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Calvin Waterbury, Holston, Tenn. .
June II, 1867. . ... February 16, 1847. .
John R. Young, New York, Third ..
Geneva
Dismissed October 22, 1347.
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Jonathan Winchester, Champlain ..
Grand River.
Dismissed July 5, 1825.
February 7, 1832. . . October 9, 1832. . . June 6, 1834. . February 3, 1835 . . March 24, 1835 .. .. June 30, 1835, . ..
Ferdinand D. W. Ward, licensed ..
Ottawa.
October 25, 1836. . . October 9, 1839. . . . October 29, 1839. . . February 6, 1849. . . February 3, 1852 ... January 8, 1861 .. . . January 7, 1863. . .. September 14, 1864.
Calvin Waterbury, Cayuga.
Jeremiah Woodruff, Bath.
Dubuque .
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STATED CLERKS.
April 6, 1819, Comfort Williams, September 17, 1822. September 17, 1822, Joseph Penny, June 30, 1829. June 30, 1829, Joseph Myers, June 27, 1832. June 27, 1832, George G. Sill, May 27, 1834. June 6, 1834, Luke Lyons, October 25, 1836.
January 3, 1837, William Mack, February 6, 1839. June 25, 1839, John B. Richardson, February 7, 1854. February 7, 1854, Jonathan Copeland, January 5, 1859. January 5, 1859, Charles E. Furman.
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PRESBYTERY OF ROCHESTER CITY.
The Presbytery of Rochester City was organized in con- nection with the old school branch of the Church at Phelps, N. Y., Oct. 7th, 1851, in accordance with the action of the Synod of Buffalo, by taking from the Presbytery of Steuben the following five churches with their ministers, viz: First of Vienna, Seneca Falls, First of Mentz, East Williamson and Conquest ; also the following four churches with their min- isters from the Presbytery of Buffalo City, viz. : Rochester 2d, Rochester 3d, Penfield and Webster.
The ministers who were present at the organization of this Presbytery were Rev. Benjamin B. Stockton, Rev. Albert G. Hall, D. D., Rev. Thomas Bellamy and Rev. George C. Heckman. Those who were absent were Rev. A. B. Van- hanizan, Rev. Alexander Mc Coll and Rev. John Fisher.
The elders present were D. Sherrell, from Vienna First, and H. S. Wier, from Seneca Falls. The other churches above named were not represented.
The Rev. Albert G. Hall, D. D., preached the opening sermon from 1st John, V: 13: " These things have I writ- ten unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that ye have eternal life and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."
The Rev. Benjamin B. Stockton was chosen moderator and the Rev. George C. Heckman stated clerk. Of the seven ministers who formed the Presbytery, Dr. Hall alone remained a member to its close.
The Rev. B. B. Stockton was dismissed to the Presbytery of New York, April 7th, 1858, after the pastoral relation between himself and the First Church of Vienna had been dissolved.
Rev. Thomas Bellamy died at Charlotte, N. Y., April 31st, 1867.
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Rev. Geo. C. Heckman was dismissed to the Presbytery of Winnebago, Nov. 27, 1856. after his pastoral relation to the church at Port Byron had been dissolved.
Rev. A. B. Vanhanizan was dismissed to the Classis of Geneva, Oct. 8, 1862, together with the church at East Williamson, of which he was the pastor.
The Rev. Alexander McColl was dismissed to the Pres- bytery of Niagara, April 25, 1855.
Rev. John Fisher having united with the Baptist denom- ination, his name was stricken from the roll, April 29, 1852.
Additions by ordination were as follows : Oct. 7, 1851, Edward Hall, as evangelist ; April, 27, 1853, Alexander McFarland, and installed at Penfield ; whose pastoral rela- tion was dissolved Oct. 12th, 1854, and he dismissed to the Presbytery of Whitewater.
June 21st, 1853, Dugald D. McColl, and installed at Wheatland ; which relation was dissolved March 8, 1870, and on the 17th of the same month he was installed at Phelps.
March 22, 1866, E. Maurice Wines, and installed at Rochester First; which relation was dissolved July 14, 1868.
Aug. 1, 1866, Daniel R. Foster, and installed at Phelps ; which relation was dissolved Sept. 22, 1869.
April 31, 1867, Gideon P. Nichols as an evangelist.
Nov. 6, 1867. Charles W. Wood as an evangelist, who was dismissed to the Presbytery of Genesee, Sept. 22, 1869.
