Greenville
Methodist Episcopal
Asbury
Religious Societies - Book A
Original Index is located in the vault at the Greene County Courthouse. This document found on page 41. Transcribed by Arlene Goodwin.
To
all whom it may concern this is to Certify that at a Meeting of a number of the
inhabitants of the town of Greenville in the County of Greene & State of New
York legally warned And held at the District School house No. 9 in Said town on
the 8th day of February 1825. It was unanimously Resolved and agreed to organize ____
themselves into a Religious Church or Society by the name of ____
Methodist Episcopal Asbury Church of the town of Greenville, and that the
board of trustees for the transaction & business of said Society shall
consist of five . Whereupon we the undersigned Joel Squire and Alexander Calder
were appointed by said meeting as inspectors of the Election of said Trustees
____ of the qualification of Election of said Trustees Judges of the
qualifications of Electors and ______ of the votes.
And when the Votes were taken and the votes counted we found that
Alexander Calder, John L. Reymond, Benjamin Morehouse, Thomas I. Smith, and
Benjamin McCabe were duly elected by a plurality of votes as trustees of said
Corporation as the law directs. In
witness whereof we have hereto set
our hands and seals this 8th day of February 1825
Joel
Squire LS
Inspectors
Alexander Calder LS
of Election
State
of New York
Greene County
On the 19th day of February 1825 personally
came before me Joel Squier
& Alexander Calder, and
acknowledged that they had Executed the foregoing
Certificate
for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.
Levi Callender, a
Commissioner for Greene County
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