Proceedings in Commemoration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary

Download or read book Proceedings in Commemoration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary written by Williamstown Williamstown and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings in Commemoration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary: Of the First Congregational Church, Williamstown, Massachusetts, October the 9th and 10th, 1915 In the year 1765, the Town of Williamstown, Massachusetts, was incorporated by act of the Governor and General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and in the same year the First Church of Christ in the town was organized. In the annual town meeting of 1914, a committee was appointed to plan, if it deemed it advisable, for a celebration of the sesquicentennial of the incorporation of the town. As no general interest in the subject was manifested, the committee reported without making recommendations to the annual meeting of 1915 and the matter was dropped. In the church there was manifested a more lively interest in the anniversary, and a proper wish to do honor to the founders of the town and church. In the annual meeting of the First Church, on January 1, 1915, on motion of Deacon Franklin Carter, it was voted: That a committee of five, all legal residents of Williamstown, be appointed by the pastor, three of whom shall be members of this church and three of whom shall be members of the parish and one of whom shall be a professor in the college, which committee shall determine the date and arrange for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the formal organization of this church, and shall have power to appoint subordinate committees, if they may think such necessary, in order to carry into effect the plans devised for the celebration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.