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110 years later, five times Webb's enumerated estate, which doesn't make the original transaction right per se but places it in proper context) to be invested and improved forever toward the work of the learned, pious and orthodox
Congregational ministry of said church forever". The title of the sermon given on his death was, "The godly fathers and a defence to their people : A sermon delivered at Uxbridge, April 19, 1772, occasioned by the death of the late Reverend Nathan Webb, Pastor of said church and people: containing a summary of his character. : And now published, at the desire of many of the hearers, to revive and perpetuate the memory of their said pastor. / By Ebenezer Chaplin, A.M. Pastor of a church in Sutton."
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