[52] Backus, History of New England, vol. i, p. 448.
[53] Charters and “Acts and Laws” of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, With Appended Acts and Laws, Boston, 1726–1735, p. 383. The law provided that “all persons who profess themselves to be of the Church of England”, and who were so situated that “there is a Person in Orders according to the Rules of the Church of England setled [sic], and abiding among them and performing Divine Service within Five Miles of the Habitation, or usual Residence of any Person professing himself as aforesaid of the Church of England”, might have his rate-money reserved for the support of the Episcopal church.
[54] Charters and “Acts and Laws” of the Province of Mass., etc., p. 423. The five-mile limitation formed a part of this legislation, also.
[55] Burrage, History of the Baptists in New England, p. 105.
[56] Palfrey, A Compendious History of New England, vol. iv, pp. 94, 95.
[57] Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, etc., vol. iii, p. 645.
[58] Ibid.
[59] Backus, History of New England, vol. ii, p. 140.
[60] Ibid.
[61] Ibid.