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DAVID DUDLEY FIELD died at Stockbridge, Mass., April 15 1867, aged 86 years, nearly. He was the son of Captain Timothy Field, a Revolutionary officer, and was born in Bast Guilford, now Madison, Conn., May 20, 1781. He studied theology with Dr. Charles Backus, at Somers, Conn., and was licensed to preach hy the New Haven East Association, in September, 1803. After preaching a few months in Haddam, Conn., he was settled over the Congregational Church in that place, where he remained fourteen years, until April, 1818. His next settlement, preceded by a Missionary tour of a few months in Western New York, was at Stockbridge, Mass, from which place, after a pastorate of nearly eighteen years, he was recalled to his old parish in Haddam, Conn. This charge he kept seven years, when the parish, being inconveniently large, was divided, and he preached seven years longer to the new society formed at Higganum. During this settlement, he made a voyage to Europe, and spent several months in France and Great Britain. In the spring of 1851, having reached the age of seventy, he returned to Stockbridge, and resided there up to the time of his death. Dr Field published, during his first settlement at Haddam, a History of Middlesex County, and at Stockbridge prepared, with the help of others, a History of Berkshire County, which was published in 1829. A Historical Address, delivered in Middle town, Conn., on the Second Centennial Anniversary of that town, was afterward enlarged into a volume. Still later he published a Genealogy of the Brainerd Family, and, in 1863, Memoirs of his College Class. Many of his Sermons have also been published. He received the degree of D. D. from Williams College in 1837
He was married, October 31, 1803, to Submit Dickinson, daughter of Captain Noah Dickinson, of Somers, Conn. Of their ten children, six are living, four of the sons being graduates of Williams College. Mrs. Field died in 1861.