Additions by letter were as follows : April 29, 1852, Rev. L. Genstiniani, D. D., from the Lutheran body; and dismissed April 27, 1853, to the Presbytery of Cincinnati.
Oct. 4, 1853, Rev. A. T. Young, from the Presbytery of Wyoming; and dismissed to the Presbytery of Watertown, April 25, 1860.
April 26, 1854, Rev. Charles Kittridge, Rev. James Bal- lentine, Rev. Archibald Furgerson and Rev. Joshua H. McIlvane, D. D., from the Presbytery of Rochester; the
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two former came into this Presbytery at the time of reun- ion ; Rev. A. Furgerson died as pastor of the church at Charlotte, Dec. 20, 1856 ; and Dr. J. H. McIlvane was released as pastor of Rochester First, Aug. 8, 1860, and dis- missed to the Presbytery of New Brunswick, Sept. 19, 1860.
Oct. 4, 1854, Rev. Jacob Hart, from the Presbytery of Genesee River, who died at Fergus, C. W., Nov. 26, 1864.
Sept. 19, 1855, Rev. Geo. W. Burroughs, from the Classis of Geneva ; and was dismissed to the Presbytery of Baltimore, April 29, 1857.
Oct. 11, 1855, Rev. Charles Ray, from the Presbytery of Genesee River, who was installed first pastor of Rochester Calvary, Sept. 17, 1856, and dismissed to the Genesee River Presbytery, Oct. 14, 1858.
April 23, 1856, Rev. James Harkness, from the Presby- tery of North River ; installed pastor of North State St. Church, Rochester, June 11th, 1856, from which he was released June 29, 1858, and soon after removed to Yonkers, but never took a letter.
June 10, 1856, Rev. R. H. Richardson, from the Presby- tery of Chicago, and on the same day installed pastor of Rochester St. Peters, from which, Dec. 11, 1857, he was released and dismissed to the Presbytery of Chicago.
July 16, 1857, Rev. A. P. Botsford, from the Presbytery of North River, and July 24, 1857, installed pastor at Port Byron, from which he was released April 1, 1861, and dis- missed to the Presbytery of New York, April 23, 1861.
Sept. 16, 1857, Rev. Joseph Kimball, from the Associa- ted Reform Presbytery of Washington, N. Y., who was dis- missed to the Classis of Poughkeepsie, Feb. 21, 1863.
Oct. 18, 1858, Rev. Joseph H. Towne, from Fairfield Association, Connecticut, and Oct. 28, 1858, installed pastor of St. Peters, from which he was released April 25, 1860, and dismissed to the Presbytery of Buffalo.
Oct. 28, 1858, Rev. James Nichols from the Presbytery
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of Genesee River. He died January 31, 1864; to whom in the minute which was adopted in view of his death, Pres- bytery refers, as having "been peculiarly useful in the organization of three new churches in Oneida, in the teach- ing of youth in the Geneseo Academy, and his own school in Rochester, and as chaplain of the Western House of Refuge in Rochester."
March, 1859, Rev. George Patton, from the Associate Reformed Body, together with the church at Seneca, of which he was pastor and which had belonged to the Associate Reformed Body. He remained pastor of the same to the time of reunion.
April 27, 1859, Rev. E. C. Prichett, from the Presbytery of Geneva; installed pastor of the Westminster Church, Geneva, May 3, 1859, from which he was released April 25, 1860, and dismissed to the Presbytery of Utica, April 25, 1866.
April 27, 1859, Rev. W. S. Parsons, from Luzerne Pres- bytery, who was dismissed to the Presbytery of Lewis, Pa., Oct. 2, 1861.
Aug. 16, 1859, Rev. Isaiah Faries, from Associate Reformed Presbytery of Big Spring, Pa., and installed pas- tor of the church at Phelps, from which he was released April 26, 1865, and dismissed to the Presbytery of Albany.
Oct. 15, 1859, Rev. Lemuel Leonard, from the Presby- tery of Genesee River, who was dismissed to the Presbytery of Michigan, August 17, 1860.
August 8, 1860, Rev. J. T. Coit, from the Presbytery of Niagara, and installed pastor of Rochester St. Peters, who suddenly died Feb. - , 1863, greatly beloved and sincerely lamented both by his church and the Presbytery.
