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mony without their prescription 
aforesaid shall not have any acount 
theirof but it shall be acounted as 
strangers money & it is voted by ye 
sd towne yt sergent John Sibly & 
Robart Leach doe take & give an 
acount of all or person & persons 
contribution for ye said purpose.” 
This is probably one of the 
earliest examples we have of our 
present envelope system. 
“Att a town meeting legally 
warned & mett together on ye 7th 
of July 1693 to consider of some 
efectuall way for ye incorigment & 
setling a minister in our town name- 
ly Mr. John Evelyth hom we have 
already had experience of his 
preaching ye gospel to us & know- 
ing it is our Duty to Doe our ut- 
most indeavour for ye obtaining & 
maintaigng ye ministry of ye gos- 
ple Amongst us considering also ye 
ile consequences/ may follow if we 
should neglect our Duty herein & 
soe be Destitute of such means 
whom god hath ordained for ye 
everlasting salvation of immortall 
souls for which we have remarkable 
instances in ye Scriptures which is 
written for mans instruction as in 
ye 2d book of cronicles ye 15ch: 3 & 
5 ver; now for a long seson Israell 
had been without A teaching profit 
& what folowes in ye 5th ver: its 
said.” theif isvase, noe . peaces= to 
him yt went out nere to him yt 
came in but great vexation wear 
upon all ye inhabitants of yt people 
& in prob: ye 29th chap. 18 ver: 
which their is noe vision ye people 
perish & against ye prists lips 
should preserve knowlige & thou 
shalt enquire at his mouth & con- 
trarywise when Duty is atended in 
this great & momentary work as we 
may in ye 2d of chronicls 31ch: 10: 
ver: when ye people brought in 
freely great store of provitions for 
ye prests of ye Lord yt ye Lord 
blessed ye people greatly & in ye 
epistle of corinths 13ch: 14 ver: Doe 
you not know yt they which minis- 
ter about holy things live of ye 
things of ye temple & they yt wait 
at (vye. »>Adter gras partakers 
with ye Alter soe hath 
ye Lord ordained yt _ they 
which preach ye gosple should live 
of ye gosple. Under this & ye like 
considerations it is voted & fully 
Agreed by ye town upon ye Day 
Above written firstly to pay to Mr. 
John evely ye sum of 35 pounds per 
annum in mony for his yearly salary 
ye sd salary of 35 pounds to be paid 
on every quarter or quarterley by 
equall proportion ye Ist year begin- 
ing upon ye tst Day of August next 
ensuing ye Date heirof so long as 
he doth continue with us & cary on 
ye publick work of preaching ye 
gosple according to ye rules sett 
down in ye wholy Scripters of ye 
word of god Secondly it is voted & 
agreed by sd town yt sd Evelith 
shall have poses & improve to his 
own proper use & behov & Advan- 
tage the personag house with all ye 
Land & meadow belonging or AI- 
ready Deputed by ye town for ye 
use of ye ministry together with a 
parsell of Land formerly caled by 
the name of Milits Lott it being 
about 6 Ackers the sd Evelith is to 
have ye aforsd premises During his 
abode with us as abov sd & further 
it is voted-& agreed by sd town to 
sett up a fence about ye Abovsd 6 
Ackers for sd Evelith use & also to 
fitt ye sd house as soon as it may 
conveniently be don. In Testimony 
of my Acceptance of ye Conditions 
above written promising utmost 
fidelity in caring on ye work of the 
Ministri of the Gospel as abovsd 
God enabling me I do subscribe 
john, tveleth> 
I quoted the above for the reason 
that it shows how faithful our 
ancestors were in their duty to the 
church. It also shows a much bet- 
ter acquaintance with scripture than 
many business men of today can 
claim. 
Mr. Eveleth remained in Man- 
chester till 1695 when he accepted 
a call to’ Enfheld, Mass. , It -was 
during his pastorate that the second 
meeting-house was built. In the 
town records of 1691-—that of Jan. 
18—is as follows: 
“Whereas our old meeting house 
being the most part Considerable 
part of it Rottun and the sd house 
allso being too small to Acomodate 
our people When Conveined to 
gether for the Worship and servic 
of god It is therefore voted and 
fully agreed to have a new meeting 
hous built of these Dimentions fol- 
lowing the Length to be therty foot 
the breadth their of to be tweenty 
five foot the height between the sell 
and the plate to be sixteen foot the 
form of the Ruff of the sd house to 
be in the same form of beverly or 
Wenham hous with a belvery 
on the top of sd house suteable for 
a good Bell of about a hundred 
Waight or more and three galeries 
to be built that is to say one on won 
side of the whole Length of sd house 
and the other tow at each end the 
whole breadth of sd house and see 
that the sd house be every ways 
Completely finished with seats and 
all other decent and suteable Apar- 
tainances theirto Convieniant for 
the whole house both within and 
without.” 
The church had a number of 
candidates after the departure of 
Mr. Eveleth, the Rev. Edward 
Thompson of Newbury being one, 
for the town voted 6 pounds for his 
moving expenses. For some reason 
he did not accept the call although 
he came to the town, and they call- 
ed the Rev. John Emerson, paying 
him a salary of 45 pounds, raising 
it in 1697 to 48 pounds. -He resign- 
ed in 1698. At a town meeting held 
Oct. 19, 1696, it was voted “that the 
bell now procured by Mr. John 
Emerson shall be hanged in the 
meeting-house as soon as it can be 
with convenyance.” On Oct. 28, 
1696, it was voted in town meeting 
“to give Ephram Jones one pound 
and four shillings per year to ring 
the bell and sweep the meeting- 
house and to perform the office of 
sexton according to the order of the 
selectmen.”’ 
In 1698 Rev. Nicholas Webster 
assumed the duties of minister to 
the Manchester Church, his salary 
being 58 pounds. In 1700 he was 
asked to become permanent pastor 
at a salary of 72 pounds. Although 
declining this offer he remained pas- 
tor till 1715. While he was pastor 
the second parsonage was erected. 
At a town meeting Apr. 23, 1699, a 
committee was appointed “‘to build 
a new parsonage 42 ft. long, 18 ft. 
wide and 14 ft. stud to be located 
near the meeting-house at the dis- 
cretion of the committee.” They 
voted 50 pounds towards the ex- 
pense. The house was located near 
the spot on which the Capt. John 
Carter house now*stands. In 1716 
it was given with I acre and a half 
of land to the Rev. Ames Cheever, 
who in that year accepted a call to 
the Manchester church. He was 
ordained Oct. 4, 1716, and the 
church was organized Nov. 7th the 
same year. He was their minister 
for 27 years, resigning in 1743. 
Great responsibility rested upon 
Mr. Cheever, as he had to organize 
the church and watch over it during 
its infancy. He was very faithful 
in the discharge of his duties and 
took a great interest in the welfare 
of the town, teaching school at one 
time. 
[Continued next week.] 
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