The roots of the United Church of Jaffrey start in 1850 when 23 members of Jaffrey’s First Congregational Church established Jaffrey East Orthodox Congregational Church, erecting a meeting-house the same year. The church built a parsonage and vestry in 1876. When the town’s Universalist minister, Myron L. Cutler, died in 1930 the members of his church chose to join with East’s congregation rather than find a new minister. The members of East also had connections with the Baptist church and still with First Congregational. Further inter-denominational ties were drawn when Jaffrey’s Baptist minister, Roger Floyd, left his position in 1949. The small Baptist church chose to close rather than find a new minister; most of the members joined East. At this point, there were equal number of Baptists and Congregationalists, prompting a shift in name and organization. East Orthodox Church became the Federated Church with separate covenants for each denomination. In 1957 the Congregational members of the church voted to become a Covenant member of the New Hampshire Conference of the New Hampshire Conference of the United Church of Christ. After maintaining membership with both Baptist and UCC denominations, the members decided to withdraw from the Baptist Convention in 1970 to simplify day to day work as well as strengthen the bond as one United Church.

The Federated Church continued services in the old Baptist building, which was larger than the Congregational building. In 1959 the Federated Church dissolved its two components and formed the United Church of Jaffrey. Further building changes started in 1967. The old parish hall and parsonage were in disrepair. The current trend by mid-20th century was for ministers to live in their own house. This, plus the cost of restoration, meant the church chose to tear down the parsonage and old hall and build a new hall in 1970.

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