Joseph Carpenter, John Butterworth, Eldad Kingsley, and Benjamin Alby.  The principles to which their assent was given were the same as those held by the Welsh Baptists, as expounded by Mr. Myles.  The original record-book of the church contains a list of the members of Mr. Myles’s church in Swansea, from 1640 till 1660, with letters, decrees, ordinances, etc., of the several churches of the denomination in England and Wales.  This book, now in the possession of the First Baptist Church in Swanzey, Massachusetts, is probably a copy of the original Welsh records, made by or for Mr. Myles’s church in Massachusetts, the sentiments of which controlled their actions here.

Of the seven constituent members, only one was a member of Myles’s church in Wales—­Nicholas Tanner.  James Brown was a son of John Brown, both of whom held high offices in the Plymouth colony.  Mr. Newman and his church were again aroused at the revival of this dangerous sect, and they again united with the other orthodox churches of the colony in soliciting the Court to interpose its influence against them, and the members of this little church were each fined five pounds, for setting up a public meeting without the knowledge and approbation of the Court, to the disturbance of the peace of the place,—­ordered to desist from their meeting for the space of a month, and advised to remove their meeting to some other place where they might not prejudice any other church.  The worthy magistrates of Plymouth have not told us how these few Baptist brethren “disturbed the peace” of quiet old Rehoboth.  Good old Rehoboth, that roomy place, was not big enough to contain this church of seven members, and we have to-day to thank the spirit of Newman and the order of Plymouth Court for the handful of seed-corn, which they cast upon the waters, which here took root and has brought forth the fruits of a sixty-fold growth.

From a careful reading of the first covenant of the church, we judge that it was a breach of ecclesiastical, rather than of civil, law, and that the fines and banishment from the limits of Rehoboth were imposed as a preventive against any further inroads upon the membership of Mr. Newman’s church.  In obedience to the orders of the Court, the members of Mr. Myles’s church looked about for a more convenient dwelling-place, and found it as near to the limits of the old town and their original homes as the law would allow.  Within the bounds of Old Swanzey, Massachusetts, in the northern part of the present town of Barrington, Rhode Island, they selected a site for a church edifice.  The spot now pointed out as the location of this building for public worship is near the main road from Warren by Munro’s Tavern to Providence, on the east side of a by-way leading from said road to the residence of Joseph G. West, Esq.  A plain and simple structure, it was undoubtedly fitted up quickly by their own labor, to meet the exigency of the times.  Here they planted their first spiritual home, and enjoyed a peace which pastor and people had long sought for.