MySource:Quolla6/Colby, 1848:581-582

From Source:Colby, 1848

MIDDLETOWN CHURCH. This body was formed in 1688, of how many members, does not appear, but the following eighteen persons were the principal, if not the only male members, viz. : Richard Stout, John Stout, James Grover, Jonathan Brown, Obadiah Holmes, John Buckman, John Wilson, Walter Hall, John Cox, Jonathan Holmes, George Mount, William Cheeseman, William Layton, William Compton, James Ashton, John Brown, Thomas Whitlock, and James Grover, Jun.

For upwards of twenty years from the organization of this body, but little U known of their history, and the first information we gain respecting them, they were in a difficulty so serious about two of their gifted brothers, by the name of Bray and Oxison, as to call for the aid of a council from the churches of Cnhansry, Pennepeck, and Welsh Tract, whose ministers then were Messrs. Timothy Brooks, Abel Morgan, and Elisha Thomas, by whose friendly advice their affairs were placed in a favorable train of adjustment, and in a short time harmony was restored.