Nathan was the father of the present Mr. Henry Lobdell, who resides on a portion of the old estate.

This parish, which appears to have been formerly united with Ridgefield and Ridgebury, was first organized under the ministry of the Rev. Ebenezer Dibblee, D.D., of Stamford, Conn., about the year 1749." At that period, there was no minister of the Church in the county nearer than Rye, between thirty and forty miles distant from Salem.

Mr. Dibblee was the eldest son of Wakefield Dibblee, of Danbury, Conn , whose ancestor, Thomas Dibblee/ was a freeman of Dorchester, Mass., in 1639. He was born at Danbury, in 1712. In the will of Wakefield Dibblee, which was proved May 2d, 1734, he directs his executors to pay all "ye charges which do, or may arise upon ye education of his son Ebenezer; also ^30 towards furnishing him with books,"

Mr. Dibblee was graduated A.M. and S.T.D. at Yale, in 1734, and D.D. at Columbia, in 1793. After leaving college he was at first licensed as a candidate among the Dissenters, and allowed to preach in their congregations ; he soon, however, left the Congregational persuasion of religion, and became a convert to the Episcopal Church. He went to England for Holy orders in 1747, returned to New York the 23d of October, 1748, and was appointed missionary at Stamford, where he arrived on the 25th.d

The following extract occurs in a letter of his to the Venerable Society :

a Dr. Dibblee. savs: "Arrived at my mission (Stamford) the 26th of October, 174S, and began to do duty the Sunday following." From his parochial register it appears that his first ministrations commenced in the oblong November 11, 1749 ; aud he continued, with but short intervals, his services both In the Oblong and Cortland Manor, until February, 1790.