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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)
ly bestowed the labor of love. As he was known to possess some property, the town voted the annual salary of £ 80 with less zeal than they should. May 14, 1772, the vote stood 18 yeas, and 14 nays; but, as Mr. Turell was unwell, they voted £ 50 to supply the pulpit. May 24, 1773: Mr. Turell continues sick, and the following is Voted, unanimously, to grant the Rev. Mr. Turell the sum of £ 66. 13s. 4d., annually, for his salary during his continuance in the ministry in said town. In September, 1774, he received a colleague, on whom the chief labor devolved, and for four years enjoyed his release from ministerial anxieties. On the 5th December, 1778, he died of old age, having reached the seventy-seventh year of his life, and the fifty-fourth of his ministry. He was buried on the 8th. Mr. Lawrence prayed; the President of Harvard College, Rev. Mr. Cushing, Rev. Mr. Clark, and Rev. Mr. Woodward, bore the pall. The following Sunday, Mr. Osgood preached an appropriate sermon. Thus