Our Meeting House History

To begin our Meeting House history, we must tell how the church was first gathered, and I paraphrase. Benjamin Wheeler is recorded as the first settler in New Marlborough in 1739. In 1744, a meeting house was built and a church an ecclesial society (which held the property and transacted all business) was organized. Nearly 50 years later, the town, and thus the church, had grown so that it was desired that a new meeting house be built. Church folk in the southern r . . .   more