CHAPTER XXVII.

HOME MISSIONARY STATIONS.

1.--KING'S CLIFFE AND NASSINGTON.

In the north-eastern part of the county of Northampton there are two Home Missionary Stations. In the first of these the agent statedly preaches at King's Cliffe and Nassington, having a Chapel at Castor also under his superintendence.

The Church that has been formed at King's Cliffe originated in the efforts of the General Baptists about thirty years back. The Rev. Mr. Payne, who belonged to that denomination, and was minister of Baradon, Rutlandshire, preached the Gospel here, and had a Chapel erected. But Mr. Payne shortly after left the neighbourhood; and after repeated efforts by Baptist ministers, with but little success, the place was resigned into the hands of the Independents.

The Northamptonshire Association of Independent Churches took the place under their direction for a time, in connexion with Nassington, and the Rev. J. Matthews and the Rev. J. Dann laboured in these places, having their residence chiefly at the latter village. A Church was formed at Nassington on the 8th of April, 1835; and the present Chapel was opened for public worship on the 21st of May, 1839, when the Rev. B. Hobson, of Welford, and the Rev. E. T. Prust, of Northampton, preached.

In the year 1841 the station was taken into connexion with the Home Missionary Society. In March, 1844, the Rev. G. Amos, one of the Society's agents, was sent on probation, and accepted as the minister of the two Churches. On the 24th of June in that year his ordination took place, in the Chapel at Nassington: the ministers who engaged were the Rev. Messrs. Islip, of Stamford, Gammage, of Ketton, Goode, of Peterborough, Newth, of Oundle, Smith, of Wymondham. In October of that year Mr. Amos commenced his residence at King's Cliffe.

The ground on which the Chapel was first erected here being private property, and as no satisfactory arrangements for its purchase could be made, it was at length determined to give it up, and to build a new one. The present Independent Chapel in King's Cliffe was built in the year 1846; the opening services were held on the 29th of September. The Rev. J. Richardson, of Tottenham Court Chapel, London, preached two sermons on the occasion; and on the following Sabbath sermons were preached by the Rev. J. Matthews, of Shepton, Norfolk, the Rev. A. Newth, of Oundle, and the Rev. W. Robinson, of Kettering. A school-room was built in 1847, and opened for a Day-school in October of that year. The cost of the Chapel and the school-room was about £500. Of this sum, there now remains a debt of about £150. At Castor a neat Chapel was erected in 1848; the Rev. T. Toller, of Kettering, and the Rev. E. T. Prust, of Northampton, preached when it was opened for divine worship. There are thirty-seven members in the Church at King's Cliffe, and forty in the Church at Nassington--total, seventy-seven. The Sabbath-school in the former place has one hundred and thirty children, and the Sabbath-school in the latter place, seventy--total, two hundred.

2.--BOROUGH FEN.

This place is extra parochial, the property of Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, Bart., situated six miles north of Peterborough. The Gospel was introduced here about twenty years ago, by the Wesleyan Methodists; the preaching services were then conducted in a room of the house now occupied by the minister. In 1836 Sir Culling built a neat and spacious building, which is used both as a daily school-room and Chapel. For several years the preaching services were conducted by the master. A congregation having been thus collected, and Sunday-schools opened, it was considered to be a promising sphere for regular ministerial labour; and accordingly, in 1843, Mr. D. Blellock was stationed here as a Home Missionary. After the removal of Mr. Blellock in 1846, Mr. Alexander Yuill was settled here, who, after a few months of acceptable and useful labour, fell asleep in Jesus. In January, 1849, Mr. J. B. Bishop, the present pastor, was invited to settle over the congregation worshipping in this place and in Peakirk. Through Mr. Bishop's instrumentality a Christian Church was formed, March 30th, 1849, numbering thirteen members. The following places are connected with this station, viz.: Peakirk, Crowland (Lincolnshire), Glinton, and New Borough. There are now twenty-seven Church members, seventy-five Sabbath-school children, and one Day-school.

3.--MIDDLETON.

In the year 1844, a neat and commodious village Chapel, capable of seating near two hundred hearers, was erected here, at a cost of more than £300; and this year (1852) school-rooms have been added, which have cost nearly £100. It is supplied generally in the afternoon and evening of the Sabbath, and there is in connexion with it a Sabbath-school containing nearly one hundred children.

APPENDIX.

I.

