Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 148

Author: Stocker, Rhamanthus Menville, 1848-
Publication date: 1887
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : R. T. Peck
Number of Pages: 1318

USA > Pennsylvania > Susquehanna County > Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania > Part 148

Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).

The eldest, Joseph Washburn, was a gun-smith and blacksmith, and his shop for the manufacture of tools was the only one for miles around. He was a man of good business ability and was commissioned the first justice of the peace in the township, and served two terms as county commissioner. He died at over eighty-four. His wife (Prudy Corbet) died in 1848. Their children were Ira, born in 1803, a blacksmith, gunsmith and fariner, whose only son succeeded to a part of the homestead on Gibson Hill, where he resides in 1887 ; Thersa (deceased) was the wife of Thaddeus Whitney, of Gibson ; Betsey, killed accidentally, was the wife of Horace Thay er, of Gibson ; Eliza died young ; Nancy was the wife of N. E. Kennedy, a mer- chant on Kennedy Hill, Gibson; Julia Ann, wife of S. S. Ingalls, Chicago, formerly a merchant in Bur- rows' Hollow ; Ira married Eliza Belcher, who was born in 1805, a daughter of William Belcher, who came from Orange County and settled in Gibson in 1794. He was a brother of John Belcher, who settled in the township at the same time. Ira and Eliza Washburn's children are Oscar Washburn, Esq., born

on the homestead April 17, 1824; Amanda, first the wife of Stephen Payne, and after his death married a Mr. Baylis, of Binghamton ; Janet, deceased, was the wife of F. M. Ellting, of Oneonta, N. Y .; Freder- ick died while sheriff jof Lassen County, California ; Mary, wife of John Fitch, of the same county; Free- man C., a gunsmith, of Wellsborough, Pa .; Betsey, deceased, the second wife of F. M. Ellting, of Oneonta ; Alice, deceased young ; Josephine, the wife of Lewis Steenback, died in Gibson; Helen, wife of Richmond Whitney, of Oneonta ; and Henry A., a farmer in California. Oscar, eldest of these children, spent his boyhood on the farm, obtained a fair education at the home district schools, and for some six terms was a teacher in the schools of the vicinity and for one year in New Jersey. He married, in 1850, Abby E. Tyler (1828-58), youngest daughter of Dr. Chester (1787-1847) and Laura Chedell (1790-1868) Tyler, of Gibson. After his marriage he bought a farm west of Smiley, where he resided until 1868, when he sold it, and settled on a farm on the Tunkhannock in Gibson. Here he resided until the sale of this farm to E. W. Jones, in 1886, when he removed in the spring of the following year to Susquehanna. His political affilia- tions have been with the Republican party, and he has served his township for ten years as justice of the peace, school director and assessor one term, and he was elected and served one term as county commissioner. He had one child (Mary E.), who died at the age of sixteen. For his second wife he married, in 1859, Sally C. Tyler (who had been a teacher in Susquehanna County over fifteen years and was a student of Har- ford University for two years), born February 13, 1820, a half-sister of his first wife, whose mother, Sally Crafts (1790-1820), was the first wife of Dr. Tyler, and the sister of Judge Crafts, of Otsego County, N. Y. This Dr. Tyler was a native of Windham County, Connecticut ; was examined and admitted to practice medicine and surgery at Delhi, N. Y., in 1816 and came to Hartwick, Otsego County, a young man, where he practiced his profession until 1825, when he set- tled with his family on Kennedy Hill, in Gibson, where he continued practice until his death. The children by his first wife were Sally C., the present wife of Squire Washburn, and one son, James C., who died young. By his second wife Dr. Tyler had chil- dren,-James C., of Montrose; Mary A. died at thirty ; Emeline R., wife of John C. Frazier, died in Gibson ; Abby E., the first wife of Esquire Washburn; John C., a druggist, died at Lafayette, Ind., in 1885; and Joab died young. The religious persuasion of the Tylers is Presbyterian, that of the Washburns Meth- odist.

