First Meeting House, Hartford Conn.
Item Information
- Title:
- First Meeting House, Hartford Conn.
- Description:
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First Meeting House, Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1635 when English settlers from Mass. drove out the Dutch settlers who had been there since 1633. Is no contemporary description of the building but town record states that each service was to be guarded by armed men. Probably the logs were hastily squared and the chinks filled with moss or clay, door of planking, and unglazed windows fitted with board shutters. The floor was probably of beaten earth, and the roof of thatch. The English settlers of 1635 and 1636 were accompanied by the Rev. Thomas Hooker and his wife from Newtown (now Cambridge) Mass. Second Meeting House begun in 1638. This edifice would have been the first meeting house in Connecticut.
- Collector:
- Cutler, Wolcott, 1891-1965
- Date:
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[ca. 1850–1925]
- Format:
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Photographs
- Genre:
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Lantern slides
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Charlestown Branch Library - Collection (local):
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Charlestown Lantern Slides
- Subjects:
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Churches
- Places:
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ConnecticutHartford (county)Hartford
- Extent:
- 1 photograph : transparency
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/8k71p276h
- Terms of Use:
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