. Historical records of a hundred and twenty years, Auburn, N. Y. . auncey Dibble, machinist, Stephen Van Anden, a tailor,Tillman and John S. Burt, who became merchants. Thatyear also Dr. A. M. Bennett located in town. In 1812 Tuttle, Abraham Gridley, John Oliphant, TeriRogers, Abel and Thadrack Terry, and a little later DanielElliott, Sylvanus Noble and George Casey became resi-dents. CHURCHES—EARLY AND LATE The movement in the direction of religious worship andchurch societies began soon after the founding of the town,although it was a considerable number of years before anysociet
. Historical records of a hundred and twenty years, Auburn, N. Y. . auncey Dibble, machinist, Stephen Van Anden, a tailor,Tillman and John S. Burt, who became merchants. Thatyear also Dr. A. M. Bennett located in town. In 1812 Tuttle, Abraham Gridley, John Oliphant, TeriRogers, Abel and Thadrack Terry, and a little later DanielElliott, Sylvanus Noble and George Casey became resi-dents. CHURCHES—EARLY AND LATE The movement in the direction of religious worship andchurch societies began soon after the founding of the town,although it was a considerable number of years before anysociety had the strength and membership to establish andbuild a church. In setting forth here the story of the early church socie-ties and church building in Auburn, it is not out of order toinclude a real living church, which in early times, was inthe country but is now in the outskirts of the city. There-fore, in its relation at least it is a city organization. Sand Beach church by a decade of years antedates inorganization any society or church organization in the. rUBL ?n ii HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS 77 village and city proper. Sand Beach church was firstorganized in 1796 and the church erected in 1797 atBrinkerhoff Point on Owasco lake. Sand Beach churchwas then called the Dutch Reformed Church and continuedas such until 1810. It was at first a log edifice erected tomeet the worshipful needs of the primitive settlementalong the lake. It is reasonably safe to put it down, there-fore, as the first church erected in the state west of Schenec-tady. In 1810 the population in the lake region had increasedto such an extent as to warrant the building of a new andlarger church, and that year a frame church was built atSand Beach and dedicated as Sand Beach Church. Thedoctrine of the Church in those days was of the most rigor-ous orthodox character and the preachers from time totime were virile exponents of that religious Ten Eyck was the first pastor at Sand Beachchurch
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