Abby Romaine (Abbie) DICKENSEN? DICKINSON?
1840 - Founding member of Presbyterian Church of Valparaiso, Indiana

...Previous to the winter of 1839-40, there had probably been several sermons by Presbyterian ministers in the county, and possibly in this township. But on the 4th day of December, 1839, Rev. James C. Brown, then a young man, and only a licentiate, began a ministry which lasted continuously for more than twenty years, by preaching a sermon in the second story of the court house, the text being Luke, x, 42. It was about Martha and Mary. Having in the meantime been ordained to the ministry, he in company with Rev. W. K. Marshall, of La Porte, organized the Presbyterian Church of Valparaiso, July 3, 1840, with ten members, viz.: James Blair, Isabel Blair and Elizabeth Martin, their daughter, Nancy Buel, Elizabeth Marshall, Bathsheba E. Hamell, Abby Salisbury, Mary E. Brown, Henry Battan and M. B. Crosby...

...At the first meeting James Blair and Morgan Crosby were elected elders and Jeremiah Hamell, trustee and treasurer. Following are the minutes of the first meeting; "Previous notice having been given, Rev. Myers, W. R. Marshall and J. C. Brown, by order of the Presbytery of Logansport, on Friday afternoon, July 3, 1840, proceeded to organize the Presbyterian church in the town of Valparaiso, Porter county, Indiana. Upon examination they were satisfied that the following persons had been members of the Presbyterian church in other places, James Blair and wife, Isabel, Mrs. Elizabeth Martin, Morgan B. Crosby, Henry Batten, Mrs. Elizabeth Marshall, Mrs. Abby Salisbury, Mrs. Bathesheba Hamell, Mrs. Mary Brown and Mrs. Nancy Buel."...

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