Name/Title
Petition to the First Baptist Society of Groton, 1772Entry/Object ID
2026.024.001Scope and Content
Petition to the First Baptist Society of Groton, 1772
"A Petition to The Baptist Society: At a Society Meeting legally warned at the Baptist Meeting House in Groton the 16th of October AD 1772 noted that messrs. Daniel Stark, Thomas Niles and Caleb Haley be the Society committee for the year ensuing and that they speedily prepare a Petition to the inhabitants of said society in order to raise by a Free Contribution Money or Necessaries or Labor to Repair the Meeting House before Winter so that it may be rendered more comfortable for the society and in Consideration of the Society's vote we Whose names are hereto Promise to give in Money, Necessaries or Labor for the repairing Old House the sum or articles aforesaid annexed to our names as Witness our hands."
Signed by Nathan Niles, Hubbard Burrows, John Gardiner, Thomas Fish, Nathan Fish, Nathaniel Niles, Uriah Wilbur, Daniel Packer, Roswell Avery, Peter Avery, William Stuart, Thomas Niles, Caleb Haley, Nathan Crary, Jonathan Bolles, Isaac Wightman, John Fox, Oliver Wells, Moses Culver and Noah Bailey.Collection
Wolfe CollectionAcquisition
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2026.024Source or Donor
Edith WolfeAcquisition Method
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First Baptist Church of Groton