.

Worcester, Mass., II (Old South). 70 x 50. Builder: D. Hemenway. Cost: £1,542. Bell tower, 2 porches.

Dismantled 1887. Smalley, Worcester Pulpit, 27; Worcester Illustrated Business Guide, 69

(1881).

1764

Epsom, N.H. 50 x 40. Hurd, History of Merrimack County, 450.

Falmouth, Maine (Portland) (Anglican). 50 x 29. Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 178; Goold,

Portland in the Past, 304.

Gorham, Maine, II. Enlarged 30 ft. 1792. Pierce, History of Gorham, 58.

Hanover, Mass., II (Central Meeting House). 62 x 43, 22 posts. Builder: Joseph Tolman. Steeple,

opposing porch added. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 373–75.

Hartland, Conn., I. 45 x 35, 20 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:129.

Holland, Mass. Pillars and pulpit painted “pee green” 1794. Lovering, History of Holland, 189; History of

the Connecticut Valley, 2:1104.

Mansfield, Mass., II. 60 x 45. Moved 1872. Demolished 1888. Copeland, Mansfield 150th Anniversary

Program, 2.

New Danbury, Conn. Burned by British 1777. Bicentennial, First Congregational Church, 13.

Richmond, Mass., I. 45 x 25. Annin, Richmond, 59.

Rindge, N.H., I. 50 x 40. Stearns, History of Rindge, 228.

Royalston, Mass., I. Hurd, History of Worcester County, 1:1371–72.

Topsham, Maine, I. Single porch voted 1770. Wheeler and Wheeler, History of Brunswick, 406–8.

Wales, Mass., I. 45 x 35, 21 posts. Never finished. Removed to Willington, Conn. History of the

Connecticut Valley, 2:1070.

Walpole, N.H., I. 56 x 42. Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, 429.

WESTMORELAND, N.H. 50 x 40, 20 posts. Moved 1779. Twin porches added. Warner, “Extracts,” in

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Excerpts, first page.

WETHERSFIELD, CONN., III. 80 x 50. Brick. Builder: John Chester (superintendent). Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:289–90.

1765

Bethel, Conn., II. 60 x 45. Steeple 1793. Cothren, Ancient Woodbury, 247–48.

Coventry, Conn., II. Peterson, Historical Sketch, 14.

Haverhill, Mass., III. 66 x 48. Steeple. Dismantled 1837. Wallace, History of Haverhill, 552.

Haverhill, Mass. (Baptist). 60 x 42. Undated twin porch addition. Tower, turret, and bell added in 1801.

Train, Centennial Discourse, 16; Bentley, Diary, 15 Sept. 1801 (2:393).

Hopkinton, N.H., I. 50 x 38, 22 posts. Burned 1789 following committee decision not to move it. Lord,

Life and Times in Hopkinton, 49, 74.

New Gloucester, Maine. Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 331–32.

PAXTON, MASS. 50 x 40, 22 posts. Sinnott: type 2 made 3. History of Worcester County, 2:196;

Ledyard, History of Paxton; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 266.

Portsmouth, N.H. (Sandemanian). Meetinghouse raised near Canoe Bridge. Portsmouth Mercury, 24 June

1765.

SEABROOK, N.H. (Presbyterian). Town house 1893. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 233; Dow,

History of Hampton, 391–92.

Stafford, Conn. (Second or West Parish). Grobel, History of the First Church of Stafford, 35.

Wapping, Conn., I (“Wapping Barn”). 60 x 40. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, 324–25.

Warner, N.H., I. Log tradition. Harriman, History of Warner, chap. 8.

Wilmington, Mass., II. 58 x 36. Pulpit grained mahogany. Simmons, History, unpaginated.

Woodbury, Conn. (Third Parish or South Britain). Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, 232–23; Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:201.

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Brookhaven, L.I., III. Thompson, History of Long Island, 270.

Candia, N.H., I. 55 x 45. Gallery. Steeple and porch 1796. Burned 1828. Hurd, History of Rockingham

and Strafford Counties, 137–38; Fitts, Historical Discourse, 5–16.

Fitchburg, Mass., I. Builder: Timothy Parker. The Old Records, 26.

Methuen, Mass. (Second Parish). Pulpit “dressed” at same cost as in First Parish 1810. Howe, Historical

Sketch, 14; “Second Parish, Methuen,” 4 April 1810.

New Milford, Conn. (Anglican), II. Orcutt, History of New Milford, 1771.

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Sharon, Conn., II. 60 x 40, 25 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:188.

SHREWSBURY, MASS., II. 60 x 45, 27 posts. Builder: Daniel Hemenway. 3 porches. 1807 belfry.

Turned 1834. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 165; Marlowe, Churches of Old New England,

99.

Wrentham, Mass., III. Cost: £1,500. Tower by subscription £190. Stiles, Itineraries, 226.

1767

Ashfield, Mass., I. 48 x 36. Howes, History of Ashfield, 77.

Bethlem, Conn., II. 60 x 43, posts as in “Old Society.” Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, 1:248.

Canaan, Conn. (Second or East Parish). 50 x 40, 24 posts. Galleries 1787. “turret” 1797. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:105.

Charlemont, Mass. (Heath). 45 x 35, 20 posts. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:715–16.

Charlestown, N.H., II. 52 x 42, 25 posts. Crosby, History of Charlestown, 28.

Dighton, Mass. (Second Parish), I. Hurd, History of Bristol County, 240.

DIGHTON, MASS., II. 55 x 45, 24 posts. Became town hall. Hurd, History of Bristol County, 225.

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

Egremont, Mass. Egremont, Mass.

Griswold, Conn. (“Blue Pachaug”), II. 66 x 42. No steeple. Phillips, Griswold, 58.

LONGMEADOW, MASS., II. 56 x 42, 25 posts. Steeple 14 ft. sq., 54 ft. high. Wight, Some Old Time

Meetinghouses, 104.

Middletown, L.I. (formerly Middle Island). Prime, History of Long Island, 236.

Murrayfield, Mass. (later Chester), I. 45 x 40, 20 posts. Copeland, History of Murrayfield, 37–38; History

of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1062.

Newburyport, Mass., III. Coffin, History of Newbury, 370.

Reading, Mass. (Wakefield), III. 70 x 50, 28 posts. Steeple and porch. Builder: David Nelson, Asa Todd.

Eaton, Genealogical History, 160; Proceedings of the 250th Anniversary, Redding, 263.

Stratham, N.H., II. 63 x 45. Steeple 12 ft. sq. Builder: Josiah Clarke. Hurd, History of Rockingham and

Strafford Counties, 546; Brown, Years of the Life, 74.

Watertown, Mass. (West Precinct or Waltham). Bell tower. Hurd, History of Middlesex County, 3:730–

31; Stearns, First Parish in Waltham, opp. 30.

Wells, Maine, III. 65 x 46. Builder: Eleazer Kimball. Steeple 1770 by subscription. Donnelly, New

England Meeting Houses, 118; Bourne, History of Wells and Kennebunk, 448.

Westford, Conn., I. Bought Brimfield, Mass., frame. Larned, History of Windham County, 2:24.

Westhampton, L.I. Prime, History of Long Island, 218.

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Westminster, Vt. Twin porches added 1789. Spire 1793. Burned 1888. White, Westminster, 6–7.

Woodbury, Conn. (Second Parish or Southbury), II. 60 x 45 (like Litchfield). Cothren, History of Ancient

Woodbury, 228; Warren, “Southbury Meeting Houses.”

1768

Ashford, Conn. (Second or Westford Hill Parish). Town of Ashford, 29–30.

Berwick, Maine (Baptist). Berwick Register, 51.

Chesterfield, Mass., I. Johnson, Historic Hampshire, 284–85.

DOVER, N.H. (Quaker). Front porch with 2 doors. (Single porch?). Rose, Colonial Houses of Worship,

240.

Falmouth, Maine (Quaker), II. 40 x 32. Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 274.

Great Barrington, Mass. (Anglican) (St. James’s). 71 x 40. Tower 110 ft. Compass windows. Taylor,

History of Great Barrington, 176.

Hampton Falls, N.H. (Second Parish), II (“The Ohio”). 55 x 40. Hurd, History of Rockingham and

Strafford Counties, 496; Brown, History of Hampton Falls, 61.

Lanesborough, Mass., I. 60 x 43, 27 posts, to 58 x 40, 25 posts. Single porch. History of Berkshire

County, 2:111.

Madbury, N.H. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 641–42.

Middletown, Conn. (Separate church). Meetinghouse held in “the Chambers . . . all in one.” Stiles,

Itineraries, 273.

Newburyport, Mass. (Titcomb Street), I. Coffin, History of Newbury, 372.

New Ipswich, N.H., III. 60 x 54, 26 posts. Demolished 1816. Gould and Kidder, History of New Ipswich,

148.

New Preston, Conn., II. 50 x 40, 22 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:54.

Plymouth, N.H. (Ward’s Hill), I. 50 x 40. Logs of uniform size. Gallery. Burned 1787. Stearns, History of

Plymouth, 237; Hazen, Historical Discourse, 17.

Sag Harbor, L.I., I (“God’s Old Barn”). “Beat of drum.” Thompson, History of Long Island, 217; Adams,

History of the Town of Southampton, 156. Prime, History of Long Island, 211.

Salisbury, N.H. (Searle’s Hill), I. Sold privately and moved to South Road, 1790. Dearborn, History of

Salisbury, 132–44.

Temple, N.H., I. 30 x 30, 12 posts. Blood, History of Temple, 133.

Torringford, Conn. No steeple. Gaylord, Torringford, 17–18.

Warren, Conn., I. Gallery. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:245.

Winchester, Conn., I. 30 x 24, 9 posts. Boyd, Annals of Winchester, 77.

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1769

Ashby, Mass., I. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 1:221.

Atkinson, N.H. 50 x 40. Barnum, Atkinson: Then and Now, 20; Morse, Historical Discourse, 24–25.

Bethany, Conn. 50 x 40. Steeple 1803. Sharpe, Bethany Sketches, 3, 4.

Boscawen, N.H., II. 40 x 25. Price, Chronological Register, 59.

Conway, Mass. 60 x 50? Porches, steeple added after 1796. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:676; Lee,

Conway, 21; Rice, et al. Celebration, 32.

Dedham, Mass. (South or Norwood Parish), II. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 48.

Edgartown, Mass., V. 60 x 45. Pew owners permitted windows “upon their own cost.” Banks, History of

Martha’s Vineyard, 2:159.

Goffstown, N.H., I. 40 x 38, 22 posts, to 30 x 30, 10 posts. Hadley, History of Goffstown, 373; Hurd,

History of Hillsborough County, 316.

Goshen, Conn., II. 64 x 44. Hibbard, Historical Address, 8.

Groton, Conn., II. Stark, Groton, 115.

Hardwick, Mass., II. Built by private subscription. Steeple added by the town. Paige, History of

Hardwick, 188–89.

Hempstead, L.I., III. Thompson, History of Long Island, 353.

LONDONDERRY, N.H. (East Parish) (Presbyterian), II. 65 x 45. Steeple. Cut in half, 24 ft. added 1824.

Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 151, 177. Rose, Colonial Houses of

Worship, 122. Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 103.

Londonderry, N.H. (Second or West Parish). Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 580.

Medford, Mass., III. 66 x 46. 2 porches, “with a tower from the ground.” Usher, History of Medford, 400.

MENDON, MASS. (Third or South Precinct, now Millville) (Chestnut Hill Meeting House). 40 x 35.

Hurd, History of Worcester County, 1:382; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 63; “Of the Olden

Time.”

Pepperell, Mass., II. 60 x 45, 20 posts. Builder: Simon Gilson. Plain yellow building. Hurd, History of

Middlesex County, 3:222; standing in 1903: Crawford, Romance of Old New England Churches,

61; Butler, History of Groton, 311.

Reading, Mass. (Third Parish or Wood-end). Later used as schoolhouse and town house. Flint, Historical

Address, 25.

RICHMOND, R.I. (Six-Principle Baptist) (“Wood River Church”). Irish, Historical Sketch, 12. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 236.

Rowley, Mass. (Second Parish or Georgetown), II. 55 x 40. Steeple and porch. Gage, History of Rowley,

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32.

Scituate, Mass. (Southwest Parish or Assinippi), I (“Old Universalist Meeting House”). Single porch.

Demolished after 1832. Barry, Hanover, 80–81; Deane, History of Scituate, 45.

Scituate, Mass. (Second or South Parish), IV. 72 x 48. Belfry and spire. Designer: Joseph Tolman.

Demolished 1830. Deane, History of Scituate, 39.

Shelburne, Mass., I (“Round Log Meetinghouse”). Burnham, History and Traditions, 9; Packard, History

of the Churches . . . in Franklin County, 323.

Standish, Maine. Called “Old Church” in 1800. Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 375.

1770

BEVERLY, MASS., III. 70 x 53, 28 posts. Bell tower. Enlarged 20 ft. 1795. Remodeled 1835. Stone,

History of Beverly, 248; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 222.

Brattleboro, Vt., I. Log tradition. Annals of Brattleboro, 177–78.; Grout, In the Times of Old, 18–19.

Bristol, Conn., II. 65 x 45. Peck, History of Bristol, 55.

BROOKLYN, CONN. (Anglican) (Trinity). 46 x 30. No tower. Compass windows. Architect: Godfrey

Malbone. Rose, Colonial Houses of Worship, 119.

Burrillville, R.I. (Baptist) (“Old Town House”) (1770?). Steeple. Painted cherubim. Keach, Burrillville,

107–8; Brooke-Stewart, “John Colby.”

Cheshire, Mass. (Baptist). 28 x 26. Builder: Elder Peter Worden. 3rd of 3 similar ones. Fuller, History of

Warwick, 312.

Colchester, Conn. (Second Parish or Westchester), II. 52 x 40. Steeple, bell. Manual, Westchester

Congregational Church, 6–7.

DIGHTON, MASS. (Baptist). 55 x 45, 24 posts. Steeple 1827. Sinnott: type 2. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 223. Hurd, History of Bristol County, 225.

Fitzwilliam, N.H., I. Norton, History of Fitzwilliam, 195.

Great Island, Maine (Sebascodigan Island). Single porch? Clayton, History of Cumberland County;

Wheeler and Wheeler, History of Brunswick, 437.

Henniker, N.H., I. 30 x 20. Log tradition. Burned 1780. Cogswell, History of Henniker, 72–73, 268.

Lisbon, Conn. (Norwich Third or Newent Parish), II. Builder: Ebenezer Tracy. Bishop, Historical Sketch,

19–20.

Marlborough, N.H. 45 x 35 to 50 x 40. Front porch, 1 side porch. Bemis, History of Marlborough, 80, 87.

New Durham, N.H. (Baptist). 42 x 35, 20 posts. Single porch, 1792. Jennings, History of New Durham,

42.

New Haven, Conn., I (Third Congregational or Fair Haven Church). 60 x 60. Taken from White Haven.

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Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:34; Stiles, Diary, 1:351.

Pittsfield, Mass., I. 40 x 35, 20 posts. No belfry. History of Berkshire County, 371.

Pownalborough, Maine (Dresden) (Anglican). 60 x 32. Allen, History of Dresden, 280.

Reading, Mass. (Third or North Parish or North Reading). Proceedings of the 250th Anniversary,

Redding, 263.

Rowe, Mass., I. Packard, History of the Churches and Ministers in Franklin County, 309.

Somersworth, N.H. Bell bought for meetinghouse. New Hampshire Gazette, 3 August 1770.

South Britain, Conn. (Southbury). 45 x 35, 22 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:201.

Troy, N.H., I. Builder: Stephen Church. Stone, Historical Sketch of the Town of Troy, 125.

Upton, Mass., II. Belfry 1821. Dismantled 1848. Builder: Ezra Wood. Hurd, History of Worcester

County, 2:906–7; History of Worcester County, 2:413.

UXBRIDGE, MASS. (Quaker, Smithfield Monthly Meeting). 35 x 30. Brick. Cost: £206. History of

Worcester County, 2:423–24.

Wallingford, Conn. (Separate church). About 40 x 30. 2 floors. Disbanded 1787. Davis, History of

Wallingford, 199.

Wareham, Mass., II. Nearly square. Round top single porch in front. Hurd, History of Plymouth County,

200–201; Lovell, Glimpses of Early Wareham, 45–49.

Westerly, R.I. (Seventh-Day Baptist), II (“Spunk Meeting House”). Denison, Westerly, 60, 185.

Westford, Mass., II. 60 x 45, to 63 x 44, 26 or 27 posts. Tower. Burned 1793. Builder: Samuel Hall.

Hodgman, History of the Town of Westford, 96.

WESTMINSTER, CONN. (Canterbury). Builder: Sherebiah Butts. Turned. Sinnott: type 2 made 4 1835.

Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:269–72; Larned, History of Windham County, 2:43;

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 216.

Williamstown, Mass., I. 40 x 30. Gallery. Perry, Origins of Williamstown, 561.

Worthington, Mass. Moved 1792. Abandoned 1825. History of the Connecticut Valley, 1:459.

1771

AMHERST, N.H., II. 75 x 45, to 70 x 40. Builder: E. Barker. Steeple and porch. Davis, Historical

Discourse, 18–19; Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 25.

Boston, Mass., II (First Baptist Church). 57 x 53. No tower. Enlarged to 57 x 77, 1791. Wood, History of

First Baptist Church, 261–65; Connecticut Journal, 28 June 1771.

BROOKLYN, CONN., II. 60 x 46, 26 posts. Builder: Daniel Tyler. Steeple, opposing porch. Colored

white. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:39–40.

Chelmsford, Mass. (Baptist). 1729 meetinghouse from Westford. Waters, History of Chelmsford, 703.

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Colchester, Conn. II. Builder: Isaac Fitch, Thomas Hall. Warren, Isaac Fitch, 22–23.

Deerfield, N.H. 65 x 45, 26 posts. (2 earlier frames dismantled). Cogswell, History of Nottingham,

Deerfield, and Northwood, 267.

Dublin, N.H., I. 50 x 38. Gallery. Twin porch addition ca. 1795. Leonard, Discourse, 25.

FARMINGTON, CONN., III. 75 x 50. Builder: Judah Woodruff. Tower and steeple, spire 160 ft. Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:161; Wight, Some Old Time Meeting Houses, 129.

Haddam, Conn., III. 65 x 45. Builder: John Coach, Joseph Shailer. Manual, First Congregational Church,

Haddam, 4–6. Stiles, Diary, 1:287.

Hudson, N.H. (Presbyterian). 50 x 30. Undated twin porch. Webster, History of Hudson, 207.

KENNEBUNK, MAINE., II. 57 x 46. Enlarged 28 ft. 1803. Spire 1803. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 157; Historic Churches and Homes, 210–16.

Kensington, N.H., II. Dismantled 1846. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 356.

Kent, Conn., II. 60 x 45, 26 posts. Steeple 1802. Atwater, History of Kent, 50.

Medfield, Mass. (Baptist), II. 31 x 31. Undated twin porch. Tilden, History of the Town of Medfield, 158–

59. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 450.

New London, Conn. (North Parish or Montville), II. 50 x 40? Undated twin porch. Dismantled 1847.

Baker, History of Montville, 652–54; Hurd, History of New London County, 578.

Ridgefield, Conn., II. 58 x 40, 24 posts. Steeple. Teller, History of Ridgefield, 103.

SURRY, N.H. 45 x 36 to 46½ x 36. Finished like Keene 1789. Twin porch 1791. Kingsbury, History of

Surry, 174–79.

TOWNSEND, MASS., II. 60 x 45. Belfry and two porches added by John Ames when moved in 1804.

Sawtelle, History of Townsend, 138.

Westerly, R.I. (Seventh-Day Baptist), III. Denison, Westerly, 60.

Wolcott, Conn., I. 58 x 42. Orcutt, History of Wolcott, 30–31.

1772

Andover, N.H., I. 30 x 20, 9 posts. 1 story. Torn down 1795 by opposers. Eastman, History of Andover,

64–67; Hurd, History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, 331.

Bluehill, Maine, I. Candage, Historical Sketches of Bluehill, 41–42.

Boston, Mass., II (Brattle Square). 90 x 75. Architect: Thomas Dawes. Brick with quoins. Records of the

Church in Brattle Square; Detwiller, “Thomas Dawes’s Church in Brattle Square.”

BRISTOL, MAINE (Harrington meetinghouse). Moved twice. Sinnott: type 2, modified. Town Register,

184; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217; Wainwright, “Colonial Meetinghouses”; Smith,

Beacon Guide, 42.

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BRISTOL, MAINE (Walpole meetinghouse). Town Register, 184; Wainwright, “Colonial

Meetinghouses”

Bristol, Maine (Broadcove Parish or Bremen). Town Register, 184.

EAST HAVEN, CONN., III. 73 x 50. Stone with bell tower. Steeple 1794, 1797. Havens, Stone Meeting

House, 25; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 213; Rose, Colonial Houses of Worship, 127;

Stiles says 60 x 40 “now building” (1772), Stiles, Diary, 1:287.

Francestown, N.H., I. Builder: John Quigley. Cochrane, History of Francestown, 226–27.

HUBBARDSTON, MASS. 50 x 40 to 45 x 45. Stowe, History of Hubbardstown, 123–25.

Lebanon, N.H., I. 48 x 34, 12 posts. Downs, History of Lebanon, 62–64.

Lyndeborough, N.H., III. 50 x 40, 22 posts. Single stairwell porch over south door. Donovan and

Woodward, History of Lyndeborough, 283–84.

Manchester, Conn. (Orford), II. 54 x 40. Dismantled 1826. Robbins, 100th Anniversary, 54; Trumbull,

Memorial History, 2:259.

Narragansett, R.I. Indian church. 25 x 25. Stiles, Diary, 1:232.

Newmarket, N.H. (West Society) (Presbyterian). Fitts, History of Newfields, 311–12.

Newport, R.I. 30 or 35 ft. sq. Builder: Elder Dawson. Stiles, Diary, 1:247, “at the North End of Town.”

New Shoreham, R.I. (Block Island) (Free Baptist). Johnson, Rhode Island Baptists, 118.

Northwood, N.H. (Baptist). Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 544; Cogswell, History

of Northwood, 428.

Plympton, Mass., III. 57 x 45. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 1112.

Salem, Mass. (North Parish; Lynde and North Streets). Church plan. “large.” Demolished after 1836.

Hurd, History of Essex County, 49; Phillips, Salem in the Eighteenth Century, 344; First

Centenary, 21–23, 183.

Spencer, Mass., II. 56 x 47. Builder: David Baldwin. Twin porch. Tower, cupola 1802. Draper, History of

Spencer, 82.

Stamford, Conn. (Baptist). Still standing 1868. Huntington, History of Stamford, 325.

WALDOBORO, MAINE (Lutheran), II. 45 x 36, 20 posts. Single porch on end. Miller, History of

Waldoboro, 210.

Watertown, Conn. (Westbury), II. Steeple 100 ft. high. History of Ancient Westbury, 17.

Windham, N.H. (Presbyterian). Morrison, History of Windham, 127.

1773

Athol, Mass., III. 56 x 46. Burned 1827. Hurd, History of Worcester County, 2:1031.

Auburn, Mass. (Ward). 50 x 40, 24 posts. Belfry 1837. Auburn, Mass., 25–32.

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Bristol, N.H. (Bridgewater), I. 35 x 35. 1 story. Musgrove, History of Bristol, 43.

Chesterfield, N.H. 60 x 45. Twin porch. Tower 1815. Sinnelt, Sketch of Chesterfield, 2.

CLAREMONT, N.H. (Anglican or Union Episcopal). Round window. Builder: Ebenezer Rice. Tower

1801. Extended 20 ft. 1820. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 234.

Conway, N.H. Ridlon, Saco Valley Settlements, 243–44.

Cornish, N.H. Twin porch. Dismantled 1804. Child, History of Cornish, 100, 111.

Gilford, N.H. (Baptist). Hurd, History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, 769.

Hanover, N.H. Burned 1797. Childs, Hanover, 207.

Harvard, Mass., II. 66 x 45. Steeple 1794. Reed, Sermon, 6; Nourse, History of Harvard, 50.

Hillsborough, N.H., I. 35 x 30, 9 posts. 1 gallery. Brown, History of Hillsborough, 198.

New London, Conn. (North or Chesterfield Parish). Abandoned. Baker, History of Montville, 664; Hurd,

History of New London County, 579.

Moultonborough, N.H. History of Carroll County, 407.

Newport, N.H., I. 30 x 10 with fireplace. Square roof. Schoolhouse. Wheeler, History of Newport, 113.

Putney, Vt. 45 x 35, 20 posts. Dismantled 1810. History of Putney, 100.

Raynham, Mass., II. Builder: Israel Washburn. Steeple added. Hurd, History of Bristol County, 713;

Sanford, History of Raynham, 29.

Rehoboth, Mass. (West Parish, Palmer’s River or Seekonk), II. 50 x 40. Dismantled 1813. Bliss, History

of Rehoboth, 174, 195; Hurd, History of Bristol County, 478.

Rutland, Vt. (Congregational, 30 families). Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 363.

SANDOWN, N.H. 50 x 44 or 54 x 48. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 54; Winchester, “The Meeting

House”; Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 9.

Shelburne, Mass., II. Conch. Demolished 1832. Packard, History of the Churches and Ministers in

Franklin County, 323.

SHIRLEY, MASS., II. 50 x 40. Tower, steeple 1804. Modified. Chandler, History of Shirley, 220–21.

Southwick, Mass., I. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1091.

Uxbridge, Mass., II. History of Worcester County, 2:423–24.

Washington, Mass., I. History of Berkshire County, 620.

Westfield, Conn. (north of Middlefield). 48 x 38. Used until 1848. Field, Centennial Address, 192.

Whately, Mass. Builder: David Scott. Conch. Crafts, History of Whately, 157; History of the Connecticut

Valley, 2:727–28.

Wilton, N.H., I. 60 x 45, 27 posts. Twin porch. Builder: Ephraim Barker. Torn down 1845. Peabody,

Centennial Celebration, 10–11; Wilton Town Records, 71; Livermore and Putnam, History of

Wilton, 130–31; Clark, Meetinghouse Tragedy, 22.

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1774

Ashford, Conn. (Baptist). Larned, History of Windham County, 29.

Bow, N.H., I. Logs. Hurd, History of Merrimack County, 272.

Boxford, Mass. (Second Parish), II. Twin porch. Builder: Stephen Barker. Perley, History of Boxford,

245.

Charlestown, R.I. (Baptist) (“Boss meeting house”). Tucker, Historical Sketch, 66.

CHESTER, N.H., II. 60 x 45. Ogee spire 100 ft. Turned 1837. Bell, “Facts Relating,” 27. Rose, The

Colonial Houses of Worship, 246; Forsaith, Auburn, 196 ff.

East Greenwich, R.I. (Congregational). Lottery. McPartland, History of East Greenwich, 112; Cole,

History of Washington and Kent Counties, 1102.

Freeport, Maine (Harraseeket). Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 278; Rowe, Ancient North

Yarmouth, 140.

Gilmanton, N.H., I. 60 x 45. Twin porch. Lancaster, History of Gilmanton, 181.

GILMANTON, N.H. (Baptist or Smith meetinghouse). Lancaster, History of Gilmanton, 83.

Gloucester, R.I. (Baptist). Lottery. Perry, History of Gloucester, 43.

Gray, Maine, I. Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 300.

HILL, N.H. 35 x 35. (New Chester). Builder: Enoch Osgood. Hurd, History of Merrimack County, 553.

N.H. Division of Historical Resources.

Hill, N.H. (Second Parish). Hurd, History of Merrimack County, 553.

Hinsdale, Mass., I. 50 x 40. Height for galleries. Commemoration of the Centennial, Congregational

Church, Hinsdale, 6.

KENSINGTON, CONN., III. 60 x 42. Sinnott: type 2 made 3 1837. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 1:243; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 213.

LEE, N.H. (Quaker). Used as school. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 232.

Leominster, Mass., II. 50 x 60. Twin porch. Emerson, Leominster, 42; Wilder, History of Leominster,

194; Gardner, A Discourse, 5.

Meredith, N.H., I. 40 x 32, 8 posts. Mary Butler Chapter, DAR, Old Meredith, 5.

Middletown, Conn. (Strict Congregationalist). 56 x 46. Field, Centennial Address, 173.

Needham, Mass., II. 60 x 43. Builder: Adam Blackman. Tower 1811. Dismantled 1846. Clarke, History

of Needham, 201–4.

New Gloucester, Maine. “block house.” Hayward, New England Gazetteer.

Northbridge, Mass. Confession of Faith.

Plympton, Mass. (Second Parish or Carver), II. 42 x 37. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, 121.

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Pomfret, Vt. “Log Meeting house on the Chandler farm.” History of Windsor County, 736.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Baptist), III. 80 x 80. Church plan. Architect: Joseph Brown. Staples, Annals of

Providence, 414.

Raymond, N.H., I. 45 x 35, 21 posts. Frame built, dismantled, made into bridge 1775. Fullerton, History

of Raymond, 39.

Scituate, Mass., V (“Old Sloop”). 66 x 48. Steeple opposing porch. Burned 1879. Old Scituate, 165.

Stafford, Conn., II. Grobel, First Church of Stafford.

WELLS, MAINE (Second Parish), II. 56 x 44. 2 stories. Single porch. Enlarged 1803. Steeple 1804. Dark

yellow. Remich, History of Kennebunk, 309; Bourne, History of Wells and Kennebunk, 546, 622–

24.

