Religious Societies Jacksonville Lutheran Evangelical
Jacksonville
Lutheran
Evangelical
Religious
Societies - Book A
Original Index is located in the vault at the Greene County
Courthouse. This document found on page 80. Transcribed by Arlene Goodwin.
To all to
whom it may concern This Certifies that a meeting of the Male Members of the
Lutheran EvangelicalChurch& congregation which shall hereafterbe known by the name of
the Jacksonville First Evangelical Lutheran Church in
the town of CoxsackieCounty of GreeneState
of New York was held in the District School house No. 8 in the said town of
Coxsackie March 7th
1857Legal notice havingbeen given full Fifteen days priorto
the above date for the purpose of electing Trustees at which Meeting Jehoiakim
Collyer & John N. Cornwall Were unanimously appointed presiding officers of
the election of said Trustees whereupon said election was then and there held& Richard Cooke, Daniel Van Hoesen, & John N. Cornwell,
were unanimously elected Trustees of said church, In witness whereof we the said
presiding officers have hereunto written our names and affixed our
seals this first day of March 1858
Jehoiakim CollyerLS
In the
presence ofJohn N. CornwallLS
of John T
Whitman
State of New
York}
Greene County} ssOn this 9th
day of March 1858 before me personally came J Whitman subscribingwitness
to the above instrument to me known
who being by me duly sworn deposes ___ that he resides in the town of Coxsackie in same
Countythat he knew Jehoiakim
Collyer & John N. Cornwall the individuals mentioned in & who executed
the above instrument that he was present & says they severally sign &
seal the same & ___ then acknowledged act would give the executionthereof witness ____