"The members of the Presbyterian congregation of  Montreal, having been regularily called from the pulpit, this day met for the purpose of electing a committee to manage temporals of said congregation the following gentleman : Messrs. Richard Dobie,   Alex Henry,   Adam Scott,   William Stewart,   Duncan Fisher,   William England,  Alex Hannah,   Alex. Fisher,   John Lilly,   William Hunter, 
Peter McFarlane,  George King, John Robb,  Thos. Oakes,   John Empie, John Russel."

Minutes - Montreal, 11th May, 1791

"The committee having met, proceeded to elect their officers.
Mr.R. Dobie was unanimously appointed President;
Mr. Adam Scott, Vice-President
Mr. William Hunter, Treasurer
Mr. John Russel, Clerk"

This was the committee which continued in office until the year 1800.

On 25th May, 1791, the committtee appointed Mr. Duncan Fisher to purchase a lot of ground on which  to build a church.  Mr. Fisher having  finally settled for the purchase of  the lot  from Madame Hertel ; Mr. Scott, Mr. D. Fisher, Mr. Hannah, Mr. Oakes and Mr. Russel were appointed a committee to settle with a carpenter. Out of the committee of sixteen members appointed to manage the temporalities of the church in 1791, ten were afterwards chosen as trustees, to hold propery in behalf of the congregation: Adam Scott,  William Stewart, Duncan Fisher, William England,  Alex Hannah,  Alex. Fisher,  William Hunter,   Thos. Oakes,    John Empie  and   John Russel.

A resolution passed by the committe on the 20th April, 1792 :- "Agreed that the church should be built by subscription, and that when the pews in the church would be finished, they would be sold at auction to the highest bidder, and each subscriber's money would go on account of his seat"