William Nutting, Jr.
1847

This organ was perhaps the first built (in the village that is now Randolph Center) by Mr. Nutting (1815-1869), shortly after his return from college. In September, 1842, the rector of St. Paul's Church reported to the bishop:

"We have also, through the liberality of the good people of Troy, New York, who generously contributed somewhat over $100.00, obtained a small but sweet-toned organ, costing about $270.00; large enough, however, for our house, which enables Divine worship more beautifully than before, and in the use of which we have been and still are much rejoiced."

For several years around 1940 the organ was the property of a resident of Bethel and it was set up in a church there. Upon his death, good luck brought the organ back to its original home, an 1836 frame building. The pine case displays five flats of gilded half-round wooden dummy pipes and the sides and back are paneled. The recessed console is finished in mahogany veneer. A metal pedal at the left operates the single-feeder box bellows and a large wooden pedal at the right moves a sliding panel that forms horizontal openings and raises the hinged top of the Swell box that encloses the pipework from F0.

The Op. Dia. has two capped metal pipes, F0 and F#0; the same two notes of the Dulicana are similar; The Stop Dia. is of wood; the lowest 5 Principal ppes are open wood.
--1972 OHS Handbook

Database Manager on May 05, 2010:
Updated through on-line information from Marilyn Polson. -- Note: In a conversation with Larry Leonard last week (May 2010) he said that the Nutting was never in his home. Apparently it went straight from Old Christ Church to storage.

Church with the organ consecrated 31 Aug 1847. Organist was Nutting. By 1980's was in Lawrence Leonard residence, Randolph, VT.