Place:Stanwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

source: Family History Library Catalog

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"The growth of the settlement gradually separated the dwellers in the Stanwich area from the original churches of Stamford and Greenwich, and in May, 1732, these inhabitants sought relief from attending those distant churches by sending a petition to the General Assembly of the colony of Connecticut, praying that they might be set off from Stamford and Greenwich 'to be a parish by themselves.' In October, 1732, the petition was granted; the new parish was named Stanwich, a church was built in that year, thirty-two by twenty-six feet, and a minister engaged. The church was in Greenwich near to the Stamford town line. … Baptisms and marriages were performed and recorded at this Stanwich Church, but all of the records of this church prior to 1796 were burned in 1821." Hoppin, Charles Arthur. The Washington Ancestry: and Records of the McClain, Johnson, and Forty other Colonial American Families: Prepared for Edward Lee McClain. (Greenfield, Ohio: Privately printed by the Yale University Press, 1932), Vol. 3, p. 243.