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Hotchkiss, Stephen, 1718 - 1807

Deacon Stephen Hotchkiss was the son of Stephen and Elizabeth Hotchkiss of New Haven, Connecticut.  He succeeded David Gaylord as deacon of the Bristol Congregational Church.  Hotchkiss served a soldier in the American Revolution from Bristol, Connecticut.  In 1790, his household there contained eight individuals.  Bristol, Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstract, 1830-1920, Ancestry.  Federal Enumeration (Bristol, CT, 1790, Ancestry).

Rowe, Daniel, 1720 - 1798

Daniel Rowe (1720-April 29, 1798) was the son of Stephen Rowe and Mary Peck of New Haven, Connecticut.  He was among those who opposed Rev. Samuel Newell's Calvinistic sentiments and formed the Episcopal Church in New Cambridge in 1747.  He served as a collector of poll tax and as a member of the school committee in 1778.  Bristol, Connecticut, U.S., Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Ancestry.

Newell, Samuel, 1714 - 1789

Samuel Newell was the son of Samuel Newell and Sarah Norton of Farmington, in Connecticut. After graduating from Yale in 1739, he was ordained in 1747 and became the Calvinist pastor of the Congregational Church in New Cambridge (Bristol), Connecticut. During the Revolution, he was a Loyalist.  Find A Grave (Old South Cemetery, Bristol, CT).

Carrington, Lemuel, 1746 - 1831

Born in Wallingford, Connecticut in 1746, Lemuel Carrington was the son of Levinus Carrington and Lois Andrews.  He removed to Bristol where he worked as a farmer, operated a tavern at Chippeny Hill, and became a member of the new Canaan Anglican Church.  In early summer of 1777, with sixteen other men of his parish, Carrington refused to respond to the Danbury alarm and was taken prisoner as a suspected Tory but later released on taking an oath of fidelity.  Yet, it has been reported that Lemuel, his brother Riverius, and sister Lois remained Loyalists.