... Stephen Dewey and Aaron Root, were among the early settlers of the town, and the houses they built the one of brick, and the other of wood still stand. They came from Westfield, about forty miles ... than a year, and on the 2d May, 1839, it was dedicated, under the name of the Church of the Messiah. The burning of our sanctuary had [80] proved to be our upbuilding; the position of the Stuyvesant ... ear of all the ages from the early Christian time. The churches of Rome and England and Germany have some of these; and in a service-book, supposed to becompiled by the Chevalier Bunsen, there...