VOLUME II421

    Admissions to Church Membership, 1786–1956

    Votes of Church, 1786–1840

    Book III

    [1]   At a Meeting of the First Church in Boston, June 4, 1786 A.D.422

    I. Voted unanimously, that it is our opinion, that all, who acknowledge the divine authority of the gospel, ought (if they would be consistent) to observe its positive institutions.

    II. Voted unanimously, that we remove every obstacle, which may prevent those who worship, from communing with us; and that we impose no other terms of communion than such as are found in the word of God, or may be clearly inferred from it.

    III. Voted unanimously that all who believe in Jesus Christ; profess this belief; and sustain a good moral character, have a right to commune at the Lord’s Table: it appearing from sacred authority, that nothing more was required of the primative candidates for communion.

    IV. Voted unanimously that when any person, qualified according to the preceding Vote, shall desire stated communion, nothing more shall be required than subscription to the declaration of Faith to which we have set our hands; that this may be done in private, provided the Church be informed that such candidate has made application [2] and his actual subscription be announced the first time he shall present himself to communion.

    V. When any person, qualified, in a judgment of charity, to commune with us, but discouraged by scruples in his own mind, shall offer a child for baptism, Voted unanimously, that nothing further be required, than subscription to our common declaration of faith, assenting however to this additional article, that he will educate his child in the faith and practice of that religion to which he has solemnly set his hand.

    Attest John Clarke Minister of Said Church.

    [3]   Declaration of Faith Subscribed by the Members of the First Church of Christ in Boston

    I. We, whose names are underwritten, declare our Faith in the one only living and true God.

    II. We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, that he was sanctified of the Father, and sent into the world, that he might “redeem us from all iniquity; and purify to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works.”

    III. We believe in that gospel, which was ratified by the death and resurrection of its author; and solemnly promise to make it the only rule of our faith and practice.

    United by the ties of One Lord, one common Faith, and one Baptism, we promise to live in Christian love; to watch over each other as members of the same body; to counsel and assist, whenever there shall be occasion; to be faithful to our master, and faithful to each other, waiting in joyful hope of an eternal happy intercourse in the heavenly world.

    [4]   Signed Males (transferred)423

    • Charles Chauncy
    • John Clarke
    • Jonathan Williams
    • James Thwing
    • Jacob Williams
    • Thomas Cushing
    • Samuel Warden
    • Jer: Green
    • Nathaniel Thayer
    • John Gray
    • John Crosley
    • Joseph Lowden
    • Samuel Partridge
    • Timothy White
    • Israel Loring
    • Daniel Thwing
    • Ichabod Jones
    • John Newell
    • John Greenleaf
    • [William Clough]424
    • N. W. Appleton
    • David Tilden
    • James Pearson
    • Ebenezer Battelle
    • William Morrill
    • Matthew James
    • Nathaniel Thayer
    • James Morrill
    • Robert Rand
    • [5]   Signed Females (transferred)
    • Sarah Adams
    • Esther Clarke
    • Sarah Williams
    • Martha Thwing
    • Martha Thwing425
    • Mary Williams
    • Margaret Williams
    • Deborah Cushing
    • Ruth Thwing
    • Sarah Green
    • Abigail Gray
    • Elizabeth Crosley
    • Rebecca Lowden
    • Abigail Browne
    • Sarah Green
    • Elizabeth Blanchard
    • Elizabeth Blanchard426
    • Martha Leverette
    • Mary Greenleaf
    • Katharine Greenleaf
    • Eunice Greenleaf
    • Elizabeth Hinchman
    • Ruth Arsonneau
    • Mary Loring
    • Catharine Gray
    • Ruth Thayer
    • Lydia Ash
    • Hannah Stevens
    • Sarah Griffith
    • Sarah McMair

    Letter of Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse to the Reverend William Emerson reporting an anonymous gift to provide for the vaccination of one hundred members of the congregation, March 28, 1811

    [6]   Signed Males

    • Timothy Lyman
    • Ezekiel Price
    • Cornelius Thayer
    • Osias Moore
    • Benjamin Johnson
    • Nathaniel Fellows
    • Samuel Thwing junior
    • Abraham Bishop
    • John Clinton427
    • Daniel Wild
    • Obadiah Thayer Junior
    • Cornelius Fellowes
    • Samuel Bulfinch
    • Joseph Warren Jenkins
    • William Hilliard
    • Enoch Huse
    • Daniel Denison Rogers
    • Abijah Cheever
    • William Emerson
    • Edward Blake Junior
    • James Thwing
    • Jacob Copeland
    • [7]   Signed Females (transferred)
    • Suviah Thayer
    • Anna Archbald
    • Sarah Appleton
    • Sally Heming
    • Sarah Barrell
    • Rebecca428 Parrott
    • Joanna Tilden
    • Abigail Pearson
    • Sarah Berkes (Connexion dissolved February 1825)
    • Anna Battelle
    • Mary Newell
    • Elizabeth Morrill
    • Sarah Tilden
    • Sarah Durant
    • Hannah Danniels
    • Sarah Bradlee
    • Martha Williams
    • Hannah Williams
    • Jenet Frasier
    • Mindwell Sumner
    • Mary Morrill
    • Mary Browne
    • Hannah Smith
    • Hannah Austin
    • Joanna Otis
    • Elizabeth Bradlee
    • Ruth Price
    • [8]   Signed Males
    • Jonathan L. Austin
    • Nathaniel Appleton
    • William Lankester
    • James H. Foster. Died Dec. 10, 1862 (89)
    • Andrew E. Thayer
    • Obadiah Huse
    • Dudley Richardson
    • Moses Barnard (suspended August 1825)
    • David Francis, June 1809
    • Samuel Bradford
    • Nathaniel Goddard. Died in 1853
    • Gamaliel Bradford
    • Henry H. Tuckerman
    • William Smith
    • Minott Thayer, May 1, 1812
    • Samuel Floyd, May 1, 1812
    • Peter Chardon Brooks, March 3, 1813. Died in 1849
    • John Lovejoy Abbott, July 4, 1813
    • Joseph Woodward, Jan. 2, 1814. (Relation transferred 1822)
    • Ephraim H. Farrar, Feb. 6, 1814
    • [9]   Signed Females (transferred)
    • Rachel Emmons
    • Martha Tilden, transferred
    • Mary Tilden
    • Rachel Bradford
    • Rebecca Lamb
    • Rebecca Smith429
    • [Lucy Morse]430
    • Mary Blanchard
    • Elisabeth Blanchard
    • Susanna Witherton
    • Jane Salmon
    • Rebecca Thwing
    • Ann Williams
    • Anna Dashwood
    • Sarah Wild
    • Elizabeth Thayer
    • Mary Morrill
    • Ann Voase
    • Sarah Tilden
    • Hannah Barrell
    • Sarah Williams
    • Martha Homans
    • Sarah Homans
    • Myra Eliot
    • Hannah Wells
    • [10]   Males

      1814

    • Joseph S. Buckingham, March 6. (Dismissed at his own request Feb. 11, 1821)
    • George Blanchard, June 5
    • William Furness, June 5
    • Stephen Babcock, Aug. 7

      1815

    • Edward Reynold, March 5. (1848)
    • N. L. Frothingham, March 5
    • Ephraim L. Frothingham, April 2
    • Sarah Wheelwright, May 4 (See Females)
    • Edward Reynolds Jr., May 5
    • P. Frothingham, May 30. (1826)
    • John Boies, June 30

      1816

    • Isaac Hall, Feb. 3
    • William Hill, Feb. 25
    • Lewis G. Pray, Feb. 25
    • James Phillips, March 3
    • Daniel L. Gibbens, April 5
    • Eldad Brown, April 6. (1837)
    • Peter Allen, Nov. 2
    • N. H. Furness Jr., Nov. 8

      1817

    • Thomas T. Robinson, Jan. 31
    • [11]   Females
    • Eliza Bradford
    • Eliza Hastings
    • Abigail Jenkins
    • Sarah Blake
    • Charlotte Otis
    • Betsey Woodbury
    • Ruth Emerson
    • Martha Thwing
    • Jannett Thwing
    • Rebeckah Bridge
    • Abigail Rogers
    • Mary Morse
    • Susanna Thayer Soper
    • Mary H. Bliss
    • Sarah Tilden
    • Hannah Stevenson
    • Anna Jones
    • Harriet Downes
    • Clarissa Downes
    • Nancy Battelle
    • Louisa Battelle
    • Mary Roberts
    • Rebecca Roberts
    • Elizabeth Foster
    • [12]   Mary Sargent Allen (See p. 16.)
    • Males

      1820

    • Ephraim Hall, April 1

      1823

    • William Emerson, May 31
    • R. Waldo Emerson, May 31
    • James G. Barnard, Sept. 7

      1826

    • George W. Smith, April 1
    • Samuel M. Thayer, July 30

      1827

    • Daniel Messinger, Jan. 5. (1846)
    • Ebenezer Claflen, Jan. 5. (1831)

      1828

    • Supply C. Thwing, May
    • Elsey F. Thwing
    • William Bentley Fowle, Sept. 4
    • Maria Antoinette Fowle, Sept. 4
    • Charlotte Lovell Gibson, Oct. 2 (connexion transferred August 1834)
    • Hannah Elisabeth Stevenson, Dec. 1
    • Margaret Stevenson, Dec. 2

      1829

    • Winifred Tupper Wheelwright, Feb.
    • Elizabeth Gardner Wheelwright, Feb.
    • [13]   Females
    • Rachel Thayer
    • Mary Patch
    • Grace Hill
    • Susan Sturgis
    • Sarah Paine
    • Jane Austin
    • Elizabeth Tilden
    • Mary Appleton
    • Sarah Hurd
    • Patty Metcalf
    • Rebecca Bridge
    • Susan Powell Warren
    • Sarah Battelle
    • Ann Furness
    • Hannah Brown
    • Nancy Roberts
    • Elizabeth Williams
    • Abigail Joy
    • Nancy Holmes (transferred connexion May 5, 1815)
    • Abigail Park
    • Margaret Corbett
    • Elisabeth Cade
    • Priscilla Phillips
    • [14]   1823
    • Elizabeth Anna Foster, May 31
    • Sarah H. Jenks, Aug. 3
    • Elisabeth Richardson, Dec. 5. (1844)

      1824

    • Elizabeth Joy, Jan. 1
    • Henrietta May Goddard, Feb. 1
    • Rebecca Beaman, Feb. 1 (connexion transferred June 1825)
    • Mary R. Gibbens, July 3
    • Mary Hickling, Aug. 28
    • Ann Holden, Sept. 3
    • Lucy Holden, Sept. 3

      1825

    • Mary Storer Goddard, Dec. 30

      1826

    • Louisa Cathrine Smith Foster, Jan. 1
    • Mary Smith Foster, Jan. 1
    • Rebecca Tilden Phillips, Feb. 28
    • Sarah Phillips, March 31
    • Martha Stinson Phillips, March 31 (Mrs. Lewis—1850)
    • Harriet P. Homer, June 30
    • Elizabeth Gibbens, Sept. 2

      1827

    • Susana Messinger, Jan. 5
    • Hannah Thayer, June 3
    • Mary Alline, Nov. 28. (1848)
    • Hannah Alline, Nov. 28 (See p. 12)
    • [15]   Females
    • Abigail Roe Blanchard
    • Susanna Barnard
    • Susanna Richardson
    • Susanna Boylston Richardson
    • Mary Francis, June 1809
    • Mary Chapman
    • Elizabeth Storer Smith
    • Anna Phillips
    • Harriet Clarke
    • Sally Huse
    • Betsey Hale Huse
    • Lucy Hill Huse
    • Ann Bradford
    • Katharine Barton Bradford
    • Lucy Bradford
    • Lucy Haynes (connexion dissolved April 1824)
    • Lydia Sanger
    • Lucretia Goddard
    • Sarah A. Bradford
    • Ruth Lyman Tuckerman
    • Joanna Howard (connexion transferred to the Twelfth Church December 1840)
    • [16]   1816
    • Mary Gray, Nov. 25
    • Fanny Gray, Nov. 25 (connexion transferred)
    • Mary Sargent Allen, Nov. 25 (See P. 12)

