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ter" and "that the Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker shall be the 

 minister of the town." 



At the same meeting they also 



u Voted, that Mr. Timothy Walker shall have one hundred 

 pounds for the year ensuing, and then rise forty shillings per 

 annum, till it comes to one hundred and twenty pounds and 

 that to be the stated sum annually for his salary," and 



" That if Mr. Walker, by extreme old age, shall be disena- 

 bled from carrying on the whole work of the ministry, that he 

 shall abate so much of his salary as shall be rational." 



In accordance with this action, preparations were at once 

 begun for the organization of a church, and the ordination and 

 settlement of the minister on the 18th day of November follow- 

 ing. 



The officiating ministers present on that occasion were the 

 Rev. John Barnard and the Rev. Samuel Phillips, the respec- 

 tive pastors of the North and South churches in Andover, and 

 the Rev. John Brown, minister of the church in Haverhill. 

 These gentlemen had patiently threaded their way through 

 forty miles of wilderness to assist at this service. 



The first preached the sermon usual on such occasions, 

 which was subsequently published, covering thirty closely 

 printed small octavo pages. The preacher evidently regarded 

 this as a church in the wilderness, as in truth it was ; its near- 

 est neighbor being the Presbyterian church at Londonderry, 

 twenty-five miles away. He said to the little company as- 

 sembled in their log meeting-house, "■ There is this peculiar 

 circumstance in your settlement that it is in a place, where Satan 

 some years ago had his Seat, and the Ztevel was wont to be invo- 

 cated by forsaken salvages'. A Place, which was the Rende- 

 vous and Head Quarters of our Indian Ene?7iies" 



Following the sermon came a solemn charge to the minister 

 by Mr. Phillips and a cordial right hand of fellowship by Mr. 

 Brown. 



The church organized at this time consisted of nine mem- 

 bers, including the pastor, four of whom had been dismissed a 

 few days before from the First church in Andover ; one, elected 

 its first deacon, came from the church in Haverhill, and an- 

 other was from Bradford. In fact, many of the members of 



