Esquire Stone in the early settlement of Oakham bought a good lot of land a little North of where the meeting-house stands, on which he built and removed his family, - and married his daughter, Pattee, to the Rev. John Strickland, the first minister of Oakham.
OAKHAM... The Church of Christ of this place was embodied in presbyterian form August 28th, 1767, and the Rev. John Strictland was ordained their pastor, April 1st, 1768.