The following statements will show the amount of money that has been expended on the Chapels, School-rooms, Ministers' Houses, &c., in connexion with the Independent denomination in Northamptonshire, during little more than the last quarter of a century.

£. _s._ _d._

NORTHAMPTON-- Castle Hill--New School-rooms and improvements in the Chapel, 1825-1852 1,400 0 0

King Street--New School-rooms 336 6 5

Commercial Street--New Chapel, galleries and organ, new School-rooms, 1829-1851 3,800 0 0

ROWELL--Improvements in the Chapel, 1852 800 0 0

KETTERING--New School-rooms and improvements in the Chapel, 1849. 1,400 0 0

HARBOROUGH--New Chapel and new School-room, 1844-1850 3,230 0 0

ASHLEY--Improvements in the Chapel and Minister's House, 1827-1832 400 0 0

WELLINGBOROUGH-- Cheese Lane--New School-rooms, 1850 300 0 0

Salem Chapel--New School-rooms, 1850 300 0 0

WEEDON BECK--New School-room, improvements in the Chapel 235 0 0

LONG BUCKBY--Chapel enlarged, new School-room, 1819-1825 350 0 0

POTTERSPURY--New School-rooms 208 17 0

POTTERSPURY--Yardley Gobion, new Chapel 368 4 10-1/2

YARDLEY HASTINGS--New School-rooms 400 0 0

BRIGSTOCK--Minister's House, improvements in the Chapel 456 12 9

YELVERTOFT--Chapel enlarged, new School-rooms 226 0 0

WOLLASTON--New vestry, improvements in the Chapel, Minister's House 645 4 3 ----------------- Carried forward £14,856 5 3-1/2

£. s. d. Brought forward 14,856 5 3-1/2 PETERBOROUGH--New School-room, galleries in the Chapel, 1834-1848 350 0 0

TOWCESTER--New Chapel and School-rooms, 1846 1,134 3 10

OLD--Improvements in the Chapel and premises, 1852 60 0 0

BRACKLEY--New Chapel, 1836 650 0 0

PAULERSPURY--New Chapel, vestry, galleries, and School-rooms, 1826-1850 606 12 0

KING'S CLIFFE--New Chapel and School-room 500 0 0

NASSINGTON--New Chapel 300 0 0

CASTOR--New Chapel 260 0 0

MIDDLETON--New Chapel, 1844; School-room, 1852 400 0 0

BROUGHTON--New Chapel 100 0 0 -------------- £19,217 1 11-1/2

II.

THE NUMBER OF COMMUNICANTS AND SABBATH-SCHOOL CHILDREN.

Communicants. Children.

Northampton, Castle Hill 150 300 Northampton, King's Street 72 95 Northampton, Commercial Street 160 400 Rowell 130 320 Kettering 200 280 Harborough 163 260 Ashley and Wilbarston 56 60 Welford 80 130 Creaton 60 80 Daventry 94 190 Wellingborough, Cheese Lane 70 190 Wellingborough, West End 37 84 Wellingborough, Salem 100 200 Oundle 70 120 Weedon Beck 80 125 Long Buckby 50 100 Potterspury 65 130 Yardley Hastings 116 260 Kilsby and Crick 60 at Crick 35 ---- ---- Carried forward 1,813 3,359

Communicants. Children. Brought forward 1,813 3,359 Brigstock 60 110 Weldon and Corby 27 75 Yelvertoft 80 130 Wollaston 41 about 50 Peterborough 120 200 Towcester 50 110 Old 26 25 Everdon 30 Brackley 33 50 Byfield 33 30 Paulerspury 72 159 King's Cliffe and Nassington 71 200 Borough Fen 27 75 Middleton 100 ----- ----- 2,453 4,703

III.

PROVIDENT SOCIETY.

There is a Society in connexion with the Independent Churches, bearing the title of "The Provident Society for the Relief of Aged and Afflicted Ministers and their Families in the County of Northampton and its Connexions."

This Society was established in the year 1811: its funds at the present time amount to about £6,400, and they are receiving a small increase by annual collections and subscriptions, the interest of the funds being applied to the relief of the claimants.

In the year 1817, about six years after its establishment, the first claims were made; since that time, the sum of nearly £5,000 has been distributed to ministers and to the families of ministers who were members. The importance of this Society is amply proved by the extent of relief that claimants have received from its funds. Its management is conducted entirely free of expense, and it will be capable of rendering efficient aid to all its members who, in accordance with its rules, present their case for assistance at the annual meetings of its members.

