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HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME OF ITS PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS, continued ...

EDITED BY H. P. SMITH

1885

CHAPTER XXV. HISTORY OF THE PATENT AND TOWN OF QUEENSBURY., continued ...

CHURCHES., continued ...

The Presbyterian Church, continued ...

A call was made out for Ephraim H. Newton on the 3d day of September, 1832.

His service commenced immediately, though he was not installed till the 28th of February following.

He had already been a successful pastor and teacher for nearly twenty years in Marlborough, Vt., which was his native State.

He was forty-five years of age, a man whose life from youth had been largely devoted to teaching, of cultivated scientific tastes, and of marked and strong character.

He was not a brilliant, but a sound and instructive preacher.

He was the first minister of this congregation, except Mr. Tracy for a few months, whose services were not divided with Sandy Hill.

Being to the manner accustomed, and his support being inadequate, he taught a very excellent select school during a portion of the time that he was here.

He was dismissed by the Presbytery on the 25th of August, 1836, "in consequence of the embarrassed state of funds for his support," after a ministry here of just four years.

What his salary was I have not ascertained.

This ministry had been eminently successful; there had been added to the church sixty persons on profession, and a large number by certificate.

There had been but one case of discipline, and there was general prosperity and concord.

The church now remained without a stated minister for nearly a year — from September 1st, 1836, to August 1st, 1837 — and yet at the two communions which were observed (April and July) there were eleven new members admitted on profession of their faith.

On the 10th of August, 1837, Mr. Scovill's name occurs as moderator of the session.

He no doubt came on immediately after his graduation at Auburn, where he studied theology.

On the 11th of September following the congregation made out a call for him to become pastor, at $500 a year; and in November of the same year he was installed.

It is interesting to observe, as belonging to the history of the Presbytery of Troy, that within three days it ordained and installed three pastors, adjourning from one parish to the other — Lewis Kellogg at Whitehall, John F. Scovill at Glens Falls, and A. Bordman Lambert at Salem.

Mr. Scovill's pastorate here continued about five years — he offered his resignation in April, 1842, and I conclude was dismissed by the Presbytery at Sand Lake on the 28th of June following.

Within these five years there were fifty-three additions to the church by profession, and fourteen persons were under discipline.

It was the period during which the contest between the old school and the new school, between the old mode and the new measures, waxed hottest, and culminated in the unhappy division of the Presbyterian Church.

For a time this particular church endeavored to avoid being drawn into the strife.

In June of 1838 and in February of '39 the session declined to send any delegate to presbytery, and also in October, '39, to send any delegate to synod, expressly resolving for the time to remain neutral.

How could the church or the session know what to do?

The two former pastors, with their churches, went with the old school, the pastor they then had went with the new.

And when in August, 1839, the session rescinded their resolution of neutrality, and sent a delegate to the New School Presbytery at Lansingburgh, it is not at all strange that the strain on the church was so strong that a fissure for a time was quite observable.

We wonder now that such feelings and prejudices should have existed as prevailed in those days; but the division of a great and intelligent church into two opposing bodies is not a trifling event to those who are immediately separated.

We rejoice now in the reunion of the church, consummated in 1870, after a schooling and cooling of thirty-two years, which brought the parties to respect and trust each other, and to come back and shake hands where they had parted, neither one making any confession, neither one gaining any precedence by forgiving the other.

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HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME OF ITS PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS, continued ...

EDITED BY H. P. SMITH

1885

CHAPTER XXV. HISTORY OF THE PATENT AND TOWN OF QUEENSBURY., continued ...

CHURCHES., continued ...

The Presbyterian Church, continued ...

John W. Ray commenced preaching to this church in August, 1842 — almost immediately after his graduation at the Union Theological Seminary, New York city, and almost literally, without any period between, joining his ministry to that of his predecessor.

His call from the congregation to the pastorate was voted on the 31st day of October, 1842, at $500 a year.

When he was ordained and installed is uncertain, but probably it was on the 16th of November, as that was the day chosen by the congregation, if it should be convenient for the Presbytery.

He offered his resignation in July, 1845, and it was accepted on the 6th of August.

