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abraham Stephenson
William Pitman William Wille
Samuel Adams
Daniel Misharve
Joseph Stephenson Samuell Wille John Daniall Samuel Edgerle
Napt. Kinket
Pl- (illegible)
Francis Mathes
Philip Duly J
Joseph Meder Jun
John Williams
John footman
Robard Kent Beniamin footman
Joseph footman
Joseph Danel iunr
Joseph Jenkins
John Dauis sen John Wille Jun Edward Wakeham timothy daues Nicolas Meder peter denmor Eleazar Bickford William Clay
William Wormwod
Salathan Denmoor
Joseph Edgerley
Philip Duly S
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This petition was copied from the original document lent by Isaac W. Hammond-the original orthography preserved.
The original is now in possession of New Hampshire His- torical Society.
The House voted, 4 May 1716:
That ye agreement of ye towns of Douer wtb ye part of ye toun called Oyster river abt maintaining a minister among them at their own cost and charge be confirmed; & that ye new meeting house built there be ye place of ye public worship of God in that District, and established a Distinct parish with all rights and privileges belonging to a Parish, wth full power & authority to call & settle a minister there & make assessmt for ye paymt of his Sallary & all other Parish charges, equally on ye several inhabitants within yt district & annually to chuse five p'sons, frecholders wthin said Parish, to make ye tax & manage all affairs of the Parish, & yt p'sons so chosen, wth a Justice of the Peace of this Province shall, whenever they see cause, call a Parish meeting to transact any mattrs concerning y. Parish, & yt ye first meeting be on Monday ye 14th instant, at ye aforesd New meeting-house, & yt John Thompson, ye present Constable of that district, notify ye inhabitants yre of; and further, that all p'sons that have of late years paid to ye minister there, shall continue to pay yr proportion to him yt shall succeed in sd office.
By order of the house of Representatives,
THEO ATKINSON, Cler.
Another petition, presented in 1717 and favorably considered was as follows:
The Petition of sundry of the Inhabitants of Oyster River in Dover, most humbly sheweth: That, Whereas sometime about a year and a half agoe, a Petition was then preferred to the General Assembly then sitting at Ports- mouth, by several of our neighbors in said place to be made a District of them- selves,-which being wrongly represented unto said Assembly, a vote thereupon was passed in both Houses, which being very prejuditial unto the Interest of the whole :-
Your Petitioners therefore do humbly Pray that as there was only a vote, but no Act passed, that there may be a fair hearing of the whole matter before your Excellency in Council, that in your wisdom you may see good to Reverse the same; and that a reasonable proportion of land may be allotted us from the township of Dover, for a more amicable agreement between each other in carrying on the Worship of God; And seeing we have two meeting houses, we humbly pray that in wisdom you will so determine, that the Inhabitants
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may go to each of them every other meeting day; And your petitioners shall ever pray.
Thomas Edgerly
Moses Davis, jun:
Thomas Drew
John Rand
John Pinder
Edward Graham
[Wakeham] ·
Abraham Mathes
William Gloyns [Glines]
Joseph Edgerle
John Bickford
Joseph Kent
William Wormwood
John Footman
Joseph Bickford
John Danel
Thomas Footman
John Kent
Joseph Stephenson
Samuel Edgerly
Joseph Footman
Benjamin Pinder
Thomas Davis
Benjamin Footman
Francis Mathes
Robert Kent
William Hill
John Davis
Daniel Misharve
Joseph Danel
Joseph Jenkins
Eleazer Bickford
Henery Rines
Stephen Jenkins
Daniel Davis
Benjamin Mathes
Thomas Rains
James Langle
James Davis
Francis Mathes, jun.
Abraham Stephenson
Nathaniel Randal
John Edgerle
Samuel Davis
Solomon Davis
John Williams, jun.
Salathiel Denbo
Joseph Hix
William Clary
Benjamin Body
Ichabod Follet
James Davis, junr.
