Minutes Needed !!!
1838 - Charity Hall formed from Oxford
and Shiloh
presbyteries by Mississippi
Synod
Resolved that all that part
of the Oxford
Presbytery east of the meridian line in the Chickasaw
nation and that part of Shiloh
Presbytery being north and east of the line dividing the
Chickasaw and Choctaw nations be stricken off from those Presbyteries
and be called by the name of Charity Hall Presbytery and
that the following ministers constitute said Presbytery viz Rev.
Robert
Bell, Collin Forbes, Samuel
Lambert, and John J. Cooper, and all the licentiates and
candidates within the bounds shall be under the care of the that
Presbytery. And her first session shall be held at Liberty meeting
house in Pontotoc County State of Mississippi on Friday before
the 2nd Sabbath in May 1839. and that Rev.
Robert Bell be the first moderator and in case of his
absence the Rev.
Samuel Lambert.
[Source:
Minutes of Mississippi Synod, November 22-24, 1838, page
38]
1839 - First Meeting of Charity Hall Presbytery, May 10, 1839
1844 - Ripley
Presbytery formed from Charity Hall Presbytery by order of
Mississippi
Synod
That the Northern portion
of Charity Hall Presbytery containing five ordained ministers,
one probationer, and one candidate be called Ripley
Presbytery, and that they hold their first meeting on
? before the fourth Sabbath in March next and that Samuel
Lambert be the first moderator and in case of his absence,
A.
G. Frazier.
[Source: Minutes
of Mississippi Synod, October 24, 1844, pages 81-82]
1844 - Boundary
changed between Charity Hall and New Hope presbyteries by Mississippi
Synod.
That the line between Charity
Hall and New Hope Presbyteries be altered so that the northern
boundary of Choctaw, and Oktibbeha and Lowndes counties shall
be the line between those presbyteries to the state line and thence
East to the boundary line of the Synod.
[Source:
Minutes of Mississippi Synod, October 24, 1844, page 82]
1847 - Attached to Hernando Synod
1852 - Charity Hall Presbytery probably
merged with Ripley
Presbytery to form Union
Presbytery
The Minutes of Hernando
Synod are not available to document this change, but in the 1853
Minutes of the General Assembly and in the September 1853
Minutes of Hernando Synod neither presbytery is listed
and Union Presbytery appears.
1839
May 10, 1839
- Liberty meeting house, Pontotoc County, Mississippi
1843
March 7,
1843 - Union Church, Tippah County, Mississippi
Moderator:
Rev.
A. G. Frazier
Stated Clerk: Rev.
Samuel Lambert
[Source:
Extract of minutes in the Banner of Peace, May 5, 1843,
page 2]
1844
October 1844
- Pontotoc, Mississippi
[Source:
The Cumberland Presbyterian, June 7, 1900, pages 715-716, in article
about Rev. Walker Montecure Allen]
1848
October 1848
- Chickasaw County, Mississippi
[Source:
The Cumberland Presbyterian, June 7, 1900, pages 715-716, in article
about Rev. Walker Montecure Allen]