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Many awfull suspitions having been rumour’^d ab^t y^e Town

concerning o^r Broth^r Jonathan Jewett (Tanner) repre-

senting him as guilty of dreadfull familiarity with

The Wife of Jn^o Hopkinson: w^rupon he was ordered

to abstaine from y^e Sacram^t, ‘till y^e matter might be

Look^t into & discoveries of Truth made ~ ~ ~

     Septemb.^r 20. 1719    The chh being desired to stay

                         After meeting; This case of s^d

Jewet was laid before y^e chh. & y^e Brethren judging

it needful y^t it should be searched into; they chose

3 brethreen for that End viz^t. Capt. Jn^o Peirson;

Deacon Timothy Harris, & Cap.^t Ezek^ll Northen; who

were desired to Examine y^e matter & make report to y^e chh.

     The Return y^t s^d Brethren made to y^e chh. was

That the Witnesses had lodg^d y^r Testimonies upon File

with Justice Woodbridge at Nubury: w^rupon, y^e church

choose Serg^t. Jn^o Stewart to procure a Copie y^rof

           Which is as followeth viz^t ––––––

                       The Testimony of Jeremiah

     Hobson & John Stickney, both of full Age, who

saith y^t on y^e nineteenth day of April 1719 in y^e night

we were going by the House of John Hopkinson in Rowly

& there hearing a mans voice in s^d house, we went up

to the Window & looked in & there we saw Jonathan

Jewett (Tanner) of s^d Rowley sit talking in s^d House:

And after a short time s^d Jewett & George Dickinsons

Wife, went away into George Dickinsons House. Then

s^d Jewett came out of s^d Dickinsons house, & went to

his own house, & stayed there a short time, & then went

back again into s^d Jn^o Hopkinsons house, & then we

saw clothes hung up before the Window, soon after

s^d Jewet went into s^d house; but notwithstanding

there was a place left open, so y^t we could plainly

see into s^d house ~. And there we saw Jonathan

Jewet & Jn^o Hopkinsons Wife sit by the fire, where

They had some talk very Low. And afterwards said