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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)
our whole conversation, make it your serious endeavor to conduct agreeably to the rules of our holy religion and the profession you now make. Do you thus profess and promise? April 2, 1792 : Voted to give ten pounds for the encouragement of singing for the year ensuing. This is the first vote of the kind found in our records. It was to pay a teacher. No one received money for singing. It was deemed a privilege to aid in this part of public worship; and is it not a privilege? Nov. 24, 1793: The church agreed, that, for the future, after the candidates for full communion had stood propounded a fortnight without any objections against them, the pastor might then admit them without calling for a vote. The salary paid to Mr. Osgood at first was not increased for many years, except by the annual grant of twenty cords of wood. Sept. 19, 1796: Voted not to make him any grant, on account of the high prices of the necessaries of life. May 5, 1804, the town made the first g