January 15. George Duffield, infant son of James and Sarah A. Homes, was
baptized

March 10. ...Prince, a black man, was also restored. Titus, an African,
offered himself as a candidate for admission...Lewis, who has been for some
time under suspension, and giving no evidence of repentance, but continuing in
sin, was excmmunicated from this church. It having become notorious that
Caroline, a member of this church, is living in adultery, she was suspended
from its privileges. Tuppeha, giving himself up to intemperance, was cited to
appear before the session..., Primus, who has been living in adultery (having
taken a woman who was put away by her husband) was cited to appear before the
session....Mr. A. C. I. Wetherall and wife, Martha, presented a certificate of
dismission in good standing from Palmyra Church in Alabama, and requested to
be received...

April 29, 1832. Martha Jane, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wetherall, was
baptized.

June 30. The session not being present, the Moderator examined Mr. William
Spencer and wife, Margaret, who applied for admission to sealing  ordinances.
...

July1, 1832. Mr. Spencer was baptized. Agnes, infant daughter of Benjamin and
Lotty Love.

July 8 The following children were baptized, viz: Mary Jane, Samuel Alexander,
Margaret Coffee and Martha Gideon, children of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer; Samuel,
infant son of William Colbert and wife, Kunnoeyi; Bankston, son of Moblie and
Laney; Lissis Jane, daughter of Silpha, and Hooper, son Isam and Leah.

September 20. Caroline, who was suspended on a former occasion, was removed by
death.

Jan. 5, 1833. ...Ishthimayi, a native member of our church, having for a long
time absented herself from the means of grace, ...Frances, a black woman, also
excommunicated for the sin of fornication.

April 7. Jim and Juda were baptized

June 9, 1833. Eliza Jane, daughter of Nuseka and Mary Colbert, and Charles,
son of Daniel and Kissander, were baptized

July 7. ...Mrs. Lizzie Perry (a native woman) applied for admission...

July 14. The ordinance of baptism was administered to John David, son of James
and nancy Boyd.

August 4, 1833. Juda's children, Violet, Phili, Philetus and Eunice were
baptized.

October 6, 1833. ...admitted to the church the wife of Tuppeha, a native
woman, She was baptized by the name of Mary. Syke was erestored to the church.

October 7. A black child named Jinney, the daughter of Joseph and
------------, was baptized. Approved 21st of March, 1834
 

April 5, 1834. Mr Benjamin Godfrey and wife, Lucrecia, and son James Alfred,
were received..by certificate from the church at Mayhew...The following
persons, ...were solemnly excommunicated, viz: Molly Gunn, Nancy Colbert,
Sally Fraser, James B. Allen, Benjamin Love and Saiyo.

Harry, an old black man, applied for admission...Edom, a black man belonging
to Mr Wetherall, who was formerly a member ot eh Presbyterian Church in South
Carolina...

July 6. ...George, a native man, was examined...Maj. John L. Allen was also
admitted...

September 7(1834). ...Mr. William Colbert, a membe, and elder of this
church...

September 16, 1837. ...The following persons were adjudged to
excommunication... Mrs. Betsy Cheadle, Tuppeha, George and Sarah, natives and
Molly, a colored woman. A resolution was passed that the following members,
who are about to remove west of the Mississippi, receive letters of dismission
and recommendation, viz: James Perry and wife Elizabeth, Tennessee Bynum,
Daniel and his wife Kissander, Harry and his wife Sally, Bob and Amy, Abram
and his wife Dinah, Agnes, Manuel, Juda, Apphia, Billy, Mimey Colbert, Titus,
Sally, Fanny and Silpha.

October 10. ...Jack, a black membr of the church,...Being about to emigrate
west of the Mississippi, her received a letter of dismission and
recommendation, also the following members, viz: Samuel Cunningham and wife,
John Cunningham, and William Cunningham.

This concludes the series on the Monroe Mission of MS, Pontontoc County. I
would again like to thank researcher T.C. Patrick (searching Chickasaw lines
COLBERT&LOVE) for contributing the information.
Jan 5, 1828 ...Peggy, a black woman, was admitted to the church privileges...

