[3] A new meeting house was built in an area called Buck Plain, but residents were unhappy with the location.

[3] This group selected a new building site in the village at Lower Four Corners,[3] at the eastern edge of a cornfield used by the Pokanoket tribe.

[3] During the Revolutionary War, the unfinished church was used as a barracks for colonial soldiers, and sometimes to hold sheep.

Ezra Stiles arrived in Dighton from Newport with a congregation which included William Ellery.

[2] Ellery represented Rhode Island as a member of the Continental Congress, and he traveled by horse from Dighton to Philadelphia for meetings.

[4] In 1870 the church received an English Georgian era organ which had been used in the Harvard College Chapel.

"[2] The bell was hauled from Canton to Dighton by two oxen in 1821, and hung in a small shed in the church yard.

[2] The church was renovated in 1830, when the pew layout was changed and the Elm Street door removed.