HARTFORD, Conn., Feb. 1. -- The oldest manuscript volume of church records in this State belongs to the First Congregational Church in this city, of which the Rev. Dr. C.M. Lamson is the pastor.

A cemetery was laid out beside the church. The old church records have been lost but in 1847, a group of seven men, known as the Wiregrass Club (possibly a political group), met in a grove of ...