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The First Parish, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Dorothy L. Mann, Anne H. Bates

Histories of Bridgewater & Local Institutions

The history and records of the First Parish Unitarian Church of Bridgewater, as found in the church records and other sources.

First Parish Bridgewater Unitarian Universalist was originally called the South Parish or South Precinct. It was created by an act of the General Court of the Colony of Massachusetts in April, 1716. The actual effective date of incorporation was June 1, 1716. In that period a town and its church were considered one and the same. The new congregation in what would later be called the Town of Bridgewater was a mostly amicable split off from the First Church …

A Brief History Of Bridgewater Academy, Maurice K. Walsh

Histories of Bridgewater & Local Institutions

The history of Bridgewater Academy begins in the year 1799. The thesis presents the history of the Academy in seven chapters. Chapter I treats of the movement which led to the establishment of the Academy and the factors which brought it about. Chapter II describes the steps taken by the Board of Trustees in satisfaction of the provisions of the Act of the Legislature that created the Academy. Chapter III discusses the conduct of the school as planned by the original Board of Trustees.

In Chapter IV the influences which insured the early success of the school are described. In …

The Bridgewater Book

Histories of Bridgewater & Local Institutions

An illustrated history of the towns of Bridgewater (Bridgewater, England; West Bridgewater, Mass.; East Bridgewater, Mass.; North Bridgewater and Brockton, Mass.; and Bridgewater, Mass.) and their institutions (including the town library, State Farm, State Normal School, churches, and historical society). Essays in the book were contributed by Francis E. Howard, the Hon. Benjamin W. Harris, Bradford Kingman, John White Chadwick, Lucia Alden Bradford Knapp, Martha Keith, Theodore F. Wright, Albert G. Boyden, and Hollis M. Blackstone.

A Semi-Centennial Discourse Before The First Congregational Society In Bridgewater, Delivered On Lord's Day, 17th September 1871, Richard Manning Hodges

Histories of Bridgewater & Local Institutions

The Rev. Richard Manning Hodges served as minister of the First Congregational Society in Bridgewater (at the time called the South Parish and now known as the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Bridgewater, MA) from 1821 to 1833, after having been ordained there in 1821. On the fiftieth anniversary of his ministry and after a long career in Cambridge and Somerville he returned to his first settlement to address the congregation.

This volume of approximately sixty pages is a complete text of both his discourse and the other elements of a Unitarian religious service of the 1870’s period. The …