“ARTICLES FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY

As it was the original intention of the donor of the land on which the meeting house stands to have public worship supported there of the Evangelical Congregational order,… Preston Ware… having founded a religious society and taken the name of the Evangelical Congregational Society do for themselves and their associates adopt the following rules and regulations for the government of said society:…”

Reference Data:

50th Anniversayr of the Organization of the Village Congregational Church, Medway, Massachusetts, 1888, page 26