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Levi Calkins moved from Tinmouth, VT

From Church records, 1780-1868 - Congregational Church of Christ (Tinmouth, Vermont
(1_bk2_p008) 1804 Jan – admitted into the church Levi CALKINS, Menafsch CALKINS, Thankful, the wife of Thomas CALKINS

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The following was copied from Vol. I, pp. 738-767 of Onondaga's Centennial, edited by Dwight H. Bruce and published by Boston History Co., 1896.

Levi Calkins removed from Rutland County, Vt., in 1808 or 1809, and settled on lot 89 in Lysander, NY, where he built a log house. Many of his descendants are resident in this section. … James Slauson removed from the western part of the town in 1826 and settled on lot 89, where he built a log house a little west of the residence of the late Lewis Calkins.

While these efforts were in progress to provide for the secular education of the young, no less efficient measures were early adopted for the organization of Christian churches and the inauguration of public worship among the inhabitants of the town. It was natural that the first church organization should be in the Presbyterian faith, as a missionary was sent into the town by an eastern Presbyterian association in the person of Rev. Ebenezer Lazelle, who held his first service in a barn near the north line of Baldwinsville village. A society was organized by him on July 13, 1813, which was comprised of the following fourteen members: Cyrus and Susan Baldwin, Thomas and Betsey Farrington, George and Mary White, Eunice, Sarah, and Lucy Porter, Levi Manasseh and Levi, jr., Mary Calkins, and William Van Fleet. Cyrus Baldwin, Thomas Farrington and George White were chosen elders November 12, 1813. After the building of the school house in the village, meetings were held there many years. A union church building, afterwards Herrick's Hall, was finished in 1830. The building became the Presbyterian church. The present church edifice was built of brick in 1865, at a cost of about $20,000.

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