KENTUCK, OR FIVE PARTNERS .- In traveling up the Tunkhannock, there is a road that leads from South Gibson northward up the hill which passes through a fine farming country ; this land, in its wild state, is said to have so impressed a Kentucky hunter with its beauty, that he declared it looked like Ken-

748

HISTORY OF SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

tucky-hence the name. Poyntell's surveyors, who were surveying lands where they could find the best localities, left the Tunkhannock River flats to secure these lands for their employer. William Abel, Eben- ezer Bailey, James Chandler, Hazard Powers and Daniel Brewster, a cousin of Abel's, who never settled in the settlement, constituted the "Five Partners." Wm. Poyntell advertised his lands in Connecticut. Jacob Loomis, William Abel's father-in-law, con- tracted for eight hundred acres in the interest of the partners. In the fall of 1809 they all came to Penn- sylvania, and with the exception of Brewster, all re- turned the next spring. They had some difficulty about obtaining a title, which made it necessary for William Abel and James Chandler to go to Philadel- phia to arrange the business, which was accomplished by Mr. Poyntell's deeding the whole tract to James Chandler, to be divided by lot among the "Five Partners." Three men from Harford acted as ap- praisers. The lands were divided and appraised, two dollars and fifty cents per acre being the lowest, and three dollars and fifty cents the highest price apprized. In the final allotment Mr. Abel's lands were three dollars per acre; Bailey's, three dollars and twenty- five cents ; Brewster's, three dollars and fifty cents ; Chandler's, two dollars and seventy-five cents ; Powers', two dollars and fifty cents.

William Abel came from Windham, now New Lon- don County, Conn. He was brought up near Jona- than Trumbull, " Brother Jonathan." His wife was Polly Loomis ; both his father and wife's father had seen service in the Revolution. He cleared up a good farm on his allotment of one hundred and twenty-five acres, and lived to be nearly ninety-two years of age. He was born the 12th of July, 1775, and remembered the burning of New London by Arnold. He was in- dustrious and amassed a good fortune for his day : although not a member of any church, he was a lib- eral supporter of the Presbyterian Church. His wife died at the age of eighty. They had a family of ten children, nine of whom arrived at the age of maturity,- William Abel is a successful merchant at Ann Arbor, Mich .; Guerdon L .; Rhoda, wife of S. S. Chamber- lain. Sylvester Abel read law with Wm. Jessup, and was admitted to the Susquehanna County bar in 1839 (he removed to Ann Arbor, where he practiced law, and was State Senator and a candidate for State treas- urer when General Scott was a candidate for the presidency); Alonzo resides in Owego; Nelson at Saginaw; Jane is dead; Henry resides in the town- ship and is a good business man ; Seth resides on the old homestead.

James Chandler located about one mile south of William Abel, and cleared up the farm now owned by Wm. H. Davall. He raised a family of some promi- nence; his oldest son, Charles, was coroner in 1824, sheriff in 1827 and a member of the Legislature in 1838-39. Stephen P. and James were the other sons.

Mary was the wife of Charles Edwards. Their son,

C. C. Edwards, is a celebrated physician in Bingham- ton. Harriet, Huldah, Adelia, wife of Dr. Dicker- man, of Harford, are the daughters.

Captain Hazard Powers was an old sea-captain. He located south of Chandler's. His children were Joseph, Samuel, Ichabod, William, Hazard, Daniel, Sarah and Hannah. Ebenezer Bailey located south of William Abel. He had five children, none of whom are now living in the township.

WILLIAM W. WILLIAMS .- Elisha Williams, grand- father of our subject, when a young man, came to Pennsylvania from Connecticut, and made purchases of land, the title of which proved worthless, and he returned to his native State. He was among the un- fortunate soldiers who were at Wyoming in 1778, but escaped that memorable and terrible massacre, in which nearly all were killed. Upon returning to his home, near Norwich, Conn., he began studying for the ministry, but after a time abandoned his inten- tion of becoming a clergyman, read law and prac- ticed his profession the remainder of his life. One of his sons, Alden, served with ability as a judge in Ohio; another, Whitman, also settled in the same State; a third, Elisha Williams (1793-1877), a native of Cider Hill, near Norwich, where the family re- sided, came to Brooklyn township in 1811, where he learned the trade of a carpenter. He afterwards set- tled on a farm, the Brewster allotment of the Five Partners', in Kentuck settlement, Gibson township, where he carried on farming, in connection with working at his trade the remainder of his active life. He built the grist-mill at South Gibson, which he owned and run several years. His wife, Lucy S. (1799-1876), whom he married in 1818, was a daugh- ter of Elijah Dix. In religious persuasion they were Universalists; their children are Huldah C. (1821- 83), J. Alden (1826-53), was a merchant for many years at Salem, Wayne County, afterwards at South Gibson, and died while in New York City purchas- ing goods, leaving one daughter, Alpha Frances, a teacher in Scranton.

