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There was a Gideon Sampson who m. Abigail, D. of Maj. John Bradford, soon after 1700 : she left no children.
There was a George Sampson who went to Plympton about 16SO, and his grand daughter Deborah m. Elijah Bisbee Jr. and d. 1816, æ. 93, and was mother of Elijah Bisbee Esq. and George Bisbee.
SIMMONS .- Moses Simmons (sometimes written Symons and Symonson) of Duxbury was an original proprietor of Bridge- water, and sold his right to Nicholas Byram : he came over in the ship Fortune 1621 : he had Moses and Thomas, and proba- bly other children. Moses Jr. died in Duxbury 1689, and had John, Aaron, Mary w. of Joseph Alden, Elizabeth w. of Richard Dwelly, and Sarah w. of James Nash .- Thomas lived in Scit., and had Moses and Aaron, and perhaps others .- Moses and his w. Patience had Moses 1666 d. in Canada expedition 1690, Jolin 1667, Sarah 1670, Aaron 1672, Job 1674, Patience 1676 after her father's death. Aaron m. Mary Woodworth 1677, and had Rebecca 1679, Moses 1680, Mary 1683, Elizabeth 1686, Ebene- zer 1689, Lydia 1693; Moses m. Rachel Cudworth 1711, and had Moses 1718, Aaron 1720, Rachel 1723, Leah 1725; Ebene- zer m. Lydia Kent 1714, and had Abigail 1715, Joshua 1717, Lydia 1719, Reuben, Peleg, and Ebenezer ; Joshua m. Eliza- beth Dillingham, and had a son Elisha, father of William, C. J. of the Police Court, Elisha, Benja., and Franklin all of Boston, and Ebenezer of Hanover. One of the Ds. of this family m. Wil- liam Barrell, and she died before 1750 leaving an only child, Joshua Barrell .- There was a Moses Simmons lived awhile in S. B. [see page 330, No. 69.], a descendant no doubt of this family. Joseph Church had a D. Abigail, who m. a Simmons as early as, and probably before, 1700.
SOULE .- George Soule was one of the first pilgrims and signers of the political Compact on board the May Flower 1620: in the general allotment in 1623 he had one acre and afterwards two more " at the watering place," all of which he sold to Robert Ilieks 1639; in 1627 he and his w. Mary and s. Zechariah are named : he lived at Eel River, N. side the bridge, in 1638, and then at Powder Point, and removed to Duxbury hefore 1650 ; was a Selectman and Deputy there, and one of the original pro- prietors of Bridgewater : he sold his proprietary right to Nicho- las Byram : she d. 1677 ; he 1680 very aged : he had Zechariah, John, Nathaniel, George, Patience w. of John Haskell, Eliza- beth w. of Francis Walker, both of Mid'o., Susanna, and Mary wife of John Peterson probably of Duxbury, m. before 1672; Mary had been put out to John Winslow 1652 for 7 yrs .; he gave one-half his Dartmouth lands to Nathaniel 1658, the other half to George 1668, his Mid'o. lands to Haskell and Walker and their wives 166S: Zechariah d. before him, 1663, leaving a wid.
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Margaret ; John Soule d. at Duxbury 1707 æ. 75; Edm'd Weston ,and Adam Wright were his ss. in law ; John Soule d. at Duxbury 1734; Aaron Soule, merchant, d. at Pembroke 1783, who had one s. John and 5 Ds .; one, Leonice, m. a Brewster ; one, Huldalı m. Thomas Church ; one m. a Dwelly. The descendants of this respectable ancestor are very numerous in the old Colony, and have spread extensively over the country. Dea. John Soule and others in E. B. [see p.304] are doubtless his descendants.
TUBBS .- William Tubbs, of Duxbury, was an original pro- prietor of Bridgewater : he m. Mercy, D. of Francis Sprague, 1637, and he or his s. or gr. s. William m. Judith, wid. of Isaac Barker and D. of Gov. Thomas Prince, 1691. Some of this name, no doubt his descendants, are still living in the lower towns of the County, but we have no particular knowledge of the family descent.
