Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — A Flag to Summon to Church. [ARTICLE]

A Flag to Summon to Church.

In the rooms of the Connecticut Historical Society is exhibited a piece of a bell showing the date of casting, 1729. This fragment which is in two parts, is a portion of the bell which formerly hung for more than a century in the old Center Church. The old bell having broken in 1725, the society, on Dec. 19, 1726, voted that “John Edwards, at the charge of the Society, purchase Some Suitable Red bunting for a flagg to be set on the State House to direct for meeting upon the publick Worship of God. ” The old t ell was sent to England at the expense of both the first and second societies, where it was recast in 1729, and continued in use here from that time until 1841, when It broke, and a new bell was ordered. —Hartford Courant. i