Excerpt from The First Centenary of the North Church and Society, in Salem, Massachusetts The first meeting of the Proprietors for organization had been held on the 3d of March, 17 72. The first meeting of the mem bers of the church, and their gathering into church order and fellowship, and the adoption of a covenant, had taken place on the 19th of July, 1772. It was voted that the latter should be the day commemorated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.