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e fast day. The final result was that Rev. Ebenezer Turell was chosen at a salary of £ 90 per year and strangers' money, which was increased to £ 100 in September; and he continued as minister for fifty years. April 20, 1725, it was voted to build a new meeting house and then voted not to appropriate money for the purpose. On January 10, 1726, a vote was finally passed to purchase of John Allbry an acre of land adjoining Marrabell's brook to build thereon a new meeting house, and on January 24th the town voted to buy the land for £ 55 and appropriated £ 200 towards the construction of the building, which was afterwards decided should be 52 feet long, 38 feet wide and 33 feet posts. On March 7, 1726, the town voted to have A Steeple Built To The New Meeting House. Votes were afterwards passed to appropriate more money for construction and furnishing, but the several amounts are so intermixed that I think it would take some one more astute than myself to decide what was actua