      1817

    • Rachel Bradlee Tilden, May 29 (1850)
    • Sarah Bradlee Pollock, May 29
    • Sarah Homer, Aug. 1
    • Susan Gibson, Oct. 30
    • Mary Elwell, Dec. 6
    • Nancy Haynes, Dec. 6 (certificate of dismission granted January 14, 1825)
    • Ann Gorham Brooks, Dec. 20

      1818

    • Fanny Otis, Oct. 30
    • Sarah Russell, Oct. 30

      1819

    • Eliza L. Henshaw, July 30
    • Charlotte Gray Brooks, July 30
    • Hannah Joy, Nov. 7

      1820

    • Lucretia D. Goddard
    • Hannah Call
    • Helen M. Paine, Nov. 30
    • Sarah C. Paine, Nov. 30 (Mrs. Aylwyn, 1848)
    • Adeline E. Reynolds, Dec. 1

      1822

    • Hannah Matilda Bradlee
    • Mary Otis Pilsbury, June 1

      1823

    • Kezia Sawyer, Feb. 1 (See p. 14)
    • [17]   1823
    • Mary Parker Tilden
    • Judith C. Huntington

      1812

    • Hannah Smith, Feb. 2
    • Nancy Floyd, May 1

      1813

    • Elizabeth Morrill, Feb. 5
    • Ann Brooks, March 3. (1830)
    • Hannah Glover, April 4. (1845)
    • Anna Curtis, July 2
    • Susannah Robbins, Oct. 12

      1814

    • Nancy Benjamin, Jan. 2

      1816

    • Betsey Bellows, Jan.
    • Louisa Bellows, Feb. 4
    • Ruth Thwing, March 6
    • Melinda Buckingham, March 6. (1846)
    • Ann Archbald, April 3
    • Sarah Archbald, April 3
    • Catharine Moore, May 1
    • Charlotte Moore, May 1
    • Mehitable Otis, June 5
    • Ruth Beals, July 3
    • Sally Paine, Aug. 7
    • Mary Paine, Aug. 7
    • Maria A. Paine
    • Lucretia Paine
    • Mary Rice, Dec. 4 (Relation transferred)
    • [18]   1815
    • Polly Robinson, Feb. 5
    • Nabby Joy, April 2
    • Susan Mitchell Hall, April 2
    • Ann Bradlee, April 2
    • Joanna Frothingham, April 2
    • P. L. Frothingham, April 2
    • Mary Gibbens, May 4
    • Sarah Wheelwright, May 4 (See May 4, 1815. Males, p. 10)
    • Elizabeth Frazier, May 27
    • Sarah Hayward, May 30
    • Sophia Frothingham, June 4
    • Eliza Lincoln, June 28
    • Jane T. Reynolds, June 30
    • Fanny M. Reynolds, June 30
    • Sarah Boies, June 30
    • Joanna Frothingham, July 1
    • Ruthy Webber, Aug. 5
    • Pamela Brown, Oct. 5. (1850)
    • Deborah Wheeler, Nov. 10

      1816

    • Eunice Durant, Feb. 27 (relation transferred February 1823)
    • Mary Pilsberry, July 2
    • Sally Allen, Nov. 2 (See preceding page)

    [19]   This Covenant dispensed with by a unanimous vote of the Church July 6, 1828, as recorded at the end of the Signatures.

    Declaration431 of Faith Subscribed by those who Request Baptism for their Children

    I. We, whose names are underwritten, declare our Faith in the one only living and true God.

    II. We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, that he was sanctified of the Father, and sent into the world, that he might redeem us from all iniquity; and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

    III. We believe in that gospel, which was ratified by the death and resurrection of its author; and promise to make it the only rule of our faith and practice.

    And we solemnly engage to educate our children in the faith and practice of that religion, to which we set our hand.

    Signed

    • Benjamin Austin junior
    • Edward Read
    • David Tyler
    • Samuel Torrey.
    • James Dawson
    • Eliakim Morse
    • Seer Kimbal
    • Robert Williams Junior
    • Edward Curtis
    • Peter Branch
    • [20]
    • John Brown
    • Thomas Rogers
    • David Smith Marston
    • Mary432 Cunningham
    • Samuel Thayer
    • David West
    • Benjamin Homer
    • Jonathan Williams
    • Edmund Wright
    • Lemuel Ludden
    • George Cade
    • Abijah Cheever
    • Joseph Harris
    • Michael Bird
    • Samuel Tucke
    • Gamaliel Bradford Junior
    • James Phillips
    • P. C. Brooks
    • [Thomas Redman]
    • [Mary Green]
    • [Samuel Bradlee 2d]433
    • John W. Blanchard
    • Samuel Miller Thayer
    • Phillis Ward
    • Venus Watson
    • James Thwing
      • Elisabeth Linnaken

      • adults
      • Rachel Linnaken
      • Martha Linnaken
    • [21]
    • William Wesson
    • Samuel Wheelwright
    • Eliza Bradford
    • Sarah Bradford Hickling
    • Charlotte Hickling
    • Joseph Barrell Junior
    • John G. Doubleday
    • Elisha Woods
    • William Stevenson
    • Edward Carnes
    • Allan Pollock
    • David W. Bradlee
    • Benjamin Burt Hooton
    • Joshua Loring
    • Edward Blake Junior
    • William Hickling
    • Charles Paine
    • John West
    • Obadiah Wright
    • [22]
    • Asa Bullard
    • Asa Page
    • John Hancock Abbot
    • Sally Loring
    • Robert Little
    • Benajah Brigham
    • Daniel Henry
    • Sarah Henry
    • Harry Smith
    • Catherine Waters
    • John Q. Adams
    • Josiah Bradlee
    • James A. Allen
    • Daniel Sargent junior
    • Hannah Roberts
    • Francis Noble
    • David S. Eaton
    • John McLeod
    • John C. Warren
    • Hannah Gleason
    • Orange Gleason
    • [23]
    • Jacob Wendell
    • Robert Morris
    • Abijah Pitcher
    • Achsah Benjamin
    • Caleb Hayward
    • George Frost Junior
    • Nathaniel Sturgis
    • Susannah Robins her mark +
    • Nehemiah Parsons
    • Hugh Mackenzie
    • Alexander Gray
    • Jacob Rogers
    • Henry Paine
    • Nathaniel Wendell
    • Ebenezer Hall 3d
    • Jonathan Heywood
    • Penuel B. Rogers
    • James Whittemore
    • Joseph S. Buckingham
    • Susanna Keys
    • [24]
    • Rachel Upshall
    • Moses Barnard
    • Benjamin Robbins
    • John Bumstead
    • Jonathan Howard
    • Mary Newell
    • Asa Richardson
    • Hugh Morrison by W. E[merson]
    • David Francis
    • James Fillis
    • John Homans
    • James Mackenzie
    • Isaac Hall
    • William Hayden
    • Thomas Farmer
    • Francis Gray
    • William W. Clapp
    • John Ballard Junior
    • Daniel L. Gibbens
    • Mary Gibbens
    • Enoch Bartlett
    • [25]
    • Abel Baker
    • Sarah Baker
    • John Rayner
    • Elisabeth Rayner
    • Charles W. Black
    • Mary Sanger
    • Catharin Sanger
    • Windsor Fay
    • Henry Ayling
    • William Homer
    • Levi Bliss
    • William Keith
    • Ebenezer Osgood Fifield
    • Archibald Young
    • William Goodwin
    • William Tucker

      1812

    • Jan. 5 Jonas Prouty
    • Dec. 12 Joseph P. Bradlee
    • Ann Brooks
    • [26]

      1814

    • May 19 John May
    • June 2 Henry Cutter
    • Nov. 6 Robert Elwell

      1815

    • Feb. 17 Joseph F. Bordman
    • March 14 John Morse
    • July 19 Peter Allen
    • Dec. 1 John Lilley

      1816

    • April 20 James Allen
    • Sept. 18 N. H. Furness
    • Nov. 16 E. T. F. Richardson
    • Nov. 29 Lydia Lyman

      1817

    • May 12 Jackson Neal by N. L. Frothingham
    • Sept. 19 Isaac Danforth
    • Sept. 19 Benjamin B. Appleton
    • Nov. 9 Charles Bowker
    • 1818 John Bowman
    • May 3 Benjamin C. Phillips
    • Aug. 1 Samuel L. Abbot
    • Aug. 31 Joseph Otis
    • Sept. 26 Jacob Wendall
    • [27]
    • Sept. 27 Benjamin Huntington

      1819

    • March 21 Sam Henshaw
    • June 6 Thomas West
    • Sept. 20 Matthew M. Hunt

      1820

    • Feb. 18 Ephraim Hall

      1821

    • January George M. Gibbens
    • Jan. 26 Isaac Otis
    • July 15 Georg L. Cade
    • Sept. 29 Alfred Curtis

      1823

    • May 3 Edward Everett
    • May 19 James Sharp
    • Aug. 30 Eben Chadwick
    • Oct. 18 William P. Winchester
    • Oct. 19 John Hooper

      1824

    • April 3 Joel Fay
    • June 13 Otis Fairbankes
    • Aug. 22 Charles Cole Jr.
    • Nov. 28 Benjamin Apthorp Gould

    [28]   Boston, July 6, 1828.

    The Subscriber, differing widely in opinion from his brethren in the vote on the opposite page; hereby expresses his sincere regret that such a vote should become necessary in the records of the First Church.

    (signed) James Morrill Senior deacon of the church.

    [29]   July 6, 1828.

    At a meeting of the brethren, communicants of the First Church, called by the pastor for the special purpose of considering the expediency of dispensing with the foregoing convenant, held in the church on Lord’s day afternoon, July 6th 1828.

    Present, D. Messinger, J. Phillips, D. Francis, N. Goddard, I. Hall, D. L. Gibbons, S. C. Thwing, G. W. Smith, S. Floyd, P. Allen, E. Clafflin.

    Deacon Foster in the chair, it was unanimously voted, That the baptismal covenant of this church, commonly called the half-way covenant, be hereafter dispensed with.

    A true copy,

    attest N. L. Frothingham.

    [30]   January 19, 1829.

    A meeting of the communicants, who are also proprietors, of the First Church, convened this afternoon. The meeting was called at the request of the deacons of the church. There were present The Pastor, Deacon Morrill, Deacon Foster, and of the brethren Edward Reynolds, Daniel Messinger, D. L. Gibbens, S. Floyd and S. C. Thwing.

    The following resolutions were offered by Deacon Foster:

    Whereas, at the annual meeting of the First Church Society, held on July 31, 1827, a vote was passed, and a Committee chosen, to dispose of a part of the land lying on the south side of the meeting house, and whereas, at a meeting of the Society on November 20, 1827, and at the last annual meeting, the Society confirmed said vote, and approved of the sale of a lot of land to Mr. G. F. Thayer, [31] and voted that a deed of the same be made to said Thayer, and that the deacons of the church be requested to execute said deed;

    Now therefore

    1. Voted That this church do approve of the doings of the Society, and of selling said lot of land to said G. F. Thayer,—also,

    2. Voted That the deacons of this church be requested, and they are hereby requested, to sign a deed of said land to said Thayer, for and in behalf of this church.

    3. Voted That the deacons be authorized, after executing said deed, to deliver the same to the Society’s Committee for selling the land.

    These resolutions were passed, though not without considerable opposition to the first of them, on the ground that the communicants of the church have nothing to do, either with approving or disapproving of the doings of the Society.

