MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 83

CHAPTER II.  

NEWARK.

Organized about 1842 or 1845. The present church was projected by Rev. J. W. Johnson and finished by Rev. R. Wayman.

• Founders in part and present Trustees.   

  Thomas Legg, Jacob D. King, James Francis, Thomas Jackson. Mrs. Jane Giles was also a founder.  

       

  Newark has always been in the New York Conference, and for some time was connected with the New York charge, until the setting off of the New Jersey Conference.  

    
• The following have been Pastors.   

  1845, Richard Robinson; 1846, John Boggs; 1847, C. Burch; same date, E. C. Africanus; 1848 - 9, E. C. Africanus; 1850, Lewis S. Lewis; 1851, R. Robinson; 1852 - 3, H. Johnson; 1854 - 5, D. Dorrell; 1856, J. R. V. Morgan; 1857 - 8 - 9 - 60 - 1 - 2 - 3, J. Hamilton; 1864, L. Patterson; 1865 - 6, G. W. Johnson; 1867, W. M. Watson; 1868, R. Wayman; 1869, E. Weaver; 1870, W. T. Catto; 1871, G. E. Boyer.  

    
• Present Trustees.   

  Joshua Prudence, McGrinda Jones, George Baptist, B. M. Firman and F. S. Cox.  

    
• Stewards.   

  W. H. Harris,    Henry Ell   , F. S. Cox, George Curtis and Robert Pennington.  

       

  Through their present energetic pastor, Rev. Israel Derrick, the church is the first in New Jersey to issue a church paper, "   The Bugle   ."  

    
• Stewardesses.   

  Annie Lane, Mary Baptist, Lizzie Williams, Louisa Ell, Alice Jackson, Rhoda Curtis, Melinda Jones, Lucy George and Elizabeth Prudence.  

    

Sunday-school Superintendent, F. S. Cox; Assistant, Richard Miller; Secretary, Alexander Huggs; Treasurer, Louisa Ell; Librarian, Henrietta Williams; Teachers, Lizzie Williams, Rachel Williams, Carrie Knox, Mrs. Smith, Sarah R. Williams, Alice Jackson, Henry Williams and Mr. Robinson.

The records of the church reports the church to have had an organization in 1848, by Rev. C. Burch, but by conference records it was known in 1845.

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