At least four men in this town have been active in National affairs. The most distinguished was Roger Sherman, a native of Mass., who came here in 1743. He was clerk to this Ecclesiastical Society, from 1753 to 1761, and established in the office of Deacon in 1757. Here he wrought as a shoemaker, aided his brother in the store, and in 1745 was appointed land surveyor for the County. Removing to New Haven in 1761, he became judge of the court of Common Pleas, a member of the upper House in the Legislature, and judge of the Superior Court. In 1774 he was appointed a member of the first Congress, in which he continued until his death, at which time he was in the Senate, to which he was elected in 1791. He was a member of the Governor’s Council of safety, and Mayor of New Haven from 1784 to his death, July 23d, 1793. In the Congress of 1776 he was a member of the Committee appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence, as well as of many of the other most important Committees, and he was also a member of the board of war, and of the board of treasury. His services to the Country were invaluable, and few of his contemporaries left their impress more clearly upon American institutions. Elijah Boardman, third son of Deacon Sherman Boardman, and grandson of the first pastor of this Church, was born March 7, 1760. In 1821 he was elected to the U. S. Senate; he died August 18th, 1823. Mr. Boardman’s earlier years were in connection with this Society; but having married a daughter of the aforementioned Dr. Whiting, a zealous Episcopalian who engaged in a pamphlet controversy with Dr. Billamy, he afterwards identified himself with the Episcopal Church and died in its communion. Perry Smith, who died in 1852, was elected to the United States Senate in 1836, and served one term. He was connected with the Episcopal Society. Orange Merwin, born here July 3, 1776, was in Congress in 1826-7, during the administration of John Quincy Adams. He died September 5th, 1854. He was a member of this Society. The Sabbath School was begun in 1812 or 14 by Rev. Mr. Elliott, who for some time was the only teacher. The first appropriation of money for its benefit by the Church was in 1821. The present membership of the Sabbath School is 300. The Infant Class in the Chapel was begun, under its present teacher, Miss Isabella Wilson, in 1872.