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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Meeting-house brook and the second Meeting-house. (search)
William Willis, Lieut. Stephen Hall, John Francis, Benjamin Parker and John Whitmore. These reported that it would be proper to build a meetinghouse 52 feet large, 38feet wide, 33feel posts. They were empowered to build the house. Thenceforth the town was concerned with the detail of the building and the raising of necessary money, as notice the following votes:— March 7, 1726.—Voted to have a steeple. April 25, 1726.—Voted to raise £ 250 for carrying on work of meeting-house. May 8, 1727.—Voted to raise money on places left for pews in new meeting-house. August 27, 1727.—Voted that the Town will pay for the building of a ministerial pew in the new meeting house in the place where the Rev. Mr. Turrell shall choose. of worship Rev. Mr. Turrell served as the pastor. More than five thousand sermons were preached here and over one thousand persons received baptism. When we think of such a record as that we can imagine how sacred the spot was to more than a generatio