12. Charles A. Boardman; was pastor at New Preston from June 1818, until March 1830; was installed pastor at New Haven, on the third of March, 1830, remaining until September 1832. He was also installed pastor at Westport, February 1833, and stayed until December 1836. He died in 1860.
13. Orlo D. Hine was born here, October 28, 1815; graduated at Yale College, in 1837; was ordained pastor at Clinton, April 14th, 1841, laboring there until October 25th, 1842. He was also acting pastor at Fair Haven, Vt., from 1843 to 1845; acting pastor at Pontiac, Mich., from 1846 to 1851; installed pastor at North Woodstock, January 6th, 1852, and stayed until November 5th, 1855; and was installed pastor at Lebanon the first of May 1856.
14. Merrit S. Platt was born in 1805; graduated at Hamilton College; was ordained pastor at Madison, N.Y., September 1837, remaining until 1855; was acting pastor at Hamilton, N. Y., 1855, staying until 1864; was also acting pastor at Glassboro, New Field, Franklin, New Jersey, in 1864. He is still living.
15. Eliezur Beecher, ordained by the Baptists about 1814; was never settled; preached mainly in this town.
16. Asahel Bronson was ordained about 1820 or 1825; supposed to be dead.
17. John Treat Baldwin; graduated at Princeton College; was ordained about 1820. He is still living.
18. George Todd; graduated at Yale College about 1820 or 1825; supposed to be living.
19. George Sterling was ordained pastor at Wayland, Mich., December, 1874.
At least four men in this town have been active in National affairs. The most distinguished was Roger Sherman, a native of Mass., who came here in 1743. He was clerk to this Ecclesiastical Society, from 1753 to 1761, and established in the office of Deacon in 1757. Here he wrought as a shoemaker, aided his brother in the store, and in 1745 was appointed land surveyor for the County. Removing to New Haven in 1761, he became judge of the court of Common Pleas, a member of the upper House in the Legislature, and judge of the Superior Court. In 1774 he was appointed a member of the first Congress, in which he continued until his death, at which time he was in the Senate, to which he was elected in 1791. He was a member of the Governor’s Council of safety, and Mayor of New Haven from 1784 to his death, July 23d, 1793. In the Congress of 1776 he was a member of the Committee appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence, as well as of many of the other most important Committees, and he was also a member of the board of war, and of the board of treasury. His services to the Country were invaluable, and few of his contemporaries left their impress more clearly upon American institutions.