Prattsville
Dutch Reformed
Religious Societies -
Book A
Original Index is located in the vault at the Greene County Courthouse. This document found on page 60. Transcribed by Arlene Goodwin.
We Calvin Wiltse & Platt M. Osborne two of the members of the Reformed Dutch Church and
Society of the town of Prattsville elected by a majority of the members present
to hold an election of trustees of
said Church and Society to all to whom these present may concern
do certify and make known
that pursuant to an act of the legislature of the state of New York entitled
“an act to provide for the incorporation of religious Societies”
the male persons of full age belonging to the Said reformed Dutch Church
or Society of Prattsville did assemble and meet together on the twenty sixth day
of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty five, at the
meeting house in Prattsville the
place at which they statedly attend for the divine worship for the purpose of
electing trustees for the said Church and Society the said church and Society
having been duly notified of the time and place of such meeting previous thereto
in the manner prescribed by the said act, the said male persons belonging to the
said Society did then and there determine that six trustees
should be elected to take charge of the state and property belonging to
the said Society and to transact all affairs relative to the temporalities
thereof and that the style of the said trustees and their successors in office
should be “the trustees of the reformed Dutch Church and Congregation of
Prattsville” as the style named
and title by which the said trustees shall forever hereafter be called
distinguished and known and that thereupon on
the same day year and place above mentioned, an election was held for electing
such trustees and John Brackney,
Robert More, Zadock, Pratt, John Laraway Dwight Brockett and Henry T. Beeker were by a plurality of
votes elected trustees of said Society in presence of
Plat M. Osborn
F. A. Finn
Calvin
Wiltse
State of New York
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Greene County ss
} On the twenty sixth day of
January 1835 personally appeared before me the subscriber a commissioner of
deeds to take the acknowledged _____ ____ & in Said County Calvin Wiltse and Platt M. Osborn persons well known to
me as the persons named in this written instrument and severally acknowledged
that they signed and executed the same freely and voluntarily for the acts and
purposes therein expressed I do
allow it to be recorded.
F. A. Finn Commissioner &c
Recorded Jany
31 1835 3 O.C. P. M.
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W. V. B. Heermance Clk
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