ield,
Ohio, on the 1st of August, 1848. She was a remarkable woman in
many respects, a Puritan of the strictest faith, of large mold,
being nearly six feet tall, and well proportioned. She was a
granddaughter of Rev. Anthony Stoddard, a man whose history strikingly
presents the peculiar characteristics of life in Connecticut during
the 18th century. The contract between the church and town of
Woodbury and Mr. Stoddard, for employment as pastor, commences as
follows:

"At a lawfull Towns-meeting ye 13th of August, 1700, in ordr to ye
settling of ye Reverend mr. Anthony Stoddard amongst us, in ye work
of ye ministry. And for his encouragement so to do;

"It was voted and agreed to allow him, as Maytenance in ye Work of
ye Ministry, seventy pounds per Anuu, in provision pay, or to his
Satisfaction, in Case of Faylure of provision pay. By provision
pay, is intended, whet, pease, indian corn & pork, proportionally:
Also fire wood:

"We do also promise, to build him an house here in Woodberry of
known Demensions; yt is to say, the Carpetners work & Masons work;
hee providing nayles and glass; by building ye sd house is intended,
doors, floures, fitting up and playstering and partitions, finishing
it, as also a well."

Then follow many other mutual stipulations, to which was added a
supplemental agreement as follows:

"Since wch time at a Lawfull Towns-meeting ye 25th of Novembr,
1700, It was Voted and agreedyt ye abovesd specices for mr Stoddard's
yearly maytenance bee levyed at ye prices following: Wheat at 4s
6d per Bush: pork at 3d pr lb: Indian Corn 2s 6d per Bush: Pease
three shillings per Bushll: And these prices for this yeare ye
Town will not vary from for ye future Exterordinary providences
interposing being exceapted.

"Recorded from ye originalls pr Jon Minor, Recorder, March, 1700-
1701."

Under this contract Mr. Stoddard served his congregation for sixty
years, and died September 7, 1760, in his eighty-third year, and
the sixty-first of his ministry. He was educated at Harvard College
and graduated in 1679. Mr. Cothron, in 1872, says of him:

"He was at the same time minister, lawyer and physician. Like many
of the early ministers of the colony, he prepared himself for the
practice of physic, that he might administer to the wants of the
body, as well as those of the mind. In this capacity he was often
called. The only person the author has found who ever saw him,
was Deacon Amos Squire,