IV.

The following list contains the names of the villages in the County that are supplied with Sabbath evening services, chiefly by the Independent Churches. Some of the villages have an afternoon service on the Sabbath, and some of them an occasional service on a week evening. The list is not to be regarded as quite complete. In some instances, the Independents unite with other denominations in supplying the villages in their vicinity.

Alderton. Barby. Bowden, Great. Bozeat. Broughton. Cold Ashby. Cransley. Doddington. Draughton. East Haddon. Farndon. Finedon. Floor. Geddington. Glapthorne. Glinton. Grafton Regis. Great Oakley. Lubenham. Loddington. Mears Ashby. Middleton. Newborough. Orlingbury. Oxendon. Peakirk. Rockingham. Scaldwell. South Kilworth. Sutton Bassett. Swinford. Tansor. Thorpe. Weston by Welland. Welham. Warkton. Wilby. Yardley Gobion.

INDEX.

Academy at Mile End, 137

Addington, Dr. Stephen, pastor at Harborough, 135

Allen, Mr. Richard, ejected from Norton, 268

Alsop, Mr., ejected from Wilby, 212

Amos, Mr. G., Home Missionary, 377

Anderson, Mr. John, minister at Wollaston, 350

Andrews, Mr. Thomas, ejected from Wellingborough, 212

Anecdotes of Mr. Edward Snape, 3; Dr. Owen, 55; Mr. R. Davis, 59; Mr. T. N. Toller, 113; Opposition to a Village Service, 153; Dr. Gibbons, 168; Mr. Mattock, 191; Mr. Grant, 233; Mr. Clark, 252; Mr. Heywood, 281; Mr. Raban, 294; Mr. Hoppus, 298

Apperley, Mr. James, pastor at Long Buckby, 274

Ashley and Wilbarston, 146

Ashworth, Dr. Caleb, pastor and tutor at Daventry, 195

Aston, Mr., pastor at Creaton, 183

Atkinson, Mr., Puritan minister, 257

Bacon, Mr., pastor at Ashley, 149

Barber. Mr., pastor at Yelvertoft, 342

Barnett, Mr. Andrew, pastor at Daventry, 189

Bedworth, Dissenters from Welford travelled to, 162

Bell, Mr., pastor at Wellingborough, 242

Belsham, Mr., pastor and tutor at Daventry, 206

Bennett, Mr. John, pastor at Northampton, 35

Bennett, Mr., at Potterspury, 277

Bettson, Mr. Robert, pastor at Wellingborough, 228

Bevan, Mr., pastor at Wellingborough, 248

Beverly, Mr. John, first pastor at Rowell, 46

Bicknell, Mr. John, pastor at Welford, 173

Blower, Mr. Samuel, pastor at Northampton, 10

Bolton, Mr., Puritan minister, 117

Boyce, Mr. Benjamin, pastor at Kettering, 100

Boyce, Mrs., her death, 105

Brackley, 369

Bradbury, Mr. David, pastor at Wellingborough, 215

Bradshaw, Mr. S. A., pastor at Weldon, 332

Braybrook, Mr., pastor at Weedon, 264

Brigstock, Church at, 314

Broughton, Church at , 116

Browning, Mr. John, pastor at Rowell, 49

Buckingham, Mr., pastor at Paulerspury, 373

Buckby Long, Church at, 268

Bullock, Mr. G., pastor at Ashley, 150

Bunn, Mr., pastor at Yardley, 302

Bushnell, Mr., pastor at Potterspury, 278

Cambden, Mr., pastor at Daventry, 190

Cartwright, Mr. Thomas, pastor at Buckby, 269

Carver, Mr. John, pastor at Wellingborough, 238

Causby, Mr. Stephen, pastor at Towcester, 360

Cauthorn, Mr. Edward, lecturer at Oundle, 255

Chadwick, Mr. Joseph, pastor at Oundle, 260

Church Covenant at Rowell, 47; Harborough, 126; Northampton, 11; Wellingborough, 247; Potterspury, 279; Brigstock, 316