Wells, Vt., I. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 856.

Windham, Conn. (Third or Scotland Parish), II. Builder: Elisha Lillie. Larned, History of Windham

County, 2:56–57; Stiles, Itineraries, 279.

Winthrop, Maine, I. 40 x 36. Glazed but never finished inside. Dismantled and sold 1785. Stackpole,

History of Winthrop, 81; Thurston, A Brief History of Winthrop, 132.

Worthington, Conn., I. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:245.

1775

Boxborough, Mass., I. Purchased old Harvard I meetinghouse 47 x 35, 20 posts. Drake, History of

Middlesex County, 1:271.

Charlton, Mass., I. Dodge, Historical Sketch, 27.

ENFIELD, CONN., III. Portico 1848. Became town hall. Manual, 302–3; Rose, Colonial Houses of

Worship, 126; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 213.

JAFFREY, N.H. 60 x 45, 27 posts. Twin porch. Builder: Samuel Adams, Jacob Spofford. Tower 1823.

Annett and Lehtinen, History of Jaffrey, 169–98.

Harvard, Mass. (Baptist). Purchased Leominster I meetinghouse. 45 x 35, 22 posts. Lawrence, Baptist

Church of Harvard–Still River, 4; Wilder, History of Leominster, 156; Gardner, Discourse in Two

Parts, 4–5.

Lenox, Mass., I. 46 x 36. History of Berkshire County, 190.

Leverett, Mass. Single porch over front door 1785. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:736; Packard,

History of the Churches and Ministers in Franklin County, 239.

Sanbornton, N.H. 60 x 43½. No steeple. Runnels, History of Sanbornton, 67–72.

1776

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Packersfield, N.H. (Nelson), I. 30 x 25, 8½ posts. 3 windows. Builder: Church Tabor. Struthers, History

of Nelson, 41, 83.

Salem, Mass. (Presbyterian after 1779) (“Old Tabernacle”). 78 x 62. Architect: Samuel McIntire. Bell

tower 1805. Bentley, Diary, 22 August 1804, 3:105; Worcester, Memorial of the Old and New

Tabernacle, 18–23.

Tinmouth, Vt. “log house to meet in on the Sabbath.” Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 820.

1777

Peterborough, N.H., II. Galleries 1785. Sold 1829 for $75. Smith, History of Peterborough, 84–85.

Rehoboth, Mass. (Freewill Baptist) (Iron’s church). Bliss, History of Rehoboth, 186.

Rollinsford, N.H., II. Burned 1778. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 668.

Windsor, Vt. History of Windsor County, 291.

1778

Eastford, Conn., I. 45 x 35. Town of Eastford, 15–16; Larned, History of Windham County, 2:34.

Fryeburg, Maine. 54 x 42. Gallery. Barrows, History of Fryeburg, 83.

Lee, Mass., I. 48 x 36, to 50 x 36, 30 posts. 8-ft. projection in front 1/3 width. Gale, History of Lee, 35;

Hyde, History of Lee, 226–27.

Marlborough, Vt. Newton, History of Marlborough.

1779

Berlin, Mass., I. Twin porch. Houghton, History of Berlin, Mass., 111, 113.

Campton, N.H., I. Made from former residence. Blakely, Historical Discourse, Campton, 40.

Hartland, Conn. (Second Parish). No steeple. History of Hartland, 42.

Hudson, N.H. (North Parish), III. Webster, History of Hudson, 200.

Loudon, N.H. 56 x 42. Twin porch. Hurd, History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, 490.

MONT VERNON, N.H. Twin porch. Converted and moved. Became town house. Smith, History of Mont

Vernon, 83; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 232.

Norwich, Vt. Aldrich and Holmes, History of Windsor County, 485; Goddard, History of Norwich, 64–65.

Rollinsford, N.H., III. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 668.

Tinmouth, Vt., II. £400 for new meetinghouse. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 821.

Westport, Conn., III. Westport, 24.

Wilbraham, Mass. (Baptist). Copeland, History of Hampden County, 3:190.

Williamsburg, Mass., I. 60 x 45. Conch. Spire 119 ft. Builder: Jonathan Warner. History of the

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Connecticut Valley, 1:413.

Windham, Maine (Quaker). Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 401.

Windsor, Mass. 50 x 40, 20 posts. Burned same year. History of Berkshire County, 656.

Windsor, Vt. (East Parish). “Nearly square, with a pointed roof.” History of Windsor County, 291.

1780

Alstead, N.H., I. 40 x 30. Upper for church, lower public meetings. Rawson, New Hampshire Borns a

Town, 151.

Hampton Falls, N.H., II. 65 x 40. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 503.

Northwood, N.H. 45 x 36. Twin porch. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 428;

Cogswell, History of Northwood, 546.

Poultney, Vt. 45 x 35. Joslin, et al., History of Poultney, 40.

Reading, Vt. Log tradition. Aldrich and Holmes, History of Windsor County, 388.

ROCHESTER, N.H., II. Remodeled 19th century. McDuffee, History of Rochester, 100; Hurd, History of

Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 728; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 233.

Weare, N.H. (Baptist). Logs hewn square. Little, History of Weare, 296–97.

1781

Burlington, Conn., I. 40 x 36. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:54–55.

Cummington, Mass. 45 x 35. Painted white 1806. History of the Connecticut Valley, 1: 447.

Darien, Conn. (East Stamford), I. 50 x 30, 20 posts. Hayward, New England Gazetteer, page; Huntington,

History of Stamford, 150.

Huntington, Mass., I. Log tradition. History of the Connecticut Valley, 1:514.

Lyme, N.H., I. Frame used in store next door. Cole, Patterns, 30. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

232.

RICHMOND, N.H. (Baptist). 40 x 30. Gallery 3 sides. Bassett, History of Richmond, 185, 222–24;

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 233.

Temple, N.H., II. 55 x 42, 24 posts. Twin-porch. Cost: £937. Blood, History of Temple, 133–35.

Woodstock, Vt. Log tradition. History of Windsor County, 257.

1782

Barnard, Vt. Peeled logs. History of Windsor County, 581.

GOSHEN, MASS., II. 50 x 40. Posts 2 ft. shorter than Chesterfield. Twin porch. Moved. Barrus, History

of Goshen, 19; History of the Connecticut Valley, 1:487; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

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GRANVILLE, MASS. (West Parish). Made Victorian. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1086;

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 228.

North Adams, Mass., I. 38 x 30. Gallery. History of Berkshire County, 1:540.

ORANGE, MASS. 46 x 36. Turned 1832. Tower, belfry, spire 1832. Packard, History of the Churches

and Ministers in Franklin County, 298; History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:637; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 226.

Turner, Maine. 35 x 35, 20 posts. French, History of Turner, 34.

1783

Charlestown, Mass., IV. 72 x 52, 27 posts. Made 74 x 84. Steeple 162 ft. Architect: Charles Bulfinch.

Builder: D. Goodwin. Frothingham, History of Charlestown, opp. 161; Commemoration of 250th

Anniversary, 39; Budington, History of the First Church, 142, 235.

Claremont, N.H. Twin porch. Builder: Ichabod Hitchcock. Moved 1790. Tower, semicircular addition

1808. Waite, History of Claremont, 352; Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, 86;

Ruell, “’Round’ Meetinghouses,” 178.

Hampden, Mass. Builder: Paul Langdon. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1110.

LUDLOW, MASS. Completed 1797, used until 1840. Became town house. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 225; Copeland, History of Hampden County, 3:330.

Northfield, N.H., I. 36 x 30. Cross, History of Northfield, 13.

Norwalk, Conn., IV (date estimated: 1723 meetinghouse burned by British 1779). Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:297.

Salem Village, Mass. (Danvers) (Baptist). 60 x 45. Hurd, History of Essex County, 459.

Southwick, Mass., II. Burned 1824. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1091.

WALPOLE, MASS., II. 60 x 40. Builder: Adam Blackman. Twin porch. Belfry 1791. Hurd, History of

Norfolk County, 713; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 228.

Westhampton, Mass., I. 50 x 40. 3 entrances covered by porches. Memorial of the Reunion, 20–21;

History of the Connecticut Valley, 1:295–96; Johnson, Historic Hampshire, 310.

1784

Acworth, N.H., I. 50 x 40. Gallery. Moved 1821 and made into a townhouse. Merrill, History of Acworth,

143.

Amesbury, Mass. (Separate church, became Presbyterian) (“The Still”). “Hopper” roof. Barn 1805.

Merrill, History of Amesbury, 293, 323‒24.

Amesbury, Mass. (Second or West Parish), II. Merrill, History of Amesbury, 303.

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Amherst, Mass. (Second Parish), I. Belfry and cupola 1822. Carpenter, History of Amherst, 212.

Barkhamsted, Conn. 50 x 40, 24 posts. Lee, Centennial Celebration, 54.

Boxborough, Mass., I. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 1:271–72.

Branford, Conn. (Anglican) (Trinity). “barnlike.” Simonds, First Church and Society in Branford, 115.

Bristol, R.I., II. Lane, Historical Sketches, 89.

Leicester, Mass., II. Twin porch. Builder: Timothy Carter Sr. Belfry, steeple, 1790. Nelson, Pastor’s

Memorial, frontispiece; Washburn, Historical Sketches, 71–74.

Middletown, Vt. Log tradition. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 668–69.

MILFORD, N.H. Galleries. Twin porch (copied Temple). Belfry 1803. Became town house. Ramsdell,

History of Milford, 62–67; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 232.

New Milford, Conn. (Quaker), II. Orcutt, History of New Milford, 177.

Plainfield, Conn., III. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:132.

RICHMOND, R.I. (Baptist), II. 36 x 28, “usual height.” Now town hall. Cole, History of Washington and

Kent Counties, 735.

Royalton, Vt., I. 38 x 28 to 40 x 18. Lovejoy, History of Royalton, 238.

Stockbridge, Mass., II. 60 x 50, 26 posts. Steeple 62 ft., opposite pulpit. Jones, Stockbridge Past and

Present, 184.

Sturbridge, Mass. (Baptist), II (Fiske Hill). Clark, Historical Sketch of Sturbridge, 38.

Tiverton, R.I. (Baptist), II. Johnson, Rhode Island Baptists, 124.

Warren, R.I. (Baptist), II. 61 x 44. Tower 14 ft. sq. Spire 1800. Spalding, Centennial Discourse, 27.

1785

Antrim, N.H., I. 50 x 40. Twin porch, sloping roofs. Builder: William Gregg. Cochrane, History of

Antrim, 179.

Brandon, Vt. Town supported. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 507.

Brattleboro, Vt., II. 60 x 48. Twin porch. Grout, In the Times of Old, 13, 31–32.

Danby, Vt. (Quaker), I. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 590.

Easthampton, Mass., I. 52 x 42. No bell, no steeple. Lyman, Historical Address, 14; History of the

Connecticut Valley, 1:271; One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary, 14.

Fairfield, Conn., V. Replaced the one burned by the British in 1779. Bulfinch pulpit. Schenck, History of

Fairfield, 2:424; Farnham, Fairfield, 99.

Hartland, Vt. History of Windsor County, 371.

Kingstown, R.I. (North Parish) (Baptist). Cole, History of Washington and Kent Counties, 427; Johnson,

Rhode Island Baptists, 181.

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Lanesborough, Mass., II. 55 x 30. Gallery. Belfry and spire. History of Berkshire County, 2:117.

MILTON, MASS., IV. 66 x 52. Turned and enlarged 1835. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 751;

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 168; Teele, History of Milton, 284.

New London, Conn., IV. 70 x 50, 28 posts. Pictured with porch 1852. Caulkins, History of New London,

587.

New London, Conn. (Anglican) (St. James’s). Dome and bell 1794. Caulkins, History of New London,

593.

Pawlet, Vt. Replaced because too small. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 712.

PHILLIPSTON, MASS., I. 50 x 40. Modified. History of Worcester County, 1:217–18; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 167.

SALISBURY, MASS. (West Parish, now Amesbury), II (“Rocky Hill”). Single porch. 60 x 42. Builder:

Ambrose Palmer, Jacob Spofford. Pettingell, “West Parish of Salisbury”; Little, “Treasurer’s

Book.”

Stratford, Conn., IV. New Jersey Gazette, 25 July 1785; Orcutt, History of Stratford and Bridgeport, 411.

WAKEFIELD, N.H. Upstairs became school. Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 67.

Weare, N.H. 56 x 42. Gallery. Little, History of Weare, 298.

Weston, Conn., II. Moved and reerected Weston I frame. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:273.

Weymouth, Mass. (Second or South Parish), II. Bell tower with opposing. porch. 44 windows. Doric

order. Weymouth, Mass. Records of the South Precinct, 23 [28?] May 1785.

Winchester, Conn., II. 46 x 56 to 50 x 40 to 54 x 40. Boyd, Annals of Winchester, 168–69.

WOODBURY, CONN. (Anglican) (St. Paul’s). 55 x 35. Bell tower. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:315 (says 43 x 320; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 216.

1786

ADAMS, MASS. (East Hoosac) (Quaker). 2 side-by-side doors on long side. Rose, Colonial Houses of

Worship, 231. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 221.

Charlemont, Mass., II. 45 x 35, 20 posts. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:715–16.

Chilmark, Mass., III. “A porch entrance carrying stairs” = single porch? Gallery. 3 sides. No spire. Torn

down 1842. Banks, History of Martha’s Vineyard, 2:54.

Danbury, Conn., III. 60 x 45. Spire 130 ft. high. Bicentennial, First Congregational Church, 13.

Deering, N.H. 55 x 45. 2 stories. Twin porch. Hurd, History of Hillsborough County, 371.

Gardiner, Maine (Anglican). 50 x 50. 1 story. Steeple with gilt sturgeon. Hanson, History of Gardiner,

247.

JAMESTOWN, R.I. (Quaker), III. 26 x 20. 1 story. Watson, History of Jamestown, 76. Sinnott,

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Meetinghouse and Church, 235, says 1765.

KEENE, N.H., III. 70 x 50. Belfry and steeple and opposing porch. Builder: Benjamin Archer. Proper,

History of the First Congregational Church, 35–40.

New London, N.H. 50 ft. wide. Sesquicentennial Celebration, 5.

Prescott, Mass. Johnson, Historic Hampshire, 384.

Raymond, N.H., I. Twin porch. Moved 1797. Used as town house. Hurd, History of Rockingham and

Strafford Counties, 449; Chase, History of Old Chester, 160.

Salem Village, Mass. (Danvers), III. 60 x 46, 27 posts. Belfry and steeple. Burned 1805. Hurd, History of

Essex County, 455; Rice, Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary, 92–97.

Stonington Point, Conn., I. Purchased New London’s pulpit and pews. Caulkins, History of New London,

578.

Torrington, Conn., II. Steeple 1797. Orcutt, History of Torrington, 33.

Walpole, N.H., II (Prospect Hill). Dome 1792. Town house 1825. Frizzell, History of Walpole, 612.

Warwick, Mass., II. 58 x 42, single porch. Builder: Samuel Langley. Blake, History of the Town of

Warwick, 71–75.

Westerly, R.I. (Third Precinct, New Light) (Wilcox Church). Builder: Benjamin Palmer. Cole, History of

Washington and Kent Counties, 288.

Winthrop, Maine, II (South Parish). 50 x 40. Builder: Adam Stanley from Attleborough, Mass. Single

porch 1791. Became town house. Stackpole, History of Winthrop, 85; Thurston, Brief History of

Winthrop, 136.

1787

Amherst, Mass., II. 65 ft. long. Belfry on west side 1791. Historical Review, First Church of Amherst,

50–51.

Enfield, Mass. Painted “sulphur color.” Pews 1793. Belfry 1814. History of the Connecticut Valley,

1:381; Wight, Some Old Time Meeting Houses, 91.

Franklin, Mass., II. 62 x 40. Twin porch, each 14 ft. sq. Porch into belfry 1806. Blake, History of

Franklin, 90; Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 169.

Gardner, Mass. 45 x 60, 27 posts. Twin porch, each 12 x 14 ft. Herrick, History of Gardner, 476–77.

HENNIKER, N.H., II. 60 x 45 to 50 x 40 to 55 x 40. Twin porch. Became town hall. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 231; Cogswell, History of Henniker, 72–89.

MIDDLE HADDAM, CONN. (Anglican). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

Middleton, N.H. 52 x 42. Single porch. Parker, History of Wolfeborough, 256.

Pittsfield, N.H. Hurd, History of Merrimack County, 593.

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Plymouth, N.H. (Ward’s Hill), II. 56 x 44. Twin porch. Tower. Sold as barn, moved, became sawmill.

Burned 1884. Stearns, History of Plymouth, 237; Hazen, Historical Discourse, 17–18; Speare,

Colonial Meeting-Houses, 194.

ROCKINGHAM, VT. 54 x 44, 23 posts. Twin porch. Builder: Gen. John Fuller. Bellows, Records of

First Church, Rockingham; Hayes, Old Rockingham Meeting House, 19–20, 143.

Sturbridge, Mass., II. Porch, steeple 1794. Turned. Burned 1908. History of Worcester County, 2:365–66.

THETFORD, VT. Sinnott: type 2 made 3. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 239.

WASHINGTON, N.H., I. 60 x 50. Twin porch. Builder: Church Tabor. Gage, History of Washington, 31;

Jager and Krone, Meetinghouse in Washington.

1788

Alstead, N.H., II. Burned 1788. Rawson, New Hampshire Borns a Town, 151.

Andover, Mass. (South Parish), III. 70 x 54. 3 porches. Builder: Moody Spofford.

Cupola 1792. Mooar, Historical Manual, 32.

Barnstable, Mass. (Baptist). Single porch. “Great porch all painted red.” Trayser, Barnstable, 66.

Barnstead, N.H. 60 x 40, 24 posts. Twin porch. Jewett, History of Barnstead, 52–53.

Barre, Mass., II. 68 x 54. Thompson, Barre Centennial, 99.

Boston, Mass., II (Hollis Street). 72 x 60. Twin tower design. Architect: Charles Bulfinch. Builder: Josiah

Wheeler. Chaney, Hollis Street Church, 17; Kirker, Architecture of Charles Bulfinch, 17–19.

Chester, Vt. (South Parish). Aldrich and Holmes, History of Windsor County, 674.

Embden, Maine. Walker, Embden: Town of Yore, 274.

Falmouth, Maine (Portland; Second Parish). Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 173.

Gardiner, Maine. Hanson, History of Gardiner, 264.

Granville, Mass., II. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1086.

Hancock, N.H., I. 54 x 42, 25½ posts. Twin porch? Hayward, History of Hancock, 103.

Haverhill, N.H. (Horse Meadow; First Parish). 50 x 40 to 30 x 36. Dismantled 1882. Became barn.

Bittinger, History of Haverhill, 219; Whitcher, History of Haverhill, 98–99.

Haverhill, N.H. (Second Parish) (Ladd Street). Whitcher, History of Haverhill, 98–99.

JERICHO, L.I. (Old Jericho Turnpike) (Quaker). Gallery. Builder: Elias Hicks. Prime, History of Long

Island, 273.

Petersham, Mass., II. Willson, Address Delivered, 65.

SOUTHAMPTON, MASS. Belfry 1822. Turned 1840. History of the Connecticut Valley, 1:309; Wight,

Some Old Time Meeting Houses, opp. 15; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227.

Stoddard, N.H. Twin porch? Unused after 1838, converted to dwelling house. Gould, History of Stoddard,

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29; Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, 337.

Weare, N.H. (South Baptist). 56 x 45. Little, History of Weare, 299.

Westminster, Mass., II. 60 x 45. Twin porch: 14-ft. at each end. Builder: Timothy Bacon. Belfry 1807.

Hurd, History of Worcester County, 2:1156–57.

Whately, Mass. (became Baptist). Temple, Early Ecclesiastical History, 23.

1789

ALNA, MAINE. Single porch. 51 x 41. 1 door. Builder: Joseph Carleton. Restored. Historic Churches

and Homes, 238–44; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 59–60. Smith, Beacon Guide, 38.

Ashfield, Mass. (Baptist). 1 story. “4 sided pointed roof.” Howes, History of Ashfield, 152.

BELCHERTOWN, MASS., II. Sinnott: “2 made 3 . . . 30 feet inserted.” Doolittle, Historical Sketch of

Belchertown, 50; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 221.

Bernardston, Mass. (Baptist). Small. 1 story. Kellogg, History of Bernardston, 149.

Brooksville, Maine. Limeburner, Stories of Brooksville, 14–15.

CASTINE, MAINE. 65 x 50. Sinnott: type 2 made 3 1831. Used for town meetings. Wheeler, History of

Castine, 97; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217.

Chester, Vt. (North Parish). 50 x 40. Aldrich and Holmes, History of Windsor County, 675.

Cornwall, Conn., II. 58 x 43, 26 posts. Dismantled 1840. Starr, History of North Cornwall, 87.

Deer Isle, Maine, I. Hosmer, Historical Sketch of Deer Isle, 279.

Dunbarton, N.H., II. 50 x 40, 25 posts. Single porch 13 ft. sq., 22 ft. high. Architect: Archibald Stinson.

Builder: William Tenney. Stark, History of Dunbarton, 156–61.

Fairfield, Conn. (Green’s Farms or West Parish), III. Replaced one burned by British.

Greenfarmchurch.org/history.

Fitchburg, Mass., II. The Old Records, 385; Torrey, History of Fitchburg, 108‒121.

Gray, Maine, II. Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 300.

Hillsborough, N.H., II. 62 x 50, 28 posts. Twin porch. Builder: Ephraim Barker. Hurd, History of

Hillsborough County, 411.

HOLDEN, MASS., II. Turned 1827. Damon, History of Holden, 55; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

224.

HOPKINTON, N.H., II. 62 x 46. Twin porch 12 ft. sq. Middle belfry added 1809–1811. Turned 1829.

Hurd, History of Merrimack County, 399; Lord, Life and Times in Hopkinton, 76, 106–7;

Wainwright, “Colonial Meetinghouses.”

HOPKINTON, R.I. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 235.

MEDFIELD, MASS., III. Tower. Turned 1839. Belfry and porch removed. Hurd, History of Norfolk

77

County, 443; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 225.

Northfield, Conn. 50 x 38. Anderson, The Churches of Mattatuck, 150.

Royalton, Vt., II. 56 x 40. Twin porch. Lovejoy, History of Royalton, 238–39.

Springfield, N.H. Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, 325.

Stoughton, Mass. (Second Parish or Sharon), II. Dismantled 1842. Cooke, First Parish, 16.

Warner, N.H., II. 60 x 50. Gallery. Dismantled 1855. Harriman, History of Warner, 266.

Wells, Vt. “build a church thirty-six feet in length by one story and a half high.” Never finished inside.

Blown down 1847. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 856.

West Rutland, Vt. Hance, History of Rutland, Vermont, 251.

West Stockbridge, Mass. 54 x 42, 23 posts. Steeple. Turned 1828. History of Berkshire County, 633.

Worcester, Mass. (Second Parish), I. Smalley, Worcester Pulpit, 26.

1790

ARLINGTON, MASS. (Baptist), I. Later used as dwelling house. Cutter and Cutter, History of Arlington,

176.

Benson, Vt., I. 24 x 40. “school-house meeting-house.” Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 468.

Bolton, Mass., II. 56 “and the width Handsom proportion thereto.” History of Bolton, 63.

Brandon, Vt. (Baptist). Log house. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 507.

Castleton, Vt. 50 x 40. “side to the street . . . square pews . . . doors either end.” Smith and Rann, History

of Rutland County, 545.

CENTERBROOK, CONN., II. Sinnott: type 2 made 4, turned 1839. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

170, 212.

DARTMOUTH, MASS. (Quaker), II (Apponegansett meetinghouse). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

222; Lowry, “Quakers and Their Meeting House at Apponegansett.”

Derryfield, N.H., II. Chalmers, Town Church, 48.

Fairfield, Conn. (Anglican) (Trinity Church) II. Schenck, History of Fairfield, 2:424.

Gilsum, N.H., I. Hayward, History of Gilsum, 102.

Groton, Conn. (Baptist), II. Stark, Groton, 137.

GROVELAND, MASS. (Bradford East Parish). Builder: Moody Spofford. Sinnott: type 2, turned 1849.

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 167, 224; Hurd, History of Essex County, 2094.

Hampden, Maine (date estimated). Single porch. Became town house. Lossing, Fieldbook of the War of

1812, 902.

Hanover, N.H. (chapel, Dartmouth College). 50 x 36. Hipped roof. Moved 1833. Became barn. Chase,

Dartmouth College, 2:507.

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Huntington, Mass., II. Gallery. Single porch opposite pulpit. History of Connecticut Valley, 514.

Mason, N.H., II. 55 x 45. Twin porch. Hill, History of Mason, 124–25.

Middlefield, Mass., I. 52 x 44. Bell tower. Smith and Smith, History of Middlefield, 77; History of the

Connecticut Valley, 1:472.

Newbury, Vt. 60 x 45. Twin porch? Painted white. Wells, History of Newbury, 134–35.

Pittsfield, Mass., II. 90 x 51. Church plan. Architect: Charles Bulfinch. Builder: Ebenezer Clark. History

of Berkshire County, 371–72; Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:308; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 76.

Plymouth, Conn., II. Atwater, History of Plymouth, 40.

Plymouth, Conn. (Anglican), II. 42 x 32. Atwater, History of Plymouth, 51.

SEABROOK VILLAGE, N.H. (date uncertain). Turned 1820. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 233.

TOWNSHEND, VT. Sinnott: type 2 made 3. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 239.

Weathersfield, Vt. History of Windsor County, 703, 707.

WILTON, CONN. (Second Parish in Norwalk), III. 54 x 40, 24 posts. Plan imitated Norwalk IV. Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:297; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 216.

1791

Ashburnham, Mass., II. 60 x 45, 26 posts. “Pea green” color vote rescinded, painted white. 3 porches.

Stearns, History of Ashburnham, 294.

Bath, N.H., I. 30 x 30, 9 posts. One story. Sutherland, Address, 55.

Boscawen, N.H., III. Price, Chronological Register, 73.

Bridgton, Maine. 45 x 35. Galleries. Single porch 1792. Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 223;

Cram, Address in Bridgeton, 13.

Brookline, N.H. 40 x 30 to 38 x 28. Twin porch. Parker, History of Brookline, 207–8.

Chesterfield, Mass., II. Johnson, Historic Hampshire, 285.

Chichester, N.H., II. 50 x 40. Hurd, History of Merrimack and Sullivan Counties, 243.

Fairhaven, Vt. (“Lord’s Barn”). Later used as a barn. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 600.

HADDAM, CONN. (Second or East Parish), III. 56 x 47. Architect: Lavius Fillmore. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:122; Wight, Some Old Time Meeting Houses, says 64 x 44 and a 4-

foot porch, 123; Andres, “Lavius Fillmore,” 31.

Haddam, Conn. (South Parish) (Anglican) (St. Stephen’s). Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses,

1:111.

Jay, Maine, I. Lawrence, History of Jay, 22–23.

Leicester, Mass. (Quaker). Washburn, Historical Sketches, 116.

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Lynn, Mass. (Methodist), I. First Methodist house in Mass. Lewis, History of Lynn, 583; Benes, New

England Prospect, 68.

Milford, Conn. (North or Orange Parish). 36 x 30. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:119.

MILTON, CONN. (Litchfield Third Society) (Congregational). Moved 1828. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 214.

Pomfret, Vt., II. Twin porch. Canopy suspended by “hand.” Smith, Town House, 72.

Rochester, Mass. (North Parish), II. Replaced 1841. Mattapoisett and Old Rochester, 80.

Salisbury, N.H., II. 60 x 44 (52 x 40), 26 posts. Porch and steeple. Town purchased South Road

meetinghouse. Dearborn, History of Salisbury, 132–44.

SALISBURY, N.H. (Baptist). 52 x 40. Porches and small steeple. Remodeled 1839. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 233; Dearborn, History of Salisbury, 174; Hurd, History of Merrimack

County, 605.

Springfield, Vt. 50 x 40, 21 posts. Porch and tower (after twin porch voted 1785). First Church,

Springfield, 21; Hubbard and Dartt, History of Springfield, 72.

Sullivan, N.H. Square. Builder: Thomas Spaulding. Painted like Keene. Disused 1801? Seward, History

of Sullivan, 1:21–22, 1:121–22.

WEBSTER, N.H. (Corser Hill, south side). Builder: Samuel Jackman. Town house 1823. Forty-Fifth

Anniversary, 20; Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 214; Hurd, History of Merrimack County,

683; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 60–61; Wainwright, “Colonial Meetinghouses.”

Wolfeborough, N.H. 54 x 44. Single porch. Gallery. Became town house. History of Carroll County,

326–27.

1792

Belfast, Maine (South Parish). 50 x 40. Sold 1830. Williamson, History of Belfast, 226.

Belfast, Maine (West Parish). 40 x 40. 1 story. Williamson, History of Belfast, 226.

Belmont, N.H. (Province Road). 1 story. Wainwright, “Colonial Meetinghouses.”

Bluehill, Maine, II. 50 x 40. Burned 1842. Candage, Historical Sketches of Bluehill, 9–10, 42.

CANTERBURY, N.H. (Shaker). Gambrel roof. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 230.

Chatham, Conn. (Methodist). 24 x 23. Field, Centennial Address, 273.

Chelmsford, Mass., III. 64 x 48. Cost: £1,400. “Semicircular” windows in gallery. Posts (tower) 60 ft.

Burned 1841. Waters, History of Chelmsford, 185.

