“ [337] porches; doors and windows to be painted three times; leads and pulleys in the windows. The whole cost not to exceed £ 933. 6s. 8d.” This plan was adopted, and the house built on the spot now occupied by the meeting-house of the first church. Another important vote was passed, providing that a subscription should be opened, and the citizen who subscribed the most towards building the house should have his first choice of a pew; and so the rest, in the order of their relative sums. Forty-five gentlemen subscribed. March. 13, 1769, voted to have a spire, whose cost should “not exceed £ 66. 13s. 4d.” May 15, 1769, voted “that there may be conducting-rods put upon the steeple, if they cost the town nothing.” Price of labor at this time, for a man, 3s. 6d. per day; for man and team, 6s. 8d. By the usual courtesy, the pastor took the first choice, and selected pew No. 27; which thereupon became the “minister's pew,” owned by the town. The pews in the meeting-house were chosen “according to the vote of the town and the tenor of subscription,” Feb. 8, 1770, as follows :--
| Thomas Brooks, jun. | No. 1 |
| John Bishop | 2 |
| Stephen Hall | 3 |
| Aaron Hall | 4 |
| Ebenezer Hall | 5 |
| John Wade | 6 |
| Samuel Hall | 7 |
| Watts Turner | 8 |
| William Tufts, 3d | 9 |
| William Tufts | 10 |
| Simon Bradshaw | 11 |
| Samuel Angier | 12 |
| Francis Burns | 13 |
| Zachary Pool | 14 |
| Jonathan Patten | 15 |
| E. Hall | 16 |
| Nathan Tufts | 17 |
| Samuel Tufts, 2d | 18 |
| Benjamin Teal | 19 |
| Timothy Tufts | 20 |
| Henry Fowle | 21 |
| James Tufts | 22 |
| Richard Hall | 23 |
| Isaac Hall | 24 |
| Thomas Seccombe | 25 |
| Benjamin Hall | 26 |
| Minister's Pew | 27 |
| Isaac Royal | 28 |
| Timothy Newhall | 29 |
| Peter Jones | 30 |
| Nathan Tufts, jun. | 31 |
| Timothy Hall | 32 |
| Hezekiah Blanchard | 33 |
| Thomas Patten | 34 |
| Joseph Thompson | 35 |
| Henry Putnam | 36 |
| Seth Blodget | 37 |
| Willis Hall | 38 |
| Jacob Hall | 39 |
| John Leathe | 40 |
| Samuel Jenks | 41 |
| Andrew Hall | 42 |
| Isaac Warren | 43 |
| Isaac Greenleaf | 44 |
| Samuel Kidder | 45 |
| Simon Tufts | 46 |
| Ebenezer Blanchard | 47 |
| Edward Brooks | 48 |
