Jones at the house of one Zachariah Roberts, at Bedford aforesaid, this deponent heard the said John Jones say, he would bum the Church of England books, &c,

The two preceding depositions were read in Council, May 8th, 1705. Messrs Roberts and Jones failing to give satisfactory explanations thereof, were bound overto answer to the Supreme Court. (Council Minutes.)11

" In December, 16S1, Samuel Barrett, Zachariah Roberts and Thomas Canfield were received as inhabitants. This Roberts was soon chosen town clerk, afterward Justice of the Peace, and for many years appears

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prominent in nearly all the affairs of the town. He seems to have been a very dissenting Dissenter. He had a quarrel with the Rev. Thomas Pritchard, the first Church of England Rector, in 1705. He lived near David's Hill, a few rods west of where the Baptist Church now stands, and gave his lands along David's brook to his sons Zach. Jr. and Hezekiah. What was the origin of the names of David's Hill and Brook I am unable to say, but they are found in the earliest records ; and in 1700 " the town by a maigor vote doth order and agree that ye land round davids hill shall be sequestered for the towns' use and for diging stones so it shall have a soficiant cartway and driftway round the hill and not to be disposed of to any pertickler parson what som euer." This shows the origin of a lane, still open, west of David's hill. Other votes setting apart sequestered lands for "ye people of the town to dig stones for ever," are found."*