In 1751, or 1752, we find an immigration from Pennsylvania to Chester County, some of the settlers having formerly belonged to the Church of England. Here were people of mixed denominations in one community, who organized a church in May, 1759, in the hope that the different denominations would unite. The four men most prominent in its organization were: Alexander McKeown, John Lee, Thomas Garrett, and Hugh McDonald.
After 1771 the congregation being without a minister, the Reverend William Martin, a Covenanter preacher who had come from Ireland a few years before, was invited to occupy the pulpit.
He served this church twice, once in the early seventeen seventies and again at the close of the Revolutionary War.
This congregation furnished many soldiers to the American Revolution.
The present building, which is the fourth, is of red brick. Begun in 1839, it was dedicated by the Reverend McNeil Turner on July 3, 1842. It has a large and interesting graveyard surrounded by a beautiful old stone wall.