June 18, 1861, Rev. Edwin B. Van Auken, from the Presbytery of Cayuga, who was dismissed to the Presbytery of Rochester, April 29, 1863.
June 18, 1861, Rev. Belville Roberts from the Presbytery
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of Troy; installed pastor of Rochester Calvary, Oct. 2, 1861, from which he was released June 31, 1865, and dismissed to the Presbytery of Rock River.
July 31, 1861, Rev. Timothy H. Quigley, from the Presby - tery of Genesee, who was dismissed to the Presbytery of Genesee Valley, April 28, 1869.
Feb. 11, 1862, Rev. Franklin D. Harris, from the Pres- bytery of Philadelphia, and installed pastor at Port Byron ; from which he was released April 25, 1866, and dismissed to the Second Presbytery of Philadelphia, Sept. 19, 1866.
May 13, 1862, Rev. Calvin Pease, D. D., from the Winooskie Association, and installed pastor of Rochester First. He died Sept. - , 1863, respecting which, Presbytery passed appropriate resolutions.
April 29, 1863, Rev. Hiram Harris, from the Presbytery of Cayuga, who was dismissed to the Presbytery of Geneva, March 22, 1866.
Aug. 22, 1863, Rev. Edwin D. Yeomans, D. D., from the Presbytery of New Brunswick ; installed pastor of Rochester St. Peters, Nov. 9, 1863, from which he was released April 31, 1867, and dismissed to the Presbytery of Passaic.
April 27, 1864, Rev. George McCartney, from the Clas- sis of Saratoga, and installed at Webster, June 7, 1864.
Dec. 6, 1864, Rev. Silas R. Beadle, D. D., from the Pres- bytery of Connecticut, and dismissed to the Central Presby- tery of Philadelphia, Oct. 5, 1865.
Dec. 6, 1864, Rev. John W. Major, from the Classis of Saratoga.
Sept. 20, 1865, Rev. Alfred Yeomans, from the Presby- tery of Raritan, and dismissed to the Presbytery of Hunt- ington, January 2, 1867.
April 31, 1867, Rev. Herbert W. Morris, from the Pres- bytery of Albany, and installed pastor of Rochester Calvary, June 9, 1867.
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April 29, 1868, Rev. Wm. D. Woodruff, from the Bap- tist denomination.
April 28, 1869, Rev. Oliver P. Conklin, from the Presby- tery of Cortland.
Sept. 22, 1869, Rev. James M. Crowell, D. D., from the Presbytery of Philadelphia, who soon after was installed pastor of Rochester St. Peters.
From the previous list it appears that this Presbytery consisted of seven original members, seven added by ordi- nation and thirty-six by letter, making a total of fifty during the nineteen years of its existence, of whom six died, twenty-seven were dismissed, and one was stricken from the roll.
The original nine churches have already been named, to which the following ten, from time to time, were added, making a total of nineteen.
April 27, 1853, the church at Wheatland, from the Pres- bytery of Rochester.
Oct. 4, 1853, East Bethany, from the Presbytery of Wyoming.
December 13, 1853, Rochester St. Peters was organized.
April 26, 1854, the First Church of Rochester and the church of Parma and Greece were received from the Pres- bytery of Rochester.
October 4, 1854, the North State St. Church of Roches- ter, which had been organized by a committee of Presbytery.
April 25, 1855, the church at Charlotte from the Presby- tery of Rochester.
June 15, 1856, Rochester Calvary organized by a com- mittee of Presbytery.
March -, 1859, the church at Seneca, from the Associate Reformed Church.
April 27, 1859, Westminster Church, Geneva, organized by a committee of Presbytery.
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Of these nineteen churches, four transferred their rela- tions to other bodies and three were dissolved as follows :
April 26, 1854, Rochester Second was reported as having placed itself under the care of the Classis of Geneva, and was stricken from the roll.
April 29, 1857, Penfield asked leave to withdraw, in order to unite with the Rochester Presbytery, which was granted. Also, at the same date, Seneca Falls informed Presbytery that they had taken measures to connect themselves with the Presbytery of Geneva (N. S.), and the name was stricken from the roll.
Oct. 8, 1862, the church at East Williamson asked leave to withdraw, in order to place themselves under the care of the Classis of Geneva, which was granted.
April 23, 1861, the church at West Greece, which had been received from the Presbytery of Rochester, April 26, 1854, as the church of " Parma and Greece," was stricken from the roll, "the church organization having been dissolved."
