SEVENTH-DAY BAPTIST CHURCH, HARTSVILLE, ALLEGHANY COUNTY, NEW YORK.
This infant community, a branch of the Alfred Church, was organized in 1847.
Rev. Hiram Cornwell is its present pastor.
It gives a cheering promise of future efficiency and usefulness.
SEVENTH-DAY BAPTIST CHURCH, HAYFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA.
This church is the oldest one in this Association, and originated from the Keithian Seventh-day Baptists, who, in 1770, resided in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia. About this time it appears that Rev. James Dunn, with several families of Sabbatarians, removed to this place, where he instituted meetings and organized a church, over which he assumed the pastoral relation. Elder Dunn lived to be very old, but sometime previous to his decease, his reason failed, and he became partially insane. This misfortune, combined with other disadvantages, brought the church into a state of deep depression. In 1821, Rev. John Davis, of Shiloh, made them a visit, and by their unanimous request ordained Isaac Davis to the work of the ministry. Subsequently, however, the church remained in very low circumstances, and in 1829, at which time it was admitted into the General Conference, it only numbered twenty-four members, and was without a settled pastor.[41] Beside the occasional visits of missionaries, it remained thus destitute until 1836, when
Rev. Job Tyler removed into that region and assumed the pastoral charge.
Rev. Thomas B. Brown, his colleague in 1840 and 1841, and subsequently his successor, was installed in 1842, and continued until 1844.
Morris Cole succeeded him as licentiate, in which relation he served the church until 1846, when
Rev. A. A. F. Randolph, the present incumbent, was installed.