Rev. Ethan Smith, the 7th pastor, "was born in Belchertown, Mass., Dec. 16, 1762, and while young, was a soldier for one summer in the Revolutionary War, and was at West Point when the traitor Arnold sold that fortress to the British. Having attended to the preparatory studies, he entered Dartmouth College in 1785, and graduated in 1790. Soon after taking his degree, he was licensed to preach, and spent the first Sabbath of October, 1790, at Haverhill, N. H., where he was first settled in the ministry. In about a year from that time, he was married to Bathsheba Sandford, second daughter of Rev. David Sandford, of Medway, Mass. He remained at Haverhill nine years, and was then dismissed for want of support. He was installed in the ministry at Hopkinton, N. H., March 12, 1800, and continued there about eighteen years, during sixteen of which he was Secretary of the New Hampshire Missionary Society. He was afterwards settled at Hebron, N. Y., about four years; at Poultney, Vermont, about five years; at Hanover, Mass., five years; and then spent a season as a city missionary in Boston. His publications were, 1. A Dissertation on the Prophecies, two editions ; 2. A View of the Trinity, two editions; 3. A View of the Hebrews, two editions; 4. Lectures on the Subjects and Mode of Baptism, two editions; 5. A Key to the figurative Language of the Bible; 6. Memoirs of Mrs. Abigail Bailey; 7. A Key to the Revelation, 2 editions; 8. Prophetic Catechism; 9. Two Sermons on Episcopacy; 10. Farewell Sermon at Haverhill, N. H.; 11. First Sermon after installation at Hopkinton; 12. Two Sermons on the Vain Excuses of Sinners, preached at Washington, N. H.; 13. Sermon on the Moral Perfection of God, preached at Newburyport, Mass.; 14. Sermon on the daughters of Zion excelling, preached before a Female Cent Society; 15. Sermon on the happy Transition of Saints, preached at the funeral of Mrs. Jemima, contio of Rev. Dr. Harris, of Dunbarton; 16. Sermon at the ordination of Rev. Stephen Martindale, at Tinmouth, Vermont; and 17. Sermon at the ordination of Rev. Harvey Smith, at Weybridge, Vermont. His children were Myron, born at Haverhill, N. H., 1794, and died 1818, aged 24; Lyndon Arnold, born at Haverhill, 1795, graduated at Dartmouth College, married a daughter of Rev. Dr. Griffin, and settled as a physician, in Newark, N. J.; Stephen Sanford, born at Haverhill, 1797, and settled as pastor of the Congregational Church, Westminster, Mass.; Laura, who died in infancy; Carlos, born in Hopkinton, 1801, graduated at Union College, and settled as pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Massillon, Ohio; Grace Fletcher, wife of Rev. Job H. Martin, died in Haverhill, Mass., 1840; Sarah Towne, second wife of Rev. J. H. Martin, of New York; Harriet, wife of William H. Sanford, of Boylston, Mass.; and Ellen, wife of C. B. Sedgwick, Esq., of Syracuse, died May 23, 1846, aged 33. The wife of Mr. Smith, died in Pompey, N. Y., April 5, 1835, aged 64. He was living, in 1847, in Boylston, Mass.," but has since deceased.

During the ministry of Mr. Smith, the second meeting-house "was torn down, and the third, or present house erected; which stands in the centre of the town, facing the East, and is a modest structure, surmounted by a steeple, and in the belfry hangs the old bell, given by Mr. Josselynn, in 1785, and re-cast in 1788.