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First Baptist Church of Summit Charter

The following is the charter for the First Baptist Church of Summit transcribed from a copy mailed to me from the Schoharie County Court Clerk. It has been transcribed line per line to the best of my ability. Angeles Oakes

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At a meeting of the first Baptist church in

Summit in the county of Schoharie, held pursuant

to previous notice given according to statute at the

School house near James HOWES in said town. John

B. VANBUREN and Eleazer OSBORN Junior were by a

plurality of votes, chosen to preside at said meeting __

Resolved that the name and style of this Society be

The first Baptist church in Summit. Resolved that

John B. VANBUREN, Jacob PAYNE, Gideon WILCOX,

Edmund NORTHRUP and Eleazer OSBORN Junr. Be the

Trustees of said Society. We hereby ostify that at the

time and place above mentioned, we being chosen to

preside at said meeting, did superintend the same,

and that John B. VANBUREN, Jacob PAYNE, Gideon

WILCOX, Edmund NORTHRUP and Eleazer OSBORN Jnr.

were unanimously chosen Trustees of said society; and

we further certify that the said trustees and their suc-

essors, shall forever hereafter be known and distin-

guished by the name of The first Baptist church in

Summit. In witness whereof we have here unto set our

hands and seals this nineteenth day of November

One thousand eight hundred and thirty one.

By presence of Eleazer OSBORN Jr. L.L.

Joseph LINCOLN John B. VANBUREN L.L.

Schoharie county p. Be it remembered, that on the

ninth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand

eight hundred and thirty one personally appeared

before me Henry SHAFER a judge of Schoharie county

court the within named Eleazer OSBORN Junior

and John B. BANBUREN, to me known to be the

persons described and who Executed the within

certificate, acknowledged that they duly executed

the within for the use and purposes therein mentioned. I

have examined the same finding therein no alterations. I allow

it to be Recorded__ ( Recorded and signed Henry SHAFER

this 14^th day of December 1831. John LOBHAUT? Jr. Clk)

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