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by S^d Church fully Impowered to give a full acquittance

or discharge unto y^e Executor or Executors of S^d Hales

last Will & Testament in the Behalf of S.^d Church

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At y^e abovesaid Meeting y^e aforenamed Trustees were

                          pounds

directed to Let out S^d Fifty for or at law-ful Interest

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for the Space of one Year, taking bond or bonds to them-

selves as Trustees & to any others y^t Shall be Chosen to S^d

office, & at the End of S^d year To pay the principal &

Interest or Such part thereof as y^e S^d Church shall order

unto Such person or persons as the Church Shall from Time

to Time appoint to receive the Same ~ ~ ––––––––––––––––

     Joseph Bayley & his Wife dismissd to a Church

     in Newbury     and Elisabeth Kimbal to a

                        Church in Bradford ---

 Daniel Clark being desirous to own the Covenant

 his desires were propounded to the Church, Some of

the Church were unsatisfied about his having a Child So Soon

after marriage , whereupon a Church meeting was had at

my house Decem. 28. 1733.  and S^d Clark coming

into S^d Meeting, I told him y^t he was suspected of being

guilty of the Sin of Fornication being Married July 29. 1731.

and having a Child born January the 15^th following and if

He had any thing to Say in proof of his Innocency in y^t matter

He had liberty to offer it, Whereupon he produced the Testimony

of D^r Joseph Todd & Jemima Todd his Mother, The Substance

whereof was this, That it is our opinion y^t Daniel Clarks

first Child was born before its Time, or y^t his wife did not go

to her full Time with that Child, and the Child was a Sickly

Child & After Some days died, ( But they Said not how long

they thought it Came before its Time ~ The Church having