Community Corner
Fifth Week - Saturday's "Medfield Historical Minute"
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.
A Medfield Historical Minute...
This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.
"Reverend William Gammell, born 1786 in Boston, became minister at the First Baptist Church in 1810. Under his care, the Baptist Society, founded in 1777, increased rapidly, so he might be called the founder of our present Baptist Church. Under his pastorate the roles of women were greatly expanded and the affairs of the church were conducted largely by the women of the parish. He received the degree of A.M. from Brown University in 1819 and was made to their board of trustees in 1820. He left Medfield in 1823 when he was called to minister the Second Baptist Church in Newport, Rhode Island."