    N. L. Frothingham.

    [32]   May 14, 1833.

    A meeting of the brethren of the First Church was held this day at 8 o’clock at the house of the pastor. This being the first meeting of the communicants, held since the death of Deacon James Morrill, it was

    Voted That this church remembers with respect and sensibility the character of its late venerable deacon, and the services which he so faithfully rendered to it, during a long series of years.

    That it sympathises with the widow and family of its departed friend, joins with them in grateful acknowledgment of the divine goodness vouchsafed to him in the comforts of his sickness and the peacefulness of his end; and commends them to the consolations of that Christian faith, in which he lived usefully and died full of hope.

    That a copy of the foregoing resolutions be transmitted to Mrs. Morrill, by the hands of the Pastor.

    [33]   The church proceeded to the choice of a deacon, and elected unanimously brother William B. Fowle. On his declining to accept the office, a new ballot was cast, and brother Isaac Hall was unanimously chosen.

    Voted with one consent, to discontinue the collection for the poor of the Communion Service.

    Voted that this church will hereafter hold an annual meeting, at the hands of the pastor, on the anniversary of its first gathering in 1630; to wit, on the evening of each twenty seventh of August.

    Adjourned.

    N. L. F.

    May 20, 1833.

    A meeting of the brethren was convened by the pastor, who gave notice that our brother Isaac Hall declined serving in the office of deacon. Brother Samuel H. Babcock was then unanimously elected; and after an interesting conversation on the state and usages and interests of the church, the meeting was dissolved.

    N. L. F.

    [34]   August 27, 1833.

    The church met at the house of the pastor this evening; according to the resolution of May 14. Notice was given that brother S. H. Babcock was unwilling to be elected to the office of deacon. On the motion of br. D. L. Gibbens, the following vote was adopted:

    Voted that the deacon of this church be requested to furnish for the use of the members a statement of all its pecuniary resources, embracing the amount of the several funds belonging, to, or in any way connected with this church or any of its members; or in trust or at the disposal of any of its officers; together with the origin of the said funds, and the conditions upon which any of them were accumulated; and the annual amount dispensed in charity, or otherwise, the number of recipients, and what proportion of these were members of the church or worshippers with the Society:

    And that the deacon be further requested to furnish for the same purpose a complete schedule of the Communion Service, with the names of the donors of such pieces of plate as were presented to the church, with all such other particulars, as may be interesting to the members of the church.

    [35]   Whereupon the subject was referred to a Committee, consisting of the pastor, Deacon Foster and brother Charles C. Paine, with instructions to report as early as convenient. N. L. F.

    February 24, 1834.

    The church met this evening at the house of the pastor, when the following report was unanimously accepted.

    The Committee appointed to make a report of the funds belonging to the Church, and of the Communion Table furniture with a description of the same, have attended to that duty and report:

    That they find no record of the church funds since October 1806. At that time the record states the Fund for the poor generally

    $1249.40

    Fund for the Ministry

    295.7

    Fund for Pious uses

    132.20
     

    $1676.67

    It appears by the accounts, that, on January 1, 1796 Interest was first received on $800, 3 percent stock, on a Legacy of Suviah Thayer to the poor of the Church and Society. Suviah Thayer also left $1132.90 in 3 percent stock to the Deacons in trust, the interest to be paid to William Thayer, a non compos mentis, during his life, and at his death, the interest to be given to the poor of the Church and Society.

    William Thayer died, and the interest on that sum [36] is first credited, December 1821. July 2, 1815: a legacy was received, left by Mrs. Abigail Gray of £50 sterling the interest to be given to the poor of the Church.

    The amount of the Funds at the present time, is,

    		    

    Fund for the poor generally

    $4160

    		  

    Fund for the Ministry

    600

    		  

    Fund for Pious Uses

    200

    $4960

    which sum is invested in State Bank stock;

    		    

    viz: 76 shares at $60

    4560

    		  

    and First Church Society note

    400

    		  
     

    $4960

    		  

    The Committee offer the following as a correct Inventory and Description of the Plate belonging to First Church: viz.

    1. A silver basin for Baptisms; with a coat of arms434 engraved on the rim, and I. Hurd stamped in the centre, weight, 2703. 5 dwt.

    2. A Flaggon, with a coat of arms engraved in front, and an inscription underneath, “The Gift of the Honorable William Dummer Esq. to the First Church in Boston, 1726.” 56 oz. 8 dwt.

    3. A similar Flaggon, with the inscription within an ornamented oval, “The Gift of Deacon Thomas Waite435 to the First Church of Christ in Boston, May 15, 1775.” 59 oz. 5 dwt.

    [37]

    4. A tall embossed cup, with engraving and figures in relief, and this inscription written round the rim, “The Gift of Governor John Winthrop to the 1st Church in Boston,” weight, 16 oz. 1 dwt. no date.

    5. Three ornamented cups, lettered on the sides, “The Gift of Elder Joseph Bridgham to the first church in Boston, 1708.” weight of the whole, 34 oz. 5 dwt.

    6. A similar cup, with the inscription on the side, “The Gift of James Everill436 to the First Church in Boston, 1705.” 10 oz. 6 dwt.

    7. Another similar cup, with these letters engraved on the bottom, “Ex dono A.D.437 Se Test MI.A.”438 10 oz. 6 dwt.

    8. A plain cup, with this inscription, “The Gift of a Friend R * H.”439 These letters B)T(C also are faintly visible. Date 1661, written on the bottom. 12 oz. 8 dwt.

    9. A similar cup with the same faint letters; inscribed, “The Gift of a Freinde T * C.”440 12 oz. 19 dwt.

    10. A massy enchased cup, with the same letters B)T(C impressed upon a polished oval in front; and an inscription above; “The Gift of a Freind I * H.”441 22 oz. 16 dwt.

    11. Three large plain cups, inscribed, “The Gift of John Oxenbridg.” 48 oz. 14 dwt.

    12. A pair of cups, engraved on one side with a coat of arms, and on the other with this inscription in an ornamented cartouche, “The Gift of Mrs Lydia Hancock to the First Church of Christ in Boston, Sept. 4. 1773.” 26 oz. 11 dwt.

    [38]

    13. A plain cup, inscribed, “The Gift of J.S.”442 11 oz.

    14. Another plain cup, inscribed WFP.443 12 oz. 5 dwt.

    15. A tall, slender cup, plain, with the letters dotted A)H(E.444 10 oz.

    16. A small cup, lettered in front G.HH.445 and under the bottom R.FE.446 7 oz. 11 dwt.

    17. A pair of Tankards, lettered, “The Gift of Samuell More447 to the first church in Boston”; the smaller marked on the handle B.WS.448 1717. 52 oz. 1 dwt.

    18. Another Tankard, a cartouche in front like No. 12, with the Inscription, “The Gift of Nathanael Balston Esq. to the first church of Christ in Boston 1773.” On the handle are the initials NBH.449 22 oz. 6 dwt.

    19. Another Tankard, with this inscription in an ornamented cartouche, “The Gift of Madam Eliz: Welsteed to the First Church of Christ in Boston, 1752”; with the initials on the handle W.WE.450 22 oz. 12 dwt.

    20. A pair of cans, with a coat of arms engraved on the front, and underneath the Inscription, “The Gift of Deacon Jonathan Williams to the first Church of Christ in Boston, at his decease March 27, 1737.” 28 oz. 9 dwt.

    [39]

    21. A can inscribed “the Gift of John Forland451 to the first Church of Christ in Boston, for the use of the table, 1717.” 11 oz. 11 dwt.

    22. Two massy Tumblers, enchased in the same style as No. 10, with the same letters BTC;452 one of them bearing the date 1659 under the initials. 13 oz. 12 dwt.

    23. A Vase, figured with birds and flowers, bearing on the bottom the initials RSE.453 10 oz. 14 dwt.

    24. Three plain Vases, with the initials O.TC.454 38 oz. 1 dwt.

    25. Two spoons, with the same initials. 2 oz. 18 dwt.

    26. Four Dishes, with the inscriptions round their rims, “Given by Suviah Thayer,455 in testimony of her respect for the First Church of Christ in Boston, A.D. 1796.” 96 oz. 15 dwt.

    The whole being forty pieces, and weighing Six Hundred and Seventy Two Ounces,” and Nineteen Pennyweights.456

    Two silver cups were put upon the Communion Table, as the gift of Mrs. Joshua Davis May 1, 1861. They are marked “D”.457

    (Signed) N. L. Frothingham

    James H. Foster

    Charles C. Paine.

    The meeting was then dissolved.

    N. L. F.

    [40]   Sunday, September 27, 1840.

    The communicants of the Church remained after the morning service, to consider the following communication from the church in Hollis St. viz.

    To the First Church in Boston, under the pastoral care of Rev. N. L. Frothingham, D.D.

    Christian brethren,

    The proprietors of Hollis Street Meeting House, having, by their special Committee, preferred articles or grounds of complaint against Rev. John Pierpont, the pastor of Hollis St. Church and Society, to be submitted to a mutual ecclesiastical council, as reasons for a dissolution of his pastoral relation; and the said pastor having agreed with the said proprietors, that the following churches in Boston; namely,

    • The First Church, under the pastoral care of Rev. N. L. Frothingham D.D.
    • The Second Church, under the pastoral care of Rev. Chandler Robbins.
    • The Brattle Street Church, under the pastoral care of Rev. S. K. Lothrop.
    • The New North Church, under the pastoral care of Rev. Francis Parkman D.D.
    • The New South Church, under the pastoral care of Rev. Alexander Young.
    • The Federal St. Church, under the pastoral care of Rev. William E. Channing D.D. and E. S. Gannett.
    • The West Church, under the pastoral care of Rev. Charles Lowell D.D. and Rev. Cyrus A. Bartol.
    • The King’s Chapel, under the pastoral care of Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood D.D.
    • The Bulfinch St. Church, under the pastoral care of Rev. F. T. Gray.
    • The Twelfth Congregational Church, under the pastoral care of Rev. Samuel Barrett D.D.
    • The Purchase St. Church, under the pastoral care of Rev. George Ripley.
    • The South Congregational Church, under the pastoral care of Rev. Mellish I. Motte.
    • The Pitts St. Chapel, under the pastoral care of Rev. R. C. Waterston.
    • The Suffolk St. Chapel, under the pastoral care of Rev. J. T. Sargent.

    [41]   Each church to be represented by its pastor and one delegate, shall be invited to constitute the Council, to deliberate and decide thereupon; and the said agreement between the said proprietors and the pastor, having been communicated to the church with a request that it would issue its letters missive, in the usual form, for the convocation of the said churches, as a mutual ecclesiastical Council, and the church having voted so to do; Therefore, The Hollis Street Church does hereby respectfully request you by your pastor and a delegate, to sit in council, with the other churches above named, to deliberate upon said articles or grounds of complaint against the pastor of Hollis St. Church and Society, and the various specific allegations therein set forth; and to decide whether or not they are well founded; and, if so, whether or not they furnish good cause for removing him from his pastoral office.

    The Council will convene at the Meeting House in Hollis Street, on Tuesday, the 13th day of October next, at 10 o’clock, A.M.

    (Signed)

    Samuel May

    Committee of Hollis St. Church
     

    Henry Bass
     

    Andrew C. Dorr
     

    John Pierpont, Pastor.

    Boston, September 21, 1840.

    [42]   After considering the above, it was unanimously Voted that a letter should be addressed in reply, to the following purport.

    The First Church to the Church in Hollis St.

    Christian brethren,

    We have received from you an invitation, bearing date of September 21, to join an ecclesiastical Council, which, it is proposed to assemble on the 13th of October next, in order to “deliberate upon certain articles or grounds of complaint against the pastor of Hollis St. Church and Society.” The result, at which you wish to arrive, is this: that the said Council shall decide “whether or not the charges are well founded,” and “whether or not they furnish good cause of removing him from his pastoral office,” in case they are sustained.

