... generally secures catastrophies. An authentic record from another town, under date of Sept. 13, 1773, may make this matter clear: Voted to provide one barrel of West India rum, five barrels of New England rum, one barrel of good brown sugar, half a box of good lemons, and two loaves of loaf sugar, for framing and raising the meeting-house. Here a natural consequence followed,--two-thirds of the fra...