Five years without a pastor, the church gave a call, in 1827, to Rev. Ethan Smith, who came here from Poultney, Vermont. He had nine children. He remained here five years and died, 1849. He was a tanner by trade and, after reaching his majority, he fitted for college and graduated at Dartmouth, at the age of thirty. He had been a soldier in the Eevolutionary War and was at West Point at the time of Arnold's treachery.