First Presbyterian Church of Newtown

Pastors

Since 1652, when we were founded as Newtown's village church, 29 pastors have served our congregation. (One pastor, Peter Fish, served twice.) Their stories appear below. Except for the biographies of James Lyons, Renwick Jackson, Stanley Jenkins, and Louis Knowles, all the biographies in this section are adopted from articles written by Robert Singleton.

	Pastor	Commenced	Ended
1.	John Moore	1652	Died	1657
2.	William Leverich	1662	Died	1677
3.	Morgan Jones	1680	Resigned	1686
4.	John Morse	1694	Died	1700
5.	Robert Breck	1701	Resigned	1704
6.	Samuel Pumroy	1708	Died	1744
7.	George McNish *	1744	Resigned	1746
8.	Simon Horton	1746	Resigned	1773
9.	Andrew Bay *	1773	Resigned	1775
10.	James Lyons *	1783	Resigned	1785
11.	Peter Fish *	1785	Resigned	1788
12.	Elihu Palmer *	1788	Resigned	1789
13.	Nathan Woodhull	1790	Died	1810
14.	Peter Fish *	1810	Died	1810
15.	William Boardman	1810	Died	1818
16.	John Goldsmith, D.D.	1819	Died	1854
17.	John P. Knox, L.L.D.	1855	Died	1882
18.	George H. Payson, D.D.	1882	Resigned	1889
19.	Jacob E. Mallman	1890	Resigned	1895
20.	William H. Hendrickson	1896	Resigned	1906
21.	David Yule	1906	Resigned	1910
22.	George H. Feltus	1911	Resigned	1917
23.	Howard A. Northacker, Ph.D.	1919	Resigned	1960
24.	Joseph F. Quick	1961	Died	1964
25.	Albert F. W. Marcus	1964	Resigned	1964
26.	J. Renwick Jackson, Ph.D.	1964	Interim	1965
27.	Charles L. Sorg	1965	Resigned	1992
28.	Patricia W. Davies	1993	Interim	1996
29.	Stanley J. Jenkins	1996	Resigned	2011
30.	Louis L. Knowles, D. Min.	2012	Interim

* indicates stated supply