BETWEEN JAMES THURSTON, MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL, AND A RESPECT SUBJOINED IS A GENERAL VIEW OF THE COUNCIL DOINGS, IN RELATION TO ALSO, SKETCHES OF THE LAW-SUIT, JAMES THURSTON, PLAINTIFF, ANNEXED 18 JAMES THURSTON'S MEMORIAL TO THE COUNCIL, PRESENTED BY LEVERETT SALSTONSTALL, ESQ. AT THE INSTALLATION 1513338,10,10 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY 3 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS-TO WIT: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, and in the forty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, TYLER PARSONS, of the said district. has deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "Truth espoused, relative to the difficulties that existed in the town of Manchester, Massachusetts, between James Thurston, Minister of the Gos. pel, and a respectaale number of the inhabitants of Manchester, and which occasioned a majority of the male members of the church, and a respectable proportion of the parishioners to secede from the society in said town, April 5th, 1819. Subjoined is a general view of the council doings, in relation to the dismissal of James Thurston from that society, June 17th, 1819. Also, sketches of the law-sait, James Thurston, plaintiff, Tyler Parsons, defendant. Annexed is James I hurston's memorial to the council, presented by Leverett Saltonstall, Esq. at the installation of the Rev. Samuel M. Emerson, at Manchester, September 12th. 1822. By Tyler Parsons. "He is a freeman whom the truth makes free, Can wind around him but he casts it off, green withes." COWPER. In conformity to an act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled, "An act, supplementary to an act, entitled an act, for the encouragement of learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such Copies, during the times therei mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." J. W. DAVIS, {Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. TO THE CANDID READER, THE COMPILER MOST RESPECTFULLY OFFERS THIS PUBLICATION ; In hopes to receive that patronage that is usually bestowed on the truth: and those favours frequently shown to those persons which advocate it. Having no other object in view than public good and justifiable ends. TYLER PARSONS. PREFACE. THE Author of this pamphlet, having noticed a newspaper publication, of the award given James Thurston, in the action where James Thurston was plaintiff, and Tyler Parsons defendant, the award announced, was fifteen hundred dollars. The above being published without any thing said or done by the defendant, for the purpose of showing to the public the origin of the difficulties that led to this suit, has, in some instances, and probably in many, been injurious both to the character and intesest of the defendant, and to confront certain reports in circulation, where the character of the author is unfairly implicated, and to do away those misconceptions on the public mind, that must havebeen made, together with the indispensable duty that I owe to myself, to my family and the public, is the object of this publica, tion. I come before the public with the impression, that every candid and impartial reader, will, by a careful perusal of the facts, and other circumstances produced in this manuscript, be led to believe, that I have not aimed at any thing more than the truth, impartiality, and precision; believing it to be as important to advocate the truth in this case, as it is in any case to go to law for justice. |