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.

334 pages.
MASSACHUSETTS Page 93.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 from Boston when known)

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of Suffolk

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1665 0 Boston Samuel Stillman, D.D.
of New Jersey
b. PA
installed 9 January 1768		 267
1743 0 Thomas Baldwin, A.M.
b. 23 Dec. 1753 Norwich, CT
ordained Canaan .N.H. 11 June 1783 Norwich, CT.
158

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of Norfolk

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1750 34 Bellingham Noah Alden
b. 31 May 1725 Middleborough
ord. 5 June 1755 Stratford, Ct
installed Bellungham 12 Nov, 1766 		51
1769 30 Wrentham William Williams, A.M.
B. PA
ord. 3 July 1776
edu. Rhode Island College		 40
1776 20 Medfield Edward Clarke
to Medford ca. 1789 		42
1780 16 Randolph Joel Briggs, A.M.
b. 15 April 1757 Norton
edu. Providence
ord. 5 Dec. 1787 		58

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of Plymouth

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1756 33 Middleborough Isaac Backus 91
1757 42 Ebenezer Hinds
b. 29 July 1719Bridgewater 		29
1761 43 Samuel Nelson
b. 5 April 1745
ord. 16 January 1794		107
1785 25 Bridgwater George Robinson
b. Nov. 1754 Attleborough
ord. 13 Nov. 1776 Killingly, CT 		53
1788 33 Marshfield 26
1791 50 Carver John Tripp
ordained 28 Sept. 1791 or 1792		52

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of Bristol

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1663 52 Swansea Charles Thompson, A.M.
b. 4 April 1748 Amwell, NJ
ord. 3 July 1771		150
1693 55 Russell Mason
b. 22 April 1714
ordained 2 Nov. 1752		 346
1753 51 Rehoboth Thomas Seamans 45
1762 48 John Hicks
b. 10 May 1712 Rehoboth
ord. 10 Nov. 1762		40
1772 48 Jacob Hicks
1 Jan. 1740
ord. 20 Jan. 1777
eldest son of old pastor 		130
1777 40 Jeremiah Irons
b. 14 October 1765 Gloucester
Ordained 24 Sept. 1795		56
1780 45 15
1789 42 Aaron Wheeler 36
1794 44 John Peirce Jones
of Providence
ordained 10 March 1795 		31
1761 37 Taunton Ebenezer Nelson
ordained 10 Nov. 1790		 55
1769 32 Attleboro Laban Thurber 68
1781 38 Elisha Carpenter 49
1772 50 Dighton Enoch Goff
b. 2 Nov. 1740 Dighton; bapt. 1771
ord. 4 January 1781		 250
1774 48 Freetown John Lawrance
ord. 23 Oct 1794 		20
1781 50 Philip Hathway
installed 13 June 1792; ord. Middleborough 30 Sept. 1790		 50
1774 53 New Bedford Zaccheus Tobey
ord. 1792		 18
1781 58 Dartmouth Daniel Hicks
b. 20 Nov. 1735
ord. 12 July 1780; installed 10 Oct. 1781		 347
1780 37 Raynham 14

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of Barnstable

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1757 84 Harwich Abner Lewis
b. 16 March 1745 Middleborough
ord. 26 June 1776		72
1771 74 Barnstable Enoch Eldridge
b. Harwich
ord. 29 April 1795		58

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
Dukes County

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1693 99 Chilmark 16
1780 97 Tisbury David Leonard, A.B.
(brother of Zenas) 		45

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of Essex

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1765 33 Haverhill Hezekiah Smith, A.M. 176
50 Almsbury Moses Chace
1785 26 Rowley 50
1793 18 Danvers Thomas Green
b. 3 January 1761 WOrcester
ord. 26 Nov. 1783
grandson of first Baptist Minister of Leicester		30

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of Middlesex

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1771 25 Chelmsford John Peckens
b. Middleborough
ord. 1786		95
1780 9 Newton Joseph Grafton
b. 9 June 1757 Newport
ord. 18 June 1788		94
1781 7 + 10 Cambridge and Woburn Shubael Lovell
physician
ord. 29 Apr. 1795		 84
1789 14 Weston 18

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of Worcester

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1738 58 Leicester Nathan Dana
of Newton
ord. 20 Nov. 1793		45
1749 65 Sturbridge Zenas Lockwood Leonard, A.B.
brother of David
96
1762 60 Charlton David Rathbun
b. 29 May 1763 Stonington
ord. 25 Sept. 1793		113
1765 47 Sutton Samuel Waters 52
1786 46 37
1792 41 William Batcheller
ord. 10 Oct. 1792 		57
1768 70 Hardwich 40
1770 80 Royalstone Moses Kenney 155
1776 35 Harvard Isaiah Parker
physician
b. 13 April 1752 Westford 		129
1779 60 Ashburnham 57
1780 40 Northbridge John Cooper
ord. 11 Oct. 1791 		47
1782 60 Templeton 97
1791 45 Upton Simeon Snow
ord. June 1791

