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Subject: Ordination of Rev. Thomas Carter
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 23:09:46 EDT

<A
HREF="http://members.xoom.com/Tonilea/Carter.htm">Ordination of Rev. Thomas
Carter, Puritan Minister</A>
(and, his descendants)

http://members.xoom.com/Tonilea/Carter.htm

The geocities website I submitted for the Oil Painting of the Ordination of
Rev.
Thomas Carter of Woburn, MA 1642, is no longer available. However, Gengirl19
has the painting, and as usual, her work is lovely, but it does not name the
other famous ministers depicted with him. I had the names on disk (and if
Toni Lassiter would
like to use the material I cant think why not, as there was no notification
by Yahoo
as to where the work could now be found.)

ORDINATION OF REV. THOMAS CARTER
Woburn, Massachusetts
22 November 1642, O.S.
>From the Painting by Albert Thompson
Presented to the Woburn Public Library by the late Leonard Thompson,
Esq., in 1895.

The characters represented in the painting are as follows:
Beginning at the left (standing) is John Cotton, Minister of the First
Church of Boston; Richard Mather, Minister of the First Church of
Dorchester; John Elliot, Apostle to the Indians from the FIrst Church
of Roxbury; Capt. Edward Johnson, one of the founders of both the
church and town of Woburn; Thomas Carter, one of the lay members of the
church; John Wilson, Minister of the First Church of Charlestown; and
finally, a visiting minister, unnamed. Seated on the bench with his hat
beside him is Increase Nowell, Magistrate from Charlestown. The others
are members of the church.

The old site went on to say:
This painting is of great historic interest, since it represents
some of the first settlers of Woburn, Massachusetts. The establishment
of the church preceded the incorporation of the town, as was customary
in those days. Woburn was originally a grant of land made in 1640, by
the General Court of Massachusetts to Charlestown, and was known as
"Charlestowne Village." On 5 November 1640, the Church of Charlestown
chose seven men as Commissioners "for the erection of a Church and Town
upon the recent grant of the Court." On 8 February 1641, the
Commissioners came from Charlestown to find a suitable location. The
Meeting House was built on land now occupied by the Common. The
ordination, as illustrated, followed. On 27 September 1642, O.S., the
General Court incorporated Woburn with these five words: "Charlestowne
Village is called Wooburne."
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Old site was:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1449/carter.htm

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