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Excerpt from Manual of the First Congregational Church in Middletown, Orange Co., N. Y., 1876 William Wells, Esq., Peter Hallock, John Tut hill, Richard Terry, Thomas Mapes, Matthias Corwin, Robert Aekerly, Jacob Corey, J ohn Conkling,1saae Arnold, and John Budd; and on the lst of october, .164-o, assisted by the venerable John Davenport and Governor Eaton, they or ganized themselves into a Congregational Church and sailed to the east end of Long Island, now Southold. They had all been members of Puritan churches in England, and all had families with them, except Peter Hallbck. Ou coming ashore they all knelt down and engaged in prayer, Peter Halleek leading, as had been determined by lot. 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.