    If the object of the proposed council were, to endeavour to make peace in a distracted church, or to offer advice in an unhappy emergency, or even to pronounce an absolute decision upon a question of Christian expediency, we should not feel authorized to decline our part of the responsibility, however unpleasant and delicate might be the task. We should certainly not excuse ourselves from a disagreeable duty, it being ascertained really to be a duty, [43] from the love of our ease or the fear of obloquy. But the present case does not appear to us to have such a claim. While your request invites us to the most unwelcome of tasks, and the certainty of reproach, our duty seems to us, as those who have the peace and prosperity of our churches much at heart, to be in another direction.

    You ask us to sit in judgment on the conduct of your minister, to say guilty or not guilty to accusations brought against him, and to declare whether there be cause enough therein for deposing him from his pastoral office.

    We fear that this is asking of us too much; we doubt if we should be justified in giving we cannot foresee how much time, to the investigation of we know not what nor how many charges, when the very terms of your invitation imply, that, though the charges were well grounded, there would still remain a further question, whether or not they would be cause for removing him from his place; and we therefore respectfully decline giving our attendance according to your request.

    On behalf of the Church,

    N. L. Frothingham Pastor.

    September 27, 1840.

    [44]   The following letter was soon afterwards received.

    To the Christian Church in Boston under the pastoral care of the Rev. N. L. Frothingham, D.D.

    Christian Brethren,

    The Committee of the Proprietors of Hollis Street Meeting House, received on the 28th of September from the Hollis Street Church, a copy of certain letters missive, issued by said Church under date of September 21 and addressed to your Church.

    The Society of Hollis Street Meeting House have not requested or authorized the church to issue such letters. The Society proposed to their Pastor to join them in an application to the Church to issue Letters Missive “in the usual form” to convene “a mutual Ecclesiastical Council to consider the question of dissolution of his connexion with said Society.” Their Pastor declined joining in this application, and the Society has neither made nor assented to any other. Understanding that several of the Churches called to the Council by the above-named Letters have declined, and others are about to decline attending, on account of the peculiar form of those letters, so that the Council, if convened, will not consist of those originally agreed upon, the Committee have thought proper to inform you that the Society will not be parties to any proceedings by the others, should they convene under [45] letters issued without authority from them.

    Very Respectfully,

    Joshua Crane

    Committee of the Proprietors of Hollis Street Meeting House.

    John D. Williams

    Daniel Weld

    Richard Child

    William W. Clapp

    Timothy Tileston

    Ruel Baker

    Warren White

    Boston, October 3, 1840.

    Whereupon it was Voted That the foregoing Letter be placed upon the files of the First Church.

    N. L. Frothingham.

    These Records of the First Church are carried forward to a distinct volume in folio, opened by the pastor, January 1, 1841.

    N. L. F.

    [46]

    • 1927
    		  
    • April 10
    • Olivia H. Armington
     
    • Helen V. Lothair
     
    • A. Martha Reddish
     
    • C. Rose Single
     
    • William Single
     
    • Carl R. Allen
     
    • Myles Standish
     
    • Louise M. Standish
     
    • Ralph Bradley
    • 1928
    • Alice G. Cobb
     
    • Mabel Crawford
    • 1929
    • F. S. Earle
    • 1936
    		  
    • March 29
    • Mary Hyde Buckingham
    • 1939
    		  
    • Jan. 22
    • Ima L. Steinert
    • Jan. 22
    • Helen L. Newman
    • Oct. 15
    • Sarah P. Harden
    • 1948
    		  
    • Nov. 14
    • Mabel Rogers Lenk
    • Nov. 14
    • Gilbert L. Colpitts
    • Dec. 26
    • Howland Shaw Warren
    • Dec. 26
    • Margaret Turner Warren
    • 1950
    		  
    • April 2
    • Ruth Putnam Mitchell
    • 1956
    		  
    • March 27
    • Eleanor Cabot Bradley

    [47]

    1949

    		  

    April 10

    Deborah Rugg
     

    Annie Endicott Nourse
     

    Henry Haeberle
     

    Audrey Haeberle
     

    Arthur L. Stanek
     

    Rosamond Dean Snow
     

    Valeria A. Knapp
     

    Katherine M. Mohr
     

    Kenneth K. Harms
     

    Margaret L. Howlett
     

    Catherine Van S. Swift
     

    Wauneta Lupfer
     

    Milton J. Lupfer
     

    Susan M. Jackson
     

    James H. Jackson
     

    Constant Freeman Minns Wendell

    1950

    		  

    April 2

    		  
     

    James Lessells
     

    Gladys Lessells
     

    Gwendoline M. Jackson
     

    Mary D. Hayward
     

    Louise S. Holloway
     

    Frederick C. Klinck
     

    Robert W. MacWilliams
     

    Beth MacWilliams
     

    Arthur H. Vickerson
     

    Susan Pressey Moulton

    [48]–[132]   [Blank]

    [133]   Baptisms 1794

    • January 5
    • Edward, son of Peter Chardon and Anne Brooks
    • January 19
    • Charles Augustus, son of Abijah and Elizabeth Cheever
    • March 9
    • Elizabeth Paine, daughter of Benjamin and Abigail Homer
     
    • Dalton, son of John and Abigail Blanchard
     
    • —, son of David and Sarah Tyler
    • March 25
    • George, son of Joseph and Jane Woodward
    • April 6
    • Hannah, daughter of Enoch Huse
     
    • Ann Boylstone, daughter of John and Sarah Williams
     
    • Catherine, daughter of Martin and Sarah Burkis.

    [134]   [Blank]

    [135]   A Declaration of Faith, Subscribed by Members of the First Church

    1st. We, whose names are underwritten, declare our faith in the one only living and true God.

    2nd. We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, that he was sanctified of the Father and sent into the world, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and “purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”

    3rd. We believe in that gospel, which was ratified by the death and resurrection of its author, and solemnly promise to make it the only rule of our faith and practice.

    [136]   United by the ties of one Lord, one common faith and one baptism, we promise to live in Christian love, to watch over each other as members of the same body; to counsel and assist whenever there shall be occasion; to be faithful to our Master, and faithful to each other, waiting in joyful hope of an eternal, happy intercourse in the heavenly world.

    Signed

    1829

    		  

    June 5

    Harriot Hinckley Messinger

    June 5

    Martha Ann Stevenson

    July 31

    Horatio Dorr

    July 31

    Amanda M. Stanwood

    November

    Noah Doggett

    November

    C. Doggett

    1830

    		  

    October

    Charles Cushing Paine

    1831

    		  

    November

    Marian Skinner

    December

    Susan O. Brooks

    1833

    		  

    May

    Frances C. Paine

    May

    Emmeline Austin

    1834

    		  

    May

    Elizabeth F. Lincoln

    1835

    		  

    April

    Henry W. Torrey

    [137]

    Aug. 2

    Mary F. Allen

    Aug. 2

    Sarah A. Allen

    1836

    		  

    February

    Lucretia Bradlee

    March 1837

    Harriot Alline

    May 1838

    Mary Goddard

    June 1

    Hannah G. Brown

    Aug. 2

    Thaddeus Mason Harris

    Aug. 2

    Mary Harris

    August 1839

    Anna Alleyne Chickering

    January

    Elizabeth Adams

    Nov. 29

    Samuel Bradlee

    Nov. 29

    Elizabeth Davis Bradlee

    Nov. 29

    Matilda Williams Bradlee

    Jan. 31

    Mary C. Morse

    1840

    		  

    January

    Elizabeth Richardson

    January

    Abby Lydia Davis

    April

    Ann G. Everett

    April

    Augusta Dunlap

    1841

    		  

    January

    John Eliot Thayer

    January

    Anna Francis Thayer Died in 1849

    August

    James B. Richardson

    August

    Hannah Reed

    August

    Hannah F. Richardson

    December

    Moses Everett

    [138]

    1842

    		  

    April 27

    Maria D. Hayden (dismission granted, April, 1843, returned in 1844)

    April 27

    Joanna Frothingham Lincoln. Died 1850

    1843

    		  

    May 3

    Abigail Whitney

    June 1

    Timothy Eaton

    June 1

    Mary Fiske Eaton

    1844

    		  

    Jan. 3

    Nabby Balch

    Jan. 3

    Anne Balch

    Jan. 5

    Sarah S. Benjamin

    Jan. 5

    John P. Bigelow

    Jan. 31

    Eloise B. Fowle

    Feb. 1

    C. F. Adams

    Feb. 1

    A. B. Adams

    April 6

    Octavius B. Frothingham

    July 31

    Eliza Davis Bradlee

    July 31

    Ellen Matilda Bradlee. Died July 22, 1851

    July 31

    Sarah F. Prince

    July 31

    Elizabeth Prince

    July 31

    Edward F. Weld

    July 31

    Abigail Ann Weld

    July 31

    Thomas Gray Jr. Died 1849

    July 31

    Mary F. Gray

    (See Records of the First-Church, pages 14, 15 and 16.)

    [139]   Covenant of The First Church

    “We, whose names are hereunder written” declare our faith

    1st In the One Living and True God;

    2nd In the lord Jesus Christ, that he was sanctified of the Father, and sent into the world, that the world through him might be saved; and

    3rd In that Gospel, which was confirmed by the death and resurrection of its Author, and which is binding upon us as the only rule of our faith and practice.

    Being “united into one Congregation or church, under the Lord Jesus Christ, we do hereby [140] solemnly and religiously promise to walk in all our ways according to the rule of the Gospel, and in all sincere conformity to his holy ordinances, and in mutual love and respect each to other, so near as God shall give us grace.”

    1844

    		  

    Oct. 12

    J. G. Hallet
     

    Elizabeth Hallet

    Oct. 16

    Luther Hamilton
     

    Delia Hamilton

    Oct. 17

    Charles Brooks
     

    Charlotte A. H. Brooks

    Oct. 18

    Catharine Appleton

    Oct. 20

    James T. Hayward
     

    Sarah A. Hayward

    Oct. 21

    Jesse Chickering

    Oct. 22

    Ellen M. Buckingham
     

    Joseph Palmer

    [141]

    1846

    		  

    Feb. 17

    Edward Hamilton
     

    Susan Prescott

    1846

    		  

    Aug. 19

    Thomas B. Wales. Died June 15, 1853

    1847

    		  

    April 27

    Louisa A. Bigelow (1847)

    Oct. 4

    Pelham W. Warren (1848)

    1848

    		  

    Feb. 16

    Edward Reynolds Hall

    May 20

    Amelia Langdon Harris

    July 29

    Caroline L. Bradlee

    July 29

    Caleb D. Bradlee

    Dec. 18

    Margarette A. Williams

    1849

    		  

    March

    Sarah Isabel Williams

    1850

    		  

    July

    Caroline Danforth Fales

    1853

    		  

    June

    Rufus Ellis
     

    Gertrude L. Ellis

    July

    Samuel L. Abbot
     

    Mary Otis Bailey
     

    Susan Francis

    November

    Julia B. H. James
     

    Catherine G. Salmon

    December

    Louisa M. Goddard
     

    Fanny Curtis

    March

    Harriet Louisa Gibbens
     

    Frances Maria Gibbens

    [142]

    March 3

    Mary Anne Wales
     

    Ellen Frothingham

    July 4

    George W. Wales
     

    Maria W. Wales

    November

    Charlotte Sewell Hooper
     

    Mila Vose

    1855

    		  

    Jan. 1

    Sarah Cushing Paine
     

    Fanny Jackson Paine

    Feb. 1

    Sarah A. Marsh

    March 1

    Mary Caroline Tileston
     

    Joseph M. Sherburne
     

    Sarah Augusta Sherburne
     

    Belle Fenno Sherburne

    Oct. 6

    Susan Ann Buckminster Hayden
     

    Julia Gorham Hayden
     

    Harriet Barker

    1856

    		  

    Jan. 6

    William Everett
     

    Hermann J. Warner

    March 17

    George Bates

    [143]

    March 21

    Charles L. Hayward

    March 21

    Emmeline G. Hayward
     

    her
     

    Rosanna x Merrifield
     

    mark

    Dec. 1

    Abby M. Storer
     

    Lucy H. Bradlee

    1857

    		  
     

    George O. Harris

    Feb. 1

    Ellen Hathorne Bailey
     

    J. Ellery Piper

    1858

    		  

    Jan. 1

    Emily C. Shattuck
     

    George O. Shattuck

    Feb. 5

    Amelia D. Huntington
     

    Marthaann Knowles
     

    Sarah Woodberry
     

    Elizabeth Woodberry

    June 6

    James W. Carter (added in compliance with his dying request)
     

    Lucy D. Carter
     

    Mary K. French

    [144]

    Oct. 2

    Octavia Gardner Dupee

    Oct. 2

    Melinda Orr
     

    Melinda Jane Norris
     

    Anne Brooks Frothingham
     

    Matilda C. Abbot

    1859

    		  

    April 12

    George Callender

    April 12

    John Collamore

    April 12

    Catharine Collamore
     

    D. Waldo Salisbury

    April 21

    George Fowle

    June 3

    Felicia H. Hayden
     

    Caroline A. Hayden
     

    Katherine D. Ayers
     

    Mary B. Ayers
     

    Sarah Dodge

    Dec. 31

    Robert Treat Paine Jr.

