The history of Charlestown, Massachusetts . tobe done. Another vote indicates the nature of this business : —Voted that the townsmen with the committee abovesaid, should haveliberty to seat all the inhabitants in pews in the meeting house. This committee matured their plan; and, April 9, the selectmen appointed James Cary, recorder, and Richard Lowden, constable, to givenotice to each person and to shew them as near as may be verbally where they are appointed to sit, and to inform them how much they are seized to pay. A few months later, January 27, 1669, the selectmen ordered : — That Richard
The history of Charlestown, Massachusetts . tobe done. Another vote indicates the nature of this business : —Voted that the townsmen with the committee abovesaid, should haveliberty to seat all the inhabitants in pews in the meeting house. This committee matured their plan; and, April 9, the selectmen appointed James Cary, recorder, and Richard Lowden, constable, to givenotice to each person and to shew them as near as may be verbally where they are appointed to sit, and to inform them how much they are seized to pay. A few months later, January 27, 1669, the selectmen ordered : — That Richard Lowden is and shall be impowered to ask and receiveof all the inhabitants of this town all such sums as they are rated or pro-portioned to pay unto the maintenance of the ordinances amongst us:He being deputed by us to collect it, and to pay it to the deacons of thechurch. For his care and pains to have ten pounds paid by us for thisyear ensuing. 1 Winthrop, vol. ii. p. 93. 3 Savage in Winthrop, vol. ii. p. 93. 2 Hubbard, p. 412 ,^^N. 3 %^ 2? :3 & ! HISTORY OF CHARLESTOWN. 161 CHAPTER XIX. Ecclesiastical History, 1650 to 1670.—Thomas Shephard,— his viewson Toleration. — Baptism. — The Synod of 1662. — Increase ofBaptists. — Thomas Gould, — his neglect of Baptism ; views of theChurch. — Gould before the County Court, — before the Church.—Private Meetings. — A Church Meeting. — Baptist Church form-ed.— An Excommunication. — The Baptists and the GeneralCourt; their Sentence. — An Oral Theological Discussion. — TheBaptists imprisoned,—their Letter from Prison, — petitions in theirfavor, — release, — removal to Boston. — The Quakers. — BenanuelBowers.—Death of Zechariah Symmes. Rev. Thomas Allen returned to England in 1651, and Mr. Symmes, for eight years, was the sole pastor of the church, — aperiod mostly of harmony and prosperity. In 1659, April 13, Shephard, a son of the beloved and celebrated minister,of the same n
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