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Excerpt from The Southport Congregational Church: Southport, Connecticut, March 7, 1843-November 30, 1915 In the year 1639, Roger Ludlow, a magistrate of the colony of Connecticut, came from Windsor with a few families to what was then called by the Indians Unquowa, and began the settlement of the town of Fairfield. These first settlers were soon joined by others from Concord and Watertown, Massachusetts. Fearing God, they at once formed a church, known in the beginning as "The First Church of Christ in Fairfield," and afterwards as "The First Church of Christ in Fairfield of the Congregational Order." The following were the first nine pastors of this church: John Jones, 1644-1664; Samuel Wakeman, 1665-1692; Joseph Webb, 1694-1732; Noah Hobart, 1733-1773; Andrew Eliot, 1774-1805; Heman Humphrey, 1807-1817; Nathaniel Hewit, 1818- 1827; John Hunter, 1828-1834; Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, 1835-1854. Southport was for many years a part of the Fairfield parish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.