History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . ding a meeting house. At a meeting held inMarch, 1792, Lieut. Cooley, Col. Whitmore Nathaniel Smith& Capt. Field and Melzar Hunt were chosen a Committee tolay a plan of the Method to build it. Their report was asfollows: That the house be built 54 feet long and thirty eight feet wide,and that the Post be 25 feet long and that there be a tower andsteeple at one end, and a poarch at the other and that there bethirty four windows in the body of the house, and forty sq
History of the town of Sunderland, Mass., which originally embraced within its limits the present fowns of Montague and Leverett . ding a meeting house. At a meeting held inMarch, 1792, Lieut. Cooley, Col. Whitmore Nathaniel Smith& Capt. Field and Melzar Hunt were chosen a Committee tolay a plan of the Method to build it. Their report was asfollows: That the house be built 54 feet long and thirty eight feet wide,and that the Post be 25 feet long and that there be a tower andsteeple at one end, and a poarch at the other and that there bethirty four windows in the body of the house, and forty squares ofseven by nine Glass in a window, and forty one Pews on the lowerfloor:—That the Town raise by Tax one hundred pounds to bepaid in Timber and labor, for and about the frame, and that the townbe classed in several classes for procuring the Timber and that thetown appropriate the money due for common Land for use as afore-said, and that they choose a Committee to receive the pay & pur-chase Articles necessary to build the house, and that the town sellthe Common Land which yet remains and take the pay in boards. ^UA-i^^W^Si^lMff HISTORY OF SUNDERLAND. 55 and shingles and other articles necessary for the work; and that thePews be sold by estimation or vendue to complete the and chose Capt. Field, Lieu* Cooley, Nath Smith, SelahGraves, and Cotton Graves, a Committee to Receive the debts duethe town and lay it out in Nails and Glass and other materials forsaid house. May, 1792 Voted that we will set up the frame of a MeetingHouse with a tower and porch to the same, betwixt this and thefirst day of June 1793. Voted that we will cover and underpin said house during theyear of the Summer of 1793 Voted and chose Lieu* Cooley, , Selah Graves, Col Whitmore, and Giles Hubbard, a Com-mittee to set up said house cover & underpin and glass it agreeableto the above votes. Voted that the above Committee collect what is due the townor what may be due hereafter, for T
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