No doubt his term of service was just three years.

Mr. Ray was young and ardent.

He entered into his work with zeal and enthusiasm, if not always with the best taste and judgment.

He aimed at immediate effect, and was successful in what he undertook.

Sixty-five were admitted to the church by profession during his ministry.

He is remembered by many of the members, to the present day, with interest and esteem.

From the 1st of October, 1845, the Rev. John Gray was minister of the church for nine months, to July, 1846.

Two years afterward he was preaching in Newburgh, and in the vicinity of that city he died in 1860.

I come now to the ministry 3 to which this present service belongs.

Thirty years ago this morning, the first Sabbath of October, 1846, I (2) preached for the first time in the house which then occupied the spot on which this edifice now stands.

I had, from my graduation at Auburn three years before, been preaching as stated supply to the Congregational Church of East Groton, Western New York.

Seeking my annual recreation, I had been for several weeks with friends in Vermont, among the scenes of my childhood, and was nearly ready to return to continue my service to the people, whom till to-day I remember and bless as the people of my first love.

A mere accident — what appears such — sometimes changes the place of one's home, and determines where and with whom he shall live and perform his life's work.

So it was with me.

On the apparently unpremeditated invitation of an uncle, I rode with him to Glens Falls, and was here staying with his friends and mine over the Sabbath.

This church was without a minister; and as Elder Benedict and Elder Tallmadge could not do any better, they invited me to preach.

And here I have been preaching ever since.

3 Mr. Fennel was born in the town of Ira, Rutland county, Vermont, June 21st, 1815. The first seventeen years of his life, except the winter terms at a district school, were spent in somewhat hard work upon the farm. He commenced teaching when seventeen, and divided that occupation with study—privately, at the Poultney Seminary, but mainly at the Castleton Seminary—for the next eight years. He entered the Auburn Theological Seminary in 1840, and graduated in 1843; was honored with A. M. by Middleton College in 1847; was licensed and ordained by the Rutland County Association; preached the first three years of his ministry as stated supply for the Congregational Church in East Groton, Tompkins county. He was married October 18th, 1843, at Little Falls, to Miss Racillia A. Hackley, daughter of Hon. Philo M. Hackley, of Herkimer. His call to the church in Glens Falls was made the 12th of October, 1846, and it was subscribed by A. N. Cheney, Ira A. Paddock, Stevens Carpenter, Orville Cronkhite, A. C. Farlin and Halsey R. Wing, trustees. The installation did not take place till the 25th of January, 1847. The sermon was preached by the Rev. John Todd, D. D., of Pittsfield, Mass.; the charge to the pastor was by the Rev. Charles Doolittle, of North Granville, and the charge to the congregation by the Rev. Lewis Kellogg, of Whitehall. Although never enjoying vigorous health, the thirty years' labor here, with one exception, has only had now and then very slight interruption. The winter of 1850-51—from the 12th of December to the 20th of March—was spent in the South, a considerable portion of it on the island of Cuba. Mr. Fenner's salary at first was $600; in 1853 it was raised to $800, and in 1867 to $1,500. He has never alluded to the matter of his salary in the pulpit, nor has he ever anywhere asked for its increase. In accordance with a promise made at every pastor's installation, to continue not only the maintenance which the people have pledged, but "whatever else they may see needful for the honor of religion, and his comfort among them," his watchful congregation has not only paid the salary in full, but in observance of a New England custom has made him twenty-five visits, which, on the average, were worth $200 each.

4 Rev. A. J. Fennel.

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HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME OF ITS PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS, continued ...

EDITED BY H. P. SMITH

1885

CHAPTER XXV. HISTORY OF THE PATENT AND TOWN OF QUEENSBURY., continued ...

CHURCHES., continued ...

The Presbyterian Church, continued ...

The Rev. Mr. Fennel has continued in his pastorate until the present time to the eminent satisfaction of his congregation, and has merited and won the unqualified esteem of the entire community.

The Sunday-school of this church was organized by the village schoolmaster, Mr. Solomon P. Goodrich, about the year 1815, in the old academy Ridge street, which Mr. Goodrich occupied for his school during the week.

