Chauncy entered Yale College in 1772, graduated as A.B., 17 Jul 1776, and received the degree of A.M. in Sep 1779. He prepared for the ministry, and was admitted to the Holy Orders of Deacon in St. John's Church, Stamford, in Jun 1787, and was ordained Priest in St. James' Church, New London, 24 Feb 1788.
When in deacon's orders he officiated as lay reader in the Episcopal Church at Westbury at a salary of 30 Pounds Sterling, "to be paid in beef, pork, butter, tallow, wool, flax, or any sort of grain," and continued as rector until his resignation in 1804. He was for several years rector of the churches at Naugatuck and Oxford, having been the first minister of the parish of St. Peter's at the latter place, and was rector of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, Seymour, Ct. in 1815.
It is said of him that "he was a most worthy and indefatigable man, and it is related as an instance of his punctuality in the discharge of duty, that on one occasion, when he was to preach at Waterbury, he found the Naugatuck much swollen by a flood, and rather than fall in his appointment he plunged in on his horse and swam the stream. He was noted for a sound and forcible intellect and stern integrity, and was orthodox and firm in his principles. He was a useful minister."
Upon a memorial tablet in St. John's Episcopal Church, Waterbury, is written the following inscription:
Commemorative of the faithful labors in this parish of The Rev. James Scovill and The Rev. Chauncy Prindle AD 1759-1804. Their Record is on High.
Upon his grave stone in Gunntown is the follwoing inscription:
Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Chauncy Prindle who died Aug 25 1833 AE 85
The deceased was a graduate of Yale College and received his ordination to the ministry in the Protestant Episcopal Church from the hands of the Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury. For a period of nearly twenty years his time was devoted to the united charges of Christ Church, Watertown, and St. Peter's Church, Plymouth. Subsequently at different periods he had the pastoral charges of the churches in Oxford, Salem and Bethany.
He lived to exercise the ministry for a period of fifty years.
And this stone is erected by his remaining friends and parishioners as a token of their high regard for his character, his zeal, his fidelity, his talents/and his worth, both as a man and as a minister. "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord."
When in deacon's orders he officiated as lay reader in the Episcopal Church at Westbury at a salary of 30 Pounds Sterling, "to be paid in beef, pork, butter, tallow, wool, flax, or any sort of grain," and continued as rector until his resignation in 1804. He was for several years rector of the churches at Naugatuck and Oxford, having been the first minister of the parish of St. Peter's at the latter place, and was rector of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, Seymour, Ct. in 1815.
It is said of him that "he was a most worthy and indefatigable man, and it is related as an instance of his punctuality in the discharge of duty, that on one occasion, when he was to preach at Waterbury, he found the Naugatuck much swollen by a flood, and rather than fall in his appointment he plunged in on his horse and swam the stream. He was noted for a sound and forcible intellect and stern integrity, and was orthodox and firm in his principles. He was a useful minister."
Upon a memorial tablet in St. John's Episcopal Church, Waterbury, is written the following inscription:
Commemorative of the faithful labors in this parish of The Rev. James Scovill and The Rev. Chauncy Prindle AD 1759-1804. Their Record is on High.
Upon his grave stone in Gunntown is the follwoing inscription:
Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Chauncy Prindle who died Aug 25 1833 AE 85
The deceased was a graduate of Yale College and received his ordination to the ministry in the Protestant Episcopal Church from the hands of the Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury. For a period of nearly twenty years his time was devoted to the united charges of Christ Church, Watertown, and St. Peter's Church, Plymouth. Subsequently at different periods he had the pastoral charges of the churches in Oxford, Salem and Bethany.
He lived to exercise the ministry for a period of fifty years.
And this stone is erected by his remaining friends and parishioners as a token of their high regard for his character, his zeal, his fidelity, his talents/and his worth, both as a man and as a minister. "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord."
Chauncy entered Yale College in 1772, graduated as A.B., 17 Jul 1776, and received the degree of A.M. in Sep 1779. He prepared for the ministry, and was admitted to the Holy Orders of Deacon in St. John's Church, Stamford, in Jun 1787, and was ordained Priest in St. James' Church, New London, 24 Feb 1788.
When in deacon's orders he officiated as lay reader in the Episcopal Church at Westbury at a salary of 30 Pounds Sterling, "to be paid in beef, pork, butter, tallow, wool, flax, or any sort of grain," and continued as rector until his resignation in 1804. He was for several years rector of the churches at Naugatuck and Oxford, having been the first minister of the parish of St. Peter's at the latter place, and was rector of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, Seymour, Ct. in 1815.
It is said of him that "he was a most worthy and indefatigable man, and it is related as an instance of his punctuality in the discharge of duty, that on one occasion, when he was to preach at Waterbury, he found the Naugatuck much swollen by a flood, and rather than fall in his appointment he plunged in on his horse and swam the stream. He was noted for a sound and forcible intellect and stern integrity, and was orthodox and firm in his principles. He was a useful minister."
Upon a memorial tablet in St. John's Episcopal Church, Waterbury, is written the following inscription:
Commemorative of the faithful labors in this parish of The Rev. James Scovill and The Rev. Chauncy Prindle AD 1759-1804. Their Record is on High.
Upon his grave stone in Gunntown is the follwoing inscription:
Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Chauncy Prindle who died Aug 25 1833 AE 85
The deceased was a graduate of Yale College and received his ordination to the ministry in the Protestant Episcopal Church from the hands of the Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury. For a period of nearly twenty years his time was devoted to the united charges of Christ Church, Watertown, and St. Peter's Church, Plymouth. Subsequently at different periods he had the pastoral charges of the churches in Oxford, Salem and Bethany.
He lived to exercise the ministry for a period of fifty years.
And this stone is erected by his remaining friends and parishioners as a token of their high regard for his character, his zeal, his fidelity, his talents/and his worth, both as a man and as a minister. "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord."
When in deacon's orders he officiated as lay reader in the Episcopal Church at Westbury at a salary of 30 Pounds Sterling, "to be paid in beef, pork, butter, tallow, wool, flax, or any sort of grain," and continued as rector until his resignation in 1804. He was for several years rector of the churches at Naugatuck and Oxford, having been the first minister of the parish of St. Peter's at the latter place, and was rector of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, Seymour, Ct. in 1815.
It is said of him that "he was a most worthy and indefatigable man, and it is related as an instance of his punctuality in the discharge of duty, that on one occasion, when he was to preach at Waterbury, he found the Naugatuck much swollen by a flood, and rather than fall in his appointment he plunged in on his horse and swam the stream. He was noted for a sound and forcible intellect and stern integrity, and was orthodox and firm in his principles. He was a useful minister."
Upon a memorial tablet in St. John's Episcopal Church, Waterbury, is written the following inscription:
Commemorative of the faithful labors in this parish of The Rev. James Scovill and The Rev. Chauncy Prindle AD 1759-1804. Their Record is on High.
Upon his grave stone in Gunntown is the follwoing inscription:
Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Chauncy Prindle who died Aug 25 1833 AE 85
The deceased was a graduate of Yale College and received his ordination to the ministry in the Protestant Episcopal Church from the hands of the Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury. For a period of nearly twenty years his time was devoted to the united charges of Christ Church, Watertown, and St. Peter's Church, Plymouth. Subsequently at different periods he had the pastoral charges of the churches in Oxford, Salem and Bethany.
He lived to exercise the ministry for a period of fifty years.
And this stone is erected by his remaining friends and parishioners as a token of their high regard for his character, his zeal, his fidelity, his talents/and his worth, both as a man and as a minister. "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord."
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