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The Records of the First Church in Boston

VOLUME I
Admissions to Church Membership, 1630–1778 Votes of Church and Congregation, 1656–1785 Baptisms, 1630–1847

[i] Memorandum May 1728 I had the Church book new bound; and the blank paper in the old one being very unfit for use, having been damnify’d with water some time formerly, I order’d new and good paper to be put in its room, exactly answering to the number of Pages taken out: and though some of the Leaves were necessarily torn, yet not a single Leaf or Line is left out of the Records.

Thomas Foxcroft



The 2d Day of the 10th Moneth 1643.
Ellenor Rowe widdow.
Sarah Colbron the daughter of our Deacon Mr Willyam Colbron.
Sarah Clark the wife of one Arthur Clarke.
John Lake a taylor.
Joan English the wife of our brother Mauditt English and Arthur Clark a dismissed member from the Church of Hampton, taken in with the Consent of the Church by their silence. He having declared his Condition to the Elders in private. 



The 1st Day of the 4th Moneth 1645 by our Teacher.

    Caleb Lake the Sonne of our brother John Lake being about 5 dayes old.




The 31st Day of the 8th Moneth 1647 by our Pastor.

    Adam Winthropp the Sonne of our brother Mr Adam Winthropp being about 16 Dayes old.
    Paull Stevenson the Sonne of our brother John Stevenson being about 3 Dayes old.
    Persis Lake the Daughter of our brother John Lake being about 13 Dayes old.




The 3d Day of the 4th Moneth 1649 by our Teacher.

    Mary Lake the Daughter of our brother John Lake being about 4 Dayes old.