    1860

    		  

    Jan. 11

    Thomas Austin
     

    Anna P. Austin

    Feb. 23

    H. B. Rice
     

    Olive G. Rice

    Feb. 28

    Lizzie D. W. Weld

    March 2

    Ann Colburn

    March 2

    Caroline Fowle

    [145]

     

    Marion C. Dexter
     

    Frances H. Tilden

    1861

    		  

    Feb. 2

    Marianne Paine

    March 21

    Elisa Collamore

    March 28

    Calvin W. Clark

    May 24

    Margaret J. Plumer

    1862

    		  

    May 22

    Mary L. Eliot

    1863

    		  

    Jan. 4

    Prescott Bigelow

    March 1

    George R. Clarke

    April 28

    Chas E. Storer
     

    Mariana P. Storer

    Dec. 22

    Ellen C. Hall

    1864

    		  

    Jan. 2

    Frances S. H. Wright

    1865

    		  

    Jan. 1

    Elisabeth C. Callender

    May 5

    Mary T. Phillips

    May 5

    Helen Collamore
     

    Susan Hammond

    May 28, 1865.

    At a Meeting of the Male Communicants of First Church held May 28, 1865 it was Voted That the Covenant offered to Communicants for their signatures shall be henceforth that under which the Church was originally gathered, as follows on the next page.

    [146]   This Church was gathered August 27, 1630 under the following Covenant:

    In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and in obedience to his holy will and divine ordinance,

    We, whose names are hereunder written, being by His most wise and good providence brought together into this part of America, in the bay of Massachusetts; and desirous to unite ourselves into one Congregation or Church, under the Lord Jesus Christ, our head, in such sort as becometh all those whom he hath redeemed and sanctified to himself,—do hereby solemnly and religiously (as in his most holy presence) promise and bind ourselves to walk in all our ways [147] according to the rule of the Gospel, and in all sincere conformity to his holy ordinances, and in mutual love and respect each to other, so near as God shall give us grace.

    1865

    		  

    June 5

    Eliza Cunningham Nickerson

    June 24

    Peter Chardon Brooks

    1866

    		  

    Jan. 1

    Frances Harrod Downes

    April 5

    James W. Brackin

    Dec. 22

    H. A. Pettee

    1867

    		  

    March 15

    Alice S. Wheeler

    May 1

    Lucia A. Dow
     

    Thomas B. Wales
     

    Jennette M. Wales

    Nov. 2

    Helen Paine

    Nov. 2

    Mary Dexter

    Nov. 2

    Julia L. Jones

    1868

    		  

    Jan. 2

    M. Josephine W. Lord

    Jan. 3

    Octavia G. Dupee

    [148]

    May 16

    Louisa G. Fessenden
     

    M. A. Hood

    June 8

    Ellen A. Hood
     

    Emma L. Hood

    Oct. 24

    Turner Sargent

    1869

    		  

    March 21

    Henry Saltonstall

    March 21

    Georgiana C. Saltonstall

    March 24

    Rebecca A. Brackin

    March 24

    Mary E. Bath

    March 25

    Elizabeth P. Rogers

    March 25

    Cynthia M. Beckler

    April 3

    Andrew T. Hall

    March 28

    Florence D. Chapman

    April 28

    James H. Blake

    Dec. 31

    Anna P. Chandler

    1870

    		  

    Jan. 21

    John H. Reed
     

    Sarah P. Reed

    Jan. 30

    Catherine O. Sumner

    [149]

    1871

    		  

    Feb. 27

    Ruth Silsbee

    Feb. 27

    Marianne C. D. Silsbee

    April 3

    Otis Drury
     

    Julia Ann Drury

    April 12

    N. D. Pickman
     

    Jonathan Ellis

    Oct. 29

    G. Washington Warren
     

    Georgiana Warren

    1872

    		  

    Feb. 29

    Ellen Augusta Turner
     

    Sarah T. Peel

    1873

    		  

    Jan. 4

    Thomas Goddard

    Jan. 4

    Sarah F. Goddard

    April 3

    Helen E. Wilkins

    April 6

    Adriana K. Pease
     

    Minnie T. Liebold
     

    Annie J. Hill
     

    Caroline Reuter
     

    Robert Hill
     

    Charlotte Cairnes

    [150]

    April 6

    Annie Cairne
     

    Elizabeth Louisa Dorr
     

    Mary E. Brackett
     

    Maggie Albrecht [?]458
     

    Sarah E. Smith
     

    Carrie Doll
     

    Hermina Reinhardt
     

    Elizabeth Reinhardt
     

    Anne E. Bornkessel
     

    Annie M. Welfel
     

    Sophie E. Zeuner
     

    Elvira W. Hibbard
     

    Caroline Fleck
     

    Caroline Foster Mandell
     

    Louise Tomson Paul
     

    Mary Gaffey
     

    Emm L. Behr
     

    Charlotte R. Myers

    [151]

    Sept. 26

    Joseph P. Sheafe Jr.

    March 16

    Deborah L. Cutler

    March 16

    Dora Louise Cutler
     

    Sarah A. Preble
     

    Annie M. Young
     

    Mary Ann Bennet
     

    Emma Schrempf
     

    Eliza F. Cutler
     

    Amelia J. Sargent

    June 5

    Catharine Hale
     

    Margaret F. King
     

    Mary J. Rogers

    1875

    		  

    June 27

    Cornelia A. Mudge

    1876

    		  

    March 7

    Carrie Taylor

    March 29

    Fannie F. Larkin

    April 9

    Louisa A. Bennet
     

    Louisa Behr
     

    Anne Richner
     

    Elizabeth Dorr
     

    Bertha L. Hammutz

    [152]

    April 9

    Emma L. Bernhardt
     

    Rosa Zepfler
     

    Lucilla W. Cutler
     

    Richard F. Wegerdt
     

    Emma Doll
     

    S. M. Francis
     

    Louisa Doll
     

    William Dorr
     

    Thomas W. Daley
     

    Louisa Schiel

    1877

    		  

    May 8

    Abby H. Thayer

    Feb. 15

    Lucy B. Holder

    March 18

    Edward Clarke Ellis

    March 25

    Pauline Loebisch
     

    Louisa M. Wilfert
     

    Johanna Jennewein
     

    Eugenie V. Walther
     

    Helen C. Buttinger

    [153]

     

    Nora Burke
     

    Louisa Bornkessel
     

    Phillipena Zeuner
     

    Carrie Baeumler
     

    Nina Arietta Page
     

    Mary Godfrey
     

    Emilie H. Bernhard
     

    Etta A. Hodgdon
     

    Harriet Morse
     

    Augustus A. Heuser

    April 12

    W. A. Fry

    May 6

    Catherine Hill

    Nov. 2

    Charles In

    1878

    Jan. 9

    William Putnam Kuhn

    Jan. 19

    Edward L. Adams
     

    Emily M. Adams

    June. 5

    Henry E. Doering
     

    Andrew L. Boehr
     

    Valentine Freiburger

    June 9

    T. Mc Olive

    [154]

    June 10

    Theresa M. Engel
     

    Emma C. Lehmann
     

    Susan Oedel
     

    Abbie N. Burke
     

    Emma M. Becker
     

    Mathilda Miller
     

    Isabella McAuliff

    1879

    		  

    April 6

    Frederick S. Fleck
     

    William H. Roos
     

    Rebecca Milliken
     

    Gertrude A. Drew
     

    Julia E. Drew
     

    Annie Taylor
     

    Hannah Dunn
     

    Mary E. Milliken
     

    Helen Godfrey
     

    Matilda Gimber
     

    Mary Slingol

    April 20

    Judith B. Osborne

    [155]

    May 11

    Sarah Elizabeth Brown
     

    Ada Thankful Brown
     

    Bertha Gertrude Roch

    1880

    		  

    March 21

    Fannie T. French

    March 21

    Fanny S. French
     

    Pauline H. E. Rauscher
     

    Wilhelmina J. Doering
     

    Emily A. Scholl
     

    Margaret R. Angelbeek
     

    Louise Gage Coburn
     

    Mabel Thornton Turner
     

    Annie C. Nostrom
     

    Syble J. Osborne
     

    Eliza J. Godfrey

    1872

    Helen Walker

    [156]

    1881

    		  

    March 6

    Arthur Blake Ellis
     

    Helen Hartigan
     

    Lena Grasser
     

    Emma Oedel
     

    Katharine J. Linton
     

    Mary Grasser
     

    Hattie P. A. Heimann
     

    Mary E. Müller
     

    Jennie Cumming
     

    Louisa Guething
     

    Annie L. Nagel
     

    Harrietta O. Waite
     

    Fred W. Winkelman
     

    John Hill

    April 26

    Mary S. Dwight

    1882

    		  

    March 1

    Louise Frederick

    April 2

    Charles Hörlein
     

    John Adams Plannett
     

    John Winkelman
     

    Emma E. Faber
     

    Henrietta Baker
     

    Amelia Karnheim
     

    Ida Appell

    [157]

     

    Helena J. Schildknecht
     

    Mary Bartholmesz
     

    Emma Baeumler
     

    Maggie Gimber
     

    Emma Stengel
     

    Louis Kolb
     

    Frank Zepfler
     

    Samuel B. Neal
     

    Louisa Chadwick

    March 18

    Charles H. Reuter
     

    Charles A. Heuser
     

    Adolph Doll
     

    Albert F. Bertram
     

    John Fred Pfau
     

    Sarah A. Crawshaw
     

    Maggie S. Lambrecht
     

    Louisa M. Bauer
     

    Julia M. Traub
     

    Emma H. Coles

    [158]

     

    Mary E. A. Schwörer
     

    Mary Bachofner
     

    Rosie Holzschuh
     

    Rosa Sterr

    1884

    		  

    April 6

    Robert Riedl
     

    Adam Bassing
     

    Amelia Hammutz
     

    Louisa Bassing
     

    Annie Holzschuh
     

    Julia A. Roch
     

    Minnie Bassing
     

    Caroline L. Fein
     

    Sophie Sterr
     

    Lizzie Hill
     

    Mary L. R. Reuter
     

    Rose Lever
     

    Eliza Gimber

    May 4

    Margaret A. Badger
     

    Henry J. Sweny M.D.
     

