History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . nstrumentalmusic was tolerated in their worship, and at first insome churches singing was hardly allowable. Suchappears to have been some of the religious views andobservances of the Baptists connected with the War-ren Association. The more noticeable differencehowever, between these and other Baptists, was thelaying on of hands, but this was not considered essen-tial or obligatory. Meetings at first were held atElder Ballous, but sometimes at Deacon SimeonThayers, and at Elder Artemas Adrichs
History of the town of Richmond, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, from its first settlement, to 1882 . nstrumentalmusic was tolerated in their worship, and at first insome churches singing was hardly allowable. Suchappears to have been some of the religious views andobservances of the Baptists connected with the War-ren Association. The more noticeable differencehowever, between these and other Baptists, was thelaying on of hands, but this was not considered essen-tial or obligatory. Meetings at first were held atElder Ballous, but sometimes at Deacon SimeonThayers, and at Elder Artemas Adrichs, until thebuilding of the meeting-house, 1780.* The churchbecame divided in 1776 by reason of a controversy See page 185 for additional details and description of building. 224 HISTORY OF THE about ministerial taxes and the glebe lands, so called,one share of which, by the charter of the township,belonged to the first settled minister, and as ElderMaturin was the first, the case appears quite clearthat he should have had without question the oneshare expressly so named in the grant; but such was. GROUND PLAN OF FIRST BAPTIST MEETING-HOUSE. the opposition of those belonging to other denomina-tions, in which some of his own church may havejoined, that for the sake of peace and harmon}^ thegood old Elder was induced substantially to quitclaimto the town, by naming in the deed as grantees 126tax payers of the town, a part of the land that hadbeen assigned to him under the charter; this lot wasin the twelfth range, borderincj on Winchester. TOWN OF RICHMOND. 225 The grievance complained of by people in othertowns who were compelled to pay ministers rates for preaching, whether they believed it or not, did notapply to Richmond. The Baptists, as did the Friends,relied wholly on voluntary contributions for their sup-port. But members of this old church living in othertowns were oppressed in this regard, as the followingextract from a letter from this church to the WarrenAssociation in
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