Campbell; 1837, '38, (the circuit was divided in 1837) B. Pomeroy; 1839, Alonzo Richards; 1840, '41, Ezra Sayre, assisted by William Hull and Reynolds; 1842, '43, I. D. Burnham, assisted by Ira Holmes and L. S. Mott; 1844, '45. Joseph Connor, and Warren Fox; 1846, '47, Chester Lyon; 1848, '49, Samuel Hughes; 1850, '51, G. H. Townsend; 1852, '53, David Noble; 1854, '55, Daniel Rose; 1856, '57, A. Stevens; 1858, no record kept; 1859, '69, H. M. Munsee; 1862, '63, A. Shurtliff; 1864, F. F. Hannah; 1865, '66, Z. Picket; 1867, '68, G. D. Rose; 1870, '71, '72, R. Campbell; 1873, J. C. Walker; 1874, '75, P. M. Hitchcock; 1876, '77, J. W. Coons; 1878, '79, EComstock; 1880, R. Patterson; 1881, H. S. Allen; 1882, '83, Joel Hall; 1884, '85, R. E. Jenkins.
The Episcopal Church was organized, and the edifice erected soon after the construction of the Methodist house of worship. No services are held here now.
CHAPTER XXX.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF JOHNSBURGH.
JOHNSBURGH is the northwestern town of Warren county, being bounded on the north by the town of Minerva, in Essex county, on the east, across the Hudson, by Chester, on the south by Thurman, and on the west by the town of Wells, in Hamilton county. Its surface is everywhere broken by lofty and precipitous mountains, composed for the most part of solid rock. The northern and central part is occupied by the Schroon range of mountains, and the south by a spur of the Kayaderosseras. Crane Mountain, the highest peak of the latter range, attains an altitude of 3,289 feet above sea level. Its name is derived from the circumstance that a small pond which nestles in a concavity near the summit of the mountain is much frequented by cranes.[1]
The greater part of the town is too rough and stony for cultivation, the arable land being thus confined to the narrow valleys formed by the Sacandaga and other small streams which find their devious ways from source to mouth. The soil is a sandy and gravelly loam. Kaolin, serpentine iron ore, and a few other minerals are found in small quantities.
The early history of the town has been so well written by Dr. Holden for the Warrensburgh News, from matter furnished him by David Noble, of Weavertown, that we cannot refrain from drawing largely from this storehouse in the compilation of this chapter.
- ↑ Seen from Warrensburgh, eleven miles away, the mountain presents a remarkable similitude to the profile of the human face.
