Jedidiah Jewitts Will 250 Justice Thomas Hales Legacy

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 The Parish in y^e Precinct of Rowley having pass’d a

vote on Dec. 5. 1728. To Invite M^r Jedidiah Jewet, to

come and preach unto them: after some Time, The Church

In s^d Precinct, Did convene at y^e meeting house in S^d Precinct,

And after prayer to God for his presence, Leave, & Assistance

 passed the following Vote viz^t Jan^ry 21, 1728/9

       The Vote proposed to s^d Church viz^t

Whether you do now actually chuse & call

M^r Jedidiah Jewet to the Ministerial Office of

a Pastor over you, with Convenient speed

to be settled Therein?    This vote passed

   In y^e Affirmative. nemine contradicente.[27]

And the abovesaid Call was accepted by the S^d Jedidiah

Jewet

      Justice[28] Thomas Hale of Rowley Esq^r

  his Legacy left to the Church in Rowley

   in his Last Will. Vera Copia.[29]

     I see cause to Leave fifty pounds in the

     hands of the Church of Christ here in Rowley

     which they shall have after my wives

     Decease, to Lett out; and my Will is, the

     That the Principal should allwayes

     Remaine Good, and that the Interest

     should be disposed of by them for the

     Reliefe of the poor Brethren of the

           said Church

M^r Noble installed as I think An^o. Dom. 1762, in Dec.

And M^r. Noyes in Jan. or Febr. 1763            1.day