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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)
und is incurable; and there-fore advise a quiet withdrawal of Mr. Woodbridge, the town paying him forty pounds, in bills of credit, in full of all demands; also give him the strangers' money which has been collected during the last nine sabbaths; and, further-more, to offer to purchase his real estate for two hundred and seventy pounds. This decision, deemed by many as equitable and conciliatory, was somewhat modified by the highest tribunal, the Great and General Court, held at Boston. May 26, 1708, this court voted that Mr. Woodbridge is hereby declared to be no longer minister of Medford. Also voted, at the same time, that this Court are directed speedily to procure and settle another minister; and that this Court do advise Mr. Woodbridge by no means to discourage the coming and settlement of another minister among them. The first of these votes pleased a majority of the town; the last displeased the whole; and forthwith our Medford fathers, in the true spirit of congregational