New Britain herald., 1924-10-13
KENSINGTON CHURCH
 OBSERVES BIRTHDAY
(Continued from Third Paswy


 Burnhams death in 1850 and the in- stallation of Mr. Clark the church was evidently in dire need of a minister.
 For years the advisability of di- ylding the parish into greater number of Ecclesiastical societies had been considered. Perhaps this finally came about partly owing to the further dissensions and delay in calling minister. for now in 1754 the church had been without a pas tor for four years. In that year after proper petitions and acts Of the general assembly new Ec- clesiastical society was set up in Pennington out of the parish Of Kensington to be called New Briton."
 The second minister, tho Rev. Samuel Clark was settled, July 1i, 1756, notwithstanding the sentiment of some portions of the society, who said in 1755 in their petition to the kVhNi al nEN'IilbIy r pl " c btIlHNf 1lu likely candidate will settle among us"
 The setting Of New Bl-tain out of the Kensngton parish in no way settled the dissensions and troubles. The location of the second Eccting House suited few. It was on com paratively low ground and the roads to 1t were difficult much Of the year While New Britain had been set off on the west the Kensington parish had grown rapidly and a further division was bound 10 come.
 The parish knew something should be done but could not agree to any plan.
 Tn Sept. 1765 they voted to build new Meeting House, 45 affirmative and S2 negative votes. At the same meeting by vote of 37 to 25 they agreed to appoint a committee 'to apply themselves to the county court next November to obtain a committee to find a place for a Meeting House in the parish of Kensington." Again in February 25, 1767 they voted to appoint Capt. David Sage and Capt. Isaac Hurlbut committee to get the general as sembly to appoint committee ''to divide the society into two parishes by a north and south line"
 The following September at a meeting legally warnd and as- sembled" ''it was put to vote of this society whether they weare of the mind to have the report of the Honorable Assembly's Last Com mity with regard to dividing this so- ciety established or not. Voted by a majority of 2S votes, S9 in ye affirmative in 61 in ye negative"
 The same committee was again chosen to repair to the general as- senbly in October ''for an establish. ment of the report of the Honour able Commity". etc. The following spring and summer. that is in 176S, there were petitions and counter petitions to the general assembly for authority for repairing the old Meeting House, committees to rec ommend particular lines of division and committees to oppose the me morials of minor parts of the so- ciety. When it was proposed to ap- point an agent to apply to the gen. eral assembly in May to confirm the report of the last committee or grant new committee for the same purpose the vote was 59 in the af- frmative and 53 in the negative. I give these extracts having very large minorities on every vote to show the divided opinion in the society.
 Thus two more years passed When on the 11th day of January TITO the society appointed a con- mittee of F "to prolibit and oppose any particular person or persons that may or shall contrary to ye minds and intent of this society pull down destroy or carry away any part or appendage belonging to the Meeting House." etc, this was passed 91 to 70, and this was six years be- fore the first Fourth of July. At the same meeting by narrow ma jority the general assembly was agair memorialized to come to their aid Two more long years, however