The
Free Presbyterian Church.
- - This church was formed from the fragment left after the division of
the New-school Church, and its organization was completed on the 15th of
June, 1850, nine persons being present. Rev.
George Gordon was its first pastor, and served a few years very
acceptably. Associated with him was his brother. Rev.
Joseph Gordon, editor of a free Presbyterian paper, which was
published here, and ably conducted, in the interests of the distinctive
principles of that denomination. Revs. J. C.
Bigham and J. W. Torrence,
successively, served as pastors.
In 1866-67. the church
ceased to exist, its members having sought homes in other denominations,
according to their several inclinations.
History
of Mercer County,
1877, page 108
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