Silsby v. Barlow

The plaintiff in this bill, as executor of the will of Joseph Lawrence, who died on the 21st of February 1859, seeks the aid and direction of the court in respect to a bequest of ten shares of bank stock “ to the Baptist Society in Pocasset, Sandwich, the yearly interest of which is to be appropriated to the support of their minister, while time shall last.”

By the testimony of William A. Barlow, and by the church records, it appears that in April 1838 a Baptist church was organized at the village of Pocasset, and has ever since main*330tained its existence. There has been, during the same time, a…