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Title: History of Nottingham, Deerfield, and Northwood, comprised within the original limits of Nottingham, Rockingham County, N.H., with records of the centennial proceedings at Northwood, and genealogical sketches ..
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cogswell, Elliott C. (Elliott Colby), 1814-1887
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Publisher: Manchester (N.H.) J.B. Clarke
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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present, it was unanimouslyvoted ■• to accept the Declaration of Rights and plan ofGovernment recommended Ijy the convention to whichMarston and Jenness had been sent. Again, May 13,1782, Joseph March, Esq., and Dr. Edmund Chadwick werecliosen delegates to join in Convention at Concord on thefirst Tuesday of June next to Frame and arrange a perma-nent Government. BAPTIST CHURCH. This church was organized in 1770, consisting of four-teen meml)ers. Elifelet Smith, a layman of inferior naturaltalents, with little mental culture, was recognized as pastor,though no formal action seems to have been had by thechurch in respect to his pastoral relation to it. At the firstmeeting of the church, Smith was chosen clerk, and, July24 of the same year, Wadly Cram was chosen deacon. This church was disbanded June 29, 1787, Mr. Smithhaving removed from the town some years prior. Soonafter this, a branch church was organized as part of theBrentwood church, then under the pastoral care of Rev. Mr.
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IIILTOEY OF DEERFIELD. 295 Shepherd. A revival was enjoyed in 1702 and 1703. andone hundred and four persons were added to the church,John Peak preaching for them about this time for thespace of one year. It wouhl seem that this church becameindependent about 1801; but when it became extinct, doesnot appear. But in 181G, September 12, thirteen men andwomen, at the house of Thcojiliihis Stevens, formed a churchto be known as the First Baptist Church in Deerfield.Benjamin Sanborn was chosen clerk, and Samuel Hoyt,deacon. For more than thirty years there seems to havebeen no regularly settled pastor over this church, — a periodof struggle for existence, with brief periods of limited pros-perity. October 13, 1825, Rev. James Barnaby becamepastor, and continued until August 27, 1828. Rev. IsaacMerriam succeeded him April 26, 1829, and was dismissedFebruary 25,1831. Rev. Bela Wilcox was settled April 8,1832, and was dismissed April 2, 1837. From May, 1838,to January, 1848, Rev. Isaac Sawy

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