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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 41 | 3 | Browse | Search |
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Xenophon, Minor Works (ed. E. C. Marchant, G. W. Bowersock, tr. Constitution of the Athenians.) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) | 2 | 0 | 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)
Chapter 6: ecclesiastical history.
The history of their church, in many of our earliest New England towns, was almost the history of their settlement.
So early as 1634, our fathers procured a preacher, Mr. James Noyes, afterwards minister of Newbury.
He was born in England in 1608, educated at Oxford, came to Boston in 1634, and was immediately called to preach at Mistic, which he did for nearly one year.
He was much beloved and respected,--a very holy and heavenly-minded man. He was a man of singular qualifications, a reaching and ready apprehension, and a most profound judgment.
He was courageous in dangers, and still apt to believe the best, and made fair weather in a storm.
After he left Medford, the inhabitants received religious instructions from Rev. Mr. Wilson and Rev. Mr. Phillips; for, in the tax for the support of these gentlemen, Medford paid its share assessed by the General Court.
These preachers were paid by six towns, and doubtless considered Medford as bel