HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855., Chapter 7: ecclesiastical history (continued)., page 266

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
in Senate, Oct. 26, 1781.
On the petition of David Osgood, pastor of the church of Christ in Medford, in behalf of said church:--
Resolved, That, for the reason therein mentioned, the agent of the estate of Isaac Royal, Esq., late of Medford, an absentee, be, and is hereby, directed to deliver a certain silver cup, referred to in the said petition, belonging to the said absentee's estate, to the said David Osgood, for the use of the church in Medford, agreeably to the prayer of the said petition, and take a receipt for the same.
Sent down for concurrence.
Samuel Adams, President.

in the house of Representatives, Oct. 27, 1781.
Read and concurred. Nathaniel Gorham, Speaker.
Approved. John Hancock.
A true copy.
Attest,
John Avery, Sec.

Medford, Nov. 6, 1781.
Received of Simon Tufts, Esq., agent for the estate of Isaac Royal, Esq., an absentee, the silver cup mentioned in the above order of court.
David Osgood.

By a resolve of the church, in 1824, the pewter dish was sold, and a silver one purchased,--thus making the furniture of the table entire and appropriate.

Recapitulation.

Rev. Aaron Porter,	Settled	Feb. 11, 1713.	Died	Jan. 23, 1722.
Rev. Ebenezer Turell,	Settled	Nov. 25, 1724.	Died	Dec. 8, 1778.
Rev. David Osgood.	Settled	Sept. 14, 1774.	Died	Dec. 12, 1822.
Rev. Andrew Bigelow,	Settled	July 9, 1823.	Resigned	Jan. 9, 1827.
Rev. Caleb Stetson,	Settled	Feb. 28, 1827.	Resigned	Mar. 24, 1848.
Rev. John Pierpont,	Settled	Aug. 1, 1849.

Desiring that full justice should be done to the history of each religious society in the town, I gave public notice in 1853, that whatever account should be furnished of any society, by its pastor or committee, should be inserted in these pages. The following notices have been sent, and they are accordingly printed without alteration; and I have only to wish they had been more ample in details. It should be recorded of all the religious societies of Medford, that they

John Wilson and son. 22 School Street. Boston. 1855.

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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.
Charles Brooks, Ed.