After some years it met in the session house on Glen street.

It was the first Sunday-school in the town, and indeed in the county, and continued to be the only school for many years.

It was in fact and in name a union school, and remained so for more than forty years.

Mr. Elias Hawley succeeded Mr. Goodrich, and was superintendent till his removal to Binghamton in 1833.

Its first two superintendents were elders of the church, as is the one now in office, and two others were elected to be, but declined to serve.

John L. Curtenius was the next superintendent, with George G. Hawley for assistant.

After Mr. Curtenius's removal, it is thought that Mr. Fordyce Sylvester acted as superintendent for a few months, when George G. Hawley was elected probably in May, 1837.

Except for a few months, during which Ira A. Paddock served, Mr. Hawley continued in office, annually re-elected, for twenty- three years.

His work in the Sunday-school was, and is, intelligent, earnest and efficient.

Since he was succeeded in 1860 by F. A. Johnson, he has much of the time been superintendent of the district Sunday-school of Queensbury, under appointment of the Warren County Sunday-school Union, an organization formed in 1841 greatly through his instrumentality.

Mr. Johnson was superintendent between four and five years, till his removal to New York.

In May, 1865, J. A. Freligh was chosen and continued in office for six years, till 1871, when Mr. Johnson, having re-established his residence here, was re-elected to superintend the school, and has continued in office to the present time.

Thus the school, now more than sixty years old, leaving out only a few months, has been the whole time under six superintendents — a fact to the credit of both them and the school.

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HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME OF ITS PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS, continued ...

EDITED BY H. P. SMITH

1885

CHAPTER XXV. HISTORY OF THE PATENT AND TOWN OF QUEENSBURY., continued ...

CHURCHES., continued ...

The Presbyterian Church, continued ...

The Sunday-school, ever since its adoption as a department of instruction in this church, has enlisted much of the best talent of the membership, and has done much to promote the intelligent piety of a large share of those who now belong to our communion.

In the year 1848 the "Old White" Church as it was known, was demolished and a handsome brick edifice erected at a cost of about $9,000.

The building committee consisted of Bethuel Feck, Albert N. Cheney and George C. Hawley.

The dedication services were held in March, 1850, Mr. Fennel delivering the dedicatory sermon.

On May 31st, 1864, the church was destroyed by the great fire, and services were held during the building of a new edifice in the Baptist Church.

In 1865, the next church building was begun and was completed in 1867.

The first sermon was preached by the pastor on June 16th, 1867, at which time the church was free from debt and valued, with furniture, at $25,000.

The trustees were S. L. Goodman, Henry Crandell, Jerome Lapham, A. C. Tearse, and Daniel Peck.

The church was dedicated June 19th, 1867, by the Rev. Dr. Hickok, the president of Union College.

An organ was afterward purchased at a cost of $3,000.

Trustees. — Elected in 1807, William Robards, John A. Ferriss, Daniel Peck, William Hay, John Folsom, Micajah Pettit; 1811, Uzziel Stevens, William Robards, John Folsom, John Thomas, Edmund Peck, William Wing; 1812, John A. Ferriss, Uzziel Stevens; 1813, John Thomas, John Folsom; 1814, Asahel Clark, Elnathan Parsons; 1815, Stephen Clark, John A. Ferriss; 1816, Thomas Colton, John Folsom, John Thomas; 1817, Solomon P. Goodrich, Hezekiah Leavens; 1818, Elias Hawley, John A. Ferriss, Royal Leavens; 1820, J. Lyman Arms, Solomon P. Goodrich, John Thomas, B. F. Butler; 1821, Horatio Buell, Elias Hawley; 1822, J. Lyman Arms, Solomon P. Goodrich; 1823, John Thomas, Luther Johnson, Bogardus Piersons, Samuel Cook; 1824, Elias Hawley, Alpheus Hawley; 1825, Solomon P. Goodrich, Elnathan Parsons; 1826, Bogardus Piersons, Roswell Weston; 1827, Charles G. Jones, Sidney Berry; 1828, Horatio Buell, Moody Ames; 1829, Sidney Berry, Lewis Numan, Samuel Estabrook; 1830, John L. Curtenius, Sheldon Benedict, John Van Pelt; 1831, Lewis Numan, Sidney Berry; 1832, Moody Ames, Jonathan W. Freeman, Fletcher Ransom; 1834, Sidney Berry, Lewis Numan, Sheldon Benedict, George G. Hawley; 1835, Jonathan W. Freeman, Alexander Folsom; 1836, Lewis Numan, Sheldon Benedict; 1837, Sidney Berry, George G. Hawley, Billy J. Clark; 1838, Billy J. Clark, Jonathan W. Freeman.

