"10. Edward3 Scovill (John2, John1), born Feb. 12, 1710-11, at Waterbury, Connecticut; died Sept. 5, 1779, at Westbury, now Watertown, Connecticut; married Jan. 31, 1739, Martha Baldwin, … daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Tibbals) Baldwin of Milford and Waterbury. Edward Scovill was prominent in the affairs of Waterbury, being one of the selectmen and reaching the position of captain of the First Militia Company in 1761. He resided in Westbury parish, now Watertown. He was taxed as a churchman about 1760 and he was in 1764 one of twenty men who agreed 'to hold public worship in Westbury on those Sundays when there was no preaching in Waterbury,' and to make arrangements to build an Episcopal church. By October, 1765, they had through the efficient management of Capt. Edward Scovill a building fit to occupy, although not completed. This building had by 1773 pulpit, chancel, and canopy and was used until the Revolution. Reopened for services in 1786-88, it was succeeded by a new edifice in 1793. Captain Scovill is thus rightly considered the founder of Christ Church, Watertown. In his will he bequeathed to the church and parish seventeen acres of land, 'Out of a sincere regard to the religion of the Gospel and in testimony of my love and veneration for the doctrine and worship of the Episcopal Church of which I am now a member, for the use and benefit of that Church in the parish of Westbury,' … 'the annual profits to be applied toward the support of an Episcopal clergyman officiating in said Church.' This land was afterward sold and a fund established which still exists."
