horse stealing and one for counterfeiting. The lashes were laid on the naked back. Amos Partridge the jailor stood by with a drawn sword, and Johnson his deputy applied the lashes.¹

   July 10th Mr. Ballard, his son Jonathan, and one of the Cowens who was at work for him went to the raising of a meetinghouse in Winthrop, and it is recorded that "the business was performed with safety."² This was the house occupied by the Congregational Society for forty years to 1825.

   The names of the Rev. Seth Noble and Rev. William Hazlitt were presented to the town at the meeting April1st, as candidates for "settlement in the work of the ministry," and were both rejected. The town voted to pay the former £9 for the six Sundays he had preached, and the latter seventy dollars for "fourteen day's preaching including Thanksgiving," as already noticed.

   Rev. Isaac Foster of Hartford, Conn., "a young candidate" for settlement arrived in Hallowell April 13th, and the next Sunday preached in the meeting-house "by desire of the committee," who during the succeeding week invited him to preach the three following Sundays. Having complied with this request, he officiated with so much satisfaction that a town meeting was called for the 8th of May, to see if the town would invite him to settle and provide for his "salary and settlement." Upon assembling a motion was submitted to "invite him to settle in this town in the work of the ministry," which was taken by "polling the house," when fifty-seven were arrayed in favor of the motion and four against it.

   A large committee was now raised consisting of James Howard, Benjamin Pettingill, Samuel Cony, Noah Woodward, Jonathan Davenport, Jeremiah Ingraham, Samuel Badcock, Enoch Page, Simon Dearborn, Henry Sewall, Nathan Weston, Daniel Savage, James Page, Ezekiel Page and Daniel Cony to report what stipulations should be made with Mr. Foster for "his support and maintenance." The committee, after the meeting had taken a half hour's recess, reported that the town should "pay £100 lawful money annually" as a salary, on condition that Mr. Foster "shall formally and regularly receive ordination;" and that should be his salary as long as he "continues to be the town's minister and public teacher." To this they added "£50 settlement." The report was accepted, and £10 a year added to the settlement for the first five years.