    Ethel Davis

    May 22

    Maria Bowen
     

    Helen E. Bowen

    [159]

    1885

    		  

    March 29

    Ida Prescott Bigelow Eldredge
     

    Henry Schaeff
     

    Lottie C. Bodenschatz
     

    Carrie Webber
     

    Mary Pfau
     

    Louisa Webber
     

    Louisa Becker
     

    Mary Becker
     

    Anna J. Schlicht
     

    Amelia Guething
     

    Sarah H. Doering
     

    Emma Stillberger

    1887

    		  

    April 1

    Joseph J. Linton

    April 3

    Matilda J. Rietzel
     

    Josephine Fertig
     

    Louise W. Heimann
     

    May A. Henage
     

    Mary Hayes
     

    Ida M. Jenkins
     

    W. Knappe

    [160]

    • Minnie Bernhardt
    • Emma A. Heilemann
    • Frances Erichberg
    • Eugenie Martikke
    • Jemima M. McKee
    • Elsie F. Schroeter
    • A. Lizzie Schneider
    • Paulina Weber
    • Annie Stevens
    • Lewis F. Kilian
    • Henry A. Winkelman
    • Rodreck Cochran
    • Gustave Heuser
    • William R. Cleary
    • Fred T. Heuser
    • Gustavus Bartholmesz
    • William Brenneis
    • Frank F. Hayes
    • Rudolph Martikke
    • Adam Hoffmann
    • Frederic Carl Streek

    [161]

    1888

    		  

    May 13

    Louis G. Schlicht
     

    Charles J. Milliken
     

    Jacob Bernhardt
     

    Louisa Siebert
     

    Minnie F. Riedl
     

    Lena Heuser
     

    Sophie Stevens
     

    Ottilie Siebert
     

    Clementina Murray

    1889

    		  

    April 14

    Clara W. Fischer
     

    Anna E. Fischer
     

    Maria Burnside
     

    Pauline Roch (Withdrew March 15, 1921)
     

    Mamie H. Schlicht
     

    Sarah Hill
     

    Julia Schaeff
     

    Claretta H. E. Nason
     

    Margie Durgin
     

    Francena Hodgdon
     

    Mary J. Black
     

    Frieda S. Schmidt
     

    Christina C. Odemueller
     

    Lizzie T. Kirchgassner

    [162]

    April 4

    Helen Ellis
     

    Lizzie L. Hayes (2 years before)
     

    Mary Lang (2 years before)
     

    Edward Raithel
     

    Leo Dembinski

    June 7

    Fred Chandler Jr.

    1890

    		  

    March 30

    Augusta Rantoul Endicott

    March 30

    Alice Hastings
     

    Matilda Lips
     

    Rosa Heerde
     

    Fredrick W. Martikke (Withdrew Feb. 2, 1928)
     

    Joseph Gimber
     

    Edward Bartholmesz
     

    Herrman Schiel
     

    Richard Riedl
     

    Adolf Samsel

    April 6

    Mabel Sears

    1891

    		  

    March 29

    Maggie Cairnes (Jan. 2, 1915, dismissed to Hall Place Methodist Episcopal Church, West Quincy)
     

    A. Theresa Murray
     

    Marian Ellgner
     

    Katie Burnside
     

    Amelia L. Miller
     

    Edith H. Sears
     

    Miriam V. E. Sears
     

    Annie Ellgner

    [163]

     

    Louise R. Helmboldt
     

    Louisa Kuhn
     

    Lizzie Spiegel
     

    Louise Schwörer
     

    Emma Loeffler
     

    Lillie Jenkins
     

    Lina Schmidt

    1892

    		  

    April 10

    Florence Zapp
     

    Annie M. Baecher
     

    Gretchen H. Baecher
     

    Lizzie M. Dold
     

    Annie Heinlein
     

    Annie Hanson
     

    Caroline S. Jenkins (Mathison)
     

    William Bodenbrown
     

    Frank L. Kirchgassner
     

    John N. Gebhardt
     

    John F. Beck
     

    Fred Youdt
     

    Vigo A. Hanson
     

    Mary H. Bodinbrown

    [164]

    1893

    		  

    April 23

    Robert Simpson
     

    Albert C. Faul
     

    Emma A. Richberg
     

    Johanna Plannett

    1894

    		  

    May 6

    Annie Engel
     

    Josephine M. Burnside
     

    Lydia E. Heuser
     

    Lizzie Bernhardt
     

    Minnie Dick
     

    Bertha Albrecht
     

    Johanna Zaugg
     

    Rosie Dick
     

    Frieda Werner
     

    Pauline Rieger
     

    Ellen F. Dresser
     

    Louisa F. Baumann
     

    Carrie Weber
     

    Carrie Fuchs
     

    Delia Baecher

    1895

    		  

    April 7

    Annie Hoffmann
     

    Alice Koegel (Withdrew June 23, 1924)
     

    Lydia Hanson

    [165]

     

    Mary Paine Stockemer
     

    Theresa C. Siebert
     

    Hermine J. Koegel
     

    Lena Schneider
     

    Carrie Bornan
     

    Robert Heyder
     

    Otto P. Faul
     

    Otto Kohl
     

    Adolf Gebhardt
     

    Conrad Albrecht
     

    Fred Bartholmesz
     

    Hans L. Zaugg
     

    Albert G. Demling

    1896

    		  

    May 17

    Lucia A. Stanek
     

    Bertha M. Siebert
     

    Lucy E. Hanson
     

    Annie M. Engewald
     

    Dora M. Eldredge
     

    Margaret L. Dold
     

    Amelia Gimber
     

    Martha Engewald
     

    Otelia Seth
     

    Minnie Richberg

    [166]

     

    Estelle Davis Hooley
     

    Louise Ellgner
     

    Elizabeth M. Sandilands
     

    Edward Bemburg
     

    Emil Heuser
     

    David Bates
     

    Frank Fuohs
     

    John Davis Hooley
     

    Louis H. Zaugg
     

    Anna Nagel

    1897

    		  

    April 11

    Augusta Ellgner
     

    Elizabeth Stoker
     

    Annie E. Janse
     

    Barbara Albrecht
     

    Bertha L. Baeumler
     

    Annie Ellgner
     

    Annie B. Smith
     

    Emma Schlums
     

    Helen L. Bond
     

    Otto L. Zaugg
     

    Philip F. Bauman

    [167]

    1899

    		  

    May 21

    Matilda Leonard
     

    Lillie Baldner (Withdrew May 20, 1925)
     

    Katy Baumann
     

    Christena Lenz
     

    Emma Lenz
     

    Loulu Sauer
     

    Lillie Galler (Withdrew Dec. 14, 1932)
     

    Bertha Sell
     

    Frieda Schlums
     

    Ella Koegel
     

    Louise Roth
     

    Harry Mayer
     

    Robert Franke

    [168]

    1900

    		  

    April 8

    Louise F. Bolliger
     

    Christina M. Lenz
     

    Jeanie N. Sandiland
     

    Rosa F. Young
     

    Elsa L. Mayer
     

    Christian Schmirbush
     

    William Herman Ellgner
     

    Alexander Martikke
     

    Grace L. Faulkner
     

    Marie Dold
     

    Joseph E. Hodgkins
     

    Ida B. Neff
     

    Jennie Moir
     

    Charlotte M. Richberg

    [169]

    1901

    		  

    March 31

    Bertha Ellgner
     

    Emilia E. Schworer
     

    Emma E. Kelble
     

    Louisa G. Völhn
     

    Esther C. Seth
     

    A. Lauretta M. Groenwald
     

    Lena Young
     

    Josephine Weber
     

    Mary Bowman
     

    Paul Schlums
     

    Arthur P. Porter
     

    Louise E. Kohl

    [170]

    1902

    		  

    March 23

    Kathrine Goeller
     

    William J. Burrows
     

    William Renner
     

    Bertha L. Engel (Withdrew Apr. 1, 1934)
     

    Gertrude E. Sears

    [171]

    1903

    		  

    April 5

    Mary Burrows
     

    Caroline Blasser
     

    Sabina Stanek
     

    Lena E. Duenges
     

    Annie Sell
     

    Mary Ernestine Severin
     

    Irene Leister
     

    Freda Kelble
     

    Mary Willhauk
     

    Margaret Stripp (Withdrew Feb. 26, 1935)
     

    Louise Freck
     

    Lucy Pistor
     

    Leonore Pistor
     

    Alma H. Salzgeber
     

    Bertha Olbrich
     

    Bertha Christmann

    [172]

    1904

    		  

    March 27

    Marie Koch (Berenice)
     

    Cora Spieler (Withdrew Feb. 13, 1928)
     

    Ida Martha
     

    Louise Richberg (Helen)
     

    Clara George Hunter
     

    Magnas Theodore Nelson
     

    Ethel Ingeborg Nelson
     

    Anna Elizabeth Nelson
     

    Julia Rose Zaugg
     

    Bertha M. Meister
     

    John Bauman (Godfrey)
     

    Bertha E. A. Künstler
     

    Elsie E. Künstler

    [173]

    1905

    		  

    April 16

    Clara C. Blasser
     

    Emma W. Demling
     

    Emily M. Getz
     

    Helen M. Stanek
     

    Martha A. Schlums
     

    Sophia Bowman
     

    Dorothea Bigelow Marsh
     

    Henrietta W. L. Russert
     

    Florine Louise Galvin
     

    George A. Willhauk

    [174]

    1907

    		  

    March 24

    Irene E. Hunter
     

    Wilhelmina B. Baasner
     

    Elizabeth Christman
     

    Edith Faulkner
     

    Jessica J. Trommer
     

    Frances C. Sheehan
     

    Katherine Bletzer
     

    Alice L. Nilson
     

    Hilda C. Gebhardt
     

    Minnie F. Getz

    April 13

    Gertrude S. Ellis

    1908

    		  

    April 12

    Gertrude E. H. Johnson
     

    Emilie A. Bertsch
     

    Margaret Boyd Moir
     

    Christine M. Ott
     

    May B. Wajstak
     

    Emma G. Engel
     

    George C. Mahan
     

    Carl F. Christmann
     

    George Dold

    April 26

    Louisa A. Gilbert
     

    Marcellus N. Gilbert

    [175]

    1909

    		  

    April 4

    Fannie Gertrude Dickie
     

    Katherine Louise Burrows
     

    Charlotte Elinore Fratus
     

    Sophie Charlotte Sell
     

    Mabel H. Fratus
     

    Charlotte Margaruite Young

    May 9

    Eleanor Williams Daggett

    1911

    		  

    April 18

    Henry H. Edes

    Nov. 5

    Mary Elizabeth Bradlee

    Nov. 6

    Sarah Elizabeth Bradlee
     

    Mary E. Huntington

    Nov. 23

    Helen P. Ellis
     

    Clara Elizabeth Baumann
     

    Joan Margaret Matilda Christmann
     

    Ferdinand Ullyss Wilhauck
     

    John F. Pfau
     

    Frederick Dold
     

    Samuel May Boardman
     

    Sarah H. Williamson

    1913

    		  

    March 31

    Cornelia B. Rodman (June 30, 1924, dismissed to Wellesley Congregational Church)

    March 31

    Evangeline Wilson Young

    [176]

    Aug. 20

    Mary Quincy Thorndike
     

    Mary E. Park
     

    Charles E. Park

    1914

    		  

    March 27

    John W. Denny

    June 21

    William Ellery
     

    Bessie Bell Collar
     

    A. Isabel Winslow
     

    Gertrude F. Townsend

    1916

    		  

    March 2

    Caroline C. Burlen
     

    Mary D. Davenport

    1922

    		  

    March 26

    Gertrude S. Taber
     

    Florence L. MacKay

    1929

    		  

    April 13

    Edith Endicott Stebbins

    1932

    		  

    Jan. 18

    Helen W. Stearns

    Jan. 18

    Mrs. Clarence S. Angell

    Jan. 18

    Clarence S. Angell

    1940

    		  

    April 11

    Celia M. Burdett

    1942

    		  

    June 11

    John Hoar Jr.

