Re: Rev. Randall
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In reply to:
Rev. Randall
5/27/01
The "History of Parsonsfield, Maine", chapter 6, Churches and Ministers has quite a bit of information. Following is the first paragraph of that chapter:
Many of the early settler os parsonsfield were church members before their removal to this wilderness. They belonged principally to the sects known as Congregationalists, Baptists, and Freewill Baptists. For several years they were too scattered to maintain states gospel ordinances. Itinerant preachers, mostly Freewill Baptists, traveled from place to place, holding meetings in private houses, barns and groves. Elder Benjamin Randall, and other pioneers of the denomination, occasionally held services within our borders.
Following are short excerpts:
The Freewill Baptist society was incorporated in 1809 with ninety-one members.
East Parsonsfield Freewill Baptist Church organized July 3, 1822.
The chapter on churches and ministers contains a huge amount of information, too much to put into this reply. Also I will have to do a thorough reading of the book to extract all of the Randall information. As with most town histories of this period, 1885, the book is poorly indexed. Perhaps making photocopies of the pages you are interested in would be best.
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