The name of the North State St. Church, of Rochester, which was organized in 1854, appears for the last time on the Statistical Report of the year 1860, with no mem- bers ; but no record was made of its dissolution.
The church at Conquest is reported in 1859, for the last time, as vacant, and having eighteen members, but no action is found in regard to its dissolution.
There have been eight licensures, as follows :
April 28, 1852, Charles Ray ; April 7, 1858, Robert Proctor ; Feb. 8, 1859, George Dutton and Charles Russell Clarke ; April 25, 1860, Matthew L. R. P. Hill ; May 31, 1865, Gavin Longmuir ; April 25, 1866, Charles W. Wood.
Six stated clerks were elected at the following succes- sive dates :
Oct. 7, 1851, Rev. George C. Heckman ; Nov. 27, 1856, Rev. Charles Ray ; April 27, 1859, Rev. A. P. Bottsford ;
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April 23, 1861, Rev. Dugald D. McColl ; April 27, 1864, Rev. Edwin D. Yeomans, D. D. ; April 31, 1867, Rev. Albert G. Hall, D. D.
According to the records, the Presbytery, at the close of its existence, consisted of sixteen ministers and twelve churches.
GENESEE RIVER PRESBYTERY.
[The subjoined sketch has been furnished by Rev. J. E. Nassau, D. D., of Warsaw, N. Y., who, as stated clerk of the Presbytery of Genesee, has in his possession the records of the Presbytery of Genesee River.]
The Synod of New Jersey, in session at Morristown, N.J., October, 1838, in response to overture, erected the Presbytery of Caledonia in Western New York, in con- nection with the (O. S.) General Assembly.
The Presbytery of Caledonia, having grown to very wide bounds, was, by their own request, divided by the Synod of New Jersey, in session at Elizabethtown, Oct. 19, 1842, into the two Presbyteries of Steuben and Wyoming ; the Gen- esee River to be the dividing line between them, and the Presbytery of Steuben to retain the records and other papers of the Presbytery of Caledonia.
In August, 1844, the (O. S.) Synod of Buffalo, created by the General Assembly out of the three Presbyteries of Steuben, Wyoming and Ogdensburg, met in Buffalo. Soon after the new Presbytery of Buffalo City was erected by Synod, taking those ministers and churches in and around Buffalo, that had belonged to the Presbytery of Wyoming.
All these Presbyteries grew and changed in ministers and churches until 1851, when the Synod of Buffalo, having met August 21st, in Vienna, made some further Presbyterial changes, which weakened the Presbyteries of Wyoming and Steuben, so that in response to overture from these two Presbyteries, the Synod, in its session in Bath, N. Y., August, 1853, " Resolved, that the request of the petitioners
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be granted ; that the new Presbytery extend over the ground occupied by the two above named Presbyteries ; that the new Presbytery hold its first annual meeting on the last Tuesday of September next, at two o'clock P. M., at War- saw, and be opened with a sermon by the oldest clergyman present, and that the Presbytery assume the name of the Presbytery of Genesee River."
The Presbytery thus organized met according to appoint- ment in the Presbyterian church of Warsaw, N. Y., Sep- tember 27th, 1853, at two o'clock P. M., and was opened with a sermon by Rev. Thomas Aitken, (text not given).
Rev. Thomas Aitken presided at the organization and was then chosen moderator, with the Rev. George D. Stewart, stated clerk.
The roll of ministers and churches, including those present and the absentees, shows :
MINISTERS.
Isaac Oakes,
Stewart Mitchell,
Thomas Aitken,
Jacob Hunt,
Lemuel Leonard, Daniel Harrower,
Jesse Edwards,
Moses Miller,
H. L. Doolittle,
J. W. McDonald,
J. Edwin Miller, Smith Sturges,
George D. Stewart, L. R. Lockwood,
Charles Ray, James Nichols,
J. K. Correnger.
CHURCHES.
Bath, Peter Halsey, Elder. Lindley, unrepresented.
Groveland, Peter Titsworth. Cameron,
Oakland, George Arnold. Second Sparta, "
Caledonia, Alexander Frazer. Portageville,
Warsaw, Luther Foster. Wyoming,
First Sparta, Wm. W. McNair. Moscow, 66
Tuscarora, James Conklin.