Cumberland Center, Maine. Completed 6 years later. Rowe, Ancient North Yarmouth, 140–41.

Durham, N.H., III. 60 x 50. Builder: Edmund Thompson. Steeple arch: sky color and scattered clouds.

Stackpole and Thompson, History of Durham, 201.

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EAST PLYMOUTH, CONN. (Anglican). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 213.

Gilford, N.H. (Gunstock). Hurd, History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, 769.

Gilford, N.H. (Upper Gilmanton). Hurd, History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, 769.

Grafton, Vt. Child, Gazetteer of Windham County, 187.

Hartford, Conn. (Anglican), I (Christ Church). 90 x 44. Steeple fell when raised. Sold and moved 1829.

Became Trinity Church. Burned 1853. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:214–16.

Harwich, Mass. (Second or South Parish), II. Single porch. Painted red, yellow, white, chocolate. Paine,

History of Harwich, 256–57.

Holyoke, Mass. (Congregational and Baptist), I. Moved 1796. Copeland, History of Hampden County, 88.

IPSWICH, MASS. (Essex), IV. 44 x 62, 26 posts. Tower 12 ft. sq. Porch. Builder: Isaac Long, Jonathan

Story. Crowell, History of Essex, 243; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

Littleton, Mass., III. 55 x 40. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 49.

Mattapoisett, Mass. (Baptist). Mattapoisett and Old Rochester, 259.

Middlebury, Vt., I. “Large barn.” Builder: Daniel Foot. Swift, History of the Town of Middlebury, 307–8.

Newmarket, N.H., II (Junction of Newmarket and “Ash Swamp” Roads; East and West Societies) 60 x

50. Builder: Henry Wiggin. Galleries 3 sides. Steeple. Fitts, History of Newfields, 315; Hurd,

History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 535.

OXFORD, MASS. (Universalist). 46 x 43. “with porch or tower.” Tuscan order. Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 226; Daniels, History of the Town of Oxford, 89.

Russell, Mass. (Baptist), I. Burned 1826. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1099. Copeland, History of

Hampden County, 3:450.

SANDWICH, N.H. (Baptist). Turned 1847. History of Carroll County, 696; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 233.

Scituate, Mass. (Universalist). Single porch. Old Scituate, 183.

Taunton, Mass., III. Church plan. Architect: Charles Bulfinch. Hurd, History of Bristol County, 769;

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 79.

Washington, Mass. History of Berkshire County, 620.

Wendell, Mass. 55 x 40. Timbers cased. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:785; Beaman, Historical

Discourse, 14–15.

Westminster, Vt. (Baptist). 2 floors. No steeple. Burned 1828. White, Westminster, 32.

Winchendon, Mass., II. 60 x 50, 27 posts. Twin porch. Builder: David Rice. Marvin, History of

Winchendon, 153.

North Yarmouth, Maine (Second Parish). Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 267; Rowe, Ancient

North Yarmouth, 140–41.

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Boylston, Mass., II. 63 x 53. Cupola and bell. Davenport, Historical Sketch of Boylston, 18.

BRIDGEWATER, MASS. (Third Parish or East Bridgewater), III. 68 x 54. Steeple and porch. Hurd,

History of Plymouth County, 842; Wilson, East Bridgewater Sesquicentennial, 15; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

BUCKLAND, MASS., I. Stairwell porches at each end. Architect: John Ames. Sinnott: type 2 made 4

1846. Kendrick, History of Buckland, 112–13; History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:702; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 222.

CANAAN, N.H. 52 x 42, 26 posts. Twin porch 12 ft. sq. Builder: William Parkhurst; fell during raising.

Cost: £561. Pulpit: Maj. Levi George of Salisbury 1794. Wallace, History of Canaan, 146–50;

Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 83.

CANAAN STREET, N.H. Sinnott: type 2, made 2 stories 1841. Church above, town hall below. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 230.

Chester, N.H. (Long Meadow), II. Replaced “Little meeting-house.” Twin porch. Enlarged 1807. Chase,

History of the Town of Chester, 157–59; Forsaith, Auburn, 202.

Conway, N.H. (North Conway). Ridlon, Saco Valley Settlements, 243–44.

CORNISH, N.H. (Anglican) (Trinity). Builder: Philip Tabor. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 230;

Jager and Krone, The Meetinghouse in Washington, 29.

GROTON, N.H. Reduced and lowered. Town meetings. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 231.

Hamden, Conn. (Separate church). Blake, History of Hamden, 182.

HANCOCK, MASS. (Shaker). Gambrel roof. 2 doors long side. Builder: Moses Johnson. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 224; Smith, Beacon Guide, 90.

Hawley, Mass. 50 x 40. Painted yellow 1798. Johnson, History of the Town of Hawley, 10–11.

Lebanon, N.H., II. Twin porch? Downs, History of Lebanon, 170.

Lexington, Mass., III. About 70 x 50. Porches 3 sides. Belfry. Probably type 2. Hudson, History of

Lexington, 251; Staples, “History of Lexington Common,” 16–25, 129–37; Barber, Historical

Collections, s.v., “Lexington.”

Limington, Maine. Ridlon, Saco Valley Settlements, 234.

Middlebury, Vt., I. Religious meetings moved to “Deacon Sumner’s barn.” Swift, History of the Town of

Middlebury, 308.

Newport, N.H. Dismantled 1830 and made into a barn. Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties,

245.

Northfield, N.H. Builder: William Durgin. Cross, History of Northfield, 15.

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OXFORD, CONN., II. 56 x 40. Builder: Timothy Cande. Sinnott: type 2 with tower. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:125–26; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 215.

READFIELD, MAINE (Baptist). Moved to North Manchester, Maine. 1833. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 218.

Rowe, Mass., II. 50 x 40. Painted cream with green doors. Porch 1801. Brown, “Historical Sketch of

Rowe,” 73–115.

Sunderland, Mass., II. 58 x 38, 25 posts. Tower and steeple. Smith, History of Sunderland, 54.

Tamworth, N.H. 44 x 37, 10 posts. Harkness, Tamworth Narrative, 88–91; History of Carroll County,

746.

Winsted, Conn., I. 50 x 40. 2 stories. Tower. Steeple. Dismantled and sold 1800. Alvord, Winchester-

Winsted in 1813, 12, 14; Field, History of Berkshire County, 2:261–62; History of Litchfield

County, 211.

1794

Brookfield, Mass., IV. 63 x 50. Dunham, First Church, 59.

Chester, Mass. (formerly Murrayfield), II. Hinsdale copied the exterior. History of Connecticut Valley,

1:1062.

Colebrook, Conn. (“The Old Hemlock” meetinghouse). Dismantled 1842. Manual, Congregational

Church, 4.

Croydon, N.H. Dismantled 1824 and converted into town hall. Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan

Counties, 153.

DRACUT, MASS. (Second Parish or Lowell), III (“Old Yellow”). “same bigness as Pelham.” Drake,

History of Middlesex County, 1:414; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 223; Coburn, History of

Lowell, 68.

GILL, MASS. 50 x 40. Belfry 1795. Packard, History of the Churches and Ministers in Franklin County,

43–48; History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:766.

Lancaster, N.H. 26 posts. Twin porch. Somers, History of Lancaster, 422, 506.

LEMPSTER, N.H. 50 x 40. Twin porch. Dismantled and reerected 1822. Tower. Hurd, History of

Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, 188.

Middlebury, Conn. Anderson, Churches of Mattatuck, 153.

MONKTON, VT. (Baptist). Now Grange hall. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

NEW GLOUCESTER, MAINE (Shaker). Plain. Gambrel roof. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

NEW SALEM, MASS., II. Sinnott: “late example” of type 2. Packard, History of the Churches and

Ministers in Franklin County, 275; History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:669; Sinnott,

83

Meetinghouse and Church, 225.

Norridgewock, Maine. 60 x 45. Allen, History of Norridgewock, 98–99.

North Yarmouth, Maine (N.W. Congregational Society). Dismantled 1839. Rowe, Ancient North

Yarmouth, 140–41.

Otisfield, Maine. Clayton, History of Cumberland County, 347.

Packersfield, N.H. (Nelson), II. 60 x 45. Gallery. Twin porch. Struthers, History of Nelson, 8, 41, 153.

Richmond, Mass., II. 65 x 50, 25 posts. Porch west end. Copied Pittsfield. Builder: Thomas Dutton.

Rochester, Vt. (“Potash meeting house”). Aldrich and Holmes, History of Windsor County, 655.

SABBATHDAY LAKE, MAINE (Shaker). Gambrel roof. Builder: Moses Johnson. Smith, Beacon

Guide, 48.

SOUTHFIELD, MASS. (New Marlborough). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227.

Sutton (South), N.H. Builder: Daniel Page. Burned. Worthen, History of Sutton, 316–33.

Tolland, Conn. (Methodist). Compass windows throughout including cupola. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:230.

West Boylston, Mass. (Boylston, Sterling, Holden), I. Hurd, History of Worcester County, 1:896.

WESTFORD, MASS., III. 65 x 48, 28 posts. Tower. Builder: John Abott and Moses Thomas. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 229.

Wilbraham, Mass. (Methodist). 40 x 34. Peck, History of Wilbraham, 192.

Winchester, N.H., III. Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, 569.

WINDSOR, CONN., IV. 75 x 55. Transitional. Builder: Ebenezer Clark, who also did Pittsfield. Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:303–4; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 74 (Sinnott says

“transitional”).

WINSLOW, MAINE. Steeple 1830, removed 1884. Altered 1900. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

219.

Woburn, Mass. (Baptist). 40 x 40. Gallery. Single porch. Sewall, History of Woburn, 489.

Wolcott, Conn., II. Orcutt, History of Wolcott, 65–66.

1795

BRADFORD, N.H. 50 x 42. Twin porch. Town house 1838. Moved 1863. Hurd, History of Merrimack

County, 190. Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 85; Proceedings of the Bradford Centennial

Celebration, 27–28.

Brookfield, Mass. (Baptist). Temple, History of North Brookfield, 282.

Brunswick, Maine (Baptist). Rebuilt as boarding house. Wheeler, History of Brunswick, Tophsham, and

Harpswell, 656.

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CHESTER, CONN. (Fourth Parish in Saybrook), II. Town house 1847, then theater. “Chester Meeting

House.”

Deer Isle, Maine, II. 54 x 48. Hosmer, Historical Sketch of Deer Isle, 270, 280.

East Providence, R.I. (Baptist). “formed by Obadiah Holmes.” Torn down 1879. First Baptist Church,

“History,” www.fbcep.org/history.

GREENFIELD, N.H. Builder: Hugh Gregg. Tower and steeple 1825. Floors filled 1848. Turned 1867.

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 231; Hopkins, Greenfield, 21; Hurd, History of Hillsborough

County, 334.

Hanover, N.H. (meetinghouse, Dartmouth College). 66 x 60, 30 posts. Cost: £1,500. Tower and steeple.

Burned 1931. Chase, Dartmouth College, 2:10–11.

New Bedford, Mass., I. 40 x 45. Gallery. Potter, First Congregational Society in New Bedford, 47.

Orford, N.H. (“The Coffin”). 60 x 40, 18 posts. Twin porch. Centennial Celebration, 33; Hodgson,

Thanks to the Past, 300.

Providence, R.I. (Congregational), II. Twin tower like Hollis. Architect: Caleb Ormsbee. Burned 1814.

Kimball, Providence in Colonial Times, 357.

Providence, R.I. (Richmond Street), I (“Old Tin Top”). Staples, Annals of Providence, 456.

READFIELD, Maine (Methodist). Dragged by 50 yoke of oxen to present location. Butler, History of

Farmington, 142.

Rumney, N.H. Converted to tannery. Child, Gazetteer of Grafton County, 601, 621.

Suffield, Conn. (Second Parish or Ireland Plaine), II. Trumbull, Memorial History of Hartford County,

2:391–92.

SUTTON (NORTH), N.H. 50 x 40. Twin porch. Builder: John Harvey. Worthen, History of Sutton, 316–

33; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 233.

Sutton (South), N.H. 50 x 40 Twin porch. Builder: Daniel Page. Worthen, History of Sutton, 333.

THOMASTON, MAINE (Baptist). Eaton, History of Thomaston, 226.

Topsham, Maine (Baptist) (“Old Yellow Meeting House”). 40 x 30. Wheeler and Wheeler, History of

Brunswick, 420.

WARDSBORO, VT. (Baptist). Moved 1834. Town hall and church. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

239.

Waterbury, Conn. (Anglican), II (St. John’s, formerly St. James’s). Torn down 1888. Anderson, Town

and City of Waterbury, 2:57.

Windham, Maine, III. 50 x 40. Single porch. Dismantled 1861. Sold for a barn. Clayton, History of

Cumberland County, 401; Dole, Windham in the Past, 117.

Wintonbury, Conn. (Bloomfield) (Baptist). Small. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, 376.

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Barnstable, Mass. (Centerville). 46 x 38, 21 posts. 3 doors. Trayser, Barnstable, 66; Freeman, History of

Cape Cod, 2: 330.

BARNSTEAD PARADE, N.H. Twin porch. Builder: Richard Sinclair. Yellow. Remodeled 1866.

Centennial Exercises, 25; Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 63.

BOLTON, MASS. (Quaker). Moved to Old Sturbridge Village. Two doors. Smith, Beacon Guide, 98.

DIGHTON, MASS. (Baptist or Elder Goff meetinghouse). Plain. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

FALMOUTH, MASS. (West Parish) (Congregational). Moved 1857. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

223. Jenkins, Three Lectures, 102.

FOSTER CENTER, R.I. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 64; Matthews, Churches of

Foster, 20.

Hallowell, Maine (“Old South Church”). Nason, Old Hallowell, chap. 12.

Killingly, Conn. (Westfield). Manual of Westfield Congregational Church, 22–28.

Meriden, N.H. 60 x 50. Steeple and porch. Centennial Anniversary, Meriden, 20.

Methuen, Mass., II. “plan of the . . . lower Parish of Bradford.” Howe, Historical Sketch, 14; Bentley,

Diary (1796), 2:179.

Middletown, Vt. (Baptists and Congregationalists united). On the green. Frisbie, History of Middletown,

91–92.

Newburyport, Mass. (Harris Street) (Presbyterian), I. Currier, History of Newburyport, 284.

Plainfield, Mass., I. 55½ x 42½. History of the Connecticut Valley, 1:433; Dyer, History of Plainfield, 32.

Princeton, Mass., II. 70 x 55. Bell tower? Bell recast 1815. Russell, History of Princeton, 50.

RINDGE, N.H., II. 66 x 52. Steeple. Builder: John and David Barker. Remodeled 19th century. Stearns,

History of Rindge, 237; Wainwright, “Colonial Meetinghouses.”

Stratfield, Conn. (Baptist), I. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:225, Orcutt, History of Stratford

and Bridgeport, 548.

Swanzey, N.H., II. 62 x 45. Twin porch. Remodeled into town house 1850. Reed, History of Swanzey,

168–69.

Thomaston, Maine. 50 x 50. 2 porches in front? Hand-suspended sounding board. Eaton, History of

Thomaston, 202; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

Tolland, Mass. Copeland, History of Hampden County, 3:450.

Tyringham, Mass., II. History of Berkshire County, 610.

Waterbury, Conn., III. 60 x 42. Steeple. Builder: William Leavenworth. Cost: £850. Anderson, Town and

City of Waterbury, 613.

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Wells, Maine (Alewife) (Baptist ca. 1803). Bourne, History of Wells and Kennebunk, 551.

Windsor, Conn. (Poquonnock), II. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, 369.

1797

ANDOVER, N.H., II (Congregational). Twin porch. Eastman, History of Andover, 73; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 231.

Benson, Vt., II. 65 x 45. Bell. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 468.

BILLERICA, MASS. (Unitarian), IV. Bell tower. Sinnott: type 2 made 3, turned 1844. Hurd, History of

Essex County, 1:265; Bentley, Diary, August 1793 (2:39); Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

222.

Bowdoinham, Maine. Adams, History of Bowdoinham, 46.

COVENTRY, R.I. (Six-Principle Baptist) (Maple Root Church). Fuller, History of Warwick; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 198.

Dublin, N.H. (now Harrisville) (Baptist). 40 x 30. Twin porch. Porches removed 1830. Moved 1840 and

1867. Leonard and Seward, History of Dublin, 29, 338.

Essex, Vt. Wood structure. Replaced 1840. Child, Gazetteer of Chittenden County, 201.

FALMOUTH, MASS. (East Parish or Hatchville). Single porch 16 ft. sq. Sinnott: type 2, turned 1842.

Wayman, Suckanesset, 131–32; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

GORHAM, MAINE, III. Single porch. Sinnott: type 2. Pierce, History of Gorham, 58–59; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 218.

Hampton, N.H., V. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 325.

Hampton, N.H. (Separate church). Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 325.

Hanover, N.H., II. Childs, Hanover, 207.

Holderness, N.H. 36 x 30, 10 posts. Hodges, Holderness, 67–69.

HOLDERNESS, N.H. (Anglican) (Trinity). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 231.

Jerico, Vt., I. “large, square-roofed, wooden structure.” Child, Gazetteer of Windham County, 237.

Leyden, Mass. 50 x 40, to 46 x 36. 2 stories. Arms, History of Leyden, 137; History of Connecticut

Valley, 2:756.

Montgomery, Mass., I. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1095.

Newington, Conn., II. About 50 x 40. Steeple on east end. Dismantled 1950s. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:47.

Orford, N.H. (West Parish). Hodgson, Thanks to the Past, 301.

Riverhead, L.I., II. 42 x 30. Prime, History of Long Island, 132.

Royalston, Mass., II. Hurd, History of Worcester County, 2:1371–72.

87

Ryegate, Vt. 40 x 30, 20 posts. Twin porch. Miller and Wells, History of Ryegate, 107.

STERLING, CONN. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 216.

SUDBURY, MASS. (West Precinct or Sudbury), II. 60 x 52. Porch and steeple. Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 228; Hudson, Annals of Sudbury, 26.

1798

Charlotte, Vt. Wood. Child, Gazetteer of Chittenden County, 178.

Charlton, Mass., II. Builder: Jonas Ward. Dodge, Historical Sketch, 36.

EAST ALSTEAD, N.H. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 230.

EFFINGHAM, N.H. 46 x 36. 1 story. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 231; Speare, Colonial Meeting-

Houses, 69.

EXETER, N.H., V. 80 x 60. 2-story bay and tower on side. Builder: Ebenezer Clifford, Bradbury

Johnson, and James Folsom. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 111; Cole, “The Meetinghouses

of the Exeter, New Hampshire, Congregational Church.”

GRAFTON CENTER, N.H. (Baptist). Lower story made town hall. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

231.

HINSDALE, MASS., II. 52 x 45. “Convening porch.” Belfry. Builder: Nathan Warner. Exterior copied

Chester. Interior copied Pittsfield. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 92; Commemoration of the

Centennial, Congregational Church, Hinsdale, 33.

Hudson, N.H. (South Parish)., IV. 50 x 40. Twin porch. Webster, History of Hudson, 200.

Kingston, Mass., II. 60 x 55, 25 posts. Bentley: pediment and 2 cupolas. Demolished 1851. Hurd, History

of Plymouth County, 265; Bentley, Diary, 10 June 1806, 3:234; Report . . . 150 Anniversary,

Kingston, 122–23.

Marlow, N.H. Twin porch. Dismantled and removed 1845. Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan

Counties, 314; “Marlow.”

NEW HAMPTON, N.H. Lowered to 1 story. Town meetings. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 232.

Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 45–47.

Newport, N.H. (Baptist). 44 x 44. Twin porch. Sky blue pulpit. Wheeler, History of Newport, 109–10;

Hurd, History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, 251.

NORTH YARMOUTH, MAINE (Yarmouth) (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 159, 220.

Palmer, Mass., II. Voted 50 x 40 (Twin porch); built 46 x 45. Porch at west end. Temple, History of

Palmer, 213.

SALISBURY, CONN., II. 64 x 45. “in the modern stile.” Copied Richmond, Mass. Builder: Moses

Wells. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:175–76; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

88

77, 215.

Tiverton, Mass. (“Line meeting house” between Massachusetts and Rhode Island.) Fowler, History of

Fall River, 48–49.

WEST CLARENDON, VT. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 239; Smith and Rann, History

of Rutland County, 567.

Williamstown, Mass., II. 76 x 56. Perry, Origins of Williamstown, 526.

Windham, N.H. (Presbyterian), II. Town house late 19th century. Hurd, History of Rockingham and

Strafford Counties, 559.

WINDSOR, VT., II (“Old South”). Pediment and bell tower. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 89;

History of Windsor County, 323.

1799

Camden, Maine. Gallery. Single porch. Locke, Sketches of the History of Camden, 78.

Greenwich, Conn. (Second Parish), II. 52 x 40, 21 posts. Bell tower. Builder: Abraham Husted. Linsley,

Commemorative Discourse, 10; Mead, History of the Town of Greenwich, 255.

HENNIKER, N.H. (Quaker). 1 story. 2 doors close together. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 231.

Hollis, N.H., III. 68 x 54. Painted white. Worcester, History of Hollis, 245.

Natick, Mass., IV. No belfry. Type 2. Gallery. Single porch. Builder: David Bacon. Painted yellow.

Bacon, History of Natick, 109.

Portland, Conn. (Anglican). Later given as a town house. Field, Centennial Address, 257.

Readfield, Maine (Methodist) (Kent’s Hill). Made from existing frame. “Early Churches in Readfield,

Maine,” Routesweb.ancestry.com.

Sterling, Mass., II. 75 x 70 or 60 x 55. 2 angels. Burned 1842. History of Worcester County, 2:344–45;

One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary, Sterling, 34–35.

STRAFFORD, VT. Bell tower. Canopy hand. Sinnott: transitional. Now town hall. Smith, Town House,

chaps. 2–4; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

WARE, MASS., II. 57 x 44, 28 posts. Twin porch: “Porch at each end.” Cupola on roof. Builder: Ezekiel

Baxter. Chase, History of Ware, 105; Hyde, Address Delivered, 20.

1800

Agawam, Mass. (Sixth Parish in Springfield). Frame from old Separatist meetinghouse in Suffield.

Demolished 1966. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 221.

Alton, N.H. 50 x 40. One floor. Dismantled and put in storage. Fisher, Brief History of Alton Corners, 16.

BARRINGTON, R.I. Built by lottery. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 172; Bicknell, History of

89

Barrington, 439.

BOSCAWEN, N.H. Sinnott: type 2, turned 1839 and 1940. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 230.

Brandon, Vt. (Baptist), II. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 507.

CORINTH, VT. Sinnott: transitional. Used as town hall until 1845. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

237.

Farmington Falls, Maine (Methodist). Parker, History of Farmington, 56.

FREMONT, N.H. (formerly Poplin). Twin porch. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 60; Speare,

Colonial Meeting-Houses, 37–41.

Georgia, Vt. Builder: William Sprats. Finished 1802. Became town property before 1850. Restored 1936.

Burned 1952. Warren, “William Sprats.”

GOSPORT, N.H. (Isles of Shoals). Stone. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 231.

Granville, Mass. (Baptist). Copeland, History of Hampden County, 3:261.

HEBRON, N.H. 2 stories. Builder: Benjamin Wood. Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 88.

Hinesburgh, Vt. Child, Gazetteer of Chittenden County, 214.

Hubbardston, Vt. (Baptist). Log meetinghouse. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 624.

Lee, Mass., II. 65 x 50, 26 posts. Bell tower. Patterned after Richmond. Builder: John Hulett. Records of

Lee, Mass., 103; Hyde, History of Lee, 230.

Merrimack, N.H., II. History of Merrimack, 1:46–48.

MIDDLETON CORNERS, N.H. Sinnott: type 2. Frescoes. Church above, town hall below. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 232.

Monroe, N.H. (approximate date). 42 x 36. Gallery in back. Painted yellow. Johnson, History of Monroe.

New Braintree, Mass., II. 50 x 50. History of Worcester County, 125.

NEWBURYPORT, MASS. (Anglican), II (St. Paul’s). Builder: Stephen Toppan. Reading desk and pulpit

to copy Trinity Church, Boston. Burned 1920. Benes, Old Town and the Waterside, entry 197.

NEW HAMPTON, N.H. (Baptist). Square. Spindle top. Unpainted pews. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 232; Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 45–47.

Pownalborough, Maine (Dresden). Twin porch. Allen, History of Dresden, 495.

Reading, Mass. (Baptist). 38 x 34. Outside porch. Gallery. Eaton, Genealogical History, 193.

Underhill, Vt. Child, Gazetteer of Chittenden County, 256.

Wallingford, Vt. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 839.

WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASS., II. Bell tower. Builder: Timothy Billings. Copeland, History of

Hampden County, 242; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 73–74; History of the Connecticut

Valley, 2:908.

Winsted, Conn., II. Bulfinch type plan. Copied by Otis, Mass., 1813. History of Litchfield County, 212;

90

Field, History of Berkshire County, 2:261–62.

1801

Bow, N.H., II. Hurd, History of Merrimack County, 272.

BRIDGEWATER, MASS. (West Bridgewater), IV. Shallow entrance bay. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 228.

Cavendish, Vt. 55 x 45. History of Windsor County, 507.

FRANCESTOWN, N.H., II. 66 x 48. Builder: Joseph Bickford. Cost: $5,274.24. Bell 1808. Turned and

enlarged 1834. Steeple changed 1855. Sinnott: type 3, perhaps 2 initially. Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 231; Smith, Beacon Guide, 116; francestownmeetinghouse.com.

HARTLAND, CONN., II. 50 x 45, 25 posts. Steeple and spire. Builder: Daniel Bushnell. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:129–31.

Henniker, N.H. (Calvinistic Congregational). 60 x 45. Gallery. Belfry on long side opposite pulpit.

Cogswell, History of Henniker, 119–23.

LANGDON, N.H. Twin porch. Builder: John Chandler. Belfry added, porches remodeled 1844. Church

and town hall. Kingsbury, History of Langdon, 96.

NEWBURYPORT, MASS. (First Society), III. Lumber from Ambrose Palmer, Daniel Spofford. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 225; Currier, Newburyport, 253; Atkinson, First Religious Society,

16‒24.

NORWICH, CONN., V. 70 x 50. Architect-builder: Joseph Terry, Lavius Fillmore. “Sky blue” interior

dome. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:114; Caulkins, History of Norwich, 527.

OSSIPEE, N.H. (Leighton’s Corner). 50 x 40. 2 stories. Low ceiling. Tower. Turned 1880. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 233; Leighton, Early Settlers’ Meeting House at Leighton’s Corner,

1–6; History of Carroll County, 605.

Plymouth, Mass. (Third Church). 60 x 52. Cupola and bell. Gomes, “Churches of the Not-So-Standing

Order,” 4; Thacher, History of Plymouth, 321.

Reading, Vt., II. Burned 1816. Aldrich and Holmes, History of Windsor County, 388.

Wintonbury, Conn. (Bloomfield), II. 50 x 40. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, 374.

1802

Bath, Maine (North Parish). Gallery. Reed, History of Bath, 468–69.

Bath, Maine (South Parish). Burned down by Know-Nothings. Reed, History of Bath, 468–69.

Bath, N.H., II. 54 x 42, to 58 x 47. Builder: “Mr. Sargent.” Sutherland, Address, 55–56.

BELLINGHAM, MASS., III. Town hall. Sinnott: type 2 with tower. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

91

221.

BOSTON, MASS., II (“New North”). Brick. Now Roman Catholic. Architect: Charles Bulfinch. Fuller,

Historical Discourse, 48; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 222.

Campton, N.H., II. Blakely, Historical Discourse, Campton, 42.

Charlestown, N.H. (North Parish). Dismantled 1850. Frizzell, Second History of Charlestown, 288–89.

CORNISH FLAT, N.H. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 230.

EAST WINDSOR, CONN. (North or Scantic Parish). 57 x 47. Sinnott: transitional, made 4, 1842. Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:152; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 213.

GRANVILLE CENTER, MASS. (Federated). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 224.

Hollis (Little Falls), Maine. 2 meetinghouses voted. Ridlon, Saco Valley Settlements, 231.

Malden, Mass., III. Brick. Watkins, “Malden’s Old Meetinghouses,” 46–53.

MILTON, CONN. (Anglican). Builder: Oliver Dickinson. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

Monson, Mass., II. Cost: $3,000. Private contributions except $300. Copeland, History of Hampden

County, 3:304.

PHIPPSBURG, MAINE (Congregational). Sinnott: type 2 made 4 1846. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 219.

SOUTH CANAAN, CONN., II. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:210; Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 215, dates it 1804.

WALES, MASS., II (“Union House”). Shared by Baptists, Universalists, and Congregationalists. History

of the Connecticut Valley, 2:1071; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 228.

WAPPING, CONN., II. 60 x 44. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 216; Stiles, History of Ancient

Windsor, 324–25.

WASHINGTON, CONN., III. Builder: Peter Powell, Thomas Dutton. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:255; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 216.

WINDHAM, VT. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 239.

Woburn, Mass., IV. 55 x 60. 6 x 30 porch in front. Sewall, History of Woburn, 452.

1803

Bristol, N.H. (Bridgewater), II. 49 x 38. Twin porch. Musgrove, History of Bristol, 264–65.

BURLINGTON, CONN., II. 60 x 45. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:54–55; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 212.

CORNWALL, VT. 50 x 20? Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 237; Matthews, History of the Town of

Cornwall, 144, says voted 1787, finished 1791.

