1821
October
16, 1821
Formed from ? Presbytery by order of Cumberland
Synod.
1823
October
24, 1823
Alabama Presbytery Dissolved
Whereas
the members of the Alabama presbytery live remote from
each other and are separated by watercourses, difficult to pass
in time of high water; resolved that s'd presbytery be disolved,
and that the Rev. Messrs. Robert
Bell and John Forbes of the Alabama presbytery
and John Molloy and John C. Smith of the Tennessee
presbytery constitute a presbytery to be known by the
nameof Bigby
presbytery at Abner Boan's in Monroe county, state of
Mississippi on the 24th day of January next: including the following
boundaries (viz) Beginning at the mouth of Mobile river, thence
up s'd river to the mouth of the Black warrior, thence up the
Blackwarrior the road leading from Florence to Tuskyloocy, thence
with s'd road to Tennessee
presbytery line; thence with s'd line to the Tennessee
state line; thence with s'd line to the Mississippi river; thence
south to undefined boundaries; that Robert
Bell be the first moderator; and incase of his absence
John Forbes. The Rev. Messrs. William Moore and Benjamin Lockheart,
with the remaining bounds of the Alabama presbytery be
attached to the Tennessee
presbytery; and that the minutes of s'd presbytery with
the licentiates and candidates belong to the Tennessee
presbytery; except Daniel
Patton who shall be attached to the Elk
presbytery.
[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Synod, October 24, 1823]
1824
October 22,
1824
Resolved, That the Rev. Messrs. Benjamin
Lockhart, William Moor, James W. Dickey, and John Williams, compose
a Presbytery to be known by the name of the Alabama Presbytery;
bounded on the west by the Mobile river, from the mouth up said
river to the mouth of Bigby river, thence up said river to the
mouth of Black Warrior, thence up the Warrior to Tuskaloosa, thence
by Bolivar's Road to the top of the mountain south of the Tennessee
river, thence with the top of the mountain east to the Indian
boundary line, thence south with said line to the ocean; to be
constituted at Alexander Georges's, Perry county, State of Alabama,
on the first Friday in April, 1825, Benjamin Lockhart, moderator,
and, in case of his failure, William Moor.
[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Synod, October 22, 1824