WADSWORTH .- Christopher Wadsworth of Duxbury was a Representative of that town, and one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater, and Capt. Samuel and Joseph Wadsworth and their representatives retained an interest and shares in Bridge- water longer than any of the non-residents. After 1685 Capt. Samuel's share is entered under the name of wid. Wadsworth ; and in 1686, and after, Timothy Wadsworth's name appears .--- This has always been a respectable name in Duxbury and its vicinity. The late Gen. Peleg Wadsworth of Portland gra. H. U. 1769, was of this family.
WEST .- Francis West at Duxbury 1633; m. Margary Reeves 1639 : an orig. proprietor of Bridgewater, sold his share to Edw'd Mitchell, d. 1692 : had Samuel, Peter, Pelatiah, Richard, &c. Samuel m. Tryphosa, D. of George Partridge, and had Samuel : some of his descendants in Martha's Vineyard: Pelatiah went to Conn. Samuel West m. Experience Howland .- The name is common in the old Colony.
WESTON .- Edmund Weston of Duxbury was an original proprietor of Bridgewater, and the name is still common there and in the vicinity ; but if he is the common ancestor, as proba- bly he is, we have no means at hand of tracing the descent.
WINSLOW .- Edward, Gilbert, John, Kenelm, and Josiah Winslow, were brothers and children of Edward Winslow of Droitwich in Worcestershire in England, and all came to New England : they had also 3 sisters, Eleanor, Elizabeth, and May- delon.
1. Gov. Edward Winslow, b. 1594, came with his w. Elizabeth in 1620 in the Ist ship, the May Flower : she d. the next spring, 1621, and he m. Susanna, wid. of Mr. William White, 1622, the first marriage in N. E., and she was mother of Peregrine White, the first child, and of Josiah Winslow the first Governor, born in N. E. He went as Agent to England and d. at sea 1655 æ. 61 : his residence or seat called Caresrull, was at Marshfield : he had Edward*, John*, Josiah, and Elizabeth who m. Gilbert Brooks and afterwards Capt. George Corwin of Salem.
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2. Gilbert arrived also in the first ship 1620. Few notices of him remain : he soon left the Colony, and, it is said, went to Portsmouth, and d. before 1660, without issue, as grants of that date were made to his brothers as his heirs.
3. John, born a. 1596, arrived 1621 in the ship called the For- tune, and m. Mary Chilton before 1627 (she was said to have been the first lady who came on shore : she was an only child of James and Susanna Chilton, who both died the first winter): he had John, Isaac, Benjamin 1653, Edward, Joseph, Susanna, Mary, and Sarah. Susanna m. Robert Latham a. 1649, who settled in E. Bridgewater. [See page 222.]-Mary m. Edward Gray 1650 .- Sarah m. Miles Standish Jr. 1660, then Tobias Payne 1666, and afterwards Richard Middlecot. He and all his family but the two eldest Ds. finally removed to Boston, where he d. a. 1674, æ. 78; she died a. 1676. Their posterity became numerous, of whom the present Isaac Winslow Esq. is one, as was also the late Gen. John Winslow, both of Boston.
4. Kenelm arrived at Plymouth a. 1629, and m. Eleanor, wid. of John Adams, 1634, and settled in Marshfield : he d. while on a visit at Salem 1672: he had Kenelm, Nathaniel, and Job. Kenelm went to Yarmouth, and had Kenelm 1668, Josiah 1670, and Thomas 1672 .- Job went to Freetown .- Kenelm Winslow, a grandson perhaps, m. Ann Taylor 1730.
5. Josiah, b. 1605, arrived with his brother Kenelm a. 1629, was in Scituate in 1637, and soon after 1643 settled in Marsh- field, and m. Margaret, D. of Thomas Bourne, and d. 1674, æ. 69 : he had Elizabeth 1637, Jonathan 1638, Mary 1640, Rebecca 1642, Hannah (or Susanna) 1644, and Margaret. Jonathan d. 1676, leaving a son John born 1664 .- One D. m. John Miller .- One, Rebecca, m. John Thacher, both of Yarmouth .-- One m. William Crow of Plymouth, and another in. John Tracy of Duxbury, afterwards of Norwich.
6. Gov. Josialı (only surviving s. of Gov. Edw'd 1.) b. a. 1628, educated at H. U. 1653, but left without taking a degree, as did many others, on account of the new regulation requiring students to stay 4 years instead of 3: be mn. Penelope, D. of Herbert Pel- ham, 1657 : he d. 1680, æ. a. 52 ; she d. 1703, æ. 73: they had a D. 1658*, Elizabeth 1664, Edward 1667*, Isaac 1670. Elizabeth m. Stephen Burton 1684.