William Rains
Samuel Williams
Samuel Smith
Bartholomew Stephenson
Philip Duly
Timothy Davis
John Williams
Zacharias Edgerly
John Ambler
Joseph Nudder
In consequence of this petition we find the following voted 9 May 1718,
WHEREAS, the Parish of Oyster River, in Dover, have by a petition p'ferred to the Gen1 Assembly prayed that the ministry wtbin sd Parish may be settled, so as may best accommodate the inhabitants of sd Parish,
Voted, That the Minister for the time being do preach at both the old and new Parish meeting-houses alternately in sd Parish, excepting the three winter months, web shall be left to the choice of sd minister. [Provincial Papers, III, 730.]
The Rev. Hugh Adams records, under date of 8 June 1718, "Lord's day (at my first preaching in the old meeting house,
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by order of the Government) baptized Abraham Ambler, son of Bro. John Ambler of Quochecho Ch," and again, under date of 19 October 1718, "at the old meeting house, then and there, he being propounded in the Congregation publicly, the preceding Sabbath for the same Office, and no person objecting in the mean time, John Ambler, one of the Brethren of the Church, by the Major votes, was chosen Deacon thereof." "The parsonage lot where the old meeting house formerly stood" is mentioned in 1746.
A public parish meeting, held 1 April 1717, voted that Rev. Hugh Adams should be their minister at a salary of £100 and use of the parsonage, and ten acres of land granted by the town, and £70 for his settlement to be paid within two years. The committee met Mr. Adams soon after above date "in the eastern chamber of Capt. Hill's house" and agreed with him for a salary of £104, half of which was to be paid at the end of each six months, according to depositions made by Joseph Davis, senior, and Abraham Bennick, senior, in 1733. [See Court Files at Con- cord, N. H.]
The church at the Falls was organized and the Rev. Hugh Adams was installed 26 March 1718, though Mr. Adams had been preaching there nearly two years. Under that date Nathaniel Hill and Stephen Jones wrote to the Boston News Letter as follows :
This day (through the smiles of Heaven upon us) we had a Church gathered here, in the Decency and Order of the Gospel, and our Teacher, the Reverend Mr. Hugh Adams was then consecrated and Established the Pastor thereof, who then preached from that Text in Cant, 3, 11; we being then favored with the Presence and Approbation of some Reverend Pastors of the next Neighbor- ing Churches, with the Honoured Messengers thereof at the said Solemnity, in our New Meeting-House, wherein they gave the Right Hand of Fellowship,
As witness our hands, NATHANIEL HILL STEPHEN JONES
The account of the same event, as given by the Rev. Hugh Adams in the records of the church, is as follows:
March 26, 1718. This day through the grace of God our Saviour we had a Church orderly gathered with the presence and approbation of the Pastors and messengers of the churches of Newington and of Quochecho. The Revd Mr. Jonathan Cushing prayed. I preached from the text Cant. 3:11, and made a short prayer. Then I read our Confession of Faith and Church Covenant, signed by me and Nathaniel Hill, Sampson Doe, Stephen Jones, Samuel Emer-
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son, Joseph Dudey, John Allen, James Nock, James Langley and Samuel Edgerly.
Then the Revd Mr. Cushing, Pastor of Cochecho Chh being chosen by the Council of the Chbs present for it, made a decent speech to the said ien brethren and to the whole Assembly, whether any person had any thing to object against their establishing me the Pastor of this Church. No person then objecting, he propounded me to said Church as their Pastor. To which they all voting with uplifted hands, then I declared my acceptance.
Then the sd Mr. Cushing read publicly the Testimonial of my former Ordi- nation at Braintree, signed by the Reva Doctor Increase Mather and his son Doctor Cotton Mather of the old North Church in Boston, by Revd Mr. James Keith, the Hoary Pastor of the Church in Bridgewater, who laid their hands on my Head in that Ordination, Signed also by the Revd Nehemiah Walker, Pastor of the Church of Roxbury. Then the Reva Mr. Joseph Adams, by a pertinent speech, gave unto me as pastor and to our said Church the Right Hand of Fellowship. Then we sang Ps 132, 13-18. Then I pronounced the blessing.
