First African/Plane Street/Thirteenth Avenue Presbyterian Church

First African / Plane Street / Thirteenth Avenue Presbyterian Church

May 7, 1835 -

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1872 map location

Black leaders who were unhappy with being permitted to worship instead of being invited to worship broke away from the First Presbyterian church and formed their own Presbyterian mission. Theodore Frelinghuysen donated a lot on Plane Street and persuaded a number of prominent citizens to help erect the new church. It was dedicated on May 7, 1835 at 132 Plane Street. An enlargement was completed in 1852. In 1910 the congregation moved to the church at Thirteenth Avenue and Boston Street. This church was the former home of the Wicliffe Presbyterian Church. The third Reverend of the church, Elymas Payson Rogers, went on to missionary work in Africa, where he died of fever in 1861.

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Reverend	From	To
T. P. Hunt	approx. 1836	1839
S. E. Cornish	1840	1842
Elymas Payson Rogers	1848	1861
J. E. Adams	1863	1866
Charles H. Thompson	1861	January 12, 1871
W. W. Morris	October 1, 1871	September 1, 1874
Isaac W. Davenport	April 15, 1877	June 3, 1885
William A. Lynch	February 10, 1887	October 20, 1897
J. H. Locklier	March 9, 1898	October 3, 1906
Edward S. Eggleston	April 20, 1908

Address	From	To
132 Plane Street	1835	1858
221, 235 Plane Street	1858	1910
Thirteenth Avenue c. Boston Street	1910

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