William W. Williams, their only surviving son, was born on the home farm, in Gibson township, November 11, 1828, where he spent the major part of his life. He had the usual opportunities for obtain- ing an education at the district school, and for some time attended the old Harford Academy, now the Soldiers' Orphans' School. While at school he took a prominent part in the exhibitions, which were largely attended from all parts of the county.

He gained recognition and praise for the contribu- tions rendered, and many thus sought his acquaint- ance. From the age of seventeen years he managed the home farm, and during his residence in the town- ship purchased other real estate adjoining and in other parts of the township, until now he is the owner of three farms there, and one in Bridgewater township. Mr. Williams was in early life a large dealer in sheep, and afterwards in cattle, and, espe-

Williams

749

GIBSON.

cially during the late war, he made large purchases in Buffalo, which he shipped to this county and fatted and sold for home consumption.

In 1852 he engaged in the lumber business at Equi- nunk, Wayne County, where he purchased some five hundred acres of timber land, and manufactured and shipped lumber to Philadelphia, via the Delaware, until the sale of this property, three years thereafter. Returning to Susquehanna County, he carried on mercantile business at South Gibson, and was post- master at that place for three years. When a young man he became interested in township and county af- fairs, and, upon reaching his majority, was elected and served as constable. He subsequently served as justice of the peace, assessor and in other official po- sitions in the township. He was the chosen candi- date of the Republican party for their Representative to the State Legislature in 1875 and 1876, and served on the Committees on Appropriation, Agriculture and others. In 1881 Mr. Williams removed to Mont- rose, where he has since resided, continuing, how- ever, the personal supervision of his farms. His first wife, whom he mrrried in 1853, was Charlotte (1834- 68), daughter of Roswell and Nancy (Thacher) Gil- lett, who died, leaving two children,-William E., who was a graduate at Keystone Academy, Factory- ville, in the class of 1880, and for one year was a stu- dent at the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville (he read law with McCollum & Watson, was admit- ted to the bar at the January term, 1884, and is now a member of the law-firm of Blakeslee & Wil- liams, at Montrose); and Julia A., wife of Dr. J. A. Greenawalt, of Pittsburgh, who was also a graduate at Keystone Academy in the class of 1880, at the age of sixteen, being the youngest student ever graduated at that institution. In 1884 she was also graduated for the National School of Elocution, at Philadelphia. Mrs. Williams' parents were among the old families of Gibson township, and her grandfather, Willard Gillett, settled there from Connecticut. For his second wife, he married, in 1875, Carrie J., a daugh- ter of O. F. and Jeannett (Anderson) Gunther, form- erly of Archbald, now of Fleetville, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. She was born February 28, 1857. Her mother is a native of Thompsonville, Conn., and her father is a native of Saxony, Germany, who came to Carbondale about 1850, where he first met his wife. Mr. Williams' children by his present wife are Ethelberta, Alden Humphrey and Elbert Anderson Williams.

Arunah Tiffany lived about 1809 on the highest point on Kentuck Hill, and remained there, with the exception of two years spent in Brooklyn, until his death, in 1863, at the age of seventy-eight years. His son, George B., now occupies the old homestead. From a point west of the house an extended view can be obtained. One can see, with the aid of a glass, the Presbyterian and Methodist Churches at Ararat and Harford, also the orphan school at the latter place,

the Presbyterian Churches at Gibson and Dundaff and the Baptist Church at Greenfield. Noah Tiffany, a brother of the foregoing, came to Gibson a few years later. His widow died recently in her ninety- second year. She had been a member of the Presby- terian Church for many years. Noah Tiffany, Sr., father of Noah and Arunah, settled in Brooklyn in 1809, and had other sons, Olney and John, and daugh- ters, Jemima and Hannah, wife of Wells Stanley. These children were by his first wife, Hannah Carpen- ter. By a second wife he had two children,-Melinda, wife of Myron Lindsley, of Bridgewater ; and Clar- issa Waterman, of Brooklyn.

