TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN SOCIETY MANLIUS
Village of Manlius
Town of Manlius
Submitted by Kathy Crowell
Miscellaneous Records, Onondaga County Courthouse (C,150):
To all whom these presents may come Greeting: Know ye that we William
Gardner & Jacob L. Sherwood Do hereby Certify that at a meeting of
a number of male persons of full age of the Presbyterian order residing
in the Village of Manlius and its vicinity who have statedly worshipped
with the Presbyterian Congregation and been considered as belonging thereto
duly notified and convened according to the act in such case made and provided
at the Franklin School House in the Village of Manlius in the County of
Onondaga on the Twenty ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one
thousand Eight Hundred and fifteen for the purpose of incorporating and
establishing a Presbyterian Society agreeable to the directions of an act
entitled an act to provide for the incorporation of religious Societies
passed the fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight
hundred and thirteen the following persons were duly Elected by a plurality
of votes to serve as Trustees of said Society to wit, Col. William Gardner,
Jacob L. Sherwood, Jedediah Wood, Abijah Yelverton, Jun, Esq., James Jackson,
Horace Hunt, Isaac Hall, Samuel L. Edwards & Daniel Munholland* they
and their successors to be forever hereafter known and called by the name
of the Trustees of "Trinity Presbyterian Society Manlius. In witness
whereof we have hereunto set our hands and Seals this Twenty ninth day
of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifteen.
Wm. Gardner. Jacob L. Sherwood. In presence of Samuel L. Edwards
Vine Elderkin (?) being witness to the within certificate & to me well
known and he upon oath having testifyed before me that the persons whose
names are signed to the within Certificate are to him well known and that
they signed the same and affixed their Seals to the said Certificate for
the uses and purposes herein mentioned and no interlineation or erasures
being therein I allow the same to be Record. Sylvs. Tousley Judge
of Onon. Com. pleas. August 30th 1815. Recorded the fifty day
of September Eighteen hundred and fifteen at nine O'Clock A. M. DeWitt
Rose Dep. Clk.
*Daniel Mulholland
Submitted 7 June 1998