1824
October 22,
1824
Resolved, That the part of Nashville
Presbytery which lies west of the Tennessee river, is
hereby stricken off, and the Rev. Messrs. William
Barnett, Samuel
Harris, John C. Smith, and Richard
Beard, compose a Presbytery in said bounds, to be known
as the Hopewell Presbytery, to be constituted at Bethel
meeting-house, in Carroll county, and State of Tennessee, on the
third Tuesday in April, 1825, William
Barnett, Moderator, or, in case of his absence, Samuel
Harris.
[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Synod, October 22, 1824]