DANA HILL, N.H. (New Hampton). Small. 3 doors. Wainwright, “Colonial Meetinghouses.”

92

Epping, N.H., II. Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties 216.

Farmington, Maine. “at the Center.” Twin porch. Tower 1827. Parker, History of Farmington, 56.

Landaff, N.H. Currier and Clement, History of Landaff, 45–46.

MILTON, N.H. 52 x 42. Builder: Caleb Wingate. Twin porch and portico. Became 1-story town house.

Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 646; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

232.

Nottingham, N.H., II. Cogswell, History of Nottingham, 118.

ROXBURY, MASS., V. 68 x 81. Painted and ornamented. Drake, Town of Roxbury, 288; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 95; Bentley, Diary, 31 October 1804.

Saco, Maine (Pepperellborough). Builder: Bradbury Johnson. Lithograph drawn by Charles H. Granger,

published by J. H. Bufford, Boston 1860. Courtesy, Dyer Library, Saco, Maine.

SOMERSET, MASS. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227.

Southold, L.I., III. 60 x 40. Prime, History of Long Island, 132.

Stoneham, Mass., II. 50 x 46 or 56 x 46. Front porch and steeple. Stevens and Whittier, History of

Stoneham, 69.

1804

Arlington, Mass., II. 70 x 56, 30 posts. Builder: Andrew Palmer. Torn down 1840. Cutter and Cutter,

History of Arlington, 108–10.

Brookline, Mass., II. 74 x 54. Double-porticoed porch under tower. Lyon, First Parish in Brookline, opp.

17.

Canterbury, Conn., III. 60 x 45, 25 posts. Builder: Thomas Gibbs. Burned 1963. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 1:61; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 212.

Colchester, Vt. Schoolhouse, then barn, then stone schoolhouse. Child, Gazetteer of Chittenden County,

192.

East Greenwich, R.I. (Quaker), II. Cole, History of Washington and Kent Counties, 1102.

Lebanon, Conn., III. Brick. Architect: Col. John Trumbull. Nichols, Historical Sermon, 25; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 213 (says 1807). Smith, Beacon Guide, 18.

LEEDS, MAINE (“Old Meeting House”). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 218.

Middletown, Conn., IV. (Presumed from Rocky Hill replication.) Rocky Hill CT replicated a porch “in

Middletown”: Stiles, Wethersfield, 843; Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:165.

MILLBURY, MASS. (Bramanville). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 225.

Poultney, Vt., II. Joslin, History of Poultney, 104.

Rockport, Mass. (Universalist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 226.

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Salem, Mass. (Cambridge Street; Third Church) (South Meeting House). 80 x 66. Architect: Samuel

McIntire. Bentley, Diary, 22 August 1804 (3:105).

Savoy, Mass. Miller, History of Savoy, 18.

SHREWSBURY, VT. (“Old Meeting House”). Shared with town. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

238.

SOUTH CANAAN, CONN., II. Bulfinch style. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 77.

ST. JOHNSBURY, VT. 62 x 44. Twin porch. Builder: John Stiles, Nahum Stiles. Reerected in center

village 1845. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238; Fairbanks, Town of St. Johnsbury, 102,

123–26.

Warren, Mass. (Western), II. Burned 1814. Hurd, History of Worcester County, 2:1186.

WEST DURHAM, MAINE (Methodist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

Westfield, Mass., III. 66 x 54. “procured from Mr. Bulfinch.” Square belfry. History of the Connecticut

Valley, 2:947; Lockwood, Westfield, 2:235–37.

1805

BENNINGTON, VT., II. Architect: Lavius Fillmore. White, “Landmark Churches”; Andres, “Lavius

Fillmore,” 38–39; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 84.

Brimfield, Mass., III. 80 x 50. Gallery 3 sides. Builder: Elias Carter of Brimfield. Burned 1847. History of

Connecticut Valley, 2:1021.

Cornish, Maine. 50 x 40. Single porch. Ridlon, Saco Valley Settlements, 240.

Danby, Vt. (Quaker), II. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 590.

DORCHESTER, MASS. (Second Church). Builder: Oliver Warren. Sinnott: type 2. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

EAST POULTNEY, VT. (Baptist). Builder: Elisha Scott. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

LENOX, MASS., II. Builder: John Hulett. Mallary, Lenox and the Berkshire Highlands, opp. 352;

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 82.

Middletown, Conn. (Methodist), I. 42 x 32. Field, Centennial Address, 182.

Newton, Mass., IV. First Church, Newton, Commemorative Services, 157.

Pembroke, N.H., III. 60 x 45. Carter, History of Pembroke, 156; McLintock, History of Pembroke, 300.

ROCKY HILL, CONN., II. 60 x 50. Porch projection 4 ft. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses,

2:163–73; Stiles, History of Ancient Wethersfield, 843; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 215.

Salem, Mass. (Branch) (Howard Street). 74 x 62. Emerson, Anniversary Sermon; Bentley, Diary, 19

August 1804, 105.

Salem, Mass. (Baptist). Emerson, Anniversary Sermon.

94

Salem Village, Mass. (Danvers). 66 x 56, 28 posts. Brick. Hurd, History of Essex County, 455.

Shrewsbury, Vt. (Universalist). Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 808.

1806

BARRINGTON, R.I. (United Congregational). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 235.

Bethel, Maine. Bethel Centennial, 36; Lapham, History of Bethel, 201, 220.

BLOOMFIELD, CONN. (Anglican) (St. Andrew’s). “Pews made of panels from earlier ones.”

Dismantled, moved, reerected 1830. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:27; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 212.

BOSTON, MASS. (Baptist Third Church). African American. Brick. Bentley, Diary, 1 June 1806, 3:221.

BOSTON, MASS. (Old West Church). Brick. 4-storied porch. Architect: Asher Benjamin. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 222; Vose, “Asher Benjamin’s West Church.”

BRIDGEWATER HILL, N.H. (“Old Town House”). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 230.

Brunswick, Maine, II. Builder: Samuel Melcher. North gallery reserved for Bowdoin College students.

Wheeler and Wheeler, History of Brunswick, 371.

Cabot, Vt. Hemenway, History of Washington County, 94.

Ellington, Conn. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor, 271.

HARTFORD, CONN., IV. 102 x 64. Brick. Architect: David Wadsworth. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 128, 129.

Ludlow, Vt. “Plain wood . . . devoid of steeple or ornaments.” Aldrich and Holmes, History of Windsor

County, 546.

MIDDLEBURY, VT., II. 78 x 58. Steeple 135 ft. Architect: Lavius Fillmore. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 238; Andres, “Lavius Fillmore,” 40.

Middleton, Vt. (Baptist). Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 668.

Milton, Vt. Child, Gazetteer of Chittenden County, 248.

Mount Washington, Mass., I. 24 x 30. History of Berkshire County, 229.

Newbury, Mass., IV. 61 x 51. Burned 1868. Little and Ilsley, First Parish, 48, 56.

NEWPORT, R.I. (Methodist) (St. Paul’s). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 235.

PEACHAM, VT. Sinnott: type 3. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

Salem, Mass. (Universalist). Emerson, Anniversary Sermon.

STANDISH, MAINE. (“Old Meeting House”). Sinnott: type 3. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

WOODSTOCK, VT. (“Old White”). Dana, History of Woodstock, 438; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 239.

Woodstock, Vt. (Methodist Episcopal). History of Windsor County, 257.

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1807

Acton, Mass., II. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 1:199–200.

BOSTON, MASS. (Charles Street Church). Massing portico. Brick. Architect: Asher Benjamin. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 222, 115. Also called Third Baptist Church. Quinan, “Benjamin and

Bulfinch,” 25.

BRIDGEWATER, CONN. 52 x 40, 24 posts. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:31; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 212.

DUANESBURG, L.I. (Quaker). Center part operated pulleys and rope. Phillips, Story of the Friends

Meeting House.

Framingham, Mass., III. 76 x 68 tower to 65 x 65. Tower in front. Manual, Framingham Church, 24;

Barry, Framingham, 102‒3.

Hallowell, Maine (Baptist). Burned 1868. Snell and Ledeur, Historic Hallowell, 88.

HINGHAM, MASS. (New North). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 224.

Jay, Maine, II (Baptist). Still used as town house in 1912. Lawrence, History of Jay, 22–23.

Marlborough, Mass., IV. Architect: John Ames. Hurd, History of Middlesex County, 3:826–27; Allen,

Topographical and Historical Sketches, 11.

Marlborough, Mass. (West End), I. Hudson, History of the Town of Marlborough, 88.

NEW SALEM, MASS. Moved. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 226.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (Anglican), II (St. John’s). Brick. Architect: Alexander Parris. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 233. Smith, Beacon Guide, 124.

Salem, Mass. (Freewill Baptist). Emerson, Anniversary Sermon.

Smithfield, R.I. Lottery. Steere, History of Smithfield, 62.

SUDBURY, VT. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

Sullivan, N.H., II. 49 x 37. Twin porch. Seward, History of Sullivan, 1:389–94.

Tiverton, R.I. (Baptist). Johnson, Rhode Island Baptists, 124.

WHITMAN, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 229.

1808

BETHANY, CONN. (Anglican) (Christ Church). 48 x 36, then 48 “proportioned” to Waterbury.

Architect: David Hoadley. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:21; Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 212.

Boston, Mass. (First Church), IV. Architect: Asher Benjamin. Ellis, History of the First Church, 236–37.

Coventry, R.I. (“Tin Top”). 60 x 40. Gallery. Floated down from Providence. Cole, History of

96

Washington and Kent Counties, 1182; Fuller, History of Warwick, 322–24.

HADLEY, MASS., III. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 224.

JAMAICA, VT. Sinnott: type 3. Town meetings once held “below.” Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

238.

JEFFERSON, MAINE (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 218.

NEWTOWN, CONN., II. 60 x 40. Belfry and cupola. Builder: Isaac Scudder. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 214.

Northborough, Mass., II. 56 x 56; projection 34 x 15. Builder: John Ames, Capt. Brooks. History of

Worcester County, 129–31; Allen, Topographical and Historical Sketches, 52.

Preston, Conn., III. First Congregational Church, 15.

STOUGHTON, MASS. Cupola, belfry, dome. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 228.

Stratford, N.H. Moved 1820 to central location. Thompson, History of Stratford, 173.

WESTWOOD, MASS. Builder: Benjamin Robbins. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 229.

WINDSOR, CONN. (Anglican) (St. John’s). Compass windows. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:240.

1809

Abington, Mass. (South Parish). “Two turrets connected by piazza and pediment.” Bentley, Diary, 3:465

(1809).

ASHBY, MASS., II. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 1:226; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

221.

Boston, Mass. (Irish or Presbyterian), III. Gothic revival. Drake, History and Antiquities of Boston, 576.

BOSTON, MASS. (Congregational) (Park Street Church). Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

222; Keith and Warren, “Peter Banner.”

FREETOWN, MASS. (Assonet) (Congregational), II (North Church). Sinnott: type 3. Hurd, History of

Bristol County, 297; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 221.

LYME, N.H., II. Builder: John Thompson Jr. Sinnott: type 3. Cole, Patterns, 308. Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 232.

MANCHESTER, MASS., IV. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 225.

Middletown, Conn. (Baptist), I. 53 x 38. Field, Centennial Address, 180.

Moriches, L.I. (Union Church). Prime, History of Long Island, 230.

NANTUCKET, MASS. (Unitarian). 3-story porch and bell tower (like Bedford). Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 225; Farnham, Brief Historical Data, opp. 86, 121; Starbuck, History of Nantucket,

558.

97

Newburyport, Mass. (Baptist) (Congress Street). Coffin, History of Newbury, 373.

Otis, Mass., I. Burned shortly after it was raised. Field, History of the County of Berkshire, 318.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Beneficent Congregational). Dome and 4 columns. Much remodeled. Stone and

brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 236; Smith, Beacon Guide, 148.

SOUTH YARMOUTH, MASS. (Quaker). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227.

WAREHOUSE POINT, CONN. (Anglican). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 116.

Westford, Vt. (formerly held in a barn). Replaced 1840. Child, Gazetteer of Chittenden County, 256.

West Greenwich, R.I. (Union). 38 x 32, 19 posts. Cole, History of Washington and Kent Counties, 1172.

1810

EAST SANDWICH, MASS. (Quaker). Single porch. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

FAIRFIELD, MAINE. Sinnott: type 3. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 218.

KILLINGWORTH, CONN. (Anglican). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 213.

ORANGE, CONN. (Milford Third Parish). Architect: David Hoadley. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 215.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Anglican). Stone. Gothic windows. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 236.

RUMFORD, R.I. (Newman Congregational). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 236.

UNITY, N.H. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 234; Wainwright, “Colonial Meetinghouses.”

1811

Boston, Mass., III. (Hollis Street). Brick. 2-tier porch. Single 4-tier tower. Chaney, Hollis Street Church,

31.

BRIDGTON, MAINE (Methodist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217.

CARLISLE, MASS. (Unitarian), II. Builder: Joseph Wyman, John Sawyer of Templeton. Light straw

color with mahogany doors. Bull, History of Carlisle, 158–59; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 222.

CHELSEA, VT. Sinnott: type 3. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 237.

Hanover, Mass. (Anglican), II. Cost: $5,000. Old Scituate, 178; Barry, Hanover, 79.

Littleton, N.H. Jackson, History of Littleton, 236–37.

MONROE, CONN. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

MONROE, CONN. (Anglican) (St. Peter’s). Compass windows. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

Northampton, Mass., IV. 100 x 76, 30 posts. (seated 1,000). Steeple 140 ft. Architect: Asher Benjamin,

Isaac Damon. Cost: $22,174. Burned 1878. First Parish, Northampton, 21–33; History of the

Connecticut Valley, 1:206.

98

TEMPLETON, MASS., II. 65 x 55. Builder: Elias Carter. Adams, Historical Discourse, 50.

WHITING, VT. Committee member went to Boston for advice. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 239.

1812

ASHFIELD, MASS., II. Builder: John Ames. Sinnott: type 3. Now town hall. History of the Connecticut

Valley, 2:743; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 221.

Brookhaven, L.I., III. Thompson, History of Long Island, 270.

Burlington, Vt. (First Calvinist Congregational). Wood. Burned 1829. Child, Gazetteer of Chittenden

County, 158.

Chatham, Conn. Field, Centennial Address, 269.

EAST BLACKSTONE, MASS. (Quaker). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

GUILFORD, CONN. (Third or North Parish), II. 48 x 38. Steeple “8 ft within . . . & 4 do. Without.”

Builder: Abraham Coan. Steiner, History of Menunkatuck, 293; Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:89.

LYME, CONN. (Congregational) (Grassy Hill). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

Lynn, Mass. (Methodist), II. Lewis, History of Lynn, 378; Benes, New England Prospect, 68 (shows

illustration).

Mt. Holly, Vt. (Baptist). Large gallery and pulpit and sounding board. Smith and Rann, History of

Rutland County, 682.

Nashua Village, N.H. (formerly Dunstable) (“Old South”). Fox, History of Dunstable, 197.

NEW HAVEN, CONN. (Fair Haven and White Haven) (United Church). Brick. Architect: David

Hoadley. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:36–40; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

131.

New Ipswich, N.H., IV. 92 x 69. Architect: Seth Nason. Builders: John Butman, Capt. Roffe. Gould and

Kidder, History of New Ipswich, 159.

OXFORD, CONN. (Quaker’s Farm) (Anglican) (Christ Church). Gothic. Architect: George Boult. Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:153; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 215.

Poultney, Vt. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 781.

PRESTON, CONN. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 215.

Westfield, Conn. (Baptist). 36 x 26. Field, Centennial Address, 194.

Westhampton, Mass., II. Johnson, Historic Hampshire, 311.

Wilmington, Mass., III. 56 x 49. Porch 8 x 31. Simmons, History, unpaginated.

1813

99

Great Barrington, Mass., II. Conn, Congregational Church of Great Barrington, inside front cover.

Medway, Mass., III. 53 x 53, 29 posts. Porch 15 x 30. Builder: Malachi Bullard. Jameson, History of

Medway, 113.

MEDWAY, MASS. (Second or West Parish), II. 53 x 53, 19 posts. Medway III imitated it. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 229; Jameson, History of Medway, 113.

NEW HAVEN, CONN., IV (Center Church). 100 x 70. Brick. Architect: Ithiel Town. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:12; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 130.

NEW HAVEN, CONN. (Anglican), II. Stone. About 100 x 70. Architect: Ithiel Town. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:26; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

NORFOLK, CONN., II. 60 x 45. Architect: David Hoadley. Greek Revival portico. Eldridge, History of

Norfolk, frontispiece. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:69–70; Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 214.

OTIS, MASS., II. 50 x 45. 1789 Bulfinch type. Copied Winsted, Conn. Field, History of the County of

Berkshire, 317–18; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 78; Field, History of Berkshire County,

2:261–62.

RICHMOND, VT. (Union) (“Old Round Church”). “sixteen sides.” Builder: William Rhodes. Child,

Gazetteer of Chittenden County, 254; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238; Smith, Beacon

Guide, 167.

STRATFIELD, CONN. (Baptist), II. 40 x 35. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:226; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 216.

WESTPORT, MASS. (Quaker). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 229.

1814

Boston, Mass. (New South Society). Stone. Architect: Charles Bulfinch. Quinan, “Benjamin and

Bulfinch,” 27.

BRISTOL, R.I. (Baptist). Stone. Wooden tower. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 235.

CANTON, CONN., II. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 212.

CASCO, MAINE (Quaker). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217.

CHAPLIN, CONN. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 212.

HUNTINGTON, CONN. (Anglican). “Shingled.” Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 213.

New Shoreham, R.I. (Block Island) (Baptist), II. Became town hall. Livermore, History of Block Island,

208.

NORTH GUILFORD, CONN. (Anglican). Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:95; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

100

SUDBURY, MASS. (Wayland), V. Architect: “Andrews Palmer from Asher Benjamin design.” Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 229. Smith, Beacon Guide, 101.

TROY, N.H., II. Builder: from Sullivan, N.H. Finish carpenter: Samuel Morse, Templeton, Mass. Lower

floor became firehouse. Caverly, History of Troy, 131; Stone, Historical Sketch of the Town of

Troy, 133.

1815

ALLENSTOWN, N.H. Low and very plain. Ground floor seats on incline. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 230; Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 41.

BRATTLEBORO, VT., II. Tower. Quoins. Lock stage. Sinnott Meetinghouse and Church, 237.

BRENTWOOD, N.H., III. 50 x 45. Remodeled 1847. Church below, town hall above. Hazlett, History of

Rockingham County, 226; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 230; Dean, Annals of the

Brentwood, N.H. Congregational Church and Parish, 20.

Goffstown, N.H., II. Hadley, History of Goffstown, 1:374.

LANCASTER, MASS., IV. Architect: Charles Bulfinch. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 79.

LYME, CONN. (Congregational) (Hamburg Church). Church above, town hall below. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

OAKHAM, MASS., II. 60 x 45 including porch. Hurd, History of Worcester County, 2:1080–81.

WASHINGTON, VT. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 239.

1816

ADDISON, VT. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 237.

BEDFORD, MASS., II. Wood. Architect: Asher Benjamin. Similar to Old West and Charles Street.

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 115.

BETHEL, VT. Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 237.

BURLINGTON, VT. (Congregational). Brick. Architect: Peter Banner. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 237; Smith, Beacon Guide, 157.

Dorchester, Mass., V. 73 x 62, 32 posts. Tower height 129 ft. Cost: $20,188. Harris, Valedictory Sermon,

31.

Exeter, R.I. (Chestnut Hill) (Baptist), II. 40 x 34. Gallery. Builder: Daniel Spink. Cole, History of

Washington and Kent Counties, 678; Johnson, Rhode Island Baptists, 119.

Fitzwilliam, N.H., II. Builder: Killburn and Jonathan Cutting. Burned 1816. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 96.

Lynn, Mass. (Quaker), II. Lewis, History of Lynn, 379.

101

Medway, Mass. (West Parish), II. Hixon, “An Old Time Sunday . . . in Medway,” 143.

New Sharon, Maine. Parker, History of Farmington, 106.

NORTH WOODBURY, CONN., I. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

PLAINFIELD, CONN., II. 60 x 50? Stone. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:133.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (First Unitarian). Architect: John Holden Green. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

236; Smith, Beacon Guide, 150.

SEYMOUR, CONN. (Anglican). Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:180.

SOUTH BARNSTEAD, N.H. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 234.

THOMPSON, CONN., II. Architect: Ithiel Town. Builder: Elias Carter. Forbes, “Elias Carter,” 61.

Wickford, R.I. (Baptist). 50 x 40. Cole, History of Washington and Kent Counties, 468; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 236.

1817

Attleborough, Mass. (North Baptist). Transitional? Daggett, History of Attleborough, 67.

BLUE HILL, MAINE (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217.

Dartmouth, Mass. (New Bedford), II. 48 x 60. 7-ft. portico. Hurd, History of Bristol County, 76.

EAST HARPSWELL, MAINE (Baptist). No galleries. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217.

KILLINGWORTH FARMS, CONN. (Killingworth), II. Architect: Ithiel Town (probable). Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meeting Houses, 1:250; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 213.

Lyme, Conn., IV. Brick? Cary, Memorial Discourse, 4.

NORWICH, VT. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

PRESTON, CONN. (Second or Long Society), II. 52 x 40? Builder: George W. Willard. Sinnott: type 2.

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 69; Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:141.

Searsport, Maine (Second Congregational). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

SOUTH DARTMOUTH, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227.

Wellfleet, Mass. (Methodist Episcopal). 48 x 38. Pratt, Comprehensive History of Eastham, Wellfleet, and

Orleans, 136.

WEST TOWNSEND, VT. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 239.

WOODBURY, CONN. Designer: Harman Stoddard. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 216.

1818

BELFAST, MAINE. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217; Williamson, History of Belfast, 260–61.

Dublin, N.H., II. Copied Fitzwilliam, N.H. Builder: J. Cutting, S. Kilburn. Dismantled 1852. Leonard and

Seward, History of Dublin, 29, 260.

102

FITZWILLIAM, N.H., III. Town house 1868. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 96–97.

Foxborough, Mass. (Baptist). 40 x 36. No belfry. Pulpit in front between doors. Spencer, Historical

Discourse, 15–16.

Hubbardston, Vt. (Congregational). Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 624.

KILLINGLY, CONN. (Putnam Heights), IV. Architect-builder: Elias Carter. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:145; Forbes, “Elias Carter,” 61; Larned, History of Windham County, 2:436;

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 215.

NORTH BRANFORD, CONN. (Anglican). Builder: Abraham Coan. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:76; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

North Yarmouth, Maine, II. 60 x 55. 2 porches on front (twin porch?). Gallery. Abandoned 1868. Torn

down 1879. Rowe, Ancient North Yarmouth, 174.

PORTER, MAINE (Baptist) (“Old Bullockite Church”). Plain. Used for town meeting. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

SOUTH PARIS, MAINE (Congregational). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS., IV. 90 x 72, 30 posts. Architect-builder: Isaac Damon. Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 107–8.

THETFORD, VT. (Post Mills). Sinnott: “Steeple suggests Asher Benjamin design.” Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

WARNER, N.H. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 234.

Warren, N.H. 50 x 40. Moved and remodeled 1859. Little, History of Warren, 423–26.

1819

AVON, CONN., II. Architect: David Hoadley. Sinnott: “Windows . . . at pulpit end now closed.” Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:10; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 212.

BOSTON, MASS. (Anglican) (St. Paul’s). Stone. Architect: Alexander Parris, Solomon Willard. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 222.

BRISTOL, VT. (Baptist). Sinnott Meetinghouse and Church, 237.

CRAFTSBURY COMMON, VT. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 237.

DEDHAM, MASS. (Congregational) (Allin Church). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 222.

DERBY, CONN., III. 50 x 40, 24 posts. Builder: Amos Williams, Nathaniel. Barnum. Sinnott: “Hoadley

type.” Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:97; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 212.

EASTPORT, MAINE (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217.

GARDINER, MAINE (Anglican). Gothic. Unhammered granite. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 218.

GREENFIELD, MASS., II. Architect: Isaac Damon. Merrill, “Isaac Damon,” 54.

103

HAMDEN, Conn. (Anglican) (Grace Church). Architect: David Hoadley? Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 213.

HANCOCK, N.H., II. Copied Dublin, N.H. Builder: Jacob Ames, Samuel Kilbourn. Church above, town

hall below. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 98.

LINCOLNVILLE, MAINE. Plain. No belfry. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 218.

MILFORD, MASS., II. Architect: Elias Carter (vote: “A skillful and faithful architect”). Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 101, 225.

SHARON, CONN. (Anglican). Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 215.

SOUTH DARTMOUTH, MASS. (Quaker). Organ. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227. (“Smith

Neck”?)

WARREN, CONN., II. 56 x 42. “taking of Seven feet for a steeple.” Builder: James Jennings. Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:247; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 216.

1820

ACWORTH, N.H. (Quaker). 2 doors, “the women’s wider.” Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 230.

Charlestown, N.H., III. Brick. 70 x 60, 32 posts. Cost: $7,500. Organ 1829. Frizzell, Second History of

Charlestown, 284; Crosby, History of Charlestown, 36–37.

HAVERHILL, MASS. Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 224.

KINGSTON, R.I. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 236; Cole, History of Washington and Kent

Counties, 554.

Marlborough, Vt., II. Newton, History of Marlborough.

MENDON, MASS., V. Architect: Elias Carter. Cost: $7,619. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 225.

Mt. Holly, Vt. (Union Church). Portico. Large columns in style of Pantheon. Smith and Rann, History of

Rutland County, 692.

NORTH BARNSTEAD, N.H. 1 story. “Perfectly plain.” Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 233.

NORTH BUXTON, MAINE. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 218.

Pittsfield, Vt. Cost: $1,000. Smith and Rann, History of Rutland County, 724.

Salisbury, N.H. (East Village, now Franklin). Dearborn, History of Salisbury, 191.

Southampton, L.I., IV. Thompson, History of Long Island, 214.

SOUTH DEERFIELD, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227.

UNITY, N.H. (Quaker). “Two doors, wider one for women.” Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 234.

WINDSOR, VT. (Anglican). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 239.

1821

104

ACWORTH, N.H., II. Templeton type. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 98.

BRIDGEWATER, MASS. (Scotland Parish) (Trinitarian). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227.

Eastham, Mass. (Methodist). Pratt, Comprehensive History of Eastham, Wellfleet, and Orleans, 95.

GLOCESTER, R.I. (Chepachet) (Baptist). Architect: Elias Carter. Builder: Clark Sayles. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 235.

Leominster, Mass., III. 75 x 62. Projecting porch, Ionic order. Wilder, History of Leominster, 201.

NEWBURY VILLAGE, N.H. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 232; Wainwright, “Colonial

Meetinghouses.”

Salisbury, Mass. (Baptist), I. 50 x 42. Byram, History of First Baptist Church, 53‒54.

Scituate, R.I. (Baptist) II. Beaman, Historical Address, 47.

Topsham, Maine, II. Wheeler and Wheeler, History of Brunswick, 415.

WEATHERSFIELD CENTER, VT. Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 239.

WOODSTOCK, CONN. Sinnott: “like. . . Putnam Heights church.” Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

216.

1822

EAST BERKSHIRE, VT. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 237.

EAST CANAAN, CONN. Sinnott: “Resembles Avon church.” Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 212.

EAST HAVERHILL, MASS. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

EAST MONTPELIER, VT. (Methodist). Used for town meetings until 1847. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 237.

Goshen, Mass. (Baptist). Massachusetts Historical Commission Reconnaissance Survey, Town Report,

Goshen 1982, 7.

GRANBY, MASS., II. Builder: Elias Carter (like Mendham). Johnson, Historic Hampshire, 178; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 224; Wight, Some Old Time Meeting Houses, 87.

HOLLISTON, MASS., II. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 224.

Lynn, Mass. (Second Congregational became Unitarian). Lewis, History of Lynn, 388.

MARBLE DALE, CONN. (Anglican). Brick. Gothic. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

New Britain, Conn., II. (Old North Church). South Congregational Church, 3.

NEWPORT, N.H., III. Brick. Wheeler, History of Newport, 116. Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 226.

North Providence, R.I. (Baptist). Jackson, Account of the Churches of Rhode Island, 88.

Salem, Mass. (Methodist). Emerson, Anniversary Sermon.

SALISBURY, CONN. (Anglican). Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 215.

SOUTH BUXTON, MAINE (“Tory Hill”). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

105

Tewksbury, Mass., II. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 2:379.

WEST GREENWICH, R.I. (Baptist), II (Plain Meeting House). 1 story. Remodeled 1856. Johnson,

Rhode Island Baptists, 126.

Westerly, R.I. (Union Church). Steeple. Architect: Benjamin Palmer. Bass viol. Cole, History of

Washington and Kent Counties, 285.

1823

BETHEL, VT. (Anglican). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 237.

BLANDFORD, MASS., II. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 222.

Calais, Vt. 42 x 40. 2 floors. Hemenway, History of Washington County, 143.

EAST WINTHROP, MAINE (Baptist). Sinnott: type 3. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 218.

MILFORD, CONN., III. Greek Revival portico. Architect: David Hoadley. Builder: Elias Carter. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 103, 214, Forbes, “Elias Carter,” 60.

NANTUCKET, MASS. (Methodist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 225.

NEW BOSTON, N.H., III. 60 x 69, 30 posts. 5½ x 36 porch. Stone and brick. Mason: John Leach.

Cogswell, History of New Boston, 127.

NEWPORT, N.H. (Second Parish), I. Builder: John Leach. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 233.

