The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

226 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
Samuel Rigby was another person who neglected
his calling, lived a dissolute life, and was a trouble
to the Selectmen.
The Town agreed to pay Rev. Mr. Flint, ninety
pounds this year, one quarter in money.
Nathan Bradley petitioned the Selectmen for liberty to sell cider by retail, which was granted, " on
account of his low condition, he observing good
order in so doing."
July 16th, of this year, the monthly lecture began, and was continued until about 1838. It was
at first held on Wednesday; but the latter part of
the time on the Friday preceding the Communion
day, which was the first Sunday in the month.
1674. Selectmen —William Stoughton, Hopestill
Foster, John Capen, William Sumner and Richard
Hall.
This year died Mr. Wm. Poole, a man very much
esteemed by his fellow-townsmen. He kept school
until he was 76 years of age.
An accident befel the bell on the meeting-house
this year; and on the 12th of February, at a meeting of the Selectmen, "It was ordered that the
Meeting-house bell, being broken, and, it may be,
dangerous to be rung, it shall not be rung any more,
but speedily taken down, and means used to convey
it to England that another may be procured either
there or elsewhere." The Selectmen likewise ordered that the Burying-ground should be " fenced in
with a stone wall;" also that the Constable " speak
with Wm. Chaplain and give him notice that complaint is made of some abuse that is committed at