Free Baptist Cyclopaedia (1889) by G. A. Burgess and J. T. Ward, pp. 26-27:
"Atwood, Rev. Mark, son of James and Betsey (McCollister) Atwood, was born at Rochester, Vt., in November, 1820. He studied a short time at Parsonfield, Me. Converted at the age of seventeen, he was baptized by Rev. Joshua Tucker, joining the church at Warren, and was licensed two years later. He was ordained at the September session of the Enosburg Q. M. in 1840, at Franklin, Vt., and the same year baptized six...For four years he traveled in Vermont, Canada and elsewhere, and saw great revivals. He frequently went with Rev. Isaac G. Davis. His pastorates are Candia, N. H.; Northwood; Salem, Mass.; Underhill, Vt.; Starksborough; Hopkinton, N. Y.; Parishville; Strafford, Vt.; Sutton; Sheffield; and North Danville, where he settled in 1884. He was employed by the Home Mission board in Nova Scotia in 1842-43, and assisted in the organization of a Quarterly Meeting. during a continuous ministry of forty-six years he has helped organize several churches, baptized hundreds, and seen 3,000 hopeful conversions in the meetings he has conducted. He baptized Rev. E. W. Porter, and preached the ordination sermon of Rev. N. L. Rowell. He was delegate to the General Conference at Maineville, O., in 1856, and at Lewiston, Me., in 1865. In 1846 he married Lovina Davis, and six children gladden their hearts and hearth."
Mark Atwood also was at Candia NH in 1846 and again 1849-1851 (Jacob Bailey Moore, History of The Town of Candia, p. 220). He was also pastor in Northwood NH at the Free Will Baptist Church 1845-46 (The Town Register: Epson, Canterbury, Loudon, Deerfield, Northwood, Chichester, p. 114)
The 1860 Census of Starksboro VT lists: Mark Atwood age 39, Lovina D. 33, Julia E. 12, Elliot D. 9, Hale M. 3 and Iwa M. 1 month. This latter would be Irene found at age 10 on the 1870 Census of Strafford VT where the others are Julia E. 27, Hall M. 17 (Hale), William B. 8 and Simon D. 6.
"Atwood, Rev. Mark, son of James and Betsey (McCollister) Atwood, was born at Rochester, Vt., in November, 1820. He studied a short time at Parsonfield, Me. Converted at the age of seventeen, he was baptized by Rev. Joshua Tucker, joining the church at Warren, and was licensed two years later. He was ordained at the September session of the Enosburg Q. M. in 1840, at Franklin, Vt., and the same year baptized six...For four years he traveled in Vermont, Canada and elsewhere, and saw great revivals. He frequently went with Rev. Isaac G. Davis. His pastorates are Candia, N. H.; Northwood; Salem, Mass.; Underhill, Vt.; Starksborough; Hopkinton, N. Y.; Parishville; Strafford, Vt.; Sutton; Sheffield; and North Danville, where he settled in 1884. He was employed by the Home Mission board in Nova Scotia in 1842-43, and assisted in the organization of a Quarterly Meeting. during a continuous ministry of forty-six years he has helped organize several churches, baptized hundreds, and seen 3,000 hopeful conversions in the meetings he has conducted. He baptized Rev. E. W. Porter, and preached the ordination sermon of Rev. N. L. Rowell. He was delegate to the General Conference at Maineville, O., in 1856, and at Lewiston, Me., in 1865. In 1846 he married Lovina Davis, and six children gladden their hearts and hearth."
Mark Atwood also was at Candia NH in 1846 and again 1849-1851 (Jacob Bailey Moore, History of The Town of Candia, p. 220). He was also pastor in Northwood NH at the Free Will Baptist Church 1845-46 (The Town Register: Epson, Canterbury, Loudon, Deerfield, Northwood, Chichester, p. 114)
The 1860 Census of Starksboro VT lists: Mark Atwood age 39, Lovina D. 33, Julia E. 12, Elliot D. 9, Hale M. 3 and Iwa M. 1 month. This latter would be Irene found at age 10 on the 1870 Census of Strafford VT where the others are Julia E. 27, Hall M. 17 (Hale), William B. 8 and Simon D. 6.
