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- According to Deane, he "was in Weymouth 1633. We find that he gained an unfortunate notoriety, by espousing certain religious sentiments, to liberal for the age in which he lived. Mr. Robert Lentha, minister at Weymouth, advanced the sentiment, 'That all baptized persons should be admitted to the Communion without further trial.' This was a heresy to be noticed by the government, and he was orderd to retract in presence of the General Court; with which order he complied. Richard Sylvester, who held the same communion, adhered to it, and in consquence was fined and disinfranchised by the government. This put him upon removing from the Colony, and he came to Scituate 1642. Thomas Rawlins, Thomas Clap, James Torrey, and William Holbrook, came about the same time, and probably on account of holding the same sentiments. Sylvester settled in Marshfield, or rather in that part of Scituate called 'the Two Miles.' He married the sister of Capt. William Torrey."
His wife's name is given in Savage, but this has been questioned; see Frederic C. Torrey, The Torrey Families and Their Children in American, 1.342-44; he gives Naomi Torrey's husband as John Lowell (see 1.35) and argues that Savage is mistaken. [2]
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