The Rev. Hugh Adams, son of John and Avis of Boston, and probably of Scotch origin, was born 7 May 1676 and was graduated at Harvard College in 1697. He preached in South Carolina a few years and was ordained at Braintree, Mass., 10 Septem- ber 1707. He was dismissed from there 22 August 1710 and preached at Chatham, Mass., 1711-1715. He preached for a short time in 1716 at Georgetown, Me., and in the latter part of that year came to Oyster River. He was something of a physician as well as minister and once practised the healing art on the famous Jesuit priest, Sebastian Ralle, at Georgetown. He says the cure was effected in three days and without charge.
During his pastorate of twenty-one years in Durham the church records, which cover only the first ten years, show that he added more than one hundred members to the church and baptized 694 persons. Surely this is a remarkable record and goes far to offset the discords and oppositions which troubled him during the last part of his ministry. He and Col. James Davis did not agree and both were probably too independent to be swayed by anybody else. The abusive language used by controversialists of those times is not a fair index of character but the fault of the age. Mr. Adams was strict in discipline and very plain and unsparing in his written statements, yet he had a kind and sympathetic heart. His interpretations of Scripture were sometimes fanciful, judged by modern standards, yet the habit of the century was to make an odd passage mean anything
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that the preacher wanted to say, to which the allegorical method lent aid. He thought that he had prevailing power in prayer as well as Elijah, the logical consequence of a literal interpretation, and once he, too, shut up the heavens in drought for three months. In the afflictions of his opponents he saw the hand of God, just as the Hebrew prophets saw it in national calamities. Indeed, his church records and petitions to the General Assembly show that he was saturated with the language and spirit of the Old Testament more than of the New. He was eccentric and opin- ionated, spoke his mind freely and so roused opposition, yet the great majority of the parish evidently stood by him. He records the observance of a day of fasting and prayer "kept by our church at the house of Dea. John Williams on account of some preternatural troubles about their house," when he preached from II Cor. xii: 7 and I John iii : 8. Evidently he considered the devil to be the author of said troubles. This service was a sort of exorcism.
He had difficulty about collecting his salary, leading to con- siderable litigation, and no settlement was reached till after his death. Twice he sued the town and brought suit in court against his successor, Mr. Gilman, for appropriation of lands granted to the minister. He was dismissed by Council 23 January 1739, yet he continued to preach at the church at Durham Point. The town voted, 28 March 1743, "that Mr. Hugh Adams shall have twenty pounds of the new issue bills of credit yearly during his abode in the town of Durham, Provided he set down satiesfied and Preach no more in said town for the futer, but if he preach any more in sd town then this vote to be thereby voide and of none effect." This is believed to be the only historical instance where a town has tried to hire a minister to stop preaching.
A petition was presented by Francis Mathes, 15 February 1739/ 40, or less than a month after Mr. Adams' dismissal, signed by fifty-seven persons, about all of the male inhabitants of the Point and of Lubberland, asking for a separate parish. Their request was denied, yet the petition shows that Mr. Adams could not have been an unworthy nor an unpopular man to have been quite unanimously desired as their minister by a section embrac- ing half of the town, and doubtless he had many friends in the other half. It shows also who the residents of the Point and of Lubberland were in 1740:
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Petition of Frances Mathes and others for a new parish in Durham. To His Excellency Jonathan Belcher Esq' Governor and Commander In Chief in & over His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire in New England, the Honble His Majesty's Council and House of Representatives for said Province in General Court Convened Jany 3Ist 1739. The Petition of Sundry of the Inhabitants of the Town of Durham in Said Province Humbly Shews,
That the Inhabitants of the Said Town are divided into two parties Respect- ing their Ecclesiastical affairs, the One such as adhere to the Reverend MF Hugh Adams the late Minister of Said Town & who continues so to the said party, the other (who are much the greater) are such as have oppos'd his Standing in that Relation to them, & still Continue to do so. That notwithstanding it was the opinion & Result of the late Ecclesiastical Council held there that it would not be Expedient for him to be any longer the Minister of the said Town yet considering his former Services his advanced years and the unhappy Circumstances of himself & family they Earnestly Recommended and press'd it upon the said Inhabitants that they should Liberally make provision for his Support during the Stay of himself & Family among them,-which is what would be highly agreeable to your Petitioners,
That altho Several propositions have been made touching that matter yet nothing has been agreed on nor any care taken to secure the performance thereof in the manner Recommended as aforesaid,
That your Petitioners apprehend it would be a great Indecency if he who was once & so long the Minister of the said Town should have no other Provision made for his Support than what the Law provides for one of the poor of the Town and that he should be Reduced to a Necessity of Depending upon such a Subsistence,
That your Petitioners are desirous still to sit under his Ministry and are will- ing to support him & his family Suitable to his character & Station among them, and conceive that his being comfortably supported would have a good Tendency & be the Means of making peace in the Town (respecting Ecclesias- tical matters) and would keep all parties quiet & easy. But your Petitioners however willing are not of ability to afford such Support while they are Subject to & pay toward the Maintenance of another Minister in the Town.
