Rev. Edward Eells was pastor at Upper Houses installed and ordain on Sept. 6, 1738. Graduated from Havard in 1733. He was also fellow of Yale Corporation 1761, chaplain for 1 season in the French and Indian War, clerk of the Council in the noted Wallingford Church Council of "Old Lights" vs. "New Lights" and pulished his account of it. He owned the land west of the old cemetery. He built a home on the northeast corner acrossed from the cemetery. All this information was taken from the Middletown Upper Houses by Charles Collard Adams.