1813
October 5,
1813
Ordered, that the name of the Cumberland
Presbytery be altered, and be hereafterward called by
the name of the Nashville Presbytery.
[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Synod, October 5, 1813]
1819
October 22,
1819
Nashville Presbytery's bounds extended.
Resolved, That the present bounds of Nashville
Presbytery be extended; beginning at the mouth of Half-pone, on
the Cumberland river, running with said river to the Ohio river;
with said river to the Mississippi; with said river to the South
boundary of the State of Tennessee; with said line until a due
North course would strike the mouth of Duck river; thence up said
river to Columbia; thence along the Franklin road until it shall
intersect the present line between Elk
and Nashville Presbyteries.
[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Synod, October 22, 1819]
1822
October 16,
1822
Resolved, That a small portion of country
belonging to the Nashville Presbytery be stricken off and attached
to the Anderson
Presbytery, according to the following metes and boundaries,
viz.: beginning at the town of Dover, in Stewart county, State
of Tennessee, extending along the Cumberland river so as to include
the town; running thence a west course to the mouth of Sandy river;
thence down the Tennessee river to its mouth; thence up the Ohio
river to the mouth of the Cumberland river.
[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Synod, October 16, 1822]
1822
October 17,
1822
Resolved, therefore, That the said
society of Falling creek be stricken off from the Lebanon
Presbytery and attached to the Nashville Presbytery.
[Source: Minutes of Cumberland Synod, October 17, 1822]
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]