7. Nathaniel (s. of Kenelm 4.) resided in Marshfield, and m. Faith Miller 1664, and had Faith 1665, Nathaniel 1667, James 1669, Eleanor, Gilbert 1673, Kenelm 1675, Josiah 1683. Kenelm had a son Nathaniel 1709.
8. Col. Isaac (only surviving son of Gov. Josiah 6.) of Marsh- field m. Sarah, D. of John Wensley of Boston, 1700 : he d. 1738, æ. 68; she 1753, æ. 80 (her mother was Elizabeth, D. of Dea. William Paddy whose w. was Alice D. of Edmund Freeman of Sandwich, m. 1639): he had Josiah 1701, John 1703, Penelope 1704, Elizabeth 1707, Anna 1709*, Edward 1714. Josiah gra. H. U. 1721, was a Captain, and slain at St. George's River by
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the Indians 1724 .- Penelope m. Col. James Warren 1725, and died 1737 .- Elizabeth m. Col. Benjamin Marston of Salem or Manchester 1729, and died 1760 .- The Wensley Portrait among those of the Winslow family in the Mass. Hist. Society's rooms is either Sarah Wensley's (w. of Col. Winslow) or her mother Elizabeth's (D. of Dea. Paddy), and most probably of the latter, as it is understood the family in later times have usually spoken of it " as grandmother Paddy's."
9. Nathaniel (s. of Nathaniel 7.) resided in Marshfield, and m. Lydia, D. of Anthony Snow, 1692, and had Lydia 1693, Thankful 1695, Snow 1698, Oliver 1702, Deborah 1708, Patience 1710, Nathaniel 1712 : he then m. a 2d wife, Deborah Bryant of Scituate, 1716, and had Ruth 1718.
10. Gilbert (s. of Nathaniel 7.) of Marshfield m. Mary, D. of Anthony Snow, and had Issachar 1699, Barnabas, Gilbert, and Anthony 1707. Anthony m. Deborah, D. of William Barker Esq., and removed to E. Bridgewater. [See page 353.]
11. Gen. John (s. of Col. Isaac 8.] lived in Marshfield, and m. Mary Little 1726, and had Pelham 1737, and Isaae 1739 : he afterwards, late in life, m. a wid. Johnson (whose maiden name was Barker) of Hingham, where he died 1774, æ. 71 .. He was Captain in the expedition against Cuba 1640, Col. at Louisburgh 1644, and afterwards Maj. Gen'l in the British service.
12. Edward Esq. (youngest son of Col. Isaac 8.) gra. H. U. 1736, m. Hannah, wid. of Charles Dyer and D. of Thos. How- land, 1739, and went to Halifax, N. S., in the revolution, and d. 1786, æ. 72; she survived and d. at Frederickton æ. 82 : he had Edward, Penelope, and Sarah. Edward gra. H. U. 1765, was Clerk of the Courts in Plymouth, and went off in the revolution and died at Frederickton 1815, æ. 69, and his son Edward was drowned, and another s., Wentworth, survived.
13. Oliver (s. of Nathaniel 9.) m. Agatha, D. of John Bryant of Scituate, where he also resided, and had Oliver (killed in the French war 1758, æ. 20), John who went to Nobleborough, Me., and Nathaniel. He m. a 2d w. Bethiah Pryor of Hanover 1749, and had Oliver (a revolutionary pensioner) and Joseph* 1753. Oliver had a s. Oliver.
14. Pelham Esq. (s. of Gen. John 11.) gra. H. U. 1753, was an Attorney, and m. Joanna, D. of Capt. Gideon White : he left Plymouth in the revolution, and d. on Long Island, N. Y. 1782, leaving two Ds., Mary who m. Maj. Henry Warren, and Joanna who m. Dr. Nathan Hayward, High Sheriff of Plymouth Co.
15. Dr. Isaac (s. of Gen. John 11.) of Marshfield was a re- spectable Physician, and m. a D. of Dr. Charles Stockbridge of Scituate, and d. 1819, æ. 80; the w. of his old age was Fanny Gay of Hingham : he had a s. John and 3 Ds. One, Betsy, m. Hon. Kilborn Whitman Esq., one m. a Shaw and then a Dingley, and the other m. a Clapp, an Attorney in Bath, Me.
