Papers of the Ohio Church History Society Volume 7-12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ... of carving townships out of Richfield, which was continued until by 1825 it was the five-mile square township now known as Rome, to which name it was changed by petition, and the name of Richfield abolished.1 But one uncracked nut remains in the George W. Andrews, D. D., of Talladega, Alabama, is a nephew, and Prof. George W. Andrews, of Oberlin Conservatory of Music, is a grandnephew. 1 See Williams Brothers' History of Ashtabula County, 1878, and a very interesting article, "A Lost Township," in the Geneva Times of February 16, l8g8. odd fact that the present township of Rome is just outside the original limits of Richfield, and there is no record that it was ever annexed. So Richfield is not only "a lost township," but took to the woods and was at last slain outside its own boundaries.1 A similar, but less involved explanation, makes plain why a church is reported in Cleveland in 1807, when none has been reckoned as organized there until a dozen years later. The original township of Cleveland, one of the eight, included about eleven townships east of the Cuyahoga, with all the Reserve west of that stream. Among the eleven was, of course, what has been successively known as Euclid, Collamer and East Cleveland. This church, organized August 27,1807, on the Plan of Union as a Congregational church, became Presbyterian March 15, 1810. It is the oldest church in Cleveland Presbytery. The manuscript should not be too carefully explained but left to tell its own simple story. It answers many unanswered questions, but raises others, such, for example, as these: Why does the record terminate so abruptly?. Were there other meetings after 1808? Who killed the Ecclesiastical Convention of New Connecticut? 1 Tbe probable explanation is that the t...