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Show Old Church IvecoriU llecoverrd. Ex-Governor Charles II. Bell has restored re-stored to tho First Congregational church of Exeter, N. H., a vuluable record book, discovered by him in the shop of a local dealer in antiquities. It is a small manuscript man-uscript volume containing a record of the 727 baptisms administered by the Rev. Woodbridge Odlin between Sept 28, 1743, und Oct. 30, 1703. The book also contains a few miscellaneous items, of which this is the most important: "Nov'r 18, 1753. About four o'clock in ye morning there was a smart shocke of an earthquake, which was followed with several smaller shockes, to the great surprise of ninny. God grant yt ye impressions yt were made upon ye niindo of many might be abiding." The handwriting is handsome and very legible, and the book is remarkably well preserved. It filbi an important gip in the early records or the church, whose age is coincident with that of the town, Boston Herald. |