...eight years the town had been without a settled minister, but now with Mr. Porter's ministry it took on regular and stable ways. In June, 1724, after fasting and prayer, and a sermon by Rev. Benjamin Colman , of Boston, the town voted to call Rev. Ebenezer Turell to be their minister, a hundred pounds settlement, and ninety pounds salary and strangers' money, to be paid semi-annually. At his request, i...