Meeting to discuss need for a Congregational church on Asylum Hill

1. The first apparent call for religious service on Asylum Hill came at the annual meeting of the City Missionary Society, October 28, 1860.
2. The opening meeting of the Asylum Hill Sabbath School occurred on November 4, 1860.

The next meeting held by this group of people occurs on February 6, 1864.

1. Atwood Collins on naming the 17 people who attended this meeting: “The names are appended for, though they cannot mean much to present generation, they should be held in grateful memory by our church.”
2. Collins again: “It is to be noted that the committee appointed to recommend a site for the new church represented different sections of the Hill in residents and property interests.”

1. There were at least two ministers present at this meeting, J. R. Keep and Charles A. Bullard.
2. The American School for the Deaf believes that David E. Bartlett was also a minister, although he was never affiliated with a church.
3. A. G. Hammond chaired the meeting that approved the establishment of the Sunday school.
4. Elizabeth Kellogg, Joseph Kellogg’s wife, assisted Maria Metcalf with her survey of their neighbors as to the need for a Sunday school on Asylum Hill.

Swartz, Melva J., “Hill Church Will Observe Anniversary,” Hartford Courant, March 18, 1940, page 1.

Unattributed, “Fiftieth Anniversary of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church,” Hartford Courant, February 14, 1915, page X5

Unattributed, “History of the Hill Church – F. Irvin Davis Gives It in Brief,” Hartford Courant, March 2, 1908, page 4.

Unattributed, “Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Twichell Honored at Anniversary of His Church,” Hartford Courant, March 24, 1915, page 16.