NORTH BROOKFIELD, MASS. (Second Parish). Much like Mendon, Mass. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 226; Temple, History of North Brookfield, 277.

SOUTH BERWICK, MAINE. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

SWANTON, VT. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 239.

WEBSTER, N.H. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 234; Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 216.

1824

CALAIS, VT. Sinnott: transitional. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 239.

CARVER, MASS. (“Old Meeting House”). Cranberry barn in 1963. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

226.

CLARENDON, VT. Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 237.

DEERFIELD, MASS., IV. Brick. Architect: Winthrop Clapp. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 222;

Smith, Beacon Guide, 79.

Dorchester, Mass. (Canton), III. 46 x 34. Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 941.

HARVARD, MASS. (Congregational). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 224.

Hawley, Mass., II. History of the Connecticut Valley, 2:706.

JERICHO, VT., II. Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

106

MARBLEHEAD, MASS., III. Stone. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 225; Roads, History and

Traditions, 360.

Salem, Mass. (Independent Congregationalist). Emerson, Anniversary Sermon.

SHARON, CONN., III. Brick. Builder: Hiram Vail. Mason: William Watson. Finish carpenter: James

Jennings. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:189; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

215.

SOUTHWICK, MASS., III. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227.

STOCKBRIDGE, MASS., III. Brick with wood steeple. Builder: Ralph Bigelow. Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 227.

WEST TAUNTON, MASS. Small. Simple. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 229.

WINTHROP, MAINE (South Parish), III. 3 accidental deaths at raising. Thurston, Brief History of

Winthrop, 138.

1825

Attleborough, Mass. (Second Parish), II. Copied North Baptist meetinghouse, Providence. Daggett,

History of Attleborough, 264.

Barnstable, Mass. (Hyannis) (Baptist). Replaced “ancient Baptist meeting-house.” Freeman, History of

Cape Cod, 2:330.

BURKE HOLLOW, VT. (“Old Union”). Builder: Ira Armington, Seth Clark Jr. Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 237.

COHASSET, MASS. (Congregational). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

FRAMINGHAM, MASS. (Baptist). Architect: Solomon Willard, Boston. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 223.

HEBRON, CONN. (Anglican). “Rose colored” brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 213.

KINGSTON, N.H. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 232.

Nashua, N.H. (“Olive Street”). Fox, History of Dunstable, 201.

NEW PRESTON, CONN., III (“Old Congregational Church”). 54 x 44. Stone. Cothren, History of

Ancient Woodbury, 269; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

NORTH CORNWALL, CONN. 50 x 40. “steeple projecting 6 feet.” Builder: Hiram Vail. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:81; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

NORTH SANDWICH, N.H. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 233.

PETERBOROUGH, N.H. Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 233; Dawes, “The ‘Bulfinch’

Church of Peterborough.”

POLAND, MAINE (Congregational). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

107

PORTLAND, MAINE (Unitarian) (First Church). 102 x 66. Stone (granite). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 219. Smith, Beacon Guide, 47.

SOUTH BRITAIN, CONN., II. 50 x 40. Porch 7 ft. Builder: Hall and Winton. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:204; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 215.

SOUTH WINDHAM, VT. Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

STOCKBRIDGE, MASS. (Interlaken). Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 224.

WENTWORTH, N.H. Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 220–21.

Winthrop, Maine (Methodist). Thurston, Brief History, 126.

1826

AMESBURY, MASS. (Unitarian became Congregational). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 221.

AMHERST, MASS. (Johnson Chapel, Amherst College). Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 221.

ANDOVER, MASS. (West Parish) (Congregational). Stone (granite). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

221.

Antrim, N.H., II. Brick. Templeton style. Standing in 1880. Cochrane, History of Antrim, 183–84.

BELGRADE, MAINE (Baptist) (“Old South Church”). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217.

BELLINGHAM, MASS. (Baptist), II. “Three round-topped doors.” Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

221.

BERLIN, MASS., II. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 222.

CHESHIRE, CONN., III. Greek Revival. Portico. Hoadley type. Builder: Hall, Winton. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 104, 212; Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:86.

CHICOPEE, MASS. (Second, formerly Fifth Parish in Springfield), II. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 222.

DIGHTON, MASS. (Congregational). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

Farmington Falls, Maine (Union). Parker, History of Farmington, 56.

GILMANTON, N.H., II. Round-topped windows. Lancaster, History of Gilmanton, 196; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 231.

GILMANTON, N.H. (Iron Works Village). Lancaster, History of Gilmanton, 197; Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 231.

Greenville, R.I. (Baptist). Wright, History of the State of Rhode Island, 306–11.

KENNEBUNK, MAINE (Union). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 218.

KENT, CONN. (Anglican). Stone. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 213.

LEICESTER, VT. Design adopted from St. Albans, Vt. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

MANOMET, MASS. (Second Congregational Church of Plymouth). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

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225.

NEW LONDON, N.H. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 232.

NORTH AMHERST, MASS. Builder: Winthrop Clapp. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 225.

Plymouth, Mass. (Cole’s Hill) (Universalist). Gomes, “Churches of the Not-So-Standing Order,” 4.

PORTLAND, MAINE (“Abyssinian Meeting House”). Vacant since 1991. Maine Preservation,

“Abyssinian Meeting House, Portland,” www.mainepreservation.com/Endangered.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (“Old South”). 92 x 66. Granite. Architect: Alexander Parris. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 233. Smith, Beacon Guide, 124.

Russell, Mass., II (Baptist). Copeland, History of Hampden County, 3:430.

Salem, Mass. (Second Baptist Church). Emerson, Anniversary Sermon.

SCITUATE, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227.

SHUTESBURY, MASS., II. History of the Connecticut Valley, 1:762; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 227.

SOUTH HANSON, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227.

SOUTHWICK, MASS. (Methodist Episcopal). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227.

WATERVILLE, MAINE (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

WESTHAMPTON, MASS., III. Memorial of the Reunion, 80,

WOODSTOCK, VT. Brick. Now Masonic temple. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 239.

1827

ACTON CORNER, MAINE. Very plain. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217.

ASHFIELD, MASS. (Anglican). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 221.

ATHOL, MASS., II (“Old Meeting House”). “Like Templeton, N.H.” Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

221.

BRISTOL, N.H. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 230.

FRANKLIN, VT. Very plain. Had “horse block” in 1963. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

GREENE, MAINE (Universalist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 218.

GREENSBORO, VT. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

HARTFORD, CONN. (Second Parish), III. Brick. Builder: William Hayden. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 129, 213.

HAVERHILL, N.H. Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 231.

HOPKINGTON, N.H. (Anglican) (St. Andrew’s). Stone (granite). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

231.

HUBBARDSTON, MASS. (Evangelical). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 224; Stowe, History of

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Hubbardston, 128.

LOUDON, N.H., II. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 232.

MATTAPOISETT, MASS. (Quaker). Hipped roof changed to pitched roof. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 225.

MIDDLEBURY, VT. (Anglican). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

NASHUA, N.H. Attributed to Asher Benjamin. Doric columns. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 232.

Newmarket, N.H. (Freewill Baptist). Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 399.

Newmarket, N.H. (Methodist Episcopal). Hurd, History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties, 399.

OSSIPEE, N.H. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 233.

READFIELD, MAINE. Brick. Builder: Richard Mace, Jere Page, and Francis Hunt. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

TRURO, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 228.

VERNON, CONN., II. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 216; Brooke, History of Vernon, 15.

WEBSTER CORNER, MAINE. Architect: Sampson Colby. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

1828

Amherst, Mass., III. 80 x 65. Brick. Historical Review, First Church of Amherst; Carpenter, History of

Amherst, 205.

Arlington, Mass. (Baptist), II. Cutter and Cutter, History of Arlington, 176.

Athol, Mass., IV. Templeton type. Hurd, History of Worcester County, 2:1041.

ATTLEBOROUGH, MASS. (Second or East Parish), II. 2-story shallow portico. Tower. Daggett, History

of Attleborough, 264.

BENTON FALLS, MAINE. “last bell by the Revere family.” Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217.

BETHLEHEM, CONN. (Anglican). Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 212.

Brookfield, Mass. (Evangelical). Stone, Reminiscences, 32.

CHESTER, VT. Steeple copied Peterborough, N.H. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 237.

Dedham, Mass. (South Parish or Norwood). Hurd, History of Norfolk County, 71.

EAST LONGMEADOW, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

EDGARTOWN, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 223.

GUILFORD, CONN., III. 80 x 60. Wood. Projecting porch. Builder: Ira Atwater, Wilson Booth. Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:174; Steiner, History of Menunkatuck, 278.

HAMPTON FALLS, N.H. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 231.

HARTFORD, CONN. (Anglican), II. Stone. Gothic. Architect: Ithiel Town. Builder: James Chamberlain.

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 213.

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HARTFORD, VT. (Second Congregational Church). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

HOLDEN, MAINE. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 218.

HOPKINTON, N.H. (Anglican) (St. Andrew’s). Stone. Builder: John Leach. Smith, Beacon Guide, 72.

KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE (Second Congregational Church). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church,

218.

LANESBOROUGH, MASS. (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 224.

LEBANON, N.H. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 232.

MACHIASPORT, MAINE (Congregational). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 218.

MIDDLEBOROUGH, MASS., III. Sinnott: “Good example of Greek Revival.” Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 225.

Middletown, Conn. (Methodist), II. 75 x 55, 30 posts. Field, Centennial Address, 182.

MILLBURY, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 225.

NATICK, MASS. (Eliot Church). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 227.

NEW CASTLE, N.H. Builder: Thomas Foye. Finish carpenter: Andrew Venard. Sinnott, Meetinghouse

and Church, 232; N.H. Division of Historical Resources.

NEW HARTFORD, CONN. Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

NEWMARKET, N.H., III. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 233; Hurd, History of Rockingham and

Strafford Counties, 398.

NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 225.

NORTH READING, MASS. Church above, town hall below. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 226.

Otis, Mass. (Anglican) (St. Paul’s). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 226.

Providence, R.I. (Richmond Street), II. 75 x 65. Wood. Staples, Annals of Providence, 456.

QUINCY, MASS. (Braintree), IV. Stone. Architect: Alexander Parris. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 226.

SOMERSWORTH, N.H. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 233.

SOUTH ACTON, MAINE (Baptist). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 219.

SOUTHINGTON, CONN. Imitated Cheshire. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:220; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 215.

STONINGTON, CONN. (Road Church). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 215.

Worcester, Mass. (Unitarian), II. Architect-builder: Elias Carter. Forbes, “Elias Carter,” 61.

1829

ARLINGTON, VT. (Anglican). Stone. Gothic tower. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 237.

BILLERICA, MASS. (Congregational). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 222.

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Boston, Mass. (Baptist), III. Brick. Wood, History of First Baptist Church, 396.

CASTINE, MAINE (Congregational). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217.

COVENTRY, VT. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 237.

DEERING CENTER, N.H. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 230.

DIXFIELD, MAINE. No galleries. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217; Speare, Colonial Meeting-

Houses, 228.

DOVER, N.H. Brick. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 230.

EASTFORD, CONN., II. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 212.

Eastham, Mass., IV. Pratt, Comprehensive History of Eastham, Wellfleet, and Orleans, 97.

EASTPORT, MAINE (Congregational). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 217.

KINGSTON, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 224.

LITCHFIELD, CONN. 70 x 50. Like Cheshire and Southington. Greek Revival portico. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

LIVERMORE, MAINE (Norland Meeting House, “Devil’s Roosting Place”). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 218.

LYNDON, VT. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 238.

Middletown, Conn. (African Methodist Episcopal). 39 x 30. Field, Centennial Address, 183.

ORLEANS, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 226.

Perry, Maine. Maine Historical Magazine, 40.

RIVERTON, CONN. (Union). Stone. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 215.

South Kingstown, R.I. (Wakefield) (First Baptist). Moved across street 1852; converted to dwelling

house. Cole, History of Washington and Kent Counties, 596.

SUTTON, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 288.

TISBURY, MASS. (Christiantown Chapel). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 228.

WEST HAMPTON, MASS. Builder: Caleb Loud. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 229;

Massachusetts Historical Commission Reconnaissance Survey, Town Report, Goshen 1982, 7.

WESTMINSTER, VT. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 239.

1830

ANNISQUAM, MASS. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 221.

Ashford, Conn., III. Larned, History of Windham County, 2:526.

EAST GRANBY, CONN. (Congregational). Stone. Architect: Isaac Damon. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 213.

Lynn, Mass. (Third Methodist). Lewis, History of Lynn, 395.

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MERIDEN, CONN. (Congregational). Greek Revival portico. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 214.

PLYMPTON, MASS., IV. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 226.

Rutland, Mass. III. 77 x 48, 20 posts. Tower. Reed, History of Rutland, 67.

SIMSBURY, CONN., III. Architect: Isaac Damon [and Hayden] of Northampton. Kelly Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:186; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 215.

SOUTHOLD, L.I. (Mattatuck), II. Thompson, History of Long Island, 253.

TAUNTON, MASS. Stone. Gothic. Pinnacle at every corner. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 228.

TOWNSEND, MASS. Brick. Wooden steeple. Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 228.

WESTON, CONN. (Norfield Congregational Church). Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 216.

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Appendix C

Pinnacles, pyramids, and spires, 1651–1709

This information is gathered from New England town and parish records, indentures, contracts, invoices,

and contemporary images.

1651 Dedham, Mass., I. Raised 1638. 36 x 20, 12 posts. Daubed, thatched 1651: “[install] one pyramedy

at the south end and shingle the penthouse.” Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 50.

1652 Sudbury, Mass., II. Raised 1653. 40 x 24, 12 posts. “& pinacles both at each end & each gable wth a

clear story.” Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 49; Donnelly, “New England Pyramids,” 77.

1658 Roxbury, Mass., I. Raised 1632, repaired 1646, 1656. Gallery, plaster, turret “pinakle[s]” added

1658: “That some pinakle or other ornament be set upon each end of the howse.” Drake, Town of

Roxbury, 284; Thwing, History of the First Church in Roxbury, 5, 10–12.

1669 Boston, Mass. (Third Church), I. Raised 1669. 75 x 51. 3 porches. Cupola. Pinnacles seen on 1725

Burgis-Price view of Boston. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 50; Donnelly, “New England

Pyramids,” 77; Ayer, South Meeting-House, 4.

1672 Haddam, Conn., I. 28 x 24, 13 posts. Raised 1673. 8 windows. John Clark instructed to put up “tooe

pramedyes at each end” of the meetinghouse. Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 50, 126–27;

Donnelly, “New England Pyramids,” 76; Manual, First Congregational Church, Haddam, 4–6.

1682 New London, Conn., II. Raised 1697. 40 x 40, 20 posts. 4 gables. Turret. Galleries. Town voted to

“set up on all the four gables of the house, pyramides comely and fit for the work upon each end of the

house.” Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 50, 128; Donnelly, “New England Pyramids,” 76;

Caulkins, History of New London, 191.

1682 Simsbury, Conn., I. Raised 1683. 28 x 24, 14 posts. From an indenture with Thomas Barber: “put up

Flue Boards at each end, and piramides also.” Donnelly, New England Meeting Houses, 50, 128;

Donnelly, “New England Pyramids,” 76.

1694 Northampton, Mass., II. Raised 1661. Joseph Parson’s account for repair: “sawing two stocks for

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Preamady.” Trumbull, History of Northampton, 1:121.

1704 Hartford, Conn. (First Church), II. Raised 1638. Rev. William Davenport arranged “for setting up

the speer & vain” on the turret of the 1638 meetinghouse. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses,

1:194.

1705 Norwich, Conn., II. Raised 1673, enlarged 1689. Town voted “to mend the pyramid and to close the

leanto roofs where they joine to the bodie of the meetinghouse.” Donnelly, New England Meeting

Houses, 50, 127; Caulkins, Norwich, 126, 216; Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:110.

1709 Norwalk, Conn., I. Raised 1659. Samuel Keeler Jr. to build belfry, “and at ye top of ye turret a good

sufficient cedar stump to fix a weathercock on, if ye town see cause; or a pinnicle.” Hall, Ancient

Historical Records of Norwalk, 104.

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Appendix D

Enlargements of meetinghouses in New England by cutting the frame, 1723–1824

1723 Barnstable, Mass. (West Parish). 1719 meetinghouse enlarged by 2 bays. Trayser, Barnstable, 46.

1737 Newburyport, Mass. 1725 meetinghouse enlarged to 80 x 60. Atkinson, History of the First

Religious Society, 9.

1742 Rowley, Mass. (Second Parish, Georgetown). 1729 meetinghouse enlarged 13 ft. 4 in. Gage, History

of Rowley, 92.

1745 Scituate, Mass. 1707 meetinghouse enlarged 13 ft. Deane, History of Scituate, 39.

1750 (estimated date) Salem, Mass. (Middle Precinct, later Peabody). Meetinghouse enlarged twice by

Daniel Spofford, first crosswise, later lengthwise. Spofford, Genealogical Record, 470.

1754 Duxbury, Mass. 1706 meetinghouse enlarged 15 or 17 ft. Old Records of the Town of Duxbury, 318.

1756 Barnstable, Mass. (Second or East Parish). 1719 meetinghouse enlarged 15 ft. by cutting; belfry

added. Trayser, Barnstable, 57.

1756 Sandwich, Mass. 1703 meetinghouse divided in center and lengthened 15 ft. Freeman, History of

Cape Cod, 2:104; Lovell, Sandwich, chap. 17; Notes on the History of the First Parish Church, Sandwich,

5.

1759 Falmouth, Maine. 1740 meetinghouse (Old Jerusalem) enlarged by sawing “through on both sides

of the pulpit and each end was moved from the pulpit twelve feet,” creating 28 new pews on lower floor.

Goold, Portland in the Past, 289.

1761 Yarmouth, Mass. (Second or East Parish, Dennis). 1721 meetinghouse enlarged. Freeman, History

of Cape Cod, 2:219.

1762 North Yarmouth, Maine. 1727 meetinghouse, 50 x 40, cut in the middle and the western half moved

40 ft. to create a building 45 x 94. One source says 28 ft. 28 pews added. Mason, “Old Meeting-House of

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North Yarmouth,” 176; Clayton, History of Cumberland Co., 412.

1764 Hanover, Mass. (Central Meeting House). Town voted to open its 1728 meetinghouse “in two parts

and put in a new piece in the middle 13 feet or 15 feet in length”; subsequently voted for a new

meetinghouse, 62 x 43, 22 posts. Briggs, Church and Cemetery Records, 8.

1765 Truro, Mass. 1720 meetinghouse enlarged and repaired. Rich, Truro, 148.

1768 Plympton, Mass. (Second or South Parish or Carver). Town voted “to cut the [1732] meeting house

in two in the middle of the broad alley and put in fifteen feet.” South Plympton Precinct Book, 92.

1768 West Tisbury, Mass. Town voted to cut the 1733 meetinghouse in the middle and enlarge it by 15

ft., and enlarge it an additional 2 ft. on the back. Banks, History of Martha’s Vineyard, 2:87.

1768 Yarmouth, Mass. 1716 meetinghouse enlarged 15 ft. Swift, History of Old Yarmouth, 148.

1769 Killingly, Conn. (Second, North, or Thompson Parish). 1729 meetinghouse cut into two parts and

enlarged 14 ft. Manual of the Congregational Church at Thompson, 13..

1769 Sherburne, Mass. 1723 meetinghouse enlarged by 20 ft.; town voted “that the Peace be put in the

middle.” Another description: “this was done by sawing the house in two in the middle, moving the

western half to the distance desired, and connecting the two parts together by a new piece.” Biglow,

History of Sherburne, 43; Drake, History of Middlesex County, 2:292.

1770 Salem, Mass. (Second or East Parish). 1717 meetinghouse enlarged by inserting 14 ft. in the center.

Hurd, History of Essex County, 1:42.

1772 Westborough, Mass. Town voted to expand its 1749 meetinghouse and look at examples of cutting

and filling in to make enlargements. Voted in 1774 to “split the meeting house & put in 14 feet.” Bates,

History of Westborough, 133, 154–55.

1772 Woburn, Mass. Town voted to “open the [1748] Meeting House in said Parish, and move to the

West eighteen feet & a half; and move the Pulpit to the middle of the House on the North Side.” Sewall,

History of Woburn, 341.

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1773 Chatham, Mass. 1730 meetinghouse enlarged “east and west” by the addition of 17 ft. and a 9 x 10

porch. Smith, History of Chatham, 333.

1775 Watertown, Mass. 1723 meetinghouse enlarged (before 1775) by extending the pulpit side about 18

ft., adding 16 pews and creating a structure like a lean-to on the pulpit side. Robinson and Wheeler, Great

Little Watertown, opp. 66.

1781 Cummington, Mass. Meetinghouse moved and enlarged (after 1781) by the addition of a section in

the middle. Gay, Gazetteer of Hampshire County, 229.

1782 Lynnfield, Mass. Town voted to enlarge its 1715 meetinghouse by cutting it into two pieces and

adding 14 ft. Bentley, Diary, says in 1813 that it was enlarged. MacKenzie, “First Parish Meetinghouse,”

105; Bentley, Diary, 24 May 1813, 4:171.

1787 Holliston, Mass. Town voted to add 14 ft. to the center of its 1725 meetinghouse, increasing it from

40 x 32 to 54 x 30. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 1:470–71; Hurd, History of Middlesex County,

3:439.

1792 Mendon, Mass. (Second or East, Milford). Town added 14 ft. to its 1741 meetinghouse. Ballou,

History of Milford, 94.

1795 Dorchester, Mass. 1743 meetinghouse enlarged “by first dividing it along the ridge pole, and

moving off one half 14 ft., and then building an addition in the middle; after which the tower and steeple

were moved, standing, seven feet, to bring it to the center of the end.” Harris, Valedictory Sermon, 29.

1796 Harwich, Mass. 1723 meetinghouse enlarged by opening the frame to new dimensions 72 x 45.

Paine, History of Harwich, 157.

1801 Newburyport, Mass. 1756 Presbyterian meetinghouse was “cut open with the purpose of enlarging

it. It was open exactly in front of the front gallery.” Bentley, Diary, 12 September 1801, 2:387.

1804 Sandwich, Mass. 1703 meetinghouse enlarged 15 ft. a second time, this time in width. Another

source says: “deepened by another 12½ feet, through moving the entire north wall with pulpit and pews

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that much father north. The front roof and ridge from the belltower remained in place, so that the back

roof slope became flatter.” Notes on the History of the First Parish Church, Sandwich, 5; Lovell,

Sandwich, chap. 17.

1824 Londonderry, N.H. (East Parish). 1769 meetinghouse enlarged by “cutting it through the middle,

moving the eastern end 24 feet, and finishing between the posts.” Hurd, History of Rockingham and

Strafford Counties, 177; Speare, Colonial Meeting-Houses, 103.

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Appendix E

Citations of exterior painting, 1678–1828

When the color vote, application, or purchase is unknown, the meetinghouse date is indicated with an

asterisk (*).

Abington, Mass. 1764. “Colored” white; paint analysis: sandstone or light yellow on the corner boards,

doors a rich green. Hill, “Meeting House at Abington,” 47.

Alstead, N.H. 1794. Painted red ochre (copied by Washington, N.H.) Jager and Krone, “. . . A Sacred

Deposit,” 55.

Amesbury, Mass. 1788. “The West Parish meeting house . . . was painted this year, and it required 33 2-3

bushels of flax seed to make the ‘oyl.’” Merrill, History of Amesbury, 304.

Arlington, Mass. 1795. “paint the outside . . . the same color as Mr. Thomas Russells.” Cutter and Cutter,

History of Arlington, 108.

Arlington, Mass. 1805. “painted white.” Hurd, History of Middlesex County, 183.

Ashburnham, Mass. 1798. Voted that “the color should be pea green”: reconsidered earlier vote and

decided on “white.” Stearns, History of Ashburnham, 296.

Barnstable, Mass. (Baptist). 1788.* “a great porch all painted red.” Trayser, Barnstable, 66.

Barnstead Parade, N.H. 1799. “The body . . . was painted yellow; the roof red.” Adams, History of

Barnstead from Its First Settlement, 52.

Bedford, Mass. 1780. “covered with a coating of ‘Bedford Yellow,’ a sort of mineral paint found in the

town”; beginning of the nineteenth century described as being “dark, dirty yellow.” Brown,

History of the Town of Bedford, 13, 54. Described in 1868 by Rev. William A. Stearns as “dark,

dirty yellow” when he recalled the meetinghouse at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Bedford, N.H. 1762. “finished mixing 40 pounds of paint for the Meeting house.” Patten, Diary, 12

October 1762 (116).

Berlin, Mass. 1794. Committee report: “65 gallons linseed oil . . . two barrals fish oil . . . 500 ½ white

lead . . . Verdigrea 6 ½ lb. . . . 5 hundred Spanish brown . . .” Report of the building committee,

Berlin, Mass., 19 November 1794, Berlin Historical Commission, Berlin, Mass.

Bernardston, Mass. 1793. “painted of a light colour, and very agreeable.” Bentley, Diary, 19 August 1793

(2:55).

Bernardston, Mass. 1794. “colored yellow.” Kellogg, History of Bernardston, 123.

Bethany, Conn. 1774. “that the meetinghouse be colored blue, and the windows white”; shortly thereafter

vote changed to “white.” Sharpe, Bethany Sketches and Records, 7.

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Bluehill, Maine. 1793. “that the body of the meeting house be painted a yellow stone color and the roof to

be painted with oil, turpentine and Spanish brown.” Candage, Historical Sketches of Bluehill, 44.

Boston, Mass. (First Church). 1714. Edward Pell paid “for painting ye Brick meeting house.” Cummings,

“Decorative Painters and House Painting,” 113.

Boston, Mass. (First Church). 1801. Brick sides light stone color in James Brown Marston’s painting

State Street. Oil on canvas, 37 ½ x 51 in. Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society,

Boston, Mass.

Boxborough, Mass. 1784. “get the outside of the meeting-house painted.” Hager, Boxborough, 40.

Boxford, Mass. 1736. “newly painted of an olive color.” Perley, History of Boxford, 91−93.

Boxford, Mass. Circa 1800. Painted “stone-color.” Perley, History of Boxford, 262−63.

Bradford, Mass. (East Parish). 1822. Moved “to have the meeting-house painted twice over with good

white lead and linseed oil with colouring so as to make it a handsome stone colour. The windows

and frames to be white.” Transcription of records of the East Parish in Bradford, Mass. 123.

Special Collections, Haverhill Public Library, Haverhill, Mass., kindly provided by Gregory H.

Laing.

Braintree, Mass. (Randolph). 1796. “Voted, to build two porches to the meeting-house . . . both to be

finished off and painted handsomely.” Proceedings of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary

of the First Congregational Church, Randolph, 75.

Branford, Conn. 1797. “painted, or whitewashed, both inside and out, and the roof . . . coated ‘with

Spanish Brown laid on with Linseed oil.’” Simonds, History of the First Church and Society of

Branford, 121.

Branford, Conn. 1812. “painted white.” Simonds, History of the First Church and Society of Branford,

132.

Bridgewater, Mass. (North Parish). 1788. “Window frames and sashes be painted white.” Kingman,

History of North Bridgewater, 95.

Bridgewater, Mass. (South Parish). 1773. “paint the outside . . . as much as has been painted before.”

Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 776.

Bridgewater, Mass. (South Parish). 1802. “white, one shade on the yellow.” Hurd, History of Plymouth

County, 567.

Brimfield, Mass. 1761. “to color the outside of the meeting-house.” Hyde, Historical Celebration of the

Town of Brimfield, 121.

Bristol, Conn. 1770. Body “spruce yellow”; “Dores and windows . . . white”; roof, Spanish Brown.” Peck,

History of Bristol, 54.

Brookfield, Conn. 1769. “oyl and culler the windows and doors, and corner-boards.” Hurd, History of

121

Fairfield County, 171.

Brookfield, Mass. (Second or North Parish). 1756. “voted to color the clapboards of same.” Temple,

History of North Brookfield, 251.

Brooklyn, Conn. 1762. “bright orange,” doors chocolate, with white. Earle, Sabbath in Puritan New

England, 15.

Brooklyn, Conn. 1771. Meetinghouse to be “colored white.” Earle, Sabbath in Puritan New England,

1:39.

Brooklyn, Conn. 1788. Voted in September $100 “to be paid in Flaxseed or any other Material proper for

Painting & Repairing the Meeting-house”; voted in November to paint the exterior “of a light

Stone colour.” Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:40.

Brunswick, Maine (Baptist). 1795.* Called “Old Yellow Meeting House.” Wheeler, History of Brunswick,

Topsham, and Harpswell, 656.

Burrillville, R.I. (Quaker). 1791* “only a modest brown coat upon the exterior.” Keach, Burrillville As It

Was and As It Is, 107.

Camden, Maine. 1799.* “The outside was clap-boarded and painted yellow.” Locke, Sketches of the

History of Camden, 78.

Canaan, N.H. 1792. “painting of the outside exactly like the lower meeting house in Salisbury.” Wallace,

History of Canaan, 146.

Canaan, N.H. 1794. “that the sides and wall of the house be colored a stone couler, the roof Spanish

Brown, and the doors a sky blue.” Wallace, History of Canaan, 149.

Canaan, N.H. 1812. Meetinghouse painted with “white lead and a Red Rough.” Wallace, History of

Canaan, 150.

Candia, N.H. 1795. “house was clapboarded, [and] painted white.” Fitts, Historical Discourse,

Congregational Church in Candia, 9−10.

