NEW MILFORD. A MEMORIAL DISCOURSE. 1876. NEW MILFORD. A Memorial Discourse, DELIVERED IN THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, NEW MILFORD, CONN., Sunday, July 9, 1876. BY JAMES B. BONAR, PASTOR. PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. 1876. M. L. DELAVAN, PRINTER. NEW MILFORD, CT. HISTORY Town and Church of New Milford, Conn. MEMORIAL SERMON. “One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.”—Ps. 145: 4. The past is full of interest and instruction, so that all concede the value of history. Its importance is manifest from the fact that about two-thirds of God’s Holy Word is historical. The history of any and every part of the earth is interesting; but our own Country and State, the town in which we reside, the Church to which we belong, and the family whose name we bear, are to us of the greatest interest. To-day, therefore, we turn our attention to the history of this Church, Society and town. The sources of information on these subjects, though bulky, are meagre and imperfect. We have 1. Minutes of the Proprietor’s Meetings from 1706 to 1801. 2. Records of Town Meetings from 1713. 3. Minutes of the meetings of the First Ecclesiastical Society, from December, 1753. 4. Ecclesiastical Society’s Treasurer’s books from 1802. 5. Church Records from December 27th, 1727. These are not complete; the book kept by Mr. Rood is missing. 6. MSS. Notes of Rev. W. H. Moore. 7. Records of Baptist and Methodist Churches. 8. Memoir of Mrs. Mary A. Boardman, by Rev. Dr. Schroeder. 9. And the memory of persons still living.