Person:John Ramsdell (3)

About the Free will Baptist Church - "A church was organized by Horatio N. Loring at Middleborough, Mass., where sixty had been converted. At the August Q. M. at this place an itineracy was appointed and funds were raised for the support of John M. Yearnshaw for a year or two in his service with the weaker churches."

1. ↑ Vital Records of Lakeville, MA.
2. ↑ Old Cemeteries of Southeastern Massachusetts.
3. ↑ Ed. by Barbara Lambert Merrick; Barbara Lambert Merrick; and Alicia Crane Williams. Middleborough, Massachusetts, Vital Records. (Boston, Massachusetts: Mass. Soc. of Mayflower Descendants (1989), 1986-1990, c1986-c1990)
   402.

   John Ramsdell was born April 11, 1786

4. ↑ .

   Obituary: 02/08/1856:3 Middleboro Gazette
   Mr. John Ramsdell, who recently died in Lakeville, in the 70th year of his age,
   had been severely tried in the furnace of affliction. In 1815, his leg was so terribly
   fractured by a falling timber, that the bones pierced through his boot. This event
   confined him to his bed 100 days, and rendered him a cripple all his life. About the year
   1828 he with his wife, hopefully experienced religion under the preaching of Elder Loring,
   and joined the Freewill Baptist Church, of which they were exemplary members. Mrs.
   Ramsdell's death in 1848 led him to lay hold on the hope set before him, with a firmer grasp.
   Two years previous to the close of his life he was sorely afflicted with a cancer,
   yet his patience was such that he was never heard to complain of his lot.
   His exit was sudden, having fallen upon the ice, on Jan. 5th he injured his knee,
   which so affected the whole system, that he died on the 7th, being lamented by those
   who knew him, as a good citizen, kind father, tender husband, and sincere christian.
   Elder Tyler attended his funeral, preaching a very applicable discourse, from Rev. 7:13,14.
   Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.

5. ↑ "Epilepsy"