Clarke, Mr. Hugh, Puritan minister at Oundle, 252

Clarke, Mr. Matthew, pastor at Harborough and Ashley, 121

Clarke, Mr. Matthew, junior, 123

Coleman, Mr. Thomas, pastor at Ashley, 152

Commercial Street, Northampton, Church at, 42

Cooke, Mr., pastor at Oundle, 260

Creaton, Church at, 179

Crick, Church at, 313

Cuzens, Mr., pastor at Crick, 313

Dale, Mr., pastor at Creaton, 180

Dann, Mr. J., pastor at Nassington, 376

Daventry, Church at, 186

Davis, Mr. John, pastor at Daventry, 208

Davis, Mr. P., pastor at Wellingborough, 247

Davis, Mr. R., pastor at Rowell, 54

Davis, Mr. Robert, pastor at Wellingborough, 248

Deaconesses chosen in the Church at Rowell, 64

Denham, Mr. Joshua, pastor at Towcester, 359

Denny, Mr. R., pastor at Buckby, 269

Dod, Mr. John, Puritan minister, 7

Doddridge, Dr. Philip, pastor at Northampton, 13

Drake, Mr. J., pastor at Yardley, 292

Edwards, Mr. B. L., pastor at Northampton, 39

Epitaph on Matthew Clarke, by Dr. Watts, 125

Evans, Mr. Isaac, pastor at Weedon, 266

Evans, Mr. F., pastor at Buckby, 274

Everdon, Church at, 367

Fawsley, the Puritan press at, 7

Fenn, Mr. Humfrey, Puritan minister, 3

Flavell, Mr. Thomas, pastor at Daventry, 190

Fletcher, Mr. William, Puritan minister, 5

Fowler, Mr., ejected from Crick, 304

Floyd, Mr., pastor at Daventry, 195

Forsyth, Mr., pastor at Oundle, 259

French, Mr., pastor at Wellingborough, 215

Fuller, Mr., pastor at John Kettering, 106

Gallsworthy, Mr., pastor at Rowell, 78

Gardiner, Mr. Thos., pastor at Kilsby, 142

Gardner, Mr. Isaac, pastor at Potterspury, 288

Gear, Mr., pastor at Harborough, 142

Geddington, 116

Gibson, Mr., pastor at Yelvertoft, 340

Gilbert, Mr. R., pastor at Northampton, 29

Gill, Mr. G., pastor at Harborough, 139

Gill, Mr. Walter, pastor at Welford, 177

Glascott, Mr., pastor at Peterborough, 352

Goodrich, Mr. D. Oundle, 258

Grant, Mr., pastor at Wellingborough, 231

Gravestock, Mr. J., pastor at Old, 364

Gregson, Mr. M., pastor at Rowell, 75

Gronow, Mr. J., pastor at Weedon, 264

Griffiths, Mr. D., pastor at Buckby, 272

Griffin, Mr., pastor at Brigstock, 318

Goode, Mr., pastor at Potterspury, 284

Hall, Mr., pastor at Crick, 313

Halford, Mr., assistant to Mr. Some, 133

Harborough Market, Church at, 119

Harris, Mr., pastor at Peterborough, 353

Harrison, Mr. M., pastor at Potterspury, 275

Harwood, Mr., pastor at Kilsby, 312

Hawkins, Mr., pastor at Towcester, 359

Hennell, Mr. D., pastor at Wollaston, 347

Heywood, Mr., pastor at Potterspury, 278

Hillyard, Mr., pastor at Brigstock, 317

Hitchin, Mr., pastor at Towcester, 359

Hextal, Mr., pastor at Northampton, 37

Hobson, Mr. B., pastor at Welford, 174

Hogg, Mr. R., pastor at Oundle, 259

Hook, Mr., ejected from Creaton, 179

Hoppus, Mr. J., pastor at Yardley, 297

Horsey, Mr. J., pastor at Northampton, 30

Howe, Mr., pastor at Weedon, 263

Hunt, Mr. J., pastor at Northampton, 12

Hyatt, Mr. C., pastor at Northampton 34

Ironmonger, Mr., pastor at Creaton, 180

Isaac, Mr., pastor at Peterborough, 354

Islip, Mr. Thomas, pastor at Yelvertoft 341

Jackson, Mr., pastor at Buckby 268

Jackson, Mr. S., pastor at Old 362

Jacomb, Mr. R., pastor at Wellingborough, 215

James, Mr. T., pastor at Yelvertoft, 342

Jelly, Mr., pastor at Daventry, 190

Jeanes, Mr., pastor at Peterborough, 354

Jocelyne, Mr., at Creaton, 184