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HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME OF ITS PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS, continued ...

EDITED BY H. P. SMITH

1885

CHAPTER XXV. HISTORY OF THE PATENT AND TOWN OF QUEENSBURY., continued ...

CHURCHES., continued ...

The Presbyterian Church, concluded ...

Trustees. — Elected in 1807, William Robards, John A. Ferriss, Daniel Peck, William Hay, John Folsom, Micajah Pettit; 1811, Uzziel Stevens, William Robards, John Folsom, John Thomas, Edmund Peck, William Wing; 1812, John A. Ferriss, Uzziel Stevens; 1813, John Thomas, John Folsom; 1814, Asahel Clark, Elnathan Parsons; 1815, Stephen Clark, John A. Ferriss; 1816, Thomas Colton, John Folsom, John Thomas; 1817, Solomon P. Goodrich, Hezekiah Leavens; 1818, Elias Hawley, John A. Ferriss, Royal Leavens; 1820, J. Lyman Arms, Solomon P. Goodrich, John Thomas, B. F. Butler; 1821, Horatio Buell, Elias Hawley; 1822, J. Lyman Arms, Solomon P. Goodrich; 1823, John Thomas, Luther Johnson, Bogardus Piersons, Samuel Cook; 1824, Elias Hawley, Alpheus Hawley; 1825, Solomon P. Goodrich, Elnathan Parsons; 1826, Bogardus Piersons, Roswell Weston; 1827, Charles G. Jones, Sidney Berry; 1828, Horatio Buell, Moody Ames; 1829, Sidney Berry, Lewis Numan, Samuel Estabrook; 1830, John L. Curtenius, Sheldon Benedict, John Van Pelt; 1831, Lewis Numan, Sidney Berry; 1832, Moody Ames, Jonathan W. Freeman, Fletcher Ransom; 1834, Sidney Berry, Lewis Numan, Sheldon Benedict, George G. Hawley; 1835, Jonathan W. Freeman, Alexander Folsom; 1836, Lewis Numan, Sheldon Benedict; 1837, Sidney Berry, George G. Hawley, Billy J. Clark; 1838, Billy J. Clark, Jonathan W. Freeman.

The church was again destroyed by fire April 28th, 1884, and at the present writing is in process of rebuilding.

Following is a list of the ruling elders and trustees from the organization of the church to the present time:

Ruling Elders. — Elected in 1808, John Folsom, died 1839; John Moss, jr., dismissed, 1822.

1809, Jonathan Harris, Matthew Scott, Joseph Caldwell.

1819, Solomon P. Goodrich, died 1831; Samuel Cranston, dismissed 1832.

1827, Charles G. Jones, dismissed 1829; Gridley H. Packard, dismissed 1830.

1830, Levi Hamilton, dismissed 1833; Samuel S. Tallmadge, dismissed 1848.

1831, Sidney Berry, died 1839; Elias Hawley, dismissed 1833.

1834, Albert Blakesley.

1838, Sheldon Benedict, Linus B. Barnes, Miron Osborn, died 1850.

1851, Orville Cronkhite, John J. Miller, 1855, Henry Wing, William T. Norris.

1857; Linus B. Barnes, Orville Cronkhite, Sheldon Benedict.

1870, Linus B. Barnes, Sheldon Benedict, Henry Wing, John J. Miller, William Hotchkiss, Frederic A. Johnson, jr., Joseph Fowler.

1839, Lewis Numan, Abraham Wing, George Cronkhite.

1840, George G. Hawley, Linus B. Barnes.

1841, Billy J. Clark, George Sanford.

