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Recommendation from this Church of which she is a member unto your

Church in order to her more orderly Communion w^th you in the Good things

of Gods house; we doe therfore heerby Recomend this our sister to your holy

                                                              to her

fellowship, intreating you to affoard all Christian helpfullness (as becometh Saints)

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for the furtherance of her spirituall Edification in fayth & holiness unto life Eter=

=nall: And thus commending you & her to the grace of God in Christ Jesus &

intreating your Remembrance of us at the throne of Grace we take leave

and Remain

   August 13 1673.

                      Your loving Brethren in y^e fellowship of y^e gospel

                                  Samuel Phillips.

 

 A Record of M^r Tho Watsons casting Maxamilian Jewitt

  out of the church with the grounds of it

 

 July 2 1673 B^r Watson being at Marchant Wainwrights to buy wine

w^ch as he sayth the Doctors did advise him to drink now & then he

told the marchant that having upon a wager with hims lost a quart

of such, he desired to have the quart drawn that he might drink it

together w^th some of our Toun that were ther & then p^rsent viz B^r

Wood & John Stickney, being very merry he uttered some unseemly words

scars meet to be mentioned, and cal^d upon the merchant for his quart of

such but they refused saying he had Enough, before he went thence he

took an oppertunity to steel a knife of y^e merchants, & as soon as he was

gone the merchant mist his knife & say^d I am perswaded this Watson hath

carried away my knife; at the same time B^r Watson bought 15 pounds

of Tobacco of M^r Wainwright w^ch as y^e marchant say^d came to 11^s 3^d

witness B^r Wood John Stickney & S P to whom M^r Wainwright say^d as

much: at the same time B^r Watson bought 2 gallants of Sack & went

with his tobacco & sack 1 to goodm Greaves wher setting upon his horse at y^e

gate he called for goodm Greaves his first word to him was drink till you stink

Goodm Greaves & his wife heard y^s & witness it goodm. Greaves asking how how he

come by his sack that he was soe free of it he replied the marchant

 1. had given it to him; he prest upon goodm greaves to describe who did soe &

urged goodwife Graves to drink but she refused & drunk none, he still

intreated her told her it would make good blood but she refused bidding

him goe about his business afterward at my house he denyed y^t y^r was

2 any of his wine drunk at goodman graves: before Deacon Tenny B^r Bayly

Senior & B^r Wood

Afterward be carried both Tobacco & wine to mark Quilters & lodged y^r

that night, & told mark Quilters that all that Tobacco was given him

3 by marchant wainwright

mark Quilters ask^t him wher he had that Good knife he answered that he

4. bought it with the Tobacco & y^t it was waighed w^th y^e Tobacco

The next morning B^r Wood going to Ipswich he mett B^r Watson riding

home br Wood say^d to him that he feared he had made sad work w^th

his wine & Tobacco, he say^d he had emptied one bottle at mark Quil

ters onely the say^d Mark had filled it again B^r Wood ask^t him wher he

5 answered at marchant wainwrights w^ch upon inquiry was found falls.

Mark denying he had fetch any sack & m^rs wainwright that she or any in

the hous had delivered any for him