In Witness Whereof, I the
s:d Seth Towner have hereunto set my Hand & Seal the first Day of
November One Thous. and Seven Hundred Sixty & four: in the fifth year
of his Majesty's Reign George the third King etc.
Signed Sealed and Del:d
presence of Seth Towner, Daniel Linfield, Simeon Thayer."
Ann's two uncles by adoption, and Thomas Penniman of Stoughton, were
well pleased to get this permission to erect a stable, or
Horse-House, as they put it then, to shelter their horses during
divine worship. The want of one had long been a sore inconvenience to
them. The few stables already erected around the meeting-house, could
not accommodate half of the horses congregated there on a Puritan
Sabbath, and every barn, for a quarter of a mile about, was put into
requisition on severe days. After the women had dismounted from their
pillions at the meeting-house door, the men-folks patiently rode the
horses to some place of shelter, and then trudged back through the
snow-drifts, wrestling with the icy wind.
So this new "Horse-House" was a great benefit to the Waleses, and to
the Pennimans, who lived three miles from them over the Stoughton
line.
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