Asylum Hill Congregational Society formed

The Courant reported that the money to build the new church had already been raised.

1. So far, I haven’t found any contemporary reference to attendance at this meeting.  Presumably, the people who were elected to be officers and serve on committees were in attendance, but that wasn’t always the case:  Olcott Allen was elected to serve on a committee during a meeting he didn’t apparently attend.
2. Notice of James Roberts’s attendance comes from Melva Swartz’s 1940 article on the 75^th anniversary of the church. 

On June 17, 1864, the Courant reported that the project to build a new church would go forward.

1. The Asylum Hill Congregational Society formally approved a site for the new church on June 29, 1864.
2. James H. Roberts would attend the 75^th anniversary of the church on March 17, 1940.

James H. Roberts would go on to become a foreign missionary in China before returning to Hartford.

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, “New church on Asylum Hill,” Hartford Courant, June 27, 1864, page 2.

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