1842, Lewis Numan, George Cronkhite.

1843, George G. Hawley, Linus B. Barnes.

1844, Halsey R. Wing, Alfred C. Farlin.

1845, Stevens Carpenter, Albert N. Cheney.

1846, Ira A. Paddock, Orville Cronkhite.

1847, Linus B. Barnes, Thomas J. Strong.

1848, James C. Clark, Benjamin F. Shattuck.

Number of trustees reduced to five.

1849, Frederic A. Johnson. 1850, Charles Rockwell, Linus B.Barnes.

1851, George Cronkhite, George G. Hawley, Halsey R. Wing.

1852, George Cronkhite, Frederic A. Johnson.

1853, Linus B. Barnes.

1854, Halsey R. Wing, George G. Hawley.

1855, George Clendon, jr., Fred A. Johnson, jr.

1856, Linus B. Barnes, Fred A. Johnson.

1857, Halsey R. Wing, George G. Hawley.

1857, George Clendon, jr.

1859, Linus B. Barnes, Fred A. Johnson, jr.

1860, Halsey R. Wing, George G. Hawley.

1861, George Clendon, jr.

1862, Lewis L. Goodman, vice George Clendon, jr., Linus B. Barnes, Fred A. Johnson, jr.

1863, Ezra Benedict, Archibald C. Tearse.

1864, Stephen L. Goodman.

1865, Daniel Peck vice Ezra Benedict removed from the place; Henry Crandell, Jerome Lapham.

1866, A. C. Tearse, Daniel Peck.

1867, Stephen L. Goodman.

1868, Henry Crandell, James A. Freligh.

1869, A. C. Tearse, Thos. S. Coolidge.

1870, Stephen L. Goodman, to present.

1871, Henry Crandell, James A. Freligh, Martin Coffin, vice A. C. Tearse, removed from the place.

1872, Martin Coffin, M. L. Wilmarth, Thomas S. Coolidge, to present.

Present Trustees. — Stephen L. Goodman, Samuel Pruyn, Thomas S. Coolidge, Byron Lapham, Daniel H. Delong.

Elders: Eleazer Goodman, Frederick A. Johnson, J. L. Cunningham, John J. Miller, Byron B. Fowler, Joseph Fowler, A. B. Abbott.

Sunday-school superintendent, J. L. Cunningham.

Membership, 350.

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CHAPTER XXV. HISTORY OF THE PATENT AND TOWN OF QUEENSBURY., continued ...

CHURCHES., continued ...

Union Church of East Lake George, or East Lake George Presbyterian Church. — In 1864 C. L. North, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and several ladies and gentlemen who were spending the summer in East Lake George organized a Sunday-school in one of the school-houses.

The summer of 1865 a second school was organized and church services were held, either in the open air or in the school-houses of the neighborhood.

From this beginning grew the desire for a house of worship, and Mr. North circulated a subscription paper for the purpose of raising a sum of money, the land being given by Mr. Mattison.

The 5th of November, 1867, the corner stone was laid, and on July 12th, 1868 the church was dedicated.

It was organized under the Congregational form of government and was called the Union Evangelical Church of East Lake George, Rev. W. B. Lee, of Brooklyn, N. Y., officiating.

The church consisted of forty members at that time.

A parsonage was also built and Rev. James Lamb became the pastor.

Mr. Lamb was followed successively by Revs. Jacob Fehrman, Isaac M. See, Harry Brecket and Sidney M. Stray.

Under Mr. Stray's ministry the organization became Presbyterian, and on April 25th, 1877, was identified with the Troy Presbytery, and has since been known as the East Lake George Presbyterian Church.

After the retirement of Mr Stray, the church was served by the Revs. William Bryant, John J. Munroe and John H. Pollock, the last named gentleman being the present pastor.

A school-house has been added to the church, which with the church property is estimated as worth about $10,000.

Each summer an anniversary picnic is held at which the neighboring Sunday-schools are expected to be represented.

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CHURCHES., continued ...

Bay Road Presbyterian Church. — The Bay Road Presbyterian Church was organized September 12th, 1850, by the Rev. David W. French, as the First Associate Presbyterian Church of Queensbury.

