page 704 In 1732, Ralph EARLE, his 3 sons; William, Robert and Benjamin, Thomas SMITH, Daniel HILL, Nathaniel POTTER and Joseph POTTER declared themselves to the clerk of the town to be Friends (Quakers) and asked,on account of conscientious scruples, to be released paying "any part of the tax for the support of the minister or ministers established by the Law of the Province." Greenville Baptist Church, some of the 1st settlers were Baptist, and among them Dr. Thomas GREEN. He was dismissed from the 1st Bapt. Church in Boston to aid in forming a church in Sutton in 1735. At least 8 other persons residing in Leicester Thomas RICHARDSON, Daniel DENNY, Elisha NEVERS, Martha GREEN, Joshua NICHOLS, Abiathar VINTON, Bathsheba NEVERS and Lydia VINTON- had been baptized in Sutton and Leicester by a Bapt. minister named John CONVERSE 3 years before. On Sept. 28, 1737, Dr. GREEN and Benjamin MARSH were ordained associate pastors of the church in Sutton, and Sept. 28, 1738, by mutual agreement, the brethren in Leicester became a church by themselves, and GREEN their pastor. His successor Dr. FOSTER, in Jan. 1776, married Elizabeth,the youngest daughter of Dr. GREEN