16. Maj. Nathaniel (s. of Oliver 13.) m. Sarah, D. of Isaac Hatch of Pembroke, 1766, and had Nathaniel 1767, Sarah 1769,
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Walter 1772*, Josialı 1774*, Anna 1776, Judith 1780, Lydia 1786, William 1788. Nathaniel died 1830, leaving a family .- Sarah m. Thomas Waterinan, and then Ebenezer Copeland .- Anna m. Wm. P. Ripley of Plymouth 1810 .- Judith m. Elisha Tolman .- Lydia m. Anthony Collamore of Pembroke .- William remained at Scituate on the paternal estate.
17. John Esq. (s. of Dr. Isaac 15.) gra. B. U. 1795, was an Attorney, and d. at Natchez, whither he went on business 1822, æ. 48, leaving John, Pelham, Isaac, Penelope, Eliza, and Fanny Gay.
Samuel Winslow of Rochester had Samuel and Richard bap. 1679 .- Samuel m. Bathsheba Holbrook of Scituate 1700 .- Na- thaniel (of Freetown) m. Elizabeth Holbrook of Scituate 1701. Josiah of Freetown in. Sarah, D. of Jolin Hayward Jr. of W. Bridgewater, 1721. [See p. 352.]-Oliver, a revolutionary pen- sioner of Westport, served in the artillery 1777 .- Nathaniel Winslow removed to Damarascotta 1729, and testified in Court at old York 1742, then 63 years old.
Isaac Winslow of Boston has a particular geneological account of the Boston branch of this distinguished family.
APPENDIX.
See page 17 .- The following extracts from the Records of the General Court, shows that the grant of Titicut was not made till after the grant of Bridgewater plantation was made to Duxbury, and of course was made by the Sachem at Pembroke or Matta- keset, and not by his father Chickatabut of Neponsit :-
" Isaac Wonno appeared to prosecute his claim to three miles of land on each side of Titicut river. Bridgewater agents made it appear that they had purchased of Ossemequin six miles from their centre towards Titicut, and that Chickatabut in his grant to Titicut Indians of three miles doth except any former pur- chase made by Bridgewater men. We therefore think it neces- sary that Titicut Indians and the said Wonno have their three miles after the Bridgewater men's three miles be meted out, or to have the remainder if it be not so much."
The foregoing report of the Committee, 1703, was accepted and approved by the General Court on the petition of Edward Fobes, Representative of Bridgewater, Oct. 27, 1708.
See page 19 .- The following is the report of a Committee establishing the bounds of the Titicut Purchase :-
" 1729. We the subscribers being a Committee chosen by the Purchasers and Proprietors of the two mile grant on the southerly side of Bridgewater, commonly called Titicut, to establish the bounds of the Divisions of said Titicut lands where they might be found, and to make new bounds where they were wanting as by record may appear, which work we have carefully performed : and we have established the bounds of the northermost parts of said Titicut lands upon the ancient reputed four mile line, as by the return of our work may appear, which line was shown to us
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by the Proprietors of Titicut : and we being also a Committee chosen by the Purchasers and Proprietors of the eight mile square of Bridgewater as by record may appear to renew the ancient line between said eight mile and Titicut lands, upon which said Titicut lots were butted when first laid out, in order to bring it to record : because the Purchasers' ancient book of records before it came into our present Clerk's hands was in divers places defaced, broken and lost, so that the record of said line cannot be found. Accordingly we did upon the 4th day of Feb- ruary, 1728-9, renew said ancient four mile line as followeth. We took our departure from a heap of stones at a place called Wolf Trap Hill where Titicut way parts from Taunton road, which heap of stones was shewn us by Justice Edson and Dea. Fobes, being Proprietors on both sides, and avouched to be a station in the ancient four mile line, or line between said eight mile and two mile and known by them to be so for more than forty years past, it being the same line upon which we butted the said Titi- cut lands as above. From said heap of stones we run West one degree, South forty-one rods to a great crotched white oak tree marked and numbered 4: thence West one degree South 100 rods to a maple tree marked and numbered 4 : thence West one degree South 53 rods to a white oak sapling marked and num- bered 4, near the little pond: thence West one degree South one hundred and fifteen rods to a red oak tree marked and numbered 4 at the head of Leach's land: thence West one degree South 53 rods to a horn pine tree marked and numbered 4, an ancient marked tree : thence West one degree