The pulpit was supplied by the Presbytery of United Presbyterians until 1855, when the Rev. Chauncey Webster was installed as pastor.

He remained with the church for two years, when failing health interrupted his work.

The church was then closed and remained so until 1868, when the Rev. James Lamb, of East Lake George, began holding services.

The building was repaired and a request made to the Troy Presbytery to receive them, which was done in February, 1869, and the church was enrolled as the Bay Road Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Lamb ministered to them for a time, when the pulpit was supplied successively by the Revs. Rood, John H. Parkins, Sidney M. Stray, William Bryant, John J. Munroe and John H. Pollock, who will all be recognized, Mr. Rood excepted, as the pastors of East Lake George Church.

The present church property is valued at about $1,200.

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CHURCHES., continued ...

Methodist Episcopal Church. — Methodism was introduced into Warren county about 1796, when two lay preachers, Richard Jacobs and Henry Ryan, explored the northern portion of the county, then known as Thurman's Patent.

Mr. Jacobs was drowned while attempting to ford the east branch of the Hudson near the outlet of Schroon Lake, the same year.

Mr. Ryan was afterward known as one of the most successful itinerant preachers of this district.

Quoting from Dr. Holden: "In the same year the Rev. David Noble, of Ireland, who had been connected with the John Street M. E. Church of New York, for some years, removed into Warren county and purchased four hundred acres of land at two and a half dollars per acre, upon which he and his sons soon made a clearing and built them up a log-house, which to them was a dwelling, a school-house and church."

"Here, at this out-post of civilization, they were visited from time to time by those men of God, Elijah Hedding, Martin Rutter, Elijah Hibbard, Samuel Howe, David Brown, and others, and, with the numerous families of Nobles, Somervilles, and Armstrongs as a nucleus, a strong and flourishing church was built up, whose influences are still manifest to the present day."

"The services were held for a long period of years in private houses, and afterward in school-houses, being supplied as long as he lived by the Rev. David Noble, and afterward by other leaders who sprang up among them."

"This was the extreme wilderness limit of what was then known as the Ash Grove (since Cambridge), or six week's circuit."

"Here as elsewhere in the work of evangelizing the world, the operations of the Spirit and the progress of Divine truth, were met with opposition, obloquy and reproach."

"In reference to this a writer in the Troy Conference Miscellany states as follows: 'The persecution in Thurman's Patent was truly grievous.'"

"'Many young people that experienced religion were turned out of doors by their parents.'"

"'Some of them were whipped cruelly; two young women were so whipped by their father that the blood ran down to their feet, and he then turned them out of doors, and they walked fifteen miles to a Methodist Society.'"

"'That father was a church member.'"

"'Two younger brothers having been converted, were often severely beaten for attending Methodist meetings.'"

"'It astonished me that the father of ten children, eight of whom had experienced religion, should drive six of them from the house, and whip these two boys for no other crime, in reality, than that of worshiping God with the Methodists.'"

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EDITED BY H. P. SMITH

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CHAPTER XXV. HISTORY OF THE PATENT AND TOWN OF QUEENSBURY., continued ...

CHURCHES., continued ...

Methodist Episcopal Church, continued ...

"About this time the eccentric and widely-known Lorenzo Dow and his admirer, Timothy Dewey, were sent into this region by the authorities of the church."

"Dow officiated in a school-house in the northern part of the town and in a barn at the east of the Oneida."

"Traditions are yet extant of the power of his sermons, and of the numbers awakened and converted by his preaching."

"Soon after his coming the Methodist society was organized at the Ridge, a settlement then containing more dwellings and inhabitants than the village of Glens Falls."

"As previously stated, Queensbury was at this distant period of time included within the boundaries of what was then called Ashgrove circuit, so named from the locality, which was first planted by Philip Embury, the renowned pioneer of the faith, previous to the Revolutionary War."

"Having previously organized the first society of the denomination in New York, about the year 1770, he removed to the town of Cambridge, and in that portion of the township known in the local annals as Ashgrove, within the present limits of the town of White Creek, established a society and continued as its pastor until his death in 1775."

"From that time until 1788 they were supplied by traveling and lay preachers."

