HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION. 



Norwalk (1652) Thomas Hanford. 



Farmington (1652) Samuel Hooker. 



Chelmsford (1655) John Fiske. 



Beverly (1657) John Hale. 



Hadley (1659) John Russell. 



Lancaster (1660) Joseph Rowlandson. 



Norwich (1660) James Fitch. 



Northampton (1661) Solomon Stoddard. 



Billerica (1663) Samuel Whiting. 



Wenham (1663) No pastor. 



Bridgewater, West (1664) .... James Keith. 



Groton (1664) Samuel Willard. 



Newton, Center (1664) Nehemiah Hobart. 



Marlborough (1666) William Brimsmead. 



Killingworth (1667) John Woodbridge. 



Mendon (1667) Joseph Emerson. 



Amesbury (166S) Thomas Wells. 



Middletown (1668) Nathaniel Collins. 



Boston, Old South (1669) Thomas Thatcher. 



Hartford, Second (1669) Joseph Haynes. 



Windsor, Second (1669) Benjamin Woodbridge. 



Woodbury (1670) Zechariah Walker. 



Greenwich (1670) No pastor. 



Hatfield (1670) Hope Atherton. 



Portsmouth (1671) Joshua Moody. 



Tisbury (1673) John Mayhew. 



York (1673) Shubael Dummer. 



Besides these eighty - two regular Congregational 

 churches, there were six or seven Indian missionary 

 churches; five Baptist churches — one founded at Reho- 

 both (Swansey) in 1663, one at Boston in 1665, and three 

 in Rhode Island: — the First Providence (1639), the First 



