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Articles on the History of Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven
Trinity has a richly documented history. Project Canterbury has collected and digitized many published many public domain texts, and has a section for Trinity Church New Haven. Many of the sermons and other documents referenced in the TIMELINE in the History Overview page are also available there.
Some of the below articles are original contributions by Trinity Church Historical Society members, while others are links to various journal articles published over the years relating to Trinity Church. Some of the files are in .pdf format and may take some time to load.
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The Ministers of Trinity Church Parish, New Haven, Connecticut, by Neil C. Olsen, January, 2012. The Article covers the list of all Anglican ministers that are known to have been responsible for the region covering the modern day parish of Trinity Church, New Haven, from the missionaries in 1705 to the installation of Rev. Dr. Luk de Volder in 2011.
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The First Years of Trinity Church, New Haven, A description of the missionary years, the building of the First Church, and Trinity in the Revolutionary War.
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The Last Two Slaves sold in New Haven. They were Lois Tritten age 40 and her daughter Lucy Tritten age 16, and were sold to Anthony B. Sanford, a shareholder of Trinity, who quickly freed them.
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The Reverend Harry Croswell, and Black Episcopalians in New Haven, 1820-1860, by Randall K. Burkett. Burkett is a noted Black History Scholar, and curator of African American collections at Emory University. This brilliant scholarly work used Harry Croswell’s diaries to give a unique widow into the complex issues of slavery in Trinity and in New Haven in the pre-civil war period.
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A Short History of the Organs and Music of Trinity Church, New Haven, Connecticut, Prepared for the 200th Anniversary of Trinity Church 1752-1952, By G. Huntington Byles, New Haven: no publisher, 1952. It is in two parts:
I. (tbd)
II. The Music and the Choirs of Trinity Church
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History of Trinity Church, New Haven, by Frederick Croswell, esq. Read March 8, 1868. It is written by Judge Frederick Croswell, Rev. Harry Croswell's son; it covers the vexing issues of Trinity's decade long attempt to obtain a proper deed for the church, and ends in 1812 with the death of Rev.Bela Hubbard.
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An Old New Haven Engraver and his Work: Amos Doolittle, by Rev. William A. Beardsley, M.A. [Read December 19, 1910.]. Amos Dolittle was an early republic copper engraver, silversmith, mapmaker, publisher, "tune book" printer, political cartoonist, founding member of the New Haven Mechanic Society, tax assessor, and brethren of the Masonic Fraternity, who is listed as author or illustrator of over 185 books, 100 Maps, 6 Musical scores, and other formats – with a total of 330 media listing him as “author”. But he is best known as “The Paul Revere of Connecticut”, as he was a silversmith who not only fought in the Revolutionary War, but engraved scenes from it on copper plates and printed them. He was a member of the famous Trinity Doolittle family, he was married in 1797 at Trinity Church to Phebe Tuttle, just around the corner from his printing shop in New Haven.
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Trinity Church Parish School and Home, from an article excerpted from American journal of education,1878
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The Beginnings of the Episcopal Church in New Haven, by Rev. Dr. Edwin Harwood, 1895. It begins "ABOUT the year 1750, if a man of the world,--or, as he would have been called in those days, a man of wit and fashion,--had seen the little town of New Haven, and known anything of the tastes and the pursuits of its people, he would have described it as a well planned but thinly settled country village, the inhabitants of which were devoted to saving their own souls, to money making, and to perpetual quarrelling with each other on topics of theological interest." He ends his history with the advent of Dr. Hubbard in 1767, and closes with the ecumenical observation that, “It is a matter of great joy to think that the old bitter theological and ecclesiastical passions are buried and gone. We are living in a better day.” The discourse was written ten years after a series of tragic events for Hardwood’s family, ending when his own daughter converted to Catholicism on the eve of her death from malaria, and was buried with both Roman Catholic and Episcopal ceremonies.