    [177]

    1942

    		  

    Nov. 29

    Hazel Bell Henry Jewett (Withdrew)

    1944

    		  

    Dec. 30

    Walter Atherton
     

    Grace H. Atherton

    1945

    		  

    Dec. 16

    Lawrence Shaw Mayo

    1946

    		  

    Oct. 27

    Robert A. Ware

    Oct. 27

    John D. Henry

    [178–180]   [Blank]

    [181]   November 7, 1909.

    At a meeting of the Communicant Members, held Sunday November 7, 1909, it was voted the following Preamble be adopted and prefixed to the Covenant of this Church. As follows:

    Preamble

    Confessing ourselves in hearty accord with its spirit of true and earnest endeavor, if not with its definition of theological faith, and cherishing in honor and affection its form as being the original bond of union for our Church, we do affix our names to this Covenant in the belief that its spirit is more than its letter, and with the hope that its prompting unto all good works and holy living may be as potent for us as for those of former times:

    Covenant

    In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in obedience to his holy [182] will and divine ordinance.

    We, whose names are hereunder written, being by his most wise and good Providence brought together into this part of America, in the Bay of Massachusetts, and desirous to unite ourselves into one congregation or Church under the Lord Jesus Christ, our Head, in such sort as becometh all those whom he hath redeemed and sanctified to himself, do hereby solemnly and religiously (as in his most holy Presence) promise and bind ourselves to walk in all our ways according to the rule of the gospel, and in all sincere conformity to his holy ordinances, and in mutual love and respect each to other, so near as God shall give us grace.

    [183]

    1910

    Anna Emrich

    March 20

    Lillian Sell
     

    Louise Hurst
     

    Rosa Hauck
     

    Elsie M. Thierauf
     

    Alice P. Hoffmann
     

    Etta M. Greim
     

    Margaret Mahan
     

    Margaret M. Mahan
     

    Angelina Richardson
     

    George T. Cruft

    Oct. 28

    Marshall B. Fanning
     

    Mary M. Fanning

    1911

    		  

    April 9

    Olga E. Bletzer
     

    Rose Wieland (Jan. 2, 1915, dismissed to 1st Cong. Ch. Maiden)
     

    Emily Thierauf
     

    Minnie Lauer
     

    Ethel Crickard
     

    Elizabeth F. Burrows
     

    Lillian S. Duemmling
     

    Ruth Salzgeber
     

    Agnes C. Dickie
     

    Helen C. Bletzer (Dismissed March 23, 1926)
     

    Mabel Adeline Heuser
     

    Lillian H. Robb

    [184]

     

    Walter C. Blasser
     

    John P. Young
     

    George J. Blasser
     

    Spencer Washington Honey
     

    Lydia J. Dale
     

    Elizabeth L. Tappan
     

    William Stanley Parker
     

    Charles E. Loud
     

    Margaret K. Cummings
     

    Henry Endicott
     

    Arthur W. Moors

    Sept. 19

    Marion Dudley Endicott

    Oct. 15

    Adeline L. Sylvester
     

    George B. Sylvester

    Nov. 6

    Charles Walter Bradlee

    Nov. 14

    Oscar F. Adams

    Nov. 26

    Edith H. Sears
     

    Mary D. Bush

    Nov. 26

    Dawes Eliot Furness

    Nov.

    Rebekah T. Furness
     

    Laura Furness

    [185]

     

    Mary H. Dennie
     

    Rebecca W. Walker

    1912

    		  

    Jan. 4

    Charlotte A. Bartol

    Jan. 10

    Fanny S. Cutler
     

    Mary S. Ames

    Jan. 16

    Maria D. Hastings

    Jan. 16

    Maria D. Hastings 2nd
     

    Desdemona M. Künstler
     

    Maud Peterson
     

    Alice Anderson
     

    Ruth Muller
     

    Gertrude Robinson
     

    Jamesina M. Janse
     

    Jessie C. Mahan
     

    Marion Dickie
     

    John J. Thomas
     

    Frances Pickering Thomas
     

    Margaret Cummings

    May 8

    J. B. Millet
     

    Emily Millet
     

    Elisabeth F. Millet
     

    Huida E. Jacobson (Released March 9, 1924)

    [186]

    1913

    		  

    March 16

    Ella Sell
     

    Ottilia Rauch
     

    Janet G. Schaffer
     

    Erna Bauer
     

    Frieda Emrich

    1914

    		  

    April 5

    Beatrice Morrill
     

    Corinne Anderson
     

    Lillian A. Walters
     

    Clara Thierauf
     

    Mary Getz
     

    Anna Hoffman
     

    Margaret Hoffman
     

    Paul Theodore Jacobson (Withdrew May 20, 1925)
     

    Robert J. Haeberle (Dismissed Sept. 28, 1933)
     

    William Pfau

    1915

    		  

    March 28

    Mabel Peterson
     

    Lillian Hunter
     

    Bernice Morrill
     

    Dorothy Hasselmann
     

    Emma Wilson
     

    Hilda G. Meister
     

    Jennie B. Stratton
     

    Helen E. Dawson
     

    Elsie P. Wienold
     

    Helen L. Fritsch
     

    Amelia E. Ellgner

    [187]

     

    Ruth Robinson
     

    Ethel May Muller
     

    Arthur Young
     

    Frank Peterson
     

    Charles Blasser

    1916

    		  

    April 16

    Ida M. Howard
     

    Louise A. Webberson
     

    Emma Irene Bletzer (Released Feb. 23, 1921)
     

    Gladys Pauline Leavitt
     

    Emma Helen Wienold
     

    Lily C. E. Burgstahler
     

    Ruth Richwood
     

    Florence E. McLellan
     

    Gertrude Hoering
     

    Elsa Müller
     

    Edith Bassing
     

    Louise Müller
     

    Josef Muller
     

    Herbert Jones
     

    Gustave William Anderson

    1917

    		  

    April 1

    Daniel Edmund Schnabel
     

    Madeline Elizebeth Bletzer
     

    Charles Henry Schmitt (Released June 5, 1925)
     

    Lillian Anna Dorothea Young
     

    Henry Haeberle
     

    Irma Dorothea Mueller

    [188]

     

    Henry S. Anderson (Withdrawn)
     

    Jeanette Wilhelmina Hopkins (Dismissed Nov. 14, 1927)

    1918

    		  

    March 31

    Madeleine W. Van Hall
     

    Alice E. Ernst
     

    Lillian C. Reis
     

    Dorothy Haertl
     

    Olga Jacobson (Released March 9, 1924)
     

    Ida Elizabeth Richwood
     

    Francis Duemmling
     

    Alfred Emrich
     

    Arthur E. Mueller
     

    Charles E. Reddish
     

    Paul R. Morrill

    1919

    		  

    April 13

    Matilda Alida Meller
     

    Fannie Katherine Mueller
     

    Thora M. Meller
     

    Mabel Lenea Jacobson (Withdrew May 20, 1925)
     

    Laura Kelsey
     

    Dorothy Thorndike

    May 18

    Mrs. Fred Berg

    Dec. 7

    Virginia P. Moors
     

    Frederick Lawton

    [189]

    1920

    		  

    March 28

    Mabel M. Janse
     

    Emily M. Heumann
     

    Carolynn Catherine Gebhardt
     

    Mabel Jennie Muller

    1921

    Caroline C. Burlen

    Jan. 3

    Elbridge G. Cutler
     

    Harold Edward Jacobson (Withdrew March 9, 1024)

    1922

    		  

    April 9

    Caroline Anderson (Withdrawn)
     

    Geraldine E. Silloway

    March 20

    Theodore Schlosky
     

    Anna Hoering
     

    Margaret Hoering
     

    Emma Schnabel
     

    Irene Schnabel
     

    Henry Young
     

    Ralph Anderson (Withdrawn)
     

    Helene G. Siebeneicher
     

    Martha C. Richter
     

    Walter B. Van Hall
     

    Edwin J. Haertl
     

    Henry T. Ernst
     

    Henry C. Oberlander
     

    William Lambert Barnard

    [190]

    1922

    		  

    April 9

    Arthur Foote
     

    Grace W. Minns

    1923

    		  

    March 25

    Theresa Meller
     

    Margaret A. Sorenson
     

    Myrtle M. Miller

    1924

    		  

    Feb. 10

    Lucy G. Peabody

    April 13

    Charles E. Holmquist
     

    George Dauberschmidt
     

    George Rommell

    1925

    		  

    April 5

    Edith F. Anderson (Withdrew)
     

    Elsa Dannbauer
     

    Louise Josephine Gonser
     

    Lena Dietrich
     

    Dorothy Hilda Gebhardt
     

    Julia Madaline Grogan
     

    Gertrude Katherine Schnabel
     

    Margaret Louise Scholsky
     

    Janet Marion Sorenson
     

    Arthur Alexander Schnabel

    Dec. 13

    Annie P. Vinton
     

    Mrs. Charles Sumner Jacobs
     

    Isabel Wesson

    Dec.

    Henry F. Armington
     

    Olivia H. Armington

    Dec. 20

    Elizabeth Curtis

    [191]

     

    Mrs. David Mason Little
     

    Emma L. Coleman
     

    Susan S. Gray
     

    Marjorie Gray
     

    Harriet G. Lewis
     

    Gertrude B. Ellis
     

    Alice M. Brooks
     

    Edmund S. Brigham
     

    Martha J. Brigham
     

    Minnie R. Bryant
     

    Lillie Collamore Smith
     

    Charles O. Prescott
     

    Mrs. John D. Henry
     

    Mark Harrison Smith
     

    Henry O. Cushman
     

    Isabel Cushman

    1929

    		  

    Jan. 8

    Mrs. E. F. Pratt
     

    Fanny Field
     

    Ellen M. Dennie
     

    Mrs. Francis A. Pierce
     

    Helen Graham Moseley
     

    Louise Wilson Wright (Mrs. Merle St. Croix)
     

    Elizabeth Wright, M.D.

    [192]

     

    Henrietta C. Grammer
     

    Frances Hall
     

    Augustus P. Loring Jr.
     