Jan 6, 1828 The ordinance of baptism was administered to the following newly
admitted members, viz: Prince, Sooky, Bekky, Miney, Nelly, Leah, Sophia and
Mrs. Colbert.

Jan. 20, 1828 Mr. Pearson's daughter, Mary Agnes, and Isam and Leah's
children, George and Elvira, were baptized.

March 29, 1828 ...Stephen, a black man, applied and was received...

April 5th, 1828 ...Mrs. Pearson, Catherine, an Indian woman, Joseph, Mobile,
Dinah, and Caroline were admitted on examinantion...

April 27, 1828 Catherine's daughter, Nancy; Dinah's two children, Valentine
and Lelah; Jinney's child, Loraney, and Caroline's children, Delilah, Linah,
Gabriel and Hetty were baptized.

Saturday, June 14, 1828...Messrs. James B. Allen and Daniel Carr, white men;
James Colbert and Benjamin Love, natives and Manuel a black man were admitted
to the privileges of the church...

June 28, 1828 ...Silpha, a black woman, was admitted...

July 6, 1828 James B. Allen, Benjamin Love, Manuel, Fanny and Esther were
baptized.

August 3, 1828 Henry Martyn, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Pearson; Polly,
daughter of Jack and Affy; Moses, son of Silpha, and Fanny's children,
Charles, Winchester, Lelah, Nancy and James were baptized.

August 23, 1828 ...Mr. Henry Love, a native, Mr. Christopher Moore, and Miss
Polly Allen, whites, applied for admission to the church...

August 24, 1828 The persons admitted yesterday were baptized, also the
following children, viz; Elizabeth Mitchell, infant daughter of Rev. W.C.
Blair; Sally and Dorfhy (sic), children of Christopher Moore, Amanda, John,
Elvira, Overton, Charlotte, Frances, children of Henry and Sally Love.

Sept. 14, 1828 The ordinance of baptism was administered to Daniel's infant
daughter Emelina, and Mimy's infant, Kitty.

Oct. 4, 1828 ...Four black persons, Manuel, Reuben, Jennet and Chrissy, were
admitted to the communion of the church...

November 22, 1828 Martyn, C.N.(Chickasaw Nation)...Mr. James Boyd applied for
admission to the church...

November 23, 1828 James Colbert's two children, Benjamin and James Holmes were
baptized

Dec. 21, 1828 Sandy, a black man, was admitted on examination to the
privileges of the church...

This concludes the year 1828 for the Monroe Mission records, of the Chickasaw
Nation. The information contained in this listing was graciously submitted by
T.C. Patrick, genealogist following the LOVE~COLBERT trail of the Chickasaw
Nation.
April 3, 1830. Rev. Cyrus Byington conversed with the following persons with
reference to their admission to the church, viz; Edmond Pickens, Sally Fraser,
Nuseka Colbert, Disey Colbert, Betsey (Creek woman) and Amy and Syke, colored
people....W.H. Barr's infant daughter, belinda, was baptized...

June 5, 1830. The following were received into the church, viz: James Perry,
Tuppeha, Ishtimayi, Tushkaiahokti, Pohaiki, Mrs. Mary Colbert, Mrs. Charlotte
James, Molly (Creek woman) and Frances, colored woman. The following children
were baptized: Nuseka Colbert's two sons, Thomas Stuart and George Washington,
Betsy's(sic) son Alexander, Tuppeha's daughter Venus, Mrs. James' son Walton,
Sally Fraser's two children, Benjamin and Elsey, Molly's children, Caroline
and Benjamin, Fraser's daughter Susan, Mobile and Laney's daughter Louisa,
Silpa's daughter Rebecca.

August 1, 1830. Polley Hogan, native, and Lydia and Lizzie, colored people,
were examined and received into the church. The following children were
baptized: Brother and Sister Blair's infant daughter Katherine, Daniel and
Cassander's son, Isaac, Abram and Dinah's son Israel, Joseph's son John Inman,
Crissa's daughter Rose, Molly's daughter Delpha.

