Abstract The First Church in Malden was formed with the establishment of the town of Malden in 1649 with Rev. Marmaduke Matthews as its first pastor. Some of the pastors following Matthews included Michael Wigglesworth, Peter Thacher, Joseph Emerson, Aaron Green, Alexander McClure, Joshua Wellman, Theodore Pease, and Roy Minich. A second meeting house was built in 1658 with a third following in 1729 due to changing town borders and population size, and a fourth brick meeting house being built in...