    Rosamond B. Loring
     

    F. Rockwood Hall

    1926

    		  

    Feb. 24

    Oliver S. Chapman

    March 28

    Elizabeth V. Van Hall

    [193]

    March 28

    Gertrude Ganser
     

    Erdine Winifred Van Hall
     

    Alice Grogan
     

    Theresa Single
     

    Helen Single
     

    Dorothy Single
     

    Florence Gebhardt

    April 7

    Mary Ethel Hunneman
     

    Rebecca Dodd
     

    Nathaniel W. Ladd

    April 12

    Mabel D. Post
     

    Mrs. Thomas Wilson

    April 20

    Elizabeth L. Clark

    April 23

    Charles J. White

    April 25

    Theodora B. Jones
     

    Eliot N. Jones
     

    Constance B. Williston
     

    Raymond Fred Hill

    May 2

    Madeleine P. Wetherbee
     

    Eliza A. Thomas
     

    Laura Norcross Marrs
     

    Mrs. Kingsmill Marrs

    May 4

    Emily H. Bush

    May 24

    Ellen Day Hale

    [194]

    1927

    		  

    Jan. 13

    Anne Morton Smith

    [April 10

    Olivia H. Armington
     

    A. Martha Reddish
     

    Helen V. Lothair
     

    C. Rose Single
     

    William Single
     

    Carl R. Allen
     

    Myles Standish
     

    Louise M. Standish
     

    Ralph Bradley

    These names were signed by mistake in the front of the book. Transferred per instructions from Dr. Park—H.W.S.459]

    1928

    		  

    Jan. 8

    Frank L. Locke
     

    Florence H. Potter
     

    Charles Sedgwick Rackemann

    March 18

    Isaac S. Whiting
     

    Isabel Whiting

    April 26

    Gertrude C. Dean
     

    Paul Dudley Dean

    Dec. 30

    William C. Crawford
     

    Alice Ranney Allen
     

    Elizabeth L. Clark (Signed before)
     

    Alice Foster Peirce

    [195]

    1929

    		  

    May 23

    Caroline Hastings Burgess

    Oct. 20

    Ruth Richards Sewall
     

    Weston F. Sewall
     

    Mrs. Robert S. Gorham

    Nov. 24

    Alice M. Gardner

    Dec. 15

    Anne P. Emery

    1930

    		  

    March 9

    Mildred P. Whiting
     

    John K. Whiting

    1931

    		  

    Jan. 11

    Laura Huxtable Porter (Withdrawn)
     

    Ethel L. Reddish
     

    L. Guy Dennett

    April 13

    Ellen Hemenway Taintor
     

    Rebecca Pickering Thomas
     

    Yann de Pierrefeu
     

    Loring D. Collier
     

    Lucretia Towne Gartell

    April 29

    Elizabeth T. Wandell

    May 11

    Elizabeth H. Flint

    Dec. 28

    Elizabeth Briggs

    March 19

    Francis Gilman Collier

    April 19

    H. Ross Stevenson

    Nov. 19

    Helen Wheeler

    Dec. 27

    Marion B. Dibblee
     

    Valborg L. Waller

    [196]

    Dec. 27

    Rosalie Y. Abbot
     

    Charles H. Goodwin
     

    Elizabeth Cabot Church
     

    Helen Manchester Church

    1932

    		  

    Jan. 10

    Maud E. Appleton
     

    Charlotte Peirce
     

    Elsie D. Wildes
     

    Maurice H. Wildes
     

    Mrs. Frederick H. Mills
     

    Charles S. Parker
     

    Mary E. Park

    Jan. 17

    Eliot Putnam Emerson (Withdrawn)

    Feb. 19

    Mary Elizabeth French

    Feb. 22

    Frank M. Booth

    March 20

    Robert G. Adams (Withdrawn)
     

    Wilhelmina Woodbury
     

    Sylvia Pratt
     

    George A. Dexter
     

    Winifred Cline
     

    Elizabeth J. Sherman

    1933

    		  

    Nov. 2

    William Stickney Hall

    Dec. 10

    Clara P. Ames

    1934

    		  

    March 25

    Josephine Shaw
     

    Helen Rae Caswell
     

    Sophie B. Westcott
     

    Bertha J. Piper
     

    David W. Hawksworth

    [197]

     

    David D. Henry
     

    Elmore H. Coe
     

    William A. H. Butler
     

    Mabel A. Fitz

    June 3

    Mrs. Lindsay Austin de Volt

    Oct. 28

    Alice G. Grozier

    Nov. 11

    Katharine E. Peirce

    1935

    		  

    Jan. 6

    Atherton Noyes
     

    Margaret D. Noyes

    Jan. 11

    Harriet Stevens Smith

    Jan. 14

    Eliza L. Leland

    Feb. 17

    Anne Bradstreet Stedman

    April 21

    Cara Bates Conklin
     

    Nellie Marston Bacheller

    Nov. 24

    Mildred Russell Howland

    Dec. 22

    Myra C. Hole

    1936

    		  

    Feb. 8

    Mary Louise Foster

    April 19

    Evelyn L. Murdock

    May 10

    Conrad Wesselhoeft
     

    Frances G. Wesselhoeft
     

    William Wesselhoeft
     

    Conrad Wesselhoeft Jr.
     

    Frances Wesselhoeft
     

    Harriet Betty Boas
     

    Dorothy Wilson

    May 24

    Edith Batchelor Sprague

    Nov. 29

    Artiss de Volt

    [198]

    1937

    		  

    Jan. 31

    George Newton Proctor
     

    Emma Bowden Proctor

    March 21

    Phyllis Henry
     

    Richard Henry
     

    Marion E. Trippier
     

    James Trippier Jr.
     

    Frances R. Snow
     

    John N. Hamilton
     

    Benjamin Palmer Dean (Withdrawn)
     

    Michael J. Travato
     

    David P. Mohr

    April 4

    Mary A. Foster
     

    Lindsey K. Foster
     

    Mary P. MacGray
     

    Caroline Stetson Allen
     

    Mary F. Stratton

    June 13

    Marion Dall
     

    Helen Woodruff Tatlock

    1938

    		  

    April 10

    Russell G. Fessenden
     

    Eliza S. Leland
     

    Antoine B. Saunders
     

    Florence G. A. Saunders

    May 8

    Suzanne E. Abbot
     

    Alice Paine Hedge

    1939

    		  

    Feb. 12

    Chester F. Pero (Withdrawn)
     

    Linnie S. Pero (Withdrawn)

    [199]

    April 2

    Warren William Mohr
     

    June Louise Reddish

    July 18

    Mrs. Charles E. St. John

    Nov. 19

    Elizabeth Smith Chapman (Withdrawn)

    1940

    		  

    Nov. 24

    Maud Appleton Hartwell

    1941

    		  

    Jan. 19

    Bertha Reed Coffman

    Feb. 9

    Amelia Muir Baldwin

    May 11

    John J. Meister
     

    John Christian Hansen
     

    Lillian M. Haeberle

    1942

    		  

    April 23

    Annie S. Forsaith
     

    Marian B. Forsaith

    May 10

    Dorothy Critchfield

    1943

    		  

    April 1

    Marion H. Thanisch

    May 11

    James B. Noyes

    Oct. 17

    Harriet B. Bayley
     

    James C. Bayley Jr.

    Dec. 10

    Franklin R. Hoar

    Dec. 19

    Alice G. Mudge (Withdrawn)

    1944

    		  

    Jan. 16

    Arthur Hoar
     

    Dorothy B. Hoar

    Feb. 20

    Caroline S. Winslow

    March 9

    Gustave Martin

    March 21

    Frieda W. Crocker

    1946

    		  

    Nov. 10

    Ernest C. Crocker

    [200]

    1944

    		  

    March 26

    Robert Wells Haeberle

    March 31

    Mary Richardson Jones

    April 6

    Grace Foster Haskins

    April 14

    Anna Rumrill Hammond

    April 23

    Carolyn Thanisch

    April 28

    Robert Washburn

    Dec. 25

    Gilbert S. Newman
     

    Janet A. Newman

    March 31

    R. Holbrooke Cheever

    June 19

    Margaret S. Peirce

    Oct. 24

    William F. Burdett

    Nov. 10

    Edith M. Esterbrook

    1947

    		  

    Feb. 23

    Alice F. Tilden

    1945

    		  

    March 27

    Katharine Wendell Sisson

    April 14

    Charles B. Rugg
     

    Marjory B. Rugg

    April 15

    Annie Winsor Allen
     

    Elizabeth Very
     

    Marvin Thomas Christy

    1946

    		  

    Feb. 10

    Grace Collier
     

    Hilda G. Blaisdell

    March 9

    Edith S. Tilden
     

    Leslie M. Ware

    March 10

    Elizabeth Bryning Smith

    March 30

    Phyllis Elaine Williams

    [201]

    May 13

    Alexander S. Parker
     

    Carolyn C. Howlett

    May 25

    Lois W. Richardson
     

    George O. Richardson

    1948

    		  

    Jan. 25

    Richard D. Pierce

    May 9

    Sylvia M. Milliken
     

    Eleanor Colpitts

    Dec. 3

    Henry M. Steel Swift

    1949

    		  

    Jan. 2

    E. Charlton Crocker

    Jan. 31

    Edith M. Ernst
     

    Charles F. Ernst
     

    Edith C. Howie
     

    David H. Howie

    Feb. 14

    Selma B. Stone

    Feb. 27

    Hubert W. Townsend

    April 7

    Lillian Gay

    April 28

    Marion C. Hill

    May 3

    Edith Bangs

    1950

    		  

    March 28

    Caroline S. Freeman

    April 9

    Cynthia Rugg
     

    Selma B. Jones

    1951

    		  

    Jan. 26

    Patricia Noerdlinger

    March 18

    John H. Sisson
     

    Mabel Wingate
     

    Barbara B. Sisson
     

    Oriana Wingate
     

    Lilian H. Spry
     

    Velma A. Adams
     

    Bettina R. Hansen

    [202]

     

    Anne Neville Moses
     

    George H. Moses
     

    Richard McAllister Adams
     

    Dorothy Hall Parkhurst
     

    O. Clifton Marks
     

    Eliot S. McMurrough
     

    Richard W. Spry
     

    Alice Campbell Humphrey
     

    Homer Corliss Humphrey

    March 22

    Eleanor McMurrough

    April 29

    Marjorie F. Ritchie
     

    Frederick A. Ritchie

    1952

    		  

    April 6

    Edward D. Bement
     

    Mrs. Edward D. Bement
     

    Walter Humphreys
     

    Carrie M. Hall
     

    George N. Proctor 3rd
     

    Jane Sewall
     

    Adelle Rawson
     

    Ruth L. Hunt
     

    Ruth Q. Peters
     

    Marian L. Porter
     

    Satenig M. Sahjian
     

    Phyllis T. Spring
     

    Bernard P. Spring
     

    Phoebe L. Garnost
     

    Kenneth D. Garnost

    [203]

     

    Rufus N. Stickney
     

    Blanche G. Stickney
     

    Margaret W. Carter
     

    Susan G. Loring

    Sept. 22

    Jeannette E. Hopkins

    Oct. 19

    Anne Morrison

    1953

    		  

    March 29

    Meta B. Wade
     

    Constance Curtiss
     

    Elizabeth M. Sullivan
     

    Miriam S. Black
     

    Dorothy B. Dickinson
     

    Flora L. E. O’Keefe
     

    Robert Batcheller Rowley
     

    William R. Dickinson
     

    Olive Louise Dingle

    Oct. 1

    Ann Swain Harley

    Nov. 10

    Jean H. Pope
     

    Edward B. Pope

    Nov. 16

    Donald F. Fenn

    Dec. 11

    Marjorie A. Margolis

    1954

    		  

    April 11

    Patricia Coffin Swain
     

    Leslie Anne Robinson
     

    Ambrose Feeley
     

    George S. Richardson
     

    Susan Higginson Nash

    [204]

     

    Carl A. Levins
     

    Enid Vose
     

    Alton W. Ridley
     

    Joy E. McKinley
     

    S. Justus McKinley
     

    Harriet L. Norris
     

    Ernst A. Meyer
     

    Flavia Claverie Atkins
     

    Griswold Terry Atkins
     

    Irene Harvey
     

    Herbert A. Harvey
     

    Richard S. Hasty

    May 6

    Elizabeth McP. Booth

    June 14

    Robert E. Thompson

    1955

    		  

    April 3

    Virginia Loring Crowell
     

    Alice Nichols Burrage
     

    Lorna Elwyn Feeley
     

    Marion E. Wells
     

    Edward P. Wells
     

    Alice T. Fuller
     

    Charles W. Fuller
     

    Hilda N. True
     

    Fred L. True Jr.
     

    Athole B. Edwards
     

    Ursele Dawn Peck
     

    Gertrude Hoadley Rogers
     

    Record Haines Rogers

    [205]

     

    Clayton R. Merritt
     

    Carolyn Bradbury Evans
     

    Ada M. Bixby
     

    Beverly Ann Bigwood
     

    Edith Tileston Hughes
     

    Margaret F. O’Neill
     

    Charlotte Taylor Robbins
     

    Weston A. Stevens

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