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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...seldom found among them. Thomas Valentine seems not to have belonged to the then "standing order," or Congregationalists, as did most of his neighbors and.townsmen, but must have adhered to the faith of his fathers; as we find that in 1752 he was allowed 5;. &/. from his town tax, on account of being an attendant upon the Episcopal Church. How strict a churchman he was does not appear; but his children certainly attended the Congregational Church, and some of them became members of that body. The first mention made of any Valentine in the Hopkinton Town Records is as follows: --"Mar. 4, 1750.--Voted to Thomas Valentihe for three days' work at the great bridge 6 +r. yl" It should here be mentioned that Mr. V. was an Innkeeper (as also were his sons, Samuel and William afterward, and his grandson, Samuel) as well as farmer, so that this charge, so very large for those days, was probably for a gang of men and their entertainment also. The next mention of Mr. V. in.the Records is in 1761, when he was made one of a committee of seven to supply the town with a school. Then, in 1765, he was one of a committee to prepare "Instructions to John Jones, Esq., at this critical conjuncture in relation to British Aggressions"--the said 'Squire Jones being Hopkinton's Representative in the great "General Court," or Provincial Legislature of Massachusetts. Thomas Valeritine died April 17, 1783, in the seventieth year of his age. As already. stated, his wife had preceded him, having died April 25,1752. Their issue and other items being given elsewhere, it is unnecessary to repeat them.. "THE OLD LYNDE BIBLE," so often alluded to in these pages, may as well be dc-' scribed here.. As stated elsewhere...