August 8, 1830. Mrs. J. Perry's two sons, Levi and Oliver, were baptized.

October 1, 1830. William Colbert's wife, Kunnoeyi, and Mercury, an old black
man, were admitted to the church. The following children were baptized: Dicy
Colbert's son Slone, Prince and Lydia's children, Almina, Robert and Tony,
Betsy's girls, Liley and Luicinda. AARON GLEASON, Clerk.

December 20, 1830. ...It having become notorious that the following persons
viz: Sam Pearson and wife, Reuben and Sookey, black people, members of the
church, are living in open rebellion against God;...Also Lewis, who is charged
with habitual lying, and convicted thereof by sufficient testimony, be
suspended...

January 2, 1831. the above named persons were publicly dealt with according to
the decidion of the session at its last meeting. Lillah, a black woman, was
admitted and baptized.

Martyn, April 30, 1831. Baptized Thomas C. Stuart, son of Nancy and James
Boyd; Luke, son of Christopher and Katherine Moore, and David, son of Henry
and Sarah Love. Session met and was poened with prayer. Mrs. Tiney Pickens a
native woman, presented herself for examination with a veiw to unite herself
with the church.

May 1. The ordinance of baptism was administered to Mrs. Pickens, also (her
husband being present) to her children, Rachel, Mary and David.

September 10, 1831. ...Silpha, a colored woman, applied and was received.

September 11. Silpha was baptized, also the following children, viz: Johnson,
son of Edmond and Liney Pickens, William son of Nuseka and Mary Colbert,
Phillip, son of Chrissy, and Martha, Esther's daughter. Session adjourned sine
die.
 
 

This concludes the year 1830-31 for the Monroe Mission records, of the
Chickasaw Nation. The information contained in this listing was graciously
submitted by T.C. Patrick, genealogist following the LOVE~COLBERT trail of the
Chickasaw Nation. I thank her on behalf of all the members of the Afrigeneas
family.
 

January 3, 1829...Mila, who was debarred from the privileges at our last
communion, applied to be restored....Mary's infant and Chrissy's two children,
Stephen and Mercury, were baptized.

January 4, 1829 Sandy was baptized.

June Peggy died

July 4  Session met for the examination of candidates and the following
persons having given evidence of their change were admitted to the privileges
of the church; Lotty Love, Nancy Boyd, James Fooye, William H. Barr,
Chickasaws; Elsey, Rachel and Tom, people of color.

July 5  The persons admitted yesterday were baptized and also the following
children: Elizabeth Jane Boyd, daughter of James and Nancy, Narcisso, daughet
of Benjamin and lotty Love, Sarah Rebecca, daughet of James and Sarah A.
Holmes, and James' child, Keeiah.

July 9. Mila was this day dismissed to unite with the church at Elliott in the
Choctaw nation. While in connection with this church, a few years afterwards,
Mila died, giving good evedence of the piety and as we hope has gone to a
better world.

October 4, 1829. The ordinance of baptism was administered to two children of
Wm. Colbert, Joseph and Tennessee also to James Sturart, infant son of Thomas
and Elizabeth Cheadle.

Monroe, Oct.2, 1829. The church session met and was constituted by prayer by
Rev. Cyrus Byington. Mrs Mary Gunn and Mrs McLaughlin were examined with
reference to church privileges, and approved

October 3, 1829. The session met according to adjournment and examined and
approved Lewis and Cassander, people of color.

October 4, 1829. Mrs. McLaughlin and Cassander, having assented to the
requisite question, were baptized by Rev. Cyrus Byington, and together with
Mrs. Gunn and Lewis, for the first time received the Lord's Supper. JOSEPH B.
ADAMS.

This concludes the year 1829 for the Monroe Mission records, of the Chickasaw
Nation. The information contained in this listing was graciously submitted by
T.C. Patrick, genealogist following the LOVE~COLBERT trail of the Chickasaw
Nation.
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