"During this year the Rev. Lemuel Smith was inducted as their pastor, and a chapel was built, the first place of worship north of Albany erected by Methodists to the service of the Most High."

"This church was the center from which northward and westward a Godly influence radiated to the extreme confines of civilization."

"In 1795 it contained sixty members."

"Soon afterward the Cambridge circuit was formed."

"In 1799 Billy Hibbard and Henry Ryan, the itinerants on this circuit, traveled about five hundred miles and filled sixty-three appointments every four weeks, one of their stations at this time being Sanford's Ridge, in the town of Queensbury."

"Among the first Methodist ministers who visited Glens Falls were the Revs. Friend Draper, Daniel Brayton, Andrew McKean, Samuel Howe and others, earnest and vigorous men, 'valiant for the truth.'"

"Not satisfied with the already extended range of country traversed by these men, Revs. Tobias Spicer and Sherman Miner made occasional visits to this village, then only a hamlet, and held religious services in the old academy building, then on Ridge street, on the site of Mr. Jerome Lapham's residence."

"The building, since removed, is now occupied by Messrs. Joubert & White as a carriage manufactory, on the corner of Warren and Jay streets."

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HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF SOME OF ITS PROMINENT MEN AND PIONEERS, continued ...

EDITED BY H. P. SMITH

1885

CHAPTER XXV. HISTORY OF THE PATENT AND TOWN OF QUEENSBURY., continued ...

CHURCHES., continued ...

Methodist Episcopal Church, continued ...

"The late Dr. Spicer was a clear thinker, shrewd debater, catholic spirited and resolute."

"Mr. Miner was a man of mild and lovely spirit and abundant in works."

"Both have passed to their reward."

"The first Methodist class, a name by which the branch societies are known and into which for greater activity and efficiency all these churches are divided, was formed in this village in 1824 by Rev. John Lovejoy, in the dwelling known as the General Pettit place, situated between the canal and the river, in the rear of the old stone store on the east side of Glen street and near the river bridge."

"The building was removed in March, 1874."

"The original number of the class was twelve, eleven being women."

"From this early date to 1832 this whole northern region was embraced within the New York Conference, and was traversed by heroic men, zealous for the conversion of the scattered inhabitants to Christianity."

"We can only name the active and earnest John Clark, the first regularly appointed preacher to the societies in Sandy Hill and Glens Falls; Seymour Landon amiable and popular; Julius Fields, characterized for administrative and financial ability, under whose auspices the first church edifice (the old stone building) was erected at a cost of about $1,500 in 1829, the land having been given by Mr. J. Pettit, nephew of the general."

"This structure is still standing, and has been for several years used by the Roman Catholics."

"Mr. Fields was followed by Rev. Robert Seeney and Coles Carpenter, of precious memory."

"In 1832 the territory now known as the Troy Conference, of which Glens Falls is nearly the center, north and south, was set off from the New York, both because of the numerical increase of the churches and for their better cultivation by the ministerial forces within the territory."

"The societies in Glens Falls and Sandy Hill being at about this time somewhat weakened, they were attached to others and entered into what for several years was known as the Fort Anne circuit, to which three preachers were sent, and who alternately supplied the several societies with religious services."

"This itinerant system peculiar to Methodism was established by Wesley as, and history shows, not less adapted to old and populous countries than to new and sparsely settled ones, continued until 1849 — a period of seventeen years — under such men of diversified talents as Elisha Andrews, assisted by P. M. Hitchcock and L. Phillips, Joseph Ayres and D. P. Harding as colleagues; J. B. Houghtaling, aided by J. W. B. Wood, late of New York, Henry Stewart and G. Y. Palmer; Russell M. Little, with William Chipp and Asa Fenton as colleagues; C. P. Clark, under whose administration the parsonage was erected in 1840; A. M. Osborn (now Rev. Dr. Osborn, of New York), a clear thinker and able preacher; James Covel, the student and scholar; Seymour Coleman, a war-horse, with James Quinlan assistant; E. B. Hubbard having William Amer and C. Devol, M. D. (now of Albany), as colleagues."

TO BE CONTINUED ...
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