Church and Family History Research Assistance for Oswego County, New York
CHURCHES:
GRANBY (GRANBY)
At a meeting of the Baptist Church of Christ, in Granby, Oswego County, N. Y., on November 25th, 1837, the following Preamble and Resolution was unanimously adopted: That, Whereas; In view of the present state of Zion, in the Baptist denomination, we discover a falling off from original Baptist principles, together with an increased tenacity for modern institutions, which in our opinion have neither precept nor example in the word of God, which we believe is sufficient, and the only rule of our faith and practice; and believing that they are the effect of men's inventions, and that they are now rending the church, causing dissentions and schisms to take place, effecting the peace and harmony of many churches, and having suffered as a church, naturally, for not coinciding with all newly invented, falsely called benevolent religious societies of the present age, such as Sunday Schools, Missionary, &c. Societies, Therefore, Resolved, While we regard with joy the spread of the gospel according to the command of the great head of the church, and agreeable to primitive example, we have no fellowship for the modern mode of operation, as not only endeavoring to spread the gospel, but to convert the world; for which there is not a promise in the Sacred volume. And further, that we have no fellowship for any religious society except the church of the living God, which possesses all the facilities to carry into effect the command of God relative to the gathering the elect from the four winds under heaven. And further, that we have no fellowship for men's inventions as substituted for the commands of God, which we believe to be unfruitful works of darkness that ought rather to be reproved. We therefore wish to be recognized as remaining on the Old School Baptist ground, and wish such, either Ministers or others, who are united with us in these principles, to visit us and preach to us the word of life (Christ) as often as God in his providence may give opportunity. Resolved, That the Moderator be requested to forward this Preamble and Resolution to the editor of the "Signs of the Times," with a request for its publication. ELDER CHARLES MERRITTE, JR., Moderator. ORSEMAS MARSH, Clerk."
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Baird, Felt, Marsh, Merritt, Skinner, Williams (very incomplete list due to loss of records).
PALERMO
Elder Asaph Graves (1786-1860) was a member of this church. His obituary states, "Elder Asaph Graves died on Saturday morning, the 25th of February, 1860, aged 73 years and 11 months. Brother Graves has resided in the town of Palermo for nearly half a century, and has been the Pastor of the Regular Predestinarian Baptist Church in that place for more than twenty-five years. Brother Graves has been laboring under a general debility for a year or two. He had been a member of the Baptist Church in Palermo ever since it was constituted, and was an ornament to society."
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