In 1865 the valuation of the property had risen to 88000. There were 60 communicants and an average attendance of 40 persons. The following are the latest parish statistics: Families, 45 ; souls, 214; baptisms,?; confirmations, 3 ; marriages, 3 ; burials, 6; communicants, 74; Sunday-school scholars, 44; teachers, 7. Total amount collected for all objects, §2555,02.
The following were the original officers of the parish : William S. Popham and Mark Spencer, church | wardens ; Charles W. Carmer, William H. Popham, '
Francis McFarlan, Joshua Underbill, Edmund Ludlow, Samuel E. Lyon, Augustus Bleecker and Orrin Weed, vestrymen. The following are the present officers of the parish, the senior wardenship being now vacant on account of the recent death of the Honorable William S. Popham, who had held the office of senior church warden continuously since the foundation of the parish, viz. : Lewis C. Popham, church warden ; Alexander B. Crane, James Bleecker, Charles K. Fleming, Oliver A. Hyatt, S. Bayard Fish, Lewis B. Atterbury, Henry W. Bates and Cornelius B. Fish, vestrymen.
The interments in the parish graveyard number one hundred and ten. To the southwest of the church are the vaults of the Bleecker, McFarlan and Popham families, and in the last-named repose the remains of the late William Popham, of Revolutionary fame, and his son, William Sherbrooke Popham. In this churchyard lie the remains of several unknown persons who died within the town limits, and so were given burial here. The following curious epitaph, -- the only j)eculiar one in the little buryingground, -- appears on the tombstone of James Bell. The stone was prepared by him and the lines were presumably of his own composition, --