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Chepachet Free Will Baptist Church is pleased to offer the following articles about the meeting house ...John Colby, Preacher of the Gospel
By Jeff Brooke-Stewart
"Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you and fill up in the flesh what was still lacking in regard to Christ's afflictions for the sake of the body, which is the church. I have become its servant.
To this end I labor, struggling with all His energy which so powerfully works in me."
So wrote the Apostle Paul to the Colossians concerning the hardships and sufferings he
experienced while preaching the Gospel of Christ. Those words might equally be applied to a young nineteenth century evangelist by the name of John Colby.
More...The Chepachet Meeting House
The Chepachet Meeting House, in which the Chepachet Free Will Baptist Church holds Sunday services, was built in 1821. The organization known as "The Proprietors of the Chepachet
Meeting House" was first organized by 36 subscribers, who initially pledged a total of $1135.50 to a fund created "for the purpose of building an house for the publick worship of God to be erected
at the village of Chepachet."
More...The Holbrook Bell
By Clifford W. Brown, Jr.
April 16, 1822, the Proprietors of the Chepachet Meeting House voted that "James Wilder and Job
Armstrong be appointed a committee ... to procure a bell." This bell, cast the same year, was made by a firm in Medway, Massachusetts, started by Major George Holbrook, one of the earliest
bell founders in America, who, it is believed by many, learned his trade from Paul Revere.
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Other Holbrook Bells
Compiled by Clifford W. Brown, Jr.
A partial list of bells, cast by George Holbrook and his heirs, believed to be still in existence.
More... The Dorr Rebellion
By Clifford W. Brown, Jr.
The
weekend of June 4-5, 1842, was an important and inspiring one in the life of the Chepachet Free Will Baptist Church. On Saturday, June 4, 1842, a "Conference Meeting" of the Church was
held at the Chepachet Meeting House, with sixty to seventy persons in attendance. The records say that forty spoke.
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Fragment of a diary of Rev. Alexander H. Morrell,
covering the period May 17th 1882 to July 6th 1882
Transcribed by Jeffrey Brooke-Stewart. May 2007.
Sometime in 2002, Mrs. Lynne Jones was walking at the rubbish tip in her hometown of Georgetown, Maine when she noticed a notebook laying in the trash. On inspection, she realized
that it was the fragment of a diary. Taking it home, she later read parts of it, and concluded that it was the work of a certain A. H. Morrell and that at the time of writing, he was he pastor
of a Free Will Baptist Church in Chepachet, Rhode Island. She kindly sent the notebook to the Chepachet church...
More... Old Home Days
By Clifford W. Brown, Jr.
Old Home Days constituted the largest series of public events in the history of Chepachet. For
over forty years, starting in 1906, hundreds of people made their way to the village for a day of food, fellowship, and entertainment sponsored by the Chepachet Free Will Baptist Church and
later by the Chepachet Union Church, of which the Baptist Church was for many years a part.
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