Presbyterian Society of Hunter
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.
We
the under signed do hereby Certify that a number of the freeholders in the town
of Hunter Greene Co. State of New
York met on this 15th day of August A. D. 1825 pursuant to legal
notice at the Meeting room in the New York Tannery in said Hunter, and formed
themselves into a Religious Society for the purpose of Supporting the gospel in
this place to be known by the name of “the
Presbyterian Society of Hunter” and proceeded to appoint by ballot three
trustees Vis, Deacon Joseph
Bassett, William Edwards, Esq and Mr. Edmund Avery, which board of Trustees was
immediately formed to be know by the name of “the board of Trustees of the
Presbyterian Society of Hunter” In
testimony whereof we the two senior Elders of the Presbyterian Church in this
place and presiding officers at the above said Meeting, agreeably to the Statute
of this State have hereto set our names & Seals
Joseph Bassett LS
William Edwards LS
Witnesses
Henry B. Stimson
David Ingersoll
State
of New York
Greene County SS
On
the 24th day do August 1825 personally appeared before me David
Ingersoll to me known who being
duly sworn says that he was present when Joseph Bassett and William Edwards both
to him Known executed the written instrument in writing who then acknowledged
that they did execute the same, and that he subscribed the instrument as a
witness thereto together with Henry B. Stimson, which being to me Satisfactory
evidence of its due execution I
allow it to be Recorded.
John V. D. S. Scott
first
Judge of Greene County Court
Recorded
this 24th day of
August 1825
J.
Pinckney Dep Clk
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