Decision of the church to build the first brick building as a meetinghouse.

     At a Church meeting held at the meeting house at Bryans on the third Saturday in Feby. 1806 after prayer to God proceded to business as follows.

     Agreed that we appoint Seven of our Brethren Commissioners to let the Building of a Brick meeting house at Bryans fifty feet long, and forty feet wide from out to out and Twenty feet high in the wall, and that they attend to the business untill it is completed, to Wit, Leonard Young, Asa Tompson, William Dudley, John Darnaby, John C. Richardson, Hezekiah Harrison and John Mason and that our Sd. Brethren sell our Old Meeting house at 6 months Credit after the finishing of the new meeting house and appropriate the money arising from the sale there of to the new, and any five of our Bren. Commissioners may act in Sd. Business.

[From page 144 of the Churchbook. - Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.]

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