Canton, Conn. 1763. Voted “to coller the Meeting house.” Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:70.

Carlisle, Mass. 1811.* “The body a light straw color with white trimmings; the roof painted a chocolate

color, and the doors imitation mahogany.” Bull, History of Carlisle, 158.

Centerbrook, Conn. 1797. Voted “to coulour the Meeting House.” Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 76.

Charlestown, N.H. (North Parish). 1801. Meetinghouse painted “tawdry” yellow. Saunderson, History of

Charlestown, 257.

Charlestown, N.H. (North Parish). 1825. Tax bill: $125 paid for painting the meetinghouse. Saunderson,

History of Charlestown, 268.

Chatham, Mass. 1773. “To paint . . . the frunt and the two Gable Ends . . . a Stone Couler and the Porch,

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back side and all over the Roofe with Spanish Brown.” Smith, History of Chatham, 333.

Chelmsford, Mass. 1793. Bentley describes meetinghouse as “painted well without.” Bentley, Diary, 19

August 1793 (2:40).

Claremont, N.H. (Union Episcopal Church). 1801. “Gorgeous in its yellow paint.” Quotation taken from

Saunderson, History of Charlestown, 257; National Register Nomination Information,

crjc.org/heritage.

Claremont, N.H. 1826. Voted $200 for repairing and painting the meetinghouse. Spofford, The Old

Meeting House, Claremont, New Hampshire, 1792−1895, 8 pages, transcribed by K. Torp,

Genealogytrails.com.

Cohassett, Mass. Circa 1812. Ink and watercolor mourning picture depicts green meetinghouse with white

trim. Benes and Zimmerman, New England Meeting House and Church, 23, 126.

Colrain, Mass. 1764. Voted “to colour the meeting house . . . Blew.” McClellan, Early Settlers of Colrain,

39.

Columbia, Conn. (Second Parish in Lebanon or Lebanon Crank). 1753. “Collour the Meeting House sky

collour.” One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Organization of the Congregational

Church in Columbia, 35.

Concord, Mass. Before 1842. Nineteenth-century model and architectural drawing of meetinghouse

colored yellow. Benes and Zimmerman, New England Meeting House and Church, 114, 135.

Cummington, Mass. 1806. “voted to paint the meeting house anew, and to paint it white.” History of the

Connecticut Valley, 447.

Danvers, Mass. 1803. “yellow stone color, with the ‘cornices, weather boards, window frames and sashes’

white.” Rice, First Parish at Salem Village, 93.

Deerfield, Mass. 1769. “Body Dark stone Colour, ye Window frames white; ye Doors a Chocolate.”

Sheldon, History of Deerfield, 1:476.

Deerfield, Mass. 1791. £40 “raised to paint the house”; “remembered by the old folks as being yellow,

when taken down in 1824.” Sheldon, History of Deerfield, 1:477.

Douglas, Mass. 1793. Voted to have meetinghouse “colored.” Emerson, History of the Town of Douglas,

63.

Dracut, Mass. (Second Parish or Lowell). 1794.* Known in nineteenth century as the “Old Yellow

Meeting House”; yellow in 1963. Coburn, History of Dracut, 206; Sinnott, Meetinghouse and

Church, 223.

Dudley, Mass. 1768. Warrant “to See if the Town will agree to Cholour the body of our meeting house”;

“Voted to Cholour our meeting house with an orange Cholour.” Dudley Town Records, 112−13.

Dunbarton, N.H. 1789. “The outside of said house to be painted with a good stone color.” Stark, History

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of Dunbarton, 156.

Durham, N.H. 1792.* Plastered belfry arch “painted a sky color interspersed with scattered clouds.”

Stackpole and Thompson, History of Durham, 201.

East Hampton, L.I. 1801. Subscription circulated to paint the meetinghouse “light Red or Peach Bloe.”

Goodwin, East Hartford, 130.

East Hartford, Conn. 1754. Meetinghouse “colored.” Goodwin, East Hartford, 130.

East Haven, Conn. 1748. “to Cullor the meating house claboards wit sume Cullor sutable for the house of

God.” Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:138.

East Plymouth, Conn. (St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church). 1791? “an original coat of red” under the

present white. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:xlvii.

Enfield, Mass. 1787.* Painted “a dingy sulphur color.” Underwood, Quabbin: Story of a Small Town, 7.

Exeter, N.H. 1762. “that it be painted according to custom.” Bell, History of Exeter, 188.

Framingham, Mass. 1772. Meetinghouse built 1735, not painted until 1772. Hurd, History of Middlesex

County, 616.

Gardner, Mass. Circa 1788. “That the color, for the meeting-house, the ground work, to be a stone color

the window frames and sashes, and weather-boards and girt, be white, the doors green.” Herrick,

History of Gardner, 476.

Gilead, Conn. (Second Parish or Hebron). 1749. Society voted to paint the meetinghouse “sky color.”

Mack, Historical Sketch of the Congregational Church in Gilead, 10.

Gilsum, N.H. 1791. Outside to be “a Bright Orring, Only the doors . . . Stone Gray the gets and Cornishes

and windows . . . white.” Hayward, Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebration, 19.

Goshen, Conn. 1770. “voted that the committee paint the body of the [meeting]house white, also paint the

roof.” Records of the Meetings of the First Ecclesiastical Society of Goshen, in Goshen Town

Records, 1:183. Transcribed by Lewis Mills Norton, Goshen Town Hall, Goshen, Conn.

Goshen, Conn. 1771. “voted that the body of the new meeting house be made a spruce yellow.” Records

of the Meetings of the First Ecclesiastical Society of Goshen, in Goshen Town Records, 1:184.

Greenfield, N.H. 1795. Painted white; roof “Spanish Brown darkt by lamp black.” Hopkins, Greenfield,

22.

Griswold, Conn. 1767.* Meetinghouse colored; hamlet later known as “Blue Pachaug.” Phillips,

Griswold: A History, 58.

Groton, Mass. Circa 1800. Meetinghouse described in the beginning of the nineteenth century as “straw,

trimmed with white”; traces of yellow paint under more recent white found on the late-eighteenth

century steeple finial from the 1755 meetinghouse. Quotation from Drake, History of Middlesex

County, 1:464; Benes and Zimmerman, New England Meeting House and Church, 133.

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Guilford, Conn. 1787. Permission given “to any person or persons to color the walls of the meeting house

& steeple white provided they will do it on their own cost.” Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 1:173.

Hadley, Mass. 1753. “cover the body of the meeting-house with quarter-boards and color it.” Judd,

History of Hadley, 314.

Hadley, Mass. 1771. “vote in March, 1771, to color the meeting-house. . . . It was colored.” Judd, History

of Hadley, 314.

Hampton, Conn. 1768. “to color the same [meetinghouse] something like the color of Pomfret meeting

house.” Bayles, History of Windham County, 384.

Hampton, Conn. 1805. Meetinghouse to be painted “on the roof and back side red, the foreside & ends

Stone yellow, the window frames white, the door & bottom boards of a chocolate color.” Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:188.

Hancock, N.H. 1793. “The groundwork on the outside to be white, and the roof to be Spanish brown.”

Hayward, History of Hancock, 135.

Hancock, N.H. 1806. Voted to paint the meetinghouse “white.” Hayward, History of Hancock, 135.

Hancock, N.H. 1807. Vote changed to “straw color.” Hayward, History of Hancock, 135.

Hanover, Mass. 1789. Voted to paint the meetinghouse “stone yellow, the roof spanish brown, and the

corner boards and window frames and sashes white.” Barry, Historical Sketch of the Town of

Hanover, 68.

Hanover, N.H. 1794. “the whole of the outside . . . to be painted [as] in well finished meeting houses.”

Chase, History of Dartmouth College and the Town of Hanover, 2:10.

Hanover, N.H. 1795. Roof of steeple “slate color”; steeple underside “white with light tinge of blue.”

Chase, History of Dartmouth College and the Town of Hanover, 2:11.

Harvard, Mass. 1793. “The Meeting House . . . lately painted white makes a pleasing object.” Bentley,

Diary, 14 July 1793 (2:149).

Harwich, Mass. (Second or South Parish). 1792. New meetinghouse to be painted “above the jets red”;

“foreside porch, the two ends with yellow oker”; back side “red as the roof”; “the jets, corner

boards, weather boards, window frames, door casings, and window sashes with white lead”;

“ground boards and doors . . . of a chocolate color.” Paine, History of Harwich, 251.

Hatfield, Mass. 1793. “entered Hatfield, whose M. House benefitted by changing a red paint for a more

ornamental.” Bentley, Diary, 19 August 1793 (2:56).

Haverhill, Mass. 1790. “Congregational Church is painted white.” Bentley, Diary, 22 September 1790

(1:198).

Hawley, Mass. 1798. “to raise fifty pounds to paint the meeting house”; “painted yellow.” Johnson,

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History of the Town of Hawley, 10.

Hingham, Mass. 1682. Joshua Lincoln paid for “collering the casements and other wood-work.”

Selectmen of Hingham, Book of Records, 22 August 1682, 2:93. Information courtesy of Robert

B. St. George. Marble, “The Old Ship,” unpaginated. See also Coolidge, “Hingham Builds a

Meetinghouse,” 447n4.

Hollis, N.H. Circa 1804. Meetinghouse remembered as “painted white” when first finished. Worcester,

History of Hollis, 24.

Holliston, Mass. 1787. “outside [of the meetinghouse] to be an orange color.” Hurd, History of Middlesex

County, 439.

Hopkinton, Mass. 1773. 1725 meetinghouse painted for the first time in 1773. Hurd, History of Middlesex

County, 794.

Huntington, Conn. 1783. (St. Paul’s Church). “voted to pay Andrew Shelton ‘four shillings a Day for . . .

Colloring the Church.’” Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:237.

Ipswich, Mass. 1755. Thomas Lawlor paid for “priming painting & Gilden the Inside Doars & Casing of

the outside of the first parrish . . . 52 ½ lb of White & Stone Collor . . . 1 Gallon ½ of Boyld oyl . .

.1 quart & a pint [boiled oil] . . . 1 Do. [quart and a pint] Turpentine . . . 6 ½ lb of Chocolate . . . 3

pints of Boyld Oyl turpentine.” Thomas Lawlor account, 19 September 1755, First Church in

Ipswich and Ipswich Museum.

Ipswich, Mass. 1763. “steeple and house painted with white lead and oil.” Waters, Ipswich in the

Massachusetts Bay Colony, 2:441.

Ipswich, Mass. 1764. “Dummer Jewett . . . provided white lead and oil for painting the meeting house of

the First Parish in July.” Waters, Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 2:265.

Jaffrey, N.H. 1774. “the outside . . . Collored like Rindge meeting-house.” Hurd, History of Cheshire

County, 225.

Jaffrey, N.H. 1796. “painted with a light stone color,” “White lead,” paid for kettles and firewood.

Lehtinen and Lehtinen, History of Jaffrey, 192−94.

Keene, N.H. 1786.* “painted white, or light yellow, with green doors.” Proper, History of the First

Congregational Church, 40.

Kensington, Conn. 1789. “To paint the meeting house, the body thereof and the roof”; remembered as

“dull yellow.” Two Hundredth Anniversary, Kensington Congregational Church, 47.

Kensington, N.H. 1823. Meetinghouse depicted in surveyor’s drawing as yellow with bright orange doors

and Spanish brown roof. Benes, New England Prospect: A Loan Exhibition, 69.

Kent, Conn. 1773. “voted that we will color the new meeting house a dark green colour.” Congregational

Church Records of Kent, vol. 5, 1741−1915, 20 December 1772, Connecticut State Library.

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Information courtesy of Russell B. Handsman, 6 July 1979.

Kent, Conn. 1790. “voted to new paint the meeting house . . . with white lead and spanish white.”

Congregational Church Records of Kent, vol. 5, 1741−1915, 16 December 1790. Information

courtesy of Russell G. Handsman, 6 July 1979.

Killingly, Conn. (Second, North, or Thompson Parish). 1769. “that the cullering of the body of our

meeting house shall be like Pomfret, and the Roff shall be cullured Read.” Larned, History of

Windham County, 2:81.

Killingworth, Conn. Circa. 1770. Meetinghouse painted “peach-blossom color.” Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 1:249, citing William Miller, Historical Discourse of the Congregational Church

in Killingworth, Conn., 1870.

Lebanon, Conn. 1758. “to new Clapboard the west end of sd House . . . & To Collour the same with the

Colour of the Tower.” Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:265.

Leominster, Mass. 1753. “to finish the outside of the meeting-house and to color it.” Stebbins, Centennial

Discourse, Leominster, 19.

Lexington, Mass. 1794. To decide “whether it should be painted ‘pea-green’ or some other color.”

Hudson, History of the Town of Lexington, 1:251−52.

Lexington, Mass. 1795. “The former House had two galleries, without a steeple & was painted yellow.

The present House is ornamented with a Steeple, & is painted green. . . . The Sashes & Corners of

the House are painted white.” Bentley, Diary, 14 July 1795 (2:147).

Litchfield, Conn. 1772. Tax levied for “colouring the house.” Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses,

1:278.

Litchfield, Conn. 1790. “to paint the meeting house and the roof if the Comte think it proper.” Kelly,

Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:278.

Littleton, N.H. 1815. Meetinghouse received a “coat of white paint.” Jackson, History of Littleton, 1:236.

Lyme, Conn. 1817? Meetinghouse to be painted “with a bright straw color or white.” Buggeln, Temples of

Grace, 259n17.

Madison, Conn. 1742. “to collour our new meeting-house a lead collour.” Gallup, Historical Discourse

Congregational Church, Madison, 24.

Malden, Mass. 1728. Contract with Aaron Cleveland “to colour the outside said House as followeth with

a lead colour. Viz., the Steeple and Galleries and all the Mundillions and the fatheers Weather

Boards and Window frames with the cases Troughs & Trunks with the Shells over each Door all

the above mentioned particulars to be of a lead colour.” Watkins, “Malden’s Old Meetinghouses,”

39.

Manchester, Conn. (Orford Parish). Before 1794. “Voted, . . . the red paint covered on the front side of

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said house.” Trumbull, Memorial History of Hartford County, 260.

Mansfield, Mass. 1788. “voted to build and sell four pews in meeting-house, and with the proceeds to

paint the house.” Hurd, History of Bristol County, 440.

Marblehead, Mass. Well after 1715. “Externally the church was painted of a clapboard color.”

Bicentennial of the First Congregational Church, Marblehead, 54.

Marlborough, Conn. 1789. “outside doors were painted.” Hall, Report of the Celebration, 18.

Marlborough, Conn. After 1794. Meetinghouse painted “on the outside.” Hall, Report of the Celebration,

18.

Mason, N.H. Circa 1795. “the outside . . . painted, the color having a slight tinge of yellow, making a

straw color.” Hill, History of Mason, 128.

Mendon, Mass. (Second Parish). 1748. Voted to “color the Meeting House doors, window frames,

weather boards, corner boards eve troughs and the two bottom boards.” Ballou, History of

Millford, 70.

Middletown, Vt. 1796. “The body of the house shall be painted white, and the roof red.” Frisbie, History

of Middletown, 92.

Milford, Conn. After 1728. “large, two-galleried blue church” referred to in the genealogy of Martha

Beard. Beard, Genealogy of the Descendants, 9.

Milton Green, Conn. (Litchfield Third Society). 1795.* Painted yellow, called “Old Yaller.” Mitchell,

History of the United Church of New Haven, 125; miltonchurch.wordpress.com/history.

Monroe, N.H. Circa 1800. “yellow coat of paint”; called “Old Yellow.” Johnson, History of Monroe, 211.

Montague, Mass. 1793. “to Cullor the meeting-house the same of Sunderland.” History of the Connecticut

Valley, 2:637.

Morris, Conn. 1785. “New meeting house shall be painted white leaving colour of door to discretion of

workman.” Records of the Society, Congregational Church of Morris, Conn., vol. 2, 1783−1816,

6 October 1785, 23, Connecticut State Library. Information courtesy of Russell G. Handsman, 6

July 1979.

Morris, Conn. 1794. “voted to paint the meeting house white.” Records of the Society, Congregational

Church of Morris, Conn., vol. 2, 1783−1816, 15 December 1794, 62. Courtesy of Russell G.

Handsman, 6 July 1979.

Natick, Mass. 1799. Remembered in 1856 as “two stories high and painted yellow.” Bacon, History of

Natick, 109.

New Braintree, Mass. After 1772. “The [meeting] house was colored a dingy yellow.” Account of the

Observance, 27.

New Britain, Conn. 1755. “Whether they would culler the Meeting House, viz: the Windows and

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coverings and Doors, &c. Voted in ye affirmative, Mr. Joseph Clark was chosen to procuer

colering stuff and culler the Meeting house, agreeable to vote above.” Camp, History of New

Britain, 127.

New Britain, Conn. 1756. Account from Joseph Clark for “three Galons of Linset Oyle & for 24 pounds

White Lead & 2 p’d of Spanish White & for 2 pounds of Spanish Brown.” Camp, History of New

Britain, 129.

New Britain, Conn. 1785. “Coller the same [meetinghouse] with a Fashenable Collor.” Camp, History of

New Britain, 146.

Newburyport, Mass. (First Society). 1820. Account for “two coats of stone color paint.” Bills for painting

the church were found “some years ago [previous to 1933] in the copper ball on top of the spire.”

Atkinson, History of the First Religious Society in Newburyport, 78.

New Haven, Conn. (White Haven Society). 1761. “This Society being Senceable yt ye meeting house

wants Colouring . . . if there be money Subscribed Sufficient . . . that ye Same be paid to the

Society Comtt to be by them Laid out for the purposes aforesd.” Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:33.

New Haven, Conn. (White Haven Society). Circa 1762. “completed in 1748 and painted an azure blue.”

Blake, Chronicles of New Haven Green, 93−94.

New Haven, Conn. (White Haven Society). After 1764. Called the “Blue Meeting-house.” Abel Stiles to

Ezra Stiles, 18 February 1764, “There is a great whistness & silence among ym, of ye blue house

sine ye ordination.” Cited in Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:34n6.

New Ipswich, N.H. 1812.* “originally painted cream-color . . . when . . . necessary to apply a new coat,

the dirty and dismal coating of yellow ochre was put upon it. . . . It has now stood thirty-eight

years.” Gould and Kidder, History of New Ipswich, 162.

New London, Conn. 1788. “Paint the Outside and inside twice over with such colours as the Society shall

direct.” Blake, Later History of the First Church of Christ, New London, 217.

New Preston, Conn. 1771. “that we couller ye Meeting House on ye oute Side with White Lead and

Oyle.” Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:xlvii.

Newtown, Conn. 1762. “And ye society voted to go on and finish ye steeple and culler ye house . . .

according to ye proposal.” Johnson, Newtown’s History, 37.

Newtown, Conn. 1781. Committee “to procure flax seed to exchange for oil to paint the meeting house”;

“new painting of ye outside of ye same [meetinghouse].” Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:62; new painting: Johnson, Newtown’s History, 38.

Newtown, Conn. 1781? “that the Meeting House should be colored tan with cornice, pilasters, windows

and door frames dark brown.” Two Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary Year, 1714−1964, Newtown,

129

Conn., Congregational Church, 45.

Norfolk, Conn. 1761. “received the coat of peach blow pink paint.” Potter, Church of Christ

Congregational, Norfolk, 13.

Norfolk, Conn. Circa 1770. “painted . . . with what was called a peach-blow color.” Roys, History of the

Town of Norfolk, 11.

Norfolk, Conn. 1793. Meetinghouse “painted white.” Potter, Church of Christ Congregational, Norfolk,

13.

Northampton, Mass. 1788. Voted to paint the meetinghouse; estimate of expenses to paint the

meetinghouse: “140 gall. oil . . . 700 lbs white lead . . . 200 lbs. spruce yellow . . . 6 bb.

lampblack. . . .” First Parish, Northampton Historical Sketch, 14.

Northborough, Mass. After 1744. Secondhand report: “painted a dingy yellow.” History of Worcester

County, 2:130.

North Branford, Conn. (Zion Episcopal Church). 1827. “that a subscription paper be circulated through

the Parish for the purpose of raising money to paint the Church.”

North Branford, Conn. (Zion Episcopal Church). 1828. “Paid for 75 lbs. white lead & 5 gal. oil,” “Paid

for 40 lbs. of spanish white . . . for 2 books of gold leaf.” Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 2:76.

North Brookfield, Mass. 1756. “to color the clapboards of the same [meetinghouse].” Temple, History of

North Brookfield, 251.

Northfield, Mass. 1788. Farmers’ surplus flax seed exchanged in Boston for paint and oil. Temple and

Sheldon, History of Northfield, 316.

Northfield, Mass. 1789. Meetinghouse “colored in the summer.” Sheldon, History of Northfield, 316.

Norwalk, Conn. 1771. “to colour ye sd house.” Hall, Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, 162.

Norwich, Conn. 1752. Entries in treasurer’s accounts for “pigments, such as white lead, Spanish white,

‘lamblack’ and ‘yellow oaker.’” Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:112.

Oxford, Mass. 1792. “met Nov. 8, 1792, for the purpose of painting the meeting-house.” Daniels, History

of Oxford, 87.

Oxford, Mass. 1825. “traces of a coat of yellow paint.” Daniels, History of Oxford, 87.

Pelham, Mass. 1741. Contract with Thomas and John Dick “to Paint ye Windows, Doors wether boords

Trouses & Corness with Askie Coler.” Contract, Special Collections, W. E. B. DuBois Library,

University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Pepperell, Mass. 1769.* Called “a plain yellow building with belfry and two porches.” Hurd, History of

Middlesex County, 223.

Petersham, Mass. 1738. Thomas Dick paid “for coloring the meeting-house.” Wilson, Address Delivered

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in Petersham, 26.

Pomfret, Conn. 1762. “voted that the new meeting-house should be colored on the outside of an orange

color—the doors and bottom boards of a chocolate color—windows, jets, corner boards and

weather boards, colored white.” One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary, First Church in Pomfret,

43−44.

Pomfret, Conn. 1773. “Voted to new color the meeting house.” One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary, First

Church in Pomfret, 44−45.

Princeton, Mass. 1770. “to paint the meeting house, provided Mr. Moses Gill finds paint.” Hanaford,

History of Princeton, 86.

Providence, R.I. (First Baptist Church). 1774 “paint the roof with Tar & Spannish Brown.” Isham,

Meetinghouse of the First Baptist Church, 26.

Reading, Mass. (Wakefield). 1768. Voted “not to paint the clapboards, or do the roof with rosin, tar, and

pitch.” Hamilton, Commemorative Address Wakefield, 28.

Rehoboth, Mass.(Second Parish). 1773.* Called the “Yellow Meeting House.” Tilton, History of

Rehoboth, 175, 175n2.

Rindge, N.H. 1773. “voted to cover the wooden shingles of their meeting house roof with pitch and

sand.” James L. Garvin to Jim Derby and Vernacular Architecture Forum, 15 March 2010.

Author’s archives.

Rindge, N.H. Before 1839. Watercolor map shows yellow meetinghouse (built in 1796) with red roof.

Map painted by Mary Parker Kimball before the meetinghouse was altered in 1839. Benes and

Zimmerman, New England Meeting House and Church, 22, 125.

Rowe, Mass. 1793.* Voted for “cream color with red roof and green doors.” Brown, “An Historical

Sketch of Rowe [Massachusetts],” History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial

Association 7 (1922): 100.

Rowe, Mass. 1814. “Voted to paint the body a French Yellow, the roof a chocolate Colour.” Brown, “An

Hitorical Sketch of Rowe [Massachusetts],” History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley

Memorial Association 7 (1922): 103.

Rowley, Mass. 1764. £8 set aside for “painting the Windows, Doors, Covers, Corner Boards, Wash

boards & Spouts of the Meetinghouse.” Jewett and Jewett, Rowley, 110.

Rowley, Mass. (Second Parish or Georgetown). 1744. Samuel Harriman paid £20 for “Redding the

meeting-house.” Hurd, History of Essex County, 820.

Roxbury, Conn. 1794. “voted to give its new building three coats of paint: white on the building’s facades

and red on the roof.” Buggeln, Temples of Grace, 259n17.

Sanbornton, N.H. 1796. Voted “to . . . paint the Rough.” Runnells, History of Sanbornton, 1:72.

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Sanbornton, N.H. 1797. Voted “to clapboard and paint the meeting-house this year.” Runnells, History of

Sanbornton, 1:71.

Sandown, N.H. 1774. “To color the meeting house the color of Chester meeting house.” Little, American

Decorative Wall Painting, 1700−1850, 12.

Scituate, Mass. 1774.* “body . . . a ‘Dark Stone Color, roof red and Doors a Chocolate Colour,’ with

white trim.” Waite, First Trinitarian Congregational Church, Scituate, 41.

Shirley, Mass. 1795. “the Meeting house . . . beautifully painted white on the sides & even over the roof.

The doors were green.” Bentley, Diary, 14 July 1795 (2:150).

Shrewsbury, Mass. 1766.* Remembered as yellow; lowest layer of paint from a window cornice dentil

analyzed as ochre in 1978. Benes and Zimmerman, New England Meeting House and Church, 20,

131.

Shrewsbury, Mass. 1808. “to paint & . . . Repair the Meeting house”: To 29 ½ Gal. of Linseed Oil . . . 32

Gal. Of fish Oil . . . 2−3 grs of white lead . . . 20 wt. of Spruce Yellow, & small paints . . .

William Rice Acct. of Painting & graining doors.” Statement from the committee appointed by

the Town of Shrewsbury “to paint & otherwise Repair the Meeting house,” 4 March 1808.

Transcription kindly provided by Henry J. Harlow, 26 September 1978. Author’s archives.

Simsbury, Conn. 1782. “to Couler the Meeting House & that the Couler shall be White.” Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:196.

Springfield, Mass. 1678. John Gilbert paid for “Pining the Casemts . . . & for 2 quts of oile.” Springfield

Records, 1636−1736, 2:157.

Stockbridge, Mass. 1784.* “house was white without.” Jones, Stockbridge Past and Present, 185.

Sullivan, N.H. 1822. “paint the meeting house like the one in Keene”: “yellowish tint with white

trimmings.” Seward, History of Sullivan, 1:394.

Surry, N.H. 1789. “the outside of said Meeting house is to be glaised and painted like Keene

meetinghouse.” Kingsbury, History of Surry, 174−75.

Temple, N.H. 1781. “To colour ye Meeting-house, in its several parts, agreeable to Wilton meeting-house

colours, or as near as may be.” Blood, History of Temple, 135.

Templeton, Mass. 1792. Voted to paint it for the first time “of the color of Leominster.” Adams,

Historical Discourse, One Hundredth Anniversary, Templeton, 112.

Tewksbury, Mass. 1741. “to clapboard the sides . . . collering the window with Spanish Brown.” Patten,

History of Tewksbury, 7.

Tewksbury, Mass. 1791. “voted to repaint the meeting house and to inquire of the painter what ‘coller is

the most durable to paint the meeting-house’ . . . proved to be stone color.” Pride, ed. Tewksbury,

68.

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Topsfield, Mass. 1721. “The Town allowed Natl Capen 9s−6d for work iron and oyl & Spanish Brown to

sit up the meeting house vein.” Dow, Town Records of Topsfield, 1:228.

Topsfield, Mass. 1732. “The Town allowed four pounds Nine shillings to Ens Ivory Hovey for work done

by Nathan Hood on ye Meeting house & for oyl, Nails & Spanish brown in 1732.” Dow, Town

Records of Topsfield, 1:349.

Topsham, Maine. (First Baptist). 1795.* Known as “Old Yellow Meeting-House.” Wheeler, History of

Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, 420.

Townsend, Mass. 1771. “the window, and door frames, and the doors, were painted on the outside during

the summer of 1771”; paint analysis from clapboarding in 1978 revealed dirty orange or dark

yellow under twelve layers of whites and creams. Sawtelle, History of Townsend, 143; color

analysis by the author, 1978.

Troy, N.H. 1779. “to finish Cleapboording the meeting house and colour it.” Stone, History of Troy, 133.

Troy, N.H. 1814.* “painted on the outside at least.” Stone, History of Troy, 134.

Trumbull, Conn. 1773. “coller the outside and finish the inside of said meeting-house.” Beach, Trumbull:

Church and Town, 45.

Tyngsborough, Mass. 1797. “It [the meetinghouse] is painted white.” Bentley, Diary, 11 August 1797

(2:233).

Wallingford, Conn. (New Cheshire Parish). 1735.* “it was agreed to put on a good handsome painte on

ye meeting-house: in order to preserve ye same from ye wether.” Mitchell, History of New Haven

County, 1:289; Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:85.

Walpole, Mass. 1783. “to paint the outside of the meeting house ‘Except the Roof.’” Lewis, History of

Walpole, 137.

Walpole, N.H. 1789. “painted its meetinghouse ‘straw color.’” Frizzell, History of Walpole, 615.

Washington, N.H. 1794. “the walls the colour of Alsted Meetinghouse [red ochre?] & the roof Spanish

brown.” Jager and Krone, “ . . . A Sacred Deposit,” 55.

Watertown, Mass. 1721. Paid George Adams 2 ½ days’ work and “for oile and Spanish Brown.” Records

of the West Precinct of Watertown, 26.

Wells, Maine (Second Parish). 1804. “Exterior of the house and steeple was painted a dark yellow.”

Bourne, History of Wells and Kennebunk, 622−24.

Westborough, Mass. (First Precinct). 1754. Precinct refused to “culler the outside of the meeting-house.”

