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Contains 1 Result:
John Cary, "Freetown selectmen court order", 1707/1708 January 13
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSN/COL 2717-12
Scope and Contents
This document, and the one preceding (MSN/COL 2717-11), pertain to a ministerial vacancy in Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts c1705-1708. Dated 13 January 1707/8, it notes that Freetown selectman Nicholas Morey had pleaded before the Court of General Sessions that the town had voted to hire a Church of England minister, but had yet to receive the Bishop of London's answer to their application. The document, a court order, stipulates that the town select "an Able Learned Orthodox...
Dates:
1707/1708 January 13