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Mount Pleasant (Colored) Baptist Church
November, 1867-
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The
History of the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church from "History of the Newark Baptist City Mission from its origin in 1851 to its seventeenth anniversary in 1868."
The Mount Pleasant Baptist
Church was organized in November, 1867. The original chapel on Belleville Avenue,
opposite Gouverneur street was sold in 1888 and in October 1890 a new church was
built. In 1907 it was enlarged.
| Reverend |
From |
To |
| C. E. Wilson Jr. (missionary) |
February, 1867 |
1869 |
| S. Seigfried |
1869 |
1872 |
| William Rollison |
1872 |
1874 |
| B. F. Bowen |
1875 |
1876 |
| George Guirey |
1876 |
1878 |
| A. B. Woodworth |
1879 |
1883 |
| F. C. A. Jones |
1883 |
1898 |
| Edwin A. Hainer |
December, 1898 |
1903 |
| W. T. S. Lumbar |
1903 |
December 31, 1909 |
| Edward S. Van Ness |
1911 |
1913 (Death) |
| Address |
From |
To |
| 126, 136 Belleville Ave. opp Gouverneur |
1866 |
1888 |
| 288 Belleville Ave. |
October, 1890 |
aft 1902 |
| 27 Lincoln Ave. |
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ARCHIVE INFORMATION
Church records from about 1867 are in the possession of the Church Clerk.
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