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Excerpt from The Stay and the Staff Taken Away: A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of the Hon. William Prescott, Delivered in the Church on Church Green, December 15, 1844
At a meeting of the New South Society, held after the afternoon service on Sunday, December 15th, 1844, Chief Justice Shaw presiding as Moderator, it was unanimously
Voted, That the thanks of the Society be presented to our Pastor, the Rev. Alexander Young, for the impressive Discourse this day delivered by him on occasion of the decease of our lamented fellow-worshipper, the Honorable William Prescott, and that he be requested to furnish a copy thereof for the press.
Voted, That a Committee of three members be appointed to present this request to Mr. Young, and take measures for carrying into effect the purposes of the foregoing vote, and that Hon. Lemuel Shaw, Benjamin Rich, Esq. and John Dorr, Esq. constitute this Committee.
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