DeForest, History of Westborough, 139.

Westbrook, Conn. 1763. “to paint the clapboards sky colour, and the doors and sash white.” First Church

of Christ, Saybrook, 123.

Westford, Mass. 1793. “Voted to Culler the meeting-house this season and make it neer the Culler of

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Chelmsford meeting-house. Voted the ruf of the meeting house be tard or Cullered as the

Committee think best”; “The Meeting House soon presented, painted white.” Votes: Hodgman,

History of Westford, 151. Description: Bentley, Diary, 19 August 1793 (2:42).

West Tisbury, Mass. 1769. Painted “with Tarr and Oker to Preserve the Shingles.” Banks, History of

Martha’s Vineyard, 2:87.

West Woodstock, Conn. (New Roxbury Society). 1791. Roof to be painted “Spanish Brown” and “the

sides and ends with a stone color so called.” Quotation taken from Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 1:xlvii. See also Bayles, History of Windham County, 891.

Wilmington, Mass. 1765. “When it was finished, in 1765, . . . painted in light yellow.” Simmons, History,

Yearbook and Church Directory.

Wilton, Conn. 1801. Voted to paint the exterior “yellow ochre and the roof Spanish brown”; vote

rescinded and white chosen. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:298.

Wilton, N.H. 1773.* “Nineteenth-century meetinghouse model painted dirty-yellow or ochre with white

trim.” Illustrated in Livermore, History of the Town of Wilton, facing 128. Collection of the

Wilton Historical Society, Wilton, Mass.

Winchendon, Mass. 1802. “to paint the meeting-house, next season, a bright stone color.” Marvin, History

of Winchendon, 176.

Windham, Conn. 1762. “at Pomfret and Windham . . . painted a brilliant yellow”; “the orange or bright

yellow of Pomfret, Windham, and Killingly.” Blake, Chronicles of New Haven Green, 94;

Mitchell, History of the United Church of New Haven, 125.

Wolcott, Conn. 1794. “that the body of the house be painted white and the roof red.” Orcutt, History of

Wolcott, 67.

Woodbury, Conn. 1789. Meetinghouse to be painted “up to the square . . . the same color it was before.”

Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:320.

Woodbury, Conn. 1790. “that the color of the meeting house be near the color of Mr. Timy Tomlinsons

except it be a little more greenish as it.” Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:320. See also

Cothern, History of Ancient Woodbury, 3:1575.

Woodstock, Conn. 1790. Meeting warned to vote if they would “also new color the outside.” Larned,

History of Windham County, 2:367.

Woodstock, Conn. 1795. Money from sale and rent of pews allocated “for the expense of Painting the

Meeting House white”; roof to be painted also. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:331.

Woodstock, Conn. 1821. “to paint the meeting house white to prime with French Yellow & boiled oil;

also to paint the roof.” Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 332.

Woodstock, Vt. 1808. “painted outside and within . . . the outside of the body of the house being painted

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white”; called the “White Meeting House” or the “Old White.” Dana, History of Woodstock, 439.

Wrentham, Mass. 1766.* “a large wooden building painted yellow.” Fiore, Wrentham, 52.

Yarmouth, Mass. 1768. “lower room of the porch . . . to be sealed with planed boards, and the doors to be

with handsome wainscot work, and colored in chocolate color.” Dodge, History of the First

Congregational Church, 34.

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Appendix F

Citations of interior painting, 1656–1817

When the coloring date is unknown, the date of the meetinghouse is given and indicated with an asterisk.

Abington, Conn. 1802. Pulpit and architraves painted a mustard color; red paint on interior woodwork;

trompe l’oeil window lights. Hill, “Meeting House at Abington,” 48.

Amesbury, Mass. (West Salisbury, Rocky Hill) (survival). 1784.* Whitish green; pillars and pulpit

window marbleized with blue. Rocky Hill, West Salisbury, Mass., owned by Historic New

England; Benes, “Sky Colors and Scattered Clouds,” 62.

Andover (South or Second Parish). 1793. Bentley: Inscribed over the pulpit, “Holiness becomes thy house

O Lord, Forever”; “I. H. S.” painted on the front of the pulpit. Bentley, Diary, 23 April 1793

(2:16); 24 April 1793 (2:19).

Arlington, Mass. 1775. In 1813 Bentley remembered that during the British occupation of Boston the

pulpit of the first meetinghouse was painted “of a chocolate colour.” Bentley, Diary, 19

December 1814 (4:221).

Arlington, Mass. 1795. Voted to paint “the inside a stone color.” Cutter and Cutter, History of the Town of

Arlington, 108.

Barkhamsted, Conn. 1784.* Pulpit and gallery front blue or lead colored paint. Lee, Barkhamsted, 54.

Barnstead Parade, N.H. 1799. “The sounding board was like the pulpit, a clay color.” Adams, History of

Barnstead, 52−53.

Bedford, N.H. 1767. Paint pulpit “the same color as Rev. Mr. McGregor’s pulpit is, in Londonderry.”

History of Bedford, 328.

Berlin, Mass. Circa 1787. Pineapple finial, probably from 1787 pulpit, repainted green and gold in 1955.

Benes and Zimmerman, New England Meeting House and Church, 41, 137. Berlin Town

Historical Collection, Berlin, Mass.

Beverly, Mass. 1770.* Stair baluster painted gray-white. Benes and Zimmerman, New England Meeting

House and Church, 136, 138.

Bluehill, Maine. 1798. “Voted, that the Pulpit pillars, posts and front of the Gallery be painted.” Candage,

Historical Sketches of Bluehill, 47.

Boston (King’s Chapel). 1713. “Voted that the Pillers, Capitalls, and Cornish of the Church be painted

wainscott Colur.” Greenwood, History of King’s Chapel, 153.

Boston (Christ Church). 1727. Ropes painted “supporting the brass branches or chandeliers, —‘prussian

blue picked in with vermillion’”; cherubs’ heads and “fusthoons” on the panels; “painting and

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gilding of the tables of the law.” Babcock, Christ Church, Salem Street, Boston, 127.

Boston (Christ Church). 1736. Backdrop of the organ loft “bright red,” gilding. Babcock, Christ Church,

Salem Street, Boston, 244.

Bradford, Mass. 1793. Bentley: gold lettering over the pulpit, “O worship the Lord in the beauty of

holiness.” Bentley, Diary, 24 April 1793 (2:19).

Branford, Conn. 1746. “Coulering ye inside of ye meeting house.” Simonds, History of the First Church

and Society of Branford, 121.

Branford, Conn. 1797. Painted or whitewashed inside and out. Simonds, History of the First Church and

Society of Branford, 121.

Bridgewater, Mass. (South Parish). 1773. Voted to paint “the canopy, pulpit, the front work of the

galleries, the pillars under the galleries, the posts and braces.” Hurd, History of Plymouth County,

776.

Brooklyn, Conn. 1772. Voted “to leave it with the Society and Building Committees, with the Painter to

ditermine what colour the insid of the Meeting-house and Pulpit shall be.” Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:40.

Burrillville, R.I. 1770?* Probably painted in early nineteenth century. Above the pulpit “a painting

representing cherubim, but a most rude and shabby daub.” Keach, Burrillville As It Was and As It

Is, 34.

Chatham, Mass. 1773. “The Pulpit and frunt of the Gallers and the Sids all with Stone Couller.” Smith,

History of Chatham, 333.

Chelmsford, Mass. 1793. Bentley: pulpit and gallery fronts painted, gilding below pulpit panels in

“chinese work.” Bentley, Diary, 19 August 1793 (2:40).

Concord, Mass. Circa 1744. Flame finial, painted gold and red with a blue base from the sounding board

of the 1711 meetinghouse. Benes and Zimmerman, New England Meeting House and Church, 40,

137. Collection of the Concord Museum, Concord, Mass.

Deerfield, Mass. 1729.* Pulpit and canopy painted “a dark olive-green.” Sheldon, History of Deerfield,

1:472.

Dorchester, Mass. Circa 1750. Finial probably from the 1743 meetinghouse, painted gray. Sheldon,

History of Deerfield, 1:40, 136−37. Private collection.

East Hampton, L.I. 1756. Molding with vine-and-grape motif and carved pilaster capital painted with red,

black, yellow, and green colors from the 1756 pulpit. Benes, “Sky Colors and Scattered Clouds,”

64−65. Collection of the East Hampton Historical Society, East Hampton, L.I.

Fairfield, Conn. 1785. Pulpit painted “light stone color.” Perry, Old Burying Ground of Fairfield, 229.

Gilead, Conn. 1761. Pulpit, breastwork, canopy, pillars “light red slightly striped with white.” Mack,

137

Historical Sketch, 13.

Gilsum, N.H. 1791. “Inside to Be a Stone Gray only the Canopy to Be a Prussian Blue.” Hayward,

Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Congregational Church, 19.

Greenwich, Conn. (Second Parish). 1716.* Pulpit “bluish color.” Linsley, Commemorative Discourse,

Second Congregational Church, 10.

Hadley, Mass. 1739. “color the facing of the gallery”; “M. R. H.” [March] 1739” on the canopy. Judd,

History of Hadley, 311.

Hanover, N.H. 1794. Voted, “so much of the inside as is usual to be painted in well finished meeting

houses.” Chase, History of Dartmouth College and the Town of Hanover, 2:10.

Harpswell, Maine. 1757.* Dark green pulpit said to be original color. Virginia B. Woodbury, “The Story

of Harpswell’s Old Meeting House, 1757−1759,” community.curtislibrary.com/hhs (Harpswell

Historical Society website); Peladeau, “Maine’s Eighteenth-Century Meeting Houses,” 66-75.

Harwich, Mass. (Second or South). 1792.* Recollection: Pulpit and desk “rich sea green”; deacons’ seat

“Dark Spanish Brown.” Paine, History of Harwich, 256−57.

Hatfield, Mass. 1755. Casings of timbers in the meetinghouse to be “decently colored.” History of the

Connecticut Valley, 396.

Hatfield, Mass. 1750.* Possibly painted after 1779 or 1793; building survived until 1982. Canopy and

probably the pulpit: robin’s egg blue. Paint residue photographed by the author in 1982;

meetinghouse now demolished.

Haverhill, Mass. 1734.* Nineteenth-century reminiscence: Faces of two cherubs (one with blue eyes, the

other with brown) painted on either side of the pulpit window. One Hundred and Fiftieth

Anniversary of the West Congregational Church, 12.

Henniker, N.H. 1787.* Gilt acorn finial from the sounding board. Survival, Collection of the Town of

Henniker, N.H.

Hingham, Mass. 1682. Joshua Lincoln (1645−1694) paid for “Collering the the casements and other

wood-work.” Selectmen of Hingham, Book of Records, 22 August 1682, 2:93. Information

courtesy of Robert B. St. George. Marble, “The Old Ship,” unpaginated. See also Coolidge,

“Hingham Builds a Meetinghouse,”447n4.

Hingham, Mass. (Old Ship). Circa 1720 to 1730. Red sponge painting on whitewashed posts. Powell and

Gilmore, “Old Ship Meeting House,” 58−59.

Holliston, Mass. 1787. The inside to be a “stone color.” Hurd, History of Middlesex County, 439.

Holland, Mass. 1794. “brest work pillers and Pulpit, to be coulloured a good hansome pee green.”

Lovering, History of Holland, 189.

Ipswich, Mass. (South Parish). 1747. “unpretentious pine pulpit, painted white, at the north end.” Waters,

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Ipswich, 2:474.

Ipswich, Mass. (First Parish). 1749. Surviving pulpit painted mahogany grain. Benes and Zimmerman,

New England Meeting House and Church, 136.

Ipswich, Mass. (First Parish). 1755. “Painting & Gilding the inside doors & Casing of the outside” (white,

stone color, chocolate) by Thomas Lawlor. Thomas Lawlor’s Account, 19 September 1755,

Archives of the First Parish, Ipswich, Mass.

Ipswich, Mass. (First Parish). 1756. Richard Manning paid to gild the baptismal basin and the hourglass.

Waters, Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 2:440.

Ipswich, Mass. (First Parish). 1767. “Mr. Knowlton was paid for ‘painting the canopy.’” Waters, Ipswich

in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 2:440.

Kensington, Conn. 1793. To “give liberty to have the meeting house painted withinside . . . provided it be

done without charge to the society.” Two Hundredth Anniversary, Kensington Congregational

Church, 47.

Killingly, Conn. (Second, North, or Thompson Parish). 1817. Trompe l’oeil painting under pulpit of a

“stairway partly veiled with crimson drapery,” by Harvey Dresser (1789? −1835). Bayles, History

of Windham County, 669.

Leicester, Mass. 1784.* Pulpit and columns “painted in . . . pointed block-work of shaded marble.”

Washburn, Historical Sketches of Leicester, 104.

Lempster, N.H. Circa 1795. Surviving pulpit window casing painted light greenish-gray over light blue.

Benes and Zimmerman, New England Meeting House and Church, 133.

Lexington, Mass. 1763. “to coulior ye meeting house att ye back of the Pulpit the same coulior the Pulpit

is coulioured.” Hudson, History of Lexington, 77.

Lexington, Mass. 1795. Bentley: “House within is of a light stone colour.” Bentley, Diary, 14 July 1795

(2:147).

Litchfield, Conn. Circa 1762. Two pilaster capitals with rose motif, painted or dyed red; fragment of

carved vine from the pulpit of the 1762 meetinghouse. Benes, “Sky Colors and Scattered

Clouds,” 64; Collection of the Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, Conn.

Litchfield, Conn. 19th century reminiscence; Harriet Beecher Stowe: “How did I wonder at the panels on

either side of the pulpit [ca. 1762], in each of which was carved and painted a flaming red tulip. . .

.” Stowe and Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1:211; Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses,

1:277.

Loudon, N.H. 1797. “pulpit and surrounding were painted of a lead color . . . tables . . . dark brown”; top

of interior posts in the lower part painted with figures “1797.” Hurd, History of Merrimack and

Belknap Counties, 490−91.

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Malden, Mass. 1728. Contract with Aaron Cleveland: “also to lath and plaister all over head and under

each Gallery and Whitewash all the plaistering.” Watkins, “Malden’s Old Meetinghouses,”

Register of the Malden Historical Society 2 (1911−1912): 40.

Marblehead, Mass. After 1780. Below the canopy a “frieze . . . on which a blue or black ground were 13

gilt stars.” Bicentennial of the First Congregational Church, Marblehead, 53.

Marlborough, Conn. 1789. “inside of the house and the outside doors were painted.” Hall, Report of the

Celebration, 18.

Medfield, Mass. After 1655. Surviving decorative pulpit insets have “traces of verdigris coloring.” St.

George, “Style and Structure,” 2.

Middletown, Vt. 1794. Canopy, turned pillars under the galleries, and breastwork “shall be painted blue.”

Frisbie, History of Middletown, 92.

Newbury, Mass. (Second Parish or West Newbury). 1759.* Canopy’s lower “panel work painted white”’

upper part of canopy “colored blue . . . with gilt finial, acorn-shaped.” Currier, History of

Newbury, 359.

Newbury, Vt. 1790.* Reminiscence: “The sounding board with the ornament on its top decorated with red

white and blue and gold stripes.” Wells, History of Newbury, 137.

Newburyport, Mass. (St. Paul’s). 1801. Bentley: “On the front Gallery there is a tribute of respect to

Timothy Dexter. . . . Over the altar & above the bread & Commandments is a spread eagle

holding the Bible & the Common Prayer. . . . Walls as high as the Arch are covered with paper &

painted blue”; pews, “faint green with caps of orange colour. The arches are pure white as are the

paintings of the gallery.” Bentley, Diary, 2 October 1801 (2:395).

New Haven, Conn. 1761. “ye Pulpit to be finished & Coloured, and the breast work of ye gallery, and

Pillars to be Coloured . . . if there be money.” Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:33.

New Ipswich, N.H. 1770. Vote to paint the interior; gallery breastwork, cornice, and posts “poppy-red

and grained in imitation of marble or mahogany . . . curious gilded canopy.” Kidder and Gould,

History of New Ipswich, 149, 153.

New London, Conn. 1788. “Paint the Outside and inside twice over with such colours as the Society shall

direct except the ceiling under the windows the inside of the pews below and above.” Blake,

Later History of the First Church of Christ, New London, 217.

Newmarket, N.H. (East and West Societies, Newfields). 1792. Written in gilt letters on a black ground:

“O Thou that hearest prayer / Unto thee shall all flesh Come. Ps. LXV.2 / 1792.” Fitts, History of

Newfields, 315.

Newport, N.H. (Baptist) 1810. “elevated pulpit, sky blue in color.” Hurd, History of Cheshire and

Sullivan Counties, 249.

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Newtown, Conn. 1762. “ye society voted to go on and finish ye steeple and culler ye house and ye pulpit

according to ye proposal.” Johnson, Newtown’s History, 37.

Newtown, Conn. 1786. Pews to be “painted a proper color for the inside of such a building.” Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:63.

Northampton, Mass. 1735. “1735” written on the sounding board. First Parish, Northampton, 12.

Portsmouth, N.H. 1806. “walls and ceilings tinted with indigo blue wash; the seats painted green; and the

high pulpit decorated with splendid crimson silk draperies.” Hazlett, History of Rockingham

County, 163.

Providence, Mass. 1796.* Reminiscence: “it is said that back of the pulpit there were some paintings

‘supposed to represent angel faces,’ and over the window caps on each side, was a figure, of a

cherub perhaps.” Blake, History of Princeton, 164.

Providence, R.I. (First Baptist) 1775.* Surviving interior wood fragment painted grayish-green. Benes

and Zimmerman, New England Meeting House and Church, 133.

Rowe, Mass. 1814. “Voted to paint . . . the inside a Light Blue.” Brown, “An Historical Sketch of Rowe

[Massachusetts],” History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association 7

(1922): 103.

Rowley, Mass. (Second Parish or Georgetown). 1744. “to paint the pulpit.” Hurd, History of Essex

County, 820.

Sandown, N.H. 1773.* Survival: Pulpit and gallery front, “cedar-grained”; “Two sets of pilasters on the

pulpit and the columns which support the galleries are veined in dark blue on an oyster white

ground.” Winchester, “The Meeting House at Sandown,” 336.

Shirley, Mass. (Shaker) 1795. Bentley: “Within the wood work is painted of a deep blue, & the seats are

of a chocolate colour.” Bentley, Diary, 14 July 1795 (2:150).

Shrewsbury, Mass. 1766.* Canopy finial base dark green, leaves dark and light green, inside leaves white,

red interior; underside rosette from canopy has red petals, green pointed leaves, gold background,

white and gray circles. Collection of the Shrewsbury Historical Society, Shrewsbury, Mass.

Southington, Conn. Circa 1757. Surviving pulpit base painted yellowish brown. Benes and Zimmerman,

New England Meeting House and Church, 136.

Springfield, Mass. 1677. John Gilbert paid to paint window casements. Burt, ed., First Century of the

History of Springfield, 157.

Sterling, Mass. Circa 1800. Two angels painted on wall behind pulpit, singing “Glory to God in the

highest” and “On earth peace and goo[d] will to men.” One Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary,

Sterling, 35.

Stockbridge, Mass. 1784.* “unpainted,” except high pew, pulpit and canopy. Jones, Stockbridge Past and

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Present, 185.

Sullivan, N.H. 1807.* Pulpit front, the stairs, balustrade, gallery fronts, and supporting columns “light

blue.” Seward, History of Sullivan, 1:393.

Sutton (North), N.H. 1795.* Meetinghouse completed about 1797. Gallery pillars, front of gallery,

Communion table, deacons’ seat, pulpit and sounding board “brilliant green”; walls white. Hurd,

History of Merrimack County, 631; Worthen, History of Sutton, 336.

Swanzey, N.H. 1796.* “Representations of seraphs or angelic beings” painted on the wall above the

pulpit. Read, History of Swanzey, 169.

Topsfield, Mass. 1703. “The Town agreed to allow Mr Capen; one Pound & 6 shillings for varnishing the

Pulpit.” Dow, Town Records of Topsfield, 1:143.

Topsfield, Mass. 1729. “The Town Allowed to Nathll Capen five shillings for Cullouring the pulpit

before Ordination of Mr Emerson.” Dow, Town Records of Topsfield, 1:310.

Wells, Maine. (Second Parish). 1774.* “The front part of the galleries was painted . . . the pulpit . . . the

deacon’s seat, just under it . . . and the pew of Dimon Hubbard.” Bourne, History of Wells and

Kennebunk, 624.

Westborough, Mass. (First Precinct). 1754. Refused to paint the breastwork of the galleries; voted to paint

the pulpit. DeForest, History of Westborough, 139.

Westfield, Mass. 1697. Repair and paint gallery: “comely and comfortable.” Bates, Westfield Jubilee, 62.

Weymouth, Mass. (South). 1785. Inside: girts, posts, plate, gallery front, pulpit, sounding board, and

window picked out in lead color; sashes white, ceiling plaster and walls whitewashed. Records of

the South Precinct in Weymouth, 23 May 1785, Weymouth Historical Commission, Weymouth,

Mass.

Wilmington, Mass. 1766. “to paint the breast-works of the galleries, the pillars and the pulpit.” Simmons,

History, Yearbook, and Church Directory.

Wilmington, Mass. 1767. Second vote to paint the gallery breastwork, pillars, and pulpit; between 1767

and 1813. Interior the “dull red of old mahogany”; pulpit “nicely grained in imitation of

mahogany”; “sounding-board . . . a very light red.” Simmons, History, Yearbook, and Church

Directory.

Winchendon, Mass. 1793. “paint the outside [of the pulpit] green.” Marvin, History of Winchendon, 162.

Windham, Conn. (Second Society or Canada). 1753.* “Holiness unto the Lord” inscribed on the sounding

board. Larned, History of Windham County, 1:553.

Worcester, Mass. 1733. “that the front of the gallery, the pulpit, and pillars, be colored and varnished.”

Smalley, Worcester Pulpit, 27.

Yarmouth, Mass. Enlarged 1768. Sounding board to be “colored with a fashionable color, with a deacon

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seat and communion table . . . colored fashionably also, and they are to be in the form and fashion

as Barnstable East Precinct have their’s in.” Dodge, History of the First Congregational Church,

Yarmouth, 33.

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Appendix G

Meetinghouse replications in New England, 1647–1828

Listed chronologically by town or parish vote to copy the dimensions, design features, or colors of their

own or other meetinghouses.

Date in parentheses indicates construction date of the prototype.

Measure of miles indicates distance to prototype in another community (0 indicates that the prototype is

within the community).

1647 Wethersfield, Conn. Seats to have wainscot “according to the seats [in the] Hartford Meeting

House” (1638): 5 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:287.

1651 New London, Conn. Meetinghouse to be “about the same demention of Mr. Parke’s his barne”: 1

mile. Caulkins, History of New London, 9.

1654 Sudbury, Mass. “to appoint a man to remove the pulpit and the deacons’ seat out of the old meeting

house into the new” (1642); “to build seats after the same fashion as in the old meeting house”

(1642): 0. Hudson, History of Sudbury, 190.

1654 Watertown, Mass. “Cambridge meeting house shall be our pattern in all poynts” (1651): 4 miles.

Watertown Records, 14 August 1654, 2:37.

1659 Rehoboth, Mass. Enlargement to be “shingled as well as Goodman Payne’s house”: 1 mile.

Newman, Rehoboth in the Past, 17.

1672 Westfield, Mass. “for form like the Hatfield meeting house” (1668): 20 miles. History of the

Connecticut Valley, 384.

1678 Norwalk, Conn. Roof “to be built after the manner of Faierfield meeting house” (1668): 9 miles.

Hall, Ancient Historical Records, 71.

1679 Ipswich, Mass. (Second Parish or Essex). Turret to be built “after the fashion, and in proportions of

the turret in Andover” (1661): 24 miles. Crowell, History of Essex, 84.

1680 Hingham, Mass. Three men “to view some other meeting houses in some other Townes . . . they

may better inform themselves . . . how big a house may be suteable”: within 10 miles. Hingham

Town Meeting Records, 2:93, courtesy of Robert B. St. George.

1681 Norwalk, Conn. To remove the “deske, and seates, and plankes of the ould meeting house [1659] to

the new”: 0. Hall, Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, 76.

1684 Windsor, Conn. “the form of the house according to the Meeting House at Springfield” (1677): 19

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miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:305.

1686 Sudbury, Mass. “to erect a meeting-house, just like the new one in Dedham” (1673): 15 miles.

Drake, History of Middlesex County, 2:468.

1688 Sudbury, Mass. To follow “in all respects for dimentions, strength, shape . . . and conveniences, as

Dedham” (1673): 15 miles. Hudson, History of Sudbury, 265; Hudson, Annals, 47.

1689 Marlborough, Mass. Its old meetinghouse and pulpit “were improved in the meeting-house, for

carrying on the finishing of that” (1677): 0. Hudson, History of the Town of Marlborough, 88.

1692 Manchester, Mass. “roof . . . to be of the same form of Beverly [1682] or Wenham [1663]”: 7 miles

(Beverly); 8 miles (Wenham). Early Records of the Town of Manchester, 44−45.

1693 Billerica, Mass. Reading to be “the pattern in most respects” (1689): 13 miles. Hazen, History of

Billerica, 168.

1694 Deerfield, Mass. Meetinghouse to be “ye bigness of Hatfield” (1668): 11 miles. Sheldon, History of

Deerfield, 1:202.

1695 Rowley, Mass. Committee to view Wenham (1663) and Beverly (1682) and report on size: 10 miles

(Wenham); 13 miles (Beverly). Jewett and Jewett, Rowley, Massachusetts, 106.

1696 Deerfield, Mass. Seating to follow “ye present modell of Hatfield Meeting House Seats” (1668): 11

miles. Sheldon, History of Deerfield, 1:203.

1696 Haverhill, Mass. “to look and view some meeting houses for dimensions”; July report: “seats,

pulpit, galleries, windows, doors, floors and stairs” to be like those in Beverly (1682): 22 miles;

sides to be modeled after those of meetinghouse in Reading (1689): 22 miles. Hurd, History of

Essex County, 1947−48.

1699 Boxford, Mass. Pulpit to be “as good as Topsfield’s” (1663): 3 miles; pews “to be set as in

Andover” (1669): 11 miles. Perley, History of Boxford, 127.

1701 Newbury, Mass. Canopy of “old pulpit given by the town to the west part of Newbury for their

pulpit” (1661): 9 miles. Coffin, A Sketch of the History of Newbury, 168.

1701 West Tisbury, Mass. “a new meeting-house after the manner and dementions of the meeting-house

in Chilmark” (ca. 1690): 14 miles. Banks, History of Martha’s Vineyard, 2:46, 78.

1702 Topsfield, Mass. “ye Town did agree yt ye seats shall be plased after ye maner as thay be placed in

Rowley meeting house and ye five seates before ye Pulpit is to be sixteen foot long” (1697): 8

miles. Dow, Town Records of Topsfield, 1:119.

1703 Springfield, Mass. (Second or West Parish). “that the Meeting-House be seated In form according to

the moddle of the east side Meeting-House, proportionate according to the room” (1677): 5 miles.

History of the Connecticut Valley, 907.

1703 Topsfield, Mass. “that the new Meeting House should be Seated after the maner as Ipswich new

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meeting House is seated leavening no room for Puese except Mr Capens Pue” (1699): 7 miles.

Dow, Town Records of Topsfield, 1:129.

1707 Narragansett, R.I. (St. Paul’s Church). Meetinghouse to resemble first King’s Chapel (Boston)

according to “contract” (1688): 72 miles. Dorsey, Early English Churches in America, 166.

1711 Andover, Mass. (North Parish). “ye old pulpit in the North Precinct shall be set in our new meeting-

house” (1669): 0. Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover, 430.

1711 Andover, Mass. (North Precinct). “ye model of ye seats to be like Bradford” (1706): 9 miles;

meetinghouse to have “a Roofe like Salem-village” (Danvers) (1701): 12 miles. Bailey,

Historical Sketches of Andover, 430.

1713 Brookline, Mass. To have the same dimensions as meetinghouse in Roxbury (1674): 3 miles. Hurd,

History of Norfolk County, 807.

1713 East Windsor, Conn. “roof of the new meeting house shall be as this is” (1695): 0. Stiles, History of

Ancient Windsor, 1:232.

1713 Lexington, Mass. To build meetinghouse “on the plan of the one at Concord” (1711): 6 miles.

Hudson, History of Lexington, 57.

1714 Middletown Upper Houses, Conn. (North or Cromwell Parish). To finish the meetinghouse “after

same manner the meeting house in South Society, that is the two ends of it” (Middletown [First],

1679): 3 miles. Adams, Middletown Upper Houses, 31.

1715 Framingham, Mass. Roof to be “the same form and workmanship” as that in Marlborough (1688): 8

miles; “a good floor, a table, and . . . seats . . . as in Sudbury meeting house” (1688): 7 miles.

Temple, History of Framingham, 144−45.

1717 Norwich, Conn. (West Farms or Franklin). To use Norwich pews, pulpit, galleries, and other

woodwork (1673): 7 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:111.

1717 Wallingford, Conn. Meetinghouse “form to be like Gilford meeting house” (1712): 17 miles.

Perkins, Historical Sketches of Meriden, 34.

1718 Northfield, Mass. Meetinghouse to “be of the dimensions of Swamfield (Sunderland)” (1717): 21

miles. Temple and Sheldon, History of Northfield, 147.

