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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 6: ecclesiastical history. (search)
at may defeat all other attempts to come at a desirable settlement. (Signed) increase Mather. Samuel Willard. The advice of these gentlemen, so full of wisdom and love, did not suit Mr. Woodbridge. Difficulties thickened, and the church seemed to have fallen into a place where two seas met. June 19, 1704, the town voted that what they had done about Mr. Woodbridge's settlement be null and void. This does not seem to have altered materially the relations of the parties; for, Dec. 19, 1704, the town directed the Selectmen to make a rate of forty pounds, and thirteen cords of wood, for Mr. Woodbridge's salary. What constituted a legal call of a minister, seems not to have been definitely understood. Some strenuously maintained that it was not in the power of a town to dismiss their minister. March 5, 1705, the town voted that they would not proceed to settle Mr. Woodbridge as their minister. After this, the reverend gentleman resorted to a new mode of operation, aided