Denham, shall be gathered by the constable with the country rate, in the same specie and prices as the country rate, and by him to be paid to the said minister.'' A.D. 16S2, the town confirms the sum of £30 as salary to Mr. Denham, and orders the same to be paid in provisions.
The historian Trumbull informs us that about the year 1688,
the Rev. John Bowers removed from Derby and settled at Rye.<=
April 22d, 1690, Captain Horton, Joseph Theall, and John
Hart. Col. Rec. vol. iii. 59. b Hart. Col. Rec. vol. iii. CiO.
Trumbull's Hist. Conn. p. 523.
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Brondig are chosen by the town to procure a minister, and, if possible, a schoohnaster.
27ih June, 1693. Hacaliah Brown, George Lane, and Timothy Knapp were added to the above committee to procure a minister as soon as possible.
February 26th, 1694, it is ordered that the townsman make a rate to defray the expense of repairing the 'parsonage house. 22d July, 1697 ; Captain Theal, Hachaliah Brown, George Lane, and Thomas Merritt are chosen by vote for the procuring of a minister for the town of Rye.
Colonel Caleb Heathcote writing to the secretary of the Propagation Society iu 1705, observes, "that there is no parish in the government but what is able to pay twice as much as they do. For Rye parish, which is not by one-half so large as the least parish established by law in the government here, since my living here, maintained two dissenting ministers, viz. one at Rye and Mamaroneck, and one at Bedford, and gave the former £50, and the latter £40, a year."a