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of Hampshire

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1736 80 South Brimfield Elijah Codding
ord. 11 Nov. 1773		155
1789 100 West Springfield Jesse Wightman
and
Edward Upham, A.M.
b. 26 March 1709 Malden
ord. 15 Oct. 1740		30
1761 117 Ashfield Ebenezar Smith
ord. 20 Aug. 1761 		26
1788 117 Enos Smith 92
1765 95 Leverett 59
1768 83 Wilbraham Seth Clark
b. April 1723 Northampton
ord. 13 June 1770		 228
1793 85 34
1772 85 New Salem Josiah Orcott
ord. 30 Oct. 1794		45
1780 88 Shutesbury Joseph Smellage
ord. Oct. 1786 		57
1780 112 Leyden Joseph Greene 64
1780 106 Chesterfield Ebenezer Vining 45
1780 116 Colerain 52
1789 116 Edmund Littlefield 19
1784 105 Westfield 85
1785 111 Russell Ebenezar Stow 45
1786 112 Shelburne David Long
1788 110 Conway 82
1789 107 Whateley Asa Todd 45
1789 120 Buckland 26
1789 112 Bernardston Levi Hodge 50
1789 123 Granville 28
1790 123 Charlemont 31
1793 80 Monson Samuel Webster
ord. 28 June 1792
1795 85 Belcherton Samuel Bigelow
b. 1738 Watertown
ord. 21 May 1772		 18
1795 85 Granby Silas Palk 15

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of Berkshire

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1769 140 Cheshire Peter Werden
b. 6 June 1728
ord. 21 May 1751 Warwick		 155
1771 142 35
1791 144 John Leland
b. Worcester 		173
1772 140 Pittsfield Valentine Rathbun
b. December 1723 Stonington		 31
1772 150 Hancock Clarke Rogers 54
1777 135 Washington John Nichols
ord.1784 		68
1779 126 Sandisfield 88
1788 Benjamin Baldwin 60
1788 135 Bullocksgrant Nathan Haskins
ord. 28 January 1789		 55
1789 140 Great Barrington Jeduthan Grey 76
1790 150 Stockbridge and West Stockbridge Samuel Whelpley, A.M. 86
1791 Middlefield 20
1794 135 Williamston 16

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of York

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1768 86 Berwick William Hooper
b.28 February 1747 Berwick
ord. 14 Aug. 1776
brother to James 		93
1772 98 Sanford 34
1780 88 Wells Nathaniel Lord
of Berwick 		63
1781 108 Shapleigh Tozer Lord
older brother of Nathaniel
ord. 1776		 40
1785 Nehemiah Davis 55
1782 108 Coxhall Simon Lock
ord. 18 Dec. 1783		 57
1795 Limerick Levi Chadbourn 50
1782 Personfield Samuel Weeks 13
1791 110 Waterborough Pelatiah Tingley, A.M.
ord. 22 Oct. 1772 Attleborough		 30
1791 110 Henry Smith
ord. 1794		 28
1791 160 Fryeburgh Zebadiah Richardson 25
1792 Cornish 47

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of Cumberland

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1768 130 Goreham James M'Corson 28
1785 162 Harpswell Samuel Woodward
ord. Oct. 1792 		53
1791 162 Hebron Samuel Flagg 39
1791 165 Buckfield 32
1791 170 Paris James Hooper
brother to William
ord. 25 June 1795 Paris 		34
1793 Livermore Elisha Williams, A.M. 60
1795 146 New Gloucester Nathan Merrill 16
1782 (1st.do.)
??? 		10
1794 Raymondstown Zechariah Leach 40

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of Lincoln

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1784 172 Bowdoinham Job Macomber
ord.18 August 1784 		40
1784 215 Thomaston Elisha Snow 90
1784 Edgecomb Daniel Hebbard 100
1788 166 Bowdoin James Potter
b. 1734 Lincoln
ord. 6 Oct. 1785 		37
1791 William Stinson
ord. 5 July 1792		 54
1794 24
1788 203 Vassalborough Nehemiah Gould
ord. 5 Janaury 1796 		39
1789 195 Ballston Joshua Young
ord. 8 April 1795 at Ballston		 23
1791 Sidney Asa Wilbur
b. Bridgwater
ord. 13 Nov. 1793 		53
1791 216 Cushing Ephraim Hall
ord. 24 Oct. 1793 		49
1792 Sterling Eliphalet Smith
ord. January 1770		 51
1792 190 Readfield Isaac Case
b. 25 Feb. 1761 Rehoboth
ord. 10 Sept. 1783		 80
1792 Lewiston 58
1793 205 Muscongus Andrew Fuller
30 Oct. 1793 		31
1793 Greene 51
1793 192 Nobleborough 15
1794 North Sandwich Lemuel Jackson
b. Middleborough		 18
1795 Canaan Mephibosheth Cain
ord. 12 January 1796 Clinton 		30
1795 Barrettstown 18
1794 North Vineyard 20
1790 Sandy RIver Edward Lock 100

STATE of MASSACHUSETTS
County of Hancock

YEAR MILES TOWN MINISTERS CHURCH MEMBERS
1791 260 Islesborough Thomas Eames 30


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