”Whiting

The Whiting Baptist church was constituted of members of the church in Orwell, and accordingly traces its origin under God to those two well-known servants of God, Ephraim Sawyer and Henry Chamberlain, who carried their Bibles with them to their work as constantly as they did their axes, read and chopped alternately, and spent time in meditation and prayer as far as practicable. …J.Q.A. Ware was pastor from 1859 to 1864, …”

Reference Data:

History of the Baptists in Vermont, by Henry Crocker, 1913, pages 148-9