1835 Rev. Alexander Leadbilher do

1841 Rev. Joseph Nimmo, present minister.

a Religious Soc. Co. Rec. Lib A. 8. b Religious Soc Lib. B. 10.

Church Notes.

1S36, communicants 21 1847, do 25

The iNIethodist Episcopal Society of North Salem, was first organized in the early part of the present century, and incorporated 6th of January, 1S32 ; Jonas Keeler, Abel Smith, WiUiam Cable and Stephen Ryder, trustees.^ The church edifice was erected in IS33.

The Baptist congregation in this village was incorporated on the 1st of April, 1833; Ebenezer Whelppy, Edward Ganong, John Wesley Searles, John Braden and James Mills trustees.^

An UniversaUst Society was incorporated upon the 23d of January, 1832 ; Levi Smith, Epenetus Howe, William Howe, Henry Hunt, Samuel Hunt and Thomas Smith, trustees ; Gilbert Hunt, collector ; Jesse Smith, treasurer. The church was erected in 1833, its pastor is the Rev. T. J. Hillyer.

The Friend's meeting house is erected in the north east part of the town.

_ One of the most in-

^^ teresting objects in the ^^^g: village of North Salem, is an immense granitic ^;g boulder or rock, weigh- ^^ ing sixty tons, or upwards, supported about three feet from the ground on the projecting points of five smaller lime stone rocks. This immense block Boulder Stone. vicwcd from the valley

beneath has much the appearance of a huge mammoth ascending the hill. From its

» Religious Soc. Lib. B. 11. »> KelifTious Soo Lib. B. p. 15. < Religioim Soc. Lib. B. 8.