THE BULLARDS
Rev. Artemas Bullard
Corresponding member of the Centre Presbytery of Illinois in 1829 and afterwards accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church of St. Louis. The Rev. Artemas Bullard [whom the traveling ministers from the west side of the State happened to come across in an inn, and whom they invited to join them at the meeting of Presbytery] was the Corresponding Secretary of the Massachusetts Sabbath-School Union. That "State Union" proposed to take Illinois under its fostering care, as it respects Sabbath-school operations; appropriate funds to establish a general "depostiory" of Sabbath school books for the supply of the State, constantly employ a traveling agent or agents to carry the Sabbath-school system into effect, as far as practicable. Mr Bullard was engaged traversing the State, to ascertain the existing wants as to Sabbath-school teachers. The object was then to search out and encourage pious lay members of the churches in the older States (male and female) to emigrate to this country and settle down, in their respective occupations, with special reference to Sabbath-school and other benevolent operations. (from: Early American Presbyterians )
Centre Presbytery of Illinois: est. 1829
The Presbytery was constituted by the Synod of Indiana, in 1829. It embraced the State. The second 'Fall meeting' was held on Decker's Prairie. The names of the members of Presbytery present were Revs. B.F. Spilman, Shawneetown; John M. Ellis, Julian M. Sturtevant, Theron Baldwin, all of Jacksonville; Solomon Hardy, Greenville; John Mathews, Kaskaskia; Thomas A. Spilman, Hillsboro; John Brick, near Jacksonville; Thomas Lippincott, Edwardsville; John Herrick, Carrollton; Stephen Bliss, Centreville; John McDonald, Bononi Y. Messenger, Cyrus L. Watson, Rev. Artemas Bullard (settled afterwards at St. Louis, as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of that city), corresponding member. Our hard-wrought missionary, B.F. Spilman, was chosen Moderator, and John McDonald, A.M., long pastor of Pleasant Prairie, was the temporary Clerk.
Title
Ancestors of Henry Ward Beecher and his wife Eunice White Bullard
Stmnt.Resp.
compiled by their son William Constantine Beecher by Josephine C. Frost
Authors
Frost, Josephine C. (Josephine C. Mayou Stillman), -1942 (Main Author)
Notes
Microreproduction of orginal published: [S.l. : s.n.], 1927. 126 p.
Includes index.
Includes families of Bullard, Atwater, Bartlett, Bishop, Bliss, Blott, Brooks, Chapin, Clarke, Cooke, Cooper, Corbett, Cruttenden, Day, De Umfreville, Dickerman, Ely, Esten, Foote, Ford, Fowler, Hawley, Hill, Holbrook, Hubbard, Joy, Lambert, Lyman, Marshfield, Martin, Mason, Meigs, Millerd, Parsons, Pidge, Pomeroy, Riley, Roberts, Rocket, Rogers, Russell, Sabin, Sayre, Sheldon, Sherman, Smith, Spencer, Sperry, Stowe, Thompson, Vore, Ward, Welles, White, Woodford, Woodward.
Publication
Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977
Physical
on 1 microfilm reel : geneal. tables. ; 35 mm.
Film Notes
Note - Location [Film]
Ancestors of Henry Ward Beecher and his wife Eunice White Bullard - FHL US/CAN Film [ 1015834 Item 5 ]
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Title
A genealogical sketch of Dr. Artemas Bullard of Sutton, and his descendants
Stmnt.Resp.
by William Sumner Barton
Authors
Barton, William Sumner, 1824-1899 (Main Author)
Notes
Microreproduction of original published: Worcester : L.P. Goddard, 1878. 22 p., [1] leaf of plates.
Includes Barton, Beecher, Bullock, Hoffman, Jones, Scovile and related families.
Robert Bullard (ca.1599-1639) and his family immigrated from England to Watertown, Massachusetts. Artemas Bullard (1768-1842), direct des- cendant in the sixth generation, moved from Holliston to Northbridge and then to Sutton, Massachusetts. He married twice. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Louisiana and elsewhere.
Subjects: Barton;Beecher;Bullard;Bullock;Hoffman;Jones;Scovile
Publication
Washington, D.C. : L.C. Photoduplication Service, 1985
Physical
on 1 microfilm reel : ill. ; 35 mm.
Film Notes
Note - Location [Film]
A genealogical sketch of Dr. Artemas Bullard of Sutton, and his descendants - FHL US/CAN Film [ 1429855 Item 49 ]
© 2000 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.
Asa Bullard
BULLARD, Asa, clergyman, born in Northbridge, Massachusetts, 26 March, 1804. He was graduated at Amherst in 1828, and then for a year taught school. From 1829 till 1831 he studied at Andover theological seminary, and on 13 January, 1832, was ordained. In 1831 he became agent and secretary of the Maine Sabbath-school union, and in 1834 was elected secretary of the Massachusetts Sabbath-school society (afterward Congregational publishing society), continuing as such until 1875, when he became honorary secretary and its representative before the churches. He has edited a great number of the society's books, and has written "Children's Album of Pictures and Stories" (Springfield, 1867); "Children's Book for Sabbath Hours" (1875); "Sunnybank Stories" (Boston, 1863); "Fifty Years with the Sabbath-Schools" (Boston, 1876). From 1834 till 1844 he edited "The Sabbath-School Visitor," and since then he has had charge of " The Well-Spring."
BELLVIEW.
It is recorded that on April 23, 1849, "at the brick school house in Springfield," Dr. Artemas Bullard of St. Louis and Rev. G. A. M. Renshaw of Cave Spring assisted in the organization of a New School Presbyterian church, made up of eight members from the Mt. Zion church and seven others, David Appleby being the leading member and one of the ruling elders. This was the original Presbyterian church of Springfield, out of whose membership was organized eleven years later the Old School Calvary church. After holding services in school house, court house and various other places, this church built the house on Jefferson street occupied later for many years by Calvary church. The present house of worship of Bellview church was erected in 1876 at a cost of eight hundred and sixty dollars, and is kept in good repair with the cemetery grounds in the rear.
