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Mr. Oliver in the names of the Overseers invites my Wife to sit in the foreseat. I thought to have brought her into my pue. I thankt him and the Overseers. His wife died in a few months, and he reproached himself for his pride in this honor, and left the seat which he had in the men's foreseat.
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God in his holy Sovereignty put my wife out of the Fore Seat. I apprehended I had Cause to be ashamed of my Sin and loath myself for it, and retired into my Pue,
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and benches did not afford seating room enough for the large number who wished to attend public worship, and complaints were frequent that many were
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Persons were allowed to bring chairs and stools into the meeting-house, and place them in the
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These extra seats became often such encumbering nuisances that in many towns laws were passed abolishing and excluding them, or, as in Hadley, ordering them
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In 1759 it was ordered in that town to