Franklin. If the traditions that existed in my boyhood were
trustworthy, he said and did things that would have ruined an ordinary
minister. Adams gave an earnest support to the Revolution, and one
of his sermons delivered at the opening of the war contained a view of
the coming greatness of the country that was truly prophetic.
Samuel Dexter studied law at Lunenburg. He was there married by the
Rev. Zabdiel Adams to a Miss Gordon, a daughter of an English lady.
The successor of Mr. Damon was the Rev. Joseph Hubbard, and during his
ministry the old society that represented the town of former days came
to an end. The first error was the scheme for erecting a new meeting-
house. The larger part of the village is on the southern side of a
hill, and the first meetinghouse was midway on the slope and facing
south. The site was a triangular piece of land, of more than one
hundred rods in extent, on which were shade trees planted in other
days. If the whole town had been at command not another equally good
site could have been selected. A spirit, called the spirit of
progress, had seized the leaders and it was resolved to build a new
meetinghouse on the top of the hill. The house was built, but in the
meantime the society lost members. Following the dedication of the new
house, there came complaints against Hubbard as a preacher.
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