Johns, Mr. E., pastor at Welford, 173

Jones, Mr. Thomas, pastor at Kilsby, 312

Jones, Mr. Jas. Rees, pastor at Kilsby, 313

Kettering, Church at, 80

Kilsby and Crick, Church at, 304

King, Mr. Samuel, pastor at Welford, 166

King, Mr. Joseph, pastor at Oundle, 257

King's Street Chapel, Northampton, 37

Knight, Mr., pastor at Yelvertoft, 338

Knightley, Sir Richard, favours the Puritan, 6

Letters from Mr. Browning, when in prison, 51

Letter of dismission from Rowell, 57

Letter of Mr. Maidwell, 82

Letter of Mr. Saunders, 96

Letter of Mr. Shuttlewood, 157

Lewis, Mr. J., ejected from Northampton, 9

Longfield, Mr. J., pastor at Oundle 259

Lord, Mr. Thomas, pastor at Brigstock, 324

Lowry, Mr. Thomas, ejected from Harborough, 120

Maidwell, Mr. T., pastor at Kettering, 81

Mandeno, Mr., pastor at Creaton, 185

Martin, Mr. G., ejected from Weedon, 262

Martin, Mr., pastor at Creaton, 185

Mason, Mr., pastor Daventry, 190

Matthews, Mr. E., ejected from Wollaston, 344

Matthews, Mr. J., at King's Cliffe, 376

Mattock, Mr., pastor at Daventry, 191

Meacock, Mr., pastor Everdon, 367

Meeting House threatened, 89

Merbury, Mr. F., Puritan minister, 2

Milway, Mr. Thos., pastor at Kettering, 84

Milway, Mr. Thos., junior, pastor at Kettering 87

Mitchel, Mr., Brigstock 319

Modern Question, 68

Moody, Mr. T., pastor at Old, 365

Moffatt, Mr., pastor at Weldon, 332

Morgan, Mr., pastor at Kilsby, 312

Morrell, Mr., pastor at Potterspury, 287

Moseley, Mr., pastor at Buckby, 272

Negus, Mr. S., lecturer at Oundle, 255

Nettleship, Mr. G., pastor at Yelvertoft, 342

Newth, Mr. A., pastor at Oundle, 261

Newell, Mr. G., pastor at Potterspury, 275

Nicholson, Mr. G., pastor at Northampton, 42

Norris, Mr., pastor at Welford, 162

Northampton, Churches at, 1

Northend, Mr., pastor at Welford, 173

Notcutt, Mr. W., pastor at Ashley, 151

Offord, Mr., pastor at Weedon, 264

Old, Church at, 361

Orton, Mr., pastor at Wellingborough, 215

Oundle, Church at, 250

Paget, Mr. Eusebius, Puritan minister, 250

Palmer, Mr. Wm., pastor at Peterborough, 355

Paterson, Mr., pastor at Daventry, 206

Penry, Mr., Puritan minister, 4

Perne, Mr. Andre, minister 211

Perry, Mr., pastor at Wollaston, 345

Peterborough, Church at, 352

Phares, Mr., pastor at Weedon, 264

Philip, Mr. John, pastor at Weldon, 331

Phillips, Mr. Maurice, pastor at Brigstock, 318

Pickering, Mr. R., pastor at Brigstock, 319

Pinkerton, Mr., pastor at Weedon, 266

Porter, Mr., pastor at Northampton, 39

Porter, Mr. Thos., pastor at Kilsby, 312

Potterspury, Church at, 275

Poulter, Mr. J. F., pastor at Wellingborough, 225

Prandlove. Mr., Puritan minister, 6

Prout, Mr. E., pastor at Oundle, 261

Preston, Dr. John, a Puritan minister, 5

Prust, Mr. E. T., pastor at Northampton, 43

Puritans preach at Kettering, 81

Raban, Mr. T., pastor at Yardley, 292

Redsbury, Mr. R., ejected from Oundle, 253

Renals, Mr. J., pastor at Wellingborough, 243

Renfrew, Mr., pastor at Weedon, 264

Robertson, Mr. James, pastor at Wellingborough, 220

Robins, Mr., pastor and tutor at Daventry, 198

Robins, Mr., character of, by Mr. Toller, 201

Robinson, Mr. I., pastor at Potterspury, 277

Rowell, Church at, 46

Rowlet, Mr., ejected from Sudbury, 213

Rowlatt, Wm., Esq, 333

Sanderson, Mr. J., pastor at Rowell, 70

Saunders, Mr. Julius, pastor at Bedworth, 161

Saunders, Thomas, pastor at Kettering, 90