UNION HILL AND VICINITY .- John Belcher came in 1794 to the farm since owned by George Maxey. It extends west from Union Hill Church, and was once owned by George H. Wells. Mr. Belcher sold to Abijah Wells and removed to Lymansville, Spring- ville township. His sons were John, Ira, Hiram and Alanson. The family is scattered. Some of them moved into Wayne County. Michael lived in the vicinity of South Gibson, and is remembered as an ec- centric and rather demonstrative Methodist class- leader. His second daughter, wife of Ezekiel Barnes, was born in 1795, and claimed to be the first white child born in Gibson. She lived to be past eighty. James Bennett came to Union Hill and purchased an improvement of William Belcher, where George Mor- gan now lives in 1802. He had three hundred acres, and cleared up a good farm. The roads afterwards ran through his farm and cut it into five corners. The Union Hill Presbyterian Church stands on part of this land. Mr. Bennett died in 1847, aged eighty- two, and his wife died ten years later, at the same age. Their children were Charles, Luke, John, Rachel, Loren G. and Julia. They all resided in Gibson ex- cept Luke, who moved to Lenox, and were all farmers, except Charles, a shoemaker, and all attained a ripe old age. Levi Bennett came later and located where Justin Gillett lives.

George Galloway came to Union Hill, then known as "Toad Hill," from Orange County, in 1795. His farm and James Bennett's lay adjoining each other. His children were Jonatham, born in 1796; William, born in 1801. These were among the first children born in the township. Mary Ann, Matilda, Huldah, Solomon W., Aaron, Betsey, Lewis, Sarah, George and Abigail, Mary Ann (the wife of George Woodward) were the other children. There were six Walker brothers moved to Gibson as early as 1818, and settled in different parts of Gibson township,-Arnold, Enos, Keth, Sabinus, Cady and David. The latter married Ann Holmes and moved to Syracuse. Cady and Sa- binus moved to Allegheny County; Arnold and Enos died in South Gibson; Sabinus married Matilda Gal- loway. Their sons were William, Jonas, George and Gilbert. The latter became Governor of Virginia and Representative to Congress from that State, and liad the reputation at the time of being the handsomest man

750

HISTORY OF SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

in that body. He moved back to New York aud died there. His brother Jonas became wealthy in California. Keth Walker married Ann Hawley and reared a large family ; Sabinus and George were engaged in business at South Gibson for a number of years ; A. B. Walker, another son, was a member of the Legislature twice, the second time as representative of Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties in 1870; Rev. Ira T. Walker, an- other son, was born in Gibson, May 22, 1838, and moved to Salem, Pa., when twelve years of age. He commenced to preach for the Methodists at Cherry Ridge, Wayne County, then in Springville, Susque-

Thomas Evans came to Gibson from Wales in 1842, and Lewis Evans came with him. Thomas bought his place of Abijah Wells in 1847. Mr. Wells was an Orange County man, who owned about seven hundred acres of land. Mr. Evans married a daughter of Willard Gillett, who came here from Connecticut in 1816. He has a good library, and is a man of intelligence, in religion a Presbyterian and in politics a Prohibitionist. He has been elder and Sunday-school superintendent in the Union Hill Presbyterian Church many years, and was the candi- date of the Prohibition party for the State Senate.

Jacob & Giller

hanna County, 1858-59, and has been a successful clergyman ever since. One thousand persons have been converted under his preaching. He was pre- siding elder at one time and is now located at Lexing- ton, Ky.

Nathan Guile came to Gibson in 1809, and located between Burrows' Hollow and Union Hill. He cleared up a farm and died at the age of ninety-two. He had eight children. Vander, a cripple and for many years mail-carrier, died in South Gibson ; Jason, lived and died on the homestead ; Eliza, was the wife of Ches- ter Carpenter; Nathan and Charles live in Jackson and Joseph in Burrows' Hollow.

Lewis Evans bought a farm of James Chamberlain, and Daniel Evans bought the William Parmenter place.

