1698

ADMISSION & RENEWALS OF COVENANT
EXTRACTED FROM
THE BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
OF PRESTON, CONNECTICUT, 1698-1898
STATISTICS OF THE CHURCH TAKEN FROM THE CHURCH RECORDS.

ADMISSIONS & RENEWALS OF COVENANT
PAGES 129 - 198


1698 - A CHURCH WAS EMBIDIED IN PRESTON, NOV'R 16TH, A.D. 1698. THE ELDERS WHO EMBODIED THE CHURCH & PREFORMED ORDINATION WERE THE REV'D JAMES NOYES, PASTOR OF STONINGTON, THE REV'D MOSES NOYES, PASTOR OF LYME, & THE REV'D GURDON SALTONSTALL, PASTOR OF NEW LONDON. THE MESSENGERS FROM NEIGHBOURING CHURCHES: DEACON GERSHOM PALMER OF STONINGTON, DEACON PECK OF LYME, DANIEL WITHERELL ESQ'R & DEACON DOUGLASS OF NEW LONDON & DEACON SIMON HUNTINGTON OF NORWICH.

THEY WHO OFFERED THEMSELVES AS MATTER FOR A CHURCH, HAVING BEEN MEMBERS OF OTHER CH'HS, IN FULL COMMUNION WITHER BROUGHT INTO ORDER BY GIVING THEIR CONSENT TO ARTICLES OF FAITH & RENEWAL OF COVENANT. THE PERSONS WERE:

THOMAS PARK
THOMAS TRACY
JOHN RICHARDS
HOPESTILL TYLER
JONATHAN TRACY
SAMUEL LEONARDSON
ROBERT PARK
JOHN PARK
CALEB FOBES
JONATHAN MORGAN
EBENEZER WITTER
JOHN WELCH