The Church connected with this Society was organized November 21st, 1716, with 8 male and 5 female members. During the first pastorate 225 more were added by profession and letter. During Mr. Taylor’s ministry of 42 years, 301 names were added to the roll. Mr. Griswold kept a full record of Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths during his entire ministry. His list of admissions to the Church is only to January 1st, 1797. From that date he seems to have invited all persons to the Sacraments. Under his ministry only 34 persons united with the Church. At his ordination Mr. Elliott found only 43 members—showing how the Church had been broken up in the 8 years preceding. Nine years later, after the Church at Bridgewater had been formed, Mr. Elliott reports a membership of 118; but this was before the revival that moved the town. Three hundred and nineteen members were added to the Church during Mr. Elliot’s ministry—most of them on profession of faith. There were added to the Church under Mr. Rood, 153, Mr. Porter, 116, and Mr. Greenwood, 46. After the retirement of Mr. Greenwood, Rev. E. W. Andrews was acting pastor for 6 or 8 months, and received 63 persons to Church fellowship. In the 19 years of Mr. Murdoch’s ministry there were added to the Church, 243 persons; and under the present pastorate of 6 years 80 have been received. The number of names on the Church roll up to this date is 1593. In 1861 there was a reported membership of 476; but the roll had not been revised and corrected since 1836. A careful sifting of the list in the Fall of 1870, showed a Church membership of 310 at the beginning of the present pastorate. The actual membership to-day is 332—27 of them over 75 years of age, and one of them over 100 years. At the head of the list is Mrs. Polly Canfield who united in 1812. Two persons are said to have died in this town over 100 years of age—Harry Carpenter, a colored man, and Noah Nodine, who was born in the 17th century and died in the 19th. Miss Sally Northrop, who celebrated the anniversary of her 100th birthday on the 29th of June is still living.