Free Baptist Cyclopaedia (1889) by G. A. Burgess and J. T. Ward, pp. 26-27:
"Atwood, Rev. Mark, son of James and Betsey (McCollister) Atwood, was born at Rochester, Vt., in November, 1820. He studied a short time at Parsonfield, Me. Converted at the age of seventeen, he was baptized by Rev. Joshua Tucker, joining the church at Warren, and was licensed two years later. He was ordained at the September session of the Enosburg Q. M. in 1840, at Franklin, Vt., and the same year baptized six...For four years he traveled in Vermont, Canada and elsewhere, and saw great revivals. He frequently went with Rev. Isaac G. Davis. His pastorates are Candia, N. H.; Northwood; Salem, Mass.; Underhill, Vt.; Starksborough; Hopkinton, N. Y.; Parishville; Strafford, Vt.; Sutton; Sheffield; and North Danville, where he settled in 1884. He was employed by the Home Mission board in Nova Scotia in 1842-43, and assisted in the organization of a Quarterly Meeting. during a continuous ministry of forty-six years he has helped organize several churches, baptized hundreds, and seen 3,000 hopeful conversions in the meetings he has conducted. He baptized Rev. E. W. Porter, and preached the ordination sermon of Rev. N. L. Rowell. He was delegate to the General Conference at Maineville, O., in 1856, and at Lewiston, Me., in 1865. In 1846 he married Lovina Davis, and six children gladden their hearts and hearth."
Mark Atwood also was at Candia NH in 1846 and again 1849-1851 (Jacob Bailey Moore, History of The Town of Candia, p. 220). He was also pastor in Northwood NH at the Free Will Baptist Church 1845-46 (The Town Register: Epson, Canterbury, Loudon, Deerfield, Northwood, Chichester, p. 114)
The 1860 Census of Starksboro VT lists: Mark Atwood age 39, Lovina D. 33, Julia E. 12, Elliot D. 9, Hale M. 3 and Iwa M. 1 month. This latter would be Irene found at age 10 on the 1870 Census of Strafford VT where the others are Julia E. 27, Hall M. 17 (Hale), William B. 8 and Simon D. 6.
"Atwood, Rev. Mark, son of James and Betsey (McCollister) Atwood, was born at Rochester, Vt., in November, 1820. He studied a short time at Parsonfield, Me. Converted at the age of seventeen, he was baptized by Rev. Joshua Tucker, joining the church at Warren, and was licensed two years later. He was ordained at the September session of the Enosburg Q. M. in 1840, at Franklin, Vt., and the same year baptized six...For four years he traveled in Vermont, Canada and elsewhere, and saw great revivals. He frequently went with Rev. Isaac G. Davis. His pastorates are Candia, N. H.; Northwood; Salem, Mass.; Underhill, Vt.; Starksborough; Hopkinton, N. Y.; Parishville; Strafford, Vt.; Sutton; Sheffield; and North Danville, where he settled in 1884. He was employed by the Home Mission board in Nova Scotia in 1842-43, and assisted in the organization of a Quarterly Meeting. during a continuous ministry of forty-six years he has helped organize several churches, baptized hundreds, and seen 3,000 hopeful conversions in the meetings he has conducted. He baptized Rev. E. W. Porter, and preached the ordination sermon of Rev. N. L. Rowell. He was delegate to the General Conference at Maineville, O., in 1856, and at Lewiston, Me., in 1865. In 1846 he married Lovina Davis, and six children gladden their hearts and hearth."
Mark Atwood also was at Candia NH in 1846 and again 1849-1851 (Jacob Bailey Moore, History of The Town of Candia, p. 220). He was also pastor in Northwood NH at the Free Will Baptist Church 1845-46 (The Town Register: Epson, Canterbury, Loudon, Deerfield, Northwood, Chichester, p. 114)
The 1860 Census of Starksboro VT lists: Mark Atwood age 39, Lovina D. 33, Julia E. 12, Elliot D. 9, Hale M. 3 and Iwa M. 1 month. This latter would be Irene found at age 10 on the 1870 Census of Strafford VT where the others are Julia E. 27, Hall M. 17 (Hale), William B. 8 and Simon D. 6.
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