October 24, 1823 - Ordered to be formed from part of dissolved Alabama Presbyery by Cumberland Synod
January 24, 1824 - Meeting did not take place
October 22, 1824 - Again ordered to be formed and boundaries enlarged.
March 8, 1825 - Presbytery Constituted at First Meeting
1823
October 24,
1823
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
name of 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 in case 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 following bounds
be attached to the Bigby Presbytery, viz.: beginning where
the dividing ridge between the Tennessee and Bigby waters strikes
the Tennessee state line, thence with said line to the Tennessee
river, thence up the river to the east boundary of Morgan county,
thence south with said line to Boiler's road leading from Florence
to Tuskaloosa; and that the following members, viz.: Rev. Messrs.
James
Stewart, Green P. Rice, James Moore, and Carson
P. Reed, be also attached to said Presbytery; and that,
in consequence of said Presbytery having failed to constitute
agreeably to a former resolution of the Synod, it is hereby appointed
to constitute at Concord meeting-house, in Lawrence county, and
State of Alabama, on the second Tuesday in March, 1825, Robert
Bell being moderator, or, in case of his failure, James
Stewart.
[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Synod, October 22, 1824]