The congregation was founded in 1635, and the cemetery dates from the 1600s, but the current Georgian-style, brick meetinghouse, with its distinctive white steeple, was built in 1761.

[1] The interior of the current meetinghouse was built as a transverse church [de], altered considerably in 1838 and 1882, but returned to the original layout in 1971–1973.

[2] According to a plaque at the tower entrance door, George Washington attended church here on May 20, 1781, during a conference with Count de Rochambeau at the nearby Joseph Webb House to plan the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War.

[3] In 1774, John Adams visited Silas Deane, Wethersfield merchant and envoy to France, and subsequently wrote in his diary: “We went up the steeple of Wethersfield meeting-house, from whence is the most grand and beautiful prospect in the world, at least that I ever saw.”[4] The church, equipped with an Austin organ, hosted the first eighteen years of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival [Wikidata].

This competition for young organists has been held annually since 1998 in the Hartford area, and was co-founded by First Church music minister David Spicer.