South 50 rods to a white pine stake standing by a black oak stump stand- ing in Taunton Line marked and numbered 4. Then we began again at the heap of stones first mentioned and run East one degree North 85 rods to a maple tree marked and numbered 4: thence East one degree North 73 rods to a white oak tree stand- ing by the brook in the range of Samuel Leach's land marked and numbered 4 about a rod below a great rock in the brook ; thence East one degree North 83 rods to a rock between a white oak and walnut : thence East one degree North to a swamp white oak tree marked and numbered 4 by Thomas Hayward's land : thence East one degree North 121 rods to a white oak tree northward from Benja. Washburn's house marked and numbered
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4 : thence East one degree North thrity-six rods to a red oak tree marked and numbered 4: thence East one degree North 80 rods to a white oak tree marked and numbered 4: thence East one degree North 50 rods to a maple tree marked and numbered 4 on the South side, being an ancient marked tree : thence East one degree North 120 rods to a maple tree marked and numbered 4 : thence East one degree South 31 rods to a horn pine tree marked and numbered 4, being the corner of the first great Lot in Titicut Division : thence East one degree North 47 rods to a maple tree marked and numbered 4: thence East one degree North 66 rods to a red oak tree marked and numbered 4 : thence East one degree North 70 rods to a red oak tree marked and numbered 4 standing in the edge of Benjamin Willis's meadow, being an old marked tree : thence East one degree North 47 rods to a poplar sapling marked and numbered 4, being the cor- ner of the first Lot in the last Division of Titicut lands : thence East one.degree North 556 rods by a range of old marked trees to a walnut tree marked and numbered 4 standing on the bank of the great river and a little to the North of the mouth of Win- netuxet river .- Ephraim Fobes, Benj. Leach, and Nath'l Willis."
1737. The above was confirmed 1737 by Sam'l Keith, Jona. Howard and Joshua Willis in behalf of the Eight Mile Proprie- tors ; and Nathaniel Willis, Benjamin Leach and Ephraim Fobes in behalf of the Two Mile Proprietors.
See page 30 .- The following record contains the final laying out of the land on the North and East side of the original four mile grant, on the notherly and easterly part of the town, accord- ing to the agreement of the purchasers.
" Pursuant to an Act of the Purchasers of Bridgewater bear- ing date Feb. 1, A. D., 1710, we the subscribers, who were entrusted and empowered to lay out the undivided lands towards the north-east corner of the Four Mile Grant both upon the East and North side, have bounded out the said lands into seven shares · or lots according to the purchasers' agreement in manner and form as followeth :--
" Part of the first lot lyeth westerly from Joseph Shaw's house, beginning at a red oak tree marked on four sides, numbered one : from thence running West to Packard's land, and bounded west- erly partly by Packard's land and partly by John Hayward's
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land, and at the southerly end by the lots that lie upon Matfield River to a white oak tree, which is Joseph Edson's corner bound : from thenee running North two hundred rods to the red oak first mentioned, being 100 acres more or less .- The other part of the first lot lieth on the East side of Buck Hill swamp, beginning at a white oak tree near the swamp, numbered one : from thence running East to Joseph Shaw's land by Beaver Brook, and then bounded on the south-east and East by said Shaw's land, and by the lands of Nicholas Byram, and so to the white oak tree stand- ing in the East and West line, which is the southerly bounds of the second lot : from said white oak running West by a range of trees marked to the above said Buck Hill swamp, and so bounded by James Cary's land in Buck Hill swamp to the bounds first mentioned.
" The second lot lieth easterly from Beaver Brook, beginning at a heap of stones upon a flat rock, then running northerly to the four mile line, which is a mile : and from said rock easterly 160 poles to a white oak tree marked on four sides, and then running northerly to the four mile line.
" The third lot beginneth at the white oak last mentioned and runs East 179 poles to a swamp oak, which is marked on four sides : from thence running North 320 poles to the four mile line. " The fourth lot is bounded westerly by the East side of the third lot, and runs from the above named oak East 160 poles to a stake and heap of stones : thence North to the four mile line.
