Lydia  PROCTOR

REV. AVERY MOULTON. (The late Albanus Avery Moulton, president of Rio Grande College, wrote that his grandfather, Rev. Avery Moulton, moved to Canada from Gilmanton, N. H., and that the father of Avery was Joseph Moulton.) From History of Btanstead County, Canada. . In 1804, Elder Avery Moulton received license, and was ordained in 1806. This year the old log meeting house was built, Wm. Moulton, Avery Moulton, and others sustaining the expense. Wm. Moulton was licensed to preach about this time. The old log meeting house was about 30 by 25 ft., built of unhewn logs with one window on each of the three sides, a stone back, and stick chimney and door on the other side. Total probable expense $75.00. In 181 1 and 12, the church had two revivals under Elder Avery Moulton and Robinson Smith, it extended to the church in Hatley. In 1823 the Wheelock, Vt., quarterly meeting had a revival, among its fruit were Abial, Thomas P. and Albanus K., sons of Elder Avery Moulton and several of his daughters. The Elder Abial Moulton was installed Pastor of the 1st F. W. Baptist church of Stanstead July 22, 1834. It was dur ing his incumbency that the Act, authorizing the ministers of the F. W. Baptist churches to officiate at marriages and funerals and to keep registers, was passed. In 1835, the 1st Stanstead F. W. Baptist Church enjoyed a revival and 36 were added to its number. This revival was followed by another in 1840 and 41. Among the F. W. Baptist churches which remained faithful rejecting the doctrine of the second advent, was the church of Elder Abial Moulton. In 1848 the F. W. Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists united in building a Union meeting house. This house was built from the materials of the old Union House erected in 1816.

Children of Rev. Avery Moulton :

Lydia, b. May 27, 1794; m. Howard King.

Fanny, b. April 17, 1796; m. Rev. J. J. Beliss.

Abial, b. May 31, 1798; m. Fanny Wallingford.

Alonzo, b. August 3, 1800 ; m. Priscilla Prescott.

Salome, b. November 23, 1803; m. Silas A. Davis.

Sophronia, b. May 6, 1806; m. Thomas Wells, 1810.

Lucinda, b. March 8, 1813; m. Joel Adams.

William A., b. October 8, 1816. Pantha L., b. June 8, 1819; m. Albert Hibbard.

Moulton Annals by Henry William Moulton

Publisher Edward A. Claypool

Year 1906