Chap. 0031 AN ACT FOR INCORPORATING A NUMBER OF INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF WINDHAM IN THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, INTO A RELIGIOUS SOCIETY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same, that Ichabod Hanson, Daniel Pettingill, Jacob Elliot, Jacob Elliot Junr., Peter Bolton, Ezekiel Hanson, James Bolton, Joseph Hutchinson, Samuel Hutchinson, John Muckford, Robert Muckford, Eben Proctor, WiU

Ham Proctor, Richard Shane, Samuel Hanson, William Hanson, Andrew Twombly, Joseph Elder, Ezra Hanson, Charles Elder, Simon Lore, Moses Pattengill, Josiah Webb, Daniel Crockett, Richard Stevens, Robert Millions, Jonathan Stevens, Thomas Millions, John Wind-ship, Richard Windship, Gersham Windship, Thomas Crague, Joshua Windship, Joseph Chesley, Ichabod Hanson junior, Samuel Lord, Stephen Hutchinson, Nicholas Anthoine, Josiah Austin, William Mayberry, Jonathan Robbards & Samuel Robbards the petitioners, together with their families and estates, be & they hereby are incorporated into a religious Society, by the niime of the Baptist Society in the town of Windham, with all the privileges, powers and immunities which any parish or corporate religious Society in this Commonwealth is inti-tlecl to by Law.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that Josiah Thatcher Esqr. be and he hereby is authorized to issue his warrant, directed to some principal member of said Society, directing him to warn the members thereof to assemble at some suitable time and place in said town, to chuse such Officers as are required by law to be chosen by parishes in the month of March or April annually, & to transact all such matters and things as may be necessary and can legally be done in said Society.

March 7, 1701.