Records of the First Church at Dorchester, in New England, 1636-1734 (1891)

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Records of the First Church at Dorchester, in New England, 1636-1734 (1891)
type
parish-register
date
published 1891
url
https://archive.org/details/recordsoffirstch00firs
seen
transcript
access
public

Printed transcript of the Dorchester church records, read in the archive.org full text. Used for the Foster, Bate and Bigg families:

  • The early list of members includes "Alice Bate," "Lydia Bate" and "mary Bate," and, a little later, "Hopestill ffoster," "Rachel Bigge" and "Patience ffoster."
  • Baptisms of 1644: "Hopstill ffoster : 10 1 mo 44" (p. 156).
  • Capt. Hopestill Foster as the church's messenger: on 12 (4) 1670 the church chose "Elder Humphry & Capt ffoster," with Mr. Stoughton, to counsel the divided Braintree church; on 7 (3) 1671 it named "Capt Clap & Capt ffoster" again for Braintree; and on 16 (5) 1671 it sent "the Elder & deakon Captin ffoster & some more" to Mr. Josiah Flint "to sterr him up to hasten his remove to dorchester."
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  2. title: "Records of the First Church at Dorchester, in New England, 1636-1734 (1891)"
  3. type: parish-register
  4. date: published 1891
  5. url: "https://archive.org/details/recordsoffirstch00firs"
  6. seen: transcript
  7. access: public
  8. ---
  10. Printed transcript of the Dorchester church records, read in the archive.org full text. Used for
  11. the Foster, Bate and Bigg families:
  13. - The early list of members includes "Alice Bate," "Lydia Bate" and "mary Bate," and, a little
  14. later, "Hopestill ffoster," "Rachel Bigge" and "Patience ffoster."
  15. - Baptisms of 1644: "Hopstill ffoster : 10 1 mo 44" (p. 156).
  16. - Capt. Hopestill Foster as the church's messenger: on 12 (4) 1670 the church chose "Elder
  17. Humphry & Capt ffoster," with Mr. Stoughton, to counsel the divided Braintree church; on 7 (3)
  18. 1671 it named "Capt Clap & Capt ffoster" again for Braintree; and on 16 (5) 1671 it sent "the
  19. Elder & deakon Captin ffoster & some more" to Mr. Josiah Flint "to sterr him up to hasten his
  20. remove to dorchester."
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