History of Congregationalism From About A.D. 250 to the Present Time
History of Congregationalism From About A.D. 250 to the Present Time
George Punchard
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in General Court assembled. And these stipends varied, according to the size of the settlement and the ability and generosity of the planters, from sixty to one hundred pounds — Southampton giv- ing the largest salary. These salaries seem at first to have been paid in produce and articles of con- sumption, at current prices. As lately as 1840 there remained fifteen Congre- gational churches in Suffolk County, Long Island, all but two of which owned meeting-houses. Seven of these churches were t...hen supplied with Congre- gational ministers, and four with Presbyterians. The mbst flourishing of them, at that date, was at Upper Aquebogue, which contained two hun- dred and twenty-five members; though between 1814 and 1830 it had sent out four colonies, which had been organized into churches and had built for themselves meeting-houses. There was, at the latter date, a flourishing church at Patchogue, containing two hundred and twenty- four members, another at Wading River, of one hundred and forty members, and still another at Old Man's, of one hundred and thirty-five members.* From this sketch of Long Island it appears that the earliest English settlements there were made by New England Congregationalists, who mod- elled all their institutions, civil and religious, after * Manuscript Letter of the Rev.
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