Scottsville,
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Rev. George D. Stewart remained stated clerk until his removal west in 1859. At the meeting in Second Sparta Church, April 26, 1859, Rev. Joseph E. Nassau was chosen Mr. Stewart's successor, and has continued stated clerk of Genesee River Presbytery until the reconstruction of 1870, and since then of Genesee Presbytery, thirty years next month.
The statistical report of Presbytery, May 9, 1854, gives 16 ministers, 13 churches and 2 candidates ; the churches being the same as those just given, except that Cameron and Lindley seem to be regarded as one, (extinct in 1855) ; the ministers the same as above given, except changes made by the death of Rev. Daniel Harrower and the accession of Rev. John J. Carroll, Rev. Pliny Twitchell and Rev. John W. Major.
The number of members given in the statistical report is 1,058. At the reconstruction (in April, 1870,) the total membership was 1,420.
March 7, 1855, licentiate John Jones was ordained and installed at Scottsville.
October 24, 1855, licentiate Joseph E. Nassau was ordained and installed pastor at Warsaw.
October 15, 1856, Rev. F. De W. Ward was received from the Presbytery of Ontario.
April 28, 1857, Rev. W. P. Jackson was received from the Presbytery of Michigan, and Rev. Wm. E. Jones from the Presbytery of Troy.
April 29, 1857, Rev. James M. Harlow from the Pres- bytery of Buffalo City.
September 23, 1857, Rev. W. N. Hall from the Congre- gational Association of Hampton East, Mass.
February 16, 1859, Rev. Charles Ray from the Pres- bytery of Rochester City.
January 5, 1860, (Rev.) licentiate Henry B. Thayer ordained and installed pastor of Presbyterian church of Oakland.
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November 13, 1860, Rev. Dr. Malcolm N. McLaren received from the Reformed Dutch Classis of Orange and the same day installed at Caledonia.
August 16th, 1861, Rev. E. W. Kellogg from the Pres bytery of Buffalo City, and Rev. B. Coleman Smith from the Presbytery of Bath.
March 11, 1862, Rev. Henry Neill from the Presbytery of Michigan.
June 14, 1864, (Rev.) licentiate J. S. Bingham ordained and installed at Portageville.
April 25, 1865, Rev. Henry L. Doolittle from the Pres- bytery of Washington.
October 6, 1865, Rev. R. W. McCormick from the Pres- bytery of Susquehanna.
April 24, 1866, Rev. Ephraim S. Wilson from the Pres- bytery of Vincennes ; he went over to the Episcopal church that autumn and his name was dropped.
October 10, 1866, Rev. Charles W. Maccarthey from the Presbytery of Genesee.
July 22, 1867, (Rev.) licentiate John Butler was ordained as evangelist to the foreign field (China).
October 28, 1868, licentiate Thomas Dobbin ordained to the ministry and installed pastor at Groveland, June 16, 1869.
September 28, 1869, Rev. James M. Platt, received from the Presbytery of Alleghany City, and installed at Bath, November 4, 1869.
From the above sketch of Dr. Nassau we deduce the fol- lowing summary :
Original members, seventeen; subsequently added by ordination, six ; by letter, eighteen ; total, forty-one ; number of installations, seven ; number of churches, fourteen.
This Presbytery existed for seventeen years, and at the time of reconstruction, took its legal succession in the Pres- bytery of Genesee, although about half of its ministers and churches, those within the bounds of Livingston County, were incorporated with the Presbytery of Rochester.
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PRESENT PRESBYTERY OF ROCHESTER .*
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church being convened in the City of Philadelphia, Pa., in the month of May, A. D. 1870, the same being the first meeting of the re-united body of what had been known for thirty-two years as the New and Old School branches of the Presby- terian Church, in the reconstruction of its Synods through- out the country, defined the Synod of Genesee as including all that portion of the State of New York west of the eastern boundaries of the Counties of Monroe, Livingston and Alleghany. Said Synod met as directed by the Assembly, in the Central Presbyterian Church of Buffalo, on the 28th day of June following, and immediately changed its name to that of Western New York. At this first meeting the present Presbytery of Rochester was formed, to include all the ministers and churches within the bounds of Livingston and Monroe Counties, and to be the legal successor of the former Presbyteries of Rochester City, Rochester and Ontario.
Said Presbytery immediately met at the call of one of their number who had been appointed by the Synod for that purpose, in the Central Church of Buffalo on the 29th day of May, 1870, and after electing Rev. Levi Parsons as moderator, and Rev. J. Jones as temporary clerk, adjourned to meet in the Central Presbyterian Church of Rochester, on the 13th of September following.
