Milledgeville - French Creek Township 
 

Milledgeville Presbyterian Church

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The Presbyterian church, at Milledgeville, The only village in [French Creek] township, was organized by a committee of the Presbytery of Erie, April 8th, 1856. John Rice and William R. Cooper were elected ruling elders, and served in that capacity until the 24th of October, 1858. During the first years of its existence, it was supplied by the Presbytery—Revs. M’Cune, Semple, Shields, Eaton, Gleson, Alexander, Coulter, Wilson, and McCullough, preaching at different times, generally once in four weeks. Rev. J. G. Condit preached as State supply from January, 1860, to August 14th, 1864, and from October 1st, of that year, until the same date of the following year, Rev. John Rice, of the 

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Presbytery of Saltsburgh, supplied the congregation. Rev. H. B. Lambe was then ordained pastor, and was followed, in the summer of 1867, by Rev. David Patton, who left during the following year, since which the church has been furnished with supplies, and has bad no regularly installed preacher. A building was erected in 1861, 35 x 42 feet in dimensions. There were seventeen members at the time of the organization, and there are now about thirty-five. 

History of Mercer County, 1877, page 40

 

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