3 Voted to adjourn the meeting to the next Lecture

    preparatory. to our next communion ….

    August 8  Lords Day after the exercises the Church tarr

    ied and heard Brother Jonathan Forbes’s

    answer in the negative to the Churches

    invitation to him to accept the Office

    of Deacon in this Church . _____

    August 11

    The Church tarried after Lecture and

    having riceivd Brother Jonathan Forbes’s

    answer in the negative to the Churches

    invitation to him to accept the Office

    of Deacon in this Church after the exercises

    on the Lords Day last Lords Day: now Voted

    agreeably the meeting being opend by

    prayer by the Pastor to proceed to the

    choice of a Deaon

    And Brother Edmund Brigham was

    chosen _ ____ ___

    _______

    But upon his motion the Church

    allowed him time to take the matter

    into serious consideration and then Voted

    that the meeting be dissolved. __

    Novr 4

    The Church tarried after divine service and

    were informed by the Pastor verbally

    upon the desire of Brother Edmund Bri

    gham that he had concluded to accept

    the office of a Deacon in this Church.

    And he was accordingly diclard to

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    be a Deacon in this Church.

    May 22

    The Church tarried after divine service

    and a Letter wa was read from the Church

    in Southborough requesting assistance

    in the seperation of Mr Samuel Sumner

    their Pastor elect to the work of the

    Ministry in that place.  _____

    1 Voted compliance

    2 Voted to send four Delegates

    3 Voted that Deacon Wood, Brother Abijah