2024 will be the 200th Anniversary of the erection of the Congregational Church edifice at the Town Square. In Anna C. Lufburro booklet, 1734 — Two Hundred Years of Christian Service — 1934 First Congregational Church of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, she writes about Agrippa Hull, the Congregational Society Sexton, and a 1795 Church Ordination Supper in the town of Lenox:

“We often hear of Peggy’s Brook — – in a house near by lived Peggy Hull and Agrippa her husband. They were negros, but not slaves. He enlisted in 1777 and was, for four years, the body-servant of Koskiusko the Polish general. After the war he returned to Stockbridge. He was well educated, very pious and witty. He and Peggy were in great demand as caterers at parties and receptions. I introduce them here for he was sexton of our church. It is said that one evening when the members were late in coming, he opened the prayer meeting himself, ‘Oh Lord, Thou knowest how I come here and rings the bell and rings the bell, and thy disciples halt by the way, paying no ‘tention to its solemn warning sound.’ As he was our sexton, and caterer for a church ordination supper served in Lenox, May first, 1795, I am going to give you the menu for a company of twenty-three persons, just a reminder of the good old days. Two roast pigs, two turkeys, ten dozen eggs, twelve bottles of Madeira, two pints of brandy, four bowls of sling, eighteen large glasses of punch, eight bottles of sherry, and twenty-four glasses of bitters. Nineteen of the guests remained overnight, while horses were entertained in the stables.”