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Excerpt from Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Congregational Church in Middleboro, Mass AT a business meeting of the First Congregational Church in Middleboro, April 15, 1894, it was voted to provide for a suitable observance of the two hundredth anniversary of the organization of the church. A strict reckoning from the original organization, December 26, 1694, - correcting the old style calendar, - would bring the bi-centennial celebration January 6, 1895. It was presently determined to hold the commemorative exercises not in mid winter, but in a season favorable for the largest possible attend ance of friends. The date chosen was August 26, 27, 1894. On those days the celebration was accordingly held, and was highly successful, the weather being all that could be desired, and the meeting-house filled to overflowing. The current newspapers gave numerous details not here mentioned, ao counts specially full appearing in the Boston Herald, the Middleboro Gazette, and the Middleboro News. The church feels thankful to a very large number of our townspeople, as well as to many other friends who, by their presence, their letters, their spoken words, their gifts, or their other assistance, have laid us under lasting obligation to them for the success of the occasion. 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.

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