" The fifth lot lieth on the East side of Weymouth road, bound- ed northerly by a pine tree marked on two sides standing near to William Dyer's land : from thence to a black oak tree by the road near Lieut. Hersey's field : then bounded by said road to a stake and heap of stones by the way-side : from thence running East to Mr. Moore's land : thence bounded by the river lots to the pine tree first mentioned.
" The sixth lot is bounded northerly by the fifth, beginning at the above stake and heap of stones, and from thence bounded by the way to the Birch swamp to a maple tree, which is the corner bounds of Gannett's land to a white oak tree standing to the northward of the old wolf trap : thence running East to poor meadow lots, and so bounded by lotted lands until it comes to the range of the fifth lot.
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" Part of the seventh lot is bounded by the south side of the sixth : the other part of the lot lietli between Theodosius Moore's land and the Major's Purchase, bounded northerly by Mr. Cush- ing's land and southerly by the Cedar swamp."
See page 34 .- The lands on the North side of Titicut River within the township of Bridgewater lying on the South side of the Purchasers' four mile line from the centre, called the Titicut land, is laid out in two divisions of lots, called the great lots and the little lots ; there being 64 lots in each division.
" The great lots begin towards the easterly side and run from the four mile line southerly.
The little lots begin on the westerly side of the path left to go down to Titicut wear, and run West for their length, butting on said path, till they come to the river at said wear ; then they begin on the easterly side of the way, and run easterly for their length, butting on the easterly side of the way, till they come to the 63d lot, which buts on a brook, the lot running on both sides of the way. The last lot, James Cary's, No. 64, lies by itself down the river against Spanyard's land." Laid out by Edward Mitchell, Sam'l Edson Jr., Sam'l Washburn and John Leonard, May 1685.
See page 43 .- Bridgewater's Monitor is the title given to the Rev. Mr. Keith's Sermon, June 14th, 1717, at the dedication of the first meeting-house in the south parish. The following is the preface :-
" The New English Bridgewater has been a town favored of God; yea some favors of Heaven unto it, have indeed been distinguishing.
" It was planted a noble vine .- And may no more of the text from whence this phrase is borrowed, ever be applied unto it! The first planters of it, were a set of people who made religion their main interest; and it became their glory. There was a time when it stood in a land of unwalled villages, with fierce armies of bloody Indians destroying round about them ; and the dispensations of God our Saviour towards it at this time, were so wonderful, that the short report thereof given, in the Church History of New England, is not unworthy to be here transcribed and repeated.
" ' Remarkable was the fate of Bridgewater, a most praying, and a most pious town, seated in the very midst of the dangers
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of the war; that although they were often assaulted by formida- ble numbers of the enemies, yet in all their sharp assaults they never lost one of their inhabitants, young or old. They were solicited strongly to desert their dwellings, but they resolved, that they would keep their stations. And now on May 8th, 1676, the Indians began to fire the town ; but the inhabitants with notable courage, issued forth from their garrisons, to fight the enemy ; and God from Heaven at the same time fought for them, with a storm of lightning, thunder and rain, whereby a considerable part of their houses were preserved. Thou, Church of Bridgewater !
' O nimium dilecta Deo, cui militat æther.'
O how beloved of Heaven, whom storms defend.
" One that was no Christian, so sang the favors of Heaven to the Emperor Theodosius, and so might the Pagan foe now sing of thy salvations !
" Ever since that memorable day, the town has been proceed- ing, with the smile of God upon them, and upon the intentions of his gospel among them, until they are now become two bands. They are lovingly and peaceably swarmed into a new assembly, and began to meet in their new edifice on a day of prayer (as it is the manner of New England) when the two sermons were preached, which the affected hearers have here published. God grant, that from the tokens of his gracious presence with them, the place may claim the name of Mahanaim. And may there be still found among them such a number of lively, watchful, fruit- ful Christians, exemplarily living to God, and by the faith of the Son of God ; may a value for the ordinances of our Saviour, be so preserved in vigor with them, and the success thereof appear in all real and vital godliness quickened among the young as well as the old among them ; and may their brotherly love continue at such a rate, that it may be plainly seen, God is yet among them. Wo to them, if I depart from them, saith the Lord.
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