Union Congregational Society
UNION CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY
Towns of Manlius and Pompey
Submitted by Kathy Crowell
Miscellaneous Records, Onondaga County Courthouse (B,45):
To all to whom these presents may come Mr. David Olmsted and Peter B. Messenger
of the Towns of Manlius & Pompey do hereby Certify that at a meeting
of a number of the male inhabitants of the towns of Manlius and Pompey
in the County of Onondaga holden at the Meeting House in the town of Manlius
(being members of the late) Union Congregation Society, for the purpose
of re-incorporating themselves and the said Society in pursuance of the
Eleventh section of an act entitled "an act to provide for the Incorporation
of religious societies" - passed the 27th March 1801 holden on the fourteenth
day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and seven
due notice having been previously given of said meeting agreeably to the
directions of said act we being members of the Church & congregation
then assembled (there being no "Elders or Church wardens" present) were
duly Elected to hold the said Meeting and be the returning officers of
the same - And we do also certify that Benjamin Sanford, Jacobus DePuy,
Peter B. Messenger, Benjamin Morehouse, Stephen Hungerford, David Olmsted,
David Hibbard, Ebenezer Butler, Junior and George Eager were duly re-elected
as trustees by said meeting and were voted to be known as called and distinguished
they and their successors forever thereafter by the name, stile and title
of the Union Congregational Society. In Testimony whereof we have
hereunto set our hands & seals the 14th day of October A.D. 1807.
David Olmsted, Peter B. Messinger. Sealed & delivered in presence
of Wm. Eager, Augustus Tyler. Onondaga County. Be it remembered
that on the fifteenth day of October One thousand Eight hundred and seven
personally came the within named and discribed David Olmsted and Peter
Messinger and made solemn oath that what is set forth in the within instrument
is the truth they were sworn before me on the day above mentioned.
Asa Danforth one of the Judge of the County of Onondaga. Recorded
the fifteenth day of October Eighteen hundred and seven. John VanPelt
Dep. Clk.
Submitted 7 June 1998