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Pastors

Since 1652, when FPCN was founded as Newtown's village church, 27 pastors have served our congregation. (One pastor, Peter Fish, served twice.) Their stories appear below. Except for the biographies of James Lyons, Renwick Jackson, Patricia Davies, and Stanley Jenkins, all the biographies in this section are adopted from articles written by Robert Singleton.

John Moore (1652-1657)
William Leverich (1662-1677)
Morgan Jones (1680-1686)
John Morse (1694-1700)
Robert Breck (1701-1704)
Samuel Pumroy (1708-1744)
George McNish, Jr. (1744-1746)
Simon Horton (1746-1773)
Andrew Bay (1773-1775)
James Lyons (1783-1785)
Peter Fish (1785-1788, 1810)
Elihu Palmer (1788-1789)
Nathan Woodhull (1790-1810)
William Boardman (1810-1818)
Dr. John Goldsmith (1818-1854)
John P. Knox (1855-1882)
George H. Payson (1882-1889)
Jacob E. Mallmann (1890-1894)
William H. Hendrickson (1896-1906)
David Yule (1906-1910)
George H. Feltus (1911-1917)
Dr. Howard A. Northacker (1919-1960)
Joseph F. Quick (1961-1964)
Dr. J. Renwick Jackson, Jr. (1964-1965)
Charles L. Sorg (1965-1992)
Stanley J. Jenkins (1995- )


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