Wherefore they most Humbly pray that they with Such others of the said Town as will associate with them (not Exceeding the one half) may be Exemp- ted from paying toward the Support of any other Minister & may be discharged from all charges of that nature laid upon them by Law by their Opponents from the time of the aforesaid Result and may be Incorporated as a Parish during the Life of the said Mr. Adams in order to maintain him & his Family & to Enjoy the Benefit of his Ministry.
Or that the Town in General may be Obliged to afford him a Comfortable Subsistence during his abode there Or that Such other Method may be pursued as this Honbte Court in their Great Wisdom & goodness shall think proper for
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the peace of the Town & the Ease of that aged Gentleman-and your peti- tioners as in duty bound shall ever pray &c.
Francis Mathes
Towerthey Durgin
Thomas Footman
Joshua Durgain
Thomas Drew
Hezekiah Marsh
Joseph Wheeler
Joseph Duda
William Lord
Joseph Duda Jun.
John Edgerly
Benmor Duda
Stephen Wille
John Cromet
Joseph Stevenson
Phillip Cromet
John Footman
David Davis
Joseph Footman
Jacob Tash
Benjamin Pender
Isaac Mason
John Durgen
Nathaniel Watson
Benjamin Durgen
Nathaniel Frost
Benjamin Pinder Jun.
John Smart
Francis Durgen
John Mason
Joseph Drew
Benjamin Burdet
John Kent
Pumfret Whitehouse
John Kent Junr
SamIl Adams
John Drewe
Sam' Willey
Benjamin Benet
Joseph Bickford
James Durgain Jun
Abraham Benneck
William Durgain
Benjamin Benneck
Willm Durgain Jun
William Wormwood
Joseph Durgain
Joseph Edgerly
Thomas Bickford
William Accason
Abraham Stevenson.
Joseph Edgly
John Bickford
[N. H. Province Papers, V, 23.]
It is easy to suspect that the real motive of this petition was not so much a loving regard for the Rev. Hugh Adams as it was the desire to have regular preaching at the Point, to be independent of the Falls, and to have their own sweet way in matters ecclesi- astical.
Mr. Adams was not one of those "safe" men who walk in "the middle path between right and wrong." He followed his con- victions and was sometimes mistaken. The Ecclesiastical Council that dismissed him censured him for "his great pre- sumption in pretending to imprecate the divine vengeance and that the calamities that had befallen sundry persons were the effect of his prayers." They concluded that "it would not be for the honor of Christ or the interest of religion nor any way
Moses Edgerly
Vallitin Hill
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answer to the great ends of his ministry in this place for him to continue any longer in it." He was now sixty-three years of age, and doubtless oppositions had made him nervous and a little more unbalanced than usual. Perhaps he needed sympathy and cooperation; instead, after twenty-three years of faithful service, he was censured for his eccentricities and dismissed to poverty in his old age. This must have greatly rejoiced the heart of Col. James Davis and other opponents.
It has been several times published that the Rev. Hugh Adams died in 1750, but the following town record places his death two years earlier. He was living 22 July 1748:
At a town meeting held the 12 day of December 1748 at the meeting house at Durham Falls . Voted that a Committee shall be chosen to agree with Mdam Adams & to fully settle all affairs & Demands with sd Mdam Adams widow concerning her Demands on the Town for Mr Adamses sallary. Then voted Leut Robt Burnum, Mr Daniel Rogers & John Woodman be accomtee for that service to agree & settle the affair .- Teste John Woodman Cler. P temp.
