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SYNODS AND PRESBYTERIES.

229 1880 679

136,479

Statistical view of the Orthodox Congregational Churches of New England. These may be regarded, for the most part, as represented by the General Associations of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire; the General Convention of Vermont; the General Conference of Maine; and the Evangelical Consociation of Rhode Island.

TABLE II.

General Association of Massachusetts.

Formed 1805. Meetings, 4th Tuesd. June. Meeting 1828, at Falmouth.
Secretary, Rev. Thomas Snell, N. Brookfield.

AUTHORITIES: "Minutes of the General Association of Massachusetts," for 1827;

and special correspondence.

Destitute churches, 50; 1700 subjects of the Revivals in the Association of Berkshire

during the year.

* Member of the Association. Stated Clerk not known.

TABLE III.

General Association of Connecticut.

Meetings, 3d Tues. June. Rev. C. Chapin, D. D. Reg. Meeting 1828, at New Haven.

AUTHORITIES: "Proceedings of the General Association of Connecticut," 1827; and

special correspondence.

TABLE IV.

General Convention of Vermont.

Meetings 2d Tuesd. September. Meeting 1828, at Burlington.
Rev. Thomas A. Merrill, Middlebury, Register.

AUTHORITY: "Minutes of the General Convention of Congregational and Presbyte

rian Ministers in Vermont," for 1827.

5 Rev. S. Sage, Westminster, Rev. J. Tafts, Wardsboro'

"E. Lyman, Brookfield, A. Nichols, Braintree
"C. Noble, Chelsea, Rev. S. M'Kean, Bradford

Associations. past. lic.chs.

vac.

Members of the last Convention.*

1 Windham

15 20

H. Hunter, Clarendon, Rev. B. Green, Brandon

"Joel Fisk, Monkton

66

Asaph Morgan, Essex

"L. Worcester, Peacham, T. Hall, Waterford
"J. Hobart, Berlin, Rev. A. Chandler, Waitsfield
"S. Goddard, Norwich, Rev. J. Dutton, Pomfret

Remarks. A small number of Presbyterian ministers may have before been reckoned in the statistical Table of the Presb. Churches.

* Not having a list of the stated Clerks or Reg., we give instead of these, the members of last Convention.

TABLE V.

General Association of New Hampshire.

Meetings 1st Tuesday in September. Meeting 1828, at Salisbury.
Rev. John H. Church, D. D. Pelham, Secretary.

AUTHORITY: "Minutes of the General Association of New Hampshire," for 1826. The minutes for 1827 are not yet published, and those for 1826 contain very imperfect statistical accounts.

Meeting held at Hallowell June 25, 1827. Rev. Asa Cummings, Portland, Cor. Sec.

AUTHORITY: Christian Mirror, July 6, and 13, 1827.

Evangelical Consociation of Rhode Island. Formed 1808. Meetings 2d Tuesday in June. Next Meeting in Providence. Number of churches in 1824, 13.-Number of Ministers probably the same.

62 Associations 720 Ministers

Grand Total, with a few allowances for deficiences,

960 Churches, including 67 in Mass. as not being reported

240 Churches vacant

Besides the above, there are, as has been already intimated, a number of Congregational churches in New England not associated; and a number more might be reckoned which are out of New England. The number of Unitarian churches is not known. Probably it is between 100 and 150. The number of ministers is not far from the same.

TABLE VII.

Shewing the numbers of the Associated Calvinistic Baptists in the United States, in 1825, since which time no general statistics have been published.

AUTHORITIES: "Latter Day Luminary for May 1825." "Benedict's History of all Religions," and private correspondence.

In the article from which this table is compiled, a "Correspondent" is mentioned for each Association. One only is here selected within each State.

As the above Table is compiled from information given in 1825, it cannot be regarded as entirely complete. Allowances must be made for additions since, and the list of Correspondents has no doubt undergone some changes.

TABLE VIII.

Containing a statistical view of the Protestant Episcopal Churches in the U. S. AUTHORITIES: Journal of the General Convention, for 1826; Journals of nine State Conventions, for 1827; and Sword's Pocket Almanack, for 1828. The Reports of churches and communicants are, in several instances, incomplete.