History of the Ebenezer Association of Virginia
On the first day of September, 1828, during the 16th session of the Shiloh Association, then being held with Thornton's Gap Church, in (then) Culpeper county, Virginia, the churches of that Association, west of the Blue Ridge Mountain, asked said Association to dismiss them from her body, in order to constitute an Association of like faith and order in their more immediate locality. Which request being granted, said churches appointed messengers to meet in the town of New Market, Shenandoah county, Virginia, on the 24th day of October, of the same year. These messengers met according to appointment; remained in session two days, and constituted the proposed Association, and named it Ebenezer, the name Samuel gave the stone that he set up in the place whenthe Lord discomfited the Philistines with thunder and hail, and gave the Hebrews a noted victory. I. Samuel 7th and 12th.
