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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 6: ecclesiastical history. (search)
however, even as early as Oct. 1, 1722, the town, as a town, passed some resolutions which must have sounded bold to English ears. Voted that they would proceed to the choice of a minister by the majority of votes. Regardless of the church's claim to two votes, here is a true democracy recognized; and it was meant to look very little like Episcopacy, Presbyterianism, or Romanism. To raise money by contributions in the meeting-house on Sunday was very common. From March 5, 1713, to Oct. 19, 1718, they gathered £ 27. 16s. 8d. From Oct. 28, 1718, to Aug. 2, 1721, they gathered £ 15. 5s. 8d. Rev. Ebenezer Turell. This gentleman was a native of Boston, born 1701, and graduated at Harvard College 1721. He studied his profession with Rev. Benjamin Colman, of Boston; and on the 17th June, 1724, the Selectmen of Medford having appointed that day for a town-fast, Mr. Colman preached a fitting sermon from these words: And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with