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    1. NJ>sw Ohio Methodist church.
    2. HERMON B FAGLEY
    3. "Notes of Old Gloucester County NJ' vol 3 page 142 has the 1799 trustees of a Methodist church near present Port Republic-Leeds Point Collins Mill NJ as John Collins,Asa Smith,Joseph Parker, Isaac Higbee,and Cornelius McCollum buying land from Robert Leeds,Jr, page 143-144 gives the trustees of an 1811 church in the same neighborhood, and Anna Collins saying there was and older Methodist church in the neighborhood. . Wm Newberry, Robert Leeds, Joseph Endicott, Richard Leeds,and Joseph Parker. The reason they started a 2nd church is that most of the 1st trustees,in 1803, moved west to my Clermont Co,Oh [and some of the 2nd group of trustees also] Yesterday's mail included a letter from 'Old Bethel M.E.Church Histoirical Soc,Bethel, Oh giving 1 am Sept 24,2000 as the date of the annual homecoming at the ,now,non- denominational church,in East Fork State Park. The stone houses of Rev John Collins, Isaac Higbee,and Cornelius McCollum were torn down in the 1970's as Lake Harsha was flooded.

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