A Church History of New England extending from 1783 to 1796. containing An Account of the Religious Affairs of the Country and the Oppressions therein on Religious Accounts with a Particular History of Baptist Churches in the Five States of New England Vol III. By ISAAC BACKUS, pastor of a Church in Middleborough.

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CONNECTICUT Page 100.Chapter IV
A LIST OF THE BAPTIST CHURCHES in the FIVE STATES of NEW ENGLAND, for the year 1795.
The first column contains the year in which the church was constituted, as far as it is known; the second the name of the town; the third its distance from Boston; the fourth, the name of the minister, if they have any; the fifth the number of members in each church where it could be obtained.
(***Note -- I switched the mileage with the town name for no reason really*** MILES are miles to Boston)

STATE of CONNECTICUT
County of New London

YEAR MILES Groton MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1705 113 Groton Timothy Wightman 182
1765 117 Silas Burris 81
1743 100 Stonington Peleg Randal 145
1765 104 Simeon Brown 194
1775 110 Valentine W. Rathbun 46
1793 Samuel Northup 46
1767 115 New London Zadock Darrow 268
1786 118 Davis Rogers 24
1743 105 Colchester Abel Palmer 90
1784 100 Christopher Palmer 58
1752 120 Lyme Jason Lee 264
1786 110 Montville Reuben Palmer 52
1786 85 Preston 60

STATE of CONNECTICUT
County of Windham

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1750 57 Thompson John Martin 100
1766 66 Woodstock 73
1792 68 Amos Wells 76
1774 74 Ashford Dyer Stark 90
1776 72 John Rathbun 54
1792 69 38
1794 67 Daniel Bolton
ord.27 Jun 1792
1776 65 Killingly
1776 70 Hampton Peter Rogers 63
1792 72 Plainfield Nathaniel Cole
ord.12 Dec 1787		 87

STATE of CONNECTICUT
County of Hartford

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1739 127 Farmington Calvin Hulbert 40
1775 107 Suffield John Hastings 103
1780 115 Bristol 70
1786 112 Wintonbury Ashbel Gillet 50
1789 106 Hartford 50
110 Windsor
1789 101 East Hartford Stephen Shepard 47
1790 104 Somers Seth Parsons 20
1792 100 Enfield Christopher Minor 15
1793 Symsbury 7

STATE of CONNECTICUT
County of New Haven

1787 130 Wallingford 33
1792 29

STATE of CONNECTICUT
County of Fairfield

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1751 166 Stratford Stephen Royce 119
1773 194 Stamford Ebenezer Ferris 25
1773 204 Greenwich Nathaniel Finch 45
1785 Danbury Elijan Wheeler 40
1790 48
1789 Ridgefield Elias Lee 27
1794 Newtown John Sherman 21

STATE of CONNECTICUT
County of Litchfield

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1786 Warren 30
1788 Torrington 50
1789 Canaan 27
1789 Litchfield Amos Tuttle 23
1790 New Hartford Epaphras Thompson 75
1790 Roxbury 31
1791 Watertown Daniel Wildman 25
1791 New Milford 38
1793 Colebrook Rufus Babcock 31
1793 Sharon 44

STATE of CONNECTICUT
County of Middlesex

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1760 136 Saybrook Eliphalet Lester30
1788 William Hill
1778 127 Chatham Solomon Wheat 63
1783 72
1790 118 East Haddam Simeon Dickinson 47

STATE of CONNECTICUT
County of Tolland

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1780 81 Willington David Lillibridge48
1780 92 Coventry 10
1786 87 Stafford 24

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