JACOB L. GILLET .- Willard Gillet (1781-1868), the son of Isaac, a native of Lebanon, Conn., came to Gibson in 1816, bought out the improvements of one George Williams, on some one hundred and sixty acres, situate on Union Hill, erected a frame house and returned most of the way on foot to his home in Connecticut. He had married, in 1806, Eunice Loomis (1783-1861), a daughter of Jacob Loomis, born in the same place. In 1817 he removed to his new home in Gibson, with his wife and the fol-

751

GIBSON.

lowing children : Eunice (1807-86) was the wife of Silas Chamberlain, of Gibson ; Roswell (1809-55) was a farmer in Gibson ; Marietta (1811-86), the wife of Thomas Evans, of Gibson ; and Sophia, born 1814, first the wife of D. C. Payne, of Gibson, and the present wise of William Thyer. The children born in Gibson are Jacob L., September 1, 1817 ; Justin W., 1819, a farmer, in Smiley Hollow. Willard Gillet afterwards bought the right of soil from the Drinkers, cleared a large part of his land, and erected the present residence in 1829. He was an energetic and industrious farmer, a man of good judgment, and made a comfortable home for himself and family. He interested himself in church matters, assisted in erecting the church edifices (Presbyterian) on Union Hill, and lived a Christian life as an attendant of that church. He was drafted in the War of 1812, but furnished a substitute. This Jacob Loomis served in the Revolutionary War.

Jacob L. Gillet, next to the youngest child, remained on the homestead until his marriage, in 1844, to Almeda E. Parmenter, who was born in Gib- son, July 20, 1821, a woman devoted to her family and to the church (Methodist). He then bought a farm in the northwest part of Gibson, but remained on it only four years, when, upon the solicitation of his father, he returned to the homestead, and in 1851 erected his present residence just across the highway from his father's, where he has made other improve- ments and resided since, engaged in general farming. He succeeded to the whole home property and added some seventy acres more by purchase. All the appointments of his farm and sugar-works show the hand of thrift, and an intelligent farmer. Mr. Gillet had the usual opportunities of the early school of the neighborhood, whichi he so improved, together with his parental training, as to possess practical ideas of every- thing that pertains to his farm and the duties of a citizen. Although not identified with the church near his home as a member, he contributes to its support, with its charities, attends its meetings with his family, and has served as trustee for many years. He has ever supported all measures calculated to advance education among the rising generation, and for eighteen consecutive years served the township on the Board of School Directors, besides holding other offices in the gift of his townsmen. His chil- dren are Uleric B., born in 1845, educated in the home schools and at Montrose Academy, began teaching at fifteen years of age and has been a teacher since. He has been employed in the graded school at Sus- quehanna, was the first teacher of the graded school at Gibson, and for some six years has been principal of the graded school at New Milford. His wife is Addie J.Bradford, daughter of J. W. H. Bradford, of New Milford, and has been a teacher as long as her husband. Their only daughter is Emma Alineda, born in 1861,the wife of Burton H. Tiffany, and resides on the homestead of her grandfather. Mr. Tiffany

is also a teacher, and is the son of John Sheldon Tiffany, of Mt. Pleasant, Wayne County, a relative of the Tiffany families who early settled in Harford.

Almeda E. Parmenter is the daughter of William (1787-1853) and Diriuda Bennett (1793-1863) Par- menter. The former was a son of Joseph Parmenter, of Vermont, and came to Gibson, a young man, about 1808, settled on Kennedy Hill; the latter was a daughter of James Bennett, a resident of Gibson in 1807, who came from Orange County, N. Y. This couple spent the remainder of their lives on their homestead, were members of the Methodist Church, and highly esteemed citizens. Their family of children are Melinda (1811-81), wife of Hiram Belcher, of Gibson; Joseph (1816-38), drowned in Grand River, Grandville, in Michigan ; Sarah (1817- 48), wife of Eli Z. Seeley, of Gibson ; Almeda E., 1821, wife of Jacob L. Gillet ; Calphurnia H. (1823- 56), wife of Silas Whitney, of Gibson ; Eliza Ann, 1825, wife of Joseph E. Whitney, of Gibson; Marietta, 1827, wife of William Tiffany, of Gibson; William Jackson (1829-57) of Gibson, married Ellen Bird- sall, Calvin, 1831, of Gibson; Urbane (1833-70,) married and died in Michigan; and Adelia Alvina, 1837, wife of Truman Woodward, of Dakota City, Iowa.

