Excerpt from The Historical Discourse Given on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Baptist Church, South Abington, Mass: November 6th, 1872 We pass along in hasty review the history of the estab lishment of baptist churches in Plymouth County. In 1757 the Second Baptist Church in Middleboro' was formed, in the south part of the town in a place called Assowamsett, near Beach tvoods. In 1761 the Third Church in Middle boro' was constituted with ten members, six of whom were dismissed from the First Church. In 1785 a baptist church was formed in the west part of Bridgewater. Sixteen per sons were dismissed from the Titicut Church to unite in this enterprise. In 1788 the First Church of Marshfield was constituted. Of the persons who took part in this act, eleven were from the Third Middleboro' Church. Follow ing the constitution of the Marshfield Church was that of Carver in 1791, of twelve persons, mostly from the Third Church in Middleboro'. Thus we find that before the close of the last century six baptist churches had been constituted in this county. The First Middleboro' was the parent church, and the other five, her descendents, were all happily settled within a short distance of the old homestead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.