This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ.
Identified by William Dunklin, using information from this web site: http://www.firstparishnorwell.org/meetinghouseorganproject.html.
-- From the church's website, first mention of the Goodrich organ is "At the Annual meeting of March 21, 1831, Samuel Northeg was chosen sexton, his compensation to be $27 provided he 'is faithful in discharging his duties, which are the same as formerly, with the additional duty of blowing the bellows of the organ and cleaning the brasses of the meeting house.'"
The Goodrich organ case was retained when Hook rebuilt and enlarged it in 1865. Andover Organ Company did extensive alterations in the mid 1960s and the entire organ was recast by Wissinger in 2008, but the Goodrich case remains.