With reference to the three Presbyteries to which this was made the legal successor, inasmuch as it contained a
* This part of the history was reported to Presbytery April 10, 1888, and having met the approval of the body, was ordered to be printed. But its pub- lication has been delayed until December, 1889, in order that the histories of the former Presbyteries, and of the individual churches, might accompany it.
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very large proportion of their ministers and churches, that of Ontario which was New School, and which, with the exception of the churches at Perry and South Bristol, was entirely within the county of Livingston, was the oldest ; having been formed by the Synod of Geneva at its session in the village of Geneva, Feb. 19th, 1817.
The following are the names of the ministers from Onta- rio Presbytery, who helped to constitute this Presbytery of Rochester :
Justus S. Hough,
John Barnard, D. D.,
Isaac N. Sprague, D. D.,
Milton Buttolph,
William Hunter,
Joseph R. Page,
Luther Conklin,
Herman N. Barnum,
Orson P. Allen,
Lucius D. Chapin,
Levi Parsons, Henry M. Hazeltine,
Samuel Jessup,
Alphonso L. Benton,
Levi G. Marsh, Willis Clark Gaylord, Alvin Baker, Joseph L. Whiting,
Isaac N. Lowrie,
Nineteen in all, four of whom, Allen, Barnum, Lowrie and Whiting, were Foreign Missionaries.
Edward G. Bickford was a licentiate.
The following twelve churches, with an aggregate of 1,562 members, were also from the same Presbytery : Avon, Avon Springs, Dansville, Geneseo First, Geneseo Village First, Lima, Livonia, Mount Morris, Nunda, Ossian, Springwater and Union Corners.
The former Presbytery of Rochester was formed by the Synod of Geneva, Feb. 18, 1819, that is, two years after that of Ontario, by taking a part from Ontario and a part from Niagara. This Presbytery, with the exceptions of Victor and Bergen, had been restricted to the County of Monroe.
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The names of the ministers coming into the new Presby- tery were :
Hezekiah B. Pierpont,
Lemuel Brooks,
Charles E. Furman, D. D.,
James B. Shaw, D. D.,
Robert McMath,
Nathaniel Elmer,
Austin G. Wilcox,
Samuel M. Campbell, D. D.,
William B. Stewart,
Dwight Scovel,
Alexander Mc A. Thorburn,
Samuel A. Freeman,
Edwin B. Van Auken,
Gavin L. Hamilton,
Henry M. Morey,
John E. Baker,
Charles P. Bush, D. D.,
Seventeen in all, together with David Dickey and Elisha M. Carpenter as licentiates.
Also, from the same Presbytery, the following fourteen churches : Brockport, Chili, Clarkson, Gates, Mendon, Ogden, Parma Centre, Penfield, Pittsford, Rochester Brick, Rochester Central, Rochester Westminster, Sweden and West Mendon, now Honeoye Falls, with members num- bering, in the aggregate, 3,262.
The other Presbytery, that of " Rochester City," which, as already stated, had been organized in connection with the Old School Assembly at Phelps, N. Y., October 7, 1851, contributed seven of its sixteen ministers to form the new Presbytery, whose names are as follows :
Albert G. Hall, D. D., Charles Kittridge, Oliver P. Conklin, George McCartney, James Ballentine, Herbert W. Morris and James M. Crowell, D. D .; also the following seven of its twelve churches with members numbering, in the aggregate, 1,637, viz :
Rochester First, Rochester Third, Rochester St. Peters. Rochester Calvary, Charlotte, Webster and Wheatland.
There was, as has already been stated, a fourth Presby- tery, that of " Genesee River," which had been connected
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with the Old School Assembly and which took the Presby- tery of Genesee as its legal successor, which at this time contributed to the new Presbytery the following eight ministers : Isaac Oakes, Malcolm N. McLaren, D. D., Thomas Aitken, Ferdinand De W. Ward, D. D., Wash- ington D. Mckinley, William E. Jones, John Jones and Thomas Dobbin ; also the following eight churches with an aggregate of members of about 753 : Caledonia, Geneseo Central, Groveland, Moscow, Oakland, Sparta First, Sparta Second and Tuscarora. To these may be added the Rev. Geo. W. Lane, of Moscow, who at that time was a member of the Presbytery of Buffalo City.
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