Saunders, Thomas, character of, by Mr. Some, 91

Scott, Mr. Walter, pastor at Rowell, 76

Severn, Mr. W., pastor at Welford, 172

Shepherd, Mr. Thos., pastor at Northampton, 11

Shepherd, Mr., pastor at Oundle, 256

Shuttlewood, Mr. John, pastor at Welford, 155

Simpson, A. C., Dr., pastor at Oundle, 261

Slye, Mr. J., pastor at Potterspury, 289

Snape, Mr. Edward, Puritan minister, 2

Some, Mr. David, pastor at Harborough, 127

Some, Mr. David, junior, 127

Spence, Mr. John, pastor at Old, 365

Spencer, Mr. Thomas, pastor at Kilsby, 312

Spong, Mr., pastor at Yardley, 302

Stirmey, Mr., pastor at Everdon, 368

Stone, Mr. Edward, Puritan minister, 357

Stone, Mr. Thomas, Puritan minister, 115

Strange, Mr. Thomas, pastor at Kilsby, 306

Strange, Mrs. Thomas, 311

Summers, Mr. H., pastor at Wellingborough, 216

Taylor, Mr. S., pastor at Potterspury, 278

Taylor, Mr. G., pastor at Wellingborough, 223

Terry, Mr. Wm., pastor at Kettering, 86

Thomas, Mr., pastor at Wellingborough, 215

Thomas, Mr. Thos., pastor at Wellingborough, 248

Thomas, Mr. Thos., pastor at Weldon, 332

Thorpe, Mr., ejected from Barby, 305

Thresher, Mr., pastor at Peterborough, 353

Todman, Mr. William, pastor at Yardley, 302

Toller, Mr. H., pastor at Harborough, 143

Toller, Mr. T. N., pastor at Kettering, 107

Toller, Mr. T., pastor at Kettering, 114

Towcester, Church at, 357

Tyte, Mr. C. C., pastor at Wellingborough, 245

Unitarian letter of separation, 33

Vaughan, Mr. I., pastor at Brigstock, 323

Vowell, Mr. G., pastor at Potterspury, 287

Walker, Mr. W., pastor at Buckby, 269

Wake, Mr. A., Puritan minister, 5

Warburton, Mr., pastor at Creaton, 182

Washbourn, Mr. D., pastor at Wellingborough, 216

Watson, Mr. G., pastor at Daventry, 207

Weedon Beck, Church at, 262

Weldon and Corby, 327

Welford, Church at, 155

Wellingborough, Churches in, 210

West, Mr. J., pastor at Ashley, 148

White, Mr. E., pastor at Potterspury, 287

Whitefoot, Mr., pastor at Potterspury, 287

Whitehead, Mr. J., pastor at Creaton, 182

Whittenbury, Mr., pastor at Daventry, 208

Wilby, 210

Wild, Dr. Robert, pastor at Oundle, 254

Wild, Mr. W., pastor at Harborough, 143

Williams, Mr., pastor at Creaton, 184

Wills, Mr. H., ejected from Loddington, 213

Wills, Mr. John, pastor at Kettering, 86

Wilson, Mr. Thomas, 42

Wollaston, Church at, 344

Wood, Mr., pastor at Creaton, 182

Wood, Mr. J., pastor at Rowell, 75

Woodward, Mr., pastor at Northampton, 41

Worth, Mr., ejected from Kilsby, 304

Wright, Mr., pastor at Oundle, 259

Yardley Hastings, Church at, 291

Yelvertoft, Church at, 335

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Transcriber's Notes:

Inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation and punctuation have been resolved in all cases where it was possible to divine the author's intent with a reasonable degree of certainty.

Page 88 "...at a meeting this 26th of October, 1820, do hereby call and desire you.." The transcriber has taken the liberty to change 1820 to read 1720, as this appears to be a typographical error.

Again on page 91 "...and entered on his stated engagements there September 14th, 1821" has been changed to read 1721.

On page 313 "Mr. Cuzens, the next pastor, commenced his ministry in July of the same year, and left in October, 1831." 1831 is in error; likely 1841. Has been changed to read 1841.