This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YRB.2ACE/1403.1 Message Board Post: From “The History of Port Henry, NY” by Dr. Charles B. Warner (1931), pp 84-86: St. Patrick’s Church The first Roman Catholic service was held in Port Henry in 1840 when Father Rooney said Mass at Barney McKowan’s. Soon after this Father McDonnell said Mass in the school house near the old furnace and afterwards, in the woods near the school house. Catholic marriages and baptisms were performed in the old Mack house on North Main Street, where Frank Carr, Sr., later kept a store. The first Catholic Church was erected in 1847, and the Reverend Michael Ollivette was the first pastor. It was a rough wooden building and was torn down and replaced by a stone church built in 1854. This was enlarged in 1860, and was burned in 1897, but rebuilt soon after. The Catholic Society was organized in Port Henry in 1873. Before this no formal organization existed. Pastors Rev. Michael McDonnell ……………..1842-47 Rev. Michael Ollivette ………………..1847-63 Rev. Luke Harney ……………………..1863-79 Rev. John O’Rourke …………………..1879-98 Rev. Michael Holland …………………1898-1906 Rt. Rev. Mons. R. F. Pierce ………..….1906 – The Family History Library has filmed the records of St. Patrick’s for the years 1863-1915. US/Can Film 1450552 items 14 & 15 has the records for 1863-1874.