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J. L. Bell said...

I've now seen a reference guessing that the "State Bill" referred to the government-enforced charge for paying the local minister, which would have been particularly important to people who didn't worship in a town's largest congregation—which in Marshfield's case would mean Anglicans. Adherents of the Church of England in New England were much more likely to be Loyalist than their neighbors. I've got a full posting on Marshfield's Anglicans coming up.

Jul 12, 2016, 12:50:20 AM

Posted to Marshfield Voters “greatly aggrieved at the conduct of the said Town”