August 2007 Rev Zephaniah Swift born at Wilmington Vt 1771 graduated Dartmouth College 1792 Installed as pastor of the Congregational Church on Roxbury Ct 1796 and dismissed in 1813 settled over the first church in this Town in 1813 in which relation he continued until his decease Feb 7 1848. Eminent for his virtues and usefulness in all his relations to mankind while he lived he was universally revered and loved and being dead his memory is Blessed. Orcutt, Rev. Samuel, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880, (Springfield, Massachusetts, Press of Springfield Printing Company, 1880) page 813 |