The ancient historical records of Norwalk, Conn ... - Hay genealogy

1785.] SOCIETYRECORDS. 165
this vote was reconsidered and made void, " by reason
there were but few people
at the former meeting."
Sept. 5, 1783, desired the committee to invite Mr.
William Lockwood to preach in the society. June 17,
1784, Mr. Spalding had been employed, and was desired
to preach two or three months longer. Dec. 13,
1784, The committee were directed to invite Mr. Sherman
to preach on probation.]
Dr. Burnet.
2d Tuesd. in Oct. 1785. The Society called Rev.
Mr. Burnet to be their minister ; to be installed '^ on
the second day of November next."
The present meeting-house.
The meeting-house now occupied by the First
Congregational
Society, was completed in the year 1790.
Ministers of the First Congregational Church.
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* Thomas Hanford, began to preach in 1652; Ordained
in 1654 and died in 1693, after laboring
in
the ministry here 41 years.
Stephen Buckingham, Ordained Nov. 17, 1697.
Resigned Feb. 24, 1727, having labored in the
ministry here about 30 years.
* Cotton Mather mentions Mr. Hanford in his list of New England
ministers who came from England students in divinity, but
who finished their education in the Colonies,
t Stephen Buckingham is the first name on the Triennial catalogue
of Yale College. He graduated at Harvard College in 1693,
and received his second degree at the first commencement of Yale.
He was a son of Rev. Thomas Buckingham, the fourth minister
of Saybrook, Conn., and Esther Hosmer Buckingham, his wife.
He was born Sept. 3, 1675.
Rev. Thos. Buckingham, the father of Stephen, was a son of
Mr. Thos. Buckingham, of Milford, Ct., and was baptized Nov. 8,