The ministers, of whom there were many and of note (Mr.Mather and Mr.Wilson of Boston, and Mr.Corbet of Ipswich, being among them), were already together at the house of one of the deacons.

It was quite a sight the next morning to see the people coming in from the neighboring towns, and to note their odd dresses, which were indeed of all kinds, from silks and velvets to coarsest homespun woollens, dyed with hemlock, or oil-nut bark, and fitting so ill that, if they had all cast their clothes into a heap, and then each snatched up whatsoever coat or gown came to hand, they could not have suited worse.

Yet they were all clean and tidy, and the young people especially did look exceeding happy, it being with them a famous holiday.

The young men came with their sisters or their sweethearts riding behind them on pillions; and the ordinary and all the houses about were soon noisy enough with merry talking and laughter.
The meeting-house was filled long before the services did begin.

There was a goodly show of honorable people in the forward seats, and among them that venerable magistrate, Simon Broadstreet, who acteth as Deputy- Governor since the death of Mr.Leverett; the Honorable Thomas Danforth; Mr.William Brown of Salem; and others of note, whose names I do not remember, all with their wives and families, bravely apparelled.