THE GIBSON CONGREGATIONAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH .- Nov. 20, 1818, " Rev. Ebenezer Kingsbury and Rev. M. M. York met at the Union school-house in Gibson, agreeable to the appointment of the Sus- quehanna Presbytery, at the request of a few inhabit- ants of the township. Rev. Oliver Hill, being re- quested to attend the council, took his seat as a mem- ber." The following persons were constituted mem- bers : Wright Chamberlain, John Seymour, Abigail Case, Eunice Whitney, Abijah Chamberlain, Deborah Benton, Ann Holmes and Betsey, William and Mary Holmes were admitted. They chose Wright Cham- berlain and William Holmes deacons, and John Sey- mour clerk. In 1820 Arunah Tiffany, Lucy Tiffany and Polly Follet were received from the church at Harford. Samuel S. Chamberlain and Mrs. Sarah A. Seymour were received at that time. About this time Rev. E. Conger, employed by the Susquehanna County Domestic Missionary Society, labored in Gib- son, and more than usual religious interest existed. Near the close of the year Rev. John Beach came among them, and March, 1822, the people agreed to hire him for one year. Of forty-three who were pledged to his support, thirty-six were living a quarter of a century later. They paid him $35.25 in cash ; wheat worth $16; rye and corn worth $86; oats, $100; butter, $114; sugar, $81; flax, $102; something un- decipherable, $150; wool, $47; besides three sheep, 105 lbs. of pork, $5 in boots and shoes and $5 in mer- chandise.

The agreement was to pay this "to the trustees of the Presbyterian Society of Gibson." It is certain the church sent delegates to the Presbytery about this time.

752

HISTORY OF SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

Rev. Mr. Beach brought his family to Kentuck in May, 1822, and was with the church two years and a half. [The statements that follow, down to 1863, appear in the church records written by Deacon Tiffany] :-

"In the spring . of 1823 A. Tiffany gave the use of an acre, which was planted with corn, and cultivated by the people of Kentuck, for the use of the County Missionary Society. In 1824 one acre of land on Union Hill was purchased from James Bennett for twenty dollars, by the church and society, and they then contracted with Elisha Williams to build a meeting-house (thirty-six by twenty-six feet, and twelve feet between joists, with arched beams), to bc finished outside and the floor laid (the timber being found for him) for one hundred dollars. Nearly half this sum was subscribed by the people of Kentuck. In 1825 the missionary acre was sold for twenty dol- lars. From 1828 to 1830 the Rev. Jas. Russell was half the time in Gibson, and the other half in Mt. Pleasant. Rev. Isaac Todd, sent out by the O. S. Educational Society of Philadelphia, labored through the years 1830 and 1831. His salary was two hundred and fifty dollars per year, and he was boarded. A. Tiffany, M. Chamberlin, Esq., and Deacon William Holmes were responsible for four months each. The Educational Society gave one hundred dollars each year. The weekly prayer-meeting was kept up, and 'the church was never more blessed with a spirit of fervent prayer before nor since. There was not a communion season in the two years but that more or less were added to the church.' Mr. Todd was instru- mental in getting the church finished inside and out, and he obtained sixty dollars in New Jersey to secure a charter of incorporation, which was finally had in 1834. Early in January, 1833, the slips were sold for one hundred and eight dollars. In October, 1833, the form of government was changed to Presbyterian, and J. Chamberlain, Arunah Tiffany, J. B. Buck and P. K. Williams were chosen elders. The Rev. Sam- uel T. Babbit preached through this year. [The first two were chosen deacons May, 1854.] January 1, 1834, Alonzo Abel and E. Whitney, Jr., were ordained deacons. The latter died May, 1852. The first case of discipline was reported in 1835. In the following year the Rev. John Sherer was employed, and, by vote, the slips were to be free. During the next ten years Revs. M. Thatcher, Lyman Richardson and Eli Hyde occupied the pulpit. July, 1846, Rev. Geo. N. Todd came as stated supply for this church, in con- nection with the one at Ararat, and November, 1847, he became the first installed pastor. About this time there was a discussion as to the propriety of moving the church edifice over to the turnpike, near the Methodist Church then standing on Gibson's Hill. It was decided in the negative. A Sabbath-school was organized with ten or fifteen scholars ; Deacon Abel, superintendent. In June, 1849, one person joined the church on professiou of faith-'the first in ten or twelve years.'"

Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.

Centennial history of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Part 148

Author: Stocker, Rhamanthus Menville, 1848- Publication date: 1887 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : R. T. Peck Number of Pages: 1318

Author: Stocker, Rhamanthus Menville, 1848-
Publication date: 1887
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : R. T. Peck
Number of Pages: 1318