1719 Durham, N.H. Frame and belfry “being in figure” like those of the new meetinghouse in Hampton

(1715): 19 miles. Stackpole and Thompson, History of Durham, 1:173.

1719 East Haven, Conn. “the pulpit and seats shall be in the form of Branford meeting house” (1699): 5

miles. Havens, Stone Meeting House, 21.

1720 Kensington, Conn. Galleries to be finished like those in Farmington (1709): 8 miles. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:243.

1721 Amesbury, Mass. (Second, East, or Jamaco Parish). Meetinghouse to have same dimensions as

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Amesbury (1715): 3 miles. Merrill, History of Amesbury, 175.

1721 Watertown, Mass. (West Parish). To purchase, move, and rebuild Newton’s meetinghouse (1697): 4

miles. Records of the West Precinct of Watertown, 18.

1725 Sudbury, Mass. (Wayland). Committee to “make it as near as they can like the new house in the

West Precinct [Sudbury, Second Parish]” and have same number of pews but “handsomer” steps

(1724): 4 miles. Drake, History of Middlesex County, 2:469.

1726 Guilford, Conn. To copy “Fashion and proportion of the Belfry & Spire at [Trinity Church,

Newport] Rhode Island” (1725): 80 miles; 1724 bell like that of “Mr. Colman’s meeting house in

Boston” (1716): 129 miles. Belfry and spire: Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:172;

Bell: Steiner, History of the Plantation of Menunkatuck, 275.

1729 Killingly, Conn. (Second, North, or Thompson Parish), “make Woodstock meeting-house their

pattern to go by” (1720): 7 miles. Larned, History of Windham County, 1:310.

1730 Chatham, Mass. Dimensions the same as those of “the south meeting house in Eastham” (1723): 12

miles. Smith, History of Chatham, 270.

1731 Killingly, Conn. (Second, North, or Thompson Parish). “Body of seats . . . after the form” of those

in Woodstock (1720): 7 miles. Larned, History of Windham County, 1:316.

1731 Sturbridge, Mass. “to be finished according to articles drawn to finish the meeting house at

Hassanamisco [Grafton]” (1730): 24 miles. History of Worcester County, 2:364.

1734 Andover, Mass. (Second or South Parish). To build new meetinghouse “after the same form and

fashion as the old” (1709): 0. Bailey, Historical Sketches of Andover, 442.

1734 Killingly, Conn. (Second, North, or Thompson Parish). To build seats in the gallery after “ye form

of Woodstock seats in their Gallery” (1720): 7 miles. Larned, History of Windham County, 1:317.

1735 Tewksbury, Mass. Committee “to view Andover [South Parish] old meeting-house frame” (1709): 6

miles. Pride, Tewksbury: A Short History, 17.

1736 Boscawen, N.H. Meetinghouse to have same width as Rumford, but “two feet. Higher . . . of logs”

[Concord] (1727): 7 miles. Walker, First Congregational Society, Concord, viii.

1737 Columbia, Conn. (Second Parish in Lebanon or Lebanon Crank). Voted to follow “the rule by which

. . . Old Society” sings: 5 miles. One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Organization of the

Congregational Church in Columbia, 49.

1738 Becket, Mass. Meetinghouse (built 1761) to be finished “as well as the Meeting House in Grafton”

(1730): 87 miles. Archer, Bicentennial History of Becket, 35.

1739 Killingworth, Conn. (Second Society or Killingworth Farms). Posts “two feet shorter than those in

the First Society” (1730): 5 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:249.

1741 Wilton, Conn. (Second Parish in Norwalk). Meetinghouse to be finished on the “former model” of

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First Parish in Norwalk (1723): 7 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:298.

1743 Killingworth, Conn. (Second Society or Killingworth Farms). The seats and pews to be “dignified

by the same rules” as East Guilford (Madison) (1737): 4 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses,1:249.

1743 Pelham, Mass. Glass and pulpit and canopy to be the same as that in Harvard (1732): 50 miles;

pulpit to be in “Dignitee like unto Hadley third precinct” (1738): 7 miles. Parmenter, History of

Pelham, 79.

1747 Ipswich, Mass. (South Parish). Drew on one of Boston’s “artificers in building a pulpit” (1747): 28

miles. Kimball, Last Sermon Preached, 10−11.

1749 Abington, Conn. To have “the same dimensions as that of Pomfret” (1714): 4 miles; to build seats

“after the form” of Woodstock (1720): 7 miles. Dimensions: Kelly, Early Connecticut

Meetinghouses, 1:5; form: Larned, History of Windham County, 1:316.

1749 Berwick, Maine (North Parish). Meetinghouse to be “the same size” as Berwick South Parish

(1702): 8 miles. Mitchell and Campbell, Berwick Register, 50.

1749 Woodstock, Conn. (Second Parish). “Build the two fore-seats like those in the first parish . . . and

have as many pews as in the first parish” (1720): 4 miles. Larned, History of Windham County,

1:498.

1752 Windsor Conn. (Scantic or North Parish). Meetinghouse to have “same length and breadth” as

Second Parish in Windsor (East Windsor) (1714): 3 miles. Stiles, History of Ancient Windsor,

2:295.

1753 Manchester, Mass. Steeple to be “near the forme of Gloucester New Meeting House” (1752): 7

miles. Early Records of Manchester, 65.

1753 Springfield, Mass. (Fifth or Chicopee Parish). “‘seat men and women together’ as in the new

Meeting House in Springfield” (1752 for seating): 4 miles. Quotation from Palmer, Annals of

Chicopee Street, 36; Green, Springfield, 1636−1886, 259.

1756 Nottingham, N.H. “all pews shall be built in the same manner in fassion and workmanship” as

Epping (1741): 6 miles. Cogswell, History of Nottingham, 117−18.

1757 Dover, N.H. “a plan of Berwick [Maine] lower meeting house . . . be accepted” (1750): 5 miles.

Wadleigh, Notable Events in the History of Dover, 147.

1760 Falmouth, Maine. Spire to be “copied from the one at York” (1747): 50 miles. Goold, Portland in

the Past, 289.

1761 Bridgewater, Mass. (Fourth or North Parish). Pews to be sold according to the layout of those of

South Parish in Bridgewater (1759); meetinghouse to have “the same Demenshons of the South

Meeting House, in Bridgewater”: 5 miles. Hurd, History of Plymouth County, 565.

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1764 Bethlem, Conn. Meetinghouse to be “just as high as ye Meeting House in ye old Society” in

Woodbury (1747): 8 miles. Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, 1:248.

1764 Holland, Mass. Meetinghouse to be the “same [dimensions] as Wales” (1764): 5 miles. History of

the Connecticut Valley, 1104.

1765 Southbury, Conn. (Second Parish in Woodbury). “that we will build the house according to the

Demensions of Litchfield present Meeting House in bigness and Form” (1762): 19 miles. Warren,

“The First Two Southbury Meeting Houses, Part 2,” 25.

1766 Boston. New Brick Church. Deacons’ seat “as lately been done at Mr. Cooper’s and Old North

churches” (about 1764): 1 mile. Robbins, History of the Second Church in Boston, 316.

1767 Bedford, N.H. Pulpit to be painted “same color the Rev. Mr. McGregor’s . . . in Londonderry”

(1721): 16 miles. History of Bedford, 328.

1767 Deerfield, Mass. “Erect a Steeple . . . in the same proportion as the Steeple of Northfield Meeting

house is to the body of that house” (1762): 16 miles. Sheldon, History of Deerfield, 1:474.

1767 Dunstable, Mass. “Build the pulpit like that in Pepril” (1745): 6 miles. Nason, History of Dunstable,

104.

1767 South Britain, Conn. (Parish in Southbury). “in length & heath & breadth of Roxbury [Conn.]

Meating House” (1745): 8 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:201.

1767 Stratham, N.H. Meetinghouse to be “finished much after the same manner as Greenland” (1756): 5

miles. Nelson, History of Stratham, 247.

1767 Watertown, Mass. (West Parish or Waltham). “Interior finish . . . like that of Watertown” (1723): 4

miles; “arrangement of the interior” like that of Roxbury (1746): 7 miles. Sanderson, Waltham as

a Precinct of Watertown, 53.

1768 Ashford, Conn. Pews to be “as like the pews in the meeting house at Union” (1739): 11 miles.

Larned, History of Windham County, 2:25.

1768 Hampton, Conn. Meetinghouse to be “something like the color” of Pomfret” (painted 1762): 11

miles. Bayles, History of Windham County, 384.

1768 Salisbury, N.H. Meetinghouse to have “the same bigness” as Second Parish in Kingston (1738): 55

miles; “the pulpit to be of the same size as the one at Hawke [Danville]” (1755): 50 miles.

Dearborn, History of Salisbury, 132.

1768 Yarmouth, Mass. “a new sounding-board, with iron-work thereto that is needful and fashionable,

and colored a fashionable color, with a deacon seat and communion table, they being fashionable

and colored fashionably also, and they are to be in the same form and fashion as Barnstable East

Precinct have their’s in.” (1756): 3 miles. Dodge, History of the First Congregational Church,

Yarmouth, 33.

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1769 Killingly, Conn. (Second, North, or Thompson Parish). “that the cullering of the body of our

meeting house should be like Pomfret” (1762): 8 miles. Larned, History of Windham County,

2:81.

1770 Westford, Mass. To “build the pews . . . and seats and alleys . . . as they are in Medford” (1769): 22

miles. Hodgman, History of Westford, 100.

1771 Amherst, N.H. To follow plan of Old North meetinghouse in Concord (1751): 31 miles. Locke,

Colonial Amherst, 18.

1771 Brookline, Mass. Steeple “not higher than Doctor Boyles Steeple is” on Hollis Street meetinghouse

in Boston (1731): 5 miles. Muddy River and Brookline Records, 231.

1771 Kensington, N.H. To build “as near as may be after the pattern of the North-Hill [North Hampton]

Meeting House” (1761): 10 miles. Sawyer, History of Kensington, 157.

1772 Francestown, N.H. “sat up ye frame as Long and Good as Lyn Borough [Lyndeborough]” (1772): 9

miles. Cochrane, History of Francestown, 46.

1772 Goffstown, N.H. “pulpit to be built as well as that in the church at Atkinson” (1769): 30 miles.

Hadley, History of Goffstown, 1:374.

1772 Westborough, Mass. “Committy to Vue sum meeting houses that hav ben Cut in two & a pece put in

ye meedel”: unknown distance. DeForest, Early History of Westborough, 154.

1773 Bernardston, Mass. Pews “built the same for largeness” as those in Greenfield (1760): 7 miles.

History of the Connecticut Valley, 692.

1773 Leominster, Mass. Meetinghouse to be “the same bigness with Lunenburg” (1749): 6 miles.

Gardner, A Discourse in Two Parts, 5.

1773 Needham, Mass. Committee to view “One or more of the meeting Houses in the Neighboring

Towns”: 5 miles. Clarke, History of Needham, 201.

1774 Boxford, Mass. (Second Parish), “same plan” as New Rowley [Georgetown] without the steeple

(1769): 5 miles. Perley, History of Boxford, 245.

1774 Jaffrey, N.H. Meetinghouse exterior to be “Collored like Rindge” and have a “Pulpit like that in

Rindge” (1764): 5 miles. Cutter, History of Jaffrey, 60.

1774 Providence, R.I. (First Baptist) Committee “to view the different churches and meeting-houses

there, and to make a memorandum of their several dimensions and forms of architecture” in

Boston: 42 miles. Isham, Meeting House, xvi.

1774 Salem, Mass. Tabernacle said to be “like Whitefield’s in London” (1756). Worcester, Memorial of

the Old and New Tabernacle, 21.

1774 Sandown, N.H. Meetinghouse to be “the color of Chester” (1774): 5 miles. Little, American

Decorative Wall Painting, 12.

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1775 Boxborough, Mass. To form “a Committee for purchasing Harvard old meatting-House” (1732): 4

miles. Hager, Boxborough, 15; Drake, History of Middlesex County, 1:271−72.

1775 Providence, R.I. (First Baptist). Architect Joseph Brown used a bell tower design taken from the

30th plate of James Gibbs’s Book of Architecture, 1728. Little, Life and Works of James Gibbs,

187; Benes and Zimmerman, New England Meeting House and Church, 28−29.

1775 Harvard, Mass. (Baptist). To purchase Leominster meetinghouse (1742): 10 miles. Wilder, History

of Leominster, 156.

1775 Rochester, N.H. Meetinghouse to be “the same dimensions” as Dover (1758): 10 miles. McDuffee,

History of Rochester, 100.

1777 Loudon, N.H. Meetinghouse to have “the same size of the Epsom house” (1764): 9 miles. Hurd,

History of Merrimack County, 490.

1778 Eastford, Conn. To build meetinghouse “of equal bigness with Woodstock’s West Society’s”

(1743): 5 miles. Larned, History of Windham County, 2:34.

1780 Goshen, Mass. Meetinghouse “with posts two feet shorter than Chesterfield” (1768): 4 miles.

Barrus, History of the Town of Goshen, 19.

1781 Hubbardston, Mass. Pulpit to be “the fashion of the Pulpit in the old Rutland meeting house”

(1759): 9 miles; Pulpit to be “equal” to that in First Parish in Shrewsbury (1766): 21 miles.

Stowe, History of Hubbardston, 125.

1781 Temple, N.H. “to color ye Meeting-house, in its several parts, agreeable to Wilton meeting-house

colours, or as near as may be” (1773): 7 miles. Blood, History of Temple, 135.

1781 Walpole, Mass. Meetinghouse to have “a plan that was drawn of Mansfield Meeting House” (1764):

9 miles. Lewis, History of Walpole, 128.

1783 Pittsfield, N.H. Meetinghouse to be the “same bigness of Hampton Falls” (1780): 40 miles. Hurd,

History of Merrimack County, 593.

1784 Antrim, N.H. Meetinghouse to be “patterned after” the one in Londonderry (1769): 40 miles.

Cochrane, History of Antrim, 179.

1784 Stoddard, N.H. Meetinghouse to be “the same bigness of the one in Packersfield [Nelson]” (1776): 8

miles. Gould, History of Stoddard, 28.

1785 Milford, N.H. Meetinghouse size to be same as Mont Vernon (1779): 4 miles. Ramsdell, History of

Milford, 61.

1785 Salisbury, Mass. (Rocky Hill). Meetinghouse to be “patterned after” Kensington, N.H. (1771): 6

miles. Sawyer, History of Kensington, 157.

1785 Weymouth, Mass. (Second or South Parish). Pulpit, canopy, and deacons’ seat “to be Executed in

the same manner they are in the Revd Mr. Taft’s Meeting house [Braintree First Parish, now

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Quincy]”; front of the gallery “to be finished like the front of the gallery of Rev Mr Tafts

Meetinghouse” (1732): 7 miles; “Pulpit window to be cased like the pulpit window in Mr.

Wibard’s Meeting-house [Braintree Third Parish, now Randolph]” (1763): 8 miles. Contract,

Records of the South Precinct, 1785, 22.

1786 Bow, N.H. Meetinghouse to be “as large as Mr. Colbies” in Pembroke (1759): 12 miles. Hurd,

History of Merrimack County, 272.

1786 Milford, N.H. “to accept the plan of the porches of the Temple meeting-house” (1781): 11 miles.

Ramsdell, History of Milford, 64.

1787 Amherst N.H. (Second Parish). To build porches like those in Temple (same builder) (1781): 14

miles. Secomb, History of Amherst, 84.

1787 Andover, Mass. (South Parish). Meetinghouse to be “modeled after that in the North Parish” (1753)

and to have “ground pinnings as good as” those of the North Parish: 3 miles. Mooar, Historical

Manual, 32.

1787 Rockingham, Vt. To be “as large as Charlestown [N.H.] Meeting House, as to the square of it”

(1767): 10 miles. Hayes, History of Rockingham, 143.

1787 Westminster, Mass. Meetinghouse to be finished “after the style of” Leominster (1774): 11 miles.

Heywood, History of Westminster, 274.

1787 Wolfeborough, N.H. Plan to be like the meetinghouse in Middleton with . . . amendments” (1787):

11 miles. Parker, History of Wolfeborough, 256.

1788 Hancock, N.H. “to be in all parts both as to size and goodness equal to the frame of Packerfield

[Nelson]” (1776): 11 miles. Hayward, History of Hancock, 103.

1789 Gardner, Mass. To be finished inside “as Westminster meeting-house is finished” (1788): 5 miles.

Herrick, History of Gardner, 487.

1789 Pittsfield, Mass. “Col. Bulfinch of Boston” to furnish the designs (1789): 130 miles. Smith, History

of Pittsfield, 441.

1789 Surry, N.H. “That the whole of Said House be finished in the same form and as Near Like Keen

Meetinghouse as the Bigness of Said house will admit of . . .”; glazing, exterior paint, pulpit

window, canopy, and painting and numbering of pews like Keene (1786): 7 miles. Kingsbury,

History of Surry, 174−75.

1789 Wilton, Conn. To be built “upon the construction of the Norwalk meeting-house” (1783): 6 miles.

Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:298.

1790 Woodbury, Conn. “that the color of the meeting house be near the color of mr. Timy Tomlinsons”

(1790): 1 mile. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:320. See also Cothren, History of

Ancient Woodbury, 3:1575.

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1791 Gilsum, N.H. “Pulpit and Canopy to Be made Like Surry’s” (1771, pulpit and canopy “finished”

about 1790): 4 miles. Hayward, History of Gilsum, 102.

1791 Oxford, Mass. (Universalist). To build “in the Tuscan order, equal to the Ward meetinghouse in

quality” (Auburn, 1773): 3 miles. Daniels, History of the Town of Oxford, 89.

1792 Canaan, N.H. “painting of the outside is to be done in the same manner and exactly like the lower

meeting house in Salisbury as to color” (1791): 28 miles; “The pews are to be made and placed

according to the plan by which they are sold, and the inside work to be . . . in every respect equal

to the upper meeting house in Salisbury” (1791): 25 miles. Wallace, History of Canaan, 146.

1792 Durham, N.H. Meetinghouse to be “like that at Amherst” (contract with the same builder, Edmund

Thompson) (1771): 49 miles. Stackpole and Thompson, History of Durham, 1:173.

1792 New Durham, N.H. “pulpit and canopy be built according to that . . . in Gilmanton” (1774): 15

miles. Jennings, History of New Durham, 44.

1792 Templeton, Mass. Meetinghouse to be painted “of the color of Leominster” (1774): 20 miles.

Adams, Historical Discourse, Templeton, 112.

1793 Dracut, Mass. (Second Parish or Lowell). “to build a house of the same bigness as the one in

Pelham, [N.H.]” (1746): 7 miles. Coburn, History of Lowell and Its People, 68.

1793 Hampton, Conn. Lightning rod “be made like that lightning rod of Scotland Steple” (Third Parish in

Windham, 1774): 5 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:187.

1793 Kensington, Conn. Meetinghouse to be painted “within side similar to Worthington” (1774): 3

miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:245.

1793 Montague, Mass. “Cullor the meeting-Hous the same of Sunderland” (1793): 6 miles. History of the

Connecticut Valley, 637.

1793 Westford, Mass. “to Culler the meeting-house . . . neer the Culler of Chelmsford”; to build a belfree

. . . in the same form as Chelmsford” (1792): 5 miles. Hodgman, History of Westford, 151.

1794 Canaan, N.H. Pulpit and canopy to be not like those in Salisbury (1791): 28 miles; to be “exactly the

Pulpit and canopee of Chelmsford” (1792): 65 miles. Wallace, History of Canaan, 149.

1794 Dunstable, Mass. “breastwork in the Gallery not inferior to that in the meeting house in

Tyngsborough” (1755): 3 miles. Nason, History of Dunstable, 155.

1794 Greenfield, N.H. Frame to be similar to that of Temple (1781): 11 miles. Hopkins, Greenfield, 21.

1794 Richmond, Mass. Meetinghouse to be built “similar to the large meeting house in Pittsfield” (1790):

9 miles. Annin, Richmond, 62.

1794 Sutton, N.H. (North). “the house was to be built according to New London meeting-house with

some small alterations” (1786): 7 miles. Quotation from Worthen, History of Sutton, 328; Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 67.

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1794 Washington, N.H. “the walls the colour of Alsted Meetinghouse & the roof Spanish brown” (1788,

painted by 1793): 19 miles. Jager and Krone, “A Sacred Deposit,” 55.

1794 Westford, Mass. “Pulpit, canapy, and Dean Seete be nearly in the form that Chelmsford meeting

house is” (1792): 5 miles. Hodgman, History of Westford, 152.

1794 Windsor, Conn. To contract with Ebenezer Clark, who designed Pittsfield; To build square tower

and cupola “from plans . . . from the meeting-house in Pittsfield” (1790): 57 miles. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:308; Quarter Millennial Anniversary, 70.

1795 Arlington, Mass. “To paint the outside . . . the same color as Mr. Thomas Russell’s” (unknown,

probably domestic): unknown distance.

1796 Barnstable (Centerville), Mass. Meetinghouse to be painted “in the manner as the house is that

stands near Jabez Howes in Yarmouth”: 9 miles. Trayser, Barnstable, 74−75.

1796 Candia, N.H. To send John Lane, who added the steeple, “to Chester to view the meeting house”

(1774): 10 miles. Moore, History of Candia, 62.

1796 Fitchburg, Mass. “to model meetinghouse after the one in Leominster” (1774 twin porch): 6 miles;

to model the meetinghouse after the one . . . at Ashburnham” (1791 three porches): 7 miles.

Torrey, History of the Town of Fitchburg, 117.

1796 Gill, Mass. Meetinghouse to be painted “same color as church in Sunderland” (1793): 14 miles.

Stoughton, “History of Gill, Massachusetts,” 1:48.

1796 Methuen, Mass. Meetinghouse to be “upon the plan of the new Meeting House lately finished in the

lower Parish of Bradford” (Second Parish or Groveland) (1790): 11 miles. Bentley, Diary, 19

April 1796 (2:179).

1796 Middletown, Vt. Meetinghouse to be “painted equal to Graham’s old house [domestic], in Rutland

and the joiner work shall be equal to that of the west parish meeting house in Rutland” (1789): 30

miles. Frisbie, History of Middletown, 92.

1797 Hinsdale, Mass. Exterior to be similar to Chester (1793): 16 miles; interior to be similar to Pittsfield

(1790): 9 miles. Commemoration of the Centennial of the Congregational Church, Hinsdale, 34.

See also Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 92.

1797 Ryegate, Vt. Meetinghouse modeled after Newbury (twin porch), “considered one of the best in the

state” (1790): 10 miles. Miller and Wells, History of Ryegate, 107.

1798 Salisbury, Conn. To “be modeled after the recently erected meetinghouse at Richmond,

Massachusetts” (1794): 31 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:176.

1798 Warren, N.H. Meetinghouse to be the same size as Rumney (1795): 13 miles. Little, History of

Warren, 358.

1799 Hollis, N.H. Meetinghouse plan to copy Billerica, Mass. (1797): 23 miles. Worcester, History of

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Hollis, 245.

1799 Lee, Mass. Meetinghouse to be like Richmond (1794): 10 miles. Field, History of the County of

Berkshire, 2:139.

1800 Agawam, Mass. Purchased and moved Separatist meetinghouse in Suffield, Conn. (1763): 6 miles.

Sinnott, Meetinghouse and Church, 221; “Agawam, Massachusetts,” 12−13; Trumbull, Memorial

History of Hartford County, 2:393.

1800 Newburyport, Mass. St. Paul’s Church. Builders to copy the reading desk and pulpit of Trinity

Church in Boston (1734): 34 miles. Benes, Old Town and the Waterside, 179.

1802 Milford, N.H. Belfry to be “similar to that in Francestown” (1801): 15 miles. Ramsdell, History of

Milford, 64.

1802 Roxbury, Mass. Meetinghouse to be similar to Newburyport “with a few alterations” (1801): 37

miles. Thwing, History of the First Church, 171.

1803 Westfield, Mass. “the dimensions of the meeting-house when built be the same of that procured

from Mr. Bulfinch of Boston” (designed 1789): 97 miles. Lockwood, Westfield, 2:235. Citation

courtesy of Kevin Sweeney.

1804 Canterbury, Conn. Rustication and ornaments “to be the same as the new meeting house in Norwich

Town”; “the steple end to be the whol width same as Norwich Town Meeting house” (1801): 13

miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:61.

1805 Rocky Hill, Conn. Meetinghouse to be built with a projection on the plan of Middletown (1804): 10

miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:165.

1807 Bridgewater, Conn. Building committee “to go and view New Stratford & other Meeting houses”

for dimensions: 9 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:31.

1807 Claremont, N.H. Addition “to be modeled after Concord meeting house” (1751, semicircular

addition in 1802): 47 miles. Spofford, Old Meeting House, 1−8.

1808 Bethany, Conn. Anglican church to be “proportioned as to Length and Bredth after . . .Waterbury”

(1795): 12 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:21.

1809 Lyme, N.H. “Order and stile of both the inside and outside work of the church be according to the

plan on which the meeting house at Dartmouth College in Hanover was built” (1795): 11 miles.

Cole, Patterns and Pieces, 308.

1809 Methuen, Mass. (Second Parish). Pulpit to be dressed “as high as the First parish meetinghouse

dressing cost.” First Parish in Methuen (1796): 3 miles. “Second Parish Methuen, 1784−1846,”

(entry under 4 April 1809), unpaginated.

1809 South Abington, Mass. To be “modelled upon the South Meeting in Boston [Hollis]” (Bulfinch,

1788): 20 miles. Bentley, Diary, 3 October 1809 (3:465).

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1810 Northampton, Mass. Meetinghouse to be built “After a plan drawn by Mr. Asher Benjamin” (cost of

plan, $45.00) (1809); contract to build “in a manner equal to that of Mr. Emerson’s meeting

house in Boston” (1808): 93 miles. Plan by Benjamin: First Parish, Northampton, 21, 29; equal

to Mr. Emerson’s: 25.

1811 Whiting, Vt. Committee member to go to Boston for advice (1811): 172 miles. Sinnott,

Meetinghouse and Church, 239.

1812 Troy, N.H. Committee “to go to Templeton [Mass.] and to examine a model house . . . just

completed” (1811); to ask a committee to draw a plan of a meetinghouse they had seen at

Templeton: 19 miles. Caverly, History of Troy, 131; Stone, History of Troy, 133.

1812 Wilmington, Mass. Committee to “view the neighboring meeting house lately built in order of

drawing a plan of said house” (possibly Carlisle) (1811): 12 miles. Simmons, History, Yearbook

and Church Directory, unpaginated.

1813 Medway, Mass. Meetinghouse to be built with minor changes “after the plan of the new meeting-

house then building in West Medway” (1813): 2 miles. Jameson, History of Medway, 113.

1813 New Haven, Conn. (First Church of Christ, Congregational). Two men to look at Northampton

“with a view of ascertaining . . . that work” (1811): 76 miles; to hire “Mr. Benjamin” of Boston to

design new meetinghouse: 137 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:12−13.

1813 Otis, Mass. Meetinghouse to be of “the same construction as the one in Winsted, Conn.” (1800): 25

miles. Field, History of the County of Berkshire, 261−62.

1816 Goshen, N.H. To be “somewhat similar to the Lempster Meeting House” (1794): 6 miles. Nelson,

History of Goshen, 202.

1817 Dublin, N.H. Meetinghouse to be “after the plan of Ashby, or Fitzwilliam” (1816): 12 miles. Mason,

History of Dublin, 205.

1817 E. Avon, Conn. “not inferior to the workmanship of Norfolk Meeting House” (1813): 26 miles.

Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:9.

1819 Hancock, N.H. Meetinghouse to be “nearly the size, construction, and form of the Congregational

meeting house in Dublin” (1818): 8 miles. Hayward, History of Hancock, 143.

1820 Derby, Conn. Ornamentation of “the exterior of sd Building Steeple Belfry & Lantern shall be

modern & conformed . . . to the style adopted in finishing the same parts of a Meeting House in . .

.Warren built by Jennings” (1819): 36 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:97.

1820 Woodstock, Conn. Meetinghouse to be “the size and form of the one lately built in Killingly”

(1818): 11 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:331.

1822 Sullivan, N.H. “to paint the meetinghouse like the one in Keene” (1786): 6 miles. Seward, History

of Sullivan, 1:394.

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1825 South Britain, Conn. To have “slips,” “Globe arch,” galleries, windows, and steeple-end pulpit as at

Derby (1819): 16 miles; to have cornices “in Ionic order or like those in Warren”; “steeple

inclosed like that in Warren” (1819): 22 miles. Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:204.

1826 Attleborough, Mass. To heat the church “with a furnice or like the new meeting-house in Taunton”

(1792): 13 miles. Daggett, Sketch of the History of Attleborough, 266.

1828 Attleborough, Mass. (Second Parish). “take the North Baptist meeting house at the North end of

Providence for a sampl with some variations” (1822): 9 miles. Daggett, Sketch of the History of

Attleborough, 264.

1828 Guilford, Conn. Meetinghouse to be “finished nearly in the same style with the new churches in

Milford and Cheshire” (1823): 24 miles; meetinghouse to be “finished nearly in the same style”

as Milford and Cheshire (1826): 23 miles. New Haven Register, 12 December 1828, cited in

Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses, 1:174.

1828 Southington, Conn. Meetinghouse to have “the same size and dimensions and after a plan similar to

the new Congregational meeting house lately erected in Cheshire” (1826): 7 miles. Kelly, Early

Connecticut Meetinghouses, 2:220.