Browsing named entities in Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7.. You can also browse the collection for February 20th, 1721 AD or search for February 20th, 1721 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Meeting-house brook and the second Meeting-house. (search)
onvenient for the town at present to build a new meeting-house or enlarge the old one. One week later the question was raised in the adjourned town-meeting as to whether the town was going to abide by and rest satisfied with the determination of this committee, and this was given an affirmative vote; and within two (2) months came a vote of the town refusing to raise any money for erecting a new meeting-house. The Committee of Five from neighboring towns considered the matter until February 20, 1721, when evidently they rendered a report favorable to a new meeting-house; but the town refused to accept the result of the committee's work, thereby going back upon the vote of the year before. This aroused a protest, signed by twenty citizens of the western section, dissenting from this vote of refusal to accept the committee's report, as illegal. The signers also affirmed that they had been to some considerable trouble to procure land and remove encumbrances in view of a proposed ne