...rporated by the General Court, April, 1779, as a separate precinct with authority to settle a minister, and to provide for his support by a parish tax,— excepting Samuel Sparhawk, John Gardner, Joanna Gardner , and Moses Griggs, and their estates, who shall be exempted from all ministerial taxes to said precinct, so long as they shall live or reside within the same, or until they or either of them shall g...