10.

Church_

The Same Day Hannah y^e wife of

Thomas Forbush jun^r was admitted

into our Communion. ^_________

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1728.

Jan: 7. I detained the Brethren of y^e

Chh to receive the Answers of those per

:sons the Chh had elected to be Deacons

thereof.  I accordingly proceeded to Desire y^m

_^w^t y^y had

to Deliver _^ [------] to y^e Chh. M^r Fay said y^t

to offer

“If the Brethren of y^e Chh had Chosen him to be

a Deacon he accepted of it & would Serve y^m

Notwithstanding if the Chh had seen meet to meet

pitch upon some other person he should have been

heartily Glad.”^__  M^r Tomlin spake to y^s purpose

“That This Chh having elected him, he was not

_^Divine

against Serving y^m in the office, for he saw _^ pro-

:vidence brought him into it.  [But he added]

Without the Brethren w^d drop him” ^___  (for he had

much Sollicited to be releas’d) ^__ I Then appoint

:ed y^e 11^th Day to be a Chh meeting upon y^e matter

of introducing them into their office. ^______

4^th Chh meet

11. The Chh gathered together & We were

:ing

Entertained with a Discourse touching y^e me

:thod and manner of introducing Deacons

into their office: from Acts 6, 6.  Which Dis-

:course having been heard, The matter was

Left to y^e Chh’s Consideration, w^t method we

_^Elect

Should take. The Deacons _^ in y^e Mean time

were requested to take y^e care of the Business as

y^y had hitherto done.^__ M^r Tomlin made some

opposition Ag^st a formal ordination tho he was

not _^^un willing to Serve y^e Chh, as it was usuall and

Customary in some other Chhs about us.^___ But

M^r Fay chose to take y^e matter into maturer Thought

and requested his Brother Tomlin to do y^e Like.^__

As we open^d y^e Meeting with Prayer we closed it y^rw^{th __}

21.  Nathaniel Whitney & Mary

his Wife, & Thomas Bruce were ad

:mitted into our Fellowship. ^_____

         28.  Hezekiah Tomlin was bap-

:tized and admitted into our Fellow

:ship.^___

Sacr^t

Feb: 4. The Sacram^t of the Lords Sup-

^.per was celebrated.

March 10.  Timothy, Son of Josiah &

Elizabeth Newton was baptized. ^____

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