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Excerpt from Historical Sketch and Roll of Membership of the First Congregational Church, Webster, New Hampshire From the building of the meeting house in 1791 to 1804 there is no record of organized effort to sustain preaching. Ihe pulpit was pretty constantly supplied by different preachers, but the expense was defrayed mostly by pri vate subscriptions. The time was past when the town would settle a min ister: many were desirous of adopting some systematic method of providing for the preaching of the gospel. The result was the organization of the Westerly Religious Society in Boscawen. Its spirit and purpose is well stated in the preamble of its constitution. Hwe the subscribers, inhabitants of Boscawen, in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, being deeply impressed with the importance of securing to ourselves and posterity religious order and the privileges of the gospel of which we are at present deprived, and sensible that so desirable a blessing cannot be enjoyed in the division of the town where we live, aside from our eu tering into a social compact. We therefore do agree, and by these presents do voluntarily combine ourselves into a Religious Society for religious purposes, having ultimately in view the settlement of the gospel ministry among us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.