There were no Catholic congregations. There were no Jewish Brotherhood. There was no Presbyterian congregation although maps indicate "Dutch Presbyterian" was a misleading term. "Dutch Presbyterian Meeting" was coined by English map makers and courthouses who did not know how to categorize the Reformeds. Dates are relative starting dates of congregations not dedication dates of building. 1733-German Reformed Congregation of Vincent Township 1735-Vincent Mennonite Meeting 1737-Vincent Baptish Church 1743-Pikeland Lutheran Congregation beyond the Schuylkill (Zion's) 1743-Brownback's Reformed Congregation (in Coventry Township but very close) 1758-Pikeland Friends Meeting 1770-St. Peter's Reformed Congregation (Lower St. Peter's) 1771-Evangelical Lutheran Church (Upper St. Peter's) 1833-St. Andrew's Episcopal (possible earlier birth) 1833-St. Matthew's Reformed Church 1833-St. Matthew's Lutheran Church 1838-St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church 1842-Lower Pikeland Lutheran Church (Middle St. Peter's) 1848-Spring City Methodist Episcopal Church 1852-St. Vincent Reformed Church 1876-Centennial Lutheran Church at Kimberton In 1725, John Philip Boehm, a schoolteacher, conducted a Communion Service for German people at Faulkner's Swamp in New Hanover Township, Montgomery County (then Philadelphia County). This is regarded as the beginning of the Reformed Church in America. Following the backdrop and Boehm's lead in Montgomery County, a group formed in Vincent Township sometime around 1733 which called itself the Reformed Congregation of Vincent Township beyond the Schuylkill. Joint Worship In 1733, a pastor named Schulz, a Lutheran working in the Perkiomen valleys, organized a parish made up of Philadelphia, Trappe (Providence), and New Hanover (Faulkner's Swamp) congregations under the name of "United Congregations of Pennsylvania." 89 Most surely, Vincent allied itself to this group, but, finding it difficult, in the winter particularly, to worship with them, they met in homes pm the western side of the river. These became the Vincent Reformed Congregation and the Pikeland Lutherans. Organization was loose among the religious until 1742 when Henry Melchior Muhlenberg arrived in Charlestown, South Carolina, and worked his way to Philadelphia, preaching all the way. In 1743, the Vincent Reformed congregation and Muhlenber's Pikeland congregation of Lutherans built a log church on the borderline of Vincent and Pikeland townships on what was then Nutt's Road where it joined the Schuylkill Road to Reading. Both Muhlenberg's congregation and the Reformed congregation, under Rev. John Philip Leydich, shared the building under individual ministries. In 1744, the Vincent Reformed congregation was formally organized. A baptismal record, however, dates back to 1733. After 1754, the two congregations grew so large that it was felt necessary to build separate buildings. The separation was effected in 1758 when the German Reformeds built their own log church a mile west of the joint log church. In 1812, they replaced their log church with a stone church, the congregation meeting in its schoolhouse until the new church was built. Rev. Fluck, a later minister at Brownback's Reformed church, 90 says the new building was constructed of native red, yellow and white free-stone, was 45'X35', had no basement, and had a high ceiling. Dissension began about 1828 over doctrinal points and continued to grow until, in 1848, the two factions, termed locally "The Wets and The Drys" met individually in the same building. In 1851, plans were made to build another separate church building. The cornerstone was laid in 1852. Sometimes called Yeager's Church, as they were strong forces in its erection, its official designation is St. Vincent Reformed Church. The Spring City Reformed Church was an offshoot of the old German Reformed Congregation of Vincent, formed amicably and with the blessing of that parent church, in 1882. 89 Woodland, C. Ray. History of St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church, page 2. 90 Fluck. Reformed Churches in Chester County, page 36 The above is a small excerpt from the book titled 30,000 Acres Vincent and Pikeland Townships 1686 to 1850 by Estelle Cremers