1738, Nov. 10. Document. This is a certified copy of the decision of the Ecclesiastical Council which met at Duxbury, MA for the purpose of dismissing the Rev. John Robinson (1671-1745, great grandfather of E. R.) from his position as pastor of the Duxbury Church. E. R. came into possession of this document in 1856 and he reprints a complete transcription of it in his Memoir of the Rev. William Robinson, pp. 39-40.