1st Baptist Church of Hanson Ma records

1853, Oct 1
At the meeting Alonzo Chase, Daniel Keen, Erastus Everson {16 years old}, Christiana Thomas, & Martha Deland {possibly "Delano"} & Mary F Barker related their Christian experiences after which it was voted to receive Christiana Thomas, who had formerly been baptized into the church & the other five it was voted to receive after baptism.

1853, Oct 2
Alonzo Chase, Daniel Keen, Erastus Everson & Martha Deland were baptized by the pastor & added to the Ch.

1855, March 29
At Ch Meeting Dea. J R Gurney, Dea. L Thomas & J Barker were appointed a committee of enquiry as to the proper subjects of discipline in the church to report at next meeting.

1855, March 29th
Ch Meeting – the committee appointed at the last meeting reported that they had convened with Brethren Erastus Everson {18 years old} & Daniel Keen, whose Christian course has been far from what it should be, (and who themselves acknowledged were unfit to belong to any church & that the church would be disgraced by holding them as members) and that they give no evidence of desire to return to Christian duty.
Voted to accept th report of the Com.
Voted that Bro. Erastus Everson & Bro. Daniel Keen be excluded from the church. Chose our Pastor a committee to inform said Brethren of their exclusion

(Daniel Webster Keen, ch. John Allen (Keen/Keene) and Elvira (Tubbs), born Sept. 4, 1837 in Hanson MA)

(Erastus makes many references to his Christian upbringing in his letters, and - according to the SCHS description of their Erastus Everson Collection - spent some time composing essays about Old Testament figures)