Articles on the History of Trinity Church on the Green, New Haven
Trinity has a richly documented history. Project Canterbury has collected and digitized many published many public domain texts, and has a section for Trinity Church New Haven. Many of the sermons and other documents referenced in the TIMELINE in the History Overview page are also available there.
Some of the below articles are original contributions by Trinity Church Historical Society members, while others are links to various journal articles published over the years relating to Trinity Church. Some of the files are in .pdf format and may take some time to load.
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The Ministers of Trinity Church Parish, New Haven, Connecticut, by Neil C. Olsen, January, 2012. The Article covers the list of all Anglican ministers that are known to have been responsible for the region covering the modern day parish of Trinity Church, New Haven, from the missionaries in 1705 to the installation of Rev. Dr. Luk de Volder in 2011.
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The First Years of Trinity Church, New Haven, A description of the missionary years, the building of the First Church, and Trinity in the Revolutionary War.
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The Last Two Slaves sold in New Haven. They were Lois Tritten age 40 and her daughter Lucy Tritten age 16, and were sold to Anthony B. Sanford, a shareholder of Trinity, who quickly freed them.
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The Reverend Harry Croswell, and Black Episcopalians in New Haven, 1820-1860, by Randall K. Burkett. Burkett is a noted Black History Scholar, and curator of African American collections at Emory University. This brilliant scholarly work used Harry Croswell’s diaries to give a unique widow into the complex issues of slavery in Trinity and in New Haven in the pre-civil war period.
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A Short History of the Organs and Music of Trinity Church, New Haven, Connecticut, Prepared for the 200th Anniversary of Trinity Church 1752-1952, By G. Huntington Byles, New Haven: no publisher, 1952. It is in two parts:
I. (tbd)
II. The Music and the Choirs of Trinity Church
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History of Trinity Church, New Haven, by Frederick Croswell, esq. Read March 8, 1868. It is written by Judge Frederick Croswell, Rev. Harry Croswell's son; it covers the vexing issues of Trinity's decade long attempt to obtain a proper deed for the church, and ends in 1812 with the death of Rev.Bela Hubbard.
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An Old New Haven Engraver and his Work: Amos Doolittle, by Rev. William A. Beardsley, M.A. [Read December 19, 1910.]. Amos Dolittle was an early republic copper engraver, silversmith, mapmaker, publisher, "tune book" printer, political cartoonist, founding member of the New Haven Mechanic Society, tax assessor, and brethren of the Masonic Fraternity, who is listed as author or illustrator of over 185 books, 100 Maps, 6 Musical scores, and other formats – with a total of 330 media listing him as “author”. But he is best known as “The Paul Revere of Connecticut”, as he was a silversmith who not only fought in the Revolutionary War, but engraved scenes from it on copper plates and printed them. He was a member of the famous Trinity Doolittle family, he was married in 1797 at Trinity Church to Phebe Tuttle, just around the corner from his printing shop in New Haven.
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Trinity Church Parish School and Home, from an article excerpted from American journal of education,1878
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The Beginnings of the Episcopal Church in New Haven, by Rev. Dr. Edwin Harwood, 1895. It begins "ABOUT the year 1750, if a man of the world,--or, as he would have been called in those days, a man of wit and fashion,--had seen the little town of New Haven, and known anything of the tastes and the pursuits of its people, he would have described it as a well planned but thinly settled country village, the inhabitants of which were devoted to saving their own souls, to money making, and to perpetual quarrelling with each other on topics of theological interest." He ends his history with the advent of Dr. Hubbard in 1767, and closes with the ecumenical observation that, “It is a matter of great joy to think that the old bitter theological and ecclesiastical passions are buried and gone. We are living in a better day.” The discourse was written ten years after a series of tragic events for Hardwood’s family, ending when his own daughter converted to Catholicism on the eve of her death from malaria, and was buried with both Roman Catholic and Episcopal ceremonies.
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