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118 NORWALK. [IIOG.
Calling the Consociation.
The town by a major vote determined tliat a suitable
person stall be sent to ye Rev'd Mr. Stodard of Woodbury,
Moderator of ye last council in this county, to
obtain letters of notification to ye elders and messengers
of the churches in this county, to convene at
Norwalk on the first Monday evening in May next,
according to ye advice and discretion of ye late association
at Norwalk ;
and that due provision be made for
the entertainment of ye said council when convened
the whole charge to be defray'd by the town.
The Committee to represent the Town before Consociation.
April 27, Annoque Domini, 1726. (The town appointed
Mr. James Brown, Joseph Piatt, Esq., & John
Copp, their committee to appear in behalf of the town
before the Consociation, and to manage the whole affair
relating to the difference between ye Rev. Mr. Buckingham
& the town.)
The Town dissatisfied with Mr. Buckingham's Conversation.
At a town meeting convened in Norwalk, August
12th, 1726, at ye same meeting, the town by a major
vote do signifie their dissatisfaction with the former and
latter conversation of the Reverend Mr. Stephen
Buckingham, viz. :
before and since ye determination of
council ; as also with the determination of the council
in that affair.
At ye same meeting,
the Reverend Mr. Buckingham
appeared, and read off before ye town then convened
the following proposals, and directed in manner following
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