He then spent a year in foreign travel, and on February 3, 1852, was installed over the Congregational Church in Salmon Falls, in the township of Rollinsford, N. H. He was dismissed from this charge, on November 3, 1857, when he returned to New Haven.
He withdrew from this service on June 14, 1870, but continued to reside in New Haven, partly engaged in literary labors, until his death.
He married, August 9, 1844, Rebecca H., daughter of Deacon David Dana, of Pomfret, Vermont, who survived him.
In 1873, h published A genealogical register of the descendants in the male line of David Atwater, one of the original planters of New Haven, Conn., to the sixth generation.
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