130              195                1684   1687

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Septemb 22 84 Letters of dismission sent to M^r Tho: Mighel upon y^e desire

of the church on y^e North River in Sittuate in order to his ioyning with that

Church, & being ordained their officer

Letters of dismission sent to Salem for M^rs Hannah Babbadge June 6 1687

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B^r Robert Swan complained of by the church of Haverhill for raysing Expressions against

Leutenant Brown which he acknowledged his fault in soe as the church took satisfacti

on upon s^d acknowledgm^t though not upon y^e first

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B^r Caleb Barebank carryed it sinfully to his wife (a meeke discreet & godly woman) telling

her that she might goe with great belly to Samuel Palmer, he had as much to doe to look

after it as he, & would not have it Baptized except he brought it himself, he would never own

it, & say^d It should not be baptized till he knew who was the father of it by such expressions

intimating that he look^t upon his wife as a whore & his children Bastards, he acknowledged his

Evill carriages before us both but yet afterward went on in his abusive speeches to his wife

Those things were reported & known in y^e Town to y^e offence of many soe that we could not ad

vise him to come to ye sacram^t but rather to abstain untill god gave him a heart publickly to ac

=knowledg his sinfull carriage to his wife;

The reason why we were not hasty to bring him forth before y^e church was because I did apprehend

that he was somthing craz^d in his understanding w^ch I am y^e more confirmed in by what

his mother lately related to me That being in bed he rose up & went to his mothers bed side &

told her that he had gone to bed without family dutyes w^ch was not soe & y^t his bed was much

wett w^ch alsoe was nothing soe.

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Hannah Strong sometimes the wife of Joseph Trumble, & daughter to M^r Smith now

wife of Good^m: Strong dismissed to the church of X^st at Winsor novemb 1, 1687.

 

Ann Pengrew, Daughter of Jn^o Pickard, now ^ye Wife of

Aaron Pengrew, was Dismissed to y^e church of Christ at

Ipswich – octob^r 20. 1689[138]

Caleb Barebank acknowledged his Evill words & carriage to his wife novemb 10 1689 &

soe stood the sacram^t              ___________

B^r Abel L Patts                    septemb 7 1690

B^r Caleb Bointon was Admonished for scandelous evils for his often being drunk as

was prooved fully against him and alsoe for unclean behaviour towards widdow Acin[139] testifyed

by widdow Colbys daugher upon oath before Authority

Caleb Bointon Excomunicated March 26 1693 for being a common Drunkard & incor

rigable therin through about 2 years & a half under admonition: we hearing of his fre

=quent being drunk were about to cast him out but he intreated the church to to forbear

for a month because his wife was near her time the church had patience toward above

2 months and betime he was 3 times grossly drunk.

 

Francis Jewitt dismissed to the church of Christ at Bradford June 19 1692 | July 30:93

 goodwife Andrewes B^r Dickenson daughter dismissed to the church of X^st at Topsfield

 

Caleb[140] Bointon on his death=Bed seem’d somew^t penetent sent

a Paper to y^e chh y^e most of which had bin written long before so long

 as

that it was evident he had bin guilty of many such like pranks for

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which he was Excomunicated after he wrote y^t paper. y^e chh did not

see cause to release him from his Censur; but Improved 3 brethren to him

viz Deacon Jewit, M^r Neh. Jewet; Lieut. Dresser, to see if y^y could get any

further satisfaction from him; they went, but gott little; his sickness

Increased, & death prevented any farther dealings with him.