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About Rev. Josiah Dwight
From The History of Dedham: From the Beginning of Its Settlement, in September ... By Erastus Worthington. page 86. A CATALOGUE OF NATIVES OF DEDHAM, Who have Graduated at Harvard University:
1687. JOSIAH DWIGHT, son of Timothy and Ann Dwight, born February 8, 1670; first minister of Woodstock, Ct., from 1690 to 1726; first minister of Dedham, West Parish, ordained June 4,1735, dismissed May 10, 1743; returned to Woodstock ; died in 1748. He published in 1745 in Boston an "Essay on the outcry raised against regular singing," (the then modern fashion of singing the entire hymn consecutively) also, a sermon originally preached at Framingham. Flynt Dwight (H. U. 1724) was a son.
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From First Congregational Church of Woodstock - Our History (1976)
"Like countless Congregational churches in New England, [the Hill Church] has never had an interruption in its existence. Though its life at times has been turbulent, at others languishing, yet to have let it die away would at all times have been unthinkable."
- 1674 John Eliot of Roxbury, Mass., visits the area that became Woodstock and preaches to the Wabbaquassets at Pulpit Rock.
- 1686 The thirteen “Goers” arrive from Roxbury after King Philip’s War and the departure of the native population, and build Wabbaquasset Hall.
- 1690 The name of the town is changed from New Roxbury to Woodstock by Judge Samuel Sewall. Woodstock is still part of Massachusetts.
- 1694 The new meetinghouse is built on Plaine Hill. Josiah Dwight, age 20 and a graduate of Harvard College, is named the first minister.
- 1721 A new, unheated meetinghouse is erected on the site of the present church and at considerable cost to the town.
- 1730 Reverend Dwight is dimissed in an atmosphere of discord. Amos Throop takes over the pulpit, though he dies at age 34 in 1735. His grave is located in the Hill Cemetery.
Sources
- The History of the Descendants of John Dwight, of Dedham, Mass, Volume 2 (Google eBook) Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight J. F. Trow & son, printers and bookbinders, 1874. Page 541. "HISTORY OF THE DESCENDANTS OP JOSIAH DWIGHT, OF WOODSTOCK, CT. (continued.)"
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Rev. Josiah Dwight's Timeline
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February 8, 1670
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Dedham, Norfolk , Massachusetts
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1687
Age 16
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October 19, 1694
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Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
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October 10, 1697
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Rye, Westchester County, NY, United States
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November 7, 1698
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Woodstock, Windham County, CT, United States
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1700
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Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States
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1702
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Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut
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July 19, 1704
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Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States
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November 2, 1705
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Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, United States
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