Quotes from Carolyn Wakeman

Three years passed before residents agreed in 1683/4 that the dimensions of the proposed meetinghouse "shall be 40 foot long and 26 foot wide and 14½ foot between joints." Plans moved forward again in 1685 when the town offered twenty-two acres of upland to sawmill owner Edward DeWolfe in return for his providing boards and eighteen-inch chestnut or cedar shingles