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Erected
1792 2365 South Shore Road, Adolphustown,
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Adolphustown, Feb’y
3rd , 1792
Dear Friends and Brethren As Almighty God has been pleased to visit
us in this wilderness land with the light of a preached Gospel, we think it
requisite to build a Meeting-house or Church, for the more convenient
assembling of ourselves together for social worship before the Lord. We do agree to build said church under
the direction of William Losee, Methodist Preacher, our brother, who has
laboured with us this twelve months past, he following the directions of the
Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church; or in his absence under the
direction of any assistant Preacher belonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church in Great Britain
or America, sent from there by proper authority (such as the Bishop) to labour among us.
We do farther agree that no other Denomination or Society of People
shall have any privilege or liberty to preach or teach in the said Methodist
Church without the consent or leave of the assistant Methodist Preacher then labouring with us.
We do farther agree to build said church thirty-six feet by thirty
feet, two stories high with a gallery in the upper story or second
story. Said house to be built on the
North-West corner of Paul Huff’s lot of land, No. 18, third concession, Fourth town. We the subscribers, do promise to pay, or
cause to be paid to the Directors towards the building of said church as it
is wanting, the sums of money annexed to our names underneath where we have
hereunto set our hands the date above written. |
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Historical
Plaque HAY BAY CHURCH ---- 1792 ---- In
1791, William Losee, an itinerant preacher, organized in
this district the first Methodist circuit in Upper Canada. This Meeting House, Upper Canada’s first Methodist
chapel, was built in 1792. Enlarged in 1834-35 it
was used for worship until about 1860 after which it served as a farmer’s storehouse. In
1910 in recognition of
its historical significance, it was reacquired and restored
by The Methodist Church and is still used for annual services by The United Church of Canada. Erected by the
Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board |
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Also See: The Old Hay
Bay Church Cemetery |
