“To buy a site for the new structure and so save the common from a permanent incumbrance, forty men and one woman, Persis Sheldon, subscribed $530 and bought the site now occupied by the brick meetinghouse. The business was pushed at once, Asa Stebbins, William Russell, Pliny Arms, Orlando Ware and Quartus Hawks were appointed a building committee with ample powers. A guarantee fund was provided to carry on the work by the following named citizens, the money to be refunded through a sale of pews:

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Reference Data:

A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, by George Sheldon, 1896, pages 801-2