July 9 1750. Voted that the funeral Charges of the Revd Mr. Hugh Adams shall not be paid. Leut Stephen Jones, John Woodman & Daniel Rogers chosen accomte to agree with Susannah Adams or her son Samuel Adams concerning the arrearages of Revernd Hugh Adams Deceased. [Town Records, Vol. 1, pp. 25, 31.]
The committee reported 28 May 1751, that the town should pay £262, old tenor, to Susannah Adams, administratrix. Whether the town ever paid this amount does not appear.
Since the above was put in type additional information has been obtained concerning the Rev. Hugh Adams. In 1725 he wrote, "A Narrative of a Particular Faith and Answers to Prayer," and offered it to the authorities of New Hampshire for publication. In it he reviews the main events of his life, in which he sees the gracious providence of God and claims that God has done wonderful things for him in answer to prayer. We learn that he had an extensive practice as a physician in South Carolina, Massachusetts and Oyster River during twenty- three years, and that by this profession, as much as from his salary as a minister, he was enabled to support his family. He speaks of "my former Travels into several Countreys of Europe and Africa, as well as of the Continent and Islands of America, my instruction from Sundry able Physicians & Chirurgions, my
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hard studies in the best Books, and my so long Practice and Experience" as the sources of his medical skill, declaring that he was then toward the end of his forty-ninth year of age. Inci- dentally he says that he arrived in South Carolina in July or August 1698 and was sick several months in getting himself seasoned to the country and climate. The following spring, 1699, he was "called to settle at a large parish on both sides of Wandoe River, where I preached two years having a Meeting House on each side thereof builded on purpose for me. One about 13 miles from Charles Town N. N. E. The other about 7 miles distant about half a mile above the head of that river." The people paid him about half his salary, which occasioned his getting in debt sixty pounds "for the maintenance of four of my young brethren and sisters being orphans and left to my Brotherly care." This led to "my first Remove soon after my Marriage in the year of our Lord 1701." He then preached for a while in Ashley River parish, and thence he removed to South Edisto River parish, fifty miles from Charleston. "My second son was born there." He returned to New England in 1706, leaving wife and boy ten months old. He preached his first sermon in Braintree 27 October 1706.
This quasi autobiography relates many interesting things about the people of Oyster River. At the time of the Indian War, 1724, he procured two horns made of the horns of cattle and employed his "two younger sons in sounding of them when my eldest son was gone forth a volunteer into our wilderness against our said Indian enemies, wherein he so prospered." This was done because of some fanciful interpretation of an odd passage in the Old Testament. He says that in consequence "not one of my family hath been killed, wounded, or captivated."
He tells of many remarkable cures that had been effected in his different parishes by his medical skill and in answer to prayer, naming the following at Oyster River, Abednego Leathers, Mary wife of Joseph Davis, Mary wife of Benjamin Glitten at the house of Richard Hilton seven miles away in Exeter, whither he had been summoned at midnight, and where a son was born and immediately baptized Benjamin, William Randall, John Buss, Jr., Joseph Mason, wife of John Pearl of Dover, Mary wife of Lieut. Jonathan Chesley, Moses Furber of Newington "at the
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house of my near neighbor Captain Hill," 30 June 1724, Lieut. Ichabod Chesley, widow Elizabeth Smith, James Bunker cured of rheumatism and pestilential fever whereof his father died a little before. "His foolish Quaker aunt had given him stone horse dung in wine." This was in the summer of 1724. Others cured were "my neighbor Jonathan Thompson's son, October 6, 7, 8, 1724," Hannah wife of Philip Chesley "Lieutenant of the Troop of horse," February 1723, William Dam's wife, Theodore Atkinson, Esq., of Newcastle, Edward Evans of Dover, and John Dennet of Kittery, showing that he had a wide medical practice. He does not give the names of those who died under his treatment.
