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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 6., The Baptist Church of Medford. (search)
The Baptist Church of Medford. by Mrs. J. M. G. Plummer. [Read before the Medford Historical Society, Monday, February 16, 1903.] AS early as 660 the godly people of Medford, although not enjoying, within their own borders, the ministrations of the gospel, nor having any settled preacher, were much stirred by the religious controversy in the neighboring town of Charlestown, over the tenets of the Baptists, or Ana-Baptists, as they were sometimes erroneously called. One Thomas Gould, of that town, was considered a pestilent fellow, whose teachings were deemed exceedingly pernicious. As the years went on, however, the Baptists continued to thrive; and in 1818, before the Second Congregational Church of Medford was organized, much interest was manifested in favor of a Baptist church in that town. A few Baptists were accustomed to meet in that year, 1818, in a private house, which was one of three small wooden houses on or near the site of the Centre Grammar School, on High