Church and Family History Research Assistance
for Greene County, New York
CHURCHES:
LEXINGTON (1790)
Lexington Church was organized as the Windham Baptist Church, on October 25, 1790, with thirteen charter members, viz., Thaddeus Bronson, Adonijah Ford, Daniel Gregory, Elijah Moore, Nehemiah Roswell, Jesse Whitcomb, Hezekiah Pettit, Sarah Bronson, Mary Moore, Rhoda Peck, Elizabeth Cornish, Annie Bushnell, and Amos Whitcomb. The council was composed of Elders Hervey from Freehold, Joseph Arnold, William Warren, and others from Stamford, and possibly others from Baptist churches then composing the Rensselaerville Association. In 1813, the church name was changed from Windham Church to Lexington Church. In about 1825 several churches were dismissed from the Rensselaerville Association to organize the Lexington Association, including this church.
The first pastor was Elder Thaddeus Bronson, was followed by Elders Hezekiah Pettit, an Elder Simpson, Joseph L. Purington, Harvey Allen Samuel Moore, Israel B. Whitcomb, and others. Derrick Schermerhorn was the first clerk, and was followed by Jerome Barber in 1801, and then by Amos Pettit.
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Alling, Ballew, Bartley, Cole, Densmore, Faulkner, Ford, Gass, Griffin, Hogaboom, Jones, Kirk, Mackey, Moore, Peck, Pettit, Van Valkenburg, Westervelt, Whitcomb, White (very incomplete list due to the records not being available to us).
HUNTER
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Carl, Merritt, Miller (very incomplete list due to loss of records).
DURHAM
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
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