Sir, The design of these lines is principally to bespeak your charity and (in order to obtain it) to give you a true & sincere account of the grounds and reasons why [blank] cannot count [blank] safe, and therefore [blank] uneasy under the government of the Pastor of the church of Framingham, and of [blank] desiring to be admitted into the church of Hopkinston ..
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 40003
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1732
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Church history; First Parish (Framingham, Mass.).; First Congregational Church (Hopkinton, Mass.).
Notes: Applying for membership in the First Congregational Church of Hopkinton, Mass.

The Massachusetts Historical Society copy is filled out in ms., dated Framingham Decr. 1732 and signed: Edw. Goddard.

Bristol B884

Shipton & Mooney 40003