Windham County Education Society
Charles C. Burleigh; William H. Burleigh
The Unionist 1833-12-19
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The annual meeting of the Windham County Education Society is to be held in the new Meeting-House in Brooklyn on Wednesday of next week, the 25 th inst.; services commencing at 1 o’clock, P.M.”
At the close of the exercise, the Directors of the County Tract Society, are to hold a meeting for business” – signed G.J. Tillotson, Secretary
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G. Tillotson was Rev. George Jeffrey Tillotson (1805-1888), Congregational minister of Brooklyn Connecticut. He was the minister who agreed to officiate the marriage of Prudence Crandall and Calvin Philleo, when the Congregational minister of Canterbury declined on the day of the wedding. He had begun his ministerial career in Brooklyn with the Execution Sermon for Oliver Watkins, the murderer whose cell in the Brooklyn Jail later housed Prudence Crandall. For the text of that sermon, see Windham County Advertiser, 5:52 (August 2, 1831), p. 3. Tillotson had a personal friendship with Abolitionist and Crandall endorser Amos A. Phelps; see this digitized collection of letters. After the Civil War, he donated substantially to an institution of higher learning for Freedmen in Austin, Texas, which was named the Tillotson Institute in his honor. The school still exists today, as Huston-Tillotson University , an HBCU in Austin. There was a full article on the progress of the Tillotson Institute in The American Missionary v. 65 p. 85 (May, 1911).
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