He declares that from childhood he was afflicted with many diseases and suffered from almost all the ills that flesh is heir to, including melancholia, and that his "particular faith" in con- nection with acquired medical skill had saved him out of all his distresses. It is easy to see that his mind was unbalanced at times in consequence of physical infirmities, and thus his impa- tience and eccentricities are accounted for .*
The parish soon found a successor and, 14 September 1739, voted that Nicholas Gilman be the settled minister. He was born in Exeter, 18 January 1707/8, son of Judge Nicholas Gil- man. He was graduated at Harvard in 1724 and was installed at Durham 3 March 1742. Lieut. Jonathan Thompson, Joseph Wheeler and Benjamin Smith were the committee that secured him. Mr. Gilman's health was poor and for three years he was assisted by the Rev. Joseph Prince of Barrington, who was blind from his fourteenth year of age. He preached again at Durham after the dismissal of the Rev. John Adams, in 1778. He died in 1791 at advanced age and was buried in the same church at Newburyport in which are the remains of the Rev. George Whitefield.
Mr. Gilman was a man of piety and much beloved, yet he was deluded by a fanatic named Woodbury, who used to arouse him by night and lead him into the woods and swamps to pray till morning. Jacob's wrestling with the Angel has prompted
* Manuscript in library of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
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many to do likewise. Some extravagancies and disorders arose in the church at Durham, which are best set forth in the diary of the Rev. Samuel Chandler :
"Aug 20, 1746. I set out on a journey to Durham to a fast at y· desire of the church there, they being under difficulty. I called Mr. Wise [of Ber wick] by the way We got to Durham about 10 o'clock, cloudy rainy weather & the people not much expecting any minister would come had got into the meeting house and were praying. Mr. Prince, a blind young man supplies them during their Pastor's silence & neglect to discharge his pastoral office. When we went into the pulpit Mr. Gilman went out & went into the pew. I began with prayer. I was under some restraint. Mr. Wise preached from John 15. 5, & concluded with prayer. In the exercise were a number, 4 or 5, that were extraordinarily agitated. They made all manner of mouths, turn- ing out their lips, drawing their mouths awry, as if convulsed, straining their eye balls, & twisting their bodies in all manner of unseemly postures. Some were falling down, others were jumping up, catching hold of one another, ex- tending their arms, clapping their hands, groaning, talking. Some were ap- proving what was spoken, & saying aye, so it is, that is true, 'tis just so, &c. Some were exclaiming & crying out aloud, glory, glory. Itdrowned Mr. Wise's voice. He spoke to them, entreated them, condemned the practice, but all to no purpose. Just after the blessing was pronounced, Mr. Gilman stood up to oppose some things that had been said. He read I John I. 8 & 9th verse, & began some exposition on the 9th verse what God hath cleansed let no man call unclean & went on to prove perfection as attainable in this life. Then Mr. Wise rose up and there was some argumentation between them. Mr. Gilman took some particular text & turned it contrary to the general current of scripture. Then we went into the house & were entertained. Mr. Gilman came in & after him a number of those high flyers, raving like mad men, re- proaching, reflecting. One Hannah Huckins in a boasting air said she had gone through adoption, justification & sanctification & perfection & perse- verance. She said she had attained perfection & yet had a bad memory: I reasoned the point with her, but presently she broke out into exclamations 4 Blessed be the Lord, who hath redeemed me, Glory, glory, glory, &c. fell to dancing round the room, singing some dancing tunes, jiggs, minuets, & kept the time exactly with her feet. Presently two or three more fell in with her & the room was filled with applauders, people of the same stamp, crying out in effect Great is Diana of the Ephesians. One of these danced up to Mr. Gil- man & said, Dear man of God, do you approve of these things? Yes, said he, I do approve of them. Then they began to increase & the house was full of confusion, some singing bawdy songs, others dancing to them & all under a pretence of religion. It is all to praise God in the dance & the tabret. One woman said it was revealed to her that the minister that was to come to the Fast was one that did not know Joseph, & that Joseph was Mr. Gilman. These mad people prophesied that there would be great trials at the falls, that is at the meeting house that day. Mr. Gilman justified their proceedings.
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